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Permira closes in on fashion house Valentino
By Claudia Cristoferi and Rachel Sanderson
MILAN/LONDON (Reuters) - Private equity firm Permira PERM.UL is in exclusive talks to buy more than half of famed Italian fashion house Valentino V.MI, it said on Friday, dimming the chances of a bid battle with U.S. rival Carlyle.
Sources close to negotiations said the move by London-based Permira had almost certainly shut out the prospect of Carlyle launching a counter bid for Valentino, whose wardrobe of brands also includes Hugo Boss and Marlboro Classics.
Permira said it was negotiating with majority shareholders the Marzotto family to pay 35 euros a share excluding a dividend for 24 percent of Valentino, valuing the company at 2.6 billion euros ($3.5 billion). It already owns 29.6 percent.
Should it succeed, Permira would be forced under Italian law to launch a full takeover of the fashion house famous for dressing stars such as Julia Roberts, Sophia Loren and Jackie Kennedy Onassis in its floor-sweeping gowns.
Valentino stock fell more than 4 percent to 35.2 euros as investors saw the prospect of a bid war ebb. It hit a record on Thursday on expectations Permira and Carlyle would compete for the house founded by Valentino Garavani 45 years ago.
"The game is more or less over," one of the sources close to the negotiations said.
Private equity firms are showing increased interest in the fashion world with no sign of a let-up in booming sales of luxury goods in emerging economies like China, India and Russia.
Shares in Hugo Boss rose nearly 3 percent on Friday amid expectations Permira will be forced to buy the company if it succeeds in its takeover of Valentino Fashion.
FROCK FINANCE
Permira's move follows Change Capital's purchase of Jil Sander from Prada last year while TowerBrook Capital Partners bought out shoemaker Jimmy Choo in February.
Valentino is one of the world's most recognized fashion brands and analysts said private equity had plenty of potential to expand it internationally and into younger, cheaper ranges.
Italian designers Giorgio Armani and Dolce & Gabbana have created money-spinners by launching junior ranges Emporio Armani and D&G which sell skinny jeans for $200.
A Valentino signature red gown can cost $10,000.
Valentino trades at 25.5 times estimated earning for this year compared with 19 times for France's LVMH , the world's largest luxury goods group, providing an indication of the potential investors see for the Italian house's growth.
Permira's exclusive negotiations, with shareholders from the Marzotto family -- Valentino's majority owners and one of Italy's oldest fashion and textile clans, will expire on May 28.
Carlyle had been considering offering as much as 36 euros per share for the whole of Valentino before Permira swooped in to buy more than a quarter of the stock, disrupting its plans, sources close to the matter told Reuters this week.
The U.S. private equity giant said on Thursday it had not yet made a final decision on whether to bid.
The Marzotto family, which controls Valentino through several holding companies, including Tidus Srl and PFC Srl, spun off its fashion assets in 2005 to create Valentino Fashion.
Permira said in its statement its negotiations involved the possibility of those shareholders retaking a stake in Valentino should it gain control.
Holding company Canova Partecipazioni, which owns a 19 percent stake and is co-managed by Valentino Fashion Chairman Antonio Favrin, said in a statement it was staying on the sidelines of the negotiations for time being.
(Additional reporting by Jeffrey Goldfarb and Peter Starck)
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From reformer to hardliner: Putin’s 20 years on the global stage
By The Open View on August 8, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
Putin’s approval ratings remain at a level most Western leaders would envy but they have taken a hit from a stalling economy and declining living standards
Twenty years ago on Friday, Russian president Boris Yeltsin appointed his fourth prime minister in less than 18 months: Vladimir Putin, then a relatively unknown security services chief with scant experience of politics.
The departing Yeltsin was casting around for a successor and few could have predicted that two decades later Putin would still be ruling Russia, having taken on a dominant role in world affairs.
But the anniversary comes at a time of uncertainty in the leader’s reign.
Putin’s approval ratings remain at a level most Western leaders would envy but they have taken a hit from a stalling economy and declining living standards.
POOL/AFP/File / Dmitry ASTAKHOVAnalysts say it is unlikely that Russia’s longest-serving leader since Joseph Stalin will give up power completely when his current term ends in 2024
A protest movement in Moscow has meanwhile seen thousands arrested in recent weeks — the largest crackdown since a wave of demonstrations against Putin returning to the Kremlin in 2012 after another spell as prime minister.
The 66-year-old is meanwhile facing a succession drama of his own.
This is his last term in office according to the Russian constitution but — after stamping out the competition and taking control of most of the media — there is no obvious figure to replace him.
Analysts say it is unlikely that Russia’s longest-serving leader since Joseph Stalin will give up power completely when his current term ends in 2024.
– Putin the liberal –
The picture was very different when Putin won his first presidential election following Yeltsin’s early resignation on New Year’s Eve, 2000.
“Russia, despite its poverty and problems with criminality, was still a democratic, liberal country,” said prominent journalist Nikolai Svanidze, who often interviewed Putin at the start of his time in the Kremlin.
POOL/AFP/File / –Vladimir Putin was a relatively unknown security services chief with scant experience of politics when he was appointed president by Boris Yeltsin
“After 20 years in power, he’s not limited in any way — he’s practically a sultan,” Svanidze said.
Political analyst Konstantin Kalachev said Putin started out as a liberal who was ready to work with the West but over time took a more conservative and hostile stance.
“Until the mid-2000s there was a political life in the country and elections were competitive,” Kalachev said.
After the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, which the Kremlin believed was backed by foreign governments to reduce Russia’s influence in its Soviet-era satellite, Putin’s attitude changed.
The West’s dismissive attitude towards Russia as well as its interventions in Iraq, Libya and elsewhere further disillusioned Putin, Kalachev told AFP.
SPUTNIK/AFP/File / ALEXEY DRUZHININPutin remains popular among large swathes of the public, who see him as the man who restored Russia’s dignity following the humiliating collapse of the USSR
“I believe his disappointment… was the trigger in this evolution” towards a harder line, the analyst said.
Liberal Russians, however, had concerns about their leader from the start — not only over his background in the KGB but also his harsh crackdown on Chechen separatists as prime minister.
Questions remain over a series of deadly bombings of Russian apartment blocks, which were attributed to separatists but some claim were staged by the security services as cover for further military intervention in Chechnya.
Putin’s firm response to the crisis boosted his popularity among the wider public and helped him move from acting president to elected leader, with 53 percent of the vote.
He remains popular among large swathes of the public, who see him as the man who restored Russia’s dignity following the humiliating collapse of the USSR and as a guarantee of stability after the changes of the 1990s.
– ‘Historical mission’ –
Now Putin and his team are seeking a way out of the Kremlin that will allow them to maintain their influence, analyst and media commentator Gregory Bovt said.
AFP/File / Alexey PANOVThis Putin’s last term in office according to the Russian constitution but there is no obvious figure to replace him
This may be through the creation of a new institution rather than a short return to the role of prime minister to get around constitutional term limits on the presidency, as in 2008, according to Bovt.
“Some sort of collective body will be created to direct the country, and Putin will always remain the head,” he said — a similar system to ex-Soviet Kazakhstan, where longterm ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev stood down but continues to call the shots.
But if this happens, Putin will likely be far removed from the day-to-day running of Russia.
“He will remain watching over the country… his task is to fulfil his historical mission,” Bovt said.
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Retro-Sexual: The Best Comps, Reissues And Mixes Of 2010
The Quietus , December 13th, 2010 03:44
The best of this year's best-ofs... and more...
Listen to our epic Reissues, Comilations, Mixes and Live Albums Spotify Playlist here
Last Monday we published Angst Music For Sex People: The Quietus Top 40 Albums Of 2010. Now it is the turn of compilations, reissues, mixes and live albums. The same rules apply here... no heed has been paid to trying to construct an interesting, aesthetically pleasing or diverse list, this is just a record of what the three Quietus staffers (John Doran, Luke Turner and Ben Hewitt) have been listening to this year. Being relatively in thrall to our own neo-phillia, obviously a compilation of Thai funk, Indian acid house or occult goth crunk is going to get the nod more often than an album we've heard a million times before but at the same time we've relished the excuse to immerse ourselves in the likes of Station To Station, Bitches Brew and Henry's Dream again.
Feel free to suggest your own reissues of the year below...
40. Judas Priest - British Steel
"While Judas Priest would arguably go on to better things, British Steel, is an important record in the overall fabric of British heavy metal, simply because it was one of the first proper heavy metal albums. While fellow Brummies Black Sabbath are often credited with the invention of the term 'heavy metal', a lot of their early material was founded largely on blues; something you could never level at British Steel. This and the fact that it contains a slew of stone-cold metal anthems, makes this record seminal, and therefore certainly worthy of lavish repackaging of this kind." Mark Eglinton
Read The Quietus review of British Steel
Click here to buy British Steel: 30th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition 2CD+DVD)
39. Jesus And Mary Chain - Upside Down
"The other myth steamrollered by this generous 44-track compilation is that the Jesus and Mary Chain became a spent force after the release of their debut. Indeed, to examine the evidence to the contrary is to discover a treasure trove of musical delights." Julian Marszalek
Read The Quietus review of Upside Down
Click here to buy Upside Down: The Best Of The Jesus & Mary Chain
38. Bardo Pond - Bufo Alvarius
"There aren't really any riffs on 'Adhesive', just reverb reverb REVERB, and that's what they choose to open the album with. 'Back Porch' has a certain linearity to it, in that there's an unmistakable Blue Cheer stoner-blues chord beating at its centre, as well as Isobel Sollenberger's abstract wail. (Not sure when exactly people started comparing her to Grace Slick, but it's definitely stuck to an extent. Let's be real, when you're given the chance in a Bardo Pond review to invoke someone who tried to put LSD in Nixon's cuppa, you're gonna do it, because you like corny old drug references, because you're lame.)" Noel Gardner
Read The Quietus review of Bufo Alvarius
Click here to buy Bardo Pond - Bufo Alvarius
37. Various Artists - Isvolt
"There's a great but useful irony to all compilations that get rushed out at the merest hint of a new scene or genre: no one really understands what the rules are yet and none of the conventions have become codified. There are plenty of "witch house" compilations coming out at the moment but this is easily best, roping in such newly emergent figures as Fostercare, Party Trash and Master Suspiria Vision with an unsettling sound that draws on goth, shoe gaze, Memphis and Houston hip hop traditions and darkly psychedelic ambient electronica." John Doran
Click here to buy Various Artists - Isvolt
36. Charanjit Singh - Synthesizing Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat
"In 2002 I went to India to look up and interview Bollywood composers and musicians, as I wanted to find out how this music was made and recorded. I landed in Delhi, and of course went to dusty and crowded old Delhi to look for records. In a shop I found Ten Ragas..., and was attracted by the title. Usually such records contain a very cheesy disco potpourri, but this title was just too good so I bought it. Back in my hotel I played at my portable player, and I was blown away. It sounded like acid house, or like an ultra minimal Kraftwerk. Since then I've had the plan to issue it, but it's only now I came round it."
Edo Bouman, Bombay Connection
Click here to buy Charanjit Singh - Synthesizing Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat
35. The Heads - Relaxing With The Heads
"This is kinetic, physical music, and The Heads played like Bristol were some outlying burg in America, and a Drive-In screening of Easy Rider had just given the local hairies some smart ideas. The album is saturated in psychedelic rock ambience, fuzz and wah clinging to the guitars like patchouli to a hippy, but The Heads play their mind-expanding game straight, with no kitsch-y smirks: everything about Relaxing With The Heads is overdriven to the point of glorious excess, vivid and lurid like a Roger Corman Biker B-Movie: cheap and wonderfully nasty, leaving something bitter and fizzy at the back of the throat." Stevie Chick
Read The Quietus review of Relaxing With The Heads
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34. Galaxie 500 - Today
"They weren't a band who ever needed to change their sound, but to carry on doing what they did: to hone that downbeat grace, to embrace something no one was doing, something that no other band has really been able to replicate since. The material on these three albums is as fresh and as invigorating and as chest-tighteningly, heart-skippingly beautiful as it was the day they came out. Looking back and looking forward all at once. They've had their fair share of imitators, but listening to Galaxie 500 again only serves to confirm one thing: no one is ever going to come close." Ross Pounds
Read The Quietus review of Today
Click here to buy Galaxie 500 - Today: Deluxe Edition
33. Optimo (Espacio) - Fabric 52
"As one door shuts another opens. Sunday April 25 was the last Optimo (Espacio) party at the Sub Club in Glasgow. JD Twitch and JG Wilkes have been organizing Scotland’s most (rightfully) celebrated club night for the last 13 years and have put the night out to pasture in order to concentrate on other DJing, remixing and music related projects. Twitch (Keith McIvor), an Edinburgh born acid house fan, and Johnny Wilkes, a Belfast punk, met through the Pure night. Bored with the state of clubbing in the late 90s the pair formed Optimo as an excuse to play the kind of music that they never heard out. Whether that be EBM, techno, acid house, industrial, minimal, disco, funk, post punk… their only rules were to use the freedom of a Sunday night residency as freedom from the tyranny of the four to the floor house night hegemony. The pair will still occasionally be found DJing at Optimo Presents nights at the Sub but it certainly feels like this and the Fabric mix are drawing a line under this chapter of their career." John Doran
Read the Quietus Optimo feature here
Click here to buy Fabric52 - Optimo (Espacio): Mixed By Optimo
32. A Certain Ratio - Force
"The hinge moment on Force is undoubtedly 'Mickey Way'. This proved to be the slab of quality funk to which they always aspired. For anyone who hung around Manchester in 1987, it remains impossible to hear this song without being instantly transported to vision of Hacienda bollards; of a club finally coming to terms with an influx of house and truly a parallel club to New York's Paradise Garage. Indeed more than that, in the entire span of pre-Madchester Hacienda, only A Guy Called Gerald's 'Voodoo Ray' retains a more evocative effect. This remains a time travel song built from the steely influence of George Clinton." Mick Middles
Read The Quietus review of Force
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31. Various Artists - Palenque Palenque: Champeta Criolla and Afro-Roots in Columbia 1975-1991
"The Caribbean coast of Colombia has had a long relationship with Africa stretching back to the 17th Century. In the 1970s and ‘80s the sound system culture of the towns of Barranquilla and Cartagena started looking to Africa once again for musical influence. The DJs and ‘picos’ (soundsystems) began to play imported modern African and Caribbean Creole music alongside Colmbian hits and the ‘Champeta’ sound was born."
From www.forcedexposure.com.
Click here to buy Palenque Palenque: Champeta Criolla and Afro-Roots in Columbia 1975-1991
30. Various Artists - Rough Trade Synth Wave 10
"Making an invaluable counterpoint to the likes of Angular's Cold Waves & Minimal Electronics and Stones Throw's The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol One albums, the latest Rough Trade compilation looks at the wealth of modern bands using these genres as a jumping off point today. Combining strands of Cold Wave with early electro, synth pop and industrial are the likes of Factory Floor, Xeno and Oaklander, Cosmetics and Cold Cave." John Doran
Click here to buy Rough Trade Shops: Synth Wave 2010
29. Shackleton - Fabric 55
"His contribution to the Fabric mix series, as well as providing a document of his totally immersive, intensely danceable live set, also works as a formidable consolidation of everything he's put together so far. As with both Omar-S and Ricardo Villalobos' Fabric mixes, it consists of entirely his own material. But unlike those discs' relatively straightforward construction, where each individual track is given space to breathe, at the root of Shackleton's mix lie the strange, claustrophobic things that happen when several collide at once and stack upon one another. Indeed, what makes fabric55 so special, and the finest addition to the series so far, is that it transcends the limits of a typical mix CD. By slicing his tracks into tiny individual pieces - lithe strands of percussion, distant, dissonant string drones, the downpitched incantations of 'Hypno Angel' – Shackleton is able to maintain a single motif throughout long stretches, lose it among the percussive fray then resurrect it later on during an entirely separate track." Rory Gibbs
Read The Quietus review of Fabric 55
Click here to buy Fabric55 - Shackleton: Mixed By Shackleton
28. Various Artists - The Exploding Disco Inevitable
"This year Finders Keepers Records is five years old. Since its inception, the label has reissued and uncovered a vast and diverse range of music taking in Persian funk, Welsh folk, proto-feminist Czech cinema soundtracks, German library music and Pakistani electronic pop. And that’s just for starters. It's grown into something of a dream for those of us who are hungry for unheard sounds - entirely reliable and completely unpredictable. The music alone would be more than enough reason for celebration but they should also be worshipped for a profoundly anti-snobbish attitude. Every release is stuffed full of impeccably researched notes charting cultural histories and large personalities - Finders Keepers are educational without assuming anything on the part of the listener, and they side-step dodgy notions of high and low culture." Jonny Mugwump
Read the Quietus Finders Keepers article here.
Click here to buy Exploding Disco Inevitable
27. The Cure - Disintegration
"Disintegration has been described as a sequel to 1982's wrist-slitting fan favourite, Pornography. Yet the two albums are very different. Pornography is dense, claustrophobic and virtually tuneless - in the best possible sense. Turgid and deliberately ugly, drowning in self-pity and occasionally lashing out with bursts of savage loathing, Pornography sounds like depression feels: sucking all positive energy into a black hole of utter negativity. But Disintegration is spacious and melodic, and filled with moments of great beauty. Its pace is stately and elegiac. Bells twinkle like stars in the midnight sky; melodic basslines weave their way through the gentle sadness of sighing guitars and keyboards that rise up like glaciers. Certainly, to the unaccustomed ear, there is doom and gloom aplenty; the abyss is never far away. But this is the Cure we're talking about, after all. These things are relative. Disintegration is a melancholy record, but not a depressed one." Ben Graham
Read the Quietus review of Disintegration here.
Click here to buy Disintegration (Deluxe Edition)
26. Various Artists - To Scratch Your Heart: Early Recordings from Istanbul
"All the music presented here is non-religious. Folk and classical traditions are mixed, sometimes crossed. Most of the singers are hafiz - that is, versed in a musical reading of the Koran, and renowned for mastery of the gazel. Here, a musical setting is improvised - according to the makam system of corresponding modal sets - for poetry of the soul, wine, love and beauty."
Gokhan Ara in the liner notes of To Scratch Your Heart
Click here to buy To Scratch Your Heart: Early Recordings from Istanbul
25. Chris & Cosey - Heartbeat
"After Throbbing Gristle ground to a halt in 1981, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti embarked on a remarkable career of exploring dark electronics, synth pop and electro together. This is the first of their joint albums originally released by Rough Trade and now lovingly reissued on vinyl by CTI." John Doran
Read Scott McKeating's interview with Chris Carter here
Click here to buy Chris & Cosey - Heartbeat
24. Wooden Shjips - Vol 2
"Wooden Shjips are clearly subscribers to the theory that anything containing more than three chords is jazz. Their adherence to this theory has led them to scale back to the degree that one chord, one note or one riff is quite enough to be going on with, thank you very much. And more power to them, for this is a band that utterly revels in the sheer stupidity that minimalist lysergic rock has to offer.
"Originally designed to be an output for non-musicians, Wooden Shjips manage to do much with very little. So it is that Vol. 2 is a fine collection of rarities, foreign label releases and tour souvenir cuts that acts as a pit stop until these cosmic rough riders propel their next full-length album through your third eye to mainline straight to your addled brain." Julian Marszalek
To read the full Quietus review click here.
Click here to buy Wooden Shjips - Vol 2
23. Wire - Send Ultimate
"There are so many treasures in Wire's back catalogue, it's often hard to know in which exact location you should be mining for them - particularly with any critical rapture still tending to focus on their fantastic debut Pink Flag and the epochal third LP 154. But one of the most pleasing aspects of their 2010 renaissance, which included them playing two Quietus-curated shows with Factory Floor and LoneLady, has been the spotlight it has thrown on their more overlooked records. This year's reissue of Send, then, was very welcome indeed: a more brutal affair than their new album Red Bark Tree, it's a clear riposte to anyone who thinks that Wire just deal in taut and tight post-punk with the bracing 'The Agfers Of Kodack' and slow-burn menace of '99.9', while 'Being Watched' surely counts as one of Colin Newman's most joyfully virile moments. Sure, a lot of the material is culled from the Read and Burn EPs, but when it's this much more complex and compelling than anything that most post-punk bands could muster, does it really matter?" Ben Hewitt
Read Wire discussing their new album Red Barked Tree here
Click here to buy Wire - Send Ultimate
22. Juan Maclean - DJ Kicks
"It would probably be an overstatement to say the story of John Maclean was one of redemption or deliverance, but it is true that the New Yorker has faced a demon or two on his way. Maclean has waded through a drug addiction that took him almost to the point of irrevocable destruction; the dissolution of a band beset by tragedy; and eventually a profound apathy towards the plasticity of the scenes he found himself in that made him give up music altogether. While averting total disaster, that's a lot of spanners in the works." Barnaby Smith
Read the full Quietus interview here
Click here to buy Juan Maclean - DJ Kicks
21. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
"None of 2010's batch of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds reissues may be on a par with From Her To Eternity - re-released last year along with three other Bad Seeds albums - but Henry's Dream surely comes close. Cave may have reportedly had misgivings about the work of long-term Neil Young collaborator David Briggs, but the producer's commitment to recording live in the studio helped capture Cave's bitter romanticism at its most poignant. Whether he's picking over the remains of a doomed relationship in 'Straight To You' or taking a moonlight stroll with a loved one in 'Loom Of The Land', he's never anything less than utterly compelling." Ben Hewitt
Read The Quietus interview with Nick Cave and Jim Sclavunous of Grinderman here
Click here to buy Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
20. Congotronics - Box Set
"Anyone who has spent time in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, will know that it's a city that bustles with an industrious and infectious energy. Maybe it was living there that inspired Mawangu Mingiedi to take that energy and apply it like jump leads to the Bazombo trance music he had grown up with near the Angolan border. In doing so, he created a band called Konono No.1 and revolutionised a musical tradition that stretched back hundreds of years. The impact Konono No.1 have had on Bazombo music has been literally electrifying. When Mingiedi found himself unable to find the sound he was looking for using traditional instruments he took it upon himself to build the first ever electric likembe. The likembe is a kind of handheld piano played with the thumbs, but amplification using magnets salvaged from old cars transformed it. When the band plays the likembe on stage it looks like they're operating oversized remote controls. It sounds like nothing you've ever heard before." Kevin Perry
Read the Quietus Congotronics feature here.
Click here to buy Congotronics: Limited Edition Boxset
19. Various Artists - The Sound Of Siam: Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz And Molam From Thailand, 1964 - 1975
"Despite being one of the few Asian countries never to have been colonized by Europeans, Thailand is very open culturally, with its indigenous music being influenced by China, India and much further afield. The Luk Thung of the title (literal translation: children of the fields) is the equivalent of country music, while Molam refers to the vigorous Laotian strand of folk pop that features urgent, almost rapped vocals. There are three tracks by Thailand’s leading female Molam singer Chaweewan Dumnern whose ‘Sao Lam Plearn’ sounds like the SE Asian Jumping Jack Flash’. Yet again Soundway have struck gold with this curious and rewarding compilation."
John Doran writing in The Stool Pigeon newspaper
Click here to buy Soundway Records Presents The Sound Of Siam : Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz And Molam From Thailand 1964 - 1975
18. Various Artists - Disco Discharge: The Pink Pounders
"I came out at a Disco, the Masquerade in London's Earls Court Road to be exact. It was situated in the basement of the local launderette (but then weren't they all at this early period in Disco's development that would see the expansion from tiny supper club to hi-tech hanger) and consisted of two large-ish rooms. One had a miniscule mirror-walled dance floor at the end. The other was where the Alkasura label (think early Vivienne Westwood) fashion queens congregated and ate the tiny salad that had to be a legal provision as per the outdated late-night licensing laws. You could only serve alcohol if some food was provided in the not so swinging 1971. I was taken to the Masquerade by a fellow work mate who had obviously guessed I was gay before I even knew myself. And to Isaac Hayes' 'Theme from Shaft' I was picked up by a Spanish tourist and finally realized why I never felt comfortable with having girlfriends." Alan Jones
Read the Quietus feature on the gayest of disco here.
Click here to buy Disco Discharge - Pink Pounders
17. David Bowie - Station To Station
"The proverbial Peruvian is all over this record, but not in an over-produced, airbrushed Rumours way. Station to Station is shiny but spare, harsh; it captures the jagged edge, the exquisite balancing act between the high and the comedown, and the sense of feeling hugely emotional at the same time as feeling completely numb and detached that is a typical symptom of fast white drugs (speed, E, coke). Similarly the intellectual grandstanding, paranoia and occultism, barely masking an inner desperation; having made a career out of wearing masks, inventing personas, analysing his emotions from a distance and then acting them out, Bowie seems desperate for a way out of his situation." Ben Graham
Read The Quietus review here
Click here to buy David Bowie - Station To Station
16. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
"A lot of people try and get into this hypnotic thing where they don't know what they're getting ready to do but the musicians are just not intense enough. With Miles Davis it's just about the intensity. There's something about the things going on and there are subtle changes going on but at the same time it's like 'This is what you're doing motherfuckers!' And they're all great musicians and they're all concentrating on this thing but it's obviously because of Miles. They're scared shitless that they're going to play the wrong thing or play it out of context and Miles is going to physically [attack them] and say 'Motherfucker!' And I think you can feel that. Miles doesn't even come into some of these jams for quite a bit. You're kind of waiting for the ship to get to a certain point in the ocean before getting on board. It's just repetitive enough that you don't worry... the mood just builds and builds and builds." Wayne Coyne
Read John Lydon, Nick Cave, Paul Weller, Mike Patton, Iggy Pop and Jason Pierce discuss their favourite Miles Davis albums
Click here to buy Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
15. Various Artists - The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol One
"It's more avant garde. It's delves deeply into how out there the artists of this era could be. Which is pretty far out. We licenced the Stereo track 'Somewhere in The Night' from Minimal Wave, and communicated with them to make sure we didn't overlap with the tracklistings. We kept in touch to compare notes on how the comps were doing, I think the fact that there were two at the same time was mutually beneficial to both of them. Everybody loves a scene. I like lots of [tracks on the album]. 'Game And Performance' by Deux was one we wanted for our comp but MW wouldn't let us have it, exquisite French pop, like 'Polaroid Roman Photo' by Ruth. 'Moscu Esta Helado' by Esplendor Geometrico is great, it sounds like 'Higher State Of Consciousness' and 'Caramel' by Cluster. But my fave is 'Flying Turns' by Crash Course in Science, it's weird, intense, new wavey and it sounds like a hot summer sidewalk getting hotter. Also LCD Soundsystem blatantly ripped it off for 'Losing My Edge'."
Joe Daniel on the difference between The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol 1 and his Angular compilation Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics Vol 1
Click here to buy Minimal Wave Tapes Volume 1
14. Chris Carter - The Spaces Between
"Cosey Fanni Tutti, Sleazy, Genesis P-Orridge and... Chris. An example, if needed, that Chris Carter was always the least obviously peacock of the Throbbing Gristle quartet. Having won the heart of industrial music's only pin-up Cosey (his partner of thirty years), and in doing so exposing the growing cracks in Throbbing Gristle's united front, Carter's solo career began before TG imploded. He may well have had the technological improvisational know-how to make him the ideal backroom boffin, but Chris Carter is rightfully as well known now for his musical creativity as he is for his skill with a circuit board and a computer. His debut solo record The Spaces Between was released on TG's own Industrial Records back in 1980, and was reissued in 1991 by Mute Records. Over thirty years on, the original The Spaces Between still sounds fresh, a series of rhythmic minimalist rushes that predated the minimalist techno boom and influenced an army of bedroom experimenters."
Click here to buy Chris Carter - The Spaces Between
13. Godflesh - Streetcleaner
"[Streetcleaner] is an album that still remains a low water mark in nihilism and misanthropy, delivered with uttermost militancy in musical intensity and lyrical bile. There were antecedents to this astounding album, it combined the oppressive machine beats of Throbbing Gristle with the torrential noise of Swans’ Cop and married it to the anti-disco tribal pulse of early Killing Joke and the abrasive vocal delivery of Grindcore. It’s just that this mix proved to be Hellishly perfect. Most brilliant (and some awful), machine tooled metal and industrial from the 90s onwards can trace its ancestry back to this uncompromising vision of a man made hell on earth."
John Doran writing in Metal Hammer magazine
Click here to buy Godflesh - Streetcleaner
12. Various Artists - Pomegranates
"It’s no accident that the phoenix is an exacted moral, mythical and figurative symbol in Iran. Like the phoenix, Iranian culture is in constant flux an, at times, elusive, with its existential wavering and blurred panoramas. Most of contemporary Iran’s artistic and creative leanings, its grapples with history and identity are loosely and mystically conjoined and contested in memory." Mahssa Taghinia
Click here to buy Pomegranates
11. Ruth - Polaroid/Roman/Photo
"It's the early '80s, and Thierry Müller, a graphic artist and krautrock fan from Paris, has decided to put his experimental rock group Ilitch on hold and make something, as he puts it, 'that people could dance to'. The result is Ruth, a conceptual project that exists for just one album, 1985's Polaroïd/Roman/Photo. Seven tracks long, it is a remarkable piece of experimental but danceable new-wave, and nowhere more remarkable than the title track – an icy-cold cut of flickering synthesiser, taut guitar and jagged saxophone featuring disconsolate boy-girl vocals and the mechanical click-spool sound of a Polaroid camera.
Polaroïd/Roman/Photo is not a success. History has it that the record sells in the region of 50 copies, and before long, Müller's interest has strayed elsewhere... But this is not the end for Ruth. By the year 2000, the track 'Polaroïd/Roman/Photo' has been rediscovered and is being recirculated by an international underground of collectors and music fans entranced by the early groups of France's la vague froid – the movement that became known internationally as 'cold wave'." Louis Pattison
Read Louis Pattison's interview with Thierry Müller
Click here to buy Ruth - Polaroid/Roman/Photo
10. Liars - Live
"Liars are a band defined by the bubbles they've inhabited over the years. Trapped in the Brooklyn post-punk bubble for their appropriately named 2002 debut, They Threw Us All In A Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top, the band escaped of the dance-punk tag by retreating to an isolated house in New Jersey. Free of Williamsburg's hipsters, the band turned inwards, sinking into their own personal bubble and producing the phenomenal, though initially poorly received, They Were Wrong So We Drowned. Relocating to Berlin, Drums Not Dead andLiars benefited from the disassociation that comes with the expatriate lifestyle. Unable to speak the language, which effectively cut them off from large chunks of the surrounding culture, the band were once again free to focus on making what they wanted within a space influenced by little more than their own creative urges." Charles Ubaghs
Read the Queitus review of Sisterworld here
9. Various Artists - The World Ends: Afro Rock & Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria
"It was against a backdrop of a country recovering from a civil war that much of this astonishing compilation, the result of yet another fine treasure hunt from Soundway, was recorded. By unselfconsciously blending the (to us) familiar heady sounds of 60s psych and groove with traditional African rhythms andinstrumentations, these songs capture a sense of release and optimism, and a new music being forged a million miles from Western hippydom’s desperate decline." Luke Turner
Luke Turner writing in The Stool Pigeon newspaper
Click here to buy The World Ends: Afro Rock & Psychedelia in 1970's Nigeria
8. Virgo - Virgo
"There were two different Virgos on Trax, the other one being the Virgo of Adonis, Marshall Jefferson and Vince Lawrence. That was one of Larry's (Sherman, Trax label boss) ideas. He felt since we were unkown and our stuff was in the same vibe that it would add some name recognition. Our name was M.E. (Merwyn & Eric). We were very against Larry changing it. We were somewhat furious, but finally went along with it because we were so into doing the music and not so worried about a name." Their first single, Virgo Four 'Do You Know Who You Are', was finally release in 1989. A second single 'Ride' quickly followed in the same year, this time, oddly enough, under their M.E. alias. A year after the 'Summer Of Love', house music was in full swing in the UK, where 'Do You Know Who You Are' was picked up and led Sherman to combine both singles and license these out as the Virgo (this timne leaving 'Four' off) album to Radikal records. Their second single as M.E. was released a year later. 'Winter Days & Summer Nights', which featured r&b singer Yvonne Gage ('Garden Of Eve'), stalled pretty quickly after Sherman refused to promo this to a local Chicago radio station. Merwin: 'Larry told us they wanted it on cd to play it, and Larry refused to give them a cd, he said the vinyl pressing should've been good enough. We thought "Aw geesh, you gotta' be kidding me!" Christiaan Macdonald
Click here to buy Virgo - Virgo
7. Various Artists - Down To The Sea And Back
Down To The Sea And Back was an album that I chanced across while waiting for a friend in Manchester's excellent Picadilly Records. Now, even though I sometimes tend to agree with one of our writers who insists that Balearic is a synonym for "a little bit shit", there is no doubting the sheer and unexpected luxuriousness of this album compiled by Kelvin Andrews and Balearic Mike. The Danny Mekanik re-edits of long-since forgotten gems by Fern Kinney and The Osmonds sit comfortably next to underlit-floor funk rock (Sweet 'Funk It Up'), euphoric neo-post punk (Bell X1 'Flame' (Chicken Lips mix) and festive Euro disco (Nacht Und Nebel 'Beats Of Love'). A treat for open-minded hedonists. John Doran
Click here to buy Down To The Sea And Back: The Continuing Journey Of The Balearic Beat. Volume 1.
6. Simian Mobile Disco - Delicacies
"The Quietus' party tape this winter is a selection of pounding acid/techno bangers all produced on creaking and wheezing analogue synthesizer equipment; with each track named after particularly bracing examples of world cuisine, sampled on a recent SMD world tour." John Doran
Click here to buy SMD - Delicacies
5. Einsturzende Neubauten - Strategies Against Architecture IV
"Einstürzende Neubauten currently travel the world on a 30th anniversary tour that is probably as much about paying the bills as marking a milestone. Approaching an imminent hiatus, they leave behind this varied yet cohesive record of the last eight years, a period of creativity that belies the band's three decades. It's a virile, nuanced alternative to a lot of the flat pop around at the moment, and suggests that there could be a lot more to come. Or it could equally be deemed a fitting full stop." Tim Burrows
Read The Quietus review of Strategies Against Architecture IV here
Click here to buy Einsturzende Neubauten - Strategies Against Architecture IV
4. Omar Souleyman - Jazeera Nights
"A few muttered words in Arabic, shrouded in echo. And then it erupts. A day-glo cloudburst of warpspeed Bontempi rhythms and snaking microtonal melodies. Psychedelic invocation to some lascivious simultaneist idol. Urgent glossolalia of electronic thunder and lightning. Amphetamine-powered merengué of dysmorphic frequencies. Notes from between the notes. Beats like the jerry-rigged machine gun fire of ex-urban guerrila fighters. Cosmopolitan party music from the end times. The death rattle of globalisation, echoing across the scarred plains of bomb-ravaged dreamscapes." Robert Barry
Read the full Quietus review here
Click here to buy Omar Souleyman - Jazeera Nights
3. Suede - Best Of
"As you swagger and sway from that starting gun, Suede's consistency is impressive as the eighteen tracks pass – 'Everything Will Flow', the third single from 1998's Head Music, for instance, sounds just as vital as 'Metal Mickey' and 'The Drowners'. Nevertheless, it's hard not to smile at the recurrence of certain phrases and ideas. As a teenager, whenever a new Suede album would come out my friends and I would play Suede Bingo, pointing out any references to cigarettes, petrol and urban skylines. We were becoming cynical even then, hardening in our skinny bones. But now I am older, 'The Wild Ones', 'We Are The Pigs' and 'Stay Together' fill my mortgaged living room, I recognise the songs for what they really are – amplified experiences of our lives when we were so young and so gone, when our inner worlds are constantly getting twisted and tainted, influenced by everything, emerging in our mouths and our bodies in dark, dramatic forms." Jude Rogers
Click here to buy Suede - The Best Of
2. The Fall - The Wonderful And Frightening World Of (Omnibus Edition)
"Under the Beggars Banquet/4AD/Mattador offices in South West London lies their secret weapon: a large basement archive. When TWAFWO... was first released in 1984 it only had nine tracks on vinyl. Various editions (cassette, CD) since have stretched to 16; this excellent box containing a book and four discs makes it 50. On top of Peel session material come a swathe of excellent versions completed for David ‘Kid’ Jensen and one for the BBC’s Saturday Live show, which includes a toe-curling attempt by a hapless DJ to interview Smith about their 'change in direction'. Another disc is given over to an ace 50-minute live show recorded at Pandora’s Music Box Festival for VPRO Radio. But the real eye-openers are the rough and demo mixes which show just how much Brix Smith was in the process of changing the sound of this country’s pre-eminent post punk group ushering in their imperial phase."
John Doran writing in Classic Rock Magazine
Click here to buy The Wonderful And Frightening World Of... The Fall
1. Various Artists - Cold Waves & Minimal Electronics
"Despite the icy, clinical connotations of the term cold wave, translated from the French la vague froid, this is a profoundly human album. Laden with brass these are organic creations that act as a kind of reappraisal for analogue synths and drum machines over digital music software. French group OTO's 'Anyway' careers deranged like an electronic freakbeat outfit willed on by a sax-less James Chance. Manu Moan, singer in Swiss band the Vyllies, wails about the devil over metronomic beat and troubling keyboards on 'Babylon'. Italy's Jeuneusse d'Ivoire's 'A Gift of Tears' begins like a fragile Joy Division dancefloor filler re-imagined by Neu! before soaring along a dream-like freeway." Tim Burrows
Click here to buy Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics Vol.1
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City Aims to Keep Christmas Trees Out of Landfills by Mulching Them
By Jackie Wang | January 3, 2020
A pile of Christmas trees awaits mulching at the Bitters Brush Recycling Center.
That Christmas tree shedding pine needles in the living room can be reborn as mulch, thanks to a free service from the City of San Antonio this weekend and next.
San Antonians can bring their Christmas trees to nine drop-off locations around the city this Saturday and Sunday and Jan. 11 and 12. The City’s Solid Waste Management Department turns those firs and spruces into mulch, a service it has offered since 2010.
Last year, the department collected 1,792 Christmas trees, said Marcus Lee, the department’s marketing manager.
“We don’t want it to go to the landfill,” Lee said. “If it can be repurposed at all, we don’t want it on the curb in a tree bag because … a priority for the department and City is to reduce the tonnage that goes to the landfill.”
Related: San Antonio Recycling Still Works, But Big Changes Are Looming
Technically, the department only takes trees from solid waste customers but will accept Christmas trees from anyone.
“If we don’t take it and you’re an apartment dweller and you put it in your apartment’s big dumpster, that goes to the landfill anyway,” Lee said. “If we can prevent that, that’s a priority.”
All decorations must be removed from trees prior to disposal. Any trees taller than 6 feet must be cut in half. No bagged trees will be accepted. The solid waste department also won’t take spruce or pine garlands and wreaths because they are typically wired together, Lee said.
Very small trees that fit completely in the green organics bin with the lid closed may be disposed of curbside, Lee added.
“No ornaments, no lights, and certainly no artificial trees,” Lee said. “If you are going to throw away holiday plants like poinsettias that finally die, we do accept those in the green cart but please take them out of the plastic container.”
On Saturday and Sunday and next Saturday, Jan. 11, and Sunday, Jan. 12, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., San Antonians can go to the following locations to drop off Christmas trees:
Rusty Lyons Sports Center – 6300 McCullough Ave., 78212
Bitters Brush – 1800 Wurzbach Parkway, 78216
Southeast District Center – 1318 SE Loop 410, 78220
Southside Drop-Off Center – 5450 Castroville Rd., 78227
Northeast District Center – 10303 Tool Yard Dr., 78233
Northwest District Center – 6939 W Loop 1604 North, 78254
Nelson Gardens – 8963 Nelson Rd., 78252
Eisenhower Park – 19399 NW Military Hwy., 78257
Stone Oak Park – 20395 Stone Oak Parkway, 78258
The Bitters Brush and Nelson Gardens locations also will accept Christmas trees every day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. the entire month of January.
Mulch made from Christmas trees is available free of charge to solid waste customers, Lee said. It can be picked up from the Bitters Brush and Nelson Gardens locations every day.
“It’s got a variety of uses, but moisture is what it does best,” Lee said. “If you’re trying to avoid overwatering, then mulching flower beds and mulching other areas … will really help the moisture stay on your bed. As it breaks down and decomposes, it has nutrient value as well.”
About Jackie Wang
Jackie Wang is a general assignment reporter at the Rivard Report.
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Met Gala 2015: Red Carpet Photos
Posted on May 5, 2015 by Gia Lilibeth
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute gala, also known as the “Oscars of the fashion world” has come and gone once again. This year’s theme was “China: Through the Looking Glass” – the exhibition of the same name (curated and organized by longtime MET curator Andrew Bolton) looks at China’s influence on western fashion and opens this month.
There was glamour, there was edginess, and there was (of course) ridiculousness on the red carpet. All courtesy of celebrities, models, designers and anyone else who was either a guest or paid the hefty sum of $25,000 for a ticket!
PS. Shoutout to the fabulous Chiara Ferragni, who was a guest of Calvin Klein’s Francisco Costa, for making fashion history by being the first blogger ever to attend the MET gala!
(Click on any of the photos below for the slideshow).
Rihanna in Guo Pei.
Chiara Ferragni in Calvin Klein Collection.
Vanessa Hudgens in H&M.
Zendaya in Fausto Puglisi.
Zoe Kravitz in Alexander Wang.
Tabitha Simmons in Dolce & Gabbana.
Solange Knowles in Giles Deacon.
Sofia Vergara in Marchesa.
Sienna Miller in Thakoon.
Shupei Qin in Tommy Hilfiger.
Rita Ora in Tom Ford.
Rose Byrne in Calvin Klein Collection.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in Versace.
Sarah Jessica Parker in custom H&M and Philip Treacy headpiece.
Selena Gomez in Vera Wang.
Reese Witherspoon in Jason Wu.
Rachel Weisz in Chanel.
Poppy Delevingne in Marchesa.
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen in John Galliano.
Olivia Wilde in Prada.
Olivia Munn in J. Mendel.
Naomi Campbell in Burberry Prorsum.
Miranda Kerr in Louis Vuitton.
Miley Cyrus in Alexander Wang.
Maggie Gyllenhaal in Roland Mouret.
Madonna in Moschino.
Lorde in Calvin Klein Collection.
Lizzy Caplan in Donna Karan Atelier.
Liu Wen in Michael Kors.
Kristen Wiig in Prabal Gurung.
Katy Perry in Moschino.
Kendall Jenner in Calvin Klein Collection.
Lady Gaga in Balenciaga.
Lily Aldridge in Carolina Herrera.
Keri Russell in Altuzarra.
Kerry Washington in Prada.
Lily Collins in Chanel.
Lily Donaldson.
Kim Kardashian in Roberto Cavalli.
Katie Holmes in Zac Posen.
Kate Mara in Diane Von Furstenberg.
Kate Hudson in Michael Kors.
Kate Beckinsale in Diane Von Furstenberg.
Karolina Kurkova in Tommy Hilfiger.
Karlie Kloss in Versace.
Karen Elson in Dolce & Gabbana.
Julianne Moore in Givenchy.
Josephine de la Baume in Topshop (with Mark Ronson).
Joan Smalls in Prabal Gurung.
Jennifer Lawrence in Dior.
Jennifer Lopez in Atelier Versace.
Jessica Alba in Kenzo.
Jessica Chastain in Givenchy.
Jessica Hart in Valentino.
Jennifer Connelly in Louis Vuitton.
Janelle Monae.
Jaime King in BOSS (Hugo Boss).
Ivanka Trump.
Imogen Poots in Alberta Ferretti.
Georgia May Jagger in Gucci.
Gigi Hadid in Diane Von Furstenberg.
Hailee Steinfeld in Michael Kors.
Hailey Baldwin in Topshop.
Helen Mirren.
Gabrielle Union in Zac Posen.
FKA Twigs in Christopher Kane.
Fei Fei Sun in Michael Kors.
Emma Roberts in Ralph Lauren.
Emily Ratjakowski in Topshop.
Dianna Agron in Tory Burch.
Elizabeth Banks in Michael Kors.
Ellie Goulding in Marchesa.
Emily Blunt in Prada.
Diane Kruger in Chanel.
Dakota Johnson in Chanel.
Claire Danes in Valentino.
Chrissy Teigen in custom St. John.
Chloe Sevigny in J.W. Anderson.
Chloe Grace Moretz in Coach.
Beyonce in Givenchy.
Cher in Marc Jacobs.
Carey Mulligan in Balenciaga.
Behati Prinsloo in Tommy Hilfiger.
Bee Shaffer in Alexander McQueen.
Cara Delevingne in Stella McCartney.
Candice Swanepoel.
Anne Hathaway in Ralph Lauren.
Alison Brie.
Allison Williams in Giambattista Valli couture.
Amal Clooney in Maison Margiela.
Amanda Seyfried in Givenchy.
Anna Wintour in Chanel couture.
Alicia Keys in Jean Paul Gaultier.
Alexa Chung in Erdem.
Adriana Lima in Marc Jacobs.
Uma Thurman in Atelier Versace.
Tang Wei in Burberry.
Brie Larson, Courtney Eaton and Annabelle Wallis in Dolce & Gabbana.
[Photos via: Hollywood Life; E! Online; WhoWhatWear; NY Times; Huffington Post; Vogue; Vanity Fair; Harpers Bazaar].
Posted in Celebrities, Fashion News, MET Gala Tagged Adriana Lima, Alberta Ferretti, Alexa Chung, Alexander McQueen, Alexander Wang, Alicia Keys, Alison Brie, Allison Williams, Altuzarra, Amal Clooney, Amanda Seyfried, Anna Wintour, Annabelle Wallis, Anne Hathaway, Ashley Olsen, Balenciaga, Bee Shaffer, Behati Prinsloo, Beyonce, Brie Larson, Burberry, Burberry Prorsum, Calvin Klein, Calvin Klein Collection, Candice Swanepoel, Cara Delevingne, Carey Mulligan, Carolina Herrera, Chanel, Cher, Chiara Ferragni, Chloe Grace Moretz, Chloe Sevigny, Chrissy Teigen, Christopher Kane, Claire Danes, Coach, Costume Institute Gala, Courtney Eaton, Dakota Johnson, Diane Kruger, Diane von Furstenberg, Dianna Agron, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, DVF, Elizabeth Banks, Ellie Goulding, Emily Blunt, Emily Ratjakowski, Erdem, fashion, Fausto Puglisi, Fei Fei Sun, FKA Twigs, Francisco Costa, Gabrielle Union, Georgia May Jagger, Giambattista Valli, Gigi Hadid, Giles Deacon, Givenchy, Gucci, Guo Pei, Hailee Steinfeld, Hailey Baldwin, Helen Mirren, Hugo Boss, Imogen Poots, Ivanka Trump, J Mendel, J.W. Anderson, Jaime King, Janelle Monae, Jason Wu, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Jennifer Connelly, Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Alba, Jessica Chastain, Jessica Hart, Joan Smalls, John Galliano, Josephine de la Baume, Julianne Moore, Karen Elson, Karlie Kloss, Karolina Kurkova, Kate Beckinsale, Kate Hudson, Kate Mara, Katie Holmes, Katy Perry, Kendall Jenner, Kenzo, Keri Russell, Kerry Washington, Kim Kardashian, Kristen Wiig, Lady Gaga, Lily Aldridge, Lily Collins, Lily Donaldson, Liu Wen, Lizzy Caplan, Lorde, Louis Vuitton, Madonna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maison Margiela, Marc Jacobs, Marchesa, Mark Ronson, Mary Kate Olsen, Met Gala, Met Gala 2015, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Kors, Miley Cyrus, Miranda Kerr, Moschino, Naomi Campbell, New York, Olivia Munn, Olivia Wilde, Philip Treacy, Poppy Delevingne, Prabal Gurung, Prada, Rachel Weisz, Ralph Lauren, Reese Witherspoon, Rihanna, Rita Ora, Roberto Cavalli, Roland Mouret, Rose Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Sarah Jessica Parker, Selena Gomez, Shupei Qin, Sienna Miller, Sofia Vergara, Solange Knowles, St. John, Stella McCartney, Tabitha Simmons, Tang Wei, Thakoon, Tom Ford, Tommy Hilfiger, Topshop, Tory Burch, Uma Thurman, Valentino, Vanessa Hudgens, Vera Wang, Versace, Zac Posen, Zendaya, Zendaya Coleman, Zoe Kravitz
My favourite Looks from the 62nd Emmy Awards
Posted on August 29, 2010 by Gia Lilibeth
Claire Danes in Armani Prive
January Jones in Atelier Versace
Lea Michele in Oscar de la Renta
Nina Dobrev in Zuhair Murad
Kim Kardashian in Marchesa
Christina Hendricks in Zac Posen
Tina Fey in Oscar de la Renta
Dianna Agron in Carolina Herrera
Emily Blunt in Christian Dior
Posted in Fashion News Tagged Armani Prive, Atelier Versace, Carolina Herrera, Christian Dior, Christina Hendricks, Claire Danes, Dianna Agron, Emily Blunt, Emmy 2010, Glee, January Jones, Kim Kardashian, Lea Michele, Mad Men, Marchesa, Nina Dobrev, Oscar de la Renta, Tina Fey, Versace Atelier, Zac Posen, Zuhair Murad
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Nick Piunti “Trust Your Instincts”
September 20, 2016 · by thesoulofaclown · in Album review, Reviews. ·
News of a new Nick Piunti album brings a great sense of excitement to www.thesoulofaclown.com. We’ve loved all his stuff that we’ve heard. Indeed, his last album, “Beyond The Static” was truly brilliant. It was one of our favourite albums of the year and it was no surprise that it featured very highly in a load of end of year best of lists.
The song “Trust Your Instincts” opens the album, and it is clear that Nick certainly trusts his own instincts to deliver great, power pop flavoured hits, because that’s what he does throughout this latest release. Indeed, there’s an irony that “One Hit Wonder” has the kind of brilliant pop melody that really does deserve to be a huge hit. It’s as catchy as hell and totally terrific. There’s nothing fluky about it though, as songs like “Blame In Vain” are equally as catchy and appealing.
As shown by “Vaguely Familiar”, Nick’s earnt his dues in the music business, and so it should come as no surprise that he knows his way around a smart lick and big hook. He continues to use both these tools to great effect on “Dumb It Down”. You will also struggle to find a song more instantly addictive than “This Aint The Movies”.
Another thing we really like about Nick, is that he doesn’t make things too sugary, despite the sweet sounding songs. So, you get a song like “Fade Out” which nicely shifts between laid back verses and a rocking bridge and chorus. Then “Ready For Whatever” had more of a punk feel to it’s sound and “As Far As I Throw” is like a power pop band playing a garage rock song.
The quality of this album doesn’t dip for one moment and it’s all over too soon with the bitter/sweet sounding “Stay Where You Are”.
Some really huge bands and ‘pop stars’ struggle to have more than one or two songs that can be regarded as really good pop songs. Once again, Nick has delivered a whole album full of them. We sense that he is probably destined to be something of an underground secret, especially here in the UK. So, you should do your bit to try and change that by buying this album, then playing it to someone else, who will then inevitably go out and buy it themselves. We just need to hope that cycle then repeats itself a few million times!!
Tags: album review, Pop, Pop punk, power pop, Reviews, rock n roll
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India Vs West Indies: Third Umpires to take call for front-foot no balls
Fantasy Prediction and Tips
Tanish Chachra
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India Vs West Indies: Third umpires to decide whether to call front-foot no balls, as per the decision made by the ICC ahead of West Indies tour.
The long-run debate for the front-foot no ball has finally ended as the International cricket council decides to make the third umpire the in charge of making a n0 ball call in the match.
The decision is set to be implemented first in the upcoming India Vs West Indies series, where the rule will be applied in both T20I and ODI format.
A decision that was made earlier in August by the ruling council was officially announced on Thursday and the technology that the third umpires will use to detect the no-balls will be on trial during the said series.
“Throughout the trial, the Third Umpire will be responsible for monitoring every ball bowled and identifying whether there has been any front foot infringement,” the ICC said in a statement.
“If there has been an infringement on the front foot, the Third Umpire will communicate this to the On-Field Umpire who will subsequently call a no ball. As a result, the On-Field Umpire will not call a front foot no ball without the advice of the Third Umpire,” it added.
However, the ICC has clarified that the benefit of the doubt in close calls will lie with the bowler and the on-field umpires will take the final calls in case of a late no-ball call by the third umpire.
“…and if a late no ball call is communicated, then the On-Field Umpire will rescind a dismissal (if applicable) and call no ball. The On-Field Umpire will remain responsible for other in-game decisions in the usual way,” the ICC revealed.
“The outcomes of the trial will be used to gauge whether the system has a beneficial impact on the accuracy of no ball decisions and whether it can be implemented while minimising disruption to the flow of the game.
“If a late no ball call is communicated, then the On-Field Umpire will rescind a dismissal (if applicable) and call no ball. The On-Field Umpire will remain responsible for other in-game decisions in the usual way.”
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This is not for the first time of the implementation of this rule, it was trialled back in 2016 during a series between England and Pakistan, but not in a broader spectrum.
“Throughout the trial, the Third Umpire will be responsible for monitoring every ball bowled and identifying whether there has been any front foot infringement. If there has been an infringement on the front foot, the Third Umpire will communicate this to the On-Field Umpire who will subsequently call a no ball. As a result, the On-Field Umpire will not call a front foot no ball without the advice of the Third Umpire.”
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Home Losses and Aviation Safety Spanish Eurofighter aircraft suspended from NATO Baltic Air Policing duties in the wake of accidental AMRAAM launch
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Spanish Eurofighter aircraft suspended from NATO Baltic Air Policing duties in the wake of accidental AMRAAM launch
written by Dario Leone Aug 14 2018
While investigations are still underway, military sources said that human error is the most likely cause as no software errors have been detected
Spanish Air Force Eurofighter aircraft deployed to the Baltics for air policing duties are being sidelined after one of the jets accidentally launched an AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile over Pangodi, some 40 kilometers north of Tartu, in south Estonia, on Aug. 7, 2018.
Portuguese F-16s and French Mirage 2000s have taken over the task while investigations continue.
Estonian authorities are still looking for the missing missile, which they suspect may have hit the ground despite having a built-in self-destruct mode meant to go off in the air. No explosion was detected at the time of the incident.
While investigations are still underway, military sources said that human error is the most likely cause as no software errors have been detected.
Estonian Prime Minister Jüri Ratas on Wednesday expressed concern about the matter in a telephone conversation with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
“I told the secretary general of NATO that it is a serious incident and we are understandably concerned about this in Estonia. Thank God that as far as we know, no one was hurt as a result of the incident,” said Ratas, according to a government press release. Stoltenberg for his part lamented the incident and offered NATO’s complete support for the investigation, said the Alliance’s spokesperson.
As reported by El País, sources said that Estonia is being “low-key” about its complaint, because “everyone is aware that such an incident, while improbable, cannot be ruled out,” and that NATO members ensure the Baltic nations’ airspace defense free of charge.
Spain has deployed aircraft in the Baltics around six times since 2004. Its current deployment includes 135 personnel and six Eurofighter jets from the military base of Morón de la Frontera (Seville), which are now stationed at the base of Siauliai in northern Lithuania. The mission began on May 1 and will end on August 31.
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Before becoming a hospital chaplain, I thought the worst way a father might lose his daughter was if she met some no-good guy from the other side of the country. But this particular week, I can tell you that isn’t the worst way to lose a daughter.
After leaving a conference with a father whose daughter was dying from cancer, the charge nurse detected the subtle moisture in my eyes. “You OK, chaplain?” she asked. “Yeah, I think so,” I said, “It’s always a little harder when I see the dad cry.” But, according to news coverage this past week, he wasn’t the only dad crying.
The knot in the throat of Dru Sjodin’s father, Allan Sjodin, grew a bit larger this past week as he learned that blood from his missing daughter was found in the car of a man suspected in her disappearance. And just as Dru’s suspected kidnapper was being arraigned, Laci Peterson’s father Dennis Rocha watched his son-in-law arraigned for the murder of Laci and her unborn child.
Capital newspapers in adjoining states carried two less-sensational stories about two other fathers. In Sacramento, police informed Sharmelia Jeffries’ father, Martin Jeffries, that his daughter was struck and killed on the sidewalk outside her high school by a drunk driver. One witness to the accident was the son of a chaplain friend who would later tell his father that he was standing twenty feet from Sharmelia.
The chaplain’s son suffered some emotional trauma from the seeing the accident, but the child of another chaplain colleague wasn’t as lucky. About the same time Sacramento Police were talking to Sharmelia’s dad, Phoenix Police were pulling into the driveway of hospital chaplain Sue Wintz and husband, Michael, to tell them that their daughter Sarah was killed in an automobile wreck.
As a hospital chaplain with a daughter by the same name, I was beginning to become aware that I may have somehow created my own rule which says that God protects people whose high calling involves the altruistic and idealistic. Of course, I know that notion is far from the truth – but it’s been comfortable to hold onto over the years.
This week, painfully conscious that I enjoyed no special protection from God, I waited for my daughter’s return from New York. My worries began when I learned that some whacko greeted her arrival in NY by cracking her windshield with a rock thrown from an overpass.
After learning of all the bad days fathers were having, I felt an extra chill of reality when I heard NY was socked in with a major blizzard — I heard nothing from my daughter for three days. Then, her phone call telling me she was boarding her return flight coincided with the latest news from the Homeland Security warning that terrorists might attempt to smuggle bomb-making material in their socks and roll-on deodorant. It had all the makings of a really bad day.
Later that evening, my daugther called to pacify my worries and tell me that she made it home safely. She seemed a bit annoyed with my smothering, mothering, and concern, but she managed to give me the latest news. After hanging up the phone, my wife asked, “You OK, honey?”
“I guess so, but I think she’ll be going back to New York sometime in the near future.”
“Yup — she now has a boyfriend in New York.”
It’s been a tough week for fathers.
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What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may be Hollywood, but New York City is where comedians are born funny, become funny or arrive to thrust their funny upon us. I think we should meet some of these people. This is a recurring feature, a mini-profile of newcomers, up-and-comers and overcomers of New York’s vibrant comedy scene....
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[Rumor] Sony Xperia A,UL To Sport Snapdragon 600 Processor
by Chad Updated March 27, 2013
With the launch of the Sony Xperia Z and ZL you’d think that Sony will relax a bit but apparently not as reports say the company is working right now on devices that will be sporting the new Snapdragon 600 processor. The said Android devices are the Sony Xperia A and the Sony Xperia UL, which of course will be first released in Japan if reports from smasoku.mobi are real.
The Sony Xperia A is codenamed as “Dogo” and will carry the model number SO-04E. It is reportedly going to be launched this summer by NTT DoCoMo. As far as specifications of this device goes listed below is what we have gathered so far.
4.6-inch touchscreen
Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 chipset
32 GB of internal storage space
infrared blaster
mobile wallet support
1Seg Japanese TV support
water and dust proof
2,300 mAh battery
International variants of this model will also be released which may come with different specifications as the Japanese model.
The next model is the Sony Xperia UL which is codenamed “Gaga” and is said to be similar in design with the Sony Xperia ZL. The specifications of this model are listed below.
5.0 inches Full HD display
The difference between the Xperia ZL and the UL is that the former sports a Snapdragon S4 Pro processor while the latter uses the new Snapdragon 600 processor.
Aside from both of these models the company is also reportedly going to release a 6.4 inch smartphone which goes by the codename of “Togari”. This device may be released later this year depending on whether a network will carry it. Right now Sony is still in talks with various carriers especially NTT DoCoMo for the release of this device. If it were to become available in the market its main competitor will be the Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
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French-American Foundation celebrates 2019 'Young Leaders'
By Josh Aaron Siegel - 06/28/19 09:31 AM EDT
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The French-American Foundation on Thursday unveiled the winners of their annual Young Leaders Program, a diverse group of government officials, business leaders, public advocates and educators.
The program, now in its 38th year, brings together "a vibrant group of rising stars ... from a vast array of sectors," according to the foundation. The participants' "common link is their passion for forging bonds in a globalized world and using their influence for the common good."
This year’s French and American winners represent a number of major organizations, including the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, city governments and major health companies and hospitals.
Emeline Foster, the executive director of the French-American Foundation, said the two-year program is an opportunity for leaders in both countries to form meaningful bonds.
“The idea is to go beyond networking and make sure that a greater connection are created between the French and American leaders,” she said.
The program's Young Leaders from 2018 and 2019 will meet in Chicago for five days this October, the foundation said, "discussing issues of common concern, meeting with local and global specialists, and getting to know one another."
And they will join an illustrious group of alumni, numbering more than 500 members. Past program members include French President Emanuel Macron, former President Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson ClintonTrump lawyers attack House impeachment as 'brazen and unlawful' effort to overturn 2016 results Trump chooses high-profile but controversial legal team The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump beefs up impeachment defense with Dershowitz, Starr MORE and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Democrats plot new approach to win over rural voters The Memo: Sanders-Warren battle could reshape Democratic primary Rosenstein says he authorized release of Strzok-Page texts MORE.
Even amid tensions between the Trump administration and U.S. allies over a host of issues, Foster said the program highlights the enduring strength of those ties.
Foster said this year the foundation received the highest number of applications ever.
“It shows that there is an important interest in the French-American relationship,” she said.
The U.S. winners for this year are:
Geoffrey Chepiga, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Chloe Demrovsky, President and CEO, Disaster Recovery Institute International
Shaun Gordon, Founder and CEO, Pristine Environments; Managing Partner, AGI Partners LLC
Christina Grant, Assistant Superintendent, The School District of Philadelphia
Barkha Gvalani, Partner, GV
Adam Hodge, Senior Vice President, SKDKnickerbocker
Leen Kawas, President and CEO, Athira Pharma, Inc.
Bhama Ramkhelawon, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Cell Biology; Director of Vascular Research Program, New York University Langone Medical Center
Kabir Sehgal, Founder and CEO, MFT Productions
Adam Sotomayor, Foreign Affairs Officer, Bureau of Counterterrorism & Countering Violent Extremism, US Department of State
This year’s French winners are:
Rania Belkahia, President and Co-Founder, Afrimarket
Nicolas de Bellefonds, Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group; Leader, BCG GAMMA France
Erwin Bruder, Lieutenant-Colonel, Armée de Terre
Félicie Burelle, Deputy Chief Executive Officer & Strategy and Development Director; Plastic Omnium
Pierre-Yves Frouin, President, BioSerenity
Nicole Karam, Associate Professor in Interventional Cardiology, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris-Descartes University
Laurence Lascary, Producer, DE L’AUTRE COTÉ DU PÉRIPH’
Arnaud Mentré, Consul General of France in Boston
Delphine O, Ambassador and Secretary General, UN Women’s Global Forum
Tony Pinville, Chief Executive Officer, Heuritech
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Donald Trump’s Shotgun Wedding in Cleveland
Mattathias Schwartz
July 18 2016, 4:56 p.m.
The semi-organized chaos of the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland may give some hint of what a Trump administration would look like.
The rift between establishment conservatives and Tea Party insurgents was on full display. The billionaire dilettante and presumptive nominee was attempting to pivot from rabble-rouser to peacemaker. It wasn’t going to be easy.
Monday morning’s RNC press conference was scheduled to begin at 9:30 but the trains did not run on time, and it was 9:57 when the two men took the stage, acting like estranged fathers-in-law at a shotgun wedding.
Jeff Larson, the convention’s CEO, has the extremely solid build and ingratiating manner of party functionary. Paul Manafort, the seasoned adviser who has taken the helm of Donald Trump’s campaign, has crimson cheeks and an almost robotically sanguine manner. In the past, he has advised the campaigns of presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush, and Bush. Like Trump, he sports a young man’s hair.
Larson spoke first. Monday’s theme would be “Make America Safe Again.”
Larson pledged his heart and prayers to the families of the fallen police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He had a list of the evening’s speakers — Benghazi survivors, the mother of a fallen Navy SEAL, Melania Trump, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, and the star of “Charles in Charge,” the old sitcom. Larson said that Trump would be arriving in person to introduce his wife, and that he would then fly back to New York and return to Cleveland on Wednesday. He did not demonstrate a clear handle on the specifics of their order, or the schedule.
Manafort’s presence was more commanding. He wore a better suit than Larson, and carried himself like a lord. He dismissed a last-minute push that would allow delegates to vote against Trump as “a non-event.” He said that the convention had four goals: humanize Trump through “family testimonials that will describe Donald Trump the man … the inner personality”; indict what he called “the Obama-Clinton years”; present Hillary Clinton as “the establishment candidate”; and finally, unify the party.
In response to a question from a Univision reporter, Manafort hinted that Trump might soon offer some kind of olive branch to Hispanic voters — two speeches directed at that very constituency, he said, had been delayed by the two police shootings — but he stopped short of promising an apology. The 2016 GOP platform, he said, would contain a provision about building a wall along the Mexican border.
There was work to be done on the unification front. On “Morning Joe” a few hours earlier, Manafort had called the Bush family, which is expected to skip the convention, “people who are part of the past.” He said that Gov. John Kasich was “embarrassing the state” by not attending.
At the press conference, he did what he could to walk these harsh words back. “They were leaders in past administrations,” he said of the Bushes. “While we wanted them here, we understand that they didn’t want to be here, but I also made the point — many of the people who supported Gov. [Jeb] Bush in this primary and who served in President Bush administrations were involved in our campaign at all levels. We think the unification has happened. And we hope that when the Bush family decides to participate again in the political process, that they will join us. We would welcome them. We have reached out to them. But, you know, healing takes time.“
Larson stood up behind Manafort, thumbs hooked into his belt, tapping his heel. He looked as though he wanted to interrupt. Manafort did not yield.
“One more question!” Larson finally shouted.
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Top photo: Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort on Sunday.
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Akshay Kumar comedy flick Housefull four has shown Great Collections in its first week in the ticket window. Despite opening to mixed reactions on October 25, the movie has clocked numbers.
The Multi-starrer has raked in Rs 10 crore on its next Saturday taking its general collection to an estimated Rs 159 crore, according to BoxofficeIndia.com.
Housefull 4 has been released on October 25, alongside with two other Hindi Movies — Tushar Hiranandani’s Saan Ki Aanakh and Mikhil Musale’s Made In China. Although Housefull 4 has performed better than the other two movies, it has been influenced by the earnings of Tamil movie Bigil, which has surpassed Housefull 4 in global collection.
Housefull 4 is the fourth installment of the hit comedy franchise.
With The entry of the movie in the Rs 100-crore club, Akshay Kumar has shown that his star power is still working. This is his fifth movie in a row to touch Rs.100 crores.
Directed by Farhad Samji, ‘Housefull Sanon, Riteish Deshmukh Bobby Deol, Pooja Hegde in the Lead roles. The Akshay Kumar film is a reincarnation comedy Around three couples.
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Melbourne’s original Greek tavern hits the market
Melbourne, 26 November 2015 – The home of one of Collingwood’s most iconic dining institutions, Jim’s Greek Tavern, has been placed on the market for the first time since 1973.
CBRE’s Josh Twelftree, Jamus Campbell, Paul Tzamalias and Rorey James have been appointed to sell the site, which has been leased by Jim’s Greek Tavern for 41 years.
Located at 32 Johnston Street, the 310sqm property features prominent frontage to Johnston Street, modern restaurant fit out, spacious courtyard, white-washed walls and a laid-back vibe which channels a traditional Grecian experience.
Mr Twelftree said the property represents an outstanding investment opportunity within the city fringe market.
“Extensive interest from a range of national and local investors is expected, underpinned by the established tenant profile.”
“Melbourne has the world's third-largest Greek population and a vibrant Hellenic food scene; therefore restaurants such as Jim's Greek Tavern in Collingwood are the stuff of local legend and are converted by investors,” Mr Campbell added.
“Given the high level of buyer interest in the Collingwood area recently and the strength of the retail market, the property’s private owner has deemed it an ideal time to sell.”
The site will be sold via public auction, with price expectations circa $2.5M.
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Capitalism killing games?
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Postby ptdebate1 » March 28th, 2015, 10:38 am
Very provocative article by the designer of the Oddworld games. Basically, shareholders [investors] in game companies need to see big numbers, which means capturing the largest market share possible. The problem is that this hampers creativity and, not surprisingly, long-term sustainability. I expect that this race for bigger, more realistic games with bigger, more reliable multiplayer infrastructures will lead to more and more studios either folding or being closed down when sales and metascore targets are inevitably missed.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-03-27-capitalism-killing-games-and-the-world-lanning
A few pithy excerpts to get you started:
[QUOTE]"Most developers never really made money. They were able to stay in the business. But the way the deals were structured, they were basically dead."[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]"That problem has been a trend, really, since I got in. I'd say it's more of a capitalism trend, which means all those companies need growth. If you're a public company you need to have constant growth and you need to conquer more territory, and the day you're not, your shareholders bail. That's it."[/QUOTE]
The possible solution to this endless game to produce bigger numbers for shareholders? Don't play, the writer argues:
[QUOTE]"So what is a sustainable model? Well, don't have investors. Don't have an IPO. Don't go public. Then maybe there might be a sustainable model. But can you focus on niches instead of blockbusters? If you're going to continue focusing on blockbusters, then you're going to be competing against the big boys. Now you're half a billion dollars into development... just like the movies. So who can afford to play? But when we talk to indies today, I used to be like, well, if I sell a million and a half units, we're going to be a loser. But today, if we sell 150,000 units we're in the black," he said.[/QUOTE]
Atarifever1
Postby Atarifever1 » March 28th, 2015, 12:11 pm
Before you get too many "capitalism is life" responses, I wanted to make general point for people. Large corporations are not really capitalism in a pure state. Large corporations are like little islands of centralized government in the sea of the market. People there have huge budgets, making the immediate consequences of their actions mean very little, and they try, just like Governments, to steer their ship through the market. That means their choices are not the market. Their choices are their choices. The market works long term on all their choices, and the bigger the company, the longer term the market has to work on them before they fail if they make the wrong choices.
All this is to say that just because EA, Activision, Ubisoft etc. SAY something, does not make that thing the choice of the market. So, before someone jumps in with "big publishers are just giving the market what it wants" please remember that they are SAYING they are giving the market what it wants. We'll see in 20 years if what they DECIDED people wanted was really what people in the market really wanted. It is entirely possible that a strategy that seems to be working at EA, Ubisoft, etc. may work short term to boost their profits, while long term eroding the value of their products, or people's trust in them, or in games generally. It is entirely possible to make short-term profits from your choices as a corporation, then persist in those choices after you stop making money (even for years) and to end up having been wrong overall. A large company can do a lot of damage to a market in the time it takes it to die.
Anyway, that's just something to think about given that we're talking about capitalism and corporations as if they are one and the same.
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Postby VideoGameCritic » March 28th, 2015, 12:31 pm
This is an interesting topic. One can argue that video games "went corporate" during the 90's and now we're feeling the consequences. Namely, big-budget games that ride the safe road of sequel/remake or first-person shooter.
I saw somebody mention once about the disappearance of the "middle class" in games. We get a lot of uninspired big budget titles and throw-away indy/mobile games. We get $60 games and $1 games. It's one extreme or the other.
To me, this makes the classic titles of the 80's and 90's all the more attractive. They didn't fall into this model. You really didn't have this gaping chasm.
Vexer1
Postby Vexer1 » March 28th, 2015, 5:23 pm
Personally I disagree with this, but I do think that Metacritic is terrible and should be abolished, it's average score is completely meaningless, as many game sites use different ratings systems(I.E. some use 1-5, other use 1-10, still others use 0.5-10.0) so their process of aggregating all those ratings systems into an "average" score makes no sense, and it's complete BS that a developer can miss out on a bonus if a game is a mere one point below an expected metascore, that should never be the case(this has also led to problems, where in one case a reviewer wanted to change his negative review as he admitted he hasn't actually played the game much and the game deserved a higher score, but Metacritic in their infinite wisdom refused to allow the updated review to replace the old one on their site). Many game sites such as Eurogamer have dropped ratings systems altogether as they've found out that people tend to focus far too much on scores and tend to completely ignore the actual text in the review.
I don't think most big-budget titles are "uninspired" in the least(though there are some exceptions like the AC series) though, I do think we need more mid-range 30-40 dollar titles, we still occasionally get some such as the Sniper: Ghost Warrior games, and I should point out that most indie titles are around 10-15 dollars(a game generally only sells for 1$ if it's REALLY bad and gets heavily discounted like Ride to Hell: Retribution was before it got pulled from Steam altogether).
Postby Jon1 » March 28th, 2015, 5:37 pm
It all started in late 1995 when the 3do and Jaguar got discontinued. The Neo Geo drastically reduced its North American presence, and everything went to pot. To think, just a couple months before all of this happened, it seemed like video games were in an amazing place.
How about the fact that certain genres have just disappeared, seemingly been abolished. Interesting early 3d exploration games like Hover Strike CD, I-War were never improved upon, just died. Fast action 2d games like Metal Slug, gone. Advanced 2d Shmups, never happened. The interesting 3d graphics you see in Star Fighter, or some of the Jaguar's games were never improved upon. Instead we got ugly crap for years.
Herschie1
Postby Herschie1 » March 28th, 2015, 11:17 pm
Hey, Capitalism is great. Capitalism is about competition and innovation. That's why I hate this crap with Madden and the exclusive NFL deal. It squashes competition and thus quality.
Funny how we're talking about this, I was playing a demo of MLB 15: The Show at Best Buy this afternoon, and I was talking to the Sony rep about this very thing. The PS4 is the better product, and so the market is showing that by the number of sales vs. the Xbox One. But that's the best part about Capitalism; it forces companies to innovate and to strive to get better and better.
Be glad we don't have Communism, or else we'd spend hours in line at Gamestop waiting to pick up games like Action 52.
Postby ptdebate1 » March 29th, 2015, 8:24 am
[QUOTE=Herschie]Hey, Capitalism is great. Capitalism is about competition and innovation. That's why I hate this crap with Madden and the exclusive NFL deal. It squashes competition and thus quality.
But...capitalism is what created the situation with EA. Regulations that would prevent this virtual monopolization are the polar opposite of capitalist economics.
There is no reality in which capitalism actually does what people think it does.
scotland171
Postby scotland171 » March 29th, 2015, 10:34 am
[QUOTE=ptdebate]Basically, shareholders in game companies need to [continually] see big numbers [/QUOTE]
Its not capitalism writ large, but an investor tactic called short termism. Its the opposite of delayed gratification. The internet age has made this a bigger issue all over (eg twitter) but investing makes the downsides clear, like eating candy prioritizes short term gain over long term rewards.
A possible solution is having a large portfolio of products. Investment is in the portfolio, so that allows room for risk, innovation, and failure on smaller projects without investor flight.
Dogtanian1
Postby Dogtanian1 » March 29th, 2015, 10:46 am
[QUOTE=Jon]Interesting early 3d exploration games like Hover Strike CD, I-War were never improved upon, just died.[/QUOTE]
This would be funny if you weren't being serious.
It's a shame you didn't know enough about gaming when things supposedly went to pot in late '95, otherwise you would have been able to get an Action Replay for the Saturn and spent the next few years importing some of the greatest 2D games ever made. You would have concurrently built up a library of games that would have appreciated in value and would be worth many thousands of dollars now. You probably wouldn't be quite so bitter about the games industry over the last 20 years either.
Back on topic, it is inevitable that financial motivations will stifle creativity to some extent. You simply cannot have the mentality of a Spectrum-era bedroom developer if you are a public company. There are clear parallels with other media. One of my other passions was electronic and dance music from the '80s and early '90s. There was a real sense of freedom and experimentation at the time, but the sheer scale of financial rewards on offer now have resulted in a prolonged dearth of innovation and the rise of superstar DJs who literally pretend to mix onstage, while their engineer plugs in a USB stick with a pre-programmed set.
Yes, the indie scene is a noble counterculture, but for those of us who feel that there was a golden age of gaming I personally don't believe that it has consistently produced the ideas or quality to be considered a truly successful movement. I suspect that ptdebate feels otherwise though, which is probably a happier place to be.
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Surrey senior's dignity suffering with low staffing in nursing home, family says
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Surrey, BC: AUGUST 11, 2016 -- Monica Burrell with her 87-year-old mother Hilda Casey at the Rosemary Heights Seniors Village in Surrey, BC Thursday, August 11, 2016. Burrell is upset about the the staffing levels as prescribed by Fraser Health. Jason Payne / PNG
The family of an 87-year-old Surrey woman living in a nursing home says she is not getting the help she needs, particularly in the evenings when there are fewer staff.
Hilda Casey moved to Rosemary Heights Seniors Village, operated by Retirement Concepts, eight months ago. She was fine until her health took a turn for the worse and she became bedridden.
Her daughter, Monica Burrell, who is visiting from Australia, says her mother needs two care aides to help take her to the washroom because of her weight. She said because of the low staffing levels, it is not uncommon for her to have to wait more than an hour for help.
Rosemary Heights Seniors Village, which is funded by Fraser Health Authority, provides 2.8 direct care hours per day per resident, according to the Quick Facts Directory report released recently by the B.C. Office of the Seniors Advocate. The Ministry of Health’s recommendation is 3.36 direct care hours per day per day per resident.
“Mom hadn’t been needing extra help before, but now that she needs the extra care it isn’t there. There hasn’t been an adjustment in the staffing level,” Burrell said.
“She has a catheter now to relieve that pressure but if you have to do a bowel movement you have to go. You can’t expect people to go on a schedule. They (nursing home staff) are trying their best but with limited resources.
“They’re just overworked for the amount of residents. At night they have one nurse and three care aides so if they have an incident of any sort there’s no one available to help mom and she needs two people to help lift her on a commode.”
Burrell said her mother is very anxious and has had accidents.
“Mom sat in her own feces for an extended period because staff was not due to arrive, according to a new trial timetable,” she said.
“The effect on my mother’s dignity one can only imagine.”
Burrell said Retirement Concepts administration has told her they are restricted by the funding provided to them from Fraser Health. She said when she contacted the health authority she was provided with a brochure on how to lodge an official complaint. But Burrell said her mother’s toileting needs are immediate and something needs to be done now.
Fraser Health spokeswoman Nafisa Abdulla said the health authority was made aware of the case on Wednesday and has started to look into the concerns.
“We’re reviewing the resident’s care needs and the care plan, and will work directly with the resident and their family on any adjustments that might need to be made,” Abdulla wrote in an email. “When it comes to care matters, we deal with them urgently to ensure residents receive the most appropriate care for their needs. We work with our contracted service providers to ensure that they are providing the care that our patients need.”
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Vaqueros beat Mesa for 13th straight win
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Mesa Community College (0-0) 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 8 16 3
Central Arizona College (30-5, 11-5) 4 5 0 0 0 0 3 1 X 13 19 4
Reagan Teegarden fires through for two Saturday against #1 Div II Mesa. Oscar Perez-Pinal Central
3B: Luke Patty; Drew Bailey
2B: Liam Spence; Alix Garcia; Ernny Ordonez; Chris Diehl
3B: Alix Garcia
HR: Brett Harris
By ED PETRUSKA Contributing Writer Pinal Central
SIGNAL PEAK — Extending an impressive winning streak required a variety of elements for the Central Arizona College baseball team.
In addition to compiling 19 hits in Saturday's 13-8 victory over Mesa, the Vaqueros got some quality relief pitching and a couple of stellar defensive plays in holding off the Thunderbirds at CAC Field.
Central, ranked No. 12 in the NJCAA Division I poll, has won eight consecutive Arizona Community College Athletic Conference games and 13 straight overall. The Vaqueros (30-5, 11-5 ACCAC) did a ton of damage early on, and they didn't crack after Mesa pulled within 9-6.
"We're not doing anything different than we've been doing all year," CAC coach Anthony Gilich said. "We have a pretty focused group."
The Vaqueros began the season with 14 consecutive wins, then lost five of their first eight conference games — four by one run and the other in extra innings.
Mesa (31-6, 16-6 ACCAC) is ranked No. 1 in the NJCAA Division II poll. The Thunderbirds fell short against Central for the second straight day despite collecting 15 hits off three CAC pitchers.
"You know it's going to be wild when the wind is howling out," Gilich said.
The Vaqueros scored nine runs (seven earned) off Mesa starter Joshua Brown, who entered with a 0.22 ERA. Brown lasted only 3 2/3 innings, giving up four runs in the first and five in the second.
"We put some really good swings on him," Gilich said.
Brett Harris hit a two-run homer off Mesa reliever Jake Denham to highlight a three-run seventh that extended Central's lead to 12-6. The blast, which cleared the fence just to the right of the 410-foot sign in center, was the last of six extra-base hits for the Vaqueros.
Alix Garcia went 3 for 5 with an RBI double in the first and a two-run triple in the second. Liam Spence also knocked in three runs with an RBI double in the first, an RBI single in the second and a sacrifice fly in the seventh.
Avery Jones (1-0) pitched 3 2/3 innings for CAC after replacing starter Jason Nelson to begin the fifth. Jones gave up Drew Bailey's RBI triple in the fifth and two unearned runs in the eighth.
"(Jones) was outstanding in giving us a chance to keep adding on," Gilich said.
Joe Standley came on with the bases loaded and two outs in the eighth. With the tying run at the plate, he struck out Riley Peterson.
"Huge," Gilich said.
Nelson (five), Jones (five) and Standley (three) combined for 13 strikeouts, seven of which were called thirds.
Shortstop Spence had the defensive play of the game, throwing out Luke Patty at the plate on a fielder's choice for the second out of the ninth. Spence went deep in the hole to snag Bailey's grounder.
"He knew that was his only play, and (catcher Chris) Deihl made a great tag," Gilich said. "That's one of the better plays I've seen."
Second baseman Reagan Teegarden turned a double play by tagging the runner and throwing to first to end the Mesa sixth.
"That was a big moment just to get a zero on the board," Gilich said. "We could feel them coming."
It was the first scoreless inning for the Thunderbirds, who put up two in the second and single runs in the first, third, fourth and fifth.
Teegarden went 4 for 5 with an RBI single in the first. Diehl and Jake Vander Wal both had run-scoring singles, and Ernny Ordonez had an RBI groundout.
Ordonez went 3 for 5. Brennan Reback and Diehl both finished with two hits.
CAC defeated the Thunderbirds 5-2 on Friday at MCC. Reback homered with two aboard in the top of the fifth and Garcia provided insurance with a two-run homer in the eighth. Central starter RJ Dabovich (6-1, 0.63 ERA) pitched seven shutout innings, allowing three hits and striking out nine.
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“There have been several different situations at NBC that have given us a pretty clear reason to fight for a protected voice in the newsroom,” said Tate James, a video editor who works on “Stay Tuned,” a video program NBC News has devised for streaming via the Snapchat social-media outlet. Among the policies desired by the approximately 150 employees who would take part in the collective-bargaining unit are better defined severance packages, rules about discussing matters via social media and salary distinctions, said James.
“We will address this request quickly, and will keep you updated every step of the way,” said Chris Berend, executive vice president of digital at NBC News Group, in a memo to employees Wednesday.
The group wants NBC News to recognize the union voluntarily, said James, though a majority of affected employees have already indicated they wish to move forward. “We’ve got the numbers,” he said, “but we would really prefer to figure it out with management.” The bargaining unit would include staffers from nbcnews.com, today.com, “Stay Tuned,” msnbc.com and NBC News Now, a growing livestreaming service NBC News has launched, but would not represent other parts of NBC News, or all of its digital workers.
NBC News has been under a microscope in recent weeks, weighed down by allegations contained in the recent Ronan Farrow book “Catch and Kill” that it asked the journalist to stop the investigation he had been conducting into accusations of sexual harassment by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. The book also contains new claims by a former NBC News staffer, Brooke Nevils, that former “Today” co-anchor Matt Lauer raped her during NBC News coverage of the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
NBC News has recounted all of its efforts to help move Farrow’s work along, suggesting the work he did for NBC News did not meet a standard of having a victim make allegations against Weinstein on the record and on camera. Farrow took his work to The New Yorker, and was able to publish a story seven weeks later that shared in a Pulitzer Prize with The New York Times. Lauer has vehemently denied the allegations made against him.
James said the company’s handling of the Lauer and Weinstein matters were among the factors pushing employees to consider forming a union, an idea that has been discussed among staffers for “well over a year.” They are not the only elements involved in discussions, he said, but staffers are increasingly interested in ensuring their workplace has systems in place that allow employees to voice concerns without fear of retaliation. The recent controversies, he added, put a spotlight on “the need for this. It really connected the dots in a pretty clear way for a lot of people in the newsroom that we need something that’s outside of the current structure.”
In the wake of Lauer’s dismissal in 2017, NBC News introduced new policies that gave employees new ways to report concerns. On Friday, after MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow interviewed Farrow on her primetime program, NBCUniversal released a statement saying it would release “any former NBC News employee who believes that they cannot disclose their experience with sexual harassment as a result of a confidentiality or non-disparagement provision in their separation agreement” from any perceived condition. “As always, we encourage employees to report concerns through one of the many available channels,” the company added, including through a hotline.
The digital staffers may have some leverage. NBC News has been ramping up its digital efforts in steady fashion. On Tuesday, Berend said in an internal message he wanted to hire 70 or more new employees and make NBC News Now a 24/7 live-streaming outlet. As part of those moves, he also said the company would reorganize some of its digital teams and lay off some employees.
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DogVacay, the winner of Vator Splash LA in 2012, has now raised $47 million
Growing up, I never had a dog. That's probably because I grew up in a single parent household, and my mother had enough trouble on her hands raising two kids, so forget taking care of a dog. So instead we had cats, which you probably know are, for the most part, extremely self-sufficient creatures. The only maintenance they require is food and a changed litter box.
Now that been around dogs, I see how much work they really are. They require a lot more attention han a cat, and, if you go on vacation, you need to have someone you can really trust to look after them.
DogVacay, which is commonly referred to as the AirBnB for dogs, provides that solution and now it has announced that it has raised $25 million in funding. The round was led by OMERS Ventures, with participation from other investors that included GSV Capital, First Round Capital, Benchmark, Foundation Capital and DAG Ventures.
The company had previously raised $22 million in funding, most recently taking in a $15 million Series B round this past October. This round brings its total venture capital funding to $47 million. Other investors in the company include Sherpa Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
DogVacay, the winner of the 2012 Vator Splash LA competition. The company is basically an AirBnB for dogs, where dog owners who need to skip town for a couple of days can browse hosts on DogVacay.com to find the ideal home away from home for their pets.
Founded in 2012, the Santa Monica-based DogVacay allows dog owners who need to skip town for a couple of days to find the ideal home away from home for their pets. While the rates on DogVacay start at $25 a night, the hosts are then allowed to set their own rates at high as $100 per night. Payments are sent through PayPal and no direct payments are allowed, as they must go through DogVacay.com for the transaction to be covered by its insurance policy.
The company recently passed one million nights booked and it now has more than 20,000 vetted and insured pet sitters across North America.
"With this funding, the company will continue to scale towards its overall mission to build the country’s leading pet care provider. Although we were not actively fundraising, we were approached by OMERS Ventures and found in them a partner that shares this vision with us and our current investors (who also contributed to this round), so for us, it was a decision about securing a great partner for the future," Aaron Hirschhorn, founder and CEO of DogVacay, told VatorNews.
The round will be used grow out the DogVacay team. It currently has 70 employees and will expand all departments with this funding, including Product, Engineering, Marketing, Finance and Customer Care, which makes up more than 50% of the company.
"We also have some exciting updates and new services coming down the pipeline for our community of dog lovers that we’re looking forward to sharing in the coming months, such as expanding our line of services," said Hirschhorn.
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Wayward Bill…Helped Develop First Ever Pumpkin Beer!
In October of 1986, using their 300 gallon brew system at Buffalo Bill’s brewpub Hayward, California, we actually made the first Pumpkin Beer.
No pumpkin spice involved! We sliced and baked a 75# pumpkin. Doing so brought up the natural sugars and terpenes in the pumpkin meat. Removed the outer skin and added the slices to 300# brewer’s light malt for the mash. Finished with Hauertauer hops.
Called it PUNkin Beer.
It made the “What’s New” section front page of the Wall Street Journal. October 1986. John Paxton brewmaster in photo with me.
The idea came from Native Americans scooping out seeds then putting boiling water in the pumpkin. Dandelion leaves were used like hops. Letting it ferment capping with pumpkin top. Besides cannabis I am a certified beer judge via American Homebrewers judges course.
Have judged county fairs and California State Fair.
Used same system to make 150 gallons of canna-brew.
Decanted it in 22 oz. bottles. Had Label made, Welcome Back Jerry Ale.
Sold the bottles at 1986 Halloween show. His return from near death experience. Sent 10 bottles backstage and got 2 comps into the show. Kingfish & Jerry Garcia Band.
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Wayward Bill is at Seattle Hempfest 2019
This weedend (pun intended), “Where’s Wayward Bill” was attending the Washington State, Seattle Hempfest, now in it’s 28th year, originally began in 1991!
Wayward has attended a number of these events in the past and has always made a great showing for the USMjParty.
The USMjParty in coming up on it’s 17th Anniversary on November 25, 2019, and this was a great event to attend to mark the occasion. I only wish I could have had the same experience, in that I’ve never been able to make the trip, however, it will remain on my “bucket-list” to be fulfilled at some point, (I hope)!
Getting back to the task at hand, the following are some links to posts originally made on Facebook that marked the occasion.
First of all, it’s technically not a cannabis festival. “It’s a protest festival,” McPeak explained. “The Constitution of the United States says we have the right to peacefully assemble and air disagreements with the government.” That’s how the fest started, back in the summer of 1991 — as an offshoot of the 1990-91 Gulf War protests and peace actions McPeak helped organize. The purpose wasn’t to light up a joint, but to express public outrage over the fact that lighting up a joint could lead to prison.
Above: My FAVORITE VIDEO!
Please visit the above links and enjoy the Hempfest experience!!
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Wayward Bill – USMjParty Chairman
Mustard or Muster
I am proud to say when I took the helm of the U.S. Marijuana Party there were only 4 state chapters there are now 20. Due to cadre drop outs we have only 6 active chapters. We have a lot of come and go folks who said yea to Chairing a state chapter. The reason for number chapters not active. The Chairs couldn’t cut the mustard.
True cannabis activism is tedious hard work. It’s not about having cannabis 24/7. It’s about defending & thinking about the plant 24/7. It’s about numerous hours spent in legislative hearings. Judicial hearings too. 24/7. It’s about scrounging around for travel money to speak at an antiprohibition event that can’t cover your travel/lodging expenses. You learn to sleep traveling, on couches, and floors. Sometimes you get busted (knock on wood).
Perks yes. Networking. Standing for something you truly believe. Meeting new faces galore. Hobnobbing with politicians and other celebrities. And not to leave out, medicating with people you’ll never forget.
Then the traveling. TSA doesn’t allow cannabis medicine on flights. I travel by bus for that reason. If you are traveling to a cannabis state. Fly. The rainbow is at your destination. Driving your choice. Just be safe. Same rainbow awaits you.
THE BIGGEST PLUS IS THAT YOU ARE RECEIVING A CANNA-EDUCATION along the way. Mind seeds that you can plant elsewhere. “OUR TRUE MISSION!”
There is no retirement. It’s a battle and as MLK said, “No one is free until we are all free.
Can you pass the muster?
Peace, Pot, Politics,
Wayward Bill Chengelis
Chairman, U.S. Marijuana Party
Yippie
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Wayward Bill attends the 2017 Cannabis Business Awards, Alexis Bortell wins “Most Influential” 2017!
The Cannabis Business Awards 2017 Presented by Chloe Villano and Clover Leaf
There were many valuable and appreciated Activists who were represented at the Cannabis Business Awards in Denver, Colorado last night.
The Cannabis Business Awards features industry power players including CEO and Founder Chloe Villano, an entrepreneur featured in People Magazine’s “Marijuana Millionaires.” As one of the first and most sought-after consultants in the industry, Villano was the first executive to receive full accredited approval from the Department of Higher Education for her cannabis school Clover Leaf University. LINK
Undoubtedly the Star of the show was Alexis Bortell, who won “Most Influential Individual” for 2017. Alexis is suing General Jeff Sessions “not for money but for freedom”! You can view the video of her acceptance at this LINK.
The suit aims to prove that the Controlled Substances Act, the statute governing federal drug policy, is unconstitutional as it relates to marijuana, according to Alexis’ attorney, Michael S. Hiller. LINK
In 2016 Wayward Bill won the Lifetime Achievement Award and has attended and participated in each yearly event since it began in 2012. The following pictures he gathered while attending last nights ceremony.
GOOGLE SEARCH FOR ALEXIS BORTELL HERE
FOLLOW CHLOE VILLANO ON FACEBOOK FOR UPDATED INFORMATION!
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Wayward Bill, Cannabis Business Awards 2016
Marty Otañez
Wayward Bill and Bobbie
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See Denver Police Shooting in Photos by Marijuana Activist Wayward Bill
Michael Roberts | June 13, 2016 | 8:15am
“Twice in a week,” marijuana activist Wayward Bill wrote late last night on his Facebook page. “Siege situation at mi casa.”
Specifically, officers with the Denver Police Department got into a gun battle with a man who allegedly opened fire on them near the intersection of 20th and Arapahoe at around 9:20 p.m. on Sunday, June 12.
The suspect was injured but is expected to survive.
While it was happening, Wayward Bill (given name: William A. Chengelis) was watching — and capturing images of the terrifying incident.
It wasn’t the only gunplay that took place in downtown Denver over the past 24 hours.
Investigators are reportedly looking for a man who fired off approximately ten rounds on the 16th Mall near Champa around 1:45 a.m. this morning — the latest example of violence on the mall epitomized by two stabbings in April.
Here’s one image from the 16th Street Mall scene….
…and a second….
and a third….
…courtesy of 7News.
Fortunately, no one was hurt in the 16th Street Mall shooting.
But that wasn’t the case a few hours earlier at 20th and Arapahoe.
The Denver Police Department sketched out the details in this series of tweets….
BREAKING (1/3): #DPD responded to 20th & Arapahoe on a report of suspect making threats. When officers arrived on scene, suspect opened fire
— Denver Police Dept. (@DenverPolice) June 13, 2016
Breaking (2/3): Officers returned fire, striking the suspect in the arm. Injury appears 2 b non-lifethreatening. Suspect xported 2 hospital
BREAKING (3/3): No officers were injured. Arapahoe closed from 19th to 21. Investigation ongoing… #Denver
…followed by photos sent from the scene:
Scene at 20th & Arapahoe as officers investigate an officer-involved shooting in the area. Avoid area. #Denver pic.twitter.com/oQv3Q0bAsx
But these images aren’t nearly as compelling as those shared by Wayward Bill, a frequent presence in our marijuana coverage over the years; he was mentioned most recently in a post about the Rigs4Us Colorado Cup on 4/20, at which he was supposed to serve as a judge. (As you’ll recall, the Cup was shut down after being raided by police and other city officials.)
On Facebook, Wayward Bill wrote that he “woke up to bullhorn: ‘Put the gun down.’ Several times. Followed by a volley of eight shots. Guy on my 3rd floor down.”
In the moments that followed, Wayward Bill managed to capture images of police deploying in the area in an effort to get an angle on the man, as well as ones actually firing — note the muzzle flash in the pic at the top of this post. He also grabbed photos of the subsequent emergency response.
Thus far, the shooter has not been identified by Denver authorities, nor have the officers who opened fire.
Look below to see photos from the scene courtesy of Wayward Bill.
Wayward Bill Facebook page
Continue to see ten more photos from the scene of last night’s officer-involved shooting.
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Thousands relax and enjoy rescheduled 420 Rally
Above: William “Wayward Bill” Chengelis, a marijuana and political activists from Denver, stands in front of a sign that warns patrons of the illegal consumption in public spaces at Civic Center Park on May 21, 2016. Photo by Brandon N. Sanchez • bsanch36@msudenver.edu
By Teresa Diaz Soriano on May 24, 2016
The sun was shining bright and all was calm as thousands gathered in Civic Center Park in Downtown Denver on May 21 for the rescheduled Official 420 Rally 2016.
Organizers rescheduled the festivities a month after the original date due to a snowstorm that hit Colorado. Although numbers were lower than previous years, the annual rally still provided the marijuana community an opportunity to come together and celebrate.
For Lorena Ochoa and her husband the 420 Rally provided the couple an opportunity to launch their brand of custom dabbers. Dabbers are an alternative way cannabis connoisseurs can experience the wonders of marijuana oils, hash and wax. The duo moved from Pueblo to Denver in 2013 and have been networking with pot shops to spread the word. Aside from publicizing their names, the Ochoa’s participate in the 420 Rally to raise awareness of the benefits of marijuana.
Marijuana enthusiasts lounge around the grass of Civic Center Park and partake in the use of marijuana. Denver Police issued fewer citations for public consumption. May 21, 2016. Photo by Brandon N. Sanchez • bsanch36@msudenver.edu
“I think it’s stupid of our country to deny medical care to people,” Ochoa said. “Marijuana should be legal everywhere and events like this help bring the cause closer to people. The hospitality at events like this goes to show you that the negative portrayal [of the marijuana community] in the media is false.”
Many attendees like Erin Duron showed up to see rapper Wiz Khalifa perform. “His show was great,” she said. “I wish the crowd was a little more energetic, and it was a little more crowded, but it was still fun.”
By midafternoon when the weather started to cool down groups of people listened to headliner Lil Wayne perform while relaxing in the grass.
The air was surprisingly fresh considering the event’s nature. Stephanie Lopez, who was working her father’s booth Glass Gallery, stated the lack of marijuana use was due to cops ticketing people for smoking.
“You’re still not allowed to smoke in public,” Lopez said, “If you don’t get caught then you don’t get caught, but if you do then you know what happens.” She believes if the event happened closer to the original date there would have been more leniency.
Officer Jacob Herrera took a more lenient approach and said, “At events like this, live and let live.” The crowd was easygoing and Herrera said there were no major incidents to report.
For some, the lack of marijuana was a good thing. Shenae Micelvin, the chair coordinator of the nonprofit organization Falcons Youth Organization, and football coach for the organization, Aaron Grimes, fundraised at the rally. Micelvin let kids involved in the organization run the booth and sell snacks, such as cheetos and candy bars.
“We originally were not going to participate in the event,” Micelvin said. “But this time around we knew it was going to be more kid-friendly. Organizers encouraged kids.”
Falcons Youth Organization raised roughly $500 for students to participate in after-school activities, and were happy to be involved in a major part of the community amassed at the 420 rally.
People will remember the Official 420 Rally 2016 as a relaxed gathering of not only cannabis enthusiasts, but families and friends wanting to spend a day in the sun.
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byTheWeedBlog
William A. Chengelis, aka Wayward Bill (photo: US Marijuana Party)
BY RUSS BELVILLE
The president of the US Marijuana Party, William A. Chengelis, better known to marijuana law reformers as Wayward Bill, has been arrested on charges of distribution of a dangerous controlled substance by Washington, DC, federal police, according to reports from Denver’s John Doe Radio.
Tim Martin reports that Chengelis and federal medical marijuana patient Irvin Rosenfeld were initially detained, but Rosenfeld was soon released without arrest. Chengelis is scheduled for a bond hearing this afternoon on charges of allegedly passing a cannabis-medicated candy to a patient on federal property, according to Martin.
According to NORML, under federal law, “distribution of a small amount of marijuana, for no remuneration, is treated as possession.” The penalties for first time possession under federal law are a misdemeanor with a possible one year in prison and $1,000 fine.
https://www.themaven.net/theweedblog/culture/us-marijuana-party-s-wayward-bill-arrested-in-washington-dc-Zpa94u_lt0K40Vu0I1PowA/
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© The Tennessean-USA TODAY Sports
Luke Bryan & Dierks Bentley Are Back to Co-Host the ACMs
By: Lauren Hoffman
The 52nd ACM Awards are quickly approaching and it has just been announced that Luke Bryan and Dierks Bentley will return as hosts April 2 live from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
This will be the pairs second time co-hosting the Academy of Country Music Awards and will mark year five for Bryan.
The 2017 ACM nominees will be announced February 16 by country trio, Lady Antebellum, on CBS This Morning.
Who are you rooting for this year?
ACMs
American country music
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Release Day: July 13, 2012
Nick LoCicero
Nick LoCicero @planetaryboogie
Excuse me if I’m a little jaded this morning and not rushing to my computer to order from the Disney Store Online today. Not much surprise, but the Carl and Ellie release yesterday went less than smoothly. That included a mid afternoon tease where we all flooded the DSO again to purchase the “now available” Carl and Ellie combo. Of course we woke up to emails from Disney apologizing for the mistake. I wrote them back with a little note of my own, did anyone else?
So today, a few releases hit the Disney Store Online once again… and once again I am reading grumblings of errors for a few figures that didn’t even have close to the hype or demand of Carl and Ellie.
The Comic Con release slate continues today with the Purple Park Starz Squid Variant. An LE of 1954 for $24.95.
As expected, Epcot’s favorite purple dragon popped up online today. This Figment Park Starz variant is an LE 2500 for $24.95. Varying reports say he was available at times overnight? The listing now says Sold Out. But there are issues with the listing description…
The edition size seems wrong and it doesn’t have poseable arms and head. A report on the Vinylmation Exchange Facebook page says the listing has been changed to Sold Out while changes are made.
Park 9 is available online and at your local D-Street.
9″ Park 9 Art of Animation Poster is at D-Streets. Check out my history of the Disneyland attraction here.
9″ Park 9 Feature Animation Building is at D-Streets as well. Check out my history of the Burbank building where Disney magic is drawn to life here.
TagsPark Starz Comic-Con Park 9
Nick LoCicero has almost 20 years experience in the media industry. He has worked on numerous Disney related media projects, most know at WDWNT for WDW News Tonight. He has been visiting Walt Disney World since 1982. After moving to Orlando in the late 90's he became a passholder, developed a fascination with the history of the vacation kingdom and has spent way too much money on park merchandise.
rogpalmeruk
If you zoom in on the picture of Figment on the tin… it does state LE5000
Figment is now available for purchase!
Still says his arms and head are poseable. I can’t wait to try that! lol
The Playwright
And don’t forget the Japan Mickey comes out at Disney Stores for Magic Around the World.
I stayed up last night to order the Squid and Figment Park Starz. Started at 2am CDT and FINALLY got a confirm at 3:47am CDT, but no Figment. That entire time was a fiasco of frozen/crashed DS.com problems. This morn I decided to call to add Figment once it was up for sale. The DS.com had about as much intelligence as a rock. Finally cancelled the order and ordered online. That order took 2 mins plus I got a $15 discount. When DS.com works, it works, but if there is a problem, it’s a BIG one.
disneyman
I woke up at 3 am to get the squid, and my order was confirmed at 4 am (est). It took about 20 tries on the website because it kept freezing or not going through finnaly i tried it on my other computer and it went through.
bigpoptoys
Just purchased. Comic con boy and girl, figment, and squid can’t wait for them to arrive. Had to search to find them on the site.
Variants of the Dapper Dan Park 9
Haunted Mansion Preview
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31 March, 2016 繁 簡
Lingnan Highlights
Lingnan University organises symposium to mark the 10th anniversary of Service-Learning
Jenny Lam awarded Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship
Lingnan sports teams strive for even better performance
Lingnan wins numerous awards in the 10th Hong Kong Inter-tertiary Institution Putonghua Recitation Contest
Appointment of Prof Alfred Chan Cheung-ming as Chairperson of Equal Opportunities Commission
Research and academic activities
New inter-institutional agreements further strengthen Lingnan’s global links
Roundtable discussion on skateboarding and wellbeing
Children’s Happiness Index drops in two consecutive years
Hong Kong scientist shares the discovery of gravitational wave
Campus Snapshots
Alumni provide career advice to students at dinner gathering
Campus visit for primary students to experience university life
Lingnan Arts Festival features international and local arts
“TEDx Lingnan University” talks explore bold paths of life
Lingnan’s Equal Opportunities Awareness Campaign kicks off
Newsletters published by academic and administrative departments
The Hong Kong SAR Government announced on 18 March the appointment of Prof Alfred Chan Cheung-ming as Chairperson of Equal Opportunities Commission for a term of three years commencing 11 April.
Before taking up the appointment, Prof Chan is the University’s Chair Professor of Social Gerontology, Director of Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies, and Director of Office of Service-Learning. He possesses rich professional knowledge in social services, social welfare, elderly and minority issues, and also has an impressive public service record. He has been Chairman of the Elderly Commission since 2011, and is also an incumbent member of the Minimum Wage Commission, the Independent Police Complaints Council and the Health and Medical Development Advisory Committee.
Prof Chan feels honoured to be appointed, and hopes to lead the Equal Opportunities Commission to continue the promotion of equal opportunities in society and reduce discrimination.
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USGS 01408900 Cedar Creek at Western Blvd near Lanoka Harbor NJ
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
USGS - Cooperative Matching Funds
LOCATION.--Lat 39°52'45", long 74°11'26" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, Berkeley Township, Ocean County, NJ, Hydrologic Unit 02040301, on downstream side of Western Boulevard bridge, 1 mi south of Crystal Lake, 1.7 mi northwest of Lanoka Harbor, and 4.2 mi upstream from mouth.
PERIOD OF RECORD.--Continuous-record discharge station, July 1932 to September 1958, October 1970 to September 1971, October 2003 to current year. Annual maximum tide gage, water years 1962, 1979-85, 1993. Prior to May 1, 2012 published as Cedar Creek at Lanoka Harbor (station 01409000).
GAGE.--Water-stage recorder with telemetry and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 1.81 ft above NAVD 1988. Prior to May 1, 2012, gage was located 2.2 mi downstream, 50 ft upstream from bridge on U.S. Highway 9, at a datum of 1.21 ft below NAVD 1988 and drainage area of 53.3 mi2.
REMARKS.--Records fair, except for estimated discharges, which are poor. Flow occasionally regulated by gate operations at lakes and cranberry bogs upstream. Daily mean discharges prior to May 2012 were adjusted on basis of regression using concurrent discharge measurements at the former and current sites. Annual maximum discharges prior to the 2012 water year were adjusted on the basis of change in drainage area and attenuation between the former and current sites.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--Maximum discharge, 1,000 ft3/s, Oct 28, 1943, gage height, 4.50 ft, site and datum then in use, maximum gage height, 8.18 ft, Sep 6, 2012, present datum; minimum discharge since May 1, 2012, 43 ft3/s, Sep 26, 2015, minimum daily discharge, 13 ft3/s Jan 5, 1956.
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A Statement from Ryan on Supreme Court Nominee, Brett Kavanaugh
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"Two opponents will vie for the Democratic primary on May 8. Indivisible NC 6 sent them each a questionnaire and shared their responses with our members. After polling, Ryan Watts has earned the endorsement.... 'His pragmatic approach to progressive policies speaks to a large majority of our membership, which includes unaffiliated and Republican voters, as well as Democrats.'"
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As part of their coverage of the 2018 election, the Greensboro News & Record is running a series of articles which feature local candidates, their experience, and their positions. Ryan Watts was surveyed by the paper, and you can learn more about his work experience and positions on the issues. Read the full article at The News & Record >
Political newcomer Watts seeks Democratic nomination in 6th District race
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Home Life Ogun Assembly Parleys Police to Strengthen Security Network
Ogun Assembly Parleys Police to Strengthen Security Network
Olajide Toriola
By Kolawole Olayinka, Abeokuta
Towards strengthening the security network in all parts of Ogun State, the State House of Assembly has held a security parley with the leadership of the State Command of the Nigeria Police Force, led by its Commissioner, Bashir Makama.
Speaking at the parley held at the Assembly complex, the Speaker of the Assembly, Rt Hon. Olakunle Oluomo, said the interface with the top hierarchy of the Nigeria Police Force in the State was meant to ensure effective and efficient community policing, with a view to tackling headlong crimes and criminalities in any part of the State.
Oluomo, alongside other lawmakers noted that, the members representing different constituencies in the State would continue to be partners in progress with security agencies, to guarantee protection of lives and property of the citizenry.
In his remarks, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Makama stated that the parley would enhance the job of the Police and make the task of effective policing easier for his men, enjoining the lawmakers and members of the public to give necessary information and feedback to the command, pointing out that this would strengthen security network in all parts of the State.
According to him, the command had been holding discussions with some of the herdsmen towards ensuring that they carry out their activities without threat to human life and damage to farmlands, adding that timely information was crucial in preventing crimes.
Nigeria Police Force
Ogun State House of Assembly
Rt Hon. Olakunle Oluomo
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#359 – Railroad Rivals
February 25, 2019 • What's Eric Playing?
Base price: $50.
1 – 5 players.
Play time: 45 – 60 minutes.
BGG | Board Game Atlas
Buy on Amazon (via What’s Eric Playing?)
Logged plays: 3
Full disclosure: A review copy of Railroad Rivals was provided by Forbidden Games.
Sometimes the timing just works and you can get a game reviewed. The expansion to Railroad Rivals, Robber Barons, hits Kickstarter on 2/26, and I figured why not review the base game, see how I feel about it? Thankfully Forbidden Games had sent it after I finished up work on Extraordinary Adventures: Pirates, and now it’s back on the Forbidden Games train, literally.
In Railroad Rivals it’s the mid-1800s (peak train time) and you’re vying to boost your stock in 12 of the major American train companies during that time period by building lines between major American cities and transporting goods. Unfortunately, your rivals seek to do the same thing, and you worry they might be better at it. You’ll have to think fast and move faster to outpace them (and, of course, move some trains). Will you be able to make a name for yourself as a trained innovator? Or will your entire plan for success end up running off the rails?
Player Count Differences
Pros, Mehs, Cons
Setup isn’t too bad. Take the City tiles:
Remove Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinatti:
Shuffle them, reveal one face-up in the center. That’s your start tile. Return the other two to the stack, shuffle thoroughly, and give every player 2 to form their starting hand. Also shuffle the Stock tiles:
Nobody gets any of those, yet. If you’re playing at two players, remove one of each Company’s Stock tiles and 6 random City tiles.
Give each player a set of trains:
These should correspond to their double-sided character cards:
Also, add goods tokens to the included bag, depending on your player count:
2 players: 16 Brown + 10 of whatever color you want.
3 players: 16 Brown + 10 Yellow
4 players: 16 Brown + 10 Yellow + 10 Black
5 players: 12 Brown + 6 Yellow + 10 Black + 6 Grey
Choose the player order randomly and represent it with the character cards near the the scoreboard:
Have each player donate a train. First player gets 6 points, second gets 8, third gets 10, and so on. Put each train company’s stock marker off to the left; they’re not worth anything yet:
Once you’ve done that, you’re pretty much ready to start!
At its core, Railroad Rivals is sort of an introductory train game. It’s a lighter version of your more common railroad management games, for people interested in that lifestyle but not the time commitment (like me!). Generally you earn stock and move goods to try and boost the value of that stock, which pays out at the end of the game. The player with the most points at the game’s end wins!
A round typically progresses in a few phases: Bid for Turn Order (you’ll skip this in the first round), Draft Tiles, Play Tiles, and then Move Goods. You do that until the last City Tile has been played from a player’s hand, at which point the game ends.
Bid for Turn Order
So, at this point reveal X tiles from the City stack and the Stock stack (each), where X is the number of players. This allows for some context on the bids. If the City stack has run out, reveal twice as many Stock tiles.
The player currently last in the turn order makes the first bid, and you bid with points. Each player can raise the bid or pass, but once you pass, you cannot bid further. Once all players but one has passed, that player is the first player for the round and moves their Character Card to the front of the line. No other players change turn order. For a more exciting variant, you can play such that the first player to pass becomes last, second player is next-to-last, and so on. It’ll … change how you bid, for sure.
Either way, once you’ve established the turn order, move on to the Draft.
Draft Tiles
Players will, in turn order, choose either a City tile or a Stock tile. Once everyone has chosen a tile, each player will, again, in turn order, choose either a City tile or a Stock tile. The only catch is that a player cannot pick the same type of tile that they picked this turn, generally speaking. This means that each player will end up taking a City tile and a Stock tile during this phase.
At some point in the game the City stack will run out. At that point, each player drafts 2 Stock tiles.
Once you’ve done this, you can place tiles.
Place Tiles
Tiles may be placed on the board by placing a tile adjacent to another tile such that the edges show the same railroad. This creates a rail between them, and the player then places their train on both tiles, connecting them. You may make connections between more than one tile with some wise placement, but you only need to make sure that one of those connections is valid in order to place. (This might mean that you connect SP to SR on one side, but IC to IC on the other, which is legal; you just wouldn’t place a train on the SP – SR connection, as that’s invalid.)
When you place a tile, draw Goods from the bag equal to the number on the tile randomly and place them on the tile. These can be shipped later.
If you cannot match any ends of any tiles, you may place a tile with a blank edge adjacent to another tile with a blank edge so that the blank edges connect. This will not let you place a train.
If you cannot even do this, you do not place a tile this turn. Rough.
Move Goods
Now, in turn order, each player may take a good from one City and move it to an adjacent city via a train line of their choosing. If you use another player’s train line to ship a good, that player gains two points. When you move a good, you gain points as well:
3 points if you are the first player this turn to move that color good
2 points if that color good has been moved once
1 point if that color good has already been moved twice (or more)
In a two-player game, all tokens are considered to be the same color.
Additionally, move the stock token corresponding to the line you used up one on the scoreboard; that stock is now more valuable.
The game ends when any one player runs out of City Tiles in their hand. Finish out the round, and then evaluate how much your stocks are worth (they pay out their value on the scoreboard, each). The player with the most points wins!
I mean, the major difference is how much more contention happens at higher player counts. At two, you can mostly ignore each other and kinda stick to your own stocks, if you want (though thankfully there are three of each stock, so you can’t end up with even splits), but at higher player counts player order matters so much. It’s pretty great, to be honest. The bidding is interesting, the map becomes more interesting; the whole thing just kinda sings. I still enjoy the two-player game, but, honestly, it’s just a much better game at higher player counts.
3+ recommended.
I mean, a decent strategy is to slowly accrue Stock tiles until you have three. The obvious problem with that is that if people see you doing that, they won’t boost that stock. If you can figure out how to do that secretly / covertly, well, it won’t matter.
One thing that I do is build out paths for a stock I want to boost, and then boosting it when I have nothing else to do. Say I have UP, or something. If I have a bunch of links I control with UP, I don’t necessarily have to move those cubes now; I can move them later and save up cubes for that stock.
If you have the opportunity to move a good, move a good that your opponent placed. They likely put that tile to boost their stocks, but if you can build off the tile you can move that tile’s cubes on your network instead, which will give you extra cubes towards boosting your stock. In all likelihood, if they notice, they’ll use the rest of those quickly, but hey, bonus cube.
It’s not a bad idea to build dead ends. If you make some dead ends, then other players can’t do to you what I just described above, as there’s no place for them to connect to your City tiles. It’s also helpful if you do that such that players who have Stock in the companies on that tile’s edges cannot meaningfully establish routes off of that tile, so that they can’t boost those stocks.
Remember how much going first is worth. At the bare minimum it’s 3 points, since you’ll almost always move a good first. If you look at the stocks, players will likely take either the most valuable stock or the stock they currently have a lot of, so that they don’t have to share it. You should incorporate that value into your bid as well. Additionally, it’s potentially worth even more if you already have stock matching that one that you might take, but you don’t want to spend all the points you’d make in a turn.
Keep an eye on what cubes are available to your opponents. If you can play such that you know what cubes your opponents are most likely to move, you can move that same color first and devalue their moves. It might be enough to force them to do something different (and potentially boost a stock you own). It’s rude, but, I mean, you gotta do it sometimes.
It’s a decent idea to be in first place before you run out of City tiles. In my opinion, they’re a bit harder to place explicit value on, whereas the Stocks are much easier to value, so the bidding gets a lot more aggressive towards the end of the game (or at least it did when I played). If you can get ahead in the player order, you might be able to ride it out until the end of the game.
Pros, Mehs, and Cons
I think this is the first auction game I actually enjoyed. I just feel like I understand how the bidding is supposed to work, which makes me feel a lot better than most of the other bidding games I’ve played. Maybe I’ll go back and try Modern Art again, who knows.
The art is really good! Seriously, the whole game looks great. Part of that is their commitment to actually doing the research and due diligence to make the game authentic, too.
You know, I always raise an eyebrow at the phrase “historical accuracy”, but I think they actually went for it in a really cool way? They used authentic logos from the train companies and had each of the city tiles feature a building that would have been in that city at that time. It must have taken a while to do all that research and the game looks really good as a result. I guess that’s less “historical accuracy” and more “thematic authenticity”, which I definitely really like. It makes the game feel very vibrant and fresh inside of its own theme, which makes the games feel more interesting.
Got a great table presence. It does look really good on the table; the trains and the cubes help a lot, along with the gradual asymmetry of the map. It’s a specific look, but I really like it.
The components are really nice. The City and Stock tiles are a nice weight, the trains look good, the scoreboard looks good as well. The cubes, well, they’re cubes. Not much to say about that.
Mehs
Sigh. I wouldn’t be doing my due diligence if I didn’t mention one of my co-players complaints. He is mildly miffed every game because the tiles don’t end up in a geographically-accurate configuration. I’ve told him I would raise it with the publisher. Consider it raised.
I find the two-player game underwhelming. I still enjoy playing it but I vastly prefer more players. There’s more happening, bidding for turn order matters more; it just feels more lively.
Overall: 8.5 / 10
Overall, I think Railroad Rivals is pretty great. I mean, I don’t think you’re going to be able to convince me to play an 18XX game anytime soon, but if this is what they’re like (albeit an abridged level) then I can see why people are so enthusiastic about them. It’s a nice mix of drafting, tile-laying, and route building, and the auction mechanic is significant within the game but it feels like the actual value of what you’re bidding on is easy enough to parse that new players aren’t as inhibited by it as I’ve seen in other games with major bidding mechanics. Add in some pretty fantastic art and a solid playtime and you’ve got a really solid contender of a game going. I think the 45 – 60 minute time point is a great place to hit, as it’s not too long of a game that it’s intimidating but it’s also got a fair bit of time to do what it sets out to do, which is teach the basics of a railroad game to players. If that’s the sort of thing you’re looking for, I quite enjoyed Railroad Rivals; hopefully you will too!
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The Natchez Fall Pilgrimage drew 54 members of the Citizens Bank Travel Club to Natchez, Miss., which was a prominent city in the pre-Civil War years as a center of cotton planters and Mississippi River trade.
Over four days in September, club members visited eight antebellum mansions and toured the area, learning much about the city’s role as one of the oldest and most important European settlements in the lower Mississippi River Valley.
Established by French colonists in 1716, the strategic location of Natchez, on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, ensured that it would be a pivotal center of trade, commerce, and the interchange of ethnic Native American, European, and African cultures in the region.
On their first evening in Natchez, members toured Landsdowne Mansion, which was built in 1853. Following dinner, the group was treated to a concert that featured varying musical styles from Mississippi’s past, ranging from gospel to rock and roll.
The Longwood Mansion in Natchez, Miss.
The following day, the club toured the beautiful Longwood Mansion, which is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and is a National Historic Landmark. Construction on the nation’s largest octagonal mansion began in 1860, but was halted in 1861 by rising tensions over the Civil War. All but the lowest level of the mansion’s interior was left unfinished – and will always remain unfinished to preserve its historical significance.
Owner David Garner (standing right) welcomes guests to Choctaw Hall before he recites the history and features of the 1836 mansion. Garner previously owned Marlsgate Plantation in Scott, Ark.
One of the other antebellum homes on the Natchez Fall Pilgrimage was Choctaw Hall, which was built in 1836. Owners David Garner and Lee Glover treated their guests to a lavish dinner, tour and historical presentation about Choctaw Hall. Garner and Glover formerly owned the Marlsgate Plantation in Scott, Ark., which the club visited in 2017.
Travel Club members file up and down the unique circular staircase between the first and third floors of Choctaw Hall. The staircase is an example of late Federal-style architecture.
Fifty-four members of the Citizens Bank Travel Club gather on the front porch of the Choctaw Hall in Natchez, Miss. before entering the 1836 mansion and enjoying a dinner and tour. / All images via Citizens Bank
Reservations are currently being accepted for the two major trips that have been scheduled by the Travel Club for 2019. “Classic Italy by Rail” is the destination for the club’s premier international excursion for 10 days in October 2019. The prime domestic trip next May will cover nine days and includes the Holland Tulip Festival in Holland, Mich.; two nights in the historic Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island; and other tours.
The Citizens Bank Travel Club’s complete 2019 calendar of events will be announced soon.
For additional information about these trips, visit the Citizens Bank Main Branch in downtown Batesville, or contact Chuck Jones by email at chuckj@thecitizensbank.net or call (870) 698-6233.
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Layoffs averted for third New Castle County union
The last of three unions that faced layoffs in next year’s budget have reached a deal with New Castle County to avoid any job cuts.
Members of AFSCME Local 3109 have voted to accept another year of salary rollbacks in exchange for no layoffs. AFSCME Local 3109 represents 106 county managers and supervisors.
The agreement means a continuation of the 5 percent salary rollback implemented last year, one paid furlough day this fiscal year, and 5 paid furlough days next fiscal year. The deal is identical to the one agreed to by Local 459 and Local 1607 last month. County officials expect the deal with Local 3109 to save New Castle County $392,000 and the three deals combined to produce $ 2.1 million in savings in the 2011 fiscal year.
During his budget address in March, New Castle County Executive Chris Coons told members of three unions that had not agreed to continue the salary cuts that there would be layoffs if a deal couldn’t be reached. Today, Coons thanked union leadership and members for “making a difficult choice that preserves jobs and keeps the workforce strong.”
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Cohen, Ex-Trump Lawyer, To Testify Publicly Before Congress
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, will testify publicly before a House committee next month in a hearing that could serve as the opening salvo of a promised Democratic effort to scrutinize Trump, his conflicts of interest and his ties to Russia.
The House Oversight and Reform Committee announced Thursday that Cohen will appear before that panel Feb. 7, a little more than a month after the Democrats took the House majority.
The hearing marks the latest step in Cohen's transformation from a trusted legal adviser to the president to a public antagonist who has cooperated extensively against him. Although Democrats say the questioning will be limited to avoid interfering with open investigations, the hearing is still likely to pull back the curtain on key episodes involving Trump's personal life and business dealings, including hush-money payments to women and a proposed Moscow real estate deal, that federal prosecutors have been dissecting for months.
Cohen is a pivotal figure in investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller into potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign and by federal prosecutors in New York into campaign finance violations related to payments to buy the silence of a porn actress and a former Playboy Playmate who say they had sex with Trump. Federal prosecutors have said Trump directed those payments during the campaign.
Trump has denied having the extramarital affairs.
Cohen has pleaded guilty in both investigations and was sentenced last month to three years in prison. An adviser to Cohen, Lanny Davis, said shortly after he was sentenced that the former political fixer wanted to testify and "state publicly all he knows."
In a statement released on Thursday, Cohen said he had accepted the invitation "in furtherance of my commitment to cooperate and provide the American people with answers."
Cohen added: "I look forward to having the privilege of being afforded a platform with which to give a full and credible account of the events which have transpired."
Trump has denied wrongdoing and sought to minimize Cohen's statements by painting him as a liar. Asked by reporters in Texas on Thursday about Cohen's appearance, Trump said he's "not worried about it at all."
Cohen acknowledged in the Mueller investigation that he lied to Congress by saying negotiations over a Trump Tower in Moscow had ended in January 2016 when he actually pursued the project into that June, well into Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. In New York, he acknowledged his involvement in payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
The chairman of the oversight panel, Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, said the committee is consulting with Mueller's office about the testimony. He told reporters on Thursday that "there will be limitations" on the topics covered in Cohen's testimony.
"We don't want to do anything to interfere with the Mueller investigation — absolutely nothing," Cummings said.
The panel's top Republican, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, said Cohen's appearance shows that Cummings is using the "committee as a venue for political theater rather than legitimate oversight," noting how Cohen has admitted knowingly lying to Congress and is a witness in ongoing investigations.
"This makes clear that Chairman Cummings and the Democrats will do whatever it takes to attack this President," Jordan said in a statement.
A spokesman for Mueller declined to comment.
Cummings has signaled that his committee is more interested in investigating the president's involvement in the campaign violations to which Cohen pleaded guilty last year.
Cummings has sent document requests to the White House and the Trump Organization that seek to determine why Trump, who reimbursed Cohen for the hush-money payments, omitted that debt on his public financial disclosure form. Cummings is also requesting a raft of potentially revealing communications about the payments and other legal services Cohen provided for the president and his company.
The oversight hearing may not be Cohen's only appearance. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said he welcomes Cohen's testimony before the oversight panel, but "it will be necessary, however, for Mr. Cohen to answer questions pertaining to the Russia investigation, and we hope to schedule a closed session before our committee in the near future."
Cohen testified before the House intelligence panel in a closed-door hearing in 2017, before his role in the federal investigations was fully known and when Republicans controlled the committee. The GOP-led committee later ended its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, saying there was no evidence of collusion or conspiracy between Trump's campaign and Russia.
Schiff wants to restart parts of that probe.
The Senate intelligence committee has also asked Cohen to return. He spoke to that panel in 2017.
"The request still stands, regardless of any public testimony Mr. Cohen may give on other issues," its chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., said in a statement.
Associated Press writers Catherine Lucey in McAllen, Texas, and Darlene Superville and Padmananda Rama in Washington contributed to this report.
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The Sacramento Business Journal has named Paramount Equity the 'A+ Employee Choice Award' winner in the large employer category, for the second consecutive year.
Sacramento, CA (1888PressRelease) November 04, 2010 - For the second year in a row, The Sacramento Business Journal has named Paramount Equity the 'A+ Employee Choice Award' winner in the large employer category. Paramount Equity received the prestigious award based on high marks from the company's employees in a regional, anonymous survey.
"This is by far the most gratifying award we receive," said Hayes Barnard, owner and president of Paramount Equity. "The dedication and hard work of our employees is a big reason why we have been able to sustain our business through this economy. This is a great group of individuals that work hard every day to save people money. The fact that our employees are happy and enjoy coming to work, says a lot."
Paramount Equity provides mortgages, insurance, residential solar and estate planning services. The company is also committed to supplying an enjoyable place to work for its employees and giving back to the communities they serve. Paramount Equity provides its employees a benefit program called "The Power of One". This benefit gives employees paid time off to volunteer up to 20 hours a year for the charity of their choice. Paramount Equity's employees also enjoy other cultural perks including, a weekly "snack attack", group fitness classes, book clubs, and more.
Paramount Equity has been the recipient of the 'A+ Employee Choice Awards' in the past including 2006, 2007, and 2009. Companies are categorized into four groups based upon their number of employees. The large category includes all organizations employing more than 150 people. Scores are tallied by an anonymous, online employee survey about workplace satisfaction. Paramount Equity accepted their award today at the honorees' luncheon at the Double Tree Hotel in Sacramento.
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24 Hour Fitness® Celebrates New Club in Kapolei, HI
The Fitness Industry Pioneer Celebrates 20th Year of Hawaii Presence
Kapolei, HI. - Nov. 30, 2016
24 Hour Fitness is joining West-Oahu’s fastest-growing community in Kapolei, with a new club in the recently opened Ka Makana Ali’i Mall which boasts over 150 new retail options. The addition of the mall is one piece of the much larger economic development plans springing to life in Oahu.
A grand opening event is scheduled for Saturday, December 3, 2016, 9:00 a.m., until 1:00 p.m., 24 Hour Fitness Kapolei club,
Ka Makana Ali’i Mall, 91-5431 Kapolei Parkway, M100, Kapolei. The community is invited to this free celebration, which includes club tours, prize drawings, group training demonstrations, innovative group exercise studio classes and more.
As a part of the celebration, a Native Hawaiian “Kahu” will perform a traditional Hawaiian blessing ceremony to the sounds of the Kapolei High School marching band on Grand Opening day. Area dignitaries are expected to attend and welcome the new club to the community.
The 1.4-million-square-foot shopping center is the first on Oahu in more than three decades, and the only regional mall in West Oahu. The addition of 24 Hour Fitness makes going to the gym even more convenient for local residents who previously had to travel more than 10 miles to reach a gym location.
“Hawaii residents have embraced us for over 20 years. We continue to invest in our growth here and are thrilled to offer Kapolei residents all of the resources to reach their fitness goals,” said Jason Roundtree, General Manager. “The club is just one part of leading a healthy lifestyle. Our talented fitness professionals provide the spirit of aloha, tools and expertise that will help members achieve their fitness goals both inside and outside of our club.”
The new, 30,000+ square foot club features a modern design and open-floor plan. Amenities include:
Cardio, strength and functional training equipment
Large rooms for a full schedule of Cycle and Group X® classes, including new formats including POP Pilates, Treat While You Train™ and bootybarre®
Virtual classes: Members can take Cycle and Group X® classes on their own convenient schedule, when the studios aren’t in use. It’s as easy as making a selection of virtual class format options, pressing a button, and GO!
Indoor pool, whirlpool, steam room and sauna
Personal and Group training services*
Kids’ Club*
To experience the new gym, download a free guest pass from 24hourfitness.com/Kapolei
Headquartered in San Ramon, Calif., 24 Hour Fitness is a leading health club industry pioneer, serving nearly 4 million members in over 400 clubs across the U.S. For more than 30 years, the company has been dedicated to helping members change their lives and reach their individual fitness goals. With convenient club locations, personal training services, popular group exercise classes and a variety of strength, cardio and functional training equipment, 24 Hour Fitness offers fitness solutions for everyone.
Please visit 24hourfitness.com for more information and to find the club nearest you.
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Home » Sobering up on Heath Ledger
Sobering up on Heath Ledger
Don't memorialize the 'Dark Knight' star's death with an Academy Award.
By Eric P. Lucas, Los Angeles Times Op-Ed
It's time to stop the canonization of Heath Ledger.
He's not a tragic hero. He's not a beautiful martyr.
He's just a pretty good actor who did away with himself and broke the hearts of his family and friends, and he shouldn't get an Academy Award to memorialize his death.
Ledger's brief career culminated in his portrayal of the Joker in "The Dark Knight," a role that at first seems compelling ("mesmerizing," critics have fawned) but ultimately devolves into a can-can dance of snuffling pseudo-psychopathia.
It has all the subtlety of a hangover -- exactly what I'd expect from someone who headed home every night to a pill party. Still, "The Dark Knight" has soared to unprecedented success, and Ledger's name is mentioned incessantly for an Oscar.
The current mania joins Ledger to a long line of creative figures who committed the ultimate failure and are, unfortunately, all the more famous for it: Dylan Thomas, Hank Williams, Jackson Pollock, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, John Belushi, Janis Joplin.
Some drank themselves to death, some overdosed, some ran their cars off the road. As the saying goes in AA, the stories are the same, only the details are different.
"I want to live fast, love hard, die young, and leave a beautiful memory," Faron Young sang in a 1955 hit, unwittingly encapsulating this fatal phenomenon.
People of every walk of life die from drugs and alcohol, but only a celebrity's death gets so heated in a devil's crucible of public sentiment that it is transformed into posthumous glory. And such adulation begets a mass social hysteria that continues the cycle.
The preeminent example is the deification of Hendrix. How many young men pick up a guitar to emulate him, and wind up under a bridge with a bottle of Colt 45 picking out a wobbly solo on a tinny set of strings? I see them every day in downtown Seattle.
Hendrix worship inspired billionaire Paul Allen to build a museum: Seattle's Experience Music Project. An exhibit there explains how Hendrix created his unique sound but equivocates his death in an utterly irresponsible fashion: "Hendrix's creative journey was cut short by an accidental overdose of sleeping pills." (Nine sleeping pills, accompanied by barrels of wine; he choked to death in his own vomit.)
The Hendrix monument at a cemetery south of Seattle says nothing at all about his death. It's as if the angels just took him away to the big amplifier pile in the sky.
In all the posthumous swooning over Ledger, I read repeatedly how his death, too, was accidental."
But the medical examiner's toxicology report listed a bucket of addictive, mood-altering substances in his body, from antihistamines to Xanax.
None of them got there by accident.
After Ledger died in January, one distraught fan posted on the Internet that he "will go down alongside James Dean and River Phoenix as great talents who were so cruelly taken away just as they started to show how damn good they were!"
But these guys weren't "taken away." Phoenix OD'd on cocaine and heroin. Dean died in a car crash after a short, fast life of drugs and alcohol. They took themselves away.
It's a simple thing to find help for drug and alcohol abuse these days. Millions have done it, including me, and though not easy, it represents the only way to live with the integrity we owe ourselves, our families and the world around us.
Last year, I visited the hamlet in Wales through which poet Dylan Thomas caroused. At an inn from which he was evicted (for stealing beer), I learned that down the street lived an old lady who had known him.
Go knock on her door, I was urged. So I did. Gladys didn't hear so well, but when I finally conveyed the idea that I was curious about Dylan Thomas, she laughed and said, "Well, he was just a common drunk, wasn't he?"
I could say the same of Ledger.
Film critic Ty Burr, trying to untangle this heady mix of big box office and public mourning, wrote, "This is less about hype than about the gentle madness of crowds."
Nothing gentle about it: Each year more than 100,000 Americans die of alcohol or drug abuse. It would be madness to commemorate one such death with the greatest honor in cinema. Please give the Academy Award to someone who's had the courage to stick around.
Eric P. Lucas is a writer in Seattle.
Los Angeles Times August 1, 2008
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Re "Sobering up on Ledger," Opinion, Aug. 1
Eric P. Lucas trivializes not only Heath Ledger's death but the process of getting help for addiction.
It's difficult to envision Ledger's trying to get badly needed sleep using prescription drugs as a "party."
Moreover, choosing to overcome addiction is far from "simple," although Lucas suggests that his own allegedly straightforward recovery decision means that others' are equally uncomplicated.
Yet the most galling aspect of Lucas' article is its callousness. Do all AA adherents see addiction in black-and-white terms?
Ignoring the gray areas reduces the narratives of the millions of recovering addicts (as well as the casualties) to one story, when in fact both the stories and the details are as distinct as the people themselves.
Ledger's story is no less unique than anyone else's.
David Shannon, San Luis Obispo
It's unfortunate that not everyone can be as steadfast and resolved as Lucas believes they must be, and as he obviously believes himself to be.
Where is your compassion, Mr. Lucas? You may have a will of iron, but your self-righteous condemnation of those who sadly cannot match your achievement reveals a heart of stone.
Neil Zevnik, Burbank
According to Lucas' logic, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" is an overrated and inconsequential poem because it was written by a "common drunk." "Rebel Without a Cause" should be discounted because its young star engaged in a "fast life of drugs and alcohol" resulting somehow in a car accident -- that was not an accident. And Heath Ledger's groundbreaking performances in "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Dark Knight" are meaningless because Ledger apparently participated in daily "pill parties."
But Lucas misses the point: We don't revere artists because of the way they live and die but because of the body of great work they leave behind. The boys Lucas observes under a Seattle bridge are not emulating Jimi Hendrix by taking sleeping pills and drinking. They are trying to imitate his music.
Michael Duffy, Simi Valley
Congratulations to Lucas for speaking the truth. The hype around possibly giving an Academy Award to Heath Ledger is indicative of a Hollywood gone mad with idolization.
Had Ledger stuck around and developed his craft, he might have risen to the skill of someone such as Jack Nicholson, whose forgotten "Joker" performance exceeds Ledger's, in my opinion. Ledger's death is a self-inflicted tragedy, a loss to his family, himself and his profession. It should not be canonized.
Aaron Greene, Santa Monica
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Royal Baby Coverage: Umbilical Stump Dries Up & Fake Town Crier Caught!
Breaking: Royal Baby Prince Is Named After Seinfeld Characters!
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About people, such as Bill O Reilly, from The Screwtape Letters:
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― C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters
London's Fake Town Crier: Prince George of Cambridge's umbilical stump dries up, and a royal lover pretends to be London's official town crier. (03:58) {Note: Colbert is playing Bill O Reilly with his "humble correspondent" thing}:
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Compare this image with the ones below & notice what Stephen Colbert has to say about the objection to showing a good picture of the Muslim terrorist verses a Christian terrorist...
If you made his hair blonde... doesn't he kinda look like that Christian Andre guy or one of his sympathizers? - In the Name of the Fodder: The Fox News rapid-response team distinguishes violence in the name of a religion from the practitioners of that religion -- as long as it's Christianity. (05:17) ...
Rolling Stone's Boston Bomber Cover Up until now, Rolling Stone's covers always featured role models like Roman Polanski, O.J. Simpson or Charles Manson. (03:13) :
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News Report about the image directly above: Musician and 'Anders Breivik sympathiser' Kristian Vikernes arrested in France for 'plotting massacre': Authorities 'intercepted violent comments' on messages transmitted by Vikernes on the internetA racist, Norwegian heavy metal rock musician, linked to the mass murderer Anders Breivik was arrested in southern France because French authorities feared that he might be planning a “massacre”.
Kristian Vikernes, 40, best known by his stage name “Varg”, was arrested in the village of Salon la Tour in Corrèze.
Vikernes, who had served 15 years in jail in Norway for murdering another rock musician, might have been planning a “substantial act of terrorism”, the interior minister, Manuel Valls, said. Local police in southwestern France spoke of a possible “massacre”.
The interior ministry said that it had “intercepted violent comments” on messages transmitted by Vikernes on the internet.
French authorities have had the “black metal” musician under close surveillance since moved to Correze in 2010 with his French wife and three children soon after he left prison in Norway. They decided to intervene this week after his wife, Marie Chachet, 25, bought four high-powered rifles. She was also arrested.
Vikernes was one of the 530 people to whom Breivik sent a 1,500 page manifesto calling for a war against Islam in Europe before he killed 77 people in Norway in July 2011. On his website, the rock musician, a self-professed “pagan”, both sympathises with Breivik and dismisses him as a “Christian loser”, who killed Norwegians rather than muslims.
In a blog last December called “War in Europe: Part V - Breivik Unveiled,” Vikernes wrote: “If you, dear European nationalists, really want to save Europe (as a biological term) you have to realise that the only thing to do is to cast aside all Christian and other international nonsense and embrace only the European (i.e. Pagan) values and ideals.”
“If you work for Christianity in any way you work for the Jews. Plain and simple.”
In an interview with French TV, the mayor of Salon La Tour, the village where Vikernes and his wife family, said that he had been astonished by the police raid early yesterday. “I didn’t notice anything strange about him other than that he liked to wear military costumes and liked Gothic music,” Jean-Claude Chauffour told BFM TV.
Vikernes, known as Varg, or “Count Grishnackh”, leader of the black metal group Burzum, was convicted in 1994 of stabbing to death a rival musician Oystein Aarseth, of the group Mayhem. He was also convicted of burning down churches.
While in jail he elaborated an ideology based on paganism and anti-semitic and anti-islamic white supremacy. He defines himself as an “odalist…neither national-socialist, nor materialist, a believer in the ancient Scandinavian democracy”.
Vikernes denies that he is a neo-Nazi French authorities believe him to be linked to extreme neo-Nazi groups in Scandinavia, Germany and France.
“This individual…constituted a potential threat to society, as shown by violent comments in messages intercepted on the Web,” the French interior ministry said.
Neo-Nazi linked to Norwegian killer Anders Breivik arrested in France: A Norwegian neo-Nazi who has expressed support for mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has been arrested in France on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack.Kristian Vikernes, a heavy metal musician, has already spent 21 years in prison in Norway for stabbing to death a rival metal guitarist. He also burned down several churches in the early 1990s.
Last year Vikernes, 40, moved to France, settling in President Francois Hollande’s home region of Correze with his wife Marie Cachet, 25.
Jean-Claude Chauffour, the mayor of Salon-La-Tour where the couple lived, said that they kept to themselves and did not participate in village life.
“He doesn’t speak much French,” Mr Chauffour told Le Nouvel Observateur. “He used to dress in military clothes, and she also liked camouflage gear.”
The couple were both arrested on Tuesday morning at their home after having purchased five guns, including four .22 calibre rifles. Ms Cachet was said to be expecting the couple’s fourth child.
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“It’s about acting before, and not after,” said Manuel Valls, French interior minister.
He said that there was no known plot or target yet identified.
However, Mr Vikernes was one of the people who was sent a terrorist manifesto by Breivik, sentenced to 21 years last year in Norway for killing 77 people in a twin terrorist attack in 2011.
On his website, Mr Vikernes discusses Breivik’s manifesto, but in a post called “War in Europe: Part V – Breivik Unveiled” he also criticises the murderer for killing more innocent Norwegians than Muslims.
Mr Valls told the French national assembly that the Norwegian was “suspected of preparing a terrorist attack, and therefore was a potential danger to society.”
“He presents a particularly dangerous profile,” he said.
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Neighbors of the Casa Loma Motel in Cape Coral frustrated with the crime
Police have been called out to the motel on Del Prado Boulevard 143 times in the past year.
Friday, July 19th 2019, 11:55 PM EDT by Nestor Montoya
CAPE CORAL, Fla. - Cape Coral families are frustrated about the crime and lingering crowds from a nearby motel that’s well known to police.
In the past year, police have been called out to the Casa Loma Motel on Del Prado Boulevard 143 times for a variety of incidents, including drugs and disturbances.
The latest call happened Thursday after a woman was reported indecently exposing herself and peeing in the parking lot.
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Also back in April, police arrested a man who tried kidnapping two women he met at the motel.
“It’s a different crowd that comes there. It’s a different level of people,” nearby homeowner Michael Dorman said.
It’s an ongoing issue for neighbors living close by who say the crime is getting worse, and the illegal activity is seeping onto their street.
One neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous in fear of retaliation, said he’s had guests trespassing onto his property while high on drugs.
“I’ve run off four or five people just in the last two weeks in my backyard shooting up. There is a lot going on there that needs to be addressed, bad,” he said.
This neighbor has called police in the past alerting them of the issue but hopes the city can take action because the crime is too close to home.
The owner of the motel was out of state when NBC2 tried reaching them for comment regarding the high number of police response calls and what plans, if any, they had to lower that.
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IFAM 2017: Defying categorization
By Megan Bennett / Journal North Reporter
Friday, July 14th, 2017 at 12:02am
Kativa Pamar of the IOU Project uses only Merina sheep wool from Spain to create shepherd-inspired attire. Her organization promotes sustainability and giving credit back to creative artisans. (Courtesy of Kativa Pamar)
SANTA FE, N.M. — For Kativa Pamar, “cultural acknowledgement” is vital for art. To keep her work true to her roots, the Madrid-based designer uses wool only from Spain’s Merino sheep to create her clothes.
She said using the Spanish wool elevates the importance of where materials originate and how they were traditionally used. Because of industrialization, she said, the Spanish sheep have been taken to other countries like Australia to produce wool in a cheaper, less humane, way, something she wants to speak out against.
Pamar takes traditional woolmaking practices, comes up with designs and then works with contemporary craftspeople who make finished products. The results are modern, but “culturally relevant” items, like a chic scarf or jacket, inspired by traditional shepherd garments.
“It’s about authenticity, going back to where things come from and why they came from there,” Pamar said of her thought process.
Another way she’s incorporated “traceability” into her clothes is by creating tags that, once scanned, give the name of each artist who contributed, emphasizing individuality in the folk art process.
Pamar, whose company is called the IOU Project, is one of about 30 selected artists participating in the inaugural “Innovation Inspiration” tent at this year’s International Folk Art Market on Museum Hill.
Whether its their message, techniques, materials or their collaborations with different craftsmen, all of the chosen artists are considered to be elevating or changing traditional elements of their countries’ folk arts via 21st-century ideas. At the same time, their work still must have a definitive folk base.
“It’s not throwing away the baby with the bathwater,” said market cofounder Judith Espinar of these artists’ work.
The International Folk Art Market is creating a new tent dedicated to ‘innovative’ artists for 2017 and 2018. (Courtesy of IFAM)
The Innovation section, which is already scheduled to return for the 2018 market, has been under consideration by the International Folk Art Alliance for the past several years. Pending its success, it could return beyond 2018.
This year, a donation from alliance board member Joanne Balzer and her husband Bob allowed the market to allocate funds for a separate Innovation section, as well as partially fund the chosen artists’ travel to Santa Fe.
Keith Recker, the Folk Art Alliance board member overseeing the new tent, said “loosening the definition” of folk art contributes to the growth of the alliance and the market itself.
“We have had an evolution over the past few years. The dialogue about folk art still starts with tradition, but there’s a lot more room to talk about personal expression, innovation [and] invention,” said Recker.
The types of innovation on display this weekend include using art to send a message about current events or topics like women’s rights or, in Pamar’s case, of sustainability and industrialization. Artists also are trying out new materials, like recycled items or different colors. There are also new, one-of-a-kind techniques – one Innovation artist created her own dye by steaming native flowers and letting the color set onto her fabric.
Asif Shaikh of India collaborates with other artists on their handmade and designed fabrics. He uses it for embroidery on one-of-a-kind garments. (Courtesy of Asif Shaikh)
Indian embroiderer Asif Shaikh has shown at the market twice before, in 2011 and 2016. He’s now collaborating with local fabric-makers, rather than putting his embroidery on machine-made fabric. Shaikh said using handmade fabrics from high-quality artisans gives the consumer the one-of-a-kind product people now crave.
He said he was inspired to try new techniques and create in different ways by observing other folk artists at IFAM, particularly artisans from Africa and Central Asia. “It inspired us to adopt some new designs from those kinds of different looks,” he said. “When you combine those ideas in your work, it’s innovative.”
Recker said it’s not IFAM artists themselves who label something as traditional or non-traditional. Taking away the barriers that once limited what could be shown at the market provides a chance to celebrate those who just consider themselves artists, no matter how they’re seen as by consumers or jurors.
“One of the glorious things about the world is there’s always all kind of creativity going on that will defy categorization,” he said.
WHAT: 2017 International Folk Art Market, with more than 160 artists from about 55 countries displaying their work for sale.
WHEN: Opening party 6:30 p.m. today. Regular market hours 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
WHERE: Museum Hill, 710 Camino Lejo
TICKETS: Friday tickets, $225. Saturday tickets, $20. Sunday tickets, $15. “Early bird” tickets for entry at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, $75. Available at holdmyticket.com or at 505-886-1251. Free Saturday and Sunday for kids 16 and under.
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Aussie property prices set to break record highs by start of next year
Jack Derwin
Nov 8, 2019 — 7.40am
If the current rate of growth continues, Melbourne will be at another peak as of January next year.
Brisbane and Sydney are both on track to recover their own in the months following.
Nationally, property values would be back in just six months, marking a huge turnaround from the start of this year, when they were still declining.
Property prices are soaring in Australia like it’s 2015.
That may be welcome news for investors, but it’s bound to startle wannabe first home buyers. Not least of which because at this rate, prices look set to hit new heights in the first half of next year.
In just the last quarter, values have jumped by an astounding 2.9 per cent. Peter Rae
“If housing values continue to rise at the same rate recorded over the past three months, national dwelling values could reach a new record high in six months' time,” CoreLogic head of research Tim Lawless said in a note issued to Business Insider Australia.
In just the last quarter, values have jumped by an astounding 2.9 per cent — just under 1 per cent a month. If that pelt was to continue, the losses experienced in the past two years would be entirely regained by about April next year.
Of all the capital cities, Melbourne looks to be the next to set a new record for prices.
“If the current run rate of growth continues, Melbourne’s housing market will recover in January,” Lawless said. “Dwelling values across Melbourne’s Inner precinct were only 1.5 per cent below their peak in October, and this sub-region is on track set a new valuation benchmark by the end of November.”
Brisbane to bounce back
Brisbane, on the other hand, is only experiencing mild gains but due to the nature of its minor correction, will be the second capital to bounce back.
“The past three months of gains – 1.1 per cent or 0.4 per cent per month – has put Brisbane housing values on a path to recover within the next four months,” Lawless said.
Sydney – due to the size of its falls – has a bit longer to wait. Despite prices racing up 5 per cent over the quarter, they now sit about 10 per cent below their 2017 peak.
“Sydney’s housing market is on track to post a recovery within six months, or around April next year if the current pace of growth continues.”
Adelaide, on the other hand, has already hit record highs in its North and South regions, while the rest of the city looks due for a sluggish recovery.
“The same can’t be said of Hobart and Canberra, which are the two capitals where housing values are already at new record highs. Hobart values recorded only a mild correction of 1.3 per cent from peak to trough, with the market reaching a new record high in October 2019,” Lawless said.
“Similarly, Canberra housing values recorded a peak to trough decline of only 1.5 per cent during the downturn, and moved through a new record high in September this year.”
The last two cities, Darwin and Perth, have been completely out of sync with the rest of the country since 2014, where they have been floundering in the doldrums.
They’ll just have to watch on in awe as the rest of the country looks set to go mad with real estate fever once again.
This story first appeared in Business Insider. Read it here or follow BusinessInsider Australia on Facebook.
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A Kenyan Farmer Makes the Case for the Commercialization of GM Maize
Published on: 00:47AM Jul 01, 2017
by Global Farmer Network
By Dr. Gilbert Arap Bor: Kapseret, Kenya
This year, I’ve seen the devastation of the present—and I’ve also witnessed hope for the future.
Unfortunately, this is an election period and everyone seems to be more concerned with who will be elected to what position on August 8th.
Kenya faces an important choice for its farmers and its food security: Does our government want to continue to struggle with drought and pests, or does it want to embrace the science that can ease our plight and feed our people?
This March on my small farm near Eldoret in western Kenya, I planted six hectares of corn for livestock feed. Due to a prolonged drought, they failed to germinate and grow. So, in April I had to replant, suffering the added cost of more seeds as I planted them once more. Most of my neighbors also shared this sorry fate.
For small family farmers like us, this is a major expense—and the kind of frustration that makes us question why we ever went into agriculture.
The good news is that rain finally arrived. The bad news is that a different problem then emerged: an overwhelming infestation of the green vegetation-devouring fall armyworm, an invasive species that is one of the toughest pests to control. These bugs feasted on crops throughout my county of Uasin Gishu and two dozen other districts, including the counties of Bungoma, Kakamega, Nandi, and Trans Nzoia in Kenya’s traditional breadbasket region.
A recent report attributed to the Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Dr. Tuimur indicate that out of 1.92 million hectares of maize planted by Kenyan farmers this year, more than 800,000 are under threat, while 200,000 hectares are affected.
Farmers always face challenges, especially from weather and pests. So perhaps this is our lot and we shouldn’t complain.
But this is not what I believe—at least not in the age of biotechnology, when a proven science can provide relief through an improved understanding of seed genetics.
Unfortunately, Kenya has not yet adopted GM crops. We’ve seen these plants revolutionize farming in North and South America and even in the sub-Saharan countries of Burkina Faso and South Africa. In these places, farmers have enjoyed record yields, thanks in large measure to biotechnology.
A recent report from the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) reports that in 2016, farmers around the world planted more GM crops than ever before. The vast majority of them were smallholder farmers in the developing world—the very kind who dominate Kenyan agriculture.
Meanwhile, in Kenya, we watch and suffer.
The tragedy is that we know what we need to do, which is to commercialize the GM crops that Kenyan researchers have developed and tested in recent years. On May 11, the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) began a second year of confined field trials to examine a variety of corn that naturally repulses the fall armyworm.
I attended the groundbreaking ceremony in Kitale and was impressed to see the meticulous planning behind the field trials. Researchers planted GM maize and non-GM maize side-by-side and also took steps to prevent pollen from drifting onto other farms.
This is an important milestone, but also a reminder that we’ve moved too slowly. If this GM technology had been available to Kenyan farmers this year, we would not have had to suffer the losses we already have and would have been saved from the crippling effects of the fall army worm —and we’d be in a much better position to feed our families and country today.
Instead, facing an acute shortage of food, the Kenyan government has imported hundreds of tons of maize from South Africa and Mexico, also yellow maize from Russia and Ukraine, knowing these countries grow Bt maize. In essence, paying foreign farmers for what Kenyan farmers ought to be able to harvest, if given access to the proper tools. Moreover, we’ve had to redirect our nation’s development funds to agriculture, helping farmers buy additional pesticides. This is the only way our government lets us defend our crops from the ravages of the armyworm.
GM crops won’t solve all of our problems, but they mark a clear path forward as we strive to achieve the “triple bottom line” of economic returns for farmers, environmental sustainability through a reduction in chemical sprays, and food security for Kenyans everywhere.
This season, we’ve suffered through the problems and paid the price. We’ve also seen the potential of a safe solution. Now, for the sake of Kenya, we must embrace modern science and move forward into the future. The Government must allow the commercialization stage of GM maize by KALRO.
Gilbert Arap Bor grows maize (corn), vegetables and dairy cows on a small-scale farm of 25 acres in Kapseret, Kenya. He also lectures at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Eldoret campus. Dr. Bor is the 2011 Kleckner Trade & Technology Advancement Award recipient and a member of the Global Farmer Network (www.globalfarmernetwork.org).
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This piece first appeared June 26 in Daily Nation (Nairobi, Kenya).
Marketing/Communications
The Nicest John Deere 6620 Combine Ever
Marketing Meeting Mayhem
Where Sesame Street Dead Ends.
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Amy J. AlessioKatie LaMantiaEmily Vinci
This book of ready-to-go programs and events will help public libraries give fans who are passionate about genres, characters, games, and book series plenty of reasons to return to the library again and again. Fandom programming can require planning across departments, tie-ins to collections and community partnerships, and targeted marketing. But the fun content cooked up by the three best-selling authors in this guide makes it easy to stay organized every step of way, with events broken down into components that streamline planning and facilitates coordination. Adaptable for a wide range of ages, this resource
covers all the basics of how to host a fandom event, including prep time, length of program, number of patrons, budget, and supplies needed;
suggests an age range (tweens, teens, millennials, older adults) for each program while also offering ways to tailor it to different groups;
presents such imaginative and engaging programming ideas as 50 Shades of Hot Books, Old School Video Games, Women in Comics, Creating Steampunk Outfits, Superhero School, and many more;
provides ideas for perennial fan favorites like Harry Potter, horror stories, and sports; and
gives tips on how to stay current with what's popular and ways to incorporate popular activities like cosplay, trivia, and movie-oke;
Filled with projects and ideas that can be used with a variety of fandoms and interests, this programming book will ensure both quick planning and great turnout.
Tips and Tricks for Fandom Event
Festivals and Programs
Crossover Parties
50 Shades of Hot Books
Mystery Mayhem
Fantastic Favorites
Creature Creations
Shadowhunters Library Institute
Sherlock Fest
Gotta Game!
Big Board Games
Old-School Video Games
Graphic Greats
Japanese Cultural Night
Writing and Selling Comics and Graphic Novels
Women in Comics
Zine Workshop
Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived and Will Never Die
Beyond Harry Book Discussion
Harry Potter Food Fest—Butterbeer and Jelly Bean Tasting
Harry Potter Wearables and More
Historical Isn’t What It Used to Be
The Great Depression and Wartime
Medieval Fest
Victorian Charm
Horror and Thrillers
Killer Stephen King Night
LARPing, Ninja Workouts, Self-Defense, and Fencing
Survival in the Wild
Zombies and the Walking Dead
Literally Old School
Book Fandoms
Coloring and Preschool and Kid Book Favorites
Locked in the Library
Sports Are for Everyone
Steampunk It Up
Creating Steampunk Outfits
Ship Design Contest
Timely Jewelry
Superhero and Movie Tie-Ins
Avengers versus X-Men
Batman Day
Superhero School
Amazingly Vintage Sci-Fi
Star Trek Night
Star Wars: May the Fourth Be with You and Free Comic Book Day
Action Figures Assemble
Art and Collector Fest
Cape and Mask Design
Costume Contests
Fandom Frenzy
Amy J. Alessio
Amy Alessio is an award winning librarian with a black belt in karate. She has co-authored several programming books for ALA Editions, including 50+ Fandom Programs: Planning Festivals and Events for Tweens, Teens, and Adults (ALA Editons, 2017). She has conducted several webinars for the American Library Association on programming. She reviews mysteries and romances for Booklist and has authored and edited several other works of fiction and nonfiction. She is a former board member for YALSA. She foists her passion for vintage food trends and retro crafts at local and national workshops and on her blog. She has over 1000 vintage cookbooks and still owns her 80’s Strawberry Shortcake dolls. Learn more at http://www.amyalessio.com.
Katie LaMantia
Katie LaMantia is a collection development librarian at Baker and Taylor. She previously worked as a teen librarian at the Schaumburg Township District Library in Schaumburg, Illinois and is a former Teen Advisory Board member turned librarian. She is the co-author of the books Pop Culture-Inspired Programs for Tweens, Teens, and Adults (ALA Editions, 2018), 50+ Fandom Programs: Planning Festivals and Events for Tweens, Teens, and Adults (ALA Editions, 2017) and A Year of Programs for Millennials and More (ALA Editions, 2015). She has a personal and professional appreciation and interest in pop culture and has presented at multiple state and national library conferences about libraries, teens, and 20s and 30s programming. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, reading, writing, and extreme adventure activities.
Emily Vinci
Emily Vinci is the fiction manager at the Schaumburg Township District Library in Schaumburg, Illinois. Her professional interests are promoting the acquisition and appreciation of comics and graphic novels in libraries as well as creating programming that targets patrons in their 20s and 30s. She presents frequently about pop culture and niche library programming and coauthored the books A Year of Programs for Millennials and More (ALA Editions, 2015), 50+ Fandom Programs (ALA Editions, 2017), and Pop Culture-Inspired Programs for Tweens, Teens, and Adults (ALA Editions, 2018). A lifelong lover of all things pop culture and an avid collector, currently has more than two hundred copies of the Jurassic Park films on VHS and is always looking for more.
”An excellent resource for librarians who want to provide their patrons an opportunity to interact with others who share their passion for a series, genre, television show, game, sport, and much more."
”Most of the supplies needed for the events are easily and inexpensively procured and the variety of activities and crafts provide for both elaborate and simple programming options. This is an excellent book for both public and school librarians looking for fun, different, and pre-planned programming ideas."
— Catholic Library World
”Step-by-step, adaptable directions provide inspiration for both proven and emerging crowd-pleasing themes ... A great addition to public library professional collections."
50+ Programs for Tweens, Teens, Adults, and Families: 12 Months of Ideas
Pop Culture-Inspired Programs for Tweens, Teens, and Adults
Teaching Banned Books: 32 Guides for Children and Teens, Second Edition
Pat R. Scales
A, C, E, G
Multicultural Programs for Tweens and Teens
Dr. Linda B. Alexander
Dr. Nahyun Kwon
Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
Teen Summer Learning Programs: From Start to Finish
Lenese Colson
Jennifer Luetkemeyer
YALSA
Multicultural Programs for Tweens and Teens--eEditions e-book
Multicultural Programs for Tweens and Teens--print/e-book Bundle
Mind-Bending Mysteries and Thrillers for Teens: A Programming and Readers' Advisory Guide
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Suburban England looks idyllic from the outside. But peel away the layers and you might just find some rather disturbing things going on. Review of Broken after the jump.
11 year-old Skunk (Eloise Laurence) lives in a suburban English cul-de-sac with her father Archie (Tim Roth), younger brother Jed (Bill Milner) and live-in nanny Kasia (Zana Marjanovic). From the outside, they look like they have a fairly normal life, in a very average working class neighbourhood. Behind the brick walls of the almost identical looking houses, things are all together not normal. Archie is bringing up his children with the help of Kasia due to his wife leaving them for another man. Kasia is struggling in a volatile relationship with Mike (Cillian Murphy), a teacher at Skunk and Jed’s school. Skunk is the subject of bullying at her new school; while Jed is very much a child making very bad adult decisions.
Neighbours, the Oswald family are upsetting the suburban tranquillity in the street. Mr Oswald (Rory Kinnear) is struggling to raise his family of mouthy, wayward teen girls after the death of their mother. He is filled with bitterness, and has a horrific temper that bubbles just beneath the surface. When one of the Oswald daughters falsely accuses another neighbour of rape, things in the neighbourhood take a very dark turn. The Oswald’s poisonous actions permeate the neighbourhood, even going as far as the local school. Skunk is getting her first real look at adulthood, and aside from the friendship of one boy, she is finding it a dark place filled with violence, fear and lies.
The aptly-named Broken is a coming-of-age story which plays out in the broken world of middle class England. Skunk is a curious girl with a big heart and a surprising amount of spunk. She is however, no match for the bullies and extremely harrowing events which occur in her neighbourhood. What stops Skunk from becomes another product of the cycle of bullying and lies, is the love of her father, Archie. Despite being somewhat broken himself [due to the departure of his wife], he is there for his children and provides them a loving and safe environment. He is very much a gentle caring man, who believes in justice, and he is very upset by the events happening around him. Archie wants to do more to help, but he has the safety of his family to think about. It’s an extremely tough situation for someone with his moral compass to be in.
Eloise Laurence and her phenomenal, natural performance is what elevates Broken to something quite special. It’s almost unfathomable that this young girl has never acted before. She deftly walks the delicate line between naïvety and a quiet intelligence beyond her years. Watching Skunk transform from relatively happy young girl, to a young woman filled with the fears of a troubled adult world is absolutely heart-breaking. This is the type of coming-of-age story which will cause you to question your faith in humanity; it plays on the deepest, darkest fears of parents.
Rory Kinnear is another stand-out in the film. The man most of us know as M’s right-hand man in Skyfall is nothing short of terrifying in this film. His anger is palpable – a mix of fear, resentment, sadness. It is his sadness which makes him especially confronting. A man who is that sad and angry, is a man with nothing to lose.
Broken does become a little too melodramatic in the latter stages, with some developments feeling like they come from a TV soap rather than a well-crafted film. There are just too many broken characters, and the screenplay struggles with a need to neatly tie up all of their story-lines. For the most part however, the screenplay handles the multiple story-lines and wonderfully written characters with respect.
Broken is not an easy watch, but it is a very rewarding one.
By Sam McCosh
Director: Rufus Norris
Writer(s): Daniel Clay (novel), Mark O’Rowe (screenplay)
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Tim Roth, Rory Kinnear, Eloise Laurence
Release date(s): Australia: May 16 2013; USA: July 19 2013 (limited)
Posted by Sam at 16:59 Tagged with: Cillian Murphy, Films, Movies, Reviews, Tim Roth
Second Perspective: Spring Breakers A Haunted House
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Moor to Marsden than meets the eye
Written by Rosemary Crampton Photography: Michael Podger Sitting in the shadow of the Pennine moors, the historic West Yorkshire village of Marsden is the peak of the Colne Valley, where bleakly beautiful landscapes entwine with a rich woollen making heritage to makes for a great place to discover this winter....
We Visit: Haworth at Christmastime
By Rosemary Crampton Photos by Stephen Hogg Once home to the famous Brontë sisters, Haworth is a community steeped in tradition – particularly at Christmas when its cobbled streets are decked with twinkling lights and trees and its residents come together for a host of festive celebrations inspired by yester-year....
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HollemansAbstract
Layered and textured contrasting colours framed with bold black bars to glimpse the image through
Canvas stretched on a wooden frame
Size: 120x90cm (47.2x35.4in)
Stretched Canvas: Yes
Materials: Canvas, Acrylic
Ships from: Netherlands
www.ArtPal.com/helenhollemans
Born in Leeds (UK) in 1964, Hollemans attended Jacob Kramer Art College in the early 80's experimenting with different media and techniques from screen printing to woodwork. Since early childhood she created art and items in a variety of media, deciding to expand her knowledge at Manchester Polytechnic in Design History which allowed her to develop skills in glassblowing, ceramics, metalwork, textiles and print media.
On graduating, as co-owner and creator she established a small design company utilising scrap materials to make furniture and lighting with a special commission for set lighting for Channel 4's "Network 7". The designs featured on “The Other Side of Midnight” an arts TV review programme and the collection was shown in UK galleries including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London where the pair also were invited to lecture on British contemporary design. In 1986 Hollemans was chosen as regional representative at a European gathering for young entrepreneurs, also receiving a grant from the Princes Trust and support from Prince Charles. Factory Records commissioned furniture which went on to feature in the film "24 Hour Party People" about the Manchester music scene.
In the austerity years of the 1980s practicalities required a complete direction change, and Hollemans found herself in the corporate world developing IT and management skills. Her artistic side was never far away, and this new environment offered an opportunity to express her creativity in completely new ways, seeking inspiration from the complexities and challenges she now faced.
A resident of The Hague, (Netherlands) for more than 25 years, Hollemans developed her successful corporate career whilst continuing her creative expression through ceramics. She established her own small studio developing her skills with throwing pots, glazing techniques and creating small sculptures. This is where her love of textures and the tactile nature of art really began to develop and is now showing through in her paintings.
When osteoarthritis in her hands took away the strength and ability to manipulate the clay, Hollemans took to painting with energy and vigor, discovering a passion for a brand-new medium. “It took more than a year to accept I could no longer work with ceramics, it was a very difficult process. One of the most exciting things was walking into the room and smelling the clay and glazes and the anticipation that always triggered in me.” This same feeling has been replaced for her with the oils, varnish and wonderful aromas in the room which are always inspiring.
Exploring the new mediums of acrylic and oil and the resulting expressions of bold colours and textures have grown into an unstoppable desire to create. Extensive travels have allowed impressions of ancient and modern cultures to be interpreted into the depiction of lines, shapes, and blurring of paint all of which show strongly in her work.
Linear Expression
Bold Inspiration
Molten Snow in December
Autumn Stroll
Day by the Sea
Thought Bubbles
Gone to Pieces
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Quick Buck
Ravneet Kaur
It was a winter afternoon in Wolf Creek. A small neighborhood in Dallas when Dan walked into the police station dressed in his uniform. He is a grown man with years of work in the field. He was known around the town as a tough officer but age had taken over him. Although he still holds his self esteem high but he's just not as good as he used to be. Everyone in the office knows that.
He crashed on his chair and placed his coffee mug over the table, nearly about spilling it. He picked up the newspaper as the telephone started ringing. It was a female voice narrating a robbery. Dan had his eyes gazed on the wall clock while his fingers grazed on the rim of the mug while he kept listening to the distressed voice on the other side.
The lady described a location which he scribbled in his handbook. He took a last sip from the mug and started preparing to leave.
He braced himself with a vest and a Glock 19 with no safety on it. He has been reckoned as a gunslinger all his life. As far back as he remembers he always kept his weapon fully loaded. No one across the office wished to find themselves in a close combat duel with Dan.
He filled the paperwork as he started to walk towards the parking lot when he looked at his rugged shoes. He was due retirement in a matter of months. He reached out for his wallet as he sat in his car.
He gazed at a small photograph and for a moment he felt like smiling. He kept the wallet aside, started his motor engine and left for the location.
He couldn't stop thinking about the Christmas holidays he once spent with his daughters in the mountains, as he drove through the town. Something about those memories helped him getting past the routine but then he felt that happiness turning into a silent rage.
He stepped on the gas as he approached the location and started walking towards the building.
It was the local pharmacy store. The chimes on the door rang as he walked into the store.
A young lady approached him and introduced herself as Carolina, the caller. Dan looked at her while she spoke. She was 17 and carried instills from the incident. Her eye liner was smeared across her white skin as Dan inhaled the cold air from the ducts mixed with the iodoform smell of the store.
Carolina was still shivering as she quenched her fists while portraying a young black boy, in his 20s entering the store. He was dressed in all black and had a crown tattooed across most part of his face. Dan kept jotting the details as he tilted his eyes between Carolina's face and his handbook.
She described the boy dashed towards the counter pointing a pistol at her as he handed her a prescription of medicines and asked to get all the supplies she had in the store.
Carolina was dumbstruck, still trying to grasp the situation while the boy handed her a bag to fill with the supplies. Her mind reflected on the situation as she figured it'd be best to comply. She ran across the store and filled the bag with as many boxes as she could as her brain felt like shifting shapes. She relived the moments from the incident while she narrated them.
She could think of nothing else but her father while the robber shouted at him from the distance.
She almost stumbled while handing the bag to the robber. He then asked her to hand him the cash from the counter which she did, as he fled the store.
Dan looked across the building with hawkish eyes trying to recreate the scenario in his head.
He asked Carolina about the medicines he managed to escape with.
"He fled with 10 boxes of insulin and about $3000 in cash."
Insulin? Dan was caught off guard.
"Why would someone risk his money heist on a pack of medicines?" He said raising his brows.
"I don't know. Maybe the idea was selling them illegally on the streets, an incentive over the cash." Carolina suggested.
"As if cocaine isn't enough already." said Dan gazed in the distance.
He asked if there were any other casualties. to which she replied there were none. Luckily there were no shots fired, She insisted on turning down the ambulance as she had finally started to attain her calm and figured she has to leave for her home.
Nodding his head Indifferently, Dan walked out of the store.
A high headed punk. A lost cause from a troubled childhood and abusive parents. Possibly, the boy just wanted to make a quick buck and move forward. Dan thought to himself while sitting in the car.
He picked up the radio and relayed the description to the headquarters.
It's been a while he was out in the field chasing bad guys. The job which once felt like a challenge had started to wear him out and the chase felt more like a chore now. He once had plans for his retirement. He wanted to reside in peace with his family in Australia, somewhere in the mountains where his family doesn't have to live under his uniform's shadow. Somewhere he doesn't have to live his life looking over his shoulder for a thug from the past, looking to settle scores.
As far as he tries to hate saying it, the bloodshed from the past still sends down shivers in his spine. For all these years, he is trying to identify the pattern for the violence he has experienced while doing his job. During his prime years, he was a fearless policeman. The layers of time has taken his toll on him.
He has learnt to identify himself over the past years. He's not a hero as much as he'd like to think himself as. The tangled web of the system and the situations have spiraled him down to the rock bottom, a place where he is not so strong, and a cavity of fear grasps his certainty.
A static from the radio pulled him back. It was Zen from the headquarters. The description returned with a positive identification. The robber was identified as Jackson, a resident of the far part of the town.
Dan puts on his aviators and the car sped towards the location with the sirens hurling.
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Lokmanya Tilak Institute of Architecture and Design Studies / Harish Setty
Harish Setty
How temporary is our current fascination for the permanent?
Transience_the throw-away society.
Urban void_site.
Event_architecture.
INSTANT CULTURE
Lokmanya Tilak Institute of Architecture and Design Studies
Making of a temporary cultural object
The intervention is about the means by which a man adapts or fails to adapt the inevitable factors of change to the future. The conceptual question deals with common, everyday matters, the products we buy and discard, the places we leave behind, the corporations we inhabit, the people who pass at an ever faster clip through our lives.
‘How temporary is our current fascination for the permanent?’
Transience: The Throw-Away Society
The ocean of man-made objects that surrounds us is set within a larger ocean of natural objects. But increasingly, it is the technologically produced environment that matters for the individual and the relationship to certain ideas or the information flow in society.
“I like Andy Warhol,
I like Lady Gaga, I like Starbucks, and I like Rem Koolhaas.
I push the like button, and consider it done.
I like without effort,
I click therefore I am, in a culture that is fast.”
Event: Architecture
Architecture is in a state of crisis. The problem of architecture is the futile attempt to make the generic specific. We operate in a society that is rapidly changing; however, we are burdened with our inheritance. This inheritance was designed for a society we no longer recognize. If change and crises were formerly the city’s enemies, they are now its driving forces. Instead of functions like residential, office, commercial, leisure, entertainment and industry, we think of a fast architecture almost like a tailor-made suit.
We are proposing spaces that give expression to fast culture in answer to more precise and time-bound functions. The structures themselves will be capable of change, renewal and destruction.
Architecture is a representation of the verb ‘to be’, including not only the past and present, but also the future. Architecture must transcend architectural dogmas, and inquire into the relevant application of the management and explorations of space, circumstance, context and time.
‘The architect has a compulsion to conclude,
The city has a compulsion to deny conclusion.’
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Beyond Silicon Valley: Promising New Tech Boomtowns
In its quest for lower costs, modern facilities, and access to talent, the booming tech sector is finding it can strike gold outside California.
Steffen Kammerer, Senior Vice President, Technology Practice Group, JLL
Emerging Clusters Take Up the Technology Challenge
Getting The Best Data For Optimal Decision-Making
Tech Incubators’ Outsized Impact on Innovation and Job Creation
Criteria for Selecting a High-Tech Cluster
Innovation is still gold in the booming technology sector — but California’s Silicon Valley is no longer the only place to mine it. Many of today’s tech firms and startups need to expand outside primary tech hubs like Silicon Valley and San Francisco to find affordable labor and locations for operations that don’t necessarily require the high-cost locations at “ground zero.” The good news: today, they don’t have to. The tech industry is expanding outside its pricy hometown in the quest for lower costs, modern facilities, and access to talent.
In fact, the power of the $5.3 trillion global tech industry is resetting the office-leasing map across the United States, according to JLL’s 2015 United States Technology Office Outlook. Increasingly competitive leasing conditions and rapidly shrinking vacancies in the major tech hubs are spurring an exodus to lower-cost, high-opportunity cities like Nashville and Austin.
Impactful Expansion
Last year, 34 technology companies expanded into more than 2.1 million square feet of new office space, across 19 markets outside traditional tech centers. These decision-makers took into account a series of related factors, including job growth, local tech wages, average rents for in-demand creative space, real estate costs per employee, as well as all-in costs.
Another factor in the nationwide tech diaspora is the importance of technology to almost all industries. Tech companies are not the only ones that need tech talent, as even professional services companies are increasingly technology-driven today.
Furthermore, the maturation of the tech sector has led to demand for specialty technologies for healthcare, marketing, scientific research, financial services, law, e-commerce, and other sectors. From “fintech” to “medtech” to, yes, corporate real estate data and analytics, demand for technology talent is creating new energy — and real estate demand — in secondary cities that serve industries now seeking tech-savvy talent in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
Wanted: Room to Grow in a Fast-Growing Field
The tech sector is spreading like wildfire, and that progress is not expected to slow this year. The global tech market will continue to grow by 4 to 5 percent in 2016 and 2017, predicts Forrester, and tech office leasing is shooting up across the board also, as might be expected. In 2015, roughly three quarters of technology office leases represented expansion, a meaningful 30 percent higher than the proportion of expansion leases in financial services, the second most-expansionary industry. Tech has also been responsible for the largest amount of large-block leases, accounting for about a fifth of office leases in the 20,000-square feet-and-up category.
Expansion, Not Exodus
To be clear, traditional tech hubs are not losing their allure. Brand-name companies, as well as startups with no capital restrictions, continue to make markets like Silicon Valley, New York, Seattle, and Boston the hotbeds of innovation and excellent places for cross-pollinating ideas, accessing new capital, and winning patents.
The fact that northern California rents are very high only underscores its appeal: Nine of the top 15 most expensive U.S. office markets are in the region, with downtown Palo Alto leading the pack at $98.68 per square foot. The most prized streets command even more, with San Francisco Peninsula’s Sand Hill Road and Palo Alto’s Hamilton Avenue ringing in as America’s most expensive streets, at $141.60 and $124.44 per square foot, respectively.
But these primary hubs are no longer the only option for growth-oriented companies. Many startups are staying in their hometowns while establishing a smaller Silicon Valley office; while established organizations of all sizes that began their journey in northern California are expanding their horizons, along with their real estate footprints.
Will a different location with cheaper rents enable companies to spend more money on valuable talent or research and development? Or will spreading talent out across many different locations stymie innovation by reducing collaboration? Smart expansion is becoming a necessary, complex part of survival for technology companies, and the cost of real estate must be measured carefully against its value in terms of access to talent, venture capital, and resources.
Some First-Class Benefits in Secondary Markets
Many tech leaders believe that multiple locations support, not challenge, innovation and talent development. In fact, startups and established companies alike are finding a new approach to site selection. Some have concluded that paying high rent to be close to a tech epicenter is not necessarily the best or only way for a growing company to gain access to top talent.
The top-15 most-expensive U.S. tech submarkets have an average vacancy rate of 7.6 percent. Locations like New York, the Bay Area, and Boston each provide deep access to capital, innovation, and top talent — all generally worth the price tag for capital-rich startups and established companies. However, concessions aren’t going up, and rents aren’t going down. In many of these markets, competition for tech talent is just as fierce as the competition for office space, so why not look elsewhere?
Silicon Valley technology heavyweights are seeking real estate opportunities far beyond their home base. In 2014, these companies leased a total of 20,000 square feet or more across nine markets — including Atlanta, Detroit, Orlando, and Phoenix — for a total of 3.5 million square feet in 20 leases.
Another conventional viewpoint being turned upside-down is that a tech startup must be based in the Bay Area to have access to private capital. But that’s no longer the case as startups and venture capitalists alike have begun to cast a wider net. In 2014, 75.8 percent of unicorn companies were in San Francisco or Silicon Valley. In 2015, that percentage shrank to 59.2, with lively start-up scenes emerging in Utah; Oakland/East Bay; Boston; Washington, D.C.; and Orange County as venture capitalists looked beyond Silicon Valley for opportunities.
Increasingly competitive leasing conditions and rapidly shrinking vacancies in the major tech hubs are spurring an exodus to lower-cost, high-opportunity cities like Nashville and Austin. JLL’s 2015 United States Technology Office Outlook Where Will Tech Grow Next?
Expanding companies grow best by finding the sweet spot between cost and growth opportunity. Value comes in measuring factors like technology employment growth, percentage of millennials and educated workers in the area, innovation-friendly infrastructure, a concentration of startups, and access to venture capital. Cost calculations should include everything from real estate costs and average tech wages to housing and costs of living.
JLL has devised a matrix that takes all those factors into account, visually mapping market start-up opportunity compared to costs in all viable U.S. markets for expanding companies, from small startups to mid-size tech companies. It includes the full range of factors that influence tech leaders shopping for a place to grow.
For example, low start-up opportunity and low-cost markets include Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, while “ideal” high-opportunity, low-cost environments for tech companies on a budget include Nashville and Denver. In this category, Austin wins out for strongest metrics for tech growth, yet relatively (still) affordable costs. Unsurprisingly, high-opportunity, high-cost markets include Silicon Valley and San Francisco — though one surprise does come in the form of the San Francisco Peninsula, which rests in the bottom five of viable options (largely due to its lack of housing for the workforce).
Some standout markets — for better or for worse — follow.
Austin: The Lone Star State’s tech hub is experiencing 15 percent annual tech job growth. Though rents are still a pretty penny less than in the primary markets, average asking rents are catching up. Now at $32.59, Austin rents are the tenth-highest of 37 U.S. markets.
Nashville: The Music City is heating up fast, with the $100 million TechHire program and innovation running rampant. Nashville boasted the greatest patent density in the country in 2015. Rapid expansion, however, could be challenged by lack of modern office space.
Phoenix: With 3.9 million square feet of new space under construction, workplace offerings here are expected to be friendly for tech talent, with modern space available at competitive prices. Already, Phoenix offers the second-lowest average apartment rent of all 37 markets, which could serve talent recruitment efforts. Moreover, the average office rent in Phoenix’s most-expensive tech submarket, Tempe, is 78.5 percent cheaper than in Silicon Valley’s most expensive submarket, Menlo Park.
Las Vegas: While Zappos has found success in the land of casinos, cost-prohibitive factors like 12.7 percent job growth and an average tech wage at $79,408 are holding back overall market growth as a tech center. The market’s future will depend on whether another brand-name tech company will choose to expand in Las Vegas.
San Francisco Peninsula: It may be close to the tech epicenter, but the very high cost of living and real estate pressure holds this market back.
With lackluster growth, Charlotte, Detroit, and Baltimore round out the bottom five viable tech markets in the United States — but they are on the map, and of high interest to many startups seeking affordable rents and talent.
Predicting the Next Wave of Tech Demand
Austin may be hot now for tech startups, but rents will continue to rise in the next 12 to 18 months. Los Angeles may be in a holding pattern at the moment, but if the population of millennials and an educated workforce continues to expand, it’s poised to capture tech interest, too.
For growing tech companies, tomorrow’s search for space will be one that balances out the costs and returns for talent and creative space. Silicon Valley remains the epicenter. But increasingly, casting a wider web is just part of the business.
Steffen Kammerer leads JLL’s national technology practice group. He's based in Silicon Valley and works largely with clients in and around that area. With prior experience in web development, Steffen brings a unique understanding of the needs of the industry's fast-paced companies. His clients range from early startups to publicly traded companies with complex global real estate portfolios.
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Retaking the Rust Belt
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How Location Strategy Can Fuel Drug Discovery
The U.S. Is Serious About Life Sciences
Lab Space is Hard to Find in Top U.S. Life Sciences Clusters
Life Sciences Hub Cities Come With Big Price Tags — and Big Returns
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Operation Long Jump: Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Greatest Assassination Plot in History
By: Bill Yenne
Narrated by: Bridger Conklin
Categories: History, Military
3 out of 5 stars 3.0 (4 ratings)
Norco '80
The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History
By: Peter Houlahan
Norco '80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men - led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian - attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events in US history, forever changing the face of American law enforcement. Part action thriller and part courtroom drama, Norco '80 transports the listener back to the Southern California of the 1970s, an era of predatory evangelical gurus, doomsday predictions, megachurches, and soaring crime rates, with the threat of nuclear obliteration looming over it all.
An amazing true story.
By jcrowe on 07-03-19
Three Days at the Brink
FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II
By: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
Narrated by: Bret Baier
From the number-one best-selling author of Three Days in Moscow and anchor of Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier, a gripping history of the secret meeting that set the stage for victory in World War II - the now-forgotten 1943 Tehran Conference, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin plotted the war's endgame, including the D-Day invasion.
OK, But Not Great This Time
By John on 11-24-19
Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the "official" story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents.
Don't fall for the negative reviews...
By Visualverbs on 08-04-19
Shattered Sword
The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
By: Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's best-selling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Shattered Sword makes extensive use of Japanese primary sources. It also corrects the many errors of Mitsuo Fuchida's Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan It thus forces a major, potentially controversial reevaluation of the great battle.
Shattered Myths - These authors got it right?
By Ol'BlueEyes on 05-13-19
The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
By: Sonia Purnell
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
The never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine.
An Excellent Read
By CP in Seattle on 05-21-19
A Guest of the Reich
The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre's Dramatic Captivity and Escape from Nazi Germany
By: Peter Finn
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Gertrude "Gertie" Legendre was a big-game hunter from a wealthy industrial family who lived a charmed life in Jazz Age America. Her adventurous spirit made her the inspiration for the Broadway play Holiday, which became a film starring Katharine Hepburn. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Legendre, by then married and a mother of two, joined the OSS, the wartime spy organization that preceded the CIA.
Interesting piece of history
By Lori Ann Swain on 12-10-19
In the middle of World War II, Nazi military intelligence discovered a seemingly easy way to win the war for Adolf Hitler. The three heads of the Allied forces - Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin - were planning to meet in Tehran in October, 1943. Under Hitler's personal direction, the Nazis launched "Operation Long Jump", an intricate plan to track the Allied leaders in Tehran and assassinate all three men at the same time. "I suppose it would make a pretty good haul if they could get all three of us," Roosevelt later said.
Historian Bill Yenne retells the incredible, globe-spanning story of the most ambitious assassination plot ever thwarted in Operation Long Jump.
©2015 Bill Yenne (P)2018 Regnery Publishing
When Tigers Ruled the Sky
MacArthur’s Air Force
Lean: The Bible: 7 Manuscripts
Celtic Mythology
Galileo Galilei: A Life from Beginning to End
Paul Whiddon
Good Book on interesting & not well known subject
A wonderful story that the author makes come alive in great detail. Does jump around a bit but well worth the listen. Well researched.
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Sir Geoffrey Mappestone
Deadly Inheritance Inhaltsangabe
Murder, intrigue and marriage in the Welsh Marches of old...
When Sir Geoffrey’s unpopular brother, Henry, is murdered, he unwillingly inherits Goodrich Castle in the Welsh Marches. Immediately, his sister pushes him towards a marriage that will provide an heir and stability for the family. But when Geoffrey survives attempts on his own life, he wonders whether they are linked to Henry’s death, to his potential brides, or even to the rumoured murder of the Duchess of Normandy, as a Welsh revolt against the English looms.
©2009 Simon Beaufort (P)2014 Audible Studios
Deadly Inheritance
Sir Geoffrey Mappestone, Book 6
Autor: Simon Beaufort
Sprecher: Matt Addis
The Bloodstained Throne
When the former crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone and his friend Roger of Durham try to slip out of England to the Holy Land, a ferocious storm destroys the ship they are on and casts them ashore. The two knights are unwillingly thrust into the company of other shipwrecked passengers, and while attempting to evade the unwelcome attention of the more dangerous members of the group, they become unwillingly drawn into a plot to overthrow the king and return England to Saxon rule...
A Dead Man's Secret
When the former crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone is ordered by King Henry to deliver a series of mysterious letters to the restless western reaches of Wales, he agrees only reluctantly. His conviction that the simple mission hides something more sinister is strengthened when the letters’ scribe is murdered before the journey begins. Then one of Geoffrey’s travelling companions is killed, and he knows he must uncover the secret behind the letters before more victims are claimed...
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Murder and Mayhem
Looking for unforgettable heroes pitted against unbeatable odds?
Evil lurks in broad daylight. Conspiracies play out in the shadows. Nowhere is safe. And these 20 pulse-pounding mysteries and thrillers won't let you forget it...
Fans of Lee Child, James Patterson, Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins, and John Grisham will love the USA Today and Award-Winning authors in the MURDER & MAYHEM boxed set, which is why the authors of this collection came together to bundle 20 EXCLUSIVE thrillers and mysteries, including plenty of BRAND NEW material!
This unbeatable lineup of stories will spike your heart rate and blow your senses with thousands of pages of clever crimes, devastating murders, heart-pounding mystery, and psychological twists.
From tales of spies and espionage to small-town mysteries and traditional courtroom thrillers to hard-boiled noir, this collection offers a cross-section of modern thriller and mystery.
Including Titles From...
Award-Winning author Nathan M. Farrugia
Nick Thacker
John Birmingham
N.D. Hill
Eva Winters
Lee Hayton
USA Today bestselling author Olivia Wildenstein
Nathan Goodman
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M.R. Graham
USA Today bestselling author H.B. Moore
Award-Winning author Pamela Crane
Award-Winning author Ashley C. Harris
Award-Winning author Terry Keys
Tina Glasneck
Award-Wining author Pauline Creeden
Dave Sinclair
New York Times bestselling author Monica Corwin
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Nathan M. Farrugia
Nathan M. Farrugia served in the Australian Army in infantry and reconnaissance, and studied film, television and professional writing. He worked as a post-production video editor, colourist and copywriter, where he earned the nickname Fagoogoo because no one could pronounce Farrugia.Nathan lives in Melbourne, Australia. In his spare time he practices lock picking and discovers hidden places around the world with urban explorers. He studies Systema, a little-known martial art and former secret of Russian special forces. Nathan has trained under USMC, SEAL team, Spetsnaz and Defence Intelligence instructors, and the wilderness and tracking skills of the Chiricahua Apache scouts and Australian Aboriginals. He also drinks tea.
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Olivia Wildenstein
John Ling is a Malaysian-born writer based in New Zealand. By day, he works as a producer at TVNZ, the nation's largest broadcaster. By night, he is the managing editor of Kia Kaha Press, a publishing imprint. His thriller, The Blasphemer, is available now as an e-book from Amazon.com
Series: Raines and Shaw
The Blasphemer
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Fiona Quinn
Pamela Crane
Ashley C. Harris
Terry Keys
Steve P. Vincent lives with his wife in a pokey apartment in Melbourne’s north-west, where he’s forced to write on the couch in front of an obnoxiously large television. When he’s not writing, Steve keeps food and flat whites on the table working for the man. He enjoys beer, whisky, sports and dreaming up ever more elaborate conspiracy theories to write about. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Political Science and History. His honours thesis was on the topic of global terrorism. He has travelled extensively through Europe, the United States and Asia.
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Fireplay
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Dave is a novelist, a screenwriter and a really excellent parallel parker. He lives in Melbourne with his partner and two crazy daughters. His debut novel, The Barista’s Guide to Espionage isn’t the first novel he’s written. Let’s call the other ones practice runs. A prolific writer, he spent a lot of time trying to break into the publishing world*. Dave isn’t a full time writer. He just has too much spare time on his hands. By day he’s a corporate stooge, by night he’s a (two finger) typing fool. He’s also an award winning filmmaker. A title that sounds much more impressive than it really is. He won a best comedy screenplay and cinematography award for one of the short films he wrote and directed, though at the time he didn’t really know what cinematography was. A completed screenplay is currently doing the rounds.
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Kiss My Assassin
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The Dead Spy's Guide to Espionage
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The Rookie’s Guide to Espionage
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The key to the success of the Kia Spectra is that it looks, feels and drives like a more expensive vehicle than the compact economy car it actually is. As Edmunds.com says in their review, "the Spectra represents a solid value, and anyone shopping for a budget compact car would be wise to consider it".
The Spectra sedan was redesigned midway through the 2004 model year (its second generation) and was produced through 2009 when it was replaced by the Forte. This second generation added more power, new styling and additional safety features.
A used Kia Spectra from this period can be found in three models: LX, EX and SX. And the Spectra5 hatchback, introduced for 2008, is available in a single SX trim.
The Spectra was based on the Elantra platform from its parent Hyundai. Powering the Spectra is a 138 horsepower 2.0 liter four-cylinder engine. It's matched with a five-speed manual transmission, while a four-speed automatic was optional.
Both the LX and more upscale EX sedans were equipped with standard front side airbags, curtain side airbags, and 4-wheel disc brakes. ABS was an optional feature on the EX. Both models also came with a tilt steering wheel, height-adjustable driver seat, and a CD sound system.
The more popular EX model sports fairly high-quality materials and amenities like air-conditioning, a six-speaker CD stereo, full power accessories and keyless entry as standard features. The newer SX model comes with an upgraded interior and exterior trim, a firmer suspension tuning and bigger wheels for that "sportier" look and feel.
Overall, this economical car impresses with a nice list of standard equipment, a user-friendly cabin, above-average build and materials quality, a smooth ride, able handling and an outstanding 5-year/60,000 mile Factory Warranty.
The first-generation Kia Spectra made its debut for the 2000 model year and was produced through 2004 when a changeover occurred midyear. Initially, it was a four-door hatchback powered by a 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine that produced 124-horsepower. In 2002, the Kia Sephia sedan was dropped and became the Kia Spectra sedan.
A used Spectra hatchback from this era can be found in two trim: GS and GSX. The base GS is quite sparsely equipped with such features as a CD player and a height- and lumbar-adjustable driver seat (standard air conditioning was added in 2004). The Spectra GSX has air conditioning, power doorlocks, power windows, a tilt steering wheel and some sportier exterior design elements. Some can also be found with optional features such as antilock brakes (ABS), a CD changer and cruise control.
The sedan can be found in base and LS models, which essentially resemble the hatchback's GS and GSX models in terms of features.
Overall, we think the Spectra makes a solid choice as a used car purchase. And we can suggest a number of ways to help you save when purchasing one.
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Michael Westlake has all his questions answered about the new Nissan Qashqai in this latest review for Bartons.
MY guess is that if you are looking to buy a Nissan Qashqai, then you are someone looking for something a little more “outside the box” than the regular small SUV. You can’t help but be intrigued by the name, can you?
Qashqai. Just saying it out loud makes it sound mysterious, almost mystical.
Normally car manufacturers like to use emotive words to name their cars, to give off the impression of how they want their cars to be perceived.
The names are designed to conjure images of adventure, strength, speed and durability.
For the uninitiated, it is hard to see where Qashqai fits in to this thinking.
But the story behind the name paints the perfect picture of what Nissan’s impressive small SUV brings to the table.
The Qashqai was named after a nomadic people living in the mountains of south-western Iran – with Nissan hoping the name would inspire drivers to get out and explore the great outdoors like its human namesakes.
But maybe the most telling story about the Qashqai’s unconventional name is that it wasn’t Nissan’s first choice for when the car first came to Australia.
The car was so popular – leading from the front of the tsunami-like trend of SUVs in this country – and sold so many units, legend has it that Nissan in Japan were worried that Aussie drivers (who love a good nickname) would end up calling their pride and joy the “Cash Cow” because of the money it was making for the company.
So, in response, for the first part of its life, the Qashqai was actually called the “Dualis” in this country.
You know things are going OK when the biggest problem you face is changing the name of the product you are selling because it is too popular.
The reason Nissan sold so many of the Dualis, and now the Qashqai, is nothing to do with the name and everything to do with just being very good.
Like I said, the Dualis was ahead of the curve, helping to open up the SUV market in an Australian motoring landscape that for many years had been the playground of large sedans, utes and full-size 4WDs.
Nissan were smart enough to smell the change in the air in regards to what modern Australian households were looking for from the family car.
Pretending to be Peter Brock gave way to the need for practicality, space, and the ability to jump across some rough terrain with a boot-load of gear in the hunt for some weekend adventure.
It was a philosophy that caught on quickly, to the stage where now the small-to-medium-sized SUV market has exploded – becoming easily the most popular for Aussie families, and the segment of the market that gives them the most choice and most options.
But once again, Nissan has been able to take a glimpse into the future, and given the Qashqai an overhaul and upgrade to keep it ahead of a crowded SUV pack.
My test car is the Qashqai N-TEC, a near top-of-the-range variant that is the perfect showcase for the model’s bells and whistles, in a fetching shade called Magnetic Red. Before you even get close to a door handle, you can see why the Qashqai has appeal. It is a seriously good-looking car.
There is no pudginess with the Qashqai that you can find in some of its rivals in the SUV segment, as if they need to reinforce the idea of comfort by making the car look… well, look, I’m not trying to fat-shame them, but some of them just look doughy.
No problems there for the Qashqai. It looks like the business end of a barber’s razor. It is seriously sharp.
A reworked front-end and restyled grille is bookended by LED running lights, headlamps and fog lights that look more likely to cut through the night rather than merely illuminate it.
The fact that the Qashqai is hunkered down on top of 19-inch alloy wheels only adds to the menace.
It is a theme that continues down the length of the car, with the black plastic trims designed to protect the paint when you head off the bitumen also serving to accentuate the colour, and the aggressive styling lines of the bodywork.
The backend is set off with similarly aggressive tail-lights and a small spoiler above the rear windscreen.
A shark-fin antennae at the back of the car is a fitting cherry on top.
Jump into the driver’s seat though, and the Qashqai’s personality changes.
While it might look fierce on the outside, inside the Qashqai is welcoming and relaxing.
Smart-key entry and push-button start are just the entrees to a sophisticated menu of features that made the Qashqai a real joy to drive.
Yes, the Qashqai is a comfortable weekend machine, with plenty of room and practicality for passengers around the cabin.
But climb into the business seat, and it is clear that this car is one designed with the driver in mind.
A sportier, flat-bottomed steering wheel is the first obvious giveaway.
Tucked in behind it, between your regular dials is the Advanced Drive-Assist Display, which keeps the information and warnings you need to know about right under your nose.
That’s pretty smart, but the real brains of the operation are just to your left, where the seven-inch touchscreen monitor resides.
This one is much more than an entertainment console, or a way to check out what is behind you while reversing.
For a start, it is a crystal-clear display for Nissan’s excellent navigation system, which includes live updates and warnings, like reminders when there are red-light cameras or school zones ahead – a godsend on early morning commutes when the caffeine has not yet taken effect.
Thankfully, the Qashqai does a lot of thinking for you if you take longer than the engine to get warmed up in the morning.
Among the suite of safety features in the Qashqai N-Tec are forward crash warning alerts, and automatic emergency braking if you are really not paying attention.
Yes, they work. Yes, I was very awake straight afterwards.
There are also rear cross-traffic and blindspot warnings, and a lane departure warning to tell you if you are literally crossing the line, and not just metaphorically.
Even parking became a joy in the Qashqai, with the N-Tec boasting Intelligent Park Assist where the car will steer itself into those tight reverse-parking spots we all dread.
Another brilliant feature is the Intelligent Around-View Monitor, which uses a series of images taken from each corner of the car to give you a drone’s-eye view of your surroundings as you pull into a parking space.
I must give you a little warning here: I found myself becoming a little obsessive-compulsive with my parking with this 360-degree view available, taking three or four attempts until I was satisfied my park was perfectly square.
But it is not just the gadgets that make this such a safe car to drive, with six airbags, anti-lock brakes, stability control and traction control all working together to keep you in one piece and deliver the five-star ANCAP rating.
The feeling of security is reinforced by the Qashqai’s handling. It is sturdy and secure on the road, never wanting to step out of line or misbehave and always maintaining the comfortable ride you’re are looking for.
The two-litre, naturally-aspirated engine hits the right balance between the power you want, and the fuel economy your wallet is craving.
As I said before, the passengers are well-catered for as well, with a comfortable experience to be had in the rear seats accentuated by the fabulous panoramic sunroof that peels back so effortlessly to let the light pour in you feel like you’re inside a tin of baked beans being opened at breakfast time.
Storage is great, with cup-holders everywhere, and the amount of space that can be created to carry cargo by dropping the rear seats, it has to be said, is seriously impressive for a car this size.
Every question or query you can think of, the Qashqai has an answer for.
Questions, queries and Qashqai. There’s a couple of other important “Qs” you should be thinking of as well: Getting down to Queensland’s best motor dealers at Bartons and joining the queue for a Qashqai test drive.
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10 years of green bonds: when sustainability started to count in investments
Elisabet Furió
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the first green bond, in which BBVA participated. The bonds were issued by the European Investment Bank. Since then, a wide range of financial and non-financial corporate issuers have turned to the markets to issue this type of debt securities, accelerating growth of the market to its current volume of $210 billion. This year, important changes have been made that could increase green issues to $120 billion.
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Green bonds take hold as great funding alternative
In an environment where companies are becoming increasingly aware about the importance of sustainability, green bonds are taking hold as a funding alternative: In 2016 global green bond issues reached $87 billion, a record level after closing at $42 billion in 2015.
The Green Bond Principles (GBP), the official standards that regulate the comparability and transparency of green bonds, have included significant changes. They were announced at the third annual general meeting in June in Paris:
Detail on objectives of the GBP and its role in promoting the Green Bond market.
Project and traceability language updated to facilitate issuance growth especially from sovereigns and corporates.
Stronger guidance on issuer communication of environmental strategy and management of material environmental and social risk factors.
Expanded and additional definitions of green categories and new impact reporting metrics.
Additionally, other developments have been announced:
Release of new Social Bond Principles in support of bonds raising funds for projects with positive social outcomes, including affordable housing, employment generation, food security and socioeconomic advancement and empowerment.
New Sustainability Bond Guidelines published to provide guidance for bonds combining green and social projects.
Social and Sustainability bond market participants become eligible to become members of the GBP and fully integrated in its governance.
Social Bond Principles will support projects with positive social outcomes.
In the year since the last update, issuance in the green bond market has roughly doubled to $80bn and stands at over $45bn for the year to date*, with China especially driving this growth and becoming the largest source of issuance in 2016.
BBVA leads the world’s first green syndicated financing in term loan format
Yesterday, Tradebe obtained the world’s first green syndicated financing in term loan format, for a total of €265 million. The transaction was signed by 11 national and foreign financial institutions with strong oversubscription under BBVA’s leadership as Facility and Green Agent, Coordinator and Sole Bookrunner.
More than 90 new issuers came to the market over this period, increasing its diversity by geography and type of issuer and extending its maturity spectrum, including landmark inaugural sovereign issues from France and Poland. This growth and diversification is marked by important new investment initiatives such as dedicated green bond funds. Contributing further to the market’s progress, additional green bond indices are available, as well as smart beta offerings catering to both passive and active asset managers.
BBVA, a leader in the green bond market
BBVA has been the placement entity for a total of €4.3 billion issues of green and social bonds so far this year. In 2016, this number reached €5.35 billion. BBVA is by far the most active institution in the Spanish market, and one of the most active in Europe. In 2017, in Spain, BBVA acted as an advisor for the green and/or social structuring of ADIF AV’s (€600 million), Repsol’s (€500 million) and the Community of Madrid’s (€700 million) inaugural public bonds.
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BBVA issues 'CoCo' bonds at 5.875%, the best price by a Spanish issuer
BBVA’s has issued perpetual debt eventually convertible into shares at the cheapest price of all operations launched by Spanish issuers for this type of product. The issuing of €500 million of contingent convertible bonds, or ‘CoCos’ (also known as AT1) took place at a very attractive price, with a coupon of 5.875%.
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German Culture
Lent, Monks and their Maultaschen Recipe
Francine A. McKenna
Carnival ends at midnight on Tuesday and Lent begins at once with Ash Wednesday; Aschermittwoch. Once a strict forty day religious fast, Sundays were excluded otherwise it would have been 46 days, Germany's Monks found delicious ways to "beat the system", not only with their special beer
Actually it was "their" system, but it seems only those in the "outside world took it seriously, behind monastery walls it was a different story.
Lent, Fastenzeit, is not followed closely these days, although many Germans who are not particularly religious still choose to give up something. It could be watching television, drinking cola, that evening glass of wine, chocolate, fast food or simply putting more of an emphasis on fish instead of meat appearing on the dinner table.
A Lenten fast was meant to be strict, with no eggs, milk or fat allowed and only one meal a day, so "Good Mood Foods" were relied upon not only to stave off hunger pangs but also to stay healthy enough to work and lift the spirits.
And one good mood food was beer, known as "Liquid Bread" as the grain that would normally be used for baking bread went into brewing beer. This was enjoyed by many more than the monks in the monasteries who, as solid food was often not allowed, were as usual the masterminds behind the brews.
Pretzels were also inspired by Fastenzeit. Bread made from flour, yeast, water and salt with none of the forbidden ingredients but nevertheless satisfying, and again it seems invented by monks around 610 AD.
One legend is that the pretzel's shape was designed to resemble the position a monk of those days would take while praying; arms crossed and hands resting on shoulders, while eventually its three holes came to signify the Trinity.
Then there is the German form of over sized ravioli, Maultaschen. Maul-taschen, which is thought to come from "Maul" an animal's mouth, and "Tasche" a bag or pocket. As with so many things, the creators of what is now one of the most popular meals in Southern Germany are said to have been monks, belonging to the Maulbronn monastery in Baden-Württemberg.
Finely chopped meat was combined with herbs and spinach, dough was wrapped around the mixture to form little square pasta pockets, "Taschen", and by this the Monks ensured "God who sees everything", could not see the contents.
So HE would not know the strict rule of a "meatless" Lent were being broken.
But it wasn't only monks who took advantage of these "Mouth Pockets". By tradition Christians are not supposed to eat meat on Fridays, so as soon as the citizens of Swabia found out about Maultaschen they also used them to get around these rules.
This gave the Maultaschen a Schwabian nickname "Herrgottsbescheisserle", a rough translation of which is "Little Cheaters of the Lord".
Traditionally they are still eaten on Fridays...as well as every other day of the week.
There are many different recipes for Maultaschen, sweet as well as the traditional savory. The filling for the squares is far from definitive but more a matter of taste, but they all have one thing in common, a thin dough; a type of flour based pasta dough. Buying prepared Wonton dough might not be authentic but it works, and cuts down the total preparation time.
SCHWÄBISCHE MAULTASCHEN
Herrgottsbescheisserle, Little Cheaters of the Lord - A Recipe
2 3/4 cups of all-purpose flour
Water approx. half an egg shell per egg
9 ounces fresh spinach or package chopped frozen spinach
10 ounces cooked ground beef, pork and beef mix, or sausage meat,
(or for a vegetarian version very finely chopped vegetables, thick puree of vegetables, sun dried tomatoes, and mushrooms go especially well with the spinach)
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
1 tablespoon fresh bread crumbs (this helps hold everything together)
4 very finely chopped scallions including green
salt, freshly ground black pepper, nutmeg, ground juniper, optional finely chopped chili or chili flakes, thyme, allspice, marjoram and/or garlic
1 beaten egg white
5 large red or white onions
2 ounces butter
Mix the flour, salt, 5 eggs and gradually add water a little at a time, working mixture until it forms a dough.
With mixer or by hand, knead well until smooth.
Wrap dough in plastic wrap and leave for one hour in a cool place.
Divide the dough into 6 parts and roll each as thinly as possible on a floured surface, until it is about 1mm or the thickness of an average knife blade, and leave until it has dried out a little.
Blanche fresh spinach for one minute, or heat frozen spinach, drain off liquid, chop finely and combine with ground beef, beaten egg, chopped parsley, bread crumbs and chopped onion.
Season with salt, pepper, nutmeg and other spices to taste. If necessary add more breadcrumbs to absorb moisture.
Place about a tablespoon of filling in the dough at regular intervals, leaving some space between each spoonful to make small pockets about 1.1/2 to 2 inches square, brush spaces with beaten egg white.
Lay a second thin layer of dough on top of the first, and pressing and sealing the edges between each piece of filling.
Cut the dough with pizza cutter or knife to form pockets.
Place the Maultaschen in simmering water and continue to simmer until they float to the surface, about 10 minutes depending on size. Take care not to overcook them as they could open and lose their contents.
Remove with a slotted spoon and drain.
Meanwhile cut the onions into rings, fry in butter until golden brown, and when serving top the Maultaschen with the onion rings.
Maultaschen are also delicious when allowed to go cold, then left whole or cut into strips and sauteed until the surfaces are crisp.
Both versions of the pasta squares are delicious served with a green and/or potato salad, a sauce like "Zigeunerart" - tomatoes, bell peppers, paprika and a little chili, or "Jaegerart" - creamed mushrooms with chopped onion and perhaps a little garlic.
Also delicious served in a clear soup with finely chopped vegetables.
Alternatively, if hiding the filling "from the Lord" is not necessary, the mixture can be spread evenly on rolled out dough, which is then rolled up like a Swiss or jelly roll, and cut into even slices. Served in the same way but cooking times are shorter.
Guten Appetit!.......And enjoy your Schwäbische Maultaschen
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1 Samuel27 ESV
David Flees to the Philistines
1Then David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.” 2So David arose and went over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath. 3And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, Nabal's widow. 4And when it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, he no longer sought him.
5Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favour in your eyes, let a place be given to me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?” 6So that day Achish gave him Ziklag. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day. 7And the number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.
8Now David and his men went up and made raids against the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt. 9And David would strike the land and would leave neither man nor woman alive, but would take away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the garments, and come back to Achish. 10When Achish asked, “Where have you made a raid today?” David would say, “Against the Negeb of Judah”, or, “Against the Negeb of the Jerahmeelites”, or, “Against the Negeb of the Kenites.” 11And David would leave neither man nor woman alive to bring news to Gath, thinking, “lest they should tell about us and say, ‘So David has done.’ ” Such was his custom all the while he lived in the country of the Philistines. 12And Achish trusted David, thinking, “He has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel; therefore he shall always be my servant.”
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Today’s Waste is Tomorrow’s Product:
A Manifesto by ashortwalk makers of rCUP
Why it’s time for the ashortwalk manifesto
ashortwalk is a circular design practice. We make products from materials no-one wants, and we help others make unwanted materials viable, useful and desirable.
When ashortwalk was founded 15 years ago, our vision was simple: to live and work a short walk from the sea. We can hear the waves from our studio. Moving closer to the ocean was about making sure that we all remember, every day, what matters most: our relationships with people and our environment and our contribution to both.
Back then no one had heard of ‘circular design’ or the ‘circular economy’. We talked about ‘the Environment’, or being ‘eco friendly’. More recently, the terms ‘sustainable’ and ‘conscious’ have been used to describe product design that attempts to reduce waste or limit toxicity.
For 15 years ashortwalk has been quietly impactful: we’re interested in meaningful change, not superficial fixes. But right now circularity, our specialist subject, is big news and we recognise that it’s time to raise our voice.
ashortwalk now works with Unilever, McDonald’s, Costa, Network Rail, Pret a Manger… This would have been unimaginable a decade ago, but Planet Earth II and Hugh’s War on Waste have put an end to any lingering doubt that our throwaway culture has passed its sell-by-date. Being ‘green’ isn’t marginal any more: the problem is simply too large.
Of the 300 million tonnes of plastic now produced every year, 40% is for single-use. That 40% alone weighs about the same as 120 million small cars, or 70 million blue whales. After its short life, most of this valuable material and the energy used to create it are lost, irretrievably, to landfill or incineration.
A little while ago Professor Richard Thompson, a world-leading expert on plastic pollution, gave a speech that resonated deeply with us. “We will never be in this space again,” he said, “where everybody is aligned and wanting to make a change.” He’s absolutely right, and it’s exciting. And it’s terrifying. What if we miss this one chance?
As product designers and recycling consultants, we listen every day to consumers and shops, manufacturers and waste collectors, politicians and campaigners. Everyone knows the issues. Our urgent emphasis has to be on solutions. We’ve identified five, and there’s a role for everyone.
What follows is our view: from where we sit, this is what we see.
"As designers, it’s our job to see problems as creative opportunities, and our name, ashortwalk, is a reminder that solutions are never as complicated or far away as you think."
As designers, it’s our job to see problems as creative opportunities, and our name, ashortwalk, is a reminder that solutions are never as complicated or far away as you think. The solution to waste is simple, in theory anyway: reinvest it with value by making recycling not just viable, but lucrative.
The wonderful thing is that this is not a compromise. As Edwin Datschefski showed in The Total Beauty of Sustainable Products, most things that we use in our everyday lives contain hidden ugliness: pollution, deforestation, species loss and global warming. Cyclic products are different. Designed to be attractive and functional so they can serve us for a long time, design that does good also looks and feels good, as consumer comparison tests like Which? Best Buy Reusable Coffee Cups attest.
i. Reduce - Reuse - Recycle - Repeat
Perhaps we should all be a bit more materialistic. Not by increasing the volume of products that pass through our hands, but by valuing each material more; by choosing items that are well made from the most appropriate materials we will reduce what we consume and will want to reuse these respected and pleasing items again and again.
Eventually though, our possessions reach the end of their lives, and that’s ok. Circular design means we can reincorporate them, via recycling, into new products, and humans can continue to innovate and explore without feeling like planetary villains.
This is what excites ashortwalk about the circular economy. We design and sell products that will last, using unloved materials diverted from landfill. Our ECOPOTS, for example, are made from recycled plastics; our Time and Tide Clock, which looks like slate but lasts far longer, is made from recycled paper.
And we have recently reached new audiences with rCUP, of which we are very proud. rCUP is the first reusable cup in the world to be made from disposable coffee cups of the sort targeted by Hugh’s War on Waste as ‘unrecyclable’. We hope rCUP will provide a model for converting ‘worthless’ materials into ‘worthwhile’ products.
"Thinking and working in circles instead of along the same old line, means today's waste IS tomorrow's product. And, as in nature, materials and energy flow in cycles, and don't run out."
ii. Incentivise and Legislate
Imagine a child taking all of his/her toys out of a box at the start of the day, playing with them once, and then, instead of putting them back in the box, throwing them all away. What will (s)he do tomorrow?
It’s obvious that the linear model - mining raw materials, using loads of energy to transform them into short-lived products and then incinerating or burying them - is totally unsustainable, and morally unacceptable.
Thinking and working in circles instead of along the same old line, means today’s waste IS tomorrow’s product. And, as in nature, materials and energy flow in cycles, and don’t run out.
Designers like us should be required to minimise waste emissions and required to design with the end of the product’s life in mind so that its valuable materials stand the best chance of being recycled and reused.
The emphasis must be on businesses to design and make products with maximum extended lives. It is unrealistic and unfair to place this burden on consumers, who have little power over how things are made, and of what. The individual has another, profoundly impactful, role: to make the good choices that drive demand for recycled and reusable options, exerting financial pressure on businesses to switch models and invest in recycling.
iii. Invest in Infrastructure
Infrastructure is difficult to get excited about, but when it is well funded and works efficiently, it is a joy. If you’ve used public transport in Austria or walked the immaculate of streets of Norway or Japan, you’ll know what we mean.
Recycling only works if we invest in infrastructure. We urgently need from our local councils and national ministers more clarity, more recycling bins, more collections and more processing facilities.
Without this investment we place the impossible burden on consumers to solve the problem, and as we know, despite our best efforts as individuals to recycle our waste, we wonder if our recycling is ever actually recycled.
A demoralising combination of confusing and contradictory information and inadequate recycling collection facilities leaves us dejectedly telling our children: “sorry, we can’t recycle that.”
iv. Don’t Demonise Plastic
We have to be realistic: we can’t banish plastic. In many cases it’s actually the better material choice for the environment, reducing food wastage and out-performing other materials. The challenge is to eradicate unnecessary consumption and harness plastic’s functional benefits without the side effects, and this should be our focus.
We must always look to reduce where possible, but recognise there are applications where plastic is the best choice of material. If plastic is to be used then it must be designed with circularity in mind so it stands the best chance of being captured, recycled and reused time and time again.
There’s a danger of using plastic as a scapegoat, when the real problem is the linear system. Where plastic is robust and designed to be recycled with zero waste emissions into new products, it has a valuable role to play in reducing other types of material waste. rCUP is 100% recyclable within our current infrastructure, so none of it will be lost when it is broken down and becomes a valued component in the next new thing.
"Recycling only works if we invest in infrastructure. We urgently need more from our local councils and national ministers."
v. Beware of Greenwash
Many of the words used to talk about waste are full of potential: recyclable, sustainable, compostable… they sound attractive and achievable. But who is responsible for turning these potentials into actualities?
Actually, nothing is recycled until it has been reused. Anything is theoretically ‘recyclable’ but we have to design within the cold realities of the recycling infrastructure we have.
Compostable and biodegradable products are seemingly convenient solutions, but in this context the vast majority require an industrial process to be broken down. In fact, compostables require huge infrastructure to work in the real world, and contaminate recycling processes when mixed with other materials. Fundamentally, compostable and biodegradable products are disposables, part of a linear process in which valuable raw materials are made into products and packaging that we use once before discarding and losing forever.
“We have to be realistic: we can’t banish plastic. In many cases it’s actually the better material choice for the environment. There’s a danger of using plastic as a scapegoat, when the real problem is the linear system.”
A clear PET bottle, for example, will be recycled readily in the UK because it has a good sell-on value. The same PET bottle in blue, green or any other colour however, is unlikely to be recycled because there is no resell value. These bottles are all ‘recyclable’ but the company that chooses coloured PET and adds a reassuring ‘recyclable’ icon is designing for disposability. This kind of ‘greenwashing’, leading consumers to believe products are more environmentally responsible than they are, can only set us back.
During the talk that so inspired us, Professor Thompson expressed his concern about “headless chicken mode”. We share that concern. Over the course of the last decade and a half, we have seen the same mistakes repeated time and again when businesses reassess their relationship with materials. Right now, we’re worried about compostables.
Being a short walk from the sea means a nurturing place to grow. It’s a daily commitment to slowing down, listening, making connections and taking logical steps. It’s been nearly 6,000 days now, and this much we know: The linear model doesn’t work; the future is round.
Words by Sarah Conway, Stories of Design
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Aspen Times Weekly: Hotel Jerome, then and now
Aspen Times Weekly | November 20, 2014
compiled by Jeanne McGovern
‘Party Like It’s 1889’
Friday, Nov. 28
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9-11:30 p.m. Live Music, Cash and Dessert Bar
$50 per person, $95 includes dinner
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At the heart of every town is one defining place. In Aspen, many would agree this place is the Hotel Jerome — the historic lodge on the corner of Mill and Main streets.
“This year marks the 125th anniversary of the Jerome,” says general manager Tony DiLucia. “It’s amazing to me to think that something this historic can be found in our small mountain town. It represents more than a century of brick and mortar, people and their stories.”
Indeed, the Jerome has plenty of stories to tell (see “A Step in Time,” pages 24-25). When it was built, the hotel was celebrated as one of the first buildings west of the Mississippi to have full electric lighting; for decades, the Jerome had the only bathroom
in town that was open to the public. Decades later, its bar became a popular watering hole for writers, avant-garde artists, movie stars, intellectuals and industrialists. Even as the building fell into disrepair, the locals loved it.
“What is the Jerome’s place in Aspen’s history?
That’s a big question with an easy answer:
No matter what era, and no matter what state
the building’s been in, it’s always been the locals’ hotel; it’s always been at the heart of Aspen.”
ttt– Tony Dilucia, general manager
“The Jerome is something special. You don’t realize this until you take time to reflect on its past — on all the different decades it’s survived; all the different lives it’s led.
“It holds a sort of spell over people.”
Today, that spell is in large part the result of careful planning — a purposeful weaving of the past and the present into one historic brick building.
“We wanted to provide a narrative for everyone who walks through the doors of Hotel Jerome,” says interior designer Todd-Avery Lenahan of Las Vegas-based TAL-Studio, who was the mastermind behind the most recent rendition of the hotel along with Aspen-based architects Rowland + Broughton. “We’re adding paragraphs to the story.”
But the story of the Jerome is more than its façade and décor. DiLucia says it’s much deeper than what the meets the eye.
“It’s a luxury hotel, but it’s still warm and welcoming. It’s not intimidating. You don’t walk in and just go, ‘Wow…this is amazing.’
“You walk in and you want to sit and stay; you want to eat and drink; you want to experience Aspen.”
The newly renovated Living Room — with its plush seating, rich colors and roaring fire — is part of the draw.
But really, for locals and visitors, it’s the J-Bar that pulls at the heartstrings.
“Steady Eddy, that’s the J-Bar. No matter what’s going on in the world, the J-Bar is still there,” says DiLucia. “You can always walk in there and have a burger and a beer and just say, ‘I’m so happy.’”
The feeling is one DiLucia and his team hope to keep into the hotel’s next 125 years — and one they hope to share through an anniversary bash open to the entire community on Nov. 28 (see “Party Like It’s 1889,” previous page).
“After all these years, it’s such an honor to be part of this history,” says DiLucia, who has spent more than half of his career in the hotel industry at the Jerome in two different stints. “The Hotel Jerome is the crown jewel of Aspen — always has been, always will be.”
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ASTM D7153 - 15e1
Standard Test Method for Freezing Point of Aviation Fuels (Automatic Laser Method)
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5.1 The freezing point of an aviation fuel is the lowest temperature at which the fuel remains free of solid hydrocarbon crystals which, if present in the fuel system of the aircraft, can restrict the flow of fuel through filters. The temperature of the fuel in the aircraft tank normally decreases during flight depending on aircraft speed, altitude, and flight duration. The freezing point of the fuel shall always be lower than the minimum operational fuel temperature.
5.2 Petroleum blending operations require precise measurement of the freezing point.
5.3 This test method expresses results to the nearest 0.1 °C, and it eliminates most of the operator time and judgment required by Test Method D2386.
5.4 When a specification requires Test Method D2386, do not substitute this test method or any other test method.
1.1 This test method covers the determination of the temperature below which solid hydrocarbon crystals may form in aviation turbine fuels.
1.2 This test method is designed to cover the temperature range of –80 °C to 20 °C; however, the interlaboratory study mentioned in 12.4 has only demonstrated the test method with fuels having freezing points in the range of –60 °C to –42 °C.
1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and to determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
D2386 Test Method for Freezing Point of Aviation Fuels
D4057 Practice for Manual Sampling of Petroleum and Petroleum Products
D4177 Practice for Automatic Sampling of Petroleum and Petroleum Products
Energy Institute Standard
ICS Number Code 75.160.20 (Liquid fuels)
UNSPSC Code 15101504(Aviation fuel)
DOI: 10.1520/D7153-15E01
ASTM D7153-15e1, Standard Test Method for Freezing Point of Aviation Fuels (Automatic Laser Method), ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, 2015, www.astm.org
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Montreat navigates ups and downs to top of the conference
Montreat navigates ups and downs to top of the conference Montreat navigates ups and downs to top of the conference Check out this story on blackmountainnews.com: https://www.blackmountainnews.com/story/sports/2019/01/29/montreat-navigates-ups-and-downs-top-conference/2698891002/
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Through 20 games, Montreat College head coach Garrett Jones has guided the Cavaliers to a 16-4 record. (Photo: Fred McCormick)
Montreat men’s basketball head coach Garrett Jones knew prior to the season what his team’s challenge would be this year.
“The guys are starting to learn what it looks like to be consistent, night in and night out, and I think that’s something that we’ve struggled with since I’ve been here,” Jones said back in November. “We’ve been fortunate enough to win some games, but some nights we’re just not where we need to be and we’re not sharp.”
That is beginning to change. In baseball, the term “stopper” typically applies to a pitcher who can be relied on to come in and right a team’s fortunes and snap a losing streak. Fortunately for this year’s Cavaliers team, they’ve collectively been their own best stopper and have a 16-4 overall mark as evidence.
In late November, the Cavs fell to the Bryan College Lions on the road, 65-64. They came in undefeated, while the Lions came in with a pedestrian 4-5 record and having just dropped a contest by 33 points to Union the week before.
Montreat then returned home looking to rebound and instead fell in a disappointing 98-83 decision to Johnson University (Tenn.) at McAlister. The Royals were 2-8 coming into the game, although better than their record indicated. Johnson shot 48% from beyond the arc to seal the upset win and deal the Cavs their second-straight loss.
Montreat College senior Alonzo Mobley scored a season-high 22 points against Tennessee Wesleyan on Jan. 16 to help get the Cavs back on track after they dropped two of three. (Photo: Fred McCormick)
Montreat’s next game was against rival Milligan, on the road in Tennessee. Nicodemus Payne (16), Jeron Hemphill(16), and Terrell Sheffey (15) collectively ensured the losing streak would end at two by putting up 47 points in total, and pulling down 24 rebounds. The result was a 73-63 win over the archrival Buffs. Cavs was still 7-2 overall and 6-1 in the conference.
After rattling off five straight wins, including a Jan. 8 victory over Union, Montreat dropped two of three, with losses to Columbia International (S.C.) and Allen sandwiched around a victory over Reinhardt. Thirty points from Daniel Vitiello off the bench against Reinhardt in the middle frame helped prevent a three-game slide.
It was senior Alonzo Mobley’s 22 points against Tennessee Wesleyan on January 16 that put the Cavs back on track and moved them to 13-4 overall and still in the thick of the AAC race. At the time, the 22 points were the best from Mobley this season.
The victory also began their current four-game winning streak that saw the team defeat St. Andrews on Saturday, 100-73, to move to 13-3 in the conference. Showing the diversity of scoring that has helped the Cavs shape an outstanding season, junior Austin Butler was the night’s leading scorer, pouring in 25 points.
As of Jan. 26, that mark had them with a 1.5 game lead over the Union Bulldogs (16-6, 11-4) and on top of the Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC).
The Cavs have seven games left in their 2018-19 schedule with a possible conference regular season title on the line when they host Union on Feb. 16.
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January 20, 2007 - Beaux Arts Ball brings "Moulin Rouge" to Denver
Where: Hyatt Regency Denver
When: Saturday, January 20, 2007
Time: 6 p.m. - 12 a.m.
Beneficiary: National Jewish Medical and Research Center, the nation's number one respiratory hospital.
Grand Marshal(s): Kelly & KC Gallagher, Kristin & Don Provost, Kristin & Blair Richardson and Marcia & Dick Robinson
Co-Chair(s): Joel & Carol Farkas, Barry & Arlene Hirschfeld, Bob & Kalleen Malone, Rich Baer, Bill Hornaday, Sunny & Norm Brownstein, Mary Lou & Don Kortz, Meghan & Evan Zucker, Dick Saunders
Executive Director: Doctor Michael Salem, President and CEO
Entertainment: New York's Le Clique troupe of dancers, musicians and actors
Sponsors: Philanthrope Extraordinaire: Alberta Development Partners, LLC, Carol & Joe Farkas, K. C. & Kelly Gallagher and the Gallagher Family, Qwest Bienfaiteur: Black Creek Capital, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Integrated Properties, KRG Capital Partners LLC, MDC Holdings Inc/Richmond Homes, Post-News Community, Blair & Kristin Richardson Foundation, Robinson Dairy, Saunders Construction, Tuchman Family Foundation, United Airlines, Weitz, Wine & Spirit Wholesalers of Colorado Grand Bienfaisant: Carroll & Lange Inc, D.A. Davidson & Co., Greenberg Traurig LLP, Kirkland & Ellis, RE/MAX Classic New Homes, UMB Bank, Van Gilder Insuance Corporation, Community Bankshares Inc, Brown & Tedstrom Patron de Paris: 5280 Magazine, Bank of the West, Berenbaum Weinshienk & Eason PC, Boise Schiller & Flexner LLP, Braddock Financial, Feiner Family Foundation, Sevo Miller Inc, Clayton Fixed Income Services, Castle Meinhold & Stawiarski LLC, Phillips Capital Inc. CLC Associates Inc, Communication Arts, Consolidated Electrical Distributors, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, Crabb Mechanical, David/Hicks Brokerage, Delta Petroleum Corporation, Edgemark Development, Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner & Hottman PC, Fiore and Sons, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Sheri & Will Gold, Geiner Electric, GROUND Engineering Consultants Inc, Hexagon Investments, National Hirschfeld LLC, Hyde Park Jewelers, Sandi & Jeff Johnson, Kowalski Family Foundation, Lange Graphics, LaSalle Bank, Andrea & Dr. Robert London, Metropolitan Homes, Neiman Marcus, Newberry Brothers Greenhouse, Office Depot, SEM Architects, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, United HealthCare, United Western Bank, U.S. Bank, V3 Companies Donateur Generux: American National Bank, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Donna & Gary Antonoff, AON Consulting Services/AON Risk Services, Ari Real Estate, Balfour Senior Living, BKD LLP, Jim & Wendy and Joe & Penny Bernbaum, Annabel & Pat Bowlen/The Denver Broncos, Burg Simpsons Eldredge Hersh & Jardine PC, CentiMark Corporation, Cerner Corporation, Colorado Business Bank, Colorado Capital Bank, Colorado State Bank and Trust, Davis Partnership, Del Frisco's Restaurant, DePaul Real Estate Investment Group Inc, Drake Real Estate Services, Fidelity National Title, First Community Bank, First Western Trust Bank/Donald Silversmith, Fuller Real Estate, GE Supply Company, Bill & Bei Lee Gold, Guaranty Bank and Trust, Hal & Bev Haddon, Hashimoto/Grooters Real Estate Group, Hogan & Hartson LLP, Holme Roberts & Owen, Kamlet Shepherd & Reichert, Phil Karsh and Linda Love, KeyBank, King Kolor, Rachel & Taner Kodanaz, Rosemary & Mick Laurita, Blancs & Howard Lerman, Tammy & John Stearns, Debbie & Jerry Tepper, Land Title Guarantee Company, Legend Retail Group, Lampson International LLC, M.L.L. Inc, Moody Insurance Company, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Opus Northwest, Peregrine Group Development, Perkins Coie LLP, Pointe Properties, Carole & Jeff Schwartz, Stere & Vander Wall PC, Shames-Makovsky Realty CO., Shea Homes/Chetter Latcham, Sherman & Howard LLC, Specialty Sports, Steese & Evans PC, TIAA CREF, The Bromley Companies, Richard B. Tucker, University of Colorado Health Sciences, University of Denver, Urban Frontier, US Bank Real Estate Dept., Vectra Bank Colorado, Vision Land Consultants Inc, Walton Street Capital, The Winnick Family Foundation, Xcel Energy, Clifton Gunderson LLP
Auctioneer: Don Martin, Martin Auctioneering
Menu: Winter greens with Chateau La Nerthe and plum gelee, goose liver pate, crumbled goat cheese, balsamic apples, figs, toasted hazelnuts with a red currant vinaigrette "shooter"; Roquefort crusted filet of beef, truffled sauce perigourdine, pommes dauphine, vegetables bouquetiere, braised chestnuts; spinach and smoked gouda strudel, shallots-orange glaze; "Lady Marmalade" milk chocolate and grand marnier mousse, blood orange marmalade or apple tarte tatin, maple caramel sauce, white and milk chocolate legs and a milk chocolate wave with "Moulin Rouge"
Attire: Tuxedos, ball gowns, tiaras
Information: http:// www.nationaljewish.org
Blacktie Photos by: Shawna Robbins and Stacy Ohlsson
Once you hit the top of the escalator at the Hyatt Regency Convention Center, you knew that the Beaux Arts Ball was going to be a special experience.
As you entered into the French themed cocktail reception, you were met with actors who strolled as if they were on the streets of Paris looking for a café to sit and enjoy the atmosphere. You were really transported to the time of Moulin Rouge and the environment came alive as you discovered all the different scenes that were taking place during the cocktail reception.
Once you entered the ballroom, you were once again taken to a place far away from the cold Denver evening. The tables were beautifully decorated and the ambience was electrifying. $1.3 million was raised by this event even before the auction had started. There was some friendly competition to see who could raise the most money, and the Provost-Farkas team was the winner, raising $415,000. The entertainment for the evening was courtesy of New York’s Le Clique troupe of 40 dancers, musicians and actors. Before dinner was served, can-can dancers took to the floor for a quick show. Le Clique presented an evocative mix of theatre, Cirque de Soleil and fantasy during the evening.
The evening's Grand Marshals were Kelly & KC Gallagher, Kristin & Don Provost, Kristin & Blair Richardson and Marcia & Dick Robinson. These people were honored for their commitment and dedication to National Jewish. To make things even more special for them, as you entered the cocktail reception there were painted portraits of each of them for people to look at.
K.C. & Kelly Gallagher
K.C. Gallagher is the President and CEO of Gallagher Industries, LP, a family-backed private equity firm focused on acquiring entrepreneurial industrial business. Kelly Gallagher is a mother of three children and an active volunteer in the Denver community
Don & Kristin Provost
Don Provost is the founding principal of Alberta Development Partners, LLC and has more than 15 years of real estate experience with his efforts focused on retail, mixed-use land development and master-planned communities. Kristin Provost is a Colorado native, and is the CEO of her household. The Provosts have four active children.
Blair & Kristin Richardson
Blair Richardson is a private equity investor providing growth capital to later stage small and middle market companies in a variety of industries. Kristin and Blair have four children.
Dick & Marcia Robinson
Dick Robinson is a fourth generation native of Denver. He is active in community and charitable organizations. He and his brother, Eddie, formed the present Robinson Dairy in 1975. Dick and Marcia have been married for 50 years and have two children and two grand children.
During the evening there was also an incredible live auction.
Fur by Zandra Rhodes
Donated by Neiman Marcus, this mink coast designed by Zandra Rhodes would be great for these chilly Denver days.
Hurray for Hollywood…and Chopard
Donated by Hyde Park, the winning bidder received a His & Hers Chopard Elton John Chronograph time piece, the opportunity to attend Sir Elton John’s Annual Academy Awards Viewing Dinner and a two night stay at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Kentucky Derby: A Day at the Races
Donated by Kristin & Blair Richardson. This once in a lifetime package included six tickets to the Kentucky Derby, transportation to the Derby on the Richardson’s Citation 5 jet with limo transportation to Churchill Downs.
The Beaux Arts Ball is one of the most anticipated social events in Denver, as well as a major fundraiser for National Jewish Medical and Research Center — a nonsectarian, nonprofit hospital located right here in Denver. National Jewish is the #1 leader in respiratory, allergic and immune diseases, ranked by U.S. News & World Report for nine consecutive years. National Jewish provides 10-15% of its gross clinical revenues for free and heavily subsidized care annually to patients who are unable to pay the full cost of their care. National Jewish is home to a fully accredited school (Kunsberg School) for chronically ill children too sick to be mainstreamed. For more information visit www.nationaljewish.org
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Obama Cautions Democratic Hopefuls On Tacking Too Far Left
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Mon, November 18, 2019 at 5:01 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Barack Obama on Friday warned the Democratic field of White House hopefuls not to veer too far to the left, a move he said would alienate many who would otherwise be open to voting for the party's nominee next year.
Though Obama did not mention anyone by name, the message delivered before a room of Democratic donors in Washington was a clear word of caution about the candidacies of Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. The two have called for massive structural changes - and in Sanders' case "revolution" - that would dramatically alter the role of government in people's lives.
The centrist wing of the party has warned for months that a far-left nominee could alienate moderate Republicans and independent voters needed to oust President Donald Trump.
"The average American doesn't think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it. And I think it's important for us not to lose sight of that," Obama said. "There are a lot of persuadable voters and there are a lot of Democrats out there who just want to see things make sense. They just don't want to see crazy stuff. They want to see things a little more fair, they want to see things a little more just. And how we approach that I think will be important."
Obama has largely refrained from publicly opining on the Democratic primary, which has exposed a growing rift between an ascendant progressive wing of the party and old-guard centrists like his former vice president, Joe Biden. But on Friday he said he felt compelled to weigh in because some of the loudest and most strident voices, particularly on social media, aren't representative of where most in the party are at.
Immigration and health care are two issues he cited as cases where Democratic candidates are out of sync with public sentiment.
"Even as we push the envelope and we are bold in our vision, we also have to be rooted in reality and the fact that voters, including the Democratic voters and certainly persuadable independents or even moderate Republicans, are not driven by the same views that are reflected on certain, you know, left-leaning Twitter feeds," Obama said.
Obama delivered his remarks at a gathering of the Democracy Alliance, a group of wealthy Democrats who raise large sums for the party. He was interviewed by Stacey Abrams, a rising star in the party who narrowly lost the Georgia governor's race last year.
He also sought also to ease jittery Democrats who have been wringing their hands over the size of the sprawling field, which some worry will lead to a prolonged contest that will leave the eventual nominee with limited time to prepare for the general election.
"I just have to remind you that I had a very robust primary," Obama said. "Not only did I win ultimately a remarkably tough and lengthy primary process with Hillary Clinton, but people forget that even before that we had a big field of really serious, accomplished people."
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Ian Benedict Dunn
Mr Ian Benedict Dunn
Consultant Urological Surgeon
MBChB FRCS (Urol)
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Circumcision for adult
Cystoscopy flexible
Cystoscopy rigid
Laparoscopic nephrectomy
Laparoscopic pyeloplasty
Operations for stone disease
Surgery for benign scrotal lumps
TURBT
Vasectomy bilateral
Having trained in the West of Scotland for the majority of his career, Mr Ian Dunn spent his final year in Australia, attached to the New South Wales training programme.
This was to consolidate his surgical training in a busy teaching unit, where he was also able to learn laparoscopic (keyhole) kidney surgery, which was unavailable in the West of Scotland at that time.
Mr Ian Dunn was appointed to the position of Consultant Urological Surgeon in NHS Lanarkshire in 2004. Here he has established a laparoscopic surgical service. He has also developed services such as Botox treatment of overactive bladder, local anaesthetic circumcision, and self-catheterisation for urinary retention. Mr Dunn keeps a log book of all his major surgical procedures so that he can measure his performance with audit.
During his training and consultant career he has published several scientific papers, and made presentations at national meetings.He is currently the honorary Secretary of the Scottish Urology Society, and the urology representative on the West of Scotland core surgical training committee. He is a UK deputy representative to the International Society of Urology, and played an active part in the successful bid to host the 2014 international conference in Glasgow.
Mr Dunn does not offer sperm harvesting at the time of a vasectomy reversal.
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Benign and malignant prostate disease
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UNION EVENTS
Farrah Fights CDG
September 29, 2016 /in News & Info /by BM 359
Boilermakers working at the Fort Nelson Spectra Energy site have reached out in support of the local community to assist with a great fundraising program for a young girl with a very rare congenital disorder known as CDG (Congenital Disorder of Glycosylation). Our members have organized a number of 50/50 card draws to help assist in the fundraising efforts. Lodge 359 was also contacted to determine if there were any other measures that could be taken to continue with the fundraising efforts. As a result, at our last monthly Union meeting a motion was put forward and unanimously approved to donate $4000.00 to the FOG or Foundation Glycosylation in Saint John, New Brunswick. The Foundation Glycosylation (the FoG) supports research for the development of therapies targeting CDG, helps raise awareness of the disorder, and advocates for individuals living with these rare enzyme deficiencies.
A letter acknowledging the donation by 359’s membership will soon be hand delivered to the parents of Farrah by the crew members.
We sincerely wish the family well.
Lodge 359 Staff
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33rd Consolidated Convention Report
Our members elect local lodge officers and delegates to the Consolidated Convention held every five years. For this 33rd Consolidated Convention held on July 18th to July 21st, 2016 local 359 members were able to send 7 delegates; Dave French, Jordan Streng, Gord Weel, Jim Wymer, Palmer Allan, Ken Noga and by virtue of office Business Manager Martin Nicholson.
This Convention was held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas where the delegates set forth the rules and policies for the next 5 years, which is both a serious responsibility and a privilege.
Our first day started with a speech from International President Newton Jones on 3 gigantic screens that projected video footage and images of boilermakers at work comparing music to the boilermaker craft like a musician, the work, practice, sacrifice and dedication of a boilermaker often goes unseen”. This was followed by guest speakers which included topics about the United Mine Workers to the plight of the working class in a nation where unions are under attack, the middle class is shrinking and the divide between the ultra-rich and everyone else continues to grow. Retired U.S. navy seal Marcus Luttrell, the author of “Lone Survivor” the basis for the 2013 movie comparing the battle field to everyday life, reminding the delegates that “anything is possible if you just work hard at it”. Then we were given the officers report along with other documents to include a program of sessions and events, a directory of committees, a book of resolutions and supplemental reports that would be prepared during the convention as needed. All in all a very overwhelming experience for well over half of the delegates being their first time by show of hands. In the afternoon we held the first election for IP, won by Newton Jones with 87% of the vote to defeat Local 83 member Darryl Manroe. In the 3 other contested elections, International Secretary-Treasurer William Creeden received 86% of the vote to defeat local 104 Business manager Brian Opland, International Vice President for Canada, Joe Maloney received 89% of the vote to defeat local 359 Assistant Business Manager Ken Noga, and International Vice President for the Northeast Dave Haggerty Received 95% of the vote to defeat local 29 President Mike Hancock. Three International officers faced no opposition and were elected by acclamation, Larry McManamon – IVP Great Lakes, Tom Baca- IVP Western States, and Warren Fairley IVP Southeast.
The second day Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) President Hassan Yussuff took the stage to update delegates on its recent gains and current battles which included a new Liberal party Prime Minister after nine and a half years of right wing torture and tormenting by a Conservative government. The Supreme Court ruling the fundamental right to strike, and declaring workers have the right to choose a union free of intervention. Yussuff spoke about several battles the CLC is engaged including Bill C-377, which passed just before the election of the new Prime Minister. The bill dictates onerous public reporting rules on union finances and political activities. Yussuff said unions would not provide financial information to our enemies, its an unjust, undemocratic law in our country. Another battle is over the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement. “It’s destroying jobs” and must not be ratified in Canada. Other issues include a national ban of all asbestos mining and a favorable temporary worker program. The Constitution and Law Committee got off to a slow start with issues stretching out the debate and several roll call votes slowed the committee’s report. The Law Committee proposed raising the strike pay from $150 to $200 and finally a new motion was made and passed from the floor to $250. Other resolutions also met with vigorous debate:
A motion to withdraw delegates-at-large credentials was defeated, following discussions about the importance of experienced and knowledgeable International reps and other International staff having a voice at convention.
A motion to switch to electronic voting was withdrawn after discussions about cost, difficulties for those not familiar with electronic devices and the need for delegates to speak their minds on the floor rather than press a button.
A motion to require that International Vice Presidents be elected only by the members from their IVP section failed, following debate over whether that would divide the union.
A motion to require that International Officer vacancies be filled by an election of all members rather than being appointed was defeated, as delegates debated the issues of cost , delays in filling vacancies, and other issues. An amendment to that amendment also failed.
Also defeated were motions to require the election of International Representatives and reducing severance pay for International Officers.
The third day resumed its report from the Law Committee and once again delegates rose to voice their views, and in the only roll call vote of the day some delegates challenged a provision of Article 33-Salary Adjustments. This Article allows the Executive Council to increase the International Presidents salary (and therefor the salaries of other International officers, International Reps and other International staff by up to 5% per year, providing the union is in good financial health). An amendment was made to reduce the 5% to 2.5% followed by a roll call vote in which IP Jones cast his vote for the law Committees recommendation of the 5% saying that he would have abstained from voting had the proposed amendment not impacted staff. Other International officers echoed those sentiments as the roll call vote unfolded with strong support for the Law Committee recommendation and adopting the 5% before the vote was halted an the initiator of the resolution withdrawing his amendment. Various Convention Committees took the stage to deliver their reports to the delegates which wrapped up its work on renewing the International Brotherhood Constitution and resolving more than 100 resolutions submitted to them. Three guest speakers were also heard, Assistant General Secretary, Kemal Ozkan stressed the need to work together in protecting workers rights to form collective bargaining agreements, living wages and guarantee safe workplaces. President of the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, Robbie Hunter, with the help of construction trades passed Bill 54 which has improved safety at refineries for workers and the communities where the facilities were located. It also increased opportunities for trade workers, contractors and increased wages. The Chairman of North West Upgrading, Ian MacGregor spoke about his journey into clean energy, including the positive impact of carbon capture and storage with the first refinery to be built in Alberta, Canada in three decades at a cost of $8.5 billion. He said “Boilermakers are the logical leaders in this effort as you are on every project, you know the owners and you are well organized.”
Day four included the last guest speaker Michael Hayes, Director of the Office of Labour-Management Standards at the Department of Labour, addresses delegates on this final day of the convention regarding the DOLs new “Persuader Rule.” The rule requires employers who hire union-busting consultants, and the consultants themselves to file reports on their indirect activities. Hayes said that the main purpose of the rule was to give employees who are considering whether to join union information about any third party that has been hired to dissuade them from organizing. “We thought that it was right that [employees] should be able to access information about the anti-union messages that they are repeatedly hearing and seeing,” said Hayes. Opponents of unions are willing to spend a lot to bust unions and don’t have to report, but unions have to report dollars spent on organizing. This speech was followed by closing remarks and the adjournment of the 33rd Consolidated Convention. For more information on this event, you can visit the IBB website which includes films produced by the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Wide Awake Films for the 33rd Consolidated Convention.
The elected 359 delegates chosen for this 33rd Consolidated Convention would like to thank all those who voted for them, and greatly appreciated the opportunity to represent this great local as a unified team.
Sincerely and fraternally yours,
Dave French
Vice President, Business Representative
WCB Appeals
As many of our members are aware, there were a series of unfortunate incidents that occurred during the Pine River Turnaround in July 2014. Included in these incidents, were 3 individuals who had initiated exposure claims, two from the day shift and one from the night shift. All of the claims were protested by the employer and subsequently denied by WCB. A very lengthy process was then undertaken and the appeals of these claims began.
Update – August 2016
The Union has now been able to successfully appeal the two day shift claims with the night shift claim unfortunately remaining unchanged. It was through the gathering of pertinent medical evidence at the time of injury that the two individuals were eventually able to succeed with their appeals. The night shift member unfortunately did not have the same evidence of exposure, and more importantly lacked the required medical information that would have possibly allowed the decision to be varied in the form of acceptance as well.
This is a reminder to all members who may suffer an injury or suspect they have been exposed to a toxic substance to immediately report to on site first aid and your employer. Then if your situation warrants a trip to a local practitioner or hospital, ask for any testing you feel should be done. This means if you believe you have been exposed to a substance at a work site you should request blood tests immediately and if possible explain to the doctor what you think you may have been exposed to. If you find yourself in a position of being unsure of what to do, request that you have a job steward present or contact the Union and speak to a representative.
The worst thing a member can do is hope that an injury/illness gets better on its own and wait to report it. This tends to be the starting stages of what can be a very lengthy and frustrating appeal process should an employer decide to protest the claim being made. More often than not claims that are not reported at the time of the incident are contested by the employer and quite possibly denied by WCB.
Any member who feels intimidated or coerced by an employer or their representatives for reporting an injury should contact the Union immediately as this is a violation of the WCB Act.
Hurt Your Back at Work? Here’s What You Should Know
Many of the appeals that can happen concern back injuries that either:
Aren’t accepted as arising from the work accident or work activity;
Were accepted for a strain/sprain and the WCB has told the worker that it has resolved, when it has not; or
Is diagnosed as a strain/sprain when it is really something more.
These situations can be complex and very confusing but it is important to act quickly to deal with them as an un-appealed decision letter can mean that you will have a tough time getting anything accepted in future.
When someone goes to their doctor complaining of back pain (whether it’s low back, mid-back, or neck) the doctor is likely to diagnose a sprain/strain. Doctors will tell you that if they hear hoof beats in the woods, they will first assume it’s horses because in most cases it is. However if there are reasons to think it is not horses, thats when they start to consider whether it may be zebras or any other hooved creature.
The same goes for back injuries. You will likely be diagnosed as suffering from a strain/sprain and your doctor or physiotherapist will expect it to resolve within 6 to 8 weeks. If your back pain does not resolve as expected however, then you should be sent for the appropriate tests to figure out if it may be something more; for example, a herniated disc.
We often have appeals where the family physician has started to suspect that this is the case and has asked the WCB to approve a visit to a specialist. The WCB has a deal with specialists in most fields that will provide expedited appointments so you don’t have to wait so long.
Often the WCB refuses to approve a specialist appointment. We can appeal this, but in the meantime you should get your doctor to make a referral under the Medical Services Plan. Although it will take longer, at least you know you will be seen at some point. If you see a specialist and are diagnosed with a herniated disc or some other injury that you and your doctor feel is a result of your work activity, you will need to ask the WCB to accept that condition. If they say no, you should appeal.
It is always important to see a specialist when your condition is not resolving as expected. The WCB will often just cut you off and say, your sprain/strain should be healed by now so if you are still experiencing pain, it must be unrelated to your work injury and it’s not our problem. In this case, it is again crucial that you appeal the decision. If you have a herniated disc and the WCB says it doesn’t come from your accident or activities at work and you DON’T appeal, you will be stuck for the rest of your life with a pre-existing non-work-related herniated disc. We can sometimes get around that but it is not easy.
The moral of the story is this: back injuries can be simple strains or they can be very complicated. If you hurt your back at work, and the WCB is not accepting it as their responsibility, something is wrong. You need to address that right away. Get some advice, file an appeal, don’t just shrug and give up. It is your right to appeal and you should use it!
Apprenticeship and Trade Advancement
The Canadian Boilermaker Apprenticeship Awards Banquet was held in conjunction with the Boilermaker owners appreciation day on August 25th in Edmonton. The Banquet and awards ceremony was held to acknowledge the top graduating apprentices from across Canada. Ned Josic was selected as the top Apprentice from Lodge 359 for his in class marks, hard work and attitude.
A Boilermaker foundation class graduated from BCIT in August. Top student Mathew Perrin received $500 dollars for achieving the highest marks.
A forklift certification course was held on August 23rd with nine members receiving certification.
Probationary Journeyperson Program
Apprenticeship and Training is now looking after the Pro-Jo program. Pro-Jo inquiries and reports can be sent Gord Weel.
Coordinators Report
The table below represents 5 levels of Apprentice training achieved as compared to the total number of work hours for each level and the number of Apprentices which fall into each level.
BM 01 is Foundation, BM 02 is Level 2 Upgrade, BM 03 is Level 3 Upgrade, BM 04 is Level 4 Refresher Course, BM IP is Boilermaker Inter-Provincial Red Seal.
Training Levels
Total Apprentices
BM - 01 29 1 0 0 0 0 30
BM - 02 23 10 6 3 0 0 42
BM - 03 2 6 8 3 2 0 21
BM - 04 1 0 1 1 1 0 4
BM - IP 2 14 12 5 10 0 43
The table below is the Apprentice training schedule for the remainder of 2016.
Fall 2016 Training Programs
Course Type Location Dates
Apprentice Level 2 Upgrade BCIT October 17th - November 18th
Apprentice Level 3 Upgrade BCIT November 21st - December 23rd
Aerial Platform Certification Joe Kiwior/Ivan Shook Training Centre October
Forklift Certification Joe Kiwior/Ivan Shook Training Centre November
John Hart Dam
Mark-up meeting on August 18, 2016 with SNC-Lavalin and Alstom for the Power house T&G portion (3 draft tubes and scroll casings), as the ship just left China with all the pre-fabricated components. Boilermakers to start beginning of January 2017 with back to back shifts for 5 to 6 months with manpower peeking out around 10 to 12 per shift. Canron is to hold a mark-up meeting October 4th for the 3 Bypass Penstocks and scrubbers, said earlier they would have 3-4 members on site possibly in November to start site prep for the January 2017 start. Also with back to back shifts for 6 months plus, and manpower peeking out around 10 to 12 per shift. There is a local hire provision on this job for members who have been a resident for a minimum period of 6 months and within 90 road kilometres of the work site. A copy of the John Hart Dam collective agreement in on our website under the membership tab.
Voith Hydro was awarded the Turbines & Generators contract on April 06th. The Penstocks have not been awarded at this point (but lets keep our fingers crossed that this work is awarded to a signatory contractor). The peak potential for manpower is estimated around 35 boilermakers per shift starting approximately mid 2018 for up to 5 years, again with local hire provisions.
Travel Carding
Local 128 is accepting applications for nuclear security clearances which can take 3-6 months to process for a lot work starting next year especially for welders, at the Bruce, Pickering and Darlington nuclear generation stations. For more information call 128 main office in Burlington.
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Boilermaker Foundation Course Tuition Reimbursement
2019 Children’s Christmas Party
Important Information Regarding The BCA of BC
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PARKINSON AHEAD OF YORK CUP TIE
Bantams boss Phil Parkinson says City are understandably keen to move on from Saturday's disappointing opening day defeat at the hands of Swindon Town.
Following on from the 4-1 reversal at Swindon on Saturday, Parkinson's men get their Capital One Cup campaign underway for another season with a Yorkshire derby at Sky Bet League 2 side York City this Tuesday.
Parkinson is expected to use the round 1 tie as an opportunity to make changes to the eleven that began at Swindon, with a number of the players who were named on the bench at the County Ground likely to be given a starting berth at York.
Stephen Darby could also be rested due to a minor calf problem, meaning Tony McMahon may start the game at right back.
Parkinson said: "We know the value of this competition.
"Beating Morecambe last season got us the glamour tie of Leeds United at home in the next round. The Morecambe game was a tough one though, and we expect the York match to be just the same.
"We have a proud record in cup competitions over the last couple of years and we will be stressing to the players before the game the importance of this match to us.
"I'm looking forward to seeing a few players out there on Tuesday given the opportunity to stake a claim for one of the shirts.
"We have players who need the minutes under their belts and if we don't get them on the pitch Tuesday, you wonder when we can play them.
"Equally, I don't think our best eleven will emerge for a couple of weeks yet because there is definitely competition for places.
"This is a terrific tie for us to look forward to.
"It is a Yorkshire derby for us which will be played at a traditional football ground. Our job is to make sure we play as well as we did in the first half at Swindon across the whole of the match against York."
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9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings
How to Work Through Difficulty: Lewis Carroll’s Three Tips for Overcoming Creative Block
The Psychology of Flow: What Game Design Reveals about the Deliberate Tensions of Great Writing
“The books that give us the most pleasure, the deepest pleasure, combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.”
A full creative life requires equally that we cultivate a capacity for boredom, as legendary psychoanalyst Adam Phillips asserted, and learn to welcome rather than avoid difficulty, as Nietzsche believed. Great stories, like great life-stories, are woven of the same interplay between fertile ennui and surmountable frustration — so argues writer Peter Turchi in one especially rewarding section of the altogether stimulating A Muse and a Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic (public library | IndieBound).
In a sentiment that illuminates the psychological machinery behind Nabokov’s famous assertion that “a good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader,” Turchi recounts poet C. Dale Young’s experience of reading and rereading Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness:
The first time he read it, he said, the book seemed perfectly clear. Why did people make such a fuss? Moved to reread it, he found Conrad’s tale increasingly elusive, more complicated. Richer. However it happens, the appeal of the books we return to is often, at least in part, a fascination with what we can’t quite reach.
This notion of the elusive, Turchi goes on to argue, is essential to the alchemy of storytelling. Turning to pioneering psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s seminal work on flow — that state of intense focus and crisp sense of clarity where you forget yourself, lose track of time, and feel like you’re part of something larger — Turchi explores the role of challenge in the “flow channel” of narrative.
He cites game designer and Carnegie Mellon professor Jesse Schell’s book The Art of Game Design, which identifies the four elements necessary to put a game player (and, by extension, a reader) into a fruitful “flow state”:
clear goals
no distractions
direct feedback
continuous challenge
The last one, Turchi argues, is of especially delicate balance. He quotes Schell:
If we start to think we can’t achieve [the goal], we feel frustrated, and our minds start seeking an activity more likely to be rewarding. On the other hand, if the challenge is too easy, we feel bored, and again, our minds start seeking more rewarding activities.
Turchi considers this tricky balance against the great trickster that is time:
Simply establishing a constant state of challenge turns out not to be effective for long. Instead, the ideal situation, flow-channel-wise, is to keep the game player or reader moving within a tolerable range of new challenge and acquired skill — or, as Csikszentmihalyi puts it, between anxiety and boredom.
A child might be challenged by playing tic-tac-toe, for instance; but once someone learns how to win or force a draw every time, the game holds less interest. Books of sudoku and crossword puzzles are often labeled easy, medium, or hard because few people will pay for a book of puzzles they can’t do, and not many more will spend time with puzzles that are too simple. With a game like chess, new players might have trouble remembering how the different pieces move; after that, the level of difficulty changes with the opponents they play.
A similar mechanism is at work in the game of narrative:
This cycle of satisfaction and frustration is familiar to every writer. We write sentences or drafts that disappoint us, and we feel frustrated. But then a sentence or paragraph or image delights us, and that success encourages us to continue. If we never felt pleasure from anything we wrote, we’d stop; but if we were completely satisfied, if we didn’t feel the urge to move beyond what we have accomplished or to take on a new challenge, we’d lose interest.
This is essentially what Zadie Smith captured in the last of her ten rules of writing: “Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.” Except the sadness is simultaneously a stimulant for the satisfaction, for both reader and writer. Turchi captures this elegantly:
Most serious poetry and fiction is unlike a game in that it doesn’t intend to become increasingly difficult, but it is like a game in that we want the reader to be engaged and to experience some combination of intrigue, delight, challenge, surprise, provocation, and satisfaction. The ideal reading experience might be comparable to that flow state. The books that give us the most pleasure, the deepest pleasure, combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.
Returning to Schell’s theories of game design, Turchi relates the basic paradigm to writing:
It isn’t enough for the story to be somewhere in between too hard and too easy; ideally, the story will provide the reader an ongoing series of challenges and satisfactions.
He illustrates the interplay between challenge and satisfaction with a befitting metaphor:
If, on a hike, all we care about is convenient travel — the physical equivalent of reading a kitchen appliance manual — we’re happy to have big stepping stones, close together, and a quietly flowing stream. But if we’re looking for an interesting experience, if the stream is quiet, the stepping stones can be smaller or farther apart. If the stream is wide and the water is rushing by, we want the security of flat, broad stones. Eventually, some of us will seek out greater adventures — a deep, rushing stream and small, uneven stones that are a long, uncertain stride apart — but if that experience goes on too long, we’re likely to grow exhausted (or fall and be swept to our death; happily, such a dire fate is unlikely when we tackle Absalom! Absalom or Ulysses).
To keep her readers in that vitalizing flow state, Turchi argues, a great writer ought to deliberately move them “between stages of frustration and satisfaction, of tension and release.”
Complement A Muse and a Maze with this evolving archive of advice on the craft from famous writers, including Kurt Vonnegut, Joan Didion, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Susan Sontag, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, and more.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/05/peter-turchi-a-muse-a-maze-book-flow/
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Micro 1/18th 2wd 4wd Off Road 1/16th
Welcome to the Micro Section of the BRCA, encapsulates all 1/16th - 1/18th RC offroad racing.
Our section is relatively new in the overall terms of the BRCA, but over the past 8 years we have grown year on year. Now offering a National Championship, seeing on average 75 racers at all events. The championship is normally run from October to March and consisits of 6 events, with competitors best 4 results counting towards the overall Championship positions.
The BRCA Micro Section committee are extremely proactive towards promoting are , the RC hobby as a whole and the National Championship and are always happy to be contacted by both new and experienced drivers looking for information about who we are and what we can offer!
Our section rules are also used as guidelines by many clubs across the UK to help regulate 1/16th off-road racing at the grass root level.
If you've never seen what the Micro section can offer, then we would encourage you to pop along to one of our National events and have a chat with some of our racers or one of the committee.
BRCA Micro National RD1 - Sleigh triumphs at MB Raceway
With an increase in popularity outside of our normal stomping ground (Midlands & South Wales), the section decided it should try travelling a little further North this season, and with that our first National event of 2016/17 was held last weekend at MB Raceway near Leeds.
Micro National Championship 2016/17
The BRCA Micro Section are pleased to announced its calendar of events for the 2016/17 National championship for 1/16th Off-Road buggies. The National championship will be contested over 6 indoor multi-surface events, with each driver’s best 4 scores counting towards their final placing in the championship.
2015-2016 Micro Event Entry
Due to the cross over from V1 website and this V2 one, the Micros 2015-2016 National entries are done through google forms, please see below for instructions
Micro Home
Micro Events
Micro History
Micro Results
Micro Documents
Micro X
BRCA Micro - 2016 EGM Minutes
BRCA Micro - 2016 EGM Agenda
Micro Handbook 2016
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BrightWork Announce Integration with HMS Software
By: Billy Guinan|Published on: Jun 2, 2017|Categories: BrightWork, News| 0 comments
Billy Guinan
BrightWork have teamed with the publishers of TimeControl to integrate timesheets into their project and portfolio solution for SharePoint
(Boston, MA – June 2, 2017) BrightWork are delighted to announce the availability of a new integration with TimeControl, the leading multi-purpose timesheet system from HMS Software. The integration links the TimeControl enterprise timesheet product to BrightWork, allowing users to report on timesheets right from their collaborative project management system in SharePoint. The alliance between BrightWork and HMS was announced several weeks ago and the new integrated link between their products is now available.
“Integrating with best of breed systems such as TimeControl is one of the benefits of the SharePoint-based architecture of BrightWork,” says Éamonn McGuinness, CEO of BrightWork. “TimeControl extends the already extensive functionality of BrightWork to make task updating a natural part of ending one’s day or week. We already have some clients in common using both TimeControl and BrightWork and we are very much looking forward to working with HMS on other clients.”
The combination of the BrightWork project management solution for SharePoint with TimeControl will deliver comprehensive project planning and tracking with task-by-task progressed timesheets. Not only will BrightWork now be able to have timesheets with TimeControl’s unique Matrix Approval Process for Labor Actuals(tm), but other corporate systems such as payroll, HR, invoicing and job costing will be able to use the data thanks to TimeControl’s multi-function design.
“The launch of this integration with BrightWork is very exciting to us,” explains Chris Vandersluis, President of HMS Software. “From the start of our technical alliance, both the teams from BrightWork and HMS knew the integration of both products would be a win-win. Now collaborative project management systems using BrightWork will be able to include financial-quality actuals in their process.”
The integration between BrightWork and TimeControl has been designed with team members from both companies and will ship automatically within TimeControl as one of its standard Project Links. Support of the integration will be a collaborative effort. The integration is available immediately to clients with an active support contract.
About BrightWork
BrightWork was founded in 1995 by Éamonn McGuinness with the purpose of making successful project and portfolio management possible and easy for every organization. BrightWork is the most flexible project management solution with best-practice templates and portfolio management dashboards on SharePoint. The collaborative templates and automated reporting enable project managers to increase project success and gives senior executives the high-level visibility they need to ensure customer satisfaction. Start a free 30-day trial of BrightWork at www.brightwork.com.
About TimeControl
TimeControl was originally released in 1994. It was immediately successful in the project management sector and today is recognized as an enterprise timesheet solution in use by companies worldwide. TimeControl is designed as a multi-purpose timesheet able to serve the needs of both Finance and Project Management simultaneously. It includes features such as a multi-browser, multi-device interface, a mobile interface, vacation approvals, executive dashboards, extensive approval functionality, flexible reporting and links to project management and corporate systems which make the timesheet product ideally suited for integration with existing systems in any organization. TimeControl’s flexibility allows it to be deployed for use for time and attendance, time and billing, project tracking and flex-time management. TimeControl is available both for purchase for an on-premises installation or as an on-line subscription in the Cloud.
To access the free hosted TimeControl trial site, go to freetrial.timecontrol.com.
For more information about TimeControl, monitor the TimeControl blog at blog.timecontrol.org or the TimeControl website at www.timecontrol.com.
For any other questions, please contact HMS Software at info@hms.ca.
TimeControl is represented around the world by distributors in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, the UK, and the U.S.
About HMS Software
Based in Montreal, Canada with offices in Toronto, HMS Software has been a leading provider of timesheet and project management systems and services since 1984. HMS Software’s first customized timesheet application was written in 1984. With the launch of TimeControl as a commercial application in 1994, HMS Software began servicing clients worldwide.
HMS Software’s client list reads like a who’s who of business. It includes Aegion, CRIM, MCAP, Georgia Pacific, Xerox, Volvo Novabus, the Government of Quebec, CAE, Safran, Tractor Supply, General Dynamics, Siemens, Foster Wheeler, EXFO, Boeing, Value Recovery, Pontoon, March Consulting and hundreds of others.
For further information about HMS Software, please visit www.hms.ca.
Billy is a Demand Generation Manager at BrightWork, where he helps customers successfully manage their projects and portfolios using SharePoint.
Billy is a graduate of the Villanova School of Business and holds a Master’s degree from National University of Ireland, Galway. Outside of BrightWork, he enjoys reading, trying to golf, and walking his pug named Nova.
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The Helen Stockford Story: This is why I am fighting to clear my son's name
'It seems to me like they’ve just got their man, wrapped the case up really quickly and said ‘let’s call it a day’'
Alex Wood
13:06, 8 NOV 2018
When Kyle Clarke returned home from work in March 2009 and interrupted his mum’s rapist, he was considered a hero - by his family, by his friends and by the public.
Kyle, then aged 19, disturbed convicted killer Mark Shirley before he was able to complete his attack and inadvertently saved his mother’s life in the process.
But following Kyle’s death in 2017, when it emerged he was run over during a suspected fuel theft gone wrong, he was branded a low-level criminal.
Kyle Clarke
This sudden change in public perception shocked Kyle’s family almost as much as his death, as they firmly believe he intended to pay for the £58 worth of fuel he was subsequently accused of stealing.
Helen Stockford, who is Kyle’s mother, explained: “Kyle was not allowed to have money, because it was a huge fear for me. He put me in charge of absolutely everything money-wise.
The Helen Stockford story: Why my rape is to blame for my son’s death
“Even though he would have carried his bank card with him that evening, because he didn’t go anywhere without that bank card, if he needed something while he was outdoors, he would ring me or ring his older sister and I would transfer money from my account into his account whenever he needed to go and purchase anything.
“He would have contacted me and the fuel would have been paid.
CCTV footage of the moments before Kyle Clarke's tragic death (Image: Avon and Somerset police)
“We are not talking an excessive amount of fuel - a few hundred pounds - and the shop assistant said she got suspicious of Kyle at £30.
“I don’t know why but in her own words, she says it was because of the type of vehicle. I’ve checked for that type of vehicle and you can put 48 litres of fuel in so I don’t understand why there was even a suspicion at £30.”
The Helen Stockford Story
On January 10, 2017, Kyle Clarke was killed when he was run over by his own car.
The 27-year-old was dragged by his Ford Fiesta for more than 500 yards after an alleged fuel theft at a Hengrove garage went terribly and tragically wrong.
His death shocked the city of Bristol and ultimately resulted in a criminal conviction - after driver Shakrul Islam was found guilty of manslaughter.
But for Kyle’s mother Helen Stockford, Islam’s conviction was not something to celebrate - it was something to fight.
Helen maintains her son was not attempting to steal fuel on the night of his death, and that key evidence was missed during the police investigation - something Avon and Somerset Police have denied.
Now, more than 18 months after her son’s death, Helen has decided to come forward and tell her story - a story scarred by tragedy and trauma.
In this exclusive five-part series with Bristol Live news reporter Alex Wood, Helen bravely waives her right to anonymity as a victim of sexual abuse to recount the horrors of her past and relive the night she learned her son was dead.
This is the Helen Stockford story, told in Helen’s own words, as she attempts to clear Kyle’s name and memory.
Complaints, appeals and the fight for a new investigation
Following Kyle’s death, the Stockford family officially complained about Avon and Somerset Police and their investigation into his death.
Helen Stockford is campaigning for a fresh investigation into her son's death - though her complaints have so far not been upheld (Image: BristolLive)
For Helen and her husband Richard, the key issues centered on:
Why officers who attended Kyle’s collision on the night of January 10 decided to lift the car off him despite being aware there was no defibrillator or medical equipment to assist should he suffer a possible cardiac arrest
The “weaknesses and omissions” in the investigation
The decision not to release bodycam footage captured by officers on the night of Kyle’s death
The complaint, however, was not upheld.
The force said it was satisfied its officers acted appropriately on the night of Kyle’s death, and that lifting the car off him was “the only way to effectively treat him”.
The Helen Stockford Story: The night I learned my son was dead
In their response to the other aspects of the family’s complaint, the force said it had disregarded the suggestion Kyle intended to pay for the fuel - based on the evidence given by passenger Shakrul Islam, who admitted in interview that they were there to steal - and said senior officers had not breached any standards of professional behaviour by refusing to disclose the bodycam footage.
Shakrul Islam
Helen appealed the decision in December, and the matter was referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in December 2017.
However, by February 2018, the IOPC had reached its conclusion - and it had decided to not uphold the appeal.
This was based on reasons that were similar to those provided by Avon and Somerset Police.
The Helen Stockford Story: My dead son was left naked on roadside for nine hours
Despite both complaints being dismissed, Helen said she remains determined to continue to fight for a fresh investigation into Kyle’s death.
She said: “I don’t know why Avon and Somerset Police and the IOPC have done what they’ve done.
“They need to look into the investigation properly. It seems to me like they’ve just got their man, wrapped the case up really quickly and said ‘let’s call it a day’.
The tragic faces of Avon and Somerset’s murder and manslaughter victims
“Now, most parents, they would settle for that, walk away, carry on grieving and go through all the bereavement and things - but I’m not that type of person.
“I can’t. I will make sure I battle until I get myself heard and until I get somebody independent to look at this case properly.”
Helen has asked for an independent investigator to look into her son's death (Image: BristolLive)
The impact of Kyle’s death on Helen and her family has been profound.
Richard Stockford, Helen’s husband and Kyle’s step-father, now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder while two of Kyle’s siblings are going through counselling.
‘It’s 24/7 for me’
“It is 24/7 for me,” Helen added. “I have to make sure they are all okay, because that is what Kyle would want.”
Asked how she wanted people to remember Kyle, Helen said she hoped he would now be seen in a different light to the one cast during Islam’s court case.
Shakrul Islam was found guilty of manslaughter following a trial in 2017 (Image: Elizabeth Cook)
She said she hoped that by coming forward, and telling her story in such detail, the public will recognise the difficulties her son experienced - difficulties that can be linked to the guilt he felt over his mum’s attack in 2009.
“I want people to identify Kyle for what Kyle was. I don’t want people to identify Kyle for how he has been told about,” she said.
'Coward' - grieving dad slams hit-and-run driver as he's jailed for killing Bristol woman Emma Galton
“You know, how it has been - fuel theft and end of story, because that is unfair. Kyle wouldn’t have had these problems if it wasn’t for what happened to me in 2009.
“My son has lost his life for £58 and I’m not going to give up on him. He saved my life and I owe him that.
Kyle Clarke, pictured on holiday
“He has gone from hero to this criminal of fuel theft and that is not good. I want people to identify my son for what he is and what he was.”
In full - police statement on Kyle Clarke’s death
“The death of Kyle Clarke was a tragedy and our Major Crime Investigation Team carried out a full and thorough investigation which resulted in Shakrul Islam being convicted of Kyle’s manslaughter following a trial,” a spokesperson for Avon and Somerset Police said.
“From the outset, we’ve always treated Kyle as a victim of an unlawful killing and our priority has been to secure justice for him and his family.
The Esso petrol station in Roman Farm Road, at the junction to Hengrove Way, where Kyle was killed (Image: James Beck/Freelance)
“Our thoughts will always be with Kyle’s family and loved ones, who’ve been through an unimaginable ordeal and they were fully supported throughout the criminal investigation by a trained family liaison officer.
“The officers who were first on the scene of this incident were wearing body worn video which shows all the emergency service personnel involved did everything they could to try and save Kyle in what were very distressing circumstances.
Everything we know as two hospitalised after car ploughs into block of flats
“The post-mortem examination results categorically show that Kyle suffered fatal injuries when he was first struck by the car. Sadly, there was nothing anyone could do to save his life.
“The officers did everything they could to protect Kyle’s dignity and his body was covered as soon as possible.
“We acknowledge that a forensics tent was unfortunately unavailable but we obtained screens from the fire and rescue service to ensure Kyle’s body was protected from public view.
Why my rape is to blame for son's death
The night I learned my son was dead
My dead son was left naked on roadside
Why I keep my son's bloodied clothes
“Following incidents where a death is suspicious, we have to carry out a meticulous evidence-gathering examination of the scene and sadly this means the victim’s body will remain at the scene for a longer period of time than we would prefer.
“We’re aware how distressing this was to Kyle’s family, but it was important to carry out an exhaustive and meticulous inquiry at the scene to ensure all the available evidence was gathered.”
This is the fifth and final article in an exclusive five-part series with Helen Stockford, the mother of Kyle Clarke - who died when he was run over and dragged by his own car in January 2017.
The tragic death of Kyle Clarke - a timeline
The tragic death of Kyle Clarke
Kyle proved a hero to his mum when he unwittingly disturbed the intruder who was brutally attacking her in her own home in March 2009.
Mark Shirley attacked Helen Stockford, who was living in Stanton Road, Southmead, after breaking in one morning, while she was doing the cleaning.
Pulling a knife on her, he attempted to recreate the ritualised murder of Mary Wainwright, a 67-year-old widow he had murdered 22 years earlier, when he was a teenager.
The mother-of-five was brutalised on her own kitchen table for more than five hours until Kyle came home and disturbed the attack.
Not realising what had happened, Kyle shook the hand of family friend Shirley as he left.
After two long trials Shirley was convicted of a series of offences, including rape and false imprisonment, at Bristol Crown Court and was handed six life sentences, with a nine-year minimum tariff.
Helen, now 47, bravely waived her anonymity and has gone on to be an advocate for victims of sexual attacks. She said the trauma had affected her son.
Kyle and accomplice Shakrul Islam take part in a suspected fuel theft that went horribly wrong.
Staff intervened when they saw Mr Clarke filling a container of petrol through the back window of a Ford Fiesta at the Spar petrol station in Hengrove. When a tussle ensued between Mr Clarke and shop worker Abu Sayem, the Fiesta rolled back with passenger Shakrul Islam inside.
But Islam then drove forward, straight over 27-year-old Mr Clarke, and continued with Mr Clarke trapped under the vehicle.
Mr Clarke's body was dragged trapped under the car for 0.4 miles before horrified drivers released there was a body under the car.
The incident, captured on CCTV, was played to a jury with Mr Clarke’s family watching on from the public gallery.
Read more about what happened that night here.
It is revealed that up to 15 people worked together to try and lift the car off Kyle.
Two bus drivers who first noticed the man caught under a Ford Fiesta on Airport Road, between Knowle West and Hengrove, described the ‘chaotic’ scene as police and passers-by tried to rescue the man.
Trainee First Bus drivers Dwain Short and Nathan Reid were driving home from the Hengrove bus depot by car when they noticed something beneath the Ford ahead of them.
Passenger Dwain, 31, told Bristol Live that at first he thought a mannequin was under the vehicle as they approached a set of red traffic lights near Creswicke Road.
But after 43-year-old Nathan stopped so they could alert the Ford’s driver, Dwain got out and realised a man trapped beneath the wheels.
The two trainee bus drivers then tried desperately to lift the car, but could not budge the vehicle until a passing police car stopped at the scene.
With the help of up to 13 other people, they managed to move the car, but it was too late.
“Anybody would have done it,” said 43-year-old Nathan about the heroic rescue attempt
“There were an awful lot of people who just came straight out of their cars and were straight on the back of the car to lift it across,” Dwain said.
Nathan said: “I think anybody would have done it. It doesn’t matter who it was, anybody would have done the same.”
Read more from the witnesses to the horror here.
Driver Shakrul Islam appears in court charged with Kyle's murder.
The 30-year-old, of Rounceval Street, Chipping Sodbury, made a brief appearance at Bristol Magistrates’ Court and during the two-minute hearing saw Islam speak only to confirm his age and date of birth.
Eventually, the charge would be dropped to manslaughter.
Kyle is named by his mum as the victim of the horrific crash. Mrs Stockford said: “Me, my children and my husband Richard are devastated.
“Kyle was 27. He was a builder who worked with his dad.
“It’s really hard for me to explain how I feel.”
Read the full tributes from his family here.
Family and friends said a heart-felt farewell to a much loved son and brother.
Some 60 people gathered at St Stephen’s Church in Southmead to pay their respects to Kyle at a funeral service, before a cremation at Canford Crematorium.
The scene was bathed in glorious sunshine as a gleaming white hearse arrived with Kyle’s flower-emblazoned, Nasa-themed coffin.
Kyle, a mechanic who loved cars, had enjoyed a trip to Nasa and some of his family and friends donned grey Nasa T-shirts for the occasion.
Read more about his funeral here.
Islam goes on trial at Bristol Crown Court accused of Kyle Clarke's manslaughter.
The jury are taken out to see the site.
They are told that a suspected fuel thief was crushed to death under his own car in Bristol when his friend ran over him.
Staff intervened when they saw Kyle Clarke filling a container of petrol through the back window of a Ford Fiesta at the Spar petrol station in Hengrove.
When a tussle ensued between Mr Clarke and shop worker Abu Sayem, the Fiesta rolled back with passenger Shakrul Islam inside, Bristol Crown Court heard.
But Islam then drove forward, straight over Mr Clarke, and continued with Mr Clarke trapped under the vehicle.
Read the prosecution's opening of the case here.
Islam is found guilty of manslaughter after a jury spent a day considering the verdict. Islam was jailed for seven years.
Jailing him The Recorder of Bristol, His Honour Judge Peter Blair QC, told Islam: "You have been a friend of Kyle for a few months.
"Plainly you have no intention to kill him. Had you done so you would have been convicted of murder.
"Your offence came of seeking to aim that vehicle at the employee of that petrol station. It was a spontaneous decision that you took and there was a lack of premeditation."
Islam was ordered to pay a £170 victim surcharge and his guilty plea to causing death by dangerous driving was vacated and left to lie on file.
Kyle's mum Helen says her son never recorded from her being raped and suffered with problems since that fatal night. She said: "The problem for Kyle was the trauma of everything left him with post-traumatic stress disorder and severe depression, plus night terrors. He was still struggling to support his mother and family.
“The sad part for myself is Kyle did turn to drugs. He would smoke drugs, not inject himself, as he was needle phobic. As a family we got Kyle support and got him back on a straight road to recovery. But he still continued to blame himself because he shook Mark Shirley’s hand on the day of my attack.”
Read more from the heartbroken mum here.
Detective Superintendent Sarah Davenport, who leads the major crime unit, also paid tribute to Kyle and his family following Islam's conviction.
Speaking at the time, she said: “This was a tragic and completely avoidable death of a young man. We cannot underestimate the impact this has had on everyone who witnessed the tragedy that day and the distressing scene that was caused.
“From the garage attendant, to the emergency services and members of the public, but mainly for the friends and family of Kyle. I have never seen an incident like this before and all our officers have been offered support.
“The fuel theft is relevant to the case, but the circumstances that followed, with Kyle losing his life, were completely avoidable.”
She said the attendant’s instincts that day were to defend the property. “In that split moment, he did not have the benefit of hindsight,” she said.
Read more from the detective here.
Helen submits a formal complaint to Avon and Somerset Police about the investigation into her son's death.
An investigation report by Avon and Somerset Police following Helen's complaint finds there is "no case to answer for misconduct" in respect of all four of her allegations.
Helen appeals and the matter is referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).
Helen's appeal to the IOPC is not upheld.
July - November 2018
Helen and the Stockford family contact Bristol Live to discuss the investigation into Kyle's death and see what can be done in terms of publicity around it.
Helen, 49, reveals she wants a re-investigation into what happened on the night of January 10 and says she will fight to clear her son's name as a suspected fuel thief.
The five-part series, The Helen Stockford Story, is published.
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Consumer Groups Seek 'Fair and Balanced' EU Privacy Reg Debate
TACD says hearing does not appear to provide benefits to EU Data Directive
An international alliance of consumer groups are concerned about the tenor of a Sept. 15 hearing on the "Internet Privacy: The Impact and Burden of EU Regulation" in the Republican-led House Commerce Subcommittee, particularly that "burden" part, with no countervailing "benefit" to balance it, at least in the title of the hearing.
According to a briefing memo, the hearing will look into EU privacy and data-collection regulations and their impact on the Internet economy, which it suggests include "inconsistent" application across different regulatory regimes and created problems for U.S. multinationals, including targeted enforcement.
The groups, which include Consumers Union and the Consumer Federation of America, are part of the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), a joint forum that develops consumer policy recommendations to the U.S. and European Union. "We appreciate the interest of the United States Congress in the very important issue of Internet privacy," the groups wrote in a letter to Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.), chair of the Subcommittee, and ranking member G. K. Butterfield (D-N.C.). "TACD is therefore somewhat surprised by what appears to be an effort to call into question the purpose and ‘burden' of the EU Data Directive.
"Given the widespread agreement across consumer organizations in both Europe and the United States, that the United States lacks adequate privacy safeguards and that the U.S. privacy laws lag woefully behind current technology and business practices, we expected a hearing that would focus on the lessons that the Congress might draw from the EU experience with data protection," they wrote.
The EU adopted a Data Privacy Directive in 1995 to "harmonize" privacy protection within EU and prevent personal information from flowing to other countries that EU believed lacked adequate protections, the memo says. The directive applies to affiliates of U.S. corporations and requires them to adhere to seven basic principles: Notice, purpose (data should be relevant to its use), consent, security, disclosure, access (ability to correct inaccuracies in data) and accountability.
The fact that each state is responsible for incorporating them into its own privacy laws has created those problems for U.S. affiliates, says the memo, even though the U.S. negotiated a safe harbor in 2000 that allows them to voluntarily adhere to data protection principles.
Even with that harbor, say the Republican majority staffers, "Compliance within the EU remains fractured, with several member states not fully complying with the Directive. Additionally, industry observers argue EU enforcement is sporadic and inconsistent, with a seemingly disproportionate number of American companies targeted for compliance violations. These challenges facing U.S. businesses in the European theater and the lessons learned from the EU experience will be closely examined at the hearing."
TACD said that, since the hearing does not appear to provide a "fair and balanced" perspective on the upsides of the data directive -- technology neutral, transparency, basic obligations rather than "burdens," fundamental human rights protections -- they asked that their letter be made part of the record of the hearing.
Hill Looks at EU Privacy Directives
Legislators and witness both agree U.S. should not follow the EU's approach too closely
Consumer Groups Praise EU Privacy Regime
Call it implementing basic human right to control personal info
Consumer Groups Push State, EU for Privacy Protections
Plans to make pitch in a presentation at State Department Tuesday
Privacy Groups Seek Meeting With Obama Officials
Concerned Administration lobbying hard against EU privacy framework
Consumer Groups Urge Tougher Online Privacy Regime
Letter to FTC and TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue outlines recommendations
EU Says Do Not Track Self Regs There Don't Measure Up
Letter to IAB Europe and European Advertising Standards Alliance says current code of conduct does not meet requirements of e-Privacy Directive
Blackburn: Privacy Self-Regs a Must
Wants FCC out of privacy oversight area
Senate Debates Net Neutrality Regs
Sens. Hutchison and Rockefeller square off on joint resolution to nullify rules
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'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Beats 'Letterman' in 11:35 p.m. Debut
ABC host's much-publicized move falls about 175,000 viewers short of 'Leno's draw
By Andrea Morabito
Jimmy Kimmel Live had a warm welcome to its new 11:35
p.m. time slot on Tuesday, beating CBS' Late Show with David Letterman,
according to Nielsen fast national ratings.
ABC's JKL drew 3.097 million total viewers, its
second most-watched telecast ever, and 887,000 adults 18-49, topping Letterman by 7% in total viewers and 30%
in the key demo.
NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno still won the
time period, averaging 3.274 million total viewers and 1.084 million adults
The first episode of JKL's much-publicized move to
11:35 p.m. improved 59% in total viewers and 33% in adults 18-49 over its
season average in its former midnight time period.
In preliminary ratings based on Nielsen's 56 metered
markets, JKL topped both Leno and Letterman, drawing a 2.8
household rating/8 share to Letterman's 2.7/7 and Leno's 2.4/6.
'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Hits New High on Night Three
ABC host tops key demo, still trails Leno and Letterman in total viewers
'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Moving to 11:35 P.M.
Talker will go head-to-head with Leno, Letterman starting in January; ‘Nightline' shifting to 12:35 p.m.
'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Turns 10
As he celebrates a decade at ABC and preps his move to 11:35 p.m., Jimmy Kimmel says he has no reason to be nervous—and yes, he would go on Leno again
Kanye Appearance Lifts Kimmel to Best Demo Rating at 11:35 P.M.
Easily beats Leno, Letterman on Wednesday with adults 18-49
ABC Moves Jimmy Kimmel Live to 11:35 p.m. (for One Night)
April 3 90-Minute Special to Celebrate Episode No. 1,000
Bravo's 'Married to Medicine' Debuts as Net's Top Non-Spinoff Series
Docu-series draws 1.9 million total viewers
State of the Union Viewership Down 11%
Obama's address draws 33.5 million total viewers
'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Books Letterman for Week in Brooklyn
'JKL' guests for week of Oct. 29 also include Comedy Central's Stewart, Colbert
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Radical Markets : Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
By (author) Eric A. Posner , By (author) E. Glen Weyl , Foreword by Vitalik Buterin , Foreword by Jaron Lanier
Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to bring about fairness and prosperity for all
Many blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking-and pretty much all conventional thinking about markets, both for and against-on its head. The book reveals bold new ways to organize markets for the good of everyone. It shows how the emancipatory force of genuinely open, free, and competitive markets can reawaken the dormant nineteenth-century spirit of liberal reform and lead to greater equality, prosperity, and cooperation.
Eric Posner and Glen Weyl demonstrate why private property is inherently monopolistic, and how we would all be better off if private ownership were converted into a public auction for public benefit. They show how the principle of one person, one vote inhibits democracy, suggesting instead an ingenious way for voters to effectively influence the issues that matter most to them. They argue that every citizen of a host country should benefit from immigration-not just migrants and their capitalist employers. They propose leveraging antitrust laws to liberate markets from the grip of institutional investors and creating a data labor movement to force digital monopolies to compensate people for their electronic data.
Only by radically expanding the scope of markets can we reduce inequality, restore robust economic growth, and resolve political conflicts. But to do that, we must replace our most sacred institutions with truly free and open competition-Radical Markets shows how.
Dimensions 140 x 216 x 33.02mm | 544.31g
Publication date 15 May 2018
Publisher Princeton University Press
Publication City/Country New Jersey, United States
Illustrations note 20 b/w illus., 3 tables
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"I have always been motivated to find ways to unite the power of technology and markets with the goal of creating a more egalitarian society, and the authors of this book offer an exploration of these apparently contradictory strands."--Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft
"Perhaps the most ambitious attempt to rethink democracy and markets since Milton Friedman. Twenty years from now this just might be the book people are talking about. The writing is excellent, with great examples and historical detail. I admire the ambition and willingness to experiment, a rare thing in economics these days. It just might help launch a new branch of political economy."--Kenneth S. Rogoff, author of The Curse of Cash
"One of the most exciting books in the social sciences published in the past several years. Very original, using a consistent ideological approach, and intellectually compelling."--Branko Milanovic, author of Global Inequality
"Radical Markets thinks big and builds daring proposals, all on a unified theme: the need for maintaining competition and eliciting decentralized information, whose neglect led to the demise of planned economies. Whether you are convinced by the specific proposals or not, your confidence in your worldview may well be shattered by the depth and originality of the analysis."--Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics, Nobel Laureate in Economics, and author of Economics for the Common Good
"In our difficult times, with mounting anxieties over migration, global inequality, and the cohesiveness of public culture, many are inclined to reject market-based solutions as heartless and elitist. Eric Posner and Glen Weyl argue that market-based ideas of a radically new sort (though based on neglected insights from the past) have the power to create greater equality and reciprocity. Counterintuitive and fascinating, this book will be an essential part of the debate about global issues going forward."--Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago
"Radical Markets is worth reading both for its genuinely innovative suggestions and its well-researched accounts of the development of economic ideas."---David V. Axelsen, Economics and Philosophy "Doesn't anybody have anything new to offer? . . . . [Y]es: . . . unleash the awesome power of markets . . . to uplift the poor . . . it just might be what the world needs now. . . . [Posner and Weyl are] smart and iconoclastic, and their book bursts with ideas like kernels of corn on a hot stove."---Peter Coy, Bloomberg Businessweek "Extremely thought provoking and clearly brilliant . . . Radical Markets certainly made me think about property, information, power. Well worth reading."---Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist "Radical Markets . . . could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject that is sometimes called "political economy" - tackling the big questions of how markets and politics and society intersect. . . . I highly recommend Radical Markets . . . to anyone interested in these kinds of issues, and look forward to seeing the discussion that the book generates."---Vitalik Buterin, "One of The Economist's Best Business and Economics Books of 2018" "E. Glen Weyl & Eric Posner: One of Bloomberg Businessweek's "Bloomberg 50" Icons of 2018" "A law professor and an economist argue that the way out of liberalism's impasse is to expand the role of markets, not to subdue them. . . . Together they point to a possible response to the challenges of populism and protectionism." * The Economist * "A provocative new book." * The Economist * "Glen Weyl, coauthor of Radical Markets, is tackling the core issues: What does human dignity mean in a highly automated future? How can we regain agency over the data we produce? If these don't sound like economic questions, then get ready to encounter the future of economics. We can't just complain about how tech is transforming our world; we need to invent the transformation."---Jaron Lanier, Wired "A very thought-provoking book is a bizarre fusion of ideas drawn from the classical liberal . . . . and socialist tradition(s). . . . It contains ideas . . . that really do make you think. It is a really fun book to read and of you are someone who actually likes having your suppositions and beliefs challenged, take a look at it."---Reihan Salam, National Review's The Editors podcast "This system has enormous potential - simple, fair, progressive taxes and a more dynamic economy. It would be much easier to develop new infrastructure, build new homes, buy your neighbour's garden, and pour concrete all over twee villages to build monorails or airport runways."---Tim Harford, Financial Times "An arresting if eccentric manifesto for rebooting liberalism. . . . Radical Markets is refreshing and welcome in its willingness to question received wisdom." * The Economist * "It will pay the readers . . . great intellectual returns to invest significant time in studying this book very carefully. It is ambitious and bold, and I think it should excite the imagination and motivate careful scholarship and analytical rigor among both critics and those who want to pursue the line of argument laid out."---Peter Boettke, Coordination Problem "Read this difficult and provocative book. It made my head hurt, and then spin. In a world where our current economic and political models are worth defending but are straining, this can only be a good thing."---Paschal Donohoe, Irish Times "[A] bold book."---Michael Sandel, New Statesman "This is free market thinking but not as we know it."---Diane Coyle, Prospect "Both a savage critique of 'techno-feudalism' and an idealistic appeal to share the fruits of our collective intelligence more fairly."---John Thornhill, Financial Times "I highly recommend this book! Replacing markets by auctions (sort of). Whether you agree or not, it shows how much liberalism is able to renew itself."---Gaspard Koenig, Generation Libre "What I love is just some new ideas, because the existing ideas to solve the injustices and inequalities aren't working! A must-read."---Carol Massar, Bloomberg Radio
About Eric A. Posner
Eric A. Posner is the Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. His many books include The Twilight of Human Rights Law and Climate Change Justice (Princeton). He lives in Chicago. E. Glen Weyl is principal researcher at Microsoft, founder and chairman of RadicalxChange, and visiting research scholar at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He lives in New Jersey.
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Piper Weiss was fourteen years old when her middle-aged tennis coach, Gary Wilensky, one of New York City’s most prestigious private instructors, killed himself after a failed attempt to kidnap one of his teenage students. In the aftermath, authorities discovered that this well-known figure among the Upper East Side tennis crowd was actually a frightening child predator who had built a secret torture chamber—a "Cabin of Horrors"—in his secluded rental in the Adirondacks.
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Now, twenty years later, Piper examines the event as both a teenage eyewitness and a dispassionate investigative reporter, hoping to understand and exorcise the childhood memories that haunt her to this day. Combining research, interviews, and personal records, You All Grow Up and Leave Me explores the psychological manipulation by child predators—their ability to charm their way into seemingly protected worlds—and the far-reaching effects their actions have on those who trust them most.
Piper Weiss has served as editor in chief at Levo, editorial director for HelloGiggles, and features editor for the New York Daily News and Yahoo. She is the author of the book My Mom, Style Icon and has written for various publications, including Hazlitt, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Elle.com, and Refinery29. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.www.PiperWeiss.com.
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Frivolous litigation hurts India's image as FDI destination: Bidvest
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Amazon boss Jeff Bezos may face traders' protests during his India visit
Bezos will participate in an Amazon event in capital New Delhi aimed at connecting with small and medium-sized enterprises
Reuters | NEW DELHI Last Updated at January 17, 2020 19:49 IST
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to visit India next week, likely to meet PM Modi
Thousands of small-scale traders in India are planning to organise protests against Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos, who will visit the country next week for a company event and potential meetings with government officials.
Bezos will participate in an Amazon event in capital New Delhi aimed at connecting with small and medium-sized enterprises, three sources told Reuters.
He has also sought meetings with the prime minister and other government officials, with conversations expected to centre around e-commerce, one of the sources familiar with the matter said.
Details of Bezos' visit, including his arrival date and the duration of his stay are not known.
Amazon did not respond to a request to confirm the visit. The prime minister's office also did not respond to requests for comment.
The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), a group representing roughly 70 million brick-and-mortar retailers, said it will protest across 300 cities during Bezos' stay in the country.
CAIT has since 2015 waged a battle against online retailers Amazon and Walmart-controlled Flipkart, accusing them of deep discounts and flouting India's foreign investment rules.
Both e-tailers have denied the allegations.
Amazon has previously said its platform provides business opportunities to thousands of small sellers, artisans, weavers and women entrepreneurs. But CAIT is not convinced.
"We plan to organise peaceful rallies against Jeff Bezos in all major cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata as well as smaller towns and cities," Praveen Khandelwal, the group's secretary general told Reuters.
"We expect to mobilise at least 100,000 traders in the protests."
With its 1.3 billion population and the world's second-biggest smartphone user base that relies on cheap data for social media and online shopping, India is a key market for U.S. retailers Amazon and Walmart to grow their business.
Discounts on their platforms have helped lure Indians to shop online for everything from groceries to large electronic devices, a phenomenon which traders say has unfairly hurt their business.
New Delhi introduced rules last year to protect nearly 130 million people dependent on small-scale retail -- a key voter base -- by deterring large online discounts.
The rules forced e-commerce firms to change their business structures, drawing criticism from the United States and straining the two countries' trade ties.
The federal commerce ministry is reviewing complaints and evidence filed by CAIT against Flipkart and Amazon, Reuters reported previously.
Read our full coverage on Jeff Bezos
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22 Mouthwatering Pictures Of Sushi At New York's Newest 4-Star Restaurant
Megan Willett
Daisuke Nakazawa, the protégé of Jiro Ono (the subject of the documentary "Jiro Dreams of Sushi"), has received a rare four-star review from New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells.
Wells called Nakazawa's sushi "eye-opening," and the entire review was a glowing call for all New Yorkers to try the 10-seat restaurant.
But since reservations are going to be next-to-impossible to secure, at least you can look at some of the mouth-watering Instagram pictures from the lucky few who have tried Nakazawa's omakase meal ($150 at the sushi bar, $120 in the dining room).
Welcome to Sushi Nakazawa, the new four-star restaurant in New York City.
Let's take a look at the four-star sushi, shall we?
Sea urchins!
And here's that same sea urchin (uni) out of its spiky shell:
His signature tamago, or Japanese omelette.
One last glimpse of the assortment at Sushi Nakazawa:
And dessert — a yuzu sorbet with pomegranate.
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Vivienne Westwood Shaves Her Head for Climate Change
By Cherise Luter
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British designer Vivienne Westwood has never been one to sit back quietly, and her latest effort? Doing her part to bring attention to the issue of climate change. Westwood's shaved her head and I’m writing about it, so I guess the plan worked.
The designer unveiled her new 'do during a protest in her neighborhood opposing the sale of long-standing housing co-operatives, reports The Telegraph. A spokesperson for the designer filled in the world on the dramatic new cut, saying, "Vivienne cut her hair as we must all wake up to Climate Change."
As many in the fashion industry know, Westwood never misses a chance to make a grand political statement for causes near to her heart. Her punk rock roots may have something to do with it. Just last month, she announced she would be halting expansion of her design empire in order to reconcile the fashion house's production methods with her eco-friendly mindset.
"I have decided not to expand any more. In fact I want to do the opposite," she told The Guardian. "I am now more interested in quality rather than quantity."
The announcement came on the heels of her Save the Arctic photo campaign in partnership with Greenpeace featuring celeb names like Georgia May Jagger, Chris Martin of Coldplay, and George Clooney (because, of course).
And let’s not forget she raised a Greenpeace flag at Shell headquarters, while looking like the cutest little English lady ever.
At age 72, she is designing magnificent dresses for farm animals, showing beautiful collections at London Fashion Week, and saving the Earth one bald head at a time.
I need to step it up.
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Shopping Gift Ideas · Under $50
18 Actually Great Gifts Under $50 You Still Have Time To Get
Looks like you'll be able to get away with your procrastination after all.
Originally posted on December 14, 2019, 12:01 GMT
Updated on December 20, 2019, 13:14 GMT
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In addition to making their mattress extra comfy, it'll also help eliminate odor thanks to the green tea.
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They've got over 5,000 5-star reviews, and reviewers say they're great for sensitive skin!
Promising review: "I am basically a bath bomb connoisseur. I have a bathtub addiction, so when I say I’ve tried all the bath bombs Amazon provides, I’m serious. I keep going back to these, not only because of the price but because they actually work well. They don’t have all those annoying glitters and the scent actually sticks to your skin and serves a hydration purpose. I can’t say enough how much I love these over the 10-12 other brands I’ve tried." —JH
Get a box of 12 from Amazon for $28.80.
4. A One Line A Day journal with space for them to jot down a few sentences every day for five years. The best part? Each date lets them record all five entries on the same page, so they can see the changes in their life each year!
This is a perfect remedy for what I understand to be a universal feeling — the desire to journal, but the lack of patience, dedication, or time. But pausing to write one sentence a day? We can all handle that. I got this recently, and even though I've never been able to discipline myself to keep a longer journal, I look forward to doing this every day!
Promising review: "I adore this journal. It allows me to write down daily memories or thoughts and puts my current self in a good mood. I'm excited to run across my old notes as the years go on! I take this with me on travels in a storage bag. There's something special about writing on the plane, in a new city, on a beach, etc. — any time you just feel like you're experiencing a special moment." —Mikayla
Check out BuzzFeed's full review of this journal!
Get it from Amazon for $11.45.
5. Quirky, detailed plush animal slippers available in basically every critter you can imagine, not just basic bunnies — I'm talking everything from giraffes to blue tang fish to platypuses.
Promising review: "The fit was great and they're comfortable and super soft. They look better in person and aren't slippery on tile/hardwood floors. The kids bought these slippers for their dad and he loved them, I'm just not sure the dog did 😂." —Jenn
Get them from Amazon for $19.95+ (available in six sizes and over 50 animals).
6. A set of adorbs owl planters to show them you give a hoot about their horticultural endeavors.
They've got a useful drainage hole at the bottom!
Promising review: "These are so freaking cute! I can't stop looking at them! I got them for some succulents and keep them in my office. Now I miss them when I'm home! I love looking at them! I think I'll name them..." —mimi
Get a set of six from Amazon for $21.99.
7. The Rocketbook Everlast smart notebook, an eternally reusable notebook that'll let them scan their notes with their phone to save them, then wipe the pages clean with water. Yes, really.
Once scanned, the Rocketbook app will automatically send their notes to preselected apps or email. They can mark each page with one of several special symbols that the app will read and send the notes on that page to the location they've matched with that symbol. Yes, this is the stuff of office supply sci-fi novels, a genre we never knew we needed until now.
It works with any Pilot FriXion pen — get a pack of seven from Amazon for $13.75.
Promising review: "OMG! This device is so cool and works beautifully. The scanning and syncing capabilities are awesome. I have it scanned and synced to my Microsoft Note account. Writing with the pen is smooth and the paper actually feels like paper. A wet cloth erases and works exactly like they said it would. I wish I had this product in college. It's worth every penny." —Tulla Bell
Get it from Amazon for $29.97+ (available in two sizes and eight colors).
8. An amazing heat changing mug that'll light up with beautiful constellations once they pour in their hot drink. It's something your fave astronomy buff absolutely has to own — it's written in the stars.
9. A clever scratch-off map poster so they can keep track of all the countries they've visited. Plus, even if they haven't traveled that much, it'll still look great on their wall. TL;DR, it's time to hit add to cart(ographer).
Promising review: "These are great. I bought one when my daughter did a study abroad program and she liked it so much that we bought another when our other daughter went two years later. They are easy to transport (just roll them up) and the countries scratch off easily." —Michael R.
10. A powerful plush RBG doll ~notorious~ for making both kids and adults want to give her a big ol' hug.
11. An amazingly resilient (and affordable) waterproof Bluetooth speaker that simply can't be ~beat~ for use in the shower, on outdoor adventures, or pretty much anywhere.
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It can be paired with any Bluetooth-enabled device and works from up to 33 feet away!
Promising review: "I live on the river, and we kayak and tube all the time. We've spent lots of money on waterproof products that never work long after getting splashed. I actually dropped this one and submerged it under water accidentally, but we've used it four times since — it didn't phase it. I LOVE IT! It's very loud and the acoustics are great! It's so easy to connect, and it has a bag to keep it in. I've spent seven times more on others that weren't nearly as good! Update: Two months later, it still works great, after being dropped and splashed in river and after several trips down the river, tubing, and biking. And we can use it for two days without recharging before battery dies. The BEST EVER!!!!!" —Shine.bright.baby
Check out BuzzFeed's full review of this speaker (#2)!
Get it from Amazon for $24.99 (available in three colors).
12. An adorable mug with a sweet little animal friend waiting at the bottom that's sure to make them smile every time they use it.
Promising review: "This is possibly my GF's favorite thing I've ever bought for her. Every morning she laughs about the little panda in her cup. SO CUTE." —KevinS
Get it from Amazon for $12.99 (available in nine animals).
13. The Squatty Potty, a bathroom stool that'll help them assume the right position to pass their stools with ease.
Check out BuzzFeed's full review of the Squatty Potty.
Promising review: "Going number two will never be the same! This is the best invention known to man. Seriously — whoever invented this brilliant piece of potty art needs a golden shrine in their name! Every time I use this bad boy, I say a quick thank you to the creator of the Squatty Potty and go about my day in pain-free comfort, because the Squatty Potty took care of me and my number two comfort needs. If you don't have a Squatty Potty in every bathroom of your home, do it now! It's a perfect gifts for loved ones, and when they look at you quizzically, wondering why on earth you bought them a Squatty Potty, you will look at them and say, 'Use this next time you go number two and you'll understand why.' You might even receive thank you cards and words of praise!!! Poo in comfort....poo in peace." —Sydney Armstrong
14. A nautical and yet no-nonsense striped sweater they'll wear for years to come.
Get it from Amazon for $31.99+ (available in sizes XS-XL and in seven colors).
15. A teeny weeny nonstick mini griddle capable of big (and delicious) things.
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It comes with a recipe book and access to an online database with even more ideas!
Promising review: "I LOVE this little gem. The portion size is perfect for one and you can get creative. It cooks stir-fry-size meats quickly and perfectly. It makes a grilled cheese on a small bun perfectly and cooks an egg perfectly. Clean up is so easy and quick; I love not messing up a pan and the stove. I like to eat, but for me, cooking for one is not especially fun. This is almost fun and so easy. All I really use now is this, the microwave, and a coffee pot. The kitchen stays immaculate!" —Jaiyen
Get it from Amazon for $12.99+ (available in six colors).
16. A professional-looking pizza stone you should give them with one condition — that they share any and all pizza they make with you.
Promising review: "I couldn't be happier! I preheated it to 500 degrees, and after about a half hour, I dusted the stone with a little cornmeal and slid the homemade pizza off the peel. It was cooked perfectly in seven minutes. I was able to slide the peel under the pizza and pull it out with absolutely no sticking whatsoever. The crust was made from scratch and came out crisp and chewy. I plan to buy another one for our son and his family. I may even buy a second one for myself." —Mary Lou Monica
17. A Homesick candle infused with aromas inspired by a different country or an iconic city, just in case you can't afford to take your adventure-seeking buddy on their dream vacay just yet. This will still give them the ~scents~ of the place.
Get the Australia candle for $26.95 (also available in nine other countries) and the NYC candle for $24.95 (available in 16 cities) both from Amazon.
18. The Trtl Pillow, aka your always on-the-go friend or family member's new must-have. It's soft, ergonomic, and will actually keep their neck supported when napping in awkward upright positions. The gift of actually being able to sleep on a flight? Priceless.
It's got over 8,000 positive reviews!!!
Promising review: "I bought this over a year ago and used it on several long flights. As I like to sit on the aisle, it was the first time I'd slept comfortably on a plane without my head hanging out in the aisle. I also recently used it on an eight-hour bus ride and found it worked very well there, too. The fabric is soft yet not overly warm so I don't get overheated. While on the bus trip, I passed the Trtl around as people were fascinated by it, and unfortunately, someone sat on it and broke the insides. I ordered a new one immediately as I don't want to be without it on my next vacation. I haven't used it riding in the car, but I imagine it would be great there, too. I highly recommend it!" —iltxok2
Get it from Amazon for $25+ (available in seven colors and prints and in adult and kids' sizes).
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History wasn’t in Tom Brady’s corner. No player this millennium had won the league’s regular season MVP award and a Super Bowl ring.
Kelvin Beachum Elite Jersey And despite his best efforts, Brady couldn’t make his own history Sunday. The 2017 NFL MVP fell short in his quest for a sixth Super Bowl ring as the New England Patriots lost to the Philadelphia Eagles, 41-33.
But his win was aided by some attrition. Competitors like Eagles QB Carson Wentz, Packers QB Aaron Rodgers, and Steelers WR Antonio Brown all suffered injuries that cost them big chunks of breakout seasons. The last man standing was Brady, who fended off a spirited effort from Rams RB Todd Gurley to take home the league’s highest regular season honor.
The Patriots defense Nick Ahmed Youth jersey got off to a shaky start in 2017. But they rebounded, and finished ranked No. 5 in the league for points allowed per game with just 18.5. It was a tough finish for the team with a 41-33 loss in Super Bowl 52, but Patricia’s body of work over the year warranted a bigger opportunity.
Jeremy Reisman at Pride of Detroit, SB Nation’s Lions blog, broke down every single one of Patricia’s seasons as a defensive coordinator in the NFL. This last one wasn’t a resounding endorsement. But there were extenuating circumstances.
That’s why receivers often check in with officials before the snap to make sure their alignment is considered OK. And as long as that happens, the player isn’t going to be called for creating an illegal formation. Jeffery does that on this play. You can see him clearly point toward an official and, almost surely, get clearance for his placement.
Pro Football Talk reports that the NFL views it as a judgment call, not a call that was clearly right or clearly wrong. That makes sense. The judgment officials almost always make in these situations is not to flag the offense for an illegal formation.
The Heat, meanwhile, are trying to get healthy. Center/power forward Kelly Olynyk, who has been in the rotation all season as either a starter or key reserve, has a shoulder injury but is expected to return within days, possibly in time to face Memphis.
Small forward Rodney McGruder won’t play against the Grizzlies. But he has been sent to the G League, meaning his return to the NBA after suffering a left-leg injury in the preseason is close at hand.
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The Chiefs signed cornerback David Amerson Friday night to a one-year deal, the team announced.
Amerson was released by the Raiders earlier this month to save cap room. The former second-round pick missed last season’s final eight because of a foot injury. He made 33 starts in three seasons with the Raiders, intercepting six passes with 46 passes defensed.
Offensively, Ballard will have to restock the offensive line that got Jacoby Brissett sacked on a league-high 10.15 percent of his dropbacks. He’ll also have to figure out what to do with his running backs, as veteran Frank Gore will be a 35-year-old free agent in 2018. On the plus side, he’s still got T.Y. Hilton, which should give him plenty of latitude with the team’s playbook next fall.
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While the drivers did not say which group they have engaged in talks with, a source told the Observer that Johnson and Busch, as well as retired races Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr., are interested in joining the team of investors that Felix Sabates is putting together. Chip Ganassi, a partner of Sabates’, and musician Kid Rock also want to be part of that group, according to the source.
I’m not the leader of it at all, but I have had a conversation, one conversation, with one of the groups that is interested in buying it, Busch told the Observer. I’ve put my name in the hat just to kind of have a seat at the table, if you will, when it comes to what is going to happen next.
Johnson added, I’m not actively in anything. I would love to. I’ve been asked if I would be interested in doing it, and absolutely [he is interested].
Eric Rowe Kids Jersey I don’t have anything legally kind of binding me to an offer that’s out there or any money invested. I would love to have a shot at it, as I’m sure anybody in the world would to have ownership in an NFL team, especially a team where you live in the town, that would be off the charts.
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Beard and all, a most familiar face is back in the St. Louis Cardinals clubhouse.
The way the judging has been going at these Olympics, pulling off multiple quad jumps, especially late in the program, is the way to go. Chen is a master of multiple quad jumps, but fell on a quad lutz, and nearly fell on a triple axel in his short program. He is in 17th place with no hope for a medal, lest the rest of the field is stricken with the flu.
Chen was a gold medal favorite, so that hurts the United States quite a bit. Rippon had a brilliant performance with no mistakes in the short program, but he did not attempt any quad jumps, so even though people ahead of him actually fell down and had sloppy runs, the difficulty modifier in the scoring have them ahead of him. Rippon is going to need some help to make it onto the podium.
Vincent Zhou of the United States started his routine with a perfect quadruple lux into a triple toeloop. He then attempted a quad flip, but came up short on sticking the landing, drawing just 9.90 points for it. He did nail the quad Salchow right after that, however.
I tried to go in open-minded, learning, knowing that I haven’t played this game in 12 years and that I wanted to absorb as much information as I could, make the changes, try to improve, try to grow as an athlete — not only physically and mentally in every different way that I could understand the game, Tebow said. Instead of learning on the fly, now I get to have the chance … to be able to react, and that always makes you a much better athlete.
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A restriction on mound visits is an easier sell. With the possible exception of marathon replay reviews, nothing makes the crowd’s eyes glaze over like a parade of mound conferences.
I’m all-in on [limiting] the number of visits to the mound, said San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy. I’ve said for two-three years, that’s one of the biggest reasons this game is slowing down. Players are trying to help out the pitcher, but throughout the infield, guys are going to the mound. Catchers are going to the mound, and the pitching Denard Span Womens Jersey coach is going out there.
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It’s December so the Seahawks must be starting to get hot.
The Seahawks, who defeated the favored Eagles at home last week, believe they’re just hitting their stride based on their recent history playing games at this time of year, during which they’re 20-5 since 2012 in regular-season games during the months of December and January.
Their .800 winning percentage ranks first in the NFL in that span, according to ESPN. It’s way up from their winning percentage in September, October and November since 2012 (.664), but that ranks third-best in the league.
“If you tape a defensive coach’s signaling in the plays, and you compare it to the action of the field, you can quickly discover that when they flap their arms like a seagull, they’re in a blitz,” he said. “The basic formations are pretty easy to decipher with just a quarter of the action taped.”
Walsh did not return The Post’s call for comment, but in 2008 he told “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel” that the team’s intent was clear.
“Coach Belichick’s explanation for having misinterpreted the rules, to me, that really didn’t sound like taking responsibility for what we had done, especially considering the great lengths that we had gone through to hide what we were doing.”
Josh Rosen, QB, UCLA. The Giants should attack their offensive-line issues aggressively, but picking this high in this draft, a quarterback should be priority No. 1 if the right one is on the board.
We don’t think the haters hate Tebow himself. He’s a try-hard quarterback who led Denver on a memorable playoff run before he fizzled out in New York and New England. He does and says all the right things. The haters hate the Tebow hype, which started in college with “The Speech.” Tebow’s strong beliefs in God have also drawn out both sides. He has done nothing wrong, but perhaps no quarterback with nine career wins as a starter (including playoffs) has driven so many headlines with so much criticism behind it.
Newton might have been more hated at Auburn. There’s been a carry-over into the NFL, especially in 2015. Newton’s end-zone celebration — or “dabbin'” — caught fire after a prolonged dance against the Titans. Newton then bolted early from a Super Bowl press conference, which created another fire-storm. He celebrates every first-down run, and that drives the old-school crowd crazy. The 2015 NFL MVP promises to be a lightning rod for both sides for years to come.
“I thought I was in [the end zone]. But obviously I wasn’t,” Cooper said, “that was just a mistake on my part. I didn’t think anyone was close to me. I slowed down and the guy made a great play.”
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L.A. appears to be excited about welcoming the Rams home. The team announced last month it had received 45,000 refundable $100 deposits in the first two days of its season-ticket campaign.
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Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier, who continues to recover from a serious spinal injury suffered Dec. 4, and his father told ESPN on Thursday that he is showing some improvement that is encouraging and the family continues to rely on its deep faith.
We’re taking it one day at a time, Vernon Shazier said in an interview with the network. We do not know what tomorrow holds. It’s a [daily] journey we don’t know. But I know God is getting the message.
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And when injured Bucs quarterback Jameis Winston repeatedly was shown on the sidelines, neither Harlan nor Rich Gannon mentioned that Winston wasn’t too injured, last week, to ignite the brawl that led to Evans’ suspension.
So this game, a 15-10 slog 锟斤拷 with 13 punts and 14 penalties 锟斤拷 was pre-afflicted by the misconduct of professionals.
Next, CBS took us to the close of regulation between the Jaguars and a team now known as the Los Angeles Chargers, also played to a half-empty stadium. CBS arrived with 1:33 left in regulation 锟斤拷 just in time to witness the game won, then lost, then headed to overtime, not on acts of football, but on acts of misconduct: an end-zone taunting penalty on the Jags, an unnecessary roughness call against the Chargers. What else is new?
Next, on FOX, Giants-49ers played to an empty house. The game’s first two plays led to flags, one for misconduct, a late hit.
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It was not Drew Brees’ game-deciding interception that had him heated after the Saints’ loss Thursday night to the Falcons.
The veteran is not alone. The frustration with the league prioritizing TV cash over players’ health has been a familiar refrain this season as players continue to suffer significant injuries during the Thursday night games.
Seahawks receiver Doug Baldwin, after Richard Sherman was lost to a torn ACL, said: This [expletive] should be illegal, It is not OK. It’s not OK. You can quote me on that.
Bills lineman Richie Incognito: These Thursday night games 锟斤拷 they suck. They throw a wrench in our schedule. It’s absolutely ridiculous that we have to do this. As physical as this game is, as much work and preparation that goes into this, to force us to play games in four-day weeks is completely unfair. And it’s [expletive].
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But she almost tossed Duhamel from his seat when he expressed loyalty to the Minnesota Vikings as the hosts talked up the Peas’ upcoming Super Bowl performance. She whipped her head around and corrected him, yelling, ‘Go Dolphins!’ said a witness. Fergie, who’s a minority owner of the team, later jokingly threatened to divorce Duhamel unless he yelled Go Dolphins during a Q&A at the event with Today show host Ann Curry.
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The Times story 锟紺 its lead item on the front page 锟紺 revealed that some concussions that occurred in the NFL were omitted from the league’s studies, despite NFL claims to the contrary.
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Odell Beckham Jr. wants to be Comeback Player of the Year next season, but before he gets there, he has a bit of offseason business he would like to take care of first.
The Giants’ mercurial wide receiver was on the red carpet before the NFL Honors show Saturday night in Minneapolis and was asked his thoughts on his current contract situation.
We have to get the players in the building, and certainly as we go through the offseason here, we just continually talk about what’s right and how we’re going to do business, Shurmur said. We really just have to set the standards and the guidelines. It’s more than just saying, ‘Follow the rules.’ It needs to be relationship-driven.
With the new coach seemingly in his corner and favorite quarterback Eli Manning returning, Beckham certainly looks set up for success and said as much when asked if he thinks he will fit well in the former Vikings offensive coordinator’s schemes.
That seems pretty obvious, Beckham said. Watching what [the Vikings] do and just putting myself in that situation, I know that I’d be doing some pretty good things for our team.
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Not even 24 hours after Papa John’s released its quarterly report, showing its lowest stock value in eight months, Schnatter’s net worth dropped by $70 million, Forbes reported. Womens Vincent Valentine Jersey On the same day, the 55-year-old founder blasted the NFL for its poor leadership, a somewhat indirect shot at commissioner Roger Goodell, with whom Schnatter inked a sponsorship deal in 2010.
LeSean McCoy Mens Jersey Jumping to conclusions didn’t reflect well on Papa John’s when Pizza Hut emerged Thursday with a positive sales report and an opposite take on the anthem protests.
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While Papa John’s did not meet analysts’ expectations with a 1 percent rise in sales, Pizza Hut, the official sponsor of the NCAA, exceeded forecasts and credited sporting events with benefiting its business.
As the facts and figures were circulating this week, Papa John’s doubled down on social media, firing out their own jabs for all the criticisms pouring in.
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This was always going to be a small class for the Cardinal, but it was important that coaches get some quality bodies along the defensive line.
The staff thinks it did that by signing three ESPN 300 defensive linemen in December. Getting Andres Fox and Tobe Umerah out of the southeast was a plus, too. — Aschoff
Forget replacing Kerryon Johnson and Kamryn Pettway for a moment. Gus Malzahn has never failed to produce a 1,000-yard rusher, after all. Focus instead on the receivers, where the Tigers desperately need a difference-maker.
She is the recipient of three Grammy Awards (18 nominations), one Daytime Emmy Award, three Billboard Music Awards, six MTV Video Music Awards, two MTV Europe Awards, two People’s Choice Awards and was named Billboard’s Woman of the Year in 2013.
P!nk joins the ranks of many performers who have sung the Super Bowl national anthem, including Luke Bryan, Lady Gaga, Idina Menzel, Renée Fleming, Alicia Keys, Billy Joel, Diana Ross, Neil Diamond, Whitney Houston, Harry Connick, Jr., Garth Brooks, Natalie Cole, Vanessa Williams, Luther Vandross, Cher, Faith Hill, Mariah Carey, Dixie Chicks, Beyoncé Knowles, Christina Aguilera and many more. (A complete list of national anthem performers from past Super Bowls is listed below.)
In addition, on behalf of the National Association of the Deaf (NAD), actor and director Alexandria Wailes will perform in American sign language both the national anthem and “America The Beautiful.”
Linebacker Bo Bauer is a four-star, just outside the ESPN 300, and is joined by three-stars Justin Ademilola, Ja’Mion Franklin, Ovie Oghoufo and Paul Moala. — VanHaaren
New coach Josh Heupel believes in making the offensive line a priority when taking over a program, so it makes sense that UCF signed six linemen, including the two junior college transfers he was able to bring in shortly after getting hired. UCF loses two stalwarts on the offensive line in Aaron Evans and Chavis Dickey, and replacing them will be a top spring priority. — Adelson
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You can feel it for sure, tight end Rob Gronkowski said. A lot of people are getting their nose super dry, their mouth super dry. So I’m just glad to be here to prepare for what Mexico City will be, at the same altitude.
For the Raiders, it was altitude shmaltitude. They stayed in Oakland. Two contrasting approaches to it and we’ll see how it works out, Coach Jack Del Rio said. We did this last year. We went the day before like we’re doing this year Trevor Ariza Youth jersey and that seemed to work for us.
It didn’t go well for the Raiders, who lost 33-8 as the home team. Tom Brady threw three touchdowns and no interceptions in the win.
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The unsung hero behind Romo’s meteoric rise has been Nantz, who has been equal parts coach, mentor and friend to the TV novice. But during a media call Tuesday to discuss the game, the veteran sportscaster gave all the credit to his rookie partner. In fact, Nantz said he realized Romo’s TV potential the first time they sat down to tape a practice game eight months ago, at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York. To Nantz, Romo’s overnight success is no surprise at all.
Everything we do is going to be geared towards winning and being physical, Vrabel said in a statement announcing the hire. We want to prepare our players so they know what to do, which will allow them to play fast and aggressive.
He was seen on the sideline on crutches following the injury, and he said after the game that he had broken his foot and that he would miss a lot of games.
Jordan Howard leaves with his arm in a sling: The Bears’ running back, who was listed on the injury report last week with a shoulder, left the team’s loss to the Buccaneers with his arm in a sling, according to Brad Biggs.
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Do not fear crisis, the Pope is leading us into uncharted territory, former head of Dominican says
QUEBEC CITY – The Catholic Church should not be afraid of crisis; through crisis, it will grow and spring new life, said Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe.
Mother's prayers take fruit in new auxiliary bishop's life, conversion
OTTAWA – On Guy Desrochers’ 24th birthday, his mother gave him a Bible.
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In secular Quebec, Christmas Carols remain beloved, sacred music expert says
QUEBEC CITY – In the province of Quebec, one of the most secular societies in the world, debates around Christmas carols are not so much about faith and religion as they are about culture. A choir and sacred music specialist believes these carols remain beloved because people especially preserve the emotion associated with them.
Quebec churches ring bells to commemorate 100th anniversary of end of WWI
QUEBEC CITY – Churches of the Archdiocese of Sherbrooke will join those of other churches across Canada and ring their bells 100 times Nov. 11 to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
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NBA Draft 2016 small forward rankings: Brandon Ingram in a class of his own
The position has some strength at the top, but gets relatively thin in a hurry
by Sam Vecenie
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May 31, 2016 at 3:56 pm ET • 10 min read
Over the next week, we are releasing position by position draft rankings to pair with scouting reports on each of the top 10 players at each position. That will be followed by the next 10 on the Big Board.
Each position will also be broken into tiers in order to help consumers understand how the players break down in terms of similar talent levels. For each player in each tier, it's often scheme-based in terms of which team fits each player best.
This time, we are breaking out the small forwards. As you'll see below, there is a high level of upside at the top, with the two highest-rated players ranking in the top five of the CBS Sports NBA Draft Big Board. But beyond them, this position has less depth than any other in the draft. There are only two other players who receive first round grades, a pair of interesting internationals who could go in the first if things broke right, and then no other players that are sure things to be selected. That's why there are only eight featured players here. There are only 14 players in the top six tiers of this board, and it was difficult to even get to 20 prospects before running out of real estate on my top 150.
Still though, when you have a player like Brandon Ingram at the top, the position is worth discussing. Here's a quick breakdown of the top eight.
1. Brandon Ingram | Duke | 6-9, 196 pounds, 7-3 wingspan, 18 years old
Ingram has an argument to be the No. 1 player taken in this draft, pure and simple. Over the last few years, there hasn't been a better fit that has entered the league than Ingram. Need a guy who can space the floor? Ingram hit 41 percent of his shots from distance this season and has a pristine stroke that should have no issues extending out to the NBA line. In the switch-heavy NBA, it's important to have a player who can attack when he gets the right matchup. Ingram does that well due to his proficiency in isolation scoring, where he converted at a one point-per-possession clip when including assists, good for the 83rd percentile nationally this season. Defensively, Ingram possesses that same ability to switch and causes problems for a variety of different players due to his mobility paired with the standing reach of a center. Basically, the idea of Ingram is superb, and in actuality he's already a great player despite being one of the youngest in this class.
There are certainly still some places for improvement. For one, he needs to get better around the rim. He only made 50.7 percent of his shots around the basket, as he's not particularly an above-the-rim type player at this stage of his career due to a relative lack of explosiveness vertically. Also, he could stand to improve as a ball-handler in order to get to the rim more consistently instead of having to rely on step-back jumpers -- which particularly are effective shots for him due to the space he creates with his long legs. Ingram is coming along at the perfect time to take advantage of his skills, but he still needs to improve upon his talents in order to reach the lofty heights that seem to be expected of him at this stage.
Brandon Ingram will be a top two pick in the 2016 NBA Draft. USATSI
2. Jaylen Brown | Cal | 6-7, 223 pounds, 6-11.75 wingspan, 19 years old
I've written extensively on Brown's game already. For more on that, you can read here . Basically, Brown is a theoretical prospect at this point due to his inability to shoot and lack of diversification handling the ball. However, due to his length, athleticism, and motor, he has as much potential as anyone in the draft outside of the top two players. It's all on him and how much he wants to work to get there.
That's where the more interesting stuff comes into play, as Brown has been noted throughout the draft process as a bit of a polarizing interview from teams due to his intelligence level. Brown is a free thinker who is one of the smarter players in the draft. That's always been the case with him, even going back to his high school days. The key for him will be convincing teams that, regardless of that intelligence level, he has a good understanding of where his game is right now, where he needs to improve, and what the most efficient way to go about that is. If he can do that, it's unlikely the interviews will harm him in any way. If he doesn't, his floor is probably a bit lower than you'd expect from a somewhat high-end prospect.
3. DeAndre Bembry | St. Joseph's | 6-6, 211 pounds, 6-9.25 wingspan, 21 years old
Bembry was renowned as a prospect on the rise last summer after standout performances on the camp circuit, but regressed a touch early as he struggled with his efficiency and seemed to not really be shooting the ball well at all. However, as the season progressed, Bembry morphed back into his awesome self and really started to dominate as St. Joe's went on its run to the Round of 32.
Bembry can do it all outside of shoot for a team. He's a smooth athlete who can rise up when he needs to, but mostly plays at a deliberate pace that allows him to exert his influence on the game uniquely. He can attack in the pick-and-roll, take players off the dribble with a good first stride, handle the ball, change pace and direction, move without the ball, finish inside, and even defend occasionally. If he can continue to work on that jumper and become more proficient out there, it would really help his prospective team from a spacing perspective. But even without that, he's not a zero offensively due to the attention that must be paid to him as a playmaker and slasher. He's not an elite athlete and doesn't have superb wingspan, but he plays hard and does the things you're looking for from a winner. He should be a first round pick.
4. Taurean Prince | Baylor | 6-8, 220 pounds, 6-11.5 wingspan, 21 years old
Over the past two years, Prince has been one of the best per-minute scorers at the high-major college level. He averaged over 20 points per 40 minutes in each of his final two seasons at Baylor, although his efficiency did take a bit of a downturn as a senior. He was called on to make more plays with the basketball instead of playing seamlessly within their offense, and the result was a slight drop off in shooting from deep and more midrange shots that he wasn't effective at converting.
The good news for Prince though is that his game is pretty tailor made for today's NBA. The 6-8 forward should be able to slide between the 3 and 4 due to his ability to play physically as well as hit jump shots. He hit about 38 percent of his near-300 3-point attempts over his last two seasons, and has a true rim rate (shots around the basket minus transition and put-backs in order to distill a better understanding of effectiveness within half court offense) of 61.1 percent, a good number for a forward and great number for a perimeter player. Prince's size and mobility should also allow him to do some switching around on defense and create a more versatile weapon there. There may be an adjustment period, as Baylor played zone on 54.6 percent of its possessions according to Synergy, but Prince possesses the tools needed -- including the motor -- to be a strong contributor on that end.
I wouldn't say Prince is a sure thing to hear his name called in the first round, but it's a strong possibility at the very least given the skillset he could provide going forward.
Taurean Prince should be a first round pick in the NBA Draft USATSI
5. Paul Zipser | Bayern Munich (Germany) | 6-8, 210 pounds, 22 years old
Another older player with quite a bit of experience. Zipser has been a key contributor for one of the top teams in Germany over each of the last two seasons, providing quite a bit in the way of shooting and athleticism. Right now, the German forward plays a bit of both the 3 and the 4 for Bayern as a versatile weapon who can stretch the floor and then also defend a wide variety of players. In a little over 1000 minutes this season, he's put up a superb shooting line of 49.5/41.7/83.9 for a player his size, and that's his best skill on the offensive end. If he's open and gets time to shoot, the ball is likely going in.
Zipser is also an explosive, above-the-rim athlete who can hit really get up and throw it down if the situation calls for it (especially slashing the baseline when attacking closeouts)
That athleticism extends to the defensive end, where he's a smart player who can cut off penetration and do a lot in help defense. He's not particularly skilled beyond this necessarily, as his ball-handling is quite rudimentary and he's not someone who creates a ton for himself unless it's off of a closeout. But he projects to be the perfect type of 3-and-D player in the right system, and could be a steal if he falls to the second round.
6. Rade Zagorac | Mega Leks (Serbia) | 6-9, 205 pounds, 20 years old
Zagorac has been a bit of a late riser on draft boards this season as he missed about three and a half months with a hand injury at the start of the season. Since returning though, he's been right in the mix with Timothe Luwawu as Mega Leks' best player, scoring 13.6 points per game while throwing up a 49.7/35.1/76.7 shooting line.
He's at his best as a slasher/playmaker type though, as the tall perimeter forward is a tremendous ball-handler that possesses the ability to change pace and direction with ease. He finishes well around the rim, has a solid in-between game and can attack in the mid-post if he has a good matchup. His shooting mechanics are solid, and he's hit 36 percent of his 3s over the last two seasons. Defense will be a question with him, as he's not the most laterally quick athlete, but overall there is a lot to like about the high level of skill Zagorac could bring to an NBA team on the wing as a second round stash player.
7. Jake Layman | Maryland | 6-9, 209 pounds, 6-9.25 wingspan, 22 years old
Layman had a bit of a trying year at Maryland this season. In the college game, his best position was as a 4 who could stretch the floor as his athleticism and size combination was often too much for those players to handle. But this season, Layman often tried to get into the same spots as his counterpart forward Robert Carter, and often times slunk into the background of Maryland's team this season.
Still, there's a good amount to like about Layman's game. He has short arms, but at 6-9 he has good enough height to play the small forward position, where he'll be expected to succeed in the NBA. This season, he hit nearly 40 percent of his 3s and had a stellar shooting line of 50/39.6/83.2. Despite not necessarily showing out like he was supposed to, Layman did portray some of the same skills he'll need to be a good role player in the NBA. He has athleticism, the ability to hit open shots, and the potential to defend a couple of different player types. It's far from a sure thing that he will be able to make it at the NBA level, but he's got a shot.
8. Georges Niang | Iowa State | 6-9, 231 pounds, 6-10 wingspan, 22 years old
Niang was a tough player to classify. Does he fit as a power forward? A small forward? Is he both? Who does he defend?
That stuff is all very clearly up in the air, but Niang has worked tirelessly to get his body into shape to play as a perimeter player in the NBA and that's likely where he will need to have success. There are few players out there as skilled as he is in terms of basketball IQ, passing and shooting. Niang averaged 20.5 points and 3.3 assists last season with an assist percentage near 20 and a true-shooting rate of 62.5. It's easy to see him translating to the NBA on offense as he's great at playing within a team concept.
The question at this stage is whether or not he can defend at a high enough level to make him a plus player overall in the NBA. Niang is a low-end athlete in terms of the NBA, and even in college he struggled to make an impact on defense. Given his IQ level and team-oriented attitude, I'm inclined to believe that he'll make it in the NBA in some capacity. But it's definitely up in the air still.
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(Tier 7) Axel Bouteille, Chalon (France); Rosco Allen, Stanford; Brannen Greene, Kansas; Marko Guduric, KK Crvena Zvezda (Serbia)
(Tier 8) Shavon Shields, Nebraska, Marcus Georges-Hunt, Georgia Tech
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Coventry City midfielder Adam Barton has admitted that this season has been a "rollercoaster" from a personal perspective.
Barton has made 15 appearances but his future looked to lie elsewhere at the start of the season.
The midfielder maintained his professionalism despite doubts over his Sky Blues future and eventually regained his place in the squad, starting for the first time since Boxing Day against Preston on Saturday.
The 24-year old said that his time in and out of the side has been tough mentally but he aims to retain his professionalism whether he is on the bench or in the first XI.
"Personally it has been a rollercoaster of a season," Barton said.
"Sometimes I haven't known what I'm doing, then sometimes I'm in the team feeling good.
"It's been very challenging for me personally as it's tough mentally when you don't know about your future.
"But either way I can't let that show in my professional side. If I'm not picked I have to remain professional, I'm paid to do play football which I enjoy, and if you approach it professionally you will get chances eventually.
"I used to feel pressure when I was out of side when I got occasional chances but then it hit me, why should I care what people think, it's only important to the manager and myself."
With 90 minutes against Preston under his belt, Barton is hoping that he can build on that and keep his place in the side until the end of the campaign.
Injuries to defenders mean that Barton, who has played centre-back before, could end up at the heart of the defence, but he admitted that he prefers his central midfield role where he is currently enjoying sitting alongside John Fleck.
Barton added: "At the moment we're playing with two holding midfielders to get us playing and give us a bit of cover. I enjoy it, it's good to play with Flecky and it's where I enjoy playing.
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"I have actually played centre-back before, but it's safe to say I'm not going to be like every other centre-back in League One who heads everything. I'd probably chest it down or something! But even though we're down to the bare bones I don't think I'll be needed there, I like playing in the middle and helping us play."
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CHICAGO—More details have emerged regarding the Jussie Smollett case.
Authorities have released information on Smollett’s 2007 arrest and conviction for a DUI and giving false information to the police. He was sentenced to 2 years of probation.
Kim Foxx, the state’s attorney has recused herself form this case. She is known for supporting Kamala Harris and is a registered Democrat.
A tipster claims to have cited Smollett with the Osundairo brothers in the elevator at his home the same day as the attack.
Chicago Police Department received a call approximately 2:40 am on January 29th by Smollett’s friend. When the police officers arrived, Smollett, who was still wearing the alleged noose around his neck, requested that the officers turn off their body cameras.
Ironically, Smollett posted this “know your rights” ad on his instagram page, yet he demanded the police turn off their cameras.
Jussie Smollett, 36, reported to Chicago Police Department (CPD) that he had been brutally attacked on January 29, 2018. Smollett told police officers that he was assaulted by Trump Supporters on his way back from walking to Subway Restaurant at 2:00 am. He had waited 40 minutes before the police were called.
Smollett claimed he was beaten, doused with a chemical substance, had a noose wrapped around his neck and was called racial and homophobic slurs and was told “This is MAGA country”. MAGA is referred to President Trump’s campaign theme, “Make America Great Again”. According to Smollett he was attacked by two men wearing ski masks and he was unable to identify their race.
It was reported that Smollett was upset that the reaction to this threat letter wasn’t impressive.
Smollett told CPD that he had received a threatening letter from a return address of “M.A.G.A.” a week before.
Smollett is an openly gay black actor who is vocal against the Trump administration. Smollett told CPD that he was targeted due to his race and his sexual preference.
Brandon Moore, Smollett’s music manager, told police he was on the phone with Smollett at the time of the alleged attack and said he heard the attackers say “This is MAGA country”.
Smollett self-transported to the local hospital where he was listed in good condition, no broken bones but a scrape on his face.
Within hours of the reported incident, Smollett contacted TMZ with his story, adding that the attackers were two white men wearing MAGA hats and he was hospitalized after being brutally attacked, burned with a chemical and was suffering from a broken rib.
TMZ broadcasted the story within hours both on their television show and published it on their online presence. News spread quickly through social media.
A hospital worker came forward stating that Smollett didn’t have any broken bones and he was in “good condition”.
CPD immediately began to investigate this as a possible hate crime. They placed 12 detectives on the case, as well as worked closely with the FBI. Chicago has the largest amount of violent crimes in the nation. Detectives reviewed hundreds of hours of video tape and was able to find a video depicting two individuals, near the time of the reported incident. CPD made it known they were two persons of interest. The video appeared grainy without much to go on.
Smollett after allegedly being brutally attacked.
Lee Daniels, 59, is co-creator of Empire. Shortly after the attack, he posted a screen shot of a face-time conversation with Smollett which he later deleted but it had already been spread upon the internet. A few hours later he posted an online video in support of Smollett.
News outlets published the story without verifying facts, most stating it was a “vicious” or “brutal” attack and word quickly spread, even though many details didn’t add up. The main stream media reported this with emotion, tears and supported these allegations without doing due diligence.
Smollett was tearful as he described the racist hate crime he concocted.
Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts interviewed Smollett on February 14, 2019, sparking further outrage and attacks against anyone supporting the Trump administration. Smollett can be seen crying while he described the details and placing blame on “45”, referring to President Trump and his supporters. Smollett told Roberts that he was sure his attackers were the two persons of interest captured on the surveillance. He also stated he wanted justice.
Within hours of the ABC interview, CPD released information that they identified and located the persons of interest and were interviewing them. Ola and Abel Osundairo, brothers whose family immigrated from Nigeria had traveled to Nigeria the day of the attack and arrived back into O’Hare airport on the evening of February 13th. Police met them at the gates and took them into custody.
Brothers Abimbola, 25, and Olabinjo Osundairo, 27 were allegedly paid by Smollett to stage the attack.
CPD had raided their home and recovered several items, including the receipt to the rope that was around Smollett’s neck, a magazine that was used to send the threatening letter to Smollett, bleach and other items.
After the Osundairo brothers were advised they are being charged for the battery, they proceeded to reveal the details of the orchestrated hoax. According to the two, Smollett paid them $3,500 with the promise to receive $500 more after they returned from Nigeria. They admitted to rehearsing the “attack” a few days before.
According to the brothers, Smollett was disappointed that a bigger deal wasn’t made of the threatening MAGA letter he had received and that is why he escalated the hoax into a false hate crime.
Lee Daniels, Left, pictured with Ola Osundairo.
Olabinjo “Ola” Osundairo, 27, met Smollett on the set of Empire. They became acquaintances. Ola’s brother, Abinbola “Abel”, 25, began training Smollett for a music video. The three became friends prior to January 29th. At the time of the attack, Smollett was following Abel on Instagram, but Abel wasn’t following Smollett.
The Osundairo brothers are fully cooperating with authorities and there are no charges being filed against them as of February 19th. Smollett refused to admit it was staged and corroborate the Osundairo brothers’ testimony, stating through his reps that he was angered by the doubt and that the attack happened by people he knew.
Smollett recently deleted his tweet to President Trump.
Within hours, Smollett retained attorney, Michael Monico and a crisis management team. Monico is a high profile defense attorney, currently representing Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney.
Chicago Authorities have made it known they want to interview Smollett. His attorneys are “cooperating” yet Smollett has not agreed to be interviewed by CPD.
Those who have publicly blamed this attack on the Trump Administration and their supporters have not come forward to make comment or apologize for the accusations, assumptions and verbal attacks. Maxine Waters, Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Don Lemon, CNN, MSNBC and others made emotional pleas, all blaming President Trump and even some, including Ellen Page accused Vice President, Mike Pence.
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When questioned, Kamala Harris and Corey Booker, both said they want to wait until the facts are confirmed before they make a statement. Previously, they both said this was a “modern day lynching”.
CPD is working closely with the FBI to determine the next step.
Smollett plays the role of “Jamal” on the Fox television series, Empire. He is also an aspiring musician. His popularity on the IMDB scale remained at approximately 10,000 even though he was on Empire. After TMZ reported Smollett had been the victim of a race crime, his popularity had risen to 102 on IMDB.
Smollett had a scheduled concert at the well-known Troubadour, a small venue in West Hollywood. Before the incident ticket sales were slow to sell. After the media attention for the alleged racist attack, his show sold out.
Smollett is vocal regarding his dislike of the current administration and supports Harris, as seen pictured at a protest for “Times Up”
Smollett can be seen pictured with Kamala Harris and other democratic politicians. He has attacked President Trump and his supporters publicly.
President Trump has continuously referred to the media as “Fake News” and as “Enemy of the People”. Social Media was flooded with concerns regarding the lack of journalistic integrity and the hate and divisiveness fake accusations are creating.
Smollett’s case is just one more on a long list of feigned “hate crimes” purported by the resistance movement. These stories garner wide-spread media and celebrity attention without confirming the facts and when details come out, the media fails to report that the incident turns out to be staged or a false accusation.
Other theories regarding why Smollett would stage a hate crime are swirling around the internet including those that accuse the likes of Kamala Harris and Lee Daniels as being behind the attack for political gain and for further fabrication that Trump’s America is a racist and hateful one. Harris currently has an anti-lynching bill in the works. Also, Smollett and his sister have ties with the Obamas and Kamala Harris.
At the time of publication, Jussie Smollett still maintains he is the victim of a hate crime and is angered that people are doubting him.
Credit goes to Rafer Weigel (@raferweigel) and Matt Finn (#mattfinnfnc) for reporting the clean facts, without bias, persuasion or omission. Follow them on Twitter to learn the truth first hand.
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Measure Title: RELATING TO CONTRACTORS.
Report Title: Contractors; Handyman Exemption
Description: Raises the threshold under the contractor licensing law's handyman exemption from $1,000 to $1,500 and makes it applicable only to the cost of labor and materials. (CD1)
Companion: HB69
Current Referral: CPC
Introducer(s): BAKER, INOUYE, MORIWAKI, NISHIHARA, RUDERMAN, English, Fevella, Shimabukuro
1/24/2019 S Referred to CPH, WAM.
1/28/2019 S Re-Referred to CPH.
2/22/2019 S The committee(s) on CPH recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPH were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Baker, J.Keohokalole, Nishihara, L. Thielen, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) S. Chang, Ruderman.
2/28/2019 S Reported from CPH (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 788) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
2/28/2019 S Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1).
2/28/2019 S 48 Hrs. Notice 03-05-19.
3/5/2019 S Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 1). Ayes, 23; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) K. Rhoads. Noes, 1 (Senator(s) Fevella). Excused, 1 (Senator(s) Harimoto). Transmitted to House.
3/5/2019 H Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 239) in amended form (SD 1).
3/7/2019 H Referred to CPC, referral sheet 27
3/8/2019 H Bill scheduled to be heard by CPC on Tuesday, 03-12-19 2:00PM in House conference room 329.
3/12/2019 H The committees on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Takumi, Aquino, Cabanilla Arakawa, Cachola, Har, Kong, Mizuno, Onishi, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Ichiyama, Belatti.
3/21/2019 H Reported from CPC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1561) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
3/21/2019 H Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1; placed on the calendar for Third Reading with Representative(s) Okimoto voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Belatti, Cabanilla Arakawa, Holt, Tokioka, Yamane excused (5).
3/25/2019 H Passed Third Reading with Representative(s) Okimoto voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cabanilla Arakawa, Creagan, Eli, Holt, Nakamura, Quinlan excused (6). Transmitted to Senate.
3/27/2019 S Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 510).
3/27/2019 S Deferred One Day 03-28-19.
4/1/2019 H Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 542).
4/15/2019 H House Conferees Appointed: Takumi Chair; Ichiyama, Matsumoto.
4/22/2019 S Senate Conferees Appointed: Baker Chair; J.Keohokalole, Nishihara, Fevella.
4/22/2019 S Senate Conferees Added: Senator Ruderman added as Conferee.
4/22/2019 H Received notice of change in Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 952).
4/24/2019 S The Conference committee recommends that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes of the Senate Conference Managers were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Baker, J.Keohokalole, Nishihara, Ruderman; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Fevella ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.
4/24/2019 H The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 2 Ayes: Representative(s) Takumi, Ichiyama; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Matsumoto.
4/30/2019 S Passed Final Reading, as amended (CD 1). Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Fevella . 0 No(es): none. 0 Excused: none.
7/12/2019 H Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 283, 07/10/2019, (Gov. Msg. No. 1403).
7/12/2019 S Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 283, 07/10/2019, (Gov. Msg. No. 1403).
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A Bumpus-y Road to Holiday Fame
Though A Christmas Story is considered a classic now, the film was not an immediate hit. Luckily, the Parker family received the major award of fortunate timing. A Christmas Story was released just as VHS tapes were becoming popular. Video stores happily stocked the most recently available Christmas film, and its popularity grew as more and more families took home a copy. In honor of A Christmas Story’s journey to holiday triumph, here are some other films that went on Red Ryder-like adventures before becoming classics!
A Christmas Miracle: Frank Capra’s 1946 classic It’s a Wonderful Life initially bombed at the box office. In fact, the project put its director $525,000 in debt! The film’s popularity only grew when its copyright wasn’t renewed, and it entered the public domain. Excited to avoid paying royalties, TV channels began showing the film every holiday season. This angel certainly got its wings.
It Came Without Packages, Boxes or Bags: Like many television specials at the time, the 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas had to find corporate sponsorship to get made. The project’s creator tried to pitch his story to breakfast food makers, candy companies, and other usual suspects, but couldn’t get anyone on board. After trying over two dozen companies, he finally found a sponsor in a pretty unexpected place: the Foundation for Commercial Banks. The bankers’ hearts must have grown three sizes that day!
Believe In Your Elf: Jon Favreau’s 2003 movie Elf has become a beloved holiday treat for people of all ages. But the movie’s journey to be made took much longer than Buddy the Elf’s journey to New York. The movie was first discussed all the way back in 1993. At the time, Jim Carrey was attached to play Will Ferrell’s iconic lead part.
It’s Snow Joke: Hallmark holiday movies have become a true institution. In 2019, Hallmark plans to release 40 brand-new movies over the season, including two Hanukkah films. Shooting all of that cozy content can be quite the challenge. Many of the films are shot at breakneck speed, often in just about two weeks. Because of tight budgets and a need to shoot during the steamy summer months to meet holiday deadlines, Hallmark producers have had to instill a rule against snow as a central plot point. Even for a brief snowy scene, the snow budget might run up to $50,000!
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Failure to improve schools leads to academy trust board in charge of six Cornish primaries being forced to resign
Four out of six schools in the St Barnabas Multi Academy Trust were judged to require improvement by Ofsted inspectors
Olivier VergnaultSenior Reporter
An entire board of governors at an academy trust in charge of several schools has been forced to resign after four of them failed to improve.
The volunteer trustees - who act as governors - for St Barnabas Multi Academy Trust (MAT) in South East Cornwall were removed because of a "corporate failure of the board". Two of the MAT’s six schools, which had previously been rated 'good' by Ofsted, were inspected but failed to improve or retain their 'good' rating and were judged to 'require improvement' - the second worst rating a school can receive from inspectors.
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The Diocese of Truro said the decision had to be taken because assurances were given to Askel Veur - the Diocese of Truro's Academies Umbrella Company - that improvements would be made and at least one of the schools would retain its good ranking from the inspectors.
The failure to secure this meant four out of six of the MAT’s schools were judged to require improvement, which was one too many for the Trust.
A spokesman for the MAT said: "Members met with trustees in December 2017 and formally set out areas of concern. They asked the trustees to ensure that urgent action was taken.
"Specifically, the members highlighted the urgent need for action on appointing a new executive principal, the need to implement a fit-for-purpose, whole-MAT school improvement plan and to improve communication both with members and the Regional Schools Commissioner’s office.
"The chair of the MAT agreed with these actions.
"In January 2018 Askel Veur reviewed the situation at the MAT and found that insufficient progress had been made. The sponsor decided at this point that it had lost confidence in the MAT board of trustees. Members agreed with this view and resolved to remove the board."
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The spokesman said the trustees were informed of the decision in January and were given the option of resigning before being removed, and chose to do so.
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The St Barnabas MAT was established in December 2013 under the umbrella of Askel Veur (which means Great Wings in Cornish) and encompasses six south east Cornwall schools - St Martin's CoF Primary School, Quethiock CoE School, St Nicolas School Downderry, Millbrook CoE Primary School, Braddock CoE School and Antony School.
Executive principal Julie Simpson announced in October that she was moving on and will leave the MAT at Easter.
Matt Bloomfield, the trust’s former chairman and one of the five trustees asked to leave by the diocese, denied the board team was aware of the decision, adding that his team was “totally shocked”.
Outgoing executive principal at St Barnabas Multi Academy Trust Julie Simpson (Image: St Barnabas Multi Academy Trust)
He told Schools Week: "The board was very active within the trust and the schools were improving. For the whole board to be gone without warning, with zero choice, was completely unexpected."
He believed the diocese already had another board "ready to go".
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Steve Lacey, another trustee, said the schools had been left "in a very vulnerable position” and the way his colleagues were told to resign was “not done with the process or values I would expect from a Christian organisation”.
He added: "It is astonishing the diocese would discard a board that has volunteered large amounts of their personal time."
The volunteer trustees for St Barnabas Multi Academy Trust have all been removed for failing to drive improvement at the six schools in their care (Image: Getty Images)
However Simon Cade, director of education for the Diocese of Truro, defended the decision.
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He said: "These are great schools and we are now confident that the pupils and teachers have the board they deserve. The trustees will now give appropriate direction, challenge and support to ensure the schools continue on a path of improvement.
"It was correct for the members to step in when they saw things going wrong within the MAT and the failure of the trustees to take adequate, timely action.
"There was a corporate failure of the board and, while it is highly likely some of the individual trustees had the capacity to be effective, the members felt there was not sufficient, robust evidence to justify any other decision.
"Put starkly, school performance and inspection outcomes last year showed that there was still a long way to go for this MAT and the response of the board as a whole was not good enough.
"The executive principal was leaving and there was no plan for her replacement. As sponsor, Askel Veur, has a duty to every pupil in the MAT and it was this responsibility for their flourishing that drove our decision."
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Definition - What does Calcium (Ca) mean?
Calcium (Ca) is a chemical element described as alkaline, soft and gray. It belongs to the top five most abundant earth elements in terms of mass. It is also among the most plentiful dissolved ions, both in mass and molarity.
This element is vital to living organisms, such as in cellular processes, and also possess a wide array of industrial applications.
Corrosionpedia explains Calcium (Ca)
Chemically, calcium is highly reactive and soft, though harder than lead. It is a silver-like metallic element that can be extracted from calcium chloride and other forms of fused salts via electrolysis. When produced, it generates a whitish gray nitride and oxide coating, especially when subjected to air.
In its metal form, it produces hydrogen gas at a high rate, but not under room temperature to produce heat, which makes it beneficial in hydrogen production. In its powder state, calcium reacts with water rapidly and reacts strongly in acid solutions. That is why it is thought that solutions with calcium or calcium chloride are highly aggressive to alloys and metals. However, common construction metals do not normally undergo serious corrosion for various reasons, such as:
Low oxygen solubility - This lessens the degree of attack with increasing calcium concentration
Low temperature - Metal corrosion reduces along with a reduction in temperature, and when calcium or calcium chloride temperature exceeds 20°F (-6.5°C)
However, corrosion still occurs in some cases, like in the field of refrigeration. To prevent it, operators should observe various measures like avoiding using dissimilar metals and preventing leakage of substances like ammonia, which can promote corrosion.
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In her own home and with virtually any space she designs, Tallisman says, “I really like conversation pieces.” So the horsehair-and-pewter wall sconces in the dining room, for example, were an unexpected jumping-off point for the overall design scheme. “They cast such a beautiful ambient light. The sconces are more exciting to me than a huge piece of art by, say, Rothko. The way it all comes together is what really matters to me.”
Tallisman studied textile technology and fashion merchandising at the Fashion Institute of Technology and never really thought about interior design, but while living in SoHo and doing research at MTV, she started haunting the neighborhood’s furniture showrooms. “I had a natural sense of proportion and color when I was in my low 20s,” she says. “My apartment looked way more adult to all my friends than anyone else’s.” Her decorating career took off about a decade later, when “a friend of a friend bought a place, and I literally had no idea what I was doing and just pretended. She didn’t know, either, because she was young, too. I essentially started BS-ing my way through the design process and then actually figuring it out. Luckily, being in New York City, you meet a lot of people, and some of them are generous about talking and sharing with you.”
Her aesthetic, she says, is “timeless, but, I hope, relevant”—meaning that a chair in one of her rooms could be a random find from an estate sale or off the floor at Ochre. “Everything I do is cultivated and thought out, from the colors to the materials palette and the furnishings. And I’m always looking for craftsmen who care about their work, but let my clients and me be involved in their process, too.”
Customization is an important part of the Sleepy Hollow home’s DNA, from the millwork in a walk-in closet to a trifold brass mirror based on a French antique. “I had to go to three different metalworkers because it was such a challenging piece to make,” she says. (The back panels are covered in a custom dyed linen.) In the master bedroom, she took her lead from a photo of the famed Hollywood sign (the owners are originally from California), which established the “serene” color palette upstairs. In the dining room, a “driftwood-y” chandelier “adds a little whimsy to the more serious wallpaper.” The wet bar, with its butterscotch onyx and linen-fold wood, was a present from the wife to her husband, a cocktail aficionado who makes his own bitters. “It’s all in the details,” Tallisman reflects, “and it has to be special. I want clients to walk into a space and see that it’s what they dreamed of.”
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Dollar Falls to a 5-Month Low
Source: ForexYard
The US dollar reached its lowest level against the euro in five months Wednesday, as investors anticipated a Federal Reserve move to boost the ailing economy by renewing spending policies.
USD – Dollar Continues to Slide
The US dollar fell for a fourth straight session on Wednesday, hitting a fresh five-month low against the EUR, as traders brace for more weakness amid growing prospects for further U.S. monetary easing. By yesterday’s close, the USD fell against the EUR, pushing the oft-traded currency pair to 1.3630. The dollar experienced similar behavior against the JPY and closed at 83.50 level.
Generally weak U.S. economic data has fueled speculation the Federal Reserve could embark on a second round of quantitative easing, which would be negative for the dollar. That drove the greenback to a two-year low against the Australian dollar and a 2-1/2-year low versus the Swiss franc.
Investors may expect unusual price volatility to continue for the EUR/USD as the pair attempts to stabilize and find new support and resistance lines. Large price jumps such as these are not common place and present terrific opportunities to take advantage of price swings for large profitable gains.
Looking ahead to today, the most important economic indicator scheduled to be released from the U.S. is the Unemployment Claims at 12:30 GMT. Analysts are forecasting this figure to increase from its previous reading. Traders will be paying close attention to today’s announcement as a stronger than expected result may boost the USD in the short-term. Traders are also advised to follow Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s Speech at around 18:30 GMT. This speech is very important and is very likely to impact the dollar.
EUR – EUR Strongly Advances against Dollar
The EUR strengthened against most of the major currencies yesterday as gains in commodities prompted investors to wade into riskier currency trades. The 16 nation currency extended gains to hit a fresh five-month high against the dollar and closed at around 1.3630. The EUR experienced similar behavior against the JPY as the pair rose from 113.45 to 114.15 by days end.
At the same time, the UK pound was near its weakest in more than four months against the EUR, as a report showed U.K. mortgage lending fell for a fourth month in August, adding to signs the recovery is faltering. The British currency slipped for a second day versus the EUR and closed around 0.8620.
Lenders granted 47,372 loans to buy homes, compared with a revised 48,346 in July, the Bank of England said today in London. Economists forecast that approvals would decrease to 47,000 from an initially reported 48,700 in July. The British currency was close to its strongest versus the dollar in six weeks on speculation the Federal Reserve will loosen monetary policy to shore up growth.
Looking ahead to today, the Euro-Zone and Britain are set to publish a number of important data releases. These include the British Nationwide HPI at 6:00 GMT and the German Unemployment Change at 7:55 GMT. These figures are likely to determine the GBP and EUR’s strength going into the end of this week’s trading.
JPY – Yen Experiences Mixed Results against Major Currencies
The Yen completed yesterday’s trading session with mixed results versus the other major currencies. The JPY was broadly unchanged versus the GBP yesterday and closed its trading session at around the 132.40 level. The JPY also saw bearishness against the EUR and closed at 114.15.
The JPY’s trends will be affected by the rallies of its primary currency pairs today. It seems that the USD and EUR are expected to continue a volatile trading session today, especially against the Japanese currency. Traders should keep a close look on the news coming from the U.S. and Europe as these economies will be the deciding factors in the JPY’s movement today. It is also advisable for traders to follow any unexpected comments coming from key Japanese governmental figures, as this will also likely to lead to further JPY volatility.
Crude Oil – Oil Recovers, Rises Above $77.50 a Barrel
Crude oil rose to a seven-week high after a U.S. government report showed an unexpected decline in gasoline supplies as refiners cut operating rates to the lowest level since April. Oil also increased as the dollar fell to a five-month low against a basket of currencies.
Oil and other commodities denominated in dollars for global trading tend to rise when the U.S. currency falls as they become cheaper for holders of other currencies. A move away from dollar-based pricing of the world’s leading commodity could further weaken the greenback.
As for today, traders are advised to watch carefully the leading stock markets and the major economic indicators which will be published from the U.S. and euro-zone in order to predict the next movements in oil prices.
The EUR/USD cross has been experiencing much bullish behavior in the past 3 weeks. However, there is technical data that supports a bearish move for today. The RSI on the daily and 4-hour charts indicates that the pair floats in overbought territory, leading to the conclusion that a downward correction is imminent. Going short with tight stops may turn out to pay off today.
The price of this pair appears to be floating in overbought territory and the daily chart’s RSI indicates a downward correction may be imminent. The downward direction on the hourly chart’s Momentum Oscillator also supports this notion. When the downwards breach occurs, going short with tight stops appears to be preferable strategy.
The USD/JPY cross has experienced bearish movement for the past 2 weeks, however it seems that this trend may be coming to an end. The RSI of the daily chart shows the pair floating in the over-sold territory, indicating that an upward correction will happen soon. Going long with tight stops might be a wise choice.
The cross has been dropping for the past month now, and it now stands at the 0.9770 level. However, the weekly chart’s RSI is already floating in oversold territory indicating that a bullish correction may take place in the near future. Going long with tight stops may turn out to be the right choice today.
This pair’s sustained upward movement has finally pushed its price into overbought territory on the 8-hour chart’s RSI. Not only that, but there actually appears to be a bearish cross on the Slow Stochastic indicating an imminent downward correction. Forex traders have the opportunity to wait for the downward breach on the hourlies and go short in order to ride out the impending wave.
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Definition: home theater speakers
Audio playback in a home theater uses multiple speakers to provide a more realistic audio environment. The audio quality in a home theater is just as important, if not more so, than the video. People are often more annoyed at momentary blips in the sound than they are in the video.
At Least a 5.1 System
A basic home theater sound system uses five speakers and a subwoofer. The placement of the subwoofer is not critical because bass frequencies are not directional and can reside almost anywhere in the room. Following are the common speaker placements for surround sound. See 10-foot user interface, surround sound and imaging.
Auro-3D 9.1 and 10.1
An Auro-3D home theater adds four "height" speakers to the traditional 5.1 layout. One more speaker can be used at the very top producing a 10.1 speaker arrangement (see Auro-3D). (Image courtesy of Auro Technologies, www.auro-3d.com)
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Leading Seaman Vanessa Broughill was the sole Navy representative in the 13-strong Australian team at the Warrior Games in Colorado Springs from June 1-9, with Private Nathan Whittington and Sergeant Shane Bramley representing Army, and Pilot Officer Nathan Parker and Flight Sergeant Ben Morgan represented Air Force [the balance of the team were not named in Defence reporting].
CAPTION: Royal Australian Air Force Pilot Officer Nathan Parker celebrates his bronze-medal performance in indoor rowing at the Warrior Games 2018 at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs in the USA. Photo by Leading Seaman Jason Tufrey.
Competing in the 100m, 200m, 400m and 4x100m relay on the track, Pilot Officer Parker won three gold medals and one bronze respectively.
He also was in the sitting volleyball side which defeated the UK, and participated in swimming and indoor rowing.
Pilot Officer Parker said competing in Colorado felt pretty awesome.
“I was lucky enough to get a taste of Invictus Games last year, but to come and experience the Warrior Games here in the US and see the camaraderie between the different arms of their military was just fantastic,” he said.
“The Australian team was popular with all the other teams, and our inflatable kangaroo “Roo” was a big hit with both competitors and fans alike.
“I think the atmosphere we brought to the event is incredible.”
The Australian team competed in 11 adaptive sports such as archery, cycling, shooting, sitting volleyball, swimming, track and field, and wheelchair basketball, and for the first time in the event’s history, indoor rowing, powerlifting, and time-trial cycling.
Pilot Officer Parker – who was named today as a member of the Australian Invictus Games Team for 2018 – said the camaraderie within the team was a highlight.
“It’s fortunate to be in such a small team – you get to know everyone much better,” he said.
“The team have made an effort to go and watch everyone else compete and cheer each other on.
“To have that support within a group like this is amazing.”
He said the highlight was seeing the athletes come and compete and give their all.
“The cyclists were very impressive.
“Every one of them won a medal and to see them take out gold, silver and bronze in the road race was just awesome.
“Some of the people on our team are fairly new to their sports and haven’t competed in this sort of atmosphere before.
“To see the results they are getting is fantastic to watch.”
Pilot Officer Parker said the biggest challenge was competing at high altitude.
“You notice it when you are trying to get through a race and replenish your oxygen stores and you are really struggling to breathe,” he said.
The games is an adaptive sport competition for wounded, injured and ill (WII) serving and former-serving defence personnel hosted by the United States Air Force.
They brought together about 300 personnel from the United States Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Special Operations Command and competitors from the UK Armed Forces, ADF and Canadian Armed Forces.
Pilot Officer Parker said the power of recovery through sport was massively significant.
“With my injuries, the first thing I could control was my ability to do sport, to get up and walk around, to go and do some push ups,” he said.
“Especially during the toughest of times of rehab when the treatment’s not working or things aren’t going your way, every second you gain on the track or a PB in the pool or on the rower is progress and it means the world and keeps you moving forward throughout that journey.”
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Source Food Hall & Cafe, Bristol
Source Food Hall & Cafe is a deli shop, a cafe and a restaurant located alongside St. Nicolas Markets in Bristol.
"We believe that Britain has changed dramatically over the past few years with regards to the way we view food. We no longer put up with the bland and uninteresting but demand more for our money. As the big supermarkets move in to every area of our lives and squeeze out every other retailer from our high streets Source is going to get stronger and build on the public demand for responsible, fair and interesting food. Owner operated and ethically run we offer a viable alternative to supermarket shopping."
They products include: charcuterie, fish, meat, cheese and pastries.
They stock a variety of cheese Britain, France, Spain and Italy. Their range include includes: Montgomery Cheddar straight from the farm gate, Brie de Meaux, top quality Buffalo mozzarella from Italy, Crottin goats cheese and imported, cave aged Pecorino from Tuscany as well as many others.
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Do you have a tax fraud problem that’s keeping you awake at night? Has the IRS found out about it, or is the IRS about to discover the fraud? If so, you need professional legal help and you need it without delay. There are many people just like you, who have negligently or intentionally falsified information on their income tax returns. Every one of them has this one thing in common: they are in trouble with the IRS and looking for experienced, caring, professional help. Reading below you will learn how the IRS ferrets out fraudulent returns and you will learn what can be done about it to protect yourself.
We start with the Internal Revenue Manual. The Internal Revenue Manual is the official “Bible” of the IRS tax auditor. Usually the tax auditor is a Revenue Officer – highly skilled, highly trained accountants and CPAs who know how to spot serious problems which the ordinary examiner might pass over. When it comes to tax fraud, the Internal Revenue Manual provides examiners with information and techniques designed to assist the auditor in detecting and recognizing indicators of tax fraud reflected on a return. (IRM 4.10.6.2.2).
Most often the Revenue Officers find themselves reviewing situations where the taxpayer has omitted or understated taxable income. While this is not very creative it too often is the notion that comes into the mind of the taxpayer who has decided to cheat. Unfortunately for this group of people, the discovery of this kind of fraud is not at all difficult.
The Internal Revenue Manual provides examiners with a laundry-list of the most common badges of fraud:
25.1.2.2(01-01-2003) Indicators of Fraud
Listed below are examples of fraud indicators. The following lists are not all-inclusive and are only indicative of the types of actions taxpayers may take to deceive or defraud.
Indicators of Fraud – Income
Omissions of specific items where similar items are included.
Omissions of entire sources of income.
Unexplained failure to report substantial amounts of income determined to
have been received.
Substantial unexplained increases in net worth, especially over a period of years.
Substantial excess of personal expenditures over available resources.
Bank deposits from unexplained sources substantially exceeding reported income.
Concealment of bank accounts, brokerage accounts, and other property.
Inadequate explanation for dealing in large sums of currency, or the unexplained expenditure of currency.
Consistent concealment of unexplained currency, especially in a business not
calling for large amounts of cash.
Failure to deposit receipts to business account, contrary to normal practices.
Failure to file a return, especially for a period of several years although
substantial amounts of taxable income were received.
Cashing checks representing income at check cashing services and banks other than the taxpayer’s.
Covering up sources of receipts by false description of source of disclosed income, and/or nontaxable receipts.
Indicators of Fraud – Expenses or Deductions
Substantial overstatement of deductions.
Substantial amounts of personal expenditures deducted as business expenses.
Claiming fictitious deductions.
Dependency exemption claimed for nonexistent, deceased, or self-supporting
persons.
Loans of trust funds disguised as purchases or deductions.
Indicators of Fraud – Books and Records
Keeping two sets of books or no books.
False entries or alterations made on the books and records, backdated or post dated documents, false invoices, false applications, statements, other false documents, or applications.
Invoices are irregularly numbered, unnumbered or altered.
Checks made payable to third parties are endorsed back to the taxpayer. Checks made payable to vendors and other business payees are cashed by the taxpayer.
Failure to keep adequate records, concealment of records, or refusal to make
certain records available.
Variances between treatment of questionable items on the return as compared
with books.
Intentional under or over footing of columns in journal or ledger.
Amounts on return not in agreement with amounts in books.
Amounts posted to ledger accounts not in agreement with source books or records.
Journalizing of questionable items out of correct account.
Recording income items in suspense or asset accounts.
False receipts to donors by exempt organizations.
Indicators of Fraud – Allocations of Income
Distribution of profits to fictitious partners.
Inclusion of income or deductions in the return of a related taxpayer, when
difference in tax rates is a factor.
Indicators of Fraud – Conduct of Taxpayer
False statement about a material fact involved in the examination.
Attempts to hinder the examination. For example, failure to answer pertinent
questions, repeated cancellations of appointments, refusal to provide records,
threatening potential witnesses, including the examiner or assaulting the examiner.
Failure to follow the advice of accountant or attorney.
Failure to make full disclosure of relevant facts to the accountant.
The taxpayer’s knowledge of taxes and business practices where numerous
questionable items appear on the returns.
Testimony of employees concerning irregular business practices by the
taxpayer.
Destruction of books and records, especially if just after examination was
started.
Transfer of assets for purposes of concealment, or diversion of funds and/or
assets by officials or trustees.
Patterns of consistent failure over several years to report income fully.
Proof that the return was incorrect to such an extent and in respect to items of such character and magnitude as to compel the conclusion that the falsity was known and deliberate.
Payment of improper expenses by or for officials or trustees.
Willful and intentional failure to execute pension plan amendments
Backdating of applications and related documents.
Making false statements on TE/GE determination letter applications.
Use of false social security numbers.
Submission of false Form W-4.
Submitting a false affidavit.
Attempts to bribe the examiner.
Indicators of Fraud – Methods of Concealment
Inadequacy of consideration.
Insolvency of transferor.
Assets placed in other’s names.
Transfer of all or nearly all of debtors property.
Close relationship between parties to the transfer.
Transfer made in anticipation of a tax assessment or while the investigation of a deficiency is pending.
Reservation of any interest in the property transferred.
Transaction not in the usual course of business.
Retention of possession.
Transactions surrounded by secrecy.
False entries in books of transferor or transferee.
Unusual disposition of the consideration received for the property.
Use of secret bank accounts for income.
Deposits into bank accounts under nominee names.
Conduct of business transactions in false names.
We have found that while one or two of these indicators of fraud won’t automatically mean the taxpayer will be charged with a crime, the presence of these indicators will mean that the return will be probed much more thoroughly than otherwise. Here’s how the IRS works in such cases. Let’s say an indicator of fraud has been found. The agent then meets with his or her group manager and they together confer with a “fraud coordinator” about the likelihood of fraud in the return. If the agent discovers a firm indication of fraud during the course of an audit, the examiner is required to immediately suspend the audit without disclosing the reason for the termination to the taxpayer or the taxpayer’s representative.
Now a discussion ensures among the threesome to determine whether a criminal referral is appropriate. If the conclusion is reached that a criminal referral should be made, a Form 2797 will issue and it will enable the Criminal Investigation Division to determine the criminal potential of the case. This sudden suspension of an audit is reason enough to immediately contact Andrew Gordon, Tax Fraud Defence Lawyer, and tell him about your situation.
Likewise, if you get an audit letter and you know that you have committed fraud then you need a lawyer to help you at the very beginning and all the way through.
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Care order hearing adjourned for mediation, mother with intellectual difficulties has GAL
A care order hearing in respect of one child was adjourned to allow mediation to be completed where the mother suffered from an intellectual difficulty and had a GAL herself. Access was taking place five days a week. The foster carers and the GAL for the child were seeking to have access reduced. The parents were represented.
The solicitor for the mother sought an adjournment. She said the mother had been diagnosed with an intellectual disability and access was a contentious issue. Mediation was taking place but had not concluded. The father had yet to meet the mediator. The solicitor said if there were an agreement in relation to access, the section 18 application would go in a particular direction. The GAL for the mother was supporting the adjournment application and agreed that mediation ought to be finalised before the section 18 application.
Counsel for the CFA said the care order application would not conclude that day but the CFA was eager to make progress. He said: “There has been no finding that the mother lacks capacity and her best interests are represented by the GAL.”
The solicitor on behalf of the GAL for the child said: “This child is in care for two years and we have been waiting for a care order for two years. We thought mediation would be completed by today. The GAL feels that the case needs to proceed. We had an access application [before the court] since November 2018 and the child is being prejudiced by delay.”
The judge asked: “Can the access [application] go ahead independently?”
The solicitor on behalf of the GAL for the child said there was no time to hear the access application in the ordinary [court] list.
The judge said there was no reason why the access application and section 18 application could not be disentangled.
The solicitor for the foster carers said the child was in a family foster placement and the foster carers were supportive of the access but the amount of access was having an impact on the child attending her therapies. The solicitor for the mother disputed the position of the foster carers.
The judge said the application could not go ahead and extended the interim care order for one month.
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