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Bio-separation goes digital - HZDR start-up adds some excitement to mechanical separation technology
Press Release of November 30, 2016
Sterile filters protecting patients from waterborne germs
Photo: i3 Membrane GmbH
Four investors are financing continued growth by i3 Membrane GmbH. High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) in Bonn, Innovationsstarter Fonds in Hamburg, Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Sachsen mbH (MBG) in Dresden and a private US investor are investing a 7-digit Euro sum in further developing and launching new filters and separation technologies. Ultra-thin metal coatings on conventional membranes can be charged with electric current to capture charged nanoparticles such as viruses and cytotoxins – and can be controlled using a computer. Making biotechnological processes more efficient and simple while filters become smaller and more environmentally friendly.
“Our new separation technology involves the application of ultra-thin metal coatings to standard polymer membranes without impairing their porosity. The membranes, which have to date been filtering particles and biological substances such as bacteria in a purely mechanical fashion, can now capture viruses which are 10 to 100 times smaller – by applying an electrical charge of only 1 Volt to the metal coating”, explains Dr. Stephan Brinke-Seiferth, CEO at i3 Membrane GmbH.
Where separation technology was purely mechanical in the past, this invention now takes it into the digital age. Most biologically active compounds such as proteins, antibodies, viruses or DNA are charged. These substances can be captured using an opposing charge (adsorbing). To date, firmly installed charge carriers on membranes or surfaces were used for this. If the substances are to be released again (desorbing), additional chemicals such as acids or high concentrations of salt were needed. The electrically chargeable membrane not only facilitates adsorption and desorption; these processes can also be controlled digitally, enabling substances which block the membrane filters to be rejected. The filters can be smaller in size which also makes them less expensive. i3 Membrane has successfully launched a particularly compact sterile filter which protects patients from germs in hospitals. Other products are under development in the areas of biotechnology, diagnostics and water treatment.
The membrane market achieves annual sales of 15 billion USD worldwide and displays annual growth of approx. 10 percent. 50 percent of sales are achieved in the medical and pharmaceutical sector, whereby the market is still dominated by filter membranes made of plastics developed in the 1960s. The goal at i3 Membrane GmbH is to functionalize plastic membranes, thereby establishing additional separation characteristics using digital control in many areas of application.
“We are convinced of this intelligent yet simple production process and the new characteristics displayed by the filter membranes. And we are delighted to support the experienced team in growing their company”, comments Marianne Mertens, Investment Manager at High-Tech Gründerfonds.
“We regard the new separation technology at i3 as extremely technologically innovative and assume that it can be used to create a new generation of membranes based on this platform technology”, is how Dörte Bunge from Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg justifies the investment.
i3 Membrane GmbH was established in April 2013 with the support of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.
Dr. Stephan Brinke-Seiferth
i3 Membrane GmbH
Phone: +49 40 257674810
Email: s.brinkeseiferth@i3membrane.de
www.i3membrane.de
Christine Bohnet
Press spokesperson, head HZDR communications
Phone +49 351 260-2450
Email: c.bohnet@hzdr.de
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Winner: Grayling (Huntsworth)
Grayling is not the only firm to have established a specialist Brexit unit, obviously, but it is one of the few that can bring together dedicated public affairs specialists from every EU country to share their perspective, and it has been able to establish itself as a thought leader through its Brexit Breakfast Club, a forum for public-private discussions of Brexit-related issues, and its Brexit Bulletin, which it has been publishing weekly since 2016. The firm has helped to make Honda into a leading voice on Brexit, addressing the risk to the company’s supply chain and providing testimony to key select committees, and also works with clients such as Bupa, Kraft-Heinz, spiritsEurope, Abbvie, Hilton, and British Sugar.
Public affairs is only one pillar of Grayling’s business (the firm also works in the consumer and corporate space), but it was the strongest performing pillar in 2018, with the UK business up by an impressive 40%--new business came from Russian investment bank VTB, Molson Coors, Network Rail and Bet Stars, among others. The Brussels operation, which was up by abut 15%, has a team of 36 consultants (from 15 nationalities) and picked up business from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Danone, the Environmental Defense Fund, Herbalife, MyTaxi, OLX Group and more. Those two offices are supported by PA experts in Grayling’s other offices—the former Mmd, which had operations in Central and Eastern Europe, was focused primarily on public affairs—bringing the European team to more than 100.
The firm’s public affairs leadership begins with chairman Richard Jukes, a veteran public affairs strategist; Russell Patten, CEO of the Brussels office and chairman of European public affairs; Victoria Breck, managing director of the Brussels office; and Alan Boyd-Hall, who leads public affairs in the UK. Additions in 2018 included Ben Gascoigne, a former adviser to Boris Johnson as both Foreign Secretary and Mayor of London, who joined Grayling UK as a director in its public affairs team, and Brexit expert Shanker Singham, director of the international trade and competition unit at the the Institute of Economic Affairs, who will serve as a special advisor to parent company Huntsworth.
In the UK, Grayling worked with Lloyd’s Banking Group to establish its leadership in diversity, digital inclusion and community investment, as well as articulating its economic importance; supported Calor to secure important changes to the proposed climate change levy; and advised newly established gas distribution network Cadent ramp up its political engagement at party conference. In Brussels. In Brussels, the digital advocacy team has been providing online public affairs support to ebay, European Soft Drinks Industry and Herbalife Nutrition and others, while the EU-Japan practice has been helping many European suppliers connect with Japanese companies and government purchasers. Multi-market assignments include work for PokerStars and OLX Group and local policy support for Amazon, HP and others. — PH
BECG (UK/Independent)
2018 was a significant year for the Built Environment Communications Group, a specialty agency focusing on the many facets and challenges facing clients working to further “the built environment” —the manmade places and spaces such as buildings, parks and transit systems in which people live, play and work. Not only was it the agency’s first full year in existence (the brand was created in 2017 via the merger of Remarkable Group and HardHat Communications), BECG got off to a remarkably robust start, drawing clients with expertise in an array of specialties — property, energy and utilities, infrastructure, waste and recycling, environment and the the public sector among them.
Under the watch of founder and CEO Stephen Pomeroy, BECG in 2018 brought in more than £6m in fees and built a team of 63 pros. The draw: BECG knows its stuff. The firm has a firm understanding on the built environment as a whole, and important role a better built environment can play in society by creating opportunity, prosperity and well-being. As a result, BECG is well-positioned to support clients with communications strategies that resonate in that particular context. On top of that, BECG is equipped to assist clients in maximizing opportunities, managing their reputations and reducing the inherent risks of working in the space.
Hallmark campaigns of 2018 include BECG’s work for the London developer Anthology, which puts a particularly strong emphasis on building community trust. In turn, BECG has made content front and center in all Anthology’s communications, highlighting real-life stories featuring neighbors, school programs and events from the communities with Anthology projects. The result: coverage in key media, as well as a robust social media presence. BECG also is committed to making the built environment a place of inclusion and opportunity. The agency’s BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnicities) in Property forum promotes diversity and inclusion in BECG as well as the industries it serves. It also supports the training program Construction Youth Trust. — DM
Cicero Group (UK/Independent)
Established in 2001, Cicero made waves in 2018 when it acquired Westbourne Communications to become one of the UK’s largest independent public affairs firms. With 70 staffers generating fee income of £7.3m, the firm now boasts a broad range of public affairs expertise, marrying Cicero’s existing financial services strength with Westbourne’s depth across transport, energy, housing and technology.
Led by executive chairman Iain Anderson and chief executive Jeremy Swan, Cicero expanded its senior team notably in 2018, snapping up former Home Secretary spokesperson Joey Jones and former Downing Street legislative affairs director Nikki Da Costa. The firm also launched a Dublin office to with its London HQ and Brussels operation.
Amid the ever present spectre of Brexit, Cicero has continued to sharpen its consultative edge, helping it land new business from the Association of Investment Companies, Be the Business, HS2 and Mitie. They join an existing client roster that also features Barclays, BlackRock, ComparetheMarket, Green BioFuels, IHG, Legal & General, LinkedIn, the Civil Nuclear Police Federation and Royal Mail.
And the firm’s work also impresses — highlights included supporting Royal Mail’s employee pension scheme amid considerable scrutiny; helping Thomson Reuters modify the Data Protection Bill; and, advising the Police Federation on its ‘Protect the Protectors’ campaign. — AS
Interel (Independent)
Following the 2017 acquisition of US advocacy firm Association Management Group, Interel is now co-headquartered in Brussels—where it had its origins 36 years ago—and Washington, DC, with additional officers in Paris, London, Berlin, Delhi, and Beijing, supplemented by alliances across 70 additional markets through the Interel Global Partnership, a worldwide network of independent public affairs agencies that it has built to deliver the “glocal” solutions that a complex regulatory and policy environment requires.
It would have been understandable if Interel had taken a pause in 2018 to absorb the US acquisition and integrate the new operations, but the firm continued its forward momentum, with fees up by roughly 10% to more than $26 million, and headcount closing in on 200 (slightly more than half of that in Europe). The firm also rebranded, with a new tagline, “Advancing Interests,” reflecting Interel’s mission of helping clients shape public policy around the world.
That means that Interel has quadrupled in size since Frederik Lofthagen took over as CEO in 2006, thanks in part to a formidable leadership team that includes Gregoire Poisson, managing partner of Interel EU, and Jason Jarrell, managing partner of the global practice. New additions in 2018 include Florence Muls, who joined as managing partner of Interel Belgium after serving as head of corporate communication for Brussels Airport Company and external communications manager for KPN Group Belgium, and William Wallace, senior director at Interel UK, a veteran of APCO and Grayling.
Key clients include Alibaba, Astellas, Coca-Cola, Danone, Ecolab, Expedia, Gilead, IEEE, Nissan, the Project Management Institute, TE Connectivity, Tesla, and TIAA-CREF, while there was new business from 3M, Aquind, the Association of Consumer Credit Information Suppliers, Celgene, the Cloud Signature Consortium, Ensa, ISACA, Turo, and Westrock. The work included supporting MSD to raise awareness about the health risks faced by excluded groups like sex workers, migrants, homeless, people who inject drugs, and the LGTBI community; helping a coalition of technology companies, IP2I, put the issue of “patent trolls” on the public policy agenda in Brussels, and working with BACTA, the trade association for the amusement and gaming machine industry in the UK, to reduce the maximum stake on fixed odds betting terminals from £100 to £2. — PH
SEC (Independent)
Italian firm SEC marks its 30th anniversary this year but perhaps the more important date is 2013, when it began its international expansion in earnest. Today, SEC operates in 8 countries, having acquired a string of firms, including public affairs heavyweights Cambre in Brussels and Newington in London. Between them, that gives SEC one of Europe’s top public affairs capabilities, helping underpin overall growth of 20% to $39m, with less than 40% of that coming from SEC’s traditional corporate/financial work in Italy.
The firm’s leadership reflects its public affairs sensibilities. Cambre chairman Tom Parker is chief strategy and sales officer, and an executive director of SEC, as is Newington CEO Mark Glover. Last year, the firm also hired former European Parliament deputy chairman Mario Mauro to serve as senior consultant for European Affairs in Brussels.
And some of the firm’s key clients, from a roster that includes Abbott, Coca-Cola, Amazon, Aon, Enel, Ikea, Ferrero and Novartis, tap into this lobbying and advocacy expertise. Notable work includes helping Morocco gain approval for its EU trade agreements after they were suspended, via a multi-faceted campaign that helped to showcase the benefits of trade, particularly for the highly-politicised Western Sahara region. — AS
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Green Party spring conference: Green MEP Keith Taylor wants Brussels to help fund UK food banks
By Ian Silvera at the Green Party conference in Liverpool
March 6, 2015 19:04 GMT
A Green Party MEP has called for the European Union (EU) to help fund food banks in the UK in a bid to help lift the burden on charities.
Keith Taylor, who represents the south east of England, told IBTimes UK the move would help out in the meantime.
But the former principal speaker of the Green Party said the state should introduce a Living Wage and reform the benefits system to address the "terrible problems" food bank claimants are facing.
"The state needs to play a more active role in supporting those enterprises, including funding. But hopefully this will be finite," Taylor said. "If you look at the way that food bank use has increased, it's markedly done so over the past few years despite the government's attempts to try and suppress the information about the number of food banks.
"Hopefully there won't be food banks in a few years. In the meantime, we can apply for European funds to get us through this crisis and we are entitled to draw down some funding from Europe to do that if the government says it hasn't got enough money."
The Trussell Trust, the main provider of food banks in the UK, said almost one million people (913,138) were given a three-day-long emergency food package from one of their outlets in the 2013-14 financial year.
Food banks become hot topic
The issue of food banks have become a hot political subject and the likes of Church of England and Oxfam have weighed in on the topic.
The group published a joint report alongside The Trussell Trust in November 2014, which argued gaps in the UK's welfare systems were forcing people to turn to the emergency food outlets. The report also found a majority of claimants had serious personal financial crises and only turned to food banks as a last resort when other coping strategies had failed.
Natalie Bennett wants \'collective justice\' when it comes to dealing with welfare issues in the UK BBC/YouTube
But the government criticised the report and claimed the research had used "self-selecting" data. "The report itself concludes it can't prove anything – it uses self-selecting data and recognises there are complex underlying issues," a spokesperson for the Department for Work and Pensions said.
"We have a strong safety net in place, spending £94bn a year on working-age benefits, and we provide a wide range of advice and assistance for anyone in need of additional support."
However, the food bank issue has not abated and Natalie Bennett also touched upon the matter during her speech at her party's spring conference in Liverpool.
"I applaud the growing number of individuals who contribute to, who volunteer in, who run, food banks. But this individual charity is no substitute for collective justice," the Green leader said.
"This is the outcome of the years of Blair, of Brown, of the Cameron/Clegg Coalition and austerity Britain. This is the record of George Osborne's 'long term economic plan'. The Green Party are calling time on the politics of low wages, job insecurity and fearing the food bank."
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Reaping rewards through awards
At the start of a new year, it is always good to look back over what you’ve achieved and make plans for the future. When we talk to businesses about their communications, one of the most frequent regrets is that they haven’t communicated their sustainability achievements as well as they could have. Well, this year why not make it a resolution to get the recognition you deserve by entering your company for an award.
Being nominated or winning an award can help establish your reputation as a responsible business and gives credibility to your claims with stakeholders. Winning an award can also be a great door-opener for smaller innovative businesses, helping to establish their brand and providing a useful communications tool. Even for established businesses, winning an award is an important employee engagement tool, creating motivation and a sense of pride in employees.
In the UK, there is a thriving award community that helps to profile the innovative and leading work that businesses are doing on sustainability. In fact there are over 400 award schemes in the UK alone that focus on sustainability achievements. The sheer number of schemes makes it difficult to know where to start, which is why the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) established accreditation scheme for environment and sustainability awards. IMS Consulting manages the scheme, which helps to simplify the choice for applicants by providing a mark of quality for those awards that meet a robust set of criteria that demonstrate quality and validity.
By entering an RSA accredited award scheme, you also will have the opportunity to enter the European Business Awards for the Environment that is held every two years. Winners and runner-up from UK accredited schemes are invited to enter the prestigious EBAE, which can pay massive dividends for your company. Over the past decade, UK entrants have won more EBAE awards than any other country.
If you’re looking back over your work last year and feel proud of what you’ve achieved, we’ve produced a series of free to download handy guides, available on the RSA accreditation website, to help you get started on your path to recognition.
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Kristen Stewart Remembers Anton Yelchin In ‘Love, Antosha,’ ‘He Kind Of, Like, Broke My Heart’
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Jane Lasky
Kristen Stewart’s love life has been on blast for years, but that’s often the price you pay for being in the public eye, especially when you enter show business at an early age. Still, there was one romance that the prolific actress kept to herself — until now.
Stewart admitted that the late Anton Yelchin was “one of her first crushes,” states Refinery 29, who spoke about Kristen’s co-star in Griffin Dunne’s Fierce People.
In turn, Kristen talked about Anton in the new film, Love, Antosha, a veritable love letter to the shining star who died at 27-years-old after a freak accident pinned him between his newly recalled SUV and a driveway gate.
“He and I were really good friends for like two years, and then he kind of broke my heart. I was so baffled by how good he was in working with him, and then subsequently couldn’t be around him. I think back on why I like some of the things that I like, in that brief period of time of like 14-15-16 [years-old]…”
Looking back, Kristen and Anton spent a lot of time together making 2005’s Fierce People. She played Maya Langley to his Finn Earl, a 16-year-old who falls for her.
As often happens in show business, life imitated art and the 14-year-old Kristen fell hard while also falling silent about her relationship with 15-year-old Anton, who has been considered charismatic largely because of his “eccentricity.”
“We didn’t talk about it with anyone because it was kind of this insulated little thing,” said Stewart via HuffPost.
“I wanted to listen to all the music that he f**king listened to, and kind of absorb all of his interests and his stuff. I wanted to be better, smarter, cooler, but couldn’t even hang with him.”
In a clip from Love, Antosha, The Twilight Saga actress admitted that her secret boyfriend sort of “shaped her” into the person she is today.
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Besides talking about his relationship with Stewart, the commemorative documentary honoring Anton made a wide sweep about his short, but meaningful life that showed he was almost super human.
“Yelchin appeared in 69 projects, including critically acclaimed films such as Green Room and Thoroughbreds,” producer Drake Doremus, who directed him in Like Crazy, told HuffPost. “He was not afraid to fail.”
The source added that because of this trait, always unpredictable Stewart was likely “attracted to him.”
“It’s just so amazing that she opened up and told the truth. She’s so special and cool to have done that,” Doremus said.
Even though Kristen Stewart is permanently separated from Anton Yelchin, she has her memories. And now, so does the movie-going public thanks to Love, Antosha.
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Donald Trump Accused Of Doing ‘Racist’ Japanese And Korean Accents At High-Priced Fundraiser
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Nathan Francis
Donald Trump is being accused of racism after reports indicated that the president mimicked Japanese and Korean accents at a high-priced fundraiser this week.
As the New York Post reported, Trump touched on a wide range of topics in remarks to the donors in attendance in the Hamptons. He took aim at the “fake news” media and Democrats for their claims that he is racist, which he claimed were baseless allegations.
“That is the only ammunition they have,” Trump said.
But as the report noted, Trump then launched into another topic that led to new accusations of racism. The report claimed Trump took turns mocking U.S. allies, including South Korea and Japan, and the president mimicked the accents of the Asian nations. As the left-wing news site Politicus USA noted, Trump’s “racist” foreign accents at the Hamptons fundraiser were not the first time he did an exaggerated Asian accent, as he broke out a similar one back in February at a conference of the nation’s governors.
The report took aim at Trump for the allegedly racist remarks and for Republicans who continue to support him.
“Republicans can continue to claim that Trump isn’t a racist, but what they can’t explain is why this supposedly non-racist person continues to voluntarily do unprovoked racist things?” the report posed.
Donald Trump has been fighting off allegations of racism related to a string of recent incidents, including a tweet telling four Democratic congresswomen of color to go back to their “original” countries. Of the four, three were born in the United States, while the fourth is a naturalized citizen who emigrated from Somalia.
During his Hampton fundraisers last night, Trump claimed he wasn't a racist then proceeded to mock US allies South Korea and Japan by mimicking Japanese and Korean accents. "Trump put on a fake Japanese accent to recount his conversations with Shinzo Abe."https://t.co/D6t4S8aLaN
— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) August 11, 2019
Trump stirred even more controversy a few days later when he launched into a Twitter attack against the Maryland congressional district that is home to the city of Baltimore. Echoing an argument made during a Fox News segments just minutes before, Trump tweeted that the majority-black district is “rat and rodent infested.” The district is represented by Elijah Cummings, who has criticized the Trump administration for keeping migrants in squalid conditions in detention facilities.
Other opponents have taken sharper aim at Trump for racially charged rhetoric that they say is fueling extremist elements. They point to a rise in white supremacist terrorism, including the alleged shooter from last week’s El Paso mass shooting, who reportedly posted a manifesto that echoed much of Trump’s language regarding Hispanic immigrants as “invading” the United States.
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Gareth Vaughan argues PM John Key is failing in his role as promoter and custodian of NZ's international standing and reputation over the Panama Papers
One of the key (no pun intended) roles of this country's Prime Minister, in my opinion, is to act as a promoter and custodian of New Zealand's international standing and reputation.
After all, we are a small country at the bottom of the world with no real enemies, and a country most people you meet when overseas have a positive view of. Assuming they've heard of us of course.
However, New Zealand's role in the Panama Papers is putting the spotlight on the dark side of our good international reputation, highlighting that it's ripe for exploitation by overseas tax dodgers, asset hiders and straight up criminals. Previously I suggested Key's attitude towards NZ offshore trusts was stuck in a time warp. Additionally I now believe his "nothing to see here, move along" attitude towards the Panama Papers risks bringing the office of Prime Minister into disrepute.
Because why would a Prime Minister with New Zealand's best interests at heart not: 1) Acknowledge there is a problem, 2) Condemn unethical, immoral and illegal activity exposed through the Panama Papers, and 3) Fully commit to wide sweeping action to shore up the flawed laws that allow our reputation to be dragged through the mud?
Granted, Key and his government have appointed former PwC chairman John Shewan to review foreign trust disclosure rules. But they were reluctant to do so and still give the impression they don't believe there's much to fix. And the terms of reference, as highlighted last week by Transparency International NZ, are narrow.
The tip of an iceberg
It's important to put the Panama Papers in context.
Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm the Panama Papers were obtained from, is merely one of dozens of entities selling NZ's flawed trust laws and legal loopholes to the world. In 2012 Cabinet was told the Companies Office monitored 77 trust and company service providers who had created many of the 1,200 companies categorised as “high risk” by the Companies Office. Mossack Fonseca may well have been among the 77, although its local offshoot, Mossack Fonseca & Co. (New Zealand) Ltd, wasn't incorporated until December 2013.
The key points are that Mossack Fonseca's activities are just the tip of an iceberg, and its apparent vehicle of choice, the NZ foreign trust, is but one method of doing what it does.
Other NZ tools to achieve secretive or nefarious ends include the look through company, which has also been sighted in the Panama Papers and enables non-resident shareholders to avoid paying tax in NZ so long as their income is derived offshore. These companies can trade and open bank accounts all around the world.
And there's our financial service providers register through which NZ registered companies can operate overseas as NZ companies, but face no regulatory oversight here. With NZ registered but offshore operating financial service providers we are effectively issuing drivers licences for anywhere in the world except NZ.
A series of well documented international embarrassments caused by NZ registered companies, kicked off by SP Trading Ltd chartering a plane to carry North Korean arms and explosives to Iran in 2009, woke the Government up to the fact NZ's good international reputation was under threat. Key planks of this reputation include consistently being ranked one of the least corrupt countries in the world in Transparency International's Corruptions Perception Index, and being regarded as one of the easiest places in the world to do business by the World Bank.
With this reputation in mind note that in 2011 then-Commerce Minister Simon Power pointed out over four years 143 NZ registered companies were implicated in criminal activities overseas such as smuggling, money laundering and tax fraud with New Zealand Police and the Customs Service receiving 134 enquiries about them. And risks were again clearly spelt out to Cabinet in 2012 when the Government was in the process of introducing a law making all local companies have a NZ or Australian resident director:
"Since 2010, the New Zealand Police Financial Intelligence Unit and Interpol have received 171 requests for assistance regarding 248 companies allegedly facilitating crimes. This averages at more than eight companies a month, a significant increase from the rate of less than three companies a month between 2006 and 2010. In almost all cases, limited information is able to be provided concerning the activities of the companies concerned, or who ultimately controls them."
"There is evidence that individuals and groups (particularly offshore interests) are misusing the New Zealand company incorporation regime and consequently threatening the international reputation of New Zealand. High profile or repeated instances of foreign controlled New Zealand companies engaging in criminal activities overseas are likely to seriously impact New Zealand’s international standing."
"The primary causes of this increase in misuse of New Zealand’s company registration system are:
a. The unprecedented promotion of New Zealand incorporated companies to wholly overseas interests by trust and company service providers (TCSPs);
b. The lack of information required about the beneficial ownership and control of New Zealand companies in comparison to similar well regulated jurisdictions such as Australia; and
c. The ability of persons based overseas to register a company in New Zealand via the internet or a TCSP, with no substantive link to, or apparent intention of operating in, New Zealand.
Flawed comments
Several of Key's comments yesterday are frankly flawed. For one, describing NZ as nothing more than a footnote in the Panama Papers. Given NZ apparently receives 61,000 mentions that's a pretty long footnote. It's also a lot more mentions than numerous other countries get.
And saying NZ was hardly mentioned in global news reports about the Panama Papers is also flawed. The Australian Financial Review, whose reporter Neil Chenoweth had access to the Panama Papers ahead of any NZ journalists, has - in articles - described NZ as a "quiet tax haven achiever", and detailed a reference provided by Key's personal lawyer Ken Whitney to Mossack Fonseca. (That's the same Whitney who seemingly helped convince Revenue Minister Todd McClay to block IRD's plans to review NZ's foreign trust regime a couple of years ago).
Now, last I checked the AFR is a serious publication, and Australia is NZ's key international ally and, alongside China, our key trade partner. Hence the image of NZ within Australia carries significant importance for New Zealanders.
Over the weekend Key also gained the dubious distinction of being the only politician directly named in the first public statement made by the Panama Papers "whistleblower." It would be fair to say that statement received a reasonable amount of international media coverage.
Key and his ministers have also been at pains to argue that NZ is not a tax haven despite this country being named as one of 21 global tax havens Mossack Fonseca operates in. NZ may not be a tax haven for kiwis, but it clearly is for foreigners given through our foreign trusts local lawyers and accountants (for a fee) will help foreigners hide money and assets from their domestic tax authorities. (Here's the scant foreign trust disclosure currently required by IRD).
The reality is that by being named among 21 tax havens, if anything, we are punching above our weight in this arena.
'A material impact on the future of NZ's standing in the world'
Transparency International NZ issued a strongly worded statement last week saying the Shewan Inquiry will have a material impact on the future of NZ's standing in the world. It also argued the terms of reference mean the inquiry will merely investigate foreign trusts rather than tackle the broader spectrum of financial crime risks associated with NZ companies and trusts arguing "the transparency of all corporate vehicles, including foreign trusts, is essential to prevent and detect serious crime potentially involving billions of dollars such as money laundering and ill-gotten asset transfers and other forms of international corruption."
Transparency International recommends the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act (AML-CFT Act) be extended to cover all professionals including lawyers and accountants engaged in establishing and managing NZ corporate vehicles. To this I'd add real estate agents.
There is some hope that the so-called phase 2 of the AML-CFT Act, that would extend it in this manner, may finally actually happen. In his post cabinet press conference yesterday Key said the Government would "accelerate it." This has, however, been a real slow burner. As long ago as October 2014 the Ministry of Justice said policy work for phase 2 was underway. And in July last year Justice Minister Amy Adams said the Ministry had begun preliminary policy work. So although an acceleration would be welcome, it's out of a very slow lane.
Transparency International's also calling for a corporate registry that includes beneficial ownership of relevant business structures to enable review and audit by law enforcement and compliance bodies. And it went on to say: "The Shewan Inquiry will have a material impact on the future of New Zealand's standing in the world and on our collective prosperity."
After years of tinkering around the fringes of the problem, the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE) is currently undertaking a review of misuse of NZ's Financial Service Providers Register. See all our stories on this here. Wouldn't it make sense to broaden this out to include a detailed probe of foreign trusts, look through companies, rogue building societies and any other corporate structures deemed likely to be exploited in the way foreign trusts clearly can be? Let's also look at why it is that the likes of Mossack Fonseca's local arm can operate without having to comply with the AML-CFT Act.
Take the initiative
In the future it's likely that the OECD’s automatic exchange of information (AEOI) tax initiative will enforce greater disclosure on NZ foreign trusts such as who owns the assets held within them. And we'll have to share more such information with other countries proactively.
But wouldn't it be preferable for NZ to be taking the initiative with the Government acknowledging we actually have a problem and proactively looking to resolve it?
Who knows, our inclusion in the Panama Papers as one of Mossack Fonseca's 21 tax havens may, in some quarters, even count against Helen Clark's push for the top job at the United Nations, something Key's government is rightly supporting in a bipartisan manner.
Unfortunately it seems unless his polling's telling him to worry, Key simply doesn't care, as noted in a Newshub article about Key's relationship with Whitney last week.
Mr Key's weathered a number of controversies the past few years without losing the public's support in the polls. He has a simple explanation why. "They don't worry about this stuff."
Thus I urge anyone who has the ear of any National Party MPs, or is quizzed by anyone polling for the party, to tell them you do care about NZ's role in the Panama Papers. That may just help drag the Government kicking and screaming towards making meaningful change. Otherwise it may become a case of rebuilding our reputation rather than protecting it.
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by billsay | 10th May 16, 8:35am 1462826100
The major Australian newspapers and other media there have no difficulty in identifying New Zealand as a Tax Haven. Our Prime Minister should stop trying to deny this reality and get on with repairing some of the damage done to this country's reputation.
by Colin | 10th May 16, 12:11pm 1462839060
Really they undoubtedly have the same quality of so called journalists as we have here "useless"
by Ralph | 10th May 16, 1:26pm 1462843560
It's natural they want to deflect; big Aussie companies like BHP, Amcor and ANZ are on the list.
by Joe Public | 10th May 16, 9:01am 1462827660
Spot on he has tarnished brand NZ and it showed up in the corruption index where nz dropped several places well before these papers were released.
It will take a long time to gain back the position we once held. All for how much ? 25m a year of fees? Was it worth it ? Also can't see why the government stopped the IRD review.
by CJ099 | 10th May 16, 8:50am 1462827000
Yes I wouldn't be surprised if we dropped down to the same level as our major trade partners from 4th place to 83rd place when this all comes out in the wash.
https://www.transparency.org/cpi2015/#results-table
by mfd | 10th May 16, 1:02pm 1462842120
It would be very interesting to see how much of that 25m ends up in government coffers, versus how much it costs the IRD to police and maintain the system. Is there even a net benefit to the country in financial terms?
by Kakapo | 10th May 16, 1:14pm 1462842840
Where's the real money trail, how's it hidden, and who's it going to? All this lobbying and pressure for a few million a year? I doubt it.
by Ron Pol | 10th May 16, 3:56pm 1462852560
@mfd The income tax on that amount earned by the lawyers and accountants. And being overseas supply I guess no GST.
I assume the $25 million is revenue rather than profit, so tax not collected on the full amount. Given their profession, I expect the tax paid is comfortably under 33% of that total.
by ngakonui gold | 10th May 16, 8:48am 1462826880
Brand NZ,Clean Green image names made up by advertising guru's who no doubt have Trusts to avoid paying their fair share of tax.
by cut.it.out | 10th May 16, 8:53am 1462827180
its like Mr Key is more active helping foreigners prosper than kiwis or am i seeing this from the wrong angle...
by Ngrrk | 10th May 16, 2:54pm 1462848840
No you're not, that's exactly what is happening.
by Sheep Shagger | 10th May 16, 9:35am 1462829700
Firstly, congratulations Gareth on being the journalist who has been on this issue for ages when no one else was. Along with Bernard leading the debate around housing and taxation issues, IMHO Interest.co is fast becoming the place where important debate is led.
I couldn't agree more with the sentiments expressed regarding the cavalier disregard for New Zealand's international reputation. The problem with Key and his poll driven obsession is that his first instinct is to spin the messaging which stops him actually constructively leading. It also clouds the opposition because they have become so obsessed with getting a hit on Key to dent those same polls that they often lose the opportunity to highlight the bigger picture in their haste to discredit him.The losers are New Zealanders who are robbed of considered public debate.
Why Key has been so defensive on this particular issue stems from him having actually championed the particular industry as highlighted by MortgageBelt yesterday in this revealing link.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=1069...
When you think about it apart from cycleways, becoming a' financial hub' has been Key's only real unique vision for this country.
by dictator | 10th May 16, 10:11am 1462831860
A financial hub is his only vision and it's one that generates very little work or financial benefit for the nation.
by Henry_Tull | 10th May 16, 11:59am 1462838340
Is it that someones post-retirement commercial visions being seized upon?
In a Tony Blair sort of way.
Who is down to play the Gordon Brown role, is she there in the wings.
by Ron Pol | 10th May 16, 10:18am 1462832280
Thanks for the link Sheep Shagger. Fascinating, back then it seemed the only real issue was if making it tax free for foreigners would not affect our tax base, then it's all on. Little wonder the Aussies told us to carve their citizens out from this institutionalised tax rort. It would be interesting to see IRD advice at that time. They tend to say things straight. Maybe something like "it will not affect our tax base, but it will undermine the tax base of every other country in the world (except Australia) whose citizens use it to evade taxes."
by nymad | 10th May 16, 10:48am 1462834080
I agree wholeheartedly.
Why do we even have the Herald or Dominion, anymore. Their headlines only ever prove to be tabloid centric, anymore. God only knows how they are going to fill the void of the Bachelor, now that that finally come to an end.
All the true financial and business headlines are being pushed further down the order, if they are even picked up on at all.
No one pulls JK and his incompetent cronies up for their almost weekly about-turns on washed over but important topics.
by Basel Brush III | 10th May 16, 9:37am 1462829820
The Key method is almost always 'once over lightly'
Then when the soft ground under him shifts, he provides us with another 'in my view'
However do not ever expect much and you will not be disappointed.
by Donker | 10th May 16, 9:40am 1462830000
JK is of the mindset that you do whatever you can in business to make a buck. Good business in his eyes in not paying tax, that is what his core beliefs and values are, selfish and greedy
by Alter Ego | 10th May 16, 9:52am 1462830720
If I was an aid and abetting man, I would be locked up and the key thrown away.
If you are the administer of all ye survey, a free pass, if ye make the rules and others bend em to your will, your trust, your agenda, your south seas view of things.
Seems fair.
Nice piece Gareth. Sad that you even had to write it. I can't fathom why the PM is steadfast ignoring simple facts.
To say we are not a tax haven is right, for kiwis. But for foreigners using kiwi offshore trusts, its perfectly suited to evade their taxes. For then, we are a tax haven. Simple fact. Saying it isn't so doesn't change the fact that we just are.
Likewise that the OECD hasn't labelled us a tax haven. Perhaps only because until now they didn't know how NZ offshore trusts were being used. Do we need to wait until the OECD review their current data and then label us one? Far better, it seems to me, to fix it (one such solution already canvassed here and in Listener in detail), so that they don't list us, than trying to claw back, and never lose the tag.
Likewise, IRD looked around and not many countries are bad-mouthing us, so our reputation is fine. Really? Most countries are completely focused on their own people involved, so other countries don't get a look in. Even so, we are getting mentioned. In Spanish TV news, NZ was treated as a joke. In Malta, NZ's reputation is completely trashed, in month-long wall-to-wall coverage of politicians using NZ trusts. As you say, the only world leader named in the whistleblower's manifesto. That's been published nearly everywhere in the world, with John Key and New Zealand in lights. So too the map showing 21 tax havens, with a big dot on NZ. That has been plastered everywhere too. So it's very perplexing how it can be said, IRD looked, not many mentions, our reputation is fine. It just isn't. Clearly. And it can only get worse the longer we don't address the actual issue.
Moreover, the real issue is what's not visible, and the future. Those who support other candidates for the UN top job won't announce anything publicly, they'll just quietly do their best to trash Helen Clark's prospects behind closed doors. John Key knows this is how it works, so it is all the more perplexing. And it is the future that matters, when the map of tax havens becomes part of the international fabric.Far better to stop the rot decisively and quickly than trying to resurrent a reputation afterwards.
by Joe Public | 10th May 16, 10:20am 1462832400
Excellent comments today Ron and the guy from down south. (Joke)
by Sheep Shagger | 10th May 16, 11:05am 1462835100
hmm... I suspect you refer to me Joe. I have had cause to reflect on the wisdom of that particular moniker for which I would like to point out was conceived around the time of the popular Hilux ads. But yes I do live down South!
by Henry_Tull | 10th May 16, 4:56pm 1462856160
What, lost in popular culture. We'd thought you'd looked to The Book of Revelations lamb like. Buggar.
Thanks Joe Public. Just trying as best I can (like Gareth, Bernard, and a good many insightful commentators on this site) to keep facts and real issues at the fore for genuine debate. Also completely apolitical.
Although the former feels rather like quietly explaining to a tsunami why it might prefer a different course.
And after my 'equal opportunity' piece in the Listener, casting equally across all political parties, I fear the latter rather seems to be focused on Key over the past few days. It's certainly not intended that way, it's just that's where the vast majority of misinformation seems currently to be centred. I do rather hope the others start spouting rubbish again soon, so that my own perception of apoltical fairness can resume.
Better still, that they start addressing the real issues, and we can have genuinely informed debate as a populace (thankfully, there are signs, a few, appearing, but so far, as far as I can tell from just two of the smaller parties).
by workingman | 10th May 16, 1:31pm 1462843860
Yes, excellent information and commentary, Ron, Gareth, Bernard, the interest team and others. Immeasurably valuable work.
by positivelywallstreet | 10th May 16, 10:27am 1462832820
Im an auckland boy, born dominion road, but we moved around a bit..
by Gareth Vaughan | 10th May 16, 11:03am 1462834980
As David reported in 90@9, the ICIJ has opened up limited public access to some of the Panama Papers this morning it's here https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=&c=NZL&j=&e=&commit=Search
As the Herald has reported, Allan Hubbard's name crops up. Other local names there include Hanover Group & Trans Tasman Properties.
Here's the background on why Hanover's there from Matt Nippert - http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/8633328/Hotchin-denies-links-to-BVI-companies
by sharetrader | 10th May 16, 11:50am 1462837800
a lot of links now emerging
Panama Papers: New Zealand Elvis impersonator linked to Iraqi oil scandal
by dictator | 10th May 16, 12:03pm 1462838580
"It's everyday business for bankrupt Elvis impersonators to be trading Iraqi oil. They need it for their hair." - John Key
by KH | 10th May 16, 10:56am 1462834560
Congratulations Gareth. That whole article is a fine piece of work. Entirely reasonable and tough at the same time.
Well that's interesting because I found it the kind of one sided beat up the media produces on slow news days.
by Zeds are Us | 10th May 16, 11:05am 1462835100
Is JK going to put NZ on the list of resistors along with the ... Cayman Islands?
Tax havens have no economic justification, say top economists
"British officials are locked in negotiations with the crown dependencies and overseas territories, trying to persuade them to agree to a form of automatic exchange of information on beneficial ownership of companies. So far the overseas territories have only agreed to allow UK law enforcement agencies access to a privately held register of beneficial ownership, but the automatic exchange agreement would give a wider range of countries access to information on the ownership of shell companies.
Many overseas territories including the Cayman Islands are resisting the idea, and their attendance at the summit is in doubt."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/09/tax-havens-have-no-economic...
LOL, you do realise the 'Crown Dependencies' they are talking about are their own UK territories of Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man?
I am not sure the UK is the correct country to be holding a candle to anyone else.
by Independent_Observer | 10th May 16, 11:11am 1462835460
I'm going to say it again, at this point in time, I have more trust and respect for Vladimir Putin than I do for our PM.
And what rank is Russia in the corruption ranking list?
by ngakonui gold | 10th May 16, 2:10pm 1462846200
Surely you jest.
by 2 Tooth Bora | 10th May 16, 11:50am 1462837800
Does any know if those Overseas Hidden Trusts in NZ buy property in NZ? Auckland and the like?
The concern being if the locals have been on an un-even playing field, the damage of over commitment.
by Gareth Vaughan | 10th May 16, 12:55pm 1462841700
It's highly likely that some of them do - http://www.interest.co.nz/business/77561/nz-registered-financial-service-provider-tells-potential-clients-nz-bankrupts-who
by ngakonui gold | 10th May 16, 11:48am 1462837680
I don't know about anyone else but if i was an oil or gold man from Bolivia,Venezuela,Colombia,Ecuador or many other countries in that region i know where i would put my money and it wouldn't be one of those corrupt countries or for that matter Russia.Nationalisation not my cup of tea.
NZ gets the lot.
by rmnz | 10th May 16, 4:55pm 1462856100
You mean something like this example:
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/10209872
Lake View Properties Limited (NZ Jurisdiction) registered in Ecuador and intermediary of Carlos Hanze.
Of course it could be totally legit.............or not.
by Ron Pol | 10th May 16, 11:56pm 1462881360
The money is seldom ever in NZ, we just provide the secrecy and/or evasion vehicle
Anyone else reckon the dominant narrative will soon shift? Next phase might be along the lines: IRD have scoured it. The journalists have scoured it. No evidence any kiwis have evaded taxes. No proof of any illegality uncovered. It's all a left-wing smear. Nothing to see. Move along.
Overlooking any uncomfortable truths set out here earlier: http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/81463/ron-pol-compares-nzs-foreign-trusts-criminal-getaway-car-manufacturing-industry-asks
Just a few:
Of course IRD won't find any kiwis misusing NZ foreign trusts, because kiwis can't use them.
Foreigners using NZ offshore trusts haven't breached our tax laws either, because they're exempt from tax, so there's nothing for IRD to prosecute (they may have evaded taxes in other countries, but that's not our problem it seems, nor for creating vehicles designed to undermine other countries' tax bases).
The MossFon files will also seldom spell out instantly reportable criminality, for a range of reasons outlined in that piece. Mostly instead it will expose only a great many threads that need to be followed by serious investigation, and more puzzle pieces to those that the relevant enforcement agencies already have, to start filling in the blanks and follow where the trails lead to detect, investigate and investigate criminality.
by waymad | 10th May 16, 12:54pm 1462841640
Finally, the PP issue is a tiny part of a much wider one - Base Erosion Profit Shifting. http://www.oecd.org/tax/beps.htm
And the way to get traction on That, is concerted international effort. Which sentence, the observant may notice, is a classic oxymoron....
Our humble role in the PP is as a facilitator of BEPS: the mechanism is perfectly straightforward.
Company C incorporates in jurisdiction A
It pays license or franchise or IP fees to Company X which just happens to be located in a offshore trust instrument which we may alias as PP.
The fee paid by C to X, by happy coincidence, reduces C's taxable profit in jurisdiction A to a smallish sum, with consequential effects on A's tax take.
PP is located in (what else) a Reputable Jurisdiction which we may deem NZ, which happens to have a double-taxation agreement with A
For offshore entities such as PP, NZ has a tax rate of zero.
PP's license fee income is duly taxed in NZ at zero, if declared at all, and this information, if collected at all, will be transmitted to anyone in jurisdiction A, if questions arise from Following the Munny, as 'NZ tax has been paid'
Wash, rinse and repeat for PP01, PP02 until someone notices.....
But as international bodies such as the UN (motto: "Let's hold Committee Meetings until They're All Dead") are notoriously unable to agree, let alone act, on much that is substantive, I wouldn't bet the farm on action on BEPS within this electoral cycle....or, indeed, within decades....
Thanks waymad, as a crime prevention/money laundering type my grasp of tax issues is mostly limited to the core elements of evasion as another form of criminality, with avoidance just beyond the edge, so this is really useful.
You mechanism loosely describes every sizeable international IT company I know. In Asia Pacific the head office is usually Singapore and the intellectual property licensing all ends up in places like Ireland and Switzerland.
But it has been that way for almost my entire working life.
by Kakapo | 10th May 16, 12:51pm 1462841460
I see Barry Soper in the Herald has had a crack at defending the indefensible on this subject, but the whole article was a bit limp and half-hearted.
Hamish Fletcher in the Herald saying it like it is (though I would say that), that advancing extension of AML to lawyers as a 'solution' to the foreign trusts issue is completely misplaced:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11636674
by notaneconomist | 10th May 16, 1:57pm 1462845420
Transparency - making something clear......It is clear to me that everyone wants to know everyone's business or there would be no calls for a register.
Trusts are wicked little entities people protect assets from prying greedy people......it just happens that they can also be used by crooks......using the concept that a register is in someway going to make positive change is silly......and there are hundreds of examples of where we have registers for other things but still have the issues we started with. So it is corrupting to suggest that a register is going to solve the problems highlighted.
At the moment these offshore trusts do not have to pay taxes in NZ so they are not paying anything towards the system here which offers them protection. We all end up subsidising that protection and you want to put our costs up by creating a register!!
by sharetrader | 10th May 16, 2:10pm 1462846200
so why did they allow them to purchase
Overseas Investment Office unsure who owns Onetai Station
The 1317 hectare farm was sold in 2014, on the advice of the Overseas Investment Office (OIO), to Ceol & Muir, a company established with the help of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/79802634/overseas-investment-...
by Gareth Vaughan | 10th May 16, 2:16pm 1462846560
An interesting take on the left's obsession with John Key, and trusts, from Chris Trotter here http://bowalleyroad.blogspot.co.nz/2016/05/the-number-of-beast-new-zealand-lefts.html
Perhaps a little perspective might go a long way.
For example if we accept inclusion in the Panama papers as all that is needed as proof of being that ill defined phrase 'tax haven', then we conclude the UK, USA and Canada are as guilty as we are.
by Sheep Shagger | 10th May 16, 3:06pm 1462849560
Sorry that's just another version of " labour did it too".
Remember the good old days when New Zealand proudly set the standard as the least corupt nation in the world?
I submit to you that the level at which any given society is willing to practice and accept corruption has roots that are deeper than a simple political spectrum.
by Brendon | 11th May 16, 12:33am 1462883580
Gareth Chris Trotter has become an apologist for this administration.
He is used by MSM when they want to trot out a left wing view that will not scare the horses.
Chris Trotter's personal view of the tax haven issue is not that this will damage NZ's reputation because it shows NZ as lacking in morals. Which is pretty much the point every leftie makes (and many from the right too as apolitical Ron Pol points out). No Chris Trotter's view of NZ being a tax haven is 'meh'.
See for yourself here. http://www.newshub.co.nz/politics/panama-papers-reveal-not-a-critical-bl...
by Ron Pol | 11th May 16, 1:46am 1462887960
Thanks Brendon, I see at that link that he bases it on beliefs such as "It's got the disclosure rules in there, it's got the anti-money laundering rules in there."
The short answer is that neither is right.
The slightly more complicated one is that the normal disclosure rules don't apply to foreign trusts (except for Australians). And AML is not as relevant here (except as to heightening sensitivity, CDD). Lawyers are AML/CFT exempt, but company incorporation firms are already under AML/CFT, and either can set up such vehicles. The real issue is the design of the foreign trusts regime itself, which require very limited info. So, in a practical sense that or a bit beyond may be as far as many go, and if more is obtained than required to set it up, it's corralled behind privilege and in any event as MossFon says they have no idea what happens to it or what it does afterwards. So, AML is good and useful, but a bandaid isn't the answer when half a dozen strong sutures are needed to close it up.
by two otherguys | 10th May 16, 3:13pm 1462849980
Thinking about the legality of it all
Think about this as a comparison - I think it was in Bangladesh
A block of land was purchased - perfectly legal
A 10 story building was built - nothing wrong with that
A consortium of rag-traders purchased the building - perfectly legal
The rag traders employed 1000 slaves - perfectly legal
The for the duration of the work day the slaves could not leave
Then one day the building caught fire - nothing illegal about that
The slaves could not escape the fire
The building collapsed
1000 slaves died in the fire and subsequent building collapse
All the major western brand clients (temporarily) distanced themselves from any responsibility
Matt Nippert at Herald, finding some stuff beyond the 'noise':
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11636727
Against the odds, as per here:
http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/81463/ron-pol-compares-nzs-foreign-trusts-criminal-getaway-car-manufacturing-industry-asks)
new article on CNBC points out new zealand and trusts
New Zealand is among the countries already coming under pressure following Monday's revelations.
"The offshore system is a global worldwide system, and that means New Zealand, Australia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Panama and the U.S. are all part of this system in some way or another, they're feeding clients to it and they are attracting clients."
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/09/panama-papers-sequel-reveals-details-of-o...
by Zeds are Us | 10th May 16, 7:26pm 1462865160
To quote one of the all time greats and one of my personal heroes:
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Albert Einstein
is JK's answer no I did not or no I can not remember or no you cant prove that
Andrew Little: Did he personally push through the zero rating of tax on foreign funds in 2010 over the objection of officials from the Ministry of Economic Development or, put another way, does he recall saying: “I have told Gerry to deliver me a paper that has zero rating of funds”?
Rt Hon JOHN KEY: No.
by MortgageBelt | 10th May 16, 9:48pm 1462873680
Trouble is: Google says Yes.
Try Googling "“I have told Gerry to deliver me a paper that has zero rating of funds”?"
by philthy | 10th May 16, 10:38pm 1462876680
Yes there's plenty of evidence there that he personally pushed his ministers into taking the tax rate down on foreign trusts from about 28% to 0%, he was the biggest reason NZ turned into a tax haven, but only in good ole NZ would that be completely ignored by mainstream media, and apparently about 95% of the population, there's no accountability at all here, lies on top of lies.
by steven | 11th May 16, 7:34am 1462908840
Enough NZers only care about what is in their wallets that any external damage done to our rep is simply moot. So National have sold our "clean and green" image and are now selling our "honesty and anti-corruption" image for 30 pieces of silver. Yet come election time its likely we'll see JK having a forth term.
We'll never know. I made a point of catching the first part of question time today and Carter is a disaster. At one point James Shaw had asked a question for which Key was giving a long winded non answer which pivoted onto an personal allegation on MoJo Mathers. After the ensuing fracas Carter then asked Key if he would like to finish his answer to which Key replied "not really" and that was it. Question time is actually now a farce as Ministers know they can avoid the question and pivot to attack the opposition with impunity. If challenged Carter says the question is too loose or he couldn't hear.
These people have lost sight of who they actually serve and whether you agree with the opposition or not they are fulfilling a pivotal roll in our democracy attempting to hold the govt to account. That they are continually denied a level playing field is an indictment.
NZ has descended during keys reign from a reasonably honest democracy to a dodgy little banana republic.
It's interesting that today one of keys good old mates Cameron Slater gets a discharge without any conviction at all, after he hired and paid someone to hack a left wing website! - but gets nothing but a tiny bit of community service.
This is the guy that cried like a little baby after his website was hacked, even though it revealed very seriously unethical behavior from government ministers that were donkey deep in their involvement with his website, using confidential information to attack opposition members and others.
While Hager had his apartment searched for 12 hours, and he didn't even hack anyone, just did what an investigative reporter is meant to do when in receipt of information from a Whistle blower.
It's interesting that even most companies now have things like whistle blower protection programs, realizing the benefits whistle blowers can have in bringing to light bad practice and corruption that can be damaging.
Our government appears to not be that bothered about corruption, and could be mistaken for having a whistle blower persecution program.
It's one rule for keys mates in nz, and a different rule for his opponents obviously.
NZ appears to be going down the toilet fast.
by Fritz | 10th May 16, 11:11pm 1462878660
If not technically / legally corrupt, we have certainly become morally corrupt. The country is full of cronyism. It's bloody awful.
by sharetrader | 10th May 16, 11:24pm 1462879440
ironic that cam slater the great crusader on no name suppression for criminals fought to keep his suppressed as it would create hardship to himself.
he is what is wrong with NZ politics when someone with his lack of class can get the ear of the PM
Yes I'm surprised he can see who is talking with his blue eye patch on, the greens co leader asked some good question and all JK could do was through insults not answers
Yes, Shaw attempts to ask intelligent questions and impressively keeps his decorum despite the banalities hurled back at him. What value are we the taxpayer getting out of this charade?The suggestion of an independent speaker has merit in my view.
I have been saying that NZ should have an independent speaker for years. We don't run rugby games now-a-days with biased local refs, but we think it is ok to run Parliament like that.....
I think this is one of our biggest constitutional issues, up there with the TPPA. More important than the flag, monarchy, republicanism.....
His time's up.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11636936
In London tomorrow Police Minister Judith Collins will represent the Prime Minister at the London Anti-Corruption Summit.
Brilliant how ironic !!! Couldn't National find anyone but Judith to go ?
by Kakapo | 11th May 16, 7:04am 1462907040
They will close the conference room doors, peel off the 'anti' sticker from the sign, and laugh maniacally.
by DFTBA | 11th May 16, 9:45am 1462916700
Thanks, this made me laugh out loud
haha brilliant
Let us remind ourselves who National have sent to the London Anti Corruption summit. Let us hope its a direct flight there and back with no stop overs.
With so many National candidates to choose from I guess they picked the one with the most first hand experience.
per wiki
In March 2014, Collins was accused of a conflict of interest after an overseas trip where she 'dropped in' and endorsed the milk produced by Oravida – a New Zealand company which exports to China – of which her husband is a director. After being admonished by the Prime Minister, Collins apologised and stated that she and a Chinese executive were 'very close personal friends'.[48][49][50] Over the following weeks the Labour Party continued asking who the Chinese official was. Collins did not provide his name, which House speaker David Carter described as "very unsatisfactory".[51] Prime Minister John Key stated publicly that Judith Collins was on her final warning over this incident.[52]
by sharetrader | 11th May 16, 8:00am 1462910400
This morning david Cameron was overheard saying that many of the people coming are from corrupt countries.
maybe that is the point so they can learn and teach others how to get away with it
My lasting memory of this Panama debacle is of journalists from RNZ,TVNZ and Hagar the Horrible hunching over documents allegedly containing news that will shock us and give something the media hope will mean a room full of gongs next year.
Results so far......LESS THAN SPECTACULAR.
It was always going to be, for reasons including those listed here on Sunday night, before the 'revelations' started on Monday (TVNZ/RNZ/Hager) and Tuesday (ICIJ):
http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/81463/ron-pol-compares-nzs-foreign-trusts-criminal-getaway-car-manufacturing-industry-asks
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FINNISH MUSIC HALL OF FAME - an experience like no other!
Finnish Music Hall of FAME provides a unique opportunity to enjoy music and theme restaurant. Whether you are a fan, family, tourist or music enthusiast, you are in for an experience like no other. Invest yourself to be part of the music history!
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Unlike a traditional museum Music Museum Fame is a totally new and highly innovative concept which has never existed before. Our aim is to bring something unique and revolutionary to the cultural scene of Helsinki - and to the world. The venue will utilize latest modern technology, such as virtual and augmented reality to create an immersive multidimensional music experience for all senses.
The storytelling, visualization and experience is taken into a totally new level through a new software built specifically for entertainment and exhibition venues such as Fame.
For an investor this music themed entertainment concept and venue is also a scalable business thanks to its technological, innovative software products aimed for the international market.
Finnish Music Hall of Fame – a unique concept
Music Museum Fame - the venue – will be built in Tripla Mall, the new “heart” of Helsinki. Tripla Mall is the new shopping and entertainment megamall, only a five minute train ride from downtown Helsinki and it is expected to have 100.000 visitors per day due to its central location and role as a commuter travel central hub.
The uniqueness of Music Museum Fame is based on using the newest audiovisual technology combined with VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) solutions that enable an unforgettable interactive, multidimensional experience for all visitors.
The content is – true to its name – based on Finnish music, artists, composers, performers and other enablers of the Finnish music scene throughout the decades as well as into the future.
Music Museum Fame will present more than 200 Finnish artists, musicians, bands, composers among others through music videos, interviews, photos, personal stories, artifacts and so much more.
The experience is not limited to just listening or seeing, but you can also interact by singing, dancing, taking part in a concert or experiencing what it is like being in the middle of a music festival. All this without leaving the premises - and more. There will be something for all audiences based on Finnish music presented in a new way and format. And after the multisensory experience at Fame one can indulge in enjoying culinary delights for all senses at the music themed restaurant inside the venue.
Fame is utilizing the expertise and collections of various highly respected and acknowledged parties in the field of music and music history. We are working together with artists, institutions, such as the National Museum of Finland, record labels and many more. While relying much on Finnish expertise, we have also done our research internationally. As an example, the ABBA museum in Sweden has been one of many inspirations for Music Museum Fame and our aim is to live up to our name. Our goal is to attract more than 100.000 visitors every year.
A museum documenting the history of its chosen theme, while being an entertainment venue at the same time is not as common concept in Finland as it is in other parts of the world. You may have heard of other Hall of Fames, such as e.g. the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee.
Being a privately run museum and entertainment venue enables us to be agile, renew and update the content and experience quickly and stay current with new music phenomena and performers entangling Finns – and the world – around their finger.
True to its name - of course - there will be a Hall of Fame as in any such venue around the world. This one will be composed of great Finns who have given something spectacular, a talent or achievement in its own class to the world. And it is a great way to celebrate and honour the work and genius behind Finnish music.
Vår affärs- och marknadssituation
The popularity of museums is growing
Statistics Finland, the official national body of statistical research, has found out that the popularity and visitor numbers of museums are growing in Europe and elsewhere, Finland included. The visitor number in Finland alone has grown by nearly 30 percent over a period of 10 years.
Reasons driving the growth are among others the ever changing and renewing content, attracting more visitors from new population groups and adding the value to the consumer with e.g. the newly launched museum card, which entitles the holder to visit more than 200 museums for no additional cost (source: http://www.stat.fi/uutinen/popularity-of-museums-rising-all-over-the-world)
According to studies, interactivity in itself is a driver that creates more demand and drives more visitors to exhibitions and museums. When the London Science museum added an interactive section into the museum, the visitor numbers in that part turned out to be many times greater than to the other parts of the museum (source: af Hällström).
Last year, the museum card holders accrued 900.000 visits to museums in Finland.
In Helsinki, an all time visitor record was achieved in more than 10 museums and the three museums of Ateneum, Kiasma and Sinebrychoff Art Museum alone gathered a total of 750.000 visitors in 2017. In addition, the number of visitors in the Helsinki City Museum was 362.631 and in the locations of the Design Museum more than 150.000 annual visitors (source: Museovirasto).
The visitor goal of Music Museum Fame is initially set to 100.000 visitors per year, leaving room for growth.
Another source of recurring revenue, Fame Platform software
Finnish Music Hall of Fame needs the content and the partners that help us create, update and maintain the focus on Finnish music. However the implementing of this all could not be possible without Fame Platform software.
This unique and innovative software, which enables a scalable business, is the brains behind it all. FAME has been working with several IT partners to build a content management, archive and delivery platform that is an innovative tool designed specifically for entertainment venues and museums. The software highly automates the processing, formatting, management and dissemination of content independent of its format (text, audio, video etc.).
The company strives to offer this software product as a SaaS (Software as a Service) product for both domestic and international customers. The automation embedded in the software and the instant setup from the cloud lower the costs and shorten the lead time for entities in the entertainment and exhibition field to start managing and automating the flow of their digital content. The company will have the advantage of using the Hall of Fame also as an example and a reference case for the software platform when marketing it to new customers. As an add-on, the company will also be a distributor for the VR, AR and 360-virtuality software products and services that it uses itself.
The software sales and licensing opportunity enables an additional, scalable revenue stream in the future.
Our strategy and products
The business strategy, interlinked product and service revenue streams
The business of Music Museum Fame is built on several revenue streams, which are all interlinked and all deeply integrated in the daily business. This enables us to be more competitive and use every bit of resources that is required to run the museum to also create additional revenue for the company.
The revenue of Music Museum Fame will comprise of:
The daily business of the Finnish Music Hall of Fame (ticket sales, merchandize sales inside the museum and in the online shop, corporate events, other events)
The in-house restaurant (restaurant daily operation by Kanresta Oy)
The sale and distribution of digital content software products for other domestic and international entertainment and exhibition entities
A short description of various products
Examples of our various revenue streams and products are briefly described below:
-Entrance ticket pricing will be flexible and can vary according to the time of year or time of day in order to drive and balance visitor flow. The median price of a ticket will be around 17 euros across all visitor segments. Music Museum Fame will also join the number of museums that can be accessed using the museum card – ticket to over 280 museums, https://museot.fi/museokortti.
-Corporate and other events can be held in the premises of Music Museum Fame, which offers a highly distinguished and unique environment for such occasions. These events can include the restaurant premises as well or catering from the in-house restaurant. Private events can only be held when Music Museum Fame is closed for other business.
-Merchandize and other music products (recordings, books, fan apparel etc.) will be sold both in the physical shop within the premises and also at the online shop.
-The restaurant in premises will be run and operated by a partner, Kanresta Oy, with whom Music Museum Fame has a renewable agreement extending 6 years from the opening. This enables us to offer a chance for our visitors to continue enjoying the music theme inside the restaurant, follow occasional outdoor events from the restaurant terrace and provide catering to our private events.
-The software that Music Museum Fame will use to provide its visitors all the digital content, whether interactive screens or Virtual or Augmented Reality experiences is either owned by the company (the rights) or licensed to the company with a distributor agreement. The solutions inside Music Museum Fame will be used as a reference in marketing and distributing these software to other venues in the entertainment or exhibition business who need a way to manage their digital content or create experiences that are – literally – out of this world.
-In addition, Music Museum Fame will be cooperating in organizing a number of music themed events and educational or promotional activities with Tripla, with educational bodies and with entertainment entities
Target groups, customers
Music, just like movies is a vast area of entertainment, culture and art combined. It is like a sea of opportunities from which each and every one of us can pick the parts he or she likes based on one’s personal preferences.
Keeping this in mind, Finnish Music Hall of Fame does not rule out any particular group of people from its target group. Rather it is like a visit to an amusement park– visitors will define the parts of the entertainment that they like and enjoy inside the venue – however everyone should be able to leave with a WOW-experience !
In reality, the company will be focusing its message and marketing more specifically to a few selected and well defined groups as well as the great audience. In addition to the more general publicity, we will also specifically target these segments at varying times, volumes and locations:
- music enthusiasts and professionals both domestically and internationally
- fans of various music
- children and youth groups through appropriate channels and partners
- the 100.000 daily visitors of Tripla megamall
The values and focus points of that we also will follow in our marketing are: the power of music to bring people together, transparency, storytelling, fan culture, cooperation with various partners, digital content and social media.
The target group for marketing and distributing our software products is easily identifiable (entertainment venues, museums) and approachable both domestically and internationally and will be done through direct contacting. Music Museum Fame provides and excellent reference showcase for experiencing the possibilities on-site and familiarizing oneself with these professional tools.
MUSIC HALL OF FAME in the news
MTV3 News broadcast 22.11.2017
YLE News broadcast 23.11.2017
Helsingin Sanomat 25.10.2017
YLE Uutiset 22.11.2017
Malls.com 28.11.2017
Currently, our team consists of four founding members who all share a passion for Finnish culture and music. The team has been complemented with experts in various fields, which enables the implementation of a new and innovative idea in a professional and creative manner.
The selection committee of the Finnish Music Hall of Fame candidates includes 25 representatives and experts from various music organizations.
The Advisory board consists of around 40 selected influencers of the society.
Mikko Vanni, Chairman of the Board
Strategy, business development, financing, partnerships
Mikko Vanni is one of the leading event creators in Finland and has participated in funding of numerous cultural and sports events. He has an extensive domestic and international contact network within a number of international culture and sports organizations whom he works in cooperation with. Mikko is known for having been involved in organizing among others the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007, European Capitals of Culture for Turku and Helsinki in 2000 and 2011, World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 initiative and the Sports Gala and Culture Gala in Finland.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikko-vanni-8a1457109/
Olli Ilmolahti, Board Member
Financing, business development, technology, business model, partnership agreements
Olli has more than 15 years of experience in start-up companies and their funding, working with venture capitalists and more than 10 years of experience in international business. Olli has an extensive domestic and international contact network, experience in content production, technology business and event and concert organizing within the field of music and culture. In addition Olli is involved in the family business stemming back already 24 years.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olli-ilmolahti-9511861a/
Niina Ilmolahti, Board Member
Partnership agreements, product management, finance
Niina is an expert in event marketing, sponsorship and product management with more than 30 years of experience. She has also had key responsibilities in planning and organizing major events and projects, including among others the European Capital of Culture for Turku 2011 project, several World and European Championships in the field of Sports and an active role in various industry associations and non-profits. Niina is a music and art lover and her motto as a Scout is to always ‘Be Prepared’.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/niina-ilmolahti-b38897b/
Esa Niemi, Board Member
Business concepts, strategy
Esa is an owner in the family business since over 30 years and has been actively involved in various sport, culture and other high level projects. Some worth mentioning are the Eurovision Song Contest of 2017, European Capitals of Culture for Turku 2011 project, World Championships 2005 in Athletics, several Ice Hockey World Championships and two seasons of the Finnish Presidency of the Council of EU. In addition Esa has been involved in start-up projects, such as the Smash event, which focuses on sports and health technology.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/esa-niemi-694b5499/
Markus Aalto, PCE Global LLC
Consultant, financing and international business
Markus is an expert in international business. He has both launched start-ups and grown existing businesses on several continents for over 20 years. His expertise ranges from running exhibition business to international mergers and acquisitions of corporations.
Jere Jäppinen
Content Director, Helsinki City Museum
Jere Jäppinen (M.A.) has been working in Helsinki City Museum since 1991. On top of his professional research work, which includes among other responsibilities producing exhibitions and books, he has been tasked with the production of events for and the communications of the museum. He has created and produced research reports, records, lectures, concerts and dance performances related to music culture and history as well as a comprehensive exhibition Music!, which was on display in Villa Hakasalmi (a part of Helsinki City Museum) between 2015 – 2017. Jere is the Content Director for FAME.
Jukka Suomela
Communication and media specialist
Jukka has extensive expertise in journalism, communications, marketing, branding and product management as well as fund raising. He has previously, among other responsibilities, worked as the Communications Director of The Culture Gala of the Century event in Turku, Finland in 2016 – 2017 and the Finnish Sports Gala event in 2008 – 2015. He was also a member of the nomination committee of the Sportsperson of the Year by the Association of Sports Journalists in Finland in 2016.
Lauri Tarasti
Chairman of the Hall of FAME selection committee
Lauri is a highly respected and well-known former official and expert in several fields in Finland. He has a Licentiate of Law degree and has served as the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Environment and Justice of the Supreme Administrative Court. He is one of the leading experts in law (especially in fields of electoral, political party, political party funding and association law) and international doping legislation. In the field of culture and arts he has held several positions including the Vice Chairman of the council of the Finnish National Gallery, President of the Sibelius Society of Finland and the Chairman of the 150th anniversary celebration of Jean Sibelius project group in 2015.
Elina Anttila
Director General, National Museum of Finland, Chairman of the Advisory Board of FAME
Elina Anttila (Ph.D.) is an art historian and the Director General of the National Museum of Finland. She has an extensive experience from the museum sector and has held several management and specialist positions in the Finnish Heritage Agency. The National Museum of Finland manages several museum locations and castles in Finland and maintains valuable collections of Finnish culture and history.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elina-anttila-b3994117/
Maria Lyytikäinen
Restaurant services, Managing Director, Kanresta Oy
Before Kanresta Maria was the Sales Director of Royal Ravintolat restaurant group and responsible for the sales function. She also acted as the head of their events business. Maria’s experience in restaurant business is broad and she has held previous management positions in Center Inn Restaurants, Palace Kämp Group and HOK – Elanto Liiketoiminta.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-lyytik%C3%A4inen-6746583b/
Elina Juvakka
Restaurant services, Business Director, Kanresta Oy
Elina has a broad and extensive experience of managing restaurant services. She has worked for Kanresta already for more than 18 years. She is a problem solver who likes to turn any challenge or question into a solution. “Frankness, responsiveness and an ability to make swift decisions in the hectic everyday life” are characteristics that Elina defines as a minimum requirement for success.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elina-juvakka-6a888980/
Risto Hakomäki
Collections, National Museum of Finland
Risto Hakomäki (M.A.) has a long experience both in the field of music and culture. He has held various positions in the National Museum of Finland since year 2000, currently working in its Collections and Research as a Curator. His past experience includes also acting as the head of culture and museum activities as well as the rector of several music schools.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/risto-hakomaki-92673a5/
Hannu Koro
Project Director, interior decoration and design, Made by Choice
The project director from Made by Choice, Mr. Hannu Koro, has worked in many different creative agencies. He has designed packaging, advertising campaigns and Event productions to such brands as Nokia, Battery, Martela and Finnish Football Association. The values and vision of Made by Choice are in line with Hannu’s own thinking.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannukoro/
Markus Viiperi
Head of Design, architect, Franz Design
Markus is the founder and Managing Director of Franz Design. He is an interior designer, whose long experience reaches from work done for domestic start-ups to ships of international cruise lines. The work in progress at FAME is one of Viiperi’s favourite projects so far as it combines his two passions; music and interior design.
Linda Vanni
Interior Design Architect
Linda Vanni is an Interior Design Architect and Designer from Helsinki. She has been involved in creating the layout and concept for FAME in the initial stages of the project together with the project team and partners. She is currently working on finalizing her thesis of a Master’s degree in Design at Aalto University.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindavanni/
Sari Katainen
As the Exhibition Manager Sari has the responsibility of planning and producing the content in FAME. Ms. Katainen (M.A.) is a researcher of Finnish culture who is specialized in modern and popular culture phenomena. She has previously worked in the Helsinki City Museum as a researcher and exhibition producer and held supervisory positions in the fields of retail and movie industries.
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McConnell on guard for Clones clash
Friday, July 16, 2010 - 07:10 PM
At six foot, four inches, Pascal McConnell has a towering influence over Tyrone football, but the Newtownstewart custodian has healthy competition for his goalkeeping position and this keeps him well grounded as he focuses on the Red Hands' Ulster SFC final clash with Monaghan at Clones this Sunday.
McConnell has a height advantage over fellow Tyrone goalkeepers John Devine and Jonathan Curran, and there is certainly no weak link in the last line of defence whomever Mickey Harte chooses between the posts.
It is McConnell's turn this weekend to step up to the mantle and keep ahead in a running battle with Devine in particular, for whom he was 'second in command' back in the 2008 All-Ireland winning run.
McConnell only returned to the starting line-up that year for the All-Ireland decider, owing to the death of Devine's father on the eve of the game.
2008 is still in McConnell's mindset, but he has no complaints about being overlooked for the majority of that campaign.
"You'd like to get a run of games. I've a couple of games under my belt now," he said.
"In 2008, it maybe didn't go so well for myself. I went out against Down and was overlooked the next day, and rightly so, because I didn't perform the way that I would have liked.
"You've got to be on your toes. It's typical with the whole Tyrone squad.
"If you are not performing, you will find yourself looking over your shoulder, and you will find yourself replaced. That's a testament to the competition that is in the squad."
The civil servant says he is happy with his football at the moment, despite the huge competition for the number 1 shirt, with the 30-year-old lauded for his superb blocking during the semi-final win over Down last time out.
"I'm happy enough with the way things are going, but you cannot rest on your laurels. You can't think that those few saves will do you for the rest of the season.
"We've two quality goalkeepers in Jonathan Curran and John Devine. That has kept me on my toes."
McConnell is certainly loyal to the Red Hand cause, and despite his belief that it is performance rather than loyalty which is giving him the starting role this weekend, he still has sympathy for Monaghan's reserve 'keeper Sean Gorman who has been overlooked, in favour of regular defender Darren Hughes.
"Personally, I think what happened (putting a defender in goal) was wrong. But 'Banty' (Seamus McEnaney) is a top manager. He is big enough to stand up and make those decisions, and big enough to take it on the chin if it goes wrong.
"As a goalkeeper your heart goes out to Sean Gorman. I'm sure the fella was training hard. I'm sure he was aspiring to be Monaghan 'keeper some day."
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Miskella, Goold and O’Neill get nod for Cork’s clash with Cavan
By Jim O’Sullivan
JOHN MISKELLA has been recalled by Cork for tomorrow’s All-Ireland second round football qualifier against Cavan in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
The Ballincollig man is named at right half-back in a team which shows three changes from the Munster football semi-final replay against Kerry at the same venue on June 13.
Noel O’Leary is the player who makes way for Miskella – at right half-back, while Fintan Goold is preferred to Donncha O’Connor – named on the right wing with Pearse O’Neill chosen in the centre.
The other change sees Colm O’Neill chosen in the left corner instead of Paul Kerrigan.
Miskella, who missed the league because of injury, made an appearance as the 15th man in extra time against Kerry, following the dismissal of Graham Canty after a second yellow card. However, he was later replaced by O’Leary, who had been taken off earlier (when Eoin Cadogan was introduced).
It represents a rare start for Goold, who has been used more frequently as an impact substitute.
Not unexpectedly, Jason Ryan has kept faith with the Wexford team which defeated London by 19 points in Ruislip for their qualifier against Galway at Pearse Stadium. However, positional alterations see Redmond Barry named in arguably his best position at centre-forward, while Matty Forde will wear the number 14 jersey.
Leitrim manager Mickey Moran makes no fewer than six changes for the meeting with Kildare in Newbridge. Gareth Phelan is preferred in goal to Enda Lyons, who played there against Roscommon and two newcomers are included in defence, Ciaran Egan at full-back and Gary Reynolds in the left corner.
The feature of the team is a new full-forward line comprising Philip Howard, Declan Mulhall and Declan Gilhooly.
The Offaly team to take on Waterford in O’Connor Park shows three changes from the first round win over Clare.
John Coughlan, who was sent off against Meath, returns to action and is named at midfield. Edenderry star Sean Pender, 21, is chosen at left corner back, while Graham Guilfoyle, 19, who plays his football with the Clare club, comes in at right half-forward (resulting in the move of Ciaran McManus to the other wing).
Omitted are Brian Geraghty, Paraic Sullivan and John Reynolds.
Derry, who are away to Westmeath, welcome back Kevin McGuckian, but Fergal Doherty is ruled out by injury and Paddy Bradley is again absent following his disagreement with the management.
Gary O’Kane goes to centre-back, resulting in Barry McGoldrick being switched to the half-forard line. And, with Enda Muldoon brought out to midfield to partner Joe Diver, James Kielt is selected at centre-forward.
CORK (SF v Cavan): A. Quirke; R. Carey, G. Canton; J. O’Sullivan; J. Miskella, M. Shields, P. Kissane; A. O’Connor, A. Walsh; F. Goold, P. O’Neill, P. Kelly; D. Goulding, C. Sheehan, C. O’Neill.
OFFALY (SF v Waterford): A. Mulhall; B. Brady, S. Brady, S. Pender; N. Darby, R. Brady, K. Slattery; R. Dalton, J. Coughlan; G. Guilfoyle, B. Connor, C. McManus; K. Casey, A. Sullivan, N. McNamee.
KILDARE (SF v Leitrim): S McCormack; P Kelly, H McGrillen, A MacLochlain, M O’ Flaherty, E Bolton, B Flanagan, D Flynn, D Earley, J Kavanagh, P O’Neill, E O’Flaherty, J Doyle, R Sweeney, E Callaghan
LEITRIM (SF v Kildare): G Phelan; D Reynolds, C Egan, D Beck; W McKeon, J McKeon (capt), G Reynolds; T Beirne, S Canning; R Mulvey, James Glancy (Glencar/Manorhamilton), M Foley; P Howard, D Maxwell, D Gilhooly.
WEXFORD (SF v Galway): A. Masterson; J. Wadding, G. Molloy, B. Malone; A. Flynn, D. Murphy (capt.), A. Doyle; E. Bradley, D. Waters; C. Morris, R. Barry, S. Roche; C. Lyng, M. Forde, P.J. Banville.
DERRY (SF v Westmeath: B. Gillis; B. Óg McAlary, K. McGuckian, D. McBride; M. Craig, G. O’Kane, C. Kielt; J. Diver, E. Muldoon; C. McKeever, J. Kielt, B. McGoldrick; E. Bradley, M. Lynch, R. Wilkinson.
Subs: M. Dunne, O. Duffy, C. Mullan, B. McGuigan, B. Mullan, Patsy Bradley, S.L. McGoldrick, D. Mullan, R. Convery, E. Brown, L. Moore.
TIPPERARY (SF v Dublin): M. O’Donnell; P. Codd, R. Costigan (capt.), A. Morrissey; C. McGrath, B. Jones, B. Fox; G. Hannigan, K. Mulryan; S. Hahessy, H. Coghlan, P. Acheson; P. Austin, B. Grogan, C. Sweeney.
WATERFORD (SF v Offaly): T. Wall; M. O’Gorman, T. O’Gorman, K. Connery; N. Hennessy, S. Briggs, J. Phelan; K. Power, M. Ahearne; B. Wall, C. McGrath, W. Hahessy; G. Hurney, P. Hurney, M. Donnelly.
WESTMEATH (SF v Derry): G. Connaughton; F. Boyle, J. Gaffey, K. Maguire; M. Ennis, J. Keane; D. Harte, D. Duffy, P. Bannon; K. Martin, C. Lynam, G. Egan; P. Greville, D. Dolan, D. Glennon.
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Gutman, 4...Qh4 in the Scotch Game
272 Seiten, kartoniert, 2001 The Scotch Game - 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 exd4 4 Nxd4, leading to a... mehr
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272 Seiten, kartoniert, 2001
The Scotch Game - 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 exd4 4 Nxd4, leading to a rapid opening of lines and lively piece play, offers White every opportunity to gain an enduring initiative and attack.
Black's most challenging reply is the counterattack on White's e4 pawn by 4 Qh4, the subject of this book - the first in a series that represents the most ambitious study ever undertaken on the Scotch game.
The author, Latvian Grandmaster Lev Gutman, has not only thoroughly researched and reassessed all available material on the opening, dating back to the 19th century, but added an enormous amount of high-quality original analysis, which will be of great value to competitive players.
World No. 1 and enthusiastic practitioner of the Scotch Garry Kasparov said of the author's original German edition:
"We need a new kind of book, which tries to connect the past with the present and the future, to unite old material with modern theory I hope this new book will set an example as to how the new opening books should be written "
Lev Gutman is an International Grandmaster who emigrated from Russia to Israel in the early 1980s and then went to live in Germany.
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Supporting the rangers could save their lives
Killed by soldiers, rebels, drug and animal smugglers, wild animals or simply by accident, 70 rangers have lost their lives this year. Rangers protect our parks and the people that visit them but who protects them?
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Limited spaces for the Conservation Campus – sign up now!
Following the success of the Learning Opportunities at the 2008 Congress in Barcelona, the IUCN World Conservation Congress will feature this year a Conservation Campus dedicated to practical training in support of the IUCN Programme 2013-2016.
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Members have a unique opportunity at the IUCN Congress to influence the global conservation agenda through the motions. To do this, they must ensure to get accreditation so they can vote and speak at the Members’ Assembly, together with observers with...
Last few hours for discounts on Congress fees
2012 is a busy year for environmental decision-making, with many large-scale conventions taking place. But the IUCN World Conservation Congress is a unique event with a unique audience. It is the only global summit that represents every aspect of conservation...
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Six natural wonders declared World Heritage Sites
St. Petersburg, Russia, 2 July, 2012 (IUCN) – Sangha Trinational - shared between Cameroon, the Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo; Lakes of Ounianga in Chad and Chengjiang fossil site in China have been inscribed on the World Heritage...
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Water - it's irreplaceable
At the Rio Dialogues, civil society and business showed through their online votes and panelist speeches increasing leadership when it comes to water issues. And interesting enough, the right to water was not the number one recommendation passed on to the...
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20 years on, civil society leads in Rio
Governments are leaving the UN’s Sustainable Development Summit (Rio +20) with a big deal but little action. Groups of civil society and business have proved they can lead the way towards a sustainable future.
Commitments coming through in Rio
As world leaders pour in to Rio de Janeiro for the UN's Sustainable Development Summit civil society, business and governments are making commitments that will make a difference, according to IUCN's Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre.
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South American States Frustrated in Rio
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Let’s get serious!
IUCN and the UN Global Compact are helping business in Rio get serious about biodiversity, boosting private sector efforts in conserving biodiversity and ecosystem services – the benefits we get from nature.
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At the crossroads of conservation and development
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IUCN Congress Programme now live
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Jeju marks 100-day countdown
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World Water Forum: nature takes centre stage
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First action plan for world’s blue carbon policy
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Protected, naturally
More than 180,000 protected areas—national parks, nature reserves and so on—now cover over 12% of the world’s land area and 7.2% of coastal waters. They play an important role in reducing carbon emissions and helping people adapt to the impacts of climate...
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Species on the Edge app is launched
Acclaimed by the US Apple Store as ‘New and Noteworthy’, the new Species on the Edge app is a detailed guide to 365 species from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Featuring stunning photos and thought-provoking information it allows users to learn...
arborvitae Issue 43 - Attending to gender
Women and forest ownership: Providing secure tenure rights to both genders can promote sustainable forest management and poverty alleviation. Feature: Now is the time for the forestry and environment community to recognize that women are primary...
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Poverty and environmental degradation go hand-in-hand throughout the world; each can cause the other. With the global population likely to reach nine billion by 2050 there is an urgent need to address both in tandem when devising new economic development...
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An international panel of experts warns in a report released today that marine species are at risk of entering a phase of extinction unprecedented in human history.
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IIT-Madras Incubated A Startup To Help Other Startups in Early-Stage
By Vardaan May 28, 2018
The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-Madras) has incubated a startup whose objective was to help other startups. Named as YNOS Venture Engine CC (Catalyse & Create) Pvt Ltd, the startup is nurtured at the incubation cell at IIT-M’s Research Park and works to enhance the success of early stage startups using Machine Learning and Data Sciences tools and techniques.
Founded by Prof Thillai Rajan, Department of Management Studies, IIT-M, who has been researching Indian Venture Industry for close to a decade now, has tremendous insights into funding issues at start-ups and he thus decided to start a venture himself and launch YNOS Venture Engine.
According to Thillai, only 6-7 percent of startups are able to raise the first round of external funding, which is low. The number improves in subsequent rounds, he says, going to 15 percent in the second round and 20 percent in the next.
It is the first round of external funding that is critical for any start-up, says Thillai. Startup founders have two options before them — either they can bootstrap the venture and fund it internally. But then, because of nature of business model of most of them,they want to focus on growth, for which external funding becomes necessary. Tillai thus, through YNOS, seeks to improve funding chances of entrepreneurs of such startups in early stage.
YNOS has raised seed funding by IIT-M’s incubation cell & Venture Intelligence, a Chennai-based market research & analysis firm.
Speaking about this venture, Prof Thillai Rajan said, “Information and decision making analytics are not easily accessible for early stage entrepreneurs. Sell-side intermediation is virtually nil for early stage start-ups. YNOS uses research insights and technology to provide information and intermediation services for early stage entrepreneurs. Using advanced marker analytics tools, our platform provides estimates of valuation and also identify appropriate investors for the start-up.”
Prof Thillai Rajan (FIRST LEFT, SEATED), Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras, and Founder, YNOS Venture Engine CC Private Limited, with the Team Members
The time has never been better for venturing and creating startups. However, startup mortality rates have not fallen. While the funding landscape has expanded, it has also become more complex. The proportion of startups getting funded is still low. The challenges continue to confound the early stage entrepreneurs.
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The objective of YNOS is to help the start-up founders to navigate the terrain in the early stages of their venture lifecycle. The technology platform and hybrid offerings have been designed to cater to specific needs of early stage entrepreneurs. The gamut of offerings cover a wide range such as providing the competitive landscape for start-ups, valuation estimates, identifying appropriate investors, and hands on understanding of start-up fundraising.
Speaking on the importance of such an initiative, Dr. Tamaswati Ghosh, Chief Executive Officer, IIT Madras Incubation Cell, said that, “As one of India’s leading incubators with over 140 of deep-tech startups we are keenly aware of the challenges faced by early stage technology entrepreneurs, especially in raising investment and finding matched mentors. Services offered by YNOS are addressing some of these critical issues and I am confident that they will create a strong impact on the entrepreneurial ecosystem in this country.”
Commenting on the relevance of the offerings, Arun Natarajan, Founder, Venture Intelligence and an investor in YNOS, said, “Start-ups that approach professional investors for the first time tend to be under prepared on various fronts. This tends to cause a lot of delay in fundraising – if not completely derail it. By aiming to provide actionable information on this front, YNOS is poised to play an important role in making Early Stage funding process in the country more efficient. ”
Dr. Rajan Srikanth, Managing Director, Smart Kapital and President, Keiretsu Forum, Chennai Chapter said, “There have been several efforts to help investors find startups, but very little done to help the entrepreneur find the right investor. This is a very tough problem because information is largely unavailable and even when it is, they are anecdotal and unreliable. As a result, identifying investors today is largely left to chance for the entrepreneur. The offerings of YNOS would not only lead to better matches of entrepreneurs and investors but also help the entrepreneur to understand the start-up landscape that can lead to better decisions. This will benefit the whole eco-system greatly.”
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R. Ramaraj, an active angel investor and Advisor, Elevar Equity, said that “Despite being most vibrant, navigating the entrepreneurial ecosystem continues to be a challenge for the early stage entrepreneurs in India. Starting with the competitive landscape and investor matching, the services and offerings of YNOS can significantly help young entrepreneurs in building their ventures. The offerings leverage insights from several years of research on Indian venture industry and use of data sciences tools and techniques.”
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China, Korea, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and India
Bharath Sriraman, University of Montana; Jinfa Cai, University of Delaware; Kyeonghwa Lee, Seoul National University; Lianghuo Fan, University of Southampton (UK); Yoshinori Shimizu, University of Tsukuba; Chap Sam Lim, Universiti Sains Malaysia; K. Subramaniam, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
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Russell Endo, University of Colorado; Xue Lan Rong, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Trust and Governance Institutions
Asian Experiences
Yilin Sun, South Seattle Community College; Clay Wescott; Lawrence R. Jones, Naval Postgraduate School
Asian American Education
Identities, Racial Issues, and Languages
Xue Lan Rong, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Russell Endo, University of Colorado
Towards a Brighter Tomorrow
The College Barriers, Hopes and Plans of Black, Latino/a and Asian American Students in California
Walter R. Allen, University of California, Los Angeles; Erin Kimura-Walsh, University of California, Los Angeles; Kimberly A. Griffin, University of California, Los Angeles
New Perspectives on Asian American Parents, Students and Teacher Recruitment
Clara C. Park, California State University, Northridge; Russell Endo, University of Colorado; Xue Lan Rong, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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Clay Wescott
What the West Can Learn From the East
Asian Perspectives on the Psychology of Learning and Motivation
Oon Seng Tan, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University Singapore; Dennis M. McInerney, The Education University of Hong Kong; Gregory Arief D. Liem, University of Sydney; Ai-Girl Tan, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Model Minority Myth Revisited
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Demystifying Asian American Educational Experiences
Guofang Li, Michigan State University; Lihshing Wang, University of Cinncinati
Acculturation, Literacy Development, and Learning
Clara C. Park, California State University, Northridge; Russell Endo, University of Colorado; Stacey J. Lee, City University of New York; Xue Lan Rong, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Asian and Pacific American Education
Learning, Socialization, and Identity
Clara C. Park, California State University, Northridge; Russell Endo, University of Colorado; A. Lin Goodwin, Teachers College, Columbia University
Asian American Identities, Families, & Schooling
Clara C. Park, California State University, Northridge; A. Lin Goodwin, Teachers College, Columbia University; Stacey J. Lee, City University of New York
Research on the Education of Asian Pacific Americans Vol. 1
A Pathway to PDS Partnership
Using the PDSEA Protocol
Algebra for the Middle Grades
Contemporary Urban Youth Culture in China
A Multiperspectival Cultural Studies of Internet Subcultures
Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities
Educational Practices in China, Korea, and the United States
Reflections from a Study Abroad Experience
From Disagreement to Discourse
A Chronicle of Controversies in Schooling and Education
Globalization on the Margins (2nd Edition)
Education and Post-Socialist Transformations in Central Asia
Identity and Lifelong Learning in Higher Education
The Mathematics Teacher Education Partnership
The Power of a Networked Improvement Community to Transform Secondary Mathematics Teacher Preparation
The National Council of Teachers of English and Cold War Education Policies
Tracks to Infinity, The Long Road to Justice
The Peter McLaren Reader, Volume II
Valuing Other Voices
Discourses that Matter in Education, Social Justice, and Multiculturalism
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Italian Literature: Biographies >
Belli, Giuseppe Gioacchino
Belli, Giuseppe Gioacchino jo͞ozĕp´pā jōäk-kē´nō bĕl´lē [key], 1791–1863, Italian poet. Born in Rome into poverty, Belli earned his living as a government clerk. He drew from his knowledge of plebeian life in writing more than two thousand humorous and satirical sonnets. Belli described the vast panorama of Roman society in colorful dialect. His poetry is noted for its vigorous realism. Little known outside Rome, Belli's work was not published during his lifetime.
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Brokers say mysterious 'Upstream' initiative not intended to replace MLSs
The Realty Alliance warns of outside forces not beholden to industry rules
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Multiple listing services and associations have nothing to fear from a mysterious initiative by a coalition of some of the biggest names in real estate, the head of a large brokerage network told hundreds of MLS executives attending an industry event.
A year ago, Craig Cheatham, president and CEO of The Realty Alliance, caught the industry’s attention with a warning to MLS execs attending the Council of Multiple Listing Services’ annual conference. He said brokers had lost faith in the way the industry is set up and were prepared to do something about it.
The Realty Alliance then voted to launch a “big initiative” whose details the group declined to disclose, but was rumored to be a national broker database.
At this year’s CMLS conference, Cheatham said he could not give many more details about the project, which is called “Upstream.” But in contrast to the ominous note he sounded last year, this time Cheatham made a point of emphasizing that the project was “good news” for everyone in the industry.
“We want to communicate this is nothing to be afraid of and it benefits everybody. You’re going to like the idea,” he told conference attendees Friday.
Project Upstream is not out to disintermediate anyone or take anyone out of the picture, he said.
“The way we see it, everybody wins: Vendors win, MLSs win, boards win, associations, Zillow, Trulia, realtor.com, CoreLogic, NAR. The whole gamut,” he said.
The Realty Alliance is not backing off from its message last year that the real estate industry’s infrastructure is “too much of a bureaucracy” and not serving brokers as well as it could, Cheatham said.
“We (brokers) need to be the ones calling the shots going forward. We value our industry organizations, but they’re the ones that are supposed to be supporting us, and we’ve got things all backwards,” he said.
He declined to elaborate on which “shots” brokers want to call other than to say, “Business decisions.”
Last year Cheatham intentionally “came on strong” because The Realty Alliance’s members felt they had been “screaming into a pillow” for years and wanted to “break through the logjam” of communication, he said.
From where he sits, it worked — MLS execs did go back and, for the most part, did have meaningful, sincere conversations about the broker perspective and the direction of the industry, according to Cheatham. “I’m hopeful we’re seeing some real progress,” he said.
For example, he counted MLSs’ implementation of The Realty Alliance’s fair display guidelines for public-facing MLS websites as a success. In May, the National Association of Realtors also approved an alliance-backed policy requiring Realtor-affiliated MLSs to furnish listing data for brokers’ automated valuation models (AVMs).
Some large MLSs are also updating their data standards to offer brokers the option to upload listing data directly from their own back-end office systems to the MLS.
But The Realty Alliance stands behind a long list of grievances with MLS practices the group outlined last year, Cheatham said. The list is largely focused on the services provided by MLSs to their members, many of which brokers perceived as competing with their own offerings, or with the way MLSs handle the data their members charge them with.
Upstream is a byproduct of brokers’ desire to “set things right” in the industry, but is separate from The Realty Alliance’s grievance list, Cheatham said.
“Upstream is about getting more efficient in how we do business. There’s a lot of redundancy of effort and expense. Upstream is to get that back-office part of our business much more efficient,” he said.
The grievance list is not necessarily a self-serving list for brokers, but for the long-term good of the industry, Cheatham said. Brokers will exert “more pressure” particularly around requirements for firms to join multiple boards, he said.
The National Association of Realtors approved new core standards for associations in May that, by one estimate, could reduce the number of Realtor associations from around 1,400 today to about 1,000 within 10 years via mergers and dissolutions. The Realty Alliance supports the effort and would like to see something like it applied to MLSs. Efficiencies gained through regionalization could save a tremendous amount of hardship, Cheatham later told Inman News.
A broker could be “doing business in two counties and having to join eight boards and four MLSs. There’s just a feeling that we’re getting picked apart from the outside because we’re not positioned to be agile,” Cheatham said.
The broker is “not the bad guy” — brokers are the ones “looking around the corner and seeing a train wreck” if there aren’t changes, he said.
To avoid the wreck, the industry must take an honest look at the bureaucracy brokerages must deal with, such as not providing data for permissible uses, not data sharing with other MLSs, and not allowing commingling of data, Cheatham said, because there are companies that do not have to adhere to policies set by the local, state and national Realtor associations.
The industry needs to look at “what they are able to do and the speed at which they are able to move to what’s next that we are never going to be able to do. We are already in a reactive mode and the pace is just starting to pick up on what those folks who are unfettered by our structure are able to do,” he said.
The Realty Alliance is not sure what disaster is around the corner, “but we know people are working on it. And it does not include you or me or most of the industry,” Cheatham said.
“The headlines we’ve seen give indications of what organizations are willing to do and to try who don’t have to play by the same rules.”
Currently, the local real estate firm and its agents have been and will continue to be the best source of information, analysis and guidance for consumers making property buying decisions, Cheatham said. But other companies are pointing to inefficiency in the industry and trying to convince consumers otherwise, he said.
“There are bright, creative, ambitious people outside the industry who may not understand the industry … but are trying to help the consumer. Their motives are sincere,” Cheatham said, but The Realty Alliance does not believe it helps the consumer for firms and agents to not be their go-to source.
“Sometimes the local agent is portrayed as slow or behind” and not the best resource, and Upstream is designed to help with that, or at least be the first step, Cheatham said.
“It could be an outsider makes all of us irrelevant. Doing nothing doesn’t end well,” he added.
John Mosey, president of St. Paul, Minnesota-based NorthstarMLS and CMLS conference attendee, said Cheatham’s words were “opaque” and “clear as mud.”
He told Cheatham he would hope to see more involvement from brokers themselves at the MLS or organizational level because that is something that they often delegate.
Cheatham agreed. “I think our brokers realize that’s part of our solution going forward. Guilty as charged, but that’s part of our list for ourselves.”
Still, he noted that some brokerage execs, such as Harold Crye of Crye-Leike Real Estate Services in the Nashville area, are part of dozens of MLSs and cannot sit on the board of directors of each one. Therefore, he suggested MLSs identify stakeholders outside of their board of directors and reach out to them. If he were an MLS exec, he’d “want to know what Harold was thinking,” he said.
Many CMLS conference attendees were disappointed in the lack of specific information offered about Upstream.
Brian Larson, CMLS’ general counsel, tweeted:
The Realty Alliance is a “bit of a letdown: All platitudes and cute metaphors. Should have found out whether Craig could say anything b4 inviting him.”
Cheatham said he hoped that by NAR’s annual convention in early November there would be more to report. At minimum, “a good description of the concept” will be released before the end of the year, Cheatham said.
The coalition building Upstream includes The Realty Alliance; fellow brokerage network Leading Real Estate Companies of the World; real estate giant Realogy; Realogy’s brokerage arm, NRT LLC; and franchisors Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Keller Williams, Realty Executives, Re/Max and others, Cheatham said.
He could not say how long it would be before the project would be completed. Because the participants are “running multibillion-dollar companies,” their biggest challenge is finding a time when everyone can talk by phone, he said.
In the past several months, the company has been working out Upstream’s governance — it will be a legitimate entity with a staff and an address, owned and managed by real estate practitioners, Cheatham said. At the same time, the group has been working on the technical aspects of the project, including fielding requests for proposals.
The contract negotiation phase with vendors is set to begin, and Cheatham anticipates any delays will be due to the business rules of the industry rather than vendors’ ability to deliver. From there, implementation will depend on how quickly the large and small brokers that direct Upstream are able to do so, he said.
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4 brokerages that are embracing social responsibility
A look at several philanthropic programs and contributions in real estate
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Since 1989, Windermere Real Estate has been servicing its communities through its non-profit arm, the Windermere Foundation, which is on track to raise $30 million by the end of the year.
Giving back 5 percent of the brokerage side of the commission to local charities was essentially a no-brainer for Unit Realty Group, mainly because social impact is in the fabric of Unit Realty Group's DNA.
What seemed like a loosing real estate proposition -- giving 25 percent of every commission -- became one of Laurie Loew's greatest strengths, and essentially, it's what built her real estate business into a force for good in Austin, Texas.
Yesterday Inman published “3 reasons to embrace social responsibility.”
I argued that social responsibility is crucial at the brokerage level due to the rise in socially conscious consumers, the need for agents and brokers to connect on a deeper level with their clients and that doing good helps increase business.
Here are four real estate brokerages that are embracing social responsibility in a way that is both innovative and impactful.
A tradition of giving: Windermere Real Estate
Since 1989, Windermere Real Estate has been servicing its communities through its non-profit arm, the Windermere Foundation. Portions of the proceeds earned through real estate transactions goes to support low-income and homeless families in the community serviced by the brokerage.
Since its inception, the foundation has raised more than $26 million dollars to finance its philanthropic activities, with a goal to reach $30 million in giving by the year’s end. It’s worth noting that the foundation is well on its way to exceed its goal of $30 million.
Windermere’s culture of love and passion for the community is evident in they way the company’s agents and staff speak on its behalf. Phrases such as “It goes beyond houses, it’s about relationships” are central tenets to the brokerage and to its agents.
On one of Windermere’s advertising videos, you can hear Jill Jacobi Wood, daughter of John Jacobi, the founder of Windermere Real Estate, speak of her father’s motives to “start a (real estate) company that put relationships before sales quotas.”
It’s all or nothing: Unit Realty Group
For Joe Schutt, it’s a matter of being all-in with your giving back initiative — or not at all. Giving back 5 percent of the brokerage side of the commission to local charities was essentially a no-brainer for Unit Realty Group, mainly because social impact is in the fabric of Unit Realty Group’s DNA.
The brokerage has a history of giving back to the community — whether it’s through money, time volunteering or in-kind giving. This past year, Unit Realty Group teamed up with Cole Haan for an event called “Stepping out for second chance.”
The event was meant to highlight Second Chance, Inc., a local nonprofit in serving the poor and the homeless in the Boston area. The partnership with Cole Haan was an opportunity for Cole Haan shoppers to learn about Second Chance, but more importantly, it was an opportunity for Second Chance to educate the participants on the organization’s goal, its mission and its work.
To give or not to give — never the question: Give Realty
I had the opportunity to speak with Laurie Loew, managing broker and owner of Give Realty in Austin, Texas. A series of personal life-changing events lead Laurie to launch Give Realty as the real estate market was going under.
What seemed like a loosing real estate proposition — giving 25 percent of every commission — became one of Laurie’s greatest strengths, and essentially, it’s what built her real estate business into a force for good in Austin, Texas.
Give Realty’s desire to give back has not only yielded much recognition, but also a particularly unique value proposition for the company. As Laurie described it, the “secret in giving back has been the types of clients Give Realty has had the joy to work with.”
“These clients only come to us because of who we are and what we do. We do not compete for business the same way other brokerages do, and in essence, that is what gives us a unique value proposition in real estate.”
Global perspective and local impact: Century 21 Redwood Realty
Our brokerage recently experienced some staffing changes due to our expansion. All of these changes brought forth the need to re-evaluate our corporate identity, and ultimately put in clear terms our value proposition.
As a result, Century 21 Redwood Realty embarked on a journey to become a community-centric real estate brokerage with the goal to have our corporate team and and all of our offices — 10 in total — develop one single identity, and a more consorted effort to be a force for good in each of our offices’ communities.
As part of a series of multiple corporate innovation and system roll outs, Century 21 Redwood Realty partnered with American Charities with the goal of enhancing corporate philanthropy in all levels.
Each Redwood office will also have Redwood Gives Back ambassadors — local Redwood agents who will liaise between the corporate and their respective offices on company and local philanthropic initiatives.
The common thread between all the brokerages above is that they have recognized in their own ways that selling homes is a pathway to greater societal impact.
In a industry where our value proposition to our clients and ourselves is conditioned by our sales metrics, being able to show that we care about the community in which we operate sets us apart from any other industry.
If real estate is strictly about selling homes, not only are we missing its true potential, but we are also diminishing its value to our clients and to ourselves. Real estate salespeople sell. Real estate agents care. It’s time we start caring a little more.
If real estate is strictly about selling homes, we are missing its true potential.
Billy Ekofo is the Assistant Director of Lead Management at Century 21 Redwood Realty. You can follow him on Twitter (@BillyEkofo) or LinkedIn.
Email Billy Ekofo.
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In 2019, we are delighted to, once again, welcome Paul O’Hanrahan to the tower to perform his re-enactment of the Telemachus (opening) chapter of ‘Ulysses’. Paul will deliver two performances; one on Saturday, 17th August at 11.00 am and another on Wednesday, 21st August at 2.00 pm.
I know that, whatever the day and whatever the weather, it is a terrific opportunity to enjoy Paul’s brilliant acting as he brings the opening of Joyce’s masterpiece to life in its original setting. He begins, as the book does atop the tower. Then (following the footsteps of Stephen, Buck and Haines), he makes his way through the tower to end his show at the Forty Foot bathing place.
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Story by Denise Dowling on Jan 29, 2019 12:00 AM
THIS IS WHERE MORTALS BECOME SUPERHUMAN
In a kitchen not much larger than a broom closet, performance cooks Kelsey Trent ’15 and Anthony DiCicco ’14 are prepping their stations. They are in Phoenix, at EXOS’ flagship 31,000-square-foot facility, which offers personalized coaching, physical therapy, dietary consultation and other services for elite athletes and weekend warriors. Their clientele includes the World Cup–winning German soccer team, Special Operations Commandos, NFL players, UFC fighters and Olympians. EXOS, which calls itself a human performance company, has also run coaching programs for such corporate clients as Adidas, Porsche, Tesla, the Mayo Clinic and Google.
It boasts more than a dozen satellite facilities around the country, with programs operating in more than 400 locations on six continents. Client stays average two to six weeks, with their health tracked on a specialized software program that constructs a customized fitness and wellness program with dietary information and other performance metrics. The physical therapy clinic evaluates mechanicals such as inefficiencies in movement, sometimes uncovering injuries someone didn’t know existed. In the 10,000-square-foot gym, where the motto is “every day is game day,” hip-hop is the soundtrack as guys stretch out on foam rollers. Outside, players run hurdles and do plyometrics as their EXOS coach yells, “Your glutes should be fired up!”
According to Executive Performance Chef Karen Bedel, the majority of chefs who have come through that 15x15-square-foot kitchen are either JWU interns or alumni. “They understand the nutrition component,” she says. “I don’t have to explain the meal builder to them. ESHA (nutrition labeling software) is not a tool some other interns are familiar with.”
Beyond the kitchen are dining tables and the lounge area with sports television, a Ping-Pong table and a wall decorated with pro-team jerseys. This week, the majority of clients are college combine picks who are prospective NFL drafts. Men the size of redwoods approach with a meal ticket that specifies their choice of protein, starch and grains for lunch. Their body composition has already been tested with ultrasound; based on those results and myriad other factors, staff create a meal builder with a total calorie goal and proper portioning. Bedel checks each lunch ticket against the meal builder so there is no cheating; someone might get half a banana, for example, but no berries.
Nearly 40 men are tuning up for the combine, and each player’s meal builder might change four or five times during his stay. Generally, kitchen staff will see a difference in athletes within a couple of weeks. As the employees say, “You can’t out-train a bad diet.” According to EXOS statistics, a defensive end at the combine who can run the 40-yard dash in 4.7 seconds will make about $1.2 million more on average than a player who does it in 4.8 seconds.
DiCiccio, who studied culinary nutrition, aims to be a chef-dietitian, ideally for a professional sports team. A leg injury that left him hospitalized for a week piqued his interest in how diet can support healing. “Nutrition is about education,” says DiCiccio, who sometimes take athletes on a field trip to the grocery store. “A lot of it confuses people, so it’s great if you can make them self-sufficient.”
The largest redwood, who stands at 365 pounds, is supposed to shed 15 pounds. His low(er) carb diet incorporates cauliflower rice and tortillas, which are tastier than they sound. It might seem awkward for the 5’9” Trent to tell a 6’4” football player he can’t have any peanut butter, but she says linemen reach over to hug her, others ask for recipes and baseball players slip her spring training tickets. “A lot of the athletes have dietary restrictions, and I have been in charge of the problem children,” says Trent, who studied culinary nutrition and plans to return to school to become a chef–dietitian. “I develop a rapport and ask them questions. Rather than telling athletes what they can’t eat, I say, ‘Here are the 12 things you can eat.’ ”
RATHER THAN TELLING ATHLETES WHAT THEY CAN’T EAT, I SAY, ‘HERE ARE THE 12 THINGS YOU CAN EAT.’ Kelsey Trent ’15
FOR THOSE OF US NOT VAULTING FOR THE OLYMPICS, there are small-scale alternatives as purveyors respond to an increasing demand for healing food. For example, imagine sitting in a fast-casual restaurant in London. Your knee is pinging after exploring Trafalgar Square as you’re eyeing an “Absolutely Radishing” salad with hummus and quinoa. But will those ingredients quell inflammation? Luckily, Squirrel (the London restaurant is so named because its treehouse atmosphere is a place where “even a squirrel might feel at home”) has an on-site nutritionist who can steer you to the antiinflammatory ginger rice bowl. They guide patrons toward particular foods that are best for gut health, immunity, cholesterol, fatigue and even depression.
Is Squirrel a harbinger of the future? As our aging population swells — along with accompanying healthcare costs — food remains the best medicine: Diet is the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States. DNA food discovery — with personalized nutrition testing and services such as Habit, Fitnessgenes and Geno Palate — is a nascent trend. Habit, for example, tests for biomarkers and genetic variants using blood and DNA samples from a customer, then generates a personalized report about how their body responds to food, offering a “nutrition blueprint.” The company then pairs customers with a nutrition coach and offers customized meals containing their ideal ratio of carbs, fats and protein.
According to market research firms, the global sports nutrition market is forecast to grow at an average of 8.6 percent per year to reach a total of $39 billion by 2020. The timing is right, as Johnson & Wales’ FOCUS 2022 strategic plan includes the establishment of a College of Food Innovation & Technology (CFIT). In 1999, the university pioneered a culinary nutrition program that would bridge the worlds of dietetics and culinary arts — teach chefs to be nutritionists, essentially. With CFIT, Johnson & Wales will explore food systems in their economic, cultural and political contexts, and analyze the impact food has on people, industries and the world. It will investigate the intersection of food with everyday life: product development and design, safety, sustainability, production, distribution, policy, medicine, business, entertainment, economics, nutrition, science, hunger and habits. The end goal will be to develop innovative solutions to real-world problems.
“The nutrition field (especially sports dietetics) is very fluid and dynamic,” says Denver Campus Associate Instructor Adam Sacks. “There are potentially heavy consequences for the consumer and industry if the information disseminated is inaccurate or outdated. Therefore, we need our students to be critical-thinking culinarians who are smart and gritty, skilled and impassioned. And finally, our students need to be advocates of truth and facts, not fiction.”
In the lab, Sacks examines an athlete’s metabolism and specificity of goals before he and his students create a personalized menu. “We’re not just assigning food or menus to the athlete,” he says. “We are creating opportunities for them to optimize their training and physiological potential for sport and exercise. It’s funny to think that when I was learning my trade, there were a handful of energy bars and sports foods representing the industry. Now there are entire aisles in grocery stores devoted exclusively to enhancement: more muscle, more energy, more weight loss, more regularity. It’s quite remarkable and silly to think that our students have to hand-hold the consumer or athlete to navigate these aisles of energy bars and sports drinks.”
When Sacks served as executive chef for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard team at the 2018 Winter Olympics, he brought a handful of former students (and a current one) to assist him in South Korea. The instructor admits to a ping of pride when his team wins (he also served as executive chef for the U.S. Track & Field training camp at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing). “I can’t guarantee gold,” he says. “I just promise I won’t undermine their performance with the wrong food.” Fortunately, Sacks is the breed who thrives on a challenge, which included cooking the team’s quinoa oatmeal in a wok pan and operating a kitchen inside a retrofitted ski shop.
“Many of my students are creating their own job descriptions and forcing the industry to re-evaluate traditional roles to make room for our cutting-edge students of the future.”
One of the grads he brought — who chose JWU for Sacks’ mentorship — was Brett Eisen ’12, who runs his own chef business in California. Previously, Eisen was the executive chef and nutritionist for the Sacramento Kings basketball team; he also traveled to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as performance chef for the U.S. Women’s Soccer team. He owns Fuel Good, which helps postretirement athletes maintain a healthy lifestyle through education, meal planning, healthy cooking and other personalized services.
“I realized at a young age that I was this white Jewish guy who needed as much help as possible to make the starting lineup in basketball,” Eisen has said. “I knew if I could better myself through healthier eating, I would do better in sports. I also wanted to travel, work with athletes, and implement real food and nutrition — in a nutshell, live a healthier lifestyle.”
THE TRAINING TABLE
Like Sacks, Providence Campus Associate Professor Jonathan Poyourow ’03, a former military and hospital dietitian, specializes in culinary nutrition. He also teaches a performance cuisine class, where students are charged with designing meals and menus for different types of athletes. The group uses their knowledge of nutrition, biochemistry, anatomy and physiology to develop individual assessments and menus for specific disciplines.
Last spring, his class had nine weeks to create recipes for the JWU men’s tennis team. Tonight is the training table presentation (the class chose elevated Mexican street food). They used mathematical formulas to calculate how many calories were burned during practice and entered the height and weight of each player into a macronutrient calculator. The result? They gleaned exactly how many diabetic exchanges of starch, carbohydrates, protein, veggie, fat and sugar are needed.
Sous Chef Amanda Quille ’19 says their research yielded the significance of carbohydrate drinks for tennis players, so they serve up a peach iced tea version of Gatorade and a mango raspberry mojito.
“If you don’t consume a sports drink right after a match, your performance — coordination, speed and skills — declines by approximately 40 percent,” she notes. “If it was a multi-match, they’d consume a sports drink throughout the meal.”
Some of these students are also taking Associate Professor Paula Figoni’s senior-level Product Research and Development class, which teaches them to create those energy bars and other products Sacks and Poyourow ask students to deconstruct. The class creates, test-markets and develops a market-ready food product in 11 weeks. “It’s a big challenge,” notes Figoni, a food scientist who began her career as a product developer for Pillsbury. “They’re testing these products the same way they would out in the industry.” Figoni’s class culminates in a public taste test where each group unveils its marketready product to a select group of students, instructors and visitors.
Her students, along with the others, should be able to carve their niche in the job market. “We’re graduating folks with multiple skill sets, which allows them to design their own careers,” says Sacks. “Many of my students are creating their own job descriptions and forcing the industry to re-evaluate traditional roles to make room for our cutting-edge students of the future.”
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Rock Creek Sweeps Cowgirls and Cowboys
Trent SanchezDecember 10, 2019
The Abilene High School Basketball teams were swept at Rock Creek Tuesday night. In game one the Cowgirls lost to the Lady Mustangs for the first time since January 9, 2009. The Rock Creek girls won 42-29 and led by as many as 22 in the third quarter. In the boys game, Abilene couldn’t hold a 10 point third quarter lead in a 61-56 loss.
In the first game of the night, the Cowgirls kept the game close early and trailed 12-11 at the end of the first quarter. Abilene seemed to have momentum as they entered the second quarter as Senior Jade Vopat hit a three-pointer at the buzzer to end the first quarter. The momentum would quickly shift. The Lady Mustangs started the second quarter on a 14-1 run and never looked back. Rock Creek was paced by 5’10” Sophomore Grace Gehl who poured in 10 of her game-high 17 points in the second quarter. The Lady Mustangs took a 31-17 lead into halftime. Rock Creek clamped down defensively in the third quarter and held the Cowgirls to 2 points and extended their lead to 41-19 as they entered the fourth.
In the boys contest Abilene overcame a quick start by Rock Creek. The Mustangs led 18-13 at the end of the first quarter. Rock Creek entered the game with one of the best scorers in the state in 6’1” Junior Dawson Zenger. He averaged 19.6 ppg last season and erupted for 39 in last Friday’s 67-35 season opening victory over Clay Center. He started the night strong with 9 first quarter points. Abilene would slow him down for a while. He scored just 9 total points in the second and third quarters. That would help the Cowboys lead 30-28 at halftime and by as much 10 points on two separate occasions in the third quarter. Abilene led 46-36 with 1:23 to play in the third quarter on a bucket by Travis Beetch. Beetch had a big night especially in the middle quarters as he scored 13 of his career-high 22 in the second and third quarters.
The fourth would belong to Zenger. Rock Creek trailed 48-40 after a bucket by Kaleb Becker with 6:55 to play in the game. The Mustangs would then go on a 12-2 run capped by a basket by Zenger with 3:20 to play to give Rock Creek their first lead since the second quarter. The Mustangs would never trail again. Zenger was dominant, he would score 12 straight points during one stretch in the final quarter and finished with 14 of his game-high 31 points in the fourth.
Abilene will return home Friday for the final time before the holiday break to face Augusta. The Augusta boy’s team finished second in the state last year in Class 4A.
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Hostility to Immigrants Breeds 'Constant State of Fear,' Advocates Say
Immigration attorney Ramiro Orozco said he and other immigration attorneys in the state were calling on the Trump administration to not deport DACA recipients and look at offering a program to offer some undocumented immigrants permanent residency. Photo by Imani Khayyam.
By Arielle Dreher Thursday, March 2, 2017 1:03 p.m. CST
Business owners, pastors and lawyers gathered outside Jackson City Hall Wednesday to voice concerns for the hostility shown toward immigrants in the wake of President Donald Trump's executive orders and recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Jackson.
Amelia McGowan, a director at the Catholic Charities Migrant Support Center, said increased hostility toward immigrants breeds fear and has the potential to make children vulnerable.
"Increasing immigration raids not only puts the children in immediate danger (by) removing their parents and caregivers from the United States, but it also places them in a constant state of fear that can often re-traumatize them," McGowan said March 1.
Rev. Michael McAndrew from the Redemptorists of Greenwood congregation emphasized that detaining or deporting undocumented parents was detrimental to families, especially when those children would go into the state's custody as a result of their caregivers' removal.
"The rights of children must protect more than a (child's) right to be here," McAndrew said.
Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigration Rights Alliance, called on lawmakers to kill Senate Bill 2710, which makes it illegal for any public entity from universities to municipalities to adopt a sanctuary-city ordinance to protect immigrants from local harassment and arrest.
"You find that every ... university, community college has been included in that and that means that students who may be undocumented ... could be prohibited from being on the public campus, so we're concerned about that; it's a very broad bill," Chandler said at the press conference.
The Day ICE Took Daniela's Family
ICE took Daniela's father and brother from their home in west Jackson.
Immigration attorneys from around the state called on the Trump administration to stand firm on its commitment to those on DACA (Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals, which allows certain eligible children of undocumented immigrants to have deferred deportation action for two years), the majority of whom are children of undocumented immigrants who were brought here in their childhood.
Immigration attorney Nathan Elmore said that in his firm's outreach to communities, he hears that people are worried about their children.
"These folks are scared; they're worried that, 'What if I get picked up? Who's going to take care of my child?'" Elmore said. "That was the number-one question we faced when we talked to these people, and that's a hard question for me to answer."
Elmore said that, in the end, no one can replace a parent.
Ramiro Orozco, another immigration attorney, said they are asking for the Trump administration to stand firm on its promise to DREAMers to provide a path to citizenship for those who came to the U.S. DREAMers are primarily children of undocumented immigrants who grew up in the U.S.
"We're also asking the administration (for a policy) where non-criminal hardworking immigrants have a process in which they can apply and earn permanent legal residency," Orozco said.
The Facts About Immigration
The Facts About Immigration: A Former Border Czar Speaks
DACA recipients are allowed to apply for renewal. One DACA recipient who is in the application process for her third DACA authorization, Daniela Vargas, spoke at the press conference. She talked about watching immigration officers detain her father and brother two weeks ago.
Just minutes after the press conference, Vargas was in the car with her friend Jordan to go get lunch, but before they could get on Interstate 55, ICE vehicles pulled Jordan over, and the officers detained Vargas.
Advocates plan to host a community forum for law enforcement officers and other community members on April 11 at Fondren Church at 6 p.m.
Read about recent ICE raids in Mississippi at jfp.ms/immigration. Email state reporter Arielle Dreher at [email protected].
CORRECTION: This story has been edited to reflect a factcheck change. The community forum at Fondren Church is on April 11, not April 2. The Jackson Free Press apologizes for this error.
UPDATED: DACA Immigrant Detained in Jackson After Speaking Out, ICE Responds
ICE Plans to Deport Daniela Vargas Without Hearing, Attorney Says
After ICE Raid, Immigration Limbo in Mississippi for a Jackson Family
ICE Releases Daniela Vargas Under Order of Supervision
Petitions, Vigil Demand Feds to #FreeDany from ICE Detention Center
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Trump wishes ‘happy Memorial Day’ to US, Japanese troops
by: JILL COLVIN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press
Posted: May 28, 2019 / 01:17 AM CDT / Updated: May 28, 2019 / 02:49 PM CDT
U.S. President Donald Trump toasts with Japan’s Emperor Naruhito during a State Banquet at the Imperial Palace, Monday, May 27, 2019, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
ABOARD THE USS WASP (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday wished “Happy Memorial Day” to U.S. service members aboard an American assault ship docked in Japan.
They shouted “U.S.A. U.S.A.” Trump called them a “tough bunch of people” and dubbed them “daring and mighty warriors in the Pacific.”
The president treated his appearance aboard the USS Wasp as a Memorial Day event because it was still Monday in the United States when he addressed hundreds of members of the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet.
“I have to wish you all a very happy Memorial Day,” Trump said. “On this Memorial Day evening in the United States, Americans are concluding a sacred day of remembrance, reflection and prayer.”
Before appearing on the USS Wasp, Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited a Japanese destroyer, the J.S. Kaga, docked nearby. Standing alongside Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Trump delivered the same “happy Memorial Day” message to the Japanese forces.
Some veterans and their families don’t like the phrase “Happy Memorial Day.” They say they prefer that the federal holiday remain a somber occasion for the nation to honor those who gave their lives in service to the United States.
“Our republic endures because of brave men and women who are willing to lay down their lives to defend us all,” Trump said. “Our freedom is earned through the blood and sweat and toil and sacrifice of great American patriots just like you.”
Trump has come under sharp criticism for skipping ceremonial visits to cemeteries to honor America’s war dead on designated national holidays. Since then, the White House has been careful to show the public that he is marking occasions like Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Before leaving for Japan, Trump placed small U.S. flags near headstones at Arlington National Cemetery.
Service members aboard the USS Wasp, docked at the mouth of Tokyo Bay, welcomed Trump with loud cheers and applause. Several wore round patches emblazoned with a likeness of Trump and the words:”Make Aircrew Great Again” — a play on his campaign slogan.
Trump’s helicopter trips to both ships capped his four-day state visit to Japan. He became the first head of state to meet Japan’s new emperor, Naruhito, since his May 1 ascension to the throne.
The visit also allowed Trump and Abe to spend hours of time together on the golf course, at a sumo wrestling match and in meetings discussing trade, North Korea’s nuclear program, Iran and other bilateral issues.
Trump was scheduled to return to the White House on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian group that monitors political repressions said eight people were detained by police Sunday at a march in Moscow commemorating a human rights lawyer and a journalist who were fatally shot 11 years ago.
There was no immediate information from the OVD-Info group about charges against those taken into custody who were part of a demonstration of about 1,500 people.
by JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press / Jan 19, 2020
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The head of the World Economic Forum says it's “reassuring" that U.S. President Donald Trump and climate activist Greta Thunberg will both return to its annual meeting in Davos this year, noting that concerns about the environment will be a key topic.
WEF founder Klaus Schwab sees vast changes in business, society and culture over the 50 years since he created the yearly gathering in the Swiss Alps, which initially was a forum for business leaders but now is a key stop for policymakers and activists as well.
CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “expressed outrage” to Egypt’s president on Sunday at the death of an American citizen who insisted he had been wrongfully held in Egyptian prison, according to a state department spokeswoman.
Pompeo’s sharp remarks signal the U.S. government intended to place the death of Mustafa Kassem, 54, following his protracted hunger strike last week, high on the diplomatic agenda.
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What’s New in the September Update of Office 365?
The September update of Office 365 includes some major additions and changes to tools such as Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel, just to name a few. It is important to keep up with these developments, so here is a list of the major advancements of which you need to be aware.
Microsoft Teams: Skype, Selective Do Not Disturb, Wiki App
Many users have been looking forward to the day when Skype is integrated into Microsoft Teams, and that day has finally come. You can now use Microsoft Teams for cloud-based meetings that can have up to 250 participants, powerful messaging features, and some awesome calling features.
One of the most practical additions to Microsoft Teams is to set up a selective Do Not Disturb status so that some people can still feel free to reach you (e.g., your supervisor or manager).
It’s simple to setup: Click on your avatar, Settings, Privacy, and then select the individuals who you still want to receive notifications from.
Another one of the new updates in Microsoft Teams is the Wiki app, which can be accessed through the left-hand navigation panel using the More Apps ellipsis. This app allows you to see the wiki pages you are a part of, keep track of your own private notes, and see the notes you’ve most recently been editing.
PowerPoint: Embedded Fonts
Have you ever prepared a presentation on one computer and had it looking just perfect, only to open it up on another computer and the fonts looked totally different? There is a way to keep this from happening: embedding the fonts in the PowerPoint deck when you save it.
Go to Save As > Browse > and then go to the Tools drop-down box in the bottom corner of the dialog box. In the Tools drop-down, click on Save options. Toward the bottom of the box that pops up, you will see an option to “Embed fonts in the file.” Check that box, then click OK and save as you normally would.
This option used to be only available on Windows devices, but the new update of Office 365 also makes it available on Office for Mac for Office Insiders. To access it on a Mac, go to the PowerPoint menu and click on Preferences, then Save. The Font Embedding option will be in the dialog box that appears.
Excel: Flow Integration
Microsoft Flow has been integrated with Excel, and is accessible via an Excel add-in. This will allow you to connect your data to services like Microsoft Teams, Twitter, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, Office 365, and more. You will be able to create and trigger on-demand flows for selected rows in spreadsheets that are hosted on OneDrive for Business or in SharePoint.
With this integration that uses the ‘For a selected row trigger’ and the Flow launch panel, you can create and trigger on-demand flows for selected rows in any Excel table on spreadsheets hosted in SharePoint or OneDrive for Business.
Access: Improved Visualization Tools
Users have been requesting more visualization tools for their data contained in Access, and that is exactly what Microsoft has provided. Not only have charts been made easier and more intuitive to create, but additional chart types have also been added. For power users who developed their own Active-X solutions to the challenge of creating charts for forms and reports, their solutions will continue to work.
Power BI: Export to PDF
This is another update that came about as a result of user feedback: the ability to export Power BI reports in PDF format where they can be shared with others. This will only be available in the desktop version of Power BI for right now.
Microsoft has also added an “Ask A Question” to the Power BI Desktop which will be globally available in the client. What this means is that you can use natural language queries to explore your data and allow report users to ask their own questions.
SharePoint: More Granular Control for IT Admins
In previous releases, if a group of users was not allowed to create Office 365 groups, they would be limited to creating Classic SharePoint sites. They could not create modern SharePoint sites. The new release has changed this: the IT administrator determines who can create classic SharePoint sites, who can create modern SharePoint sites, and who can create Office 365 groups.
Microsoft Cloud App Security is a powerful tool that evaluates every app used in terms of industry-specific standards, compliance, and regulatory certifications. The goal of this is to make sure that your company can make informed decisions on the type of apps that are most appropriate for not only your needs, but your security. This new release also checks for GDPR compliance and can generate a C-level report on critical findings.
While this isn’t an exhaustive list of all the new features and changes available in the September update of Office 365, it does present the ones that are going to have the greatest impact. However, it’s always a good idea to be cognizant of new developments even if they don’t directly impact your daily work.
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Brookings woman taken to the ER after colliding with building
Oct 8, 2019 @ 10:35am
A woman is taken to the hospital after her car runs into the front of the Pro-Lube building on Sixth Street in Brookings.
Assistant Chief Derrick Powers says it happened just before 1:45 Monday afternoon.
He says 22-year-old Samantha Alfke of Brookings had a medical issue, causing her car to leave the roadway and hit the building.
She was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
No one else was injured.
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Databases Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) The Philadelphia Stock Exchange founded in 1790 is the oldest organized stock exchange in the nation. As one of North America’s primary marketplaces for the trading of stocks, equity options, index options and currency options, the PHLX continues to be a market leader in the development and introduction of innovative new products and services. phlx Commodities
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange founded in 1790 is the oldest organized stock exchange in the nation. As one of North America’s primary marketplaces for the trading of stocks, equity options, index options and currency options, the PHLX continues to be a market leader in the development and introduction of innovative new products and services.
The PHLX trades more than 2,800 stocks, 740 equity options, 12 sector index options and 100 currency pairs. On the equity floor, PHLX’s PACE (Philadelphia Automated Communication and Execution) system was one of the first automated equity trading systems on any exchange.
The PHLX’s Semiconductor Sector (SOX) Index Option has become one of the most actively traded sector index options offered by any exchange and serves as a widely quoted benchmark of the high-tech industry. Additionally, the Oil Service Sector (OSX) is the industry’s most successful new sector index option. Furthermore, the PHLX’s Gold/Silver Sector (XAU), KBW Bank Sector (BKX) and Utility Sector (UTY) are established in a highly competitive environment of other indices as leading industry indicators.
In perhaps one of the most important innovations since listed currency options themselves, the PHLX has created a unique market structure for the trading of currency options. Titled the United Currency Options Market (UCOM), it provides unprecedented flexibility and the availability of both standardized and customized currency options. Customized currency options offer choice of expiration date, strike (exercise) price, premium payment and any combination of 10 currencies currently available for a total of 100 possible currency pairs.
Databases Research Quotient RQ (short for research quotient) is a measure of a firm’s R&D productivity linking its R&D spending to firm growth and market value. rq Finance
RQ (short for research quotient) is a measure of a firm’s R&D productivity linking its R&D spending to firm growth and market value. While RQ can be used to derive a firm’s optimal R&D spending, its principle academic use is analyzing the effectiveness of firms’ R&D. RQ offers universality, uniformity and reliability advantages over patent-based measures for this purpose.
Databases CMIE People of India The People of India database contains detailed identity information on about 885,000 individual members who reside in households in the Consumer Pyramids sample, a large household survey conducted in India. cmie-people-of-india Demographics and Individual Level
The People of India database contains detailed identity information on about 885,000 individual members who reside in households in the Consumer Pyramids sample, a large household survey conducted in India. The sample is large and well spread across India. It is therefore a good database to study the demographic profile of the people of India. The database contains information on age, gender, religion, caste, state of origin, occupation, literacy, education level and discipline in case of higher education, status of health and financial inclusion. Caste is an important identity characteristic in India based on traditional social stratifications. State of origin is an identity based on recent clustering of administrative regions. Status of Health of individuals is captured in three self-assessed statuses. There are eight different indicators to represent financial inclusion and an indicator for mobile phone ownership. Complete demographic data of members of all households in the Consumer Pyramids sample is collected thrice in a year. The People of India database is therefore updated thrice a year. The data always pertains to the date of the survey.
Monthly data is available starting in 2014.
To access the database:
Create a CMIE account.
Connect to the KDC KAP02 application server.
Go to the database section of the CMIE website and log in with your CMIE credentials.
Select "Monthly" on the upper right-hand side.
Select “Data Purchase” on the upper right hand side.
Filter to your year of interest and select your months of interest.
Select Continue and follow the prompts to download.
CMIE FAQs
People of India – Waves
Sample Size and Distribution
Survey Execution
Databases CMIE Household Income & Expenses The Household Income & Expenses database contains information on the principal sources of income of households in the Consumer Pyramids sample, a large household survey conducted in India, and their spending on 15 major expenditure heads. cmie-household-income-and-expenses Demographics and Individual Level Finance
The Household Income & Expenses database contains information on the principal sources of income of households in the Consumer Pyramids sample, a large household survey conducted in India, and their spending on 15 major expenditure heads. The database contains information on monthly household income from rent, private transfers, government transfers, business profits, profits from sale of assets, income from lotteries or gambling and income of production for self-consumption. It contains income from all sources of member income such as wages bonus, pension, dividend and interest earned. Each source of individual income is a sum of income from all the members of a household. Household expenses on major spending categories include food, intoxicants, clothing footwear, cosmetics toiletries, restaurants, recreation, transport, power fuel, communication, health, education bills rents, communication/information, etc. Income and expenditure data of households in the Consumer Pyramids sample is collected during each Wave of the Consumer Pyramids survey. Income and expenses are always collected for the four months that immediately preceded the month of the survey. This is a longitudinal survey.
Household Income & Expenses – Waves
Users may seek clarifications on the content and operations of Household Income & Expenses dx - Monthly Data, using this interface.
Databases NAIC Health Insurance Data Private health insurance enrollment and premium data covering all US states from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), 2001-2014. naic-health-insurance-data Accounting Industry Health Economics
Private health insurance enrollment and premium data covering all US states, provided by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), 2001-2014. Does not include self-insured/ERISA enrollees.
Current Northwestern faculty and doctoral students wishing to use the hospital financial data should contact Frank Limbrock at 1-8678.
Databases GS1 US Data Hub | Company This subscription-based tool gives you access to the GS1 US company database, a listing of over 489,000 companies that have a GS1 Company Prefix, the unique company identifier that’s part of every GS1 barcode and U.P.C. gs1 Marketing
This subscription-based tool gives you access to the GS1 US company database, a listing of over 489,000 companies that have a GS1 Company Prefix, the unique company identifier that’s part of every GS1 barcode and U.P.C.
Our current subscription allows us access to view/use/export company data, including GTIN (Global trade item number) and prefix list.
Kellogg has a very limited number of subscriptions to GS1 Data Hub | Company available to current Kellogg PhD students and faculty. To access this resource, please contact Research Support.
Databases HCUP NIS Nationwide Inpatient Sample: Data on representative 20% sample of inpatient admissions, provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). hcupnis Accounting Industry Health Economics
The National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS) is part of a family of databases and software tools developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The NIS is the largest publicly available all-payer inpatient health care database in the United States, yielding national estimates of hospital inpatient stays. Unweighted, it contains data from more than 7 million hospital stays each year. Weighted, it estimates more than 35 million hospitalizations nationally.
Overview of the National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS)
NIS Database Documentation
Databases HCUP SID State Inpatient Databases: Data on inpatient admissions, provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). Selected states and years. hcupsid Accounting Industry Health Economics
The State Inpatient Databases (SID) are part of the family of databases and software tools developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The SID includes inpatient discharge records from community hospitals in that State. The SID files encompass all patients, regardless of payer, providing a unique view of inpatient care in a defined market or state over time.
Overview of the State Inpatient Databases (SID)
SID Database Documentation
Databases Levin Associates Health Care Acquisition Reports Levin Associates' annual Health Care Services Acquisition Reports provide data on Mergers and Acquisitions across different sectors in the Health Care Industry. levinassociates Health Economics
Levin Associates' annual Health Care Services Acquisition Reports provide data on Mergers and Acquisitions across different sectors in the Health Care Industry, including hospitals, managed care companies, physician medical groups, rehabilitation, labs/MRI/dialysis, and behavioral healthcare. Years available: 2007-2018.
Databases Florida AHCA Inpatient Discharge Data Data on Florida Inpatient Utilization. florida-ahca-inpatient-discharge-data Health Economics
The Agency for Health Care Administration collects inpatient discharge, outpatient and ambulatory, and emergency room data from acute, short-term psychiatric, long-term psychiatric and comprehensive rehabilitation hospitals in Florida. The data are updated on a quarterly basis, and there are approximately 2.5 million records per year. Each record in the dataset corresponds to an individual inpatient hospital, outpatient, or ER visit. The file has patient-level data and includes information on patient demographics, diagnosis and procedure codes, attending physician, operating or performing physicians, and total gross charges.
Data Layouts and Data Dictionary
Databases New York SPARCS Inpatient Databases Data on New York Inpatient Utilization. new-york-sparcs-inpatient-databases Accounting Industry Health Economics
SPARCS is a comprehensive all payer data reporting system established in 1979 as a result of cooperation between the healthcare industry and government. The system was initially created to collect information on discharges from hospitals. SPARCS currently collects patient level detail on patient characteristics, diagnoses and treatments, services, and charges for each hospital inpatient stay and outpatient (ambulatory surgery, emergency department, and outpatient services) visit; and each ambulatory surgery and outpatient services visit to a hospital extension clinic and diagnostic and treatment center licensed to provide ambulatory surgery services.
SPARCS Overview
Inpatient and Outpatient Data Dictionaries
Databases AHA Annual Survey The American Hospital Association's Annual Survey. Available 1990-2016 (even numbered years). aha-annual-survey Accounting Health Economics
The AHA Annual Survey Database is a comprehensive census of United States hospitals based on the AHA Annual Survey of Hospitals. The Database is a reliable resource for health service research and trends analyses, and it offers a-snapshot of hospital-specific data on approximately 6,500 hospitals and 400-plus systems, including as many as 1,000 data fields covering organizational structure, personnel, hospital facilities and services, and financial performance. It includes a documentation book with a summary of changes that identifies open, closed, and merged hospitals compared to the prior year.
The database is released annually in October. Available at Northwestern: 1990-2016 (even numbered years).
Current Northwestern faculty and doctoral students wishing to use the hospital financial data should contact John Blosser at 1-2933.
Databases EDGAR Local collection of SEC EDGAR electronic filings in their original format. The collection currently covers the full indexes from 1st Quarter 1993 - 2nd Quarter 2019. edgar Accounting Finance
EDGAR is a collection of all the Securities and Exchange Commission filings that are publicly available, in their raw format -- either plain text or HTML. All companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. This collection is suitable for researchers who wish to use scripts to extract variables or perform text analysis on a large set of filings.
EDGAR files are loaded on the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC) in the /kellogg/data/EDGAR directory.
For your convenience, files are organized into directories by Form Type, and then by Year.
Files have also been renamed to indicate the CIK number and quarter associated with each document. For example, /kellogg/data/EDGAR/4/1999/9779_4_0000950142-99-000880.txt is a Form 4 (insider trading) filing from the 4th quarter of 1999 by the entity with CIK = 9779.
If you need help writing a script to work with these files, please ask Kellogg Research Support for help.
SEC EDGAR Filings and Forms
Databases PATSTAT PATSTAT is a worldwide database of patents, prepared by the European Patent Office (EPO). patstat Intellectual Property
PATSTAT is a worldwide database of patents, prepared by the European Patent Office (EPO). More information is available on the PATSTAT website.
PATSTAT data files are loaded on the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC) in the /kellogg/data/patstat directory
For your convenience, we joined the data files into CSV files in /kellogg/data/patstat/CSV
We can also load the data into our MS SQL server. Please contact Kellogg Research Support for assistance with this.
This data is also available on the Kellogg Data Center (KDC).
Databases Arca 2008 - 2008 D, M, Q, A, HF, O US Faculty, PhD ArcaBook provides the complete limit order book for NYSE Arca ECN trading in listed (NYSE, NYSE Amex, Nasdaq, and NYSE Arca) securities, as well as the ArcaEdge (OTCBB) platform. ArcaTrade provides information on all NYSE Arca trades. Our sample covers September and October of 2008. nyse-arca Equity
ArcaBook provides the complete limit order book for NYSE Arca ECN trading in listed (NYSE, NYSE Amex, Nasdaq, and NYSE Arca) securities, as well as the ArcaEdge (OTCBB) platform. NYSE Arca is the third largest marketplace in the U.S. All messages in ArcaBook are time-stamped to the millisecond.
ArcaTrade provides information on all NYSE Arca trades. Each ArcaTrade message includes an actual trade-direction indicator, as well as an identifier allowing for the matching of execution messages with corresponding limit book entries in ArcaBook.
NYSE Arca data is available to Northwestern faculty and students at the Kellogg Linux Cluster in the /kellogg/data/arca directory.
The data is provided in gzipped .csv format. See online documentation for details.
Sample SAS code: arcabook.sas arcatrade.sas
Databases Audit Analytics 1996 - Q, A, O Global Faculty, PhD Audit Analytics provides audit information for about 20,000 publicly traded firms and 1,500 accounting firms. The data covers the 2000-2007 period and includes information about current auditors, Sarbanes-Oxley disclosures, compliance disclosures, litigation, and corporate governance. auditanalytics Equity Accounting Governance and Compensation
AuditAnalytics provides audit information for about 20,000 publicly traded firms and 1,500 accounting firms. The data covers the 2000-2007 period and includes information about current auditors, Sarbanes-Oxley disclosures, compliance disclosures, litigation, and corporate governance.
Audit & Compliance datasets
Audit and Compliance datasets covers all SEC registrants.
Accounting & Oversight Module
The Accounting + Oversight Module is designed to illunmiate the big picture of the audit and regulatory environment. With this suite of databases, gain insight into audit quality, trends in PCAOB inspections, shareholder satisfaction with auditors, and more.
Access to this module is available via AuditAnalytics.com. To access this resource, please contact Research Support.
Citation and courtesy copies of research papers
If you use AuditAnalytics data, please cite the source as "AuditAnalytics.com."
The AuditAnalytics licensing agreement requires Kellogg to provide copies of or links to any research papers that use or reference AuditAnalytics.
Databases Bloomberg 1970 - D, M, Q, A, HF, O Global Kellogg Bloomberg Professional is a continuous data feed service that includes real-time (with a 20 minute delay), historical, and descriptive data, analytics, and news on a number of markets and securities. bloomberg Equity Accounting Macroeconomic Fixed Income Derivatives Commodities Analyst Reports Financial Transactions Investment Funds Industry Real Estate
Bloomberg Professional is a continuous-data-feed service that includes real-time (with a 20 minute delay), historical and descriptive data, analytics, and news on a number of markets and securities.
The database includes information from all global regions, including exchange-traded and "over-the-counter" markets. Data includes complete descriptive information, volume, and output from Bloomberg analytics such as beta, moving averages, money flows, volatilities, option sensitivity, deliverablity, etc. Fundamental data contains earnings, balance sheets, cash flow and debt/equity analysis, rations, and public filings.
Bloomberg Professional is a suite of products. Due to the vendor's licensing restrictions, "Open Bloomberg" terminals only allow users to view and print information, as well as save screens (to GIF files).
There are five "Open Bloomberg" terminals at Kellogg located in Room 2415 of the Global Hub for use by current Kellogg faculty and students.
Login instructions are posted by each terminal
Once you have logged into a terminal, support resources can be found by clicking on the "Help" button in the ribbon at the top of the Bloomberg window.
Excel Add-In - also contains information about setting up an API
These and many other documents can be found in "Open Bloomberg" by clicking on the "Help" button in the ribbon at the top of the Bloomberg window.
Databases Board Analyst 2001 - A US Faculty, PhD Board Analyst is a source of comprehensive objective corporate governance, compensation, and critical company information. It covers 1,500 to 3,000 firms (depending on the year) from 2001 to 2006 and over 45,000 corporate executives and directors. boardanalyst Accounting Governance and Compensation Demographics and Individual Level
Board Analyst is a source of comprehensive objective corporate governance, compensation, and critical company information. It covers 1500 to 3000 firms (depending on the year) from 2001 to 2006 and over 45,000 corporate executives and directors.
The Corporate Library offers annual historical data captures from Board Analyst for each proxy year beginning in 2001. Information includes:
Corporate Board Structure and Independence
Director Positions and Committee Assignments
Among other things, it includes such fields as SOX compliance, the existence of a code of ethics, the identity of the "financial expert" on the audit committee, some litigation information, etc.
Databases BoardEx 1991 - O Global Faculty, PhD BoardEx is a database that includes profiles of business executives worldwide (including some demographics, education and career history, compensation, board and committee memberships, etc.), as well as the connections among them. boardex Governance and Compensation Demographics and Individual Level
BoardEx is a database that includes profiles of business executives worldwide (including some demographics, education and career history, compensation, board and committee memberships, etc.), as well as the connections among them.
Databases Bureau van Dijk 1983 - D, M, Q, A US, Europe Northwestern Collective access for the AMADEUS, ORBIS, and OSIRIS databases. Accounting and other firm-level data in US and Europe. bureauvandijk Accounting Industry
AMADEUS is a pan-European financial database containing information on over 10 million public and private companies from 41 countries, including all the EU countries and Eastern Europe. In includes up to 10 years of detailed information (consolidated statements are also provided when available) comprising 24 balance sheet items, 25 profit and loss account items and 26 ratios. The descriptive information includes the official national identification number, address, telephone, fax, website, legal form, year of incorporation, senior managers, auditors, number of employees, quoted/unquoted indicator, industry and activity codes and, when available, a trade description in the local language and English.
ORBIS includes full searching facilities and a global standard report format for international searching and analysis. ORBIS has information on over 111 million companies around the world, both private and public.
OSIRIS contains financial information on globally listed public companies, including banks and insurance firms from over 190 countries. The combined industrial company dataset contains standardized and as-reported financials, including restated accounts, for up to 20 years on over 55,000 companies. The bank financials in OSIRIS offer up to 8 years of financial data for more than 3,350 listed banks. Insurance company financials, collected from annual reports and the NAIC, cover up to 9 years of data on over 660 listed insurance companies. OSIRIS strives to cover all publicly listed companies worldwide. In addition, it covers major nonlisted companies when they are primary subsidiaries of publicly listed companies.
The Northwestern library also offers access to the ORBIS database web interface. These data may include some items that are not in the WRDS files, and cover the period up to present time (as opposed to the end of last calendar year on WRDS).
Databases CA Hospital Financial Data 1983 - 2003 A, O US Faculty, PhD The California hospital financial data covers the 1983-2003 period with some gaps. california-hospital-financial-data Accounting Industry Health Economics
California hospital financial data cover the 1983-2003 period with some gaps. The financial data include thousands of variables describing the finances, service offerings, ownership status, expenses, and employment of each of the 500 hospitals in the state. Each hospital is responsible for compiling and submitting its financial data; submissions are not audited.
The OSHPD data have been used in scores of published research studies in the social sciences. Many recent NU doctoral students and undergraduate honors students have also used the data.
California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) data are stored in SAS, Stata, and ASCII format on CD-ROM, with one year of data per CD. Current Northwestern faculty and doctoral students may borrow the media for short periods of time.
Kellogg's Healthcare at Kellogg Program (HCAK) is a repository for OSHPD data. Current Northwestern faculty and doctoral students wishing to use the hospital financial data should contact Frank Limbrock at 1-8678.
Online documentation (financial disclosure forms) for the years 1999-2007.
Variable definitions are stable over time with the exception of insurance type.
2000 Patient Discharge File Documentation; Public Versions A and B
Insurance-type definitions:
Disclosure reports and financial data
Hospital Annual Disclosure Report, CD-ROM format documentation for 1998, 1999, and 2000
Hospital Annual Disclosure Report (2nd half of 1986-1992)
Elements in the database correspond to fields in the spreadsheet as follows:
Variables almost always start with the letter q. If a page is subdivided (e.g., pages 4.1 and 4.2), the variables on page X.2 begin with "a," those on X.3 begin with "b," etc.
The first two numbers of the variable name indicate the page number. An underscore indicates a 0.
The next three numbers indicate the row number.
The final two numbers indicate the column number.
Thus, variable "q_403502" would indicate the field on page 4.1 in row 35, column 2.
Databases CA Hospital Inpatient Utilization 1989 - 2004 O US Faculty, PhD The California hospital inpatient data covers the 1989-2004 period. Each hospitalization in the state is reported; there are over 3 million records per year. california-hospital-inpatient-utilization-data Industry Health Economics Demographics and Individual Level
California hospital inpatient data cover the 1989-2004 period. Each hospitalization in the state is reported; there are over 3 million records per year. Variables available include demographic information (age, sex, ethnicity, race), diagnostic information, insurance status, patient’s county and ZIP code of residence, length of stay, type of care, and the disposition of the patient (arrangement that ended the hospitalization).
California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) data are stored in SAS, Stata, and ASCII on CD-ROM, with one year of data per CD.
Kellogg's Healthcare at Kellogg (HCAK) is a repository for OSHPD data. Current Northwestern faculty and doctoral students wishing to use the hospital inpatient data must sign a data-usage agreement form. Please contact Frank Limbrock at 1-8678.
Healthcare Information Resource Center
Variables almost always start with the letter q. If a page is subdivided (e.g., pages 4.1 and 4.2), variables on page X.2 begin with "a," those on X.3 begin with "b," etc.
Databases Capital IQ 1992 - D, M, Q, A, O Global Kellogg Capital IQ is a web-based application that provides access to corporate information and financials of public and private companies, financial transactions, and professionals. In terms of coverage, Capital IQ is restricted to active companies, with series going back to about 1992. In addition, this product also includes some macroeconomic data. capital-iq Equity Accounting Fixed Income Financial Transactions Investment Funds Governance and Compensation Industry Marketing
Capital IQ is a web-based application that provides access to corporate information and financials of public and private companies, financial transactions, and professionals. In terms of coverage, Capital IQ is restructed to active companies, with series going back to about 1992. This product also includes some macroeconomic data.
Capital IQ is only available to authorized members of the Kellogg School of Management.
Access Capital IQ by visiting https://www.capitaliq.com and logging in with your individual account credentials. Note: First-time users will need to register a new account using their @kellogg email address.
For assistance in using Capital IQ: clientsupport@CapitalIQ.com
For access issues: Kellogg CMC Library
Databases CBOT Treasury Package 1977 - 2007 D, M, Q, A, HF, O US Faculty, PhD The summary of the treasury package is given below. Tick Data provides you with daily tick-by-tick data (time and sales) for all CBOT products. The following data is included: trade price, trade time, and volume traded (if available). cbot Derivatives
A summary of the complete treasury package is provided below. Tick Data provides daily tick-by-tick data (time and sales) for all CBOT products. The following data is included: trade price, trade time, and volume traded (if available). End-of-Day Data provides quick access to the following daily prices for all CBOT products: Open, High, Low, Close, Settlement, Volume, and Open Interest.
Available since
Open Auction Futures
end-of-day
Open Auction Options
Electronic Futures
Electronic Options
CBOT Treasury Package is available in the /kellogg/data/cbot directory on the Kellogg Linux Cluster, KLC. End-of-Day Data is in CSV format, whereas Tick Data is stored as zipped CSV files.
Databases Chicago Research Data Center 1957 - M, Q, A, O US Northwestern The Chicago Research Data Center (CRDC) is a collaboration between the Census Bureau and a consortium of other organizations. crdc Macroeconomic Industry Demographics and Individual Level
The Chicago Research Data Center (CRDC) is a collaboration between the Census Bureau and a consortium consisting of Argonne National Laboratory, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, and University of Illinois at Chicago. The center is housed at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Researchers must submit a research proposal and be approved and cleared to start the project. The proposal review is lengthy; each proposal goes through three levels of review: a local committee, the Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies, and the Internal Revenue Service. The project must provide benefits to the Bureau's data programs and satisfy stringent confidentiality requirements. Once approved, researchers become sworn agents of the Census Bureau and work inside a secure facility. All output is reviewed to ensure that no confidential data is released. There are three proposal-review cycles a year: January 15, May 15, and September 15. Final versions of proposals must be submitted at least one month before the deadline.
There is a wide variety of Census economic micro data that are not normally available for public use: Annual Survey of Manufactures; Large Company Survey; Auxiliary Establishment; Longitudinal Research Database; Census of Construction Industries; Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey; Census of Manufacturers; National Employer Survey; Census of Retail Trade; Quarterly Financial Reports; Census of Service Industries; Standard Statistical Establishment List; Census of Wholesale Trade; Survey of Industrial Research and Development; Characteristics of Business Owners; Survey of Manufacturing Technology; Commodity Flow Survey; Survey of Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures; Economic Census Sectors; Transportation Enterprise Statistics; Worker-Establishment Characteristic Database; Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate; American Community Survey; National Crime Victimization Survey; American Housing Survey; New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey; Property Owners and Managers Survey; Current Population Survey; Residential Finance Survey; Survey of Income and Program Participation; Survey of Market Absorption; Decennial Census Long Form Data; Survey of Program Dynamics; Housing Vacancy Survey.
The Center for Economic Studies of the U.S. Bureau of the Census has detailed information about the proposal process and guidelines. CES is the primary resource for all information regarding all aspects of the RDC program. Researchers should contact the Chicago RDC directly before preparing and submitting a proposal.
Chicago RDCE
Email: info@chicagordc.org
Databases Compustat Global 1987 - Q, A Global Faculty, PhD Standard & Poor's Compustat Global provides financial and stock market data for publicly traded companies in 82 countries, representing over 90% of the world's market capitalization. compustatglobal Equity Accounting
Standard & Poor's Compustat Global provides financial and stock market data for publicly traded companies in 82 countries, representing over 90% of the world's market capitalization.
Kellogg’s subscription to Compustat includes the files listed below.
Industrial/Commercial: contains data on Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Flow of Funds, and supplemental items.
Financial Services: covers financial companies and contains data on Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Flow of Funds, and supplemental items.
Issue File: contains stock-market-related items, including monthly prices, dividends, shares traded, issued capital, and earnings per share.
Currency: contains month-end and average translation rate items and cross-rate tables for designated currencies.
Databases Compustat North America 1950 - Q, A US Faculty, PhD Standard & Poor's Compustat North America provides the annual and quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on most publicly held companies in the United States and Canada. compustatna Equity Accounting
Standard & Poor's Compustat North America provides the annual and quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on most publicly held companies in the United States and Canada. Financial data items are collected from a wide variety of sources, including news wire services, news releases, shareholder reports, direct company contacts, and quarterly and annual documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Compustat files also contain information on aggregates, industry segments, banks, market prices, dividends, and earnings. Depending upon the data set, coverage may extend as far back as 1950 through the most recent year-end. Kellogg’s subscription to Compustat includes the files listed below.
Industrial files (ina, inq): Include data from balance statements, income statements, and cash flows for the publicly held companies listed in NYSE and AMEX for the most recent 20 years.
Full coverage files (fca, fcq): Include companies listed in NASDAQ, regional exchanges, publicly held companies trading common stock, and wholly owned subsidiaries trading preferred stock or debt.
Research files (res, req): Contain data on companies that have been deleted from the Industrial files (Primary, Supplementary, Tertiary) and the Full-Coverage files due to acquisition, merger, bankruptcy, liquidation, reverse acquisition, leveraged buyout, or because they became a private company. The “Current” data file covers the most recent 20 years and is updated annually. There are two additional research data files, one that covers the previous 20 years (currently, 1961-1980, updated annually, called “Backdata”) and one that covers 1950 through 1969 (“Wayback data”). The last one is not updated.
Bank files (bna, bnq): Include data on banking institutions.
Business Information Industry Segment files (bif): Cover up to seven fiscal years for each company. Within each year, there are one to ten records of industry-segment data, depending on reports by companies.
Business Information Geographic Segment files (geo): Cover up to seven fiscal years for each company. Within each year, there are 5 records of geographic-segment data.
Prices, Dividends, and Earnings files (pde), current and research: Contain market information and industry indexes and composites.
Databases CoreLogic 1995 - O US Faculty, PhD CoreLogic (formerly DataQuick) compiles real property data from county assessor and recorder offices, covering over 147 million properties in over 2,300 jurisdictions across the United States. It includes information related to sales transactions, property descriptions, and ownership changes. dataquick Real Estate
CoreLogic compiles real property data from county assessor and recorder offices, covering over 109 million properties in over 2,300 jurisdictions across the United States. It includes information related to sales transactions, property descriptions, and ownership changes.
Our subscription includes tax (assessor), deed (transaction) data and MLS Bulk data (historical to present, with quarterly updates) for residential and commercial properties, covering the period from 01/01/1995 through current time, for all US counties. In addition, we have assessor (for all 50 states) and transaction (for 34 states) residential data from CoreLogic's predecessor DataQuick, covering the period from 1/1/1995 through 2/10/2012. Both CoreLogic and DataQuick data include geocodes.
CoreLogic data are available on the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC), and the Kellogg Data Center (KDC). To receive access to CoreLogic, you must be directly affiliated with the Guthrie Center for Real Estate Research. Please connect with Professor Efraim Benmelech , Director of the Guthrie Center, to request access to the CoreLogic data.
The most current CoreLogic data are located under /kellogg/data/corelogic on KLC. The data are in pipe-separated text files. Variable type, length, and format information can be found in the layout files below. Example SAS and Stata code to read the files is in /kellogg/data/corelogic/examples. On KDC, the CoreLogic data are loaded into a Database named 'CoreLogic'.
Assessor Code Tables
Deed Code Tables
Longitude decoding table.
Tax file layout.
Deed file layout.
DataQuick (1995 - 2012) residential data in the original fixed-width text format, as well as the file layouts, are located under /kellogg/data/dataquick.
The file layouts are as follows:
History File Layout
Assessor File Layout
Databases CRSP 1926 - D, M, Q, A US Faculty, PhD CRSP is a collection of datasets with basic and derived information for securities traded in on U.S. exchanges (NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ). crsp Equity Fixed Income Investment Funds
CRSP is a collection of datasets with basic and derived information for securities traded on US exchanges (NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ). Monthly data generally starts in 1925, while daily data starts in 1962. Kellogg subscribes to the following CRSP datasets:
US Stock databases: The end-of-day and month-end files include high, low and closing prices, trading volumes, shares outstanding, total returns, year-end capitalization, distribution information, etc.
US Indices database and security-portfolio assignment module: These files provide market indices on a daily, monhtly, quarterly, and annual basis, additional market and security-level portofolio statistics, and decile portfolio assignment data.
US Treasury databases: These files contain data on US Treasury bills, notes, and bonds, providing complete historical descriptive information and market data including prices, returns, accrued interest, yields, and durations. Four groups of supplemental files extract term structures and risk-free rates (Treasury bill term structure files, Fama-Bliss discount bond files, risk-free rates file, maturity portfolio returns file).
Survivor-Bias-Free US Mutual Fund database: This database provides survivor-bias-free open-ended data for funds of all investment objectives, such as monthly and annual returns, monthly total net assets, monthly net asset values, and distributions.
CRSP/Compustat Merged database: This database contains the Compustat data reformmated into CRSPAccess format with "CRSPLink", linking CRSP data and Compustat data. CRSPLink links Compustat unique identifier for companies (GVKEY) with CRSP's unique identifiers (PERMNO and PERMCO).
Security identifiers such as name, CUSIP, and ticker are linked to unique CRSP identifiers, allowing complete time-series analysis even if the security identifiers change over time.
Databases Datastream 1970 - D, M, Q, A Global Kellogg Datastream provides an extensive historical financial database offering global coverage of topics such as equities, bonds, and derivatives. datastream Equity Accounting Macroeconomic Fixed Income Derivatives
Datastream provides an extensive historical financial database offering global coverage of:
Stock market indexes
Interest and exchange rates
Datastream draws on a variety of resources, including the national statistical agencies, central banks, international organizations, as well as consulting companies and research institutes.
Frequency and coverage: Depending on the type of series, data is available on a daily, weekly, monthly, or annual basis. Historical coverage depends on the type of series and the country; some series start as early as 1950.
Remote access: You can access Datastream via a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) by following the instructions below. The Kellogg license for Datastream allows only three concurrent logins by current Kellogg faculty, student, or staff members; please make sure you utilize the ‘Log Off’ button on the desktop as soon as you are done to release the license. While your storage within the VDI desktop (desktop, documents, downloads, etc) should be persistent, the storage is not guaranteed and it is recommended that you save all files to your local computer. The VDI may also be unavailable for an hour or two on the last Wednesday of every month for maintenance. Please plan accordingly.
To access the Datastream VDI:
If you do not already have it installed on your computer, download the VMware Horizon Client by going to this link and selecting “Install VMWare Horizon Client”. Download the client that is best suited for your operating system. This will require a computer restart.
Once installed on your computer, open the client and click on the “rsdesktops.kellogg.northwestern.edu” box.
If this box isn’t there, add it by selecting the “+ New server” button on the top left and enter: rsdesktops.kellogg.northwestern.edu
When prompted, log-in with your NetID credentials – and ensure you update the Domain to Kellogg (not ADS).
Click the box that says Datastream. You will be directed to a desktop that has Datastream installed on it.
Access to Datastream is restricted to computers within Kellogg's IP domains, i.e., computers physically at Kellogg locations. Computers outside the Kellogg domain must use Northwestern's Virtual Private Network (VPN).
If you experience any problems, contact Research Support.
Databases DealScan (LSTA/LPC) 1988 - 2012 O Global Faculty, PhD DealScan (LSTA/LPC) is a database of deal terms and conditions on loans, high-yield bonds, private placements,and hybrid financing structures originated globally from 1988 through 2012. dealscan Fixed Income Financial Transactions
DealScan (LSTA/LPC) is a database of deal terms and conditions on loans, high-yield bonds, private placements, and hybrid financing structures originated globally from 1988 through 2012. Information includes borrower, lender, purpose, amount, fees, covenants, financials, and more.
Read some additional background information on this database (information from the Help file in a previos release of the dataset).
Databases Economatica 1986 - D, M, Q, A Global Faculty, PhD The Economatica database covers over 5,000 companies in Latin America. Countries covered in Latin America include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. economatica Equity Accounting Macroeconomic Fixed Income Investment Funds
The Economática database covers over 5,000 companies in Latin American countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. Until January 2003, the database also covered the following Asian countries: China, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. This information (up to the third quarter 2002) is still available. Economática also includes over 400 US-company results for use as benchmarks.
The data starts as early as 1986, depending on the country. It includes quarterly company balance sheets and daily market data (stock prices, ADRs, indexes, currency exchange rates, inflation rates, net asset value per share for mutual funds, etc.), as well as financial and trading ratios. The user can choose to have the data displayed in domestic currency, US dollars, or the currency in which the original balance sheets were filed.
Descriptive information for the firms includes industrial sector NAICS and an Economática classification), type of asset, company ID, SEDOL code (an ID assigned by the International Stock Exchange of London), company web site, ticker, exchange where the asset is traded, names of main shareholders (and numbers of shares held), number of individual shareholders, etc.
The software allows the creation of graphics, some technical analysis, and data extraction.
In 2002, Economática started keeping inactive companies in its files, making an active/inactive indicator available to users.
Current Kellogg students and faculty wishing to access Economática may contact Research Support.
Access to Economática is restricted to computers within Kellogg's IP domains, i.e., computers physically at Kellogg locations. Computers outside the Kellogg domain must use Northwestern's Virtual Private Network (VPN).
When Economática is first opened, you will see the complete universe of stocks, indices (inflation, commodity, and stock), currencies, and fixed income products that are in the database.
To identify the type of asset:
Go to "Double Click Here to Create a Column" and create your column. A dialogue box will give you many options. Choose the far-right option titled "miscellaneous." Then choose "Type of Asset" and "OK."
To identify and sort by country:
Go to "Double click Here to Create a Column" and choose the far-right option titled "Miscellaneous." Choose "Country" and "OK."
From the menu bar, choose "Sort" and in the first highlighted box choose "Country" and then "OK."
To narrow down your area of focus:
From the menu bar, choose "Filter." Next, select "Insert Condition." Set the left option to "Country" and click on the right box once so the country menu pops up. Choose the country you are interested in and hit "OK." Select "Insert Condition" once again and choose "Type of Asset." This time choose "Stock" and hit "OK." Choose "OK" a second time. You will see only stocks from the country you selected.
To rank by return on equity:
Choose "Double Click Here to Create a Column." Choose the second option, "Financial Ratios." Scroll down to "Return on Equity" and select it. Hit "OK." When the return-on-equity numbers have filled in, you can rank them either by right clicking on the return on equity column and choosing "Sort Descending" or by choosing the Sort option from the menu bar and then choosing "Return on Equity." The default is descending order but you can change that by clicking on the arrow key to the right.
To open the financial statements for a company:
Highlight a company. Choose "Window" from the menu bar and choose "New Window" (or click on the window icon). Choose the top-right "Financial Statement & Number of Shares" button that looks like a moneybag.
As you point to other companies, the respective financial statement will be called up.
To see which other capabilities are available:
From the menu bar choose "File" and then "Load Screens." Under Files of Type, choose Eco Screens. As a sample, look at screens 60 or 62.
Using Economática
Databases EDGAR Online 1994 - Q, A, O US Kellogg EDGAR Online is a web service that collects company and industry data, including all SEC filings since 1994. edgarpro Equity Accounting Financial Transactions Investment Funds Governance and Compensation
EDGAR Online offers company data and public filings for equities, mutual funds, and other publicly traded assets going back to 1994.
EDGAR Online offers the following data:
Insider Trade Data
IPO/SPO
E-Prospectus
Money Market Data
Databases Emerging Markets Database 1975 - 2001 M, Q, A Global Faculty, PhD The EMDB covers emerging and "frontier" stock markets. It includes market perfomance, indicators, market capitalization, monthly value traded, local stock market price indexes, prices in local currency and US dollars, etc. emdb Equity
Kellogg has both the 1997 version of the Emerging Markets Data Base (EMDB), Monthly Stock Series, from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the 2001 Standard & Poor's version. The IFC version has data up to October 1997, while the 2001 release includes data up to May 2001.
Northwestern University Library subscribes to the "Emerging Stock Markets Factbook," which is the corresponding print edition and contains the most recent data. The most recent editions can be found in the Government Documents stacks (call number 332.6405 E 53).
EMDB covers emerging and "frontier" stock markets. It includes market perfomance, indicators, market capitalization, monthly value traded, local stock market price indexes, prices in local currency and US dollars, etc. In addition, this database includes two series of indexes, the IFC Global (IFCG) indexes (which reflect restrictions on foreign ownesrhip) and the IFC Investible (IFCI) index series (which reflects new opportunities for investment since the mid-1980s). These indexes are calculated for prices and returns. Depending on the country, annual coverage starts as early as 1975, while monthly coverage starts in 1986.
Current Kellogg faculty, staff, and students may access this database through our Windows server, ksmr01.kellogg.local. To access EMDB from your Windows computer:
You must be logged into the KELLOGG domain. If you are using a Windows XP laptop and you are not in the domain, you will be prompted to log in when you try to access the server. To log in, type "kellogg.local\your_netid." Provide your normal password.
The command file to launch EMDB from the server requires mapping an M drive. If your computer has a device (hard drive, CD drive, or removable drive) using M as the drive letter, please change the drive letter before launching Datastream. This is done using the "Computer Management" application under "Administrative Tools" and requires rebooting your computer.
Select "Run" from the Start menu and type "\\ksmr01.kellogg.local"; click OK. Open the "appshortcuts" folder and double-click on the EMDB shortcut to launch the program.
Note: If you are using Windows Vista, right click on the "EMDB" icon instead and choose "Run as Administrator" from the pop-up menu. Press OK when asked to confirm.
Troubleshooting/Common Problems:
You see the following error message:
"Could not find FoxPro files ODBC driver. Check to see if installed."
The program will still run, but it will not be able to connect directly to Excel or produce graphics. Instead, you can save the data as a text file or Excel file (instead of having EMDB open Excel with the selected data for you). The "ODBC" folder in "appshortcuts" provides the installer and step-by-step installation instructions for the missing driver.
Your PC crashes with a blue screen when you try running EMDB
This is sometimes caused by a bug in Symantec Antivirus when it tries checking a network drive. You need to first disable the network-drive checking:
Right click on the Symantec shield in the system tray (typically in the lower-right corner of the screen) and select "Open Symantec Antivirus." Alternatively, you can run it by going to Start -> All Programs -> Symantec Client Security -> Symantec Antivirus.
From the Configure menu, select File System Auto-Protect.
Make sure that under Network Scanning Options, Enable Scanning is unchecked.
The software included in the 2001 release (EMDB 2000 version 6.0) allows the user to select the desired series, setting the frequency (monthly, quartely, annual) as well as the beginning and end points. It also allows for exporting the data to Microsoft Excel, ASCII, comma-delimited, DBF, etc.
The following documents are in Acrobat PDF format:
User Guide (44 pages)
Methodology (68 pages)
Databases ExecuComp 1992 - 2014 A, O US Faculty, PhD This dataset includes over 80 different compensation items on more than 12,500 executives (top five executive officers per company) in companies included in the S&P 500, S&P 400 MidCap, and S&P SmallCap 600 indexes. execucomp Governance and Compensation
ExecuComp is a product of Standard & Poor's. This dataset includes over 80 different compensation items on more than 12,500 executives (top five executive officers per company) in companies included in the S&P 500, S&P 400 MidCap, and S&P SmallCap 600 indexes, with over 35 measures of company financial performance taken from Compustat. The data is annual and available from 1992 forward.
Databases FactSet 1980 - D, M, Q, A Global Kellogg FactSet provides analytic tools and financial and economics data on public and private companies and their debt issues, private equity and venture capital firms and funds, macroeconomic series, global M&A deals, ownership details, and people data. factset Equity Accounting Macroeconomic Fixed Income Analyst Reports Financial Transactions Governance and Compensation Industry
FactSet provides analytic tools and financial and economics data on public and private companies and their debt issues, private equity and venture capital firms and funds, macroeconomic series, global M&A deals, ownership details, and people data.
FactSet can be accessed from the "Special Software" computers located in Room 2415 of the Global Hub.
In addition, Kellogg students and faculty can request individual accounts at https://advantage.factset.com/academic_idrequest. Please note that these accounts can be used only for academic purposes, and may not be shared with any other people.
Databases First Call Historical Database 1980 - 2003 M, Q, A, O Global Faculty, PhD First Call Historical Database (FCHD) includes First Call's real-time earnings estimates and information such as broker-estimate details and company-issued guidelines. firstcall Equity Accounting Analyst Reports
First Call Historical Database (FCHD) includes First Call’s real-time earnings estimates. The following information is included:
Broker estimate detail and consensus estimates
Estimate revision activity
Company-issued guidelines
Target prices (until 2003)
Company and Issuer Information
Cross-reference to other First Call products
The data goes back to 1987 (1980 in some cases). In addition to the date the estimates were published, Firt Call includes the time stamp.
Note: for the "deleted," "source," and "tgt_type" variables, there are some undocumented codes.
First Call Historical Database is available to current Kellogg faculty and doctoral students. This data is available in the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC).
Data manuals:
FCHD User Guide
FCHD Technical Guide
Target Price History File
Analyst-Recommendation History File
File layouts:
"tgt_prc_live.prn" and "tgt_prc_del.prn" contain target prices for live and delisted companies, respectively. Both files are pipe-delimited (each field is separated by "|") and include a header row with the variable names. For variable descriptions, refer to the documentation provided by First Call. Note that each of the date fields also includes a time stamp; to read this information correctly, you need to parse these fields into their two parts. In both files, missing values for prices have been coded "NA," while the missing values for alphanumeric variables are represented by a space. Price values have two implied decimals: for example, a price of "5760" should be read as "$57.60."
"cross_ref.dat" contains a mapping between the security ID, First Call ticker, and the Thomson Financial ID for each security. The file is tab-delimited without a header row. The file contents are listed in the Technical Guide. This file should allow for linking the First Call Historical Database to other Thomson Financial datasets, such as CDA/Spectrum or Lancer Analytics Insiders.
To faciliate access, the files have been read into SAS (view the code used to create these files). The SAS files are available in the /kellogg/data/firstcall/sasdata/ directory. You need to assign a library name to this directory in order to use these files. The contents of these files are listed here.
Databases Forrester Research 1998 - 2010 A, O US Faculty, PhD The North American Consumer Technographics Survey & Data is a annual survey of more than 40,000 US and Canadian households, with questions that aim to analyze patterns in technology behavior among consumers in the US and Canada. forrester Marketing Demographics and Individual Level
We have purchased the data from waves 1998 through 2010.
The North American Consumer technographics Survey & Data is a annual survey of more than 40,000 US and Canadian households, with questions that aim to analyze patterns in technology behavior among consumers in the US and Canada. While the survey instrument focuses mostly on the online behaviors of connected consumers, it also includes questions about general technology attitudes and standard demographic and psychographic questions. The topic areas in this survey include (but are not limited to): automotive, consumer technology, financial services, healthcare, marketing, media, retail, and travel.
The files are available in two formats in the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC), in the directory
/kellogg/data/forrester
Citation: See the link above.The general format for a citation of Forrester Research data is "Title, Forrester Research, Inc., Date". In particular, the Forrester Research representatives suggest the following citation: "North American Consumer Technographics Survey & Data, Forrester Research, Inc, September 2010."
Forrester data sets are not to be shared with individuals or groups outside of the Kellogg School of Management with the exception of PhD students and RA's working under Northwestern University Professor's supervision and all users of this data set must adhere to all of Forrester's citation and fair use policies. Please see Forrester's citation policy.
All the original format files, SPSS ".sav" data files, are included in a ZIP file. All files have been translated to Stata format, and renamed in a consistent format (1998BM.dta through 2010BM.dta, one year of data per file).
The following PDF documents contain the survey instrument for each wave of data:
Databases Global Financial Database 1265 - Q, A, O Global Faculty, PhD The Global Financial Database includes times series, some starting in 1265, for a variety of indicators and about 200 markets in the world. gfd Equity Macroeconomic Fixed Income Demographics and Individual Level
The Global Financial Database is only available to current faculty, staff, and students for academic research.
The GFD includes time series, some starting in 1265, for a variety of indicators and about 200 markets in the world: returns for different asset classes, commodity prices, macroeconomic data, stock market indices, exchange rates, interbank rates, swap rates, treasury-bill yields, long-term government bond yields, and a development database (with series on population, defense and conflict, education, energy production, environment, etc).
We are subscribed only to the GFDatabase.
Request an account using your Kellogg email address on the following web page:
https://www-globalfinancialdata-com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/gfdplatform/account/Register
Accounts cannot be shared.
Once your account is approved, you can login here.
You can access the Help section once you log into the system by clicking on the "Welcome/Help" tab. Help topics include searching for data, downloading data, and more.
Spreadsheet listing the time series available through GFD (XLS)
Databases Health and Retirement Study 1992 - A, O US Public The Health and Retirement Study is a longitudinal survey of individuals close to retirement age. Questions focus on a wide range of topics related to health, wealth, employment, insurance, and family structure. health-retirement-study Health Economics Demographics and Individual Level
The Health and Retirement Study is a longitudinal survey of individuals close to retirement age. Questions focus on a wide range of topics related to health, wealth, employment, insurance, and family structure. The sample size is small (approximately 7500 individuals in the original cohort, with smaller cohorts added later), but the longitudinal aspect makes it possible to examine changes in individuals over time, making it especially powerful for some studies.
The first wave of respondents was originally surveyed in 1992 and again every two years after that. This group was made up of individuals between the ages of 51 and 61. In 1993, an additional cohort of individuals over the age of 70 was added. This cohort is also referred to as the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study. In 1998, the Children of the Depression (CODA) and War Baby (WB) cohorts were added. These cohorts were much smaller than the original, consisting of about 2500 individual respondents.
The HRS contains very detailed information on health and wealth. Specific health questions focus on heart disease, cancer, lung disease, stroke, and diabetes. There are also questions on the respondent's ability to engage in activities of daily living. The wealth section asks about income from various sources, money in savings accounts, house values, retirement accounts, etc.
One useful aspect of the HRS is the section on expectations. Starting in the first year of the survey, respondents were asked about the likelihood of certain events, such as living to age 65 or loaning money to a family member. In the case of the health-related questions, it is then possible to use data from later waves of the survey to determine the accuracy of the individual's expectations.
The RAND corporation has created versions of the original survey data that are easier to use than the raw data. In particular, they have renamed variables to be consistent across years and imputed wealth, income, and medical expenditures. Further information can be found here. Researchers should be aware that inconsistencies in these variables remain, even in the RAND data.
HRS data have been used in numerous studies in the social sciences.
All waves of the HRS are free and publicly available on the HRS website. However, certain identifying information is not included in the public dataset. This includes state, county, and zip code of residence; industry and occupation of employment; and links to Medicare claims records. These restricted fields can be obtained under restricted-use agreements. The main requirements are that the researcher must justify why the restricted fields are necessary and must create a data-protection plan to ensure security of the data. Data protection may involve keeping the data on a dedicated computer that is not linked to a network.
Researchers at Kellogg's Healthcare at Kellogg (HCAK) are working with several of the HRS modules. For assistance with these data, please contact Frank Limbrock in HCAK.
Databases Hoover's Online 2004 - A, O Global Northwestern Hoover's Online includes reports on companies, industries, and initial public offerings (IPOs). Hoover's also offers information on money management, career development, news, and business travel. hoovers Equity Accounting Analyst Reports Industry
Hoover's Online includes reports on companies, industries, and initial public offerings (IPOs).
Company information: Includes reports about public and private companies, such as descriptive summaries and profiles, lists of top competitors (including comparisons of financial ratios for the selected company relative to its competitors, the market segment, and industry), products and operations summary (annual figures for the most recent year available), and lists of company officers. Users can also access summary income statements and balance sheets (most of it in HTML format, with some quarterly and annual data downloadable as MS Excel spreadsheets), and some market information. Additional links provide news stories related to the selected company.
Initial public offerings (IPOs) information: "IPO Central" includes information about recent IPOs, lists of underwritters, lists of IPOs underwritten by a specific investment bank, pricing (totals by quarter and totals by industry), etc.
Current students, faculty, and staff can access this service, which is restricted by IP address.
Go to this link. The site will authenticate your computer's IP address.
Kellogg's subscription allows users to access materials and tools marked as "Pro" (it does not include "Pro Plus" options).
Access to Hoover's is restricted to computers within the Northwestern IP domain, i.e., computers in the Northwestern network. There is no login or password required for this type of access. Computers outside the Northwestern domain must use Northwestern's Virtual Private Network (VPN). If Hoover's website requests a password, either the computer is outside the northwestern.edu domain and the VPN is not working properly or the link selected requires a Pro Plus subscription.
Databases I/B/E/S Earnings Estimate History 1976 - D, M, Q, A, O Global Faculty, PhD IBES provides summary and individual analyst forecasts of company earnings, cash flows, and other important financial items, as well as buy-sell-hold recommendations. ibes Analyst Reports Demographics and Individual Level
IBES provides summary and individual analyst forecasts of company earnings, cash flows, and other important financial items, as well as buy-sell-hold recommendations.
There are two versions of the IBES earnings estimate history, Summary and Detail:
The Summary History consists of a snapshot of the consensus-level data taken monthly. The U.S. edition covers reported earnings estimates and results since January 1976, while the international starts in 1987.
The Detail History (Analyst Earnings Estimate History) is a timeline of individual analysts' earnings forecasts (daily records at the analyst level). The U.S. edition starts in 1983, while the International edition starts in 1987.
Both data sets are available for U.S. and International stocks. The databases cover 52 markets.
Historic data is also available on the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC).
Databases ICPSR 1194 - M, Q, A, O Global Public The data holdings cover a broad range of disciplines, including political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, education, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, and law. icpsr Macroeconomic Industry Demographics and Individual Level
ICPSR is the world's largest data repository. The data holdings cover a broad range of disciplines, including political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, education, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, and law. ICPSR's website allows for searching the archive and downloading data and codebooks. The latter (if the dataset is the result of a survey) frequently include the questionnaire or survey instrument.
Users can search and access ICPSR's archive through its website: www.icpsr.umich.edu.
Databases IHS Global Insight 1946 - D, M, Q, A US Faculty, PhD Northwestern subscribes to the "Basic Economics" database. The Basic Economics database comprises four kinds of databases: Economics, Weekly, Daily, and Foreign Exchange. dri Macroeconomic Fixed Income Derivatives Industry Demographics and Individual Level
IHS Global Insight database offers comprehensive economic coverage of countries, regions, and industries. It includes the DRI BASIC Economics database (formerly known as Citibase), which contains monthly, quarterly, and annual time-series data that date back to 1946, when available, and end with the latest updates. The DRI BASIC Economic database consists of four databases:
Economics: Annual, quarterly, and monthly data for the US starting as early as 1946, when available. The data are mostly macroeconomic indicators (GDP, personal income, housing, money supply, government revenues and expenditures, foreign trade, etc.) and aggregate sectoral data (e.g., retail sales and inventoriess, housing vacancies, value of manufactures' shipments, new orders, inventories, etc.). Data sources are the Bureau of the Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Federal Reserve System, different stock exchanges, producer associations, etc.
Weekly: In addition to financial indicators (interest and foreign exchange rates, bond yields, stock price indexes, etc.), the weekly data bank includes monetary and banking statistics. Weekly data goes back to 1959 for some series.
Daily: Commodity prices, derivatives, foreign exchange, interest rates, and stock market and options indexes. Daily data may start as early as 1973, when available.
Foreign Exchange: Commodity prices (previous metals and oil), foreign exchange rates (spot and futures), US interest rates, international interest rates, Eurocurrency deposit rates. The data in this bank go back to 1985 on a daily frequency.
In addition, all Northwestern faculty, staff, and students can access DRI/Basic Economics through a web browser and selecting "Customer Login".
Some documentation for the DRI Basic Economics part of Global Insight (accessible through the Northwestern library) can be found below:
Introduction (PDF)
Basic Economics: Daily (PDF)
Basic Economics: Foreign Exchange (PDF)
Basic Economics: Weekly (PDF)
Basic Economics (monthly / quarterly / annual series):
Basic Economics: Data from the US Bureau of the Census (PDF)
Basic Economics: Data from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (PDF)
Basic Economics: Data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (PDF)
Basic Economics: Data from the US Federal Reserve System (PDF)
Basic Economics: Data from Miscellaneous Sources (PDF)
Some documentation on variables can be found here.
Databases IMF International Financial Statistics 1940 - M, Q, A Global Public IFS is published by the IMF and includes, for most countries of the world, current data on exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. Coverage starts in 1940; series are monthly, quarterly or annual. ifs Macroeconomic
International Financial Statistics (IFS) is published by the IMF and contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS Country Pages; exchange rate series for all Fund member countries, plus Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles; major Fund accounts series; and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS World Tables, such as international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.
The Country, World, and Commodity Prices Tables, as presented in the monthly printed copy of IFS, are available as selection options. The Economic Concept View provides a cross-country view of the concepts in the IFS by individual or groups of countries.
IMF data can be accessed online through NU Library.
Databases Institute for Financial Markets 1969 - 2001 D, M, Q, A US Faculty, PhD The daily futures data cover 115 different contracts in US, Canadian and nonNorth American exchanges. It includes prices (generally, open, high, low, and settlement), volume, and open interest. institute-financialmarkets Derivatives
The daily futures data cover 115 different contracts in U.S., Canadian, and non-North American exchanges. They includes prices (generally, open, high, low, and settlement), volume, and open interest. The availability and time coverage of a particular variable depends on the contract. The period covered (in terms of the end of contracts) ranges from 1969 (contracts made in 1968) through 2001 (contracts made through September 1999).
Daily futures data from the The Institute for Financial Markets are available to current faculty and doctoral students. The data are stored in the /kellogg/data/futures path in the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC). Refer to the documentation and access instructions.
Documentation for Kellogg users
Data and variable availability (MS Excel spreadsheet, reproduced in the documentation)
A list prepared by FII (MS Excel spreadsheet, reproduced in the documentation)
Databases IRI Panel Data 1983 - 1998 A US Faculty, PhD The Information Resources, Inc. Panel Data contains data previously published as IRI's Marketing Factbook. It consists of point-of-sale information from more than 11,300 grocery stores, as well as some 7,500 drug stores. iri-panel-data Industry Marketing Demographics and Individual Level
The Information Resources, Inc. Panel Data contains data previously published as IRI's Marketing Factbook. It consists of point-of-sale information from more than 11,300 grocery stores, as well as some 7,500 drug stores.
The Marketing Fact Book contains data on grocery-store purchases from a representative sample of static qualifying U.S. panelist households to help make intelligent inferences for strategic planning and decision making. These purchases are continuously tracked across all UPC-coded brand items in all categories.
Key Measures:
Category Volume Share
Type Volume Share
Volume per Purchase
Purchases per Buyer
Purchase Cycle
Share of Requirements (Loyalty)
Price per Volume
% Volume Any Trade Deal
% Volume Feature
% Volume Display
% Volume Price Reduction
% Volume Manufacturer Coupon
Average % Off on Price Deals
Kellogg's license agreement with IRI includes specific reporting requirements by the vendor, as follows:
Use of IRI data in publications or external research papers requires IRI's written consent.
IRI data must be quoted as sourced from "Information Resources, Inc. Panel Data."
Databases ISS Dilution Data 1997 - 2004 A, O US Faculty, PhD ISS (formerly MSCI IRRC and RiskMetrics) collects information on year-end outstanding grants, weighted average exercise price of options outstanding, and weighted average contractual life of outstanding options, as well as information on new grants and option exercises. The data includes all options granted, collected from 10K and proxy disclosures, for firms in the S&P 500, the S&P Mid Cap 400, and the S&P SmallCap 600 indeces. irrc-dilution-data Equity Accounting Derivatives Governance and Compensation
IRRC (part of the RiskMetrics product by MSCI, formerly ISS) collects information on year-end outstanding grants, weighted average exercise price of options outstanding, and weighted average contractual life of outstanding options, as well as information on new grants and option exercises. The data include all options granted, collected from 10K and proxy disclosures, for firms in the S&P 500, the S&P Mid Cap 400, and the S&P SmallCap 600 indeces. Kellogg purchased four years of data between 1997 and 2004.
Databases ISS Directors Data 1996 - A, O US Faculty, PhD ISS (formerly MSI, IRRC and RiskMetrics) Directors data contains information about the composition of boards of directors in S&P 500, S&P MidCaps, and S&P SmallCaps companies, including individual characteristics (gender, age, ethnicity), compensation, and more. irrc-directors-data Equity Accounting Governance and Compensation
IRRC (part of the RiskMetrics product by MSCI, formerly ISS) provides research on corporate governance, proxy voting, and corporate responsibility issues.
The IRRC Directors data contains information about the composition of boards of directors in S&P 500, S&P MidCaps, and S&P SmallCaps companies, including individual characteristics (gender, age, ethnicity), compensation, participation in committees, indicators of interlocking directorship, independent vs. affiliated or linked directors, etc. This dataset is in part based on an IRRC annual publication (Board Practices/Board Pay: The Structure and Compensation of Boards of Directors at S&P 1,500 Companies); its primary information source is company proxy statements. Some director data (e.g., ethnicity) are collected from annual reports or company websites. The data are annual, starting in 1996.
Databases ISS Voting Analytics ISS Voting Analytics provides the industry’s most complete solution for monitoring and analyzing voting policies, meeting results and institutional voting patterns. Equity Accounting Governance and Compensation
ISS Voting Analytics provides the industry’s most complete solution for monitoring and analyzing voting policies, meeting results and institutional voting patterns.
Vote Results for Russell 3000 (Data from 2003 onward for Russell 3000 companies Data from 2013 onward for other U.S. companies).
Global Vote Results (Beginning 2013, meeting results for any company for which ISS procured the meeting agenda (except private equity, bondholder meetings, and a few others.)
Institutional Vote Records (Data from 2003 onward, covering 700+ institutions and 20,000+ funds).
N-PX Data (Coverage from 2003, U.S. mutual fund voting records for all institutions filing the SEC form N-PX.
Databases ISS Governance Data 1996 - A, O US Faculty, PhD ISS (formerly MSCI IRRC and RiskMetrics) Gornvenance data is based on the periodic print publication of the IRRC, "Corporate Takeover Defenses," which covers about 2,000 corporations and compiles a wide array of corporate-governance provisions from public sources. irrc-governance-data Equity Accounting Governance and Compensation
Russell 3000 Shareholder Proposals (Coverage from 2006, includes proposals that came to a vote as well as those that did not) add to top of this list.
The IRRC Govenance Data are based on the periodic print publication of the IRRC, "Corporate Takeover Defenses," which covers about 2000 corporations and compiles a wide array of corporate governance provisions from public sources: 10-K, 10-Q, proxy statements, corporate by-laws and charters, etc.
Researchers Paul Gompers, Andrew Metrick, and Joy Ishii coded these data into electronic format as the basis for the paper cited below, in which they developed a governance index:
Gompers, Paul A., Andrew Metrick, and Joy L. Ishii, "Corporate Governance and Equity Prices," The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(1), February 2003, pp. 107-155.
Databases ISS Shareholder Proposals 1997 - 2011 A, O US Faculty, PhD ISS (formerly MSCI IRRC and RiskMetrics) Shareholder Proposals database tracks shareholder resolutions related to corporate governance (though not social policy), their sponsors, the issue, company name, meeting date, votes, and outcome, and covers about 5,000 companies annually. iss-irrc-gsp Equity Accounting Governance and Compensation
The database tracks shareholder resolutions related to corporate governance (though not social policy), their sponsors, the issue, company name, meeting date, votes for and against, and outcome, and covers about 5,000 companies annually. It is available from 1997 through 2005.
Databases ISSM Transactions File Database 1983 - 1992 D, M, Q, A, HF, O US Faculty, PhD The ISSM transactions file databases provide tick-by-tick data covering the NYSE and AMEX between 1983 and 1992, and NASDAQ between 1987 and 1992. Each year of data is divided into two files, one for trades and one for quotes. For researchers interested in market microstructure, ISSM is complementary to the NYSE's Trade and Quote Database, which starts in 1993. issm-transactions Equity
ISSM Transactions File Databases provide tick-by-tick data covering the NYSE and AMEX between 1983 and 1992, and NASDAQ between 1987 and 1992. Each year of data is divided into two files, one for trades and one for quotes. For researchers interested in market microstructure, ISSM is complementary to the NYSE's Trade and Quote Database, which starts in 1993.
For each trade, the record contains the time to the second, price, volume, originating exchange, and condition codes.
For each quote, the record contains bid and ask prices timed to the second, originating exchange, bid and ask size (market depth), condition codes, and market maker (for third market quotes).
Supplementary files (available only in KLC) include CUSIP numbers, number of trades and quotes for each year, name of firm, issue description, margin/option flag, and SIC code.
ISSM Transactions File Databases are available to current Kellogg faculty and doctoral students through both the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC), and WRDS. On KLC, ISSM files are stored in flat ASCII files.
ISSM data on KLC:
The collection in KLC also includes supplementary files constructed by other researchers that match stock symbol tickers to CUSIP numbers. This match was done on the basis of end-year ticker assignments and may, therefore, include some errors. The collection of files in WRDS does not include these supplementary files, and users have to either match to CUSIPs by themselves or use the supplementary files in KLC.
Naming conventions:
NYSE/AMEX trades and quotes files are named "nyam_trades##" and "nyam_quotes##"
NASDAQ trades and quotes files are named "nasd_trades##" and "nasd_quotes##"
The supplementary files are named "stats_for_nasd##.pc" and "stats_for_nyam##.pc"
"##" represents the year. Supplementary files for NASDAQ are available only for 1990 through 1992. Files with extension "bz2" are the compressed versions of the files.
Note that the supplementary files were constructed at a later stage. Cusip numbers were assigned based upon the relationship between the cusip number and the ticker symbol at the end of the year. In a few instances, exchanges reused a symbol within the same year contrary to their rules; in these cases, the symbol/cusip assignments are incorrect.
ISSM documentation
List of days of data missing
"Readme" file, contains SAS and Fortran statements necessary in a program written to read the data
SAS syntax to read the supplementary files
Problems found in ISSM
Some tickers in the "stats" files for NYAM sometimes contain two dots in sequence (in 1987, we found three instances for different issues of the ticker "CMS"). This affects the SAS informat required for reading: tickers in trades and quotes are read in $char11. SAS informat, while the stats-files documentation states that they should be read in $char12.. To get around this, either read the stats tickers in $char11. informat and ignore the problems in 1987 or clean the stats tickers in that year and rewrite with $char11. informat.
Trades and quotes dates in files for 1983 through 1986 are seven digits long and have the following format: yymmddw. The first 2 digits are the year, the next 2 are the month, and the following 2 are the day. The last digit (w) represents the weekday: Monday =2 through Friday =6. Files from 1987 through 1992 have an eight-digit date, where the year has four digits: yyyymmdd.
Ticker symbols in the different files are aligned at different positions. For example, in the "Stats" file for 1983, the symbol is left aligned, while in the trades and quotes files for the same year, it has a leading blank. To properly merge, eliminate the leading and trailing blanks. If using SAS, use the LEFT and TRIM functions (e.g., symbol=trim(left(rawsymbol))).
1986 quotes file for NYSE and AMEX: Data depth for both bid and ask (bidsize, asksize) are missing (all values are recorded as -99 in the file).
Databases KLD Social Ratings 1990 - A Global Faculty, PhD KLD provides annual snapshots of the environmental, social, and governance performance of companies. kld-social-ratings Equity Accounting Governance and Compensation
KLD created the Domini 400 SocialSM Index (DS 400 Index), a socially screened, capitalization-weighted index of 400 common stocks. The DS 400 is recognized as the first social investment benchmark. In January 2001, KLD launched the Broad Market SocialSM Index (KLD BMS Index) in response to market demands for a wider universe of socially screened equities. The KLD BMS Index is the most extensive socially screened benchmark to date. Also in January 2001, KLD launched the Large Cap SocialSM Index (KLD LCS Index), which tracks the performance of the largest socially screened US equities, based on market capitalization.
KLD provides annual snapshots of the environmental, social, and governance performance of companies rated by KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. The data contain:
Identifying company information (Name, Ticker, CUSIP)
Strength and concern ratings for multiple indicators within seven qualitative-issue areas
Concerns for six controversial business issues
Summary counts for each of these 13 areas
Databases LIFFE Tick Data 1992 - 1995 D, M, Q, A, HF, O Europe Faculty, PhD The data includes futures and options (except where noted) on a variety of commodities. liffe-tick-data Derivatives Commodities
Time and sales (tick-by-tick) data from the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) is available to current Kellogg faculty and doctoral students. The media includes data extraction software ("CD Answer"), which allows users to export their selected transactions to ASCII formats (including comma-delimited files), Lotus (*.wks), DBase, and other formats.
The data includes futures and options (except where noted) on the following commodities:
3-month EuroLira (ticker "V")
Italian Government Bond (BTP, ticker "W")
Long Gilt (ticker "G")
Short Sterling (ticker "L")
FT-SE 100 Index (ticker "X"): futures only
FT-SE 250 Index (ticker "Y"): futures only
German Government Bond (Bund, ticker "A")
3-month EuroMark (EuroDM, ticker "U")
3-month ECU (ticker "C"): futures only
New Japanese Government Bond (post 2/4/91, ticker "N"): futures only
3-month EuroSwiss (ticker "S")
The period covered is from July 1, 1992 through December 29, 1995.
The variables available include time and date, contract type (puts and calls for options and futures), commodity code, delivery-month code, exercise price (blank for futures), price (premium) at which the transaction took place, estimated volume of contracts traded in the transaction, volatility, underlying, and a variety of flags with parameters about the transaction.
Databases Lipper Hedge Fund 1990 - D, M, Q, A, HF, O US Faculty, PhD Lipper Hedge Fund Database (formerly Lipper/TASS) offers quantitative performance data on over 6,300 actively reporting hedge funds and funds of hedge funds, plus over 7,000 graveyard funds that have closed, been liquidated, or stopped reporting for any reason. lipper Fixed Income Investment Funds
Lipper Hedge Fund Database (formerly Lipper/TASS) offers quantitative performance data on over 6,300 actively reporting Hedge funds and Funds of Hedge Funds, plus over 7,000 graveyard funds that have closed, been liquidated, or stopped reporting for any reason. Each module provides tables organized by data themes:
Product Details: Essential fund-profile data including fund strategy, inception date, fund domicile and much more
Performance: Full historical monthly price and performance, dating to fund inception
Notes: Loaded with value-add background information, detailing Manager Biographies, Fund Structure, Fees, Leverage, and more
Focus Details: Subscribers can analyse strategy trends by grouping funds into common themes based on the following criteria: Investment, Sector, or Geographical Focus, or Investment Approach
Contacts: Find contact information for each manager, as well as listings of the various service providers that funds may use
Additional tables include Indices, Stock and Trading Exchanges, and more.
Lipper Hedge Fund Database Brochure US
Lipper TASS FAQ
Lipper data is available on the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC) under
/kellogg/data/lipper.
Databases Mergent FISD 1994 - O US Faculty, PhD The Mergent "Fixed Income Securities Database (FISD)" data consist of two modules detailing debt securities and pricing information from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). fisd Fixed Income Financial Transactions
The Mergent Fixed Income Securities Database (FISD) includes debt-security issue information and pricing from through 1995 through 2001.
FISD data consists of two modules. The first one includes detailed information about corporate, U.S. Agency, U.S. Treasury, and supranational debt securities. The second module provides (buy and sell by insurance companies) pricing information from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The data is in pipe-delimited, flat, ASCII files.
Among the included items are full call, put and sinking fund schedules and call frequency codes, floating rate formulas, current rates and coupon schedules, Fitch IBCA, Moody's, S&P and Duff & Phelps credit ratings, U.S. Treasury auction information, convertible debt information, underwriters, trustees and fiscal agents, unit deals, and warrant information. The database also includes some descriptive information abou the issuer: industry codes (SIC and NAICS) ,ticker and exchange listings, issuer names and parent relationships, bankruptcy, and default detail.
The pricing information includes an issue ID to link with the Mergent data, as well as issuer and issue CUSIP ID, date of the transaction, name of vendor/purchaser, actual cost, accrued interest, par value (bonds), flat price, insurer type, etc.
Databases Moody's Default and Recovery Database 1970 - O Global Faculty, PhD Moody's Default and Recovery Database (DRD) is a database that contains credit histories on about 10,000 corporate and sovereign entities and over 200,000 individual debt securities going back to 1970. moodys Macroeconomic Fixed Income
Moody's Default and Recovery Database (DRD) is a database that contains credit histories on about 10,000 corporate and sovereign entities and over 200,000 individual debt securities going back to 1970. It includes issuer and debt identifiers (such as CUSIP numbers), rating histories, default histories, as well as descriptive data on the issuers and debt instruments.
Kellogg has a limited number of subscriptions to Moody's available to current Kellogg students and faculty. To access Moody's Default and Recovery Database, please contact Research Support.
Once logged into Moody's, to find the DRD, click on the "Products and Solutions" tab, and select "Default Recovery Database (DRD)" under "Access Products".
The following documentation has been provided by Moody's:
Default Recovery Database (DRD) FAQs
Databases Mutual Fund Links (MFLINKS) 1980 - 2012 O US Faculty, PhD The MFLINKS tables provide a reliable means to join CRSP Mutual Fund data (MFDB), which cover mutual fund performance, expenses, and related information, to equity holdings data in the TFN/CDA S12 datasets. mflinks Investment Funds
MFLINKS tables provide a reliable means to join CRSP Mutual Fund (MFDB) data that cover mutual fund performance, expenses, and related information to equity holdings data in the TFN/CDA S12 datasets. Using MFLINKS allows a researcher to gather detail on holdings for either particular funds or fund families and groups of funds at specific points in time.
MFLINKS has been developed with Professor Russ Wermers (University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business) as a contributor and ongoing consultant to the project. Professor Wermers was one of the first researchers who used linked mutual fund data. A good example of how MFLINKS can be used is his article, "Mutual Fund Performance: An Empirical Decomposition into Stock-Picking Talent, Style, Transactions Costs, and Expenses" (Journal of Finance, 2000), which decomposes mutual fund performance into its various components based on actual holdings.
Databases NAIC Property/Casualty Insurance Data 1993 - 2004 A US Faculty, PhD These data provide detailed financial information on almost all property casualty insurers doing business in the United States during the 1993-2004 period. naic-property-casualty-insurance-data Accounting Industry Health Economics
Kellogg has acquired a license for the 1993 through 2004 National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Property/Casualty InfoPro annual data. These data provide detailed financial information on almost all property-casualty insurers doing business in the United States during that period. Not only do they provide information on premiums (revenues), costs, and equity, but they also provide information on the reported development of claims of different types over time and allocation of assets across investment types. Since electronic filing has become more widespread, the completeness of the data increases in the more recent years.
Databases Nielsen Marketing Data 2004 - 2011 O US Faculty, PhD Three marketing databases are available: Consumer Panel Data (taken from a panel of consumer households), Retail Scanner Data (taken from participating retail point-of-sale systems), and Ad Intel Data (taken from various multimedia sources). Data is drawn from all US markets. nielsen Industry Marketing
Three marketing datasets are available:
Consumer Panel Data: Includes information about product purchases made by a panel of consumer households across all retail outlets in all US markets. The data includes purchases from all Nielsen-tracked categories, including food, non-food grocery items, health and beauty aids, and select general merchandise. The data represents approximately 40,000-60,000 US households who continually provide information about the makeup of their households, the products they buy, as well as when and where they make purchases.
Retail Scanner Data: Consists of weekly purchase and pricing data generated from participating retail store point-of-sale systems in all US markets. Data are included from approximately 35,000 grocery, drug, mass merchandiser, and other stores. Included in the data are products from all Nielsen-tracked categories, such as food, non-food grocery items, health and beauty aids, and select general merchandise.
Ad Intel Data: Covers advertising occurrences for a variety of media types across the United States, for the years 2010-2015, with annual updates available each year. These data can be broken down by Market Code (i.e. ~200 Designated Market Areas (DMAs), which can be matched to DMAs in the Consumer Panel and Retail Scanner datasets).
Registration for access to the Nielsen Marketing Databases is facilitated by the Northwestern University library. To register for access to the data, visit the Kilts Center website here. For data registration assistance, please contact the Business Collection Development Librarian, Carol Doyle.
Full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty may subscribe to the datasets for academic research purposes only. This excludes clinical professors, adjunct professors, lecturers, and other non-tenure-track faculty. PhD students may access data only under the supervision of a full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty member from the PhD student’s program. The faculty advisor is responsible for the PhD student's compliance with the policies for access to the databases. Below are some license restrictions to keep in mind:
Researchers seeking access to the data must register with the Kilts Center for Marketing at Chicago Booth.
Each researcher shall provide Chicago Booth with an annual status report of all applicable projects for that researcher. All working papers produced using the data must be submitted to the Chicago Booth Kilts Center for Marketing Nielsen Data Research Working Paper Series at the Social Science Research Network.
Data may not be used to perform projects that are sponsored, initiated, or funded by other organizations, including, but not limited to, commercial entities, foundations, industry groups, government agencies, or nonprofit organizations.
Copies of these datasets are also available on the the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC), and can be made accessible only to PhD students and faculty who have registered for access, and whose projects have been approved by Kilts Center.
Due to updated Nielsen policies in August 2018:
Nielsen data can now only be stored on university-owned computers, and never on personal computers or other third-party systems (even for brief periods of time, such as trips)
Publications and presentations are subject to a 30-day disclosure requirement prior to public release (disclosures should be made to Chicago Booth)
Any disclosure of UPC-level data, including UPC-level prices is prohibited
There are updated citation requirements
A complete list of policies can be found here.
Databases OptionMetrics Ivy DB 1996 - D, M, Q, A US Faculty, PhD The OptionMetrics Ivy DB US Options includes end-of-day bid and ask quotes, open interest, and trading volume on every call and put option on individual stocks traded in US exchanges, as well as more detailed information. optionmetrics Equity Derivatives
The OptionMetrics Ivy DB US Options include end-of-day bid and ask quotes, open interest, and trading volume on every call and put option on individual stocks traded in US exchanges, as well as open and close prices, return, dividend, and split prices for the stocks covered. The data are in daily frequency and the first date available is January 4, 1996.
Databases Preqin 1995 - A US Kellogg Preqin provides data and information on the private equity, venture capital, real estate, hedge fund, infrastructure, and private debt asset classes. preqin Investment Funds Real Estate
Preqin provides data and information on the private equity, venture capital, real estate, hedge fund, infrastructure, and private debt asset classes, encompassing the following areas: Funds and Fundraising, Performance, Fund Managers, Institutional Investors, Deals, and Fund Terms.
Kellogg has access to the following modules: Fund Manager Profiles, Funds in Market, Performance Analyst, Buyout Deals Analyst, Venture Deals Analyst, Investor Intelligence, and Real Estate Online.
To access Preqin, visit the Career Management Center Library website here.
Databases R&C Futures Data 1982 - 2009 D, M, Q, A, HF, O US Faculty, PhD The R&C historical futures data includes both end-of-day and intraday data and covers 80 global commodities. rc-futures Derivatives Commodities
The Historical End-of-Day Futures Price Data Package covers 80 global commodities. It also offers actual contract data on continuous contracts. The data files are in plain ASCII format and include the following fields: Date, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume, and Open Interest. The periods covered vary across different commodities. Some commodities (like Coca) have historical contract series dating as far back as 1959. The periods covered for most commodities end in 2003.
The R&C historical futures data include both end-of-day and intraday data.
The intraday data files cover six index futures series:
sp: S&P 500 Futures (Tick Data), since 1982
dj: Dow Jones Futures (Tick Data), since 1998
nd: NASDAQ 100 Futures (Tick Data), since 1998
us: Thirty-Year Bond Futures (Tick Data), since 1978
minisp: Mini S&P 500 Futures (One Min.), since 1998
minind: Mini NASDAQ 100 Futures (One Min.), since 1998
The period covered is through August, 2004. The variables available include Date, Time, Open, High, Low, and Close.
R&C futures historical daily and intraday data are available to current Kellogg faculty and doctoral students. The data are stored in the /kellogg/data/rcfuture path in the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC). The files are in comma delimited flat ASCII format with headers. The file layouts are as described below:
Historical End-of-Day Futures
The historical daily futures data include 80 subdirectories, each corresponding to a different ticker. The actual contract series for that commodity are inside subdirectory. The file names are formed by the ticker symbol, the last two digits of the year, and contract month (e.g., March 1992 Corn would be in the "c" directory under c92h.txt).
The list of symbols by alphabetical order can be found in this Excel sheet.
Each file has a general format, starting with a header line of variable names, followed by the actual data.
"Date," "Open," "High," "Low," "Close," "Volume," "OpenInt"
02/05/1997, 192.25, 192.50, 191.75, 192.00, 3500, 18300
Intraday Futures
Inside the intraday directory are six subdirectories, each corresponding to an index futures commodity.
minisp(es): Mini S&P 500 Futures (One Min.), since 1998
minind(nq): Mini NASDAQ 100 Futures (One Min.), since 1998
Each index futures contract is further grouped by different time intervals: 15 minutes (15_min), 10 minutes(10_min), 5 mintues(5_min), end-of-day (daily) and tick-by-tick (tick). Inside each time-interval directory are data files with names formed by the index symbol, an underscore, the last two digits of the year, and contract month (e.g., June 2000 S&P 500 tick data would be in the '/intraday/sp/tick' directory under sp_02m.txt).
Files are in comma delimited ASCII format and have a general format.
"DATE," "TIME," "OTHER," "OPEN," "HIGH," "LOW," "CLOSE," "VOLUME," "OI"
19990712,1040,"DJ_00H," 11500.00, 11500.00, 11500.00, 11500.00, 1, 0
IMPORTANT: Volume and open interest are NOT available in intraday futures data. The numbers under those two variables are simply internal programming codes.
Continuous Contract
Continuous contracts for different commodities are in the /kellogg/data/rcfutures/con_contract directory. The record layout is the same as that of historical daily futures data.
Note: All symbols may or may not appear in every commodity or every year of data.
Contract month codes
F January N July
G February Q August
H March U September
J April V October
K May X November
M June Z December
Databases RavenPack News Analytics 2000 - D, M, Q, A, HF, O US Faculty, PhD RavenPack News Analytics (RPNA) provides real-time structured sentiment, relevance, and novelty data for entities and events detected in the unstructured text published by reputable content sources. ravenpack Equity Macroeconomic Investment Funds
RavenPack News Analytics (RPNA) provides real-time structured sentiment, relevance, and novelty data for entities and events detected in the unstructured text published by reputable content sources. Publishers include Dow Jones Newswires, the Wall Street Journal and over 19,000 other traditional and social media sites. RavenPack News Analytics is used to enhance returns or improve efficiency by quantitative and algorithmic traders, automated market-makers, portfolio managers, risk managers, and surveillance analysts. Over 14 years of millisecond time-stamped data is available for backtesting.
RavenPack detects news and produces analytics data on over 34,000 listed stocks from the world's equity markets. Coverage is spread across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. RavenPack also analyzes news on over 200 economies delivering data on more than 130,000 places, 2,500 financially relevant organizations, 150 currencies, and 80 commodities.
Unstructured data converted to structured data: the data is 100% machine-readable
Reputable content sources: RavenPack ingests newswire content from Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal and web content from over 19,000 online sources
Automated event detection: RavenPack monitors published content to identify and alert users to key scheduled and unexpected geopolitical, macroeconomic, and corporate events
Proprietary entity detection: unique identifiers provide easy mapping to client databases or models and point-in-time sensitive classification helps avoid survivorship bias
Systematic sentiment scoring: RavenPack applies entity-specific relevance, novelty, and sentiment scores to all events in news articles using both traditional language processing (NLP) and proprietary techniques
Speed: all news articles are assessed within milliseconds of receipt and the resulting data is immediately pushed to users
Historical data: over 14 years of millisecond time-stamped data available for back-testing
Faculty members interested in Ravepack's publisher headline dataset ("Storey Data") should contact Research Support. Kellogg has limited concurrent user license to this dataset.
Ravenpack 4 User Guide
Databases RCA 1980 - A, O US Kellogg RCA (Real Capital Analytics) provides a database of commerical property transactions ($10 million or greater globally and $2.5 million or greater in the U.S.) covering office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hotel, and development sites. rca Financial Transactions Industry Real Estate
RCA (Real Capital Analytics) provides a database of commerical property transactions ($10 million or greater globally and $2.5 million or greater in the U.S.), covering office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hotel, and development sites.
Access by logging in to the RCA (Real Capital Analytics) external site. First time users will need to request creation of an account for RCA by emailing real-estate@kellogg.northwestern.edu. Note: VPN may be required if accessing from off campus.
Databases RiskMetrics CEPD 1996 - 2006 A US Faculty, PhD Environmental profiles for 2,065 publicly traded companies, including data for 19 environmental statutes. riskmetrics-cepd Governance and Compensation Industry
RiskMetrics Corporate Environmental Profiles Database (CEPD) has data for the following 19 environmental statutes:
Atomic Energy Act
Emergency Response Notification System Chemical Spills
Emergency Response Notification System Oil Spills
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
Minerals Management Service
Mining Safety and Health Act
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Actions
RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) Permit Denials
Safe Drinking Water Act
Superfund: number of National Priority List (NPL) sites at which the company or one of its subsidiaries has been identified as a Potentially Responsible Party by EPA
Toxics Release Inventory (TRI): emissions and off-site transfers for disposal of listed chemicals
TRI One-Time Releases: reported total quantity of toxic chemical released to the environment or transferred offsite due to events not associated with routine production processes
TRI Dioxin: reported emissions and off-site transfers of dioxin
TRI Energy Recovery and Recycling: reported on-site and off-site energy recovery and recycling of listed chemicals
TRI Treated Toxic Chemicals: reported amount of toxic chemical treated onsite or sent offsite for treatment (including transfers to Publicly Owned Treatment Works) of listed chemicals
Toxic Substances Control Act
Number of firms:
RiskMetrics has CEPD data for 2,065 publicly traded companies
These 2,065 publicly traded companies include the entire S&P 1500
The majority of CEPD companies are U.S. companies (1,972 of the 2,065 CEPD companies are incorporated in the United States)
Many of the U.S. non-S&P 1500 companies in CEPD are companies that were in the S&P 1500 at some point
Other information regarding the database:
CEPD data are only available for 1996 to 2006
The Company Universe table and the CEPD Totals table present the data in its most basic form
Pages 9 and 10 of the attached CEPD Data Feed Service Key describe the methodology of the data
Pages 11 to 17 further describe the nature and limitations of the data
These data are available to Kellogg faculty and doctoral students only.
The CEPD consists of three files:
CEPD data dictionary; data and methods for CEPD online service and custom datafeeds.
Company Universe (ZIP file containing one Excel spreadsheet). This file includes a list of the companies and their identifiers, including an IRRC company ID.
Totals (ZIP file containing one Excel spreadsheet). This file actually contains the panel CEPD data. For each IRRC company ID, the file presents all the CEPD indicators from 1996 through 2006.
Databases RiskMetrics Intangible Value Assessment 2004 - 2008 M, Q, A Global Faculty, PhD RiskMetrics Intangible Value Assessment (IVA) provides research, ratings, and analysis of companies' financially material risks and opportunities arising from environmental, social, and governance factors. riskmetrics-iva Accounting Finance
RiskMetrics (MSCI ESG) Intangible Value Assessment (IVA) provides research, ratings, and analysis of companies' financially material risks and opportunities arising from environmental, social, and governance factors.
IVA rates and analyzes over 5,500 companies, covering the MSCI World, Emerging Markets, US, Canada, UK, Australia, and South Africa Indexes, in addition to 95% by market value of the Barclays Global Aggregate – Corporate Index. Additional bespoke coverage is available through MSCI ESG Research’s Custom Research team. Analysts assess thousands of ESG data points across 34 key ESG issues, focusing on the intersection between a company’s core business and the key industry ESG issues that can create significant financial risks and opportunities for the company.
The IVA data are available to Kellogg faculty and doctoral students only and consist of two files:
IVA time series 2004-2008
(ZIP file containing five Excel spreadsheets, each corresponding to one year of data)
Totals (PDF sector reports)
The data are available for 2004-2008. Each wave of data includes more companies, as you can see here.
From 2005 to 2008, "South America, Central America, and the Caribbean" only includes Venezuela.
Databases Sand Hill Econometrics 1989 - 2008 Q, A US Faculty, PhD The "Sand Hill Econometrics Index of Venture" is a monthly index built from company-level pricing information for approximately 17,000 companies. sand-hill Equity Industry
The Sand Hill Econometrics Index of Venture is a monthly index of current and historical returns to venture-type capital, built from company-level pricing information. The conceptual basis for the index is the value of a continuously reinvested value-weighted portfolio of all venture-backed and similar pre-public companies. It provides a metric for private equity comparable to the S&P 500 for public equity.
The index is built from valuations revealed in episodic transactions in the companies' shares: private placements of new rounds of equity funding, IPOs, acquisitions, and liquidations. The approach to dealing with the episodic nature of the data is similar to the one used in constructing indexes of real-estate value from transaction data for individual properties. Earlier sources of data have been extended to deal with the selection bias.
According the Sand Hill Econometrics' papers, the companies covered are privately held, are organized as C corporations, and have sold securities to outside investors. The universe of companies represented in the index is around 17,000 (of which around 40% are still active and private). The data are disaggregated in four sectors: information technology, retail, health and "other industries." For each sector (and the aggregate), the releases of Sand Hill Econometrics include the annual rate of of return, total value, venture money, exit value of venture investments, and market capitalization of exiting companies. Index data are released quarterly and start in January 1989.
The following paper may be used as reference to understand the index data:
Woodward, Susan E., and Robert E. Hall (2003). "Benchmarking the Returns to Venture." Unpublished working paper, Sand Hill Econometrics.
Databases SDC Platinum 1979 - O Global Faculty, PhD SDC Platinum is a collection of databases with information on financial transactions. Kellogg has access to the following databases: US and Non US Mergers & Acquisitions, Global New Issues, Venture Capital (VentureXpert), and Corporate Restructuring. sdc-platinum Equity Accounting Financial Transactions Governance and Compensation
SDC Platinum is a collection of databases with information on financial transactions. Kellogg subscribes to the following databases:
U.S. and Non-U.S. Mergers & Acquisitions: U.S. Targets (1979 to present), Non-U.S. targets (1985 to present); Joint Ventures/Alliances (1988 to present), repurchases (1994 to present).
Global New Issues: Domestic and international new issues. U.S. initial public offerings (IPOs), Asian Pacific domestic, Australian and New Zealand domestic, Continental European domestic, Indian domestic, Japanese domestic, Latin American domestic, United Kingdom domestic, and Rest of the World domestic. Medium-term Notes Programs and Underwritten Calls.
Venture Capital (VentureXpert): Industry resources (funds, firms, portfolio companies, individuals); Industry Statistics: Fund (commitments, performance, statistics) and Company (Investment/Disbursement, IPOs, Mergers and Acquisitions). Most of the databases have information from 1970 to present; some start in 1969.
Corporate Restructuring: Full detail bankruptcies (1988 to present), limited detail bankruptcies (1980 through 1990).
Remote access: You can access SDC Platinum via a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) by following the instructions below. The Kellogg license for SDC Platinum allows only one concurrent login by a current Kellogg faculty, student, or staff member; please make sure you utilize the ‘Log Off’ button on the desktop as soon as you are done to release the license. While your storage within the VDI desktop (desktop, documents, downloads, etc) should be persistent, the storage is not guaranteed and it is recommended that you save all files to your local computer. The VDI may also be unavailable for an hour or two on the last Wednesday of every month for maintenance. Please plan accordingly.
To access the SDC Platinum VDI:
Click the box that says SDC Platinum. You will be directed to a desktop that has SDC Platinum installed on it.
Access to SDC Platinum is restricted to computers within Kellogg's IP domains, i.e., computers physically at Kellogg locations. Computers outside the Kellogg domain must use Northwestern's Virtual Private Network (VPN).
The data-definitions book includes definitions about each data item in Global New Issues, Merger & Acquisitions, and VentureXpert databases of SDC Platinum. Unfortunately there is no code book for the Corporate Restructure Database.
Global Public Financings
Worldwide Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances
VentureXpert
The Product Guide includes detailed information about the sources for each data item in SDC Platinum. Kellogg does not subscribe to all the databases described in this guide.
Detailed Table of Contents
Global Corporate Financings
Worldwide Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances (includes repurchases)
Corporate Restructurings (exchange offers and debt tenders)
Securities Trading
User Handbook
Complete document:
SDC Quick Start Guide (Version: 21 May 2012)
Document split in sections:
New Issues Sample Session
M&A Sample Session
Municipal Sample Session
Analysis Sample Session
Helpful Utilities
VentureXpert User Handbook
Overview and Getting Started
Portfolio Companies sample session
Fund Performance sample session
Company Investments
VentureXpert F.A.Q.
Databases SNL 1988 - M, Q, A, O Global Kellogg SNL Real Estate combines real-time news, in-depth data and expert research on real estate companies traded on stock markets around the world. SNL Financial combines exclusive analysis and in-depth data in real time for the banking, financial services and insurance industries. snl Accounting Fixed Income Analyst Reports Financial Transactions Investment Funds Governance and Compensation Industry Real Estate
SNL Real Estate provides financial data, news, and analytics for real estate investment trusts (REITs). Through the news tab, users can access SNL Real Estate Securities Daily and SNL Real Estate Securities Weekly.
As of January 2015, SNL offers daily news articles back to 2005. It also provides detailed information on REITs, such as price data, accounting information, earnings estimates and analyst research, debt issues and credit ratings, insider activity, M&A deal details, executive compensation, property holdings and transactions, regulatory filings, institutional ownership, offerings, advisors, audit fees, and other information, some of it dating back to 1988 and earlier (exact coverage varies depending on the information requested).
SNL Financial encompasses detailed profiles on listed and non-listed banks across the world, covering the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. It also covers thrifts, insurance companies, insurance brokers, specialty finance companies, investment companies, broker/dealers and financial technology companies.
Getting Started with SNL Financial: registration instructions.
Databases Thomson (CDA/Spectrum) Institutional Holdings 1980 - Q, A, O US Faculty, PhD The annual CDA/Spectrum files contain information about common stock holdings and institutional money managers. cda Equity Accounting
The annual CDA/Spectrum files contain information about common stock holdings and institutional money managers. The security coverage includes all NYSE, ASE, Nasdaq, Toronto, and Montreal common stocks. All institutional managers filing 13F reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are covered.
Kellogg subscribes to CDA/Spectrum 13F institutional transaction quarterly data from 1980 to present via WRDS.
In addition, Kellogg purchased the annual 13F tapes for the period 1981-1995. The files are in flat ASCII format, stored in the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC) on the /kellogg/data/Spectrum path. The files can be read with any statistical or mathematical software.
To access the files, users must write programs to read the files. Research Support has photocopies of the accompanying documentation, which has been transcribed on the following pages:
Access CDA/Spectrum File via WRDS
CDA/Spectrum File layouts on KLC
* Denotes the type of institution:
Kellogg holdings and location of files
Kellogg purchased the annual 13f tapes for the period 1981-1995. The files are in flat ASCII format, stored in the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC) on the /kellogg/data/Spectrum path.
File layouts
File-naming conventions:
File names are eight characters long, with extension "DTA." The fourth character in the file name indicates the file type (1 through 4, as described below); the next two positions indicate the year (81 through 95) and the last two digits indicate the month. Since Kellogg bough the annual file, the last two positions correspond to December (12).
For example, file "S3418112.DTA" contains the data for File 1 for December 1981.
File 1: Manager Identification Key
Column location
1-5 Manager number
6-35 Manager name
36 Type code*
37-42 Report date (mmddyy)
43-47 Permanent key (right-justified numeric)**
48-50 Blank
Records are blocked 20 logicals per physical. Logical records are in ascending sequence of manager number (which results in alphabetical sequence by name).
File 2: Stock Identification Key
1-8 CUSIP
9-36 Stock name
37-40 Ticker symbol
41-44 End-of-quarter shares outstanding in millions
45-50 End-of-quarter price ($$$$.¢¢)
Records are blocked 20 logicals per physical. Logical records are in ascending sequence of CUSIP (which results in alphabetical sequence by stock name).
File 3: Portfolio Holdings
9-13 Manager number
15-25 Shares held at quarter end
Records are blocked 40 logicals per physical. Logical records are in ascending sequence of characters 1 through 13.
File 4: Transactions
15-25 Net changes in shares since prior report
1 = bank
2 = insurance company
3 = investment companies and their managers
4 = independent investment advisor
5 = all others
Sample SAS statements to read the Spectrum files
To use the following files, copy and paste the contents into a text file in the KLC.
Databases Thomson (CDA/Spectrum) Mutual Fund Holdings 1980 - Q, A Global Faculty, PhD The Mutual Funds data includes information about common stock holdings and transactions of all mutual funds registered with the SEC plus 3,000 global funds. The data is quarterly data from 1980 to present, and it is updated annually. mutualfunds-hf Equity Accounting Investment Funds
Mutual Funds data include information about common stock holdings and transactions of all mutual funds registered with the SEC plus 3,000 global funds. The data are quarterly from 1980 to present and are updated annually.
Some of these data overlap with information included in the Thomson (CDA/Spectrum) 13F Institutional common stock holdings. Thomson Financial includes the 13F tape identifier.
Databases Thomson Insiders (Lancer Analytics) 1986 - 2002 O US Faculty, PhD Lancer Analytics Value-Added Insider files include data on stock holdings and transactions, as well as options exercises, by insiders dating back to 1986. lancer-analytics Equity Accounting Governance and Compensation
Thomson Insiders (formerly Lancer Analytics Value-Added Insider) files include data on stock holdings and transactions, as well as options exercises, by insiders dating back to 1986. These data come from filings of SEC forms 3 (Initial Statement of Ownership), 4 (Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership), 5 ( Annual Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership), and 144 (Intention to Sell Restricted Securities).
Lancer Analytics Value-Added Insider data feed can be accessed by current Kellogg faculty and doctoral students in the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC). All the files, with one exception (pipe-delimited), are in fixed ASCII format, stored under /kellogg/data/lancer. The period covered in the data file on KLC is January 1, 1986 through April 11, 2002. The more recent data are available through WRDS.
The complete description of fields and codes used in the data can be found here.
The data files are stored in the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC) in the /kellogg/data/lancer directory. Some annual files have been renamed to standardize names across different years. Except for the supplemental files (sechdr.txt, adjfact.txt, insaddr.txt, and wdfreturns.txt), all file names include the year to which the data corresponds.
All files except wdfretruns.txt are fixed-format ASCII files. wdfreturns.txt is pipe-delimited (fields are separated by "|").
The layouts of the Core Insider Transaction and Holdings File (coreYYYY.txt) can be found here.
Sample SAS statements to read the data:
One year of "core" data
Insider derivatives
Proposed sales
Individual returns file (wdfreturns.txt)
Notes about the data
Security/derivative types (scytype, dervtype): There are many security titles not listed in attachment C of the documentation. Lancer reported that in 1996, when they began keying in the data, there had not coded the titles yet. Analysts could enter any combination of keys in the security title field. This was later corrected (1997, year being verified) when Lancer installed a drop-down box that would allow analysts to select only specific predefined codes.
SEC receipt date, transaction date: For a particular year, inspection of the dates will show a number of "suspicious" dates. For example, for the 1996 derivatives data, about 3% of the dates have years that range from 1900 through 2006. According to Lancer, the data from 1996 through 2000 were pulled by create_date and organized by SEC receipt date. Lancer chose to retain data with erroneous SEC receipt dates in case there were clients who found value in some of the other data content. For example, wealth prospectors may be interested in whether a certain person has insider status and are not concerned with the SEC receipt date. Again, a fix was later put into Lancer's collection tool to prevent "crazy" dates from being entered.
Consistency between proxy reports and form 4: The proxy report and the beneficial ownership data from form 4 should, in principle, be consistent with each other for similar dates. There are many cases in which this is not true. Representatives from Thomson Financial have verified a couple of these cases and argue that there is no data-entry error, but that their "data is pretty much at the mercy of what the insider reports."
Lancer suggests referring to the cleanse codes to see if some of those records should be deleted. Many of the records with suspect SEC receipt dates also have a cleanse code = A (data is unreasonable or is missing). These records may be of little value for analysis.
Databases Thomson Investext 2002 - Global Northwestern Thomson Investext contains real-time and historical SEC EDGAR filings, scanned images of company annual reports, and foreign exchange filings, as well as research reports written by top analysts at over 1,000 leading investment banks, brokerage houses, and consulting firms worldwide. investext-plus Equity Accounting Analyst Reports
Thomson Investext contains real-time and historical SEC EDGAR filings, scanned images of company annual reports and foreign exchange filings, as well as research reports written by top analysts at over 1,000 leading investment banks, brokerage houses, and consulting firms worldwide.
Research reports are global in coverage and are available back to 1982.
Internet Explorer is required to access this resource through the Northwestern University library
Databases TRACE 2002 - O US Faculty, PhD TRACE consolidates transaction data for all eligible corporate bonds - investment grade, high yield and convertible debt. As a result, individual investors and market professionals can access information on 100 percent of OTC activity representing over 99 percent of total U.S. corporate bond market activity in over 30,000 securities. trace Fixed Income Financial Transactions
TRACE (Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine) is FINRA's over-the-counter (OTC) corporate bond market real-time price-dissemination service. Bringing transparency to the corporate bond market, it helps create a level playing field for all market participants by providing comprehensive, real-time access to corporate bond price information.
Introduced in July 2002, TRACE consolidates transaction data for all eligible corporate bonds: investment grade, high yield and convertible debt. As a result, individual investors and market professionals can access information on 100 percent of OTC activity representing over 99 percent of total U.S. corporate bond market activity in over 30,000 securities.
The information collected and disseminated for all publicly traded corporate bonds by TRACE includes the time of execution, price, yield, and volume.
For more information regarding TRACE, visit the FINRA TRACE homepage.
Databases Trade and Quote Database 1993 - D, M, Q, A, HF, O US Faculty, PhD The Trade and Quote (TAQ) database is a collection of intraday trades and quotes for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq National Market System, and SmallCap. taq-database Equity
The Trade and Quote (TAQ) database is a collection of intraday trades and quotes for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq National Market System, and SmallCap issues.
TAQ provides historical tick-by-tick data of all stocks listed on NYSE back to 1993. It does not include: (i) aggregate indexes; (ii) transaction data reported outside the Consolidated Tapes hours of operation (8:00am to 6:30pm EST since August 2000); or (iii) trading in NYSE-listed securities between 8:00am and 9:30am by other markets.
Through December 2014, TAQ data in binary format are also available on DVDs. Faculty and graduate students interested in this data and SAS code for working with it should contact Kellogg Research Support.
Databases Value Line 1987 - 2008 M, Q, A, O Global Faculty, PhD Value Line's Historical Estimates & Projections File provides a variety of Value Line analysts' estimates and 3-to-5-year projections for approximately 1,700 companies and industriesthe same broad group covered by Value Line Investment Survey. valueline-hep Equity Accounting Analyst Reports
Value Line’s Historical Estimates & Projections File provides a variety of Value Line analysts' estimates and 3-to-5-year projections for approximately 1,700 companies and industries, the same broad group covered by Value Line Investment Survey. Among the variables included are:
Value Line proprietary rankings (timeliness, safety, financial strength)
Price performance indicators (beta, stability, growth persistence, earnings predictability)
Year-ahead estimates (EPS, dividends)
3-to-5-year performance projections (appreciation, total return)
Projected growth rates of key financial indicators
Annual estimates of selected financial indicators
Quarterly estimates of sales, EPS
Aggregate information for around 90 industries
Data is available for 1987-present.
Value Line's Historical and Projections File is available to current Kellogg faculty and doctoral students on the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC).
Documentation and Coverage:
Value Line Estimates and Projections File (PDF): a description provided by the vendor
Estimates Database Field Descriptions (PDF)
Value Line's Glossary of Terms
How to Invest in Common Stocks: The Complete Guide to Using the Value Line Investment Survey (PDF): might help in understanding some of the variables included in the dataset
The list of companies covered by Value Line between 04/23/1965 and 05/09/2008 is available in "/kellogg/data/valueline/arnknam2.txt". The exact coverage list for every Value Line issue date is in "/kellogg/data/valueline/arnknamf.txt".
In terms of time coverage, the data spans from estimates and projections published by Value Line between July 1987 and April 2005.
The original Value Line data files were in Microsoft Access format. For user convenience, they have been read into SAS as a single data file, uploaded to KLC under /kellogg/data/valueline. The file name is "estimatesvalueline_1987_2005.sas7bdat." We added one variable, "original_file," to flag the origin of the record. The description of the variables is in the Estimates Database Field Descriptions document. Records with datayear="0035" refer to 3-5-year estimates.
Layout of Value Line data on KLC can be found here.
Databases Wharton Research Data Services 1925 - D, M, Q, A, HF, O Global Kellogg WRDS is a data-management service that enables users to access databases via a web-based interface or via a Unix server. wharton-rds Equity Accounting Macroeconomic Fixed Income Derivatives Analyst Reports Financial Transactions Investment Funds Governance and Compensation Industry
WRDS is a data-management service that enables users to access databases (to which Kellogg subscribes) via a web-based interface or a Unix server. Data on the Unix server is generally available both in binary (Fortran) format and in SAS format. WRDS is the preferred access method for CRSP, Compustat, TAQ, and CDA/Spectrum.
WRDS can be accessed via its web interface or via its Unix server.
Current faculty and doctoral students: To request an account, go to the WRDS website and click on "Account Request" and then on "request a new account." Fill in the required fields (use your Kellogg email address) and choose the appropriate type of account. Please use your netid for the login name. The account is created within minutes, after verification of user eligibility by Research Support, and details are sent automatically to the user. This account allows both access to the web interface or login to the UNIX server directly (use SSH Secure Shell to connect to wrds.wharton.upenn.edu).
Class accounts: Faculty members may apply for a class account, which gives students in the class a login to the web interface for the duration of the academic term in which the course takes place. To obtain a class account, on the "Account Request" form choose "Class Account" and specify the course number, the quarter in which it takes place, and the ending date.
Faculty members who previously requested a class account and would like to reactivate it for use in a different academic quarter need to send an email to Research Support at rs@kellogg.northwestern.edu, specifying the account login and the new expiration date.
MBA students: Computers connected to the network (through an ethernet jack, not wireless or VPN) on the first and second floors of the Jacobs Center, as well as the Kellogg computer lab in Wieboldt Hall, have IP-controlled access (no login required) to the WRDS web interface. Click on http://wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu/connect. WRDS will require your Kellogg email address for authentication; it will then send you a URL for access.
Note: Individual "masters" accounts will be approved only for students working under the supervision of a faculty member on a project. These accounts are limited to one academic term and require prior approval from the faculty member who is advising the research project.
Databases Zacks 1978 - M, Q, A, O Global Faculty, PhD Zacks data can be used to empirically analyze analysts’ forecasts and their revisions, price targets and recommendations (e.g., construct popular measures such as consensus forecast, earnings surprises, analyst track records). zacks-history Equity Accounting Analyst Reports
Zacks History Files include EPS and revenue estimates, actuals, and stock recommendations for the period 1978 to present.
The Northwestern subscription includes the following items:
EPS Consensus
EPS Details
EPS Long-Term Growth Consensus
EPS Surprises
Preannouncement
Ratings Consensus
Sales Consensus
Sales Surprise
Supplemental Actuals
Target Price Consensus
Note: Kellogg previously subscribed to a different catalogue of Zacks data called the Zacks History Files. This product line has been discontinued. However, copies of these older files are stored on the the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC) in the /kellogg/data/zacks/zacks#### directories, where "####" is the year in which that particular wave was received. These older versions of the data are kept for archival purposes and for researchers finishing or replicating projects using the older files.
Zacks History Files record layouts can be found here.
External Websites Social Science Data Services 1790 - D, M, Q, A, O US Northwestern Social Science Data Services (SSDS) supports research and instruction in the social sciences by collecting, managing, and facilitating access to data for secondary analysis. ssds Macroeconomic Industry Demographics and Individual Level
Social Science Data Services (SSDS) provides data, software and software training to support research and instruction in those social sciences that require analysis of quantitative or qualitative data.
Sources of Data:
ICPSR: the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, established in 1962, is the world’s largest archive of social and behavioral science datasets, with more than 500,000 files from 9600 studies. ICPSR hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. NU-affiliated faculty, staff and students have access to these datasets for analysis and teaching. ICPSR also provides an annual Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, as well as support for data management planning required by many federal funding agencies and data archiving.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research: The Roper Center provides access to public opinion survey data collected 1930’s to present. Opinion data from more than 50 countries is available. Access is limited to NU-affiliated users.
Gallup Analytics provides access to opinion polling data. US Daily polling (2008-present) explores opinions and perceptions related to political and economic issues as well as national and global events. Sampling allows users to observe trends at the country, state and U.S. city levels. The World Poll (2005-present) tracks opinion in 160 countries. Access is limited to NU-affiliated users.
Data Resources for Social Science (data)
Resources for Data Analysis (software)
External Websites Social Science Research Network Global Public An electronic network that disseminates information about research in the social sciences through journals sent via email. These journals cover working and accepted paper abstracts, as well as conference and job announcements. ssrn Equity Accounting Macroeconomic Fixed Income Derivatives Financial Transactions Investment Funds Governance and Compensation Industry Marketing Demographics and Individual Level
Kellogg has a school site license to the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Under this license, any members of the Kellogg community (faculty, staff and students) can subscribe to any of the SSRN networks and journals. The license covers only people affiliated with departments within Kellogg.
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is an electronic network that disseminates information about research in the social sciences through journals sent via e-mail. These journals cover working and accepted paper abstracts, conference and job announcements. SSRN also maintains a working paper archive.
Kellogg's site license includes existing journals in any of SSRN's networks:
Accounting Research Network (ARN)
Economics Research Network (ERN)
Financial Economics Research Network (FEN)
Legal Scholarship Network (LSN)
Management Research Network (MRN)
To receive SSRN journals, please use SSRN's subscription form and choose the desired journals. Please specify "Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University" as your organization and use your Kellogg e-mail address (@kellogg.northwestern.edu) as the primary address. You may subscribe to as many networks and journals as you wish.
Similar resources:
RePEc, Research Papers in Economics
Inomics, Internet site for Economists (conference and job announcements)
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SPERO VILLIOTI
FASHION DESIGNER - "SPERO VILLIOTI COUTURE"
"SPERO VILLIOTI ELITE DESIGN ACADEMY
Villioti as well as being a rather established designer to South Africa's most glamarous is also a also the founder of one of the country's leading fashion design institutions, Spero Villioti Elite Design Academy.
Villioti is a graduate of the London School of Fashion, England. He was recruited by London based fashion house; Frank Usher. Spero spent 5 years as a designer at Frank Usher after which he moved to South Africa with his family to establish his own haute couture business, and so the birth of Spero Villioti Couture.
During this time Frank Usher continued to pursue Spero for his talent, which saw Spero continuing as a senior designer on a freelance basis for the London fashion house; designing four collections a year whilst running Spero Villioti Couture. Today Spero can still be found hard at work, after nearly thirty years in the industry: whether it be lecturing
in the classroom of Spero Villioti Elite Design Academy,hands on and actively designing in the workrooms of Spero Villioti Couture or as the ambassador for the Couture Educational Foundation raising awareness and sponsorship for education within the fashion industry.
Villioti believes that all women are inherently beautiful and sees his role as a designer to emphasise their unique and special beauty. He draws inspiration from living life and seeing the attractiveness of the women around him. This inspiration has led to many elegant, stylish and glamorous creations which have been recognised in many ways during his career.
He has been awarded the South African J&B Rare Designers Award, the London Frank Usher Award, the Most Successful Art Student Award at the London School of Fashion and the Textilia Young Designer Award in Greece.
After so many years at the top of his profession, Villioti looked for a way to give back to the industry from which he had so liberally received. He saw the opportunity to train up new talent in South Africa by starting a fashion school where he could offer students an
opportunity to study Fashion at its highest level. Students are guided by Villioti and trained by highly skilled professionals. They are given real-world fashion experience seeing his designs through each phase to completion.
WEBSITE: www.sperovillioti.co.za
BRAND : SPERO VILLIOTI COUTURE
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SportsLocal Sports
What's next for Pima football: the public weighs in
By: Erica Weston
“You just can't pull the plug on something,” said Pima football head coach Jim Monaco.
At a public forum at PCC district offices, public figures and members of the community shared impassioned speeches about why Pima football must stay.
“In all honesty, we're not sure if Maricopa folds completely, or they keep a couple of teams,” said Monaco.
Challenges facing the program include long-term sustainability, the possibility of a four-team league, and surprisingly the concussion conversation and it's liability.
“Just heard about it last week,” a surprised coach Monaco said.
Pima uses the best technology to help mitigate these liabilities. But insurance companies are considering not ensuring programs because of the growing concern of CTE, and the long-term effects on the brain.
“The insurance is what Maricopa complained about many times. We cut it by 24% two years ago,” says Monaco.
Football is a third of the athletics budget for Pima, and the board says most of these issues can be solved with enrollment. “It's time to let everyone in on the secret about what a great program we have,” said Ali Farhang, a Salpointe assistant coach, attorney, and chairman for the Arizona Bowl.
But head coach Monaco was not optimistic. “This to me sounded like you got a death sentence from a disease instead of how do you beat it.”
Realistically, Pima's conference is waiting for them.
There is no timetable for a decision as of now for Pima football.
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Vengeance : Director's Cut
A revenge movie in a box.
Late Pledge
Mighty Boards
Campaign Rewards FAQ 8 Updates 8 Comments 410 Community
Why should you back the KS and not wait for retail?
Vengeance and expansions + add-ons will not be available for retail. There are some copies still floating around Europe, but to our knowledge the US is sold out and has been for a while. We do not plan on going into distribution with Vengeance.
Last updated: Thu, Oct 31 2019 2:28 pm EDT
Why are there limited copies of the base game and previous expansions/add-ons?
We have a limited stock of the base game, expansions and add-ons from the previous Kickstarter campaign. Since we have decided to discontinue the distribution of Vengeance into retail channels we will be using Kickstarter to share the game.
Can I pledge for add-ons?
There is a limited number of add-ons and expansions from the previous campaign available outside of the All-In Rampage tier. If you want to grab add-ons you can do so immediately through Crowdox by clicking on the add-ons image on the Kickstarter page. If you purchase them over Crowdox now you will be charged for shipping separately and the items will be mailed to you in the coming weeks.
What happens if an add-on is sold out on Crowdox?
If there are remaining All-In Rampage pledges at the end of the campaign we will release these into Crowdox and inform you.
Is the game available in languages other than English? Are language editions compatible?
The game was translated to French, Spanish and German and distributed in Europe by Asmodee. There might be copies of these languages still available. The Rosari expansion was available in French and Spanish, but not in German. None of the other add-ons or expansions were available in languages other than English. There is a conversation that started at Essen Spiel 2019 to localise the game into Japanese and potentially other languages in Asia. We still have not concluded that conversation.
We will not be offering any language other than English in this campaign.
Aside from the language (which there is not a lot of) all the expansions and add-ons are produced by the same factory and the items are compatible across languages.
Does the game have a dedicated solo mode?
The Vengeance solo mode has a different mission for each Hero based on their backstory. A further solo mission per Hero might be unlocked during this campaign. This solo mode has been designed as a solo game rather than tacked on to the existing mechanics and has been received very well by reviewers.
What do I do if I am a retailer wanting to pledge for multiple copies of the game?
We offer a 50% discount on the MSRP (not the KS campaign price) on copies remaining after the Kickstarter campaign. Please write to chris@mighty-boards.com.
Does Europe shipping include countries in Europe but not in the E.U.
Yes, the European prices are for Europe not the EU so countries like Norway and Switzerland fall under Europe.
Don't see the answer to your question? Ask the project creator directly.
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Down syndrome: A mother's perspective (videos for health professionals)
A series of 6 video clips featuring Melanie Mora and her family. Mel is mother to 3 boys - Jamie, Ryan and Ethan. She talks about her experience of receiving a post-birth diagnosis of Down syndrome for her middle son Ryan.
A series of 6 video clips featuring Melanie Mora and her family. Mel is mother to 3 boys - Jamie, Ryan and Ethan. Her middle son Ryan was diagnosed post-birth with Down syndrome.
The first 3 video clips feature Mel in an interview, introducing her family and talking about her experience of receiving an unexpected post-birth diagnosis of Down syndrome for her second son Ryan.
The last 3 video clips feature an edited version of Mel's Paediatric Update presentation at Starship Children's Health, 13 April 2011.
Introducing Melanie Mora
Melanie Mora introduces her family - husband Richard and their 3 sons, Jamie, Ryan and Ethan. Her second son Ryan was diagnosed post-birth with Down syndrome.
Mel's experience of a post-birth diagnosis of Down syndrome
Mel talks about her experience of receiving an unexpected diagnosis.
The first 24 hours after diagnosis
Mel talks about her feelings and reactions in the first 24 hours after the unexpected diagnosis.
A mother's perspective on Down syndrome and diagnosis
Part 1 of Mel's Paediatric Update presentation, 13 April 2011.
Mel's suggestions for health professionals delivering unexpected news
Other parents' experiences of receiving an unexpected diagnosis
Our thanks to Melanie Mora for so generously sharing her story with us.
This page last reviewed 05 December 2018.
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Book One, part 1 Book One, part 2 Book One, part 3 Book One, part 4 Book One, part 5 Book One, part 6 Book One, part 7 Book One, part 8 Book Two, part 1 Book Two, part 2 Book Two, part 3 Book Three
All Themes Social Networking and the Internet Surveillance and Transparency Privacy Totalitarianism and Indoctrination Utopianism and Perfection
All Characters Mae Holland Annie Allerton Ty Gospodinov / Kalden Tom Stenton Eamon Bailey Francis Garaventa Mercer Medeiros Vinnie Holland (Mae’s father) Mae’s mother Dr. Villalobos Julian Assange
All Symbols The Octopus The Seahorse The Shark The Voice Kayaking The Elderly Couple
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Book One, part 1
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Social Networking and the Internet
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Utopianism and Perfection
Mae Holland
Annie Allerton
Ty Gospodinov / Kalden
Tom Stenton
Eamon Bailey
Francis Garaventa
Mercer Medeiros
Vinnie Holland (Mae’s father)
Mae’s mother
Dr. Villalobos
The Shark
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Annie Allerton Character Analysis
Annie Allerton is a high-ranking member of the Circle (one of the so-called “Gang of 40”), but it’s never made clear what, precisely, she does. Annie is an old friend of Mae Holland’s, and she pulls strings to ensure that the Circle hires her. For the first half of the book, Annie seems to be an enthusiastic advocate of the Circle’s culture and beliefs: Annie encourages Mae to post online about her experiences, and she expresses shock and anxiety when Mae ignores her messages for even fifteen minutes. However, in the second half of the novel, as Mae becomes increasingly enamored with the Circle and its philosophy of transparency, Annie becomes increasingly uneasy and stressed out. Seemingly jealous of Mae’s new success, Annie begins ignoring her old friend and eventually has a nervous breakdown, which places her in a coma. The breakdown in Annie’s friendship with Mae is one of the most tragic aspects of The Circle, and the arc of their relationship is an argument that social networking pushes people further apart instead of bringing them closer together.
Annie Allerton Quotes in The Circle
The The Circle quotes below are all either spoken by Annie Allerton or refer to Annie Allerton. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
). Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Vintage edition of The Circle published in 2014.
Book One, part 1 Quotes
Their first month living together Mae had broken her jaw one twilight, after fainting, flu-ridden and underfed, during finals. Annie had told her to stay in bed, but Mae had gone to the 7-Eleven for caffeine and woke up on the sidewalk, under a tree. Annie took her to the hospital, and waited as they wired her jaw, and then stayed with Mae, sleeping next to her, in a wooden chair, all night, and then at home, for days, had fed Mae through a straw. It was a fierce level of commitment and competence that Mae had never seen from someone her age or near her age, and Mae was thereafter loyal in a way she'd never known she could be.
Related Characters: Mae Holland, Annie Allerton
Page Number and Citation: 2-3
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"It's the worst story," Annie said. "His parents were such fuckups. I think there were like four or five kids in the family, and Francis was youngest or second-youngest, and anyway the dad was in jail, and the mom was on drugs, so the kids were sent all over the place. I think one went to his aunt and uncle, and his two sisters were sent to some foster home, and then they were abducted from there. I guess there was some doubt if they were, you know, given or sold to the murderers."
"The what?" Mae had gone limp.
"Oh god, they were raped and kept in closets and their bodies were dropped down some kind of abandoned missile silo. I mean, it was the worst story ever.”
Related Characters: Mae Holland (speaker), Annie Allerton (speaker), Francis Garaventa
Book Two, part 2 Quotes
"Mae, they just got up and left. They never called 911 or anything. There's no record of it. They never reported it. But the body was found the next day. The guy wasn't even homeless. He was maybe a little mentally disabled but he lived with his parents and worked at a deli, washing dishes. My parents just watched him drown."
Now Annie was choking on her tears.
"Have you told them about this?"
"No. I can't talk to them. They're really disgusting to me right now"
Related Characters: Mae Holland (speaker), Annie Allerton (speaker)
Book Three Quotes
What was going on in that head of hers? It was exasperating, really, Mae thought, not knowing. It was an affront, a deprivation, to herself and to the world. She would bring this up with Stenton and Bailey, with the Gang of 40, at the earliest opportunity. They needed to talk about Annie, the thoughts she was thinking. Why shouldn't they know them? The world deserved nothing less and would not wait.
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Annie Allerton Character Timeline in The Circle
The timeline below shows where the character Annie Allerton appears in The Circle. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
...Circle, thanks in large part to the help of her friend and former college roommate, Annie. Mae feels exceptionally close to Annie, who once took care of Mae after she broke... (full context)
...the main company building. Inside, a young woman named Renata greets her, and explains that Annie will be with her in an hour. Renata shows Mae to her new desk. As... (full context)
As Mae surveys her ugly cubicle and thinks about her previous job, she hears Annie say, “Now I’m thinking this wasn’t such a good idea.” She turns, and sees that... (full context)
As Annie leads Mae around the building, Mae thinks about Annie’s college days. In college, Annie was... (full context)
Annie explains that Mae will be working in the Customer Experience department, but she assures Mae... (full context)
Annie takes Mae to the “Ochre Library,” a large, private reading room with an aesthetic that... (full context)
Annie tells Mae more about Ty’s role in the company. Ty’s great idea—the one on which... (full context)
Annie shows Mae the rest of the library. It contains tens of thousands of leather-bound books,... (full context)
Annie tells Mae that she needs to go back to work. She leads Mae down to... (full context)
In the evening, Mae meets up with Annie at the Circle’s solstice party. They load their plates with delicious food, sit in the... (full context)
Annie sees Mae and Francis talking and she comes to greet them. Francis seems oddly intimidated... (full context)
Annie greets Mae, and Mae is so overwhelmed with gratitude that she embraces Annie and whispers,... (full context)
...and compliments her for her success. As Mae works, she sees on her tablet that Annie has sent a company-wide message that Mae is “kicking ass” on her first day. (full context)
On Friday, Mae gets lunch with Annie, and Annie praises Mae for her excellent work. Annie notes that when she worked in... (full context)
After lunch, Annie, Mae, and the other Circle employees congregate in the Great Hall, which is a cavernous... (full context)
...himself. Now, Bailey can check up on his mother at any time. Mae whispers to Annie, “This is incredible.” Bailey concludes, “All that happens will be known.” (full context)
...week, and Francis apologizes for talking about his childhood so frankly. He adds, “I assume Annie filled in the gory stuff. She likes to tell that story.” Francis proceeds to tell... (full context)
Mae meets Annie for lunch. Annie tells Mae that she’s been following Mae’s “conflict resolution” with Alistair. At... (full context)
Mae returns to her desk, where she’s left her phone, she and sees that Annie has already left her eleven messages. Each message is more urgent than the one before:... (full context)
...and suggests that Mae add her parents to her insurance plan. That evening, Mae asks Annie about adding her parents to her insurance plan, explaining that her father’s current health insurance... (full context)
As Mae is standing alone in Annie’s office, Annie calls her and explains that she’s “twisted a few arms” and arranged for... (full context)
The morning after she reunites with Kalden, Mae calls Annie and tells her that she’s met someone—someone with grey hair. Annie is perplexed, since she... (full context)
...night, he pulled her close to him, as if he’d wanted to kiss her. Suddenly, Annie calls back. Mae remembers what Annie’s told her: the Circle is in “some moderately hot... (full context)
...Mae focuses on her customers, and ignores Francis’s endless stream of messages and apology videos. Annie returns from Peru on Friday and meets up with Mae to watch the news about... (full context)
...for letting down her company—the same company that’s taking such good care of her parents. Annie messages her, “Goddamnit, Mae, give a shit!” For the rest of the evening, Mae “zings,”... (full context)
One evening, Mae finds herself thinking about Kalden. She texts Annie and tells her that she hasn’t heard from him in a while. Privately, she thinks... (full context)
On Friday, Annie and Mae are sitting in the Great Hall, where Tom Stenton is about to give... (full context)
...morning after having sex with Kalden, Mae wakes up in her dorm room. She calls Annie and tells her that she had sex with Kalden, but still doesn’t know his last... (full context)
...to photograph his arm and fingertips, “the rest of him already gone.” Afterwards, Mae texts Annie about having had sex with Kalden. (full context)
...needs to generate revenue by advertising for other businesses. As Gina speaks, Mae openly messages Annie about Kalden—Gina seems intensely jealous that Mae talks to Annie “all day.” Annie asks Mae... (full context)
...that she has, and Bailey’s face twitches oddly. He asks Mae about her friendship with Annie, and he offers her tea. Then, without warning, he asks Mae about the events of... (full context)
...soon as the camera is off, Mae feels a deep “tear” inside her. She messages Annie, but gets no response, so she tries to entertain herself by watching footage from SeeChange... (full context)
...with each other, and with the Circle. She recalls that today is the day that Annie returns from her months in Europe and Asia where she was “ironing out some regulatory... (full context)
Mae remembers that she has to see Dr. Villalobos in ten minutes. Suddenly, she sees Annie walking by in the distance and calls after her. Annie turns and smiles a “practiced,... (full context)
...her camera on—the “rules” give her up to three minutes of silence. In the bathroom, Annie compliments Mae for “killing it,” but Mae detects a note of envy in her voice.... (full context)
...to visit her parents, furious that they’ve disrespected the Circle. She begins to wonder what Annie—who, she’s convinced, is jealous of Mae—will do to use Mae’s embarrassment about her family to... (full context)
...of 40, the group that approves new Circle projects. Eamon Bailey greets her warmly, but Annie does not greet her at all. Previously, Mae has been told that the meeting must... (full context)
Annie disagrees with Mae’s point: why bother building a “wraparound service” when the government could do... (full context)
Suddenly, Mae sees Annie and embraces her. Annie immediately informs Mae that she’s been working on PastPerfect, a new... (full context)
When Mae returns to her desk, she sees a message, written on paper, from Annie. The message asks her to come to the bathroom as soon as possible. Mae does... (full context)
The next day, the Circle releases Annie’s ancestry. Some people find it disturbing that Annie’s distant ancestors owned slaves, but most don’t... (full context)
The next day, Mae goes to the bathroom and sees the tip of Annie’s shoe in the next stall; immediately, she turns off her audio. Annie, her voice very... (full context)
The next day, Annie zings, “We shouldn’t know everything.” Mae and Annie meet in the bathroom again and turn... (full context)
...pride that her coworkers are so committed to transparency. Suddenly, she realizes the “solution” to Annie’s problem: enlist the millions of Circle users to express their support for Annie. Speaking to... (full context)
...Hall, where she’s about to give a solo presentation. Mae explains what she did for Annie, and Bailey smiles and compliments Mae on her foresight. Then, Mae walks out onto the... (full context)
...that time, Mae’s number of watchers has held steady—around 28 million. In the past week, Annie has “collapsed.” Mae meets with Bailey in his library, thinking that she needs to be... (full context)
Bailey asks Mae how Annie is doing, and Mae replies, “the same.” Then, Bailey walks Mae out of the library,... (full context)
Mae is sitting in a clinic, staring down at Annie. Annie, Mae remembers, collapsed at her desk and fell into a coma. Afterwards. Dr. Villalobos... (full context)
Still standing over Annie’s comatose body, Mae looks at the screen monitoring Annie’s brain waves. Mae feels angry that... (full context)
Arn, Jackson. "The Circle Characters: Annie Allerton." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 14 Mar 2017. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Arn, Jackson. "The Circle Characters: Annie Allerton." LitCharts LLC, March 14, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2020. https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-circle/characters/annie-allerton.
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FOIL welcomes non-lawyers in defendant insurance market into membership
Besemer: training programme a differentiator for FOIL members
The Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL) has named the first four companies to join its new category of associate members.
The ‘trade and industry partners’ are loss adjusters Davies and Woodgate Clark, claims and risk handler Gallagher Basset, accountants Ackland Webb, and expert witness provider Edward Drummond.
The aim of the expanded membership is to widen FOIL’s representation of claims-related businesses.
Anna Wills, consultant expert witness at Edward Drummond, said; “We believe that FOIL provides one of the most comprehensive and supportive networks in the UK for those involved in all aspects of insurance law.”
David Muggridge, principal at Ackland Webb, added: “It represents an unusual and exciting opportunity to introduce ourselves to the wider insurance litigation community and to better understand the perspective of defence representatives.”
Laurence Besemer, CEO of FOIL, said: “Opening our doors to non-law firms working for insurers and compensators intensifies the defendant focus of our work and reflects the changing frameworks that alternative business structures will create. We look forward to welcoming many more firms in the coming months.”
Meanwhile, FOIL has teamed up with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) in an initiative to encourage the wider take-up of professional CII qualifications by law firm staff that deal with insurance issues on a day-to-day basis.
The bespoke training package for individuals employed by members of FOIL is designed to help insurance lawyers and paralegals “develop a deeper understanding of their chosen sector and to provide them with enhanced career prospects”, FOIL said.
Mr Besemer, himself a Fellow of the CII, explained: “We believe that having professionally qualified staff will act as a differentiator for FOIL members competing for claims-handling contracts.”
Ant Gould, director of faculties at the CII, said: “As more and more staff working for law firms take on claims-handling responsibilities, it is increasingly important that they understand how insurance works and can talk the same language as their insurance partners.”
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About Leafmore Club
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Leafmore membership is open to families in the Oak Grove area, regardless of whether they live in Leafmore. To join, please complete the application below.
The club operates under the guidance of volunteer board members to maintain the clubs infastructure, budget and programming. Your membership fees and dues fund the clubs operations and capital improvements.
To join, new members pay a one-time, non-refundable initiation fee of $850 and a one-time, refundable $200 membership fee. Annual dues, as noted in the application below, are based on family size and age.
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Charita Goshay: 2019; you had to be here to believe it
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For those of you who have not yet been born as of 2019, man, you missed a doozy.
As far as news goes, it was the equivalent of being awakened every day with a fire hose.
The best way in which to characterize 2019 might be this: the most popular song of the year was a country tune written by a gay, black, couch-surfer prone to Day-Glo cowboy outfits who made enough money from his one hit to buy Miley Cyrus’ dad a Ferrari.
From quid pro quo to 25-below, 2019 was a wild, exhausting, unpredictable carnival ride; a loop-de-loop of a year during which Notre Dame burned, governing was done by tweeting and antics, and “hold my beer” was set on continuous loop.
Any precedent that could be shattered in 2019 was - from a first-term president of the United States getting himself impeached to a black American actress producing an heir to the British crown.
Barbecue Becky
It was the year that protests made a comeback. In Hong Kong, students fought for their lives and democracy.
Across the world, teens and young adults followed a 16-year-old environmental prophet and embraced the Extinction Rebellion. They elbowed aside adults who shrugged at the increasing ferocity of storms and shirked from taking measures to save an ailing planet.
It was a year when hate was emboldened, as extremists came out of the closet and hate crimes saw a 16-year jump.
From “Barbecue Becky” to “Permit Patty,” people who made frivolous police calls on minorities (swimming in your own pool while black) saw themselves immortalized as social media memes.
Because there were so many, the news reports about mass shootings in places such as El Paso, Dayton, Pearl Harbor and too many school campuses to list were left with a shorter shelf life than milk.
There was some good news. American women won the FIFA World Cup in soccer, the Cleveland Browns didn’t go 0-16 and no one even blinked at the sight of six women running for president.
We honored and remembered those who fought and died 75 years ago on the shores of Normandy and in the Battle of the Bulge; men who enabled America not only to survive but also to become the envy of the world.
The year was not kind to journalism. Some 9,000 men and women lost their lives in the pursuit of truth.
In Northeast Ohio, we lost the Vindicator, a daily newspaper that had served the Youngstown community for 150 years. As fact came under fire, an estimated 8,000 journalists across the country lost jobs. Lest some of you might be tempted to think that’s a good start, keep in mind there’s no such thing as freedom without a free press.
As if Youngstown hadn’t suffered enough, one of the Vindicator’s last major stories was its coverage of the closing of the Chevrolet plant in nearby Lordstown.
In 2019, Lordstown became a byword, a reminder of how the working class has been decimated to this nation’s detriment.
There was a time when I’d write year-end columns welcoming the coming year, but I was cured of that habit, as each new year seemed to be getting progressively more chaotic.
But 2019? One for the books.
Think Old Man New Year going the wrong way on I-77 in a stolen truck while chugging beers and shooting an AR-15 with his toupee on fire.
Yet, all signs indicate 2020 will make 2019 seem like a preschool dance recital.
You probably should be glad you weren’t here to see it.
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Jobs boost if windfarm gets go-ahead
PUBLISHED: 17:04 23 May 2008 | UPDATED: 20:29 05 July 2010
OVER 100 new jobs could be created in Lowestoft as plans to build an operational base for the world's largest offshore windfarm look set to be given the go-ahead.
Plans to construct an aircraft hangar and helicopter landing pad on a jetty at Waveney Dock, off Battery Green Road, looks set to be given approval at a meeting of Waveney District Council's development control committee on Wednesday.
Councillors have been recommended by planners to approve the application from Bond Air Services, subject to an objection about flooding concerns from the Environment Agency being resolved. With the proposed site to become a dedicated base for one helicopter, housed in a 16.5m by 16m steel-framed hangar, energy company Airtricity want to operate and maintain the Greater Gabbard windfarm, which will feature 140 turbines 31 miles off the Lowestoft coast in the Outer Thames Estuary, by 2010.
The development is seen as a major step forward in Lowestoft's bid to transform itself into the UK's wind energy capital. A statement from the council's economic regeneration department says: “The proposal is of vital importance to underpin the aspiration of Lowestoft as the principal centre of offshore renewable energy in the UK.”
The proposed development is thought to complement the OrbisEnergy Centre in creating a wider jobs bonanza in the town. And with the £9.4m Orbis centre housing 30 renewable energy companies as it is built at nearby Ness Point, a statement from the council's regeneration department to the committee says: “Positive support for this key sector is vital if we are to benefit from the future developments, where we are looking for up to £2bn to be captured in this region.”
The Environment Agency has initially objected to the aircraft hangar plans on the grounds of flood risk, but negotiations are continuing and an update will be given to councillors at the planning meeting being held at the Beccles Public Hall.
There are also concerns over noise, which is created by the helicopters, although the committee will be told that all flights will take place over water.
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Xiaomi Mi Band 5 May Release In Mid 2020; Features Larger Screen, Global NFC Support
Ian Chee 1 week ago 307 0 4.0K reads
There are reports of a Xiaomi Mi Band 5 that’s on its way, with a possible announcement slated for the middle of the year. If you’re a fan of the Mi Band 4, then this rumour might be for you.
Sources to Tizenhelp say that the Mi Band 5 will come with a 1.2-inch AMOLED colour display. This makes it larger than the one on the Mi band 4, which measures in at 0.95 inches. It will also feature better contrast for improved visibility under harsh lighting, such as when under bright sunlight.
Another possible major improvement of the Xiaomi Mi Band 5 over the previous generation is global NFC support. Existing Mi Bands do have NFC, but they only work in China, and only support the company’s own Mi Pay system. Support for NFC globally is huge, and would definitely see it being used for other cashless payment systems.
As for its price, the Xiaomi Mi Band 5 is believed to come with a price tag of CNY179 (~RM105). For now, rumours point to a June launch in China. But since this is all still a rumour, it remains to be seen if any of these are accurate.
(Source: Tizenhelp via Android Authority)
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Having missed the pro-gaming boat himself, he has gone for the next best thing: boarding the general video game writing ship whenever possible. When not, he rides on the consumer tech cruise instead.
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'England will benefit from Lions lesson'
ENGLAND coach Andy Robinson today insisted his Lions experience will be useful to the world champions.
Robinson was criticised in some quarters for joining Sir Clive Woodward's Lions coaching staff in New Zealand, rather than working with England on their summer Churchill Cup trip to Canada.
England won that tournament without him and their next assignments are two demanding November Tests against the All Blacks and Australia.
Robinson, though, believes lessons will be learnt from the Lions' worst Test-series performance of all-time, which saw New Zealand romp to a 3-0 triumph, scoring 107 points and 12 tries.
"I was criticised for coming here, rather than being with the England side for the Churchill Cup in Canada, but what I've learnt from here will benefit England," he said.
"You can't switch it on and off like a light. We need to go home and learn from this.
"We got punished for our mistakes by a very streetwise side, and we needed to be more streetwise ourselves."
Ireland lock Paul O'Connell, meanwhile, says the Lions have to take collective responsibility for their miserable New Zealand expedition.
The finger of blame will inevitably point at Woodward following a #9million box-office flop when the All Blacks posted three emphatic victories - 21-3, 48-18 and latterly 38-19 at Eden Park when tries from skip-per Tana Umaga (2), Conrad Smith, Ali Williams and Rico Gear ensured another success.
Woodward took a record 45-man group to New Zealand, which rose to 50 when Simon Shaw, Simon Easterby, Ryan Jones, Brent Cockbain and Jason White joined the trip as tour replacements.
But their combined expertise, complete with a 29-strong backroom team, failed to shine through.
"I think we have to take collective responsibility," said O'Connell. "There were mistakes made, but at the same time I think Clive needed players to produce the goods, and myself and other guys haven't done that. It needs to go both ways."
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Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) boast a best-possible IBD Composite Rating of 99
By HEFFX Australia on July 23, 2018 Comments Off on Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) boast a best-possible IBD Composite Rating of 99
The four internet giants are all highly rated. Facebook stock and Twitter boast a best-possible IBD Composite Rating of 99. Google parent Alphabet stock and Amazon stock come in at 98. Amazon, a Leaderboard stock, is in range from a follow-on buy point for existing shareholders. Google stock dipped back below buy range. Twitter just formed a new base after a rapid run up.
Facebook is one of several big-name stocks set to announce earnings results over the next few days.
Social-media titan Facebook will post its results on Wednesday afternoon, and investors have a few good reasons to follow this report closely. Its last announcement was embraced by Wall Street after the company turned a 49% revenue spike into a 63% jump in net income. Facebook managed double-digit increases in its daily and monthly active user bases, and 2.2 billion people now log on to the service at least once a month.
Wall Street expects Facebook to earn $1.72 per share on revenue of $13.38 billion. This compares to the year-ago quarter when earnings came to $1.32 per share on revenue of $9.32 billion.
Overall, the bias in prices is: Upwards.
Note: this chart shows extraordinary price action to the upside.
By the way, prices are vulnerable to a correction towards 192.13.
The projected upper bound is: 217.67.
The projected lower bound is: 203.30.
The projected closing price is: 210.49.
A white body occurred (because prices closed higher than they opened).
During the past 10 bars, there have been 4 white candles and 6 black candles for a net of 2 black candles. During the past 50 bars, there have been 30 white candles and 20 black candles for a net of 10 white candles.
Momentum is a general term used to describe the speed at which prices move over a given time period. Generally, changes in momentum tend to lead to changes in prices. This expert shows the current values of four popular momentum indicators.
One method of interpreting the Stochastic Oscillator is looking for overbought areas (above 80) and oversold areas (below 20). The Stochastic Oscillator is 70.4512. This is not an overbought or oversold reading. The last signal was a sell 1 period(s) ago.
The RSI shows overbought (above 70) and oversold (below 30) areas. The current value of the RSI is 66.39. This is not a topping or bottoming area. A buy or sell signal is generated when the RSI moves out of an overbought/oversold area. The last signal was a sell 18 period(s) ago.
The CCI shows overbought (above 100) and oversold (below -100) areas. The current value of the CCI is 94. This is not a topping or bottoming area. The last signal was a sell 1 period(s) ago.
The Moving Average Convergence/Divergence indicator (MACD) gives signals when it crosses its 9 period signal line. The last signal was a buy 8 period(s) ago.
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FACEBOOK INC A closed up 1.850 at 209.940. Volume was 43% below average (neutral) and Bollinger Bands were 5% narrower than normal.
Open High Low Close Volume___
208.850 211.500 208.500 209.940 16,241,508
Technical Outlook
Short Term: Overbought
Intermediate Term: Bullish
Long Term: Bullish
Moving Averages: 10-period 50-period 200-period
Close: 206.97 194.93 180.87
Volatility: 17 23 34
Volume: 14,057,988 16,803,076 23,600,820
Short-term traders should pay closer attention to buy/sell arrows while intermediate/long-term traders should place greater emphasis on the Bullish or Bearish trend reflected in the lower ribbon.
FACEBOOK INC A is currently 16.1% above its 200-period moving average and is in an upward trend. Volatility is relatively normal as compared to the average volatility over the last 10 periods. Our volume indicators reflect volume flowing into and out of FB.O at a relatively equal pace (neutral). Our trend forecasting oscillators are currently bullish on FB.O and have had this outlook for the last 10 periods.
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Loggers clinch winning record on Senior Day
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Pacific (Ore.) (2-12, 1-11) 1 1 2
Puget Sound (8-7, 6-6) 10 5 15
G: 4 Players (#4, #16, #21, #23) - 3
A: Ali Walker - 2
GB: Hannah Nichols - 5
GB: 2 Players (#10, #14) - 4
TACOMA, Washington – The Puget Sound lacrosse team clinched the program's first winning record since 2015 by beating Pacific, 15-2, during Senior Day in Baker Stadium Sunday. The Loggers finish the 2019 campaign with an 8-7 record.
Prior to the start of the game, Puget Sound celebrated its five seniors playing in their final game with the Loggers: Sara Burke, Hannah Nichols, Rebecca Simon, Maya Ullrich-Carter, and Ali Walker.
Puget Sound took a 2-0 lead in the first 60 seconds of the game thanks to goals by Jenna Kisner and Nichols. Laren Mastin and Walker collected assists on the early scores.
Bushing scored consecutive goals and Walker scored twice to help the Loggers take a 10-1 lead into halftime.
Overall, Walker finished with three goals and two assists, while senior classmate Nichols also scored three times. Kisner and Bushing also tallied hat tricks for the Loggers.
Puget Sound out-shot Pacific, 38-7.
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Long Close is a school rich with life, where every morning, afternoon, evening and weekend brings fresh success both inside and outside the classroom.
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At Long Close Private School, we believe that learning extends beyond what is taught in the classroom. We combine our outstanding academic programme with a broad range of extra-curricular activities, including Sport, Music & Performing Arts, Art and specialist outdoor learning to provide a well-rounded educational experience that thoroughly prepares children for life both inside and outside of academia.
Our wide-ranging curriculum is underpinned by academic progression but is genuinely supported by a variety of events and opportunities both in and out of school. Our friendly atmosphere and commitment to consistent development means that everybody at the school enjoys the time they spend here.
To discover more about what Long Close has to offer, book a visit today.
So many of our pupils achieve so much success across such a wide range of activities that it’s hard to keep up! Here are our latest headline makers.
Every day at Long Close there are specialist music and drama teachers helping to enrich the lives of our pupils – from the very earliest age onwards.
Sport plays a central role in life at Long Close School, bringing individual and collective success and fostering a strong competitive spirit.
Long Close is a place where pupils are taught to value art – and where their own creations are considered a valuable contribution to school life.
Life at Long Close extends far beyond our timetable of lessons, with a rich variety of care, refreshment and clubs available before and after school.
We have a lovely and surprisingly extensive site at Long Close and we make full and imaginative use of it to enrich the lives of our pupils.
Long Close is a community in itself with strong links between children, staff and parents, but we also look to play a role beyond the school gate.
Long Close School is full of life even outside term-time, with external agencies coming in to offer all sorts of fun activities.
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SUPP claims Sarawak Pakatan didn’t fight enough for state in Budget 2020
Saturday, 12 Oct 2019 08:37 AM MYT
BY SULOK TAWIE
Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng tables Budget 2020 in Parliament October 11, 2019.― Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
KUCHING, Oct 12 — Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Women chief Kho Teck Wan today accused the Sarawak Pakatan Harapan (PH) of not doing enough to protect the state’s financial welfare, citing its allocation under the federal Budget 2020.
She said Sarawak is the biggest oil and gas producer in the country yet it is being marginalised by the PH federal government.
“Even Sabah gets more allocation than Sarawak,” she said when commenting on the Budget 2020.
Kho said former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who was also finance minister when tabling Budget 2018, had set aside RM1 billion to repair dilapidated Sarawak schools.
“But current Minister of Finance Lim Guan Eng allocated RM783 million to fix dilapidated schools in both Sarawak and Sabah,” she said, pointing out that Lim made no mention on the construction of any new schools in the hornbill state.
She said Najib also allocated RM1 billion for the Malaysia Communications and Multimedia Commission to develop communications centres and broadband facilities in Sabah and Sarawak.
Kho said Lim, on the other hand, allocated RM250 million to leverage on various technologies, including via satellite broadband connectivity in Sabah and Sarawak to improve connectivity.
She noted that companies that use green energy will enjoy tax reduction of up to 70 per cent for 10 years under Budget 2020, but it is limited to solar energy.
“Sarawak uses hydro energy and it is green energy too. And it is the only state in Malaysia that uses more green energy (70 per cent) than the traditional coal or diesel generated electricity,” Kho said.
Santubong MP Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar claimed there is nothing to shout about regarding the allocations for electricity, clean water and rural road projects in Sarawak under Budget 2020.
He said these projects are to replace the ones which were approved by the previous Barisan Nasional government in 2016 and 2017, but were later withdrawn or cancelled by the current federal government after the 14th general election last year.
He said he will study whether all the withdrawn projects are to be revived by the PH government.
Wan Junaidi also said the one-off payment of RM500 to be given to former armed forces personnel who served during the first emergency from 1948 to 1960 and the second emergency from 1969 to 1989 should also be extended to former police personnel who served during the emergency from 1962 to 1990 in Sarawak.
“This is a clear case of discrimination of the failure to recognise the struggle of the former police during the emergency in Sarawak,” Junaidi, a former police officer, said.
He said it should not be allowed to happen and cannot be accepted.
Lim, in his Budget speech, had said the government values the sacrifice and heroism of the armed forces, particularly holders of the Pingat Jasa Malaysia.
“Hence, the government will accord a one-off payment of RM500 to the 70,000 holders of the Pingat Jasa Malaysia, with an allocation of RM35 million,” Lim said.
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Vardy’s wife receives death threats after Coleen Rooney’s leak allegations
Friday, 11 Oct 2019 06:16 PM MYT
Coleen Rooney (left) who has accused Rebekah Vardy (right) of selling stories from her private Instagram account to the tabloids. — Reuters pic
LONDON, Oct 11 — Rebekah Vardy says she has received death threats even aimed at her unborn child since Wayne Rooney’s wife Coleen accused her of leaking stories.
Seven-months pregnant Vardy, a reality TV star married to former England striker Jamie Vardy, told today’s Daily Mail she has received abuse via social media since Rooney went public with her accusations on Wednesday.
Rooney, 33, said she had a suspicion of who might be the source of the leaks and blocked everyone apart from an Instagram page belonging to Vardy from seeing her stories.
The wife of England’s record goalscorer told her 1.3 million Twitter followers she had worked out Vardy was the culprit after she had posted a series of false stories, some of which made it into The Sun.
“Over 24 hours, this has escalated and escalated,” said Vardy, speaking to the Daily Mail from Dubai where she is on holiday.
“I wasn’t going to say anything but it has gone so extreme.
“I have been told that I should die, that my children should die, my unborn child should die. It would be unacceptable for anyone.
“I am tough, but this has made me cry. It is hard to explain how horrible it has been.”
Vardy, 37, said confronting Rooney had been a waste of time.
“(It) would be like arguing with a pigeon,” said Vardy.
“You can tell it that you are right and it is wrong, but it’s still going to s*** in your hair.
“I said to her: ‘Coleen, what on earth have you done?’
“It was not an easy phone call. She said to me: ‘I’m not pointing the finger’ and I said: ‘You have just annihilated me in public and hung me out to dry. The whole world hates me’!”
“I thought she was my friend but she completely annihilated me. She said: ‘You know, I always really liked you, which makes it harder’.” — AFP
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Procedures for Crown Consultation with Aboriginal Communities (draft)
The Government of Manitoba recognizes it has a duty to consult in a meaningful way with First Nations, Métis communities and other Aboriginal communities when any proposed provincial law, regulation, decision or action may infringe upon or adversely affect the exercise of an aboriginal right or treaty right of that Aboriginal community. This duty arises out of the recognition and affirmation of aboriginal and treaty rights under section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.
Manitoba Innovation, Energy and Mines (the Department, now Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development) has developed procedures for consultation with First Nations, Métis communities and other Aboriginal communities which outline the approach that the Department will use to carry out the Crown’s duty to consult about mineral exploration or mine development projects.
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The objectives of these procedures are to:
provide for a consultation process of a nature and scope that is commensurate with the potential level of effect on the exercise of treaty and aboriginal rights;
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establish a clear, certain, timely, and effective process for communication, information sharing and meaningful consultation with respect to mineral exploration and development.
Manitoba also views the consultation process reflected in these consultation procedures as helping to build positive relationships between the Government of Manitoba, Aboriginal communities and the minerals industry on issues related to mineral exploration and development.
An effective consultation process will allow the Crown to make informed decisions about any potential effects on the exercise of treaty and Aboriginal rights without unduly delaying or discouraging investment in Manitoba’s mineral resources resulting in mineral exploration and development activities, which benefit of all Manitobans, including Aboriginal people who live and work near areas of mineral exploration and mine development.
The Government of Manitoba’s draft Provincial Policy for Crown Consultation with Aboriginal Peoples dated July 10, 2007 reflects the framework through which the Government is meeting its consultation responsibilities. These procedures will be used by the Department to carry out consultation about mineral exploration or mine development projects. These procedures are expected to be reviewed and revised from time to time to reflect updates to the Provincial Consultation Policy and the Government’s experience in carrying out consultation.
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Yes that is important but where did that money suddenly appear from? Did the Government have a rummaged down the back of the sofa and suddenly find a lot of change?
The NHS has not had the money referred to on the side of the bus though. That £350 million was/is supposedly what the UK pays to the EU. As the UK is still in the EU then this money is still being paid to the EU not the NHS. The fact that the Tory Government have found a magic money tree to fund the NHS is nothing to do with the pledge on the side of the bus.
Remember the bus? As for the rest, that is up to this Brexit Government.
It is now undeniably in the hands of those who believe in Brexit. I look forward to swift negotiations with the EU, and the completion of all the other trade deals that brexiteers have promised. I look forward to the sunlit uplands that have been promised and of course the extra £350,000,000 to the NHS. Just remember whatever happens next cannot be blamed on "remoaners".
Which is probably why Nigel Farage has jumped on the opportunity to rename the Brexit Party the Reform Party and campaign for proportional representation and the scrapping of first past the post. I can't stand Farage but I agree with him on this subject.
Further lies from the Conservative Party and they allege that an aide was punched by a "leftist extremist" outside a hospital. Turns out it was an accidental coming together but worked as a "dead cat on the table" to distract from Johnson stealing a journalist's phone earlier in the day.
Johnson has been coached and if he cannot give a straight answer to a question he reverts back to "get Brexit done" and other slogans. Notable that his "minders" have very much kept him away from the media, not just during this election campaign, but also during his leadership bid. It is almost as if they cannot trust him... It is also a replication of the Trump presidential campaign with the repetition of "Make America Great Again". All slogans with very little to actually back them up.
Going to the Gents in Spoons
manxman1980 replied to Barrie Stevens's topic in General Chat
Reminds me of the pizza restaurant in Port St Mary... I swear you end up walking to Port Erin to go to the gents!
They are reasonably priced and serve decent food. No objections there. Most of the ones I have visited often involve a long and rambling walk to the gents toilets though.
I think that you believe that and on an individual basis you probably practice it too but maybe not so much when it comes to your views on a group of people who you don't know. Perhaps it comes down to trust and you simply don't or won't trust strangers. My position is that those convicted of capital offices (murder/rape etc) should face very lengthy sentences but I would not go as far as the death penalty. There are plenty of examples of rehabilitation working. Also worth remembering that the best criminals are the ones who have never been caught. We only catch the incompetent ones or the ones who want to be caught.
What should be put to a referendum?
woolley as a Brexit supporter I thought you would have visited this establishment much more and learnt that the video is not far from the truth!
Again you just revert to name calling rather than actually discuss the issue. I have already explained my views on the death penalty with reference to my own experiences. I have reiterated what the family of at least one of the victims of this attack have said and pointed to the fact that one of those who tackled the person was in fact a convicted murderer who had been rehabilitated. I don't think people who have different views from me deserve punishment. I do believe that we should live in a tolerant society that treats people equally within the laws of the land.
The comment you are referring to is hardly the height of adult discussion is it quilp?
The two people killed in London both worked in rehabilitation. One of the families has expressly come out and asked for the matter not to be politicised and used to introduce more draconian punishments. One of the heroes who tackled the guy with a knife was a convicted murderer who had been released following rehabilitation. The other, I believe was Polish. Bloody immigrants hey?
Liverpool FC..Has any team been so lucky ever.
manxman1980 replied to SJR's topic in Leisure & Sport
Ok boomer. Just calm down..
Don't bring Scunthorpe United into this...
Why doesn't it surprise me that you only learnt that today?
Muslim terror attack on London Bridge
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Someone of Jewish heritage making oven jokes? WOW!
unsafe britain
I think you know that you cannot back your position and that the neo-nazi in the article is just as much a problem as any other extremist who starts planning terror attacks. As someone who is openly Jewish (or occasionally claims to be) then I am surprised that you would offer any defence of an individual that would see Jews as being part of "the problem".
Don't read that rag at all. Liverpool are playing good football at the moment, and yes that pains me, and I still hope the wheels fall off and Leicester win the league (that would be a sweet moment!). If Liverpool win the league then they have done so because they consistently got the results required. So you are far from the truth when you suggest that I can't handle the football (whatever that means). Liverpool might be the darling of British football once again but you better develop thick skin because should they start to dominate you will the club becoming a target for "haters".
5G Network Radiation?
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@manxy Finally you are actually getting close to understanding some of the legitimate concerns relating to 5G in the UK and that is the involvement of Huawei and the fear that it will collect data on behalf of the Chinese Government and create a national security risk.
Anyone see the snowflake Liverpool supporters getting irate by being referred to as "bin-dippers"?
Back in 1990 I had a potato gun...
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QFC Employment Standards Office Releases Annual Report
ESO Commissioner Luigia Ingianni (middle) with the ESO Team
The Employment Standards Office (ESO) of Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), one of the world’s leading and fastest growing onshore business and financial centres, has released its annual report which provides an overview of the ESO’s key milestones and strategy initiatives carried out from 2016 to 2018.
Through its mission ‘Improving Workplace Relationships’ and strategy inspired by Qatar National Vision 2030, ESO aims to stimulate a productive labour market, foster economic growth and support the national economic diversification strategy.
Since its inception in 2015, ESO has offered a variety of professional services free of charge to the QFC community. In particular, ESO has provided QFC clients with over 1,000 advisory services, a variety of workshops, awareness and training sessions, and performed a significant number of labour investigations and workplace inspections to monitor the level of compliance with employment standards.
The ESO Dispute Resolution Centre – the first and unique administrative dispute resolution centre for employment in the region, operating under the guidelines of the International Labour Organization (ILO), has amicably resolved over 80% of employment complaints received.
In 2017 the ESO established ‘Think-Lab’, the first social dialogue platform where employees, employers and institutions meet to discuss employment matters, labour market trends and new policies for the evolving labour market.
The ESO cooperates with the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs and the ILO on critical initiatives to support the Qatari labour market and the implementation of ILO standards.
According to ESO Commissioner Luigia Ingianni, as an integral part of Qatar’s strategic economic diversification efforts, Qatar Financial Centre is committed to maintaining a sustainable business ecosystem. She said that by living the QFC values – integrity, synergy, passion and excellence, dynamism and client focus – they are continuing to build trust among employers, employees and QFC institutions, while also improving the climate for investment and economic growth.’
Working in synergy with the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social affairs, international stakeholders as well as employers and employees from the private sector enables us to foster human, social and economic developments, three of the four pillars of Qatar National Vision 2030.
Through our strategy, we are also committed to supporting the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals by continuing to exploit our resources to foster equality, inclusion, human development, partnerships, as well as safe and healthy work conditions within our community.’
ESO is QFC’s independent institution administering the QFC Employment and Data Protection Regulations. ESO comprises the Employment Directorate, which includes Dispute Prevention, Dispute Resolution, Labour Market Information System and Occupational Safety and Health, and the Data Protection Directorate, the QFC data protection supervisory authority working in line with EU GDPR principles.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis offered Christmas wishes Wednesday for a better world, praying for protection for Christians under attack, battered women and trafficked children, peace in the Middle East and Africa, and dignity for refugees fleeing misery and conflict around the globe.
Francis delivered the traditional 'Urbi et Orbi' (Latin for 'to the city and to the world') speech from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to more than 70,000 cheering tourists, pilgrims and Romans in the square below.
In his first Christmas message since being elected pontiff in March, he asked for all to share in the song of Christmas angels, 'for every man or woman ... who hopes for a better world, who cares for others,' humbly.
Among places ravaged by conflict, Francis singled out Syria, which saw its third Christmas during civil war; South Sudan; the Central African Republic; Nigeria; and Iraq.
In Iraq on Wednesday, militants targeted Christians in two attacks, including a bomb that exploded near a church during Christmas Mass in Baghdad. The separate bombings killed dozens of people.
The Vatican has been trying to raise concern in the world for persecution and attacks on Christians in parts of the Middle East and Africa.
'Lord of life, protect all who are persecuted in your name,' Francis said.
Adding an off-the-cuff remark, Francis said he was also inviting non-believers to join their desire for peace with everyone else.
The pope also prayed that God 'bless the land where you chose to come into the world and grant a favorable outcome to the peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.'
Francis then explained his concept of peace.
'True peace is not a balancing of opposing forces. It's not a lovely facade which conceals conflicts and divisions,' the pope said. 'Peace calls for daily commitment,' Francis said, reading the pages of his speech as they were ruffled by a chilly wind.
Francis also spoke of the lives of everyday people, especially those struggling for a better life.
Recalling the hundreds of migrants who have drowned this year while trying to reach European shores, including many close to the Italian island of Lampedusa, Francis prayed that refugees receive hope, consolation and assistance.
He added that 'our thoughts turn to those children who are the most vulnerable victims of wars, but we think, too, of the elderly, of battered women' and others.
The 77-year-old pope kept to the simple style he has set for his papacy. Wearing a plain white cassock, Francis presented a sharp contrast in appearance to the pope who stood on the same balcony on Christmas exactly a year ago. Then Benedict XVI, who was soon to stun the world by retiring, read his Christmas speech while dressed in a crimson, ermine-trimmed cape. Benedict lives on the Vatican grounds, and Francis paid a holiday call on him earlier this week.
In another break with tradition, the Argentine-born Francis stuck to Italian for his Christmas greetings, forsaking a custom of wishing happy holidays in dozens of languages to the crowd below the balcony.
In the Mideast, pilgrims celebrated Christmas in the ancient Bethlehem church where tradition holds Jesus was born, as candles illuminated the sacred site and the joyous sound of prayer filled its overflowing halls.
This year's turnout was the largest in years in Bethlehem, and the celebrations have been marked by careful optimism amid ongoing Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Leaders expressed hope the coming year would finally bring the Palestinians an independent state of their own.
The top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land, Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal, led a prayer for some 1,000 worshippers. 'The whole world now is looking at Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus,' Twal said in his annual address, adding that the message of Jesus was one of 'love and reconciliation.'
Bethlehem lies 10 kilometers (six miles) south of Jerusalem. Entry to the city is controlled by Israel, which occupied the West Bank in 1967.
Following a Palestinian uprising that began in 2000, the numbers of visitors to Bethlehem had plunged. But thanks to a period of relative calm, they have been steadily climbing in recent years.
Iskandar Salameh, an 18-year-old Palestinian, said the Christmas spirit was uniting those gathered Wednesday. 'We all feel that Jesus is with us today,' he said.
In Britain, the royal family turned out in force for a Christmas church service, but the newest family member, Prince George, son of Prince William and Kate, was nowhere in sight.
Cicely Howard said she asked about the baby when she greeted Kate outside the church. Howard told the British news agency Press Association that Kate described George as being 'more interested in the wrapping paper than the presents.' Britain's Queen Elizabeth in a pre-recorded Christmas message urged reflection among the distractions of the holiday period.
In his speech, Pope Francis also recalled the victims of natural disasters, especially Filipinos suffering from the recent typhoon in their homeland.
In North America, many spent a dark and cold holiday following an ice storm.
President Barack Obama encouraged fellow Americans to embrace the spirit of Christmas by volunteering at soup kitchens, buying presents for children in need or organizing food or clothing donation drives.
___ Mohammed Daraghmeh contributed from Bethlehem, and Cassandra Vinograd from London.
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Weeding out Fake News: An Approach to Social Media Regulation
Konrad Niklewicz
Social media are becoming the dominant source of information for significant parts of our societies. There are numerous positive aspects of these media, such as their ability to mobilise for a political cause and how they enable greater and quicker flows of ideas across societies.
This paper focuses on those aspects of social media that negatively affect the public debate, such as the spreading of fake news and the creation of ‘echo chambers’ of like-minded users who become isolated from alternative opinions. The paper proposes that social media platforms should be considered media companies and that they should be regulated by modified versions of existing press laws, adapted to suit the new technology.
The creation of a ‘notice and correct’ procedure, as it is tentatively called, would provide an effective tool to stop lies from spreading, allowing affected parties, public or private, to protect their rights. By making the social media platforms jointly responsible for the content they publish, governments would create the right incentives for companies to adapt their business models and modify the construction of their algorithms and policies.
The paper outlines how such a procedure could function without constricting the freedom of speech. Finally, the paper stresses the improvement of e-literacy as an additional, viable and long-term solution to the problem of fake news.
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Scenario-Focused Engineering: Take an Experimental Approach
By Austina De Bonte and Drew Fletcher
Designing a new mouse
The Fast Feedback Cycle
Looking deeper
In this chapter from Scenario-Focused Engineering: A toolbox for innovation and customer-centricity, get an overview of the customer-focused, iterative approach called the Fast Feedback Cycle. You will see what it looks like, what the basic activities are at each stage, and how the stages fit together.
To stand out in today’s mature software market, you need to delight customers at an emotional level. A reliable way to delight customers is to deliver an end-to-end experience that solves a complete customer need, even if that means delivering less functionality overall. But how do you build those end-to-end experiences? And perhaps more importantly, how do you know which end-to-end experiences to build in the first place? The secret is staying focused on customers’ real-world needs and desires and taking an iterative, experimental approach to zero in on great solutions for those needs.
In this chapter, we give you an overview of the customer-focused, iterative approach that we call the Fast Feedback Cycle. You will see what it looks like, what the basic activities are at each stage, and how the stages fit together. Subsequent chapters dive into more details and techniques for the work you do in each stage of the Fast Feedback Cycle.
Let’s start with an example of using the Fast Feedback Cycle to build a hardware device—a mouse. This is a case study of Project Bentley, a Microsoft hardware project that was chartered to build a highly ergonomic mouse.
The inspiration for the mouse was simple—when observing customers who were using Microsoft’s ergonomic keyboards, the hardware team noticed that many customers used gel pads or other accessories to make their mice more comfortable to use.1 A highly ergonomic mouse would be a natural extension to Microsoft’s line of strong-selling ergonomic keyboards, and so the project was born.
With a bit of research about situations in which people used a mouse, which buttons and sliders got the most use, and the size of the average hand; a decision to focus exclusively on right-handed users; and a long history of designing mice and other hardware, the team began to brainstorm possible solutions. Here’s what its first round of ideas looked like:
The team made many quick prototypes—about 50 of them in all. Each of the prototypes was made very quickly from inexpensive, easy-to-work modeling materials. None took more than 15 minutes to create, some much less. But take a closer look; many of the prototypes are not finished. In fact, some of them are downright strange. For instance, look at the gray one in the center: Which way do you hold it? Where do the buttons go? Look at the tall one just above the gray one and to the left—it’s sharp on top. Would anyone ever ship a mouse that’s sharp on top? Many of the mockups look like they were abandoned halfway through. Several have thin lips on the bottom that look destined to crack off and would never pass a manufacturing review.
The point is that the team tried out ideas that even in their mind’s eye were going nowhere, just to see whether they might lead to a better idea.
At this stage in the project, it’s cheap and fast to try out a new approach, so the team considered as many different shapes, configurations, and form factors that they could think of. This is a classic brainstorming step, where you cast the net as wide as possible at the very beginning of the process, when your brain is most capable of generating many different ideas. It turns out that some solid neuroscience lies behind why your brain is much more capable of generating lots of ideas when you brainstorm early, as the first step of a project, before you become too mentally committed to any single approach. We’ll go into this in detail in Chapter 7, “Brainstorming alternatives.”
To get some input as to which models were working best ergonomically, the team then showed them to a few customers to touch, feel, and hold. The team also began thinking through which approaches were most likely to be technically feasible. It’s notable that this first round of customer feedback happened just a few weeks into the project.
After considering that feedback, they produced their second round of ideas:
Note that the team didn’t choose just one of their initial ideas to work with in more detail—they were still working on nine alternatives in this round. But this time, instead of using foam and clay, they built CAD models for each mouse and “printed” them out using a 3-D printer to create the physical forms. At this point the details were starting to get worked out. The buttons and precise contours were all there, and you can see that each one now incorporates a scroll wheel, which turned out to be a key request from customers.
The team was now also considering the technical implications of each design. Would it work for manufacturing? Would all the gearing and components fit inside the case? What kind of plastics could be used? In parallel, they continued testing with users to get feedback about how the mouse felt in people’s hands—because, after all, the ultimate goal was to build a mouse with superior ergonomics.
Here’s what they produced for round three:
Again, the team didn’t pick just one concept to move forward with. This time they selected four options to prototype more fully—now with functional buttons, real materials, and all the internal mechanisms. Just as before, they debated the technical feasibility of each design and had customers use these mice in real situations to get detailed feedback about what worked and what didn’t.
In the end, here is what they finally shipped, the Microsoft Natural Mouse 6000, released in 2008:
Did you notice that the mouse they shipped is not the same as any of the final four prototypes? While it is most similar to H, look closely and you’ll see that it incorporates aspects of all four of the final models. The same sort of combinatoric mixing of good ideas from multiple lines of thinking happened at every stage of this process. Go back and look at the 3-D models—none of them is exactly the same as any of the original foam models. Similarly, none of the four functional prototypes is the same as any one of the 3-D models. As the team iterated, it combined and recombined the best ideas from different prototypes to narrow in on the combination that worked the best—both for technical feasibility and for end-user ergonomics. In the end, they delivered a product that did well in the market, and really delighted their customers.2
Engineers naturally tend to iterate ideas. As you work through the issues and get feedback from others on the team, your solutions steadily get better and more refined. However, unlike in this example, you typically start with only one seed—one reasonably good idea of how to solve the problem, and you iterate from there, continually refining that idea until you get to a final solution.
However, if you think back to your mathematics background, starting with one seed is a really good way to find a local maximum in a complex plane. If you want a more statistically reliable way to find the global maximum, you need to start with more seeds. This is the magic behind the iterative approach illustrated by the mouse example—combining and recombining the best ideas from multiple lines of thinking within the Fast Feedback Cycle to give you the very best odds of finding the most optimal solution across all of your constraints.
Some of you may question whether this illustration is even relevant to software development. We chose this example because it provides a great visualization of what an ideal iterative process might look like. It’s a good example precisely because it is so physical and easy to photograph and view step by step. For software projects, you don’t prototype with clay and foam, but on paper, with wireframes, whiteboard drawings, storyboards, PowerPoint mockups, prototyping toolkits, flow diagrams, or even by writing prototype code. To capture a similar snapshot of the iterative stages in a software project would take stacks and stacks of paper, and the patterns would be much harder to see at a glance. But regardless of the form factor, the core ideas are exactly the same:
Start with a clear idea of which target customers you are building for.
Understand those customers’ needs and desires in the context of their real-life situations.
Explore many possible ideas, especially in visual ways.
Build several rapid prototypes of the most promising ideas.
Evaluate prototypes with customers to get feedback and learn, while working through technical feasibility in parallel.
Refine prototypes, gradually focusing in on fewer ideas, adding more details at each successive round, and eventually writing production code once your plan has stabilized.
It’s worth taking a short pause to ponder a quick thought experiment. What would it take to actually work with multiple ideas in an iterative approach in your software development process? How different would that be? How close are you to doing these things already in your current team and project? What would the implications be if you recentered your whole engineering system on this approach?
Scenario-Focused Engineering: A toolbox for innovation and customer-centricity
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home migalhas top stories How Uber secretly investigated its legal foes — and got caught
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How Uber secretly investigated its legal foes — and got caught
When a young labor lawyer named Andrew Schmidt first filed suit against Uber in December of last year, he couldn’t have predicted it would make him a target. Schmidt’s suit was a legal long shot, alleging that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick coordinated surge pricing in violation of anti-trust laws — but those legal arguments would soon be overshadowed by something much stranger.
A few weeks after the case was filed, Schmidt found out he was being investigated. According to a court declaration made by Schmidt and his colleagues, someone had called one of Schmidt’s lawyer friends in Colorado to ask some strange questions, claiming it was for a project "profiling up-and-coming labor lawyers in the US." What was the nature of his relationship with the plaintiff? Who was the driving force behind the lawsuit? Calls were also allegedly made to acquaintances of Schmidt’s client, Spencer Meyer, with a similar proposal to profile "up-and-coming researchers in environmental conservation."
Schmidt reached out to Kalanick’s lawyers, but they said Uber wasn’t involved, writing back, "Whoever is behind these calls, it is not us."
A month later, those same lawyers called back to admit that wasn’t strictly true. Schmidt and his client were being investigated by a secretive research firm, staffed by veterans from the CIA and the National Security Council, on behalf of Uber’s top executives. As soon as the lawsuit was filed, those executives took an interest in Schmidt and his client, sending out operatives to dig up what they could find on Uber’s new antagonists.
That investigation has turned into a legal disaster for Uber, and the presiding judge has already ruled the evidence constitutes "a reasonable basis to suspect the perpetration of fraud." The result is a rare window into how one of the most powerful and litigious companies in the world responds to a major class action lawsuit. As Uber continues to attract new lawsuits and accusations, the investigation into Schmidt and his colleagues shows just how far the company will go to defend its position, both inside and outside the courtroom.
According to internal Uber emails, the investigation began with a note from Uber’s general counsel, Sallie Yoo. The day that Schmidt filed the complaint against Kalanick, Yoo sent an email to Uber’s chief security officer, saying, "Could we find out a little more about this plaintiff?" The request was forwarded to the company’s head of Global Threat Intelligence, Mathew Henley.
By the end of the week, Henley was on the phone with a corporate research firm called Ergo, also known as Global Precision Research LLC, asking for help with "a sensitive, very under-the-radar investigation." After a few emails, Henley worked out the terms of the deal with an Ergo executive named Todd Egeland. It would be a "level two" investigation, the middle of the three levels of work offered by Ergo. It would be drawn from seven source interviews conducted over the course of 10 days, for which Uber would pay $19,500. As with any Ergo investigation, the confidentiality of the client was paramount, and sources were never meant to know who was paying for the research. "We do quite a bit of this work for law firms," Egeland reassured him. (Ergo did not respond to requests for comment.)
There was one other wrinkle, expanding the scope beyond Schmidt’s client to Schmidt himself. "I suggest that you may also wish for some details on the plaintiff’s relationship with the lawyer," Egeland wrote to Henley in one email. "They outwardly appear to be at least college, if not life-long, friends."
Henley approved the deal, writing back, "All looks good guys, thanks."
From there, the facts of the investigation become less clear. According to Schmidt and his team, Ergo contacted 28 different friends or co-workers of the plaintiff, each time claiming to be looking for information on "up-and-coming researchers in environmental conservation" or something similarly vague. The plaintiffs say those claims were false, and could be grounds for fraud.
Uber was treading on dangerous ground by even commissioning the investigation, some experts say. "This is a very unusual situation and one that raises real risks," says Michael Volkov of the Volkov Law Group, who has written extensively on third-party due diligence. "Going around and conducting interviews of people associated with the case, who may become witnesses, is really unseemly."
It’s not uncommon for firms to do basic background research on a plaintiff or opposing counsel. Facebook engaged in a similar investigation with a firm called Kroll a 2011 case contesting Zuckerberg's ownership of the company, although no impropriety by the investigators was ever alleged. But that research is typically conducted through online searches and public records requests, and anything involving direct contact with possible parties to the case is seen as far more delicate. "Commissioning the investigation without meaningful guidance on how it is conducted shows either naivete or that they just did not care about complying with appropriate restrictions on such investigations," Volkov says.
The judge hearing Uber’s case appears to have agreed. On June 7th, Judge Rakoff ruled that Schmidt and his colleagues had shown enough evidence to provide a reasonable perception of fraud, giving plaintiffs the right to examine emails and other documents exchanged between Uber and Ergo. According to the ruling, Ergo’s investigation was "raising a serious risk of perverting the process of justice before this court." With that ruling, what began as an antitrust case has become a parallel case about exactly how far Ergo went, and how much Uber knew about it.
The implications go far beyond a single case. Uber is currently litigating 70 different federal lawsuits, which range from accusations of wage theft to fundamental questions of worker classification. Any one of those cases could be a tempting target for third-party research firms like Ergo. According to a sworn deposition from an Ergo employee, this was the fourth time Uber hired the company for research, although it’s unclear whether the other cases involved an active trial. Given the volume of cases against Uber and the routine way in which the investigation was assigned, it’s plausible the company was contracting with other research firms.
It’s not the first time Uber has shown an appetite for researching the company’s critics. In a private dinner in 2014, Uber executive Emil Michael outlined a plan to spend a million dollars collecting opposition research on journalists who cover Uber unfavorably, suggesting the company could investigate "your personal lives, your families." Uber’s CEO later condemned the comments, and there’s no indication such a program was ever put into place.
Founded in 2006, Ergo provides data analysis and business consulting for a range of private clients, according to its website, but its main goal is the delivery of "ground truth and actionable intelligence obtainable only from frontline sources." It boasts of working on 800 projects in 120 countries, from searching for fraud in Iraqi shipping deals to advising on Ugandan oil contracts. It is headquartered in New York City, but has offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Yangon, Myanmar.
The company's founder, Randolph Post "R.P." Eddy, has a long history of work in both counterterrorism and diplomacy. He served as director of counterterrorism at the White House National Security Council during the Clinton administration, chief of staff to US Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke, and senior policy officer for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Eddy helped found the New York Police Department’s counterterrorism center, serves on numerous boards and think tanks, and has appeared frequently on national television in his capacity as an expert on terrorism. Egeland, the firm’s managing director, testified that prior to working at Ergo, he served at the Central Intelligence Agency for 28 years.
Uber communicated with Ergo largely over encrypted channels. Henley explained in one email that this was necessary to "avoid potential discovery issues." (A subsequent Uber filing characterizes the reasoning differently, saying encryption was necessary "to protect against data breaches of Ergo’s mail servers.") Initial emails were encrypted with PGP — specifically the Enigmail extension — but after a number of emails failed to decrypt, Henley suggested moving the conversation to the encrypted chat app Wickr, saying, "Nothing’s worse than the 30 years of attempted PGP mail client integrations."
Wickr automatically deletes messages after a preset period of time (typically 72 hours), and Uber executives have testified that it is a common tool for internal communications. After Henley’s suggestion, PGP emails dropped off entirely, except to transmit some preferred legal language three days later and submitting the final report 12 days after that.
Presented with a court-mandated discovery order, Uber provided decrypted versions of the PGP emails, but the Wickr conversations have proven to be more of a challenge. Although email records show Henley exchanging Wickr screen names with Ergo executives, Henley denied directly communicating over the service in a sworn deposition. Given Wickr’s automatic deletion system, that claim is impossible to disprove.
Uber says it initially reached out to Ergo to assess whether Meyer, the plaintiff, posed a direct threat to Kalanick. Joe Sullivan, Uber’s chief of security, testified that because Spencer Meyer’s antitrust suit specifically named Kalanick as the defendant, as opposed to the $62.5 billion company he runs, it was prudent to look into Meyer’s background to see if he "had it in for our CEO."
"I'm always on the lookout when situations arise that could be a cause for concern," Sullivan said. "And I'm always careful to make sure that we do our diligence in those situations."
Sullivan also noted it was "an unusual situation" for Kalanick to be named specifically in the suit. However, Uber passengers are subject to user agreements that require them to resolve disputes through arbitration, and suing Kalanick may have been a way around that clause. Tellingly, Uber filed court documents July 8th that would compel Meyer to settle his case through arbitration.
Despite Sullivan’s concerns, internal Ergo emails show more of an interest in reputational damage than physical threat. In one of the first available emails sent while compiling the report, a supervisor asks, "Do we have enough negative things said about Meyer [the plaintiff] to write a text box?" When those facts proved hard to come by, the primary investigator, Miguel Santos-Neves, eventually replied, "One did say that he was enamored with ideas and may be unfamiliar with the realities and demands of the real world." The supervisor replied, "Perfect."
The final report notes that Meyer "may be particularly sensitive to any actions that tarnish his professional reputation." Neither the report nor any of the available communications between Ergo and Uber make any reference to Meyer as a possible security threat to Kalanick.
On March 22nd, as Schmidt and his colleagues were demanding answers on the scope of the investigation, Ergo arranged a private meeting with Uber’s global threat team. In the meeting, Ergo acknowledged that the investigation had gone beyond the appropriate scope, blaming the overreach on "an employee who had gone rogue" — apparently a reference to Santos-Neves.
However, Santos-Neves testified that his supervisors never reprimanded him, nor gave any indication that his tactic of misrepresenting himself in interviews with Meyer’s acquaintances violated Ergo’s protocols. In fact, he implied that it was necessary in order to shield Uber’s involvement. "The confidentiality of our clients is of utmost importance," Santos-Neves testified. "One of the ways that we maintain that confidentiality is by, as I said earlier, crafting questions that can, you know, maintain that confidentiality." He added, "We can be sort of vague about our intentions."
In a filing last night, Uber pushed back against the allegations of fraud, arguing its contract with Ergo had specified that the investigation be both lawful and professional, and neither Kalanick nor Uber had any idea an investigator might stray beyond that. "Uber took reasonable steps to ensure that Ergo complied with the law," the filing reads. "It is undisputed that Uber and Mr. Kalanick were unaware that Ergo would use misrepresentations during its investigation."
Reached by The Verge, Uber declined to comment, as did the plaintiff’s legal team. Reached briefly by phone on Thursday, Santos-Neves said, "Please don’t call me." Uber and the plaintiffs are scheduled to present oral arguments in federal court in New York on July 14th.
(Published by The Verge - July 10, 2016)
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“Vitriol” versus “Tàpies protector”
by Arnau Puig
French sociology in the nineteenth century established that the “events” (not the truths) are stubborn. So, although time passes again we stumble across a “fact” that seems to have taken place around 1974 between the moralist caricaturist painter Ferran Martí Teixidor (Sabadell, 1930), and – without prior notice – Antoni Tàpies, unarguably the master of ‘Art informel’ and ‘Matter painting’.
At the time mentioned above Martí Teixidor painted in the pre-Raphaelite symbolist style, under the inscription Glory to the acute sensitivity of Antònia Muro and her shat-on knickers and in caricature, a pseudo-portrait of a haloed Antoni Tàpies, dressed as Christ (or rather the “Virgin”, iconically) with the blue shawl wrapped round him (in the style of the Gothic virgin), which covered a red robe belted with a penitential cord. The cloak shrouds, warms, connects a series of stupified fools who, smiling and grateful, look admiringly at their protector.
Martí Teixidor, “Vitriol”, Glory to the acute sensitivity of Antònia Muro, c. 1974.
This is the iconicity of the painting. In the lower right part, glued to the canvas, there is a cutting from the newspaper “El Ciero” with illegible but visible text, under the general heading of Cruz y Raya. It is by Manuel Vela Jimémez, and the title of the printed text reads: Arte Pobre. A previous photograph of all this was found in the desk of the Rafael Santos Torroella, art critic for the “Noticiero Universal”. The same year, Tàpies published L’Art contra l’Estètica, (action against the rule; he had previously published La pràctica de l’art, where he also promoted action). All in all, it was an argument against figurative art, understood as an anachronistic and regressive expression of the bourgeoisie. The facts were a kind of summary which more or les showed Tàpies, already recognised and celebrated as a great Informalist painter who, in part, owed his international success to the need for an exterior liberal image of the Franco regime, propitiated by the curator Luís González Robles. M. Infiesta, the creator of the Museum of Realist Art (MEAM), in Barcelona, commenting on the art of Martí Teixidor, has recently affirmed this.
Up to here we have the facts. Now we will see the sense and meaning of all this. On the face of it, they affirm that society is not a clear, transparent, intercommunicated and flexible thing, but quite the opposite: obscure, compartmentalised, sclerotic, cheating and, above, all, immoral, lying outside every rule and principle that was not the sacrosanct principle of private property (up to now, untouchable worldwide).
Looking back, but still relevant today, what Martí Teixidor (who had received the Wagner Prize in 1955, awarded in the [reconstructed] city of Dresden) seems to be saying is that in the case of Tàpies as an Informalist, art had lost its justification in the moral consciousness, as seen in the work of Hogarth, Goya, and Daumier, who used drawing and painting to “represent the Passions, and through the Epidermis, evoke the interior Soul” (Mitchell, 1731), … “while I describe them you would paint their features: you would do ithem so like you saw thenm that I assure you you would not have to make a caricature; you shape them such that just looking at the face you can see the soul” (Swift, 1736), … “it is said that the best praise you can offer a painter is to say that his figures seem to be breathing; then it is even better praise to say they seem to be thinking” (Fielding, 1742). ith the obvious addition of the thesis on the physiognomy and representation of Lavater (1780). I offer all these contributions in an attempt to say that Martí Teixidor, through a painting of the academic (or not academic) concept of “otherness”, through (albeit invented and personal) stereotypes of the ways of another contemporary Catalan painter, Ramon Calsina, and Riu Serra, or the abovementioned English, Aragonese or French, shows that art can be made, not for popular consumption like the Dutch Teniers or the artistic Costumbrismo of Andalusia at the end of the nineteenth century, but as art that is snagged on the hook of comic deformation and sarcastic cynicism and ridicule, without abandoning, however, the executive licence of surrealism (this could justify the part of the allusive border in one of Dalí’s painting where there is a figure with shat-on pants). The art that Martí Teixidor proposes is like a medicine for the soul – Tàpies also wanted it for the body, under the influence and acceptance of Orientalism. Martí criticises what he believes is the anaesthesia with which contemporary art has steered reality. (At the end of Francoism, Cirici even said that the art of Tàpies was equivalent to the figurative emblem of the annihilation of reality). It would seem that the only person to be let off was Francis Bacon.
It is strange how things turn full circle, however. If you want to interpret the criticism of Tàpies and his “coryphes”, now it seems that Martí Teixidor – who has also had his own dealers and buyers – in another criticism of the painter Manzoni and his “artistic shit”, blames the abstract artists (all forming everything that is negative for a healthy moral culture) for a counterculture driven by perverse and perverted instructors. Art would become a panacea either for salvation or death. The fact is when one wants to cure the body and the other wants to save the soul.
It seems to me as if the world has turned on its head: where the good are the bad and the false, depending on your perspective. Here, Costumbrismo is brushing up against moralism to become a satire of social behaviour.
Just thinking about who could be the seven “coryphes” that come under the umbrella of the Informalism of the Great Master, they could be the “seven” of the “Set” del Dau; if anyone sees any others, they could be René Metras, Lluís Maria Riera or anyone else close to them.
However, the aforementioned founder of the MEAC has said of the art of Martí Teixidor – and rightly in my opinion – that it has the morality and imagery that would is seen in the novel and the film “Lord of the Rings”.
For the moment this observation and reflection is an invitation to reconsider the role of art in the present day as a whole. In such a controversial society the “roles” of anything could be “those of a cartoon strip”.
Arnau Puig
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Theo Germaine Gender, Boy or Girl, Wikipedia, Age, Gay – The Politician Trans Actor
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After the first season of ‘The Politician‘, fans cannot stop wondering about Theo Germaine. The transgender kid who has had a breakthrough year is someone with immense potential.
Theo Germaine is an American actor famous for his role as a James in ‘The Politician’. Additionally, he featured in a couple of short movies.
After his role in the political comedy series, he has been breaking into the headlines. Mostly, as an exciting prospect to shape up the future of Hollywood.
Theo Germaine has openly talked about his transformation. Know details on his age, wiki, sexuality and more here.
The question to determine gender is quite odd. However, such is not the case every time. Especially, when it comes to trans, gender identification can be a tough task.
However, Theo Germaine has openly stated that he underwent the transformation. As a matter of fact, he was a girl previously.
He has not provided the details about the causes of the transformation. Although, he did talk about having difficulties dealing with physical orientation and vulnerability.
Nevertheless, he made a decision and he is proud of it as well. Likewise, the decision has also helped him to be a natural self.
Therefore, there arises no question about his gender when we are referring with ‘he’. Although, he was a girl previously.
Nonetheless, he knows the feeling of being a girl as well as a boy. Sounds complex but it is the way it is.
Theo Germaine is not somebody whose name has been whispered for a long time. As a matter of fact, he is someone up-and-coming and ready to make his mark.
Every new actor in Hollywood does not show potential. But when it comes to Theo Germaine, he is someone who deserves the big stage and celebrity fame.
As of now, there is no biography page dedicated to him in Wikipedia. However, it’s just a matter of years that he will have one.
Nonetheless, there are very few available facts about him. He has not shared details on his birth date yet.
We do know that he is a local from Chicago. He was born and raised in the ‘Windy City’. There are no much of the details about his childhood to talk about.
Although, he did have troubles regarding his sexuality and body during his school days. On the other hand, the details on his education and college are not available for now.
Theo Germaine has been professionally acting since 2015. The young actor commenced with ‘Latte Feelings’ followed by a minor role in ‘Artificial Intelligence’.
After his short movie roles, he featured in ‘Adam‘ in 2019. However, the year has been a breakthrough for him after capturing the role of James in ‘The Politician’.
this is just going to be my ID from now on 🤩
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Moreover, he will be featuring Chris in the upcoming series ‘Work in Progress‘. The fame is waiting for the rising star.
Theo Germaine has never shared a fact on his birthday. However, it’s not so difficult to guess his age through pictures.
Looks like he is in his 20s.
Likewise, he is never shy to talk about his sexuality. As a matter of fact, Theo Germaine is gay and falls for attractive men.
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HomeTV ShowsAmerican IdolCarrie Underwood and Kellie Pickler Nominated for CMT Music Awards
Carrie Underwood and Kellie Pickler Nominated for CMT Music Awards
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The votes have been tabulated, and today, People magazine reveals the CMT Music Awards nominees. Read more HERE.
Carrie Underwood is nominated in 3 categories: Female Video of the Year, CMT Performance of the Year, and Video of the Year. Kellie Pickler nabbed a nomination, for Collaborative Video of the Year with Taylor Swift for “Best Days of Your Life.”
Deaton Flanigen and Roman White, directors who have worked with both Kellie and Carrie are nominated for Director Of the Year.
And Rascal Flatt’s “Here Comes Goodbye” is nominated for Group Video of the Year. The song was co-written by Season 6 Idol, Chris Sligh.
Finally, some of you may have watched the 19 Entertainment-produced show, Can You Duet? The winners, Steel Magnolia, are nominated for Duo Video of the Year.
On June 9, all the winners will be announced on CMT at 8 p.m. ET, in a live ceremony hosted by Kid Rock.
Check out the list of nominees after the jump.
Nominees after the jump
Male Video of the Year
• Jason Aldean – “The Truth” • Billy Currington – “People Are Crazy”
• Toby Keith – “American Ride”
• Tim McGraw – “Southern Voice”
• Keith Urban – ” ‘Til Summer Comes Around”
Female Video of the Year
• Miranda Lambert – “White Liar”
• Reba McEntire – “Consider Me Gone”
• Taylor Swift – “You Belong With Me”
• Carrie Underwood – “Cowboy Casanova”
Group Video of the Year
• Gloriana – “How Far Do You Wanna Go?”
• Lady Antebellum – “Need You Now”
• Rascal Flatts – “Here Comes Goodbye”
• Zac Brown Band – “Toes”
Duo Video of the Year
• Brooks & Dunn – “Indian Summer”
• Steel Magnolia – “Keep On Lovin’ You”
• Sugarland – “Keep You”
• Sugarland – “Nightswimming/Joey”
USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year
• Luke Bryan – “Do I”
• Laura Bell Bundy – “Giddy On Up”
• Easton Corbin – “A Little More Country Than That”
Collaborative Video of the Year
• Jason Aldean and Bryan Adams – “Heaven”
• Kenny Chesney with Dave Matthews – “I’m Alive”
• Kellie Pickler featuring Taylor Swift – “Best Days of Your Life”
• Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins – “Hillbilly Bone”
CMT Performance of the Year
• Lady Antebellum – “Lookin’ For A Good Time”
• Reba McEntire – “Consider Me Gone” • Tim McGraw – “Southern Voice”
• Brad Paisley – “Then”
• Carrie Underwood – “Temporary Home”
Video Director of the Year
• Deaton Flanigen (eligible videos include: Jason Aldean’s “The Truth” and Carrie Underwood’s “Temporary Home”)
• Chris Hicky (eligible videos include: Miranda Lambert’s “White Liar” and Justin Moore’s “Small Town USA”)
• Shaun Silva (eligible videos include: Kenny Chesney’s “Out Last Night” and Rascal Flatts’s “Summer Nights”)
• Roman White (eligible videos include: Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me” and Kellie Pickler’s “Best Days of Your Life”)
Final nominees to be announced during live telecast, with final voting held online at CMT.com during the show.
• Jason Aldean – “The Truth”
• Kenny Chesney – “Out Last Night”
• Brad Paisley – “Welcome to the Future”
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They did it last year, and were such a big hit (plus winning, once again, Male and Female Vocalist of the Year) that Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley will return as co-emcees of the CMA
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HomeHeadlinesHeadlines: Pentatonix Perform Cyber Monday Concert
Headlines: Pentatonix Perform Cyber Monday Concert
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Tonight, The Voice Top 10 perform for YOUR VOTES! Join us as we live blog, beginning at 8 ET. Watch on NBC at 8 ET/PT
Pentatonix Performing “Cyber Monday” Christmas-Themed Virtual Reality Concert Today – Pentatonix is virtually unstoppable. Today, in honor of Cyber Monday, the chart-topping a cappella group will do a “virtual reality performance” in malls around the country, highlighting their insanely popular Christmas music. Their performance — part of a Samsung Gear VR demo — will be on view at select Westfield Mall locations across the country. The virtual reality technology will make fans feel as though Pentatonix is singing just for them, as they “watch” the performance from a private balcony with a full 360 degree view, and hear select commentary from the group about why they love singing during the holidays. – Read more at ABC News Radio
Rayvon Owen Set to Sing with Postmodern Jukebox
Rayvon Owen will join fellow Idol alums, Haley Reinhart, Joey Cook, Casey Abrams and Blake Lewis as part of the reto outfits extended family of singers! Watch for the video coming soon.
RO + @PMJofficial …soon pic.twitter.com/rziaO264fq
— Rayvon Owen (@RayvonOwen) November 28, 2015
Interview: The Voice’s Ousted Evan McKeel: I Didn’t Expect to Go Home – I would be lying if I said I was expecting to go home. What we’ve said during this entire process is no one should expect to go through, but no one should assume they’re going home. You should be level and understand with America’s vote being the No. 1 thing, you need to be ready for anything, and understand even if you give the best performance of the night, there is still a chance that you could go home. I felt great about my performance this past Monday. I actually thought it was my best performance on the show. It is the most true to who I am as an artist. I was so glad I showed that… I was at peace with what happened. I knew I was going to have joy no matter what happened. – Read more at Parade
Richmonder Evan McKeel reflects on his run on “The Voice,” which ended this week –
McKeel said, “The No. 1 thing I’ve learned from doing the show is how fulfilled I am (onstage). Now, more than ever, I know this is really what I feel like I was created to do. The show has really shown me that I need to keep pouring my heart into my music.” McKeel sees his run on TV as his launching pad for a full-time career in music, Like Jennifer Hudson, a famous competitor who didn’t win on a singing show — in her case, “American Idol” — but went on to have a very successful career. – Read more at Richmond.com
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So excited to share this peek at my new music video for #Heartbeat! https://t.co/C699G4GAUj
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Updated Apr 03, 2019; Posted Aug 04, 2014
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Michigan wide receiver Devin Funchess talks to members of the media inside the Towsley Museum located in Schembechler Hall on Sunday.
(Tyler Stabile | The Ann Arbor News)
ANN ARBOR -- Devin Funchess won't repeat as Big Ten Tight End of the Year, an honor he reeled in last season.
That much was already well known heading into Sunday as Michigan players reported for fall camp at Schembechler Hall.
Funchess shifted from tight end to wide receiver during his sophomore season at U-M and projects as the Wolverines' top wideout for 2014.
What's now known, though, is that that's all Funchess will do. A dangerous and versatile target listed at 6 feet, 5 inches, and 230 pounds, the junior is entering camp strictly as a wideout.
"Right now it's 100 percent outside," Funchess said Sunday, after Michigan players spent their first day back attending NCAA compliance meetings. "I don't know what they're going to do during the season, how that's going to work out, but right now, I'm just 100 percent outside."
As a sophomore, Funchess caught 49 passes for 748 yards and six touchdowns and was a semifinalist for the John Mackey Award, which goes annually to college football's most outstanding tight end.
Now he's expected to replace Jeremy Gallon as Michigan's most outstanding wide receiver.
"I worked harder this year," Funchess said of his offseason. "I had to work harder because I am the older guy in the room and one of the older guys on offense. I just had to work harder so that I can lead by example."
Funchess proved last season he's capable of being an elite-level receiver. There were some dropped passes here and there, but his combination of size and speed (he clocked a 4.33 in the 40-yard dash in the spring) remains unmatched on the U-M roster.
That has pro scouts' attention, along with that of new U-M offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier. Transitioning from former coordinator All Borges' system to Nussmeier's, Funchess will no longer have to concern himself with the blocking schemes and footwork that comes with playing out of the three-point stance as a tight end.
While much has been made of Nussmeier's offense being far more simplified than that of Borges, Funchess said that belief is a tad overblown. The offense is more simple for the quarterback making his progressions -- "like reading a book, look left to right, depending on formation" -- but isn't exactly dumbed-down for skill position players.
"It's a lot more work because of all the different rout combinations that he has in the playbook," said Funchess, who has studied NFL receivers Andre Johnson, Calvin Johnson and A.J. Green during his transition to wideout.
According to Funchess, he and quarterback Devin Gardner used some summer weekends for individual workouts against U-M defensive backs. The goal: "Working on timing."
Now acclimated to the outside, Funchess said all that's left for him to do is "bring the young guys with me."
"Just make sure they're all on board, same as me," he added.
That youth includes Freddy Canteen, who turned heads and raised hope in spring ball. The freshman possess the size (6-1, 170) and speed of a slot receiver, but finished spring practice as a starter on the outside.
According to Funchess, that remains the same. As of now, Canteen is splitting reps with with Jehu Chesson as the Z receiver, opposite Funchess.
Beyond that, the U-M receiving corp. remains a mass battle for playing time among Da'Mario Jones (6-foot-2, 196), Jaron Dukes (6-foot-4, 197), Drake Harris (6-foot-4, 176), Maurice Ways (6-foot-4, 195).
Csont'e York (6-foot-3) is expected to be in the mix, but has been suspended indefinitely by head coach Brady Hoke and will not report to fall camp.
Photo gallery: University of Michigan football players speak to the media at Schembechler Hall
Gallery: Photo gallery: University of Michigan football players speak to the media at Schembechler Hall
Brendan F. Quinn covers University of Michigan basketball and football. Follow him on Twitter for the latest on Wolverines hoops. He can be contacted at bquinn@mlive.com
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How Much Does Magento Cost? (Is "Free" Really Free?)
Shaneil Lafayette - 21 Jun 2019 Last updated: 31 Jul 2019
“Magento Community Edition is a free, open Source eCommerce platform which provides businesses with a flexible, digital commerce solution to successfully sell online.” You might be thinking you’d prefer to cut costs on website development by doing it yourself with the free option from Magento. But just how “free” is free really?
Magento Open Source Plan
You may be familiar with the concept of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) that many companies have increasingly been using to identify the true total cost of their purchase. Essentially, TCO includes the upfront purchase price and additional overhead costs, such as data importing, hosting, security, maintenance, and design costs. As time draws closer to the end of the support of Magento M1, we suggest evaluating your TCO, to be able to make the best-informed decision for your company. In addition to evaluating your TCO, we have also provided additional factors to consider when choosing a eCommerce solution in our eCommerce Buyer's Guide.
With the click of a button, you will have access to the Magento Community Edition open source software. This download will give you access to instant purchase, site search, catalog management, integrated checkout, payment and shipment, mobile shopping, and access to their Marketplace. I know, it probably sounds like you’re getting everything you need to run an eCommerce website, but stay tuned to find out if this is really the case.
The Magento platform is quite sophisticated, and requires highly skilled programmers to understand all its peculiarities. In addition, The Magento platform is complex and ever changing and therefore even Magento itself recommends using a Magento-certified partner to install, set up, and maintain your store. You could probably cut costs if you are a tech-savvy person, however, on average, agencies’ price for Magento implementation range between $30,000 for a very basic eCommerce website(Simple Design Or Theme, access to Magento Community site, no integration with back office systems, and smooth CMS). This can easily increase to as much as $100,000+ for a more sophisticated eCommerce website(custom Magento design, integration with back office systems, customer groups, and migrations to host, extensions). In addition, given the complexity of the customization of the platform and integration with third-party services, you will more than likely need to hire a Magento developer costing about $150/hr.
Hosting is a cost that people typically neglect when planning their budget. Choosing the right hosting company is imperative for your website’s long term success. Magento previously dropped their hosting services in 2014 and allowed their customers to choose their preferred host. Depending on whether or not you prefer to utilize shared hosting or dedicated hosting, the cost varies widely. Shared hosting could start at $20/month, while dedicated servers start at $539.95/month (Nexcess being a server most commonly recommended by Magento). Given Magento’s large codebase, you will have to opt for the higher end hosting options in order to not compromise speed to run a highly performing website.
Of course you could stick with the free theme offered in the basic Magento package if you want something quick to get running. However, I’m guessing essentially in the long run, you would like your store to look as customized, sophisticated, and unique as your brand and product offering. If so, you will have to succumb to yet another incremental cost of themes from Magento’s Marketplace. The cost for themes could range from $29-$499.
When your site is finally up and running, to make sure it runs at its best, you will need active maintenance and support to ensure seamless operation. This cost could vary based on your decision to do it in-house or utilize other services. These costs could include initial setup costs, new store implementation, and continuous monthly costs. On average, with a maintenance team working on your website for 4 hours per week, you can expect an average monthly cost $2500.
The open-source version of Magento offers a range of out-of-the-box features for the basic e-retailers’ needs. If you don’t need much functionality, then this option may just suffice. However, be warned; integrating extra functionality using Magento extensions could be costly. Firstly, using the Marketplace, buying these extensions could either be free or cost up to $10,000. Secondly, extensions has been proven to affect website performance. According to Sean Work, 1 second page delay to result in a 7% reduction in conversions. Therefore, if your eCommerce site is making $100,000 per day, a 1 second page delay could potentially cost you $2.5 million in lost sales every year.
Third-Party Integrations
Typically you wouldn’t want to waste money and time on developing software in house, when out-of-the-box solutions are available from third-party providers. Some of the core third-party integration types include: content infrastructure, search engines, sales tax management, product information management, and shipping solutions. Though the cost of integrating these third-party tools could be free, you will also incur the cost of using these different services. To give you an estimate of the cost you can expect, we took into account the monthly pricing of some of the more common third-party providers:
Contentful (Content Infrastructure)
Algolia (Search Engine)
TaxJar (Sales Tax Management)
Salsify (Product Information Management)
Shippo (Shipping Solutions)
These price ranges depend on the size of your company, number of operations, records, and transitions. So, we estimate a median cost of approximately $530/month.
Magento Open Source Estimated TCO
In summary, for the most basic store possible, it could cost you between $22,000 and $40,000. The basic website is accompanied by limited functionality, design, access to a community CMS, and zero integrations with back office systems. On the other hand, a customized Magento website has extra benefits not included in the basic package, like customized design, migration to hosts, and extensions. However, this comes at a much higher price range, starting between $40,000 and $100,000 upwards!
Magento Enterprise Plan
Magento also offers an enterprise plan for larger businesses which provides more functionality and includes all Magento features. So what’s the catch?- Instead of having a free download, you will have to fork over anywhere between $22,000/year and $125,000/year. With this fee, you are promised features such as security, mobile commerce, and free professional customer support. It also includes all the features included in the open-source edition but at a higher cost. These include:
The implementation of the enterprise edition which starts at a high $60,000.
The hosting costs of $2,000 on average, as it requires at least one dedicated server.
The highly suggested Magento Gold Certified Partner costing $10,000/year for maintenance and support.
The cost of the themes, which remain constant across all editions and the extension integrations, which comes at a higher price for the enterprise edition and can be seen in the Marketplace.
Overall, the estimated TCO for the enterprise plan starts between $100,000/year and $250,000/year upwards. If money is no issue, and you would rather invest in this platform that is still rigid but more customizable than Magento’s open source version, then this may be the right fit for you.
How does the TCO of Moltin Compare?
Moltin is the only Commerce Microservices Engine with Flows. With our services, we guarantee the fastest speed and flexibility to quickly scale to your ambitions. There are two flexible pricing plans to choose from: Pay-As-You-Go and Enterprise.
The first thing to note is that Moltin is a headless, API-first solution, so you will need to utilize a partner or an in-house technical team to build your store. The cost to build a Moltin-powered commerce store starts at approximately $15,000/year upwards, based on your store’s monthly revenue.
The Pay-As-You-Go Plan includes all the core features:
Inventory Management API
Payment API
Promotions API
Order Management API
Taxes API
Shopping Cart API
Additionally, you can opt to add our super powerful features not offered by any other commerce platform on the market: Flows and Events. Flows allows you to extend an existing, or create a new resource. You can create and manage custom data objects and attributes. Events allows you to configure and send webhooks based on Moltin events to notify your applications and integrations in real-time.
The Pay-As-You-Go pricing is based on your monthly revenue. To give you an estimate, based on monthly revenue between $5,000 and $250K, you can expect to pay between $35/month and $95/month. If Flows are included, it could range between $45/month and $495/month. Please see our pricing plan which allows you to adjust your revenue and get an estimated monthly cost.
The Enterprise Plan allows you to lock in to your managed pricing option which includes both Flows and Events but also:
Architecture Assessment
Moltin and Magento both allow the ability to leverage third-party components as part of your commerce stack. However, the way that Moltin and Magento enable this is very different:
Choice: Moltin provides the flexibility to choose and utilize any third-party provider rather than being constrained to options that Magento offers on their Marketplace. Given the extensibility of the Moltin API-first approach, you can quickly and easily integrate any third-party solution - you’re not limited to the options available in a walled-garden Marketplace.
Customizability: Moltin makes it simple and fast to customize your digital commerce experience the way YOU want it with endless functionality, as opposed to Magento’s basic functionality that requires a lot more tools and ends up being expensive and painstaking. Magento’s plugins are designed to expose the basic, vanilla functionality of their third-party solutions of choice, and are extremely complex and cumbersome to customize when you need the third-party integration to work around your business requirements.
If those two points resonate with you, then Moltin may be the right fit to put your business in control of your journey and success. An enterprise customer bringing revenues of $6 Million could be looking at a $30,000+ yearly plan.
Magento markets their Community Edition open-source platform as “free”, but your true TCO (total cost of ownership) is far from free. The cost of getting your customized store up and running will start anywhere between $40,000 and $100,000 a year. The Magento enterprise plan does come with more functionality and features to customize but it starts anywhere between $100,000 and $250,000 a year.
Moltin offers a transparent pricing plan centered around being simple and scalable. The Pay-As-You-Go plan includes all core commerce services, and offers an add-on option for Flows (the “nervous system” of your commerce stack). You are able to calculate your estimated monthly cost on our website by adjusting your monthly revenue. The Enterprise Plan includes all aforementioned services in addition to services, such as Enterprise-level SLAs, Premium Support, Burst Protection, and more.
Given the TCO of Magento, you may want to reevaluate your yearly costs before upgrading to Magento M1, and consider an alternative like Moltin which can help you significantly cut your TCO.
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Template Gothic is an important milestone in the history of digital fonts because of its popularity but also because of the designer's unique voice and the vernacular source he used as inspiration—a sign posted in his neighborhood laundromat. Licensed and promoted by Emigre, Inc., Template Gothic was ubiquitous by the end of the 1990s, representing the aesthetic of imperfection beloved by certain designers during the grunge era. Deck, like other typographers of the time, spoke of his desire to abandon the perfection of modernist letterforms: "I was inspired to design a face that looked as if it had suffered the distortive ravages of photomechanical reproduction." His typeface reflects "more truly the imperfect language of an imperfect world, inhabited by imperfect beings."
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Find low key life in Millbrook’s Homewood
One of laid-back Millbrook’s most quiet subdivisions is Homewood, located off Browns Road.
Find low key life in Millbrook’s Homewood One of laid-back Millbrook’s most quiet subdivisions is Homewood, located off Browns Road. Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: http://on.mgmadv.com/2to15W2
Special to the Advertiser Published 5:34 p.m. CT July 21, 2017
One four bedroom, two bath home in Millbrook's Homewood subdivision is for sale for $164,900. The brick home provides 1,660 square feet of living space.(Photo: Contributed)
The newer development provides three and four bedroom houses one turn from all the city’s schools.
The homes were built in the early 2000s, and sit amid wooded lots providing enough room for a deck or swimming pool in the back yard.
“Homewood has a convenient location and continuity of construction,” Realtor Nancy Oates said. “The homes have a similar size, style, age, and amenities.”
The traditional-style homes were built from 2001-2003, Oates said, just off Highway 14 on the west side of Millbrook. Browns Road connects Highway 14 and Main Street giving Homewood residents quick access to any part of Millbrook, or Interstate 75.
The smaller neighborhood is near several churches, the golf course, Walmart, shopping along Highway 14 and Main Street, and is just five minutes from all that booming east Prattville has to offer.
“It is a very low key area with mature trees,” Oates said. “It is in a convenient location tucked away off of Highway 14.”
The terrain is flat but is dominated by the many mature trees that offer shade for backyard decks, and along the streets in the neighborhood.
One four bedroom, two bath home is for sale for $164,900. “The brick home has hardwood flooring, granite countertops, high ceilings, a luxurious master suite and a private backyard,” Oates said.
The 1,660-square foot home was built in 2002. Oates said that the home qualifies for 100 percent financing through the USDA and some local banks.
The offering includes a gas log fireplace, and a master suite with walk-in closet, double vanity with a separate garden tub and shower, and a vaulted ceiling in the spacious bedroom.
The kitchen has been renovated to include granite countertops, custom cabinetry, and stainless appliances.
An eat-in kitchen leads to French doors that open to the screened-in porch and deck.
Millbrook continues to offer River Region residents a slower pace of life than the Capital City, attracting retirees and families who want a break from the hustle and bustle across the river.
* Limited pass-through traffic
* Smaller neighborhood
* Mature trees
* Elmore County schools
* Newer homes
* At least 10 homes have been sold in the past year
* Homes were sold in a price range from $154,000 to $195,000
* At least three homes are now available
* Homes available range in size from 1,660 square feet to 2,080 square feet
* Homes available range in price from $159,000 to $189,900
* To view properties, contact Realtor Nancy Oates at 334-799-7555.
Directions; From downtown Montgomery, travel north on Interstate 65 and take the second Prattville exit. Take a right on to Highway 14, and travel east past Walmart and take a right on to Browns Road. The entrance to Homewood will be on your right.
Source: Realtor Nancy Oates
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Auburn’s top priority is naming a starting quarterback, but there is no set timetable
One of Joey Gatewood and Bo Nix will win Auburn's starting quarterback competition, but coach Gus Malzahn won't rush the decision.
Auburn’s top priority is naming a starting quarterback, but there is no set timetable One of Joey Gatewood and Bo Nix will win Auburn's starting quarterback competition, but coach Gus Malzahn won't rush the decision. Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/auburn/2019/07/19/auburn-top-priority-name-starting-quarterback-joey-gatewood-bo-nix-timetable-gus-malzahn-competition/1775705001/
Josh Vitale, Montgomery Advertiser Published 8:34 a.m. CT July 19, 2019 | Updated 3:27 p.m. CT July 19, 2019
SEC Football Media Days Day 4: Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Auburn
Jul 18, 2019; Birmingham, AL, USA; Auburn Tigers head coach Gus Malzahn speaks to the media during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency-Birmingham. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports Vasha Hunt, Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports
Jul 18, 2019; Birmingham, AL, USA; Auburn Tigers defensive end Marlon Davidson speaks to the media during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency-Birmingham. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports Vasha Hunt, Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports
Jul 18, 2019; Birmingham, AL, USA; Auburn Tigers offensive lineman Prince Tega Wanogho speaks to the media during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency-Birmingham. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports Vasha Hunt, Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports
Jul 18, 2019; Birmingham, AL, USA; Auburn Tigers defensive tackle Derrick Brown speaks to the media during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency-Birmingham. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports Vasha Hunt, Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports
Jul 18, 2019; Birmingham, AL, USA; Kentucky Wildcats athlete Lynn Bowden Jr. speaks to the media during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency-Birmingham. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports Vasha Hunt, Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports
Kentucky Wildcats offensive lineman Logan Stenberg speaks to the media during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency-Birmingham. Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports
Jul 18, 2019; Birmingham, AL, USA; Kentucky Wildcats linebacker Kash Daniel is seen reflected in a mirror as he speaks to the media during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency-Birmingham. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports Vasha Hunt, Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports
Kentucky Wildcats linebacker Kash Daniel speaks to the media during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency-Birmingham. Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports
Kentucky Wildcats athlete Lynn Bowden Jr. speaks to the media during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency-Birmingham. Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports
Kentucky Wildcats head coach Mark Stoops speaks to the media during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency-Birmingham. Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports
Vanderbilt Commodores wide receiver Kalija Lipscomb speaks to the media during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency-Birmingham. Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports
Vanderbilt Commodores head coach Derek Mason speaks to the media during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency-Birmingham. Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports
Jul 18, 2019; Birmingham, AL, USA; Vanderbilt Commodores running back Ke’Shawn Vaughn speaks to the media during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency-Birmingham. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports Vasha Hunt, Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports
Jul 18, 2019; Birmingham, AL, USA; Vanderbilt Commodores tight end Jared Pinkney speaks to the media during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency-Birmingham. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports Vasha Hunt, Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports
Jul 18, 2019; Birmingham, AL, USA; Vanderbilt Commodores wide receiver Kalija Lipscomb speaks to the media during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency-Birmingham. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports Vasha Hunt, Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports
HOOVER — No roster is ever fully complete in the preseason. Not even the best ones in the country.
There is always some question left to answer. For Auburn, those include who takes the lead at the split end wide receiver position, what kind of depth there is on the offensive line and how departed senior Dontavius Russell will be replaced at defensive tackle.
Gus Malzahn could have answered with any one of those when asked Thursday at SEC media days what, outside of naming a starting quarterback, would be the team’s biggest point of emphasis when it opens preseason camp next month. He didn’t.
“Really,” the seventh-year head coach said, “it's identify our quarterback. That's our focus. We've got pretty good information. We have competition at every position. But, you know, that's really our main focus.”
MORE: Hot seat talk? No matter: Auburn exudes confidence at SEC Media Days
The rest of Auburn’s roster allows it to be. Those other three questions facing the team as far as who plays where on the field seem minor in comparison. Zach Farrar and Marquis McClain make for two solid options at split end, and standout sophomore Seth Williams can play there, too. Depth along the offensive line is a concern, but having five returning senior starters does a lot to kick the can down the road to next season. Surely one (if not all) of Tyrone Truesdell, Daquan Newkirk and Coynis Miller Jr. can take a step forward at defensive tackle.
Quarterback, though, is the only one of those positions where, if all goes according to plan, only one player will play. That player for the Tigers will be either redshirt freshman Joey Gatewood or true freshman Bo Nix, who emerged as the leaders ahead of redshirt freshman Cord Sandberg and junior Malik Willis (who has since transferred to Liberty) in the competition to replace two-year incumbent Jarrett Stidham.
The winner of that competition will be the first freshman quarterback to start a season-opener in Malzahn’s career as a head coach.
Auburn quarterback Joey Gatewood (1) greets fans during the Tiger Walk before the A-Day spring gam eat Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala., on Saturday, April 13, 2019. (Photo: Jake Crandall)
But he and his staff, namely first-year offensive coordinator quarterbacks coach Kenny Dillingham, still have to determine who that player will be. And there is no set timetable for when that will happen or deadline by which they definitely want to make their final decision.
“I really don’t have any kind of goal or anything. We’re just going to go with it. We’ve got a good plan to evaluate our quarterbacks and put them in as many situations as possible,” Malzahn said.
“When it’s time, usually what happens is that the whole team usually knows it, you know? So, whenever that time happens, we’re going to name a starting quarterback. I hope that is earlier rather than later, but I’m not going to try to push it. I’m just going to let it happen.”
MORE: What we learned from Auburn coach Gus Malzahn at SEC Media Days
Auburn does, though, want to name just one — asked specifically if both quarterbacks would play Aug. 31 against Oregon or if he’s open to trying a two quarterback system, Malzahn said “I'm open to whatever gives us the best chance of winning, but we would like to have a starter and a guy you'd hang your hat on.”
If past fall quarterback battles are any indication, who that starter will be should be announced sometime between two and three weeks into preseason camp. The latest Malzahn has named a starting quarterback came in 2016, when he waited until Aug. 25 to hand Sean White the keys to the offense (and played all three quarterbacks against Clemson anyway). Nick Marshall was named the starter on Aug. 17, 2013; and Stidham on Aug. 14, 2017.
This battle is different, though — while White started six games in 2015, Marshall shined at junior college and Stidham played 10 games as a freshman at Baylor, Gatewood and Nix enter the 2019 season with almost zero college experience between them. The former broke his thumb last fall and wound up quarterbacking one drive all season, and that was in the fourth quarter of the Music City Bowl. The latter is a five-star program legacy and reigning Alabama Mr. Football, but he’s still a rookie.
Auburn quarterback Bo Nix (10) runs out onto the field during the A-Day spring practice gameat Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala., on Saturday, April 13, 2019. (Photo: Jake Crandall)
It’s a good thing Auburn has very few questions to answer outside of that position, because one of those quarterbacks is going to be thrown straight into the fire — Oregon should be a top-15 team, the game is in prime time at a neutral site at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and ESPN's "College GameDay" announced Thursday that it will be there.
“I think the guys that are really, really successful have a really good team around them. That goes back to the fact that we've got to be really good around them,” Malzahn said. “Both of those guys are real refreshing to be around with how eager they are, how hungry they are, wanting to win the position, wanting to learn, wanting to win their teammates over. So I think the better we can be around them, the more successful they'll be.”
MORE: Opposing SEC quarterbacks share lessons learned from starting as freshmen
There are reasons to like both quarterbacks for the job. Gatewood is a 6-foot-5, 233-pound dual threat that fits — at least physically — the mold of Cam Newton, and his passing ability is said to have improved significantly since he arrived on campus. Nix’s calling card is as a passer — the son of former Tigers quarterback Patrick Nix owns the state high school records for career total yards (more than 12,000) and touchdowns (161, with 12 through the air) — but “he can flat-out run, too,” Malzahn said.
The Tigers just need to settle on one to lead the offense onto the field against the Ducks. That’s the only point of emphasis Malzahn deemed worthy of bringing up Thursday at SEC media days.
"The good thing is that both of those guys can be a run threat, which I think is important. Both can create when things break down. They showed that in the spring. They both have big-time arms," Malzahn said. "So the good thing is, I think we have two good options. It’s going to be a fierce battle.
"We'll figure it out in fall camp. We'll name a starter and figure which of those two guys gives us the best chance of winning."
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Blog / Public Health England To Launch TV Ads To Promote E-Cigs To Help Smokers Quit
Public Health England To Launch TV Ads To Promote E-Cigs To Help Smokers Quit
Public Health England has courted criticism from some health officials after it was revealed the executive health agency is launching TV ads to encourage smokers to quit in favour of vaping. Coming just weeks after the health organisation labelled connections between e-cigs and teenage smoking as ‘unfounded’, Public Health England have the full backing of the NHS, and the new TV campaign is due to start next month. In the past, Public Health England has famously said vaping is 95% safer than smoking, encouraged the NHS to prescribe e-cigs and even encouraged employers to allow vaping. The ‘Stoptober’ campaign will begin on October 1st, featuring e-cigarettes and encourage smokers who want to use e-cigs to try and quit. This is the first time e-cigs have received the backing of the annual Stoptober campaign. "E-cigarettes are now the most popular way to quit in the country with half of all those taking part in Stoptober last year using an e-cigarette,” said Professor John Newton, director of health improvement at Public Health England. "The evidence is clear - vaping is much less harmful than smoking - a fraction of the risk. So, if you've struggled with quitting before, an e-cigarette may be the best option for you." New statistics have shown that more smokers have quit successfully in the first half of this year than ever before in history. It was reported in mid-August that daily vapers quit smoking at the highest rate.
— Thomas Ashworth
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Olivia LaGoy-Weltz is a USDF Bronze, Silver and Gold Medalist. As of Aug 2018, #31 in the FEI World Dressage Rankings; US Equestrian Team Reserve Rider for the 2018 World Equestrian Games; 2018 US Nation's Cup Team Rider; Champion of multiple CDI 3*/5* Grand Prix and Grand Prix Specials at the Global Dressage Festival in Wellington FL in 2018; 2015 Small Tour Alternate for USA Pan Am Team, spent the summer of 2017 in Europe as part of the US Nations Cup Team competing in Rotterdam and Aachen, helping the team secure a second place finish.
Olivia grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and began riding when she was five years old. Her experience includes working for and riding at several of the top barns in Holland and Germany. She moved to Northern Virginia in 2013 and provides high quality, focused dressage training in the greater Washington, DC area, and, in winter, Wellington, Florida. Olivia provides a focused, professional, and horse-friendly approach to training which is available for all levels, ages and disciplines. She takes pride in producing horses that are not only top performers, but happy healthy athletes as well.
Olivia and Jen first met around 2008 or 09 at Sandy Howard's farm in California during a RWYM Teacher Training with Mary Wanless. In fact, that was the first time Jen met Mary. Olivia had the good fortune of getting to grow up within the RWYM system, so her methodology is based on the biomechanics principles taught by Mary. Livy has a similar enthusiasm, empathy for the horse, and teaching style to Jen's.
Accomplishments and Qualifications:
USDF Gold, Silver and Bronze Medalist
2015 - Traveling Small Tour Alternate for USA Pan American Games Dressage Team
2015 - Palm beach Derby small tour CDI winner
2015- Member of the 2015 Gold medal winning Nation's Cup team in Wellington FL
2014 - USDF FEI Trainer's Symposium Demonstration Rider
2014 - Palm Beach Derby CDI, Wellington FL - Small Tour Winner
2014 - USEF National Championships Intermediare - 3rd Place
2012 - USDF Region 2 Open GP Champion, and Open I-2 Reserve Champion
2011 - USEF National Championships FEI Young Rider Grand Prix winner, Brentina Cup Reserve Champion
Our rider biomechanics expert, Mary Wanless (www.mary-wanless.com) is an internationally renowned coach, and is the author of the 'Ride With Your Mind' books, which have been translated into many languages. She has also authored eight DVDs. She coaches riders at all levels, from relative novices to two of the top twelve US dressage riders, and some of the Canadian eventing squad. She has B.Sc. degrees in both Physics and Applied Sports Coaching, and holds the BHSI certificate.
Thirty years ago, when Mary was frustrated with her limited progress as a pupil, she set out to discover how talented riders do what they do. Her guiding question was 'What is presupposed by a trainer when she makes a specific statement to a pupil?' So when a rider is told, for instance, to 'Get the horse on the bit?' , what is the trainer presupposing? That the rider already has these skills (but somehow forgot, or just didn't bother to impliment them?!) Or that she ought to be able to do it because it's easy?
Mary's knowledge has evolved from the early years of this project, which were spent 'unpacking' the skills that are really needed to 'get the horse on the bit'. The intervening years have been the most phenomenal learning journey, spent developing her own riding skills, learning from some of the world's best riders, and honing her coaching skills by learning about learning. She has also invested many hours in writing books, doing lecture-demonstrations, and training other coaches.
Science has now proved what Mary instinctively knew all those years ago - that the world's best riders may have implicit knowledge or 'know-how', but they cannot put this knowledge into words. This is because physical skills and verbal descriptions come from different parts of the brain. The resulting dislocation between expertise and explanation makes it hard for skilled riders to 'clone' themselves - indeed, what they do and what they say they do can be poles apart. But Mary has discovered that their skills have an underlying structure, and knowing this explicitly enables her to communicate it to others. She clarifies the ‘how’ of riding, making its biomechanics explicit and learnable whilst avoiding the ‘oughts’ and ‘shoulds’ that stifle learning.
Mary rode with the late Nuno Oliveira, the late Egon Von Neindorff and Hans Heinrich Meyer-Zu-Strohen.
Her coaching career in the US began in 1991 with an invitation to speak at the California Dressage Society annual meeting. She has also spoken at the US Dressage Federation's Annual Convention. (Most of this information is from www.mary-wanless.com)
Learning Ride With Your Mind techniques changed Jen's riding and teaching forever.
Our horse biomechanics expert, Gerd Heuschmann, DVM, trained as a Bereiter (master rider) in Germany before qualifying for veterinary study at Munich University. There he specialized in equine orthopedics for two years before accepting a post as the head of the breeding department at the German Equestrian Federation, which he eventually left to start his own practice in Warendorf. He has been an active member of the “hyperflexion” (previously referred to as Rollkur) debate, weighing in at the 2005 USDF National Symposium and the 2006 FEI Veterinary and Dressage Committees’ Workshop. His arguments have been featured in many magazines, including Dressage Today and Horse and Hound. Along with Klaus Balkenhol and other prominent figures in the dressage community, Dr. Heuschmann is a founding member of “Xenophon,” an organization dedicated to “fighting hard against serious mistakes in equestrian sport”. [From “Tug of War…”.]
He is the author of the following books and DVD which are the basis for his lectures:
Collection or Contortion?: Exposing the Misconceptions and Exploring the Truths of Horse Positioning and Bend, Trafalgar Square Books (February 14, 2017) 112 pages.
Tug of War: Classical Versus “Modern” Dressage: Why Classical Training Works and How Incorrect Riding Negatively Affects Horses’ Health, Trafalgar Square Books (September 2007) 143 pages.
Balancing Act: The Horse in Sport—An Irreconcilable Conflict? (book) Trafalgar Square Books (July 2012) 256 pages.
If Horses Could Speak, 60 minute DVD with unique 3-D animation which clearly demonstrates the principals in the book.
He also provides margin notes and commentary in the book:
Classical Schooling with the Horse in Mind: Gentle Gymnastic Training Techniques, Trafalgar Square Books (October 2007) 192 pages.
(Most of this text is quoted from Trafalgar Square, HorseandRiderbooks.com)
Our bit-fitting expert and native of Sydney, Australia, Kim Gentry (www.kimgentrydressage.com) is an international Grand Prix dressage rider. In 2015 Kim and her horse, Leonardo, were named to the Australian Equestrian Team High Performance Squad for the Olympics and WEG for 2015-2020. The pair represented Australia in the CDIO3* Nations Cup in 2015 and 2016. They were Shadow Team members for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Kim has owned and trained Leonardo since he was a just-backed 3 year old.
Kim is a USDF Certified Instructor through Fourth Level, a graduate with Distinction from the USDF “L” Program for Judge Training and a CLS 5* rated trainer. Kim has earned her USDF Bronze, Silver and Gold Medals on self trained horses and has a diverse riding background in eventing, show jumping and dressage. She even held an amateur flat and steeplechase racing license. Kim holds a Bachelor degree and an MBA. Her background prior to becoming a professional rider and trainer was in Brand Management and Marketing at an executive level at Kraft, Nabisco and International Paper. In 2017, Kim started a bit consultation business which has become extremely popular. Her clinics are in demand all across the US and across several disciplines.
In 2007, she was awarded the Major Andres Lindgren Scholarship from the Dressage Foundation which enabled her to travel to Germany with her horse to train in 2008 and 2009.
Kim runs a training and teaching business in the Memphis, Tennessee area and spends the winter training and competing on the international circuit in Wellington, Florida.
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Blog | NCR Today
NY cardinal's new compensation program for victims will keep sex abuse hidden
by Anne Barrett Doyle
Cardinal Timothy Dolan presides at a Mass June 1 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. (CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Cardinal Timothy Dolan is trying something new. After years of successfully opposing legislation that would give New York abuse victims more time to sue, he has launched a victims' compensation program -- a first for the New York archdiocese.
This is the Year of Mercy, and the cardinal said he was inspired by the "grace and challenge" of this fact.
"I just finally thought: 'Darn it, let's do it,' " he told The New York Times.
The surprise move is winning the cardinal praise. The often critical New York Daily News commended him, citing his "remarkable moral courage."
As a researcher of the Catholic abuse crisis, I see his plan differently. While the fund certainly will help some victims, its biggest beneficiary will be Dolan and his management team. This is a legal strategy in pastoral garb, a tactic by the powerful archbishop to control victims and protect the church's assets and its secrets.
On its face, the plan is reasonable. A victim submits a claim form with documentation about rape or molestation by a priest or deacon. If deemed credible, the victim receives an award, which the archdiocese promises to disburse quickly -- within 60 days.
The program is being administered by Kenneth Feinberg, who oversaw the 9/11 fund and mediated the settlements between Jerry Sandusky's victims and Penn State.
But there's a catch -- two catches, actually. Victims must sign a legal agreement to abide by "all requirements pertaining to privacy and confidentiality," and they must release the archdiocese from future liability -- i.e., never sue it. (See section III, paragraph G of the IRCP's Protocol webpage.)
So the fund implements a strategy. If the Child Victims Act ever passes in New York -- and Gov. Andrew Cuomo promises it will be a priority in 2017 -- Dolan will have already flushed out and shackled many of the victims who might have filed suit.
And unlike the Penn State claimants, the victims in Dolan's program will be signing releases without the benefit of any information about how their perpetrators were managed. Did archdiocesan officials know or suspect that the priest was a risk to children before the victim suffered abuse? Did the priest have other victims? What happened to him after the archdiocese learned of his crimes? Are children protected from him now? Under Dolan's plan, all of this stays hidden.
Of course, agreeing not to sue is an easy concession right now for child sex abuse victims in New York. Thanks in part to lobbying by Dolan and his brother bishops, victims remain effectively powerless: the state's restrictive civil statute of limitations gives them only until age 21 to sue complicit employers. For the vast majority of victims, this is not enough time.
In terms of its statute of limitations for child sex crimes, New York state is an outlier: only Alabama and Michigan limit victims as severely.
This is bound to change. While the Child Victims Act was defeated yet again last year, it generated tremendous public support.
When it passes, the Act will give future victims more time to take action, and it will include a "look-back" clause: for a limited period, it will revive the currently expired civil claims of all abuse victims in New York.
This retroactivity is what worries Dolan. Lawsuits by victims will result not only in payouts by the church, but the disclosure of its secret abuse files, revealing what archdiocesan managers knew and when.
To date, because of New York's predator-friendly statute of limitations, the massive archdiocese's abuse problem has appeared tiny. Its only tally of accused priests occurred in 2004, when Cardinal Edward Egan claimed an implausible total of 49 accused priests since 1950 -- one percent of its active priests for that time period.
Consider that in Boston, with far fewer total priests, Cardinal Sean O'Malley conceded in 2011 that 250 priests since 1950 had been accused. In Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony counted 244 accused clergy. Even the small rural diocese of Manchester, N.H., concedes more accused priests than Dolan has acknowledged in New York.
Obviously, Dolan knows that his potential exposure is enormous, and one victim at a time, his new program will chip away at this perceived threat. Every participant will represent a case that will never be brought to light; a perpetrator's name that may never be made public; and perhaps, a story of archdiocesan mismanagement that will never be revealed.
Inevitably, his plan will exploit those who are desperate: I'll give you quick money, but you must keep my secrets.
Dolan has pre-empted victims before. In his prior post in Milwaukee, shortly before an expected state Supreme Court decision that would allow victims to sue for fraud, the archbishop quietly transferred $57 million in church funds into a special cemetery trust that would be off-limits to plaintiffs.
In this year of "grace and challenge," the cardinal should do things differently. Mercy cannot come with chains. Dolan should eliminate requirements for the victim to stay silent about any aspect of the mediation. And he should accompany the fund with radical transparency.
After all, there is the promise of his fund's title: the Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program. The cardinal is using our church's language to sacramentalize his scheme, so let him follow through. As every First Communicant knows, "reconciliation" occurs only with disclosure and confession. Dolan should come clean, before the courts force him to do so. He should publish a list of accused clerics, as more than 30 other U.S. bishops have done. He should release the archdiocese's secret files on all of its abusers. And he should tell his lobbyist in Albany to cease and desist.
Without transparency and honesty, Dolan's fund becomes just another tactic to make sure the New York archdiocese doesn't answer for its actions -- an accountability dodge that ultimately hurts children, victims, parishioners, and the church's own chance for redemption.
[Anne Barrett Doyle is co-director of BishopAccountability.org, an independent non-profit based in Waltham, Mass., founded in 2003, to research child abuse by priests and religious and on the management of those cases by bishops, religious orders and the Holy See.]
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Worldly Desires Summer in Santa Fe
by Kate Nelson photos by As Noted
Above: Soak up the iconography of a famous Mexican artist in Mirror, Mirror:photographs of Frida Kahlo, at the Spanish Colonial Art in Santa Fe.
Photography Courtesy Throckmorton fine Art / Nickolas Muray
Stride across Santa Fe this summer and you’ll manage to hit Mexico, Britain, China, Syria, Spain, and a few other exotic outposts. All across the city, museums, galleries, and performance spaces have banded together for Global Arts & Culture 2017—a smorgasbord of one-stop art so impressive that Randy Randall of Tourism Santa Fe can’t hold back the superlatives. The summer-long shindig, he says, may possess the power “to evolve the globe into a more beautiful, vibrant, and unified community.”
Start the evolution at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, which opens Mirror, Mirror: Photographs of Frida Kahlo on May 6 (through October 30). Fans of the Mexican painter turned icon will see how photographers interpreted her—and how she used their shots to craft her image. Nearly 60 photographs from dozens of shooters chart her fabled life—a stern girl posing for her photographer father, a nearly fatal bus accident, a tortured love for Diego Rivera, her embrace of communism, and the final years of excruciating pain and transcendent art.
Santa Fe photographer William Frej adds contemporary photographs of her Mexico City home, La Casa Azul, and a cadre of Spanish Market artists display new pieces inspired by her. An enlarged photo lets you pose with her for a selfie. “Frida’s just been exploding in recent years,” guest curator Penelope Hunter-Stiebel says, adding that the museum will take online reservations to manage the expected crowds. (505) 982-2226; spanishcolonial.org
More crowds will line up at the New Mexico Museum of Art for the U.S. debut of Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now, opening May 27 (through September 17), with 70 precious images on loan from the British Museum. Consider the marquee value of the artists—Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer, Piet Mondrian, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and others—then imagine seeing their greatest works in the most embryonic stages. Given that “First, you draw” might as well be the unofficial motto of artists everywhere, the exhibit promises to take visitors behind the product and into the process. “A drawing,” says museum director Mary Kershaw, “can capture and preserve a record of an artist’s thoughts.”
Lines of Thought is part of the museum’s centennial celebration, which hits high gear later this year with renovated quarters, a retrospective exhibit, and plans for a new contemporary art space. (505) 476-5041; nmartmuseum.org
Keep feeding your wanderlust at Cathedral Park, where you can stroll among 92 weather-hardy reproductions of the greatest works from Spain’s El Museo del Prado, May 13–October 31, including ones by Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Goya. In July, the New Mexico History Museum explores the toll war takes on treasured archaeological sites with the exhibit Syria: Cultural Patrimony Under Threat, and the Museum of International Folk Art hosts Quilts of Southwest China, a gathering of exquisite pieces from American and Chinese museums.
But wait, there’s more—too much to list. Study the growing schedule of lectures, music, plays, dance performances, and outdoor markets at santafe.org, then plan an international trip that still requires no passport. (See Missing)
Categories: May 2017, Go. See. Do., Travel
Tags: Events, Art, Museums, Exhibits
Author: Kate Nelson
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Elon Musk cleared of defamation in ‘pedo guy’ tweet trial
by: BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, second from left, arrives at U.S. District Court Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, in Los Angeles. Musk is going on trial for his troublesome tweets in a case pitting the billionaire against a British diver he allegedly dubbed a pedophile. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elon Musk defeated defamation allegations Friday from a British cave explorer who claimed he was branded a pedophile when the Tesla CEO called him “pedo guy” in an angry tweet.
Vernon Unsworth, who participated in the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped for weeks in a Thailand cave last year, had sought $190 million in damages for the shame and humiliation caused by the man his lawyer called a “billionaire bully.”
It took less than an hour for an eight-person jury in Los Angeles federal court to reject Unsworth’s claim after a four-day trial.
Musk said the verdict restored his faith in humanity as he quickly left the court with his security detail.
Musk — who deleted the tweet and later apologized for it — had asserted the expression was nothing more than a flippant insult that meant “creepy old man,” not pedophile.
Unsworth had provoked the attack by belittling Musk’s contribution to the rescue — a miniature sub his engineers built that was never used — as ineffective and nothing more than a “PR stunt.” He further earned the ire of the tech whiz by suggesting Musk stick the sub “where it hurts.”
On Friday, it was Unsworth who felt the pain.
“I accept the jury verdict, take it on the chin, and move on,” Unsworth said outside court.
Jury foreman Joshua Jones said the panel decided Unsworth’s lawyers failed to prove their case. He said they spent too much time trying to appeal to jurors’ emotions and not concentrating on the evidence.
“The failure probably happened because they didn’t focus on the tweets,” Jones said after the verdict was announced. “I think they tried to get our emotions involved in it.”
Attorney Lin Wood, in an impassioned and at times emotional closing argument, suggested the jury should award $190 million. Wood said $150 million of that figure should be a “hard slap on the wrist” to punish Musk for what he said was akin to dropping an atomic weapon on his client that would create problems for years like radioactive fallout.
He suggested the figure would be reasonable given that Musk testified his stock in Tesla and SpaceX is worth about $20 billion. But Musk’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, ridiculed the suggested verdict as “numbers being thrown out like ‘The Price is Right.’”
Wood said it was important to challenge Musk’s tweet in court even if they didn’t win. Unsworth had said the statement would appear true if he didn’t sue.
“Anybody that knows this man knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that Elon’s accusations were false,” Wood said outside court. “This was not the justice that he deserved under the evidence.”
While Musk was cleared of liability, the trial was just the latest incident where he’s faced legal problems because of troublesome tweets.
Musk and Tesla reached a $40 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission last year over allegations he misled investors with a tweet declaring he had secured financing to buy out the electric car maker. Earlier this year, the SEC sought to hold him in contempt of court for tweeting a misleading projection of how many cars Tesla would manufacture. That led to a new agreement imposing tight controls on Musk’s tweets about the company.
The day after Musk’s tweet about Unsworth, Tesla stock price fell 3% and shareholders and people within the company were urging him to apologize. Musk said he resisted at first because he didn’t want to look “foolish and craven” by doing so right after the stock dropped.
Musk’s lawyer told the jury the tweet did not rise to the level of defamation and cases over insults didn’t belong in federal courtrooms.
Spiro said Unsworth had tried to profit off his role in the cave rescue and basked in the many accolades he received.
Unsworth had been honored by the queen of England and the king of Thailand, had his photo taken next to British Prime Minister Theresa May and been asked to speak at schools and contribute to a children’s book, which showed that no one took Musk’s insult seriously.
“People accused of pedophilia don’t get celebrated by world leaders,” Spiro said. “Kings and queens and prime ministers don’t stand next to pedophiles.”
Unsworth hadn’t demonstrated actual damage to his reputation other than asserting over a couple minutes of emotional testimony delivered with his voice cracking that he felt isolated, ashamed and dirtied, Spiro said. There was no supporting testimony from his girlfriend or other friends who could discuss the impact they witnessed, no evidence he had lost business or relationships as a result of the tweet and he hadn’t sought psychological counseling or medication.
Spiro mocked Unsworth’s claims that the tweet was like a life sentence without parole, noting that many people are serving such terms in actual prisons.
He urged jurors to return a verdict that would make clear no reasonable person would conclude Musk had called him a pedophile.
“Tell Mr. Unsworth once and for all, ‘You are not a pedophile,’ ” Spiro said. “With our verdict, we free you, we free you from parole.”
Associated Press editor Michelle Monroe in Phoenix contributed to this report.
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At least 9 dead as heavy rain hits France, Italy, Greece
PARIS — At least nine people have died after heavy rain slammed the Riviera coasts of France and Italy, trapping travelers in their cars, and caused flooding in parts of Greece.
Some roads remained closed Monday on the French Riviera, and rivers were still rising in Italy after the weekend flooding.
The administration for France’s Var region said four people died, including a couple in their 70s from the perfume capital of Grasse whose car got submerged. Another died after a French rescue boat sank in the Mediterranean and another was found dead in a car.
In Greece, the bodies of the two men believed to be tourists were recovered late Sunday and early Monday near the port of Antirio, 250 kilometers (155 miles) west of Athens after a sailboat they were using was caught in the severe weather.
Another two women died when storms hit the country’s eastern Aegean Sea islands late Monday, state ERT TV said. The one died when her basement room on Rhodes flooded, while the other drowned on the island of Kos when she went for a swim in stormy seas.
And in northern Italy, a woman was found dead after the Bomida river swept away her car. Rescuers are also searching for possible victims after a landslide caused the collapse of a stretch of an elevated highway near the flooded city of Savona.
Firefighter commander Emanuele Gizzi told SKY TG24 Monday that “we still don’t have the certainty that there is absolutely no one” missing.
Drivers who witnessed the collapse were able to stop in time. There were no reports of witnesses seeing vehicles fall with the roadway, but the search continued as a precaution.
The collapse of the raised highway, just 15 months after a deadly bridge collapse in Genoa, has raised concerns anew about the safety of Italy’s highways, a large part of which are viaducts traversing mountainous terrain.
Meanwhile, the level of the Ticino River in the Lombard city of Pavia was continuing to rise, flooding streets by about 15 centimeters and forcing some residents to evacuate.
In France, rivers started receding slowly but many families who evacuated still couldn’t return home. Authorities worked to restore electricity and clear roads of fallen trees and mud.
In Greece, hundreds of homes were flooded following an overnight storm that affected areas west of Athens.
Torrential rain and mudslides caused the closure of the highway linking the Greek capital to the western port city of Patras.
The worst flooding occurred at the seaside resort of Kineta, where mudslides came from a nearby forest fire-damaged hillside. Several dozen people trapped in their cars and in flooded homes were rescued by the Fire Service.
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Sweet scent doubles as repellent for flower eaters
(Image: Danny Kessler)
A FLOWER’S delicate fragrance is not just a come-hither call to insect pollinators. Some scent molecules act as deterrents to drive away blossom-munching predators.
Ian Baldwin of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and colleagues genetically modified petunia plants to silence genes responsible for producing specific scent molecules. They then tested how these altered plants fared in the presence of flower-eating beetles and crickets.
When the production of the scent molecules benzyl benzoate or isoeugenol was blocked, the insects ate several times more of the flowers than they did when they were presented with petunias that hadn’t been genetically altered.
To confirm whether it was indeed the scent putting off the insects, the researchers placed vials of isoeugenol or benzyl benzoate next to the genetically modified petunias. Sure enough, the presence of the chemical was enough to deter the insects (Ecology Letters, doi.org/jv7).
The study is the first to demonstrate that scent chemicals are used by flowers to discourage and attract insects. The complex scents of other flower species probably also include repellent as well as attractive chemical signals, says team member Thomas Colquhoun of the University of Florida in Gainsville.
Female lemurs avoid the wrong love in the dark
IT IS the ultimate voice-recognition system. Without ever meeting him, a female lemur still knows the call of her father.
The ability to identify family members is important to avoid inbreeding. For large-brained mammals like apes that engage in complex social interactions this is relatively straightforward. Now, a team has shown that nocturnal grey mouse lemurs appear to do the same, even though lemurs are reared exclusively by their mothers (BMC Ecology, doi.org/jvx).
Study leader Sharon Kessler of Arizona State University in Tempe, believes that the young lemurs may associate calls similar to their own, or to those of male siblings, with their fathers.
Leech cocoon preserves 200-million-year-old fossil
Encased Vorticella-like fossil
(Image: Benjamin Bomfleura, Hans Kerp, Thomas N. Taylor, Øjvind Moestrup, and Edith L. Taylor/PNAS)
Worth a closer look
(Image: Geoff Tompkinson/SPL)
Move over amber. When it comes to preserving soft-bodied animals through the ages, there’s a newcomer in town: fossilised leech “cocoons”.
The cocoons are secreted by many leech and worm species as mucous egg cases that harden and often fossilise. Almost two decades ago, Norwegian scientists found a perfectly preserved nematode worm embedded in the wall of a fossilised cocoon, but no one had investigated further.
So when Benjamin Bomfleur, a palaeobiologist at the University of Kansas, and his colleagues found fossil cocoons in 200-million-year-old rocks from the mountains of Antarctica, they took a closer look. They dissolved the rock with acid, leaving only the organic material – mostly leaf litter, but also 20 leech cocoons squashed flat by the pressure of aeons. One contained a perfectly preserved ciliated protozoan that appeared identical to modern single-celled “bell animals” (Vorticella) that live in ponds and streams.
The find is one of only a handful of fossilised ciliated protozoans. It suggests leech cocoons could be conservation traps in which, like amber, rarely fossilised creatures might be found.
Journal reference: PNAS, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218879109
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Plans Advance for Major Redevelopment at 6208 8th Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn
6208 8th Avenue, image by Raymond Chan Architects
By: Andrew Nelson 8:00 am on August 1, 2018
In exciting news for Sunset Park, plans for 6208 8th Avenue are now pushing closer to reality. A major proposal for the former railroad site in Brooklyn would create over one million square feet of mixed-use development. The structures would include commercial, residential, and community facility space. The site is next door to the 8th Avenue subway station, serviced by the N trains. Since YIMBY last checked in on progress, the design has not changed, but new information has now been released providing specific details for the proposal.
6208 Eighth Avenue, via Urban Cartographics
The development is split up into three different sections, i.e. the podium, and two towers, and will host a myriad of different uses, including a hotel, offices, retail, residences, a school, library, and a medical facility.
The 165-foot tall structures will yield 1,292,920 square feet of floor area, which includes 232,880 square feet for residential use, 99,100 square feet for the medical facilities, 37,990 square feet for the school and library, 85,590 square feet for offices, 95,210 square feet for the hotel, and 342,090 square feet for retail.
One-third of the retail space is expected to be occupied by local businesses, as well as a furniture store, drug store, supermarket, cultural establishment, a food court, and an event space. 250 apartments will be created, averaging 930 square feet apiece. 50 of those units will be let at affordable rates to those making below 80% of area median income.
The development will also create landscaped public space on the ground level and sculpture garden on the 9th floor, creating a total of 62,250 square feet for public access.
Raymond Chan is responsible for the design.
New building permits have not been filed yet, though demolition permits have been filed for an existing one-story structure on site. Approval for the development is expected to be secured within 2 years, and with three years of construction, completion is expected by 2023.
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12 Comments on "Plans Advance for Major Redevelopment at 6208 8th Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn"
David | August 1, 2018 at 8:16 am | Reply
Please pardon me for using your space: Not performs magic tricks on progress, but real report which you can feel.
Craig | August 1, 2018 at 9:36 am | Reply
It’s really wonderful to see all these big developments in the poorer, mostly East Asian immigrant communities. It really goes to show the American dream in progress. Flushing, Sunset Park and Chinatown all with many developments in recent history. Bravo and keep it up!
sebastian | August 1, 2018 at 10:02 am | Reply
If it’s anything like all the other developments in the area, it will be cheaply done, ignore building codes and of course be overpriced.
Ruben Colon | August 2, 2018 at 9:11 am | Reply
Monitoring to see if this is going to be done using exploited immigrant construction workers to reduce costs wh9le there are literally hundreds of qualified constructions workers in the immediate area. That is what’s happening elsewhere in the surrounding areas.
jay | August 2, 2018 at 12:17 pm | Reply
I bet there will be no units for single people earning 49,000 a year this income seems to be unwanted in brooklyn affordable housing,always 40%60% and 130% and up AMI
Dan K. | August 4, 2018 at 1:07 pm | Reply
Is this project being developed “As of Right” per Zoning ? Or does it require variances? If the latter, one would hope the developers would be required to provide some give backs – e.g. maybe elevators for the adjacent N station. As I understand it, the MTA is providing only ramps as part of their own renovation. Given how this project greatly benefits from it adjacency to the station, and that is very likely to increase ridership at this station, anything that would improve use of the station (perhaps even additional stairways?) should be a prerequisite.
Was there an EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) for this project? And if so, did it address how it might affect the important not-so-wildlife habitat at the classic dive bar (the beloved Soccer Tavern) in the adjoining block?
Nikolai Fedak | August 4, 2018 at 2:28 pm | Reply
EAS:
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/applicants/env-review/dyker-heights/dyker-heights-eas.pdf
Milton | August 7, 2018 at 2:45 pm | Reply
Apartments should be put aside for the teachers , librarians and medical workers who will work in this new facility.
B | August 13, 2018 at 6:24 pm | Reply
There’s currently a fence covered with poison ivy there.
María Roca | August 22, 2018 at 1:17 pm | Reply
How fitting!
Joey | August 22, 2018 at 12:47 am | Reply
As we know in D20,D15 all the school is over crowing,Why when we looking site for school and SCA said cant find the space?for commercial used always easy can find the site.Please don’t sell Sunset Park residencies to others.When people said to change sunset park neighbor ,please change to good thing,Not like hotel building .and we need more schools.
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Home > Sale Items > Sale Various Performances > Jacques Thibaud & Marguerite Long; Charles Munch (Biddulph LAB 114)
S0150. JACQUES THIBAUD & MARGUERITE LONG: Violin Sonata #35 in A, K.526; JACQUES THIBAUD & TASSO JANOPOULO: Piano Concerto #21 in C, K.467 - Andante; JACQUES THIBAUD, w.Charles Munch Cond. Paris Conservatoire Orch.: ‘Turkish’ Concerto #5 in A, K.219; MARGUERITE LONG, w.Gaubert Cond. Paris S.O.: Concerto #23 in A, K.488 (all Mozart). (England) Biddulph LAB 114. Transfers by Ward Marston. Very long out-of-print, Final Copy! - 744718011421
"So few players these days are capable of such subtle nuance or such honest sentiment."
- Joseph Magil, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, July/Aug., 2007
"Suave, debonair, and sincere, [Thibaud’s] art was an extension of his personality; therefore, while he had numerous pupils, he had no stylistic heir. Thibaud’s playing is immediately recognizable and he can be mistaken for no one else. He also had an air of belonging to an earlier time….Like his friend Georges Enescu, Thibaud had a vocabulary of slides and ways of sneaking up on a note that today’s virtuosos would profit from studying. These expressive devices contributed to an erotic quality in Thibaud’s playing that, paradoxically, is missing in our modern world of tawdry sexual display."
- Joseph Magil, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, May/June, 2004
“Marguerite Long studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Henri Fissot, taking a Premier prix in 1891, and returning to the Conservatoire to teach from 1906 to 1940. From 1920, she was professor of piano at the Conservatoire, becoming the first woman professor at the Paris Conservatoire. She also founded her own private music school where she was joined in 1940 by violinist Jacques Thibaud, eventually establishing the Long-Thibaud Competition in 1943. Ravel dedicated his Concerto in G major to her, as did Milhaud his First Piano Concerto."
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TAMWORTH'S number one live council blog is back in action. It has been a few weeks since we've been ringside at the Ray Walsh House Col-osseum and the council's most recent meeting barely lasting 10 minutes has left us all hungry for more. Yes, it has been a few weeks between drinks, but water is still a big topic in the council chambers. Stick around and watch it all the decisions, derision and division unfold. In the meantime, here's what has been making news ahead of tonight: THE time is now to start preparing for dry spells in the future and Tamworth Regional Council will call on the state government to do something about it. This week, the councillors will sign off on the motions it wants Tamworth to take to the state's annual conference of councils. Read more. SKATERS might not be the only ones serving a fresh grind at the new skate park. Tamworth Regional Council has put forward a concept for a cafe that doubles as a training camp for young people. Read more. TAMWORTH Regional Council will create a new taskforce, aimed at tackling local drought issues. Mayor Col Murray will chair the taskforce and said it provided a way to work more closely with the business community and share the responsibility to manage the region's water. Read more. Have your say. Click this link to send a letter to the editor. Support the local news that keeps you informed - subscribe today
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RINGSIDE ACTION: Join us for another enlightening trip through a Tamworth Regional Council meeting. Photo: Gareth Gardner
TAMWORTH'S number one live council blog is back in action.
It has been a few weeks since we've been ringside at the Ray Walsh House Col-osseum and the council's most recent meeting barely lasting 10 minutes has left us all hungry for more.
Yes, it has been a few weeks between drinks, but water is still a big topic in the council chambers.
Stick around and watch it all the decisions, derision and division unfold.
In the meantime, here's what has been making news ahead of tonight:
Tamworth Regional Council to call for 40-year drought infrastructure plan
THE time is now to start preparing for dry spells in the future and Tamworth Regional Council will call on the state government to do something about it.
This week, the councillors will sign off on the motions it wants Tamworth to take to the state's annual conference of councils. Read more.
Tamworth skate park cafe: See concept designs and the plan to potentially turn it into a training ground
SKATERS might not be the only ones serving a fresh grind at the new skate park.
Tamworth Regional Council has put forward a concept for a cafe that doubles as a training camp for young people. Read more.
Tamworth council to create new drought taskforce
TAMWORTH Regional Council will create a new taskforce, aimed at tackling local drought issues.
Mayor Col Murray will chair the taskforce and said it provided a way to work more closely with the business community and share the responsibility to manage the region's water. Read more.
Have your say. Click this link to send a letter to the editor.
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Pat FlemingPat Fleming, wife of Phil Fleming of Sun City Center, Fla., went home to Jesus Aug. 11, 2011 after a long battle with cancer. She was born on Nov.…
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SAFE BET: A PAIR OF ACES BEATS 2 JOKERS
Hal Boedeker, Sentinel ColumnistTHE ORLANDO SENTINEL
Duos from Holmes and Watson to Will and Grace have demonstrated the entertainment value of teamwork. But it's preferable to see the twosome in action than to watch them squabble and reconcile, as two movies underscore Sunday night.
The mushiness of CBS' Martin and Lewis will test any fan who enjoyed the zany antics of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Martin and Lewis weren't about tears or psychological insights, so giving them the dramatic treatment feels inappropriate.
PBS fields a more impressive team in Skinwalkers: Sleuths Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) and Jim Chee (Adam Beach) of the Navajo Tribal Police. It was in Skinwalkers that author Tony Hillerman first paired Leaphorn and Chee after having written separate books about them.
They are wonderfully matched, the abrupt, all-business Leaphorn and the ingratiating, laid-back Chee. Lt. Leap- horn seeks logical explanations. Officer Chee doubles as a medicine man, a role that complicates his law enforcement when a killer targets Navajo healers.
Skinwalkers represents an auspicious achievement in several ways. It's a hugely enjoyable adaptation of Hillerman's novel that executive producer Robert Redford has struggled to film since its publication in 1986.
It marks a fine first step by PBS' Mystery! to mix American stories into its lineup of British whodunits.
Through humor, it broadens the portrayal of Native Americans on television, and it's an enticing start for more Leaphorn-Chee films that Mystery! hopes to present.
The film Skinwalkers builds a sense of genuine dread as the "skinwalker," a Navajo witch who can shape-shift, stalks medicine men. In the horror tradition, the movie doesn't shy away from gore.
Yet the mystery and its resolution ultimately hold less fascination than the characters and the stunning landscapes around Phoenix.
The grouchy Leaphorn has delightful rapport with his friendly wife, Emma (Sheila Tousey). There's immediate sexual tension between Chee and a forceful attorney, Janet Pete (Alex Rice).
The glimpses of Native American life, from healer rituals to an unhappy household, are fresh and engrossing. Director Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals) and screenwriter James Redford, Robert's son, deserve kudos for serving Hillerman and his detectives so well.
There's some unevenness in the acting, with amateurish work in smaller roles. But the two stars are excellent. Studi is perfect as the stolid, tightly coiled Leaphorn, who hates loose ends.
As Chee, Beach is a revelation, a dashing young actor who doesn't have to do a lot to win over an audience -- just a smile will do it.
With luck, Leaphorn and Chee will become Mystery! heavyweights like Jane Tennison and Inspector Morse.
For now, there can be no mystery that during this November sweeps, when the broadcast networks supposedly unveil their big events, that PBS has outdone them all around, from Jimmy Carter to Benjamin Franklin to Skinwalkers.
'MARTIN AND LEWIS'
Dean Martin was remote and unfeeling. Jerry Lewis was needy. There isn't a lot more to Martin and Lewis, a flimsy CBS movie charting the team's rise and disintegration.
Despite the network's heavy promotion, the film hardly constitutes an event. And it doesn't offer the pleasure of an actor's metamorphosis into a legend, the sort that Brad Garrett pulled off in CBS' relentless biopic of Jackie Gleason earlier this season. (Gleason, badly played by another performer, pops up briefly in Martin and Lewis.)
Jeremy Northam, a fine actor usually, strains to convey Dean's natural smoothness and sexiness. Emmy winner Sean Hayes of Will & Grace has an easier time as Lewis, striking Jerry's outlandish poses on stage and brooding behind the scenes.
Martin and Lewis works best in explaining how the team was born. Lewis, who idolized Martin, intruded on the singer's nightclub act with manic comedy, and the easygoing Martin played along.
They graduated to movies, television and nasty tensions. The film portrays vintage show business with credibility, not surprising for executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who produced the outstanding ABC miniseries on Judy Garland.
Yet Martin and Lewis wallows in pat, simplified psychology. Lewis, spurned by a self-absorbed father, saw Martin as a big-brother figure.
The blase, womanizing Martin could help Lewis only so much, and the movie conveniently supplies a revelation scene to explain enigmatic Dean's limitations.
Lewis fretted that fans liked Martin better. Dean, tired of his increasingly difficult sidekick, broke up the act and devastated Jerry.
In this tell-all era, Martin and Lewis relays many inside details but misses the essence of what made the team a success. These show-business jealousies feel petty and tired, especially with Leaphorn and Chee arriving on the scene.
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I crouch down at one end of the ice, much like a sprinter poised for a relay. Up on my toes with one foot precariously planted on a slippery Teflon pad, I push off into a part forward lunge, part yoga pigeon pose. From this precarious position, I launch a 42-pound rock toward a target 140 feet away, wondering how long I can hold on to this stance, and my dignity, before I’m flat on the ice, staring at my opponent’s shoes. Who knew curling could be this tough?
Deceptively slow-paced to the untrained eye, the sport of curling is, in reality, a unique combination of athleticism, balance, strategy, and teamwork that’s hard to appreciate until you get out on the ice and give it a try. More like a chess match than ice hockey, it’s rich in history and traditions, and it’s catching on in the Carolinas.
Galileo, the Reformation...and Curling?
Curling debuted at the first Olympic Winter Games in 1924. american_rugbier
Curling’s origins can be traced back to around 1540 on a frozen loch in Scotland, making it one of the oldest team sports around. By the 19th century, what started out as a stone-throwing contest evolved into formalized clubs, rules, and competitions that spread to cold-weather countries across the globe.
Curling debuted at the first Winter Games in 1924 but wasn’t granted official medal status until the 1998 games in Nagano. The number of participating countries and athletes continues to grow and competitions include world senior and junior championships. In 2018, men’s and women’s curling is returning to the Winter Games in PyeongChang, along with the much-anticipated debut of mixed doubles play. Also, the 2018 Winter Games for athletes with disabilities will include the largest number of teams to date competing in wheelchair curling.
Build it and They Will Come
Walk into the Charlotte Curling Association facility just north of downtown and you’d never guess that, just a few years ago, a small group of mostly armchair curlers watching the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver lit up a grassroots effort to make this dedicated curling arena a reality. The lobby is a cozy members club, complete with fully-stocked bar, pro shop, game tables, and theater seating at huge picture windows overlooking the ice. You can grab your favorite craft brew and watch the curling action unfold on overhead screens. This is one of those everybody-knows-your-name pubs where you feel instantly at home, even if you don’t know a thing about the sport. Questions, and beginners, are welcome.
While most curling clubs rent time at ice rinks, this facility, run 100% on volunteer enthusiasm, is one of only two dedicated venues in the Southeast. Charlotte’s tight-knit curling community gathers from September to May for bonspiels, tournaments that can be more like a reunion than a competition, and competitive and recreational league play six days of the week. Club members travel together for bonspiels in cities ranging from Wilmington, N.C., and Greenville, S.C., to Tampa, Atlanta, and Richmond, Va. They’re even travelling to Slovenia for an international tournament, along with a river cruise on the Danube.
Curling originated in Scotland. Colin Baird
First lesson—ice skating skills won’t do you any good here. Beginners wear tennis shoes with rubber grippers for traction and step on a removable Teflon pad to glide. More advanced players wear curling shoes, with one rubber sole for traction and one Teflon sole for glide. Teams of four face off on a long, narrow expanse of ice called a sheet, taking turns delivering their eight polished granite rocks as close as possible to the center of the target at the opposite end of the sheet, called the house. On their turn, each curler delivers two rocks under the watchful eye of the skip, the team’s master strategist who calls the shots from their vantage point inside the house. When all 16 rocks have been delivered, the score is added up for an end. Games are usually eight ends long, 10 in championships.
The concept of delivering the rock sounds simple enough, but it turns out that there are lots of variables to get in your way. First, the rock rotates, or curls, as it glides, in what feels to the beginner like totally unpredictable trajectories. Second, players on your team can encourage the rock to travel farther and curl less by sweeping, an all-in scrubbing motion with the broom that creates a thin film of water on the sheet surface. Players on the opposing team can sweep your rock to move it away from the center of the house and out of bounds.
All this sweeping can burn up to 800 calories over the course of a two-hour game, making curling a perfect low-impact aerobic workout for just about anyone. Curlers with mobility issues use a delivery stick to grab and push the rock, an adaptation that allows for an incredibly wide range of ages and abilities to participate. Charlotte Curling Association’s 250 members range in age from 5 to 85 and include the largest group of wheelchair curlers in the country.
Pre- and post-game rituals can be as elaborate as the tournaments themselves. Broomstacking at the conclusion of eight ends signals a return to the bar, where the victorious team buys the first round and the defeated curlers buy the second. Special occasions may call for a broomshooter, which involves teammates drinking shots in unison from shot glasses mounted on a single broom. Teams often choose a theme for their bonspiel attire (think pirates at a bonspiel on the North Carolina coast), and outrageously gaudy pants, made fashionable by the Norwegian curlers in Vancouver, continue to trend in curling circles.
Try out curling for yourself. Ryan Clare
Charlotte Curling is expecting the Winter Games to generate a spike in interest and memberships. They plan to cap their member total at 350 and start a wait list, so now’s the best time to start sweeping. They offer two-hour introductory lessons at various times throughout their season, some with medalists from the Winter Games. From there, you can jump into membership or learn the finer points of the sport by enrolling in their four-week course. You can also drop in at one of their free open houses during the Winter Games to throw a rock and enjoy food trucks, local brews, and curling on their widescreen TV.
Originally written by RootsRated for OrthoCarolina.
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The SUV plunged 60 feet towards the Similkameen River and then flew into the air
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Police are amazed that a woman whose car veered off Highway 3 on Christmas Eve survived with only minor injuries.
“If you believe in Christmas miracles, this was one of them,” said RCMP Sergeant Rob Hughes.
The crash occurred about 4 p.m. on December 24, approximately 30 km east of Princeton B.C.
A 61-year-old woman lost control of her SUV, and it plunged approximately 60 feet down an embankment towards the Similkameen River.
The vehicle reached a ridge “and it flew in the air and hit a tree 15 feet up,” said Hughes. It then dropped to the ground, landing beside a large boulder.
A witness at the scene described the car as looking like “a crushed pop can.”
The woman managed to crawl from the wreckage, where she was cared for by passersby before emergency services arrived.
She was removed from the scene by Princeton Highway Rescue volunteers and transported to Princeton General Hospital.
Hughes said later in the evening the victim was laughing and joking from her hospital bed, and had suffered only minor injuries.
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Motorhome review: Roller Team T-Line 743 motorhome
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Roller Team’s existing T-Line 740 adopts what is probably Europe’s most popular motorhome layout. This new ‘T’ – the 743 – is also an island bed model but, unlike its sister, it’s not just another lookalike design.
Initial impressions are good. With its dark metallic grey cab and new-this-season pale grey coachbuilt bodywork, along with a standard set of 16in alloy wheels, the latest T-Line is a long way from budget Italian motorhomes of yore. But then this isn’t an entry-level product. It sits above the Zefiro and Auto-Roller ranges and comes spec’d to match.
There are flush, fully framed side windows, a new skirt locker (ideal for mains lead and levelling wedges) and a factory-fitted bike rack, as well as central locking (and a flyscreen) for the habitation door.
And, the entrance is also on the UK nearside unlike most other imports. With its NCC-approved badging, you could almost think you’re looking at a British motorhome…
The galley in the Roller Team T-Line 740 motorhome
…Until that is you open the door and climb (easily, via just an internal step) aboard. We can’t imagine a major UK brand opting for this triple-tone grey faux leather fabric (called Georgia) as its standard trim.
But, more importantly, it’s rare to find any brand (Chausson apart) that’s prepared to so obviously throw away the layout rulebook and come up with a new version of a very popular design.
You realise that this is not just another copycat design as soon as you clap eyes on the kitchen, which faces you as soon as you open the door (trimmed with smart GRP mouldings and with a bin affixed). Yes, it’s an L-shaped galley, as you’d expect in a continental low-profile, but it stretches much, much further across the vehicle than is the norm – nearly one-and-a-half metres from the offside wall, in fact. And the lounge mirrors that with an equally long seat backing onto the galley.
What’s the big deal about a longer kitchen and a bigger settee? We’ll come to the details later but, crucially, it completely changes the feel of the vehicle as the gangway feeds down the nearside of the campervan, rather than through the middle.
In the kitchen, the other big news is the sort of worktop space that most motorhome owners will be more used to at home, rather than when they’re away. There’s preparation or serving space on either side of the sink (which has its own split cover, so more worktop) and a surprisingly large surface area in front of the triangular three-burner hob.
While admiring all this space and wondering what gastronomic wonders you’ll be creating on your tours, you’ll spot a trapdoor in the corner of the galley – one that lifts to reveal a chest-style 12V compressor cooler that can be used as a fridge or freezer.
If you’re groaning that such a fitting will never suffice, fear not, for below the counter (under the hob) is another fridge, this time a conventional, front-loading, three-way unit with removable freezer section. Lots of chilled wine, beer and pop, or a separate freezer for tonnes of frozen chips? You decide!
You’ll be able to cook those French fries in the Thetford Duplex combined oven/grill, so the only thing that’s really lacking in this galley is a drawer for your cutlery and utensils, although space for plates, pans and non-perishable food isn’t in overly abundant supply – there are a couple of (rather high) top lockers and a pair of slide-out shelves in the cupboard next to the oven.
Maybe you’d stow some tins under the trapdoor in the floor between the kitchen and lounge.
The lounge in the Roller Team T-Line 743 motorhome
You know the old adage about European motorhomes having small lounges? Well, here’s another new motorhome where you can forget that stereotype, although there are other aspects that reinforce the imported motorhome vibe – the net curtains, the super-sized overcab sunroof, the lack of a lounge carpet (an extra-cost option) and the aforementioned leather-look upholstery, which seems very practical but, perhaps, isn’t terribly homely.
Of course, on the face it, this is just another L-settee lounge with swivel cab seats and a fixed table on a central pedestal leg. Again, though, the sheer length of the settee quite changes the feel of the layout. There is room here for even the longest legs to stretch out, while the seat also incorporates belts for a couple of extra passengers (and the base hides not only the 100-litre fresh water tank but also the powerful 6kW gas/mains Truma Combi heater, too).
The importance of stretching out here becomes obvious when you discover that the small nearside seat isn’t so much a place to park your derrière as a clever concealment of the TV, which pops up on a bracket hidden behind. With your partner in the swivel driver’s chair, feet up on the opposing cab seat, all you need is the popcorn for a cinematic night in.
That’s not to say you can’t get four (possibly five) around the table, which is remarkably stable for a design that not only swivels but folds in half, too. Unfolded, it’s a generous 740mm by 800mm. At half the size it’s ideal for drinks and snacks.
Island bed in the Roller Team T-Line 743 motorhome
Transverse island beds are nothing new – they feature in the Tracker and Imala ranges from sister Trigano Group company and Roller Team importer, Auto-Trail. But it is rare to find an island bed running widthways in a European motorhome, several continental brands having tried them and then dropped the idea as it was seen as not offering sufficient storage for buyers in the key French and German markets.
An answer, of course, is to raise the bed to create more garage room underneath – it seems so obvious it’s amazing we haven’t seen such an idea before. So, here the mattress is just over a metre off the bedroom floor – and that is itself up a step (through the en suite area) that takes you 190mm higher than in the kitchen.
Then, of course, there’s the question of getting into a bed that’s significantly higher than your one at home, without a trampoline or pole vault. Of course, the answer is more steps – a 210mm step on the forward side of the bed makes for easy enough access here but the person sleeping closest to the rear of the motorhome will find two more modest increases in floor height as they shuffle around the foot of the bed.
With longer acquaintance - as in ownership – you’d surely soon get used to all these changes of floor level but not everyone will adapt so readily. Maybe Roller Team should consider a low-bed version of the 743 for those customers who don’t need the big garage. Or better still, perhaps, a height-adjustable bed?
As it is, we liked the comfortable and quite firm bed, the ‘his and her’ reading lights, two opening windows and a rooflight for ventilation and the solid, sliding doors to close off the bedroom from the rest of the layout.
The usual bedside wardrobes are present on both sides but are very slim, so a third, deeper, wardrobe has been incorporated under the forward-facing edge of the bed. There’s also a shelved cupboard under the foot of the bed, as well as a strange-looking trapdoor, which appears to be designed to allow for a cycle wheel in the space below.
Underneath the bed is a big, but irregularly shaped garage, with interior headroom of 1.21m and width in the centre of 0.92m.
The design of the bedroom means that there is only a full-sized loading door on the nearside, with just a small (370mm by 840mm) hatch opposite. Lighting and power sockets are not present here.
A second double bed in the Roller Team T-Line 743 motorhome
What you do get as standard, though, is a second double bed – an electrically operated drop-down one above the lounge. The position of the sole LED strip light, and the fact that the bed narrows to the offside, mean that heads go to the nearside but, when lowered, the bed doesn’t interfere with use of the kitchen or the door (although you’ll need to remove the ladder to enter/exit).
The toilet room door closes off the en suite in the usual style and, with the sliding bedroom doors deployed too, there’s a full-width washroom with separate shower on the offside – and private access from either bed.
Unusually, there’s plenty of room in the toilet cubicle even with its door closed, and all the essentials are here – towel rail and robe hooks, opening window, toiletries storage and even a backlit mirror with the Roller Team logo. The toilet is rather high if you have short legs but there’s little else to fault.
Opposite, you’ll need to lift the false floor before closing the heavily tinted plastic doors behind you in a shower with two drains, decent headroom, a roof vent and a clothes-drying rail.
The base vehicle on the Roller Team T-Line 743 motorhome
With so much innovation in this motorhome, you might almost expect it to be based on some rarely seen base vehicle but, no, the cab is the most reassuringly familiar part of the whole vehicle. This might be the very latest Euro 6d version of the Fiat Ducato but, unless you open the fuel flap and spot the AdBlue filler under the diesel one, you’d be none the wiser. Only the most observant of Fiat fans will see the ‘140’ badge on the driver’s side front wing, indicating a power output not previously available.
In fact, Roller Team specifies the entry-level 120bhp motor as standard but the 140 seems a worthwhile upgrade (at £900) as it also increases torque by 30Nm. On the basis of our test drive, there wouldn’t seem to be much necessity to go further (160 and 178bhp units are available, both still 2.3-litre) but, if you want the superb new automatic gearbox (a pricy £2,994) it’s only offered on the 140 engine and upwards.
You will not have to fork out for the chassis upgrade (to 3,650kg) if you find the standard payload a bit parsimonious, nor will you pay extra for a reversing camera or DAB radio and sat-nav, all of which are combined in the double-DIN Xzent head unit. The essential Drivers Pack adds cab air-con, cruise control, passenger airbag, etc, for £1,250.
On the road, the T-Line was very stable, with typically surefooted handling, as we’ve come to expect with Fiat’s lowered, wide-track, camping-car chassis. The Ducato is still easy to drive with a slick gearchange but its firm ride did elicit quite a few rattles on Lincolnshire’s back roads and we can’t help feeling that an interior update of this cab is overdue.
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Issue 107, Winter 2019
Early Recordings
A Points South essay from the South Carolina Music Issue.
Let me take you back to a time before algorithmic music recommendations (If you like this, you’ll definitely like this), to a time when you never rode in a friend’s car without flipping through their fat, floppy binders of CDs, heavy as an X-ray blanket in your lap, to see what they were digging. Let me take you back, in other words, to the mid-nineties.
Rant with Collards
From the archive, an appreciation of cookbook-memoirist Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor.
Vertamae is the sort of person who, while struggling to find work in the broad creative world, came to know James Baldwin as “Jimmy,” played the part of Big Pearl in the infamous Broadway play Mandingo, catered a record-release party for David Bowie, danced and chanted with Sun Ra & his Solar-Myth Arkestra, and inspired her daughter, who was nine at the time, to publish a volume of poems with Doubleday.
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A problem solver, Jones would ultimately get his drums from his mother’s record collection, as her Charles Wright and Isaac Hayes albums began migrating into his room. “There wasn’t enough money for records,” he recalled. “Or I couldn’t find them. So I’d record songs on the radio off the reel-to-reel, and take the reel-to-reel to the party.” There’s a photograph of Jones deejaying the Charleston YMCA wearing pleated baggies and a fade, with a Michelob parked in front of his Akai séance machine.
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A Good Name
An excerpt of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature.
I grew up in the southwestern frontier near North Augusta, on a ragged, two-hundred-acre family farm where we raised our own beef, grew our own vegetables, and drew our water out of cool, sweet springs. From heaven—or from a high-flying hawk’s viewpoint—I imagine that the plowed fields, pastures, and humble houses looked like a hole punched into the expanse of green. That gap in the wildness was our Home Place.
I Make of You What I Will
What I want is to love Southern rock without being implicated in the Old South politics. I want progress but I want it surgical. Take secession and Strom Thurmond, take Bob Jones and his university, take the racism and the guy wearing the sandwich board, all bad eye and venom, and leave me the Chattooga River, leave me my grandparents on the porch, leave me the fish fries and Ronnie Milsap and the old man at Open Arms Church who played the dobro so lovingly you swore he was cradling his child.
The Knoxes of Murrells Inlet
Lillie’s sound is not readily identifiable as black or white but seems a merger of the two as she effortlessly blends country and blues in a haunting song about family loss. Noticeably absent is the Gullah Geechee accent, and she finds little use for vibrato. Instead, a pure, unadorned, angelic quality characterizes her soprano. Such simplicity proves effective in conveying Lillie’s innermost thoughts—her pain.
Coming Up with Guy Davenport
He was a modernist scholar, one of the earliest, and for decades a leading translator of ancient Greek poetry; but he also wrote with authority on the social history of the pear, Mother Ann Lee and Shaker aesthetics, Dogon cosmogony, the anthropology of table manners, 2 Timothy and the Pauline doctrine, Louis Agassiz, Eudora Welty, geodesic domes, the paintings of Balthus, and the behavior of wasps—which he fed in his home from a saucer of sugar water. He himself subsisted on fried bologna sandwiches and Marlboros.
Notes on the songs from our 21st Southern Music Issue Sampler featuring South Carolina.
It is fitting that this Southern Music Issue (the Oxford American’s twenty-first) devoted to South Carolina should come in 2019, as the nation moves to better recognize the tragic anniversary of the first sale of enslaved Africans on American soil, in August of 1619. About forty percent of the enslaved people brought to America came through Charleston; today most African Americans have roots in the city (some estimates go as high as eighty percent). Or to put a finer point on it, as Joshunda Sanders writes in this issue, “No Black person has a family tree that has not been pruned by slavery.” Acknowledging, parsing, and reckoning with this history is the prominent theme of this South Carolina music issue—as is celebrating the immense wealth of cultural heritage that has sprung from this small, proud place.
Why We Ate Mud
The entrance to the building is lined with prickly bushes. Ellie is there early. Not because she wants the job. It’s just that parking was easier to find than she expected. She could care less about this job. When people ask her what kind of job she wants, she usually says, a job where I can use my hands. “Your hands?” her mother often says. “But we all use our hands.” Her mother sells insurance policies and uses her hands every day. How else would she dial out?
Cut Me Loose
I didn’t even know if I knew how to let go of the pain of my past. It has, after all, made me the woman I am.
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Info Source: Sources of Federal Government and Employee Information provides information about the functions, programs, activities and related information holdings of government institutions subject to the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act. It provides individuals and employees of the government (current and former) with relevant information to access personal information about them held by government institutions subject to the Privacy Act and to exercise their rights under the Privacy Act.
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The Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act assign overall responsibility to the President of Treasury Board (as the designated Minister) for the government-wide administration of the legislation.
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) is a key factor in making Canada a leading country of discovery and innovation. NSERC aims to maximize the value of public investments in research and development (R&D) and to advance the prosperity and quality of life of all Canadians.
In today’s highly competitive global economy, NSERC plays a central role in supporting Canada’s innovation ecosystem. NSERC supports research that benefits all Canadians. By connecting this innovative research to industry through its partnership initiatives, NSERC also makes it easier for the private sector to collaborate with academia and access the wealth of resources Canada’s first-rate academic system has to offer.
Canada’s future discoverers and innovators can realize their full potential with the support of NSERC’s scholarships and fellowships programs, along with funding provided through discovery and partnership awards.
NSERC is also actively working to enhance the profile of Canadian research through national and international promotional activities and by connecting with industry.
NSERC is a departmental corporation of the Government of Canada created in 1978. It is funded directly by Parliament and reports to it through the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development. NSERC’s Council is composed of a President and up to 18 other distinguished members selected from the private and public sectors. NSERC’s President is the Chief Executive Officer. The elected Vice-President is the Chair of the Council and of its Executive Committee. NSERC’s Council is advised on policy matters by various standing committees. Funding decisions are made by the President, or designate, on the basis of recommendations made by peer review committees. The functions of NSERC, based on the authority and responsibility assigned to it under the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Act (1976-1977, c.24), are to:
promote and assist research in the natural sciences and engineering, other than the health sciences; and
advise the Minister in respect of such matters relating to such research as the Minister may refer to NSERC for its consideration.
NSERC supports more than 11,000 of the most creative and productive Canadian university professors, over 30,000 highly qualified postgraduate students and fellows, and partners with more than 3,500 Canadian firms to transfer knowledge that creates economic wealth.
Additional information on NSERC’s responsibilities can be found here.
Institutional Functions, Programs and Activities
Canada is a world leader in advancing, connecting and applying new knowledge in natural sciences and engineering.
People: Research, Talent
This Program supports the attraction, retention and development of highly qualified people in the natural sciences and engineering in Canada through Chairs programs, fellowships, scholarships and stipends. These activities are essential to building the human capital required to enable a strong, globally competitive research and innovation system in Canada. Researchers, students and young people benefit from the grant funding which supports postsecondary university research and outreach activities at universities, museums, science centres and community-based organizations.
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PROMOTION
This sub-program stimulates the public’s interest in science, math, and engineering and encourages the next generation of students to consider careers in these fields, helping to ensure that Canada has an ongoing supply of future discoverers and innovators. These activities are necessary as Canada has fewer university students enrolled in the natural sciences and engineering disciplines and fewer doctoral students graduating and working in these fields, relative to most Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. NSERC awards grants to support activities of community based organizations, museums, science centres and universities that stimulate the interest of young people and students and improve school performance in science and mathematics, notably groups that are underrepresented in the natural sciences and engineering, such as women and Aboriginals. In addition, NSERC offers several prizes that recognize and highlight Canadian achievements in training, research, and innovation.
Science and Engineering Promotion Programs
Description: Includes records related to the development, administration and delivery of NSERC awards for science promotion and NSERC prizes. Information includes documents submitted by organizations to request support for science promotion initiatives. It also includes files related to the nomination and awarding of specific prizes. Files contain information related to policies and procedures, information on the applicants, nominees, review processes and peer reviewers, decisions, administration of awards, and the governance and accountability rules for these awards.
Document Types: Guides and instructions, application files, nominations, correspondence, support letters and recommendations, reviews, evaluations, spreadsheets, financial statements, research plans, budgets, committee reports, presentations, audits, surveys, briefing notes, invitations, communications materials.
Record Number: NSERC 6780 5390
This sub-program supports a significant number of students at various stages of their university studies. At the undergraduate level, support for 16-week research internships in universities aims to nurture and develop students’ aptitudes towards research in the natural sciences and engineering and encourage them to undertake graduate studies and pursue a research career in these fields. At the postgraduate level, students earn a Master's or Doctoral degree in a domestic and/or foreign institution, sometimes after having spent time in an industrial setting. NSERC also supports the development of innovative training programs that encourage collaborative and integrative approaches, address significant scientific challenges associated to Canada's research priorities, include the acquisition of professional skills, and facilitate the transition of new researchers from trainees to productive employees in the Canadian workforce. Postdoctoral Fellowships provide support to promising Doctoral graduates to further their research training in Canada or abroad.
Scholarship and Fellowship Programs
Description: Includes records related to the development, administration and delivery of NSERC scholarships and fellowships, including international programs, which provide support to high-caliber students engaged in undergraduate research, postgraduate or postdoctoral studies in the natural sciences or engineering. Files contain information related to policies and procedures, information on the applicants, nominees, review processes and peer reviewers, decisions, administration of awards, and the governance and accountability rules for these awards.
Document Types: Guides and instructions, application files, nominations, correspondence, support letters and recommendations, reviews, spreadsheets, evaluations, financial statements, research plans, budgets, committee reports, presentations, audits, surveys, briefing notes, communications materials.
Record Number: NSERC - 6600 to 6899
International Programs Personal Information Bank
Description: This bank contains information related to NSERC's Bilateral Exchange Awards, NSERC Foreign Researcher Awards, Grants for Research Abroad, CIDA/NSERC Research Associateships and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowships Program. It contains information supplied by participants on their post-secondary education, professional experience and research proposals, and may include third-party assessments. The bank contains administrative and financial documentation generated in the administration of the awards.
Class of Individuals: Participants in NSERC's international programs and individuals who provide assessments of proposals.
Purpose: All personal information related to applicants is used to review applications and to administer and monitor awards and programs.
Consistent Uses: Consistent with these purposes, applicants should also expect that personal information about them held by NSERC may be used and disclosed in the following ways: As part of peer review, applications are disclosed to selection committees composed of experts recruited from the academic, private and public sectors. In some cases, applications may also be reviewed by external referees, members of ad hoc review committees or site visit committees. Reviews and selection committee comments about a proposal are accessible to co-applicants; NSERC uses personal information about applicants in its files and databases to identify prospective committee members or reviewers for specific grant scholarship or fellowship applications; because NSERC has corporate databases, NSERC staff are generally aware of applications submitted by the same individual to different NSERC programs. Some selection committees are provided with multi-year summaries of an individual's NSERC applications and awards in all programs. In cases when, for example, there is a question of possible overlap in the support of an applicant's research activities by two or more NSERC programs, application material submitted to one program may be used during the review of an application submitted to another program. Similarly, applications may be disclosed to program staff in the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council or the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the purposes of determining the most appropriate funding jurisdiction or to monitor overlap in federal support; NSERC routinely publishes and disseminates certain details about awarded applications. These include name of the applicant(s), award type, amount awarded, institution and department, the discipline or field of research, the project title and a summary of the research proposal prepared by the applicant for public reference; Files and databases containing personal information may also be used by NSERC for program planning, evaluation and review and in audits and for generating statistics for these activities; Information submitted to NSERC is subject to the Tri-Agency Framework: Responsible Conduct of Research and may be used and disclosed consistent with that policy; NSERC collects data on the gender of applicants on a voluntary basis only and uses it to promote the increased participation of women in NSERC programs and on NSERC committees; NSERC also uses the information in its files and databases to generate mailing lists in order to disseminate its publications and other information to the research community; Contact information that is provided during the registration process of the NSERC On-line System is used by NSERC technical staff to identify and contact users when routine systems monitoring reveals that they may require technical assistance.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Program case files are managed in groups based on competitions. Applications that receive funding are retained for fifteen fiscal years after the competition cycle. After this fifteen-year period, the applications are destroyed; except for those applications where the NSERC decision was challenged, in which case the is kept on site. Applications that do not receive funding are retained for fifteen years after the year of the competition and are then destroyed; except applications where the NSERC decision was challenged, in which case the file is kept on site.
RDA Number: RDA 2002-007
TBS Registration: 002576
Bank Number: NSERC PPU 070
Scholarships and Fellowships Personal Information Bank
Description: This bank contains information related to the adjudication and administration of NSERC's scholarships and fellowships programs including Undergraduate Student Research Awards, Postgraduate Scholarships, Industrial Postgraduate Scholarships, Postgraduate Scholarships in Science Librarianship and Documentation, 1967 Science and Engineering Scholarships, Postdoctoral Fellowships, Industrial Research Fellowships, and NATO Science Fellowships. It contains details of applicant's post-secondary education and, in some cases, professional experience. It includes ratings, assessments, recommendations and decisions. The bank also contains the administrative and financial documentation generated in the administration of these awards.
Class of Individuals: Applicants for NSERC scholarships and fellowships and third parties who provide assessment of applicants' suitability for these awards.
Consistent Uses: Consistent with these purposes, applicants should also expect that personal information about them held by NSERC may be used and disclosed in the following ways: As part of peer review, applications are disclosed to selection committees composed of experts recruited from the academic, private and public sectors. In some cases, applications may also be reviewed by external referees, members of ad hoc review committees or site visit committees. Reviews and selection committee comments about a proposal are accessible to co-applicants; NSERC uses personal information about applicants in its files and databases to identify prospective committee members or reviewers for specific grant scholarship or fellowship applications; because NSERC has corporate databases, NSERC staff are generally aware of applications submitted by the same individual to different NSERC programs. Some selection committees are provided with multi-year summaries of an individual's NSERC applications and awards in all programs. In cases when, for example, there is a question of possible overlap in the support of an applicant's research activities by two or more NSERC programs, application material submitted to one program may be used during the review of an application submitted to another program. Similarly, applications may be disclosed to program staff in the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council or the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the purposes of determining the most appropriate funding jurisdiction or to monitor overlap in federal support; NSERC routinely publishes and disseminates certain details about awarded applications. These include name of the applicant(s), award type, amount awarded, institution and department, the discipline or field of research, the project title and, a summary of the research proposal prepared by the applicant for public reference; Files and databases containing personal information may also be used by NSERC for program planning, evaluation and review and in audits and for generating statistics for these activities; Information submitted to NSERC is subject to the Tri-Agency Framework: Responsible Conduct of Research and may be used and disclosed consistent with that policy; NSERC collects data on the gender of applicants on a voluntary basis only and uses it to promote the increased participation of women in NSERC programs and on NSERC committees; NSERC also uses the information in its files and databases to generate mailing lists in order to disseminate its publications and other information to the research community; Contact information that is provided during the registration process of the NSERC On-line System is used by NSERC technical staff to identify and contact users when routine systems monitoring reveals that they may require technical assistance.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Program case files are managed in groups based on competitions. Applications that receive funding are retained for fifteen fiscal years after the competition cycle. After this fifteen-year period, the applications are destroyed; except for those applications where the NSERC decision was challenged, in which case the file is kept on site. Applications that do not receive funding are retained for fifteen years after the year of the competition and are then destroyed; except applications where the NSERC decision was challenged, in which case the file is kept on site.
Related Record Number: NSERC - 6600 to 6899
Visiting Fellowships in Canadian Government Laboratories Personal Information Bank
Description: This bank contains information related to the granting of Visiting Fellowships in Canadian Government laboratories administered by NSERC on behalf of a number of federal departments and agencies. It also contains information on NSERC International Fellowships offered in Canadian Universities. The bank contains details of applicants' post-secondary education and professional experience. It may contain information on an applicant's marital status and the number and ages of children, and other personal information, in cases where NSERC is involved in arranging travel and insurance. It includes assessments of applications, as well as recommendations and decisions. The bank also contains the administrative and financial documentation generated in the administration of awards.
Class of Individuals: Canadian citizens and researchers from other countries who participate in the program of Visiting Fellowships in Canadian Government Laboratories or the Canada International Fellowships Program, and third parties who provide references and assessments of applicants' suitability for awards.
Purpose: Information in the bank is used to review applications and to monitor and administer awards and programs.
Related Record Number: NSERC 6600 – 6899
Register of Canadians Studying Abroad Personal Information Bank
Description: This bank contains information on the professional qualifications of Canadians who are doing postgraduate or postdoctoral work in the natural sciences or engineering in foreign universities and institutes and who have registered with NSERC so that their availability may be made known to participating Canadian employers who require qualified research personnel. Information includes name, address, current field of study or research, and details of post-secondary education.
Class of Individuals: Canadian graduate and postgraduate students studying or working in foreign countries who have registered with NSERC.
Purpose: Information in the bank is used to facilitate the return to Canada of highly qualified scientists and engineers to meet the needs of Canadian employers.
Consistent Uses: NSERC uses the information in the Register to evaluate its programs and to produce statistics and planning information. NSERC also searches the electronic database file associated with the Scholarships and Fellowships Personal Information Bank to identify potential registrants from among scholars receiving NSERC support. These individuals are then contacted and invited to register.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Information is retained for 15 fiscal years.
Related Record Number: NSERC 6600 - 6899
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL CANADA GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS
This sub-program provides financial support to outstanding eligible scholars pursuing Master's or Doctoral studies in a Canadian university. This program is necessary to ensure a reliable supply of highly qualified personnel to meet the needs of Canada's knowledge economy. Supplementary funding is available in the form of Foreign Study Supplements to select recipients of Canada Graduate Scholarships to build global linkages and international networks through the pursuit of exceptional, short term research experiences at research institutions outside of Canada.
Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships Program
Description: Includes records related to the development, administration and delivery of the Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships, which are offered through national competitions to the top-tier applicants for NSERC postgraduate scholarships. Files contain information related to policies and procedures, information on the applicants, nominees, review processes and peer reviewers, decisions, administration of awards, and the governance and accountability rules for these awards.
Document Types: guides and instructions, application files, nominations, correspondence, support letters and recommendations, reviews, spreadsheets, evaluations, financial statements, research plans, budgets, committee reports, presentations, audits, surveys, briefing notes, and communications materials
Record Number: NSERC 6635 – 6640
VANIER CANADA GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS
This sub-program provides financial support to students who have achieved exceptional success in their studies and who demonstrate high potential in the pursuit of a doctoral program in a Canadian university. Both Canadian and international students are eligible for a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. This program is necessary to attract and retain world class doctoral students by supporting students who demonstrate a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies, as well as leadership skills. A high level steering committee, assisted by international review committees, ensures that the best and brightest students are chosen as recipients of the scholarships. Awards allow students to fully concentrate on their studies and work with the best research mentors in their chosen field in Canada.
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Programs
Description: Includes records related to the development, administration and delivery of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships, which are awarded through a national competition to top doctoral candidates that have been nominated by their research institutions. Files contain information related to policies and procedures, information on the applicants, nominees, review processes and peer reviewers, decisions, administration of awards, and the governance and accountability rules for these awards.
Document Types: Guides and instructions, application files, nominations, correspondence, support letters and recommendations, reviews, spreadsheets, evaluations, financial statements, research plans, budgets, committee reports, presentations, audits, surveys, briefing notes, and communications materials.
Record Number: NSERC 6866
BANTING POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
This sub-program supports postdoctoral researchers from Canada and abroad in order to attract the very best postdoctoral fellows to further their training and carry out research in Canada. Up to 25 percent of these awards can be held abroad to allow Canadian postdoctoral fellows the opportunity to gain valuable international experience. This program helps reinforce Canada’s standing as a global player in research excellence and higher learning and as a destination of choice for the most gifted students and researchers. The high level of support provided ensures that these fellowships are internationally competitive. Awards provide a two-year stipend to the recipient.
Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs
Description: Includes records related to the development, administration and delivery of Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships, which are available to the highest ranked candidates for postdoctoral awards. Files contain information related to policies and procedures, information on the applicants, nominees, review processes and peer reviewers, decisions, administration of awards, and the governance and accountability rules for these awards.
Document Types: Guides and instructions, application files, nominations, correspondence, support letters and recommendation, reviews, spreadsheets, evaluations, financial statements, research plans, budgets, committee reports, presentations, audits, surveys, briefing notes, and communications materials.
CANADA RESEARCH CHAIRS
This sub-program provides support to research chairs in the form of salary and research funding to attract and retain some of the world's most accomplished and promising minds. This program assists Canadian universities, together with their affiliated research institutes and hospitals, achieve the highest levels of research excellence and to become world class research centres in today’s global, knowledge based economy. Eligible nominees are full professors or associate professors and emerging scholars who may range from recent Doctoral graduates to associate professors. National and international researchers can be chair holders.
Canada Research Chairs Program
Description: Includes records related to the awarding and administration of Canada Research Chair awards. Files contain information related to policies and procedures, information on the applicants, nominees, review processes and peer reviewers, decisions, administration of awards, and the governance and accountability rules for these awards.
Document Types: Guides and instructions, application files, nominations, correspondence, support letters and recommendation, institutional strategic research plans, reviews, spreadsheets, evaluations, financial statements, budgets, committee reports, activity reports, annual reports, final reports, presentations, audits, surveys, briefing notes, and communications materials.
CANADA EXCELLENCE RESEARCH CHAIRS
This sub-program offers eligible Canadian degree granting institutions the opportunity to establish highly remunerated research chairs at their institutions in research areas of strategic importance to Canada, including but not limited to: environmental sciences and technologies; natural resources and energy; health and related life sciences and technologies; and information and communication technologies, including the digital economy. This program is necessary to attract the highest caliber of researchers for Canada's future prosperity.
Canada Excellence Research Chairs Program
Description: Includes records related to the awarding and administration of Canada Excellence Research Chair awards. Files contain information related to policies and procedures, information on the applicants, nominees, review processes and peer reviewers, decisions, administration of awards, and the governance and accountability rules for these awards.
Discovery: Advancement of Knowledge
This program supports the creation of new knowledge and maintenance of a high quality Canadian-based research capacity in the natural sciences and engineering through grants to researchers and universities. The advancement of knowledge generated by these grants is necessary to fuel a strong research and innovation system in Canada that is globally competitive. Academic researchers and universities receive funding to support the timely acceleration of research programs, the purchase or development of research equipment, or to facilitate their access to major and unique research resources.
DISCOVERY RESEARCH
This sub-program promotes and enables global excellence in discovery research in Canada. NSERC’s discovery based grants support long term, ongoing programs of research as well as shorter term research projects. NSERC also offers substantial and timely additional resources to select researchers in order to accelerate progress and maximize the impact of their research program. In addition, NSERC supports a limited number of large international activities, opportunities, or projects that are of high priority in the context of advanced research in Canada. These are led by world class Canadian researchers and are comprised of teams that will generate substantial impact for the benefit of Canada. Having a solid capacity for basic research across a broad spectrum of natural sciences and engineering disciplines is necessary to ensure that Canada remains at the leading edge of knowledge creation. It ensures that Canada can access and exploit science and technology developments from other countries, and forms the foundation for innovation and the training of the next generation of scientists and engineers.
Discovery Research Programs
Description: Includes records related to the development, administration and delivery of NSERC Discovery grants, which support the conduct of programs of research by eligible faculty in academic research institutions. Files contain information related to policies and procedures, information on the applicants, nominees, review processes and peer reviewers, decisions, administration of awards, and the governance and accountability rules for these awards.
Document Types: Guides and instructions, notifications, application files, financial statements, research plans and proposals, budgets, letters of support, external reviews, evaluation group reports and assessments, spreadsheets, audits, surveys, correspondence, committee reports, briefing notes and communications materials.
Record Number: NSERC 5810 - 5840
General Support Programs Personal Information Bank
Description: This bank contains applications, forms and correspondence related to NSERC's research support and other programs which provide support for research personnel. This would include the Attachés de recherche du CRSNG, the E.W.R. Steacie Fellowships, and some Miscellaneous Grants. Files may contain details of applicant's post-secondary education, professional experience, referee and selection committee assessments, and NSERC’s decisions. They may also contain administrative and financial documents related to the administration of awards.
Class of Individuals: Individuals who participate in NSERC's Research Support and other general support programs and third parties from whom NSERC has requested assessments of proposals.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Program case files are managed in groups based on competitions. Applications that receive funding are retained for fifteen fiscal years after the last competition cycle. After this fifteen-year period, the applications are destroyed; except for those applications where the NSERC decision was challenged, in which case the files are kept on site. Applications that do not receive funding are retained for fifteen years after the year of the competition and are then destroyed; except applications where the NSERC decision was challenged, in which case the file is kept on site.
Research Grants Personal Information Bank
Description: This bank contains information related to individual, group and project discovery grant applications submitted by researchers who hold academic appointments in eligible Canadian academic institutions. It also includes information related to the administration of these types of awards. It includes details of applicants' post-secondary education and professional experience, proposals, referee and selection committee assessments, and NSERC’s decisions.
Class of Individuals: Applicants and co-applicants for NSERC research, tools and instruments, facilities and infrastructure, ship time, collaborative projects and special research opportunities grants and third-party reviewers from whom NSERC has requested assessments of proposals.
Purpose: All personal information related to applicants and co-applicants is used to review applications and to administer and monitor awards and programs.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Program case files are managed in groups based on competitions. Applications that receive funding are retained for fifteen fiscal years after the last competition cycle. After this fifteen-year period, the applications are destroyed; except for those applications where the NSERC decision was challenged, in which case the file is kept on site. Applications that do not receive funding are retained for fifteen years after the year of the competition and are then destroyed; except applications where the NSERC decision was challenged, in which case the file is kept on site.
RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AND RESOURCES
This Sub-Program supports the purchase or development of research equipment and the maintenance of unique research resources. Funds are also used to facilitate researchers’ access to major and unique research resources in Canada and abroad. Grants are awarded through a competitive peer review process. This activity is necessary because, in addition to funds to carry out research, top scientists and engineers need state of the art equipment and resources to conduct research and training at world class levels. Access to equipment and resources plays an important role in attracting the best minds to Canada and keeping them here.
Research Equipment and Resources Program
Description: Includes records related to the development, administration and delivery of NSERC Research Equipment grants and grants that support research resources. Files contain information related to policies and procedures, information on the applicants, nominees, review processes and peer reviewers, decisions, administration of awards, and the governance and accountability rules for these awards.
Document Types: Guides and instructions, application files, quotations, research plans, budgets, letters of support, reviews, spreadsheets, evaluations, financial statements, audits, surveys, correspondence, reports, presentations, briefing notes and communications materials.
Description: This bank contains information related to individual, group and project discovery grant applications submitted by researchers who hold academic appointments in eligible Canadian academic institutions. It also includes information related to the administration of these types of awards. It includes details of applicants' and co-applicants’ post-secondary education and professional experience, proposals, referee and selection committee assessments, and NSERC’s decisions.
Class of Individuals: Applicants for NSERC research, tools and instruments, facilities and infrastructure, ship time, collaborative projects and special research opportunities grants and third-party reviewers from whom NSERC has requested assessments of proposals.
Consistent Uses: Consistent with these purposes, applicants should also expect that personal information about them held by NSERC may be used and disclosed in the following ways: As part of peer review, applications are disclosed to selection committees composed of experts recruited from the academic, private and public sectors. In some cases, applications may also be reviewed by external referees, members of ad hoc review committees or site visit committees. Reviews and selection committee comments about a proposal are accessible to co-applicants; NSERC uses personal information about applicants and co-applicants in its files and databases to identify prospective committee members or reviewers for specific grant scholarship or fellowship applications; because NSERC has corporate databases, NSERC staff are generally aware of applications submitted by the same individual to different NSERC programs. Some selection committees are provided with multi-year summaries of an individual's NSERC applications and awards in all programs. In cases when, for example, there is a question of possible overlap in the support of an applicant's research activities by two or more NSERC programs, application material submitted to one program may be used during the review of an application submitted to another program. Similarly, applications may be disclosed to program staff in the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council or the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the purposes of determining the most appropriate funding jurisdiction or to monitor overlap in federal support; NSERC routinely publishes and disseminates certain details about awarded applications. These include name of the applicant(s), award type, amount awarded, institution and department, the discipline or field of research, the project title and, a summary of the research proposal prepared by the applicant for public reference; Files and databases containing personal information may also be used by NSERC for program planning, evaluation and review and in audits and for generating statistics for these activities; information submitted to NSERC is subject to the Tri-Agency Framework: Responsible Conduct of Research and may be used and disclosed consistent with that policy; NSERC collects data on the gender of applicants on a voluntary basis only and uses it to promote the increased participation of women in NSERC programs and on NSERC committees; NSERC also uses the information in its files and databases to generate mailing lists in order to disseminate its publications and other information to the research community; Contact information that is provided during the registration process of the NSERC On-line System is used by NSERC technical staff to identify and contact users when routine systems monitoring reveals that they may require technical assistance.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Program case files are managed in groups based on competitions. Applications that receive funding are retained for fifteen fiscal years after the last financial activity in the group. After this fifteen-year period, the applications are destroyed; except for those applications where the NSERC decision was challenged, in which case the file is kept on site. Applications that do not receive funding are retained for fifteen years after the year of the competition and are then destroyed; except applications where the NSERC decision was challenged, in which case the file kept on site.
Innovation: Research Partnerships
This program fosters partnerships in the natural sciences and engineering and facilitates the transfer of knowledge and skills to the user sector through awards that support research projects and network activities intended for socioeconomic impact. The partnerships encouraged and enabled by these awards increase the commercialization of Canada’s excellent research into new products, services and processes for the benefit of all Canadians.
RESEARCH IN STRATEGIC AREAS
This sub-program supports research projects and activities in selected areas of national importance and in emerging areas that are of potential significance to Canada. This program is necessary to take advantage of Canada’s established excellence in research and innovation, and to build capacity in areas that are critical to the Canadian economy. NSERC invests in research areas that have been carefully selected as strategic priorities for the country. These investments support a range of activities such as research projects and networks. Funded activities share the common goal of connecting researchers with end users in order to enable the transfer of knowledge/technology and expertise that increases Canadian prosperity.
Research in Strategic Areas Program
Description: Includes information related to the development, administration and delivery of NSERC activities that support research in areas that are of strategic importance to Canada. Files contain information on Strategic Partnerships Grants for Projects and Strategic Partnerships Grants for Networks, including information related to policies and procedures, information on applicants, co-applicants and partners, research plans, review processes and peer reviewers, decisions, the administration of awards, and the governance and accountability rules for these awards.
Document Types: Guides and instructions, application files, plans, documents related to incorporation, budgets, letters of support, reviews, spreadsheets, evaluations, agreements, financial statements, audits, surveys, correspondence, reports, presentations, briefing notes and communications materials.
Strategic Projects Personal Information Bank
Description: This bank contains information related to applications received from researchers in Canadian academic institutions for support under the Strategic Projects program and information related to the administration of these awards. It includes details of applicants', co-applicants’ and partners’ post-secondary education, professional experience, and research proposals as well as referee and selection panel assessments, and NSERC’s decisions.
Class of Individuals: Applicants, co-applicants and partners for NSERC Strategic Project support and third-party reviewers from whom NSERC has requested assessments of applications.
Purpose: All personal information related to applicants, co-applicants and partners is used to review applications and to administer and monitor awards and programs.
INDUSTRY-DRIVEN COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
This sub-program fosters collaborations between university researchers and industry, as well as other sectors, to develop and transfer new knowledge to Canadian based organizations. It offers a range of industry driven programs that stimulate innovation in the Canadian economy and encourage greater science and technology investment by the private sector. These partnership programs and projects address real world challenges that are relevant to industry, help build sustainable relationships between the two sectors, and connect people and skills.
Industry-driven Collaborative Research and Development Programs
Description: Information related to the development, administration and delivery of NSERC activities that support the research requirements of Canadian companies. Includes information on Chairs in Design Engineering, Collaborative Research and Development Grants, Engage Grants, Industrial Research Chairs, and Connect Grants. Files contain information related to policies and procedures, information on applicants, co-applicants and partners, recruitment, research plans, review processes and peer reviewers, decisions, the administration of awards, and the governance and accountability rules for these awards.
Document Types: Guides and instructions, nominations, application files, plans, inventories, documents related to incorporation, budgets, letters of support, reviews, spreadsheets, evaluations, agreements, financial statements, audits, surveys, correspondence, reports, presentations, briefing notes and communications materials.
Collaborative Research Initiatives Personal Information Bank
Description: This bank contains information related to applications for support of collaborative research initiatives submitted by individuals who hold academic appointments in eligible Canadian academic institutions. It also contains information related to the administration of these types of awards. It includes details of applicants' post-secondary education, professional experience, and proposals, as well as referee and committee assessments, recommendations, reports and decisions.
Class of Individuals: Individuals who apply to NSERC for support of collaborative projects and third parties from whom NSERC has requested assessments of the applications.
Purpose: All personal information is used to review applications and to administer and monitor awards and programs.
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Description: This bank contains information on individuals participating in NSERC's Research Partnerships Programs which promote collaboration between universities and companies or universities and government researchers. This bank includes university-industry programs, research networks, as well as chair and faculty support programs. Files may include details of applicants', co-applicants’ and partners’ post-secondary education, professional experience, and research proposals. They may also include references and assessments by third parties, committee recommendations, NSERC's decisions and documentation generated in the administration of awards.
Class of Individuals: Participants in NSERC's research partnerships programs and individuals from whom NSERC has requested expert assessments of applications and proposals.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Program case files are managed in groups based on competitions. Applications that receive funding are retained for fifteen fiscal years after the last financial activity in the group. After this fifteen-year period, the applications are destroyed; except for those applications where the NSERC decision was challenged, in which case the file is kept on site. Applications that do not receive funding are retained for fifteen years after the year of the competition and are then destroyed; except applications where the NSERC decision was challenged, in which case the file is kept on site.
NETWORKS OF CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE
This sub-program fosters partnerships among universities, industry, government, and not for profit organizations. This program helps to harness the creativity and inventiveness of the best minds in various disciplines and sectors to find solutions to critical issues of importance to Canada using internationally competitive research, building on multi sectoral partnerships; and, accelerating the use of multidisciplinary research results by organizations that can use them for economic, social, and environmental benefit. The program is jointly administered by the three federal granting agencies through the Network Centres of Excellence Secretariat, led by NSERC. The networks supported through this program operate as virtual institutes to carry out research and knowledge/technology transfer activities among the participating organizations. The networks put in place well defined strategies to transfer knowledge to users, ensuring that discoveries and technological advances are turned into social and economic benefits for all Canadians. The networks supported by this activity are designed to develop Canada's economy and improve the quality of life of Canadians.
Networks of Centres of Excellence Programs
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TRAINING IN INDUSTRY
This sub-program supports students and recent graduates during short or longer term research internships in Canadian companies. The support allows them to gain Research and Development experience in industry and encourages them to consider careers in industry. Canadian companies benefit from the advanced research skills of these trainees and gain access to new knowledge in their area of activity. The awards are leveraged by the host company, which contributes to the salary of the student or fellow. The program supports an increase in the number of highly qualified people in Canadian industry to strengthen Canadian innovation.
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Description: Includes information related to the development, administration and delivery of NSERC awards that enable high-caliber science and engineering students to gain experience in industrial research environments. The information related to Industrial Postgraduate Scholarships, Industrial Research and Development Fellowships, and Industrial Research and Development Internships. Files contain information related to policies and procedures, information on applicants, companies, nominations, review processes and peer reviewers, decisions, the administration of awards and the governance and accountability rules for these awards.
Document Types: Guides and instructions, application files, nominations, correspondence, support letters and recommendations, reviews, spreadsheets, evaluations, financial statements, research plans, budgets, reports, presentations, audits, surveys, briefing notes, communications materials.
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This sub-program supports the development of commercially promising technologies and promotes the transfer of knowledge and technologies to Canadian companies for commercialization. Strengthening Canada’s record in commercialization is necessary to achieve business growth, job creation, and a stronger, more resilient economy. By means of grants awarded through competitive peer review processes, the NSERC aims to support the development of pre competitive technologies and to help build the capacity of Canadian universities and colleges to work with industry and fuel economic growth. Federal investments serve to leverage significant amounts of private funding.
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Description: Information related to the development, administration and delivery of NSERC activities that support and promote the commercialization of research results, including Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research and Idea to Innovation (I2I) Grants. Files contain information related to policies and procedures, information on applicants, co-applicants, partners and companies, recruitment, research plans, review processes and peer reviewers, decisions, the administration of awards, and the governance and accountability rules for these awards.
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This sub-program increases the capacity of colleges and polytechnics to support innovation at the community and/or regional level. The program design and funding stimulate new partnerships and increased entrepreneurship and assist colleges and polytechnics to take risks and be nimble in developing new ways of working with local businesses and industries to spur innovation and economic growth. This program uses funding from the following transfer payments: College and Community Innovation Program, College University Idea to Innovation, and the Industrial Research Chairs for Colleges.
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Award-winning Qpercom Wins National Higher Education Tender in Norway
Qpercom Observe assesses clinical skills of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing students through a consecutive series of scenarios performing critical clinical tasks : NUI Galway spin out, Qpercom has been awarded a national tender in Norway to deliver their advanced assessment solution, Qpercom Observe, used in healthcare education to assess the clinical skills of students. The tender represents all higher education institutions in Norway including the four major universities; University of Oslo, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University of Tromsø (The Arctic University of Norway) and the University of Bergen. Established in Galway in 2008, Qpercom supplies advanced assessment solutions to universities worldwide, including the University of Dundee, Karolinska Institute and the National University of Singapore. The successful outcome of the Norwegian tender comes just after Qpercom’s recent win at the prestigious e-Assessment Awards for Best Use of Summative Assessment for Observe. Dr Thomas Kropmans, co-founder and CEO of Qpercom, said: “There is no room for error when it comes to making decisions on life and death during high-stake exams and ultimately in clinical practice in Medicine and Health Sciences in Norway or elsewhere in the world. Winning the Norwegian tender just after winning the e-Assessment award re-confirms the value of Observe as an assessment solution globally.” Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) are used worldwide to assess clinical skills in Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and other health sciences. Students go through a consecutive series of scenarios performing critical clinical tasks, being observed and marked by an assessor. Compared to training and assessment in Aviation, Medicine and associated sciences have a lot to learn where pass marks vary between 50 to 85%. “ Dr Kropmans states: “I don’t think a pilot would get away with a positive result if only 50% of their flight scenarios were completed successfully. We come across situations where junior doctors walk away with a pass mark of 50%. Standards in Norway are very high and we expect our software and analysis solution will assist in taking the remaining error out of the procedures used.” The Norwegian tender required a service to automate the administration of practical examinations, a flexible digital process support for exam activities and results, and an integrated, user-friendly and scalable service for all exam user groups. According to Senior Adviser, Per O Bruvold from University of Bergen, Norway: “The main difference between Qpercom and the other tenderers is Qpercom already have the best service with rich functionality. Qpercom have a nice user-friendly administrative tool for setting up practical exams. Therefore, they fulfilled our first two goals better than the others. Qpercom also have an advantage in terms of the ability to monitor the marking process in real time, allowing a streamlined interaction between markers and administrators, as a simultaneous marking process with dozens of markers required.” For more information about Qpercom, visit: www.qpercom.com or follow on Twitter @qpercom. -Ends-
Study Recruiting Families in Ireland to Measure Exposure to Glyphosate
NUI Galway awarded research fellowship for project to carry out the first study in Ireland investigating the background level of exposure to the herbicide, glyphosate among families NUI Galway has been awarded a research fellowship to carry out the first study in Ireland to investigate the background levels of exposure to glyphosate among families. The NUI Galway researchers with collaborators from the Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine in Bochum, Germany will collect and analyse urine samples from 50 non-farm families and 50 farm families for glyphosate and its main metabolite Aminomethylphosphonic acid. Each family will be asked to produce one urine sample each (two parents and one child aged between 6–17 years) and complete a questionnaire from each participant. The herbicide glyphosate is the active ingredient in over 750 products including Roundup®. Glyphosate is the highest volume herbicide used globally, and extensively used in agriculture and horticulture to combat weeds, and is sprayed as a pre-harvest drying treatment on certain food crops. It is also widely sprayed in parks, public spaces, lawns, gardens and roadsides as well as for amateur use. Dietary exposure through pesticide residues that remain on fruit, vegetables and grains after spraying, or home use of glyphosate based pesticide products, are thought to be the most common exposure routes among the general population. This new research fellowship follows on from a four-year study that identified low levels of pesticide exposures among professional gardener’s and amenity horticultural workers in Ireland, led by Exposure Science lecturer Dr Marie Coggins and Dr Alison Connolly from the School of Physics at NUI Galway. Postdoctoral scientist, Dr Alison Connolly, was awarded the research fellowship to conduct this new study, the IMAGE project: ‘Ireland’s bioMonitoring Assessment of Glyphosate Exposures’- an environmental assessment of exposures to glyphosate among the Irish population using a human biomonitoring sampling strategy. The previous NUI Galway study among amenity horticultural workers conducted human biomonitoring studies where urine samples were collected and analysed for the detection of glyphosate. One human biomonitoring study of 50 Irish adults working in horticultural amenity was conducted to estimate background levels of exposure among the Irish population. Of the 50 samples analysed, 10 (20%) of the participant’s urine samples had detectable trace levels of glyphosate. The median concentration of the detectable data (10 samples) was 0.87 µg L-1. Though these are low level exposures, it warrants further investigation. Dr Marie Coggins, Principal Investigator of the Image project and Exposure Science lecturer, School of Physics, NUI Galway, said: “There is a lack of data across Europe on human exposure to chemicals such as pesticides. Although detectable levels were low, studies such as this one are required to fully understand how chemical exposures affect human health, and to inform policy and manage exposure.” Fellowship recipient, Dr Alison Connolly, School of Physics, NUI Galway said: “I am delighted to have been awarded this prestigious research award to continue research from my PhD. The IMAGE project will produce important results on human exposures to a chemical of public concern, as well as highlighting the benefits of using human biomonitoring for the evaluation of human exposures and characterisation of risk for chemicals.” Dr Connolly’s Fellowship was awarded through The Irish Research Council Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme entitled CAROLINE – ‘Collaborative Research Fellowships for a Responsive and Innovative Europe’. The IMAGE study is a co-fund project of the Irish Research Council Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme. To participate in the project, contact Dr Alison Connolly at alison.connolly@nuigalway.ie, visit: www.nuigalway.ie/image and on Twitter @IMAGE_IRE. -Ends-
NUI Galway Campus Bedrooms Quality Assured under Fáilte Ireland’s Welcome Standard Programme
NUI Galway campus bedrooms, which are marketed during the summer months for visitors staying in Ireland, have been successfully accredited as ‘Approved Tourist Accommodation’ under Fáilte Ireland’s Welcome Standard Programme. This development comes following a comprehensive assessment by Fáilte Ireland, which resulted in over 8,000 campus accommodation bedrooms across the country successfully achieving the quality assurance award. The emphasis of the Fáilte Ireland Welcome Standard Quality Assurance Programme places particular focus on the customer journey - meeting customer expectations and the quality of the overall experience. Welcoming over 22,000 visitors to the NUI Galway campus in 2019 alone, excellent customer service is at the forefront of Campus Living’s offering, with the company also recently receiving a Fáilte Ireland Customer Service Excellence award. According to Karl Reinhardt, General Manager at Campus Living: “We are delighted to receive both Fáilte Ireland’s Service Excellence Award and accreditation to the Welcome Standard. These awards recognise our ongoing commitment to providing our guests with a positive, genuine and memorable experience. Whether it’s a family or friends looking to experience the wonderful city of Galway or explore the Wild Atlantic Way, staying at Corrib Village in one of Ireland’s most attractive University campuses is a fantastic option, and it is great to be recognised for this.” With its riverside location on the University grounds, Campus Living accommodation offers guests a unique experience. Museums, an art gallery and a biodiversity trail are just some of the interesting attractions open to visitors at NUI Galway, which was recently shortlisted as ‘A Great Visitor Experience’ by InflightFlix International. Campus Living offers summer rooms and self-catering apartments, ideal for individuals or groups looking to explore the West of Ireland. To make an enquiry about summer visitor accommodation at NUI Galway, which is available from May – August, contact Campus Living at info@campusliving.ie or 091 527112. For information about accommodation in any of Ireland’s university campuses, visit the On Campus website at: www.oncampus.ie. -Ends-
New Report Reveals How Research Centres Can Achieve Economic Sustainability
Report on technology transfer offers 12 business models to help research centres commercialise their discoveries A new report led by the IESE Business School in Spain in collaboration with NUI Galway and other European Partners, sets out to address a major issue faced by leaders of research centres around the world: how to achieve economic sustainability while preserving academic quality. The report is based on an in depth analysis of 3,881 research centres in 107 countries, and it offers an informative guide for how research leaders can best commercialise their discoveries. While research centres are crucial for developing new technologies and scientific discoveries, every year many are shutdown. The authors say these closures often stem from a failure to turn research ideas into economic value, rendering the innovation research unsustainable or broken. To counteract this, the 40-page report tracks three phases of a research centre’s work: (1) research (discovery), (2) transformation (invention) and (3) commercialisation (innovation). It then presents a quick overview of six gaps to watch out for, 18 mechanisms to address them and 12 business models (with successful examples) that are working at research centres within universities, industry and government. The report was created in collaboration with the STARTED Project which is coordinated by NUI Galway and aims to reinforce and structure a European network for promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in the Research and Development (R&D) area while improving the flow of knowledge and win-win cooperation between Higher Education Institutions and businesses. From NUI Galway, Professor John Breslin is the STARTED project coordinator and Mr Gabriel Mullarkey is the project lead with support from Dr Paul Flynn. All three are part of TechInnovate at NUI Galway, a forum which combines resources to catalyse and lead technology innovation. Professor John Breslin, NUI Galway, said: “Leveraging innovations should be a priority for all HEIs and R&D-active companies, however the lack of entrepreneurial skills within these organisations results in lost commercialisation potential. “Fundamentally, the STARTED Project, funded by Erasmus+, will empower researchers to transfer innovative research projects through to becoming robust startup opportunities through our new project-based entrepreneurship training approaches.” Mr Gabriel Mullarkey, NUI Galway, said: “The STARTED Project consortium is made up of a diverse group of experienced partners consisting of HEI institutes, SMEs and a European entrepreneurship network. This diversity ensures we take a real-world approach in building the entrepreneurial supports for researchers; uncovering their unmet needs in the commercialisation of their innovations and providing them with new tools and resources to start up.” The STARTED Project will ultimately lead to the setting up of a European Research to Startup Centre (ERSC) allowing for a paradigm shift in entrepreneurship teaching and learning approaches. The report was led by Josemaria Siota and Antonio Dávila of IESE Business School, in collaboration with STARTED Project partners NUI Galway, Roma Tre University, European Young Innovators Forum, VentureHub and Translated with contribution from Opinno’s Xavier Contijoch, the European Commission. For expressions of interest from researchers and research centres interested in learning entrepreneurial skills from the STARTED Project, please email info@startedproject.eu. To read the full report ‘Technology Transfer: Commercialising Discoveries at Research Centres Through Linked Innovation’ visit: https://www.ieseinsight.com/doc.aspx?id=2225&idioma=2 or www.iese.edu/ -Ends-
NUI Galway Research into Brain Repair for Parkinson’s Receives Grant from The Michael J Fox Foundation
A team at NUI Galway has been awarded funding of US$300,000 from The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research to develop a novel approach to brain repair for Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s is a condition that primarily affects a person’s ability to control movement leading to a progressive deterioration in ability. The symptoms of the condition are caused by the degeneration and death of brain cells that regulate movement. Brain repair for Parkinson’s involves replacing these dead cells by transplanting healthy brain cells into the brain, but the widespread roll-out of this therapy has been hindered by the poor survival of the implanted cells. In research that made global headlines recently, Dr Eilís Dowd’s research team at NUI Galway demonstrated that the survival of the cells was dramatically improved when they were implanted into the brain within a supportive gel made from the natural material collagen. The funding from The Michael J Fox Foundation will allow Dr Dowd to take this research to the next level where she will test if the collagen gel can also improve the survival of healthy brain cells generated from adult stem cells. Commenting on the funding award, Dr Eilís Dowd at NUI Galway, said: “In our previous research published in the Nature journal, Scientific Reports, we showed that collagen provides the cells with a nurturing, supportive environment in the brain and helps them to survive the aversive transplant process. This funding from The Michael J Fox Foundation will allow us to test if this approach can also improve survival and reparative ability of healthy brain cells derived from adult stem cells. If so, this could lead to a dramatic improvement in brain repair approaches for Parkinson’s – a field that has been hampered for years by poor transplant survival.” The Michael J Fox Foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease and to ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson’s today. Dr Liliana Menalled of The Michael J Fox Foundation, said: “Cell replacement therapy is a promising approach to restoring cell function and easing symptoms of Parkinson’s. This approach of enhancing cell survival with collagen is an innovative way to overcome a persistent challenge and may significantly advance these therapeutics for the many people living with this disease.” The research will be led by Dr Eilís Dowd, in collaboration with colleagues from the Galway Neuroscience Centre and CÚRAM, the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research in Medical Devices at NUI Galway, and University of Edinburgh. Dr Dowd’s ongoing research in this field featured in the short documentary Feats of Modest Valour which won the coveted Scientist Award at the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York, as well as the Professional Documentary Award at the Raw Science Festival in California. Dr Eilís Dowd has been working in the field of pre-clinical Parkinson’s research for almost 20 years, and her research focuses on understanding the cause of the condition and on developing novel pharmacological, cell, gene and biomaterial therapies for it. She received her PhD from University of Edinburgh, after which she completed post-doctoral research at University of Cambridge, McGill University, Canada and Cardiff University. Dr Dowd is currently president of Neuroscience Ireland, Ireland’s official neuroscience society. She sits on the governing councils of both the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and the International Brain Research Organization. To view a short trailer of the documentary Feats of Modest Valour, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbMX3QVLwIw For more about The Michael J Fox Foundation, visit: www.michaeljfox.org/ -Ends-
CÚRAM Signs Formal Agreement with Rutgers University to Share Expertise in Medical Device Research
CÚRAM, the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research in Medical Devices at NUI Galway has announced a formal collaboration with Rutgers University, New Jersey regarding complementary medical device programs. The formal Agreement will focus on developing multi-disciplinary collaborations involving research on medical device technologies, commercialisation of medical technologies, and business incubation and acceleration. As global leaders in the field of medical device research, and because of its close collaboration with MedTech industry leaders, CÚRAM's expertise was sought by a delegation from Choose New Jersey, an economic development organisation with a mission to encourage and nurture economic growth throughout New Jersey. The organisation is developing an innovation HUB in New Brunswick which will have two million square feet of office, laboratory and incubator space. Together with Rutgers University, the delegation travelled to NUI Galway to learn from the experience and knowledge of CÚRAM with a view to creating a similar program at the HUB, potentially in partnership with CÚRAM. The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Rutgers and CÚRAM took place with Scientific Director of CÚRAM, Professor Abhay Pandit, Dr James Walsh and Vincent Smeraglia from Rutgers University, and representatives from Rowan University, Hackensack Meridian Healthcare, DEVCO, the HUB in New Brunswick and BioInnovate Ireland. Speaking at the signing, Professor Abhay Pandit, Scientific Director at CÚRAM, said: “This event is a testimony to CÚRAM's position as a global leader in the field of medical device research and we welcome the opportunity to share our expertise with our colleagues in New Jersey. We look forward to working with them further as they develop the HUB.” Dr James Walsh, Senior Director for Innovation, Rutgers University, said: “On behalf of Chancellor Christopher J. Molloy and Provost Prabhas Moghe, we are very excited to launch this alliance with our friends and colleagues in Galway. We believe that together, we can build on the strong links between New Jersey and Ireland’s highly innovative indigenous and multinational MedTech companies. Rutgers’ extensive research capabilities, faculty expertise, and business incubation leadership offer the alliance a strong foundation. We look forward to building on this with our colleagues at NUI Galway and Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.” For more information about Rutgers University, visit: https://www.rutgers.edu/ and for Choose New Jersey, visit: https://www.choosenj.com/ -Ends-
NUI Galway Student Selected to Represent Ireland for Future News Summit
NUI Galway student, Róisín McManus, is representing Ireland at the major international Future News Worldwide Summit for young journalism students in London this week. This is the second year that an NUI Galway Journalism student has been chosen for the summit. Third year BA with Journalism student, Róisín is one of two students selected from Ireland to be a delegate at the highly prestigious summit, hosted by Thomson Reuters in Canary Wharf in London. She was chosen from more than 3,000 applicants to be one of just 100 delegates from 53 different countries globally at the event. The Future News Worldwide summit is a three-day intensive media training programme where students engage in workshops, lectures and discussion groups with world-leading editors, broadcasters, writers and reporters, and see how publishers around the world are using technology. It is a partnership programme between the British Council and some of the world’s leading media organisations and technology companies including Google, Facebook and Reuters. From Bawnboy in Cavan, Róisín said she was delighted to be chosen to attend the event: “I am so grateful to have been chosen for FNW19 in London. I’m excited to hear all the speakers talks over the next couple of days, to meet people from over 50 countries worldwide, and I’m proud to be representing Ireland doing so.” Tom Felle, Head of Journalism and Communication at NUI Galway, said: “This is a tremendous honour for Róisín and NUI Galway is very proud that one of our students has been chosen to be a delegate. Future News Worldwide brings together the cream of the crop in terms of journalists of the future. They get to meet with and share ideas, listen to industry leaders talk about the importance of journalism in democracy worldwide, and are introduced to digital skills training. Following the conference Róisín will be part of a year-round global alumni network, helping her and other delegates to engage with one another, implement their learning and continue their professional development.” Young journalism students from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, across the US, Europe and South America are attending the event. NUI Galway offers programmes in journalism at undergraduate and postgraduate level. A new BA Journalism launches in 2019 as well as a new MA Sports Journalism and Communication programme. -Ends-
Mechanics of a twisted brain: How side impacts to the head can be as damaging as frontal impacts
Side impacts to the head can be just as dangerous as frontal impacts, new research suggests, which was published this week in the international scientific journal Soft Matter. A research team from NUI Galway and UCD measured the effects of rotational accelerations (side impacts) of the head, such as those experienced in football headers, boxing hooks and side impacts. They found stretches and stresses in the brain as high as those of linear accelerations (frontal impacts, whiplash). Large motions can occur in the brain when the human head is accelerated violently by an impact, be it accidental or even voluntary as in a football header. The resulting mixture of pressure, stretch, shear and twist can impair neurons and lead to concussion, brain injury and even permanent damage. A lot of research has focused on the effects of linear accelerations (frontal impacts) of the brain, such as those happening in frontal collisions, such as car accidents and American football. Rotational accelerations (side impacts) are in fact as likely to happen in modern life as linear accelerations (frontal impacts). In a frontal collision car accident, the head rotates forward and backward (whiplash). Similarly, for many football headers, or for uppercuts in combat sports. These sports also involve rotations of the head about the vertical axis, or tilting from one side to the other. Linear accelerations are expected to create large stresses and stretches in the direction of the impact. This research shows that rotational accelerations (side impacts) create pressure and forces of the same magnitude in all directions, which could have grave implications for traumatic brain injury. The researchers at NUI Galway and UCD measured the twisting properties of brain matter using advanced torsion techniques. They then fed the data into computer simulations of a rotational acceleration of the head, typical of a boxing punch. Dr Valentina Balbi led the study from NUI Galway (now a Lecturer of Industrial and Applied Mathematics at University of Limerick) with co-authors Professor Michel Destrade, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics at NUI Galway, and Dr Aisling Ní Annaidh and Dr Antonia Trotta from the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin. Commenting on the findings, Dr Balbi, said: “We found that large shear forces develop in the horizontal plane, as expected. But we also found that a high-pressure level and large vertical forces also develop in the brain, especially in the frontal cortex, as a result of the twisting motion.” Mark Ganly, CEO of Contego Sports, a company that developed the N-Pro Rugby headguard, which is scientifically proven to provide impact protection, said: “We are keenly aware of the dangers of impacts in the game. This research confirms my intuition that it is crucial to protect Rugby players from side impacts as well as from frontal impacts to the head. In my experience, they are just as likely to lead to concussion or mild traumatic brain injury.” To read the full study in the journal Soft Matter, visit: https://doi.org/10.1039/c9sm00131j To view a short video about the study, visit: https://youtu.be/JjFCuFkdYts -Ends-
Academic Receives Prestigious Royal Society-SFI Research Fellowship
The Royal Society-SFI University Research Fellowship scheme 2019, representing an investment of €2.8 million has been announced today (15 July). NUI Galway Biomedical Engineer, Dr Eimear Dolan was one of the four outstanding researchers in the Republic of Ireland who received the prestigious award. In total, the Royal Society announced the appointment of 43 new University Research Fellowships for 2019. The researchers will take up their new posts at 24 institutions across the UK and Ireland at the start of October. The University Research Fellowship scheme was established to identify outstanding early career scientists who have the potential to become leaders in their chosen fields, providing them with the opportunity to build an independent research career. The scheme is extremely competitive and University Research Fellows are expected to be strong candidates for permanent posts in universities at the end of their fellowships, with many alumni having gone on to enjoy significant national or international recognition for their work. Dr Eimear Dolan, a Biomedical Engineer from NUI Galway was appointed a University Research Fellow and awarded over €732,000 for her research project – A Soft Robotics Approach to Reduce the Foreign Body Response to Medical Implants. Dr Dolan has developed a proof-of-concept soft robotic implant, which she plans on adapting as a treatment for Type 1 Diabetes; Dr Dolan plans on establishing relationships with other research institutes to become the global leader in innovative medical devices. During her Fellowship Dr Dolan will be based at NUI Galway and will also spend some time at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Speaking about her Research Fellowship award, Dr Eimear Dolan, College of Science and Engineering, NUI Galway, said: “I am delighted to be awarded a Royal Society-SFI University Research Fellowship. It is a great honour to be an awardee of such a prestigious Fellowship. The award will provide me with time and funding to establish my independent research group and achieve my research goals. I am at a very exciting stage in my career and I look forward to working with the Royal Society, SFI and NUI Galway.” Welcoming the announcement, Dr Ruth Freeman, Director of Science for the Royal Society in SFI, said: “The Royal Society-SFI University Research Fellowships Scheme, which contributes to Ireland’s international reputation for research excellence, recognises those with the potential to become Ireland’s future research leaders. I am delighted to congratulate the four researchers who have been granted these prestigious awards and wish them every success for the future. We are delighted to work together with our UK partners, the Royal Society, to ensure that young researchers have access to stellar opportunities such as these which will launch their research careers.” For more information about the Royal Society University Research Fellowships, please visit: https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/grants/university-research/ -Ends-
Public Seminar on Using Hydrogen as a Renewable Energy in Ireland and Abroad
NUI Galway seminar on ‘Decarbonising Ireland with Zero-Carbon Technologies’ to coincide with launch of €1.4 million Hydrogen Utilisation and Green Energy project NUI Galway will host a public seminar on ‘Decarbonising Ireland with Zero-Carbon Technologies’, presenting current activities in Ireland and abroad around the use of renewable hydrogen as a clean energy vector. Successful examples of small and large-scale installations will be presented by leading experts in the field along with breakthrough research. The event will be opened by Minister of State for the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands, Sean Kyne, TD on Tuesday, 16 July. In the last six months, hydrogen has experienced an exponential growth in interest with large car manufacturers and oil and gas companies among others, showing a clear shift on their investment strategies towards this chemical. Notwithstanding, hydrogen as a clean energy vector meets targets of a number of Sustainable Development Goals with a direct impact on climate change mitigation. Recently, Energia announced a €3 billion investment in renewable energy in Ireland with hydrogen being a key actor. This seminar aims to bring together all stakeholders from the island of Ireland to discuss opportunities and challenges for the deployment of hydrogen technologies in rural and peripheral regions. This includes green hydrogen production through excess wind and/or solar energy use in transportation, power-to-gas, energy storage and gas for industries, among others. It will also look at low-carbon technologies for public infrastructure and housing. Dr Pau Farràs Costa, Energy Research Centre, Ryan Institute, NUI Galway, says: “The seminar is a stepping stone towards a wide dissemination to the public and stakeholders of the advantages of hydrogen as a fuel for the future, with direct implications for climate change, energy resilience and the development of jobs in rural communities.” The seminar includes presentations and open discussions with a panel of experts on: Hydrogen developments in Iceland Northern Netherlands TSO2020 project, large-scale deployment. Haeolus project in Norway, hydrogen in extreme climate conditions. SEAFUEL project (Sustainable integration of renewable fuels in local transportation) GenComm project (GENerating energy secure COMMunities) Hylantic (Atlantic Network for Renewable Generation and Supply of Hydrogen to promote High Energy Efficiency) Feasibility study for wind-to-hydrogen for local transportation - bus fleet Hydrogen in Northern Ireland Hydrogen Mobility Ireland Launch of HydrogenIreland @Galway The seminar will coincide with the kick-off meeting of the INTERREG Northern Periphery and Arctic project, HUGE (Hydrogen Utilisation and Green Energy). HUGE is a €1.4 million project led by The Environmental Research Institute with Dr Pau Farràs Costa at NUI Galway as partner. The project aims to provide communities with energy security by delivering to them the necessary tools to assess the hydrogen renewable energy chain opportunities in the Northern Periphery and Arctic area and beyond. This seminar is also part of the knowledge transfer activities designed in HUGE to engage with potential stakeholders and communities at the different regions of the partnership. Galway and the west coast of Ireland is an excellent example of the huge potential for production and use of hydrogen as a clean energy vector. In the seminar, successful examples of hydrogen activities occurring in Europe will be showcased to demonstrate the viability to invest in the technology and the benefits it can bring to the region. Ireland is starting to play a key role that include the formation of the Hydrogen Ireland Association, which will be presented for the first time in Galway, as well as a presentation of the Hydrogen Mobility Ireland group, with clear targets for the deployment of hydrogen refuelling stations and vehicles in a short timeframe. The event will also see one of only the two hydrogen-fuelled cars in Ireland, a Toyota Mirai owned by Photonomi Group CEO, John Quinn. The seminar is co-funded by the INTERREG Atlantic Area project SEAFUEL led by Dr Pau Farràs at NUI Galway. SEAFUEL targets the production and use of green hydrogen for local transportation in isolated territories, in particular islands. The project is looking at the Aran Islands as a key location for the technology, and aims to demonstrate the viability of hydrogen to be a key energy vector for the decarbonisation of the islands following their renewable energy targets (see www.seafuel.ie). The free event will take place in the Institute for Lifecourse and Society, North Campus, NUI Galway on Tuesday, 16 July from 9.30pm to 3pm. To register and attend this free event, visit: www.eventbrite.ie and enter ‘HUGE’ or ‘Decarbonising Ireland with Zero-Carbon Technologies’. To live stream the seminar, logon to: https://youtu.be/DAgTkI8sII0 For more information about the seminar contact, contact Dr Pau Farràs Costa, Ryan Institute, NUI Galway at pau.farras@nuigalway.ie or 091 492765. -Ends-
NUI Galway Take Innovate Leap Forward with Explore Awards 2019
Creating medical solutions to help feed patients, preserving our rich history, gamifying navigating University campuses and improving the quality of lives of children with sensory processing disorders are among the 2019 Student Explore Innovation Awardswinning concepts NUI Galway LaunchPad recently hosted their Annual Explore Awards celebrating student innovation across the campus, with projects with significant potential to become business or social enterprises awarded €10,000 in start-up funding. The annual ‘Explore Innovation Awards’ uncovered some of the most promising and innovative activity on campus. Winning ideas included: creating medical solutions to help feed patients, preserving our rich history, gamifying navigating university campuses and improving the quality of lives of children with sensory processing disorders are among winning concepts. The awards ceremony took place at NUI Galway’s inaugural Student Innovation Summit, a day-long event celebration all aspects of student enterprise and innovation on campus. Campus awardees and projects: The College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies awardee was Liam Alex Heffron. Liam Alex’s project ‘Anseo’, a phrase used by pupils to indicate their attendance at school, seeks to preserve the national school roll-books and registers. In 1922 due to a massive explosion at the Public Services Offices most records were lost. Using innovative techniques including crowdsourcing photography, ‘Anseo’ digitally created and saved all national school records in North Mayo and Sligo. To date over 484,000 images have been processed, making it the largest such voluntary project in Ireland. The College of Business Public Policy and Law awardees were ‘The Quiet Beanie’ team of Alexander Selby, Eric Callanan, Aislinn Connaughton and Sarah O’Donnell. The project aims to improve the quality of lives of children with sensory processing disorders and their parents. ‘The Quiet Beanie’ is a modified beanie made from 90% organic cotton, and the organic cotton addresses the tactile sensory issues. A sound reducing foam is then incorporated into the design of the hat which helps to tackle sensory noise issues. The Quiet Beanie also provides a secure sense of pressure, a feature that children with sensory processing disorders require. As a social enterprise, the project believes in inclusion and acceptance and hope to promote these values throughout Ireland and afar. The College of Engineering and Informatics awardee was Mark Harrington who developed a mobile and web app which utilizes gamification to pinpoint locations and services on campus. It offers a dynamic map of the NUI Galway campus that allows users to search out locations and navigate to them using any GPS enabled smartphone. The app’s second feature is the Campus Challenge, a system of quests and a leader board which uses gamification to encourage exploration by new students. The app is now fully developed and ready to implement as a permanent fixture on campus. Additionally, the app lends itself to adaptation suitable to other universities or organisations and has further potential on boarding applications. The College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Explore Award winners were Eoghan Dunne and Nuno Silva, their novel device is a smart tube intubation solution. Nasogastric tubes are commonly used in hospitals to feed patients who have difficulty swallowing. However, serious medical problems can result if the tube is incorrectly placed. The current methods to determine the location of the tube after insertion include a pH test and a chest X-ray. However, both tests have limitations including detection/interpretation errors as well as resource and time demands. The team is building a solution to detect a nasogastric tube in a simple and an efficient way. The smart tube solution has the potential to allow the patient to be fed faster without the need to wait several hours for additional tests. The College of Science awardees were the ‘RewardEd’ team of Albert Dolan, Robert Walsh and Sean Kilmartin, who aim to promote small businesses and empower students. The technology helps student reduce distractions by providing them with a reward system for not using their phones for pre-set periods. The RewardEd team has partnered with small businesses to develop the reward scheme providing students with unique discounts and rewards. Speaking at the event Natalie Walsh, Executive Director of NUI Galway Launchpad said: “The diversity and creativity that we have across our campus is inspiring. These awards give students the opportunity to flourish, to develop their innovative ideas in a supportive, enabling and results driven environment. In partnership with our Innovation office we have invested €10,000 in supporting these early stage ideas to develop and grow over the remainder of 2019. In addition to funding, each team will receive mentorship from LaunchPad and our broader community of innovators and alumni.” NUI Galway has been actively fostering new ideas and has supported over 120 collaborative staff and student projects since 2012 through the EXPLORE programme. EXPLORE is part of a wider innovation ecosystem at NUI Galway, explains David Murphy, Director of Innovation at NUI Galway: “Programs such as EXPLORE contribute toward a culture of Innovation on campus, it is pervasive from student to start-up company. Many of the outputs of our extensive research portfolio are licensed to industry or leads to a new spin-out company. Our Business Innovation Centre and the wider campus is currently home to over 40 companies, where we provide business supports and excellent facilities including labs and co-working spaces to start-ups. This all feeds into and connects with the wider region, supporting innovation and enterprises both locally and globally.” For more information about Explore, visit: http://www.nuigalway.ie/explore/. -Ends-
Call to Revisit Tax Relief on Pensions in Ireland
NUI Galway report on the current levels of pension provisions has found that tax relief on pensions in Ireland is not working and citizens need a pensions system they can trust A report recently published by NUI Galway and launched by Deputy Kate O’Connell, Fine Gael TD, concludes that the Irish Pension System is not fit for purpose, calls for revisiting the tax relief provisions on pensions, and suggests policymakers need to begin to listen to what citizens want with respect to pensions. The study was undertaken against the backdrop of population ageing, which has been identified as a major societal challenge for all Western nations, and a key challenge for the Irish government is in relation to the sustainability of current levels of pension provision. It reflects the voices of the people who are directly affected by these reforms which has been largely absent from the discussions and debates in the pensions reform process. Speaking at the launch of the report Deputy Kate O’Connell, TD, said: “Research informed policy recommendations for us to consider like the ones arising from this study, will certainly impact our political and public debate on this matter, and helps bridge the gap between society and Leinster House.” Like most countries, Ireland provides tax advantages and financial incentives to advance a policy goal of promoting savings in private pensions as a means to improve coverage and the overall adequacy of the incomes of older people. In Ireland the tax reliefs are generous by international standards and include tax relief at the marginal rate of tax on pension contributions, and exempting the gross build-up of private pension funds. As highlighted in this report, the tax foregone in the majority of cases as a result of the tax relief granted on pension savings raises questions of fairness and efficiency in relation to tax expenditure. As evidenced in this study, some citizens see the tax relief on pension contributions as nothing more than an important way of reducing their tax liability, and accumulating wealth. Many citizens were not aware that they could receive favourable tax treatment on any pension contributions they had made. For others, in particular those on low incomes and in precarious jobs, the idea of tax subsidised retirement savings made little difference, as they did not have the capacity to either save or increase their savings for retirement. The latter is a major factor contributing to the gender gap in pensions in Ireland. In addition, participants in this study seemed troubled by wealthy people receiving a subsidy they probably did not need. The irrelevance of the tax incentive for those outside the tax net altogether was also noted. Lead Author of the report, Dr Emer Mulligan, J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics at NUI Galway, says: “Based on our findings, there is now a clear need to investigate the true cost to the taxpayer of the arguably overly generous provisions in the tax system for pensions. Any investigation should cover the differential effects by gender and the relevance for those on low incomes, and consideration should be given to abolishing generous tax reliefs for a private pension. The tax relief for pensions may well represent a good return on investment for individuals availing of it, but it does not appear to be achieving its objective of increasing pension coverage.” Mulligan also highlights the need to address the important issue of trust in the system: “I was particularly struck by the low level of trust interviewees who participated in the study have in the current pension system. They are concerned about how the Government is addressing the challenges we are facing with respect to pensions, and many interviewees spoke of their lack of trust in the ‘pensions industry’, and the latter of course is somewhat worrying in light of recent proposals on Automatic Enrolment (a supplementary pension scheme whereby employers would introduce a workplace pension scheme and employees would be automatically enrolled in the scheme). There is a real and urgent need now to build trust between citizens and government, pension fund managers, and financial intermediaries.” Other key recommendations from the report included: Needs for a greater focus on preventing cumulative disadvantage in old age by addressing inequalities across a broad range of domains including education, work, income and health at all stages of the life course. Capacity of people in physically demanding jobs to work longer needs to be considered in policies concerned with extending working life. Flexibility needs to be built into pension reforms such as extended working life policy, to take account of, reflect and cater for the diverse work/life experiences and trajectories in the lives of women and men. This requires extended working life policies to be customised, with more flexible working and retirement options available from which people can choose. Concerns that Automatic Enrolment could worsen the pensions outcomes for women. It is recommended, in line with the National Women’s Council of Ireland, that a gender impact assessment of Automatic Enrolment is undertaken, and indeed of pensions reforms more generally. Automatic Enrolment needs to be made attractive and affordable for low earners and people in precarious jobs. There is an onus on the government to develop and reform a pension policy that is gender-sensitive. The report was co-authored by Dr Emer Mulligan, Dr Dinali Wijeratne and Dr Michelle Maher at NUI Galway. Read the full report, ‘Pensions in Ireland: The Perspectives of Irish Citizens and Implications for the Irish Pension System and Reforms’ at: http://www.nuigalway.ie/business-public-policy-law/cairnes/research/pensions/ -Ends-
Shining a Light On Genomic Dark Matter
Pioneering first-in-world technique development in human genome research at NUI Galway takes another step towards completing the human genome The McStay laboratory in the Centre for Chromosome Biology at NUI Galway has made a significant contribution to the ongoing *human genome project. Contrary to popular belief the human genome sequence is incomplete. Professor Brian McStay has led the development of a pioneering new technique that provides new human genome sequences, essential to support advances in a field important for improving human health. Professor McStay’s laboratory at NUI Galway study uncharacterised regions of the genome, aiming to understand their normal function and how genetic alterations within them influence human health. This latest genome discovery will boost Ireland’s biomedical research credentials internationally and underlines the quality of world class research taking place in Ireland. It is now over 18 years since the first draft of the human genome was released, yet, key regions of our genome remain uncharacterised. Due to difficulties in determining the DNA sequence of these missing regions and their critical role in our biology, they are sometimes referred to as genomic dark matter (analogous to the missing mass in the universe). Prominent among these missing regions are five chromosomes with unusual short arms, the so-called acrocentric chromosomes, numbered 13, 14, 15, 21 and 22 (see Figure 1 attached). Chromosomes are cellular structures for packaging DNA molecules, which in turn contain genes that define a person’s physical traits and uniqueness. Each of a person’s cells contains DNA measuring nearly two meters in length, yet the cells containing them only measure millionths of meters in length. Therefore, within chromosomes, long DNA molecules are wound into ever tighter coils ultimately producing short squat structures, with long arms either side of a central constriction. When at their most condensed, chromosomes are often described as resembling butterflies with each wing corresponding to a chromosome arm, and are now small enough to be successfully partitioned into new cells during cell division. The acrocentric chromosomes are unusual in that one of the arms is very small and highly specialised. Through an ill-understood process DNA contained within their small arms is required to form factories, termed nucleoli, to produce complex machines, termed ribosomes. Ribosomes are machines within our cells that convert the genetic information that is coded in the DNA of a person’s genes into the functional proteins that build people’s bodies. Professor Brian McStay, Professor of Biochemistry, Centre for Chromosome Biology, NUI Galway, said: “Given their fundamental role in our biology it is critical these missing regions of our genome be included in updated human genome references as this will make them accessible to researchers worldwide and accelerate the discovery of how they function.” Professor Noel Lowndes, Established Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Centre for Chromosome Biology, NUI Galway, said: “The McStay laboratory have developed novel genomic methodologies that can now be applied to other regions of the human genome still missing from the latest human genome releases. Support for pioneering biomedical research like this is critical to better understand our fundamental human make up, which in turn is central to providing new avenues for scientists to explore in the search for more effective treatment of disease.” The McStay laboratory has a long-standing interest in understanding how nucleoli form and function. In work that is funded by a partnership between the Wellcome Trust in the UK, Science Foundation Ireland and the Health Research Board in Ireland, they have developed and implemented novel approaches at determining the DNA sequence required to form nucleoli. These DNA sequences, previously part of the genome dark matter have now been incorporated into the most recent human genome draft by the Genome Reference Consortium (GRC). See links below to recent GRC blogs associated with the latest release (GRCh38.p13) of the human genome which references this work. Genome Reference Consortium on the latest releases of the human genome and references to the work of the McStay laboratory: http://genomeref.blogspot.com/2019/03/grch38p13-has-been-released.html http://genomeref.blogspot.com/2019/03/shining-light-on-human-acrocentric-p.html For more information about the Centre for Chromosome Biology, visit: www.chromosome.ie -Ends-
Irish and Moroccan Zoology Disciplines Partner in Research and Teaching
NUI Galway develop zoology partnership with the University Ibn Zohr in Morocco sharing strengths in ecology, ecosystem conservation and sustainable use of natural resources In the coming three years, NUI Galway will assist with the development of the first natural History Museum in Southern Morocco, participate towards the teaching of ecology courses and provide internships for Moroccan students. NUI Galway undergraduate and postgraduate zoology students will also have the opportunity to travel to Morocco for up to two months to work and sharpen their skills in a range of North African ecosystems, including the Sahara Desert, national parks and coastal regions. In 2018, NUI Galway’s College of Science and the Ibn Zohr University of Agadir in Morocco formed a general Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and are continuing to develop teaching and research partnerships through the discipline of Zoology in the Ryan Institute at NUI Galway and the Ibn Zohr University Faculty of Sciences. In May 2019, NUI Galway was successful in securing its first Erasmus Plus proposal worth over €65,000 to strengthen the relationship between the two institutions with the long-term goal of raising the profile of NUI Galway as an international partner on the African continent and developing a stream of incoming international students. Ibn Zohr University is the largest of the Moroccan universities and provides third level education to over 120,000 students on 16 campuses in eight cities across Southern Morocco. This is NUI Galway’s first partnership with a major African university to collaborate simultaneously on a research-led staff exchange programme, teaching and learning technology exchange programme, co-teaching of undergraduate/postgraduate modules in both institutions and undergraduate/postgraduate summer student exchange programmes. For the 2018/2019 academic year, undergraduate students in Zoology were already part of an eight-day module on ‘Practical skills in Zoology in Souss Massa National Park in Morocco’ that provided a succession of field-based training, focusing on the study of various ecosystems within the National Park, including coastal, semi-arid and steppe ecosystems, delivered and coordinated by staff at both universities. The success of this module has led to an increase in the intake of fourth year students and postgraduate students for the 2019/2020 academic year. Speaking about the partnership, Dr Michel Dugon, Zoology, Ryan Institute, NUI Galway, said: “Morocco is fast becoming a pan-African political and economic leader. It is ranked second in Africa for foreign direct investment, and emphasises high-skill industries such as green energy. The Ryan Institute and the Ibn Zohr University Faculty of Science share strengths in ecology, bioprospecting, ecosystem conservation and the sustainable use of natural resources. This is a great opportunity for our students to gain international exposure and develop skills in unfamiliar environments. It also further establishes the position of NUI Galway as a leading partner for the development of high-standard Higher Education in emerging countries.” Dr Colin Lawton, Zoology, Ryan Institute, NUI Galway, said: “Developing this teaching and research partnership with Ibn Zohr University Faculty of Sciences offers exciting opportunities for our students and researchers to learn about diverse ecology and ecosystems like Southern Morocco. The discipline of Zoology is also in the process of applying for grants to fund further research in partnership with Ibn Zohr University and local stakeholders.” For more about NUI Galway’s Zoology courses, visit: https://www.nuigalway.ie/zoology/ or email zoology@nuigalway.ie. -Ends-
New Research Partnership to Tackle Key Educational and Societal Challenges
Collaboration between the School of Education and UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at NUI Galway to address young people’s education and well-being needs The School of Education and UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at NUI Galway have announced a new research collaboration which will enable partnership and collaborative expertise to address key priority areas for young people’s education and well-being, in Ireland and internationally. The new collaboration will initially explore developments to enhance NUI Galway’s research capacity and impact across a number of identified priority areas, including education for empathy and well-being; inclusion and diversity; STEM education; special educational needs; educational policy; participatory and practitioner research methodologies; and educational design. Speaking about the innovative collaboration, Professor Gerry Mac Ruairc, Head of the School of Education at NUI Galway, said: “This new initiative provides greater, enhanced capacity at NUI Galway for shared impactful research and graduate study in the promotion of young people’s education and well-being, in and outside of school.” Professor Pat Dolan, Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre noted the potential of this timely partnership and how bringing together the cognate research areas of both the School of Education and UNESCO Centre at NUI Galway will help to promote and enhance education in formal and non-formal contexts. Professor Dolan, said: “Our alignment in research will impact significantly on our current and future work, particularly in terms of augmenting our impact with schools, practitioners, families, parents, and our educational partners and stakeholders, including the regulatory context and policymakers.” For more information about this research collaboration, contact Dr Tony Hall, Deputy Head of School of Education, NUI Galway at tony.hall@nuigalway.ie or 091 492153. -Ends-
Live fast and die young, or play the long game? Scientists map huge variety of animal life cycles
Scientists have pinpointed the “pace” and “shape” of life as the two key elements in animal life cycles that affect how different species get by in the world. Their findings, which come from a detailed assessment of 121 species ranging from humans to sponges, may have important implications for conservation strategies and for predicting which species will be the winners and losers from the global environment crisis. “Pace of life” relates to how fast animals reach maturity, how long they can expect to live, and the rate at which they can replenish a population with offspring. “Shape of life”, meanwhile, relates to how an animal’s chance of breeding or dying is spread out across its lifespan. The scientists from NUI Galway, Trinity College Dublin, Oxford University, the University of Southampton, and the University of Southern Denmark, have today(8 July 2019)published their work in leading journal, Nature Ecology and Evolution. The wide range of animal life cycles Animal life cycles vary to a staggering degree. Some animals, such as the turquoise killifish (a small fish that can complete its life cycle in 14 days) grow fast and die young, while others, like the Greenland shark, (a fish that glides around for up to 500 years), grow slowly and have extraordinarily long lifespans. Similarly, the spread of death and reproduction across animal life cycles also varies greatly. Salmon, for example, spawn over a short period of time with the probability of dying being particularly high both at the start of their life cycle and when they reproduce. Fulmars and some other sea birds, on the other hand, have wider time periods of reproduction and face relatively similar chances of dying throughout their lives. Humans and Asian elephants have long lifespans and face a relatively low risk of mortality until later ages, but have a fairly narrow age range for reproduction due to having both long juvenile periods and as they can live after the reproductive part of their life-cycles. Both species share a similar lifespan with the Australian freshwater crocodile, but the crocodile has a completely different reproductive strategy – its reproduction is spread relatively evenly throughout its lifespan but its young have a low chance of reaching adulthood and reproducing. The puzzle of different life cycles Why animal life cycles vary so much has long been an important puzzle that scientists have sought to solve. Among the reasons are that understanding why animals age, reproduce and grow at different rates may 1) help shed light on the evolution of aging itself, and 2) help identify how species will respond to global environmental change. In their study, the scientists used population data to compare detailed life cycles for species ranging from sponges to corals, salmon to turtles, and vultures to humans. By mapping 121 life cycles, the scientists noticed that certain animal ecologies and physiologies were associated with certain life cycles. Dr Kevin Healy who conducted the research at Trinity, now a Lecturer of Zoology at NUI Galway, and the lead author of the study, said: “When we mapped out the range of life cycles in the animal kingdom we saw that they follow general patterns. Whether you are a sponge, a fish or a human, your life cycle can, in general, be described by two things – how fast you live and how your reproduction and chance of dying is spread out across your lifespan. “As we expected, species with low metabolic rates and slow modes-of-life were associated with slower life cycles. This makes sense; if you don’t burn much energy per second, you are restricted in how fast you can grow. Similarly, if you are an animal that doesn’t move around a lot, such as a sponge or a fish that lives on the sea bed, playing a longer game in terms of your pace of life makes sense as you may need to wait for food to come to you.” Conservation implications The scientists also investigated whether certain life cycles made animals more susceptible to ecological threats, by looking for associations between an animal’s life cycle and its position on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list of endangered species. Professor of Zoology and Head of the Zoology Department at Trinity, Yvonne Buckley, a co-senior author of the research, said: “We found that extinction risks were not confined to particular types of life history for the 121 species. Despite these animals having very different ways of maintaining their populations, they faced similar levels of threat. “Populations of a particular species, like the Chinook salmon or Freshwater crocodile, vary more in how mortality and reproduction are spread across their life-spans than they vary in their pace of life. This is important for the animal populations that we need to conserve as it suggests it may be wiser to consider actions that boost reproduction and/or impart bigger effects on the periods of the life cycles when mortality and reproduction are more likely – rather than simply aiming to extend the lifespans of these animals.” Associate Professor in Ecology at the University of Oxford, Dr Rob Salguero-Gómez, a co-senior author of the research, said: “This comparative work, which builds on previous research we have developed testing basic assumptions of how life structures the Plant Kingdom, highlights important commonalities in the ways that both animals and plants go about making a living and adapting to different environments. Indeed, classical works in life history theory predicted a single way to structure life strategies. Our work with plants and now here with animals shows the range of possibilities is much wider than previously believed. “The unparalleled wealth of animal demographic schedules used in this research” produced by an initiative led by Assoc. Prof Salguero-Gómez & co-author Assoc. Prof. Owen Jones, “opens up new exciting ways to explore what are the most common strategies used by different species to thrive in their environments, but also to use demographic models to make predictions about what species will be the winners and losers of climate change.” The research was funded by Science Foundation Ireland, the Natural Environment Research Council (UK), Australian Research Council, Danish Council for Independent Research and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany). To read the full study in Nature Ecology and Evolution, visit: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0938-7 -Ends-
NUI Galway Launch New Diabetes Masters Programme
Given growing prevalence and resulting impact on health care resources, there is an urgent need to provide specialist training in diabetes NUI Galway’s College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences has launched Ireland’s first Masters in Diabetes programme. The Masters programme aims to prepare healthcare professional graduates to effectively contribute to diabetes management through comprehensive clinical and academic training. Diabetes is a global health emergency with over 600 million people expected to have the condition by 2030, representing approximately 10% of the world’s population. Therefore, the World Health Organisation has classed diabetes as an epidemic requiring urgent action for both prevention and management. This has been echoed in Irelands Health Service Executive national policy and clinical strategy for diabetes. It is a chronic metabolic condition that can cause significant cardiovascular morbidity and mortality if not managed correctly. Central to this management is controlling key physiological indices such as blood sugar, blood pressure and blood lipid levels, as well as promoting health behaviours such as regular exercise, healthy eating and not smoking. Unfortunately achieving these biological targets and lifestyle goals is extremely challenging. As a result, the University has developed this innovative multidisciplinary Masters programme which will appeal to both clinicians and researchers and provide them with the toolbox needed to manage this common chronic disease. This postgraduate programme will be delivered through blended learning, so that students will learn through online activities and approximately three days per month face-face workshops at NUI Galway. The course modules in this programme show clear connections between diabetes, cardiovascular health, good clinical practice, health promotion and advanced research methods. Speaking at the launch of the new programme, Professor Sean Dinneen of NUI Galway’s School of Medicine and HSE National Lead for Diabetes, said: “Understanding the role of health promotion, as well as new therapies and technologies and how they will enable patient centred diabetes care will be important to ensure good outcomes for our patients. This Masters in Diabetes programme will deliver on this for students.” The first student intake of the Masters in Diabetes will be in September 2019. For more information visit https://bit.ly/2RWvtDN or https://youtu.be/Z6gJAwyMvY4. -Ends-
New Wrist-Worn Device Aims to Reduce Rate of Stroke and Heart Failure
NUI Galway-based Biomedical Engineer, Oisín McGrath has been awarded a grant from Enterprise Ireland for €500,000 to further develop his project ‘Galenband’ for commercialisation. The project aims to provide a convenient and reliable wrist-worn device to monitor the heart activity of people with atrial fibrillation, and ultimately aims to reduce the rate of stroke and heart failure caused by the pathology. Atrial fibrillation occurs when the electrical impulses that coordinate heartbeats don’t work properly, causing the heart to beat irregularly. Tens of millions of people globally suffer from this dangerous heart arrhythmia which often presents with infrequently occurring symptoms, making it challenging to detect with currently used monitors due to their short recording durations. Years of suffering, and lives themselves could be saved if a heart monitor were available which could be worn discretely and unobtrusively for extended periods of time, whilst continually capturing data. Galenband seeks to provide cardiac clinicians with a wrist-worn device capable of drastically increasing detection rates of the infrequently occurring symptoms of intermittent atrial fibrillation. This notoriously difficult-to-detect pathology is responsible for half of all fatal ischemic strokes, and is a leading cause of heart failure. Galenband is a data collection and analysis device that will monitor the heart activity of wearers on a long-term basis, recording episodes of infrequently occurring heart arrhythmia. The initial inspiration for the project came from Oisín McGrath’s own personal experiences with heart arrhythmia. For 13 years, Oisín suffered with an undiagnosed heart arrhythmia. A standard response for a clinician when a heart arrhythmia is suspected is to issue a 24-48-hour heart monitor in order to capture the symptoms. This would ideally allow for the diagnosis of the condition. As Oisín’s symptoms were often spaced out by a week or more, the short recording duration of these monitors failed to capture any symptoms, and the arrhythmia continued to go undiagnosed, causing great mental anguish, high financial costs, and a potential danger to his life. During that time 11 different heart monitors failed to capture anything. Eventually, a cardiac pacing procedure was necessary in order to diagnose the arrhythmia. From this experience, Oisín recognised that a change in recording strategy was required in order to increase the efficacy of non-invasive symptom detection methods. Galenband project lead, Oisin McGrath, says: “The achievements of the project are a strong endorsement of the level of teaching and research in Biomedical Engineering at NUI Galway. With the support of academic staff and the Technology Transfer Office in NUI Galway, and the funding received from Enterprise Ireland, Galenband will press forward in an effort to change the lives of atrial fibrillation patients on a global scale.” Professor Mark Bruzzi, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Science, NUI Galway, said: “This innovation is a great achievement and demonstrates the potential of teams innovating new technologies through the Master’s in Biomedical Engineering programme at NUI Galway.” In 2010, shortly after his cardiac pacing procedure, Oisín began work on the earliest version of what would become Galenband. Cardiac rhythm monitoring methods formed the subject of Oisín’s Biomedical Engineering undergraduate thesis at NUI Galway, to allow him explore possible methods of accurately measuring heart rhythm with a long-term monitoring device. The needs-led innovation approach of the Biomedical Engineering degree programme at NUI Galway provided him with the perfect platform through which development could be furthered. During his Master’s in Biomedical Engineering, Oisín collaborated with students David Kerr, Belén Enguix, and Syed Kumail Jaffrey to investigate the logistical feasibility of the Galenband system ranging from a competitive landscape review to an overview of the regulatory pathway. The work carried out during this time received the Zenith award from Aerogen Ltd. The Galenband project was the first Irish project chosen by the world’s top University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as part of their IDEA² Global program and won the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) award for research in the field of medical engineering. Additionally, the project won the Technology category of the 2019 Universal Design Grand Challenge, organised by the Centre for Excellence in Universal Design at the National Disability Authority, and supported by Enterprise Ireland. -Ends-
International Exhibition on Count Laval Nugent, Warrior and Art Collector, at NUI Galway
NUI Galway will host an international exhibition detailing the life of forgotten Irish nobleman and Croatian national hero, Laval Graf Nugent von Westmeath. Count Laval Nugent (1777 – 1862) was born in Ballynacor, Co. Westmeath, and went on to fight in the armies of Austria and the Two Sicilies. In the process he became a major collector of classical sculpture and other archaeological finds. The exhibition, Laval Nugent - Warrior and Art Collector, will run in the Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway, until August 2019. Laval Nugent - Warrior and Art Collector was funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and developed by the Archaelogical Museum of Zagreb and the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Ireland. It was displayed in Dublin’s EPIC Museum earlier this year and is supported by NUI Galway’s Moore Institute and archival and print material from the James Hardiman Library. This exhibition is part of a programme of events highlighting the links between the cities of Galway and Rijeka - both European Capitals of Culture in 2020. It details Laval Nugent’s legacy as a Croatian national hero as well as his extensive achievements as a collector of cultural and archaeological artefacts. The exhibition was launched at NUI Galway on 28 June to coincide with the visit of a delegation from Rijeka n to the University. The group included Vojko Obersnel, Mayor of Rijeka, and Professor Snježana Prijić Samaržija, Rector of the University of Rijeka, accompanied by His Excellency, Ivan Masina, Ambassador of Croatia to Ireland. Hosted by University President Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, the delegation discussed future collaboration in areas such as student and staff exchange, research collaboration and public engagement. Laval Nugent’s personal story provides rich material of academic interest, and among those engaging with the exhibition include researchers from the Moore Institute and the disciplines of archaeology and history, in particular. From the 16th century onwards a sizeable contingent of those who left Ireland were dispossessed and defeated rebel soldiers, commonly referred to as ‘The Wild Geese’. They went on to serve in armies and navies across the European continent often in distinct ‘Irish Brigades’. Laval Nugent was son of Count Michael Anton Nugent von Westmeath, Governor of Prague. In 1793, he joined the Austrian Army, becoming Colonel in 1807 and Chief of Staff of the Army corps of Archduke Johann of Austria in 1809. He was appointed the Supreme Military Commander in 1817 and also served in the Croatian parliament. Laval Nugent ranks among the most distinguished of this elite cadre of noble Irish émigrés and rose to the very top of the Habsburg military and social establishment in the 19th century. Among his notable achievements, Nugent defeated Napoleon’s brother-in-law in battle, liberated Rome from the French, founded his own museum and campaigned for Croatian independence. He was even made a Papal Prince in 1816 for driving Joachim Murat from Italy. Throughout his lifetime he developed a strong affinity with the Croatian people, their heritage and their culture. The archaeological collections he assembled can still be viewed in the Archaeological Museum of Zagreb. Nugent died on 22 August, 1862 in the Bosiljevo Castle, near Karlovac, and his body was later transferred to a sarcophagus in the Doric temple “Peace for the Hero”, in Trsat above Rijeka, next to the sarcophagus of his wife, Countess Giovannina Riario-Sforza. Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway, commented: “Laval Nugent is a fascinating figure whose distinguished military career and remarkable collecting habits gave him a leading profile in the nineteenth century in Croatian history. Developments in the 20th century obscured his legacy, but the emergence of Croatia as a separate nation has restored him to prominence. This exhibition provides a chance to renew our relationship with an exceptional individual and to remember him in the country of his birth.” -Ends-
Study Seeks 100 Irish Households for Indoor Air Quality Study
NUI Galway study will monitor the quality of indoor air within high energy efficient homes among the Irish population Researchers from the School of Physics at NUI Galway are seeking to recruit 100 households to measure indoor environmental air quality within Irish homes that have been built to be highly energy efficient, by deploying remote sensors within the homes. In Ireland, homes are currently being built to a higher energy efficiency standard to reduce the country’s climate change impact, which can also contribute to reducing household heating costs. This study will evaluate and assess the indoor environment of these homes, to ensure these energy efficient measures are not adversely impacting upon the indoor air quality. The research team, led by Dr Miriam Byrne and Dr James McGrath in NUI Galway’s School of Physics have initiated the project, which will investigate homes that have the highest energy efficiency standard, an ‘A’ Building Energy Rating (BER) certification. The research team will use a remote sensor and continuously monitor air quality within the home for 18 months. The study will measure the following pollutants: Volatile Organic Compounds Radon Thermal comfort parameters (Temperature, Humidity and Pressure) Carbon Dioxide Volatile organic compounds are emitted as gases from certain solids or liquids such as paint, furniture polish, soap, varnishes, aerosol sprays and cleaning products. Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas which has no taste, colour or smell and is regulated in Ireland by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Radiological Protection. The thermal comfort assessment measurements will evaluate people’s subjective comfort (how warm or how cold they feel) within their homes. The carbon dioxide measurements are taken to assess ventilation systems effectiveness. Commenting on the study, Principal Investigator, Dr Miriam Byrne, lecturer in the School of Physics at NUI Galway, said: “We are delighted to have received SEAI funding for this important project. There is a delicate balance to be struck between ensuring that a home is energy efficient, and also providing enough ventilation to guarantee acceptable indoor air quality. The use of low cost sensors that wirelessly transmit data will allow us to collect detailed air quality and thermal data over a much longer period than has previously been possible.” For eligible participants who would participate in the study, a researcher will come to their home to install remote sensors (similar to a smoke detector in size) in four rooms in the home; the kitchen, living room, master bedroom and bathroom, and they will access information on the four pollutants within the home for 18 months through remote monitoring. Participants will also be asked to fill in a contextual information sheet, with questions on their home, such as heating and ventilation, as well as a thermal comfort survey and activity diary, activities such as cleaning and cooking, three times for the duration of this project. Benefits to participating in this study is that all participants will receive an overview of the indoor air quality assessment within their home and all participants will keep the sensors that are provided during the study, so that they can continue to measure pollutants within their homes after the study is completed. In addition, participants will assist research in NUI Galway and contribute to indoor air environment science. The VALIDate project is funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). For more information and to participate in the study contact, Dr James McGrath, School of Physics, NUI Galway at james.a.mcgrath@nuigalway.ie and 091 493437. To read more about the VALIDate project, visit: www.nuigalway.ie/validate -Ends-
Filming Evolution: International Award for NUI Galway Student Documentary Project
An innovative project at NUI Galway which encourages students to explore the evolution of life on Earth through the medium of film has received a significant international teaching award. The History of Life film project was overall winner in the category for ‘User-Generated Education Media’ at the 2019 MEDEA Awards in Leuven, Belgium. It also scooped the ‘Audience Favourite’ prize amongst the shortlisted finalists, which was decided through a live vote taken by the international delegates attending the ceremony. The MEDEA Awards were established to recognise best practice in the use of media in education and are supported by the Media and Learning Association. Since 2011, final year undergraduate science students at NUI Galway taking the class module History of Life, have worked in small groups to produce short documentary-style films on any aspect of evolution they choose. A diverse range of topics have been investigated by the student teams in the nine years the project has been running, including the origin of life on Earth, the evolution of the first forests and land animals, catastrophic past mass extinction events and the emergence of early human ancestors. These short films are then uploaded to a specially created YouTube channel, where they have reached a wide global audience online. All past student film productions are available on the playlist section of the History of Life YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNgZkv0CmDcdCpAuWvnJArQ/playlists The project was developed and is run by geologist and palaeontologist Dr John Murray from Earth and Ocean Sciences in NUI Galway, with continuing support from the University’s Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT). Dr John Murray commented: “This teaching initiative is primarily an exercise in science communication; it allows students to enhance their learning through visual expression and experimentation. The message all of these student-produced films convey is an extremely important one - it principally concerns the story of where ultimately all life on Earth has come from, including humans.” Dr Murray added: “The vast majority of the students who make these films have no prior training in film-making, nor do they have any production budgets. Neither of these factors have ever proven to be a limitation. The student teams have consistently risen quite admirably to the challenge and the very high levels of enthusiasm, imagination and creativity on display in these films has always been nothing short of inspiring.” The finals of the 2019 MEDEA Awards took place in June in the historic Town Hall of Leuven, Belgium. The prizes were presented at the ceremony by recently elected mayor Mohamed Ridouani, who highlighted the position of Leuven as a deeply multicultural city with strong roots in the past. Entries to the MEDEA Awards this year came from all over Europe, as well as Australia, Canada, Iran, Mexico, Morocco, Turkey and the US. According to the judging panel, the History of Life film project “is a very good attempt to encourage students’ interest and curiosity in science and also to help in building their research, communication and presentation skills. The project already has quite a good database of videos that can be used for different purposes both from teacher and learners, both for classroom and individual use.” Alida Zauers, an Earth and Ocean Sciences graduate from NUI Galway, created a short film examining the evolution of the beak in birds with a team of fellow students in 2015. She is currently Public Engagement and Outreach Officer at Tyndall National Institute, UCC. Congratulating NUI Galway on their awards, Alida Zauers said: “The History of Life film-making project was the first time I was exposed to science communications in my undergraduate degree, which ultimately led me to pursue a career in public engagement and outreach in the area of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). While it was challenging at times, I really enjoyed the entire process from start to finish. It taught me the importance of communicating science without the jargon and helped me realise how crucial communicating science to our peers and the public is. This project is vitally important in preparing students for what lies ahead in their future careers, and I hope it will be adapted and rolled out across all science disciplines in the future.” A short film compilation explaining more about the project, which was premiered at the MEDEA Awards event in Leuven and features music by alt-rock Dublin band Empire Circus, is available on the History of Life YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/0Y0RmQFb628 -Ends-
NUI Galway to Develop New Treatments for Multiple Sclerosis
New €3.9 million NUI Galway-led European consortium to train researchers in developing new treatments for multiple sclerosis Monday, 1 July, 2019: Dr Una FitzGerald, Principal Investigator of the Multiple Sclerosis Research Lab and Director of the Galway Neuroscience Centre at NUI Galway, collaborating with CÚRAM, the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research in Medical Devices, has secured €3.9 million in EU funding to lead a consortium of researchers across Europe. The project aims to develop novel devices and treatments for the devastating neurological disease multiple sclerosis (MS) and involves researchers from Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic. MS is the most common neurological disease to affect young adults and there are currently approximately 8,000 people in Ireland suffering from the disorder. The disease usually has two phases, an early “relapsing remitting” phase, during which sufferers undergo impairment, such as double-vision or limb weakness, followed by symptom dissipation for a period. The second phase, termed “progressive MS” is degenerative, when individuals experience deteriorating symptoms, frequently resulting in much-reduced mobility, increased fatigue and cognitive challenges. These worsening symptoms impair quality of life significantly, and in some cases, can lead to an inability to continue in full-time employment or to work at all. There is a plethora of treatments, or disease-modifying therapies, which can help dissipate the many debilitating symptoms of MS during the earlier part of the disease. Sadly, however, there is only one disease modifying therapy, Ocrelubzimab, which is approved for treating the progressive and degenerative phase but is only suitable for a subset of patients. This research programme will combine expertise in biomaterials, neuroimmunology, stem cell biology, neurological disease, biomarkers, computer modelling of cerebrospinal fluid flow and medical device design. The consortium, coordinated from NUI Galway, aims to develop much-needed treatments for the progressive phase of multiple sclerosis. Part of the EU Initial Training Network (ITN), the programme will fund 15 PhD students across Europe, five of whom will be based at NUI Galway under the supervision of Dr Fitzgerald and her co-awardees Professor Abhay Pandit, Scientific Director at CÚRAM and Dr Nathan Quinlan from the College of Engineering and Informatics at NUI Galway. Professor Pandit will contribute expertise in the development of biomaterials for drug release and Dr Quinlan will generate in silico models of biological systems that are integral in the development of medical devices. Together with Dr Fitzgerald’s experience in the field of neuroscience and pathology, this will prove an exciting opportunity for students to train as scientists, as well as developing a novel medical device. Dr Una Fitzgerald, Principal Investigator of the Multiple Sclerosis Research Lab and Director of the Galway Neuroscience Centre at NUI Galway, said: “This award is a huge boost to our multiple sclerosis research efforts here at NUI Galway. By combining our university’s expertise in MS, biomaterials, medical devices and fluid dynamics and computer modelling with that of our partners across Europe, this project could yield PhD graduates who are MS experts and who have helped pioneer a new medical device that could eventually help those suffering from the later stages of MS.” Professor Abhay Pandit, Scientific Director at CÚRAM in NUI Galway, said: “Partnering in this unique consortium provides CÚRAM with the opportunity to combine our unique areas of research excellence to produce real solutions for those who urgently need it. That, combined with the training of PhD graduates with expertise and experience, makes this funding a very exciting award and is testament to Dr Fitzgerald’s excellence in the field of MS research.” This project has been funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Initial Training Network and Grant Agreement No. 813263. -Ends-
‘CUMAR: A Galway Rhapsody’ to premiere at 31st Galway Film Fleadh
A new bilingual documentary by NUI Galway Academic Aodh Ó Coileáin A new bilingual documentary, ‘Cumar – A Galway Rhapsody’, will premiere at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh. The creative feature-length film, directed by NUI Galway’s Aodh Ó Coileáin and produced by Paddy Hayes of Magamedia Teo., examines the influence of Galway city and Connemara on six artists from varied fields. In turn the lens focuses on the impact of these artists’ work on the place where they live. The artists featured in the film include: musician/composer Máirtín O’Connor; novelist Mike McCormack; poet Rita Ann Higgins; Noeline Kavanagh, artistic director of Macnas; singer song-writer, Róisín Seoighe; visual artist, Pádraic Reaney; and comedian, Tommy Tiernan. While Galway Street Club make a guest appearance with their own brand of music. These artists explore Galway as a confluence of creativity and as a nucleus for artistic endeavour. The focus of the film is a visual evaluation of the link between these Galway based artists and their environment. ‘Cumar – A Galway Rhapsody’ also parses some of the diverse cultural influences that have shaped Galway itself and moulded its artistic culture over time. Along a crossroads of sea, of land, of thought and story, Galway has always been receptive to new influences; the city bears the print of so many civilisations and cultures. The film’s auteur Aodh Ó Coileáin is Programme Director of the MA (Cleachtas Gairmiúil sna Meáin) and also teaches on the BA (Cumarsáid agus Gaeilge) programme at NUI Galway’s Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge. His last film ‘Fís na Fuiseoige/The Lark’s View’ was premiered to critical acclaim at the Dublin International Film Festival in 2016 and went on to win awards at the Earth Day Film Festival in San Francisco and the London Irish Film Festival. Ó Coileáin is Chairperson of an Taibhdhearc, Ireland’s National Irish Language Theatre. Novelist, IMPAC award winner and NUI Galway lecturer Mike McCormack says in the film: “When I first arrived in Galway aged 19, I developed a private mythology of Galway as a city on the edge of the world where one has to turn around to look at the world - to comprehend it. Galway has a great curiosity about the world as a result.” Noeline Kavanagh from Macnas, added: “Art happens out of necessity, and certain landscapes are a cluster for that to be released, and I feel that there are some laylines in the West of Ireland that draw a particular sensibility out of people.” The film’s Director Aodh Ó Coileáin said: “Since coming to live in Galway over 30 years ago, I have wondered what it is about this catchment area that produces artists and attracts artists to the City of Tribes. The film touches on some of the explanations that have occurred to me from time to time: the city’s diverse cultural background stretching into medieval times and beyond, the confluence of languages, the rich tradition of music and song, or is it simply the meeting of the waters: river, lake, and sea?” ‘CUMAR – A Galway Rhapsody’ is the project which was selected for the 2017 ilDÁNA commission. The ilDÁNA scheme is an opportunity for documentary filmmakers to make a landmark, cinematic documentary on the arts in Irish. ilDána is a partnership between TG4 and the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, in association with Galway Film Centre. The film will premiere at Galway Film Fleadh, Town Hall Theatre, on Wednesday, 10 July, at 2pm. ‘Cumar – A Galway Rhapsody’ will also screen at this year’s Clifden Arts Festival and at Shorelines Arts Festival in Portumna in September. -Ends-
An Chéad Taispeántas de ‘Cumar – A Galway Rhapsody’ ag 31ú Fleadh Scannán
Fadscannán faisnéise dátheangach nua le hAodh Ó Coileáin as OÉ Gaillimh Taispeánfar den chéad uair scannán faisnéise dátheangach nua ‘Cumar – A Galway Rhapsody’ ag Fleadh Scannán na Gaillimhe i mbliana. Déanann an fadscannán cruthaitheach seo, atá stiúrtha ag Aodh Ó Coileáin as OÉ Gaillimh agus léirithe ag Paddy Hayes as Magamedia Teo., scrúdú ar an tionchar atá ag cathair na Gaillimhe agus ag Conamara ar sheisear ealaíontóirí as réimsí éagsúla. Déantar scrúdú chomh maith ar an tionchar a bhíonn ag saothar na n-ealaíontóirí seo ar a n-áit chónaithe. Níl áit ar fud na cruinne nach bhfuil saíocht seanchas agus cumar cultúr fite fuaite leis, ach is minic é ráite go bhfuil bua áirithe cultúrtha agus ealaíona ag Gaillimh. Is portráid cheanúil ar Ghaillimh atá in ‘Cumar – A Galway Rhapsody’ ina ndéantar iniúchadh ar na cumair ealaíonta a mhúnlaigh an cultúr ar leith atá inti. Déanadh an scannánaíocht thar thréimhse bliana agus tugtar suntas do na giúmair agus na dathanna éagsúla a chuireann an aimsir agus an tírdhreach in iarthar na hÉireann i bhfeidhm ar an gcathair agus ar an gcontae. Faoi chaibidil sa scannán tá: an scríbhneoir, Mike McCormack; an file, Rita Ann Higgins; an t-amhránaí, Róisín Seoighe; stiúrthóir an ghrúpa Macnas, Noeline Kavanagh; an péintéir ó Chonamara, Pádraic Reaney; an ceoltóir, Máirtín O’Connor; agus an fear seoigh, Tommy Tiernan. Le chéile tugann na healaíontóirí seo léargas úr spreagúil agus ionraic ar shaol an ealaíontóra i gcathair na Gaillimhe agus i gConamara. Caitheann an scannán dátheangach súil fhísiúil chruthaitheach ar Ghaillimh mar thimpeallacht ina n-oibríonn na healaíontóirí seo. Tá Gaillimh ar chrosbhóthar farraige, talún agus smaointeoireachta, tháinig an chathair agus an ceantar máguaird faoi anáil na nuálaíochta agus na héagsúlachta; tá rian cuid mhaith sibhialtachtaí agus cultúr ar an gcathair agus scrúdaíonn an scannán tionchar na Gaillimhe agus Chonamara ar an seachtar ealaíontóirí seo a oibríonn i réimsí éagsúla. Déanann na healaíontóirí iniúchadh ar Ghaillimh mar cheantar ealaíona agus fiafraíonn siad an bhfuil an teideal ‘príomhchathair chultúir’ tuillte aici i ndáiríre? Tá déantóir an scannáin, Aodh Ó Coileáin ina stiúrthóir cláir ar an MA (Cleachtas Gairmiúil sna Meáin) agus múineann sé ar an gcéim BA (Cumarsáid agus Gaeilge), Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillimh. Tharraing a scannán deireanach ‘Fís na Fuiseoige’ aird na léirmheastóirí nuair a taispeánadh é ag Féile Idirnáisiúnta Scannán Bhaile Átha Ciath in 2016 agus bronnadh gradaim air ag Féile Lá na Cruinne in San Francisco agus Féile Scannán na hÉireann i Londain an bhliain chéanna. Tá Ó Coileáin ina chathaoirleach ar an Taibhdhearc, Amharclann Náisiúnta na Gaeilge. Sa scannán deir an t-úrscéalaí, buaiteoir gradam IMPAC agus léachtóir OÉ Gaillimh, Mike McCormack: “Nuair a tháinig mé go Gaillimh ag naoi mbliana déag d’aois, d’fhorbair mé miotas príobháideach dom féin inar shíl mé gur chathair ar imeall an domhain a bhí i nGaillimh, áit a mbíonn ar dhuine casadh thart chun breathnú ar an saol – chun an domhan a thuiscint. Dá dheasca sin, tá fiosracht iontach i nGaillimh faoin saol mór.” Cuireann Noeline Kavanagh ó Macnas leis an méid seo: “Cothaítear ealaín as riachtanas, agus cuidíonn tírdhreacha áirithe leis seo, braithim go bhfuil fórsaí suaithinseacha in iarthar na hÉireann a tharraingíonn mothúcháin áirithe as daoine.” Dúirt stiúrthóir an scannáin, Aodh Ó Coileáin: “Ábhar machnaimh dom ó tháinig mé go Gaillimh os cionn 30 bliain ó shin, cén fáth a bhfáisctear an oiread ealaíontóirí as an gceantar seo nó cén fáth a meallann Gaillimh lucht na n-ealaíon. Tugann an scannán léargas ar chuid de na fáthanna a rith liom thar na blianta: an éagsúlacht chultúir sa chathair siar go dtí na meánaoiseanna agus níos faide, an cumar teangacha atá sa cheantar seo, traidisiún saibhir amhrán agus ceoil, nó b’fhéidir gur mar gheall gur anseo atá an cumar ina mbuaileann abhainn, loch agus farraige faoina chéile?” Is togra de chuid na scéime ilDána é ‘Cumar – A Galway Rhapsody’- maoinithe ag TG4 agus an Chomhairle Ealaíon i gcomhar le hIonad Scannán na Gaillimhe. Bhain sé coimisiún amach in 2017. Tá sé léirithe ag TUA films. Cruthaíonn scéim ilDÁNA deis do lucht déanta scannán clár ceannródaíoch a chruthú ar na healaíona trí Ghaeilge. Taispeánfar an scannán den chéad uair ag Fleadh Scannán na Gaillimhe, Amharclann na Cathrach, Dé Céadaoin, 10 Iúil 2019 ag 2pm. Beidh sé le feiceáil ag Féile Ealaíon an Chlocháin i mbliana agus ag Shorelines Arts Festival i bPhort Omna i Meán Fómhair. Blaisín le feiceáil ag an nasc seo: https://youtu.be/4PzSgsFLmjA -Críoch-
Soapbox Science Returns to the Streets of Galway This Weekend
NUI Galway’s third annual Soapbox Science Galway is set to return this weekend when twelve female scientists will take to their soap boxes and talk about their ground breaking research in the areas of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine. The event will take place from 12pm-3pm at the Spanish Arch, Galway on Saturday, 29 June and is free and open to the public. Soapbox Science is a novel global public outreach platform for promoting women scientists and the science they do. Events transform public areas into an arena for public learning and scientific debate and they follow the format of London Hyde Park’s ‘Speaker’s Corner’, which is historically an arena for public debate. Soapbox Science 2019 is taking place in several countries around the world including Ireland, Australia, Canada, Argentina, South Africa, Sweden, Germany, Brazil, Belgium, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, the UK and US. Soapbox Science Galway ensures that everyone has the opportunity to enjoy, learn from, question, probe, interact with and be inspired by some of our leading female scientists who will share their latest discoveries and answer the science questions people have been burning to ask. Talks will cover a diverse range of topics ranging from: Enhancing farming using insects; The marvels of human milk; Monitoring our oceans from space; How past climate can help prepare us for the future; The Internet as a force for good; Statistical thinking for real-life questions; and Natural Gas - the cleaner fossil fuel into the future. Soapbox Science Galway 2019 participants were selected from a competitive pool of researchers, and this year’s speakers from NUI Galway have joined forces with colleagues from the Marine Institute to showcase research talent in the West of Ireland, with speakers including: Dr Dara M Cannon (@daracannon), NUI Galway - “The Brain You Are” Dr Eimear Dolan (@eimearbdolan), NUI Galway - “Designing Medical Devices of the Future” Dr Nicola Fitz-Simon (@NicolaFitz), NUI Galway - “Statistical thinking for real-life questions” Ms Ann O’Brien (@anncarlowgirl), Trial Methodology Research Network - “Better Together – ‘The People’s Trial’ and the Internet as a Force for Good” Dr Anna Patricya Florentino, NUI Galway - “Superhero Microbes: contaminated environments mission!” Ms Allison Bistline-East (@ABEentomology), NUI Galway - “Slimy yet satisfying: Enhancing farming using insects” Dr Sarah Brennan (@stabrennan), NUI Galway - “The Marvels of Human Milk” Ms Catherine Jordan (@jorrrdy), Marine Institute and NUI Galway - “Monitoring our Oceans from Space!” Ms Anuja Gadekar (@AnujaRGadekar), CÚRAM, NUI Galway “Can sugars help in healing a diabetic wound?” Ms Devasanthini Devaraj (@DevaSanthini), UCD - “Natural Gas – The cleaner fossil fuel into the future” Ms Michelle Curran (@PalaeoShel), NUI Galway - “How past climate can help prepare us for the future” Dr Fearon Cassidy (@FearonCassidy), NUI Galway - “Stem cells in your bones?!” Soapbox Science Ireland events are organised by Dr Jessamyn Fairfield at NUI Galway and Dr Dara Stanley, UCD (formerly NUI Galway). Jessamyn is a nanoscientist and comedian, whose research is focused on building electronics like the brain. She is a lecturer in the School of Physics and CÚRAM (SFI Centre for Research in Medical Devices) at NUI Galway. Dara is a scientist interested in ecology and biodiversity, and in particular in plants and the insects that pollinate them. She is a lecturer in applied entomology at the School of Agriculture, UCD (formerly NUI Galway). Soapbox Science will also run in Dublin on Sunday, 30 June and in Cork on Saturday, 6 July. Dr Fairfield and Dr Stanley, said: “We both independently wanted to run a Soapbox Science event, and it was through this initiative that we initially met at NUI Galway. We had seen the need for a positive and fun way to engage with the issues around gender and STEM in the west of Ireland and in Galway in particular. We’re both also really interested in public engagement with science, and knew Soapbox Science was a great vehicle for bringing science to a public audience.” Soapbox Science Galway is sponsored by NUI Galway’s Office of the Vice President for Research. For more information about Soapbox Science, visit: http://soapboxscience.org/ or follow @darastanley, @ultrajessamyn and @SoapboxSciIRL on Twitter. See short Soapbox Science Galway 2019 video: https://youtu.be/KOHDXVTvyX4 -Ends-
Gaisce déanta ag OÉ Gaillimh arís i Ranguithe Ollscoile Domhanda QS
Tá OÉ Gaillimh sa 3ú háit in Éirinn, is í an Ollscoil is fearr in Éirinn í lasmuigh de Bhaile Átha Cliath, agus í rangaithe sa 112ú áit san Eoraip. Tá gaisce déanta ag OÉ Gaillimh arís i Ranguithe Ollscoile Domhanda QS. Rangaíodh ar an 259ú hollscoil i mbliana í as 1000 ollscoil a ndearnadh measúnú orthu i ranguithe QS. Léiríonn sin go bhfuil sí ar cheann de scoth-institiúidí an domhain i gcónaí. Tá OÉ Gaillimh sa 3ú háit in Éirinn anois, is í an Ollscoil is fearr in Éirinn í lasmuigh de Bhaile Átha Cliath, agus í rangaithe sa 112ú háit san Eoraip. Ó 2014 tá OÉ Gaillimh i ndiaidh bogadh suas 25 áit ar an liosta, agus is í an t-aon institiúid Éireannach í ar tháinig ardú ar a rangú in ocht as naoi gcinn de na blianta roimhe sin. Tá OÉ Gaillimh ag déanamh gaisce sna ranguithe idirnáisiúnta i gcónaí, agus is léiriú é sin ar a fháiltí atá cathair na Gaillimhe agus ar an bpobal bríomhar idirnáisiúnta atá sa chathair. Bhí an méid seo a leanas le rá ag Uachtarán OÉ Gaillimh, an tOllamh Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, nuair a fógraíodh ranguithe QS na bliana seo: “Tarraingíonn rangú OÉ Gaillimh i mbliana aird ar fheidhmíocht leanúnach ár n-ollscoile i réimse leathan gníomhaíochtaí. Táimid thar a bheith sásta go bhfuil aitheantas tugtha i mbliana d'éagsúlacht idirnáisiúnta ár n-ollscoile, rud a leagann béim ar a tharraingtí atá OÉ Gaillimh do chomhaltaí foirne agus mic léinn idirnáisiúnta sa chathair is ilchultúrtha dá bhfuil in Éirinn. Agus muid sa tríú háit anois in Éirinn, agus sa chéad 120 san Eoraip, is fianaise é ár bhfeidhmíocht chomhsheasmhach le deich mbliana anuas ar chaighdeán ár gclár taighde agus teagaisc. Is iontach an t-aitheantas é seo ar phobal agus ar chultúr ár n-ollscoile. Bíodh is go dtuigimid go maith nach bhfuil i ranguithe ach bealach amháin chun a bhfuil ar siúl againn a mheas, tá a fhios againn mar sin féin ón aiseolas atá faighte againn ónár n-alumni, ó fhostóirí agus ó lucht déanta polasaithe gur tagarmharc idirnáisiúnta úsáideach agus tábhachtach iad. Tá an-áthas orm, thar ceann OÉ Gaillimh, a fheiceáil go bhfuil an t-aitheantas agus an urraim seo faighte ag tiomantas phobal na hollscoile trí chéile.” Tá curiarracht bainte amach ag Massachusetts Institute of Technology ar tugadh séala na hollscoile is fearr ar domhan di don ochtú bliain as a chéile. Is i Meiriceá i gcónaí atá na trí institiúid is fearr: tá MIT sa chéad áit, ansin Ollscoil Stanford (2ú) agus Ollscoil Harvard (3ú). Tá Ollscoil Oxford tar éis ardú go dtí an ceathrú háit, rud a fhágann gurb í an institiúid is fearr sa Ríocht Aontaithe - agus san Eoraip í - agus tá rangú Ollscoil Cambridge tite go dtí an 7ú háit. Beidh na ranguithe ar fad le feiceáil ag www.TopUniversities.com ó Dé Céadaoin, an 19 Meitheamh. CRÍOCH
Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to Speak at NUI Galway Summer School
Dr Fatou Bensouda listed twice by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world DrFatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, will deliver a public lecture during this year’s annual Summer School on the International Criminal Court. This special event marks the 20th anniversary of the world-renowned International Criminal Court Summer School, hosted each year by NUI Galway’s Irish Centre for Human Rights. The School will take place from 24-28 June in the University’s Human Biology Building. Prosecutor Bensouda will deliver a public lecture entitled ‘Whither a ruled-based global order and the import of international criminal justice’. This event is jointly hosted by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and will be chaired by Supreme Court judge, Mr Justice Peter Charleton. The International Criminal Court seated in The Hague is the world’s principal court for the prosecution of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression. The Prosecutor plays a pivotal role in investigating and prosecuting serious atrocities and has overseen investigations of alleged crimes in countries such as Libya, Mali, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Georgia. This year’s Summer School will comprise a series of lectures and seminars by leading practitioners and experts on international criminal law, examining the law, policy, challenges and achievements of the International Criminal Court since its establishment. “We are exceptionally honoured to welcome Prosecutor Bensouda to NUI Galway and to the 20th anniversary Summer School”, said Dr Shane Darcy, Deputy Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway. “We look forward to gaining her insights on the Court’s role in a rule-based global order and on the challenges currently facing international criminal justice.” For further information on the Summer School visit https://bit.ly/2KdobeG. -Ends-
Minister Opens New Business Innovation Centre for Life Sciences Start-Ups in the Region
NUI Galway leads the way with new regional enterprise hub to support the incubation and acceleration of healthcare technologies for start-ups in the Life Sciences sector in the West Monday, 24 June, 2019: Government Chief Whip and Minister of State for the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands, Sean Kyne, TD with NUI Galway’s Innovation Office, has officially opened 6,500 square feet of fully fitted laboratory space with state-of-the art technology to support start-ups in the region. The Business Innovation Centre – North will support start-ups in the Life Sciences sector, with room for up to 100 employees. The new development complements the University’s existing Business Innovation Centres which are home to 52 early-stage companies. The University’s focus with the new Business Innovation Centre – North is in driving Life Sciences research and innovation to develop services and solutions that demonstrably improve outcomes for patients through solutions that save lives. Galway has a vibrant start-up ecosystem and the new facilities for Life Sciences will allow a new cohort of companies to flourish. Government Chief Whip and Minister of State for the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands, Sean Kyne, TD, commented: “In the West of Ireland we are fortunate to have strong and vibrant clusters of industry that are populated by global companies but also local start-ups brimming with potential and possibilities. This new ‘wet lab’ space will help students, researchers, and Life Sciences workers undertake research and development, carry out experiments and test ideas that will potentially have life-enhancing and life-saving results for patients far beyond the West of Ireland. “I congratulate and commend NUI Galway for building on its already strong reputation for innovation and I wish all researchers and companies that will use this facility well in their vital work.” Fiona Neary, Innovation Operations Manager at NUI Galway, says: “We opened our first Business Innovation Centre 30 years ago, and we have supported 97 start-ups on campus that have created 1,456 jobs to date. 53 of these start-ups came from the healthcare sector. Just last year our start-ups raised €35 million collectively. With continued growth in this sector now more than ever, we need additional space and supports in this area to ensure the scalability of these companies internationally. “Life Sciences start-ups have very particular needs. They require access to sophisticated ‘wet labs’, very specialised and often expensive equipment, hospitals and a skilled workforce. These requirements are all available here in NUI Galway. We anticipate an initiative like this has the potential to create a “networked” regional enterprise hub for the incubation and acceleration of healthcare technologies. This will unleash the capability to promote sharing of resources and expertise, entrepreneurial activity, create jobs, to foster innovation and to enhance export potential.” David Murphy, Director of the Innovation Office at NUI Galway, says: “The regions’ Life Sciences ecosystem is maturing to the point that innovation and entrepreneurship is imperative to retain our current standing. The lack of appropriate incubator space, particularly laboratory space, has been an impediment to the growth and development of nascent entrepreneurial enterprises, and this has driven the Innovation Office in NUI Galway to pursue this initiative. With financial support from NUI Galway, we are delighted to open this space generating and supporting regional development that is central to the University’s strategy.” The new facility in Dangan already has its first tenant in place, NUI Galway spin-out Orbsen Therapeutics Ltd., a leading company in the development of cellular immunotherapies across four immune-mediated inflammatory conditions. Dr Larry Couture, CEO of Orbsen Therapeutics Ltd., said: “Orbsen originated from the world class science at NUI Galway. As a start-up R&D company, we benefited greatly from our close proximity to the research community and core services on campus, but as we’ve grown to be a clinical stage company, the lack of suitable laboratory space in the area for emerging biopharmaceutical companies made relocation inevitable. The Dangan facility is exactly what we and the local emerging biopharmaceutical community desperately need and it will allow Orbsen to remain and continue to grow in the Galway area.” For Orbsen Therapeutics this additional space will accommodate the company’s increasing staff and prepare for the next phase of growth as they close additional funding rounds to support the development of novel therapies. Business Innovation Centre – North is based in the Dangan Business Park in Galway. For more information about NUI Galway’s Business Innovation Centre, visit: http://www.nuigalway.ie/innovation/business-innovation-centre/ -Ends-
Over 300 European Households Participate in ENERGISE Project to Reduce Energy Use
ENERGISE (European Network for Research, Good Practice and Innovation for Sustainable Energy) led by NUI Galway and funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme will host the ‘ENERGISE Living Labs’ closing event in Ireland on 27 June, which will present and discuss both high-level and local-level findings from the project. The results will have implications for policy makers at local, national and European level. The ENERGISE consortium is coordinated by NUI Galway and includes ten research partners (universities, research institutes, enterprises and NGOs). The Living Labs were implemented in eight of the European partner countries including Ireland to develop, test and assess options for a bottom-up transformation of energy use in households and communities across Europe based on an assessment of over 1,000 European sustainable energy initiatives and consultations with stakeholders. In response to the increasingly urgent climate change challenge, as outlined in the recently released Climate Action Plan 2019, Ireland is promoting several climate and energy targets with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonising the economy. However, the current pace and scale of change is insufficient to achieve the necessary sustainability transitions in energy systems; there is an increasing realisation that meeting energy targets is highly dependent on households playing a role in energy transitions – which implies challenging social norms and habits around energy usage in the home. Over 300 European households were involved in the ENERGISE Living Labs project from September to December 2018, and 38 of these households were based in Co Tipperary. The households either took on the two main challenges (a laundry challenge to halve the number of laundry cycles they do every week; and a heating challenge to reduce the indoor temperature in their living-rooms to 18 degrees Celsius), or designed their own challenge (for example to reduce the temperature in their living room to 19 degrees Celsius. The measures and challenges that participants undertook were very low or no cost changes to practices, which is in contrast with current discussions about the high cost of climate change action. The researchers from NUI Galway, with support from implementation partners Tipperary Energy Agency and Scoil Ruain, Killenaule, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, guided households through the multi-method ENERGISE Living Lab process. Dr Frances Fahy, ENERGISE project coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Geography at NUI Galway, said: “The results to date indicate that the majority of all households participating across Europe managed to successfully reduce their average living temperature by at least one degree and overall our results have generated exciting new insights into social and cultural influences on household energy use, as well as advancing conversations about how we use energy in daily life opening up pathways to advance ideas of energy sufficiency.” Dr Eimear Heaslip, Postdoctoral Researcher, ENERGISE project and researcher responsible for the implementation of the ENERGISE Living Labs in Co. Tipperary, said: “The participating households varied in size and composition and had varying energy demands. The feedback from the majority of these participating households was positive with many stating that engaging in the ENERGISE Living Labs was enjoyable and helped them to reduce their energy use in the home.” ENERGISE Living Labs are now nearing the end of the project, which concludes in November 2019. Fieldwork and analysis from the Living Labs is now complete with over 300 households participating across eight European countries (38 of these are from Co. Tipperary). The €3.7 million ENERGISE project is one of the largest Social Science projects ever awarded to NUI Galway, funded through the European Horizon 2020 Research Programme and supported by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). The ENERGISE closing event will take place on Thursday, 27 June at the Horse and Jockey Hotel, Thurles, Co. Tipperary from 2.30pm-5pm (Session 1) and 5.30pm-8pm (Session 2). To register attendance to the closing event or for further information about ENERGISE and Living Labs, contact eimear.heaslip@nuigalway.ie or frances.fahy@nuigalway.ie. For more information about ENERGISE, visit: http://energise-project.eu/ or email info@energise-project.eu. -Ends-
NUI Galway Participate in Ocean Sampling Day 2019
: Scientists and students at the Ryan Institute, NUI Galway will make a day trip on the Marine Institute research vessel, RV Celtic Voyager, today (21 June) to take part in Ocean Sampling Day 2019. Ocean Sampling Day is a simultaneous sampling campaign of the world’s oceans by scientists globally. It is organised by an EU consortium of marine research institutes, known as “ASSEMBLE Plus”, of which NUI Galway’s Ryan Institute is a part. Chief Scientist Professor Louise Allcock, who is director of the Centre for Ocean Research and Exploration within the Ryan Institute, will lead a team of four experienced scientists and 11 Marine Science undergraduate students who are in years 1 to 3 of their studies. Professor Allcock, NUI Galway, said: “We will sample and filter water from the ocean, and our filter papers, as well as those from other sites around the world, which will be sent to a molecular lab in a marine station in Greece where all the DNA on the filter papers will be sequenced to give an estimate of what bacterial and invertebrate species are present in the ocean. A healthy ocean has a wide variety of species – an unhealthy ocean less so, and hence we get an overview of our ocean health.” NUI Galway’s Sheena Fennell, one of the experienced scientists in the team who has spent extensive time at sea, explained the benefits to the undergraduate students joining the expedition. “The students learn in their lectures all about the water column, the bacteria and inverterbrates living therein, and the specialised gears that we use to sample, but this is an opportunity for them to get genuine hands-on experience while contributing to an international research project.” The science team will sample directly above the SmartBay SubSea Cabled Observatory in Galway Bay. Professor Allcock emphasised the importance of this site to the project: “The SmartBay Observatory provides subsea data all year round which means there is an enormous environmental dataset to complement our physical samples. Taking our samples from here, also affords us the opportunity to highlight this impressive infrastructure to our European colleagues.” To follow the NUI Galway team on Ocean Sampling Day, you can follow on Twitter @DrShmoo and hashtags #OceanSamplingDay2019 and #OSD2019. For more information visit the Center for Ocean Research and Exploration in the Ryan Institute at http://www.nuigalway.ie/ryaninstitute/researchcentersandclusters/corex/ -Ends-
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New Zealand Men's Crosscountry, 1975
New Zealand's win in the world crosscountry championships in Morocco in 1975 was one of the greatest, if little-known, performances of New Zealand athletics.
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It was an event dominated throughout its existence by England, France and Belgium, until New Zealand broke the stranglehold with its dominant performance.
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A maelstrom of anxieties dragged down global markets Tuesday, as ongoing Brexit chaos and worrisome manufacturing data dovetailed with a tense impasse in the US-China trade war.
The latest rounds of tariffs from both nations took hold over the weekend, with each piling on to the hundreds of billions of dollars in imports already tied up in the drawn-out conflict. Despite dovish remarks from leaders on both sides late last week, there has been no official word on when new negotiations will take place. On Monday, Beijing lodged its third complaint against the United States with the World Trade Organisation, saying Washington's latest duties violated an agreement reached at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan.
The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 425 points at its deepest depth Tuesday morning, but the blue chips staged a mini-rally in the last hour of the session. It finished at 26,118, down 285 points, or 1 per cent.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq finished the day at 7,874, an 88-point decline, or about 1.1 per cent. Tech stocks were hit hard, with Apple, Microsoft and IBM lower. The broad Standard & Poor's 500 closed the first trading day of September at 2,906, a loss of 20 points, or 0.7 per cent. China-exposed heavyweights Apple and Caterpillar were down more than 1 per cent.
US markets kicked off September after a particularly volatile August, which included several big one-day tumbles for the Dow. August also saw the yields - or returns - on short-term US bonds eclipse those of long-term bonds for the first time since the financial crisis, a phenomenon that has preceded every recession since 1955 and signals that investors are scrambling for safer assets.
In tweets Tuesday, President Donald Trump insisted negotiations with China were going well, then threatened to crack down even harder on the world's second-largest economy if he wins reelection in 2020 and hinted he may target the European Union next.
US President Donald Trump has refused to back down in his trade war with China. Photo / Getty Images
"For all of the 'geniuses' out there, many who have been in other administrations and 'taken to the cleaners' by China, that want me to get together with the EU and others to go after China Trade practices remember, the EU & all treat us VERY unfairly on Trade also," Trump tweeted. "Will change!"
In an interview Tuesday with CNBC, one of Beijing's trade advisers said that the burden of ending the trade war sits squarely with Trump. Wang Huiyao, president of Center for China and Globalization, a Beijing-based think tank, said that China has made "all efforts" to address U.S. complaints.
"It's up to the U.S. to really go ahead and be flexible and not take a really harsh attitude on this," Wang said on CNBC. He added: "We cannot have a perfect deal. You can see that China has continued to open not for the US's sake and interest but for China itself."
The US manufacturing sector contracted in August for the first time since 2016, according to an IHS Markit industry report. The Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index fell to its lowest level since September 2009, while new export orders fell at their quickest pace in a decade, "linked by many firms to trade wars and tariffs."
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Though manufacturing is a relatively small sector of total U.S. output at around 12 per cent of gross domestic product, it is seen as a barometer for economic health. As the manufacturing sector in August signals a contraction, it suggests inflation risk is low but the potential for a U.S. recession is more likely.
"The manufacturing sector has broken and is now in a recession," Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG Union Bank, wrote in a note to investors Tuesday. "The US trade war with the world has blown open a great big hole in manufacturers' confidence, and it will be a miracle if the broader economy can continue to roll on with manufacturing in decline."
Eight of 11 US stock market sectors were lower on Tuesday. Real estate, utilities and consumer goods, all safe-havens when people fear a market drop, were positive. The big US manufacturing companies saw their stocks slide following the report. Boeing was the biggest drag on the Dow, dropping 3 per cent. Industrials and energy companies were weighing on the Dow, with Goldman Sachs and American Express leading the financials downward. Chevron and Exxon dropped on lower oil prices. Pfizer and Procter & Gamble were the best blue-chip performers.
Boeing shares were hurt Tuesday following a report over the weekend that its workhorse 737 Max could remain grounded through the lucrative fall and holiday seasons because of friction with federal regulators.
The British pound sank to its lowest level since October 2016, as rebel members of Parliament prepared to push for a three-month Brexit delay in defiance of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan for Britain to exit the European Union by the end of October, with or without a deal.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised Brexit will go ahead. Photo / Getty Images
"The market hates uncertainty and that extends to politics. The current chaos around the UK exiting the EU threatens to push down sterling even further unless we get a clear idea of what is happening and when," Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said in a note to investors Tuesday.
The European benchmark Stoxx 600 rallied from its lows, finishing down 0.23 per cent.
The trade war has dragged on for more than a year, and fears are rampant that the conflict is sparking a global slowdown. Japan announced Monday that its manufacturing spending had fallen for the first time in two years during the second quarter, which experts sees as further evidence of the trade war's dampening effect. Central banks in Europe, Asia and Australia have all cut interest rates in recent months, citing the need for economic stimulus.
Meanwhile, China's yuan fell to an 11-year low in offshore trading Tuesday. China's economic growth has slowed to its lowest rate in 27 years, as factory output declines and unemployment rises. On Tuesday, China reported its biggest one-month drop-off in iron-ore prices in nearly eight years, marking a major slowdown for the producer of more than half the world's steel.
At home, fallout from the trade war is spurring recession fears. Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department said U.S. economic growth had slowed more in the second quarter than previously thought. Gross domestic product grew at an annualized rate of 2 per cent, the department said, revised down from an estimate of 2.1 per cent last month.
The bond market has also been a nettlesome factor for investors that are desperate for stable ground.
The U.S. bond market is one of the few places in the world where bond investors can park their money for long periods and collect a positive return. When bond prices rise, the yield that investors earn on their money drops. That has contributed to the inversion that is stoking recession fears.
The yield on the 10-year US Treasury on Tuesday hit its lowest level in three years. Tuesday's manufacturing data showing a contraction only added to the worries about the global economy. Investors flocked to buy even more US bonds as they worried the data reflects low inflation, or even a potential recession.
"The ISM data is a lot weaker than expected, in particular to new orders," said Joe LaVorgna, chief economist at Natixis. "That's creating tremendous demand for U.S. Treasuries."
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A rock with a face like Abe Lincoln's overlooks this friendly popular state park above the Rocky Reach Dam. Folded into the rich, mauve hills along the Columbia River, Lincoln Rock State Park is a classic, with a community atmosphere, shaded campsites, cabins and a boat launch with mooring docks on Lake Entiat.
Owned by the Chelan County Public Utility District and managed by State Parks, the portion of the park adjacent to the campgrounds resembles a city park, with ball fields, tennis and basketball courts, a playground and public swim beach.
The park is home to the Rocky Reach Trail, a paved, mixed-use ADA-accessible trail. The trail connects to the Apple Capital Loop Trail, a paved walk/bike path that stretches southwest to Wenatchee Confluence State Park, encircles the Wenatchee and East Wenatchee riverfronts and extends south to Rock Island Hydro Park. Altogether, these trails offer more than 20 miles of walking, jogging and bicycling fun.
So, pack up your boat, camping gear, fishing gear and bikes. Throw in the bats, balls, gloves, rackets and swimsuits. And don't forget that book you've been trying to read. Lincoln Rock State Park offers a well-rounded family vacation, guaranteed to keep everyone busy and also give you the social camping and R and R you've been craving.
Lincoln Rock State Park is an 86-acre camping park on the east side of Lake Entiat, which was created by the Rocky Reach Dam. The park was named Lincoln Rock by late 19th-century explorers who thought the basalt outcropping resembled the profile of President Abraham Lincoln.
Chelan PUD customers: You can get free day-use vehicle access to Wenatchee Confluence, Lincoln Rock and Daroga state parks when you display the Chelan PUD Public Power Benefit Day Use Parking Pass. Application information is available on the Chelan PUD website. The Public Power Benefit Day Use Pass is offered as part of a Chelan PUD pilot study. The PUD pass may be used in place of a Discover Pass at these three parks, which are owned by Chelan PUD and operated by Washington State Parks.
Automated pay stations: This park is equipped with automated pay stations for visitors to purchase a one-day or annual Discover Pass and boat launch permit.
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Picnic & day-use facilities
The park provides two kitchen shelters with electricity, plus 30 sheltered and 50 unsheltered picnic tables. Both can be reserved with a maximum group size of 100. Both have water and sinks.
2 miles of bike trails
2 miles of hiking trails
Rocky Reach Trail is 5 miles of paved trail starting at Lincoln Rock State Park and tying into the Apple Capital Loop Trail system which allows visitors to enjoy more than 20 miles of paved trail through the Wenatchee Valley.
Water activities & features
632 feet of dock
650 feet of moorage
Fishing (freshwater)
Personal watercraft use
Watercraft launches (2)
Other activities & features
Horseshoe pits (3)
Squash wall
Volleyball fields (3)
Interpretive opportunities
Park staff offer interpretive programs on most Saturdays from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
The park now has a geocache.
Large grassy fields invite a variety of team sports.
A children's playground and two tennis courts are located in the park.
A recreational license is required for fishing and shellfish harvesting at Washington state parks. For regulations, fishing season information, or to purchase a recreational license, visit the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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Boating features
Located in Douglas County on the Columbia River, Lincoln Rock has three watercraft launches open year round. Lake Entiat is 31 miles long. The park has 632 feet of dock. Personal watercraft are allowed.
Launching a boat at a state park requires one of the following:
An annual launch permit (Natural Investment Permit); or
An annual Discover Pass and a daily launch permit; or
A one-day Discover Pass and a daily launch permit. A daily watercraft launching permit for $7 and a trailer dumping permit for $5 may be purchased at the park. Annual permits may be purchased at State Parks Headquarters in Olympia, at region offices, online, and at parks when staff is available.
Latitude: 47º 32' 22.56" N (47.5396)
Longitude: 120º 16' 54.48" W (-120.2818)
Boat moorage
Lake Entiat's 650 feet of moorage includes five small floats along the shore for overnight campers. Floats are reservable from May 15 - September 15 and available on a first-come, first-served basis the remainder of the year. Moorage fees are charged year round for mooring at docks, floats, and buoys from 1 p.m. to 8 a.m. Daily and annual permits are available.
The park has 27 standard tent spaces, 35 partial-hookup sites, 32 full-hookup sites, four standard cabins, eight deluxe cabins, one dump site, five restrooms (one ADA), and 14 showers (three ADA). Maximum site length is 65 feet (limited availability). All lawn areas, including tent area, are irrigated daily. See park's information boards in each camp loop for specific times. Only one extra vehicle per campsite is allowed. A maximum of three tents per site.
Check-in time is 2:30 p.m.
Check-out time is 1 p.m.
The four standard cabins are near the full-hookup campsites and have great views of the Columbia River and Rocky Reach Dam. Each cabin is 26 feet long and has two rooms as well as an 8-foot covered porch. Cabins are furnished with a queen-size futon, a bunk bed that sleeps three, small end table, dining table plus 4 chairs, heater, and air conditioner. Outside is a picnic table and fire pit with grate. The new cabin loop includes two new full hook-up utility sites and eight deluxe cabins overlooking the Columbia River. The cabins include all of the amenities of the standard cabin plus additional end tables, six person dining table with chairs, a kitchenette with microwave, mini-fridge, sink, counter space with cupboards, and a bathroom with shower. On-demand hot water, ceiling fan and BBQ brazier are included. Cabins may be reserved up to nine months in advance for arrival dates from April 1 -Sept. 30. For more information, visit our cabins and yurts page.
Group camp
The group camp which is located in close proximity to the sports fields, sport courts, playground, swim beach and the Rock Reach Trailhead will accommodate up to 50 people. A lawn area for tent camping, two partial-hookup RV sites (water and electricity) and 1 full-hookup RV site (water, electric, sewer) as well as a large picnic shelter with 12 picnic tables, sinks and power outlets are provided. A group fire pit, large BBQ brazier and ample parking rounds out this area. A large restroom which is shared with the day use guests includes two family-style bathrooms(showers included) is nearby.
Reservations for the group camp can be made for arrivals between May 15 to October 15. The camp is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to allow for lawn and routine maintenance.
Reservations & fees
Reservations can be made online or by calling (888) CAMPOUT or (888) 226-7688. For fee information, check out our camping rates page.
Services & supplies
The park store is open during the summer season. Jet ski and boat rentals and other services are available in the area.
Lincoln Rock State Park is named for a prominent rock formation visible across the Columbia River that resembles the profile of President Abraham Lincoln. The formation, which is carved into a cliff at the mouth of Swakane Canyon, was long-recognized by Native Americans and Euro-American settlers as resembling a human face.
In 1898, Charles H. Schoff took a photo of the rock from deck of the Echo, a Columbia River packet steamboat that ran between Wenatchee and Orondo, where he served as an engineer. Ed Ferguson, a deckhand on the boat, was reading a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and remarked that the face in the rock resembled the late president. Over time, the feature became known to crew members and passengers as Lincoln Rock.
In the July 1902 issue of The Ladies Home Journal, a photograph of Lincoln Rock taken by M. P. Spencer was published as part of an array titled "Rocks That Have Faces on Them." This led to the feature's national recognition.
In 1945, a proposal was made for the state to acquire the land encompassing Lincoln Rock as a park. Ultimately, the plan was dropped due to the cost of acquiring the land. In 1981, the Chelan County Public Utility District developed the present-day park across the water from Lincoln Rock to be managed by the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission. Originally planned to be called Eastgate, the park's name was changed to Lincoln Rock at the request of locals.
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Mikel Arteta: Our Little Spaniard Mate – Preview
Written by lovehatefm on 16/11/2019 Leave a Comment - Last Updated 24 November 2019
Touch Base
We are only a few days away from the official launch of Football Manager 2020 on the 19th November 2019. The majority of us who have blindly bought the pre-order to get access to that sweet-sweet beta have already had a taste of the game and what this year’s iteration shares. We are getting towards the point where many community members share their tactics, skins, editor files (Check out my competition colour fix) and of course, the many fantastic blogs and stories start to gain traction.
I’ve touched on this before but looking back at my many years of playing Football Manager, I’ve always enjoyed the allure of paying Football Manager through the eyes of a manager persona. I’ve taken Andre Villa-Boas from unemployment to Champions of Ukrainian Premier League back to England with Manchester United; it was a thrill. While this is not an original idea or anything, it does help add to the enchantment of the FM game world. I hope this short prologue has given you some insight into who I am so on with the show.
Building A World
First things first, we have to build the world that this story is going to take place in. While I have no plans to create this save until the full game has been out for a few days, we have to establish the world we are going to working in.
Selecting A Team
The team we are going to be following through this save (and possibly the only team) will be Arsenal in the Premier League. While there will be rules/guidelines regarding what teams we can move too in the future — more on that late.
I’ve been enjoying an up and down experience with the beta managing Leeds United; after getting the sack from Newcastle United but I feel that starting with my boyhood team will be the best way to establish my writing style and keep a consistent story.
Creating A Manager
When I did this save last year (as I do every year) I had the unique opportunity of not having to write Arsene Wenger out of the Footballing world. Before last season, the majority of Arsenal fans didn’t know what life after Wenger would involve but then he resigned and fans were treated to the Ivan Gazidis manager hunt. This eventually brought Unai Emery to the club and he has been the manager ever since but his in-game successor was a close second.
We don’t know how the club thinks regarding gate hiring and firing of managers, regardless of what David Ornstein drip-feeds fans through Twitter. Just look at the real-life situation with the current board backing Emery while the fans unrest grows.
What we do know is the Manchester City assistant manager and former Arsenal captain, Mikel Arteta was a strong contender to replace Arsene Wenger in the dugout however the presentation slides from Emery were too much for the former Arsenal Chief Executive. Arteta has been pipped to replace his superior, with Pep Guardiola describing him as an “already incredible manager”. Having worked under Guardiola since 2016, helping the Citizens to two Premier League crowns and one FA Cup.
I initially wanted to run this series through the eye of the current assistant manager, Freddie Ljungberg and while both would promote attacking football, they would offer unique styles of play with Arteta focusing on the tiki-taka mentality favoured by Guardiola and Ljungberg looking to introduce his variation taking heavy inspiration from the 2003–04 Invincible’s side.
Mikel Arteta helped Manchester city towards two Premier League trophies.
With the decision to take this save forwards with Mikel Arteta at the helm, I’m going to need to create an editor file to remove Arteta from the game so we can steal his life and with a new manager comes a new coaching team. When Unai Emery joined Arsenal, he brought with him a wealth of experience from his Sevilla and PSG teams, while it will be a fresh start for a lot of people at the football club, loyalty is strong with others and we say goodbye to a few members of the Unai Emery set up.
Juan Carlos Carcedo (Assistant Manager)
Pablo Villanueva (First Team Coach)
Javi Garcia (Goalkeeping Coach)
Julen Masach (Fitness Coach)
Victor Manas (Chief Data Analyst)
All five staff members will join Unai Emery at their local jobcentre longing for the day to regroup. The rest of the staff will be made up from the team we bring in and the existing staff such as Freddie Ljungberg, Sal Bibbo and Steve Bould. I will discuss our staff attribute criteria expectations in a later post once a save has been created.
Here come the ground rules for this save, the restrictions they give and the reasons why I have imposed them on myself.
Director Of Football & Transfers
I think there is a lot of Sports Interactive can do with the Director of Football in Football Manager. I was disappointed to find through the beta that the AI-controlled DOF is just as incompetent as previous years. I find the idea of a DoF save to be the perfect way to play a save as a bigger club but then the game lets it down and breaks my immersion with the lack of interaction and hive-mind thinking that goes on between the director and the manager.
Raul Sanllehi is the big dog of Arsenal football club as is responsible for the incoming and outgoings at senior level and in my save he will still operate that role with a small change.
Sanllehi will, in theory, be responsible for the transfers and control contract negations of senior player but my lack of faith in the game to have a functional DoF system means I will take over the role while acting in the persona as Sanllehi — not as Arteta.
We can discuss the wage budget later on into the story but for now, the DoF will merely play the role of a second persona when called upon.
As Mikel Arteta, we are contracted to Arsenal and hopefully, our reign will be long and successful but two different doors become available in the event of a particular situation.
We are free to leave Arsenal the moment Spanish giants Barcelona come calling. With Arteta having the special opportunity to manage the biggest club in his homeland. I was debating if I should open this for PSG as well but I don’t think a successful Arteta would leave the Premier League to go manage in Ligue 1 so I have ruled that out for now.
Getting Sacked In The Morning
It may happen and we have to be prepared for anything. If we do get the sack, we are given free rein to go anywhere within Europe but the goal of the save changes from making Arsenal world beaters into a following the Journeyman career of Mikel Arteta as he builds himself up to take over at Barcelona.
TL;DR: Arsenal or Barcelona is the end goal.
Mikel Arteta’s Red & White Army
I think we have discussed enough for now but there is plenty more to come from me and this story. You can follow me on Twitter at @lovehatefm and keep up-to-date with my content here. I hope you enjoyed the read and I hope to see you following along in the future
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Camera IconMark Zuckerberg would not be happy that teenagers are unfriending Facebook in droves. Credit: AFP
Survey says that teens are jumping ship on Facebook for rival platforms
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June 4, 2018 4:53AM
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TEENS are unfriending Facebook in droves as they move to cooler social media platforms, a new study says.
The percentage of American 13-to-17-year-olds on Mark Zuckerberg’s social network now sits at 51 per cent, down from 71 per cent in 2015.
TheNew York Postreported that new numbers come from a Pew Research survey of teens and technology use, which found that Facebook now trails significantly behind Instagram and Snapchat — which 72 and 69 per cent of teenagers say they use, respectively.
It was a 20 per cent jump for Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, and a 28 per cent pop for Snapchat.
Camera IconFacebook is out of favour with an increasing number of US teens. Credit: News Corp Australia, AFP
The most popular platform for teens, however, was the video streaming site YouTube, which 85 per cent of teens said they use for music and video.
The dip wasn’t unexpected for Facebook — the social network has struggled to stay relevant with younger audiences as their parents signed up to monitor their child’s social presence and stayed after the kids moved on to the visual nature of Snapchat and Instagram’s picture-based services.
Camera IconA survey says that Facebook now trails significantly behind Instagram and Snapchat. Credit: AFP
Facebook has attempted to stay relevant by cribbing popular features such as “stories” from Snapchat, but it has done little to move the needle.
The survey found that Facebook was popular among lower-income teens, with 70 per cent of teens living in households earning less than $US30,000 ($A40,000) using Facebook, while only 36 per cent of teens in households that brought in more than $US75,000 ($A99,000) used the platform.
Pew’s survey reported that nearly half of the teens they surveyed say they are using the internet “almost constantly,” up from 24 per cent in 2015, while 90 per cent go online multiple times a day.
But despite being online all day, every day, teens are divided on whether or not their relationships with social media are a good thing.
Pew found that 45 per cent of teens were neutral about social media’s presence in their lives, while 31 per cent called it positive, and 24 said it is negative.
This article was originally published in the New York Post and has been republished here with permission.
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ANR PLAN ENDORSEMENT: WHEN A PLANNING BOARD (TRIES TO) APPEAL ITSELF
On behalf of Phillips & Angley posted in Real Estate Law on Tuesday, October 7, 2014.
The recent Land Court case of Georgetown Planning Bd. v. Georgetown Planning Bd., 2014 WL 3555971, 13 MISC 480712 (KCL) (Mass. Land. Ct. 2014), is perhaps one of the more "creative" ways around trying to undo a constructive endorsement of an ANR (Approval Not Required) plan. It ultimately was also not successful.
The gist of the case is that James Tolman submitted an ANR plan to the Georgetown Planning Board pursuant to M.G.L. c. 41, § 81P. Under that statute, the board must act upon the ANR plan. However, if the planning board does nothing
within twenty-one days after [the plan's] submission, it shall be deemed to have determined that approval under the subdivision control law is not required, and it shall forthwith make such endorsement on said plan, and on its failure to do so forthwith the city or town clerk shall issue a certificate to the same effect.
Id. And that's exactly what happened in this case. Because the board failed to act on Tolman's plan, it was constructively endorsed.
What makes this case interesting, however, is that the board attempted to appeal it's own "endorsement" in court. Specifically, the parties looked like this:
Georgetown Planning Board and Georgetown Building Inspector, Plaintiffs
Georgetown Planning Board and James Tolman, Defendants
Interesting, right? But perhaps not surprisingly, the Land Court didn't bite and ultimately the ANR endorsement remained in effect. There were a few problems with the merits and procedural tack of the Plaintiffs' case, according to the court:
Plaintiffs tried to resolve this via summary judgment. Yet, as the court aptly points out, this kind of motion is "procedurally incorrect" in actions in the nature of certiorari, which this one was. This is because as part of their motion, the plaintiffs asked the court (without ever seeking an order to do so) to consider materials that went beyond the administrative record. A big no-no in certiorari/ANR cases.
Notwithstanding the inability to bring in additional materials beyond the record below, there were other genuine issues of material fact precluding summary judgment.
Neither the building inspector nor the planning board had the requisite standing to contest the constructive endorsement. As the court noted,
The reason for this is clear. To allow the board and building inspector to appeal the constructive endorsement would be completely contrary to those provisions of the statute and effectively make them meaningless. (citations omitted)
[T]he intent of the constructive endorsement provision in G.L. c. 41, § 81P is plain from the face of its words: if the board fails to act on an ANR application in timely fashion, it "shall be deemed to have deter-mined that approval under the subdivision control law is not required, and it shall forthwith make such endorsement on said plan, and on its failure to do so forthwith the city or town clerk shall issue a certificate to the same effect." (emphasis added). To allow the board to appeal removes the "shall" from the stat-ute and guts the legislative intent to require prompt, final rulings on ANR requests. (citations omitted)
Allowing the building inspector to appeal a constructive endorsement is likewise contrary to the overall statutory scheme for subdivision control. That scheme is "comprehensive," with specific, interrelated components and defined roles. (citations omitted) Under those provisions, the planning board is tasked with reviewing ANR applications, not the building inspector. The building inspector's role is to evaluate building permit applications for compliance with the requirements set forth in G.L. c. 41, § 81Y, nothing more.
Id. at *3. Instead, the only legitimate plaintiff in this kind of constructive endorsement case is "a demonstrably aggrieved third-party".
This case is ultimately a good reminder for planning boards that they must pay attention to the timelines and schedules for ANR plans that are submitted for their review because, ultimately, their failure to act could potentially result in an endorsement that they cannot undo. Of course, an unanswered question in the case is why the Board did not take what would have been the easier route and exercise its statutory authority under the Subdivision Control Act to rescind its constructive approval. See G.L. c. 41, §81W (a Board may modify, amend or rescind its constructive approval of an original plan).
Written by Kristen M. Ploetz, Esq., of Green Lodestar Communications & Consulting, LLC, on behalf of Jeffrey T. Angley, P.C. Edited by Jeffrey T. Angley, Esq.
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Trump to reward party-swapper Van Drew with NJ rally
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Rep. Jeff Van Drew (NJ), who is switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, shakes hands with US President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on December 19, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump is making a campaign stop in deep-blue New Jersey to reward Rep. Jeff Van Drew for switching parties last month and voting against his impeachment.
The Trump campaign announced he will travel to Wildwood, New Jersey, in Van Drew's district on Jan. 28 to hold a rally.
Trump endorsed the Democrat-turned-Republican during an Oval Office meeting on Dec. 19. Van Drew said at the time that he believed the GOP was a “better fit” and promised Trump his “undying support."
Trump promised to return the favor and announced that he was endorsing Van Drew for reelection and labeled him “a tremendous asset for the party."
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Delhi Gets First-Ever Smog Tower to Battle Escalating Air Pollution
Jan 04, 2020 by Priya Chauhan in India
Every year in the winter season, Delhi’s air quality deteriorates to very poor and severe categories of the Air Quality Index (AQI). Envisioning a solution to tackle air pollution in the city, the government has installed Delhi’s first smog tower at Lajpat Nagar central market on January 3, 2020. Smog towers are the devices that can work as large-scale air purifiers, fitted with multiple layers of air filters.
Smog Tower at Lajpat Nagar central market / Image: Hindustan Times
The 20-feet-tall tower is fitted with exhaust fans to suck in polluted air and can remove up to 80 percent of the particulate matter (PM 2.5 and PM 10) – the primary pollutant in the city’s air. According to the experts, the aim is to create “clean air zone” in the area which sees an average footfall of 15,000 people every day. The purifier may treat 250,000 to 600,000 cubic metres of air per day.
In November 2019, the Supreme Court had asked the Centre and the Delhi government to come up with a road map on installing smog towers in the National Capital Region (NCR) to battle the escalating levels of air pollution.
Taking inspiration from China, which is also battling air pollution over the past few years, the smog tower has been built in Delhi. China has two smog towers now, one in capital Beijing and the other in Xian City.
The Delhi experiment is being headed by the Indian Institution of Technology (IIT) Bombay in and IIT Delhi in collaboration with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The University of Minnesota, which has helped build a smog tower in Xian, northern China, is also involved in the process.
Also Read: Depressing Story of Delhi Choking on Air Pollution
According to the Lajpat Nagar Trader Association members, the tower has been installed in an open area above a covered drain in the market by the traders’ body with the help of east Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir. The equipment cost of the smog tower came to about Rs 7 lakh, which is being borne by the Gautam Gambhir Foundation, an NGO being run by the parliamentarian and the former cricketer. The market association will bear the running cost of the device.
The General Secretary Traders Association Lajpat Nagar, Ashwani Marwah said,
The running cost of the facility will be around Rs 30,000 which will be borne by the traders’ association of Lajpat Nagar. This tower will purify the air within a circumference area of up to 750 metres. Such initiatives are important to combat air pollution in Delhi, which has also become a pollution capital.
According to Marwah, the tower stands on a four ft. high platform on a covered drain near Veer Savarker Marg in Lajpat Nagar central market. He further added that in future more such initiatives would be launched to control air pollution in the area.
The installation of smog tower has made the people of the city happy and hopeful.
Delhi gets its first #SmogTower ‘Shudh’ to tackle #AirPollution
The massive 20ft-tall air-purifier
inaugurated by BJP MP Gautam Gambhir has been installed at S.Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar market
The aim is to create a clean air zone with an estimated 80% reduction in particulate matter pic.twitter.com/X00Knk6kP9
— Shivani Sharma (@Shivani2297) January 4, 2020
#Delhi gets first #smog tower to combat #Airpollution in LajpatNagar, cost borne by @BjpEastdelhi‘s #MP @GautamGambhir Foundation
– delhi news – Hindustan Times pic.twitter.com/4SYljfDAha
— The Sunil Kapoor™ (@sunilkapoor8) January 3, 2020
Where people and authorities are optimistic about its success, experts are skeptical of the success of smog tower in Delhi.
Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director (research and advocacy) at Centre for Science and Environment revealed that there was no data available to support the claims that these towers clean up outdoor ambient air quality.
In a city like Delhi, in an open outdoor environment, where pollution levels are high, weather is dynamic and sources of pollution multiple, investing in such devices is not feasible. Nowhere in the world have we seen any data published to establish that this technology improves air quality. The same money must be spent in reducing emissions. We need real action to cut down on real emissions.
Said Roychowdhury.
D. Saha, former head of CPCB air laboratory, said that smog towers are not suitable to meteorological conditions of Delhi. Unlike other cities in the world, Delhi does not has smog but fog and high amount of dust particles in the air.
He said,
There is a constant intrusion of dust in Delhi because of various geographical and local factors. How much can a filter suck? Rather than heavy investment technologies like these, citizens must adopt initiatives, which are more constructive and sustainable such as car-pooling, limiting use of private vehicles, greening and controlling ground level dust, among others, which can go a long way in improving the air quality.
It would be interesting to notice the feasibility of the smog tower in Delhi. And if the project succeeds, the country’s battle against air pollution is half-way done.
Via: Hindustan Times
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