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I’m stuck in a slump.
I have my bad days like everyone, but usually most clays I shoot at break, and most birds I shoot at are dead when they hit the ground. This pheasant season is an exception. It’s discouraging and it hasn’t happened in a long time, but it’s sure happening now.
I have switched guns, gone to the gun club for remedial shooting practice, and nothing seems to help. For whatever reason, I am rushing and shooting without first locking my eyes onto the bird. As another shooter (who is similarly afflicted right now) says: “It’s like I’m 12 years old again.”
The only thing to do is keep going. Slumps end. It doesn’t seem like they will at the time, but they do, and all of a sudden shooting seems like the most natural thing in the world again.
The best way to keep a slump going is to let it eat away at your self-esteem. As soon as you start thinking, “I stink, I’m a terrible shot,” the slump gets worse. You miss more, you kick yourself more, you miss more because of that, and you spiral downward into despair. You’ll find yourself being too careful to try to make good shots, and being overly careful makes you look at your bead and miss.
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So how do you get out of a slump? When I was young I had a book called “Great Hitters of the Major Leagues.” In it, Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals, gave this advice: when he was in a slump, he stopped thinking about getting hits and thought only about hitting the ball back to the pitcher. Pretty soon he was making contact again, and after that, he was back to getting hits.
That is simple and brilliant. By thinking about what he had to do (eye on the ball, make contact) Musial took himself out of the anxious “I’m no good, I hope I get a hit this time” mindset that prolongs slumps and focused his mind only on the act of hitting.
If you’re in a shooting slump, forget about the shots you have missed (except to analyze why you missed) and concentrate only on your shooting fundamentals: your stance and form, keeping your focus on the bird, deliberately following through on your swing. The clays will start breaking and the birds will start falling again.
You may not look back at your slump and laugh, but you will look back at it. Keep that in mind as you’re going through a slump. It, too, shall pass.
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We are affiliated with PRME, demonstrating our commitment to international principles of responsible management education.
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Only 46 colleges & universities around the world have this designation, illustrating our international leadership in social entrepreneurship education.
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European stocks rallied on Wednesday as investors cheered positive political developments in Italy, Britain and Hong Kong.
Italian bonds climbed for a third day after Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte won backing to form a new government.
British lawmakers will now move to pass a bill that will make a no-deal Brexit illegal after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a humiliating defeat over his Brexit strategy.
Elsewhere, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam is set to announce the formal withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill that triggered months of unrest.
On the economic front, the euro zone business growth improved slightly since July, while the region's retail sales declined at the fastest pace seen so far this year in July, separate reports showed.
Data released earlier in the day showed that activity in China's services sector expanded at the fastest pace in three months in August.
The focus now shifts to a European Central Bank meeting next week, with investors expecting a stimulus package including a rate cut.
The pan European Stoxx 600 was up 0.95 percent at 383.39 after declining 0.2 percent in the previous session.
The German DAX was rallying 1.2 percent, France's CAC 40 index was rising 1.1 percent and the U.K.'s FTSE 100 was moving up 0.3 percent. Italy's FTSE MIB index was up as much as 1.6 percent.
Shares of Assa Abloy AB climbed 2.1 percent in Sweden after the Swedish conglomerate announced that it has acquired U.S.-based LifeSafety Power.
French uxury goods company LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton rallied 3.3 percent and Gucci owner Kering jumped 3.8 percent ahead of an announcement on the formal withdrawal of a China extradition bill that sparked unprecedented political unrest in Hong Kong.
Defense electronics group Thales soared 6.4 percent after reporting higher first-half profits.
Royal Bank of Scotland Group advanced 1.6 percent. The bank said that it expects to book an unexpected charge of 600 million to 900 million pounds ($722.9 million-$1.08 billion) in its third-quarter accounts.
Miners Anglo American, Antofagasta and Glencore were up over 1 percent.
British American Tobacco gained 0.9 percent after its subsidiary B.A.T Capital Corporation priced an offering of $3.50 billion aggregate principal amount of guaranteed debt securities.
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Jan. 19 (Sun) – MLK 5K Race/Walk
9 a.m., at Wheatley Heights Sports Complex (in MLK Park), 200 Noblewood Drive
More than 900 participants will race through Martin Luther King Park during this annual event, which raises funds for the Young Men’s Leadership Academy. Because of community support and sponsorships, all registration fees will go directly to the school to fund student programming, such as college trips and student clubs.
Jan. 20 (Mon) – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
All schools and most offices will be closed.
Jan. 21 (Mon) – School Board Meeting A/B
6 p.m., at Burnet Learning Center, 406 Barrera St.
The meeting will follow a National School Board Recognition Month celebration.
Jan. 22 (Wed) – 5th Brigade Drill Team Championships
8 a.m. to 6 p.m., at Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Hall 2, 200 E. Market St.
JROTC cadets from six SAISD high schools will join peers from across eight states – Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Wyoming – to compete in the 5th Brigade Drill Team Championships. The competition includes both Armed and Unarmed Divisions in four events: Color Guard, Platoon Inspection, Platoon Regulation Drill, and Exhibition Drill. The overall top 10 teams will advance to the U.S. Army Cadet Command All Army Nationals in Richmond, Virginia on March 21.
Jan. 23 (Thurs) – Students exhibit cultural heritage project
5:30 p.m., at Woodlawn Academy, 1717 W. Magnolia Ave.
Seventh and eighth grade students at Woodlawn Academy, an International Baccalaureate School, will present their school’s history as part of a pilot cultural heritage program. The students have been working with their Leadership and Visual Arts specialist to interview alumni and retired teachers to record individuals’ stories. The students also have researched the architectural style and history of their building and have created a display board featuring QR codes. The codes link viewers to videos about the building’s features. The exhibit is part of the school’s International Baccalaureate spring exhibition.
Jan. 24 (Fri) – Teachers collaborate to teach about the Holocaust
9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio, 12500 NW Military Hwy
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Jan. 21-23 – Information sessions for SAISD Choice Schools and Programs
At the following times and locations
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Jan. 21 (Tues)
• 9 a.m., at Steele Montessori Academy, 422 Haskin St.
• 6 p.m., at The DoSeum for Young Women’s Leadership Academy: Primary, 2800 Broadway St.
Jan. 23 (Thurs)
• 9 a.m., at Rodriguez Montessori Elementary School, 3626 W. Cesar E. Chavez Blvd.
• 5 p.m., for a Districtwide session on any choice school, at Burbank High School, Testing Center, 1002 Edwards St.
• 6 p.m., at Fox Tech High School, 637 N. Main Ave.
• 6 p.m., at Young Women’s Leadership Academy (in Spanish), 2123 W. Huisache Ave.
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BA, Barnard College. MA, University of York, UK. PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. Special interests in Chaucer, medieval English and European literature, narrative temporality, and philosophies of time. SLC, 2018-
Undergraduate Courses 2019-2020
First-Year Studies: The Literature of Exile from Ancient Rome to Renaissance England
Open , FYS—Year
The course will examine representations of exile and diaspora in literary texts from ancient epic to Renaissance drama. We will examine authors who were displaced from their communities, such as the antique Roman poet Ovid and the medieval Italian poet Dante, and explore how they expressed anxieties about ostracism and distance through both autobiographical and fictional forms. We also will discuss how they used their works to leverage the physical experience of exile into more empowering perspectives and positions of distance. Reading epics—including Virgil’s Aeneid, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, and Milton’s Paradise Lost—we will consider the possibilities of freedom, discovery, and transformation in exile. In these narratives, exile has the potential to instigate political foundation, creative production, and spiritual discovery. Finally, this course will look at the metaphors of exile used by early female authors, including Christine de Pizan and Margery Kempe, both to articulate and to subvert positions of gendered marginalization. Through the study of a range of literary texts, then, we will see how authors found ways of legitimizing themselves or their characters in the face of ostracism and displacement. In the process, students will develop their ability to analyze literature and cultivate a sense of literary history, especially “genealogies” traceable across ancient and medieval texts. Students will meet with the instructor for individual conferences on a biweekly basis over the course of the year. During the first semester, individual conferences will also alternate with biweekly group conference meetings, in which students will find opportunities to hone their research skills and study course material within different theoretical frameworks that complicate and develop close readings of texts. Individual conference projects should be semester-long; therefore, students will complete two projects over the course of the year. Possible conference topics include the study of a particular ancient, medieval, or Renaissance author or literary text pertaining to the course and of interest to the student. Conference topics may include the adventures of medieval romance, the symbolic landscapes and seascapes of early British and European literature, utopia and dystopia in early modern literature, gendered understandings of exile as marginalization, religious interpretations of exile, and travel narratives—including the works of Ibn Battuta and John Mandeville.
Love Languages: Amorous Lyric and Narrative in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Open , Lecture—Spring
Some say our idea of romantic love was invented in the Middle Ages. In the 12th century, cultural transformations were prompted by Church reforms in favor of mutual consent and loving marriage, as well as the rise of an aristocracy that valued courtship and chivalry. Contemporary literary works only reinforced new ideals and forms of love. The courtly “love languages” of the medieval era then influenced a phenomenon of Renaissance love poetry. This course will examine the development of amorous lyric and narrative from the High Middle Ages to the Renaissance, focusing on the burgeoning discourses of amour courtois and the rapid popularization of the sonnet form as a medium for declarations of desire—from Dante and Petrarch in Italy to Sir Philip Sidney and Shakespeare in England. The love that emerges in the selected texts may be secretive and illicit but also liberating and empowering, reflecting the author’s complex and sometimes contradictory visions of romance and marriage. We will examine themes of love-suffering, service to the always-distant beloved, and obsessive devotion but also consider the works of female authors who undermine these traditional attributes of courtship and highlight female subjectivity. The idealization of lovers and the emphasis on self-sacrifice in these literary works will indeed prove problematic to our modern understandings of gender roles in relationships in ways that will demonstrate the otherness of the medieval and Renaissance periods. Yet, they also will stress the familiarly transcendent and ennobling effects of love. The belief in the enduring nature of personal bonds will pertain to our discussion of how authors sought to ensure their immortal celebrity through love poetry.
Chaucer and Literary London
Open , Lecture—Fall
Geoffrey Chaucer is well-known today as the “Father of English Poetry” for his innovative use of Middle English in verse. During his lifetime, however, his reputation was political and social and his presence, local and international. Chaucer’s career as a London civil servant and diplomat was paramount to his poetic vocation. In the House of Fame, he even mocks himself for sitting at his desk after work to compose poetry each day. This course will investigate Chaucer’s works in a biographical and insular context, reading his poetry in relation to his 14th-century urban milieu and to significant late medieval events such as the Black Plague and the Great Rising of 1381. We will study not only the dream vision poems, Troilus and Criseyde and the Canterbury Tales, but also the works of other so-called Ricardian Poets of Chaucer’s age to explore more broadly the thematic preoccupations of London writers. Such topics include authority through authorship, dreams and the imagination, sexuality and the tradition of antifeminism, as well as hierarchies of power and the changing class structure. Examining these topics through a range of critical lenses, we will see how Chaucer and his friends dramatized controversial conversations of the time through the vernacular tongue—not only staking a new claim for English literariness but also making those conversations available to us as modern readers.
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Holy Lives: Spirituality, Saints, and the Cult of Celebrity in the Middle Ages
Open , Seminar—Spring
The saint in the Middle Ages fostered a cult of celebrity. The rise of pilgrimage, the pervasive fascination with relics, and sensational tales of both martyrdom and miracle popularized saints across England and the Continent. This course will focus on stories interested in the heroism, intercession, and sacrifice of saintly figures, with readings to include Latin, Old English, and Middle English saints’ lives, as well as devotional narratives. We will consider how the paradox of saints—disembodied yet concretely present, at a liminal position between Heaven and Earth—might have transformed conceptions of the spiritual life. Taking a gendered approach, we will pay special attention to the narratives of heroic women saints and their reading communities. This course will encourage visits to see reliquaries and other saintly artifacts housed in New York to complement our classroom study of the textual and material remains of saints.
Medieval Romance: The Quest in Courtly and Popular Poetry
Open , Seminar—Fall
In 12th-century France, the term romanz, or romance, was more linguistic than literary, referring to the vernacular writings that emerged as an increasingly popular alternative to Latin works. Yet, romance quickly developed into an expansive and fluid genre of fiction encompassing marvelous subjects, from monstrous knights and axe-bearing green men to holy dogs and shape-shifting heroes. In this course, the focal point of the quest in medieval romance will invite us to travel with knightly characters beyond familiar society and into magical or uncanny worlds. We will consider how romances provided literary entertainment to readers across a social spectrum, blurring traditional scholarly boundaries between courtly and popular forms, and how they examined contemporary conflicts of religious faith, courtship and marriage, ethical conduct, political authority, and national identity. Texts will include Middle English and Old French texts in translation. Reading stories shared across the Channel, we will think about the importance of translation, adaptation, and intertextuality in medieval literary culture.
Literary Visions From Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Open , Seminar—Year
In dream books and visionary narratives from antiquity to the Middle Ages, characters travel through imaginative alternate worlds that test the boundaries of ordinary human experience and provide insights into their own realities. Such narratives of mental adventure and wonder inspired elaborate dream theories and attributed great authority to the poet’s subjectivity. This course will examine the tradition of literary visions, from Cicero’s Dream of Scipio to the late medieval poem Pearl, using an interdisciplinary method that situates texts within their historical, theological, and manuscript contexts. Our study will highlight the formal conventions of the vision genre but also will reveal how many authors resisted a circumscribed form to explore various contentious political, social, and religious ideas.
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At the entrance of Prof. Rowan's Science Lab, Roseanne gasps in horror when she turns around to see a huge swarm of Yanmegas buzzing around her with their wings. She shrieks that bug Pokemon has always been her terror, and is horrified that there are such a big number of them. She hurries back through the front door of the lab and attempts to slam it shut, but the Yanmegas manage to stick their legs through and hold it back from closing.
Roseanne cries that their body segments' appalling movement and prickly legs make them such an unbearable sight, and uses all her might to press against the door. However, she soon loses her ground, and the Yanmegas instantly swarm into the lab as she screams for help. Yet, she quickly discovers that she is unable to hear her own voice, and gasps that the beating sound of the gigantic dragonflies' wings have drowned out her voice, making it impossible for her to call for assistance. She looks around to find another way, and gets an idea when she sees the light switch. Rapidly turning the lights on and off over and over again, she braces herself against the menacing appearance of her intruders, and could only hope that someone will soon notice the signal she is sending out.
Next doors, at the Berlitz's Mansion, Dia looks out from the window and sees how the light goes on and off strangely at the Science Lab. He tells Sebastian about it, and the old butler exclaims that it has never happened before. Sebastian fears that something must have happened to Roseanne, and quickly grabs his Chinchou to flash a reply signal with its antennae.
Dia watches silently as the old man performs that act, but soon realizes that they seem to be doing something silly. He cries that they should have simply headed over to the Science Lab instead, and both of them immediately bolt up in action with a frantic look, Sebastian praising Dia for having great wisdom.
Just as the two are about to step out of the room however, Lee yanks them back with its tongue, and gestures towards the open window. Dia wonders if it is suggesting that they leave through it, and the Lickilicky nods with a grin. It lashes out its tongue to fasten on a tree branch right outside the window, and begins to lift Dia and Sebastian up into its arms, one on each side. It then hops off the window aisle and swings itself from branch to branch while doing somersaults, finally landing right in front of the Science Lab.
Dia cheers that they have arrived, and Sebastian once again praises Dia as well as his strong Lickilicky. Looking through the lab's windows, they spot the huge swarm of Yanmegas inside, and exclaim that it must be the trouble Roseanne has encountered. Sebastian and Dia quickly rush through the front door, and find Roseanne hiding underneath a table with her Dunsparce.
The young woman feels thankful that the old butler has come, but due to the buzzing of the Yanmegas, they both have to raise their voices before they could hear each other. Sebastian wonders what has happened, and Roseanne explains that she has no idea either. The swarm of creatures just appeared out of nowhere all of a sudden, and although she has been bestowed upon the task to look after the lab in Rowan's absence, she really cannot deal with bug types.
Just then, two Yanmegas dive straight towards them, and strikes Lee on the back while knocking Dia over at the same time. Wincing in pain, Dia spots a familiar device floating amongst the gigantic dragonflies, and after a moment of thought, states that the ominous feeling Sebastian had was probably due to these Yanmegas. He is quite certain that they are not just simple wild Pokemon, but were dispatched by Team Galactic instead, the evil people who have ambushed Prof. Rowan and the Lady's father, and are currently scheming to target the three lakes.
Calling Roo, Beh, and Pooh out of their Pokeballs to join Lee and Sebastian's Weepinbell, Dia announces that he shall defeat and take down the entire swarm. Roseanne feels doubtful about this stranger's ability however, and wants to know who he is. Dia grins as he introduces himself, but Roseanne gets annoyed and says she didn't just mean his name. Sebastian tells Roseanne to just sit back and watch, and the young woman gets the impression that the boy must be some kind of special trainer to have earned Sebastian's trust.
In that instant, the swarm of Yanmegas gather in a circle, and begin beating their wings rapidly, sending out a powerful wave of vibration to course through the bodies of Dia, Beh and Weepinbell, knocking them over.
Roseanne: Are...are you alright!?
Dia: (gets into his One-shot Gag pose) I'm perfectly okeeay~
Roseanne: (blacklines running down her forehead)
Fumbling through his bagpack, Dia flips out his battle diary and starts to read, which causes Roseanne to gasp and wonder if it is too late to resort to strategy books. The truth is, this battle diary used to be Dia and Pearl's Manzai scriptbook, and has only had its function changed since the boys learnt of the Lady's true identity and decided to protect her at Veilstone. Before Pearl headed off to Lake Acuity, he gave the battle diary to Dia, and insisted that he writes an entry every day, which is exactly what Dia has done.
Before long, the Yanmegas start to attack again, and once again give off the buzzing sound as they edge towards Roseanne, causing the young woman to scream for help. Fortunately, Lee lashes his tongue out, and delivers a Power Whip to fend them off just in time. Dia then states that the buzz isn't really a sound, but are in fact shock waves created by the churning of their four wings.
Roseanne is astonished at how Dia managed to figure that out, but Dia grins that he was simply reading it from its Dex entry. Seeing the blue-coloured device in Dia's hands, Roseanne gets even more shocked as it is no doubt one of the three Pokedexes co-developed by Prof. Rowan and Kanto's Prof. Oak. She wants to know if Dia received it from Prof. Rowan, and the boy nods with a grin, causing the young woman to gasp as Pokedex Holders have always been specially chosen trainers.
Dia then asks where the entrance and exit of the lab are, and Roseanne states that they only have one single front door, which implies that they must get past the swarm of Yanmegas in order to escape. Dia wonders where Roseanne's Dunsparce has gone to, and soon notices that it is digging a hole on the ground with its tails. He finds that really clever, and tells Roseanne to hide in there with it since the hole should be big enough.
With Roseanne safely hidden in the hole, Dia gets ready to face the Yanmegas, the ogre darner Pokemon. Although there are a huge number of them, he believes that they are all controlled by one single device, the floating intercom that has an internal speaker as well as a remote control camera. Spotting the device hovering between the Yanmegas, Dia gestures to Roo, and orders it to fire off the Dia-special-mach-one-and-only Razor Leaf ...
(Original Japanese Jokes)
There are no jokes or Manzai in this chapter.
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Susan Walzer
Professor of Sociology
Office: 224 Tisch Learning Center
Email: swalzer@skidmore.edu
PhD, Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1995
MSW, Smith College School for Social Work, 1983
AB, English, Brown University, 1980
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Close Relationships, Emotions, Families, Gender, Social Psychology, Social Research Design and Qualitative Methods, Student and Faculty Cultures
Family Connections (SSP100)
Individual in Society (SO202)
Families in the United States (SO217)
Close Relationships (SO224H)
Social Research Methods (SO227)
Sociology of Emotions (SO304)
Studying Student Worlds (SO332)
Thinking about the Baby: Gender and Transitions into Parenthood. 1998. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
Gender and the Culture of Heterosexual Marriage (coauthored with Karyn Loscocco). 2013. Journal of Family Theory & Review 5:1-14.
Crossing Generational Divides: Experiences of New Faculty in Higher Education (coauthored with Cathy Trower). 2010. Metropolitan Universities 21:35-44.
Redoing Gender through Divorce. 2008. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 25:5-21.
Children’s Stores of Divorce. 2006. In Couples, Kids, and Family Life, edited by Jaber Gubrium & James Holstein. New York: Oxford University Press.
Encountering Oppositions: A Review of Scholarship about Motherhood. 2004. In Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future, edited by Marilyn Coleman & Lawrence H. Ganong. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Accounting for Divorce: Gender and Uncoupling Narratives (coauthored with Thomas P. Oles). 2003. Qualitative Sociology 26:331-349.
Managing Conflict after Marriages End: A Qualitative Study of Narratives of Ex-Spouses (coauthored with Thomas P. Oles). 2003. Families in Society 84:1-9.
Developing Sociologists through Qualitative Study of College Life. 2001. Teaching Sociology 29:88-94.
SELECTED HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Scholar, Harvard Graduate School of Education, August 2013-June 2014
The Hoffman Lecture in Sociology and Social Policy, Russell Sage College, March 2010
Radcliffe Fellow, Henry A. Murray Research Center, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Spring 2000
Finalist, William J. Goode Book Award, American Sociological Association Family Section, 1999
Paul Meadows Award for Excellence in Teaching, University at Albany, 1993
Sociology Department Contact
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John Brueggemann
Office: Tisch 229
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT:
Linda Santagato
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Serving Truckee, Tahoe City, Kings Beach and Incline Village
V&T Railroad Polar Express takes passengers on a journey to the North Pole (video)
Entertainment | November 21, 2017
Emily Kaiser
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The Virginia & Truckee Railroad Polar Express train ride takes passengers on a journey from Carson City to the North Pole on Saturday, Nov. 19.
EMILY KAISER / SIERRA SUN
The Polar Express was written by Chris Van Allsburg in 1985 and grew in popularity with the 2004 film adaptation.
Now, fans of the book and movie can take their own journey to the North Pole on the Virginia and Truckee Polar Express train ride. Passengers depart from Carson City’s Eastgate Depot and are taken on an hourlong ride to the North Pole.
The first ride of the season was on Saturday, Nov. 18, and included a performance of songs from the original soundtrack, complete with dancing and hot chocolate. The highlight of the evening for most children was when Santa boarded the train and took photos with them.
This is the seventh year that the V&T Railroad is providing the holiday-themed experience to guests of all ages in partnership with Rail Events Inc., and Warner Bros. Consumer Products. The Polar Express train ride will offer trips Thursday through Sunday weekly until Dec. 30.
Visit http://www.vtrailway.com for departure times and ticket prices.
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7,500 Scientologists and guests of the International Association of Scientologists from some 65 nations turned up to embark on a weekend of exhilarating events celebrating a year that marks the 33rd anniversary of the International Association of Scientologists.
The assemblage of Scientologists from 65 nations gathered on Friday evening, October 6th, for a celebration that acknowledged 12 months of humanitarian help in the name of the International Association of Scientologists.
The majestic weekend of events spanned three days and nights in honor of the IAS legacy in alignment with the original purpose: “To unite, advance, support and protect the Scientology religion and Scientologists in all parts of the world so as to achieve the Aims of Scientology as originated by L. Ron Hubbard.”
“Yes, you’ve arrived at this Kingdom of the IAS,” said David Miscavige, the ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion. “A kingdom where all similarities to the physical universe are purely coincidental. Indeed, this is where IAS members from all over this Earth, come in and take a seat: From North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, a hundred cities of Europe and from all over this United Kingdom. Because and all told, we now celebrate 147 lands with an IAS presence no one will ever forget.”
Mr. David Miscavige, the ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion and Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center, welcomed the international audience for the first of three nights in a weekend of festivities.
The past year has seen a worldwide humanitarian whirlwind of unadulterated help in the name of IAS-sponsored initiatives from—battling drug abuse and human rights violations, including the field of mental health, as well as instilling morality and bringing aid in times of disaster, both acute and everyday.
SAFEGUARDING VICTIMS IN GERMANY The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) Germany exposed psychiatric malfeasance among commercial airline pilots and paved the way for a law setting zero tolerance for pilots’ use of psychoactive drugs.
DEFENDING THE FAMILY UNIT In Tel Aviv, CCHR exposed systemic psychiatric abuse and child drugging and secured unprecedented due process for parents whose children were unjustly removed from their custody.
TAKING A STAND FOR THE LIBERTY OF PATIENTS In India, an outdated Mental Health Act from 1987 was doing little to protect the welfare of citizens, until CCHR India inspired a rewriting of the nation’s mental health law to permanently protect patients’ rights.
INSTILLING NEW VALUES IN THE PHILIPPINES The Way to Happiness ambassadors entered uncharted territory in the Philippines, sparking widespread adoption to train some 29,000 police officers on the booklet’s universal moral precepts.
AN UPLIFTING MESSAGE FROM THE PULPIT In Zambia, a land where survival is a day-to-day endeavor, an Anglican Minister formed 70 Way to Happiness groups to turn a message from the pulpit into a community plan inspiring a tenfold increase in productivity across a region of 50,000 square miles.
RIGHTS EDUCATION AND PROTECTION IN PAKISTAN United for Human Rights enlightened and empowered over 19,000 Pakistani students and subsequently drafted and won passage for the “Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act.”
DRUG EDUCATION FOR THE MASSES AT RIO OLYMPICS 5,000 Drug-Free World volunteers led a campaign that launched at the Brazil Olympics and saw over 2 million Truth About Drugs booklets distributed across São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Rockport, Texas
Sehwan, Pakistan
Burundi, Africa
INTERNATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE In 2017, Scientology Volunteer Ministers saw action across 22 major disaster sites, ultimately helping over 200,000 individuals recover from physical and spiritual trauma.
SCIENTOLOGY VOLUNTEER MINISTER IMPACT IN PERU Scientology Volunteer Ministers were among the first responders to Peru’s northern coast, where dozens of mudslides overpowered the region. Altogether, the VMs delivered succor to more than 75,000 residents.
PARTNERSHIP IN THE NAME OF PREVENTION Churches of Scientology formed the core of community disaster prevention in each of their zones. Volunteer Ministers now partner with over 1,400 agencies and organizations.
The stars of the bright and dynamic evening were three Freedom Medal Winners, who each epitomize relentless progress toward the goals of Scientologists everywhere for a peaceful, productive and crime-free world, where social justice prevails.
Brian Daniels of the UK was presented the first IAS Freedom Medal of 2017. He stepped out under CCHR’s banner to tackle psychiatric abuses within the country’s mental hospitals, exposing misconduct by psychiatrists in the field and forcing reforms: “There comes a time when you question what’s commonly accepted as truth. When you know you’re being fed lies, you must do something about it. And the message CCHR brings to the world is simple, psychiatry is destructive and your time is up.”
Minister Tony Muhammad, peacemaker and activist for human rights, created a Way to Happiness movement in the inner cities of Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, with 50 peace rides across 33 notorious neighborhoods resulting in an unprecedented 40 percent drop in crime: “I will continue to spread peace to every urban city in America, with the support of the IAS and all of you. You will be proud of us and we of you. So, together, let us rid our planet of insanity and all wars.”
Binod Sharma, a native of Nepal, was the night’s final IAS Freedom Medal recipient. In the wake of his country’s 2015 monster earthquake, Binod led his teams across 101 otherwise forgotten villages and districts hit by disaster, ultimately delivering help to 4 million Nepalese: “To me, the Freedom Medal Award is the greatest achievement in my life. This has given me a big responsibility to do even more for my country.”
The celebration spotlighted the spectacular growth of the Scientology religion and its humanitarian initiative made possible by the IAS. In essence, the evening was a testament to the impact one community can have on humanity in just 12 months.
Over the course of two and a half hours, Mr. Miscavige, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center, unveiled the accelerating pace of the Church’s expansion and its humanitarian mission reflected in the evening’s diverse stories and presentations.
Thousands of Scientologists rose to their feet time and again in celebration of the year’s accomplishments in the name of the IAS.
Attendees for the weekend gala comprised IAS members from six continents, all united with a purpose—to celebrate their humanity and that of all mankind. Following the event, one attendee declared: “I feel updated, inspired and part of a united team having a huge impact on this world.”
“There was just so much to be inspired by and proud of. We are changing the world with our passion and belief and we are doing it in style!” said one Scientologist attending Friday night’s event.
Another Scientologist encapsulated the evening’s spirit when they said: “This event is all about expansion, on all projects and across every avenue. You feel part of a very special group, capable of the impossible!”
Friday night’s celebration transformed Saturday evening as the Grand Marquee hosted the annual IAS Patrons Ball. The spectacular black-tie dinner and entertainment gala is held in recognition of those IAS members supporting the humanitarian work and initiatives feted over the course of the weekend.
The accent on the weekend of festivities was the traditional Saint Hill Charity Concert attended by 1,500 local residents. The crowd was entertained by an array of performers that featured Grammy Award-winning jazz legend Stanley Clarke.
The evening of music and dance saw five local charities awarded donations to expand their activities serving the local community and all of it in keeping with the tradition started by L. Ron Hubbard during the years he called Saint Hill home.
EAST GRINSTEAD, UNITED KINGDOM
IAS GALA WEEKEND FÊTES YEAR OF HUMANITARIAN HELP AND ADVANCE
The International Association of Scientologists (IAS), an ever-expanding force for good within the worldwide humanitarian community, gathered in East Grinstead, Southern England, on the first weekend in October to recognize a year of expansion and accomplishment.
The narrow old carriage roads that twist and turn through the small villages and farms of West Sussex were crowded with cars and buses on a Friday evening in early fall, as thousands of Scientologists, guests and friends poured onto the well-manicured grounds of Saint Hill Manor—the home of Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard.
Through openings between the dense hedges and trees that line those roads, visitors could see the distant outline of the elegant Saint Hill—alive with light on the rolling horizon—glowing like distant fire in the fading autumn light.
Beyond the Manor gates, past the entrances and down the long sweeping drive to the pavilion and the Great Hall, to a stage erected under cover of a massive marquee, members of the International Association of Scientologists from more than 65 nations filled the air with diverse language as they walked into the arena with a purpose—to celebrate their humanity and that of all mankind.
The celebration for 2017 marked the 33rd since the IAS was founded at Saint Hill in 1984 to unite, advance, support and protect the world’s youngest and fastest-growing major religion. Members and guests came also to honor those who helped the Church realize a year of hope and achievement on the path toward Scientology’s goals for a better life for all.
“Yes, you’ve arrived at this Kingdom of the IAS,” said David Miscavige, the ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion.
“Where all similarities to the physical universe are purely coincidental…
“Where IAS members from all over this Earth, come in and take a seat: From North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, a hundred cities of Europe and from all over this United Kingdom.
“Because, and all told, we now celebrate 147 lands with an IAS presence no one will ever forget.”
So it was, Mr. Miscavige outlined each punctuation point of that presence across two and a half hours of solid-packed energy. In fact, the night not only surveyed the kingdom of humanitarian outreach from the highlands to the lowlands of Earth, but it further focused on expansion of the religion itself in outlands never previously seen.
The accelerating pace of the Church’s expansion and of its humanitarian missions is also reflected in the account of stories featuring diverse expressions of social goodwill. Each story unto itself is a chart-topper, but altogether they form a symphony of humanitarian help spanning renowned IAS-sponsored initiatives. All began with telling accounts of mental health abuse and its rapid reform by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR).
Campaign action further unfolded courtesy of: Drug-Free World and a power movement driving The Truth About Drugs against the tide of abuse; United for Human Rights, keeping alive the flame of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; The Way to Happiness instilling moral resurgence through its 21 precepts for universal living; and the wave of Volunteer Minister support brought to 21 major disaster sites this year alone, not to mention countless moments of personal strife for individuals across this world.
Examples of the sheer impact of the initiatives during the presentation included:
The Way to Happiness ambassadors entering uncharted territory in the Philippines, sparking widespread adoption to train some 29,000 police officers on the booklet’s universal moral precepts.
In Zambia, a land where survival is a day-to-day endeavor, an Anglican Minister forming 70 Way to Happiness groups, turned a message from the pulpit into a tenfold increase in productivity across a region of 50,000 square miles.
United for Human Rights enlightening and empowering over 19,000 Pakistani students and subsequently drafting and getting passed, the “Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act” to guarantee their rights forevermore.
5,000 Drug-Free World volunteers leading a campaign that launched at the Brazil Olympics and saw over 2 million Truth About Drugs booklets distributed across São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
And the Scientology Volunteer Ministers traversing 200,000 miles to bring life and hope to nearly four million people including those worst hit by an onslaught of natural and man-made disasters.
Many more tales unfolded, led by the stars of this bright and dynamic night. Namely, three IAS Freedom Medal Winners, who each epitomize relentless progress toward the goals of the religion everywhere for a peaceful, productive and crime-free world, where social justice prevails. As Mr. Miscavige introduced them one by one, a common ethic of work, courage, persistence and dedication were evident in their stories:
In the UK, Freedom Medal recipient Brian Daniels, stepped out under CCHR’s banner to tackle psychiatric abuses within the country’s mental hospitals, pointing to misconduct by psychiatrists in the field and forcing reforms. He further inspired a run of national exposés on links between mind-altering drugs and an increase in child suicide, leading to unprecedented “black box warnings” on pharmaceutical drugs to permanently protect British youth.
Peacemaker and activist for human rights, Minister Tony Muhammad, created a Way to Happiness movement in the inner cities of Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, with 50 peace rides across 33 notorious neighborhoods resulting in a 40 percent drop in crime. Tony then persisted in bringing together rival gangs to confront the violence between them, winning a ceasefire and peace agreements between bitter gang rivals—the Crips and Bloods.
Binod Sharma, a native of Nepal, launched his VM team in response to the 2015 monster earthquake to bring succor to 15,000 residents in the first five days of response. Binod then led his teams across 101 otherwise forgotten villages and districts hit by disaster, ultimately bringing help to 4 million Nepalese. In the aftermath, and to bring permanent help, he further established a Volunteer Minister headquarters and 169 groups across his nation.
Friday night’s celebration was expanded Saturday evening as the grand marquee transformed into the annual IAS Patrons Ball. The spectacular black-tie dinner and entertainment gala is held in recognition of those IAS members supporting the humanitarian work and initiatives feted over the course of the weekend.
The accent on the weekend of festivities was the traditional Saint Hill Charity Concert attended by 1,500 local residents. The evening of music and dance saw five local charities awarded donations to expand their activities serving the local community and all of it in keeping with the tradition started by L. Ron Hubbard during the years he called Saint Hill home.
The IAS, the official membership organization of Scientology open to all Scientologists from all nations, was formed in 1984. The purpose of the IAS is to unite, advance, support and protect the Scientology religion and Scientologists in all parts of the world so as to achieve the Aims of Scientology as originated by L. Ron Hubbard: “A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where Man is free to rise to greater heights.”
David Miscavige Saint Hill IAS International Association of Scientologists International Event
Grand Weekend of Celebration Highlights Monumental Year of IAS Accomplishment
Astonishing Accomplishments: Humanitarian Success Celebrated for Magnificent IAS Weekend
EAST GRINSTEAD, ENGLAND
Heroic Humanitarianism: IAS 35th Anniversary Celebrates the Profound Progress of a Global Movement
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Financial Institutions Are Not Confident About Digital Transformation
Only 17 percent of banks have succeeded in digitally transforming at scale, according to the 2019 Innovation in Retail Banking report.
Customer Service Vital to Security Officer Sector
From welcoming employees and guests with a warm and friendly smile to giving directions, the customer service role that security personnel play is infinite.
Brent O'Bryan
What is a required to create a customer-centric culture in your security enterprise?
Jim Gaudet: A Mile Wide and Inches Deep
“I like that our company particularly, and this sector generally, is really customer-service oriented and a people industry,” says Jim Gaudet, Senior Loss Prevention Investigator for Associated Grocers of New England.
Hiring, Training and Retention at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium
When the Mercedez-Benz Stadium was being built, leadership at AMB Sports & Entertainment decided to aim high when it comes to the quality of experience for fans attending events and games there. One key factor to becoming an “elite” venue, says Joe Coomer, CSSP, Vice President, Security, AMB Sports & Entertainment, was the game day associates – including parking attendants, ushers, beer vendors, the popcorn guy and, of course, the security staff.
4 Best Practices for Global Integration
Why More Isn’t Better and Communication Is the Key to Better Global Business
Mike Kuhn
With estimates hovering around the $1 trillion mark for security products and services spending in the next five years, according to Cybersecurity Ventures’ Cybersecurity Market Report, it’s no wonder security executives are on the lookout for best practices for global integration. The best approach is for security systems integrators to invest in and embed with their global customers to provide consistency and serve as their single point of contact for all their systems integration needs.
10 Things to Require from Your Access Control Provider
Access control providers continue to develop innovative new technologies that deliver greater value and control for end users, but technology is only one part of the access control story. Equally important is what happens before, during and after the sale, so that you get the most out of your access control system. What are the 10 things that you should demand and receive from your access control provider?
How to Evaluate Your Access Control Provider’s Customer Service
The critical nature of access control and other security products and systems makes it extremely important to select a vendor who delivers strong customer service and satisfaction, helping you create a secure enterprise and better mitigate security risks. Here are a few tips on how to best evaluate your future access control provider.
You Deserve to be Delighted: 10 Essential Elements to Look for in a Security Entrance Manufacturer
Tracie Thomas
Today’s security entrances can last 10 years or more, so your organization can go years without installing a single new entrance.
Is Cybersecurity Part of Your Customer Service Policy?
For ABC Fine Wine & Spirits in Florida, the path to data breach preparedness began with the realization that great customer service extends to customers’ data.
Claire Meyer
If a data breach can happen to Home Depot and Target, it can happen to us,” says Lee Bailey, Director of IT Security and Operations for ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, a mid-sized business in Florida with 140 locations and around 1,000 employees.
Securing Innovation, the GE Way
GE’s new Oil & Gas Technology Center is a balanced mixture of high-end security technology and a strong customer focus.
Diane Ritchey
In April 1995, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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do. that was not an accident. jim: wow. nick: so billy can go two umbrellas to the right for the safety because he's just got to get inside jason's ball. peter: 104 yards and he's got a sand wedge. jim: oh, left it out. peter: this is really out to the right. that's been his miss of the day, nick. he's hung everything out to the right. nick: that's the trust in the follow-through. that's the nerve. but that hahn shot was fantastic. that's what he was trying to do. pin high, yard to the right and spin it. he was within 1.68 inches of doing it. that's the size of a golf ball, folks. half a golf ball. half a golf ball and he would have made it. oh, what a try. [laughter] yes. [laughter] jim: smile, you're on can did camera. nick: who says we don't react, you know? jim: wow, and to see hahn from back there 100-plus yards away, he could see the ball kind of just jump out of a hole. and now day is going to get a little help. it's not exactly the same lie but he'll get an idea of what the last part of the putt will do because horsele -- horschel is outside on a similar path. jim: think
do. that was not an accident. jim: wow. nick: so billy can go two umbrellas to the right for the safety because he's just got to get inside jason's ball. peter: 104 yards and he's got a sand wedge. jim: oh, left it out. peter: this is really out to the right. that's been his miss of the day, nick. he's hung everything out to the right. nick: that's the trust in the follow-through. that's the nerve. but that hahn shot was fantastic. that's what he was trying to do. pin high, yard to the right...
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do. that was not an accident. jim: wow. nick: so billy can go two umbrellas to the right for the safety because he's just got to getid peter: 104 yards and he's got a sand wedge. jim: oh, left it out. peter: this is really out to the right. that's been his miss of the day, nick. he's hung everything out to the right. nick: that's the trust in the follow-through. that's the nerve. but that hahn shot was fantastic. that's what he was trying to do. pin high, yard to the right and spin it. he was within 1.68 inches of doing it. that's the size of a golf ball, folks. half a golf ball. half a golf ball and he would have made it. oh, what a try. yeaughter] [laughter] jim: smile, you're on can did camera. nick: who says we don't react, you know? jim: wow, and to see hahn from back there 100-plus yards away, he could see the ball kind of just jump out of a hole. and now day is going to get a little help. it's not exactly the same lie but he'll get an idea of what the last part of the putt will do because horsele -- horschel is outside on a similar path. jim: think we'll have a make here f
do. that was not an accident. jim: wow. nick: so billy can go two umbrellas to the right for the safety because he's just got to getid peter: 104 yards and he's got a sand wedge. jim: oh, left it out. peter: this is really out to the right. that's been his miss of the day, nick. he's hung everything out to the right. nick: that's the trust in the follow-through. that's the nerve. but that hahn shot was fantastic. that's what he was trying to do. pin high, yard to the right and spin it. he was...
CBS Weekend News : WUSA : May 21, 2017 6:00pm-6:30pm EDT
number one jason day leads it by one over billy horschel. by two over hahn. we're delayed because of the thunderstorm that came through the area earlier this morning. we're going to go out to the sixth. gary: he's all geared up. he's got his mark and hopefully got the strike. you heard him, as soon as he hit it, he went ah. which kind of caught that a little clean. peter: yeah, the bounce got and didn't get the spin he was looking for. gary: and he is 10 under par and two shots back so he needs to birdie this. he needs to get real heroic with this putt he's going to have from off the fridge. peter: jason day is -- this is right to left then left-to-right putt but really, he's just going to visualize the flagstick being right on that ridge. try and hold it there. if he can get to it almost stop there, gravity will do the rest. [captioning funded by cbs sports division] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] in this case. gary: and he really doesn't have to hit this very hard, does he? thi
number one jason day leads it by one over billy horschel. by two over hahn. we're delayed because of the thunderstorm that came through the area earlier this morning. we're going to go out to the sixth. gary: he's all geared up. he's got his mark and hopefully got the strike. you heard him, as soon as he hit it, he went ah. which kind of caught that a little clean. peter: yeah, the bounce got and didn't get the spin he was looking for. gary: and he is 10 under par and two shots back so he...
House Could Vote on GOP Health Care Bill After Gaining Key Support : CSPAN : May 3, 2017 6:13pm-6:26pm EDT
legislative language. i reached out to billy long last night. and what this amendment would do is provide additional funds directly into the high-risk pools to be spent for people that might otherwise lose their coverage because of a waiver that a governor would seek. it's our understanding that the $ billion over the five years will more than cover those that might be impacted and as a consequence, keeps our pledge for those that in fact would be otherwise denied because of pre-existing illnesses. i talked to the president yesterday afternoon. i told him i could not support the bill as it was then moving through the rules committee without added protections for those with pre-existing ill ns. and based on our discussions and the agreement on this amendment, to now be in a place where i can support the bill with such amendment. i'll turn it over to billy long, my partner in this amendment. mr. long: i appreciate that, fred. my name is billy long, i'm from missouri, missouri's seventh congressional district, the show-me state. i heard joe scarborough say the other day, billy long is one of
legislative language. i reached out to billy long last night. and what this amendment would do is provide additional funds directly into the high-risk pools to be spent for people that might otherwise lose their coverage because of a waiver that a governor would seek. it's our understanding that the $ billion over the five years will more than cover those that might be impacted and as a consequence, keeps our pledge for those that in fact would be otherwise denied because of pre-existing...
World News Now : WJLA : May 25, 2017 2:37am-3:00am EDT
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working to help participants. send t-shirts to every lawns cut. billy bush. makes his silence. former tv host sits down since his interview of the release. >> and national wine day. wait until you see what we have in store to celebrate one of america's greatest holidays. but first, a look at today's temperatures. it is not how fast you mow, how well you mow fast. you won't see these folks they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post...
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Health Care Law Replacement and Government Spending : CSPAN3 : May 2, 2017 10:31pm-10:47pm EDT
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. billy long, a conservative from missouri and fred upton, the former energy and commerce chair, one of the key voices who was pushing obamacare repeal over the last several years both said they could not support this bill because of what they said it would gut protections for, people with preexisting conditions. and so those were a one-two punch for gop leadership this week. it looks as though the vote is heading in the wrong direction from what gop leaders would like. >> we are looking as we speak this afternoon the headline at thehill.com. 22 no votes. on fred upton and billy long, this seems to be an issue that is concerning a number of members. >> it is specifically members who are from more moderate districts although billy long is more conservative. that is surprising and unexpected up here on capitol hill. but essentially, this stems from an amendment or a deal that was struck between tuesday group chairman tom mcar thur of new jersey, a moderate and mark meadows, the freedom caucus chairman, in order to bring on reluctant conservatives from the house freedom caucus, but what it
. billy long, a conservative from missouri and fred upton, the former energy and commerce chair, one of the key voices who was pushing obamacare repeal over the last several years both said they could not support this bill because of what they said it would gut protections for, people with preexisting conditions. and so those were a one-two punch for gop leadership this week. it looks as though the vote is heading in the wrong direction from what gop leaders would like. >> we are looking...
BBC News : BBCNEWS : May 6, 2017 9:00am-10:01am BST
he's lost for words after receiving support from around the world. billy monger was racing in the formula 4 championship at donington park last month when he collided with a stationary car. but despite his injuries, he's vowed to race again, his story has touched motorsport fans around the world and billy monger, or billy whizz as he's known, can't quite believe global his story has touched motorsport fans around the world and billy monger, or billy whizz as he's known, can't quite believe global superstars have wished him well. that's amazing. to turn over and read the signatures from many world champions, lewis hamilton, niki lauda, that really touched my heart. tragedy struck less than three weeks ago. billy was racing in the formula 4 championship at donington park when he was involved in a i20mph collision with a stationary car. he was flown to the queen's medical centre in nottingham where it was decided he would have to have both legs amputated. now on his birthday, billy has thanked staff who helped him through the ordeal. without them i wouldn't be here today so a massive
he's lost for words after receiving support from around the world. billy monger was racing in the formula 4 championship at donington park last month when he collided with a stationary car. but despite his injuries, he's vowed to race again, his story has touched motorsport fans around the world and billy monger, or billy whizz as he's known, can't quite believe global his story has touched motorsport fans around the world and billy monger, or billy whizz as he's known, can't quite believe...
Nightline : KGO : May 25, 2017 12:37am-1:08am PDT
are officially live. >>> plus billy and the bus. >> whoa, whoa! >> yes! yes, the donald is good! >> billy bush speaking out about the fallout from that infamous "access hollywood" tape. >> do you believe you should have lost your job over this? >> the behind the scenes story you haven't heard. about the scandal heard round the world. >>> and game on. >> if we don't put aside our enmities and bound together, we will die. >> winter isn't the only thing that's coming. fans are going wilding over the new trailer for "game of thrones" season 7. why this season could be the most action-packed yet. but first the "nightline 5." >> hey, allergy muddlers. are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool? try zyrtec. it starts working hard at hour one, works twice as hard the next day. stick with zyrtec and muddle no more. >>> you get used to food odors in your car. you think it smells fine but your passengers smell this. new february rees technology. breathe happy with new february rees. >> number one in just 60 seconds. live-streat the airport.e sport binge dvr'd shows while p
are officially live. >>> plus billy and the bus. >> whoa, whoa! >> yes! yes, the donald is good! >> billy bush speaking out about the fallout from that infamous "access hollywood" tape. >> do you believe you should have lost your job over this? >> the behind the scenes story you haven't heard. about the scandal heard round the world. >>> and game on. >> if we don't put aside our enmities and bound together, we will die. >>...
Jimmy Kimmel Live : WJLA : May 12, 2017 11:35pm-12:37am EDT
much. we call him billy. it was an easy delivery. six pushes, he was out. and he appeared to be a normal healthy baby. until about three hours after he was born. we were out of the delivery room. we moved to the recovery room. our whole family was there. and we introduced him to his 2 1/2-year-old sister. she was cute with him. we were happy. everything was good. my wife was in bed relaxing. and when a very attentive nurse at cedars-sinai hospital. her name is nanush. was checking him out and heard a murmur in his heart, which is she also noticed he was a bit purple, which is not common. so she asked me to come with her. and my wife and i assumed it would be nothing. our daughter had a heart murmur too. we didn't notice that he wasn't the color he was supposed to be. so i accompanied billy and the nurse, went down the hall to another part of the hospital. the neonatal icu where another excellent nurse named ann checked him out and called the doctor. and now all of a sudden it felt serious. and the room started to fill up. more doctors and nurses and equipment started coming in. an
much. we call him billy. it was an easy delivery. six pushes, he was out. and he appeared to be a normal healthy baby. until about three hours after he was born. we were out of the delivery room. we moved to the recovery room. our whole family was there. and we introduced him to his 2 1/2-year-old sister. she was cute with him. we were happy. everything was good. my wife was in bed relaxing. and when a very attentive nurse at cedars-sinai hospital. her name is nanush. was checking him out and...
Frances Fitzgerald Discusses The Evangelicals : CSPAN2 : May 27, 2017 9:00am-10:01am EDT
world war ii. who did that and why did they do it? >> well, i say in the book it's billy graham, and was in the popular way but it was also a lot of his friends and mentors like ogden day and others. what became the national association of evangelicals wanted a national revival. they thought they could get at the time because just after world war ii america became an extremely religious country. people going home again. it's always a conservative. after wars, but also it was sort of an anti-communist thing. people thought they were being true americans if they went to church, any church, said eisenhower, doesn't matter what church you go to. but it builds character, virtue. anyway, billy graham, wanting to build this national revival found that the fundamentalists simply turning too many people off. they were too bigoted, to narrow, too difficult. and so he in turn cut them off and called himself an evangelical, which some people were not angry at everybody, but who had much the same theology but sort of calm down, watered down if you want, but it was a kinder, gentler fundamentalism
world war ii. who did that and why did they do it? >> well, i say in the book it's billy graham, and was in the popular way but it was also a lot of his friends and mentors like ogden day and others. what became the national association of evangelicals wanted a national revival. they thought they could get at the time because just after world war ii america became an extremely religious country. people going home again. it's always a conservative. after wars, but also it was sort of an...
ET Entertainment Tonight : WUSA : May 22, 2017 7:30pm-8:00pm EDT
" show co-host billy bush is trying to make his way from the abyss. he was taken off nbc after tapes surfaced of his crude and lewd conversation with donald trump. billy just kicked off his apology tour. he sat down with "the hollywood reporter" and robin roberts. >> what was it like for you to go back home after the tape had been released to face your daughters, your wife? what was that moment like for you? >> well, the initial moments were total chaos. >> people deserve a comment, billy. >> the paparazzi were never interested in me outside the gate. >> i gave a statement and the statement speaks for itself. >> yeah, but people want to hear it. >> bush said his 16-year-old daughter was devastated. by his comments on the tapes and >> she was really upset and i said, mary, it's -- it's going to be okay. you know, don't worry. she said no, why were you laughing at the things that he was saying on that bus? why were you playing along with that? it wasn't funny. i said, mary, i am sorry and there is no good answer for that. >> bush also said he regrets not changing t theopic during his l
" show co-host billy bush is trying to make his way from the abyss. he was taken off nbc after tapes surfaced of his crude and lewd conversation with donald trump. billy just kicked off his apology tour. he sat down with "the hollywood reporter" and robin roberts. >> what was it like for you to go back home after the tape had been released to face your daughters, your wife? what was that moment like for you? >> well, the initial moments were total chaos. >>...
wusa 9 News at Noon : WUSA : May 10, 2017 12:00pm-12:30pm EDT
. >> billy: hey. >> victoria: come on in. >> billy: morning. sorry. maybe i should've called first. >> victoria: no, it's fine. what's up? what's going on? >> billy: how's katie, after our phone conversation last night? >> victoria: well, your little talk did the trick, because she slept like a log. >> billy: good. do you mind if i pop up and say hi before they take off to school? >> victoria: hannah actually picked them up early because they have a special assembly this morning. >> billy: oh, right. right. >> victoria: yeah. >> billy: well, now that i'm here, there is something else on my mind. maybe we could has that out now? >> phyllis: hey. how's it going?
. >> billy: hey. >> victoria: come on in. >> billy: morning. sorry. maybe i should've called first. >> victoria: no, it's fine. what's up? what's going on? >> billy: how's katie, after our phone conversation last night? >> victoria: well, your little talk did the trick, because she slept like a log. >> billy: good. do you mind if i pop up and say hi before they take off to school? >> victoria: hannah actually picked them up early because they have...
Breakfast : BBCNEWS : May 6, 2017 7:00am-8:01am BST
crash has said he‘s lost for words by the worldwide support he‘s received. billy monger was racing in the formula 4 championship at donington park last month when he collided with a stationary car. but despite his injuries, he‘s vowed to race again, as nick quaraishi reports. his story has touched motorsport fans around the world and billy monger, or billy whizz as he‘s known, can‘t quite believe global superstars have wished him well. that‘s amazing. to turnover and read the signatures from many world champions, lewis hamilton, niki lauda, that really touched my heart. tragedy struck less than three weeks ago. billy was racing in the formula 4 championship at donington park when he was involved in a120mph collision with a stationary car. he was flown to the queen‘s medical centre in nottingham where it was decided he would have to have both legs amputated. now on his birthday, billy has thanked staff who helped him through the ordeal. without them i wouldn‘t be here today so a massive thanks to every single one of the staff that have helped me. £800,000 has been raised f
crash has said he‘s lost for words by the worldwide support he‘s received. billy monger was racing in the formula 4 championship at donington park last month when he collided with a stationary car. but despite his injuries, he‘s vowed to race again, as nick quaraishi reports. his story has touched motorsport fans around the world and billy monger, or billy whizz as he‘s known, can‘t quite believe global superstars have wished him well. that‘s amazing. to turnover and read the...
Sportsday : BBCNEWS : May 6, 2017 6:30pm-7:01pm BST
. a teenage racing driver who lost both his legs in an horrific crash has vowed to race again. billy monger was racing in the formula 4 championship at donington park last month when he collided with a stationary car. nick quaraishi reports. his story has touched motor sports fa ns his story has touched motor sports fans around the world and billy monger, or billy wizz as he is not, cannot believe this. it is amazing. to turnover and it is the signatures of many world champions. lewis hamilton... that really touched my heart. tragedy struck less than three weeks ago. billy was racing in the formula ford championship when he was involved in a 120 mph collision with a stationary car. he was flown to the queen's medical centre in nottingham, where it was decided he would have to have both legs amputated. now, on his birthday, billy has helped staff who have helped through the ordeal. without them, i would helped through the ordeal. without them, iwould not helped through the ordeal. without them, i would not be here today. so, a massive thanks to every single one of the staff that have
. a teenage racing driver who lost both his legs in an horrific crash has vowed to race again. billy monger was racing in the formula 4 championship at donington park last month when he collided with a stationary car. nick quaraishi reports. his story has touched motor sports fa ns his story has touched motor sports fans around the world and billy monger, or billy wizz as he is not, cannot believe this. it is amazing. to turnover and it is the signatures of many world champions. lewis...
Frances Fitzgerald Discusses The Evangelicals : CSPAN2 : April 30, 2017 8:00pm-9:01pm EDT
. who did that? why do they do that? >> i say in the book that it was billy graham. it was in the popular way but it was also a lot of his friends and mentors like ogden gay and others. graham and ogden gay were what became the nationalist decision of evangelicals. they wanted a nationalist revival and they thought they could get it at the time because just after world war ii americans became an extremely religious country. people were going home again and it's always a conservative. after wars. but also, it was sort of an anti-communist thing. people thought they were being true americans they went to church, any church, said isaac heiser. doesn't matter what church you go to. it builds character, virtue and so on. billy graham wanting to build this national revival found that the fundamentalist simply turn too many people off, they were too bigoted, and to narrow, too difficult. so, in turn, he cut them off and called himself an evangelical. he meant people who were not angry at everybody but who had pretty much the same theology but had calm down, watered down, if you want. it
. who did that? why do they do that? >> i say in the book that it was billy graham. it was in the popular way but it was also a lot of his friends and mentors like ogden gay and others. graham and ogden gay were what became the nationalist decision of evangelicals. they wanted a nationalist revival and they thought they could get it at the time because just after world war ii americans became an extremely religious country. people were going home again and it's always a conservative....
shortly. >> of course, ms. newman. >> victoria: thank you. okay, here we go. your room. >> billy: thank you. >> victoria: yours. >> juliet: thank you. not that we'll see much of them. >> billy: no, no. we got big plans, big commercial shoots. sleep is for wimps. >> victoria: yeah. >> juliet: i have to say it makes me laugh to be doing a hockey/dare body spray commercial in sunny los angeles. >> billy: what are you talking about? we got everything we need. we got sun, we got directors, we got fired up hockey fans. >> victoria: i'm still so surprised you pulled this off on such short notice. >> billy: yeah, believe me, i was a little freaked out when we had to move the shoot date. >> juliet: a little? >> billy: in the meantime, i added a boat load of stuff to your to-do list. once we meet with the director, i'm gonna need you to get on that. >> juliet: i'm ready. whatever it takes. >> victoria: i worked the entire
shortly. >> of course, ms. newman. >> victoria: thank you. okay, here we go. your room. >> billy: thank you. >> victoria: yours. >> juliet: thank you. not that we'll see much of them. >> billy: no, no. we got big plans, big commercial shoots. sleep is for wimps. >> victoria: yeah. >> juliet: i have to say it makes me laugh to be doing a hockey/dare body spray commercial in sunny los angeles. >> billy: what are you talking about? we got...
Jimmy Kimmel Live : KGO : May 10, 2017 11:35pm-12:38am PDT
kimmel live"! tonight -- billy crudup -- from "modern family" ariel winter -- and music from wale featuring g-eazy -- and now, stay put -- here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you. thank you very much. hi, everybody. very nice. guillermo, hello, i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thanks for coming. that's very nice. we have not a moment to waste. you are very kind. we have a lot to get to tonight. starting with what might be the most shocking episode of "the celebrity president" yet. as i'm sure you've heard by now, president -- what is his last name? trump? president trump yesterday said adios to james comey, who was director of the fbi, and also was in charge of investigating his campaign's relationship with the russians. he fired the guy who is investigating him. you know when we said trump should act more presidential? we probably should have specified we didn't mean nixon. [ laughter ] although nixon supported universal health care. not only did james comey get fired, the way he got fired, trump had his long-time personal
kimmel live"! tonight -- billy crudup -- from "modern family" ariel winter -- and music from wale featuring g-eazy -- and now, stay put -- here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you. thank you very much. hi, everybody. very nice. guillermo, hello, i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thanks for coming. that's very nice. we have not a moment to waste. you are very kind. we have a lot to get to tonight. starting with what...
The Lead With Jake Tapper : CNNW : May 2, 2017 1:00pm-2:01pm PDT
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World News Now : WJLA : May 2, 2017 2:37am-3:00am EDT
month kimmel and his wife molly welcomed their second child, billy. but at just 3 days old, the baby had to undergo open heart surgery because of a heart defect. last night. kimmel opened up about the whole experience. >> a little over aweek ago on friday, april 21, my wife molly gave birr tooth a boy. easy delivery. sex push six pushes he was out. appeared healthy baby. three hours after he was born. when attentive nurse at cedar sigh na, was checking him out, heard a murray in his heart. common. also noticed he was a bit purple which is not common. asked me to come with her. now all of a sudden it felt serious. the room started to fill up. more doctors and nurses. and equipment started coming in. and, they determined he wasn't getting enough oxygen into his blood. did an x-ray. lungs were fine. which meant his heart wasn't. now more doctors and nurses and, and, a terrifying thing. you know my wife is back in the recovery room. she has no idea what is going on. i'm standing in the middle of a lot of worried looking people. kind of like right now. they did an echocardiogram. sonogram
month kimmel and his wife molly welcomed their second child, billy. but at just 3 days old, the baby had to undergo open heart surgery because of a heart defect. last night. kimmel opened up about the whole experience. >> a little over aweek ago on friday, april 21, my wife molly gave birr tooth a boy. easy delivery. sex push six pushes he was out. appeared healthy baby. three hours after he was born. when attentive nurse at cedar sigh na, was checking him out, heard a murray in his...
America This Morning : KGO : May 9, 2017 4:00am-4:31am PDT
on how little billy is doing now. >>> and caught on camera, a wild scene for a couple of mountain bikers. things get crazy and a little too close for comfort with that bear. >> it wasn't one of those cute, little bears. that was a big bear. >> they are no longer fans of the chicago cubs this morning, i can tell you. >> we'll get more on that story a little bit. >>> we start this tuesday morning with new details on what led national security adviser michael flynn losing his job. >> yeah, the former acting attorney general, sally yates, testified that she urgently warned the white house that flynn could be blackmailed by the russians. >> but the president reacted quickly on twitter saying, the russia/trump collusion story is a total hoax. when will this taxpayer funded charade end? abc's janai norman has more details from washington. good morning, janai. >> reporter: kendis and diane, good morning. this is the first time we heard a detailed account from sally yates about her warning to the white house that michael flynn had been compromised, but ultimately yates was fired first. new
on how little billy is doing now. >>> and caught on camera, a wild scene for a couple of mountain bikers. things get crazy and a little too close for comfort with that bear. >> it wasn't one of those cute, little bears. that was a big bear. >> they are no longer fans of the chicago cubs this morning, i can tell you. >> we'll get more on that story a little bit. >>> we start this tuesday morning with new details on what led national security adviser michael...
Noticiero Univisión : KDTV : May 22, 2017 12:00pm-12:31pm PDT
casos se han vuelto mÁs comunes en estados unidos? billy: sÍ, es como un 2000%. se ve que el mensaje de donald trump... hay gente que piensa que es por la parte econÓmica, pero el hombre tiene un espÍritu feo, y como que odia a los inmigrantes. javier: le preguntamos quÉ habÍa dicho su mamÁ a raÍz del incidente. billy: mi madre estÁ muy orgullosa de su hijo. ella sabe que yo llegarÉ hasta lo Último. ella sabe que cuando se meten con ella... yo vi la condiciÓn del hombre y me di cuenta que pagÓ un precio bien alto. es veterano, eso se tiene que aplaudir, pero yo nunca le iba a alzar la mano. me quede en calma pensando en esas cosas.-- me quedÉ en calma pensando en esas cosas. javier: yo le preguntÉ si pensaba volver a puerto rico. billy: si me pare el pasaje, con una sonrisa-- pagan el pasaje, con una sonrisa. carolina: lo mÁs bonito es reaccionar de una forma pacÍfica. Ésas cosas pasan. ahÍ tenemos el video de cÓmo comenzÓ eso en el aeropuerto. javier: fÍjense, escuchen. la vara, no se podrÍa ver el vÍdeo completo.-- la verdad, no se podrÍa ver el video complet
casos se han vuelto mÁs comunes en estados unidos? billy: sÍ, es como un 2000%. se ve que el mensaje de donald trump... hay gente que piensa que es por la parte econÓmica, pero el hombre tiene un espÍritu feo, y como que odia a los inmigrantes. javier: le preguntamos quÉ habÍa dicho su mamÁ a raÍz del incidente. billy: mi madre estÁ muy orgullosa de su hijo. ella sabe que yo llegarÉ hasta lo Último. ella sabe que cuando se meten con ella... yo vi la condiciÓn del hombre y me di...
Overheard With Evan Smith : KCSM : May 13, 2017 4:30pm-5:01pm PDT
billy joe's a really good songwriter. - yeah, well in fact he did the forward to the book that you did last year. - right, true. - that is called under the big black sun, it's an exploration of the scene that you were in back at the time and you and exene, but also mike watt who was in the minutemen and later in firehose and charlotte caffey and jane wiedlin from the go-gos and dave alvin are all contributing to this, talking about their piece of that time. - right. - right. - right. - he is the logical heir to that, you would say. - yes, yeah. i mean, that east bay punk rock scene with lookout records and all that, they took a lot from the la sound. they took a lot from the la sound. and we're pragmatic, we want to appeal to other people. a lot more people know who green day is than know about the la punk rock scene. we did the book in that way because there's all these different stories and everybody has their own truth and even though i may really support and appreciate the fact that women were equal parts in the punk rock world. - for instance. - i can appreciate that. exene and i
billy joe's a really good songwriter. - yeah, well in fact he did the forward to the book that you did last year. - right, true. - that is called under the big black sun, it's an exploration of the scene that you were in back at the time and you and exene, but also mike watt who was in the minutemen and later in firehose and charlotte caffey and jane wiedlin from the go-gos and dave alvin are all contributing to this, talking about their piece of that time. - right. - right. - right. - he is...
Good Morning America : KGO : May 24, 2017 7:00am-9:01am PDT
and russia. >>> an abc news exclusive, billy bush speaking out about that infamous tape with president trump. >> i think i sacrificed my own dignity in that moment. >> what his wife said, why he's breaking his silence now. >> have you had any confirmation conversations with donald trump since the release of the tape? >> one-on-one with robin only on "gma" this morning. >>> all present and accounted for. good morning, america. the president continuing his trip abroad meeting with pope francis just hours ago. we will have more on that just ahead. >>> across europe britain reeling from that terror attack in manchester on the highest state of alert. here is what we know this morning. there were three new arrests overnight in connection with the attack. investigators are digging into the bomber's travels and ties to isis. the vic count has gone up 119 people were injured and new details about the 22 people who lost their lives. >>> and prime minister theresa may warns that another attack may be imminent so military are in the streets and in buckingham palace, the threat level crit
and russia. >>> an abc news exclusive, billy bush speaking out about that infamous tape with president trump. >> i think i sacrificed my own dignity in that moment. >> what his wife said, why he's breaking his silence now. >> have you had any confirmation conversations with donald trump since the release of the tape? >> one-on-one with robin only on "gma" this morning. >>> all present and accounted for. good morning, america. the president...
Health Care Law Replacement and Government Spending : CSPAN : May 2, 2017 8:00pm-8:10pm EDT
pence's office as well as speaker ryan's office. and the trump, after billy long came out and told me that he was a no vote and i tweeted it out, he said shortly out to that's went out, he received phone call from the president himself trying to switch his vote. billy long said he remained and even after the conversation. >> it looks like the rules committee is passing the budget forward, the house will take up that spending measure for 2017. certainly the senate the later next week. the president was tweeting about to the whole process and looking year 18, saying either reelect more republican senators or change the rules, now 51%. our country needs a good shutdown in september to fix the mess. ?hat were the reactions tobers certainly don't want shut the government down and i'm not sure how sears the they were taking bets message from the president. this billt looks like is heading in the right direction. it will come up for a vote in the house, i'm sorry, the current funding bill to fund the government through september, will come up for a vote in the house as early as tomorrow and
pence's office as well as speaker ryan's office. and the trump, after billy long came out and told me that he was a no vote and i tweeted it out, he said shortly out to that's went out, he received phone call from the president himself trying to switch his vote. billy long said he remained and even after the conversation. >> it looks like the rules committee is passing the budget forward, the house will take up that spending measure for 2017. certainly the senate the later next week. the...
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... you're together? >> billy: look, it wasn't -- this is not how i wanted this to happen, victoria. >> phyllis: i'm sorry you had to find out this way. >> victoria: yeah, so am i. >> lily: hey. >> cane: hey. >> lily: is this where the elevator got stuck? i had to take the stairs. everyone's okay, right? no one got stranded in there? >> cane: sweetheart, you should come with me. >> victoria: this couldn't get more humiliating. not that you care at all. >> billy: of course i care. i never wanted to hurt you. >> victoria: you have said that to me so many times, but you keep doing it. >> phyllis: how many times have you hurt billy? why is it so hard for you to understand that he wants a woman who treats him with respect, who doesn't toy with him, who doesn't building up his hopes to just, like, toss him aside, like he's nothing? i have always cared about billy, and i think he deserves a lot more than you're capable of giving, victoria.
... you're together? >> billy: look, it wasn't -- this is not how i wanted this to happen, victoria. >> phyllis: i'm sorry you had to find out this way. >> victoria: yeah, so am i. >> lily: hey. >> cane: hey. >> lily: is this where the elevator got stuck? i had to take the stairs. everyone's okay, right? no one got stranded in there? >> cane: sweetheart, you should come with me. >> victoria: this couldn't get more humiliating. not that you care at...
looking pretty strong there. billy. billy quite the overachiever.n. at a few weeks old. now, jimmy thanked everyone for the outpouring of support said he would send a card to everyone who donate to children's hospital since his comments last week. >> he also joked it could be christmas before some people receive their notes. but we're guessing that they will be okay with that. worst the wait. >> wait for it. fun to see him back and to seep his son is duke better there. >> see little billy with his little smile. >> cute face. glitz, glamour in the ballroom. week eight, "dancing with the stars." called it hot summer nights last night. >> each pair performed two routines, dance they had never done before. and trio dance. >> normani who has an advantage over everyone else, a singer dancer, editorial. she and partner val were one point away from double perfect scores for the night. >> michelle jennings was spicy as always with his argentina tango, sweeping not one but two women off their feet. three if you include me. a near perfect score for the second number. probably would have been
looking pretty strong there. billy. billy quite the overachiever.n. at a few weeks old. now, jimmy thanked everyone for the outpouring of support said he would send a card to everyone who donate to children's hospital since his comments last week. >> he also joked it could be christmas before some people receive their notes. but we're guessing that they will be okay with that. worst the wait. >> wait for it. fun to see him back and to seep his son is duke better there. >> see...
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of his son billy. >> little over a week ago on friday, april 21st my wife molly gave birth to a boy. we call him billy. it was an easy delivery. six pushes, he was out and appeared to be a normal healthy baby until three hours after he was born when an attendant nurse, her name is a murmur in his heart but noticed he was a bit purple which is not common so she asked me to come with her and now all of a sudden it felt serious and the room started to fill up. more doctors and nurses and equipment started coming in and they determined he wasn't getting enough oxygen into his blood but they did an x-ray and his lungs were fine which meant his heart wasn't. so now more doctors and nurses and equipment come in. it's terrifying thing. you know, pie wife is back in the recovery room. she has no idea what's going on. and i'm standing in the middle of a lot of very worried looking people kind of like right now. they did an echocardiogram which is a sonogram of the heart and found that billy was born with a heart disease, something called wi he has a hole in the wall between the left and right
of his son billy. >> little over a week ago on friday, april 21st my wife molly gave birth to a boy. we call him billy. it was an easy delivery. six pushes, he was out and appeared to be a normal healthy baby until three hours after he was born when an attendant nurse, her name is a murmur in his heart but noticed he was a bit purple which is not common so she asked me to come with her and now all of a sudden it felt serious and the room started to fill up. more doctors and nurses and...
for wusa9 news at happy birthday to my baby andrew, he's 34 today. [ kissing sounds ] >> billy: listen. i will tell victoria. i just need a little bit of time, okay? i promise. i just want to make sure that nikki's health is back on track. >> phyllis: sounds pretty open-ended to me. >> billy: it's not open-ended. >> phyllis: billy... >> billy: look. i want the same thing as you -- to be out in the open and we'll have no secrets, just you and me, together with nothing to hide. do you trust me?
for wusa9 news at happy birthday to my baby andrew, he's 34 today. [ kissing sounds ] >> billy: listen. i will tell victoria. i just need a little bit of time, okay? i promise. i just want to make sure that nikki's health is back on track. >> phyllis: sounds pretty open-ended to me. >> billy: it's not open-ended. >> phyllis: billy... >> billy: look. i want the same thing as you -- to be out in the open and we'll have no secrets, just you and me, together with...
day and we will see you. >> billy: [ sighs ] >> phyllis: hang on. >> billy: hm? >> phyllis: you really ready? for this relationship? you and me? no more lying? no more sneaking around? >> billy: wouldn't be in the middle of the lion's den at jabot if i wasn't ready, wasn't sure. [ sighs ] what about you? you seem a little... >> phyllis: i'm anxious. i just keep having a flashback of victoria just... standing there, looking horrified and humiliated. >> billy: the timing couldn't have been worse on that. if those elevator doors had
day and we will see you. >> billy: [ sighs ] >> phyllis: hang on. >> billy: hm? >> phyllis: you really ready? for this relationship? you and me? no more lying? no more sneaking around? >> billy: wouldn't be in the middle of the lion's den at jabot if i wasn't ready, wasn't sure. [ sighs ] what about you? you seem a little... >> phyllis: i'm anxious. i just keep having a flashback of victoria just... standing there, looking horrified and humiliated. >>...
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glass and bars. >> as he is escorted to visitation, billy groves has no idea the visitor internal affairs has received a tip on is his girlfriend. >> i woke up like at 5:00, got up, shaved, brushed my teeth, because i'm going to see brandy. she is like the love of my life. so i'm smiling. i'm feeling good. it's a good day. i know everything's going to be perfect. >> groves' girlfriend, brandy graves, has just been picked up on surveillance cameras passing through security. claiming to have a back injury, she arrives in a wheelchair. >> okay, here we go. he's checking her out. checking her shoes. she's moving those legs pretty well. i don't know what we're anticipating on the visit. we've heard anything from tobacco to cell phones to cocaine, marijuana. >> she's refusing to get out of the chair. >> unable to complete their patdown, officers follow prison policy and turn brandy away, throwing a wrench in whelan's plan for a bust. >> that lady in the wheelchair, go ahead and let her come on and visit. we think she has something on her. we have someone in the guard hall in case she tr
glass and bars. >> as he is escorted to visitation, billy groves has no idea the visitor internal affairs has received a tip on is his girlfriend. >> i woke up like at 5:00, got up, shaved, brushed my teeth, because i'm going to see brandy. she is like the love of my life. so i'm smiling. i'm feeling good. it's a good day. i know everything's going to be perfect. >> groves' girlfriend, brandy graves, has just been picked up on surveillance cameras passing through security....
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of "this is the klan." this guy.so going to get to meet rmer neo-nazi billy roper. >> raise your hand if you' a white person and proud to be so. >> yeah! >> in recent years billy's become anakin to pastor robb's even more evil emperor palpatine. >> a lot of us have to work jobs with muds. we see muds on the streets all the time. we have to live with [ bleep ] skins. how do we make sure they never have to go to school with any [ bleep ] or spics or gooks? i'm not a separatist. i'm a non-white extinctionist. >> what's an old school hater like billy roper doing with mr. new klan thomas robb? and what if i gotten myself into? >> i hope this is the right klan compound. that would suck. >> and look who's waiting for me. former neo-nazi billy roper. >> yes, we did. we got a little lost. >> billy roper. >> hello, billy. nice to meet you. kamau bell. >> nice to meet you too. >> billy wants to chat before bringing me inside for a chat with pastor robb. here's an appropriate set forget a discussion on hate. a kids' playground. >> how did you get involved with pastor robb? >> i'm involved as
of "this is the klan." this guy.so going to get to meet rmer neo-nazi billy roper. >> raise your hand if you' a white person and proud to be so. >> yeah! >> in recent years billy's become anakin to pastor robb's even more evil emperor palpatine. >> a lot of us have to work jobs with muds. we see muds on the streets all the time. we have to live with [ bleep ] skins. how do we make sure they never have to go to school with any [ bleep ] or spics or gooks? i'm...
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SERTRALINE, SEIZURE, AND SODIUM: A CASE OF ACUTE SIADH
Sara Klinger, DO, Daniel Weaver, MD, , Lexington, KY
Meeting: Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Abstract number: 772
Categories: Adult, Clinical Vignettes, Hospital Medicine 2019
Keywords: Hyponatremia, Seizure, Siadh
Case Presentation: Mr. R, a 52 year old man with history of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in remission for 14 years, presented for an elective total laryngectomy. He was doing well post-operatively however had been experiencing uncontrolled anxiety for a few months that was previously controlled by sertraline 100mg. Therefore the medicine team recommended increasing his sertraline dose to 150 mg daily. The following morning, he complained of nausea and abdominal discomfort but otherwise had no new complaints. That afternoon he suffered a seizure that was aborted by lorazepam and he was subsequently loaded with levetiracetam. Labs showed a significant drop in plasma sodium from 131 to 120 milimole(mmol)/Liter(L) in one day. Upon closer review of the medication administration record, the patient received his original dose of sertraline 100mg the morning of the medicine consult and a subsequent dose of 150mg that evening. He then received another 150mg of sertraline the following morning, the day of the seizure. The suspicion was that the increased total sertraline caused acute Syndrome of Inappropriate Anti-Diuretic Hormone (SIADH). Therefore, studies were drawn to confirm this: plasma osmolality 254 miliosmole(mOsm)/kilogram (kg), urine sodium 109mmol/L, urine osmolality 483mOsm/kg, normal thyroid and cortisol studies, and CT head negative for an acute intracranial process. All of which are consistent with SIADH. The patient’s sodium levels improved over the following days with discontinuation of sertraline, hypertonic saline, fluid restriction, and diuresis with furosemide. The patient was eventually resumed on sertraline 50mg daily and discharged home in stable condition on this dose.
Discussion: SIADH is a well-known side effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), however there are very few reported cases that demonstrate a dramatic decrease in sodium over a 24 hour time period leading to serious symptoms such as a seizure. Hospitalists must be aware that the onset of SIADH can happen acutely, and thus result in a seizure. This case also highlights the importance of careful prescribing in the hospital with medications that are generally considered benign. Checkpoints are in place to prevent this type of mistake for medications such as antibiotics and antihypertensives, but medications such as SSRI’s are often overlooked.
Conclusions: This case illustrates an acute onset of SIADH, a rare but known side effect of SSRIs, however the rapid onset within 24 hours resulting in a seizure is not often described in the literature. This case also exemplifies the negative consequences of failing to ensure a medication order is properly dated resulting in duplication of a medication. System-based checks that alert physicians if the patient has already received a similar medication within 24 hours could help to prevent further medication errors such as this one described.
To cite this abstract:
Klinger, SJ; Weaver, DT. SERTRALINE, SEIZURE, AND SODIUM: A CASE OF ACUTE SIADH. Abstract published at Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md. Abstract 772. https://www.shmabstracts.com/abstract/sertraline-seizure-and-sodium-a-case-of-acute-siadh/. Accessed January 19, 2020.
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Has Boris Johnson ruined his chances of passing a Brexit deal?
Boris Johnson’s behaviour in the Commons last night was clearly part of his strategy to set up a ‘people vs parliament’ narrative ahead of an election. We can debate the rights and wrongs of telling MPs that the best way to honour Jo Cox would be to get Brexit done, but there are also political implications of this.
The Prime Minister’s team has, over the past few weeks, been making contact with Labour MPs to try to persuade them of the merits of supporting a Brexit deal should one come before the Commons. Many of them have been sympathetic: they regret not supporting Theresa May’s deal and are fearful of a no-deal exit. Tories involved in this operation have been careful to mollify and woo the Labourites they’re talking to.
So how does Johnson’s language sit with that? He undoubtedly wound up Labour MPs last night, not so much with his ’surrender bill’ line, but with his tone deaf responses to MPs talking about Jo Cox. This has upset those potentially supportive Labourites to the extent that ministers have been in touch with Downing Street to alert them to individual opposition MPs who might have supported a deal but who are now turning against the Prime Minister.
The reason for this paradox, I understand, is that there is a division between those behind the Prime Minister’s attitude in the Commons, and those leading attempts to broker a deal. Insiders tell me that while Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s senior adviser, is part of the uncompromising ‘people vs parliament’ strategy, the MP outreach programme is being led by Danny Kruger, the Prime Minister’s political secretary. Kruger has a rather different approach to politics (he’s the man behind David Cameron’s hug-a-hoodie message, for one thing). Kruger and his team of MPs are going to have to work ten times as hard now with angry Labourites if they want to pass a deal.
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Matt Calkins: Twice is nice, but three would mean Sounders dynasty sits on rare throne
UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 13, 2019
Seattle head coach Brian Schmetzer, right, shakes hands with supporters Nov. 12, 2019, during a parade to celebrate the Sounders’ defeat of Toronto FC last Sunday to win the MLS Cup in Seattle. (Ted S. Warren / AP)
By Matt Calkins Seattle Times
SEATTLE – If the newest MLS Cup was a living, conscious being, it would have felt neglected Tuesday.
The trophy had just found a new home with the Sounders after they beat Toronto FC two days earlier, yet it didn’t seem to be the focus of the players and executives.
Despite their momentous victory on Sunday, those guys were already eyeing a new prize – on which would be at least a year away.
As goalkeeper Stefan Frei said after Tuesday’s victory parade: “Let’s get another one!”
Yes, gunning for a third MLS Cup was as much of a talking point Tuesday as celebrating the second one. Fans’ cheers were loud as the players rode a bus down Fourth Avenue in downtown Seattle, but deafening when they mentioned repeating as champs.
A third title in five years, after all, wouldn’t just make the Sounders an MLS dynasty – it would beget the first real sports dynasty the Emerald City has ever had.
So why not get greedy?
This year’s Sounders were hyped as the most talented roster the franchise has fielded, and the postseason results confirmed as much. Seattle scored a 3-1 semifinal victory over LAFC, the winningest regular-season team in MLS history, then beat Toronto FC by the same score in the final.
If the Sounders’ championship in 2016 felt lucky (they had no regulation goals in the final and tallied just three shots), this felt authoritative. And it appears the core of this team will return in its pursuit of title No. 3.
Midfielder Nicolas Lodeiro, who turned the team around in 2016, is under contract through 2021. The same is true of forward Raul Ruidiaz, who led the team in goals and scored three of them over Seattle’s final two games.
Homegrown talent Jordan Morris, Washington Husky product Cristian Roldan, and Frei, are all set to return as well.
Some might say the Sounders are already a dynasty (it’s a term open to interpretation) seeing how they have been to three of the past four MLS Cups and had the league’s best regular-season record in 2014. But Sounders general manager Garth Lagerwey wasn’t accepting the label so easily.
“I think you’ve got to win at least three to do that,” he said.
Winning three in such a short span would be new territory for a city that has had historically dominant teams, but has never been a town where a prestigious title went through. The 2013 Seahawks won a Super Bowl, returned the next year, and have made the playoffs in six of the past seven seasons – but they weren’t a dynasty. The Storm won WNBA titles in 2004, 2010, and 2018, but aside from Sue Bird at point guard, those early championship teams bore no resemblance to the most recent one. The Huskies’ football national championships are more than 30 years apart, the Sonics claimed just one NBA title, and despite having a record 116 regular-season wins one year, the Mariners have never reached the World Series.
But here the Sounders are in a league filled with parity. Here is Seattle standing atop MLS, which has expanded to 24 teams and will have 26 by next year. Here is a squad that seems to make a second-half push or a huge summer acquisition every season to launch them near the top of the standings. And they don’t seem intent on stopping.
“Now we have two. Next year we want three!” Lodeiro said on a stage in Seattle Center on Tuesday. “Three! Three!”
You have to remember that we’re talking about soccer, where one bad bounce can change a game. The dominant team doesn’t always win, as the 2014 Sounders or 2019 LAFC can attest.
Regardless of the preparation a squad puts in, Lady Luck can still decide a title – but Seattle seems particularly adept at putting itself in the best position.
Lodeiro did add an addendum to his “three!” chant Tuesday. He told fans to enjoy the current title in the meantime, and it seems he will, too.
The Sounders were crowned kings of the MLS when they beat Toronto on Sunday. But if they win another one, they’ll have a full-on throne.
Published: Nov. 13, 2019, 11:54 a.m. Updated: Nov. 13, 2019, 8:48 p.m.
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WADA publishes revised International Standard for Testing and Investigations
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is pleased to publish the revised International Standard for Testing and Investigations (ISTI), which was approved by WADA’s Executive Committee (ExCo) on 4 November 2019 and enters into force on 1 March 2020. It should be noted that this is an exceptional revision to the ISTI, which is in advance of other approved revisions that will come into force on 1 January 2021 along with, the 2021 World Anti-Doping Code and other International Standards that were approved by WADA’s Foundation Board and ExCo in November.
The revisions to the ISTI, which come into force on 1 March 2020, are specifically related to the requirement for urine samples to meet a suitable specific gravity for analysis. As outlined in the revised ISTI, starting on 1 March 2020, the minimum volume of urine required for analysis will remain at 90ml; however, if an athlete can provide 150ml or more of urine, the minimum specific gravity measurement (using a refractometer) will be lowered to 1.003 or above instead of the current 1.005 or above.
If the athlete provides a sample with a volume greater than 90ml but less than 150ml, the current specific gravity measurement of 1.005 (using a refractometer) will remain applicable. Athletes who provide a sample with a specific gravity measurement lower than the above measurements will be required to continue to provide a sample until they reach a suitable specific gravity measurement.
These revisions, which were endorsed by WADA’s Laboratory Expert Group, recognize significant enhancements in the sensitivity of laboratory analytical methods made over the past 20 years and will reduce the amount of time some athletes spend in doping control stations, making the process more athlete-friendly, while presenting a potential saving in resources for Anti-Doping Organizations.
It is also important to note that these revisions to the specific gravity measurement will be applied during the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Should you have any questions regarding the above revisions to the ISTI, please feel free to contact Wendy.Butts@wada-ama.org.
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Impact Wrestling continues to go from strength to strength with each and every passing week as they prove why they're once again one of the growing forces in professional wrestling. We here at Sportskeeda were able to take part in their recent teleconference call, where we spoke to Alisha Edwards and Josh Mathews.
SK: You’ve been wrestling for well over a decade now. What has been the key to your longevity and your ability to remain at the top of your game?
AE: Consistency. I’ve just got to make sure I go inside the ring and do what I do each time and get better. I’ve been pretty good at knowing that I need to be proactive, and making sure that I bring my knowledge and my experience [to the ring]. It’s been really helpful to have Madison and Gail, and the new girls coming along. They’re the ones that are getting there now, and it was different when I came along.
SK: Are there any rising stars in Impact Wrestling that you think are really going to reach that next level in the second half of 2018?
JM: I think you can look at athletes like Brian Cage, who arguably came in with some name value, and I think we’ve increased that. Desmond Xavier is someone who I would buy stock in; Su Yung has also done an incredible job and she’s already won the Knockout’s Championship. You have other knockouts like Tessa Blanchard who is just starting in Impact, Kiera Hogan is very young; Tessa and Kiera are both on their way up. I think having someone like Madison Rayne come back, and be involved in the stories and the experience she brings [is good], and then she takes that experience and she goes back to Ring of Honor or somewhere else and then comes back. I like that.
I’ve also always liked Sami Callihan, and Eddie Edwards. I wrote a story three and a half years ago about how Eddie Edwards should win the World Championship, and then a few months later he won the World Championship. Those are the kind of people you can point to and say okay, these are our guys. I mean Moose for example, he’s another one who can just flat out go inside the ring. I think we have a great roster, and these guys have the opportunity to take the ball and run with it the best they can.
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Somerset kebab shops warned to do more to keep people safe after 'worrying' test results
“These results are worrying and disappointing..."
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Kebab shops have been warned against breaching allergen laws. (Image: Getty)
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Kebab shops in Somerset are being warned they must do more to keep people safe after 'worrying' test results discovered by Trading Standards.
Inspections by Somerset, Devon and Torbay Trading Standards Service found more than 40 per cent of kebab takeaways failed to comply with Food Information laws, designed to keep consumers safe from allergens.
Between May 2018 and March 2019, Trading Standards Officers in these regions visited 38 takeaway businesses selling kebab meat to check whether the correct allergen information was being given to consumers.
After buying it, officers obtained the manufacturer’s label for the meat from the takeaway business.
The meat was then sent for analysis to compare what was on the label with what was in the meat.
In five cases, milk was found in the purchased kebab meat when it was not disclosed on the label.
Trading Standards alerted the Food Standards Agency of their findings as a Food Safety Incident and action was taken by the Local Authority with responsibility for the manufacturer.
In a further 12 cases where Trading Standards Officers had stated that they had allergies to wheat, eggs and milk, they were nevertheless served food which contained those allergens, due to poor procedures in the businesses selling the food.
All shops which were not compliant with the requirements have now been informed of these issues and given advice.
Further visits to these premises have been undertaken to ensure that their systems are able to provide consumers with the correct allergen information to enable them to make safe choices when ordering food.
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In the coming year Somerset, Devon and Torbay will be carrying out further extensive allergen sampling to test compliance with the legal requirements to provide accurate food allergen information in catering businesses.
A spokesperson for Somerset County Council said: “These results are worrying and disappointing, particularly bearing in mind that only two years ago a teenager in Bath died, due to eating kebab meat that contained yoghurt, which had not been disclosed on the kebab meat label.
"Devon, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards are committed to improving the quality and accuracy of Food Information for consumers across our region and will continue to check, advise and, where necessary, take legal action to enforce the law in relation to allergens.”
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Ancient History Encyclopedia Grows Revenue by 26% with //Signal
sovrnmarketing // February 10, 2017
Ancient History Encyclopedia is the world’s most-read history encyclopedia. Their mission is to improve history education worldwide by creating the most complete, freely accessible and reliable history resource in the world.
In November 2016, Jan Van Der Crabben, CEO of Ancient History Encyclopedia partnered with Sovrn and their //Signal product. While he was using a vendor to understand more about how his readers interact with his content, he had no solution to monetize that engaged audience. “It was frustrating that we got the same revenue per page view for a reader who was on a page for 10 seconds and a reader that was on a page for 2 minutes,” explained Jan, “I knew we could do better.”
Seeking additive revenue from their engaged readers, Jan and his team decided to move forward with an implementation of //Signal. “I was amazed at how fast and easy //Signal was to implement. We were up and running in 48 hours with no ops resources needed,” exclaimed Jan.
By measuring viewability and user engagement, //Signal creates additional ad opportunities in existing zones after header bidding or waterfall partners have already served their ads. After every 20 seconds of engaged time, a new ad is served. This customizable integration can be applied to all existing ad zones through a simple one tag integration.
After just one week, //Signal increased Ancient History Encyclopedia’s programmatic advertising revenue by 26%. Jan plans to roll out //Signal across two of his other websites in the coming weeks.
“Sovrn is Ancient History Encyclopedia’s most successful advertising partner, representing our largest revenue stream. As a non-profit company, we require high-quality ads that are non-intrusive and family friendly, which Sovrn delivers at high CPMs. We’re running our ads 100% through header bidding using Prebid.js via DFP, with which Sovrn integrates seamlessly. We’ve been impressed with Sovrn’s commitment to maximizing revenue for publishers, regularly reviewing our setup for possible improvements. We were amazed with how quick and meaningful the revenue impact is. It’s empowering to be able to monetize our more engaged readers for every page view!”
Jan Van Der Crabben, CEO of Ancient History Encyclopedia
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Steeda Congratulates Tom Ellis on Road Atlanta Win!
In the SCCA SEDIV season opening round of A-Sedan competition this year, the qualifying effort of Steeda racer Tom Ellis put him on the pole, and he finished second on the tight track at Moroso Motorsports Park. At Roebling Road a few months later, he followed the Steeda-equipped Mustang of fellow Floridian Bob Eubanks across the line, giving Steeda the top two spots on the podium. Ellis also led the field by 25 seconds in Daytona until mechanical failure put the car back on the trailer earlier than expected. But in his fourth outing this year, it all came together for the rookie driver, who took his first checkered flag in the race at Road Atlanta.
The rain on Friday morning worked to the team’s advantage, helping to keep the revs down a bit as they finished breaking in a new engine. As the track dried, more power was applied, and the set-up seemed spot on, so no adjustments were made to the suspension. That balanced blend of power and handling was enough in Saturday morning’s qualifying session to earn Ellis the pole, his second this season. The engine continued to pull hard, and the new rear end ratio seemed perfect for the Georgia track. Between testing last year and the previous races this season, Crew Chief Sam Cory had little to do but make some subtle adjustments to tire pressure.
When the green flag dropped on Sunday, Ellis was off like a rifle shot, with Eubanks and Tony Broglin giving chase. But it was Tom’s turn to shine as he continued to build his lead, lap by lap, with times close to those he set in qualifying. He took the checkers a full 50 seconds before the second place finisher crossed the stripe, closely followed by Eubanks, giving Steeda a second outing with not one but two drivers on the podium.
Hard to believe this is a rookie driver, with two poles, one win and a second place finish in his first season behind the wheel. Tom is looking forward to showing this same type of performance at the Double National event at Roebling Road over the July 4th week end.
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These were last year's most popular Hallmark Christmas movies
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Just in case this year's 40 new Hallmark Christmas movies aren't enough, here's a look at some of the most popular "Countdown to Christmas" titles from 2018.
1. "Christmas at Graceland"
Hallmark description: A business executive traveling to Memphis for work reunites with her old flame, a music promoter who begs her to perform at the Graceland Christmas Concert. Stars Kellie Pickler and Wes Brown.
IMDb rating: 5.7/10
Viewers: 2.8 million
2. "A Shoe Addict's Christmas"
Hallmark description: When Noelle gets snowed in at the department store she works at, a quirky guardian angel helps her rediscover the love, family connection, and faith that she had put on hold. Stars Candace Cameron Bure and Luke Macfarlane.
3. "It's Christmas, Eve"
Hallmark description: Mistletoe magic comes to town when a school superintendent, forced to make cutbacks, meets a widower music teacher and his 9-yr-old daughter. Stars LeAnn Rimes and Tyler Hynes.
4. "Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa"
Hallmark description: Lisa Palmer’s trip home to Evergreen for the holidays finds her fulfilling the wishes of a Christmas Past and finding a romance full of Christmas magic. Stars Jill Wagner and Mark Deklin.
Viewers: 4 million
5. "Pride, Prejudice, and Mistletoe"
Hallmark description: When Darcy returns home to plan a Christmas charity event with her old rival Luke, she realizes what is important in life by repairing her relationship with her father and finding love. Stars Lacey Chabert and Brendan Penny.
6. "Mingle All the Way"
Hallmark description: As app developer Molly and her unlikely match Jeff accompany each other to their Christmas events, sparks fly in the midst of a business arrangement. Stars Jen Lilley and Brant Daugherty.
IMDb rating: 7/10
7. "Homegrown Christmas"
Hallmark description: After stepping down as CEO of her dream job, Maddie heads home for the holidays to gain perspective. She finds herself running into her old high school sweetheart Carter, and tensions quickly arise. When forced to put together a Christmas dance for the local high school, Carter and Maddie find themselves putting their differences aside and just might rediscover what made them fall in love all those years ago. Starring Lori Loughlin and Victor Webster.
8. "Christmas in Love"
Hallmark description: Ellie works at a famous bakery, whose CEO sends his son undercover to learn the business hands-on. Ellie must show Nick that the community Christmas spirit drives the business. Stars Brooke D'Orsay and Daniel Lissing.
9. "Christmas at Pemberley Manor"
Hallmark description: In this holiday re-imagining of “Pride and Prejudice,” rookie party planner Elizabeth works with the all-business William Darcy to put together a Christmas Festival at Pemberley Manor. Stars Jessica Lowndes and Michael Rady.
10. "Christmas Everlasting"
Hallmark description: Lucy heads home for Christmas to hear the terms of her sister’s unusual will. Stars Tatyana Ali and Dondre Whitfield.
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A favorite among Shakespeare’s comedies, As You Like It provides us with the epitome of pastoral romance: cross-dressing and love-notes; poetry and banter; satire, slapstick and sincerity. Believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600, the play also touches on hot topics related to the human experience, love, death, exile, illusion versus reality, and much more.
Stone Soup Shakespeare's 2014 Tour will test director Eric Mercado's expertise at devising as he and the Ensemble bring new energy to this classic story. The company combines Shakespeare's text with USO style decor and showmanship, adding WWII era music, found object puppets and a special opening act: The Green Show.
Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I.
When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.
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2014 Tour Schedule
Thursday, May 1, 2014
6:00pm
Marion Carnegie Library
Cape Girardeau Public Library
Cole Memorial Park
in partnership with Chester Public Library
Harrisburg District Library
Harrisburg, IL
Washington County Courthouse
Nashville, IL
Friday, May 9, 2014
Tower Grove Park
Pool Pavillion
St. Louis, MO
Saturday, May 10, 2014
4:00pm
McCracken County Library
Paducah, KY
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Blue Sky Winery
3150 S Rocky Comfort Rd
Makanda, IL
Friday, May 16, 2014
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts
Mt. Vernon, IL
Saturday, May 17, 2014
presented by Paris Public Library
Attucks Park
Friday, May 30, 2014
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Tippacanoe Amphitheatre Park
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Shorewood Public Library
3920 North Murray Ave
Shorewood, WI
Senior Citizens Memorial Park
2238 N Oakley Ave
Chicago, IL
Dates being added, check back often for new dates. For information on bringing As You Like It to your town, e-mail info@stonesoupshakespeare.com
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Orlando de Boys, the youngest son of the late Sir Rowland de Boys, has been kept in poverty by his brother Oliver since his father's death. Orlando decides to wrestle for his fortune at Frederick's court.
Duke Ferdinand has been forced into exile from the court by the usurping Duke Frederick. He takes refuge in the Forest of Arden with a band of faithful lords. Meanwhile Rosalind, his daughter, is kept at court as a companion to her cousin Celia, Frederick's daughter.
When Rosalind meets Orlando at the wrestling match it seems the two might find happiness as they find love, but before they can live happily ever after, Duke Ferdinand banishes Rosalind and threatens Orlando.
Celia, refusing to be parted from her cousin, goes with Rosalind to seek Duke Ferdinand in the Forest. For safety they disguise themselves - Rosalind as the boy Ganymede and Celia as his sister Aliena - and persuade the fool Touchstone to accompany them. Orlando also flees to the Forest and takes refuge with the exiled Duke. Posting lyrics of his love to Rosalind through the forest.
It is in the Forest of Arden that the fun truly begins as Rosalind (now Ganymede) meets Orlando again and counsels him in the art of love and wooing. Elsewhere in the Forest love also blossoms: the shepherd Silvius suffers unrequited love for Phoebe, who has fallen for Ganymede, while Touchstone is pursuing the goat-herding Audrey.
Oliver, sent into the Forest to hunt down Orlando, has his life saved by his brother, becomes filled with remorse for his past actions and falls in love with Aliena.
Just as passions and confusion are about to boil over Ganymede promises he will conjure up the real Rosalind and that all the lovers will finally be wed...
The 2014 tour is partially supported by the Carbondale Community Arts Southern Arts Fund and by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
As You Like It poster art by Amy Dellagiarino
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What's your sense of purpose? The answer may affect your health
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When you fill out a medical form listing your health history, vital statistics and test results, there probably isn't a space for "sense of purpose."
Perhaps there should be. The term may be hard to quantify or define, but it can be a big factor in overall well-being, physical condition and even life expectancy.
"In all phases of life it's good for your health, and particularly your cardiovascular health, to feel a sense of purpose," said Dr. Lawson Wulsin, professor of psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. "We all need a role in life that's meaningful to us and the people who care about us."
Lacking a sense of purpose, Wulsin said, can be a factor in depression, which is increasingly linked to physical health problems. Mind-body connections are a longtime theme in wellness discussions – from Norman Cousins' 1979 landmark book Anatomy of an Illness, which popularized the idea of using humor to foster healing, to current retirement guides that urge seniors to stay active and engaged mentally to promote health and longevity.
A recent study underscored the point. Researchers analyzed data from a survey of nearly 7,000 Americans over 50 who filled out psychological questionnaires that measured how strong their sense of life purpose was. In the years between 2006 and 2010, people with a stronger life purpose were less likely to die of any cause, and even less likely to die of heart, circulatory and blood conditions.
"We were surprised," said Celeste Leigh Pearce, senior author of the study in the May edition of the journal JAMA Network Open. "There was already a fair amount of literature about life purpose and health outcomes. But this was a big study and these results are so striking."
So how do you define a sense of purpose?
"There's no one-size-fits-all," said Pearce, associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor. "I think that what's unique about life's purpose is that the way it manifests for each person is different.
"Some may derive purpose from raising kids or helping with grandkids, some from work, some from volunteer activities," she said. "Anyone can define for themselves what gives them purpose and work toward fulfilling that. It can be achieved and enhanced in so many ways."
Pearce, who is developing more studies on the subject, said physicians should consider discussing the issue with patients as part of their health assessment and wellness strategy.
Wulsin, whose book Treating the Aching Heart examined the links between depression and heart disease, agreed.
"The popular wisdom is that stress is bad for your heart," he said. "But because there is no easy way to measure stress and it's so complicated, it often doesn't get into the treatment plans of people with heart disease or at high risk of heart disease. That's something I think we can do better at."
The physiological connections between purposefulness and longevity are still being studied. But psychological and physical health, Wulsin said, go together.
"I like to say what's good for your heart is good for your brain," he said. "And what's good for your brain is good for your heart."
People under stress or suffering depression, he said, tend to smoke more, exercise less and sleep less well, all of which can adversely affect health. Beyond that chronic stress and the inability to relax can affect everything from inflammation and metabolism to diabetes and high blood pressure.
"That can accelerate the whole process of cardiovascular risk factors turning into cardiovascular disease," Wulsin said. "The stress response system, which is designed to help us cope with adversity and challenge, functions better when we're not anxious about being victims in a meaningless life."
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Now Powering Over 1 Million Merchants, Shopify Debuts Global Economic Impact Report
30.10.2019 14:00:00 EET | Business Wire
Shopify Inc. (NYSE:SHOP) (TSX:SHOP), the leading global commerce company, today released its first global economic impact report showcasing the growth of businesses built on Shopify and how they benefit the world economy. Shopify is powering a global economic movement, that’s now a million merchants strong and growing. This new report reveals data and insights on how the success of independent business owners is critical to economic prosperity, Shopify’s efforts to remove barriers and democratize commerce, and how commerce can be a force for global good.
This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191030005121/en/
“With over one million businesses now built on Shopify, together we’re rewriting the rules for our modern economy,” said Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify. “Increasing the collective impact of these businesses is critical. That's why Shopify provides ambitious entrepreneurs with powerful tools to be successful and connect directly with customers. Other platforms have restricted these opportunities, so we’re arming the rebels of the commerce industry. This report highlights what Shopify has always known: the world economy is better with more voices, not fewer.”
Shopify puts commerce technology in the hands of entrepreneurs and enables capitalism for good, allowing buyers to vote with their dollars and support independent business owners who dare to strike out on their own. With Shopify’s offerings, anyone, anywhere can start a business and impact everyone. The global economic impact report details the incredible growth of Shopify, driven by its focus on these key principles: The importance of democratizing technology; individuals can change the world, from anywhere in the world; entrepreneurship elevates communities; and the future is borderless commerce.
Key findings from the report include:
● Businesses built on Shopify supported $183 billion in global economic activity from 2016-2018.
● Businesses using Shopify delivered more than $100 million in economic activity in 40+ countries, and more than $1 billion in 12 countries from 2016-2018.
● In 2018, Shopify’s merchants’ online sales growth was 59%, more than double the growth of the global ecommerce market.
● Last year, businesses on Shopify supported over 1.4 million full time jobs around the world.
● In 2018, Shopify’s revenue surpassed $1 billion, while our partner ecosystem generated nearly $1.7 billion.
● Businesses from emerging countries using Shopify are boosting their local economies, generating $3+ billion in revenue and 93% of their sales internationally were to advanced economies, well above the global average of 65% from 2016-2018.
● The exports of businesses using Shopify are growing 7X the global average: our merchants’ exports grew 76% compared to the global average rate of nearly 10% from 2016-2018.
Download a summary of Shopify’s global economic impact report here.
About Shopify
Shopify is a leading global commerce company, providing trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered for reliability, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Shopify powers over one million businesses in more than 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and many more. For more information, visit www.shopify.com.
This report looks at data from our global merchant base, as well as relevant third-party data collected by Deloitte Canada.
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L&T Technology Services Limited (BSE: 540115, NSE: LTTS), India’s leading pure-play engineering services company, announced its results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2019. Highlights for Q3FY20 include: USD Revenue at $199 million; growth of 7% YoY Revenue at Rs 14,230 million; growth of 8% YoY EBIT margin at 16.8%; up 30bps YoY Net profit at Rs 2,041 million; growth of 10% YoY During the quarter, LTTS won 9 multi-million dollar deals across all major industry segments which includes 2 deals having TCV of USD30mn+ each. On a YoY basis, LTTS has increased its USD20mn+ clients by 2 and its USD10mn+ clients by 4. “Q3 results were consistent with our expectations. We had a strong performance in three segments - Transportation, Plant Engineering, and Medical Devices that are each growing in excess of 20% on YoY basis. Digital & leading-edge technologies - the growth driver for ER&D, contributed to 41% of Q3 revenues and grew by 29% YoY. We are seeing a new set of opportunities as
Schlumberger Announces Full-Year and Fourth-Quarter 2019 Results17.1.2020 14:50:00 EET | Press release
Schlumberger Limited (NYSE: SLB) today reported results for full-year 2019 and the fourth quarter of 2019. Full-Year Results (Stated in millions, except per share amounts) Twelve Months Ended Change Dec. 31, 2019 Dec. 31, 2018 Year-on-year Revenue $32,917 $32,815 0% Income (loss) before taxes - GAAP basis $(10,418 ) $2,624 n/m Pretax segment operating income* $3,978 $4,187 -5% Pretax segment operating margin* 12.1 % 12.8 % -68 bps Net income (loss) - GAAP basis $(10,137 ) $2,138 n/m Net income, excluding charges & credits* $2,054 $2,261 -9% Diluted EPS (loss per share) - GAAP basis $(7.32 ) $1.53 n/m Diluted EPS, excluding charges and credits* $1.47 $1.62 -9% Full-Year Revenue by Area North America $10,843 11,984 -10% Latin America 4,149 3,745 11% Europe/CIS/Africa 7,683 7,158 7% Middle East & Asia 10,017 9,543 5% Other 225 385 n/m $32,917 $32,815 0% North America revenue $10,843 $11,984 -10% International revenue $21,849 $20,446 7% North America revenue, excluding Cameron $8,525 $9,55
H.I.G. Capital Invests in Luxury Complex Near Venice17.1.2020 14:46:00 EET | Press release
H.I.G. Capital, LLC ("H.I.G."), a leading global private equity investment firm with over $35 billion of equity capital under management, announced today that one of its affiliates has recently completed an investment in Portopiccolo, a state of the art, self-contained luxury complex near Venice which includes 203 high-end residential apartments, a five-star hotel with a spa and 110 marina berths. Terms were not disclosed. H.I.G. continues to add to its sizeable holdings of real estate assets across Europe, consisting of both equity as well as debt investments, with a focus on its target market of value-add small and midcap opportunities. Riccardo Dallolio, Managing Director and Head of H.I.G. Realty Partners Europe, commented: “This marks our 10th real estate investment in Italy. The Italian real estate markets represent a key part of our European value-add strategy and we continue to actively look at opportunities in the small/midcap sector across the capital structure.” Gabriele Mag
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Super Bowl ad cooks up its own breed of dinosaur
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Life, uh, finds a way, and it certainly found a way with a coveted spot during the Super Bowl. The sequel to 2015's Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom finds the island of Isla Nublar threatened by an active volcano, which could wipe out all of the dinosaurs on the island. Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard), former Jurassic World operations manager, recruits the help and expertise of Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), the former Jurassic World trainer and raptor expert, to embark on a mission to save the giant lizards.
Why they couldn't just clone new dinos on the mainland is beyond us, but enjoy the scaly Super Bowl ad below. Believe us when we say the monster under your bed will be the least of your problems ...
Video of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - Official Trailer #2 [HD]
Spanish director J.A. Bayona (A Monster Calls) replaced Colin Trevorrow as director for the sequel, but Trevorrow did serve as co-screenwriter and producer. The first trailer, set to Irma Thomas's "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is," dropped back in December, giving us a good look at some new species and The "Bloom."
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom clones itself back into existence June 22.
Video of Blastr on Jurassic World Set: Bryce Dallas Howard as Claire Dearing | SYFY WIRE
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Inside the Porsche Design studio that transforms everyday tech into the ultimate style statement
T3 gets an all-access pass
By Rob Clymo 2017-10-23T14:29:40.295Z
The brand new Porsche Design Huawei Mate 10 is, without doubt, a thing of beauty. Of course, it’s got the technical beef to back that up thanks to a 6-inch FullView Display, super cool AI features and a formidable Leica dual camera setup. Plus there’s awesome power performance from its 4000mAh battery. But, the first thing that really hits you is the design of this smartphone.
The look and feel of the Porsche Design Huawei Mate 10 is everything you’d expect from the collaboration between the Chinese phone giant and the small-but-perfectly-formed Studio F. A. Porsche located in the idyllic Austrian town of Zell am See. Ferdinand Porsche, designer of the iconic 911 opened the facility after leaving the operational side of Porsche and moving there from Germany back in 1972. In the years since, the studio has become synonymous with producing nothing but the best.
Huawei Mate 10 is the powerful mobile office you've been waiting for
Today, the Studio F. A. Porsche business consists of two parts; one being the original building that has been there since the beginning while a newer modern wing sits to its left. It’s a brilliant bit of styling that somehow manages to join the two eras seamlessly. And, that is something that carries on through to Porsche Design products. The collaboration with Huawei for the Porsche Design Mate 10 works particularly well and while the handset definitely sits in the premium category, Huawei insists this isn’t just a smartphone but ‘an intelligent machine’.
Taking a tour of the facility is fascinating and also reveals that there is a lot more to this company than stylish smartphones and cool sunglasses. In fact, the Porsche Design brand has been linked to a very diverse selection of products over the years. The building itself is home to some of these, including an old but once cutting-edge pushbike, a motorcycle that is similarly futuristic considering when it was first designed and a wealth of other tech and gadgets. These range from cutting edge trainers through to beautifully machined knives and onwards to the Porsche Design Book One 2-in-1 laptop. There’s even a Porsche Design Shisha 2.0 pipe.
Additional highlights of the Porsche Design portfolio are numerous. There are Kef M500 headphones, for example, Samsung’s NX500 camera, the Alpha Piano, which was a digital keyboard with a striking design and the Adidas Bounce S trainers that boasted enhanced suspension inspired by the automotive industry. More impressively, the Sonja is one of the best performing speaker sets in existence, while the carbon framed Porsche Bike RX is definitely one for fans of two-wheelers.
Studio F. A. Porsche has produced humbler work though, like the unique design for a Veltins beer crate. And, says the studio, it was actually a lot more complicated to design and produce than many of the other products on their roster due to the high volume but precision nature of the bottle carrier. There are other surprises too, such as the spray guns produced for Sata, fitness equipment designed for German-based company Miha, a futuristic cable car gondola and new business class compartments for Cathay Pacific Airways.
During the tour we get to see inside the very office used by Ferdinand Alexander Porsche himself. Tucked away at the back of the original old part of the building, this serene environment is where Mr Porsche designed many of the iconic products we know today. It’s been preserved just as he left it, with his trademark pipe sitting on the desk alongside an array of creative tools. Hanging on walls or sitting on shelves are mementos of the past, including design awards, photos and gifts from Porsche friends and acquaintances around the globe.
“One of the biggest and finest design jobs that Mr Porsche was known for is, of course, the Porsche 911”, says Roland Heiler, Chief Design Officer during his presentation. However, Porsche Design’s incredibly diverse product portfolio now extends to buildings. The new Porsche Design Tower Miami high-rise apartment block, for example, is amazing. It features a bespoke design that allows apartment owners to whisk themselves and their car up to where they live via a vehicle-sized lift. No more parking on the street nonsense there it seems.
Elsewhere, the studio has also been working on an incredible high-rise building in Asia called the M101 Skywheel, which sports twin towers and the world’s highest big wheel along with a centrepiece that consists of a giant watchface. In addition, the Porsche Design brand extends to the water, with a series of exclusive high-end Royal Falcon Fleet RFF135 craft being produced to further extend the reach of this growing company. And, compared to those, the Porsche Design Huawei Mate 10 almost seems like a bargain, despite its sizeable price tag of €1,395.
It’ll be available in Porsche Design Stores and online www.porsche-design.com starting in early December. The device will also be available in December at selected Porsche Design Stores worldwide (except the USA), and selected Huawei retail stores in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. There’s also an exclusive UK pre-sale taking place at Harrods starting from early December.
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Pride Ally of the Year Nomination
Application Due Date: January 31, 2020
Capital City Pride brings together the members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community their friends, allies, and supporters. We do through activities and events that promote education, family, health, and community and strive to inspire, educate, and celebrate our diverse community and culture with and for the greater Des Moines Metro.
Our vision is to create a community where the presence and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people are welcomed and celebrated; where intolerance is challenged and defeated; where justice prevails; and where civil rights of all people are valued and respected.
1. The individual applicant has demonstrated leadership in efforts to:
a. Furthers Capital City Pride’s mission to educate, advocate, and help create an LGBTQ+ accepting Des Moines Metro community through education, family, health and /or community
b. Demonstrate leadership in an organization, program, project, or other efforts that advance equity and awareness of the LGBTQ+ community
c. Volunteer Services to the LGBTQ+ community
d. Increase education and understanding of the LGBTQ+ community
e. Improve the lives of individual LGBTQ+ people or the LGBTQ+ community as a whole
f. Works to increase awareness of issues that affect LGBTQ+ individuals
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Please limit all of your responses to 250-words each
* 3. Describe specifically what the topic of diversity and inclusion and LGBTQ+ means to you.
* 4. What do you consider to be the most important issue facing the LGBTQ+ community today? Why?
* 5. How do you plan to continue advocating for and supporting the LGBTQ+ community and do you believe you will be able to strengthen the LGBTQ+ community?
REQUIRED ATTACHMENTS
· List of activities and community involvement. Include organization names and dates.
· Two letters of recommendation
Please email all required documents to Tanner Motte at community@capitalcitypride.org
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I certify that the information submitted on the application is complete and accurate to the best of my knowledge. I understand and agree with my responsibilities as detailed above.
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This is not just any race – we're in a race to save our one and only planet. Join Team Sierra at the 2020 Bend Marathon & Half Marathon on April 19 to do what you love while helping to ensure a livable home for us and future generations.
Stronger and more frequent natural disasters. A lack of clean air and safe drinking water in our most vulnerable communities. Various reports outlining irreversible damage to our planet. It's clear that the climate crisis is not just one of the greatest threats we face. It's already here: People around the country and world are being impacted by our warming planet every day.
We also know we can do something about it. Tackling this global threat will take ambitious goals and plans – and luckily, we know that Team Sierra teammates thrive on big goals and hard, meaningful work.
Entries are limited and are first-come first-served to those who commit to raising $1,000 for Sierra Club and can be applied to either the Marathon or Half Marathon distance.
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The Bend Half Marathon Course runs (pun intended) through the Deschutes National Forrest and the City of Bend, giving the best of both worlds! Like Sierra Club, the Bend Marathon team is committed to sustainability and a healthy future. All aid stations are cupless, reducing waste and preventing litter.
When you cross that finish line, you'll celebrate with beverages from Deschutes Brewery, a photo area, and goodies from other vendors!
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Most Chinese Patents Are Being Discarded By Their Owners Because They Are Not Worth The Maintenance Fees To Keep Them
Israeli Tech Company's Spyware Still Being Used To Target Journalists And Activists
Fake Comments Are Plaguing Government Agencies And Nobody Much Seems To Care
(Mis)Uses of Technology
from the disinformation-nation dept
Fri, Oct 5th 2018 6:03am — Karl Bode
You might recall that when the FCC repealed net neutrality, the agency's open comment period (the only opportunity the public had to voice their concerns) was plagued with all manner of bogus comments and identity fraud. From bots that lifted the identities of dead people to create fake enthusiasm, to the hijacking of legitimate identities (like Senators Jeff Merkley and Pat Toomey, or my own) to forge bogus support. The FCC not only refused to do anything about it, it actively blocked law enforcement efforts to do so. The agency told me there was nothing they could do when my own identity was lifted in this fashion.
A year later and a few brave journalists are still trying to find the culprit. Who benefited should be obvious. Who they paid to do the dirty work, less so.
And while the fake net neutrality comments got the lion's share of public and media attention, the reality is this is a problem that's been plaguing government proceedings for years. For example, new information obtained via FOIA request highlights how the NFL was involved in sending fake fan comments to the FCC as early as 2014 as the league tried to fight FCC efforts to eliminate the so-called "black out rule," which requires that broadcasters black out certain game broadcasts if real-world attendance doesn't meet the league's liking. It didn't work because the rule was so monumentally stupid, but nobody really seemed to much care about tracking down those responsible:
"The letters began “I write as a football fan” and requested that the rule remain because, without it, premium television channels could start charging higher fees to broadcast games. The WSJ identified and interviewed fans whose names were used in the letters and were angry to be used as spokespeople for a cause they didn’t believe in."
Sounds familiar. The same problem was recently found to have plagued a proceeding at the Labor Department, where numerous people who either don't exist or don't recall ever sending messages breathlessly opposed agency efforts to prevent conflicts of interest in retirement advice. The same problem plagued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau when it proposed a rule trying to rein in some of the nastier habits of the payday lending industry. Nobody appears to have shown much interest in getting to the bottom of gamesmanship in either of those instances, either.
And last week, information obtained via FOIA request found that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the primary bank regulator for nationally chartered banks, was inundated with bogus support for a 2015 merger between OneWest Bank and CIT Bank. A smattering of identity theft and fraud the regulatory agency was aware of and likely involved one of the companies involved, but resulted in no meaningful inquiries or punishment whatsoever:
"The documents reviewed by The Intercept show that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the main bank regulator for nationally chartered banks, knew about the fake comments at the time, before it approved the merger. But the OCC appears to have done no meaningful investigation of the matter, and even cited public support for the merger when approving it."
The problem's become a bit of an epidemic, but despite the fact that this kind of behavior pollutes the public discourse and undermines the democratic process, not much (read: mostly nothing) is being done about it. Given our obsession (perhaps justly) with Russian disinformation efforts, you'd think there'd be a little more concern that the only opportunity the public is often given to provide feedback on major policy decisions or mergers, are often corrupted by widespread efforts to generate industrialized, artificial enthusiasm.
While things like astroturf and bogus support for bad policy have been a mainstay for years, these fake comments are increasingly growing in scale, as offenders now utilize hackers who'll heavily lean on compromised databases as we saw in the net neutrality repeal. But much like we saw with the FCC, there's little to no willpower at most government agencies to actually track down the culprits and hold those who obviously benefit from the fraudulent behavior accountable. As a result, the already marginalized will of the public has been further reduced to a faint echo, drowned out by a chorus of farmed artificiality.
Filed Under: comments, comptroller, department of labor, fake comments, fcc, federal government, occ, public input
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Yeah, I mean Blue's taken to replacing ol' Dickface at the mention of Karl. After all, Bennett is stuck on damage control to make sure Pai's countersuit goes through.
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Tiny Robotic Hand
Four-fingered gripper to aid surgery.
by Amitabh Avasthi
In a UCLA School of Engineering lab, a mechanical hand only one millimeter wide plucks a single fish egg from an underwater clutch. “It is the world’s smallest robotic hand and could be used to perform microsurgery,” says Chang-Jin Kim, who led its development. Unlike other tiny machines of its kind, the device (depicted at left) is flexible yet strong and is controlled by air, not electricity. The microhand has four “fingers” made of several pieces of silicon each, with polymer balloons serving as “muscles” at the joints. Each balloon is connected to narrow channels through which air is pumped. When a balloon is inflated or deflated, the angle between joints changes, making a finger contract or relax. The device is one to two years from practical use; Kim is working with a company to develop a new version, with optical fibers on the palm–a microhand with an eye–that would enable a doctor to see, allowing better control during an operation.
Watch the hand detach a fish egg.
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Tobago was heaven for pirates. Now it suits sunseekers Credit: GETTY
Chris Leadbeater, Travel writer
17 November 2018 • 9:00am
Chris Leadbeater
To mark the 300th anniversary of the death of the notorious Blackbeard, Chris Leadbeater sets sail in search of treasures.
Gaar! Have at ye, scurvy dogs. ’Tis the ghost of pirate most hairy, Blackbeard, here. Thursday, the 22nd of foul November, is the 300th anniversary of the hour I was slain, on the island of Ocracoke in North Carolina – ending a career of pillage, plunder and not returning library books. Doth it thrill me that my death is the hook (gaar, a little pirate pun there) for this mini-feature on buccaneering behaviour? In truth, when thou hast been dead for three centuries, thou willst taketh all the coverage thou canst get. And Ocracoke is a grand place. Thou shouldst come and visiteth it: visitocracokenc.com.
Have at ye, scurvy dogs Credit: GETTY
The demise of the fearsome fellow known to his mother as Edward Teach – in a firefight with the Royal Navy in 1718 – has become a selling point for North Carolina, whose tourism website (visitnc.com) suggests a trail “in Blackbeard’s Footsteps”. Stops include the North Carolina Maritime Museum (ncmaritimemuseumbeaufort.com) in Beaufort, which holds artefacts rescued from his ship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge – as well as the Ocracoke hotel Blackbeard’s Lodge (doubles for £76; blackbeardslodge.com).
There is more to North Carolina than a long-deceased sailor who didn’t use a razor. Bon Voyage (bon-voyage.co.uk) sells a 10-night The Charming Carolinas road trip that visits coastal endgame Cape Fear, plus the Outer Banks (where the Wright Brothers first flew), as well as neighbouring South Carolina. From £1,925pp, with flights.
On April 26 1717, the Whydah, a pirate ship under Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy, sank off Cape Cod. Its remains were discovered in 1984 and are on display at the Whydah Pirate Museum, Provincetown (discoverpirates.com). A nine-night Best of Plymouth, Cape Cod and the Islands odyssey costs £1,124pp via americaasyoulikeit.com.
Whydah Pirate Museum Credit: getty
Pirates of the Caribbean. What is it now – about 18 films, all much the same, starring whatshisface who tries to be Keith Richards. Is that still a thing? Maybe. But while the movie franchise might not be a gift to the cultural gods, it has made fine use of Dominica, which was damaged by Hurricane Maria last year, and needs some love. Responsibletravel.com offers a 16-day walking break from £1,914pp (flights extra).
Dominica has plenty of naval history Credit: GETTY
The 17th-century Jamaican and British outpost Port Royal was known as “the wickedest city on Earth” owing to its population of privateers and rascals. An earthquake in 1692 destroyed much of it, but you can see traces (such as Fort Charles) near Kingston. Seven all-inclusive nights at the Beaches Ocho Rios Spa, leaving Heathrow on Jan 12, start at £2,134pp with ba.com/holidays.
The Seychelles were uninhabited in the 1720s, and used as a base by pirates. Some think the runes on the rocks of Bel Ombre Beach on Mahe were clues to hidden treasure. Seven nights at Carana Beach Resort, leaving Manchester on Feb 16, cost from £1,993pp; destinology.co.uk.
The Seychelles were used as a base by 18th century pirates Credit: GETTY
Jolly guys named Roger also needed unmonitored places for repair and recuperation in the Caribbean. The north shore of Tobago and its quiet coves provided many such locations. It still does – and Pirate’s Bay, in the north-east corner of the island, is as undeveloped now as it would have been in the skull-and-crossbones era. Seven nights at The Villas at Stonehaven cost from £1,499pp, with flights, via tropicalsky.co.uk.
Poor Sir Francis Drake. Part-pirate, part-Elizabethan explorer, and the most famous Drake on Earth for 400-odd years – until the Canadian rapper-entrepreneur-actor turned up. Still, is the Toronto Drake featured in the newly opened Tudor and Stuart Seafarers gallery at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (rmg.co.uk)? No, he isn’t.
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The Caribbean can be a bit far with children in tow. And frankly, do your kids deserve a week of sunshine? No! Not when you can fob them off with a day at Disneyland Paris (disneylandparis.co.uk; adults from £47, three to 11s from £42), where the Pirates of the Caribbean ride is still operating. Mummy, is this Cuba? Yes, dear.
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Roger Rasheed
Born10 March 1969
Birth PlaceAdelaide, South Australia
Playing StatusRetired
Best known as Lleyton Hewitt’s former coach, Rasheed reached the second round of Australian Open twice in 1988 and 1992.
He mostly competed on the Challenger circuit, winning four titles in 1992.
The burly former Australian Rules footballer was ranked No.134 in doubles and No.192 in singles in 1992.
Rasheed was forced off the Tour in 1993 with a chronic back injury.
In 2006, he was assistant coach of the Australian Davis Cup team for the semifinal against Argentina.
He coached mercurial Frenchman Gael Monfils from July 2008 to July 2011; in late 2013, he began working with promising Bulgarian talent Grigor Dimitrov.
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Dimitrov’s “Aussie pride”
A flourishing partnership with Australian coach Roger Rasheed and a dash of ANZAC spirit helped Grigor Dimitrov claim his second title of 2014 in Bucharest.
Hingis, Bradtke set for Adelaide
Martina Hingis will return to Adelaide and bring Nicole Bradtke for a singles showdown at the 2014 World Tennis Challenge to be held 7-9 January at Memorial Drive.
Exciting line-up for World Tennis Challenge
Tennis legends Martina Navratilova, Yannick Noah, Mats Wilander and Pat Cash will be joined by emerging Aussie Thanasi Kokkinakis at the World Tennis Challenge.
Rasheed and Tsonga part ways
Australian Roger Rasheed has parted company with his second French ATP client as Jo-Wilfried Tsonga ended a relationship of less than a year.
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Parents Guaranteed Right to Bury Stillborn Babies
Moved by the story of an Amarillo family, legislators passed a new law that will guarantee parents the right to the remains of their stillborn children. This story is part of our 31 Days, 31 Ways series.
by Sophia Bollag Aug. 17, 2015 6 AM
Moved by the story of Erica and Joshua Raef of Amarillo, lawmakers passed HB 635, a law that guarantees parents the right to the remains of their unborn children, regardless of how small they are. Source: Joshua Raef
Throughout August, The Texas Tribune will feature 31 ways Texans' lives will change because of new laws that take effect Sept. 1. Check out our story calendar for more.
When Erica Raef learned 13 weeks into her pregnancy that her unborn child no longer had a heartbeat, she was devastated. But when she and her husband, Joshua, began making the difficult plans of delivering and burying their baby — whom they named Liam — they were dealt an unexpected burden on top of tragedy.
A doctor told the Amarillo couple that if Erica Raef delivered in a hospital, then they wouldn’t be able to take Liam’s body for burial. Texas law did not allow hospitals to release the remains of stillborn infants less than 20 weeks old, they were told.
Although the couple believed delivering in a hospital was safer, they chose to do so at home so they would be able to bury Liam. Hours after miscarrying at home, Erica Raef began bleeding uncontrollably. She passed out on their bathroom floor, and Joshua Raef rushed her to the hospital.
“It was a very traumatic experience that I wouldn’t wish on anyone,” Erica Raef told a Texas House committee in April as she fought back tears. “This is ultimately why we are here today, to make sure this doesn’t happen anymore.”
And starting Sept. 1, it won’t. Moved by the Raefs’ story, lawmakers passed House Bill 635, which guarantees parents the right to the remains of their unborn children, regardless of how small they are.
Texas hospitals have had different policies on releasing fetal remains. Many will give the remains of stillborn infants to parents if asked, but some interpret state law to classify fetal remains less than 350 grams as "medical waste," said Charles Bailey, a lawyer and senior vice president with the Texas Hospital Association.
"There were some established laws with respect to how you would handle fetal remains above a certain age and above a certain weight," said state Rep. Walter "Four" Price, R-Amarillo, who authored HB 635. "But it was not as clear and hospitals had different policies with respect to anything that fell outside those ranges."
The hospital association supported HB 635, which the Texas House and Senate unanimously passed, because it clarifies the law and allows hospitals to honor parents' requests, Bailey said.
"We want to be sensitive to the wishes of parents," he said. "This just clarifies that hospitals will be able to honor those wishes."
Most hospitals already allow fetal remains to be released to parents, Price said. Neither the hospital association nor the Department of State Health Services could provide specific numbers on how many hospitals had a policy forbidding the release of fetal remains below 350 grams, but Price said he thinks stories like the Raefs' are more common than one might think because most people do not discuss them.
Speaking to state lawmakers in April, Joshua Raef said, “I know that’s maybe a minority of hospitals in the state” that forbid the release of fetal remains below 350 grams. “But for us, it was everything.”
Dr. Moss Hampton, who leads the Texas branch of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, says that in such cases, it's always safer for a mother to deliver at a hospital. Hampton said that mothers can have dangerous medical complications. Also, if the miscarriage occurs at home, a doctor could have trouble determining the cause prevent it from happening again.
“From a physician’s standpoint, you would like everyone to deliver in a hospital,” Hampton said.
Although the Raefs knew delivering at home could be dangerous, Joshua Raef said they did not regret their choice.
"In the end, going through all that, it was still worth it to have our baby to bury," he told lawmakers.
When state Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, the bill's Senate sponsor, introduced the legislation in a committee hearing, she said the Raefs' story moved her to tears.
"This is a bill we need to pass," Nelson said at the Senate hearing. "That's the goal of this bill — to ensure that a parent has the opportunity for a proper burial of their deceased child."
The Raefs, who have three children, drove seven hours to testify before lawmakers in support of the bill.
“If this law can help even one family grieve for their child in the manner they choose, we feel like it is a great success,” Joshua Raef told the Tribune in an email.
Disclosure: The Texas Hospital Association is a corporate sponsor of The Texas Tribune. A complete list of Tribune donors and sponsors can be viewed here.
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The New 2020 Hyundai Sonata Sports A New Look, $750 Higher Price Tag
The new model starts at $24,330
Zach Butler
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The new Sonata is available in three trim levels.
The 2020 Hyundai Sonata is a radical departure from the previous model on styling as well as standard technology. Official pricing has emerged for the revised eighth-generation model, set to hit dealerships soon.
Two new powertrains are on offer: a 2.5-liter “Smartstream” engine as the base unit or a 1.6-liter turbo on higher trims. The 2.5-liter engine manages 191 horsepower and 181 lb-ft of torque, while the smaller turbo unit puts out 180 horsepower and 195 lb-ft of torque. Both come mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission, rather than the six-speed in the old models. A new Sonata Hybrid is coming as well, but that won’t launch until next year.
Beyond the powertrain, all 2020 Hyundai Sonata models come with the company’s Smartsense suite of safety features. That includes forward collision mitigation braking, lane keep and lane follow assist, driver attention warning, high-beam assist and radar cruise control. LED lights are standard all around, as is an 8.0-inch infotainment display. Base SE models start at $24,330 including Hyundai’s $930 destination fee.
Step up to the $26,430 SEL model, and you get a host of features beyond the base equipment. A different front and rear fascia, heated seats and mirrors, a 4.2-inch LCD instrument cluster display and a center rear armrest are included, among other smaller features. You also get blind spot monitoring and rear cross-traffic assist.
2020 Hyundai Sonata SEL Packages
The 2020 Hyundai Sonata SEL comes with four different packages, although you can’t spec all of them individually. The $1,200 Convenience Package is available on its own, but you can also get it with the $1,000 Sunroof Package or the $1,850 Premium Package, or both. The Drive Guidance Package is $950, but only available with the other three packages. Spec out an SEL with all four package, and the price rises to $31,430.
Here’s what each package includes:
SEL Convenience Package: $1,200
12.3-inch digital instrument cluster
Hyundai Digital (smartphone) Key
2nd-row air vents
2nd-row USB charge ports
Premium Package: $1,850 (+Convenience Pkg)
12-speaker Bose audio system
Panoramic Sunroof: $1,000 (+Convenience or Premium Pkg)
Drive Guidance: $950 (+Premium and Sunroof Pkg)
10.25-inch infotainment w/ navigation
Highway Drive Assist
Blue Link support (3 years)
SEL Plus, Limited trims
If you want to skip over the volume SEL model, then you can get the SEL Plus trim. That includes the 1.6-liter turbo engine, 18-inch wheels, and better performing tires. Hyundai’s Digital Key comes standard, as does suede and leatherette seats. The SEL Plus model starts at $28,380. Another package option at this level is the $2,750 Technology Package.
Finally, there’s the 2020 Hyundai Sonata Limited. The top-end model includes all the other features from the SEL Plus, as well as a color head-up display and Remote Smart Parking Assist. That feature stops short of full summoning capability, but it does allow the driver to use their smart key to move the car into or out of a parking space.
The top-end limited model starts at $34,230.
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Austin Burglary Lawyer
A conviction for burglary can lead to serious penalties and drastically hurt your future. Get the defense that could beat your charges by working with an Austin burglary lawyer.
If you’ve been charged with burglary, you’re faced with a serious threat to your freedom and your future. Depending on the specifics of your charge, you could receive a punishment that involves a fine of thousands of dollars and years spent in jail or prison—if you’re convicted.
Getting charged doesn’t mean that there’s no hope of walking free. At Tillman Braniff, PLLC, we have experience defending clients against the most serious of charges. An Austin burglary lawyer from our office can build the best defense for your case and possibly get the charges against you dropped or reduced.
What’s at Stake with a Burglary Charge
Getting charged with burglary means that you’re accused of entering a location uninvited with the intent to commit another crime, such as theft or assault. Texas actually treats burglary differently depending on the type of location you are accused of unlawfully entering:
Burglary of a Building – State jail felony, 180 days to two years in jail, fine up to $10,000
Burglary of a Habitation – Second-degree felony, two to twenty years in prison, fine up to $10,000
If it’s believed that you were going to commit any crime other than theft, punishment can be increased to a first-degree felony, five to ninety-nine years in prison, fine up to $10,000
Burglary of a Vehicle – Class A misdemeanor, up to one year in jail, fine up to $4,000
Two prior conviction for this charge can increase the penalty for a third or subsequent offense to a state jail felony, 180 days to two years in jail, fine up to $10,000
Defending Against Your Burglary Charge
Your Austin burglary lawyer will help you determine the best defense to employ in your case. With this particular charge, there are a number of possibilities that might apply, but it will all depend on the specifics of your case.
For example, it might be that you were in fact given consent to be on the premises. Burglary also requires intent to commit another crime, so we might argue that this simply wasn’t the case by explaining your real reason for being there. Being under the influence of alcohol or drugs might assist in explaining this, although it could lead to other charges, so this defense must be carefully considered.
Burglary also means that you must have entered a structure or vehicle of some sort. We might introduce reasonable doubt by explaining why the premises you were on don’t qualify as a structure.
Help from an Austin Burglary Defense Attorney
At Tillman Braniff, PLLC, we believe in helping people who find themselves in trouble with the law. If you’ve been charged with burglary, we want to help you navigate the criminal justice system by developing the strongest defense possible for your case.
It all starts with a free and confidential consultation where you can tell your side of the story to an experienced Austin burglary lawyer. Arrange a time for yours by completing the form below or by giving our office a call at 512-236-0505.
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Blue Jays release shortstop Troy Tulowitzki
Shi Davidi, Jeff Blair and Jamie Campbell discuss the decision by the Toronto Blue Jays to release short stop Troy Tulowitzki.
Ben Nicholson-Smith | @bnicholsonsmith December 11, 2018, 3:02 PM
Ben Nicholson-Smith @bnicholsonsmith December 11, 2018, 3:02 PM
LAS VEGAS – Troy Tulowitzki’s Toronto Blue Jays career came to an abrupt and unexpected end Tuesday, as the team announced the release of the 34-year-old shortstop.
"Through many conversations with Troy and his representative Paul Cohen, and with consideration to what is in the best interest of both sides, we made the decision to release Troy today," GM Ross Atkins said.
Troy Tulowitzki’s agent, Paul Cohen, tells me Tulowitzki would love to play in the Bay Area, is willing to change positions and would like to play for a winning team. Could be a real possibility for A’s at 2B at a mere $600,000.
— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) December 11, 2018
Tulowitzki, acquired initially with LaTroy Hawkins for Jesus Tinoco, Miguel Castro, Jeff Hoffman and Jose Reyes in July of 2015, last played in the major leagues in July 2017. He missed the end of the 2017 season with ankle injuries before missing the 2018 season recovering from surgery to remove bone spurs from both heels.
The Blue Jays will be responsible for the full amount remaining on Tulowitzki’s deal. He’s under contract for $20 million in 2019 and $14 million in 2020 with a $4 million buyout for a 2021 club option.
Atkins recently said the Blue Jays weren’t able to plan on a full and productive season from Tulowitzki.
"Candidly, and I think Troy would agree, that’s not likely," Atkins said Wednesday. "He will have to overachieve to play shortstop at an above-average level with above-average offensive performance for 140 games. That would be unlikely based on what has occurred in the last two and a half years, but that doesn’t mean he’s not going to do it.
"But candidly," the GM added, "I don’t think that’s likely."
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. projects as the Blue Jays’ regular shortstop with Richard Urena an additional depth option. Meanwhile, top prospect Bo Bichette is advancing through the minors and could reach the big leagues as soon as 2019.
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Jonathan B Perez
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Illustrator, Storyboard Artist and Set Decorator
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About Jonathan
Jonathan B Perez is a professional Illustrator and Storyboard Artist who has made a career in the Los Angeles film industry out of elucidating screenplays through his artwork, designing movie posters, creating concept art, and other marketing material for such films and shows as "Drifter" (2017), History's "Doomsday: 10 Ways the World Will End" (2016), "Jim Henson's Word Party" (2016), and "Badlands of Kain" (2015). His work and productions have also gone on to receive press in such publications as The New York Post, Fast Company, Engadget, No Film School, Dread Central, Bloody Disgusting, Twitch Film, and many more.
Jonathan lives to create stunning design work for his clients with the belief that great design is more than just pretty pictures - it needs to make a statement and tell a story, after all, a picture can and should speak a thousand words. So, with that in mind, he approaches his work by combining traditional drawing skills with targeted marketing techniques to deliver works of quality, style, and substance.
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Drifter (2015 - 2017)
Film by Lotus Entertainment / Chris von Hoffmann (Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi and 1 More) Poster Design / Storyboard Artist A pair of outlaw brothers are held captive in a desolate town run by a small family of psychotic cannibalistic lunatics and their sadistic Mayor.
Doomsday: 10 Ways the World Will End (2016)
Television by Flight 33 / The History Channel (Documentary, Drama, Sci-Fi and History) Storyboard Artist
Badlands of Kain (2015)
Film by Petri Entertainment / Andy Palmer (Horror, Mystery and Thriller) Poster Design Shannon and Kris embark on a cross country road trip, to put back the pieces of their strained friendship. But it all falls apart when their car breaks down in Kain, Arizona. A place where you can check in anytime you want, but you can never leave.
Makeup Mishaps (2015)
Series by Collective Digital Studio / Justin Coloma (Comedy) Poster Design / Set PA Jessica Labelle is a recent grad about to have her first major job interview. Follow her through love, loss, and makeup mishaps as she tries to juggle life and the corporate ladder.
Jim Henson's Word Party (2015)
Series by The Jim Henson Company / Brian Henson, Bret Nelson, and David Skelly (Family) Storyboard Artist / Prop Artist From the Jim Henson Company, Word Party is an interactive series in which young viewers teach four baby animals new words and learn them themselves. Henson's Digital Puppetry Studio will allow puppeteers to perform in real time.
Prix (2015)
Film (short) by Automaton Creative / Rene Amador (Family and Short) Storyboard Artist / Set Painter Two talented RC racers square off against the town bully as they compete in the high stakes world of an international RC Racing Prix.
Elephants (2015)
Film (short) by Title Pictures / Arthur Galvao (Drama and Short) Storyboard Artist
Resurgent (2015)
Film (short) by American Film Institute / Loren Herbert (Action and Short) Set Decorator RESURGENT follows the emotional journey of John Rivers, A CIA operative on leave due to a botched mission. When a notorious terrorist takes 11 hostages in the middle east, John's former boss comes to him in hopes that he'll come back to the agency and lead a rescue mission. Reluctant at first, John declines the offer, and the audience is taken through his new day-to-day life as a normal citizen, and slowly learns about John's demons and his inability to let go of the past.
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TV Movie by Nasser Entertainment / R.D. Braunstein (Thriller) Set Decorator Originally aired as "A Father's Secret." Everything that power attorney Kerry Evans knows about her past is irreversibly changed when she uncovers the sordid history of her boss and his involvement in the disappearance of a mysterious woman.
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Community Assessment of Resilience Tool (CART)
Investigators:
Betty Pfefferbaum
Fran Norris
This START project resulted in a revised Community Assessment of Resilience Tool (CART), a community intervention that includes a survey instrument, focus group script, and process for assessing and building community resilience to disasters. Seven community capacity and competence attributes have been identified, refined, revised, and re-organized into four interrelated domains thought to affect community resilience to disasters: Connection and Caring, Resources, Transformative Potential, and Disaster Management.
Primary Findings:
The current CART survey instrument consists of 21 core community resilience items along with demographics of respondents and additional questions dealing with issues of particular interest to participating organizations. The survey can be administered in person, over the telephone, by mail, or online. Results are used to develop a community profile from the perspective of respondents. The profile describes findings by domain and across domains. CART focus groups typically involve a homogenous or heterogeneous mix of community leaders, neighborhood groups, selected professionals, and/or representatives of community organizations. CART participants are surveyed prior to the focus group meeting and the survey results are discussed as part of the focus group. Focus group participants also explore the meaning of community and the community resilience domains in application to specific community concerns. CART is not a mechanism for ranking or comparing communities. Rather, CART provides a snapshot of strengths and challenges that are meaningful for the particular community and organizations participating in the CART process. The process engages community organizations in collecting and using assessment data to develop and implement strategies for building community resilience to disasters. CART is designed to stimulate communication, analysis, and action and to contribute to community participation and collaboration, community self-awareness, critical reflection, and skill development. Thus, CART is as much a method as a measure.
Field testing, factor analysis, key informant interviews, emerging literature, and continued reflection were used to revise and refine CART. The initial survey instrument consisting of 42 core community resilience items was field tested with several samples included two rural church groups, a multi-agency community organization, and community-college students. A factor anlaysis of data from these initial field tests led to a revised survey instrument and additional field testing with volunteer community responders and key informants. Factor anlysis of data from these field tests and a combined analysis of common survey items from all field tests, along with theoretical considerations, resulted in the refinement and reframing of the original seven community capacity and competence attributes into four community resilience domains. An implementation of the CART survey in a random community sample representing a community of approximately 120,000 residents resulted in the development of a template for the CART community profile.
Project Period:
June 2005 to May 2008
Community Resilience Emergency Preparedness and Management Natural Hazards
Assessing Community Resilience: An Application of the Expanded CART Survey Instrument with Affiliated Volunteer Responders (Journal Article)
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Kicking cancer in the rear feels amazing, says survivor
Breast cancer survivor Kimberlie Donaldson-Zapien smiles knowing she beat cancer once and for all. She is wearing a breast cancer necklace, a breast cancer bracelet and a pink shirt to show her support for breast cancer victims and survivors. - photo by MAEGAN MARTENS / The Journal
After selecting one of the eight wigs she had collected throughout her battle, Kimberlie Donaldson-Zapien got all glammed up, drawing on her eyebrows and gluing on her eyelashes to go Christmas shopping. She didn’t want to look like a sick patient.
As she was waiting in line to purchase some items, she noticed a family behind her. They had a little girl, about six years old in a stroller. She had a Disney bandana on and Donaldson-Zapien just knew.
She went up to the family and asked to give their little girl a hug. The family asked “why” and Donaldson-Zapien said, “I know what she is going through, see, this is a wig.” She gave the little girl a hug and said “Baby, I love you,” then the tears started flowing from everyone nearby.
Life felt like a breeze, said Donaldson-Zapien, after she fought through the loss of the front lobe of her brain due to cancer. But just three short years later, she was faced with a new battle. Breast cancer.
Donaldson-Zapien woke up one morning and noticed an indentation in her right breast and she knew the battle she was about to fight. She went to the doctor and was diagnosed with stage two ductal carcinoma breast cancer, which is in the milk ducts in the breasts. It is the most common type breast cancer.
“I was trying to be positive, but the voice in the back of my head kept telling me I had cancer,” Donaldson-Zapien said.
When she was diagnosed, the doctors found three black masses in her right breast. She went through three different doctors until she found the right one to help her get rid of the cancer. She only had cancer in her right breast but Donaldson-Zapien wanted both breasts removed for fear of the cancer returning.
“I did enough research to know that you have a higher chance to get cancer in the other breast, so I wanted both of them removed,” she said.
Her first two doctors refused to do a double mastectomy so she said “third time is a charm,” and went to her last doctor who gave her what she wanted. She was given the option to start chemotherapy or get surgery first.
“I want to start kicking this cancer’s ass now,” she said.
Within the next week, she was started on two types of chemotherapy. The battle had begun.
Soon enough, her daily showers were ruined with handfuls of hair gathering by the drain and bald spots, which she said started to make her feel like a cancer patient.
“I went to the dollar store and I bought every bandana they had to match all my clothes,” she said.
As her hair was falling out, Donaldson-Zapien decided to give in and shave her head.
“I didn’t know where to start,” she said. “Demi Moore did it for a movie so I knew I could do it too.”
After she shaved her head, Donaldson-Zapien picked up her hair off of the floor, put it in a Ziploc bag and labeled it “Sept. 14, 2007, bad hair day.” That was the day she started her breast cancer collage in her closet.
During her battle Donaldson-Zapien decided to bring her own team of fighters to help her beat the cancer — her mom, her daughter and her cousin, Victoria.
She developed an attitude of “I have cancer, it didn’t have me,” and she fought it all the way through.
After four months of chemo, she decided she couldn’t take it anymore. Donaldson-Zapien was down to 118 pounds, couldn’t sleep and couldn’t eat. It was time for surgery.
After her surgery, she was in tremendous amount of pain with both breasts removed.
“I would rather give birth to triplets at the same time than go through a double mastectomy again,” she said.
It has been about two years and so far, there is no sign of cancer in her body and Donaldson-Zapien said she is doing great. She plans to go back to school and hopes to one day become a phlebotomist. She has no car and no money, but she says “it will all work itself out.” After battling two cancers, a positive attitude is all that is left.
After her journey through breast cancer, Donaldson-Zapien said she now understands why they call it a journey.
“Cancer is evil,” Donaldson-Zapien said. “It puts a halt on your life and it’s not about you anymore, it’s about the cancer.”
To contact Maegan Martens, e-mail mmartens@turlockjournal.com or call 634-9141 ext. 2015.
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Apple App Store Ranked as Best Mobile App Store, Microsoft Considered Most Innovative
By Wolfgang Gruener 2013-01-03T07:00:00Z
Apple continues to win awards as the best application storefront for mobile devices, but there are now a few chinks in the chain.
According to a (rather subjective) evaluation by market research firm ABI Research, Apple has one a "competitive assessment" as the best implemented app platform available, followed by Google's Play and RIM's Blackberry store. The analysts justified their decision with the note that Apple surpasses its rivals in "its effective approach to monetization, large market share over the app industry, and the ability to achieve a large inventory of titles while maintaining a reasonably strict quality control."
ABI does not believe, however, that the Apple store is the most "innovative" app store at this time. The firm ranked Microsoft first, Apple second and Google third. The company explained that Microsoft shows a "fresh approach to app discovery" and "overall solid usability".
"Although Apple has done a great job capitalizing on App Store’s head start as an app distributor, it should really start re-thinking the way it charts the top apps," said ABI's Aapo Markkanen. "Microsoft should be lauded for its initiative to extend its ranking algorithm beyond raw download figures, by including factors that can actually measure the customer satisfaction and retention."
He stated that features such as retention-based charts "are less prone to manipulation" and can help developers "break free from the tyranny of downloads."
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Qualcomm Files Counterclaims To Apple Lawsuit
In January, Apple filed a lawsuit alleging that Qualcomm abused the popularity of its products and patents during its dealings with phone makers. Now, Qualcomm has filed a countersuit. The company said it's seeking damages from Apple for "reneging on its promises in several agreements" and wants the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California to "enjoin Apple from further interference" regarding its deals with the iPhone and iPad's manufacturers.
Apple filed lawsuits against Qualcomm in California and Beijing after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused the supplier of anti-competitive practices. The complaints stem from the popularity of Qualcomm's baseband processors, which allow mobile devices to manage connections to wireless networks and make up 65% of the LTE baseband market, according to a February 2016 estimate from ABI Research.
Qualcomm said in January that Apple's complaints were "baseless" and that the company "intentionally mischaracterized our agreements and negotiations, as well as the enormity and value of the technology we have invented, contributed and shared with all mobile device makers through our licensing program." It also said Apple was "actively encouraging regulatory attacks on Qualcomm's business" with regulators around the world.
The company also said the FTC "lacked basic information about the industry and was instead relying on inaccurate information and presumptions" for its allegations. Apple CEO Tim Cook, for his part, said in a January 31 earnings call that the company sued Qualcomm as a "last resort" because it "didn't see another way forward" with the supplier. Apple may have started the lawsuits, but it wants you to think Qualcomm started the conflict.
Qualcomm alleged in its filing with the U.S. District Court that Apple has actually been more aggressive than it appears. Here's the company's summary of its accusations that Apple:
Breached agreements and mischaracterized agreements and negotiations with Qualcomm; Interfered with Qualcomm’s long-standing agreements with Qualcomm licensees that manufacture iPhones and iPads for Apple;Encouraged regulatory attacks on Qualcomm’s business in various jurisdictions around the world by misrepresenting facts and making false statements;Chose not to utilize the full performance of Qualcomm’s modem chips in its iPhone 7, misrepresented the performance disparity between iPhones using Qualcomm modems and those using competitor-supplied modems; and Threatened Qualcomm in an attempt to prevent it from making any public comparisons about the superior performance of the Qualcomm-powered iPhones.
Qualcomm executive vice president and senior counsel Dan Rosenberg said in a statement that the company plans "to vigorously defend our business model, and pursue our right to protect and receive fair value for our technological contributions to the industry." He also said that Apple has used its "enormous market power to coerce unfair and unreasonable license terms from Qualcomm" during their previous financial dealings.
There is no David in this story--just two Goliaths alleging that the other one threw the first punch.
actionjksn 81 11 April 2017 18:22
Poor Apple can't stand the thought of someone acting too much like them as far as being a patent troll. I can only imagine what Apple would be doing if they were the owners of that tech.
Jake Hall 11 April 2017 18:26
Good. F em up
dstarr3 11 April 2017 19:42
God, imagine all the legal fees that are going to be involved in this.
falchard 11 April 2017 19:49
For both Qualcomm and Apple, their legal fees would be negligible, they both hire a legion of lawyers.
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Throwing more details about his Starship programme, Musk said the rocket would carry many megatons of cargo per year to the Red Planet to prepare Mars for a human presence by mid-century.
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Does waist training give you a lasting hourglass body?
October 22, 2015 | UCI Health
In the world of celebrity fashion, it's 1860 all over again. Corsets are back, this time under the guise of "waist training."
In case you're not keeping up with the Kardashians, waist training consists of donning a corset to make the waist look slender and, in theory, train the anatomy to conform to a coveted hourglass shape.
Waist-training corsets are sold in many women's clothing stores and online, ranging in price from $20 to $80. They can be made with spandex or — ouch — have wires sewn into the fabric. Modern waist trainers typically close with hooks or zippers instead of laces.
Celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Jessica Alba and Nicki Minaj rave about waist training, and their corseted selfies have generated enormous buzz.
But the waist-training trend has healthcare professionals rolling their eyes. They say waist trainers simply won't yield any long-term changes to your figure.
A temporary fix
"From a global perspective, this trend reinforces the culture of the current society: Everyone wants that quick, immediate fix and to look instantly thinner," says Dr. Roxann Engle, an family medicine physician and medical director of UCI Health — Tustin. "The corset gives you the immediate fix. It will shape the muscles of your waist for the short time you're wearing it."
But, when you eventually tire of wearing the constraint, your body will quickly find its way back to your original shape.
"It's a temporary reduction," she says. "You're basically creating muscle atrophy where you're cinching your waist."
Waist training likely isn't harmful in the short-term. For people who are overweight, wearing a waist trainer can even temporarily improve mobility and flexibility because the core muscles are being tightly supported. It also compresses the stomach, so you may eat less.
Medical effects of corsets
But it can cause problems long-term. Doctors in the Victorian age noted some of the effects of corsets in medical literature, Engle says.
"If you were to wear a waist trainer for long periods of time, depending on how tight, you will absolutely create medical problems, not just in reducing muscle and core strength, but in how it affects the internal organs."
A corset will gradually cause the core muscles to weaken, leading to back pain, poor posture and overall physical weakness. Cinching the waist also reduces lung capacity and pushes the intestines down.
"Obviously, the cons far outweigh the pros," Engle says.
Exercise is better than a corset
If having a slender waist is important to you, there's a way to get it — just not an easy way. Perform exercises that tone the oblique muscles, such as sit-ups, abdominal crunches and plank poses.
"Those are the kinds of exercises that shape the core," she says. "Those things are hard, though, which is why people don't do them."
And, mothers, don't pass down those waist trainers to your daughters. Adults should encourage kids to eat healthy foods and exercise regularly for a strong, healthy body. Long-term results will take time and there is no "quick fix."
"The biggest thing in primary care now is prevention: to get people to start young by eating healthy, exercising and staying in shape," Engle says. "Then you don't need all of these contraptions."
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Brian Kiriba
Thanks buddy for sharing such an informative blog with everyone. Also, the way you have explained the things is outstanding.
I really wanted to know the medical effects of the cinchers or corsets so that I can buy them royallioness.com. And, after reading this blog, many things have got clear in my mind.
Great job :-)
when we step on the road of weight loss, we will always struggle with the issue of weight regain. so is it with waist training. To avoid this situation, let's learn about some professional methods.
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About Local 1776 Keystone State
Local 1776 Keystone State of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union exists to enroll, as members, all persons engaged in work within its assigned jurisdiction, to negotiate Collective Bargaining Agreements for them and to enforce said agreements by resolving grievances and maintaining all other contractual rights.
In addition, Local 1776 KS shall encourage all its members to register and vote. It shall support the legislation and political candidates who best advances the economic, social and class interests of the membership. It shall protect the Health and Pension interests of its members and expand childcare, senior citizen, and family programs. It shall encourage and support financially through contributions and otherwise, any educational, legislative, political, civic, social, moral and charitable projects or activities and encourage such other objectives for which working people may lawfully combine for their mutual protection and benefit.
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Diesel & gasoline engines.Stationery engines manuals you can download
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Home Business & Economics Business
Sensitive company data at risk from office errors
A poll of 2,000 working adults found three in 10 admit to being slack with personal or sensitive company information in the office.
by Jack Peat
in Business, Business & Economics
Millions of office workers have made a ‘catastrophic’ error at work, by losing something important, sharing passwords with others – or accidentally ‘replying all’ to an email.
And nearly a fifth have made a costly mistake by leaving confidential details lying around or losing an important document or gadget.
More than a quarter have embarrassingly ‘replied all’ to an email not intended for a wider audience, while one in five have left people’s names and phone numbers written down by their desk, in plain view.
The study was commissioned by information security specialist Shred-it to uncover attitudes towards storing and transporting confidential information in and around their working life.
Ian Osborne, from Shred-it, said: “Making a mistake at work can be embarrassing – and it can be costly, with the potential to cost your company thousands – or even your job.
“Data in particular is incredibly sensitive and – with the introduction of GDPR last year – has become a cause for concern for businesses, as they have had to take greater steps to keep sensitive information safe.
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“If confidential information gets into the wrong hands, it can be disastrous, which is why it is important for people to understand their employers’ document management policy for data protection, and ensure they destroy paperwork rather than just throwing it away or password-protect gadgets and devices.”
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The study also found a tenth of workers have lost their company laptop or phone, and the same amount have emailed a client sensitive company information meant for internal use only.
Around 13 per cent have happily let colleagues know their email or computer passwords while one in 20 have posted an image of their desk on social media – unwittingly revealing private information.
As a result, almost half of respondents ended up with a stern talking to from their boss while four in 10 also found themselves staring down the barrel of a formal disciplinary process.
Almost a quarter have even lost their job due to being slack with sensitive data.
It also emerged 55 per cent believe their company actively lost money or customers because they’d not handled private company information in the right way.
A third of the workforce, polled via OnePoll, regularly carry their company laptop around with them, and the same amount have a company phone.
And a tenth of those have accidentally left company property in a pub or bar, or left behind on the seat of a taxi after getting out – with 51 per cent never seeing it again.
But only 37 per cent reported the loss to their employers, whether they got their lost item back or not.
Ian added: “Our study has revealed that almost a third of people are slack with personal or sensitive company information in the office, leaving them and their firms exposed to data theft, which could then put their reputation at risk.
“The potential outcome can be devastating for individuals but catastrophic for businesses, which is why employees should always think twice before writing anything down – online or in person – and keep company property such as files, laptops or phones within eye view at all time.
“Even things that might appear harmless, like leaving your notepad lying around in the office, can leave you exposed.
“Businesses must have a strict policy on data and document protection that is communicated clearly to all employees and updated whenever necessary, in order to avoid a potential breach.”
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Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE).He has contributed articles to The Sunday Telegraph, BBC News and writes for The Big Issue on a weekly basis.Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Finley Jacobsen, Dylan McDermott, Rick Yune, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Melissa Leo, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Phil Austin
Loyal Protection Dies Hard
Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) was once the President's (Aaron Eckhart) number one security guard, they were on first name terms, trained in the ring together and was even trusted to look after the Number One son. That is until one night a road accident forced Mike to make the tough choice to save the President's life at the cost of the First Lady's. It leads to Mike being removed from the President's team and shifted to a desk job in the Treasury whilst dealing with the trauma of what happened on his own. But when the Whitehouse is taken by terrorists Mike is the main man that the secret service have to rely on in order to take back control of the Whitehouse and to save the President and his son.
Say it loud, say it proud, say it with slow motion action, big bangs, big special effects and people staring in to the distance, yes "Olympus Has Fallen" is wonderfully over the top to the point of being ridiculous but say hell yeah to some Yippee ki-yay action. That pretty much sums up "Olympus Has Fallen" nicely, it is the stuff which children use to play with toy guns, pretending to be the hero who saves the day against insurmountable odds, jumping and shooting as you know real heroes do or at least according to PC Danny Butterman that is.
Anyway to try and get serious for a minute "Olympus Has Fallen" feels like someone has combined their favourite bits of various action movies over the years. So we have Gerard Butler playing a sort of Bruce Willis character which makes me think they could have made this as part of the "Die Hard" franchise. But then the writer seems to also have a bit of a thing for Stallone movies with Mike being a troubled character that use to have a position of importance as in "Daylight". And then the writer has combined it with terrorists taking control of the Whitehouse which in truth back in 1999 there was a movie called "Loyal Opposition" which sort of did this. Even some twists such as a traitor with in the ranks fails to make it any more original.
But whilst I could bemoan the lack of original ideas "Olympus Has Fallen" is what it is, big bang entertainment for the popcorn munching crowd who like the Earth to move as the bass from the speakers cause the room to vibrate. And as popcorn entertainment it has the right cast with Gerard Butler embracing his action man side whilst Morgan Freeman brings some gravitas to the proceedings as the Vice President. Then there is Aaron Eckhart who seems to have studied Harrison Ford for the best way to play the President and also bringing some mid 90s performance to the mix is Angela Bassett as well as Dylan McDermott. But the biggest smile for me is seeing Rick Yune in dapper bad guy mode again and being a smooth operator with it.
What this all boils down to is that "Olympus Has Fallen" isn't anything new but what it does it does well for those seeking some action packed popcorn entertainment. Everything about it is cliche but sometimes cliche done to the max is all that is called for.
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City: Operations trying to keep up with weather
City of Monroe officials report that emergency operations continue as efforts are made to keep pace with flooding rains.
City: Operations trying to keep up with weather City of Monroe officials report that emergency operations continue as efforts are made to keep pace with flooding rains. Check out this story on thenewsstar.com: https://tnsne.ws/1p82r43
Bob Lenox, rlenox@thenewsstar.com Published 10:01 a.m. CT March 9, 2016 | Updated 12:12 p.m. CT March 11, 2016
A Monroe Public Works Department truck stops near the intersection of Fifth Street and Hilton Street on Wednesday. Public Works Department employees unclogged drains along the flooded streets to allow the water to drain faster.(Photo: Hannah Baldwin, Hannah Baldwin/News-Star)
Monroe Public Relations spokesperson Rod Washington said the city's Public Works department reports that pump stations are working, but heavy rainfall has been a challenge.
"It has been too much, too soon," Washington said. He said the rain event is one of the largest the city has seen in the past eight years.
Flooding has occurred across streets and neighborhoods in Monroe. Early Wednesday, Georgia St., Oregon Trail, Glenmar Ave., Rochelle Ave. and River Oaks subdivision were just a handful of locations where water had covered roads from the inundating rain.
Sandbags are being distributed at the Public Works Complex on Grammont St. in Monroe.
The city opened an emergency shelter at Marbles Community Center at 2950 Renwick St. Washington said the shelter had taken in as many as 26 people Wednesday morning due to flooding.
Check back to thenewsstar.com for updates
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July 14, 2006 | Movie News
What makes Nollywood tick?
Nothing, indeed, could be more fascinating to the Nigerian film critic as to have the opportunity of discussing Nollywood. As a popular phenomenon which came in the early 1990s to replace the otherwise thriving celluloid culture in the Nigerian entertainment industry, Nollywood which made its debut with Living in Bondage has since grown tremendously to churn out thousands of movies aside providing jobs for several millions of Nigerians.
At the just concluded Nigerian segment of the Federation of the International Film Critics' workshop held at Gateway Hotels, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, the home video sub- sector came under scrutiny, even as critics drawn from Ghana, France and Nigeria agreed on several factors that could make Nollywood operators (including other African film makers) attain high standards.
Tagged, Nigerian Home Video, the session, coordinated by Muritala Sule, president of FIPRESCI Nigeria, attracted comments from virtually all critics in attendance.
Sule, on his part, recalled the buoyant and flourishing entertainment culture that preceded Nollywood, noting that artistes of the film making format such as Hubert Ogunde, Ola Balogun, Ladi Ladebo, Ade Afolayan and Moses Olaiya actually worked to project the image of the country through their works. In other words, these film makers saw film as an art, unlike the Nollywood operators who concentrate more on the entertainment/commercial aspect of the movies. Sule ,however, regretted how some international audiences see the wrong sides of Nigeria through Nollywood movies, adding nevertheless that the incursion of the home video has created interaction between the story teller and the audience.
For Shaibu Husseini of The Guardian, most Nollywood producers tap their materials from the wave of societal frivolities and tragedies.
He added that some of the producers often exploit titles or acts earlier used by their colleagues to determine their story lines or commercial viability of their movies. But Jahman Anikulapo, Editor Guardian on Sunday, differed on this assertion, stressing that whatever Nollywood operators must have done is a direct reflection of societal realities. Anikulapo cited the parallel revolution in the proliferation of movies and the rising number of Pentecostal churches, observing that movies and churches have come to serve the needs of a people hunted by their social milieu.
For Tunde Oladunjoye, executive director of Centre for Media Education and Networking, the deficiency in research and documentation may have robbed off on the film industry in terms of quality of raw materials and finished products. He cited the popularity of Hubert Ogunde's films in far away Republic of Benin as an indication that quality films would remain evergreen and marketable. However, the fact that many of Ogunde's films have lost their visual and technical qualities calls for a new format of preservation and presentation.
The duo of Rudolf Asunda and Rita Safowaa (Ghana) spoke on genres and star syndrome respectively. While Asunda blamed low quality movies on producers' failure to explore diverse genres such as documentation, children, wildlife and animation films, Safowaa observed that most African movie producers tend to overuse certain acts who are considered marketable to the audience. In this process, producers usually have actors and actresses who are considered famous in mind, before embarking on the production of their movies.
While Sola Balogun of Daily Sun traced mediocrity in Nollywood to lack of proper training (as obtained informally in the days of Ogunde, Duro Ladipo, Ade Afolayan, Ola Balogun and Eddie Ugboma), Onoshe Nwabuikwu of ThisDay noted that most Nollywood movies succeed not because of good quality but because audiences can easily identify with their social realities through the contents of the movies.
Speaking on tabulation as a major element of the cinema worldwide, Olivier Barlet, facilitator of the workshop who flew in from France explained that the film/movie industry of any nation usually reflect the trend of its socio-economic and political development. He, therefore, urged film critics to take note of tabulation (elements of horror, bizarre scences,fear and witchcraft) and its roles in films, adding that it won't be out of place for the film critic to raise questions or make comments on new forms and styles of presentation adopted by the film makers.
On the whole, participants agreed that script writers actually function as psychologists, hence whatever the audience sees in the movies is a direct reflection of how the society is or evolves.
Most importantly, it was agreed by participants that film critics should always try to identify good films/movies and help educate the audience about them (irrespective of their commercial viability or otherwise). Also they should not condemn films on the basis of content, technical input or plot structure, rather, they should highlight issues which could make the film relevant or appealing to the audience, and at the same time, raise questions on the areas they consider grey or ambiguous.
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Secularism’s Demise
Secularists have predicted that religion will be on the decline due to modernity, yet there has been an “explosion” of religious faith. In light of the claim that religion is simply an opiate of the masses and an illusion, religion is on the rise.
The age of modernity is not secularizing in the way the elites have hoped. As mighty as Secularism might seem to be, they, like Achilles, have a weak spot.
Modernity was supposed to secularize, but is instead pluralizing. Pluralism is a problem for all religions because everyone’s neighbor essentially has a different religion, belief, worldview, and value system. This religious phenomenon was a “revolution that was not supposed to happen,” according to David Martin, a British Sociologist of Religion. The outcome of this revolution has not been through a simple revitalization (such as with Muslim populations), but with new conversions due to worldwide mission outreaches. The group which has claimed most of the results is in the Pentecostal sect.
The increase in religious affections are not only increasing amongst Muslims and Pentecostals, but also with the Orthodox Russian Church, Orthodox Jews, Buddhists, and Hindus. Thus, modernity is not characterized by atheism, but by the worship of many gods. As one philosopher put it, “Man is not only homo sapiens but also homo religiosus.” We as humans are made to worship the One True God. The absence of that worship which is due to Him alone, is made up in the pursuit of idolatry wrapped up in other religions.
Sociologists of religion have found that there are two exceptions to the noticeable increase in religious affections: Central and Western Europe and the international cultural elite. Of course, for the discerning Christian, we know that man was made to worship so the question is not to look at the absence of religious fervor, but where this intrinsic religious desire is showing itself.
In the context of religion, there are three types of secularism according to Peter Berger. Simply put, there is a moderate, radical, and Soviet case of secularism. The moderate would be the American view of the separation of church and state. The radical view is when religion is boxed in the private sphere and thus protected legally by the freedom of religion. Finally, the Soviet case privatizes religion but also represses it.
Secularism has tried to snuff out the candle of religion, but it has failed. Communist China, the government that tries to control and censor everything is bursting at it’s seams with underground churches. The former U.S.S.R., now Russia, who openly claimed that Stalin and thus the state were their deity, fell with a crashing rumble of the wall. North Korea, where the Kim family claims divine ordination, has a blossoming underground church where Bibles are smuggled in and the gospel flourishes in the shadows.
Secularism can kick against the goads, but each time they do, there will be pain and will be put into check. It is only a matter of time that people will reject the atheistic claims of secularization and find their object of worship. People will always worship and as Charles Spurgeon has said, “Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.”
Human beings were created to worship and this will always be the weak spot of Secularism. No society can truly become secularized–the citizen’s, created imago Dei will always act according to their nature and worship.
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“Secularization Falsified” by: Peter L. Berger
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Family ‘disgusted’ that Saskatchewan RCMP officers were cleared of misconduct while investigating Indigenous man’s death
Fri., Nov. 3, 2017timer2 min. read
SASKATOON—The family of an Indigenous man who was shot to death on a Saskatchewan farm says it’s “extremely upset and disgusted” that Mounties have cleared their own officers of misconduct.
Colten Boushie’s family says in a statement that there is no reassurance of fairness when police investigate their own.
Boushie, 22, was shot and killed in August 2016 while riding in an SUV that went onto a farm near Biggar, Sask.
Boushie’s mother has said that when police came to notify her about her son’s death, officers were insensitive, started searching her home without permission and asked her if she’d been drinking.
An internal RCMP investigation, done by a senior officer who is Indigenous, said the allegations couldn’t be supported.
The family said officers made mistakes based on their lack of education and judgment.
“They are not trusted by Indigenous people on the prairie,” Boushie’s mother, Debbie Baptiste, and Boushie’s sister, Jade Tootoosis, said in the statement released Friday through the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations.
“How are we to trust the RCMP when they treat us like criminals when we are the victims?”
Earlier Friday, the federation issued a statement that called into question the fairness of the internal RCMP investigation.
Chief Bobby Cameron said First Nations representation is needed when it comes to investigations of this nature.
“You have officers investigating other officers, showing that the justice system doesn’t serve First Nations with the same standard of care that it should,” said Cameron.
“The lack of sensitivity shown by officers after Colten Boushie’s death should warrant an apology at the very least.”
The RCMP report obtained by The Canadian Press said officers believed someone who ran from the shooting scene at the farm could have been in Baptiste’s home and armed.
None of the officers at the home could recall anyone telling Baptiste to “get it together” — as she has recalled — or asking her if she’d been drinking, said the report, which was based on an investigation by RCMP Insp. Teddy Munro.
Officers also said they received verbal permission to look around the home from one of Baptiste’s sons.
RCMP did apologize for a news release that the family said made Boushie “look like a criminal and he ‘deserved what he got.’ ” The news release said that people in the SUV had been taken into custody as part of a theft investigation. They were released without charges.
The report said the news release followed protocol.
RCMP have said that in the future, Aboriginal police services will review all media releases regarding serious matters that involve Indigenous people or communities.
Chris Murphy, a lawyer for Boushie’s relatives, has said the family will appeal the findings of the internal investigation to the independent Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP. The commission is an independent agency created by Parliament.
The farmer charged in Boushie’s death, Gerald Stanley, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and is to stand trial next year.
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Robots dive into Hawaii's lava-filled ocean searching for marine life
Lilly Price
Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story had the incorrect maker for “Wave Gliders.” It is Liquid Robotics. Also, Roger Hine’s title was incorrect; he is the CTO.
Ocean robots are going where most scientists cannot: into Hawaii's scalding hot waters and hard-to-reach areas to test and track Kilauea volcano eruption's effect on marine life.
Two robots, known as "Wave Gliders" by maker Liquid Robotics, are rolling through cold ocean saltwater to collect data. The surfboard-shaped robots outfitted with several antennas operate independently.
"Wave Gliders can operate in hotter water than boats and there's no person on board," said CTO and founder of Liquid Robotics Roger Hine. "As opposed to putting a scientists on a boat, where we're more concerned about their safety."
Scientists see lava flowing into the ocean as a rare opportunity to learn a lot of new information about the ocean's ecosystem. But when lava hits ocean, a huge plume cloud of acidic steam, also known as "laze" for lava and haze, is formed which feels like battery acidic if in contact with skin.
But with two unmanned robots, scientists working at USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Hawaii at Hilo are able to skirt the potential dangers and retrieve information about the resulting water temperature, oxygen levels, Ph levels, salinity and the immediate effects on sensitive coral reefs and ecosystems of underwater wildlife. The robots have already provided data on the length of the lava flow into the Pacific Ocean.
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Equipped with solar panels, sensors and radars, Wave Gliders can safely monitor the lava's effect on the ocean for weeks at a time and report some of those findings to scientists immediately.
"[Humans] don’t want to get too close to lava entry point. Having seen it myself, you would have to be crazy," Hine said.
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Autopsy Report: With an Issue Ready for the Printer, MAP Magazine Closes Down
Reader Contribution by Jeff Severns Guntzel
| 1/28/2009 12:23:37 PM
Tags: Media, Magazines, autopsy report,
If you never picked up a copy of MAP Magazine, the Miami based art and culture quarterly, you blew it. It’s gone now—shuttered by a cash-strapped publisher with a completed issue ready for the printer. It’s the cruelest brand of magazine death. That interview with Gore Vidal and Chip Kidd? Gone. That piece on the art scene in Berlin? On a hard drive somewhere. The multiple covers created exclusively for the issue by an esteemed art collective? Wasted time.
We first got word of MAP’s demise from Twitter user themediaisdying. An email to (former) MAP editor Omar Sommereyns bounced. We finally tracked him down and arranged an interview. What follows is a little bit of inside baseball and a lot of hurt. And it’s reminder that the best magazines are a labor of love first and a business second. That might be why the best magazines don’t always make it.
UTNE READER: You only made it to six issues. What happened?
OMAR SOMMEREYNS: Yes, it was six issues, but MAP was a quarterly culture publication packed with content. There was always a lot to read—no cheap tidbits only feature narratives, interviews, a fashion section, and columns.
I knew that it would be a serious challenge. Part of it was the location. In Miami the publishing arena is mostly plagued by vacuous glossies and ad-rags. This isn't exactly a literary town. It had never encountered a magazine with a truly intellectual and culturally-relevant approach; with more long-form pieces and serious content.
Our subscriptions, feedback on the content, and readership kept growing exponentially with each issue. But the marketing people were still not selling enough ads, and the economic downturn certainly didn't help. It simply came to a point where the publishers couldn't afford to produce the magazine anymore.
UR: I remember being surprised to learn the magazine was out of Miami.
OS: MAP was really created out of need. There was nothing like it down here, and we felt that there needed to be, especially since there is a compelling culture scene in Miami that gets overlooked by excessively disseminated South Beach stereotypes. And in addition to covering interesting aspects of the local scene, we offered features and interviews on an international level—from an insider's reportage on the surreal world of Bollywood to an interview with reclusive and famed French writer Michel Houellebecq.
UR: Are you proud of what MAP accomplished in six issues?
OS: I'm happy we managed to create a visually and editorially stimulating publication with very little resources. I mean, our editorial budget was hardly commensurate to what we accomplished, and we were able to build something meaningful for a while, thanks to the gracious efforts and talents of several writers, artists, photographers, and dear friends of mine. Art director Andrew Bouchie’s innovative design for the magazine was a big part of its success—readers would constantly commend the design, in addition to the stories themselves.
I feel stifled and frustrated since we weren't even close to reaching our apex, and the creative progression of the magazine was utterly halted. I was still full of ideas and just coming close to realizing how far we could go creatively with MAP.
UR: How quickly did MAP's publisher shut out the lights? Were you given any warning at all?
OS: I had a sense that things weren't going well for some time, but I was quite disappointed that we didn't get to publish our Winter 08/09 issue. It was by far our strongest—a whole new level for us. A few days before going to press, my publishers let me know that the magazine was shutting down, with everything paid for, except we couldn't afford to publish that last issue. That'll always haunt me.
UR: Should anybody be starting a magazine like MAP in this climate?
I would never say no. I commend and encourage any endeavors in independent publishing, but people should be aware that it's really going to be a battle, most notably in establishing a good dichotomy between editorial integrity and business acumen, while trying to make money and stay afloat.
I think we tried our best at MAP. Many great publications and creative activity spring from tough times. It all depends on people's moxie and true independent spirit, plus constant faith in your vision. And, of course, real financial backing to begin with helps a lot. Nonetheless, with any publication like this, there's always a risk factor, but you just kind of have to jump in and see if it works.
MAP Magazine launched in Spring 2007 and was shuttered in December 2008. The magazine is still online and worth a visit--if only to download PDF files of each issue for your digital archives.
Jenna King
Symposium Magazine ( a never talked about art journal that is TRULY a refreshing break from the south beach glitz crap) published an interview with Gore Vidal AND did a feature article on the Berlin art scene two months before MAP was "supposed" to. I thought MAP was "pretty" but, full of itself with marketing booze parties that reaked of the exact thing they were "apparently" speaking against. Miami is far from a thinking mans haven when a glitzy magazine like MAP disquises itself as an intellectual rag and we believe it. If Symposium could afford the paper and the parties it could probably run against the best of the best...But, in "intellectual" Miami Thick fancy paper and dress up parties are abviously more important than Art content by artists...we should be ashamed.
Carrie Swiggum
You can't beat that cover shot. "A few days before going to press, my publishers let me know that the magazine was shutting down, with everything paid for, except we couldn't afford to publish that last issue. That'll always haunt me." -I'm so sorry, how frustrating
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2015: Why I want to be President – Buhari
On October 1, 2014 7:33 amIn Newsby akintayo eribake
By Levinus Nwabughiogu
ABUJA—Former Head of State, and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday in Abuja formally declared his intention to seek his party’s nomination to contest next year’s presidential election, saying the country is tired of 15 years of purposeless leadership by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The expression of Buhari’s intention is coming exactly one week after former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, another presidential aspirant declared to run for the plum office on the party’s platform.
By this development, Buhari has become the second person to declare his presidential ambition in the party.
BUHARI DECLARES: General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) declaring his intention to seek the All Progressives Congress, APC, nomination to contest next year’s presidential election yesterday.
Addressing a crowd of supporters under the aegis of Buhari Support Group Centre in Abuja, the former military ruler said he would make formal statement on his intention soon.
He however urged his supporters to be ready to take the support beyond his person to ensure victory for APC.
He said: “Within the next few weeks, the party will hold its convention to choose the flag bearers who will stand election on its platform. Your duty as supporters and volunteers will, among other things, include participation in the preparation for these primary elections and seeing to their successful conclusion and getting yourselves ready to do all it takes to wrest power from the PDP.
“With your support, I intend to offer myself for the position of the president of the republic on the platform of our great party. I intend to make a formal announcement soon and I hope I can count on your continuing support and sacrifice.
“However, I would like to point out to you that to be more meaningful, your support must extend beyond my person and always be available to the party and all those the party puts forwards; because it is the party that is the platform.
“You must remember at all times that APC is a party with several qualified people for each and all the positions that will be contested, including that of the president.
“It is the primaries that will determine who eventually represents the party in which capacity. If I get the nomination, I expect you will redouble your effort and commitment until we clinch the presidency. But in the event that it happens to be one of the other aspirants who wins, I will expect you as good party men to extend to him your total support.
We are a united party, and united we shall remain because our strength lies in our unity.”
Apparently tired of having his name associated with pre and post election violence, Buhari warned his followers to desist from any unruly behaviors.
“For this and for other reasons, I must warm all my supporters, volunteers and other well-wishes within the party or even out of it not to insult or be rude to any other aspirant or party leader on my behalf.
“My supporters must not engage in any kind of behavior or conduct that will tarnish the image of any leader or promote division or rancour within the ranks of the party. Whoever does that should know he or she is working for the enemy”, he said.
…Says we are in 15 years of PDP purposeless leadership
Taking a swipe at the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, he said the party in its 15 years of existence was clueless about the challenges facing the country. According to him, change was imminent.
His words: “Today, we are in the 15th year of purposeless leadership by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and all we have seen is unprecedented deterioration in the security and law and order, astronomical rise in the incidence and intensity of corruption, and in the failure of governance.
“And as we reach this last lap of the journey, I would like to request that we concentrate all our effort and energy toward realising and achieving change in how this country is run. The only way to meaningful change in this country is to vote the PDP out of power to which it was never legitimately elected, anyway.”
…Maintains APC is hope of Nigerians
Buhari who has been a contender for the position since 2003 boasted that APC was the alternative party Nigerians were waiting for.
He said: “We are the alternative the nation has been waiting for. We are committed to democracy and entrenching its culture in Nigeria. We are committed to the principles of good governance and making them work in this country. We are committed to public probity and entrenching a culture of accountability in the conduct of government business.”
“Because we are committed to developing the potentials of this nation into true greatness, we shall bring about transformative change in this country-change in the way things are done and change in the way things are undone; change in the way this nation is left unsecured and mismanaged; and change in the way corruption is pampered and worshipped; and we shall install a culture of openness in the public affairs. We shall develop this land and go after prosperity and get it for our long-suffering people.”
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter is willing to risk a war with China in order to defend “freedom of navigation” in the South China Sea. Speaking in Honolulu, Hawaii on Wednesday, Carter issued his “most forceful” warning yet, demanding “an immediate and lasting halt to land reclamation” by China in the disputed Spratly Islands.
Carter said: “There should be no mistake: The United States will fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows, as we do all around the world.” He also added that the United States intended to remain “the principal security power in the Asia-Pacific for decades to come.”
In order to show Chinese leaders “who’s the boss”, Carter has threatened to deploy US warships and surveillance aircraft to within twelve miles of the islands that China claims are within their territorial waters.
Not surprisingly, the US is challenging China under the provisions of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, a document the US has stubbornly refused to ratify. But that’s neither here nor there for the bellicose Carter whose insatiable appetite for confrontation makes him the most reckless Sec-Def since Donald Rumsfeld.
So what’s this really all about? Why does Washington care so much about a couple hundred yards of sand piled up on reefs reefs in the South China Sea? What danger does that pose to US national security? And, haven’t Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines all engaged in similar “land reclamation” activities without raising hackles in DC?
Carter indeed proving to be as stupid as he looks
Of course, they have. The whole thing is a joke. Just like Carter’s claim that he’s defending the lofty principal of “freedom of navigation” is a joke. China has never blocked shipping lanes or seized boats sailing in international waters. Never. The same cannot be said of the United States that just recently blocked an Iranian ship loaded with humanitarian relief–food, water and critical medical supplies–headed to starving refugees in Yemen.
Of course, when the US does it, it’s okay.
The point is, Washington doesn’t give a hoot about the Spratly Islands; it’s just a pretext to slap China around and show them who’s running the show in their own backyard. Carter even admits as much in his statement above when he says that the US plans to be “the principal security power in the Asia-Pacific for decades to come.” China knows what that means. It means “This is our planet, so you’d better shape up or you’re going to find yourself in a world of hurt.” That’s exactly what it means.
So let’s cut to the chase and try to explain what’s really going on, because pretty soon no one is going to be talking about Ukraine, Syria or Yemen because all eyes are going to be focused on China where our madhatter Secretary of Defense is trying to start a third world war.
Here’s the scoop: Washington has abandoned its China policy of “containment” and moved on to Plan B: Isolation, intimidation and confrontation. In my opinion, this is why the powerbrokers behind Obama dumped Hagel. Hagel just wasn’t hawkish enough for the job. They wanted a died-in-the-wool, warmongering neocon, like Carter, who is, quite likely, the most dangerous man in the world.
The way Obama envisions himself
Carter’s assignment is to implement the belligerent new policy of incitement and conflict.
His actions will prove to the skeptics that Washington is no longer interested in integrating China into the US-led system.
Rather, China has become a the biggest threat to Washington’s plan to pivot to Asia.
And, just to remind readers how important the pivot is to America’s future, here’s an Obama quote I lifted up from Tom Engelhardt’s latest titled “Superpower in Distress”:
“After a decade in which we fought two wars that cost us dearly, in blood and treasure, the United States is turning our attention to the vast potential of the Asia Pacific region….As we end today’s wars, I have directed my national security team to make our presence and mission in the Asia Pacific a top priority.”
The so called pivot is Washington’s “top priority”, which means that China’s unprecedented ascendency must be slowed and its regional influence curtailed.
Thus, the dust up over the Spratly Islands will be used in the same way the US has used other incidents, that is, by demonizing China’s leaders in the media, by assembling a coalition that will publicly oppose China’s activities, by implementing harsh economic sanctions, by launching asymmetrical attacks on China’s currency and financial markets, by excluding China from critical trade agreements, and by inciting social unrest (color-coded revolution) through the support of dissidents living in China.
The way world leaders see Obama
These are the all-too-familiar signs of US meddling directed at “emerging rivals” who threaten US global hegemony.
China now finds itself at the top of the list.
US powerbrokers know that bullying China involves significant risks for themselves and the world.
Even so, they have decided to pursue this new policy and force a confrontation.
Why? Why would they embark on a strategy so fraught with danger?
The answer is: They don’t see any way around it. They’ve tried containment and it hasn’t worked. China’s growing like crazy and its regional influence threatens to leave the US on the outside looking in. Carter even admitted as much in a recent speech he gave at the McCain Institute at Arizona State University. He said: “We already see countries in the region trying to carve up these markets…forging many separate trade agreements in recent years, some based on pressure and special arrangements…. Agreements that…..leave us on the sidelines.
That risks America’s access to these growing markets. We must all decide if we are going to let that happen. If we’re going to help boost our exports and our economy…and cement our influence and leadership in the fastest-growing region in the world; or if, instead, we’re going to take ourselves out of the game.”
See? It’s all about markets. It’s all about money. Here’s more from Carter’s speech: (The) ” Asia-Pacific…is the defining region for our nation’s future”… “Half of humanity will live there by 2050″ and that “more than half of the global middle class and its accompanying consumption will come from that region.”….”There are already more than 525 million middle class consumers in Asia, and we expect there to be 3.2 billion in the region by 2030…President Obama and I want to ensure that… businesses can successfully compete for all these potential customers. ….Over the next century, no region will matter more… for American prosperity.”
This is why the Obama administration is making a general nuisance of itself in the South China Sea. It’s so the big US mega-corporations will have new customers for their IPADs and toaster ovens.
For that, they are willing to risk a nuclear war.
MIKE WHITNEY lives in Washington state. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK Press). Hopeless is also available in a Kindle edition. He can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com.
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Child Sex Abuse Claims Shake UN As Revelations Continue
The tip of the iceberg; UN pederasts exposed
By Cara Anna
UNITED NATIONS —
The boys said they approached the French soldiers because they were hungry. Some were so young they didn't quite understand the acts the soldiers demanded in return. One boy, 8 or 9 years old, said he did it several times to the same soldier, "until one day an older kid saw him and told him what he was doing was bad."
"Want some caanndy little boy?"
Another boy, 9, said he thought the soldiers had been urinating.
U.N. investigators heard such stories of sexual abuse from several boys in May and June 2014 in Central African Republic, where French soldiers were protecting a sprawling displaced persons camp in the conflict-torn capital, Bangui.
One year later, revelations about how the U.N. handled the boys' accounts have horrified people both inside and outside the world body.
Statements marked "strictly confidential" have shown that its top human rights officials failed to follow up for several months on the allegations their own office had collected.
On Saturday, the high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Raad al-Hussein, said his office was sending a team to Central African Republic to look into what the statement called "possible further measures to address human rights violations," including sexual violence. The office also will ask "concerned states" what they have done to investigate them and prosecute anyone.
No arrests have been announced, and it's not clear where the accused soldiers, who were supporting a U.N. peacekeeping force, are now. The U.N. seems unable to say when the abuses stopped, or how long it continued to investigate.
On Friday, more documents were released by a non-governmental organization run by two former U.N. staffers that's calling for an independent investigation into the case. The documents show U.N. officials scrambling not so much to help a French inquiry into the allegations but to investigate the human rights staffer who told French authorities in the first place.
Kirsten Sandberg, chairwoman of the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child attempts to deflect the heat from the UN by focusing on the Vatican sex abuse cases - the pot calling the kettle black
A separate report with the children's allegations, obtained by The Associated Press, says the first account was heard May 19 by a human rights staffer and a UNICEF child protection officer. The interviews continued through June 24. A Geneva-based human rights staffer shared the report with French authorities in July.
The boys' accounts are simple and stark. An 11-year-old said he had gone "looking for empty wrappings to play with" when a French soldier first called him over, later giving the boy food and a little money in exchange for oral sex. Another boy, 9, "had been severely beaten by his mother when he told her what had happened."
A UNICEF spokeswoman did not immediately respond to questions Friday about how the children's agency reported the allegations, and to whom.
The case has exposed a glaring weakness in a world body that considers human rights one of its three main pillars: It has no specific guidelines on how to handle allegations of child sexual abuse, and no requirement for immediate, mandatory reporting.
Even when French gendarmes showed up at the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Bangui to investigate the allegations — the report shared with French authorities is on the mission's letterhead — they were told they had to go through proper U.N. channels and talk to the human rights office in Geneva instead.
That was in August. At the end of March, the U.N. finally handed France a redacted copy of the same report they already had. The U.N. says the report first given to the French included the names of the children and witnesses and was a breach of protocol.
The children's allegations didn't make their way to top officials at U.N. headquarters in New York for months. On Friday, U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous told reporters he first heard about them this spring. When asked why the mission in Central African Republic didn't alert his office in New York right away, he said, "Some reporting lines maybe didn't function."
The NGO that on Friday released internal U.N. documents related to the case, AIDS-Free World, called for an independent investigation into the way the allegations were handled from the start.
"The grim reality is that those with experience within the U.N. system are unlikely to be surprised," its statement said. "They know that this is not an unusual case; it is simply one that has come, partially, to light."
A spokesman for the U.N. human rights office did not comment Friday. The spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general, Stephane Dujarric, told reporters that the documents "may or may not be authentic."
It is not clear whether a U.N. commission of inquiry on Central African Republic looked into the child sexual abuse allegations. It has said that because of limited resources it focused on incidents involving alleged deaths.
The commission's final report in December suggests that the U.N. secretary-general report alleged violations by all peacekeepers in Central African Republic, regardless of whether they are part of a U.N. mission.
But on Friday, his spokesman said the secretary-general only heard of the child sexual abuse allegations this spring.
Among the documents released Friday is a March 24 statement by the human rights staffer who interviewed the children. The statement is for the U.N. investigation into what it calls the "leak" to French authorities.
Between September and March, the staffer says, she didn't hear anything about the case.
But she offers, "I still have all the notes I took of the interviews if they would be of any help."
Washington Created The Islamic State - "ISIS"
Ever so slowly, the truth continues to bleed out on CIA/ISIS; "mainstream media" will face war crimes trials along with Obama criminals
Judicial Watch obtained a declassified 2012 Pentagon intelligence reportanticipating ISIS (the Islamic State - IS) emerging from US support for Al Qaeda and other takfiri terrorists.
American traitor John McCain with "ISIS" leaders
including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (center, rear)
It predicted what happened, saying "(i)f the situation unravels there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared salafist principality in eastern Syria…and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime, which is considered the strategic depth of the Shia expansion (Iraq and Iran)."
It anticipated "dire consequences" for Iraq - including the fall of Mosul and Ramadi, saying:
An "ideal atmosphere" was created "for AQI (Al Qaeda in Iraq) to return to its old pockets in Mosul and Ramadi."
"ISI (Islamic State of Iraq) could also declare an Islamic state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria, which will create grave danger in regards to unifying Iraq and the protection of its territory."
Supporting powers include Washington, Turkey, other rogue NATO partners, Gulf states and Israel.
They created and supported takfiri terrorist groups to destabilize Syria, establish a "Salafist Principality," and isolate the Assad government in an attempt to topple it.
According to former UK counterterrorism intelligence officer Charles Shoebridge:
"Given the political leanings of the organisation that obtained these documents, it’s unsurprising that the main emphasis given to them thus far has been an attempt to embarrass Hillary Clinton regarding what was known about the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in 2012."
Obama's murdering CIA created and funded both the Syrian
FSA and "ISIS"
"However, the documents also contain far less publicized revelations that raise vitally important questions of the West’s governments and media in their support of Syria’s rebellion. Throughout the early years of the Syria crisis, the US and UK governments, and almost universally the West’s mainstream media, promoted Syria’s rebels as moderate, liberal, secular, democratic."
"Given that these documents wholly undermine this assessment, it’s significant that the West’s media (have) now, despite their immense significance, almost entirely ignored them."
Pentagon intelligence accurately anticipated "an Islamic State (emerging) through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria."
Washington et al supported Syrian "opposition forces" war to "control the eastern areas (Hasaka and Der Zor), bordering Western Iraqi provinces (Mosul and Anbar)."
In October 2014 "mainstream media" frauds and war
mongers at CNN and Fox "news" attempted to sell
the international public on an "ISIS" air force, flying
captured Syrian MIG's
Pentagon intelligence confirms US support for IS and other takfiri terrorists - not opposition as officially declared.
Years before public acknowledgement of IS' existence, US defense intelligence knew takfiri terrorists constituted core Assad opposition.
Washington continues providing support. A previous article discussed a man named Yousal Al Salafi in detention in Pakistan getting US funding to recruit fighters to wage war on Assad.
He admitted getting $600 per recruit. They're trained in Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.
Vice President Joe Biden admitted involvement of US allies in supporting IS and other takfiri terrorists, saying:
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were "so determined to take down Assad" that they supported a "proxy Sunni-Shia war (by supplying) hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons" for anyone willing to fight his government.
Nations America targeted post-9/11 remain cauldrons of violence, chaos and instability. US strategy relies on it to advance its imperial agenda.
U.S. traitors like McCain and his CNN, Fox News liars, frauds and hacks will be tried for war crimes - and they know it
It includes endless wars, eliminating all independent governments, making the world safe for Western monied interests, and creating ruler-serf societies unfit to live in.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
The Invention Of Capitalism : Classical Political Economy And The Secret History Of Primitive Accumulation
A fascinating history now being replayed at this very moment in the UK, EU
THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY ACT
By Michael Perleman (2000)
The Invention of Capitalism is about the origin of an economic concept known as “primitive accumulation.” Marx defined primitive accumulation as the process by which precapitalist modes of production, such as feudalism and chattel slavery, are transformed into the capitalist mode of production. Using the term somewhat differently, Perelman describes it as the brutal process by which government denies peasants the means of subsistence to force them into wage labor.
PDF for the full book HERE.
Tracing the rise of capitalism in the 18th and 19th century, the Invention of Capitalism also studies the origin of the concept in the work of classical economists, such as Adam Smith, Ricardo and Malthus.
Forcing Workers to Accept Wage Labor
Nearly all the 18th century economists and social philosophers seem to agree that workers never voluntarily accept wage labor so long they have alternative means of providing for themselves.
They all acknowledge, either directly or indirectly, that it’s natural for human beings to prefer “self-provisioning,” in which they own or rent a piece of land to produce their own food, clothing, fuel and other necessities. In addition to allowing them more control over their work, there is more leisure time associated with this lifestyle, as well as strong community ties that disappear with wage labor. Unless brutal force must be applied to strip people of the ability to provide for themselves, they never voluntarily agree to wage labor.
In Britain, “primitive accumulation” was largely accomplished through the Enclosure Acts, the Poor Laws and the Game Laws.
The Enclosure Acts drove peasants off large tracts of land they had farmed communally for thousands of years; the Poor Laws forced disposed peasants into poorhouses and workhouses; and the Game Acts denied them the right to hunt (ie poach) or gather berries, firewood etc on unoccupied land.
Capitalism developed more slowly in Scotland, France, Italy, Spain and the British colonies, where the ruling elite was less savage in stripping the peasantry of access to land. These regions enjoyed a long transition in which factory workers performed wage labor and self-provisioning simultaneously, by raising crops and chickens and engaging in spinning and other crafts in their leisure time.
The Innate Sloth and Indolence of Workers
As Perelman quite ably demonstrates, most classical economists gloss over the brutal force required to establish a successful capitalist economic system. A few of the lesser known political economists (Perelman focuses in Sir James Steuart, one of Adam Smith’s rivals) are honest about need for laws that prevent workers from self-provisioning. They blame the need for such laws on an innate tendency towards “sloth and indolence” in workers and peasants (and indigenous peoples).
English workhouse
Perelman devotes special attention to the Scottish economist Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations, as well as the political economists and social philosophers who influenced Smith’s work. He also explores attitudes toward primitive accumulation in the work of Marx, Benjamin Franklin, Lenin and Mao Tse Tung. The forceful primitive accumulation that industrialized the Soviet Union and Communist China occurred much more rapidly than in Western Europe or North America. This makes the Soviet and Chinese process appear much more savage. However a close look at British history suggests they were far more brutal, especially in Ireland and the colonies, than either the Chinese or Soviets.
Sampson Kempthorne workhouse in England
Yields Drop Under Commercial Agriculture
The part of the book I found most interesting concerns the drop in crop yields that occurred with the shift from labor intensive “spade labor” to commercial agriculture employing horse driven plows and eventually farm machinery. This corresponds closely with modern research showing that plowing reduces yields by destroying soil fertility. Then, as now, it’s clear that the goal of commercial agriculture isn’t to produce more food but to extract more profit from other people’s work.
A Return to Self-Provisioning
Perelman’s research seems especially significant in the face of growing unemployment and part time and casual labor. A growing number of unemployed and part time workers use their enforced leisure time to plant veggie gardens, collect rainwater, preserve their own food and make their own clothes and cleaning and beauty products. In other words, the cycle of primitive accumulation is being reversed, as more and more people leave formal employment and return to self-provisioning.
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The real truth on 9/11 slowly continues to bleed out
Technical experts are mounting major challenges to official U.S. government accounts of how three World Trade Center skyscrapers collapsed in near-freefall after the 9/11 attacks 15 years ago.
Many researchers are focusing especially on the little-known collapse of
The Geopolitics Of The United States, Part 1: The Inevitable Empire
The Empire and the inevitable fall of the Obama criminal regime
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Like nearly all of the peoples of North and South America, most Americans are not originally from the territory that became the United States.
Geopolitics Of The United States Part 2: American Identity And The Threats of Tomorrow
A look back at 2011 predictions for the future in order to put events of today into perspective
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The Alfa Romeo 4C is a lightweight, no-frills two-seat sports car that pairs an exotic shape with a (relatively) affordable price tag.
The 4C was the first Alfa Romeo sold in the U.S. after a considerable hiatus. The 4C sports a turbo-4 and a dual-clutch automatic transmission. It's hardly advanced: the 4C skips power steering, many creature comforts, and usable space in favor of a "teenage Ferrari" approach to no-frills performance.
Is the 4C as good as all that? Well, our sister site Motor Authority liked it enough to name it the Best Car to Buy 2015, beating out competitors such as the BMW M3 and M4, the Dodge Challenger Hellcat, and even Lamborghini's entry-level Huracán.
The 4C hasn't been a big seller for Alfa Romeo, and for 2019 the hardtop version was dropped. That leaves only the Alfa 4C Spider.
MORE: Read our 2019 Alfa Romeo 4C review
The 4C Spider features a removable cloth roof panel that rolls up and stows in the trunk. Compared to the very light coupe model, the Spider only adds 22 pounds. Styling is basically unchanged, though the Spider features an exposed carbon-fiber windshield header and trades the coupe's windowed engine cover for one that doesn't showcase the turbo 4-cylinder in back.
The concept may be simple, but the 4C was not done as a cost-saving exercise. It gets its own carbon-fiber chassis tub, with a massaged front-engine powertrain flipped around and installed in the rear to create a mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. The wheelbase measures only about 96 inches, and the whole car isn't much longer, at 156 inches. The tidy size and lightweight design lead to a U.S.-spec total of 2,465 pounds. That's slightly higher than the European model, as a result of additional crash-structure requirements as well as standard infotainment and air conditioning, as well as a passenger seat that adjusts, if only barely.
All 4Cs are powered by a turbocharged, direct-injected 1.75-liter 4-cylinder engine. This setup is rated at 237 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque—that means each horsepower is matched with only 10.3 pounds in the Italian mini-supercar. The Alfa makes a pretty fantastic noise, thanks in part to no muffler, and a center-exit dual-mode exhaust is available for those who want a different look and more control over the ruckus.
The engine features an aluminum block and special intakes designed to deliver a sporty note and good throttle response. Alfa Romeo also boasts that the engine features a "scavenging control system" that is said to all but eliminate turbo lag.
The 4C is rear-wheel drive, and the sole transmission is a 6-speed, dual-clutch automatic with paddle shifters. It offers several shift modes, from fully automatic operation to full-manual control.
Performance is pure sports car: 0-60 mph takes just 4.5 seconds, and the top speed is limited to 155 mph. Fuel economy is rated at 24 mpg city, 34 highway, 28 combined, according to the EPA.
Ride and handling are managed by a lightweight aluminum suspension--struts in front, double wishbones in back—mounted on subframes that are in turn mounted to the car’s carbon tub. The 4C also comes with a driving "DNA" selector, which allows the driver to choose from Dynamic, Natural, and All Weather modes, plus a special Race mode. American-spec cars have staggered 17- and 18-inch wheels and tires; an optional setup includes 18-inch front and 19-inch rear wheels.
Inside, the 4C has two seats and a minimalist look for the dash, with much of the carbon-fiber structure left bare for admiration. The center column, which is actually part of the carbon structure, has been left in full view to enhance the sense of uniqueness, technology, and light weight.
A special Launch Edition of the coupe was offered in the U.S. with sales limited to 500 units. It featured additional convenience features and special trim—and a price tag just below $70,000.
For 2016, Alfa offered a new Carbon Fiber Interior package and a new Akrapovic dual-mode electronically controlled exhaust system. The Carbon Fiber Interior package adds carbon fiber on the interior vents, instrument cluster surround, and instrument panel and shifter bezels. The new exhaust has dual center-mounted tips with a carbon fiber surround, and it delivers maximum sound when the DNA switch is in the Dynamic or Race modes. All models also received premium speakers, the coupe got the Alpine audio system from the Spider and a lockable console, and the Spider added a higher quality alarm system.
For 2017, the coupe received an available carbon-fiber roof, as well as a premium Alpine audio system with a subwoofer. Changes for 2018 were minimal. The front fascia became available with carbon-fiber vents, and the black leather interior offered yellow stitching.
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Jerry was so successful as a salesman that every equipment manufacturer wanted him to sell their products and every competing sales agency was afraid to sell against him because the customers just liked dealing with Jerry.
- Jim Modrall, Vice President/Technical Services, BMI Imaging
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The Crowley Company is a world leader in commercial imaging solutions and has been a major contributor to the digital document, micrographics and record reformatting industry since its 1980 incorporation. With manufacturing, distribution, imaging and technical support divisions, Crowley provides the most complete range of quality solutions for archival preservation, records management, digitization and microfilm processing in the industry.
Company founder,
Jerome (Jerry) Crowley
Sales. Service. Manufacturing. Support.
The late Jerome F. (Jerry) Crowley, Jr. started the privately-owned firm in 1980 under the name of J. F. Crowley, Inc.
Representing manufacturers in the photographic, graphic arts and micrographic industries, Jerry was successful in hardware and software sales but chaffed against the downtime his equipment spent on the display floor. He decided to put the machines to work when not in demonstration and in 1986, changed the firm name to Crowley Micrographics, with offerings of both hardware/software sales and document conversion services to commercial clients and to federal, state and local governments.
Within a few years, sons Christopher (Chris) and Patrick (Pat) Crowley joined the family business. As the company grew, it continued to diversify with a concentration in the areas of document conversion, reformatting and digital imaging services as a complement to the company’s strong position as a leading provider of document reformatting solutions (hardware/software).
To learn more about Crowley’s founder and history, read the following blog posts:
Crowley Celebrates 35 Years
On Father’s Day: Jerry Crowley
Hard Head, Soft Heart:The Legacy of Chris Crowley
In October of 1996, the company’s ownership and leadership was assumed by Chris, filling the role of company president, and Pat as vice president. In 2017, eldest brother Kevin joined the executive management team as chief technology officer. Today, following Chris’ passing in 2018, Pat serves the company as president and Kevin as chief operating officer.
As client interest in digital technologies increased, Crowley Micrographics expanded product and services offerings to include digital scanning, including the hardware representation and in-house/service bureau use of premium digital and microfilm product lines.
Today the firm, now known as The Crowley Company, is the manufacturer and/or or distributor of the following brands:
Avision document scanners
Crowley brand scanners and cameras
Digitech Systems ECM and storage solutions
Extek Microsystems film duplicators
HF Processors deep tank film processing equipment
ID Scientific TrueImage M1000 document examination platform
IMAGELINK Microfilm
InoTec document scanners
Mekel Technology microfilm and microfiche scanners
Qidenus V-shaped book scanners
Wicks and Wilson microfilm and microfiche scanners
Zeutschel overhead, book and patron imaging systems
Crowley Imaging is a service bureau with hundreds of millions of images digitized and decades of experience in digital imaging and micrographics. The conversion services bureau clientele includes prominent individuals and private collections, archival institutions and associations, government and public agencies, corporations and a wide variety of noted academic, publishing and commercial organizations.
Categories of records converted from paper, microfiche/microfilm and photographic negatives include:
Technical Documents: permits, reports, instrument readings, lab notebooks, and more
Vital Records: patient records, medical records and others
Land Records: deed books, tax records, etc.
Court Records: marriage, adoption, cemetery, census, military, docket, case, police and other records
Office Documents: invoices, payroll, personnel, minutes and more
Historical & Publishing Records/Archives: newspapers, periodicals, special collections, etc.
Engineering Records: maps, electrical, sewer, construction, schematics and others
Photographs: slides, film strips, medium format negatives and reflective prints
A partial list of service bureau clients includes: Time-Life; The U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum; the National Archives; the Library of Congress; Harvard University, Cengage Learning, Lexus Nexus and many others that represent a full spectrum of imaging needs.
Over the past decade, Crowley’s technology and service offerings have continued to expand and now include the ownership of several leading hardware manufacturers.
In 2003, Mekel Technology, which introduced the first microfilm scanner to the world in 1989, became a part of the Crowley family of companies. Manufacturing the industry’s leading production roll film and microfiche scanners in San Dimas, California, the marriage of these two companies enabled The Crowley Company to sell direct to the market and to respond quickly to customer feedback with continuous improvement on existing and new equipment and systems. The high-end Mekel Technology scanners and related Quantum software are now mainstays in the Crowley service bureau.
In 2011, The Crowley Company acquired one-time competitor UK-based Wicks and Wilson Limited (WWL), adding to the line of Crowley-manufactured and distributed products and giving the firm a physical European presence. Known for a strong line of mid-volume microfilm, microfiche and aperture cards scanners and progressive engineering, the WWL hardware filled in the gap between the entry-level and high-volume scanners already manufactured or distributed by Crowley.
The Crowley Company continues to honor its analog roots and is a major supplier of micrographics and digital imaging systems, owning and operating Houston Fearless (HF) Processors, which provides deep-tank film processing equipment for the microfilm and movie industry, and Extek Microsystems, which provides film duplicators for the micrographics industry including 16MM and 35MM silver halide duplicators and diazo film duplicators.
Today, the hardware and software engineers in Crowley’s San Dimas (Ca.) and Basingstoke (UK) facilities join to create a formidable research and development team. Together, they continuously upgrade existing products to keep pace with changing technology and conceive new technology to suit the evolving digital needs of those with archives and records.
As a natural extension of the services above, The Crowley Company also provides technical hardware and software maintenance support for installed systems throughout the world.
The Crowley Company’s mission is to promote the benefits of both image conversion and access and to offer customers a complete full-cycle solution to their digital imaging needs utilizing the different facets of the organization. With a greater capacity for decision-making, manufacturing and flexibility than the competition, we seek to provide a full range of conversion and reformatting solutions to all industries and institutions.
The Crowley Company’s Frederick, Maryland (USA) headquarters includes an 18,000 SF conversion bureau, technical support, sales and administrative offices. The company’s hardware manufacturing facilities are in San Dimas, California (USA) and Basingstoke, Hampshire (UK). In addition to Frederick, Crowley provides worldwide sales support from representative offices in Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the United Kingdom. Finally, the company has a strong network of reputable resellers across all continents.
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Is Pippa Badly Dressed?
Er, Yes...
After a series of fashion misses, Tom Sykes asks whether its time for Pippa Middleton to call in the professionals.
Tom Sykes
Updated Jul. 11, 2017 8:06PM ET / Published Sep. 27, 2013 3:00AM ET
After what Pippa wore to the big Vanity Fair party in London with Graydon Carter this week – a strangely ill-judged Matthew Williamson creation that combined a sparkly blue vest on top with a bizarre black and orange feathery dress tacked onto the bottom - I am afraid the question cannot be avoided any longer.
Is Pippa Middleton really badly dressed?
Yes, she looked splendid at her sister’s wedding in that McQueen gown, which did so much to flatter her natural shape (ahem), but, in recent months, Pippa has been clocking up many more misses than hits.
What’s going on? The girl clearly has access to the finest frocks and the best designers in the business -- what she clearly doesn’t have is a stylist (or if she does, then they should be fired).
But maybe it’s just me.
To find out, I sent several of Pippa’s most recent looks out to a panel of seriously hot stuff fashion folk and asked for their feedback.
The answer? No, it’s not just me.
One of the most fashionable people I know, Sandra Ellis, a London-based international fashion sales consultant says: “Overall Pippa needs a stylist that can help her choose pieces that work with her sensibility and body shape and not what is current or fashionable. Pippa appears to be a rather traditional girl and trying to make her look cool simply doesn’t work. What seems to have happened is that the clothes are wearing her and it should be the other way round.”
I think that’s rather a good analysis of what happened with the Mathew Williamson monstrosity from this week (seen above).
But moving on to some specific looks. Look, for example, at this picture of Pippa in the back of a London taxi on her way home from a big night out, in what can only be described as loons.
Maureen Callaghan, fashion writer and author of the forthcoming book, Champagne Supernovas: Kate, Marc, McQueen and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion (Simon & Schuster, Feb 2014), says: “To bastardize the definition of a mullet: this outfit is business on top, party on the bottom. A cautionary tale in the importance of learning how to transition from the office to the evening (work helps).”
Ellis says: “Although printed trousers were hot for the summer, this looks completely wrong on Pippa, particularly when paired with a rather dull beige blazer – printed pants should be worn with something a bit more edgy such as a motorcycle jacket and some cool biker boots or killer heels.”
Moving on, one of the places we most often see Pippa photographed is at weddings. Weddings are her natural habitat. So how come she looks so strange at them?
Charlie Anderson, an independent stylist who is reported to have been behind Princess Beatrice’s transformation from ugly duckling to graceful swan (although she is too discreet to say) says: "This black and white wedding outfit is not bad, but it still manages to miss the mark. Is it the matchy-matchy accessories? Or just the lack of a modern, flattering cut that does it?”
Callaghan says: “Pippa could take a note from the (amused) fashionista to her left: This is how a young society girl should look at a wedding -- chic yet bohemian.”
Now we come to Wimbledon. Again, Wimbledon is one of the places where you would really expect Pippa to look at her best, especially as she knows she will be photographed there.
But, well, it’s all pretty awful, isn’t it?
“Tragic,” says Callaghan. “The cut of this dress has turned her figure into an inverted triangle, while the stripes slice and dice. Harder to look at than the sun.”
Isabel Wilkinson, Fashion Editor of The Daily Beast, is pretty harsh about this look too: “An orange dress with horizontal stripes? Just not what you wear if you want to look thinner!”
Anderson says: “Pretty awful. The sloping shoulder line is simply not flattering! And as for that nude panel down the middle...yuck. I think she is one of those people who tries really hard but just never quite gets it right. She is just not a girl who follows fashion well and she has yet to find her 'style'. It is all too girly and mumsie at the same time.”
Ellis: “Just wrong. Orange is a very difficult color to pull off and the style is super unflattering; it makes her shoulders look very sloped and she looks much older than her years.”
Another wedding shot -- but what is she wearing this time?
Callaghan: “The guest behind Pippa -- the expression on her face says it all. The cut and color of this dress is stodgy and aging, and the lime-green accent on her clutch clashes horribly.”
Says an anonymous fashion director: “It's all so wrong and not in an ironic way sadly. Poor Pippa Sloaneville. It's like she is in Fashion Jail and only allowed to wear frumpy dated Sloane florals and old lady canary yellow. Pippa, honey, read the memo: Kate looks hot and you can too! Do not try and be someone you think you should be. Go back to bridesmaid style: chic elegant and oh-so-sexy. Be yourself!”
Anderson: “This wedding outfit isn't awful -- but somehow it is just awfully un-interesting.”
This orange and black combo for a night out doesn't really do it, either.
Says Wilkinson: “Her long hemline makes her look even shorter. I wouldn't call Pippa, "really badly dressed" as much as just ... dopey. She means well, and she's trying, clearly, to be some more real-world version of her other-worldly sister. But I don’t get why someone who was seen as, well, bangin' after the Royal Wedding would wear so many clothes that are so clearly unflattering to her body.”
Says Callaghan: “She's swimming in this skirt -- it's too large and too long. Are stylists just a US thing?”
Ellis: “The orange and black gown makes her look short and stocky. A halter style top works well on beautifully slim and elegant shoulders, sadly Pippa looks like a body builder… not what she wanted to achieve I’m sure!”
For a round up it's over to rabid monarchist Mickey Boardman, editorial director of Paper Magazine: "The truth is that no one in the royal family is well dressed," he says. "Being well dressed is a bit beneath them. It's too tabloid. Too cocktail. Too red carpet. I love how the Queen looks and I love how Princess Anne looks but that's because it really shows their personalities. It has nothing to do with current fashion.
"The thing about Pippa is that she has personality and seems fun. We the public have very low standards of cuteness for the royal family, although the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge are certainly both attractive. That's why we go so crazy for Pippa. Although she's cute and has a crackerjack figure, really I think it's her fun attitude and upbeat energy that makes her so popular."
So the short version is, honey, get a stylist. I am sure Graydon will pay.
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Battlefield: Bad Company Multiplayer Hands On
During last week’s Game Developer’s Conference, DICE held an event at at the nearby Vessel nightclub that was decked out with around twenty HD TVs so that guests could get their first taste of Battlefield: Bad Company’s multiplayer mode for the Xbox 360. Even though DICE has been mostly discussing the single player campaign of Bad Company, the developer still hasn’t forgotten their roots, and are offering an in-depth multiplayer experience as well.
Our demo was fairly limited, playing on a map called “Ascension” that took place in a European village that only allowed for infantry combat: no vehicles here. The involvement of soldiers stealing gold in the single player’s story carries over into the multiplayer mode we played known as “Gold Rush.” Crates of the stuff are located in houses around the map, and depending on which team you’re on, you will have to either defend or destroy these boxes of bullion. As the offending team destroys these crates they will be given access to more enforcements, weapons, and bring up new areas of the map to continue attacking further. Although it’s with chests of gold, this mode does feel similar to classic Battlefield gameplay, as you’re still racing to either take over or defend different points on the map.
After choosing your class from the usual groups (assault, recon, demolitions), you will be given your choice of weapon and can then enter the battle at either current spawn point, or with your squad if you want to get right into the action. It’s also worth mentioning that nearly every rifle you pick from is equipped with a grenade launcher so that everyone gets to enjoy the game’s trademark destruction gameplay. We of course decided to experiment with just how much damage we could incur on the environment around us and discovered a few things about Bad Company’s destruction mechanic.
First, it can come in really handy for creating your own entrances, say a back door to one of the houses containing a chest of gold, or an escape exit of you get caught in a corner. However, aside from playing lumberjack with the trees or taking chunks out of buildings the destruction system is mostly cosmetic, so you will never actually get to demolish an entire building. We found this somewhat disappointing as the game is being advertised with a “destroy anything” tag line, when it should be more like “make lots and lots of holes.”
Control-wise, the game feels pretty tight, since this version is finally one that DICE put full effort into making for the consoles, so moving and looking felt really good. A few minor gripes was that the sprinting (left thumbstick) really didn’t make our soldier do much more than a power walk rather than sprint, and moving to objective points at a slow pace is not something you want in a Battlefield game. Also, when looking down the iron sights of our gun we found the aiming not quite sensitive enough, causing us to have to lead our targets by a wide margin. But other than these issues the controls felt good over all, and not like some PC game port. There is also a knife melee, but it’s nowhere near as much fun to use as the one found in Call of Duty 4.
We also had a chance speak with one of the game’s sound designers, who explained to us the system used for Bad Company called High Dynamic Range Audio. This technology mixes sounds on the fly and prioritizes them so that the player hears the most important sounds in regards to their own location. This is done so that like a movie, you get to enjoy the sounds of gunfire, explosions, or dialogue that occur closest to you, instead of a cacophony of random noises. DICE seems to have gone the extra mile for creating these sounds, even recording a live military exercise in Stockholm, Sweden, where the developer is based.
It’s clear that the game has a ways to go graphically, and the build we played looked pretty rough in terms of the gun models and other players around us, but again this was not the final build. What we played at the DICE event was a small slice of what the entire game will end up offering, such as more elaborate maps and vehicles. Bad Company doesn’t exactly do anything ground breaking with its cosmetic destruction and multiplayer mode tweaks, but it did still manage to play pretty well. At the moment, there isn’t really a variety of quality large scale shooters on consoles, so hopefully the master of the genre will be able to offer us a worthy experience.
Battlefield: Bad Company is currently slated for release in fiscal 2009, for the Xbox 360 and PlaySation 3.
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Welcome to the city of Machi Koro. You've just been elected Mayor. Congrats! Unfortunately the citizens have some pretty big demands: jobs, a theme park, a couple of cheese factories and maybe even a radio tower. A tough proposition since the city currently consists of a wheat field, a bakery and a single die.
Armed only with your trusty die and a dream, you must grow Machi Koro into the largest city in the region. You will need to collect income from developments, build public works, and steal from your neighbors' coffers. Just make sure they aren't doing the same to you!
Machi Koro is a fast-paced game for 2-4 players. Each player wants to develop the city on his own terms in order to complete all of the landmarks under construction faster than his rivals. On his turn, each player rolls one or two dice. If the sum of the dice rolled matches the number of a building that a player owns, he gets the effect of that building; in some cases opponents will also benefit from your die (just as you can benefit from theirs). Then, with money in hand a player can build a landmark or a new building, ideally adding to the wealth of his city on future turns. The first player to construct all of his landmarks wins!
Love love love Machi koro Review by LunaReview
It already has a cool name and awesome artwork, what more do you need? I tell my friends this is Japanese monopoly but better!
Won't recap the rules as the other reviews give you some great insight but will say this, the rule book itself can be a little vague, so to get going the first time we watched a 'how to play' video on you tube and after that we were fine.
Agreed that this is great for 2-4 players equally. If you play a lot with the same amount of players you'll fall into a particular strategy (a bit like monopoly), when this happens it's time to get the expansion pack (which really shakes things up)!
My partner and I weren't really game players but loved playing classic cribbage and Quirkle and I wanted a few more 2 player we could play instead of watching the TV, I couldn't resist the art of this one and bought it straight away. We've been crazy about it ever since.
We've played with parents, brothers and sisters, it's a good one for everyone! It does take a little while to learn the game play in the first game but after that you're away!
Highly recommend (Posted on 28/06/2015)
Fun, fast, city building game nicely integrates dice and skill for a game that you will want to play again and again. Review by Moose_Heas
The fictional town of Machi Koro needs your help. Be the first to build your in town buildings and you win.
A turn consists of three parts:
1) roll a die (you may roll two if you have upgraded your town)
2) Earn money from constructed buildings based on the total of dice just rolled
3) buy buildings.
Everyone starts with the same basic town including production buildings of a wheat field and bakery along with in town buildings of a train station, shopping mall, amusement park and radio tower.
Every card has a basic structure:
- dice total to activate at top
- cost to purchase or activate or purchase in gold coins at the bottom
- a symbol indicating the building type
- a description of action to take when card activates
Card activation happen in a precise order once dice have been rolled. Earnings are for each card owned.
- first any red cards where the active player pays opponents in reverse player order according to the buildings they own as much as they can. If you don't have obey you don't pay.
- next the blue and green buildings. Green only earn for the active player who owns them, blue for all players that own them.
- finally purple buildings where you collect from opponents.
Next, you may optionally buy only one building per turn. This may be a building from the marketplace or one of your in-town buildings needing completion. If it's your last one you win. Note: you may only own one of each type of purple building where you may own multiple other buildings. If no winner, pass dice to next player.
It's a fun, fast, city building game nicely integrating dice and skill for a game that you will want to play again and again.
Plays equally well for 2-4 players. (Posted on 28/05/2015)
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Things you can only see and do in India
The Globe Trotter travel tips
India is a vibrant, chaotic and culturally-rich country. There are a number of things you can only see and do in India. From wildlife and palaces to beaches and backwaters and from bustling metropolitan cities to the Himalayan mountains – India is a must-see for any traveller.
See the incredible wildlife
India is home to the big five cats. Nearly half of the world's remaining wild tiger population can be found in India! You could visit the national parks to see the Bengal tigers, Asiatic lions, snow leopards, clouded leopards and Indian leopards. You are far more likely to spot a big cat if you visit
Bandhavgarh, Ranthambore or Kanha - three of the most picturesque and popular wildlife sanctuaries in India
The safest way to see wildlife is to take a tour with a provider who offers Indian Holidays. Why not give a Golden Triangle and Tigers tour a try to give yourself some inspiration and recommendations on where to stay while spotting tigers.
Visit one of the many temples
It’s no secret that with religion, comes temples. And there is no shortage of temples in India. Why not look into the most famous temples before setting off on your adventures and get an Instagram photo with the intricate architecture and sculptures.
Some of the popular temples include the Meenakshi Sundareshwar Temple in Madurai, Brihadisvara Temple in Thanjavur, Shree Somnath Jyotirlinga Temple in Gujarat, Jagannath Temple in Puri, the Jain Temples of Palitana and the Venkateswara Temple in Tirumala.
The Meenakshi Sundareshwar Temple has great mythological and historical significance and is a favourite among tourists for its art and architecture.
Trek the Himalayas
The Himalayan mountain range is a must-see! The most popular Indian Himalaya trails are in the
Markha Valley. You can also visit Diskit Monastery, the largest and oldest monastery in Nubra Valley or see the snow leopards in the Hemis National Park. You can enjoy birdwatching in the Rumbak Valley or visit Leh Palace, the former residence of the erstwhile royal family of Leh, and take in the stunning views from the top.
If you are into monasteries, Sikkim (a part of the Eastern Himalayas) is the one for you. It has over 70 Buddhist monasteries with the oldest dating back to the 1700s, You can also enjoy peaceful treks with butterflies and rare plants in Sikkim.
Whichever part of the Himalayas you choose to visit, you are sure to have a great adventure. For inspiration here is a list of great Himalayan trails.
Attend a festival of colour
Each region of India has a whole host of celebrations. From kite flying to camel festivals, India knows how to celebrate and enjoy festivals. Most of you would have seen the colourful pictures of people dancing, drenched in colours. It is during the festival of Holi which celebrates the victory of good over evil and also the beginning of the spring harvest season. This vibrant festival is hosted in March and is best witnessed in the Northern states.
Sleep under the stars in Rajasthan desert
Fancy a camel safari? You can ride camels, camp under the stars and visit forts and palaces with
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This man's love for his son makes him a hero in any language
Single Dad Carries His Son With Disabilities 9 Miles Every Day So That He Can Go To School
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Written by: Eleanor Goldberg
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Let’s all agree to extend an early Happy Father’s Day to this Chinese dad who will do just about anything to give his son with disabilities every opportunity in the world.
Yu Xukang, 40, a single dad from the Sichuan Province in China, walks 9 miles every day with his son, Xiao Qiang, strapped to his back so that the boy can get an education. The 12-year-old has a disorder that has caused his arms and legs to become twisted and his back to be hunched over, and there is no public transportation available to take him to class, Central European News (CEN) told The Huffington Post in an email.
To support himself and his young son, Yu works as a farmer, according to China Daily. Since last September, Yu has woken up every day at 5 a.m., prepared a lunch for his son and then secured Xiao Qiang -- who is about 3 feet tall -- in a basket that he attaches to his own back.
The pair makes the 4.5-mile trek to school across the rugged terrain, then Yu walks back home so that he can work. The devoted dad then returns to pick his boy up from school and carries him all the way home –- an 18-mile round trip, according to CEN.
The single dad estimates that he’s walked about 1,600 miles since he started taking his son to school.
"I know that my son is physically disabled but there is nothing wrong with his mind," he told CEN. "However, I couldn't find any school here with the facilities to accept him and was constantly rejected."
Once Xiao Qiang was accepted to the Fengxi Primary School, Yu vowed to do everything in his power to make sure his son would get there every day.
His dream is for Xiao Qiang to one day go to college.
After word of the father and son’s daily journey got out, authorities decided to step in to help the two. They agreed to provide a small room near the school for them, according to CEN.
Xiao Qiang has already climbed to the top of his class.
"I know that he will achieve great things," his father told CEN.
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Bwin takeover secured as GVC beats 888 Holdings
Bwin says announcement marks final decision after protracted bidding process, with takeover likely to lead to job cuts
Fri 4 Sep 2015 07.26 EDT Last modified on Wed 29 Nov 2017 06.42 EST
888 holdings, which owns gambling websites such as PacificPoker.com and Betmate.com, lost out to GVC in the takeover of Bwin. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
FoxyBingo owner bwin.party has jilted suitor 888 Holdings in favour of a £1.1bn cash-and-shares offer from Sportingbet owner GVC after a protracted takeover wrangle.
888 appeared to have won the battle earlier this year, despite the higher valuation offered by its rival, when bwin agreed to its proposal. But GVC doggedly pursued its goal, ironing out potential snags in its offer.
888 continued to insist its deal was of greater value, with a larger cash element, and submitted an improved bid earlier this week as it became clear that could be edged out.
But GVC’s valuation of bwin at £1.116bn was 12.9% ahead of the final offer from bwin. The successful proposal also targets annual costs savings of €125m (£91m) a year compared with a $70m (£46m) target for synergies under the 888 offer.
Philip Yea, chairman of bwin, admitted it was likely to mean job cuts. Bwin employed about 2,300 people at the end of last year in Europe, India and the US. GVC employed about 500 people last year, according to its annual report.
Yea admitted it had been tough to choose between the bidders, saying: “It really has been a question of balancing some very fine judgments at the margin.”
Bwin – which has some of the world’s biggest online gaming brands, including Partypoker and partycasino – first confirmed it was in takeover talks in May.
It was created from the merger of Austria’s bwin Interactive Entertainment and PartyGaming in March 2011. The takeover drama comes in the midst of major consolidation in the gambling market, as Ladbrokes merges with Coral and Paddy Power links up with Betfair.
Yea said Friday’s announcement was the end of a “long and necessarily protracted process” and appeared to shut the door on the possibility of 888 re-entering the fray.
He said: “We have given them due warning of our intention to switch. They have put forward a revised proposal in the knowledge that that was the case and now we are getting on with it.”
The chairman admitted there was “quite an even split” between bwin shareholders who backed 888’s offer and those who favoured GVC, but there was also a number who were happy to go with the board’s recommendation.
He said: “GVC have been very determined, have worked extraordinarily hard to catch up and to provide a credible plan that was more attractive.”
GVC chief executive Kenneth Alexander said: “GVC is the natural partner for bwin.party considering our strong sports betting and online gaming pedigree.
“Sports betting is in our DNA and leveraging GVC’s experience of successfully acquiring and restructuring online gaming businesses, notably Sportingbet in 2013, we look forward to merging the two operations to deliver long-term value for combined shareholders.”
GVC will fund the deal through a €400m loan from investment firm Cerberus and a €15m share placing.
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Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts school gets a big remodel
The Pleasant Valley School District is working on several big projects before classes resume, including renovating two campuses.
Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts school gets a big remodel The Pleasant Valley School District is working on several big projects before classes resume, including renovating two campuses. Check out this story on vcstar.com: https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/education/2018/08/12/pleasant-valley-works-bring-projects-life-over-summer/781172002/
Alexa D'Angelo, Ventura County Star Published 9:30 a.m. PT Aug. 12, 2018
Brian Drippo, left, and Daniel Martinez, with Pacificom, install internet cable in one of the offices at the Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts. The school is moving into the remodeled campus.(Photo: JUAN CARLO/THE STAR)Buy Photo
The Pleasant Valley School District is working to remodel two campuses — and complete other infrastructure projects — before the start of the school year late this month.
Officials wanted to move the Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts, a Title I school, to the campus at 700 Temple Ave. in Camarillo. The spot formerly was home to the county-run Triton Academy and a charter school. It was divided down the middle with fencing, but this move will fuse the two sides into one seamless school.
The focus of the school is science, technology, engineering, arts and math — it’s a STEAM school that used to be at 1099 Bedford Drive in Camarillo.
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The move gives the district a chance to create an improved learning facility for students — including modern science labs, maker spaces and 21st-century classrooms. The district plans to have a dedicated space for a film studies program that will include a green screen.
“They’re working miracles on such a short time frame,” Superintendent Angelica Ramsey said of the staff dedicated to finishing the project before school starts. “There’s just so much going on.”
On the other side of the district office, where the K-5 portion of the charter school used to be, will now be an early childhood education center housing a state preschool program, a county program and an early intervention program for mixed-ability students, transitional kindergarten and kindergarten.
That overall project cost $1.2 million this summer, mostly coming from developer fees, district officials said. That includes parking lots, playgrounds, painting, classroom technology, furniture, flooring, wall coverings, technology infrastructure and landscaping.
A better fit for engineering and arts school
At the new Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts site, the kids will have everything they need under one roof. At its previous location, the school was cramped with students in kindergarten through eighth grade in one smaller facility.
Now there will be plenty of room to grow into.
The new site also has a gymnasium, something the old site didn’t have. Everything’s getting an update or a thorough cleaning and will be ready for the students to start classes in a few weeks.
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“This is great for our kids. The PVSEA students didn’t have access to a gym like this previously,” Ramsey said.
The kids will also get to learn in new maker spaces and a wing of classrooms dedicated to the STEAM part of the school, which will allow teachers to let the students get as hands-on as possible.
It's hammer-and-nails time in Pleasant Valley district
Ali Pakdaman, far right, with Pyramid Design and Construction, places rug tiles in one of the classrooms at the new Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts. The Pleasant Valley School District is working on a number of construction projects that will be finished when students come back to school in late August. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Abdul Khorsand, a contractor with the Pleasant Valley School District, caulks one of the restrooms at the new Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts. The Pleasant Valley School District is working to remodel and improve some of its campuses this summer. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Brian Drippo, left, and Daniel Martinez with Pacificom pull internet cable in one of the offices at the new Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts. The Pleasant Valley School District is moving the school to a new campus that previously was home to Triton Academy and a charter school. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Brad Willson, who heads maintenance and operations for the Pleasant Valley School District opens the door to the newly designed front office at the new Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts on Temple Avenue in Camarillo. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Jose Alamiz, with Pyramid Design and Construction, puts down vinyl squares in one of the classrooms at the new Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts, which is being remodeled over the summer break. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Mitchell Brasted, with the Pleasant Valley School District, puts together a new desk for a teacher at the new Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts. The campus is being remodeled this summer to become the new home of the STEAM school. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Chris Johnston, assistant superintendent of business services for Pleasant Valley School District, looks at the new interactive display stands at Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts in Camarillo. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Ali Pakdaman, with Pyramid Design and Construction, lays rug tiles in one of the classrooms at the new Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts. The school is moving into a Temple Avenue campus that had been home to two schools. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Brian Drippo, left, and Daniel Martinez, with Pacificom, install internet cable in one of the offices at the Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts. The school is moving into the remodeled campus. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Chris Johnston, assistant superintendent business services for Pleasant Valley School District, looks at the new front office of Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts on Temple Avenue in Camarillo. Classes will meet on the campus when classes begin Aug. 29. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Once teachers arrive at the campus, they’ll be able to unpack their classrooms and situate them the way that will work best for their students and subject material.
“We’re not going to unilaterally make decisions at the district-office level for someone’s classrooms,” Ramsey said. “They are the ones that really need to make that decision.”
Enrollment is still ongoing, but as of late July, about 520 students were set to start the school year in the new location.
A spot for all early childhood education
The outside of the early childhood education center of Pleasant Valley School of Engineering and Arts has a mural of a baby cougar — the school’s mascot. It’s fitting for the hub of all early childhood education in the district.
One of the programs district officials are most excited about at this campus is the Pre-School Early Education Program, or PEEP, which caters to students of all ability and mobility levels.
All the classrooms at the school will be updated with new technology, new furniture and a new playground that’s been designed for students of all abilities, so everyone can play together.
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“It’ll be inclusive for all kids with mobility impairments — all kids in general,” said Chris Johnston, assistant superintendent of business services. “Everything in there will be wheelchair-accessible. In the (program) we have a variety of children with mobility impairments, but every kid will get to play together on the all-ability playground.”
There will be a changing area to better suit the needs of students who may need extra help when they need to use the restroom. And the restrooms themselves will be remodeled so the smaller kids who will use the campus will be able to access everything.
The campus will be painted and cleaned prior to the kids’ arrival and finishing touches will start to go in as the school start date inches closer.
“High-quality early childhood education is one the highest leverage strategies to mitigate the opportunity gap,” Ramsey said. “We created a space to make sure all our students receive what they need to start kindergarten on track.”
Where bond dollars will go
Since voters passed the district’s $119 million Measure C in June, the upgrades over the summer won’t be the stopping point for Pleasant Valley.
Other schools will see updates and upgrades as the year progresses as plans are drawn up and funds become available. The district plans to work for the next eight years on improving facilities with the bond money, developer fees and other revenue streams.
Officials split up the projects into 11 categories: utilities, pavement and parking lot safety; exterior renovation and security; roof restoration and replacement; low-voltage system replacement; heating, ventilation and air conditioning; modular building renovation and replacement; new construction; energy efficiency and solar power; playground field and landscaping renovation; interior remodeling; classroom furniture; and technology.
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Out of those categories, big projects with Measure C dollars will include campuswide security systems, new doors, improved fencing, playground surface renovation, replacements and upgrades to fire alarm systems, new intercom and emergency alert systems and replacing portable buildings with new permanent structures.
New construction will be ahead in the district, too. The district plans to expand multi-purpose rooms at the older campuses to fit the student population and build a central kitchen to improve food quality and efficiency down the line.
As the district begins to use Measure C funds, Ramsey said, having local residents serve on the bond oversight committee is critical. The committee oversees the spending of bond dollars and gives reports to the board and the public.
The district is looking for applicants to serve on the citizen oversight committee, and an application to serve on that committee can be found at https://bit.ly/2uLVgEz.
Pleasant Valley classes will resume from summer break Aug. 29.
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History of the Chamar Dynasty : From Sixth Century A.D. to Twelfth Century A.D.
by Raj Kumar
History of the Chamar Dynasty' over the past centuries bears witness to the fact that India was at no time a single political unit. Even during the reign of Chandragupta Maurya and Asoka, though a large part of the country was under the sovereignty of the Maurya Kings, and there were a considerable portion of the territory was under the control as an independent kingdom of the three subcontinent, i.e., India, Pakistan and China. The same story has been repeated by the Kushana, Guptas, and Moghul rulers of India. Today we have found that the integrity of the nation is threatened by the divisive forces of regionalism, linguism and communalism. In this way, the communal forces and the regional approach towards nation are gaining ascendancy in national life and seeking to tear apart and destroying the national integrity of India.
It has a deep historical significance symbolising a fundamental unity to visualise the unity of their mother country on the basis of this historical work 'History of the Chamar Dynasty' written by Dr. Raj Kumar with the help of Devanagari script the 'Word' or 'Nam' which is nay, to transfigure mother earth into a living deity 'Baba Gurinder Singh Ji, Bias' and enshrined her in the loving heart of the worshipper. Thus, there has been a filial attachment between of Bharat or India and the people. The attachment of individual to his mother is the highest and she is the dearest.
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What is industrial action?
Is it against the law to strike?
Dismissal for taking part in industrial action
Can an employer deduct your wages for taking part in industrial action?
Industrial action can include strike action (which is any concerted stoppage of work) or action short of strike action such as ‘go-slows’ or ‘working to rule’.
Although there is no positive legal right to strike in the UK, strike action organised by a trade union is legal provided some tough conditions are met.
The union must have conducted a lawful ballot of all the members it believes will be called upon to take part.
The action must be over a trade dispute between workers and their employer over an issue like terms or conditions of employment and as defined in s.244 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.
The general secretary or someone else authorised by the union’s rules, must authorise any industrial action.
The person named on the ballow paper must make a call for action before industrial action can take place.
There are very strict rules about the ballot and the notice that must be given to the employer about the action.
Industrial action is a last resort. UNISON always tries to negotiate and bargain for its members before pursuing industrial action.
A picket line is when members meet at the workplace to increase awareness and support for their cause. Picketing members may also tell other workers about the problem in the workplace.
During a picket line you are allowed to persuade workers, including substitute workers and delivery people, to stop interacting with the business. This must be done peacefully, as criminal law still applies to picket lines.
You aren’t allowed to use threatening behaviour or force to prevent others from attending work, cause criminal damage, or prevent police officers from carrying out their duties.
The police, in Great Britain, can use special powers, such as obtaining an order prohibiting the picket, if the picket contains more than 20 people and they believe it may result in serious disruption to the life of the community.
It is automatically unfair to dismiss someone who’s taken part in any lawful industrial action within 12 weeks of the action.
Yes, although an employer cannot deduct more than one fifth of weekly pay for a day’s strike action.
Industrial action occurs when members of a trade union organise into a group that either refuses to work, or refuses to work in the way employers want.
You should only take industrial action with the support of UNISON.
Industrial action can involve a strike or action short of a strike.
You must remain within the law while picketing.
If I strike, will that make my service be more (or less) likely to be outsourced?
It is difficult to anticipate the actions of all employers and there is unfortunately a lot of outsourcing going on anyway.
UNISON has members working on outsourced contracts and has recognition with most large contractors. And of course, potential bidders for services may not find a strong staff group that is willing to stand up for their rights so appealing to bid for.
Will I still have to strike if I voted No?
If the majority of the people balloted vote Yes and a strike is called, we would hope you would join your trade union colleagues by participating fully in the industrial action, in line with UNISON’s democratic decision-making process.
What if I am part time?
UNISON believes that any deduction of pay must be pro rata for part time staff. The deduction must be only for your contracted hours.
What if I have external work commitments, on the day of the strike?
If your commitments are part of your normal work for your employer, you should not attend them.
Will I lose pay and if so how much?
Yes, we can expect employers to refuse to pay staff taking industrial action. The law makes it clear that employers can deduct pay when staff are on strike. However, where pay deductions are made these should at all times be reasonable.
If employers decide to deduct pay from those taking strike action, your branch will seek agreement at local level for deductions of no more than 1/7th of weekly income (ie 365th of annual income) for a single whole day of strike action. Also that deductions are pro rata’d for people who work part-time or term-time.
I’m in my first 12 months of employment – what are my rights?
Employees are protected from dismissal during the first 12 weeks of any lawful, balloted, official industrial action. Any dismissal for taking part in industrial action in the 12-week period, regardless of how long the employee has worked, or their age, is automatically unfair unless a tribunal decides the dismissal was not to do with the industrial action.
Are my pension contributions affected if I take strike action?
In some strikes, particularly short ones, employers may not withhold superannuation contributions – so taking in strike action has not generally affected pensionsm though this is a possibility.
If your employer decides to dock your pay for the day of action, the employers do not have to pay pension contributions during that period and you will not have paid your portion of contribution for that day.
The impact on your final pension would be extremely small but you might want to consider replacing the lost contribution.
It is possible, with your employer’s agreement, to pay a sum equal to the employee and employer contribution and receive full credit for the day’s absence and continue to have full cover.
Any member wishing to do this must inform their employer in writing before the absence takes place.
Do I have to strike if there is a vote for action?
As a member of a democratic union we would hope that you would participate in a strike if there is a vote for strike action.
You cannot be forced to do so, but it is part of belonging to a democratic union in which decisions are made collectively.
We recognise that taking strike action is very serious, which is why UNISON asks you and every other member to observe the strike, if called.
Every member who does not undermines our bargaining power and makes it harder for us to protect all our members.
Will I lose my job if I engage in industrial action?
If you engage in lawful industrial action and you are dismissed in circumstances where the reason or principal reason for your dismissal is that you took part in lawful industrial action, then your dismissal will be treated as automatically unfair if:
it is within 12 weeks of the action starting or
you stopped the action within 12 weeks or
your employer didn’t take reasonable procedural steps to resolve the issue.
Are there rules and laws on picketing?
Picketing is a legal activity to peacefully persuade members not to go in to work.
Pickets should wear an armband indicating they are on duty. Placards and posters should be displayed stating “Official Picket.”
Guidelines on picketing are set out in the union’s industrial action handbook.
Industrial Action Handbook 2009 [pdf]
The law says that picketing should be carried out at or near an entrance or exit from a site at which the picket works.
When others who are not in dispute come into work or use these entrances or exits, pickets must not interfere with them.
My employer is saying that a one-day strike would be seen as a break in service and that my continuity of service would be broken. Is this true?
No. Your continuous employment is treated as ‘postponed’ during a strike.
This means that the period you were on strike for will not count toward your continuous employment, but it does not break the continuity of your period of employment.
How do I initiate industrial action?
Speak to your UNISON rep. They will identify whether a case for industrial action is possible or beneficial.
What if I am pregnant, in my last year of service or receiving state benefits?
It is common practice for these categories of staff to be exempted if they will suffer longer-term financial loss. Speak to your branch.
What if I take annual leave?
UNISON does not regard anyone who takes annual leave on strike days to be taking part in the strike action.
If you can, we would like you to postpone your leave so that you can take part in any strike action.
What if I don’t want to strike?
If UNISON decides to call for a strike, you do not have to strike as well, even though it may be in your best interests to do so.
I am facing redundancy. Won’t going on strike make it more likely I am made redundant?
Many members might in a similar position and will share your concerns.
But rermember: employees are protected from dismissal during the first 12 weeks of any lawful, balloted, official industrial action.
Any dismissal for taking part in industrial action in this 12-week period, regardless of how long the employee has worked, or their age, is automatically unfair unless a tribunal decides the dismissal was not to do with the industrial action.
Employers know this and, in the most part, are not about to risk breaking the law. But management may attempt to isolate – or indeed intimidate – individuals or small groups with the view to encouraging strike breaking.
There may be threats concerning your careers or of disciplinary action. If this does happen, make sure you report this to your UNSION branch officers in the first instance.
They will take this very seriously and act upon it.
Note that there are time limits for making a complaint – normally three months less one day – so let your branch know as soon as you receive a threat concerning your career or disciplinary action.
What if I am on sick leave?
Workers who are absent on sick leave when a stoppage of work starts retain their right to statutory sick pay during the period of industrial action.
If an employee reports sick on the day the action starts, the employer can be expected to make their own judgment as to whether they should be regarded as on sick leave or on strike.
For the purposes of statutory sick pay payable in the eight weeks after a period of strike action, average earnings will reflect the lower earnings during the period leading up to the illness.
Am I breaking my contract by taking strike action?
Almost all effective industrial action is a breach of your contract of employment.
However, UNISON will only ask you to strike after a lawful statutory ballot. The law protects workers from dismissal while taking part in lawful industrial action at any time within 12 weeks of the start of action. Depending on the circumstances, dismissal may also be unfair if it takes place later.
Who decides on industrial action?
UNISON members decide whether to strike or not by voting. Before any action is carried out, UNISON will ballot members on the possibility of industrial action.
UNSION’s industrial action committee has final responsibility for approving and overseeing all industrial action.
Industrial action handbook – updated June 2019
A UNISON branch guide to the procedures and laws relating to taking industrial action. Updated June 2019.
A limit of 2 copies per branch has been set for this publication.
strike_placards
Official strike placards
Photo: Amanda Kendal
Industrial action workshop 2014
Workshop for running an activity on preparing for industrial action
The law and you – a UNISON guide to key employment rights (2012 edition)
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Beaudesert and Kooralbyn
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Spend your January long weekend exploring the Scenic Rim. Here’s 15 ideas to get you started.
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Mununjali cousins Jarred Fogarty and Stacie Fogarty, who both grew up in Beaudesert and now work at Dreamworld Corroboree, delivered a smoking ceremony to welcome two platypuses to San Diego Safari Park.
The Mununjali culture of Beaudesert has been shared on the world stage, with two local Mununjali people delivering a smoking ceremony to welcome platypuses to San Diego Safari Park.
Mununjali cousins Jarred Fogarty and Stacie Fogarty, who both grew up in Beaudesert, were an integral part of the historic occasion, alongside Cobble Cobble/ Yuggera man Zaine Davis and Yugambeh Elder Rory O’Connor.
The smoking ceremony was to welcome the delivery of the platypuses Birrarung, an 8-year-old male, and Eve, a 15-year-old female, who were flown in custom-made crates on their own chartered flight from Taronga Zoo in Sydney.
It is believed to be the first time in more than 50 years that platypuses have been introduced to a zoo outside of Australia.
Read: Platypuses come to US: San Diego Union Tribute reports
Stacie and Jarred Fogarty both work in the tourism industry back home, sharing their culture and knowledge at Dreamworld Corroboree on the Gold Coast.
Mr Fogarty, or JBuzsch, as he is known to his family and friends, said it was a special experience sharing culture abroad.
“Mununjali is my way of life, and nothing makes me happier than to share that with other cultures,” he said.
“It was a great exchange and a privilege to be on Kumeyaay land, the land of the San Pasqual band (mob).”
Ms Fogarty said it was a moment to remember.
“Representing my culture internationally was definitely one of the best experiences – culture is what keeps me grounded,” she said.
“It made me proud to stand up and dance for my people back home.”
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School holidays are here and the Scenic Rim has plenty to offer! Your kids will be too busy to get bored, and they’ll have a great time in the fresh air.
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Shop local in the Scenic Rim this festive season! Check out our Scenic Rim gift guide to get you started.
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TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN
HEIGHT: APPROX 560M ABOVE SEA LEVEL
LOCATION: TAMBORINE NATIONAL PARK
Tamborine Mountain features a 28 square-kilometre plateau 560m above sea level and is home to a thriving community which welcomes visitors.
The Mountain was formed by lava flow from the Mount Warning eruption more than 22-million years ago and is at the north-eastern edge of the Scenic Rim.
Tamborine Mountain is located just over one hour’s drive from Brisbane and less than an hour from the Gold Coast.
Tamborine Mountain by @sonnyroyalphoto
Tamborine Mountain is home to Queensland’s first National Park. Tamborine National Park was declared in 1908 and features a number of walking tracks, outlooks and areas of rainforest, spread across 14 sections on the plateau and surrounding foothills.
The Mountain is a thriving tourist destination with a population of just under 7000 people, and distinct communities are located across the 8km plateau. It offer visitors a range of experiences, including art galleries, gift shops, cafes, wineries and fine dining restaurants.
The Mountain boasts a wide range of accommodation options to suit most tastes and budgets.
Cedar Creek Lodges by @cedarcreeklodges
The climate is subtropical and the rich red volcanic soil sustains rich food crops and lush bushland.
The Wangerriburra people are the traditional owners of Tamborine Mountain, and the Wangerriburra people were there tens of thousands of years before white settlement.
Tamborine Mountain was once completely covered by subtropical rainforest, which was cleared for agriculture and timber production when the mountain was opened for selection in 1875.
Tamborine Mountain is home to many beautiful picnic spots and spectacular walking trails.
Hang Gliders Lookout by @christinehsharp for Eat Local Scenic Rim.
The most popular walking tracks include the Curtis Falls rainforest track and The Knoll track, which leads to Cameron Falls.
Camping is not allowed in the Tamborine National Park, however camping and caravan facilities are offered at Thunderbird Park and Tamborine Mountain Caravan and Camping. Many other styles of accommodation are also offered on the mountain.
BBQ and picnic facilities are available across the mountain. Most have great views and some also feature children’s playgrounds.
Tamborine National Park features wet subtropical rainforest habitat and has been declared as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International.
Tamborine Rainforest Skywalk by @tamborinerainforestskywalk
The Mountain is home to 10 different types of forest, including subtropical rainforest, wet eucalypt forest and open eucalypt forest.
Tamborine Mountain’s rich alluvial soil produces a bounty of food crops, including avocados, rhubarb and vegetables, which are available from many roadside stalls and The Green Shed market, which is on every Sunday at the Tamborine Mountain Showgrounds.
Local produce at The Green Shed by @christinehsharp for Eat Local Scenic Rim.
The name Tamborine is from the local Yugambeh language. It means wild lime and refers to the finger lime trees that grow wild on the mountain. They were eaten as a thirst quencher and were one of the first foods traded to the settlers.
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An annual foodie event which started from humble beginnings nearly 10 years ago has earned the Scenic Rim a national award for driving economic prosperity.
Scenic Rim Eat Local Week 2018 won the ‘Economic Development Single Event or Activity’ category at the National Economic Development Awards in Adelaide on 24 October.
The Scenic Rim Regional Council outshone a record number of entries from across Australia, including fellow events category finalists Southern Grampians Shire Council and Logan City Council, to win the award.
Brenda Walker – Scenic Rim Regional Council Manager of Regional Prosperity and Communications – accepts the award on behalf of the region.
Council’s submission for the award was based on 2018 Scenic Rim Eat Local Week, which attracted 40,000 people to the region and contributed more than $2 million to the local economy.
Scenic Rim Mayor Greg Christensen said winning at the National Economic Development Awards reinforced the clear value of the region’s food and drink industries.
“Scenic Rim Eat Local Week is an incredible celebration, and this award demonstrates it runs so much deeper than that,” he said.
“This is a win for the entire local supply chain, from the farmers who grow our incredible local produce right through to everyone who hosts an Eat Local Week event to drive those economic benefits to our region and put money in the pockets of our local operators.”
“Eat Local Week has grown from about four or five events when it started in 2010 to a program of 90 events, and this wouldn’t have been possible without the support of all the people who visit the Scenic Rim during Eat Local Week each year to make it worth our while. We thank each and every one of those visitors for the value they have brought to our region.”
Local dairy farmer and agritourism leader Kay Tommerup of Tommerup’s Dairy Farm said the economic benefits of Eat Local Week were invaluable year-round.
“The actual movement of Eat Local, beyond Eat Local Week, is huge for all of us. The publicity and the recognition that we have gained over the years means that we now have an audience of chefs, cafes and all those people who’ll come to us directly,” she said.
“The Scenic Rim brand really stands for something, and collectively we offer an authentic, character-filled experience through the food of our region.”
The Scenic Rim’s latest win is in addition to the ‘Outstanding Region’ award it won at the delicious. Produce Awards in Sydney earlier this year.
Read: Scenic Rim judged most delicious region in Australia
Scenic Rim Eat Local Week will celebrate its 10th anniversary from 27 June – 5 July 2020. For more information visit www.eatlocalweek.com.au/
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Come to the Scenic Rim for the race that stops a nation. Get a group together and book in for one of the local Melbourne Cup events on Tuesday, 5 November.
Frock up or suit up, put on your fanciest hat and head to one of these local hot spots.
Black Hall Kalbar
Melbourne Cup at Black Hall Kalbar. Photo: @inc.mill_photography for Black Hall Kalbar.
What: Be spoilt with champagne and canapés, then a two course sit down luncheon, all in air-conditioned comfort in the gorgeous Black Hall, Kalbar. There’ll be music, cocktails, cash bar, lucky door prizes and sweeps! Plus get pics of your race day outfit by talented local photographer Cassie, of @inc.mill_photography. Bookings essential: 0478 767 046 or via Eventbrite.
When: 11.30am -3pm
How much: $67 per person
Towri Sheep Cheeses
Towri Sheep Cheeses Melbourne Cup Races and Lunch. Photo by Steph Cowper of Country Scene Magazine.
What: Kick up your heels at Towri Sheep Cheeses‘ unique sheep races on the farm! There’ll be live coverage of the race that stops the nation plus a three course cheese-inspired menu accompanied by local beer and wine. Prizes for best hat and best dressed! Bookings essential: info@towrisheepcheeses.com.au or 07 5543 1260.
When: 11am arrival
How much: adults $78, kids 5-12 $30, kids under 5 $10
Tamborine Mountain Golf Club
Tamborine Mountain Golf Club.
What: Dress up and join in the race-day fun at Tamborine Mountain Golf Club. Take part in the four person Ambrose and book a table for the two course (roast and dessert) luncheon. Fashions on the field will be judged after the big race! Bookings essential: 07 5545 1788.
When: doors open 11am, meal served from 1pm. 8am shotgun start for golfers!
How much: $37 per head for lunch
The Railway Hotel, Beaudesert
What: The race that stops the nation will be broadcast on all the big screens at the Railway Hotel, Beaudesert. Take advantage of the Winners’ Circle lunch specials, or dine from the full menu. There’ll be bubbles on arrival, sweeps, a lucky seat prize and prize for the best dressed. Book early on 07 5541 3848.
When: lunch trading hours (race broadcast at 2pm)
How much: costs vary
Beaudesert Hotel
Melbourne Cup lunch at the Beaudesert Hotel. Photo: Susie Cunningham.
What: Tuck into an all you can eat buffet lunch, including seafood, hot dishes, desserts and much more, at the Beaudesert Hotel. There’ll be sweeps as well as prizes for the best dressed and best hat, and Rich Hay will be MC and provide the entertainment. Watch all the racing action live and loud on the big screen! Bookings essential: 07 5541 1044.
How much: adults $39.90, children $14.50
Boonah Golf Club
Melbourne Cup at the Boonah Golf Club.
What: Do race day at the Boonah Golf Club. Enjoy grazing tables and champagne on arrival, followed by a two course luncheon. There’ll be sweeps, raffles and fashions on the field, and you can watch the race on the big screen! Bookings and prepayment essential: 07 5463 1470.
When: 10.30am to 3pm
How much: $40 for members, $45 for non-members
Simon’s Tavern, Boonah
Simon’s Tavern, Boonah.
What: Indulge in a beautiful high tea and a glass of bubbles in the Rose Room at Simon’s Tavern, Boonah. Put on your finest spring racing attire and relax in air-conditioned comfort. There’ll be sweeps as well as lucky door prizes and prizes for best dressed and best head wear. Bookings: 07 5463 1007.
When: from 11am.
Bearded Dragon Hotel
The Bearded Dragon Hotel, Tamborine. Photo: Visit Scenic Rim.
What: Have an action-packed Melbourne Cup experience like no other at the Bearded Dragon Hotel, Tamborine, complete with cane toad racing after the race that stops the nation. Order a two course platter (main and dessert), enjoy bubbles on arrival, take part in the sweeps and vie for best dressed male or female. Book your table on 07 5543 6888.
When: 10am to 4pm
How much: Two course platters $55 per person
Canungra Hotel
Canungra Hotel.
What: Book in for a Melbourne Cup banquet at the beautiful Canungra Hotel. Watch the race on the big screens and take part in the raffles and sweeps. Bookings essential: 07 5543 5233.
When: from 10am
How much: $39 per person for banquet
Ramada Resort Kooralbyn Valley
Ramada Resort Kooralbyn Valley.
What: Get along to the Melbourne Cup Golf Day at Ramada Resort Kooralbyn Valley! It’ll be a two ball Ambrose 8am shotgun start, with great prizes to be won on the day. Head to the Pavilion Tavern’s Melbourne Cup event after your round, and enjoy their drink and meal specials while you watch the race on the big screen. Bookings on 07 5544 5919.
When: 8am start for golf, watch the race at 2pm at the Ramada Resort’s Pavilion Tavern
How much: $149 per team for golf, lunch prices vary
main photo: @inc.mill_photography for Black Hall Kalbar.
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The Scenic Rim is OPEN for business and eager to welcome visitors from near and far after bushfires devastated parts of the region.
The fires, which destroyed parts of the heritage-listed Binna Burra Lodge, started at Sarabah and spread through Lamington National Park and parts of Beechmont.
The disaster caused significant property losses in those parts of the region, but thankfully there was no loss of human life.
Firefighters were brought in from across Australia to battle the blaze, and outpourings of support flooded into the small community,
The disaster turned the small township of Canungra into a temporary headquarters for emergency services, volunteers and recovery agencies. Business owners and the community rallied to support one another through the unprecedented experience.
Click here for community recovery information
Binna Burra Lodge has vowed to rebuild. The Friends of Binna Burra Lodge are rallying support and all levels of government are stepping in as part of widespread efforts to help Lodge staff find new work and get the iconic site back up and running.
It continues to be an intense time for the parts of the Scenic Rim directly affected by the bushfires, and also for parts of the region which have been totally untouched by fire but have experienced a drop in visitors as a flow-on effect.
The good news is the Scenic Rim is well and truly OPEN for business and everyone would love your support. Come have a great time in our beautiful region. Here are some ideas to get you started!
Beechmont is filled with natural beauty. Photo at Providence Farm Hall by Christine Sharp for Eat Local Volume 2.
Head for the hills of Beechmont
Book your special occasion at The Providence Farm Hall
Have an amazing meal and a cuppa with mates at flyingbeancoffee (across from Rosin’s Lookout! Spectacular views)
Experience award-winning accommodation at Clouds on Beechmont
Book horse riding with spectacular views via Scenic Rim Equine Group
Lock in a walking holiday with Lisa Groom and the gang from interNATIONAL PARKtours
Buy Tahitian limes fresh from the LIMES 4 U farm, near Flying Bean!
Book your wedding at Rosewood Estate
Celebrate Beechmont’s beautiful mountains and valleys by purchasing from Australian landscape artist Dave Groom: https://www.davegroom.com/
Have a lazy brunch at Headmasters Café (open weekends)
Indulge in the latest menu specials at The Nook and Kranny Cafe, Pizza and Bar
Picnic creek-side at O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyard. Photo: TEQ.
Spend some time (and money!) in Canungra
Get gorgeous homewares at My Country Escape
Stock up on flowers from Lydia’s Garden
Pop into the Canungra Visitor Information Centre for all the local intel and some maps!
Shop an exquisite range of new and preloved books, quality local gifts and vintage threads at Canungra Books & Art
Relax and unwind with a class at Canungra Yoga
Book in for a lesson with Paratech Paragliding
Get all your hardware supplies from Canungra Hardware and Farm Supplies
Feast on tasty homemade fare at Canungra Hub
Buy a gorgeous outfit at Holli Holli
Tuck into the best sushi ever at Ginja Ninja Sushi Cafe
Have a hot cuppa at Cafe Metz
Do your grocery shopping at Canungra Foodworks
Meet the delightful Alex and learn about native bees at Little Bees Secret Garden
Dine on fantastic pub grub at the Canungra Hotel
Do a spot of shopping and relax in the garden at The Blue House
Treat yourself at Canungra Beauty and Acupuncture
Fill up your fuel tank at BP Canungra or Caltex Canungra
Buy some healthy bits and bobs at OWL Wholefoods
Chat with the crew at Aussie Lifestyle Properties
Indulge in some hot chips from Canungra Takeaway
Pick up your copy of the Canungra Times
Book your stay at Canungra House, Country Mile Escape, O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat and more!
Stock up on beautiful plants from Lamington Native Nursery
Have a pie at The Outpost Cafe or Blackbirds Country Pies and Cakes
Meander through KDs Antiques & Collectables
Buy quality shoes at The Shoe Vault
Get a new ‘do at Zanzibar Hairstyling
Quaff a great wine at O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyards, and while you’re there make some furry friends at Mountview Alpaca Farm!
Stock up on cheese and wine at Sarabah Estate Vineyard
Tamborine Mountain offers beautiful, lush scenery. Photo at Witches Falls Winery by Christine Sharp for Eat Local Volume 2.
Go for a country drive in any part of the region – we’re all ready for you!
Thankfully, most of the Scenic Rim has been totally untouched by bushfires. So many glorious country drives await!
Here are some ideas to get you started:
Tamborine Mountain drive
The Lions Road
Farm Gate Tour
Boonah and beyond
Antiques, art and camels
Tamborine Circuit
Cheese pleaser
Lamington Plateau – from one side to the other!
Boonah to Queen Mary Falls
The Main Range
The Scenic Rim Way
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The Scenic Rim is gearing up to host the region’s largest art and cultural festival in October, showcasing hundreds of innovators, creators and performers from around the globe and attracting thousands of like-minded creative folk.
There will be five fantastic days of conference activities and community celebrations from October 2 to 6. To maximise your time in the Scenic Rim, or if you’re simply day-tripping, enjoy our picks of easily accessible nature walks, farm stays, award-winning wineries and local produce haunts to enhance your visit.
View the full Arts Ablaze program here
Get a quality coffee in Beaudesert.
Wake with a caffeine hit
Fuel your day with a caffeine hit in Beaudesert, which is the closest town to Kooralbyn and is home to about 6000 people.
Bean To? opens super early every day of the week, and you can find a comfy spot among the eclectic mix of artworks and vintage furniture from yesteryear.
VK Everydays serves up plenty of fresh, local fare every day of the week. Relax inside with a hot cuppa or meander out the back for a meal in the sunshine. You won’t want to leave!
Beaudesert Cafe has a fantastic barista who makes a mean latte. Check out the menu, too, where you’ll find some quirky creations like breakfast gnocchi and fried chicken waffles!
Sky Dance.
Adventure over the Scenic Rim with Sky Dance
Add on a stunning flight over the majestic mountains of the Scenic Rim with Sky Dance! Accommodation and all meals included, and you have yourself a mighty fine weekend getaway!
Register your interest with Sky Dance via bookings@skydance.com.au or 1300 854 183.
Rathlogan Grove, home to The Shed Cafe.
Hunt for homewares
Rathlogan Grove’s hilltop cafe is the perfect mid-morning or lunch picnic stop secluded in the foothills of Mount Barney. Indulge on handpicked olives from the onsite grove consisting of 1200 mature trees and native honeycomb to complete your picnic pack. Meander inside The Shed Café for traditional homemade scones and a well-stocked gift store including cold pressed olive oil and Egyptian dukkah. Rathlogan Grove is open Saturdays and Sundays. If serious shopping is on your agenda, try our homewares hunting in the Scenic Rim full day itinerary.
Scenic Rim Robotic Dairy.
Learn about robotic agriculture
In operation since the 1930s, the Dennis Family Farm was converted to a Robotic Dairy in 2010, producing farm fresh, pasteurised only, full cream milk (yes, the delicious kind with cream on top!) Phone ahead and enjoy a Robotic Dairy & 4Real Milk Tour and don’t forget to bring your chilled Esky and take home the creamy delights including milk, cheese and yoghurt.
Go for a walk in the Scenic Rim.
Stretch your legs in nature
If you’ve got some downtime, work up an appetite on one of the Scenic Rim’s walks. If you’ve got energy to burn, pack your water, snacks, hat and swimmers and walk the Lower Portals track in Mt Barney National Park. It’s not an easy walk, and you should allow half a day to walk the 7.4km return track. Or take a quieter approach with a dip in the Albert River at Darlington Park, complete with shaded open spaces perfect for rolling out the picnic blanket.
The Overflow Estate 1895. Photo by Timothy James Allen.
Sip and swirl
Relax on the alfresco deck overlooking Lake Wyaralong at The Overflow Estate 1895 or bask in the sunshine on the manicured lawn. Indulge in the region’s finest local produce including a three-course grazing lunch or gourmet barbecue picnic hamper thoughtfully prepared by The Vintage Pickle chef Kate Raymont. Wash it down with an array of premium wine selections from the Cellar Door including the popular Storm Cru Sparkling 2018.
Rustic cabins at Mt Barney Lodge. Photo courtesy Mt Barney Lodge
Rest your head in country comfort
The Scenic Rim offers a diversity of welcoming accommodation, and there is plenty to choose from within a country drive of Arts Ablaze!
From sweet cottages and farm stays to country hotels and motels in walking distance to local cafes, we’ve got it all!
Check out Stay in the Scenic Rim for Arts Ablaze for plenty of suggestions.
More about Arts Ablaze.
Arts Ablaze will tackle big ideas including arts and health, creative place-making, rethinking cultural venues duration of the 5-day event, via artistic disciplines including fashion, music, spoken word, photography, comedy and more.
Program snippets include the Red Ridge Fashion Parade and live performances on Friday and Saturday evening by Topology, Haystack Mountain Hermits, The Ironing Maidens, First Nations Project performers, Tenzin Choegyal plus Andrew Veivers and Friends in Fusion.
There will also be well being sessions including yoga, tai chi and meditation on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
The weekend celebrations provide you with more chances to get creative with various workshops. Why not try your hand at rug making or blacksmithing? Not forgetting our mini cultural and art lovers, the schedule includes workshops designed just for children.
There’s so much to keep you entertained over the weekend at Arts Ablaze with food trucks, art markets and so much more!
The live Queensland performances continue on Saturday evening and Saturday evening night followed by a live performance.
Arts Ablaze is hosted by the Scenic Rim Regional Council at the Ramada Resort Kooralbyn Valley from 2 to 6 October.
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Coming to the Scenic Rim for Arts Ablaze?
Arts Ablaze is the region’s largest arts and cultural festival and conference, to be hosted by the Scenic Rim Regional Council at the Ramada Resort Kooralbyn Valley from October 2 to 6.
We’ve got plenty of great accommodation options for you within 30 minutes or so of Kooralbyn.
Click here for more information about Arts Ablaze
Tamrookum, Rathdowney & Running Creek
20-30 minutes south
Royston House
Rathdowney Hotel
Scenic Rim Adventure Park – camping and room hire available
Mt Barney
45 minutes south
Barney Creek Vineyard Cottages
Tuckeroo Cottages Scenic Rim
40 minutes south east
Worendo Cottages
Wongari Eco Retreat
Tommerup’s Dairy Farm & Farmstay
Stay at Kirro
Cedar Glen Farmstay
Eighteen Mile Cottage & Homestead
Caverock Cottages
Christmas Creek Cabins
25 minutes north
Beaudesert Central Motel
Kerry Court Motel
Annalee Motel
Beaudesert Caravan & Tourist Park – has cabins
In the heart of the action
Rent-a-tent camping
Glamping Hire Co. – treat yourself
Hillside Villas
More than 45 minutes from the action
There are also plenty of accommodation options available further afield on Tamborine Mountain and in Boonah and surrounds.
Click here for Tamborine Mountain accommodation
Click here for Boonah accommodation
Click here for Canungra accommodation
Click here for Kalbar and surrounds accommodation
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Nearly 36 years to the day they first opened, Ania and Phil Sowter are preparing to unveil their rebuilt The Polish Place Restaurant and Gallery.
It’s been two-and-a-half years since their Tamborine Mountain institution was destroyed by fire and the couple say they are excited to finally be able to open the doors and serve their much-loved Polish food to mountain visitors again.
Phil and Ania Sowter, The Polish Place.
“We will be open in early September,” says Ania.
“Coincidentally it will be nearly 36 years to the day that we first opened. In late 2016 fire engulfed our restaurant and art gallery and since then we have been planning and seeking the approvals to rebuild. We started building in January and the weather and the builders have been very kind to us and we are ready to open.”
Phil and Ania bought their block of land while on their honeymoon at Tamborine Mountain in 1981. They built the Polish Gallerie & Coffee Shop and ran the business in tandem with their day jobs as a school teacher (Phil) and a physical therapist (Ania).
The Polish Place Tamborine Mountain
Following the fire, the Sowters took the opportunity to update their five accommodation chalets on the property during the works. Ania says the new building looks similar to the original, and while there are some small changes, the aesthetic remains the same.
“We know that people love sitting on our beautiful large deck to take in the views and see the birds and wildlife,” she says.
“The restaurant will continue to serve the menu we have been known for as it was previously very successful.”
The menu features Ania’s Polish family recipes, including Polish dumplings, Polish sausage and roast whole duck for two with cherries. Ania admits that following the fire she and husband Phil questioned whether they should stay and rebuild.
They were encouraged by the support they received from loyal customers and supporters, as well as their daughters Belinda and Kathryn, who are both involved in the business.
“We’re very excited to be reopening and are looking forward to it, following a two and a half year break,” she says.
“Considering our age we had options and we were told by family members it was time to retire but then we had comments from customers and guests which prompted us to do it again. We just love being here, we love the lifestyle and running this business. We meet a lot of people and some of them become our friends, they come to visit and that’s what our life is all about.”
Find out more about The Polish Place at the website
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It is official – the Scenic Rim is Australia’s most outstanding foodie region, according to some of the nation’s best chefs and food industry leaders.
The Scenic Rim won the ‘Outstanding Region’ trophy at the prestigious delicious. Produce Awards in Sydney on Monday, 19 August.
Kelli Rabbitt and Brenda Walker of Scenic Rim Regional Council at the delicious. Produce Awards.
The region shone on the national stage for its authentic local food movement, underpinned by the highly successful Scenic Rim Eat Local Week initiative.
Scenic Rim Mayor Greg Christensen said the award was well-deserved recognition.
“The small team behind Scenic Rim Eat Local Week have been trailblazers in the local food space, working closely with the amazing local food and beverage producers of the Scenic Rim to create this grass roots movement which is just so real and so effective,” he said.
“Consumers can taste the difference when they learn the story of their food, experience the beauty of the region it’s grown in and connect directly with the people behind what’s on their plate and in their cup.
“Through initiatives like Scenic Rim Eat Local Week and our year-round ‘accredited locavores’ program, we have provided an opportunity for producers to collaborate and cross-promote and create genuine friendships united by their common love of our stunningly beautiful and productive region.
“The Scenic Rim Regional Council is proud to be championing local producers and we thank them for their significant contributions to our economy and to the social fabric of our region.”
Local dairy farmer and agritourism leader Kay Tommerup of Tommerup’s Dairy Farm said being part of the Scenic Rim was invaluable.
“The actual movement of Eat Local, beyond Eat Local Week, is huge for all of us. The publicity and the recognition that we have gained over the years means that we now have an audience of chefs and cafes and all those people who’ll come to us directly,” she said.
“People are really getting that connection we’re all trying to develop, and once they’ve eaten the food they want to know more about where it came from.”
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Whether you want to have some good old fashioned country fun, tuck into a hearty pub lunch, quench your thirst with some local craft brews or get back to basics with a camping trip, the Scenic Rim has got you and your dad sorted this Father’s Day.
There are so many options to spoil your dad in the Scenic Rim.
1. Have a day of family fun on the farm
Tommerup’s Dairy Farm. Photo: Ekka
If the man in your life fancies himself as a bit of a legend in his own lunchtime, this might just be the perfect way to celebrate Father’s Day.
Father’s Day family fun on Tommerup’s Farm (1 September) will offer hours of good old fashioned fun for the whole family to celebrate.
Contest the Farmers Challenge trophy, feed the farm animals, dine from the Abbiocco Food Truck and the classic Darlington State School vintage cake stall, drink local beers and wines, kick back and relax to live music and stock up on Tommerup’s own goodies from the farm larder.
Beers at Scenic Rim Brewery. Photo by Christine Sharp.
2. Quench dad’s thirst
Does your dad like a nice cold beer? We’ve got some beautiful craft breweries in the Scenic Rim. Sit back and enjoy a brew or two, and a good chat with your dad.
Maybe beer isn’t your dad’s thing. That’s okay! We’ve got some great wine and spirits on offer, and even a local coffee plantation on Tamborine Mountain, where he can get a brew of a different kind.
Be sure to phone ahead to book your spot! Other dads might have the same idea.
Find out more about our local breweries
Find out more about our local beer, wine and spirits
Be inspired by our local goodie gift guide here
Catch the Pro-Am at Boonah Golf Club in August.
3. Treat dad early! Take him to the Boonah Legends Pro-am
Take dad along to the Boonah Golf Club’s first pro-am in 23 years! Tee-off is from 6.30am, 29 August and the event is free to watch.
Pull up your camping chair or picnic blanket to see 60 professional golfers including Rodger Davis, David Merriman, Michael Long, Tim Elliott, Brad Burns, Michael Harwood, Ossie Moore, Terry Price and Richard Backwell battle it out against each other and play with some of the locals as well.
Bring your appetite, too! They’ll have Hot Dang Burgers & Dogs, Made with Love coffee van, Bunjurgen Estate Vineyards wine and Summer Land Camels on site, and the Clubhouse will be open, offering full bar and bistro services if you want a schooner or a meal.
Father’s Day at O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyards.
4. Relax beside the creek
Let the team at O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyards do all the hard work for you this Father’s Day. The only decision you’ll have to make is choosing between a gourmet father’s day picnic basket or an indulgent lunch at the Vintage Restaurant.
Binna Burra.
5. Take dad camping
There are so many opportunities to get back to basics with a camping trip in the Scenic Rim.
Binna Burra Lodge is offering special events, activities and prices exclusively for those who book at the Rainforest Campsite for the Father’s Day weekend. Find out more here.
Click here to find more amazing campsites with great facilities and beautiful views in the Scenic Rim.
Take your dad for a pub lunch.
6. Shout dad a pub lunch
You’ll be spoilt for choice if you want to take dad for a pub lunch in the Scenic Rim! We’ve got fair dinkum country pubs aplenty. Be sure to book ahead to make sure you get a spot.
Find out about the Scenic Rim’s pubs here
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Gather your girlfriends and start planning the ultimate Scenic Rim Girls’ Weekend.
The Scenic Rim more than delivers on the weekend easy escape – we’re just an hour’s drive from Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
The hardest decision of the weekend is what NOT to do, as you eat, drink, walk and shop your way through the stunning Scenic Rim.
To help get your planning started, here are some of our favourite weekend activities, with a strong focus on amazing food, fabulous farms, incredible wine and superb accommodation.
Start planning your Girls’ Weekend in the Scenic Rim.
Gather your girlfriends for a Scenic Rim escape. Picture: O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyards.
What’s a weekend away without A-M-A-Z-I-N-G accommodation?
Step right up, the Scenic Rim will absolutely deliver on your accommodation goals.
Luxury retreats, cosy cabins, boutique B&Bs, bucolic farmhouses – we have you covered.
In no particular order, here are some of our fave places to stay.
If you crave touch of luxury you’ll love The Bunyip Scenic Rim Retreat at Mt French, with its beautiful sunsets, modern architecture and cosy lounge for fireside chats.
Love both luxury and the great outdoors? Then Spicer’s Canopy is for you. This is glamping with a capital G.
Seeking a more active escape? Check into Mt Barney Lodge for cosy Queenslander homestead accommodation and stunning scenery.
Do you prefer self-contained convenience? There’s plenty of choices. We love O’Reilly’s Villas, Greenlee Cottages at Canungra, Hampton Estate Studio Apartments, Worendo Cottages in the Lost World, Royston House at Innisplain near Beaudesert, Herrmann House at Kalbar and the lovely Hilly Ridge Queenslander on Green Hills Rd overlooking Boonah.
Check out the full Scenic Rim accommodation listing to find your perfect girls’ weekend accommodation.
Reconnect with your girl gang at Spicer’s Canopy.
FOOD & DRINK SUPPLIES
A girls’ weekend isn’t complete without a generous supply of incredible food and wine. Thankfully the Scenic Rim has plenty of both.
Stock the fridge with some delicious locally-grown and produced goodies for fireside feasts and late night snacking.
Drop into The Vintage Pickle at Tamborine Mountain a great supply of local produce and ready-to-go meals by Kate Raymont.
The Canungra Visitor Information Centre features a delicious selection of local nuts, honey and relishes.
Tamborine Mountain is dotted with some lovely farm gate stalls selling in-season produce. Tommerup’s Dairy Farm Larder is the place to buy farm-fresh ham, bacon, meat, cheese and milk.
Towri Sheep Cheeses are incredible. Go online to the Towri website to order.
The region boasts some well-stocked fruit and vegetable shops and butcher shops. Drop into the local stores on Tamborine Mountain and in Beaudesert, Canungra, Boonah and Kalbar.
Feast on fabulous Scenic Rim local produce.
Sample the local wines and stock up on some takeaways at one of the Scenic Rim’s gorgeous wineries and cellar doors.
Our favourites include Bunjurgen Estate Vineyard, Kooroomba Vineyard and Restaurant, The Overflow Estate 1895, Witches Falls Winery, O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyards.
Love great local beer? You’ll love The Scenic Rim Brewery at Mt Alford and Fortitude Brewing Company at Tamborine Mountain.
Emily Lochran enjoys a local wine by The Overflow Estate 1895 at Towri Sheep Farm.
Country Pubs are in our DNA. Drop into a rustic, heritage pub for a hearty meal and a cool drink.
Try St Bernard’s Hotel at Tamborine Mountain, The Canungra Hotel, The Railway Hotel Beaudesert, The Rathdowney Hotel, The Dugandan Hotel, The Commercial Hotel Boonah, The Royal Hotel Kalbar, The Royal Hotel Roadvale and The Royal Hotel Harrisville.
Country charm and hospitality are on tap at our heritage pubs.
Settle in at The Dugandan, or another of the Scenic Rim’s country pubs.
LOVELY LUNCHES
Toast your weekend away with a special lunch. Your girlfriends will love the food, views and vibes at Kooroomba Vineyard, just outside Boonah.
The Overflow Estate 1895 is another chilled, gorgeous venue for a lazy long lunch and there’s live music on Sundays.
Pether’s Rainforest Retreat on Tamborine Mountain will help set the mood for a memorable meal, or try the restaurant at Mason Wines Tamborine Mountain, where you’ll find plenty of local ingredients on the menu.
Three Little Pigs Bar & Bistro at North Tamborine is also popular for a laid-back, fun catch-up. Just outside the cute village of Canungra, you’ll find O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyards, where you can have a lazy long lunch, a creek side picnic, and get up close with the resident Alpacas!
Picnic by the creek at O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyards.
We get it – not everyone wants to spend their days eating and drinking. So if your group of friends is up for some active adventures keep reading.
The Scenic Rim is home to six National Parks, heritage-listed rainforest, three lakes and many, many mountains.
That means there’s plenty of places to explore, on foot, bike, on the water, or in the air.
Here are 14 of the best Scenic Rim walks to get you started, or if you really want to cover some distance book in for the Spicer’s Scenic Rim Trail experience, there’s two-day and five-day itineraries.
The Scenic Rim’s local outdoor community features some leading adventure specialists who often lead walks and climbs in the region.
Check in with Lisa Groom at interNATIONAL Park Tours, Innes Larkin at Mt Barney Lodge and Teresa Cause at Horizon Guides.
Do you love heights? You’ll love Australia’s largest zipline and high rope park, The Treetop Challenge on Tamborine Mountain. The endorphins will be flowing as your girl game tries the zipline and high rope courses – there’s more than 100 to try.
Walking the Scenic Rim Trail.
Bond with your mates in the kitchen as you learn new skills and enjoy a shared meal.
The Scenic Rim is home to some fab cooking schools.
Book in for a class with Caz Osborne of Kooroomba Gully! Click here for all her upcoming classes. You can go to her beautiful kitchen in Boonah, or she’ll come to you!
Carolyn Davidson at Towri Sheep Cheeses offers cheese-making workshops on her farm, just outside Beaudesert.
Learn how to make sheep’s cheese with Carolyn Davidson.
Meet the farmers and their gorgeous animals on an authentic country farm tour.
See the robotic milking system at Scenic Rim 4Real Milk at Tamrookum.
Visit 6th generation farmers, on Tommerup’s Dairy Farm, and learn about their boutique dairy farm. You can stay on farm in one of the restored historic farm homestead properties. And yes there’s plenty of opportunity to give the animals a cuddle.
When you Stay at Kirro on Ladybrook Farm in the Lost World, you can see a working cattle farm and even BYO horses and dogs!
Carolyn at Towri Sheep Cheeses welcomes visitors for cheesemaking lessons, or simply to meet her Awassi sheep herd and try the cheeses.
Drop into Australia’s largest commercial camel dairy and farm, Summer Land Camels, and meet these beautiful creatures. Book in a ride, tour the dairy, and enjoy refreshments in the café. There’s camel gelato, milk, cheese and skincare products to try!
Meet the local farmers, including Kay Tommerup.
Add a touch of excitement to the weekend with an adventure in the air.
Book an early morning Hot Air Balloon ride with Hot Air Scenic Rim, or give Captain Mike at Pterodactyl Helicopters a call about his helicopter wine tours.
Yes really.
Do you prefer the silence of gliding? Boonah Airfield is home to the Boonah Gliding Club. Scenic flights are offered there.
Fly in for a long lunch at Kooroomba Vineyard and Lavender Farm.
You’ll find plenty more ideas, inspiration and information online at Eat Local Scenic Rim and Visit Scenic Rim
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Two Scenic Rim tourism businesses were among the winners at the recent 2019 Scenic Rim Business Excellence Awards.
Summer Land Camel Farm received the Excellence in Agriculture Award and Mt Barney Lodge received the award for Excellence in Tourism, Accommodation and Hospitality.
Jeff Flood of Summer Land Farms with his Scenic Rim Excellence Award.
Summer Land Camel Farm is the largest commercial camel dairy and milk processing, breeding and farming operation outside the Middle East. The farm produces a range of products and also welcomes visitors to the farm.
Tracey and Innes Larkin with Mayor Greg Christensen at the Scenic Rim Business Awards.
Mt Barney Lodge is a 30ha eco-tourism retreat specialising in group and family bookings, and outdoor education and adventure activities, school camps and catering.
Mayor Greg Christensen says competition was keen among the 71 nominations and in making their decision the judges considered factors including customer service, environmental awareness, business strategy, risk management and financial performance.
“I have been inspired by the stories behind so many of these businesses which go above and beyond to deliver the highest levels of customer service while adding value to our regional economy, contributing to its strong trajectory of growth, and providing local employment opportunities for members of our communities.”
Find out more about all of the winners
See the photo gallery from the gala event
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The Steamers
Location: Main Range National Park
The Steamers are iconic rock formations, said to be the remnants of a thick trachyte lava flow from the Main Range Volcano.
They are found in a rugged and remote section of Main Range National Park and are named for their resemblance to an old steamship with four high protruding peaks – the Stern, Prow, Funnel and Mast.
The Steamers present a challenging trail for experienced hikers and should only be attempted by well-prepared bush walkers equipped with a compass and topographical map of Mt Superbus.
Fit walkers can also find their way in with the help of an experienced guide, like local Teresa Cause from Horizon Guides.
The Steamers, by @_danno_29
The Steamers are situated within Main Range National Park, which was formed in August 1980 through the amalgamation of a number of national parks reserved along the Main Range dating back to July 1909.
Main Range National Park is in the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area, and forms part of the most extensive area of subtropical rainforest in the world.
Access is via the Cunningham Highway, about 2.5 hours south-west of Brisbane, and The Steamers can be approached from Teviot Falls or Emu Creek Road in the Southern Downs.
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Lisa Groom, interNATIONAL PARKtours.
Lisa Groom is a member of the pioneering Groom family, whose vision and hard work helped create the beautiful Binna Burra Lodge. Following in the footsteps of her grandfather Arthur and father Tony, Lisa now leads guided walking tours of her much-loved home region.
Her business, interNATIONAL PARKtours, offers guided walking tours to stunning destinations in the Scenic Rim, Australia and overseas.
In 2019 Lisa and her team will offer Scenic Rim Short Breaks, bringing together the region’s best walks, food, wine and natural scenery.
We asked Lisa to share her local tips on the best places to eat, drink, have coffee and walk!
Favourite Scenic Rim place to eat
Kooroomba Vineyard and Lavender Farm, just outsie Boonah, for beautifully cooked seasonal lunches and dinners.
Tamborine Mountain Pizza for a Friday night in.
Favourite Scenic Rim place to have coffee
For a jaw-dropping view, The Flying Bean Cafe on Beechmont.
For the best chai latte or mocha, The Mountain Brew Coffee on Tamborine Mountain.
What more could you want? We are so lucky to have such a gorgeous spot to relax and unwind with a cuppa and soak in some sunshine, fresh mountain air and that view! 😍☕️⛰☀️ #flyingbeancafe #amorecoffeeaustralia #goldcoasthinterland #goldcoastcafe #beechmont #rosinslookout
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What I love about the Scenic Rim is ….
The amazing natural diversity, from the views of Main Range and Moogerah Peaks, to the quiet valleys of Lost World, then the cooling rainforests of Lamington National Park. Combine that with outstanding food & wine, and passionate local people in every community, there’s always something happening in part of the Scenic Rim.
My favourite Scenic Rim view is …
The Coomera Falls Lookout in Lamington National Park and the sunset across the Main Range from Green Hills Road, just outside Boonah.
Mt Maroon by Jason Charles Hill
Favourite Scenic Rim walk?
I have two. The Mt Maroon walk, as it offers enough excitement as you climb up then views in every direction.
I also love the Daves Creek walk in Lamington National Park for its diversity and changing landscapes
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Height: Approx 1205m
Location: Middle of Main Range National Park
Spicers Peak sits in the middle of the Main Range National Park, about 120km from Brisbane and is one of Queensland’s highest mountains.
Spicers Peak is close to the villages of Yangan and Killarney and is a spectacular double-peaked mountain.
Spicers Peak walk by @wonderfully_wild
The walk to the top of Spicers Peak is said to be a ‘must do’ for ‘peak baggers’. But be warned, it’s not an easy walk and shouldn’t be attempted by anyone who isn’t a competent scrambler.
Similarly the four-day walk from Wilson’s Peak to Spicers Peak is also a classic south-east Queensland walk.
Spicers Peak can be visited as part of a day walk or as part of a through-walk itinerary.
The two main routes are the north-east and north-west ridges. The steep north-east ridge provides the quickest route to the eastern summit but requires extreme care.
The route to the North-East Ridge is steep and very loose in places. It isn’t suitable for people who are nervous about heights and is graded a 3.5 to 4 category walk.
Spicer’s Retreats offers a three-day Spicer’s Trail Walk through this area.
Walking Spicers Peak. Picture by @triantiwontigongolope
The walks leave from the Governor’s Chair carpark, off Spicers Gap Road. If you are not up for a walk but do want to take in the views, there’s a spectacular lookout located about 150m from the carpark. It offers views over the Fassifern Valley.
Allow several hours for the journey between east and west peaks as it is largely rainforest and there are a number of rocky obstacles.
There’s an easy walk to the Spicer’s Gap lookout and it’s accessed about 150m from the Spicer’s Gap carpark. It offers views over the Fassifern Valley.
Views from Governor’s Chair. Picture via @daveo_1212
A small, elevated rough campsite is located on the eastern side of Spicers Peak between rainforest and heath, with views east and south. A lesser-used tent site is located just west of the rock cairn. There are no facilities here and campers must be self-sufficient. Open fires are not allowed and food scraps must be carried out.
Vehicle access is via the Governor’s Chair carpark, via Spicers Gap Road.
There is also a camping site on the western side of the peak. It is also a remote area bush camp and offers good views. Access is also via Governors Chair carpark.
The beautiful Spicer’s Peak Lodge.
The mountain was named by Allan Cunningham after Peter Spicer, who was one of the first convict Superintendents at the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement. Spicer was said to have noted the peak while searching for escaped convicts.
In 1827 British botanist Allan Cunningham led his packhorses inland from Sydney for six weeks until he climbed onto the plateau that’s now home to Spicers Peak Lodge.
Spicers Peak is located south of Spicers Gap, which was once the main route between Brisbane and the Darling Downs. The Main Range once served as a barrier to contain the early convict settlement at Moreton Bay.
Local geologist, John Jackson, says Spicers Peak is remnant ‘runny’ lava flows from the unlocated Main Range Shield Volcano.
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Wendy & Mike Webster, Scenic Rim Brewery.
Mike and Wendy Webster are perfect hosts.
You’ll find this husband and wife duo at their beautifully-restored Scenic Rim Brewery, located in the small town of Mt Alford, south-west of Boonah.
Mike is chief brew master, responsible for cool, refreshing drops with fun names – Shazza, Fat Man and Digga’s Pale Ale.
Wendy can be found behind the counter, creating delicious meals and bar snacks to perfectly partner with Mike’s beers.
Like many craft brewers, Mike’s brewing career started in the family garage many years ago. He travelled to Berlin Germany to learn more about the craft and has been hooked ever since.
Mike and Wendy bought the rundown former Mt Alford General Store and spent a year renovating.
They opened the doors in December 2016 and have been busy ever since.
As well as beer and great food, the couple stock a range of other locally-produced products, as well as coffee, milkshakes, scones, croquettes and amazing fresh pretzels.
The Scenic Rim Brewery is very much a family affair – with Mike and Wendy’s three adult children providing input into the menu, the beers and other aspects of the customer experience.
We asked Mike to share his locals’ knowledge and highlight his favourite Scenic Rim spots to eat, drink and soak up the views.
Scenic Rim Brewery beer
Best café – Arthur Clive’s Boonah
Best pub grub – Mount Alford Hotel, then the Dugandan Hotel
Five star – Kooroomba Vineyard & Lavender Farm
To be honest we think the barista we employ is the best in our region but if we’re out and about we go to Arthur Clive’s in Boonah or Kalbar and Bean To? at Beaudesert.
What I love about the Scenic Rim is …
Its proximity to everything and our nature. We have mountains, lakes, farms, rainforests, quaint country towns and people. I was born and raised in Brisbane and the Scenic Rim offers everything city people yearn for. I’m just lucky I live here and experience it every day.
Mike’s favourite view over Lake Moogerah.
When you live in the Scenic Rim you are surrounded by spectacular views everywhere you go, but one of my favorites is looking out across Lake Moogerah towards Mt Greville with The Great Divide in the background.
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Look out for the Scenic Rim’s new campaign on Queensland Rail trains. Your next adventure is closer than you think.
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Romantic escapes are in our DNA – the Scenic Rim is made for love. Light up your love life in the Scenic Rim with these romantic experiences.
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Mountview Alpaca Farm has a fabulous new home at O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyard in the Scenic Rim.
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Mount Lindesay
Height 1175m
Location: Mount Barney National Park
Mt Lindesay is a spectacular peak, situated on the Queensland-New South Wales border, about 140km west of Brisbane.
It’s one of a number of peaks in the McPherson Range and is distinctive due to its tiered summit, formed by the eroded remnants of lava flows from the nearby Focal Shield volcano.
Mt Lindesay
Locals say it looks like a wedding cake.
Mt Lindesay is a peak best admired from afar. There are no designated walking or climbing tracks and it is only suited to people with extensive rock and mountain climbing experience.
Much of the peak is covered in dense rainforest and the summit is often hidden in cloud and mist.
The closest town to Mt Lindesay is Rathdowney, however the peak can be seen from Woodenbong and Kyogle as well.
The Mt Lindesay Highway travels to the western side of Mt Lindesay.
There are few opportunities for rock climbers due to the unsound nature of the decaying rhyolite. There is one steep, exposed scrambling route to the summit but is said to be a grade 6-7 climb, starting at the south-east corner of the upper cliffs.
Mt Lindesay has been part of a successful native title claim made by the Githabul people, for whom the peak holds special significance.
Mt Lindesay was originally named Mt Hooker by Allan Cunningham in July 1828, after University of Glasgow Regius Professor of Botany, WJ Hooker.
The first recorded ascent of Mt Lindesay by Europeans was made in May 1872 by Thomas de Montmorency Murray-Prior and Phillip Walter Pears.
Look out for Mt Lindesay’s distinctive peak on your next Scenic Rim adventure
Mt Lindesay (left) forming part of the Scenic Rim landscape
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The Scenic Rim is made for walking. You’ll find stunning walks to suit all fitness levels in our six national parks. Here’s 14 Scenic Rim walks to try.
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Two Scenic Rim tourism operators were recognised at the recent Tourism Queensland Awards.
TreeTop Challenge at Tamborine Mountain won a Gold Award in the Adventure Tourism category and will now vie for recognition at the Australian Tourism Awards in Perth in February.
Tree Top Challenge
The Treetop Challenge features more than 100 adrenalin-pumping challenges spread across six courses over nine acres of bushland.
Visitors can choose from 11 zip lines and a number of suspended bridges.
Shane O’Reilly and his team at O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyards also won Gold in the Tourism Wineries, Distilleries and Breweries category, adding to their silver win last year.
It was fabulous to see the Brisbane Greeters recognised for their efforts with a Gold in the Outstanding Contribution by a Volunteer or Volunteer Group category. The Scenic Rim works closely with the Brisbane Greeters and looks forward to future collaborations.
And to our close neighbours at the Killarney View Cabins and Caravan Park for their Bronze award for the second year in a row in the Caravan and Holiday Parks category.
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Summer holidays are great for road trips. The Scenic Rim is on your doorstep – just an hour’s drive from Brisbane and the Gold Coast – and offers plenty of unique and exciting experiences.
We’ve pulled together some of our favourite road trips, listing all the best places to stop for food, drinks, coffee, shopping and a swim.
All you need to do is jump in the car and visit the Scenic Rim.
Which of our itineraries will you try?
Boonah & Beyond: A 38km round trip that will take you to cafes, Boonah’s local shopping strip, historic country pubs, two wineries and a brewery!
The Commercial Hotel, Boonah.
The Lions Road: A 96km journey from Beaudeesert to Kyogle, via the robotic dairy, Rathdowney, an olive grove and the incredible Border Ranges.
Tamborine Mountain: Explore this gorgeous hilltop oasis on this 25km loop of all that is fabulous on the mountain, including breweries, cafes, gardens, rainforest skywalk, wine and a coffee plantation.
Tamborine Rainforest Skywalk, Tamborine Mountain
Canungra Day Trip: Spend a whole lazy day exploring the village town of Canungra.
O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyard
Lodge to Lodge: Give yourself a few days and travel from one end of the Lamington Plateau to the other, stopping at two of the region’s most popular and historic mountain lodges.
Binna Burra Sky Lodges, a perfect place to stay.
Antiques, Art and Camels: What a quirky day you’ll have when you visit the western Scenic Rim. We’re crafted a schedule to keep young and old happy – camel farm, antique shop and a winery.
Summer Land Camel Farm, a stop on the Antiques, Art and Camels itinerary.
Cheese Pleaser: What makes a good road trip great? Cheese of course! Here’s a tour of the Scenic Rim’s amazing boutique cheesemakers and their farms.
Towri Sheep Cheese Farm on the Cheese Pleaser itinerary. (Bookings required)
Boonah to Queens Mary Falls: One of the region’s most popular drives, which will take you along the NSW-QLD border into the lush pastures of Killarney.
Queen Mary Falls
The Lost World: Explore this stunning southern part of the Scenic Rim which offers visitors the chance to tour working farms, take a cooking class, or refresh at a country pub.
The Farm Gate Tour: Want to visit some working farms and get your hands dirty? This itinerary is for you. On this journey, you’re guaranteed to meet chooks, goats, sheep and camels!
Meet the animals on the Farm Gate Tour
You may also like to Dip into these Scenic Rim lakes and waterfalls!
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One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. That’s certainly the case when it comes to industrial sculptor Christopher Trotter.
The Boonah-based artist is behind some of Queensland’s most recognisable public art sculptures.
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Dip into these refreshing Scenic Rim lakes and waterfalls
When the weather heats up and it’s time to cool down head to our fabulous Scenic Rim swimming holes, country creeks and lakes.
Make the Scenic Rim your go-to summer escape and discover our stunning lakes, crystal clear creeks, spectacular waterfalls and refreshing swimming holes.
Seek a cool reprieve in the Scenic Rim. Bring your ski boat, your kayaks, your picnic rug and your holiday reads and soak up the relaxed vibes of summer in the Scenic Rim.
Cool down at these scenic lakes, waterfalls and swimming holes
1. The Gorge
The Gorge is about 2.5km downstream from the Lake Moogerah spillway. It’s a quiet, shady camping spot with a 200m-long swimming hole. It’s accessed via Gorge Rd, about 15-minutes’ drive from Boonah.
2. Flanagan Reserve, Rathdowney
The upper Logan River flows into this 200m long swimming hole just outside Rathdowney. There’s a campground nearby and dogs are allowed.
Flanagan Reserve
3. Yellow Pinch Mt Barney
Park in the Yellow Pinch car park in the Mt Barney National Park to access this peaceful swimming hole nearby. There’s a rope swing and gentle rapids, which flow into the swimming hole.
Yellow Pinch Waterhole
4. Lower Portals
These beautiful, deep rock pools and small waterfalls are accessed along a 7.4km return walk in the Mt Barney National Park. Allow three hours, it’s worth the effort.
Lower Portals
5. Burgess Park
This park, on Christmas Creek, is a great place for swimming. There are toilets, BBQs and picnic tables nearby. It’s about 20km from Beaudesert and an old Moreton Bay fig provides beautiful shelter during summer.
6. Darlington Park
This Park, camping ground and caravan park is on the Albert River in the Lost World. It is an ideal spot for a picnic and boasts a number of swimming holes, complete with rope swing and gentle rapids. Enjoy a gentle float downstream on a tube or airbed.
Darlington Park
7. Sharp Park
A popular camping and caravanning stop on the Canungra River, this is a great swimming hole and picnic area. Upstream you may spy the resident Platypus.
Sharp Park
8. Curtis Falls
Curtis Falls are fed by Cedar Creek and run all year. The walking track ends at a viewing platform overlooking a large rock pool with views of the falls and of the basalt rock face.
Curtis Falls
9. Lamington National Park
Both the Green Mountain and Binna Burra sections of the Lamington National Park are a waterfall chaser’s dream come true. Some of southern Queensland’s more spectacular waterfalls can be found here. These include Elabana Falls, Yarrabilgong Falls, Coomera Falls, Morans Falls and so many more.
Morans Falls overlooking the Scenic Rim. Image: @j_kreiss via Instagram
10. Cameron Falls
Cameron Falls are located on the Sandy Creek Circuit within the Knoll Section of the Tamborine National Park. The walking track follows the creek and the falls can be heard in the distance. A branch track to Cameron Falls Lookout enables you to drink in the natural beauty of the waterfalls.
Cameron Falls by Karina Elliott
11. Yarramalong Recreation Centre
This is a privately-run recreation centre, situated on a beautiful property accessed via Lake Moogerah Rd, near Aratula. The Reynolds Creek runs through the property and flows year round, making this the perfect spot for a summer cool down. Float with the gentle creek current, or sun yourself on the rock wall. Hire a kayak, or BYO. There’s a fishing hole nearby, will you catch dinner?
Picture by Leanne Horder Photography
12. Lake Moogerah
Now here’s a fun summer destination. Lake Moogerah is a hive of activity during the warmer months, when the boating and camping fraternity descend. It’s action stations on this busy lake, located between Boonah and Aratula. If you love jetskiing, waterskiing and fishing then this is the place for you. You’ll want to stay longer than a day so check out the great self-contained houses, cottages and camping facilties nearby.
Lake Moogerah
13. Bigriggen Park
Oh boy, where do we begin? Bigriggen has something for everyone – including some gorgeous, clear water to cool down. This campground and park is situated between Boonah and Rathdowney in the foothills of Mt Maroon. The park offers visitors so many choices, from camping facilities to cabins, bunkhouses and a fabulous bike track the kids will LOVE. Fish the Logan River and take your rubber tube so you can float in the cool waters of the Burnett Creek.
Bigriggen Park
14. Lake Maroon
A stunning lake in the Scenic Rim’s south, this is a relaxing spot for fishing, kayaking, and watersports. BYO watercraft, or hire from the on-site operators. The water here is deep and clean and there’s generally less traffic here than at Moogerah. But the wind does pick up, which makes it great for windsurfing. Set-up your marquee lakeside and make a day of it. The lake is said to offer some of Queensland’s best bass fishing.
Lake Maroon
15. Lake Wyaralong
Wyaralong is the Scenic Rim’s newest lake and it’s closed to powered craft, which means it’s also the region’s most peaceful lake. Lake Wyaralong is home to an Olympic-standard rowing course and is well-suited to explorations via kayak and canoe. Pack your tent and take advantage of the two campgrounds located within the catchment.
Lake Wyaralong
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Mother Nature’s masterpiece
Storm season is here. It may have been the wettest October on record, but you know what they say – every cloud has a silver lining.
And what a lining it has been in the Scenic Rim.
The clouds above the Scenic Rim have been incredible and thankfully the region has some equally impressive photographers to capture nature’s slideshow.
The Jacaranda trees are in full bloom around Boonah. Picture by @elizabethwielandimages
Cloud formations, rainbows, flowering Jacaranda trees … the #scenicrim feed on Instagram and Facebook is full of photographs and videos that will make you want to jump in your car and head to the Scenic Rim.
If you want to see the Scenic Rim’s purple rain hurry and visit – the Jacarandas are flowering right now.
Jacarandas by @brentrandallphotography
On Instagram she’s known as @katethelightchaser and this image, captured during a particularly ferocious storm, had her followers seeing wild things. Lions in fact. Can you see the lion in the clouds?
Can you see the lion’s face in this image by @katethelightchaser
She’s a fickle beast
The weather can be a fickle beast. Just ask the local farmers. One paddock will cop a drenching, while over the fence there will be clear skies. Beaudesert journalist Susie Cunningham captured this beautifully.
Storm over Beaudesert by @what.susie.saw
Storms are spectacular viewed from the comfort of home. Not always so enjoyable when you’re stuck on the road. @boxbrowniebob caught this storm approaching Milbong.
Milbong Storm by @boxbrowniebob
And then of course there’s the light shows. The thunder and lightning is really something to behold.
Ben Watts braved the storm on Tamborine Mountain with illuminating results.
Tamborine Mountain lightning by @benwattsphotography
So did Kate. She is called the Light Chaser!
Lightning by @katethelightchaser
The Scenic Rim has long been known for its spectacular storms. Our location, at the base of the Great Dividing Range means the region often bears the brunt of the summer storm activity.
Here’s a time-lapse video of a recent storm over Mt Barney, filmed by @clubcoaster
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Tourism pioneer Shane O’Reilly shares his thoughts on the best Scenic Rim places to eat, drink, explore and soak in the views.
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Things to do in the Scenic Rim in November
It’s a busy month in the Scenic Rim, with plenty of exciting November events and activities on offer. Check out the country races at Beaudesert, the Canungra markets and the Boonah Bookfest. Bird Week returns to O’Reilly’s for the 40th year.
Beaudesert Races Derby Day – November 4
Country races at their best. Head down to the Beaudesert Racetrack this Saturday for Derby Day Scenic Rim style. Kids are welcome – they will love the free facepainting and the ice-cream and smoothie trucks. Bookings essential for Beaudesert’s answer to the Birdcage. Frock up and enjoy the sensational multi-course lunch.
Derby Day Beaudesert Race Club
Boonah Bookfest – November 4 and 5
Refresh your home library at this popular annual book bonanza. In aid of the Boonah District Cultural Foundation, you’ll need to visit both days to make your way through the collection. Boonah Bookfest is held at the Boonah Cultural Centre.
Boonah Bookfest
Canungra Country Fair – November 4
Here’s a great day out for the family, featuring market stalls, food, an outdoor bar, live music, free jumping castle, petting zoo and much more. Celebrate with the close-knit Canungra community.
O’Reilly’s 40th Annual Bird Week – November 5 to 11
Join bird lovers from around the globe for the 40th anniversary of O’Reilly’s popular Bird Week. You’ll meet leading researchers, authors and photographers and join them to spot more than 200 species of birds. This is Australia’s longest-running birding program and it’s fitting that it is held in the Lamington National Park, home to Australia’s largest collection of sub-tropical birds. Bookings essential.
O’Reilly’s 40th Annual Bird Week
O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyard Family Fun Day – November 5
Celebrate at O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyards inaugural Family Fun Day, with entertainment for all ages. Work up an appetite with a game of backyard cricket, or some grape stomping. Mum and dad can settle in for a glass of O’Reilly’s wine and gourmet Homestead picnic basket on the manicured lawn, while the kids take part in the yellow rubber duck races on the Canungra Creek. Meet the alpacas from MountView Alpaca Farm. Bookings essential.
O’Reilly’s Family Fun Day
Flinders Peak Winery Christmas Markets – November 11
Christmas is coming so it’s time to start thinking about gifts, food and refreshments. Flinders Peak Winery has you sorted wiht their Christmas Markets. Enjoy live music and stunning views as you browse the market stalls and stock up on the Flinders Peak wines and spirits. Runs from 3.30pm to 6pm.
Tommerup’s Christmas on the Farm – November 25
The Tommerup family will swing open their dairy farm gate for a special pre-Christmas event on November 25.
Spend the afternoon feeding the friendly farm animals, take a guided farm tour and browse the market stalls, where you can find local produce, unique gifts and yummy Scenic Rim delicacies.
Santa is rumoured to be schedule to drop by too! With your Christmas shopping done, relax and enjoy the paddock picnic. Feast on a special Tommerup’s Picnic Platter, featuring Kay an Dave’s own veal and pork, as well as White Gold Creamery Cheese (made with the Tommerup farm milk) and other delicious local gourmet treats.
Bookings are essential. Prices range from $5.50 to $38.
Christmas on Tommerup Farm
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Mt Greville
Height: 767-metres
Location: Moogerah Peaks National Park
Mt Greville is one of four distinct volcanic peaks, located in the Moogerah Peaks National Park.
The four peaks stand like sentinels in the rural landscape.
Mt Greville, at 767m high, is recognisable due to its cone-shape and deeps fissures.
Mt Greville was the first of the four peaks to be gazetted as a national park in 1948.
Mt Greville and the Moogerah Peaks National Park are located in what was once beneath the belly of the ancient Main Range volcano, which erupted more than 24million years ago.
The distinctive peaks of the Moogerah Peaks National Park had their origins deep below the volcano.
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Moogerah Peaks National Park is located near Lake Moogerah and is accessible via the Cunningham Highway, about 100km south-west of Brisbane. Read more →
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They don’t call us the Scenic Rim for nothing!
If you haven’t visited the Scenic Rim you might be wondering where the name came from?
Anyone who’s taken a drive or a walk through this spectacular region knows – it’s because the region is jam-packed with killer views.
The dramatic mountain range, which wraps itself around our fertile valleys, provides a stunning backdrop to so many of our beautiful rural towns.
It was tourism pioneer and adventurer Arthur Groom who first coined the phrase, Scenic Rim.
He described the region as being ‘one mountain after another’.
And boy was he right!
Want to know where to see the best views? We’ve done the hard work for you. Rooms with a view, lunch with a view, walk with a view, romance with a view … read on. Read more →
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Michelle Roper-Dennis, of Canungra gift shop My Country Escape, shares her favourite Scenic Rim places to eat, drink and enjoy in the views.
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Height: 1359-metres
Location: Mt Barney National Park
Mt Barney, at 1359m, is QLD’s 4th highest mountain and one of the state’s most spectacular mountains. and is a mecca for experienced bushwalkers and climbers.
It’s part of the McPherson Range and presents walkers with some formidable challenges and is no place for novice walkers.
Mt Barney by Lachie Zettl.
Mt Barney is situated within the Mt Barney National Park, which was established in 1947 to protect the natural habitat on and around the mountain.
Mt Barney is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area and the national park is one of the largest areas of undisturbed natural vegetation remaining in south-east Queensland.
Access is via the Mt Lindesay Highway, about 120km south-west of Brisbane.
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You’ve said ‘yes!’, the ring is amazing, the guest list is growing and all you need now is a spectacular place to hold your dream wedding!
Welcome to the Scenic Rim.
This picturesque region is emerging as the darling of south-east Queensland brides and grooms.
The Scenic Rim has it all – location (one hour from Brisbane & the Gold Coast), spectacular views (they don’t call us Scenic for nothing) and some to-die for wedding venues.
There’s so many to choose from but here are 15 of our favourites.
The White Chapel & Black Hall Kalbar
This is the Scenic Rim’s newest wedding venue and one thing is for sure, your photographs are going to be A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!
No expense has been spared by the owners, April and Paul Cornwell, who have transformed a disused country church (circa 1883) into a designer wedding chapel and reception venue.
From the chandeliers, to the ornate gardens, to the rustic shed and the sleek Black Hall reception venue, your wedding will be the talk of your friends for months to come.
The property features many photographic backdrops, created with your big day – and your wedding album – in mind.
The team behind The White Chapel have thought of everything – there’s even a minibus to carry your guests home to their local accommodation.
The Vue Restaurant & Wedding Chapel, Boonah
Country weddings done right. Here’s a venue where you can have it all in one location – vows in the gorgeous outdoor chapel, food in the neighbouring restaurant and accommodation in the beautiful on-site country cabins.
This one-stop shop will make saying ‘I Do’ easy and fuss free.
Kooroomba Vineyard & Restaurant, Mt Alford
If it’s stunning mountain views you’re after, look no further than Kooroomba Vineyard & Restaurant.
Say ‘I do’ in the new wedding chapel, situated on the edge of the vineyard, with a glorious mountain backdrop. Your guests can wander back to the architect-designed restaurant and winery for sunset drinks, dinner and dancing.
This location is a photographer’s dream – your insta feed will be full of hashtag incredible images.
Flinders Peak Winery, Peak Crossing
Wine, mountain views, wild life, cosy villas, WINE. Here’s another fabulous all-in-one location for your wedding. Who needs the hassle of traipsing from church to reception venue to accommodation – it’s all here on site at Peak Crossing. There’s a rustic barn for your reception, complete with bar and Chesterfield lounges, and plenty of locally-made wine. Wander back to your villa when the party is over and wake to the stunning views over the vineyard.
Cedar Creek Estate
Your wedding vision will become reality at Cedar Creek Estate on Tamborine Mountain. From the stone chapel, to the garden arbour, the glorious gardens, the lake and the water feature, your day will be one you and your guests will remember for years to come.
Choose from a large array of wines and enlist the help of the resident wedding co-ordinators. Formal and informal wedding receptions can be arranged.
And once the formalities are over head to the on-site Glow Worm Caves for some ‘illuminating’ photographs with your love.
Albert River Wines
Looking for an historic, unique country wedding venue? Enter Albert River Wines. This historic property, situated a short drive from Canungra, has been a finalist in the Australian Bridal Institute Awards for Ceremony and Reception Venues for the past three years. Albert River Wines offers newlyweds many options – from the Jacaranda Gazebo, the ornate, restored vineyard chapel, to the chapel garden to the historic homestead restaurant.
Tamborine House has been beautifully restored and is a fabulous showcase of the 1800s architectural style. Entertain your guests on the sprawling verandas, or in the Auchenflower House Ballroom.
Tea & Niceties
Enchanting, vintage-themed weddings are de rigueur here at Tea & Niceties on Tamborine Mountain.
Nothing will be left to chance. The gardens are breathtaking and you’ll find plenty of photographic backdrops on this one-acre property, which boasts lush rainforest and curated gardens. There’s a lace-laden pergola and your reception in the elegant tearoom will create an atmosphere your guests will be talking about for weeks to come.
The resident wedding co-ordinator will make sure your big day is perfect and very magical.
Pethers Rainforest Retreat
Boutique rainforest retreats aren’t something you find every day. And yet here’s a magical one, located on Tamborine Mountain just 30minutes drive from the Gold Coast. The team at Pethers Rainforest Retreat specialise in catering to intimate weddings of up to 70 people. The rainforest setting will set your nuptials apart. Feast on a banquet meal in the timber and glass restaurant, with a spectacular fireplace at the centre.
Your guests will love the on-site accommodation – private tree house retreats which can accommodate up to 20 people.
There’s also a new Wedding Garden, featuring manicured lawns and a wedding gazebo. Walk down the red carpet to your love and your dream rainforest wedding.
Cedar Creek Lodges
OMG! How can one location offer so many wedding options?
The hardest part of being married here at Cedar Creek Lodges will be deciding where and how to do it.
Do you opt for the Rainforest amphitheater and its towering timber columns lit up by fairy lights? Or how about The Outlook a manicured knoll, bordered by Lilly Pilly hedges? Then there’s the Rainforest Restaurant and Lounge Bar. And let’s not forget the architecturally-designed Island Glade, a sister pavilion to the Rainforest Amphitheatre, and located on the Cedar Creek.
Cedar Creek Lodges are located in Thunderbird Park on Tamborine Mountain. There is so much to do onsite your guests will return home revived and reinvigorated. Minigolf, flying fox, laser tag, tree top challenge, bird feeding and horse riding.
And yes there’s accommodation on site – could this be the perfect wedding venue?
Canungra Valley Vineyards
Canungra Valley Vineyards is part of the impressive O’Reilly’s family of attractions. The vineyards are situated just outside Canungra and on the way to the O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat the in the Lamington National Park.
The Canungra Valley Vineyards has become a popular choice for newlyweds, thanks to the stunning location and suite of incredible options located on this sprawling estate.
The hardest part will be deciding where to say ‘I do’. Will it be a long table lunch by the creek? Or a marquee on the lawn? A relaxed gourmet picnic, or a bells and whistles dinner inside the historic winery homestead?
The CVV team will make your wedding wishes come true.
Tamborine Gardens Wedding Resort
Here’s a stress-free wedding option. The team at Tamborine Gardens Wedding & Function Resort are wedding experts. Leave the planning in their hands as they craft a wedding to match your vision. The options are endless – there’s the Garden of Eden, the Tamborine Chapel, the private gazebo and of course the amazing, lush gardens.
Scenic Rim Hot Air Balloon Weddings
Your big day is sure to leave you flying high – particularly when you exchange vows thousands of metres above ground!
If you’re after an intimate wedding with a difference then this is for you.
Join the team at Hot Air Gold Coast for a hot air balloon wedding. They’ll expertly carry you and your wedding party into the clouds for a unique wedding experience.
Sarabah Estate
The team at Sarabah Estate Canungra promise to deliver brides and grooms their dream wedding. Sarabah Estate is a 50-acre rural retreat, nestled on the boundary the Lamington National Park.
The picturesque property is perfect for an outdoor wedding – say ‘I do’ with the estate vineyard in the background.
You’ll love the timber and stone European-designed chalet, which comfortably caters to 100 people. If your guest list is bigger, opt for the marquee wedding.
There are some fabulous accommodation options nearby too.
Heritage Wines Tamborine Mountain
Does your wedding wish list call for a rural setting with ocean views? You’ll love Heritage Wines. Located on the gorgeous Tamborine Mountain, this property enjoys stunning views out to the Pacific Ocean. It’s a versatile venue, where the former Infant Saviour Catholic Church from Burleigh has been has been transformed into an elegant wedding chapel. If you’d prefer to exchange vows in The Glasshouse – a 360-degree glass building with incredible views – that’s on offer too. The sprawling hinterland property offers plenty of inspiration for a country-themed reception.
And of course the Heritage Boutique wines will be flowing all night!
Binna Burra Mountain Lodge
Fancy being married within the heritage listed Lamington National Park? Give the team at Binna Burra Mountain Lodge a call.
Your wedding guests will love the natural beauty of this 20,600ha Australian bush and rainforest park and of course, there are the stunning views!
Binna Burra can cater for big and small weddings and offers newlyweds a range of unique locations and wedding themes.
The on-site wedding coordinator will ensure your big day runs smoothly.
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Mt Cordeaux is one of several mountains located within the 29,730ha Main Range National Park and during spring the cliff face is covered with incredible giant spear lillies.
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Discover your inner farmer and have an authentic farm stay experience in the Scenic Rim, just one hour from Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
The Scenic Rim is home to some amazing farmers, who open their farm gate and invite visitors to feed the animals, milk the cows, meet the camels and pick the vegetables.
The whole family will love visiting these farms. And of course, there are heaps more accommodation options in the Scenic Rim including cabins and cottages, more farm stays, camping or glamping and B&Bs.
Tommerup’s Dairy Farm & Farm Stay Visit this sixth-generation dairy farm in the spectacular Lost World and take a hands-on farm to fridge journey of your milk. Help Farmer Dave milk the cows, Farmer Kay feed the heritage pigs, wrangle the goats, calves and chooks and stock-up on some take-home goodies from the farm larder.Stay in one of two restored historic homesteads on the property.
Scenic Rim 4Real Milk & Robotic Dairy Cows milked by robots? Yes really. This automated dairy uses milking robots to allow the cows to be milked at anytime of the day, whenever they feel like it. Farmer Gregie and the Dennis family lead regular farm tours of the milking shed and the on-farm bottling factory. Bring an esky and go home with some Scenic Rim 4Real Milk, cheese and yoghurt.
Historic Cedar Glen Farmstay
Cedar Glen is a real working farm and has been a farmstay for more than 30 years. It’s situated in the foothills of the stunning Lost World section of the Lamington National Park. The Stpehns family has worked the cattle property for more than 100 years and enjoy sharing a slice of their farmlife with visitors. When you stay at Cedar Glen you can try horseriding, birdwatching, swimming and bushwalking, as well as meet the resident farm animals. Stay in one of four historic cottages located on the farm.
Summer Land Camels This is the Scenic Rim’s newest farm attraction and will open your eyes to these beautiful creatures. The camels are rescued from the wild in central Australia and brought to the Harrisville farm to enter the dairy herd. While you’re here see, the camels being milked in the dairy, try the milk, the ice-cream and go home with some hand and body products made from camel milk. Stay for coffee in the on-farm café.
Towri Sheep Cheeses Carolyn Davidson knows and loves sheep and she shares her passion with visitors to her farm, situated near Beaudesert. Carolyn runs regular cheese making workshops, as well as farm tours, where you can cuddle the sheep and lambs and learn how she makes her beautiful cheeses based on sheep’s milk. Her cheese is on the menu at some of Queensland’s leading restaurants. And yes there will be taste tests!
Greenlee Macadamia and Honey Farm When you stay at Greenlee Farm Cottages you can relax on this scenic Canungra macadamia and honey farm and sample the produce from the comfort of your cottage. Robyn and Paul Lee enjoy sharing their taste of farm life with visitors. Walk through the macadamia orchard and learn more about how the Lee family grows, picks and packs macadamias and honey. Guests can order a basket of local goodies for breakfast and dinner and yes both will feature macadamias and honey!
Milford Country Cottages The whole family will be kept busy during your stay at Milford Country Cottages.You can feed the cows, calves, chicken, and horse; build your own camp fire and cook your own delicious camp oven while watching the sun go down.
Your hosts, John and Lyn McLean, offer a country escape, with affordable and quality accommodation in fully self-contained 2 bedroom cottages.
This property is perfect for couples to enjoy a romantic getaway, and is ideal for families to relax and explore. The 40 acres also has a collection of heritage horse drawn implements for you to explore.
Tamborine Mountain Coffee Plantation
Tamborine Mountain Coffee Plantation offers Sunday tours by appointment. Photo by Christine Sharp.
Here’s a tour for older kids who want to go beyond mum and dad’s morning cup of coffee. Take a tour of Tamborine Mountain Coffee Plantation and learn more about where the coffee beans come from.
Visit this Tamborine Mountain farm and find out what happens before the beans arrive in your kitchen. Tours available on Sundays by appointment only. Visit https://www.tamborinemountaincoffee.com.au/ to enquire.
The Grove B & B Cottage – Scenic Rim Olives
The Grove B&B Cottage overlooks the olive grove at Scenic Rim Olives. Photo by Christine Sharp.
Stay on a thriving olive grove in the Scenic Rim. The Grove B & B Cottage sleeps up to six people, and looks out over about 700 olive trees.
Scenic Rim Olives, which is home to The Grove B&B, is situated in Kulgun on the western side of the Scenic Rim. Visit www.scenicrimolives.com.au to book.
Stay at Kirro – Ladybrook Farm
Enjoy a farm stay experience on working beef cattle operation Ladybrook Farm.
Enjoy the breathtaking views of the Kerry Valley and have an authentic farm stay experience when you stay in the Kirro homestead at Ladybrook Farm in Darlington.
There’s plenty of room for the kids to run around, and you can even bring the dog. Find out more and book your stay at www.stayatkirro.com.au
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So, you want to climb a mountain but you don’t know where to start?
Well, the Scenic Rim is just the place to find your feet, given it’s home to more than 70 summits.
A perfect spot to start is in the World Heritage Listed Lamington National Park up on the McPherson Range outside Canungra.
Okay, so you won’t quite be climbing a mountain – you’ll drive up relatively steep and winding country roads to get to the tracks – but those tracks are great for getting some mileage in the legs.
You’ll get the fresh mountain air into your lungs, but Lamington won’t knock the wind out of your sails like a first-time mountain climb will.
Whether you choose to set out from the Binna Burra section or the O’Reilly’s (Green Mountains) section, you’ll have plenty of well-marked tracks to choose from – about 160km of them, in fact.
There is something for everyone, from the smooth, wheelchair-accessible 1.8km Centenary Track at O’Reilly’s to the rock-hopping, creek-crossing 17.4km Coomera Circuit at Binna Burra.
If you really want to build up the strength in your legs, there aren’t many tracks more pleasant (or picturesque) than the Border Track, which is 21.4km each way and links Binna Burra and O’Reilly’s.
Or if you want someone to guide you, local companies like Horizon Guides or International Park Tours can offer you valuable local wisdom on the tracks of Lamington National Park and beyond. Read more →
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Join the Instagramming community for the first Scenic Rim Instameet of 2017.
The Igers Scenic Rim group will meet at Mt Barney Lodge from 4pm on January 28.
Check out the @Igers_scenicrim Instagram account for some spectacular shots of local scenery.
Don’t forget to tag your pictures #scenicrim so we can share them at @visitscenicrim
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magCulture’s new home
Jeremy Leslie redefines the modern magazine shop.
MagMagMag
London’s magCulture shop returns to Vitsœ to celebrate a new golden age of the magazine, this time in New York.
33 Bond Street
Photography by Anton Rodriguez
Finding its home in a parade of shops at the bottom of London’s first council-built tower block on the 1958 Brunswick Estate, magCulture opened the doors to its first shop in December 2015. Replacing a faltering newsagent with ordered calm, founder Jeremy Leslie invites visitors to pause in comfort with the latest and greatest in print.
Leslie has enjoyed twenty years immersed in publishing. His career as an editorial designer led to the launch of the magCulture website, the success of which prompted the introduction of his online shop, a collaboration with Vitsœ at London Design Festival in 2014 and then launch of this Clerkenwell shop and HQ. Challenging the assumption that printed matter is approaching extinction, his desire to create a place to go and enjoy well-designed independent publications has been realised.
As renovations began, the false ceiling was removed to allow the original saw-tooth roof to diffuse the glancing London light into the shop. Blue vinyl floor tiles were gingerly peeled back to reveal a magnificent mid-century monochrome terrazzo floor with eye-catching red grout, evidence of “the stars aligning,” as Leslie put it. “People used to crack that joke about newspapers being ‘black, white and red all over,’ and here I have unearthed by chance something that I could have only dreamed of installing. By pure serendipity it’s the colours of magCulture. It’s one of the first things people notice when they walk in.”
The details in the fabric of the building proved to Leslie that there was something “instinctively right about the choice of space and furniture.”
Jeremy Leslie’s 620 chair makes magCulture the most comfortable magazine shop
On his decision to choose Vitsœ for magCulture, Leslie explained that he thought “there was the need for a shop in London that takes as much care with the presentation of magazines as the magazines take with the presentation of their content.” They are all displayed cover-out on sloping shelves and visitors are encouraged to flick through the titles.
“People often spend around 40 minutes poring over everything, which we welcome,” Leslie said. “The creators of the magazines have invested their time and effort, so our customers should be free to examine every page if they wish to. Despite the temporary nature that they are perceived as having, these publications are in fact wonderfully written and photographed reflections of our society and our lives at any given moment in time.”
“Both the building and the Vitsœ systems were devised within the same modernist era. They fit so well together, and so from a historical, cultural and practical context they are ideal. The flexibility of the systems is vital, and means we’ve been able to constantly adapt the space to suit the stock we have in at the time.”
Jeremy Leslie uses sloping shelves to display his array of magazines cover-out
Vitsœ’s shelves, chairs and tables encourage customers to pause and consider purchases at their own pace. By pairing magCulture’s informed selection of printed matter with Vitsœ, Leslie hopes to translate what constitutes good design and demonstrate the value of living with artefacts that are decidedly long-term in their nature.
MagMagMag: May 15–29, 2018
Monday to Saturday, 10:00 – 18:00
Sunday 20 May, 12:00 – 18:00
Memorial Day, May 28, closed
Alongside selling magazines that reflect the vibrant state of print publishing today, this collaboration sees magCulture’s London-based team relocate to New York for a schedule of lunchtime talks and podcast recordings that bring print to life.
No need to RSVP, just come along at 13:00 each day…
Monday 21 May
Claudia Wu of Cherrybombe magazine and Me Magazine
Steven Heller, design critic and commentator whose newsletter was described by Wired as “your CliffsNotes to the history of graphic design”
Meg Miller and Liz Stinson of AIGA Eye on Design
Shannon Jager of Double Dot magazine with Karl Henkl of Record Culture Magazine
The home of good design
Dieter Rams’s 1971 house has been protected for future generations.
Modular world
An exhibition of Dieter Rams’s furniture systems at Vitra’s recently opened Schaudepot.
Brown Betty: the archetypal teapot
An exhibition of form and function refined over generations, to coincide with London Design Festival 2016.
Vitsœ in Zurich
Our planners will take up temporary residence from time to time at the Zurich shop of independent publisher Nieves.
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Platform 8: Rethinking American classics with science for flavor and fun in Yountville
By Sasha Paulson | Napa Valley Register | December 23, 2017
Chef Michael Chiarello estimates he’s spent about 180,000 hours behind stoves in his career, opening high-end Italian restaurants like Tra Vigne and Bottega, which became landmarks in the Napa Valley, as well as starring in television shows, and cooking at fundraisers and demos.
All of this experience has led to the pinnacle of culinary achievement: the perfection of the American classics, the burger, fries and ice cream.
Michael Chiarello and his caught, Giana Chiarello, opened Platform 8 in Yountville. She is working on the restaurant with him. – Sasha Paulson, Register
“You would not believe how many hours we put into this,” he said cheerfully as he conducted a tour of his newly opened, newest enterprise in Yountville. With him was his daughter, Giana, who is working with her dad these days. Together they posed in front of a sign: “Platform 8, Finally…Open.”
“After 24 years here in the valley, I thought about what was missing here, what was missing in Yountville,” said Chiarello.
The answer is here in his new eatery, subtitled, “a modern burger joint and ice cream lab.”…
Read the full article online at NapaValleyRegister.com »
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Curious Theatre's The Secretary Is Right on Target
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100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Jacob Barreras and Libi Rose Striegl
Susan Froyd
"of mermaids, mountains and machines: Contemporary Psychedelia," an OFF Cinema screening at BMoCA.
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Susan Froyd | September 21, 2017 | 7:41am
#78: Jacob Barreras and Libi Rose Striegl
Jacob Barreras is the ultimate projectionist who exercises his eye for new and historical avant-garde film while plying his trade for the University of Colorado Film Studies Program. Libi Striegl, a doctoral candidate in intermedia art, writing and performance at CU, bounces around among disciplines; she has special interests in robotics, software design, textiles and filmmaking. Together they curate the OFF Cinema experimental film series, bringing little-seen moving pictures to Front Range audiences. As their latest project, the two-week Unseen Festival, which begins September 21 at Counterpath in Denver, began to unfurl, Barreras and Striegl decided they'd answer the 100CC questionnaire in conversation with one another, and you’re invited to listen in.
OFF Cinema's Libi Striegl is ready for her close-up.
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Westword: What (or who) is your creative muse?
Jacob Barreras: My creative energy is fueled off of the passion and pure enjoyment that I get when I have the chance to show someone something they’ve never seen before. The look of amazement, bewilderment and curiosity in their eyes is so ethereal and very special for me.
Libi Striegl: Yeah, my first inclination is to say that feeling when you know someone else is just as excited as you are.
Which three people, dead or alive, would you like to invite to your next party, and why?
Striegl: I don’t want to think about inviting luminaries or famous people. We are trying to make shows that appeal to everyone. So having said that, I’d invite my grandmother and that lady whom I had a really interesting conversation with on the subway in New York City, whose name I never got.
Barreras: I’m gonna say my dad.
Both: Hahahahaha!
OFF Cinema's Jacob Barreras and friend.
What’s the best thing about the local creative community in your field – and the worst? How about globally?
Barreras: The best thing for me is the clear and definite interest in avant-garde and experimental cinema. We can tell that our announcements do not fall on deaf ears. The worst thing, however, is that there aren’t enough people tuned in to this kind of cinema, so sometimes attendance woes come up.
Striegl: Yeah, or it’s difficult to figure out the best way to communicate what is going on.
Barreras: Yeah, there’s no social-media hub for creatives to share with each other.
Striegl: Everything is really fragmented into cliques. The poetry people don’t talk to the film people, who don’t talk to the whatever people.
Barreras: That’s what we’re trying to achieve with the Unseen Festival (September 21 through October 1 at Counterpath, 7935 East 14th Avenue) — to get people talking to one another and collaborating with each other.
Striegl: Thinking even globally, the same is true. People are in factions, and it’s difficult to get people to accept that it’s okay to go to something without knowing anything about it.
FURUSATO Trailer from Büchner Filmproduktion on Vimeo.
Are trends in film worth following? What’s one trend you love and one that you hate?
Striegl: Definitely not worth it. We like everything and hate everything in equal measure. I think we can find something of value in everything we watch — well, almost everything. But there also needs to be a recognition of the difference between entertainment and art.
Barreras: Yeah, a good example is within contemporary documentary. Everything seems to be blurring the line between an info piece, e-journalism and vlogging. Like, with environmental films that present an idea along the lines of “This is wrong, we need to fix it.” Basically those are just glorified PowerPoint presentations. A real documentary, a poignant and prescient documentary, doesn’t tell you that you need to do anything at all. It just says "Look…look." We’re showing a film at the Unseen Festival on the Fukushima disaster called Furusato that does this (program five, Furusato, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, September 25). It shows you grim reality and cuts it with high-art violin music. Eerie, unsettling, dramatic.
You’ve come this far in life. What’s still on your bucket list?
Striegl: I would like to see my work in Japan and Europe.
Barreras: I’d like to see Japan and Europe.
Striegl: I like that we both say Japan and Europe. I also want to see the Northern Lights with no cameras around.
What’s your best or favorite accomplishment as a creative?
Striegl: I don’t know if I can pick a favorite. My favorite is usually whatever I’m working on right now. Having said that, though, it’s usually also my least favorite thing...
Barreras: HAHAHA! I’m gonna go with programming the Unseen Festival.
Colorado, love it or leave it? What keeps you here – or makes you want to leave?
Striegl: I grew up here. I came back after three years away to find a totally different place, but there are always pockets of weird Colorado that keep me happy, even if I have to live someplace I can’t afford.
Barreras: I also grew up here, and for a variety of reasons, I’ve never felt like I wanted to leave. It’s my home.
Who is your favorite Colorado Creative?
Barreras: Probably Andrew Busti would have to be my favorite Colorado creative currently (a featured filmmaker in the Unseen Festival, Program Ten, "Tunings: The Films of Andrew Busti," at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, September 30). The otherworldliness of his films and his dedication to celluloid are amazing.
Striegl: I’ll echo that and say the Process Reversal organization. What they’re doing for artists, filmmakers and creatives in Denver with their workshops is great.
Barreras: We are very lucky to have an artist-run film lab in town.
What's on your agenda in the coming year?
Barreras: The most important item on my agenda is the Unseen Festival. But after that, I’ll be going into research mode, as I’ve been invited to the Ann Arbor Film Festival coming up in March to present a Robert Fulton film that made its way into my personal film collection. The film is Reality’s Invisible, and he made it in his brief time at the Carpenter Center at Harvard, in the only Le Corbusier building in the country. Anyhow, the film is marvelous. A sublime montage of snippets, teases, improv, etc., largely about the institution failing the artist. We see these lost artist souls wandering, hoping for something — life after graduation, if you will.
Striegl: And on my agenda is getting through comps…
Both: Hahahahahahahaha!
Striegl: And a bunch of other art projects.
Who do you think will get noticed in the local film community in the coming year?
Barreras: Truthfully, we hope it’s us, with this festival.
The Unseen Festival runs September 21 through October 1 at Counterpath, 7935 East 14th Avenue, with screenings and discussions paired with literary readings at 7:30 p.m. nightly. Admission is $7 per program or $70 for an all-access pass. Learn more and see the complete schedule online. Learn more about OFF Cinema on Facebook.
100 Colorado Creatives
Susan Froyd started writing for Westword as the "Thrills" editor in 1992 and never quite left the fold. These days she still freelances for the paper in addition to walking her dogs, enjoying cheap ethnic food and reading voraciously. Sometimes she writes poetry.
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Twitter: @sosfrojd
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Hometown for a day
Ever wanted to be part of one of those charming hometown celebrations? The kind most people have only seen in the movies?
Make that dream come true by becoming a part of a real hometown festival. The second Saturday in September (this year, that is September 9) is when Wilmington throws its townwide party, their annual Festival of Colors.
fit right in
From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. the tee-ball field on Springfield Road will become filled with festival enjoyment. To reach the venue, turn off Route 86 onto Springfield Road in Wilmington to reach Park Road and the recreational park.
The fun will start early, with the town's favorite clown, and her able assistants, performing a live children’s comedy routine. Our clown is one of the staples of the festival, which is all about anticipating the glorious harvest season to come. Painting pumpkins, enjoying the crystal air of fall, silly games, and lots of eating; those are the basics.
Later on, the music section will be handled by popular favorite, Raisinhead. A "monster" rhythm section, powerful organ playing, and three singers creates a constantly changing vocal perspective. Their trademark is an interactive show with plenty of energetic sound and pure festival fun. David Guistina of The Sounding Board states:
Raisinhead reminds me of what Duke Ellington said 'If it sounds good it is good' … The sweet melodic jam sounds of Raisinhead make even the harshest music critics swoon. This band is a rare combination of talent and heart and understands how to interpret these great songs.
The improvisational band Raisinhead have been honing their chops since 2001. Their influences are all over America's map, cooking up a tasty blend of blues and jazz, R&B and gospel, which is never the same twice. The diverse background, joy of performing, and decades of experience of the members is what gives the band its high energy sound. They strive to be unique and fresh every performance.
This same improv style extends to the whole Festival of Colors concept. While there is always a baking competition, the subject can change. This year, the theme will be Battle of the Cupcakes.
The battle will be among the bakers competing with their best cupcakes. The cupcakes themselves will bring only joy.
There's always local artisans and crafters, artists, and local services, produce fresh off the farm, and lots of entertainment.
kids and inner kids
It's a time and place to relax and enjoy simple stuff. Okay, the bounce houses have a weight limit, but there's fun to be had over the entire park.
Be a kid, or be a kid again. That is what the festival is about.
There's baked goods everywhere, and multiple food vendors so that it even smells like a festival. The children’s activities range from random running around to more organized activities like crafts and interactive booths.
Browse through the crafts, taste the goodies, and let the festival come to you.
The loose schedule makes for a relaxed agenda. It's a lovely, natural setting, so there isn't much in the way of making sure everything happens by the clock. A lot of the participants just don't work that way.
The whole idea is to be fresh and spontaneous. Be sure to leave time to simply wander around, and do what is appearing in the moment. It's not formal Zen. There's no pressure. There has been a lot of planning behind the scenes, but once the day unfolds, it follows its own path. So can you.
It's an end of summer, fall's coming kind of festival. Be aware that the greatest foliage show on earth (well, we think so) is yet to come.
That's okay. You can come back any time.
Choose your lodging. Explore our attractions. Chose from some very scenic drives.
ADK end of summer fun!
The best of fall
90 miles of fun
Coast into color
The finest fall
Scenic cycle
Raft it!
Pamela Merritt
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Your Holiday Survival Guide for Chinese Bond Defaults
By Shuli Ren | Bloomberg
December 12, 2019 at 6:35 PM EST
China’s government-linked corporate bond market works a bit like a strapless bra. Every once in a while, things might fall a bit out of place, but buyers still trust the underwire to stay put.
This year, as officials crack down on shadow banking, traders have been flooding into the haven of state-owned enterprises. Particularly popular are notes issued by off-balance-sheet shell companies set up by municipalities, which often fund local infrastructure projects. These bonds typically offer higher coupons than traditional municipal debt — and, more importantly, Beijing hasn’t allowed a single delinquency in the $1.2 trillion of bonds outstanding.
So far, betting on the state has paid off. While China’s corporate bond defaults hit another record high this year, most came from borrowers in the private sector.
But last week, two events shook traders’ faith. A local government financing vehicle in Inner Mongolia, Hohhot Economic & Technological Development Zone Investment Development Group, didn’t repay the principal on a 1 billion yuan ($142.1 million) note. Meanwhile, state-linked Peking University Founder Group Corp. missed a payment on a 2 billion yuan bond.
Traders went cross-eyed. Is Beijing’s implicit guarantee broken? Is it time to re-examine who makes the cut?
When it comes to state-linked entities, we need to think about their function and how crucial that is to the government. These factors matter a lot more to Beijing than traditional credit metrics like cash flows.
Hohhot, for instance, mainly provides public services, from solar farming to waste-water treatment. That may just be its saving grace. On Monday, after coughing up some money and promising the rest by early March, the LGFV argued that last week’s event was merely a technical default. The company said its “former main leader” was under investigation and, as a result, some assets were frozen. Sure, financing remains tight, but chances are Beijing will find a way to fund the impoverished province of Inner Mongolia and pay investors back.
Founder, on the other hand, is entirely different. Established in the early 1990s as a high-tech firm, the subsidiary of the prestigious university has expanded into every business imaginable. Finance and real estate now account for the bulk of its profit, while commodity trading comprises most of its sales. So when fiscal budgets are tight, it won’t be difficult for Beijing to let Founder go. It’s providing neither a social service nor investing in nationally strategic fields, such as chip design or artificial intelligence.
To make matters worse, Founder’s state links aren’t entirely clear, as a legal tussle unfolds over its ownership. If courts determine that company control rests in the hands of a trio of private investors, rather than a public institution, many brokers and traders will get caught flat-footed. Founder would be one of the biggest corporate defaults in China: It has 23 onshore notes outstanding, with two-thirds, or 24 billion yuan, due over the next year.
In President Xi Jinping’s China, reining in financial risk has become synonymous with restricting lending to private businesses. That’s why betting on state-affiliated entities is still a smart move. After all, why would Beijing cause unnecessary market jitters and close an important funding channel? But not all government-linked entities are created equal. It’s time to weed out the low-quality “fakes.”
To contact the author of this story: Shuli Ren at sren38@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Rachel Rosenthal at rrosenthal21@bloomberg.net
Shuli Ren is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asian markets. She previously wrote on markets for Barron’s, following a career as an investment banker, and is a CFA charterholder.
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The future of autonomous delivery may be unfolding in an unlikely place: Suburban Houston
For months now, Nuro’s robotically piloted vehicles have been quietly delivering groceries around Houston, laying the groundwork for a new era of autonomy.
A Nuro delivery vehicle completes training routes in the Meyerland neighborhood of Houston early this month. (Annie Mulligan for The Washington Post)
Technology reporter
HOUSTON — On the muggy streets of suburban Houston, amid McMansions, bright green lawns and stately oak trees, a futuristic race is quietly afoot.
The contestants are not people but late-model Toyota Priuses outfitted with an array of sophisticated sensors. Despite fierce competition and unending pressure to perform, the nearly silent electric vehicles do not speed. They move cautiously, rigorously following traffic laws and never topping 25 mph.
Their goal is not an easily discerned finish line but to map large swaths of the nation’s fourth-largest metropolis, a sprawling patchwork of neighborhoods, mini-cities, strip malls, gridlocked superhighways and mazelike gated communities — an area so prodigious in size it easily could swallow Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island whole.
The vehicles are owned by Nuro, a Silicon Valley robotics company with an ambitious goal — to become the world’s preeminent autonomous delivery service, allowing millions of people to have groceries and other goods delivered by robots instead of making trips to the store, potentially reducing traffic and kicking off a new chapter in our relationship with machines. For months now, Nuro’s robotically piloted vehicles have been successfully, if quietly, delivering groceries to restaurants and homes around Houston, the vehicles’ sensors mapping the city as they go.
The faster Nuro’s vehicles map Houston’s notoriously chaotic roadways, the faster the company can refine its software and export its business model elsewhere. But time is in short supply.
Like Nuro, companies such as Amazon, Alphabet-owned Waymo, Robomart, General Motors’ Cruise division, Ford-affiliated Argo AI, Starship Technologies and many others are also rushing to deploy high-functioning autonomous vehicles for delivery and passenger transport, with some companies attracting major deals and billions in funding. Their goal is to earn public trust and offer real-life convenience, experts say, heightening their chances of securing a valuable foothold in a new era defined by autonomous transportation.
To get there, they will first have to run their autonomous vehicles, or AVs, through millions of miles of driving tests in cities such as Houston until they are glitch-free and unquestionably safe.
“The pressure is real,” said David Syverud, head of robot operations at Nuro. “And to be clear, it is a race in the AV space to deploy quickly and be the first to really get there.”
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As with any race, more speed engenders greater risk, particularly in Houston, a car-dependent city dominated by construction, impatient drivers and the kind of busy roadways that present a serious challenge to experienced human drivers, much less robotic ones.
Each year, more than 600 people die on Houston-area roads, making the city one of the nation’s deadliest major metro areas for drivers, according to a comprehensive analysis of regional traffic fatalities, using 16 years of federal data, that was recently published by the Houston Chronicle.
Regardless of the risks, AV enthusiasts like Syverud are confident that there will come a day in the not-so-distant future when — almost no matter where your family resides — your groceries will be delivered to your home via an autonomous robot.
But to make that vision a reality, companies like Nuro have to build it from scratch, a herculean effort involving dozens of vehicle operators and hundreds of engineers working in synchronicity each day to test robotic systems and map entire cities.
After completing a successful pilot in the Phoenix area, Nuro, which has raised more than $1 billion in funding, arrived in Houston last year and launched autonomous deliveries for Kroger, the nation’s largest operator of traditional supermarkets, in April and began working with Domino’s Pizza in June.
The city’s reliance on cars has done little to burnish its national reputation, but it was a boon for Nuro. With an average commute of about 60 minutes round-trip, hungry Houstonians are eager to avoid driving any more than they have to, Nuro officials say.
Company officials say they were also drawn to Houston for the complexity of its metropolitan environment, a puzzle of independent communities, each with its own road conditions, zoning ordinances, parking rules and traffic laws. Some area neighborhoods offer wide lanes and little traffic, others are narrow and perpetually hectic — providing the company’s robotic software a massive variety of testing conditions.
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As the country’s most ethnically diverse large city — and with a foreign-born population of 1.4 million — Houston also is a place where Nuro officials could probe fundamental questions about its business model.
“The big question for us is: Who is going to use this service, and how often will they do it?” said Sola Lawal, a Nuro product operations manager based in Houston who formerly worked for Uber. “Our robots don’t care who they’re delivering to, but we want to understand how different demographics interact with and feel about the robots. Houston allows for this broad swath of experience in one city.”
Delivering items locally to a customer’s door — particularly food that has to stay hot or cold — has long been one of the most expensive logistical problems in transportation, in part because of the labor costs. It is far cheaper to transport hundreds of packages in the back of a UPS truck with multiple drop-offs at addresses along a set route. That has helped hinder the online spread of grocery delivery, which can be cost-prohibitive when factoring in a driver’s wages.
Nuro appears to have found a way around that complication. Using the maps created by its current vehicles, Nuro plans to launch in the coming months a new version of its fully autonomous, passenger-less vehicle known as the R2. The company claims that a smaller delivery vehicle, such as the cooler-size delivery robots employed by Amazon or Starship Technologies, would be unable to travel at the speeds and distances necessary to make autonomous grocery delivery efficient in Houston.
A new autonomous delivery vehicle is designed to operate like a bicycle
A larger vehicle without a human driver offers other benefits as well, according to Nuro — more space for groceries, better maneuverability and braking, and no need for interior safety features to accommodate people.
Regardless of what robot does the job, for Yael Cosset, the chief digital officer for Kroger, a partner to Nuro’s test in Houston, there is little choice but to embrace autonomous delivery.
“A few years ago, we were telling customers that if they place an order today we can have it ready for them tomorrow afternoon, and that was okay with them,” Cosset said. “Today, some of our customers will expect that same order to be available within the hour.
“Now, if you need a roasted chicken and pizza and a bottle of milk in the next 45 minutes, I can fulfill that demand for the customer because of Nuro, which is a critical component of our delivery modalities,” he added.
When a robotically driven vehicle pulls up to a home with groceries, two Nuro employees — known as vehicle operators — are always inside. (That will change when Nuro launches its fully autonomous R2 vehicle in Houston later this year.)
Each day in Houston, all 65 of Nuro’s vehicle operators, working in teams that consist of a driver and a co-driver, are tasked with preparing Nuro’s fleet for the road. Already, the company says, drivers are making dozens of deliveries a day, many of them, somewhat surprisingly, to businesses in Houston’s bustling restaurant scene.
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Like driving instructors overseeing an artificially intelligent teenager behind the wheel, operators — who remain ready to wrest control of the car from the robot if something goes wrong — monitor and document turns, braking and acceleration as the vehicles, outfitted with dozens of navigational sensors, quietly roll from one street to the next, creating a hyper-detailed map of the city.
Though their job may sound uneventful, vehicle operators say they must remain in a state of near-constant focus for hours at a time — punctuated by brief moments of extreme intensity. As the vehicle moves, the co-driver, who has a laptop that monitors the robotic system, verbally informs the driver of the robot’s intentions before they occur — a cue known as a “call-out.” The driver’s job is to listen to the call-outs and ensure the vehicle is behaving appropriately while monitoring the driving conditions outside the car.
There is no eating in the car, and drinks must be sealed. To keep things fresh, drivers and co-drivers switch places every few hours and take periodic breaks.
Narrow streets, potholes, construction and low-hanging tree branches are obstacles that offer the team a chance to improve the vehicles’ neural network, in hopes of bringing full autonomy to life. But the biggest obstacle is a human one — an aggressive driver in another vehicle, frustrated by the robot’s slow-moving, law-abiding style.
“What keeps me up at night is a member of my team being injured by a human driver who is drunk or distracted,” Syverud said.
Domino’s will start delivering pizzas via an autonomous robot this fall
Many of the company’s vehicle operators, such as Troy Veuleman, have no background in tech and found their roles through online job postings. Working as an emergency medical technician in Shreveport, La., for four years, Veuleman grew accustomed to long, stress-filled hours behind the wheel of an ambulance, often with little downtime between shifts.
Whether he was racing through rush-hour traffic with a patient in critical condition aboard or keeping a gunshot victim calm when the person’s life depended on it, Veuleman said he honed the art of remaining clearheaded and decisive amid a daily stream of heart-pounding drama.
When he decided to switch careers last year, those same skills — as well as an exceptionally clean driving record — made the 25-year-old an attractive candidate for sitting behind the wheel of a robotically driven car and remaining alert for hours on end.
To prepare vehicle operators to endure the tedium of the roadway, Syverud said he reminds his employees that they are part of a larger mission, using a message that Chris Urmson — one of the architects of Google’s self-driving-car program — used to tell his staff: About 40,000 people die on the roads every year, which is roughly the equivalent of four Boeing 737 Maxes falling out of the sky every week.
Nuro’s staffers, Syverud said, have an opportunity to lower those numbers by keeping people off the roads.
For employees like Veuleman, that urgent message resonates like a call to duty. During long days inside the car, when it is tempting to take one’s eyes off the road, the former EMT tells himself that though he is no longer saving lives in the present, he may be saving them in the future.
“I come from a world where you’re literally helping people and saving lives each day,” Veuleman said. “This role is different. But there is definitely a mission in place, and we believe that making the roads safer can actually change the world.”
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Neighbors' dog attacks thief, saves Houston man from mugging
Updated: Tue 2:37 AM, Jan 14, 2020
HOUSTON (KPRC/CNN) - A man from Houston considers himself lucky after thieves apparently followed him home from the bank and attacked, only to be chased away by his neighbors' dog.
While Jose Luis Hernandez, right, checked his mail, he says a man in a red hoodie attacked and would have “ripped him apart” trying to get money if not for his neighbors' dog Ace. (Source: KPRC/CNN)
Jose Luis Hernandez says he had all his week’s earnings on him after cashing his check Friday night at a Wells Fargo in Houston. He had $200 in his front shirt pocket and $700 in his wallet in his back pocket.
When Hernandez drove home, he says he didn’t notice what he now believes was a black sedan following him from the bank. His neighbors’ surveillance video shows the car pull up as Hernandez opened the gate to his driveway.
Hernandez went to check his mail, and as he was standing there, he says a man in a red hoodie approached. His neighbors' small dog, named Ace, also ran over, barking, and the man asked him to put the dog away.
Continuing to check the mail, Hernandez ignored the man until, armed with a rock, he was suddenly behind him, demanding his wallet. He says the man pushed him into a ditch when he refused to hand it over.
The entire time Ace was barking and nipping at the man’s heels.
“I just started kicking and kicking,” said Hernandez in Spanish.
Unable to get Hernandez’s wallet, the man snatched the $200 out of his shirt pocket, ripping the shirt as he did so. The surveillance video shows the thief running away to the idling sedan, even as Ace chases him, still barking and attempting to bite him.
Hernandez says if it wasn’t for Ace, he thinks the thief would have “ripped him apart” while he was lying in the ditch.
He says he knows the attack could have been much worse and considers himself lucky. He hopes by sharing his story someone will recognize the thief or the car and turn them into the police. He also wants to help prevent someone else from being followed home from the bank.
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OH - Pike County: 8 people from one family dead as police hunt for killer(s) #11
Discussion in 'Crimes in the News' started by tlcya, May 7, 2016.
lonesomepaws New Member
rsd1200 said: ↑
Maybe he got close enough to inspect him? The thing I found more odd, was that he specifically said ; Caller: It’s all that stuff that’s on the news. Um, I just found, I just found my cousin with a gunshot wound. ~~~ I know none of know how we'd react but to me, pointing out "with a gunshot wound" , is as odd as saying that they; found plants in the garage, we better call 911. The whole tone of the 911 call was "off" to me.
I suspect he was shot between the eyes and it was pretty visible.
lonesomepaws, May 9, 2016
zoomom Love, Chaos, & Supper
Elley Mae said: ↑
I don't know why you directed me to this stuff. I don't give a hoot about that. I just want a link provided when asked for. I few days back I asked for a link that 18 vehicles had been towed. I still have not seen it. There is a Yahoo article that stated UP TO 18 vehicles. So at this point (to me) it is NOT a fact that 18 vehicles were towed.
bbm I don't do media thread.
"He says he and another worker helped tow five of a total of 18 vehicles away from the Rhoden property where eight members of the family were shot to death nearly two weeks ago."
http://myfox28columbus.com/news/local/up-to-18-vehicles-towed-from-pike-county-massacre-property
Can we move on now?
zoomom, May 9, 2016
sumzero Well-Known Member
lonesomepaws said: ↑
I agree. Or the wound could be in the forehead and the blood from the wound pooled in his eyes. IMO, he may not be well educated and skilled with language, but this is no reason, esp. in a traumatic situation, to cast suspicion on him.
sumzero, May 9, 2016
Toralei New Member
RAISINISBACK said: ↑
Like many others, I think most members of the family were massacred because they would have been able to identify the killer(s). This would be especially important if he/they were known to them, and EVEN MORE SO if this person had been previously accused of stealing.
I think this family was particularly close since they all lived within a short distance from each other. Especially DR and LM and it appears BJM was close to FR, DR and also CR1 since she went to his home to feed the animals everyday. Families like that (mine included) gossip on a daily basis. If someone or some family member had been accused of stealing then I am sure the whole extended family (especially BJM) would have known about it. People who have been stolen from are usually so mad they don't stay quiet about it and the first ones they tell are family, so I don't think the others were killed because they could identify the killers. I think they were all killed because there was a secret there, a secret that could send someone to jail or cost them a great amount of money. This is not to say that secret was limited to the victims, indeed I suspect it was known to all family members or if not known, suspected, especially GR's father, LM, BJM and JM. I base this on the impression everyone got that LM was extremely upset over the towing of cars. That leads me to believe he knew the car/salvage business was not on the up and up. But if 8 members of your family have just been slain and it has been shown the killer knew enough about your family to go door to door killing, then you are not going to talk except to LE. I think this secret was told to LE and that is why the cars were towed. That sticks with me because it is so unusual. LE usually tows the victims cars and the suspects cars, but to tow a bunch of junk cars sitting around, that speaks to the cars being a very important part of the investigation, or even the motive. I think the only way that many cars (at least 18) would be important to the investigation is if they were stolen. After all not many things could pertain to a car, they can be wrecked, vandalized, stolen, used as the weapon or be the crime scene its self. Since they were already junk I think we can rule out the wrecked, vandalized and used as a weapon. That many cars cannot all be the crime scene so that leaves stolen. I have followed a lot of investigations and read tons of true crime books ( as I am sure you all have) but never have I read about LE towing that many cars. Just sayin'
Dammit!! Time to review my theory lol. Great point regarding cars.
Toralei, May 9, 2016
24Roses Well-Known Member
mrssmith23 said: ↑
Yeah, his stories have been a bit contradictory. I had been saying that I wouldn't take DS's word on KR being the only one with the single gun shot wound until they confirmed it because of how he had described the scene.. But if it's a single gun shot wound to the head with like a 12 gauge, it'd be a nasty scene. I'm still leaving that part up for speculation. JMO.
I've definitely wondered if the multiple shots were used for information extraction or torture.
BBM-Or IMO to prevent them from getting up while trying to get info. from them. There was a murder in my town several yrs. ago. The victim was shot 6/7 times, some shots being in the knees. After he was dead, the killer stomped on him. This was not a murder to get info. It was done out of deep anger. (That could be how the soft tissue bruising occurred in some of the Rhoden's?)
24Roses, May 9, 2016
Audrey Horne said: ↑
I did a simple Google search, clicked on the first article result, which was titled, "Up to 18 Vehicles Towed..." and by reading the actual article, found the following information. I feel like people should do their part to read the information that has already been provided. Here you go:
"BEAVER, Ohio (WSYX/WTTE) -- Rickey Neace's family has owned the Bobst Auto Parts and Salvage in Pike County for years. He says nothing could've prepared him for his assignment on Tuesday.He says he and another worker helped tow five of a total of 18 vehicles away from the Rhoden property where eight members of the family were shot to death nearly two weeks ago.
"Everything was still roped off and they had caution tape up around the house. It was a little eerie," Neace said.
He and crews from two other Pike County tow companies were instructed by Pike County Sheriff deputies which vehicles to haul away from the crime scene after each was marked and numbered. Neace said the cars were various makes and models with some missing parts such as engines. Each one of the vehicles was taken to a Waverly impound lot where a Pike County deputy will keep a close watch over. He says investigators would not specify why specific vehicles were selected. He estimates a total of 40 vehicles were scattered in and around the property. He's not sure why the family had so many."
This is just to save in case this gets debated, too: He estimates a total of 40 vehicles were scattered in and around the property. He's not sure why the family had so many.
- just tryin to be helpful
rsd1200 If there's no link, it's just my own 2¢.
sumzero said: ↑
I could be wrong, but this is how I interpret his remarks. "It's all that stuff that's on the news" = He's in a hurry to explain his call and the connection to the murders reported earlier. In a few words, he does make that connection. "Um, I just found, I just found my cousin with a gunshot wound" = Again, he's making the connection to the murders reported earlier, that is, "execution-style" according to the authorities, by reference to his cousin's gunshot wound. In other words, he's assuming, for good reason, a direct connection with the other murders. If it were me, I'd probably do the same thing.
I'd probably tell them my name, and that I'd just found my cousin and he's dead, and ask them to send someone asap. I may or may not add that I'd come to check on him re; hearing the news about other family members being murdered, according to my level of anxiety at the time or the questions 911 asks folks. I probably would not have gotten close enough to the body to inspect him for a gunshot wound(s) b/c I'd have backed out of the trailer, got in my truck, and placed the call as soon as I'd seen the body. Then waited for the authorities, while calling my family, I may have even called nearby family first, so I'd not have to sit there alone, if I were alone to begin with. Jmo of how I think I'd react.
rsd1200, May 9, 2016
InspectaX New Member
That's where I'm leaning too. I suspect that Kenneth was the first target, though. He was probably particularly vulnerable to being robbed and/or double-crossed, being out there alone. Although there were other family right down the road who weren't targeted. I think there's an easy explanation for that. Maybe he caught someone else stealing? Someone he knew? Just an idea I have. Then that person or persons out of desperation killed him. Maybe the money that was allegedly strewn around him or his camper is a way to make it look like some cartel did it, or maybe it provided in the perp(s) mind a way to point away from the real killer(s): "Look, someone left money!" (i.e., "It wasn't me...otherwise I would have taken the money.") Maybe the money was brought by the killer, who gained entry by lying and saying he/they were returning the money that had previously been stolen. And the money, whoever it belonged to, may have been dropped by Kenneth while this person(s) was robbing him or after being confronted about stealing. The money couldn't safely be gathered up, then.
After Kenneth was robbed and killed (again, just speculation), since this is a person or persons known to Kenneth and therefore probably the rest of the Rhodens, the rest of them had to be killed because they would know right away who did it, especially if that person had been accused by Kenneth. Chris Sr. and Gary might also have been robbed or attempted to. The alleged beating/violence could have happened for any number of reasons: a struggle, trying to force them to reveal a hidden stash, open a safe, something like that.
Again, JMO, subject to change.
A solid line of thought .... !! Perhaps somebody (maybe more) well-known to all of them had been distributing / selling on behalf of the 3 growers, on a supply now - pay later basis, and had become seriously in arrears with payments due. This info, especially if it was somebody close to the family, may well have been discussed within the family group so all of them had knowledge of the bad-debt situation. Let's say that this "agent" of theirs was refused more stock until he paid for previous ... perhaps he had gone to KR with (say) $1k hoping that would be enough to secure more stock and this was rejected outright. Argument / frustration / temper / anger / goofed-up and BANG, take that !! Throwing the cash down would be a symbolic gesture of anger and rejection; leaving it there a message that he did intend honouring his debts, so there, you are all effing wrong to slander me !! Maybe he (they) knew where KR kept his money-box and helped himself. When the adrenalin stopped pumping ... Oh crap, now what do I / we do ... ?? The others will finger me / us, so best go and do the same to CR1, GR and FR ... force them to hand over their stash, knock them off and then wipe out the rest of those effing c*nts, they ain't no better than me /us !!
InspectaX, May 9, 2016
Does anyone know if KR's funeral was open casket? I'm asking because if it was something like a 12 gauge shotgun, wouldn't the damage be too much?
Pheasant New Member
Toralei said: ↑
Inside, "Amazing Grace” and Vince Gil’s “Go Rest High,” played during an open casket funeral.
I would say that almost completely rules out a shotgun blast.
http://www.wlwt.com/news/-It-s-a-sad-day-a-very-sad-day-Father-attends-first-Rhoden-funeral/39268156
Pheasant, May 9, 2016
just my 2 cents - I think if they were swapping tags also, to cover up - it might rise to the level of "intent to defraud the state of revenue". This may give LE a little more leeway in getting more search warrants. A stolen car is a crime against one person, but a criminal enterprise to defraud the state? Opens a lot more doors(and resources) to request searching in other areas I would think. JMOJMOJMO
Pheasant said: ↑
ETA: I would say that almost completely rules out a shotgun blast.
Thanks, I see where GR was open casket, but what about KR?
Goes to show, I guess, that we'd all react differently (if, that is, we could even predict in advance how we would react under such horrifying circumstances). Hard to fault someone, then, for not reacting exactly as we would.
zoomom said: ↑
just my 2 cents - I think if they were swapping tags also, to cover up - it might rise to the level of "intent to defraud the state of revenue". This may give LE a little more leeway in getting more search warrants. A stolen car is a crime against one person, but a criminal enterprise to defraud the state? Opens a lot more doors I would think. JMOJMOJMO
Hmmm that may also explain LM's issue in his first interview regarding his son's truck being towed. He mentioned it had something to do with plates iirc.
My mistake...I can't find anything in MSM that discusses the 6 way funeral as open or closed casket.
mrssmith23 Active Member
I would say it could solidify GR wasn't taken out by a 12 gauge.. Maybe. Supposedly he was shot 3 times in the head though? And they had open casket? - Either way, this isn't about KR's funeral.
The 12 gauge was just a speculation anyway. I was more so meaning that a single gun shot wound could vary in gore depending on what type of gun/caliber was used. I don't have anything to lead me to believe anyone was shot by a 12 gauge. Just stating the differences in injury would vary greatly. One instance of "blood everywhere" with a "single gun shot wound to the head" could have been due to a larger caliber. JMO. More for just explanation on how it could be possible with one wound.
mrssmith23, May 9, 2016
LilBird New Member
I don't recall what newspaper, but when the funeral director spoke for an interview, I got the impression that they were all open casket.
LilBird, May 9, 2016
I would say it could solidify GR wasn't taken out by a 12 gauge.. Maybe. Supposedly he was shot 3 times in the head though? And they had open casket?
The 12 gauge was just a speculation anyway. I was more so meaning that a single gun shot wound could vary in gore depending on what type of gun/caliber was used. I don't have anything to lead me to believe anyone was shot by a 12 gauge. Just stating the differences in injury would vary greatly.
Yes, I know you were speculating... I'm thinking we could maybe rule out a larger caliber weapon for KR if there was an open casket for him as well...
But then again just because there was a closed casket ceremony doesn't necessarily mean a smaller caliber...
IDK, again anything is possible at this point.
Grasping at anything and everything since we have no real updates.
Yeah, I can't either...
LilBird said: ↑
Assuming you are referring to when the funeral director said that he can't make them look alive, but he can make them look as good as he can. (Something to that affect.)
That doesn't always necessarily mean it's open casket for all. Sometimes families have a private viewing session where they are able to see the bodies but it could have been closed for public. JMO.
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Special Coverage Civic Election 2014
Morantz edges Duncan in Charleswood-Tuxedo
Posted: 10/22/2014 9:36 PM | Comments:
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For the second time in as many elections, voters in Winnipeg’s wealthiest ward have chosen a new councillor from a large field of relatively unknown commodities.
The new councillor for Charleswood-Tuxedo is accomplished lawyer and real estate investor Marty Morantz.
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Marty Morantz
With 6,281 votes, he defeated second-place Evan Duncan by nearly 500 votes.
"I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet," said Morantz. His biggest concern as a new city councillor "is the sad state of crumbling roads and other city-owned assets." In his ward, he said he wants to extend the William Clement Parkway to ease traffic on residential streets.
Morantz, who ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate for River Heights in the 2011 election, said he’s going to place his lucrative legal and real-estate work on hold in order to put his talents to work solving Winnipeg’s infrastructure and governance problems.
It was a tight race, with five candidates - each with educational and professional achievements - vying for the sprawling and conservative southwest Winnipeg ward. Morantz fills the council seat vacated by Paula Havixbeck who ran unsuccessfully for mayor.
Havixbeck became the councillor for Charleswood-Tuxedo after winning a seven-candidate race to succeed 27-year city council veteran Bill Clement following his death in 2010.
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Iran woman reportedly faces death by stoning
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Tehran, Iran – An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning may soon be executed according to her attorney. As reported by the Associated Press (AP), the delayed execution of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who was convicted of adultery, may occur soon due to an end to a death sentence moratorium called for in observance of Ramadan. Ashtiani was also reportedly given 99 lashes after being mistakenly identified as a woman shown in a newspaper as having her head uncovered.
Javid Houtan Kian, an attorney for Ashtiani, is quoted by the AP as stating of the case, “The possibility of stoning still exists, any moment…Her stoning sentence was only delayed; it has not been lifted yet.”
Ashtiani, a mother of two, was convicted on the adultery charges in 2006.
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Hugdahl K. Auditory hallucinations: A review of the ERC “VOICE” project. World J Psychiatr 2015; 5(2): 193-209
Kenneth Hugdahl, Professor, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Jonas Lies vei 91, 5009 Bergen, Norway. hugdahl@psybp.uib.no
Auditory hallucinations: A review of the ERC “VOICE” project
Jun 22, 2015 (publication date) through Jan 19, 2020
World J Psychiatr. Jun 22, 2015; 5(2): 193-209
Published online Jun 22, 2015. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v5.i2.193
Auditory hallucinations: A review of the ERC “VOICE” project
Kenneth Hugdahl
Kenneth Hugdahl, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, 5009 Bergen, Norway
Kenneth Hugdahl, Division of Psychiatry, and Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital, 5021 Bergen, Norway
Kenneth Hugdahl, NORMENT Center of Excellence, University of Bergen, 5009 Bergen, Norway
Kenneth Hugdahl, K G Jebsen Center for Neuropsychiatric Disorders, University of Bergen, 5009 Bergen, Norway
Author contributions: Hugdahl K solely contributed to this paper.
Supported by European Research Council Advanced Grant, No. #249516; Research Council of Norway FRIBIOMED Grant, No. 807696; and SFF Grant, No. 222373.
Conflict-of-interest: The author declares no conflict-of-interest.
Correspondence to: Kenneth Hugdahl, Professor, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Jonas Lies vei 91, 5009 Bergen, Norway. hugdahl@psybp.uib.no
Telephone: +47-55-586277
Received: September 19, 2014
Peer-review started: September 20, 2014
First decision: October 14, 2014
Article in press: April 14, 2015
In this invited review I provide a selective overview of recent research on brain mechanisms and cognitive processes involved in auditory hallucinations. The review is focused on research carried out in the “VOICE” ERC Advanced Grant Project, funded by the European Research Council, but I also review and discuss the literature in general. Auditory hallucinations are suggested to be perceptual phenomena, with a neuronal origin in the speech perception areas in the temporal lobe. The phenomenology of auditory hallucinations is conceptualized along three domains, or dimensions; a perceptual dimension, experienced as someone speaking to the patient; a cognitive dimension, experienced as an inability to inhibit, or ignore the voices, and an emotional dimension, experienced as the “voices” having primarily a negative, or sinister, emotional tone. I will review cognitive, imaging, and neurochemistry data related to these dimensions, primarily the first two. The reviewed data are summarized in a model that sees auditory hallucinations as initiated from temporal lobe neuronal hyper-activation that draws attentional focus inward, and which is not inhibited due to frontal lobe hypo-activation. It is further suggested that this is maintained through abnormal glutamate and possibly gamma-amino-butyric-acid transmitter mediation, which could point towards new pathways for pharmacological treatment. A final section discusses new methods of acquiring quantitative data on the phenomenology and subjective experience of auditory hallucination that goes beyond standard interview questionnaires, by suggesting an iPhone/iPod app.
Key Words: Auditory verbal hallucinations, Perception, Executive functions, Brain imaging, Glutamate, Gamma-amino-butyric-acid, Schizophrenia
Core tip: Auditory hallucinations represent a major symptom in schizophrenia, and the present article reviews recent research with a focus on cognitive and brain markers. Auditory hallucinations are described in a neurocognitive model that sees such experiences as initiated from temporal lobe hyper-activation, not inhibited due to frontal lobe hypo-activation. It is proposed that these patterns of brain activation are mediated by abnormalities of the neurotransmitter glutamate. A new way of collecting symptom data on-line is suggested, based on iPhone app-technology.
Citation: Hugdahl K. Auditory hallucinations: A review of the ERC “VOICE” project. World J Psychiatr 2015; 5(2): 193-209
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v5.i2.193
The research presented in this article was funded by an ERC Advanced Grant “VOICE” to Kenneth Hugdahl, and is thus a selective review. In this sense, this is not a formal review of the literature, nor a formal comparison of findings in the literature at large. The ERC “VOICE” project has also been reviewed in a conference proceedings volume from the 16th Conference for Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, Golden Sands, Bulgaria, Edited by Stoyvanov D and to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Ltd. Schizophrenia is one of the most severe mental disorders, causing lifelong distress and social handicaps. The disorder is recognized as a leading cause of morbidity both globally and in particular in the Western world, and ranks as one of the most costly disorders that affect humans[1].
A key symptom in schizophrenia is auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), i.e., the experience of “hearing voices” in the absence of an external auditory source. AVHs occur in 70%-80% of patients with schizophrenia and often produce distress, functional disability, and behavioral dys-control[2,3]. In some cases, hallucinations may also pose a threat to the patient or his/her family members, and even to society, if they the form of “hearing voices” commanding the patient to commit unwanted behaviors or acts[4].
SCHIZOPHRENIA AND AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS
Because of the heterogeneity of the diagnostic phenotype of schizophrenia, which so far has escaped specification of underlying neuronal and molecular explanations[5,6], the ERC “VOICE” project has suggested an alternative approach by focusing on a single symptom, rather than on the diagnostic category itself[7]. There are several advantages with such an approach. First of all, by definition, it will reduce heterogeneity by increasing signal to noise ratio, since a symptoms is less heterogeneous than the diagnostic category as such. Second, it will better allow for the pursuit of explanations “upwards” to the clinical level of explanation and “downwards” to the neurobiological level of explanation since the symptom is closer to both the upward diagnosis and the downward neurobiological markers. Third, it will better allow for characterizations at the individual level, since symptoms can be (and typically are) quantified through the use of various symptom scales, like the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS)[8] and Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms/Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SANS/SAPS)[9], while a diagnosis cannot be and typically is not quantified. This means that parametric relationships can be obtained between, e.g., degrees of cognitive impairment and scores on a specific symptom scale item, which is not possible for a diagnostic category. A fourth advantage is that a single symptom could also serve as an endophenotype, which can add to the genetic understanding of the broader phenotype of schizophrenia. At the brain level of explanation, a corresponding parametric relationship could be predicted for, e.g., intensity of neuronal activation in a defined cluster of voxels and a symptom score, which could also be conducted in a parametric way for single symptoms, but not for a single diagnosis. I here disregard the identification of sub-diagnoses within a diagnostic category as seen in, e.g., the DSM classification system, since such a procedure is still categorical and would not allow for the identification of parametric relationships to other domains, like cognition or pathophysiology. Fifth, unraveling the mechanisms involved in a single (or a few) key symptom(s) may provide a novel way of developing new symptom-specific treatment procedures, both pharmacological and non-pharmacological[10]. Sixth, since some of the symptoms seen in schizophrenia are also shared with non-psychotic individuals in the general population[11-13], studying auditory hallucinations and “hearing voices” respectively, will open for the possibility of specific symptoms as continuous dimensions rather than discrete categories[6,14].
AVHs
AVHs are the most characteristic symptom of schizophrenia and psychosis, and they “define” the disorder from a clinical and phenomenological point of view. Clinically, what drains the patient both cognitively, emotionally, and physically is the ongoing “dialogue” and typically negative comments and commands from the “voice”, which recruits almost all available cognitive resources[7,15,16], and with the resulting typical signs of reality disorientation, and inward attentional focus[17]. From a phenomenological point of view, AVHs are characterized by a limited set of core features; the experience is auditory in nature, with a distinct perceptual quality of “hearing a voice”. It is true that some schizophrenia patients may experience visual, olfactory or kinesthetic hallucinations, but such instances are rare and may actually be part of other symptoms, not sharing explanations with the experience of hearing voices. The “voice” is typically localized outside of the head[18,19], although recent research has shown that hearing the “voice” as coming from the inside is more common than previously believed[4]. The “voices” also typically have negative emotional valence[20,21], which is in addition experienced as controlling the patient[7,22], revealing a lack of executive cognitive power by the patient.
AVHs and a dimensional approach to mental disorders
From a cognitive and neurobiological point of view, there is an emerging literature showing a likewise emerging picture of symptom specificity when it comes to AVHs[19,23,24]. Experiences of AVHs should therefore be an ideal target for research from a dimensional point of view since recent studies have identified that about 4%-5% of the general population experience “hearing voices”[11-13], also when excluding previous mental health problems, medication, drug use, and other potentially confounding factors in this group of individuals. Thus, by studying the phenomenology, cognition and neurobiology of healthy “voice hearers” in the same experimental context as patients with auditory hallucinations, and comparing with non-hearing, non-psychotic control subjects, it should be possible to map commonalities and differences across several dimensions[6,14]. In this sense, non-clinical “voice-hearers” may constitute a theoretically important third group, the “missing link” between clinical and non-clinical individuals who experience AVHs. Observing similarities and differences at cognitive and neuroimaging levels of explanation between such a third group and clinical AVHs may provide invaluable data for unraveling the underlying cognitive and neuronal mechanisms for the understanding of AVHs. Cuthbert and Insel[6] have elegantly reviewed the National Institute of Health (NIH), United States, initiative to find new ways of conceptualizing and classifying mental disorders as dimensional, rather than categorical illnesses. With this was meant that the aim is to find new ways of understanding mental disorders, and providing new avenues for treatment, that are based on dimensions of empirically observable behavior and recordings of neuronal activity. Cuthbert and Insel[6] provide a set of criteria that could aid researchers to identify dimensions of symptom-like behaviors including cognitive, emotional, and social dimensions that can be analyzed from the molecular to the clinical level of explanation (see also[1]). Badcock and Hugdahl[14] have applied these criteria to the understanding of AVHs from a dimensional point of view, focusing on the cognitive construct of inhibition, and the lack of inhibitory power that characterizes patients suffering from frequent and severe AVHs. The theoretical approach used by Badcock and Hugdahl[14] is a first attempt to apply the new NIH criteria to the understanding of a specific symptom.
THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF AVHs
AVHs are phenomenologically speaking a conviction that other individuals are talking to the patient despite the absence of an external auditory signal[8,15,16,18]. AVHs therefore have a different sensory quality than illusions, which are perceptual misinterpretations of an actual perceptual experience, although in some instances AVHs can take on an illusory quality, as when patients report that the “voices” they experience started as “hearing sounds” that over time develop into “voice” hallucinations. AVHs are often described as “misperception of inner experiences and thoughts”[25] or as “misattribution of speech”[26], or as “internally generated events that are interpreted as being externally generated”[27], further attesting to a speech perceptual nature of how AVHs are experienced phenomenologically by the patient (see also[7]). Other characteristics of AVHs are that the quality of the voice is often negative and condemnatory, and that it is out of the patients’ control; in fact, many patients subjectively report that they “feel controlled by the voice”. To this list should also be added an attentional dimension, and that AVHs have a profound influence on the patients’ attentional capacity, with attention being drawn towards the “voices”, with a corresponding loss of attentional awareness of the outer world. This inward attentional focus has been the target for different cognitive therapy approaches (see[28,29]), trying to train the patient to re-allocate attentional focus from the inner imaginary “voices” to the outer real voices. Thus, the subjective and phenomenological experiences of AVHs are that they: (1) are perceptual phenomena experienced as not belonging to one’s self, irrespective of whether they are perceived as coming from the outside or the inside of the head; (2) typically have a negative emotional valence consisting of sinister comments and commands; and (3) that they are out of volitional control[30,31]. In addition, some patients also struggle with not complying with the commands given by the “voice”, and this is what they sometimes experience as the most frightening and anxiety provoking aspect of having AVH experiences - that they would have to commit acts that they do not want to commit[32]. It may also be of interest to note the Bleuler in his 1911 book recognized these three dimensions in his writings where he writes about “voices” speaking to the patient, take the patient’s thought away, and that threats or curses are common contents.
This also points to an emerging new research area; the cognitive and neurobiological aspects of patients failing to withstand the commands of the “voice” and who commit tragic acts with traumatic consequences[33]. This is an area unfortunately much neglected in hallucination research, and may shed important light on other aspects of AVHs and schizophrenia in general. McCarthy-Jones et al[4] used a structured interview scale with questions about a variety of content dimensions of AVHs in order to describe in detail the phenomenology of AVHs in a relatively large sample of almost 200 patients. Items entered into the analysis were questions on duration, location and frequency, as well as questions related to past memories, gender, family relationship with the “voice”, first, second or third person, and emotional content. The results showed a more complex relationship between the various domains or dimensions than previously acknowledged, which raises the question of whether AVHs should phenomenologically speaking be divided into sub-types with their own core characteristics. For example, the results showed that the localization of the “voices” as coming either from inside or outside of the head was about 50%, while command “voices” like “Did the voices ever tell you what to do” accounted for 67% of positive answers from patients[4]. This finding attests to the saliency of commands and threats as part of the phenomenology of AVHs.
THEORETICAL MODEL OF AVHs
Probably the most influential model for the understanding of AVHs in schizophrenia is the suggestion by Frith et al[34-36] that AVHs are caused by a failure to adequately monitor and label verbal thoughts as coming from the inside rather than from the outside of the patient’s head, often called an “inner speech” model. In addition to an inner speech model, it has been suggested[14,21] on the basis of the negative emotional content of AVHs that they may represent misinterpreted recall of strong emotional and traumatic memories that would act like intrusions, and that are mislabeled as coming from the outer world (see[8] for detailed overview over and discussion of theoretical models of AVH). However, as pointed out by Jones[8] (see also[7]), neither model fulfills the criteria of encompassing the full phenomenology of AVHs, common to all patients. Since both patients with auditory hallucinations and healthy individuals “hearing voices” subjectively report experiencing someone “speaking to them”, not that they “speak to the voice” (although they may be engaged in a later dialogue with the “voice”), it seems that a perceptual model would better fit the actual phenomenology of “hearing voices” than a speech production model.
This is supported in a review by David et al[37] on AVHs which concluded that more than two thirds of patients with AVHs subjectively report that the “voice” is speaking in a different accent than their own, which is difficult to conceive of in an inner speech model. Electrophysiological and brain imaging data also show a pattern of responding more in congruence with a perceptual view, with recorded activity in temporal lobe speech perception areas[38-41]. In a recent review and meta-analysis, Jardri et al[18] moreover concluded that most studies support a view of aberrant speech perception as the core phenomenology of an AVH, and with a neuronal focus in the peri-Sylvian region in the auditory cortex (see also[7,42-45]. A speech perception view does however not exclude a speech production model. An inner speech model states that AVHs are related to a deficit in monitoring of one’s own inner dialogue and thoughts, which then also includes a perceptual component in the monitoring aspect. What is different between the models is that a perceptual model gives rise to specific hypotheses about a neuronal origin in the speech perception areas in the upper posterior part of the temporal lobe, and primarily on the left side, while an inner speech model is less specific about a neuronal focus, (see however[12] who found activation in the right inferior frontal gyrus).
Similarly, since only about 10%-20% of the “voices” that patients experience “hearing” are about actual memories and previous experiences[46], it is difficult to reconcile this with a memory model for auditory hallucinations. It is however true that in some cases when the voices are very intrusive and threatening to the patient, there seems to be a correlation with previous trauma and sexual abuse and positive symptoms, like AVHs[47,48]. However, although there is no unique link between traumatic experiences and psychotic disorders, several studies have found a relationship between psychotic symptoms, including AVHs, and childhood trauma from sexual abuse as well as from having experienced increasing violence in war zones[48,49]. Such experiences are however not unique to causing AVH, since they more often lead to anxiety disorders, like PTSD. Furthermore, traumatic memories as causes of auditory hallucinations cannot explain the experience of benevolent voices, e.g., when patients experience “listening to angels”. If anything, the content of such hallucinations should be related to the trauma or abuse event if based on memories, which does not the fit their non-traumatic content. Also, as for inner speech models, memories need to be interpreted and “translated” into a perceptual experience in order to be congruent with what patients actually report, and this again points towards a perceptual basis for auditory hallucinations. To this should be added the characteristic perceptual quality of the “voice”, which is typically experienced as a real person speaking with distinct perceptual qualities like accent, emotional valence, and timbre, as if in direct interpersonal communication[8].
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR A PERCEPTUAL DIMENSION
Hugdahl et al[50] used a dichotic listening task with simultaneous presentations of brief speech sounds consisting of a single vowel and a consonant, so called consonant-vowel syllables. One syllable is presented to the right ear and another simultaneously to the left ear. This is a common procedure used in research on laterality and hemispheric asymmetry to investigate left hemisphere preference for speech sound perception. The result is typically a preference for reporting the right ear over the left ear syllable, reflecting a left hemisphere perceptual preference and processing of speech stimuli[51,52]. Hugdahl et al[50] predicted that AVHs would interfere with the processing of an external speech sound if a perceptual model is correct, and that the interference would increase with more frequent and severe AVHs. The authors therefore correlated the score on the hallucination item in the PANSS symptom scale with the right ear advantage in the dichotic listening task, predicting a negative correlation. The results confirmed the prediction with a significant negative correlation with the hallucination item, not found when a corresponding correlation was calculated for a negative PANSS symptom (see also[53,54]).
The notion that the magnitude of the right ear advantage in hallucinations would reflect the degree to which AVHs interfere with the perception and subsequent processing of an external auditory stimulus was further pursued by Ocklenburg et al[55] who conducted a meta-analysis of dichotic listening studies involving schizophrenia patients and in particular hallucinating patients. The total sample in the meta-analysis consisted of 700 patients and 700 healthy controls. The results showed that the patients had significantly reduced right ear advantage compared to controls (effect-size approximately 0.25) and that this was exaggerated when comparing patients with AVHs and healthy controls (effect-size 0.45). This is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 Graphic illustration of the meta-analysis done by Ocklenburg et al[55] on the relationship between the right-ear advantage in dichotic listening and schizophrenia (A), and between right-ear advantage and hallucinations (B). Reprinted with permission from the authors and the publisher.
NEURONAL CORRELATES
Structural imaging
Ever since the pioneering work by Johnstone et al[56] which showed that schizophrenia patients had reduced grey matter volume compared to healthy controls, the use of magnetic resonance (MR) for the study of brain correlates of schizophrenia as a mental disorder (see meta-analysis by[44]), and AVHs in particular (see meta-analysis by[41,44]), has been a major research topic, using both structural and functional MR measures[57]. The fact that temporal and frontal lobe brain areas are implicated in auditory hallucinations has been repeatedly shown in functional and structural imaging studies. Using a voxel-based-morphometry (VBM) analysis method, Gaser et al[58] reported already in 2004 a reduction of grey matter in the left superior temporal gyrus and auditory cortex in hallucinating patients. This finding was followed by Neckelmann et al[59] who found a similar pattern, and in addition reported reductions in the frontal lobe, thalamus, and basal ganglia (Figure 2).
Figure 2 Structural magnetic resonance imaging, using Voxel-Based-Morphometry analysis of grey matter density in the brains of patients with frequent (PANSS P3 > 3), and infrequent (PANSS P3 < 4) hallucinations, shown in sagittal, coronal and axial slices. Data from Neckelmann et al[59] redrawn with permission of the authors and the publisher.
These results have later been strengthened by the results of a meta-analysis by Modinos et al[44] who concluded that: “Severity of AVHs was significantly associated with GMV reductions in the left and marginally with the right STG, including Heschl’s gyrus” (p. 1046).
Frontal and temporal lobe grey matter reductions in schizophrenia patients have often been related to positive symptoms in general, and not only with AVHs[60-62] (see also[63] for review). It should be noted however, that in a very recent study by van Tol et al[45], grey matter reduction in the superior temporal gyrus was significantly reduced in both frequent and infrequent AVH patients compared to healthy controls, while reduction in the parahippocampal region was unique to AVH patients only. This could lend support to an intrusive memory account of AVHs[21,64], while at the same time weakening a speech perceptual model since temporal lobe area reductions did not differ between AVH and non-AVH patients. However, such a conclusion may be premature, since the results do not disprove that AVHs are related to temporal lobe pathology, but only say that this may be a more general characteristic of schizophrenia.
With regard to white matter changes and abnormalities in the brains of AVH patients, this is less known compared to grey matter abnormalities. Allen and Modinos[63] reviewed the white matter literature, based on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and fractional anisotropy (FA) which is an index of the difference in flow of water molecules along vs across axonal fibers. In general, these studies have shown both increased and decreased FA values in patients with schizophrenia, in particular for connections between anterior and posterior brain regions. Interestingly, schizophrenia patients experiencing AVHs show increased connectivity between frontal and temporal/parietal areas[65] which could be a white matter structural correlate to the verbal nature of AVHs.
Functional imaging has likewise revealed temporal and frontal lobe abnormalities in patients with frequent AVHs[12,38-40,66,67]. See also[19,23] for meta-analyses, and[26] for an overview of both functional and structural imaging studies on AVHs. Thus, an understanding of the neuronal circuitry underlying AVHs is emerging, with new evidence coming from cognitive, behavioral, and brain imaging studies (see[26,68,69] for reviews). When reviewing the literature on functional imaging and AVHs, a distinction has to be made between “state” and “trait” studies. With “state” is meant studies that have compared patients during hallucination episodes with non-hallucination episodes while in the scanner, which may or may not be compared with healthy controls, and may or may not include the presentation of external stimuli. Patients typically indicate with a button-press or similar when they experience AVHs in the course of the scanning. With “trait” is meant that patients have been screened for frequency and severity of AVHs with typical symptom interview scales, like the PANSS, before the scanning, such that it is known in advance which patients could be labelled AVH-patients, and which could be labelled non-AVH-patients. Patients are then compared with healthy controls, typically in a paradigm with external stimuli, although this is not a requirement.
Resting-state brain activation
Northoff et al[70] suggested, after reviewing the literature, that AVHs may represent resting-state neuronal hyperactivity in the default-mode cortical network[71], a kind of spontaneous neuronal firing especially in the auditory areas, during AVHs in the absence of an external auditory stimulus. Northoff et al[70] summarized their review by stating that: “the findings suggest that the resting state activity in especially the anterior medial cortical regions is abnormally increased as indicated by the observations of ... increased connectivity, and increased low-frequency fluctuations in schizophrenic patients.” (p. 206).
Increased spontaneous activation in regions associated with the default-mode network may then interfere with processing of external speech, or an auditory stimulus, causing a kind of neuronal interference, i.e., the internally generated neuronal activity during episodes of AVH interferes with the processing of an external stimulus. This is illustrated in Figure 3, which also shows in the lower panel a comparison between patients with frequent and severe AVHs and healthy controls in the presence of an auditory stimulus.
Figure 3 Functional imaging results for hallucinating patients based on the meta-analysis done by Kompus et al[24] which show activation in the absence of an external auditory stimulus (upper left panel) compared with healthy controls in the presence of an external auditory stimulus (upper right panel, data from van den Noort et al[117]). The lower left panel shows the same activation as in the upper left panel, spontaneous activation in hallucinating patients in the absence of an external auditory stimulus, but now compared with absence of activation in hallucinating patients in the presence of an auditory stimulus. Color-coded areas indicate significantly activated brain regions during active hallucinations and task-processing. Reprinted and redrawn with permission from the authors and the publishers.
Neuronal interference was also observed by Hubl et al[72] and Ford et al[38] where the amplitude of the N1-component of the event-related electrophysiology potential to an external auditory stimulus in AVH patients was reduced. Based on these and other studies, (e.g.,[70,73-75]) it is suggested that the evidence show reduced rest-external stimulus interaction in AVHs, caused by failure of modulation of both resting state and stimulus-related activity. This is similar to the suggestion by Hugdahl et al[7] that AVHs may involve: “failure of down-regulation of a resting-state network and corresponding up-regulation of an effort network, thus upsetting the normal functioning of cognitive control mechanisms”. (p. 41).
A paradoxical finding
Empirical evidence from functional neuroimaging studies, both electrophysiological and hemodynamic studies, point in the direction of AVHs being related to abnormal neuronal network architecture and interactions, with increased activation in auditory and speech perception areas in the absence of external auditory stimuli, and reduced activation in the same areas in the presence of external auditory stimuli. Kompus et al[24] labelled this the “paradoxical effect” since it is paradoxical that increased spontaneous activation in AVH patients in the absence of an auditory stimulus is not further increased when an auditory stimulus is actually presented, as if the perceptual system is “shut down”. A major question is of course why this paradoxical effect occurs in the first place.
Northoff et al[70] suggested that the reduced resting-stimulus network interaction is the result of a mislabeling process where the abnormal processes that have occurred in the auditory cortex in AVH patients cause the patient to register an internally generated event as if it was an external stimulus, similar to faulty monitoring and labelling of an inner speech event as coming from the outside[35,36]. Similarly, Kompus et al[24] suggested that the paradoxical effect of reduced activation to an external auditory stimulus in the auditory cortex in AVH patients would fit a model of abnormal interaction between cortical networks, with too high activation in the default-mode network during episodes of external stimulus processing, causing neuronal interference[76], or resource competition[60].
Kompus et al[24] further discussed if this could be an attentional effect, in addition to a sensory processing effect, such that reduced activation to an external stimulus is caused by a failure to allocate attentional resources to an external source in the course of a hallucinatory episode. That schizophrenia patients are impaired on neuropsychological tests for attention is well-known[77-79], and it has recently also been shown that AVH schizophrenia patients fail to allocate attentional resources to the location of an auditory stimulus[23]. Thus, it is possible that the paradoxical effect seen in the meta-analysis by Kompus et al[24] is an attentional effect, with the cognitive system being “shut down”. A third explanation is that it is a signal-gating effect, and that an auditory signal is not properly gated from the ear to the temporal lobe, possibly because of an abnormality at the thalamic or hippocampal levels[24], in which case it would be the thalamic system being “shut down”. Several studies have shown that schizophrenia patients show aberrant sensory gating[38,80,81] such that the filtering function of sensory gating, i.e., to filter out irrelevant stimulus noise at the sub-cortical level, with the aim of facilitating attention shifts at the cortical level to relevant aspects of an external stimulus, is impaired. If this mechanism is aberrant, it is not unreasonable to assume that the processing of an external stimulus is hindered by the noise created by the internally generated AVH, which is not inhibited by the incoming stimulus.
FAILURE OF TOP-DOWN INHIBITION
Irrespective of the theoretical model and neuroimaging data supporting either a perceptual model or other models, what may trouble patients the most is the failure to ignore the “voices” when they occur, and to focus on other things happening in their surrounding environment. It is as if the “voices” drain the patient of their cognitive capacity, leaving them in the hands of whatever malevolent comments or commands the “voice” may find it proper to try on. From a clinical point of view, this is probably what troubles, and not the least, scares the patient the most, being unable to control the “voice” and to withstand and ignore what they “say”. This not only confuses the patient but also creates anxiety and fear when struggling not to comply with what the “voice” command. From a theoretical point of view this can be seen as a failure of top-down inhibitory control, or a failure of executive functions as it is typically called in classic neuropsychology[82,83]. Using a variant of the dichotic listening experimental paradigm, the forced-attention paradigm, as described in the perception section above, Hugdahl et al[23] found a negative correlation between scores on the PANSS hallucination item and the ability to shift attention to either side in auditory space (Figure 4).
Figure 4 Correlations between the right and left ear scores on the forced-attention dichotic listening task and scores on the the PANSS P3 Hallucination item. Note the negative correlations for the FR and FL instruction conditions (upper left and lower right), respectively. See text for further explanations. From Hugdahl et al[23], reprinted with permission from the authors and the publisher. ns: Not significant.
The forced-attention dichotic listening task[84,85] is an experimental task that taps non-executive and executive attention in the same paradigm. As discussed above, due to the lateralization of speech sound perception, the right ear stimulus of the dichotic pair will be preferred for processing over the left ear stimulus since it has direct access to the left temporal lobe[51-52,86,87]. As also discussed above, this is called a bottom-up right-ear advantage (REA). The novel aspect of the forced-attention extension of the paradigm is that when the subject is instructed to explicitly attend to and report only from the right ear, this will create a non-executive attentional focus situation, since the bottom-up tendency to process the right ear stimulus acts synergistically with the top-down instruction to attend to the same ear, which results in a larger REA. When the subject is instructed to attend to and report only from the left ear, the brain faces a cognitive conflict where the bottom-up and top-down processes are opposed to each other, and act non-synergistically. The conflict requires executive control resources, and the cognitively strong right ear stimulus has to be inhibited and the cognitively weak left ear stimulus has to be facilitated. Most healthy adults can overcome the bottom-up tendency and report the left ear stimulus of the dichotic pair, showing a left-ear advantage (LEA). The finding of a negative correlation between PANSS score for the hallucination item and the magnitude of the REA in the situation with attention focused on the left ear that was reported by Hugdahl et al[23] would then be evidence for a parametric inverse relationship between frequency and severity of AVHs and the ability to execute cognitive control.
Although the inability to suppress and inhibit the “voice” is a prominent feature of AVHs clinically, there are surprisingly few studies that have explicitly looked at the relationship between executive functions in general, and inhibition in particular, and AVHs. Executive functions in AVHs were reviewed by Waters et al[21], in particular in relation to what these authors called failure of “intentional cognitive inhibition”, which is the inability to voluntarily monitor and inhibit intrusive thoughts. Such thoughts may be intrusive fragments from memory that are not inhibited and are then mislabeled as coming from the outer world in the form of someone speaking to the patient. Cognitive inhibition has been decomposed into different sub-components and sub-processes, voluntary vs involuntary inhibition[88], where the latter is the process of ignoring something without being aware of the process of doing it. Miyake et al[89] have proposed that inhibition in executive functions is related to the suppression of pre-potent responses and response-tendencies, which in addition requires the ability to shift attention set after inhibition. Applied to AVHs, it can now be suggested that the “voices” are intrusive and pre-potent thoughts that are not voluntarily inhibited and that take on an autonomous role once they are initiated and enter into the patients’ awareness.
The failure of cognitive inhibition in AVH patients may have a neuronal localization in the frontal lobes, and a corresponding prefrontal inhibitory abnormality. Executive function and inhibition have been linked to the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in several studies, ranging from the early positron emission tomography (PET) studies by Pardo et al[90] with the Stroop task to later studies with fMRI using various auditory and visual tasks (see[24,91]). Thus, the prefrontal cortex and the ACC are areas critically involved in cognitive control and executive functions, and these regions have repeatedly been shown to be affected in patients with schizophrenia (see[26,92] for reviews).
LEARNING TO IGNORE THE “VOICES”
Failure of attention and executive control in AVH patients may also be the starting point for novel cognitive training attempts. Cognitive behavior therapy for schizophrenia and auditory hallucinations has long been directed towards giving the patient the skills necessary to voluntarily inhibit and shift attention away from the “voice” (see[28,93]). Recent approaches to cognitive therapy have been more focused on specific training procedures, rather than inducing a therapeutic change of strategy. Thus, a distinction can be made between treatments which in the case of schizophrenia will mean abolishing symptoms, therapies inducing new strategies on how to cope with stressful situations, and training which is specifically aimed at handling a single event, or symptom. We have developed an iPod/iPhone app[94] based on the dichotic listening paradigm, described above, as a tool to learn how to inhibit and ignore the “voice”, also to be used in social situations, like riding on a bus, or being in other social situations, which can be used “there-and-then” whenever the patient feels the urge to have help in withstanding the “voice”. Preliminary results from 15 patients show some promising effects that warrant further research on the use of app-technology for training and learning new mental skills in patients with schizophrenia.
THE ERC “VOICE” MODEL
The results from the ERC project have provided the empirical input to a model that is graphically shown in Figure 5 (the model is also presented in[7]).
Figure 5 The ERC “VOICE” model showing impaired processing in a suggested pre-frontal and temporal lobe neuronal network, due to hyper-activation of temporal lobe regions, including the auditory cortex, which is not inhibited due to impairment of pre-frontal executive inhibitory functions. See text for further explanations. Redrawn from Hugdahl et al[7], with permission from the authors and the Publisher.
The purpose of proposing the model was to advance our understanding of the neuronal underpinnings of AVHs from the perceptual, attentional and cognitive control domains that have been reviewed and discussed above. The model derives from an assumption of the existence of two cognitive networks, or systems; one that acts as a bottom-up system that primarily responds to stimulus features, and consists of perceptual and sensory processes, and another top-down system that responds primarily to the cognitive demands of the situation. The model further assumes that the bottom-up system is responsible for the actual initiation of AVHs, driven by neuronal hyper-excitation in the temporal lobes, while the top-down system is responsible for the maintenance of AVHs, and in particular failure of inhibition and attentional focus, localized to frontal and parietal lobe areas. As discussed above, AVHs are seen as the product of an abnormality in both the bottom-up and top-down systems characterized by hyper-activation of the bottom-up system, and hypo-activation of the top-down system, as illustrated in Figure 5. AVHs are therefore not inhibited once they occur because of impaired functioning of the prefrontal cortex. Finally, the model assumes that parietal lobe areas are activated for the direction of attentional focus towards the voices, and are also not inhibited through impaired frontal lobe executive and cognitive control functions. As also discussed above, the “VOICE” model will generate new hypotheses not only for the understanding of the underlying neuronal mechanisms for AVHs but can also contribute to novel hypotheses regarding cognitive training and learning of how to inhibit and ignore the “voice”, by teaching the patient how to re-allocate attention away from the inner “voice” and towards real outer voices. From the networks outlined in the “VOICE” model, it is possible to derive the underlying cortical network representations by applying advanced connectivity analysis approaches to functional neuroimaging data, thus advancing our current understanding of the underlying mechanisms in a hypothesis-driven manner. The model moreover suggests new avenues that go beyond existing paradigms and methods, and move to the lower levels of explanation from the cognitive and imaging levels by asking questions about which neurotransmitters and receptors may be involved in the neuropathology. This is a new avenue in AVH research, and knowledge about transmitters and receptors may provide the inspiration for new pharmacological treatments. The “VOICE” model will also cover non-clinical individuals with AVHs, i.e., individuals in the general population who share the experience of “hearing voices” but who are not clinically handicapped by their experiences[11]. A major difference between clinical and non-clinical AVH individuals is intact attentional top-down cognitive control of the “voices” in non-clinical individuals, coupled with intact frontal lobe functioning and increased activation in these regions[95,96]. Another difference between clinical and non-clinical individuals who experience AVHs is that the former lack a meta-cognitive understanding of the subjectivity of their experience and to a higher degree ascribes the experience to external factors.
THE NEUROCHEMISTRY OF AVHs
MR spectroscopy and glutamate/gamma-amino-butyric-acid interactions
A question that is seldom asked in the AVH literature is what transmitters and receptors may be causing or contributing to the neuronal activation abnormalities seen in AVH patients and reviewed above (see however[57]). We do not know what triggers an AVH at the cellular level, causing the subjective experience of perceiving a “voice” in the absence of an external stimulus. To answer this it is necessary to move down to the receptor and transmitter levels of explanation. The meta-analysis by Kompus et al[24], (see also[18]), revealed that areas in the posterior left temporal and right frontal lobes were hyper-excited during spontaneous AVHs, and at the same time hypo-excited to an external speech sound, when compared with healthy control subjects. Thus, AVHs seems to produce a neuronal paradox in the sense that the same brain areas that fire uncontrollably at the initiation of AVHs at the same time are refractory to the presentation of an external speech sound. Kompus et al[24] called this a “paradox” since one would expect activation in the auditory and speech perception regions in the absence of an auditory stimulus would actually be increased when an external stimulus is presented in addition. The spontaneous increase in neuronal activity in the auditory cortex in AVH patients was also recently shown by Homan et al[97] who found that cerebral blood flow was higher in this area in AVH patients, and remained so also after treatment with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Homan et al[97] suggested that increased blood flow may be a trait-marker of AVHs, which was also suggested by Kühn et al[98]. It is now suggested that the paradox could be explained by the differential actions of gamma-amino-butyric-acid (GABA) interneurons that produce hyper-excitation in the first case and hypo-excitation in the second case.
This can be empirically addressed through MR spectroscopy (MRS) to measure and quantify regional concentrations of brain metabolites, such as glutamate, which is excitatory and GABA, which is inhibitory. MRS thus allows for in vivo measurements of transmitter concentrations in patients which solves the problem of exclusive reliance on animal models. MRS allows for the near-simultaneous recording and quantification of both glutamate and GABA levels, and also other relevant metabolites, like N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA), choline, and creatine[99,100]. By adding an MRS sequence of 5-10 min to the fMRI sequence, it will therefore be possible not only to measure and quantify concentrations of glutamate and GABA in the hallucinating brain but also to correlate MRS metabolite concentrations in selected voxels with other clinical, cognitive and imaging data. A typical MR spectrum is shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6 Example of a printout of the typical peak spectra from an MR spectroscopy sequence applied to a single voxel. Selected metabolites are indicated with respective acronym. Glu: Glutamate; Gln: Glutamine; Glx: Glutamate + Glutamine; GABA: Gamma-amino-butyric-acid; Cre: Creatine; Chln: Choline; NAA: N-acetyl-aspartate. From Hugdahl et al[111], reprinted with permission from the authors and the publisher.
Glutamate and schizophrenia symptoms
Glutamate is suggested to have an effect on positive symptoms associated with schizophrenia through balancing sub-cortical dopamine release (see[10,101] for overviews). The classic pathway for the involvement of glutamate in schizophrenia and in the regulation of positive symptoms is that reduced cortical glutamate levels, and/or dysfunctional N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, hypo-activate GABA interneurons, which leaves striatal dopamine release uninhibited, resulting in dopamine excess in the schizophrenia brain[102]. The finding of reduced glutamate levels in schizophrenia patients would fit with a number of other studies which show that when healthy individuals are given ketamin and phencyclidin (PCP), which are drugs that act as NMDA receptor antagonists[103,104], they show signs and symptoms of a psychosis. The possible relationship between glutamate reduction and dopamine was described by Carlsson et al[105] such that prefrontal glutamate release will result in activation of GABA interneurons to balance too high levels of glutamate, which will also have an inhibitory effect on striatal dopamine release (see also[101]). When glutamate levels fall below critical levels or when GABA receptors are dysfunctional, GABA interneurons will consequently be hypo-activated and dopamine release will be correspondingly uninhibited. This will result in excess dopamine, and in particular dopamine D2-receptor activity, producing positive psychotic symptoms. It should be pointed out, however, that a more recent article concluded after reviewing the schizophrenia literature, with both decreases and increases of dopamine, particularly in frontal regions[106].
Interestingly there were no studies comparing glutamate levels in patients and controls in temporal regions in the Poels et al[106] review, which leaves the question of abnormal glutamate regulation in the auditory and speech perception areas currently unanswered. Falkenberg et al[107] moreover found a positive correlation between fMRI activation and glutamate in the anterior cingulate region in schizophrenia patients, while there was a corresponding negative correlation in control subjects. Falkenberg et al[107] also found that decreased glutamate levels were associated with impaired executive control functioning when the patients were tested on a cognitive control task[108]. It should be noted that the healthy control subjects did not show an association between task performance and glutamate levels. Thus, glutamate seems to be specifically involved in mediating frontal lobe executive functioning in schizophrenia patients, who also perform below the controls on this task. The study by Falkenberg et al[107] again raises the question as to whether glutamate levels are increased or decreased in temporal lobe areas, and whether patients with frequent AVHs differ from patients with less frequent AVHs.
Temporal lobe glutamate levels and AVHs - preliminary results
The only data, to my knowledge, on the role of transmitters in AVHs are from the study by Homan et al[97] who found that levels of NAA differed between patients and healthy controls, and a positive correlation between NAA levels and the frequency of positive symptoms (see however[109]). Again the MRS voxel placements were in the frontal lobes, and therefore it is not known what role glutamate may play for the frequency and severity of AVHs when measured in the temporal lobes. As argued above, an increase in temporal lobe glutamate levels may be predicted to go along with increased AVH frequency, considering the neuroimaging data which have shown increased activity in both hemodynamic and electrophysiology studies[18,24,49,110], although as for other brain metabolites that have been studied in schizophrenia patients, both increases and decreases could be expected. Hugdahl et al[111] recorded glutamate levels from four voxels, in the left and right auditory cortex, overlapping with Heschl’s gyrus and in the left and right prefrontal cortex in the superior frontal gyrus. Symptom frequency and severity were quantified from the PANSS interview scale[8]. The results showed first of all that schizophrenia patients had reduced glutamate levels compared to the healthy controls, which would be predicted from previous studies (e.g.,[63,112,113]). Second, patients with a high symptom load for the AVH item in the PANSS had significantly higher glutamate level in both temporal and frontal lobe areas, thus for the first time demonstrating increased glutamate levels in these regions. The results were moreover specific for the AVH symptom when compared with the emotional withdrawal negative symptom. Figure 7 shows the relationship between AVH and glutamate levels in the temporal lobe. The glutamate data in Figure 7 are pooled for the right and left temporal lobes, with a voxel placement in the upper posterior portion, overlapping with Heschl’s gyrus. The data are presented as correlations between mean glutamate levels in the voxel areas and PANSS AVH item scores, as well as for the sum total of all PANSS positive item scores, also including the AVH item (data re-plotted from Hugdahl et al[111]).
Figure 7 Scatter-plots of the correlations between scores on the PANSS P3 Hallucination item and Glutamate levels from a temporal lobe voxel, and between the sum total of positive symptoms and Glutamate levels from the same voxel. P3_Hallu: Score for the PANSS hallucination item; POSITTOT: Sum total of positive symptoms; Glu: Glutamate.
The results reported above thus extend the findings reported in Homan et al[97] who found altered levels of NAA in AVH patients, by showing that altered levels of brain metabolites in AVH patients are also related to glutamate. This may be a significant novel finding since NAA is involved in the metabolism of NAA-glutamate[114]. Thus, the two metabolites are functionally overlapping, and both could therefore be expected to be elevated in a state of neuronal hyper-excitation, as in auditory hallucinations.
The relevance of the findings by Hugdahl et al[111] is substantiated by the fact that while most studies have found reduced levels in schizophrenia patients in general[63], the same holds for NAA, which is also typically reduced in schizophrenia in general[115], but increased in hallucinating patients[110]. The demonstration that auditory hallucinations may be mediated by excessive glutamate levels in the same brain regions that have been previously implicated from fMRI studies is a finding that may have implications for new treatment targets and the development of new drugs that are tailored to counteract the experience of hearing voices rather than acting on the schizophrenia disorder as such. The MRS findings reported in Hugdahl et al[111] would also support a dimensional view advocated by[6] specifically targeting alterations in brain metabolites related to specific symptoms rather than to the schizophrenia disorder as such (see also[14]).
NEW WAYS OF SAMPLING SYMPTOM DATA IN REAL-TIME
The introduction of smartphone app technology
Data on frequency and intensity of auditory hallucinations are typically obtained from scores on a single item in structured interview scales, where the PANSS[8] is a commonly used scale. As previously mentioned, data on hallucinations are entered as a number between 1 and 7, with 1 = low frequency or non-existent, while 7 = high frequency. There is however a number of non-optimal and confounding factors with such interview scale data that may obscure the true frequency and variability over time on an individual basis. Data are obtained in a single, or few, sessions, typically in an artificial office environment, data are aggregated across several sub-symptom dimensions, processes, and verbal responses, and interpreted by the clinician before entering a score on the questionnaire. Questionnaire data are also by necessity retrospective in the sense that the patient is asked to recall past events, e.g., whether they have had unusual or uncommon experiences lately, or whether they sometimes hear voices inside their head that others cannot hear, what these voices tell the patient, how often they hear them etc. Thus, there is a fairly long “distance” from the phenomenological experience in the patient’s mind, and the data that the researchers are provided with and use for statistical analyses have therefore been filtered through several intermediate steps from the patient to the researchers. There is thus a pertinent problem of how to bridge, or shorten, the distance from the phenomenology of a personal experience to a score on the analysis computer. Our research group at the University of Bergen, Norway, has recently suggested the use of smartphone technology for acquisition of real-time data on cognitive and clinical parameters as well as for cognitive training to inhibit the “voice”, as previously discussed (e.g.,[94]).
The idea is that the patient is equipped with an iPhone or iPod and after opening the app is confronted with a series of question shown on the display that will tap the three major dimensions in auditory hallucinations, a perceptual dimension (do the voices come from outside or inside the head), a cognitive dimension (does the patient have full or no control over the voices), and an emotional dimension (are the voices negative or positive). In addition there are questions about frequency and intensity of the “voice”. The patient responds to each question by moving the finger-slider from left (inside the head, no control, emotionally negative) to the right (outside the head, full control, positive) of the display, and the distance is then quantified in centiles.
There are several advantages with an app-approach to symptom data sampling: (1) data will be patient-driven, rather than therapist-driven; (2) data will be acquired in real-time, and data acquisition can be repeated over and over again during day, either at fixed or pre-determined intervals, or whenever the patient feels a necessity to enter data; (3) data will better reflect the “ebb and flow” of symptoms; and (4) this will allow examination of temporal relationships between variables with a short “life-cycle”, not possible with standard interview questionnaires. A final advantage is also that an iPhone app will have high ecological validity in the sense that a patient going through these questions when, e.g., sitting on a bus, will not stand out in any way. He or she will instead look like most other young people who listen to music or play games on their iPhones while on a bus, or elsewhere in today's digitized society. Figure 8 shows an example of a prototype display with the three dimensions shown in the display.
Figure 8 iPhone app for the sampling of real-time data on the three dimensions of auditory verbal hallucinations, cognitive control (upper slider), emotional content (middle slider), and perceptual locus (lower slider), developed by the ERC “VOICE” Group at the University of Bergen, Norway. See text for further explanations.
UNSOLVED ISSUES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
I have reviewed the current literature on the phenomenology, neuroimaging, and neurochemistry of AVHs. In particular the neuroimaging data, both structural and functional neuroimaging, support a view of AVHs as perceptual misrepresentations, caused by neuronal hyper-activation that results in a phenomenological experience as “someone speaking to the patient” despite the absence of an external auditory source for such an experience. In that respect AVHs are like perceiving sounds that do not exist. It is however quite conceivable that the phenomenological experience of a sensory event is caused by misinterpretations of inner speech and covert monologues, triggered by intrusive traumatic memories, which are two alternative models for the explanation of AVHs. Localization of the neuronal correlates of AVHs in the temporal lobes cannot however explain other cognitive aspects of AVHs, like the failure to cognitively inhibit and ignore the “voices”, and focus attention to the outer world rather than inwards and engaging in a running commentary and dialogue with the “voice”. The cognitive aspects of AVHs have been shown to implicate frontal and parietal brain regions, and a model is presented which sees AVHs as initiated by temporal lobe hyper-activation, not controlled due to frontal lobe hypo-activation in a cortical network. Despite the huge literature on AVHs, there are still unresolved issues and questions. One pertinent question is what cognitive and neuronal processes give the hallucination a negative emotional tone, which should be the focus for future research. One hypothesis is that the amygdala may play a critical role in the emotional flavoring of AVHs. Another unsolved issue is the possibility of a genetic predisposition for AVHs, orthogonal to genetic predisposition for schizophrenia in general (see[116] for an update on genetic factors in schizophrenia). The fact that AVHs also occur in the general population in individuals not in need of clinical care[11-12,96] provides a background against which it could be predicted that AVHs could be related to a genetic pathway orthogonal to genetic susceptibility for schizophrenia. These issues should be explored in future research, hopefully also in larger samples than has been the case so far.
The author wishes to express his thanks to all colleagues and students that have contributed to the research, too many to mention all.
P- Reviewer: Chakrabarti S, Gazdag G, Maniglio R, Serafini G, Schweiger U S- Editor: Ji FF L- Editor: A E- Editor: Yan JL
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First Alert: strong to severe storms possible Saturday
While severe weather is possible, not everyone will experience a severe thunderstorm
Taylor's 10am Severe Weather Update
By Eric Jeansonne, Wesley Williams, Carrie Duncan, and Taylor Graham | January 5, 2020 at 7:09 PM CST - Updated January 11 at 12:26 PM
SOUTH MISSISSIPPI (WLOX) - The WLOX First Alert Weather Team has issued an Alert Day on Saturday for the risk of severe weather. Alert Days are issued when it would be a good idea to stay weather aware and make sure you have ways to receive weather alerts should they be issued for your area.
The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) maintains an enhanced risk for severe weather over a large region for Saturday, including the 6 southern counties of south MS. These outlooks are not intensity forecasts. They do not convey how “bad” or “strong” storms will be. They simply show the probability of seeing a severe storm within 25 miles of your location.
SPC Outlook 1/11/20 (Source: WLOX)
By definition, a severe thunderstorm is one that can produce winds in excess of 58 mph, hail up to or larger than an inch in diameter, and/or tornadoes. Timing still looks like the 9 AM-3 PM frame on Saturday 1.11.20. It’s possible the line of thunderstorms may not move into south MS until after 11 AM.
Severe Weather Risks (Source: WLOX)
Not everyone will see severe weather. Most will see gusty winds and heavy rain. A few will see severe thunderstorms. There are some indications that the most intense storms that can produce long-tracked tornadoes (strong tornadoes that can stay on the ground for a long time) may be further north into the Pine Belt, but there are enough ingredients for a few severe storms on the coast that could be capable of producing a tornado. A Tornado Watch is in effect for Pearl River and Hancock County until noon. A Tornado Watch is in effect for Stone, Harrison, Jackson and George County until 4 PM.
Tornado Watch Saturday 1/11/20 (Source: WLOX)
Strong Storms Possible Saturday (Source: WLOX)
It will become drier by Saturday evening as a cold front arrives. And it should stay dry on Sunday. But, a warm front on Sunday night into Monday will bring more showers. And this front could stall across our region next week, keeping us under a somewhat wet pattern for next Tuesday and Wednesday. Then, a cold front next Thursday could bring a few more showers and cooler temperatures for the end of next week.
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Eric Jeansonne
Eric Jeansonne knew he wanted to be a meteorologist as early as five-years-old when Hurricane Andrew tracked through his home state of Louisiana.
Wesley Williams
Wesley is your Gulf Coast guy. Born and raised in New Orleans, schooled in Meteorology in Mobile, Wesley has lived in almost every Gulf Coast state, except Florida.
Carrie Duncan
Carrie Duncan grew up in Starkville, where she went to high school and college. Throughout her career, she has worked hurricanes and other tropical weather.
From an early age, Taylor had a fascination with people that predicted the weather. She knew in elementary school that she wanted to become a meteorologist. Growing up in Elizabethtown, KY, she was able to experience everything from snow and ice to severe storms.
Chilly and breezy for Sunday
Thanks to a cold front, it’s much cooler today! Highs will be in the low to mid 50s this afternoon. The cloud cover will gradually clear out. It will be breezy with a northerly wind at 10-20 MPH.
Forecasted Pearl River crest lowered by half foot
Jacob Gallant
Fog free Friday
Front approaching
Fog lifting
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Family says their Whirlpool refrigerator exploded inside their home
Updated: 10:37 PM EST Dec 30, 2018
Mihajlo Maricic / EyeEm SOURCE: Mihajlo Maricic / EyeEm
A Florida family has many questions after their new refrigerator exploded inside their home over the weekend.Mark Ligondie said he woke up to a bang on Saturday.Only a frame of the fridge was left after the explosion, WPTV reported. The force of the blast was so strong that it damaged several rooms of the West Palm Beach home, cracking the ceiling and nearby walls, causing damage to a door and breaking a window.“It expanded and expanded so much it bent the metal of the stove,” Ligondie told WPTV.The explosion was so loud that a neighbor heard the noise and ran inside the home to help the family.No one was hurt in the incident."Whirlpool is committed to providing safe products for consumers. We are working quickly to look into this incident,” the company said in a statement to WPTV.The family said their Whirlpool refrigerator was about 4 months old.
A Florida family has many questions after their new refrigerator exploded inside their home over the weekend.
Mark Ligondie said he woke up to a bang on Saturday.
Large 'bang' in man's house turned out to be sound of his fridge exploding
Only a frame of the fridge was left after the explosion, WPTV reported. The force of the blast was so strong that it damaged several rooms of the West Palm Beach home, cracking the ceiling and nearby walls, causing damage to a door and breaking a window.
“It expanded and expanded so much it bent the metal of the stove,” Ligondie told WPTV.
The explosion was so loud that a neighbor heard the noise and ran inside the home to help the family.
No one was hurt in the incident.
"Whirlpool is committed to providing safe products for consumers. We are working quickly to look into this incident,” the company said in a statement to WPTV.
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SEOUL- South Korea’s Constitutional Court said on Thursday a law criminalizing abortion was unconstitutional, a landmark ruling that will overturn a ban on abortion that had been in place since 1953.
The court said in a statement the outright ban on abortion, as well as a law that made doctors who conduct abortions with the woman’s consent liable to criminal charges, were both unconstitutional.
However, the court said the current law would remain in effect until the end of next year, after which it will be scrapped.
The court had previously upheld the abortion law in 2012 in a closely divided decision, dividing the eight justices evenly.
“The law criminalizing a woman who undergoes abortion of her own will goes beyond the minimum needed to achieve the legislative purpose and limits the right of self-determination of the woman who has become pregnant,” the court said in its ruling.
South Korea’s ban on abortion dates from 1953, when the country’s criminal law was first enacted after the 1950-1953 Korean War, and had not changed materially since.
The law states that a woman who undergoes abortion will serve a prison sentence of one year or less, or pay a fine of 2 million won ($1,756.08) or less.
The law also states that medical professionals including doctors who engage in abortion at the request of the woman will serve a prison sentence of two years or less, and have their license suspended for seven years.
There are exemptions, with current law allowing abortions within 24 weeks of becoming pregnant for medical purposes such as a hereditary disease or the pregnancy causing grave danger to the health of the mother, or in the case of pregnancy through rape.
“If the case does not fall under an exemption, the law forces the pregnant woman to maintain the pregnancy completely and uniformly without exception even in cases where there are circumstances causing conflicts about abortion due to diverse, widespread societal and economic reasons,” the court said.
The court’s ruling reflects the trend toward decriminalizing abortion, as the number of actual cases where abortion was criminally punished had been falling.
Only eight new cases of illegal abortion were prosecuted in 2017, down from 24 in 2016, according to South Korean judicial data. Out of the 14 abortion cases that were decided in lower courts in 2017, 10 postponed a ruling on condition that no crime be committed for a certain period.
The number of abortions in South Korea has been dropping as well, with the estimated number of abortions among women aged 15 to 44 at 49,764 in 2017, down from 342,433 in 2005 and 168,738 in 2010, due to increased use of birth control and a drop in the total number of women aged 15-44, according to Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs.
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Is ProFunds UltraSmall-Cap Inv (UAPIX) a Strong Mutual Fund Pick Right Now?
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There are plenty of choices in the Small Cap Blend category, but where should you start your research? Well, one fund that might be worth investigating is ProFunds UltraSmall-Cap Investor (UAPIX - Free Report) . UAPIX possesses a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank of 1 (Strong Buy), which is based on nine forecasting factors like size, cost, and past performance.
UAPIX is one of many Small Cap Blend funds to choose from. Small Cap Blend mutual funds allow investors a way to diversify their funds among various types of small-cap stocks. These funds seek companies with market capitalization of less than $2 billion, and aid in reducing volatility inherent in lower market cap stocks.
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UAPIX is a part of the ProFunds family of funds, a company based out of Columbus, OH. Since ProFunds UltraSmall-Cap Investor made its debut in February of 2000, UAPIX has garnered more than $90.05 million in assets. The fund is currently managed by Rachel Ames who has been in charge of the fund since October of 2013.
Investors naturally seek funds with strong performance. This fund in particular has delivered a 5-year annualized total return of 25.05%, and it sits in the top third among its category peers. But if you are looking for a shorter time frame, it is also worth looking at its 3-year annualized total return of 15.16%, which places it in the top third during this time-frame.
When looking at a fund's performance, it is also important to note the standard deviation of the returns. The lower the standard deviation, the less volatility the fund experiences. The standard deviation of UAPIX over the past three years is 28.54% compared to the category average of 13.91%. The fund's standard deviation over the past 5 years is 28.18% compared to the category average of 13.31%. This makes the fund more volatile than its peers over the past half-decade.
Investors should always remember the downsides to a potential investment, and this segment carries some risks one should be aware of. UAPIX lost 82.86% in the most recent bear market and underperformed its peer group by 30.42%. This makes the fund a possibly worse choice than its peers during a sliding market environment.
Nevertheless, investors should also note that the fund has a 5-year beta of 2.36, which means it is hypothetically more volatile than the market at large. Alpha is an additional metric to take into consideration, since it represents a portfolio's performance on a risk-adjusted basis relative to a benchmark, which in this case, is the S&P 500. Over the past 5 years, the fund has a negative alpha of -7.52. This means that managers in this portfolio find it difficult to pick securities that generate better-than-benchmark returns.
As competition heats up in the mutual fund market, costs become increasingly important. Compared to its otherwise identical counterpart, a low-cost product will be an outperformer, all other things being equal. Thus, taking a closer look at cost-related metrics is vital for investors. In terms of fees, UAPIX is a no load fund. It has an expense ratio of 1.50% compared to the category average of 1.15%. So, UAPIX is actually more expensive than its peers from a cost perspective.
This fund requires a minimum initial investment of $15,000, while there is no minimum for each subsequent investment.
Overall, ProFunds UltraSmall-Cap Investor UAPIX has a high Zacks Mutual Fund rank, and in conjunction with its comparatively strong performance, worse downside risk, and higher fees, ProFunds UltraSmall-Cap Investor UAPIX looks like a good potential choice for investors right now.
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Library systems and groups can apply to be a YAShot outreach partner, receiving free authors visits for local schools. Just drop us a line at ya@yashot.co.uk to discuss! All you need is good working relationships with local schools, or an interest in building these.
YA Shot funds its own outreach programme, providing free author workshops and talks to public libraries so that they can invite in local schools (with priority going to disadvantaged schools) to foster a love of reading, inspire a passion for writing, and encourage aspirations to careers in the Arts. We so proud to be able to support our amazing library systems in the face of the terrible continuing cuts to libraries across the UK. Read our Guardian articles about setting up our outreach programme here and here.
Long silently recognised as vital to children’s development, empirical evidence about the importance of reading for pleasure is now mounting. It has been shown to enhance all areas of educational achievement and development, as well as empathy, social skills and social engagement. Author visits are increasingly regarded as critical to the success of both public and school libraries’ efforts to inspire a love of reading.
The Society of Authors’ recent survey concluded that “99.4% (all those who had organised an author visit) considered author visits to be an invaluable enrichment that encouraged reading for pleasure, wider reading and creative writing. Visits are described as having ‘a profound and lasting impact’. All pupils were positively engaged including (and particularly) reluctant readers and those with Special Educational Needs.”
However, with cuts to library funding in schools and the public sector, author visits are a luxury that only some can afford – but often it’s those schools and students most in need who don’t have access. YA Shot unites authors determined to help to fill that gap and simultaneously support libraries.
Up to 2019, our outreach work paired one school and one local library, with the libraries identifying the schools most in need and then inviting them to appropriate events at local libraries. Authors donate the time for the events, while YA Shot paid their expenses and, where possible, provided two free copies of the author’s latest book (one for the host library and one for the attending school).
We changed up our methods in 2019/2020 to focus on Schools Days – one-day programmes of multiple events aimed at bringing a range of authors to one central library/community venue for all interested local schools to visit. Our partner was Southend Libraries and we delivered a Primary Schools Day (25th June 2019) featuring Jane Elson, Jennifer Killick and Mitch Johnson, and a Secondary Schools Day (27th June) featuring Antonia Honeywell, Phyllida Shrimpton and Steve Tasane. Each Schools Day catered for up to 300 children from 4+ schools. Both days were run by our fabulous interns Victoria Ellis, Hannah Wilson and Helena Keeble.
Our library-system partners for 2018/2019 were Lambeth (London) and Gloucestershire. We’re delighted to again be working with another partner outside London, offering free author visits to a new group of schools and young people. Lambeth was a library system we’d contacted in previous years as, like our 2016/2017 partner Sunderland, they were one of the library systems worst hit by cuts at that point. We’ve been delighted to continue our work with the help of these two brilliant groups of libraries, catering to a range of local schools.
Our library-system partners for 2016/2017 were Haringey (London) and Sunderland. Haringey was our very first applicant and their enthusiasm for working with YA Shot- and the clear groundwork that we could see would let them take full advantage of the LSP – made them an easy choice. As a relatively small library system, we had space within the programme for a second partner so we reached out specifically to the four library systems that, at the time, had suffered the most swingeing cuts – and were elated when Sutherland got back to us with an application. Our 2016/2017 LSP partners are the perfect fit for the YA Shot ethos – full of passion and enthusiasm for working to bring author events to young people.
We started our outreach work in Hillingdon, home of the YAShot Festival, providing free author visits to a range of local schools and libraries. We also trialled the concept of full days of outreach events in Hillingdon, with a Secondary Schools Day in 2017 and a Primary Schools Day in 2018.
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Patriotism in Britain reduces with each generation
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Young British people are very unlikely to be strongly patriotic – but patriotism in Germany is significantly lower
Britain may briefly have felt patriotic in 2012, when Jubilee parties and the London Olympics stirred a dormant pride, but even in the past decade there’s been a significant drop in patriotism, and when YouGov tested the nation on the 'Life in the UK' exam that all aspiring immigrants must pass to gain citizenship, 51% of young people failed.
A recent YouGov survey reveals the scale that patriotism is waning in Britain. British people may become more patriotic as they grow older, but 18-24 year-olds are so much less as likely than over-60s to be 'very' patriotic (15% compared to 49%) that even if a significant proportion of the younger generation turn proud in their old age, this cohort will still be considerably less patriotic than today's older generation.
The survey was also conducted in 9 other countries across four continents. Compared to the two main superpower nations – America and China – where 49% and 48% respectively say they are ‘very’ patriotic, Britain is trailing. Here the figure is 32%.
But in comparison to Germany, where history has weakened the appeal of national pride and patriotism has become associated with the far-right (the Pegida movement stands for "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West"), Britain seems positively patriotic. In Germany, only 9% say they are very patriotic.
The most patriotic nation surveyed is Thailand (58% say they are very patriotic), where the popular king is seen as a stabilising force in a politically fractured society. Thailand’s current government, instated in a 2014 military coup, has offered citizens free haircuts and cinema tickets to a nationalist film. It is illegal to criticise the king in Thailand.
Most of the countries surveyed have similar levels of mild patriotism – the proportions choosing 'slightly' patriotic fall within an 11 point range of the average (35%) – and most countries are unlikely to say they are not at all patriotic. Actual non-patriotism (choosing 'not very' or 'not at all' patriotic), however, is relatively high in other Asia-Pacific nations.
The surveys were carried out by YouGov UK, YouGov Germany, YouGov America and YouGov Asia Pacific. Asia-Pac surveys representative of online populations.
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