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From Grant Wood to Grandma Moses, Great Artists Portrayed Steam Threshing Era
Regionalist painters like Thomas Hart Benton portrayed art of the harvest
By Jean Reynolds and Bonnie Sheehy
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Thomas Hart Benton's Threshing Wheat, circa 1938-39, egg tempera and oil paint. It is on display at the Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Ind. Benton (1889-1975) lived during the steam threshing era, and this painting presents the work of both horse and threshing machine.
Art ©T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts/UMB Bank Trustee/Licensed by VAGA, New York, N.Y.
Dinner for Threshers by Grant Wood. The three-panel oil painting presents workers of the steam threshing era returning from the fields for dinner.
Art ©Estate of Grant Wood/Licensed by VAGA, New York, N.Y.
Dinner for the Threshing Crew by Lavern Kammerude. Another chronicler of life in the steam threshing era, Kammerude presented scenes from the Wisconsin farming community of his youth.
Wisconsin Historical Society. Image WHi-39903.
Art by W.R. Leigh, 1903, frontispiece for Gilson Willets' book Workers of the Nation, Vol. 2. Known as the "Sagebrush Rembrandt," William Robinson Leigh captured images of the American West – including vivid presentations of steam-powered threshing machines and energetic threshing crews – with a European technique.
Image courtesy Robert T. Rhode.
The Thrashers by Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known as Grandma Moses. Moses' artistry is pure memory, delivering to viewers a personal history of her experiences in the steam threshing era in Upstate New York.
Grandma Moses: The Thrashers. Copyright©1954 (renewed 1982) Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York.
Steam Power by Lavern Kammerude. In this image, Kammerude places steam engine front and center; black smoke billows into a white-hot sky as threshers labor below.
Wisconsin HIstorical Society. Image WHi-34380
Paintings of farm engines explore dynamic change in the heartland of America with brush and color, as potent testaments to the power of the steam engine upon a canvas that is America. Various artists – Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and Grandma Moses among them – personally witnessed the steam revolution in farming communities where work was accomplished communally with the might of steam threshing engines. These artists lived before, during and after the proliferation of the steam engine. And because they were born into or experienced life in rural villages, they were ideally positioned to interpret the impact of steam threshing machines.
Their art is often referred to as Regionalist; it is alternately praised and scorned as the values of Americans wax and wane between those of a global America obsessed with pop culture, and those who appreciate health, home and the hard work that provides a sense of self-worth and community. Michael Hall, author of Picturing Myth and Meaning for a Culture of Change, describes regionalists as “painters committed to an idea of American art as figurative/narrative/landscape expression fully pluralistic, democratic and populist in outlook.” The essence of the populist outlook Hall refers to is of working men and women who harnessed the power of the steam engine in a collaborative effort to work their farms for the sake of achieving modest prosperity. Their endeavors are depicted by Thomas Hart Benton, Lavern Kammerude, Grandma Moses and Grant Wood through colorful, passionate paintings that capture the impact of steam threshing power on their lives.
Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) is renowned for his ability to present the labors of the common man, a fact that is evident in his painting Threshing Wheat. In this painting, Benton juxtaposes the machine and the horse in a harvest scene: The golden wheat, blue sky and white mountains of fair clouds frame the labors of men while the black smoke that billows from the threshing machine snakes across the horizon. Light and darkness convey a poetic dichotomy of the revolution that is the machine. The painting dramatizes the social and environmental changes Benton perceived, and contains cultural commentary typical of his works.
A native of Missouri, Benton studied and traveled extensively, producing canvases labeled Modernist until he returned to his roots to provide artistic studies of the social contexts of America. He shared his passion for exploring the American experience through varied historical presentations, and he shared his vision of capturing that history with other artists.
Grant Wood (1891-1942) studied art with Benton at the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood was a focused artisan who witnessed the steam era’s peak and descent, and, to the nation’s benefit, he was born with an inclination for drawing. He grew up in Iowa, where he spent most of his life and gained an accurate historical background for his paintings. He spent his life developing his artistic career through varied pursuits that honed his talent for capturing life in rural Iowa, including the steam threshing era.
The three-panel oil painting Dinner for Threshers presents the real life of threshers returning from the fields, followed by wagons hauling the bundles of grain to be threshed. The painting was completed in 1934 and appears to depict a scene from the year after his birth: 1892 is painted on the barn.
The shadows of chickens in the barnyard are cast underneath them. It is high noon – dinner time. The threshers can be seen cleaning up for dinner, washing from their heads and necks the itchy chaff that had sifted into their hair and skin. Washing up makes them not only more comfortable, but also more presentable for dinner.
Gathering around a large table that stretches across the dining room, the group waits for food to be served by the women of the house – their day-long labor ready to be consumed. The dinner table can scarcely accommodate the workers arriving from the fields. Some may have to wait for a seat at the table or take a plate outside to the barnyard. In the kitchen, women prepare food and bring it to the table warm and plentiful. The detailed nickel-plated stove makes clear the social status of these women.
Grant Wood often said he included family and friends in his paintings. In the barnyard, a blond-haired youth carries a bucket of fresh water for the cleansing of the threshermen. This could be Wood’s brother Frank, who would have been about the age of the young man. With a very natural appearance, a woman stands behind the dining room table. Her placement in the painting suggests an important figure – perhaps she is Wood’s mother. At the center of the crowded table a man sits on a stool with a red cushion. This differentiation makes the figure significant – maybe this is Wood’s father.
Wood reminisces in the positive portrayal of family in the steam threshing era, and shows the era as a time of establishing a community among strangers that is as compelling as the ties of family. Of his work, Wood said, “I had in mind something which I hope to convey to a fairly wide audience in America – the picture of a country rich in the arts of peace; a homely lovable nation, infinitely worth any sacrifice necessary to its preservation.”
Lavern Kammerude
Lavern Kammerude (1915-1989) also chronicled life in the steam threshing era. Kammerude was born on a farm near Blanchardville, Wis., and left school after eighth grade to work on the family farm. For years he worked two farms doing what he called “plain old farming.” Though Kammerude started drawing at a young age, he did not begin to paint in earnest until the early 1960s.
When Kammerude took a job at a parts store in town, he was able to spend his evenings painting. Soon he found that many people were interested in his detailed scenes of a bygone era, and he began to sell his works in the 1970s. Kammerude might be called a diarist, an artistic commentator on the social and cultural contexts of the Wisconsin farming community of his youth. His paintings might be considered simply observations of life, but they are fine observations to share. Kammerude lets viewers feel the idyllic warmth of community through his painting of Dinner for the Threshing Crew and invites them to celebrate the neighborly labors of harvest, eased with the help of the machine, as portrayed in Steam Power.
In Dinner for the Threshing Crew, viewers feel the relaxed camaraderie of men and women relieved of their work to engage in friendly conversation that is a prelude to a meal. Men gather under the generous shade of a tree in front of a humble farmstead; the harvest machines rest in the field while these men relax before they take their dinner. The soft greens and browns of the landscape, the bright blue sky and rust-colored barn create an achingly inviting scene of refreshing simplicity and beauty.
Steam Power places the machine front and center, dominant over laboring men, horses and scraggly farm dogs. The black smoke billows – the might of the machine loosed only through the control of the operator. Not nearly as inviting as the shady rest of dinner time, the white-hot sky beats down on the figures of men working the thresher. This is the struggle that brings friends and neighbors to labor and celebrate together.
William Robinson Leigh
William Robinson Leigh (1866-1955) is often referred to as the “Sagebrush Rembrandt” for his paintings of the American West rendered with European technique. Leigh’s illustration Machine Harvesting and Threshing in the West captures vividly the steam-powered threshing machine and the energy of threshing crews.
Drawing on an American scene much farther east than his renowned works of cowboys and Indians in desert canyons, Machine Harvesting and Threshing in the West provides a detailed and colorful scene dominated by a strawburning, return-flue Buffalo-Pitts traction engine. Portraits of more than 20 men are placed throughout the scene, stoking the engine and reaping, hauling and feeding bundles of grain. The energy of the men in the scene is reflected even in the billowy clouds that seem to move across the sky above them, enlivened by the wheat chaff that seems to bend and blow about their boots.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
If the people who live through history are best equipped to share it, then Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860-1961) was well equipped indeed. Known as Grandma Moses, she began her career as a painter in her 70s without formal education or training. Moses turned to painting when advancing arthritis made it difficult to pursue her love of embroidery. Her artistry is pure memory, delivering to us a personal history of her experiences in the steam threshing era in Upstate New York.
Her career as a painter was wildly successful, enhanced by the fact that she was completely self-taught and self-directed, and at an age that was stunning confirmation of latent talent.
In The Thrashers we find the work of a diarist or folk artist. The painting can be studied from the perspective one might consider in a patchwork quilt. The warmth of the wheat, homes and barns contrasts with the coolness of the blue sky and frothy green tree tops in an idyllic scene that celebrates the blessing of work. The painting conveys a community of work, and provides allusion to people blessed with land to work in harmony with friends and neighbors – and with the help of machines and animals, to realize an unpretentious wealth. Grandma Moses’ vision of America is hopeful and wholesome.
Artists of the Steam Threshing Era
The artists who depicted America in paint provide us with a visual method of experiencing the poetic historical and cultural memory that was the steam threshing era. Thomas Hart Benton said, “My American image is made up of what I have come across, of what was ‘there’ in the time of my experience – no more, no less.” The same might be said of Kammerude, Moses and Wood. Perhaps they will ultimately be revered by another generation of Americans who long for the antithesis of the artificiality of modern life, a genuineness represented through the genius of regionalist art.
Students Jean Reynolds and Bonnie Sheehy attended Robert T. Rhode’s seminar at Northern Kentucky University on the literature and the history of the steam-power era, and spent the 2005 fall semester researching and composing this article.
The authors wish to thank the museums and custodians of works for permitting reproduction of paintings in their collections. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Grandma Moses Properties and the Wisconsin Historical Society have supplied images; and permissions have been graciously extended by Edward Kammerude and The Visual Arts and Galleries Association (VAGA).
We owe our discovery of the threshing scene of W.R. Leigh to John H. White, Jr., former chairman of industries and historian at the Smithsonian. Thanks to Dr. Thomas McGovern, Fine Arts Chair, Northern Kentucky University, for sharing his professional insight on the artists and their works. We are grateful to our professor, Dr. Robert T. Rhode, who generously shared his own research with us and supported us with kind advice and gentle guidance.
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As we all know, spam is a serious issue online, and at the same time, something we are all well familiar with. There is probably no internet user who has not come in contact with spam, especially via emails.
Currently, according to different sources and studies, 45 to 55% of all emails are spam. That is more than 15 billions spam emails per day. Due to the increasing damage for businesses done by spam, more and more systems are being implemented to push back spammers. In all of this, some legit emails may get caught in the crossfire and be sent to a spam folder or even be discarded. There is where authentication records come into play to help spam filters understand when an email has a legitimate source. The Email Deliverability toolkit is available in cPanel to help you easily utilize these anti-spoof and spam prevention records.
To increase the Email Deliverability for your domain, check the following sections:
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Email Authentication Records (also called protocols, techniques, technologies or systems) are a set of values which are generated for a specific domain/DNS zone. Due to this, they cannot be later altered by a 3rd party with malicious intent. These are the marks that receiving servers look into when an email is sent towards them. If these marks are not corresponding with the zone/domain from which the email is coming, the incoming server will mark them as spam.
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a record that adds to the header of each email an encrypted domain name identifier string. Trust ratings are based on domain name reputation so legit businesses will experience no issues. Spammers, on the other hand, will have a bad reputation due to continuously being added in blacklists. Once the receiving server detects this and the DKIM reputation checks out, the authentication is validated.
The DKIM is unique and is not entangled with other parts of the email such as the "From:" field so it cannot be manipulated via spoofing.
The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is one of the first significant strides against spoofing. The now popular DMARC protocol uses the result generated from the SPF and DKIM checks to link to the author's "From:" domain name. As a prerequisite technology, SPF lacks the reporting capabilities of DMARC but together, they relay enough information to the receiver regarding the trustworthy rating of the origin of the email.
So, when the outgoing email server isn't included in the SPF record connected to that specific domain, the email will be considered questionable and can be rejected by the receiver.
In short, with the SPF record, you can specify which IP addresses or hostnames are authorized to send email from a specific domain.
The Pointer record (PTR) is also called a Reverse DNS Record as it maps an IP address to a hostname unlike other DNS records that do the opposite. When entering an IP address, the PTR records will resolve to the associated domain. The PTR record compliments the A record, and in authentication checks, both are required. If there is a mismatch in these two records, the email will be marked as spam.
Before cPanel v78, users had to use the Authentication or DNS Zone Editor to manage their DKIM or SPF records. However, with v82 cPanel introduced a full-service toolkit called Email Deliverability, which can be used to manage not only DKIM and SPF but also PTR records with only a few clicks with more records potentially in the pipeline in future versions. This new feature will also automatically detect pre-existing issues with the records mentioned above and offer fast repair options. All of this is done to improve your email deliverability without the need for you to learn specific syntax of records and edit them manually.
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The DKIM record is valid in this example, but if there was an issue with it or it was not even generated, that would have been addressed here easily.
Next is the SPF record, which in our case lacks an IP address as part of its value. Click on the "Install the suggested record" button, and after a few seconds, you will receive a confirmation of the successful change.
Lastly, you will be able to check your PTR record. In our case, the same is valid. We are observing nominal behavior from the Email Deliverability Interface with no issues being detected.
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When you connect to a mailbox (which is protected by SpamExperts) using SMTP, and you send out an email message, it will be forwarded to the SpamExperts Cloud Service. They will filter all spam emails and held them back in a queue, while sending all legitimate emails towards their final destination - Gmail, Hotmail, etc. Your emails have been sent from the SpamExperts Cloud using their IP addresses, not the Shared IP address assigned to your hosting account with us. Because of that, the SPF record set for your domain name must include the specific hostnames. That will verify that your emails are indeed passing through the SpamExperts Cloud.
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You can't update two or more domains at the same time if their records exist on the same zone. The bulk records update is possible only in case the domains' records exist on different zones.
If you are using a remote server for your emails, you will not be able to use this particular cPanel function. In such cases, you will need to configure the DKIM and SPF records manually.
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Huawei Just Started Selling Laptops With A Beautiful Linux OS Pre-Installed
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Some of the best and most affordable premium laptops on the market are now shipping with Linux pre-installed. More specifically they’re shipping with Deepin, a beautiful and polished desktop Linux distribution which, like Huawei, are based in China. Whether this is a result of the ongoing trade dispute between the United States and China is unknown, but it’s a nice step forward for the proliferation of Linux alternatives promoted by major OEMs like Dell and Lenovo.
Huawei MateBook 13 with Linux
Let’s get the disappointing news out of the way first. Right now these select Huawei laptops with Linux are only rolling out in China, via Huawei’s official e-commerce store VMall.com.
The exact models available with Deepin Linux are the Huawei MateBook X Pro, Huawei MateBook 13 and Huawei MateBook 14. It also looks like you’re stuck with the stock options for each model.
Now on to the positive news. Huawei has ditched the traditional Windows logo key on these Linux models and replaced it with key that simply reads “Start.” And as you’d expect, these 3 models cost 300 CNY (or about $42 USD) less than their Windows 10 counterparts.
As for Deepin, its Chinese origins tend to ignite controversy (and anxiety within privacy purists) in the Linux world, however the distribution is open source and the code is available on GitHub. Politics and privacy stances aside, Deepin is one of the most stunning Linux desktops out there – and it’s also available in English.
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Deepin’s open source nature does mean that Huawei is free to make alterations to it for their own purposes.
One of the main draws for Huawei may be Deepin’s recently added Cloud Sync feature allowing you to sync various system settings to the cloud. This covers network settings (such as VPN and WiFi), sound settings, mouse settings, update settings, power settings, corner settings, theme, wallpaper, launcher, and dock. Definitely useful for installing the OS on multiple machines, or easily regaining your customizations after a clean install.
It’s also worth noting that all three of these Huawei laptops run any Linux distribution like a dream, not just Deepin.
Could this be a precursor to Huawei offering Linux on select laptops globally? Or perhaps a trial run to gauge interest in alternatives to Windows 10, such as its own open source HarmonyOS? I don’t have the answers, but it should be very interesting to watch things unfold.
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The work of North Dakota’s forensic psychologists often includes:
Providing services for law enforcement personnel, such as counseling and crisis management
Researching topics such as crime trends, criminal profiling, techniques for jury selection, etc.
Screening, assessing, and providing therapy to inmates in correctional facilities
Working directly with attorneys to provide psychological assessments, evaluations, and recommendations
Steps to Become a Forensic Psychologist in North Dakota
To work as a forensic psychologist in North Dakota in a clinical setting, you must possess a professional license issued by the North Dakota State Board of Psychologist Examiners.
The Board requires the completion of the following steps for state licensure:
Complete an Undergraduate Degree in Forensic Psychology
Complete a Master’s and Doctoral Degree in Forensic Psychology
Complete a Program of Supervised Professional Experience Recognized by the Board
Apply for Licensure as a Forensic Psychologist in North Dakota
Take the Required Examinations for a Forensic Psychologist License
Begin Your Forensic Psychologist Career in North Dakota
Keep Your Clinical Psychologist License Current
Step 1. Complete an Undergraduate Degree in Forensic Psychology
A solid foundation in psychology begins with an undergraduate degree related to this field of study. Therefore, if you want to become a forensic psychologist in North Dakota, a bachelor’s degree in psychology or forensic psychology serves as a solid first step.
While a Bachelor of Science (BS) provides a science-oriented general curriculum and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) provides a general curriculum focused on the liberal arts, both provide you with a core in psychology, which includes:
Two elective psychology courses
Foreign language sequence
Typical psychology courses in a bachelor’s degree in forensic psychology include:
Integrated theories of crime
Courtroom psychology
Principles of individual and community advocacy
Law and psychology
Step 2. Complete a Master’s and Doctoral Degree in Forensic Psychology
To become a forensic psychologist in North Dakota, you must achieve a doctoral degree in forensic psychology. Once you have completed your undergraduate course of study, you have two options for graduate study: you may complete a master’s degree, followed by a doctoral degree, or you may complete a doctoral degree that encompasses your master’s degree requirements.
Master’s Degrees in Forensic Psychology
Not all doctoral programs in forensic psychology offer direct admission for students who have completed only an undergraduate program; therefore, you may need to first complete a master’s program.
Master’s programs available through schools in North Dakota include:
Master of Arts (MA) in Forensic Psychology
Master of Science (MS) in Forensic Psychology
Master of Arts (MA) in Forensic and Legal Psychology
Master of Science (MS) in Forensic Psychology and Applied Behavior Analysis
A master’s degree in forensic psychology typically requires a minimum undergraduate GPA and minimum GRE scores. Many of these programs culminate in an internship, field study, or research project.
Doctoral Degrees in Forensic Psychology
Doctoral degrees in forensic psychology may be designed as either Psy.D. or PhD programs, with PhD programs generally aimed at students interested in pursuing forensic psychologist careers in research or academia and Psy.D. programs aimed at students pursuing clinical practice in forensic psychology.
One or more of the following organizations must have accredited your doctoral program in order for it to meet requirements for licensure in North Dakota:
Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards
Just a few of the doctoral degrees options for students of forensic psychology include:
PhD in Forensic Psychology
D. in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in forensic psychology
You can expect most of these programs to be highly competitive, contingent upon exemplary undergraduate/graduate GPAs, well-rounded resumes, and admission essays, just to name a few.
A dissertation, as well as extensive field study, is part and parcel of a doctoral degree in forensic psychology. Many programs also provide an opportunity for you to focus your graduate study on a specific area of forensic psychology.
Just a few of the courses in forensic psychology you can expect to complete during your graduate course of study include:
Adult forensic psychology
Juvenile forensic psychology
Correctional psychology
Projective assessment
Child assessment
Step 3. Complete a Program of Supervised Professional Experience Recognized by the Board
In addition to the completion of a doctoral program in forensic psychology, the Board requires all candidates for state licensure as a forensic psychologist to complete at least two, full years of supervised professional experience; one year of which must be an internship program, and one year, which may be post-doctoral.
Your post-doctoral period of supervised employment must include at least 100 hours of direct supervision. The APA recognizes three North Dakota locations for internship experiences in forensic psychology:
Fargo VA Health Care System/Psychology, Fargo
Southeast Human Service Center, Fargo
University of North Dakota/University Counseling Center, Grand Forks
Step 4. Apply for Licensure as a Forensic Psychologist in North Dakota
Once you have satisfied your educational requirements for licensure, you must apply for a state license to practice psychology by submitting the following to the Board:
General Application for Psychologist
Notification of Supervision of Psychology Resident
Application fee of $450
Once you have submitted your application and fee to the Board, the Board will determine your eligibility to take the required examinations for licensure.
Step 5. Take the Required Examinations for a Forensic Psychologist License
The final step before receiving your North Dakota clinical psychologist license requires taking and passing a written examination and an oral examination.
You are required to take and pass the Examination for the Professional Practice of Psychology (EPPP), a national examination administered by computer at designated testing sites throughout North Dakota. You must achieve a scaled score of 500 to pass this examination.
Once you have passed the EPPP, the Board will schedule you for the oral examination. The oral examination covers legal and ethical issues relevant to the practice of psychology in North Dakota. You must possess knowledge of the APA ethics code and North Dakota laws and rules to pass this examination.
Step 6. Begin Your Forensic Psychologist Career in North Dakota
As a clinical forensic psychologist licensed in North Dakota, you may provide your services to:
Mental hospitals
Private practices
Just a few of the forensic psychology practices in North Dakota include:
Benson Psychological Services, Fargo
Gregory Psychological Solutions, Fargo
Step 7. Keep Your Clinical Psychologist License Current
The renewal cycle for your clinical psychologist license in North Dakota runs from November 1 of the year you were licensed and ends on October 31 two years later. You must complete at least 40 hours of continuing education every two years to keep your North Dakota psychologist license current. Of the required 40 hours, you must complete at least 3 hours in the area of ethics, law, and jurisprudence.
The cost of license renewal is $150.
You may find a variety of opportunities for CE through the following organizations:
North Dakota Psychological Association
North Dakota Resources
North Dakota Forensic Psychology Careers
North Dakota Forensic Psychology Salaries
North Dakota Forensic Psychology Programs
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British Horror Cinema (Paperback)
Steve Chibnall
Julian Petley
British Horror Cinema investigates a wealth of horror filmmaking in Britain, from early chillers like The Ghoul and Dark Eyes of London to acknowledged classics such as Peeping Tom and The Wicker Man.
Contributors explore the contexts in which British horror films have been censored and classified, judged by their critics and consumed by their fans. Uncovering neglected modern classics like Deathline, and addressing issues such as the representation of family and women, they consider the Britishness of British horror and examine sub-genres such as the psycho-thriller and witchcraftmovies, the work of the Amicus studio, and key filmmakers including Peter Walker.
the 'Psycho Thriller'
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Also featuring a comprehensive filmography and interviews with key directors Clive Barker and Doug Bradley, this is one resource film studies students should not be without.
Film, TV & Drama Films, cinema Film theory & criticismPhilosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences Media Studies Advertising & societyPhilosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences Media Studies TV & society Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date: 15/11/2001 ISBN-13: 9780415230049 Details: Type: Paperback Format: Books
Steve Chibnall is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at DeMontfort University, Leicester. He is the co-editor of British Crime Cinema (Routledge 1999). Julian Petley is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Information Studies at Brunel University. He is co-editor of Ill Effects: The Media Violence Debate: Second Edition (Routledge 2001).
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The Nathan Drake Collection will have a demo out this Summer
A post on the PlayStation.Blog confirms that a demo for The Nathan Drake is on the way.
by Dalton White I
A post by Sid Shuman on the PlayStation blog discusses how well the Uncharted Trilogy has stepped up to the next generation of consoles and confirmed that a demo for Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection will be out this summer.
The Nathan Drake Collection is a re-mastering of the Uncharted trilogy for the PS4 and a collaboration between Blue Point and Naughty Dog. The specifics on how updated these games will be is that all three will run on 1080p resolution with no framerate sacrifices. So basically it’s a collection of PS3 games ported for the PS4 with some enhancements.
Shuman stated that he had played a section of an “unfinished code” version of the Uncharted 2 section of the collection. Although he describes that it had a few minor visual effects, the game in general is as visually lovely as when it first graced the PS3. He particularly describes the “upgrading character models, environment textures, lighting, and special effects across the board, bringing all three games as close to visual modernity as possible while ensuring they remain true to their original creative direction.”
It is gorgeous sights like these that help get the treasure hunter up in the morning.
It also seems that some of the gameplay will be tweaked for the better. It seems that control schemes are being adapted, gameplay is being refined and various mechanical upgrades are being made to all three different adventures of Nathan Drake. This would definitely be a welcome addition to the some-what experimental style found mostly in the first Uncharted game.
It seems that this collection might be worth the price of admission for fans of the series and newcomers. Also the fact that PS4 gamers will be getting their hands on a demo sometime this summer is another plus. Fingers crossed that it comes sooner rather than later. The full game has a release date on October 7 in Europe and October 9 in North America, so it is well on its way to those who are interested. What do you think about this collection? Are you interested in, at least, checking out the demo? Leave a comment and as always, for all your gaming news and articles check out GameSkinny.com.
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I'm a recent graduate from Kenyon College with an English Major, emphasis in Creative Writing, and a History Minor. I love video games passionately. I love most games, a little iffy on Sport Games. The first game I can remember playing was either Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64 or the first Harry Potter computer game. The first console/gaming device I can remember owning was a Gameboy Advance and I loved my Pokemon Silver game to death.
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Editorial: Youths leaders in composting
Students at 25 public schools in Franklin County, including Four Corners in Greenfield, have been taught to separate trash and recyclables from leftover food and paper waste. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Thanks to Amy Donovan, program manager of the 21-town Franklin County Solid Waste Management District, our children are better composters than most of us adults.
In fact, they’re so good that the district has attained a milestone: As reported recently, 33 out of 35 schools in Franklin County, including seven public high schools and five private schools, divert all food and paper waste from the cafeterias and kitchens into compost programs.
Instead of just tossing any lunch remains into a garbage can to be hauled away to the dump, children learn from an early age to throw non-compostable items in a trash bin, compostables like lunch remnants and the paper napkins and trays that held their lunch into another bin, and leftover milk or soup into a large bucket and colander arrangement.
“It’s very impressive because they’re reducing the trash coming from the kitchens and cafeterias, often up to 90 percent,” said Donovan.
Three Northampton High School seniors starting a composting system for the cafeteria four years ago, and said they faced several unexpected challenges, including educating their classmates about recycling options that already existed at the school.
The organizers also realized that they had to recruit student “monitors” to teach classmates how to use the system of separate bins for liquids, recyclables, trash and compostables.
Once it got started, the programs was successful in reducing the daily waste from the cafeteria from trash bags to one.
In Franklin County, Donovan harnessed a three-year, $30,000 Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection School Recycling Assistance grant to pay for the programs, equipment and signs to make the programs successful. The grant ended on June 30, but the composting activities will continue, thanks to Donovan’s unflagging stewardship of the program.
In Greenfield last May, at the Academy of Early Learning, 3-, 4- and 5-year-old children paid rapt attention to Donovan’s PowerPoint presentation about recycling. As reported by columnist Pat Leuchtman, the children were all eager to show that they knew the difference between items that could go into a compost bin and those that could not. Then, Donovan took the children outside to see the new garden compost bin. Finally, the preschoolers peeked into the big trash receptacles where cafeteria recycling bags are dumped. “I was impressed by the children’s attentive engagement,” said Leuchtman.
Donovan is not the only environmental evangelist in the schools. In Orange this spring, Jack Golden, the comedic “expert” Dr. T, drew on his bag of vaudeville and circus tricks to juggle and joke his way through a world of waste, entertaining young audiences at Dexter Park and Fisher Hill schools while sharing his lesson that rubbish is a resource that is too good to throw away.
Massachusetts leads the nation in efforts to protect our climate and reduce emissions, and Franklin County leads the state in school, transfer station and business composting. As a result, the state has turned to the Franklin County Solid Waste Management District for help in producing a “how-to” video for schools statewide to institute composting programs.
We hope the takeaway of such a video is the importance of reaching out to kids at an early age to educate them in environmental stewardship.
Ultimately, the payoff comes when the children take their lessons home with them and share them with their families.
“Right now, it’s second nature to them,” said Peter Blake, custodian at Northfield Elementary School which, along with Pioneer Valley Regional School, set up Franklin County’s first school composting programs in 2000. “They’ve been doing it since they were in preschool. So, as they move up through (the grades), they all know the milk carton goes here, the food goes here and the trash goes there ... They know.
“Now, we just need to teach the adults.”
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I would love to get paid as much as my male co-stars: Kareena Kapoor
Kareena Kapoor Khan says she has never walked out of a film due to pay disparity.
Mumbai: Actor Kareena Kapoor Khan says she has never walked out of a film due to pay disparity but hopes to get paid as much as her male co-stars in films.
At the Jio MAMI Movie Mela with Star, 2019, Kareena was in conversation with filmmaker Karan Johar and Alia Bhatt.
When asked if she has ever walked out of a film because she was getting paid less, the actor said, "There were probably different reasons of walking out of films, but not because of this particular reason. I'd love to get paid as much as my male co-stars though."
Kareena recently worked in Johar's home production "Good News", co-starring Akshay Kumar.
When Johar asked, that one would assume Kareena and Akshay would've gotten paid equally, Kareena quipped, "Please pay me as much as you paid Akshay Kumar I'll run out of MAMI!"
Johar, however, said there is a larger understanding of the economics of movies that sometimes is "lesser known by people who don't understand the business and how it functions."
"Many times, people make sweeping statements about it. I'm the first person who'll always want to pay what is completely right and justified and valid. I've always done it. But I feel there's a larger understanding of the budget versus the verticals that you sell on digital and satellite that are driven by different data."
"Sometimes the data of satellite and digital look at the history of the artiste, male or female I'm not specifying, and that determines a certain price factor and then thode determine the final cost of what you pay," he added.
The filmmaker said there are many women who deserve much more money than the men and there are men who have earned that because of their talent and just the work they have put in.
"So, it's very subjective and cannot be just put into one strong slot. While I'm all about equality, when it comes to love and paying people, but there are larger optics to look at where we have to."
Alia said she is happy with what she's getting paid.
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Shaw Industries’ focus on drivers, supply chain partners makes it a “Shipper of Choice”
Clarissa Hawes Friday, June 28, 2019
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Global floor-covering giant Shaw Industries Group Inc. said it is continually evaluating new methods to improve efficiency, enhance best practices and improve upon its carrier-centric approach to provide a higher level of service to its customers.
“We are solutions-oriented and perpetually ask ourselves how we can perform even better — for the benefit of our customers, our partners and our company,” said Ben Ball, director of transportation of Shaw Industries.
Shaw Industries, headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, ranked 17th of 25 winners in FreightWaves’ first-ever Shipper of Choice Awards.
FreightWaves partnered with freight brokerage Convoy to recognize the best shippers in the industry. The winners were recognized at FreightWaves’ Transparency 19 event in May in Atlanta.
Shaw is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. and posts annual revenues of almost $6 billion. The company has around 22,000 employees worldwide.
Carrier-members of the Truckload Carriers Association and members of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) voted on the top 25 Shipper of Choice winners based on a variety of factors, including providing driver-friendly facilities, flexibility, efficiency and reduced wait times at docks.
“The Shipper of Choice Award is all about increasing transparency as we highlight innovative best practices that keep freight moving and contribute to a healthy freight community,” said Craig Fuller, chief executive officer of FreightWaves.
Ball said Shaw understands the importance of reducing wait times at docks, providing driver-friendly facilities and has embraced a more adaptable schedule that “provides flexibility and true efficiencies” for its fleet of trucks.
The global company said it works with its carriers and suppliers to provide top-notch service.
“Shaw is committed to partners who share our corporate values – honesty, integrity and passion,” Ball said. “And because we have our own fleet, we understand the complexities within the transportation industry and the challenges all professional drivers face each day while on the road.”
Collaborating with its transportation partners has allowed Shaw to provide a higher level of service to its customers, Ball said.
“We strive to offer transparent and effective communication with our partners, which increases collaboration and provides clear and attainable expectations,” he said. “We optimize opportunities to make planning more precise and provide predictability around load tenders, thus improving efficiencies and providing for maximum miles in a driving shift.”
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In the autumn and winter of 2019/20, Hamburg will play host to French Impressionism in the form of first-rate works from the Ordrupgaard Museum. The cornerstone of the collection of the Danish museum, which has been state-run since 1953, was laid with the art treasures amassed by the insurance company director Wilhelm Hansen and his wife, Henny, starting in the late 19th century. The Hamburg exhibition will feature paintings by all of the leading Impressionists: Camille Pissarro, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Eva Gonzalès. The works on view will vividly recreate for visitors the revolutionary developments in motifs, painting techniques and perceptual effects that unfolded on canvas within just a few decades starting in the 1870s. A special highlight is a group of eight paintings by Paul Gauguin, whose work already ushered in Post-Impressionism.
After launching their collection in the 1890s with a focus on Danish art, from 1916 onwards the Hansens devoted themselves instead to building a representative collection of French painting. In Paris, they maintained contacts with critics such as Théodore Duret and prominent art dealers, especially Ambroise Vollard, with whose help they were able to put together a spectacular collection. The couple did not limit themselves to the Impressionists but also collected works from the periods immediately before and after the Impressionist heyday, thus tracing developments during an entire century of French painting. The exhibition therefore also includes examples of Classicism and Romanticism (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Eugène Delacroix) as well as works by leading French Realists such as Gustave Courbet, Camille Corot, Charles-François Daubigny and Jules Dupré. The latter already took up plein-air painting and are therefore rightly considered forerunners of Impressionism.
Following exhibitions on Degas (2009) and Manet (2016), »Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Ordrupgaard Collection« offers the first opportunity to see distinguished works by all leading Impressionists gathered together in one place in Hamburg. This has been made possible thanks to the Kunsthalle’s good relations with the Ordrupgaard Museum, which is allowing an extraordinarily generous selection of works to go on view in Hamburg while it renovates and expands its premises.
Supported by: Freunde der Kunsthalle e. V., Else Schnabel, Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg
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Hamburger Sparkasse has shown great commitment to the Hamburger Kunsthalle for many years. In appreciation for this generous support, the second floor of the Gallery for Contemporary Art, where the exhibition is shown, has been named »Haspa-Gallery«.
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A catalogue (Wienand Verlag, Cologne) in which all works on view are presented with individual commentaries accompanies the exhibition. The catalogue (in German) can be purchased in the Museum Shop for € 29 or can be ordered online .
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Badende Frauen, um 1895
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Die List. Episode einer Rotwildjagd (Franche-Comté), 1866
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(a) Contents of security threat assessment. The security threat assessment TSA conducts under this subpart includes an intelligence-related check and a final disposition.
(b) Intelligence-related check. To conduct an intelligence-related check, TSA completes the following procedures:
(1) Reviews the applicant information required in 49 CFR 1540.203.
(2) Searches domestic and international government databases to determine if an applicant meets the requirements of 49 CFR 1540.201(c) or to confirm an applicant's identity.
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(c) Wants, warrants, deportable aliens. If the searches listed in paragraph (b)(2) of this section indicate that an applicant has an outstanding want or warrant, or is a deportable alien under the immigration laws of the United States, TSA sends the applicant's information to the appropriate law enforcement or immigration agency.
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(2) TSA serves an Initial Determination of Threat Assessment on the applicant, if TSA determines that the applicant does not meet the security threat assessment standards in 49 CFR 1540.201(c). The Initial Determination of Threat Assessment includes—
(i) A statement that TSA has determined that the applicant is suspected of posing or poses a security threat;
(ii) The basis for the determination;
(iii) Information about how the applicant may appeal the determination, as described in 49 CFR 1515.9; and
(iv) A statement that if the applicant chooses not to appeal TSA's determination within 60 days of receipt of the Initial Determination, or does not request an extension of time within 60 days of the Initial Determination of Threat Assessment in order to file an appeal, the Initial Determination becomes a Final Determination of Security Threat Assessment.
(3) TSA serves an Initial Determination of Threat Assessment and Immediate Revocation on the applicant and the applicant's operator or other operator as approved by TSA, where appropriate, if TSA determines that the applicant does not meet the security threat assessment standards in 49 CFR 1540.201(c) and may pose an imminent threat to transportation or national security, or of terrorism. The Initial Determination of Threat Assessment and Immediate Revocation includes—
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(4) If the applicant does not appeal the Initial Determination of Threat Assessment or Initial Determination of Threat Assessment and Immediate Revocation, or if TSA does not grant the appeal, TSA serves a Final Determination of Threat Assessment on the individual and the applicant.
(5) If the applicant appeals an Initial Determination of Threat Assessment, the procedures in 49 CFR 1515.5 or 1515.9 apply.
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Chronic pain caused by overdrinking, research suggests
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Many older people are damaging their health by drinking too much, researchers from the Universities of Newcastle & Sunderland have warned.
The academics spoke to more than 50 North East men & women to identify why people aged 65 to 90 drank above recommended levels and the impact of doing so.
After finding that heavy drinking in the age group was strongly linked to depression and anxiety and longer-term health problems, the researchers have called for changes to the recommended safe drinking levels and specific alcohol advice for older people.
Long-term health impact
Study lead Dr Graeme Wilson, from Newcastle University's Institute of Health and Society, said: "Many older people are drinking to a level that is having a long-term impact on their health, even if the damage they are doing is not always immediately apparent."
The researchers said many people did not recognise themselves as heavy drinkers including one woman who said she drank a bottle of wine every day but as it "did not effect her she didn't have a problem".
Other factors likely to lead to overconsumption included chronic pain, loneliness and bereavement. The researchers also added that metabolism was slower in older people who were likely to be taking prescribed medicines leading to a bigger impact when interacting with alcohol.
Confusing alcohol messages for older people
They concluded that alcohol interventions were not working for older people with many in the group saying messages were confusing.
However, Paul Green, director of communications for Saga, which specialises in products and services for the over-50s, suggested the researchers had overstated the extent of the issue.
"Our own research amongst almost 1,000 over-50s shows that they tend to drink less than 10 units of alcohol a week, much less than the recommended 14 for women and 21 for men," he said.
"While sensible drinking is sound advice, nannies don't need the nanny state telling them what to do.
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Jumanji: The Next Level star Nick Jonas says it's important to focus on your priorities in a marriage when both husband and wife have to travel a lot for work.
The 27-year-old star tied the knot with Priyanka Chopra in December last year, but the loved-up couple have had to cope with time apart recently with the actress working oversea and the musician travelling the world with his brothers on their Happiness Begins tour.
Speaking to 'Entertainment Tonight', he said: "It's been almost four and half months on the road, and it's been, you know, interesting.
"But we have an incredibly beautiful balance in our lives and kind of an understanding of our priorities. That's the most important thing."
Nick was joined by his siblings and bandmates Kevin and Joe at the 'Jumanji: The Next Level' premiere in Hollywood this week, and he admitted his wife was "jealous" to be missing out on the event.
He added: "She's in India right now, shooting a movie there. Although she's jealous because she loves 'Jumanji'.
"She loved the last one. And she really wanted to be here, but she's got work."
The pair celebration a year of marriage earlier this month, with both of the stars sharing pictures from their lavish Indian ceremony on Instagram.
Alongside a series of adorable snaps taken from their wedding in Jodhpur, Priyanka gushed: "My promise. Then..today.. forever. You bring me joy, grace, balance, excitement, passion.. all in the same moment...thank you for finding me.. Happy First wedding anniversary Husband.. @nickjonas
"And Thank you to everyone for the love and good wishes. We feel blessed. (sic)"
The Jonas Brothers singer also posted a picture of the couple taking their vows on his profile and wrote: "One year ago today we said forever. well forever isn't nearly long enough. I love you with all of my heart @priyankachopra happy anniversary."
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Public Administration Graduate Programs explore the theme of public service through the lens of ethical governance and solid business management practices. A graduate degree in public administration could help students develop into effective, knowledgeable leaders with advanced communication skills and an ability to manage policy development and navigate its societal impacts.
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Public Administration Graduate Programs: Overview
Students could look for Public Administration Graduate programs at the masters and doctoral levels. Some of the main degrees conferred are the Master of Public Administration – MPA degree, Doctor of Public Administration – DPA degree and PhD.
These programs may offer a holistic and full menu of core content related to key principles and practices within public and nonprofit sectors. Students may also develop leadership skills through reading, course work, and dialogue with peers and professors.
In addition, students may stack on a concentration. Perhaps one that is meaningful to a career trajectory. Nonprofit management, healthcare administration and emergency management are some examples from our partner schools.
There are, naturally other options. Programs such as the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Science (MS) in Management and Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) could provide a rounded management education with tailored public administration courses on the side.
Furthermore, there universities which might offer post graduate public administration courses through what are called, Graduate Certificates. At any of these levels, there are paths that may suit seasoned professionals, curious scholar-researchers and those who want to develop themselves professionally.
What Is Public Administration?
Public Administration is all about the systematic plans, executive
organization, direction, coordination and control of government operations. Often, topics covered in Public Administration Graduate programs include instruction about the principles of public administration, different professional duties—and how to develop related skills.
No two course lists have the exact same material, so read through the topics below for a general idea, then review individual public administration graduate schools to see what they offer.
Courses might include:
Management of Public Policy
Executive-Legislative Relations
Public Budgetary Process
Public Personnel Management
Students might also take courses that discuss professional ethics and values such as transparency and accountability. Courses in statistics, business intelligence and research methods are also on many syllabuses.
Political scientists often complete a Master of Public Administration (MPA), degree.
Public Administration Masters Programs
Masters in Public Administration programs often focus on problem-solving and students might craft a study plan that reflects academic interests and professional goals. Some public administration masters programs are planned-out for the full-time student to complete in about two years, though less experienced students may need to undertake an internship to gain hands-on practice.
To apply into most Masters and MPA programs, prospective students usually need a bachelor degree earned at an accredited institution with a school-set minimum GPA. Current resume, letters and essay are frequently submitted with a completed form, official transcripts and fee.
Master of Public Administration: What Is an MPA?
An MPA degree - which is short for Master of Public Administration - is a professional graduate degree and is the public-sector equivalent to an MBA.
As such, it usually balances out theory with action-oriented practices in three main areas:
Analytical Thinking: Students could learn how to design, implement and evaluate public policy, and may study quantitative and qualitative research techniques used to accomplish these aims
Management Skills: Secondly, management courses focus on how to manage people and projects. For instance, students might learn how to tap into available resources to solve problems and meet organizational goals through courses in public financial management, microeconomics and negotiation
Leadership and Labor Relations: Lastly, an MPA may help professionals to hone (executive) leadership skills through courses on ethics, strategy, decision-making and accountability. Budgeting and effective communication are also essential to those who administrate in the public sector
Some MPA programs meld elements of an MBA and a Master of Public Policy (MPP) with topics such as organizational theory, strategic management and ethics subject matter. Students might take from 33 to 36 credits (varies), which may be divided into 24 credit hours of core coursework taken by all students and 12 credit hours of a concentration.
MPA degree students who do not have any full-time professional experience may be required to complete an internship course. All students might need to cap their program with an exam and research project or guided thesis.
MBA in Public Administration
A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional graduate program that explores the concepts and practices used to manage and motivate teams and see projects to completion. Students could gain both the analytical and management skills needed to connect the dots with many issues and sectors – public, private and nonprofit.
The MBA’s focus in public administration steps up core business courses and discussions of profitability to include leadership practices used to implement programs or shape public policy. While the MPA is ‘all about’ public administration, at the center of an MBA course plan are topics in managerial fundamentals – marketing, accounting, operations, IT, finance and more.
Public Administration Doctorate Programs
Public Administration doctorate programs include several terminal degrees where students may conduct independent research. Depending on the type of program, those students who enter with a masters degree and study full-time might be able to finish in four years. Those who enter without a masters degree and study full-time might complete their program in five to six years.
Doctor of Public Administration – DPA
A Doctor of Public Administration or DPA degree, is a terminal degree for practitioners. It is often planned-out to help students evaluate current theories and practices to make decisions that create value for the public. DPA students often conduct valid, reliable, and ethical public administration research which may aim to effect positive change.
DPA degree students may be required to take about 20 required courses, all of which might discuss issues, concepts, practices and research methods for public service and within public administration. This may include public policy analysis, strategic planning, accounting and finance.
Graduates may study to add their voice to critical issues through public administration policies, administrative processes, and leadership. Through a DPA student’s research and final dissertation, s/he may learn to craft fair solutions that take into consideration diversity and the globally connected community.
Public Administration PhD Programs
A PhD in Public Administration is a research degree and the highest award for scholars and prospective professors. PhD students may study research-based leadership strategies used to address some of the challenges faced in our global economy.
Because research is central to a PhD program, public administration students may work one-to-one with a faculty mentor to develop skills related to academia. In addition to formal courses, some curricula may include research seminars by faculty and other scholars. This aspect of their program might expose students to innovative research and may provide an opportunity to interact.
While credit load and other requirements vary, some programs may have PhD students who enter with a masters degree, complete about 54 credit hours of coursework. These may be divided into public administration courses, a second field and research methods.
Core topics could include a discussion of organizational theory, public management, democracy and policy implementation. A second major field could be, for instance, in Public Policy, American Politics, Comparative Politics, Justice, or Law and Criminology.
After the core courses are taken, students are usually evaluated through a broad-based exam. Once this has been successfully passed, the remainder of the program could largely be devoted to dissertation research.
DBA in Public Administration
A Doctor of Business Administration – DBA degree, is a terminal practice doctorate for experienced managers. Like its predecessor the MBA, students may choose to focus their studies around public administration or nonprofit management. It is essentially a degree that often aims to help students achieve their leadership potential.
To earn a DBA in Public Administration, students may need to complete around 60 credits, and applicants are usually seasoned professionals who have a masters or MBA degree.
The format for the program could vary but usually centers around core business courses and advanced business research methods. Students might also study strategic ways to allocate and manage finances, personnel, and supply-chains in addition to executive coaching methods and decision-making.
DBA students also generally take cognate courses which are essentially courses in their major. For instance, someone who wants to work toward a DBA in Nonprofit Leadership might study topics such as strategic communication, grant acquisition and workforce planning.
Public Administration Certificate Programs
A Graduate Certificate in Public Administration is shorter in duration and narrower in scope that a full degree but could still be a useful stand-alone credential. Most public administration certificate programs are the equivalent to a master’s program concentration and may require from few to about 18 credits.
Certificates therefore typically cover a single theme and may even be used as transfer credits towards a graduate degree if your university permits it. Because they are super-focused, students who work towards a certificate may be able to reboot a resume through exposure to new methods and skills.
For instance, take the example of a Public Service Communication Specialist certificate. This type of course plan might help students learn how to create persuasive, effective, and ethical messages that reach diverse audiences in the nonprofit and public sectors.
Sneak Peak: Sample Public Administration Graduate Degree Courses
University Public Administration Graduate programs often reflect the knowledge and background of faculty as well as worldview and mission of the school. We provide some samples of potential course topics. For more information, check individual course lists.
Principles of Public Administration: Participants may gain a deeper grasp of how the discipline of public administration started and how institutional forms have evolved in the U.S. and abroad. One may also be introduced to how decisions are made, ethics in the public sphere, human resource management in the public and non-profit sector and society.
Public Sector Finance and Budgeting: Students may learn the theories and practices that go into public budgets and financial management for government and non-profit organizations. Could involve a study of organizational planning, control, reporting, and analysis.
Seminar in Public Management: This course could cover public management and governance, including the tradition of management in the field of public administration, its evolution, and its modern character. The influence of New Public Management (NPM) and related strategies, such as performance management, contracting, privatization, outsourcing, and network management may be included in the discussions.
Seminar in Organization Theory: This course could cover traditional and modern theories of organizations and their value in explaining public administrative behavior. Topic could include structural, cultural, decision, political, and reliability theories and how each applies to public-sector organizations
Data Analytics for the Public Sector: Students might be exposed to an overview of how data is leveraged by governments and nonprofits for decisions. Related material could include data management and governance; the latest trends in terms of data-related technologies, tools, and practices. Participants might also look at current challenges such as privacy and security.
Public Policy: This course may provide an overview of the public policy field. Students might take a deeper look at literature in three disciplines: neo-classical economics, political science, and public choice. Each point of view may be used to analyze the institutions most directly involved in policy formation (voters, interest groups, and congress) and its implementation (Congress and the bureaucracy).
How to Earn a Graduate Degree in Public Administration
Do you prefer to find public administration graduate schools in your city or state? Are you someone who wants to earn your degree without having to commute, move or attend your classes in person?
Not every school offers multiple formats but there may be opportunities to earn a public administration grad degree part-time, full-time and online. Find schools on this directory by location or filter by format (online, on-campus).
Take the Next Step with our List of 20 Public Administration Programs
The next step is to review Public Administration Graduate programs to find the perfect masters, MPA, doctorate, or certificate for you. To easily review choices in a preferred category, filter by degree level. Then just click to contact partner schools for more information. Get started today!
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81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron Spotlight
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May 27, 2017 Members of the 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron explain their role in the Combine Joint Task Force Horn of Africa, operating from Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti.
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July 27, 2016 Aircraft maintainers come face-to-face with those challenges every day; they are responsible for putting the 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron’s C-130J Hercules in the air.
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AF Guard Unit Fueled by a Legacy
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March 19, 2015 There is a team made entirely of Alaska Air National Guard Airmen, who are trained to take any lead during rescue operations in order to report, locate, support, and recover isolated personnel to save lives by placing others before themselves.
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November 12, 2014 The 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron conducted a night mission to conduct simultaneous aerial re-fueling of two HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters that were conducting training mission in Djibouti Africa.
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Father, Son share Pride, Passion, Patriotism, Deployment
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September 4, 2014 Preparing for a deployment can be a challenging, stressful and exciting task. There are multiple check lists to finish, appointments, briefings and goodbyes to make.
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March 19, 2015 U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Bobby Martinez, 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron flight engineer, conducts preflight checks at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti on Mar 12, 2015. During the preflight checks, aircrew looks for serviceability to ensure the aircraft is ready to fly when they are called for a mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin Iinuma)
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March 19, 2015 A U.S. Air Force HC-130 Combat King lands during a forward arming and refuel point exercise at Grand Bara, Djibouti, Mar 12, 2015. The Combat King provided several smaller airframes a refueling point to help extend their flying distance in preparation to any crisis response mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin Iinuma)
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March 19, 2015 Members from the 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron prepare fuel hoses from an HC-130 Combat King as part of a forward arming and refuel point exercise at Grand Bara, Djibouti on Mar 12, 2015. Providing a FARP allowed several smaller airframes to refuel with engines still running, enabling the aircraft to fly missions almost non-stop. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin Iinuma)
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March 19, 2015 U.S. and French military members prepare fuel hoses from an HC-130 Combat King as part of a forward arming and refueling exercise at Grand Bara, Djibouti on Mar 12, 2015. Providing a FARP allowed several smaller airframes to refuel with engines still running, enabling the aircrafts to fly missions almost non-stop. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin Iinuma)
March 19, 2015 Airmen from the 303rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron conduct a casualty evacuation exercise in conjunction with a refueling exercise with the 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron at Grand Bara, Djibouti on Mar 12, 2015. The 81st ERQS provided a forward arming and refueling point allowing the 303rd ERQS to refuel the HH-60 Pave Hawk with engines still running, enabling them to fly missions almost non-stop. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin Iinuma)
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March 19, 2015 Members from the 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron and 303rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron refuel an HH-60 Pave Hawk during a forward arming and refueling exercise in Grand Bara, Djibouti on Mar 12, 2015. Providing a FARP assisted the Pave Hawk to refuel with engines still running, enabling them to fly missions almost non-stop. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin Iinuma)
March 19, 2015 An HC-130 Combat King from the 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron prepares to take off after completing a forward arming and refueling point exercise at Grand Bara, Djibouti on Mar 12, 2015. The HC-130 provided a FARP that allowed several smaller airframes to refuel with engines still running, enabling the aircraft to fly missions almost non-stop. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin Iinuma)
HC-130 Hercules is Loaded with Supplies by Crew Members on Camp Lemonnier
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November 12, 2014 A HC-130 Hercules is loaded with supplies by crew members Nov. 5, 2014, on Camp Lemonnier.
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81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron Load Master Stares out the Window of a HC-130 Hercules over Grand Bara, Djibouti
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November 12, 2014 U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Zach McDonald, 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron load master, stares out the window of a HC-130 Hercules Nov. 5, 2014, over Grand Bara, Djibouti.
HH-60 Pave Hawk Helicopter approaches Tail of an HC-130 Hercules to Conduct In Air Refueling Training
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November 12, 2014 A HH-60 Pave Hawk Helicopter approaches the tail of an HC-130 Hercules to conduct an in air refueling training Nov. 5, 2014, over Grand Bara, Djibouti.
81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron Load Master Stands in the Back of a HC-130 Hercules
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November 12, 2014 U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Zach McDonald, 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron load master, stands in the back of a HC-130 Hercules Nov. 5, 2014, over Grand Bara, Djibouti.
Father and Son Pose in front of HH-60 Helicopter
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September 4, 2014 U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Daniel Ibarra, 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron loadmaster, and Chief Master Sgt. Lazaro Ibarra, 303rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron flight engineer, pose in front of a HH-60 helicopter Aug. 27, 2014, at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti.
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Father and Son Pose in front of a HC-130 Combat King
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September 4, 2014 U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Daniel Ibarra, 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron loadmaster, and Chief Master Sgt. Lazaro Ibarra, 303rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron flight engineer, pose in front of a HC-130 Combat King Aug. 27, 2014, at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti.
U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Reviews Technical Orders on HC-130
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May 1, 2014 U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Brendan Steinbach, 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, sits on the back of an HC-130 Combat King and reviews technical orders during a pre-flight inspection on Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, April 18, 2014.
81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron Loadmasters Prepare HC-130 For Flight
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May 1, 2014 U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Henry Ehard, left, and Airman 1st Class Jered Treichel, both 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron loadmasters, prepare an HC-130 Combat King for flight while on Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, April 18, 2014.
81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron Loadmaster Calculates Weight and Balance for HC-130
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May 1, 2014 U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Jered Treichel, 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron loadmaster, calculates weight and balance for a HC-130 Combat King during a pre-flight inspection on Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, April 18, 2014.
81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron Member Wipes Down HC-130 Windows
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May 1, 2014 U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Brendan Steinbach, 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, wipes down windows of an HC-130 Combat King during a pre-flight inspection on Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, April 18, 2014.
81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron Member Checks HC-130 Intake During Pre-Flight Inspection
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May 1, 2014 U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Erich Goen, 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, check an HC-130 Combat King intake during a pre-flight inspection on Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, April 18, 2014.
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MIPRU 4.2F.2R 26/04/2015 RP
MIPRU 4.2F sets out the risk weights that a firm should apply to exposures in the form of loans secured on real estate property, other loans, exposures in the form of funds, and past due items, when calculating risk weighted exposure amounts for calculating the credit risk capital requirement under MIPRU 4.2.23 R.
Without prejudice to MIPRU 4.2F.36 R, an exposure or any part of an exposure must be assigned a risk weight of 35% where: (1) the exposure is fully and completely secured, to the satisfaction of the firm, by mortgages on residential property; and(2) the residential property is, or will be, occupied or let by the owner or the beneficial owner in the case of personal investment companies.
Without prejudice to MIPRU 4.2F.36 R, an exposure, or any part of an exposure, must be assigned a risk weight of 75% where: (1) the exposure arises from a mortgage on residential property up to a limit of 100% of the value of the property which is not fully and completely secured, to the satisfaction of the firm, by that mortgage; and(2) the residential property is, or will be, occupied or let by the owner or the beneficial owner in the case of personal investment companies.
An exposure or any part of an exposure must be assigned a risk weight of 100% where the exposure arises from a mortgage on residential property that exceeds the value of the available collateral, as assessed in accordance with MIPRU 4.2F.29 R.
(1) A firm must not treat a lifetime mortgage as an exposure fully and completely secured on residential property for the purposes of MIPRU 4.2F.4 R unless the amount of the exposure is calculated according to the following formula:where:(a) P is the current outstanding balance on the lifetime mortgage;(b) i is the interest rate charged on the lifetime mortgage, which for the purposes of this calculation must not be lower than the discount rate referred to in (c);(c) d is the
Without prejudice to MIPRU 4.2F.36 R, an exposure, or any part of an exposure, to a tenant under a property leasing transaction must be assigned a risk weight of 35% where: (1) the transaction concerns residential property; (2) under the transaction, the firm is the lessor and the tenant has an option to purchase; and(3) the firm is satisfied that the exposure is fully and completely secured by its ownership of the property.
MIPRU 4.2F.33R 26/04/2015 RP
If a firm has an exposure arising through a second-charge mortgage secured on the same property as a first-charge loan from a different firm, the exposure, taking into account the first-charge mortgage, must be split into the following components and risk weighted as follows, after taking into account the seniority of the first-charge loan:(1) the amount of the exposure or any part of the exposure, up to a limit of 80% of the value of the residential property, must be assigned
MIPRU 4.2F.34G 26/04/2015 RP
(1) The application of MIPRU 4.2F.33 R may be illustrated by an example. Where a first-charge mortgage exposure of £50,000 from another lender is secured on residential property in the United Kingdom that satisfies the criteria in MIPRU 4.2F.4 R to MIPRU 4.2F.29 R and the value of that property is £100,000, then a firm with a second-charge mortgage of £60,000 on the same property may treat £30,000 of that exposure as fully and completely secured and risk weight it at 35%, treat
Exposures to residential property situated in an EEA State or a third-country must be assigned a risk weight of 75% up to a limit of 100% of the value of the property.
Exposures, or any part of an exposure, secured by mortgages on offices or other commercial premises must be assigned a risk weight of 100% where the exposure:(1) cannot properly be considered to fall within any other standardised credit risk exposure class specified in MIPRU 4.2A.6A R (Exposure classes); or (2) does not qualify for a lower risk weight under this section.
Exposures in the form of funds for which a credit assessment by a nominated ECAI is available must be assigned a risk weight using:(1) the table in MIPRU 4.2E.14 R to determine the credit quality step associated with that credit assessment; and(2) the table in MIPRU 4.2F.41 R to determine the risk weight to be applied to the rated position, based on the associated credit quality step.
Table: Exposures in the form of funds for which a credit assessment by a nominated ECAI is availableThis table belongs to MIPRU 4.2F.40 R. Credit quality step123456Risk weight20%50%100%100%150%150%
Where a firm considers that a position in a fund is associated with particularly high risks, it must assign that position a risk weight of 150%.
A firm should consider a fund as being high risk where there is no external credit assessment from an eligible ECAI and where the fund has specific features (such as high levels of leverage or lack of transparency).
MIPRU 4.2C.2G 26/04/2015 RP
MIPRU 4.2C sets out the provisions a firm should comply with when calculating risk weighted exposure amounts for calculating the credit risk capital requirement1 under MIPRU 4.2.23 R.11
MIPRU 4.2C.11R 26/04/2015 RP
1A firm must:(1) satisfy the FCA that it has systems to manage risks arising from its use of credit protection; and(2) demonstrate how its strategy on the use of credit protection interacts with the firm's management of its overall risk profile.
MIPRU 4.2C.14G 26/04/2015 RP
1A clause that allows the protection provider unilaterally to cancel the contract after a reasonable period due to non-payment of premiums and other monies due under the contract will not normally indicate non-compliance with MIPRU 4.2C.13R (3)(a). The reason is that payment of such monies is within the control of the firm.
1For a guarantee, including those in the form of mortgage indemnity products, to be recognised, the following conditions must be met in addition to those in MIPRU 4.2C.13 R:(1) on the qualifying default of and/or non-payment by the borrower, the firm must have the right to pursue, in a timely manner, the guarantor for any monies due under the claim for which the protection is provided;(2) payment by the guarantor must not be subject to the firm first having to pursue the borrower;(3)
1The calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts may be modified in accordance with this section where a firm has complied with MIPRU 4.2C.7 R to MIPRU 4.2C.16 R.
1Where the risk weighted exposure amount already takes account of credit protection, the calculation of the credit protection must not be further recognised under MIPRU 4.2C (Credit risk mitigation).
1For the purpose of MIPRU 4.2C.21 R, HFX is set at 10%.
(1) 1In calculating risk weighted exposure amounts, a maturity mismatch occurs where the residual maturity of the credit protection is less than that of the protected exposure.(2) Protection of less than three months residual maturity, the maturity of which is less than the maturity of the underlying exposure, must not be recognised.
1Where there is a maturity mismatch the credit protection must not be recognised if the original maturity of the protection is less than one year.
(1) 1Subject to a maximum of five years, the effective maturity of the underlying exposure is the longest possible remaining time before the borrower is scheduled to fulfil its obligations.(2) Unless MIPRU 4.2C.27 R applies, the maturity of the credit protection is the length of time to the earliest date at which the protection may terminate or be terminated.
(1) 1Where there is an option to terminate the protection which is at the discretion of the protection seller, the maturity of the protection must be taken to be the length of time to the earliest date at which that option may be exercised.(2) Where there is an option to terminate the protection which is at the discretion of the protection buyer and the terms of the arrangement at the origination of the protection contain a positive incentive for the firm to call the transaction
(1) 1The maturity of the credit protection and that of the exposure must be reflected in the adjusted value of the credit protection according to the following formula: GA = G* x (t-t*)/(T-t*) where:(a) G* is the amount of the protection adjusted for any currency mismatch;(b) GA is G* adjusted for any maturity mismatch;(c) t is the number of years remaining to the maturity date of the credit protection calculated in accordance with MIPRU 4.2C.27 R to MIPRU 4.2C.28 R, or the value
(1) 1Proportional regulatory capital relief is afforded if:(a) the protected amount is less than the exposure value; and(b) the protected and unprotected portions are of equal seniority, i.e. the firm and the protection provider share losses on a pro-rata basis.(2) Under MIPRU 4.2A.9 R, MIPRU 4.2A.12 R, MIPRU 4.2A.17A R and MIPRU 4.2A.17B R, risk weighted exposure amounts must be calculated in accordance with the following formula:(E-GA) x r + GA x gwhere:(a) E is the exposure
IFPRU 4.12.1R 01/01/2014 RP
(1) A firm must notify the FCA that it is relying on the deemed transfer of significant credit risk under article 243(2) of the EU CRR (Traditional securitisation) or article 244(2) of the EU CRR (Synthetic securitisation), including when this is for the purposes of article 337(5) of the EU CRR, no later than one month after the date of the transfer.(2) The notification in (1) must include sufficient information to allow the FCA to assess whether the possible reduction in risk-weighted
IFPRU 4.12.2G 01/01/2014 RP
An originator of securitisations is able to use the securitisation risk weights (and not calculate own funds requirements on the assets underlying its securitisation) in either of the following cases:(1) the firm transfers significant credit risk associated with the securitisedexposures to third parties; or(2) the firm deducts from common equity tier 1 capital or applies a 1250% risk weight to all positions it holds in the securitisation.
The significant risk transfer requirements in articles 243 (Traditional securitisation) or 244 (Synthetic securitisation) of the EU CRR provide three options for a firm to demonstrate how it transfers significant credit risk for any given transaction:(1) the originator does not retain more than 50% of the risk-weighted exposure amounts of mezzanine securitisation positions, where these are:(a) securitisation positions to which a risk weight lower than 1250% applies; and(b) more
Where the FCA considers that the possible reduction in risk-weighted exposure amounts (RWEA) achieved via the securitisation is not justified by a commensurate transfer of credit risk to third parties, significant risk transfer will be considered to not have been achieved. Consequently, a firm will not be able to recognise any reduction in RWEA due to the transaction.
IFPRU 4.12.10G 01/01/2014 RP
Notification under IFPRU 4.12.1 G should include sufficient information to enable the FCA to assess whether the possible reduction in RWEA which would be achieved by the securitisation is justified by a commensurate transfer of credit risk to third parties. The FCA expects this to include the following:(1) details of the securitisation positions, including rating, exposure value and RWEA broken down by securitisation positions sold and retained;(2) key transaction documentation
The FCA's review will focus on the proportion of credit risk transferred, compared to the proportion by which RWEA are reduced in the transaction. Where the FCA judges that the reduction in RWEA is not justified by a commensurate transfer of credit risk to third parties, it will inform the firm that significant risk transfer has not been achieved by this transaction. Otherwise, the FCA will inform the firm that it does not object to the transaction.
The FCA does not intend to pre-approve transactions. The FCA will provide a view on whether it considers that commensurate risk transfer has been achieved at a point in time, which may be provided after a transaction has closed. The FCA may reassess its judgement of the achievement of commensurate risk transfer if the level of credit risk transfer in a transaction changes materially.
The FCA intends to apply two materiality limits to the proportion of risk-weighted exposure amount (RWEA) relief that can be taken under any permission covering multiple transactions:(1) transaction level limit any transaction that would, in principle, be within the scope of the permission, but that resulted in an RWEA reduction exceeding 1% of the firm's credit risk-related RWEAs as at the date of the firm's most recent regulatory return, will fall outside the scope of a multiple
Given that significant risk transfer should be met on a continuing basis, permissions will typically include a requirement to notify the FCA of any change in circumstances from those under which the permission was granted (eg, where the amount of credit risk transfer had changed materially). Any reduction in credit risk transfer subsequent to the permission being granted will require the firm to take a commensurate reduction in RWEA relief. If a firm does not effect a commensurate
An originator must transfer a significant amount of credit risk associated with securitisedexposures to third parties to be able to apply the securitisation risk weights set out in Part Three, Title II, Chapter 5 of the EU CRR (Securitisation), and any associated reduction in own funds requirements must be matched by a commensurate transfer of risk to third parties.
Some transactions can transfer little or no economic risk from the protection buyer to the protection seller, but may still result in a reduction in own funds requirements. A particular example of a transaction-type of concern involves protection being purchased on a junior tranche and a high premium is paid for that transaction.
The FCA expects the instruments used to transfer credit risk not to contain provisions which limit the amount of risk transferred. For example, should losses or defaults on the securitised exposures occur1(ie, deterioration in the credit quality of the underlying pool) the FCA expects the originator's net cost of protection or the yield payable to investors should not increase as a result.1
Where a firm achieves significant risk transfer for a particular transaction, the FCA expects it to continue to monitor risks related to the transaction to which it may still be exposed. The firm should consider capital planning implications of securitised assets returning to its balance sheet. The EU CRR requires a firm to conduct regular stress testing of its securitisation activities and off-balance sheet exposures. The stress tests should consider the firm-wide impact of stressed
MIPRU 4.2A.1R 26/04/2015 RP
1This section applies to a firm carrying on any home financing connected to regulated mortgage contracts or home financing and home financing administration connected to regulated mortgage contracts see3MIPRU 4.2.23 R .3
MIPRU 4.2A.2G 26/04/2015 RP
MIPRU 4.2A sets out how a firm should calculate its creditrisk capital requirement.33
The credit risk capital requirement3of a firm is 8% of the total of its risk weighted exposure amounts for exposures that:3(1) are on its balance sheet; and(2) derive from: (a) a loan entered into; or(b) a securitisation position originated; or(c) a fund3position entered into;3on or after 26 April 2014; and (3) have not been deducted from the firm'scapital resources under MIPRU 4.4.4 R or MIPRU 4.2BA;calculated in accordance with MIPRU 4.2A.
MIPRU 4.2A.4AR 26/04/2015 RP
Loans, securitisation positions and fund positions entered into before 26 April 2014 are excluded from the credit risk capital requirement calculation.
Any arrangements entered into on or after 26 April 20142 which increase the amount of a loan already advanced or change the security to a loan already advanced or change the contractual terms (other than if the firm is exercising forbearance) of a loan already advanced will be subject to the credit risk capital requirement under MIPRU 4.2A.4R (2)(a) provided that, where the arrangements only increase the amount of a loan already advanced, such requirement shall only apply to the
MIPRU 4.2A.5AG 26/04/2015 RP
The arrangements excluded from the credit risk capital requirement3 include:3(1) a loan acquired by a firm on or 3after 26 April 2014 if that loan was made before 26 April 2014;(2) arrangements made as a result of forbearance procedures, including: (a) a change in the basis of interest payments from variable to fixed rate; or(b) a change from a repayment mortgage to interest only; or(c) the capitalisation of interest which increases the principal outstanding, where there is no
MIPRU 4.2A.10R 26/04/2015 RP
To calculate risk weighted exposure amounts on exposures secured by mortgages on residential property, risk weights must be applied to all such exposures, in accordance with MIPRU 4.2F.4 R to MIPRU 4.2F.10 G3.33
MIPRU 4.2A.10AR 26/04/2015 RP
3To calculate risk weighted exposure amount on exposures secured by mortgages on commercial property, risk weights must be applied to all such exposures in accordance with MIPRU 4.2F.37 R.
MIPRU 4.2A.10BR 26/04/2015 RP
3To calculate risk weighted exposure amounts on other loans, risk weights must be applied to all such exposures in accordance with MIPRU 4.2F.38 R.
To calculate risk weighted exposure amounts on exposures in funds3, risk weights must be applied to all such exposures, in accordance with MIPRU 4.2F.39 R to MIPRU 4.2F.49 R3.333
To calculate risk weighted exposure amounts3for securitised exposures, risk weights3 must be calculated in accordance with 3MIPRU 4.2BA (Securitisation)3.3
3Where an exposure is subject to credit risk mitigation, the risk weighted exposure amount applicable to that item may be modified in accordance with MIPRU 4.2C (Credit risk mitigation).
MIPRU 4.2BA.2R 26/04/2015 RP
A firm must calculate the risk weighted exposure amounts for the securitisation positions it holds under MIPRU 4.2BA.31 R to MIPRU 4.2BA.53 R.
MIPRU 4.2BA.3G 26/04/2015 RP
Where a firm has transferred significant credit risk associated with securitised exposures which it has originated under MIPRU 4.2BA.5 R (High-level principles) and has complied with other applicable requirements in this section, it may exclude those securitised exposures from the calculation of its risk weighted exposure amount and expected loss amounts.
(1) Economic substance: the risk management and capital treatment of a securitisation must be determined on the basis of its economic substance and not its legal form.(2) Eligible structures: only standalone traditional securitisations are eligible.(3) Eligible underlying assets: term assets (e.g. residential mortgages) originated by the firm are eligible. (4) Effective credit-risk transfer: the securitisation mechanism (e.g. true sale) must effectively transfer the risks of the
MIPRU 4.2BA.10R 26/04/2015 RP
Monitoring: a firm must continuously monitor risks that it may be subject to when it has excluded the securitised exposures from its calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts.
(1) Credit-granting: a firm must apply the same sound and well-defined criteria used under SYSC 7.1.9 R for credit-granting in respect of exposures held on the balance sheet to exposures to be securitised.(2) These criteria must include the processes for approving and, where relevant, amending, renewing and re-financing credits.
A clean-up call option must satisfy all of the following conditions:(1) it must be exercisable at the discretion of the firm;(2) it must only be exercised when 10% or less of the original value of the exposures securitised remains unamortised; (3) it must not be structured so that allocating losses to credit enhancement positions or other positions held by investors can be avoided; and (4) it must not otherwise be structured to provide credit enhancement.
The credit enhancement documentation must not contain clauses that require securitisation positions to be improved by the firm in response to a deterioration in the credit quality of the securitised exposures, including: (1) altering the credit quality of the underlying exposures; or(2) increasing the yield payable to investors in the securitisation positions.
In general, any such repurchase must be subject to the firm's credit-granting process, which should be adequate to ensure that the repurchase does not provide support.
The risk weighted exposure amount equals the on-balance sheet exposure value multiplied by the risk weight associated with the credit quality step with which the credit assessment of that exposure value is associated.
The use of the concentration ratio approach for unrated securitisation positions is only permitted where all the following conditions are met:(1) the concentration ratio is equal to the sum of the nominal amounts of all the tranches divided by the sum of the nominal amounts of the tranches junior to, or equal to, the tranche in which the position is held, including that tranche itself;(2) where the resulting risk weight for a securitisation position is lower than any risk weight
(1) A conversion factor of 100% must be applied to the nominal amount of unrated liquidity facilities unless the conditions in MIPRU 4.2BA.51 R or MIPRU 4.2BA.53 R for a conversion factor of 50% or 0% are met. (2) The risk weight to be applied is the highest risk weight that would be applied to any of the securitised exposures by a firm holding those exposures.
MIPRU 4.2E.1R 26/04/2015 RP
1For the calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts, a firm must use solicited credit assessments from ECAIs in the following manner: (1) consistently and in accordance with this section; and(2) not selectively.
If two credit assessments are available from nominated ECAIs and the two correspond to different risk weights for a rated item, the higher risk weight must be applied.
(1) If more than two credit assessments are available from nominated ECAIs for a rated item, the two assessments generating the two lowest risk weights must be referred to. (2) If the two lowest risk weights are different, the higher risk weight must be assigned. (3) If the two lowest risk weights are the same, that risk weight must be assigned.
Where a credit assessment exists for a specific issuing programme or facility to which the item constituting the exposure belongs, this credit assessment must be used to determine the risk weight to be assigned to that item.
MIPRU 4.2E.10R 26/04/2015 RP
Where no directly applicable credit assessment exists for a certain item but a general credit assessment exists for the issuer, that general credit assessment must be used where it produces either of the following:(1) a higher risk weight than would otherwise be the case;(2) a lower risk weight and the exposure in question ranks as equally senior or senior in all respects to senior unsecured exposures of that issuer, as relevant.
Credit assessments for issuers within a group cannot be used as the credit assessment of another issuer within the same group.
A credit assessment that refers to an item denominated in the borrower's domestic currency cannot be used to derive a risk weight for another exposure on that same borrower that is denominated in a foreign currency.
BIPRU 8.7.1G 23/03/2018 RP
The calculation of the consolidated capital resources requirement of a firm's UK consolidation group or non-EEA sub-group involves taking the individual components that make up the capital resources requirement on a solo basis and applying them on a consolidated basis. Those components are the capital charge for credit risk (the credit risk capital requirement), the capital charge for market risk (the market risk capital requirement)4 and the fixed overheads requirement.
BIPRU 8.7.10R 01/01/2014 RP
A firm must calculate the consolidated capital resources requirement of its UK consolidation group or non-EEA sub-group as the higher of the following consolidated requirements components:33(1) the sum of the consolidated credit risk requirement and the consolidated market risk requirement; and3(2) the consolidated fixed overheads requirement. 3
Table: Capital charges relating to consolidated requirement componentsThis table belongs to BIPRU 8.7.11 RConsolidated requirement componentRules on which the consolidated requirement component are based (the applicable risk capital requirement)Consolidated credit risk requirementCredit risk capital requirementConsolidated fixed overheads requirementFixed overheads requirementConsolidated market risk requirementMarket risk capital requirement3
BIPRU 8.7.15G 01/01/2007 RP
The provisions of this section on credit risk and market risk restrict the choice given by BIPRU 8.7.13 R in certain circumstances.
BIPRU 8.7.18 G to BIPRU 8.7.23 R relate to the calculation of the consolidated credit risk requirement.
The credit risk capital requirement (on which the consolidated credit risk requirement is based) is split into two3capital charges. One relates to credit risk in the non-trading book (the credit risk capital component). One relates to credit risk in the trading book (the counterparty risk capital component). 3131
A firm may use a combination of the CCR standardised method, the CCR mark to market method and the CCR internal model method on a permanent basis with respect to the firm's UK consolidation group or non-EEA sub-group for the purposes of calculating the consolidated credit risk requirement. In particular, where the firm is permitted to apply the CCR internal model method on a consolidated basis with respect to its UK consolidation group or non-EEA sub-group, it may combine the
BIPRU 9.4.1 R (Minimum requirements for recognition of significant credit risk transfer) as applied on a consolidated basis requires the transfer to be to a person outside the UK consolidation group or non-EEA sub-group.
In accordance with BIPRU 8.2.1 R and BIPRU 8.3.1 R (The basic consolidation rules for a UK consolidation group or non-EEA sub-group), a firm may exclude that part of the risk capital requirement that arises as a result of:(1) (in respect of the consolidated credit risk requirement) intra-group balances; or(2) (in respect of the4consolidated fixed overheads requirement) intra-group transactions;with other undertakings in the UK consolidation group or non-EEA sub-group.
BIPRU 9.5.1R 01/04/2013 RP
(1) An originator of a synthetic securitisation may calculate risk weighted exposure amounts1, and, as relevant, expected loss amounts, for the securitised exposures in accordance with BIPRU 9.5.3 R and BIPRU 9.5.4 R, if either of the following conditions is fulfilled:1(a) 1significant credit risk is considered to have been transferred to third parties, either through funded or unfunded credit protection; or(b) 1the originator applies a 1250% risk weight to all securitisation
BIPRU 9.5.1BD 31/12/2010 RP
1An originator's application for a waiver of the requirements in BIPRU 9.5.1R (6) and (7) must demonstrate that the following conditions are satisfied:(1) it has policies and methodologies in place which ensure that the possible reduction of capital requirements which the originator achieves by the securitisation is justified by a commensurate transfer of credit risk to third parties; and(2) that such transfer of credit risk to third parties is also recognised for the purposes
BIPRU 9.5.1FG 01/04/2013 RP
1In the event that the appropriate regulator decides that the possible reduction in risk weighted exposure amounts which the originatorcredit institution would achieve by the securitisation referred to in BIPRU 9.5.1R (6) is not justified by a commensurate transfer of credit risk to third parties, it will use its powers under section 55J (Variation etc on the Authority's own initiative) of the Act to require the firm to increase its risk weight exposure amount to an amount commensurate
BIPRU 9.5.3 R-BIPRU 9.5.8 R apply to the calculation by an originator of risk weighted exposure amounts for exposuressecuritised in a synthetic securitisation.
(1) In calculating risk weighted exposure amounts for the securitised exposures, where the conditions in BIPRU 9.5.1 R are met, the originator of a synthetic securitisation must, subject to the treatment of maturity mismatches set out in BIPRU 9.5.6 R-BIPRU 9.5.8 R, use the relevant calculation methodologies set out in BIPRU 9.9-BIPRU 9.14and not those set out in BIPRU 3 (Standardised credit risk) or BIPRU 4 (IRB approach).(2) For firms calculating risk weighted exposure amounts
Subject to the treatment of maturity mismatches set out in BIPRU 9.5.6 R-BIPRU 9.5.8 R, the originator must calculate risk weighted exposure amounts in respect of all tranches in the securitisation in accordance with the provisions of BIPRU 9.9-BIPRU 9.14. For example, where a tranche is transferred by means of unfunded credit protection to a third party, the risk weight of that third party must be applied to the tranche in the calculation of the originatorsrisk weighted exposure
For the purposes of calculating risk weighted exposure amounts in accordance with BIPRU 9.5.3 R, any maturity mismatch between the credit protection by which the tranching is achieved and the securitised exposures must be taken into consideration in accordance with BIPRU 9.5.7 R-BIPRU 9.5.8 R.[Note:BCD Annex IX Part 2 point 5]
(1) An originator must ignore any maturity mismatch in calculating risk weighted exposure amounts for tranches appearing pursuant to BIPRU 9.9-BIPRU 9.14 with a risk weight of 1250%. For all other tranches the maturity mismatch treatment prescribed in BIPRU 5.8 (Maturity mismatches) must be applied in accordance with the following formula:RW* is [RW(SP) x (t-t*)/(T-t*)] + [RW(Ass) x (T-t)/(T-t*)](2) The following apply for the purposes of the formula in (1):(a) RW* is risk weighted
An export credit agency credit assessment may be recognised by a firm for the purpose of determining the risk weight to be applied to an exposure under the standardised approach if either of the following conditions is met:(1) the credit assessment is a consensus risk score from export credit agencies participating in the OECD "Arrangement on Guidelines for Officially Supported Export Credits"; or(2) the export credit agency publishes its credit assessments, and the export credit
If there is no short-term credit assessment as set out in BIPRU 3.4.112 R, the general preferential treatment for short-term exposures as specified in BIPRU 3.4.37 R applies to all exposures to institutions of up to three months residual maturity.[Note: BCD Annex VI Part 1 point 34]
If there is a short-term credit assessment as set out in BIPRU 3.4.112 R and such an assessment determines the application of a more favourable or identical risk weight than the use of the general preferential treatment for short-term exposures, as specified in BIPRU 3.4.37 R, then the short-term assessment and risk weighting specified in BIPRU 3.4.112 R must be used for that specific exposure only. Other short-term exposures must follow the general preferential treatment for
If there is a short-term credit assessment as set out in BIPRU 3.4.112 R and such an assessment determines a less favourable risk weight than the use of the general preferential treatment for short-term exposures, as specified in BIPRU 3.4.37 R, then the general preferential treatment for short-term exposures must not be used and all unrated short-term claims must be assigned the same risk weight as that applied by the specific short-term assessment.[Note: BCD Annex VI Part 1
For the purposes of BIPRU 3.4.56 R or BIPRU 3.4.58 R, a firm may only treat an exposure as fully and completely secured by residential property situated in the territory of a third-country competent authority that is listed as equivalent for credit risk in BIPRU 8 Annex 6 R3 if it would be treated as fully and completely secured under the applicable requirements of that third-country competent authority (including any applicable loan-to-value ceiling).3
For the purposes of BIPRU 3.4.56 R or BIPRU 3.4.58 R, where the residential property in question is situated in the territory of a third-country competent authority that is not listed as equivalent for credit risk in BIPRU 8 Annex 3 R:(1) a firm must not treat an exposure as fully and completely secured by the residential property in question unless the value of the property exceeds the exposures by a substantial margin, which must be at least 20%;(2) the firm must apply a risk
Exposures or any part of an exposure secured by mortgages on offices or other commercial premises which cannot properly be considered to fall within any other standardised credit risk exposure class or to qualify for a lower risk weight under BIPRU 3 must be assigned a risk weight of 100%.[Note: BCD Annex VI Part 1 point 51]
For the purpose of defining the secured portion of the past due item, eligible collateral and guarantees must be those eligible for credit risk mitigation purposes under BIPRU 5.[Note: BCD Annex VI Part 1 point 62]
BIPRU 3.4.124R 01/01/2007 RP
Where a firm is not aware of the underlying exposures of a CIU, it may calculate an average risk weight for the CIU in accordance with the standardised approach subject to the following rules: it will be assumed that the CIU first invests, to the maximum extent allowed under its mandate, in the standardised credit risk exposure classes attracting the highest capital requirement, and then continues making investments in descending order until the maximum total investment limit
(1) Where significant credit risk associated with securitised exposures has been transferred from the originator in accordance with the terms of BIPRU 9.4 or BIPRU 9.5, that originator may:(a) in the case of a traditional securitisation, exclude from its calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts and, as relevant, expected loss amounts, the exposures which it has securitised; and(b) in the case of a synthetic securitisation, calculate risk weighted exposure amounts and, as
1Significant credit risk will be considered to have been transferred for originators in the following cases:(1) the risk weighted exposure amounts of the mezzanine securitisation positions held by the originator in the securitisation do not exceed 50% of the risk weighted exposure amounts of all mezzanine securitisation positions existing in this securitisation;(2) where there are no mezzanine securitisation positions in a given securitisation and the originator can demonstrate
1An originator must notify the appropriate regulator that it is relying on the deemed transfer of significant credit risk under BIPRU 9.3.7R within a reasonable period before or after a relevant transfer, not being later than one month after the date of the transfer. The notification must include the following information: (1) the risk weighted exposure amount of the securitised exposures and retained securitisation positions; (2) the exposure value of the securitised exposures
1In the event that the appropriate regulator decides that the possible reduction in risk weighted exposure amounts which the originator would achieve by the securitisation referred to in BIPRU 9.3.7R is not justified by a commensurate transfer of credit risk to third parties, it will use its powers under section 55J of the Act (Variation etc on the Authority's own initiative) to require the firm to increase its risk weighted exposure amount to an amount commensurate with the appropriate
BIPRU 9.3.11D 31/12/2010 RP
1An originator's application for a waiver of the requirements in BIPRU 9.3.7R and BIPRU 9.3.8R must demonstrate that the following conditions are satisfied:(1) it has policies and methodologies in place which ensure that the possible reduction of capital requirements which the originator achieves by the securitisation is justified by a commensurate transfer of credit risk to third parties; and(2) that such transfer of credit risk to third parties is also recognised for the purposes
The originator of a traditional securitisation may exclude securitised exposures from the calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts and expected loss amounts if either of the following conditions is fulfilled:(1) 2significant credit risk associated with the securitised exposures is considered to have been transferred to third parties; or(2) 2the originator applies a 1250% risk weight to all securitisation positions it holds in the securitisation or deducts these securitisation
2Significant credit risk will be considered to be transferred for an originator in the following cases:(1) 2the risk weighted exposure amounts of the mezzanine securitisation positions held by the originator in the securitisation do not exceed 50% of the risk weighted exposure amounts of all mezzanine securitisation positions existing in this securitisation;(2) 2where there are no mezzanine securitisation positions in a given securitisation and the originator can demonstrate that
2An originator must notify the appropriate regulator that it is relying on the deemed transfer of significant credit risk under BIPRU 9.4.11R within a reasonable period before or after a relevant transfer, not being later than one month after the date of the transfer. The notification must include the following information:(1) 2the risk weighted exposure amount of the securitised exposures and retained securitisation positions; (2) 2the exposure value of the securitised exposures
2In the event that the appropriate regulator decides that the possible reduction in risk weighted exposure amounts which the originator would achieve by the securitisation referred to in BIPRU 9.4.11R is not justified by a commensurate transfer of credit risk to third parties, it will use its powers under section 55J (Variation etc on the Authority's own initiative) of the Act to require the firm to increase its risk weight exposure amount to an amount commensurate with the appropriate
2An originator's application for a waiver of the requirements in BIPRU 9.4.11R and BIPRU 9.4.12R must demonstrate that the following conditions are satisfied.(1) 2it has policies and methodologies in place which ensure that the possible reduction of capital requirements which the originator achieves by the securitisation is justified by a commensurate transfer of credit risk to third parties; and(2) 2that such a transfer of credit risk to third parties is also recognised for the
A firm must disclose the following information regarding compliance with BIPRU 3, BIPRU 4, 5, BIPRU 7, 5 and the overall Pillar 2 rule:(1) a summary of the firm's approach to assessing the adequacy of its internal capital to support current and future activities;(2) for a firm calculating risk weighted exposure amounts in accordance with the standardised approach to credit risk, 8% of the risk weighted exposure amounts for each of the standardised credit risk exposure classes;(3)
A firm must disclose the following information regarding its exposure to counterparty credit risk:(1) a discussion of the methodology used to assign internal capital and credit limits for counterparty credit exposures;(2) a discussion of policies for securing collateral and establishing credit reserves;(3) a discussion of policies with respect to wrong-way riskexposures;(4) a discussion of the impact of the amount of collateral the firm would have to provide given a downgrade
A firm must disclose the following information regarding its exposure to credit risk and dilution risk:(1) the definitions for accounting purposes of past due and impaired;(2) a description of the approaches and methods adopted for determining value adjustments and provisions;(3) the total amount of exposures after accounting offsets and without taking into account the effects of credit risk mitigation, and the average amount of the exposures over the period broken down by different
BIPRU 11.5.10R 01/01/2007 RP
For a firm calculating risk weighted exposure amounts in accordance with the standardised approach to credit risk, the following information must be disclosed for each of the standardised credit risk exposure classes;(1) the names of the nominated ECAIs and export credit agencies and the reasons for any changes;(2) the standardised credit risk exposure classes for which each ECAI or export credit agency is used;(3) a description of the process used to transfer the issuer and issue
A firm must disclose its capital resources requirements separately for each risk referred to in (1), (2) and (3):44(1) in respect of its trading-book business, its:(a) interest rate PRR;(b) equity PRR;1(c) option PRR;(d) collective investment schemesPRR;(e) counterparty risk capital component; and(f) [deleted]6(2) in respect of all of its business activities, its:(a) commodity PRR; and(b) foreign currency PRR; and41(3) its specific interest-rate risk of securitisation positions.4[Note:
A firm calculating risk weighted exposure amounts in accordance with BIPRU 9 or capital resource requirements according to BIPRU 7.2.48A R to BIPRU 7.2.48K R4 must disclose the following information, where relevant separately for its trading book and non-trading book:4(1) a description of the firm's objectives in relation to securitisation activity;(1A) the nature of other risks, including liquidity risk inherent in securitised assets;4(1B) the type of risks in terms of seniority
Notwithstanding BIPRU 4.3.5 R (Relevant parameters), the calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts for credit risk for all exposures belonging to the equity exposureIRB exposure class must be calculated in accordance with one of the following ways:(1) the simple risk weight approach (see BIPRU 4.7.8 R;(2) the PD/LGD approach (see BIPRU 4.7.13 R); and(3) the internal models approach (see BIPRU 4.7.23 R);in accordance with BIPRU 4.7 and subject to the firm'sIRB permission.[Note:BCD
Notwithstanding BIPRU 4.7.5 R a firm may, if its IRB permission permits it to do so, attribute the risk weighted exposure amounts for equity exposures to ancillary services undertakings according to the treatment of non credit-obligation assets.[Note:BCD Annex VII Part 1 point 18]
The risk weighted exposure amounts must be calculated according to the following formula:risk-weighted exposure amounts = RW * exposure value;where:(1) risk weight (RW) = 190% for private equity exposures in sufficiently diversified portfolios;(2) risk weight (RW) = 290% for exchange traded equity exposures; and(3) risk weight (RW) = 370% for all other equity exposures.[Note:BCD Annex VII Part 1 point 19]
Short cash positions and derivative instruments held in the non-trading book are permitted to offset long positions in the same individual stocks provided that these instruments have been explicitly designated as hedges of specific equity exposures and that they provide a hedge for at least another year. Other short positions must be treated as if they are long positions with the relevant risk weight assigned to the absolute value of each position. In the context of maturity mismatched
The risk weighted exposure amounts must be calculated according to the formulas in BIPRU 4.4.58 R (Risk weighted exposure amounts for sovereigns, institutions and corporates). If a firm does not have sufficient information to use the definition of default a scaling factor of 1.5 must be assigned to the risk weights.[Note:BCD Annex VII Part 1 point 22]
At the individual exposure level the sum of the expected loss amount multiplied by 12.5 and the risk weighted exposure amount must not exceed the exposure value multiplied by 12.5.[Note:BCD Annex VII Part 1 point 23]
The risk weighted exposure amount is the potential loss on the firm'sequity exposures as derived using internal value-at-risk models subject to the 99th percentile, one-tailed confidence interval of the difference between quarterly returns and an appropriate risk-free rate computed over a long-term sample period, multiplied by 12.5. The risk weighted exposure amounts at the equity exposure portfolio2 level must not be less than the total of the sums2 of the minimum risk weighted
For the purposes of calculating risk weighted exposure amounts, a maturity mismatch occurs when the residual maturity of the credit protection is less than that of the protected exposure. Protection of less than three months residual maturity, the maturity of which is less than the maturity of the underlying exposure, must not be recognised.[Note: BCD Annex VIII Part 4 point 1]
Where there is a maturity mismatch the credit protection must not be recognised where the original maturity of the protection is less than 1 year.[Note: BCD Annex VIII Part 4 point 2 (part)]
Subject to a maximum of 5 years, the effective maturity of the underlying is the longest possible remaining time before the obligor is scheduled to fulfil its obligations. Subject to BIPRU 5.8.4 R, the maturity of the credit protection is the time to the earliest date at which the protection may terminate or be terminated.[Note: BCD Annex VIII Part 4 point 3]
Where there is an option to terminate the protection which is at the discretion of the protection seller, the maturity of the protection must be taken to be the time to the earliest date at which that option may be exercised. Where there is an option to terminate the protection which is at the discretion of the protection buyer and the terms of the arrangement at origination of the protection contain a positive incentive for the firm to call the transaction before contractual
(1) The maturity of the credit protection and that of the exposure must be reflected in the adjusted value of the credit protection according to the following formula:GA = G* x (t-t*)/(T-t*)where:(a) G* is the amount of the protection adjusted for any currency mismatch;(b) GA is G* adjusted for any maturity mismatch;(c) t is the number of years remaining to the maturity date of the credit protection calculated in accordance with BIPRU 5.8.3 R to BIPRU 5.8.5 R, or the value of
(1) To calculate risk weighted exposure amounts, risk weights must be applied to all exposures, unless deducted from capital resources, in accordance with the provisions of BIPRU 3.4.(2) The application of risk weights must be based on the standardised credit risk exposure class to which the exposure is assigned and, to the extent specified in BIPRU 3.4, its credit quality.(3) Credit quality may be determined by reference to:(a) the credit assessments of eligible ECAIs in accordance
For the purposes of applying a risk weight, as referred to in BIPRU 3.2.20 R, the exposure value must be multiplied by the risk weight specified or determined in accordance with the standardised approach.[Note: BCD Article 80(2)]
Notwithstanding BIPRU 3.2.20 R, where an exposure is subject to credit protection the risk weight applicable to that item may be modified in accordance with BIPRU 5.[Note: BCD Article 80(4)]
Risk weighted exposure amounts for securitisedexposures must be calculated in accordance with BIPRU 9.[Note: BCD Article 80(5)]
Exposures the calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts for which is not otherwise provided for under the standardised approach must be assigned a risk weight of 100%.[Note: BCD Article 80(6)]
(1) Subject to BIPRU 3.2.35 R, and with the exception of exposures giving rise to liabilities in the form of the items referred to in BIPRU 3.2.26 R, a firm is not required to comply with BIPRU 3.2.20 R (Calculation of risk weighted exposures amounts under the standardised approach) in the case of the exposures of the firm to a counterparty which is its parent undertaking, its subsidiary undertaking or a subsidiary undertaking of its parent undertaking provided that the following
The following parties may be recognised as eligible providers of unfunded credit protection:(1) central governments and central banks;(2) regional governments or local authorities;(3) multilateral development banks;(4) international organisationsexposures which are assigned a 0% risk weight under the standardised approach;(5) public sector entities, claims on which are treated as claims on institutions or central governments under the standardised approach;(6) institutions;(7)
When a firm conducts an internal hedge using a credit derivative - i.e. hedges the credit risk of an exposure in the non-trading book with a credit derivative booked in the trading book - in order for the protection to be recognised as eligible for the purposes of BIPRU 4.10 or BIPRU 5 the credit risk transferred to the trading book must be transferred out to a third party or parties. In such circumstances, subject to the compliance of such transfer with the requirements for the
Where an exposure is protected by a guarantee which is counter-guaranteed by a central government or central bank, a regional government or local authority or a public sector entity claims on which are treated as claims on the central government in whose jurisdiction they are established under the standardised approach, a multilateral development bank or an international organisation,1to which a 0% risk weight is assigned under or by virtue of the standardised approach, or a public
Where the protected amount is less than the exposure value and the protected and unprotected portions are of equal seniority - i.e.1 the firm and the protection provider share losses on a pro-rata basis, proportional regulatory capital relief is afforded. For the purposes of BIPRU 3.2.20 R to BIPRU 3.2.26 Rrisk weighted exposure amounts must be calculated in accordance with the following formula:(E-GA) x r + GA x gwhere:1(1) E is the exposure value; according to BIPRU 3.2.1 R
Where a firm obtains credit protection for a number of exposures under terms that the first default among the exposures will trigger payment and that this credit event will terminate the contract, the firm may modify the calculation of the risk weighted exposure amount and, as relevant, the expected loss amount of the exposure which would in the absence of the credit protection produce the lowest risk weighted exposure amount under the standardised approach or the IRB approach
Where the nth default among the exposures triggers payment under the credit protection provided by a credit derivative, a firm purchasing the protection may only recognise the protection for the calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts and, as relevant, expected loss amounts if protection has also been obtained for defaults 1 to n-1 or when n-1 defaults have already occurred. In such cases the methodology must follow that set out in BIPRU 5.7.27 R for first-to-default derivatives
BIPRU 4.10.3R 01/01/2007 RP
A firm using the IRB approach, but not using its own estimates of LGD and conversion factors, may recognise credit risk mitigation in accordance with BIPRU 5 as modified by BIPRU 4.10 in the calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts for the purposes of the calculation of the credit risk capital component or as relevant expected loss amounts for the purposes of the calculation in GENPRU 2.2.191 R to GENPRU 2.2.193 R or GENPRU 2.2.236 R.[Note: BCD Article 91 (as it applies to
BIPRU 4.10.15R 01/01/2007 RP
(1) For the recognition of receivables as collateral the requirements in this paragraph must be met.(2) The legal mechanism by which the collateral is provided must be robust and effective and ensure that the lender has clear rights over the proceeds.(3) A firm must take all steps necessary to fulfil local requirements in respect of the enforceability of security interests. There must be a framework which allows the lender to have a first priority claim over the collateral subject
(1) Where:(a) risk weighted exposure amounts and expected loss amounts are calculated under the IRB approach; and(b) an exposure is collateralised by both financial collateral and other eligible collateral;LGD* to be taken as the LGD for the purposes of the IRB approach must be calculated in accordance with this rule.(2) A firm must subdivide the volatility-adjusted value of the exposure (i.e. the value after the application of the volatility adjustment as set out in BIPRU 5.4.28
(1) In the case of a firm using the IRB approach to calculate risk weighted exposure amounts and expected loss amounts, the persons in (2) are added to the list in BIPRU 5.4.64 R (Definition of core market participant).(2) The persons referred to in (1) are other financial companies (including insurance companies) exposures to which do not have a credit assessment by an eligible ECAI and are internally rated as having a probability of default equivalent to that associated with
A firm must have clearly specified criteria for the types of guarantors it recognises for the calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts.[Note: Annex VII Part 4 point 98]
A firm must have clearly specified criteria for adjusting grades, pools or LGD estimates, and in the case of retail exposures and eligible purchased receivables, the process of allocating exposures to grades or pools, to reflect the impact of guarantees for the calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts. These criteria must comply with the minimum requirements referred to in BIPRU 4.10.43 R.[Note: BCD Annex VII Part 4 point 101]
GA as calculated under BIPRU 5.8.11 R is then taken as the value of the protection for the purposes of calculating the effects of unfunded credit protection under the IRB approach.[Note: BCD Annex VIII Part 4 point 8 (part)]
The risk weighted exposure amounts for credit risk for exposures belonging to one of the exposure classes referred to in (1) to (4) must, unless deducted from capital resources, be calculated in accordance with the following provisions:(1) for exposures in the sovereign, institution and corporate IRB exposure class, BIPRU 4.4.57 R to BIPRU 4.4.60 R, BIPRU 4.4.79 R, BIPRU 4.5.8 R to BIPRU 4.5.10 R (for specialised lending exposures), BIPRU 4.9.3 R and BIPRU 4.8.16 R to BIPRU 4.8.17
The calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts for credit risk and dilution risk must be based on the relevant parameters associated with the exposure in question. These include probability of default (PD), loss given default (LGD), maturity (M) and the exposure value of the exposure. PD and LGD may be considered separately or jointly, in accordance with the provisions relating to PD and LGD in BIPRU 4.4, BIPRU 4.6, BIPRU 4.7 and BIPRU 4.8 at:(1) for exposures in the sovereign,
Senior management must have a good understanding of the rating system's designs and operations. Senior management must ensure on an ongoing basis that the rating systems are operating properly. Senior management must be regularly informed by the credit risk control units about the performance of the rating process, areas needing improvement, and the status of efforts to improve previously identified deficiencies.[Note:BCD Annex VII Part 4 point 126]
Internal ratings-based analysis of the firm's credit risk profile must be an essential part of the management reporting required under BIPRU 4.3.9 R, BIPRU 4.3.11 R and BIPRU 4.3.13 R. Reporting must include at least risk profile by grade, migration across grades, estimation of the relevant parameters per grade, and comparison of realised default rates and, to the extent that own estimates are used, of realised LGDs and realised conversion factors against expectations and stress-test
The credit risk control unit must be independent from the personnel and management functions responsible for originating or renewing exposures and report directly to senior management. The unit must be responsible for the design or selection, implementation, oversight and performance of the rating systems. It must regularly produce and analyse reports on the output of the rating systems.[Note:BCD Annex VII Part 4 point 128]
The areas of responsibility for the credit risk control unit(s) must include the following:(1) testing and monitoring grades and pools;(2) production and analysis of summary reports from the firm'srating systems;(3) implementing procedures to verify that grade and pool definitions are consistently applied across departments and geographic areas;(4) reviewing and documenting any changes to the rating process, including the reasons for the changes;(5) reviewing the rating criteria
A rating system comprises all of the methods, processes, controls, data collection and IT systems that support the assessment of credit risk, the assignment of exposures to grades or pools (rating), and the quantification of default and loss estimates for a certain type of exposure.[Note:BCD Annex VII Part 4 point 1]
(1) A firm must regularly perform a credit risk stress test to assess the effect of certain specific conditions on its total capital requirements for credit risk. The test to be employed must be one chosen by the firm. The test to be employed must be meaningful and reasonably conservative. Stressed portfolios must contain the vast majority of a firm's total exposures covered by the IRB approach.(2) The stress test must be designed to assess the firm's ability to meet its capital
The requirement in BIPRU 4.3.40 R (2) is to identify, in a forward-looking manner, severe but plausible downturn conditions relevant to business lines and jurisdictions and to determine the likely impact of those conditions on a firm's credit risk regulatory capital requirements. The description of the economic recession contained in BIPRU 4.3.40 R (2) should not be taken as stipulating one approach (e.g. statistical) over other approaches (e.g. scenario analysis) in the identification
Term trading-related repo-style transactions that a firm accounts for in its non-trading book may be included in the trading book for capital requirement purposes so long as all such repo-style transactions are included. For this purpose, trading-related repo-style transactions are defined as those that meet the requirements of BIPRU 1.2.4 R, BIPRU 1.2.10 R and BIPRU 1.2.12 R, and both legs are in the form of either cash or securities includable in the trading book. Regardless
BIPRU 1.2.6AG 29/06/2007 RP
2Capital requirements for term trading-related repo-style transactions are the same whether the risks arise in the trading book as counterparty credit risk or in the non-trading book as credit risk.
By way of derogation from 1BIPRU 1.2.14 R to BIPRU 1.2.15 R, when a firm hedges a non-trading book credit risk exposure using a credit derivative booked in its trading book (using an internal hedge), the non-trading book exposure is not deemed to be hedged for the purposes of calculating capital requirements unless the firm purchases from an eligible third party protection provider a credit derivative meeting the requirements set out in BIPRU 5.7.13 R (Additional requirements
(1) Subject to (3), a firm may calculate its capital requirements for its trading book business in accordance with the standardised approach to credit risk (or, if it has an IRB permission, the IRB approach) as it applies to the non-trading book where the size of the trading book business meets the following requirements:(a) the trading book business of the firm does not normally exceed 5% of its total business;(b) its total trading bookposition do not normally exceed €15 million;
All positions that are in a firm'strading book require capital to cover position risk and may require capital to cover counterparty credit risk. Counterparty credit risk in the trading book is dealt with by BIPRU 14.33
To calculate the risk weighted exposure amount of a securitisation position, the relevant risk weight must be assigned to the exposure value of the position in accordance with BIPRU 9.9 - BIPRU 9.14 based on the credit quality of the position.[Note:BCD Article 96(1) (part) and Annex IX1, Part 4 point 1]
Where a securitisation position is subject to funded or unfunded credit protection the risk weight to be applied to that position may be modified in accordance with BIPRU 5 (Credit risk mitigation) and, if applicable, BIPRU 4.10 (Credit risk mitigation under the IRB approach) read in conjunction with BIPRU 9.14.[Note:BCD Article 96(3)]
(1) Where a firm has two or more overlapping positions in a securitisation the firm must, to the extent that the positions overlap, include in its calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts only the position, or portion of a position, producing the higher risk weighted exposure amounts. The firm may also recognise such an overlap between capital charges for specific risk in relation to positions in the trading book and capital charges for positions in the non-trading book,
Subject to the provisions of GENPRU that deal with the deduction of securitisation positions at stage M in the relevant capital resources table, the risk weighted exposure amount must be included in the firm's total of risk weighted exposure amounts for the purposes of the calculation of its credit risk capital requirement.[Note:BCD Article 96(4)]
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Circuit Court Clerk's Office
Deeds & Plats
$5 Recording fee begins July 1, 2019 - Please Read
The Clerk of the Circuit Court's land records division records real estate documents such as:
Certificates of satisfaction
Deeds of trust
The clerk's office also dockets judgments and files UCC statements, which are liens on real estate.
Looking up Land Records
If you wish to access Hanover County land records or record a document, you may do so in person at the clerk's office weekdays, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The recording office and records room are located on the second floor of the Circuit Courthouse at:
For a monthly fee, we also offer a secure remote access online subscription service available 24 hours a day on the Secure Remote Access Land Records website. A subscription may make sense if you frequently look up land records.
Recording Land Records
View Virginia's Judicial System Deed Book as it includes forms for commonly used documents you might have reason to record with the clerk's office. These forms include:
Certificate and Affidavit of Satisfaction
Certificate of Partial Satisfaction
Certificate of Release of Mechanics Lien
Certificate of Release of Memorandum of Lis Pendens Attachment
Memorandum for Mechanic's Lien Claimed by General Contractor Under Virginia Code 43-5
Please note that the clerk's office cannot accept any forms in which grey boxes appear. To avoid the form printing with grey boxes, print the form using the "Print for Submission to Court" button, rather than the print feature on your Internet browser.
Recording Documents
For a document to be recorded, it must:
Be accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope so that all documents may be returned once scanned, indexed, and verified
Be accompanied by the appropriate recording fee. View the Virginia's Judicial System Recording Cost Calculator to determine the fee. The clerk's office can accept fees paid by check, cash or money order. Checks should be made payable to Hanover County Circuit Court Clerk.
Do not include a social security number. In accordance with Virginia law, the clerk's office will not knowingly record any document that contains a social security number.
Include original signatures, properly acknowledged
Include a Geographic Parcel Identification Number (GPIN) if the document pertains to real estate. You can determine the GPIN by contacting the commissioner's office at 804-365-6128 or visiting the Hanover County Virginia Parcel Search.
View the Library of Virginia's Standards for Recorded Instruments. Plats must meet the Library of Virginia's Standards for Plats.
e-Recording Documents
The clerk’s office currently accepts a variety of documents submitted electronically by CSC, e-Recording Partners LLC and Simplifile. The documents that we accept, and those we cannot accept, are described in e-Recording Documents and Indexing Specifications.
Concealed Handgun Permit
Copy Requests
Filing a Trade Name
Hanover Circuit Court
Local Court Rules
Notary Public Applications
Officer of the Court Remote Access
Pay Traffic Tickets & Other Offenses
Wills & Administration of Estates
Circuit Court Case Information
Victim Witness Assistance Program
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Watch the trailer for Project Resistance, a multiplayer Resident Evil spin-off
By Tim Augustin - on 10 Sep 2019, 2:50pm
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Capcom has finally unveiled their latest Resident Evil game - and it’s pretty much what everyone suspected. The game is titled Project Resistance and seems to be a multiplayer team-based shooter.
There’s a twist though - it seems that one player will be able to set zombies and lickers loose at other players, and even be able to remotely control Mr X! Check out the trailer below:
It looks like players will also get to control a bunch of Racoon City residents fighting their way out of a cruel lab experiment, if that teaser is reflective of actual gameplay. A mysterious figure sets zombies and lickers loose on the four characters, while they use shotguns and baseball bats to defend themselves.
We don’t know much more about this game yet, so the rest is up to speculation. Capcom did confirm that we would get more information and gameplay at Tokyo Game Show, which runs from September 12 to 15.
Personally, I’m looking forward to tearing Mr X a new one with some buddies, but those hoping for a more singleplayer-focused experience might be a bit let down by this reveal. Hey, we can still hope for a Resident Evil 3 remake, right?
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In his last interview (filmed exclusively for this project), R. Buckminster Fuller describes the beauty of the Towers as a unique display of the universal structural systems found in nature and as a demonstration of the power of individual initiative to effect change in the world.
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The score spans the time and distance from 19th-century Italy to present-day Los Angeles. The classical score was arranged by Robert Israel conducting the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Robert Israel Ensemble.
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Sunny Isles Beach Homeless Shelters
Sunny Isles Beach Homeless Shelters & Services For The Needy
Welcome to our Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Homeless Shelters and Services for the needy page. Below are all of the homeless shelters and services for the needy that provide help to those in need for Sunny Isles Beach, FL and surrounding cities.
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Austin Hepburn Senior Mini Center
4.17 miles from city center Sunny Isles Beach
Food pantry (Hallandale Beach, Hollywood, Pembroke Park, West Park, Dania Beach and Miramar) 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, or emergency as needed
Jubilee Center of South Broward Inc
Not a Homeless Shelter. This is a Homeless Services organization.Soup Kitchen/ Food Pantry/clothing and outreach providedSocial Services—Monday-Friday 10:30am-12:30pmPantry bags of food--(Once every 4 weeks) for singles with proof of address e.g., a rent receipt
The Homeless Voice Shelter
We are between Johnson Street and Taft Street on the East side of Federal Highway. We are just three blocks north of Johnson Street.
Homeless Voice / COSAC
Our Homeless Helpline is the gateway to homeless services in both South Florida & Central Florida, the first step in finding shelter, support services, or programs that help an individual or family who are homeless or on the verge of being homeless.
BROWARD OUTREACH CENTER HOLLYWOOD
This full-service, 90-bed facility is located on the corner of Scott Street and Dixie Highway in Hollywood, serving homeless men and women in South Broward County. Located adjacent to the Broward Outreach Center is the BROWARD OUTREACH CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN - HOLLYWOOD. Designed to mee
Rebel's Drop in Center
Free drop in center that helps those with mental health or substance abuse.HoursMonday through Friday: 3 to 8 pmWeekends and holidays: Noon to 5 pmThe center has earned a reputation as a safe and supportive, prejudice-free environment with impressive outcomes. For
Salvation Army Miami Edison Corps Social Services
The Edison Corp's Salvation Army in Miami provides social services. The services include: Disaster Services Emergency Financial Assistance Emergency Shelter Please contact this office to make an appointment for a needs assessment.
Transitional Shelter For men and women/job training/etcConcept House, Inc.'s Behavioral Health Care programs are affordable and are based on a sliding fee scale.We offer comprehensive and specialized residential, outpatient and supportive housing programs for females and males affl
New Life Family of Catholic Charities
10.09 miles from city center Sunny Isles Beach
Emergency Shelter for families with children. Catholic Charities' New Life Family Center in Miami-Dade is a transitional housing shelter with 15 private units. Under the guidance of our experienced staff, dispossessed families with children have the opportunity to return to self-suffici
Douglas Gardens CMHC - Homeless Assistance Program
Emergency Shelter and Outreach ServicesThe Douglas Gardens Community Mental Health Center provides comprehensive mental health services to people living in the Greater Miami Beach area. The Center was established in 1979 as a federally funded CMHC private non-profit State of Florida Corp
Miami City Mission Youth Center
The center Impact youths to be positive agents of change to our society; by becoming self-conscious, spiritual conscious and community conscious. Providing; after school, enrichment program to support students in the Wynwood / Allapatta neighborhood and surrounding areas.
Salvation Army Miami Adult Rehab Center
Men's Substance Drug and/or Alcohol Abuse Rehab Center.The Salvation Army Miami Adult Rehab Center provides individual and group counseling, training in job skills, and other tools for rebuilding positive lifestyles. Each in-residence program puts the men into clean, comfortable l
Miami Rescue Women
Emergency Shelter for women and children. The Center is a haven for homeless women and children, and provides emergency overnight shelter as well as a long-term recovery program. The 40-bed facility located at 2250 NW 1st Avenue in Miami. A.W.A.R.E.N.E.S.S. (A Woman's
Miami Rescue Mission
Helping men, women, and children with meals, safe shelter, life-changing residential programs, employment, and housing resulting in transformed lives. Our passion is to follow the Lord Jesus Christ's great commission by serving others.The Miami Campus has served the homeless and needy si
Salvation Army Hialeah Support Services
The Salvation Army in Hialeah provides a number of social services. Services at this Salvation Army includes: Disaster Services Emergency Financial Assistance (Rent Assistance, Mortgage Assistance, Utility Assistance) Emergency Shelter Transitional Housing
The Salvation Army - Red Shield Lodge
Our Administration office is open Mon-Fri 8:30am - 4:30pmThe Salvation Army Miami Area Command offers 236 beds distributed among three lodges that provide temporary housing to women and families, single men, veterans, and persons dealing with HIV/AIDS. These te
Homeless Assistance Center - Chapman Center
Any person or family who is homeless, about to be homeless, or assisting someone facing homelessness, and requiring emergency assistance must first contact the Homeless Helpline administered by the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust.If you are homeless, or about to become
Chapman Partnership
Any person or family who is homeless, about to be homeless, or assisting someone facing homelessness, and requiring emergency assistance must first contact the Homeless Helpline administered by the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust.Homeless HelplineToll Free: 1-877
Lotus House
Shelter for women, youths and children. Provides shelter and wrap around support services for homeless women with special needs. Those with medical or mental health conditions or the elderly.
M. Teresa Mission of Charity
Emergency Shelter for women and children. The Missionaries of Charity of Mother Teresa arrived in the archdiocese in 1980 to care for the poorest of the poor in Miami's inner city. They currently operate a shelter for homeless women and children near Jackson Memorial Hospital. Emergenc
Camillus House
Emergency Shelter Provided. Homeless Services provided. Serving the South Florida community since 1960, Camillus House is a non-profit organization that provides humanitarian services to men, women and children who are poor and homeless. Camillus Housing Services addresse
Eyes On God Homeless Shelter
Homeless shelter.
Miami Dade Homeless Trust
If you are homeless or about to be, or know someone who is, a trusted resource is just a phone call away. 1-877-994-4357 While a phone call doesn�t mean an automatic place to stay, the Helpline is the front door to available resources. Homeless individuals and families will be assessed
Hope South Florida
Emergency housing for homeless families in Fort Lauderdale. Hope Central: a one-stop center for families facing housing and economic crisis in their lives Faith In Action Community Housing: crisis housing for homeless families through churches The Shepherd's Way Family
Salvation Army Fort Lauderdale
The emergency night shelter is an open door shelter that provides beds to homeless individuals without children. Homeless individuals can place their name on the list for drawing by calling or by walking in.Intake: Contact 954-524-6991 on Mondays between 12:00 and 2:00 PM, o
Covenant House Florida
Covenant House Florida serves runaway, homeless, and at-risk youth under 21 including teen parents and their babies. Each year, we reach hundreds of kids in Fort Lauderdale and Orlando via street outreach, crisis shelters, transitional housing projects, and aftercare, making Covenant
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Broward Partnership for the Homeless
Services: Short-Term Housing Rapid Re-Housing Permanent Supportive Housing The Broward Partnership operates the Central Homeless Assistance Center, a 57,000 square-foot, 200-bed emergency shelter situated on 2.7 acres near downtown Fort Lauderdale t
BC Central Homeless Assistance Center
Operated by The Broward Partnership for the Homeless, 200 bed facility with comprehensive services for men, women and families. Admission by referral only. Call the number provided for full details.
People Helping People Outreach
Broward county homeless shelter.
Broward County Homeless HelpLine
Broward County Homeless Helpline. Anyone seeking Broward County Homeless information / referral or a homeless individual / family in Broward County. The Homeless Helpline provides a single point of entry into the homeless continuum of care. Homeless individuals and families call in t
Lippman Youth Shelter
The Lippman Youth Shelter is a short term crisis runaway shelter for troubled and abused children from 12 years old to 17 years old.
Silver Impact Day Shelter
Lauderhill, FL 33319
Day shelter for those 55 years and older.
Haitian Evangelical Baptist Church Food Pantry
Provides a food pantry. Wednesdays and Fridays: 10am to 2pm.
St. Laurence Chapel Homeless Day Shelter
St. Laurence Chapel is the working name for the Episcopal Mental Health Ministries, Inc. Located next to the Broward Outreach Center (BOC).Hours: Direct Client Services are provided Mondays through Fridays 7:30 to 3:30pm. Every Sunday there is a voluntary chapel service and
Broward Outreach Center Pompano Beach
This state-of-the-art 200-bed homeless assistance center is in its second year of serving the homeless men, women and families. The program is designed to be an eight week, full-service homeless shelter, with an average stay of sixty days. This county facility is manage
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It can take as little as 3 minutes for irretrievable damage to be caused by smoke inhalation.
Many fires happen at night while people are asleep. Smoke from a fire can put sleeping people into a deeper sleep, it may not waken them. By installing smoke alarms you will have early warning of a fire, which gives you time to act before you and your family are overcome by dangerous smoke and fumes.
Four detectors should be installed in the average home.
Make sure that all smoke/heat alarms are properly installed and maintained.
Test the alarms every week and their batteries every year.
Smoke Alarms - Frequently Asked Questions
How many smoke alarms do I need?
In a standard two-storey house, four detectors should be installed – smoke detectors on each landing and in the living room and a heat detector in the kitchen.
Where do I fit them?
On the ceiling as close to the centre of the room as possible. Make sure that you can hear the smoke alarm at night with the doors closed.
What are the different types of Smoke Alarm?
There are two types of Smoke Alarm “Ionisation” and “Optical”
Ionisation Smoke Alarm
This is the cheapest and most common type of smoke alarm. It is very sensitive to small particles of smoke from “flaming” fires like chip pans. It will detect this type of fire at the early stages and before the smoke gets too thick to escape.
Optical Smoke Alarm
Slightly more expensive type but more effective at detecting larger particles from “slow burning” fires such as smouldering foam or PVC wiring.
10-year Ionisation or Optical smoke alarms are available and are fitted with a long life lithium battery or a sealed power pack that lasts for 10 years.
How often should I test the smoke alarms?
Smoke alarms require very little maintenance but to ensure it operates when needed:
Once a week, test the smoke alarm by pushing and holding the test button until it activates.
Every six months vacuum and brush the casing to get rid of dust.
Every year change the battery (unless it is a 10 year battery)
Every 10 years replace the smoke alarm.
Which smoke alarm is best suited for outside the kitchen?
Optical Smoke alarms are best suited for this position as they are not so sensitive to small particles of smoke like toast cooking or rashers burning but they are ideally suited for larger particles of smoke.
What is a heat detector?
A heat detector does exactly what it sounds like – it detects heat but not smoke or fumes. It is ideal for use in areas where there could be false activations due to steam, burning rashers, car fumes etc.
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Saturday Night: Iron Maiden at The Woodlands
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Iron Maiden, Coheed and Cambria Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion August 18, 2012
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With 15 studio albums and at least as many world tours now under its belt, Iron Maiden is not a band from which fans are seeking innovative new sounds. More than 30 years after they shoved heavy metal in an electrifying new direction with their self-titled debut and sophomore classic, Killers, the British rock stalwarts' show is mostly a celebration of reliability: Reliable riffs, reliable props and reliable precision.
Saturday night at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Iron Maiden reliably delivered. Better than many of their peers on the heavy-metal nostalgia circuit, Maiden is adept at infusing nostalgia with novelty. This summer's Maiden England World Tour harkens back to the band's 1989 live VHS of the same name, which captured the band's '88 tour in support of the album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. That trek's 24-year-old set list and stage dressings were dusted off for the occasion.
Rehashed as it was, the show was still spectacular. Not just spectacular for some old dudes with pointy guitars, either -- just plain spectacular, period. A lot of the credit has to go to the crowd. A fist-pumping sea of black Iron Maiden shirts, they joyously hung on every note.
After a modestly received set by emo progsters Coheed and Cambria, Maiden appeared to orgiastic approval for a pair of tunes from Seventh Son, "Moonchild" and "Can I Play With Madness." On a stage set to resemble the frozen hell depicted on that record's cover, the band would go on to play more than half of the album's songs, several of which have become live rarities in the ensuing decades.
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During the doomsday revel "2 Minutes to Midnight," Maiden comfortingly (and convincingly) proved that they can still match their fans' energy. Steve Harris fired off machine-gun licks on his bass as singer Bruce Dickinson nimbly leapt off of monitors, just as they always have. Drummer Nicko McBrain was completely obscured by his kit in the middle of the group's multi-tiered set, but when the cameras caught his face, he looked once again to be having more fun than anyone else in the amphitheater.
The ecstatic crowd was more than happy to play its role in the show, too. They banged their heads, clapped their hands and held up hundreds of posters, banners and flags as electricity crackled through the venue. Though many in attendance looked old enough to be reliving long-gone high-school salad days, a large contingent of teens in the crowd were clearly having their minds blown for the very first time.
"Scream for me, Houston!" Dickinson demanded, and the audience repeatedly obliged.
A quadruple helping of Maiden warhorses in the middle of the set, including "The Trooper," "Number of the Beast," "Phantom of the Opera" and "Run to the Hills," threatened to bring the house down prematurely. The ageless Dickinson hit every high note as the band's grotesque, 10-foot-tall mascot Eddie prowled the stage dressed as Gen. George S. Custer, swinging his saber and generally causing audience members to piss themselves with excitement.
The ferocious pyrotechnics employed by Slayer at last month's Mayhem Festival were mighty impressive, but Iron Maiden easily topped them, sending four 20-foot columns of flame from the stage floor to the lighting rig high above. The heat was intense even 25 rows back.
During "Number of the Beast," an animatronic demon gazed out on to the hill with glowing red eyes from its perch on the stage set's second tier. Stunning as the special effects were, they were more than equaled by the well-scripted guitar fireworks dispatched by Iron Maiden's triple-guitar assault deployed by Adrian Smith, Dave Murray and Janick Gers.
The band didn't need the explosive trappings to keep the night's energy at fever pitch. For 1986's "Wasted Years," a few spotlights and a massive singalong were all that was required. The crowd participation continued with "Fear of the Dark," and by the time an enormous animatronic recreation of Eddie from the Seventh Son album cover rose from beneath the stage to tower over the band during "Iron Maiden," fans were screaming themselves horse.
Then, Eddie's brain exploded in flames, and all I could do was shake my head and grin. "Over the top" is simply where Iron Maiden begins. They didn't play a song less than 20 years old all night, but their eye-popping stage show and impeccable playing appear primed to keep packing in the crowds well into the band's fourth decade.
Saturday night was Maiden's final night of a 36-date North American tour, but they looked as if they could easily handle another 36. It's hard to imagine them not returning again soon.
Much like Eddie, I'll be back.
Personal Bias: The other reporter next to me didn't seem all that impressed with my singing during "Aces High." Back to the shower, I guess.
The Crowd: The guy behind me was over 60. The kid in front of me was under 16. Both wore identical Maiden t-shirts. The beer guy told me he'd served fans from Germany, Spain, Mexico and Brazil Saturday night.
Overheard In the Crowd: Just roaring, basically. It was one of the loudest, most pumped-up crowds I can remember at the Pavilion.
Random Notebook Dump: After countless long, hard tours, Iron Maiden remains in amazingly good shape. Maybe my D.A.R.E. officer was right.
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Aces High The Evil That Men Do Running Free
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Community forest rights: What are the conditions for success?
Climate Change Forestry
When working on community forest rights, we need to look beyond the formalization of these rights and also work on the enabling environment that allows the community to benefit from their forest resources. This was the key message of a session titled “Community forest rights: What are the key conditions for success?”, organized by Tropenbos International and ClientEarth, during the 2019 LANDac Conference in Utrecht.
During the session three speakers, Lucia Gbala, Partner at Heritage Partners & Associates (HPA), Freddie Siangulube, PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam and Nathalie Faure, Law and Policy Advisor at ClientEarth, shared their experiences and lessons learned with community forest rights.
According to Lucia Gbala, communities in Liberia tend to have a limited understanding of the law, limiting their opportunities to benefit from legal frameworks that recognize community forest rights. HPA therefore works with ClientEarth to improve the legal skills of communities, for example to negotiate contracts with timber companies for the commercial use of their forest resources with fair benefit-sharing arrangements. Based on these experiences, Lucia stressed the importance of community legal empowerment, negotiation skills, and responsive resolution mechanisms.
Freddie Siangulube , explained that Zambia has a law that acknowledges community forest rights, but so far not a single community forest has been recognized. A pilot project revealed several obstacles, including a lack of clear boundaries, competing claims between communities and commercial actors, and conflicts between communities. According to Freddie there is a need for strengthened community governance, and an open dialogue about rights and ambitions.
Nathalie Faure presented the key messages of a recent study on legal frameworks for community forestry in Nepal, the Philippines and Tanzania. She highlighted the need for simple, clear and accessible laws, and regulations that provide structure, while also offering flexibility to adapt to the local context. When developing legal frameworks, specific attention should be paid to community participation in decision-making, access to markets and equitable benefit sharing, among others.
The following lessons from the session were highlighted by René Boot, director of Tropenbos International:
There is a need for community engagement, which requires community empowerment.
Good governance is key—within communities, landscapes and at higher political levels.
The process of formalizing rights needs to be flexible and inclusive.
To make community rights work for people and nature, there should be an enabling environment for communities to actually benefit from their resources and manage them sustainably.
source: https://www.tropenbos.org
by Emmanuel Jaygbay
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Proposals on three health and safety Approved Codes of Practice
Consultation opened on 09 June 2014. Closing date 15 September 2014.
This consultative document sets out proposals in respect of three health and safety Approved Codes of Practice (ACOPs).
Management, Gas Service Pipes, ROLT ACOPs consultation – summary of responses
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This consultative document sets out proposals in respect of three health and safety Approved Codes of Practice (ACOPs) as outlined below:
(i) The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 Approved Code of Practice [HSENI are considering withdrawing its approval for use in Northern Ireland and replacing it with links via the HSENI website to the suite of updated online guidance published by the Health and Safety Executive in Great Britain (HSE)];
(ii) Design Construction and Installation of Gas Service Pipes [ACOP to be withdrawn and replaced with updated streamlined online guidance]; and
(iii) Rider Operated Lift Trucks: Operator Training – Approved Code of Practice and Guidance (Provision and Use of Work Equipment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 [approval of revised HSE ACOP for use in Northern Ireland].
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Fertility Preservation for Cancer Patients
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All cancer patients requiring ovarian preservation to preserve fertility are treated at minimal costs because insurance rarely covers this. We understand that treatment decisions need to be made without additional financial complications.
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There are many young women today who are cancer survivors, but their remarkable cures have cost most of them their fertility. Bone marrow transplantations, modern radiation treatment, and aggressive chemotherapy permanently cures up to 90% of cancers in young women today, but their eggs and ovaries are either completely or partially destroyed by these treatments.
Preparing ovarian tissue for freezing
For many years (since 1994), scientists have been hoping that the ovaries of such patients could be removed and frozen before such cancer therapy destroys them, so that maybe in the future these cryopreserved ovaries could be transplanted back to the patients, and thus restore their fertility. Dr. Sherman Silber of St. Louis, Missouri [see video], demonstrates that this dream is now a robust reality.
Dr. Silber demonstrates this procedure for preserving fertility in a 31 year old woman who first saw him as a cancer patient at age 19. She was a 19 year old girl then about to undergo treatment for a severe case of Hodgkin’s’ lymphoma which her doctors told her would render her permanently sterile, and if she were cured of cancer, she would nonetheless become permanently menopausal, and never be able to have children. Dr. Silber warned her in 1997 that he could not predict at that time if it would indeed allow her to have children in the future, but it was her only chance, and at the young age of 19, she decided to take it, and it worked! Click here to hear Dr. Silber discuss this case on National Public Radio (NPR).
During the three years after her ovary was frozen by Dr. Silber, she wound up having several recurrences of her cancer, requiring two bone marrow transplants and many rounds of radiation and chemotherapy. But eventually she was cured and indeed, eleven years later she got married at age 31. Although she was prematurely menopausal, she still dreamed of having children of her own, which her cancer doctors had warned her, could never happen. Yet after she received a transplant of her ovarian tissue (which had been frozen 12 years earlier), she conceived a healthy child. Over 60 such young cancer patients have subsequently undergone freezing of eggs or ovarian tissue at the Infertility Center of St. Louis. Now it appears that their dreams will indeed come true.
Meanwhile, Dr. Silber from 2003 until 2009 had performed a remarkable series of nine ovary transplants between very rare identical twin sisters who were discordant for premature ovarian failure (which means that one sister had gone into menopause early in life and the other identical twin sister was quite fertile). This unusual series of transplants produced 12 pregnancies in the eight otherwise sterile recipients who had Fallopian tubes, and eight healthy births (4 miscarriages). The technical innovations he had the opportunity to develop in such a series, clarified how the ovarian tissue needs to be frozen, thawed, and indeed transplanted, to get optimal results with cancer patients.
Transplantation of frozen ovarian tissue
Next he performed transplantation of frozen ovarian tissue in patients who had been cured of their cancer, but had frozen their ovary tissue prior to their sterilizing cancer treatment,and achieved healthy pregnancies. Thus far all three frozen cases have been successful resulting in healthy babies. The technical video shows this entire technique, including patient interviews. It demonstrates that preserving fertility in cancer patients by freezing their ovarian tissue is now a reality.
Melissa Durant says the one positive about her cancer diagnosis is, “I don’t have a biological clock anymore… so when I’m ready to have kids, it’s not going to be a problem.”
The 31 year old cancer survivor told us, “You know, I feel so fortunate that I had cancer. My girlfriends in their 30’s are all worried about their biological clock, but I have a 19 year old ovary, and am, ironically even more fertile than they are.” Therefore this technique not only preserves the fertility of cancer patients, but also can protect non-cancer patients from the otherwise devastating effect of their biological clock.
By 2010, already 23 healthy babies have been born as a result of ovary tissue transplants, whether fresh or frozen. It is no longer therefore just an experimental procedure, but should be considered standard therapy to preserve fertility.
It is now officially recommended by the Cancer Society that all young men and women should be counseled on how to preserve their fertility before undergoing cancer treatment, as it is not necessary any longer for them to remain sterile as a result of their cancer therapy.
Yet there are still many sad stories we hear daily of young women who will never be able to have children because of backward views of their oncologist. Many otherwise well meaning oncologists do not want to bother with referring their patients for fertility preservation for fear it would delay their cancer treatment. But freezing a young woman’s ovarian tissue is a simple, minor procedure that will only delay treatment by 2 days, and will in no way hamper the cure of their cancer.
Just recently we consulted with the parents of a 17 year old girl with Hodgkin’s Disease who were thrilled to save their daughter’s fertility, but their oncologist actually talked them into not doing this and to only concentrate on her Hodgkin’s. She will consequently never have children. Contrast that girl’s sterile future to that of Amy and Melissa, who look forward in the future to having a family of their own.
Fertility Preservation with Ovary Transplantation
Several days ago, the first patient in the United States delivered a healthy baby from a transplanted ovary which had been frozen thirteen years ago, before she underwent otherwise sterilizing cancer treatment as a 19 year old girl. Dr. Silber’s paper published in Fertility and Sterility, provides otherwise rare information for guiding fertility preservation practices, and counseling patients about the likelihood of success of ovary transplantation. This is the largest series of ovarian transplants to date, with the largest number of pregnancies and live births, and the longest number of follow-up years to evaluate the efficacy of ovary transplantation, fresh or frozen, and the expected duration of function of the transplanted ovary.
After fresh or frozen ovary transplantation, these patients have essentially a completely normal pregnancy rate and delivery rate as would be expected in any normal group of women who had never had cancer or who had never required ovary transplantation to cure their premature menopause.
Ovarian tissue frozen to preserve fertility should be able to completely restore the fertility that the young woman would have had if she had never undergone otherwise sterilizing radiation and chemotherapy.
One in every 250 young women today are cancer survivors, but their cancer treatment usually has rendered them sterile. With the approach of ovarian tissue freezing and transplantation, their fertility can now be preserved, and rather inexpensively. Interestingly, most of these cancer survivors whose frozen ovarian tissue is stored with us, tell us that they felt “fortunate” that they were diagnosed with cancer. While this is an odd thing to say, they point out that their girlfriends in their 30’s are all worried about their biological clock, but these cancer survivors do not have to worry about that, because their frozen ovarian tissue is that of a teenager or woman in her 20’s, the time in their lives when their ovary tissue frozen.
One, therefore, has to consider whether this could be also be offered to young women who need to put off childbearing aspirations until they are in their late 30’s or 40’s, as so many women in our modern society must do. This presents an option for them to preserve their fertility, not against the consequences of cancer therapy, but against the slowly ticking away of their biological clocks.
Infertility is a huge and growing global epidemic, and the reason for this epidemic is the putting off of childbearing by so many modern women. In previous generations, the norm was to get married in our early 20’s and have all our children before age 30. At one time, you were considered to be really old at 65 if lucky enough to live that long. Now we all plan to be very healthy and active into our 80’s and, therefore, childbearing is put off until one’s late 30’s or early 40’s or even later. But a woman’s eggs still age and by the late 30’s, 50 percent of women are infertile. If ovary or egg freezing were offered to these women while they were still young, we could completely overcome this infertility epidemic.
During a campaign breakfast a few years ago, Dr. Silber had the wonderful opportunity to meet Hillary Clinton. In just a few minutes she found out about Dr. Silber’s work in infertility, running a large IVF program, and asked why there was so much more infertility nowadays. Dr. Silber explained about the biological clock and she asked what he was going to do to solve this problem. Dr. Silber told her about ovary and egg freezing at the Infertility Center of St. Louis, currently being used only for cancer patients, because of potential ethical questions about using this method “just” to prolong the fertility of women who do not have cancer. Her very direct and immediate answer to that was: “I THINK THIS IS A NO BRAINER. YOU SHOULD OFFER IT TO ANYONE, WITH OR WITHOUT CANCER.” So the ultimate implication of these findings is the availability to prolong the reproductive lifespan not only of cancer patients, but of any young woman who needs to postpone childbearing.
This method is about to be applied also to freezing ovarian tissue for younger pediatric-age patients who are pre-pubertal, which should work as well as for post-pubertal young women. The plan is to do the same with the testes of pre-pubertal boys who obviously cannot give us a sperm sample to freeze.
Interview in 2011 with Amy Tucker whose ovary was frozen in 1997 as a young girl prior to undergoing sterilizing cancer treatment.
Amy Tucker talks to her friends in their 30s about their biological clocks but she has a 19 year old ovary.
Amy reflects with Dr. Silber about why she feels fortunate she had cancer.
Dr. Silber Performs First Ever Ovary Transplant in China.Read More
St. Louis doctor helping women preserve chance at motherhood at no fees altruistically until the day when insurance will pay
TV/Radio News Coverage
Dr. Silber Featured on 60 Minutes
What is ovary freezing for fertility preservation?
Listen to Dr. Silber Talk About Ovary Freezing for Cancer Patients on KMOX, St. Louis, Missouri, October 18, 2012. (1:23 min)
Listen to Dr. Silber and Joan Hamburg discuss male infertility, mini-IVF, fertility preservation, and infertility trends on WOR Radio in New York. February 2, 2012. (12:57 min)
Listen to Dr. Silber on Health and Wellness with Monica Adams discussing egg freezing, male infertility, and mini-IVF on KMOX in St. Louis. January 29, 2012. (9:26 min)
What do Patients Think of Fertility Preservation?
Fertility For Cancer Patients, Journal of Cancer & Biology Research, February 2015
Freezing the biological clock;the new techniques for preserving a woman’s fertility indefinitely – Channel 11 News St. Louis
Cancer patient who was made menopausal by cancer treatment gives birth to a healthy baby boy after ovarian tissue transplant by Dr. Silber – Fox Channel 2 St. Louis.
Cancer patient Amy Tucker becomes pregnant after her frozen ovarian tissue is transplanted by Dr. Silber- Fox Channel 2 St. Louis
Cancer patient, who is also a physician, chooses to preserve her fertility.
Leukemia patient cured by bone marrow transplant from her sister as a 4 year old, 25 years later receives ovary transplant from her sister to restore her lost fertility – Fox Channel 2 St. Louis.
Dr. Silber interviews a patient about to undergo ovary tissue freezing before undergoing sterilizing bone marrow transplant for aplastic anemia.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patient, who is also a physician, chooses to preserve her fertility
Fertility preservation for Leukemia patients.
Woman without cancer preserves her fertility by freezing ovarian tissue.
23 year old with cancer (Hodgkin’s Disease) chooses to freeze her ovaries to preserve her fertility
Dr. Sherman Silber explainson National Public Radio (NPR) all about how cancer patients can preserve their fertility.
Saving the fertility of cancer patients – Channel 11 News St. Louis
Video of Dr. Silber discussing Egg and Ovary Banking to Preserve Fertility
Dr. Silber’s live chat on St. Louis network TV where he answered questions about the biological clock, egg and sperm counts, cancer treatments, and other infertility issues.
“Infertile couples from all over the world come to St. Louis, Missouri, to chase their dream, because Dr. Sherman Silber and his team are simply the best there is.” –Discovery Health Channel June 2004 Documentary
Trailer for BBC Documentary – “A Child Against All Odds: Gift of Life” Featuring Dr. Silber
Miracle Babies – Discovery Health Video Clip
Frozen Ovarian Tissue – Tokyo Broadcasting System
Ovary Freezing for Cancer Patients – NBC Nightly News. October 23, 2012.
Dr. Sherman Silber discusses infertility topics such as ovary transplantation, the infertility epidemic and fertility options for cancer victims on St. Louis radio station KMOX. July 19, 2009. (27:04 min)
Listen to Dr. Silber discuss the biological clock, preserving your fertility and egg freezing on the KMOX Health and Fitness Show with Monica Adams. March 2, 2008. (20:58 min)
Print/Web News Coverage
New Way to Extend Fertility: Freeze Ovary Tissue Wall Street Journal; April 26, 2007
Cover story on The Riverfront Times: The Egg Man – Dr. Sherman Silber says he can extend a woman’s fertility by decades. He just needs to freeze her eggs or even a piece of her ovarian tissue; October 4, 2007
“Fertility: stop all the clocks”from The London Daily Telegraph Sunday Magazine
“America is leaps and bounds ahead of the UK when it comes to fertility treatment, particularly in the field of Ovarian Tissue Freezing…” Fertility Roadmagazine, March/April 2011.Read More
“Survivors Reach New Fertile Ground” LIVESTRONG Quarterly magazine, Summer/Fall 2011. Read More
Technical Videos of Fertility Preservation for Cancer Patients
Vitrification of ovarian tissue to preserve fertility.
Technical Lecture by Dr. Sherman Silber on Ovarian Transplantation
Cancer patient Amy Tucker promptly became pregnant after her ovarian tissue was transplanted back 10 years later.
Transplantation of human ovary between identical twins
Egg or Embryo Freezing
Young women with cancer can also preserve their fertility by an IVF type procedure, retrieving individual eggs and freezing the eggs (or fertilizing them, in the case of married women for example, and freezing the embryos). With this approach, the young woman with cancer can undergo hormonal stimulation for several weeks after day one of her next menstrual cycle, to mature 10 to 15 follicles and the doctors can retrieve eggs by ultrasound-guided needle aspiration, just like with IVF. If they have a permanent partner, the eggs can be fertilized and the resultant embryos (rather than just eggs) frozen. Some may prefer this approach to having ovarian tissue frozen.
The problem with this approach of egg or embryo freezing for cancer patients is that it could delay the cancer treatment by 4 to 8 weeks, or even longer, and the patient’s oncologist may not be willing to wait this long before initiating cancer treatment. Furthermore, like with any IVF procedure, the pregnancy rate per cycle is usually only 30% to 50%. So if she doesn’t get pregnant from these frozen eggs or embryos (derived from just this one retrieval cycle) then she has no further options because her ovaries have already been destroyed by the cancer treatment. With frozen ovary tissue, she will have hundreds of thousands of eggs frozen and many more years of opportunities for pregnancies and children. That is why for most cancer cases, it is preferable and easier on the patient to perform ovarian tissue freezing to preserve their fertility rather than simple egg freezing or IVF with embryo freezing.
The other problem with eggs or embryo freezing for many infertility centers is that the conventional freezing technologies which most IVF labs use are not reliable. With most of these conventional freezing technologies, the vast majority of eggs are damaged and as many as half the embryos are destroyed. To use this method of fertility preservation, it is absolutely critical for the IVF lab to be very experienced with “vitrification.”
Freezing Eggs or Embryos by the Vitrification Process
Video Showing the Vitrification Process
The classic problem with freezing eggs used to be that as one lowered the temperature below the freezing point, the egg’s genetic material would suffer damage due to ice crystals forming inside the cell. It was only possible to freeze embryos, in which the genetic material had already combined with that from the sperm, and stabilized. The classic freezing techniques (which have been known since 1983) were based on trying to extract water from the cell as the temperature drops, to minimize ice crystal damage. This has all changed now with the development of our new vitrification techniques. We no longer have to play a tenuous game of minimizing ice crystal formation — we can now entirely avoid it — so that there is no internal damage to the egg whatsoever.
This new technique of freezing called “vitrification” avoids the damage caused by ice forming inside the cell by not trying to pull every last molecule of water out, because it is impossible to do this 100%. In fact, 70% of the cell is water, and at best you can reduce that to 30%. So with the conventional controlled rate slow-freezing technique, there is always going to be some intra-cellular ice crystal formation, causing some damage to embryos, and severely damaging most eggs. Vitrification uses a super high concentration of antifreeze (DMSO and ethylene glycol), and drops the temperature so rapidly that the water inside the cell never becomes ice. It just instantaneously super-cools into a solid with no ice crystal formation at all.
We can now freeze and thaw, and even refreeze and rethaw, with impunity, using this new protocol from Dr. Masashige Kuwayama from the Kato Clinic in Tokyo. With conventional “slow freezing,” the temperature of the embryo goes down at precisely 0.3°C per minute. With vitrification (using four times the concentration of antifreeze, or cryoprotectant), the temperature is dropped at 23,000 degrees C° per minute, that is 70,000 times faster. At that speed of cooling, and at that concentration of antifreeze, ice crystals simply cannot form.
Of course, it is not quite as simple as it might sound. Such high concentrations of antifreeze, in a few minutes, could be toxic to cells. Therefore, the embryos (or eggs) must first be placed in lower concentrations of antifreeze (and sucrose to draw some water out), and then left in high concentrations only for less than a minute before instantaneous freezing. Then when the time comes to thaw the embryo, it must be instantaneously warmed, immediately taken out of the high concentration of antifreeze, and then placed into a solution with lower concentration, in order to avoid antifreeze toxicity. This requires more skill than conventional freezing, but it is faster, cheaper, and most importantly, avoids almost all freezing damage to either eggs or embryos. Such a reliable method of embryo freezing gives the IVF program much greater ability to safely preserve fertility.
Using this vitrification technique for freezing, we can reliably preserve eggs as well as embryos so that the pregnancy rate is no different than if the eggs or embryos had never been frozen. This allows us to preserve the fertility of young women for the future if they wish to delay childbearing, but not lose their fertility as they age. Without skill in vitrification, a clinic cannot give any assurance of the survival of any eggs or embryos they attempt to freeze to preserve the fertility of cancer patients.
Vitrification of Ovarian Tissue
Although conventional freezing of ovarian tissue has worked quite well since we began in 1996, it results in loss of half the eggs. Of course that still leaves 50,000 eggs that survive; so ovarian tissue freezing has been a robust technique for preserving fertility for well over a decade with many successful pregnancies. However, we can now use the vitrification technique of freezing also for ovarian tissue. This is truly a remarkable improvement for several reasons.
Firstly, with vitrification, we essentially LOSE NO EGGS. The frozen ovarian tissue with vitrification is no different from fresh tissue. This means that when the ovarian tissue is transplanted back (after the patient is cured of her cancer), it will have a completely normal lifetime of function. It should last twice as long as ovarian tissue that was cryopreserved with the conventional slow-freezing approach.
But there is a much more profound advantage to using the vitrification technique for freezing ovarian tissue for cancer patients. There are some cancers, like leukemia, that metastasize to all organs, including the ovary. So for leukemia patients (unlike Hodgkin’s and other solid tumors), the ovarian tissue cannot be transplanted back. For these patients the maturing follicles in the ovarian tissue can be cultured in vitro and successfully fertilized for IVF. With frozen tissue there will not just be a few eggs, but literally thousands of such eggs available for IVF.
The only problem is that conventional freezing of ovarian tissue destroys all of these maturing eggs and only spares the immature primordial follicles which cannot be cultured in vitro.
But vitrification of the ovarian tissue spares all of the follicles, even the maturing follicles, the ones which can be used for IVF. Thus with vitrification of ovarian tissue, even cancer patients with leukemia can have successful preservation of their fertility.
Ultimately, it is usually better to freeze ovarian tissue to preserve fertility before undergoing otherwise sterilizing cancer chemotherapy and radiation, and vitrification is preferable to older methods of freezing.
Technical Papers about Fertility Preservation for Cancer Patients
Ovary cryopreservation and transplantation for fertility preservation. Molecular Human Reproduction, Vol.18, No.2, 2012
Fertility Preservation for Cancer Patients SciMedCentral – Journal of Cancer Biology & Research February 20th 2015
Scientific molecular basis for treatment of reproductive failure in the human: An insight into the future Biochimica et Biophysica Acta; October 2012
Ovary cryopreservation and transplantation for fertility preservation Molecular Human Reproduction; Vol.18, No.2 pp. 59–67, 2012
Long Duration of Function of Ovarian Grafts (PDF, 2.2 MB)ESHRE Poster; 2012
Ovarian Transplantation – Our Experience and Vision. Editorial by Dr. Sherman J. Silber, M.D. IVF NEWS.Direct!; April/June 2011
Ovary Transplantation for Fertility Preservation in Cancer Patients: Fresh and Frozen. Chapter 42 from textbook Clinial Infertility, January, 2011
Children born after autotransplantation of cryopreserved ovarian tissue. A review of 13 live births Annals of Medicine, 2011
Duration of Fertility After Fresh and Frozen Ovary Transplantation Fertility and Sterility; February 19, 2010
Successful vitrification of bovine and human ovarian tissueReproductive BioMedicine Online; February 24, 2009
Successful Pregnancy after Microsurgical Transplantation of an Intact Ovary New England Journal of Medicine; December 11, 2008
A series of monozygotic twins discordant for ovarian failure: ovary transplantation (cortical versus microvascular) and cryopreservation Human Reproduction; February 18, 2008
Follow-up: Ovarian Transplantation between Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Premature Ovarian Failure New England Journal of Medicine; March 29, 2007
Ovarian Transplantation between Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Premature Ovarian Failure (PDF, 301 KB)New England Journal of Medicine; June 7, 2005
A Special Message From Dr. Silber About Your Biological Clock and Preserving Your Fertility
News Coverage of a Whole Ovary Transplant
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Egg, Embryo, and Sperm Freezing
Freezing the Biological Clock
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Giving An Ovary To My Twin Was A ‘Magical’ Opportunity [Article]
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A high school freshman jumped into her mother’s arms after a military deployment separated the pair for nine months.
"It’s been so long," said Kyesia Johnson of Alexandria Senior High School told KALB. "I just feel like a weight lifted off my shoulder because my mama is home."
Johnson was in gym class Monday when her mother, Staff Sgt. Jessica Brooks, strolled in through the doors of the gymnasium.
When Johnson spotted her mom, she immediately leaped into her arms.
"It was as good as I'd hoped," Brooks said of her daughter’s reaction. “She is growing on me so she is kind of heavy, but we made it happen."
Johnson was too young to remember the first time Brooks was deployed, but this time around, it was far more difficult for the family as Johnson was preparing for high school just as Brooks was preparing to go to Kuwait with the Louisiana National Guard.
"I missed the first day of high school; I missed cheerleading competitions; I missed drivers ed; I missed a lot of events," she said. "It's been really hard."
Her daughter agreed, adding, "She’s like my other half. I missed my other half."
Johnson, who has been serving for 14 years, is now preparing to plan a wedding with her fiancé, who was also deployed in Kuwait.
“My family, we're all pretty much in the military,” Johnson said. “Everybody has been strong and they have been getting me through it, and they definitely have been getting [my daughter] through it."
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'She's always been lively': 'AGT' star Ansley Burns' fan base starts in hometown of Easley
Ansley Burns' fourth-grade teacher remembers happy, talented girl, years before "America's Got Talent."
'She's always been lively': 'AGT' star Ansley Burns' fan base starts in hometown of Easley Ansley Burns' fourth-grade teacher remembers happy, talented girl, years before "America's Got Talent." Check out this story on independentmail.com: https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/life/2019/08/27/agt-star-ansley-burns-fan-base-starts-hometown-easley-sc/2075078001/
Donna Isbell Walker, The Greenville News Published 7:00 a.m. ET Aug. 27, 2019
Easley's Ansley Burns on 'America's Got Talent'
Ansley Burns with "America's Got Talent" host Terry Crews. Justin Lubin/NBC
Ansley Burns of Easley with 'America's Got Talent' host Terry Crews. Justin Lubin/NBC
Easley singer Ansley Burns on "America's Got Talent." Trae Patton/NBC
Ansley Burns of Easley performs on "America's Got Talent" Tuesday night. Trae Patton/NBC
Easley's Ansley Burns returns this week to "America's Got Talent." Trae Patton/NBC
Ansley Burns of Easley appears on July 30 episode of "America's Got Talent." Trae Patton/NBC
Ansley Burns of Easley returns to "America's Got Talent" on July 30. Trae Patton/NBC
Ansley Burns of Easley is competing on this season of "America's Got Talent." Trae Patton/NBC
Ansley Burns of Easley auditions on NBC's "America's Got Talent." Trae Patton/NBC
Ansley Burns appears on "America's Got Talent" June 18. File
Ansley Burns' video of her singing a Carrie Underwood song attracted the attention of Underwood. Provided
Kimberly Robson remembers the first time she laid eyes on Ansley Burns, the now-13-year-old semifinalist on “America’s Got Talent.”
Robson was a fourth-grade teacher at West End Elementary School in Pickens, and Ansley was a petite kindergartener.
“She’s always been lively, full of personality,” Robson said. “I remember when she was in kindergarten. I saw her walking in that day (and thinking), ‘I want to be her teacher one day.’ … She’s just always been happy and full of life. That’s who she is; it’s not a façade.”
Ansley’s bubbly personality has been evident each time she’s competed on “America’s Got Talent,” from her first appearance in June, when judge Simon Cowell stopped her mid-song and asked her to try again, this time a cappella.
Cowell gave her a drink of water to steady her nerves, to which a wide-eyed Ansley responded, “Well, that just happened,” before nailing the a cappella version of Aretha Franklin’s “Think.”
It’s been quite a ride for the young girl, who began taking voice lessons at age 8. It was just last September when an impromptu video of Ansley riding in her mom’s car singing Carrie Underwood’s “Cry Pretty” caught the attention of Underwood herself.
Ansley’s mom Stephanie posted the video to her Facebook page, and Underwood tweeted out the video from her own account. The post garnered more than 2,700 likes and 300-plus retweets.
And Ansley ended up covering another Underwood song, “Good Girl,” on her July 30 AGT appearance. She earned praise from the judges, but ended up being eliminated that night. She was asked to return as a wild card contestant for the quarter-finals, and got a standing ovation for her performance of “Swingin’” on Aug. 13.
'A magnificent desire to sing'
Robert Hoefer remembers the desire and drive that Ansley demonstrated when she first came to him for voice lessons at 8 years old.
"She had a magnificent desire to sing," Hoefer said, comparing her determination to that of a Rottweiler sinking its teeth into something and not letting go.
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"The more we put on her, the more she took on the challenges," Hoefer said.
That drive to succeed showed up "on the very first day," he said. "I think she was sitting on the floor outside the door waiting to come in. For a student, that's kind of rare, to be early, to be anxious, to be excited. Those types of students who have that burning desire, they're going to great. All they need is direction and time."
Hometown pride
Seeing Ansley succeed has been fulfilling for Hoefer.
Students and teachers at West End also are taking pride in Ansley’s progress on the NBC competition series, Robson said.
And friends and fans have been coming out to the Easley Skate Center to watch her AGT performances.
Easley's Ansley Burns returns this week to "America's Got Talent." (Photo: Trae Patton/NBC)
Ansley is now an eighth-grader at Gettys Middle School, but in elementary school, her teacher Robson had no idea that the tiny girl had such a big voice until one day of Ansley’s fourth-grade year.
“In fourth grade, she never said anything about being able to sing,” Robson recalled. “And then one day she said something about it, and I said, ‘Oh, I can sing too.’ … And then she sang, and I was like, ‘Oh, you can, like, really sing.’”
Even then, Robson said, it wasn’t until school variety show that she got a hint of the sheer power of Ansley’s vocal cords.
“She came out in this beautiful white tutu gown, and sang the ‘Titanic’ (theme) ‘My Heart Will Go On,’ in fourth grade, and it was absolutely beautiful. And I thought, ‘She’s the real deal.’”
Travis Smith, owner of Easley Skate Center, said he didn’t know Ansley or her family before “America’s Got Talent,” but he thought that the viewing parties would a good way to show the community’s support.
“We just wanted to help cheer her on,” Smith said.
The date of Ansley’s next AGT appearance hasn’t been announced yet, but she’s likely to return in early September to compete in the semifinals.
The viewing parties will continue at Easley Skate Center each week that Ansley competes on “America’s Got Talent.” Admission is free, and there’s no skating during the watch party. Viewers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs to sit in and watch the show, Smith said.
Growing fan base
Over the past couple of months since viewers first saw her on AGT, Ansley’s fan base has grown. She has amassed more than 2,000 Twitter followers, and 17,000 followers on her Facebook page.
But while she's got lots of support, the first day of eighth grade was still a little intimidating, Ansley said last week.
“I walked into the cafeteria, and everybody just stared at me,” she said. “I wanted to curl up into a ball and run away.”
But even the notoriously prickly Cowell, whom many fans blamed for Ansley’s elimination, has acknowledged the impact of her performances.
On her quarter-finals appearance, after Ansley had been invited to compete as a wild card, Cowell said, “Ansley, you got the whole country to hate me, but then we got you back.”
At West End Elementary, students and teachers are excited and happy to see Ansley compete on AGT, Robson said.
“For our school, it’s very much a sense of pride coming from West End these days, because even though we’re not a part of it, we feel like she’s ours. … It’s giving everybody a sense of hope.”
From Hoefer's vantage point, the odds for success are in Ansley's favor, no matter what happens on AGT.
"She's just destined to be great," he said. "She's well-liked and likable, and just has the love for life."
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The Fine Italian lighting manufacturer Foscarini has managed to garner an international reputation for itself with presence in over 50 different countries and 2500 different locations. The company has been certified as the leading brand of high quality light fittings since 1996. Hence the company ha... Read more
The Fine Italian lighting manufacturer Foscarini has managed to garner an international reputation for itself with presence in over 50 different countries and 2500 different locations. The company has been certified as the leading brand of high quality light fittings since 1996. Hence the company has managed to add new customers and revenues every year and with every new collection of light fittings it has released. The company has kept in line with its basic principle of encouraging research and development of new materials and production technique
The company has updated its production techniques in the last couple of years to add the latest manufacturing processes. This upgradation has allowed the company to be able to accommodate the last minute customizations of the customers. The stringent quality checks have also made the light fittings of the company compliant with most of the quality and environment standards of various markets. Read more
Foscarini boasts of a portfolio which includes table lamps, floor lamps, ceiling lights, wall mounted lights and suspension lights. The company also specializes in outdoor lighting solutions apart from its award winning indoor lighting solutions. The Greg collection of the company has been a very popular collection. This collection is a family of matching lights consisting of table lamps, floor lamps, wall mounted lights, ceiling lights and suspension lights. Taking inspiration from the class egg shaped form the designer Ludovica has created a collection that has remained on the catalogues of the company since 2007 on popular demand.
The lamps of this collection are completely handcrafted and are made of blown glass shades. The lamps are available in three sizes and the glass is given the classic satin finish.
The Magneto has been another popular collection of the company. This collection consists of table lamps and floor lamps. The lamps of this collection are based on the concept of spherical magnets hence have a stand and a round base. Keeping up with the changing times the company has a separate LED version of this collection. The lamps of this collection are flexible and can be rotated to suit the needs of the user. Hence these lamps are perfect for use in the work place or near your favorite reading spot.
The company has created an international presence for itself through a network of agents and distributors who market and sell the products of the company in various countries and cities. The company also features in the top events and exhibitions of the lighting industry where it showcases its upcoming collections.
With cutting edge expertise the Foscarini Lighting has managed to create a formidable reputation for itself. The light fittings of the company hence have surpassed every standard of quality and beauty set previously in the lighting industry. The company also partners with designers and design studios across the world to bring in variety and freshness in its collections of light fittings. The company has always believed in providing creative freedom to its designers hence the light fittings of the company have gone beyond the status quo in the industry.
Foscarini lighting: Combining sophistication and practicality
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Design Lessons Learned When Reusing a Mobile Sales Pitch in a Trade Show Kiosk
In this article I review lessons learned about how to turn a small-sized sales pitch for a mobile sales force into content suitable for a large-sized kiosk. Have a PowerPoint lying around? Some sales collateral you'd like to repurpose for a show? This article is for you.
In the Intuiface Marketplace is a sales pitch about our software. Formatted for tablet displays, this interactive experience is a comprehensive tour of all things us and is intended for download by those in the evaluation phase. The beauty for our business is this experience both tells our story in an interesting way while, at the same time,shows off all that our software is capable of.
It didn't take rocket science to wonder if we could repurpose this sales pitch for a large screen kiosk in our tradeshow booth. The idea would be to mount a large multi-touch display - this 86" behemoth - on a very visible wall. By doing so, we'd catch attention at even a great distance while, at the same time, deeply engaging users at the display.
So we did it. And by doing it, we learned about a few things about how to successfully upsize a sales pitch.
In this article I review lessons learned about how to turn a small-sized sales pitch for a mobile sales force into large-sized kiosk. Have a PowerPoint lying around? Some sales collateral you'd like to repurpose for a show? This article is for you.
Impact of Device Size
The most significant factor to accommodate is screen size. Unless you've got a bunch of weight lifters for a sales staff, their devices will range from tablets to - at best - laptop PCs.This means we're talking about 9" to 17" displays. That's a far cry from the 48"+ screens you'd be using at a trade show.
Consider the implications of change in screen size. With small screens:
Small amount of screen real estate and thus limits on the amount of content that can be displayed legibly
Small group sizes with one presenter and a low number of people huddled around the device
Maneuverable as it can be hand-held
Meanwhile, with large screens:
Significant amount of screen real estate and thus more freedom to include large amounts of content without impacting legibility
Ability to accommodate a large number of people, with one presenter and very large audiences
Fixed, mounted to a wall, table, or freestanding kiosk
Can the exact same sales pitch work on both small and large format displays without any design changes? For the reasons mentioned above - no! There are two fundamental areas where design needs to change: navigation and content density. Let's start with navigation....
Effects on Navigation
Our tablet-based sales pitch had a permanently visible menu for primary navigation, always reachable in the top-left corner:
It’s simple and handy, but that’s not something you want on an 86 inch screen. Why? Two reasons. First, maybe not everyone is tall enough to reach! Second, what if you find yourself on one side of the screen? Unless you're a very long-armed sort of person, it's impractical to stretch across the display while blocking the remaining audience's access to content.
We needed a navigation menu reachable from anywhere, regardless of the side on which the sales rep was standing or how tall they were.
We decided to go with a menu that could pop up anywhere on the screen with a handy trigger. We chose a double tap as trigger because it doesn't interfere with all the other usual gestures (swipes and simple taps) one would use with visual content. There is also a “knock knock”connotation, implying that one is asking permission to open a door (or, in this case, a menu).
Anticipating Uses
If your experience must accommodate self-service, you have a responsibility to guide your user, to hold their hand and ensure they don't get lost. That means everything about navigation must be clearly understandable and implies that, among other things, all icons must have text labels.
The original version of the experience for our large format display had a very explicit navigation menu with text labels, almost sentences really, providing details about the purpose of each destination.
The thing is, we knew that Intuiface reps in our booth would prefer to guide users through company presentation, using on-screen content as a way to guide the conversation or answer questions. Sure,the experience could be used for self-service, but at a trade show our goal is to go human-human, not human-machine. As a result, we decided to get rid of text labels in the navigation menu and just prepare our reps in advance. This would vastly clean up the look without sacrificing usability.
Another feature we added, tailored for the same trained presenters, were large invisible zones on the top and bottom of each scene which - when tapped - would initiate a vertical scroll of the content one page at a time. No need to perform large fancy swipes all over the screen when a simple tap could do the trick! (However, we left in the ability to vertically swipe to satisfy the curiosity of booth visitors too eager to keep their hands off the hardware.)
Accommodating the Space
As noted previously, the anticipated location of the display and where the audience would be positioned had a great influence on how we thought about navigation.
We figured:
Minimally: One presenter standing to one side of the screen and audience members standing in front of the rest of the display
Maximally: Two presenters on either side of the display (typically a Sales Rep and a Technical Rep ) and then a group of folks in the middle.
The implication was we had to give even greater attention to how navigation options could be accessed and manipulated. The side of the screen most accessible to a presenter could not be anticipated, and forcing the presenter to run back and forth in front of the screen couldn't be permitted. Rather, the ballet should be enabling the presenter to do anything from anywhere AND enabling the audience to participate as well without having to dance in and out of position.
Here's what we added:
Globally, we made the navigation menu “throwable” by tweaking its inertia so it could be pushed from one side of the screen to the other. We added to this a neat effect that flipped buttons to the side of the navigation icon closest to the middle of the display.
On the “Showcase” scene displaying all our videos, the menu used to select an industry filter was configured so that it could be made to disappear on one side of the screen, appearing on the other side. This was accomplished by adding a handle which, when tapped, meant "Move the filter menu to this side of the screen, please".
On the “How It Works” scene displaying three different diagrams, to improve usability of the drawing tools, we added a handle replicating what we implemented on the "Showcase" page. Tapping the handle caused the drawing tools to jump to the handle's side of the screen. We applied the same treatment to the Pricing Page button on the related “ROI and Pricing” scene.
Effects on Content Density
As we built the large display version of our experience, our initial thought was to take advantage of the significant amount of screen real estate. That is, cram a lot of information into each scene. Testing made us realize this thought as all wrong. In fact, we'd be better off limiting the amount of content! In fact, keeping it simpler than the original tablet-based presentation worked better. Bigger screen but less content per scene? Why was this?
In a nutshell, it was to avoid information overload.
The tablet based experience was intended to be downloaded by someone willing to learn about us and our product. They'd have the time and interest to dig in. At a trade show, time is a luxury. Content had to be simple and easily digested
The right decision was to step lightly. Several scenes were trimmed down to core information.
For instance, we reworked our “Home” scene quite a bit to create something clean and readable from a medium distance (for people passing by or near the booth). This included removing our large feature list (almost 60 entries!) and picked just four features we wanted to highlight.
We also updated the approach to presenting these four features by implementing a drag’n drop scenario. By centering the drop zone, we made it reachable from either side of the screen. As a bonus - in the case of a single presenter - that presenter could slide a couple of features to the center and then encourage a member of the audience to initiate the drop-and-drop for themselves from the other side.
The same approach was used in the Device section of our “Home” scene. We knew that on such a large screen, touch interaction should be available everywhere. Each iconic representation of a device - wall, kiosk, tablet - when tapped, opened a dedicated media scene whose images and videos could be manipulated by the user. These layouts encouraged manipulation and engaged the audience nicely while subtly reinforcing the notion that Intuiface supported multiple touch points.
Side note: Have you ever sat in the front row at a movie theater? Remember how you couldn't see the entire screen at a glance, how you needed to turn your head side-to-side? Stand in front of an 86" display and you get the same feeling. Yet another reason to consider content simplicity: you don't want to tire the necks of your audience!
We first exhibited the large screen version of this experience at ISE 2019 in Amsterdam and it was a big hit. As hoped, it attracted attention from a distance, gave the booth a high tech feel, encouraged self-service interaction when our booth reps were busy, and made for engaging conversations. If you're coming to DSE 2019 in Las Vegas this March then you'll get to see it, and put your hands on it, because we'll be there in Booth 3240.
I hope you found this design insight helpful. Every experience is different, of course, but commonalities abound. For sure, you need to consider the navigation and content density aspects as screen sizes change. Even the smallest alterations can make a big difference!
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Suffolk and Essex parks shortlisted to be named as best in UK
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Dudley the dog in Christchurch Park, which has been shortlisted to be named as the best park in the UK. Picture: SARAH LUCY BROWN
Parks in Suffolk and north Essex have been shortlisted for an award - and you could help your favourite to be crowned the best in Britain.
National charity Fields in Trust, which protects parks and green spaces, has launched a public vote to find the UK's Best Park 2019.
Christchurch Park and Holywells Park in Ipswich and Castle Park in Colchester have made the shortlist, as well as Halstead Public Gardens and Central Park in Chelmsford - and you can vote for them by visiting the website. You can also have your say in our reader poll.
The vote has been launched to mark Have a Field Day on Saturday, July 6, a celebration of parks and green spaces. Picnics and other events have been held around the country to mark the day, including a community picnic in Belle Vue Park, Sudbury.
Beau Ellis (1) and mum Naomi Pettitt from Ipswich enjoy the fountains in Holywells Park, which is on the shortlist. Picture: NEIL PERRY
A total of 37 parks in the East of England have been nominated for the award, out of 364 altogether. Here are details of parks shortlisted in Suffolk and north Essex - including comments from the people who nominated them.
Christchurch Park, Ipswich: The town-centre park is in the spotlight this weekend with the hugely popular Music in the Park on July 7. A nominator said: "It's got something for everyone. A place for children, for teenagers, for families and friends, for nature lovers, for fitness seekers, for local history and art enthusiasts and anyone who needs a space to relax."
Holywells Park, Ipswich: "It is an oasis of nature within a short walk of Ipswich town centre. It boasts woodland, spring fed ponds, an orchard and formal gardens and is popular with people across Ipswich."
Christchurch Mansion is at the heart of the park, which has been shortlisted for an award. Picture: MEGAN ALDOUS
Castle Park, Colchester: "Colchester Castle Park is a unique park in that it contains the remains of a Roman temple and a Norman Castle whilst also being a hub of events. It is the host of summer cinema, food and drink festivals and concerts."
Central Park, Chelmsford: "Beautiful walk along the river into the centre of town with great daffodils in the spring and excellent, unmown nature areas. The parks team do a great job and you just don't feel like you are in the centre of the city."
Halstead Public Gardens: "A beautiful place to sit and while away the hours or wander around the wildlife garden. Resplendent with vibrant colour and a very popular place for community events."
Holywells Park in Ipswich in the sunshine. Picture: NEIL PERRY
Voting is open until noon on August 19. The park with the most votes in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will be shortlisted and the winner will be announced in mid-September.
Sairung and Danthai Bennett enjoying the sunshine in Colchester's Castle Park. Picture: SARAH LUCY BROWN
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Halstead public gardens. Picture: Clifford Hicks.
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Patient feedback can help ensure balance between cancer treatment efficacy, tolerability
André Rogatko
Patricia A. Ganz
Researchers have launched a research consortium that they hope will identify efficient methods to incorporate patient-reported outcomes into clinical trials of experimental cancer treatments.
The investigators will analyze data from three prior trials conducted through the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, as well as three ongoing immunotherapy trials, to create new statistical measurement criteria that will help assess how well trial participants tolerate treatment.
A “pressing need” exists to incorporate patient feedback into tolerability and toxicity evaluations of new cancer treatments, according to study co-leader André Rogatko, PhD, director of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Research Center at Cedars-Sinai.
The toxicity and tolerability information that clinicians collect may show no difference between multiple equally efficacious treatments. However, patient-reported outcomes can offer insights into important variations.
“It’s becoming more important to incorporate that potentially differing information into decisions about which therapy or which dose should be given,” Rogatko told HemOnc Today. “This will help personalize the treatment and find a better balance between efficacy and tolerability.”
Rogatko is co-leading the study with Patricia A. Ganz, MD, professor of medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the Center for Cancer Prevention & Control Research at Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Researchers will use a toxicity index Rogatko previously developed, as well as NCI’s Patient-Reported Outcomes-Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE), a validated measurement system designed to characterize frequency, severity and impact of 78 symptomatic treatment toxicities, including pain, nausea, fatigue and cutaneous side effects.
“A big unknown is how adverse events affect patients over longer periods of time — particularly in immunotherapy, in which we only recently are learning about long-term toxicity and how it affects quality of life," Rogatko said.
HemOnc Today spoke with Rogatko about how this research effort came about, the timeline for results, and the implications the findings may have on treatment development and patient quality of life.
Question: What prompted this study?
Answer: There is an inherent strain between trying to help a patient with particular treatments and the adverse events that can result from them. Trying to develop methods that summarize this tug and make that information more readily available has been an interest of mine for a long time. The NCI invested substantial resources creating questionnaires that allow patients to report their experiences with treatment, but there are not many methods through which these data can be analyzed. We want to address how that information can be added to what clinicians traditionally see, while using this knowledge to help improve patients’ quality of life.
Q: To what extent is the patient’s voice included now, and how are patient-reported events measured?
A: There is some disconnect between what a patient feels and what the patient reports, or what the clinician perceives. When patients talk with their physicians, they often try to minimize any negative effects. This downplaying of pain seems to be part of human psychology. We want to know how to capture what the patient is experiencing in a more accurate way so this information can help influence treatment decisions.
Q: How are you conducting this analysis?
A: The goal is to develop tools to express treatment-related adverse events and incorporate patient perceptions into that. A clinical trial can have up to 12,000 pieces of information about toxicities experienced by patients. Oftentimes, the most severe adverse events are reported but everything else goes unreported. Our goal is to summarize all of this information so it accurately reflects each patient’s experience and then compares that experience with those of other patients.
As each trial ends, our primary focus will be to make sure more statistics are described as treatment continues. If a patient has a grade 2 toxicity, that is not always a big problem. But if someone has grade 2 toxicity for 5 years, that can be a very big problem. That aspect of variability has not been addressed by clinical trial methods so far.
We previously developed a summary measure, the toxicity index, to discriminate patients based on their overall toxicity experiences. Toxicity data are summarized for each subject from graded symptomatic adverse events according to CTCAE. The toxicity index accounts for all observed toxicity grades rather than only the most severe one, as is conventionally done. Because of its sensitivity to differences in the overall toxicity, the toxicity index is likely to be useful also for identifying predictors of treatment-related toxicity. We will employ the toxicity index and extensions or refinements of it to support new and improved methods for patient-reported outcomes and related adverse event data.
Although we will focus much effort on developing new technical statistical methods, we will work as a team of patient-reported outcome experts, oncologists, data scientists and clinical trial experts to keep the developments grounded in patient-centric and clinical trial relevant perspectives. The clinical trial data we will examine come from several kinds of treatments and cancer sites, but with an emphasis on immunotherapy for our PRO-CTCAE trials, in anticipation of the importance of this class of agents for the near future. All our methods and results will be made available to other funded teams on an ongoing basis, and we also expect to derive help from their progress using a collaborative model.
Q: Can you describe the patient populations of the trials you are analyzing?
A: As general as statistics and methods are, the patient population of a particular trial is almost irrelevant for our purposes. No matter if a person has early-stage or late-stage cancer, there will be some toxicity associated with treatment. We are measuring the occurrence of that toxicity and hopefully will be able to use our data to find a better combination of therapies that can maximize treatment efficacy, minimize toxicity and increase quality of life.
Q: What do you consider the greatest potential implication of your results?
A: Our goal is to make sure that the patient’s voice is heard, and that it will have an impact on the treatment and the decision of selecting a particular treatment. It is a very exciting idea that decisions are meant to be made not only by clinicians observing the patient, but by the patients themselves. – by Joe Gramigna
André Rogatko, PhD, can be reached at Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Center, 116 N. Robertson Blvd., Suite 900C, Los Angeles, CA 90048; email: andre.rogatko@cshs.org.
Disclosure: The NCI provided funding for this study. Rogatko reports no relevant financial disclosures.
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At the forefront of Industry 4.0
World Economic Forum recognizes Henkel as frontrunner in the 4th industrial revolution
Henkel has been designated as an “Advanced 4th Industrial Revolution Lighthouse” by the World Economic Forum (WEF) for its state-of-the-art Laundry & Home Care factory in Düsseldorf, Germany. Thereby, Henkel becomes a member of the WEF’s “Global Lighthouse Network” with further leaders of advanced manufactures.
Recruiting digital opinion leaders
Henkel introduces new Digital Talent Program
Henkel launches a new talent initiative to attract young professionals, who want to expand their digital expertise. Within the 18-month training program the company offers interested talents the opportunity to craft their career while immersing into the companies’ digital transformation projects.
Dec 30, 2019,
Management Board changes as of January 1, 2020
Carsten Knobel new CEO and Marco Swoboda new CFO of Henkel
As of January 1, 2020, Carsten Knobel (50) is the company’s new CEO. He succeeds Hans Van Bylen, who is leaving the company after around 35 years with the company. Also effective January 1, Marco Swoboda (48) succeeds Carsten Knobel as Henkel's new Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
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Marco Swoboda to become new Henkel CFO
Effective January 1, 2020, Marco Swoboda (48), Corporate Senior Vice President Finance, will become new Chief Financial Officer of Henkel. He will succeed Carsten Knobel (50) who will take over the position as CEO effective January 1, 2020.
Partnership yields innovative solutions for injection mold tooling, prototyping and low volume production
Henkel and Fortify join forces to enable high-performance applications in 3D printing
Henkel and Fortify recently initiated a development agreement which allows both companies to mutually combine their areas of expertise and further drive the potential of additive manufacturing. Henkel has developed custom technology that enables durable, high temperature and high modulus resins. Through collaboration, Henkel has designed several formulations that allow Fortify to achieve new outcomes for industrial customers.
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Henkel as a global leader in adhesives, sealants and functional coatings has opened its new ‘Henkel Adhesives Technical Center’ in the east of Hanoi, Vietnam. Located close to leading consumer electronics and semiconductor companies, the high-tech facility will enable close and inspiring collaborations with leading customers and accelerate the development of high-impact solutions for a broad range of applications for local markets.
Expanding direct-to-consumer expertise with focus on Indian retail market
Henkel invests in digital platform start-up m.Paani
Henkel participates in a funding round in the Indian start-up m.Paani to further strengthen its expertise in novel digital go-to-market models. The investment by the company’s unit HenkelX Ventures will help Henkel gaining valuable insights about the retail markets and consumer behaviors in emerging markets. At the same time, it supports the company’s strategic priority to accelerate digitalization.
Dec 9, 2019,
Higher productivity, ease of handling and no nickel
New Henkel solutions enable greater cost-efficiency and sustainability in aluminum anodizing
Henkel’s pipeline of innovations for the aluminum industry does not stop short when it comes to anodizing, one of the most established technologies of aluminum processing. In complementing its latest developments for optimizing the conversion coating of aluminum products, the company also offers improved Bonderite technologies for the three key steps of degreasing, etching and hot or cold sealing in the aluminum anodizing process.
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Emma Stone has responded to that AMAZING prom proposal
Rory Cashin
In case you didn't know, La La Land was a bit of a hit.
It won a shed-load of Oscars and is currently en route to half a billion at the worldwide box office, which is a lot considering that everyone considered the musical genre to be pretty much dead and buried.
But if anyone was properly effected by the Ryan Gosling-Emma Stone romance, then it has got to be 17-year-old Jacob Staudenmaier.
In a genetic gift from the Gods, Staudenmaier bares more than a passing resemblance to the infamous Baby Goose, and he has his doppelganger's on-screen love-interest set firmly in his sights.
So with the help of some friends, he has recreated the opening number from La La Land and re-wrote the lyrics, all so he could make a promposal to Emma Stone herself.
Clip via Youtube
The video now has quarter of a million views and climbing, and he even found himself on Fox News explaining his video:
“I don’t know if I’m madly in love with her. But I think she’s a very, very talented actress, she definitely deserved the Oscar … She was in a film that I loved so much, and a number of other films I love so much, so it just all came together and I was like, that would be a fun idea for my junior year.”
This Irish blogger photobombed Kris Jenner last night and the pic is absolutely GAS
We have to ask... Has he seen the film? Does he know what happens to Gosling and Stone at the end? Spoiler: it isn't all smiles and rainbows.
Staudenmaier does say he'll bring her to the fancy Olive Garden once the prom is over, and it didn't take long for the restaurant to get involved.
.@upsettrout Here’s to the ones who dream. ✨ We’re rooting for you! If Emma says yes, dinner and dessert is on us. https://t.co/LOemp9B3tm
— Olive Garden (@olivegarden) April 5, 2017
Unfortunately, the story ends on a bit of a bittersweet note (literally).
Emma Stone heard of the promposal, and sends Staudenmaier a hand-written note saying she'll unfortunately have to miss the fantastic date (via Fox News):
“Jacob, thanks for making the greatest proposal I have ever received. I can’t tell you what an honor that was and how much I smiled through that entire beautifully orchestrated video. I’m in London working, but I hope you have the best time at prom, and I’m grateful you thought of me. Thank you. P.S. I do see Gosling around the eyes. Love, Emma.”
On the one hand, he doesn't get to bring Emma Stone to his prom.
On the other hand, he has a letter from Emma Stone saying that yes, she also thinks he looks like Gosling, and ends with "Love, Emma."
Prom is just one night. But he'll have that note forever.
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McIlroy looks to shine again in happy Dubai hunting ground
By Nick Rodger Golf Correspondent
HE may not officially be the best player on the world rankings, but Rory McIlroy is definitely the best player on Earth.
The Earth course at the Jumeriah estates, host venue to this week’s money-spinning DP World Tour Championship, is such a happy hunting ground for McIlroy you half-expect him to stalk the fairways brandishing a musket and wearing a pith helmet.
While the world No.2 won’t be able to capture the European Tour’s order of merit prize – he is currently sixth on the rankings and too far adrift of current leader Bernd Wiesberger – McIlroy still has another victory in his sights at one of his favourite venues.
In nine previous appearances at the season-ending showdown in this neck of the woods, the 30-year-old has won twice, has four other top-fives and has never finished lower than 20th.
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Since the Dubai showpiece started in 2009, McIlroy is a combined 129-under-par, 30 strokes better than any other player.
With this track record, it’s hardly surprising that McIlroy is not concerned that his normal caddie, Harry Diamond, is not on his bag this week.
“I feel like I could play this place blindfolded and if there’s any week where I don’t have Harry on the bag, it’s good it’s this week,” he said. “I’ve been coming back here for 10 years, I know the place like the back of my hand.”
McIlroy, with four worldwide wins this season, has played just a handful of European Tour events
in 2019 and while he would have loved the opportunity to win the rankings race for a fourth time, he knows those above him on the order are more deserving.
“It’s a wonderful feeling to be able to do it [be European No.1] but I just haven’t played enough European Tour events,” he said.
“I haven’t played enough counting European Tour events to have a chance.
“You look at someone like Bernd Wiesberger who’s played 25, 26, 27 times. Those are the guys that deserve to be up there with a chance to win.”
One of those still in with a shout of topping the rankings is Open champion Shane Lowry. The Irishman is currently fourth but could still finish a momentous year as the European No.1. After kick-starting his campaign with victory in Abu Dhabi back in January, Lowry entered the pantheon of major champions with his mighty Open victory at Portrush in July.
Since then his form has been steady rather than spectacular but, as 2019 draws to a conclusion, Lowry is eyeing a final flourish.
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“The one thing that’s got me over the few months since the Open is that when you have bad days and you’re shooting bad scores, people say to you, ‘You won the Open, it doesn’t matter’, but it does matter,” the Irishman said.
“Every day it matters to me and I want to shoot the best score I can and I want to be the best player I can be every day.
“I’m going to go out and give my best this week but no matter what happens, I will be sitting back next week with a major trophy in my cabinet this year, and I’ll be happy with what I have.”
Meanwhile, the BBC’s ever-shrinking golf portfolio has been reduced even further after it was confirmed that Sky will be the exclusive holders of the live rights for The Masters in the UK and Ireland as of next year.
Up until 2011, the Beeb broadcast all four rounds of the opening men’s major of the season. Having lost the rights to Sky, terrestrial viewers could still watch live coverage of the third and fourth rounds from Augusta on the BBC.
Sky Sports’ managing director Rob Webster said: “We are proud of our association with Augusta National, and our golf team does a great job sharing the magic of the Masters with our viewers.”
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DHHS "deeply concerned" by funding cuts in Medicaid transformation bill
By Richard Craver Winston-Salem Journal
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The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that a proposed $73 million cut to its allocation from the state could be “crippling.”
The reduction for DHHS’ 2019-21 budget is in the latest version of House Bill 555, which is the bill that aims to revamp the state’s Medicaid program.
Republican legislators inserted the Medicaid revamping language into HB555 in an attempt to provide at least $218 million in funding that’s locked up in the state budget dispute.
Sen. Ralph Hise, R-McDowell, said the $31 million cut for 2019-20 is projected to be offset by savings in other areas.
DHHS said the legislation represents “crippling cuts — the largest ever to DHHS — that will undermine the department’s ability to protect people’s health and safety.”
“It comes at a time when the department is undertaking the most significant and complex change in its history with the transition to managed care.”
The Senate Finance committee recommended HB555 Thursday to the Senate Rules and Operations committee, which is expected to address the bill Monday.
DHHS said the funding cut “ignores the hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians who need affordable health care. All of this in a time of a budget surplus” of nearly $900 million.
Key Republican legislative officials, particularly Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, have called a non-starter the attempt to expand Medicaid coverage to between 450,000 to 650,000 North Carolinians within bipartisan House Bill 655.
Language in HB555 lists the cuts as justified because of projected lower administrative costs related to the Medicaid transformation initiative. The bill authorizes health Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen to make sweeping cuts across all DHHS to achieve the requirement.
Hise said the $42 million funding reduction in 2020-21 can be offset by at least $20 million from DHHS shifting funding within its budget.
Quarterly tax assessment on hospitals and prepaid health plans operated by insurers would help pay for administrative costs in Medicaid transformation. Critical access and freestanding psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals are exempt.
The assessments are controversial inclusions into HB555 given that many GOP legislative leaders, foremost Berger, oppose using them to pay for the state’s 10% share of additional Medicaid expansion administrative costs as proposed in HB655.
Health-care systems and PHPs operating in the state would pay $758 million annually in the HB655 legislation.
Berger has claimed the Medicaid expansion assessments eventually would become a pass-through tax onto consumers.
“There is actually a big difference between the assessments in these two bills as we see it,” Berger spokesman Bill D’Elia said.
“The ones in HB555 are there to aid with the transition to a Medicaid managed-care model, which will save the state money in the long run and further streamline the process of providing quality care for the traditional Medicaid population — low-income parents, children, pregnant women, the elderly, the blind and the disabled.
“The assessments in HB655, on the other hand, are there to fund the state’s cost of Medicaid expansion to provide health coverage to mostly able-bodied adults, which will likely cost the state billions of dollars in the long run when the federal government inevitably drops their match rate down from the current, unsustainable 90%.“
Medicaid expansion supporters say a significant number of potential beneficiaries are individuals and families who fall in the current coverage gap of making too much in household income to qualify now for Medicaid, but not enough to afford coverage on the federal health exchange.
For the 36 Medicaid expansion states and the District of Columbia, the federal government has been consistent even under the Trump administration in meeting its 90% contribution.
Rep. Donny Lambeth, R-Forsyth, and primary sponsor of HB655, told a House committee in July that the 90% federal government match is sustainable and would take an act of Congress to change.
Mark Hall, law and public-health professor at Wake Forest University, released a study in April 2018 titled “Do States Regret Expanding Medicaid?”
Hall said requiring hospitals to help pay for North Carolina’s 10% of new administrative costs “is not likely to increase costs to patients because hospitals will also see reduced uncompensated care.
“The two effects — tax and reduced uncompensated care — should be a wash.”
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Solving the Safety + Productivity Equation in India
Various government policies are boosting India’s economic and infrastructure development. Improved road conditions and expectations for shorter delivery times have driven the requirement for higher speeds, while congestion, road safety, and efficiency continue to challenge fleets throughout the country. In recent years, Jacobs Vehicle Systems’ engineers have conducted a series of field tests comparing trucks with and without engine brakes to help solve India’s Safety + Productivity Equation.
Jacobs’ team traveled to Kochi in 2016 to begin its engine brake testing journey. Kochi, a city located in the Kerala State on the southwest coast of India, is nicknamed “God’s Own Country” for its backwater, mountains, and scenic beauty. It is also known as one of the toughest places to drive through due to mountains, valleys, and narrow roads. As Kerala is gifted with many natural resources and the corresponding mines, Jacobs’ team visited a mining fleet to help solve a problem they’d been struggling with for years—the short lifespan of their foundation brake liners due to high temperatures on the wheel rims caused by extended and inefficient braking.
While it was difficult for OEMs to resolve fleet owners’ frequent complaints about vehicle braking, Jacobs welcomed the opportunity to test whether or not engine braking could be the solution these trucks needed.
Before arriving, Jacobs’ engineers formulated a plan for how to upgrade the trucks without adversely affecting their performance. This allowed the team to begin working immediately, along with the fleet’s mechanics, to upgrade nine of the mining trucks with Jacobs engine brakes. After a few long, hot installation days, it was time for the first road test. Smiles appeared almost immediately on the faces of the fleet owners as their most skilled drivers quickly felt the difference between the control and drivability of a vehicle with an engine brake compared to one without secondary braking technology.
But the Jacobs’ team wasn’t done. They pushed to continue engine brake installations and road trials to prove, beyond a doubt, the value of the Jake Brake® to India’s commercial vehicle industry. Fortunately, another opportunity knocked, and in early 2017, with the support of Tata Motors and its local dealership, the team from Jacobs returned to install engine brake kits for additional field tests. The team returned to Kerala, but this time to one of the most challenging geographies for heavy trucks and a safety and productivity nightmare for most of the fleets in the area. Again, the challenge was to help a mining fleet overcome the heat and foundation brake wear and tear caused by the extreme working conditions.
The fleet’s heavy trucks were experiencing high temperatures in their wheel brake drums during normal operation while descending steep, serpentine hills, or “goat paths” as one Jacobs team member described them. With overloaded trucks descending these hills, the vehicle’s rims would become as hot as a race car’s making it difficult to sustain a smooth, safe drive. The team from Tata Motors challenged Jacobs to reduce the temperature by 22% to keep the foundation brakes from overheating and failing.
The team went to work. First, they recorded the temperature of the wheel brake drums on two Tipper vehicles during normal operation after descending a 9 km route without an engine brake. These temperatures ranged from 230-280ºC. Then, with engine brakes installed on the same two vehicles, the Jacobs team gave the drivers a lesson on engine braking. Once they were comfortable with this new operation, they repeated the journey down the same steep 9 km hill. This time, the wheel brake drums were recorded to be 150ºC—a decrease which far exceeded the 22% challenge!
Equally as impressive were the drivers’ responses. Before the trials, drivers were skeptical at best, as they had been through multiple iterations and attempts by OEMs to resolve this issue. But the Jake Brake® worked as advertised and provided the drivers with added control and comfort during their decent, and a 35% reduction in wheel temperature.
In addition to the improved temperature and performance, the drivers were impressed by the braking performance while hauling 25+ tons of freight from the top of a hill to a designated site 20 km away. The drivers could increase their trips per day because of the improved performance of the foundation brakes when paired with the Jake Brake.
Since our experiences in Kerala, we have continued to gather feedback from the field and have consistently confirmed a thermal decrease in the range of 35-43%. These results translate into brake liner life increases of 2-5x which allows fleets to save money and be more productive.
We thank Tata Motors’ service teams for their support and commitment during our field tests. Having established the Safety + Productivity Equation with the Jake Brake, we believe there is a significant need for engine braking in India, where more than 70,000km of roadways present truck drivers with some of the most dangerous and challenging driving conditions in the world.
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Hobart: ‘In Tune with You…’
PR • Creative • Integrated • Digital
As a manufacturer of class-leading cooking and dishwashing equipment, Hobart prides itself on its extremely close links with end users – constantly listening and learning to help shape and evolve its offer. It is a staunch champion of the independent hospitality sector and works tirelessly in collaboration with its dealer partners to help them uncover and develop new business.
Put simply, building lasting relationships with key stakeholders is something the company holds in the very highest regard.
We wanted to highlight this ethos in a brand-new campaign but do so in a way that really cut through and was completely unique to anything that had gone before.
Quite separately to any single campaign, Jellybean had originally planned to film a PR case study at Oundle – a prestige independent school in Northamptonshire – offering a unique opportunity with 11 kitchen sites across its 14 boarding houses, each replete with Hobart cooking and warewashing equipment.
Oundle had signed off on the plan but had asked for one caveat; that their music department could write a score to accompany the piece.
This got us thinking…
When researching the school, we noticed they had an award-winning 70-piece student orchestra; what if we could somehow leverage this to create something truly memorable?
The originally planned case study was quickly turned on its head, with Jellybean’s creative team spotting a golden opportunity to do something completely different.
Juxtaposing the regimented organisation of the working kitchen – and its indispensable equipment – with the togetherness of an orchestra, the centrepiece to Hobart’s year-long ‘In Tune with You’ campaign was born. A unique piece that typified the core tenets that Hobart stands for.
The video heralded the launch of Hobart’s brand-new Twitter presence, and was used across PR, including a similarly musically themed “Turn it Up” promotion, offering end users the chance to upgrade to Hobart’s highest spec machines for free.
While the piece was loved by the client, its sales team, dealer network and the school’s heads, it was also held up by Hobart’s UK MD at a summit of global Hobart managers as a demonstration of the company’s innovative marketing efforts.
Proof that creative dexterity is at the heart of everything Jellybean does.
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Guilty Plea To Death By Careless Driving After Norfolk Collision Leaves Woman Needing Amputation
Solicitors Speak Out Over Car Crash
Law firm Irwin Mitchell is calling for road users to take more responsibility after a driver pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving in a collision on the A1151 in Norfolk.
Barbara Brennan, from Hainford, near Norwich, suffered serious injuries and needed her leg amputating as a result of the crash, which also tragically killed her friend Joyce Ferguson, a passenger in the Brennan’s car.
The defendant, Stephen Doubleday, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving and was sentenced to 120 hours community service at Cromer Magistrates Court yesterday. He was also disqualified from driving for 12 months and was ordered to pay £85 costs.
Mrs Brennan is now seeking compensation to help with rehabilitation from her injuries, future treatment and care, and has instructed law firm Irwin Mitchell to proceed with legal action.
Mr Doubleday was attempting to overtake two cars on the A1151 near Beeston St. Lawrence when he collided head on with the Brennan’s vehicle, driven by Barbara’s husband Dennis Brennan, on 31 May 2009.
The accident left Mrs Brennan with serious neurological damage, which led to her needing a below knee amputation of her right leg. She also suffered multiple fractures to her left leg, as well as a number of minor injuries to her upper body.
Mr Brennan was also injured in the crash, suffering extensive internal and external bruising and damage to his ribs.
Mrs Brennan said: “This was a very tragic incident and has caused my family considerable stress. I suffered extremely serious injuries and our friend was killed as a result of Mr Doubleday’s actions. Our lives and the lives of Joyce’s family will never be the same again.
“I just hope this story highlights the need for care on the roads so that others don’t have to experience what we have gone through.”
Rachael Aram, the Brennan’s solicitor at Irwin Mitchell, said: “This is a deeply tragic case which would never have happened if Mr Doubleday had driven with the care and responsibility expected of road users.
“Mrs Brennan now requires help and support from others on a daily basis, and will also need a prosthetic leg and ongoing rehabilitation for her injuries, however no amount of money can ever make up for the tragedy and ordeal that they have been put through.
“Time and time again we see lives wrecked by people driving carelessly, without consideration for others. Hopefully this case will be a wake up call for others who continue to put lives at risk and will persuade them to take responsibility for the health and lives of others.”
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The University of Africa: Offering Distance Education with A Difference
The University of Africa is a private open distance-Learning tertiary Institution. It was established in Zambia in 2008. The university offers a lot of study programmes at degree and also at certificate and diploma levels.
The university has two intakes per calendar year and this enables students to apply and register throughout the year. Students are also given the option of choosing between two examination sessions each year.
In order to assist students in the payment of their fees and to study at their own pace, the University of Africa allows students to pay in installments when funds are available.
Schools and Programmes Offered
The following are the programmes offered and the schools under which they are offered:
School Of Law And Humanities
Bachelor of Criminal Justice
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Master of Criminal Justice
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Bachelor of Science in Occupational Safety and Health Environment
Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Health and Environment Studies
School of Teacher Education
Bachelor of Education in Science and Mathematics
Bachelor of Education in Economic Sciences
Bachelor of Education in English
School of Commerce and Development
Bachelor of Commerce in Economics
Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing
Bachelor of Commerce in Human Resource Management
Bachelor of Commerce in Tourism
Bachelor of Commerce in Logistics and Transport
Bachelor of Commerce in Entrepreneurship
Bachelor of Banking Practice and Management
Bachelor of Health Service Administration
Masters of Commerce in Development and Innovation
Masters of Public Administration
Masters of Business Administration
The University has joined forces with the Central African Correspondence College (CACC), the oldest private distance-learning institution in Zambia (established in 1965).
Advantages of Studying At UoA
Wider and open career and job opportunities
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Tributes continue to pour in for London Bridge victim and Cambridge University worker Jack Merritt
Tributes have continued to be paid to Jack Merritt, the first victim of the London Bridge terror attack.
The 25 year old from Cambridgeshire had been working for Cambridge University and was co-ordinating the Learning Together programme which was hosting a conference at Fishmongers' Hall attended by Usman Khan.
His death was confirmed by his father David, who described his son as a 'beautiful spirit'.
Credit: Instagram
After studying for a bachelor's degree in law at the University of Manchester and graduating in 2016, the 25-year-old went on to study at the University of Cambridge where he worked in the criminology department running Learning Together.
The programme gives students the opportunity to work with inmates as part of their courses and study together in an attempt to reduce re-offending, and involves multiple universities and prisons.
A number of former programme participants, including Khan, had been invited to take part in a conference to mark the programme's fifth anniversary at Fishmongers' Hall in the capital.
Jack was from Cottenham and had played for the village football club. Cottenham United FC said they were devastated to learn of his death.
Lawyers in Suffolk have paid tribute to Mr Merritt - who had worked on a project at HMP Warren Hill in Hollesley.
Credit: Twitter
And barrister Tim Storrie, who worked with Jack at Warren Hill praised 'his open heartedness, his drive and his faith in the redemption of prisoners'
Today a service of remembrance took place in Cottenham.
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Ready or not, county heads to November votes on TVA Tower deal
Betty Bean October 25, 2019 Inside 640, Knox Scene
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Hugh Nystrom says he expects to preside over a November vote on the proposition to move Knox County Schools’ central office out of the Andrew Johnson building and into six floors of TVA’s vacant East Tower. Commission Chair Nystrom is a strong supporter of the long-discussed transaction, which will free up the historic hotel building – Knoxville’s first “skyscraper” – for private development and allow the county to enter into a “sweetheart” lease agreement with TVA that supporters say will save from $29 to $70 million, mostly because of urgent infrastructure needs at the AJ, which the county will unload for $6 million to a Nashville developer.
But there’s a lot of persuading that must be done.
First will come a vote by the school board, which is giving decidedly mixed signals about its inclinations. At last month’s commission meeting, the normally affable Superintendent Bob Thomas made clear his misgivings about the move, saying that nobody had asked him whether moving to the tower would better serve the needs of the school system.
Undaunted, Mayor Glenn Jacobs is forging ahead. Members of his administration have invited school board and commission members to take private tours of the tower, and Jacobs will lead a media tour of the East Tower first thing Monday morning (10/28). His press release included special instructions for reporters who will be attending:
“For security reasons, any member of the media wishing to be a part of the tour must submit their names to Rob Link via email (rob.link@knoxcounty.org) no later than 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 25. Participants should meet in the TVA West Tower Plaza Lobby at 8:45 a.m. to obtain the required security credentials and screening. A valid government-issued ID (such as a driver license) is required.”
Therein lies the rub. One of them, anyhow.
Extreme security measures could add a layer of intimidation to the natural apprehension parents feel when they go downtown to talk to their school administrators. Even elected officials find it daunting to get in the door.
Knox County Commissioner Michele Carringer with granddaughter, Emma Grace.
County Commissioner Michele Carringer brought her 6-year-old granddaughter, Emma Grace Lewallen, when she visited the tower on Sept. 24, along with school board members Jennifer Owen and Patti Bounds. Carringer said she ran into an unexpected problem:
“At first, I didn’t know whether they were even going to let Emma Grace in,” she said. “They had to have her full name and birth date and I had to give them my driver license and my home address. We had to go through X-ray machines and scanners – to tour an empty building. I felt harassed and was about to say ‘I think I’ll just leave.’
“Emma Grace looked up and me and said, ‘Nanaw, this is worse than flying.’”
Carringer hung in for the tour, but left unimpressed.
“I just thought it was over the top for everybody to have had to go through all that for an empty building that was nasty and full of construction debris. Summer Place (an adjacent business also included in the deal) is worse.”
Owen has made her opinion known (it’s not good), and Bounds was similarly unimpressed.
“It reminded me of the days of Dr. McIntyre’s dog-and-pony shows. There wasn’t really anything to see, but they’re real proud of their refurbished bathrooms. We kept being invited to look at the bathrooms. I just ignored (the invitation) and walked on. I told them my vote would not be contingent on the bathrooms. You go to the bathrooms for one purpose only, and if that’s what you’re using to sell us the TVA Tower, I’m not persuaded.”
Commissioners Evelyn Gill, Justin Biggs, Carson Dailey and Richie Beeler visited the tower and are skeptical, as well.
“It’s not welcoming,” said Beeler, who doesn’t like hearing that school security officers won’t be allowed to carry weapons inside the central office building.
Biggs said it took an unreasonable amount of time for him to be approved by security, and he worries that parents won’t have time to get their business done. He said he is getting tired of waiting to see the contract and has concerns about school board members (and Thomas) feeling coerced.
“There’s so much gray area. I’ve never even seen the contract. How do they expect me to make an educated vote when I’ve never seen a contract? I would like some time to digest the entire situation. I do think the schools’ administration deserves a nice place to go, and we need to realize that county commission has a good relationship with the school board. That’s not always been the case.”
He’d like to see a special session called to allow public discussion.
Gill, who was “wanded” by security because she refused to remove an expensive watch, said she’s been asking for full briefings on the TVA deal since former Mayor Tim Burchett introduced the plan some two years ago. She also wants more public input.
“Are we saying that the cost equivalent is worth what we’re going to spend on it? We educate 66,000 students with 8,000 staff. We need to hear what the public has to say.”
And for some, there’s a deep-seated reluctance to sell off county-owned property in exchange for a lease.
“The price sounds great,” Beeler said. “But here’s the thing – we own the AJ and the Kessel parking garage (behind the AJ), debt free. Fifteen years from now, all we’ll have is an easement or a lease from TVA. I want this to be a good deal for everybody, but when I look at it, the person getting the best deal is whoever is buying the AJ. We want to encourage development downtown, but my goodness, downtown is thriving. And if the school system doesn’t want to go, I’m not going to make them go.”
Betty Bean is a veteran reporter for Knox and Sevier counties. She writes Knox Scene each Friday. Reach her at bbeanster@aol.com.
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Raphael Varane: I Get Inspired by Karim Benzema
By index on September 29, 2019
Many players are getting inspired from Karim Benzema because of his longevity to reach the top. He has been able to establish once again as one of the elite strikers of the world in the previous year. Benzema received much applause for his achievement. Among the players who have praised him, Raphael Varane is one of them. He has seen Benzema in action many times as he has been his team-mate for Real Madrid for a long time. Raphael stated that Benzema is really his inspiration and he admires and respects him a lot.
Karim Benzema joined Real Madrid in the year 2009. He has been able to shape out his incredible career at the Santiago Bernabeu. Rediscovering his best form has been the most inspiring and impressive thing in his entire career with Real Madrid. He has faced a lot of struggles between the years 2016 and 2018 when he scored just 16 goals in 61 matches. But later, Benzema, who is from Lyon Academy, was able to re-establish himself.
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Karim Benzema and Zinedine Zidane are Two Options of Coming Season
By index on April 29, 2019
The French duo of Real Madrid Zinedine Zidane and Karim Benzema mutually agreed to pertain to this season’s goal scoring issue.
Karim Benzema is the striker of Real Madrid and he is at the top of club’s scoring charts and in this season, he has found the net 26 times of the back. This season has been the blockbuster for the main player man of the team and despite not doing good on penalties. The matter of fact is that Benzema is before the likes of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Cristiano Ronaldo and Raheem Sterling pertaining to the number of goals.
Posted in: UncategorizedTagged: Cristiano Ronaldo. karim benzema Zinedine Zidane’s.
BENZEMA NOT EXPECTING FRANCE CALL UP
By index on March 5, 2019
Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema who remains banished from the France national setup for four years running is not expected to get a call-up anytime soon. The player says he holds no grudges despite the snub. Benzema does not want to go crazy over the situation, preferring to make peace with it.
The Real Madrid has played in 81 games and scored 27 goals for France since making his debut in March 2007.He has not been called-up since August 2015 due to his alleged involvement in an attempt to blackmail ex-Lyon footballer Mathieu Valbuena over a sex-tape.
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BENZEMA LEADS MADRID TO WIN
By index on January 4, 2019
Real Madrid were guilty of complacency as they struggled to see off the lowly Rayo Vallecano at the Santiago Bernabeu at the weekend.
Benzema was the cream of the crop for the Spanish giants, tormenting the Vallecano defense on a regular basis and getting his name on the score sheet. He hobbled off the pitch towards the end of the match as he picked a slight injury to his ankle and is now a doubt for the World Club Cup starting this month.
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BENZEMA IS READY TO TAKE ON SCORING MANTLE
By index on December 3, 2018
Real Madrid star Karim Benzema has admitted the pressure is growing on him to deliver more goals for the Spanish giants following the departure of former superstar teammate Cristiano Ronaldo.
Ronaldo scored 311 goals in 275 La Liga appearances in the famous all-white jersey before ending his nine year stint at the Bernabeu in July after completing a move to Italian giants Juventus.
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Karim Benzema, Real Madrid Beat Melilla In Debut Of Santiago Solari As Manager
By index on November 3, 2018
Under the interim manager Santiago Solari, Real Madrid won their first match on Wednesday. In the match, Los Blancos defeated Melilla with the score 4-0 on their way in the first round of their Copa Del Rey match with 32 rounds. Karim Benzema started scoring in the match after 28 minutes of the starting of the game, and Marco Asensio doubled the benefits on the halftime stroke. For the visitors, Alvaro Odriozola made it three with 11 minutes left, which gave Solari a gentle opening to his spell as a temporary manager.
Cristo Gonzalez added the fourth strike in time to put together the misery of the host. Vinicius Junior was given a start to Solari, and the Brazilians rewarded his choice with two assists. A trip to North Africa to face Melilla in Copa Del Rey could not have been Solari’s first choice as Los Blanco’s temporary coach, but the Argentine would have been happy with what he saw. Melilla is one of a few autonomous Spanish cities based on the African mainland, and Madrid left a number of starring stars home after the resignation of former boss Julen Lopetegui.
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Benzema Set To Make History At Real Madrid
After having shown his appearance as bound for the exit door in the past, the star striker Karim Benzema says he is quite happy managing the European champions. Benzema has successfully left behind the individual season, which was quite disappointing in order to become a best performer in Cristiano Ronaldo’s post at Real Madrid. The upbeat striker had looked weak in the last term as he managed to net only 5 La Liga goals and started facing speculation with regards to his future at Santiago Bernabeu. However, the starting goal in final win of Champions league over Liverpool and Julen Lopetegui was appointed as head coach has made the striker hopeful to make a significant role for himself in the 10th season.
As far as his interest for AC Milan is concerned, the 30 year old says he is highly focused to bounce back to be the best so as to be successful. Benzema says that one needs to continue winning silverware as the goal is always to achieve victory here as a team. He would be looking at having a good season, especially after his last unsuccessful season and try hard to etch his name in the history books of the club. He could not imagine possessing all that he has, but the prime objective of joining the club is to achieve silverware, be successful and gain lot many things. He always knew he would have some hard seasons to deal with, but it’s insignificant as he is a part of the world’s best club and he is delighted to be there.
Posted in: UncategorizedTagged: karim benzema La Liga Lopetegui.
I Felt Inferior For The First Time – Pique
By index on May 30, 2018
The former Manchester United defender, Gerard Pique was shown a full treatment from Madrid supporters on the night of Spanish Super Cup (second leg), as his side, Barcelona fell to defeat at the Santiago Bernabeu. That was the night when his side were embarrassed while the Spaniard was roundly mocked by the crowd. Gerard Pique therefore agreed for the first time since joining Barcelona that he felt inferior to their all-time rivals, Real Madrid.
Marco Asensio and Karim Benzema netted a goal each in the first half which saw Real Madrid to a 2-0 HT and FT victory to complete a 5-1 aggregate win in the Spanish Super Cup. Barcelona, in their first matches after the departure of their ex-star forward, Neymar Jr, looked a shadow of their former selves, and were second best throughout, as Zinedine Zidane bagged his seventh trophy in 21 months as manager.
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KELTBRAY DIRECTOR BECOMES 1st ELECTED NFDC FEMALE NATIONAL OFFICER
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5 May 2017: Keltbray Group; a UK leading specialist business, which offers engineering, construction, demolition, decommissioning, remediation, rail, environmental services and reinforced concrete frame solutions, Is proud to announce that the company’s Training and Development Director, Holly Price, has been elected second Vice President for the National Federation of Demolition Contractors (NFDC).
Holly will be the Federation’s first female national officer, and was elected at this year’s NFDC 76th annual general meeting after building her reputation with the Federation’s members in her capacity as Vice Chair and later Chair of the Federation’s London and Southern Region, the largest region with more than 60 members.
“It is concerning that fewer than 20 per cent of those working in construction are women. While the number of women is slowly increasing, construction remains one of the most male dominated industries in the UK With the industry at full throttle we need a dynamic and diverse workforce to help deliver it.
“Forecasts suggest that an additional 200,000 jobs will be created in the construction industry over the next five years, and that more than twice that could retire over the same period. It is important that we pull out all the stops and widen the talent pool to tap into the real diversity that exists in this country, both in terms of female and ethnic minority capacity,” says Holly.
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Keltbray Group is a UK leading specialist business, which offers engineering, construction, demolition, decommissioning, remediation, rail, environmental services and reinforced concrete frame solutions. The company dates back to 1976, employs more than 1,000 people, and is a key player in developing and maintaining Britain’s built environment. Keltbray provides services to meet the needs of diverse and complex projects, and its well qualified people take pride in delivering projects safely and efficiently, on time and to budget, and with care for the environment and our communities. Keltbray has contributed to a range of high profile construction projects including The Shard, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Stadium, St Pancras International, Crossrail, Earls Court and Battersea Power Station.
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Gonzaga, Duke, Kansas stay atop men’s Top 25, Wichita State No. 23
Posted: Jan 6, 2020 / 01:19 PM CST / Updated: Jan 6, 2020 / 01:19 PM CST
West Virginia’s Oscar Tshiebwe (34) steals the ball from Kansas’ Udoka Azubuike (35) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020, in Lawrence, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Gonzaga, Duke and Kansas remain atop The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll.
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The Bulldogs received 54 first-place votes from a 65-member media panel. The Blue Devils had nine first-place votes and the Jayhawks two.
No. 4 Baylor moved into the top five for the first time in three years and undefeated Auburn was up to No. 5. Butler climbed five spots to No. 6 for the program’s highest ranking ever.
Wichita State moved up to No. 23. It is up from No. 24 last week.
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Second Half Surge Lifts Kansas past Texas, 66-57
AUSTIN, Texas – Trailing by five points at halftime, the No. 6/7 Kansas Jayhawks outscored Texas 40-26 over the final 20 minutes to secure the 66-57 win over the Longhorns Saturday afternoon inside the Frank Erwin Center. Sophomore Devon Dotson scored 13 of his 21 points in the second half, while senior Udoka Azubuike added 17 points and nine rebounds to give KU its second road win of the week.
The victory moved Kansas to 14-3 on the year and 4-1 in Big 12 play. Texas dropped to 12-5 in its 2019-20 campaign and 2-3 in the league.
MOMENT OF THE GAMEAfter coming out of the halftime locker room down five points and seeing Texas convert on an alley-oop dunk for the first bucket of the second stanza, Kansas center Udoka Azubuike kickstarted the KU offense to pull his team back in the game. The senior scored eight points during a 10-0 KU run to turn what was a seven-point deficit, into a three-point advantage, 36-33, just over four minutes into the second half. Kansas gave up the lead just one more time over the final 16 minutes.
STAT OF THE GAME3 – The Kansas defense limited Texas to just three points over the final 4:50 to hold on to the victory. This after the Longhorns tied the game at 54-54 on a Jericho Sims dunk with just under five minutes to play. The Longhorns went 1-for-6 from the field in that span. Kansas closed the game on a 12-3 run.
UP NEXTKansas returns home, Tuesday, Jan. 18, to host Kansas State in the Dillons Sunflower Showdown. The game will start at 6 p.m. (CT) and will be televised on ESPN2. Kansas leads the overall series with Kansas State, 197-94, including a 90-35 record in games played in Lawrence (49- 18 in Allen Fieldhouse). Starting in 2007, Kansas has won the last 13 meetings with Kansas State in Allen Fieldhouse.
Dotson and Azubuike lead No. 6 Kansas over Texas 66-57
AUSTIN, Texas (AP)Devon Dotson's left hip looks fine. And that's good news for No. 6 Kansas.
Dotson returned to the lineup after sitting out a game with a hip pointer injury and gave the Jayhawks a big late 3-pointer and free throws down the stretch to lead Kansas over Texas 66-57 on Saturday.
No. 6 Kansas will have hands full with resurgent Texas
If you're looking for defense, the Big 12 Conference offers your style of basketball, and No. 6 Kansas, as one would expect, is among those teams setting the pace for stops and in-your-face challenges.
The Jayhawks will look to continue their efforts when they travel to play Texas on Saturday in Austin.
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Comic Creator Floris Oudshoorn
Floris Oudshoorn
(b. 1967, The Netherlands)
Swamp Thing (Het Parool, 26/3/2008)
Floris Willem Oudshoorn was born in Leiden. After finishing the Gymnasium in Wassenaar, Floris moved to Utrecht. He was admitted to the Arts School in Arnhem, where he finished with flying colors. He has admitted to making a comic book, 'Hoearjoe?' as an examination piece.
He then moved to Amsterdam to set up the comic studio De Zwarte Handel with associate comic artist Maaike Hartjes. He has contributed comics and cartoons to magazines like POSSE, Incognito, Razzafrazz and Zone 5300. In 2002, a collection of his work was published with the title 'Ongezellige Verhalen'. He also self-published collections like 'Aso!!' and 'Horror Vacuii'. One critic, impressed by the variety of styles in 'Aso!', assumed Floris Oudshoorn was a pseudonym for an entire studio of comic artists. Floris has also done some animation work for the web.
For Hello You, he created 'Swamp Thing', the comic with which he also participated in the 2006 comics contest by Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool. Oudshoorn ended as one of the finalists, and 'Swamp Thing' became a regular feature in the paper until January 2009. Galerie Lambiek hosted a signing session of the new collection of his daily comic strip 'Swamp Thing' on Saturday, 21 March 2009, where fans were able meet Floris in person.
Floris Oudshoorn has furthermore worked on commercial assignments, including live cartooning, workshops and web animations. He currently works under the banner of StripstudioNL with his colleagues Peter Koch, Ben Westervoorde and Mara Leiblum.
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A short walk that crossed worlds
(Sarah Wilkins, For the Los Angeles Times)
By Dianne Goddard
My daughter Peyton is nonverbal and severely challenged by autism. I once believed she’d never experience a meaningful romantic relationship. Then, at a monthly workshop in Los Angeles for people who communicate via keyboard, she met Gabriel, a young man who traveled from Ventura with his support team. Dressed in preppy khakis and a plaid sport shirt, he seemed to turn a few heads, including Peyton’s.
Was she smitten?
Not long after, at an autism conference at Chapman University, Gabriel did a presentation, with his mother, on the topic of supported living. He has his own place and a staff supporting his active participation in his community. Afterward, Peyton asked to meet “the cool guy” in the herringbone wool blazer. The friendship grew, and we began eating lunch with Gabriel and his facilitators after the L.A. workshops. Peyton and Gabriel were both 23 at the time.
These rendezvous transitioned into alternating monthly weekend visits. My husband, Pat, and I would take Peyton north one month; the next, Gabriel and his support person would come to the San Diego area. Peyton and Gabriel shared pancake breakfasts at IHOP, dinners on the waterfront and long conversations that were never totally private, since each of them requires a facilitator to help them type.
But as feelings deepened, theirs were the only “voices” in the room. “People question the mystery of love forever, but I taste you as lasted love,” Gabriel typed.
“Sweet I cared solemnly for you. I willingly explore feelings wondering [if] you are my great love,” Peyton responded.
At dusk they would always request a stroll along the ocean. Pat and I would walk in front, beside and behind, reminding them to continue to hold on to each other’s hand and move together in rhythm with each other along the path. With each stroll there, the need for reminders diminished.
During one late summer visit, the couple requested their first moonlit walk by themselves along the small dirt trail that followed the water’s edge near our Point Loma home. This hidden path ran along the bay for about the equivalent of three city blocks, each end opening onto paved streets and, frequently, speeding cars.
Pat and I hoped to orchestrate this stroll along the scenic trail to the end of the path, where Peyton and Gabriel would stop, turn around and return home. It was to be the first time in our daughter’s life that she would be alone with the man of her dreams. I remained fretful (though supportive), while my husband assured me that this plan would go off without a hitch.
It began with a rehearsal in our living room. Sitting on the couch, we reminded them that holding hands or having Gabriel putting an arm around Peyton’s waist was a useful strategy for staying together. Pat then coached them to walk across the room, continuing to hold hands. Then he placed Gabriel’s arm around Peyton’s waist, and the couple practiced walking.
Although the young couple often expressed feelings of intimacy when typing to each other, there was an awkwardness, partially due to motor issues, partially due to this event being choreographed by parents. Nonetheless, after 10 minutes of strategizing, Peyton and Gabriel felt comfortable enough to practice with a midday walk.
In the evening, as the sun descended, Pat and I walked with Peyton and Gabriel to the head of the trail. We gently placed their hands together and pointed them in the right direction. “Have a nice walk,” I called out calmly, although my heart was racing. The two young people ventured forward, slowly disappearing around the bend.
At this moment Pat took off, running down the street, hidden from view of the two sweethearts. A little-used path intersects the trail midway through, covered by enough foliage that he could stand behind a bush to make sure they were safe, happy and still going in the right direction. Once they traveled past “check point Patrick,” he quietly retreated and ran through hedges and landscaped yards to reach the end of the trail before the young couple risked walking onto the connecting street and into traffic.
I caught up with him about 10 feet before the end of the scenic trail, and we waited for the two to approach. Although they probably had not looked at each other during the entire walk, they were still holding hands. Pat smiled as they drew closer and then casually suggested, “Since the path ends soon, most people turn around here and go back the way they came.”
“Thank you,” Gabriel replied with a rare verbalization that surprised both Pat and me as the couple turned around and headed home. Although my husband didn’t have much time to get back to the checkpoint, he couldn’t help but linger and watch as they held hands and dissolved into the darkness. When they reached our house, their fingers appeared permanently locked, and it took a reminder to release their grip on each other.
That walk was several years ago. The visits continue to this day. And they are still holding hands.
Dianne Goddard is coauthor (along with her daughter Peyton and writer Carol Cujec) of “I Am Intelligent: From Heartbreak to Healing — A Mother and Daughter’s Journey Through Autism.”
L.A. Affairs chronicles romance and relationships. Past columns are archived at latimes.com/la affairs. If you have comments to share or a story to tell, write us at home@latimes.com.
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Canada Computes: Linux vs Microsoft
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"...This story has broader implications for the Linux scene than it would first appear. Microsoft claims no source was downloaded. The problem with that statement is, logically, to be read at a remote computer it HAS to be downloaded. Maybe I'm just being picky."
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SEC Beams Searchlight on Cryptocurrency Exchanges in the United States
Nick Omo · November 10, 2018 · 1:00 pm
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says it isn’t going to be swayed by technical definitions when it comes to its oversight of cryptocurrency exchange platforms. This pronouncement comes barely a day after the Commission brought up charges against the founder of EtherDelta – a decentralized virtual currency trading platform.
Centralized/Decentralized Exchanges – Semantics and Nothing More
If you thought running a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) exempted you from SEC oversight, think again. As far as the Commission is concerned, the issue of centralized and decentralized exchanges is simply semantics.
Speaking to Forbes, the head of the SEC’s cyber unit, Robert Cohen, said:
The focus is not on the label you put on something or the technology you’re using. The leveled is on the function, and what the platform is doing. Whether it’s decentralized or not, whether it’s on a smart contract or not, what matters is it’s an exchange.
Cohen’s statements refer to decentralized or blockchain-based cryptocurrency exchanges and ensuring that they comply with existing regulations. For the SEC, the crux of the matter revolves around operating unregistered exchanges.
Operators Remain Responsible
Presently, it appears that the SEC plans to go after the operators of these DEX platforms. Take EtherDelta, for example, the charges were leveled against the creator, Zachary Coburn, and not the exchange itself.
This move is perhaps because it is much easier to target the operators than to shut down a decentralized platform. However, such a tactic might prove potentially problematic when dealing with highly anonymous DEX platform operators.
In the case of Coburn and EtherDelta, the SEC charged Coburn of running an unregistered exchange that traded securities. While not admitting or denying the charges, the Commission says Coburn is being cooperative and has agreed to pay a total of $383,000 in various fines and penalties.
SEC Pursuing All-inclusive Cryptocurrency Regulatory Paradigm
The inclusion of DEX platforms is further proof of the SEC’s drive to bring some sanity in what some commentators have dubbed the cryptocurrency ‘Wild West.’ Recently, the Commission announced its intention to critically examine the activities of investment advisers in the virtual currency trading space.
Earlier in the week, Live Bitcoin News reported about the SEC wanting to make the fight against digital currency scams its top priority. Since the beginning of 2018, the regulatory watchdog has taken numerous steps to curtail ICO scams.
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Tags: Cryptocurrency Regulations, DEX, EtherDelta, Robert Cohen, SEC
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Summa and Brio 36 Digital Broadcast Audio Consoles Ensure Spanish-Language Broadcaster Produces Top-Notch Content for U.S. Viewers
BURBANK, CA, NOVEMBER 19, 2019 — As the largest privately held, minority-owned Spanish-language broadcaster in the United States, Liberman Broadcasting, Inc. (LBI Media, Inc.), produces over 50 hours of original television programming each week. LBI Media’s fast-paced news studios require adaptable, quick to set up and easy to operate audio solutions. In order to shift focus as rapidly as the news itself, LBI Media relies on Calrec Audio’s Brio 36 and Summa digital audio consoles.
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Dinosaur-Era Insects Frozen in Time During Oldest Pollination
Reconstruction of Gymnospollisthrips with pollen attached to the body over an ovulate organ of a gingko.
(Image: © Enrique Peñalver, IGME.)
With massive dinosaurs towering above, tiny female insects called thrips had just dusted themselves with hundreds of pollen grains from a gingko tree more than 100 million years ago when they perished, only to be preserved in tree resin called amber.
The discovery, detailed this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the oldest known record of insect pollination.
(Pollination occurs when either the wind or an animal, mostly insects, deliver pollen from a plant's male reproductive organ to the female parts either on the same plant or another one.)
During the lower Cretaceous Period when the newly discovered thrips lived, flowering plants would have just started to diversify, eventually replacing conifers as the dominant species, the researchers said.
"This is the oldest direct evidence for pollination, and the only one from the age of the dinosaurs," study researcher Carmen Soriano said in a statement. "The co-evolution of flowering plants and insects, thanks to pollination, is a great evolutionary success story."
A synchrotron X-ray image of the specimen of Gymnospollisthrips minor, showing the pollen grains (yellow) covering its body. (Image credit: ESRF)
Soriano and an international team of scientists studying the two pieces of amber, which were discovered in what is now northern Spain, say the specimens date back between 110 million and 105 million years ago. [Photos of the Ancient Pollinators]
They found six female thrips, also called thysanopterans, enclosed in the amber, with hundreds of pollen grains attached to their tiny bodies — the insects are just 2 millimeters long. The thrips, the researchers found, belong to a new genus now named Gymnopollisthrips, with two new species, G. minor and G. major.
After the amber pieces' initial discovery, they were then kept in a collection of the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava in Spain.
To get a closer look at the pollination event frozen in time, the team used synchrotron X-ray tomography at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), focusing on the most representative of the amber-encapsulated thrips. In synchrotron X-ray tomography, charged particles are sent speeding through magnetic fields; these particles release high-energy light that can then pierce opaque materials to reveal three-dimensional, high-resolution images.
The images revealed various features of the pollen grains, together suggesting the grains came from a kind of cycad, or gingko, tree, the researchers said. Gingkos have separate male and female trees, with males producing small pollen cones and females bearing ovules at the ends of stalks that develop into seeds after pollination.
The researchers wondered what these pollen transporters would've gotten in return for their services so long ago. The benefit must have been the opportunity to pick up pollen food for the thrips' larvae, said the researchers, adding that this benefit would have nudged the emergence of the ringed hairs specialized for pollen transport.
"Thrips might indeed turn out to be one of the first pollinator groups in geological history, long before evolution turned some of them into flower pollinators," Soriano said.
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Exclusive interview with Chris Evans about #CaptainAmericaCivilWar #CaptainAmericaEvent #TeamCap
April 27, 2016 By // by Coralie 21 Comments
The interview with Chris Evans was one of the highlights of the #CaptainAmericaEvent! Another thing that made this truly memorable for me was being able to be the “official” photographer for our group. Chris was so fun to photograph and gave us some really great smiles words about the movie as well as what is coming up. He is so funny and happy, always smiling and laughing and it really made the interview so fun!
Our interview with @paulbettany was legendary. Chris Evans made it unforgettable! Can’t wait to share their interviews about #CaptainAmericaCivilWar. ❤???? #CaptainAmericaEvent #TeamCap #chrisevans #superhero #heroes #family #fun #marvel #marvelcomics #ironman #travel #interview #laugh #laughing #paulbettany #captainamerica #smile #happy
A photo posted by Coralie Seright (@coralieseright) on Apr 15, 2016 at 11:27am PDT
Towards the end of our Paul Bettany interview (which we will be sharing next week) Chris Evans came in an surprised us all. We were able to ask them a couple of questions together before Paul had to leave and our interview with Chris continued. During this time, Chris actually picked up my sons Captain America toy that I had set on the table by my recorder, and was holding it, playing with it, and so I was able to snap a couple of pictures.
It’s not every day one of your son’s favorite toys is held by one of his favorite superheroes! HC saw this picture and ran around yelling “Captain America is holding my Captain America” so cute! #CaptainAmericaEvent #TeamCap #CaptainAmericaCivilWar #chrisevans #superhero #heroes #family #fun #marvel #marvelcomics #ironman #travel #interview #toys #toyography #captainamerica #smile #happy
A photo posted by Coralie Seright (@coralieseright) on Apr 10, 2016 at 11:49pm PDT
My son (who is 6) is still off the wall excited about that. The interview with Chris was amazing! I know you are going to love this…keep reading… 🙂
Chris and Paul Bettany said that they had so much fun on set! You could tell by the way that they interacted that they got along well and have been friends for a long time. We wanted to know if the cast of Civil War played pranks on each other because these two look like they could get into a lot of trouble if given the chance! Chris told us “It’s not so much pranks as it’s just a camaraderie. On these movies there are people who are really there to work and so you don’t want to diminish their experience or disrespect their process.” I can see this with the cast that there is so much action and seriousness to the movie that I am sure, that while they have a good time, that it is “controlled”. Chris then added “off set is where the real disaster happens”. I would love to know more about that….
Chris has been playing the role of Captain America since 2011 when Captain America: The First Avenger came out. He has since done The Avengers, a cameo in Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: Winter Solider, Avengers: Age of Ultron, a cameo in Ant-Man, and now Captain America: Civil War. That is a lot of times of getting his uniform on and playing the role. We wanted to know how it has changed, how it feels now when he puts his uniform back on. Chris told us “I feel good now. I didn’t in the beginning. In the beginning it was terrifying…it was just like all the things that could go wrong and how this could be a mistake. Over the course of five or six movies now, it feels great.” (I have to interrupt here and add that he looks great too!) 😉
Back to the interview…. Chris continues saying “The Russo Brothers and Marvel and everyone has made it such a wonderful environment. They’ve proven themselves time and time again to be great filmmakers. Now, it’s a point of pride. When you see the suit, you’re excited to get the suit on and you’re very honored and humbled that you get to have some sort of a connection to it, because it is bigger than you. Captain America will live on, there will be other Captain Americas, there will. It will live on a lot longer than I will. So it’s just nice to kind of have a little place in its lineage.”
I have to admit that my drool soaked brain never really thought ahead so far as to think about someone else playing the role of Captain America. In my mind Chris Evans does an amazing job – he is exactly what I picture for Steve Rogers and so that is going to be a process when/if the time comes.
Captain America: Civil War is a different story line that the other Captain America movies. Steve Rogers departs from his normal “expected” role and steps into a different light. We wanted to know how it felt for Captain America to transition into a darker role? Chris told us “It was nice. I think for the most part with Cap, the trickiest thing about the character is that he’s just a selfless guy. He’s not one of these brooding characters where you can. as an audience member, connect to his conflict and struggle. He’s very selfless. I think to some degree it can feel vanilla, I think it can feel boring. His goal has always been doing what other people need. In this movie it’s the first time he did what he wants and that’s a little bit of a departure for him.” Having seen the movie I can tell you that I love the story-line. The plot, the action, the script…everything is absolutely perfect (as if I would expect anything less from Marvel), and Chris does an amazing job adapting to this different role.
Chris continues “It’s nice because it’s motivated by family. Cap woke up seventy years later and everyone he knows is dead. And you have Bucky this one guy, this one person who is the remaining chapter of his life before. So you’re pitting his current family with his old family and you can’t ask any man to choose that. These are two worlds you got to try and somehow find a way to blend. For Cap, Bucky is his only remaining thing. It’s the first time [Caps] really said ‘I’m choosing me, over you’. It’s tough for him, but I like that. It gives him a little bit of conflict.” This movie brings to light so many things and opens so many more doors and questions about what will be coming for Marvel. I can’t wait to SEE THEM ALL! 🙂
I am sure you have all seen this picture of him flexing and holding the helicopter…we wanted to know more about that – because let’s face it – YUMMY! Chris talked about filming that and told us “my arm to this day is not the same.” He said that it was a fake helicopter, and as he was holding onto the building and the helicopter, he felt like it was doing nothing – so he asked it they could drift the helicopter out more since it is on a rig, so they did. Chris told us “It actually required [me] to hold [on] and when you’re holding, I did something.”
We were all sitting there watching him showcase his arm as he explained the incident, and so when he said that I think we were still a little addled in the brain to respond and instead of an outpouring of sympathy we were smiling. He looked around and said “Not like I’d get any sympathy out of you any way, obviously I didn’t.” with a smile. He is so funny! I loved listening to him talk about the movie and tell us these little things that make it different the next time I watch it. I will have to focus more on that left arm that he was talking about 😉
He went on to tell us about Robert Downey, Jr and working with his. Chris said “I think it’s harder doing scenes with Downey, because he’s such a force. He’s so good and he owns the oxygen. He comes in the room and he’s powerful and the spine of the film is that conflict. There’s a limited amount of scenes where it’s really just us, when we’re not fighting, just us talking. That’s the framework for the conflict. If you don’t invest in those moments, the conflict is going to be sour and fall flat. So those few scenes that we have where it’s just him and I were really intimidating, to make sure you match him. He’s scary because he’s so good. He just owns- he’s just good at anything he does. He changes things on the fly so you just want to try and keep up sparring wise [so] that you can kind of hang with him. Those scenes were the most terrifying.”
You could see in Captain America: Winter Solider and all of the movies that have since followed that Falcon and the Cap develop a close friendship. In Civil War, Bucky is a prominant part of the movie, and so I asked Chris if he felt like because of his friendship with Bucky in this movie, does he see his friendship with Falcon changing? I guess I was not the only one who has been thinking about that because Chris said “Yeah that’s been one of the big questions.” He told us that he has been asked “Are you team Bucky or team Falcon”. (which is funny in light of the #TeamCap and #TeamIronMan). But Chris continues to tell us “It’s tricky, because in the comic books, one of these guys gets the shield. I don’t know what Marvel is going to do. What a strange thing to kind of have. I don’t want to give them the shield, but I guess I gotta. Which is fine. It’s not my job to pick. It’s a beautiful relationship. Buck, like I said, Bucky is the, the friend from old, and Falcon is the friend from today and they’re both great people, they are both great characters, they’re both great actors. So I’m thankful it’s not my decision. Whatever happens happens.” he ends laughing. It is going to be crazy seeing how things turn out in the next Marvel movie.
The last question that was asked provided on of the funniest and most insightful answers into Chris himself. We wanted to know who his favorite superhero was growing up. I never anticipated the answer he gave us! I feel a little empathy for him because I have four kids and the oldest is a girl, and I only have one boy. I am sure my son can relate to Chris on this one! Chris told us “Oh I didn’t have one. I had an older sister and I think anyone who has siblings [can relate]. That’s why, when I have kids, I’d love for my oldest child to be a girl. I think it softens up the [younger] boy. Whatever Carly (Chris’ sister) wanted to do, we did. So we [played] My Little Pony and Care Bear that was it. Just being in Carly’s room was a big deal. You don’t mess it up, [you] just sit there whatever she gives us to play with, that’s what we’re playing with. She’d give us the fuzzy My Little Ponies, the ones that give me willies. Most of the ones that we had were fine.” but Chris got the fuzzy My Little Ponies and he hated them! Makes me laugh picturing him as a child playing with them. Chris also told us “So comic books were not on my radar. I liked Star Wars, which was maybe the coolest thing about me, but that was my dad being like please, please like Han Solo and I was like, but Tender Heart Bear…it’s not untrue, it’s really sad.” He made us laugh so much during this part. He has a great sense of humor.
We also touched on a few things like who he would love to go back in time to meet, and about when Marvel threatened to boycott Georgia if they passed the Anti-Gay bill. Chris told us that he thought “it was great.” He continues to tell us “I didn’t even know. My younger brother is gay and he was the one sending me these text messages being like good for Disney. I was so proud of Disney for standing up to that.”
This is one of the best interviews I have ever had a privilege of being a part of. Chris Evans is so happy and funny. Almost the opposite of his on-screen character! Captain America: Civil War hits theaters May 6 – and it is so good it will blow you away. It is by far the best Marvel – or Super Hero movie – to date and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for Marvel. They have set a new precedence with this film!
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tauyanm
sounds like a nice interview. i’ve seen his interviews from malaysia ang singapore and he sound so boring haha although the falcon is amazing! i enjoy watching his interviews more coz his more funny and humourous
Mardene Carr
I heard about the movie but I doubt I will be watching it.
I loved reading this interview and I love Chris Evans he’s amazing and can’t wait to watch the latest captain America
WOw! How exciting! I am sure your sons was out of the moon 🙂
Kathy Kenny Ngo
This is just so awesome. I just got back from watching the movie and I really enjoyed it and reading your interview now makes it even more amazing.
Mhaan A
Chris Evans looks nice and funny. I have a big crush on him lols.
While amazing! How did you ever get to do that! I didn’t even notice that it was him with all that beard. Now I want to see the movie.
Michelle Blackwood
Wow, Chris Evans is awesome. This is so cool that you got to interview him!
He is really a fun guy. My son can’t wait to watch this movie he was a fan of avengers
Lexie Lane
Chris Evan is a really fun person that I know. I’m so glad that you are part of this interview, it’s great opportunity to grab.
what an amazing experience! I would love to meet him!
Stream & Stone
He always seems so kind and genuine in interviews. So cool that you got to interview him! Wow. Also, I LOVE Paul Bethany. I will always remember him from A Night’s Tail 😉
What a lovely man and I like that Disney stood up to the anti-gay bill! All lives matter !
DannyUK.com
I’m jealous that you got to interview Chris Evans! So lucky!
I am really looking forward to this movie! So far I have loved all of the Avenger/Marvel movies.
I like Chris Evans, he’s a fun guy, very witty and smart and really funny too. This was an awesome opportunity, I’m sure you had a lot of fun especially since he’s so nice to stare at, lol!
Hes so handsome! What a cool interview! id die if i meet him in person <3 hehe.
He is SO cute! I’m really excited to take my son to see this movie. He’s a huge Avengers fan and is super excited too!
Shannon Peterson
He is such a fun guy! I love his captain america movies too 🙂
I think this will be a blockbuster for the summer! How fortunate you are that you were able to spend this time and enjoy Chris Evans!
My hubby is looking forward to this movie. I am sure we will see it at some point!
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Graphic work (editions), 50.5 x 65.5 cm
Josep Guinovart, close to the Dau al Set group in the early 50s, created this work not long after he had founded, together with Modest Cuixart, Jordi, Jaume Muxart, Joan Josep Tharrats and Antoni Tàpies, the short-lived group Tahull. In the context of this group he took his first steps in the direction of material abstraction, intensifying the use of collage and assemblage, utilizing humble materials such as windows, pieces of wood, plates, etc., from his own immediate surroundings.
L’arbre seems to announce the then still incipient tendency of the artist Josep Guinovart to combine abstract forms and natural elements.
Influenced by Robert Rauschenberg as regards the valorizing of the object, L’arbre also clearly reveals a certain proximity to the sculpture of Alberto, as well as to the work of Joan Miró and Benjamin Palencia.
MACBA Collection. Government of Catalonia long-term loan
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Jennifer Aniston engagement ring: is this the biggest diamond ever?
Suzannah Ramsdale October 31, 2012 8:42 am
Jennifer Aniston's engagement ring Credit: Film Magic
Jennifer Aniston's engagement ring is a sight to behold
Jennifer Aniston’s engagement ring has blinded us.
We’ve had our first glimpse at Jennifer Aniston’s engagement ring two months after Justin Theroux popped the question. And it’s definitely worth the wait.
We got a flash of Jen‘s sparkler as she gently touched Theroux’s face outside a hotel in Sante Fe, New Mexico, where the actress is currently filming We Are The Millers.
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We think it’s safe to say that Aniston‘s engagement ring is one of the biggest we’ve ever seen. Who knew Mr Theroux was so in to bling? The rock is half the size of his actual head.
Jen and Justin had been dating for a year when he asked her to marry him on his 41st birthday back in August. At the time his rep said: ‘Justin Theroux had an amazing birthday on Friday, receiving an extraordinary gift when his girlfriend, Jennifer Aniston, accepted his proposal of marriage.’
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Eternity came into existence when the universe was formed (along with Death, Oblivion, and Infinity) and spontaneously assumed the collective consciousness of all living things in the Universe. He is every living thing and every living thing is him; thus he controls everything in all plains of existence with the exception of the Living Tribunal, who maintains the cosmic balance of power. Eternity is the physical incarnation of time, whereas his sister Infinity represents space. Also, if Galactus ever dies or does not exist, the opposite of Eternity, Abraxas, would come into being. Eternity is guarded by Captain Universe.
The origin and precise nature of the abstract being known as Eternity are unknown and unknowable. It is the sum total of collective consciousness of all living things in the universe, the embodiment of their life as Death is the embodiment of the ending of that life.
Unlike Death, which Eternity refers to as its sibling, Eternity does not often take an active hand in the dealings of the trillions of lives that make up its total. However, since controlling the being Eternity allows the controller to wield Eternity's unlimited Powers over the beings that make it up, this entity is a target for extra-dimensional attackers of various abilities. Usually Eternity can deflect such attacks without significant exertion, but on occasion has had to bring its own servants into play. While not as organized as the "death-gods" that serve Death, these servants are usually powerful individuals, such as Doctor Strange, who may combat the attackers on their own mortal levels. These servants have a vested interest in seeing Eternity survive intact, as Eternity makes their very existence possible.
Such was the case when the powerful extra-dimensional being known as Nightmare attempted to seize Eternity from the inside, using all sleeping sentient beings (usually one-third of the total lifeforms in the universe and therefore a powerful minority of Eternity) to drive Eternity to sleep, thereby putting Eternity under Nightmare's control. In this state, Eternity was induced to dream planet Earth's obliteration. Doctor Strange, who possessed the Gift of Extended Life, did not die, and journeyed to Nightmare's realm, there to free Eternity and persuade him to recreate Earth. As Eternity is the sum total of all living forces, destruction of Eternity may eradicate the universe, and with it all other quasi-physical entities. Death and Eternity exist as partners, not competitors, and Death has never shown and "rivalry" (at least until the Infinity Gauntlet, one such event that comes to mind) against its "sibling." Eternity, for its part, has rarely shown any interest in the pieces that make it up, though if given sufficient threat (on the level of the Beyonder, for example) would willingly sacrifice part of its infinite existence (and the planets, stars, and lifeforms that make up that existence) to foil such a foe.
Also, there is the time when Eternity appeared to testify on the behalf of Mister Fantastic, when he was abducted by a group of survivors of Galactus' feedings. Eternity testified that Reed acted out of compassion, and not out of malice, in reviving Galactus. Saying that Galactus does indeed play a part in the universe, the accusers were satisfied, and Reed was released. Other events include Eternity's involvement with the Infinity Gauntlet affair.
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Inapplicable; has referred to Infinity as his mate; has referred to Death, Oblivion, Galactus, Empathy, Eulogy, Expediency, Entropy, Epiphany and Enmity as offspring
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Bringing Solar to Dubai’s US$279.4BN Urban Sector
After a successful launch edition in 2017, The Big 5 Solar will return under the Patronage of the Ministry of Energy & Industry, United Arab Emirates, to showcase solar energy solutions for the construction industry at Dubai World Trade Centre from 26-29 November 2018.
As part of The Big 5, the largest construction event in the Middle East, The Big 5 Solar will display the latest solar innovations and solutions from top brands, offer free access to industry leading education sessions, and host the high-profile Global Solar Leaders’ Summit.
Josine Heijmans, Portfolio Director at dmg events comments: “We are excited to kick-off the second edition of The Big 5 Solar this year with a unique focus on bringing solar innovations closer to the wide opportunities in the Middle East construction industry.” She adds: “Buildings account for 40% of energy consumed in cities and with over 5000 active projects worth US$ 279.4bn ongoing in Dubai’s urban construction sector alone, there is no better time than now to showcase solar solutions to construction professionals.”
The Big 5 Solar will display the latest in solar innovations for the construction industry across four of the most prominent product sectors including: Photovoltaics (PV), Solar Thermal Technologies, Energy Storage, and Solar Technology and Related Services.
“Construction is a very big market for us because of the logistical difficulties faced on project sites,” says Thair Al Fararjeh, General Manager for Enviro Cooling Systems. “We are currently working on a joint project to develop a smart caravan offering workers the complete off-grid solution for all electronics, we will cover the AC solution in this case.” Aside from off-grid air conditioning solutions, the company will showcase mixed-grid units at The Big 5 Solar that will generate zero cost during daylight, only using power in the evening.
With off-grid solar solutions becoming increasingly popular in the construction industry, The Big 5 Solar will showcase many such products. Enerray for example operates in the global off grid market through the company Plug the Sun, a firm capable to offer customizable solutions and innovative and unique products for rural electrification and urban living.
"We recently launched a new product: RAYGO150. It’s a portable solar home system with Pay as You Go feature that offers clean DC power to recharge phones and DC small devices," says Antonio Capua, Business Development and Sales Director at Enerray.
Exhibitor NeOn Energy also look forward to providing solar solutions for the urban sector with their compact modules. “Space saving properties are unique to our photovoltaic and thermal combined (PVT) module, making them ideal for residential and commercial applications,” says Mr Sanjayan Marat, Executive Director MENA region for NeOn Energy.
More than just an exhibition, The Big 5 Solar will also bring together the industries’ pioneers to host four days of free-to-attend and CPD (continuing professional development) certified education sessions.
The Solar Talks will cover popular topics from Commercial and Industrial Solar Growth, Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BiPV), the latest Solar Hybrid Systems in the UAE market and the latest in Technological Innovations in Solar Panel Manufacturing.
Inviting architects, engineers, sustainability specialists, and developers to his session, Head of Architecture Department at Mimar Emirates Consultant Imad Kayyali says: “The integration of solar energy systems in architecture and urban planning presents exciting trends right now including more flexible, variable and easy uses of solar panels for places such as parking shades and building facades.”
Belén Gallego, CEO & Co-Founder at ATA Insights adds: “It has never been more important for the solar and construction industries to come together as distributed solar markets are raising through the ranks to be an important part of the climate change solution. This event is a great opportunity for these two industries to meet, discuss and do business.”
On 27th November 2018, Belén Gallego will sit with over 25 high-profile regional and international speakers at the Global Solar Leaders’ Summit. Speakers will include H.E. Dr. Matar Al Neyadi, Undersecretary at Ministry of Energy (UAE), H.E. Dr. Nasser Saidi, Chairman for Clean Energy Business Council (MENA), Turki Al Shehri, Head of Renewable Energy Project Development Office at Ministry Of Energy, Industry & Mineral Resources, (Saudi Arabia), and Rabia Ferroukhi, Head of Policy Unit And Deputy Director of Knowledge, Policy And Finance at International Renewable Energy Agency, Paddy Padmanathan, CEO for Acwa Power (Saudi Arabia), and more.
Under the topical theme ‘Solar Solutions for Construction’, the 4th edition of the Global Solar Leaders’ Summit will address, assess and analyze the way forward for key players in the solar and construction industries.
The Big 5 Solar returns with existing support from leading associations including the Middle East Solar Industry Association (MESIA) and Clean Energy Business Council (CEBC), and welcomes fresh backing from industry heavyweights: GCC Association for Renewable Energy and Sustainability - Green Gulf, Architectural Solar Association – ASA, BPVA – British Photovoltaic Association, Solar GCC Alliance, Jinko Solar, Campion, S5, We Link Group, Sumec, Noor Solar, Sunew, Verditek, Heliatek, Enviro-Smart, NeOn Energy, and Enerray.
Organised by dmg events, The Big 5 Solar is free to attend and will run from 11AM to 7PM daily at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The event runs as part of The Big 5, alongside The Big 5 Heavy, Middle East Concrete, HVACR Expo, and Urban Design & Landscaping Expo, offering a one-stop shop for all things construction from concept through to design.
To know more about The Big 5 Solar click, www.thebig5solar.ae or Register HERE
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DSS: Sambo Dasuki, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky chose to be in our custody
mcebiscoo Latest News November 15, 2019
The Department of State Services (DSS) has declared former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki, and leader of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) popularly known as Shittes, Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, chose to be in its custody on their volition.
The Service disclosed this in a statement by its Public Relations Officer, Dr Peter Afunanya, on Friday evening.
The statement titled “Setting the records straight,” explained it was necessary to clarify this given the outcry over their alleged illegal detention.
It reads: “There has been outcry about alleged illegal detention of some notable persons undergoing trials at the Courts and disobedience to Court Orders by the Service.
“To put the records straight, the Service wishes to advert public attention to the circumstances that warranted the custody of Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) and Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky in its facility.
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“For the avoidance of doubt, the duo had appealed to the Courts to be left in the custody of the Service instead of being taken to the Correctional Centres.
“Well meaning Nigerians are equally witnesses to the case of Omoleye Sowore, who, on a similar order of the Court, was to be remanded at the Kuje or Suleja Centre but preferred to be kept at the DSS.
“Everyone, also, saw what eventually played out with El-Zakzaky, when he opted to be returned to the custody of the Service even as the Court had granted him leave to seek medical care in India. These were choices these personalities made on their own volition.
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“Since their stay, the Service has continued to extend the best courtesies to them.
They are allowed access to people and use of other facilities like telephones, gymnasium, TV, newspapers and medical facilities.
“Among others, their families and trusted persons bring them food of their choices on daily basis. There could not have been better treatments than these.
“Against the wrong perception that the Service held these persons in defiance to Court Orders, it is obvious, by the above explanations, that they rather chose be looked after by the DSS. The reason for such choice is not far-fetched. It is simply because the Service’s holding facilities are good and within acceptable international standards.
“It is not in the character of the DSS to join issues with persons or groups. Yet, silence should not be golden at a time like this. For its compliance to democratic norms, the Service owes the Nigerian public a duty to explain some of its activities. This is more so that these are oftentimes grossly misunderstood or misrepresented.
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“Once again, the Service restates its commitment to a strong partnership with the media and other stakeholders including opinion leaders. It is not averse to criticisms and therefore welcomes constructive engagement from all and sundry.
“It will continue to conduct its operations within the bounds of the law and importantly be guided by that time tested axiom of Usman Dan Fodio that conscience is an open wound and only the truth can heal it.”
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Reality TV participant pleads guilty to Rape and exposing teen boy to HIV
mcebiscoo Entertainment, Foreign News November 21, 2019
A Tennessee dance teacher has pleaded guilty to the statutory rape of a teenager and exposing him to the HIV virus, prosecutors said.
John Conner III who appeared on the Lifetime reality TV dance show “Bring It,” was scheduled to go on trial this week, but entered the guilty plea to felony charges of criminal exposure to HIV, statutory rape by an authority figure, and solicitation of a minor, Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich said in a news release.
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Conner was 26 years old in 2015 when he met the then-16-year-old boy on a social media website, prosecutors said. Conner had unprotected sex several times with the teenager in the dance teacher’s vehicle.
The teenager joined Conner’s dance team, the Infamous Dancerettes, and the two continued to exchange nude photos and text messages about their sexual activity. But Conner did not tell the teenager about his HIV diagnosis in 2012, prosecutors said.
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In August 2016, the teenager told his parents about the sexual encounters with Conner and said he thought he should be tested after hearing that his dance teacher had HIV. The teenager tested positive for HIV, prosecutors said.
According to prosecutor, he has two similar cases pending with sexual partners, ages 17 and 24.
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Conner is scheduled to be sentenced on December 20, 2019.
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Why can’t we be friends? Five steps to better relations between CFOs and CMOs
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Marketing is in the midst of a performance revolution. The application of advanced analytics and plentiful data has allowed chief marketing officers (CMOs) to demonstrate the return on investment from marketing activities with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. With companies spending as much as 10 percent of their annual budgets on marketing, depending on the industry—a whopping $1 trillion globally—this rapidly developing ability to put hard numbers against marketing performance is music to the ears of both CMOs and CFOs.
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To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise. Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have successfully used analytics to demonstrate quantitatively the marketing return on investment, or MROI.1 1.The CMO Survey, “Highlights and insights: August 2013,” cmosurvey.org; the survey is cosponsored by the American Marketing Association, Duke University, and McKinsey & Company. This suggests that nearly two-thirds still rely on qualitative measures or none at all. In fact, a 2012 survey showed that 63 percent of projects do not use analytics to inform marketing decisions.2 2.The CMO Survey, “Highlights and insights: February 2012,” cmosurvey.org. And the lack of an analytical approach has contributed to a barrier between marketing and finance—often leading to difficult budgeting conversations. One financial-services CMO told us how CFOs typically perceive his function: “Marketing has a vague status. We’re going to give a certain amount of dollars to those guys. They’re going to make ads and do whatever it is they do. And let’s hope it generates demand.”
To reverse this perception, we believe that CMOs must become true collaborators with CFOs and adopt an MROI approach that’s driven by analytics. The good news is that the same mountains of data that can deliver an array of value-creating insights can also help CMOs demonstrate marketing return on investment at a level of detail that the CFO expects. In our work with clients in dozens of sectors over more than five years, we have found that the strongest CMO–CFO partnerships develop when both parties take five actions: open their books to scrutiny, focus on the metrics that matter, balance short-term and long-term value creation, consider savings as well as spending, and seek opportunities to collaborate.
The opportunity is enormous. In our experience, companies that adopt this marketing-analytics approach can unlock 10 to 20 percent of their marketing budget to either reinvest in marketing or return to the bottom line.
Create an ‘open book’ mind-set
Creating transparency into operations is the starting point for marketing to help CFOs understand where and how value is being gained or lost. CMOs often find it hard to say how much they actually spend—by product, market, or strategic intent, for example, or by activity—on IT, different parts of the purchase funnel, digital and social media, or nonadvertising activities such as sponsorships, promotions, and trade events. It can be challenging because different regions may allocate the same spending to different categories. A trade-fair expenditure might fall into short-term spending in one market, for instance, but long-term brand-building spending in another.
Bringing people and activities into line is essential but seldom easy. Marketing departments are often reluctant to look beyond their own fiefdoms; it’s also time-consuming to align spending categories accurately—and a major task to communicate the value of doing so. An automotive company, for example, held more than a dozen workshops in six months to explain why it mattered and to ensure that the global marketing function clearly understood the value of analytics. The company used this process to develop a common approach for answering the seemingly basic question of why it was spending marketing dollars. For example, was it trying to promote the brand or draw customers into the showroom? Drawing such distinctions makes it easier for any CMO to answer basic questions about where and how marketing dollars are spent—and makes budgeting discussions much more productive.
Focus on the metrics that matter
Ideally, the relationship between the CFO and the CMO needs to function more like a partnership, in which the two explore together the performance that drives shareholder returns. That means CMOs will need to focus on the metrics that are most aligned with corporate business goals, which CFOs can help identify. Typically, these will not be brand awareness, share of voice in the market, or the number of “likes” on Facebook— areas where many currently focus—unless those numbers can be tied to profit. CMOs must demonstrate and track marketing’s impact by focusing on those key performance indicators (KPIs) that are most important for shareholder value such as return on investment, net present value, and operating margins.
Marketing KPIs that don’t directly address shareholder value and the company’s objectives don’t tell the CMO or the CFO where marketing efforts are having the most desired impact. This doesn’t portend an end to the creativity required to touch people’s emotions; it only means plumbing the same reservoirs of data that spark that creativity to better define when and where to target audiences with which messages— and to demonstrate the value in doing so.
In collaboration with the CFO, the CMO can develop a set of objectives that directly contribute to financial objectives and business goals. At the automotive company referred to earlier, for example, the CMO and CFO worked together with their teams to draw up a global set of financial and nonfinancial metrics for the short and long term. Financial metrics would typically include obvious numbers such as sales, return on investment, and cost per customer, while nonfinancial metrics included the number of people visiting dealers or long-term indicators of the health of the brand such as the number of customers considering the brand.
We’ve often found it helpful to create a chart to illustrate how business and financial goals at the top cascade down to marketing KPIs, then to tactics and strategies that can deliver on those KPIs, and finally to those metrics that measure the effectiveness of those strategies or tactics. In practice, marketing KPIs need to incorporate customer-acquisition and retention targets and costs. These metrics can easily be translated back into the company’s top-line or bottom-line performance, which resonates more with the CFO.
Given the complexity of marketing today, it can be difficult to develop metrics that prove categorically that an initiative is working. The metrics still matter in those cases, but what matters more is that the CMO and CFO agree on them.
Balance short-term and long-term value creation
One of marketing’s biggest challenges has always been managing the trade-off between short-term spending to boost sales and longer-term brand building. Econometric analysis can estimate the benefits of different combinations of marketing tactics—so-called marketing-mix modeling (MMM)—and to some extent is effective in helping allocate budget resources. Yet such activities drive only 20 to 40 percent of total sales, and so traditional MMM reflects a small portion of the total value of marketing investments, much of which can be attributed to the harder-to-measure power of the brand. The brand naturally takes much longer to develop, up to five years, but it has far greater staying power than a single piece of advertising.
Long-term brand performance is affected by many factors, which makes measuring the impact of investment challenging and the data harder to unearth. Calculating short-term effects separately from long-term benefits can help managers isolate which marketing activities truly build brand equity. With those calculations in hand, marketers can go to the CFO with the data to inform nuanced decisions about where to put dollars to boost short-term returns or build long-term equity.
Consider one food brand, for example. Marketing managers decided to connect with customers using Facebook advertising bolstered by contests, relevant sponsored blogs, photo-sharing incentives, and shopping-list applications. The approach delivered sales results similar to traditional marketing, including TV advertising and print promotions, at a fraction of the cost. Brand managers, therefore, considered massive cuts to their TV- and print-advertising budgets in favor of spending more on social-media channels. However, when they included long-term effects in their calculations, they realized that the contribution of TV advertising significantly out-paced online displays and social media at delivering the emotional connection needed to build brand equity.
Look at savings as well as spending
The concept of lean has driven tremendous productivity globally, largely by cutting waste and improving efficiency. While the concept’s origins are in manufacturing, it has long been applied in nonmanufacturing settings, including the finance function.3 3.Richard Dobbs, Herbert Pohl, and Florian Wolff, “Toward a leaner finance department,” McKinsey on Finance, Number 19, Spring 2006. Most marketing functions would also do well to embrace lean concepts—certainly they would find it worth taking a close look at procurement. Any savings could be invested elsewhere, and the effort would demonstrate responsible stewardship of company resources.
A data-driven approach to procurement isn’t a new concept, though marketers have been slow to embrace it. Something as simple as benchmarking marketing’s spending on external agencies could lead to astonishing cost savings and, once again, the CMO can go to the CFO with solid evidence on budgeting. At one consumer-packaged-goods company, for example, a series of strong brands had evolved in separate silos, each with its own marketing budget. On closer examination, marketing managers discovered the company was spending three times the industry benchmark on coupons, 50 percent more than the industry average on research, and overtesting TV commercials without improving them. It was also using more than four dozen market-research companies to conduct similar tasks. As a result of this insight, the company overhauled its spending on promotions, market research, and advertising, redirecting nearly 20 percent of its marketing budget to more growth-oriented tactics.
Seek opportunities to collaborate
As obvious as it may seem, one way to improve the CMO–CFO relationship is for both parties to recognize that they’re on the same team. CMOs should invite finance to participate in marketing’s planning process to build bridges but also to benefit from financial expertise. Spending time in the same room is a good start. Taking the time to speak with the CFO about the shape of the company and any shifting priorities will allow CMOs to be more attuned to the business and to move more quickly to make adjustments as necessary.
The experience at one global insurance company is illustrative. The company’s CMO found himself under pressure from the board to demonstrate the value of marketing activities—while at the same time, the company’s competitors were massively outspending it, solidifying their “top of mind” position with consumers. He recognized that he needed not only to justify the current marketing budget but also to ensure it was more effective to meet the challenge from competitors.
To build support for his effort, the CMO reached out to other parts of the business, including finance, explained that he wanted to adopt a more investment-oriented approach to marketing, and invited them to support the effort. They agreed on three goals for both the marketing and finance departments: to better clarify the role of marketing to the business, to better inform the analytics with their combined input on the assumptions, and to better understand the results coming out of the analysis. The CFO appointed a representative from finance to join the effort— and the CMO agreed, up front, to discontinue any activities that proved uneconomic.
In the end, the CMO was able to demonstrate quantitatively the impact of marketing on business goals and save his budget. Moreover, in the process of doing so, he developed a tool to show where his next marketing dollar should go and what he could expect in return. This allowed the CMO to follow an investment-oriented approach to marketing decisions, pursuing campaigns and other activities, and it provided the finance department with confidence that marketing was investing wisely.
An analytical approach to marketing may not mean the end of difficult budgeting conversations between the CMO and CFO. But the emergence of marketing-data analytics provides them a new common ground on which to compare notes and achieve a better understanding of marketing’s role in driving real business value.
Jonathan Gordon and Jean-Hugues Monier are principals in McKinsey’s New York office, and Phil Ogren is an associate principal in the Boston office.
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More Evidence Mediterranean Diet May Reduce Stroke Risk
Eating a plant-based diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and nuts and low in animal fats, dairy, and sweets can reduce the risk for stroke by up to 18% compared with a less healthy dietary pattern, a new study suggests.
Results showed that women who were more adherent to the Mediterranean dietary pattern were significantly less likely to have an ischemic stroke than the least adherent.
The findings are particularly important as new evidence shows that few Americans eat a healthy diet, said study author Ayesha Sherzai, MD, fellow, vascular neurology and neuro-epidemiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
"We need better studies, but given the fact that less than 1% of the US adult population has an ideal diet, our findings emphasize the importance of addressing diet as an important modifiable risk factor."
She presented the study at the recent International Stroke Conference (ISC) 2015.
Dr Ayesha Sherzai
Proven in Primary and Secondary Prevention
Previous studies have shown the Mediterranean diet has benefit in secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, and most recently the PREDIMED study showed benefit in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease.
The main PREDIMED results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2013, enrolled 7447 individuals at high cardiovascular risk and found after a mean follow-up of 4.8 years that those randomly assigned to the Mediterranean diets had a 30% reduction in the primary endpoint of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, or cardiovascular death.
The diet advocates intake of the key foods, including vegetables, fruit, nuts, fish, legumes, extra-virgin olive oil, and red wine in moderation; an increase in the intake of white meat; and a decrease in the intake of red and processed meat, soda drinks, whole dairy products, commercial bakery goods, and sweets and pastries.
Recent primary stroke prevention guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA)/American Stroke Association recommend following a Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts; reducing sodium; increasing potassium intake; or following a DASH-style diet that emphasizes fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, and reduced saturated fat.
The current study reported here used data from the California Teachers Study, which included 104,268 female teachers, mostly non-Hispanic whites (87%) with a mean age of 52 years, who completed a widely used and well-validated food-frequency questionnaire in 1995.
Respondents were asked about their food habits over the previous year. Researchers allotted them points for eating specific foods (eg, fruits, vegetables, legumes, monounsaturated fats) and deducted points for eating other food items (eg, meat, dairy, refined foods, sweets).
From this information, researchers developed dietary scores and divided participants into five groups according to how adherent they were to the ideal Mediterranean diet.
During follow-up (1996 to 2011), 3165 strokes (2270 ischemic and 895 hemorrhagic) occurred in this population.
Researchers adjusted for stroke risks between groups: socioeconomic factors; physical activity level; menopause; oral contraceptive use; and diseases such as diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and high blood pressure.
Compared with those in the lowest quintile, those in the fourth and highest quintiles were at lower risk for overall stroke (P = .009).
For ischemic stroke, those in the third (hazard ratio [HR] 0.84; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.72 - 0.97), fourth (HR, 0.85; 95% CI, 0.73 - 0.98), and highest (HR, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.70 - 0.95) quintiles were all at reduced risk (P = .02).
"Even after we threw in all these factors that could affect the relationship between diet and stroke, we saw a significant result, meaning that the ischemic stroke risk was lower in women even if they had all these other factors," she said.
The study did not detect a significant association between the Mediterranean diet and hemorrhagic stroke. This might have been because of the low number of such strokes, she speculated. "Or maybe there's a special relationship between the dietary factors affecting the risk factors for ischemic stroke only, such as diabetes and body mass index," said Dr Sherzai.
The new findings come on the heels of a statistical update that the AHA released this year. New evidence in that report suggests that less than 1 in 100 older US residents has an ideal diet, which is "alarming," said Dr Sherzai.
To arrive at this figure, said Dr Sherzai, experts looked at seven metrics of cardiovascular health, diet being one of them. They found that 0.4% of the population has an "ideal" diet. Ideal, she said, means that on a regular basis they incorporate four of five components of a healthy diet.
This compares to 73% of the population that has reached an "ideal" category in terms of not smoking, she said.
"So there is a stark difference and, as a matter of fact, diet is the least addressed cardiovascular health metric," said Dr Sherzai. "It's about time we started to have the conversation about diet as it's an easily modifiable risk factor that could make a big difference."
Currently, when patients come in with vascular risk factors, such as uncontrolled high blood pressure or high cholesterol, the usual focus is on medication to normalize these levels. "We forget to talk about diet," said Dr Sherzai. "It's our responsibility as health care professionals and researchers to make culturally appropriate recommendations when it comes to diet."
It's also important, she said, to do more research to find ways to make dietary recommendations that are "feasible and reasonable" and that patients can take home and follow. These can be as basic as what to put in the shopping cart.
A limitation of the study was that it didn't examine the effects of individual components of the Mediterranean diet and was restricted to one state (California) and to women. "So there is the issue of generalizability," said Dr Sherzai.
Usual Caveats
Asked for comment on the findings, Larry B. Goldstein, MD, professor of medicine, Division of Neurology, and director of the Duke Stroke Center at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, pointed out that it's well known that people who follow a healthy lifestyle — who don't drink alcohol to excess or smoke, exercise regularly, keep a lean body mass, and follow a healthy diet — have an approximately 80% lower risk for a first stroke than those who don't.
Dr Larry B. Goldstein
"The question then is what's a healthy diet?" he told Medscape Medical News. "One healthy diet model has been the DASH type diet, a diet that's low in sodium, high in potassium, high in fruits and vegetables."
The Mediterranean diet is not dissimilar from the DASH diet, but the randomized PREDIMED study has shown it to be associated with a lower risk for cardiovascular disease and stroke, he said, "so based on that, there were two potential diets that could be recommended."
The current study was an observational study showing the higher the adherence to a Mediterranean diet, independent of other factors, the lower the risk for stroke, he said. "So it does reinforce and support the other data and the other recommendations — that's reassuring. But it does have all the caveats of being an observational, non-randomized study with all the issues that that kind of analysis has including that this was done by dietary report." Still, with that and other caveats, he added, "it's helpful that the overall results support the other studies."
Another recent paper, published online in January in Stroke found a similar relationship between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and reduced ischemic stroke in the well-known REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort.
High adherence to the diet was associated with a lower risk for incident ischemic stroke independent of potential confounders but was not associated with the risk for incident hemorrhagic stroke.
Dr Sherzai and Dr Goldstein have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
International Stroke Conference (ISC) 2015. Abstract LB5. Presented February 12, 2015.
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REPORT: Xavier QB Tim Boyle commits to BC
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Xavier junior quarterback Tim Boyle has committed to Boston College, according to Wednesday reports.
247Sports initially broke the story, citing Boyle, a Middlefield native, as B.C.'s fifth 2013 recruit.
"The academics are great," Boyle told 247Sports. "My whole family lives in Boston. The campus is amazing. The Coaches are great. The offense fits me real well. Overall it was the best for me."
The 6-foot-3, 205-pound Boyle was part of Xavier's two-quarterback system with graduate Pat D'Amato the last two years -- both concluding in Class LL state titles.
Boyle threw for 850 yards and 15 touchdowns in six games last year, missing some time with a shoulder injury.
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Avila On Tigers’ Anticipated Payroll Timeline
By Jeff Todd | January 24, 2019 at 11:11pm CDT
Tigers GM Al Avila suggested today that his eyes are still fixed well into the future, as Detroit’s WXYZ.com covers. That was largely safe to assume anyway, of course, but his discussion of the team’s financial planning is still important to note.
Avila did not just focus on the club’s expected arrival of new talent at the MLB level. As he put it, instead: “After 2020, our payroll will be in a lot better place for us to be aggressive going into 2021.” That focus on MLB spending is interesting for a few reasons.
For one thing, the difference between the 2020 and 2021 balance sheets isn’t hard to suss out. Both include $30MM for Miguel Cabrera; only the former comes with $25MM for Jordan Zimmermann and the final $6MM owed to Prince Fielder. Of course, those are the club’s only future commitments, so it still seems a bit curious to suggest that the long-term payroll trajectory is the driving force here.
Relatedly, it seems the organization has already largely decided that next winter won’t be an opportune time to push some cash onto the table. The Tigers have spent a decent bit of coin on one-year free agent deals since launching their rebuild, but mostly have targeted veteran gap-fillers who might turn into summer trade chips. It has long seemed interesting to wonder whether the club might consider putting its once-lofty payroll to use by chasing down some reasonably spendy players on the open market, even if it means taking a bit of risk. But it appears that will not be the case this winter or next.
So, when will the Tigers open things up? Avila didn’t make any promises, saying “we will have some money by 2021 to start going out there” but suggesting that hasn’t been pre-determined to be a breaking point. “Whether it be 2021 or 2022, at that point, we will be in a place, from a payroll perspective where I want to be at,” he said. Needless to say, it’s plenty understandable that the club has not yet decided how it’ll act at that point. And it’s also fair to avoid the setting of overly specific expectations. Still, the fuzzy future picture is no doubt less than inspiring for fans who may be looking ahead to two or three more clear rebuilding seasons.
While the Tigers have managed to draw down their spending over the past two years from its $200MM-ish heights in 2016-17, the club has never had a clear path to a quick rebuild. There was over $125MM on the books to open the 2018 season and there’ll be over $112MM to pay this year, due in no small part to ongoing obligations that are vestiges of the team’s last effort to contend. It has also taken a while to get the farm system producing again, too, as the club doesn’t seem to have come away from its post-contention veteran swaps with many significant assets and has only just begun reaping the rewards of top draft position. There are certainly some bright spots in the organization, especially with an intriguing mix of pitching talent building in the minors, but it seems the Detroit organization has no intentions of rushing the process.
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xabial
Mark my words; Zimmermann will get traded. Full NTC in 2016-18 is downgraded to partial 10 team NTC in 2019-2020
With regards to article -I’ll believe they’ll spend, when see it. The rebuild was overdue and Miggy’s contract complicates things… certainly— but…It hasn’t been the same since the late great Mr. Ilitch’s passing. Talk to me in 2020-2021.
mkeyankee
Think you are correct. With Boyd and Fuller for 4 more years and 5 top 100 rhp pitching prospects, including Mize, believe this is the last year of a Tiger rebuild.
TheRoadDogg
If you think that in 2020, this team has enough to compete, well you might just be wrong.
Hard to walk with four balls
Because you predicted their 2006 WS run?
No….no you didn’t.
chitown311
Melchez
30 mil doesn’t mean squat to these teams. One bad contract doesn’t handcuff any team. Besides, cabrera fills the 1b/DH role.
cainer18
They’ll be poised to offer Trout some insane money
ScottRC
Or Mookie Betts
miggy4prez
Trout doesn’t wanna play in 313
bradthebluefish
Still can’t believe they extended Cabrera when they had no reason to. He’ll be making $30MM/yr for the next 5 years. Ridiculous. Especially after having negative WAR the other year,
68tigers84
Cabrera had some big 600 plus slugging years. He earned that contract, and if he’s healthy will still pay dividends in the coming years.
ifonlydetroitcoulddraft
Giving him that contract with 2 years left on the previous contract was a terrible decision. Had they let VMart walk after 2014 and taken the compensation pick and then traded Cabrera for a boatload of prospects then too, the Tigers would likely still be competing in a weak al central
mcmillankmm
No, he’s a complete loss now…he is going to be hurt the rest of his career and already has proven to be a negative influence in the clubhouse…
Giving Cabrera that contract, when the Tigers and the rest of baseball were witnessing what was happening with long-term, mega deals for older players, was a horrible decision, regardless of his production leading up to it. I can’t remember one person saying the Tigers made a good deal…most (if not all) were stunned at the foolishness of the deal.
Also, it’s likely that Cabrera’s contract has led directly to what MLB has been witnessing over the last few years, with teams reluctant to give out big contracts. It might have been a wake-up call, or the proverbial straw. MLB executives were outraged at the amount of money Illitch guaranteed an older player, and it probably caused all of them to say…”Wait a minute. What the heck are we doing?”
Cabrera and the Tigers are not completely responsible, but it’s likely what was the final piece in forever changing the economics to older players, especially when it comes to free agency.
@ Tom;
Disagree.
can’t predict the future…atm it was worth the contract. his potential future years of legacy the tigers saw dollars as the angels did with pujols
Bunselpower
The Angels stadium was not even filled to watch one of the greatest hitters of all time get his 600th and 3000th. Legacy means nothing to FA’s.
Now, put Albert back in STL…
2dmo4
He’s been playing hurt the past couple seasons. We’ll see how this year goes
No reason to? Hahahaha
Well, I hope they don’t start losing fan base through these lean years. Might be hard to get the fans back again, if ever.
Disco Dave
I still watched Bobby Higginson, Damion Easley and the like….this rebuild is fun!
Nothing more fun than watching hitters struggle to stay over the .200 batting line.
DarkSide830
they can solve that problem by cutting Jacoby Jones’s playing time.
Nonsense; 2003 they lose 119 games then by 2006 they hit the world series and start an attendance run of that averaged over two and a half million fans for over a decade.
There is nothing to support your opinion that fans won’t come back.
The fans didn’t come back on their own. MR I made an expensive effort to bring them back. Pudge’s signing(04)opened the door to FA that previously avoided Detroit. Magglio followed in 2005. Mr I brought the fans back.
stymeedone
No, winning brought the fans back. If they had continued losing, the $ would have been wasted.
Oh, brother. The year they win 90 games again, everyone will be back on the bandwagon.
canocorn
Speaking of ‘band’ wagons, sure glad I didn’t waste money to see Neil Young on his Trans tour. That doesn’t diminish my respect and appreciation for the great material he’s done prior and since.
Best definition of bandwagonning in sports is folk who know next-to-nothing about a given sport or team and only show up when it seems fashionable to do so.
luclusciano
are there any other MLB teams close? I feel like a fan will stick it out for the love of the game.
Bye!!
trendysayings
As much as I like the transparency in setting reasonable expectations (as opposed to GMs who say they’ll spend money and never do), being so candid about not winning now gives me little reason to go to Tigers games this year.
Nothing was said about not winning. They were talking payroll. If you think they go hand in hand, Tampa Bay and Oakland say Hi. No one was expecting them to contend in 2006. Surprises happen and the division is weak.
HubcapDiamondStarHalo
Cool! I’m willing to betcha ten thousand dollars right now that the Tigers do not make the playoffs this season! You in?
what odds are you giving?
Free Clay Zavada
Hi, two teams with a combined one playoff berth and zero playoff wins in 2018.
90 wins is entertaining, and worth watching.,regardless of playoffs.
wether it was said or not, you, I, and all of us know the tigers wounldnt be trying this year.
They’re trying, just not in the way you want.
Have fun not watching! Won’t miss u
RicoD
It’s a necessarily evil unfortunately, they simple had too many hefty contracts on the books. No easy feat, but once their top pitching prospects mature they can become competitive once again. Until then…
someoldguy
This is the way the baseball ends
Not with a bang
But with a $
The top 2 position players and the # 2 starting pitcher and the # 1 reliever are still on the board. Most teams could be contenders if they signed all 4.. Outrageous money you say:
yes: In 2004, Major League Baseball team had an estimated value of 295 million U.S. dollars on average according to Forbes. In its 2018 edition of MLB team valuations, Forbes estimates the average franchise value at 1.65 billion U.S. dollars. I make that to be a 560% increase in team values since 2004: since all those big long term contracts that are supposedly killing the game have been in play since then, one would expect to see the MLB faltering in value: clearly it is not. Increasing in value 5.6 times 2004 worth while those contacts were let. Now players contracts are falling in the face of skyrocketing values: I smell a skunk. Fans have been mislead: The player contracts aren’t hurting baseball at all. The numbers prove this. while the fans decry the players getting a so much when the reality is their piece of what they have produced actually falls while the MLB BOOMS in incomes and values.
Making money or not, it is clearly in the player’s best interest to want a 10 year deal. With that being said, the guys getting shorter deals are not receiving AAV many thought they would be getting. If the AAV was high but for shorter deals, I’d say it’s just the team’s choice to not hand out long term deals. But seeing that many good players are getting neither shows things will come to a boiling point.
Prospectnvstr
How many millions is enough to get the last 3 outs of a game with a 1-3 run lead?
Kimbrel is trying to find out as we speak
Ejemp2006
However, baseball operations cost skyrockets too? Baseball is a big diversified business operation now more, tech jobs, medical jobs, development jobs, accounting jobs. Player, owner, front office, fans? Not just anymore. Big staff, all services for find develop maintain great game product.
It is clear looking at the publicly available data: the costs are not hurting the teams at all. You don’t increase 560% in value if your costs are skyrocketing compared to your incomes. The cost of Administrative isn’t driving down values neither are long term big money contracts
But valuations don’t always represent profits. Owners some lose money. But we all win if all sides don’t let greed ruin good baseball
Deadspin: “If there is a thread running through all of these financial statements, it is the incredible ability of baseball teams — whether they’re winners or losers, big market or small, “rich” or “poor” — to make their owners a fat pile of money.”
Over 20 yeas ago; Forbes Magazine 2002: “No wonder Paul Beeston, a former executive of the Toronto Blue Jays and former president of MLB, once boasted, “I can turn a $4 million profit into a $2 million loss and get every national accounting firm to agree with me.” ”
They aren’t telling the public the truth: their market value is. You can’t build a 560% increase in market value without a massive profit.
Me thinks the value of the franchise is over inflated, just as the predicted contracts are. The Marlins sold for much less than predicted, due to a lack of bidders. Sound familiar? Value is speculation.
This is a fair point, yet if you suggested the Marlins would sell for as much as they did back in 2000, you’d have been laughed at. It’s hard to argue that baseball as a whole, as well as it’s franchises, isn’t doing extremely well financially
Why shouldn’t you be able to? It’s the owner’s money on the line. Not only that, the owner’s money is tied to a sport, which, despite seeming like a good investment in the window we all see, is a strike, a calamity, or a war away from completely going down the toilet.
Dkaner
Tigers fan base and Marlins fan base are night and day. Trust me, when they sell in the 2019 off season, it will have plenty of bidders and for much more than that pitiful Marlins team. Not even close to a good a comparison.
TrimReaper
Fans are mislead? You read the comments from many on this site? They think the players should be paid more, and I’d say it’s above 50% of the commenters here. Funny, they probably still want a luxury tax or soft cap despite wishing players took more money which is counterproductive.
Baseball will run into trouble when the current 50-something year olds pass. Much like Boxing, propped up by the older generation.
If you’re using Deadspin as a source it’s probably false. Sorry to say.
@ TrimReaper;
Yes, valuations are totally speculative.
They’re based on expectations of ever expanding future growth and profitability. Look at how the stock market will value hot sectors. Check out the speculative run-up in both tech stocks and real estate in the late 1990’s-early 2000’s. Investors were leveraging to get as much exposure as possible. The economy slowed a bit, which was not unusual as economic cycles are normal. But due to leverage – i.e. carrying heavy debt – some liquidation had to take place to meet margin and interest calls, which ultimately snowballed and led to the 2008 economic collapse.
Long-term escalating player contracts as their skills and production are diminishing is MLB’s leverage. The Tigers are the quintessential example of what happens when an MLB team goes that route.
Via the marketplace, owners are right to reel those out of control obligations in. Not only do they potentially face major losses each year, but if forced to sell the franchise, they will get what stockholders and real estate owners got for their properties in 2008-12……nowhere near what they had been valued at.
In short, MLB is either close to, or in, a speculative bubble.
bobtillman
Sam: For the longest time I agreed with you…now I’m not that sure the bubble is going to burst. The long term broadcast/streaming deals, MGM gambling involvement, are newly discovered oil wells. And the ownership profile has definitely changed; John Henry (among others) have shown that owning a MLB team is not just a great tax-avoidance vehicle, but can actually serve as a profit center for other ventures. Even the perpetually poor-mouth crying Rays just bought a soccer team.
Expansion, realignment, more and more “playoff” games are all on the horizon. Let’s not forget MLB has one HUGE advantage; fresh programing in the summer. The MLB network has, per Variety, been the greatest cable success story in history; gobs and gobs of free programing, almost incidental operating expenses.
There are storm clouds out there, no one denies it; counties and states have lost their desire to fund stadiums, e.g. But with ever increasing revenues, and ever shrinking expenses (suppression of salaries, technology replacing many operational costs) , the future is still pretty rosy. Maybe not as rosy as it has been; the Golden Age is probably over. And economically you’re probably smarter to invest in a chain of Mc-Cannibis Drive-Thru-s than an MLB team. But you don’t get the tax goodies selling “Weed Happy Meals”.
And I’m not sure this paradigm of an ever-ageing fan base is accurate. We don’t have the technology to count streaming data; who knows how many teens streamed the World Series…we don’t know. Yet.
Like I said, the bubble may have to be reshaped…..but these are pretty smart folks.
bob;
I wrote you a long comment that has been held from view. When it happens that quickly, it means that questionable words were used. I saw some a scanning program would pick up, but in context they were not offensive.
Extremely short response…….
Lots of parallels between horse racing of 30-35 years ago, and MLB today. Most people under 40 care little about MLB. There are plenty of sites on the Internet to gamble…..including on sporting events. Streaming options abound, and MLB.TV already picks up the games.
The costs – and a lot of hidden costs – of getting into those markets are being ignored. In fact, the ROI (Return On Investment) forecast is very probably grossly over-estimated.
There is too much competition in those areas, and the trend of people following MLB is slowly dropping as happened in horse racing.
I think we’re in agreement that the landscape is changing. I perhaps have more confidence in the John Henry-s of the world to react to those changes than you do. Many saw the death of McDonald’s when people started getting health conscious about their eating habits. What happened? McDonald’s is doing better today than it ever has.
Not that there weren’t bumps along the way; remember Mc-Pizza? But it’s been their Front Office’s (if you will) ability to react that’s kept them where they are.
I share your notion that the 2020-s won’t be as profitable as the past 10 years have been; it’s a record that’s hard to match, where even “bad” franchises tripled in value. But there’s still some gold in dem dere hills.
I wish I had read this two weeks ago, but there is absolutely NO parallel between Horse Racing and MLB, NONE. The lottery killed much of the racing, especially harness, which wasn’t seen as authentic by fans of the flats anyway and had a much smaller profit margin for owners and trainers. The thoroughbreds are hanging on in the larger market areas but regardless, people were wringing their hands over demographics three decades ago regarding MLB, and even if it was a concern, the country is demographically older and will be for two more generations assuming the current birth rate and rate of immigration from S and C America, which by the way, is a great source of MLB fan base.
dragonhawk1066
While I am the last guy to agree with let the rich get richer, we have to look at this as a business. The owners are in it to make money basically, and for the most part nothing else. Pretty much most owners outside of Mr. Illitch (thank you for the many years of trying to win) would much rather make money and lose than lose money and win the W.S., it’s that simple. We can only hope that the son starts to care about winning soon.
Lol you’re funny
I wish the owners would volunteer the team to eat league bad contracts to try to contend while rebuilding.
Hey, Indians, you like you a Castellanos and Green? We’ll take a Kipnis and Triston McKenzie.
Yankees, we’ll love your Elsbury and a top ten talent for Fulmer
To me this is the most indefensible point against owners.
There’s no reason the White Sox should need to cut their payroll in half for a rebuild. Yes, it makes no sense to make short term moves, but any rebuilding team should be willing to pay the price to acquire prospects.
dugdog83
I like everything you said but Elsbury
hockeyjohn
Ejemp2006, Your trade made no sense in another thread. Why would it make sense here. Cleveland is not trading their top prospect McKenzie for a rental. Quit trying while you are behind.
Ask for the moon and stars, smile when you come back with only the moon! My point, send our best and take on bad contracts plus great prospects.
Ask for the moon and stars and Castellanos will still be a Tiger. If that is what the Tigers are asking for, it is no wonder that he is drawing little interest. You also have to remember his defense is also a strike against getting a strong package from another team.
I think the 2017 Tigers revenue was 277 million, Yankees 600 plus. Is this money net income? Or is this before players salary & expenses are taken out?
CursedRangers
Before salary & expenses are taken out. For another data point, Rangers revenue in 2017 was 311 million.
Now I can see why smaller market teams are cutting back on spending. And the importance of having a steady stream of young talent coming up.
Tigernut2000
So $30 million comes off of the books in 2021. That will buy us 6-$5 million veterans.
Actually, it will allow the Tigers to pay young, improving core players increased salaries, and bring in some older players to augment them.
forwhomjoshbelltolls
What % of revenues should the players get? What is “their fair share”?
10%? 50%? 99%?
Keep in mind, if you say they deserve 100% of the revenues, you are saying that teams shouldn’t pay taxes and that none of their other employees should be paid.
So, what is a fair % for the players?
Only what the owners are willing to pay them is “what is fair”
Perhaps true from the owners’ point of view.
One man’s fair is another man’s foul.
What’s happening now is this…..
Owners are using business people, computers, analytical people, and highly-paid advisers to maximize returns per dollars spent. Primarily they are trying to minimize risk, as they don’t want to find their team paralyzed as the Tigers are, while hearing comments such as “it’s their own fault for giving out those contracts”.
Players/agents are basing their salaries on continued increase growth and tie that to revenues. Therefore they are ignoring percentage costs which are growing far faster then revenues. By demanding a set percentage of revenues they guarantee 2 things:
1. Owners will not be “at fault” for giving out bad contracts – they’ll be forced to.
2. Small and mid market teams (approximately 20 of the 30) will never be serious contenders for a championship as it will mandate they spend the same percentage of their revenues as the large market teams do on payroll. So they cannot pour additional monies into building a strong farm system to harvest superior players; and they will never be able to rollout a young growing team that get increased salaries, plus pay some veterans to come in to compliment that core. Rather, their rosters will primarily be made up of rejects and secondary players from the large market teams.
finally a valid point. what the players desevre is relative and at the choice of the organization. while in many cases it’s fair to say workers are underpaid, i cant say i feel bad for a guy for only getting a few million dollars as opposed to several. while i think owners are not spending as much as they should, i think the fear over dangerous contracts is perfectly valid, and the issue of these ruinous contracts should be revisited by the league.
CostellosRat
Why did ownership allow Zimmermann to be hired knowing they would likely not be in contention in the final years of his contract? It’s not like the guy was an all world pitcher with Washington. I get the Cabrera deal the guy is a legend and future hall of famer but the Zimmermann deal never made sense to me.
Zimmerman has been in the injury zone the last three seasons. He may bounce back in (19, 20), and be a vital arm in the rotation. Miguel can put the team on his back & carry them to a Central title. Too early to judge either of their contracts
Division title?! First you’re saying fans are quitting now you’re just delusional.
I’m talking AL Central here, not AL East.
vtadave
Four straight seasons of 32+ starts and 3+ WAR
Good thing u don’t sign the checks
Standings on 6-12-18, the day Cabrera was injured. Cle-Min(5), Det(5.5), Chw(12), Kcr(14).
5.5 games back two months into the season is not good…
Baltimore was 30 games out by that point lol.
In 2012 Oakland trailed the Rangers by 5 games on Sept 24th. The A’s came back to win the West.
That’s why it ain’t over til it’s deja vu all over again.
Not trying to defend the guy, but the timetable is fairly reasonable providing normal progression of pitching prospects. Unless one or more become the next JV(we can only hope) they won’t need to spend until 2021. Now that doesn’t mean we as fans should be happy with not much better than a AAA ball club until then, but we should hopefully start seeing some decent prospects developing into decent major leaguers in that time also. Depending on the talent available before then, maybe a quality FA signing before 2021 depending who is eligible and what they might presumably need. We shall see.
The whole “rebuild” is a scam, the Tigers extremely loyal fan base is being given two middle fingers by the cheapskate Illitch in charge, who has resorted to a slum lord approach to running the business.
To think the Tigers are already planning on mailing it in not just this season but next year as well is a slap in the face to so many people. And over what… $30 million… big freaking deal. The franchise continues to increase in value year after year, yet Illitch Jr. prioritizes turning a profit off a terrible team… as if their estimated $6.1 billion fortune needs more growth.
I really hope the Illitch’s do the city a favor and sell the team to someone more motivated and put an end to this embarrassing situation. The 2019 team has the potential to be one of the absolute worst teams the Tigers have ever fielded in the history of the club.
The Tigers have many needs and no team can afford FA at every position. Currently, none of the prospects who have made it up are a sure thing. If JaCoby Jones hits, CF is covered. If not, it still needs to be filled. This is also true of Mahtook, Candelario, Goodrum, Reyes, and Stewart. Plus no minor league prospect is a sure thing. Even Fullmer is a question mark. Until some of the young players make or break, it makes no sense to sign any player to a long term contract. They need to have some keepers before filling holes.
The Tigers are a train wreck. They literally have zero chance even if they spent big in free agency. The best thing for the team is massive tanking. It sucks, but is what it is. I went through it as a Cub fan and it’s well
worth it, if some correctly. That being said I’ve got no idea if Avila is a guy who can pull the rebuild off correctly.
GarryHarris
The Tigers have to build a core internally. It doesn’t make sense to buy pieces until that core is in place. The Tigers hope that the core is ready by the time the old heavy contracts are up with the lone exception of Miguel Cabrera. It is more likely that they won’t be ready until Cabrera’s contract is up in 2024.
The Detroit Tigers are FOR SALE.
Exciting times in Detroit. Lol.
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Scott Oberg
Rockies Extend Scott Oberg
By Connor Byrne | December 11, 2019 at 4:17pm CDT
The Rockies have reached a contract extension with reliever Scott Oberg, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports. It’s a three-year, $13MM deal with an $8MM club option for 2023. However, the pact contains escalators that could push the value to $15MM over three years and $26MM for four, per Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. Oberg is a client of agent Brian Charles of Big League Management Company, LLC.
Prior to this extension, Oberg had been projected to earn $2MM via arbitration in 2020. That will still be the case, according to the New York Post’s Joel Sherman, who adds that Oberg will be guaranteed $4MM in 2021 and and $7MM in ’22. This extension will overlap with his final two arbitration-eligible campaigns and, if the option is exercised in a few seasons, buy out two free-agent years.
The fact that Oberg has become a core piece for the Rockies is fairly remarkable, as the team didn’t invest much in him (a 15th-round pick) when it drafted him in 2012. The right-handed Oberg became a regular out of the Colorado bullpen in 2015, but he didn’t truly blossom until 2018.
Oberg has quietly been one of the game’s most effective relievers since his breakout season, having relied on a fastball-slider combo to log a 2.35 ERA/3.20 FIP with 9.03 K/9, 2.75 BB/9 and a strong 52.7 percent groundball rate across 114 2/3 innings. Looking at Oberg’s home/road splits, it’s clear pitching at the hitter-friendly Coors Field hasn’t really fazed the 29-year-old in recent seasons.
Oberg did see his overall production plummet as 2019 progressed, but he was dealing with significant health worries then that affected his numbers. He didn’t take the mound past Aug. 16 on account of blood clots in his right elbow, which forced him to undergo surgery to address the issue. That was the second time Oberg has battled blood clots during his career, but there doesn’t seem to be any concern on the part of him or the Rockies that it’ll be an ongoing problem.
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West Notes: Panda, D-backs, Astros, Rockies
By Connor Byrne | August 30, 2019 at 12:15am CDT
The latest on several notable players from the majors’ West divisions…
Although Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval is set for Tommy John surgery, his season doesn’t look over quite yet. Manager Bruce Bochy told Kerry Crowley of the Bay Area News Group and other reporters Thursday that Sandoval could at least make some pinch-hit appearances before he goes under the knife. In the meantime, Sandoval will test out his swing to see if he’ll be able to contribute more this season. The longtime Giant, 33, is a strong bet to hit free agency in the offseason, meaning his run in San Francisco could be on the verge of concluding.
Diamondbacks right-hander Luke Weaver continues progressing toward a 2019 return, Richard Morin of the Arizona Republic relays. Weaver, out since late May with a UCL strain and a flexor sprain in his pitching arm, will throw a 25-pitch bullpen session on Friday, and the club will determine where to go from there. While Weaver was eminently effective out of the Diamondbacks’ rotation earlier this season, the lack of time left in the campaign will force him to pitch from their bullpen if he does return. Meantime, the news is less encouraging for fellow righty Taijuan Walker, whose 2018 Tommy John surgery and ’19 shoulder problems have stopped him from taking a major league mound this season. Walker is throwing, but it’s “unlikely” that he’ll come back this year, Morin writes.
In welcome news for the Astros’ bullpen, injured reliever Ryan Pressly is doing “quite well” in his recovery from knee surgery, according to manager A.J. Hinch (via Brian McTaggart of MLB.com). Pressly could resume light throwing over the weekend. His absence dating back to Aug. 21 has deprived the title-contending Astros of arguably their best reliever as the postseason approaches. The right-handed Pressly has logged a 2.50 ERA/2.83 FIP with tremendous strikeout and walk rates (11.62 K/9, 1.97 BB/9) over 50 1/3 innings this season. Teammate and fellow righty reliever Josh James could come off the IL this weekend, meanwhile, per McTaggart. The promising 26-year-old has fanned a prolific 14.03 batters per nine across 51 1/3 frames this season, though a bloated walk rate (5.03 per nine) has helped lead to a 4.73 ERA/4.11 FIP.
Rockies reliever Scott Oberg explained to Thomas Harding of MLB.com why he recently underwent surgery to address blood clots in his right arm, saying, “It just felt really heavy.” It’s the second instance of blood clots for Oberg, but fortunately, he’s not suffering from any kind of major medical condition. The soon-to-be 30-year-old expects to be ready to go for 2020, when he’ll try to build on a second straight impressive campaign. This season has been anything but impressive for Rockies lefty Kyle Freeland, who’s currently on the IL with a strained groin, but he’s working toward a return; however, there’s no timetable for a possible comeback, Harding relays. Freeland went from Cy Young candidate a year ago to someone who has faced a minor league demotion this season and pitched to a ghastly 6.98 ERA/6.12 FIP over 20 starts and 99 1/3 innings in the bigs.
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West Notes: Felix, Oberg, Dahl
By Dylan A. Chase | August 20, 2019 at 7:57am CDT
Erstwhile Mariners ace Felix Hernandez toed the rubber for the Tacoma Rainiers on Monday night and it shouldn’t be long before he’s donning a Seattle uni once again, according to a report from Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times. Hernandez, out since May 12th with a lat-strain, threw 69 pitches and was largely effective in Tacoma, utilizing an 88-90 mph fastball to limit the Salt Lake Bees to one run over three-plus innings pitched. Indications are that the living legend would slide into the M’s rotation come Saturday, which would end the weeks-long four-man rotation dance that manager Scott Servais has had to orchestrate since the club’s trade of Mike Leake at the MLB trade deadline. For what it’s worth, Hernandez is looking at this return as a moment to savor, saying: “It’s going to be my last year. I don’t know what’s going to happen next year so I need to go out there and show them that I still love the fans and still love Seattle.”
It has been a long time since Hernandez flashed the kind of dominance that he displayed during a halcyon 2009-2014 run, but his return should be a welcome reprieve for M’s faithful during a “step-back” 2019 season. Though they may not be able to count on him to pitch in vintage form, Hernandez’s return–along with expected promotions for prospects Justus Sheffield, Justin Dunn, and Jake Fraley–should help add some intrigue to Seattle’s September frames. Hernandez has a 5.75 ERA since 2018’s outset and is playing in the final year of a 7-year/$175MM accord.
More news from around the left coast…
The blood clot complications experienced by Rockies relief ace Scott Oberg last week were a perspective-granting moment for those in-and-around the game of baseball. Though the Colorado org was looking to the veteran to handle save situations in the wake of Wade Davis’ dissolution, Oberg’s emergency hospital admission and subsequent surgery were a late-season reminder of the relative triviality of the game played between the lines. To their credit, Colorado is doing what’s necessary to ensure the long-term health of the righthander, as Oberg will travel with the team to St. Louis to see a specialist regarding his medical issue, per a tweet from Nick Groke of The Athletic (link). Primarily, the team wants to determine the danger involved with this recurrence of a blood clot for Oberg, who dealt with a similar issue in 2016.
In less heavy news for the purple-and-black outfit, Rockies outfielder David Dahl was with the team in the visiting clubhouse of Chase Field on Monday, according to a report from Jake Rill of MLB.com. Dahl, who has been rehabbing at a team complex since he went on the injured list with a high right ankle sprain on Aug. 3, will also travel with the team to St. Louis, where he will continue a rehab regimen largely based around activities like underwater treadmill running and throwing. The 25-year-old lefty swinger made the All-Star team this year on the strength of a .302/.353/.524 batting line that is somewhat undercut by his park-adjusted wRC+ figure of 108. Dahl does expect to have a chance to return and improve upon that line before season’s end, although he likely won’t go on a rehab assignment due to the minor league season’s imminent closure.
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Rockies Claim Wes Parsons
By Steve Adams and Jeff Todd | August 19, 2019 at 2:04pm CDT
The Rockies announced that they’ve claimed right-handed reliever Wes Parsons off waivers from the Braves, who had designated him for assignment over the weekend. In order to make room on the 40-man roster, the Rox moved Scott Oberg from the 10-day IL to the 60-day IL, definitively ending his season. Oberg went on the IL over the weekend due to a blood clot.
With an immediate need for fresh arms and a longer-term interest in finding cost-efficient relief pitching, it’s no surprise that the Rox made a strike here. Parsons hasn’t quite reached his 27th birthday, has options remaining, and is still a long way from arbitration. It’s possible he’ll be given a chance to pitch his way into the team’s plans for 2020.
If he’s to take advantage of the opportunity, Parsons will need to improve upon his initial showing in Atlanta. He carried a 3.52 ERA through 15 1/3 MLB innings this year, but didn’t get there in style. With 13 walks to go with a dozen strikeouts, along with a lowly 6.9% swinging-strike rate, it was clear that Parsons wasn’t fooling MLB hitters.
That said, there’s still reason to hope for better. Parsons has a history of quality results in the upper minors; this year, at Triple-A, he worked to a 2.86 ERA with 8.6 K/9 and 3.3 BB/9 along with a 56.8% groundball rate. No doubt the Rox are particularly intrigued by the fact that Parsons has typically induced quite a few worm burners and limited the long ball as a minor-leaguer.
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Rockies’ Scott Oberg Likely Out For Season
By George Miller | August 18, 2019 at 12:42pm CDT
The Rockies announced today that they have placed closer Scott Oberg on the 10-day injured list with blood clots in his right arm. To take his spot on the active roster, right-hander DJ Johnson has been recalled from Triple-A.
The Athletic’s Nick Groke adds that Oberg has undergone a procedure to dissolve the clot, which will likely keep the 29-year-old out of action for the remainder of the season. In Oberg’s absence, Wade Davis will be reinstalled as the Rockies’ closer, a role that he relinquished only about two weeks ago. Oberg also saw his 2016 season end prematurely due to the same issue, which required two surgeries and roughly three months away from baseball activities. He was able to pitch a full season in 2017.
Oberg has quietly established himself as the Rockies’ finest reliever over the last two seasons, a span over which he has posted a cumulative 2.35 ERA in 114 2/3 innings pitched. He’s recorded five saves since supplanting Davis as the Rockies’ ninth-inning man. Following the season, he will be eligible for arbitration for the first time, which should earn him a solid payday for his efforts over the last two years.
Johnson, a 29-year-old righty, will get another crack at the big league level with Oberg sidelined. The former has appeared in 14 games for the Rockies this year, though the results have not been promising. He’s walked 11 batters—more than the 10 he has struck out—in 11 2/3 innings. His Triple-A track record is considerably more impressive, as he’s struck out 12.2 batters per nine innings this season in the Pacific Coast League, which could lend itself to some optimism for Johnson’s potential as a Major League reliever. Of course, he’s had limited exposure at the top level, so there’s time for him to figure it out, and he should have a fine opportunity to do so over the season’s final month and a half.
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Jeff Bridich: Rockies Playing “Really Bad Baseball”
By Connor Byrne | July 18, 2019 at 1:36am CDT
This has been an up-and-down season for the Rockies, who began 3-12, climbed all the way to 40-34 and have since nosedived to 46-50. The multiple rotten stretches the Rockies have stumbled through this year may prevent them from earning a third straight playoff berth, but for now, they’re a still-manageable 3 1/2 games out of wild-card position in the jam-packed National League. However, that doesn’t seem to be of much solace to general manager Jeff Bridich, who admitted to Thomas Harding of MLB.com that the Rockies are playing “really bad baseball.” Bridich added that the Rockies’ horrid performance over the past several weeks could complicate matters leading up to the July 31 trade deadline.
“It all needs addressing,” Bridich said of his roster, though he doesn’t see “any quick fixes” and suggested he’s not gearing up to purchase outside help right now. While Harding notes Bridich bought at the previous two deadlines, which helped the team get to the postseason in each case, the GM was frank in saying this year “feels different” compared to those seasons.
“Just watch us play,” Bridich said. “We get a good outing from our starter and we’ll find a way to lose that game through offense or the bullpen or defense. We’ll get a lot of offense one game and our bullpen will come blow it or defense will blow it, or combine. There’s a different way each night, it seems. When that’s your reality in all parts of your team, it’s a tough go to fix all that in one small time period of the year.”
Problems are indeed prevalent for the Rockies. Despite having to pitch half its season at Coors Field, Colorado’s staff was legitimately effective last year. Among their starters, Kyle Freeland finished fourth in NL Cy Young voting, German Marquez was a strikeout machine, and Tyler Anderson, Jon Gray and Antonio Senzatela offered fine complementary performances. This year, with the exception of Gray, everyone from that group has taken noticeable steps back. Meanwhile, the Rockies’ bullpen has felt the absence of Adam Ottavino, who signed with the Yankees in the offseason, and fellow veterans Wade Davis and Seunghwan Oh (whose season is now over because of an elbow injury) have been dreadful. The bullpen’s lone bright spot over a large sample of work has been Scott Oberg, who has posted a 1.35 ERA/3.06 FIP in 46 2/3 frames.
As Bridich suggested, the Rockies’ position player group has also fallen flat. Despite the presences of Nolan Arenado, Trevor Story, Charlie Blackmon and David Dahl, the unit’s the fifth worst in the league by fWAR (5.2). Colorado has scored the majors’ fourth-most runs (527), but according to park-adjusted metric wRC+ (85), only five offenses have been worse. In the field, the club has been run-of-the-mill at best in errors (15th), Defensive Runs Saved (20th) and Ultimate Zone Rating (22nd).
Thanks to the Rockies’ team-wide issues, they may be more inclined to sell or stand pat than buy in the next two weeks. The trouble is, if the team wants to ship players out, it doesn’t seem to have a lot of realistic trade chips. Oh, catcher Chris Iannetta and infielder Mark Reynolds are the Rockies’ only impending free agents, but there’s little to no trade value in any of those cases. While the Rockies would likely jump at the chance to get any of the big contracts of Davis, Ian Desmond, Jake McGee and Bryan Shaw off their books, that’s not happening. Daniel Murphy has been hot of late, though he’s a soon-to-be 35-year-old with almost $18MM in guaranteed money left on his contract through 2020.
On the other hand, Story – who has two years of arbitration eligibility left after this one – would bring back a haul in a trade. But it’s almost impossible to imagine the Rockies dealing the 26-year-old this summer, especially considering they’d like to extend him. Gray and Oberg, who also come with arbitration control through 2021, would be easier to give up than Story. However, it would take a “truly special” return for the team to trade either of those right-handers, according to Harding.
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Rockies Notes: Hoffman, Oberg, De La Rosa
By Steve Adams | May 23, 2019 at 8:50am CDT
Some notes out of Denver to kick off Thursday morning…
The Rockies are likely to promote right-hander Jeff Hoffman to start Friday’s game, Thomas Harding of MLB.com reports. It’s been a rough start to the season for the once-premium pitching prospect, as Hoffman will lug a 7.57 ERA with him from Triple-A to the Majors if he does indeed get the call. It’s been a boom or bust year for Hoffman so far, as he’s had two absolutely disastrous starts but also mixed in a series of impressive outings; Hoffman yielded 10 earned runs in four innings on April 16 and another eight earned runs in his most recent start, but he was quite good in the interim (1.96 ERA, 27-to-5 K/BB ratio in 18 1/3 innings of Triple-A ball, plus a respectable outing at the MLB level). This is a make or break year for Hoffman in many regards, as it’s his final option season. Tyler Anderson’s knee injury could create a long-term opening in the rotation for him, but Hoffman will obviously need to earn that spot moving forward rather than have it handed to him.
Colorado plans to use Scott Oberg as the primary closer while Wade Davis is sidelined by an oblique injury, manager Bud Black told reporters last night (Twitter link via Nick Groke of The Athletic). Oberg’s 1.77 ERA makes him a logical first candidate for ninth-inning gig, but the numbers beyond that point are far more questionable. He’s punched out just 13 hitters against 11 walks in 20 1/3 innings so far this season while benefiting immensely from a .196 average on balls in play and a sky-high 89.6 percent strand rate. Those red flags lead metrics like FIP (4.70), xFIP (4.91) and SIERA (5.31) to forecast some substantial regression for Oberg over the long haul if he can’t rebound to his 2018 form. Last season, Oberg averaged 8.7 K/9 against just 1.8 BB/9 with a 56 percent grounder rate, so there’s certainly hope for improved peripherals moving forward, but it should be noted that his average fastball has dipped from 95.3 mph last year to 94.0 mph in 2019.
Groke also tweeted yesterday that veteran lefty Jorge De La Rosa could pitch in a minor league game in the near future after being sidelined by an oblique issue early this season. Colorado inked the 38-year-old to a minor league contract last month on the heels of a solid 2018 campaign split between the D-backs and the Cubs. Left-handed relief has been a tough area for the Rockies all season, as Harrison Musgrave has struggled, Jake McGee has been injured and Mike Dunn has pitched to a 5.02 ERA (despite more encouraging K/BB numbers). De La Rosa would likely need at least a few weeks to build up before he’s a viable option, but a return could be a possibility at some point next month if he shows well in the minors.
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Rockies Notes: Chemistry, Leadoff, Bullpen Roles
By TC Zencka | February 16, 2019 at 11:26am CDT
Although team chemistry is difficult to gauge and impossible to measure, there’s little doubt to the positive impact made by lead-by-example types Nolan Arenado and Charlie Blackmon, per Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post. While Arenado and Blackmon make the culture what it is with their intensity and work ethic – as they should since they’re the two highest paid players on the team – they’re not necessarily vocal leaders. Someone will have to step into the void left by the departures of Carlos Gonzalez, Gerardo Parra and DJ LeMahieu, three players who handled a brunt of the interpersonal clubhouse responsibilities last season. Parra kept the mood light, LeMahieu fueled the competitive spirit, and CarGo took on the responsibility of access, making himself available to the press more often than not. The latter is an interesting and important responsibility, as some guys are better than others at shutting out the noise that comes with playing professionally. Mark Reynolds figures to be a top candidate to take on some of the emotional management of the Rockies’ clubhouse, but other veterans like Ian Desmond and Chris Iannetta will have the opportunity to play more of a leadership role as well. More from Saunders on the Rockies 2019 season…
In a separate piece for the Denver Post, Saunders notes that manager Bud Black likes the potency of Blackmon’s bat at the top of the lineup, and he plans to keep him there for 2019. With slugging percentages of .552, .601, and .502 the last three seasons, Blackmon fits the mold of a more traditional middle of the order bat, but Black likes the threat of the home run ball from the jump. LeMahieu handles roughly half of last season’s leadoff responsibilities (with Blackmon bumped to second), but with him in New York there will be a new face at the top of the Rockies lineup. Daniel Murphy figures to fit somewhere in the top of the order mix, but youngster Garrett Hampson is another natural choice to play himself into the conversation. With walk rates between 9.0% and 15.4% in his three minor league seasons, along with solid contact rates, Hampson has the potential to match LeMahieu’s contact ability while adding to it a more disciplined approach.
Whereas most of the league is turning to fluid bullpen roles and innovations like the Opener and the multi-inning stopper, Black and the Rockies maintain a more traditional bullpen philosophy, writes Saunders. Black prefers not only to have a standard closer, but also a regular eighth inning arm. Wade Davis figures to return to the closer role, but with Adam Ottavino gone, the eighth inning is up for grabs. A spring competition ought to iron out the exact bullpen roles, with Seunghwan Oh and Scott Oberg the odds-on favorites to land the setup gig, with veterans Bryan Shaw and Jake McGee peripheral contenders. Oberg made major strides last seasons, earning Black’s trust down the stretch last season as he cut his walk rate from a career 4.2 BB/9 to 1.8 BB/9 in 2018.
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Players Avoiding Arbitration: Thursday
By Steve Adams and Jeff Todd | January 10, 2019 at 8:51pm CDT
The deadline for teams and players to exchange arbitration figures is tomorrow afternoon at 1pm ET. With the vast majority of teams now adopting a “file-and-trial” approach to arbitration — that is, halting negotiations on one-year contracts once figures have been exchanged and simply going to a hearing at that point — there will be a deluge of arbitration agreements in the next 24 hours. It’s a minor deadline day in terms of newsworthiness — outside of the largest cases, at least — as few arbitration cases will have a significant impact on their team’s overall payroll picture. From a broader perspective, though, the exchange of arb figures is perhaps more notable. With most or all of their arbitration cases out of the way, teams can focus more heavily on the trade and free-agent markets.
As always, it’s interesting to refer back to MLBTR’s annual arbitration projections. Here are the day’s deals:
The Tigers will pay Shane Greene $4MM for the coming campaign, Murray tweets. Entering his second year of eligibility, the 30-year-old had projected at $4.8MM, owing largely to his strong tally of 32 saves. Despite appealing K/BB numbers, though, Greene finished the season with an unsightly 5.12 ERA.
Righty Nick Tropeano settled with the Angels at $1.075MM. (That’s also via Murray, on Twitter.) That falls well shy of his $1.6MM projection. The first-year arb-eligible hurler was not terribly effective in his 14 starts last year and has just over two hundred career frames in the big leagues, due in no small part to a long rehab owing to Tommy John surgery.
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Newly acquired outfielder Domingo Santana will earn $1.95MM in his first season with the Mariners, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports on Twitter. That’s just a touch below the $2.0MM that MLBTR & Matt Swartz had projected. The 26-year-old Santana swatted thirty long balls and had a productive overall 2017 season, but only received 235 plate appearances in the ensuing campaign — over which he hit five home runs and carried a .265/.328/.412 slash — before being dealt to Seattle.
The Angels are on the hook for $1,901,000 to rehabbing righty J.C. Ramirez, Robert Murray of The Athletic tweets. Ramirez will receive a nominal raise on his 2018 salary after requiring Tommy John surgery after just two starts.
Phillies righty Hector Neris has settled at $1.8MM, according to Jim Salisbury of NBC Sports Philadelphia (Twitter links). He had projected at $2.0MM but will settle for a bit less in his first season of arb eligibility. Right-handed starter Jerad Eickhoff, meanwhile, is slated to receive $975K. His projected first-year salary was much higher, at $1.7MM, but Eickhoff presented a tough case since he missed virtually all of his platform season with arm troubles.
Southpaw Ryan Buchter has agreed with the Athletics on a $1.4MM deal, Nightengale of reports on Twitter. That lands just a smidge over his $1.3MM projection. Soon to turn 32, Buchter worked to a sub-3.00 for the third-straight season in 2018, but only threw 39 1/3 innings while working as a lefty specialist.
Red Sox reliever Heath Hembree will receive a $1,312,500 salary next year, Alex Speier of the Boston Globe reports (Twitter link). Starter Steven Wright checks in just a shade higher, at $1.375MM, per Nightengale (via Twitter). Both players had projected in this range, with Swartz pegging $1.2MM for the former and $1.4MM for the latter. It’s Hembree’s first time through the process and Wright’s second.
First-time arb-eligible righty Scott Oberg settled with the Rockies for $1.3MM, according to Nightengale (via Twitter). It’s $100K over the projected rate for the 28-year-old hurler, who turned in far and away his most productive MLB season in 2018.
The Yankees have a $1.2MM deal in place with first baseman Greg Bird, Nightengale was first to tweet. Though he had projected a bit higher, at $1.5MM, Bird’s relatively robust number of home runs (31 total in 659 career plate appearances) were threatened to be overshadowed in a hypothetical hearing by his rough overall stats over the past two seasons. He’ll need to earn his way back into a larger share of playing time in 2019.
Infielder Travis Jankowski will earn $1.165MM with the Padres, per Murray (via Twitter). He projected at a heftier $1.4MM, but the Super Two qualifier will still earn a nice raise after his best season in the big leagues. Jankowski will be looking to crack 400 plate appearances for the first time in the season to come.
The Nationals have agreed to a $1MM contract with righty Joe Ross, Murray also tweets. Though Ross projected at $1.5MM for his first season of eligibility, that was based largely upon the innings he accumulated over the prior three seasons. Ross made it back from Tommy John surgery in time for only three outings in 2018.
A pair of backstops have also put pen to paper on new salaries. Curt Casali will earn $950K with the Reds, per Bobby Nightengale of the Cincinnati Enquirer (Twitter link). John Ryan Murphy has a $900K agreement with the Diamondbacks, the elder Nightengale tweets. Casali, a Super Two, had projected for a $1.3MM salary, while Murphy projected at $1.1MM in his first arb year.
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Rockies Designate Jairo Diaz, Select Jerry Vasto
By Connor Byrne | June 10, 2018 at 12:28pm CDT
The Rockies have designated right-hander Jairo Diaz for assignment and selected the contract of left-hander Jerry Vasto from Triple-A, according to a team announcement. Additionally, Colorado has placed reliever Scott Oberg on the disabled list with a back strain.
The hard-throwing Diaz joined the Rockies prior to 2015 and saw action with the team that season and during the 2017 campaign, combining for a 3.75 ERA with 7.5 K/9, 4.13 BB/9 and a strong 57.3 percent groundball rate over 24 innings. But Diaz underwent Tommy John surgery in 2016, causing him to miss that season, and has only tossed 28 2/3 innings between the majors and minors since. Diaz opened 2018 with 3 2/3 frames of four-earned run ball at the Triple-A level, and he has been shelved with forearm tightness since mid-April, Nick Groke of the Denver Post tweets.
Vasto, 26, is set to make his MLB debut after initially joining Colorado as a 24th-round pick in 2014. He ascended to the Triple-A level last season and has been particularly effective this year, having logged a 1.71 ERA with 11.14 K/9, 3.43 BB/9 and a 47.9 percent grounder rate in 21 innings.
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On behalf of Mills, Mills, Fiely & Lucas | Aug 27, 2018 | Firm News
When people in Ohio have loved ones struggling with brain injury and resulting minimally conscious or vegetative states, they may be interested in any possibility that could improve the likelihood of improvement. Accurate diagnosis and access to modern care based on science and evidence could make that possibility more likely. New guidelines for care in these cases were issued by several leading authorities, including the American Academy of Neurology, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research.
The published guidelines note that around 4 out of every 10 people who are thought to be unconscious or in a vegetative state are, in reality, aware. In many cases, people face the risk of misdiagnosis because of a combination of factors and conditions that could hide the reality that a person is actually aware. Misdiagnosis in these cases can be significant, as inappropriate treatment and care decisions can be made when people are falsely believed to be unconscious. Family members may remove treatment and physicians may not recommend rehabilitation, leading to severely worsened health outcomes.
When people are conscious, they are awake and aware of themselves and able to use their senses. However, severe brain injuries like car crashes, falls and sports injuries can lead to disorders of consciousness. In case of such a disorder, a person has difficulties being awake, aware or both. When physicians seek to properly diagnose someone with a consciousness disorder, a careful early evaluation is necessary to make an accurate analysis.
Outcomes for people with this type of prolonged unconsciousness can vary widely, ranging from those who can return to work to those who will never regain consciousness. An inaccurate diagnosis or other doctor error could lead to severely worsened outcomes. People who have been affected by misdiagnosis or their families might work with a medical malpractice attorney to pursue compensation for their damages.
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When Business Week Magazine announced in 2008 that Mount Prospect was the number one place to raise kids, followed in 2010 by Money Magazine’s claim that the Village was one of the "Top 50 Places to Live" in the U.S., residents couldn’t have agreed more. In 2013, Movoto Real Estate, which ranks cities and towns across America, named Mount Prospect one of the “Top 10 Best Cities in Illinois."
What makes Mount Prospect so desirable? It’s conveniently located to downtown Chicago, O’Hare International Airport and Chicago Executive Airport, two Interstate highways and two commuter rail systems within miles of each other.
Residents enjoy a high quality of life provided through outstanding municipal services. Neighborhoods boast tree-lined streets. The Village government partners with the private sector to promote seasonal events, such as Fridays on the Green summer concerts, Downtown Block Party and more. Residents can enjoy retail centers, such as Randhurst Village,for shopping, entertainment, hotel lodging and dining experiences.
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Mount Prospect operates under a Council/Manager form of government in which an appointed manager and professional staff administer daily operations of departments that include: Public Works, Finance, Police, Fire, Community Development and Human Services. An elected Mayor and Board of Trustees determine Village policies.
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The Illinois Fire Chiefs Association awarded then-Fire Chief Michael Figolah the Fire Chief of the Year (2008).
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This privacy policy by Mojeek Limited, explains our stance on personal information, in regard to cookies, tracking, logging, data usage, contact information and any links to third parties.
Mojeek follows a strict no tracking privacy policy, and it's quite simple, we don't track our users. In fact, Mojeek was the first ever no tracking/privacy orientated search engine, as can be seen on archive.org and our original privacy policy from when Mojeek was just a side project.
By default and unless specifically agreed to, Mojeek doesn't place any cookies on your computer. If Mojeek does require to place a cookie your agreement will be requested, when setting personal preferences for example. Also at any time, visiting this page will list what cookies Mojeek has on your computer, their contents, and an explanation of their values. From that page you can also instruct Mojeek to delete any cookie we have placed.
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Mojeek doesn\'t implement any kind of specific user tracking, whether that be at the time of visit or subsequently via standard logs, which Mojeek does keep. These logs contain the time of visit, page requested, possibly referral data, and browser information. IP addresses are not recorded (except in rare circumstances[1]) , instead the IP address is replaced with a simple two letter code indicating the visitors country of origin. By doing this, Mojeek removes any possibility of tracking or identifying any particular user.
[1] Mojeek does make one exception to this rule, if a search query is deemed related to illegal and unethical practices relating to minors, then the full log including visiting IP address will be kept and gladly handed over to any official authorities that ask. If you\'re at all concerned about this exception then Mojeek is not the search engine for you.
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Matrix Mortgage Global ranks no. 144 on the 2018 Growth 500
by MMGB
Toronto, ON (September 13, 2018) - Canadian Business and Maclean’s today ranked Matrix Mortgage Global No. 144 on the 30th annual Growth 500, the definitive ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies. Produced by Canada’s premier business and current affairs media brands, the Growth 500 ranks Canadian businesses on five-year revenue growth. Growth 500 winners are profiled in a special print issue of Canadian Business published with Maclean’s magazine and online at CanadianBusiness.com and Growth500.ca.
Matrix Mortgage Global made the 2018 Growth 500 list with five-year revenue growth of 610%. “The companies on the 2018 Growth 500 are truly remarkable. Demonstrating foresight, innovation and smart management, their stories serve as a primer for how to build a successful entrepreneurial business today,” says Deborah Aarts, Growth 500 program manager. “As we celebrate 30 years of the Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies program, it’s encouraging to see that entrepreneurship is healthier than ever in this country.”
“Matrix Mortgage Global is honoured to be recognized amongst the top growing companies in every industry sector on the Growth 500 Ranking and as the top mortgage brokerage in Canada.” says CEO, Shawn Allen. “Our success is a direct result of our Solution Based Lending approach to providing clients across Canada with private and alternative financing for real estate. The Canadian mortgage landscape has gone through many changes in our 10 years of operations. Our mandate has remained constant as a reliable source of alternative financing to Canadian homeowners.”
About the Growth 500
For 30 years, the Growth 500 has been Canada’s most respectable and influential ranking of entrepreneurial achievement. Ranking Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the Growth 500—formerly known as the PROFIT 500—profiles the country’s most successful growing businesses. The Growth 500 is produced by Canadian Business. Winners are profiled in a special Growth 500 print issue of Canadian Business (packaged with the October issue of Maclean’s magazine) and online at Growth500.ca and CanadianBusiness.com. For more information on the ranking, visit Growth500.ca.
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Church of MO: 1997 Aprilia Pegaso 650
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John Burns May 5, 2019 0
When Aprilia, with her showers sweet the drought of March hath pierced to the root, and when Jesus rolls into Cinco de Mayo to make glorious spring out of our winter’s discontent, and to party, he doesn’t always show up on an interesting thumper, but 22 years ago he did. And so it is written, and so sprouted another ADV seedling.
First Impression: Aprilia Pegaso 650
La Nuova Frontiera
By Colin MacKellar Mar. 16, 1997
Photos by Robin Verhoeven
Ever since 1976, when Yamaha’s release of the XT500 created a market for what was loosely termed “dual-purpose” motorcycles, Europe has had a love affair with this class of bike.Glamorized by events such as Paris/Dakar, the Trans-Sahara multi-stage North African rally, huge numbers of replicas were sold. However, these were replicas of form, not function — the Sahara desert being as alien to them as Laguna Seca Raceway would be to an Electra Glide. But most owners of dual-purpose bikes aren’t concerned with off-road capability anyway, as statistics have shown that for 95 percent of these bikes, the closest they ever get to a loose surface is the inevitable close encounter with dog turds that litter European cities. In the never-ending search for niche markets within a niche market, a new variant of this type of bike has been evolving. The basic design parameters of wide bars, high seat, long suspension, narrow frame, and single cylinder 4-stroke engine have been taken and worked into models that owe more to high-tech industrial design than the sand dunes of the Sahara. An excellent example of this is Aprilia’s Pegaso 650-3, now into its third stage of the evolutionary cycle.
Aprilia has been selling large-capacity dual purpose machines for more than 10 years. First came the ETX600 and later the Tuareg, both bikes using the same 2-valve engine supplied by Austria’s Rotax company. In 1993, the first Pegaso was introduced, with cosmetics that took it sharply out of the dirt and into the city. It also saw a change of engine to the 5-valve water-cooled Rotax engine that is still present on this latest version. Brembo disc brakes appeared on the second version of the Pegaso in 1995, along with a quieter exhaust to meet EEC regulations and updated graphics. Beyond the cosmetics that have once again been updated for 1997, biggest changes for the “-3” variant are its new frame with 1.5 cm longer wheelbase, increased rake and trail and a revised airbox.
Just as its predecessors, this bike is a lot of fun to ride. Nail the throttle and its Rotax engine pulls very cleanly, spinning through to the 7500 rpm redline more quickly than you’d expect from a large capacity single. Aggressive use of the clutch will lift the front wheel, but you have to consciously flog the engine to make this happen. Claimed power output is 49 bhp at the crankshaft, and the engine feels strong, so we were surprised when a run on a Dynojet dynamometer showed just 40 bhp. Our machine probably feels stronger due to its fat spread of torque from 3500 to 6000 rpm. It is also versatile enough for riders too lazy for frequent gear changes. Let the revs drop down under 3000 rpm, snap the throttle open and the Pegaso will shudder through 3000 rpm and pull normally up through its powerband, that starts at 4500 rpm.
A balancer-shaft is intended to damp out vibrations, but it is only partially effective. Footrests start to tingle at 4000 rpm, and quite sharp vibrations are felt at the bars and seat from 6000 rpm. The only other minor criticism of the otherwise excellent engine is a slight surge when riding under 4000 rpm. It doesn’t actually stumble, but feels like it might. Only five speeds are offered from the gearbox, although a sixth gear would allow higher-speed cruising under the band of engine vibration. The Pegaso’s clutch is very light and the gear changes slick, its only glitch being a false neutral between third and second when downshifting with the bike stationary.Changes to the Aprilia’s chassis have resulted in a slightly slower-steering bike. It is still very nimble through traffic, and although requiring a little more work, cuts through corners with excellent stability. The Michelin TX66 tires fitted to our test machine have a very light off-road pattern and worked exceptionally well on tarmac, allowing you to crank the Pegaso over to sport bike angles without a hint of traction loss. With its high footrests and no center stand, ground clearance is endless. You’d have to be very close to running off the edge of the tires before anything touched down.
Taking a gentle detour through the woods along a hardened fire-road has the Pegaso coping reasonably well. Unfortunately, the inverted Marzocchi forks are quite soft and cannot be adjusted, while the Boge rear shock has a virtually inaccessible rebound damping adjuster. Quicken the pace, or move into rougher terrain and the suspension is quickly overwhelmed. Avoid heavy sand at all costs. The Michelins can’t cut through it and the bike digs itself in. Suddenly its 352-pound weight feels more like 600 pounds and you’re trying to heave a full-dress ‘Wing out of kitty litter.
With a fuel tank that hold 22 liters of unleaded and an engine that gulps at a miserly 16 to 20 Km per liter (39 to 50 mpg), you can expect a range of about 400 Km (250 miles). Owners will be praying it were shorter, as one thing Aprilia has not got right is the Pegaso’s seat. It feels luxuriously soft as you first ease yourself into the saddle, but after an hour you begin to feel like you’re sitting on the upper frame tubes. Spend a day in the saddle of the Pegaso and you’ll need a week to recover. Strange really, as Aprilia clearly had some light touring in mind, as witnessed by the optional set of hard-shell cases that clip straight on to its standard rack. A handy centerstand is also offered as an accessory. The really dedicated owner can also splash out for an optional fully adjustable rear shock, with remote reservoir for dialing compression and rebound damping.
Overall the Pegaso is a pretty decent motorcycle, but who exactly buys them? Aprilia’s new Pegaso is selling very well, but the customer is difficult to characterize. They are not generally first-time buyers. It would make an excellent commuter vehicle, except it also sells well in Northern Europe where it always seems to rain during morning rush hour, discouraging two-wheelers. The seat is a little tall, making it less attractive to women, although like BMW’s F650, a kit is available to lower the seat even further. There is too little left of the dirtbike heritage to attract the Dominator/XT/DR/KL rider. It doesn’t have the pace of a sportbike, or the comfort and smoothness of a tourer.Perhaps, we might just be witnessing the birth of a new type of market segment — the Urban All-rounder — visually impressive and flexible enough to be used for many different roles. BMW’s F650, following the same concept and built by Aprilia using the 4-valve Rotax engine, has been a great success – but most likely as a result of its tank badge. The fact that Suzuki has introduced a very similar bike called the Freewind this year suggests that they too believe a new segment is emerging. It can be said Aprilia was in there at the start, and have given the rest of the world a tough act to follow with their Pegaso 650.
Specifications:Horsepower and Torque Charts
Manufacturer: Aprilia/Rotax
Model: 1997 Pegaso 650-3
Dutch Price: Fl. 14,490 ($7,600)
Engine: Liquid-cooled, 4-stroke DOHC, 5-valve single-cylinder
Bore x stroke: 100 x 83 mm
Displacement: 652cc
Compression Ratio : 9.0:1
Carburation: Mikuni BST33
Wheelbase: 1480 mm
Fuel Capacity: 22 L
Claimed Dry Weight: 161 Kg (352 lbs)
(Holland)
BMW F650 – Fl. 14,950 ($7,870)
Suzuki Freewind – Fl. 13,499 ($7,100)
Honda NX650 Dominator – Fl. 14,950 ($7,870)
Thanks to Bruggeman Motoren, Nieuw Vennep, Holland for the use of their Dynojet dyno.
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The Lenovo A5 is a low-end smartphone running Android 8.0 Oreo-based ZUI 3.9 software. It has a metal body, and features a 5.45-inch HD+ IPS LCD screen. There’s a 13MP camera at the rear with f/2.2 aperture and 1080p video recording. The 8MP selfie camera has f/2.2 aperture as well but it lacks autofocus. The Lenovo A5 uses the MediaTek MT6739 chipset, 3GB RAM, and 16GB/32GB internal storage. There’s a fingerprint at the rear for user authentication. The Lenovo A5 has two SIM card slots and a microSD card slot. Other connectivity features include 4G LTE, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, GPS, Bluetooth 4.2, FM Radio, microUSB port and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The Lenovo A5 comes packed with a 4000mAh battery. The other Lenovo smartphone you may want to watch out for is the Lenovo K9
13MP rear & 8MP selfie
5.45 inches (13.84 cm)
Lenovo A5 Price in India
Lenovo A5 Price starts at Rs. 4,950. The lowest price of Lenovo A5 is at Flipkart. A5 is not available in other online stores. This phone is available in 16 GB, 32 GB storage variants. Lenovo A5 is available in Black, Gold colours across various online stores in India.
Lenovo A5: Pros & Cons
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The Lenovo A5 has a compact design with a taller screen, a quad-core processor and decent cameras. There’s a dedicated microSD card slot, a fingerprint reader and a 4000mAh battery. It is well-priced, too.
ZUI is not the most attractive of feature-rich Android skins. No software update or security patch promise from Lenovo.
Lenovo A5 Details
Introduction and Performance
The Lenovo A5 is in line with other smartphones in the “A” lineup, which are its budget-friendly options. The device is an affordable offering and is available in three colour variants that are Rose Gold, Gold and Black. The Lenovo A5 is designed to bring a powerful smartphone experience at a budget price. The device also hosts a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. The device is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6739 64-bit processor that clocks a speed of 1.5GHz. This is coupled with a PowerVR Rogue GE8100 GPU to provide some great graphics for the device. Meanwhile, on the RAM front, Lenovo A5 features 3GB of RAM.
Camera and Connectivity
Despite its budget tag, the smartphone boasts an impressive range of camera features that targets the younger generation and photo freaks. At the front, the handset features an 8-megapixel selfie camera with f/2.2 aperture while the rear comes with a single 13-megapixel camera sensor, with a f/2.2 aperture along with an LED flash. In terms of connectivity, the phone comes with a slew of options as it offers support for Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and GPS. The device also features a 3.5 mm audio jack, a microSD card slot and a Micro-USB port. The phone also offers slots for Dual SIMs and is equipped to access 4G VoLTE connectivity.
Display and Storage
The much-anticipated device features a 5.45-inch HD+ 2.5D curved glass display that comes with a screen resolution of 1440 x 720 pixels and 18:9 aspect ratio. In terms of dimension, the device measures 146.2 x 70.86 x 9.8 mm and is lightweight at just 160 grams. It comes with two internal memory storage variants – 16GB and 32GB. The device’s memory can be expanded up to 256GB via the microSD card.
Battery and Platform
The smartphone is backed by a 4,000mAh battery that can power the device for a whole day without charge. Just like the other newly launched smartphones, Lenovo A5 will operate on the Android Oreo 8.1 based operating system ZUI 3.9.
Flipkart Lenovo A5 (Black, 16 GB)(2 GB RAM) ₹4,950
Lenovo A5 Specifications
Processor Mediatek MT6739
Display 5.45 inches (13.84 cm)
Rear Camera 13MP
Resolution 720x1440 pixels
Screen Size 5.45 inches (13.84 cm)
Dimensions 5.7 x 2.7 x 0.3 inches (146.2 x 70.9 x 9.8 mm)
Rear 13MP
Selfie 8MP
Rear Camera Features LED flash, panorama
Wi-Fi Yes with WiFi Direct, hotspot
Graphics PowerVR GE8100
No of Cores 4 (Quad Core)
Gyroscope No
Fingerprint sensor Yes, Rear- mounted
Other Sensors Ambient Light, Proximity
The latest Lenovo A5 news
Nov 2, 2018 -- Lenovo A5 With Massive 4,000mAh Battery Now Available On Flipkart
The newly launched Lenovo A5, a budget handset with a massive 4000mAh battery, is now on sale at Flipkart. The handset has been made available as part of the Flipkart Big Diwali Sale, but is likely to remain on open sale after that as well. The Diwali sale ends on November 5, and the Lenovo A5 is marked as a Flipkart exclusive product. You can buy the Lenovo A5 for INR 5,999 with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. The 3GB RAM variant with 32GB storage is up for sale at INR 6,999. The handset is available in two colors: Black and Fine Gold.See More
What are the specifications of this phone?
It comes with 2GB RAM and 16GB ROM, 13MP rear and 8MP front facing camera, 4000 mAh battery and MediaTek MT6739 processor.
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Does it support 2G, 3G, 4G, VoLTE, OTG, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity?
It supports 2G, 3G, 4G, OTG, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth connectivity but it doesn't support VoLTE.
Yes, it supports 2G, 3G, 4G, VoLTE, OTG, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity.
By Debashispattnaik98, 18 months ago
Can I use dual 4G SIM cards on this mobile?
Yes, you can use both 4G SIM cards. And in fact, it supports dual VoLTE.
By babershafiganaie, 15 months ago
Can I use dual SIM and a microSD card simultaneously?
Yes, it supports dual SIM and a microSD card simultaneously.
By Santosh, 17 months ago
Can I use dual 4G VoLTE SIM standby?
Yes, it's based on the MT 6739 which supports dual VoLTE.
By lejyjacob, 16 months ago
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Date of Passing: January 11, 2020
Born: January 26, 1941
Suddenly in his home, our father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Paul Armand Fontaine (Pepé), passed away on January 11, 2020, at the age of 78 years.
Paul will be missed by his three children, Lynne (Roger) Tessier, Ron Fontaine (Monica) and Monique Grenier (Dennis), his nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. He will be lovingly remembered by his dear partner Debra Kantimere and her family. He is also survived by his siblings, Gerry Fontaine (Elianne) and Diane Saive (Maurice) along with several nieces and nephews.
Paul was predeceased by his father Armand Fontaine, his mother Annette Coté, and the mother of his children Henriette (Morin) Fontaine.
Following in the same footsteps as his father, Paul started his career as a mechanic and owned a couple service stations, but his true calling was the lure of the open road. Sitting behind the wheel of a semi-truck, enjoying the scenery and meeting all types of people along the way was his true passion for which he did for over 50 years. His last employment of 25 years was with Landstar Inway and he was so proud every time he received the “million mile safe driver” award. Paul drove long distance from coast to coast until the age of 77 and if it were up to him, he would have continued until he was 100.
Paul’s love of people and adventure kept him young at heart and he was always available to help a friend in need. Paul celebrated over 35 years of sobriety with AA and always expressed his gratitude towards the program for saving his life.
A special thank you to all those who helped with Paul’s care and wellbeing over the years: St. Boniface Heart Failure Clinic, Nurse Practitioners, Diane Gudmundson and Kwong Fai (Agassi) Cheung.
“Down all the highways that you have travelled,
Blacktop, stone and even gravel,
On every journey through and through,
May God’s Angels ride with YOU!”
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 2:00 p.m., at Crossings Funeral Care in Steinbach, 12E-40 North Gate Drive.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or to the St. Boniface Hospital in memory of Paul Armand Fontaine.
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Between a Rock and a Hard Face
“Rock” and “Roll” are here to sway
Scrambling up the compromised paths of the ‘Rock Walk’ in Torquay, my greasy boot soles slipping on the narrow wire grids holding down fractured limestone, I couldn’t help but woozily contemplate the instability of “rock” and its ambiguous and vertiginous relations with such tractions as “walk”.
The geology of ‘Rock Walk’, an ornamentalised cliff face now under refurbishment, is topsy-turvy. Older limestone sits on top of younger sandstone. A thrust once turned this world upside down. And it remains dynamic; in one part of the face a new fissure is secured by thick wire ropes, in another soft soils are driven through to secure anchors for new furniture.
Once a cliff directly abutting the seashore, ‘Rock Walk’ is now separated from the water by the banal traffic of a busy road. From that road’s seaward pavement the rock face comes across like a faded and dusty theatrical backdrop, a curtain of convenience. Closer up, within the confines of contractors’ temporary site walls, the face is impressive and symbolic. It is as much socially as geologically upside down: its remaining exotic plants and meandering paths masking the transformation from proletarian ‘Fisherman’s Walk’ to monarchical ‘Royal Terrace Gardens’.
Recent geological depredations of this seaside attraction parallel its change of social use to something defined by the authorities as “anti-social”: the publicly administered, chemically enabled, altering of consciousness; something paradoxically joyless. As it once stood in for the slopes of desert islands for Devon’s short-lived silent movie industry, so ‘Rock Walk’ has again become subject to the subsidence of its ordered use and bordered meaning.
“We’ve been rockin’ ‘n rolling in your arms,
Rockin’ and rolling in your arms,
In the arms of Moses.”
(The Camp Meeting Jubilee, 1916)
The “rock” of rock ‘n’ roll is a particularly active one. From late Old English “roccian” meaning ‘to sway’ and the Old Norse “rykkja” meaning “to pull, tear or move”, the word has always denoted a motion. In the mid twentieth century it was something less violently than ‘torn’, and something less gently than ‘moved’, from the recorded music of African-American religious culture - where “rockin’” referred to the embodiment of the moving force of the Holy Spirit – to the secular physicality of “my man rocks me with a steady roll”. Listening to the histrionics of the 1916 ‘Camp Meeting Jubilee’, it is not difficult to find some connection, particularly in their shared absurdities, between religious and sexual ecstasies; the motions and emotions accompanying loss of self in a god and loss of self in another person.
Sex is a sacrament. On the left-hand path of Vamamarga. Even in Christian doctrine as articulated by Oswald Reichel (only male occupant of A la Ronde). In his ‘Complete Manual of Canon Law’ (1896) an unconsummated (even though church blessed) marriage is deemed meaningless, while, a monogamous relationship between “man and courtesan” (without opportunity to wed) would be sacramental.
Always tracking that mutable, rolling “roccian” was another parole – hard and unyielding - from the obelisk of the Old English “stanrocc”, emerging in Middle English as a descriptor for broad geological formations. By the 16th century “rock” was commonly used across Europe as a metaphor for religious certainty.
Loopy Fakes
There’s an oft-repeated canard heard on the far-shores of ‘pseudoscience’ that goes something like this: “those who triggered paradigmatic shifts in scientific understanding were often called ‘mad’ or ‘dishonest’ before their work found general acceptance. Therefore, as everyone calls me ‘a mad liar’ I must be on to something.”
It would be a mistake to allow such a transparent manoeuvre to obscure the genuine and painful marginalisation of scientists like Boris Belousov (whose papers on the discovery of a non-linear chemical oscillator – the B-Z Effect - were rejected, until, after his death, when graduate student Anatol Zhabotinsky re-ran his experiments), the mathematician Oliver Heaviside who careened about on a brakeless bike close to ‘Rock Walk’ and who is still better recognised in Tokyo than Torquay, or Alfred Wegener whose concept of ‘continental drift’ waited more than forty years after its publication to achieve acceptance.
Of course, Wegener was not the first to suggest that there might have been movement in the earth’s crust. The late sixteenth century Flemish cartographer Ortelius had observed that the shapes of the continents were suspiciously complementary, carved like pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle spread across a table. Drawing on the evidence of his maps, Ortelius speculated that the Americas had been "torn away from Europe and Africa ... by earthquakes and floods".
A model for Ortelius was to hand: biblical cataclysm. The earth’s crust bore the mark of the Flood. It is testimony to ideological mutability that when empirical study eventually overturned this dynamic, once-and-for-all Catastrophism, it could replace it with a similarly bounded paradigm: Uniformitarianism. The single event of the Deluge was ironed out and spread across all time – each moment like the last and like the moment to come, barely noticeable and identical micro-ripples achieving a uniform effect.
The Mediocrity of Genius
It would be easy to embrace the marginalisation of Wegener as one more run out for that familiar narrative: individual genius cramped by jealous, common mediocrity. However, there was a fundamental flaw in Wegener’s explanation for the ‘drift’ of continents: he depicted the Earth’s crust as having a universal, ‘finished’ form. In a subtle echo of mythic narrative, Wegener’s Earth was organically uniform before its catalytic disruption, an unidentifiable break up triggering a long and dissolute wandering. Wegener characterised the continents as fragments of a single source, sharing common properties, drifting rather than driven.
Only when geologists began to detect contradictory qualities in the Earth’s crust, some parts oceanic and others continental, did something like a credible dynamic hove into view. For not only was the crust uneven in its properties, but it had yet to complete its originary narrative; it was still becoming. Areas of the ocean floor were all the time generating new crust, cooling rock emerging from the fluid mantle, while elsewhere continental plates were in collision, one plate passing over another, returning the lower crust to the mantle. And rather than sliding across the sea floor like gargantuan stone cruisers, the fragmented continents were driven by and with the sea floor (or, more accurately, by the convection currents in the fluid mantle just beneath it).
When Alfred Wegener published his masterwork Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane in book form in 1922, it was only two years after his cousin Paul Wegener had released an equally seminal and mineral work: the silent movie film ‘Der Golem’. The film, Paul Wegener’s third (and only surviving) attempt at the Golem theme, is a thoroughly geological piece.
Where Wiene’s ‘The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari’ of the same year constructed an uneasy world from reeling geometry, Paul Wegener offered a vision of cultural stratification. His film begins with a silhouette of the roofs of the Prague Ghetto, appearing like an alpine pass outlined against a starry sky. As sunlight illuminates the Ghetto, it reveals houses like ravines and corridors like caves; the materials of their construction appear sedimentary. Leaning and looming buildings seem more dictated by continental drift’s mountain building than architectural plans.
In Wegener’s ‘Der Golem’ an effete imperial Christian court passes a decree to expel Prague’s Jews from their Ghetto. Rabbi Löw uses magic to create a clay monster, the Golem, to project the Ghetto. On a visit to the Christian city, the Golem saves the imperial court from the collapse of their palace and the Jews are “pardoned”. Meanwhile, Florian, the Christian messenger who conveyed the expulsion order, falls for and sleeps with Miriam, the rabbi’s daughter. When the rabbi’s famulus discovers this he flies into a jealous rage and re-animates the Golem who kills Florian and then, out of control, begins to torch the Ghetto. Rabbi Löw magically douses the flames. The Golem, still rampaging, escapes from the Ghetto, but is accidentally destroyed by Christian children.
Living Dead Clay
While other classic monsters of cinema – vampires, Frankenstein’s creations and zombies – have an uncanny charm, a perverse seductiveness, there is something neutered and ridiculous about Wegener’s Golem, something that never quite overcomes absurdity to ‘win’ the viewer (this cannot be said about the version of the same character in Gustav Meyrink’s Golem novel).
When Wegener’s Golem finally bursts its social bounds it is less poignant than inane. Waddling, top heavy, stiff legged and topsy-turvy, the Golem’s clay features flicker through grumpiness, sorrow and discovery, all the time tortured by an outraged disdain for its own feelings, for the disturbance of its substance. It is abject, servile; its first task is to take a note to the grocers!
Two moments should change all this (but they don’t): the Golem’s uncontrolled rampage through the Ghetto and its accidental ‘death’. But the Golem’s death is no different from its foetal development – its face pummelled and squished by Rabbi Löw, who is no artisanal demiurge (public-maker) but as clumsy and childlike as his creation. There is neither art nor science in the manufacture of Wegener’s Golem, and neither ceremony nor meaning in its ‘death’. The Golem is a victim of its own childlike naivety. In a moment of viscous emotion it smiles at the Christian children and then suffers instantaneous rigor-mortis: a flick of the hand and a childlike and malevolent Id is suddenly snuffed out.
Vampires, zombies and Karloff monsters have their weaknesses, but those weaknesses are extraneous to the monster itself: the cross, the shot to the head, the mob (another monster). The unique feature of the Golem is that its death plug is there from its birth, its death plug is its umbilical cord. For this monster is never truly alive, but instrumental; driven by forces (of pressure and language), rather than itself a force. It is a terrifying and poignant vision of humanity as instrumental clay animated by, but without access to or possession of, the motivating force of a Spirit. It is more Gnostic than Kabbalah. Its animation comes from an evil spirit, Astorath who appears as a smoke-belching mask, a ‘special effect’ rather than an ineffable force.
“golem” (גולם) means “rock” (mod. Hebrew)
As with Alfred’s ‘continental drift’ so with Paul’s film; at root they both believe in a fundamental, originary ‘clay’; a common ground, a universal material. But neither can convincingly animate their material. For universalism, paradoxically, is bounded, defined by its borders; it requires a secret binding. (The universalist ‘brotherhood of man’ is rarely an effective argument against racism; far more effective is the exposure of racism as itself secretly and hopelessly fractured even within its own terms.) So, Wegener’s Golem is dwarfed by the Ghetto’s walls and giant door; it is not a monster at all! It is a boundary. Its rampage does not break down the limits of the Ghetto but re-establishes them.
Where Wegener’s Golem is stiff and material, Florian (and the court he represents to the Ghetto) is insouciant, snooty and insubstantial, his affair with Miriam is thoughtless and without principle, its emptiness emphasised when Florian places his hand on Miriam’s breast exactly where the amulet that animates the Golem is placed. There is something mechanical in their ecstasy. When the two lovers awake from post-coital slumbers they succumb to horror, as if, only now, absurdly, do they become aware of each others’ “identities”: as if they had acted before as automata.
Wegener rejected the expressionist label, but the strangeness of the shapes of the Ghetto’s architecture conjure a similar anxiety. One that is doubled. Not simply by the film’s anti-semitism (which is sentimental and orientalist rather than supremacist), nor its purloining of Jewish ‘history’ as a kind of proto-cinema, but rather by its geological vision of a universal clay people-monster in servitude to authority and bounded to a single community. Where vampires and zombies split the world, opening up geo-illogical fissures, faults and thrusts in ideology, Wegener’s Golem re-establishes walls. This partly is ‘achieved’ by making the Emperor’s court, foil to the Ghetto, so completely unlocated, fey, stupid and insubstantial. The Ghetto is the only real place in the film: its uniqueness and essentialism is the means to its exclusion and limitation.
Truth or Friction
“In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.”
(Guy Debord, 1967. Taken from Tamany Baker. )
There is a temptation to read ‘Der Golem’ through the lens of the Holocaust. To list its stereotypes. The narrative threat of expulsion, the fire that rages through the Ghetto. Nothing is obscured by such interpretations.
But there is another narrative here, about the doubleness of security; walls are returned to their solidity, doors are shut, fires are put out, the persecuted are ‘pardoned’ (!), boundaries and borders are honoured. In the final reel a racial binary is dramatically restated: a sweet blond child and an inert monster of clay. In a scene (later borrowed and inverted by director James Whale for his 1931 ‘Frankenstein’), the blond child destroys the Golem, grasping acquisitively at the magic amulet containing the vital parole that gives the monster life. (In another version אמת (truth) becomes מת (dead) when a single letter of the text within the amulet is removed.) The monster is returned to the fabric of the Ghetto, sans parole, sans the spirit it supposedly never had.
Yet we know it did.
Not from the mise-en-scène – in story and symbol Wegener’s Golem is soulless. But Wegener’s intense and excessive performance as the monster suggest something else. He violently expresses its furious embarrassment at its sudden aliveness, at the intrusion of life into its clay, the painful clumsiness of its abrupt sensibility, anger at its containment in the mountain of its own physique, desire that desire itself frustrates. This monster is rampant with neuroses, somehow speeded up, vicious cycles turning like gramophone records, the crank in the clay… not robotic, but metamorphic.
Wegener the actor is at odds with Wegener the writer/director, and for a moment, as if the film become subject to a thrust, the object-actor comes out on top of the subject-director.
truth, dead, sway, rock.
In the early nineteenth century ‘Rock Walk’ became a lookout point for naval officers’ families following and observing the Fleet at anchor in the bay (this is the origin of Torquay as a tourist resort). By the time the Dreadnoughts assembled just prior to the First World War the view was framed by palm trees.
In Michael Winner’s fine 1964 movie ‘The System’, Torquay emerges as a sexually exotic place, where sophisticated sexuality is communicated between the classes: the key venue for this transmission and reception is the Palm Court Hotel complex at the foot of ‘Rock Walk’ (now due to be demolished).
In the recessions of the 1970s and 1980s, the vibrant and confident ‘cheap’ end of the tourist trade fell away, common public spaces and entertainments shrank to almost nothing and the classes separated out. Imperialism returned in a new smoking mask.
Today, behind the blue boards of the contractors, a twisted and rusted bus shelter bears a fading legend: “White Power” and then a pseudo-runic symbol, scribbled in permanent marker pen rather than carved in stone or cast in the shape of steel ships.
Just as there is no purity of blood, so there is no integrity of soil. The arrow of time and the operation of entropy see to that. There can be no return for light or sound to the cosmic plasma. Even the fluid mantle below the Earth’s crust irredeemably cools.
The beauty of ‘Rock Walk’ (though it’s a headache for those responsible for it) is that it can no longer disguise its geological and symbolic volatility. Where it was once planted out with exotic plants and knitted together by the roots of numerous mature trees, today its crazed strata are revealed, punctuated by the stumps of old gaslight plinths, restraining wires, new rockeries and the remnant quartz and brain coral of surviving grottos. It is no longer a tourist artefact dressed with exotic properties, but part of a folding and crumpling crust. An artefact of the Sticklepath Fault.
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Let's talk about something else
what are they teaching their children?
Cougar Moon
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6th-April-2015, 02:02
Family devastated over alleged attack on boy
http://m.rte.ie/news/2015/0402/691766-autism/
Liam Davin said he has been overwhelmed by the public response to what happened to his son
The father of a teenage boy who was allegedly assaulted by a group of teenagers has called their actions totally unacceptable.
Liam Davin said it was a "cowardly" act on a vulnerable boy.
He said the family was not aware of the incident until a young girl called to their home and told him about it.
She had seen it on social media and said the teenager, who has autism, was forced to eat twigs, and expose himself by a group of six teenagers who then uploaded the video on social media.
The video has since been taken down.
Mr Davin said his son, who is 15, did not tell his family about the incident. The teen has been the subject of bullying in the past.
He is currently away with his mother on a pre-planned break.
Mr Davin said he has been feeling sick and numb since he heard what happened to his son.
Mr Davin said he went to gardaí in Carrigaline on Monday and made a full statement but an official complaint cannot be lodged until they interview his son.
Mr Davin said he has been overwhelmed by the public response to what happened to his son, with a local store saying it has received several calls pledging money to buy the teenager Easter eggs and Match Attax collection cards.
Local gardaí confirmed they are investigating the alleged incident, which is believed to have happened three weeks ago.
They have already interviewed one of the six teenagers believed to have been involved.
Mr Davin said his son’s freedom had been taken away – "almost like he’s been punished for something they done".
He said the family had moved to Carrigaline from London in 2001 to bring their children up in a safe environment.
"Every time I think about it I feel so sad, I just want to hug my son – we won’t let them do that ever again, but they have to understand what it is that they’ve done, it’s not funny, there’s nothing entertaining about it".
"It’s a cowardly, cowardly act on a such a vulnerable member of society – and they have to in some way get that through their heads, what on earth even made you think that was alright?"
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Where small birds sang and leaves were falling
Where we once watched the row boats landing
By the broad majestic shannon
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Admiral of the Fleet
It isn't often I get riled up by stuff I hear in the news, but this story last week made my blood boil. Little c**ts. Someone suggested they should be made volunteer in a special needs school for a year.
Marty in the Morning
Stringer9
That's not a punishment. They should get a proper, appropriate punishment. Most likely they'll get a slap on the wrist. But the more severe the punishment the better.
Absolutely appalling, unacceptable behaviour.
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Sure what's wrong? It's normal. Evereyone is doing it. Anything you want to imagine is on the internet. If you have a smart phone you have it all. You can imagine it, make it reality, film it and pop it up for the world to see. Burnings, decapitation, humiliation, legal /illegal, gruesome, shocking and desensitising. All at the touch of a finger, any finger, any age any time. The only true bar? The morality of the user. It's a loaded weapon.
Tic-Toc. POC and DOC. Stop the clock.
Disgusting and horrible behaviour. Bullying happened a long time before smart phones. Don't know what the solution is....
Grandpasimpson
These cnuts should not be allowed to hide behind their age, they should be punished harshly.
Smart phones and the like are a bullys dream, do your bullying from a distance. Before the internet a bully had to stand in your face and risk a smack in the mouth, that made it a lot less appealing to most of them, not all mind but it just wasn't as easy.
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Originally posted by The Last Stand View Post
Make them sit,one at a time,face to face with the victim and his parents and listen to an account of who he is and what they did to him followed by a serious apology. Making them spend some time helping hAndicapped kids as well might show them and others the error of their ways. Not the "string 'em up" solution many would feel like but seems,because of their age a proper and useful thing to do. Oh and take their phones off them.
The early bird catches the worm but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.
Leader of the Red Hordes
We could start by abolishing childrens' allowance and other tax incentives to procreate. Having children (ie putting pressure on services like education,health etc paid for by other peoples' money) should be disincentivised . I haven't even mentioned climate change etc . Labour can always be imported before someone starts arguing the ' we need workers to pay our pensions' garbage. Pensions should also be neutral in terms of tax treatment etc but that's another conversation.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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Originally posted by Eamo View Post
People were having bigger families when there were no "incentives". And the poorer they were the bigger they were.
"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men" Edward R Murrow
"Little by little, we have been brought into the present condition in which we are able neither to tolerate the evils from which we suffer, nor the remedies we need to cure them." - Livy
"I think that progress has been made by two flames that have always been burning in the human heart. The flame of anger against injustice and the flame of hope that you can build a better world" - Tony Benn
Utter bollix eamo. What this starts from is nothing to do with class money breeding but something more sinister and its prevalent at all levels of irish society of irish business and even irish sport.
in the school my kids go to the vast proportion of kids in my daughters class are from wealthy backgrounds. Those who are not are often picked on and the subject of derogatory remarks. My Daughter tells me (shes 7) her classmates predominantly discuss their parents new cars, etc. I dont think thats normal behaviour for 6/7 year olds but is reflective of the predominant subject within the home. Moreover, the parents choose their childrens friends for them based on the parents of chosen child. Qualifications you can guess but the most disturbing is that they "are one if our own" thus polish kids dont generally get invited to birthday parties as don't "blowins" therefore it is irish culture that by its ignorant and xenophobic nature induces segregation and isolation. Ultimately those outside of the clique are more liable to be bullied.
let me give you a real example. I have an english friend who drives an auld banger hasn't a brass razoo to rub together and has a child who was bullied unmercifully at our school, so much so that she removed the child from school and why was child bullied? Apparently because...well you work it out for yourself. She got in trouble with welfare over it and the child is back at school. I have another similar more sinister example from boher school that i cannot discuss on here.
I could well envisage a scenario where an autistic child in my daughters class would be eventually treated similarly tbh. It would not surprise me in the least.
In our case it's not so bad. My daughter can fend for herself. Ive taught her how but i can already see her future here at age 7ffs and i dont like what i see.
I always thought the english were a nation of xenophobes but it is overt. Here its done the irish way: sly conniving underhanded etc. And the most sickening is the faux surprise anger and indignation from the very community that bred the scum that tortured that poor boy
the logical solution? There isnt one.
the autistic boys solution: move to some country that will accept you.
our solution: likewise.
Originally posted by Cougar Moon View Post
Depends what you mean by the English, I guess. One of the things I enjoyed most about living in London was being part of a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural society. My little boys pre-school marked Eid and Diwali as much as Easter or Christmas, and the kids enjoyed all of them. His group of friends (and the parents attached to them) were a fairly diverse bunch.
I'd imagine that's different if you're the only foreigner in a town in Norfolk, I guess.
That sounds like the school I'm looking for BB. (Not the alan partridge one) maybe London too. I'm thinking hard about it. If the Tories get in I'd not be too sure.
The slight issue I had in London (though it will be the same anywhere) is that you don't get a tremendous amount of economic diversity in different communities. House prices tend to drive patches of homogeneity, though it is broken up a bit.
Overall though, I've been keen for my lad to grow up in fairly cosmopolitan and international places, as I'm fairly convinced that by the time he hits adulthood that sort of global mindset is going to be a pre-requisite for success. I think the days of sitting comfortably in Europe waiting for the world to come to us are ticking away.
Ah don't mind Eamo, he blames everything on the mickey money!
Haha. Fair play to him. One things for sure Eamo's got more grey matter up there than most.
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This performance and workshop program, by renowned percussionist Dendê Macêdo, uses instruments he made from found materials to deliver a message about protecting our environment through reuse and recycling.
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Phil-A-Rhythm demonstrates the basic and exotic qualities of the percussion family, along with their origins and unique sounds. Students are invited on stage to play the instruments and are encouraged to sing along to well-known songs such as Under the Sea and The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
Steel Pans of the Caribbean
Phil-A-Rhythm transports students to the Caribbean in this interactive program that explores the history, rhythms, and sounds of the steel pan.
Strings for Little Ones
featuring: Barnett String Quartet
Barnett String Quartet uses stuffed animals, including some of the Muppets, to tell a musical story of strings. Accompanied by lots of fun and interaction between the children and the musicians, the students can try out tiny string instruments to see how they feel! This assembly is a perfect introduction to the world of string instruments.
featuring: Alexandra Day
In this highly interactive and engaging program, singer/songwriter, Alex Day, nurtures students as they unearth their musical potential through the exploration of melody, harmony, projection, and other key vocal concepts.
Voices & Bucket Drumming
featuring: Alexandra Day and Leon Jordan, Sr.
Drummer, Leon Jordan, and singer, Alexandra Day, combine forces to help students explore two of the most intuitive forms of music making: percussion and vocals. Spanning genres including jazz, Caribbean, traditional choral, and current pop, this highly interactive program gets students out of their seats and into the rhythm of making music.
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Cumberland trail network getting major climbing addition
Jon Gauthier, staff Tuesday, Feb. 26th, 2019
Current outlook on trails near Cumberland
CUMBERLAND, B.C- A major new mountain bike trail is getting added in Cumberland.
The village is well-known for its forest trail network, and the United Riders of Cumberland are looking to make that network more accessible. That’s taken the form of the Western Climbing Trail Project.
The group is aiming to create a climbing non-motorized trail approximately 4.0km long that will allow users to access the upper part of the trail network without having to travel on resource roads.
The UROC is excited to add the trail but Trail Manager Nathan Kwanalso said it will benefit everyone, not just riders.
“The Cumberland trail network continues to grow in popularity with both local users and visitors – last year we saw over 120,000 visits on the 90+ km of trail here,” said Kwan, in an emailed statement.
“As the organization responsible for trail management in the area through our land access agreement with the landowners, UROC works towards making the trail network safer, more accessible and more enjoyable.”
Last year the UROC applied for a BC Rural Dividend Program grant, administered by the BC provincial government, and it was awarded to them in March 2018.
The project hopes to begin construction in late March to early April with completion set for August of this year.
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Sagebrush in the Great Basin Sagebrush ecosystem in Northeastern Nevada © Chip Carroon
Nevada Conservation Programs
Conserving Sagebrush
Shaping the future of millions of acres of sage grouse habitat in Nevada
The rolling hills of silver-green sagebrush that span Nevada's wide-open spaces between sharp purple peaks on the horizon are some of our state's most iconic landscapes. But if we don't take action now, these lands may not be able to support the wildlife—or the people and communities—that depend on them.
Nevada's sagebrush lands are home to an array of wildlife, including Greater sage-grouse, mule deer and pygmy rabbits
Healthy sagebrush systems are important to Nevada's economy, supporting activities communities rely on, like ranching and mining
People need sagebrush, too. These sprawling lands are important to the unique quality of life we enjoy in Nevada
From hikers to photographers to sportsmen, Nevada sagebrush lands offer you a chance to recharge and connect with nature
The Challenges We Face
Today the sagebrush ecosystems that once covered much of western North America have been significantly changed and fragmented by a wide array of threats, including invasive plants, catastrophic wildfire and incompatible land uses.
Greater sage-grouse that live in these habitats have been steadily declining too. A hundred years ago, millions of these iconic birds roamed much of the West, nesting and breeding in healthy sagebrush habitat. Changes have occurred more quickly over recent decades.
Now there are only about 200,000 birds left. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has already decided sage-grouse warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act, but hasn't yet issued a final determination.
The vast majority of Nevada's sage-grouse habitat is on public lands. But many wet meadows critical to rearing of young chicks exist on private lands, making those habitats critically important to sage-grouse as well.
Greater Sage-Grouse in Montana Today there are only 200,000 Greater sage-grouse left. We're working to change that by improving the habitats they and Nevadans need. © Jeannie Stafford/USFS
Though the challenges we face are daunting, there is hope. Sagebrush landscapes offer a conservation opportunity at an unprecedented scale.
Investing today, we can affect what happens to millions of acres of land for years to come. We have the chance to shape the future of not only these great landscapes, but also the future of how industries interact with the environment and how huge swathes of public lands are managed.
Conservancy scientists in Nevada have developed an innovative planning tool called Sage-Grouse Conservation Forecasting. Using satellite imagery to create maps of important habitat and current conditions, we then employ predictive computer models that simulate the natural succession patterns of vegetation growth (e.g., young to mature plants), and evaluate what kinds of habitat improvements are likely to occur in response to restoration actions made in the near future.
Sage-Grouse Conservation Forecasting is part of a larger Conservancy toolbox, Development by Design, that identifies potential conflicts between development and conservation priorities, steers impacts away from areas of high conservation value, and identifies additional conservation actions to offset impacts where they do occur.
Sage-Grouse Conservation Forecasting can help land managers:
Make smart decisions by using science-based conservation experience and expertise
Assess current habitat conditions over large landscapes
Identify solutions with the biggest bang for each limited buck, making every dollar for conservation count
Establish measurable goals to track progress and inform next steps
Engage stakeholders by taking advantage of a collaborative, non-confrontational approach
Working together with public agencies that control more than 85% of these lands—and private landowners, nonprofits, companies and policymakers—we can develop strategies to restore our expansive, irreplaceable landscapes to a healthier condition for wildlife and for people.
We've already begun preparing assessments for nearly 2 million acres of public and private land managed by Barrick Gold and Newmont Mining Corporation. Together these companies manage lands that include sagebrush, wet meadows and streams that provide great opportunities for sage-grouse conservation.
Science As A Foundation
We've been employing unique science tools on Nevada landscapes for years. Sage-Grouse Conservation Forecasting was tailored from an earlier approach we've used across the state and beyond, including at:
Great Basin National Park: We created a plan with natural resource managers to outline affordable strategies to effectively conserve or restore every ecosystem in the park over the next 50 years.
Bodie Hills, California: We worked with the Bureau of Land Management to develop a plan to protect, restore and plan for climate change impacts to important habitat for the bi-state population of sage-grouse and other wildlife.
Hamlin Valley and Black Mountains, Utah: We're currently assessing management strategies for habitats supporting sage-grouse and the threatened Utah prairie dog.
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Summerset lifts fourth-quarter sales 31% as strong resales bolster annual figure
Resales rose 23% in the fourth quarter.
By Paul McBeth
Summerset Group lifted fourth-quarter sales by 31 percent, setting a quarterly record for the retirement village operator and developer, due largely to a jump in the resale of occupation rights.
The Wellington-based company increased sales of occupation rights to 204 in the three months ended Dec. 31 from 156 a year earlier, of which new sales were flat at 106 while resales almost doubled to 98. That took annual sales to 682, a 3.6 percent gain from 2016, of which new sales shrank 7.7 percent to 382 while resales rose 23 percent to 300.
"The fourth quarter saw the highest new sales quarter of the year and we also saw high demand for resale units which contributed to the strong result," chief executive Julian Cook said in a statement. "We continue to see good demand for our retirement units and presales and waitlist levels both continue to track positively."
Last month Summerset raised annual earnings guidance on the strength of resale volumes and margins, projecting underlying profit of between $77 million and $79 million in calendar 2017, up from a previous forecast of $72 million-to-$75 million. Summerset's 2016 underlying earnings, which strips out property revaluations, rose 50 percent to $56.6 million.
Summerset has 22 retirement villages completed or in development across the country. It also has seven development sites in different parts of the country and provides a range of living options and care services to more than 4,400 residents.
The shares last traded at $5.52 and are up 19 percent from a year earlier.
Resales rose 23% in the fourth quarter.
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LOW-RESIDENCY DANCE WRITING LAB AT NCCAKRON
"Dance making, dance viewing, and dancing are relational propositions/activities. There is no unidirectional movement from choreographer to dance to performance to audience to critic to writing. All of this lives and breathes in interaction, intersection, criss-crossing vectors...
Tere said he would prefer to hear “bad or intelligible words from the artist to dismantle hierarchies” rather than have writers speaking for artists. Let’s talk badly and unintelligibly together."
- NCCAkron Low-Residency Dance Writer Sima Belmar
For more of Sima's thoughts on the NCCAkron Low-Residency Writing Lab, please read her essay "In Practice: Colleague-Criticism," published by Dancers Group.
Tere O'Connor Dance in The Goodbye Studies. Photo by Paula Court.
In the summer of 2017, NCCAkron Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke and choreographer and writer Tere O'Connor (NYC/Champaign-Urbana, IL) co-designed a Low-Residency Dance Writing Lab to be hosted by NCCAkron. This year-long experiment connected a cohort of five dance writers from across the country to investigate questions such as: What is the purpose of dance writing? For whom are we writing about dance? How is it getting distributed?
Dance writing and criticism has often kept itself at arm's length from artists and presenters. As such, dance writers are unable to locate themselves in the dance ecology -- an ecology that is rapidly changing and shifting with fewer and fewer writing opportunities to be had. NCCAkron pushes initiatives that allow dance writers to dialogue directly with artists and embrace "a position of passionate proximity" ¹ (Low-Res Dance Writer Sima Belmar).
The five writers who participated in the inaugural Dance Writing Lab are:
• Sima Belmar, lecturer in the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies at UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
• Betsy Brandt, dance dramaturg and professor at Webster University (St. Louis, MO)
• Katy Dammers, artistic producer at Philadelphia FringeArts (Philadelphia, PA)
• Benedict Nguyen, administrator for Donna Uchizono Company and freelance performer (New York, NY)
• Lauren Warnecke, dance critic at The Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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The road to devolution
By Emma.SarahHall
In Business growth and finance, Funding
The road to devolution2016-04-152017-06-14/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/logo.pngNorth East Local Enterprise Partnershiphttps://www.northeastlep.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Andrew-Hodgson-e1454064239999.jpg200px200px
All journeys have to begin at a starting point and the North East could be about to take the first step on the road to devolution.
It’s a well worn phrase over the past few months, but it’s no exaggeration to say that devolution offers us a once in a generation chance to help shape an improved economic future for the North East of England.
There’s a real economic momentum being built up around the Strategic Economic Plan, supporting business growth and job creation.
Devolution presents us with a chance to really capitalise on this momentum.
The LEP has consistently expressed its support for devolution for the North East and I reiterate that support as chair.
I recognise however that not everybody is happy with what is being offered by Government.
I fully respect that. At the end of the day, they are elected members of a local authority and they have made what they believe is the best judgement for local people.
On a personal level, I also think there is much more we can do, and respect people looking at the devolution deal and thinking ‘is that good enough?’
But the deal was never going to be perfect from day one. It is more about how we can get to where we want to be.
We have a stark choice now to decide either not to participate in devolution or go with it and work alongside Government to get the best possible deal we can for the North East.
The areas that were involved in the devolution process early tell us that we have got to do this in phases.
Manchester has been on this devolution path a little longer and they are starting to reap the benefits.
We have got to establish how we can make devolution work for us and use that as the platform to achieve bigger and better things.
Continuing negotiations and discussions with Government, as the combined authority is doing, together with a very strong business voice to help further improve the delivery of the Strategic Economic Plan for the region, has to be the way forward.
The business members of the North East LEP board are fully supportive of how our fellow board members as combined authority leaders are trying to deliver on that.
Ultimately, devolution only really matters when it makes sense to people and not just to business organisations, politicians or indeed, the LEP.
And as with all journeys, you have to begin somewhere to travel to the point you want to get to. The devolution deal is just that – a deal and it can be improved.
We have to respect the fact there are differing opinions and compromises will have to be made.
But we have the opportunity to take our own path to a better and more prosperous economic future.
The devolution deal will allow us to better take the really big decisions that will help us deliver on more of the ambitions set out in the Strategic Economic Plan which is crucial to the sustainable growth of our economy.
Andrew Hodgson, North East LEP Chair.
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Propane gas is the most widely used alternative fuel, with nearly 4 million vehicles worldwide running on propane. More than 350,000 vehicles run on propane in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Energys Alternative Fuels Data Center.
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Rock-a-bye Baby: Singer 301 Cabinet Cradle
Singer 301 Slant Needle Sewing Machine
So you're the proud owner of a Singer 301 Slant Needle "Featherweight" and you've decided you want to install it in a cabinet.
So you turn the machine around...
Singer 301 rear view.
Uh-oh, something is missing.
The good news is your eyes are not playing tricks on you.
The bad news is that unlike every other full-size vintage Singer, the 301 does not have the holes for mounting cabinet hinges.
So, now what?
Relax. There IS a solution, and I'll get to it in a moment.
But first, a quick history lesson:
301 has no hinge mounts.
Like the 221 Featherweight, the 301 was designed to be a light-weight portable machine.
The full-size 301 weighed only 16 pounds, had a built--in carry handle and came in a convenient carrying case.
To complement the perfect portable machine, Singer designed some brilliant cabinet options.
One option was a lightweight folding card-table with built-in support brackets. Space-saving and simple for a small house or apartment.
But Singer knew some customers would want to use their 301 in a full-size cabinet. Which presented a bit of a problem. After all, anchoring the perfect portable into a cabinet with fixed hinges rather defeated the purpose of designing a portable in the first place!
Singer 301 cabinet cradle (part # 170112)
So Singer devised a creative solution.
First they offered the 301 in two configurations: long-bed and short-bed.
The long-bed version was intended for portable use only, but could also be used in some card tables. (Long-bed card tables are still out there, but they are hard to find.)
The short bed version was paired with a clip-on bracket/cradle (Simanco part # 170112, shown above) which mounted inside the cabinet using standard swivel hinges. The machine clipped into the cradle, turning the perfect portable into the perfect cabinet machine. But with the press of a lever the machine could be quickly removed for portable use.
It's an odd-looking contraption, but the perfect complement to the "Full-Size Featherweight." (NOTE: Some Singer cabinets are not compatible with the 301 cradle because the front edge support brackets cannot be installed. See photos and additional note at end of article.)
So what does this look like? First, let's take a look at how the cradle attaches to the machine and how the quick-release lever works:
Next, we'll look at how to attach hinges:
(Note: hinges are shown being installed on a 401 but the installation process is identical for the 301 cradle.)
Finally, we'll take a look at how the machine with cradle mounts in the cabinet:
See "Hide and Seek - Singer Sewing Machine Cabinet" for video demonstration.
Yep, it's that simple. Keep in mind, however, that this only works if your 301 is a short-bed model. If you have a long-bed 301 then you'll either have to modify the machine or the cabinet for it to fit. Or you can keep your eyes open for a card table designed to fit the long-bed. These are pretty rare, though.
301 cabinet cradles are usually available on eBay. Check your cabinet to see it if already has the front edge support brackets. If not, you'll want to look for a cradle that includes them. Check your machine to see if the hinge mounting set screws are already in place. If not, you'll want to make sure set screws are included in when you purchase the cradle and/or hinges.
There, problem solved, just as promised at the beginning of this article!
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See "Got Steel? Singer 301--the Featherweight's Big Sister" for more information on the Singer 301 Slant Needle.
See "Hide and Seek - Singer Sewing Machine Cabinet" for video of setting up and stowing away a sewing machine in a cabinet.
Note: The front edge support brackets require a flat surface on the inside edge of the front lift panel. Some cabinets have a protruding lip which supports the front edge of the machine, which will not work with the 301 cradle. Please review the above photos to see how the front edge support brackets attach to the cabinet and see below for examples of a cabinet that WILL NOT work with the cabinet cradle.
Special thanks to readers David, Lisalu, and Ann for sharing experiences and research that led me to make significant revisions to this article in the interests of accuracy and clarity.
Got Steel? Singer 301 - the Featherweight's Big Sister
Singer 301 Slant Needle "Featherweight"
Looking for a straight-stitch sewing machine? Direct drive motor? Steel gears?
There are a number of phenomenal vintage Singer sewing machines that will fill the bill; 15-91, 15-125, 201-1, 404, and 604 to name a few.
BUT, if you also want a lightweight portable, then the Singer 301 Slant Needle is the machine for you. Especially if you love the Singer 221 Featherweight but want a full-size machine for larger projects. In fact, the 301 is affectionately nicknamed "The Featherweight's Big Sister."
While it shares a number of features with the 221 Featherweight, the 301 is mechanically very different from the Featherweight.
Featherweight-class bobbin
The 301 is the first of Singer's legendary steel-gear direct-drive slant-needle family. Cast in lightweight aluminum, it's the only slant needle that doesn't have a rotary hook placed in front of the presser foot. Instead, the 301 uses the same bobbin as the 221 Featherweight, which mounts beneath the platform to the left of the needle.
Singer 301 "Trapezoid" carry case
The 301 has a flip-up sewing platform extension similar to the 221 Featherweight, and it was designed to be a portable sewing machine. It has a built-in carry handle and was packaged in a distinctive trapezoid-shaped carrying case.
Singer offered the 301 in two versions. The "long bed" version had a longer flip-up table, similar in length to the smaller Featherweight. The "short-bed" version had a shorter flip-up table conforming to the standard dimensions of the 201, 401, & 500.
The long-bed was designed to be strictly portable, while the short-bed could be used as a portable or cabinet machine when paired with a special bracket.
Cabinet cradle for Singer 301
Because it was intended to be portable, the 301 does not have hinge mounts. Which presented a bit of a problem if you want to mount the machine in a conventional cabinet.
Singer solved this problem by producing a funky cradle that clips onto the base of the 301. The cradle has standard hinge mounts enabling the machine to be mounted into a Singer cabinet.
The machine releases from the cradle with the press of a lever, further enhancing it's status as the perfect portable. (See "Rock-a-bye Baby: Singer 301 Cabinet Cradle" for more details. )
Singer also produced a portable table for the 301, similar to the card-table for the 221 Featherweight. But these tables are extremely rare, so happy hunting!
Long Bed 301 in "Trapezoid" case
The 301 head weighs a mere 16 pounds, but the overall weight with foot control and motor is closer to 22 pounds. Significantly lighter than the 15-91, which is a cast-iron behemoth or even the 401 which is cast aluminum with a lot of internal steel components.
When it comes to power, the 301 has the gear-driven chops to handle heavy fabrics but is gentle enough for fine dressmaking and quilting too. It's a domestic machine with a .72 amp motor so it isn't meant for day-in, day-out heavy duty sewing but it will do the job beautifully on an occasional basis.
The 301 also features a convenient drop-feed knob for darning or free motion work. Buttonhole and zigzagger attachments are avaiable for additional creative design flexibility.
So if you love the Featherweight but want a larger machine without belts, the 301 is the one for you! Lightweight enough to carry to quilting classes but with heavy duty power for hemming jeans or tackling light upholstery jobs too.
Got steel? The 301 Slant Needle sure does!
HappySewing!
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