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Back issue: SAS used armalites for murder
British SAS soldiers armed with armalite rifles who murdered 16-year-old John Boyle in a stake-out at Dunloy last July, went on trial in Belfast on Wednesday.
The trial of Sergeant Michael Bowen (28) and Corporal Robert Temperly (26) was embarrassingly forced upon the Director of Public Prosecutions by a Press Association leak several months ago of the pathologist's report on the dead youth.
That report showed that John had been shot from behind, in the head, back and shoulder, from a distance of twelve yards. In their original lying statement, the British army claimed that the youth had picked up a rifle from an arms dump and pointed the weapon at them when challenged.
Details of the stake-out on the arms dump, which was discovered by John 24 hours previously and reported by his father to the RUC, emerged in the Belfast High Court on Wednesday. After the arms dump was reported, a Detective Constable from Ballymoney went to the graveyard with seven detectives.
The SAS were then drafted in for a stake-out - four of them attended a planning meeting in Ballymoney RUC barracks at about midnight. The detectives showed an SAS man the graveyard and pointed out local information from aerial photographs.
As we go to press the trial continues.
An Phoblacht 23 June, 1979
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The Top 10 Free iOS and Android Games -- September 2011
Sep 30th 2011 12:35PM
Alright, now the summer is really over. As we dry our eyes of those final sun-soaked tears, we at least have one thing to cheer us up: games. Ah yes, the ultimate digital pastime-meets-picker-upper just gets better and better now that we have access to a myriad of games right within our iPhones and Android phones.
And while the lot of them cost little more than $.99, the number of full-featured, free games on both platforms is only growing. Just for you, we've pruned the games that hit the top 10 on both platforms by the end of September.
You can expect to see everyone's favorite angst-ridden, wingless birds more than once among the newcomers. Rather than simply shut them out as we have before, how's about we take each opportunity to highlight some of the crazy news surrounding them? Away we go:
Top 10 Free iOS Games
1. Cross Fingers
Mobigame's goofy and visibly confusing puzzle game is free for a limited time only. The name of the game is tangrams, and it's up to you to use the oddly-shaped puzzle pieces provided to form the shapes featured in each level. The game also contains an Arcade Mode in which players must keep up with a "frenetic machine," solving puzzles rapidly to survive.
2. The Oregon Trail
Famed (or infamous) developer Gameloft and The Learning Company have made their mobile take on this classic PC adventure game free for a limited time. Frankly, the game looks and seems to play a lot like its Facebook counterpart created by Blue Fang, so check out our preview to get an idea of how it might work. Get this: It has Facebook Connect, too ... hmm.
3. Texas Poker
Another newcomer by Kamagames brings the live multiplayer poker experience to your iPhone. Players can invite friends to play with them via email, Facebook and Twitter. While it's free to play, players can, of course, buy chips with real dough from inside the game. Oh, and there's live chat, too. So, you can trash talk while you lay down that straight.
4. Card Ace: Casino
Boy, do people enjoy gamblin'. This game by Self Aware Games allows players to sit in on more than just poker like Blackjack (21), slots and the creator's very own "word-game-meets-Texas-Hold-'Em masterpiece." Of course, players can buy more chips within in the game with real cash, and each casino game has real-time chat and public rooms for live play.
5. Traffic Rush
Only free until Oct. 3, this game courtesy of Donut Games tasks players with keeping an intersection accident-free by touching and guiding vehicles away from one another. Oh, and the cross streets are two-way (and with two lanes), so we can already see this one getting crazy rather quickly. And the creators threw in a Rail Rush mode, too, which can only spell trouble.
6. Office Zombie
Just in time for Halloween, Fluik released this haunted take on its Office Jerk game. Ad-supported, the game lets players torment, well, a zombified office employee with anything they can dig up. We're not sure what the objective of this game is, really, but at least it might serve as a stress reliever? That's all I got.
7. High Caliber Hunting
EA's mobile take on the popular hunting sub genre of hunting games like Cabela's is free for a limited time. And it looks surprisingly graphic, displaying the vitals of the game's various, um, game as if you had x-ray vision. Simulation is the goal in this game, with real brand name rifles and equipment featured as well as a up close-and-personal "Bullet-Cam". Ew.
8. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12
Another of EA's popular franchises is free on iOS for a limited time. Of course, you can play across multiple real-life golf courses controlling a number of professional athletes. But the most interesting news here is the Closest to the Pin Challenge, an asynchronous social mini game in which Facebook friends post their best shots and talk trash.
9. Pretty Pet Pony
Ready to overload your iPhone with cute? Good, because this game by Dream Cortex and Animoca has the pink stuff in spades. It's your job to clean, pamper and raise your own ponies in Cuby the Bear's stables. Then, it's off to the race track to compete with your friends on tracks made of rainbows ... I think I just threw up a little bit.
10. Stupid Ninjas
Stupid Zombies maker GameResort takes the same concept from its first game to the Far East: try to kill all the ninjas on screen with as few sword swipes as possible. Cause chain reactions from the shurikens that each ninja holds. The game comes with 180 levels and Game Center support to boast your ninja-slicing prowess.
Top 10 Free Android Games
1. Angry Birds
Did you know that soon, you might be able to play Angry Birds with thousands of people through the sound of your collective cacophony? Crazy, we know.
2. Hanging with Friends
Zynga's adorable take on the classic game of Hangman was recently released to Android devices, and it's apparently already heating things up. The game is essentially identical to the iOS version released earlier this summer, so check out our full preview to get a better idea of what it's like.
3. Angry Birds Rio
Hey, did you know that co-star of the NBC show Chuck, Yvonne Strahovski, is an Angry Birds master? Yeah, we know, her and everybody else at this point. But hey, maybe there's a chance she'll become the next Rovio spokeswoman--yowza!
4. Words with Friends
Yup, Zynga is killing it on Android, we know. But what's more interesting about Words with Friends is that you can not only now play it on Facebook, but pick up your existing games on either platform through Facebook Connect. Living in the 21st century has its perks.
5. Bunny Shooter Free Game
Yes, that is the game's real title. (But finally, a new game!) Created by the painfully literal dudes at Best, Cool & Fun Games, this puzzler (picture below) tasks players with shooting these poor pink bunnies with as few arrows as possible. You'll do this across over 180 levels filled with obstacles and explosions ... and probably feel a tinge of guilt about it afterward.
6. Angry Birds Seasons
Dude, seriously--oh, sorry. Did you know that Rovio might be looking to get into publishing other indie games? Maybe that way, the company can turn around the next hit game to dominate the charts. (At least it'll be something new?)
7. Drag Racing
Creative Mobile's Drag Racing has enjoyed the same spot for two months now, and it's probably thanks to the support it has from real-life car brands. Players can also race each other in real time through the Pro League, which again is likely a major selling point. Oh, and watch out for when this game hits Facebook--come on, cross-platform play.
8. Lane Splitter
Fractiv hits the top 10 with this "motorcycle survival game" in which players must make it to their wedding with a new character that sports a special ability. Players tilt their device to steer the motorcycle as it (hopefully) weaves in and out of traffic. With Facebook Connect, players can compete for the high score between their friends and post achievements.
9. Fruit Ninja
Guys, it has finally happened: The real Fruit Ninja by Halfbrick Studios has made it into the top 10. By now, you should know the drill--this game is dang near everywhere. Also, it just launched on Facebook, if you want to slice up even bigger fruit.
10. Tetris
A game as iconic as Tetris probably deserves to be much higher on this list, but hey, at least it's a spot. While there's not much to be said of Tetris after some 27 years, that doesn't mean the game is not worthy of your time. Just give it go already, will ya?
[Sources and Image Credits: Apple, Google]
Which of these games have you tried so far, and what do you think? What free iOS or Android games have you been playing lately that you want to share? Sound off in the comments. Add Comment.
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Wall Street Loves Budweiser. Should You?
Rich Duprey, The Motley Fool, AOL.com
Despite all of Wall Street's conflict and contention, a fortunate few companies enjoy unanimous support among professional analysts. If the market's movers and shakers all believe these companies will beat the long-term averages, well, surely they will -- right?
Not so fast!With help from Motley Fool CAPS, the 180,000-member-driven investor community that translates informed opinion into stock ratings of one to five stars, we'll see whether these high-flying favorites deserve analysts' unwavering support.
Today we'll take a look at Anheuser-Busch InBev , the largest U.S. brewer, which is most famous for its Budweiser beer but has a portfolio of well-known brands including Michelob, Rolling Rock, Land Shark, Stella Artois, Becks, and more.
Among the analysts that CAPS tracks, eight have weighed in on the brewer, and despite the lackluster performance of the beer industry, they believe it will outperform the indexes. Yet the investor community isn't nearly as supportive: While 91% rate it to outperform the broad market averages, its middling three-star CAPS rating (out of five) suggests they think there are still better places for your money.
Of course, just because Wall Street loves 'em doesn't mean you have to. Analyst sentiment is only just the jumping-off place for your own research.
I'll drink to that
According to the Beer Institute, the overall beer market grew less than 2% over the first three quarters of 2012, and then again only because the craft beer market has seen such heady results: Its volumes have been surging, up 12% over the first six months while dollar sales are 14% higher.
Yet even the craft brewers have seen consumer tastes change, with sales of hard ciders and teas like those sold by Boston Beer outpacing even its original Samuel Adams brand. Then there's the rise of spirits, which have witnessed a resurgence. Beam says sales were up 3% to 4% last year, and Brown-Forman points to its Jack Daniel's whiskey and Finlandia vodka for its outperformance. Diageo also pointed to the strength of the U.S. spirits market for the 5% organic sales growth it enjoyed in the third quarter.
I'll have what he's having
Although Budweiser can't do much about drinkers slamming back a shot of Jack, they can make sure the craft brewers don't steal too much more of their market share by brewing their own craft beers. Bud's Shock Top Belgian White has the Brewers Association apoplectic over the audacity of calling it a craft beer since it's brewed by one of the two brewers that control three-quarters of the beer market (SABMiller is the other one). The craft beer trade group also takes umbrage with Molson Coors for offending a beer snob's sensibilities.
Yet a number of industries have such cross-pollination. For example, power-tools maker Stanley Black & Decker owns National Hand Tools, which makes Husky, MAC, and Proto but also owns Delta, Porter-Cable, Oldham, and DeVilbiss. You'll hear a lot of argument about which tool is best without the debaters knowing they're all owned and made by the same company.
Organic-food lovers suffer the same identity crisis: Megabrand Kellogg owns Kashi and Gardenburger, Kraft Foods owns Boca Foods and Back to Nature, and Dean Foods -- until it spun out its WhiteWave Foods division -- owned Horizon and The Organic Cow of Vermont.
So too with many of today's craft beers, where the megabrewers have set down roots in the folksy woods of craft brewing. So we find Blue Moon and Batch 19 brewed by Coors (through Tenth and Blake), and Goose Island by A-B brewing up Honker's Pale Ale.
Yet it's going in the other direction, too. Boston Beer is almost too big to be a true craft brewer anymore (regardless of the definition these days), but it bought Alchemy & Science to serve as "craft beer incubator," where it will foster the next generation of craft brewers.
Have another round
Because of the size of its distribution, the brands in its portfolio, and the sheer power of will when it focuses its attention on an area it wants to address, Anheuser-Busch is more than just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. It sucks all the oxygen from the room, and that's why craft brewers are concerned that the beast has turned its attention more narrowly to their niche. It can command the shelf space and get the pricing that it wants to the detriment of its rivals.
Not that its size has always worked in its favor. It wasn't able to move the sales needle very much simply because it was big and had substantial distribution muscle. Bud still had to go out and start a craft brew company, and both it and Miller have purchased hard cider and tea makers of their own because it's the current rage.
Yet even at its elevated share price, Bud's enterprise value trades at just 15 times its free cash flow, similar to Molson Coors' 14 EV-FCF ratio. That might not make them bargain-basement stocks, but for a company of its size, it is a reasonable value. Boston Beer goes off at 75 times its FCF and the Craft Brewers Alliance is only slightly better, at 60 times its free cash flow. I have to agree with the analysts that Anheuser-Busch InBev is a stock worth taking a sip of.
Boston Beer's Samuel Adams brand helped to redefine beer and kick off the craft beer revolution in the United States. Success breeds competition, though, and while just a few years ago Boston Beer had claim over most of the craft beer shelf, today the field is crowded. Can Boston Beer rise above the rest, or will it be squeezed between small local breweries on one side and global beer giants on the other? To help you decide, we've compiled a premium research report filled with everything you need to know about Boston Beer's risks and opportunities. Just click here now to find out whether Boston Beer is a buy today.
The article Wall Street Loves Budweiser. Should You? originally appeared on Fool.com.
Rich Duprey owns shares of Dean Foods. The Motley Fool owns shares of Dean Foods Company and Boston Beer. Motley Fool newsletter services recommend Beam, Diageo plc (ADR), Boston Beer, and Molson Coors Brewing Company. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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Home » Wire Processing: Porosity Sealants for Wire Harnesses
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Wire Processing: Porosity Sealants for Wire Harnesses
Jim Camillo
KEYWORDS electrical / methacrylate resin / Wire
All day long, wire harnesses are sealed against porosity at nine Magna-Tech Manufacturing facilities located throughout North America. These wire harnesses are of different lengths, contain wire of different thicknesses, and are made by Tier 1 suppliers such as Delphi, ATPI, Siemens, Group Dekko and Federal Mogul.
One Federal Mogul wire harness sealed by Magna-Tech is installed in General Motors’ aftermarket fuel pumps. Measuring 20 inches long, the harness features two 18-gauge and two 16-gauge wires and a grommet in the middle. Although each harness takes about two hours to process, a Magna-Tech facility can seal up to 2,500 harnesses simultaneously. Depending on the size and length of the wire, a typical harness can cost from 15 to 50 cents to seal.
Tiny blue lights show the micro porosities in this wire connector (left). After resin impregnation, the porosities are filled and the blue lights are no longer visible (right). Photos courtesy Hernon Manufacturing Inc.
All molded or casted products have porosities, which include micro voids and holes. Porosity sealing completely fills these openings to improve product integrity. The process is also called vacuum impregnating and polymer impregnating.
When first developed in the 1940s, porosity sealing was done with sodium silicate and styrene-based resins, and it was primarily used to repair metal castings that had been deemed “leakers” in leak-test operations. Shortly after that, the process began to be used to prevent corrosion in metal castings, powdered-metal parts, weldments, and other porous metal substrates.
Nonmetal products, such as plastic composites and wood, had been treated with potting materials to prevent corrosion. But by the 1980s, more flexible resins were being used to seal these products.
As for wire harnesses, the Department of Defense and construction equipment manufacturers have required them to be sealed for many years. However, harness sealing has increased significantly since the 1990s due to the increased amount of electric components in automobiles.
Porosities in harnesses include micro voids, holes and leak paths. These porosities trap water, salt, petroleum products and other chemicals that promote internal corrosion. They also negatively impact long-term electrical performance.
Low-viscosity methacrylate resins are used to fill and permanently seal these tiny openings in harnesses, preventing corrosion and ensuring long-term performance. The resins require either heat or the removal of air to cure, and they are thermoset, meaning their cure is irreversible.
The cured resin is a polymer that is both flexible and durable. It will not crack due to thermal expansion and can withstand common solvents (including oils, glycol, caustics and acid) and high continuous operating temperatures (up to 350 F).
The whole harness can be sealed or just the ends of it. The latter option is usually chosen to save money, although, in some applications, only the harness ends are exposed to harmful elements and need to be sealed. Sealing the whole harness fills openings within bundled wire strands and where wires touch connectors and or grommets.
When done right, the process produces no change in the appearance or dimensional attributes of harness components. However, excess resin that isn’t properly rinsed off the harness can be visible to the naked eye. More importantly, the excess resin can, in effect, become an unwanted extra layer of insulation that negatively impacts harness performance or installation.
“Because all types of wire harnesses are exposed to fuels and other chemicals, many OEMs are starting to specify that the harnesses they install be sealed,” says Harry Arnon, president of Hernon Manufacturing Inc. “The use of porosity sealing is growing because more manufacturers know the importance of it.”
Kevin Roslinski, senior application engineer for Henkel Corp., agrees that harness sealing is on the upswing, but says the majority of harnesses are still not being sealed. “Unfortunately, the benefits of sealing are not yet common knowledge,” he says.
All wire is porous at the microscopic level, as proven by air bubbles appearing when wire is submerged in water. Photo courtesy Hernon Manufacturing Inc.
Porosity sealing of wire harnesses can be done using any of three methods: wet vacuum, wet vacuum and pressure, or dry vacuum and pressure. Several factors must be considered to determine which process is best. These include the number and length of wire harnesses to be impregnated, the amount of harness porosity, desired sealing results and budget.
“For short harnesses, those less than one meter, the wet vacuum and pressure method is preferred,” says Peter Gebhard, vice president of Impco Inc. “For longer harnesses, and or those that require complete sealing of all internal wires, the dry vacuum and pressure method is very effective.”
Wet vacuum is the simplest method. Harnesses are placed in a basket, which is lifted by crane and immersed in a steel tank filled with resin. The tank must maintain a vacuum but does not have to be pressure rated.
After the tank is closed, vacuum is applied at a level from 28 to 29 inches of mercury to remove air from the tank, resin and porosities within the harnesses. Vacuum is applied for a time period sufficient enough to ensure adequate deaeration (usually five to 10 minutes).
When deaeration is complete, residual vacuum is released to the atmosphere. Harnesses are left to soak in the resin at atmospheric pressure until the resin thoroughly penetrates into the porosities. After sufficient soak time, the basket is lifted out of the tank.
The harnesses must now be washed and cured. Washing involves immersing the basket in one to three tanks of room-temperature clean water. Harnesses sealed with resins that cure anaerobically do so at room temperature. Harnesses sealed with resins that require heat to cure are immersed in a hot water tank (around 195 F) for 10 to 20 minutes and then air dried.
The wet vacuum and pressure method uses a single pressure vessel or autoclave but no storage tank, says Michael Ballou, technical director for Impco Inc. The basket of harnesses is immersed in the pressure vessel or autoclave, which is filled with resin. Vacuum is applied for deaeration, and residual vacuum is released to the atmosphere.
Pressure is then applied at a level from 80 to 100 psig and held there long enough to facilitate complete resin penetration into the harnesses’ porosities (usually five to 10 minutes). Large porosities fill quicker than very fine micro porosities. After sufficient time under pressure, the vessel or autoclave is vented to atmosphere, and the basket is removed. The harnesses are then washed and cured.
The dry vacuum and pressure method is preferred for harnesses with very small porosities and or very stringent sealing requirements. It requires a pressure vessel or autoclave and a resin storage tank.
The basket of harnesses is placed into the autoclave, which is then closed. Vacuum is applied for deaeration and maintained while resin is transferred from the storage tank to the autoclave. When the resin reaches a level about 6 inches above the harnesses, the transfer is complete. Residual vacuum is then released to the atmosphere.
Pressure is applied and held for complete resin penetration. After the desired time under pressure, the resin is transferred back to the storage tank. The autoclave is vented to atmosphere, and the basket of harnesses is removed, washed and cured.
This photo (at 50 times magnification) shows a pin-connector interface that has been sealed, eliminating a potentially destructive leak path for water or chemicals. Photo Courtesy Impco Inc.
The Resins and Equipment
Although most harness sealing is done at facilities like those of Magna-Tech, some sealing is done by manufacturers. Several suppliers sell the resins and equipment that manufacturers need to seal wire harnesses. Some suppliers also offer sealing services.
Loctite Flexseal 5100 and 5110 from Henkel Corp. are methacrylate resins designed specifically for use with wire harnesses. They cure anaerobically.
The resins contain a fluorescent indicator that appears blue when a UV light is shone on cured resin, making it easy to identify porosities and verify they’ve been filled. Flexseal 5100 and 5110 can withstand temperatures up to 450 F.
HPS 1200 is a dimethacrylate ester resin from Hernon Manufacturing. HPS 1200 fills porosities within 25 minutes and fully cures anaerobically within one to three hours at room temperature. The resin can withstand temperatures up to 350 F.
Hernon has also developed a proprietary HPS resin that Magna-Tech uses as part of its Enviroseal impregnation system for harnesses. In addition, the two companies are working together to develop a third proprietary HPS resin for use on very large wires: from 2 to 2/0 AWG.
PolyFlex 140 from Impco is a methacrylate resin that cures anaerobically at 140 F. Its flexibility can be made harder or softer, depending on application, to better withstand the thermo cycling of dissimilar materials found in harness connectors. PolyFlex 140 has a flashpoint of 200 F and can withstand temperatures up to 350 F.
Harness sealing facilities can use Impco’s Res’Net System to recover any PolyFlex 140 resin that’s present in wash water. The system continually separates water from the resin, which is not diluted and can later be used for sealing harnesses.
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Jim is a senior editor of ASSEMBLY and has more than 30 years of editorial experience. Before joining ASSEMBLY, Camillo was the editor of PM Engineer, Association for Facilities Engineering Journal and Milling Journal. Jim has an English degree from DePaul University.
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By: Brad Boney
Narrated by: Charlie David
Categories: Fiction, General & Contemporary
Or, Buy for £13.59
The Nothingness of Ben
Ben Walsh is well on his way to becoming one of Manhattan's top litigators, with a gorgeous boyfriend and friends on the A-list. His life is perfect until he gets a phone call that brings it all crashing down: a car accident takes his parents, and now he must return to Austin to raise three teenage brothers he barely knows.
4.75 stars!
By Debbie Attenborough on 21-07-18
The Eskimo Slugger
Narrated by: Michael Ferraiuolo
It's the summer of 1983, and Trent Days is Major League Baseball's rookie sensation. Since he was born in Alaska to an Inupiat mother, the press have dubbed him the Eskimo Slugger, but a midseason collision at home plate temporarily halts his meteoric rise to the top.
didnt realise it was part of another story
By alex on 20-09-16
Fever Falls, Book 1
By: Riley Hart
Narrated by: Michael Pauley
If there's one thing I know, it's how to play the game...both on and off the field. If it hadn't been for that one teenage slipup where I kissed Beau Campbell, I'd be able to keep fooling myself. Football is the one thing I use to distract myself from the truth, and when I screw-up and lose the game I love, I find myself right back in Fever Falls. And right back face-to-face with Cranky Campbell, who hates me even more than he did when we were kids. But whatever magic he held over me then is still there.
By Dawn on 11-02-19
Significant Brothers, Volume 1
By: E. Davies
Narrated by: Greg Boudreaux
After zero-gravity heroics left astronaut Nicolas Rogers injured, his new job as a park ranger seems perfect. Being a caretaker of his corner of the Smoky Mountains makes him almost okay with having to be on Earth. More importantly, this deep in the woods, Nico's practically a hermit at a remote ranger station. Sure, he has good friends in nearby Knoxville, but he's otherwise free from petty drama and broken hearts...until Deen enters his world.
A Hard Call
Stonewall Investigations Series, Book 1
By: Max Walker
Zane Holden hasn't had the easiest go of things. The only good thing in his life would be Stonewall Investigations, an investigative company he found to work primarily with the LGBTQ community. Lorenzo De Luca is a cocky defense attorney dripping in Italian charm. He's well known as one of the best lawyers in New York City, a title he worked hard to achieve. When he picks up a difficult case, he finds that he needs extra help. This leads him to Stonewall, where he meets Zane for the first time and instantly feels himself falling for the mysterious and stone-cut detective.
Ok this Narrator is an instant One click for me.
By Summertimememories on 11-10-19
Out in the Deep
Out in College, Book 1
By: Lane Hayes
Narrated by: Michael Dean
Derek Vaughn is a little too serious. He’s a type-A controlling personality with a penchant for order and a love of water polo. But he’s determined to enjoy his last year of college. The real world with a serious job and big expectations can wait for a few months. He’s going soak up every minute on campus with his friends and teammates before he moves on. The only possible kink in his plan is the new guy on the team...also known as his nemesis.
A gay love story
By Robert on 14-05-19
Music. Topher Manning rarely thinks about anything else, but his day job as a mechanic doesn't exactly mesh with his rock-star ambitions. Unless he can find a way to unlock all the songs in his head, his band will soon be on the fast track to obscurity.
Then the South by Southwest music festival and a broken-down car drop New York critic Stanton Porter into his life. Stanton offers Topher a ticket to the Bruce Springsteen concert, where a hesitant kiss and phantom vibrations from Topher’s cell phone kick off a love story that promises to transcend ordinary possibility.
©2013 Brad Boney (P)2013 Brad Boney
A decent story spoiled
Was starts of as a rather strange,confusing story soon unraveled into a decent, thought proving tale!! Unfortunately completely ruined by the narrater speaking far to fast as if he has 'a bus to catch' or something.. He does hardly any 'characterisation' so at times I got lost trying to work out who was saying what, and it was really hard to keep up with the story as he went far to fast to be able to process what was happening most of the time,, a dramatic pause would go a miss every now and then to allow the listener to 'reflect'
I have said this before, but when are authors going to ensure the work is read by decent people instead of allowing it to be ruined and any further work rejected?
I see there is another book ( whether as part of a series is not explained) but it seem to have the couple and there 'boys'.. But it is read by the same person do I will not be buying it...
A shame really cause the author seems to write a decent story.
If authors (and Amazon for that matter) cared more about there 'readers' instead of being only interested in a fast buck. They would sell more books
Would I recommend this audiobook?? Not a chance
Wow. This book is simply amazing. Could not
Put it down! This is a must listen about love and loss and hope for the return.
Morgan A Skye
My First Audiobook Hangover!
This is two stories which intertwine into one.
First, Topher Manning is a mechanic by day and musician by night. He works at the same garage as Travis (from The Nothingness of Ben). One day he’s at work when a guy with car problems strolls in with a spare ticket to the Bruce Springsteen concert – one of Topher’s all time favorite bands. The guy, Stanton Porter, offers Topher the chance of a lifetime (floor seats at the concert in exchange for a ride) and they go together to enjoy the show.
The two have both nothing and everything in common. Stanton is 50 something, from New York, a music critic with an Ivy League education and an amazing affinity for all things music, especially pop-music. Topher is a country boy, 26, no college whatsoever, plays music in a rock-n-roll band, and an affinity for all things music, especially pop-music.
They essentially click, and though Topher has never had a “gay” thought in the world, he finds himself compelled to kiss Stanton in the middle of “Thunder Road”. This spurs the beginning of a strange and sometimes bewildering romance between the two that seems to cross state lines, age lines and time lines.
The second story is also about Stanton, but a 24 year-old Stanton, who falls in love with Hutch. Hutch is a trust-fund child who has been mostly “disowned” for being gay and a musician by his upper-crust family. He and Stanton fall almost instantly in love and they too share a love of music, though both have the education and a group of close knit friends in common.
Every other chapter switches between the older and the younger Stanton’s love stories. Needless to say there are some major tie-ins and co-incidences that are mind-boggling, and in a way it is both an epic tragedy and an amazing love-story rolled into one.
I can’t really explain much more about this story without giving too much away – and that would spoil the surprises. However, know this: there are some “paranormal” or “otherworldly” elements to this story like there was in The Nothingness of Ben which will have you riveted to your seat. Though the flash-backs (Hutch’s story) are amazingly difficult to read, they are also so touching and heart-warming that you won’t want to skip or even skim them.
Because the current story includes so many characters we’ve seen before, I recommend reading all three books to truly appreciate this story. I’d recommend either this order: TNOB, Return, Slugger, TNOB OR Return, Slugger, Ben.
Both Hutch’s and Topher’s stories are stories about living your dream and fighting for what you want. Stanton remains the constant. Though he, too, has to face demons and confront homophobic parents and in-laws, he serves as the anchor for both men.
Hutch’s story takes place in the early 1980s, when the AIDS epidemic was just beginning to take victim after victim, so it’s also a lesson in history. A glimpse at what it might have been like to live through the early days of AIDS. It’s so very hard to read, but also so important to understanding just how far we’ve come since then.
The secondary characters are so vivid and important in this book that at times they seem to take over the story. However, this does in no way detract from the main story line and only adds to the main story.
Origninally, when I had read The Nothingness of Ben, I was underwhelmed. I liked it (see my review on this site) but didn’t love it. Then when I got the chance to review The Eskimo Slugger I noted that it was a part three of the series, so I bought The Return to “catch up”. WOW! Was I ever glad for that. The Return is easily the best of the three books. It is also the longest (twice as long as the other two) and it’s hard for me to say, but I almost think it would be best read first, even though some things may show up out of sequence.
Now, after having read all three, I had to go back to re-read Ben and boy what a difference that makes. It’s still the weakest of the three but I have a new appreciation for it and love it a whole lot more.
When I got to the point in Return where I kind of figured things out, I got mad and had to set the book aside. After all, I wanted Topher for Stanton and was not pleased at all to hear about Hutch. However, the story line itself is so intriguing, the writing is so amazing, that I persisted. When I saw that it had an audiobook version out as well, I started listening as a way to help me get more involved in the story. That (explained here in a bit) sealed the deal and I absolutely fell in love.
For anyone with a fondness of music, you will find this book amazing, Brad has filled it with music trivia.
I highly recommend this book and give it 6 of 5 stars.
Audiobook:
First let me say that I am a Charlie David fan. I have always enjoyed his narrations, I like his voice, find his performances engaging and appealing and always a dependable choice for a narrator.
This narration is hands down his best work (as far as I have observed). He does absolutely AMAZING things with the many, many characters. He has subtle accents, moments of intense emotion, moments of giddiness and drunkenness, AND he can sing! He sings two songs in this narration and they are fabulous!
It is obvious to me that when you combine an author with the talent that Brad Boney has with the right narrator, magic ensues. This is one of the cases where I can’t emphasize enough that this book should absolutely be listened to. It was an experience far, far above the normal and I was completely entranced.
I give the audiobook a 6 of 5 stars.
This book was both heartbreaking and heart-warming that I couldn’t stop and listened to all 11 plus hours over one very long, long night and the book hangover I got was totally, absolutely worth it.
Wow, Excellent premise, Great story !
Any additional comments?
I REALLY really liked the premise and the story. Which surprised me because the book before this, The Nothingness of Ben, was run of the mill - nice but not great. The Return is good enough to stand alone but you might want to read it second so you know more of the characters. Charlie David's narration is noteworthy as well. Too many m/m romance books have awful narration, that is NOT a problem here. Not the smexiest [try Hot Head] but excellent nonetheless!
What a Treat!!
What a treat! Five stars just for originality. I'll be honest, I was not a huge fan of Mr. Boney's first book, The Nothingness of Ben. And this book kind of dragged for me the first half. But when the dual story lines started to come together, I loved it. Charlie David was fantastic! He really brought this book to life and I found myself tearing up quite a few times. This is a story of not only love, but redemption, hope and faith. Also, the title won't make sense until the end and then if you are like me you will have a big smile on your face. What a way to end a book, I love it!!
Souls Rinse Spin Dry and Recycle Again
“The Return” is the author’s second book and incorporates characters from the first book, “The Nothingness of Ben”. At 11 hours 10 minutes (350 pages) it is 30% longer as long as his maiden voyage in the 6 hour 33 minute (248 pages) of the first book. The reason for this is simple. It is two stories, a tail of two cities and times, told side by side. The past timeline paves the way for the future timeline story’s progression. To do this without causing bumps and jars to the readers/listeners attention causing them to terminate the process is a neat trick and requires good writing skills to pull it off. Mr. Boney accomplished this goal.
The linchpin figure to these two stories and timelines is Stanton Porter a successful music critic with strings to pull and doors to open for Texas born and bred Topher Manning who is a struggling musician and songwriter in a boy band whose day job is as a mechanic at the Groovy auto repair; the shop is first seen in the previous book. With three friends from his home town of Dime Box, he has formed a boy band and dreams of having a song on iTunes top 10 songs. The band members are tight knit together and form a pseudo extended family. Enter Stanton Porter when his borrowed car breaks down right across from Groovy automotive and Topher offers to take him to his destination to pick up some time sensitive tickets to a Bruce Springsteen concert. In part to repay the kindness Stanton invites Topher to use a sick BFF’s ticket and attend the concert with him. The music sparks a strange vibrant mysterious link between this spring and autumn couple and the sparks of bromance are born in a kiss; much to Stanton’s dismay.
The other city is New York City and Fire Island of the late 70’s early 80’s. Here a young Stanton Porter, fresh out of Ohio is a student; he is enjoying the halcyon days of Fire Island and an ideal romance with the hottest bartender on the beach, Hutch. Hutch/Chris happens to be the self-banished, Christopher, heir of an upper-east-side wealthy family determined to make it on his own and follow his dream of becoming a musician and not a broker, banker, lawyer, or other respectable profession his family wishes. Stanton too becomes a part of a core group of friends who form a pseudo extended family of love and unconditional support. Stanton launches his bromance with Hutch with, what else, a Burse Springsteen concert in New York and a special song they both share. The couple has this kitch mid 70’s Starsky & Hutch thing going on. Tragically, fate extends a fatal finger of AIDS into the little pseudo family and claims Hutch and several others in rapid succession. Stanton is devastated when Christopher’s wealthy family block his access to Hutch’s deathbed and he throws himself into his work, remains alone but successful until fate shoves young Topher into his life 20 odd years later.
From this point the book goes on to explore the existential concept of “nothing happens without a reason” (predestination) and once soul’s become mated reincarnation can intervene to amend the cosmic mistakes of the universe. The trail of coincident is laid out bread crumb, by bread crumb, for the listener/reader to follow and agree with the inferred conclusion that YES Christopher/Hutch soul is reincarnated in the person of Christopher/Topher to be reunited with his soul-mate Stanton Porter. I am as big of a romantic as the next guy, as an individual isolated incident I can suspend my disbelief in a fantasy story, and think why the heck not. However, in my opinion, the author pushes the metaphorical dream a bit too far when he goes on to imply the members of Topher’s boy band are the other souls of Stanton’s lost prior pseudo family, claimed by AIDS in the early 80’s.
A cognitive dissidence is set up in my head when I hold the concepts of predestination finality and reincarnation as a way of amending the universes mistakes or giving deserving soul-mates a second chance. To me the concepts are mutually exclusive of one another. What of the other 658,507 US AIDS sundered soul-mates as of 2012 cropping up 20 to 30 years later drawn mysteriously back to older surviving wounded souls? If they don’t find one another do they just rinse spin dry and recycle the souls again and again until they finally hook up? Should we buy this concept; should surviving souls hold themselves at the ready and look for the resurrection of the lost one in a different body? And what of the other lives one fails to touch because we are awaiting the next swing of the soul train marry-go-round? These and other logical extension of uncomfortable questions makes me reject the extending the metaphorical seductive draw of reincarnation of star crossed soul-mates past an individual case example. Mr. Boney should not have pushed a good plot line beyond the stories ability to carry and support the logic.
The author’s intimate M/M libido driven scenes are first rate. His sense of theater and direction of the actions described leaves little, if anything, to the imagination. Personally, I think the script could use a little less stage direction and a little more sensory hook illusions to draw the listener/readers imagination into the scene as a bit of a co-director. By hitting sensory memory notes that resonate with the readers/listeners experience adds the needed color of involvement into the monochrome flashing images Mr. Boney is placing into our brains.
Recommendation Time: Due to the cognitive dissidence issue mentioned above I have to give the work a ding in the overall satisfaction department. This particular cognitive confection is not fully satisfying to me. However, it is a fun ride and flawlessly executed. The narrator gets top marks for his performance. The transitions between time and place back and forth are seamless. The introjection of the prior characters from “The Nothingness of Ben” are a good fit, provide necessary detail, and a bridge to healing an old rift/open wound between Stanton and Hutch’s family. However, the passing of Christopher’s/Hutch’s trust fund from his family to Christopher’s/Topher is downright implausible. Families of wealth simply do not behave that way unless they too have had a road to Damascus conversion to reincarnation experience. Still, if one ignores the pushing of reincarnation thing, it is a worthwhile experience. After all it is only a bit of pulp fiction. Enjoy it for what it is. Chew all the crazy illogical sweetness out of this bubble gum philosophy. Accept the author’s invitation to believe in the power of everlasting love. Just like in every love song that has stirred your soul in your life. The magic is in the music of love. Thumbs Up! It’s a buy.
What did you love best about The Return?
I loved the connection I felt to the characters, Brad Boney really makes them come alive for you.
What other book might you compare The Return to and why?
I would probably compare it to TJ Klune's Bear, Otter & The Kid, because of the emotional angst mixed in with humor.
What about Charlie David’s performance did you like?
Charlie David is usually not one of my favorite narrators but he did a very good job on this one, especially during some of the songs.
I'm not usually one to go for a book with a lot of flashbacks so I almost gave this book a pass when I realized that almost every other chapter was a flashback. However, I am very glad I stuck with it!
The author did a wonderful job of mixing the past & the present so that you really cared about all the players involved, both then & now. Some of the flashbacks were so emotional they had me reaching for the box of tissues even though you already knew what was coming.
The Return isn't listed as part of a series but you will be more familiar with some of the characters & some back story if you have already read The Nothingness of Ben which is almost as good as The Return.
The story has some sadder moments then I tend to like but comes out as such a good story that it is worth it. I have listened to it several times and still like it each time.
You will cry.
I am not one who cries easily with books, movies or life in general. This book though, moved me to tears several times. I don’t want to give away any of the plot, but please know that I think that this is an amazing and beautiful story, and if it were true, how truly wonderful it would be.
Charley David did an awesome job with the narration. In fact, I think this is his best performance, at least of those that I have read with him as the narrator. I highly recommend this book, but it’s probably best to listen to the last few hours alone, as you will probably end up sobbing at least once.
I give this 5 stars for both the story and the narration, and if I could give it 50, I would.
Amazing Story and Narration
The Return is a follow-on to the book "The Nothingness of Ben" and it's is inexplicably linked to events in the first and third book "The Eskimo Slugger". I have actually had to relisted to all three books again just to catch the way the stories are so closely linked to one another.
The story takes place in the present Austin and in the early 80's in NYC. The AIDS epidemic is starting and it shows the impact of the disease on a group of close friends. I absolutely loved the transitions from the past to the present. The ending is fantastic but I would suggest the Order of the Books to be "Eskimo Slugger", "Nothingness of Ben" and then the return.
Personally, I bet you'll reread them all once you've finished the three.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Return?
Early in the story where Topher and Stanton are sitting in the lounge at the W Hotel. This will link everything together eventually.
Have you listened to any of Charlie David’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Charlie David is one of my favorite narrators. I loved him in Findley but his performance in both "The Nothingness of Ben" and "The Return" are stellar. It's a shame he couldn't have done the "The Eskimo Slugger" but that is life.
Charlie David doesn't just read the story. He performs it and that's what makes it so fantastic. De
If you could rename The Return, what would you call it?
The Austin Trilogy is a great set of books. I would also suggest listening to "Yes" which was the follow-on since it takes place in the same Universe as this trilogy. It provides updates to the main characters providing continuity. Love Brad Boney's style and the dialogue of his characters. Looking forward to the next book.
AlexJouJou
Amazing and emotional!
One of the best narrations. This book is meant to be heard as it is a lot of dialogue. The narrator became the characters and really nailed the performance. The story of Stanton (and Hutch and Topher) brought me back to the 80's when AIDS first really landed like a hurricane through the gay community. Leaving destruction and heartache in its wake. Though times have changed and memories soften this book still inspires one to go out and actively campaign for a real cute for the HIV Virus. One of my 10 all time favorite books. A definite te listen.
Just go with it & you'll get sucked in
This story takes a certain amount of suspension of disbelief, but it's done so beautifully and I completely loved it by the end. I disagree with some reviewers who say read this one first - I'd definitely stick to The Nothingness of Ben first, then this one - partly because its such a pleasure to see things pop out that totally make sense now. I adored Charlie David's narration - he made every character so unique and perfect. This is a keeper and I'll be listing to both books again.
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Blood Year
The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism
By: David Kilcullen
Narrated by: John Pruden
Categories: Nonfiction, Politics
Out of the Mountains
The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
Narrated by: Christopher Kipiniak
When Americans think of modern warfare, what comes to mind is the US army skirmishing with terrorists and insurgents in the mountains of Afghanistan. But the face of global conflict is ever-changing. In Out of the Mountains, David Kilcullen, one of the world's leading experts on current and future conflict, offers a groundbreaking look at what may happen after today's wars end.
Very detailed and informative approach.
By kucherv on 04-25-18
The Accidental Guerrilla
Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A senior counterinsurgency advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the surge."Now, in The Accidental Guerrilla, Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War on Terror.
Excellent if advanced
By Krista M. Haas on 06-18-10
By: David J. Kilcullen
Kilcullen brings together his most salient writings on this vitally important topic. Here is a picture of modern warfare by someone who has had his boots on the ground in some of today's worst trouble spots - including Iraq and Afghanistan - and who has been studying counterinsurgency since 1985. Filled with down-to-earth, common-sense insights, this book is the definitive account of counterinsurgency, indispensable for all those interested in making sense of our world in an age of terror.
Slow moving tons of info. Struggle to finish
By Nicholas on 01-04-16
The New Rules of War
Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
By: Sean McFate
Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
An urgent, fascinating exploration of warfare - past, present, and future - and what we must do if we want to win today from an 82nd Airborne veteran, former private military contractor, and professor of war studies at the National Defense University. Some of these principles are ancient, others are new, but all will permanently shape war now and in the future. By following them, McFate argues, we can prevail. But if we do not, terrorists, rogue states, and others who do not fight conventionally will succeed - and rule the world.
Relevant/ Researched/ Verifiable Points
By M3 on 01-18-20
Carnage and Culture
Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
By: Victor Davis Hanson
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times - from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes' conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive - Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues that it is in fact Western culture and values which have consistently produced superior arms and soldiers.
Wow! This truly is a great book. A rarity!
By GEJ on 11-12-19
Call Sign Chaos
By: Jim Mattis, Bing West
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Call Sign Chaos is the account of Jim Mattis’ storied career, from wide-ranging leadership roles in three wars to ultimately commanding a quarter of a million troops across the Middle East. Along the way, Mattis recounts his foundational experiences as a leader, extracting the lessons he has learned about the nature of warfighting and peacemaking, the importance of allies, and the strategic dilemmas - and short-sighted thinking - now facing our nation.
A pleasant surprise
By Fountain of Chris on 09-06-19
By: T. E. Lawrence
Narrated by: Roy McMillan
Although T. E. Lawrence, commonly known as "Lawrence of Arabia’, died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work in which he chronicles his role in leading the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War. A reluctant leader, and wracked by guilt at the duplicity of the British, Lawrence nevertheless threw himself into his role, suffering the blistering desert conditions and masterminding military campaigns which culminated in the triumphant march of the Arabs into Damascus.
One of the greatest stories ever told.
By Stevie on 01-11-13
A War Like No Other
How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Hanson compellingly portrays the ways Athens and Sparta fought on land and sea, in city and countryside, and details their employment of the full scope of conventional and non-conventional tactics, from sieges to targeted assassinations, torture, and terrorism. He also assesses the crucial roles played by warriors such as Pericles and Lysander, artists, among them Aristophanes, and thinkers including Sophocles and Plato.
the guy sounded so bored reading this
By P. D. N. on 01-04-20
Relentless Strike
The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command
By: Sean Naylor
Relentless Strike tells the inside story of Joint Special Operations Command, the secret military organization that, during the past decade, has revolutionized counterterrorism, seamlessly fusing intelligence and operational skills to conduct missions that hit the headlines and those that have remained in the shadows - until now. Because JSOC includes the military's most storied special operations units - Delta Force, SEAL Team Six, the 75th Ranger Regiment - as well as America's most secret aviation and intelligence units, this is their story, too.
By Rui Ribeiro on 09-23-15
LikeWar
The Weaponization of Social Media
By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
Narrated by: George Guidall
Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet. Terrorists livestream their attacks, “Twitter wars” produce real world casualties, and viral misinformation alters not just the result of battles, but the very fate of nations. The result is that war, tech, and politics have blurred into a new kind of battlespace that plays out on our smartphones.
Deep analysis of the Social Media revolution
By Ross J. Patti on 10-29-18
Directorate S
The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
By: Steve Coll
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, best-selling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11.
All the detail you could want
By Louis Macareo on 03-06-18
The Mission, the Men, and Me
Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
By: Pete Blaber
As a commander of Delta Force - the most elite counter terrorist organization in the world - Pete Blaber took part in some of the most dangerous, controversial, and significant military and political events of our time. Now he takes his intimate knowledge of warfare - and the heart, mind, and spirit it takes to win - and moves his focus from the combat zone to civilian life. As the smoke clears from exciting stories about never-before-revealed top-secret missions that were executed all over the globe, listeners will emerge wiser, more capable, and more ready for life's personal victories than they ever thought possible.
DELTA Adventures with Everyday Tactical Advice
By Billy on 05-16-14
A Novel of the Next World War
By: P. W. Singer, August Cole
Narrated by: Rich Orlow
The year is 2026. China has taken over as the world's largest economy, while the United States, mired in an oil shortage, struggles to adjust to its diminished role. Then, a surprise attack throws the US into a chaos unseen since Pearl Harbor. As the enemy takes control, the survival of the nation will depend upon the most unlikely forces: the Navy's antiquated Ghost Fleet and a cadre of homegrown terrorists.
An unusual war story
By Mike From Mesa on 09-06-15
Getting More
How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life
By: Stuart Diamond
Narrated by: Marc Cashman
Negotiation is part of every human encounter, and most of us do it badly. Whether dealing with family, a business or diplomacy, people often fail to meet their goals in every country and context. They focus on power and “win-win” instead of relationships and perceptions. They don’t find enough things to trade. They think others should be rational when they should be dealing with emotions.
By Christian on 02-26-11
By: Ranulph Fiennes
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Throughout human history the art of warfare has evolved into many forms across numerous theatres, gradually becoming more sophisticated and strategised as the centuries have progressed. From the Spartans of ancient Greece with their code of valour fighting to the last man to the US Navy SEALs who operate using the latest technology of the 21st century. Across the vast array of military campaigns and battles one can see that the majority of organised armies have been comprised of enlisted men who would have their basic training.
Shatter the Nations
ISIS and the War for the Caliphate
By: Mike Giglio
Narrated by: Robert Fass
The battle to defeat ISIS was an unremittingly brutal and dystopian struggle, a multi-sided war of gritty local commandos and militias. Mike Giglio takes listeners to the heart of this shifting, uncertain conflict, capturing the essence of a modern war. At its peak, ISIS controlled a self-styled "caliphate" the size of Great Britain, with a population cast into servitude that numbered in the millions. Its territory spread across Iraq and Syria as its influence stretched throughout the wider world.
Most important book for the coming decade
By Peter A. on 01-01-20
The Moral Dilemmas of Spying
By: James M. Olson
Narrated by: Joel Richards
Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America's first spies, said, "Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary." A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement as one of its guiding principles. But who decides what is necessary for the public good, and is it really true that any kind of service is permissible for the public good? These questions are at the heart of James M. Olson's book, Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying.
A well researched and worth a listen
By Jeremy on 12-18-18
The Great Delusion
Liberal Dreams and International Realities
By: John J. Mearsheimer
Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
In this major statement, the renowned international-relations scholar John Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony, the foreign policy pursued by the United States since the Cold War ended, is doomed to fail. It makes far more sense, he maintains, for Washington to adopt a more restrained foreign policy based on a sound understanding of how nationalism and realism constrain great powers abroad.
Dense, fact filled, sober analysis and prescription
By John Brynjolfsson on 12-15-18
2014 has the potential to go down as a crucial year in modern world history. A resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Post-Saddam Iraq, in many respects a creature of the United States because of the war that began in 2003, lost a third of its territory to an army of hyper-violent millennialists. The peace process in Israel seemed to completely collapse. Finally, after coalescing in Syria as a territorial entity, the Islamic State swept into northern Iraq and through northeastern Syria, attracting legions of recruits from Europe and the Middle East.
David Kilcullen was one of the architects of America's strategy in the late phases of the second Gulf War, and also spent time in Afghanistan and other hotspots. In Blood Year, he provides a wide-angle view of the current situation in the Middle East and analyzes how America and the West ended up in such dire circumstances. This is an essential book for anyone interested in understanding not only why the region that the US invaded a dozen years ago has collapsed into utter chaos, but also what it can do to alleviate the grim situation.
©2016 David Kilcullen (P)2017 Tantor
Cheri P.
It's a thinking men's war.
David Kilcullen teaches the public what conflict is really about. It's not just what we are thinking about, the enemy also has it's own viewpoint and objectives, great book. " hail o infantry"
William Gillentine
Although I did not agree with a few points, the author submitted a logical and convincing argument. Very well written and it matched my experience in Afganistan.
Coach Geo
Must read for anyone who wants to really understand what happened militarily for 2001 to 2016. Unbelievable insight; as someone who has lived a lot of the same stuff, he hits it right on!
Kilcullen is on point in all his assertions/review
Kilcullen is on point in all his assertions/review. His experience and in depth understanding of counterterrorism and the etymology thereof is second to none
Honest Analysis
I appreciate all of David Kilcullens work. This was another great analysis of recent events. The narrarator somehow failed to pronounce even some English words correctly however. Good overall.
Brooklyn Park, MD, United States
best I've heard so far on the subject
The best part was the more or less play by play he calls on how the GWOT played out so far. The frustrating but understandable thing is that he really never answers the 'other aspect' of counter-insurgency which is finding the path by which the threatened modern governments will or can come to effective governance. It is a great book overall but there just seems to be much more yet to be understood.
Crazed War Monger
I am not left wing or any other 'wing whatever that means in the current context but, in my humble opinion, is that Kilcullen should be held under house arrest in Australia, forbidden to travel, and be denied the right to leave the country.
There is a great deal to know about War especially the state of endless war we have embarked on since 2001 especially as to who is financing all these conflicts and the means by which they are financed which would be the sales of guns, oil, and drugs.
I expected a level of information from this writer commensurate with his reputation as he is almost as responsible for the mess the US wanders into ever deeper.
Kilcullen thinks 50 or even 100 years of War is what is needed trying to pacify the entire Globe.
Ask yourself why the US the US instigated civil war in Afghanistan during the Carter Administration- what the goal was then- and the millions and millions of killings since then.
It is no longer possible to stop the war Machine as in 1974 when the insane generals were cut off by Congress as we are well past that. Then of course the US had been involved in Indochina from 1945-74 so you want to stay as far away from the meat grinder as possible.
Anthony Duffy
Academic thinking for military minds
Kilcullen has a fantastic ability to write highly academic and well researched books that are explained in accessible terms. Brilliant narration too
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The Way Of Powerlessness
By: Wayne Liquorman
Narrated by: Lee Eric Smith
Categories: Self Development, How-To
The 30-Day Wake Up Challenge
A Direct Way to Spiritual Liberation
By: Adyashanti
Narrated by: Adyashanti
Original Recording
“Who am I?” It’s one of the great questions at the heart of philosophy and spiritual inquiry - and in The 30-Day Wake Up Challenge, Adyashanti will guide you in exploring it fully. Over the course of this month-long journey, you will delve into dimensions of awakened awareness to discover the truth of your identity and connection to all of existence.
Kind Gentle Way- Clear and Obtainable
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
By: Swami Vivekananda
Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
Length: 18 hrs
What Hinduism needed, amidst the general disintegration of the modern era, was a rock where she could lie at anchor, an authoritative utterance in which she might recognize her self. And this was given to her in the words and writings of the Swami Vivekananda.
18 hours of blissfulness
By Yogi Adhikari on 01-01-19
Becoming Nobody
The Essential Ram Dass Collection
By: Ram Dass
Narrated by: Ram Dass
This audio collection brings us five essential sessions, featured in the Ram Dass documentary film Becoming Nobody, presented here in their entirety. Each beautifully illuminates a core dimension of Ram Dass’s wisdom. Through teaching stories, true accounts, eye-opening revelations, and his one-of-a-kind sense of humor, this legendary teacher helps show us the way out of the prison of our self-identity - and into the joy of being at once “nobody” and the universal divine at play in the world.
Ram Dass' Greatest Hits
By Jose Pepe on 11-15-19
The Way to God: Advaita - The Way to God Through Mind
By: David R. Hawkins M.D.
Narrated by: David R. Hawkins
David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally known author and speaker on the subject of spiritually advanced states of consciousness and the realization of the presence of God as Self. His published works, as well as recorded lectures, have been widely recognized as unique.
By Melissa on 04-18-16
Evoking the Divine Ground of Your Being
Beneath all our bustling thoughts and the distracting dramas of the world, an ever-present stillness beckons us to our true home. "Meditation is a tool for returning to our essential nature," says Adyashanti. With Guided Meditations, this groundbreaking spiritual teacher offers four immersive audio sessions of meditations created to enrich your practice and help you become a more open, loving, and benevolent presence in the world.
This audiobook finally got meditating!
By: Alan W. Watts
Discover how the understanding and practice of Zen can bring peace and enlightenment into your daily life in this classic work. Narrated by Sean Runnette, this audio program presents Alan Watts's classic bestseller, introducing Western listeners to Zen Buddhism and elaborating on the key concepts including: The history of Zen, the principles and practice of Zen, the tradition of Za-Zen (meditation) and the Koan, and the integration of Zen into every aspect of life. The Way of Zen presents an understandable, inspirational, and spiritually rewarding exploration of Zen Buddhism.
Good - But Not For The "Beginner"
By K. Briggs on 09-10-16
Original Goodness
A Commentary on the Beatitudes
By: Eknath Easwaran
Narrated by: Paul Bazely
Uncover the core of goodness within. Love, compassion, meaning, hope, and freedom from fear are not qualities we need to acquire. We simply need to uncover what we already have. "Original goodness" is Eknath Easwaran’s phrase for this spark of divinity hidden in every one of us, regardless of our personal liabilities or past mistakes. Commenting on the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount, Easwaran shows how this spark of divinity can energize our lives - beginning with a simple method of meditation that gradually removes the conditioning that hides our native goodness.
The Most Important Thing, Volume 1
Discovering Truth at the Heart of Life
“Question your assumptions; lean far into the unknown. Question it all.” So says Adyashanti in The Most Important Thing, Volume 1 - an invitation to look past the surface of our personal stories to discover the timeless truths within. Across eight hours of intimate talks, Adyashanti encourages you to open to the possibility of grace, embrace those aspects of life that call you to serve, and discover the innate vitality in every single moment.
Inspires direction and clarity for deep progress
Conversations with the Masters
By: Anthony de Mello
Narrated by: Anthony De Mello
Awareness awakens you to the truth that you possess everything you need right now to be happy and fulfilled. Happiness is your natural state. You don't need to do anything to acquire it; you only need to drop something. This audiobook shows you what that is. There is not a single person who ever gave time to being aware who’s quality of life didn't change. You see life differently because you are different. You respond to people and situations differently. You see things you have never seen before. Beautiful things. You're much more energetic, much more alive.
Amazing presentation. So happy for the audio!
By Mary on 10-12-19
Power vs. Force
The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
By: Dr. David R. Hawkins
Narrated by: Dr. David R. Hawkins
The publication of Power vs. Force by Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., reveals to the general public secret information heretofore only shared by the author with certain Nobelists and world leaders. Analyzing the basic nature of human thought and consciousness itself, the author makes available to everyone the key to penetrating the last barrier to the advancement of civilization and science and resolving the most crucial of all human dilemmas.
Great book, good audiobook....
By Paul on 09-10-09
Nonduality and the Twelve Steps
By: Fred Davis
Narrated by: Scott Clem
Beyond Recovery: Nonduality and the Twelve Steps is a "bridge book" that introduces Nonduality to people in recovery, and recovery to people who are already involved in nondual spirituality. Very often in recovery, participants will hit a "plateau" in whatever system they're using to clean up and clear up. They feel like they've outgrown the rigid dogma sometimes found in some recovery programs, but they still have a pull toward the relative safety of their group or tradition.
Falling into Grace
Insights on the End of Suffering
Adyashanti asks us to let go of our struggles with life and open to the full promise of spiritual awakening: the end of delusion and the discovery and expression of our essential being. After 15 years as a spiritual teacher, Adyashanti has found that the simpler the teaching, the greater its power to initiate this awakening. On Falling into Grace, he shares what he considers fundamental insights to "open ourselves to that mysterious element that enters in the hidden and quiet moments and sparks a revolution in the way that we perceive life."
Very spiritual and helpful
By Jennifer C. on 04-26-15
A Course in Miracles Made Easy
Mastering the Journey from Fear to Love
By: Alan Cohen
Narrated by: Alan Cohen
A Course in Miracles (ACIM) - the self-study spiritual-thought system that teaches the way to love and forgiveness - has captivated the minds and captured the hearts of millions of people. Delivering inner peace where fear and pain once prevailed, its universal message is unsurpassed in its power to heal. Yet many students report that they have difficulty grasping the principles or keeping up with the lessons. So even while they yearn for the spiritual freedom the course offers, they put the book aside, hoping to get to it one day.
A Must Listen
By Kimberly on 10-07-17
The Diamond in Your Pocket
Discovering Your True Radiance
By: Gangaji
Narrated by: Gangaji
The Diamond in Your Pocket, the first major book release from Gangaji, describes our never-ending search to find fulfillment, which, paradoxically, is already present if we will only stop long enough to discover its true source.
By Darrel on 01-16-09
On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
By: Alan Watts
Modern Western culture and technology is inextricably tied to the belief in the existence of a self as a separate ego, separated from and in conflict with the rest of the world. In this classic book, Watts provides a lucid and simple presentation of an alternative view based on Hindu and Vedantic philosophy.
Invaluable Insight
By Dylan on 04-09-15
Perfect Brilliant Stillness
By: David Carse
Narrated by: Terence Stamp
The legendary British actor Terence Stamp reads the book that he says 'changed his life'. This is an exploration of our existence and a journey towards enlightenment. In what the author calls 'the fine print' at the start of the book, David Carse wrote: 'There are many books out there that will help you to live a better life, become a better person, and evolve and grow to realise your potential as a spiritual being. This is not one of them....'
My desert island book
By Robert P. Pherigo on 05-29-16
Healing the Core Wound of Unworthiness
The Gift of Redemptive Love
"So many of us hold a deep belief that we were born unworthy," reflects Adyashanti, "inadequate, unlovable, and alone." But what if, in truth, we weren't put here to pay penance, change our karma, or "fix" ourselves? What if we chose to be here because we so loved the world that we poured ourselves into it - to make it whole again, to restore "the hidden divinity amid the disaster"? With Healing the Core Wound of Unworthiness, we're invited to entertain that possibility.
Profound insights into the nature of our human condition
By Tom Langley on 04-07-16
True Meditation
What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose? In the 14 years that he studied Zen, Adyashanti found that most seasoned meditators had used the practice as a means to a goal they never reached.
Very Nice, Different and Refreshing
By Peter on 01-21-11
Powerlessness = Strength
We suffer from the most insidious kind of addiction - one we don't even realize we have. It is the addiction to power itself.
Both the Twelve Steps of recovery and the ancient teaching of Advaita reveal that powerlessness is the secret to genuine strength.
The proposition that lasting peace in life can come through the recognition of complete personal powerlessness may seem counterintuitive and ultimately ridiculous. Yet, lasting peace is the miracle The Way of Powerlessness makes possible.
©2012 Advaita Fellowship (P)2014 Advaita Fellowship
A Message from God
I certainly did learn a lot from this audio book. The reader was good also.
For anyone who has and is seeking some clarity , help , inspiration and consolidation on their spiritual journey,this is a wonderful listen,
I frequently adjust the sleep timer on the iPad Audible app and let Wayne read me to sleep
Just talks about the 12 Steps
Nothing much about non duality here. I am sorry I wasted my credit
DPQ
Mainly just Explains the 12 step AA program
What disappointed you about The Way Of Powerlessness?
I was never an alcoholic or addicted to drugs. This book is mainly about the 12 step AA programs for alcoholics.
So much was relevant in this audiobook that I will purchase the book to visit it with my pencil and paper.
inspiring book, a great help
this book made me understand a lot about myself and the whole approach to spirituality
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Asus Zenfone 3 max Asus has finally announced availability of its ZenFone 3 Max (ZC553KL) model in India. Priced at Rs. 17,999. Will now be available via the company's preferred partner's retail outlets.
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Asus has finally announced availability of its ZenFone 3 Max (ZC553KL) model in India. Priced at Rs. 17,999, the Asus ZenFone 3 Max (ZC553KL) will now be available via the company's preferred partner's retail outlets as well as e-commerce websites. It will be available in Titanium Gary, Glacier Silver, and Sand Gold colours.
To recall, the Asus ZenFone 3 Max (ZC553KL) wasannounced last month alongside the 5.2-inch display version with model name ZC520TL. The ZenFone 3 Max (ZC520TL) is already available in the Indian market priced at Rs. 12,999.
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The Asus ZenFone 3 Max (ZC553KL) and Asus ZenFone 3 Max (ZC520TL). Apart from sharing a similar design also bear a few common specifications, such as the large 4100mAh battery, hybrid dual-SIM (Micro+Nano) support, a fingerprint sensor on the rear panel, and Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow with the company's ZenUI 3.0 skin on top.
The ZenFone 3 Max (ZC553KL) features a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) display, and is powered by a 1.4GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 SoC coupled with 3GB of LPDDR3 RAM. It comes with a 16-megapixel rear camera with an f/2.0 aperture and dual-LED flash, apart from an 8-megapixel front camera with an f/2.2 aperture and an 84-degree wide-angle lens.
The 32GB of inbuilt storage on the ZenFone 3 Max (ZC553KL) can be expanded via microSD card (up to 128GB). The smartphone weighs 175 grams, and measures 151.4x76.24x8.3mm. Connectivity options include 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, GPS, Bluetooth v4.1, Micro-USB, and FM radio. Sensors on the phone include accelerometer, ambient light sensor, gyroscope, magnetometer, and proximity sensor.
As we mentioned, the highlight of the ZenFone 3 Max is its large 4100mAh battery, which also helps the smartphone double up as a power bank. On the 5.5-inch variant, the battery is rated to deliver up to 38 days of 4G standby time, and up to 17 hours of 3G talk time, while the 5.2-inch variant will see the same battery deliver up to 30 days of 4G standby time, and 20 hours of 3G talk time.
Good Design & built quality
Vibrant display
Capable cameras
Good audio quality
Fingerprint censor can be iffy
Weak gaming performance
No Gorilla glass
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How to Promote Your Pre-Order Store
Gillian Terzis May 10, 2017
Crowdfunding TipsPost-Campaign Tips
Many project creators think the hard work is over once the crowdfunding campaign ends. But if you’re selling pre-orders as part of your campaign, the marketing effort should continue. A little legwork can help you capitalize on demand for your product from late backers, as well as new audiences.
Having your pre-order store up and running once your campaign has ended is a great way to capture demand from backers who have missed the original campaign. Serial entrepreneur Cathryn Lavery, the creator of BestSelf.CO and Calm the Ham, says that there’s likely to be plenty of demand for your product in the two-week period that Kickstarter takes to process payments.
In 2015, she ran a successful crowdfunding campaign for the SELF Journal, a daily planner that is designed to maximize productivity and goal-setting. “It was crucial to ensure we took advantage of the traffic that was still coming out way after the campaign had ended,” she writes. “In the seven days after the campaign, we drove 14K in additional funding without doing any marketing.” Lavery used Celery to sell the initial batch of pre-orders during this two-week period before hosting a store on BackerKit.
However, most products won’t sell themselves – it’s up to you to spread the word once the marketing from the original campaign dissipates. Small steps can have a significant impact. Most pre-order stores are standalone sites that you can link to on your social media profiles, campaign updates, and email signatures. If you’re using Kickstarter, you can link to your store using the Kickstarter Spotlight button.
Adding passive links can supply a trickle of traffic, but driving significant sales requires some preparation. Ideally, a pre-order store requires a promotional marketing campaign to boost revenue.
Use Your Mailing Lists
Chances are you built up a solid email mail list during your campaign and now you have a backer list to add to it. Emailing your contacts about your pre-order store launch will help to spread the word.
How you launch your store matters. Just sending out an email, saying “Hey, we’re open!” might not be enough to get people to click through.
Make sure to highlight specific products that are available for sale and consider including a promotion, such as a limited-time discount or coupon to increase the sense of urgency. Make sure that the email has a prominent call-to-action – a ‘ Buy Now’ button, for instance – to ensure that readers have an easy way to go to the store.
Sendwithus offers plenty of tips on creating an effective email campaign. Rather than spam all of your contacts with potentially irrelevant (and annoying) promotional emails, it recommends building a separate, month-long drip campaign for the leads that have not yet converted. It also suggests using each email to “reinforce the value of your product and then include social proof from other pre-customers who converted”.
In this instance, social proof could include tweets or social media praise from excited backers, snapshots of your campaign successes, press mentions, or testimonials from those who love your product.
Alex Smilansky, creator of desktop vacuum former FormBox, said that having a large signup list and continuing to nurture it was fundamental in generating sales on Kickstarter and after the campaign had ended. He says that leads generated from his mailing list were converted over time. His Kickstarter campaign raised $588,775, exceeding his funding goal ten times, and his pre-order sales with BackerKit totaled $192,256. His most popular pre-order item was a limited-release version of the FormBox, priced at $399.
The Power of Paid Ads
Many creators use paid ads to drive traffic to their crowdfunding campaign pages, but they can also vastly increase the visibility and reach of your pre-order store. Most project creators we’ve spoken to say they’ve had the highest conversion rates promoting BackerKit pre-orders through Facebook ads, although some have also used Google Adwords with varying degrees of success.
Formbox’s Smilanksy said that out of all the Formbox’s pre-order store traffic, 80% to 90% of it came from Facebook advertising, while the remainder was organically driven. The company now plans to run more targeted experiments and run ads on Pinterest using the platform’s Promoted Pins.
When choosing a paid ad platform, it helps to consider the nature of your product.
If it addresses a need that is searchable, Google Adwords could be a promising fit. Meanwhile, Promoted Pins are well-suited to products that are visually appealing and aspirational.
All of these platforms offer analytics and conversion tracking. If you’re using Facebook ads, you can use the Facebook pixel to measure cross-device conversions, create custom audiences for your ads, optimize delivery, run dynamic product ads, and find out how people are interacting with your website.
Nurture Your Brand
Ultimate Survival Tips’ David Robert didn’t use paid ads to promote his pre-order store. Instead, he focused his efforts on growing an existing audience base that had been cultivated over time through targeted content marketing strategies. “When we did do promotional material for the MSK-1, it helped to fuel interest for our pre-order store,” he says.
The MSK-1 knife raised almost as much in pre-orders ($170,455) as it did in its Kickstarter campaign ($197,693). Its most popular pre-order item is the Ultimate Survival Bundle ($519), which comprises one MSK-1 survival knife with handle survival kit, an ACS 2-in-1 sheath system (Kydex and nylon), one MSK-1 mini knife and sheath, a 1/4″ firesteel rod and holder, and a large strap-on kit pouch. Its second-most popular item is the starter package, which includes the MSK-1 survival knife with a handle survival kit and black Kydex sheath.
The fruits of his efforts can be seen on YouTube, where his channel has amassed over 42 million views and almost 400,000 subscribers. Some of Robert’s most popular videos have garnered over a million views. “I had spent about three years developing our product, so along the way there were lots of teasers and anticipation online,” he says.
“Part of what we had going in our favor was a pretty large social media presence going in, and our most popular YouTube videos continue to go on and build views over time. That link love continues to feed into the pre-order store.” He uploads new videos regularly. A few are promotional videos for the MSK-1 knife and its accessories – some of which took a few months to produce – while others are videos packed with tips for bushcraft, hunting, and survival against the elements.
In addition, Robert also has a Facebook page for Ultimate Survival Tips, with 50,000-strong followers, where videos promoting the MSK-1 and the pre-order store are woven in with other survival-related content. He also regularly engages with followers on Instagram.
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Video games can help treat people with swallowing disorders
Lorien Health assisted-nursing facility in Columbia has a video game that helps patients with swallowing disorders. (Kim Hairston, Baltimore Sun video)
Cecile Buker peered at the computer screen as a therapist prepared to feed her a teaspoon of water from a clear plastic cup. An animated kangaroo on the screen hopped toward a gold coin suspended in the air.
"Get ready to swallow now," said the speech therapist Inoka Tennakoon. "A nice strong swallow."
Buker took a gulp and the kangaroo jumped, capturing the coin.
For more than a year now, therapists at the Lorien Health assisted-nursing facility in Columbia have been using virtual reality technology and video games to help treat people with swallowing disorders.
They say the video games being used at the 205-bed facility keep people engaged in their treatment. Therapists have also seen patients recover more quickly because they get instant feedback on how they're doing. If they don't swallow enough, they don't succeed at the game.
Buker, 60, suffered a stroke at her Frederick home in April and could not swallow any solid or liquid foods when she first arrived at Lorien for therapy. She had to use breathing and feeding tubes. With therapy, including the video games, she slowly recovered and learned to swallow again.
On this day, Buker was practicing typical swallowing. On other days, she and other patients might perform exercises such as sucking through a straw, lip pressing, effortful swallowing and jaw grading — learning to judge how wide to open their mouths. Sensors placed on Buker's neck feed data on her swallowing technique to a computer. Typically, the patient does the exercise in sets of 25 repetitions, Tennakoon said.
Buker said the games don't fool her into thinking she's not getting therapy. But they help ease the monotony and boredom, and the games do help, she said.
"It gives me something to do," said Buker, who speaks in a whisper because of lingering effects from the stroke.
Conservative estimates are that nearly one in 25 U.S. adults will experience a swallowing problem each year, though it is more common in older people, according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Swallowing problems are often the result of neurological conditions such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy or Parkinson's disease. Either the muscles are damaged because of the illness or they become weakened because patients are on ventilators and feeding tubes for long periods of time.
Swallowing disorders can make it hard for people to ingest sufficient nutrition and can lead to life-threatening conditions such as aspiration pneumonia, a serious type of lung infection. About 60,000 people die each year because of complications from problems swallowing.
Doctors said that technology to treat swallowing disorders is steadily improving and has the potential to help doctors better treat patients. For instance, devices called expiratory muscle strength trainers help exercise key muscles used in swallowing, said Dr. Luis F. Riquelme, chair of the American Board of Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders.
Another device, an accelerometer sensor, measures how a patients' muscles move when swallowing. This can help a doctor determine what kind of physical therapy will best benefit the patient.
Even technology as common as an iPad helps doctors because it can be used to show patients 3-D images of swallowing disorders, so they better understand what is going on with their bodies, said Riquelme.
"When you tell a patient they're aspirating, they don't really understand until you show it to them," Riquelme said.
Lorien, where one out of three patients has a swallowing problem, uses a computer system called Synchrony that includes several games that test different swallowing functions. Synchrony was created by the Nevada company Accelerated Care Plus Corp., which specializes in rehabilitation technology.
One of the Synchrony games, called "Divers," tests isometric and oral motor skills by requiring the patient to swallow in order to move an animated diver up or down to collect pearls from clams that are distributed across the computer screen.
The Synchrony system also comes with a second component called a stimulator. With this device, electrodes are placed on the cheek to stimulate nerves that connect to the brain stem, which controls swallowing. Patients then play the video games in hopes that the stimulated nerves will improve results.
Another game, "Bow & Arrow," works on swallowing time and coordination. The patient must swallow hard enough to draw back a bow. Then the patient has to time the swallow to release the arrow to shoot down balloons at the top of the screen.
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The data from each patient's gaming session is stored for a starting point the next time.
Tennakoon said the virtual therapy helps therapists better determine how patients perform their exercises.
"With traditional therapy, we said, 'Swallow really, really hard,' but we couldn't really measure how much effort the patient was using," Tennakoon said. "Now I can look on the screen and see how hard they swallowed."
Tennakoon said she thinks the technology has made a huge difference in the treatment of some patients.
"When you have tried everything for a patient and you can't do anything more, this works," she said.
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Genesis 29:1-30 New International Version - UK (NIVUK)
Jacob arrives in Paddan Aram
29 Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. 2 There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. 3 When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
4 Jacob asked the shepherds, ‘My brothers, where are you from?’
‘We’re from Harran,’ they replied.
5 He said to them, ‘Do you know Laban, Nahor’s grandson?’
‘Yes, we know him,’ they answered.
6 Then Jacob asked them, ‘Is he well?’
‘Yes, he is,’ they said, ‘and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.’
7 ‘Look,’ he said, ‘the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.’
8 ‘We can’t,’ they replied, ‘until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.’
9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherd. 10 When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep. 11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud. 12 He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.
13 As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things. 14 Then Laban said to him, ‘You are my own flesh and blood.’
Jacob marries Leah and Rachel
After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month, 15 Laban said to him, ‘Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.’
16 Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the elder one was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah had weak[a] eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful. 18 Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, ‘I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.’
19 Laban said, ‘It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.’ 20 So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
21 Then Jacob said to Laban, ‘Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.’
22 So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast. 23 But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob made love to her. 24 And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter as her attendant.
25 When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, ‘What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn’t I? Why have you deceived me?’
26 Laban replied, ‘It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the elder one. 27 Finish this daughter’s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.’
28 And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. 29 Laban gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her attendant. 30 Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.
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Darcy Woolley – the Truth About What it Takes
Cameron Nicholls
“There was absolutely horrendous weather for four weeks straight. I’d just had enough of it. I rode down the road for five minutes with a five-hour day ahead of me. I pulled over to the side of the road among the paddocks and watched the rain fall down. Then I turned around and went back home, spending the next week on the couch, contemplating my cycling career.”
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No matter what you do in life, you will experience breaking points from time to time that will test your character. The question is, will you get through it or will you give up?
There’s no doubt that the world of amateur cycling is tough, particularly if you’re climbing the ranks via the National Road Series here in Australia. Most NRS riders will cover almost seven hundred kilometres per week over multiple five-hour training sessions. They travel around Australia representing a team and on race day they need to perform their best to be competitive. They’re tired when they’re off the bike and busting their gut when they’re on it. It’s highly demanding, both physically and mentally, yet the financial return is non-existent for most. With no financial benefit and a bucket load of sacrifice, why do it at all?
A clear line of sight
Darcy Woolly is a 22-year-old young gun road cyclist from Mortlake, Victoria and a genuinely humble, all-round nice guy. He’s a country boy with integrity but with a real fire in the belly. Darcy has a clear desire and determination to get somewhere in cycling. It’s for that reason he’s now preparing to tackle the American Pro Continental Series with Canadian team Garneau-Quebecor – a team many consider a stepping stone into the professional ranks of cycling with it’s slightly mysterious structures and team dynamics. But getting there has been no easy feat, it has required immense sacrifice and lots of learning along the way.
Learning the trade
Darcy made his way through club and Victorian Road Series grades rather quickly. He was soon racing in A grade and entered the National Road Series (NRS) at the age of 19. The step into the NRS was big and Darcy was told by his coach (Andy Graham) that “it will take you three years to get used to the pace of NRS. You’re going to have to learn how to get dropped”.
In Darcy’s first top-level race, he got dropped during almost every single road stage. He finished twenty to thirty minutes behind the main bunch until he finally made it around with the group on the final stage. “I wasn’t sure if everyone was just tired from the week, but I was happy to finally get around”, Darcy says.
Darcy realised that he would need to change his approach if he wanted to succeed in the NRS and eventually beyond.
Firstly, Darcy’s training had to become more effective. Instead of spending more time in the saddle, he focused on the efficiency and structure of his training sessions. Darcy went from covering about 120 kilometres in a five-hour training ride to being able to cover 150 kilometres in the same time. “I was starting to train faster”, says Darcy. “There were a lot more efforts throughout my sessions. I specifically focused on twenty to thirty minute threshold efforts, even building right up to one-hour efforts at eighty-five percent of my threshold.”
Secondly, Darcy changed his role within the team. He had been used to driving breaks and winning sprint finishes, but now took on the role of the “workhorse” in the AWS team. He would soon have to learn how to meticulously follow team instructions, pick the right moves, and identify gaps that he had previously seen as non-existent. With his newfound identity as the workhorse, Darcy still managed to get a few top three placings under his belt – the most notable of these being a second stage win at the Tour of Murray.
The workhorse in action
Perfecting the Chameleon
With three years of riding at the top level in Australian cycling, Darcy has now built the foundation required to take back the reins as a sprinter.
But how can you all of sudden be one thing, and then transition into another? Training is the answer! To make the transition, Darcy has spent the last five months focusing more on sprint specific training. His new training regime includes one strength training session a week, focused specifically around stability and leg and core strength. “I’m no hero”, says Darcy. “I think I’m lifting fifty kilograms on the squats, but it’s a start”.
One of his weekly sessions on the road is now focused specifically on sprinting. He does both standing and seated sprint efforts of fifteen seconds followed by five consecutive forty-second sprints with a twenty-second rest in-between. The set of forty-second sprints is repeated three times. As a result, Darcy has been able to increase his ability while spending less time on the bike. His restructured training sessions normally last about three hours. “I come home from these sessions far more depleted than the typical five-hour endurance ride”.
In addition to making improvements to his training program, Darcy also joined InForm Racing, a Melbourne based amateur cycling team, at the backend of last year. This was an interim gig to allow Darcy to still ride with a team and focus his attention specifically on sprinting. With InForm he has been able to ride in the local criterium scene and build his confidence as a sprinter. The result has been multiple A grade wins at club level as well as wins at the Bay Criterium support series this year. In fact, if it wasn’t for an unfortunate incident on the last corner of the last race in the series, Darcy would have taken first place overall. (You can see the unfortunate incident here if you wish)
Not a happy chappy after being taken down on the last corner of the last race of the Bay Criterium Series.
The full interview with Darcy is available via a podcast on iTunes; see the link at the top of this article. Thirty-one minutes into the interview Darcy speaks about a breaking point where he was seriously considering “racking the bike” to get “a real job”. During the winter of 2015, at a time when there was a significant gap in the racing season, Darcy was training long hours on country roads. This created a perfect storm that would make Darcy seriously consider his cycling career. But as you may have guessed, he didn’t rack the bike. In fact, he’s now sporting a new pink bike; riding through the beautiful terrain of Canada and experiencing an opportunity that could’ve gone begging if it wasn’t for his commitment to continuous improvement with the hope that one day, he’ll be knocking on the pro peloton door.
My Key Lesson from Darcy
Winning that next race or taking that next step towards your cycling goals won’t happen without hard work and sacrifice. When the alarm clock goes off early in the morning and you hear the pitter patter of rain echoing into your bedroom it’s time to get on your bike and get just on with it. You don’t know what possibilities lay ahead unless you put in the effort.
Author Cameron NichollsPosted on April 12, 2016 October 19, 2017 Categories People & Community, Podcast
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Good story Darcy, keep trying and you may well get there.
Well done Darcy, best wishes for your future, I have great respect!
Champion bloke on the way to the top.
Jeff McLean says:
Keep at it Darcy, your a great rider, your sacrifices and hard work will payoff, you have come a long way from when you were a teenager in Mortlake. well done!
Hey Darcy:
Watched you take a strong second in yesterday’s Preston Crit in Ottawa and think you should have taken it by several seconds as you were clearly strong and on form. To be honest, I’d never heard of you until yesterday though as I watched the 62-rider pack during the first half hour and you shot out the front and for a while held a strong gap I was wondering two things. Were you a super-strong rider who could clearly outclass the group and hold the gap or were you expending too much energy too early and would you pay the price toward the end?
You may not have even heard me though I was the guy who started shouting ‘pace yourself’ as you sped by and who then kept yelling ‘hide’ once the chase group had caught you (or you’d deliberately fallen back – I don’t know which happened) as I sensed your legs were probably strong but that tactically you need to draft and conserve energy for the long haul and until the final lap sprint when you could shoot out.
On reflection, I think your initial break was unnecessary and cost you the race. Had you stayed near the front of the pack and waited and drafted, like Andre Greipel would do, you would have had your weight in beer. Continued success!
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Victoria hears more about 13 siblings who were rescued from a house in California, as well as the Marie Stopes clinic whic is set to be protected from anti-abortion protesters.
Victoria hears more about 13 brothers and sisters who were rescued from a house in California. Some of them had been chained to their beds.
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Co Down girl 'saved brother's life by giving him the cold'
The family are now huge Children's Heartbeat Trust supporters and Niall and his sister are backing Rock Red Friday
Niall in bed after surgery
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Kissing and cuddling her new baby brother despite being loaded with the cold, little Éabha Parfitt had no idea she was saving his life.
Niall fell ill when he was just weeks old and was admitted to hospital with suspected bronchitis and his parents thought he had caught his sister's infection.
But after being closely monitored by doctors at Craigavon Hospital , it was discovered he had a rare congenital malformation.
West Belfast boy with heart defect is star of the show this Christmas
He was admitted to the Clark Clinic, in the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, diagnosed with Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return and the family were told he needed to be flown to London for urgent specialist open heart surgery.
A young Éabha with her baby brother
Thankfully, due to the swift actions of medical professions here and in England, Niall is now an active and thriving four-year-old.
Speaking to Belfast Live, his dad, who is also called Niall, joked that daughter Éabha - now seven - regularly says that she saved her younger brother by giving him her cold.
"Niall was born in December 2014 and we had him home for six weeks and everything was normal, he was a happy little baby from what we could see," said the dad-of-two.
"There were no problems or issues, but my daughter Éabha had a really bad cold that January. She was always hugging and kissing him like a doll. We said don't do that because you will give him the cold.
"A week later, Niall was very poorly, vomiting, so we took him to the doctor and they did respiratory tests before telling us to take him to hospital as they thought he had bronchitis."
Éabha and Niall
He was admitted to Craigavon Hospital to be treated for bronchitis but parents Niall and Sinead, from Banbridge , started to notice the nurses were giving their son extra attention.
And when other patients started recovering and being discharged, they started to worry there was something more sinister going on.
Niall, who was studying part-time for Masters at Queen's University at the time, was at home preparing for an exam when Sinead called him and said he needed to get to the hospital immediately.
It was at this point the parents were told their son had a rare heart condition.
"What was happening was there was oxygen bypassing from two chambers in his heart and Niall would have died but he had a hole in the chamber," said Niall, who runs his own business.
"It was very difficult to detect."
Baby Loss Awareness Week prompts Co Down mum to make emotional video for son
He was transferred to the Clark Clinic and stayed there for two weeks before being transported by Air Ambulance to Evelina London Children's Hospital.
His stay in Belfast before surgery in London was extended when he contracted pneumonia, a "very harrowing time" for his parents.
Dad Niall holding his son before he went in for surgery
The open heart surgery would correct the valve in his heart and stop it bypassing oxygen and fix the hole in his heart.
"The logistics were crazy," said Niall.
"We were waiting for the Air Ambulance to come over and to fly a patient over is not run of the mill, and once you get there you have to get an ambulance to bring you through one of the most densely populated cities in the world."
Thankfully, the surgery - a frightening experience for all the family - was a success and Niall has made a full recovery and is full of energy and loving his time at nursery. His surgery was completely corrective and he now leads a very active life.
He spent only a few days in London before returning home, spending a night in the Clark Clinic and heading back to the family home.
Niall a few hours after surgery
But it is a time that will always stay with the family and it was the work of staff at Clark Clinic and Children's Heartbeat Trust that they will forever be indebted to.
Recalling the first time he and Sinead were introduced to the Children's Heartbeat Trust, Niall said: "They came up to us with red t-shirts on and we were very upset, our son was lying in the Clark Clinic with wires and tubes everywhere.
"They introduced themselves as Lynn and Sarah from the Children's Heartbeat Trust and it is from then we realised the real true value of charity.
"It was like they swept us up and gave us a big hug and said 'Everything is going to be OK, we are going to support you'."
The family have become huge supporters of the charity with Niall and his sister backing their Rock Red Friday campaign. It encourages people to wear something red and donate to the work of the charity, this could be through a simple collection in your office or full blown fundraising event. All funds raised will enable the charity to provide practical and emotional support to local children and young people with congenital heart disease.
Niall Parfitt and his sister Éabha
Dad Niall has also been backing the charity by running the Belfast and Dublin marathons in a bid to raise money for them in 2017, 2018, and now 2019.
"Since the surgery he has been incredible, looking back is when I get emotional," he said.
"If you see him now he is completely different. He is a bundle of laughs, he is an amazing wee boy.
"His sister always says she saved him because she was the one who gave him the cold because they may not have detected it otherwise.
"Niall could have been paying football and found out the wrong way and it would have been something serious."
Niall is now thriving
He added: "Nothing you give them will be as much as the support they have given us, they are a phenomenal charity who rely solely on donations.
"It was a happy ending to the story for us but it is not the same for other families."
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Lynn Cowan, Fundraiser at Children’s Heartbeat Trust, said: "February is Heart Month and to mark it we want you to rock red, one of the boldest and most exciting colours! Whether it’s your stripy socks, a fancy hat, a bright scarf or a bold jumper, it’s easy to ROCK RED with your outfit and help to raise awareness and funds for the charity.
"Every year over 200 babies are born in Northern Ireland with congenital heart disease; many of which will undergo open heart surgery and require lifelong treatment, care and support. We would love as many people to Rock Red this February and use the hashtag #RockRedFriday across their social media platforms. Anyone can take part and it’s never too late to sign up. All support no matter how big or small is greatly appreciated."
Children’s Heartbeat Trust is a local charity supporting children and young people with heart disease and their families. The charity works closely with Clark Clinic at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children to ensure that children with heart disease and their families receive the best care, treatment and support possible.
To find out more about Rock Red Friday and how you can help visit www.childrensheartbeattrust.org.
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Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to account for the N30 trillion which former Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Professor Charles Soludo alleged that was “either stolen or unaccounted for, or grossly mismanaged” during Iweala’s tenure as Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance.
Following the allegation, a group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), had demanded an explanation from Okonjo-Iweala under the Freedom of Information Act and later filed a suit before Justice Buba after the ex-minister did not oblige its request, PUNCH reports.
According to a statement by SERAP’s Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, Justice Buba said that Okonjo-Iweala had no legal justification to ignore the request to account for the allegedly missing N30tn.
SERAP had argued that Iweala “should have either supplied the information requested by SERAP or communicate her denial within seven days of the receipt of the letter from SERAP if she considers that the request should be denied”. The Federal Government was also a defendant in the suit.
Justice Buba said that the preliminary objection filled by the defendants, challenging, among other things, the jurisdiction of the court to hear the suit, was misconceived. He held:
The only issue for determination is whether Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala and the Federal Government should be heard on their preliminary objection considering the totality of the circumstances of this case.
He who wants equity must do equity. This suit was filed on February 25, 2015 and from the record of the court was served on Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala and the Federal Government on July 3, 2015. It took about three months for them to come up with a technical response to the simple request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2011.
Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala and the Federal Government have therefore been caught by Order 29 of the Rules of this court, which requires that an application shall be made within 21 days after service on the defendants of the originating summons.
If Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala and the Federal Government want to raise issues about service, the law does not permit demurer. The proper route for them should have been to join issues with the originating summons and also file their objections.
In the present case by SERAP, the notice of preliminary objection by Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala and the Federal Government is incurably defective for not conforming with order 29 of the rules of this court.
The implication of this clear provision of the rule of court is that Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala and the Federal Government must take issues with SERAP on the originating summons no matter how flimsy, instead of looking for a technical way out. This technical way out has failed.
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Shsssss!! abegi…make we hear word …..media figures as if 30trillion is 30Naira
30 what?
30 trillion ke? Abeg who count the money? I will go dumb on this one…
@Nene, its 30trillion Nigeria currency (Naira).
This is the news of the year. There are some people in this country that God cannot forgive and Mrs Iweala is one of them. If she truly love this country as she claims, this is the time to prove it.
30 what?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These explanations better be good!
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Ass pulled figures
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30 trillion is now like Needle ….. hehehehe.
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Japan gets $116 billion stimulus boost
Japan’s government has approved a fresh 10.3 trillion yen ($116 billion) stimulus package in an attempt to spur a revival in its economy.
The package will include infrastructure spending, as well as incentives for businesses to boost investment.
Tokyo estimates that the stimulus will boost Japan’s economy by 2% and create 600,000 jobs.
Japan’s economy has been hurt by a dip in exports amid slowing global demand and subdued domestic consumption.
The world’s third-largest economy is currently in a recession, having contracted for two quarters in a row.
“Unfortunately, the previous administration failed to work out how to boost growth and expand the economic pie,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said.
“It is vital that we have an economic strategy that can create jobs and raise incomes to sustain growth.”
Included in the spending package are plans to rebuild areas devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of 2011, support for regional economies, and more investment in education and social security.
Shinzo Abe, who took office in December, has promised to take aggressive measures to help put the economy back on a growth track.
Among those has been a pledge to take measures to weaken the yen.
Japan’s government has approved a fresh $116 bn stimulus package in an attempt to spur a revival in its economy
A weaker Japanese currency bodes well for the country’s exporters as it makes their goods less expensive to foreign buyers and also helps boost their profits when they repatriate their foreign earnings back home.
The yen has weakened nearly 12% against the US dollar since November last year on hopes of such moves. It was trading close to 88.97 yen against the US dollar in Asian trade on Friday.
The government said that it would continue to keep a watch on the currency’s movements and “respond as appropriate”.
Japanese shares rose on the news of the stimulus with the Nikkei 225 index gaining 1.4%.
The Japanese government also hopes the latest stimulus spending will help to tackle deflation. Japan has been fighting deflation, or falling prices, for many years. It has been a big hurdle in policymakers’ attempts to boost domestic demand because consumers tend to put off purchases in the hope of a better deal in the future.
However, some analysts said the stimulus was only a short-term solution to Japan’s economic issues.
They said that while such an big amount of money being injected into the economy was likely to help spur growth, further steps were needed to sustain it in the long run including measures to help exporters and reforms aimed at boosting domestic consumption.
“So far what we have seen is measures to kick-start the economy,” said Martin Schulz of Fujitsu Research Institute.
“But once the stimulus boost is over, the coffers will be empty again and Japan will have no more money to spend.”
Japan’s exports have been hurt by a slowdown in demand from key markets such as the US, eurozone and China.
While sales to the US and eurozone have been hit by economic issues in those markets, those to China have been affected by a territorial dispute between the two countries.
China is Japan’s biggest trading partner and is also among the fastest growing consumer markets.
Martin Schulz said Japan needed to improve its relations with China to help its exporters’ sales in the country, not least because demand from the US and eurozone is likely to remain subdued in the near term.
On the domestic front, Japan needs to ease regulations in key sectors such as construction, healthcare, retail and agriculture to make them more attractive for investors, Martin Schulz added.
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Home Entertainment Gwyneth Paltrow Files for Divorce from Chris Martin
Gwyneth Paltrow Files for Divorce from Chris Martin
Gwyneth Paltrow and her estranged husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, have filed for divorce.
The actress cited irreconcilable differences in the documents, which were filed in Los Angeles on April 20 after 11 years of marriage.
The divorce documents request joint custody of their two children, Apple and Moses.
Gwyneth Paltrow, 42, and Chris Martin, 38, announced their separation in March 2014, describing it as a “conscious uncoupling”.
Her lifestyle blog Goop.com crashed after the couple posted a joint statement about their decision.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin said they had “come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much, we will remain separate”.
The couple said they had been “working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us”.
“We are, however, and always will be a family, and in many ways we are closer than we have ever been,” their statement said.
“We are parents first and foremost, to two incredibly wonderful children and we ask for their and our space and privacy to be respected at this difficult time.
“We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and co-parent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.”
Their divorce’s confirmation comes after days of speculation the actress had filed the papers.
The documents do not list any details about how Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin will divide their assets, but asks that both sides pay their own lawyers’ fees.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin married in secret ceremony in December 2003, days after they announced Paltrow was pregnant with their first child.
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Do employers have a legal duty to address the health effects of sitting at work?
Helen Burnett-Nichols | May 11, 2018
Canadians spend an average of almost 10 hours each day, excluding sleep time, being sedentary.
That counts as risky behaviour given studies that have linked sitting more than four hours a day to a number of long-term health risks, such as heart disease, diabetes and back pain.
But when that inactivity is largely the result of months and eventually years spent at a desk job or in meetings, could an employer face liability for any serious medical issues that ensue?
Read: Heart disease unique among chronic illnesses for preventability
A recent study from Philadelphia’s Drexel University concluded that — at least for U.S. workplaces — the answer might be yes.
Researchers examined the structure of liability in the United States for workplace injuries and specifically focused on the issues of sitting in the workplace and the accompanying medical problems. Their conclusion was employers should be accountable for the issue because it would give them an incentive to reduce such harms and change workplace design in order to avoid liability.
Although the paper did note that establishing the workplace as a cause of the harm could be a minefield, it suggested there have been cases that show the “courts may be willing to find that claimants have satisfied the requirements.” Is the same true of Canadian workplaces? Are employers that fail to encourage employees to stand and move during the workday potentially liable for injuries claimed by workers as being the result of years of sitting behind a desk?
The causation question
According to Ellen Low, a partner at Toronto’s Whitten & Lublin law firm, there are currently no cases in Ontario that come to mind that relate to the issue of excessive workplace sitting. As with the U.S. study, causation — establishing that the workplace was the cause of the injury or illness — is always going to be the main problem in such cases, she notes.
At the same time, Low says existing or potential liability for employers in such situations could sit under the umbrella of provincial occupational health and safety rules — although nothing in the existing laws speak to excessive sitting — or human rights legislation.
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The definition of disability under Ontario’s Human Rights Code is broad, according to Low. If, for example, a doctor recommends that an employee with a heart condition should move around more at work, an employer would likely have an obligation to consider whether or not that constitutes a request for accommodation. An employer’s refusal to accommodate could be a breach of human rights provisions, says Low.
The employer, she says, “has an obligation to evaluate whether or not that request can be accommodated up to the point of undue hardship, by taking into consideration things like cost, funding, health and safety requirements, morale of other employees.”
A shifting environment
Unlike other jurisdictions that have taken legislative action on the issue — for the last four years, employers in Denmark have faced a legal requirement to offer employees the option of a height-adjustable workstation, for example — there’s currently no legal duty on Canadian employers to allow people to get up and move around, says Low.
But with workplace laws continuously shifting, change is always possible, says Jennifer Kwok, a lawyer with Overholt Law in Vancouver.
“I think it might be one of those things that, as more studies are done and maybe the health repercussions of sitting for lengthy periods of time become actually a well-known problem in the workplace, then maybe there would be some impetus on the part of the government or other organizations to change legislation to say employers must give employees the opportunity to take X amount of breaks or walk,” she says.
Read: Why employers should promote workplace walking
In the meantime, Low notes that on the occupational health and safety side, a lot of discussion is happening around the promotion of healthy, physically active workplaces. Over the last few years, both the government and private sector employers have taken steps to address the issue voluntarily through workplace design and culture shifts.
According to The Canadian Press, a 2015 pilot project to install sit-stand desks for staff at Employment and Social Development Canada saw positive results seen in terms of increased energy and productivity. In the private sector, companies such as Manulife Financial Corp. have implemented flexible workplace designs that incorporate sit-stand desks.
More broadly, the government launched an effort in 2017 called Sit Kicker that focused on encouraging people in up to 1,500 workplaces to reduce sedentary behaviour and shifting workplace culture towards environments that are more amenable to standing.
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“That’s the nature of employment these days, I think. It is sedentary, and I think a lot of employers are doing a good job of trying to encourage their employees to take walking breaks or join a gym or have wellness programs,” says Kwok.
“But in terms of actual legal liability, I don’t think that we’ve gotten to that point yet,” she adds.
Policies encouraged
Ultimately, Low says it’s a “serious possibility” that employers will receive more requests for dynamic workplaces, similar to the demand for ergonomic workstations seen a few years ago. “If someone asks, for example, for a standing desk, is that a totally unreasonable thing to provide? And if it’s not and it fits within the company’s structures, organization and policies, then do it or make that part of an ongoing policy, which is that you’re promoting physical fitness and physical wellness,” she says.
“Now, is it a legal requirement to provide that desk? Probably not, but from a policy and workplace philosophy standpoint, it makes a lot of sense,” she adds.
Helen Burnett-Nichols is a freelance writer based in Hamilton, Ont.
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Evans: "We made some progress today."
Linebacker Jordan Evans meets with the media after the Bengals' week 11 game at Baltimore.
Bates: "Excited to put in the new playbook and show what we can do"
Bengals safety Jessie Bates talks about the energy the new coaching staff has brought during the voluntary minicamp.
Dalton: "Just worry about the opportunity you are about to get"
Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton reflects on his draft day experience and gives advice to future rookies on how to best succeed in the NFL.
Lawson: "The goal is to be ready for the first game"
Bengals defensive end Carl Lawson talks about his rehab from an ACL injury and the excitement surrounding the first voluntary minicamp under coach Zac Taylor.
Brown: "It's going to be fun and fly around"
On the first day of voluntary minicamp, Bengals linebacker Preston Brown talks about his excitement getting back on the field and his draft day memories.
Kirkpatrick: "I got here and embraced the city and the city embraced me"
Bengals cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick reflects back on his draft day experience prior to the start of the team's voluntary minicamp.
Dunlap: "You can feel the new energy in the building"
DE Carlos Dunlap speaks with the media during the second week of the Bengals voluntary off-season workout program.
Taylor on Anarumo: "We just wanted to make sure we got the right person for what we want to accomplish on defense and as a team"
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Bengals new Defensive Coordinator Lou Anarumo meets with the media for the first time.
Callahan: "There are a lot of pieces in place to lead us to really good football down the road"
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Lawson on Taylor: "He came into the locker room and had a lot of energy"
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Bernard on Lewis: "He's not only a coach but he is a father-mentor for a lot of these players... we appreciate all he's done"
HB Giovani Bernard speaks with the media as the Bengals head into the off season.
Williams: "It falls on us too as players, so whatever challenge they set forth for us, we have to go out and execute"
S Shawn Williams talks with the media as the Bengals head into the off season.
Brown: "That's when I started to watch Bengals football was when Coach Lewis came... to have the opportunity to play under him was a dream come true"
LB Preston Brown speaks with the media as the Bengals head into the off season.
Vigil: "I think we got the players in here to win games, make a playoff run and win a Super Bowl"
LB Nick Vigil talks with the media as the Bengals look ahead to the off season.
Erickson: "Coach Lewis means a lot to all of us... he's going to be missed"
WR Alex Erickson meets with the media as the Bengals head into the off season.
Williams: "They made plays, we made plays."
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C.J. Uzomah in the locker room with the media following the week 17 game at Pittsburgh.
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Mixon: "We will get better. Next year I feel like will be the one."
Joe Mixon meets with the media following the week 17 game at Pittsburgh.
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HB Joe Mixon talks with the media after surpassing the 1,000 rushing yardage mark for the 2018 season.
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All Eyes on Tether Amid Crypto Pull Back
Tether is under the spotlight amid a massive pullback in the cryptocurrency market.
The top 50 cryptocurrencies saw massive price corrections last week, coming to a head on Feb. 2. The total market capitalization dropped to just over $400 bln at the time of writing- amid massive uncertainty across the board. Almost overshadowed, but not forgotten, is the news that Bitfinexalong with Tether received subpoenas from US regulators in December, who have had their eyes on the exchange and cryptocurrency.
This in itself is understandable, but industry experts have raised concerns over the last few months in relation to the increase in supply of Tether which correlated with rallies in the market. Bitfinex, which is the largest exchange in the world, threatened legal action to parties that had accused the exchange of misconduct.
The reason for allegation is quite predictable. Bitfinex issues Tether tokens which are issued for US dollars on a 1:1 ratio. In simple terms, Bitfinex were accused of not having 1:1 reserves of dollars to issued Tether tokens.
The problem is that because one Tether token equals one dollar, it has been used to buy other cryptocurrencies because of its standardized value. This culminated in suggestions that the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies had been inflated because people had been buying cryptocurrencies with Tether and not actual US dollars. If Bitfinex does not have an equal reserve of dollars to back up the amount of Tether tokens in existence, things could end badly.
As quoted by the NYTimes, Pantera Capital’s Co-chief Investment officer Joey Krug said Tether tokens were issued during recent rallies in the market.
“This became more and more concerning, because every time the markets went down, you have seen the same thing happen. It could mean that a lot of the rally over December and January might not have been real.”
Cointelegraph reported in Nov. 2017 that Tether had seen a 10,000 percent increase in supply in the space of a year, leading to some serious head-scratching about how the company behind Bitfinex and Tether had increased its value in such a short amount of time. Tether has previously claimed that it has $2.2 bln in reserve, backing up figures shown on its transparency page online. Tether eventually hired Friedmann LLP to conduct an audit to put an end to concerns around legitimacy of its reserves.
To compound matters, news broke this week that the relationship between Tether and the auditing firm came to an end - it's not clear what led to the breakdown in that relation. More importantly, there is no word on what Friedmann LLP found during their audit.
Potential Tether crash won’t be cataclysmic, says Litecoin founder Charlie Lee
Litecoin founder Charlie Lee posted an insightful take on Twitter addressing the current state of affairs surrounding Tether.
Lee said the fact that Tether tokens (USDT) have continued to be issued after the Commodity Futures Trading Commision issued their subpoena in December 2017 is a good sign. However, he cautioned that if it comes to light that there isn’t a sufficient reserve of dollars to back Tether tokens, the price of the token will crash completely. But most importantly, Lee believes that eventuality will no have a direct effect on Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market.
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1/ With respect to the Tether situation, it's expected for CFTC to subpoena Bitfinex to investigate if there are any wrongdoings. The fact that the subpoena is in December 2017 and they have still continued issuing USDT is good news.
USDT is just like any other altcoin.
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INSANIA Cancel VINCE NEIL Tour, Prepare To Record Third Album
Sweden's INSANIA have pulled out of their scheduled European tour as the support act for MTLEY CRE frontman Vince Neil due to an undisclosed member's illness. The band are scheduled to enter Finnvox Studios in Helsinki, Finland with producer Mikko Karmila on June 26th to begin recording their third album, tentatively titled Fantasy, for a late 2002 release through No Fashion Records. Around 10-13 songs will be recorded during the three-week session, with the possibility of additional material being recorded for inclusion as bonus tracks on the Japanese version of the upcoming CD.
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Excerpt from Theft by Peter Carey, plus links to reviews, author biography & more
by Peter Carey
May 2006, 272 pages
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Theft, by Peter Carey
I don't know if my story is grand enough to be a tragedy, although a lot of shitty stuff did happen. It is certainly a love story but that did not begin until midway through the shitty stuff, by which time I had not only lost my eight-year-old son, but also my house and studio in Sydney where I had once been about as famous as a painter could expect in his own backyard. It was the year I should have got the Order of Australia--why not!--look at who they give them to. Instead my child was stolen from me and I was eviscerated by divorce lawyers and gaoled for attempting to retrieve my own best work which had been declared Marital Assets.
Emerging from Long Bay Prison in the bleak spring of 1980, I learned I was to be rushed immediately to northern New South Wales where, although I would have almost no money to spend on myself, it was thought that I might, if I could only cut down on my drinking, afford to paint small works and care for Hugh, my damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother.
My lawyers, dealers, collectors had all come together to save me. They were so kind, so generous. I could hardly admit that I was fucking sick of caring for Hugh, that I didn't want to leave Sydney or cut down on drinking. Lacking the character to tell the truth I permitted myself to set off on the road they had chosen for me. Two hundred miles north of Sydney, at Taree, I began to cough blood into a motel basin. Thank Christ, I thought, they can't make me do it now.
But it was only pneumonia and I did not die after all.
It was my biggest collector, Jean-Paul Milan, who had designed the plan wherein I would be the unpaid caretaker of a country property he had been trying to sell for eighteen months. Jean-Paul was the proprietor of a chain of nursing homes which were later investigated by the Health Commission, but he also liked to paint and his architect had made him a studio whose riverside wall opened like a lube-bay door. The natural light, as he had so sweetly warned me, even as he made his gift, was perhaps a little green, a "fault" produced by the ancient casuarinas that lined the river. I might have told him that this issue of natural light was bullshit, but again I held my tongue. That first night out of gaol, at a miserably wine-free dinner with Jean-Paul and his wife, I agreed that we had tragically turned our backs on natural light, candlelight, starlight, and it was true that the Kabuki had been superior in candlelight and that the paintings of Manet were best seen by light of a dusty window, but fuck it--my work would live or die in galleries and I needed 240 reliable volts of alternating current to do my stuff. I was now destined to live in a "paradise" where I could be sure of no such thing.
Jean-Paul, having so generously given us his house, began immediately to fret that I might somehow hurt it. Or perhaps the true alarmist was his wife who had, long ago, caught me blowing my snotty nose into her dinner napkin. In any case, it was only six mornings after we first arrived in Bellingen that Jean-Paul burst into the house and woke me. This was a nasty shock at almost every level, but I held my tongue and made him coffee. Then for two hours I followed him around the property as if I were his dog and every stupid thing he told me I wrote down in my notebook, an old leather-bound volume that was as precious to me as life itself. Here I had recorded every colour mix I had made from the time of my so-called breakthrough show in 1971. It was a treasure house, a diary, a record of decline and fall, a history. Thistles, said Jean-Paul. I wrote "thistles" in my lovely book. Mowing. I spelled it out. Fallen trees across the river. Stihl chain saw. Grease nipples on the slasher. Then he was offended by the tractor parked beneath the house. The woodpile was untidy--I set Hugh to stack it neatly in the pattern Jean-Paul preferred. Finally my patron and I arrived at the studio together. He removed his shoes as if he meant to pray. I followed suit. He raised the big lube-bay door to the river and stood for a long moment looking down at the Never Never, talking--this is not made-up--about Monet's fucking Water Lilies. He had very pretty feet, I had noticed them before, very white and high-arched. He was in his mid-forties but his toes were straight as a baby's.
Excerpted from Theft by Peter Carey Copyright © 2006 by Peter Carey. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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Dracul
By (author) J D Barker , By (author) Dacre Stoker
The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel, Dracul is a supernatural thriller that reveals not only Dracula's true origins but Bram Stoker's--and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connects them. It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here... A sickly child, Bram spent his early days bedridden in his parents' Dublin home, tended to by his caretaker, a young woman named Ellen Crone. When a string of strange deaths occur in a nearby town, Bram and his sister Matilda detect a pattern of bizarre behavior by Ellen--a mystery that deepens chillingly until Ellen vanishes suddenly from their lives. Years later, Matilda returns from studying in Paris to tell Bram the news that she has seen Ellen--and that the nightmare they've thought long ended is only beginning.
Publication date 02 Oct 2018
Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons
Praise for Dracul
Bram Stoker Award Nominee--Superior Achievement in a Novel 2018
One of PW's Top 10 SF, Fantasy & Horror Novels of Fall 2018
One of Crime by the Book's Most-Anticipated Books of Late 2018 "Reading Dracul is like watching a classic vampire film. Bram Stoker lives! Dracula lives! Horror lives on nearly every page. A terrifying read that gave me hours of fun."--R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps and Fear Street series "Brilliant. Dracul pumps fresh blood into the vampire genre by telling the story of the man who started it all--Bram Stoker. And what a story! A grand adventure that contains all the literary playfulness and mounting dread of the original Dracula. It gave me chills."--Riley Sager, author of Final Girls and The Last Time I Lied "Something wonderfully wicked this way comes in the guise of a prequel to the granddaddy of vampire lore...Succumb to its horrific charms."--Family Circle
"The prose is modern, energetic, and easy to read. Dracul reveals not only Dracula's 'true' origin, but Bram Stoker's as well. More than just a Dracula novel, it's a great addition to the entire vampire genre."--SF Reader "The narrative moves fairly quickly, pulling readers into this thrilling tale, with twists that keep the pages turning, even late into the night. ...A strong pick for fans of classic gothic tales, such as Dracula, but also good for anyone who appreciates gripping historical novels, including those by Carlos Ruiz Zafón."--Library Journal (starred review) "A big book that will no doubt be a hit among monster-movie and horror lit fans--and for good reason."--Kirkus Reviews "Bram Stoker fans and scholars will find this a satisfying exploration of his legacy."--Publishers Weekly "Sheds light on the original characters and author. Adding just the right touch of suspense increases the pace and ratchets up the tension."--Booklist "A terrifying and compelling prequel that reveals how a young Bram Stoker confronted evil to craft a masterpiece."--Library Journal
"A compelling, deep, dark drama about Dracula's origin. Even I had to keep the lights on when reading this book!"--John Saul, author of Suffer the Children
"An exhilarating fever dream of creeping dread and dark adventure. Reading Dracul is like stepping into a time machine and traveling back to a shadowy landscape ruled by nightmares. I devoured it in two sittings and was delighted and chilled with every turn of the page. You will be, too."--Richard Chizmar, co-author of Gwendy's Button Box "Scary as hell. Gothic as decay. Dracul will have you checking over your shoulder, under your bed, and up on the ceiling, too. All while wondering about the contents of every crate and oblong box you see."--Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box
"Whatever fiendish bargain Stoker and Barker struck to resurrect the voice of Bram Stoker with such authenticity and aplomb, it was worth it, at least to their mere mortal readers. Dracul is a genius and fevered nightmare of Gothic madness, each page seeping with ominous dread and escalating horror. It is a prequel more than just worthy of the original novel--it is sure to be an undying classic of its own, haunting, terrifying and entertaining generations to come."--Eric Rickstad, author of What Remains of Her and The Silent Girls
About J D Barker
Dacre Stoker is the great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker and the international bestselling co-author of Dracula: The Un-Dead, the official Stoker family-endorsed sequel to Dracula. He is also the co-editor of The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years. He currently lives with his wife, Jenne, in Aiken, South Carolina, where he manages the Bram Stoker Estate.J.D. Barker is the internationally bestselling author of Forsaken, The Fourth Monkey, and The Fifth to Die. He was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel, and winner of the New Apple Medalist Award. His works have been translated into numerous languages and optioned for both film and television. Barker currently resides in Pennsylvania with his wife, Dayna, and daughter, Ember.
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William Hill Takes on Bet365 With £100 Bonus Offer
By Martin Green03 November 2019
William Hill has decided to go head-to-head with rival Bet365 by offering a £100 free matched bet offer. Deposit anything from £10 to £100 in a new Hills account and it will double it, provided you wager your qualifying stake at odds of 1/2 (1.50) or greater. This has been Bet365’s flagship offer for a number of years, and William Hill is now making a concerted effort to compete with it. William Hill is losing revenue at its land-based betting shops due to the government’s decision to reduce the maximum stake on fixed odds betting terminals from £100 to £2, so it needs to boost its presence online. It is still running its usual sign-up offer, which sees it give away £30 in free bets when you deposit £10 into a new account and play it at odds of 1/2 (1.50) or greater, but you can now choose the £100 matched bet offer instead if you like.
Everton take on Tottenham at Goodison Park in the big game on Saturday and Betway is running a first goal wins offer. It will pay your bet out as a winner if the team you bet on scores the first goal, regardless of the final result. This offer is valid up to a maximum stake of £20. Everton won their last home game after dropping Gylfi Sigurdsson, putting Alex Iwobi in the number 10 role and overwhelming West Ham with their energy. However, they lost away at Brighton last time out, and manager Marco Silva remains under intense pressure. Spurs have also been in poor form this season, so the match could go either way, but that means there is plenty of value on either team. Another bookmaker, LV Bet, is offering boosted odds of 35/1 on Spurs to beat Everton. The maximum stake is £1 and the offer is for new customers only.
10Bet has a really interesting offer whereby you can bet £20 or more on Juventus and if your bet loses it will give you a free £5 bet in an effort to recoup your loss. Juventus rarely fail to secure victory, as they are the dominant team in Serie A. Their defence is typically solid, boasting the likes of Leonardo Bonucci, Giorgio Chiellini and Matthijs de Ligt, while Cristiano Ronaldo leads a world-class attack. De Ligt’s second-half strike handed them a ninth victory in 11 games as they beat Torino on Saturday, and they remain unbeaten this season. 10Bet will also give you a 100% welcome bonus up to £50, and the minimum qualifying odds are just 2/5 (1.40).
Get double your winnings on all Champions League and Europa League matches when you use the bet builder at 888 Sport. It is offering a 100% winnings boost on every European match day, with maximum winnings of £5,000 or €5,000. There are some great Champions League fixtures to look forward to this week, including Bayer Leverkusen v Atletico Madrid, Chelsea v Ajax, Atalanta v Man City and Real Madrid v Galatasaray. There are also some intriguing Europa League games featuring the likes of Arsenal and Man Utd, so there is plenty of scope to use this offer over the next few days.
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‘Every child should have access to literature and creativity,' say two Children’s Laureates
Published on: 26 September 2018 Author: Liza Millett
UK Waterstones Children’s Laureate Lauren Child and Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan share the stage and their joint vision at a BookTrust Northern Ireland event in Derry.
Lauren Child and Sarah Crossan at Verbal in Derry
The Laureates were joined by writer and lecturer Julia Eccleshare, who chaired a wide-ranging discussion at Verbal arts centre on books, creativity and the role of the Laureate.
It was a welcome return to Northern Ireland for Lauren Child: 'It’s been a long time since I was last here,' she said, 'but I have such good memories of my last visit and now many more from this new visit.'
Taking part in her first public event as Laureate na nÓg, Sarah Crossan said that Northern Ireland 'is in a fortunate and unique position - it has two Children's Laureates’.
‘This is a great opportunity for myself and the UK Laureate Lauren Child to share not just a stage, but our joint conviction that every child should have access to literature and to creativity.’
It was a view echoed by James Kerr, Chief Executive of Verbal, who said: ‘We are delighted to welcome our Children’s Laureates to share their brilliant stories and to encourage others, and especially our young people, to do the same.
'Through the transformational power of storytelling people can come together to create a better, fairer and more equal society.’
Lauren and Sarah take questions from young readers
The panel discussed the importance of illustrations in books and how they can encourage young readers to decipher meaning for themselves. They spoke, too, about the role books play in helping children to understand the world around them, often providing solace at difficult times.
'During my two-year term,' said Crossan, 'I want to empower young people across the island of Ireland to express themselves through poetry, to show them that words are powerful - and they belong to all of us. #WeAreThePoets.'
The event was hosted by BookTrust NI, which is supported through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland's National Lottery funds.
Liz Canning, Head of BookTrust NI, said she hoped that the event would ‘help to inspire families and practitioners to get reading and get creative'.
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SLCN Centre>
Ethan transferred from his local mainstream primary school in the middle of year 3 to enable him to benefit from the speech & language expertise within the SLCN unit. Before he started Ethan and his TA were invited to several introduction sessions to meet the staff and some of his classmates.
Ethan really benefited from these sessions when he started at the school as it was familiar to him and he had already made some friends. At Ethan’s previous school he was becoming more and more dependent on his TA and as class work became harder he was increasingly having to come out of the classroom for one to one intervention. At BVPS the SLCN centre has enabled him to work within small groups, with comparable peers, for many of the core subjects and with his year group class for some other lessons where appropriate. This immediately made Ethan feel like one of the class and substantially reduced the amount of time he needed to spend in one to one sessions with an adult. Ethan feels like he is part of his year class being involved in all assemblies and other activities but has the benefit of learning in small groups where he does not feel ‘out of his depth’ or at a disadvantage compared to the rest of the group. This has meant that his confidence has grown and he continues to love going to school, which is very important to us.
The school and the SLCN team in particular have worked hard to find the most appropriate ways to engage Ethan in accessing the curriculum. This has involved working with other professionals and using additional equipment and teaching tools/methods where necessary. The school have worked hard to progress Ethan’s reading and writing skills
Ethan has been encouraged to join in with all school activities including school day trips and residential stays. He has fully engaged in both and loves being involved and doing new things. We cannot think of any time when Ethan has not been given the same opportunity to join in with his peers. The staff have facilitated him attending after school clubs and involved him in the school productions and activities in the community.
Ethan has always felt safe at the school and he is very fond of all the staff he has regular contact with. Above all, as parents, we feel confident that the staff are taking good care of our child and have his best interests at heart.
The school have always been very good at communicating with us as parents and we are able to discuss any concerns with the school staff openly. We have previously had daily reports on Ethan’s activities where this has been necessary but equally the school have been very good at judging when to involve us and when situations are best dealt with in school, without too much fuss. We have been happy with the school’s approach to the EHCP transfer and review process and meetings have always been conducted in an open and constructive manner.
Ethan settled in very quickly after transferring to BVPS. The induction process was well managed and we were all made to feel welcome. Despite Ethan’s difficulties he is confident in most social situations and has gained confidence academically. This has largely been achieved because his learning has been differentiated, as far as possible, and he has had specialist support for developing basic skills like reading and writing. He is much less dependent on one to one TA support and has integrated successfully with both his small learning group and his mainstream class because the school have placed him in teaching groups that he feels comfortable with, where he is not overwhelmed and feels like he can keep up.
BVPS provide a very good environment for children with speech and language needs. The expertise and facilities within the SLCN unit have enabled our child to be educated with children of similar capabilities and to be taught according to his needs, which has helped his confidence grow. The school has also offered Ethan the opportunity to join in and have a go at everything available to his year group peers and to challenge himself if he so wished. The school have worked well with both Ethan and ourselves as parents.
Lisa Hawtin, Parent
We recognised that Pari was finding it difficult to talk and understand spoken language at around 2 years old, we visited our GP and were sent for further examinations after which she was diagnosed with speech delay and offered an assessment placement at Bletchingley Village Primary School in the Nursery.
At Bletchingley Village Primary School Pari’s time is distributed between the mainstream classroom as well as individual and small group learning within the SLCN centre so she has the opportunity to work alongside her peers as well as focused learning on her target areas of need.
The SLCN centre has supported us in communicating with Pari and sustaining Pari’s concentration through learning using cued articulation, visuals and fun learning methods that we are able to implement at home.
As a parent you want to see your child develop and achieve and school has high demands. Watching your child struggle is upsetting and frustrating. The SLCN staff have always reassured us and given us realistic targets to keep us all focused on her progress.
Having speech delay has had a ripple effect on other areas such as emotional and social behaviour. Pari has struggled to form bonds with her peers and express herself, the SLCN staff have supported Pari by helping her understand her emotional state which has helped her social development.
Having communication difficulties has meant Pari needing reassurance, routine and familiarities at home as well as at school which she has received at Bletchingley Village Primary School, creating relationships between teachers and peers and an awareness of what is expected of her has helped her feel safe and comfortable.
The SLCN centre have played a key role in Pari’s learning, she has become independent, able as well as keen to learn, confident and integrated amongst her peers.
I would say to any parent whose child has speech and language needs that being part of Bletchingley’s SLCN centre provides a support team who will guide and help you work alongside your child on their own targets both for their speech and their learning.
K Jones and T Canty, Parents
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BMB Awards 2020: Media Pack
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Keighley and District Business Awards
Award Ceremony celebrates the good business news stories of Keighley and counteracts negative perceptions of the town.
Set up seven years ago to ensure the many good news stories about Keighley and district businesses were celebrated, the Keighley and Airedale Business Awards has gone from strength to strength.
And the recent 2019 awards at the town’s Victoria Hall clearly demonstrated that, with a sell out audience enjoying a night of entertainment and networking compered by BBC presenter Harry Gration.
Guests at the black-tie event included MP John Grogan, Keighley town mayor Cllr Peter Corkindale, and Bradford Council leader Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe. The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Doreen Lee, officially opened the ceremony.
One of the co-chairman of the awards organising committee, Howard Martin, said negative perceptions of the town and the district had inspired the idea of setting up an awards event.
“The area as a whole didn’t really shout out about its success stories. Keighley and the whole of the Bradford district was getting a bit of a negative press, when there were numerous success stories from the business side,”
Howard Martin- Co Chairman
“So we thought okay, let’s raise the profile and shout about what’s good about the area.”
The event was initially purely for Keighley, but it was extended to the whole of the Aire Valley two years ago.
“It’s gone from strength to strength,” said Howard. “The past two years have been total sell outs.”
As well as the awards themselves, the evening also includes live music, and the bar remains open afterwards to allow those attending to stay behind and network.
“It was pleasing to see such a large number of people staying behind after the actual awards celebrating their success and networking this year,” he said.
“It’s succeeded beyond what we could have hoped for. It’s doubled in size. We’ve taken the decision to try and make it better every year rather than bigger – we’d struggle to find a venue that would take more people.”
Howard, of Respond Marketing, is co-chair of the committee with Stephen Burles, of Puddle Agency. The committee made up of other business people from the district.
Look North presenter Harry, who has been involved with the awards since their second year, said: “This is one of the very best awards events and a privilege to cover.”
He also paid tribute to the work of Keighley Business Club, which was the headline sponsor for the ceremony.
The prized Overall Business of the Year awarded went to Keighley construction company RN Wooler & Co Ltd, which also took the Small and Medium-sized Business of the Year title.
Since the family firm was founded in 1985 by managing director Norman Wooler, it has grown into a multi-million operation with a directly-employed workforce of around 250.
Other award winners were:
Milner Apprentice Award, sponsored by Keighley Training Consortium: Special Achievement – William Quiney & Russell Parkinson, Best Vocational Skills Development – Carly Richardson, Best Academic Achievement – Rhian Evans, Outstanding Apprentice – Alex Johnson.
Apprentice/Trainee of the Year, sponsored by Keighley College: Winner – Ellie Clare, from WAVE; Special Recognition – Teona Gott, from Crimson Bear. Ellie is business administrator and trainee project manager with WAVE (Wheatlands Aire Valley Engineering), which delivers refrigeration and building services. Tributes to her include “exemplary” integrity, communication and time management.
Independent Trader of the Year, sponsored by Airedale Enterprise Services: Winner – Yoga Wellbeing/Wellbeing Lounge, Special Recognition – Airedale Opticians. Yoga Wellbeing is a small business teaching yoga, meditation and fitness, opened in 2013 by Sarah-Jane Fortune. The Lounge coffee shop and holistic centre opened in 2017. It has become a thriving business.
New Business of the Year, sponsored by Cavendish Business Centre: Winner – Delightful Divas, Special Recognition – Agency for Good. Delightful Divas, a party venue, was opened last August by Rebecca Doyle and Janet Hunter and has gone from strength to strength. It also supports charities through Think Pink open days.
Business Personality of the Year, sponsored by Keighley Town Council: Winner – Jon Broadbent, from Clever Energy Boilers; Special Recognition – Antonio Risidi (Nino), from Hairavanti, and Lance Dentith, from L&S Prints. Jon founded Clever Energy Boilers in Keighley six years ago, and the firm’s growth was described as “exceptional” by judges. He was nominated for the award by staff.
Manufacturing Business of the Year, sponsored by Rotherwood Recruitment: Winner – L&S Prints, Special Recognition – Global Precision. L&S Prints started in Keighley in 1990, printing fabric for clients such as Primark and the NHS. The company then successfully moved into the development and manufacture of personalised fabric products.
Hospitality Business of the Year, sponsored by Airedale Shopping Centre: Winner – Bronte Bars & Events, Special Recognition – Bracken Hall House. Since launching the Haworth Beer Festival eight years ago, Kath Thornton – Bronte Bars and Events’ director – has built the mobile bars and personalised events experience company. A long-standing connection with the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway led to the launch of the hugely-successful Gin Express Experience.
Micro Business of the Year, sponsored by AWB Charlesworth: Winner – Goose Eye Brewery, Special Recognition – Marsh Top Farm. Goose Eye Brewery has been brewing since 1991. Despite the market being fiercely competitive, it has remained independent and family owned and operated. It is now based at Crossflatts.
SME Business of the Year, sponsored by Cosurica: Winner – RN Wooler, Special Recognition – Clever Energy Boilers.
Media Business of the Year, sponsored by Blacks Solicitors: Winner – Distant Future, Special Recognition – PMD Creative Solutions. Launched from a spare bedroom in 2011, Distant Future has grown into a multi-award-winning studio producing 2D and 3D animated content for everyone from small start-ups to major international brands.
Social Enterprise Business of the Year, sponsored by Keighley Social Lights: Winner – Get Out More, Special Recognition – Wave. Keighley-based Get Out More is a social enterprise which aims to help people engage with nature. It runs outdoor programmes – including forest schools and outdoor play sessions.
Special Recognition for Services to the Community: Timothy Taylor’s. The brewery was established in the centre of Keighley in 1858.
“The area as a whole didn’t really shout out about its success stories. Keighley and the whole of the Bradford district was getting a bit of a negative press, when there were numerous success stories from the business side,” he said.
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Bristol City's coaching staff have found the magic ingredients to put the club in play-off contention
Sky Sports presenter Michelle Owen has here say on everything Bristol City
Bristol City manager Lee Johnson arrives (Image: Rogan Thomson/JMP)
Thirteen games unbeaten and Bristol City are very much in the spotlight and in the play-off places.
All credit to Lee Johnson and the players for this incredible run. To start with the season looked to be heading for a mid table finish but this is some achievement already for a side that had to rebuild in summer.
It is so clear to see the players have gelled. I can’t help but write about gelling together and see David Beckham and his Brylcreem advert, but that is best left in the 90s.
This form of gel is sticking and looking ever stronger by the week. The key to the gel is Lee Johnson, he is the manufacturer and his assistants seem to have an ingredient which is working for the whole squad. Some players aren’t playing but when you see them in the corridors of Ashton Gate spirits are high.
Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson looks on (Image: Rogan/JMP)
Moreover, you may have seen Gregor writing about the abundance of youth talent coming through at The Robins.
There is so much positivity around the club right now. I think it is still an extremely tough task to make the play-offs this season but quite clearly everyone is stretching every fibre to try and make it happen.
It saddens me to have to talk about crowd trouble in 2019.
There were some unsavoury scenes last week against Swansea. I am not going to get in to who is to blame, but what I will say is the majority of fans behave well every week.
The minority make the headlines, and that is a shame. I was so sorry to hear that a police dog got injured in the violence surrounding the game.
If you come to football for a punch up, you really need to take a long hard look at yourself. I cannot fathom why on earth anyone would want to get into a fight with other fans.
Violence between Bristol City and Swansea City fans
I can count on one hand the times I have witnessed violence outside football grounds in the past few years - but even this is too many.
I had the pleasure of meeting some young ladies who stopped for a chat on Saturday. They were with their families and also saw what went on, please if you are reading this and were in some way involved, whether goading or actual violence- just think of the next generation of fans.
Back to more positive thoughts, and the game against Blackburn Rovers this weekend. Rovers have lost just twice this season at home so it will be a tricky tie.
Moreover, three points for them would move them a point behind City. It continues to be incredibly tight with teams down in 18 still with a slim chance of making the play off places! Just ten points separates Bristol City in sixth and Preston North End in 18. It is why I love this league so much!
Now the transfer window is done you might expect rumours and speculation to be over, but this week Dean Holden has been linked with the vacant Hibernian managerial position.
The good news is Lee Johnson has come out and said this week there is nothing in it. Holden is key to what goes on behind the scenes and the speculation gives credit to this. He is also a great guy and you can see he has solid relationships with the players.
Fingers crossed for three points this weekend, with only goal different separating Derby in seventh and The Robins in sixth, the race for the play off places could not be any tighter.
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You can find true peace when you are surrounded by lush greenery and the fragrance from blossoming flowers. Our region is home to many arboretums and public gardens just waiting for you to arrive. Whether you're a casual visitor desiring a stroll or a master gardener looking for unique ideas, these gardens will get you started on your journey.
PAXSON HILL FARM
Paxson Hill Farm is one of the most beautiful places in Bucks County and quite the hidden gem with surprises around every corner. Upon your arrival, you enter a unique plant nursery offering rare and exotic perennials, annuals, trees, koi and other pond fish. Beyond the nursery lies acres of beautiful gardens which include a maze, an Asian-inspired bridge and waterfall, a "hobbit" house, shade gardens, formal gardens, ponds, a bell garden, wing gardens, and a place affectionately called "never never land". Bring your curiosity and sense of adventure - you will leave with a smile and glow in your heart!
3265 Comfort Road, New Hope, PA 18938 (map it)
www.paxsonhillfarm.com
HORTULUS FARM GARDEN & NURSERY
Hortulus Farm, an 18th Century farmstead and 501c3 foundation, boasts 24 separate gardens on 30 of its 100 acres. It was designated an affiliate garden in the Garden Conservancy's preservation program in 2015, and is a member of Greater Philadelphia Gardens along with such other notable local gardens as Longwood, Winterthur, and Chanticleer. A Guide To The Great Gardens Of The Philadelphia Region said of Hortulus Farm: "18th and 19th Century buildings are surrounded by such horticultural opulence that the scene registers as both sublimely serene and surreal." Hortulus Farm is open for self-touring 7 days a week, 10-4, May-October for a donation of $15 per person. Founder-guided tours are available to groups of 8 or more for a donation of $25 per person by appointment. In addition to the gardens, you can visit their specialty "connoisseur's nursery" offering for purchase the rare and unusual in every category. Their ever-changing stock includes tropicals, standards, espaliers, topiaries, their signature caged and frame-grown specimens, and a superb collection of hard-to-find perennials, shrubs, and annuals, many of which can be viewed while you stroll through the gardens.
60 Thompson Mill Road, Wrightstown, PA 18940 (map it)
www.hortulusfarm.com
AMBLER ARBORETUM AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
The Ambler Arboretum of Temple University is a 187-acre-site that encompasses the Temple University Ambler Campus. The campus has deep horticultural roots - it was initially the site of the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women which opened in 1911. One of the three key focus areas for the Ambler Arboretum is the history of women in horticulture and design, sustainability, and the health benefits of gardens. The gardens are open to the public (dogs are welcome too) and there is much to explore! Highlights include a bell tower, herb garden featuring culinary, dye, and medicinal herbs, ground cover garden, native plant garden, a greenhouse, wetland garden and healing garden complete with a labryinth and rain garden. The wetland garden features sustainable elements including recycled-glass pavers, biological filtration of campus storm water runoff, a solar fountain and native plant communities. The Ambler Arboretum of Temple University is open year round from dawn to dusk. You are welcome to come any time during the day to take self guided tours.
Ambler Arboretum of Temple University
580 Meetinghouse Road, Ambler, PA 19002 (map it)
www.ambler.temple.edu/arboretum
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London: 4 Top Jogging Paths
10/3/2012 — By Alex Robinson
Alex Robinson
The recent London Marathon has inspired Londoners with an urge to shed their winter beer bellies and work on their six-pack abs. You see lycra-clad joggers everywhere. New arrivals looking to keep up the fitness regime during their stay will find that London's a great place for urban running. Here's the best of three routes.
The Thames Path, location: central London to the eastern and western suburbs
This pedestrian path fringes both banks of the river Thames for 180 miles, cutting through the heart of London and offering the chance to enjoy one of Europe's most scenic jogs. Runs vary from stretches along one bank to loops taking in both banks and two bridges. To take in the most famous sights as you run begin at Tower Bridge (subway: Tower Hill) and jog to Westminster Bridge finishing up at the Houses of Parliament (subway: Westminster), a run of five-and-a-half miles.
The Hampstead Loop, location: north London
You never leave the city on this hilly run, yet with the muddy footpaths, extensive stretches woodland and welly boots and Labradors you'd be forgiven for thinking you were in the heart of rural England. The run begins at urban Kentish town subway or prettier Hampstead. From either location it climbs up onto Hampstead Heath, a huge hilly park covered in woodland and offering sweeping views out over London. Either option gives a run of four to five miles.
Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, location: Central London
Central London's biggest green space is criss-crossed with running tracks. The longest is the outer circuit, a long oblong loop taking in the entire park and adjacent Kensington Gardens and passing Kensington Palace and the Princess Diana Memorial. The total distance is four-and-a-quarter miles and the park can be reached via the following subway stations: Hyde Park Corner, Marble Arch, Lancaster Gate, Notting Hill or Bayswater.
Richmond Parklocation: south London
In the far south of the city is one of the largest urban green spaces in Europe, so much so that it is home to herds of wild deer. Hampstead Heath in the north has wonderful views out across the city, whilst Battersea Park a mile south of Victoria rail station across the Thames is the only large park in Central London which abuts onto the river.
There are many more jogging route options in London, with maps on run.com.
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Kate Winslet's Beauty Philosophy Is as Real as It Is Refreshing
Kaitlyn McLintock
Kaitlyn McClintock contributed to Byrdie for over two years, most recently covering beauty news for the brand.
When we think of Kate Winslet, we think of a few different things—there's inevitably Titanic (nothing broke our middle-school hearts quite like Rose saying, "I'll never let go, Jack"). But we also recall her long-running Lancôme ambassadorship and her polished red carpet style.
What we don't often think of, though, is the archetypal Hollywood actress. When she's not at a film premiere or appearing at an awards show next to her long-time friend Leonardo DiCaprio, she maintains a low-key way of life. We never thought of her as someone who partakes in luxurious daily beauty treatments or rigid pre-red carpet cleanses. She isn't the type of celebrity who takes to social media to share her current makeup and skincare favorites. In fact, we don't hear much about her personal beauty routine or philosophy at all. Until her interview with British Vogue, that is. In the interview, she opens up about everything from her favorite products to her thoughts on aging, diet, fitness, and more.
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Red Carpet Ready
First things first, did you know that some of Winslet's red carpet looks were done without the help of a makeup artist? We're serious. For certain events, she takes it upon herself.
"I just don't like all the fuss and faff that can come with lots of people prodding and fiddling with your face and hair. It's hard to explain, especially since sometimes it's lovely to be glammed up like that. But I'm a pretty low-key, low-maintenance person, and I like to keep life as normal as I can around me. So doing my own makeup is reassuring in that regard. It sort of normalizes a red-carpet moment, which—let's face it—is far from normal!"
As for the products she uses, they're (not surprisingly) mostly Lancôme. For foundation, she chooses Teint Idole Ultra Wear Foundation in 01 ($47). After that, it's Teint Idole Ultra Wear Camouflage Concealer ($31). Finally, it's the Grandiôse Mascara ($32) and a smudgy liner. "I'm a huge fan of eyeliner for a final hit of smudge on the lower lash root only - Le Khol Duo in Brun Glace 02 ($40). This is a double-ended eye pencil that Lisa [Eldridge] designed last year. She gave one to me and I'm still obsessed!" This foundation balances the skin's pH, so it maintains its color without oxidizing. It's also formulated for 24-hour wear, which might be why it works so well for the red carpet.
Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra Liquid 24H Longwear SPF 15 Foundation $47
As if it's not clear enough yet, Winslet's approach to the red carpet is relatively relaxed. Instead of amping up intense workouts or taking on a diet cleanse to prepare for one, she keeps up with her already established sustainable habits. "So if I know I have to look red-carpet-ready for something, I do try and look after myself in the few days running up to that moment," she says. "Nothing fancy or expensive, but I'm 42 now, so I can't get away with murder anymore! So my top tip would be water. Water, water, water. Keep the body hydrated and the skin will follow suit. And I try and stay away from salt and alcohol before an important occasion and throw a few green smoothies together in a Nutribullet ($89). Whilst my life would be too dull without salt and the odd glass of wine, we all know that cutting them out makes for a healthier complexion. At least it does in my case."
As for the fitness part of the equation, Winslet's routine is equally as inconspicuous. "I do power yoga and barre cardio. Both of which I love. And I walk a lot. We've got a lovely dog so... he needs lots of walking." It's kind of refreshing to hear a celeb who focuses on being active for activity's sake. To us, it sounds like Winslet has a really healthy relationship with fitness. Instead of powering through intense bouts activity to achieve a certain result, she makes it a sustainable lifestyle habit. That's kind of the goal of fitness, right?
"Honestly, I have learned that health comes before reaching for a mirror or a bottle of product," she continues. "And if anything, I do look in the mirror less and less as I get older. In my twenties, I probably thought about my appearance more than I do now, for the simple reason that as I get older I have more important things that concern me than how I look. Like family, happiness, and having fun!" And if you're wondering how on earth this laissez-faire beauty philosophy happened so naturally for her, it didn't. "That is something I have only been able to learn with age," she says.
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5 Gambling Minigames Found in Non-Gambling Video Games
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5 Gambling Minigames Found in Non Gambling Video Games
Although they may occupy separate spaces on the gaming continuum, video games and casino games have a lot in common. When you strip everything back, both endeavours require a certain amount of strategy, skill, timing and luck. Beyond that, video and casino games are about having fun. Yes, the latter might have the added incentive of winning money, but the fundamental aspect of each is entertainment.
With that being the case, it’s hardly surprising that these two mediums borrow traits from each other. Indeed, when you look at modern online casino games, elements such as storylines and bonus rounds popular in the video gaming community are apparent too. Conversely, many of today’s leading video games have taken inspiration from the betting world and introduced mini-games that add an extra level of engagement to their products.
To give you an insight into how gambling has found its way into the video gaming industry, here’s a rundown of the top five games where you can place a bet or two…
1. Red Dead Redemption 2
With the release of Red Dead Redemption 2 getting gamers all a-flutter, talk of gambling mini games has resurfaced once again. As in the original, the highly anticipated sequel features poker games. As you roam the Badlands on your horse, you can visit various private games and compete against AI-powered software as well as real players. In the latest release, Blackwater is one of the first poker games you’ll come across – and is well worth a try.
2. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is perhaps one of the best video games with a gambling tinge as it features fully fledged casinos. As you’d expect, blackjack, roulette, slots and video poker are all part of the mix. What’s most interesting is that you can borrow money from the casino. Usually a service reserved for the highest of rollers, this is a neat little addition to the game and something that moves it away from being a pure gambling experience and more towards a video game. Of course, if you’re not willing to pay back the loan, the forces of bad luck will be the least of your worries.
3. Final Fantasy VIII
With the online gambling industry now worth upwards of $51 billion, it’s hard to say it’s not a part of mainstream culture. So, it makes sense to incorporate it into the virtual world of Final Fantasy. But, unlike our realm where blackjack et al are popular, Triple Triad is the gambling game of choice in Final Fantasy VIII. Using a 3x3 grid and different coloured cards, your job is to get all your cards on the board before your opponent. Do that and you’ll double your stake. Simple!
4. Fallout New Vegas
If there was one video game that lends itself to gambling mini games, it’s Fallout New Vegas. Although the famous strip is a little less salubrious than it is in real life, the casinos are still operational. In total, there are six venues where you can play blackjack, roulette and slots. Blackjack is the most popular and, as you roam the strip, you’ll find 3:2 blackjack payouts at Gomorrah and The Tops. For a 6:5 payout on blackjack, the Atomic Wrangler on Freeside will welcome you with open arms.
5. The Sims 3
Completing our round-up of gambling mini games is The Sims 3. By purchasing the casino add-on, you can try your hand at poker, slots, roulette and blackjack. Although the action isn’t as involved as it is in other games, you do get a taste of the what it’s like to gamble. In fact, the Sims 3 and our other picks are an ideal training ground for newbies that want to learn the ropes before anteing up in the online casino world for free.
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Gaining traction on cattle exploitation: zooarchaeological evidence from the Neolithic Western Balkans
Jane S. Gaastra, Haskel J. Greenfield, M. Vander Linden
Journal: Antiquity / Volume 92 / Issue 366 / December 2018
The study of the exploitation of animals for traction in prehistoric Europe has been linked to the ‘secondary products revolution’. Such an approach, however, leaves little scope for identification of the less specialised exploitation of animals for traction during the European Neolithic. This study presents zooarchaeological evidence—in the form of sub-pathological alterations to cattle foot bones—for the exploitation of cattle for the occasional pulling of heavy loads, or ‘light’ traction. The analysis and systematic comparison of material from 11 Neolithic sites in the Western Balkans (c. 6100–4500 cal BC) provides the earliest direct evidence for the use of cattle for such a purpose.
Relationship between metabolic status and behavior in dairy cows in week 4 of lactation
R. J. van Hoeij, A. Kok, R. M. Bruckmaier, M. J. Haskell, B. Kemp, A. T. M. van Knegsel
Journal: animal / Volume 13 / Issue 3 / March 2019
Blood metabolite and hormone concentrations are indicative of metabolic status, but blood sampling and analysis is invasive and time-consuming. Monitoring behavior can be done automatically, and behaviors may also be used as indicators of metabolic status. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationships between metabolic status and feeding behavior, lying behavior, motion index and steps of dairy cows in week 4 postpartum. Behavioral data from 81 Holstein-Friesian cows were collected using computerized feeders and accelerometers, and blood samples were collected for analysis of free-fatty acid (FFA), β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB), glucose, insulin, IGF-1 and growth hormone (GH) concentrations. First, cluster analysis was performed to categorize cows as having poor, average, good or very good metabolic status based on their plasma FFA, BHB, glucose, insulin, IGF-1 and GH concentration. Subsequently, the performance and behavior of cows in clusters with poor, average and good metabolic status were compared using GLM. Cows with a poor or average metabolic status tended to have greater fat-and-protein-corrected milk yield than cows with good metabolic status. Furthermore, cows with a poor metabolic status had a lower energy balance and dry matter intake (DMI) than cows with an average or good metabolic status and had a lower number of meals than cows with good metabolic status. Daily number of visits to the feeder and lying time tended to be positively related with metabolic status. Feeding rate (kg/min), daily meal time (min/day), number of lying bouts per day, steps and motion index were not related with metabolic status. In conclusion, better metabolic status in dairy cows in early lactation was associated with a greater DMI, increased feeding activity and a tendency to more time spent lying, compared with poor metabolic status. These results suggest that compromised metabolic status is reflected in altered cow’s behavior in week 4 of lactation.
Temperament and dominance relate to feeding behaviour and activity in beef cattle: implications for performance and methane emissions
P. Llonch, M. Somarriba, C. A. Duthie, S. Troy, R. Roehe, J. Rooke, M. J. Haskell, S. P. Turner
Journal: animal / Volume 12 / Issue 12 / December 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 April 2018, pp. 2639-2648
In beef cattle, feeding behaviour and activity are associated with feed efficiency and methane (CH4) emissions. This study aimed to understand the underlying traits responsible for the contribution of cattle behaviour to individual differences in feed efficiency, performance and CH4 emissions. A total of 84 steers (530±114 kg BW) of two different breeds (crossbreed Charolais and Luing) were used. The experiment was a 2×2×3 factorial design with breed, basal diets (concentrate v. mixed) and dietary treatments (no additive, calcium nitrate or rapeseed cake) as the main factors. The individual dry matter intake (DMI; kg) was recorded daily and the BW was measured weekly over a 56-day period. Ultrasound fat depth was measured on day 56. Based on the previous data, the indexes average daily gain, food conversion and residual feed intake (RFI) were calculated. The frequency of meals, the duration per visit and the time spent feeding per day were taken as feeding behaviour measures. Daily activity was measured using the number of steps, the number of standing bouts and the time standing per day. Agonistic interactions (including the number of contacts, aggressive interactions, and displacements per day) between steers at the feeders were assessed as indicators of dominance. Temperament was assessed using the crush score test (which measures restlessness when restrained) and the flight speed on release from restraint. Statistical analysis was performed using multivariate regression models. Steers that spent more time eating showed better feed efficiency (P=0.039), which can be due to greater secretion of saliva. Feeding time was longer with the mixed diet (P<0.001), Luings (P=0.009) and dominant steers (P=0.032). Higher activity (more steps) in the pen was associated with poorer RFI, possibly because of higher energy expenditure for muscle activity. Frequent meals contributed to a reduction in CH4 emissions per kg DMI. The meal frequency was higher with a mixed diet (P<0.001) and increased in more temperamental (P=0.003) and dominant (P=0.017) steers. In addition, feed intake was lower (P=0.032) in more temperamental steers. This study reveals that efficiency increases with a longer feeding time and CH4 emissions decrease with more frequent meals. As dominant steers eat more frequently and for longer, a reduction in competition at the feeder would improve both feed efficiency and CH4 emissions. Feed efficiency can also be improved through a reduction in activity. Selection for calmer cattle would reduce activity and increase feed intake, which may improve feed efficiency and promote growth, respectively.
The impact of divergent breed types and diets on methane emissions, rumen characteristics and performance of finishing beef cattle
C-A. Duthie, M. Haskell, J. J. Hyslop, A. Waterhouse, R. J. Wallace, R. Roehe, J. A. Rooke
Journal: animal / Volume 11 / Issue 10 / October 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2017, pp. 1762-1771
This study was undertaken to further develop our understanding of the links between breed, diet and the rumen microbial community and determine their effect on production characteristics and methane (CH4) emissions from beef cattle. The experiment was of a 2×2 factorial design, comprising two breeds (crossbred Charolais (CHX); purebred Luing (LU)) and two diets (concentrate-straw or silage-based). In total, 80 steers were used and balanced for sire within each breed, farm of origin and BW across diets. The diets (fed as total mixed rations) consisted of (g/kg dry matter (DM)) forage to concentrate ratios of either 500 : 500 (Mixed) or 79 : 921 (Concentrate). Steers were adapted to the diets over a 4-week period and performance and feed efficiency were then measured over a 56-day test period. Directly after the 56-day test, CH4 and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were measured (six steers/week) over a 13-week period. Compared with LU steers, CHX steers had greater average daily gain (ADG; P<0.05) and significantly (P<0.001) lower residual feed intake. Crossbred Charolais steers had superior conformation and fatness scores (P<0.001) than LU steers. Although steers consumed, on a DM basis, more Concentrate than Mixed diet (P<0.01), there were no differences between diets in either ADG or feed efficiency during the 56-day test. At slaughter, however, Concentrate-fed steers were heavier (P<0.05) and had greater carcass weights than Mixed-fed steers (P<0.001). Breed of steer did not influence CH4 production, but it was substantially lower when the Concentrate rather than Mixed diet was fed (P<0.001). Rumen fluid from Concentrate-fed steers contained greater proportions of propionic acid (P<0.001) and lower proportions of acetic acid (P<0.001), fewer archaea (P<0.01) and protozoa (P=0.09), but more Clostridium Cluster XIVa (P<0.01) and Bacteroides plus Prevotella (P<0.001) than Mixed-fed steers. When the CH4 to CO2 molar ratio was considered as a proxy method for CH4 production (g/kg DM intake), only weak relationships were found within diets. In conclusion, although feeding Concentrate and Mixed diets produced substantial differences in CH4 emissions and rumen characteristics, differences in performance were influenced more markedly by breed.
Current available strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in livestock systems: an animal welfare perspective
P. Llonch, M. J. Haskell, R. J. Dewhurst, S. P. Turner
Journal: animal / Volume 11 / Issue 2 / February 2017
Livestock production is a major contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, so will play a significant role in the mitigation effort. Recent literature highlights different strategies to mitigate GHG emissions in the livestock sector. Animal welfare is a criterion of sustainability and any strategy designed to reduce the carbon footprint of livestock production should consider animal welfare amongst other sustainability metrics. We discuss and tabulate the likely relationships and trade-offs between the GHG mitigation potential of mitigation strategies and their welfare consequences, focusing on ruminant species and on cattle in particular. The major livestock GHG mitigation strategies were classified according to their mitigation approach as reducing total emissions (inhibiting methane production in the rumen), or reducing emissions intensity (Ei; reducing CH4 per output unit without directly targeting methanogenesis). Strategies classified as antimethanogenic included chemical inhibitors, electron acceptors (i.e. nitrates), ionophores (i.e. Monensin) and dietary lipids. Increasing diet digestibility, intensive housing, improving health and welfare, increasing reproductive efficiency and breeding for higher productivity were categorized as strategies that reduce Ei. Strategies that increase productivity are very promising ways to reduce the livestock carbon footprint, though in intensive systems this is likely to be achieved at the cost of welfare. Other strategies can effectively reduce GHG emissions whilst simultaneously improving animal welfare (e.g. feed supplementation or improving health). These win–win strategies should be strongly supported as they address both environmental and ethical sustainability. In order to identify the most cost-effective measures for improving environmental sustainability of livestock production, the consequences of current and future strategies for animal welfare must be scrutinized and contrasted against their effectiveness in mitigating climate change.
Sequential sampling: a novel method in farm animal welfare assessment
C. A. E. Heath, D. C. J. Main, S. Mullan, M. J. Haskell, W. J. Browne
Lameness in dairy cows is an important welfare issue. As part of a welfare assessment, herd level lameness prevalence can be estimated from scoring a sample of animals, where higher levels of accuracy are associated with larger sample sizes. As the financial cost is related to the number of cows sampled, smaller samples are preferred. Sequential sampling schemes have been used for informing decision making in clinical trials. Sequential sampling involves taking samples in stages, where sampling can stop early depending on the estimated lameness prevalence. When welfare assessment is used for a pass/fail decision, a similar approach could be applied to reduce the overall sample size. The sampling schemes proposed here apply the principles of sequential sampling within a diagnostic testing framework. This study develops three sequential sampling schemes of increasing complexity to classify 80 fully assessed UK dairy farms, each with known lameness prevalence. Using the Welfare Quality herd-size-based sampling scheme, the first ‘basic’ scheme involves two sampling events. At the first sampling event half the Welfare Quality sample size is drawn, and then depending on the outcome, sampling either stops or is continued and the same number of animals is sampled again. In the second ‘cautious’ scheme, an adaptation is made to ensure that correctly classifying a farm as ‘bad’ is done with greater certainty. The third scheme is the only scheme to go beyond lameness as a binary measure and investigates the potential for increasing accuracy by incorporating the number of severely lame cows into the decision. The three schemes are evaluated with respect to accuracy and average sample size by running 100 000 simulations for each scheme, and a comparison is made with the fixed size Welfare Quality herd-size-based sampling scheme. All three schemes performed almost as well as the fixed size scheme but with much smaller average sample sizes. For the third scheme, an overall association between lameness prevalence and the proportion of lame cows that were severely lame on a farm was found. However, as this association was found to not be consistent across all farms, the sampling scheme did not prove to be as useful as expected. The preferred scheme was therefore the ‘cautious’ scheme for which a sampling protocol has also been developed.
The need for a quantitative assessment of animal welfare trade-offs in climate change mitigation scenarios
P. Llonch, A. B. Lawrence, M. J. Haskell, I. Blanco-Penedo, S. P. Turner
Journal: Advances in Animal Biosciences / Volume 6 / Issue 1 / March 2015
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2015, pp. 9-11
Effect of calving difficulty on the saleable milk yield of UK Holstein Friesian dairy cattle at different stages of lactation
A C Barrier, M P Coffey, M J Haskell
Journal: Advances in Animal Biosciences / Volume 1 / Issue 1 / April 2010
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2010, p. 17
The effect of the provision of ‘furniture’ on the use of a loafing area by continuously housed dairy cattle
M J Haskell, S Bain, D J Roberts, F M Langford
Are cows more likely to lie down the longer they stand?
B J Tolkamp, M J Haskell, C A Morgan, S P Turner
Vitamin A status is associated with T-cell responses in Bangladeshi men
Shaikh M. Ahmad, Marjorie J. Haskell, Rubhana Raqib, Charles B. Stephensen
Recommendations for vitamin A intake are based on maintaining liver stores of ≥ 0·070 μmol/g, which is sufficient to maintain normal vision. We propose that higher levels may be required to maintain normal immune function. To test this hypothesis, we conducted an 8-week residential study among thirty-six healthy Bangladeshi men with low vitamin A stores. Subjects were randomised to receive vitamin A (240 mg in four doses) or placebo during study weeks 2 and 3. Vitamin A stores were estimated by isotopic dilution at week 8. Total T-cells, the naive T-cells:memory T-cells ratio and mitogen-induced lymphocyte proliferation were positively and significantly correlated with vitamin A stores (P < 0·05). Mitogen-stimulated IL-2, IL-4 and TNFα increased significantly (P < 0·05) in the vitamin A but not placebo group after supplementation, while IL-10 production was significantly and negatively correlated with vitamin A stores (P < 0·05). Segmented linear regression analysis revealed that naive T-cell counts and T-cell blastogenesis were positively associated with vitamin A stores above but not below 0·070 μmol/g liver. These data show that increasing vitamin A stores above the level that maintains normal vision enhances some measures of T-cell-mediated immunity, suggesting a difference in requirements for maintaining vision and immune function.
A comparison of management practices, farmer-perceived disease incidence and winter housing on organic and non-organic dairy farms in the UK
Fritha M Langford, Kenneth MD Rutherford, Mhairi C Jack, Lorna Sherwood, Alistair B Lawrence, Marie J Haskell
Journal: Journal of Dairy Research / Volume 76 / Issue 1 / February 2009
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2008, pp. 6-14
There have been increases in the number of organic dairy farms in the UK in recent years. However, there is little information on the impact of organic regulations on cow welfare. As part of a larger study, we aimed to investigate differences between organic and non-organic farms in management practices and winter housing quality. Forty organic and 40 non-organic farms throughout the UK were visited. Organic and non-organic farms were paired for housing type, and as far as possible for herd size, genetic merit and location. A detailed questionnaire covering key aspects of dairy management was carried out with each farmer. On a subset of twenty pairs, an assessment of the quality of the winter housing for both lactating and dry cows was undertaken, covering the parlour, bedding, loafing and feeding areas. Management practices and building conditions varied greatly within farm types and there was considerable overlap between organic and non-organic farms. Milk yield, level and composition of concentrate feed, management of heifers and calving, and use of ‘alternative treatments’ to prevent and treat mastitis differed between organic and non-organic farms. In all other respects there were no differences between farm types. Building dimensions per cow did not differ, even though organic recommendations advise greater space per cow than recommended for non-organic farms. The similarity between organic and non-organic farms in most respects indicates that cow housing and health, based on both the described management regimes and the farmers' perceptions of disease incidence, on organic dairy farms is neither compromised by the regulations, nor considerably better than on non-organic farms.
Trade-off decisions in dairy cow feeding preferences
F. C. Lang, S. D. Healy, D. J. Roberts, M. J. Haskell
Journal: Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science / Volume 2008 / 2008
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2017, p. 154
In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the issue of farm animal welfare. This interest stems from a belief that many modern livestock production systems do not allow animals to perform a natural range of behaviour, leading to a possible decline in welfare. One method of determining the value of natural behaviours is to perform preference tests. In dairy cows, choices relating to various treatments, including feeding, shouting, electric shock, hitting (Pajor et al., 2003) and being milked (Prescott et al., 1998) have been assessed using Y-maze methodology. This is a process that involves training animals to anticipate receiving a treatment if they enter one arm of the Y and an alternative treatment if they enter the other. We used preference tests as a tool to determine how dairy cows perceive aspects of their feeding environment, with specific emphasis on understanding what difficulties low ranking animals face at the feed-face. We hypothesised that subordinate cows would trade-off proximity to a dominant individual at the feed-face with access to food of a high quality.
Consistency of aggressive feeding behaviour in dairy cows: effect of feedface length, stage of lactation and dominance rank
J M Gibbons, A B Lawrence, M J Haskell
Understanding individual differences in temperament traits enables us to investigate the relationship between those traits with animal production and welfare. One aspect of dairy cow temperament that is particularly important to study is aggression. Stress caused by aggressive interactions can negatively affect behaviour and feed intake (Olofsson, 1999), and cause some cows to alter their feeding times to avoid aggressive interactions (Miller and Wood-Gush, 1991). The objective of this study was to characterise the competitive ‘style’ of individual cows. The following questions were addressed: 1) are cows consistent in how they express aggression over time at a standard length feedface, 2) does the parity, feedface length, stage of lactation and social dominance rank have an effect on aggressive behaviour?
Methods for assessing sociability of dairy cows
J. Gibbons, A. B. Lawrence, M. Haskell
Journal: Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science / Volume 2007 / April 2007
Sociability refers to the extent to which animals seek social companionship. Individual differences in social behaviour exist between animals. It is important to measure individual social motivation in order to develop suitable temperament scores that can be used in future breeding programmes or as part of welfare assessment schemes. Runway tests have been shown as reliable methods of measuring sociability in animals (Birds Mills & Faure, 1991; Sheep Sibbald et al., 2005). The aim was to develop a suitable test that could be used to measure sociability of cows in a commercial situation. The following questions were addressed i) How repeatable is the runway test when carried out on dairy cattle, ii) Does a cow’s performance in a runway test correlate with social behaviour within a group house setting?
Behavioural consequences of the genetic selection for health and fertility or ‘robustness’ in dairy cows: responsiveness to novelty and human interaction
J. Gibbons, R. Donald, R. Turl, L. Maggs, E. Wall, A.B. Lawrence, M. Haskell
Modern dairy cows appear to be less ‘robust’ or adaptable than in the past, as typified by high involuntary culling and poorer health. This could be addressed by the use of broader breeding goals and breeding indices that include traits that are likely to improve fertility and health. Body energy balance and growth rate in the first lactation are traits that are likely to underlie health and fertility and have been included in an index of robustness (Wall et al., 2006). However, we need to ensure that the inclusion of these new traits does not have any unforeseen effects on animal behaviour, which may reduce the welfare of the individual or the group she is housed in. Selection to improve body condition may mean that the animals seek increased access to feed. It may be hypothesised that this could lead them to be more aggressive at the feed-trough. Alternatively, they may increase their feed intake by becoming unresponsive to the social and physical environment, and feeding outwith the peak feeding period. This could mean that they become less responsive to their environment and possibly become harder to handle. The aim of this experiment was to compare the behaviour of daughters of bulls which scored high on the functionality sub-index of the robustness index (‘high functionality’ bulls) with daughters of bulls which scored low (‘low functionality’ bulls) on this sub-index. Specifically, we investigated the responsiveness to the environment, by assessing reactions to a novel object and to an unfamiliar person.
A semipolar (10-1-3) InGaN/GaN green light emitting diode
Rajat Sharma, P Morgan Pattison, Troy J Baker, Benjamin A Haskell, Robert M Farrell, Hisashi Masui, Feng Wu, Steven P DenBaars, James S Speck, Shuji Nakamura
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011, 0892-FF19-02
The performance of conventional c-plane GaN-based optoelectronic devices suffers from the effects of strong polarization-induced electric fields along the conduction direction, which result in a reduced overlap between electron and hole wavefunctions. These devices consequently demonstrate low radiative recombination rates, and a blue-shift in peak emission wavelength with increasing bias. There have been several recent demonstrations of light emitting diodes (LEDs) fabricated on non-polar a- and m- plane GaN that show greatly reduced to zero blue-shift of peak emission wavelength, and other recent work on non-polar GaN has yielded hole concentrations that are almost an order of magnitude higher than for c-plane GaN.
The effects of the strong polarization-induced electric fields may, conceivably, also be mitigated or potentially eliminated by growing films on so-called ‘semipolar’ planes. A semipolar plane is any plane that may not be classified as a c-, a- or m- plane, and has at least two non-zero h, i, or k Miller indices and a nonzero l Miller index (, and planes, for example). It is expected that devices grown on these semipolar planes should also demonstrate a reduced blue-shift in peak emission wavelength and higher hole concentrations. Further, recent work also suggests that the indium incorporation efficiency for growth on semipolar planes is comparable to that for growth on the c-plane.
We demonstrate the first green InGaN/GaN LED grown on a planar semipolar GaN template. The LED structure is grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), and the 20 μm-thick, specular and optically transparent template is grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE). The fabricated devices have a peak emission wavelength of ∼525 nm and demonstrate rectifying behavior, with a low turn-on voltage of 3.2 V. We observe a small ∼7 nm blue-shift in the peak emission wavelength during electroluminescence measurements, over the range 20 to 250 mA. We also see an almost linear increase in the output power from 5 mA to 200 mA, with no appreciable decrease in the external quantum efficiency over the same range. We also observe evidence of polarization anisotropy in the emission from the semipolar green LEDs.
Platelet ice and the land-fast sea ice of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
Inga J. Smith, Patricia J. Langhorne, Timothy G. Haskell, H. Joe Trodahl, Russell Frew, M. Ross Vennell
Journal: Annals of Glaciology / Volume 33 / 2001
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 September 2017, pp. 21-27
Dendritic crystals of platelet ice appear beneath the columnar land-fast sea ice of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. These leaf-like crystals are frozen into place by the advancing columnar growth. The platelets most probably begin to appear during July although in some parts of the Sound they may not appear at all. In addition, the amount and extent of platelet ice within the Sound varies from year to year. Previous authors have suggested that the formation of platelet ice is linked to the presence of the nearby ice shelf. It is a matter of debate whether these platelets form at depth and then float upwards or whether they grow in slightly supercooled water at the ice/water interface. The phenomenon is similar to that observed in the Weddell Sea region, but previous authors have suggested the two regions may experience different processes. This paper presents the results of field-work conducted in McMurdo Sound in 1999. Ice-structure analysis, isotopic analysis and salinity and temperature measurements near the ice/water interface are presented. Freezing points are calculated, and the possible existence of supercooling is discussed in relation to existing conjectures about the origin of platelets.
Community education for cardiovascular health
from Section 4 - Health practices and the modification of health risk behaviour
By J. W. Farquhar, Stanford University, N. MacCoby, Stanford University, P. D. Wood, Stanford University, J. K. Alexander, Stanford University, H. Breitrose, Stanford University, B. W. Brown, Stanford University, W. L. Haskell, Stanford University, A. L. McAlister, Stanford University, A. J. Meyer, Stanford University, J. D. Nash, Stanford University, M. P. Stern, Stanford University
Edited by Andrew Steptoe, St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, Jane Wardle, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London
Book: Psychosocial Processes and Health
Published online: 05 August 2016
To determine whether community health education can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, a field experiment was conducted in three northern California towns. In two of these communities there were extensive mass-media campaigns over a 2-year period, and in one of these, face-to-face counselling was also provided for a small subset of high-risk people. The third community served as a control. People from each community were interviewed and examined before the campaigns began and one and two years afterwards to assess knowledge and behaviour related to cardiovascular disease (e.g., diet and smoking) and also to measure physiological indicators of risk (e.g., blood-pressure, relative weight, and plasma-cholesterol). In the control community the risk of cardiovascular disease increased over the two years but in the treatment communities there was a substantial and sustained decrease in risk. In the community in which there was some face-to-face counselling the initial improvement was greater and health education was more successful in reducing cigarette smoking, but at the end of the second year the decrease in risk was similar in both treatment communities. These results strongly suggest that mass-media educational campaigns directed at entire communities may be very effective in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Cigarette smoking, high plasma-cholesterol concentrations, and high blood-pressure are important risk factors for premature cardiovascular disease. In 1972 we began a field experiment in three northern California communities to attempt to modify these risk factors by community education.
The mass media, face-to-face instruction, or combinations of the two may be used in community education campaigns. The habits influencing cardiovascular risk factors are complex and longstanding ones, are often reinforced by culture, custom, and continual commercial advertising, and are unlikely to be strongly influenced by mass media alone. Face-to face instruction and exhortation also have a long history of failure, particularly when aimed at producing permanent changes in diet and smoking habits. The disappointing results of a very limited attempt to reduce cardiovascular risk with a direct mail and lecture campaign reinforced pessimism about the possibility of changing health behaviour through public education.
After considering the powerful cultural forces which reinforce and maintain the health habits that we wished to change, and in view of the failure of past health education campaigns, we decided to use an untested combination of an extensive mass-media campaign plus a considerable amount of face-to-face instruction.
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Tesla’s electric car sales top 11,000 in Q2
Sales don't always mean profit, as record sales in the previous quarter couldn't stave off a $154 million loss
PALO ALTO, Calif.—Electric car maker Tesla’s second-quarter deliveries surged 52 per cent to set a company record exceeding 11,000 vehicles.
The Palo Alto, Calif., company had surpassed 10,000 vehicles for the first time in the first three months of the year and on Thursday said it had broken that record, delivering 11,507 vehicles.
Tesla makes only one car, the Model S sedan, but CEO Elon Musk said last month he expects to begin deliveries of an SUV, the Model X, in three or four months. Tesla began 2015 with 20,000 reservations for the Model X. The company has said it plans to deliver 55,000 Model S sedans and Model X SUVs this year.
The car maker cautioned on July 3 that record deliveries are not an indicator of overall financial results. The company has consistently lost money as it ramps up production. Despite record sales in the first quarter, Tesla lost $154 million.
Musk has said the company hopes to reveal a prototype of its next vehicle, the Model 3 sedan, in March. The new model will cost around half the $70,000 starting price of a Model S and will likely go on sale at the end of 2017.
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Tesla shares fall sharply on revised sales targets
Ford issues recall for 433,000 vehicles
Fiat Chrysler to face sanctions for botched recalls
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Champion Railway Park – Okotoks, Alberta
By Jason Paul Sailer, August 2017
A behind the scenes tour
Last August 5th, a Saturday, my wife, daughter and I had the opportunity to check out a ‘behind-the-scenes’ tour of the Champion Railway Park, located just 5 km NE of Okotoks, or 7 km straight north of Aldersyde off Highway 2 on the way to Calgary.
We (along with countless others) have passed it numerous times and often thought driving by “what is this place?” and “Boy I’d love to get inside to check it out!” Since its inception in the late 1970s / early 1980s it was owned by realtor Gerald L. Knowlton and his family and was just recently jointly donated to both the MD of Foothills and the Town of Okotoks. But first some background about this neat place!
The Champion Railway Park was the private collection of Canadian Pacific Railway equipment, artifacts, and structures, wide ranging from a lowly bunkhouse to the Champion, AB train station!
The whole idea of the Park began in 1979 when Gerald wanted to build something as homage to the Canadian Pacific Railway (partly due to some of the rural train stations being demolished) and also as a family tribute to his parents, Frederick (Ted) and Faye Knowlton.
Ted was the station agent at Standard, Alberta for some forty years! Considering the Standard train station was lost to the wrecking ball, Gerald and some friends went around to five other remaining train stations left standing in southern Alberta to find a replacement for his idea. Out of all left standing, the Champion station was in reasonable good shape and closest to what Ted worked out of as a station agent (and what Gerald grew up in as a child). He was able to work out a deal with CPR to purchase the former station.
While this was occurring, his family scouted around for land to relocate the station to, and the current 54-acre site of the Champion Railway Park was obtained in late 1979. Gerald’s daughter Marie-Catherine recommended that site be chosen out of all the ones the family looked at. The Champion station was then relocated to the recently purchased property a year later, and left on blocks until a proper foundation could be built. Then the station was moved onto its new foundation and a lengthy restoration job began. Gerald’s vision was to recreate the environment that his dad was familiar with at Standard; that would mean additional buildings would be needed for the site!
Collecting railway buildings (or railway cars for that matter) wasn’t easy, but Gerald took advantage of every opportunity the CPR presented to collect the necessary items for the Railway Park.
Using contacts within the industry, additional items (and some volunteer labour) was obtained to help move the project along. By the mid-1990s the site was mostly developed and an interesting collection of railway equipment was obtained. A section of track (approx. ½ mile long) was built out front of the station, allowing either the Inspection Car or the 1960s era diesel locomotive to move along the track giving family and close friends rides on the rails.
The Last Spike at Champion Park
An interesting side note that former CP president N.R. ‘Buck’ Crump actually hammered the last spike in the track construction at Champion Park in June 1983.
Crump was an enthusiastic supporter of the Park, and had said at the time of the last spike ceremony “That the Champion Park railway track wasn’t as long, but was every bit as wide as the Canadian Pacific Railway!” In June 2014, a ‘Grand Finale Work Party’ was held at Champion Railway Park – I had tickets to attend, but couldn’t make it to the event. I then gave the tickets to our close friends Chris Doering and Connie Biggart, who were itching to get onto the site to document it. They had a great time at the work party, and were able to take some photos – read their report here: http://www.bigdoer.com/15611/exploring-history/champion-park/
By the late 2000s Gerald and his family wanted to slow down and relax a bit and the discussion of the future of the Park came into question. They felt the Park needed a stable future to continue and that the public should have access to it. Discussions with the local municipal district and the neighbouring town of Okotoks took place, and by the late summer of 2016 a deal was in place, and a handing-over ceremony took place at Champion Railway Park on September 16th, 2016.
The deal called for a joint 50% ownership between the MD of Foothills and the Town of Okotoks, with the deal coming into effect on January 1st, 2017. A non-profit society “The Friends of Champion Park” (comprising of former volunteers of the Park, representatives from both municipalities, and interested members of the public) will be formed to take on the maintenance and operation of the Railway Park on behalf of both the MD & the Town. Additionally, the Society will be tasked on the creation of a five-year plan for the transformation of the private park to a public event space. Mind you, transferring land from a private family ownership to a public entity is a lengthy process in its own self with its own set of hurdles to overcome.
Operating the Inspection Car and locomotive in a public park requires additional certification and regulations to be met at Alberta Transportation.
I was told at the event that the Town of Okotoks is working with Alberta Transportation on setting up the required paperwork to allow the rail items to be operated by trained volunteers.
Both municipalities spent the majority of 2017 evaluating the park to ensure certain standards (i.e. health/safety regulations) are upgraded to allow the public to use the Railway Park. It was also decided that an open house to the public be arranged over the long weekend in August as a ‘sneak peek’ to what the Railway Park can offer. It is hoped that more public events, tours, and educational opportunities will be added over the next five years.
But now back to the open house event!
The behind-the scenes tour
Surprisingly, I found about the open house on Facebook on the day before the event was to take place. Reading the event description, it talked about RSVPing for a seat on a bus that would take us from the Okotoks Recreation Centre over to the Champion Railway Park (as there isn’t enough parking on the site). It also mentioned the bus seats were already 75% claimed, so I quickly found the phone number of the Town of Okotoks and after talking to a representative, she could walk me through the online booking process and I was able to secure 3 tickets (all free of course) for a 11:45 am trip. Awesome! Saturday morning, we left Lethbridge early enough to make the just under 2-hour drive to Okotoks (with the long weekend traffic to deal with). At the Recreation Centre we loaded onto school buses and took a 15 minute drive over the Railway Park where we were dropped off and then left to tour!
Beginning at the end
The majority of the crowds on the site seemed to be around the Champion train station, so we decided to go to the south end of the Railway Park first and then go northwards. The first stop going south along the train track was a unique design, a steel-bodied caboose with bay windows on either side with no cupola!
This caboose, (#437266) was used on switching and transfer runs and not used on mainline service. It first entered service in 1948 and was retired by CPR in the late 1980s.
Beside it was a classic wooden caboose (#437178) from 1945.
Canadian Pacific DTC-2 #19
And at the front of the ‘train’ was a standout in the collection (in my opinion), a small diesel switcher built by the Canadian Locomotive Company, DTC-2 (44H44A1). CPR #19 was built in April 1960, one of five in that order.
This type of locomotive is unique as unlike regular diesel locomotives that have a single engine driving a generator or alternator which then powers motors connected to the wheels, this one uses a hydraulic torque converter drive, almost like a car’s automatic transmission. As well, it uses two small diesel engines; each driving one set of trucks. The power is sent to one axle and then sent to the other via a side-rod arrangement (very steam locomotive like)! In total, CPR owned 14 of these locomotives between 1957 to 1960 – this locomotive was from the last order CPR ever placed with CLC. Number 19 was used at the CPR Angus shops in Montreal before getting sold off in the fall of 1972. It traveled west working at various industrial firms until arriving at Champion Park in 1987.
Presently, only two other DTC-2s exist in Canada, including one located in the Thunder Bay, Ontario area and the other at the South Simcoe Railway Museum at Tottenham, Ontario. From reports it sounds like the South Simcoe example, #22, isn’t operating – I am not sure on the other example if its operating or not. Two DTC-2s were located at Fort Steel Heritage Park outside of Cranbrook, BC but were recently scrapped in 2010. I found a photo of a similar unit (CPR #10) in my railway slide collection, used at the nearby Coleman Collieries coal mine in the Crowsnest Pass at Coleman, AB.
1955 Wickham Inspection Car
In front of #19 was a 1955 United Kingdom built Wickham Inspection car (M-100) with two man carriers. The man carriers included seats to take employees to the worksite, now it would take visitors on tours!
After looking the railway equipment over we walked over to the section house, and looked things over.
The section house was a replica of what was at Standard, Alberta. Afterwards we walked over to the Engineer Inspector Communications building (I liked the pebble glass on the door!), then a bit farther we walked over to the railway bunkhouse.
The bunkhouse had a familiar look (as we have two at the Galt Historic Railway Park that were originally from Coutts) though the Champion examples are finished and filled to the brim with railway artifacts. A building like this would have been located at strategic points along a railway line and would have been used by railway employees for sleeping / living accommodations while working. Both the Communications building and bunkhouse actually originated from Milo, Alberta!
Conrad flag stop station
Not far away were the typical prairie outhouse and a bit farther away a smaller, squarish building situated against the track with ‘Conrad’ mounted on the side of it. I had heard that the Railway Park had obtained the original Conrad flag stop station and here it was!
Peering inside the window it was pretty basic; a stove and some benches to sit on that’s it! On a side note beside the Conrad station was a semaphore mounted on a tall pole. I don’t think it would have been the same setup at Conrad, but without seeing a historic photo of it in operation, it is hard to say. It is interesting to see never the less! A bit father south of the Conrad station was a speeder shed and a general storage shed.
On the grounds there is a variety of freight rolling stock, including a wooden boxcar, a tank car, and a wooden stock car! The wooden metal-braced boxcar (#236220) dated back to 1920, along with the tank car (#400304) which was from 1923. The double deck wooden stock car (#278522) was a newer design from the 1950s.
Wig-wag grade crossing warning signal
We then walked the track back towards the train station, pausing at the grade crossing to see the vintage warning ‘wig-wag’. The wig-wag was a early type of warning device at the turn of the twentieth-century; as a train approached the arm (with attached warning light) would swing back and forth and the bell above the arm would sound off, warning drivers that a train was approaching!
Following the paved pathway down towards the lake we had our picnic lunch! It was very relaxing sitting by the lake eating lunch and watching the ducks float on the water. Afterwards, we walked up the hill towards the restored mail-express car and the ‘Saskatchewan’ business car. We were given a tour of the mail-express car by one of the Park volunteers.
Saskatchewan business car and Mail Express #3622
The mail-express car #3622 was built by Canadian Car & Foundry in January 1947 and entered service with CPR not long afterwards. CPR sold the car off in the mid 1980’s and it traveled north to the Alberta Railway Museum for a spell. It then went to the Museum of the Highwood by High River in 2002 as part of their railway display for a time, before Champion Park purchased it in June 2013.
Some renovation work was done on the car after it arrived at the Park, but it was in relatively good shape. When you step inside the car, you definitely feel you are in a Railway Post Office car!
The ‘Saskatchewan’ was built in December 1929 at the CPR Angus shops in Montreal, Quebec and used to move CPR management around the country.
After the tour, we walked back outside and down the track a bit to the “Saskatchewan” business car. It is well appointed and filled to the brim with high quality wood and carpet / velvet materials. Inside included a living area, bathroom, five bedrooms (with separate bathrooms), a dining area, and a compact kitchen space. I could imagine myself living in a railcar like this! On the end of the car was a spacious covered outside deck where people could sit and watch the passing scenery!
The Champion Railway Park acquired the Saskatchewan in 1983. In fact, former CP president Crump was actually instrumental in having the Saskatchewan car relocated to the Champion Railway Park! We walked through the vestibule into the rear of the mail-express car, where another Park volunteer greeted us and gave us a brief explanation of the car (basically a downsized baggage car). I was surprised how detailed the interior was, for just being a basic baggage car. All the period correct items were mounted inside in the right locations…no detail was overlooked, and that little bit of attention I appreciated.
The restored Champion train station.
Based off the CPR Station #5 plan, the Champion station was built at a hefty sum of $4,500 dollars in 1911.
We then headed towards the final spot on the tour, the restored Champion train station. Based off the CPR Station #5 plan, the Champion station was built at a hefty sum of $4,500 dollars in 1911. Walking in the first door was a compact waiting room complete with vintage CPR posters on the wall and the ticket seller’s window. Peering inside, we could see the stationmaster’s area with the telegraph keys.
Through the open door on the opposite wall we could see down the hallway into the freight shed. We then walked outside on the platform, past the bay window, and stopped by another door (that led upstairs to the stationmaster’s living quarters – now occupied by people that look after the Railway Park in the off season).
A bit father down the platform was the large open sliding door of the freight shed, where a Park volunteer was giving demonstrations on how to ‘hoop’ train orders to locomotive crews. At this time, we then realized we were one of the last public visitors still at the Park, and that the Town employees / Park volunteers were cleaning up and taking stuff down for the day! We then decided we better head to the bus loading area to head back to our car at the Okotoks Recreation Centre.
I wished we could have stayed a lot longer, but it was a hoot never the less. My friend B.J. Errson, who is one of the many Park volunteers, signed me up for future work parties, so I look forward to returning and hopefully riding in the CLC locomotive!
Thanks to both the MD of Foothills No. 31 and the Town of Okotoks on stepping up to help take over the reins from the Knowlton family – it is greatly appreciated!
Jason Paul Sailer was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta and grew up on a farm south of town.
Memories of taking grain to the wooden grain elevator with his dad and watching the trains moving the cars left a lasting impression on him. After college, he moved to Lethbridge, Alberta to be employed as a senior architectural technologist. He is currently married and has a young daughter .
In Jason’s spare time he is an avid photographer, researcher/blogger, and rookie HO-scale modeler. Jason also serves as a secretary with an local railway museum (the Galt Historic Railway Park) and as president of the Ogilvie Wooden Grain Elevator Society, preserving an 1925 Ogilvie Flour grain elevator.
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SB192 HD1 CD1
Measure Title: RELATING TO PROSTITUTION.
Report Title: Prostitution; Minors; Offenses; Statute of Limitations; Forfeiture; Sex Offender Registry
Description: Makes solicitation of a minor for prostitution a crime. Increases the statute of limitations to bring a cause of action for coercion into prostitution from two to six years. Clarifies the minimum and maximum fine for a person convicted of committing the offense of prostitution. Adds the offenses of solicitation of a minor for prostitution, habitual solicitation of prostitution, and solicitation of prostitution near schools and public parks under the State's forfeiture laws. Amends the definition of "sexual offense" under the sexual offender registry laws to include acts that consist of the solicitation of a minor who is less than eighteen years of age for prostitution. Requires registration with the sexual offender registry for conviction of solicitation of a minor for prostitution as a tier 1 offense. (CD1)
Companion: HB1066
Current Referral: JUD
Introducer(s): CHUN OAKLAND, ESPERO, Ihara, Nishihara, Shimabukuro, Taniguchi
1/22/2013 S Referred to JDL.
2/12/2013 S The committee(s) on JDL has scheduled a public hearing on 02-15-13 10:00AM in conference room 016.
2/15/2013 S The committee(s) on JDL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in JDL were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Hee, Gabbard, Ihara, Slom; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Shimabukuro.
2/28/2013 S Reported from JDL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 547) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
2/28/2013 S Report adopted; Passed Second Reading.
2/28/2013 S One Day Notice 03-01-13.
3/1/2013 S Deferred until 03-05-13.
3/5/2013 S Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House.
3/5/2013 H Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 88).
3/7/2013 H Referred to JUD, referral sheet 30
3/8/2013 H Bill scheduled to be heard by JUD on Tuesday, 03-12-13 2:00PM in House conference room 325.
3/12/2013 H The committees on JUD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Rhoads, Har, Brower, Carroll, Ito, Kawakami, C. Lee, Tsuji, McDermott, Thielen; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Belatti, Cabanilla, Wooley.
3/28/2013 H Reported from JUD (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1233) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
3/28/2013 H Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1; placed on the calendar for Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Belatti, C. Lee, Tokioka excused (3).
4/1/2013 H Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and McKelvey excused (1). Transmitted to Senate.
4/9/2013 S Senate Conferees appointed: Hee, Chair; Shimabukuro, Co-Chair(s); Slom.
4/9/2013 H Received notice of disagreement and Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 596).
4/15/2013 H House conferees appointed: Rhoads Chair; Brower, Kawakami, Thielen.
4/19/2013 S Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-22-13 1:00PM in conference room 325.
4/24/2013 S The Conference committee recommends that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes of the Senate Conference Managers were as follows: 2 Aye(s): Senator(s) Hee, Shimabukuro; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Slom.
4/24/2013 H The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 3 Ayes: Representative(s) Rhoads, Kawakami, Thielen; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Brower.
4/30/2013 S Passed Final Reading, as amended (CD 1). 25 Aye(s); Aye(s) with reservations: none . 0 No(es): none. 0 Excused: none.
7/9/2013 H Act 247, on 7/1/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1350).
7/9/2013 S Act 247, 7/1/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1350).
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UPDATE 2-Golf-Rampant U.S. lead Europe 8-4 at Ryder Cup
* Americans take foursomes session 3-1 to tighten grip
* Mickelson and Bradley win third match together
* Europe's big guns fail to fire (Updates after foursomes session)
By Mark Lamport-Stokes
MEDINAH, Illinois, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley set the tone in record equalling style as the United States took a commanding 8-4 lead over holders Europe after dominating Saturday morning's foursomes at the Ryder Cup.
Though Europe had sent out all their big guns in the alternate-shot format in a bid to wrest back momentum in the biennial team competition, the fired-up Americans won the session 3-1 in dazzling sunshine at Medinah Country Club.
Cup veteran Mickelson and rookie Bradley won their third match of the week together, piling up six birdies as they handed out a 7&6 thrashing to out-of-form Englishmen Lee Westwood and Luke Donald.
Their margin of victory matched the wins earned by Hale Irwin and Tom Kite over Ken Brown and Des Smyth at the 1979 Ryder Cup, and by Paul Azinger and Mark O'Meara over Nick Faldo and David Gilford in 1991.
Jim Furyk and Brandt Snedeker never trailed on their way to a 1 up win against Northern Irishmen Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell while Zach Johnson and Cup rookie Jason Dufner beat Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts and Spaniard Sergio Garcia 2&1.
Europe's sole consolation came in the top match where Englishmen Justin Rose and Ian Poulter clawed their back from one down after eight holes to defeat Bubba Watson and Webb Simpson 1 up after a tight battle.
U.S. Open champion Simpson had a chance to square the match on the 18th green but he narrowly missed a birdie attempt there from just six feet.
"I feel like we actually didn't have our best stuff today and to win that point was massive," a jubilant Rose told reporters.
Earlier in the day, a plane flew across the skies above Medinah with the sky-writing message "Do it for Seve (Ballesteros)" trailing in its wake but that plea for a much-needed European resurgence never materialised.
SIZZLING FORM
Mickelson and Bradley had triumphed twice together on the first day amid a flurry of fist pumps and high-fives and they continued that sizzling form with five birdies on the front nine.
Bradley, winner of last year's PGA Championship, sank a curling 12-footer to birdie the par-four ninth before furiously pumping his right fist as the crowd erupted in deafening cheers.
The U.S. duo went six up at the 10th before sealing victory with a scrambling par at the 12th where Mickelson struck his approach to within a foot of the cup and the Englishmen bogeyed.
"We've had so much fun," smiled Mickelson, who is playing in a record ninth Ryder Cup for the U.S. this week. "The crowd has provided so much energy, and it's brought our best golf out."
Bradley, who has been mentored by Mickelson since he made his debut on the PGA Tour last year, said: "I'm just thrilled I get to share this with Phil and play the way we did.
"I got to witness on the good side of one of those 'Phil pars' on the last hole."
It was Donald's second foursomes defeat this week after he had been unbeaten in the format in six previous Ryder Cup matches.
"We just kept pushing and trying as hard as we could, but they kept coming up with great shots," said the former world number one.
The Europeans desperately need to spark during Saturday afternoon's fourball matches but they face a daunting task with a greater percentage of the American players displaying superior form at Medinah this week.
While the U.S. have been beaten in four of the past five Ryder Cups, they have lost only three times on home soil since the matches began in 1927. (Editing by Larry Fine and Julian Linden)
Two decades after vanishing, her daughter suddenly showed up with children, a new identity — and speaking Spanish
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Cheng Shifa
程十 发
Cheng Shifa ( 1921-2007 ) was born in June, in Songjiang near Shanghai
in Jiangsu Province, China.
Like his parents, he began by studying traditional medicine.
He trained at the Shanghai Art College ( traditional Painting department ).
He graduated from the Shanghai Art College and taught there.
First Solo exhibition in Shanghai.
He made his first comics
He worked for People-s Art Publishing House and became known for his books
illustrations and picture stories.
He returned to painting while teaching at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts.
He won the 2nd Prize at the International Illustrated Book Exhibition in Leipzig.
The Ministry of Culture awarded him the honorary title of People's Artist,
for his paintings of Yunnan Minorites.
He passed away on June 17, at the Shanghai hospital, at the age of 86.
He donated 80 paintings to his hometown, and 122 works to the Shanghai
Academy of Art.
The Cheng Shifa Museum near the Xilin Temple in Shanghai bears his name
and exhibits 23 works he has donated.
A 7000M2 Museum is under construction in the Changning district
to showcase the 122 works bequeathed to the Shanghai Academy of Art.
Danièle Sicard
Cheng Shifa Birds in Plantain Leaves 1978 Album leaf; ink and colour on paper © Ashmolean Museum
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A full list of the 2012 Future Awards winners
Here is a full list of winners at the just concluded Future awards, which took place at the Atrium, in Port Harcourt.
Best Use of Advocacy- Babafemi Oyediran
Best Use of New Media- Gidi Traffic
Creative Artiste of the Year- Bayo Omoboriowo
Designer of the Year- Toju Foyeh
Excellence in Service (Government)- Hadiza Abdullahi
Excellence in Service (Journalism)- Alkasim Abdulkadir
Excellence in Service (Corporate) Ngozi Nkwoji
Innovator of the Year (Science and Technology)- Seun Onigbinde
Innovator of the Year (Education) Otto Orondaam
Entrepreneur of the Year (General)- Ola Orekunrin
Entrepreneur of the Year (Agriculture)- Tochukwu Ikpegbu
Entrepreneur of the Year (Communication and Media)- Uyi Omokaro
Entrepreneur of the Year (Entertainment)-Michael Collins
Entrepreneur of the Year (Technology) Jason Njoku
On-Air-Personality (Radio)- Tolu ‘Toolz’ Oniru
On-Air-Personality (TV)- Denrele Edun
Musician of the Year- Wizkid
Actor of the Year- Tonto Dikeh
Producer of the Year (Music)-Jeremiah ‘J. Sleek’ Shelika
Producer of the Year (Screen) Clarence Peters
Young Person of the Year- Idris Akinbanjo
Posted on August 27, 2012 Author Channels TelevisionCategories EntertainmentTags Africa, Channels Entertainment News, Channels Online, channels television, Channels TV, Future Awards, Nigeria, Port Hacourt2 Comments on A full list of the 2012 Future Awards winners
I can marry Goldie – Prezzo
Kenyan rapper, Prezzo whose real name is Jackson Ngechu Makini on Wednesday confessed his feelings for his former housemate in the just concluded Big Brother Africa stargame, Goldie Harvey saying one of his missions in Nigeria is to see her.
Prezzo who is currently in Nigeria, in an interviewed with his fans said at first he came to the Big Brother House as an individual, along the line he said he developed feelings for Goldie.
“In all honesty, I cared about her and she cared about me. In that house, you don’t know what to expect. With God on my side I pray everything works out well.
“The attraction was nature taking its cause. We found ourselves mostly together all the time. I will tell Goldie I’ve been thinking about her since I left the house. Emotions started building up when we were in the house. You can’t control your emotions.
“My mission here is to look for Goldie, Yes I will marry her,” Prezzo.
Prezzo also spoke about his broken marriage.
“I was married before and now we are separated but I have a baby girl with her and that is not the end of the world. My baby mama has the divorce papers with her and it is in process. We don’t live together for the past 3 years and my wife knows our relationship cannot work. There is no relationship between the both of us anymore”.
He however added that he is willing to get the Nigerian singer back “My mission here is to look for Goldie. The time for looking out for fan base will come.
“I travelled from East Africa to West Africa and that is just the beginning. The Big Brother House will bring the worst of you and the best of you. For everyone who felt offended I am truly sorry, I am not that kind of person. It’s just a game of strategy. The BBA House is nothing but a game”.
Posted on August 23, 2012 Author Channels TelevisionCategories EntertainmentTags Africa, Big Brother star game, Channels Entertainment News, Channels Online, channels television, Channels TV, Goldie, Goldie Harvey, Nigeria, Prezzo4 Comments on I can marry Goldie – Prezzo
Tupac foundation honors Julius Agwu
Foremost comedian Julius Agwu was recently honored by the Tupac foundation in Atlanta USA.
The comedian was presented with the autobiography of Tupac Shakur titled ‘Tupac Shakur Legacy’ autographed by Tupac’s mum, Afeni Shakur.
Julius Agwu with so much excitement said, ‘I feel very excited for this recognition. And most importantly, it is an inspiration for most of us who are in the business of entertainment because even for the fact the guy’s life was cut short at a very early stage, we know he has left a very indelible mark on the sand of time.’
Tupac Shakur Legacy features removable productions of handwritten, lyrics, notebook pages and other personal memorabilia plus Tupac Shakur Speaks, a 60minutes CD featuring interviews with Tupac
Posted on August 22, 2012 Author Channels TelevisionCategories EntertainmentTags Afeni Shakur, Africa, Atlanta, Channels Entertainment News, Channels TV, ChannelsTelevision, Julius Agwu, Nigeria, Tupac, Tupac Shakur, USA1 Comment on Tupac foundation honors Julius Agwu
Style Plus comes back with new single
Nigeria’s only surviving R&B group Style Plus is back to the studios with another song titled Alive. The video was directed by Mr. AK – One.
The group consists of Shifi Emoefe, Tunde Akinsanmi, Yemi Akinwonmi, and Lanre Faneyi. The name STYL was adopted by combining the first letters of the first names of the founding members.
In 1999 Lanre Faneyi died, and Zeal Onyecheme joined the group.
In 2002 Yemi Akinwonmi left the group and the musical band became a trio without adding a new member. Starting 2003, the group had its own record label STYL-PLUS.
In February 2006, they released their highly anticipated 11 track debut album “Expressions”.
With singles like OluFunmi, Runway and Imagine That.
The group have performed with the likes of Femi Kuti, Rugged Man, Shaka Demus and Pliers amongst others.
Posted on August 18, 2012 Author Channels TelevisionCategories EntertainmentTags Africa, Alive, Channels Entertainment News, channels television, Channels TV, Lanre Faneyi, Nigeria, Shifi Emoefe, Style Plus, Tunde Akinsanmi, Yemi Akinwonmi, Zeal Onyecheme2 Comments on Style Plus comes back with new single
Russian government dash out cars to Olympic medalists
Besides fame and glory, this year’s Russian Olympic medalists are getting a handsome cash prize and a new luxury car.
The Russian Olympians Foundation, financed by 15 of the nation’s wealthiest businesspeople, presented the Audi sedans to the medalists on Wednesday.
After a closed ceremony in the Kremlin hosted by President Vladimir Putin, the athletes ventured onto the Red Square where 129 black Audis, accompanied by 129 hired drivers were waiting on the cobblestone slope behind St. Basil’s Cathedral.
The Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko mingled with the athletes and their trainers.
Then the cordon was opened and the athletes percolated through the lot, each claiming a car.
Gold medal winners received Audi A8s, which sells for $120,000. Silver medalists got A7s ($75,000), and bronze medalists got A6s ($50,000).
The foundation’s executive director, Alexander Katushev, said the cars were acquired at a ”Significant discount”
He added that elite athletes deserve elite cars.
“A fine athlete in a crappy car is like a beautiful girl who cusses. The exterior doesn’t match the interior, and this won’t do,” he added.
In addition to the cars, the fund is giving cash prizes to the medalists: 4 million rubles ($125,000) for gold, 2.5 million rubles for silver, and 1.7 million rubles for bronze.
According to some of the athletes, getting cars and cash prizes didn’t motivate them to win.
Volleyball player Alexei Obmochayev rifled through his car’s glove compartment. He took out the manual to look up the car’s horsepower.
His teammate, Alexander Volkov, carefully folded his towering, 210-centimeter frame into the back seat of one car. “Plenty of room here,” he said, hunching forward awkwardly.
One by one, the athletes were driven away by the hired drivers, with the exception of several wrestlers, who insisted on getting behind the wheel.
Gymnast Alina Makarenko, 17, will only be sitting shotgun for the foreseeable future — she doesn’t have a driver’s license. Makarenko said her mother would drive the A8 until she received one.
“I think if they had been Russian cars, nobody would have shown up,” said pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, who won bronze after taking home gold in the last two Olympics.
The Russian Olympians Foundation includes Russia’s richest man, Alisher Usmanov, as well as tycoons Roman Abramovich, Viktor Vekselberg and Oleg Deripaska.
The nation finished fourth in the total medals count, with 82, including 24 golds, 26 silvers and 32 bronzes.
Posted on August 18, 2012 Author Channels TelevisionCategories Entertainment, SportsTags Africa, Alexander Katushev, Alexander Volkov, Alexei Obmochayev, Alina Makarenko, Alisher Usmanov, Channels Entertainment News, Channels Online, channels television, Channels TV, Nigeria, Oleg Deripaska, Roman Abramovich, Russian, St. Basil's Cathedral, Viktor Vekselberg, Vitaly Mutko, Yelena IsinbayevaLeave a comment on Russian government dash out cars to Olympic medalists
M.I and Omawumi to host The Headies 2012
Singer/ song writer Omawumi Megbele and foremost rapper/producer M.I Abaga are set to host the 7th edition of The Headies.
Ayo Animashaun made the announcement saying the pair have been selected in line with the awards’ tradition of picking ‘talented and inspiring entertainers, to front an awards ceremony that parades some of the continent’s biggest entertainers’.
‘It’s a very important year for us at The Headies, and for the Nigerian music industry in general‘, Animashaun, who founded the awards in 2006 says. ’And we found in M.I and Omawumi, two great entertainers who are very passionate about the awards, passionate about their work, passionate about the music business and a great source of inspiration to young, up and coming artistes, because of their peculiar stories climbing up‘.
For Omawumi she has been able to establish a strong foundation for her career, in 2008 she released her debut single ‘In the music’ which caught across the globe and won “The Next Rated” award in 2008 Hip-Hop award which is now referred to as The Headies.
The Chocolate-City rapper has won himself multiple awards at The Headies, a total of 9.
According to M.I, ‘I won my first Headie when no one knew who I was’ M.I says. ‘It was a big leap for me and my career and I can say the same for a lot of my colleagues. Several years after, I’m excited to be here, performing in a very important capacity, along with my very good friend Omawumi’.
‘You know one of the things over the years that has been traditionally so great about the Headies awards is the fact that they do two things well. They merge the aspirational aspect of entertainment with the inspirational aspect of entertainment. You take us to the villages, we meet people where they don’t really have water, we’ve done that.
At the same time you take people to Brazil. A young person can look and be inspired and also aspire too,’ he concluded.
The event which is one of the most anticipated events in the entertainment world started in 2006, as Hip-Hop award and in 2011 was later changed to The Headies.
The Headies organizers said this year’s event will hold October 20, 2012, at the Eko Hotel and Suites.
Posted on August 13, 2012 Author Channels TelevisionCategories EntertainmentTags Africa, Ayo Animashaun, Channels Entertainment News, Channels Online, channels television, Channels TV, HIp HOp Awards, M.I, M.I Abaga, Nigeria, Omawumi, Omawumi Megbele, The HeadiesLeave a comment on M.I and Omawumi to host The Headies 2012
Beyonce and Jay Z named world’s highest paid celebrity couple
Popular musicians Beyonce and Jay Z have been named the world’s highest paid couple according to Forbes Magazine.
The couple earned the sum $78 million together in the last one year. While Beyonce made $40m from May 2011 to May 2012, Jay Z made $38million, according to data from the latest Celebrity 100 list.
The couple were the runners-up last year on the list of The World’s Highest-Paid Celebrity Couples and they have now climbed to top for this year’s ranking.
Beyonce Knowles, took a break from her hectic touring schedule in 2011 to give birth to daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, while her album went platinum in the U.S.
Jay-Z isn’t far behind his wife. The hip-hop mogul made millions from Watch the Throne, his musical collaboration with Kanye West, and even more from the tour that followed.
Posted on August 10, 2012 August 10, 2012 Author Channels TelevisionCategories EntertainmentTags Africa, Beyonce, Blu Ivy, Channels Entertainment News, Channels Online, channels television, Channels TV, Forbes, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Nigeria, Richest couples1 Comment on Beyonce and Jay Z named world’s highest paid celebrity couple
Video: Oshiomole celebrates re-election with Azonto dance
The re-elected governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomole rocked the Azonto dance step with R&B singer Chuddy K at a victory party put together at the King’s Square Benin City.
The R&B singer Chuddy K while performing his hit single “Gaga Crazy” got the governor dancing the popular Azonto step hereby thrilling the crowd.
Mr Oshiomhole polled a landslide victory in all the recent Edo State election with 477,478 votes-73.72 per cent of 647,698 total votes cast-to defeat his closest rival, Charles Airhiarvbere of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
He was before now the former president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has earned a second term in office following his election in the 2007 general election.
Posted on August 3, 2012 August 3, 2012 Author Channels TelevisionCategories CurrentTags 17 local government, 2007, Adams Oshiomole, Azonto, Benin City, Channels Entertainment News, Channels Online, channels television, Channels TV, Charles Airhiarvbere, Chuddy K, Edo State, Gaga Crazy, NLC, Oshiomole, PDP, R&B2 Comments on Video: Oshiomole celebrates re-election with Azonto dance
Dakore Akande returns to movie set
Nollywood actress, Dakore Akande has returned to the movie set, she will be featuring in the forthcoming movie written and produced by singer Ashionye Michelle Raccah.
The movie which is titled ‘Journey to Self’ features Nse Ikpe-Etim, Ashionye Michelle Raccah, Katherine Obiang Edoho and Tosin Sido in lead roles.
Also starring Carol King, Kalu Ikeagwu, Femi Brainard, Femi Jacobs and Chris Attoh and Tope Oshin Ogun.
The movie is about friendship, sacrifice, empowerment and self-respect’. It is about four friends, Nse (Nse Ikpe-Etim), Regina (Ashionye Michelle Raccah), Alex (Dakore Akande) and Rume (Katherine Obiang Edoho) who lose a mutual childhood friend, Uche (Tosin Sido).
Uche speaks through a series of letters stirring her friends to a journey of self-discovery… a ‘Journey to Self’.
It is reported that the movie took about 13 months to spring forth and it will also mark the Nollywood debut of Katherine Edoho.
The movie is set to be premiered this year.
Posted on July 30, 2012 July 30, 2012 Author Channels TelevisionCategories EntertainmentTags Africa, Alex, Ashionye, Ashionye Michelle Raccah, Carol King, Channels Entertainment News, Channels Online, channels television, Channels TV, Dakore, Dakore Akande, Femi Brainard, Femi Jacobs, Kalu Ikeagwu, Katherine Edoho, Nigeria, Nollywood, Nse Ikpe-Etim, Regina, Rume, Tosin Sido, Uche2 Comments on Dakore Akande returns to movie set
Why I signed Jaysleek – D’banj
Multiple music award winner and entertainer Dapo Oyebanjo popularly known as D’banj, recently opened up on his signing of popular producer Jeremiah Shelika, popularly known as Jaysleek as an ambassador for the newly formed D’banj Records.
In a statement released and signed by D’banj, the Koko Master expressed so much excitement saying ‘it is a sure sign of great things to come.
“This has been a long time coming so we are really happy to see Jaysleek join the D’Banj family. It’s exciting to be working with one of the best; Jaysleek is a fantastic producer, hardworking, humble, and immensely creative.”
I’m so certain that he will carve a niche for himself here at D’Banj Records and inspire us to even greater music,” he added.
Jaysleek in his reply said “I’m honoured to be part of such a young, fresh, innovative team; there’s so much energy here, it’s simply incredible. We’re going to keep on making great music for our fans for a very long time to come, you can be sure of that!”
The prolific producer has produced for topmost artistes like 2face, Faze, Wizkid, Sound Sultan amongst others.
He also produced the latest single from D’banj “Oyato” after the split of Mo’Hits Crew.
Posted on July 26, 2012 Author Channels TelevisionCategories EntertainmentTags 2face, Africa, Channels Entertainment News, Channels Online, channels television, channelstv, Dapo Oyebanjo, Dbanj, Faze, Jaysleek, Jeremiah Shelika, Mo'Hits, Nigeria, Oyato, Sound Sultan, Wizkid4 Comments on Why I signed Jaysleek – D’banj
Big Brother Africa: I have learnt my lesson, Goldie tells fans
Following the controversy surrounding her exit from the Big Brother Africa house, Bimpe Susan Harvey, popularly known as Goldie, has issued a press statement where she apologized to all Nigerians for her ‘shameful’ misconduct in the Big Brother Star Game house.
The statement reads:
“I want to tell Nigerians that I am so sorry. I am human just like everyone. I am an extremely emotional person. Everybody has two sides. What we entertainers represent on stage is different from who we are off stage. And I didn’t go into the Big Brother StarGame with any strategy.
“I went in there as an individual and just to be my real self. And that’s what Africa saw. I didn’t go into that house as Goldie, the performer; I was in there as Susan. Fortunately, my teeming fans got to see the human side of me and not the woman they see on stage.
“I wear my heart on my sleeve. I am brought up to be loyal and be truthful to everyone. I am not the type that plots or play schism. So, when I.K. showed me the nomination last Sunday, the discovery was shocking and my knees went weak. Every other guy had like 8, 6 and 5 nominations, but I had just two. And I was the one to leave. I felt betrayed when I discovered one of the persons that nominated me for eviction.
“Nigerians are loving, caring and religious people. We have high moral standards. And all these qualities I tried to exhibit while in the Big Brother house.
“You had about 50 cameras to watch you but I had only two eyes and two ears and I believed in what I saw. But when I heard everything he had said, I was sad, but I realise that he went into the house to play a game. I have learnt my lesson and I am stronger for it” she said.
Posted on July 25, 2012 July 25, 2012 Author Channels TelevisionCategories EntertainmentTags Africa, Big Brother Africa news, Channels Entertainment News, Channels Online, channels television, Channels TV, entertainment news, Goldie, Goldie and fans, Goldie and Prezzo, Goldie apologizes to fans, Goldie leaves Big Brother Africa, Nigeria6 Comments on Big Brother Africa: I have learnt my lesson, Goldie tells fans
Darey features Flavour in Sisi Eko remix
Popular musician Darey Art-Alade has featured High-life musician Flavor in the remix of Sis Eko video.
The song was shot in the heart of Lagos Market, with a wide cast of Celebrities such as Julius Agwu, Ali Baba, Waje, Omawumi, Kaffy, Seun Kuti amongst other international acts.
The song is about certain lady doing window shopping as Darey and Flavor spot her in the popular Lagos traffic.
Now Darey trys his best to talk to her but she ignores him, Flavor comes to try his luck blocking other motorists and causing more traffic.
Leaving motorists cursing and swearing on them but they are both lost in the competition of getting the lady.
Who does the Sisi Eko follow?
Posted on July 24, 2012 Author Channels TelevisionCategories EntertainmentTags Africa, Ali Baba, Channels Entertainment News, Channels Online, channels television, Channels TV, Darey, entertainment news, Flavor, Julius Agwu, Lagos, Nigeria, Omawumi, Seun Kuti, Sisi Eko, WajeLeave a comment on Darey features Flavour in Sisi Eko remix
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Resident Doctors Explain Reasons For Ultimatum
The President of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD), Muhammed Askira, says the ultimatum given to the Federal Government by the association is due to government’s delay in meeting the demands of the resident doctors.
The doctors had given a 21-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to address their issues or face a nationwide strike.
‘Remuneration Injustice’
Dr. Askira was the guest of Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Friday and he explained that the issues were mainly about their Residency Training Programme and what he called ‘Remuneration Injustice’.
Mr Askira explained that over the years, the Residency Training Programme had not been provided with a template or guiding policy that was uniformly applied in all the training institutions.
“There is no uniform template for employment, there are no enough spaces for intake of resident doctors and also the National Postgraduate College that is supposed to be coordinating the activities and accreditation of the training institutions is not adequately funded,” he said.
The implication, according to him, is that training institutions and resident doctors have had to scramble for funds to sponsor resident doctors for update courses.
“If you look at it, the residency training programme, as the only postgraduate medical training programme in Nigeria for producing medical specialists, not funded is not acceptable,” he added.
He further disclosed that the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (Tetfund), which was set aside by previous governments, had not been covering the medical profession.
He appealed to the present administration to come to the aid of the NARD.
Dr. Askira cited the salary challenges being faced by their members working for state governments as another issue the association wants addressed.
He mentioned Osun, Oyo, Imo and Abia as states where their members have spent between three to eight months without their salaries.
Referring to Osun State as the worst, he wondered why the state government would not heed the cries of the doctors who had been considerate enough not to down tools during a period when all workers in the state did.
“When the bailout came, the government settled the backlog of the salaries of all workers and when they found out they could not continue paying the salaries, what is the normal thing to do? You call everybody to have an understanding.
“The government saw reasons to call only the other workers and not the resident doctors in LAUTECH and with the other workers they now agreed to a percentage of salaries, just for the resident doctors to wake up in July and find 46% of their salaries (unpaid).”
Before the Ultimatum
Asked if there had been efforts to resolve the issues with government before the issuance of an ultimatum, Dr Askira said that the association was left with no option, as every attempt to bring the Federal Government to the negotiation table failed.
“Since I assumed office on September 15 last year till today, as I am talking to you, there is no single working day that I am not in Abuja. I am primarily employed in Maiduguri, doing a posting in Kano but I am always in Abuja.
“Sometimes I go into some of the offices and they would not even allow me in and I would sit down and wait for them. Simply because of one fact, we want to see that constructive engagement takes precedence to dispute but at times you have no choice.
“This ultimatum is supposed to have even come since October last year but our members showed restraint, maturity because when we heard the President of the country saying impatience is not a virtue, we say patience is a virtue, lets be patient.
“There was even a circular from the same ministry saying that some of these things would be implemented by January 2016 and we waited till January.
“We delayed, constructively engaging them until now when we found out that unfortunately maybe these people are just like the old ones who understand only ultimatum and strike,” he said.
On Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari urged the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to shelve its threatened strike and give the Federal Government more time to address the doctor’s grievances.
President Buhari made the appeal at a meeting with the leadership of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Abuja.
He gave the doctors an assurance that no agreements duly entered into by the Federal Government would be dishonoured by his administration.
Posted on April 8, 2016 April 8, 2016 Author oluchiCategories Sunrise DailyTags 9ja News, Africa News, and Remuneration in Justice, Boko Haram, Breaking news, Channels News, channels television, channels television.news, ChannelsTelevision, Muhammed Askira, President of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD), Residency Training Programme, TETFUNDLeave a comment on Resident Doctors Explain Reasons For Ultimatum
Health Officials Commence Appraisal Of Residency Training Programme
The Federal Government has announced plans to fashion out a residency training programme that would meet the ideals of the system and contribute effectively to the country’s health sector.
The Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, announced the plan at a meeting with health professionals in Abuja.
The meeting was convened to critically appraise the Residency Training Programme in the country and make recommendations to improve it.
Even though the suspension initially imposed by the Federal Government has been lifted, Government said that there was a great need to appraise the programme to tackle some of the challenges observed in the programme.
Health management officials, therefore, gathered to help government come up with key recommendations on the issue.
One of the participants from the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shuaib Oyedokun, expressed belief that the appraisal would help greatly in addressing pressing challenges facing the residency training programme.
Patricia Osemwenkha from the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Benin City, also expressed optimism that the resident doctors would welcome the effort to improve the training programme.
Nigeria’s health sector has witnessed a lot developments in recent weeks, from the prolonged strike by medical doctors, to the suspension of the residency training programme in the country.
However, some of those at the meeting said that the appraisal should also extend to other arms of the health sector, to ensure the needed transformation of the country’s health sector.
Posted on September 2, 2014 September 3, 2014 Author Channels TelevisionCategories LocalTags Ahmadu Bello University, Benin City, Breaking news, channels television, channels tv news, channelstv, channelstv.com, Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Medical Doctors, Minister of Health, Naija gist, Nigeria, Nigeria's health sector, Nigerian News, Patricia Osemwenkha, PM News, premiumtimesng.com, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, punchng.com, Residency Training Programme, Resident Doctors, saharareporters.com, Shuaib Oyedokun, Teaching Hospital, top stories, Vanguard newspaperLeave a comment on Health Officials Commence Appraisal Of Residency Training Programme
Resident Doctors’ Suspension Reminiscent Of Draconian Military Laws- Tope Ojo
The Lagos State Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr Tope Ojo, has condemned the suspension of resident doctors by the Federal Government, describing it as laws seen only during the “draconian military era” which “gives sad nostalgia”.
He also accused the Federal Government of “neglecting the key challenges that should be addressed”.
He berated the Federal Government for accusing the resident doctors of performing below average, and reiterated the call for the restructuring of the residency programme to ensure the production of the highest level of medical specialists. This, he added, is part of the 24 demand made by the NMA to the Federal Government.
He said the decision was coming at a wrong time because “there is a high level of inadequacy” in the sector, which had forced some Nigerians to go abroad for treatment, adding that “employment into the residency programme is haphazard. When you pass your primaries, they will be looking for space all around” to accommodate you.
“If you have a residency board, this will be holistically looked at and you will have a placement arrangement that will be handled by this board,” he said.
He emphasised the importance of the resident doctors in the medical sector saying “the residents form the bulk”. “You can have a board where you have four consultants and about 20 residents at different level of training. They participate profusely, deeply and seriously in the training of medical students; which means that there will be no medical training that will go on,” Dr Ojo emphasised.
He also added that the “post graduate resident training has to do with the mid level training of the middle level manpower in the health sector.
“They are people going through a minimum period of six years in different fields,” he maintained.
Dr Ojo also stated that apart from resident doctors conducting over 50 per cent of the tutorials in the medical schools, their contributions in hospitals is vital to the survival of the health sector
He said if the suspension was not withdrawn, “major surgical operations are shut” because “the consultants don’t perform operations alone”.
“The resident doctors prepare patients for the operation from the clinic,” he said, insisting that a neurosurgeon can’t perform an operation with the help of a medical officer.
Dr Ojo, however, called on Nigeria’s political class to patronise Nigerian health institutions and to desist from “picking policies that will shut down operations in the health sector”.
He also noted that the suspension was a calculated attempt by the Federal Government to break the ranks of the NMA, but he assured that the association “remains stronger”. “Our minimum condition to resume negotiation is for government to reverse this unpalatable decision,” he said.
FG Justifies Sack Of Resident Doctors
Meanwhile the Federal Government in a statement by the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, justified the suspension of the Residency Training Programme in all federal hospitals, “as part of efforts to reposition the public health sector”.
Professor Chuwku also said that “the quality of training has also progressively declined over the last decade despite recent efforts by the Jonathan Administration to revamp it”.
The Minister also added that the Residency Training Programme in all hospital in recent times had been beset by numerous challenges, including poor performance and unsatisfactory conduct of the resident doctors.
“The terms of admission to the Residency Training Programmes stipulate that either party (employer or employee) may terminate the relationship by giving one month notice or one month salary in lieu of notice.
“Accordingly, all affected doctors will receive one month salary in lieu of one month notice. One of the reasons for employer-initiated determination of the appointment, according to terms of the probationary residency appointment, is unsatisfactory performance by the resident doctor,” he said.
The Minister, however, stressed that “only resident doctors under the employ of the Federal Government are affected. Resident doctors employed by state governments in their hospitals and by private hospitals are not affected”.
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FG To Digitalize Import Exemption Certificates
The Federal Government has said that it will begin automation of all import exemption certificates in a bid to stop revenue losses.
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) had granted the approval for a gateway platform under the auspices of the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning to manage a portal in charge of issuance of import duty exemption certificates.
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This according to the Permanent Secretary, Special Duties, Ministry of Finance, Mohammed Dikwa, will help speed up the process of approvals and standardization.
He added that the Ministry decided to key into the Federal Government’s top agendas of economic growth fight corruption and provide security.
“The continuous incidence of revenue losses due to manual processing of applications, incidence of multiple use of approvals, delay in processing applications, indiscriminate allocations and subjectivity in the approval process has remained a major constraint in the monitoring, evaluation and standardizing the process of granting waivers and certificates.
“In order to address these challenges, the ministry has keyed into the priority programmes of this administration which is to grow the economy, protect lives and properties in line with the constitution and fight corruption. To support this initiative, we embark on reforming the processes; this involves re-engineering the processes from the application to issuance and validations by the Nigeria Customs Service.”
Posted on December 20, 2019 Author Akinkunmi ObakeyeCategories LocalTags Import exemption certificates, RevenueLeave a comment on FG To Digitalize Import Exemption Certificates
Netflix Revenue Grows Bigger As Streaming TV War Looms
Netflix logo is seen on the backdrop of Netflix’s “Stranger Things 3” premiere at Santa Monica high school Barnum Hall in Santa Monica, California. Chris Delmas / AFP
Netflix shares rallied Wednesday after its latest quarterly update showed robust subscriber growth and better-than-expected profits ahead of a major escalation in the streaming television war.
Netflix reported a net income of $665 million in the recently ended quarter, jumping up from $403 million in the same period last year and topping most analyst forecasts.
Revenue and subscriber growth, however, came in just shy of market consensus. The California-based company saw revenue up 31 percent at $5.25 billion and added 6.8 million subscribers worldwide to reach a total of 158.3 million.
Netflix shares climbed more than 10 percent after-market trades.
The company, whose recent hits include “Stranger Things” and “The Crown,” was upbeat on its ability to thrive even as powerful competitors such as Disney and Apple enter the streaming market in November.
When Netflix began streaming television to subscribers online some 12 years ago — in a pivot from just lending video discs through the mail — it was essentially Amazon Prime, Hulu, YouTube and Netflix itself competing with traditional television, chief executive Reed Hastings said in an earnings broadcast.
And all of the streaming rivals will still find their main competition in broadcast TV, according to Hastings, who was confident Netflix would thrive through compelling original shows.
“We see both Apple and Disney launching essentially the same week after 12 years of not being in the market,” Hastings said.
“Fundamentally, it is more of the same. Disney will be a great competitor; Apple is just beginning but, you know, they will probably have some great shows too.”
Clouds loom?
But eMarketer analyst Eric Haggstrom said the latest report includes signs of trouble ahead for the market leader, which fell short of its subscriber targets.
“The fourth quarter represents a completely new ballgame for Netflix as Disney+ and Apple TV+ will compete not just for subscribers, but for hit shows as well,” Haggstrom said.
“The fact that Netflix has shown disappointing growth without the new competition present is a negative omen for Netflix in 2020 and beyond.”
And more competition looms on the horizon, as AT&T’s WarnerMedia will launch its new Netflix rival “HBO Max” in early 2020 after reclaiming the rights from Netflix to stream its popular television comedy “Friends.”
Netflix slightly trimmed its forecast for subscriber growth, saying it expected the count to be up 26.7 million at the end of this year, but that its positive outlook for the future remained firm.
It cited factors such as uncertainty about new viewers, response to price changes and forthcoming competition.
The third quarter’s rise in revenue also means Netflix could invest to improve the service and make more original shows to battle competition in markets around the world.
“We have been moving increasingly to original content both because of the anticipated pullback of second run content from some studios and because our original content is working in the form of member viewing and engagement,” Netflix said.
“We’re expanding our non-English language original offerings because they continue to help grow our penetration in international markets.”
Netflix has released originally produced local language shows in 17 countries and has plans to expand to 30, according to chief content officer Ted Sarandos.
Netflix’s original films released in the recently ended quarter included “solid hits” such as “Secret Obsession,” starring Brenda Song, and “Otherhood,” directed by Cindy Chupack.
Netflix-backed films set for release this quarter include Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” with actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, and “Marriage Story,” starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver.
“Amazing content can be expensive,” Netflix said.
“We don’t shy away from taking bold swings if we think the business impact will also be amazing.”
Netflix said it would spend about $15 billion in cash on content this year, with the majority of that money devoted to producing original shows.
Netflix also sees its technology platform as an advantage, enabling it to stream to people on all kinds of devices and to mine mountains of data to feed users recommendations about what to watch next — and to give producers insights about what audiences like.
Hastings reasoned that with Facebook and YouTube boasting billions of active users, and billions of mobile phones users who can stream shows from the internet, there is a huge market for Netflix and its rivals to share.
Posted on October 17, 2019 October 17, 2019 Author Ignatius IgweCategories LifestyleTags Netflix, Revenue, Streaming, TV WarLeave a comment on Netflix Revenue Grows Bigger As Streaming TV War Looms
Barcelona Predict €1bn Income This Season
Barcelona expect to record revenues of more than one billion euros for the 2019-2020 season, becoming the first football club to pass the mark, the Catalan club announced on Thursday.
According to figures released ahead of the general meeting of their “socios” (supporters, shareholders) scheduled for October 6, Barca expect a revenue of 1.047 billion euros ($1.16 billion) in the fiscal campaign just started, which is six percent more than last season when the club generated 990 million euros.
“It’s an historic record for a sports club, it’s better than the NBA and NFL franchises and other football clubs,” Barcelona managing director Oscar Grau told a news conference.
Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu had set a strategic goal of being the first outfit to reach the one billion euro mark by the end of his presidency in 2021.
Main sporting rival Real Madrid, president Florentino Perez targetted a similar goal.
In the projected budget presented by Barca, the expenses amount to 1.007 billion euros for a net profit after tax of 11 million euros.
Grau explained that “one of the club’s challenges” was to “reduce the payroll” of its professional athletes.
In 2019-2020, spending on sports salaries is expected to fall by three percent, from 525 to 507 million euros.
The club has budgeted 73 million euros to finance the remodelling of Camp Nou and its surroundings, a vast project called “Espai Barca”.
Grau, who said in 2018 he was hopeful to find a title sponsor for the project by the end of the first half of 2019, said the club was continuing its research and studying alternative forms of financing.
“We want to make a good deal, we do not want to sell, so we are looking for a financial restructuring of Espai Barca so that the project does not stop,” said Grau.
Regarding the accounts for the 2018-2019 financial year, the treasurer Enrique Tombas confirmed the figures mentioned during the summer by the club: 990 million euros of turnover, 973 million euros of expenses and a profit after tax of five million euros.
Posted on September 19, 2019 Author Ignatius IgweCategories SportsTags Barca, Revenue, SeasonLeave a comment on Barcelona Predict €1bn Income This Season
Manchester United Target Trophies As Revenue Hits Record High
Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward underlined the club’s hunger for silverware on Tuesday after announcing record-breaking revenues.
United, under manager Jose Mourinho, are seventh in the Premier League after a disappointing start to the season, eight points behind leaders Liverpool and six behind reigning champions Manchester City.
The club has not won the Premier League since 2013, under former boss Alex Ferguson.
United, who have been top of the Deloitte Football Money League for two successive years, brought in £590 million ($776 million) in the year ending June 30, 2018 — a rise of just 1.5 percent on the previous year.
But the expectation is for revenue to rise to between £615 million and £630 million over the coming financial year.
“Everyone at the club is working tirelessly to add to Manchester United’s 66 and Jose’s 25 trophies,” Woodward said. “That is what our passionate fans and our history demands.
“We are committed to our philosophy of blending top academy graduates with world-class players and are proud that, once again, last season we had more academy graduate minutes on the pitch than any other Premier League club.
“Our increased revenue expectation for the year demonstrates our continued strong long-term financial performance which underpins everything we do and allows us to compete for top talent in an increasingly competitive transfer market.”
Manchester City earlier this month posted record revenues of £500.5 million following their record-breaking season.
United’s annual accounts reveal that the Old Trafford giants paid employees £295.9 million in fiscal 2018 — a hike of £32.4 million over the previous year.
The club said the increase was “primarily due to player salary uplifts related to participation in the UEFA Champions League” but Alexis Sanchez’s January arrival will also have made an impact.
United saw operating profits drop by 45.4 percent to £44.1 million. That was largely due to the United States’ federal corporate income tax rate being reduced from 35 percent to 21 percent.
Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) were £177.1 million, down from £199.8 million the previous year.
Posted on September 25, 2018 September 25, 2018 Author Channels TelevisionCategories SportsTags Man. United, Revenue, TrophiesLeave a comment on Manchester United Target Trophies As Revenue Hits Record High
Wenger Rules Out Arsenal Spree Despite Revenue Rise
Arsenal’s French manager Arsene Wenger
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Ardene Wenger insisted Tuesday there was no chance he would jeopardise Arsenal’s financial stability with lavish spending on new players during the rest of the January transfer window.
Monday saw Alexis Sanchez leave the Emirates for Old Trafford in a high-profile swap deal, with Manchester United’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan coming the other way.
Veteran manager Wenger has long been a believer in clubs not spending “beyond their natural resources” and last week angered Gunners fans by saying there was no way the London side could match the reported £500,000 ($697,000, 569,000 euros) weekly wages on offer to Sanchez at United.
That is despite a report published by British-based consultancy firm Deloitte on Tuesday that shows Arsenal have leapfrogged Paris Saint-Germain into sixth in the global money league of the world’s highest revenue generating football clubs, following an annual increase of £70 million. United head the list.
Arsenal face London rivals Chelsea, not averse to high spending under Russian owner Roman Abramovich, in the second leg of a currently goalless English League Cup semi-final on Wednesday, with the often lowly-regarded tournament now representing the Gunners’ best chance of silverware this season after they failed to qualify for the Champions League, lie sixth in the Premier League and were knocked out of the FA Cup by Nottingham Forest.
‘Restrictions’
Wenger, tight-lipped about Arsenal’s prospects of signing Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang during the January transfer window, also said Arsenal still faced financial constraints as a result of moving to the Emirates Stadium back in 2006.
“You have not to forget that we have as well financial restrictions form the banks because we have built the stadium,” said Wenger when told Arsenal had spent less on players than other clubs in a Deloitte top 10.
“It is important, we have to respect the financial plan. We work very hard to become richer and we achieve it,” the Frenchman, in charge at Arsenal since 1996, added.
“At the end of the day, we are a serious football club who has responsibilities and we want to spend the money we can afford. If you cannot afford, you have to say ‘no, sorry, can’t do that’.
“After that, we have to spend the money in the most intelligent way we can on the transfer market that has become a bit out of control.”
‘Belonging’
Arsenal were last crowned champions of England in 2004 but Wenger said winning the title was about more than spending money.
“I’m convinced that the way football is going, it’s maybe not only to buy players with huge amounts of money, but have players in your team who care about your club, have a sense of belonging and a pride of belonging to the club.
“I would rather encourage a club to push more on the quality of our youth work, which we are doing, than go into a way where it’s only about millions and not so much about values.”
Sanchez left Arsenal just months before his contract was due to run out at the end of the season and former Gunners defender Martin Keown accused the Chile international of being the “biggest mercenary in football”.
But plenty of other observers had no qualms over a move which appears to offer Sanchez a better chance of winning major honours, with Manchester United great and new Wales manager Ryan Giggs saying the forward was a “ready-made superstar”.
“He can combine both,” said Wenger when asked if the 29-year-old Sanchez had joined United for financial or football reasons.
“I think he goes to a great club and gets a great contract so you can understand it when a professional player can combine both aspects.”
Posted on January 23, 2018 January 23, 2018 Author Ignatius IgweCategories SportsTags Revenue, WengerLeave a comment on Wenger Rules Out Arsenal Spree Despite Revenue Rise
To Solve Problem Of Borrowing, Nigerians Must Pay Tax – Adeosun
The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun has said the nation needs to generate more revenue through the payment of tax by Nigerians in order to solve the problem of borrowing.
Speaking during a press conference at the 2017 World Bank/International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings in Washington DC, United States, on Sunday, she said although the government has a role to play in being more efficient, Nigerians also have a role to play by paying taxes properly.
“The solution to borrowing in Nigeria is that we must pay taxes. If we pay the taxes properly, there’s no need to borrow. I am not suggesting that there isn’t a responsibility on the part of the government to be more responsible and more efficient, we are really focusing on this, we are trying to find a way to cut costs.
“Fundamentally, we must invest. We don’t have the power that we need, we don’t have the roads yet. We are a work in progress. There’s a lot of money to be spent to reposition this economy, and we need to generate much more by way of tax.”
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Kemi Adeosun said the nation needs to tolerate more debts by borrowing because Nigeria currently has one of the lowest debt-to-Gross Domestic Product figures in the world adding that the current administration has no plan to go into massive borrowing which it would not be able to sustain.
“Nigeria’s debt-to-Gross Domestic Product ratio is one of the lowest actually. It is about 19 per cent. Most advanced countries have over 100 per cent. I am not saying we want to move to 100 per cent. But I’m saying we need to tolerate a little bit more debt in the short term to deliver roads, rail, and power.
“That, in itself, will generate economic activities and jobs, which will then generate revenue which will be used to pay back (the loans). It is a strategic decision that as a country we have to make.”
Explaining more on why the country had to borrow, Adeosun said, the nation is confronted with the challenge of either reducing public services or to begin to generate revenue.
“If we think back at the problem that we faced, it will be very important to put this in context. Our principal source of revenue plummeted by up to 85 per cent. So, we had two choices: You either reduce public services massively, which would have meant massive job losses or you borrow in the short term until you can begin to generate revenue.
“As the All Progressives Congress (the ruling party), we felt laying off thousands of people was not the way to stimulate the economy. Also, when we came into office, about 27 state governments could not pay salaries. If we had allowed that situation to persist, we would have been in depression now.
“So, we took the view that as a government the best for us to do was to stimulate the demand and spend our way out of trouble. Let the state government pay salaries, make sure the Federal Government can pay salary and invest in capital projects to get people back to work. Once growth is restored, you can now begin to systematically reduce short dependence on borrowing and increase revenue.”
Posted on October 16, 2017 Author Ronke IdowuCategories BusinessTags Finance Minister, generate revenue, Kemi Adeosun, Revenue, taxLeave a comment on To Solve Problem Of Borrowing, Nigerians Must Pay Tax – Adeosun
Ogun Govt Targets N3.1bn Revenue From Informal Sector
The Ogun State Government says it is targeting over N3bn additional revenue from the informal sector of the state economy as it enlists about one million residents from the sector into the tax net.
The Chairman of the State Internal Revenue Service, Mr Kunle Adeosun, made this disclosure during an interview with journalists while on a road show to markets and motor parks where he enlightened residents on the Voluntary Assets And Income Declaration Scheme in Abeokuta, the state capital.
“Our target in the informal sector is to at least quadruple what we get in payee because that is where the volume is. In Ogun state, the population is put at about seven million and out of those seven million, people taxable is roughly 40 percent of that,” Adeosun said.
“So out of those 40 percent, if we can get just additional one million people in the informal sector, then we are home ground. Minimum tax there is 3,100 and if you multiply that by one million people, that is over three billion. That is on the average.” he concluded
While asking residents to show better understanding with the government as the scheme gradually takes effect, Mr Adeosun said that the state government will apply the full weight of the law against defaulters
”The federal government launched the Tax Thursday about two weeks ago. Part of the scheme is to run enlightenment on Voluntary Asset and Income Declaration Scheme. Every Thursday has now been designated as Tax Thursday until next week when the amnesty programme ends.”
”In all locations, we will be running this every Thursday just to make sure that we draw more enlightenment for people to come and file all the assets and income they have not declared in the past and to take advantage of this amnesty programme,” he said
He explained that the government is not only targeting the informal sector but everyone that has assets and income they have not declared in the past.
“Even if you are a payee, where you pay your tax but have investment income like a gas station or rentals, you are supposed to pay taxes on those other businesses in addition to the payee you do,” he said.
”There is punishment for defaulters but if you come and declare voluntarily during the tenure of this scheme, you will not face a penalty but once the scheme ends, then it is back to the enabling law which allows for penalty, interest and jail term.”
Posted on July 20, 2017 July 20, 2017 Author oluchiCategories BusinessTags informal sector, Ogun, RevenueLeave a comment on Ogun Govt Targets N3.1bn Revenue From Informal Sector
FAAC Distributes N370 Billion To FG, States And LGs
A total of N370 billion has been distributed to the federal, state and local governments for the month of January.
Addressing journalists after the monthly Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting in Abuja, the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, said gross statutory revenue received for the January stood at two N290billion.
While attributing a shortfall of N24 billion drop in revenue to shut down and maintenance repairs at major oil terminals, she said a total of N2 billion owed the Federal Government was refunded by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Posted on February 23, 2016 Author victorCategories BusinessTags Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), Kemi Adeosun, Minister of Finance, News, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Nigeria news, Revenue, revenue allocationLeave a comment on FAAC Distributes N370 Billion To FG, States And LGs
Flight Operations Resume In Benin Airport
Normalcy has returned to the Benin Airport. Flight Operations commenced late in the evening of Tuesday, July 30th, after the crisis over the remittance of taxes by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).
A visit however to the administrative block which was sealed up on the orders of the court yesterday revealed that the restraining order has been removed by officials of FAAN who also have commenced work at the premises.
Meanwhile, the Edo State Board of Internal Revenue said it will explore other legal options available to get them to pay their taxes.
The board also frowned at the refusal of federal parastatal to pay tax, stating that “34 of them in Edo state owe over N2 billion pay as you earn taxes between 2009 and 2012”.
Executive Chairman of the Board, Oseni Elama said the taxes the government is demanding is “PAYE which have already been deducted from employees, not tenement rate as is being peddled” adding that “even the Federal Government is deducting N825 million from the state account monthly part of which is a backlog of Value Added Tax owed by previous administrations”.
This is the third time in three years that the FAAN office is being sealed up over non remittance of tax obligations.
The State Government is also in court against the PHCN over non remittance of PAYE taxes to the tune of about N700 million.
Posted on July 31, 2013 Author Channels TelevisionCategories UncategorizedTags Benin Airport, Edo State, Edo State Board of Internal Revenue, Flight Operations Commences In Benin Airport, News, Nigeria, Oseni Elama, RevenueLeave a comment on Flight Operations Resume In Benin Airport
Oregon Woman sentenced to jail for tax fraud
The State of Oregon in the United States of America has sentenced a 25 year old woman to five and a half years in prison after she pleaded guilty to three counts of felony fraud and a felony count of tax evasion.
Remorseful Krystle Marie Reyes admitted she had collected $2.1 million in tax refund from the State of Oregon and so far the State has recovered close to $1.9 million from the stated amount. Resigning to fate, Marie said she will be taking responsibility for her actions.
According to report, Marie received a refund on her debit card and lavished $150,000, after which she reported lost or stolen card twice, an incident that aroused the suspicion of the Oregon Department of Revenue.
Working at a retirement/care homes, Marie was reported to be earning less than $15,000 per year in 2009 and 2010 but her way of living escalated as she went on spending spree as she bought with cash a 1999 Dodge Caravan which cost $1,800 and $851 on tires and wheels.
Other purchases Marie made included a queen-sized air mattress, a deep fryer, an air conditioner and a cream and grey floral rug. She bought a sofa and recliner with brown leather trim.
It was further reported that Marie filed in January an electronic tax return where she made a request for refund of $2.1 million which automated system of Turbo tax red-flagged. She also claimed she had earnings of more than $3 million.
Due to the request being red-flagged, the request tagged a potential fraud by the processing staff and managers, it was also set aside for review but was later shelved by a Revenue employee who overrode the flagged and the refund was issued.
The return was set aside for review by processing staff and managers for potential fraud. But “sometime later,” the affidavit said, a Revenue employee overrode the flagged payment and the refund was issued.
According to card policy, at least three employees are required to give verification to the override but no one responsible for reviewing the return opened the file to look at it or looked at the W-2 form Reyes filed, the affidavit stated.
Posted on July 25, 2012 Author Channels TelevisionCategories Crime WatchTags America, Card, Channels, Channels Online, channels television, channels television.news, Channels TV, channels tv news, ChannelsTelevision, Court.Law, Credit Card Company, Electronic, Evasion, Fraud, guilty, MarieTurbo Tax, Oregon, Revenue, tax, Tax Fraud, United StatesLeave a comment on Oregon Woman sentenced to jail for tax fraud
FUEL SUBSIDY: agency says states will earn more than Federal govt
Fitch Ratings on Tuesday said that the partial removal of fuel subsidy in Nigeria in January will likely result in extra resources of about N150 billion for distribution among the Nigerian state governments.
According to Fitch’s calculations, the lower deductions at source will result in an increase for states of about 5%-10% of their oil-related revenues.
Despite the higher proceeds, growing staff costs following the phase in of the N18, 000 monthly minimum wage, in tandem with rising energy costs will most likely offset this benefit. Therefore, in Fitch’s opinion, the extra resources are likely to be spent on growing operating costs, unlike the national governments’ share, which is ring-fenced for capital projects such as power and roads.
As higher revenues are not likely to translate into stronger budgetary performances, the agency said it expects the five Nigerian states it rates to continue to perform in line with its expectations.
Posted on March 7, 2012 Author Channels TelevisionCategories BusinessTags channels television, Fuel subsidy removal, Nigeria, Petrol, RevenueLeave a comment on FUEL SUBSIDY: agency says states will earn more than Federal govt
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Second Bomb Blast In Russia’s Volgograd Kills 14
A bus in Volgograd has been ripped apart by a bomb, killing 14 people in the second deadly attack blamed on suicide bombers in the southern Russian city in 24 hours.
The attacks are already raising fears of Islamist attacks on the Winter Olympics.
President Vladimir Putin, who has staked his prestige on February’s Sochi Games and dismissed threats from Chechen and other Islamist militants in the nearby North Caucasus, ordered tighter security nationwide after the morning rush-hour blast.
Investigators said they believed a male suicide bomber set off the blast in the Monday attack, a day after a similar attack killed at least 17 in the main rail station of a city that serves as a gateway to the southern wedge of Russian territory bounded by the Black and Caspian Seas and the Caucasus mountains.
Russia’s foreign ministry condemned the attack, saying it is part of a global “terrorist” campaign and welcomed a declaration of solidarity made on Sunday by the United Nations Security Council.
“For the second day, we are dying. It’s a nightmare,” a woman near the scene told Reuters, her voice trembling as she choked back tears. “What are we supposed to do, just walk now?”
“Identical” shrapnel to that in the rail station indicated that the two bombs were linked, investigators said.
“There was smoke and people were lying in the street,” said Olga, who works nearby. “The driver was thrown a long way. She was alive and moaning … Her hands and clothes were bloody.”
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
On Sunday, investigators initially described the station bomber as a woman from Dagestan, a hub of Islamist militancy on the Caspian, but they later said the attacker may have been a man. In October, a woman from the North Caucasus blew up and killed seven people on a bus in Volgograd.
It was unclear why the city, which will host soccer matches during the 2018 World Cup, has been hit. However, geography – being close to the restive regions – and its historical significance, may have contributed to its being targeted.
Volgograd has held a place in Russians’ sense of national identity since, when known as Stalingrad, its Soviet defenders held off German invaders to turn the course of World War Two.
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https://www.chron.com/sports/rice/article/First-win-has-Rice-looking-for-more-14850686.php
First win has Rice looking for more
By Glynn A. Hill, Houston Chronicle
Published 6:15 pm CST, Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Photo: Joe Buvid/Contributor
Rice quarterback Tom Stewart directed the Owls to their first win of the season.
Rice quarterback Tom Stewart directed the Owls to their first win...
After Rice’s first win of the season, coach Mike Bloomgren talked a lot about his happiness for his players.
In the locker room after the game, players jumped, cheered and clapped. Standout players received WWE-style belts and the team pushed out Player of the Game graphics on Twitter.
But for Bloomgren, the achievement — which doubled as his first road win in two years at the school — brought relief more than anything.
“I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t some form of a monkey coming off my back when that scoreboard hit zero-zero,” he said.
“The fact that we found a way to win, I guess it ranks it up there in the top three (most complete games his team has played). It was great to get a win.”
The team set goals to qualify for a bowl game and win Conference USA this season but was forced to reset amid a nine-game losing streak. The new goal shifted towards progress, and just besting last season’s two-win campaign.
When the Owls (1-9, 1-5 in C-USA) host North Texas (4-6, 3-3) on Saturday, the team could come a step closer to reaching that milestone.
Adding to the importance of the result, was the style in which Rice lunged ahead in the first half and held on to win against Middle Tennessee. A now-healthy Tom Stewart threw three touchdowns passes in the first half and ultimately earned the start against North Texas.
“I was not 100-percent (against Marshall) just coming off the sprain,” Stewart said.
“I think like coach said, we had a great feeling in practice all (last week)…We simplified the scheme a little bit over these last couple weeks and I think it showed that we’re able to execute at a much higher level.”
After a three-game stretch where he turned the ball over four times, quarterback Wiley Green has essentially been benched for the season. True freshman JoVoni Johnson briefly assumed the starting job before he was injured against Marshall.
Johnson and running back Juma Otoviano — another promising contributor who’s been limited by an injury this season — have each played three games. Stewart’s most recent success gives Bloomgren and his staff some flexibility with Johnson, if he hopes to employ him or Otoviano in one more game before they surpass the redshirt limit.
True freshman Jawan King could be a candidate to offset Otoviano’s carries after spending time as a special teams contributor.
“When Tom’s been healthy, he’s been productive,” Bloomgren said. “I honestly probably thought we’d have both (Stewart and Johnson) available last week. We just had Tom on game day and again, he played a great game so he has our trust.
“We’ll be smart about how we (manage the redshirt situation).”
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Paul Vallely: Trump has no strategic plan for Iran
by Paul Vallely
This diversion shows how unfit he is for office, says Paul Vallely
President Trump at a press conference about Iran on Wednesday
HOW should other Western leaders best manage President Trump’s toddler temperament? The United States’ allies were wrong-footed when Washington announced that it had killed the powerful Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Assassinations as a tool of foreign policy had been illegal in the US since the 1970s, when the more nefarious activities of the CIA were exposed during the Cold War.
But President Trump’s action also seemed a wild one-off that did not fit into any wider strategic plan. Contradictory official announcements appeared to confirm this. The killing was designed to deter Iran from attacks — but the US was deploying thousands more troops to the region in case it increased attacks. The strike was designed to change the behaviour of Iran’s surviving leaders — or to cow them, since their behaviour would never change.
It was all as incoherent as the wider Trump policy on the Middle East, where he has proclaimed himself, by turns, a once-in-a-generation peacemaker, a belligerent opponent of Iran, the president who will withdraw American soldiers from foreign wars, and a fierce opponent of Islamic State (as was the Iranian general he has just had killed).
The publication — and then retraction — of a draft letter confirming the withdrawal of US troops from Baghdad added a sense of incompetence to the irresponsibility. President Trump’s assertion that he has 52 further bombing targets, including ancient Persian cultural sites — to reflect the 52 Americans held hostage in Iran in 1979 — smacked of a man casting wildly around for old grievances to justify new recklessness.
The US has an unhappy history of Hollywood-style thinking that bumping off the Bad Guy will solve all the problems. Yet, when it got rid of Saddam, things got worse in Iraq. It was the same when Gaddafi was removed in Libya. After the US killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda grew into the terrifying Islamic State.
Still, it has all taken the heat off President Trump’s impeachment. It is a well-worn political tactic to use a foreign adventure to divert attention from a domestic crisis. It is a measure of President Trump’s lack of judgement that this particular diversion merely underscores how unfit he is for office. But the Republican majority in the Senate will keep him safe in the White House, even if safe is not the word to apply to the rest of us.
How will the Iranians exact the revenge that they have threatened? With such mixed signals from Washington, and Teheran’s fear of a real existential threat, the space has been opened up for serious miscalculation. The reaction of politicians in Europe has been measured. A joint French-German-British statement expressed concern about “the negative role Iran has played in the region”, but called on both sides to stop “the current cycle of violence in Iraq”. Perhaps they also realise that Iran has a part to play in the balance of power which prevents an unhealthy US-Israeli-Saudi alliance dominating the Middle East entirely.
Boris Johnson has been uncharacteristically, and commendably, circumspect. The crisis highlights Britain’s post-Brexit dilemma. Mr Johnson’s need for a good trade deal with the US pushes him nearer to our unreliable ally than is comfortable. But the memory of Tony Blair’s unhappy reputation as the “poodle” of George Bush over the original Iraq War must also linger.
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The Simpsons Is Abandoning DVD Releases For A Different System
Apr. 9. 2015 1:12 PM
Everything is most certainly not coming up Milhouse this week. In one of the more depressing Simpsons announcements that had nothing to do with someone’s death, Fox will no longer be bringing seasons of the long-lasting animated comedy to DVD in the future. I feel like jumping into a gorge now, though there is a silver lining.
The news comes from longtime showrunner Al Jean, who shared the it on his Twitter page, inspiring a long-ish chat with fans.
.@thesimpsons #EverySimpsonsEver I personally am v sorry to see DVDs discontinued We did them purely for the love of hearing ourselves talk
— Al Jean (@AlJean) April 8, 2015
And it was indeed hearing the commentaries from Jean and the plethora of other crew members and cast that made every season’s DVD worth buying, even if the episodes themselves weren’t always all that wonderful. Thankfully, while physical releases are being abandoned, the commentaries (and potentially other special features) will still be created for FX’s “Simpsons World” website. There’s definitely an appeal to having those in-depth discussions at the digital-ready, but it’s still a major bummer that a complete Simpsons DVD collection can never be attained.
Sadly, the decision was made because DVDs just don’t have the sales that they did in the past, especially when Season 1 first came out back in 2001. Jean also touched upon that part of it.
@theRealiHeart Simpsons fans are great (which is why we will do commentaries anything else we can). DVD market is dying. Did best we could.
The last season to hit DVD and Blu-ray was Season 17 in December 2014, and it featured Sideshow Bob on the packaging. While there was no official word about whether future seasons will be released on Blu-ray, it seems likely that all non-digital formats are being excised. Which probably means we’ll never see the Simpsons/Futurama crossover episode on a physical disc, nor Bill Plympton’s couch gag. Let the protests begin.
Sure, I understand that it’s silly and meaningless to bitch about not paying for things that I can already get for free online, but Simpsons DVDs have seriously been the one true constant in my life for the past 14 years, as everything else has changed around me. Guess I’ll be embiggening FX’s web traffic in the future.
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Rappers' Delight: Under The Influence Of 'Illmatic'
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Vic Mensa, El-P and more on Nas’ classic debut…
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Hip-hop’s own Holy Grail, Nas’ classic debut album ‘Illmatic’ celebrates its 20th birthday in April 2014. Clash recently talked to the Queens, NYC rapper about the impact that the record continues to have on the genre – read that interview here.
As well as getting its maker’s own take on the way that ‘Illmatic’ continues to inspire, we also reached out to a range of today’s best MCs and producers, to find out when they first got their hands on the record, and the effect that it has had on their careers since. In their words: it’s a “pinnacle of lyricism”, which “raised the bar permanently”. Yeah, it’s pretty great.
Bishop Nehru
When did you first hear the album?
The first time I heard ‘Illmatic’, I was around 13, and it was recommended in a list of the best rap albums of all time, with other classic projects from like Wu-Tang Clan, 2Pac, Biggie, DOOM and so on. After seeing that, I looked further into each record.
How has ‘Illmatic’ influenced you?
It has been a huge influence on me! The lyricism of each track is amazing – each track has its own story, and that’s something I really like about it.
Do you have a favourite track from the album?
If I try and pick a favourite track, later on I'm going to wish I said a different track. I seriously can’t pick just one!
Read our Next Wave Class Of 2014 interview with Bishop Nehru.
Bishop Nehru, 'Fickle Mind$'
A$AP Nast
I heard ‘Illmatic’ and I was like, “This is that shit,” and that was it from there. I had older homies around me that was actually into music in that era, who put me onto it, like, “This is the shit”. Pretty much all of the music I listened to was brought to me that way. It was all very organic.
I’m just a very big fan of Nas’ wordplay, forever. He’s definitely one of the illest lyricists to even record a record, alongside Eminem. Those two are probably my favourite artists of all time.
Honestly, I think the whole album is ill, I don’t really have a favourite song. I f*cks with the album in general. That’s like (Jay Z’s debut LP) ‘Reasonable Doubt’, I don’t have a favourite song [from that either], I f*cks with the music as a whole.
A$AP Nast feat. Method Man, 'Trillmatic'
I first heard ‘Illmatic’ in about seventh grade, I’m sure, aged 12. I can’t remember if I got it off a mixtape off Nico (Segal, ex Kids These Days member), or if I got it off LimeWire. I think Nico had a hard copy – he had the CD, and he burned it for me.
I mirrored so much of my style in my earlier days around Nas and ‘Illmatic’. I was really trying to rap like that. I used to print out pages of Nas raps and imitate them, count the syllables and bar structures and make clone raps. Same flows, but just different words.
‘Memory Lane’ was always my favourite song.
Vic Mensa, 'Hollywood LA'
I first heard ‘Illmatic’ in 1995 in my cousin, Boldy James’, basement. I was in sixth grade. Boldy had the tape. He was a couple of grades older than me. That's what he and his friends were on, so they put me up on it.
It's a mile marker of lyricism. Anybody that raps thinks of ‘Illmatic’ as one of the pinnacles of lyricism.
‘Represent' is my favourite track. I don’t know why, but it's my favourite on the album... by a long shot. ‘NY State Of Mind’ after that.
Read a longer interview with Chuck Inglish.
Chuck Inglish, 'Drops'
A friend brought the tape over about a week before it dropped – I’m not sure how he had it. We smoked a joint and listened to it at least six times in a row.
I consider it one of rap’s perfect albums, something that every rapper afterwards had to strive to live up to. It raised the bar permanently.
My favourite track is ‘One Love’.
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El-P, 'The Full Retard'
My potna (friend) worked at a shipping warehouse and stole tapes. I was amazed at how perfect it was. He was even better on this than his ‘Live At The Barbeque’ verse (with Main Source).
‘Illmatic’ has made and makes me strive for perfection on every album.
My favourite track from the album is a tie between ‘Life’s A Bitch’ – he and AZ are magic on that track – and ‘Memory Lane’.
Killer Mike feat. T.I., Bun B and Trouble, 'Big Beast'
I first heard ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell’. I had a boy named Paul Zapata, and we was always talking hip-hop, and he put me onto that. I’m not sure I heard ‘Live At The Barbeque’ or ‘Halftime’ when they came out, so when I heard the rest of the record it was all new to me.
‘One Love’ is a masterpiece as brilliant as the Mona Lisa or the Sistine Chapel, anything that’s ever been done artistically and creatively. There are a couple of songs that I’ve heard in my life where I think, this is the standard for what I want to achieve, and that’s one of them. It was brilliance throughout, but One Love from a storytelling standpoint is as good as anything ever done.
Read a longer interview with Homeboy Sandman.
Homeboy Sandman, 'Bad Meaning Good'
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Boon & Sons Chooses SDLG for Upstate N.Y. Snow Removal
Mon October 02, 2017 - Northeast Edition #20
Boon & Sons added four SDLG loaders to its fleet in October of 2016: two L938Fs and two L948Fs.
Boon & Sons has been offering snow removal services to residents in upstate New York for more than 20 years. Located mere mi. from the city of Rochester, where average snowfalls approach 100 in. per year on a regular basis, the company is more than familiar with tough winters and the equipment needed to deal with their effects.
The North Chili, N.Y.-based company has made a name for itself by handling some of the most daunting snow removal sites in the region, including the 1,400-acre campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Because of the seasonal nature of snow removal, Boon & Sons knew it didn't need premium wheel loaders that would sit idle for most of the year, especially since the electronics found on higher-end loaders leaves them vulnerable to salt damage.
With these factors in mind, the company decided to add four SDLG loaders to its fleet in October of 2016: two L938Fs and two L948Fs.
“We had good luck with our SDLG loaders through the winter of 2017,” said Daniel Boon, president of Boon & Sons. “We service a 30-mile radius around the Greater Rochester area, plowing Class A office parks, a few shopping malls and the campus of RIT, which is one of our largest customers. When the snow starts falling, we work around the clock until it stops so we can clear it — it's tough work, and these SDLG loaders hold up to the task.”
Boon also cited the value proposition of SDLG as a reason for making his decision.
“Value was a major factor in choosing SDLG,” he said. “We saved nearly 30 percent on what we would have spent on a competitor's wheel loaders. And SDLG's lease-to-buy agreement was very competitive as well. When you combine that with the low cost of maintenance for these machines, the money we saved is considerable.”
The 2.5 cu. yd. (1.9 cu m) capacity L938F has an operating weight of 27,560 lbs. (12,501 kg). The L948F has a 3.0 cu. yd. (2.3 cu m) capacity and an operating weight of 32,010 lbs. (14,519 kg). Both feature a Tier IV Final Deutz engine with 171 hp and 627 lb.ft of torque; ZF powershift transmission; air-cooled, dry-disc brakes; a hydraulic quick coupler and third-function hydraulics; a modern fit and finish with high visibility; and an operator-friendly cab. They both come with a 12-month, 2,000-hour warranty, which many owners consider when choosing to buy an SDLG over a premium, auction machine.
“In this business, if you get machines that are too heavy, you run the risk of breaking pavement,” Boon said. “So the operating weight of our SDLG fleet is ideal for the snow removal work that most often happens on roadways and parking lots. The cabs on these machines are great, too. When nor'easters hit and we have to run the loaders for two or three days straight, comfort makes a difference.”
Boon & Sons has been so impressed with its SDLG loaders that the company is considering the purchase of an L918F, a new compact loader that launched at ConExpo 2017. The company will again work with SDLG dealer Vantage Equipment, which has provided Boon & Sons with its entire SDLG fleet.
“We've been pleased with Vantage,” Boon said. “The service has been very good. We ordered our first two loaders and they arrived within a week. We decided after the fact that we needed more, and the two additional loaders arrived shortly after that. Vantage did a great job of getting them to us.”
Vantage Equipment was founded in 2005. The company operates from three New York locations, including Batavia, Albany and its headquarters in Syracuse.
Boon & Sons was founded in 1991 to provide landscaping and snow removal services to the Greater Rochester area. The company has since added trash collection to its range of services and now serves Western New York with a fleet of biodiesel trucks.
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Topic: Celeste
Author Topic: Celeste (Read 10734 times)
Shay Chaise
A pixelated retro platformer, inspired by Super Meat Boy? Yawn?
Best game of the year so far. The controls are fantastic, the level design is brilliant, challenging but never infuriating (yet), soundtrack is an instant classic for me. It's gorgeous, feels extremely responsive and fun to manoeuvre your way around the screens through a combination of air dash, wall hang/climbing, wall jumps and physics boosts. Lovely little story so far, some funny bits. It's an absolute belter.
Madhair, surely this will be up your street.
brat-sampson
Re: Celeste
Lazy paste from the Switch thread: The platforming is tight as hell, there's a good level of challenge and a lot of optional secrets/'remixed' ultra-hard stages, the writing's good and the music's excellent.
But yeah, it reminds me a lot right off the bat of both IWBTG fangames (with the occasional routing and jump/dash reset pellets) and The End is Nigh, McMillan's Meatboy followup that also focused on single screen stages and even showcased some similar mechanics. The directional dash and the climbing make the game a whole new beast though. There's also elements of N++ at times and some other aspects that are entirely new. Easily one of the 2D platforming greats, and I'm only on Chapter 3.
Didn't really get along with Meat Boy, but this has a nice tone to it, mysterious with a light humour, and the assist mode means i'm not going to have to completely give up because i'm not great at these types of games.
buntyman
It's getting some high review scores. From the videos I've watched it looks very similar to Super Meat Boy but not as appealing, especially visually. I haven't tried Cuphead yet so might go for that one first.
10/10 from IGN and Destructiod is no joke, certainly, and especially for an indie game. Compared to Meat Boy, it's far prettier and more varied, aesthetically, mechanically and in terms of level design. I didn't absolutely adore Meat Boy but I think it's a defining moment for the genre. This arguably doesn't have and won't have the same impact, not least because the Meat Boy characters are so iconic, but in terms of pure gameplay, music and graphics, it's better.
Cuphead is something completely different, to be honest. It's a muscle memory twitchy kind of thing but it's more like a bullet hell shmup than a platformer. Admittedly, it's probably one of the best games ever from an artistic direction point of view.
Hmm I've enjoyed what i've played so far but multiple 10/10's seems a bit odd.
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Was stuck and confused on chapter 4 until I looked up a playthrough and realised you could manipulate the direction of the blocks somewhat. Absolutely nothing in the game gave me a hint towards that. There were a couple of mechanics where I've only worked things out by accident. Like momentum jumps and what the green gems do. Not a massive deal, but just little things that knock it down a bit for me.
God, I fucking love this. It's not typically my genre, but the difficulty level, quality of gameplay, music and writing are *all* stunning. I don't mind dealing with mysterious new mechanics like flying strawberries or yellow pips. It's part of the fun to work that stuff out, and anything super-obscure tends to get pointed out by the crow (e.g. the Chapter 2 B-side boost-jump mechanic)
I'm not massively into this kind of thing, either. I would take Isaac over Meat Boy every single time but this is probably the best platformer of this kind I've ever played. I got really into N+ for a good while but it's very bare bones (albeit deliberately). I like SMB quite a lot. I quite like TEIN. None of them has this combination of art, music and mechanical depth. I've been playing a bit of Bleed on the Switch over the last week or so. It's a superb twin stick platforming shooter with witch time and triple dash and it's a corking little game, basically. Movement feels excellent - or rather, it felt excellent until I went back after playing Celeste and it feels quite cheap and clunky.
I wouldn't give it a 10 because I'm not that into this kind of intense 2D platforming but it's as perfect as the genre has ever been.
madhair60
right, so this goes above the avatar
and this goes under it? cool
Quote from: Shay Chaise on January 26, 2018, 07:00:33 AM
Yeah, I've been hammering this cunt's games since Jumper. Picked this up an hour ago, quality as you like so far. Controls are perfect. Main character is cute. Level design is as good as I've come to expect from Matt Thorson.
Edit: Bleed is one of my favourite games of its type, ever. Go back and stick it on Very Hard mode. You will fall completely under its spell.
Hmm, the third stage was a bit on the annoying side but stage 4 was close to being shit. Swore at the screen loads. Finicky gimmicks like the bubbles and clouds don't really mix well with this sort of masocore platforming.
Nah, they do, they mix things up whilst being entirely predictable. Swearing at the screen is obviously a standard in this kind of thing, but I don't think there's anything in this game you could accuse of being unfair.
P.S. all of the mechanics get abused a whole ton more in the optional content, which the main game does nothing but essentially prepare you for...
Moribunderast
What is your place in my glorification?
I don’t know why I always get sucked into these games as I can never complete them (which the OCD side of me fucking hates) but while I can progress I tend to have a very good time. Decided to pick this up due to the ludicrously positive reviews and am enjoying it so far. Still very early on (Chapter 2) and feel stuck. I don’t mind the “work it out for yourself” element of introducing new aspects with no explanation but there are a few things I find hard to grasp, like the dash jump seems inconsistent (I’m probably mistaken but I feel like I’ve had scenarios where I can dash jump whilst climbing and yet other times I can’t).
Still, this is clearly very good within it’s genre. Like Cuphead, I’ll no doubt love getting through it until I reach the inevitable wall. I wish I could be better at these twitchy games. Point-n-click adventures are more my speed though.
Pay attention to your hair colour if you can't dash.
Quote from: brat-sampson on February 03, 2018, 12:21:59 AM
I had to switch to the (awkward Xbox 360 for windows, not the game's fault) D-pad to make the bubbles so much as look in the right direction. I think throwing those, the clouds and the wind into one chapter was a big misfire - too many finicky, frustrating mechanics at once.
I'm amazing at platform games so don't ever challenge my opinion again yeah cheers
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Finished the main game this morning. Lovely. There's still a huge amount to find and do if I feel like it, but the difficulty definitely shoots up when it comes to these B-Side levels, more awkward strawberries and finding hearts? Which are apparently in the game even though I only ever saw one and it was gated behind other stuff I never found... This game goes deep.
I found something on the first stage that was Fez-esque in its puzzling.
Bhazor
Are you rolling your own jelly babies in there?
Do you mean the satelite dish?
Just finished Chapter 5. Still really enjoying this - finding it extremely addictive. It's mostly very responsive so when you fuck up you do feel like the blame is on you. I'm also enjoying the little story that's being parceled out and the complimentary way the game goes about encouraging you despite being occasionally difficult.
But fuck those fish things from Chapter 5. Fuck them in their stupid faces.
Just finished this and I loved it. Especially how it made failure and perseverance into a plot point.
That said it did go from enjoyable to bullshit in a couple places. Mostly to do with the wind sections which are quickly replacing ice levels for my most hated type of level. I hated them when Mario Bros 2 did it. I hated them when Meat Boy did it. I also think the jump from normal to B side is a bit much. I think that Super Meat Boy handled its dark world difficulty progression much better.
Introducing the clouds, bubbles, wind and moving blocks on the same chapter was a huge misfire.
Finished this now, done the first four B-sides.
Well, even though bits had me frustrated (the wind and fish fuckers, mainly) the game is clearly very well-designed and fair because I, who is shit at platformers, managed to complete the thing. Really lovely game. Not sure I see it as a 10/10 thing, though I'm guessing that rating comes from people who adore platforming games and/or were emotionally nourished by the story. It does feel like a personal endeavour from the creator/s and the game is very inclusive and encouraging despite being quite difficult. I never used the Assist Mode but I'm glad it's there for people who get stuck and want to experience the full thing.
Has to be said (or repeated) that the soundtrack is perfect, as well. The last year or so we've had some really amazing video game soundtracks and this is the latest example.
I'll take a break from this now but I am tempted to go back and try to get more of the strawberries or sample the b-sides, even though they sound like a nightmare.
The story sort of fucked me off a bit. Just felt like Indie Game 101. Theo pissed me off, tedious wank.
The best bits of a pantomime horse
With skin the colour of a freshly peeled apple
Bought this. Played though the first proper level.
Very impressed so far. Controls are very tight, which is a must for me. Music and atmosphere are great. Could do without the banjo kazooie voices, but whatever.
Working my way back through mopping up strawberries. I feel like they're all a lot easier than the fucking b-sides, of which I've managed to find three and finish one. Rough.
Hoo dawgy! The music in this game is fantastic! The way it added layers to the theme of the hotel as you progressed was just wonderful.
Absolutely loving this game so far.
Quote from: madhair60 on February 02, 2018, 08:47:55 AM
Finicky gimmicks like the bubbles and clouds don't really mix well with this sort of masocore platforming.
Totally agree. Been playing level 4 for a while tonight, and the cloud timing and bubbles do indeed feel needlessly fiddly and imprecise. The former reminds me of the worst, most annoying mechanic in 2D mario:
In the main game the only time you're really in trouble in with the pink clouds, the white ones you can mess up the timing as much as you want because they're not going anywhere. Bubbles I think are fine, you just point in the right direction and get a boost. Done..
In the main game the only time you're really in trouble in with the pink clouds, the white ones you can mess up the timing as much as you want because they're not going anywhere.
It's the clouds that are the real ballache, in fairness.
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Tag: wendy neal
Maybe You're Doing SharePoint Wrong
Wendy Neal | Mar 8, 2016
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: You can’t build business applications in SharePoint because it’s too difficult and time consuming. Or it takes forever to get things done in SharePoint. Or SharePoint isn’t good at X, or it’s terrible at doing Y.
Creating SharePoint Forms That Don't Annoy Your Users
Wendy Neal | Nov 9, 2015
SharePoint provides business users a way to create document and data repositories to capture necessary information. Users enjoy the configurability of the platform, and the ease with which they can create a list or library, add a few metadata fields and views, and call it a day.
10 Ways to Secure Office 365
Wendy Neal | May 22, 2015
Security. If there's one thing that concerns organizations contemplating a move of their data to the cloud, or that are already there, it's security. With new threats being introduced on a regular basis, organizations need to use all the tools they have at their disposal to secure their data.
Intranets or ESN? Why Not Both
Wendy Neal | Mar 19, 2015
Do we have to choose between intranets and enterprise social networks (ESNs)? Before we can tackle that question, let's take a brief look at Intranets and ESNs as they are being used today. The Decline of Intranets ... Intranets' popularity appears to have declined.
4 Ways SharePoint Navigation Breaks Usability Best Practices
Wendy Neal | Dec 10, 2014
Whenever I speak about usability in SharePoint, I draw a large crowd. SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities a couple of weeks ago was no exception -- the room was overflowing. The session I presented was called "25 Usability Tips for SharePoint 2013/SharePoint Online Sites." The session broke down 25
What to Do Before You Become a SharePoint Developer
Wendy Neal | Oct 7, 2014
So you want to be a SharePoint developer. It’s a topic that has been discussed around the web numerous times. However I still find myself talking to .Net developers who want to become SharePoint developers by jumping right into coding.
Why You Should Never Upgrade SharePoint
Wendy Neal | Aug 11, 2014
When you upgrade Microsoft Office, you can open all of your old documents in the new version after a simple install.
4 Ways to Kick Start Your SharePoint Implementation
Wendy Neal | Jun 17, 2014
We've discussed the importance of proper planning, change management strategies and providing end user training in order to ensure a successful SharePoint implementation.
4 Common Reasons SharePoint Projects Fail
Wendy Neal | Apr 4, 2014
As a consultant I get to work with clients to help them roll out new installations of SharePoint or create new projects on top of existing implementations. I also get called in to help with existing SharePoint implementations that aren't being used.
The Future of Office and Features to Use Today
During the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas the big emphasis was on -- to no one's surprise -- Office 365 rather than on-premises versions of SharePoint.
Are You Getting the Maximum ROI from SharePoint?
Wendy Neal | Feb 12, 2014
Most companies do not understand the plethora of features that are available to them, nor how to best leverage the platform to maximize their investment.
CMSWire's Top Contributors 2013 - Wendy Neal
Siobhan Fagan | Dec 31, 2013
One of two named "Most Inspiring New Contributors," Wendy Neal brings a passion to her work that carries over to her writing. An active member of the SharePoint community, Wendy combines a developer's background with an understanding that at the end of the day, it comes down to the user.
Social Fears and Anxiety in the Enterprise
Wendy Neal | Dec 9, 2013
In my work as a consultant I frequently come across organizations that appear terrified of allowing or enabling social features in the enterprise. It doesn't matter if it's SharePoint’s newsfeed, MySites, Yammer or other social tools -- the thought of introducing these tools internally meets with resistance.
The Missing Link in SharePoint Site Usability
Wendy Neal | Nov 19, 2013
The topic of SharePoint site usability never grows old. With every new version of SharePoint that comes out, Microsoft has touted that it is extremely intuitive and easy to use, and judging from the number of licenses sold, many organizations seem to have bought into this myth.
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Tepper School of Business › News & Events › Stories › 2018 › June › Alumni Reunion Weekend 2018
Alumni Reunion Weekend 2018
This year’s Reunion Weekend on April 20-21 set attendance records with 422 alumni from their milestone years and 616 total attendees. With 83 attendees, the Class of 1993 broke the record for the highest class attendance and the highest attendance for a 25th reunion.
“The thing that struck me was how it seemed that the clock had stopped ticking in the interim,” said Kurt Lammon, MSIA ’93. “You picked up right where you left off with all these wonderful people you shared an intense experience with, even though most of them you hadn't seen or talked to in all that time.”
Guests traveled from 13 countries and 29 states for a weekend full of networking, social gatherings, faculty presentations and alumni panels. Many attendees had the opportunity to tour the new home of the business school on the nearly complete Tepper Quad, which opens this year.
For the second year, the Reunion schedule included panels of prominent alumni highlighting their experiences in a variety of fields: entrepreneurship, marketing, technology and innovation, and venture capital and investing. Faculty presentations included Bryan Routledge speaking on “Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and the Economy”; Sridhar Tayur on “Moonshot: Quantum Computing”; and Anita Williams Woolley on “Artificial Intelligence and Collective Intelligence in Teams.”
Mary Willoud, MSIA ’88, said, “I wanted to attend this Reunion to relive my appreciation for the camaraderie formed by accomplishing challenging work together during those two years and sharing aspirations of being the best we can be. The caliber of people in our class makes me proud to be part of the group and re-energizes me to continue to better myself!”
The most anticipated event at Reunion, the All-Class Celebration welcomed alumni and their families to the UPMC Club at Heinz Field on Saturday. The event included the annual Tepper School Alumni Awards ceremony honoring David Coulter, MSIA/BSIM ’71; Gunjan Kedia, MSIA ’94; Devin Anderson, MBA ’05; and Michael Miller, MBA ’11.
“Reunion gives me an opportunity to reconnect with friends in a place that we once shared numerous hours and created many memories together. It's a great reminder of one of the many things that drew me to Tepper initially — the tight-knit community, from which we established many relationships that have since evolved into lifelong friendships,” said Justina Lee, MBA ’13.
Save the dates for Alumni Reunion Weekend 2019: April 12-13
See more photos from Reunion
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CNBC25: Rebels, Icons and Leaders
CNBC 25
The CNBC NEXT LIST
Ukraine: A fight for economic freedom
Jake Novak | @jakejakeny
Published 4:30 PM ET Fri, 21 Feb 2014 CNBC.com
Margaret Thatcher once said: "There can be no liberty without economic liberty."
I've always thought that statement referred to the individual, but it's true for nation-states as well. And right now the whole world is watching the dramatic and violent struggle for economic freedom on the streets of Kiev.
Count me among the many who hope the latest truce in Ukraine holds and the disputes between the anti-government protesters and the ruling party are resolved peacefully and democratically.
Anti-government protesters guard the perimeter of Independence Square, known as Maidan, on February 19, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine.
But no matter what happens politically, this story remains an economic conflict through and through. And that's why it's truly a CNBC story.
Ukraine and all the other smaller states that broke off from Russia when the USSR collapsed began around 25 years ago, right around the same time CNBC was born. And their development from fledgling governments into real sovereign societies has been one of the more compelling macroeconomic stories in this network's history.
(Read more: The 'quiet billionaires' shaping Ukraine's future)
CNBC has always focused on giving our viewers the information and tools to invest wisely, but we shouldn't forget that the struggle to gain the simple freedom to participate in any kind of economy is still unfolding right in front of our cameras.
Remember back to that time: Every day, it seemed like another former Soviet bloc country was breaking free of the "Iron Curtain." The running headline in the New York Times was "Clamor in the East" for what seemed like three solid years.
And just as those nations were gaining democratic freedom, CNBC was trying to democratize business and stock-market news for millions of American investors.
But in both Eastern Europe and in the American financial game, we're still fighting for a truly level playing field.
(Graphic video: Protesters attack police in Kiev)
The revolution that began in 1989 in Ukraine may have seen its political climax in 1991 with the official establishment of the new state. But the economic war of independence is raging now.
With Russia's boot heel firmly on Ukraine's energy and other crucial markets, it has never truly tasted economic freedom. Its people want to throw their lot in with the European Union, a flawed body to be sure, but one that offers Ukraine much more opportunity than a nation run by Vladimir Putin ever will.
Think of this as an analogy: the United States of America was officially born in 1776, and won its political sovereignty by winning the Revolutionary War in 1783. But it wasn't until the Americans won the War of 1812 that our economic freedom was secured in the ports and on the high seas. That was when we were finally able to assert our true independence as something other than the potential client state of France or Great Britain.
(Read more: Iran stocks are booming, and nuclear talks are why)
Remember that word from college political science class, "hegemony?" In addition to being a word that was sure to get you at least partial credit if you threw it into the essay section of your midterm, hegemony is one of those words college professors like to toss around a lot, usually when they're saying something dubiously bad about the USA and its relations with South or Latin America.
But the hegemony Russia has imposed on Ukraine and other neighbors is the real deal. And while some people may be relieved that this latest world conflict has nothing to do with religion, terrorism, or ancient land disputes, this is a major conflict just the same. And the desire for freedom, even if it's "just economic freedom" is just as virtuous.
(Read more: Russia and Japan—an example of peaceful commerce in Asia?)
— By Jake Novak
Jake Novak is supervising producer of "The Kudlow Report." Follow him on Twitter @jakejakeny.
Jake NovakCNBC contributor
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Fed Still The Focus For Markets
Patti Domm | @pattidomm
Published 9:28 AM ET Thu, 30 Aug 2007 Updated 3:21 PM ET Thu, 5 Aug 2010 CNBC.com
Stocks are striking a sour note before the open, with market talk focused full force on the Fed.Traders are also watching a Fed report, due at 10 a.m. New York time on the amount of commercial paper outstanding. Second quarter GDP, released this morning, was revised to 4% from 3.4%.
A letter from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New Yorkcontributed to the rally in stocks yesterday, the day after the Fed's Aug. 7 minutes contributed to a major sell off. Bernanke makes his first public address since the market turmoil began tomorrow in Jackson Hole, Wyo. and that speech has been the talk of the markets all week.
CNBC senior economic correspondent Steve Liesman is in Jackson Hole at the Kansas City Fed's annual symposium. This year the topic for the meeting and Bernanke's speech will be housing, housing finance and monetary policy.
"He's going to have to give a sense that he's aware of the realities out there...and not be too alarming. The bigger question to me is that he do a mea culpa. 'We said there was no contagion and said it wasn't going to spill over' and it did spill over. It's very significant," said Liesman. "If I were Bernanke I would have been speaking long before this to have taken the pressure off this speech," Liesman said.
In the letter to Schumer, Bernanke said "...the federal open market committee has stated that it is monitoring the situation and is prepared to act as needed to mitigate the adverse effects on the economy arising from the disruptions in financial markets."
But the stock market turned cranky the day before when traders thought the Fed minutes didn't guarantee a rate cut in September. In those minutes the said this: "A further deterioration in financial conditions could not be ruled out and, to the extent such a development could have an adverse effect on growth prospects, might require a policy response."
CNBC's Rick Santelli says he doesn't think Bernanke will shed much more light in his speech tomorrow. "You just saw the best thing that's out there. (in that letter), he said. "He's not going to beat that letter. he's trying to lower the anticipation level."
Home Builders and the Fed
Hovnanian CEO Ara Hovnanian was on "Squawk Box" today, and he believes the Fed needs to cut rates to inject confidence. Hovnanian said during the interview that he is meeting with Bernanke next week, as part of a group of home builders.
"Whoever is the Fed chairman would meet with us once a year to get our sense of what's going on in the market. Our job is to really let him know from an inside perspective what we are seeing in the housing market, and we are going to make it clear that it is in disarray right now. There's a lot of lack of confidence and qualifications and mortgage availability's is an issue at the moment," said Hovnanian.
The market for commercial paper, which is basically a short-term corporate IOU, is front and center in the crisis of confidence in the credit markets. The Fed's release will be closely watched. The Fed also releases data on bank activity at the discount window after the bell today.
"The key to tomorrow is the commercial paper announcement," wrote MF Global's Andy Brenner yesterday. "With Cheyne Capital taking most of the press today, we think the key to tomorrow is how much asset backed CP has shrunk in the last week. From what we can tell, money funds and prime brokers have stopped funding a good chunk of the asset backed CP. Banks are being forced to bring it onto their balance sheets...Even with the Fed willing to accept CP at the discount window, we don't get the indication that the banks are willing to be the intermediary to get it to the Fed. If this market continues to contract, the Fed will have to find plan b. This is not a small problem."
Brenner said today the bond market is focused on the front page articles about the Fed. No doubt he's referring to the Wall Street Journal piece looking at the difference between the Bernanke fed and former fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's style.
"The bond market is focusing on the front page stories concerning the Bernanke put… The Fed is going out of their way to plant stories that warn the market not to expect the Fed to bail them out for bad business practices," Brenner writes today.
Interesting Markets View
CNBC's Bob Pisani spoke to Vanguard founder John Bogle on "The Call" yesterday and his comments are worth considering.
"I've never seen actually in my whole investment career, 55 years or so, never seen such short-term volatility, but I don't think it means very much. Shakespeare told us in a different context that the daily moves in the stock market are like the tales told by an idiot--full of sound and fury but signifying nothing," Bogle said.
When asked about what's going on with customers at mutual fund company Vanguard, where Bogle was former ceo, he said: "We see no exciting things going on in terms of cash flows or anything else. It's kind of business as usual now." The wow in Boggles comment, at least to me, was that this investment pro has not changed his portfolio in seven years.
"This is really an important story in the context of what's going on in the market. I haven't made a change in my investment portfolio, which is in Vanguard funds, in seven years, seven years," said Bogle. Now that's patience, or faith. Click here to see what he told Pisani he invested in. "What does an investor do at this stage? I would say do nothing if you have a decent bond position and a diversified stock position," Bogle said.
Speaking of volatility, the Dow yesterday soared 247 points after its 280 point wipe out Tuesday. The 1.9% move took it to 13,289 and gave it the biggest one day move up since Aug. 6. Year-to-date it is still up 6.6% and is 5.1% below its record close of 14,000. Nasdaq was the stand out, climbing 62 points or 2.5%, and S&P 500 moved up 2.2%.
Gasoline on the NYMEX rose 4.2% to $2.1008 on concerns that supplies are at record low levels, and crude oil climbed $1.78 per barrel or 2.5% to $73.51. Natural gas was again under pressure, off 16.3 cents per million BTUs or 2.9% to $5.43.
China replaced its finance minister, the head of its secret police and three other cabinet members. The moves took place ahead of am major Communist Party meeting that sets long term policies. Jin Renqing, the finance minister, said he was resigning for personal reasons. Xie Xuren, former head o the State Administration of Taxation replaces him, according to state press.
Chinese President Hu Jintao called for financial reforms said his government must improve supervision of the financial system.
Questions? Comments? marketinsider@cnbc.com
Patti DommCNBC Markets Editor
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Dr Pepper Summer Campaign Sees YouTubers Capturing The Spirit Of 'What's The Worst That Could Happen?'
Dr Pepper today launches a new digital marketing campaign, targeting its core 16 to 24 audience with a fun pick-a-path comedy adventure, created by a roster of YouTube stars.
The campaign, created by MediaCom Beyond Advertising and Channel Flip, will offer a fresh take on Dr Pepper’s iconic ‘What’s The Worst That Could Happen?’ creative, working with popular YouTube channel presenters as media partners to produce the video epic.
Comedian and YouTuber Stuart Ashen (known as ‘Ashens’) will front the video and is joined by a raft of popular vloggers[1] including Dan Howell and Phil Lester - two of the most popular YouTubers in the world. With guest stars appearing throughout the video, which went live today, Dr Pepper is expecting to reach a potential audience of 7.5million channel subscribers via the partnership.
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The creative captures the essence of ‘What’s The Worst That Could Happen?’ with Ashens going on a fun and hilariously awkward adventure to retrieve a stolen sofa. Fans will be able to interact throughout and help decide what happens to Ashens as he tries to find it.
Fans will also be encouraged to tweet @DrPepper GB to share their own embarrassing ‘What’s The Worst That Could Happen?’ stories in return for prizes. These range from free can giveaways to cinema and Thorpe Park tickets.
Dr Pepper also has a native advertising partnership with Buzzfeed planned for launch week this week, driving awareness of the campaign amongst the publisher’s huge comedy-loving readership.
The campaign emphasis on online video reflects the fact that it is now the key channel for the brand as its target 16 to 24 age group spends more time than ever before consuming online video content. 74 per cent of this age group watched online or downloaded short video clips such as music video or comedy clips in 2013/14[2].
" Dr Pepper has a well-established and successful concept with ‘What’s The Worst That Could Happen?’ and it is great to be able to give it a new digital twist with this YouTuber media partnership. This fun and creative new campaign offers teens and young adults the opportunity to enjoy the playful side of life in their favourite online environment." Christina Lecky, Coca-Cola's NWEN Brand Manager
[1] The full list of vloggers involved is:
Ashens – Stuart Ashen
Danisnotonfire – Dan Howell
Amazing Phil – Phil Lester
Dan Bull – Dan Bull
KickthePJ – PJ Liguori
Emma Pickles
WOTO – Brad & Liam
[2] Ofcom 2013/14 consumer media consumption survey.
About Coca-Cola Great Britain:
Coca-Cola Great Britain is responsible for marketing 22 brands and over 100 products to consumers across Great Britain, with a focus upon developing new brands and extending existing brands including Coca-Cola. Other Coca-Cola Great Britain brands include Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Fanta, Sprite, Dr Pepper, Oasis, Glaceau vitaminwater, glaceau smartwater, Oasis, Schweppes, 5 Alive, Lilt, Kia Ora, Relentless Energy Drink and Powerade. The Coca-Cola Great Britain portfolio is worth £2,095 million with value sales growth of 4.8% in the past year. Within this, the My Coke trilogy (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coke Zero) is worth £1,162 million (Nielsen, w/c 20/04/13). Coca-Cola Great Britain is committed to developing innovative, responsible and sustainable initiatives that help protect the environment. Recently, the Coca-Cola system launched its PlantBottle™ plastic made from up to 22.5% plant-based materials. For more information about Coca-Cola in Great Britain, please visit our website at www.coca-cola.co.uk.
For more information about this campaign, please contact:
Andy May, 0203 524 1119
ccgb@theopen-road.com
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Call revived to end ICBC car insurance monopoly
Private insurers advocate for access to vehicle insurance marketplace
Barry Gerding
Dec. 3, 2018 8:00 a.m.
Poor driving habits of British Columbians are leading to more accidents while ICBC is drowning in annual financial losses despite having a monopoly on the auto insurance industry.
Both of those factors generated different reactions in recent weeks from those with a stake in B.C.’s auto insurance industry.
Aaron Sutherland, vice-president, Pacific region, for the the Insurance Bureau of Canada, renewed his organization’s call to open up the car insurance business to the private sector, saying ICBC’s monopoly has led to complacency in developing new insurance products to reduce rising premiums.
“When competing for your business, companies must continually innovate, develop new products and endlessly strive to deliver the best possible service because they have to or they won’t survive. It is not rocket science,” said Sutherland in a news release earlier this month.
“Opening up B.C.’s auto insurance marketplace is the best way to ensure drivers receive the best insurance product at the best price.”
Meanwhile ICBC is looking to direct more funding to police enforcement, generating the funds for new initiatives by cutting its advertising budget in half.
In the 2019-20 fiscal year, ICBC will spend an additional $2.4 million for enhanced traffic enforcement across the province, raising the Crown agency’s annual investment in road safety to $24.8 million.
That is in response to last year, where 350,000 auto crashes were reported in B.C., a record high.
In an interview with Black Press, Sutherland said there is no connection between privatizing auto insurance and B.C.’s spiralling accident statistics.
“ICBC’s problems are not just about the accident rate. We are on par with the Canadian average. The problems you see in Kelowna with road safety are no different than in Kitchener (Ontario),” Sutherland said.
“With ICBC being a monopoly, it has been slow to respond in the marketplace with innovative or new products to help address these challenges.”
He acknowledged car repair costs have skyrocketed over the past decade, due in part to technology features being added to vehicles.
“Ten years ago, replacing a car bumper was a pretty routine thing to do, but today it costs $10,000 because of the technology equipment now involved with a bumper.”
Sutherland argued penalties for bad driving and incentives for good driving habits are lacking in ICBC’s insurance options, noting significant increases Attorney General David Eby warned B.C. drivers about earlier this year are not prevalent elsewhere in private insurance marketplaces.
He noted a survey commissioned by the Insurance Bureau revealed in January a potential savings of up to $325 for drivers by bringing competition into the B.C. auto insurance marketplace. He said it shouldn’t be surprising surveys have indicated up to 80 per cent of B.C. drivers want more insurance options.
ICBC was originally created by the NDP government in 1973 in response to several factors—the high cost of accident litigation under private insurance at the time, motor accident cases were plugging up the entire legal system and large numbers of uninsured motorists, especially young drivers, were being refused insurance by private operators.
“A lot has changed, particularly in the rural areas of the province, in the auto insurance market. What made sense 50 years ago may not make sense today,” Sutherland said.
“That’s why it is now best to improve the system and bring the most value to bear you have to consider all the options. One of those is seeking solutions outside of ICBC by bringing the best practices of private auto insurance across North America to improve auto insurance affordability.”
Paul Hergott is a West Kelowna lawyer is specializes in ICBC accident claims and is a long-time advocate in the Okanagan for enhancing safe driving practices.
From a lawyer’s perspective, he said fighting ICBC, or a private insurer, in court on behalf of his accident-victim clients involves the same legal process.
But Hergott cautioned the private insurance industry doesn’t have the same incentives to promote road safety ICBC has, and rewarding drivers with no claims doesn’t resolve what he points out is an alarming escalation in traffic accidents.
In the years leading up to 2010, the accident numbers were on the decline year over year, falling to 260,000 in 2010. That all began to change by 2014, when 280,000 crashes occurred, peaking this year at 350,000.
Hergott feels there is a direct connection between that accident increase and the provincial government’s policy decision to ban drivers from using hand-held technology devices while operating a vehicle, but allowing access to use of hands-free technology.
“That has been my mantra and as much as people are probably tired of me talking about it, stepping up enforcement with RCMP to catch people using hand-held devices does absolutely nothing for road safety because people just switch to hands-free technology,” he said.
“From a driver’s distraction perspective, both are equally bad but this government policy has in effect said it is okay to multi-task behind the wheel just like we do with everything else.
“By jacking up the penalties for hand-held device tickets, you are only really taxing those who can’t afford hands-free technology. If we could all afford it, we’d all have hands-free cell phones in our vehicles and how does that enhance road safety?”
He said auto insurance premiums should reflect poor driving habits, creating consequences for drivers who are inattentive when driving, but instead ICBC has chosen to focus on victims’ rights, imposing limits on injury claim costs.
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Ex On The Beach star sentenced for posting revenge porn on Twitter
Hartman has been ordered to delete all footage and stay away from his ex for two years
Neil ShawNetwork Content Editior
A reality TV star from Cornwall has been spared jail after posting a revenge porn image of his ex-girlfriend from a sex video.
Kurtis Hartman, who appears in the current season of MTV's Ex On The Beach and is from Saltash, was charged by police with one count of revenge porn, after sharing sexual pictures of a former partner.
He uploaded the content to Twitter after a row with his ex.
Hartman, 22, of Forder in Saltash was charged on March 19 with one count of disclosing private sexual photos with intent to cause distress.
He claimed a flatmate uploaded the image when he left his iPhone at home while he was in the gym, but was found guilty at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court.
The court heard the pair were rowing on Twitter when Hartman sent the woman a text saying if she didn't delete the tweets the next public post from him 'would ruin her'.
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Kurtis Hartman has been charged by the MET Police (Image: Daily Mirror)
She had tweeted an allegation that he was a drug dealer. He tweeted a sexual image in which her face was clearly visible.
The court heard the image was deleted two hours later.
He was sentenced to 16 weeks in jail suspended for 18 months and has been ordered not to contact his ex for two years - as well as deleting any private images.
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District Judge Susan Williams said: "It was vindictive, vicious and calculated to humiliate and it did. There is a streak of controlling and bullying behaviour in you."
Revenge porn, which consists of sharing private sexual materials with intent to cause distress according to the law, became an offence in England and Wales in April 2015.
The maximum sentence is two years in jail.
Hartman was also ordered to pay £735.
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This is moment a light aircraft emergency lands on a beach after taking off from Bodmin Airfield
People were forced to run out of the way as it came into land
Alex Richards
Philippa Jenkins
Footage shows the dramatic moment a light aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing at a beach in Devon having taken off from Bodmin Airfield.
The incident happened yesterday afternoon at a beach at Sidmouth in East Devon.
The passenger of the plane has described the pilot as her hero.
Trudi Spiller, who accompanied pilot Zac Rockey on the flight, said the dramatic episode had left her with 'jelly legs' but from the moment the propeller stopped turning she had complete faith in the 'amazing pilot to land the light aircraft safely, reports Devon Live.
The episode unfolded on Saturday afternoon when the pair were enjoying a leisurely flight back from a vintage event in Bodmin. They were making their way back to Branscombe when suddenly the plane, a 1930s French light aircraft, started to lose power.
Trudi said: "We were just out for the day enjoying the flight back and were enjoying the flight.
"I was sat in the front seat. As we came around the cliffs it began to slow up then the next thing there was a total failure and the engine cut out. I turned around and called 'Zac' but of course you can't hear each other up there. He's looking out of the side of the plane and I started moving my arms telling people to get out of the way.
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"I was slightly frightened. It wasn't like my life flashed before me or anything but I was thinking 'here we go'. But I also had absolute faith Zac would land it. He is an amazing, fantastic pilot and I had every confidence in him.
Light aircraft pilot Zac Rocky
"I gave a sigh of relief as we landed and got out quickly but afterwards I have to admit I had jelly legs.
"Zac was fantastic. He's my hero."
The pilot said there wasn't much choice but to land on the beach. The nearest area for him to make an emergency stop was Jacob’s Ladder beach, which he did safely at about 5pm. Nobody was hurt and the plane wasn't damaged.
“You look for somewhere near something or people so that if there are complications you will be able to get help more easily.
“You know what - I have had better runways. It was not ideal.”
The scene on the beach at Sidmouth after the emergency landing
He added that all his training came into play as he dealt with the situation, which could have been a lot worse.
Dad facetimes daughter in Australia while kayaking in Mount's Bay and has the best surprise
After the landing Sidmouth Coastguards helped to tow the plane to a safe location about 300m along the beach.
It remained there overnight, as did Zac and Trudi, ready to be dismantled and taken away on Sunday.
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Recipe: Safari Honey-Butter-Cinnamon Popcorn
CorrienteLatina | Posted on March 30, 2016 March 30, 2016
"Recipe: Safari Honey-Butter-Cinnamon Popcorn"
Inspired by Disney’s all-new live-action epic adventure The Jungle Book, in theaters April 15th, the National Honey Board (NHB) launches its “Golden Family Time” campaign to make family life in the kitchen deliciously easy and worry-free when done with one of Mother Nature’s simple “bare necessities”: pure, golden honey. For this springtime campaign, the NHB is joined by Laura Fuentes, author of the food and parenting blog LauraFuentes.com, founder & CEO of MOMables, cookbook author and media personality. The NHB and Fuentes have created a fun and flavorful array of child-approved recipes, including movie snacks and meals, all made with fresh, wholesome ingredients and complemented with a touch of nature’s versatile sweetener to make them irresistible.
“Family meals are a top priority for me,” shared Fuentes. “Making tasty, fresh food with wholesome ingredients, like pure honey, is important to me and my family. I’m excited to join the NHB in sharing some of my easy-to-make children’s recipes made with honey that are perfect to share at the table or during sweet family bonding moments, like family movie night at home. I hope families will be motivated to get in the kitchen and create these and other dishes using as many fresh and wholesome ingredients as possible.”
Considered an online authority on kids’ health and wellness, Fuentes is the author of three children’s cookbooks including The Best Homemade Kids Lunches on the Planet and The Best Homemade Snacks on the Planet and The Best Homemade Kids’ Grain-Free Meals on the Planet. As a mom of three, her creativity and palate-pleasing savviness are demonstrated in the six recipes created for the NHB. Ranging from a naturally sweetened and power-packed breakfast to-go to get kids going in the morning to fun-to-eat school lunchbox meals, and even subtly sweet homemade takeout favorites served in cool lettuce cups, Fuentes’s no-fuss meals will have children singing the praises of the kitchen’s delectable bare necessities of life, including the magic of honey.
Among Fuentes’s playful yet simple recipes inspired by The Jungle Book for youngsters and the young-at-heart are:
This is no ordinary popcorn. This Safari Honey-Butter-Cinnamon Popcorn is the ultimate movie-time (or anytime) snack! Courtesy: National Honey Board (PRNewsFoto/National Honey Board)
Safari Honey-Butter-Cinnamon Popcorn
This is no ordinary popcorn. This is the ultimate movie-time (or anytime) snack!
Makes 6 cups
½ cup corn kernels, popped to yield approx. six cups of popcorn
2 tablespoons low fat butter spread
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
Air pop or microwave the corn kernels and transfer to a large bowl. In a small microwave safe dish, add butter spread, honey, cinnamon and salt. Place in microwave for 20-30 seconds, until butter is melted. Using a fork, combine the honey-butter mixture. Pour over popcorn and toss until the mixture is distributed throughout.
Jungle Honey Lettuce Cups
Lettuce cups are fun to eat! It will get kids to eat more greens
½ tablespoon sesame oil
1 ½ pounds ground chicken or turkey
½ cup shredded carrots
½ cup shredded purple cabbage
½ cup bean sprouts
1/3 cup honey roasted peanuts
Butter lettuce leaves, for serving
In a small bowl, whisk to combine honey, soy sauce, rice vinegar and sesame oil. Set aside. In a large skillet, over medium-high heat, place olive oil and onions. Begin to sauté onions until they become golden and translucent, about 3-4 minutes. Add garlic and sauté for an additional minute. To the soft onions, add in ground chicken and shredded carrots. Cook, stirring frequently and while breaking up the chicken pieces, until it’s cooked throughout, for about 5-7 minutes. Pour sauce over cooked chicken mixture and combine. Place the lid, reduce heat, and simmer for 3 minutes. Top with bean sprouts, chopped cabbage, and roasted peanuts and cover for an additional 3 minutes. Scoop mixture into lettuce cups and serve.
Find these and other tasty & kid-friendly honey recipes for family movie nights and meals any time of day visiting mielpura.org andmomables.com, where you will also find some how-to videos, led by Laura Fuentes, which you can use as guides in the kitchen. Try a recipe out today with your kids; once they see how easy it is, preparing a honey meal will become a new bonding activity for the whole family!
About the National Honey Board
The National Honey Board is an industry-funded agriculture promotion group that works to educate consumers about the benefits and uses for honey and honey products through research, marketing and promotional programs. For more information, visit honey.com
About The Jungle Book
Directed by Jon Favreau (“Iron Man”), based on Rudyard Kipling’s timeless stories and inspired by Disney’s classic animated film, “The Jungle Book” is an all-new live-action epic adventure about Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi), a man-cub who’s been raised by a family of wolves. But Mowgli finds he is no longer welcome in the jungle when fearsome tiger Shere Khan (voice of Idris Elba), who bears the scars of Man, promises to eliminate what he sees as a threat. Urged to abandon the only home he’s ever known, Mowgli embarks on a captivating journey of self-discovery, guided by panther-turned-stern mentor Bagheera (voice of Ben Kingsley), and the free-spirited bear Baloo (voice of Bill Murray). Along the way, Mowgli encounters jungle creatures who don’t exactly have his best interests at heart, including Kaa (voice of Scarlett Johansson), a python whose seductive voice and gaze hypnotizes the man-cub, and the smooth-talking King Louie (voice of Christopher Walken), who tries to coerce Mowgli into giving up the secret to the elusive and deadly red flower: fire. The all-star cast also includes Lupita Nyong’o as the voice of the fiercely protective mother wolf Raksha, and Giancarlo Esposito as the voice of wolf pack’s alpha male Akela. “The Jungle Book” seamlessly blends live-action with photorealistic CGI animals and environments, using up-to-the-minute technology and storytelling techniques to immerse audiences in an enchanting and lush world. The wild adventure swings into theaters in 3D on April 15, 2016. For more information, check out Disney.com/thejunglebook, like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DisneyJungleBook, and follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thejunglebook and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/disneythejunglebook/
SOURCE: National Honey Board
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GPCR Production and Anti-GPCR Antibody Development
MCH Receptor Family
MCHR2 Membrane Protein Introduction
Introduction of MCHR2
MCHR2 (Melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 2), referred to GPR145 (G-protein coupled receptor 145), is a G protein-coupled receptor protein present in humans encoded by the MCHR2 gene. As a receptor for melanin-concentrating hormone, MCHR2 enables to couple with G proteins and activates phosphoinositide hydrolysis. MCHR2 also exists in other species including dogs, ferrets, and some other primates and carnivores. However, MCHR2 is not found in mice or rats that are utilized in most early pharmaceutical research, which has delayed research into the receptor as a therapeutic target. As a neuropeptide, MCHR2 plays an essential role in the control of appetite regulation and energy metabolism.
Basic Information ofMCHR2
Protein Name Melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 2
Gene Name MCHR2
UniProt ID Q969V1
Sequence MNPFHASCWNTSAELLNKSWNKEFAYQTASVVDTVILPSMIGIICSTGLVGNILIVFTIIRSRKKTVPDIYICNLAVADLVHIVGMPFLIHQWARGGEWVFGGPLCTIITSLDTCNQFACSAIMTVMSVDRYFALVQPFRLTRWRTRYKTIRINLGLWAASFILALPVWVYSKVIKFKDGVESCAFDLTSPDDVLWYTLYLTITTFFFPLPLILVCYILILCYTWEMYQQNKDARCCNPSVPKQRVMKLTKMVLVLVVVFILSAAPYHVIQLVNLQMEQPTLAFYVGYYLSICLSYASSSINPFLYILLSGNFQKRLPQIQRRATEKEINNMGNTLKSHF
Function of MCHR2 Membrane Protein
MCHR2 membrane protein is specifically present in the brain, where MCHR2 is expressed with the highest levels in cerebral cortex, hippocampus and amygdala, but not expressed in the cerebellum, thalamus or hypothalamus. MCHR2 together with GPR24, expressed in the human brain and other tissues, enable to be bound and activated by melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) which is a conserved cyclic neuropeptide involved in the modulation of food intake. It has been suggested that the MCH-MCHR1 system plays a part in the regulation of feeding, emotional processing, and sleep in rodents. Recent research revealed that MCHR1 is selectively expressed in neuronal primary cilia of the central nervous system and may modulate the sensitivity of cells to external environments by controlling the cilia length.
Fig.1 Structure of MCHR2 membrane protein.
Application of MCHR2 Membrane Protein in Literature
Chee M.J., et al. Expression of melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 2 protects against diet-induced obesity in male mice. Endocrinology. 2014, 155(1): 81-88. PubMed ID: 24169555
This article establishes an experimental animal model to provide insight into the action of MCHR2 in the central nervous system. The results suggest that some actions of MCHR2 oppose the endogenous actions of MCHR1.
Fried S., et al. Cloning and characterization of rhesus monkey MCH-R1 and MCH-R2. Peptides. 2002, 23(8):1401-8. PubMed ID: 12182940
This article reveals that MCH binds to the monkey MCH-R1 receptor and the monkey MCH-R2 with a K(d) value similar to human MCH-R1 and MCH-R2. In addition, monkey MCH-R1 couples through G(i)/G(o) and G(q)-type G proteins similar to human MCH-R1 whereas monkey and human MCH-R2 utilizes the G(q) signaling pathway.
Tan C.P., et al. Melanin-Concentrating Hormone Receptor Subtypes 1 and 2: Species-Specific Gene Expression. Genomics. 2002, 79(6): 785-92. PubMed ID: 12036292
This article demonstrates that no functional MCHR2 receptors exist, or a nonfunctional MCHR2 pseudogene encoded while retaining GPR24 expression in several non-human species (rat, mouse, hamster, guinea pig, and rabbit). Authors cloned and functionally characterized dog, ferret, and rhesus GPR24 and MCHR2 in mammalian cells and studied their brain distribution patterns by in situ hybridization.
Wang S., et al. Identification and pharmacological characterization of a novel human melanin-concentrating hormone receptor, mch-r2. J Biol Chem. 2001, 276 (37): 34664–70. PubMed ID: 11459838
This article reports that the involvement of MCH-R2 plays a role in the central regulation of MCH-mediated functions.
Saito Y., et al. Molecular characterization of the melanin-concentrating-hormone receptor. Nature. 1999, 400(6741): 265-9. PubMed ID: 10421368
Authors have analyzed the tissue localization of the MCH receptor and find that it is expressed in several brain regions, in particular those involved in olfactory learning and reinforcement mechanisms. The article has indicated that the MCH receptor is a potential therapeutic target for the neuronal regulation of food consumption.
MCHR2 Preparation Options
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Grandmother's sex attacker sent to jail
A RUNCORN man who molested a grandmother taxi driver-turned-detective has been sentenced to nine months detention by a judge at Chester Crown Court.
Wayne Parry, 20, of Eagles Way, Hallwood Park, Runcorn, denied sexually assaulting his 53-year-old victim but was found guilty.
On July 31 he was jailed and ordered to sign the sex offenders' register.
The victim, Sylvia Holden, who waived her right to anonymity, had picked up Parry and his sister from a house on Folkestone Way, Murdishaw, in the early hours of November 20, 2006.
She was directed to Hallwood Park Estate and after his sister got out Parry gave her a £20 note, but became aggressive while she was finding his change.
The court heard Parry appeared to be performing an obscene act and he grabbed her by the throat, began to kiss her and grabbed one of her breasts.
After leaving the cab Parry made remarks such as 'you know you want it'.
Andrew Green, prosecuting, said Mrs Holden was terrified by her ordeal.
Two days later Mrs Holden went to the address she had picked up Parry from and spoke to his aunt, who then phoned Parry's sister.
When she eventually spoke to Parry directly on the phone he became aggressive, denied molesting her and threatened to call the police.
But Mrs Holden called the police herself and he was arrested and picked out at an identification parade.
Jailing him and ordering him to sign on the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years, Judge Stephen Clarke said: 'The court has to provide protection for people who carry out jobs where they are effectively public servants, particularly taxi drivers.
'Only a custodial sentence can be appropriate.'
The court heard that the victim had been going through a 'particularly difficult time' and that the attack had had a significant effect on her.
Defence barrister David Watson, said Parry has previous convictions but none for sexual offences.
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Sri Lanka v South Africa Test - Men's
Faf hints at AB's replacement
It will be no easy task, but the Proteas have a player waiting in the wings to fill the boots of AB de Villiers
3 July 2018, 12:37 PM AEST
@samuelfez
Proteas skipper Faf du Plessis has nominated Temba Bavuma to fill the enormous hole left by retired great AB de Villiers in South Africa’s middle order.
De Villiers shocked world cricket when he announced his immediate retirement from international cricket in May, calling time on an incredible career in all three formats of the game.
With the champion batsman now unavailable, South Africa must attempt the seemingly impossible of finding a replacement, with a two-Test tour of Sri Lanka to be their first series of the post-de Villiers era.
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AB de Villiers calls time for Proteas
But du Plessis didn’t sound overly concerned by the departure of the star right-hander, who only returned to Test cricket at the start of 2018 after spending nearly two years on the sidelines.
And it appears Bavuma will get first crack at the vacant No.4 spot, according to du Plessis.
"AB has only played the last one or two series for this Test team, so he has actually not been playing for a while," du Plessis said.
"It will be a nice opportunity for Temba (Bavuma) or somebody else to put his peg in the ground and make the position his own again."
He added: "Number four will probably be a good position for him (Bavuma).
"There will be some good discussions in the team. Obviously, when you go to the subcontinent, the hardest places to bat will be in the middle because you come in facing the spinning and the reverse swinging ball.
"So what I think we will discuss is that we will try and get our best players of spin in the middle periods to try and counter that.
"So if that gives an opportunity to change our batting lineup a little bit, we will definitely be looking into that."
Day wrap: Australia collapse after Bavuma's 95no
Bavuma has played 29 Tests and scored one century, but is coming off unbeaten knocks of 95 and 35 in his last Test, against Australia in Johannesburg.
He’s been in and out of the Proteas Test side that preferred to bat wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock at No.6 to allow an extra bowling option, but now Bavuma has a clear opening for regular middle-order residency.
The diminutive Bavuma and South Africa’s well-balanced batting unit will go from fast and bouncy pitches at home to spinning conditions abroad that they have not faced in quite some time.
ICC raises ball-tampering penalty
It’s been close to three years since South Africa toured the subcontinent where they were beaten 3-0 by India in what was their first away series loss in nine years.
The Proteas arrive in Sri Lanka as the No.2 Test team in the world boasting an all-star bowling attack led by some of the fiercest pacemen in the world.
"No matter what the conditions are, a big strength of our team will always be our fast bowlers, especially the personnel we have; (Dale) Steyn, Kagiso (Rabada) and Vernon (Philander) are all wicket-taking bowlers," he said.
"Those three have proven they can do it in any conditions.
"Dale has got a fantastic record in the subcontinent and KG (Rabada) is gold.
"He will be able to do anything, and we've got Keshav (Maharaj).
"If we want to and there's an opportunity to, because the conditions are really bad, then we can look at a second spinner (one of Tabraiz Shamsi or Shaun von Berg)."
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Matthew M. Speare
Christopher Burgess
Ronald Raether
Kirstin Wells
U.S. Federal Reserve Bank
The Public Eye with Eric Chabrow
Keeping tabs on federal government efforts to protect citizens' privacy
Black Hat Preview: Tackling Cyberthreats
What's In Store for Authentication, Mobile, Internet of Things? Eric Chabrow (GovInfoSecurity) • August 5, 2014
Peruse the briefings agenda for the Black Hat conference that's being held this week in Las Vegas and you'll get a peek at the cybersecurity challenges of the future. For example, experts will address the areas of authentication, mobility and the "Internet of Things," among many others.
See Also: Webinar | The Future of Adaptive Authentication in Financial Services
One session on mobility will feature Matthew Solnik and Marc Blanchou, researchers at Accuvant Labs, a unit of IT security provider Accuvant. Their briefing is titled Cellular Exploitation on a Global Scale: The Rise and Fall of the Control Protocol.
We feel confident that these types of vulnerabilities won't become a real threat until the next five to 10 years.
The two researchers and their colleagues at Accuvant Labs last week told me about their research that shows how hidden controls found in more than 2 billion mobile devices could be exploited to allow hackers access to these devices. During their presentation, Solnik and Blanchou will release open source tools to help assess and protect organizations from the new threats. These tools will offer the ability to dynamically test proprietary system applications and simulate different aspects of a cellular environment.
What makes these systems vulnerable, in part, are the number of players involved in developing them. Red Bend Software, a mobile software management provider, created the initial program. But also contributing code to each device were baseband chip manufacturers, handset makers and carriers. "If you look at the average handset, there is no less than 15 separate companies that contribute code that makes the handset run," says Ryan Smith, Accuvant Labs chief scientist.
Akin to Heartbleed
Alex Wheeler, Accuvant Labs research director, compares the discovered vulnerabilities in the mobile devices to those posed by the Heartbleed bug, a vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software (see Heartbleed Update: Fixes Plateau). "It's a single software package, but implemented at many different areas," he says.
Asked how the vulnerabilities in the 2 billion mobile devices could be abused, Smith says he doubts they would be exploited anytime soon. "I think these vulnerabilities are five to 10 years out from actually [being] exploited and causing damage."
Historically, there's a long road between discovering a vulnerability and exploiting it, and Smith cites as an example phishing, which first surfaced in the mid-1990s but didn't flourish until the second decade of the 21st century.
"It takes a while for that information to become filtered; it takes a while for tools to get into place and those kinds of attacks become commoditized," Smith says. "Because of that, we feel confident that these types of [mobile-device] vulnerabilities won't become a real threat until the next five to 10 years."
Authentication Challenges
Other Black Hat briefing sessions look at fast-evolving technologies and how they could have an impact on cybersecurity. Two sessions focus on hardware and their impact on authenticating users.
In one titled My Google Glass Sees Your Password, researchers Xinwen Fu and Qinggang Yue of the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and Zhen Ling of Southeast University in China introduce what they characterize as a novel computer vision-based attack that automatically discloses inputs such as passwords on touch-enabled devices.
The researchers say their spying cameras, including Google Glass, can take a video of a victim tapping on the touch screen and automatically recognize more than 90 percent of the tapped passcodes from 10 feet away, Viewing people tapping out their passcodes to figure them out isn't new. What's different, the researchers say, is that they target passcodes where no language model can be applied to correct estimated touched keys. They say they're interested in situations such as conferences where a Google Glass, webcam or smartphone can be used for a stealthy attack. As a countermeasure, they say they designed a context-aware, privacy-enhancing keyboard, which pops up as a randomized keyboard on Android systems for sensitive information such as inputting password and shows a conventional QWERTY keyboard for normal inputs.
Markus Jakobsson, a highly regarded IT security expert who is senior director at network computing provider Qualcomm, promises to introduce a new authentication paradigm that simplifies the process for users and provides a high-level of security. In a presentation he calls How to Wear Your Password, Jakobsson will demonstrate an identity manager in the guise of a smart bracelet.
This bracelet is equipped with a low-power processor, a Bluetooth LE transmitter, an accelerometer and a clasp that is constructed so that opening and closing it breaks and closes a circuit that allows an automatic detection of when the bracelet is put on and taken off. In the presentation, Jakobsson says he'll describe the physical design, including protecting the user who might be violently attacked, as well as the protocols associated with the device.
Governments as Malware Creators
Here's a sampling of other presentations of interest:
Mikko Hypponen briefing titled Governments as Malware Authors: The Next Generation, in which he addresses how governments write malware. Hypponen, chief research officer of F-Secure, promises to identify the governments writing malware, where they got skills to do so and how much they budget for it. He'll also address whether hope exists to fight malware of this caliber.
Penetration tester Stephen Breen's presentation, Mobile Device Mismanagement, focuses on vulnerabilities in mobile device management software. Breen has conducted a number of penetration tests on mobile device management products, and he says he has gained access to sensitive information. Some of the vulnerabilities seem to be systemic across a number of products, says Breen, who conducts penetration tests for NTT Com Security, an IT security consultancy.
In A Survey of Remote Automotive Attack Surfaces, Twitter security engineer Charlie Miller and Christopher Valasek, security intelligence director at IOActive, a computer security services provider, explore the IT security of automotive networks of a number of carmakers. Among the questions they say they'll answer: What does the future of automotive security hold and how can we protect our vehicles from attack moving forward?
The presenters of Smart Nest Thermostat: A Smart Spy in Your Home promise a demonstration that shows how the smart thermostat can be commandeered in 15 seconds. Researchers Yier Jin and Grant Hernandez of the University of Central Florida and Daniel Buentello of technology solutions provider Cimation say with Internet access, the Nest thermostat could become a beachhead for an external attacker.
Please look for my reports and interviews from Black Hat, starting Aug. 6.
Eric Chabrow
Retired Executive Editor, GovInfoSecurity
Chabrow, who retired at the end of 2017, hosted and produced the semi-weekly podcast ISMG Security Report and oversaw ISMG's GovInfoSecurity and InfoRiskToday. He's a veteran multimedia journalist who has covered information technology, government and business.
https://www.databreachtoday.co.uk/blogs/black-hat-preview-tackling-cyberthreats-p-1715
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Christopher Greany
Diwakar Dayal
Incident & Breach Response , Multi-factor & Risk-based Authentication , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development
IRS Authentication Method Criticized
Breach Probe Widens; Russian Gangs Suspected Eric Chabrow (GovInfoSecurity) • May 28, 2015 5 Minutes
The method the Internal Revenue Service used to authenticate users, which failed to keep sophisticated hackers from breaching a taxpayer-facing system, has been widely criticized by cybersecurity experts.
The IRS used knowledge-based authentication, or KBA, to authenticate the identity of users who accessed its "Get Transcript" application, which the agency earlier this week revealed was breached, exposing the records of more than 100,000 taxpayers (see IRS: 100,000 Taxpayer Accounts Breached).
Although the IRS has not identified who breached the system, several media outlets, citing anonymous sources, have reported that the hackers were likely part of a Russian criminal gang. The FBI is joining the IRS's criminal division and the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration in investigating the breach, according to news reports.
The IRS says it employed a dynamic version of KBA, which poses personal knowledge questions for users to answer in order to verify their identity. The answers to the questions are based on public and private information the IRS gathers, such as marketing data, credit reports and transaction history.
Circumventing Authentication
The IRS said the hackers obtained personally identifiable information about taxpayers from non-IRS sources that allowed them to accurately answer KBA questions, which gave them access to taxpayer accounts. The IRS did not identify which third-party sources the hackers used, although some cybersecurity experts surmise the PII might have come from information pilfered from other breaches.
"Knowledge-based authentication is a tired technology that has been compromised with the ubiquity of personal information available in social media," Robert Siciliano, online safety expert with Intel Security, says in an interview with Information Security Media Group. "Any entity that's solely relying on knowledge-based authentication is in the dark ages."
In an audio report, Siciliano and Zebryx Consulting's Scott Dueweke, formerly with Booz Allen Hamilton, discuss:
How knowledge-based authentication, or KBA, works; and
The security technologies the IRS could have employed to supplement KBA;
The report also describes the warnings the IRS had received from the American Institute of CPAs and National Institute of Standards and Technology regarding the weaknesses of KBA.
The IRS, in a statement, said it noticed last week unusual activity occurring on the Get Transcript application, suggesting that unauthorized individuals had access to some accounts on the transcript application. The tax agency said the breach started in February and continued until mid-May.
Multi-factor & Risk-based Authentication
A New, Post-Snowden InfoSec Model
The Case for Privileged ID Management
Cyber AI: Securing Cities from Tomorrow's Cyber-Threats
https://www.databreachtoday.com/interviews/irs-authentication-method-criticized-i-2714
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Images of A Reluctant Truce
The quiet solitude of a beautiful setting is a wonderful place to read A Reluctant Truce or Five Days of Fear.
My lovely wife, Karen, in Central Park.
Connect on Facebook and Twitter
A Facebook Fan Page is available at /dkovachwrites. The Fan page provides updates on the book.
A Twitter account has also been set up. Follow along @DKovachAuthor for updates.
Books of Suspense, Love and Faith
David Kovach has released three eBooks; two are novels and one is a nonfiction work that addresses the accuracy of the Book of Daniel. Dave's first book, Five Days of Fear, is an FBI suspense novel that begins in San Francisco, but leads its readers in a chase across country in search of the suspect. His second book, A Reluctant Truce, is a romantic comedy that takes place in New York City. but ends on a college campus far from NYC. The nonfiction work is entitled Daniel and The Tribulation: Three Kings, Three Edicts, One Week Still to Come. Details on each book are shown below. All three books are available on Amazon.com as eBooks.
A Reluctant Truce
Janel Langley wanted to go to college. She wanted a university that was affordable, far away from her family in Manhattan and highly rated by the media industry for its Graphic Design Department. She also needed a school that was the last place on earth that Justin Sanders would attend.
Justin Sanders wanted to go to college. He wanted a university that was affordable, far away from his family in Manhattan and highly rated by the architectural industry for its Architecture Department. He also wanted a school that was the last place on earth that Janel Langley would attend.
With a little help, fate found their school. Read A Reluctant Truce and watch as Janel and Justin are rudely introduced to fate and forgiveness.
Targeted audience: Romantic comedy fans.
Age appropriateness: 12 to 92.
Available at Amazon here.
Daniel and The Tribulation:
Three Kings, Three Edicts, One Week Still to Come
Daniel 9:24-27 has intrigued author David Kovach for several years. The usual explanation of combining the 7 and 62 weeks in verse 25 to make a single 69-week period seemed contrived. Thus, Dave investigated both Scripture and other evidences for a more natural explanation. The result is the book Daniel and The Tribulation which looks at the fulfillment of these two time periods as well as examining Scripture for the coming fulfillment of Daniel's 70th week.
In this book we examine:
Which King gave the command to rebuild Jerusalem.
How the 7 'weeks' (49 years) were precisely fulfilled.
How the 62 'weeks' (434 years) were precisely fulfilled.
What a likely scenario for the coming last 'week' (7 years) will look like.
Historical and celestial data, as well as the works of the historian Josephus, are involved in determining the fulfillment of Scripture.
Possible dates are proposed for:
the birth of Christ,
the visit of the Magi, and
the crucifixion of Jesus.
Five Days of Fear
During a family picnic, Jessica Britton’s well-ordered world is slammed against a brutal reality and her faith is tested when her mom is kidnapped, her dad is shot, and authorities can find no clues to begin their investigation. Jessica’s own anxiety and fear for her mother’s life compels her to help FBI Agent Dan Hamilton look for motives and clues that would lead to the finding of her mom. By chance, clues begin to emerge, and the once floundering investigation speeds to a hectic race against time and criminal minds in a desperate attempt to save Jessica’s mom and the lives of many in San Francisco’s business district.
Genre: Suspense.
Available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iBooks, and Books a Million.
© David Kovach, Author
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Foreign Landscape
Dormant City
Lasting Grievance
Copyright © 2020 by Dawid Zieliński
In 1947 Polish communist authorities carried out Operation Vistula – a forced resettlement of Ukrainian population (including Lemko and Boyko ethnic groups) from south-eastern Poland to so-called Recovered territories in the west and north-east, which were part of Germany before the war.
70 years later Operation Vistula continues to spark controversy and split opinions, often straining relations between the neighbouring countries. For some it was a “raison d'etat “, a necessary evil to eradicate support and assistance for Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which was fighting against newly formed Polish authorities. Others see it as ethnic cleansing with disastrous effects, leaving scars and lasting resentments among members of Ukrainian communities.The fact is that as many as 150 000 people were driven from their homes, where they lived for generations, their houses often burned, belongings robbed. In Beskid Niski and Bieszczady mountain valleys where displacement took place remain uninhabited to this day.
Sense of loss and grievance follows the resettled to this day, broken family and community ties are much like still open wounds and the recovery is slow. Tragically, their fate is echoed in post war population movements. As borders were redrawn after World War II, they were settled on someone else's land, moved into someone else's home and started from scratch, holding on to their identity in somewhat unfamiliar landscape.
Ludwik Smotrycki, born 1926, originally from Stara Bircza village, resettled in 1947 during Operation Vistula, photographed at his home in Osiek, Poland.
Landscape outside Wólka Tarnowska village, Poland. Entire Ukrainian population of the village was resettled during Operation Vistula.
Maria Potrapeluk, originally from Wólka Tarnowska, today a resident of Skowrony village, Poland.
A religious painting (the larger one, on the top) was the only thing Maria Potrapeluk was allowed to take with her when she was driven out of her home in Wólka Tarnowska in 1947.
Aleksander Buszowiecki, born 1944, resettled from Jaworzec village, today a resident of Lesiska village, Poland.
View of the Bieszczady Mountains, from Jaworzec village to the other side of the valley where village of Lug used to be. Both villages were resettled during Operation Vistula.
Michał Kogut, resettled from Radawa, now a resident of Osiek village, Poland.
Remains of the Orthodox cementery and an old orchard, with trees in full blossom, are the only tangible remainders of human presence in the vicinity of Jasiel village, Poland. Entire area's population was resettled during Operation Vistula.
An old German cementery overgrown with ivy.
Władysław Rewak recollecting difficult reality and hostile attitudes that members of Lemko community faced from Polish neighbours after being resettled.
Local members of Lemko community gather in Wysokie village, Poland, during ceremony commemorating 70th anniversary of Operation Vistula.
Church bell made out of Wolrd War II ordnance. Difficult living conditions and shortages in postwar reality pushed people's resourcefulness. The bell is no longer used.
Sunset over a meadow near Michałów village. The displaced during 1947 Vistula Operation were often forced to settle in remote areas called Colonies, where houses were dispersed across large area.
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2015 Tour of Alberta press conference gallery
Overall favourites ready for Grande Prairie team time trial
The press conference gets underway in Grande Prairie (Image credit: Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us)
Ryder Hesjedal (Cannondale-Garmin) is one of the overall favourites for the week (Image credit: Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us)
Adam Yates (Orica-GreenEdge) discusses this weeks stages (Image credit: Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us)
Michael Matthews (Orica-GreenEdge) will be going for the stage wins this week (Image credit: Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us)
Jan Barta (Bora-Argon 18) talking about the first stage team time trial (Image credit: Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us)
Ryan Anderson (Optum) happy to be back racing at home (Image credit: Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us)
Bauke Mollema (Trek) is ready for the week ahead (Image credit: Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us)
Fred Rodriguez (Jelly Belly) talks about riding his impending retirement (Image credit: Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us)
Riders and race jerseys lined up for the press conference (Image credit: Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us)
Ryder Hesjedal (Cannondale-Garmin) talks about cycling in Canada (Image credit: Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us)
The top riders for the third edition of the Tour of Alberta gathered in Grande Prairie ahead of the opening team time trial Wednesday to discuss the six-day 2.1 race with the press.
Tour of Alberta attracts Mollema, Matthews, Yates, Hesjedal and Formolo
Mountains, dirt roads and cooler weather on the radar for the Tour of Alberta
2015 Tour of Alberta start list
Matthews building for end-of-season success at Tour of Alberta
Tour of Alberta: Mollema, Hesjedal and Adam Yates to make their mark in Jasper
Overall favourites Bauke Mollema (Trek Factory Racing), Ryder Hesjedal (Cannondale-Garmin and Adam Yates (Orica-GreenEdge) were all in attendance at the press conference, with Hesjedal holding court as the local WorldTour rider. Combined with Davide Formolo, Cannondale-Garmin pose a double threat to the overall, and Hesjedal is confident his team can make it mark on the race.
"Definitely the races in Jasper are exciting, and I hope to be in the mix and contesting the overall, or a high overall placing, you know, looking at winning a stage and just getting the most that we can out of the team," Hesjedal told Cyclingnews on the eve of the race.
The Tour of Alberta will be Mollema's first stage race since the Tour de France, where he finished seventh overall. The Trek climber, who will be a teammate of Hesjedal's in 2016, will benefit from the inclusion of two mountain stages.
Orica-GreenEdge will start the race with the dual ambitions of supporting Clasica San Sebastian winner Adam Yates in the mountains and recently married Michael Matthews in the sprints. The Australian team is missing defending champion Daryl Impey in 2015, as the South African is currently occupied with the Vuelta a Espana.
Canadian riders Michael Woods and Ryan Anderson (Optum Pro Cycling) were also in attendance at the press conference and are two riders who have proved themselves more than capable of mixing it up with their WorldTour rivals.
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Hutchinson and Shaw win 2012 National 25 titles
Snowdon Sports June 10, 2012 4:45 pm
Bottrill, Hutchinson, Dowsett on podium, National 25-mile time trial championships 2012
2012 National 25-mile time trial champs photo gallery by Andy Jones>>
Behind for all but the last few miles, holder Michael Hutchinson came good when it counted to secure his sixth national 25-mile time trial championship in wet conditions on Teesside.
Hutchinson (In-Gear Quickvit Trainsharp RT) finished seven seconds clear of Alex Dowsett in a championship record 47-01 as he followed women’s winner Julia Shaw and junior Ryan Mullen, who also successfully defended their 2011 titles.
But the day was marred by a serious accident involving 2011 women’s bronze medallist Jane Kilmartin (PM Racing), who suffered a broken back when she was in collision with a car on the return leg of the T252/3 Crathorne course.
Writing from her bed at Teesside South Hospital, Kilmartin said “I am lucky to be alive given the speed of the collision. I remember being catapulted high into the air and landing very hard on my side.
“I couldn’t move and I knew then that my back was broken. All five lumbar vertebrae are fractured.”
The driver of the car was arrested.
The incident and localised torrential downpours, which led to reduced visibility and heavy spray at times across the day, brought into question whether the event should have been stopped and took some shine away from the quality of racing.
Hutchinson trailed Dowsett (Sky Pro Cycling) by 15 seconds after the first six miles and, six seconds down at the turn, was still three seconds adrift with around six miles to go before turning the race his way.
“It was close,” said Hutchinson, who was on his way back to the headquarters when told he had won. “I was edging back very slowly, but when I finished I assumed it hadn’t gone my way and I didn’t feel confident.
“The conditions weren’t great, it was dry when I started but then wet for pretty much all of my ride.
“It’s always terrific to get a championship win, if you do what I do as a time trial specialist it’s what you work towards.”
Matt Bottrill (Drag2zero.com) took third place in 48-36, holding off Joe Perrett (Ciclos Uno) by 17 seconds.
Mullen (Planet X RT) retained his junior title in an excellent 48-48, beating second-placed Alex Peters (Mosquito Bikes) by 2-21, and Shaw (Drag2zero.com), 54-57, was nearly two minutes clear of closest rival Ciara Horne (Brotherton Cycles), 56-48.
Michael Hutchinson, winner
Julia Shaw, women’s winner
Ryan Mullen, junior men’s winner
Louise Scupham, junior women’s winner
Jane Kilmartin was struck by a car during the event
Traffic on the National 25 course
2012 National 15-mile time trial photo gallery
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3 brothers from the South Bay recount their…
3 brothers from the South Bay recount their 45-day trip over the Atlantic in a World War II-era DC-3
The Flabob Express Team huddles to examine instructions to fix a failed carburetor that ended their dreams to participate in the Normandy parachute trooper drops on June 5, 2019 in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. (Photo courtesy)
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PUBLISHED: July 5, 2019 at 7:45 pm | UPDATED: July 5, 2019 at 7:46 pm
by Deborah Paul, contributing writer
Most retirees don’t jump into a 75-year-old, low-altitude, unpressurized World War II airplane and fly over the Atlantic Ocean just for fun.
But three adventurous South Bay brothers who share a love of vintage airplanes with the Flabob Express Chapter of the Antique Airplane Association did just that.
Bill, Bob and John (aka Tym) Tymczyszyn recently donned exposure suits and portable oxygen masks and took turns turns with other crew members flying a World War II DC-3 from Riverside to Normandy, France for the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
The brothers piloted the Flabob Express, a passenger and cargo aircraft believed to have flown Winston Churchill during WWII. The vintage Flabob is regularly flown to air shows around the U.S.
But this was no ordinary trip.
The transcontinental journey began May 6. Volunteer pilots and mechanics readied the craft for its trip across the United States, over Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland, Scotland, England, Normandy and ultimately into Germany.
Flabob Express Captain Bob Tymczyszyn, formerly from Lomita, flew his club’s DC-3 more than 20 hours over the Atlantic Ocean following the Blue Spruce Route used by planes during World War II. (Photo courtesy)
On June 11, Flabob Express pilots Bob and Tym Tymczyszyn joined the original World War II ‘Candy Bomber’ Gail Halvorsen in the air to drop Jelly Belly packages over Weisbaden Air Base in Germany. (Photo submitted)
Thousands showed up at the original WWII staging airport in Duxford, England to visit the vintage planes and watch as the DC-3s, C-47s and A-6’s took off on June 5, 2019 for a commemorative parachute drop over Normandy France. The Flabob Express had to drop out of the event due to a carburetor problem. (Photo courtesy)
Gail Halvorsen, the ‘Berlin Candy Bomber’ poses with Flabob Express pilot coordinator Jon Goldenbaum moments before Halvorsen, 97, flew over Weisbaden Airbase in Germany to reenact one of his famous parachute handkerchief candy drops for thousands of children during the Berlin Airlift in 1949. (Photo courtesy)
Gail Halvorsen (left), the ‘Berlin Candy Bomber’ who dropped candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift in 1948 poses for a selfie with Flabob pilots Bob and Tym Tymczyszyn moments after performing a commemorative “candy drop” in their DC-3 and C-47 at the Weisbaden Air Base in Germany on June 11, 2019. (Photo courtesy)
The longest leg of the trip—over the Atlantic—traced the Blue Spruce Route, to keep the plane near land and within fueling range at all times.
At one point, the low altitude, vintage plane flew just a couple hundred feet over New York City.
“One of the big highlights was flying down the Hudson River right over the Statue of Liberty in formation along with 13 other DC-3’s, C-47’s and AT-6’s,” said youngest brother Bob Tymczyszyn.
Torrance resident Bill Tymczyszyn, the middle brother, co-piloted the 75th Anniversary of D-day Honorary Flyover of Arlington National Cemetery as well as various legs of the trip from California to the East Coast.
Bill, a retired captain from United Airlines was the official photographer for the adventure.
“I was along for only some of the flying, but lots of the fun,” said Bill who, with his brothers, took nearly two years to map out the flight path.
Bob, formerly a Lomita resident and retired Flying Tiger Lines captain flew the whole 25 hours across the Atlantic.
Other crew members, Matt Walker, Joe Fisher, Hualdo Mendoza, Brian Maisler and his brothers also flew various legs of the trip across the United States, Europe and back. Pilot and mechanic Jon Goldenbaum also helped make the trip possible, said Bob.
The 45-day journey was not without drama.
“The trip across the Atlantic was challenging and rewarding, beautiful and awesome,” Bob said after returning home June 19. “We weathered down in Goose Bay, Newfoundland for three days, then made it to Narsarsuak, Greenland, flying up a fjord. We landed in a 45-knot wind with no alternate airport or backup plan. We had to fly out.”
From Greenland the crew flew over the ice cap to Reykjavik, Iceland and ultimately into Scotland where people who lined up for hours to visit the aircraft.
From Scotland the guys flew to Duxford, England where the initial D-Day bases were located during WWII, Bob said.
Th Flabob crew members were devastated, they said, to have missed the formation and parachute drop on June 5 into Normandy with dozens of other vintage planes and parachute troopers in WWII-style Allied uniforms.
Bob said The Flabob Express taxied out on the Duxford runway three times to join the formation of 22 planes, but the DC-3’s carburetor failed and the crew had to return to the ramp. By the time the problem was fixed, inclement weather had set in, and the team wasn’t able to join the fly over.
On June 6, the official international ceremony celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Normandy took place on Juno Beach and was attended by President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May, among others.
Berlin Candy Bomber
A highlight of the trip for Bob and Tym was flying their DC-3 on the left wing of the original “Berlin Candy Bomber.”
Gail Halvorsen, a retired United States Air Force officer, is known for dropping candy tied to little handkerchief parachutes to German children during the 1948 to 1949 Berlin Airlift.
On June 10, Halvorsen, 97, flew lead captain in the military C-47 “Placid Lassie” in formation to make a commemorative candy drop at the Wiesbaden Air Base in Germany.
“Herm Rowland, one of the Flabob Express supporters, who owns the Jelly Belly candy company, supplied all the candy from his factory in Thailand,” Bob said. “As part of the D-Day celebrations, Rowland bought 10,000 handkerchiefs and tied the corners exactly like Halvorsen tied them during WWII.”
More than 50,000 people came to the Wiesbaden American airbase that day. Thousands of kids were cut loose when the handkerchief parachutes carrying Jelly Belly packets were released from the low flying planes.
Palos Verdes Peninsula resident and retired Flying Tiger captain Tym Tymczyszyn, who flew from Normandy to Wiesbaden, said it was an honor to meet Halvorsen. A family emergency pulled him away from some of his other flight duties, but Tym still co-piloted the climactic candy drop in Germany.
The three brothers have had interesting, action-packed careers flying for major airline carriers, but all agreed the trip to Normandy was monumental.
“To take 75-year old airplanes and fly them across the ocean with people who haven’t flown in formation for years, and experience no mechanical failures except for the carburetor we fixed, was epic,” Tym said.
“No matter what your position was—from our supportive wives to the guys who cleaned the planes—the idea of being associated with this whole project in any way was an honor. D-Day was such an important aspect of our history.”
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'Bon-Nita' opens Jan. 29 at Denizen Theatre in New Paltz
WHAT: Play, "Bon-Nita"
WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 29, through, Sunday, March 1, with performances Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.
WHERE: Denizen Theatre, 10 Water St., New Paltz
DETAILS: "Bon-Nita" is playwright Elizabeth Heffron’s tale of the dark young life of an undaunted girl played by Terri Weagant. Mona, Bo-Nita’s mother, newly released from jail, along with a slew of her ex-boyfriends, grandfather and even her deceased grandmother are all brought to life as Weagant transforms into seven different characters in this "quick-change performance worthy of the late Robin Williams (YourObserver)." Tickets are $28, $24 for seniors and adults under 30, and $5 for students.
DETAILS: Call the Denizen Theatre box office at (845) 303-4136 or visit denizentheatre.com.
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Black Death TWO: Girl, 9, drops dead as strange 'eye-bleeding fever' spreads
A NEW disease is feared to become even more deadly than the Black Death that killed thousands in 2017 after it killed a nine-year-old child.
Anthony BlairOvernight News Editor
The girl dropped dead with the symptoms of an extremely contagious viral disease than can kill up to 40% of all infected.
She had contracted the bizarre new disease with similarities to the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.
This disease — usually spread by tick bites or contact with infected livestock — can cause muscle pains, headaches, vomiting, diarrhoea and bleeding.
PANIC: Fears are growing of a disease in Africa that is 'deadlier' than the Black Death (Image: GETTY)
OUTBREAK: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever causes diarrhoea, headaches and eye-bleeding (Image: GETTY)
And panic is spreading after the sudden death of a girl in the Nakaseke District of Uganda.
A rapid response health team was rushed from the local hospital with a body bag to collect her and prevent any possible outbreak.
Health teams disinfected the girl's home after her death on Thursday night local time, but didn't give her grieving family any details about when they could have her body back.
DEADLY: The Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is similar to the Black Death (Image: GETTY)
Speaking to local media, family member Harriet Nalunkuma said: "We are stranded on what to do because the health teams took away the body.
"We are waiting for a communication regarding the burial arrangements."
Local district Health Officer Dr Badru Ssesimba confirmed that blood samples from the girl's body had been handed over to the Uganda Virus Research Institute, but wouldn't give more details.
WARNING: Health experts fear a repeat of the deadly plague outbreak that killed 1,000s in 2017 (Image: GETTY)
BLACK DEATH hits Madagascar: Medieval plague decimates African coast
Authorities at the hospital — who didn't want to be named — said that the body would be buried by health teams due to the "sensitivity" about a further outbreak.
Four people have now died in Uganda this week from the 'eye-bleeding fever'.
But local officials in the East African country — which has been plagued by similar outbreaks recently — said this could be a completely new disease.
Last week Uganda's Ministry of Health denied claims by local officials in Nakaseke that Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic fever had broken out.
But Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Health Dr Diana Atwine confirmed that fluid and blood samples from the dead child are being tested to find out exactly what she died from.
This week MPs in Uganda's Parliament claimed there was a cover-up of a deadly plague outbreak in Uganda by the government.
Recently there were fears that a tribal 'Cleaning of Corpses' ritual in Indonesia could lead to a fresh Black Death outbreak.
And the World Health Organisation warned last week that an extra £3 million was needed by April to stop the return of Black Death.
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GiveWell is exploring giving opportunities that are more difficult to measure
By Catherine Cheney // 24 May 2019
Dollar bills on a laptop. Photo by: Pixabay / CC0
SAN FRANCISCO — Elie Hassenfeld and Holden Karnofsky, co-founders of GiveWell, had no experience in philanthropy when they launched the charity assessment organization.
The former hedge fund analysts started GiveWell in 2007 as a way to respond to the simple question “Where should I donate?” and by focusing on programs with results that could be easily measured.
But since then, GiveWell has become influential in the field of philanthropy, guiding the giving of people who identify as effective altruists, meaning they seek to do the most good they can with every dollar they donate.
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Now, after more than a decade of research, the organization is expanding its scope by exploring opportunities “to leverage government resources and affect government policy.” And over the next three years, the organization plans to double the size of its research team, from 10 to 20 people.
Expanding the scope of research
Traditionally, GiveWell has focused on the kinds of interventions that can be measured by randomized controlled trial, such as the distribution of insecticide-treated bednets.
But recently, as it explored whether it would branch out into supporting policy advocacy, the charity assessment organization made an incubation grant to an organization focused on removing highly hazardous pesticides from local small-scale agriculture to prevent suicide deaths from intentional pesticide poisoning.
The decision was inspired by the research of James Snowden, a senior research analyst at GiveWell, who previously worked for the Centre for Effective Altruism in the United Kingdom.
There, he stumbled upon something he had never heard of: At least 1 in every 8 people who die by suicide each year do so by ingesting pesticides. In low- and middle-income countries, where there are fewer regulations on pesticides, it is easier for individuals to get their hands on the most lethal forms, Snowden said.
“It falls into this bucket of things which are often promising for groups like us,” he told Devex. “If you find a surprisingly large cause of death that no one in the West has ever heard of, the chance is nobody is donating any money to help.”
Snowden started looking into pesticide suicide prevention as a potential high-impact area for philanthropists, reviewing evidence from Sri Lanka, where suicides fell after bans on particularly dangerous pesticides.
Five months after he joined GiveWell as a research consultant, the organization gave a $1.3 million grant to the Center for Pesticide Suicide Prevention.
“When you’re working as a philanthropic funder, your impact is a function of (i) how much funding you influence, and (ii) how much you can improve the allocation of that funding,” Snowden wrote in a blog post on what it is like to work at GiveWell, where he explained how his job offers a great deal of both.
GiveWell moves around $150 million a year to its top charities. This is due in part to its partnership with Good Ventures, a private foundation co-founded by billionaire philanthropists Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz, which provided more than $75 million in grants to GiveWell top charities in 2017. These top charities work in malaria prevention, vitamin A supplementation, deworming programs, and distributing cash directly to the poor.
“If you find a surprisingly large cause of death that no one in the West has ever heard of, the chance is nobody is donating any money to help.”
— James Snowden, senior research analyst, GiveWell
Now, as GiveWell expands the scope of its research beyond direct interventions, a range of organizations working in sectors such as nutrition, agriculture, education, or mental health might be eligible for funding.
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Snowden said that as GiveWell expands its research scope to include policy, it is beginning with public health regulation.
“They’re still fairly defined interventions,” he said in reference to areas such as tobacco control or lead paint regulation.
From there, the research team will consider other direct interventions in sectors where impact can be harder to measure, including improving government implementation or increasing aid spending.
Growing the team of researchers
Hassenfeld, executive director of GiveWell, acknowledged that it will be a challenge to make progress on areas where it is harder to determine causality.
“In my opinion, we are excellent evaluators of empirical research, but we have yet to demonstrate the ability to make good judgments about giving opportunities when less empirical information is available,” Hassenfeld wrote in a recent post.
Hassenfeld explains that one shift will be moving from asking, “Does this intervention meet our criteria?” to, “What is our best guess about how promising this intervention is relative to our top charities?”
GiveWell plans to continue to share the details of its research and rationale for its recommendations. The write-up of its recent recommendation for a grant to the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab’s Innovation in Government Initiative demonstrates how this approach extends to its exploratory work in policy.
But as GiveWell begins to evaluate sectors where impact is harder to measure, the organization is seeking new skill sets in its new hires.
“We’re aiming to hire people who are passionate about helping the global poor as much as possible, who are skilled at expressing what they believe and why, and who can interpret and critique statistical analysis and understand causal inference,” said Catherine Hollander, research analyst at GiveWell, in an online forum where people posed questions about the changes at GiveWell.
While she said she expects most research analysts will have backgrounds in areas such as math, economics, or statistics, she emphasized what is equally valuable is what GiveWell defines as a “truth-seeking attitude” of “objectivity, curiosity, open-mindedness, humility.”
These new roles will require “more creativity, more judgment, more systems-level thinking,” Snowden said. He explained that the further you go up the impact pyramid, the more judgment calls are involved.
“It’s not: ‘Here are all the interventions. Let’s line them up and order them,’” Snowden said. “The best you can do is try and be as explicit as you can about why you’re making the judgment calls you are.”
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Nonprofit CEO Wins 2019 Woman of the Year Award in Auto Care
A nonprofit CEO was honored with an award for 2019’s Woman of the Year in Auto Care due to her fundraising success. Discover how her organization raised $2M in one year!
Jennifer Maher, CEO of the TechForce Foundation, was named 2019’s Woman of the Year in Auto Care, an award that recognizes her organization’s accomplishments toward the bright futures of many transportation technician students.
For 5 years, Jennifer Maher has been applying her nonprofit professional experience to champion the mission of the TechForce Foundation, where she advocates for students who want to pursue careers that match their talents.
Jennifer tells us:
“Not everyone has to go to a four-year university and be in academia to be successful. I think we’re failing too many students by not helping them find a path that fits them. [With TechForce] I’m able to advocate for an alternative road of technical education.”
TechForce opens doors for students of all kinds, whether they’re a high school graduate making their first career choice or a veteran returning home and seeking employment. The organization specializes in raising awareness of the transportation tech profession as an option that’s just as valuable as college and a profession that’s in high-demand by businesses around the world.
They also provide scholarships to those with financial need. Last year alone TechForce awarded approximately $2 million in grants and scholarships, reducing many students’ obstacles to obtaining their education and career.
Currently, TechForce is leading the Women Techs Rock Initiative in an effort to bring more women into the auto care profession, as women make up only 2% of the auto care industry in the US.
Jennifer shares that her success in fundraising for TechForce is due to the multichannel approach she takes through storytelling and by making the act of donating engaging and interactive. TechForce does a beautiful job of sharing well-produced videos to their social media channels and website, packed with powerful imagery and real-life stories. They also take these visually compelling stories on the road to trade shows and conferences.
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The south Snohomish county veterans memorial monument has found a new home, just in time to celebrate its 70th anniversary on Memorial Day. No longer at its longtime location in downtown Edmonds, it...
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Dodgers: Anthony Rendon to LA More Likely After Strasburg Re-Signs with Nationals
Rendon seems to be the likeliest star to sign in LA.
by Daniel Preciado 12/09/2019, 3:14 PM
The Winter Meetings have begun with a bang as star right-hander Stephen Strasburg has re-signed with the Washington Nationals for a record-breaking seven-year, $245 million deal. The Nationals, who are already saddled with the large contracts of Max Scherzer and Patrick Corbin, are now firmly up against the luxury tax.
Long story short, the Nationals are basically out of the running for securing the services of their own free agent, third baseman Anthony Rendon. Nats owner Mark Lerner confirmed as much last week.
The Nationals, factoring in the $35 million that will be handed to Strasburg, are now just shy of the luxury tax threshold. The Dodgers, on the other hand, have room to sign Anthony Rendon to a contract of his liking, which is said to be somewhere in the neighborhood of a seven-year, $250 million deal.
The market has yet to fully move with Gerrit Cole and Anthony Rendon still up for grabs.
However, the Dodgers might be in the hunt for Rendon at his price point, a player that can provide the Dodgers with a much-needed right-handed power bat to stick in the middle of their order.
As Bill Plunkett of the Southern California News Group mentions, the Angels could very well enter into a bidding war with the New York Yankees for Gerrit Cole, leaving the Dodgers and Rangers to duke it out for Rendon.
Stephen Strasburg reportedly re-signing with Nationals (7 yrs, $245m). Could add extra desperation to #Angels pursuit of Gerrit Cole — and make Anthony Rendon even more likely to leave Nats … for #Dodgers?
— Bill Plunkett (@billplunkettocr) December 9, 2019
This past season, Anthony Rendon led the Nationals to their first World Series title in franchise history and — as flawed as this term is — he is the definition of a ‘winning player’. Moreover, he appears to be the type of player that could help push a club like the Dodgers over the top.
Since the start of the 2017 season, the 29-year-old has posted a 145 wRC+ and a .310/.397/.556 slash line. In terms of wRC+, he is tied for second amongst third baseman in that span with Justin Turner and behind the Astros’ Alex Bregman (150). He leads in batting average and on-base percentage amongst the same group and is second to just Nolan Arenado in slugging.
Rendon would be a huge boost for the club and the morale of its’ players and fans, and his signing could drop during the winter meetings.
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My name is Daniel Preciado and I am 18 years old. I am a sophomore Sport Analytics major and Cognitive Science and Economics dual minor at Syracuse University. When I am not in New York, I live in Whittier, California --- not too far from Chavez Ravine. I am pretty old-school for being an analytics guy and I will always embrace debate. Also, Chase Utley did absolutely nothing wrong.
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How do we know what the Nationals owner said is Not just a smokescreen i.e. they will go all-out to sign Rendon too?
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Rendon would be the absolute perfect fir for this team. Therefore, the Dodgers will sign someone like donaldson for half the price, and they will get Half of the results. It’s what these con men do.
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Irizar launches next-gen long range electric bus series ie
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Irizar of Spain is launching the new generation of its electric bus. In addition to a new exterior and interior design, the ie series is to score above all with reduced weight, increased passenger capacity, new batteries for greater range and shorter charging times.
Launched in 2014 in a 12-metre version, the next-gen electric bus now is available in lengths of ten, twelve, 15 and 18 metres. Irizar also added new batteries that improve the range to an approximate 250km, which is equivalent to around 17 hours of urban operation, according to the Spanish company.
In the new e-bus of Type ie, Irizar offers up to 5 interoperable charging point positions using a combo two connector. Charging time has decreased, and the vehicle can be slow charged in 3 hours. There is also the option of fast charging via a pantograph. The charging capacity can vary from 50 kW to 600 kW.
Irizar has optimised the space as well, achieving higher passenger capacity and improved modularity. The ie can now incorporate some of the company’s tram’s features such as large windows, side lighting or screens above the windows, among others. Customisation also offers the option of replacing the rearview mirrors with cameras that show images on two screens located inside the vehicle on both sides of the driver.
The electric bus also complies with AVAS regulation, although it is unknown how that sounds. In the press release, Irizar also points out better maintenance features as the ie electric bus includes the Group’s full range of technology for its charging, traction and energy storage systems.
Most recently, Irizar and charging infrastructure provider Ibil have concluded a cooperation agreement to give EV batteries a second life. Ibil will use spent batteries from Irizar’s electric buses as stationary energy storage.
While the partners have yet to install any such second-life energy storage system, business has been good for Irizar. Last year, the company opened a new facility in Aduna, Spain, that has a capacity to make up to 2,000 electric vehicles a year reportedly. Besides, Irizar has received orders from all over Europe for its hybrid and electric buses.
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Dec 13, 2017 - 03:14 pm
PEV registrations cross 40,000 unit mark in France
Electric and plug-in hybrid car registrations have crossed the 40,000 unit milestone in France. The latest data from Avere shows growth in all segments this November.
Dec 11, 2017 - 11:50 am
China reveals plans to slash NEV Subsidies
China has announced its’ subsidy plan for for vehicles with electric and plug-in-hybrid propulsion systems for 2018. As expected, finding will become increasingly dependent on range.
Tesla excluded from EV subsidy in Germany
The Tesla Model S is not eligible for the EV grant in Germany any longer as Tesla is suspected of subsidy fraud. The Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control investigates.
Dec 6, 2017 - 04:31 pm
Slovakia extends its PEV incentives
The state of Slovakia has extended its plug-in vehicle privileges and will continue to grant up to 5,000 euros when buying an ecological car before the end of June 2018.
China to extend tax rebate for EVs and PHEVs?
The People’s Republic considers to further exempt the 10 percent purchase tax on NEVs, Bloomberg has learnt. Originally, the suspension of the purchase incentive for EVs and PHEVs was scheduled for this year’s end.
Diesel-summit reveals lack of EVs in Germany
1 billion euros shall help to clear the air over Germany from diesel fumes but Tuesday’s diesel-summit revealed that it is not (just) the money that missing, it is the electric vehicles. And time is running out.
Spain updates EV policies
Spain earmarks 35 million euros for electric mobility through the 2017 Movalt Plan that has finally been approved in Madrid. 20 millions are reserved to subsidise PHEV with new rules to apply for the first time.
EVs to park for half price in all of Norway
Many municipalities in Norway exempt electric cars from parking fees entirely, yet a national regulation is due to be introduced. Rather than allowing free parking, the rule calls for EVs to park for half the fee everywhere in Norway.
Beijing to tighten electric car subsidies
China will soon change its strategy for EV subsidies and wants to present a new plan. In the future, for which no date is yet specified, subsidies will apparently be allocated according to more detailed categories. These will take range, battery density and energy consumption into account.
EU wants all properties to include EV charging from 2025
A law has been proposed in the European Parliament that wants all buildings with more than ten parking spots to include at least one EV charging opportunity.
German government advisors are pro EV quota
In its latest special report, the German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU), a board consulting the German government for the last 45 years, recommends an EV sales share of 25 percent regarding passenger cars and light utility vehicles by 2025.
Great Britain sets up extensive electric mobility fund
With a series of measures, the British government seeks to accelerate the expansion of electric mobility in the United Kingdom. The several hundred thousand pound programmes are summarised in a newly presented paper called Autumn Budget.
Nov 9, 2017 - 11:22 pm
Liverpool fights air pollution
The city’s parliamentarians approve the installation of 100 EV charging points throughout Liverpool, but that’s not all: The city council also partners with the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to calculate the costs to establish a Clean Air Zone, which shall be completed by March 2018.
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27-Year-Old Engineer Quits Career To Become Fish Breeder And Earns A Lot More
Success is finding your passion.
Some people thought that they have finally figured life out: study well, graduate, get a job, succeed. However, that’s not always the case.
Life, as we all know, is full of surprises and what may work for other people doesn’t automatically mean that it will work for you as well. In fact, one engineer even gave up his career to become a fish breeder instead — and he’s never been happier.
Mohd Fajiha Alaihis worked as an engineer at a firm and earned just RM 1,500 (US$ 358.94) a month. The Malaysian knew that his income wouldn’t be able to support his family, despite having a much-wanted career.
Since the 27-year-old had always been interested in fish, breeding them seemed to be the most natural next step.
His big break came when a sibling bought a good quality breeding fish, and he was able to earn money on its first baby. Mohd then realized that he could make a lot of money as a fish breeder.
“One day, my sibling bought a good quality parent fighting fish, and I tried to breed it. Then, I managed to sell its first baby in Singapore for SGD 200 (US$ 145.83) a pair. After that, it struck me that breeding and selling fighting fishes could make a lucrative income.”
To become a successful and professional breeder, Mohd did a lot of research on the field and underwent training so he could learn more about breeding betta fighting fishes.
Today, he breeds and sells betta fish variants like Halfmoon, Halfmoon Plakat, Dumbo and Veil Tail. He is also the chairman of the Malaysian Fighting Fish Club.
Mohd has over 8,000 of these betta fishes in different varieties. Although he started his career as an engineer and earning RM 1,500 a month, he now makes a five-figure income as a fish breeder.
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Quadruplets Mom Goes After Trolls Making Fun Of Her Post-Baby Body
Nobody can mess with this fierce mommy!
The internet can be harsh on anybody, even hard-working mothers. A mother who recently gave birth to quadruplets had previously shared a photo of her post-partum body. Unfortunately, trolls immediately began making fun of the stretch marks that cover her stomach. However, the feisty mom didn't take any of the trolling lying down.
Doreen Ching is a Malaysian mother who gave birth to adorable quadruplets Jensen, Jayden, Jasper, and Jazreel. Although the loving mom is smitten with her babies, she is also aware of the effect they had on her body while she was still pregnant. When Doreen's followers asked the beauty shop owner how they could get rid of scars, she had an empowering message.
Doreen is only 23 but she's already the mother of four little children.
6 Things To Know About Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray
Miss Philippines Catriona Gray was just crowned as Miss Universe 2018. The country’s contender had been one of the front-runners to win the coveted title, and she didn’t disappoint.
Even before the coronation night, Catriona had already garnered a lot of fans from all around the world for her beauty and charm. Now that she is officially Miss Universe 2018, many are eager to know more about her. Here are the six things to know about Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray.
1. Catriona’s dad is Scottish, and her mom is Filipino.
Some People Believe Santa Should Now Be Female Or Gender Neutral
Are you open to a female Santa?
When we talk about Santa, we immediately think about an old bearded man, wearing a red and white suit. He passed through the chimney to send out our gifts, and take a bite or two of the cookies we left for him and drink the milk. This is what we have in mind every time we think about Father Christmas. But now people are thinking if Santa should be female or gender neutral.
It was first suggested that Santa should be female after two women volunteered to play Santa as part of a festive tour in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. However, a lot of people were not impressed by this idea.
Ex-NASA Engineer Takes Revenge on Package Thieves By Creating ‘Glitter Fart Bomb’
Yummy Foods That Can Be Eaten Past Their Expiration Date
Teen’s Ultrasound Seemingly Shows She’s Pregnant With A Fish
Filipino Engineer Recycles Plastic Garbage Into School Chairs
Two Fish Spitting Sand On Each Other In Hilarious Battle
Man Dives Overboard To Catch Big Fish That Got Away
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Secretary Perdue's Tough Job
Washington Insider - Tuesday
2/6/2018 | 6:18 AM CST
China Launches Probe into Imports of US Sorghum
China's Commerce Ministry announced on Feb. 4 it has launched an investigation into U.S. sorghum imported from January 2013 through October 2017. The probe is to be completed by February 4, 2019, but could be extended by six months.
Corn futures rose on China's Dalian Commodity Exchange after the investigation was announced as it spurs expectations for more corn demand. While some have indicated it could boost China's imports of corn, most believe it is another effort to bolster demand for China's huge supplies of state-owned corn that are estimated around 200 million metric tons. Others, however, believe the action a "tit-for-tat" response to U.S. investigations or announced sanctions against various Chinese goods.
The investigation was not requested by Chinese sorghum producers but rather by the Commerce Ministry, as the agency noted it launched the investigation as sorghum producers in China are small-scale producers and that makes it difficult for them to provide documentation.
White House Withdraws Controversial Environmental Nominee
The withdrawal of Kathleen Hartnett White's nomination to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality was announced in a statement by the nominee released February 4.
According to the document, Hartnett White requested her nomination be withdrawn from further Senate consideration effective immediately. President Donald Trump had re-nominated Hartnett White for the position this year after the Senate failed to act on her nomination during its 2017 session.
"I want to thank President Trump for his confidence in me and I will continue to champion his policies and leadership on environmental and energy issues of critical importance to making our nation great, prosperous and secure again,” Harnett White said in the statement. Her nomination had drawn fierce opposition from Democrats who questioned her lack of scientific background and positions on environmental issues.
Washington Insider: Secretary Perdue’s Tough Job
Politico is reporting this week what almost everybody knows, and that is that Secretary Perdue has a tough job as the administration’s rural envoy. The group says that ag secretary Sonny Perdue has kept up a steady travel schedule, visiting more than 30 states in the nine months since being confirmed.
Along the way, Politico says, farmers and business leaders have consistently raised many of the same questions like: Where does President Trump really stand on trade, particularly NAFTA?
Although trade is the most visible question that the secretary faces, the former governor of Georgia also must deal with questions about how farm and nutrition programs could change—especially in response to critiques by budget hawks.
Politico says the “inherent conflict in Perdue’s job,” of promoting the president’s agenda while also trying to address the worries of farmers, ranchers and rural Americans -- was on display as he persevered through an 11-hour tour through the heart of Pennsylvania last week. Politico reporters traveled with him and witnessed firsthand how disarming he can be when asked about thorny issues.
“Twenty-five percent of all the beans go to China,” a soybean farmer told Perdue, during a stop at a family-owned flour and feed mill in New Oxford, Penn. “I guess my only comment would be: Please be careful, OK?”
The secretary turned on his down-to-earth Southern charm and assured this audience, and others, that in the end “trade deals will be resolved in ways that work for farm country.”
And, then there is the “fuzziness on farm bill,” Politico says. When it came to crop insurance and nutrition programs, Perdue delivered less-specific answers. He said, as he often does, that farmers prefer to plant for the market rather than for a government program. He also argued crop insurance can’t be so “rich” that it becomes a lifestyle.
The secretary also said he supported “stricter work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents” who receive food stamps--but he declined to endorse cuts to the key nutrition programs, Politico said.
The group also reports that farmers are keeping a close eye on the NAFTA talks. Farmers fear that the uncertainty surrounding the talks has already prompted Mexico — one of the largest customers of U.S. agriculture goods in many respects — to seek other suppliers of feed grain, wheat and other commodities.
“The statements by ministers in the near future are going to be important and just seeing how they characterize the progress, and that’s something to watch carefully,” said Darci Vetter, a former senior trade and agriculture official in the Obama administration now advising a group called Farmers for Free Trade that is promoting the importance of NAFTA for agriculture.
The U.S. has given some signals that it is open to alternative ideas presented by Canada and Mexico, Politico says. Although the President has been fickle on his support for NAFTA, he told farmer-members of the American Farm Bureau Federation this month that he still had their backing, so he may not abandon a policy that is important to a crucial constituency that overwhelmingly supported him in the 2016 election, Politico concludes.
Robert Guenther, senior vice president of public policy for United Fresh Produce Association, told Politico that the large ag presence at the sixth round of negotiations showed the widespread ag support for the continuation of NAFTA. U.S. ag industry leaders in Montreal – including Guenther – who has said that he thinks that the negotiations are visibly moving in the right direction.
“It is critical that our negotiators be able to discuss key NAFTA issues with such a diverse group representing many different sectors of United States agriculture,” Guenther said.
So, we will see. NAFTA has meant significant market growth to many farmers who tend to prize such deals highly. Experience has shown that producers tend to have long, vivid memories regarding politicians who undercut markets, as the 1980 Russian sales embargo was seen as doing, in spite of Carter administration efforts to protect the sector from such impacts,
Senate ag committee chair Pat Roberts likely remembers that time, as do many producers--even if some in the administration do not. So, Politico is right, the Secretary has a tough job that he seems as well equipped by both training and experience as anyone around to take on, Washington Insider believes.
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Rock LP Lonnie Mack
Whatever's Right
LP (Item 436896) Elektra, Early 70s — Condition: Very Good+
Elektra (label)
Rock (CD, LP)
A comeback album of sorts for Lonnie Mack, recorded for Elektra with a really down-home sound that's almost verging on southern soul at points! In a way, the set's kind of a nod to the sorts of genres in rock that Mack's music first helped unlock in earlier years – done at a time when it was a bit more acceptable to cross boundaries and reference roots that weren't actually yours in your music! The execution here is surprisingly strong and without hoke – a few notches up from Leon Russell – and Mack's guitar is in fine fine form, supported by a good deal of organ in the backings. Titles include "Gotta Be An Answer", "Untouched By Human Love", "I Found A Love", "Baby What You Want Me To Do", "Mt Healthy Blues", "What Kind Of World Is This", and "Things Have Gone To Pieces". © 1996-2020, Dusty Groove, Inc.
(Cover has a scratch on the back, a promo stamp, and light wear.)
Wham Of That Memphis Man!
Fraternity, 1963. Very Good
A killer blend of southern soul and rockabilly grit from Lonnie Mack – his first album and a really incredible effort that fuses soul, country, and rock roots in a really brilliant way! Lonnie was later known as more of a country boy-electric bluesman, but the blues on this early LP feels ... LP, Vinyl record album
Elektra, 1971. Near Mint-
... LP, Vinyl record album
Robbie Dupree
LP...$3.99
Titles include "You're So Vain", "The Right Thing To Do", "The Carter Family", "When You Close Your Eyes", "Waited So Long", and "Embrace Me You Child". LP, Vinyl record album
What can we say? This is one of the greatest albums of all time! The record's got a sound that's completely unique – as crack LA garage punk rock meets Hollywood baroque production, and the result is an amazing bit of loud guitar noise backed by strings and horns, all graced by the godlike ... LP, Vinyl record album
Best Of Bread
Elektra, 1973. Very Good+ Gatefold
Tim Buckley
Goodbye & Hello
Elektra, 1967. Very Good Gatefold
Easily one of our favorite albums by Tim Buckley – and a record that really opens up with some key jazzy touches! Buckley's still got his roots in folk here, and his vocals are yet to hit the extremes of Starsailor or Lorca – but there's also a new sense of inflection to the way he ... LP, Vinyl record album
Elektra, 1965. Very Good
An archetypal album from the legendary Paul Butterfield – and a set that would shape the sound of countless blues rock records to come! Despite what you might think of the genre or its many later incarnations, there's a raw power here that's really amazing – the young Butterfield and ... LP, Vinyl record album
Marlin Greene
Tiptoe Past The Dragon
Elektra, 1972. Very Good+
An unusual Elektra set, mostly recorded at Muscle Shoals – with titles that include "Who's The Captain Of Your Ship Of Dreams", "Masquerade Ball", "Jonathan's Dream", "Grand Illusion", "Tiptoe Past The Dragon", "Good Christian Cowboy" ... LP, Vinyl record album
Strange Locomotion
Dandelion/Elektra, 1971. Very Good+
A strong effort from this group that featured Kevin Coyne on vocals and guitar – and which is filled with original songs penned by Coyne and the group's pianist, Nick Cudworth. LP, Vinyl record album
Butterfield Blues Band
Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin'
One of their better and funkier LPs from the old days, and with some nice cuts like "Night Child", "Song For Lee", and "Play On" – which have some nice grooves at the beginning. Not our usual bag, but some nice moments. LP, Vinyl record album
Aladdin Sane
RCA, 1973. Very Good+
One of our favorite David Bowie albums ever! Aladdin Sane was a real turning point for Bowie – recorded on the heels of the tremendously popular Ziggy Stardust album, but really pushing the boundaries past the more straight-ahead rock and glam of that record. Instead of just sitting on his ... LP, Vinyl record album
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DF Interview: Paul Cornell plumbs depths of magic, despair in new novel, Chalk
Andrew Waggoner has always hung around with his fellow losers at school, desperately hoping each day that the school bullies • led by Drake • will pass him by in search of other prey. But one day they force him into the woods, and the bullying escalates into something more; something unforgivable; something unthinkable.
Broken, both physically and emotionally, something dies in Waggoner, and something else is born in its place.
Paul Cornell (Doctor Who, Dynamite’s Vampirella) writes a tragic, brutal exploration of bullying in Margaret Thatcher's England in his new novel, Chalk. To learn more, DF sat down with the British writer of TV drama and comic book adventure.
Dynamic Forces: Paul, you’ve said elsewhere that your novel Chalk is an “incredibly personal” story and has been with you awhile. Can you tell us more about that please?
Paul Cornell: I’ve been writing the book for the best part of twenty years, through many different versions. It’s taken a lot of shaping to put such raw stuff into the shape of a story. It still feels to me like it’s kind of pushing at its restraints, like a monster in a box. It draws on my own experiences, but I also hope it’s universal.
DF: Schoolyard bullying is obviously a subject torn from today’s headlines but has been a problem long before it was ever discussed or even considered seriously in a societal manner. Can you tell us in a general way how this is addressed in the novel?
Paul Cornell: It’s what the book’s about. I didn’t want to write a novel where the protagonist is heroic because he’s abused by those around him at school. I wanted to write a book about cycles of abuse, how abuse creates abuse, and how systemic it is, and how it’s tied to money and the greater systems beyond.
DF: What can you tell us about the protagonists in the book? Can you give us a capsule sketch of each main character?
Paul Cornell: Chalk is the story of Andrew Waggoner, a schoolboy growing up in rural Wiltshire in the 1980s. He’s an ordinary, messed-up kid, until forces greater than himself, at both his school and on the ancient downlands above his house, take an interest in him. Angie Boden is an outsider girl at the same school, who has about her the power of pop music. She has her own story going on. Waggoner can barely relate to her or to anyone beyond his immediate group of bullied peers. Drake is another boy, the greater force at the school disco who takes an interest. And there’s another Waggoner that’s the result of the above process.
DF: Following up on an earlier question – and of course we know most characters are reflections in some way of their creators to a certain extent – is there a particular character in Chalk that is most reflective of Paul Cornell?
Paul Cornell: I am Waggoner. But you’ll hopefully never find out which one.
DF: Chalk is set in the 1980s, and the music of the era somehow connects with Angie Boden and a brand of mysticism she practices. What can you tell us about that?
Paul Cornell: It’s a meaningful era in the UK in that it’s the previous time when austerity and privation went hand in hand with fascism. The music of my childhood is all through the book, forming the numinous life of some of the characters. We’re all about the power of Bananarama.
DF: Just for readers’ sake – you are known perhaps better by the DF audience for your comic book work – can you describe your process as a writer for doing a prose novel vs. a comic book such as Vampirella, which you have been working on for Dynamite?
Paul Cornell: Well, they’re different technical processes. I try to plot both before I write, and usually fail. I’d need a book to describe the detail.
DF: Paul, are there any other projects current or near-future you’d like to mention?
Paul Cornell: This May, my new comic Saucer State is coming out from IDW, the sequel to and completion of Saucer Country, which used to be at Vertigo. It’s still by me and artist Ryan Kelly, and it continues the story of Arcadia Alvarado, now President of the USA, who was once abducted by aliens and is now going to use the powers of her office to try to discover the truth of what happened.
Dynamic Forces would like to thank Paul Cornell for taking time out of his busy schedule to answer our questions. Chalk, a novel from Tor.com, hits stores March 21st!
For more news and up-to-date announcements, join us here at Dynamic Forces, www.dynamicforces.com/htmlfiles/, “LIKE” us on Facebook, www.facebook.com/dynamicforcesinc, and follow us on Twitter, www.twitter.com/dynamicforces
VAMPIRELLA VOL. 4 #0 Written by Paul Cornell
VAMPIRELLA VOL. 4 #1 ATLAS COMICS SIGNATURE SERIES - SIGNED BY PHILIP TAN Written by Paul Cornell
VAMPIRELLA VOL. 4 #1 BLANK AUTHENTIX EDITION Written by Paul Cornell
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Am I just a placeholder?
Thread: Am I just a placeholder?
breean7830
I have known Matt since 1st year of college but were only friends until we had a summer class together about 5 months ago. We started talking more and began dating in August.
2 weeks ago I was using Matt’s computer when an iMessage from his best friend Eric popped up, saying something along the lines of “You need to unfollow her and stop overthinking stuff”. I was curious and Matt wasn’t in the room so I clicked on it, in time to see Matt’s response “Do I have to? Diana and I broke up on good terms. We’re still friends”. Right then Matt walked in so I exited the chat and acted like nothing happened because I didn’t want to tell him that I snooped.
I met Matt and Diana at the same time about 5 years ago, and they had the kind of friendship so tight everyone thought they were dating, always in their own world laughing at inside jokes, always inseparable. When they finally got together no one was surprised, and when they broke up 3 years ago no one could believe it. I can see why Matt would want to reconnect since they shared so much history together.
Last Saturday I went to a party that Eric was also at. We’re also really good friends, so after a few drinks I got the courage to ask about Matt and Diana. He said some stuff that make me feel very uneasy:
They broke up because Diana realized she only dated Matt because everyone said they should. So while he actually had feelings for her; she didn’t feel the same
He repeatedly tried to hang out/meet up even though Diana kept dodging his requests
There was another girl between Diana and me, and after that ended. Matt came to Diana to tell her about how much the girl reminded him of her and that he was sorry for his wrongdoings and the misunderstandings in their relationship
Diana unfriended him on all social media after their breakup. He then sent her friend requests and when she didn’t accept, he messaged her asking why. “Is it really uncomfortable? Can we really not be friends?” Etc.
She is the only ex that he still follows on Instagram, and he watches her stories religiously. He even overthinks and over analyzes some of them, constantly messaging Eric “Is this directed at me? What do you think this means?”
For a year or so after they broke up, he kept saying that missed her and their friendship, even while he was dating the next girl
I don’t know if I’m reading too much into it, or I’m projecting my insecurities because I saw how close Matt was to Diana and I’m just afraid that I won’t measure up, or if I’m valid in feeling bothered and uneasy.
TLDR: BF believes he only wants to be friends with ex but I believe he still has feelings for her. Am I overthinking? What should I do?
bluecastle
This doesn't sound great, and I'm not talking about the Matt/Diana dynamic, though I'll get to that. But first things first: I can of course understand how seeing that message made you uncomfortable. What I don't quite understand is why you didn't talk to Matt, so you could see what he would say and how you two could deal with that—or not—as a couple. Did you have a sense, even prior to that message, that Matt was hung up on Diana? Did you have doubts about your connection, together? Has being nervous or jealous been a consistent emotional state for you in this short relationship?
Curious to hear answers to those questions.
By turning to Eric, an uncomfortable moment—one that, yes, could have been fatal to the relationship, though also not—became a very dramatic and convoluted one. In your shoes, right now, I'd take a moment to think about all that and ask—regardless of all this information—if this is a relationship that is encouraging healthy habits, allowing you to be the kind of person you want to be inside a relationship. There may be more clarity and power in that than further trying to solve the Matt/Diane puzzle through third parties and detective work.
Still, here we are.
From what you've learned, it sounds like Matt is still processing this Diana business. I think there are often some "loose ends" with people we meet and get involved with, and the kind of lingering question in early dating is both "how loose" are they and whether the person is tying them up gracefully or fiddling with them like a cat with a ball of yarn. In the best case scenario, all that kind of happens organically, with little confrontation—or maybe some very light conversation to create boundaries that allow a connection to breathe and expand. It's not particularly pressurized because (a) it's new and (b) you're pretty secure in the connection.
What's tough about this situation is that, instead of having a conversation with Matt, you've been having one in your own head and with Matt's friends. That hasn't done much, has it? If what you know, right now, is enough to know you can't proceed—well, then you can end things. If you don't want to end things but have some concerns—well, I'd say it's time to replace the detective cap with the relationship cap, and talk to Matt. That is what couples do: they address things that are bothering them, with those who "work" addressing them in a way that restores harmony.
I'd say this is a great moment for you to learn a little bit more about how you and Matt get along—and who Matt is as a person—but to do that you have to engage with Matt, while trusting that you'll proceed in accordance with your authentic feelings, rather than accumulating information in secret and moving those pieces around in your head. That's just making you dizzy and disconnected—from him, from yourself.
Sorry this is happening. Don't put yourself in a precarious position. There are plenty of other guys to date. He is still very much thinking about her and clearly would take her back in an instant. Cut your losses.
Originally Posted by breean7830
We started talking more and began dating in August.
2 weeks ago I was using Matt’s computer when an iMessage from his best friend Eric popped up, saying something along the lines of “You need to unfollow her and stop overthinking stuff”. I was curious and Matt wasn’t in the room so I clicked on it, in time to see Matt’s response “Do I have to? Diana and I broke up on good terms. We’re still friends”.
DancingFool
Wilds of Texas
Unfortunately, it seems like he is still completely hung up on Diana and although he may be trying to move on, date, etc because rationally he knows he should, emotionally he is still not available to anyone.
So are you a placeholder? Not consciously, but still same end result. He is not fully with you and isn't capable. You'd be better off dating other guys who are ready and open to be completely invested with you.
Rose Mosse
There's a lot of he said/she said there. I'd speak with Matt about it and see what he says. I'd also come clean about seeing the messages between him and Eric. The nature of your conversations should be free of assumptions or any quick judgments against each other. Trust is key in relationships. If you do trust Matt, even if to a limited degree, now's the time to engage in that trust.
The hearsay from Eric is inappropriate. I hope you know that. It's called gossip. Leave that out of your relationships in future. It muddles up a lot of waters and clouds your own judgment. Learn to develop your opinions independently from what you see before you and the things you feel.
I'd also spend more time thinking about your connection with Matt and asking yourself whether it's at a level that you would like. I think you're sensing a void in your relationship, a lackluster that's disturbing you. You're finding ways to break it down and reasons to gossip and dig for more information against the man you're seeing. I hope you realize this is a very destructive and negative way of approaching your insecurities. Don't do this. Respect each other more, use that trust if there is trust in the relationship, come clean on the messages and gossip and form your own opinion of whether Matt is really right for you.
Originally Posted by bluecastle
I guess I didn't bring it up with Matt because it seems too trivial and I didn't want to stir the pot over a non-issue. My last boyfriend cheated on me with an ex, leaving a deep scar that I suppose I carried into this relationship.
Originally Posted by Rose Mosse
I think 1 of the reasons I did not come to Matt is that when I previously brought up the topic of past relationships, he brushed it off dismissively and simply said that he didn't want to talk about exes. In addition, the texts had been weighing in my mind so after a few drinks, my inhibitions were lowered. I know that this doesn't excuse gossiping about my partner in a relationship. I find it difficult to give the relationship 100% of my trust due to being cheated on in the past, and I realize this is an issue I need to work on
But was it trivial? It doesn't sound like it was it you—and getting a secondhand rundown is, of course, stirring the pot.
I'm still curious about the other questions I'd asked—namely, how you feel, generally, about your connection with Matt. Did you feel it's a bit lackluster, as Rose suggested? Something about the potency that you didn't or don't quite trust?
Those are kind of always the most important questions, as trying to figure out what another person is "really" feeling or "really" thinking is kind of impossible. So, sure, I can take everything you've heard and write a story titled "Run!" But I could just as easily write a story that titled "Listen!" To yourself, to him.
People are complicated. You yourself, for instance, clearly have a lot of jagged thoughts and feelings connected to your own ex, yet you are also in a relationship. If Matt found a tipsy friend of yours and asked for an emotional dossier, what would he hear? Would he wonder if he was "placeholder," or perhaps a "cure" of that past pain?
That's kind of why the level of connection is so critical. It's okay to have doubts about it, to not quite feel it but still be curious about where it can go, just it's okay to decide, without "proof" of anything, that something is just not right because your spirit is unsettled. The tricky part is how we handle those moments.
figureitout23
‘I know I shouldn’t have gossiped.’
‘I know I shouldnt bring my baggage into this relationship.’
Your words aren’t really matching your actions though are they? I mean you know but you still did it, now you need help dealing with the aftermath of a situation you essentially knowingly put yourself in.
If I tell my workout trainer, ‘hey I polished off a whole pizza last night, but I knew I wasn’t supposed to.’ My trainers not going to be like ‘oh great! That makes it all ok!’
Just because you know you’re poisoning yourself doesn’t mean you aren’t poisoning yourself...
boltnrun
I think the real reason isn't that you think it's "trivial" (because you obviously don't ) but because you don't want to confess you snooped his messages and interrogated his friend about him and his ex.
You're obviously insecure about Matt and it's making you stressed and anxious. Dating someone shouldn't make you feel stressed, anxious or insecure.
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Printing solid objects – a leap towards the future
Posted 1 Nov 2007
Printing solid objects at home seems like sci-fi, but a university project supported by the Environmental Choice eco-label is showing how to create solid objects at the click of a mouse.
The concept of using some kind of moulding device to create a three-dimensional object is not new. This "rapid prototyping" is used by designers to make models, but an exhibition that opened this week at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Design (in Vivian Street) goes several steps further in philosophy and sustainability.
Class teams had just over four weeks to initiate, design, build and programme a range of "prototypers", three-dimensional printers that actually create solid objects, using techniques such as building up cells, shapes or layers. However it was a graceful, glassy machine called Equinox that attracted the environmental label's attention.
When design student Emma Church approached Environmental Choice, the future-focussed, government-backed ecolabel eagerly joined in sponsoring her project: a 3D printer powered by the sun, and using recycled Resene paint as its sculpting material. The process also involved the skills of a local laser cutting firm Ponoko.
Senior lecturer Ross Stevens says that personal 3D object printers could be seen as a return from mass, globally standardised production to individual crafting of objects locally. 'We've even moved mass production out of countries to places like China. What they are suggesting with this kind of technology is that we will get local bureaus making "prints" and that has less environmental impact. Long-term we will get these printers into our houses, then again the user becomes the maker, through a much different loop than the one you would expect, all fully augmented with technology. You turn a liquid into an object at the point of use, and ideally you recycle it."
The VUW students, says Ross, have to overcome the challenge of unreasonable aims with unreasonable budgets in an unreasonable timeframe – through teamwork, "and they've yet to fail!" Almost the biggest outcome, he says, is when students are able to take their visions and catch the support of outside forward-looking organisations such as Environmental Choice.
"This creative concept, focussing the sun to dry layers of retrieved paint to build a physical object, demonstrates the values of leading-edge, responsible design," says Environmental Choice general manager Robin Taylor. "It re-uses recycled paint in a solar-driven process, and the objects created can be further recycled. It embodies the sustainable approach that has so far motivated almost one thousand products to complete Environmental Choice certification as absolutely proven, environmentally better products. In addition to showing environmentally responsible ingenuity the Equinox team have also created a machine of undeniable, quiet gyroscopic beauty."
Initially each of the 26 students presented a design during a class competition to select the top 3 ideas that they continued to build as teams. In the best democratic tradition, the lecturer had just one vote, as does each of the students. "Equinox was voted one of the top 3," says Ross Stevens, "which just shows you how the students value it being green."
Pictured above is Emma Church (right) who contacted Environmental Choice for sponsorship and the beautiful "rapid prototyper" was the result of a month of tireless effort from the Equinox team.
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EODC IT capacities to be significantly extended
data / info / news
Through the „Earth Observation Data Centre for Water Resources Monitoring“ (EODC), established by TU Wien, ZAMG, private companies and individual researchers, Austria plays a major role in the Copernicus programme of the European Commission and in activities of the European Space Agency (ESA). With additional funding from the Vienna Business Agency the EODC can now be significantly extended.
Copernicus is an ambitious satellite programme that will bring Europe to a worldwide leading position in the civilian use of satellites. Since the launch of the first Sentinel satellite (Sentinel-1A) in April 2014, the sensors on-board the Sentinel 1-A satellite observe the Earth’s surface by radar signals producing global data sets for research and applications, such as environmental protection, urban planning, agriculture, forestry and water economy, and civil protection. The Sentinel data provide an essential contribution to monitor and protect our environment and through their open distribution scheme they are a source of information to the general public. However, due to the advanced sensing concepts and outstanding spatio-temporal sampling characteristics, the Sentinels will collect significantly more data than ever before. This results in the necessity to create new ways to handle and utilise these data. As a basic requirement specific high tech infrastructures need to be established in order to work with these “Big EO data”.
To tackle these challenges, the company „Earth Observation Data Centre for Water Resources Monitoring“ (EODC) was founded in May 2014 by a cooperation of TU Wien, the Austrian meteorological service Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG), the private companies Catalysts and GeoVille and individual researchers. The IT infrastructure of the EODC will now be significantly extended in order to handle the huge amount of data. With a 50% funding from the Vienna Business Agency for a proposed 1.900.000,00 € expenditure, a unique Big Data processing facility can now be built in Vienna, accessible for industry, science, education and start-ups.
The impetus for Austria’s competition in the Copernicus programme came from the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit), which created the necessary pre-conditions through the Austrian Space Applications Programme (ASAP). “Space technologies and their applications represent highly dynamic world growth markets and are therefore of importance for Austria as a business location.”, says Technology Minister Alois Stöger.
Additional storage, further computational power
In a first step the storage capabilities at TU Wien will be increased to hold two Petabytes (PB) (i.e. two quadrillion bytes), which will enable the storage of Sentinel-1A satellite data of the complete Earth surface. Thousands of hard drives are necessary to increase the initial storage to a total of 20 PB. Catalysts’s staff members will ensure that this multitude of disks can be accessed and managed in the most effective, and cutting edge, manner.
The global utilization of the data is only possible due to the close connection of the Big Data storage with the supercomputing facility VSC (Vienna Scientific Cluster) operated by TU Wien. “The funding of the Austrian higher education structure fund is the basis to establish a significant data storage facility next to the VSC. It is pleasing that this initial infrastructure can now be extended”, says Johannes Fröhlich, TU Wien’s vice rector for research and innovation.
With the support of the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit) and the Austrian research Promotion Agency (FFG) additional hardware investments are made at the premises of ZAMG to receive the Sentinel data directly from ESA’s data hub and process them upon the infrastructure located at TU Wien.
With the additional funding provided by the Vienna Business Agency the storage capabilities of EODC will be extended to 20 PB in the following three years and the computational power will be extended. This will allow EODC to store additional Sentinel data and will enable further users to access the huge amount of satellite data.
„Already today Austria belongs to the five European countries that use the Copernicus satellite data in an extensive manner“, states Dr. Christian Briese, EODC’s managing director. “With this increase of the IT infrastructure we will be able to extend our international visibility and EODC will become more appealing for further partners and applications”.
Storage cluster: The first expansion phase of the data archive includes storage hosts holding 1 Petabyte of data and additional compute nodes for direct processing. This first block will be set up until the end of 2015. By the end of 2018, EODC will house several of these blocks, featuring a total of 20 Petabytes storage capacity. Source: Catalysts.
Earth observation data for climate change research, better weather forecasts and crisis management
Research projects at TU Wien utilise satellite data for the global monitoring of soil moisture and contribute with this activity to climate change research. However, the opportunities offered by EODC are also relevant for industrial applications, education and start-ups creating new solutions and applications. On-going research and development activities in the EODC are being funded through grants of FFG and ASAP funding.
The establishment and extension of EODC is a relevant part of ZAMG’s strategy to improve weather prediction and climate change. It will contribute to further improvement of forecast and warning accuracy. “Specifically in crisis situations, accurate satellite data are an indispensable basis for our alert systems and the national crisis management”, says Dr. Michael Staudinger, ZAMG director. “Moreover, climate research profits significantly from the satellite data. The funding of the Vienna Business Agency is a further important step to establish EODC as an important international institution”.
Data availability and coverage maps: Global data coverage map of Sentinel-1A data, available via the EODC data centre. The map shows the number of acquisitions per area. Source: EODC.
Applications: (1) Risk management: Flood extent monitoring from Sentinel-1A at 10m sampling. The image shows the situation at the Greek / Turkish border area in February 2015. Source: TU Wien. (2) Climate change research: Soil moisture anomaly at 0,25° sampling for August 2003, generated within the European Spacy Agency’s Climate Change Initiative Soil Moisture project. Europe’s record-hitting drought during that summer is clearly visible as negative anomaly (red). Source: TU Wien. (3) Weather forecast: Satellite image acquired over central Europe in between a withdrawing broad rain front and a cold front incoming from the Atlantic carrying heavy rain and winds. Satellite data are an integral part of today’s weather forecasts and bad weather warnings. Source: EUMETSAT.
“Shared Research facilities” a call of the Vienna Business Agency
The support for EODC was possible through the call “Shared Research Facilities 2015”. “With this call we have entered uncharted waters. The excellent submitted proposals have proven that Vienna gains important benefits from these research activities”, stated by Gerhard Hirczi, managing director of the Vienna Business Agency. With the call “Shared Research Facilities” the Vienna Business Agency aims to support the establishment and extension of research infrastructures that are intended to simplify access to high quality infrastructures for companies and research organisations. Bundling research activities in central institutions is reasonable because high tech infrastructure can therefore be used in a more efficient manner and specific services for research and industry are more easily accessible. This supports collaborative approaches in forward-looking research topics and increases the efficiency of hardware usage.
TU Wien GEO Department, Forschungsgruppe Fernerkundung: http://rs.geo.tuwien.ac.at/
Catalysts: https://www.catalysts.cc/en/
ZAMG: www.zamg.at and www.facebook.com/zamg.at
GeoVille: http://geoville.com/
Wirtschaftsagentur Wien : https://wirtschaftsagentur.at/
Press release in other media
ORF.at: http://science.orf.at/stories/1765297/
TUWIEN.ac.at: http://www.tuwien.ac.at/aktuelles/news_detail/article/9840/
derStandard.at: http://derstandard.at/2000027330574/Wiener-Satelliten-Datenzentrum-wird-erweitert
New coverage maps available
We updated our coverage maps and included Sentinel-1 SLC, and Sentinel-2 products. Please find all available coverage maps at: eomex.eodc.eu/cm
EODC contributes to EGU 2014
EODC members contribute an abstract to this years European Geophysical Union (EGU) conference in Vienna. You can find the abstract here: EGU2014-13077 (pdf)
SAVE THE DATE EODC Forum 2020 on June 9, 2020 in Vienna, Austria The fifth annual EODC Forum will have a special focus on „Earth Observation in the Era...
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Separated Families Call Us to Our Baptismal Promises
“Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?” BCP pages 294 & 305
In 2012, I began a Master of Liberal Studies program at Rice University, a four-year process designed for students who already have a variety of academic and life experiences. One of the requirements for the degree is a “Capstone” – a shorter version of a thesis.
My Capstone was on a subject I thought was worthy and timely: minor children, accompanied and unaccompanied, illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. In the course of my research, in 2016, I made a field trip, spending three days at the epicenter of the influx at McAllen, Texas. I interviewed border patrolmen, civic officials, non-government officials with the Catholic Diocese of Brownsville, and the rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in McAllen. I also visited a processing center at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen.
What I saw and learned changed me.
Although the crossings are along the U.S.-Mexico border, very few of the people taking those risks are Mexican. The great majority come from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, which border Mexico on the south and which, especially in their northern regions, have lost civil order control to drug interests and criminal gangs. The environment is seen as hopeless as the countries are impoverished and those who may be regularly employed make about $4 (US) per month. The gangs (notably MS-13) recruit actively among the youth and offer $10 or more per day, with the threat that refusal means death for the entire family. Desperate parents (mostly mothers) have no recourse but to flee, and the only destination offering any chance at hope is the United States. The “Coyotes” offer guidance through Mexico and typically charge fees of $6,000 - $8,000 per individual.
And so they come. The entire story has led me to some conclusions. As Christians, it seems to me that our own Baptismal Covenant requires us to (a) try to restore some dignity, since those arriving have been stripped of theirs. They have little or no money; are exhausted and dirty; and do not speak the language or really know where they are; (b) to welcome these strangers who are not only our brothers and sisters, but are also brothers and sisters in the faith; (c) to work cooperatively with Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador (and as peers) to gain control over international criminal elements; and (d) to provide assistance to these impoverished and corrupted countries to gain control over their own civil order and borders.
This will require movement from everyone, internally and externally. It will cost money. Since the United States is the strongest and wealthiest of the five, I believe that some kind of initiative similar to the Marshall Plan (that helped rebuild Europe after World War II) would be in order. Also, the U.S. currently has more than 11 million illegal migrants, many of whom have been resident for a generation or more. We are not going embark on some sort of draconian kind of round-up of these people, if we could find them. There is no solution to this situation that can be proposed, which would be “fair.” We can formulate a new framework for border and immigration control, but for those here, and who have been here, it will require a one-time suspension regarding them. Admittedly, this would be unfair to those following legal procedures, but I see no other acceptable way.
It will also require honest grappling, especially in the United States and Mexico, with some uncomfortable legacies. In Mexico, there remain deep-rooted colonial carryovers of a culture of padrones and peons, and issues that sparked Mexican revolution are still present. I grew up in South Texas, and we have our own residuals of attitudes hostile to Mexicans, which viewed them as lazy, servile and inferior. Past slights, real or imagined, remain long in collective memories and must be addressed honestly.
Finally (and as Christians), our main responsibility is faith-based. As our own late suffragan, Bishop Anselmo Carral, used to say (he was Cuban): “I am a child of God, so I am not an “alien” anywhere on earth!”
We cannot hold minor children responsible for their parents’ decisions and certainly cannot use them, in any way, as pawns in a political struggle, and the parents’ decisions are open to be understood and supported.
The people who operated the Underground Railroad were breaking the law, and those who hunted them were the law-abiding. The people who sheltered Anne Franke were breaking the law, and the people who found her and killed her were the law-abiding. The “sit-ins” of the 1960’s broke the trespass laws and other duly-enacted ordinances, and the local police were enforcing the law.
Am I advocating law-breaking? Not at all – but Christians look to a higher standard. We have been baptized.
And the people say: “I will, with God’s help.”
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Multi-user Capability of Dynamics GP Compared to QuickBooks
Dynamics GP built on Microsoft SQL uses extensive temporary files that enable multiple users to read the same record at the same time. True multi-user capability combines functionality of the underlying database along with functionality encoded within the application.
Chances are, like me, you're not an SQL architect, and haven't given all that much thought to all of the technical underpinnings of your ERP system. But as a user, this is what GP's Microsoft SQL foundation means to me. When I access a Dynamics GP customer master record to make changes, the system writes a copy of the record to a temporary file. When I finally click the save button, the changes are written back to the main table and the temp file is closed. The ability of shadowing the main table with a temporary table allows multiple users to access the same record at the same time.
If while I’m making my changes, someone else opens the same customer master record, neither of us is impeded or is even aware of each other unless the second user (or third, fourth…) also makes a change. Whoever clicks the save button first wins. The second user to click save receives a message, “This record has been modified by another user. Your changes will not be saved.” Okay, maybe that’s frustrating if you made a lot of changes, but the record is undamaged and the integrity of the database is preserved.
Several functions are at work to make this a different experience with Dynamics GP and Microsoft SQL than with QuickBooks and its underlying proprietary database. QuickBooks simply won’t allow a second user to access the same record. When the first user opens the record, the record locks. If the first user who opened the record doesn’t close it and goes to lunch, a second user has to wait an hour. Or prowl the office hoping the other person didn’t lock their computer.
With some older, less functional systems, I’ve seen much worse scenarios. While doing a needs analysis for one wholesale distributor, I found that only 1 of 14 customer service users could process a sales order at the same time. Red and green flags were visible throughout the office. If someone wanted to process an order they got up from their desk, went to the nearest flag station, viewed all the other flag stations, if there were no red flags visible, they put up the red flag, returned to their desk, processed the order, and returned to the flag station to put up the green flag. If another red flag was visible, the person would wait a minute or start yelling, “Who’s processing? Let me know when you’re done.”
As they explained to me, it was a freaking nightmare. People got interrupted and forgot to switch back to the green flags. Impatient at times, and some users more impatient than others, users would simply click “Process” and hope for the best if they couldn’t see a red flag. No one was adverse to ignoring the system while simply yelling out, “I’m processing!” The customer service manager had a private office so when she needed to process an order, she had to leave her office and walk around the corner to put up her red flag.
When I was finished with the needs analysis, I determined they could easily cut one-half or more of their customer service staff simply because they could process orders that much faster. Or they could double their sales volume and not hire additional staff. They also would save considerable down time because they weren’t restoring their corrupted system to a backup several times a week because users would ignore the necessary procedure to raise the red flag.
In Dynamics GP, if six users want to create a sales order for the same customer at the same time, no problem. In QuickBooks, if the customer record is in use, it’s inaccessible to other users. While I don’t support QuickBooks, I assume its weak record locking in a multi-user environment contributes heavily to its instability. It takes a lot more programming to design logic that allows multiple users to view records at one time, locks fields down rather than the entire record, keep track of who saves first, and what to do if multiple changes are made while the record is open.
Dynamics GP allows multiple posting processes simultaneously. Daily procedures are truly multi-user.
When single-user of the system is vital, it tells us. For example:
You can’t change the Account Format because there are other users in this company.
You cannot clear files because there are others using this company.
If you’re using an entry-level accounting system and its lack of true multi-user capability is holding you back, Dynamics GP can provide great value and return on investment. We can deploy rapidly, transferring data from QuickBooks using the RapidStart tool. Using Computeration’s proprietary Zap Integration tool, we can even migrate historical data.
Gloria also writes about the distinctions between Quickbooks and Microsoft Dynamics GP at http://www.computeration.com/
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We are back once more
The sun is shining, the sky is blue and we are back on Achill island, this beautiful place where people are friendly and kind and go a long way to make us feel at home. It's almost become a yearly routine to come here in February, we said we would be back and here we are. This year there are twice as many of us with a much wider age range, a fact that has contributed to our creative interaction with the local community. A quick glance at the list of the workshops taking place during our stay shows the extent to which the local people are participting in our activities.
Moreover, nature has been really kind to us giving us plenty of sunshine and fine weather allowing us to make the most of our stay here. Looking at the view of the bay near Craoghaum (my favourite spot on the island) is indeed a humbling experience. The sheer beauty of the mountains in the background and the reflection of the sky in the water is just indescribable.
The beauty of the island and the warm reception of the islanders is an experience never to be forgotten. We will always remember the warm welcome we have been given by people from all walks of life, especially by Anne McCarthy, the Mayo County Arts Officer, Shiela McHugh, school teacher, Sean Cannon, artist and photographer, Maurine O'Mally from Spar, Tim Dailey from the Outdoor Education Centre,Sorcha Dailey from the Wayfarer's hostel and Teresa from the Achill Cliff House Restaurant. Special thanks to the organisers at the IT Centre and Maria Robinson for her kind gift of freshly homemade bread and smoked salmon.
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Taming heavy road transport emissions
By Sam Morgan | EURACTIV.com
Transport is responsible for a quarter of the EU's emissions but countries are struggling to bring levels down. [Rudmer Zwerver/Shutterstock]
Transport is responsible for a quarter of the EU’s total emissions, and 25% of that comes from heavy-duty vehicles like trucks and buses. But countries are struggling to bring the levels down and it remains unclear what is the best way to go about taming such a problematic sector.
Following the European Commission’s first foray into trying to regulate heavy-duty vehicles, policymakers and influential figures from the transport industry attended the European Transport Forum in Brussels to see what happens next.
‘We don’t have to rush our trucks legislation’, warns MEP
Interview | Transport 27-09-2018
The head of the European Parliament’s environment committee has urged her MEP colleagues not to rush the adoption of new EU rules on heavy-duty vehicle emissions, casting doubt on whether the Third Mobility Package can be finalised under this current Parliament.
Truck emissions and the Pandora’s Box of ambition
News | Transport 26-09-2018
EU lawmakers are currently tinkering with the European Commission’s first attempt to regulate heavy-duty vehicle CO2 emissions. But a debate is now raging about how strict those cuts should be and how soon they should be enforced.
Realistic ambition in truck CO2 cuts
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The European Commission recently released its proposal on regulating heavy duty CO2 emissions. Rolf Willkrans describes the “not insurmountable challenge” ahead and calls for realistic yet ambitious rules to be adopted.
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I think the best way to decarbonise trucking would be to mandate the use of a certain percentage of trucks to undergo a hydrogen dual-fuel conversion. This can be 40%. 70% or fully operating on hydrogen. The conversion requires incorporating hydrogen tanks within the truck chassis.
Refueling stations on motorways would be cheap, and could access local renewable energy. At an electricity price of €60/MWh, Nel Hydrogen are offering a commercial price for hydrogen at €5/kg. This is cheaper than diesel in a truck engine.
After there are a number of stations, truck and car manufacturers will be more inclined to start mass-producing fuel cell versions of their cars, which are necessary.
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Communication from the Press-Services of Lugansk City Council
Sergey Kravchenko: “The city is in a critical state. Lugansk is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe”.
Over the past months, the head of Lugansk municipality Sergey Kravchenko, deputies, executive committees, emergency and communal services, the Ministry of Emergency Situations (МЧС), treasurers, and inclusively the medical personnel of hospitals, social workers and many others continue to maintained the safe habitability of the city. Workers of all municipal subdivisions are doing everything possible to minimize the effects of wartime keeping the cities life-support infrastructure operational.
It is difficult to call what is happening in Lugansk an Anti-Terrorist Operation – it’s a full scale war, which already took more than one hundred lives of peaceful civilians, destroying residencies, municipal building of social sphere, devastated thousands of human lives.
Yet, the city is continuing to function. The Lugansk City Council takes full responsibility for the resolution of ongoing problems; which arise every minute. The ongoing services include the repair of roads, improvement of public services, preparation for winter, the functioning of preschool facilities, the provision of food and other necessities. But, already today, after several months, the city as a consequence of blockade and continual bombardment is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe.
Electricity was briefly restored on Friday until being cut off due to bombardment of the last operational substation; the city is supplied by eight. At the time electricity was restored to the hospital, water treatment and delivery facilities, emergency services and residential sectors. By the evening the substation was once again damaged. Due to ongoing battles, emergency works are unable to restore service. As a result the city is deprives of electricity, water, phone and internet.
There is no benzene, diesel of gas in Lugansk. There are no deliveries, reserves have been exhausted. Ambulances, fire trucks, public transit, food delivery trucks and all other vehicles are incapacitated; Emergency services and public transit are able to function only in minority of situations, the roads are empty.
Food: Due to long term absence of electricity and refrigeration food has spoiled. There is no food delivery to the city. The assortment is diminishing every day. Grocery stores are closing. At many markets long queues are observed, people are agitated. Despite the difficult situation, the production of bread continues, meat packing plant is still working. However the dairy plant has stopped working due to absence of milk delivery.
There is no supply of potable water. For more than a week, the Municipal water services have delivered water without chlorination. Obtaining bottles water is practically impossible.
Humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians has yet to be provided. The people who are fleeing are putting their lives on the line. If a humanitarian corridor was provides, hundreds more would evacuate.
Today, Ukranian artillery bombardier the ‘center for utilization of waste’ damaging the majority of their vehicles. The collection and removal of waste has become a pressing issue.
In Lugansk all pensions and salaries have been arrested. All banks are closed, cash is in short supply. Municipal employees are working without pay . Pensioners have been hit the hardest and are on the brink of poverty. Other works have been last paid over a month ago.
“Lugansk is in complete blockade and isolation. Today, despite all difficulties, we apply maximum effort and are looking for option for the resolution of problems. With each day the situation deteriorates, today it is critical. On behalf of the Luganks municipal head, I would like to reassure its citizens: I remain with the city and will continue doing everything that I can, to support its life ”, said Sergey Kravchenko.
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1. This law requires that people with disabilities have access to products and services such as telephones, cell phones, pagers, call-waiting, and operator services that were previously not accessible for many people with disabilities.
A. Fair Housing Act of 1968, as Amended
B. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as Amended
C. Rehabilitation Act of 1973
D. Telecommunications Act of 1996
2. The mission of this FEMA group is to provide guidance, tools, methods, and strategies to integrate and coordinate emergency management inclusive of individuals with access and functional needs.
A. External Affairs
B. Office of Disability Integration and Coordination (ODIC)
C. Office of Equal Rights
D. Center for Independent Living
3. The legislation that requires facilities designed, built, altered, or leased with Federal funds be accessible to the public is:
D. Architectural Barriers Act of 1968
4. Immediately after a series of storms hit an area, various community agencies, organizations, and volunteers form a committee to locate recovery resources and communicate the information to people with disabilities and others with access and functional needs. This is an example of:
A. The Whole Community Approach
B. National Response Framework
C. The Social Model
D. Stafford Act
5. Asking those with transportation accessibility needs to identify local resources such as accessible vans and buses is an example of:
B. Rehabilitation Act of 1973
C. Equal rights
6. Which entity/group is designed and operated within a local community by individuals with disabilities and provides an array of independent living services.
A. Office of Disability Integration
B. Center for Independent Living
C. Regional Disability Integration Specialists
D. Regional Response Coordination Center
7. For many individuals, simply providing physical, programmatic, or communications access will allow for them to maintain independence in an environment outside their home.
8. Including all members of the community in preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation:
A. Strengthens the emergency management program.
B. Is not always the best approach.
C. Slows down the planning process.
D. Ensures disaster survivors get the maximum amount of assistance.
9. If a person’s speech is difficult to understand:
A. Pretend to understand to avoid embarrassing the person.
B. Ask the person to speak more distinctly.
C. Ask him or her to repeat what was said.
D. Explain that the person should write what they want to communicate.
10. People with disabilities and others with access and functional needs may be charged to cover the costs of measures to ensure equal access and nondiscrimination.
11. What document states that “it is “essential to incorporate individuals with disabilities or specific access and functional needs and individuals with limited English proficiency … in all aspects of the planning process”?
A. Presidential Policy Directive 8
B. Incident Command System
C. Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101
12. Video Remote Interpreting (VRI) and Job Access With Speech (JAWS) are examples of:
A. Advanced equipment and software that is available only in permanent FEMA facilities.
B. Technology under development but not currently available to the general public.
C. Optional services that may be made available if requested by the State.
D. Assistive Technology that can provide equal access in a DRC.
13. The Disability Integration Advisor is a partner and subject-matter advisor to the Equal Rights Advisor on disability issues.
14. If unsure about a person’s disability accommodation or access and functional needs, the best approach is to:
A. Make an educated guess.
B. Contact the Equal Rights Advisor.
C. Ask the person.
D. Notify the Federal Coordinating Officer.
15. When speaking with a disaster survivor who has decreased physical stamina:
A. Try to make the conversation brief.
B. Ask if you may speak to a family member instead.
C. Find a place to sit and talk.
D. Politely ask the person to return when they feel stronger.
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Freedom Centers Constitutional and Political Freedom State Dept Finds 30 Clinton Emails Discussing Beng ...
State Dept Finds 30 Clinton Emails Discussing Benghazi
by Jack Heretik • Washington Free Beacon
The State Department announced Tuesday that it has found 30 new emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server that discuss the terror attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012.
With a steady stream of new Clinton emails being publicized in recent weeks, a federal judge has ordered the review and release of Clinton’s emails to be accelerated, the Washington Examiner reported.
A judge asked the agency to speed up its review of the documents in preparation for release to Judicial Watch, the conservative-leaning group that filed the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
The emails were included among the roughly 15,000 emails FBI agents said they pulled from Clinton’s server.
Others were deleted beyond recovery after the Democratic nominee’s team used a digital tool called BleachBit.
The State Department has said it will need until the end of September to review all of the recently recovered 15,000 emails, which the FBI found during its investigation into Clinton’s server. State Department lawyers said Tuesday during a hearing before Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that they were determining how many of the 30 Benghazi-related emails were part of the batch of 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton handed over in 2014.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, which has asked the State Department to see if any of the Benghazi emails fall under its Freedom of Information Act request, said Tuesday that the department wants 30 days to review the documents before releasing them.
State finds 30 Benghazi-related “deleted” Clinton emails, wants 30 days to turn them over. Court demurs and suggests they move quicker.
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) August 30, 2016
In a separate development on Tuesday, law enforcement officials confirmed that the FBI is expected to publicly release its report on the bureau’s investigation into Clinton’s server as early as Wednesday, including notes of a three-hour long interview with the former secretary of state.
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Jane Ellen Jamison was born on 27 December 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA, daugther of Frances (Crooks) and James K. Jamison. When she was nine months old, her parents, both teachers, took her to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where she grew up most of her childhood. Her father played a key role in encouraging her as a writer, who was, himself, a history writer. She attended Michigan State University, College of the Sequoias and Northern Michigan University. She has been a registered nurse as well as a Cadet Nurse during WWII. On 24 June 1949, she married Doctor Albert Jenke, became a housewife and had five children: James, Ellen, Ann, Bobbie Jane, and Robert. Years later, she found time to write, but her husband told her it was trash. Despite this, she persisted until he finally gave her an ultimatum–writing or him. The divorce left her with all the kids except the eldest, who was in med school, and having to work as an R.N.. When she met John Edward Toombs in the writing class that led to her first sale, she was not contemplating marrying again. But she did on 2 March 1972, adding to the mix two stepchildren: Michael and Leslie. She is now a widow with seven grandchildren, and has returned "home" to live in the beautiful Upper Peninsula on the shore of Lake Superior--withher old High School Swedish friend, the "Viking" from her past.
Jane Ellen has published of numerous published books, both in paper and electronic, as well as some articles. She uses her maiden and second married name: Ellen Jamison and Jane Toombs, but she has used a few pseudonyms: Olivia Sumner, and Jane Anderson, she also wrote as Diana Stuart in collaboration with Dee Stuart, and under the colective pseudonyms: Rebecca Drury, and Lee Willoughby Davis. Her writing covers various romance genres such as gothic, suspense, contemporary, historical, paranormal, mystery, fantasy and horror. She is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America.
Book List:7 titles
Title Title Genre Genre Date (oldest) Date (newest)
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His Very Own Vampire
Anansi the Spider and the Sky King
Mountain Moonlight
/ Contemporary Romance
Zebra Bouquet - 26
IN THE HEART OF THE DESERT... Vala Channing can't decide which is more dangerous--the fact that she's about to take her troubled young son, Davis, trekking in Arizona's perilous Superstition Mountains or that the guide who will lead them is the one ...
Pet's Best Friend
What do best friends do? Play dress up? Tell secrets? Curl up together? You'll find out when Pet's Best Friend lets the cat out of the bag. Get the real scoop from animals of every shape and size as they tell their innermost thoughts about the kids t...
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After her engaged sister runs off with another man, Julia Sommers journeys to Texas to tell rancher Wade Howland he is not going to marry his promised bride, but when he mistakes Julia for his intended wife, she realizes that he is everything she had...
Deception's Bride
A DESPERATE WOMAN On the Dutch Island of Formosa, Donella Livingstone, stood before the altar, tricked into marrying a man she didn't love. But a surprise pirate attack threw the wedding into chaos, and Donella found herself in the arms of a dashi...
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Casey Stuart
Richard Woodman
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Letter: Lot of money on unnecessary eyesore
This vast, replacement RNLI building has cost millions of pounds of the general publics donations, and it is totally unnecessary.
Letters editor
Published: 11:00 Monday 29 August 2016
So the wraps are finally off the new Lifeboat Shed. What an eyesore it is.
The lifeboat has never been more efficient than where it is berthed at present, afloat on a pontoon and pointing into the harbour entrance.
This is the location the coxswain and I attempted to promote to the RNLI inspector for the new lifeboat some years ago when I was operations manager (for more than 16 years).
The site is not only more accessible to the sea, saving vital time, if this berth had been made permanent it would also have saved the huge rebuilding costs and the expense of the tractor/trailer and its ongoing maintenance.
I accept that there is a need for a shore base for crew training, operations room and retail outlet but the Lancaster Inn, converted and refurbished would have served all these needs for a fraction of the cost of the new building.
The coxswain and I spent a considerable amount of time and effort formulating the afloat boat proposal, but the RNLI representative didn’t want to know. I guess it’s not important when there’s a bottomless pit of money.
Fred Normandale
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Fair Trade USA Unveils 'Fair Trade Difference', An Experiential Pop-Up Shop
Nonprofit's first NYC marketplace will showcase a fair trade lifestyle, bringing together 13 top brand partners across apparel, home, food, and beverages.
Fair Trade USA Staff 10/01/2019
OAKLAND, Calif., (October 1, 2019) – Fair Trade USA®, the leading third-party certifier of fair trade products in North America, is hosting its first pop-up shop — Fair Trade Difference — at the Seaport District in New York City during Fair Trade Month from October 10th through October 31st. The Fair Trade Difference will double as a marketplace and immersive learning experience highlighting fair trade brand partners and influential experts in the field throughout October. The curated marketplace, featuring Patagonia, west elm, and 11 additional brand partners, will be free and open to the public daily, showcasing all things fair trade for purchase and sampling.
Consumers are invited to move through the two-floor space to shop and explore a selection of Fair Trade Certified™ products from fleeces to furniture. There will be a variety of technical outdoor apparel, tees and accessories from Patagonia, and felt ornaments, rugs, textiles, and furniture from west elm. Kroger will offer its Simple Truth© private label coconut water, tea, and beauty alongside a virtual reality experience taking the viewer on a journey through tea fields on its the Rwandan Sorwathe Tea Estate. Shoppers can also enjoy a full Death Wish Coffee bar serving free, freshly brewed coffee with whole beans available for purchase, as well as a large variety of chocolates, sweets, and drinks from Numi Tea, Alter Eco, Equator Coffees, and more.
“Five years ago we started making 10 yoga styles in one Fair Trade Certified factory and we are proud today to offer more fair trade styles than any other apparel brand,” said Lisa Williams, Head of Product at Patagonia. “This means more than 66,000 workers have benefited from our commitment to the Fair Trade Certified program. We're excited to celebrate our partnership with Fair Trade USA at the pop-up and the progress we've made offering products in every category that allow our customers to vote with their dollars for good values.”
“The goals we set for our Responsible Sourcing commitments have motivated us every day to think about how we can drive social, economic, and ethical reform within the retail industry,” said Jennifer Gootman, Vice President, Social Consciousness & Innovation, west elm. “We are encouraged by the impact we’ve made in our five years of partnership with Fair Trade USA and look forward to making even more meaningful strides in our commitments to makers and communities in the years to come.”
Fair Trade USA encourages consumers to explore fair trade products beyond the walls of the Fair Trade Difference pop-up. Discover more than 1,250 responsible businesses spanning 30+ product categories in the product finder at FairTradeCertified.org.
About Fair Trade Difference Pop-Up Shop
When: October 10–31, 2019 | Monday–Saturday: 10am–8pm; Sunday: 10am–7pm
Where: 8 Fulton Street, New York, NY 10006
What: Shop, sample, and learn about the fair trade difference in coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, apparel, and more.
More event info here
Featured brand partners: Patagonia, west elm, Kroger, Death Wish Coffee, Numi Tea, OCHO Candy, Alter Eco, Wholesome Sweeteners, Equator Coffees, Marich Chocolate, Chuao Chocolatier, UnReal Chocolate, Hudson Roasters.
#SeekTheSeal, Make A Difference
About Fair Trade USA
Fair Trade USA® is a non-profit organization and the leading certifier of fair trade products in North America. Its trusted Fair Trade Certified™ seal on a product signifies that it was made according to rigorous fair trade standards that promote sustainable livelihoods and safe working conditions, protection of the environment, and strong, transparent supply chains. Rather than creating dependency on aid, Fair Trade USA’s model empowers farmers, workers, and fishermen to fight poverty and earn additional money to improve their communities. Winner of Fast Company’s Social Enterprise of the Year Award and recognized as a leading social venture by the Clinton Global Initiative, the Skoll Foundation, and Ashoka, Fair Trade USA also helps brands and retailers tell their stories of impact and educate consumers about the power of their purchase.
Since 1998, producers have earned a total financial benefit of $610 million through sales of Fair Trade Certified products, including over $400 million in Community Development Funds.
For the past 20 years, Fair Trade USA has partnered with over 1,250 brands to certify more than 30 different product categories.
The Fair Trade USA Coffee program launched in 1998, when partners imported 76,059 pounds of fair trade coffee for a total Premium of $3,803. In 2018, partners imported 175,892,965 pounds for a total Premium of $35,178,593. Today, the program reaches 23 countries, 345 producer organizations.
The Fair Trade USA Cocoa program launched in 2001, when partners imported 14,050 pounds of fair trade cocoa for a total Premium of $956. In 2018, partners imported 48,774,206 pounds for a total Premium of $4,424,758. Today, the program reaches 11 countries, 43 producer organizations.
The Fair Trade USA Tea program launched in 2002, when partners imported 65,261 pounds of fair trade tea for a total Premium of $10,747. In 2018, partners imported 2,773,148 pounds for a total Premium of $829,137. Today, the program reaches 8 countries, 36 producer organizations.
The Fair Trade USA Apparel and Home Goods program launched in 2011, working with 3 factories in 2 countries. Today, the program reaches over 100 factories in 13 countries, with 77,000 fair trade factory employees benefiting.
Follow Fair Trade USA
Facebook: @Fairtradecertified
Instagram: @Fairtradecertified
Twitter: @FairTradeCert
Contact: Kasi Martin, Sr. Communications Manager, Fair Trade USA kmartin@fairtradeusa.org
Anchor Event Details
"I Worked an Entire Day on a Coffee Farm in Peru": A Screening and Conversation with BuzzFeed's Auri Jackson
Monday, October 21st, 7–9 pm
Explore the humanitarian issues surrounding coffee and understand the Fair Trade Difference with BuzzFeed’s Auri Jackson. Watch the video of her adventure to a Fair Trade Certified farm and join in on a Q&A discussion with Death Wish Coffee and Fair Trade USA after. Highly caffeinated coffee fix provided by the world's strongest coffee brand, Death Wish Coffee.
We Wear Fair: Sustainable Fashion Networking with Stylist Rachael Wang
Thursday, October 24th, 6:00–8:30 pm
Come connect with the change-makers who are transforming the fashion industry for good. Hear from stylist Rachael Wang, Creative Director for We Wear Fair Trade, about the trends and forces that are reshaping fashion through activism and advocacy. Learn about the Fair Trade Certified apparel program and join a speed networking session designed to spark thoughtful conversations about sustainability in fashion. Light snacks, drinks, and free chocolate truffle goodie bags from Alter Eco provided.
Take Time For Tea: A Virtual Trip to the Fields at the Source of Kroger's Simple Truth© Tea
Saturday, October 26th, 3–6 pm
Dive head first into the world of fair trade tea through this event that's steeped in experience. You will be transported to the Fair Trade Certified tea fields on the Sorwathe Tea Estate in Rwanda through a virtual reality experience, enjoy a complimentary tea leaf reading, and learn about tea culture, preparation and history through tons of free tastings. Light snacks, unlimited quality tea, games, and merchandise giveaways also included.
Trick or Trade: Celebrating Halloween the Fair Trade Way
Wednesday, October 30th, 3–8 pm
Come trick or treat and get some free sweets! You'll also learn about the positive impact of fair trade certification for cocoa and sugar workers. We'll bring the ghouls and goblins, you bring your best costume (optional, of course). Children and the young at heart are welcome at this event. Featuring a Spooktacular Pumpkin Spice S’mores Giveaway by Chuao Chocolatier!
Join Fair Trade USA for its first pop-up marketplace in New York City this month.
Basingwa Maria joined a fair trade cooperative in 2000, and with the increased income she has received from her coffee over the years, she has been able to bring running water to her home and invest in solar panels on her roof. She hopes to bring electricity to her house soon.
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Devices to look out for
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Safe Web Browsing
Strangers and Predators
How Content Gets Shared
What to Secure
Protecting Your Network
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What do I need to Secure?
Media is increasingly being consumed through online services. These services offer a wide range of content—from kids to adult. Parental controls, which allow you to filter content, are often available but need to be activated. Parental controls need to be enabled on each device or service: from TVs to tablets. If a device has access to multiple services, then parental controls for will need to be activated for each service.
How we consume media such as TV shows, movies, and music has changed radically. We're now watching through online services such as Netflix, iTunes, or Hulu. A number of streaming media devices or set top boxes are now available that pull content from the Internet. You can watch that content on your computer, TV, tablet, or phone.
As a parent, this explosion of media channels may seem overwhelming and daunting. Where do you begin? The good news is that parental controls available for many of these channels.
Parental controls help moderate the kinds of movies, TV shows, and music that can be played or accessed on certain devices. The bad news is that you need to enable parental controls for them to work. A password is normally required to disable or bypass parental controls after they are activated. The kinds of devices that have built-in parental controls are TVs, computers, cell phones (like the iPhone), streaming media services (like iTunes or Netflix), and music players. Some parental control solutions work better than others. Its best to think of parental control solutions like your helper. They're never a substitute for you and they are never a substitute for involved parenting; so never consider them a foolproof solution.
Devices to Secure
Thinking about where to start is daunting. To help, we've prepared a list of things to be aware of in your home (and at the home of friends and neighbors). We'll then note options you may or may not have when it comes to parental controls for that specific kind of device or service.
Looking at this list, you'll start to be amazed at all the different devices that you may need to be attentive to. We suggest you create a written inventory of the specific things you find in your home. Write down the manufacturer or vendor along with the specific model of the device to help you stay organized. If you want to enable parental controls, please refer to each item's user manual for for specific details. If you don't have a user manual, don't worry. Most companies now have all their user manuals available online. You can also call their support number for more information.
Televisions: All new TVs have parental controls, which will allow you to block programming that exceeds the rating level you set. Parental controls on TVs are handled by something called a "V-Chip". The V-Chip in the TVs uses the Parental Guidelines rating system (TV-Y, TV-Y7, TV-G, etc.) for TV shows and the MPAA ratings system (G, PG, PG-13, R, etc.) for movies.
Smart Televisions: A "Smart TV" refers to a category of TV that is connected to the Internet. A Smart TV allows you to surf the Internet, install apps, watch online content, and even conduct video chats. All Smart TVs use the same parental control V-Chip of a traditional TV, but the chip does not work with any of the "smart" or "network" features. There is no built-in filtering for web site browsing on the TV. You must use an additional solution like OpenDNS or a router with parental controls built-in to control web content. You also can't manage parental control options for apps and streaming services through the TV.
Cable and Satellite: Most providers have parental controls available through their set top boxes. Normally, you can block programs by rating, channel or time period. Check your provider's web site for specific instructions on enabling parental controls. Cable and satellite parental controls are independent of your TVs parental control feature.
Streaming Services: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, and Crackle are all examples of online streaming services that make movies and TV shows available. These services are available via a web browser, through streaming media boxes, or as an app on your smart phone, tablet, or Smart TV. Some services have parental controls and others do not. Check the options available for the service you wish to use. For those services without parental controls your only option is to completely remove access to the service.
Streaming Media Boxes: AppleTV, Roku, Boxee, and Vudu are examples of streaming media boxes that will pull content from the Internet and show it on your television. Each of these devices offers parental controls. In some cases, you will need to enable parental controls in two places: both on the hardware device itself and the content service you are using.
Bluray and DVD players: Today's players allow you to set parental control options for both DVDs and Bluray discs. For protection to work on DVD and Blurays, the discs must be properly encoded and rated (G, PG, PG-13, R, etc). The best way to moderate content through these players is to be selective with the movies and TV shows that you choose to rent or purchase.
Smart Phones: and Tablets: All smart phones and tablets have some basic parental control options. Parental controls should be set for apps to be downloaded and content that can be purchased. Parental control options for streaming services and Internet access must be done through additional parental control options specifically for that device, through the mobile carrier's parental controls, and through services like OpenDNS.
Computers: All new Macintosh and Windows computers offer basic, built-in parental control options. You must enable them to work and in most cases, parents will find that these basic controls need to be supplemented with other software solutions like NetNanny, CyberPatrol, and OpenDNS.
Gaming Consoles: Gaming consoles like Xbox, Playstation, PSP, and the Wii all have parental control options that will allow you set a rating limit for the games (using ESRB ratings), DVDs, Blurays, and that can be played on the device and will also allow you to turn the web browser off. Online content and apps can only be secured using solutions like OpenDNS and through the specific services enabled on the device.
Parental Controls: To enable or Not Enable
Ok, let's be up-front: parental controls aren't always convenient. Not all parental controls are user friendly. In many instances (like a TVs V-Chip) parental controls are annoying that many don't use them.
However, even though some parental control options are far from perfect, we still suggest that you secure all child-accessible media devices. Enabling parental controls gives you additional peace of mind and might prevent your child from coming into contact with pornographic content or strangers online. Always remember, if a device is able to connect to the Internet, then it has access to web sites, social networks, chat rooms, and other services that you may not be aware of. Your child's safety is worth a little inconvenience.
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Rob Peacock
I myself struggled with the lack of meaningful parental controls on our new Blueray and Smart TV. The parental controls though available on our Sony BDPS3200 blueray player were wholly inadequate. My solution was to block the SmartTV and Blueray player MAC addresses in my router settings and purchase an AppleTV to server all streaming content ( Netflix, Youtube ) because the AppleTV will allow me to set a passcode individually for each application to launch or show the app. Hope this helps someone els.
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Technology Safety Through the Eyes of Faith
A resource guide brought to you by a collaboration between
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The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
This site and the Faith and Safety initiative has been made possible in part by generous grants from the Catholic Communications Campaign and by the Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Endowment Fund
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