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Old pal returned to UK in shock at our unhealthy outlook on life
Rachel Moore's oldest friend was surprised she didn't take any supplements when they met up after 23 years recently
Rachel Moore welcomed an old friend back to the UK who was amazed at how little we care about our health
My oldest friend rocked up for a flying visit from New Zealand last week en route to a conference in Germany.
We hadn't met for 13 years. She looked absolutely incredible. Glowing and barely older than our inseparable teenage years, and the same svelte size 10 when I waved her off 23 years ago to a new life of scientific research on the other side of the world.
At breakfast, she unloaded a clear bag full of capsules to have with her fresh fruit and yoghurt; turmeric, fatty acids, fish oils on to the table. "Supplements you don't get in your diet," she explained, popping a couple.
On our pilgrimage to rummage in TK Maxx, she bought a waterproof running jacket. Sport was never her thing at school. Now, she runs twice a week, sometimes with her 17-year-old twins, and practises pilates. She barely touches alcohol.
A former sunworshipper - I remember her wrapped in woollies in her Lowestoft garden at the first sign of spring sun desperate for a tanned face - she has kept out of the sun for years.
In New Zealand, women over 45 have mammograms every two years, but she insists on screening every year.
I should too, she said. Why wouldn't I? She was surprised that in the UK, women have to wait until they are 50 and are screened only every three years.
Her medical research is in breast cancer. So she should know what to do for the best chances of good health. Her presentation at the conference in Germany was her latest research on a protein that shrinks tumours.
Regular readers know how I've banged on about personal responsibility for our health, to do our small bit to keep ourselves as healthy as we can by diet, exercise and lifestyle to ease the burden on the NHS, and our own longevity and quality of life.
She was an embodiment of how taking hold of our health gives us a fighting chance.
We can't expect to abuse our bodies and then be rescued from its effects by a free magical cure. We have to meet our health halfway.
Practicing what we preach is hard - life would be so dull. Even my friend enjoys cake and the odd glass of wine.
But if we all worked harder to look after ourselves, we wouldn't need as much looking after by a health service buckling under the strain of a rising and ageing population with a plethora of (sometimes) self-inflicted conditions; a health service that could concentrate on those who really need it because they are unlucky to have real health problems rather than those who have, to some extent, brought it on themselves or made it worse.
My friend was surprised that I wasn't more informed, took no supplements under the (mis)apprehension that I absorbed all I needed by a healthy veg and fruit-rich diet and urged me to seek more regular screening for cancers than the NHS offers. If you don't ask, you don't get.
When she left, research was released that only a third of older women in the UK take up all the cancer screenings they are offered.
A third of women over 60 playing Russian roulette with their health by ignoring free screening.
Women are literally risking their lives by negligence. Because they can't be bothered, are embarrassed or just think it's an unnecessary hassle.
But they will be quick to moan and blame the NHS if, later, cancer is detected later and the quick and efficient service and magic cure they believe they deserve from the NHS falls short of their expectation.
The nonchalance and cavalier attitude to our free NHS is staggering.
We all know that the sooner something is detected, the better the result, and the less expensive for a burdened overloaded system. But letters with appointments for screening lie ignored.
Records of more than 3,000 older women in England, found that just 35 per cent had kept up with all three screening programmes - cervical, breast and bowel. The others missed one or two, or all three.
Although almost all women over the age of 60 had been screened for one or more cancers, the research showed that most had failed to take up at least one invitation from the NHS, leaving them at greater risk of death.
Squeamishness or being a bit uncomfortable is a pathetic excuse to swerve the service.
Time and inconvenience are even worse.
Two minutes' discomfort could give you 20 years' more life.
To not bother verges on the criminal.
Evidence that burden on our NHS is making its wheels grind slowly came later last week when we flew to stay with friends in the French Pyrenees.
She suffers from a debilitating condition manageable by drugs but gave up waiting for help from the NHS.
Within the time our friend finally received a specialist appointment from a GP referral in the UK for a debilitating condition, she had been seen, diagnosed, treated and was on medication in the French system and feeling better, all for a 30 Euro fee.
She was happy to take the burden off the system she had paid tax into for decades, but the difference in delivery was stark and illuminates the issues for the rest of us relying on the system.
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Alumni Profiles - Lauren Lonergan Taylor
Lauren Lonergan Taylor spent two decades in the Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice Group in Philadelphia. In 2016, she joined TD Bank, N.A., as the Head of Commercial Lending in the Legal Department. Lauren reflects on her time at Duane Morris and provides insight on the move from lawyer to client.
Lauren Lonergan Taylor
Describe your role at TD Bank, N.A.
As the Head of Commercial Lending in the Legal Department, I lead a talented team that is responsible for providing legal support for all of the Bank’s commercial lending originations, operations, servicing and control matters in the United States. Our team supports the Corporate and Specialty Banking, Regional Commercial Banking and Corporate Products & Services groups. Among other responsibilities, we provide advice to our line of business clients on documenting commercial loan transactions, update and quality control our standard commercial loan document forms, collaborate with our control partners on digesting and implementing regulatory requirements, and evaluate new business products and processes. We endeavor to assist our lines of business with delivering a legendary experience to our customers, while also operating within the Bank’s risk appetite.
What’s different about being a Duane Morris lawyer versus being a Duane Morris client?
As a Duane Morris lawyer, I had the resources to provide comprehensive, exhaustive legal analysis and counsel to clients. In-house lawyers have more limited tools at their disposal and must frequently provide advice on a short turnaround. In many cases, that compels us to simply exercise our best judgment when making recommendations to the business. It’s very beneficial when we can leverage our client relationship with Duane Morris to gut check that judgment. The Bank really values the close relationship that it has with the Firm.
What do you look for in outside legal counsel?
Obviously, we place great importance on quality legal services from reliable and trustworthy counsel. Beyond that baseline, our most effective outside counsel can do the following:
Communicate succinctly. In-house communications are different. They need to be crisp and to the point. Lengthy emails or memos from outside counsel are less useful and we will, in turn, have to distill them in order to convey your advice to our business partners. If it’s absolutely necessary to send something lengthy, include a summary section that highlights the salient points of your advice.
Provide practical advice reflective of business realities. The better you know our business, the more well-informed your advice will be. That means understanding the unique structure, preferences and challenges of the particular area of the Bank that you are servicing. But it also requires an appreciation of how we fit into the larger marketplace and of the pressures on the banking industry as a whole.
Be flexible on billing options. It’s no secret that the billable hour is losing ground as the billing construct of choice. Like most other financial institutions and corporations, we value flexibility and creativity in crafting alternative fee arrangements. When used in the right circumstances, an AFA can provide greater predictability for both the Bank and outside counsel. Additionally, the provision of value-added services is a real boost to the relationship we have with any firm. Sharing guides and sample agreements, offering CLE programs, partnering with us on our diversity and inclusion efforts, etc., all go a long way to strengthening our partnership with outside counsel.
In spring 2017, Lauren and other TD lawyers partnered with Duane Morris lawyers for the firm’s Naturalization Training and Clinic.
How did your time at Duane Morris prepare you for the transition to being in-house?
There is no substitute for excellent work product. It is the foundation of all effective legal support. It even transcends profession. The standard of excellence that I learned to maintain and expect of myself and my colleagues at Duane Morris is still with me. Whether evaluating new language for our form loan documents, providing a risk analysis of a new business initiative or preparing a critical matter summary for our senior executive team, the meticulous work product that is the Duane Morris standard is the same standard that I hold myself to in my current role.
Lauren (with Patricia Hollenbeck, left) received the 2013 Modeling Work-Life Balance Award (now the Margery Reed Professional Excellence Award) from Duane Morris’ Women’s Impact Network for Success.
What is your best memory of working at Duane Morris?
Having spent more than 20 years at Duane Morris, it’s impossible to pick just one. But if I think about all of my “best” memories, they aren’t about the big cases, complex transactions or professional milestones; they are all about the people. From the lawyers to the professional staff to the office support, Duane Morris has a distinctive culture that is comfortable and congenial, with a big personality to boot. I was privileged to work with incredibly gifted lawyers and dedicated staff who also made me laugh—a lot—every day.
What do you enjoy doing when you are not working?
At 18 and 15, our kids are at their busiest, both at school and with extracurricular activities. So not unlike many parents, there is little down time with trying to keep up with them! I was very involved in various organizations and clubs during my time at Villanova Law School, so I really enjoy sitting on the Board of its Alumni Association. Attending board meetings, as well as alumni and student events throughout the year, keeps me well-connected to that community. I am also on the Planning Committee for the National MS Society’s annual walk at Ridley Creek State Park. For more than 20 years, I have helped plan the event and also captained my own Walk team (with an incredible amount of support from many friends at Duane Morris). When there is time left over, you can find me reading my Book Club’s latest selection. And even though my family refers to it as “Wine/Whine Club,” we really do talk about the book!
The Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice Group has a tradition of bringing clients and leaders from the financial industry together to share insight on the state of commercial finance. Lauren frequently participates in these events.
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Ecumenical Bible Week 2017
Ecumenical Bible Week 4th-11th June
“Faith Comes by Hearing the Word of Christ.” (Rom 10:17)
Ecumenical Bible Week 2017 got underway on Sunday evening (June 4). The week long programme of events runs each year from Pentecost to Trinity Sunday and this year there are 23 events with 25 presenters in venues across the Diocese. The theme is ‘Faith comes from hearing the word of Christ’ which honours the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
The week was launched in St Finian’s Lutheran Church in Adelaide Road with a service of Sung Lutheran Vespers. The closing event will take place here also on Sunday next, June 11. Pastor Stephan Arras said it was a great honour for their tiny church to host the events and mark the 500 years of Reformation. He added that the theme of Ecumenical Bible Week 2017 got right to the centre of Martin Luther’s theology.
Pastor Arras also led prayers for the people of London and for all people who fear attacks as well as refugees and those who host them.
Ecumenical Bible Week continues this evening with the Pentecost Schools project involving St Michael’s National School in Ballyfermot and St Laurence’s National School in Chapelizod. A symposium, chaired by Archbishop Michael Jackson, takes place on Friday in the Holy Cross Diocesan Centre on Clonliffe Road, Drumcondra from 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm. The topics are: “The Joint Declaration on Justification: its significance and potential” presented by Prof. Tony Lane and “How should we remember the Reformation?” presented by Prof. Salvador Ryan.
Later on Friday evening, Thinking Allowed, a panel discussion chaired by Philip McKinley, takes place in the Holy Cross Diocesan Centre from 7.30 pm to 9.00 pm. The discussion will be on the topic “Is the Reformation Over?” and panellists include: the Very Revd William Morton
Church of Ireland, Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral; Pastor Nick Park, Evangelical Alliance, Solid Rock Church; Dr Geraldine Smyth OP, Roman Catholic, Adjunct Associate Professor in Irish School of Ecumenics; the Revd Vanessa Wyse Jackson, Methodist Church.
The closing event in the Lutherhaus takes place on Sunday June 11 from 7.30 pm to 9.00 pm and features the BBC 1983 film ‘Martin Luther: Heretic’. The screening will be followed by a reflection and discussion led by Dr Kieran O’Mahony OSA.
In between these core events there will be a myriad of events taking place in local venues in Dublin and Wicklow. The full programme can be found on http://www.bibleweek.ie/
Canon Kieran O’Mahony OSA, Gerard Gallagher, Pastor Stephan Arras, Sr Éibhlís NicUaithuas and the Revd Ken Rue at the launch event for EBW 2017
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Dwarf Campaign
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Chapter 1: Defenders of Dwarvenkind
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Gnoll Campaign: Return to Yeenador
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Brief History of Dwarf Campaign
The campaign was originally developed from July 2003 to November 2004, with Chapter 1 originally released soon after the July 2003 release of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, Chapter 2 on 22 September 2003, Chapter 3 on 15 June 2004 and the campaign file on 14 November 2004. French localization and a voice acted version of Chapter 1 were created in 2005.
Reconstruction of dwarfcampaign.com
This is the reconstructed version of the official website developed by as a nonprofit project of Sound Mind Games (Hyvän mielen pelit ry). The website offers the access to the latest versions of the three chapters of the Dwarf Campaign.
The reconstruction of the Dwarf Campaign website started on 26 October 2015. The new version of the website was published in November 2016. The website was designed and implemented by Jukka Jokelainen under the supervision of Sound Mind Games.
Voice Acted Version
In 2017, Sound Mind Games started a project to acquire voice actors for the whole campaign. The first chapter, which was already voice acted, was enhanced with noise reduction, and voice actors were acquired for Chapters 2 and 3. The project was finished in April 2019, and a fully voice acted version of the campaign was released with several improvements and support for patches 1.29 and 1.30.
Blizzard highlighted Dwarf Campaign on their map highlights page . Dwarf Campaign was the only campaign to receive such an honor.
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You can find Dwarf Campaign in this map archive of Blizzard Entertainment
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An association founded by GG&K, Sound Mind Games is a Finland-based non-profit association that helps people suffering from depression and other mental disorders. Many of them have amazing skills, and in our association, they can participate in exciting projects, in which they can improve their skills further, recover from their illnesses, and finally get jobs in IT, game, and media industries. www.soundmindgames.org
Janne Gustafsson
Campaign Story, Dialogue Scripting, Cinematics, Custom Skins and Icons, and Music Environment Design, Playtesting
Tommi Gustafsson
Campaign Story, Dialogue Scripting, Monster Design, Game Balancing, Custom Scripting, and Playtesting
Mikko Kangas
Campaign Story, Dialogue Scripting and Elaboration, Grammar Check, and Playtesting
We all live in Finland, Europe, and are born in 1976. Janne and Tommi are twins, and we've been friends with Mikko since 1996 when we met him in the military (Finland has compulsory military service for men).
Tommi and Janne have graduated from Helsinki University of Technology (Tommi as Licentiate ja Janne as Doctor of Science in Technology), and Mikko has graduated from Helsinki University as Master of Philosophy in Biology.
If you want to contact us to comment or ask for tips on the campaign, please send us email to [email protected].
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Singer LeToya Luckett appeared on the latest episode of the VH1 reality series T.I. & Tiny: Friends & Family Hustle and spoke about the difficulties of her current pregnancy and revealing she’d suffered a miscarriage about three years ago.
While shopping for baby clothes with her friend Que, Luckett spoke about a hospital visit because of pain that turned out to be “full-blown contractions.”
The soon-to-be mom explained that doctors wanted to run tests to see if she was in pre-labor, which worried her, “especially with what happened last time.” She was already feeling alone because her husband, Tommi, had gone to take his daughter, Madison, to get new clothes for school.
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Toyota 2C
The Toyota 2C is a 2.0 L (1,974 cc, 120.5 cu·in) four-cylinders, four-stroke cycle water-cooled naturally aspirated internal combustion diesel engine, from the Toyota C-family, manufactured by the Toyota Motor Corporation from 1983.
The 2C diesel engine has a cast-iron cylinder block with 86.0 mm (3.39 in) cylinder bores and an 85.0 mm (3.35 in) piston stroke. Compression ratio rating is 23:1. The Toyota 2C engine has a cylinder head with a single overhead camshaft (SOHC) and 2 valves per cylinder (12 in total).
This engine was available in the following modifications:
2C is a longitudinally mounted version. This engine produced 73 PS (54 kW; 72 HP) at 4,700 rpm of horsepower and 132 N·m (13.5 kg·m, 97.3 ft·lb) at 3,000 rpm of torque.
2C-L is a transversely mounted version of the 2C.
2C-E is EFI version of the 2C engine.
2C-T, 2C-TL, 2C-TLC is a turbocherged version. It produces 86 PS (63 kW; 85 HP) at 4,500 rpm of output power and 173 N·m (17.6 kg·m, 127.5 ft·lb) at 2,600 rpm of torque.
2C-TE is a turbocherged version with EFI.
The breakdown of the engine code is as follows:
2 – 2-nd generation engine
C – Engine family
Engine code 2C
Layout Straight-4, vertical
Production 1983-
Displacement 2.0 L, 1,974 cc (120.5 cu in)
Injection pump Mechanical
Power adder None
Horsepower net 2C:: 73 PS (54 kW; 72 HP) at 4,700 rpm
2C-TL: 86 PS (63 kW; 85 HP) at 4,500 rpm
Torque output 2C:: 132 N·m (13.5 kg·m, 97.3 ft·lb) at 3,000 rpm
2C-TL: 173 N·m (17.6 kg·m, 127.5 ft·lb) at 2,600 rpm
Firing order 1-3-4-2
Dimensions (L x H x W): –
The cylinder block is made of cast iron. The crankshaft is supported by 5 bearings. An 86.0 mm (3.39 in) cylinder bore and 85.0 mm (3.35 in) piston stroke give the 2C engine a total of 1974 cc of displacement. Compression ratio rating is 23:1.
Cylinder block alloy Cast-iron
Compression ratio: 23:1
Cylinder bore: 86.0 mm (3.39 in)
Piston stroke: 85.0 mm (3.35 in)
Number of piston rings (compression / oil): 2 / 1
Number of main bearings: 5
Cylinder bore inner diameter: 86.000-86.030 mm (3.3858-3.387 in)
Piston skirt diameter 85.950-85.980 mm (3.3839-3.385 in)
Piston ring end gap: Top 0.270-0.540 mm (0.0106-0.0213 in)
Second 0.250-0.520 mm (0.0098-0.0205 in)
Oil 0.200-0.820 mm (0.0079-0.0323 in)
Piston pin outer diameter 27.000-27.012 mm (1.063-1.0635 in))
Connecting rod small end diameter (standard): 27.011-27.023 mm (1.0634-1.0639 in)
Crankshaft main journal diameter: 56.985-57.000 mm (2.2435-2.2441 in)
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How do low-cost, home-grown school-feeding programmes work? Lessons learned from Malawi
By Devon Jaffe-Urell, Bernard Chigaya, Alexander Mwangonde, Victor Kadzinje, Paul Nguluwe, Edward Joy and Helen Moestue
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Devon Jaffe-Urell is a Research Fellow with Save the Children and a recent graduate of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) with a MSc in Nutrition for Global Health. She previously worked with Save the Children in Rwanda, Haiti and Laos.
Bernard Chigaya is a community development specialist with experience capacity building with communities and in data collection, analysis, transcribing and report writing.
Alexander Kamesu Mwangonde is the School Health and Nutrition Coordinator for Save the Children Malawi. He has substantial in country health; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and community maternal and child health programmes in Malawi.
Victor Kadzinje works for Save the Children Malawi, coordinating a malaria control programme and has great experience in health systems strengthening, delivery and community mobilisation.
Paul Nguluwe works for Save the Children Malawi on malaria control in schools, early childhood development and nutrition. Paul has a broad knowledge and experience in implementing Rights Based Approaches (RBA) with emphasis on issues of gender diversity and human rights.
Edward Joy is a Research Fellow in Nutrition and Sustainability at LSHTM. His research focuses on micronutrient dynamics in agricultural and food systems in countries including Ethiopia and Malawi.
Helen Moestue is a School Health and Nutrition Advisor for Save the Children US, based in Oslo, supporting projects using schools and pre-schools as nutrition platforms. She has an MSc and PhD from LSHTM and previously worked for UNICEF and other agencies on integrated health and protection projects for children.
Location: Zomba, Malawi
What we know: School meal provision is a common mechanism to try to reduce malnutrition rates in children while improve school attendance rates.
What this article adds: In collaboration with Malawi’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and Ministry of Agriculture, Save the Children has piloted a home-grown school-feeding programme in primary schools in southern Malawi since 2015. Currently operational in 17 schools, a community garden provides crops that are prepared by mothers/volunteers and managed by head teachers/parent committees. A small qualitative study perceived costs and benefits of the approach, as well as the feasibility, acceptability and potential sustainability of the programme. The intervention was well received; key informants/focus groups reported positive impacts on child hunger and school attendance when meals were available. However, general food insecurity and drought negatively affected garden outputs and school attendance. Operational challenges that impacted delivery included challenges securing land for gardens, delayed seeds supply, inadequate cooking/feeding equipment, inconsistent training of school committees and poor nutritional quality of school meals. Availability of maize porridge varied in practice (ranging from approximately six weeks to three months rather than all year round) and placed considerable demands on mothers to prepare. Wider learning by Save the Children is underway with other experienced partners in Malawi to examine the feasibility, acceptability and potential sustainability of this approach.
Malawi has one of the highest rates of chronic malnutrition in the world, ranking 73 out of 104 countries on the Global Hunger Index, with 37 per cent of children aged six to 59 months moderately or severely stunted. The Government of Malawi has recently emphasised school meal provision as an important mechanism for both reducing malnutrition rates in children and improving school attendance rates. In particular, home-grown school-feeding programmes (HGSF), which utilise locally produced and purchased foods to link agricultural production with school meal provision, simultaneously support several of Malawi’s national targets for nutrition, food security, education and child development.
School-feeding programmes are currently implemented in Malawi across all regions, with the World Food Programme (WFP) and GIZ as the most prominent actors in the HGSF approach. Growing evidence in country suggests that school-feeding programmes can reduce the prevalence of both stunting and underweight in primary school children, while improving school attendance rates across all grades and reducing food insecurity. However, recent climactic shocks across Malawi, most notably drought conditions, have dramatically affected agricultural production; as a result, 6.7 million people across the country required humanitarian assistance in 2016-17. Effective methods must be identified to mitigate the effects of these shocks and build the resilience of the poorest Malawians to withstand inevitable climatic shocks in future.
The Home-Grown School Feeding programme
The Government of Malawi has emphasised the provision of school meals to learners, particularly via approaches that ensure local community participation in the production, delivery and preparation of school meals. In 2009, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) – along with the Ministries of Health (MoH) and Agriculture (MoA) – established the Department of School Health and Nutrition (DSHN). The ministries also launched a joint National School Health and Nutrition Strategic Plan and guidelines for its implementation through to 2018.
Recently, the Government of Malawi coordinated and integrated various social support programmes through the new Malawi National Social Support Programme II (MNSSP II), which includes the school meals programme. As the custodian of School Health and Nutrition (SHN) policy, the MoEST oversees all HGSF activities, while the MoA and MoH provide technical expertise on farming and nutrition, respectively. As a member of the SHN National Technical Working Group, Save the Children (SC) has collaborated on the development of the MNSSP II; guidelines around best practices are currently under development. At the district level, SC has been collaborating with the DSHN and other departments since beginning its wider sponsorship-funded SHN programming in Zomba in 2008.
Initially introduced in 13 primary schools in Zomba District in 2013/14 and as part of an integrated SHN programme, SC’s HGSF approach has now been scaled up to operate in 17 schools, benefiting approximately 8,600 children. In collaboration with the three ministries, SC aims to continue scaling up the HGSF programme within its impact area. SC and the ministries will then explore the potential of advocating for the scale-up of HGSF in schools nationwide.
Programme approach
SC works directly with school personnel responsible for management of the HGSF programme – namely the head teacher of each school and parent/teacher committees – to provide financial assistance on training, supervision and monitoring. Garden inputs are provided by the MoA; inputs typically include maize seeds to provide the staple porridge, plus either soya or pigeon pea seeds to bolster the meals’ nutritional profile.
The programme centres on a community garden located on or around each school’s campus. Fertile land is identified by the schools themselves and is either rented from or donated by local communities. Under the oversight of head teachers, delegated school staff and parent/teacher committees, crops are grown and harvested communally, stored until the lean season, and finally prepared as the mid-day meal for students by community volunteers. Of note, student participation in the management of school gardens varies by school; some schools utilise the gardens as a staging ground for lessons and practical sessions on agriculture and health, while others do not.
Study methodology
In collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), SC undertook a small qualitative study in 2017 to explore the perceived costs and benefits of the approach, its feasibility, acceptability and potential sustainability. This sponsorship-funded study was undertaken to contribute to SC’s efforts to build evidence on effective programming for children. Nine of the 17 pilot schools were selected to participate in the study through a mix of purposive and random sampling to ensure representation of all seven districts across Zomba. Study participants included male and female students, community and parent committee members engaged in the programme and head teachers. In total, nine focus group discussions and nine key informant interviews were conducted across all sample schools. Additionally, observations were made at each school to assess garden location and size, and kitchen, latrine and crop storage facilities. Interviews were also conducted with local experts in HGSF, including representatives from the government and non-governmental organisation sectors. Thematic analysis was performed to identify key themes; results have been shared and validated with partners at district and national level.
Although the primary objective of the study was an analysis of beneficiaries’ perspectives on the HGSF programme, school visits included qualitative data collection through observations and direct conversations with head teachers. As summarised in Table 1, operational activities at the sample schools varied. Of the nine schools assessed, three had gardens located on campus, while five rented land from local communities and one received community land by donation. Identifying viable land for a garden is the responsibility of school staff and parent/teacher committees; however, beneficiaries cited land issues as a key challenge of the programme as new land often had to be identified each year due to community politics and land scarcity resulting from overpopulation in the region. Notably, liaising with community chiefs was identified as a critical component of the programme’s sustainability in order to garner buy-in and generate community support.
Table 1: Summary of the HGSF programme funded by Save the Children in Southern Malawi
Inputs from the MoA, distributed via SC, included fertiliser and maize seeds, the quantity of which was determined by school size. For instance, a school of approximately 800 students received a one-time delivery of 100kg of fertiliser and 10kg of maize seeds. Pigeon peas or soya seeds were also included in farm inputs; the type of supplemental crop varied by year, based on the Ministry’s selection.
Crop outputs
Although inputs were generally quite uniform across sample schools, crop output generated by the school gardens varied widely and were hugely affected by the droughts and floods of recent years. Outputs from the 2016-17 harvest averaged 23 bags of maize per school, ranging from three to 49 bags. During the 2015-2016 season characterised by drought, outputs ranged from just one to seven bags of maize per school. Production from the supplemental seeds was minimal, with five of nine schools harvesting one to two bags of either pigeon peas or soya. As such, school meals generated by the HGSF programme consisted of maize-based porridge supplemented with peas or soya for these five schools only.
Meal provision
Insufficient garden outputs resulted in fewer meals provided than projected, cited as a critical challenge of the HGSF programme by most beneficiaries interviewed. Although meals were provided during the lean season in an effort to lessen critical food insecurity among communities in the region, schools were able to provide meals for a maximum of four months per year and a minimum of just one week. Outside the HGSF programme, no meals were provided at any of the sample schools. Issues related to school committee organisation and management of the programme contributed to the challenge of consistent meal distribution, as did school capacity for operating the programme throughout the year. Garden management and meal preparation are performed by community volunteers, the majority of whom are women. A recent government mandate to serve all school meals prior to the first class of the day exacerbated the time burden associated with the programme as volunteers had to neglect home duties in order to arrive on campus early in the morning to prepare the porridge.
To bolster school capacity and community ownership of the HGSF programme, SC aimed to provide annual training for each school on operations, garden management and meal preparation techniques. Based on self-report, some respondents had never received training, while others were trained more than once a year. However, several challenges were noted here: firstly, some recipients may have confused SC learning/observational visits with provision of training; secondly, trainings did not always target all committee members at a given school due to funding constraints; and thirdly, turnover among committee members meant replacements tended to miss the annual training. Given the high turnover of school staff and committee members in charge of the programme, more frequent trainings were cited by beneficiaries as an area for improvement. Furthermore, trainings were noted to be lacking in proper hygiene practices, modern agricultural techniques to help sustain drought conditions and porridge preparation in mass quantity.
By programme design, schools erected kitchens on their own; however, only four of the nine sample schools had an established kitchen area at the time of evaluation. Committee members and students contributed kitchenware items to the programme, including pots and cups. Students identified this as a key challenge as bringing cups from home was not possible for many; others experienced negative reactions from parents when cups were lost, broken or stolen.
Programme successes
Increased school attendance/reduced absenteeism
Overall, the HGSF programme was received positively by beneficiaries and other stakeholders alike. Most participants cited increased school enrolment as the primary success of the HGSF programme, noting enhanced student performance as a benefit of efforts to reduce hunger. Head teachers universally noted improved absenteeism following implementation of the programme, with attendance rates fluctuating in accordance with meal provision. Introduction of the HGSF approach generated enthusiasm among community members, primarily due to its impact on school attendance. Several members of various parent/teacher committees noted longer-term results of the programme; as one PTA leader stated, “We were very excited to hear that the school feeding programme was being introduced here. This helped us draw back the children who went into early marriages, to bring them back to school.”
That said, absenteeism was seen by informants to increase in line with at-home food insecurity, thereby reducing positive impacts associated with the HGSF programme. During the 2015-16 drought, lower crop yields were experienced at both home and school gardens. Beneficiaries noted reduced attendance rates during this time as students felt too hungry to attend school or sought jobs as far reaching as Mozambique and South Africa. Evidently, the positive effect on absenteeism was conditional upon a minimum degree of food security in the beneficiary households. Nonetheless, the provision of school meals was often cited as playing a role in reducing food insecurity at home by ensuring that one meal was consumed outside the household. Limited parental contribution to the programme and reliance on food aid were also highlighted as key consequences of volatile weather patterns.
Community sensitisation
Of nine key informant interviews with head teachers, six cited community sensitisation as a method of improving knowledge of and participation in the programme. Direct engagement of village chiefs in the programme was noted as a key driver of the programme’s success. These findings are supported by other studies conducted across sub-Saharan Africa by the World Food Programme (WFP), the Partnership for Child Development and others; sensitisation campaigns to support community involvement and development have supported HGSF interventions as a tool in transitioning to nationally-owned school-feeding programmes. Building community-level capacity has been recognised as critical to strengthening community ownership, which sustainably improves HGSF service provision.
Programme challenges
Study participants cited two key weaknesses of the current approach: insufficient farm inputs, namely seeds, resulting in reduced garden outputs (i.e. maize production), and poor nutritional quality of school meals. Related to this, unstable weather patterns were noted by beneficiaries and experts alike as an external threat to the programme’s success. Parent and committee members felt that their inadequate knowledge base regarding more sustainable, modern agricultural practices inhibited their ability to manage and operate the programme to its full potential. Furthermore, consistent and reliable access to land on which to operate school gardens was cited as a major challenge and clear barrier to the sustainability of the programme.
On a broader scale, differing priorities of the three government ministries involved in the programme created a challenge for the coordination of HGSF implementation. The MoA is inclined to serve the general community rather than a specific focus on schools; in contrast, the MoEST’s mandate is directed towards improving education outcomes over health.
Insufficient farm inputs
The untimely delivery of farm inputs in sync with the growing season was routinely cited as a barrier to community participation in the programme, further reducing the potential for expected production. Specifically, head teachers and committee members at six of nine schools experienced delays in the delivery of seeds and/or fertiliser; late delivery coincided with the onset of the rainy season, which subsequently damaged crops. SC’s role in programme implementation was limited to mobilisation of schools and communities to initiate and manage the programme, with farm inputs selected and provided by the MoA. However, beneficiaries’ negative experience of the quantity, diversity and timing of input delivery was attributed to SC, not to the government. This knowledge gap points to insufficient training of beneficiaries or deficiencies in programme implementation since, per design, the HGSF approach is intended to be community-owned and managed. Thus, receipt of farm inputs – primarily maize seeds in this case – is critical to the functionality and longevity of the programme.
Insufficient land
Challenges in acquiring and sustaining sufficient land for gardens was referenced by beneficiaries at all nine schools. Per programme design, gardens are intended to be located on campus; however, six of nine schools currently rent land from local communities. Barriers to successful garden management and production included theft of seedlings and crops, change in rental agreements and distance from school and community. As highlighted by a member of the MoEST, acquisition of permanent land is a key challenge: “In Zomba to be specific, there are issues to do with land for the schools. At times, they identify a piece of land this year where they can pay and rent, and the next year the owner says, ‘No, I would like to do whatever I want with this land; go find another piece’.”
Time burden
School staff and committees alike noted the time burden associated with managing and operating the HGSF programme. In particular, female community volunteers tasked with preparing the daily porridge were challenged by managing the time required at school with their own tasks at home. Although notably supportive of the programme, some volunteers interviewed highlighted the time associated with managing food preparation as a critical challenge. For instance, insufficient kitchen pots and utensils required volunteers to take turns preparing porridge as stocks were not enough to feed a full student population.
Poor nutritional quality of school meals
Most beneficiaries found the maize-based porridge provided to be of poor nutritional quality; many interviewed felt that improving the programme’s impact would require more nutrient-rich meals. School committee members cited lack of training as a barrier to the provision of more nutritious meals: “Those who prepare the porridge ... need to be trained on how to make a hygienic and nutritious porridge.”
SC’s HGSF approach is a low-cost model with the potential to be a sustainable method of reducing food insecurity and improving educational outcomes. While no cost analysis has been conducted to date, key financial and opportunity costs include training for SC, volunteers’ time for communities, and seeds and fertiliser for government (the latter is already included in the national budget).
However, as detailed, several operational challenges were identified. Based on the findings outlined here, considerations for scale-up or future programmes include the need for more frequent trainings to educate communities on programme management and execution, provide nutrition education and enhance local-level stakeholder collaboration. Efforts to improve nutritional quality of porridge should also be considered, which should inform farm inputs selected for distribution to school gardens. In addition, the number of farm inputs should match enrolment and be delivered in time with the planting/harvest cycle. At a strategic level, successful programme implementation and scale-up require enhanced and streamlined collaboration among partners – including government ministries – from the planning stage.
Going forward, a task force comprising all partners will be established to determine next steps for the HGSF programme, including potential adaptations of the current approach to strengthen nutrition education, utilise more diverse seeds selection as farm inputs and, potentially, a narrower focus on schools with the most capacity to adopt the programme. As SC awaits feedback from the Government, concrete plans for future research are not yet underway; however, a larger quantitative study is necessary to assess the nutritional impact of the programme.
Criteria for success
As an agriculture-based, community-led programme, the HGSF approach is reliant on certain conditions to be successful. As unpacked by this study and experienced by other organisations engaged in HGSF approaches in the Malawi context – principally GIZ – these criteria include:
School access to land for garden and adequate water source, both for irrigation and drinking;
Engaged head teacher, school staff and community members, including community chiefs;
Integration into existing national strategies and social protection systems addressing hunger and malnutrition; and
Ability to complement existing basic health interventions, including sanitation facilities and hygiene approaches.
These findings illustrate that SC’s HGSF approach is well received by beneficiaries and can reduce absenteeism in primary schools. This low-cost, community-based approach is potentially replicable and sustainable. However, continuation and scale-up of the intervention may be inhibited by poor coordination among stakeholders, insufficient capacity of some communities to manage the programme and the impact of volatile weather patterns on crop production. SC is continuing to examine the evidence generated by this study and reaching out to partners and other experienced organisations – including WFP and GIZ – to share and learn from best practices. Addressing these challenges will be critical to the acceptability, sustainability and expansion of the HGSF programme across Zomba and elsewhere in Malawi.
For more information, contact Helen Moestue.
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2. ELIGIBILITY: Open to all global entrants who are 18 or older (the \”Entrant\”). Sponsor, and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, distributors, retailers, sales representatives, advertising and promotion agencies and each of their respective officers, directors and employees (the \”Promotion Entities\”), are ineligible to enter the Sweepstakes or win a prize. Household Members and Immediate Family Members of such individuals are also not eligible to enter or win. “Household Members” shall mean those people who share the same residence at least three months a year. “Immediate Family Members” shall mean parents, step-parents, legal guardians, children, step-children, siblings, step-siblings, or spouses. This Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited or restricted by law.
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Prizes: 2020 Rallon M-Team with Shimano XT/XTR build with custom paint rolling ENVE M730 wheels and cockpit (approximate retail value or “ARV”: $10,000 USD)
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4. HOW TO ENTER: Enter the Sweepstakes during the Promotion Period by completing the form on the landing page or send your entry along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to ENVE Composites cc: Orbea Rallon + ENVE Sweepstakes at 508 W Stockman Way, Ogden UT 84401.
Automated or robotic Entries submitted by individuals or organizations will be disqualified. Internet entry must be made by the Entrant. Any attempt by Entrant to obtain more than the stated number of Entries by using multiple/different email addresses, identities, registrations, logins or any other methods, including, but not limited to, commercial contest/sweepstakes subscription notification and/or entering services, will void Entrant’s Entries and that Entrant may be disqualified. Final eligibility for the award of any prize is subject to eligibility verification as set forth below. All Entries must be posted by the end of the Promotion Period in order to participate. Sponsor’s database clock will be the official timekeeper for this Sweepstakes.
5. WINNER SELECTION: The Winner(s) of the Sweepstakes will be selected in a random drawing from among all eligible Entries received throughout the Promotion Period. The random drawing will be conducted about one week after the Promotion Period by Sponsor or its designated representatives, whose decisions are final. Odds of winning will vary depending on the number of eligible Entries received.
6. WINNER NOTIFICATION: Winner will be notified by email at the email address provided in the Entry Information approximately one week after the random drawing. Potential Winner must accept a prize by email as directed by Sponsor within 48 hours of notification. Sponsor is not responsible for any delay or failure to receive notification for any reason, including inactive email account(s), technical difficulties associated therewith, or Winner’s failure to adequately monitor any email account.
Any winner notification not responded to or returned as undeliverable may result in prize forfeiture. The potential prize winner may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and release of liability, and a Publicity Release (collectively \”the Prize Claim Documents\”). No substitution or transfer of a prize is permitted except by Sponsor.
7. PRIVACY: Any personal information supplied by you will be subject to the privacy policy of the Sponsor posted at https://www.enve.com/en/privacy-policy/ and https://www.orbea.com/gb-en/terms-conditions/. By entering the Sweepstakes, you grant Sponsor permission to share your email address and any other personally identifiable information with the other Sweepstakes Entities for the purpose of administration and prize fulfillment, including use in a publicly available Winners list.
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: Sponsor assumes no responsibility or liability for (a) any incorrect or inaccurate entry information, or for any faulty or failed electronic data transmissions; (b) any unauthorized access to, or theft, destruction or alteration of entries at any point in the operation of this Sweepstakes; (c) any technical malfunction, failure, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or communications line failure, regardless of cause, with regard to any equipment, systems, networks, lines, satellites, servers, camera, computers or providers utilized in any aspect of the operation of the Sweepstakes; (d) inaccessibility or unavailability of any network or wireless service, the Internet or website or any combination thereof; (e) suspended or discontinued Internet, wireless or landline phone service; or (f) any injury or damage to participant’s or to any other person’s computer or mobile device which may be related to or resulting from any attempt to participate in the Sweepstakes or download of any materials in the Sweepstakes.
If, for any reason, the Sweepstakes is not capable of running as planned for reasons which may include without limitation, infection by computer virus, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which may corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Sweepstakes, the Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Sweepstakes in whole or in part. In such event, Sponsor shall immediately suspend all drawings and prize awards, and Sponsor reserves the right to award any remaining prizes (up to the total ARV as set forth in these Official Rules) in a manner deemed fair and equitable by Sponsor. Sponsor and Released Parties shall not have any further liability to any participant in connection with the Sweepstakes.
9. WINNER LIST/OFFICIAL RULES: To obtain a copy of the Winner List or a copy of these Official Rules, send your request along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to ENVE Composites cc: Orbea Rallon + ENVE Sweepstakes at 508 W Stockman Way, Ogden UT 84401. Requests for the names of the winners must be received no later than two weeks after the Promotion Period has ended. For accessing a Winner List online, visit https://www.enve.com/en/lp/win-an-orbea-rallon-outfitted-with-enve/ The winner list will be posted after winner confirmation is complete.
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Brandon Greene, alumnus of both the Junior National Young Leaders Conference and the Junior National Young Leaders Alumni Conference, was inspired to use his leadership skills and knowledge from his JrNYLC experience to make a difference in his school. He created the Anti-Bullying Committee to combat bullying, which soon grew into a community organization, and the name was changed to A Better Community (ABC).
In just a few years, Brandon’s vision grew from a small committee in his former middle school to a community-wide vision extending to his hometown’s high school. Brandon has been recognized locally and nationally for his leadership in bullying prevention. He was appointed to the Burrillville School District’s Anti-Bullying Task Force and, in 2011, Brandon was invited to the White House to meet with President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. He was specifically recognized by the President for displaying such courage and leadership.
We caught up with Brandon to see where he is now, 10 years after attending his first Envision program. Check out his story and what he has accomplished in the past decade!
What are you currently up to since attending JrNYLC and JrNYLC Alumni as an attendee?
Since attending JrNYLC and the Alumni Conference ten years ago, I continued working with A Better Community until I graduated from High School. I was also very involved in organizations around the state and country to promote positive behavior in schools and communities. Nowadays, I have been trying to bring about change politically by volunteering in a number of roles. I have served on campaign staffs and have now risen to chair my town’s democratic party. I see this as my best opportunity to continue to bring about change in my community as an adult.
Where did you attend college and what did you major in?
After graduating High School, I attended Providence College in Rhode Island. I graduated in 2019 with honors while majoring in political science with a business minor and an economics minor.
Do you have more of an idea of what you want your career to be? What is it and your planned next steps?
Shortly after graduating college, I accepted a position as a marketing and communications manager for a non-profit healthcare organization. I accepted a new challenge by taking on the first-ever shared employee between two regional chapters within the bleeding disorders community. I work remotely between two regional chapters in New York City and New England managing both of their social media, marketing, emails, and web components.
What’s going on with A Better Community at this time?
Part of my goal as the creator of this group was to make it sustainable after I left as its leader. I stayed involved with ABC until I graduated from High School, and they have managed to continue their work with a new leadership team. They have evolved into an organization that still tries to promote service and encourage inclusive behavior.
Years after attending JrNYLC and JrNYLC Alumni, what did you learn that you still apply in your daily life now?
Whenever young leaders ask me what I learned from Envision conferences, or which is the most important life skill that I took away, I immediately say goal setting. Life is like driving a car. You can’t get far if you don’t know where you want to go. Goal setting is all about recognizing what you want to accomplish and how you can go about accomplishing it. This can be applied to every aspect of life—whether it be your work as a leader, your education, your career, or personal goals. On my phone, I keep a note page with all of my goals for the year in it. This way, I can have them with me all the time and constantly be reminded of what I want to accomplish.
What made you want to be a speaker at JrNYLC Alumni?
When I first attended JrNYLC, they had a speaker named Jake and he told us about how he was using his leadership skills to save water in his community and send it to people around the world who need it. As soon as I got home, I told my mom that someday I want to be able to share my leadership experiences like Jake did. 2020 will be my eighth year working with Envision, and I have spoken at the Alumni conference and the Middle School Presidential Inaugural Conference. I hope I can use my speeches to inspire other young people to go out and make a difference on a topic they are passionate about.
It’s been 10 years since you attended your first Envision conference. What has been the biggest take-away in that time?
Since attending my first conference with Envision, the most difficult aspect of being a leader has been having the persistence to keep moving forward. A lot of times, everyday life seems to get in the way of what we do for a number of reasons. Sometimes you may just feel that there are not enough hours in the day to get everything done that you hope to do. But, when this happens, you must keep your vision in mind of where you want to go, and why it was important for you personally to get involved. Whenever I took a step back and realized that this work was helping my entire community, I knew that I had to keep working, no matter how tired or overwhelmed I was.
What advice would you give to young leaders who want to make a difference in their communities?
Whenever I speak to young leaders, I try to emphasize that fact that I am just like them. I came to these conferences, and they can do anything that I have done. All it takes is determination and persistence to keep trying even when things get tough. It is also important to have a clear vision or aspiration of what you’re hoping to accomplish. My challenge to them is to start small, then work their way up. As they have small victories, their confidence will grow in their ability to bring about change, and they will go on to make a great impact, no matter what issue they are trying to address.
You can also check out our previous spotlight on Brandon here.
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Stih, Peter
The Middle Ages Between the Eastern Alps and the Northern Adriatic: Select Papers on Slovene Historiography and Medieval History (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450)
The book deals with the Slovene historiography and history of the Slovene and neighbouring territories in the Middle Ages. It is the first work of its kind published in English. It thus makes the medieval history of this part of Europe and some of its fundamental problems accessible to the widest range of researchers. It contains 18 papers which comply with modern methodological approaches and current trends in historiography and it puts the validity and usefulness of these methods to the test in the case of Slovene material and examples. The first part of the book critically examines Slovene historiography, which largely viewed the Middle Ages from a national angle. The second part is dedicated to early medieval history, focussing on issues of Slavic ethnogeneses, society, and political structures. The third part addresses chapters from the history of the Church, the nobility, and the formation of "Lander," and also discusses the famous enthronement of the Carinthian dukes."
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Home EU INSTITUTIONS Parliament: Agreement reached on digital copyright rules
Parliament: Agreement reached on digital copyright rules
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Creatives and news publishers will be empowered to negotiate with internet giants thanks to a deal reached on copyright rules which also contains safeguards on freedom of expression.
The deal, reached between EP and Council negotiators aims to ensure that the rights and obligations of copyright law also apply to the internet. YouTube, Facebook and Google News are some of the internet household names, which will be most directly affected by this legislation.
Legislators also strove to ensure that the internet remains a space for freedom of expression. Snippets from news articles can thus continue to be shared, as can Gifs and memes.
Tech giants to share revenue with artists and journalists
The deal aims at enhancing rights holders’ chances, notably musicians, performers and script authors, as well as news publishers, to negotiate better remuneration deals for the use of their works featured on internet platforms.
Locking in freedom of expression
Sharing snippets of news articles will not engage the rights of the media house which produced the shared article. The deal however also contains provisions to avoid news aggregators abusing this allowance. The ‘snippet’ can therefore continue to appear in a Google News newsfeeds, for example, or when an article is shared on Facebook, provided it is “very short”.
Uploading protected works for purposes of quotation, criticism, review, caricature, parody or pastiche has been protected, ensuring that memes and Gifs will continue to be available and shareable on online platforms.
Many online platforms will not be affected
The text also specifies that uploading works to online encyclopaedias in a non-commercial way, such as Wikipedia, or open source software platforms, such as GitHub, will automatically be excluded. Start-up platforms will be subject to lighter obligations than more established ones.
Stronger negotiating rights for authors and performers
Authors and performers will be able to claim additional remuneration from the distributor exploiting their rights when the remuneration originally agreed is disproportionately low compared to the benefits derived by the distributer.
How this directive changes the status quo
Currently, internet companies have little incentive to sign fair licensing agreements with rights holders, because they are not considered liable for the content that their users upload. They are only obliged to remove infringing content when a rights holder asks them to do so. However, this is cumbersome for rights holders and does not guarantee them a fair revenue. Making internet companies liable will enhance rights holders’ chances (notably musicians, performers and script authors, as well as news publishers and journalists) to secure fair licensing agreements, thereby obtaining fairer remuneration for the use of their works exploited digitally.
EPP Group: better conditions for the press
“We have achieved a ground-breaking deal during our negotiations with Member States and the European Commission on copyright reform. Press publishers in Europe will enjoy copyright protection on the internet, a deal that will further secure quality journalism in Europe and will also ensure that journalists are properly remunerated”, said Axel Voss MEP, Parliament’s Spokesman for the Copyright Directive.
“The deal will also be significant to the European creative sector. Internet platforms will now be liable for copyright infringements on their sites, but start-ups and other micro and small enterprises will be governed by a special regime. This means that European authors, composers and other copyright holders will enjoy protection in the online world. In no way are we touching the use of memes, as propaganda has suggested in the past. On the contrary, we agreed on provisions that will bring guarantees that the internet will remain a space for free expression”, continued Voss, who led the Parliament in the lengthy negotiations with the Council,” he added.
“Press publishers are now entitled to demand from online platforms, for example, news aggregators, the share on revenues should their works be used. Through this, we have managed to shift the balance again to the hands of those who create the content and publish it. What was at stake was to secure conditions for independent journalism in Europe. Journalists as such will also benefit from this as they will be entitled to fair remuneration from press publishers”, concluded Voss.
The deal must now be approved by Council representatives and the EP plenary.
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AI, VR, Chatbots to Take Off in 2017 Microsoft Researchers Predict
By: Pedro Hernandez | December 05, 2016
Prominent Microsoft researchers share their tech predictions for an AI-enabled future that blurs the line between physical and virtual experiences.
A new year is quickly approaching and Microsoft Research is offering a glimpse at what the tech scene has in store for 2017 along with some hints at the Redmond, Wash., tech giant's own priorities for the coming year.
This year, the company gathered prominent women researchers to share their thoughts on what to expect next year. Surprising nobody's who's been following Microsoft's software and cloud computing strategy of late, the company is betting big on artificial intelligence (AI).
"Deep learning is transforming many aspects of our technology, however deep learning algorithms today are still largely heuristic, based on the experience and intuition of leaders in the field," said Jennifer Chayes, managing director of Microsoft's New England and New York City research labs, in a Dec. 5 blog post. "In 2017, we will develop a more principled understanding of deep learning and hence more robust algorithms. The insights here will come from many fields, including the intersection of statistical physics and computer science."
Virtual reality (VR) will also make big strides, said Mar Gonzalez Franco, a researcher at the company's Redmond campus. She expects 2017 to usher in devices that perform a better body tracking, enabling more responsive and immersive VR experiences. "A positive outcome of this will be the ability to experience embodiment of virtual avatars from a first-person perspective," she said.
Mobile computing today largely consists of staring into a smartphone or tablet and poking around a selection of apps. Oriana Riva, another Microsoft researcher stationed at Redmond, believes intelligent bots will help users take their eyes off their iPhones. "We'll see fewer users installing apps on their devices and more apps turning into behind-the-scenes services for chatbots and personal digital assistants," she stated.
Karin Strauss, a senior Microsoft researcher, expects cloud providers to increase their use of custom hardware accelerators using field-programmable gate arrays to improve performance and stave off the effects of a Moore's Law slowdown. She also predicts a proliferation of both virtual- and augmented-reality (AR and VR) hardware to hit the market at all price points in 2017.
Microsoft is already preparing for that eventuality.
During the company's Windows 10 event in New York City on Oct. 26, Microsoft announced it was working with hardware partners Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo to offer VR headsets that run on off-the-shelf Windows PCs and have price tags starting at around $300, or about half of what today's headsets cost.
In terms of AR, the pricey HoloLens Development Edition ($3,000 USD) is finally outside the U.S. and Canada. The self-contained, Windows 10-powered device is now available in Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Last week, the company announced that HoloLens is headed to Japan in early 2017. Early customers include Japan Airlines, which is using the hardware to develop proof-of-concept training applications for engine mechanics and burgeoning co-pilots.
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The Sunreef Supreme Range embodies a very specific philosophy of yacht creation. It is an audacious line of yachts and superyachts designed to become the world's most comfortable range of lifestyle oriented boats.
The Sunreef 68 Supreme Sailing- the first unit was officially revealed at the Singapore Yacht Show 2016 - is a 68ft sailing catamaran with a total living space of nearly 300m2 offering the surface of a superyacht on a unit below 24m.
The Sunreef 68S Supreme's architecture revisits the way catamarans haven been so far designed. A new, radical concept of the superstructure allows to keep the salon and exterior deck on the same level. As a result, the Sunreef Supreme 68S boasts an enormous main room surrounded with floor to ceiling glass - a smooth, seamless space opening onto the cockpit and giving direct access to the deck through sliding doors on both sides of the yacht.
The mast of the Supreme 68S is fixed at flybrdige level with a carbon made transversal beam, so the mast step does not interfere with the salon's volume. The exterior and interior surfaces of the boat merge into one panoramic lounging and dining area.
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Liberty customers urged to change all banking passwords amid inside-job rumours
Tehillah Niselow
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Liberty falls victim to hackers
Be vigilant, warns Goliath and Goliath CEO after losing R300k in email scam
From Yahoo to Uber, major hacks of data
The worst passwords of 2017
All Liberty Holdings [JSE:LBH] customers should change their transactional bank account details and any other systems which could have the same passwords as their Liberty accounts, Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx urged on Monday.
The financial services group admitted to a data breach on Saturday night by a third party, and said at a press conference on Sunday evening that no customers had yet been financially impacted.
Goldstuck told Fin24 by phone that the people behind the breach had threatened to release emails and possibly attachments from Liberty to clients, on the 'dark web' (which requires specific software to access, and sells mainly illegal products using cryptocurrencies).
The first port of call for people buying the information will be to get as much of Liberty’s customers’ personal data, including the policy documents they have and their log-in details for Liberty, according to Goldstuck.
Goldstuck said that because people typically use the same password across multiple accounts, their transactional banking accounts could be at risk.
Liberty has been warned that the information will be released incrementally to the 'dark web' unless it meets the third parties' demand for money. The financial services firm has not disclosed the figure that is being claimed, but has denied any payments have been made.
READ: Liberty refuses to pay ransom after hackers hit computer systems
In a statement on the JSE newswires on Monday morning, Liberty said that clients whose information had been impacted would be informed and no further action was required from policy holders.
Biggest hack of financial institution
The breach of Liberty’s client information is the largest hack of a financial institution in South Africa, Goldstuck said.
He noted that it was "a little concerning" that it took the company two days to admit the breach to the public and clients.
"Liberty is guarded about the nature and other details of the hack, saying only the breach is subject to a police investigation."
According to the firm's website, it offers asset management, investment, insurance and health products to 3.2 million people across Africa.
Goldstuck urged the company to be "fully transparent" about all the details of the breach.
"There is speculation that there was inside involvement. It appears [they] had access to the entire server [so] it seems unlikely it was external," said Goldstuck.
Liberty Holdings CEO David Munro said at Sunday's press conference that the authorities had asked the company to investigate whether the breach could have been an inside job and the police will also be probing this possibility.
Munro said they were unable to provide further details about whether the hack had taken place inside or outside the country's borders.
All the emails affected were from Liberty's insurance division and due to police investigations, Munro was unable to confirm how many clients were impacted.
Goldstuck added that financial institutions were particularly vulnerable to data attacks.
"Banks are fighting an ongoing war against hackers…it’s astonishing that there aren’t more breaches," Goldstuck said.
Due to technical issues at the JSE on Monday, trading opened two hours late at 11:00. By 12:30, Liberty’s share price slid 4.3% to R118.67. Parent company, the Standard Bank Group [JSE:SBK], weakened 1.8% to R193.56 a share.
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Sound Off: Matt Reeves' 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' - Thoughts?
Now that you've seen it, what did you think? "Apes strong together." Now in theaters everywhere is Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the sequel to the Planet of the Apes reboot from 2011 called Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In), this latest Apes movies introduces us to a new set of humans: Jason Clarke, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Keri Russell and Gary Oldman. Caesar is back, once again played by Andy Serkis, with Toby Kebbell as Koba. Does it live up to Rise? Is it one of the best sequels ever? Once you've seen it, post a comment with thoughts on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Spoiler Warning: We strongly urge everyone to actually see the film before reading ahead, as there may be spoilers below. We also encourage all commenters to keep major spoilers from the film to a minimum, if possible. However, this is an open discussion from this point on! Beware of spoilers, don't ruin this movie!
This movie is incredible. I've seen it twice already, it's one of my favorites of the entire summer, in fact, it's just too damn smart to be a summer movie. It's one of the best movies of the year. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is an extraordinary achievement of filmmaking craft, from the world itself to the set design to the Apes and visual effects seamlessly integrated with humans to the performances on both sides, and at the same time delves deep into societal issues today that plague humanity. Dawn is not a movie about humans, it's a movie about apes. It starts with apes, ends with apes, focuses on apes as protagonists, and only introduces humans as villains, who disrupt and cause more chaos than any good, even though it's only about survival.
There are so many brilliant scenes, and memorable moments throughout (thanks to outstanding work by Matt Reeves). Every scene involving Caesar is riveting, he is a non-human character who has more depth and emotion than most human characters in most Hollywood movies released all year. When the apes show their strength for the first time, that is an incredible moment. The long-take shot with the ape on the tank was breathtaking, not to mention the brutality of apes with guns fighting humans with guns. The scene about "human work" and the apes slowly learning to speak, to evolve, watching them learn about emotions through betrayal, loyalty, and freedom. Exceptional in every way, it is a triumph of modern movie-making.
What did you think of Matt Reeves' Dawn of the Planet of the Apes? Stellar sequel or a mess?
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Reader Feedback - 47 Comments
Film of the year if the ending wasn't so rushed.
Tey on Jul 11, 2014
Really, I thought the ending kept going. Can't comprehend that Malcom survived though.
OfficialJab on Jul 14, 2014
The one shot where the camera rotates as an ape rides above a tank should at least grant the film an Oscar nomination in cinematography come Oscars next year.
Certainly the most remarkable shot of the film.
Jon Odishaw on Jul 12, 2014
Absolutely agree.... that shot was genius and completely sucked you right into the action.
jimfromtoto on Jul 13, 2014
I also really liked the shot of Koba embracing Caesars son while the Ape village burned down. So sick.
Jacob Crim on Jul 13, 2014
The long take of Malcom running through the building being attacked after he's grabbed the medical supplies.
groundbreaking movie..........Serkis deserves a nomination at the very least for his performance. unreal!
alex james on Jul 11, 2014
In what category? Surely not Best actor, not when all his facial work is tweaked by a team of artists.
Brian Sleider on Jul 13, 2014
Then that implies that any actor/ess that delivers a MoCap performance should never receive acknowledgement of their acting. Actors under prosthetics have been nominated. Why not MoCap? I think continued disregard for quality of acting involving MoCap will mean "known" actor/esses will again shy away from those roles.
VAharleywitch on Jul 13, 2014
I am not saying they should receive no recognition but it has to be it own category, for "Ceaser" to win for his role in "Apes" it would have to be Serkis and the team how worked on the animation getting the award. Saying Serkis diserves an award is a disservice to the artists who put all the work in on the animation.
**Spoiler, You've been warned and warned again** Fantastic movie. Caesar was such a strong leader. In my opinion the only thing they failed in was his last scene with Koba. A banishment would have sent a stronger message that "Apes are better" than humans. Overall though it really got me to contemplate how much we've lost of our human connection in this fast paced society.
VoiceOfReason on Jul 11, 2014
The way I see it; that was not the message at all...at one point Cesar even said that he realised that they are just as good and just as bad as humans so killing Koba was not a breach of "innocence". Awesome Ape characters!!
Glorundel on Jul 11, 2014
The Apes were no better, but Ceaser was. His character was so noble and magnificent. He was not only a king but a savior to his people. He was above reproach the whole movie except for that one act. I don't think it ruined him but It would have been a better reinforcement of his character.
I thought that it fit his character perfectly. His overall position in the end was for the good of his kind. He saw what one bad seed could do and decided that he had to do what he had to. Koba could not live, he was the endearment of hate from what he had gone through and he would never have seen reason. If Caesar had let him go he would have come back to kill him or it would have divided the apes. He made the tough decision and you could see that in the end his resolve had faded. The war has begun and they had to stand together.
TK on Jul 13, 2014
There is no banishment that would work. Some loyal to Koba would have gone with him, now you have an Anti Human AND anti Ape group roving the woods. And Koba is FUCKING SMART not an enemy to keep alive, unless you cage him up and to Koba that would be worse than death. No, Ceaser made the hard but correct choice.
If their were any that were loyal enough to follow Koba then his death would be viewed as a martyrdom to them. They would see Ceasar as no better than Koba and merely power hungry. After all Koba viewed death only necessary to protect the apes. Ash only died because he was not willing to protect the apes as Koba saw necessary. Ceasar likewise saw Koba's death as necessary to protect the ape's. In the eyes of Koba's followers Ceaser is no better and cannot be trusted to follow his own law. In the end banishment with his followers would have at least separated them and given the enemy a face. Now the followers of Koba are unknown and will seek to destroy Ceaser from within his own family. What's more is they will be able to draw other followers away and gain strength much like they did with Ceasers own son.
Only 3 apes seemed to really know the extent of Koba's actions. Not a lot of loyal followers. Sure many followed after Ceasers death, but those did so BECAUSE of Ceasers Death. Once they knew he was alive and saw Koba for the usurper that he was they quickly rallied for Ceaser.
The CGI is awesome. It is a little long but overall it's a good flick.
tyban81 on Jul 11, 2014
I give it a B+ overall. Had Kurt Russell been one of the leads then A+ all the way. Not having Kurt Russell in a film is just a hindrance to any film.
Astroboy3000 on Jul 11, 2014
AMAZING. AS GOOD AS THE FIRST. I have been waiting for this since I walked out of the door from the first one, and boy was I so happy when that first scene started and they started chasing those deer/elk/whatever. Agree that Serkis deserves an award, they academy will not be the one to give it to him, at least until he does his most unsatisfying role, then they will give it to him. Or when he is 87
Sky on Jul 12, 2014
I do not agree that he deserves an oscar, not unless the guy who played Koba should get one too. All the apes did an AMAZING job no one ape out performed the others. A LOT of the performances also comes from the artists after the actors go home. Unless there is a new category only for MoCap it is not even fair to give out best actor to a guy whos facial expressions are tweaked by teams of artists.
Good performance from oldman and a special performance from Serkis. I was impressed by the CGI. Good pacing, solid final battle. A quality movie all around 8/10
A wonderful movie. There are a couple of scenes that are incredibly emotional and makes the viewer think about the world around them and what's happening to it. Beautifully done. Great story. [9/10]
ali3000 on Jul 12, 2014
In terms of the overall film I was quite pleased with the outcome. It is definitely a 9/10 film. The pacing in the beginning was a bit off, but it was corrected mid way thru. Weta Digital needs an oscar, for their work on this film. Simply amazing, the amount of detail, and naturalness in the work is breathtaking. The emotion with the beats of action solidified this film as a work of art.
cg on Jul 12, 2014
Really enjoyed it; so, so glad I didn't see any previews. I saw one after the movie and gave away the Koba acting like a circus ape, which was so tense and became funny at a drop of a dime, and I'm glad I didn't see it coming.
mooreworthy on Jul 12, 2014
They did a great job with the previews, they misled in a very good way. I was left surprised even after having seen them all.
Great movie but I noticed a few mistakes. After the apes return the dropped bag the kid is seen with the bag back on his shoulder. The next scene the father is holding the bag as if he hadn't given it back yet. How many rounds did the the thirty round magazines hold? The Apes didn't grab extra ammunition but still kept firing. Even in the final sequence Koba just kept shooting long after 30 rounds were fired. When I am trying to convince my fellow humans not to blow up a building I always grab a firearm and threaten to shoot everyone. It was a great movie but I can't wait to see the "Everything wrong with..." video.
James on Jul 12, 2014
As far as the ammo is concerned, there would be firing and they would cut to humans, they could have reloaded during the cut away. Plot hole (sort of) filled. NO way in hell talking would have stopped them from blowing the building, not when guy is ready to kill himself to "save the human race". I am more bothered by the number of apes, where did they all come from?
10/10 this is why I go to the movies.
Im going to be in the minority here (again) but i only thought it was just barely oh-kay. I expected more from Reeves whose past work i really admire. Weta's work was almost flawless of course and Serkis performance was genius still, it all felt a bit flat and too long, IMO.
Sascha Dikiciyan on Jul 13, 2014
The first scene showed that Reeves has more movie smarts than the entirety of Michael Bay's movie credits. What a movie. Definitely worth every cent I paid and then some. So much raw emotion exudes from the screen and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. It was a smart movie with an incredibly layered performance from Caesar. The people at Weta have once again showed that they are indeed the king of FX houses. The world they built was incredible. It was a very small stage going from SF city to the apes home but it felt like the entire world was riding on every moment. An incredibly smart script truly put to great use by a smart director. I am amazed at how coherent and believable they have made of what seems to be a completely ridiculous premises on paper. Hats of to you Mr. Reeves and crew.
F-ing loved this movie. I love that the focus is on the apes, and that you feel more for the apes then the annoying humans. I loved the scene where Koba gets caught in the arms depot, it was an absolute genius scene. The core of the story wasn't that original, the betrayal, but all the extra bits and the fact it is applied to apes makes it ok. Def oscar contender/winner for the VFX done by Weta, the facial animation was especially superb.
Rick on Jul 13, 2014
Overall amazing movie. The CGI-Mocap was incredible. For me Maurice was a masterpiece. The facial expressions on the apes were so believable. The ending was incredibly depressing. Which astounded me because I did not expect the movie to draw such deep feelings after watching it. It was brilliant how they used restraint in the vocabulary of the apes. They could have completely ruined it by allowing them to talk at the same level as humans. The tragedy of humans. To smart and selfish for their own good. Wonderful movie and it should get nominated for oscars in so many categories but the old stodgy guard of Hollywood who make up the majority of the Academy wont have the balls to award Serkis for his performance. I know there are lots of comments here about the work that cgi artist would have done to perfect the performance but its more that just the persons facial expressions that make it a dramatic performance. Its about the emotion he exudes in every part of his acting that they get to perfect. Im not suggesting those cgi assists deserve no recognition. They do deserve recognition but not for the acting. This is the reason pay to see great movies and this did not disappoint.
I've seen it twice now and I thing nags at me. How many apes do you think are alive in the US right now? Numbers I can find say an estimated 1000 chimps in captivity for research. Thats in all of America. SO what maybe 3000 TOTAL apes in all of America? Did they all migrate to California in 10 years? Because there is NO WAY the apes in Rise bred to those numbers in just 10 years.
Bad movie. Way too many mistakes to be logical. Employed the idiot plot too much.
technoreaper on Jul 14, 2014
AHHH the first troll.
People that disagree with you are not trolls. Thanks.
People who come in and post an inflammatory statement with little or no thought in the content are trolls. You are a troll. IF you came here and said "Bad movie, here is a well thought out reason why" you would not be a troll. AS is you are a troll and I will no longer reply to you on this topic, Feeding trolls is a bad idea.
So, um, let's talk about your problems.... Do you think you own this site or something?
I didn't see any apes or humans drop and change out magazines on their weapons. These big budget films need a weapons expert on location. That said, I enjoyed the movie and can't wait for the bluray special features!
anonymouse on Jul 15, 2014
Did anyone stay after the credits? There was a huge clue for the 3rd film.
Randall Miller on Jul 15, 2014
I'm not sure why it has to be "stellar" or a "mess"....there is actually a large middle ground here for me. I really don't think this was a 5 star movie. In fact, I liked Rise more than Dawn. But I still really enjoyed the film. I thought there were some LOL moments in this film that really kinda took away from the intensity and realism of it though. Why were Apes wearing masks when Caesar's mate gave birth, but both Caesar and his son could be there without the masks? How many times did they have to show Koba riding the horse, firing double machine guns, screaming like Willem Dafoe in Platoon? Why take on a heard of Elk on the ground when you can climb trees and throw spears? How come the smart Apes aren't considerable smarter 10 years later? Caesar's IQ was doubling in the first movie in only a few months. In Dawn he's being outsmarted by Koba. And where are all these "smart apes" coming from? We know only the Apes at the sanctuary were exposed to the ALZ113 (granted there were "hundreds of them") and Koba and probably a few others from Gensys. But how are they passing this intelligence down to their young? The Apes from the zoo were not exposed to the ALZ113, so are they establishing a breeding program to mix smart apes w/ the zoo apes? Or are the zoo apes just breeding on their own and reproducing normal Apes? Or did they steal more ALZ113 from the lab and give it to them too?
Andiamo P on Jul 15, 2014
AS the virus spread other apes were affected by it(a pretty smart way of doing it really). It was said in the first movie one its effects are passed on to the young. They wore masks because in their other life(caged) doctors wore masks. They have no concept of why. He was not getting smarter, he was learning, like a child. He was born with X amount of smarts as he grew that developed. And during the hunt there were apes still in trees throwing spears/bolas, there needs to be some one killing the animals and carting em off.
If they have no concept of why they were wearing masks, where did they get the idea for War Paint? Why was Cornelia wearing a head necklace. Why weren't they fashioning shirts and pants too? I can get that the "exposed" Apes passed their intelligence to the Apes that they rescued from the Zoo, but Caesar got it from his mother. If the smart apes were able to infect the zoo apes with their intelligence through close contact, I can actually buy that....but it makes Caesar infecting them with the ALZ113 in Rise kinda not necessary, all he would have had to do was breath on them during play time. I realize I'm kinda nit picking. But No Ape should be on the ground during a Elk stampede. That one Ape got trucked and there were no dead bodies to cart off at the time.
The concept they have is that "Doctors wear masks", those apes were the doctors, so they wore masks. I think you are getting hung up a little too much on the masks, I myself thought they were a great touch. I got why they had them, even though they had no use, right away. The virus spread via humans, apes got "infected" from HUMANS. Zookeeper gets sick, goes to work, sneezes, BOOM smart apes. It is a clever way to do it, it shows that at the same time humans are getting weak, the "new apes" are being born. Koba's band of apes was ground bound from the start to scare the stampeding herd into disarray. Forming smaller packs that can be then easily targeted. I think here you are also getting hung up too much. They are going from apes(100% ape) to the "New apes" (ape human type from the originals) along the way they will pick up more human like traits. All in all I still think this movie is the best of the year, it has some holes but nothing compared to the average movie. Holds up over multiple viewings (3 times now), is smart, and has some of the best camera work I have seen in years. No reliance on quick cuts, nice long slow full frame shots of well directed action.
Just a thought...maybe Caesar could not pass the virus along because he inherited the genetic mutation from his mother. I am also trying to figure out how so many apes were in this movie. I guess the virus spread from ape to ape although not all apes seemed to be as intelligent as the original group.
Melissa on Aug 9, 2014
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Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond, Viking Press, 2005
This book actually took me the better part of a year to read. In his studies of societal collapse, Diamond finds reasons for optimism; in his describing past collapses, it is difficult for me to find any.
Diamond is an engaging writer. With the exception of occasional passages where he throws out lists of numerical data, he paints very accessible pictures of civilizations both past and present.
As a researcher, Diamond loves to create enumerations (“these are the ten factors that determine success of an island society”), and, once he has them defined, he uses the model as fact. While I don’t doubt that he’s researched the factors, I’m not convinced that parameterization of highly complex, open systems is reasonable.
The most though-provoking parts of the book can be summed up by the question Diamond attributes to one of his students: “what did the Easter Islander think as he was cutting down the last tree?” Of course, by the point a single tree is left, it’s far too late to have any meaningful response. But where is the point where response is possible? When is it too late?
Diamond finds reasons to be optimistic. Unfortunately, I don’t feel that his research bears out that optimism. What do we have today that was lacked by the various failed civilizations he describes? It seems to me that we have two things: cheap, abundant energy, and widely distributed information. The former, however, is limited, and may fall into that “last tree” question above, while the information will whither without the energy to sustain its communication. Technology cannot save us without energy to drive it. And has human nature changed? Are significant numbers of people acting in a way that will lead to a sustainable population and way of life in this world? I don’t see it.
— SjG @ 10:16 pm
Cubicle-dweller 1: So, it’s 230a, not 230?
Cubicle-dweller 2: Well, technically it’s 230a, but there is no 230b.
The absurdity of Human Endeavor sometimes emerges in unexpected ways, and often surprises me.
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CVS Health Moves to Limit Access to Opioid Painkillers -- Update
One of the largest managers of pharmaceutical benefits in the U.S. says it will start limiting the duration and dose of some prescriptions for opioid painkillers, in an effort to combat widespread addiction.
CVS Health Corp., which administers drug benefits for employers, insurers and some state Medicaid programs, said it would limit opioid prescriptions to seven days or less for certain patients with acute pain who haven't previously taken an opioid painkiller. That will be a big change, given that many CVS-covered patients with acute pain receive opioid prescriptions for 20 days or more, Troyen Brennan, CVS's chief medical officer, said in an interview.
CVS will also limit patients with chronic pain to a maximum daily dose of 90 morphine milligram equivalents, or MMEs, a standard unit of measure in pain medicine, Dr. Brennan said.
CVS said it based the limits on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations published last year, though one addiction expert said even stricter limits would better reflect CDC advice.
Starting in February 2018, if CVS-covered patients arrive at the pharmacy with a prescription above the new limits, the pharmacy will kick it back to the doctor for review, Dr. Brennan said.
CVS manages medications for nearly 90 million people, or about 28% of the U.S. population, through its Caremark unit. It also runs 9,700 retail pharmacies nationwide.
There will be ways around the rules -- doctors will be able to appeal the limits, and employers and insurers will be able to opt out of the limits if they don't want them to apply to their patients, though CVS said it didn't anticipate many would opt out.
The "overarching reason" for the limits "is to reduce the amount of human suffering that results from people being addicted to these medications," Dr. Brennan said. The new rules could also bring cost savings for employers and insurers if they prevent some patients from becoming addicted, he said.
Widespread opioid addiction has pushed U.S. overdose death rates to new highs. Many Americans became addicted by taking prescription painkillers, and often progressed to heroin and other street drugs.
CVS and other health-care companies have faced accusations of helping fuel the crisis through their handling of opioid painkillers. Last year, CVS paid $3.5 million to settle federal allegations that 50 of its pharmacies in Massachusetts and New Hampshire filled forged prescriptions for painkillers and other controlled substances. The company said it has "implemented enhanced policies" to help its pharmacists determine whether prescriptions are legitimate.
Earlier this year, the Cherokee Nation sued drug distributors and pharmacy chains including CVS in a tribal court in Tahlequah, Okla., alleging they "utterly failed" to control a flood of painkillers that caused widespread addiction in the tribal community. CVS officials Wednesday called the lawsuit groundless.
Gary Mendell, founder of a nonprofit called Shatterproof that seeks to combat addiction, welcomed CVS's efforts to restrict prescriptions but said the firm should set even stricter limits if it wants to follow CDC guidance.
The CDC recommendations advise doctors that prescriptions of "three days or less" are often sufficient for patients with acute pain, and that more than seven days "will rarely be needed." For chronic pain patients, they advise doctors to "carefully reassess" the need for doses of 50 MMEs or more a day, and to "avoid" doses of 90 MME or more a day.
The CVS limits are "at the upper range of the CDC guidelines," Mr. Mendell said.
A dose of 50 MME is equal to 33 milligrams of oxycodone, a common opioid painkiller, according to the CDC. Ninety MME equals 60 milligrams of oxycodone.
Write to Jeanne Whalen at jeanne.whalen@wsj.com
Starting in February, if CVS-covered patients arrive at the pharmacy with a prescription above the new limits, the pharmacy will kick it back to the doctor for review, Dr. Brennan said.
There will be ways around the rules -- doctors will be able to appeal the limits through the prior-authorization process, and employers and insurers will be able to opt out of the limits if they don't want them to apply to their patients, though CVS said it didn't anticipate many would opt out.
The restrictions, which CVS said it based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations published last year, could cause some debate. One addiction expert said even stricter limits would better reflect CDC advice, while a physician and associate professor of medicine at University of Pittsburgh said the restrictions for chronic pain in particular could cause cumbersome paperwork and delays.
"The guidelines that CDC put out were for prescribers to try to avoid those doses. They were not meant for payers to say we're not going to fill something if it's above that limit," said Walid Gellad, the University of Pittsburgh physician.
CVS will send doctors and patients information about the new limits before they come into effect, he said. It won't "make sense" to apply the restrictions to some patients, Dr. Brennan added. "Doctors can write prior authorization [requests] for those patients," he said.
CVS and other health-care companies have faced accusations of helping fuel the crisis through their handling of opioid painkillers. Last year, CVS paid $3.5 million to settle federal allegations that 50 of its pharmacies in Massachusetts and New Hampshire filled forged prescriptions for painkillers and other controlled substances.
The company said it has "implemented enhanced policies" to help its pharmacists determine whether prescriptions are legitimate.
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Outrageous Fortune: Growing Up at Leeds Castle, Anthony Russell, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2013, 306 pages, Illustrated, $26.99Imagine having two grandmothers who both live in their own castles. Anthony Russell, a writer, musician, and composer in Los Angeles, comes from a family that served England’s kings and queens for five hundred years, which left them very, very wealthy…wealthy enough for his grandmums to purchase castles in England and Ireland.
Russell tells the story of a childhood at the highest levels of British aristocracy in Outrageous Fortune: Growing Up at Leeds Castle. His father, Lord Ampthill, was Prince Philip’s roommate at boarding school. Lord Ampthill also was known as “the Russell baby,” whose paternity and conception were at the heart of a sensational divorce case in the 1920s and a court challenge to his right to the title.
Lord Amptill’s mother (Lady Ampthill, she of the castle in Ireland) swore that he was the son of her husband, despite the fact that their marriage was never fully consummated. (It all had something to do with a bath sponge.)
Lady Ampthill (the author's grandmother) was a well-recognized figure hunting with the County Galway Foxhounds (the Blazers). She rode side saddle well into her later years, until suffering a fatal accident in the hunting field in 1976.
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Stephen Curry has helped propel the offensive exploits of the Golden State Warriors.
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While the Golden State Warriors keep piling up wins as they get closer to full strength, the Cleveland Cavaliers continue to plummet without LeBron James.
After Andrew Bogut made a surprising return, the Warriors will try to continue their ridiculous scoring pace as they seek a 14th consecutive home victory Friday night against the trade-happy Cavaliers.
Golden State’s Klay Thompson finished with 40 points – one shy of his career best – and hit six 3-pointers Wednesday, while Stephen Curry added 21 to go along with a season high-tying 15 assists and four 3s in a 117-102 win over visiting Indiana.
The league-best Warriors (28-5) have scored 120.7 per game on 50.9 percent shooting – including 43.0 from 3-point range – over their last six home games and average a league-best 113.8 points there.
Now they’re continuing to get healthier in the frontcourt at they try to extend their longest home winning streak since a club-record 15-game run set from Dec. 13, 1989-Feb. 15, 1990.
Bogut, who opened the season as the starting center, finished with four points and eight rebounds Wednesday when he returned about a week early from a 12-game absence due to knee chondromalacia and bone edema.
Forward David Lee is averaging 10.6 points and 5.8 rebounds in nine games since missing 24 with a hamstring injury.
"I need to get into a rhythm myself and feel like I’m playing well going into the playoffs," Bogut said.
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Marreese Speights and Draymond Green have taken advantage of their opportunities in the frontcourt. Green has averaged 11.0 points, 10.8 boards, 2.5 steals and 2.5 blocks in the past four games, while Speights has scored 18.3 per game.
"(Speights) has earned (the starting job). He’s played so well," said coach Steve Kerr, whose club is 11-0 versus Eastern Conference opponents. "I want to ease Bogut back."
Without Thompson in the most recent meeting with the Cavaliers, Curry finished with 27 points and five 3-pointers and Green contributed 18 points and nine rebounds in a 103-94 home loss March 14.
Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving scored 16 in that contest and he had a season-high 38 in Wednesday’s 105-93 home loss to Houston.
Kevin Love added 17 points and 16 boards, giving him an average of 25.5 and 12.5 over his last four games. He’s also scored 30.3 per game to go with 14.7 rebounds in his last three versus Golden State.
Cleveland (19-17), however, has scored 89.6 per game on 39.3 percent shooting while losing six of seven with James sitting the past six due to knee and back injuries.
Iman Shumpert isn’t expected to make his Cavs debut because of a dislocated left shoulder after he came over from New York along with J.R. Smith in Monday’s three-team trade. Smith went scoreless on 0-of-5 shooting Wednesday.
The Cavaliers then acquired Timofey Mozgov from Denver on Wednesday for two first-round draft picks. The Cavs feel he can fill in at center after Anderson Varejao went down for the season with a torn Achilles.
"It’s something that we need," James said. "It’s something that once Andy went down, it was something obviously we needed to get bigger in the interior and adding a guy like that who can protect the rim, it will help our team as well."
Cleveland hopes to avoid matching its longest skid of the season at four as it opens a five-game western trip. James isn’t expected back until Wednesday’s matchup with the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Cavaliers snapped a six-game slide in this series with their victory in March.
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Hess shows mettle in taking state silver
SHIPPENSBURG - In high-level athletic competition, you either lose or you get beat. There is a difference.
Hess shows mettle in taking state silver SHIPPENSBURG - In high-level athletic competition, you either lose or you get beat. There is a difference. Check out this story on gametimepa.com: https://gtpa.co/1TKnzZ8
Pat Huggins, phuggins@ldnews.com Published 7:18 p.m. ET May 27, 2016 | Updated 7:29 p.m. ET May 27, 2016
Photos: PIAA track and field championships 2016
South Western's Lynne Mooradian clears the final hurdle in the AAA girls 300 hurdles during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Mooradian placed second. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
Annville-Cleona's Reagan Hess finishes in a AA girls 100m dash semifinal during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
South Western's Lynne Mooradian clears the final hurdle in the Class AAA girls' 300-meter hurdles at the PIAA track and field championship meet at Shippensburg University Saturday. Mooradian placed second to earn the sixth state medal of her high school career. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
South Western's Lynne Mooradian runs between the last two hurdles in the AAA girls 300 hurdles during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Mooradian placed second. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
South Western's Lynne Mooradian, left, is consoled by winner Yasmin Brooks of Susquehanna Township after Mooradian placed second in the Class AAA girls' 300-meter hurdles at the PIAA track and field championship at Shippensburg University Saturday. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
South Western's Lynne Mooradian, center, stands on the podium after taking second place in the AAA girls 300 hurdles during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
South Western's Sammy Trone, left, races in the AAA girls 4x400 relay during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
South Western's Lynne Mooradian, left, carries the baton during the anchor leg of the Class AAA girls' 400-meter relay at the PIAA track and field championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
South Western's Lynne Mooradian hands her baton to an official after winning her heat in the AAA girls 4x400 relay during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
South Western's Sammy Trone, left, gives Lynne Mooradian, center right, a cold ice pack as fellow relay team members Kayla Brooks and Emily Newton walk away from the track after winning their heat and setting a school record during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
ELCO's Ethan Anspach runs in a preliminary heat of the AAA boys 200m dash during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
Dallastown's Justin Atwood, center, receives a handoff from Justin Tracy at the first exchange in the Class AAA boys' 400-meter relay during the PIAA track and field championships at Shippensburg University on Saturday. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
Dallastown's Edgar Centeno, second from left, runs the anchor leg in the boys AAA 4x100 relay during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
Dallastown's Edgar Centeno and Justin Tracy embrace after finishing the boys AAA 4x100 relay during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
McConnellsburg's Mckenzie Gelvin (far left) placed 3rd in the AA girls 800, passing six runners in the final 300 meters to claim the bronze medal. Greg Holder, for GameTimePA.com
McConnellsburg's McKenzie Gelvin crosses the finish line in the AA girls 800 at the PIAA Track & Field Championships. She placed third with a time of 2:16.70. Greg Holder, for GameTimePA.com
New Oxford's Madi Smith throws in the Class AAA girls' javelin during the PIAA track and field championships at Shippensburg University on Saturday. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
Cedar Crest's Ariel Jones clears the bar in the AAA girls high jump during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jones placed fourth with a high jump of 5-7. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
Chambersburg's Abby Yourkavitch (center) placed 5th in the girls AAA 3,200 at the PIAA Track & Field Championships. Greg Holder, for GameTimePA.com
York Tech's Kirstyn Evans waits her turn in the AAA girls high jump during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
McConnellsburg's Josh Booth placed 5th in the boys AA 300 hurdles at the PIAA Track & Field Championships with a time of 39.77. Greg Holder, for GameTimePA.com
Chambersburg's Kelton Chastulik competed in the boys AAA discus at the PIAA Track & Field Championships. Greg Holder, for GameTimePA.com
Greencastle-Antrim's Campbell Parker competes in the boys AAA discus at the PIAA Track & Field Championships. Greg Holder, for GameTimePA.com
Cedar Crest's Hannah Woelfling throws in the second discus flight during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
York Tech's Kirstyn Evans attempts to clear the bar in the AAA girls high jump during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
Red Lion's Madisen Kling winds up to throw during the second discus flight at the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
Annville-Cleona's Reagan Hess runs in a AA girls 100m dash semifinal during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
Annville-Cleona's Reagan Hess competes in the AA girls 100m dash during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
Dallastown's Lillian Cook throws in the AAA girls javelin during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
Fairfield's Cierra Phillips competes in the pole vault during the PIAA Track and Field Championship meet at Shippensburg University on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
Fairfield's Cierra Phillips misses a jump in the pole vault during the PIAA track and field championships at Shippensburg University on Saturday. Jeff Lautenberger, For GameTimePA.com
Gettysburg's Ravaughn Dillard wins the boys AAA Triple Jump during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News
Delone Catholic's Julianna Malesky competes in the girls AA high jump during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News
Biglerville's Ben Hurda competes in the boys AA javelin during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News
Annville-Cleona's Reagan Hess (center) comes out of the blocks during the girls AA 100m dash preliminaries and managed to move on to the semifinals during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News
Cedar Crest's Destinee Holloman competes in the girls AAA 100m dash preliminaries during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News
during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News
Cedar Crest's during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News
Palmyra's Camryn Simpson competes in the girls AAA triple jump during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News
Cedar Crest's Jesse Cruise competes in the boys AAA 1600m run preliminary during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News
Northern Lebanon's Dakota Leonhard competes in the boys AAA shot put during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News
Cedar Crest's Ariel Jones competes in the girls AAA triple jump during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News
Annville-Cleona's Reagan Hess competes in the girls AA long jump during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. She took home a silver medal by jumping an all time best 19' 1" Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News
Annville-Cleona's Reagan Hess tries to avoid the heat while competing in the girls AA long jump during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News
Annville-Cleona's Reagan Hess (right) applauds for Athens Breana Gambrell after she received her gold medal in the girls AA long jump during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. Hess jumped a 19' 1" to claim silver and break a personal record. Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News
Annville-Cleona's Reagan Hess received a silver medal in the girls AA long jump during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. Hess jumped a 19' 1" to claim silver and break a personal record. Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News
Greencastle's Liam Okal runs in the Class AAA boys 200 dash during the PIAA Track & FIeld Championships on Friday, May 27, 2016 at Shippensburg University. Noelle Haro-Gomez, GameTimePA.com
Southern Fulton's Celina Merchant run the Class AA girls 300 hurdles during the PIAA Track & Field Championships on Friday, May 27, 2016 at Shippensburg University. Noelle Haro-Gomez, GameTimePA.com
Greencastle's Campbell Parker competes in the Class AAA boys shot put at the PIAA Track & Field Championships on Friday, May 27, 2016 at Shippensburg University. Noelle Haro-Gomez, GameTimePA.com
Southern Fulton's Chase Varner runs in the Class AA boys 800 during the PIAA Track & Field Championships on Friday, May 27, 2016 at Shippensburg University. Noelle Haro-Gomez, GameTimePA.com
McConnellsburg's McKenzie Gelvin runs the Class AA girls 800 during the PIAA Track & Field Championships on Friday, May 27, 2016 at Shippensburg University. Gelvin advances to the final. Noelle Haro-Gomez, GameTimePA.com
McConnellsburg's McKenzie Gelvin shakes hands with Hannah Bablak of Quaker Valley as they cool down from running in the Class AA girls 800 during the PIAA Track & Field Championships on Friday, May 27, 2016 at Shippensburg University. Gelvin advances to the final. Noelle Haro-Gomez, GameTimePA.com
McConnellsburg's McKenzie Gelvin runs in the Class AA girls 400 during the PIAA Track & Field Championships on Friday, May 27, 2016 at Shippensburg University. Gelvin advances to the final and broke her school record. Noelle Haro-Gomez, GameTimePA.com
Red Lion's Greg Potter competes in the Class AAA pole vault during the PIAA Track & Field Championships on Friday, May 27, 2016 at Shippensburg University. Noelle Haro-Gomez, GameTimePA.com
Annville-Cleona's Reagan Hess wanted gold in the AA long jump, but settled for silver with a career-best leap of 19-1.
Annville-Cleona's Reagan Hess (right) applauds for Athens Breana Gambrell after she received her gold medal in the girls AA long jump during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. Hess jumped a 19' 1" to claim silver and break a PR(Photo: Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News)Buy Photo
Annville-Cleona's Reagan Hess competes in the girls AA long jump during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. She took home a silver medal by jumping an all time best 19' 1" (Photo: Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News)
Cedar Crest's Jesse Cruise competes in the boys AAA 1600m run preliminary during day one of the PIAA state track and field championships on Friday, May 27, 2016. (Photo: Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily News)
Reagan Hess didn't lose the gold medal she wanted so dearly - she was beaten by a better performance. And besides, she still won a silver medal with the best effort of her highly distinguished career.
It was a day of mixed emotions - but mostly positive ones - for the Annville-Cleona junior, who secured a runner-up finish in the Class AA long jump at the PIAA Track and Field Championships at Shippensburg University Friday.
Entering the event seeded second after a winning jump of 18 feet, 6 inches at last weekend's District Three Championships, Hess raised her game and then some on Friday, topping out with a career-best jump of 19-1 on her final try of the day.
Unfortunately for Hess, her championship-like work was bettered by top-seeded sophomore Breana Gambrell of Athens Area, who popped a 19- 3 1/4 on her last jump of preliminaries to ultimately grab the gold.
It's sports. Stuff happens.
"I'm kinda beating myself up a little bit," Hess said after hopping down from the medal stand. "But she's a great jumper. To jump 19-3 as a sophomore - that was amazing. I just kept getting better and better each jump...I was like, 'Just one more, just one more.' I'm happy but I just wish I had one more jump."
Hess admitted to knowing little about Gambrell heading into the competition, but it didn't take long to notice her Friday after she followed Hess's initiial effort of 18-7 1/4 with an 18-10 1/4.
Hess goes 18-8 1/4 on final jump of prelims. Second going into finals. pic.twitter.com/fGKKtkXHtZ
— Pat Huggins (@phuggsports) May 27, 2016
That forced Hess into a game of catch-up the rest of the way, one she pursued doggedly with leaps of 18-8 1/4 and 18-9 before digging deep for 19-1 on her last try.
"Competition," Hess said firmly. "I love competition. I love pushing myself. Having somebody in front of me probably helped me get that 19-1."
And on that 19-1, Hess appeared to have been shot out of a cannon, sprinting furiously down the run way and launching herself with a silent rage into the pit. It was the mark of a state champion on a day when becoming a state champion just wasn't in the cards.
"I just got out onto the runway and said, 'You have to put everything you have into this last jump. Who cares if you foul?'" she said. "Because at that point I was gonna be second anyway. I was like, 'You gotta go for it.' I gave everything I had left, everything the sun didn't take."
And because of that, Hess's initial disappointment at silver should continue to fade as the days go by. She won't let it go completely, though. Too much pride for that.
"I probably won't be as disappointed, but I'll always have a little disappointment," Hess said."I guess looking back, I'll be happy with a 19-1. That was my best jump to end the year with, so I'm OK with that."
Hess was also OK with earning a spot in Saturday's 100-meter dash semifinals after posting the fourth-best qualifying time of 12.27 seconds. Seeded eighth in the 200 dash, she also snared a spot in those semifinals on Saturday by placing third in her heat.
Also earning a berth in Saturday's finals was Cedar Crest's Jesse Cruise in the boys Class AAA 1600 meters after posting a qualifying time of 4:23.86, and Lebanon's Derin Klick in the AAA 800 after clocking a 1:55.94. Elco sprinter Ethan Anspach gained a spot in the AAA 200 semis with a time of 22.65 seconds.
In addition on Friday, Northern Lebanon's Dakota Leonhard was 13th in the AAA boys shot out, while Cedar Crest's boys 3200 relay of Bryce Vukovich, Matt Royer, Adam Wolfe and Nick Blandy finished 22nd in 8:10.55.
On the girls side, Cedar Crest's Ariel Jones took 13th in the AAA triple jump, and Palmyra's Camryn Simpson was 26th in the same event. Jones' Cedar Crest teammate, Destinee Holloman competed in the 100 dash trials but finished eighth in her heat and did not advance.
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What’s at stake in the North-South Korea summit?
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As North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in kick off a three-day summit Tuesday, Moon’s main goals are to improve relations with North Korea and try to keep denuclearization on track.
North Korea has committed to denuclearization several times this year, in meetings with South Korean leaders and, most visibly, at the Singapore summit with President Donald Trump in June. But it’s still unclear how much, if at all, North Korea has followed through. At this week’s summit — the third between Kim and Moon this year — Moon is tasked with getting more answers without putting his relationship with Kim (or the U.S.) at risk.
U.S. intelligence agencies say Kim’s nuclear weapons program is continuing unabated. North Korea erected structures to hide activity at a warhead storage facility and appears to be building more nuclear weapons rather than dismantling them, NBC News reported, citing senior administration officials.
Here’s what to expect from the North Korea-South Korea summit and the impact it could have on the region and the world, including the U.S.
What have North and South Korea accomplished this year?
North Korea and South Korea have made progress on several fronts since the leaders signed an agreement — the Panmunjom Declaration — at their first meeting in April.
–The two countries have reopened communications to eliminate military tensions and discuss issues of mutual interest,
–Held reunions of dozens of families separated after the war, and
–Established a joint Korean liaison office just over the border in North Korea in the city of Kaesong. Kaesong is also the location of a jointly run industrial complex, where South Korean companies operate using North Korean labor. South Korea closed the complex in 2016 after North Korea launched a satellite and reportedly tested a hydrogen bomb. The complex is still closed, though Moon has expressed a desire to reopen it.
Watch a PBS NewsHour report on the Red Cross-organized family reunions, which took place in North Korea.
The two leaders also agreed under the declaration to meet this month in Pyongyang — the first time Moon will step foot in the North Korean capital, said Jean Lee, director of the Wilson Center’s Korea Center. “It’s clear that the leader of North Korea is trying to make a point to the United States: We may not be on the same page when it comes to denuclearization, but the Koreans are on the same page and we’re going to move forward with our relationship,” she said.
What’s the significance of the summit?
South Korea has a difficult balancing act of pursuing better economic cooperation with the North while not violating U.S. sanctions on North Korea, or doing anything else that might disrupt the U.S.-South Korea alliance, said Frank Aum, senior expert on North Korea at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
“I think the problem right now for South Korea is that it’s frustrated that it can’t do more in terms of inter-Korean cooperation because of the lack of progress in U.S.-DPRK (North Korea) negotiations,” Aum said.
In order to get U.S.-North Korean relations back on track, Moon might try to, among other things, seek more reassurance from North Korea that an end-of-war declaration would not mean the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea, Aum said. The Korean War technically never ended with a peace treaty, though both sides have signed an armistice ending open hostilities.
The United States has a treaty of mutual defense with South Korea that dates back to the 1950s and has a military base with about 28,000 troops in Seoul. At his summit with Kim in June, Trump said the U.S. would halt “war games” with South Korea. But in August, Defense Secretary James Mattis said the U.S. had no future plans to end the joint military drills.
How could improved North-South Korea ties impact the U.S.?
The United States and Asian countries in the region generally support warming relations between the Koreas as long as there is consultation and coordination in the process, said Lisa Collins, a fellow with the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“If actions taken by South Korea to improve relations with North Korea undermine the current (U.S.) policy towards North Korea — that might be seen as counterproductive,” she said.
Lee said the United States is letting South Korea take the lead on its relationship with North Korea, “but continuing down a path of reconciliation without requiring denuclearization will put Seoul and Washington at odds,” she said.
Trump delayed a visit to North Korea by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in August, “because I feel we are not making sufficient progress with respect to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” Trump tweeted.
On Sept. 9, North Korea held a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the country’s founding and did not display intercontinental ballistic missiles as it had in the past. The next day, Trump praised Kim on Twitter, and the White House said a second face-to-face meeting between Trump and Kim was in the works.
What does closer engagement mean for the rest of Asia?
Japan, like the U.S., wants South Korea to stand firm on the issue of denuclearization, said Yuki Tatsumi, co-director of the East Asia Program and director of the Japan Program at the Stimson Center. North Korea fired several missiles over Japan last year. Given that the U.S.-North Korea negotiation over North Korea’s denuclearization seems to have lost some of its initial momentum, “Japan would not want to see South Korea going too far out on engaging North Korea,” she said.
China also is supportive of a “certain amount of reconciliation” between the two Koreas, Lee said. “The Chinese would rather have stability and peace on the Korean peninsula (than) instability right on their doorstep.”
According to Aum, the next step in inter-Korean cooperation will include economic cooperation currently prohibited by sanctions.
Both China and Russia backed U.N. sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear program, though both countries would benefit from projects like updating and expanding North Korea’s railway system, Lee said. It’s a “delicate dance” for all players in the region. “On the one hand they want peace and stability but they also don’t want North Korea to continue building a nuclear program.”
And the “sanctions are only good if the member nations enforce them,” she added.
An undated photo shows a march for peace, prosperity and reunification of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea. Photo by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency via Reuters
What about reunification?
The reunification of North and South Korea, if it happens, is still far down the road, analysts say.
“For discussions about peaceful unification to even start, North Korea would have to give up its nuclear weapons program and South Korea would have to build up widespread support domestically for this proposition,” Collins said. Some South Koreans still view North Korea in Cold War terms and as an enemy state, she said.
Though reunification may be out of reach, the importance of other forms of North and South Korean reconciliation, including re-establishing communications, cannot be overstated, Lee said. “It’s a significant step after nearly 10 years of tensions between those two governments. But it is way too soon to talk about reunification,” she said.
By — Larisa Epatko
Larisa Epatko produces multimedia web features and broadcast reports with a focus on foreign affairs for the PBS NewsHour. She has reported in places such as Jordan, Pakistan, Iraq, Haiti, Sudan, Western Sahara, Guantanamo Bay, China, Vietnam, South Korea, Turkey, Germany and Ireland.
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Molly Ciszewski, left, and Alice Hawley have each taken the Whole Selves program at Pathlight’s Whole Children. Pathlight has landed a $23,000 grant from two local banks to support its sexual education coursework. The program, called Whole Selves, is designed to help give children skills to build and maintain healthy relationships throughout their lives. SUBMITTED PHOTO
From left, Danielle Martin, Cade Holden and Aidan O’Donoghue joke around at a social event hosted at Whole Children. The three friends have been taking the Whole Selves program since its inception, both at Whole Children and at Northampton High School. SUBMITTED PHOTO
By Elizabeth Donoghue
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Published: 12/18/2018 9:50:05 PM
A Valley organization that for a decade has offered a sexual education curriculum for developmentally disabled and autistic students plans to use a new grant to expand its program nationally by offering it online.
Pathlight landed the $23,000 grant from two local banks to support its sexual education coursework that its leaders created a decade ago. The program, called Whole Selves, is designed to help give children skills to build and maintain healthy relationships throughout their lives.
“It’s just not a sexuality curriculum,” said Maggie Rice, director of Pathlight’s Whole Children programs, which include Whole Selves.
The Whole Selves curriculum began in 2008 and is currently being piloted in high schools and middle schools throughout the Valley. Whole Children, meanwhile, offers after school, weekend recreation and enrichment programs to children.
“It’s helping people with disabilities understand that what they think and feel matter, helping them to know themselves, understand their emotions, to understand different relationships,” Rice said.
The program teaches Whole Children students who are reaching adolescence about puberty, Rice said.
Rice was motivated to develop Whole Selves curriculum when she and others realized, “they’re not being taught anything about what’s going on with their bodies, about sexuality, about relationships.”
“Our population has been overlooked as far as being sexual beings,” Rice said.
Soon after Rice started writing lesson plans.
“There’s a lot of repetition,” Rice said. “We break things (concepts) down to a level of understanding.”
Rice spoke about the curriculum’s longevity and being the first of its kind when she and others began teaching in 2008. Pathlight’s curriculum is still developing and evolving.
“It always will be, it always has,” Rice said.
“That is part of why we want it online,” Rice said. “So that we can help it (the curriculum) grow.”
The award, provided by the Westfield Bank Future Fund and the Chicopee Savings Bank Charitable Foundation, has helped to formally develop, consolidate and market its curriculum digitally. Rice spoke about Pathlight’s plans to expand the curriculum nationally online.
Pathlight has partnered with Mount Holyoke College as they prepare for national distribution.
“They’ve developed a really exciting program,” said Gwen Bass, the director of teacher leadership programs at Mount Holyoke.
Bass said Mount Holyoke’s longstanding relationship with Pathlight and the opportunity for the college to support “innovative curriculum,” that, “serves a population that is particularly underserved.”
“Our missions are really aligned,” Bass said. “We’re open to seeing where this partnership goes.”
Throughout the years, the response from parents has been gratitude that these topics are being taught, Rice said.
“They have someone finally talking to them about sex in a real way, and about dating, and about boundaries,” Rice said.
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May 9, 2014 Ian McCollum Submachine Guns 92
From Max Popenker, we have a set of photos of a very funky German submachine gun from the first world war (presumably 1918). The weapon is currently in possession of the weapon design department at Tula State University in Russia, and that’s where these photos were taken. Until now, the only photo available of this gun was this one (and it has some minor differences from Tula’s example, including the front grip and oil bottle in the stock):
Well, it turns out that the gun in that picture is missing its feed box, which is a pretty important part, and tells us a lot about how it worked. The gun actually fed from a multi-column clip which held 8 rows of 10 cartridges each, somewhat like a cross between a 1914 Fiat-Revelli and a Japanese Type 11 LMG. When first loaded, the first column of cartridges is engaged by a sort of rack and pulled up to the chamber one by one. After the 10th round is chambered, the entire clip is stepped to the right so that the second column of cartridges is in position to be fed upwards. When all the rounds have been fired, the now-empty clip is pushed out through a slot (with its own spring-loaded dust cover) on the right side of the feed box.
Action open, looking down on the toggle-locking mechanism
Right side – note small vertical door for clip ejection
Looking into the feed box. Note “rack” for lifting cartridges up the clip to the boltface and chamber
Clip, back side
Clip, front side. Each column holds 8 cartridges
Rear view of the feed box
Left side, with feed box door closed
Feed box door open, with empty clip inserted
The action of the gun itself is based on the Maxim MG08/18 air-cooled machine gun, using the same type of recoil-operated toggle lock, just scaled down to a the 9mm Parabellum pistol cartridge. Instead of having the recoil (fusee) spring on the outside of the gun, in this case it is located inside the buttstock, like many other more modern designs.
Pretty much nothing else is known about this gun, including who made it, exactly when, whether it ever saw field use, how many were made, and whether or not it actually worked effectively. Heck, I don’t even know what the proper name of it is…but it certainly is interesting and unusual. Thanks, Max!
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Daweo says:
At first glance i think that this gun is from post-apocalyptic movie or game, but on the other hand it is also steam-punk looking.
Note that this gun is designed also to provide more controllable full auto fire.
It would have been an appropriate prop for the “John Carter” movie.
Max Popenker says:
Ian, this gun fires 9×19 PPatr.08.
Euroweasel says:
Any info on how much it weighs? Will you put any other data you have on it on your excellent website? In any case, many thanks!
That gives us a constraint for its earliest possible date.
Pdb says:
The magazine looks quite large for a single 9mm round, it looks as if two could fit on each “tray” perhaps.
I say “tray” meaning the columns…
korblborp says:
it’s a bunch of stripper clips attached to a backplate
That is cool, Many thanks to Max for sharing it with us.
Daweo has already pointed out that the gun is adaptated for controllable automatic fire (inline layout and is that a swivel for mounting – aircraft? or ground position – perhaps in the role occupied by artillery lugers? or perhaps for supply crews?
It is tempting to draw analogies to “missing link” fossils, such as ground or tree dwelling dinosaur fossils with feathers, or archaeoptrix a feathered bird with clawed fingers on its wings and teeth in its mouth,
but that would be to ignore that the fossils were of critters which had successfully exploited ways of living, better than anything around them had up to that point.
Guns like this are exploring possible applications, for which there are probably better solutions too
and there may also be better applications for the gun too.
Like the roughly contemprary Villar – Perosa, this looks to be an attempt to scale down the conventional machinegun, complete with attachment to a tripod or other fixture, however the stock on this one does suggest that a more mobile use was also anticipated, but hardly to the highly mobile trench raiding and house clearing which evolved in conjunction with the more developed SMGS.
This is such a wonderful little gun and a link to such an interesting time in the development of guns.
David Carlson says:
Good observation! Is that a pintle mount under the wood pistol grip?
A very bizarre gun. Ingenious, certainly, but bizarre. Very “steam punk” indeed!
eon says:
It certainly looks like a pintle mount rod. Coupled with the sling bar on the left side of the barrel cooling jacket, and the fact that it has that cooling jacket, I’m almost inclined to think that it was originally intended as an “observer gun” for aircraft.
If so (and I don’t insist on it), the actual model number might be more like “08/15”. By 1916 the Germans had pretty much abandoned the idea of pistol-caliber MGs in aircraft, but they were considered a viable concept as late as mid-1915.
The sling would probably have been intended for attachment to a harness worn by the gunner to steady the gun in the slipstream.
Just a guess.
A good theory, but the front grip suggest that ground use was envisaged as well.
The front grip would be equally as useful in a mounted setup given the placement of the pintle.
With a high AA ring sight in a small aircraft cockpit or observer position? I can’t see how it would be useful.
EW;
A lot of flexible guns had a post front and notch rear, much like a ground gun. This was especially true of guns with shoulder stocks, which were fired in a stance much like a normal rifle. The flexible Lewis gun was one example.
This weapon’s sights would be consistent with that practice. Or ground use, as you point out.
Yes, you are right that especially early on many observer MGs had ground style sights, so if this really is a 1915 development, it would fit. Regardless, I still can’t see any use for the front grip in aircraft use.
Early on, observers learned that it generally takes both hands to control a “single” flexible gun in the air, less from recoil than the slipstream trying to “push” the gun around. The second grip up front would be for that use, especially because having the pintle mount on the main pistol grip doesn’t give the gunner very good leverage at the rear. Compare this setup to a single Lewis or Vickers VGO on a Scarff ring, and you can see the difference.
This design, if intended as an aircraft flexible gun, should have had a Lewis or Parabellum-type mount at the front of the receiver. Then again, in 1915 they didn’t know that yet, as aerial gunnery of all types was in its infancy.
This could have been one of the experimental designs that, when tested in actual aerial trials, showed them the right way to mount such a weapon, by making the drawbacks of this setup obvious.
Yes, it suppose it might be somewhat useful, although I would think holding onto the shoulder stock with your left hand would probably be as good if not better. Also, why the shoulder stock if the gun was designed for aircraft use? The Villar-Perosa had spade grips, which in my opinion would make much more sense. Later Lewis AA and flexible aircraft variants also dispensed with the shoulder stock and replaced it with a spade drip.
Well spotted about the barrel jacket.
Adding water cooling, complete with a condenser can would take the steam punk to an even higher level than this lovely little gun has already achieved.
Does anyone have an indifference engine to do the indirect fire calculations?
jamezb says:
“It is tempting to draw analogies to “missing link” fossils,”…Boy Keith, you said it, and nailed it.
Thank you all for bringing another amazing anachronism out into the light!
Note that for some reason the drum (Trommel) magazine of Luger pistol was not used. Do you know reason to rejection of drum magazine?
The Trommelmagazin 08 wasn’t all that reliable in feeding, as the German Army learned when they tried to use it on the Bergmann MP18 SMG. (Note how fast it was replaced by a proper “box” magazine on the MP18.1 aka MP28 version after the war.)
Also, it would have stuck out much further on the left side, with most of its weight in the “drum” section, thereby overbalancing what was probably a pretty cranky handful to manage to begin with.
Also, I’d expect a weapon like this, with a lightweight bolt/toggle assembly and short travel, to have a very high rate of fire even in 9x19mm PPatr.08. Probably roughly equal to that of the original Ingram-designed MAC 10 SMG in 9x19mm, or about 1,100 rounds per minute.
I can personally attest to how fast a “Mac Ten” can empty a 32-round magazine on full-auto, having done it a time or two. You just about get your wits collected enough to let up on the trigger when it goes dry, until you learn to “tap” the trigger to generate five-or-six-shot bursts. It’s much easier with an MP5 (even without a three-shot burst control on the trigger group), and dead easy with an MP 38/40, M3, Thompson M1928 or M2 Carbine, as they all have lower ROF. (Been there, done that.)
The large-capacity “Gardner”-type magazine of this widget was less of a problem as a weight on the left side due to being closer to the bore axis. And holding at least 80 rounds, allowed a decent number of bursts between reloads, which were apparently automatic anyway, with two “trays” in a loaded box giving 160 rounds total. At MAC 10 fire rates, that’s about eight or nine seconds’ worth of fire at 18 rounds/second.
Not a bad ROF for an aerial gun, actually. Almost up to the “twinned” Gast gun system (1,600 rounds/minute) of 1918. And with the slipstream and barrel jacket, plus the lower heat transfer of 9x19mm, barrel heating would have less of a problem than with the later rifle-caliber weapons.
Cool man, it looks like the “machineguns” we created as a kids in uncle’s garage from scrap metal and firewood.
omg,…
… doesn’t it though?
I like the magazine, a form of it might be ok in kind of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_G11
If it was mounted in the G11’s manner…
The feed hopper setup reminds me irresistibly of a Nordenfeldt or multiple-barrel Gardner. Basically their system turned on its side and given a spring-power option.
It also has some elements of both the Revelli M-1914 and the Japanese Type 11 (1922) MGs, the latter using a hopper feed that took the five-round stripper clips for the Type 38 (1905) Arisaka bolt-action rifle.
Exactly why Mauser would have come up with such a feed setup at that time, when they were already using fabric feed belts on the MG.08, is a very good question.
It might be another indicator that the gun was intended as an aircraft-mounted weapon. At the time, the German Army was concerned with loose belts being a problem in an airplane in flight. Mainly being thrown about by the slipstream and hitting the crew or a sensitive part of the airplane’s structure- like a fabric-covered wing or tailplane, for instance.
The “feed blocks”, by comparison, could be ejected through the slot in the right side of this weapon’s receiver and caught by a collector bag, more or less like ejected cartridge cases could be caught by a “brass-catcher” bag. This would keep them from being whipped backward by the slipstream and possibly damaging the aircraft’s empennage.
Again, just a guess.
Aircraft, pivot mount etc seems apt… Rear gunner or something, 9mm underpowered for aircraft… Possibly a model, with the notion to make something bigger. Bet a rear gunner in WW1 would have liked an An94, just saying he he.
That large foresight would suggest it wasn’t for firing from the hip also…
Kernowboy says:
Hi Pdb
I think I might have an explanation as to why an aircraft weapon (assuming that’s what this is) was chambered for such an inappropriate calibre
Basically there was a point in WWI when the need to arm the aircraft with an automatic weapon was widely known but due to weight constraints the pilots were very limited in what they could carry. There’s this anecdote I remember about a member of the R.F.C who took a Lewis gun up with him, the weight of the gun and ammunition meant that he took a whole hour to reach operational height on landing he was told to ditch it because of the damage to performance
Eventually engines got more powerful so you could mount rifle calibre machine guns on the aircraft but for a time I think a pistol calibre machine gun would have been considered better than just a rifle. I thought the Italians were the only ones to actually build one, never knew the Germans had experimented with the concept until now.
Early on, the Austrian Army Air Service experimented with Steyr M1911 9×22.8mm automatic pistols with extended (fixed) 16-shot magazines for air use. And the Royal Naval Air Service did likewise with M1911 Colt autos in .455in Webley Self-Loading caliber, with 20-shot magazines and “brass-catcher” cages attached to the right grip. (Smith, Small Arms of the World, 9th ed. [1969], p.149.)
As you state, weight was the main factor. But once more powerful aero engines like the Hispano and Oberursel came along in late 1915 and early ’16, the rifle-caliber machine guns rapidly superseded the pistol-caliber weapons, not to mention the side-by-side shotguns some early pilots favored.
At least one technical drawing exists of a twin Villar-Perosa built to take the Italian 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano cartridge. This may have been an experimental model; intended to “spike it up off its knees” and give it the range and power an aircraft flexible gun needed to begin with. And blowback or retarded-blowback rifle-caliber MGs were not unknown at the time, such as the Austrian Schwarzlose, Italian S.I.A., etc.
(In fact, both of those survived into WW2, along with several straight-blowback training LMGs used by the Japanese Army with reduced-charge 6.5mm Arisaka; the latter showed up in NKPA and Chinese PLA hands in Korea.)
AFAIK, no “rifle-caliber” VP was ever built, but the drawing shows that the idea was at least considered.
Oh, and BTW, the British Royal Flying Corps, always pound-phobic, issued Roth-Steyr M1907 8mm auto pistols to some of its pilots early in the war. Exactly where and how they came by them would be interesting to find out. The R-S, of course, had a searage and trigger action that was a forerunner of the modern Glock-type “Safe Action”.
Rather, chocks away! Chaps 🙂
Early AN94, two rounds in each column, one feeds, fires barrel moves back with toggle, toggle opens ejects the other fires before the barrel returns…
The first one in the column.
“Don’t know just a theory”
On the premise, the magazine looks over sized for a single 9mm round.
The rack thing, a sort of Treeby chain gun magazine mechanism is it… One round in front of the other, per rack lug if you will “said lug being in the middle of both rounds in each column”
Then the second, which is already positioned behind the magazine position if you follow me.
Ahem, cough… Er, I had assumed the round/s laid in the columns, laid flat, and you had multiple clips stacked on top of each other which moved across and up. Think that’s because I thought of the G11 straight away and imagined the rounds be as above per column but falling vertically into said Hk weapon, then the next clip. From this misperception, I thought two rounds per column one laid in front of the other.
C. Oelund says:
Oh great, just what I need. Another wildly strange gun that I can obsess over trying to figure out exactly how it works.
While on first glance this does look a lot like a MG08/15, it does appear to be quite a lot more than just a scaled down version of the action.
First of all, the gun is upside down (compared to a MG08). It looks like the ejection port is above the barrel, and the charging handle is forward while the bolt is closed (like on a Vickers)
Also, the MG08, like other Maxim guns, had a two stage feeding system where it would pull back the cartridge from the belt, put it in line with the barrel, and chamber it. This meant that the belt was located directly above the barrel. This SMG appears to be feeding from well behind the barrel, so it must be feeding the cartridge from the clip to the bolt once the bolt is at it’s rear most position.
Well you appear to know more about Maxims, guns etc than I C.Oelund so how does what you just said fit with what I suggested i.e. Think a Swiss Lmg25, but with two magazines… Barrel forward, chamber a round with the toggle, fire, barrel moves back with toggle, toggle opens ejects, toggle inline with rear magazine, toggle loads from this fires, rest of sequence similar to an An94 in away I know not what.
The magazine box is definitely not big enough to have two rows of cartridges.
I think it looks bigger than it actually is. The rear most part of it has room for the clip (which looks to be very thick), and the front of the box has what looks to be the clip-shifting feeding pawl that pushes the clip sideways once a row is empty.
So if you subtract those two empty spaces there really is just room for one clip.
You can also see this by the feeding comb at the end of the feeding box. If you look at the diameter vs length of each of those slots you can see that those match the dimensions of a single row of 9mm cartridges.
The Maxim guns have a recoil barrel. It is the recoiling movement of the barrel that breaks the toggle link and causes the gun to cycle. If you look at the picture of the right side of the gun, you can see a slot which the charging handle is sticking out of. this slot shows you how much the barrel is moving back every shot.
These clips does not allow the cartridges to be stripped forward (like from a magazine or a en-bloc clip) so the feeding mechanism will have to strip the round upward.
One way it could work is that it feeds it directly on to the breechface, since this looks like a more or less traditional Maxim design. This type of bolt does not have an extractor claw or ejector like you see in most other weapon designs. The breech face is a rail that the cartridges can slide into (muck like how the are held in a clip). The cartridge is held in place by the rail cutout in the breech face. once it’s fired the breech face is retracted, pulling the casing along with it. When it’s at the rear the breech face is raised putting the empty casing in line with the ejection port and a new cartridge in line with the chamber. the bolt moves forward poking the empty casing through the ejection port and the fresh cartridge into the chamber. Once fully forward the breech face slides down, releasing the empty casing (which drops out of the ejection port) and putting the fresh cartridge further up on the breech face.
(This is how it would work in a traditional maxim)
As for this SMG, this sort of feeding would be rather difficult because of the rearward placement of the feeding box. It would have to put the cartridge on the breech face while the bolt was moving backwards and before the breechface is lifted.
Another possibility is that it first strips a cartridge upward, then as the bolt moves forward it pushes this freshly stripped cartridge forward underneath the barrel. Then when the breechface is lowered (following the chambering of the previous cartridge) the bolt face would slide over the rim of the next cartridge.
This would give the cartridge a very interesting trip in the cycle of operation.
First it would be pushed upward from the clip, then it would be pushed forward underneath the chamber. Then it would be retracted and lifted up in line with the barrel and pushed forward into the chamber, once fired it would then be retracted again and lifted up in line with the ejection port before being pushed forward through the ejection port where it would finally be released by the breech face.
I’d like to stress that I’m just speculating here, and guessing how this could work based on these photos. I have no other evidence to go with so don’t take my word for it that this is how it actually works. (but do feel free to contribute to the speculations)
Hmmm, well… Well done for conceiving the “in out shake it all about” mechanism you allude to anyway he he 🙂
Aye, I think you have it about right C.Oelund. I should have looked at that Fiat gun first…
Maxims have recoiling barrels right? Via recoil booster, what’s that clump thing on the end of the barrel the foresight is attached to…
Barrel jacket…
That’s a very interesting point.
I was wondering earlier about the ability of 9mmp to both operate the short recoil system of this gun (there’s probably too little pressure left at the muzzle for a recoil intensifier to make any real use of it, especially as it needs to have room for a bullet that is .355″ diameter to get through, compared to .308 to .323 for a full size rifle case – even compensators on SMGs were more trouble than they were worth)
and not only to operate the recoil system but to index the feed trays as well!
I gather that there were some heavier loads for artillery lugers and luger carbines, I wonder whether this also required heavier loads, or whether the toggle geometry was adjusted place the pivots closer to a straight line than in the Luger and Borchardt pistols, to make for easier breaking of the toggle lock?
What if it was a “fancy” one, like off an An94… Just saying, what if? He he.
I think it’s 7.92 Mauser now.
Earl Liew says:
@ Max Popenker & Ian McCollum :
Many thanks for enlightening us on yet another of history’s unknown but wonderfully interesting prototype military weapons. Would it be too much to ask if the curators at Tula State University — via the good offices of Max Popenker — would be willing to provide further information on this particular gun and its history?
On another note, I cannot help but think that here on FW, many members of this blog have consistently forged friendships based on mutual interests which have expanded into stronger ties and a deeper understanding without diluting our respect for hard truths and facts, or failing to learn and appreciate and accept our many differences for that matter. I think a lot of this is based on simple openness and honesty, which is a truly wonderful thing. If only the politicians and other sanctimonious influential parties that dictate our everyday lives and relationships at a national and international level could understand this plain truth as so many on FW seem to do.
And I should add respect, regardless of differences, into this equation. In summary, real “give and take”, instead of always seeking the better end of a deal ( or argument ) vis-a-vis the other guy.
Thanks for posting this; it’s certainly something I never even knew existed before
Reading the comments on this site is an education in of itself; going by just the pictures I would personally have just assumed it was an over engineered smg and known nothing else. Having read the comments I’ve now got a pretty good idea of everything from how the loading mechanism might have worked to why the weapon was created in the first place.
I did have a thought about a way you could make a rough guess as to whether the weapon had seen any use in the field. Basically does anyone know the rough date when the weapon was acquired by Russia?
If the weapon was acquired during WWI you could make the assumption that the example on display in Tulsa must have been present close enough to the frontline for the Russians to capture it and therefore might have been undergoing combat trials or something when it was captured. Obviously if it was acquired after or during WWII the weapon was probably found in a collection somewhere and sent back to Russia when the Red army was rolling through Nazi Germany and so would have been less likely to see any frontline use.
It could also have been acquired in 1919-20, when all of the victorious Allied powers were scouring Germany for weapons technologies, much as they would do again in 1945-46. (Yes, even the Russians, in spite of fighting a civil war at the time.)
The difference was, the first time around, most of the “good stuff” was already on its way to front companies in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and elsewhere within weeks or even days after the Armistice. In fact, some of it left even before the last shot was fired at 1159 hrs Paris time, 11 November 1918. See The Machine Gun, Vol. 1, by George Chinn, and/or The Guns of the Third Reich by John Walter.
There is also the possibility that the first picture is incorrectly labeled and the gun isn’t German nor from the first world war. The phrase “Very probably” doesn’t exactly sound confident.
Most sides of the war used the Maxim, or a variation of it, so this wouldn’t be a technology that needed to be acquired from the Germans after the war.
The reason I’m beginning to think that it might not be German is that the pistol grip is quite different from the MG08/15 and /18, but the stock however does sort of resemble the stock seen on the Maxim-Tokarev.
Thanks for the reply Eon
I’d always just assumed that the Russians didn’t have any presence in Germany post WWI.
Assuming the weapon is German it must have a very interesting history even if it didn’t see combat use, changing hands from the Germans to the White Russians and then to the Reds.
I suppose we’ve got the Russian civil war to thank for the lack of documentation on the weapon’s origins.
Joe de Vicq says:
Ian, how can I keep the ads on the right side from obscuring part of the pictures and text?
Looking at the magazine clip, it has a rail running along its length horizontally. This rail, fits into a slot in the magazine housing. Which means the rounds in the columns, or a round sit vertically in the magazine?
Wait a minute, clips… You know normal ten round ones which you load Sa80 mags with, this guns magazine is a big clip. The columns must be lips to hold the rounds rim, you slot the cartridges in vertically so each column holds 10 rounds, ten columns means it holds 100 rounds. It’s rack thing engages one column at once, from the bottom pushing the rounds in that column up towards the chamber. When that column is empty, the magazines clip slides horizontally so the next column is inline with the rack.
I don’t think its 9 Luger.
“The gun actually fed from a multi-column clip which held 8 rows of 10 cartridges each, somewhat like a cross between a 1914 Fiat-Revelli and a Japanese Type 11 LMG. When first loaded, the first column of cartridges is engaged by a sort of rack and pulled up to the chamber one by one. After the 10th round is chambered, the entire clip is stepped to the right so that the second column of cartridges is in position to be fed upwards. When all the rounds have been fired, the now-empty clip is pushed out through a slot (with its own spring-loaded dust cover) on the right side of the feed box.”
Is that what Ian said, but the clip has ten rows holding say 8 cartridges in each row stacked vertically.
Ha, when I said vertically originally there I meant with the bullets pointing at the floor.
After careful consideration I still don’t think this gun was designed primarily for aircraft use. The shoulder stock and front grip are unnecessary and in fact detrimental in such use; for example the Villar-Perosa had spade grips. My theory (or rather hypothesis) after reading the various comments here is this:
The German army in WW1 didn’t have a true LMG like the Chauchat and Lewis. Even the MG 08/18 was more a medium machine gun on a bipod than a true light machine gun (similar to the WW2 RP-46 and M1919A6). The MG 08/18 and its crew probably had problems keeping up with the maneuvering elements.
Therefore, the weapon in question was designed the fill the “gap” in automatic weapons between the MG 08/18 and MP 18. It could be fired from the hip while advancing and the large “magazine” provided sufficient firepower for suppressive fire. 9x19mm Luger is good enough for providing suppressive fire up to 250 meters when fired from a long barrel. I don’t know the barrel length but it seems to be at least 250mm (≈10″), which would be enough for that purpose. The presence of the mount rod seems rather superfluous, but this was an experimental gun, so they probably played around with an idea of a lightweight tripod similar to the Italian SIA Mod. 1918 and Breda Mod. 24 a.k.a. Breda Mod. 5C (the latter was of course post-WW1).
The “rack” is to far away from the cartridges when the clip is inserted, to contact 9mm rounds if they protrude from said clip in my opinion.
Not necessarily Euroweasel, the odd stock and grips in conjunction with the extended sight in relation to pivot mount might be some sort of aiming off idea for moving targets.
9×57 Mauser… Perhaps, the toggle looks over sized for 9mm Luger, and a 9x19mm would have to recoil the long barrel, and actuate the “rack”
I think it would lack “umph”
And the rack is further away from the clip, than a 9mm Lugers overall length.
Scrap that, it’s not “that” big” hmmm…
I can imagine the rack thing being something like the treeby chain guns mag, with the chambers cut in half, and then the toggle actuating a knee joint sort of Swiss Lmg25 action to rotate it.
But 9mm pistol rounds might just be im contact with the rack, the ends of…
Maybe that has something to do with feeding, perhaps the rounds tip up.
Suppose you could possibly achieve umph…
Fidel Feederle says:
DWM/Mauser 1916/17 experimental model for the Ausschreibung 18/1 Maschinenpistole.
The Bergman model won the contract (simple, cheap and reliable) into production, thus known as MP18/1 despite it’s introduction in 1917.
DWM/Mauser 1916/17 experimental model for Ausschreibung 18/1 Maschinenpistole.
Interesting and valuable info! Could you please tell the source of that? Not that I doubt you, but it would be very interesting read.
The Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung Koblenz had an exhibition on “Die Maschinenpistole” some years back, apparently a scaled-down MG prototype was developed by DWM or Mauser for the 18/I (the contract number from the 1917 military budget). Nothing on display and I only memorized this oddity as a factoid due to it’s absurdly complicated mechanism compared to the Bergmann.
Bas Martens says:
The black-and-white picture you publish at the beginning of this article was taken by me in St. Petersburg, in the year 2000, and published in the book ‘The MP38, 40, 40/1 and 41 Submachine Guns’, volume 2 of The Propaganda Photo Series, from which this scan was taken. We all like credits for our work.
It is really fascinating to see a second example of this gun, together with the feed mechanism. This is really amazing. I have specualted that this design may stem from the Maschienfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg (M.A.N.).
I do not know of any DWM submachine guns developed during WWI. Which are documented are the Walther Model I and Model II, the Maschinenpistole Hoffmann, which has a somewhat similar feed mechanism as the ‘MP08/18’, the Schwarzlose, the M.P. Dreyse (Rheinmetall) and the Bergmann. Mauser made a trench carbine which was not really a submachine gun.
Maybe some of our heavyweights want to contact Mr Peter Dannecker via the Waffenmuseum Suhl/Inquiries.
http://waffenmuseumsuhl.de/index.php?option=com_facileforms&Itemid=46
http://www.amazon.de/Verschlusssysteme-von-Feuerwaffen-Peter-Dannecker/dp/3936632200
His writings on guns make him a go-to IMHO.
thank you for your input. Where i can find information on SMGs you mention, such as “Walther Model I and Model II, the Maschinenpistole Hoffmann, the Schwarzlose, the M.P. Dreyse (Rheinmetall)”…
I suppose the latter might be a prototype / predecessor to Rheinmetall MP.19, which in turn is a father to Steyr-Solothurn S1-100 / MP.30, but the rest is a mystery to me. Any leads will be greatly appreciated.
that is quite a complicated question. The Walther Model I and II pictures were found with a collector and the corresponding patents in the European patent office. The Hoffmann SMG drawings are in the German Militärchiv Freiburg, mentioning of the Schwarzlose SMG (and a 13 mm model of the machine gun) were made in the report of a Dutch officer about his visit to the Schwarzlose factory during WWI, the development of the two variants of the M.P. Dreyse is described in letters also found in the Militärarchiv Freiburg. I published pictures and information in a series of articles in SAM-Wapenmagazine. the Dutch-language arms magazine of which I am the publisher and editor. Alas, no one reads Dutch …
I will offer these articles to Small Arms Review to make them available to a broader public.
may I contact you off-site (i.e. via email) to get some details on these weapons? I’m working on a Russian-language book about SMGs and this subject (early and experimental SMGs) is of great interest to me.
no problem, my public mail adress is info@samwapenmagazine.nl, which is published at my website as well.
mail sent, thanks!
Mu says:
Couple of thoughts on this. The idea of an early 1915 airplane gun seems unlikely, the SMG concept didn’t come up until 1917. The assignment to Germany seems to be solely based on the similarities to the 08/15, but the gun doesn’t show any of the typical German markings, not even parts numbering. And Germany at the end of WWI was not in ruins, there was no Kriegsmodel last ditch guns, and most records survived. Also, the assignment as a 9mm Luger seems odd if you’re looking at the complex locking mechanism, you’d expect a much more powerful cartridge in that. Combine the need for a locked mechanism and the current location of the gun an experimental USSR model for the 7.62 Tokarev, maybe as vehicle close defense weapon, sounds more likely.
The 7.62×25 Tokarev was developed only in 1930 and it doesn’t require locking mechanism any more than 9x19mm when used in SMGs, where installing a heavy bolt is not an issue. All the Soviet WW2 SMGs in 7.62mm Tokarev were simple (straight) blowback weapons.
In fact there is even a straight blowback pistol chambered for 9x19mm +P, the Hi Point C-9. While heavy and not the most sophisticated handgun available, it does work.
believe it or not, the gun on photos IS chambered for 9×19
Did you hear about the German anvil? It’s electro-hydraulically operated and has twelve moving parts. 😉
Magus says:
That is one bizarre gun. Can’t imagine why even the complexity-inclined Germans would think this was a good feed mechanism for an SMG.
Ironically, it may have very well been more reliable than the Trommelmagazin 08, which was designed for semi-auto fire and didn’t work at all reliably with the MP 18/I. There are stories that soldiers rather used the standard 8 round P-08 magazines in the MP 18, because they at least would work. Having 2 or 3 bursts worth of ammo is much better than having the gun jamming on you on the first burst…
No offence meant, but being a historian, and having fired the MP18, 1 with drum magazine several times without failures (not in the trenches, that is) can you give a source for these stories?
If you want a reliable primary source, I can’t give you one. I read about it in here: http://guns.connect.fi/gow/suomikp4.html
“Monet konepistoolia käyttäneet rynnäkköjoukkojen miehet olivat tyytyneet kahdeksan patruunan pistoolinlippaisiinkin, jotka toimivat nelinkertaisesti tilavampaa rumpulipasta luotettavammin.”
That translates to (Google translate does not cope with Finnish very well):
Many men of the assault troops* armed with an SMG settled for eight round pistol magazines, which functioned more reliably than the drum magazine with four times larger capacity.
* Meaning Stosstruppen
The writer, P.T. Kekkonen, was a far right winger (though not a Fascist) and self-confessed racist of the 19th century type, but he did not invent stuff about firearms from thin air, so he must have read it somewhere. Unfortunately he did not provide sources for his articles; he was not a historian but a firearms writer.
It’s an odd bird for sure. I’m wondering if we’re mistaking this for a SMG because of the front grip which might not actually be one. There seems to be no good ergonomic way to use it as a grip, what makes me think it’s really a bump protector for the feed mechanism. There has to be some intricate mechanical link between feed box and reciprocating bolt which probably didn’t take well to misalignment.
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My theory: this would be some kind of firing port weapon and probable anti-air deterrent for a Tank or Armoured vehicle.
It has a variety of features that would assist it in many of these departments:
1) It’s incredibly short, making it highly compact and easily fitted within the tight constraints of a vehicle
2) It’s 9mm, ammo which is lighter and smaller, therefore more can be carried in a vehicle
3) It has some kind of adapter / mount on the bottom, possibly for use even on the external part of a vehicle for anti-air work, but also possibly internal
4) The tall forward sights are undoubtedly for long-range fire, such as against distant targets OR aircraft, NOT AT ALL for trench raiding
5) The large capacity and odd reloading mechanism are overkill for a trench raiding weapon (very few SMGs have an 80-round capacity and/or an excessively slow reload.)
6) The forward grip is probably there for should the crew need to abandon their vehicle and protect themselves; the weapon becomes a sub-machine gun quickly (or PDW rather)
7) The odd metal handle on the top of the stock is likely used for keeping the weapon in place when maneuvering the vehicle outside of combat
8) The folding nature of the front sight would be necessary for inserting / removing the weapon from a firing port when inside a vehicle
I think it would be a weapon that a Tanker would’ve loved to have. It’s compact, the same volume of ammo takes up less space than the 7.92mm, and is versatile in that it can quickly be
transformed from the firing port into an air-defense gun or personal-defense gun.
Watcher says:
I think it can be one of the unknown SMG (MP-18 competitors) by DWM, Dreyse or Schwarzlose.
Tim Hayes says:
This looks like something out of Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan series.
Alf Herod says:
Are you aware that the patent for this has been found?
This is the Maschinenpistole Swarzlose. Mentioned in text from Dutch and Swedish officers during the war. Patent filed after the war, in 1920.
Apparently developed for the Austrians. Are you sure it’s for 9mm parabellum? 9 mm Steyr seems likely.
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No. 9 Princeton (11-4, 5-0 Ivy) 0 1 1 1 3
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Senior Casey Allen recorded her fifth goal of the season against Princeton this afternoon.
2nd - 23:11 - Allen, Casey (Harvard)
2nd - 29:19 - Davey, Hannah (No. 9 Princeton)
3rd - 33:47 - Earle, Maddie (Harvard)
3rd - 40:53 - Popper, Sammy (No. 9 Princeton)
OT - 47:10 - Neff, MaryKate (No. 9 Princeton)
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Sv: Ellie Shahbo - 5
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In a matchup of the two top teams in the Ivy League, No. 14 Harvard (10-4, 4-1 Ivy League) field hockey fell, 3-2, to No. 9 Princeton (11-4, 5-0 Ivy League) at Berylson Field on Saturday afternoon.
Seniors Casey Allen and Maddie Earle scored for the Crimson, while sophomore goalkeeper Ellie Shahbo made five saves.
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Casey Allen matched her career high with her fifth goal of the season.
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One of the most picturesque golf clubs in the UK, Isle of Barra GC in Scotland, could close as it is down to just 15 members.
Muirfield loses The Open
Members of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers (HCEG), the world’s oldest golf club, have voted to remain a men only club. Consequently The Open will not be staged there again until it allows women to join as members.
Whisky a go go!
It's the Brigadier here, and I’m up in glorious Inverness-shire to sample some fine golf and even finer whisky. I’ve had a lifetime’s training for this trip and I’m properly ready. I was born to do this.
Jean Van de Velde returns to Carnousite
Jean Van de Velde will turn 50 later next month, which will make him eligible for the Senior event the week after July's Open Championship. And where will that be? Well, Carnoustie of course!
Maybole Municipal could be forced to close
Apr 3rd, 2016
Municipal Maybole Golf Club has been in existence since 1905 and at the Memorial Park since 1924, but its future is now uncertain due to pressure on budgets at South Ayrshire Council.
Tiger announces first outings for 2020
Tiger Woods will open his account for 2020 and quest for his record breaking 83rd tour title at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines from 23rd to 26th January. Woods last seen leading Team USA to victory at the Presidents Cup will then head to the Genesis Open at the Riviera Country Club in mid-February.
Ping signs Eddie Pepperell
Ping has signed up Eddie Pepperell on a multi-year equipment deal. Eddie will be all Pinged up , as it were, as he will be wearing a Pink hat and carry a Ping staff bag as well as playing the clubs. It seems Eddie’s antics on Twitter also endeared him to the bosses at Ping and once again he amused his audience with an offer to Prince Harry.
European Tour events in danger
The European Tour has a real headache on its hands following Iran’s recent threats to "destroy" parts of the United Arab Emirates if there is retaliation after the attacks they launched on Iraq in reprisal for the US killing of Qassem Soleimani.
GolfPunk’s Hall of Shame 2019
2019 is behind of us but it was not a great display by some who let down our great game and so have been inducted into the GolfPunk Hall of Shame. So which five golfers find themselves with the unwanted invite?
History made with LET Event in Saudi Arabia
Well they’ve had the boxing, Tiger and Rory have declined big pay days to play there and now Saudi has made history by announcing the first-ever professional women’s golf event in the Kingdom. The fully-sanctioned Ladies European Tour event will be staged in collaboration with Golf Saudi and the Saudi Golf Federation and carry a purse of $1 million.
The trophy that set Twitter buzzing
When Peter Fowler picked up the winner’s trophy at the MCB Tour Championship it was not his golf that was centre stage in the post event online discussions. The trophy Fowler received is apparently inspired by the coc de mer or Seychelles’ nut but did they seriously not realise what else it might resemble?
Stewart Golf launch HottMitt
We must say we like the look of the new Stewart Golf HottMitt. Who wouldn’t want toasty warm hands on the golf course? The mobile phone or device holder and charger does look like a bit of techfoolery (Is that a new word? - Ed) but each to their own. But might there be other uses?
adidas pushing the boundaries
Dec 2nd, 2019
The guys at adidas are not known for being shrinking violets and their new limited edition Collection (Zero) will certainly raise some eyebrows. The collection will certainly push the boundaries on the definition of what performance apparel can look like on the golf course.
Most valuable putts in golf
This weekend the biggest winner’s cheque on Tour were nabbed by Jon Rahm on the European Tour and Kim Sei-young on the LPGA Tour. Check out how both closed out their respective events and raked in a rather obscene amount of cash.
Golf Joke of the week
Derek The Donkey, GolfPunk's grumpy horse-envier once again delivers his 'Joke of the Week'. As you know he likes nothing better than a proper good laugh as long as it's at someone else's expense...
GolfNow takeover TeeOff
GolfNow the biggest online tee time agency in the golf industry has grabbed an even bigger share of the market following the acquisition of EZLinks Golf by GolfNow owner, NBC Sports Group. Part of the EZLinks Golf portfolio is the online tee time booking platform TeeOff. So, what does this consolidation signal to the golf industry?
Galvin Green go er, Green
The folk at Galvin Green, in keeping with their name, are enhancing their environmental credentials by introducing a collection of golf wear using high-performance fabric that is left over from the production of its comprehensive core range. The UpCycle Edition collection consists of a limited number of garments for both men and women.
Golf Course vandalised
A golf club is counting the cost of a horrific attack on their greens by mindless vandals. Seven of the greens at Oldham Golf Club were hacked at with what appears to have been a golf club or clubs. The distressing pictures were posted by the club on their social media feeds.
A golf shop but not as we know it
Honma, that premium brand from Japan has just launched its first shop in Paris. However, it is no American Golf, or standard pro shop, and it would not look out of place on London’s Bond Street. In fact, we would not be surprised if we saw George Clooney walking out of it with a Nespresso in one hand and a Honma wedge in the other.
Pepperell's Tin Cup moment
There has been much talk about Eddie Pepperell’s Tin Cup moment at the Turkish Open at the weekend. For those of you who have not ready about it, European Tour joker Eddie had a minor meltdown at the par five 4th hole(his 12th). hitting four or five balls into the water. Pepperell ran out of balls, walked off the course and was disqualified.
Annika Sorenstam making history again
Stop Press: Sweden’s Annika Sorenstam is set to become the first female professional to compete in the PNC Father Son Challenge. We’ve just picked the Brigadier up off the floor spluttering something about it never happening at West Hill or something. Yes, it is called a father son event but this is 2019 and actually the fairer sex has competed before.
Pepperell finds motivation in Portugal!
Eddie Pepperell must have mixed memories of Portugal Masters after missing the cut and losing his card in 2016. However, this year he appears to have found an innovative way to motivate himself, wagering Martin Kaymer about appearing on the Television Show First Dates.
Day wins the Japan Skins!
Jason Day gets in private jet, hot foots it from CJ Cup in China where he was 31st and then beats Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and home favourite Hideki Matsuyama to the spoils taking home $210,000 of the $350,000 pot. Happy Days then (do you see what we did there?)! Well perhaps for Jason but not really for golf as the inaugural 'The Challenge: Japan Skins' lived up to our pretty low expectations.
GolfPorn: Coeur d'Alene Golf Resort, Idaho
It's GolfPorn time! This time we're at the famous floating green at the 14th hole of the Coeur d'Alene Golf Resort, Idaho.
The Challenge: Japan Skins
Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day and Hideki Matsuyama will go head to head in a globally televised skins game, the first in a series of annual competitions staged by GOLFTV. "The Challenge: Japan Skins" will take place on the 21st October ahead of the PGA Tour's Zozo Championship at Accordia Golf Narashino C.C. in Chiba, Japan, and we will not be watching.
Cobra brings the T-RAIL
Cobra Golf today unveiled T-RAIL (Transitional Rail) its first, all-hollow iron-hybrid set, taking super game improvement clubs to the next level. T-RAIL, so they say, combines the forgiveness of a Cobra Baffler hybrid with the precision of an iron in a one-of-a-kind set of clubs that are designed for anyone looking for a better game.
Anika and Henrik’s Scandinavian Mixed
There has been much debate about parity for women golfers and there have been attempts to move in the right direction, for example the Jordan Mixed Open and the ISPS Handa World Invitational promoted by Niall Horran’s Modest media. With all respect to these other events, finally, there is a big one with some serious money attached.
Bentley Centenary Collection Clubs Going Fast
We love a bit of luxury at GolfPunk, particularly if someone else is paying, but the idea that you could actually use clubs that cost the price of an average family car is not something which we could ever comprehend.
Next generation of KING Forged TEC Irons
Cobra Golf today introduced its next generation of KING Forged TEC Irons, featuring a traditional muscle-back shape with a hollow design for softer feel and improved power preferred available in a variable or ONE Length set make-up.
Hero Women's Indian Open Final
A year after finishing tied for second in the Hero Women’s Indian Open, Christine Wolf enjoyed a much happier experience at DLF Golf and Country Club as she claimed her first Ladies European Tour title. The 30-year-old Austrian, who had led by three going into the 18th hole 12 months ago before a nightmare double-bogey wrecked her chances, was able to take care of unfinished business.
14 Club Challenge: Ryder Cup Captains Special
We love a good 14 club challenge at GolfPunk. We’re not very good at them but watching the pro’s go at it is always a scream, especially when they manage to hit the green with a putter or equally unsuitable club!
Hero Women’s Indian Open Day 2
Australia’s Whitney Hillier carded a one-under round of 71 to claim a one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Hero Women’s Indian Open. She leads by a single shot from Norway’s Marianne Skarpnord with Linda Wessberg of Sweden and Meg MacLaren of England a further shot back.
Christine Wolf shot an excellent five-under-par 67 in the third round of the Hero Women’s Indian Open to take a one stroke lead into the final round at DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurugram. The 30-year-old Austrian will be determined to make amends for last year when she dumped her third shot into the water at the 18th to take a double bogey and lose the event by two shots.
GolfPorn: West Cliffs Golf Links
10th hole West Cliffs Golf Links, 372 yards, Par 4.
The most expensive finger in golf?
Poor old Bio Kim. The Korean who is leading the money list on the Korean tour, has been handed a three-year suspension for raising his middle finger at members of the crowd at the weekend. This seems a rather harsh punishment and will cost the young man a lot of dosh.
It’s getting cold out there
As we head into October there is a definite chill in the air and those hopes of an Indian Summer might be waning. With this in mind the stylish, but practical, folk at adidas have introduced their Frostguard Collection. A new layering collection for both men and women that was designed to help golfers extend their golf seasons during the colder months of the year.
Titleist Releases latest innovation
Not happy with having the most popular golf ball those clever chaps at Titleist continue to push the boundaries of ball technology. The Titleist Golf Ball Research & Development team were thrown into a room and told they could not come out until they came up with a new golf ball. The result, the Experimental EXP•01 Golf Ball.
ESTRELLA DAMM MEDITERRANEAN LADIES OPEN FINAL
Only a fortnight after playing her part in Europe’s Solheim Cup victory at Gleneagles, Carlota Ciganda claimed the Estrella Damm Mediterranean Ladies Open at Terramar Golf Club in Sitges, Spain to add another unforgettable moment to her remarkable career.
ALFRED DUNHILL LINKS CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL
Victor Perez became the first French winner of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship after one of the most exciting finishes in the history of the event, winning by one shot from England’s Matthew Southgate at St Andrews. Whilst, at the same time, Rory McIlroy, finishing tied for 26th place complains to the BBC that the European Tour is too easy.
Alfred Dunhill Links Championship Day 3
England’s Matthew Southgate and Victor Perez of France take a two shot lead into the final round at the Old Course, St Andrews in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Perez shot his second 64 of the week at Kingsbarns Golf Links to move to twenty under and was joined at the top of the leaderboard by Southgate who birdied his final hole at St Andrews to card a 65.
Luckiest Golf shot ever?
Businessman Jeremy Ord from South Africa's had an outrageous slice of luck when playing the short 13th hole at Kingsbarns Golf Links. Ord was playing alongside professional Branden Grace in the team event in Scotland when he came close to a hole-in-one following a number of lucky breaks.
Lacoste Ladies Open Final
Sep 23rd, 2019
Nelly Korda shot a four-under 67 to win the Lacoste Ladies Open to take her first European Title. Blustery conditions made it challenging at Golf du Medoc and despite being in a final round containing two local favourites, Korda managed to hold off Joanna Klattern and Céline Boutier for her maiden win on this side of the pond.
Jet Black Collection lands in Europe
Following the debuting of the Titleist 2020 branding at the FedEx Cup playoffs the rather sleek looking bags are being launched on the European Tour at this week’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. We still want one!
Ryder Cup countdown begins
European Captain Padraig Harrington has named Robert Karlsson as his first vice captain for The 2020 Ryder Cup against the United States at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin next September. Karlsson twice played in the Ryder Cup, in the victorious 2006 team that crushed the USA at the K Club and on the losing side two years later at Valhalla.
Solheim Cup Opening Ceremony
The teams were introduced, the crowds were bedecked in the colours of the teams and Sharleen Spiteri and Texas hit the stage to liven up proceedings. First points in the fashion stakes probably went to Europe with their mid length coats and Solheim Cup tartan scarves winning it out over the the not quite so flattering short jackets of Team USA. A real spectacle indeed and here are some of the best images.
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GolfPorn: Gleneagles
Gleneagles 13th hole The Queen's Course. A par 3, 140 yard piece of GolfPorn!
Consecutive Holes-in-one
Two Foxhills members both hit a hole-in-one on the same hole with consecutive shots. Apparently, the odds of this happening are millions to one although we must confess, we haven’t a clue how that is calculated.
GOLFPORN: SENTOSA GOLF CLUB
With stunning views of the China Sea along with the city skyline Sentosa Golf Club is home of the Singapore Open and more recently has been the venue for the HSBC Women’s World Championship.
Cleveland Frontline Range
Sep 3rd, 2019
Cleveland wedges are definitely always in the mix when you think about premium tour products and we loved their recent CBX 2 launch aimed at the slightly more regular golfers amongst us. What they aren’t as well known for are their top of the line putters and perhaps, with the new Frontline range, that is about to change?
New Huntington Beach Putters
The techies at Cleveland believe that the keys to success are control and feel which gives confidence in putting and their new Huntington Beach SOFT range does just that, so that we make more putts, "plain and simple!"
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Rory and Justin play in the sand
What happens when you pair one of the world’s biggest pop stars with the world’s number two golfer at a Pro-Am event? Well it’s no joke but what you actually get is a lesson in bunker play in the middle of the round, oh and a very near miss!
Inkster goes for experience in Solheim
The Solheim Cup is just three weeks away and Team USA captain, Juli Inkster, used her picks to add some experience to her rookie Solheim Cup line up last night. This will be Stacy Lewis’ fifth Solheim Cup and Morgan Pressel’s sixth.
Ko Wins CP Women’s Open
World number one, Jin Young Ko, walked arm in arm up to the 18th green at the CP Women’s Open yesterday with defending champion and local girl Brooke Henderson, as she cruised to a five shot lead over her nearest rival, Denmark’s Nicole Broch Larsen, to confirm that she is in her class of her own on the LPGA Tour this year.
World Invitational Golf
Local favourite Stephanie Meadow will take a four shot lead into the final round of the ISPS HANDA World Invitational. The 27-year-old from Jordanstown, Northern Ireland shot a six under par 67 to sit on ten under for the event, four clear of England’s Eleanor Givens. In the men’s event, Damien Perrier of France and Todd Clement of England lead the field by a single shot following another long day with rain delays at Galgorm Castle.
Bojo golfing for Brexit?
Reports indicate our erstwhile Prime Minister, The Right Honourable Boris Johnson MP, has been learning to develop his golf game as part of a strategy to help him secure a trade deal with the US and presumably other nations headed by golf addicted leaders.
ISPS HANDA World Invitational
Scotland’s Craig Ross and England’s Eleanor Givens are the first round leaders lead in the The ISPS HANDA World Invitational, both carding an impressive 6 under par. Ross shot an impressive birdie free round of 64 Massereene Golf Club while Givens had seven birdies and one solitary bogey in carding a 67 at Galgorm Castle Golf Club.
ISPS HANDA World Invitational Men | Women
It has rather flown under the radar but yesterday the ISPS HANDA World Invitational event for both men and women teed of at Galgorm Castle Golf Club and Massereene Golf Club. A first for golf in Europe as women will play alongside (sort of) the men and will play for the same money.
Solheim Cup Captain’s Picks
Following the Ladies Scottish Open the first eight players have been confirmed for the 2019 European Solheim Cup team. This afternoon the Team Europe captain Catriona Matthew will break some hearts and delight others as she makes her four captain’s picks. But GolfPunk have it covered, so you can relax Catriona as these are the picks!
TaylorMade TP Patina Putter Collection
TaylorMade are on a roll, of that there can be little doubt and when the TP Patina Putter collection drops you can be sure it will cause more than a little stir. The marketing bumpf is all well and good, but well, just look at them.
Golf Porn: Prince's Golf Club
In 2018, Prince’s unveiled the newly-redeveloped Himalayas nine having undertaken a significant redesign by renowned international golf course architects Mackenzie & Ebert. A year on, the results are looking pretty impressive.
Top 5 Slowest Golfers Revisited
Ok we are not going to let this one drop. Slow play is killing our game and the lead must come from the professional ranks. In the second round of the Northern Trust, Bryson DeChambeau took it to another level.
Them in charge need to do something!
As we start the end of season scramble, which is the Fedex Cup playoff, starting first at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, the problem of slow play rears its ugly head once again. Both Rory and Brooks were asked in yesterday’s interviews about the problem and neither of them held back their criticism and the need for the governing bodies to take action.
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Electronic Healthcare Records , HIPAA/HITECH , Standards, Regulations & Compliance
If EHR Incentive Program Ending, What's Next?
Sizing Up Impact a New Regulatory Approach Will Have on Privacy, Security Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • January 13, 2016
Andy Slavitt of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
A federal official's comments this week that the government is "ending" the HITECH Act's "meaningful use" incentive program for electronic health records is raising numerous questions.
For example, how soon might the program, which has provided nearly $32 billion in incentive payments, be phased out? And will its privacy and security provisions, including an emphasis on risk assessments, as well as related standards for EHR software functionality be replaced by new regulations?
Some security experts are already calling on the federal government to use the transition to impose tough new requirements to protect patient records.
In a Jan. 11 speech, Andy Slavitt, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, noted: "Now that we effectively have technology into virtually every place care is provided, we are now in the process of ending meaningful use and moving to a new regime culminating with the MACRA implementation," referring to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.
MACRA is designed to change how Medicare pays providers by such steps as creating a new framework for rewarding healthcare providers for giving better care, not more just more care.
"We will be putting out the details on this next stage over the next few months," Slavitt said. "The focus will move away from rewarding providers for the use of technology and toward the outcome they achieve with their patients."
In 2016, MU as it has existed-- with MACRA-- will now be effectively over and replaced with something better #JPM16
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In his speech, he also noted, "Technology must be user-centered and support physicians, not distract them. ... One way to aid this is by leveling the technology playing field for start-ups and new entrants. We are requiring open APIs in order [that] the physician desktop can be opened up and move away from the lock that early EHR decisions placed on physician organizations [to] allow apps, analytic tools, and connected technologies to get data in and out of an EHR securely.
Slavitt also stressed the importance of ensuring the interoperability of EHR systems to ease the sharing of data. "We will begin initiatives in collaboration with physicians and consumers toward pointing technology to fill critical use cases like closing referral loops and engaging a patient in their care. And technology companies that look for ways to practice 'data blocking' in opposition to new regulations will find that it won't be tolerated."
Trial Balloon?
Some security and privacy experts say Slavitt's comments create a great deal of uncertainty.
"CMS is hoisting trial balloons on fundamental changes to meaningful use that will create anxiety and uncertainty throughout the healthcare industry," says privacy attorney David Holtzman, vice president of compliance at the security consulting firm CynergisTek. Pressure on the Department of Health and Human Services from Congress, which has been scrutinizing whether the massive investment in the HITECH incentive program has been worth it, could be a factor in CMS's apparent re-evaluation of the program's future, he adds.
"Reading the tea leaves, there seems to be consensus developing in the Congress to take action to repeal Stage 3 [of meaningful use]," he notes. "My view is that HHS is taking a pragmatic approach to managing what comes next by moving forward in the transition to MACRA sooner rather than later."
The development of the MACRA standards provides an opportunity to incentivize adoption of stronger patient data safeguards, Holtzman says. That includes "requiring encryption on all end-user devices and workstations on which e-PHI is stored, adopting two-factor authentication to ensure that only authorized users have access to patient data and requiring assessing cybersecurity threats through use of National Institute of Standards and Technology's CyberSecurity Risk Assessment Framework."
Jay Trinckes, senior practice lead at security consulting firm Coalfire, says he'd like to see the meaningful use program replaced with "a mandatory, comprehensive" validation/certification process for all systems that create, receive, maintain or transmit electronic protected health information. "If a system touches ePHI, it needs to be assessed and come with a 'validated-secure label' before a healthcare organization is permitted to utilize the software/solution to manage ePHI," he suggests.
The biggest impact of the meaningful use program so far has been to wake up some healthcare providers about the importance of security and privacy, says Dan Berger of the security consulting firm Redspin. "Although the HIPAA Security Rule had been in effect since 2005, the MU program was a key driver in refocusing the attention of providers on security requirements, particularly the necessity of conducting a HIPAA risk analysis," he says.
Unfortunately, some smaller provider organizations' interest in conducting a risk assessment has been fueled only by qualifying for meaningful use incentive dollars, says Tom Walsh, founder of consulting firm tw-Security. "We see smaller providers that struggle every day just to keep their doors open for business. Once meaningful use ends, so will their efforts to maintain risk analysis at least on an annual basis. It is not as if they don't care or don't understand the value in doing a risk analysis; they just don't have the resources to get it done."
The meaningful use program provided both "the carrot and the stick" to encourage good security practices, Walsh says. "Many organizations used their MU incentive money to enhance their privacy and security posture by purchasing new products, tools and services. With operating budgets getting tighter, smaller healthcare organizations will still need help in securing their environments. Security isn't cheap. Without the MU program, now all the government has is 'the stick,' - fines, penalties for [HIPAA] noncompliance or breaches," he says.
Details Scarce
CMS officials declined to offer Information Security Media Group specific details about its plans for phasing out the meaningful use program beyond the public comments Slavitt made.
CMS last October published rules for Stage 3 of the meaningful use program and modifications for 2015 through 2017.
A CMS spokesman said the Stage 3 rule "moves us beyond the staged approach of 'meaningful use' by 2018 and helps us collectively move forward to a system based on the quality of care delivered, as opposed to quantity. We will use feedback [from the healthcare sector] to inform future policy developments for the EHR incentive program, as well as consider it during rulemaking to implement MACRA, which we expect to release in the spring of 2016, and other rulemaking as appropriate."
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT also declined to comment on the future of the Health IT certification program - which certifies whether software used by healthcare providers to qualify for meaningful use incentives meet certain technology requirements, including those pertaining to security and privacy.
Editor's Note: On Jan. 19, CMS and ONC officials posted a blog clarifying that proposed regulations to replace the meaningful use rules won't be released until the spring. So for now, "existing regulations - including meaningful use Stage 3 - are still in effect."
Electronic Healthcare Records
Will FFIEC Revamp Cyber Assessment Tool?
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
Executive Editor, HealthcareInfoSecurity
McGee is executive editor of Information Security Media Group's HealthcareInfoSecurity.com media site. She has about 30 years of IT journalism experience, with a focus on healthcare information technology issues for more than 15 years. Before joining ISMG in 2012, she was a reporter at InformationWeek magazine and news site, and played a lead role in the launch of InformationWeek's healthcare IT media site.
HHS Reveals Draft of 5-Year 'Strategic Health IT Plan'
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Fostering international dialogue on drug policies
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Broadening the scientific basis
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CSU politician Daniela Ludwig has been the Federal Government's Drug Commissioner since 18th September 2019. She succeeded Marlene Mortler (CSU), who was elected to the European Parliament in May 2019. The Drug Commissioner coordinates the Federal Government's drug and addiction policy. She is also the patron of the Global Partnership for Drug Policies and Development and coordinates its activities together with the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Daniela Ludwig advocates a holistic drug policy at home and abroad that is strongly oriented towards health and development policy guidelines – people are at the centre. German drug policy is based on four complementary pillars: prevention of drug use, counselling and treatment of drug users, harm reduction and prosecution. The Drug Commissioner promotes the concept of harm reduction in the international dialogue.
International drug policy also affects people at the beginning of the illegal supply chain: small farmers. Drug policy is therefore also development policy. Germany plays a pioneering role worldwide in development cooperation to promote Alternative Development - a concept that addresses the causes of drug cultivation and promotes alternative sources of income for small farmers dependent on drug cultivation. On behalf of the BMZ, the Global Partnership for Drug Policy and Development is promoting the implementation of a health and development policy on drugs and is supported by its patron.
Dialogue on drug policies
18.12.2019 "Speed Limits" study receives international attention and paves the way for paradigm shift
Although the consumption of stimulants is increasing worldwide, there has been little research on how harm reduction measures affect the risks of consuming. The Global Partnership on Drug Policies and Development (GPDPD) therefore funded a study in 2018 that evaluates successful examples from five continents and over 1,500 academic papers.
15.11.2018 What is Sustainable Alternative Development (AD)?
What is Sustainable Alternative Development (AD) and how does it transform the life of people in drug crop cultivating communities? The Mae Fah Luang Foundation with support of the Global Partnership on Drug Policies and Development explains how the AD approach can diversify livelihood opportunities to help impoverished and marginalised communities to thrive. AD puts people and their needs at the centre and offers a holistic solution to address the root causes of illicit drug crop cultivation while fostering sustainable development in balance with the environment.
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Trish Takacs knows paint. Before becoming a kitchen and bath designer 10 years ago, she was a muralist who created art on the walls of shopping malls and other places. This honed her eye for detail and paint, which has served her in good stead as a designer and made her all the more appreciative of the custom finishes that Grabill is able to offer. “That is one of the things about Grabill — their paint is gorgeous,” she says.
Trish works as a senior designer for Kitchen Kraft in Columbus, Ohio, and recently enjoyed working with a young couple that is growing a family with two young boys and a couple of big dogs. Their immediate needs were a larger cooking space that made it easier for family and friends to gather around, a bigger laundry room and, somehow, an easier way to bathe their dogs (each weighs in at more than 100 pounds). They had a dog tub with sides three feet off the ground that was making bath time a real challenge.
The couple also had an eye for symmetry and wanted a bright and reflective atmosphere with a warm feel to it. Fortunately there was space to grow the kitchen, and Trish helped it grow further by adding two feet to one of the walls, which also extended the space of the laundry room on the other side. The cabinetry they decided upon featured maple shaker doors with three-inch stile and rail. The wall cabinets were all topped with double-stacked crown molding. The perimeter kitchen cabinets and the cabinets, shelves and cubbyholes in the laundry room were all finished is Grabill’s Super White.
One critical piece of the design was a bigger island with enough counter space for the whole family and some friends to sit around. Other functional elements desired by the client included drawers with a peg system for storing everyday dishes right next to the island dishwasher, extra trash and recycling bins, and additional lighting that included under-cabinet lighting, recessed can lights and beautifully styled pendants over the island and the kitchen table.
Grabill’s expertise with custom designed details was never more helpful than with the laundry room, according to Trish. The laundry room was redesigned to serve as the growing family’s mudroom that included a shower stall for their dogs (good for dirty kids too!), along with cabinets and places to store cleaning tools and supplies as well as coats, boots and other clothing. “The laundry room was redesigned several times in trying to come up with a solution about how we could include all these elements while still leaving plenty of space to move around,” said Trish. “The great thing is — Grabill is really easy to work with in coming up with different ideas. I’d say, ‘here’s what I want to design’ and they’d say, ‘no problem. Just send us a drawing. If you can draw it, we can build it.’ “
“Just having Grabill to work with all the appliances in a design is a huge help,” she added. “With some companies you just send in the specs and you’re responsible if something doesn’t work. With Grabill, they will work with you, on the hood, on everything, to make sure everything is going to fit perfectly.”
That also applies to getting the color and finish is just right for someone with an artistic bent. Part of the kitchen’s sparkle, beside the glass doors and white piracema granite countertops, was the custom grayish blue finish with a graphite wash that Grabill created for the island cabinets, which was also used for the bead board at the back of the glass wall cabinets. When Trish was able to find a special blue glass subway tile that complemented it for the backsplash, she knew she had put a gleam in the client’s eyes.
“The client loved the idea of a lot of glass,” said Trish. “It was also important that everything be very balanced.”
“They were a fun couple to work with and very specific about their needs,” said Trish. “It took us quite a bit of time to go through everything, but in the end we nailed it.”
Confirmation of that quickly came at the kitchen unveiling party held soon after completion. “Ninety-five percent of those who came hadn’t seen it yet. They were in awe. They loved the color, the drawers, everything overall,” said Trish.
Something, no doubt, any artist could be proud of.
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Amen to that
Q: Can you tell me the etymology and original meaning of “amen”?
A: The interjection “amen” comes from the Hebrew amen, meaning truly, surely, or verily, according to the Chambers Dictionary of Etymology.
The Hebrew word was originally a noun meaning certainty or truth, which in turn came from the verb aman (to strengthen or confirm), the Oxford English Dictionary says.
The OED describes the Hebrew interjection amen “as an expression of affirmation, consent, or ratification of what has been said by another.”
The Modern Hebrew-English Dictionary, by Avraham Zilkha, defines it as “So be it!”
The word amen appears in Hebrew biblical texts, including Deuteronomy and First Kings.
When these texts were translated into Greek and Latin, the translators simply adopted the word amen verbatim.
Early Christians used the Greek and Latin amen “as a solemn expression of belief, affirmation, consent, concurrence, or ratification, of any formal utterance made by a representative,” says the OED.
Thus, according to Oxford, it was used “with prayers, imprecations, confessions of faith.”
The word later entered English around the 10th century. But it was used with less solemnity at times, even in the Bible.
In some cases, the OED says, it was added as “a concluding formula,” much like “finis,” to books of the New Testament.
The word “amen” has entirely secular uses in English as well.
“In non-religious contexts,” the OED says, the word is used to express “approval, concurrence, or relief, usually as a concluding response to the statement of another: ‘quite right’; ‘I couldn’t agree more’; ‘I very much hope so.’ ”
This sense of the word is often heard in the phrase “amen to that,” which has been used in English speech since Shakespeare’s time.
Here’s how the expression was used by Charles Dickens in The Pickwick Papers (1837):
“ ‘Ah, I wish they had the reward that every kind and generous heart would be inclined to bestow upon them!’ said the gratified Mrs. Bardell. ‘Amen to that’’ replied Sam, ‘and a fat and happy livin’ they’d get out of it!’ ”
And here it is in an Agatha Christie whodunit, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920):
“ ‘We do hope, if there has been foul play, to bring the murderer to justice.’ ‘Amen to that,’ said Dorcas fiercely.”
← All corned up → Son of a gun
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Worm Charming Championships
Did you say "Worm Charming"?
On Saturday 5th July 1980 local Willaston farmer's son, Tom Shufflebotham amazed a disbelieving world by charming a total of 511 worms out of the ground in half an hour. True, there had been rather dubious unsubstantiated reports of a similar activity in Florida, USA some 10 years previous, but this was the first time a true competition with strict rules had been held. The village of Willaston, near Nantwich, Cheshire has been the venue for the annual World Championships ever since.
A regulatory body of control was formed to compile and enforce a total of 18 rules governing all aspects of Worm Charming. The International Federation of Charming Worms and Allied Pastimes (IFCWAP) not only exists for Worm Charming, but will look after the interests of other zaney sports such as indoor hand gliding, underwater Ludo and ice tiddly-winks (similar to curling but the tiddles go further).
The International Committee of IFCWAP is formed by Mike Forster, Chief Wormer and Mr Gordon Farr, Former Headmaster of Willaston School, who now enjoys life long Presidency and meets only once a year and at other times of national crisis. For example, when the New Zealand flat worm was discovered a number of years ago in some parts of the country, the threat to the common earthworm was of great public interest in Willaston and volunteers from the village still regularly patrol the site of the Worm Arena for at least 8 weeks prior to the event leaving no stone unturned, for that is where this hideous creature preyed on "Willy Worm".
Each competitor to operate in a 3 x 3 metre plot.
Lots to be drawn to allocate plots.
Duration of competition to be 30 minutes, starting at about 2pm.
Worms may not be dug from the ground. Vibrations only to be used.
No drugs to be used! Water is considered to be a drug/stimulant.
Any form of music may be used to charm the worms out of the earth.
A garden fork of normal type may be stuck into the ground and vibrated by any manual means to encourage worms to the surface.
Garden forks to be suitably covered to prevent possible injury when being transported to and from the competition. No accidents please!
Each competitor to leave his/her fork in allocated plot on arrival.
A piece of wood, smooth or notched may be used to strike or 'fiddle' the handle of the garden fork to assist vibration.
Competitors who do not wish to handle worms may appoint a second to do so. The second shall be known as a 'Gillie'.
Each competitor may collect worms from his/her own plot only.
Worms to be handled carefully and collected in damp peat and placed in a suitable, named container provided by the organising committee.
A handbell to be rung about five minutes before the start of the competition.
Competitors to keep clear of competition plots until given the instruction "Get to your Plots".
The competitor who 'charms' the most worms to be the winner.
In the event of a tie, the winner to be decided by a further five minutes charming.
Charmed worms to be released after the birds have gone to roost on the evening of the event.
Copies of The Rules are available in 30 languages, including Tibetan. Mad!
Read more on The Worm Charming Web Site
Should you wish to deter your worms from coming to the surface of your lawn this autumn then you need to obtain some CastClear, the solution to lawn worm casts. It's available from Garden Centre Stockists and Amazon and eBay.
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Anti-Monsanto Activists Create Roundup Resistant Weeds
Randall 'fink' Finkelstein
A group of biology students from the University of Oregon have created Roundup resistant weeds.
Eugene, OR — A group of environmental activists based out of Eugene, Oregon announced via Twitter that they have developed several species of weeds that are resistant to Monsanto’s popular herbicide Roundup. The anonymous group of University of Oregon biology students, who call themselves the Plant Liberation Front (PLF) plan on randomly introducing these weeds are “strategic locations” around the United States to, in their words, “beat Monsanto at their own game.”
“We at the PLF are taking our planet back from the corporations and their government cronies,” said the PLF in its early morning Tweet. “We have engineered a series of plants that are immune to Roundup, and grow very quickly. Expect them soon.”
According to experts, it seems the PLF be trying to disrupt Monsanto’s chief market offering by rendering its effects useless against pests which Roundup attacks. Monsanto produces a wide-variety of genetically modified (GM) plants called “Roundup Ready,” which means they can be sprayed by the controversial herbicide and not be harmed, but weeds and other plant pests are killed. If the PLF succeeds, this could effectively eliminate Monsanto’s dominance in both the herbicide, and more importantly, the genetically modified organism market could come crashing down.
“Obviously this must be a huge concern for Monsanto,” said Professor James Badwater of the University of Chicago’s Badwater Institute of Public Policy, “because if this effort succeeds, they’re toast. And it could have some grave impacts on crop yields all over the world.”
Plant GMOs are regulated by the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service under the Plant Protection Act. However the PLA is doing this operation “under the radar” which means the organization is breaking the law. However the Trump administration is raising the prospect of charging these individuals with domestic terrorism.
“These criminals are not only in violation of several local, state and federal laws, they may be charged with acts of terrorism much like other radical groups have been in the past like ALF [Animal Liberation Front] and others,” said United States Assistant Deputy Attorney General Jason Oswald. “The United States takes threats to our way of life very seriously. There could also be civil charges brought against these activists by Monsanto. We are currently investigating all leads and the FBI is on the case.”
As for the PLF, they are concentrating on focused on “disrupting agribusiness’ hold on our food supplies.”
“We won’t stop until agribusiness stops dominating our plant life. We are simply taking the same practices that Monsanto uses, and using it against them. It’s clear that protests and marches aren’t doing anything to stop their advances in controlling our food.”
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This will just lead to the use of more and more pesticides by farmers to control these weeds if released by these idiots. If that is their goal, then congratulations. How this would hurt the companies producing these pesticides is beyond me.
1 – It’s satire.
2 – But it would actually make sense; the patent for first generation Roundup Ready crops has expired, so anyone can use it. Same for the patent for glyphosate: any glyphosate-based herbicide other than Roundup would do. So in the end, no money would go to Monsanto.
3 – And you know what? It’s actually happening in real life: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/539746/as-patents-expire-farmers-plant-generic-gmos/
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Steven PurcellSteven Purcell's return to politics should be welcomed - but poison remains at the heart of Glasgow City Council
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Small firms in Scotland are 'least prepared for Brexit'
Nine out of 10 business owners haven't spoken to their banks about Brexit
Christina O'Neill
Nine out of ten business owners haven't spoken to their banks about Brexit (Image: Getty)
Small businesses in Scotland are the least prepared for Brexit, according to a report.
Companies with more than 250 employees appear more prepared by engaging with academic reports and the business community, it was found.
The banking sector has undertaken the most detailed scenario planning for leaving the EU but appear more focused on their own businesses than that of their customers, according to a survey by consultancy Momentous Change, set up by former SNP MPs Michelle Thomson and Roger Mullin.
They surveyed more than 160 business leaders and found that only 23% had engaged with academics and 31% with business groups about Brexit.
Only 9% of business respondents said they have consulted with their banks regarding Brexit but all had questions for both the UK and Scottish Governments.
The two highest asks of the UK Government were to establish transition arrangements specifically geared to assisting businesses and to make explicit matters that will be devolved to Scotland.
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Michelle Thomson helped set up the business survey (Image: PA)
In relation to the Scottish Government the key asks were to make clear how it would seek to use any new devolved powers and to increase direct engagement with the business community.
Mr Mullin, who is also Honorary Professor at the University of Stirling Management School, said: "The initial findings of our report indicate an urgent need for the Scottish Government to actively encourage joint efforts involving Scottish Enterprise, the relevant academic communities and business organisations in scaling up briefings on Brexit for the business community.
"These efforts should go beyond general briefings and involve practical workshops on surveying staff and skill needs, scenario planning and financial modelling."
Ms Thomson said: "We asked our business respondents to indicate with whom they had consulted as part of preparations for Brexit and to our surprise only 9% indicated engagement with banks.
"The functioning of an effective banking and financial system is critical for all sectors of the economy and this lack of engagement with the SME sector in particular should set alarm bells ringing.
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"How banks and financial institutions will manage their existing business client base if economic turbulence continues is unclear.
"Are existing businesses holding loans from banks going to find any new flexibility to support them? What role will government play in supporting lending during a period of turbulence?
"There are many uncertainties and many complexities, but there is a common cause to find at a minimum, the best coping strategy for each business, and at best to seek out the type of innovation and change that will provide a strong platform for the future, whatever that future may be.
"Crucially, we need leaders from Government, business and academia to come forward and assume responsibility for guiding businesses through Brexit."
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February 28th, 2017 | Written by Peter Buxbaum
Wilbur Ross Confirmed as US Commerce Secretary
AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS RELY ON PORTS FOR IMPORTS AND EXPORTS: For every $1 billion in exports shipped through U.S. seaports, 15,000 jobs are created, according to the AAPA.
The commerce secretary has oversight over agencies important to trade and ports.
At confirmation hearings, Ross supported public investments in transportation.
AAPA: US ports are falling behind 21st century needs.
The United States Senate confirmed the billionaire investor Wilbur Ross as Secretary of Commerce last night. He is to be sworn in today.
As commerce secretary, Ross will have oversight over a number of agencies important to trade and ports, including the International Trade Administration, which promotes US trade and investment, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA’s weather service and aids to navigation divisions provide important safety and efficiency programs for mariners.
“We look forward to working with Secretary Ross to enhance America’s international competitiveness and increase U.S. exports,” said Kurt Nagle, CEO of the American Association of Port Authorities. “We appreciate that Secretary Ross has said that he favors ‘sensible trade,’ and that being anti-trade ‘is a disadvantage of the American worker and the American manufacturing community.’ AAPA favors reciprocal international trade liberalization on a fair and equitable basis.”
With today’s global marketplace and worldwide supply chain, American manufacturers, farmers, and businesses rely on ports more than ever to handle the raw materials and semi-finished components needed for production here in the U.S., and to be able to export their products and enhance their international competitiveness. For every $1 billion in exports shipped through U.S. seaports, 15,000 jobs are created.
“During his confirmation hearings, we were pleased to learn that Mr. Ross voiced support for public investments in transportation, saying there will be some necessity for direct federal spending on transportation, whether it’s in the form of guarantees or direct investment,” said Nagle. “As the voice of America’s seaports, AAPA is the leading advocate for increasing federal investment into these vital hubs of international commerce and economic development. Freight connections to US ports – which handle some two billion tons of goods, support 23 million American jobs and generate $4.6 trillion in economic activity annually – are falling behind 21st century needs, putting jobs at risk and reducing our global competitiveness.”
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Since I finished my Y1P+ system recently, and it can provide more granular data than by merely looking at final scores, I'll be using that system instead of my main system for weekly grades for the rest of the season.
Highest Graded Teams (Percentile Performance)
Oshkosh and Brockport didn't exactly face world-beaters in Round 1, but they definitely left no room for doubt in the final result. The Titans shutout a solid Lakeland offense (#41 in offensive Y1P+), and were their normal explosive selves on offense. Oshkosh's first five offensive drives all resulted in TDs, and all but one of those drives were greater than 50 yards, while the Muskies only had two of their seven first half drives last for more than three plays. This one was out of hand early, and Oshkosh is looking every bit as dominant as the team that made the Stagg Bowl last season.
The most telling stat of the Brockport/Plymouth State game may be this:
First Downs
Brockport - 17 passing; 13 rushing
Plymouth State - 5 passing; 1 rushing
Plymouth State couldn't stay on the field, and they couldn't keep Brockport off of it. While UW-Oshkosh leaned on their penchant for forcing turnovers (+4 TO margin) to achieve an eye-popping final score, the Golden Eagles finished the day only +1 in turnover margin. If you were able to play this game over 10 times (to borrow a coach-speak cliche), a 66-point margin probably isn't going to be the worst outcome for the Panthers. Brockport had eight different players with a rushing attempt, seven different players with a reception, and six different players score a touchdown (plus their kicker with a field goal). All around dominance.
Highest Graded Offenses (Percentile Performance)
As a Wartburg alum, I'm not exactly thrilled about how Trine played on Saturday. Accepting that, though, the Thunder were doggone impressive. Over 50% of their passing dropbacks, and exactly 50% of their rushing attempts went for a first down, and they averaged over 10 yards per play against a quality Monmouth defense. Trine only needed 57 plays to amass nearly 600 total yards, but the final point total is misleading in favor of Trine. Two of Trine's TDs were interception returns for touchdowns, which don't "count" in Y1P+, because they're really really hard to replicate consistently. The interceptions themselves factor into the teams total rating, but whatever happens after that doesn't.
Franklin, Wartburg's opponent from Saturday, finished with the fourth-best offensive grade of the weekend, despite Wartburg having the better raw statistical performance in Waverly. The difference: Wartburg put up those numbers against one of the worst defenses in the entire playoff field, while Franklin did so against a Top 20-caliber defense. While I was pretty sure Chase Burton & Co. would have a decent day through the air, because pass-happy teams were the ones that gave the Knights the most fits this season, I thought Wartburg's veteran DL would get some pressure on Burton and completely shut down a mediocre rushing attack by the Grizzlies, but instead Burton was kept upright most of the day, and converted several 3rd & long attempts, and on the ground, Franklin moved the ball relatively well. Here's to hoping Wartburg learned the necessary lessons to come out more prepared against Trine this weekend.
Highest Graded Defenses (Percentile Performance)
Oh hey, look at that, UMHB had the best defensive grade of the week again. This season, the Cru have had the highest defensive grade for the week four times, one third of the season. I said it at the outset of the playoffs that their defense was good enough to win them another Stagg Bowl, but their offense would determine whether they actually bring it home. While Chapman's defense isn't exactly up to par with, say, Linfield's, 50 points is 50 points.
Speaking of Linfield, they held Hardin-Simmons and their stable of talented receivers and backs to just one offensive touchdown on the day and less than 100 total yards passing (75 total passing yards, including sack yardage). Like UMHB, Linfield's season has been defined by dominant defense and suspect offense, at times. It appears Linfield has finally found their offensive identity in the post-Riddle era. New QB Wyatt Smith passed for first downs on 40% of his dropbacks Saturday (national average is 33%), and threw for nearly 10 yards per attempt. While the Cru should still be the favorites in Belton this coming Saturday, I wouldn't expect a purely defensive battle.
Biggest Upsets (Predicted Line)
Most of these games are hardly "upsets," and if I were just predicting winner subjectively, I definitely would have flipped the winner for the Berry game, and probably for the Muhlenberg game, but still, a three-point game can hardly be called an upset.
The one true upset would probably be Husson over Springfield, and it was far from a fluke. The Eagles limited the Pride to just 47 total offensive plays, and allowed them to convert only 30% of their third down conversions, while only punting once. John Smith, semi-finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy, racked up 164 yards on the ground, 53 more yards than fellow semifinalist, Pride FB Jordan Wilcox. This was a great win for Husson, but I wouldn't expect another upset next week at Del Val. Teams from New England are winless against non-NE teams in the playoffs since Curry beat Ithaca 26-21 in 2008.
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Battlefield software supports medics' efforts to provide care
August 14, 2017, 6:49 a.m. EDT
Monitoring multiple patients simultaneously in combat and effectively triaging them has never been an easy task for medics. However, mobile technology is enabling Air Force pararescue jumpers to have health data at their fingertips, giving them the ability to treat the most critically wounded first.
The wrist-mounted Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit (BATDOK), developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, runs on a Samsung Galaxy S series Android smartphone connected to FDA-approved wireless sensors that display the health status of casualties, providing instant alerts if certain vital signs drop or spike.
“BATDOK by design is an open architecture, so as a new FDA-approved sensor comes online, we can adopt that protocol,” says Gregory Burnett of the Airman Systems Directorate in the Warfighter Interface Division of the 711th Human Performance Wing, who managed the development of the software. “It is very modular and scalable to meet today’s and tomorrow’s demands.”
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According to Burnett, the Army and other military services are using BATDOK for several operational needs and is being evaluated as a “joint” capability, given that optimizing trauma care delivery is critical to saving lives in combat and also during humanitarian missions.
One of BATDOK’s major technological advancements is a documentation tool that is taking military medicine on the battlefield into the digital age, enabling medics to assign degrees of urgency to the wounded and to decide the order of treatment for patients accordingly.
“Prior to BATDOK, medics and pararescue jumpers were documenting infield point-of-injury care by just writing on the patient with either a Sharpie or on to a little, paper-based 5x7 Tactical Combat Casualty Care card,” says Burnett.
The problem with using a marker or ink pen in a battle zone to document care is that it is “susceptible to the rain, mud, blood and sweat in that environment,” according to Burnett. “What BATDOK has done is digitized this form and with just a few clicks has automated the documentation process,” he adds.
BATDOK’s documentation tool enables medics to digitally document the types of patient wounds, where they are located on the body, as well as the “mechanism of injury,” such as blunt force trauma, bullet, burn, fall, grenade, improvised explosive device or landmine.
The tool is succinct, saves time, and the “accuracy and transference of knowledge has increased significantly to the next level of care,” contends Burnett.
Digital maps also provide medics with situational awareness on the battlefield, identifying the exact locations of casualties. “This information is shared so there is a common operating picture as to how many patients are out in a certain area,” Burnett concludes. “This really increases the accountability of our patient care by plotting them on a digital map.”
Another important feature of the platform is a portal to integrate patient data into the U.S. military’s electronic health record system, he notes.
BATDOK transmits the information to the Department of Defense’s legacy Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) and will ultimately link to the new Military Health System GENESIS—Cerner’s Millennium EHR—which is currently being rolled out and will be fully implemented in 2022, serving more than 9 million DoD beneficiaries globally.
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Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn now available
Posted by Zidane007nl on 27 March 2019, 23:42 - 0 comments
The Final Fantasy XV journey has been concluded with the release of Episode Ardyn. For the first time, players take control of Noctis's greatest foe Ardyn Lucis Caelum with a brand new storyline taking place 35 years before the events of Final Fantasy XV and learn what drove the scorned savior to seek revenge against the line of Lucis.
Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn features:
Several new options and gameplay mechanics to explore, including the ability to control Ardyn himself
Exhilarating, action-packed battles where players can utilize powerful new attack moves and skills unique to Ardyn, including the “Rising Phantom” and “Dark Tornado”
The ability to warp to high platforms or across nearby buildings by way of “Phantasmal Leap”
Though a foe of Noctis, the summonable Ifrit is now an ally of Ardyn and may dispatch enemies with powerful fire magic
A photography mode allowing players to capture the captivating city of Insomnia
A “Hat Shop” offering a plethora of hats for players to purchase, which also appear in cutscenes
Rewards upon completion of the episode, including the new “Ardyn’s Ensemble” outfit and “Mutant Rakshasa Blade” for Noctis
Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn is now available for $ 9.99 / € 9.99 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. You can dive deeper into Ardyn’s mysterious, forbidden past in Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn - Prologue, a short anime movie that offers a deeper understanding of the game’s world view and story.
Final Fantasy VII now available on Nintendo Switch and Xbox One
A remake of Final Fantasy VII is currently in development. In the meantime Square Enix has ported the original game to several systems. Now the game is available for Nintendo Switch and Xbox One.
Check out the press release from Square Enix and the launch trailer below.
In FINAL FANTASY VII, the world has fallen under the dominion of the Shinra Electric Power Company, a sinister corporation that has monopolized the planet's life force as Mako energy. Players will follow the story of the powerful ex-SOLDIER turned mercenary, Cloud, in an attempt to save the world from destruction, alongside the anti-Shinra resistance group Avalanche. Using innovative character customization options to create fun and interesting combinations of their favorite party members, players can fight to save the planet and discover the truth about Cloud’s mysterious past.
FINAL FANTASY VII on Nintendo Switch and Xbox One includes the following enhancements:
3x speed mode
An enemy encounter option that allows players to enjoy the storyline uninterrupted. While enemy encounters are turned off, players can still enjoy the story event battles.
A Max Stats command that enables players to become all-powerful in the blink of an eye.
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Free Edition now available
Recently Square Enix announced that Dissidia Final Fantasy NT will be getting a free version called Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Free Edition and that this version together with the full version will be released on Steam. Now they're available on PlayStation 4 and Steam.
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Free Edition is a limited version which contains no story mode. You can battle online (against other players of the free and full version) and offline with 4 characters, who change weekly. If you want to keep a character unlocked, you can buy a character starter pack. Please note that if you want to play online on the PlayStation 4, you need an active PlayStation Plus membership.
If you want to play the story and gain access to 28 characters, you need to buy the Standard Edition. The Deluxe Edition contains 6 additional characters, costumes and weapons.
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Joining Hundreds of Thousands of Advocates and Patients, Senate Democrats Demand Trump Administration Reinstate Birth Control Coverage for Millions of Women
Back in October, President Trump rolled back birth control mandate under the ACA undermining preventive care for millions of women nationwide-LINK In new letter, 37 Senate Democrats call on Administration to rescind President Trump's action allowing employers to roll back health care coverage for women ICYMI-Following President Trump's action, Sens. Murray, Casey introduced "Protect Access to Birth Control Act" to reinstate the birth control mandate-LINK Senate Democrats: "Instead of… Continue Reading
At Hearing, Murray Demands Education and Labor Nominees Protect Civil Rights and Safety of Students and Workers, Reverse the Damage Done by Trump Administration
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Murray: President Trump’s Promises to Workers “Ring Hollow,” as Administration Rolls Back Protections for Tipped Workers
(Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on the Trump Administration's announcement it is considering rescinding an Obama Administration rule that restricted employers from stealing workers' tips in certain circumstances. In August, Senator Murray introduced The Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act to give workers the right to receive full compensation for the wor… Continue Reading
MURRAY, BROWN, SCOTT, TAKANO INTRODUCE BILL TO EXPAND OVERTIME PAY FOR MILLIONS OF WORKERS
Bill Would Make At Least Four Million Workers Newly Eligible for Overtime Pay WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Patty Murray (D-WA), along with U.S. Reps. Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Mark Takano (D-CA), today introduced legislation to make at least four million American workers newly eligible for overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours a week, providing economic security to millions of working families. The Restoring Overtime Pay Act would increase the overtime … Continue Reading
Murray: House Higher Education Bill is “Another Partisan Step in the Wrong Direction”
Murray: "We have a record of solving big issues in education with broad, bipartisan legislation, so I hope Republicans abandon these ill-conceived efforts" (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on reports that House Republicans plan to introduce a partisan Higher Education Act reauthorization bill that would cut significant investments in federal aid and would… Continue Reading
At Hearing, Murray Challenges Nominee for Health Secretary to Stand Up to Trump’s Ideological Agenda; Questions Nominee on Government Response to High Drug Prices, Administration’s Record of Attacking Women’s Health & Rights
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Democrats Again Call on HHS to Explain Concerning Changes to Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program
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Murray Highlights Need to Address Higher Education Challenges Through Comprehensive Reform to Best Help Today’s Students Open Doors of Opportunity
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Citing Potential Ethics Concerns, Murray Calls for Scrutiny into DeVos Investments in Offshore Accounts
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Fighting Back Against Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undermine Workers’ Rights, Murray, Brown Introduce WAGE Act to Strengthen Worker Protections
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Murray: Tacking Bipartisan Alexander-Murray Health Bill to Partisan Republican Tax Reform “Like Trying to Put A Fire Out With Penicillin”
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Murray at Hearing With Surgeon General: With Trump Administration Continuing to Undermine Public Health, We All Must Take Steps To Support Families' Health & Wellness
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Murray on Reported Republican Plans to Use Bipartisan Stabilization Bill As Political Cover to Fast-Track Devastating Tax Cuts for Wealthy
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Members of Congress Demand Secretary DeVos Provide Full Relief for Students Who Were Cheated Out of Their Education and Savings
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Murray and DeLauro Call for Full Transparency Surrounding Rewrite of Rule to Protect Defrauded Students
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Murray Statement on Nomination of Alex Azar to be Secretary of Health and Human Services
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AFTER JANE DOE CASE, SENATE DEMOCRATS DEMAND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PROVIDE ANSWERS ON ITS INTERFERENCE WITH HEALTH CARE OF YOUNG WOMEN IN HHS CUSTODY
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Following Government Watchdog Report, Senators Murray and Warren Request Further Details from HHS on Sabotage of Open Enrollment, Waste of Taxpayer Dollars
Focus on Key Decisionmakers: Was White House Involved? Trump Administration Decision to Pull ACA Enrollment Outreach Ads Cost $1.1 Million Text of the letter available here (PDF) Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today called on Health and Human Services (HHS) Acting Secretary Eric Hargan to provide details about the department's decision to waste $1.1 million in an effort to sabotage open enrollment. Just a few days prior to the e… Continue Reading
Amid Warnings of Bad Flu Season, Widespread Natural Disasters, Democrats Press Trump Administration on Nationwide Preparedness Plans
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Murray Statement on Latest Effort by Trump Administration to Block Unaccompanied Minors from Exercising Constitutionally Protected Rights
"Trump Administration continues to make clear it will go to any lengths to force its extreme policies on women across our country" (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration filing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Jane Doe. More HERE. "At its core, this is about powerful men targeting young, vulnerable wo… Continue Reading
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Oman records more than OMR1 Bn tourism revenue in 2018
Hotel business revenue reached OMR259.6 million
by Priyanka Praveen
Number of guests reaching 3.6 million, who spent 3.5 million nights, while the average room occupancy was recorded at 38.4%
The Sultanate of Oman's tourism sector recorded a total revenue of OMR1.4 billion at the end of 2018, a report by the country’s National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) revealed.
The report suggests that domestic tourism contributed 50.8% and inbound tourists contributed 49.2% of the total revenue of the tourism sector in Oman.
The NCSI data showed that the direct added value of tourism sector reached OMR788.6 million at the end of 2018, recording an increase of 6.8% compared to 2017, when the direct added value was OMR738.4 million.
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The total expenses of inbound tourists quadrupled during the period of (2011 to 2018) from OMR158.6 million in 2011 to OMR679.2 million at the end of 2018, recording an increase of 23.1%, with an average spending of 9.1% per visitor to reach OMR209.5, compared to OMR113.9 in 2011.
Expenditure on accommodation services was considered as the highest among the expenditures of the inbound tourists, reaching OMR212.5 million, making 31.3% of the total spending of the tourists, while visitors expenditure on air transport services ranked second, with the amount reaching OMR 202 million, or 29.7% of the total spending of inbound tourists, while spending on nutrition and shopping was 14.7% and 8%, respectively.
The number of hotels in the Sultanate in 2018 reached 412, including 23 hotels ranked as five-star hotels, 19 as four-star hotels, 29 as three-star hotels, 54 as two-star hotels and 287 other hotel units, including one-star hotels, unrated hotels, rest houses and hotel apartments. The number of hotel work forces reached 18,627 persons at the end of 2018.
Hotel business revenue reached OMR259.6 million, with the number of guests reaching 3.6 million, who spent 3.5 million nights, while the average room occupancy was recorded at 38.4%.
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Creative Industries demand equal access to the arts for all young people
words Phoebe Gardner
cover Tommy Francis
Rankin, Adwoa Aboah and Imran Amed are some of the 150 people who have signed the open letter.
In the last ten years, the level of students taking creative subjects has fallen by a staggering amount, and it looks like it is set to get even worse as the government’s state school curriculum continues to exclude creative options for GCSEs. This means young people from low-income backgrounds will not have the same access to creative industries as a private-school student would, thus driving the inequality gap between state and private schools even further – if that was possible.
The Creative Industries Federation have put their foot down for the sake of young people and for the future of Britain’s creative outlook, in an open letter to Gavin Williamson, the Secretary of State for Education, the federation has called for a new broad and balanced curriculum within schools.
To coincide with #ALevelResults2019 we've written an open letter to @GavinWilliamson Over 150 key figures from across the creative industries & beyond have signed the letter urging government to recognise the value of #CreativeEducation. Read the letter at the link in our bio.
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The creative industries are worth £101.5bn in the UK, and it’s found studying creative industries positively impacts young people’s wellbeing and future opportunities. Research has even discovered that art subjects can improve student’s performance in English and Maths.
Children who come from low-income backgrounds may only have the opportunities to engage with arts and culture through their schools, studies have found children without this access have a disadvantage both economically and educationally compared to those who do. The letter continues to outline how: “A system which means that only more privileged young people are able to access arts and culture does a disservice both to those young people who suffer as a result, and to a society that believes in the importance of social mobility and equality of opportunity.”
The letter also spotlights the importance creative industries have on the British economy, employing over 2 million people, with jobs in the sector growing three times the UK average. Earlier this summer, the Creative Industries Federation sent another open letter to Boris Johnson, calling for a second referendum and highlighting the extreme damage Brexit would cause to the sector.
We have written an open letter to @borisjohnsonmp urging our #NextPrimeMinister to support our world-leading #creativeindustries and, in turn, positively impact the whole of the UK. Read the letter at the link in our bio.
A post shared by Creative Industries Federation (@creative_fed) on Jul 23, 2019 at 6:21am PDT
The open letter has over 150 signatures and counting, these include some of the country’s highest-profile creatives, including model, Adwoa Aboah; Founder and CEO of The Business of Fashion, Imran Amed; Editor-in-Chief of AnOther Magazine, Susannah Frankel; and our very own HUNGER Founder, Rankin.
On signing the letter, Rankin explained: “This country is at a crossroads. For the government to further diminish opportunities for the UK’s next generation by cutting its commitment to creative education is disgraceful. It really shows a misunderstanding of the importance the role that creativity plays in empowering youth and building inclusive communities. What message does this send to the next wave of artists, designers, musicians and film-makers? One of the UK’s biggest exports is its creative culture – we need to fight to hand the baton down so this continues.”
Read the whole open letter here.
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The Apollo Lunar Module, an expendable spacecraft shown here on the Moon, can serve as a model for a much safer reusable lunar spacecraft. (credit: NASA)
During the Apollo lunar missions and landings 50 years ago, there was a real risk of losing a crew during each mission. For the launch phase, the risk was relatively small due to an effective launch abort system with an escape tower. During the passage to the Moon, the crew would have had the option of using the Lunar Module’s engine to return to Earth, as was done so successfully during Apollo 13. However, once a crew was in orbit around the Moon, or had landed on the Moon, the risk level was multiplied: a loss of vehicle control or failure of the propulsion system for Earth return or, worse, a failure during descent to or ascent from the lunar surface.
The danger to the program comes from the strong possibility that whoever is president after 2024 would cancel work on the reusable set of vehicles.
In one respect, the Apollo lunar module design gave crews the ability to abort a lunar landing by separating the ascent stage from the descent stage and returning to the Command and Service Module, even after committing to land. As long as the lander could reach orbit or was still in orbit, the service module could have probably rescued astronauts stranded in a non-operative ascent stage. However, if the crew had already landed and the ascent stage would not lift off, the crew could only survive a few days. They could not survive a lunar night unless the lander was designed for it. Worse, if the ascent stage had failed in any major way during an ascent, there was no backup system to reach a minimal lunar orbit and to save them from impacting the lunar surface within an hour or less.
On March 26, 2019, Vice President Mike Pence announced a revised lunar initiative, to attempt to return humans to the lunar surface by the end of 2024, instead of by 2028. In April, the picture gradually clarified, as there are now two program phases: to have a new human lunar landing (the exploration phase) by 2024 followed by a more permanent presence (the operational and sustainable phase), probably at the lunar south pole, by 2028. The plans and designs continue to evolve rapidly, as five years is a very short time span and the decision makers can feel the pressure. In early May, this accelerated lunar landing program was named Artemis. The ongoing development program for the lunar vehicles and hardware is called Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships, or NextSTEP. NASA had also planned a Moon to Mars Mission Directorate to coordinate that overall effort, which included Artemis, but Congress refused to allow the organizational change. As a result, Mark Sirangelo, a NewSpace-oriented executive who had been picked to lead it, resigned from NASA on May 23. This means that the existing NASA bureaucracy will be in charge of the program.
There are both good and bad aspects to the new lunar initiative. The significant national prestige or geopolitical aspects of human space operations during a declared “space race” should not be ignored or denigrated, but any acceleration of a lunar effort would also move the day forward to when we can conduct actual water mining operations on the lunar surface. The main drawback (and danger) is that a two-phase plan sets up the possibility that it will include building two sets of lunar vehicles, one set expendable for use by 2024, and another set reusable for later missions. Considering how hard it is to get funding for space programs, it would be very wasteful to build expendable vehicles to use for just a few years. (This assumes that planners still think that expendable vehicles can be built and qualified faster. Hopefully they have paid attention to how fast SpaceX was able to develop its reusable vehicles.)
The danger to the program comes from the strong possibility that whoever is president after 2024 would cancel work on the reusable set of vehicles. The plan also sets up the similar danger that any flow of extra money from Congress in the near term might be cut off after a few lunar landings with the expendable vehicles are accomplished. It also seems unlikely that the House today would even provide such extra funding for the accelerated plan to support a goal backed by Trump. House hearings on the NASA budget earlier this month ignored Artemis and the need for a supplemental budget item to support it.
Assuming that the lunar operational phase, due to be under way by 2028, will include a larger orbiting base or Gateway, from which multiple reusable lunar landers or ferries can operate, the problem of enabling crew survival after 2028 with a subsequent Earth return during an emergency in lunar orbit is probably covered. (Operating a lunar landing program entirely from Low Earth Orbit with no near-lunar base would require a huge vehicle similar to the SpaceX BFS stage).
It behooves everyone in a position of authority over the Artemis program to work to provide reasonable protection for lunar crews during the first phase so that crews are never again put into the (now) unnecessarily risky position of those that flew on Apollo.
But what about the period from 2024 to 2028? We have no idea if there are any plans to place an early crew refuge habitat in a low lunar orbit reachable by a lander or ascent vehicle, versus the high lunar orbit where the Gateway will be located. Since each mission launched on Orion will cost billions and is scheduled years in advance, there are no plans for another standby rescue mission in case of a problem. The production capacity for the SLS booster is limited, and funding is always tight, making a set-aside rescue mission via an SLS very unlikely. The overall cumbersomeness of the SLS-based mission concepts also would result in a very long response time, probably too long to effect a rescue.
It behooves everyone in a position of authority over the Artemis program to work to provide reasonable protection for lunar crews during the first phase (2024–2028) so that crews are never again put into the (now) unnecessarily risky position of those that flew on Apollo. To more fully protect the new lunar crews, a couple of additional steps need to be taken besides the lander design. The three main risks to the crew after they have entered lunar orbit are (1) inability to lift off from the lunar surface, (2) failure of the ascent vehicle or its engine during the ascent from the lunar surface or after an aborted landing, and (3) inability to leave lunar orbit and return to the Earth. All of these would require both backup systems and a rescue mission to deal with. Since crews are most likely to be stranded on the lunar surface or in lunar orbit, it makes sense that emergency equipment should be placed in both locations before any human missions. This would consist of either a second return vehicle with storable propellant or a crew refuge habitat with a solar radiation storm cellar and supplies enough to last for several months while a rescue mission is mounted.
The current accelerated lunar plan is one promulgated by the White House. In my opinion, some of the news media unfairly blamed then President Reagan in 1986 for pressuring NASA to launch the shuttle Challenger “on schedule” ahead of a State of the Union speech that night, (a hypothesis which has never been proven), when the provable cause was clearly NASA management’s decision to ignore engineers’ stark warnings, as in “take off your engineer’s hat and put on your manager’s hat.” However, in the case of a future lunar crew lost or stranded with no hope of rescue on a lunar mission before the operational phase, the onus would be at least partly on the White House, since it is a program they have initiated with a clear deadline. Part of the onus would still be on the mission and vehicle designers.
The clear intention for the new plan seemed to be that a lunar landing expedition would first go, in a vehicle like Orion, to a minimal Gateway station with a small habitat module and docking node in a high lunar orbit, where they would board a composite lunar vehicle. A transfer module acting as a space tug would move the lander and ascent sections to low lunar orbit, where the lander would carry the crew in the ascent section to the lunar surface. On ascent, the lander would be left behind and the ascent stage would rendezvous with the transfer tug, which would carry the ascent stage with crew back to the Gateway; alternatively, the ascent stage could go directly to the Gateway. These two modules could possibly have been reusable in the earlier plan.
On May 16, NASA issued NextSTEP contracts to 11 companies to begin studies of lunar vehicles. There are suggestions that the previously planned three-part vehicle system could have reusable ascent and transfer elements. In the contracts, there is not a single mention of the ascent vehicle component, which was previously assumed to be built in-house by NASA but will now be considered by a separate NextSTEP procurement. Thus, in this set of contracts, the integrated lunar vehicle still seems to be in two or three parts, so It is not at all clear if there is now a desire by NASA for it to be designed as a reusable lander or not.
For a vehicle using hydrogen-oxygen propellants and only needs to perform a total of about 4 to 5 kilometers per second of delta-V per round trip, and in an environment with no air drag and low gravity, you simply do not need a three-segment vehicle to perform a lunar landing and return, even from a high lunar orbit. It is not clear why the vehicle would consist of “a complete integrated lander that incorporates multiple elements such as a Descent Element, Ascent Element, and Transfer Vehicle” (NASA wording). Such phraseology seems to be contradictory as it does not describe an “integrated vehicle”, unless the “elements” are fully and physically integrated into a single vehicle. Some companies have since proposed a two-vehicle version of the system which omits the transfer vehicle.
NASA had actually started to change direction in April but seems to be creating some confusion about the program is it moves forward by issuing the design contracts in May for the previous design. On April 26, NASA announced in a procurement filing that it was looking for a NextSTEP proposal, for which it may issue contracts in the summer of 2019, for an integrated lunar lander instead of the weird, three-part vehicle originally proposed. What does this mean for crew safety? It would reduce the number of components and the number of needed rendezvous operations, and provide more flexibility in designing vehicles that can survive in-flight damage and still function, just like the World War II airplanes that often landed safely when shot full of holes.
Of the various companies that are interested in participating in Artemis, SpaceX stands out as the one company that may be able to complete development of two independent kind of lunar access for humans within a short time of each other.
A truly integrated, reusable lunar vehicle should consist of a single module, with one major exception. Just like the original Apollo lunar lander’s ascent stage, the integrated vehicle should have a self-propelled crew cabin that can separate from the main lander, if (and only if) the main vehicle fails at any point, and perform an abort to orbit or an abort to surface at any time during a lunar mission. (With the expendable Apollo vehicle, the ascent stage was intended to separate on every mission.) The fuel load for the cabin can also be sized to minimize it so that (depending on the current velocity and altitude), either an abort to orbit or surface, but not both, can be performed. Irrespective of whether the vehicle to be used in 2024 is expendable or reusable, such a self-rescue crew cabin should be included in the design. The cabin should be as small and light as possible, but allow for crew survival long enough to provide a practical rescue time window. It should use new storable, non-toxic propellants for its emergency propellant supply if possible. Once the cabin with crew is either back in orbit or on the surface, a rescue by another vehicle is possible. Thus, in terms of configuration, the integrated lander would look much like the original, but with a much larger propulsion section.
One other design for a safer lunar module is potentially possible. If the integrated lunar module can be designed in functional modular sections so that if a portion of its fuel tanks, engines, or controls are damaged, the vehicle would have enough remaining capacity to continue an ascent from the Moon (or abort a descent and return to lunar orbit), the need for a self-powered crew cabin is reduced. However, the design must take into account the damage that occurred during Apollo 13, where an internal explosion destroyed much of the Apollo Service Module, but left the Command and Lunar modules undamaged. In space, the results of an explosion are reduced since there is no air pressure outside (and often inside) the vehicle to conduct the force of an explosion, resulting in less damage. Good design could help isolate the results of such an event to one portion of the integrated lunar vehicle. Structural partitions between functional modules would add some weight, but this would be balanced by removing the need for a separate crew cabin. All engines should be able to be gimbaled and throttled so that any single remaining functional engine can provide the needed thrust aligned through the center of mass of the vehicle.
If a lunar landing takes place as early as 2024, it is still not clear if the lander system would be delivered to the minimal Gateway in lunar orbit fully fueled or if it would be refueled from an orbiting depot before landing. We should be able to develop a usable cryogenic propellant depot in five years as it is not a complex vehicle: just a set of insulated tanks, cryo-coolers, and fuel transfer pumps. Fuel storage and transfer in high or low lunar orbit would increase the total mass a lander could carry to the surface, and also provide an emergency fuel supply. A fuel depot using lower performance non-cryogenic storable propellant would require more propellant and tank mass and would be more expensive than a cryogenic system, even before lunar-sourced-propellant becomes available. Such a crew refuge needs a solar radiation storm cellar. If a depot is used, a crew refuge/habitat module can be attached to the Gateway depot, possibly surrounded by the depot’s tanks for shielding, to take advantage of the required attitude control and station keeping thrusters such a depot would need. This would satisfy the requirement for a lunar orbit crew refuge.
If we have multiple lunar crew landers, one or more of them can be modified to carry down to the surface a nearly identical crew refuge/habitat. If it has a solar storm cellar, the habitat does not even need to be unloaded from the lander after landing, as long as the crew has access to it and can land within a short distance of it. Alternatively, a fresh ascent vehicle could be landed at the intended landing site, well protected against lunar thermal extremes with effective insulation, its own sunshade, and cryo-coolers. The whole intent is to provide coverage of the most likely failure modes without bells and whistles. These can be added as things advance to the operational stage, where mining of lunar water could begin, requiring more frequent and routine lunar flights. Another simple rescue system would be to have a spare lander with ascent vehicle docked at the gateway base, using the base’s power to keep its propellant cold. It would be able to land precisely and rescue a stranded crew very quickly. This is the situation toward which things should evolve to after 2024; the main question is how soon the spares could be built and emplaced.
Of the various companies that are interested in participating in Artemis, SpaceX stands out as the one company that may be able to complete development of two independent kind of lunar access for humans within a short time of each other. A future integrated Artemis lander could fit (probably dry) inside one or more Falcon Heavy launch fairings, and could also be refueled in orbit by tankers launched by Falcon Heavy. At the same time, the company is pushing its Starship/Super Heavy program very hard, and it is quite possible that, due to its huge size, an uncrewed Starship could be refueled in LEO, fly to the Moon, land, take off, and return to Earth before 2024. This timetable is similar to the first scheduled Starship cargo flight to Mars, postulated for 2022 or 2024. If the Starship can land and return safely, it would provide a comprehensive lunar rescue system, even if NASA is unwilling to fund it or participate in its development due to NASA’s continuing political allegiance to the SLS as their primary large booster. By the time the Starship/Super Heavy is flying, it will probably be too late for NASA to switch its support to that system as the primary lunar architecture, but it not only shows great promise as a rescue system, but also as a primary transport system for the period after 2024.
Having at least two ways of getting crews to the Moon and back is as important as having two ways of getting crews to the International Space Station and back down again.
It is possible that, given annual NASA and Congressional budgetary restrictions, the crew safety features, including a depot with a crew refuge in lunar orbit, could slow down a lunar surface program timetable. This is in fact one of the main and legitimate fears of opponents of the Gateway station, which originally was not designed to support lunar landings at all and whose funding, independent of a landing program, would have delayed any lunar landing. To prevent any delays, or even the perception of delays, the safety features should get their own parallel funding so that everyone can see that the landing program is being helped, not harmed. This intent should be clear in any initial proposals for safety-related hardware development.
Having at least two ways of getting crews to the Moon and back is as important as having two ways of getting crews to the International Space Station and back down again. For this reason, it is very desirable to have agreements with commercial companies such as SpaceX, which may be able to conduct their own lunar missions by or before 2024. Thus it is possible that such companies might be able to deliver a crew refuge and depot to lunar orbit and refuges to the lunar surface in advance of human landings, in addition to being able to conduct crew rescues. International partners may also be able to assist.
Taking such a position does not obligate NASA to abandon its own lunar vehicle plans unless Congressional funding fails to materialize, as was the caused during the Space Exploration Initiative almost 30 years ago. There is less than a year to choose between using SLS or private launchers in support of the new lunar program. It is, however, very hard to see how NASA will be able to develop its own lunar hardware without more funding, given the huge financial drain into the SLS program created by Congress. In the event Congress doesn’t provide the additional funding, the Trump Administration always has the option of backing SpaceX or another private company with the capability to develop lunar vehicles by the 2024 deadline, especially if done in cooperation with NASA. The agency is starting to show an inclination to allow vehicle integration by the private companies at their own facilities, which would greatly speed up the process. This private option also offers the huge advantage that the existing NASA plans cannot include for all of its launches: reusable launchers and a much cheaper lunar program.
There are multiple ways to get to the Moon and back relatively safely. Let’s try to reduce risk to crews so that the new lunar exploration phase can quickly evolve into a practical and useful operational and, later, industrial phase. Use of lunar propellant and near-lunar departure points can make access to Mars and asteroids vastly cheaper.
Quelle: The Space Review
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CALGARY, Alta. – Marie-Philip Poulin has been selected to lead the Canadian women’s hockey contingent at the upcoming 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.
The two-time Olympic gold-medallist from Beauceville, Que., has worn the ‘C’ for Canada since the 2015 IIHF Women's World Championship and will be joined on the leadership team by three-time Olympic gold-medallist Meghan Agosta (Ruthven, Ont.), and 2014 Olympic gold-medallists Brianne Jenner (Oakville, Ont./Calgary, CWHL) and Jocelyne Larocque (Ste. Anne, Man./Markham, CWHL).
“This is a collaborative group of leaders that continue to inspire and unite our team season after season,” said head coach Laura Schuler. “We’re confident in the abilities of this group and we know they will be successful at guiding the many layers of leadership that we have throughout our team.”
Canada’s 23-player roster includes 14 players who won the gold medal at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia; six players who won the gold medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, B.C.; and one player who won the gold medal at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy.
“It’s an honour to be selected to lead this group at the Olympic Winter Games and to wear the ‘C’ after so many inspirational leaders that have come before me,” said Poulin. “This is a special group of 23 players and we’re excited to hit the ice together for the first time in South Korea in a few days.”
Poulin, 26, is the fifth player chosen to lead Canada’s National Women’s Team at the Olympic Winter Games. Caroline Ouellette (2014), Hayley Wickenheiser (2010), Cassie Campbell (2006, 2002) and Stacey Wilson (1998) also captained Canada.
Canada will look to win its fifth-straight gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games when the puck drops in South Korea on Feb. 11. In addition to its four gold medals, the Canadian Women’s Olympic Hockey Team also claimed silver in 1998 in Nagano, Japan.
The Olympic women’s hockey tournament opens on Saturday, Feb. 10 at the Kwandong Hockey Centre and culminates on Thursday, Feb. 22 at the Gangneung Hockey Centre. Canada is scheduled to compete in Group A and begins preliminary-round play on Sunday, Feb. 11.
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Hofer posted a 32-save shutout, backstopping Canada to the final.
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Foote and Foudy had a goal and assist each to help Canada to the win.
2019-20 NMT: CAN 6 – TPS 0 (Semifinal)
Clark scored two more goals to send Canada to another Spengler final.
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Cherkowski and Picard scored to help Canada edge the United States.
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Daws and Hofer combined for 34 saves, but Canada fell to the Russians.
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Thirteen players had points to help Canada beat the Spengler hosts.
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Boom Time for Fraud Examiners
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Fighting Malware: A Team Effort
BITS, part of The Financial Services Roundtable, in a new report about malware says cyberthreats are evolving, and institutions must collaborate with customers to keep up with evolving risks.
90K Military E-mail Addresses Said to Be Pilfered
"We infiltrated a server on their network that basically had no security measures in place," according to the posting of the hacking group. "We were able to run our own application, which turned out to be a shell and began plundering some booty."
New Roles in Risk Management
Tom Field • July 11, 2011
Recent high-profile data breaches and heightened threats add up to one thing: a bright future for information security professionals who want to start or re-start a career in risk management.
Insiders: Primary Points of Compromise
As recent incidents at Citi and BofA reinforce, most banking institutions, from large to small, have done a poor job of keeping up with inside jobs and internal threats.
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Infosec Joblessness Remains Steady, at 0%
Eric Chabrow • July 9, 2011
Among the 12 computer-related job classifications tracked by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, information security analysts was one of only two categories to report no unemployment during the second quarter of 2011.
3 Banks, 1 CU Closed
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Three banks and one credit union were closed by state and federal banking regulators on Friday, July 8. These failures raise the year's tally to 66 failed institutions.
Lynn to Leave No. 2 Post at Pentagon
William Lynn, the former national security adviser to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, helped foster DoD's strategy to protect the military's and nation's digital assets, including the standup of the U.S. Cyber Command.
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The High Price of Non-Compliance
Tom Field • July 8, 2011
We all know the cost of regulatory compliance - how expensive it can be to meet the standards of HIPAA, HITECH and other industry guidelines. But two organizations this week learned hard lessons about the cost of non-compliance.
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“It is not easy taking care of twins” – Bukola Awoyemi confesses
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Bukola Awoyemi is fully back to the Movie industry after taking about two years off to take care of her twins.
Bukola that came to limelight after playing Arugba, in Tunde Kelani’s film that goes by the same title says the holiday period is over.
Arugba is a dramatisation of the votary maiden system that is part of the Osun Osogbo Festival tradition.
According to Awoyemi, she has recently taken part in some films, although she is not ready to produce another movie of her own yet.
Her first movie, Igba n ba Jo, was released about four years ago.
Arugba says, “I am fully back in action. I surely missed acting when I was away from the scene. You know, it is beyond work, it is a matter of passion. Acting is an intimate part of my life; and we can even say that life is acting and acting is life. So, it is good to be back to my life. “The little time I was away also gave me the opportunity to reflect more on the job itself. It gave me the opportunity to hone my craft and discover new ideas. The most important thing is that I am back on the scene red-hot, as the saying goes.”
The actress says it has been fun taking care of her twins. She, however, concedes that nursing twins is not a tea party.
“To nurse a single baby is not a joke, let alone taking care of two simultaneously,” she adds. “Twins are a double bundle of joy, but they also come with double challenges. It means you have to feed two people, often, at the same time. You have to dress two; you have to lure two people to bed almost at the same time. At times, they may choose to play. At times, they may fight each other – you know, as other children do. They may laugh together; they may choose to cry at the same time. So, all the tasks and challenges come double-double, just as the joy comes.”
Arugba’s man, Damola Olatunji, also a celebrated actor, produces and directs movies as well. She has taken part in some of the films he directed. According to her, there is no difference between working with Olatunji and working with other people.
“He is a very committed director. Of course, I also know that once you get on set, you have to give the job the creativity and seriousness it demands. So, there is no conflict of interest here.”
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The 10 most Grammy-nominated artists of all time
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Kanye West, Beyoncé, and Paul McCartney have been nominated for tons of Grammys.
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Since 1959, the Grammy Awards have honored the biggest names in the music industry, from singers and songwriters to producers and engineers.
Iconic musicians like Stevie Wonder, Beyoncé, and Tony Bennett are among the artists who have accumulated the most Grammys of all time.
Others have received recognition plenty of times, but have yet to score the coveted award, like Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg, and Blake Shelton.
From Jay-Z and Kanye West to Quincy Jones and Bruce Springsteen, here are the most Grammy-nominated artists of all time.
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Hedge fund interest in KalVista Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:KALV) shares was flat at the end of last quarter. This is usually a negative indicator. At the end of this article we will also compare KALV to other stocks including Viveve Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIVE), Stealth BioTherapeutics Corp (NASDAQ:MITO), and Palatin Technologies, Inc. (NYSEAMEX:PTN) to get a better sense of its popularity.
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How are hedge funds trading KalVista Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:KALV)?
At Q3’s end, a total of 15 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a change of 0% from one quarter earlier. By comparison, 12 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in KALV a year ago. So, let’s see which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
Among these funds, Vivo Capital held the most valuable stake in KalVista Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:KALV), which was worth $17.1 million at the end of the third quarter. On the second spot was Polar Capital which amassed $16.3 million worth of shares. Deerfield Management, Adage Capital Management, and Ghost Tree Capital were also very fond of the stock, becoming one of the largest hedge fund holders of the company. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Vivo Capital allocated the biggest weight to KalVista Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:KALV), around 1.95% of its 13F portfolio. Samsara BioCapital is also relatively very bullish on the stock, dishing out 0.94 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to KALV.
Because KalVista Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:KALV) has faced bearish sentiment from hedge fund managers, it’s safe to say that there were a few hedge funds that slashed their entire stakes by the end of the third quarter. It’s worth mentioning that Jerome Pfund and Michael Sjostrom’s Sectoral Asset Management said goodbye to the biggest investment of all the hedgies monitored by Insider Monkey, valued at about $0.4 million in stock. John Overdeck and David Siegel’s fund, Two Sigma Advisors, also said goodbye to its stock, about $0.2 million worth. These bearish behaviors are interesting, as total hedge fund interest stayed the same (this is a bearish signal in our experience).
Let’s go over hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as KalVista Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:KALV) but similarly valued. These stocks are Viveve Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIVE), Stealth BioTherapeutics Corp (NASDAQ:MITO), Palatin Technologies, Inc. (NYSEAMEX:PTN), and American Renal Associates Holdings, Inc (NYSE:ARA). All of these stocks’ market caps are similar to KALV’s market cap.
VIVE 1 3 -2
MITO 2 2539 0
PTN 6 2225 1
ARA 6 118306 1
Average 3.75 30768 0
As you can see these stocks had an average of 3.75 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $31 million. That figure was $60 million in KALV’s case. Palatin Technologies, Inc. (NYSEAMEX:PTN) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Viveve Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIVE) is the least popular one with only 1 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks KalVista Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:KALV) is more popular among hedge funds. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 37.4% in 2019 through the end of November and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 9.9 percentage points. Hedge funds were also right about betting on KALV as the stock returned 24.8% during the first two months of Q4 and outperformed the market by an even larger margin. Hedge funds were clearly right about piling into this stock relative to other stocks with similar market capitalizations.
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Brosnan: I'm not as cool as Bond
Pierce Brosnan played James Bond in four films
Pierce Brosnan has revealed that he is not as cool as James Bond.
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The 61-year-old actor, who portrayed the suave agent in four 007 films, joked about being a wimp in comparison to his action screen alter-ego.
"I just wish I was as cool as they are," he told Du Jour magazine. "If I got into a fight in a bar, I'd miss the dude by miles. I wouldn't know how to connect. It would be a comedy."
Pierce, who made his Bond debut in 1995's Goldeneye, said the role has been a "gift" because it " keeps giving in many respects."
The Irish-born star will return to the spy world by playing a retired CIA agent who is given the mission to carry out one final job in The November Man.
He said: "I resist any negative feelings or tension as it's such an iconic role. I think there's space for people who enjoyed my work as Bond to enjoy this film and see the guy I once was play the guy I am now."
"I thought it had complexity and it was a good fit for me as a character to play, having been away from the spy game for some time," Pierce added.
"All the ingredients were well balanced - the writing, the characterisation and the story."
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The Work Up Teams
Methodology of Sea Training
Other Training Packages
As Indian navy grew into a truly three dimensional navy in the early 1980s, operational sea training (OST) was recognized as a necessity. By 1982, Warship Work Up Organisations (WWOs) were set up at Bombay on the Western Seaboard and at Visakhapatnam on the East Coast. With further growth of the navy WWO concept was expanded in size and scope in 1992, and an independent organisation of Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST), headquartered at the Naval Base in Kochi in the South Western state of Kerala was established. Within a short period of seven years FOST organisation has evolved into a useful catalyst for improving role-worthiness and combat capabilities of warships with a variety of different weapon and sensor fit.
The Flag Officer Sea Training conducts operational sea training through three teams located at Kochi, Mumbai and Visakhapatnam covering the three major naval bases of the Indian Navy.
The Work UP TeamsThe teams at Mumbai and Visakhapatnam are referred to as Local Work Up Team (West) and Local Work Up Team (East) respectively. They are capable of undertaking OST of all classes of ships below Corvette size such as Seaward Defence Boats, Missile Boats, Anti Submarine Patrol Vessels, Ocean Going Tugs etc. The team at Kochi, referred to as the Indian Navy Work Up Team (INWT), is earmarked for undertaking OST of all types of major warships including Aircraft Carriers, ASW and Guided Missile Destroyers, Frigates and other fleet units.
On a ship reporting for OST, she is put through her paces during structured exercises followed by quizzes and written tests in all disciplines to assess the take off level of the individual crew members and the whole ship. The work up tasks are then tailored to meet individual ship requirements.
Methodology of Sea TrainingThe Operational Sea Training imparted under the overall supervision of FOST thus ensures a comprehensive and systematic progression of the ship to achieve the prescribed performance standards to undertake the designed role of the ship and streamline ship management in totality. At the end of each work up schedule FOST conducts an operational readiness assessment at sea and certifies the ships operational status highlighting those areas that need continuation training/attention.
OST encompasses all spheres of ship board activities including every operational/combat function, aviation, ship management, hull, seamanship, NBCD, engineering, electrical, logistics and medical. OST imparted by FOST provides focused attention to material, maintenance, crew proficiency and ship management in a holistic, non-attributable and objective manner.
OST is undertaken in four phases in harbor and at sea covering single ship, multi-ship and ship/submarine/aircraft multi-dimensional operations.
The FOST also conducts smaller training packages such as Sea Safety Checks (SSC) and Operational Sea Checks (OSC) for a duration of 7 – 10 days on any 2/3 selected disciplines like Bridge Work, Damage Control and Fire Fighting, Machinery Breakdown Drills and Ship Safety.
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Interview Date:November 2018
Race/Ethnicity: Biracial: White & Hispanic
Graduation Year: 2020, Transferred to start junior year for the Fall of 2018.
High School Experience: Public charter school in New Orleans, LA with a graduating class of about 900 students. There was a culture of going to college.
First Generation College Student: No
Major: Environmental Analysis
Minor: Spanish
Extracurricular Activities: I’m a student-athlete. I’m also part of the Scripps Food Recovery Network, where we take excess food from the dining halls and donate it to local women’s shelters.
What impact have your extracurricular activities had on your experience?
My sport takes up a lot of my time, and it’s a really good way to meet people across the consortium. It’s also a cool way to explore California because we have tournaments in all different parts of the state. The Food Recovery Network has had less of an impact on me because it’s less of a time commitment, it’s once every other week. It still has an impact by making me feel like I’m doing something and participating in the community.
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Kimura Foundry America will invest $8 million to build its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Shelbyville, Ind. The company, a manufacturer of alloy castings for the automotive and industrial sectors, plans to break ground in October on a 35,200-square-foot plant that will house 3D-printing equipment. The facility will allow the company, a subsidiary of Japan’s Kimura Group, to produce complex castings and molds for its U.S. clients. Kimura Foundry America plans to create 20 new jobs by 2020.
New positions at the 10-acre site in Shelbyville will include casting engineers, 3D model designers, casting simulation professionals, 3D-printer operators and foundry and inspection employees.
Kimura Group employs more than 830 associates at 10 facilities across three sites in Japan and at its North American sales office near Chicago. The company uses a proprietary process for casting molds using 3D-printing technology, allowing it to manufacture products including stamping die castings and machine and industrial tool castings used in automotive engine parts, pumps, compressors and energy components.
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Thompson shows seniors who it is done at Cowling Gala
Alex Thompson shows seniors who it is done for Cowling Gala victory
By Su Thompson
RAIN most definitely did not stop play at this year’s Cowling Gala fell race.
The wet weather varied between a gentle covering to torrential downpour during each of the various races, being the lightest during the joint Under-17 and senior race.
The races start with a mad sprint across the field to reach either the narrow stile or, for the more agile, a high wall to be scaled in order to reach the road crossing and route to the fell.
Upon reaching the fell, runners clamber over rocks to the summit at Salt Pot, or Wainman’s Pinnacle.
The race then becomes a skyline run along Earl Crag to the Pepper Pot, or Lund’s Tower.
Runners round the tower before returning the way they came to the finish line. To make the going tougher, the return skyline run has a slight incline which slows even the fastest of runners.
Despite the weather, it was u17s runner, and last year’s second-placed Alex Thompson, of Wharfedale Harriers, who showed the seniors how to run a fell race.
He led form the start and in the opinion of former winner, Keighley and Craven’s Ian Wills, he 'toyed' with him for the whole of the course.
As in previous years Thompson finished the race with a flourish as he hurdled the wall back into the field and made his leisurely way to the finish line to win in 20 minutes 48 seconds from Willis second (20.54) and Wharfedale’s Declan Bulmer in third place overall (21.46).
The ladies race was won by Pippa Barrett (26.01), despite making a bad route decision “somewhere at the back of beyond on the top” from Barlick’s Emma Pease, second (28.26) and Wharfedale’s Lynda Hargreaves third (34.27).
As in previous years, the u14s race was won overall by a girl, further dispelling the myth that boys are better than girls at fell running.
However, Wharfedale’s Amelie Lane was not satisfied with merely winning the race, but also set a new course record of 10.51 in what can only be described as challenging conditions.
Second girl was Keighley’s Scarlett Metcalfe, over two minutes later (12.57) ahead of Ilkley Harriers' Hatti Bishop, third (14.25).
The boys’ race was won by Wrexham’s Ted Bolton, nearly a minute behind Lane (11.41). Second and third boys were Wharfedale’s Tom Smurthwaite (12.16) and Keighley’s Nathan Caunt (12.20).
Wharfedale’s Tom Hooper scored a convincing win in the u12 race (9.05) from Barlick’s Logan McCredie, second (9.29) and Wharfedale’s James Rosser, third (9.48).
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LEOcrowd: A Unique Crowdfunding Platform for Entrepreneurs
A new crowdfunding platform LEOcrowd, launched globally in Stockholm, Sweden last April 16, 2016. The platform, www.LEOcrowd.com, was designed specifically for entrepreneurs and those with creative ideas to source alternate finance to bring their projects to life.
The LEOcrowd crowdfunding platform was born out of Learning Enterprises Organisation Ltd a global online business training company, and the creators of the groundbreaking digital currency, Leocoin. LEO, with their “Learn Earn Own” business philosophy empowers entrepreneurs through resources, education and now funding, so that they can have the tools necessary to be a success.
LEOcrowd’s mission is to “set entrepreneurial spirits free” by bringing together those with business ideas, new innovative projects or exciting new inventions together with those who are willing to back such projects.
LEOcrowd General Manager David Johnstone, said “LEOcrowd is more than just another crowdfunding platform, it is a community devoted to bringing creative ideas or start up business to life. We want to help launch tens of thousands of businesses around the world.”
Based in London’s Tech city, the hub of the business startup community, LEOcrowd operates a REWARD based crowdfunding model that has distinct advantages.
Firstly through its relationship with Learning Enterprises Organisation it has a global footprint in 140 countries already.
Secondly it facilitates payment through digital currencies such as Bitcoin or LEOcoin, making it at the cutting edge of financial technology. Access to digital currency fundraising will enable projects to be more global and help strip down financial barriers typically in place when raising capital internationally. Mr Johnstone added, “Access to finance for startup businesses or those with great ideas has become increasingly difficult and we provide the solution”
About LEO (Learning Enterprises Organisation)
Learning Enterprises Organisation, Ltd. (LEO, “Learn Earn Own”) is an entrepreneurial membership network designed to deliver knowledge, resources and inspiration for entrepreneurs worldwide. Its motivational philosophy is centered around unleashing human potential for the betterment of entrepreneurs, small businesses and the global economy. The LEO ecosystem includes a vast array of products, services and educational tours designed for entrepreneurs including LEO eTutoring, multilingual training products LEO Coreline, LEOxChange digital currency exchange for LEOcoin, social network LEO Cafe, and LEOcharity. LEO has offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Egypt, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, China, Thailand, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. To learn more go to www.learnearnown.com.
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Home » All points bulletin: Head of Massachusetts asbestos removal training school who sold certificates to undocumented, untrained immigrants is on the lam, says EPA (4/3)
All points bulletin: Head of Massachusetts asbestos removal training school who sold certificates to undocumented, untrained immigrants is on the lam, says EPA (4/3)
EPA has added Albania Deleon, former president of Massachusetts’ largest asbestos removal training school, to its fugitives Web site. Deleon failed to appear for her sentencing on March 23 at the Federal District Court, District of Massachusetts, and a warrant has been issued for her arrest, according to an EPA press release.
Last November, a federal jury convicted Deleon, a resident of Andover, Mass., of selling certificates from Environmental Compliance Training of Metheun, Mass., to hundreds of undocumented immigrants who had not taken the mandatory training course. The individuals who purchased the training certificates without the training filed them with the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Safety so they could work in the asbestos removal industry. Hundreds of these individuals were sent to asbestos demolition sites in Massachusetts and other New England states.
Deleon sent the individuals to perform removal work at job sites through her temporary employment agency that specialized in asbestos demolition and paid them “under the table” for their work. She did not report these employees to the IRS and workers compensation organizations, allowing her to save more than $1 million dollars in tax and insurance payments. The company shut down in May 2007.
Last November, a federal jury convicted Deleon on 28 felony counts, including one count of conspiracy in making false statements, encouraging illegal aliens to reside in the U.S., and hiring illegal aliens; five counts of making false statements; sixteen counts of procuring false payroll tax returns, and six counts of mail fraud. Evidence presented at trial indicated that more than half of the individuals receiving certificates had not taken the necessary training, posing health risks to the individuals and to those near the asbestos work sites.
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Economy to be improved through a trained workforce
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Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe says that the economy of the country will be improved within next 5 years through a trained workforce instead of an untrained workers. The Prime Minister said this while attending the ceremony to lay the foundation stone for the National Technological Education College which will be built at Kuliyapitiya, Narangala.It is the 20th College of Education that will be added to the Colleges of Education network in the country. This College of Education is built to create a generation of students with technical knowledge by educating teachers on modern technological trends.
3000 million rupees has been allocated to construct this college which will be built with the assistance of Korean government. Plans have been made to complete the constructions within 3 years. This College of Education will be built on a 19 acre plot of land with all facilities. This college will offer a technological degree instead of the national teaching Diploma given by other colleges. Accordingly, the National Technological Education College at Kuliyapitiya, Narangala will become a turning point in the local education sector. Parliamentarians, Korean Ambassador Heon Lee and Korean representatives in Sri Lanka were present on the occasion. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe vested with the students, the new medical fculty of the Wayamba University. 2060 million rupees has been spent on the project. Minister Rajitha Senaratne was present on the occasion.
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What does the CIO do about the CDO?
What does the emergence of the CDO mean for the CIO? Mark Samuels takes a look...
by: Mark Samuels
The Doctor's Surgery: It has been a tough few years for CIOs, with many industry commentators spending a great deal of time discussing the demise of the traditional IT leader. But fascination with the impending death of the CIO has recently been usurped by interest in the birth of a new executive, the chief digital officer (CDO).
This new C-level executive is being charged with ensuring the business takes advantage of the emergence of digital technology and the associated information explosion. Analyst firm Gartner estimates as many as 25 per cent of organisations will have a CDO by 2015.
Businesses yet to appoint a CDO are not necessarily backwards. Digital success might be a crucial objective but it is also a tricky target to hit. The CDO role remains a niche executive role centred on blue-chip media organisations and forward thinking firms in the public and private sector.
So, does your organisation need a dedicated CDO? More to the point, what does the rise of the digital executive mean for the CIO? One simple fact that can help explain the rise of the CDO is the inexorable increase in information.
Big data remains a buzz phrase beloved by marketing departments and loathed by CIOs, but no one can doubt that modern organisations are swamped by structured and unstructured data. Estimates suggest 90 per cent of the world's data has been generated in the past two years.
Attempting to discover trends from this flood of information is seen as an organisational priority. The CIO, who has traditionally focused on operational concerns, might not be perceived as the person best placed to create intelligence from the morass of digital data.
It is this belief that has spurred calls for the appointment of CDOs. However, an element of caution is necessary. Digital might be the trend of the moment but I'm not sure every business needs a dedicated CDO. At least not straightaway.
The majority of organisations are still focused on making the most of cloud, social and mobile through their existing executive set up. And the responsibility for all-things-digital in such firms lies somewhere between the CIO and chief marketing officer.
IT leaders have a small window of opportunity. CIOs looking to assert their authority must be digital spearheads for their organisation in terms of strategy, leadership and governance.
Technology chiefs who prove their digital capability now will stand a much better chance of long-term success. And when the business finally thinks about appointed a CDO, it might just find it already has a digital-savvy CIO.
Dr Mark Samuels is editor at advisory organisation CIO Connect. He examines the future role of the IT leader each month in his regular column.
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Separate trials set for Barnetts, who face new charges for abandoning daughter in Lafayette
Michael and Kristine Barnett protest new charges that they injured their adopted daughter are ‘preposterous,’ as judge sets trials in a neglect case that has drawn international attention
Separate trials set for Barnetts, who face new charges for abandoning daughter in Lafayette Michael and Kristine Barnett protest new charges that they injured their adopted daughter are ‘preposterous,’ as judge sets trials in a neglect case that has drawn international attention Check out this story on jconline.com: https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2019/12/27/separate-trials-set-michael-and-kristine-barnett-who-face-new-charges-abandoning-daughter-lafayette/2748902001/
Dave Bangert and Ron Wilkins, Lafayette Journal & Courier Published 12:20 p.m. ET Dec. 27, 2019 | Updated 12:24 p.m. ET Dec. 27, 2019
LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Kristine and Michael Barnett’s attorneys on Friday protested fresh charges that they didn’t just neglect their daughter, Natalia Barnett, when they left her in a rented apartment in Lafayette in 2013 and moved to another country, but also injured her in the process by not lining up surgeries to deal with issues tied to her dwarfism.
Michael Barnett, center, and ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, walk out of Superior 2 after a pretrial conference with Judge Steven Meyer, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. The Barnetts are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. (Photo: Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier)
In a Tippecanoe County courtroom Friday morning, Terrance Kinnard, attorney for Michael Barnett of Indianapolis, called four additional charges of neglect causing bodily injury – on top of two charges of neglect of a dependent filed in September – “unduly prejudicial” and “preposterous allegations.”
Kinnard argued that the new charges, filed Dec. 12, relied on “a hypothetical diagnosis” that would force the divorced couple to bring in additional medical professionals to dispute in an already murky case that hinges on disputes over Natalia’s actual age.
Still, Tippecanoe Superior 2 Judge Steve Meyer allowed amended charges, based on a doctor’s claim that Natalia Barnett’s “significant disabilities could have been mitigated” if her adoptive parents had kept up with her medical needs. Meyer’s point: “Looks like this case is going to have medical testimony anyway.”
The judge also scheduled time for separate, weeklong trials in 2020 in a case that has generated international attention, appearances by the parents and the daughter on syndicated daytime TV shows and gag orders for the Barnetts to steer clear of talking about aspects of the case.
Michael Barnett’s trial will start June 22, according to times set by Meyer.
Kristine Barnett’s trial will start July 27.
The Barnetts face six to 20 years in prison on the most serious charges, if convicted.
MORE: Natalia Barnett's guardians added to gag order in neglect case
“It doesn’t change anything we’re doing,” Kinnard said outside the courtroom Friday. “We’re still just as confident. But we think it’s just unduly burdensome for our clients to even worry about those additional charges.”
Kinnard said Michael Barnett had no plans to take a plea in the case.
“We will go to trial,” Kinnard said.
Philip Hayes, Kristine Barnett’s attorney, said his client expected to go to trial, as well.
“The up-charges today really aren’t going to affect our defense – the defense is really going to stay the same,” Hayes said. “We just need a little more time to examine the medical records and so forth. … At this time, we’ve just been focused on preparing for trial.”
In September, prosecutors filed two counts of neglect of a dependent, accusing the Barnetts of abandoning their 9-year-old daughter, a Ukrainian orphan they adopted in 2010.
In the summer of 2013, the Barnetts rented a house for Natalia, moved her from the family home in Westfield to a city an hour away, where she knew no one, then left her here while the rest of the family moved to Canada so their son could attend college, according to prosecutor's allegations outlined in probable cause affidavits.
According to Natalia's original birth records and medical exams, she was not quite 10 when the Barnetts abandoned her in Lafayette to fend for herself, prosecutors contended in their probable cause affidavit.
In interviews with various media outlets before the gag order was issued – including on syndicated TV shows “Dr. Phil” and “The Dr. Oz Show” – the Barnetts have not disputed that they moved Natalia to Lafayette. But they did dispute Natalia's real age.
When the charges were filed in September, Kristine Barnett told the Daily Mail that she and Michael Barnett had been scammed in the adoption and that Natalia was actually an adult posing as a child. Kristine Barnett claimed in those accounts that Natalia Barnett tried to kill her — a claim the daughter denies.
Michael and Kristine Barnett Court Appearances
Michael Barnett, left, and ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, walk out of Superior 2 after a pretrial conference with Judge Steven Meyer, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. The Barnetts are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett, center, walks onto an elevator with his attorney Terrance Kinnard after a pretrial conference with Judge Steven Meyer, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Philip Hayes talks with his client Kristine Barnett after a pretrial conference with Judge Steven Meyer, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and her ex-husband, Michael Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett, center, and ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, walk out of Superior 2 after a pretrial conference with Judge Steven Meyer, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. The Barnetts are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Kristine Barnett, right, and attorney Philip Hayes, walk out of Superior 2 after a pretrial conference with Judge Steven Meyer, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and her ex-husband, Michael Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett boards an elevator with his attorney, Terrance Kinnard, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Terrance Kinnard, attorney for Michael Barnett, walks out of Superior 2 after a hearing, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Philip Hayes, attorney for Kristine Barnett walk out of Superior 2 after a hearing, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett walks away from the media after his attorney, Terrance Kinnard, spoke briefly outside of Superior 2, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Terrance Kinnard, attorney for Michael Barnett, talks with members of the media outside of Superior 2, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett reacts as his attorney, Terrance Kinnard, talks with members of the media outside of Superior 2, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Philip Hayes, Kristine Barnett's attorney, walks out of the Superior 2 offices after briefly meeting with Michael Barnett and his attorney Terrance Kinnard, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 in Lafayette. The Barnetts are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett, left, talks with his ex-wife's attorney, Philip Hayes, as he walks out of the Superior 2 offices with his attorney Terrance Kinnard, center, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 in Lafayette. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett walks out of Superior 2 with his attorney Terrance Kinnard, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Kristine Barnett, center, is followed by news cameras as she walks out of Superior 2 with her attorney, Philip Hayes, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and her ex-husband, Michael Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett's attorney, Terrance Kinnard, answers questions from the media after appearing in Superior 2, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Kristine Barnett, right, talks with her attorney, Philip Hayes, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and her ex-husband, Michael Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Kristine Barnett turns around as she walks into an elevator with her attorney Philip Hayes, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and her ex-husband, Michael Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Kristine Barnett walks into an elevator as her attorney Philip Hayes, turns around to respond to questions from the media, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and her ex-husband, Michael Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Kristine Barnett, center, walks into Superior 2 with her attorney, Philip Hayes, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and her ex-husband, Michael Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Kristine Barnett walks into Superior 2, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and her ex-husband, Michael Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Kristine Barnett walks out of Superior 2 with her attorney, Philip Hayes, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and her ex-husband, Michael Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Kristine Barnett walks into Superior 2 with her attorney, Philip Hayes, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and her ex-husband, Michael Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett and his attorney, Terrance Kinnard, walk out of the Tippecanoe County Courthouse after an initial hearing before the magistrate, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019 in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Kristine Barnett walks into the magistrate courtroom for an initial hearing with an unidentified man, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and her ex-husband, Michael Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett and attorney Terrance Kinnard walk into the magistrate courtroom for an initial hearing before Judge Steven Meyer, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett's attorney, Terrance Kinnard, answers questions from the media after an initial hearing before the magistrate, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Kristine Barnett walks into the magistrate courtroom for an initial hearing, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and her ex-husband, Michael Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett and attorney Terrance Kinnard walk into Superior Court 2 for an initial hearing before Judge Steven Meyer, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett walks out of the magistrate courtroom after an initial hearing before Judge Steven Meyer, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett and attorney Terrance Kinnard walk out of the magistrate courtroom after an initial hearing before Judge Steven Meyer, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett and attorney Terrance Kinnard walk out of the magistrate court after an initial hearing before Judge Steven Meyer, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett watches as his attorney, Terrance Kinnard, answers questions from the media after an initial hearing before magistrate, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Kristine Barnett walks out of the magistrate courtroom with an unidentified man after an initial hearing, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and her ex-husband, Michael Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Philip Hayes, attorney for Kristine Barnett, speaks with the media after a gag order hearing in Superior 2, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Terrance Kinnard, attorney for Michael Barnett, walks into Superior 2, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Attorney's Terrance Kinnard, representing Michael Barnett, and Philip Hayes, representing Kristine Barnett, speak with the media after a gag order hearing in Superior 2, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Philip Hayes, attorney for Kristine Barnett, walks into Superior 2, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette. Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, are accused of abandoning their adoptive daughter in Lafayette in 2013. Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier
Michael Barnett told the same story to TV shows and news outlets covering the case.
Natalia Barnett, now living with another family in Indiana, appeared on “Dr. Phil” and refuted the Barnetts' claims.
MORE: Attorneys: How much did Michael Barnett, Kristine Barnett and Natalia Barnett get paid for interviews?
The Barnetts changed Natalia's birth records in June 2012, having a judge order her birth year be changed from 2003 to 1989. Today, Natalia is legally 30, but she said she was 16. Prosecutors allege that the changing Natalia's birth records was an effort to conceal their crimes of neglect of a dependent.
But the Barnetts said it was because Natalia was an adult with mental illness, and changing her birth record was the only way to get her the medical help she needed.
Michael Barnett appeared at a 2017 court hearing in Marion County to object when another couple attempted to correct Natalia Barnett’s birth date to 2003 so they could gain guardianship, according to court documents filed with the new charges.
The new charges cite dental records from 2011 and 2012 to back claims that Natalia was 8 or 9 in 2011 and between 6 and 9 in 2012, according to the affidavit. Kristine Barnett was told of Natalia's estimated age, according to the affidavit.
According to court documents filed with the new charges, Dr. Lisa Maskill, an orthopedic surgeon at the Dr. Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, examined Natalia in 2017 and 2018 and diagnosed her with diastrophic dysplasia, club feet, “joint issues at every level” and “required, but was unable to obtain, surgery on her spine, hip, hand and possibly wrist.” Maskill told investigators that “because of the delay in medical care and surgeries, the surgeries will be more involved and the treatment will take a longer period of time.”
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Meyer asked deputy prosecutor Matt McConnell why that evidence hadn’t been presented with the original charges. McConnell told the judge that the information from the doctor had not come until an interview on Oct. 14.
On Friday, Meyer also granted a prosecutor’s motion to get a sample of Natalia Barnett’s DNA. A woman living in Ukraine claims she is Natalia's birth mother, according to a report by the Daily Mail. If prosecutors can confirm the woman's claim through DNA samples, it would end the dispute about Natalia Barnett's age, according to court documents.
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Opinion | Joining Together – and Reaching Out
By Ashley Weinstock
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Five hundred teens. Fifteen countries represented. Dozens of languages. Four days. One community. One religion. And an event that none of us will ever soon forget.
Judaism brought us all together in Ukraine. Each prayer we chanted established a bond between everyone in the room. The glimmer from the Havdalah candle radiated into our hearts. The sounds of the guitar vibrated through our skin. The cool breeze from our swaying wafted through our hair. It was an indelible moment at the Active Jewish Teens International Convention in Kyiv, Ukraine, where I and other Jewish teens from North America represented BBYO (AJT is a program of the JDC and a joint venture with BBYO).
I had no idea what to expect before I headed over to Ukraine, where we for the first time met a United Nations of Jewish teens from the former Soviet Union. I had no idea that over the next seven days would have such a profound impact on me. The first day at Babi Yar, the site of a Nazi massacre — walking on the same path where 84,000 of our ancestors perished not that long ago, that made so concrete, so real all that the Jewish people have suffered during our history.
As I stood there in prayer with 20 other teens I had just met, I felt as though we were together as one, that all the awkwardness of getting acquainted had immediately evaporated. And from that place of death and horror we went to the local shul. The move from a site of devastation and destruction to one of hope and community was moving. All I could think about in those moments of singing and dancing was the immense pride I felt. Only a few decades prior, Jews were not able to freely pray and dance anywhere, let alone be in a synagogue. Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, Jewish life has resurged, blossomed again, in the countries that once lived under Communism.
We went everywhere in Ukraine, and I felt like I got a real sense for the country, and for the Jewish community there. We danced with the elderly at Chesed, took fun pictures in the photo illusion museum, learned about Hillel and the JCC in Kyiv, and watched a ballet. While in Kyiv, I found myself immersed in the culture. Every bus ride, every walk, I would find myself just looking around. Whether it was the local architecture, or the way Ukrainians park on the sidewalks, it all amazed me.
When we finally arrived at the conference, where 500 Jewish teens from across the world gathered in Ukraine to celebrate Judaism, I was nervous because I didn’t speak any Russian and I didn’t think others would speak much English. Right away, though, I was warmly welcomed by hundreds of Russians, Ukrainians, Israelis, Lithuanians and other Jewish teens from around the world. Experiencing Havdalah together, forgetting about any social, political or language barriers between us, was a moment unlike anything I’ve experienced in my life. Judaism truly is a bond that extends beyond words, and beyond national barriers.
My experience in Ukraine opened my eyes up to the world. I never knew what Jewish communities looked like outside of my own in a small town in Pennsylvania. It was a once-in-a-lifetime trip that I wish everyone, Jewish or not, could go on. I’m so thankful to BBYO, Genesis Philanthropy Group and their associated partners for making this experience possible for me and my peers. We must ensure that for the next generation these opportunities not only endure, but expand.
Ashley Weinstock lives in Mechanicsburg. She is a senior in high school and is the regional n’siah (president) in BBYO Liberty Region, comprising chapters along Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and parts of upstate New York.
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The propagandizing “fact-checking” website SNOPES is being run by a whore-digger who defrauded the publisher out of $98,000 to hire prostitutes, say now-public divorce documents. One of the site’s administrators is an “escort-porn star,” and a fact-checker at SNOPES turns out to be a fetish sex blogger named “Vice Vixen domme,” explains the UK Daily Mail. The SNOPES organization, reports the paper, was founded through an elaborate fraud scheme, and its CEO married an international escort worker who traveled the globe to be banged by “VIP” clients who posted glowing online reviews of why she’s such a good choice to be hired as a “lover.”
Facebook recently announced it would rely on SNOPES to “fact-check” news articles to make sure Facebook operated with high integrity standards and full transparency. In reality, the announcement was a thinly-veiled attempt to censor independent journalism by labeling real news “fake news” with the help of all the left-wing (actual) whores and fraudsters at SNOPES.
SNOPES has frequently labeled truthful reporting on vaccines, GMOs and false flag shootings to be “false” information, siding with liberals, President Obama and the corporate establishment on nearly every topic. While claiming it is an arbiter of truth, SNOPES really functions as just another liberal propaganda mouthpiece, declaring left-wing propaganda to be “truthful” while slamming anything that contradicts liberal ideology or Big Government narratives. In this way, SNOPES mirrors Politifact, which is also run by left-wing propagandists and mind manipulators.
SNOPES, “claims to be one of the web’s ‘essential resources’ and ‘painstaking, scholarly and reliable'” says the Daily Mail, which goes on to explain:
It was founded by husband-and-wife Barbara and David Mikkelson, who used a letterhead claiming they were a non-existent society to start their research. Now they are divorced – with Barbara claiming in legal documents he embezzled $98,000 of company money and spent it on ‘himself and prostitutes’.
Snopes.com founder David Mikkelson’s new wife Elyssa Young is employed by the website as an administrator… she has worked as an escort and porn actress and despite claims [that SNOPES] is non-political ran as a Libertarian for Congress on a ‘Dump Bush’ platform. Its main ‘fact checker’ is Kimberly LaCapria, whose blog ‘ViceVixen’ says she is in touch with her ‘domme side’ and has posted on Snopes.com while smoking pot.
This montage shows the original SNOPES founders (bottom right) alongside the “Vice Vixen” escort-porn star now working there:
“The CEO of Snopes.com, the fact-checking website that was recently named as one of Facebook’s “fake news” arbiters, has been accused in divorce proceedings of appropriating company funds which he allegedly spent on expensive holidays and prostitutes,” reports Breitbart.com.
The founders’ names are David Mikkelson and Barbara Mikkelson. Via Breitbart:
Barbara has claimed that her former husband embezzled money from the company. Court documents obtained by the Daily Mail state that Barbara accused David of “raiding the corporate business Bardav bank account for his personal use and attorney fees.” Barbara also claims that David embezzled $98,000 over four years, which “he expended upon himself and the prostitutes he hired.” Barbara claims that David spent $10,000 from their business accounts between April and June of 2016 to fund an expensive 24-day holiday for him and his “girlfriend.”
Here’s a composite of online posts from Elyssa Young, the new bride of David Mikkelson, who also ran an online escort posting. She’s now an administrator at SNOPES, which gives a whole new meaning of “prostitutes” aiding “presstitutes.”
Court documents: SNOPES CEO embezzled $98,000 to hire prostitutes
This divorce document states that SNOPES CEO David Mikkelson embezzled money from the company to hire prostitutes. As shown in the document below, courtesy of UK Daily Mail:
…embezzlement of $98,000 from our company over the course of four years, which were monies he expended upon himself and the prostitutes he hired…
In addition to marrying an escort service tease, David Mikkelson thinks he should be paid $720,000 a year to run the SNOPES left-wing propaganda website. Via the UK Daily Mail:
David wanted his salary raised from $240,000 to $360,000 – arguing that this would still put him below the ‘industry standards’ and that he should be paid up to $720,000 a year.
‘As I said, based on industry standards and our revenues, my salary should be about 2x to 3x what it is now,’ he wrote in an email to Barbara in April 2016. ‘I’ll settle for $360K with the understanding that it’s to be retroactive to the start of the year.’
Banging whores with “sweet liberal shill money”
“According to divorce papers, Snopes co-founder David Mikkelson started taking all sorts of trips around the world to bang whores after that sweet liberal shill money started rolling in,” reports Zero Hedge.
“While engaging in this debauchery, Mikkelson wrote off just about everything as a business expense, embezzling a reported $98,000. The Snopes co-founder has since settled down and married a [NSFW] part time porn actress, Snopes.com administrator (spicy!), and sex worker. As in, she has a website devoted to being a whore.”
Lying for the left also turns out to be incredibly profitable. “David kept their joint baseball card collection, a savings account with $1.59 million balance, and other savings worth more than $300,000,” reports the paper.
Here’s a photo of the SNOPES founders posing as complete slobs with their obese cat perched on a couch that looks ripped out of the 1970s. David’s expression almost seems to say, “What I really wanted was some VIP pu##y and all I got was this obese creature annoying the hell out of me… plus a cat!”
SNOPES CEO marries a prostitute who has been banged by men from around the world… is that “diversity?”
SNOPES CEO Mikkelson’s new wife, Elyssa Young, has been banged by so many other paying customers that you can actually find online reviews for her “services.”
This particular review states that she “travels overseas extensively” and is a great choice “if you seek a lover.”
Hiring and marrying actual whores to “services” the presstitutes in the fakestream media is all part of SNOPES’ “diversity” program, according to the CEO. “Our editorial staff is drawn from diverse backgrounds,” Mikkelson told the UK Daily Mail.
If he means diversity in sexually transmitted diseases, he’s probably right. Can you imagine the vast array of viral populations festering in the crotches of these despicable “fact-checking” sleazebags?
Another SNOPES fact-checker turns out to be a pot-smoking fetish gear sex blogger who thinks Republicans fear females
The bizarre, twisted “diversity” of SNOPES’ staff doesn’t end there. Another SNOPES “fact-checker” named Kim LaCapria is a fetish gear sex blogger, according to Breitbart.com:
Writing under the pseudonym Vice Vixen, Snopes fact-checker Kim LaCapria regularly wrote about sex and fetish gear on her own blog, which was described as a lifestyle blog “with a specific focus on naughtiness, sin, carnal pursuits, and general hedonism and bonne vivante-ery.” LaCapria’s blog often featured reviews of sex toys. One particular review reads, “If you are doing something to your fella, and you apply this to the base of his cash-and-prizes while you carry on, he will scream and perhaps cry.” On another blog, LaCapria once described what she did on her day off, writing that she “played scrabble, smoked pot, and posted to Snopes.” She then added, “That’s what I did on my day ‘on,’ too.”
TruNews adds:
Snopes “fact-checker” Kim LaCapria claimed on her personal blog that she has “posted to Snopes” after smoking marijuana. As TheDC previously revealed, LaCapria describes herself as “openly left-leaning” and once claimed that Republicans fear “female agency.”
Official “fact-checkers” turn out to be steeped in debauchery, betrayal and deviant behavior
What’s astonishing in all this is how Facebook has already announced it will rely on SNOPES to “fact-check” news articles. Because SNOPES has long been run by left-leaning liberal propagandists, everyone knows Facebook’s “fact-checking” is really just a new form of censorship to silence independent journalism.
The fact that left-wing propagandists also happen to be actual whores, and men who marry whores, and people who reportedly embezzle money to hire whores is no surprise to anyone. The political left has descended into cabal of liars, thieves, asshats and intolerant, abusive hate-mongers who have been widely rejected by most of civil society. Revelations about SNOPES only further confirm what we’ve all known about the opinion leaders on the left for quite some time: They’re mostly sick, twisted, mentally ill sociopaths who have no ethics, no morals and no dedication to actual truth. They lie when it’s convenient; they stab each other in the back (feel the Bern!); they have weird sex fetishes (Bill Clinton’s numerous sex assaults on women); they routinely cheat on each other (Bill Clinton is not Chelsea Clinton’s father); and they LIE, LIE, LIE while proclaiming that have a divine monopoly on “truth.”
That Mark Zuckerberg would appoint these people to “fact-check” Facebook news just makes Zuckerberg a sicko and a psycho. In doing so, he’s in good company with other globalist psychopaths like Jeff Bezos, George Soros, Bill Gates and Ted Turner. Other small-time propagandists who operate with a similar degree of fraud and deception include:
– Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia who launched the propaganda venture using money earned from being a porn king.
– Jon Entine, a biotech industry propagandist who was exposed by Natural News for being a violent psychopath who physically attacked his wife in front of their own child.
– James “the Amazing” Randi, who was caught on tape soliciting sex acts from young men.
James Randi, in turn, leads to David Gorski, the discredited “skeptics” blogger and cancer surgeon who has been reported to the FBI for a series of allegations involving the same cancer center where now-imprisoned cancer surgeon Dr. Farid Fata committed widespread criminal fraud by falsely diagnosing patients with cancer so he could profit from “treating” them.
All these people are leftists. What they have in common is their complete abandonment of truth, ethics and morality in their psychopathic quest for power. They are all willing to lie, cheat, steal, defame, slander or, in some cases, even murder people in order to get their way.
Oh wait, let me guess: SNOPES is going to investigate these accusations against SNOPES and proclaim that everything in this story is false. Therefore, all criticism of SNOPES is “fake news” by definition, because the authenticity of the monopolistic arbiter of news can never be questioned, you see.
The Ministry of Truth is alive and well in America, and it’s run by deviants, traitors and whores. If you believe anything you read on SNOPES, you’re a complete fool.
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How To See Mercury Move Past The Sun Today In Incredibly Rare Event
Amelia Ward in News
Last updated 7:28 AM, Monday November 11 2019 GMT
If you're into your sky-gazing, then you'll probably already know that today is a pretty big deal in the astronomical calendar.
The rare event occurs only 13 times every 100 years, taking place when Mercury passes between the Earth and the Sun - the next one will be in 2032, so it's probably best not to miss out.
As Mercury is so close to the Sun - and so far away from us - it looks like a tiny black dot crossing in front of the sky. So small, in fact, that it's not likely to be visible with the human eye. Obviously don't stare into the sun to try and see it - not if you value your eyesight, at any rate.
The surface of Mercury. Credit: NASA
Instead, NASA recommends that you use a telescope with at least 50x magnification and also a solar filter to avoid damaging your eyes. Lucky we all have one of those knocking about then, isn't it?
The phenomenon will be visible from many places aross the planet - including the UK, luckily, where it will start at abut 12.35pm. Mercury will start its journey across the Sun then but will be visible until around 6pm - so if you look any time between then you should catch it.
NASA explained: "The only safe way to look directly at the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed Sun is through special-purpose solar filters, such as 'eclipse glasses' or hand-held solar viewers.
"Homemade filters or ordinary sunglasses, even very dark ones, are not safe for looking at the Sun; they transmit thousands of times too much sunlight."
How to watch the sun safely without specialist equipment. Credit: NASA
So at least you don't need any expensive equipment to see solar events.
Mitzi Adams, a solar scientist at NASA, said: "Viewing transits and eclipses provide opportunities to engage the public, to encourage one and all to experience the wonders of the universe and to appreciate how precisely science and mathematics can predict celestial events.
"Of course, safely viewing the Sun is one of my favourite things to do."
Now, it goes without saying - this all depends on the brilliant British weather. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but it's largely forecast to rain over the country during most of the rest of the day.
It might not be quite the same, but you can still view the Mercury Transit on live streams on the internet, including this one on space.com.
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Drive-thru incident earns year in jail
Damian Devon Thomas, 25, has been in custody since June 14
Jan 14, 2020 9:45 AM By: Chris Zwick
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Damian Devon Thomas, 25, of Whitecourt was sentenced to a year in jail for his part in a June incident at the McDonald’s drive-thru that saw him repeatedly ram two RCMP vehicles with a stolen truck as he tried to make his escape. The video, pictured above, made the national news as well as the social media feeds of millions around the country.
WESTLOCK - A Whitecourt man who made a viral sensation of Westlock for all the wrong reasons was sentenced to a year in jail last week for an incident with RCMP in the McDonald’s drive-thru last summer.
Damian Devon Thomas, 25, of Whitecourt, appeared shackled by the feet in Westlock Provincial Court Jan. 8, which was scheduled to be his trial day.
Instead, he avoided the trial and pleaded guilty to 11 charges that included two counts of assaulting a peace officer, several counts of drug possession, as well as a charge of possession of a weapon and several breaches.
Crown prosecutor Scott Niblock recounted the story for Judge Bruce Garriock, which started in a McDonald’s drive-thru around midnight June 14, 2019.
Court heard Thomas and a female passenger were in the restaurant drive-thru that night, followed by an RCMP member, who subsequently ran the plates of the vehicle ahead and found it was stolen and called for assistance.
The other police vehicle soon showed up at the scene and entered the drive-thru from the front, blocking Thomas in between the two RCMP vehicles.
Judge Garriock heard Thomas then drove forward into the second RCMP vehicle in an effort to escape.
He then drove backward into the first RCMP vehicle. After several attempts, which made the second RCMP vehicle in front inoperable and caused the officer to have to leave the vehicle, Thomas tried to escape over the curb, hitting a sign and a tree.
Officers were able to get close enough to the truck at that point to apply pepper spray to the assailants, drag them out of the vehicle and place them under arrest.
The subsequent cellphone footage, taken by a passer-by, was posted to the Internet and became a viral sensation, spreading around the country and appearing in the feeds of millions of social media consumers and on TV news.
Court heard that upon search of the vehicle, RCMP located 60 grams of methamphetamine, seven grams of heroin, five grams of cocaine and a modified pellet gun.
Defence lawyer David Keyes told court his client had been involved with drugs since he was a youth, but “understands this is not how people are supposed to act.”
Judge Garriock also viewed what he called “an unenviable criminal record” before considering the joint submission from Crown and defence for a year in jail and a year of probation.
Thomas declined to say anything when given the opportunity.
Judge Garriock sentenced him to six months each for assaulting the peace officers (to be served concurrently); for operation of a vehicle while prohibited he will serve another six months consecutively; while 12 months of probation was added for possession of a prohibited weapon.
Thomas received another 30 days each for two breach of conditions charges (to be served concurrently) and well as nine months, concurrent for possession of the stolen vehicle, along with a $500 fine and 30 additional, concurrent days in jail for the possession of a controlled substance charges.
Court heard Thomas had been in jail since June 14 and has served 210 actual days, resulting in enhanced credit of 255 days, leaving him with 110 days remaining in his sentence
Eight charges against the woman who was also in the vehicle at the time of the drive-thru incident were also scheduled to go to trial that day, but were withdrawn by the Crown.
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Jealous ex-boyfriend had punch-up in pub car park
By Andrew Bellard @lancstelegraph Magistrates Court Reporter
The Ladbrokes betting shop off Station Road in West Moors. ..
A MAN ended up in a pub car park brawl after finding his ex-partner in another man's car.
Blackburn magistrates heard Craig Lee Calvert came off second best in the scrap and claimed he was the victim.
But the magistrates ruled after a trial that Calvert was the aggressor and had started the fight.
Calvert, 59, of Greave Fold, Bacup, was convicted after trial of assaulting Russell Malone and Claire Rawstron and stealing a bunch of flowers belonging to Claire Rawstron.
He was made subject to a community order for 12 months with 200 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £100 compensation to Miss Rawstron, £200 to Mr Malone, £400 costs and £85 victim surcharge. He was made subject to a restraining order for 18 months which prohibits him from having contact with the aggrieved or entering any Ladbrokes or Coral bookmakers shops in Lancashire.
Philippa White, prosecuting, Miss Rawstron and the defendant had been in a relationship for eight years until they split in 2016.
"There has been a protracted history of incidents since that date," said Mrs White.
She said Miss Rawstron worked for Ladbrokes where Mr Malone was an area manager.
On April 9 they had met up and he had bought her some flowers. They were sitting in his car when the defendant turned up. There was a verbal altercation before he took the flowers out of her car and drove off.
On May 10 Miss Rawstron and Mr Malone had again met on a pub car park and where in his car when Calvert turned up and parked in front of them. He shouted at Mr Malone to get out of the car and when he did started throwing punches at him.
Mr Malone started throwing punches back and in the course of the fight Miss Rawstron was struck by the defendant.
"She said she didn't know whether that blow was deliberate and he was convicted on the basis he had been reckless," said Mrs White.
"Mr Malone eventually managed to overpower the defendant and restrain him on the floor. He was saying he had had enough and eventually Mr Malone released him and he went to his car and drove off."
Mark Williams, defending, Calvert had taken the flowers because he believed they were the ones he had sent his ex-partner for her birthday and he was angry when he saw her in a compromising position with the other man.
He said Calvert denied the assaults because he claimed Mr Malone had thrown the first punch and he had acted in self defence.
"He is not proud of some of the things he said to Miss Rawstron which he says led to Mr Malone defending her honour," said Mr Williams.
"While my client was being held in a headlock he says Miss Rawstron came over, hit him in the face, and said she hated him."
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Ankle, Elbow, Hand, Joint Replacement, Knee, Orthopedic Trauma, Shoulder, Sports Medicine, Wrist
Verified Patient Rating: 5 (62 patient reviews and ratings)
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Dr. Ryan Plank is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine, work-related injuries and conditions, general orthopedics, and upper extremity concerns. He joined Lakeshore Bone & Joint Institute in 2011. Dr. Plank’s surgical expertise includes shoulder and knee arthroscopy, ACL reconstruction, meniscal repair, ankle and wrist fracture surgery, shoulder and knee replacement, carpal tunnel release, and rotator cuff repair. In his practice, Dr. Plank’s goal is to return patients of all ages to their previous level of function to help them enjoy life again.
An Indiana native, Dr. Plank completed his undergraduate studies in science at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame. He went on to earn his medical degree at Indiana University in Indianapolis. He continued his training through a categorical orthopedic surgery internship and a residency in orthopedic surgery at the Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, and later served as a staff orthopedic surgeon at Winn Army Community Hospital in Fort Stewart, Georgia.
In and outside of his practice, Dr. Plank loves sports, both competitive and recreational. He follows Notre Dame football and enjoys spending time with his family.
Dr. Plank is available to see patients at our Crown Point and Schererville offices.
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Direct Phone Line: (219) 250-5017
Bachelor of Science in Pre-Professional Studies: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Doctor of Medicine: Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
Categorical Orthopedic Surgery Internship: Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI
Orthopedic Surgery Residency: Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI
Board Certification: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
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“Staff was very courteous, professional, and accommodating. Felt like we were in good hands. Dr. Plank was very caring and spent time answering all our questions. We didn't feel rushed. Great experience.”
– Wanda K.
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A divorce decision rendered by a court in mainland China but not recognized by a Taiwan court cannot become effective in Taiwan, and the marital relationship should lapse based on a final judgment rendered by a district court in Taiwan (Taiwan)
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The Secretary General of the Judicial Yuan issued the Mi-Tai-Ting-Shao-Jia-Two-1070012724 Circular of May 28, 2018 (hereinafter, the “Circular”), holding that a divorce decision rendered by a court in mainland China but not recognized by a Taiwan court cannot become effective in Taiwan, and the marital relationship should lapse based on a final judgment rendered by a district court in Taiwan.
This Circular was issued in response to an inquiry letter from the Ministry of the Interior. First, it was pointed out in this Circular that if a divorce judgment rendered by a court in mainland China between both parties is not recognized by a Taiwan court in accordance with Article 74, Paragraph 1 of the Statute for Relationship between Citizens in the Taiwan Area and the Mainland China Area, such judgment can hardly give effect to a divorce in Taiwan. The marital relationship between the parties should come to an end by a final divorce judgment rendered by a district court in Taiwan. For the effective date of a divorce, Article 51 of the Family Law shall be referenced and the provisions of Articles 398 through 401 of the Code of Civil Procedure shall apply.
In addition, according to this Circular, whether the parties may apply to a Taiwan court to recognize a divorce judgment rendered by a court in mainland China again, since individual cases were involved and should be determined by the presiding judges based on their legal convictions, the Judicial Yuan did not express its opinions.
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Mohamed Salah hasn't changed at Liverpool - you have
Liverpool's Egyptian attacker seems less threatening lately, but is there a reason for that?
Mohamed Salah could still be struggling with his ankle injury (Image: Michael Regan/Getty Images)
Mohamed Salah's debut season at Anfield was record-breaking.
The Egyptian was signed from AS Roma for a relatively reasonable fee in 2017, and he managed to score an incredible 32 goals in 36 Premier League matches.
The attacker also scored ten goals in 13 Champions League appearances which contributed to Liverpool reaching the final of the competition in Kiev, suffering defeat at the hands of Real Madrid.
Salah seemed to become a star overnight, with his stock rising and his reputation soaring.
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The problem, though, is that his campaign was so impressive that he's been judged based on that standard ever since.
If he's quiet, uninvolved or absent from the spotlight for a short period, he's quick to receive criticism or questioning which isn't the case for the majority of others across Europe.
He's a victim of his own success in that regard, and those doubts seem to have arose once more due to his current form.
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Salah has scored seven non-penalty goals so far this season, with an average of 0.36 scored per 90 minutes.
His figure is five goals fewer than Sadio Mane's 13, and the Senegalese international is also posting 0.64 non-penalty goals per 90, which may be another reason behind why questions are being asked of Salah.
Beyond those numbers, though, his performances beneath the surface suggest he's very much the same player.
The 27 year-old is the ultimate data player in terms of output, as he consistently shows up as very active and dangerous in offensive areas.
He's posting 3.5 shots per 90 this season in comparison to last year's 3.7, and his numbers regarding penalty box involvements, passes, dribbles, through balls, passes to the box and shot assists are mostly unchanged in terms of how often he's attempting them.
There are some minimal differences, but those are barely noticeable.
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Salah found the target with 43.5% of his shots last season for example, and that's now 43.9%. He also finds the net with roughly the same percentage of his shots compared to last year.
There are some slight developments regarding how efficiently he's applying his game, though.
It's normal for Salah to lose possession due to how frequently he takes risks on the ball, but nevertheless, there are some drops in accuracy. He completed 33% of his through balls last season and 57.1% of his passes into the box, but those have decreased to 23.1% and 45.5%.
The forward currently has an ongoing ankle issue that he's nursing while continuing to play, and that may be impacting his actions. Last season, once recovering from his dislocated shoulder, Salah seemed to perform similarly.
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He continues to try things on the pitch as usual, but they tend to come off less often.
His true level returned eventually once his shoulder had fully healed but initially, he appeared slightly less effective when executing shots or passes.
That may be the story of his current campaign, as he's a player that embraces risk more than any other in the squad, but seems to need full fitness to complete those actions properly.
He's also being consistently compared with Mane who tends to post lower numbers across the board in terms of what he attempts, but does so because his execution and decision-making is generally better.
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Mane doesn't shoot as much, but he finds the target with greater regularity. His passing is more accurate in various areas and he doesn't give the ball away as much because he's more considered overall than his team-mate.
Ultimately, Salah is currently unchanged as a whole, although his final end product does seem to be slightly less productive and that may be being highlighted further by Mane's outstanding efficiency in comparison.
It's a matter of time before the Egyptian international starts to deliver with his efforts, but that may not happen until he's 100%.
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What's the Origin of Chewing Gum?
By Live Science Staff 2013-01-16T19:20:00Z
Gum has been around since the time of our Neolithic ancestors.
(Image: © Dreamstime.)
People have enjoyed gum since long before BubbleYum or Big League Chew came around. Our Neolithic ancestors chewed on gum made from birch bark tar.
Other cultures, such as the Ancient Greeks and American Indians, also chewed gum-like substances made from resins and other residues from trees, grasses and other plants.
Paraffin was another popular gum base, though it couldn't be chewed until heated and moistened in the mouth.
Modern chewing gum dates from the 1860s, when a substance called chicle was developed. Chicle was originally imported from Mexico as a rubber substitute and was tapped from a tropical evergreen tree named Manilkara chicle in the same way that latex is tapped from a rubber tree. Chicle gum became more popular than gums made from resins because it was smoother, softer and held its flavor longer.
Now, most gums are made from synthetic bases because they are cheaper and more readily available.
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The right stuff to know for Lubbock
Bill’s Best Bets: Tech hoops vs. Iowa State & Vanilla Ice, Westney & symphony, clean comedy, offbeat theater, classic moviesBill & Gage reveal their best/worst films … see how they compare to Oscar listBill’s Best Bets: An ‘Epic’ from Christ in the Arts, Bellamy Brothers & Elvis at Cactus, ‘Friends’ book sale, Japanese animation filmRicky says what many of us feel about being lectured by Hollywood elitesIf you haven’t yet seen latest ‘Star Wars,’ it’s worth seeing but don’t expect original magic
Not sure what was worse: Awful ‘La Llorona,’ or parents who brought a young child with them
By Bill Kerns and Gage Gregory on April 29, 2019
Rated R: For violence and terror.
Playing at: Alamo Drafthouse, Premiere Cinemas, Tinseltown 17, Movies 16 and Stars & Stripes Drive-In.
Credits: Directed by Michael Chaves. Screenplay by Mikki Daughtry & Tobias Iaconis. Music by Joseph Bishara. Cinematography by Michael Burgess. Edited by Peter Gvozdas. Production design by Melanie Jones. Set decoration by Sandra Skora. Costumes designed by Megan Spatz.
Cast: Marisol Ramirez, Linda Cardellini (pictured above), Roman Christou, Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen, Raymond Cruz, Tony Amendola and Patricia Velasquez
Bill’s rating: 1 of 5 stars
Until the Warrens of demonology fame are re-introduced and a movie features more than a passing reference to Annabelle, don’t bother passing off the next poor horror flick as part of the “Conjuring” universe. That’s why I rolled my eyes when a priest in “The Curse of La Llorona” remarks he never believed in the fringe universe “until one day I came across a doll.”
Yeah, right. There was no good reason whatsoever for screenwriters to ask the priest to say that.
“The Curse of La Llorona” is another in a long line of movies insulting the intelligence of moviegoers.
In fact, I am surprised that Dean and Sam had not already tracked down this apparition on television’s “Supernatural.” Mexican folklore, such as the Weeping Woman, is something that might slide more easily into their adventure, and at least the Winchester brothers would not bore us before offing an unwelcome guest.
The insult, however, lies within decisions made by director Michael Chaves. If “The Curse of La Llorona” is not the scariest film – and believe me, it’s not – trust me when I tell you it is one of the loudest. Chaves treats high volume jump scares with the reverence some might feel for new camera techniques.
The film is a roller coaster of decibels … softly leading up to a possible conflict … and then BAM, WATCH OUT, THERE SHE IS, RIGHT IN THE CAMERA’S EYE!
A calm follows survivors for a while, before yet another high volume, scary closeup jumps out at us.
It is human nature to flinch at such loud visuals; that’s why they have been coined as jump scares. Another acceptable description would be clichés.
Hollywood continues to release horror films, in large part because we continue to attend. These low-budget efforts rise to the top of the weekend box office attractions – and what movie lover does not enjoy being scared breathless in a darkened theater? The multiplex now is revered as the modern haunted house.
So many times, after opening credits arrive, even I have whispered to the screen, “Scare me.”
Unfortunately, word-of-mouth advertising can kill a potentially scary character faster than the Winchesters or, in this case, a rogue priest.
At the risk of sharing a topic with The Boy, my reviewing partner, I feel inclined to add that closeups of the child-stealing undead, with loud sound effects, may startle the average moviegoer – but could terrify a young child.
What can one do, however, when a mom and dad who probably wanted to save baby-sitting fees brings a young child to a screening of an R-rated horror movie? The family was seated behind, but near, Gage and myself, and it was heartbreaking listening to a little girl, having already experienced jump scares, plead out loud to the screen (or to her parents), “No, no, no, please no.”
The film is based on a folk tale about a Mexican beauty who is wed by a rancher. After the birth of two sons, she discovers her husband has been unfaithful. So she takes what her husband loves most, his sons and drowns them in a river. Her grief leads to suicide – and a warning that, should you hear a weeping woman, it may be La Llorona seeking children to replace her own.
A Latin actress should have been cast, true. That said, Linda Cardellini provides a better leading performance than the film deserves.
Cast as a single mom and welfare worker in 1970s Los Angeles, she reports what appears to be endangered children, locked inside a home. It turns out their mom was hiding them from La Llorona and, upon losing both, she prays for the weeping apparition to also take Cardellini’s children.
Tony Amendola is the neighborhood priest who makes the aforementioned doll reference; he passes Cardellini on to a former priest (Raymond Cruz) who knows far more about ungodly matters.
But can he stop La Llorona from returning countless times, while the film’s sound engineer experiments with the volume of loud instruments and human screams.
Be warned: The cast and moviegoers all deserve better treatment.
Gage’s rating: 1 of 5 stars
Sometimes I begin a review with expectations inspired by the film’s trailer, or comparisons to another movie. Today, I feel like ranting a little bit.
Those who knowingly take their kids to an R-rated horror movie probably don’t deserve to raise children. I sat through “The Curse of La Llorona” while a youngster, seated elsewhere in the sold-out auditorium, was so scared she often cried and whimpered. Instead of deescalating the situation, older siblings made fun of the scared child while the parents seemingly did nothing.
Sorry for the rant, but that situation upsets me more than even terrible movies.
And yes, speaking of terrible movies, “The Curse of La Llorona” inspires yet another link in my chain of negative reviews outside of the new “Avengers: Endgame.”
I did not find the film frightening, although I’ll admit I invested no time in researching whether La Llorona is an actual folk tale used by parents in Mexico to scare their children. The screenplay explains enough. But the filmmakers’ trying to connect this lame story to the series of “Conjuring” films made no sense at all.
How La Llorona goes from terrifying one family to the main character’s family is confusing.
Linda Cardellini, who plays the main character Anna, winds up taking her children with her to a crime scene, where other youngsters have been killed. Never mind she tells them to stay in the locked card. At this point, I was unsure of who was the worst parent: Cardellini’s character or the parents of the scared child in the theater.
Patricia Velasquez portrays a woman who curses Cardellini’s family because she feels Anna allowed her boys to be killed. But Anna and her family knew nothing about La Llorona at the time.
The overall cast fails to impress, although Raymond Cruz provides some nice comic moments.
You may be asking, “But this is a horror movie. Were the scares any good?” Unfortunately, no, and you can see them coming from a mile away.
The director relies far too much on jump scares for any adult to be truly frightened. Those who have been terrified by a classic like “The Exorcist,” for example, will find this movie more likely to make one yawn instead of scream.
Somehow we’ve already managed to sit through several of this year’s worst films, and it’s only April. (Things have to get better.)
Even so, it would have been more honest to replace the tagline “La Llorona wants your children” with, “She wants your time and money.”
Bill and The Boy
Even before Bill Kerns and Jill Fiorino married in July 1999, she warned him he'd become an instant grandfather. That grandchild, then 1, is Gage Gregory, later dubbed The Boy, because he soon became surrounded by two sisters, a mom and a grandmother. Bill eventually had a movie-going partner whom he introduced to everything from Hollywood crap to cinematic classics. Gage’s taste became refined. He did not always agree with Bill, but Jill once stated, “Bill, you’re turning Gage into you. He’s even starting to talk about those arty movies like you.” At which point a concept was conceived: two reviewers representing different generations. Bill, an award-winning critic with four decades of professional experience. Gage, 22, an LCU student not lacking in confidence.
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Home Sport Gaa Beast from the East wreaks havoc on sporting weekend
Beast from the East wreaks havoc on sporting weekend
Two games at the Markets Field have had to be cancelled due to the inclement weather this week. Photo: Sporting Limerick
SEVERE WEATHER conditions due to Storm Emma/Beast from the East around Ireland in the last few days have seen the sporting calendar for this weekend completely decimated.
Munster’s game against Edinburgh set for Friday night will now not go ahead due to Storm Emma and has been re-fixed for the weekend of March 16/17/18.
“The severe weather currently being experienced in the UK and Ireland combined to the further inclement conditions forecast for tomorrow night, means that those travelling to BT Murrayfield would likely be exposed to hazardous conditions which raises welfare concerns,” said a Munster statement today.
“It is in the best interests of everyone involved to postpone the fixture until the weekend of March 16/17/18. The exact date and kick-off time will be confirmed as soon as possible.”
The all Limerick Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup semi final between Crescent College and Glenstal due to be played yesterday at the Markets Field went by the wayside and has been refixed for the same venue this Monday.
Elsewhere, Limerick’s senior hurlers’ promotion decider against Galway in Salthill on Sunday has also fell foul of the weather. The senior footballers game against Waterford is also one of 33 games in the Allianz National Leagues that has been cancelled.
Releasing the news this afternoon via a statement, the GAA said: “The GAA has confirmed that all Allianz Football and Hurling league fixtures scheduled for this weekend have been postponed.
“A full revised fixtures programme to cover the remaining rounds of the Allianz Leagues will be issued on Monday, March 5th. For the moment, the following should be noted as broad principles:
“Round 5 of the Allianz Hurling League will now take place next weekend (March 10th/11th).
“The Division 1 Allianz Hurling League Quarter finals will move to the weekend of March 17th/18th, the semi-finals to the weekend of March 24th/25th and the Allianz Hurling League final to March 31st.
“Round 5 of the Allianz Football League – due to be played this weekend – will move to March 10th/11th.
“Any exceptions to the above will be addressed in the revised fixture programme to be issued on Monday.”
Limerick FC’s game scheduled for the Markets Field on Sunday has also been postponed along with the rest of this weekend’s SSE Airtricity League fixtures.
Tommy Barrett’s side were due to welcome Shamrock Rovers to the Garryowen venue in a bid to recover from the embarrassing midweek defeat to Dundalk. This game has already been re-fixed for Monday, March 19.
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4010 Walker Ave
Located on the corner of Walker and Holden
Inner Rhythm Choir
We have loved sponsoring the Inner Rhythm Choir over the decades.
Meet Our Pastor - Patrick Cardwell
On July 7th, our new pastor Rev. Patrick Cardwell began his service at LPBC. Check out his bio to learn more.
Inner Rhythm Choir - 7:00pm
Meets in the sanctuary and always accepting new members. Inner Rhythm Choir caters to adults with special needs and has been a beloved service of our church for decades.
Lindley Park Baptist Church is a gathering of God's people seeking to serve our Lord and Savior in this community and the world.
Lindley Park Baptist Church is a progressive Baptist church in the heart of Greensboro, North Carolina. We are proud members of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina. Our main focus always centers on our praise and adoration of Jesus Christ and we seek to radiate Christ's love in all that we do. We glorifying God through a blend of traditional and contemporary worship and through our many church and community activities. We have a high emphasis on missions and we have a long history of supporting missions in the local, national, and global communities. This caring community of faith respects the individual, acknowledges diversity, encourages spiritual growth, and provides opportunities for service in an atmosphere of openness and acceptance. We honor Christ through our focus on worship, evangelism, discipleship, ministry, and missions. We welcome all!
Value Statement
Our values:
A personal, growing relationship with Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord
Meaningful worship which is Christ-centered
The Bible as interpreted through the life of Christ and the Holy Spirit as the basis for our faith
Full involvement of the congregation in the life, ministries, and decision-making of the church
Strong lay leaders who initiate and implement the ministries of the church
Active missions participation in and with our immediate community and the world
Healthy spirits, minds, and bodies committed to God
Ministry to all age groups
Openness to and acceptance of all persons
Belief that all persons are gifted for ministry and service
A commitment to biblical stewardship that encourages all persons to share their time, fifts, talents and financial resources
Brief History of Lindley Park Baptist Church (1948-2019)
In the spring of 1948, Rev. T. L. Sasser, of the Piedmont Baptist Association, led the movement to establish a church on the corner of Holden and Walker. In April they started meeting in the basement of Kennedy’s BBQ at the intersection of Walker and Market. The groundbreaking for our Chapel was held on October 17, 1948. We moved into our new Chapel February 20, 1949 . Our Education Building was completed in 1952 and the upstairs was made into classrooms in 1958. Our first worship service was on February 11, 1973.
Today, the members of Lindley Park Baptist Church, are proud of the history of the last 70 years and hold in high esteem the many saints of God who have gone on before.
We look to the future with a faith born of Christian endeavor and with determination based upon the promise of our Savior, that we go forward in this work, a work that is important above all other work and that is the salvation of all men.
9:45am - Sunday School for All Ages
Adult Sunday School - Gravel Lot Entrance
Children (K-5) Sunday School - Second Floor (Infant care available)
Joy Class Sunday School (adults with Special Needs) - Vestibule of Sanctuary
11am - Worship Service
Connect4 Bible Study - 6:45pm
A group of young adults who participate in Bible Study and Missions.
Women's and Men's Book Study - 6:45pm
Small group settings where men and women meet separately and together in order to study the word of God
Adult Choir Rehearsal - 7:30pm
Meets in the sanctuary and always accepting new members.
Praise Team Rehearsal - 8:30pm
Meets directly after choir and always in search of new singers and musicians!
Sunday Activities
Wednesday Night Activities
Thursday Night Service
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Debian Security Advisory DSA Xen Multiple Vulnerabilities
Debian security advisory DSA xen multiple vulnerabilities found, a type-1 hypervisor, providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently.
It was developed by the University of Cambridge and is now being developed by the Linux Foundation with support from Intel.
The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory developed the first versions of Xen.
The Xen Project community develops and maintains Xen Project as free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2.
Xen Project is currently available for the IA-32, x86-64 and ARM instruction sets.
Debian security advisory DSA Xen.
Package: xen
CVE ID:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service, guest-to-host privilege escalation or information leaks.
In addition this update provides mitigations for the "TSX Asynchronous Abort" speculative side channel attack. For additional information please refer to https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-305.html
For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.8.5.final+shim4.10.4-1+deb9u12. Note that this will be the last security update for Xen in the oldstable distribution; upstream support for the 4.8.x branch ended by the end of December 2019. If you rely on security support for your Xen installation an update to the stable distribution (buster) is recommended.
For the stable distribution Debian 10 "Buster", these problems have been fixed in version 4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1~deb10u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.
For the detailed security status of xen please refer to its security tracker page.
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QuarkXPress 9.5 with App Studio review
Quark has completely revamped its App Studio digital publishing offering with version 9.5 of QuarkXPress.
by Michael Burns | 21 Dec 12
Should I buy QuarkXPress 9.5 with App Studio?
Though some refinement is still required, digital publishing with QuarkXPress is more streamlined in version 9.5 and improved by the new App Studio. As well as still providing a path for AVE and ePub publication workflows, it offers a fairly stable HTML5-based publication route, with an enhanced variety of interactive features on offer.
QuarkXPress 9.5 with App Studio full review
The new Quark App Studio represents a shift from the proprietary AVE format and workflow developed by Aquafadas to one based on HTML5 (from Quark's recent acquisition of PressRun). That same technology is also now available as a plug-in for InDesign and integrated within QuarkXpress, allowing both to potentially develop content for iOS, Kindle Fire, and Android devices. The common component is a Cloud-based publishing platform at my.appstudio.net, to which both applications export.
Quark has implemented an App Studio Publishing palette upload panel within QuarkXpress as part of the 9.5 update. The same route is available in InDesign via the App Studio Exporter in the Window > Extensions menu. Neither will respond if there's no corresponding publication, so make sure you set one up at my.appstudio.net before you try to do anything in the desktop apps.
Once this setup stage is complete, the actual authoring runs very smoothly. An App Studio Layout Type is chosen as a new project, with iPad/Universal tablet, Kindle Fire, iPhone and Android Phone ‘layout members’ on offer. All can be selected together and opened as individual tabs in a single project window, as part of a layout family within a single project file. Kindle Fire and iPad allow/require both horizontal and vertical aspects of the content, while an OS Bar check box controls whether the layout member allows room for the status bar at the top of the tablet screen.
You need to author for both horizontal and vertical views, but this is made easier in QuarkXPress 9.5 - dragging an item like a block of text across from the vertical window will duplicate it on the horizontal window. You can also use the Item > Copy to Other Layouts command to automatically populate the other layouts in the layout family, relative to the page/device size and shape or in the same place throughout. It’s effective for the most part, but you’ll probably have to tweak most of the copied layouts. Content shared in this way is automatically synchronised throughout when changes are made to a single instance. Also if a new page is added to one layout, that page is automatically added to all the others. Both these helpers impact favourably on the time taken to create multiple editions of an article.
After you’ve assembled a basic static layout in traditional QuarkXPress fashion, the HTML5 palette (from the Window menu) is used to add interactivity. AVE and ePub authoring are still supported in QuarkXPress, so clicking on Window>App Studio brings up the legacy AVE-based interactive palette which may lead to some confusion. Some more refinement of palette naming and the menu system would be helpful given the expanded options.
Text boxes in an App Studio layout in QuarkXPress are set to export as HTML text to allow them to be searchable and selectable. However, this means that you cannot apply some of the higher-end text controls such as tracking, kerning, hyphenation, and baseline shift to text in such boxes. Some fonts aren’t supported either. To replicate the layout exactly in such circumstances, you have to check the Convert to Graphic on Export in the text box Properties bar - but it’s no longer searchable or selectable as text. Another restriction is having to use Web image formats (JPG, PNG, GIF) when creating Picture Zoom interactive images.
Once uploaded to the appstudio.net account, which can take a while, you’re able to view and test App Studio issues in the free App Studio Previewer iPad app. App Studio exports static content faithfully, but we found it quite easy to mess up when authoring the interactive content, so give yourself a lot of time for testing the publication. When you want to publish for real, App Studio pricing plans start at £139.95 for a single edition app (Adobe’s DPS equivalent is free to Creative Cloud users) or £69.95 per month for a multi-issue publication (which appears more reasonable than Adobe DPS). A 30-day free trial of the platform is available, though it’s only really useful for testing the water.
Adding Interactivity
In common with the legacy AVE workflow, Quark’s new HTML5 driven App Studio allows you select items on the QuarkXPress page and assign to them a variety of interactive abilities, such as making them buttons or scrolling text boxes. This version uses the HTML 5 palette, which offers some changes to different interactive types on offer. A new option is Web View, which can be used to include changeable content (such as ads) or add custom interactivity to an App Studio issue. You can use Web View to display HTML, PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, and several other types of files. Video scores over the ability of the previous ‘Movie’ interactive type by offering to link to a video on the YouTube and Vimeo sites, in addition to jumping to a specific URL. You can still embed a video file - though App Studio issues only support H.264 video up to 720p, with restrictions on the audio side too.
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Mac OS X El Capitan review: The best (and worst) new features
Mac OS X El Capitan review - Page 2
Our Mac OS X El Capitan review takes a look at the new features in OS X 10.11, including changes to Mail, Safari and Notes, speed and graphics improvements, and reliability issues
by Lucy Hattersley | 16 Feb 16
Should I buy OS X 10.11 El Capitan?
We hoped that El Capitan would be a sort of modern Snow Leopard: an OS with relatively few new features but much faster and more reliable performance compared to its predecessor. El Capitan is certainly faster than Yosemite, but it's dogged by reliability issues. Here's hoping Apple fixes them all soon. (Still, our optimism here points to another pleasing development: the speed and frequency of updates we’ve seen since El Cap first launched.)
There are other issues. Spotlight remains - in our subjective experience - sluggish, as does the Mac App Store. Disk Utility has lost some features that we will miss, such as the ability to repair permissions and create RAID disks. And Mail is not pulling its weight.
New features, as we said, are fairly thin on the ground, but there are some goodies in there. Notes is much improved, as is Mission Control; we like the new system font (a more significant change than that might sound); and the 'shake to find' cursor feature is brilliantly useful.
A mixed bag, then, but overall the speed bump is the biggest thing we were looking for from this update, and El Capitan delivers in that regard.
OS X 10.11 El Capitan full review - Page 2
In a matter of days Apple will give the world a first look at what the next version of OS X will look like. (See: WWDC live: How to watch WWDC 2015 livestream and liveblog.) Even now rumours are suggesting some of the new features that we can expect to see in the successor to Yosemite, so we’re going to take a quick look at what they might mean we can expect from OS X 10.11 when it launches. We have high hopes, that we hope won’t be dashed by Apple when the next version launches.
We will update this preview of OS X 10.11 as soon as we have more information. We are hoping that following the WWDC briefing we will be able to get our hands on the beta version of the software so we can update this article fully.
OS X 10.11 will be the successor to OS X 10.10 Yosemite, so until we know what Californian location it will be named after we will refer to it as OS X 10.11. That's not stopped us trying to guess what it will be called, of course. We have a few guesses here: 10 possible names for the next version of Apple's Mac OS X including Mojave, Sequoia and Tahoe. Mojave (apparently pronounced Ma-harvey) seems to be the name of choice.
It’s not likely to launch until the autumn, but typically Apple will offer a preview of Yosemite at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June. There may be a demo version available shortly after for developers, and later in the summer a beta for members of the public lucky enough to make it onto Apple’s beta testing scheme.
Final release data isn’t likely to be until October, based on the past few years. When Apple does release it you can expect it to be a free update via the Mac App Store.
You can read more about what we hope to see in OS X 10.11 here: Mac OS X 10.11 release date rumours: all the new features expected in Yosemite successor
OS X 10.11 preview: Design
Given that Yosemite was a massive design change, we aren’t expecting a major redesign here, but we have heard that the San Francisco font that’s used on the Apple Watch is making its way to the Mac in OS X 10.11. It sounds like Apple will use San Francisco rather than Helvetica Neue as the system font. This concerns us a bit because we wonder how legible a font that’s been selected for its readability on a watch will be on a high-res display. It appears we aren’t the only ones who are concerned, apparently, some Apple engineers are not fans of the new font either and fear it will not look great on non-Retina screens.
OS X 10.11 preview: Stability
One major rumour is that the main focus of OS X 10.11 will be stability rather than new features. If this is the case this update will be akin to the Snow Leopard update, which built on Leopard with a focus on quality.
Given the issues and bugs that plagued the launch of Yosemite, we think this focus is a good idea. Hopefully Apple will fix many of the problems users had with Yosemite, and we trust we won’t be subjected to the WiFi connection problems in early versions of Yosemite that made it impossible for some Mac users to even download the fix when it was issued because they couldn’t get on a WiFi network to connect to the internet.
OS X 10.11 preview: Security
Speaking of WiFi, apparently Apple is working on a new feature called Trusted WiFi that will arrive in OS X 10.11. Trusted WiFi will allow Macs and iOS devices to connect to trusted routers without requiring security measures. However, when you connect to a non-trusted router your data will be heavily encrypted. Apple is said to be testing its own apps and third-party apps to make sure that they still work when this feature is enabled which sounds like a sensible thing to do given the WiFi problems in Yosemite.
Another security measures that Apple is said to be developing is a new kernel-level security system called "rootless". This is designed to curb malware and will also protect your data and prevent others from accessing protected files. (Here's how to turn off rootless - and why you probably shouldn't.)
There is one more security feature that Apple is said to be working on: iCloud Drive file encryption for apps is apparently being rearchitectured.
As a result of this focus on stability and security apparently some of the features that were planned for the upgrade will not arrive until 2016.
OS X 10.11 preview: iCloud Drive update
Apparently there are some back end changes to iCloud Drive on the way that should protect your data and also improve syncing and speed.
Apple is said to be moving some of its IMAP-based apps over to iCloud Drive. IMAP-based apps include Notes, Reminders, and Calendar and currently they use an IMAP-based back end for syncing content. Moving them all to iCloud Drive will allow Apple to improve communication and offer faster syncing between the apps. Security will also be improved because Apple will be able to offer end-to-end encryption for the data.
We hope the transition from IMAP to iCloud Drive will be simple for users, reports suggest users will just see a dialogue box offering to import the data.
Apple is also said to be upgrading its iCloud Drive servers in order to sustain the anticipated increase in usage. We hope that this upgrade will also put a stop to the too frequent iCloud outages.
OS X 10.11 preview: Control Centre
Perhaps the biggest change in OS X 10.11, as far as consumers are concerned, will be the addition of Control Center to OS X. Control Centre was a feature rumored for OS X Yosemite, it was even seen in early betas of that software. It appears that Control Centre may finally find its way into the next version of OS X. If it does expect it to be something like the Mac Menu Bar, including music controls, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, as well as other features similar to the Control Center on iOS, like access to Do Not Disturb.
Apparently Control Center will be a pane that slides out from the left side of the display.
OS X 10.11 preview: Swift
The other feature coming in OS X 10.11 that we are hearing about relates to Swift. Apple’s said to be updating its programming language, which is apparently going to reach “Application Binary Interface (ABI) stability”. This means that its code libraries will come pre-installed in the new Mac operating systems. That might sound boring to consumers, but what it means is that Swift applications will require less space.
Apple will apparently not be shipping Swift versions of its own applications this year, but the company is said to be planning to convert its own apps to Swift in 2016.
We also have a comparison preview of El Capitan and Windows 10 here
>> Read on…
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Tag Archives: covers
25 Greatest Challenging Rock And Heavy Metal Album Covers
Bragi Teitsson/ April 6, 2017/ Original Art/ 0 comments
Iron Maiden’s third album, the initial to feature vocalist Bruce Dickinson, was a masterpiece in every single way – great tunes that yielded some of the band’s most well-known songs sheathed in a special turn on the Devil-as-puppeteer theme drawn by the wonderful Derek Riggs Though most fans are familiar with Riggs from his perform with Maiden, he has also accomplished albums for Budgie, Gamma Ray, Alvin Lee and a lot of far more as well as numerous illustrations for book covers and much more. Artwork Archive gives artists at all levels of their careers with the tools they need to handle their art production and be effective in their organization practice. In neighborhoods all more than town, ArtWorks is teaming up with nearby organizations to add operates of art and transform Cincinnati – 1 teen, a single mural, 1 neighborhood at a time.
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Kullu Is The Famous Tourist Attraction Point
( KULLU, ALTITUDE 1,219 METERS)
Languages spoken : KULLUVI AND HINDI
Kullu district is located between 310 58’00” North latituude and 770 06’ 4” East longitude. On the North and North-East, it is bounded by Lahaul-Spiti and Kangra districts, on the East and South-East by Kinnaur and Shimla district. Kullu was once a big state next in importance only to Kashmir and Kangra. After the British occupation of the Punjab Hills in 1846, it formed a part of the British territory. The state under the Rajas included the Upper Beas valley from the Rohtang Pass to Bajaura, Lahaul and a portion of Satluj valley and consisted of seven waziris (provinces) which were as under.
Waziri Parol (Kullu proper)
Waziri Rupi, the tract between ‘Parbati; and ‘Sainj nullah’ on the left bank of the Beas including the hills of the upper ‘Parbati valley’ tract known as ‘Kanawar’.
Waziri Lag Maharaj, the ‘right bank of Sarvari, nullah’ and ‘Sultanpur’ and of the Beas from there to Bajaura.
Waziri Saraj , the Northern portion of the state, divided into outer and inner Saraj by the Jalori range.
Waziri Lag Sari, the tract between the Phojal and Sarvari nullah on the right bank of the Beas.
Waziri Bangahal, a portion of Chhota Bangahal.
Waziri Lahaul, the tract of South-Eastern Lahaul.
Hiuen Tsang, chinese traveller who visited Indian subcontinent from 630 to 644 A.D described country known as ‘KULUTA’ situated at 187 km (700 Li) to the North-East of Jalandhar with a curcuit of 801 km (3000 Li).
Climate of the district is cool and dry. The district receives moderate rainfall and bulk of it is received during the mmonths of July, August, December and January, The wettest month is August. From climatic point of view, the most enjoyable altitude is between 1500 to 1800 metersas this range is neither too hot nor too cold. The istrict Kullu forms a transitional zone between the lesser and the greater Himalayas and presents a typical rugged mountainous terrain with moderate to high relief. The altitude varies from 1,300 meters to over, 6,000meters from the mean sea level. The rock types found in the district are Phylite, slate, quartzite, limestone, schists and granites and have been classified on the basis of their physical characters and period of formation.
The Satluj and the Beas are the principal rivers of the district and the entire drainage of the district is received by these two rivers. The main tributaries of the Beas in the district are the Solang, Manalsu, Sujoin, Phozal nullah and the Sarvary. On the East of Bhunter comes in the Parbati, which at its junction is as large as the Beas itself. The Parbati, after flowing North-Westerly direction, merges with the Beas. Between its basin and that of the Sainj nullah lirs the ‘Hurlagoa’ which rises from glaciated area. It joins the Beas opposite Bajaura. The Sainj is the fairly large river flowing to the West from ‘Supa Kuni’ high peak on the Spiti boundary. It joins the Beas at Larjee.
The Tirthan stream joins the Sainj a little above the junction of the latter with the Beas. The Satluj touches the district in Nirmand tehsil opposite to Rampur tehsil of Shimla district. It receives water of Kurpan, Anni and Jibhi Khuds. These streams rise from Jalori range.
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Roger Zelazny’s Forgotten Classic Republished!
Speculative fiction is a harsh mistress. Her greatest scribes are forgotten, or read by a vanishing fraction even of those who profess themselves fans of the genre. When the geniuses of the field are remembered at all, they’re often remembered for their lesser work, and it’s rare to see justice done.
For now, though, I get to rejoice: Roger Zelazny’s Creatures of Light and Darkness is back in print.
People remember Zelazny primarily for his Amber Chronicles, which are great fun and should be read by anyone who thinks themselves a fan of sword and sorcery or film noir, but there is another Zelazny, a poet of divine and mythic scope, of subtle humor and epic confrontation. This is the Zelazny who wrote Lord of Light, one of my top three favorite books for about 15 years now. Lord of Light has long been recognized as a classic for its mixture of humor, action, and philosophy, and its willingness to abandon the European context traditional to science fiction; in recognition of this, it won the Hugo and was reprinted years ago in a handsome Eon books edition.
Meanwhile, Creatures of Light and Darkenss, Zelazny’s other triumph of mythopeic style, languished in ever-shrinking numbers on used bookstore shelves. I was lucky enough to find a copy at Book Man in Nashville about eight years ago, and I’ve never seen another in the wild, infuriating because this is one of those books you read and want immediately to recommend to everyone you know who shows the slightest interest in speculative fiction.
The setup: It’s the far future. Man has colonized a swath of settled space, within which the vagaries of fate and chaos are controlled by a number of border stations, each ruled by a godlike “Angel” – posthuman or deity? The book is ambiguous on this point – most of whom are also characters recognizable from Egyptian mythology: Anubis, Osiris, Set, Thoth. Yet there has been war between the gods, and only Anubis remains in the House of Death, and Osiris in the House of Life, from which they coarsely manipulate the world with horrendous plagues and blooms of fertility. Anubis has one desire: he must kill the mysterious Prince Who Was A Thousand. Osiris has the same need, and each has dispatched assassins into human space to accomplish this task before the other.
In the middle of all this we have a wandering, militantly agnostic priest, a raving immortal poet who sends his poems through space as waves of green fire, a cybernetic warrior who plays the banjo and has been the leader of every doomed rebellion in history, blind Norn engineers, a rabid fanatical cult in the center of the galaxy that worships the Holy Shoes, posthuman deities so vicious they weave the nervous systems of their enemies into rugs while leaving them alive in excruciating pain, and, most importantly: temporal kung fu.
“The Art of Temporal Fugue,” it’s called in the book. If you liked the idea when Terry Pratchett used it thirty years later, you owe it to yourself ninety times over to read this book, because you’ve never seen anything like this. Zelazny takes it upon himself to choreograph a martial arts battle between two people who can travel in time just by thinking hard. The result is, literally, planet-shattering.
And that scraping of the plot’s surface above doesn’t even begin to describe the book’s structural complexity. Zelazny wrote Creatures to test his own proficiency with tense and perspective and voice; he didn’t intend to publish it until Samuel Delaney made him. The structure here is amazing: apparently disparate, haiku-length lines weave together into shocking relevance; some chapters are written as stage plays, others as stream-of-consciousness, others in potent, zen-like minimalism.
It’s amazing how much of modern science fiction and fantasy spring from Zelazny’s ground. The recent obsession with the line between gods and men in fantasy (The God Engines by Scalzi, 100 Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemesin, Warbreaker by Brian Sanderson) and in science fiction, where it masquerades as discussion of post-humanity (Hyperion by Dan Simmons, Dust by Elizabeth Bear, lots of Charles Stross’ work) has deep roots in speculative fiction’s history, but there has never been an SF author more interested in the line between the mortal and the divine as Zelazny, nor has there been one who had as much fun playing hopscotch over it, and encouraging his readers to do the same.
About Max Gladstone
I write books and games—most notably the Craft Sequence, tales of wizards in pinstriped suits and gods with shareholders’ committees. Campbell Award nominee 2013, 2014.
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The Manhattan Choral Ensemble
2014-15 Composer Competition
The Manhattan Choral Ensemble announces a composition contest. Composers local to New York City (living within 50 miles) are invited to submit a short (2.5 – 3 minute) work for 4-part chorus based on a text in some way associated with, connected to, or appropriate to New York City (for example, a setting of text by a New York City poet/writer – anyone from Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes to Patti Smith). The work should be a new composition that has not yet been premiered. The work should be of a level of difficulty that it would require a maximum of three hours of rehearsal to prepare for performance. The general repertoire difficulty of the Manhattan Choral Ensemble can be ascertained through the concert listings on the group’s website –www.manhattanchoralensemble.org.
Note: It is the responsibility of the composer to secure permission to use any texts not in the public domain.
Three winners will be chosen by a committee including MCE Director Thomas Cunningham and Artistic Advisor George Andoniadis. Each winner will receive a $500 award and a performance by the Manhattan Choral Ensemble on February 28, 2015, at the Dimenna Center for Classical Music. Additionally, one work will be chosen through audience voting on the night of the performance. The composer of the chosen work will receive an additional $500.
Submissions must be received by November 1, 2014. Electronic submissions are acceptable. There is no fee to apply.
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Swiggy raises Series F funding of $100Mn from Naspers and Meituan-Dianping
By Rashi Varshney ( @varshneyrashi rashi@medianama.com ) February 8, 2018
Swiggy, the online food ordering and delivery platform, has raised Series F funding of US $100 million from its existing investor Naspers and a new investor Meituan-Dianping, China’s service e-commerce platform.
The food delivery company will use the fresh capital to strenghten its technology and introduce new products and services. Swiggy will also make investments in its New Supply business line. The company said it will expand its ready-to-move-in-kitchen service Swiggy Access, which was launched last November.
Founded in August 2014, Swiggy is currently available in 10 cities—Delhi, NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Chandigarh—with about 20,000 restaurant partners live on its platform. Swiggy surpassed 4 million orders for the month of July in last year.
Swiggy previous fundings and aquisitions
In December 2017, Swiggy acqui-hired the management team of Bengaluru-based gourmet Asian food startup 48East as part of which 48East founders Joseph Cherian and Nabhojit Ghosh joined the Swiggy team. Cherian took a role of COO of the company’s New Supply business line.
In May last year, it raised $80 million in Series E funding led by global internet and entertainment group Naspers, along with participation from existing investors Accel India, SAIF Partners India, Bessemer Venture Partners, Harmony Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.
In September 2016, Swiggy raised $15 million in a Series D funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. In May 2016, it raised Rs 47 crore (a little over $7 million) from Norwest Venture Partners, DST Global and Accel Partners. In January 2016, it raised Series C funding worth $35 million from new and existing investors for using across user acquisition, adding restaurants, tech upgrades, hiring etc. In June 2015, the company raised Series B funding worth $16.5 million. In April 2015, it raised $2.5 million from Accel Partners and SAIF Partners.
Just a week ago of this development, Swiggy’s rival Zomato raised $150 million from Alibaba’s Ant Financial. Over and above this, Ant Financial bought another 6.66% stake (around 32,629 shares) of Zomato from Info Edge for $50 million, taking the total expenditure for Ant Financial in this deal to $200 million. Zomato had reported a turnover of Rs 3322.72 crors in FY17, and in September, had announced that it is profitable throughout the 24 countries it operates, across all its businesses.
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In an age where it seems that most of our communication is done digitally, one local primary school is teaching its students about the joys of collecting postage stamps and their role historically in facilitating communication. Earlier this year, Margaret River Primary School established its very own Stamp Club, led by year three teaching Richard Dowling. The club, which consists of about 35 students, aims to teach students about the process of exchange and how a handwritten letter in a sealed envelope gets from one place to another simply by buying a stamp. Each week, students are rewarded with stamps to take home and second-hand stamp albums to help store their growing collection. Last Tuesday, year three students made the most of the sunny winter's morning and walked to local Post Office to purchase a stamp and post a special letter, detailing the things they enjoy and appreciate about their loved ones and the places they love in Margaret River. According to Mr Dowling, the excursion allowed students to engage with the friendly staff while learning about communication prior to the digital age. "For most 8 and 9 year olds, stamps are an anomaly, like VHS recorders and vinyl records," he said. "Many of these children have never received nor sent a stamp addressed envelope and have little knowledge of regular communication before the digital age. "It provided a personal and unique opportunity for 8 and 9 year olds to reflect upon what family means and take the opportunity to acknowledge the people who look out for them. "Making a list of the things that are important to you as an 8 or 9 year old and crafting that into a written letter to family has been a curious yet exciting, process for students. "Students are able to sort, exchange, and categorize postage stamps from across the world, in a fun, sociable and no pressure environment. "The response [to the club] has been astounding really. "It has been great to hear Dads tell me they spent a string of Friday nights around the dining room table sorting stamps with their kids." Mr Dowling has called on members of the public that may have any old stamps, albums or collection paraphernalia to drop them at Margaret River Primary School on Forrest Road. "Any donation, however small, is appreciated and will be passed on down the line to families and kids," Mr Dowling said.
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Students breathe new life into stamp collecting
Jesinta Burton
Signed, sealed, delivered: Members of Margaret River Primary School's Stamp Club gather outside the local post office after posting their letters. Photo: Supplied.
In an age where it seems that most of our communication is done digitally, one local primary school is teaching its students about the joys of collecting postage stamps and their role historically in facilitating communication.
Earlier this year, Margaret River Primary School established its very own Stamp Club, led by year three teaching Richard Dowling.
The club, which consists of about 35 students, aims to teach students about the process of exchange and how a handwritten letter in a sealed envelope gets from one place to another simply by buying a stamp.
Each week, students are rewarded with stamps to take home and second-hand stamp albums to help store their growing collection.
Last Tuesday, year three students made the most of the sunny winter's morning and walked to local Post Office to purchase a stamp and post a special letter, detailing the things they enjoy and appreciate about their loved ones and the places they love in Margaret River.
According to Mr Dowling, the excursion allowed students to engage with the friendly staff while learning about communication prior to the digital age.
Stamp Club members Savannah, Indigo and Meg. Photo: Supplied.
"For most 8 and 9 year olds, stamps are an anomaly, like VHS recorders and vinyl records," he said.
"Many of these children have never received nor sent a stamp addressed envelope and have little knowledge of regular communication before the digital age.
"It provided a personal and unique opportunity for 8 and 9 year olds to reflect upon what family means and take the opportunity to acknowledge the people who look out for them.
"Making a list of the things that are important to you as an 8 or 9 year old and crafting that into a written letter to family has been a curious yet exciting, process for students.
"Students are able to sort, exchange, and categorize postage stamps from across the world, in a fun, sociable and no pressure environment.
"The response [to the club] has been astounding really.
"It has been great to hear Dads tell me they spent a string of Friday nights around the dining room table sorting stamps with their kids."
Mr Dowling has called on members of the public that may have any old stamps, albums or collection paraphernalia to drop them at Margaret River Primary School on Forrest Road.
"Any donation, however small, is appreciated and will be passed on down the line to families and kids," Mr Dowling said.
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Exploring the untapped opportunity of the 'transaction moment'
By Geoff Smith
07 November 2018, 09:09 a.m.
Advertising Technology, Customer Experience, Data-driven marketing
There is no question that reaching today’s digital-first audience requires a powerful online presence. So it makes sense that digital takes a sizeable 38% share of advertising spend worldwide, equal to $220 billion. But the problem is: it’s not working.
A recent study found that global marketers feel a quarter (26%) of spend will fuel ineffective channels and strategies this year, and 20% of those in the UK are worried about wastage.
We need to go back to basics. If brands want messages to inspire action, they must connect with consumers when they are most engaged, receptive, and happy. Introducing: the transaction moment.
Targeting the wrong places
Search and social are currently the shining stars of digital: in the UK alone, £5.8 billion was spent on search last year and social investment jumped by 38%. And the reason behind their popularity is understandable; both attract large chunks of consumer time — almost three hours spent on social and 3.5 billion Google searches daily. At the surface level, these channels are seen as the best way of meeting the traditional marketing objective: influence consumers before they buy. But, when consumers are in a browsing state of mind, they are far more likely to be distracted – especially when searching or networking via social. In focusing solely on the lead up to purchase, marketers are missing a vital opportunity to engage with consumers that are already in the buying mindset.
And that’s where the transaction moment comes in.
The buying mindset
The most important factor to note about the transaction moment is that it isn’t a moment in time; it’s a mindset. More specifically, it’s a frame of mind where consumer interest, buying intention, and engagement peak — typically as individuals finalise their purchase decisions, continuing to confirmation. Or, put simply, it’s the pinnacle of digital happiness.
The reason for this happiness lies in the workings of the human brain. Research reveals that when shopping, the brain releases chemicals that fuel joy – a link between purchasing and positive emotion was found in a study led by Stanford University neuroscientist Brian Knutson. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machines, the team scanned the brains of 26 volunteers as they contemplated buying multiple items. The results clearly showed that activity lit up in the brain’s nucleus accumbens — associated with the release of feel-good chemical dopamine — the second products were presented and a purchase was considered.
Rokt’s own research supports these findings, on average, 74% of global consumers agree purchasing is the happiest place online, outweighing the proportion that says the same for connecting on social: 66%. Interestingly, almost three-fifths (58%) are also likely to be multi-tasking while on social, decreasing to 51% of those researching possible purchases, and down to only 39% for consumers when completing a purchase. Plus, many feel open to further engagement after purchasing: 35% of Rokt powered third-party offers on the confirmation page are opted in to.
What does it mean for marketers?
Essentially, delivering marketing messages in the transaction moment gives brands the best chance of capturing the attention of consumers and driving response. Better, in fact, than social media or search. The extremely focused and engaged mindset consumers enter when they are completing a purchase makes them less prone to distraction and, as research has found, receptive to other tailored offers that could lead to yet more rewarding buying experiences.
Of course, there is the crucial factor of relevance. The consumer’s experience is paramount. To effectively capitalise on the consumer’s mindset brands must provide complementary messages that will resonate.
And achieving this means following these three guiding principles:
Always personalise offers to ensure maximum contextual relevance and avoid unnecessary interruptions
Configure messages on the confirmation page so that they enable the conversation to be easily continued, this may include opt-in links that consumers can click to receive offers by email
Leverage data gathered from transactions to refine offers; details such as billing address, purchase history, and loyalty details can help tailor the messaging
Digital certainly has the capacity to produce strong returns; revenues hit $88 billion in 2017. But marketers need to allocate their spend wisely. By targeting untapped, but critical stages in the consumer journey rather than competing to engage distracted individuals, new opportunities to drive results and win long-term consumer trust can be unlocked.
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As Chief Marketing Officer of Rokt, Geoff Smith handles all global marketing efforts for the company. He also supervises the Sales Development Representative (SDR) function, which acts as a bridge between sales and marketing and creates leads for the sales team. Before joining Rokt, Geoff was Chief Marketing Officer at CrowdTwist, a provider of multichannel loyalty and engagement solutions. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Marketing at Epsilon, a data-driven marketing company, and held management level titles at Penton Media, which is now part of Informa Group. Geoff received a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and an MBA in International Marketing from Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. In his spare time, Geoff loves spending time with this wife and three children, and is active in his church.
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Michael Kwan
In case you haven’t noticed, the headphones that come pre-bundled with your iPod, cellphone or any other music player leave a lot to be desired. Thankfully, there are many different options out there for premium earphones and you don’t have to break the bank to get into this market. A couple of less expensive options come from Arctic Sound, an off-shoot from Arctic Cooling of Switzerland.
While the company has traditionally been focused on PC cooling products, Arctic actually has some pretty nice earphones too. Today, we take a look at the Arctic Sound E351-WM and the E361-BM.
Quick Overview of Features
Years ago, tradition would dictate that you use ear buds, but that has changed in recent years to the in-ear style afforded by earphones. These offer vastly superior sound isolation and better performance overall.
Both the Arctic Sound E351 and Arctic Sound E361 take on this newer style, but the latter has a bend in the earpiece. For reasons that are over my head, this is supposed to provide better sound quality and performance. In fact, they are quite similar in style and design to a headset reviewed earlier called the Radius Atomic Bass Earphones which we really liked for its price and performance and also has this funny bend in them. Both versions also come with an in-line microphone for use with smartphones, iPhone, and PC.
For both units, you get a larger driver coil for “ultimate bass performance,” a precisely milled aluminum chassis, three sets of silicone caps, and a gold-plated stereo plug. Inside the box, you get the earphones themselves, a PC adapter, and a carrying case.
By and large, the specs and features of the two Arctic Sound earphones are much the same, but there are a couple of notable differences. For starters, we’re looking at the E351-WM (which is white) and the E361-BM (which is black). The color scheme is simply a matter of personal preference as they both come in the same color choices.
The more notable difference is in the style of the earpiece. With the E351, you get a “straight” style driver that puts the earpiece straight into your ear. According to the chart on the back of the box, this should provide heavier bass, but I didn’t really find that to be true, even after proper break in procedures were carried out to loosen up the drivers by playing music constantly through them for a few hours at moderate volumes.
With the E361, you get that bent angle in the earpiece. I found this to provide a more comfortable fit and it was less likely to pop out of my ear just like the aforementioned Atomic Bass Earphones. The overall sound clarity appeared to be slightly better than the E351 as well, in my opinion. I tend to listen to a lot of bass heavy music so I know when the bottom end is not bottoming.
As mentioned, both units have an in-line microphone with a clickable button. This can be used as a handsfree headset with your iPhone right out of the box or, if you buy the optional 2.5mm adapter cable for $4.95, with other smartphones (Nokia, etc.) as well.
Get Ready to Chat on PC Too
While I would have appreciated the inclusion of the 2.5mm adapter cable for my Nokia E71, it is nice that Arctic Sound included a different adapter cable in the box of both the E351 and E361. This attachment is the PC splitter cable. As you know, most computers have separate 3.5mm jacks for the headphones and microphone. By using this adapter cable, you can “split” the cable from the headset and use it to chat on MSN, Skype, or whatever other purpose you may have for it. This is a very handy addition.
MegaTechie Fantastic or MegaTechie Flop?
It’s easy to turn to a bigger name in the headphone industry when you want some premium earphones, but that doesn’t mean that you should discount lesser-known brands like Arctic Sound from Arctic Cooling. In fact, these two headsets offer a stellar value.
I tried using both sets through a variety of musical situations, ranging from Paramore to Coldplay, Lil Wayne to Metallica, and I was generally pleased. The bass hits very hard, though the mid-range was a little lacking in some rock songs. Voice quality through the microphone is decent for calls, but you may sound a little distant to the person on the other end of the line. Par course for most headsets of course.
I prefer the “bent” style of the Arctic Sound E361-BM ($51.45) over the “straight” style of the E351-WM ($42.20), but the former is ten bucks more. Even so, that’s still cheaper than many of the $100+ earphones out there and they don’t even have mics or PC cables. Definitely a MegaTechie Great Value!
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The music of pre-Hispanic Mexico is still seen by the world as something exotic waiting to be discovered and properly studied. Many musical instruments and sound artefacts have been misunderstood for many years, mistaken for toys or adornments and relegated to museum cabinets and beautiful photos in books and magazines. What about the actual sounds of these amazing cultures? The ancient Mexicans were people of great knowledge and wisdom, and knew to a tee how to generate and manipulate sounds in order to invoke a range of feelings, through rituals and ceremonies, and even to seek cures for illnesses and the veneration of gods and animals.
Exploring the internal structure of a ‘death whistle’
Contemporary musical composition
Just like pre-Hispanic music, contemporary, modern, ‘highbrow’ music from this century is very little understood - often as the result of prejudices and ignorance. In contrast to those in Classical and Romantic eras, today’s composers enjoy tremendous freedom, unrestricted by or to a single genre. Electro-acoustic music has taken on huge importance in our time, and many composers have decided to abandon the use of melody in favour of obscure sounds which create moods that are more important than any lyrical chant or tone. At the same time other composers are actually returning for inspiration to tonal music, in which the harmony and melody recapture the soul of the past, as for example with medieval music whose motets find new resonances in modern times. Many others find their inspiration in popular music such as rock and folklore.
Extract from the score of ‘A’nayahuari for 8 percussionists with pre-Hispanic instruments’ played back continuously over two years in the forest using an ‘octophonic loop’ sound system (Click on image to enlarge)
Creating a new form of musical orchestration
My music does not fit into a single, specific category, nor does it attempt to imitate or recreate pre-Hispanic music. To me, creating new melodies, light and dark moods and chant-based rituals are all complementary and vital elements in my artistic expression. As part of my recent doctoral research I have begun working with instruments like the ‘death whistle’, Tezcatlipoca flute, chameleon ocarina and eagle whistles.
Far from being, as many assert, instruments with very limited possibilities, I’m convinced that, once their main characteristics have been explored, they can be called on to create extraordinarily powerful tonal qualities through which nature and ancient lyricism combine forces to urge us to develop a new way to listen to sound.
Pic 4: Standard playing (Click on image to enlarge)
What follows are fragments of the manuscript for my third attempt to write a part for solo ocarina, taken from my piece Yaxkin (which is to be renamed Nahui Ocelotl or Jaguar Sun) for percussion and pre-Hispanic instruments.
Chameleon-shaped ocarina from Colima, Mexico
This instrument can be played in differerent ways:-
1. Producing standard notes according to normal finger positions (see pic 4)
Pic 5: Aspirated sounds (Click on image to enlarge)
2. Producing notes that change into sounds formed by the sucking in of breath - either going from normal (N) to air (A) or vice versa (see pic 5)
Pic 6: Incorporating multiphonics
3. Producing standard notes plus notes from the player’s voice, creating what musicians call ‘multiphonic’ sounds (see pic 6 - the arrow indicates multiphonics with the voice and the N returning to a normal note)
Pic 7: Glissando
4. Producing a note with a small ascending or descending glide, known as glissando). In this case (see pic 7) the glissando is more complex, as the player is required to produce both voice effect and instrumental note at the same time, changing texture together
Pic 8: Tremolo
5. Producing additional effects such as tremolo, with voicebox or tongue or both (mixed). In this case (pic 8) I’ve indicated a mixed tremolo which creates a sound approximating the growl of a jaguar (I call this tremolandi gruñido); this needs the player’s tongue to move back and forth across the roof of the mouth with minimal movement of the lips and without unduly grimacing while playing the ocarina
Pic 9: Mixed melodies with voice and ocarina (Click on image to enlarge)
6. Producing mixed melodies that increase in dynamics from soft to loud with the voice singing a deep note produced simultaneously by normal position on the ocarina (pic 9).
As can be seen in all these examples, the effects can be mixed and combined at the same time. At this point I can’t help asking, why do people say an ocarina is so simple?
Pic 10: Improvisation for solo ocarina (Click on image to enlarge)
Next follows an extract from a solo ocarina improvisation, part of an experimental score (pic 10).
Use of the ‘death whistle’ and jaguar in musical composition
These instruments are of great interest as part of an amalgam of metallic percussion sounds such as the tam-tam, feng gong and Thai gongs. Alongside skins such as the caja (bass drum), congas and tom-toms this fusion takes on great depth and has the force of a cry within the earth; when combined with beats from Tibetan cymbals it is transformed into the leap of a big cat in full fury.
Though deployed on its own it can generate profound effects, the ‘death whistle’ comes into its own when employed en masse, thanks to its dual characteristics of noise and intensity. By creating a series of different audio ‘channels’, a kind of virtual noise orchestra can be formed accompanied by grainy sounds in the strings. I have recently been exploring the use of this instrument, accompanied by piano, percussion and strings in my composition El evangelio de Judas, which will receive its premiere in Canada and Belgium.
Notation for a ‘death whistle’ cannot be made using traditional sheet music (as I used for the ocarina), as it is neither a melodic nor a polyphonic instrument. It is best to notate the dirge and noise of the ‘death whistle’ as for a rhythm instrument, indicating on the page the required changes in wavelength and in aperture of the sound chamber.
Pic 11: Extract from my work ‘Yaxkin’, now renamed ‘Nahui Ocelotl’; death whistle (top line) accompanied by skins and metal sounds below (Click on image to enlarge)
I have already experimented combining song with different rhythms en masse, but the use of the voice in both ‘death whistle’ and jaguar whistle - which work in the same way - is far from ideal and effectively does not work. The key instead is to build on the instrument’s force, character and noise by combining it with the textures of other ancient sounds, both classical and modern - for example, electronic instruments (pic 11 - example of notation style used for ‘death whistle’ and jaguar whistle).
All photos and illustrations supplied by Cristina García Islas
NOTE: You can sample more of Cristina’s music by visiting her website, below.
This article was uploaded to the Mexicolore website on Aug 10th 2013
Q. What did the emperor say to the youth about to be sacrificed in honour of Tezcatlipoca?
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4 At 10.34am on Friday April 18 2014, Christopher Garcia wrote:
Actually, I am a western classically trained musician who has been playing music since 1972. I also study and play the music and drumming traditions of North and South India since 1978, and indigenous music and instruments since 2004, and western classical music and instruments i.e., my background is quite different from most people who traditionally play the indigenous instruments of Mexico.
It comes from oral, aural and written sources and practical performing and composing experience in real time with real people all the time.
I am not attempting to write “pre hispanic “music, nor do I use the terms pre hispanic or pre columbian. That is calling the music and the instruments by what they are not culturally instead of what they are culturally, e.g. the music of India is not called Pre British Music, it is called THE MUSIC OF INDIA, and the sooner we stop allowing others to label our music and our culture e.g., Aztec instead of MEXICA the better. This only comes with time and education.
3 At 1.48am on Friday April 11 2014, Cristina wrote:
You probably understand that recent music with indigenous instruments are not necessarily as they were in the past. All musicians nowadays try to do a different interpretation, but anyone can write a real indigenous music from the past.I am not taking this instruments to write prehispanic music. We can’t write it because we don’t know the real one! I am not taking only the color of this artifacts and instruments as you said all composers do and did. My studies were approved before 2011 in a very different context. I invite you to read more information about classical music nowadays, acoustic, psychoacoustics, history and science. This study is not just music. Thank you for your opinion.
2 At 11.48pm on Thursday April 10 2014, Christopher Garcia wrote:
There is a lineage of composers (non Mexican and Mexican)
who specifically composed for indigenous instruments of Mexico
with classical western instruments including:
Gaspare Spontini (1774 - 1851)
Gian Francesco de Majo 1765
Josef Myslivecek - 1771
Baldassare Galuppi - 1772
Giacomo Insanguine - 1780
Ferdinand Cortez ON LA CONQUETE DE MEXIQUE
these compositions mostly had to do with operatic type music
and story telling of the invasion by the Spanish into the Americas
fast forward to 1936 and notice how large the gap is here
and that Mexican composers are now utilizing the instruments
because composers start turning to their cultural roots and use
their music and EXPERIENCE to reflect that
all of these composers musics could only be composed by them
reflecting their ethnic and cultural roots including:
Bela Bartok - Hungary
Carlos Chavez and Silvestre Revueltas - Mexico
Charles Ives - United States
Hector Villalolobos - Brazil
CARLOS CHAVEZ / SINFONIA INDIA (1936)
http://www.classicalarchives.com/composer/5066.html
SILVESTRE REVUELTAS/SENSEMAYA (1937)
http://www.peermusicclassical.com/composer/composerdetail.cfm?detail=revueltas
more modern day composers include:
JOSEPH JULIAN GONZALEZ
MISA AZTECA on YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-FkZtXMDJQ
and on WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Julian_Gonzalez
and myself:
CHRISTOPHER GARCIA
12 compositions for indigenous percussion
and breath instruments and woodwind quintet
composed and performed 2011, 2012 and 2013
the biggest difference between the composers already mentioned and myself
is that this is the first time that a musician who plays indigenous instruments actually composed music for them and woodwind quintet in western notation.
http://christophergarciamusic.weebly.com/quinteto-latino.html
This has never been done before by a musician playing indigenous instruments,
in the past composers utilized the instruments for their “color” but they were not performers, they were composers. Much as a writer writes a play and an actor breathes life in the words thru their practical experience, playing these instruments every day is very different from using them as a “color” in your compositions.
I am blessed to be in the right place at this moment in time and be around
such great indigenous musicians that I continue to learn from
VIVA LA GENTE
1 At 6.26am on Tuesday August 13 2013, Katia H wrote:
Very intriguing stuff - it’s great to see someone reviving these lost traditions.
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Contributing Health & Nutrition Editor By Stephanie Eckelkamp
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Stephanie Eckelkamp is a writer and editor who has been working for leading health publications for the past 10 years. She received her B.S. in journalism from Syracuse University with a minor in nutrition.
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There's no debating that intermittent fasting (IF) has some serious benefits. This dietary approach, which simply refers to going without food for a certain period of time, naturally restricts calories to help you lose weight, promotes ketosis and thereby increases fat burn, boosts cognitive functioning, reduces inflammation, and may even boost longevity.
"Even short-term fasting—say, 16 to 18 hours a day—can profoundly reduce inflammation," says Vincent Pedre, M.D., an integrative physician and gut health expert who frequently recommends intermittent fasting diets to his patients (this 16:8 fasting plan gives you the rundown). "You're also giving your hardworking gut a break when you fast, which, over time, may help reverse gut dysbiosis (gut imbalances) and problems like leaky gut."
Fasting may even help prevent coronary artery disease and diabetes if done over the long term, says Benjamin Horne, Ph.D., a genetic epidemiologist who has published research on the effects of intermittent fasting. One of the key underlying mechanisms behind several of intermittent fasting's perks is something called autophagy—a process of cellular renewal that essentially removes dysfunctional cellular parts and improves the functioning of cells throughout the body, which promotes longevity and all-around optimal bodily functioning.
But while all of these perks are awesome, there's still one thing we're a little confused about: What actually breaks a fast? While some articles say you must stick to straight water (and nothing else) during your fasting period to yield the benefits above, others say that coffee, tea, MCT oil, or even bone broth are all just fine—so what's the actual deal?
Here, we consulted a number of experts who personally follow an intermittent fasting plan (or prescribe IF to patients) for their take on what foods and beverages don't break a fast, what technically breaks a fast but still preserves some of fasting's benefits, and what you should never consume during a fast.
Any amount of calories technically breaks a fast.
Hate to break it to you, but "technically, consuming any calories breaks a fast," says Horne. Even a few calories' worth of food can inactivate some of fasting's perks. According to Horne, some mechanisms behind fasting's benefits, like ketosis (which increases fat burn), remain active with the consumption of certain macronutrients; but others, like autophagy, may or may not remain active. "In humans, it appears that autophagy does not remain as active when any food is consumed," he says.
But what if we're talking about a measly 2 to 5 calories in a cup of tea or coffee? This ultra-low-calorie territory is where things get a little tricky. According to Horne, it likely needs to be a water-only fast to maintain the maximum benefit from autophagy.
Others aren't so sure we need to be quite this nitpicky, though. "I've heard good debates about whether coffee can break a fast. We don't have any good evidence to show either way," says Pedre. "I would say if you're drinking black organic coffee—no cream, no sweeteners—then you should be fine. That said, I would say stick to as close to zero calories as you can during your fasting hours with plenty of clean filtered water; herbal teas are also good."
Certain foods maintain many of fasting's benefits—while keeping you sane.
Of course, we know that an all-or-nothing approach isn't always warranted or sustainable—and that there are still plenty of benefits to be had in the territory that lies between a strict water-only fast and eating a full-blown meal. So, many experts say it's OK to consume certain caloric foods in small quantities to help you stick to an intermittent fasting plan.
Case in point: To help patients stay happy and compliant with their fast, integrative physician Amy Shah, M.D., allows the consumption of 30 to 40 calories from sources that won't spike blood sugar, like coffee or tea with a splash of unsweetened almond milk. "I call this 'dirty fasting,'" says Shah. "For me, I like to fast as long as possible with just water—that might be 13 or 14 hours of a water fast—then I'll have my tea with almond milk (the start of my 'dirty fast') and end at around 16 hours."
Even Horne agrees that some perks of fasting remain with minimal food intake: "One mechanism that is known to remain active when a small amount of food is consumed is ketosis—as long as you consume less than 50 grams of carbohydrates [in a day]," he says. "Some effects, such as the impact of fasting on the gut microbiome, may be different depending on whether it's a water-only fast or a very-low-calorie diet with a small amount of food consumed, but both may provide some level of benefit when compared to eating a standard amount of food."
Integrative dietitian Ali Miller, R.D., appreciates a more flexible approach as well. "A fast is broken with consumption of food or a caloric substance; however, many people who enjoy the benefits of fasting and want to incorporate it as a daily ritual may take a more flexible approach such as a 'fat fast' using coconut oil, MCT oil, grass-fed butter, or cacao butter blended into a warm liquid during their fasted window."
Of course, not everything is on the table. Here, our experts elaborate on a few items that technically have calories (and technically break a fast) but still deliver on many of intermittent fasting's perks:
As mentioned above, coffee and tea have such minimal calories that it's hard to say if they reduce any of fasting's benefits—at most, these drinks may slightly reduce autophagy. Interestingly, one animal study found that coffee actually induced autophagy in mice, but it's not clear if autophagy would have been greater in the absence of all calories, or if the results would have even been the same in humans.
What we do know: In many cases, coffee and tea can make sticking to your fast that much easier. "Caffeine does have some benefits for fasting, such as appetite suppression. For some people, it can be the needle mover they need to stick with fasting," says Pedre. "But if you're drinking black coffee and notice you're not getting results, I would suggest reducing or eliminating it and see if that helps."
More good news: Coffee and tea don't interfere with fasting perks like ketosis and fat burn, and coffee may even help amplify some of fasting's benefits such as improved insulin sensitivity.
You've likely heard of people whose version of intermittent fasting involves consuming nothing but coffee blended with MCT oil (or grass-fed butter, ghee, coconut oil, etc.) until around noon. This, which Miller calls a "fat fast," technically breaks your fast and reduces autophagy to some extent but can effectively curb cravings while maintaining some of fasting's key benefits.
"A fat fast would be supportive for improving satiety—thereby helping you hold off on eating a true meal—and aiding in body fat metabolism and ketone production in the morning, at a time when insulin levels are typically elevated from morning cortisol surge," says Miller. Without a dose of fat, these elevated insulin and cortisol levels may potentially trigger hunger or cravings and prompt you to eat. Bonus: A little fat in the morning can also help keep those bowels regular.
Consuming a healthy form of fat during your fasting period may also be particularly beneficial if weight loss isn't your main goal. "Low body fat levels can drive imbalances in hormones, so a 'fat fast' would be appropriate for people looking for moderate body composition changes or maintenance," says Miller. For someone with more weight to lose, on the other hand, a pure water fast would be less likely to throw off hormones.
The addition of a little fat to your fasting window may be even more important for certain women. "Because fat is required to produce hormones, a fat fast can also be a great technique to support healthy hormone balance for women dealing with adrenal fatigue or hypothyroidism," says Miller.
Another liquid that's frequently touted as "acceptable" during a fast is bone broth. Again, this technically breaks a fast, but depending on your goals, it can be a smart addition. Even renowned intermittent-fasting expert Jason Fung, M.D., gives it a thumbs-up as a way to reduce hunger pangs and improve fasting compliance while delivering much-needed minerals and electrolytes. Consuming water alone, especially if your fast exceeds 16 hours, can reduce electrolyte levels in the body, leading to potential complications such as low blood pressure, confusion, nausea, muscle spasms, and fatigue. (Of course, if you don't want to consume bone broth, Miller says you can simply add a couple of teaspoons of mineral-rich sea salt to your water.)
Bone broth, rich in gelatin and the amino acid glutamine, can also be particularly beneficial if you're looking to rebalance or heal the gut. Some research, however, shows that glutamine (and protein in general) fuels a process called mTOR, which prevents autophagy. So, you don't want to overdo and continuously sip on bone broth (or coffee spiked with collagen powder) throughout your fasting hours. However, it would likely take more glutamine than you'd find in a mug of bone broth to negate these benefits altogether. So, if bone broth is the tool you need to stick to your fast, keep using it.
One thing to always avoid (even though it doesn't technically break a fast).
Despite the fact that they don't contain calories, most of the experts we spoke with said zero-calorie sweeteners should be avoided during a fast—and pretty much all the time.
"I'm not a fan of artificial sweeteners at all," says Pedre. "Technically these have zero calories, so they would be 'legal' during a fast, but we've seen how they can disrupt gut balance and cause lots more problems. I would steer clear of them altogether, and if you need a sweetener, use organic 100% stevia sparingly during fasting hours."
Miller agrees, explaining that even though something has zero calories, it can still negate some of fasting's most significant benefits, including appetite control. "Just because something is non-caloric doesn't mean it is free of metabolic influence," says Miller. "The taste of sweet impacts GLP-1 receptors on the tongue, which enhances insulin release—this is not ideal, as insulin has a negative impact on fasting and may drive blood sugar drops." And blood sugar drops, as we all know, can make us miserable and hangry.
If you feel like you always "need" something during your fast, try this.
Ideally, intermittent fasting will help you curb cravings and reduce hunger over time due to its beneficial effect on insulin sensitivity. But if you're not fueling well during your eating hours, intense cravings can result, making you feel like you "need" that butter-laced coffee first thing in the morning.
"A few issues that arise when people get super hungry during fasts are that they might not eat enough during eating hours, or they might be eating foods high in carbohydrates that spike and crash their blood sugar," says B.J. Hardick, D.C. "Keeping a food journal can help ensure you're eating enough of the right foods. If you're doing both things correctly and still aren't losing weight, dial back the fast an hour or two and see if that helps."
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New York, April 03, 2018 -- Moody's Investors Service has assigned an A1 to West Virginia's $39.5 million Lottery Capital Improvement Revenue Bonds, Series 2018A, to be issued through the West Virginia School Building Authority. The outlook is stable.
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Reviews / Kawasaki / 2009 Kawasaki ER-6n Review
2009 Kawasaki ER-6n Review
An affordable roadster for everyone
By Kevin Duke Apr. 29, 2009
Photos by Alfonse “Fonzie” Palaima
The ER-6n may have an odd name and a weird schnoz, but it’s one of the best bangs for the buck in the 2009 model year. It’s a zippy commuter rig, an agile backroad scratcher and a reasonable light-duty sport-tourer – it’s a modern interpretation of a do-it-all roadster, all for a palatable $6,399 entry fee.
The ER-6n can be best described as a naked version of the revised-for’09 Ninja 650R, and they share a new steel-trellis frame. Kawi engineers used computer modeling to come up with a revised rigidity balance, allowing a measure of tuned flex for improved handling. The frame itself is said to be nearly as light as a comparable aluminum-alloy unit, and it boasts an upgraded finish over previous 650Rs. Both chassis also share an offset lay-down rear shock and a relatively long tubular-steel swingarm that offers extra rigidity to balance the frame’s extra flex.
You’ll also find commonality in the engine room, as both the Ninja and the ER use the compact 649cc parallel-Twin with 4 valves per cylinder actuated by double overhead cams. Both also share electronic fuel-injection systems with 38mm throttle bodies; sub-throttle valves mimic the smooth response of constant-velocity carburetors. Changes to this engine from the previous 650R consist only of a larger airbox and revised ECU mapping.
Although the ER is sure to find friends among pragmatic experienced riders, the bike has also been developed to please beginners. As such, it has such rider-friendly aids as an automatic fast-idle program to make simple cold-starts, adjustable clutch and brake levers to accommodate a variety of hand sizes, and a non-stressful upright riding position. The new frame is narrower at its midsection, allowing a slimmer seat for a shorter reach to the ground from the relatively low seat height of 30.9 inches. The ER’s transmission is also equipped with Kawi’s neutral-finder design that eases access to neutral when stopped.
Punch the starter button and the 649cc Twin blats out a tune familiar to anyone who’s heard a Ninja 650, as it has the same under-engine muffler and bullet-shaped exhaust tip. A light clutch pull eases commuter duties, and a responsive pull from the torquey engine keep you one step ahead of cage traffic. ZX-style mirrors are stalk-mounted on the handlebar to offer a clear view of the vehicles you just left behind.
Kawi’s Vibe-Away Program
While a 90-degree V-Twin like a Suzuki SV650 or Gladius has perfect primary balance that inhibits vibration, a parallel-Twin like the ER’s transmits some primary and secondary forces that make their way to a rider. Kawi’s Vibe Police stepped in this year with several updates to quell any bothersome trembling from its inline-Twin.
A balance shaft returns to duty in the ER/Ninja, and this year it’s augmented by the upper-rear engine mount being damped by rubber bushings. In addition, the tubular steel handlebar is rubber-mounted to inhibit vibration, and the bike’s footpegs are rubber covered. Even the bike’s handy grab rails are mounted in soothing rubber. Vibration from the previous Ninja 650R wasn’t excessive, but it’s now been reduced to inconsequential levels.
The peak output from the twin-cylinder motor – 62.9 hp at 8800 rpm – might seem a bit mild, but the impression from the saddle is of a much more capable powerplant than those numbers indicate. Torque production is a hugely important factor in how grunty a motor feels, so consider that the ER’s 43.1 ft-lbs at 7200 rpm is slightly more than a ZX-6R puts out at its peak way up at 12,000 rpm. That’s thrust you can use during every run up through the gears, and it also results in surprisingly strong roll-on performance at highway speeds. The word “underpowered” never made an entry in our notebooks.
Cruising at speeds up to 80 mph is surprisingly comfortable for a naked bike, as a rider isn’t pummeled by overwhelming windblast. Credit the large headlight housing and faired instruments for deflecting wind, as well as the wide radiator shrouds which provide a wind break for legs and incorporate unobtrusive clear-lens turnsignals. Although the seat is narrow, it’s padded well enough for comfy one-hour stints.
As with any bike built on a budget, there are compromises made, and you’ll notice this on the ER mostly in the suspension and brakes.
The 6n is equipped with a conventional 41mm fork and a single rear shock that is directly mounted to the swingarm instead of using some sort of linkage. To accommodate lighter riders and to provide a cushy ride, the ER uses soft springs and damping settings. Heavy riders will want to bump up the shock’s spring preload - the only available suspension adjustment. Although aggressive riders would appreciate a stiffer front end, the fork provides decent wheel control and a smooth ride. As for the rear suspension, it works fine over most bumps, but it doesn’t have the fine control of a linkage-equipped shock. This shortcoming is most evident over repetitive highway bumps where the rear end can react harshly.
The front brakes on the previous Ninja 650 drew criticism for their lack of feel, so Kawasaki made some revisions to the componentry of this updated package also seen on the ER-6n. A new front brake master cylinder was added, and it uses a new ball-joint and a different pivot location to actuate old-tech 2-piston calipers on dual 300mm discs. They provide a newbie-friendly soft initial bite and decent power once past the initial squeeze but still don’t transmit much feedback.
The Er-six-en impresses most when faced with a twisty, technical road – grins are sure to ensue. It proves to be very nimble despite the narrowish handlebar and conservative steering geometry (24.5-degree rake, 4.0 inches of trail). Aiding agility is a fairly short wheelbase of 55.3 inches made possible by an engine with triangular-stacked gear shafts to keep its length condensed while retaining a relatively long swingarm. Kawi claims a 442-lb weight with all fluids and a full tank (4.1 gallons) of fuel.
The ER eagerly devours a serpentine road with more speed than you might expect. The upright riding position gives a rider the feeling of dominance over the ER, allowing confidence to soar for riders of all experience levels. We challenge you not to smile! At the speeds possible on a super-curvy path like Malibu’s Latigo Canyon, the ER is able to keep pure sportbikes in sight, and I’ll bet that a newb would go quicker on the modest Kawi in this situation than he/she would on any literbike. A hint of abruptness during throttle reapplication is its only glitch.
Ground clearance at street speeds is quite generous, as a rider is able to feather the edges of the ER’s Dunlop Roadsmart tires that Pete recently reviewed. A sportbike-standard 120/70-17 leads the way, while a relatively narrow 160/60-17 puts the power to the ground. A short seat-to-peg distance is the byproduct of the beneficent ground clearance, constricting the legs of tall riders.
When it comes to details, the ER-6n is well equipped. Four tie-down points are thoughtfully provided under the tailsection, there is space available under the seat for a U-lock, and a bright LED taillight aids conspicuity. Passengers are welcomed by a decent perch with generous grab rails, while a pair of cable straps under the seat provides security for two helmets.
The ER’s instrumentation is a mixed bag. On the plus side, we appreciate having a clock, fuel gauge, and dual tripmeters on the multi-function LCD screen, and the white-faced analog speedometer at the top of the pod is easy enough to read. However, the bar-style digital tachometer is too small to be seen at a glance. A gear-position indicator would be a nice touch on a newbie-friendly bike like this.
In terms of style, the ER both impresses and depresses. Its Candy Plasma Blue color (with matching shock spring) really pops, and its new frame and swingarm have an improved level of finish that adds to the bike’s perceived quality. A nifty chin spoiler frames the dual header pipes snaking curvaceously in front of the engine. On the other hand, the ER’s distinctive proboscis looks a trifle odd, making us wonder why Kawi can’t seem to make cool noses for its bikes. That said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
After reading this far, our affection for the ER-6n should be obvious. Riding Kawi’s newest naked around made us think that no one really needs more motorcycle than this.
“Bikes like the ER-6n or Suzuki’s recently released Gladius make sense for a lot of riders,” commented Senior Editor Pete Brissette who rode the Gladius before the ER. “They have plenty of power, sporty handling and very livable ergos. How much more should we ask for?”
Yes, you should anticipate an upcoming duel between the ER and the Gladius. It’s worth noting that the Kawi’s $6,399 MSRP undercuts the Glad’s by $500. The fully faired Ninja 650R also competes for your dollars with a $6,799 retail price.
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Remarkably willing to serve its master
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Tight fit for long legs
Compromised rear suspension
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Sandra Shakespeare; Laura Elliott, Issue 120/01, 03.01.2019
Dear Sandra:
The question highlights a significant void in our national institutions that has resulted in highly fragmented and partial historical narratives that continue to shape ideas of British history and identity in very distorted ways. A Black British Museum would be a corrective and catalyst for wider sectoral change.
It would serve as a centre to gather material evidence and research, while also attending to the ways in which black British identities have been represented and circulated. That said, it might also risk being seen as adjunct, rather than belonging to the national story.
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Dear Laura:
Access to collections is imperative to our understanding and enjoyment of black history. Museums face the challenge of presenting the “right” collective history, as we bring our own stereotypes and biases into the equation.
In this context, a Black British Museum is an opportunity for developing critical analysis and public history teaching. National investment in funding for the advancement of academic research in black historical collections is vital. Now is the time for conversations with museums and government, to gain support for the idea.
Best wishes, Sandra
That kind of support will be vital to establish a Black British Museum and it will also help ameliorate the “adjunct risk”. I like the idea of drawing on loaned objects from different institutions, and to research and exhibit them on a circulatory basis.
It could strengthen and grow the expertise and economy of the Black British Museum, and tangibly benefit existing museums that have black history collections but are unsure what to do with them. What other institutions are doing similar work, if any?
Museums have a global responsibility to understand their collections more fully, to tell the stories of people, culture and communities behind the objects. An example is the Victoria and Albert Museum’s (V&A) Maqdala 1868 collection of Ethiopian treasures, now held across several British cultural collections.
There are also the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum and the exemplary work of the former curator of the Africa collections, Chris Spring. There’s a hugely contentious restitution debate following the report commissioned by France’s president, Emmanuel Macron. A Black British Museum needs to think intelligently about the objects and collections it seeks to exhibit and display. What can we do differently?
Thinking about these overseas connections, a Black British Museum wouldn’t necessarily need to hold only national material any more than our national institutions do. Many museums mainly contain objects representing overseas cultures. It’s always going to be a work in progress because there is a fluidity of cultural influences that runs through this country. We are not fixed to any single identity.
This may seem to contradict the idea of a Black British Museum that foregrounds black identity, but it’s an inclusive and fluid identity; just as the Jewish Museum London is for everyone, so would a Black British Museum be. It would be a growth point for reassessing British identity, which has universal significance. What is next?
The discussions at the MA Conference with Errol Francis, Janet Browne and Arike Oke offered new thinking: maybe Black British Museum gallery spaces should be designed in new museums. National museums can reveal more black historical collections for wider scholarly research.
We are continuing the conversation and galvanising expertise. A working forum is assembled and we welcome more ideas for development of strategy. Expect a conference-type event in the future. We want this to be a museum that isn’t trying to fix colonialism. I look forward to the future.
Laura Elliott is a museum consultant and subject specialist in museum modernisation. Sandra Shakespeare is an arts and heritage consultant and a co-founder of Museum Detox
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New plans, old worries for Edgartown library design
Steve Myrick
After seeing preliminary design plans for two possible Edgartown Library expansion sites, selectman Michael Donaroma, a member of the Edgartown Library design committee, sized up the architect’s presentation.
“Once we get by the money,” Mr. Donaroma said in a phone conversation with The Times yesterday, “do we build a beautiful, charming, North Water Street, walk to Chappy ferry, walk to town library, with limited parking, hard to get to, no future expansion possible whatsoever? Or do we go to the old elementary school, which doesn’t quite have the character, but is in the center of town, near the elementary school, very easy to get to, plenty of parking, and unlimited future of expansion and use?”
Edgartown has struggled with the library design process since 2005, when voters agreed to buy the Captain Warren House near the current Edgartown Library for $3.5 million. The plan then was to incorporate the Warren house into a planned $11 million, 17,000 square foot library expansion project. Those plans fell apart when the Edgartown Library Foundation’s private fundraising effort fell far short of its goal.
Now the library design committee is looking at a scaled back version of the original design, incorporating the historic Carnegie library building on North Water Street, or building a new facility in the old Edgartown School near Upper Main Street.
On Monday, architects presented very preliminary plans for both sites to the design committee. Though she did not present cost estimates, architect Celia Imrey said costs for both sites are about the same.
“I don’t believe we’re going to have to make a decision based purely on budgets, because one is so much less expensive than the other,” Ms. Imrey said.
Those cost speculations do not factor in the possible sale of the Warren house, to finance part of the construction at the old Edgartown School. Any design at the North Water Street site would involve tearing down the Warren House and using the land for expansion.
Ms. Imrey’s preliminary designs included many configurations, and included rough floor plans only, not illustrations of how the new buildings might look.
For the North Water Street site, the architect envisions new construction wrapped around the present library.
“Parking, building massing, public space,” Ms. Imrey said. “Those are the three things that come into play. You make a bigger building, you lose parking, you lose public space.”
For the old elementary school site, she presented a plan including a long outdoor terrace across the front of the building, with two floors of library facilities in varying configurations inside.
“Compared to trying to fit everything in,” Ms. Imrey said, “we’re just flying around, there’s tons of space.”
Both library plans would include a “great room,” that would function for library services, but also be suitable for meetings and community events.
Interested onlookers packed the selectmen’s meeting room for the presentation, a consequence of the strong opinions circulating about the two sites. Project manager Rick Pomroy opened with an introduction that included six admonitions against public participation at this stage of the design committee’s process.
“We’re in the very early stages of the research,” Mr. Pomroy said. “I just want to make sure everyone is very, very clear. We’re not looking for public comment.”
The comments of design committee members also illustrated some of the reasons the long effort to build a new library has become divisive.
Design committee member Richard Knight had aesthetic concerns about the preliminary plans for the old Edgartown School. “It needs to look like a library,” Mr. Knight said. “It just feels like a rehabilitated school. It’s an odd space.”
Committee member Larry Mercier, who has publicly supported the old school site, criticized the preliminary plans for that site.
“You haven’t been very creative here,” Mr. Mercier told the architect. “You went to great lengths to show us a parking scheme at North Water Street, but there’s no parking scheme here.”
The committee asked Ms. Imrey to refine both plans and return to the design committee tomorrow with drawings and preliminary cost estimates for both sites.
“Consensus is not going to be easy,” design committee chairman Chris Scott said in a phone conversation with The Times Tuesday. “I do sense consensus on the basic premise that the town deserves a better library facility.”
At tomorrow’s session, Mr. Donaroma intends to encourage a discussion of how each project will get funded.
“If we are going to get more money from the town, we would have to have a fabulous plan that everyone agreed with, and then maybe,” Mr. Donaroma said Wednesday. “The economy the way it is, if the library trustees keep pushing us to build something we can’t afford, we’ll wind up with nothing.”
The Edgartown Library Foundation issued a statement Wednesday through its publicist.
“Regardless of which site the building design committee chooses to develop, The Edgartown Library Foundation is committed to building a public/private partnership to support our community’s library,” said foundation chairman Gwynneth ‘Baba’ Smith, in the statement.
Publicist Danielle Pendergraft said the foundation has “raised over $1 million in cash and pledges, and has spent considerable funds to date, in advancement of this project; however, continued fulfillment of many of their donors’ pledges is contingent upon the Carnegie location as the chosen site for development.”
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