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Parliament Blocks �Dubious� Transactions
Following the Supreme Court�s ruling on the Waterville Holdings Limited, which faulted the company for bypassing parliament to execute a contract that did not have a parliamentary approval, the nation�s parliament yesterday constituted an ad hoc committee to look at portions of the 1992 Constitution on international transactions and make recommendations for implementation to avoid a recurrence of such unconstitutional act.
The members of the ad hoc committee are National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Nandom and Majority Leader, Dr Benjamin Kunbuor; New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Suame and Minority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu; NDC MP for Cape Coast North and first Deptuty Speaker, Ebo Barton Odro; NPP MP for Essikado/Ketan and second Deputy Speaker, Joe Ghartey; NDC MP for Nadowli/Kaleo, Alban Bagbin; NDC MP for Zebilla, Cletus Avoka; NPP MP for Sekondi, Papa Owusu-Ankomah; NDC MP for Ketu North, James Klutse Avedzi and NPP MP for Old Tafo, Dr Anthony Akoto Osei.
The rest of the members are NDC MP for Ashaiman and Deputy Majority leader, Alfred Kwame Agbesi; NPP MP for Akuapem North, William Ofori Boafo; NDC MP for Kpando, Della Sowah; -NPP MP for Dome/Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo; NPP MP for Bekwai, Joseph Osei-Owusu and NDC MP for Agona West, Charles Obeng-Inkoom
The committee is to look at Article 181 of the 1992 Constitution, especially clause five which talks about the power of parliament to look at modifications in relations to international business or economic transaction and make the necessary recommendations to parliament for adoption.
Clause five of Article 181 of the 1992 Constitution, which falls under the broad category of loans, says that this article with the necessary modification by parliament, applies to an international business or economic transactions to which the government is a party as it applies to a loan.
Clause one of Article 181 under sub-heading �Loans� states that parliament may, by a resolution supported by the votes of a majority of all the members of parliament, authorise the government to enter into an agreement for the granting of a loan out of any public fund or account while clause two of the same Article states that an agreement entered into clause (1) of this article shall be laid before parliament and shall not come into operation unless it is approved by a resolution of parliament.
The Supreme Court�s in its ruling on Waterville advised parliament to look at the knotty area of modifications in relations to international economic transactions because it is a loophole where the executive can capitalise on and that apart from the Waterville case, the Supreme Court had dealt with two similar cases in the past and made similar recommendations.
Contributing to the motion that gave birth to the ad hoc committee, the Minority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, said the time had come for parliament to live up to its expectation and protect the public purse.
He said even though such a move had been long overdue, the initiative by the sixth parliament of the Fourth Republic to address this issue was a landmark one.
He said it had become imperative to give meaning to the provision and, therefore, a report by the committee would definitely be adopted for the benefit of the nation.
According to him, the leadership thought deeply to include experienced MPs, some of whom had been Attorney-General�s before, in the adhoc committee.
�We have very experienced MPs, some former leaders of the house and Attorney-General�s with most of them being lawyers� he said, adding that the chairman and ranking member of the finance committee had also been included and, therefore, parliament expected they would do a thorough job and present it for adoption.
The NPP MP for Akwapim North, William O. Boafo, who is a member of the committee, proposed to the house that after the committee had presented its report there should be an enactment of law to support it so that it would be binding on the executive.
The committee was given four weeks to present its report to parliament.
Source: Thomas Fosu Jnr
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Southern Electrics (Kindle)
Transport Photographic eBooks Colour eBooks Trains and Railways
By Roger Palmer
Imprint: Pen & Sword Transport
File Size: 55.4 MB (.mobi)
Illustrations: 194
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The Southern Electric system was a self contained, roughly triangular area of lines with its apex in London and its base running along the south coast from Kent to Weymouth. It also made a couple of forays into Middlesex. Here, in some 196 previously unpublished colour photographs, is shown not only the variety of unit types that were around during the first twenty years since railway privatisation, but also the fact that on some services, Southern Electric types have penetrated the Home Counties whilst others have migrated to join their ranks.
A pleasant and rewarding visual excursion, probably best appreciated by southern cognoscenti.
Stephenson Locomotive Society
Wholly recommended for students of the Southern. Such may find it almost essential, but those less familiar with the routes south of the Thames will find it equally informative.
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The quality of the photos is good, and the book follows the format of other Pen & Sword railway pictorials. The book evoked memories of growing up in the South East and see the 465 and 466 classes replace the older slam-door EPBs that had been the mainstay of the North Kent Lines for most of the British Rail period. I feel this would compliment other books on the Southern Region, and anyone interested in Southern electric stock, especially in the post-privatisation era should give this book a serious consideration.
Kelly Harding, Diesel & Electric Modellers United, June 2019
A magnificent collection of photographs that portrays an important time of change.
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Thanks to its almost 200 photographs, all magnificent, and the information they contain allows you to immerse yourself in the trains and stations of this historic railway.
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There are almost 200 previously unpublished colour photographs, many of which prick your memory of the various liveries that have been in existence with all the different Train Operating Companies.
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About Roger Palmer
Roger Palmer has no idea of what stimulated his interest in railways. His earliest recollections are of seeing blue Duchesses flashing past a gap in the houses at the end of the street where he lived and of the first two engines he “officially spotted” when he started collecting train numbers and duly underlining his sightings in his Ian Allan ABC.
His parents gave him a Brownie Cresta camera when he was 14 and two years later, when he had started full time work he bought a 35mm Agfa Silette which itself was replaced by an SLR Pentax some ten years later. From the 1970s he travelled extensively over the British rail system accumulating photographs all the while and for a brief period from the mid-1990s he wrote book reviews for the magazine British Railway Modelling. In 2006 his first book Southern Electric Slam Door Stock – The Final Years was published.
His photographic activities continue, and whilst highly sceptical about rail privatisation, believes that the post-Nationalised railway will be a golden era for railway historians of the future as train operating company’s franchises come and go and the units themselves are in a constant state of flux due to changes in liveries and various upgrades and refurbishments.
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Motorcyclist injured in Highland crash thanks Good Samaritans who stopped to help him
by Cheryl Livingstone
Andy Jaques
A motorcyclist who was injured in a crash at the weekend has thanked Good Samaritans who stopped to help him.
Andy Jaques, 42, was on his way back home to Skye from a ride out to Inverness when he was involved in a collision with a car near Urquhart Castle, Drumnadrochit, just after 12pm on June 8.
A section of the A82 was closed and tailbacks formed while emergency services dealt with the incident.
The hydraulic engineer, who was riding a BMW R1150R, has since took to social media to thank those who stopped to help him.
He wrote: “Apologies to anyone caught up in the ensuing traffic jam and road closure. Or if you had to take a diversion, especially if I made you late for an appointment or anything.
“A massive, massive thank you to everyone that stopped to help, the doctor from Michigan, the student nurse from Raigmore, the off duty police lady, the ‘running’ coach driver, the air ambulance crew, the regular ambulance crew, the police and everyone else. Sorry I cannot remember all of your names but I truly appreciate what everyone of you did for me and thank you all.”
The 42-year-old was taken to Raigmore Hospital for X-rays and CT scans which revealed he had fractured his pelvis.
“The gear I was wearing did its job well, taking the brunt of the impact,,” he said.
“I really do not look like I was flying through the air or rolling down the road. Now starts the long recovery process. Six weeks of not putting any weight on the leg to begin.”
He said he wanted to send a message online “to apologise to anyone who was caught up in the tailbacks as you never know what people are going through”, and “to thank as many people as I could remember”.
“I never asked anyone to help it was just the good nature of so many people. I wanted to let people know I was alive and ok (ish). Quite often with accidents, as a witness you never learn the outcome. I also want to emphasise that wearing the correct gear saved me from what could have been a much worse outcome!”
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Pakistan to fence border after terrorist attack in Iran: Army
Monday, 25 February 2019 10:30 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 25 February 2019 10:50 AM ]
An Iranian border guard looks through binoculars at a post in Sistan and Baluchestan province.
Pakistan has promised to boost security cooperation with Iran, saying that the two neighboring countries are considering fencing the common border to keep terrorists in check.
“We both are considering fencing the border so that no third party could sabotage the brotherly and friendly relations through any nefarious act,” Army spokesperson and director-general of Inter-Services Public Relation (ISPR) Major General Asif Gafoor said.
Islamabad plans to fence 950 kilometers of the border linking Pakistan’s Balochistan Province with Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Pakistani media quoted him as saying.
Gafoor’s comments came days after a terrorist attack originating from inside the borders of Pakistan killed 27 members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Iran.
On February 13, a bomber identified by the IRGC as Pakistani national Hafiz Mohammad Ali slammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a bus carrying off-duty IRGC members in Sistan and Baluchestan.
The Pakistan-based Jaish ul-Adl Takfiri terrorist group, which has ties to al-Qaeda and the Al Saud regime, claimed responsibility.
Several attacks by Pakistan-based terrorist groups have in the past targeted Iranian security forces. Iran has always complained that Pakistan is not serious in confronting the terrorists.
But the latest attack appeared to be the final straw, with several Iranian officials warning that their patience with Islamabad was wearing thin.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has said Pakistan should be held accountable for the attack. IRGC chief Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari doubled down on that, urging Islamabad to change its policy toward Jaish ul-Adl instead of sheltering the terrorists.
Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Baqeri has said a “fiery revenge” awaits Jaish ul-Adl and other terrorist groups funded by regional Arab regimes such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
PressTV-Iran presses Pakistan, vows 'fiery revenge' after bombing
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agrements ORNAMENT in French music, usually indicated by a sign.
ballad opera GENRE of eighteenth-century English comic play featuring songs in which new words are set to borrowed tunes.
binary form A FORM comprised of two complementary sections, each of which is repeated. The first section usually ends on the DOMINANT or the relative major, although it many end of the TONIC or other KEY; the second section returns to the tonic.
development (1) The process of reworking, recombining, fragmenting, and varying given THEMES or other material. (2) In SONATA FORM, the section after the EXPOSITION, which MODULATES through a variety of KEYS and in which THEMES from the exposition are presented in new ways.
fuging tune Eighteenth-century American type of PSALM or HYMN tune that features a passage in free IMITATION, usually preceded and followed by HOMOPHONIC sections.
galant Eighteenth-century musical style that featured songlike MELODIES, short PHRASES, frequent CADENCES, and light accompaniment.
intermezzo Eighteenth-century GENRE of Italian comic OPERA, performed between acts of a serious OPERA or play.
lied Song with German words, whether MONOPHONIC, POLYPHONIC, or for voice with accompaniment; used especially for polyphonic songs in the RENAISSANCE and songs for voice and PIANO in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
minuet DANCE in moderate triple METER, two-measure units, and BINARY FORM.
opera buffa Eighteenth-century GENRE of Italian comic OPERA, sung throughout.
opera seria Eighteenth-century GENRE of Italian OPERA, on a serious subject but normally with a happy ending, usually without comic characters and scenes.
rondo Piece or MOVEMENT in RONDO FORM.
sonata form FORM typically used in first MOVEMENTS of SONATAS, instrumental chamber works, and SYMPHONIES during the CLASSIC and ROMANTIC PERIODS. An expansion of ROUNDED BINARY FORM, it was described in the nineteenth century as consisting of an EXPOSITION, DEVELOPMENT, and RECAPITULATION based on a limited number of THEMES.
string quartet (1) Standard chamber ENSEMBLE consisting of two VIOLINS, viola, and cello. (2) Multimovement COMPOSITION for this ENSEMBLE.
strophic Of a poem, consisting of two or more stanzas that are equivalent in form and can each be sung to the same MELODY; of a vocal work, consisting of a strophic poem set to the same music for each stanza.
symphony Large work for ORCHESTRA, usually in four MOVEMENTS.
variations form FORM that presents an uninterrupted series of variants (each called a VARIATION) on a THEME; the theme may be a MELODY, a BASS line, a HARMONIC plan, or other musical subject.
cabaletta In the operatic scene structure developed by Gioachino Rossini in the early nineteenth century, the last part of an ARIA or ENSEMBLE, which was lively and brilliant and expressed active feelings, such as joy or despair. See also CANTABILE and TEMPO DI MEZZO.
cantabile (1) Songful, lyrical, in a songlike style. (2) In the operatic scene structure developed by Gioachino Rossini in the early nineteenth century, the first section of an ARIA or ENSEMBLE, somewhat slow and expressing a relatively calm mood. See also CABELETTA and TEMPO DI MEZZO.
character piece A piece of CHARACTERISTIC MUSIC, especially one for PIANO
concert etude
developing variation Term coined by Arnold Schoenberg for the process of deriving new THEMES, accompaniments, and other ideas throughout a piece through variations of a germinal idea.
etude An instrumental piece designed to develop a particular skill or performing technique.
exoticism Nineteenth-century trend in which composers wrote music that evoked feelings and settings of distant lands or foreign cultures.
idee fixe term coined by Hector Berlioz for a MELODY that is used throughout a piece to represent a person, thing, or idea, transforming it to suit the mood and situation.
leitmotiv In an OPERA or MUSIC DRAMA, a MOTIVE, THEME, or musical idea associated with a person, thing, mood, or idea, which returns in original or altered form throughout.
mazurka A type of Polish folk dance (and later ballroom dance) in triple METER, characterized by accents on the second or third beat and often by dotted figures on the first beat, or a stylized PIANO piece based on such a DANCE.
nocturne Type of short PIANO piece popular during the ROMANTIC PERIOD, marked by highly embellished MELODY, sonorous accompaniments, and a contemplative mood..
polonaise A stately Polish processional DANCE in triple METER, or a stylized piece in the style of such a dance.
recital Term popularized by Franz Liszt for his solo piano performances and used today for any presentation given by a single performer or a small group.
rubato Technique common in ROMANTIC music in which the performer holds back or hurries the written NOTE values.
thematic transformation A method devised by Franz Liszt to provide unity, variety, and a narrative-like logic to a composition by transforming the thematic material into new THEMES or other elements, in order to reflect the diverse moods needed to portray a PROGRAMMATIC subject.
posttonal General term for music after 1900 that does not adhere to TONALITY but instead uses any of the new ways that composers found to organize pitch, from ATONALITY to NEOTONALITY.
avantgarde Term for music (and art) that is iconoclastic, irreverent, antagonistic, and nihilistic, seeking to overthrow established aesthetics.
futurists Twentieth-century movement that created music based on noise.
atonality Terms for music that avoids establishing a central pitch or tonal center (such as the TONIC in TONAL music).
pitchclass set A collection of PITCH-CLASSES that preserves its identity when transposed, inverted, or reordered and used MELODICALLY or HARMONICALLY.
serialism Music that uses the TWELVE-TONE METHOD; used especially for music that extends the same general approach to SERIES in parameters other than pitch.
cumulative form FORM used by Charles Ives and others in which the principal THEME appears in its entirety only at the end of a work, preceded by its DEVELOPMENT.
sound mass
tone cluster Term coined by Henry Cowell for a CHORD of DIATONIC or CHROMATIC seconds.
indeterminacy An approach to composition, pioneered by John Cage, in which the composer leaves certain aspects of the music unspecified. Should not be confused with CHANCE.
total serialism The application of the principles of the TWELVE-TONE METHOD to musical parameters other than pitch, including duration, intensities, and TIMBRES. See SERIAL MUSIC.
prepared piano An invention of John Cage in which various objects-such as pennies, bolts, screws, or pieces of wood, rubber, plastic, or slit bamboo-are inserted between the strings of a PIANO, resulting in complex percussive sounds when the piano is played from the keyboard.
neoromanticism A trend of the late twentieth century in which composers adopted the familiar tonal idiom of nineteenth-century ROMANTIC music and incorporated its sounds and gestures.
sprechstimme A vocal style developed by Arnold Schoenberg in which the performer approximates the written pitches in the gliding tones of speech, while following the notated rhythm.
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Zhibo wheelset venture formed
A JOINT venture to establish China's largest wheelset overhaul plant was agreed by Lucchini Sidermeccanica and Zhibo Transport Equipment on July 27.
The Italian firm has a 25% stake in Zhibo Lucchini Railway Equipment (Zhiqi), with the 75% majority share in the venture owned by Zhibo, a subsidiary of Shanxi Coal Export & Import Group.
Lucchini Sidermeccanica entered the Chinese market in 2005 with contracts to supply wheelsets to Alstom, Bombardier and Siemens. An agreement signed in August 2006 and running through to 2021 covers the supply of wheelsets for high speed trains, along with related technology transfers.
The Italians will provide technical expertise and staff training for the Zhiqi joint venture, which is to be based at a 45 000 m² plant now under construction at Taiyuan in Shanxi province. Production is expect to begin next spring, with an annual capacity of 30 000 passenger train wheelsets a year.
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Simulation of Adaptive Response
A Model of Drug Interdiction
by Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gordon Crawford, Peter Reuter
This paper presents a Monte Carlo simulation of the smuggling and interdiction of illicit drugs that explicitly allows for adaptation across routes and modes. The model is used to examine several issues surrounding the interdiction of cocaine shipments into the U.S. It suggests that back-of-the-envelope estimates of interdiction's effectiveness may be overly optimistic if they neglect the existence of a backstop technology (smuggling small shipments over land), the concavity of smugglers' costs as a function of the fraction of all routes on which the interdiction rate is increased, and the fact that not all smuggling costs are caused by interdiction. When one considers these factors, it appears that only under truly exceptional circumstances would one expect increasing interdiction to have a substantial impact on U.S. cocaine consumption.
Simulation of Adaptive Response: A Model of Drug Interdiction
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Caulkins, Jonathan P., Gordon Crawford, and Peter Reuter, Simulation of Adaptive Response: A Model of Drug Interdiction. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1993. https://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP193.html.
Caulkins, Jonathan P., Gordon Crawford, and Peter Reuter, Simulation of Adaptive Response: A Model of Drug Interdiction, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RP-193, 1993. As of January 18, 2020: https://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP193.html
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This Is The Most Ridiculous Selfie Stick
The Most Ridiculous Selfie Stick of All Time Has Arrived
Madeline Buxton
Photo: Courtesy Neumagine.
Despite the fact that the selfie stick has led to more deaths than shark killings and incited the anger of non-tourists everywhere, it is still extending its telescopic reach. Case in point: this new Kickstarter campaign for the ultimate tricked-out selfie stick. Flip It, a "4 in 1" stick retailing for $50, isn't just a stick (that would be so 2014). It's also a "premium selfie case" with a kickstand and a wireless remote with Bluetooth technology. This is either the most ridiculous selfie stick in existence, or the most brilliant. The remote feature, which lets you take a group shot from farther away, basically functions like the self-timer on a camera, mashing up old-school and new-school trends. Perhaps Flip It's biggest selling point is the fact that it's "a selfie stick you're not embarrassed to carry around" since the stick portion folds into the case. This is, in fact, very convenient, if you do want to carry a selfie stick — discreetly. But if you're using it as a stick to capture that perfect photo on the bridge, is it really all that different from a regular selfie stick? This is the selfie stick that no one needs but you can bet people will still buy anyway. As of now, there are 22 people backing the just-launched campaign, including two who pledged $89 for this premium photography device. Of course, when you consider that $500 rhinestone selfie sticks and glow-in-the-dark selfie sticks also exist, Flip It's support isn't all that surprising — it seems downright reasonable.
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I Fagiolini at St Mary in the Castle: Hastings Early Music Festival
I Fagiolini
Brian Hick
This year the internationally famous vocal ensemble, I Fagiolini, will be performing their new immersive concert ‘Leonardo Shaping the Invisible’ at St Mary in the Castle, Hastings, on Friday, October 18.
The event celebrates the artist on the 500th anniversary of his death.
This critically acclaimed programme, introduced by Leonardo expert Professor Martin Kemp, will match projections of Da Vinci’s iconic art with vocal masterworks.
The Hastings Early Music Festival opens with a Concert by Candlelight also at St Mary’s on Thursday, October 17, performed by Hastings Early Music Festival Baroque, the Festival Ensemble, comprising of international period instrument specialists.
For the other events, BBC New Generation Artists the Consone Quartet perform at the Kino Teatr at the Sunday afternoon chamber music platform, and pianist Jan Rautio performs Bach In Focus at the Friday morning coffee concert.
Each concert has a parallel supporting event, including open rehearsals and a chance to speak to performers.
Full details can be found at www.hemf.co.uk and tickets are now available.
The Hastings Early Music Festival
If your perception of the classical concert is of audiences sitting in silence listening to unfamiliar music then applauding politely, you might be surprised by Baroque for Babies, just one of the events that has already taken place at the Hastings Early Music Festival.
Director Jane Gordon said: “We want to break down as many of the barriers to enjoying music as we can so this year there are as many relaxed events and open rehearsals as there are concerts. This is quite deliberate as we want to encourage both those who love early music and those who may never have encountered it to feel they are equally welcome. Baroque for Babies is a new direction for us but one which we hope will encourage families to feel that they are welcome. At a time when cinemas and theatres are running relaxed showings it is surely time for the classical music world to do the same? It is also important that people enjoy these events as an essential part of the Festival, not something that is added on afterwards. There is no Fringe at HEMF.”
Last year opened with a stunning performance by The Sixteen under Harry Christophers and this year features the famous vocal ensemble, I Fagiolini. They will be performing their new immersive concert Leonardo Shaping the Invisible, celebrating the artist on the 500th anniversary of his death, at St Mary in the Castle on Friday, October 18 (7pm). This critically acclaimed programme, introduced by Leonardo expert Professor Martin Kemp, will match projections of Da Vinci’s iconic art with vocal masterworks.
The Concert by Candlelight is also at St Mary’s on Thursday, October 17 (7pm), performed by Hastings Early Music Festival Baroque, the Festival Ensemble, featuring international period instrument specialists.
For the other events, BBC New Generation Artists the Consone Quartet perform at the Kino Teatr at the Sunday afternoon chamber music platform (3pm, Oct 20), and pianist Jan Rautio performs Bach In Focus at the Friday morning coffee concert (11am, Oct 18, St Mary in the Castle).
Hastings cinema listings, Friday to Thursday, January 17-23
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Marlene Belfort named Academic Laureate by the UAlbany Foundation
On October 30 Dr. Marlene Belfort, Senior Advisor to the RNA Institute, was honored at the University at Albany Foundation’s Citizen Laureate Awards ceremony.
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Neil Eisenband launches the RNA Student Enrichment & Legacy Endowment at UAlbany supporting student research at the RNA Institute.
Carl Shotwell Awarded an MDF Fellowship
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Berglund Lab awarded additional support
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New Publication by Jana Jenquin
Published July 17 2019 in ACS Pharmacology and Translational Science
Jana Jenquin Wins Best Oral Platform Presentation
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Dr. Sheng Receives NSF CAREER Award
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Dr. Larsen wins $3.4 million to Study Fibrosis
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Dr. Chandrasekaran publishes on Nanocarriers
RNA Institute Researcher Arun Richard Chandrasekaran recently published an article in Trends in Biomedical Sciences entitled “DNA Nanocarriers: Programmed to Deliver.” In this review, Dr. Chandrasekaran and his co-authors discuss the strategies used to transform DNA nanostructures into drug delivery … Continued
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Infographic: Can Self-Driving Cars Make Moral Decisions?
Attitudes and opinions on AI morality with autonomous vehicles differ depending on gender, age, profession, survey finds.
Giles Kirkland
Although fully autonomous cars are still only in development, potential users are starting to think about how an artificial brain will make life and death choices in case of an accident.
Strangely, humans seem to forget that in case of a collision, we only have a split second to react (and rarely make a conscious choice at all). But in case these decisions can be made, people do not have the same opinion. Based on gender, age and professional background, our views on the morality of self-driving cars differ.
When asked about the morality of self-driving cars altogether, half of the women in a recent survey said such life and death choices could be taught to futuristic vehicles, while two-thirds of men believed it could not.
Interestingly, IT professionals are much more optimistic, as 60% think that our future autonomous cars will be able to make rational decisions in case of a collision.
Protect passengers or pedestrians?
Half of the respondents considered the safety of the occupants of the car as paramount and the other half preferred to protect the “greater good” (choose as few victims as possible). Only a small minority (3%) preferred the idea of the car choosing randomly.
Two-thirds of people nonetheless declare that they would sacrifice themselves in case of a crash, but in fact very few of us will ever be in such a situation, and even fewer will have a choice at all.
Self-driving cars are supposed to have an emergency stop button, but two out of three respondents agree that the manufacturer (and not the user) should be responsible in case of an accident, with few variations among age groups.
Until recently, letting an artificial brain make a life and death choice looked like science-fiction, and this possibility scares a lot of people. But who knows? Maybe autonomous cars will prove to be safer and better drivers than us after all.
The infographic below shares some additional statistics that show the variations of opinions regarding self-driving cars and AI morality.
Image: Openeo.co.uk
About the author: Giles Kirkland is an automotive expert and a dedicated writer with a passion for helping the environment. His interests focus on the revolutionary clean technologies used in modern cars and infrastructure. Giles passionately shares his knowledge and experience with other motoring and technology enthusiasts across the globe. You can find him on Twitter, Facebook and Oponeo.
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McConnell will move to acquit Trump if he's impeached, not merely dismiss charges, 2 Republican senators say
Manu Raju,
Updated 8:08 AM ET,
Thu December 12, 2019
(CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to hold a final vote to acquit President Donald Trump, should he be impeached, when a majority of senators believe his trial has run its course instead of holding a vote on dismissing the articles of impeachment, two Republican senators told CNN on Wednesday.
Republicans want to have a vote on acquittal -- to clear the President of the charges against him -- not simply rely on a 51-vote threshold procedural motion to dismiss the hotly disputed case.
The Constitution mandates 67 votes are required to convict the President and remove him from office, a barrier widely considered too high to be reached in this case.
One vote McConnell can't rely on is that of Vice President Mike Pence, who has "no role in impeachment," according to a GOP leadership aide, despite being president of the Senate with the mandate to break ties.
Pence's power, which applies to legislation and nominations, isn't in effect when the Senate is weighing removing his boss, an obvious conflict of interest since he would replace Trump if he were removed. Instead, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts would preside at the trial and any tie motions would fail.
One of the senators, speaking anonymously, said McConnell would not call a vote on a motion to proceed to the impeachment articles unless he knew he had the 51 votes needed to end the trial, which would then set up a final vote on the articles themselves. On that final vote, 67 votes would be needed to convict Trump and remove him from office.
The other senator, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, said it "would make more sense" to move to vote on the articles of impeachment -- with their 67-vote requirement -- than on a motion to dismiss and "decide this on a 51-vote threshold, with the potential tie and all the recriminations that would flow from that."
McConnell hinted at this strategy when he spoke to reporters on Tuesday and said the Senate would have two choices after hearing opening arguments from the House impeachment managers and the President's defense counsel.
"It could go down the path of calling witnesses and basically having another trial or it could decide -- and again, 51 members could make that decision -- that they've heard enough and believe they know what would happen and could move to vote on the two articles of impeachment," he said. "Those are the options. No decisions have been made yet."
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Siemens Partners with University for Next-Generation Energy Grid Education
Siemens and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) formed a new academic partnership to provide students with the skills needed to operate and advance the nation’s energy grid.
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Chapter: Appendix K: Commissioned Simulation Modeling of Smoking Prevalence as an Outcome of Selected Tobacco Control Measures
« Previous: Appendix J: The Role of Public Policies in Reducing Smoking Prevalence: Results from the SimSmoke Tobacco Policy Simulation Model
Suggested Citation:"Appendix K: Commissioned Simulation Modeling of Smoking Prevalence as an Outcome of Selected Tobacco Control Measures." Institute of Medicine. 2007. Ending the Tobacco Problem: A Blueprint for the Nation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11795.
Commissioned Simulation Modeling of Smoking Prevalence as an Outcome of Selected Tobacco Control Measures
David Mendez
Kenneth E. Warner
The statement of work requested by the committee can be divided into three tasks:
An analysis of future U.S. smoking prevalence under “status quo,” “best-case” and “worst-case” scenarios. The best-case scenario was defined by the committee as the United States achieving the State of California’s current smoking initiation and cessation rates. The worst case scenario was defined by the committee as the United States achieving the State of Kentucky’s current initiation and cessation rates.
An analysis of different combinations of initiation and cessation rates that would achieve an adult smoking prevalence of 10 percent by the year 2025.
An analysis of the impact on smoking prevalence of increases in specific age group cessation rates.
For all three analysis tasks, the committee requested reports of current, former, and neversmokers’ prevalence by age group and year. Current smokers are defined as individuals who have smoked more than 100 cigarettes during their entire lives and who smoke now every day or some days.
To carry out the analysis we used the model of U.S. smoking prevalence that we developed, which has been described elsewhere (Mendez et al. 1998). We introduced the following modifications to the model:
Age-specific population figures were updated using the 2000 U.S. Census.
Death rates were updated with year 2000 figures (from the Statistical Abstract of the United States).
Overall adult prevalence for the year 2005 was fixed at 20.6 percent. This figure is a projection, because the year 2005 smoking prevalence figure is not known yet. For reference, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) preliminary estimate (from National Health Interview Survey [NHIS] data) of the adult smoking prevalence in 2004 is 20.9 percent.
Output was modified to conform to the committee’s specification.
DESCRIPTION OF ANALYSES
Pages 1 through 11 in the Results section show the outcomes from the model when subject to status quo as well as California and Kentucky’s initiation and cessation rates.
Status quo initiation rate was taken to be 25 percent, consistent with the prevalence for the 18–24 age group observed in 2003 (CDC 2005). Cessation rates for the status quo scenario were taken to be the ones estimated by Mendez and colleagues (1998): 0.21 percent for the 18–30 age group; 2.15 percent for the 31–50 age group; and 5.97 percent for individuals aged 51 and older. By using these age group-specific cessation rates we obtained an estimated 2.59 percent overall cessation rate in 2005 for the United States.
California and Kentucky rates were estimated with data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) from recent years (2000–2003). California’s initiation rate was estimated to be 20 percent, an average of the 18–24 age group prevalence from 2000 to 2003. Kentucky’s smoking initiation rate was estimated to be 39 percent.
Cessation rates for California and Kentucky were estimated in the following way: first, we obtained from BRFSS adult smoking prevalence by age group for each state from 2000 to 2003. We also obtained, from the Statistical Abstract of the United States, population size by age for each of the two states for the year 2000. We aged the population from 2000 to 2003 according to age-specific death rates and, for every year, computed the adult smoking prevalence assuming a single cessation rate for the population. We estimated the single cessation rate as the value that matched the calculated overall adult smoking prevalence with the prevalence reported from BRFSS for a specific year. These years, 2001 for Kentucky and 2002 for California, were chosen to highlight the high cessation in California and the low cessation in Kentucky. This procedure yielded an estimated cessation rate of 3.33 percent for California and 1.00 percent for Kentucky. We should note that this is a crude estimation procedure that ignores the effect of migration into and out of the states. The procedure is aimed to produce a rough estimate of the cessation rates in the states.
To obtain national age-specific cessation rates consistent with the aggregate quit rates obtained for California and Kentucky, we multiplied the status quo age-specific cessation rates by the ratio of the estimated cessation rates for California and Kentucky to the overall U.S. cessation rate: that is, 3.33/2.59 for California and 1.00/2.59 for Kentucky.
Page 1 in Results presents the status quo scenario. Pages 2 through 11 show scenarios in which the United States attains California and Kentucky rates at different times: almost instantaneously (in 2006) and gradually (linearly), by 2010, 2015, and 2020.
Pages 12 through 26 in Results describe different scenarios in which the country will move from a current adult smoking prevalence of 20.6 percent in 2005 to a 10 percent adult smoking prevalence in 2025. These scenarios describe necessary changes in initiation and/or cessation rates to achieve the 2025 10 percent target prevalence. These changes in initiation and cessation rates are assumed to happen instantaneously by 2006 or gradually (linearly) by 2010, 2015, and 2020. Once target cessation and initiation rates are reached, they are kept constant at the target levels for the remainder of the analysis period.
Finally, pages 27 through 38 present the percentage decrease in adult smoking prevalence (from the status quo) due to a 10 percent increase in cessation for each of the age groups reported in the analysis.
Status Quo Scenario
Country moves from Status Quo rates to California rates – California rates are reached by 2006
California rates are reached by 2010
Country moves from Base Case rates to Kentucky rates – Kentucky rates are reached by 2006
Kentucky rates are reached by 2010
Smoking prevalence under California, Kentucky and Base Case rates – Rates are reached by 2006
If initiation drops to 5.9% by 2006, prevalence will drop to 10% by 2025
If initiation is fixed at 30% in 2006 and cessation increases 4.39-fold by 2006, prevalence will drop to 10% by 2025
Combinations of initiation and cessation rates to reach 10% prevalence by 2025
Sensitivity analysis – 10% increase in cessation rate for the 18-24 group in 2005
Sensitivity analysis – 10% increase in cessation rate for the 71+ group in 2005
CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). 2005. Cigarette smoking among adults—United States, 2003. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 54(20):509-528.
Mendez D, Warner KE, Courant PN. 1998. Has smoking cessation ceased? Expected trends in the prevalence of smoking in the United States. American Journal of Epidemiology 148(3):249-258.
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Government Trying to Take Man’s Home over Overgrown Grass
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Overgrown bushes and grass in South Bend, In., June 26, 2019 (Joshua Lott/Reuters)
It may be illegal, because it could violate our Eighth Amendment protections against excessive fines.
The city of Dunedin, Fla., told a man that it is going to take his home if he cannot pay the $30,000 in fines that he owes because his grass grew too long.
Yes — $30,000 for tall grass.
According to an article in Reason, Jim Ficken left his house in the care of a friend while he went to take care of his late mother’s estate following her death. Then, that friend died, and there was no one cutting the grass. It grew to ten inches, so city officials started fining him $500 per day — which has added up to $30,000, money that Ficken says he does not have.
“Do you have $30,000 laying around?” Ficken asked John Stossel in a video.
Ficken’s lawyer, Ari Bargil, claims that the city could have handled the (gasp!) long grass in a different way.
“The city has gone nuclear!” Bargil said. “$500 per day for the violation of having tall grass. . . . They could have done what their own ordinances permit them to do: hire a lawn service to come out and mow the grass. Then send Jim a bill for 150 bucks. But they didn’t do that.”
According to Stossel’s piece, the city’s level of fining has gone up astronomically: Eleven years ago, it fined people only $34,000, but that number shot up to a whopping $1.3 million last year.
“I got violated for a lawn mower in my yard!” one resident, who claimed she was fined $32,000, said. “They violated me for a hole the size of a quarter in my stucco. . . . They find people they can pick on . . . and they keep picking on them.”
Now Reason reports that the city has insisted to reporters (via a public-relations firm that cost it $25 grand) that the city “has no desire to impose large fines,” simply to “ensure that Dunedin is a high-quality community.”
I call B.S. After all, do you know what is the highest quality of community? One where a man who is dealing with multiple deaths of people close to him is not punished for having difficulty dealing with the logistics of it by having his home taken away. (Just a thought!)
Now, not only is what’s happening to Ficken enraging, it may also be illegal — because it could violate our Eighth Amendment protections against “excessive fines.” In fact, that’s exactly what his lawyers at the Institute for Justice (who are helping him for free) are arguing.
Yep. According to Bargil, the Founding Fathers “recognized that the ability to fine is the ability to cripple,” that “it’s one of the ways, other than incarceration, that government can really oppress.”
Honestly, if this instance were not a case of “excessive fines,” I certainly don’t know what would be. Too-tall grass might be a little ugly looking, but I highly doubt even the most stuck-up Dunedin residents would say that an appropriate punishment for the, um, perpetrator (?) would be to fine him so badly that he deserves to lose his home.
What’s more, I am almost certain that the courts will agree. In January 2018, in a case called Timbs v. Indiana, the Supreme Court ruled that local and state governments must comply with the Eighth Amendment’s ban on “excessive fines,” which The Atlantic called “a historic precedent against policing for profit,” because, before that case, “the excessive-fines clause in the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment had languished in obscurity.”
With our rights in that area recently reaffirmed, I would guess that what happened to Ficken is definitely going to turn out to be illegal. After all, as Bargil pointed out, the city could have simply hired someone to cut the grass and sent Ficken a bill — and, using math, charging someone $30,000 or his home to solve a problem that could have been solved for less than a couple hundred bucks is the definition of “excessive.” It’s clear that the city was using the fines not because it was dealing with some sort of atrocity that it could not deal with any other way, but simply as a way to take cash from a resident who happened to be struggling with so much loss in his personal life.
Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online. @KatTimpf
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Gingrich, Colbert Liken Election to “Billionaire Fight”
“Republicans and conservatives should stop and analyze this election and think it through, because we were wrong."
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich dropped by “The Colbert Report” Wednesday, where he discussed his new book, the election outcome, and how super PACs have turned the presidential election into a glorified “billionaire fight.”
Host Stephen Colbert noted that Gingrich’s latest book, “Victory at Yorktown,” recently hit bookstore shelves, prompting him to ask whether the former congressman wrote the book while running for the GOP's presidential nomination.
“Were you phoning in the campaign or phoning in the book?” Colbert asked. “Because you can’t do two things that well.”
Gingrich couldn't resist taking a jab at his failed bid for the presidency.
“Sure ... I didn’t,” he quipped.
After bowing out of the race, Gingrich threw his support behind Mitt Romney and went so far as to predict a Romney landslide. And like Colbert, he was left shell-shocked by the election results.
“Republicans and conservatives should stop and analyze this election and think it through, because we were wrong,” Gingrich said.
Still speaking about the elections, Gingrich discussed the role of super PACs and mused that they could either make or break the race. The bestselling author pointed out that he had one billionaire contributing to his super PAC, while Romney had 26.
“It turned out 26 billionaires beat one,” Gingrich joked. “This was a great revelation for us.”
Gingrich’s comment prompted Colbert to suggest the premise of a new reality television show: Billionaire Fight.
“We just had it,” Gingrich replied. “It was called the election.”
To see more of Colbert’s interview with Gingrich, check out the clip below, courtesy of Comedy Central:
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Qubic has recently applied for and been accepted onto the government’s G-Cloud 11 framework agreement managed by the Crown Commercial Service (CSS) that acts on behalf of the Crown to drive savings for the taxpayer and improve the quality of commercial and procurement activity.
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Our application for consideration and acceptance onto the G-Cloud 11 programme underscores our commitment to the Public Sector and will help us build on our success to date in providing services to schools, hospitals, police, central government and local authorities.
The G-Cloud 11 agreement supports the Government’s policy to centrally manage the procurement of common goods and services through an integrated commercial function at the heart of government.
The G-Cloud 11 services can be used by organisations across the UK public sector including central government, local government, health, education, devolved administrations, emergency services, defence and not-for-profit organisations.
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The Digital Marketplace helps organisations find cloud technology and specialist services for digital projects. The Digital Marketplace uses frameworks (agreements between government and suppliers). Buying services through frameworks means public sector organisations can save on the time and cost of entering into individual procurement contracts. All public sector organisations, including agencies and arm’s length bodies, can use the Digital Marketplace. Check the customer unique reference number (URN) list to see if you’re eligible.
Qubic is part of the cloud services framework and provides;
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Universal Remote Information Management (URIM) Application
Universal Remote Information Management (URIM) helps solve the problem of managing a widespread workforce. It gives you global mobile access to structured information your people really need. Ideally suited to those responding to time-critical operational events, it ensures users have the vital information they need to do their job.
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Think Nexus Continuity provides multi-layered approach to try to avoid potential disaster and a series of measures designed to get you up and running as quickly as possible in the event of an incident such as Fire, Ransomware or virus attack.
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Enterprise-grade Mitel hosted telephony within UK datacentres with High Availability across multiple datacentres using SRM and VMotion. Additional functionality with optional Enhanced Voicemail, Call Logging, Call Recording and Contact Centre applications. Individual user functionality can be enhanced with different licences from Basic Telephony to Advanced Unified Communications.
Think Nexus Support brings the whole process of support under a comprehensive, single, managed service. We recognise that organisations need either around the clock or 9 to 5 support with SLAs to match. We do not wait until things go wrong, our proactive monitoring can anticipate issues before they happen.
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Vail Resorts To Invest $210 Million for 2020-21
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SAM Magazine—Broomfield, Colo., Dec. 9, 2019—Vail Resorts plans to invest approximately $210 million to $215 million across its portfolio of resorts ahead of the 2020-21 season. The plan includes new chairlifts, terrain expansions, facility expansions and improvements, and technology upgrades. Beaver Creek
“We’re excited to share what’s next in our continuous efforts to enhance the guest experience with a focus on maximizing our guests’ time on the mountain,” said Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz.
Resort investments for the 2020-21 season:
• Beaver Creek: McCoy Park terrain expansion project served by two new chairlifts, including a high-speed quad. It will provide a beginner and intermediate bowl experience and family-friendly learning terrain.
• Breckenridge: High-speed quad to Peak 7 aimed at increasing uphill capacity and improving circulation for the intermediate terrain on Peaks 6 and 7.
• Keystone: The Peru quad chair will be replaced with a six-person, high-speed chairlift to increase capacity and improve circulation at the Mountain House base area, pending certain government approvals.
• Whistler Blackcomb: Increased seating capacity at the Rendezvous Lodge Restaurant on Blackcomb Mountain. The expansion will add 250 seats at a critical on-mountain restaurant, located at the top of the new Blackcomb Gondola installed last year.
• Okemo: Pending certain government approvals, the relatively new Quantum high-speed quad will be relocated and replace the Green Ridge triple. A new high-speed six-passenger lift will replace the Quantum lift. Together, these moves will increase uphill capacity and improve circulation across the resort. Other improvements: dining and ski school facilities expansion and renovation, and greater accessibility at the primary point of arrival.
• Peak Resorts: According to the press release, the 17 former Peak Resorts properties in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest "will be integrated to allow for direct-to-lift access." This is presumably for Epic Pass holders via RFID installation. Epic passes are direct-to-lift now at all but the Midwest ski areas, and, of course, guests with lift tickets can go direct-to-lift now at all 17 ski areas.
• EpicMix: The EpicMix mobile application will be completely revamped. It will offer new functionality and an improved user experience, including new interactive trail maps and account features, while retaining key features like vertical feet tracking, photo sharing, and transparent lift line wait times.
In its quarterly financial report VR further explained its expenditures thusly: "Our capital plan for calendar 2020 will be approximately $155 million to $160 million, excluding one-time items associated with integrations, the one-time Triple Peaks and Stevens Pass transformation plan, one-time Peak Resorts capital improvements, real estate related capital and $4 million of reimbursable investments associated with insurance recoveries that we had originally expected to occur in calendar 2019. Including these one-time items, our total capital plan will be approximately $210 million to $215 million. We will be providing further detail on our calendar year 2020 capital plan in March 2020."
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‘Almost Famous’ photographer Neal Preston famous in his own right
History repeats for famed photographer Neal Preston (left) and writer and director Cameron Crowe, who worked together on Crowe’s 2000 film “Almost Famous” and have now reunited for Crowe’s new Old Globe musical adaptation of “Almost Famous.” They are shown here in the parking lot of the former San Diego Sports Arena (now Pechanga Arena San Diego) on Aug. 27, 2019.
(Photo by Nancee E. Lewis)
Oscar winner Cameron Crowe was a teenager when he and now-famous photographer Neal Preston first teamed up; 47 years later they’re still a team
By George Varga
The ghosts of concerts past were everywhere during Neal Preston’s recent 12-hour photo shoot with the cast and director of the Old Globe’s musical adaptation of “Almost Famous.”
The musical is based on Oscar winner Cameron Crowe’s acclaimed 2000 film about a budding young music critic’s love affair with rock ‘n’ roll in the early 1970s. That critic was Crowe, who was in his mid-teens when he became the youngest writer for Rolling Stone magazine. He wrote the script and co-wrote the lyrics for the Old Globe’s production of his film, in which the main character is his teen-aged alter-ego, William Miller.
Crowe and Preston, one of the music world’s most celebrated photographers, became lifelong friends and collaborators after meeting at a Humble Pie concert at the San Diego Sports Arena in 1972.
It was the first of many shows the two attended at the same arena while on assignment for Rolling Stone. And it is the same arena they reconvened in 1999 to take promotional photos for the “Almost Famous” film, and — 20 years later — in late August for the Old Globe photo shoot.
“This is a deja vu trifecta!” declared Preston, as he stretched his legs in a corridor of the storied venue, now known as Pechanga Arena San Diego.
“Twenty years ago, when we were shooting the movie, I distinctly remember coming here to the arena. Cameron and I ran down the (backstage) ramp together, going: ‘Oh, my god. We’re shooting a movie here!’
“I will never forget that moment, because this was, and is, my life. I would come down to the San Diego Sports Arena for concerts, then stay with Cameron and his mom at their home on the hill over there (above Mission Valley). This time around, well, it’s still strange. Talk about what goes around comes around!”
Neal Preston (right) photographs the cast of the Old Globe production of “Almost Famous” in the parking lot of Pechanga Arena San Diego (the venue formerly known as the San Diego Sports Arena).
Art imitating life, in a parking lot
Preston playfully underscored that sense of deja vu as he and Crowe posed for photos in front of the vintage “Almost Famous” tour bus in the arena’s parking lot.
Holding the same plastic microphone and cassette tape recorder that Miller — the character based on Crowe — used in the movie, Preston asked a smiling Crowe: “So, what do you love about music?”
It is (minus one word) the final line in the movie spoken by the Miller character, as he interviews Russell Hammond, the Glenn Frey-inspired lead guitarist in Stillwater. The fictitious group, which is also featured in the Old Globe musical, is a composite of several bands Crowe interviewed as a teenager, including the Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Poco and the Allman Brothers.
Crowe and Preston worked together on an array of Rolling Stone feature stories before the photographer signed a 25-year contract with Time-Life that saw him do cover shots for Time, Newsweek and other magazines. Preston’s photos of Bob Marley, Madonna, The Who’s Pete Townshend, Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and Queen’s Freddie Mercury are among some of the most iconic in rock history.
“Freddie was more famous than Aristotle,” Preston said of the late Mercury.
“Who you also shot!” quipped a nearby Old Globe crew member.
“No, but I’m old enough!” Preston quipped back.
That Preston is a legend in his own right among musicians and other photographers is a matter of record. But he is happy to remain behind the lens.
“I’m not famous. I’m the guy who presses the button,” said Preston, a New York native who moved to Los Angeles in 1971.
“I’ve had people tell me I’m the best photographer, and the worst, and neither means anything to me. If my pictures move people and they derive pleasure from it, that’s what matters to me.”
Freddie Mercury of Queen is shown on stage at London’s Wembley Stadium in 1986. Neal Preston, who took this iconic photo, had a close relationship with the band.
(Photo by Neal Preston)
‘Exhilarated and Exhausted’
Crowe was barely 15 when he and the then-20-year-old Preston first met at the San Diego Sports Arena. It’s an encounter Crowe fondly recalls in his foreword to the 2017 book, “Neal Preston: Exhilarated and Exhausted,” a comprehensive, 337-page retrospective of the photographer’s far-reaching career.
In it, Crowe writes: “You can feel the music, the audience, the desperate need to find a place in the world, all of it, in these photos because they were curated by the guy who felt it all when he pressed the button on the camera. They’re snapshots of what’s most elusive — truth and fun and for that one moment, on that one night, the thrill of belonging.”
That said, Crowe acknowledged that Preston was initially aloof when they first crossed paths backstage here at the arena nearly 50 years ago.
“Neal was kind of brusque with me, but not for long,” Crowe said, as he chatted in the arena’s parking lot while Preston took shots of the Old Globe’s “Almost Famous” cast. “His being here now is huge! Everyone in the cast has passed his book around.”
Preston beamed when told of Crowe’s praise.
“That foreword makes me cry every time I read it,” the bearded photographer said. “Cameron talks about the night he met me. I was kind of in work mode when he said ‘Hi,’ and I didn’t look at him. I might have been a touch brusque, but we became good friends, the best friends.
“Cameron was really funny, and the way to my heart is through laughter. We went on tour with the Allman Brothers and the guy he kept chasing around for an interview was Gregg Allman. Cameron had to keep calling his mom in San Diego, because he couldn’t get to Gregg and we had to go to another city, then another. We got back to L.A. and my parking bill was $45 for eight days. I didn’t have $45 then.”
Famed photographer Neal Preston (right) is shown with the cast of the Old Globe production of “Almost Famous.”
(Photo by Nancee Lewis)
At the recent arena photo shoot here, Preston worked tirelessly with the “Almost Famous” cast as they struck a variety of poses under his careful guidance.
“That’s it, that’s it,” he said, addressing each actor by the name of their character in the musical.
“William, you’re in Fantasy Land! You can’t believe you’re here. Penny, move your coat.”
He used a Hasselblad H5X Phase I IQ3 Digital Back camera, which was mounted on a tripod. Directly behind him was his support crew and a table on wheels. It held an over-sized laptop computer on which Preston was able to check the images he shot, then made adjustments.
Crowe almost jumped for joy as he watched. “This is unbelievable!” he said. “So good! So good!”
About 20 feet away, Preston arranged the actors in front of a tour bus. Its front destination indicator read: Almost Famous —Tour 73.
Preston wore jeans, a burgundy-colored T-shirt and an L.A. baseball cap. He held a small laptop computer up to the cast to show each actor exactly how they should be positioned. For different shots, Preston had the actors — the five Stillwater band members, their manager, William Miller (who is portrayed by 17-year-old Casey Likes) and four female muses — turn at different angles or switch positions with other actors.
“There are a lot of elements that have to come together when you’re working on a shoot with this many moving parts — the cast, hair, makeup, props, wardrobe, production assistants. And to that bouillabaisse you add Actors Equity-mandated cast breaks, union-mandated lunch breaks and location issues, like fighting the sun. The sun waits for no man!”
Preston chuckled.
“Another bizarre thing about today,” he noted, “is that I’m basically copying photos I shot 20 years ago (for the ‘Almost Famous’ movie). It’s surreal.”
Preston is now at work on a new book that he can’t discuss quite yet. An exhibition of his photos will open at the Leica Gallery in West Hollywood on Oct. 24 and run through Dec. 2. His 48-year friendship with Crowe has no expiration date.
“I’m five years older than Cameron but he was always an equal, even when he was 15,” Preston said.
“He’s a brilliant writer and he didn’t need any mentoring. We still have the same sense of ‘Can you believe that?’ wonder we had back then. And our favorite time is still the recap — after the show and the party is over — when we discuss what happened that day.”
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Soccer groups must alternate in use of park
By Tawny Maya McCray
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After having Walnut Grove Park designated for it over the last decade, the San Marcos American Youth Soccer Organization will now have to alternate seasons with a new San Marcos soccer league.
The new league — San Marcos Youth Soccer, established in 2011 — will have dibs on the park this fall season. AYSO will have it for fall 2014, and it will continue going back and forth, season to season, until a more permanent solution is arranged.
The league that doesn’t play its Saturday games at Walnut Grove Park — the city’s largest multipurpose sports field complex — will instead have its pick of fields at Las Posas Park, San Marcos Middle School and Palomar College, which is where San Marcos Youth Soccer has been playing its games since it started.
San Marcos Community Services Director Buck Martin said the reason for the rotating field schedule is because SMYS has more players than AYSO.
“AYSO was using the park for the past decade because they were serving the most kids, until San Marcos Youth Soccer came along and started serving more kids,” he said.
According to city documents provided by Martin, in the 2012 season, San Marcos Youth Soccer had 1,360 players and AYSO had 1,265 players. Both leagues had more than the requisite benchmark that at least 80 percent of registered participants be San Marcos residents.
AYSO Commissioner Joanne Shannon said because the leagues were “basically the same size,” the city “arbitrarily decided it would be fair for us to flip-flop back and forth with use of certain parks.”
The problem with this, she said, is because AYSO has set up shop at the park over the last nine years, it houses a lot of its equipment — goals, nets, storage containers, barbecues, tables and chairs — and it will incur an expense to move it all to other parks.
“We would need storage at the other fields, and we would need off-site storage, and we’d probably need to rent a truck to get the goals moved,” she said, adding that it all adds up to about $7,000.
Shannon said the AYSO organization invested $50,000 in the park before it opened and has given additional money “here and there” over the years to help with the cost of seating and other such expenses.
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SANFRECCE HIROSHIMA FC
Sanfrecce Hiroshima FC Co., Ltd.
President and Representaive Director Shingo Senda
Established on 24th April 1992, with capital investment by 59 groups such as Hiroshima Prefecture, Hiroshima City, Mazda Motor Corporation, Deodeo Corporation (currently EDION Corporation), The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc., The Hiroshima Bank, Ltd., and other organizations.
2F, Ueda Bldg. 1-4-14, Otemachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City JAPAN 730-0051
Team Goals
To improve the competitive level of football in Hiroshima
To revive the tradition of “the football capital-Hiroshima”
To contribute to the revitalization of the sports culture throughout the Chugoku region
To create exchange between regions, and between people, to contribute to the revitalization of the regional community
Origins and Emblem
The hometown of “Sanfrecce Hiroshima” is Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture. Sanfrecce is a name that was created by combining the Japanese word for three, “san,” with the Italian word “frecce” (arrow), meaning “three arrows.” This team name originates with the historical “three arrows” incident involving a feudal warlord closely connected to Hiroshima, Motonari Mori, and indicates the support obtained through the three unified strengths of Hiroshima citizens, local administration, and business. Also, it refers to the three factors at the core of team sports, “skills, tactics, and stamina” and the three principles that are necessary for each individual player, “spirit, technique, and physical condition.” Moreover, since the 2005 season, there has been a new design for the Sanfrecce Hiroshima club emblem, which represents the “Club Spirit” and “Club Goals” and is also “typically Hiroshima.”
Club Mascots
Nickname: “Sancce” and “Frecce”
The club mascots are Asiatic black bears, which live in the mountainous regions in Chugoku. “Sancce,” a mascot who is friendly towards the supporters, but strong against opponents, was named in a gesture of gratitude towards our supporters, with parts of his name taken from the English “thank you” and the Italian “grazie,” and also a shortened version of the team name Sanfrecce. In 2000, Sancce was joined by his girlfriend, who was named “Frecce” borrowing in part from the English “fresh,” expressing freshness, youthfulness, and purity. Our mascots also support Sanfrecce through their good teamwork.
A Professional League Review Committee was established within the Japan Football Association.
The conditions for participation in the professional league were determined.
10 teams that would participate in the professional league were announced.
A task force was created for the establishment of a professional football team for Hiroshima.
The Japan Professional Football League was established (known as J. League).
The team name “Sanfrecce Hiroshima” was determined.
Sanfrecce Hiroshima FC Co., Ltd was established.
Position in the ’92 J. League Nabisco Cup: 9th place
The first season of the J. League opened.
Suntory Series: 6th place
Nicos Series: 5th place
’93 J. League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup Group A: 7th place
73rd Emperor’s Cup Best 4
Received the J. League Special Award for Fair Play.
Suntory Series: Champions
’94 J. League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup: First round
J. League Championship: 2nd place
74th Emperor’s Cup Best 8
Suntory Series: 10th place
Nicos Series: 12th place
J-Youth Cup: Champions (Youth Team)
75th Emperor’s Cup 2nd place
1996 J. League Position: 14th place
’96 J. League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup Group A: 3rd place
76th Emperor’s Cup: 2nd place
1997 J. League 1st stage: 10th place
1997 J. League 2nd stage: 13th place
’97 J. League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup Group D: 3rd place
77th Emperor’s Cup: Best 16
1998 J. League 2nd stage: 9th place
78th Emperor’s Cup: Best 8
1999 J1 League 1st stage: 6th place
1999 J1 League 2nd stage: 8th place
’99 J. League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup: Second round
2000 J1 League 1st stage: 10th place
2000 J1 League 2nd stage: 11th place
2001 J1 League 2nd stage: 3rd place
’01 J. League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup: Third round
81st Emperor’s Cup: Best 16
’02 J. League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup: 14th place
82nd Emperor’s Cup: Best 4
2003 J2 League: 2nd place
83rd Emperor’s Cup: Best 16
’04 J. League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup: Eliminated in the preliminary group match
84th Emperor’s Cup: Eliminated in the fourth round
2005 J1 League: 7th place
2005 J. League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup: Eliminated in the preliminary group match
85th Emperor’s Cup: Eliminated in the fifth round
2006 J1 League: 10th place
2007 J. League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup: Final tournament: Best 8
2008 Xerox Super Cup: Champions
2008 J2 League: Champions
89th Emperor’s Cup: Eliminated in the third round
2010 J. League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup: 2nd place
AFC Champions League: Eliminated in the group stage
2011 J. League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup: Eliminated in the 1st game
92th Emperor’s Cup: Eliminated in the second round
FIFA Club World Cup 2012: 5th place
AFC Champions League: Eliminated in the round of 16
2015 J1 League 1st stage : 3rd place
2015 J1 League 2nd stage : Champions
2015 J1 League Championship : Champions
95th Emperor’s Cup: Best4
FIFA Club World Cup 2015 : 3rd place
2016 J1 League 1st stage : 4th place
2016 J1 League 2nd stage : 10th place
2016 J.League YBC Levain Cup: Final tournament : Best8
Takuto Hayashi 09/08/1982 188 87
Yuki Nogami 20/04/1991 180 72
Emil Salomonsson 28/04/1989 182 73
Kyohei Yoshino 08/11/1994 182 75
Toshihiro Aoyama 22/02/1986 174 75
Gakuto Notsuda 06/06/1994 177 72
Akira Ibayashi 05/09/1990 179 70
Tsukasa Morishima 25/04/1997 175 66
Sho Inagaki 25/12/1991 175 70
Daiki Watari 25/06/1993 176 70
Taishi Matsumoto 22/08/1998 180 69
Yoshifumi Kashiwa 28/07/1987 168 62
Sho Sasaki 02/10/1989 176 70
Douglas da Silva Vieira 12/11/1987 189 82
Ryotaro Hironaga 09/01/1990 186 80
Hayato Araki 07/08/1996 185 75
Shunki Higash 28/07/2000 180 69
Hiroya Matsumoto 10/08/2000 180 73
Kohei Shimizu 30/04/1989 169 68
Kosei Shibasaki 28/08/1984 176 65
Keisuke Osako 28/07/1999 186 86
LEANDRO Marcos Peruchena PEREIRA 13/07/1991 190 76
Hayao Kawabe 08/09/1995 178 70
Rhayner Santos Nascimento 05/09/1990 172 64
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Kodai Dohi 13/04/2001 180 67
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Shun Ayukawa 15/09/2001 164 61
5-1-1 Otsuka-nishi, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima City JAPAN 731-3167
From Astram Line Hondori Station
Hondori Station (Astram Line)
-› about 36 minutes -› “Koiki-koen-mae Station” -› 5 minutes on foot (free shuttle bus available) -› Edion Stadium Hiroshima
Shuttle bus from Yokogawa Station (Time needed: 20 minutes)
JR Yokogawa Station -› Direct shuttle bus(Hiroshima Electric Railway Bus)
-› Parking area on the main stand side
One-way fare: (JR Kabe Line) adults 380 yen, children 190 yen
*Operates from four hours before the start of the match, until 10 minutes after kick-off.
*Operates continually after the match. (The last bus service is scheduled for one hour after the end of the match.)
From Hiroshima Airport
Hiroshima Airport Limousine Bus(via Nakasuji Station)
-› change for Astram Line
Hiroshima Airport -› about 40 minutes -› get off at Nakasuji Bus Terminal and change for Astram Line Nakasuji Station -› 22 minutes -› Koiki-koen-mae Station
Yoshida Soccer Park
Nishiura 187-1, Yoshida, Akitakata City, Hiroshima Prefecture JAPAN 731-0543
Go to watch Sanfrecce practice!
In October 1998, the largest football park in the Chugoku-Shikoku area was completed in Yoshida, Takata (now Akitakata) in Hiroshima Prefecture, the home of Motonari Mori, who is famous for “the lesson of the three arrows” that is the origin of the name of Sanfrecce Hiroshima.
This facility is a professional standard football park equipped with a natural grass football field and an administration building (clubhouse). Since the 1999 season, Sanfrecce Hiroshima have been conducting most of their training at Yoshida Soccer Park.
Via the Chugoku Expressway:
About 10 minutes from “Takata Interchange”
From Hiroshima City center:
About 60 minutes from Hiroshima City center; take national route 54 heading towards Miyoshi.
From Hiroshima Bus Center:
Take the Hiroden Bus (for Yoshida) -› about 80 minutes
-› get off at “Yoshida Eigyosho”
-› about 5 minutes by taxi
By train(JR)
From Hiroshima Station:
JR Geibi Line -› about 60 minutes
-› get off at JR “Mukaihara Station” (JR fare: one-way 840 yen)
-› about 20 minutes by taxi
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Lately I’ve been revisiting Brené Brown’s work on shame, vulnerability, courage and creativity.
There are certain books, and works of particular authors, that I dip into periodically because their evocative language sparks my imagination and propels my thinking forward. Right now I’m reading Terry Tempest William’s new book Erosion, and I know it will join her other books on my shelf, to be dipped into again and again like sips of nectar.
Brown’s work feels particularly on point at this moment in my own evolution, and both her work and Erosion couldn’t be more germane to the state of our politics nationally and globally. I believe she is accurate when she says that ultimately all behaviors that harm oneself or others have shame at their core. I see fear and shame as twins cowering under the same blanket wishing it was an Invisibility Cloak.
I know I’ve mentioned this before, but for several years I’ve been practicing not fretting. It is a useful discipline, being someone with particular shards of PTSD embedded like shrapnel in my amygdala. Peaceful coexistence with reactivity, rather than its complete eradication, is my aim. In the last year or so, my practice has evolved to being about converting my fear to faith.
I don’t mean this in a religious way, nor as a project expected to come to an end.
It is a discipline of paying attention, of noticing when fear arises in its many guises, and after identifying it, practicing tolerating it, getting more at ease with my squirmy discomfort, and then making a conscious choice not to indulge it.
Part of what I mean by faith is this: because I can’t know the future, and my presumptions about it are based on past experiences which I’ve spent decades probing. I can actively choose to stand-in-not-knowing-what’s-next, which some call The Holy Instant.
Painstakingly dissecting my past in order to articulate its anatomy has been a worthy endeavor, and it is no longer mysterious or figural. Its present utility is to allow me to make more informed choices including practicing faith, i.e., trusting that whatever may arise is simply a challenge. I can, instead, tolerate my discomfort and not run, tolerate my autonomic responses to old triggers rather than have my entire nervous system hijacked, acknowledge that these things exist and inform my reactions but not have them govern my present behavior.
It means consciously expanding my awareness to a wider range of possibilities. It also means that being prepared for the worst (my inner Girl Scout) or waiting for the other shoe to drop is an expenditure of energy resources I can actively choose to spend differently.
This is what I mean by choosing faith.
How do you define and practice faith?
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My cousin, Hatch, 77 yo, is dying. He had a stroke a month ago, but that was just the first symptom of an inexorable shutdown. Prior to the moment of the stroke,he had been still working, mostly with young computer nerds, not as a techie but as a sage sales executive. This sounds solid, but in many ways his life was a mess, broken.and shaky,. I was proud of him because in the last 5 years he experienced genuine love and family connection for nearly the first time. Yet soon, now, he will belong to the ages, and all those left behind around him, including his wife of 5 years, VV, will need to move on, and close ranks where he once stood.
Your blog post relates to Hatch's life in that the exercise of examining the past in detail had been for Hatch a look down into the void, the total abyss, in ways I cannot imagine. Only when he was released in a way that permitted him to look only forward and see a wholly new future could he then emerge and rejoin the world, and connect with folks in the family who had long ago stopped looking for him.
His life has been particularly troubled, but is it really far different than all of us?
Is there really any reason to take time to examine the past? I have reached an age where I rejoice in speaking to young people who remind me of myself 30 years ago, full of energy and commitment, who are only looking ahead. I am also at the age where I can see the value to the world of my finally passing from it, so family, colleagues and strangers can take their place in the parade of humanity moving forward in the world and not be held back by the obligations I had been to them,
After all, vanity has us believe our own lives have lingering value beyond an infinitely small part we played in the global story of evolving life on Earth. We can hold to the thought that our small contribution inspired someone, supported a creative action that others will carry forward, and encouraged other souls to persevere through their recognition of a common bond of spirit. But even that is mostly vanity, designed to keep us individually from experiencing dread when we see how short the time is ahead of us.
I see that I have lent my shoulder to the task of forming the future on Earth, and now others are behind me, ready to do the same, and that is a marvelously liberating fact, and it is okay for me to relax and evaporate finally, just as all thinkers, both great and modest, and my ancient ancestors before me have done. That is enough to justify life and my efforts.
I have become one of the shards for someone else's mind to pick up, examine, and finally, by necessity, set aside, as they take their next step forward
That is how it has always worked.
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Peter Baker secures first Senior Tour title
Final Round Report
Nearly a decade after his last victory, former Ryder Cup player Peter Baker secured his first Staysure Senior Tour title at the Senior Open Hauts de France by Jean van de Velde after a final round of five- under-par 67, signing for a 13-under-par total of 203.
The Englishman, who joined the Staysure Tour in 2017 after turning 50, went wire-to-wire at Arras Golf Resort, having shared the first round lead with Miguel Angel Martín and then took a one-stroke lead into the final round.
At the start of his final round, he quickly made amends after a bogey on the second hole with birdies on four of his next five, making the turn three under par. He then birdied the 13th hole and then made his sixth gain of the day on the 16th hole to move five strokes clear at the top of the leaderboard on 13 under par.
Baker's victory is his first since his Credit Suisse Challenge victory in 2009 on the European Challenge Tour. The 51-year-old became the 11th player to have won on the European Tour, Challenge Tour and Staysure Tour.
“I’m delighted to get my first win on the Staysure Tour,” said Baker, who represented Europe at The 1993 Ryder Cup. “I’m relieved I’ve done it. I was in a strong position going out, I just wanted to play as well as I had done the first two days and it all came good.
“Hopefully this will give me some confidence to get up there again. No matter which Tour you play on it’s always hard to win, so you keep going, do the right things, and give yourself a chance.
“You do think about it every now and then – I’d won in the 80s, 90s, noughties, and I've won now, so that's four decades. It’s amazing to think about it. It’s something to be proud of. To win on the Staysure Tour against these guys is something really special.
“When I birdied the 16th and was on the 17th tee I knew I was in a pretty strong position, so I knew a couple of pars would get the job done – but you still have to finish it off. I was really strong from about 130 yards in. It’s never really been my strong point but I pitched it really well and gave myself a lot of really good chances throughout the week.”
This is also Baker’s fourth victory in France, having won the UAP Under-25s Championship in 1990, the Tournoi Perrier de Paris with DJ Russell and 2007 Open AGF-Allianz Côtes d'Armor Bretagne.
“France has been really kind to me,” said Baker. “I like playing over here and it’s great to get my first win under my belt.
“I’ve known Jean since we were 14 or 15, so we have a lot of history together. What he’s done this week has been fantastic, he’s been a great host, and it would be great to come back.”
South Africa’s James Kingston carded a final round of 66 to take second place on eight under par, one stroke ahead of Austria’s Markus Brier.
Two-time Senior Major Champion Roger Chapman shared fourth place with Miguel Angel Martín, Dan Olsen and Phillip Price on six under par.
Final scores:203 P Baker (Eng) 66 70 67,
208 J Kingston (SAf) 71 71 66,
209 M Brier (Austria) 71 69 69,
210 M Martin (Esp) 66 73 71, R Chapman (Eng) 70 70 70, P Price (Wal) 72 73 65, D Olsen (USA) 68 69 73,
211 S Dodd (Wal) 74 70 67, D Gilford (Eng) 73 70 68, S Luna (Esp) 71 74 66,
212 P O'Malley (Aus) 71 75 66, J Lomas (Eng) 68 74 70,
213 P Lawrie (Sco) 68 79 66, G Orr (Sco) 71 72 70, C Williams (RSA) 69 73 71,
214 D Shacklady (Eng) 69 73 72, G Wolstenholme (Eng) 70 70 74, J Quiros (Esp) 72 73 69, M Molina (Arg) 70 73 71, R Gomez (Arg) 72 76 66,
215 P Wesselingh (Eng) 70 70 75, P McGinley (Irl) 71 75 69, G Evans (Eng) 75 74 66,
216 M Mouland (Wal) 75 72 69, A Bossert (Sui) 75 71 70, J Remesy (Fra) 69 76 71, M Davis (Eng) 72 75 69,
217 I Woosnam (Wal) 71 78 68, C Dennis (USA) 73 75 69, J Coceres (Arg) 71 75 71, P Streeter (Eng) 74 73 70,
218 L Carbonetti (Arg) 73 74 71, J Carriles (Esp) 73 75 70,
219 N Job (Eng) 69 77 73, C Suneson (Esp) 73 73 73,
220 S Little (Eng) 67 82 71, J Olazábal (Esp) 73 73 74,
221 J Van De Velde (Fra) 77 74 70, S Brown (Eng) 71 77 73,
222 A Oldcorn (Sco) 71 75 76, G Emerson (Eng) 76 73 73, S Richardson (Eng) 73 76 73,
223 T Thelen (USA) 76 76 71,
224 A Sherborne (Eng) 76 74 74,
225 B McGovern (Irl) 76 76 73, P Golding (Eng) 72 80 73, M Farry (Fra) 75 78 72,
226 P Fowler (Aus) 74 74 78,
228 P Eales (Eng) 74 83 71, M Mackenzie (Eng) 80 75 73,
229 G Brand Jnr (Sco) 79 76 74,
230 S Tinning (Den) 76 76 78,
239 L Lassalle (Fra) 76 83 80,
243 M Besanceney (Fra) 79 82 82
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Use Aquafaba to Make Extra-Light, Fluffy Egg-Free or Vegan Pancakes
The Vegan Experience
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Published: April 13, 2016 Last Updated: August 10, 2018
Beans are the key to fluffy vegan pancakes. [Photographs: J. Kenji López-Alt]
Vegan Pancakes Made With Aquafaba
Recipes and techniques generally advance in baby steps. It's rare that you find a technique so far out of left field that it changes the way people think about food overnight. Sous vide cooking is up there, as is no-knead bread. In the world of vegan cuisine, nothing has shaken things up like aquafaba—the recently coined term for the liquid inside a can of cooked beans. It's the kind of technique that's so mind-blowingly simple that I'm amazed nobody discovered it until just a couple of years ago.
Here are the basics: Take the liquid from inside a can of chickpeas (the stuff you'd normally discard) and place it in a stand mixer. Now beat it and watch as it transforms into a creamy, fine, stable foam with the texture, density, and many of the cooking properties of an egg white–based meringue. I couldn't believe my eyes the first time I tried it. What's even more amazing is that it was discovered not by chefs or scientists, but by an off-duty French singer who was experimenting with vegan egg substitutes at home; it was later popularized by an American software engineer.
That ain't eggs!
These days, there are web pages and Facebook groups devoted to cooking with the stuff, and, as an egg replacement in vegan cooking, it's quite promising. However, I think it's being oversold to a degree. I haven't, for instance, been able to make an acceptable cake with it, as some have suggested, and it doesn't work to simply replace eggs with this stuff in recipes—it lacks the structure-reinforcing capabilities of egg proteins, and thus collapses much more easily when incorporated into doughs and batters before cooking.
It is, however, great for some things I've tried—it bakes into perfect meringue cookies, and you can make a gorgeous, Italian meringue–style vegan topping for lemon pies and other desserts, for example—and I've been slowly adding to that list.
This time around: pancakes.
In my first attempt at this, I simply adapted my standard pancake recipe. It's pretty straightforward: Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt; mix in buttermilk, sour cream, vanilla, melted butter, egg yolks, and beaten egg whites; then cook on a griddle. I started by replacing the buttermilk and sour cream with almond milk spiked with vinegar, the butter with vegetable oil, and the eggs with a few tablespoons of aquafaba whipped into stiff peaks. The pancakes griddled up a little dense and gummy. I needed to make a few more changes for them to work right.
I knew that sugar can help stabilize standard meringues by increasing the viscosity of the liquid. Adding some extra sugar and incorporating it along with the aquafaba helped keep my pancakes from deflating as they cooked. An extra teaspoon of baking powder also helped in that regard.
Being extremely careful when incorporating the aquafaba into the pancake batter was also key. After combining my wet and dry ingredients, excluding the aquafaba, I added the whipped aquafaba and folded it all together gently until it was homogeneous, trying to keep as much air in the mixture as I possibly could.
Incidentally, aquafaba increases in volume even more than egg whites do as it's whipped. Four tablespoons of the liquid (your average 14-ounce can of chickpeas will yield about 2/3 cup liquid) whips up into over two cups of meringue! For flavor's sake, you want to seek out low-sodium chickpeas, if you can find them. It takes much longer to whip up aquafaba to suitably stiff peaks than it does egg whites—about six minutes at high speed. (The good news is that, unlike egg whites, aquafaba can't be over-whipped, so feel free to turn on that mixer and walk away. Even if you forget about it, your meringue will be fine.)
Buttermilk and sour cream have a tang and aroma that's far more complex than plain old white vinegar, so I also decided to add some lemon zest to the mix.
The final trick is to cook the pancakes over lower heat than you would an egg-based batter. That aquafaba mixture takes longer to dry out and doesn't have the protein-setting properties of eggs. Try to cook them too fast, and they come out too moist, turning gummy and mushy in the process. Cook them over lower heat, and they come out drier and much fluffier.
I'm not going to lie: These pancakes are not quite as good, from a pure flavor/texture perspective, as egg-based pancakes, but they are far, far better than any other vegan technique I've ever tried. For vegans who have longed for light and fluffy pancakes and waffles, there has been no better advance in cooking technique that I can think of.
Ditto that for vegans who have been longing for a stack of something warm and fluffy to pour maple syrup over, and are running out of patience trying it with cats and alpacas.
Now to get back to work on that cake...
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J. Kenji López-Alt Chief Culinary Advisor
J. Kenji López-Alt is a stay-at-home dad who moonlights as the Chief Culinary Consultant of Serious Eats and the Chef/Partner of Wursthall, a German-inspired California beer hall near his home in San Mateo. His first book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (based on his Serious Eats column of the same name) is a New York Times best-seller, recipient of a James Beard Award, and was named Cookbook of the Year in 2015 by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Kenji's next project is a children’s book called Every Night is Pizza Night, to be released in 2020, followed by another big cookbook in 2021.
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Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF Award
Filed in Authors, Awards | Steven H Silver, September 7, 2017 9:17 am | Comments (0)
Tags: Baen Books, Dragon Con, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Wise Child, Year's Best Military and Adventure SF Award
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have won the third Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF Award for their story “Wise Child,” presented by Baen Books and based on readers’ votes on the contents of The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, edited by David Afsharirad. The winners were announced at the Baen Traveling Road Show held at Dragon Con. Lee and Miller will receive a plaque and a $500 prize.
Massive Liaden Universe Audio Release
Filed in Authors, Books | Steven H Silver, August 6, 2012 2:56 pm | Comments (0)
Tags: Audio Books, Liaden Universe, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Liaden Universe will release fifteen audio books in the Liaden Universe for download on September 4 to coincide with the hardcover publication of Dragon Ship. Kevin Collins and Bernadette Dunne will each narrate three books, Eileen Stevens will narrate four books, and Andy Caploe will narrate five books.
Skylark Presented
Filed in Authors, Awards, Conventions, Fan | Steven H Silver, February 23, 2012 10:47 pm | Comments (0)
Tags: Bob Deveny, Boskone, Gaughan, NESFA, Sharon Lee, Skylark, Steve Miller
At Boskone 49, the weekend of February 17-19, this year’s recipients of the Skylark award was announced. The Skylark Award is presented for significant contributions through work in the field of science fiction and by exemplifying the personal qualities which made the late “Doc” Smith well-loved by those who knew him. The Gaughan Award is presented to an emerging artist and no winner was announced this year. In addition, a new Fellow of NESFA was named.
Skylark Award: Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Gaughan Award: no winner announced
Fellow of NESFA: Bob Devney
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The Digital Disruption in Banking
From www.accenture.com - July 20, 2014 2:28 PM
Results of Accenture's survey indicate that customers want a bank that’s nimble and proactive, one that can be a part of their daily lives. The idea of “convenience” in banking is undergoing a shift away from branch locations and toward digital products and services that mesh with consumers’ “smart” mobile-empowered lives. Also, banks that cling to the status quo risk being viewed over time more like utilities that conduct financial transactions.
Kenneth Mikkelsen's insight:
I also recommend that you read these resources on digital disruption and the future of banking:
Deloitte Study: Dital disruption: Threats and opportunities for retail financial services
Forrester Reseach: Disrupting Finance: Digital Banks
Banking Tech: The future of digital banking
Financial Review: Dealing with digital disruption
PWC Survey: Driving customer value through digital
Global megatrends influencing our future.
Curated by Kenneth Mikkelsen
To Create the Future, We Must Understand the Past
From timkastelle.org - August 4, 2017 1:51 PM
One common mistake that innovators make is to focus only on the future, without regard to the present or the past. Innovation is about making ideas real to create value for people. No matter how revolutionary your idea is, it has to work in the real world to create value, and both of those depend on understanding the present and the past.
Ivon Prefontaine, PhD's curator insight, August 4, 2017 2:28 PM
I am currently reading Radical Hermeneutics by John Caputo. The future is an imagined place based on the lived-experiences that inform it. As I read, I am drafting a paper linking hermeneutics and phenomenology with the method of currere which is largely premised on the same concept.
What is Now and Next in Analytics, AI and Automation
From www.mckinsey.com - May 26, 2017 7:45 AM
Rapid technological advances in digitization and data and analytics have been reshaping the business landscape, supercharging performance, and enabling the emergence of new business innovations and new forms of competition.
At the same time, the technology itself continues to evolve, bringing new waves of advances in robotics, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), and especially machine learning. Together they amount to a step change in technical capabilities that could have profound implications for business, for the economy, and more broadly, for society.
A full version of this McKinsey briefing note is available as a PDF download.
Tech Trends 2017
From www.frogdesign.com - December 20, 2016 5:55 PM
With 2017 on the horizon, here are 15 tech trends, suggested by the design agency frog, that will make a lasting impact on technology, businesses, and our world.
Ettienne's curator insight, October 31, 2017 6:03 AM
In the future, as we draw on people’s behaviors and choices to help machines learn, we will embrace the way humans learn from machines as well. Could watching a computer make new connections between words make us more creative writers? What if we could teach a child and a computer to translate at the same time? Learning from machine learning could have an immediate impact on the way we think about education and training, fostering a symbiotic approach to human-machine learning.
Humanity’s Greatest Fear is About Being Irrelevant
From www.theguardian.com - December 4, 2016 9:32 AM
Why being scared about AI and big data has more to do with our fear of each other than killer robots.
Interview with Genevieve Bell about the need for corporate anthropologists, artificial intelligence and the impact of technology.
AI, Robo Cars, and the Future of the World
From www.wired.com - October 12, 2016 6:54 PM
President Barack Obama in conversation with MIT's Joi Ito and Wired editor-in-chief Scott Dadich about the hope, the hype, and the fear around AI.
This article is part of Wired's Frontiers Issue, guest-edited by President Barack Obama.
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In the End, Smart Cities Will Destroy Democracy
From www.theguardian.com - August 16, 2016 2:16 PM
The smart city is, to many urban thinkers, just a buzzphrase that has outlived its usefulness: ‘the wrong idea pitched in the wrong way to the wrong people’. So why did that happen – and what’s coming in its place?
In truth, competing visions of the smart city are proxies for competing visions of society, and in particular about who holds power in society.
A smarter way to build cities might be for architects and urban planners to have psychologists and ethnographers on the team. That would certainly be one way to acquire a better understanding of what technologists call the “end user” – in this case, the citizen. After all, as one of the tribunes asks the crowd in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus: “What is the city but the people?”
What Will Our Growing Megacities Really Look Like?
From www.theguardian.com - June 7, 2016 3:15 AM
Will we live in buildings made out of waste, heavily surveilled smart cities, or maybe floating communities designed to cope with rising sea levels?
A recent report by Christian Aid places more than a billion people in coastal cities vulnerable to severe flooding and extreme weather due to climate change by 2070, with Kolkata, Mumbai and Dhaka topping the list.
The question remains whether large-scale adaptation will be possible in the face of short electoral cycles, the abiding influence of commercial interests, and a sense of inertia beneficial to the status quo.
To predict the future 1/3 of you need to be crazy
From steveblank.com - May 1, 2016 5:20 PM
When companies or agencies search for disruptive and innovative strategies they often assemble a panel of experts to advise them. Ironically the panel is often made up of people whose ideas about innovation were relevant in the past.
You can’t create a blueprint for the future. But we know one thing for sure. The future will be different from the past. A better approach is to look for people who are the contrarians, whose ideas, while they sound crazy, are focused on the future. Most often these are not the safe brand names.
If your gathered advisory board, task force, panel, study group, etc., tasked with predicting the future doesn’t have 1/3 contrarians, all you’re going to do is predict the past.
Technology, Social Change, and Future Scenarios
From frankdiana.wordpress.com - March 1, 2016 3:07 AM
Various aspects of social change that both influence and impact future scenarios. Work by Frank Diana.
5 Futuristic Oddities from the Weird World of Wearable Tech
From www.washingtonpost.com - February 2, 2016 12:56 PM
New tech products include exoskeletons, portable mind monitors and smart textiles.
The merging of man and machine is leading to the formation of entirely new ways of thinking about the human body.
There will be 1 billion digital nomads by 2035
From levels.io - December 22, 2015 1:39 AM
Public data of social and demographic trends show how the rise of remote workers will affect the world in 2035.
Digital Minds for a New Europe
From www.europeandigitalforum.eu - November 22, 2015 2:35 AM
Digital Minds for a New Europe, a cutting-edge collection of 44 essays by the world's leading digital thinkers.
In this fascinating collection, some of Europe's leading minds set out their vision for the digital world of tomorrow. What challenges will we face? What new ways of living will technology make possible?
A fascinating read for anyone interested in the future, in the multiple paths it could take and in the need to start thinking more clearly about it today (free download).
Elías Manuel Sánchez Castañeda's curator insight, November 22, 2015 2:33 PM
According to Rufus Pollock (see the article on page 95): “Data is everywhere and we commonly talk of “digital economies” now, of a “networked society.” But making sense of data – turning it into knowledge, if you like, and then using it wisely – is still one of the greatest challenges we face as a global and increasingly interlinked society.”
I agree with Pollock, I think some of the restrictions are:
+ Believe that you have the idea already resolved 90% of the work: for example, many people attend coferencias, seminars, talks, etc., if the speaker was good out excited thinking of doing many things. But the next day the dynamics of their work makes them forget they wanted to gradually implement new ways of working, until the next conference!
+ Knowledge is created by geniuses, the great thinkers: no, no, we ordinary people can also create concocimiento.
+ Knowledge is theory that much time is wasted, we need the practice applied as soon as possible to solve our problems: I think it's not theory versus practice is a combination as the four pillars of UNESCO must acquire useful knowledge and applicable (know know), apply that knowledge (know how) to evaluate the results and learn.
Why We're All Future-Blind
From www.mindmedley.com - October 19, 2015 1:37 AM
What do you think the world will look like 50 years from now?
Chance is, you probably imagine it pretty much how it is today, but maybe with a bit cooler apps and gadgets.
We, humans, are avid scenario builders. We create mental models of the world around us, virtual reality simulations of what is and what if: imaging other’s experiences, potential explanations, new meanings and scenario outcomes.
Our brains naturally make predictions. But we make predictions in a linear fashion, while the world around us is changing exponentially.
In 2050, Africa will be home to 1 billion young people. And they'll need educating
From www.weforum.org - May 30, 2017 12:03 PM
By 2050, Africa will be home to a billion young people. By 2030, if current trends persist, only one in ten young people will be on track to gain basic secondary-level skills in low-income countries, the majority of which are in Africa.
Harnessing Automation For a Future That Works
From www.mckinsey.com - March 11, 2017 2:31 PM
Automation is happening, and it will bring substantial benefits to businesses and economies worldwide, but it won’t arrive overnight.
A new McKinsey Global Institute report finds realizing automation’s full potential requires people and technology to work hand in hand.
How AI Can Bring on a Second Industrial Revolution
From www.ted.com - December 15, 2016 3:06 PM
The actual path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley is unpredictable, but the general direction is inevitable," says digital visionary Kevin Kelly -- and technology is much the same, driven by patterns that are surprising but inevitable. Over the next 20 years, he says, our penchant for making things smarter and smarter will have a profound impact on nearly everything we do. Kelly explores three trends in AI we need to understand in order to embrace it and steer its development.
"The most popular AI product 20 years from now that everyone uses has not been invented yet," Kelly says. That means that you're not late.
emma's curator insight, July 1, 2017 9:08 PM
Let's focus on honing our humanness rather than competing or being fearful of AI this is a wonderful opportunity to collaborate, image what is possible, lets actively shape our future rather than reject the inevitable....
There may be no one better to contemplate the meaning of cultural change than Kevin Kelly, whose life story reads like a treatise on the value and impacts of technology.
The Battle over Uber and Driverless Cars is Really a Debate About the Future of Humanity
From www.theguardian.com - November 2, 2016 3:55 AM
Uber drivers were right to claim employment rights. But in a world where driverless cars may soon make them redundant, we face long-term dilemmas about the systems we choose.
When machines plus artificial intelligence begin to replace human beings, the entire social, political and moral dilemma for humanity becomes a question of systems.
The Hype - and Hope - of Artificial Intelligence
From www.newyorker.com - September 2, 2016 7:33 PM
A lot of what people are calling “artificial intelligence” is really data analytics - in other words, business as usual.
Much like “the cloud,” “big data,” and “machine learning” before it, the term “artificial intelligence” has been hijacked by marketers and advertising copywriters.
The Internet of Things Will Turn Large-Scale Hacks into Real World Disasters
From motherboard.vice.com - August 1, 2016 12:53 PM
The rise of the Internet of Things threatens to make it much easier to cause real-life damage through cyberattacks.
With the advent of the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems in general, we've given the internet hands and feet: the ability to directly affect the physical world. What used to be attacks against data and information have become attacks against flesh, steel, and concrete.
The next president will probably be forced to deal with a large-scale internet disaster that kills multiple people. I hope he or she responds with both the recognition of what government can do that industry can't, and the political will to make it happen.
2016 Internet Trends Report
From www.slideshare.net - June 6, 2016 6:41 AM
The 2016 edition of Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends report.
Watch Mary Meeker's presentation of the Internet Trends at the Code Conference 2016 here.
Some highlights from the presentation:
There are now about 3 billion global internet users, but user growth is stalling at about 9% year-on-year.
But internet use in India is skyrocketing—it’s now the second-largest market behind China, passing the US, with over 277 million users.
Smartphone sales are slowing, as is the yearly growth in the number of smartphone users, down to 21% from 31% last year.
Internet advertising in the US has grown by about 20% since last year, reaching $60 billion—two-thirds of that growth has come from an increase in spending on mobile ads.
Facebook’s yearly advertising revenue (up 59%) grew much more than Google’s (18%) last year.
Online video ads are ineffective: 81% of people surveyed mute video ads, 62% are annoyed by pre-roll ads, and 92% have considered using ad-blocking software.
Internet sales have increased from less than 2% of all retail sales in the US in 2000 to about 10% in 2015.
But there’s still some room to grow in real life too: Online glasses store Warby Parker now makes more money per square foot in its US retail stores than Tiffany’s or Michael Kors.
The time it takes retailers to get to $100 million in online sales is shrinking. It took Nike 14 years from the time its retail site launched, compared to nine years for Lululemon, and eight year for Under Armour.
The rising Snapchat generation: Millennials communicate with text, but Generation Z prefers to communicate with images.
The average Snapchat user plays with sponsored lenses for 20 seconds.
Brand power in Facebook Live: When “Chewbacca mom” mentioned retailer Kohl’s twice in her viral video, the store’s app shot to the top of the downloads chart on the US iOS App Store.
There are now over 3 billion images shared daily between Snapchat, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp—all but one of which are owned by Facebook.
55% of Pinterest users use the site to find products they want to buy.
Messaging apps are moving from simple text tools to communicate with friends to platforms for commerce.
There are 10 million business accounts on WeChat, and about 80% of all users follow one.
Generation Y is the first generation to prefer chatting over the web or social media to talk to businesses, rather than over the phone.
Computer recognition of speech has gone from about 70% to 90% accuracy in the last five years.
65% of US smartphone owners now use a voice assistant.
By 2020, at least 50% of all searches online will be through voice or image search, according to Baidu’s chief scientist Andrew Ng.
Only about 5% of US Amazon customers own an Amazon Echo—fewer than those that own a Fire TV streaming device.
It’s time for self-driving cars: The average urban US worker spends about 42 hours a year sitting in delays on their commute, and the average person’s car is only in use about 4% of the time.
Millennials don’t drive like their parents did: Only 77% of 16-44 year-olds have their licenses in the US today, compared with 92% in 1982.
71% of the time spent on mobile in China is divided between properties owned by three companies: Tencent, Alibaba, and Baidu.
31% of Chinese WeChat users purchase something from retailers though the chat app.
About 70% of the roughly 6.3 billion on-demand rides requested around the world in the first quarter of 2016 were requested in China.
There’s been a 263% increase in the last three years of non-technology companies acquiring and investing in tech companies, such as GM buying Cruise Automation, and Fox Sports investing in DraftKings.
The New World Order Is Ruled By Global Corporations And Megacities - Not Countries
From www.fastcoexist.com - April 23, 2016 1:47 AM
As cities and companies gain in influence and the power of nation states decreases, the world is undergoing a seismic transformation.
We all know that quite a few corporations or terrorist groups have more influence in the world than many states do, but have yet to place them all in a single framework that measures them according to their reach and relevance. And yet such a "Mindshare Matrix" is precisely what we need to properly understand the 21st century landscape of power.
ThePlanetaryArchives/BlackHorseMedia - San Francisco's curator insight, April 23, 2016 12:52 PM
Not countries, or elected representatives, and certainly not citizens.
Humans 2.0: How the robot revolution is going to change how we see, feel, and talk
From www.techrepublic.com - February 13, 2016 8:17 AM
Robots aren't going to replace us, but by working hand in hand with us they will redefine what it means to be human.
In the immediate future, bots are likely to continue to suffer from significant limitations. Today, robots have difficulty with manual tasks that we find simple, such as picking items from cluttered warehouse shelves, and roboticists predict their creations will find such tasks difficult for years to come. But use a robotic system to enhance a person's capabilities and let the human fill in the gaps in the bot's skills, and the result could be something far greater than the sum of its parts.
26 Disruptive & Tecnology Trends 2016-2018
From www.slideshare.net - January 10, 2016 1:48 AM
Some of the disruptive trends that are affecting pretty much everything over the next few years.
The report is organized by socioeconomic and technological impact.
The report, compiled by Brian Solis, is organized by socioeconomic and technological impact.
From www.frogdesign.com - December 19, 2015 6:01 AM
With the start of a new year, the exciting question is: What technology trends will radically transform businesses in 2016 and beyond?
Here are 15 technology trends driving companies to reinvent themselves.
How will blockchain technology transform financial services?
From agenda.weforum.org - November 7, 2015 8:52 AM
Banks are now racing to harness the power of the blockchain technology, in a belief that it could cut up to $20bn off costs and transform the way the industry works.
What is blockchain, and how will it disrupt banking?
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Whisky Spotlight: The £5 bill....
Whisky Spotlight: The £5 billion whisky story every investor must read
By Andy Moore
By the time you read this article, a staggering 3000 bottles of Scotch Whisky will be shipped globally. With worldwide exports reaching a whopping £5 billion, it's an investment gold mine.
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whisky is barely enough”. - Mark Twain
The above line, from legendary author, Mark Twain, is just one of the countless sayings, phrases or quotes that sum up people's love affair with Scotland's national drink - and who can blame them. With a history stretching back more than 500 years, it's fair to say that Scotland has perfected the art of whisky making. When your product evolves from a Scottish drink spirit, 'Uisge Beatha' - which literally translates as 'water of life' - you know you're probably onto a good thing.
Simply put, Scotch Whisky is a jaw-dropping brand that just keeps on giving - especially in global exports and provenance. The numbers speak for themselves: an incredible 41 whisky bottles are exported from Scotland every second, with exports growing by 7.8% to a mind-blowing £4.7 billion in 2018 - we did say it was popular. And, last year, America became the first £1 billion whisky market.
Quality AND quantity
Whether you’re an overseas whisky buyer, investor, importer or distributor, a drop of the Uisge Beathe will bolster your business's balance sheets wherever you're from in the world.
Whetting the whistle of this global growth is largely driven by the expanding market for premium spirits, reveals the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA), headquartered in Edinburgh. The SWA believes that Scotch whisky is in a better position than ever to take advantage of this, given its unrivaled reputation for quality, authenticity and provenance.
Graeme Littlejohn, SWA Director of Strategy & Communications, said:
“Scottish Whisky is a unique global product. We’ve had a bit of a head start; a 500 year head start! Scotland started exporting whisky over 150 years ago. Some of the major brands you see around the world: Johnnie Walker, Chivas Regal, Dewars to name a few have a rich heritage and legacy from some of the whisky entrepreneurialism of the 19th century”.
Scotland’s global whisky brand has grown to reflect the depth and breadth of its continued spirited trajectory. From an industry first distilled five centuries ago in the Scottish Highlands, the highly commercial whisky industry is more captive than ever for overseas investors. Did you know there are no fewer than 128 operating distilleries across Scotland that export to 180 countries around the world? You do now.
Investing in whisky offers vast potential all over the world
China, for example, has the world’s biggest spirits market and, despite Scotch whisky exports there being just 0.1% of the total market, it is still worth a whopping £80 million a year! India, too, is another massive captive market, having a ‘very developed’ taste and appreciation of the product. Again, despite whisky being only 1% of the market, it has the potential to expand from £100 million a year to £0.5 billion.
Whisky provenance from Scotland is key. And blended Scotch whisky has bolstered its position as the bedrock of the industry, with global exports of £3.04 billion last year. There was further growth in exports of single malt Scotch Whisky, increasing by 11.3% to £1.30 billion. Graeme enthused:
“It’s not just the 41 bottles exported globally every second, it’s the little piece of Scotland exported every second as well. People learn about Scotland through its national drink, and hopefully they will visit here, and its distilleries, learn more about the nation and want to invest in a highly-commercial product and brilliant brand”.
So why is Scotch Whisky so worth investing in?
Graeme adds that more investors than ever are seeking to invest in a product steeped in such global prominence and time-honoured history. Scottish grain, natural spring water and traditional craftsmanship give whisky a provenance and a heritage that is globally-unrivalled, making the 1000s of Scottish whisky brands a hot prospect in investors’ minds.
The modern whisky market is twice as nice with ice: Continual brand innovation is key to keeping the order books full. Traditionally seen as a drink served neat or with water, the modern ‘#whiskyisnow’ serves global markets with a cool bar culture, quaffed with ice, such as in North America. He added:
“Global markets for whisky are diversifying. Far from simply being a Hogmanay (New Years’) toast or sipped from a Quaich at a wedding, modern drinkers are increasingly being wooed by mixing whisky in a cocktail. Think Whisky and Soda or a Smokey Cokey (coke mixed with an Islay whisky) and you’ll soon discover why international markets are diversifying to cater for future tastes.”
Scottish whisky must be genuine with no half measures, insists Graeme. It has to be the real deal. And it has to fulfil the recognition it deserves: you can only make Scotch Whisky in Scotland, matured in oak casks for at least three years on Scottish soil, and this is set down in regulations.
Evolving palettes want whisky in weird and wonderful ways: true, it can be paired with chocolate, and with a smokey or blue cheese to capture new and exciting export markets. And, for the traditionalist, who would refuse whisky and haggis – and a dram to wash down Scotland’s national dish? Not us anyway.
Global exports have gone down a treat with SWA help
As the trade body for the whisky industry, the SWA is committed to maintaining standards of the product all over the world. It has 71 member companies involved with whisky production, whether this includes the global giants such as Diageo, (which will open a new national visitor centre in Edinburgh), Chivas Brothers, William Grant and Edrington to smaller distillers such as Isle of Harris, Kingsbarns and the Isle of Raasay.
And the greatest aspect worth toasting? The huge potential value of Scotland’s already booming whisky market of course. The world remains more whisky-thirsty than ever. And whisky is a wonderfully-warming free spirit that makes merry - merry to the tune of £5 billion now, up from £2 billion in 1990.
Provenance is the perfect word. And, to repeat Mr Twain, ‘too much good whisky is barely enough.’
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Lessons from 2 Months of Marketing Emails from a High-Growth Ecommerce Brand
by Franco Varriano
From the pacing of your emails to how you bring fresh value to your subscribers' inboxes with every send, there's a lot to consider when building out your own email marketing strategy.
While you can always draw inspiration from what other brands are doing right, it can be hard to get a holistic view of what successful email marketing looks like long-term.
Last year, I took it upon myself to subscribe to the email lists of several top ecommerce brands, recording and analyzing every automated email I received over the course of 60 days. I even wrote up what I learned from Casper, a top player among online mattress companies, about effective email campaigns.
This time, I wanted to take a look at Birchbox, another major ecommerce brand in a completely different industry, to see what we can learn about how this subscription box company uses email to engage, educate, and upsell new prospects.
Birchbox’s approach to email marketing
Birchbox is considered the original monthly cosmetic subscription box. They’ve since become a notable and widely-used brand, working with larger cosmetics companies to distribute their products to hundreds of thousands of customers.
Their core business model is based on recurring revenue from a monthly cosmetics box. When people purchase subscription boxes, they are often looking to discover new products while still finding value from recognizable products.
Naturally, email seems to play a big role in promoting their monthly boxes and powering their subscription business.
I subscribed to various brands in order to create these tear downs, but Birchbox was one of very few that offered a “choose your own adventure” style of opt-in and asked for more information upfront. Most brands didn’t bother to segment their subscribers at the beginning, which can be a missed opportunity to serve them more relevant emails from the get-go. For this article, I opted for “Beauty” as my main interest from the two available options.
Before we dive into each email in detail, here’s an overview of the types of emails I received from Birchbox and when over the course of the 60 day period:
Day 1: Welcome email
Day 2: Seasonal promotion
Day 5: Promotional email
Day 9: Promotional email (reminder)
Day 11: Promotional email
Day 12: Category promotional email
Day 13: Welcome email (reminder)
Day 15: Start of month promotional email
Day 17: Subscription promotional email
Day 19: Free gift promotional email
Day 21: Special event email
Day 41: Partnership promotion
Day 42: Free gift promotional email (reminder)
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Day 1, Email 1: Welcome email
Subject line: “So Nice To Meet You!”
Preview text: “Beauty Made Easy: Finding new products is hard but it doesn’t have to be.”
Date: Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 12:50 PM
Immediately after signing up for the “beauty” focus on Birchbox’s form I received this welcome email.
The beauty theme is evident and both the subject and preview copy feels spot on, with a well-balanced mix of friendly and educational. “Finding new products is hard but it doesn’t have to be” speaks to a core aspect of Birchbox’s value proposition in the preview text before you even open the email.
The aesthetic and layout are also consistent with the brand and website, using the same color palette and visual styles. The email is clearly crafted to make a strong first impression and get you excited about what Birchbox can do for you.
Teardown:
Since this is a welcome email and I, a new prospect, might not be familiar with all the benefits of being a customer, adding a free shipping reminder at the top of the email provides an immediate incentive to consider their products.
Welcome discount
A “welcome gift” is a friendly way to start the conversation with new subscribers. The 15% discount on orders is teased on the website before you opt in, and it’s a great way to not only incentivize opt-ins but encourage these subscribers to start adding products to their cart.
Core benefit
This section is the first of three that introduce me to the core benefits of Birchbox. The simplicity of this section drives home their central message of “Beauty Made Easy”—that’s what Birchbox wants you to associate with their brand.
Two starting points
These two sections are equal parts education for new prospective customers and call to action.The first caters to subscribers who want to use the service to try new products, and the the second is for those who know exactly what they want and are ready to save.
Additional links in the footer
The first footer of the first email is a useful place for less urgent calls to action. Given our unfamiliarity with their brand, Birchbox nudges us to download their app and join the community. There are also direct links to customer support, their About Us page, and FAQs in case we need them.
Take the opportunity to present your core value proposition in a story or journey format. “Value” to customers means something they can get excited about.
Simple is better when creating associations with your brand. When customers encounter or talk about Your Brand, they should immediately think [uniquely valuable attribute].
Don’t be afraid to show prospects where to start. Sometimes navigating a new brand can be challenging—especially if there are a lot of products and you aren’t sure what’s best for you. Guide them with simple cues, e.g. “Discover New Favorites,” “Get The Box,” and “Start Shopping.”
Day 2, Email 2: Seasonal promotion
Subject line: “Be Our (Early) Valentine with 20% Off Our Entire Site ❤️”
Preview text: “Get 20% off site-wide, including all gift subscriptions, with code BEMINE20. Birchbox”
Date: Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:17 AM
The second email I received was sent February 13th, probably to avoid the deluge of day-of emails sent for Valentine’s Day. Birchbox may also have sent out additional emails prior to my joining their list to let prospects and customers know about the upcoming deal ahead of time.
Regardless, this is a great example of embracing seasonal events to remain relevant to subscribers throughout the year.
Loyalty program incorporated in email template
Now that we’ve gotten past the welcome email, we’re presented with a new format that you will continue to see going forward. The header now centers on promoting their loyalty program, an initiative that encourages repeat purchases. They even display your current balance of loyalty points to encourage you to shop.
Valentine's day offer
We continue to see casual and concise copy that speaks directly to the target audience. Once again, Birchbox positions their discount code as a “gift” to not only capture your interest but remind you that Valentine’s day is a time for gift-giving.
Three ways to use their "gift"
The three call-to-action blocks in the middle of the email possess a consistent design with a context-specific background that fits each unique idea. Each of the three CTAs focuses on a different suggestion: make a one-off purchase of their full-sized offerings, gift a subscription to someone special, or get Birchbox’s monthly box for yourself.
Additional resources in the footer
This email also has a new footer that highlights additional information about their loyalty program and offers a place for other less urgent links.
When emailing a timely offer, like a Valentine’s day sale, consider preempting your competition by sending messages earlier than day of—this may help you avoid a crowded inbox.
Think about offering suggestions on how to use your discount code (e.g. buy a gift for someone special) that appeal to your reader’s needs.
Day 5, Email 3: Promotional email
Subject line: “We Just Added 100+ Items to Our 40% Off Sale 😱”
Preview text: “Get 40% off over 100 just-added Sale items. Birchbox”
Date: Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:54 AM
This email arrived a few days since I last heard from Birchbox, which felt well-paced and respectful of my inbox.
The subject line and preview copy include a specific number of sale items, which creates curiosity and an urge to explore what’s new. The email was sent around lunch time—maybe in hopes of catching prospective customers who are about to check their phones on their lunch break.
Framed offer
The clean layout makes great use of the first block for a hero image, which is framed to naturally draw your eyes to the offer. The promotion itself is impossible to miss, and the copy below repeats the promise made in the subject line of “100+ New Items” on sale.
The lightly framed “Including products from” box provides another element of social proof—recognizable brands that instill trust through familiarity—while teasing some of the brands on offer in this new collection of products they’re promoting
The last section contains a separate but related CTA about their awards program, which does a good job of “showing, not telling” that their product curation process is community driven. It also gives subscribers a chance to have their voice heard if they want to share their thoughts about the products.
If you’re creating sales or promotional offers, try to stay away from vague statements. Instead, use concrete numbers (like “100+ New Items”) when possible to stand apart from other emails in your customer’s inbox and offer specific value.
Including social proof like brand logos or a community award programs incorporates a feeling of belonging to something bigger than an email list and generates more interest in your products. .
Subject line: “Get a Free Benefit Mascara for National Lash Day 💁🏻”
Preview text: “Join Birchbox and get a FREE Benefit Cosmetics BADgal BANG! 36 Hour Full-Blast Volumizing Mascara - the newest out-of-this”
Date: Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:00 AM
This email landed in my inbox at 10AM, which is still early but after I’ve archived my morning emails. Excellent promotional alignment being sent on National Lash Day: When seasonal events are niche-specific, you won’t have nearly as much competition.
Hashtag holiday promotion
Beyond the typical holiday marketing opportunities like Christmas or Valentine’s day, there are “social media holidays” like #NationalLashDay that you can jump on with a highly relevant product promotion. In this case, Birchbox offers mascara as a free gift with your purchase..
Product action shot
The hero image is an action shot that exudes energy and personality, and it does a great job of creating excitement for the free gift. The copy shares more details about the product, underscoring its benefits.
Highlighted offer code
The supporting copy explains how to get the free gift, using of a purple highlight over the code to draw your attention to it.
Use special occasions, holidays, and real-world events to create relevant offers that appeal to your potential and current customers at that moment in time.
Day 9, Email 5: Promotional email (reminder)
Subject line: “40% Off Our Sale Category Ends Today”
Date: Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:01 PM
A tried-and-true tactic in email marketing is to always remind your customer of ongoing sales just before they expire.
You’ll typically want to update the subject and preview copy at least a little. In this case, I don’t think the preview copy was updated as it still reads “100 items were just added.” The design is similar, too. But this can be a good thing—you want it to be consistent with the first email so it isn’t confused for a brand new sale.
Tip: If you’re worried about emailing your entire list, create a segment of subscribers who opened but didn’t buy through the first email and only send the reminder to them.
There was only one small but important tweak in this follow-up email: the addition of “Last Chance” as a call to action at the top. It’s a .GIF that just toggles on and off like a light switch. The awards program banner from the previous email was also dropped to bring more focus to the sale.
Sending out reminder emails to all customers, or customers who opened but didn’t buy, is usually a smart idea. However, this email could have emphasized urgency a bit more. Even a simple copy change to the main CTA, like “12 hours left to shop,” could further compel subscribers to take action.
Day 11, Email 6: Promotional email
Subject line: “Missing Our February Box Would Be 💔”
Preview text: “Join now before it’s too late to get your February Birchbox. Birchbox”
Date: Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 1:07 PM
Since the core Birchbox business is the monthly subscription boxes, this subject and preview copy are spot on, and encourage me to subscribe now.
A consistent tone in subject lines can also coach subscribers to recognize a particular brand. Birchbox frequently adds a single emoji, but other stylistic approaches (e.g. no capitalization can be used, too.)
Birchbox seems to be a fan of the “framed box” at the top of their promotional emails as a way to draw your focus and attention. Inside this frame, the copy is filled with language associated romance (“packed with love”, “no strings attached”). We’re coming off of Valentine’s day, after all.
Staged product photography
The product image featured below showcases a Birchbox, book-ended by bright products on both sides. The banner in the top right, “Just $10/month”, feels like a sale sticker: an instant deal, and not a long term commitment.
Personal call-to-action
The main call-to-action button is specific—you’re not just getting any old box, you’re getting your special February box. To further support the no-pressure, low-risk message, a single line of copy reiterates: “No strings attached.” Once again, making the decision to purchase feel simple and safe.
Don’t be afraid to use emotional messaging to create a relationship and connection with prospective customers, especially in an industry that’s an intimate part of daily life.
Think about the proximity of various elements and copy and how they work together to reinforce one another.
Day 12, Email 7: Category promotional email
Subject line: “20% Off Our Fragrance Edit Starts Now 👃”
Preview text: “Score 20% off a selection of fragrance finds from Juliette Has a Gun, TOCCA, and Clean a”
Date: Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 1:21 PM
This is the seventh email in 12 days, which is a decent pace. Now, we’re being exposed to a specific collection of products through their fragrance category with a discount code to encourage us to shop.
Creative product photography
This excellent product shot incorporates the perfume as part of the promotional offer. This accomplishes two main objectives: showing off the product and drawing your attention to the sale.
The copywriting here is terrific and aligned to the product/sale, making great use of sensory language like “whiff.” Birchbox again features popular brands to establish social proof by association, and features a simple code reminder and clear call-to-action right at the end the email. Note that the code itself (SCENT20) clearly communicates the product category it can be applied to.
Engage the reader’s senses with your copy and design choices. Think about how you can involve their sense of taste, smell, or touch to craft a more captivating email.
Day 13, Email 8: Welcome email (reminder)
Subject line: “👋 Hey There, Your 15% Off Code Expires Soon!”
Preview text: “Join Birchbox for a fun new surprise every month. FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS $50”
Date: Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 7:01 AM
This email came pretty early on a Saturday morning. The wave emoji at the front of the subject line definitely helps catch the prospective customer’s attention in a friendly way. The email’s preview copy also highlights important information even before I’ve opened the email.
You should recall this design and structure from the very first email I received with a similar offer.
Highlighted free shipping offer
It’s clear this is the same welcome email from when I signed up two weeks ago. The only significant change is the highlighted free shipping banner at the top of the email to nudge the subscriber to seize the offer while they can.
Once again, sending reminder emails—especially before a code expires—is a useful way to increase your conversion rate from prospect to customer. People are busy and might miss or forget about your promotion the first time around, so don’t be afraid to remind your subscribers about special offers as they’re about to expire.
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Day 15, Email 9: Start of month promotional email
Subject line: “Spring Is in the Air—Treat Yourself! ”
Preview text: “Join Birchbox for a fun, new surprise every month.”
Date: Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 1:50 PM
This email was delivered a few days before the beginning of March, so the copy in the subject line and preview text well-timed to promote their next monthly box.
Using contrast to focus your attention
We’re seeing the same framing technique from previous emails. The darker purple draws the eye and it compliments the main box in the middle by making it stand out. Spring is the season of change, and the copy highlights this with the use of the word “transformative” in a starkly different typeface.
Visuals that inspire curiosity
This second half of the frame is a continuation of the purple box up top. The sentence “What you could receive this month” evokes an element of mystery and surprise— a key feature of subscription boxes. We’re then teased with the potential contents of the box. The call to action is once again as clear as it can be: “Get Your March Box.”
Create moments of curiosity in your emails that encourage readers to click through.
Day 17, Email 10: Subscription promotional email
Subject line: “This Freebie = Your Night Out Essentials 💁”
Preview text: “Join Birchbox today and get a Birchbox-exclusive All Dressed Up set (including amika and”
Date: Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:25 PM
This email arrived in the middle of the week (Wednesday) when people might start planning their Friday night out, which lines up with the subject line of the email.
Subscription bundle offer
The hero image offers a visual demonstration of two of the products included in the bundle. This is a compelling lead-in to the more traditional product photos below .
Using white space to organize information
The white space in this email is used to organize the product information together. The way the white box cuts into the hero image above communicates to the reader that these two sections of the email are connected.
Spelling out the value of the offer
“A $27 Value” explicitly lets me know what these products are worth on their own, and how much extra value I’m getting for free. It also subtly implies that a single product in this bundle on its own can almost make up the $30 cost of a 3-month subscription.
Align your marketing strategy or promotions with your finances. If you can get customers to prepay for longer commitments or bigger value products, that’s less money you need to spend on acquiring new customers every month.
Consider breaking down the retail price of your free gifts or items in a bundle to communicate the true value of your offers.
Day 18, Email 11: Promotional email
Subject line: “And the Beauty Awards Go to...🏆”
Preview text: “Join Birchbox for a fun, new surprise every month. Birchbox”
Date: Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 11:30 AM
This email is a follow-up to the Beauty Awards contest we saw earlier. Birchbox uses it as an opportunity to encourage subscribers to shop based on the community’s favorite picks.
Awards explanation
This email circles back to the Beauty Awards content we saw a few weeks ago. It offers a quick explanation/reminder if you need it.
As for the color palette, yellow can communicate excitement and honor, as well as associate gold with the idea of “winners”.
Award-style discount offer
The ribbon-shape with the 25% off coupon is in close proximity to the main call to action, so it’s hard to miss for any subscribers who are interested in browsing these community picks.
Strategic product photography
The bright yellow header image not only teases the winners, but puts them on literal pedestals to convey that these are some of their best products.
These products, some of which are pictured, are going to be the best of the bunch. So if there was something you were meaning to try, this email encourages you to go for it.
Creating a community-driven “Awards” or selection of your store’s products is an excellent way to foster engagement and incorporate multiple high-valuel sends into your email marketing programs.
Day 19, Email 12: Free gift promotional email
Subject line: “Your March Freebies Have Arrived 🙌”
Preview text: “Choose your free gift with purchase! Birchbox”
Date: Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 11:29 AM
As this email goes to show, Birchbox seems to favor “gift with purchase” offers as a tactic for encouraging subscribers to try out their service.
Scarcity creates urgency
The email immediately drives home the “While supplies last” message to compel subscribers to act quickly. The subject line is also very powerful: “Your March Freebies Have Arrived 🙌” . It makes me want to open this email ASAP to see what I’m getting.
Choose your own offer
The “Pick your freebie” header is the focal point, and the copy is clever because it makes me, as a shopper, feel in control—I get to pick the reward I want most. If I was on the fence about buying, this is probably a good time to just try it.
Another way to execute a “free gift with purchase” offer is to give the customer options. Craft copy that puts them in the driver’s seat and makes it feel like they are giving you their order, rather than you “selling” a specific product they might not want or need.
Day 21, Email 13: Special event email
Subject line: “We're Proud to Work With These Female-Founded Brands”
Preview text: “Meet the hard-working beauty heroes behind some of your favorite Birchbox”
Date: Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 11:19 AM
On Thursday, March 8, 2018, it was International Women’s Day. Receiving this email on Sunday, March 4 ahead of time, and ahead of any promotions other brands may be sending, says that Birchbox wants to stay top-of-mind before the event.
Quickly establishes the context
The email opens with an explanation of why you’re getting it, aligning the occasion to Birchbox as a company. The connection is clear so it doesn’t come across as merely hijacking a trend.
Infographic-style design
This email reads almost like an infographic, encouraging you to continue scrolling for more. The buttons along the way are a nice touch and give the email a 3D effect that makes it pop.
Mission-focused call-to-action
Only a small portion of this email is dedicated to shopping their products. Most of it is actually about inspiring their subscribers by showing off the successful women behind some of their brands, putting faces to logos..
Selling, inspiring, and educating aren’t mutually exclusive goals in the emails you send. Think up clever ways you can build up your brand while building up demand for your products.
When executing a marketing campaign around an event or cultural phenomenon, be sure to align your brand with itin a way that feels authentic .
Subject line: “Your Free Smashbox Eye Shadow Duo Is Waiting...”
Preview text: “Join today and get a free Smashbox Cover Shot Eye Shadow Duo in Golden Hour.”
Date: Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 12:36 PM
The timing of this offer felt a little strange to me as I just received the inspirational International Women’s Day email the day before. But once again we get offered a free gift if we make a purchase.
Free gift focused headline
The Header copy “free gift when you join” is consistent with previous emails of this type.
Friendly GIF
The large hero image is a GIF featuring a woman opening and closing her eyes, drawing attention to the product’s effect. The model is also smiling, which feels happy and friendly, unlike some more serious beauty advertisements.
Gift proximity to call-to-action
We see the same effect of highlighting the coupon code as we’ve seen in previous emails with the product right next to the main call-to-action (CTA) button.
If you have a strategy that works well, you can repeat it in fresh new ways instead of trying to reinvent the wheel every time.
Subject line: “💸Want $5,000 to Follow Your Dreams?”
Preview text: “Women’s Day initiatives, from our Future Starts Now Fund to our inspiring video on women and”
Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 12:02 PM
This is the 15th email I’ve received in a month. That’s an average of 1 every 2 days, which some subscribers might see as a bit much.
This email was sent on International Women’s Day. The subject line is very appealing and speaks to subscriber wants, not company information. The aesthetic is brought back from the previous email, which makes both messages feel connected.
Puts the cause first
The entire email is very inspirational and supportive of the larger event, with no shopping section at all this time. You can tell that this email is one piece of communication that is part of a much bigger campaign by Birchbox.
Focus on brand purpose
Each headline is clear and speaks to the initiatives Birchbox is providing in support of women and the Birchbox community. Through actions, not words, Birchbox is communicated its brand purpose in this email.
If you can launch an initiative, or partner with a larger cause, promoting those types of opportunities to your audience and community can go a long way—especially with a customer base that’s highly invested in those causes.
Subject line: “Two Birchboxes for $10? Yes, Please. 🤗”
Preview text: “Join Birchbox and get a free extra box with your first month’s delivery.”
Date: Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 11:43 AM
Visualizing the BOGO offer
The offer promises double the value and the photo helps you visualize it.
The photo is a natural, almost amateur-ish shot that looks like an unboxing photo that’s ready to share on Instagram.
Spelling out the value
There’s not much copy to discuss here—just the simple and straightforward “Two Birchboxes for $10”, the code and the button. Clear is often better than clever.
Don’t rely on copy alone to sell your offers. Visually illustrating their true value, as if it’s right in front of the customer, can make it even easier for them to take the leap.
Subject line: “Three (Stila Lipsticks!) For Free ”
Preview text: “Join for three months of Birchbox and get a free Stila The Perfect Kiss Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick”
Date: Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:01 PM
Even as we continue to see some recurring email formats, I like how Birchbox keeps their subject lines fresh and compelling without relying on the same tired copywriting formulas.
Once more, we see a similar 3-month subscription offer, this time at the end of Q1. Maybe they’re looking for a final end-of-quarter sales bump?
Interactive photo
We’ve seen this photography technique before—the GIF of the smiling woman with the shade of lipstick balanced by the same color at the bottom, white cut-in to draw attention to the center of the email. But this time, the lipstick color changes in sync with the color palette.
Again, everything you need to help you make a purchase decision is in one place.
A “live demo,” or any approach that helps your customers visualize what the product is like and where it fits into their lives, can be a great way to keep customers invested in your email content and enter the consideration phase of a purchase decision..
Day 41, Email 18: Partnership promotion
Subject line: “Our Second Limited Edition Box with Vogue Is Here”
Preview text: “Our second Birchbox x Vogue Limited Edition Box is finally here! Birchbox”
Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 2:24 PM
Developing a branded vocabulary
There’s a lot in this email that’s visually different from anything we’ve seen so far. But one thing we have definitely seen before is the emphasis on the word “transformation”, which seems to be a central concept in Birchbox’s vocabulary.
Unexpected call-to-action placement
Whereas most of their emails include the CTA at the bottom, here we see it at the top right, just next to the special Birchbox x Vogue box. This is likely due to the focus on visuals in the rest of the email.
Magazine-style "page"
Since they’ve partnered with Vogue, the aesthetic here is also reminiscent of a page from a magazine. All of the products are laid out as such that you get the impression the box was sort of spilled out on the floor just in front of you, and there is no copy to get in the way of them
Luxury brand value
In the bottom, right-hand corner, you see both brand logos which adds social proof and status. Immediately to the right of that I see the “Limited Edition” copy above the price of the box ($68). The price is higher than usual, but this is a luxury brand partnership. Birchbox makes sure to point out that what I’m getting is normally worth $265.
Establishing partnerships are a great way to acquire new customers, leverage the equity of other brands, or test new product concepts (in this case, a premium box at a higher price point). Plus, you may even be able to multiply your reach, depending on the nature of the partnership.
Day 42, Email 19: Free gift promotional email (reminder)
Subject line: “Last Chance for This Smashbox Freebie ✨”
Preview text: “Don’t miss your March Birchbox! Birchbox”
Date: Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 11:39 AM
Another reminder
This is the exact same email and offer as Day 22—in other words, a reminder email for the original free gift/offer that’s being sent 20 days later. The only significant update is the flashing “Last Chance” GIF at the top.
Nothing new to add here. Most subscribers, even if you have an excellent open rate, won’t see or act on your emails, so sending reminders on offers can provide a second chance when used correctly.
Subject line: “Birchbox for $8 a Month = Best. Deal. Ever. 🙌”
Preview text: “Get an annual subscription to Birchbox at $96-just $8 a month. Birchbox”
Date: Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:10 PM
Creative framing
This is a focused and fantastic-looking email. Create a frame out of various product photos communicates the sheer quantity and variety you would get from an annual subscription.
Urgency meets low-risk
The uppercase “LIMITED TIME ONLY” creates a sense of urgency, while the casual simplicity of the lowercase “just $8 a month” communicates how little you stand to lose if you take the leap.
Blend together different persuasive triggers to balance the pressure of urgency with the offer of an easy commitment.
Day 47, Email 21: Start of month promotional email
Subject line: “Our April Box Has Freshly Picked Products Just for You ”
Just like before, we get a teaser of the next subscription box during the last few days of the month.
A new visual theme for the month
The theme clearly focuses on the spring season and change it brings about, with crisp copy related to spring and gardening.
Compelling product photography
The products are nicely lined up just outside the box and partially point to the copy above. Once again, there is a specific call to action in “Get Your April Box.”
Developing a rhythm for your email marketing helps subscribers anticipate, even look forward to getting certain emails.
Subject line: “Take the Leap With This Free Lipstick ”
Preview text: “Join today and get a free mini Lipstick Queen Frog Prince Lipstick. Birchbox”
Date: Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 1:02 PM
Community-focused photography
The hero image in the center showcases Birchbox’s diverse, friendly community of customers.
Direct call-to-action
This time the “highlighted” code is at the top of all the copy so you immediately notice it. The copy of the email is similar to past email offers, but there’s no need to fix what isn’t broken.
Now that we’ve been able to see a few special offers with free products as incentives to join, it’s good to see the variety in the incentives being offered. The new offers in each email make you forget that the same template is being applied to each one.
Instant replay: Lessons from Birchbox’s email marketing
Through these emails from Birchbox, we’ve seen some pretty effective email marketing tactics. It’s interested to note that the frequency of emails was relatively high at 22 emails in 2 months. In a previous teardown for Casper, I received 10 emails in the same amount of time.
Birchbox is able to do this because they regularly offer free gifts—one of the best forms of “value” you can expect from a brand in your inbox, which makes it hard to unsubscribe.
That said, there was definitely a clear pattern to their emails, which makes sense for a subscription-based business selling monthly themed boxes. To the company’s credit, it came across as reliable instead of repetitive thanks to all the inspired copywriting and design choices.
As far as the tactics we saw from individual emails, let’s recap the most important ones that you might carry forward to your own business:
Consider letting subscribers tell you what they’re interested in when they opt in —in the case of Birchbox, the options were beauty or grooming.
Leverage partnerships with big, well known brands in your industry to create extra demand or test product lines.
Craft templates for recurring emails where you can swap out the content to keep it fresh.
The prospect of free gifts can help ensure your subscribers stay on your list.
Send reminder emails at the end of your promotion period to reach those who may have missed your offer the first time or forgotten about it.
Find authentic ways to be part of larger conversations and build a brand purpose that focuses on people, not just your products.
Keep a consistent header and footer to train your prospective customers to look to the center of the email for the offer. You can use design and photography techniques like frames, product placement or direction, and color balance help to make this more obvious.
While Birchbox has a lot of great creative across their emails, they're also perfectly fine with cost-effective approaches like re-sending an offer that people may have missed the first time. What’s more, despite the large volume of emails I got, they stuck by the cardinal rule of great email marketing, which is to deliver value in every email.
Do you have a favorite email marketing tip or trick that was (or wasn’t) covered here? What did you think about Birchbox’s emails, and what would you do differently? Let me know in the comments below!
Franco Varriano
Franco is the Head of Partnerships and Growth at RareLogic, a Shopify Partner that’s behind great apps like ShopHero. When he’s not helping merchants sell more, he digs making podcasts and enjoying craft beer on any patio.
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7 Underground Sneaker Brands You Need to Know!
Date: October 02 2018
By: Matt Williams
Arc Originals
Six Hundred Four
There is more to the sneaker scene than just Nike and adidas. Look beyond the shelves of your local Foot Locker, and you’ll discover a bevy of independent sneaker brands that can easily go toe-to-toe with the sportswear giants in the realm of quality footwear. To help provide some clarity, we’ve rustled up a list of our current underground favourites. Their sneakers might lack Swooshes and Stripes, but here are seven fledgling sneaker brands that you need to know about.
Arc Originals was established in 2016 by Austin Yule, a young Scotsman with one hell of a passion for sneakers. With youth on his side, and an appreciation for the memorable runner designs of the 90s burning deep in his heart, Yule decided to take a chance and launch Arc — Scotland’s first ever sneaker brand. They launched their first sneaker, The Outset, in late 2017, debuting it in a grey and green ‘Vol. 1’ make-up that paid tribute to the brand’s Highland roots. This strong debut was followed up with a vibrant ‘Tea Rooms’ release that made the sneaker world stand up and take notice – the shoe entirely sold out on launch. Arc took The Outset into safer terrain for its third outing with the ‘000C’, but 2019 promises to be a massive year for the young upstart.
Find out more about Arc Originals here.
‘We are very much a small independent brand so we like to give people the kind of experience we would want to get as a consumer. That is why we like to put that little bit of extra effort into each release with the added extras we like to include — e.g. hang tag, dust bag, custom box sleeves, etc. Not many brands treat each release like it’s more than just another colour, so I think that is where we set ourselves apart’ – Austin Yule, Arc Originals.
Have you ever found yourself messing around with one of the big brands’ customistation services, like NIKEiD or miadidas, and wished the process wasn’t so restrictive? Then you need to check out SWEAR! With two decades of experience in sneaker design and craftsmanship behind them, SWEAR claim to be responsible for bringing the world’s first ‘truly customisable luxury sneakers’ to market – and when they say ‘truly customisable’ they mean it!
Using SWEAR’s CUSTOMISE 360 program, you can design your own unique sneaker from the sole up, with an extensive inventory of materials at your disposable in every colour under the sun. SWEAR will even help guide you through the process, presenting you with inspiration from a carefully curated pool of collaborators. What’s even more impressive is that SWEAR will have your fully-customised sneaker on its way to you within just two weeks of placing your order. However, if you really can’t wait and are looking for the perfect personalised pair, SWEAR allow you to customise one of their existing designs with your initials and promise to have them shipped within only 48 hours!
SWEAR is still very much an underground brand, but is quickly gaining attention, especially from Vetements – with whom they recently dropped a collaborative Suede Platform Trainer.
Find out more about SWEAR here.
The idea of a sneaker brand started by a skateboarder is hardly a new concept – however, Rone is a little different. Pro skater Tony Ferguson, one of the original members of the Girl Skateboard Team, had already accumulated a decade of experience overseeing Alife Footwear by the time he decided to launch Rone in 2015. His reasoning was simple: until that point skate shoes had continued to evolve to meet performance needs, but had never matured to meet the tastes and needs of ageing skaters who have dedicated their lives to the daily grind.
Every pair of Rone sneakers is beautifully constructed entirely by hand using only responsibly considered material, including naturally tanned Italian leathers and cork/rubber sole units fused with water-based glue. The level of craftsmanship that goes into each and every pair Rone manufactures is truly of the highest tier, requiring as long as four hours to produce just one pair, with a further 10 days spent on a last to ensure the perfect fit. Visually, Rone’s footwear design draws heavily on the skate shoes of the 90s, but the end result is worlds beyond what every other skate-based brand is putting out.
Find out more about Rone here.
‘The idea behind Rone was simple: take shoes that were important to me growing up and make them better by taking elements from my favourite silhouettes and infusing them with the best materials and craftsmanship to bring them up-to-date. I think the point of difference with the brand is the authenticity and the way we pay homage to skateboarding in a real way, it’s the emotional connection people have had to the styles I’ve produced that has been the most rewarding part.’ – Tony Ferguson, Rone.
These days, consumers are more conscious than ever about vegan and eco-friendly footwear, and European shoe label Rombaut is right at the forefront of this growing market. The brainchild of Paris-based Belgian designer Mats Rombaut, this self-described ‘natural’ footwear brand produces outlandish avant-garde sneakers made from plant-based materials with an aim at protecting bio-diversity. Rombaut have used everything from natural rubber, cotton cellulose, and coconut fibre to stone, tree bark, and pineapple leaves in their designs, all of which are made in Italy. They even incorporated flexible solar panels into their futuristic Odyssey III runner.
Mats Rombaut had spent five years at Lanvin, along with Damir Doma, before establishing his namesake brand, and that experience shows. Rombaut have crafted a reputation for their cowboy boot-inspired sneakers, but more often can be seen making headlines for their literal takes on vegan footwear, including their recent lettuce slide. Bella Hadid cites the brand as one of her favourites, and numerous other industry heavyweights have thrown their support behind the forward-thinking brand.
Find out more about Rombaut here.
Footwear veteran Manuele Bianchi established CASBIA with nonconformism in mind. Identifying the sneaker industry’s tendency to rehash the same classic designs in virtually unchanged form, year after year, Bianchi decided to put his own spin on the classics, by fusing tradition with modern technology. CASBIA's designs are familiar, yet fresh, and have been designed with functionality in mind. Their latest collection of footwear embraces utilitarian design, incorporating easy-access zips that are designed for those that live life on the go. Every pair is manufactured in Italy from top-shelf materials to guarantee quality and longevity. While still underground at their core, CASBIA’s attention to detail has attracted interest from sportswear brand Champion, with whom they have established a regular colab relationship.
Find out more about CASBIA here.
Making its debut in August this year, OBRA is by far the newest brand on this list, but it is far from the least experienced. OBRA was founded by two legends of the scene – Alife founder Arnaud Delecolle and Dave Cory, the former director of product at Converse – and is the culmination of more than two decades of footwear experience.
OBRA takes its name from a Portuguese word meaning both ‘a worker’s labour’ and ‘the work of an artist’, and it encompasses these values through a commitment to ethical manufacturing, by partnering with family-held factories in Brazil. OBRA’s debut silhouettes are as fashionable as they are functional, but if you needed any more reason to cop a pair to your already over-stocked collection, OBRA’s founders have pledged to share profits from every pair sold with local non-profit youth organisations that support arts, education, and civil liberties.
Find out more about OBRA here.
The team behind Canadian sneaker outfit Six Hundred Four view sneakers a little differently when compared to most brands. While they believe a shoe can be just a shoe, they prefer to view them as ‘a storytelling piece of art’. To fully embrace this concept of sneakers as art, Six Hundred Four commission talented artists to create new original artworks, which they then digitally print on to sneakers. To further connect the brand’s footwear with its artistic origins, every pair is laser-engraved with a unique ID, making them true one-of-a-kind works of art.
In line with the brand’s name, 604 pairs are handmade for each artist, spread across four different designs, resulting in a limited run of just 151 pairs of each. In a further connection to the brand’s name, 6.04 per cent of all sales are donated to a charity of the respective artist’s choosing, resulting in a donation of about $10k from each collaborative project.
Six Hundred Four’s designs are best appreciated by visiting the brand’s flagship store (The Sneaker Gallery) in Vancouver, Canada, where the shoes are presented alongside their original artistic inspiration.
Find out more about Six Hundred Four here.
Special thanks: Seb Drinkell
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Indigenous Artist Workshop for Gold Coast Schools Connect
Thursday 20 July
Helen Coombes, Acting Assistant Head of Design
Week 2, Term Three, 2017
Senior Arts students from the College took part in a workshop, creating indigenous art to gift to a Singaporean school. The project was part of the Gold Coast's Schools Connect initiative.
On Thursday of Week 1 we were fortunate enough to have Indigenous artist, Katrina Singh, visit us from the Jellurgal Centre. Katrina ran a three hour workshop with a small group of Senior Art students, sharing her knowledge of Aboriginal Art work and the rich history we have here on the Gold Coast. After learning about the meaning being certain features and styles, the group of students set to work on designing and painting their ideas onto a 1.4 metre ‘surfboard’ and ‘boomerang’.
As part of the Gold Coast Schools Connect initiative, to promote the Gold Coast and the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Somerset College has partnered with Dunman High School in Singapore, who are lucky enough to have been gifted these fantastic artworks. The artworks are en-route to Singapore as we speak, and will be presented to Dunman High School by Mr Bassingthwaighte later this month. The Gold Coast Schools Connect initiative aims to build relationships between schools within the Commonwealth, through learning about the cultures and customs of other nations. We hope that the Dunman High School community like our work!
A huge thank you to all of the staff involved with making this project a success!
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Post office worker 'left shaken' after knifepoint robbery
Witnesses are being sought
Max BakerTrainee Digital Reporter
Two people have been arrested after a knife point robbery in south Wiltshire (Image: Getty/Google)
A staff member at a rural post office has been left shaken after a knife point robbery today (August 3).
A man and woman from Manchester have been arrested after cash was stolen during the robbery at the shop in East Knoyle, south Wiltshire.
The incident happened at around 10:30am. Police said a man walked into Wren's Shop and threatened the member of staff with a knife and demanded money.
A spokesman for Wiltshire police said: "He then left with an amount of cash; the male member of staff was shaken but unhurt.
"Officers were called immediately and at just after 11am stopped a Honda Civic in the area and detained the male driver and his female passenger.
"Cash and a knife were also found in the car.
"A 34-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman - both from Manchester - were arrested on suspicion of robbery and are currently in custody at Melksham Police Station."
Det Sgt Lawrence Billi said: "We would like to hear from anyone who may have seen or heard anything suspicious or anyone acting suspiciously in this area this morning.
"It's a very tranquil village and incidents like this are rare; if you saw anything out of the ordinary please contact us."
Supt Steve Cox said: "This is a great example of some excellent work carried out by our officers and staff - reacting to a serious offence so quickly and then apprehending the suspects soon after.
"The message from this to any criminal fraternity is that you may consider a remote location as an easy target but you are very likely to be caught and then punished."
Anyone with information in relation to today's incident should call 101 and quote crime reference number 54190076173 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Updates LIVE from court as Zoltan Ferencz admits causing A358 death of 'wonderful' Taunton schoolgirl
Zoltan Ferencz, aged 23, of Cheddon Road, Taunton is expected to plead following the death of Silvia Diaz Sanz aged 15
Ruth OvensDigital Editor
Updated 14:40, 10 NOV 2017
A man involved in a fatal road traffic collision is to appear at Taunton Crown Court today, when it is expected he will plead to motoring offences and be sentenced.
It relates to an incident in Greenway Road, Taunton on 12 December at 9.15pm last year.
The driver of the car, Zoltan Ferencz, aged 23, of Cheddon Road, Taunton, is expected to plead to the following offences: causing death by dangerous driving; causing serious injury by dangerous driving ; and driving a vehicle which was unlicensed/uninsured.
Two female teenage pedestrians were in a collision with a car on a pedestrian crossing and were taken to Musgrove Park Hospital.
One of the girls involved in the incident - Silvia Diaz Sanz aged 15 - died the following day.
Her 16-year-old friend received treatment for arm and foot injury.
Stay up to date with the latest from court with our live blog.
The defendant stands in the dock 11:51
Live from court 10:02
Police outside Taunton Crown Court
Reaction to the verdict
Judge Ticehurst:
As a result of your dangerous driving, Silvia was killed as her and her friend were crossing the crossing. The light was red for road users and tehy were crossing safely. as a result of your inattention Silvia was killed.
You accept with your guilty plea that you are entirely guilty of her death - you were driving with no insurance - you failed to watch the road as you went to wipe the windscreen.
I have read and listened to the statement from Silvia’s family: ‘We are continuing the year as best we can although we are a bit lost, we are not sleeping and sometimes we quarrel between us because of that.
Mrs Sanz had to give up her MA studies and her job, her husband has had his health affected as a result.
Mrs sanz and her family will never forget Silvia, she will be greatly missed but not forgotten.
Nothing that I say or sentence I impose will bring back Silvia.
I consider this was a level three offense you were avoidably distracted when looking for a wipe, you were driving while uninsured and the other teen suffered injuries.
Driving in this way - looking for a cloth was undoubtedly dangerous - you were distracted for more than five seconds. You are 23 and have no convictions, you are clearly remorseful.
I will sentence you to 27 months in prison.
Mother's victim impact statement
Ulanda Sanz, Silvia’s mother had her impact statement read out to the court:
The crash happened two days before the Christmas holidays - instead of bringing Silvia home for family celebrations the family brought her ashes home and held her funeral instead.
We spent our journey from Oxford to Musgrove Hospital thinking about the scenarios and none of them were right. We were told she had died in hospital - our younger daughter then had to go through the same shock again at 2am.
The statement goes on to mention that the family has since returned to Spain as they have felt unable to carry on with their day to day lives in the UK.
It is not permissible to start wiping the windscreen while driving - you should pull over.The car can turn into a deadly weapon - which in this case it did.
Details of the case
The two girls were hit while using the crossing on Greenway Road.
Both girls were using the crossing properly on the evening of the collision, the red was showing red towards the defendants direction of travel and teh girls were almost three quarters of the way across the road.
Silvia Diaz Sanz suffered head injuries from which she was unable to recover while her friend received multiple fractures.
The two children were thrown into the air and witnesses saw this.
Guilty plea entered to dangerous driving
Ferencz has entered a guilty plea to causing death by dangerous driving.
11:51 KEY EVENT
The defendant stands in the dock
Zoltan Ferencz has arrived at Taunton Crown Court and will be entering his plea in the next few minutes.
Family in attendance
Members of Silvia Diaz Sanz family have arrived in court.
Somerset Live will be interviewing a member of the police following the court case.
What we know so far:
Two female teenage pedestrians were in a collision with a car on a pedestrian crossing and were taken to Musgrove Park Hospital on december 12, 2016.
She was a pupil at Taunton International School.
These are the charges
The driver of the car, Zoltan Ferencz, aged 23, of Cheddon Road, Taunton, is expected to plead to the following offences:
Causing serious injury by dangerous driving
Driving a vehicle which was unlicensed/uninsured.
The collision scene
This is where the crash happened on Greenway Road (Image: Google)
Tributes from school
At the time of the crash Taunton School International issued the following statement after Silvia Diaz Sanz aged 15 died.
Head teacher of the school paid tribute with “great sadness” on December 13, 2016, and said the deceased teenager had “great potential”.
Head teacher Lee Glaser said:
She was a young woman with great potential and a wonderful personality. Words cannot describe the sadness felt by our school community. We are in a state of devastation and shock.
I now ask that you allow her family and the Taunton School community the space and privacy needed to mourn the loss of such a special person.
A second international student, who was also involved in the incident, is stable and being well cared for.
We ask for your prayers at this very difficult time.
Live from court
We’re here at Taunton Crown Court where Zoltan Ferencz stands accused of causing A358 death of ‘wonderful’ Taunton schoolgirl.
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Education & Language Learning & Instruction
School-based Partnerships in Teacher Education
A Research Informed Model for Universities, Schools and Beyond
Editors: Hobbs, Linda, Campbell, Coral, Jones, Mellita (Eds.)
Proposes a partnership model that provides a language to describe, negotiate, maintain and evaluate partnerships in learning-related contexts
Provides in-depth examples of partnership theory in practice with evidence-based principles
Explores the value of different types of partnerships for differing needs and purposes
Provides descriptive interpretations of different stages and types of partnership to guide practice
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This book demonstrates school-based approaches to primary science teacher education. The models used involve partnerships between universities and primary schools to engage pre-service primary teachers in classroom teaching and learning that effectively connects theory with practice separate to the formal practicum arrangements. The book is a culmination of the research and collaboration of researchers from five Australian universities involved in the Science Teacher Education Partnerships with Schools (STEPS) project, funded by the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching.
While the STEPS project focused on partnerships in primary science teacher education, a key strength of the partnership model (the STEPS Interpretive Framework) developed and explored in this book is its applicability for cross-case, national, international, and inter-state analyses of partnership practices. This is shown through a number of case studies where the STEPS Interpretive Framework is applied and evaluated in the context of other school- or learning-related partnerships. These broad-ranging analyses illustrate the relevance of the model to a range of settings, both within and outside of education.
Linda Hobbs is an Associate Professor in Science Education at Deakin University. She teaches primary science education in the Bachelor of Education Course, and coordinates a fourth year science education unit that is solely based in schools. She also teaches science communication to science and engineering students. Her research interests include partnerships in primary teacher education, out-of-field teaching in secondary schools, and STEM education. She was the leader the Science Teacher Education Partnerships with Schools (STEPS) Project (2013-2014, funded by the Office for Learning and Teaching).
Coral Campbell is an Associate Professor at the School of Education, Deakin University, Australia. Coral’s research interests are in early childhood and primary science, design technology, and environmental education, and particularly focuses on practitioner learning and children’s understandings. She is on review panels for several international journals and is currently involved in a number of large federally funded projects. Coral has contributed to, and co-edited, the first Australian text for pre-service early childhood educators, Science in Early Childhood (Cambridge University Press).
Mellita Jones is a lecturer at Australian Catholic University’s Ballarat campus where she teaches Science Teacher Education and is the Deputy Head of School for the Ballarat campus. Her research is concerned with effective teacher education, where her focus has been on school-university partnerships, reflective practice and authentic uses of technology for personalising learning. Her recent work has involved school-based approaches to science teacher education and practicum partnerships for rural and regional teacher education courses. She also has an interest in working with teachers in the Pacific region and has had significant involvement in the Solomon Islands.
Theory and Practice: The Context of Partnerships in Teacher Education
Kenny, John (et al.)
Science Teacher Education Partnerships with Schools (STEPS)
Gilbert, Andrew (et al.)
Models of School-Based Practice: Partnerships in Practice
Campbell, Coral (et al.)
Linking Theory and Practice Through Partnerships
Chittleborough, Gail (et al.)
Representing Partnerships Practices
Redman, Christine (et al.)
Growing University–School Partnerships
Jones, Mellita (et al.)
A Partnership Journey Narrative: The Case of Damtru, Science Teacher Educator
Jones, Mellita
Growing Through Partnerships
Hobbs, Linda (et al.)
Sustaining School–University Partnerships: Threats, Challenges and Critical Success Factors
Herbert, Sandra (et al.)
Teacher Education at Trinity University Meets the STEPS Interpretive Framework
Albright, Shari (et al.)
A New Zealand Collaborative University–School Partnership: Applying the STEPS Framework
Cooper, Beverley (et al.)
The Case of the Catholic Teacher Education Consortium: Using the STEPS Framework to Analyse a School–University Partnership
Nailer, Sarah (et al.)
Negotiating Partnerships in a STEM Teacher Professional Development Program: Applying the STEPS Interpretive Framework
Scientists and Mathematicians in Schools: CSIRO, Australia
Case Studies Exploring the Applicability of the STEPS Interpretive Framework in Other Professions
Visionary Practice
Linda Hobbs
Coral Campbell
Mellita Jones
Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
10.1007/978-981-13-1795-8
Hardcover ISBN
XIX, 285
14 b/w illustrations
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FORENSIC INVESTIGATION OF EXPLOSIONS PowerPoint Presentation
FORENSIC INVESTIGATION OF EXPLOSIONS
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Explosions Definition: Explosives are substances that undergo a rapid oxidation reaction with the production of large quantities of gases. • The sudden buildup of gas pressure produces the explosion. • The speed in which explosives decompose classifies them as either low or high explosives. EXPLOSIONS
Low Explosive • Most commonly used low-explosive: black powder smokeless powder • Black powder - a mixture of potassium or sodium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur. • Smokeless powder - nitrated cotton (nitrocellulose) or nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose.
Other Explosives High explosives Primary are ultra-sensitive to heat, shock, or friction and provide the major ingredients found in blasting caps or primers used to detonate other explosives. • Secondary explosives (commercial, military, RDX) are insensitive to heat, shock, or friction and burn rather than detonate if ignited in small quantities in the open air. EXPLOSIONS
High Explosives • Nitroglycerin-based dynamite has been replaced in the industrial explosive market by ammonium nitrate–based explosives (i.e., water gels, emulsions, and ANFO explosives). • Secondary explosives must be detonated by a primary explosive. • Accessibility of military high explosives outside the U.S. to terrorist organizations to make homemade bombs. • RDX is the most powerful military explosives, aka plastic C-4. EXPLOSIONS
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Collection and Analysis • The entire bomb site must be systematically searched with great care given to recovering any trace of a detonating mechanism or any other item foreign to the explosion site. • Objects located at or near the origin of the explosion must be collected for laboratory examination. • Often a crater is located at the origin and loose soil and other debris must be preserved from its interior for laboratory analysis. • One approach for screening objects for the presence of explosive residues in the field or laboratory is the ion mobility spectrometer (IMS). EXPLOSIONS
Collection and Analysis • Preliminary identification of an explosive residue using the IMS can be made by noting the time it takes the explosive to move through a tube. A confirmatory test must follow. • All materials collected for the examination by the laboratory must be placed in sealed air-tight containers and labeled with all pertinent information. • Debris and articles collected from different areas are to be packaged in separate air-tight containers. • It has been demonstrated that some explosives can diffuse through plastic and contaminate nearby containers. EXPLOSIONS
Back at the Lab Debris collected at explosion scenes are inspected with a microscope for unconsumed explosive particles. • Recovered debris may be rinsed with organic solvents • color spot tests, thin-layer chromatography gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. • Identification of unexploded materials IR-spectrophotometry or X-ray diffraction. EXPLOSIONS
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Military suspends outdoor weapons testing at Picatinny Arsenal • by Jonathan Casiano/The Star-Ledger Saturday April 12, 2008, 2:55 PM A day after an errant artillery fragment crashed through the roof of a Jefferson Township home, the Army announced today that it was suspending outdoor weapons testing at Picatinny Arsenal until further notice. In this case, Army personnel were using explosive charges to detonate a 15-pound Comp B explosive.as part of a research and development exercise, Picatinny spokesman Peter Rowland said. The exercise was conducted 8 times on Friday, April 11, 2008. Scientific estimates had indicated that fragments from the explosion would travel no further than 400 meters. However, the fragment that landed inside the Angle home traveled some 1,800 meters. Between 2 and 3 p.m. Friday, a two pound hunk of artillery crashed through the roof of Cheryl Angle's home on Longwood Lake Road in the Oak Ridge section of Jefferson Township. The hot metal landed on her 10-year-old daughter's bed and injured the family cat. The cat was later euthanized because of its injuries. Angle's daughter, Cassandra, was not home at the time. Ironically, the Army says the accident occurred while it was testing safer way to dispose of unwanted artillery shells.
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Manon Lescaut (Oxford World's Classics)
by Abbé Prévost
Edition: First Edition. 1 in
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
"The sweetness of her glance, or rather my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin, did not allow me to hesitate for a moment." So... Read more
begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves from early eighteenth-century Paris--with its theatres, assemblies, and gaming-houses-via prison and deportation to a tragic denouement in the treeless wastes of Louisiana. It is one of the great love stories, and also one of the most enigmatic: how reliable a witness is Des Grieux, Manon's lover, whose tale he narrates? Is Manon a thief and a whore, the image of love itself, or a thoroughly modern woman? Prévost is careful to leave the ambiguities unresolved, and to lay bare the disorders of passion. This new translation includes the vignette and eight illustrations that were approved by Prévost and first published in the edition of 1753.
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Marketing and Communications serves as St. John’s in-house marketing agency. Our team of experienced professionals works in partnership with the University’s academic and administrative units to support the institution's enrollment and advancement goals and to promote awareness of St. John’s brand.
The office provides strategic marketing development through a variety of resources: editorial (including copywriting, editing, and proofreading support), design, photography, digital (including web site, video, and social media support), media planning, and external printing services. MarComm also produces University-wide communications vehicles including [email protected] John's and This Week at St. John’s; posts on electronic campus signage (e-boards); handles inbound marketing initiatives; and maintains the University brand guidelines.
An account director is assigned to every college/department and is the first point of contact to access all office services. To identify the account director for your area, please contact Lucy Traverso at 718-990-7587.
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Caren Batzer serves as Associate Vice President of Marketing and Communications. After joining the University in 1991 as Advertising and Publications Manager, she grew along with the office to assume additional responsibilities as Director of Advertising and Publications and Director of Brand Communications where she was instrumental in the creation of an in-house agency to effectively address St. John's promotional needs.
Currently, Ms. Batzer is responsible for multiple teams who conceive and execute integrated marketing strategies to meet the University's enrollment, advancement, and brand objectives, including account management, design, media planning, and external printing.
A double alumnus of St. John's with a B.S. in Communications and an M.A. in Sociology, Ms. Batzer began her career as an editor and writer in both consumer and business magazines and spent nine years as Editorial Production Coordinator at NYU's School of Continuing Education prior to returning to St. John's.
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Elizabeth Ciabocchi, Ed.D., Appointed Vice President of Online Learning Consortium
St. John’s University Names School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science in Honor of Maurice R. Greenberg
St. John's Fencing Invitational
Jan 18, 2020, All day Taffner Field House
St. John's vs. Seton Hall 1870 Court
Jan 18, 2020, 10 a.m. – Noon Stout NYC, 133 W 33rd St (between 6th and 7th avenue) New York, NY 10001 US
Men's Basketball vs. Seton Hall
Jan 18, 2020, Noon – 2 p.m. Madison Square Garden
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Council issues statement after London Bridge attack
Terrorist Usman Khan had been living in Stafford prior to Friday's attack
Updated 13:27, 2 DEC 2019
(Image: Callum Wilkes)
A council says it is working to see if they 'can assist' after the London Bridge terrorist was revealed to have been living in Stafford.
Usman Khan, who killed two people near London Bridge before being shot dead by police, is believed to have been living at an address on Wolverhampton Road in the county town prior to the attack on Friday.
Police investigators have been at the address since Friday night - with cordons and screens in place.
Leader of Stafford Borough Council, Councillor Patrick Farrington, said: “Our thoughts are with friends and family of those killed in this shocking attack and those affected by this tragic incident.
"Concerning" - families react to revelation terrorist was living nearby
'Loads of police have been here...' - Anti-terror cops swoop on second Stoke-on-Trent house after London Bridge tragedy
"We are also grateful to the bravery of those caught up in this incident and to our emergency services.
"We appreciate our community will want to know more about what is happening because of the fact this man was living in Stafford.
"And we are liaising with the police and partner agencies to see if we can assist in any way."
Stafford Borough Council
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Sino Grandness gets its proprietary juices onto HK supermarket shelves
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Dennis Chan
Deputy Night Editor
dennis@sph.com.sg
SINGAPORE - Mainboard-listed Sino Grandness Food Industry Group has struck a deal to put its own Garden Fresh brand fruit juices in Wellcome, one of the largest supermarket chains in Hong Kong.
The newly engaged distributor in charge of the Hong Kong market has commenced rolling out Garden Fresh juices across various Wellcome supermarkets.
Subsequently, the next target is to make inroads into other leading convenience stores such as 7-Eleven in order to increase brand awareness of Garden Fresh in Hong Kong.
There are currently more than 900 7-Eleven stores and more than 200 Wellcome stores in Hong Kong.
"Since launching Garden Fresh juices in China in 2010, we are encouraged by the positive response we have received as reflected in the phenomenal growth of revenue, rapid expansion of our distribution network and increase in brand recognition," said Sino Grandness chairman and chief executive Huang Yupeng.
Last year, sales of the group's beverage segment which comprises Garden Fresh juices sales exceeded 1.3 billion yuan (S$270 million) with some 70 per cent of sales made up of loquat and mixed loquat juices.
Ing the first six months of 2014, revenue from the beverage segment surged 49.6 per cent to 869.3 million yuan.
The group has expanded its distribution network for Garden Fresh juices in China, covering more than 20 provinces.
"Our plan is to build on this momentum and to take Garden Fresh to greater heights within China as well as in the overseas markets," added Mr Huang.
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Streifenjunko
New album Like Driving is out! Get it on vinyl from Sofa.
"Strongly recommended for fans of experimental electronica, minimalism, and new sounds in general."
— Glenn Astarita, All About Jazz
"This is an extremely likeable experimental work with a generally soft and calm tone, but a few surprises."
— Stuart Bruce, Chain D.L.K.
"It’s refreshing to listen to such a layered montage technique that risks everything in the quest to bring the new."
— TJ Norris, Toneshift.net
"This is some wonderful strange music and I love it."
— vitalweekly.net (edition 1158)
"Streifenjunko has taken a shift towards electronic sounds. Their previous albums "No Longer Burning" (SOFA 2009) and "Sval Torv" (SOFA 2012) was remarkable in the magnificent sound achieved only with a saxophone and trumpet. With the seemingly endless possibilities of electronic instruments their strategy of finding simple tasks has been put to the test, and in the making of this album Streifenjunko was put back to the starting position to re-discover their focus and recognisable simplicity. The result is music with sharp edges and sudden changes, crude starting and stopping. The engine of the music is the interlocking of slow moving streams. Some of the electronics are self generating for Espen and Eivind to follow, and the different sounds and layers are multiplexed using starting and stopping signals. To play is simply to follow the signals, like driving."
— Sofa about "Like Driving"
Live dates:
Nothing scheduled at the moment
Streifenjunko has been making music together since 2005, and during these years, the members Espen Reinertsen (saxophone, electronics) and Eivind Lønning (trumpet, electronics) have worked closely together to present truly unique and original compositions on more than 200 concerts all over the world. They have been heard on festivals such as Densités Festival, Sonic Acts, Baignade Interdite, Meteo, Borderline, Festival Cable, KLAENG Festival, Crác Festival, Asphalt Festival, The NOWnow Festival, Ultima, Oct-Loft, Rue du Nord, Hagenfesten, Punkt, Soddjazz, All Ears, KIMfest, Kongsberg Jazzfestival and Moldejazz. They often perform together in other projects as well, most notably in the Christian Wallumrød Ensemble, and also with numerous other recognized artists in the field of experimental music and art. Streifenjunko is supported by Arts Council Norway.
Subradar
Sval Torv vinyl
Like Driving vinyl
Sval Torv
Booking and stuff:
espenrei@gmail.com
eivindlonning@gmail.com
Photo © Martin Taxt
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studio three sixty°
a design collective specialising in creating unique pop-up performance spaces and installations
Footprint: 12 metres diameter
Audience Capacity: 168 in the round
It takes 8 people a day to erect using no tools and requires no specialist skills, such as working at height.
The auditorium is designed with a fully integrated lighting and sound system that provides a total, immersive experience.
ROUNDABOUT won The Stage Awards "Theatre Building of the Year 2015" and went onto be voted "Best Fringe Venue 2015" at the Edinburgh Festival.
You can find more information about Roundabout's current season by visiting Paines Plough
Find out more about our work designing Roundabout
Photos: © Paul Zanre
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Feast of Ashes
The Life and Art of David Ohannessian
Sato Moughalian
CHAPTER 1 Excerpt
Mouradchai
The Armenian Village
IN THE SUMMER OF 1889, five-year-old Tavit Galenbajak—who would one day be known as David Ohannessian—loved nothing more than scampering about the hills and bluffs perched above the Armenian village of Mouradchai, an idyllic place hidden away in the mountains of northwest Anatolia. On this hot, dry afternoon, he ran up the path behind his house, past pomegranate and apricot trees. His small bare feet flew through sloping fields and skittered up the stony crags.
Several boulders rose to form a ledge above the houses where the Galenbajak family and their relatives lived. The boy took an impish delight in finding wobbly rocks. He clambered up onto the unsteadiest of them—his favorite. Tavit carefully balanced himself, then jumped up and down in a frenzy, unleashing a hailstorm of pebbles toward the houses below.
His mother, Markrid, and his grandmother Takouhi, placidly tending to their daily tasks of sweeping, spinning, chopping, and grinding, heard him at his chosen sport. They ran toward Tavit and let out a collective wail, convinced yet again that the whole mountain would soon come crashing down on them and their houses. “Aye, Tavit, Tavit,” they pleaded. “Come down! You’ll destroy our whole village yet!”
Mouradchai faced west, toward the setting sun. Fragrant, pine-covered hills crowned with soaring limestone peaks enclosed the lofty village on three sides, shielding it from an outsider’s view. Down below the village, the Chirka Creek had eroded a cleft into the mountain rock and brought fresh water close to the settlement. The Chirka was a northern tributary of the five-hundred-mile-long Sakarya River, which snaked a path around western Anatolia before spilling into the Black Sea.
Few maps recorded Mouradchai’s existence. Tavit’s ancestors had discovered this verdant, alpine spot at the end of the fifteenth century. They had traveled from the eastern reaches of the Ottoman Empire—historic Armenia—seeking refuge from marauding tribesmen and soldiers who had plundered their settlements.1 The migrants named the new colony after their former home on the banks of the Mourad River—the Mourad-Chai—whose waters flowed from Mount Ararat and formed the source of the mighty Euphrates River.2
Tavit’s father, Ohannes, narrated this history and many others as the family drew close around the hearth on frigid winter nights. Mouradchai villagers—all of them Armenian—taught their customs and stories to each generation of children—the time-honored rituals of ecclesiastic and family life that had stood them in good stead. At the same time, Tavit’s parents and grandparents didn’t shrink from recounting the family’s hardships and woes—the challenges they had borne and those they had overcome. After all, for nearly four hundred years now the Galenbajak family had persisted and flourished, sheltered high away on the Mourad Rock.
Tavit’s family lived in a quarter called Galenbajak, after his clan. The large Mouradchai families gave their names to sectors of the village: District of the Family of Blacksmith Artin, District of Sons of the Deaf Man, District of the Son of the Shoemaker, District of the Horsedealer, District of the Son of Jewelers,3 and in the case of the Galenbajaks,4 District of the Thick Legged. The name signaled their prosperity. For centuries, the fertile land had nourished the family well. In fact, slenderness was not a desirable trait in the mountains, where unexpectedly long winters sometimes left food scarce. A plump bride-to-be was prized. “Now there’s a girl,” the village men would say, admiringly.
Twenty-one wood-frame and mud-brick houses of one or two stories crowded together in the Galenbajak district.5 Beyond the tight cluster of homes, chickens, sheep, and cows grazed among orchards dotted with fruit and nut trees—fig, apricot, olive, almond, cherry, walnut, and hazelnut. Wheat, alfalfa, and vegetables thrived in the rich soil. Silk cocoons and grapes formed the village’s largest exports. Mouradchai men and women were industrious farmers, planting rows of grapevines in the fertile fields within the town. But they also cultivated every arable patch of dirt, no matter how small, outside the ring of mountains, in the stony lands between the village and the Sakarya River.6
Like Tavit’s father, Ohannes, his grandmother Takouhi enchanted the family with her storytelling. On long brumal nights, she let her grandchildren choose which stories they wanted to hear. One of their favorites was the tale of how she came to Mouradchai as a girl.
One summer, in the 1840s, her father, Haji Missak Geuzumian,7 a prosperous goldsmith who lived in the nearest metropolis, Eskishehir, arrived in the village with his wife and children, including his eldest daughter, Takouhi. Haji Missak rented a house for several months so that he could make and sell jewelry to order—bracelets, rings, crosses, and chains. With nearly three thousand inhabitants,8 Mouradchai provided a good demand for his services, including many orders to supply gold coins. All throughout the broad Anatolian peninsula, both foreign and local coins circulated freely. Paper banknotes had recently been issued for the first time but few used them outside of large cities and at any rate,9 in the provinces, Armenian families preferred to keep their riches in gold. Golden rings, crosses, belts, and, naturally, coins and gold nuggets could be hidden or transported easily. When a young girl married, she wore the better part of her dowry draped across her forehead or pinned to her bridal dress in the form of gold coins.
Before too long, the Geuzumians, the parents of five daughters, noticed the Galenbajak’s son Hagop. Around the village, he was considered a very good catch. In Mouradchai, the rumor was that the great Galenbajak clan had so much gold it had to be measured by the bucket. And pretty Takouhi caught Hagop’s eye. The Geuzumians consulted a meechnort, a go-between, who made the initial approach.
Both families felt it was a good match and quickly settled an engagement between Takouhi and Hagop. The first step of a betrothal was the khosk gab, or “tying of the word,” which celebrated the new relationship between the young couple and their kin. Then, a clergyman performed the ritual consecration called the nshan or “sign.” Hagop and Takouhi, her head draped with a veil, touched foreheads while holding lighted candles, as a Galenbajak uncle lifted a cross above their heads. Hagop’s parents presented a gold ring to Takouhi, to be worn on her right hand until the wedding day. After the nshan, the guests gave gifts to the bride and feasted on great mounds of sweets—rojig, walnuts tied together on a long string and dipped in grape syrup, bastekh, thin sheets of dried fruit juices, and trays of nut-filled pastries.
Some village families betrothed their children from birth, others when a daughter reached the age of 9 or 10. But Takouhi was at the right age to marry—between 14 and 16—and Hagop was several years older, so they soon wed. The bride wore a colorful dress bedecked with gold coins and covered her face with a thick shawl as she rode to the church on horseback. Village men escorted the bridal party, playing ear-crashing fanfares on davul drums and zurnas, trumpet-like reed instruments. Young men and women danced all along the way to the church. Others fired celebratory gunshots into the air.10
1. This family anecdote, like those that follow, is drawn from Pheme Alice Ohannessian Moughalian’s unpublished 1992 work, “The Families of Tavit and Victoria Ohannessian,” oral histories collected by Moughalian and her sisters Sirarpi, Mary, and Hermine in the 1980s and 1990s, and from other family documents, memoirs, and testimonies, as well as numerous interviews with Ohannessian family members between 2013 and 2018.
2. “Muratchai,” Tsaghik Amsatʾertʾ [Tsaghik: National, Literary and Political Half-Monthly Review], Constantinople, October 31, 1898, 131. Today, the Mourad-Chai (Mourad River) is called the Murat Nehri, or Eastern Euphrates.
3. As recorded in the 1849 Muradja cizye register (the listing of non-Muslim residents), BOA, ML.VRD.CMH.d 1053, (1265.1.3) H. 25.01.1849.
4. Transliterated as Kalinbaçak from Ottoman Turkish; Galenbajak, per Ohannessian family records.
5. BOA, ML.VRD.CMH.d 1053 (1265.1.3) H. 25.01.1849. Per David Ohannessian, the entire population of the village was Armenian Christian, principally Apostolic.
6. Joseph K. Greene Diaries, August 15, 1861, MRL 2, Near/Middle East: Joseph Kingsbury Greene Papers, series 1, box 1, folder 2, vol. 3.
7. Among Armenian Christians the honorific “haji” indicated that someone had made a pilgrimage to the Holy City of Jerusalem.
8. BOA, ML.VRD.CMH.d 1053 (1265.1.3) H. 25.01.1849. The cizye document records the male residents, who occupy just over 500 homes. Joseph K. Greene estimates the 1861 population at fewer than 3000. The Tsaghik Amsatʾertʾ article places the number at 3500 in 600 homes in October of 1898. Raymond Kévorkian and Paul B. Paboudjian estimate the 1914 population at 2600. See Les Arméniens dans l’Empire ottoman à la veille du génocide (Paris: Editions d’art et d’histoire, 1992), 150.
9. M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), 91–92.
10. Takouhi’s wedding is described in family records. Similar Armenian traditions and regional variants are recounted in Susie Hoogasian Villa and Mary Allerton Kilbourne Matossian, Armenian Village Life before 1914 (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1982).
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(Redirected from U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council)
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum "is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust...
"Chartered by a unanimous Act of Congress in 1980 and located adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, DC, the Museum strives to broaden public understanding of the history of the Holocaust through multifaceted programs: exhibitions; research and publication; collecting and preserving material evidence, art and artifacts related to the Holocaust; annual Holocaust commemorations known as Days of Remembrance; distribution of education materials and teacher resources; and a variety of public programming designed to enhance understanding of the Holocaust and related issues, including those of contemporary significance." [1]
1 Contact Information and Website
2 State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda
3 Executives
4 Committee on Conscience
Contact Information and Website
Website: http://www.ushmm.org/
State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda
In November, 2008, the Holocaust Museum will open State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda, a special exhibition examining state propaganda and the role of Nazi propaganda in the rise and fall of the Third Reich and inciting genocide. The exhibit will run for more than two years and then become a traveling exhibit.
On June 20, 2008, the Holocaust Museum invited a group of journalists to participate in a roundtable examining "Journalists Under the Third Reich" to discuss and promote the exhibit. Ann Millin of the Holocaust Museum led and moderated the roundtable Journalists participating were:
Angela Benson, WCCO TV, Minneapolis, MN
Pamela Benson, CNN
Dan Bowerman, The Quad City Times
John Coward, University of Tulsa
Carole Hunter, The Des Moines Register
Gail Meadows, The Miami Herald
Ray Quintanilla, The Chicago Tribune
Robert D. Richards, The Pennsylvania State University
Chris Scholl, CBS News
John Stauber, Center for Media and Democracy
Karen Sughrue, CBS 60 Minutes
William Ward, The Poynter Institute
Accessed October 2007: [2]
Fred S. Zeidman
Sara J. Bloomfield
Joel M. Geiderman
Committee on Conscience
Chairman - Tom A. Bernstein
Debbie Abrams
Hyman Bookbinder
Lanny A. Breuer
Myron M. Cherry
Robert J. Dole
Katharine (Kitty) D. Dukakis
Stuart E. Eizenstat
Donald Etra
William H. Frist
Harold Gershowitz
Michael J. Gerson
Constance Girard-diCarlo
Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk
Barbara Wallace Grossman
Arlene Herson
John F. Kordek
M. Ronald Krongold
Elena N. Lefkowitz
Steven M. Levy
Ruth B. Mandel
Leo Melamed
Father John T. Pawlikowski
Harry Reicher
Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Aletta Schaap
Rabbi Arthur Schneier
George D. Schwab
Jerome J. Shestack
Joyce Sudikoff
Mark E. Talisman
Web: http://www.ushmm.org/
Irving Greenberg - former chair 2000-02
Michael C. Gelman
Stanley M. Chesley
Bobbie Greene Kilberg
International Freedom Center
Mental Disability Rights International
Save Darfur Coalition
Jay Zeidman
Fred Zeidman
Bradley A. Blakeman
Jay Mazur
Benjamin A. Gilman
Betsy McWhirt (Roots and Shoots)
↑ Mission Statement, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accessed October 2, 2007.
↑ Executive Biographies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accessed October 2, 2007.
↑ Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accessed October 2, 2007.
Retrieved from "https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=United_States_Holocaust_Memorial_Museum&oldid=473154"
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By Neha Aziz
SXSW Film Festival Announces 2019 Features and Episodic Premieres
We are happy to announce the Features and Episodic Premieres lineup for the 26th edition of the SXSW Film Festival.
The acclaimed program draws thousands of fans, filmmakers, press, and industry leaders every year to immerse themselves in the most innovative, smart, and entertaining new films of the year. Jordan Peele’s Us was previously announced as the Festival’s Opening Night film, while Olivia Wilde, Jessica Brillhart, and Marti Noxon have been announced as this year’s Film Keynotes.
The 102 features and episodics in this lineup will be shown across the nine days of the SXSW Film Festival, with dozens of additional titles to be announced on February 6. The complete SXSW Film Festival program typically includes between 320 and 340 total projects. The 2019 program was selected from 2,351 feature-length film submissions, with a total of 8,490 films submitted this year.
“As we head into our 26th edition, we couldn’t be more excited to once again share a completely fresh SXSW 2019 slate with our uniquely smart and enthusiastic SXSW audience,” said Janet Pierson, Director of Film. “As always, we looked for a wide range of work, contemplating scale, style, tenor, and tone. We hope that this year’s outstanding array of films from accomplished to emerging talent will entertain, surprise, and provoke.”
A selection of feature highlights include: The Beach Bum directed by Harmony Korine; Booksmart directed by Olivia Wilde; Breakthrough directed by Bill Haney; The Garden Left Behind directed by Flavio Alves; The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash directed by Thom Zimny; Good Boys directed by Gene Stupnitsky; I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth Vs. Michelle Carter directed by Erin Lee Carr; J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius directed by Sandy K Boone; Long Shot directed by Jonathan Levine; Pink Wall directed by Tom Cullen; Sakawa directed by Ben Asamoah; and Us directed by Jordan Peele. Episodic Premiere Highlights: David Makes Man directed by Michael Francis Williams; NOS4A2 directed by Kari Skogland; Shrill directed by Jesse Peretz and Carrie Brownstein; Ramy created by Ramy Youssef, Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch; and What We Do In the Shadows directed by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement.
Festival Favorites, Midnighters, Shorts, Virtual Cinema, Episodic Pilot Competition, Title Sequence Competition, Music Videos and late-breaking Features will be announced on February 6.
Explore the list of newly announced films by screening sections: Narrative Feature Competition, Documentary Feature Competition, Headliners, Narrative Spotlight, Documentary Spotlight, Visions, Episodic Premieres, 24 Beats Per Second, Global, and Special Events.
2019 Film Festival Lineup
Alice (France)
Director/Screenwriter: Josephine Mackerras
Alice, a happy and perfect wife and mother has her life turned upside down when she discovers her husband is living a secret life. She is left abandoned with a child and is ruined financially. Her fight back leads her into a world of discovery, not only about her husband but also about herself. Cast: Emilie Piponnier, Martin Swabey, Chloe Boreham (World Premiere)
Extra Ordinary (Ireland)
Directors/Screenwriters: Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman
Rose, a mostly sweet and mostly lonely small-town driving instructor, must use her supernatural talent to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet and lonely), from a washed-up rockstar who is using her in a satanic pact that will reignite his fame. Cast: Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte, Claudia O’Doherty (World Premiere)
Go Back to China (China, U.S.)
Director/Screenwriter: Emily Ting
After spoiled rich girl Sasha Li (Anna Akana) blows through half of her trust fund, she is cut off by her father (Richard Ng) and forced to go back to China and work for the family toy business. Cast: Anna Akana, Richard Ng, Lynn Chen, Kelly Hu, Kendy Cheung, Aviva Wang (World Premiere)
Mickey and the Bear
Director/Screenwriter: Annabelle Attanasio
Faced with the responsibility to take care of her addict, veteran father, headstrong teen Mickey Peck keeps her household afloat. When she has the opportunity to leave for good, she must choose between familial obligation and personal fulfillment. Cast: Camila Morrone, James Badge Dale, Calvin Demba, Ben Rosenfield, Rebecca Henderson (World Premiere)
Ms. White Light
Director/Screenwriter: Paul Shoulberg
Lex Cordova’s business is dying. She has a unique ability to connect with her clients that are terminally ill. It’s just everyone else that she has a problem with. Valerie is a no bullshit woman who loves living her life. Her only way out is thru Lex. Cast: Roberta Colindrez, John Ortiz, Judith Light, Carson Meyer, Zachary Spicer (World Premiere)
Pig Hag
Directors: Sam Probst, Colby Holt, Screenwriter: Colby Holt
Jodie, a woman in her mid-thirties, struggles with the pressure to find a partner and have children. When she attends a Guns N’ Roses concert, she thinks she may have met a potential match — until he immediately ghosts on her. Cast: Anna T Schlegel, Tony Jaksha, Pete Zias, Michael Henry, Nate Stoner, Maxwell Esposito, Amanda DeSimone, Alex Myerchin, Andrew Kudla(World Premiere)
Director: Keola Racela, Screenwriters: Matt Black, Laurence Vannicelli
When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood. Cast: Evan Daves, Larry Saperstein, Jillian Mueller, Glenn Stott, Robert Tann, Bill Phillips, Katelyn Pearce, Peter Reznikoff (World Premiere)
Director: Alex Thompson, Screenwriter: Kelly O’Sullivan
At the start of the summer, Bridget has an abortion just as she lands a much-needed job in affluent Evanston, Illinois — nannying a six-year old. Cast: Ramona Edith-Williams, Kelly O’Sullivan, Lily Mojekwu, Charin Alvarez, Jim True-Frost, Max Lipchitz, Mary Beth Fisher, Francis Guinan, Bradley Grant Smith (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Hilary Brougher
When her teenagers head off to camp and her husband abruptly leaves her to begin a new family, Lila is left to her own curious and chaotic devices for a summer in her rural home in the Catskill mountains. Cast: Talia Balsam, Scott Cohen, Andrus Nichols, Michael Oberholtzer, Naian Gonzalez Norvind, Midori Francis, Macaulee Rusnak Cassaday, Isis Masoud, Violet Rea, Guthrie Mass (World Premiere)
Yes God Yes
Director/Screenwriter: Karen Maine
After an innocent AOL chat turns racy, a Catholic teenager in the early 00s discovers masturbating and struggles to suppress her urges in the face of eternal damnation. Cast: Natalia Dyer, Timothy Simons, Wolfgang Novogratz, Francesca Reale, Susan Blackwell, Parker Wierling, Alisha Boe, Donna Lynne Champlin (World Premiere)
Ernie & Joe
Director: Jenifer McShane
Ernie & Joe follows two officers with the San Antonio Police Department mental health unit who are diverting people away from jail and into mental health treatment — one 911 call at a time. (World Premiere)
For Sama (United Kingdom)
Directors: Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
For Sama tells the epic story of a young woman’s journey through love, war and motherhood across five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria. (World Premiere)
Museum Town
Director: Jennifer Trainer, Screenwriters: Noah Bashevkin, Pola Rapaport, Jennifer Trainer
From the ashes of a deserted factory, an ambitious center for contemporary art has emerged. With MASS MoCA, a familiar story of deindustrialization in a rural American town finds an unconventional route to recovery. (World Premiere)
Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy (Mexico, U.S.)
Director: Elizabeth Carroll
Award-winning cookbook author, diehard environmentalist and feisty British nonagenarian Diana Kennedy reflects on an unconventional life spent mastering the cuisines of Mexico. (World Premiere)
Stuffed (Canada, U.S.)
Director: Erin Derham
Stuffed is a documentary feature film about the surprising world of taxidermy and the passionate artists across the world who see life where others only see death. (World Premiere)
Director: Paul Solet
Pushed to his breaking point, a master welder in a small town at the foot of the Rocky Mountains quietly fortifies a bulldozer with 30 tons of concrete and steel and seeks to destroy those he believes have wronged him. (World Premiere)
Vision Portraits
Director/Screenwriter: Rodney Evans
A feature-length documentary that chronicles the creative paths of blind and visually impaired artists including a photographer (John Dugdale), dancer (Kayla Hamilton), writer (Ryan Knighton) and the film’s director, Rodney Evans. (World Premiere)
We Are The Radical Monarchs
Director: Linda Goldstein Knowlton
Meet the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color at the front lines of social justice. Set in Oakland, the film documents the journey of the group as they form, grow, and earn badges for units like “Black Lives Matter” and “Radical Beauty” (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Rebecca Stern
Well Groomed travels the humorous, visually stunning world of Competitive Creative Dog Grooming alongside the colorful women transforming their beloved poodles into living sculptures. (World Premiere)
Why Can’t I Be Me? Around You
Directors/Screenwriters: Harrod Blank, Sjoerd Dijk
Rusty, a male race enthusiast, decides at 53 to get breasts. His father cuts his pay, his motorcycle friends abandon him and the women he dates all reject him. Rusty pursues her new identity and only hopes to gain acceptance from others. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Harmony Korine
The Beach Bum follows the hilarious misadventures of Moondog (Matthew McConaughey), a rebellious rogue who always lives life by his own rules. Co-starring Snoop Dogg, Zac Efron, and Isla Fisher, The Beach Bum is a refreshingly original and subversive. Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher, Stefania Lavie Owen, Jimmy Buffett, Zac Efron, Martin Lawrence (World Premiere)
Director: Olivia Wilde, Screenwriters: Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, Katie Silberman
Told from a wildly original, fresh and modern perspective, Booksmart is an unfiltered comedy about high school friendships and the bonds we create that last a lifetime. Capturing the spirit of our times, the film is a coming of age story for a new generation. Cast: Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Will Forte, Lisa Kudrow, Jason Sudeikis (World Premiere)
Director: Gene Stupnitsky, Screenwriters: Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky
The writers of Superbad and the producers of Sausage Party take on sixth grade in Universal Pictures’ Good Boys, an R-rated comedy about three friends on an epic one-day odyssey of bad decisions. Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams, Brady Noon, Molly Gordon, Midori Francis, Josh Caras (World Premiere)
Director: John Lee Hancock, Screenwriter: John Fusco
The outlaws made headlines. The lawmen made history. From director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side), The Highwaymen stars Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson in the untold true story of the legendary detectives who brought down Bonnie and Clyde. Cast: Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, Kathy Bates, Kim Dickins (World Premiere)
Director: Jonathan Levine, Screenwriter: Dan Sterling
An ambitious diplomat with a spotless reputation and a hard-partying journalist hilariously redefine “international relations” as they try to keep their red-hot romance under wraps. Cast: Seth Rogen, Charlize Theron, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Andy Serkis, June Diane Raphael, Ravi Patel and Alexander Skarsgård (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Jordan Peele
An original nightmare from Oscar-winner Jordan Peele (Get Out), starring Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke, Us pits an average American family against a terrifying opponent: doppelgängers of themselves. Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Anna Diop, Evan Alex, Shahadi Wright-Joseph, Madison Curry, Cali Sheldon (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Logan Marshall-Green
After being released from prison following a twenty year sentence for a minor offense, an ex-con must learn to navigate the world while coming to terms with his own life which has moved on — all while caring for an abandoned baby he finds in a dumpster. Cast: Ethan Hawke, Elaine Hendrix, Diana Gaeta, Betty Gabriel, Mo McRae, Chris Sullivan, Nate Mooney, Christopher Heyerdahl, Anne Marie Johnson (World Premiere)
The Art of Self-Defense
Director/Screenwriter: Riley Stearns
The Art of Self-Defense stars Jesse Eisenberg and is set in the world of karate. Eisenberg plays a man who is attacked on the street and enlists in a local dojo, led by a charismatic Sensei (Nivola), in an effort to learn how to defend himself. Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, Imogen Poots (World Premiere)
Director: Richard Wong, Screenwriter: Erik Linthorst
Three young men with disabilities embark on a road trip to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs to lose their virginity and embrace their independence. Inspired by a true story and remake of the Belgian film Hasta La Vista. Cast: Grant Rosenmeyer, Hayden Szeto, Ravi Patel, Gabourey Sidibe, Janeane Garofalo, C.S. Lee, Jennifer Jelsema, Martha Kuwahara, Delaney Feener, Asta Philpot (World Premiere)
The Day Shall Come (United Kingdom, Dominican Republic)
Director: Chris Morris, Screenwriters: Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong
An impoverished preacher who brings hope to the Miami projects is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for the FBI who plan to turn him into a criminal by fueling his madcap revolutionary dreams. Cast: Marchánt Davis, Anna Kendrick, Danielle Brooks, Denis O’Hare (World Premiere)
Frances Ferguson
Director: Bob Byington, Screenwriter: Scott King
A small town’s reaction to scandal. Cast: Kaley Wheless, Nick Offerman, Keith Poulson, David Krumholtz (World Premiere)
I’m Just F*cking With You
Director: Adam Mason, Screenwriters: Gregg Zehenter, Scott Barkan
A young man and his sister endure a night of increasingly frightening practical jokes while spending the night at a secluded motel. Cast: Keir O’Donnell, Hayes MacArthur, Jessica McNamee (World Premiere)
Mother’s Little Helpers
Director/Screenwriter: Kestrin Pantera
When Joy Pride, a groovy 70’s burn-out on the caboose of the flower power movement learns she has weeks to live, her estranged children come together to do right by a mother who always did them wrong. Cast: Milana Vayntrub, Breeda Wool, Melanie Hutsell, David Giuntoli, Sam Littlefield, Kestrin Pantera (World Premiere)
Olympic Dreams
Director: Jeremy Teicher, Screenwriters: Alexi Pappas, Jeremy Teicher, Nick Kroll
In the Athlete Village at the Olympic Winter Games, Penelope (Alexi Pappas), a cross-country skier, befriends Ezra (Nick Kroll), a volunteer dentist, after a disappointing finish in her race. Penelope and Ezra share a special but limited time together. Cast: Nick Kroll, Alexi Pappas, Gus Kenworthy, Morgan Schild, Jamie Anderson (World Premiere)
Directors/Screenwriters: Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz
A young man with Down syndrome runs away from the retirement home where he lives to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler. Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Zack Gottsagen, John Hawkes, Bruce Dern, Thomas Haden Church, Jon Bernthal, Jake “The Snake” Roberts, Mick Foley (World Premiere)
Pink Wall (United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Tom Cullen
Six scenes. Six years. Six moments that shaped the relationship of Jenna and Leon. Pink Wall examines what defines us, the pressures of gender expectations, and our perpetual struggle between life and ambition. Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Jay Duplass (World Premiere)
Run This Town (Canada, U.S.)
Director/Screenwriter: Ricky Tollman
A political aide tries to corral his brash, outspoken boss when a young researcher at a newspaper gets word of a scandal that could make or break both of their careers. Cast: Ben Platt, Nina Dobrev, Mena Massoud, Damian Lewis, Jennifer Ehle, Scott Speedman (World Premiere)
Director: Lynn Shelton, Screenwriters: Lynn Shelton, Mike O’Brien
A curmudgeonly pawnshop owner and his man-child sidekick team up with an out of town couple to cash in on a family heirloom: a sword believed by alt history conspiracy nuts to be proof that the South won the Civil War. Cast: Marc Maron, Jon Bass, Michaela Watkins, Jillian Bell, Toby Huss, Dan Bakkedahl, Tim Paul, Whitmer Thomas (World Premiere)
Directors/Screenwriters: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
When a pair of amateur criminals break into a suburban home, they stumble upon a dark secret and two sadistic homeowners who will do anything to keep it from getting out. Cast: Bill Skarsgard, Maika Monroe, Kyra Sedgwick, Jeffrey Donovan (World Premiere)
The Wall of Mexico (U.S., Mexico)
Directors: Zachary Cotler, Magdalena Zyzak, Screenwriter: Zachary Cotler
A young white handyman, hired by a wealthy Mexican-American family to upkeep their ranch, finds himself caught between disgruntled locals and the family’s outrageously decadent daughters and discovers that something quite unusual is happening at the ranch. Cast: Jackson Rathbone, Esai Morales, Marisol Sacramento, Carmela Zumbado, Alex Meneses, Moises Arias, with Mariel Hemingway, and Xander Berkeley (World Premiere)
Director: Fernando Villena
Through the inspiring journey of a recovering athlete, Any One of Us offers an unprecedented glimpse into the traumatic world of spinal cord injuries. (World Premiere)
Director: Alex Horwitz
A feature documentary about the emerging technology of self-driving vehicles and the big questions they raise: what is control and who do we become as we relinquish it to machines? (World Premiere)
Bellingcat — Truth in a Post-Truth World (Netherlands)
Director/Screenwriter: Hans Pool
Bellingcat — Truth in a Post-Truth World explores the exclusive world of Bellingcat, a highly-skilled and controversial collective of “citizen investigative journalists” dedicated to redefining breaking news in the 21st century. (North American Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Bill Haney
Breakthrough tells the story of a renegade, blues-playing, Nobel prize-winning Texas scientist who created a cure for the world’s deadliest disease. Narrated by Woody Harrelson with a country-blues soundtrack. (World Premiere)
Building the American Dream
Director: Chelsea Hernandez
In Texas, construction workers face the deadliest conditions in the country. Building the American Dream follows three immigrant families who are rising up to seek justice and equality in an industry rife with exploitation. (World Premiere)
Community First, A Home for the Homeless
Director: Layton Blaylock
Community First, A Home for the Homeless, is a feature documentary about a totally unique concept for mitigating homelessness. Conceived and created in Austin, Texas, Community First! Village is truly transforming the lives of homeless people. (World Premiere)
Director: Adam Bolt, Screenwriters: Adam Bolt, Regina Sobel
A once-in-a-lifetime scientific discovery called CRISPR gives us the power to change what it means to be human. Now it’s up to us to decide how far we should go. (World Premiere)
I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth Vs. Michelle Carter
Director: Erin Lee Carr
Teen Michelle Carter’s actions shocked a nation — but what really happened behind closed doors? This HBO special showcases the prosecution’s point of view and alternately the defense’s. Which side do you fall on? (World Premiere)
It Started As a Joke
Directors: Julie Smith Clem, Ken Druckerman
It Started As a Joke documents the decade-long run of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival. The film celebrates Eugene’s unique brand of humor and reminds us of the healing properties of comedy – even in the most challenging of life’s circumstances. (World Premiere)
Director: Jacob Ryan Hamilton
Jump Shot uncovers the inspiring true story of Kenny Sailors, the developer of the modern day jump shot in basketball, and how he defined the game, but why the game never defined him. (World Premiere)
Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story
Director: Troy Miller, Screenwriter: Kathy Griffin
In her first ever comedy concert film, Comedian Kathy Griffin details the aftermath of lost work and being the subject of a federal investigation following the release of her now infamous photo depicting President Donald J Trump. (World Premiere)
Director: Jenna Ricker
In the world of motorsports, the Indianapolis 500 has long been considered the only race. In May 1977, Janet Guthrie — the first woman to attempt Indy — earned herself a spot in the prestigious field of 33. (World Premiere)
Directors: Casey Pinkston, Luke Dick
In the early 1980’s, the only family that toddler Luke knew were the strippers, bouncers, and outcasts that made OKC’s rowdiest strip club their home. (World Premiere)
The River and the Wall
Director: Ben Masters
Five friends venture into the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands to document the environment before a wall is built. As the wilderness gives way to the bustling Rio Grande Valley, they encounter the unexpected and enter uncharted emotional waters. (World Premiere)
Running with Beto
Director: David Modigliani
Follow Beto O’Rourke behind the scenes of his breakaway campaign to unseat Ted Cruz in the US Senate. With intimate access to the candidate, his family and team, the film captures Beto’s rise from a virtual unknown to a national political sensation. (World Premiere)
Sunset over Mulholland Drive (Germany)
Director: Uli Gaulke, Screenwriters: Uli Gaulke, Marc Pitzke
The vital power of creativity — a behind the scenes look into Hollywood’s retirement home. (North American Premiere)
Becoming Leslie
Director: Tracy Frazier, Screenwriters: Sandra Guardado, Tracy Frazier
Becoming LESLIE reveals the inner and bizarre world of Leslie Cochran, a cross-dressing homeless misfit who became the most iconic and unlikely civic symbol of Austin, Texas. (World Premiere)
The Garden Left Behind
Director: Flavio Alves, Screenwriters: John Rotondo, Flavio Alves
A Mexican trans woman struggles to build a life for herself as an undocumented immigrant in New York City. Cast: Michael Madsen, Ed Asner, Carlie Guevara, Danny Flaherty, Alex Kruz, Anthony Abdo, Dawn Young, Tamara M. Williams, Miriam Cruz, Brock Yurich (World Premiere)
J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius
Director: Sandy K Boone, Screenwriters: Sandy K Boone, Jason Wehling
This film explores the underground movement that has galvanized the imaginative, the artistic, the nerdy, even the deranged – to examine the simmering dystopia in their culture, and do absolutely nothing about it… except, maybe, poke fun at it all. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Numa Perrier
A true story. In the last days of her mother’s life, 19-year-old Tiffany crashes with five family members in a Las Vegas studio apartment. In order to make ends meet, her sister, a phone sex operator, introduces her to the world of fetish cam girls. Cast: Tiffany Tenille, Numa Perrier, Stephen Barrington, Bobby Field, Brett Gelman, Rockwelle Dortch, Zoe Tyson, Dennis Jaffee, Jessa Zarubica (World Premiere)
Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window (Hong Kong, U.S.)
Director: Andrew Hevia
A broken-hearted filmmaker navigates an unfamiliar city, an international art fair and his personal baggage in this intimate, playful and unexpectedly comedic documentary. (World Premiere)
One Man Dies a Million Times (Russia)
Director/Screenwriter: Jessica Oreck
Set in the future, a story about seeds and genetic diversity, about growth and decay, about love and war, and about hunger of all kinds. Cast: Alyssa Lozovskaya, Maksim Blinov (World Premiere)
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Screenwriters: Robert Rodriguez, Racer Rodriguez
Rob, an independent filmmaker, loses his investor’s money only to find out his investors are the Cartel. He checks himself into a medical research facility to pay off his debt, but quickly realizes it won’t be that easy. Cast: Roby Attal, Lauren Hatfield, Carlos Gallardo, Alejandro Rose Garcia, Rebel Rodriguez, Racer Rodriguez, Eman Esfandi, Steven Brudniak, Brently Heilbron, Pierce Foster Bailey (World Premiere)
Romantic Comedy (United Kingdom)
Director: Elizabeth Sankey
Musician and writer Elizabeth Sankey investigates the past, present and future of romantic comedies, assisted by a chorus of critics, actors and filmmakers. (North American Premiere)
Sakawa (Belgium, Netherlands)
Director/Screenwriter: Ben Asamoah
What human story lies behind the phenomenon of ‘internet fraud’? In Sakawa we meet three Ghanaian youngsters who, out of desperation, turn to internet scamming with the help of black magic. (North American Premiere)
Tito (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Grace Glowicki
A desperate man seeks refuge from the predators hunting him by befriending a cheerful intruder. Cast: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie (World Premiere)
Showrunner: Dee Harris-Lawrence, Screenwriter: Tarell Alvin McCraney
A richly layered, deeply personal work about a 14-year-old prodigy from the projects who is haunted by the death of his closest friend. Set in South Florida, the series is inspired by events in McCraney’s own life, exploring childhood trauma and the power of imagination. Cast: Akili McDowell, Nathaniel McIntyre, Isaiah Johnson, Ade Chike Torbert, Cayden Williams, Jordan Bolger, Travis Coles, Phylicia Rashad, Alana Arenas (World Premiere)
Showrunner/Screenwriter: Jami O’Brien
NOS4A2 introduces Vic, a young woman who has a supernatural ability to find lost things. This ability puts her on a collision course with the evil and immortal Charlie Manx, a supernatural villain who feeds off the souls of children. Cast List: Zachary Quinto, Ashleigh Cummings, Jahkara J. Smith, Olafur Olafsson, Virginia Kull, Ebon Moss-Bachrach (World Premiere)
Showrunner: Bridget Bedard, Screenwriter: Ramy Youssef
Ramy, a first generation American Muslim on a spiritual journey, explores the challenges of being caught in between an Egyptian community that thinks life is moral a test, and a millennial generation that thinks life has no consequences. Cast: Ramy Youssef, Mohammed Amer, Hiam Abbass, Amr Waked, May Calamawy, David Merheje, Laith Nakli, Steve Way (World Premiere)
Showrunner: Alexandra Rushfield, Screenwriters: Alexandra Rushfield, Lindy West and Aidy Bryant
From Executive Producers Lorne Michaels and Elizabeth Banks comes Shrill, a comedy series starring Aidy Bryant (Saturday Night Live) as Annie, a fat young woman who wants to change her life — but not her body. Annie is trying to start her career while juggling bad boyfriends, a sick parent, and a perfectionist boss. Cast: Aidy Bryant, Lolly Adefope, Luka Jones, Ian Owens, John Cameron Mitchell (World Premiere)
Showrunners: Jemaine Clement, Paul Simms, Screenplay: Jemaine Clement
Based on the feature film of the same name from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, FX’s new comedy What We Do in the Shadows follows vampire roommates who have lived together for hundreds and hundreds of years. Cast: Matt Berry, Kayvan Novak, Natasia Demetriou, Harvey Guillén, Mark Proksch (World Premiere)
Amazônia Groove
Director/Screenwriter: Bruno Murtinho
Leaving Belem and crossing much of the Para State Amazon region, its towns and riverside villages, Amazônia Groove reveals artists and their traditions, faith and mysticism, music and life that pound in the northern region of Brazil. (North American Premiere)
Director: Brian Loschiavo
Discover the origin stories of megastars like Garth Brooks and Taylor Swift while following emerging singer-songwriters as they chase their dreams inside The Bluebird Cafe, Nashville’s accidental landmark that has altered the course of music history. (World Premiere
The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story
Director: Aaron Kunkel
The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story charts the life and crimes of boy band impresario Lou Pearlman. The film tracks his life from discovering NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, to his perpetration of one of the largest ponzi schemes in US history. (World Premiere)
Boy Howdy! The Story of CREEM Magazine
Director: Scott Crawford, Screenwriters: Scott Crawford, Jaan Uhelszki
Ripping back the curtain on legendary rock rag CREEM Magazine‘s wild and disruptive newsroom; a dysfunctional band of unruly outsiders who weren’t all that different from the artists they covered. (World Premiere)
Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero
Director: Eric Mahoney
The film explores the seminal 90’s band Brainiac from Dayton, OH and its creative force Tim Taylor. Just days before signing a major record contract Taylor was killed in a bizarre auto accident leaving his family and bandmates to pick up the pieces. (World Premiere)
Carmine Street Guitars (Canada)
Director: Ron Mann, Screenwriter: Len Blum
Five Days in the life of Greenwich Village guitar shop Carmine Street Guitars.
The Chills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Martin Phillipps (New Zealand)
Director: Julia Parnell, Rob Curry
The story of lyrical genius, Martin Phillipps and his band, The Chills, is a cautionary tale, a triumph over tragedy, and a statement about the meaning of music in our lives.. (World Premiere)
Everybody’s Everything
Directors: Sebastian Jones, Ramez Silyan
Everybody’s Everything is the story of artist Lil Peep (Gustav Ahr) from his birth in Long Island and meteoric rise as a genre blending pop star & style icon, to his death due to an accidental opioid overdose in Arizona at just 21 years of age. (World Premiere)
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
Director: Thom Zimny, Screenwriter: Warren Zanes
Johnny Cash stands among the giants of 20th century American life. But his story remains tangled in mystery and myth. This documentary brings Cash the man out from behind the legend. (World Premiere)
Mr. Jimmy
Director: Peter Michael Dowd
Dowd Akio Sakurai has dedicated his life to honoring Jimmy Page. For 30 years he recreated vintage Zeppelin concerts note-for-note in small Tokyo clubs. Moving to L.A. to pursue his tribute dream, cultures clash and Akio’s idyllic vision meets reality. (World Premiere)
Nothing Stays The Same: The Story of The Saxon Pub
Director: Jeff Sandmann, Screenwriters: Jeff Sandmann, Jeffrey Brown, Lisa Kay Pfannenstiel
Nothing Stays the Same celebrates the last 30 years of live music in Austin, while also examining the challenges faced by musicians and music venues in one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, all through the lens of the legendary Saxon Pub. (World Premiere)
Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall (United Kingdom)
Director: Alfred George Bailey
Jim Marshall was a maverick with a camera. An outsider who captured the heights of Rock’N’Roll music and the seismic changes of an era, from the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, to the civil rights movements and some of the most iconic moments of the 60’s. (World Premiere)
Strange Negotiations
Director: Brandon Vedder
A documentary exploring the existential, artistic and family life of musician and former evangelical, David Bazan (Pedro The Lion), set against America’s own crisis of faith highlighted during the 2016 presidential election. (World Premiere)
Teen Spirit (United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Max Minghella
The film follows Violet, a shy teenager who enters an international singing competition with the help of an unlikely mentor. Driven by a pop-fueled soundtrack, Teen Spirit is a visceral and stylish spin on the Cinderella story. Cast: Elle Fanning, Zlatko Buricteent, Rebecca Hall (U.S. Premiere)
Who Let the Dogs Out (Canada)
Director: Brent Hodge, Screenwriters: Brent Hodge, John Diemer, Jasleen Kaur
The origin story of the smash hit “Who Let the Dogs Out” goes back further than anyone could have imagined; steeped in legal battles, female empowerment and artist integrity, which beckons the question: will we ever know who let the dogs out? (World Premiere)
Wild Rose (United Kingdom)
Director: Tom Harper, Screenwriter: Nicole Taylor
A musician from Glasgow dreams of becoming a Nashville star. Cast: Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters, Sophie Okonedo (U.S. Premiere)
Aleksi (Croatia, Serbia)
Director/Screenwriter: Barbara Vekarić
Aleksi is a messed up artist who keeps ignoring pressing responsibilities and follows her impulses with various men, while figuring out how to escape a safe but boring life underneath her parent’s roof. Cast: Tihana Lazović, Goran Marković, Sebastian Cavazza, Nataša Janjić, Jason Mann, Aljoša Vučović, Neda Arnerić, Leon Lučev (North American Premiere)
Aurora (Finland)
Director/Screenwriter: Miia Tervo
Aurora, a commitment-phobic party animal, meets Iranian Amir one night at a hot-dog stand in Lapland. Amir is running from death and Aurora is running from love. They need each other in order to finally stop running. Cast: Mimosa Willamo, Amir Escandari, Oona Airola, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Miitta Sorvali (North American Premiere)
Being Impossible (Venezuela, Colombia)
Director: Patricia Ortega, Screenwriters: Patricia Ortega, Enmanuel Chávez
A young woman discovers she was submitted to several surgeries to correct her intersexual body as a baby. She has to find her own self outside gender binaries. (North American Premiere)
Cachada: The Opportunity (El Salvador)
Director/Screenwriter: Marlén Viñayo Five Salvadoran saleswomen want to take their cruel life stories to the stage. During the rehearsal process of their play, they’ll discover themselves as victims and victimizers in a cycle of violence that has plagued their families for generations. (World Premiere)
Days of the Whale (Colombia)
Director/Screenwriter: Catalina Arroyave Restrepo
Two young graffiti artists of Medellín defy a criminal gang when they decide to paint the mural of a whale over a threat written in a wall. Cast: Laura Tobón, David Escallón, Carlos Fonnegra, Christian Tappan, Julián Giraldo, Natalia Castaño, Margarita Restrepo (World Premiere)
La Mala Noche (Ecuador, Mexico)
Director/Screenwriter: Gabriela Calvache
She is the perfect woman until she decides to be free. Cast: Nöelle Schönwald, Cristian Mercado, Jaime Tamariz, Ariana Freire (World Premiere)
Vai (New Zealand)
Directors: Nicole Whippy, ‘Ofa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki, Matasila Freshwater, Amberley Jo Aumua, Mīria George, Marina Alofagia McCartney, Dianna Fuemana, Becs Arahanga
Vai is a portmanteau feature film by nine Polynesian directors and filmed on seven different pacific islands. It is about the journey of empowerment through culture, over the lifetime of one woman, Vai. (World Premiere)
X&Y (Denmark, Sweden)
Director: Anna Odell, Screenwriters: Anna Odell, Jakob Beckman
Swedish director and visual artist, Anna Odell (The Reunion), conducts a social experiment in which she aims to challenge the gender roles that men and women have in the society of today. Cast: Anna Odell, Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Vera Vitali, Shanti Roney, Sofie Gråbøl, Jens Albinus, Thure Lindhardt (North American Premiere)
How Rednecks Saved Hollywood with Joe Bob Briggs
Director/Screenwriter: Joe Bob Briggs
America’s drive-in movie critic uses 200 video clips and photos to tell the 500-year history of the American redneck in a multimedia comedy performance
Love, Death & Robots
Showrunners: David Fincher, Tim Miller, Josh Donen, Jennifer Miller
Love, Death & Robots, an animated anthology series presented by Tim Miller and David Fincher, is a genre orgy of Not-Suitable-For-Mainstream shorts. (World Premiere)Followed by extended Q&A with with Tim Miller and David Fincher.
Ra: Path of the Sun God
Director: Lesley Keen
Austin based electronic and experimental label Holodeck Records is partnering with Austin Film Society for a special live re-score screening of the 1990 animated film Ra: Path of the Sun God, a beautiful re-telling of one of Ancient Egypt’s most famous myths.
The Robert Rodriguez Film School + Red 11 Premiere
Join Robert Rodriguez as he gives a master-class in micro-budget guerilla filmmaking, featuring behind the scenes moments from his new $7,000 film, RED 11. The event will be followed by the World Premiere of RED 11.
Shangri-La (Work-in-Progress)
Directors: Morgan Neville, Jeff Malmberg
An intimate look at the creative process through the lens of legendary music producer Rick Rubin.
Director: David Byrne, Screenwriters: Stephen Tobolowsky, Beth Henley, David Byrne
David Byrne‘s 1986 musical comedy, inspired by theater director Robert Wilson, tabloid newspapers, and filmmakers Robert Altman and Federico Fellini, remains a unique artistic vision that celebrates the singular citizens of a fictional Texas town. David Byrne will appear in-person for Q&A following screening of new 4K restoration.
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Bio: Natasha always was a daydreamer who told herself stories of love and romance set in other times and places for her own pleasure. Eventually her story worlds became so real, they demanded to be brought out of the world of imagination and onto the page. It gives her great joy to finally share them with you. She hopes you enjoy her story world.
She is married to her own hero and they share they life with a very quirky calico cat. She is a total history nerd who loves to read. She enjoys literature, romance, psychology, and bits of everything else. She has a BA in History and she especially enjoys studying social history and biography and this is where most of her story ideas come from. She likes to know her characters from the bones outward, the air they breathed, the food they ate, the thoughts and social movements and morals that were influencing them in their times. She also enjoys reading psychology and sociology and literature and enjoys listening to music from many different genres.
Natasha joins us here today to give us some insight into the world she has created with the Carte Blanche novellas. The first is Grey's Lady and is available now. The second is due out December 26, 2011.
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Grey’s Lady is the story of a wealthy New York merchant prince, Grey Sexton, who falls for a poor but beautiful young seductress, Beth McConnell. Yet, for all their social and economical differences, at their most basic level, Beth and Grey are very similar. This is a story that explores how these similarities threaten to tear them apart before love can overcome the fear of being vulnerable.
Both suffered isolation and emotional neglect in childhood. The product of an adulterous affair, Beth grew up in the home of her late mother’s employer. Separated from her half-siblings and kept at an emotional distance, she felt lost and alone. At age eighteen, she was seduced and betrayed by a trusted wealthy gentleman. After this, she left her benefactress’s home, went to live with her half-siblings and help them in their struggling shop. Yet, she still feels out of place.
Grey grew up in an upper-class household, a privileged only son, heir to Sexton Shipping, one of the fledging nation’s largest mercantile fleets. Grey’s father was a stern businessman who did not understand his daydreaming, intellectually curious son. A child in this position might take solace in a closer relationship with his mother. However, Grey’s mother was chronically ill and unable to bear his childish energy. She kept to her chambers and died while he was still quite young. Later at age nineteen, Grey engaged in an emotionally scarring experience with a slightly older woman, something that is not covered in Grey’s Lady. All of these backstory issues and more are explored in more depth in the sequel, White Lace and Promises, which is scheduled for release Dec. 26, 2011.
In contrast, the focus of Grey’s Lady is on the immediate interaction between two wounded and self-protective people who feel an overpowering attraction to each other but who do not want to admit it to themselves or the other. Beth and Grey have unique insight into the experiences of each other and can offer each other understanding and sympathy that others could not. Yet past experience works against them. Both are conditioned to fear emotional exposure and to deny their own need for love. They both use sex to gain temporary, conditional intimacy while keeping their true selves distant from their lovers. Grey uses his wealth and sexual skill to keep his mistresses dependent on him and to gain their adoration and admiration.
Beth exploits her unusual silver blonde beauty to entice gentlemen into brief, purely sexual encounters. It took her a long time to get over the hurt and frustrated desire she suffered when her first lover betrayed her. She enjoys a sense of control being the one who makes the choice to seduce. She always picks handsome, wealthy gentlemen and she delights in turning the tables by leaving her lovers burning for her. It’s a way for her to maintain the illusion of power in relationships with gentlemen who are far above her in wealth and social position.
Both Beth and Grey employ rationalization to prevent these conditional relationships from growing into something deeper. Grey puts his business life up as an impregnable wall between himself and those around him. He's overly responsible. He tells himself he cannot give extensively of his time and energy because of the responsibility and demands of his position. As the owner of Sexton Shipping, too many people depend on him to make the right decisions at the right times. If he allowed himself to be too distracted by fluttering lashes and the crinkle of muslin, the whole world would come undone.
Beth cites the very real fear that her secret erotic life may be discovered. Her older brother is very protective. Because of their mother's fall into adultery, he is very sensitive about the virtue of the women in his household. He might decide to engage in an affair of honor. Additionally, her young and impressionable nieces might try to emulate her example. Her childhood benefactress might suffer disappointment and shame and feel to blame for Beth’s bad behavior as an adult. For this reason, Beth tells herself, if she limits her clandestine sexual encounters to once then her risks for discovery are greatly decreased.
For Grey and Beth, these excuses are just that, excuses. Neither of them wants a real relationship with the opposite sex. This internal struggle, between the desire for the other and the fear of exposing themselves to possible hurt, results in a powerful external struggle. Grey’s increasing sense of possessiveness for this elusive and enigmatic young woman bewilders him. He holds firm to his old patterns, determined to gain her long-term commitment as his mistress. He tries to gain control over Beth with his wealth and sexual skill. Beth is equally determined to seduce and conquer Grey. Unable to forget him after their initial encounter, her answer is to indulge her desires for Grey until she’s sated. Then she plans to leave while he still wants her.
She resolves to be the winner yet so does he. However, neither can gain supremacy over the other. Can these two wounded, self-protected people find the inner courage needed to lower their defenses long enough to let the other know they feel something more than lust? Or will their fears and need to control tear them apart?
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St. Leo Catholic School is slowly approaching its centenary. St. Leo was the only Catholic school in the Mimico Separate School Board when it was founded in 1926. In the original 1926 wing, St. Leo consisted of eight classrooms and an auditorium. This auditorium was used for many Church and community events and was indeed the cultural and entertainment centre for Catholics in Mimico.
Today St. Leo Catholic School has classes from full day Junior Kindergarten through to grade 8. There are also four special programs: two classes for children with multiple exceptionalities, the Language Impaired Class, Kindergarten Language Program and the Parenting Literacy Centre (Ministry of Ontario initiative).
The school is home to students from varying ethnic and cultural backgrounds who live in Mimico. This school is exceptional for its large number of second, third and even fourth generation St. Leo students. The most outstanding feature of the St. Leo community is the strong tradition of Catholic family values that is evident in our students.
Former alumini of St. Leo Catholic School include National Hockey League (NHL) players Brendan Shanahan, David Bolland and Reilly Smith as well as National LaCrosse League (NLL) player Rory Smith.
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Tech Coast Angels Expands $1M+ Investments in San Diego Companies to Four in 2019
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SAN DIEGO and IRVINE, Calif. – December 4, 2019 — Tech Coast Angels – San Diego (TCA-SD) today announced its most recent $1M+ investments in two local companies, Mercato and Discover Echo (formerly Echo Labs). With more than $12M total invested so far in 2019, TCA-SD just closed funding rounds of $1.1M in Mercato and $1M in Echo Labs. This increases the number of million-dollar investments to four by TCA-SD in 2019, with DTx Pharma and Atlazo funded earlier this year.
All of these deals were led by TCA-SD’s recently-unveiled annual ACE Fund. ACE Fund 19 invested $2.2M in 16 companies including local startups GoSite, Lennd and Lynx Bio (in addition to DTx Pharma and Atlazo).
“When TCA invests in a company, our annual fund leads with up to $500K, followed by individual investments by our members,” said Dean Rosenberg, TCA-SD President and ACE Fund Manager. “The TCA annual fund is successful because it provides entrepreneurs with fast money and investors with capital-efficient diversification.”
Ashok Kamal, TCA-SD Executive Director, added, “ACE is an Annual Fund model – raising and deploying fresh capital to early stage companies each year. Therefore, a $4M Annual Fund is like having another $40M early-stage VC in San Diego.”
The latest ACE Fund investments are for new and existing TCA portfolio companies. The new annual fund, ACE Fund 20, closed in October with $3.7M to be invested by the end of 2020.
Mercato is the SaaS e-commerce platform for independent grocers that previously announced $3M in funding for this round from investors such as Greycroft, Loeb.NYC, Blackbird Ventures, and Correlation Ventures. TCA’s participation brings Mercato’s total round to over $4M. Mercato’s CEO, Bobby Brannigan, recognized TCA’s contribution in terms of both capital and connections: “It’s great having a San Diego investor that operates at the level of a top venture capitalist offering smart money to fuel our growth.”
Discover Echo, which sells next-generation microscopes to pharma companies and academic institutions, raised its third round of funding from TCA, bringing its total from the group to over $4M out of over $15M in historical funding. Discover Echo first raised its seed round in 2016, led by TCA after the company won 2016’s Quick Pitch competition, organized by TCA at Qualcomm.
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Narendra Modi today spoke to the beneficiaries of the Prime Minister’s Mudra scheme through Namo App.
Modi said: “We saw the license rule after Independence. The loan was met only with a big name, whose recommendation was made.
The poor were kept out of the system. They could not be the area of their work. The Mundra Yojana has saved the youth of the country from the Chungla of interest-bearing people.
The motto scheme has identified the talent of the common man. ‘ It is to be mentioned that the Prime Minister had spoken to women from across the country, benefitting from the scheme of Yajjalva yesterday.
Narendra Modi said, “Mundra is a scheme in which there is more loan from the target. The happiest thing is that 12 million people have been given loans, 74 percent or 75 percent of our mothers are women. 55% of the backward class ie SC-Ashti and OBC community women have been found. The nation has seen how differently we are misleading in the name of poverty.
What are we listening to?
For thirty-thirty years, the poor have heard and listened to this. The caravan started with banks, today many organizations have joined it. There are 110 banks, not only micro finance institutions, they are also issuing currency loans. Banks have worked to simplify the process of giving this loan.
Modi also said, I got this opportunity to interact with entrepreneurial youth and sisters. Now those people who decide on their own road instead of walking on the road. This is your important place in the prosperity and adventure of the country.
Today the entire country with me has joined the video conferencing to listen to the memories of this journey. In the past days I got the chance to talk to some of the beneficiaries of the Mundra scheme. Their stories satisfy and boast. Only then did I decide that I will talk to beneficiaries of the Mundra scheme.
PM Modi said that due to bank guarantees, the loan on low interest rates can be started by young people in their own city or village and start any employment on their own. Today, poor people in the poor are also getting currency loans. The common man can also become a businessman using currency loans.
Nadya’s nominee of the Mundra Yojana, Ganaur Thakur said that the plan changed his life.
Manjunath, the beneficiary of the Mundra scheme, said that he started his own businessby taking loan from Mundra scheme instead of government job. Now they are paying the loan on time and are also giving employment to 4 people. ”
“Decca, the heart of Assam’s beneficiaries of the Mundra scheme, said that they started their tea business with currency loans. I said, you are also like me. “” Big people are often on loan, poor people know how to live their life of paying honor. ”
Narendrabhai later said, “In the future of the country there is big contribution of entrepreneurs like you. Today loan was received 25-30 years ago but the political analysts took money from the banks. 25-30 years ago there was a lot of leniency for political benefits. We created a product of Mundra Yojana which became a big opportunity for the citizens. We rely on our youngsters. Give them a loan under the monetary plan, so they can open their own business. Find ways to market your product. This created not only self employment opportunities but people got employment opportunities
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Mozilla has a "reasonable" relationship with long-time partner Google , but the launch of Chrome has made it more complicated admitted Mozilla's chief executive.
By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld (US) | Dec 22, 2008
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"We have a fine and reasonable relationship," said John Lilly, Mozilla's CEO. "But I'd be lying if I said that things weren't more complicated than they used to be."
Responding to questions about Mozilla's take on the upswing in browser competition, Lilly also knocked another rival, Microsoft, for dismissing attempts to boost browser performance as merely a "drag race."
"It's a pretty good time to be a browser user," said Lilly. "There are more smart people hacking on browsers than in a long time. But when I hear Dean [Hachamovitch, general manager of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE)] say JavaScript performance is for crazy guys to worry about, then that worries me."
Last week, Hachamovitch said Microsoft wasn't interested in joining what he called a "drag race" between browser makers that include Mozilla and Google in boosting JavaScript rendering performance. Both Mozilla and Google have debuted new JavaScript engines that they've bragged dramatically boost speed. Hachamovitch declined to say how the final version of Microsoft's upcoming IE8 will stack up against rivals in JavaScript benchmark scores, saying only, "It's definitely faster than IE8 Beta 2," the current test version.
"HTML and JavaScript are the languages of the web," Lilly argued. "And what might happen, if modern browsers like Firefox and Chrome just run away from IE (in performance), wouldn't be very healthy. Sixty-nine percent of users still use IE, and if JavaScript on IE is three or four times slower (than other browsers), developers might think twice about whether they can push the limits with JavaScript."
But Lilly remained confident that his company can maintain its momentum, which has translated into a 24 percent increase in Firefox market share since the beginning of the year.
"At this point, one in five users of the Internet uses Firefox," Lilly said, citing statistics from Net Applications. "That's good, and we're proud of that. When we launched Firefox 1.0 (four years ago), the odds of getting to 20 percent, most would have said that was impossible."
Mozilla, however, is in a unique situation among browser builders in that the bulk of its revenue - 88 percent, or about $60(£37) million in 2007, the last year for which the company has released financial information - comes from Google. Under a series of deals, the most recent inked last August, Google pays Mozilla for assigning its search engine the default in Firefox, and for click-throughs on ads placed on the ensuing search results pages.
Although Mozilla's reliance on a single revenue source has raised concerns before, the landscape changed in September when Google launched its own browser, Chrome. That put it in direct competition with Mozilla, as well as the other browser developers, including Microsoft, Apple Inc. and Opera Software ASA.
Last week, Google brought Chrome out of beta, and a day later, swapped it for Firefox as the default browser in its Google Pack application bundle.
Lilly acknowledged that the situation may look awkward to outsiders, but defended the deal with Google.
"The web matters to all of us, and I think Google is as good as it can be," said Lilly carefully when asked what outsiders, users included, should make of the relationship between the two companies. "But Google is in it to build the best business for Google that it can, and one way to take risk out of the situation is to own the software," he added, referring to Chrome.
"Companies cooperate in certain areas and compete in other areas all the time," Lilly said. "We're cooperating with Google because we believe that search is a fundamental entry point to the web, and right now Google gives the best search experience."
But the relationship won't be forever, he hinted. "Our goal is to be an advocate for the web for 50 or even 100 years, and you can't depend on any one organization. Our (current) three-year agreement is the longest we've ever had. This is a long-time horizon, so we don't have to do anything super soon, but in the next three years we can continue to build (new) products and develop (new) revenue streams."
Search may remain the primary, or at least a key, revenue generator, said Lilly, but there are other opportunities. Mozilla plans to explore diversifying search revenue, and perhaps partner with country-specific search firms that, in their own markets at least, are strong alternatives to Google. Lilly also pointed to the mobile market, an area that has been dominated by Opera, as a possible source of revenue.
Firefox is currently working on a mobile browser, code-named Fennec, which it released in a public alpha two months ago.
Lilly said that Mozilla would release the finished product shortly after it wraps up Firefox 3.1, the browser upgrade planned for an early 2009 launch. Mozilla plans to produce both Linux and Windows Mobile versions of its mobile browser.
"(2009) will be an important year for mobile," said Lilly. "We'd like to make the mobile web more like the web and less like the mobile world."
But as far as Google's concerned, Lilly said Mozilla will compete with any and all comers. "We collaborate with Google, we talk to them and we have a fine and reasonable relationship," he said. "But we'll compete. This is, after all, user driven."
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60% of UK females say that they have been harassed in the workplace and it happens for the gents too as 40% of them state that they too have experienced harassment.
Bullying and harassment cost the UK in terms of lost revenues from:
Poor attendance and lack of productivity
Loss of staff, and subsequent recruitment and retraining costs
Legal costs due to tribunals
In many cases, bullying and harassment are a one-off and can be addressed with retraining and efforts around the company culture. However – in some cases they are significant and need to be given considerably greater attention. Legally, the employer’s duty of care is clear, and the legislation exists to protect us all from the negative impacts of unpleasant bullying, or sexual harassment.
Who Should Attend & Course Content
This course is aimed at managers, team leaders and HR departments who want a to get up to speed on the legislation, the concepts and the impacts of bullying and harassment in the workplace. It will help managers and organisations to understand how to identify these behaviours and how to work internally to support staff within a company culture which values everyone for the person they bring to work and which fully respects the individual.
Outline the three types of sexual harassment and be able to identify bullying, discriminating or harassing behaviours
State the legal differences between bullying and sexual harassment
Name the issues for a business when bullying and sexual harassment is ignored and no action is taken
Define key strategies an organisation could embark on to prevent bullying and harassment
Outline key personal and employer responsibilities with regard to bullying and harassment and feel equipped to take action where necessary
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Speak up: Make phone calls in Office 365
Telstra Calling for Office 365 combines two traditionally separate tools – phone calling and the Microsoft Office 365 suite.
Create one smooth collaboration experience for your teams. Start with enterprise calling, and layer more capabilities and rich meeting experiences.
Telstra and Microsoft have developed standardised service packages to help businesses migrate to their version of a successful future workplace.
Calling from the cloud is here. This is what next level collaboration looks like.
Collaboration thrives in simplicity.
That’s why Telstra and Microsoft have come together to simply bring the best of both worlds into one single place.
An Australian first, Telstra Calling for Office 365 combines two traditionally separate tools – phone calling, and Microsoft Office 365 cloud apps. Now most of what you need to collaborate or connect with other people is all in one place. The solution offers Voice as a Service (VaaS) directly out of the Microsoft cloud with no requirement for any on premise equipment.
“It goes beyond just voice,” says Telstra’s GM Applications and Collaboration, Joel Dane. “Teams ultimately get one smooth collaboration experience because you’re able to layer more capabilities on top of enterprise calling: multi-video, screen-sharing, document sharing, co-editing. You can even carry this experience across into meeting rooms with interactive smartboards and screens.”
Leon Wright Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Australia says that Microsoft designed the system keeping this consistency in mind. “This extends from the Office 365 administration portal incorporating voice services, to assigning Telstra Calling plans natively from within one management platform in the Microsoft cloud voice services are no longer bespoke within a separate environment and are now fully integrated into the Office 365 application stack, freeing up resources to focus in other areas.” he says.
To help make collaboration even easier, the Microsoft Teams client is unified across devices whether this be an iOS or Android device all the way to a Microsoft Surface Hub, providing one common and predictable user experience including PSTN voice calls.
“It really allows you to co-develop in an agile way,” Dane says. “Telstra Calling for Office 365 plugs in the enterprise calling capability. Without it, you’re missing a really key building block for employee productivity.”
The way people work together today is fundamentally changing. As more workers find themselves out and about beyond the office walls, they need mobile tools and a collaboration experience that moves with them.
Telstra Calling for Office 365 centres on workforce mobilisation – a necessity for businesses today. “The solution is ideally suited to knowledge workers with a disperse set of employees” says Dane. “This includes people who work remotely or from the road. They need be able to co-collaborate from different geolocations including global.”
“This means you always have your voice services across a wide geographical footprint,” Wright adds. “Your number follows you from your computer, to your phone, to your iPad – across compatible devices. Your extension is always the same so your contacts know it’s you and can get a hold of you if they need to. Mobile workers are now freer than ever.”
For businesses, mobility also means you attract the best people and empower them to perform at their best. “It delivers the ability to allow flexible working, and helps with talent retention because people are always happier in an environment where the tools are working for them,” says Dane.
Meet in the cloud
There’s no better time to start shifting voice collaboration to the cloud. The potential benefits are clear – scalability, cost efficiency and speed to innovation.
“The beauty of a turnkey cloud solution is that you can manage your users directly and remove all the complexity of deploying and managing infrastructure,” Dane says. “Employers can also access constant updates to the solution stack to continue enhancing the user experience. It can scale up and down according to business requirements, so your new users can be productive as quickly as possible.”
“If I hired you tomorrow, I could set you up with all the right tools and within an hour you could be collaborating and making phone calls. Without the cloud, this whole process becomes a lot more complex and expensive.” Stop managing large stacks of infrastructure in-house and free up IT teams to deliver more value to your business.
Cloud collaboration also removes the barriers of access. Deliver access to apps and services in near real time to your people at the touch of a button. All they need is a compatible device connected to the Microsoft cloud.
The other benefit of a cloud-based solution is the security. The voice capability inherits the Microsoft security solution under the same compliance standards, making security around the operating environment much more robust and integrated.
“The biggest barrier to entry are businesses not investing upfront and planning ahead,” Dane explains. “It’s crucial you have clearly defined success blueprint with your people at the core. This means defining what success looks like for you and how to get there – whether it’s a phased approach or creating champions in your organisation.”
“The underlying fabric must be rock solid to get the best experience,” Wright says. “Customers need to spend time understanding what their current environment looks like, where they want to go and the components they’ll need to get there.”
Wright recommends investing in professional consultancy services to achieve your version of a best possible outcome. “There’s a whole demographic of users with different needs, and you’ve got to ensure that you’re catering to all of them,” he said. Planning the migration, adoption and piloting within your organisation helps you achieve the ultimate goal – technology that becomes an intrinsic part of your workforce culture.
To help businesses successfully reach these goals, Telstra has worked with Microsoft to develop a range of standardised service packages. These packages can help you plan for a successful migration, as well as to get the most out of your solutions.
“Professional and managed services are a core wraparound that you use to create the best possible collaboration experience,” says Dane. Businesses should consider what a successful future workplace for them looks like, so Telstra can work with them to design tailored packages that help address problem opportunities.
Additionally, all customers receive a certain amount of consulting spends per year, giving insights into how the services are working so that they can report back to their business and address any issues that may have arisen.
“For customers that already have a significant investment in Office 365, it’s a logical step to want to integrate enterprise calling and create a modern collaboration experience,” Dane says.
“There’s a big difference between needing to pick up a desk phone to make a call, versus being able to do it and more so in your social collaboration tools,” Dane says. “The ultimate goal is your users don’t even think about the technology that is there – it just becomes so inherently part of what they do every day.”
Calling in the cloud is here. Telstra Calling for Office 365 brings the best of both worlds together.
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Wow! Why the sudden change of heart for LSU coach Will Wade? Could it be the $10 million?
LSU basketball coach Will Wade could have lost $10 million in salary had he never met with LSU and NCAA officials
Wow! Why the sudden change of heart for LSU coach Will Wade? Could it be the $10 million? LSU basketball coach Will Wade could have lost $10 million in salary had he never met with LSU and NCAA officials Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/lsu/2019/04/15/lsu-coach-wade-had-10-million-reasons-sit-lsu-and-ncaa/3479853002/
GLENN GUILBEAU COLUMN, USA TODAY Network Published 7:17 p.m. CT April 15, 2019 | Updated 6:57 p.m. CT April 16, 2019
LSU coach Will Wade shouts during the first half of the team's NCAA college basketball game against Florida in Gainesville, Fla., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough) (Photo: The Associated Press)
BATON ROUGE — If you have ever watched former Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers on NFL Films, you can appreciate change of direction.
But on Sunday night, not even Sayers in his prime could have matched former suspended LSU basketball coach Will Wade's reversal.
The following is what Wade said on March 14. He was a week into his suspension by LSU at the time for insubordination and breaking his contract by choosing not to meet with LSU and NCAA officials about likely NCAA recruiting violations concerning Scotlandville High star guard Javonte Smart in 2017 spelled out in a Yahoo Sports story via FBI wiretap on March 7.
"This morning, I advised President Alexander, Athletic Director Joe Alleva and the LSU Board of Supervisors that I would like to resume my duties as Head Basketball Coach," he began.
Glenn Guilbeau (Photo: File photo)
Advised? Really. You're advising LSU's president, athletic director, and board? Interesting choice of words for a rogue employee who previously told Alleva in October that nothing else was coming after after Yahoo's story then about an FBI wiretap featuring Wade discussing an offer for another top prospect, Balsa Koprivica.
MORE: LSU reinstates Wade after he agrees to same meeting LSU requested in March
You'd like to resume your duties? Do you think you were on vacation?
"With the benefit of a week to consider the circumstances, I believe University officials should allow me to resume my duties," he continued.
Wow. He is saying that Alleva, Alexander and board members were not so smart and may now be smarter - or as smart as he is. How pompous and all knowing.
"I understand that in today’s hyper-intense media environment it is extremely difficult for any organization, particularly a public university, to stand firm in the face of rumors, leaks and innuendo," Wade continued.
Excuse me, Will, but the authors of the Yahoo story - Pat Forde and Pete Thamel - are among the best in the business and have much more credibility than you. And so does even Dick Vitale, by the way.
"In this case, the simple truth is I have been placed on leave because I exercised my right not to submit to a joint LSU/NCAA interview on the exact same subject matter at issue in an impending federal criminal trial in New York," Wade said. "My legal counsel advised the University that it would be wholly inappropriate for me, or anyone, to submit to an interview under these circumstances."
Wrong. You should have spoken to LSU attorney Thomas Skinner, who said this about that: "It is not unlawful or illegal for Wade to talk to us at all. He has the right not to incriminate himself (5th amendment) in a criminal proceeding, but he does not have the right not to meet with his employer."
MORE: Wade's violation of his contract could mean he loses $10 million
Wade went on. "Declining to be interviewed was a difficult decision for me, as I would like to cooperate fully with all parties, particularly LSU," he said. "To be clear, however, all I’ve done is follow the prudent advice of counsel to exercise my constitutional rights to due process. Given these facts, I don’t believe it is appropriate for me to be relieved of my duties. We have a great basketball program made up of excellent student-athletes and quality coaches. The players who’ve given their all for this institution, the students and alumni who are devoted to LSU, and fans across Louisiana and beyond deserve to see this team fulfill its destiny. I love LSU and everything it stands for. What I’m asking for is the right to do my job while exercising my constitutional rights. I don’t think that’s too much to ask."
Actually, Wade followed the advice of an attorney - Michael McGovern - not very experienced with NCAA matters and who may not have realized Wade was breaking his contract, which says on page 3 that Wade must:
"promptly report any known violation of governing athletics regulations to the athletic director and the associate athletic director for compliance."
"cooperate fully in any investigation of possible NCAA or SEC violations conducted or authorized by LSU, the SEC or the NCAA at any time."
"reasonably observe, respect, and promote the principles of institutional control in the program.”
Because of the above, LSU could have - and likely still can - fire Wade with cause, meaning the $10 million remaining on Wade's contract could be kept by LSU. Wade's salary is $2.5 million a year through June of 2023.
To use Wade's words, "with the benefit" of a month "to consider the circumstances," Wade believed about two weeks ago that he really screwed up and could lose $10 million. It's amazing how a lot of cash can change someone's mind.
And Wade soon "believed" that he better do what "University officials" said he should do in order to "resume my duties."
MORE: Wade wises up, hires a new lawyer with NCAA background
Wade hired a new lawyer, Steven J. Thompson, who knows all about NCAA matters and has expertly defended - so far - other wayward coaches such as Arizona's Sean Miller and Auburn's Bruce Pearl.
Apparently, Thompson told Wade to carry his butt to a meeting with LSU and the NCAA because of this "strong ass offer" to Smart he spoke of on FBI wiretap in the Yahoo Sports story, which LSU officials do not believe is full of "rumors and innuendo." In fact, LSU pointed to that story when it suspended Wade.
That meeting finally happened on Friday on LSU's terms. And on Sunday, Wade had completely reversed his field as only Gale Sayers could.
"I am humbled," Wade began. You can say that again.
"I am humbled and grateful to be back at LSU," the new Wade opened. "I would like to express my appreciation to President F. King Alexander and Athletic Director Joe Alleva for my reinstatement, and I sincerely apologize to the University and our fans for the disruption to the University and the program."
I have a vision of Wade on his knees at this point.
"I regret the circumstances that prevented me from meeting with the University sooner," he went on.
Uh, the circumstances were you. The upcoming federal trial of basketball corruption on April 22 was merely used an excuse by you and McGovern to get you out of talking about something that was embarrassing - your quotes on FBI tape in the Yahoo story. Nothing else. Because you may still have to testify in that trial anyway. So the situation now is the same as it was in on March 7-14 when you should have met with LSU and the NCAA in the first place. Suddenly, your "constitutional rights" do not matter, Will?
"I wish I could have addressed these issues when the University first requested a meeting, and I’m grateful they gave me the opportunity to do so last week," he said. "I completely understand that without my denying or explaining the media reports accusing me of wrongdoing LSU was left with no choice but to suspend me until I was willing and able to meet with them. Any other course of action would have put the program and the University at risk."
Well, now you've got it. You can see the light so clearly now, you have to wear shades.
"Again, I'd like to thank the Board of Supervisors, President Alexander, Athletic Director Joe Alleva, our student-athletes, and our fans for this opportunity," he said.
OK, Will, you can get up now.
"I look forward to re-joining the team right away," Wade said. "I intend to sit down with my student-athletes and co-workers to explain what has happened during the last 30 days and how I intend for us all to move forward."
And one or more of those players may or should ask you this:
"Dude, congratulations on being reinstated. But do you realize that had you done on Friday, March 8, what you did on Friday, April 12, that you could have coached us in the SEC Tournament and the NCAA Tournament? And if we win a couple of games in the SEC Tournament, we could have received a higher seed in the NCAA Tournament. And with you swallowing your pride and ego and coaching us in March, you realize we could have possibly advanced farther than the Sweet 16? So, thanks for letting us down."
Melania Trump outfit shines at LSU, Clemson
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Scott Morrison's reshuffle takes live exports off the agenda
By Latika Bourke
Scott Morrison's weekend reshuffle has quelled a rebellion from government backbenchers over live exports, with two key MPs shelving their plans to push for an end to the trade now they have been promoted to the ministry.
Fairfax Media has confirmed Sussan Ley and Sarah Henderson, who were behind a private member's bill to phase out the trade after inhumane treatment of animals was exposed, have shelved their legislation following their promotion to the frontbench.
Party rules prevent ministers from putting forward private member's bills or crossing the floor against government policy without quitting the frontbench. Ms Ley has been the government's strongest advocate of a ban but has faced intense pressure from the former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and her Coalition colleagues in the National Party to abandon her push to legislate a ban.
Liberal MPs Sussan Ley, left, and Sarah Henderson have been vocal supporters of banning live animal exports. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
The pair are expected to use their increased positions of power to push internally for change.
Ms Ley said: "Transitioning Australia away from the live sheep trade remains an issue of strong personal conviction for me. Sarah and I are keen to speak to the new PM and are still working to achieve the outcomes of our bill."
While the stalling of a legislative push for a ban is a major setback for animal advocates like the RSPCA, it is a reprieve for new Prime Minister Scott Morrison who is faced with the task of trying to unite the Coalition party room after last week's leadership change.
While the private member's bill is no longer expected to proceed to debate, the Senate is debating a different bill put forward by members of the crossbench which also has the aim of phasing out the live export trade.
The bill is likely to pass the Senate but it will also need to go to the House of Represenatives where an absolute majority of 76 votes is needed for it to pass.
The Coalition is opposed to banning the live export trade, despite a government commissioned review recommending changes to the trade's operation.
Agriculture Minister David Littleproud has imposed stringent animal welfare conditions on the trade since footage emerged showing the mass deaths of thousands of sheep on board the Awassi Express en route to the Middle East last year.
The operator of that shipment, Emanuel Exports has been stripped of its export licence.
The opposition's agriculture spokesman, Joel Fitzgibbon, said Labor would take its pledge to legislate a ban to the next election.
“I suspect we are about to learn Sussan Ley and Sarah Henderson don’t care that much about cruelty in the live sheep trade after all. The only way to end the trade is to elect a Labor government," Mr Fitzgibbon said.
Sussan Ley
Latika Bourke
Latika Bourke is a journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based in London.
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We Energies under fire for mercury levels dumped in Lake Michigan
Posted: 4:30 PM, Feb 11, 2019
By: Ben Jordan
We Energies' power plant in Oak Creek is under fire again. First, it was coal dust drifting into nearby neighborhoods. Now, it's the amount of mercury the energy provider is putting into Lake Michigan.
OAK CREEK — We Energies' power plant in Oak Creek is under fire again. First, it was coal dust drifting into nearby neighborhoods. Now, it's the amount of mercury the energy provider is putting into Lake Michigan.
Toddler Treated For Severe Life-Threatening Injuries
We Energies knows the mercury is coming from its Oak Creek coal power plant, but the company said it doesn't understand why the amount of mercury found in its wastewater has nearly doubled in a decade.
It was standing room only for a large group of fired-up Oak Creek residents Monday afternoon as they called on the Wisconsin DNR to deny We Energies' request to discharge more than three times the limit of mercury into Lake Michigan. The state allows up to 1.3 parts per trillion of the toxic element to protect wildlife. We Energies wants to release up to 4.1.
"I thought it was a joke. When I found out it was true, I was appalled," Oak Creek resident Frank Michna said.
Michna believes this a public safety issue that could be most detrimental to the health of children and the elderly.
"They're dumping this into our lake, which is our main drinking source of all the communities around here," Michna said.
"They're dumping this into our lake, which is our main drinking source of all the communities around here." — Oak Creek resident Frank Michna, about mercury levels in Lake Michigan
While Michna and dozens of others demand zero tolerance for mercury in Lake Michigan, Brendan Conway of We Energies said that isn't an option for this power plant.
"The technology doesn't currently exist to go below this 1.3 level, so that's not even possible," Conway said.
Conway said the mercury levels found in their treated wastewater vary daily and excessive amounts aren't frequently released.
"Ninety-nine percent of the time we are below this 4.1 level, oftentimes a lot below the level," Conway said.
We Energies isn't alone in dumping mercury into Lake Michigan. Conway claims the Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District discharges similar mercury levels, but he believes they can all do better.
"Of course, we want to continue to examine this issue and lower the mercury," he said.
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Trademark Office denies The Ohio State University from trademarking 'The'
The Ohio State University had its application to trademark "The" tentatively denied by the U.S. Trademark Office on Wednesday.
"The applied-for mark appears to be used in a merely decorative manner that would be perceived by consumers as having little or no particular source-identifying significance," the Trademark Office concluded.
The Trademark Office will allow Ohio State to alter its application to have the trademark request reconsidered.
The application submitted in August was to allow OSU to trademark the use of "The" on clothing using standard characters, without claim to any particular font style, size, or color.
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ADVISORY CONCERNING ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES, THE PRACTICE OF “VAPING,” “JUULING” AND USE OF OTHER ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS OR ENDS
TDH Reports First Death from Vaping-associated Respiratory Disease
Cluster of Illness in 49 States Linked to E-cigarette Use
Thursday, October 17, 2019 | 10:17am
NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Department of Health has reported one death in a patient with serious respiratory disease associated with use of electronic cigarettes or other vaping devices. This is the first such death reported in Tennessee.
‘’We are extremely saddened by this loss of life and extend our sincere condolences to the patient’s family,‘’ said Tennessee Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey, MD, MBA, FAAP. ‘’We are working with partners across the country to investigate these cases of vaping-associated illness in Tennessee, and recommend Tennesseans consider refraining from using e-cigarettes or vaping while this investigation is underway.‘’
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Food and Drug Administration are investigating a cluster of severe pulmonary disease among people who use e-cigarettes or vape, with 1,299 cases reported as of Oct. 8 in 49 states, the District of Columbia and one U.S. territory including 26 deaths. There have now been 53 cases reported in Tennessee. Most of the patients are adolescents and young adults.
Patients associated with this outbreak have had symptoms including cough, shortness of breath and/or chest pain, growing worse over a period of days or weeks before admission to the hospital. Other symptoms may include fever, fatigue, nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea. All patients have reported using e-cigarette or vaping products. At this time, no single product or substance has been linked to all the lung injury cases and the specific chemical or ingredient causing these injuries remains unknown. In many but not all cases, patients have acknowledged recent use of tetrahydrocannabinol or THC-containing e-cigarette products.
TDH is providing information about this investigation and the number of Tennessee patients associated with this outbreak online at www.tn.gov/health/cedep/vaping-illness.html. This page will be updated weekly by 3:30 p.m. Central time each Thursday with any additional cases reported.
Electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices are not approved by the FDA for smoking cessation. Smokers who are attempting to quit should use evidence-based treatments including counseling and FDA-approved medications. If you need help quitting tobacco products including e-cigarettes, contact your health care provider, your local health department or the Tennessee Tobacco QuitLine at 1-800-QUIT-NOW or www.tnquitline.org/.
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Cannabis fields in Bekaa destroyed for second day
Authorities continued efforts to eradicate cannabis fields in the Bekaa, east Lebanon, as normal activity in the region remained subdued due to reports of prowling gunmen. Two bulldozers were used in the operation in addition to 17 tractors after 15 tractors were sabotaged by gunmen a day earlier. The operation is proceeding with caution, especially following reports of armed men in the vicinity. (See also: Farmers, government battle over hashish in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley)
Bekaa farmers push against eradicating marijuana growth in Lebanon
The growth of cannabis is gradually increasing in the fields in the Bekaa valley. This is mainly due to policies adopted by successive governments that neglected the agricultural sector, while the state has demonstrated a limited capacity to eradicate cannabis crops in the past, and mainly in the last two years. This has encouraged farmers, bearing losses and facing agriculture problems amid a lack of state assistance, protection, support and compensation, to opt for growing marijuana.
Jumblatt renews calls to legalize marijuana
Walid Jumblatt has renewed calls to legalize the cultivation and sale of marijuana. The head of the Progressive Socialist Party wrote that the time has come to sanction pot and end the state's prosecution of its sellers. "It is time to allow for the cultivation of marijuana, and to drop the right to issue arrest warrants against people who work in this field," the prominent Druze leader said.
Lebanon agriculture minister urges cannabis cultivation for export
Agriculture Minister Akram Chehayeb called for the legalization of cannabis farming in Lebanon to allow the state to benefit from the revenue of its export. “We are conducting studies on [how to] organize this type of agriculture so that it becomes monitored by the state, and thus the state can buy the harvest and export it to the countries that need it,” Chehayeb said. He added that the state should end its war on cannabis farmers and find workable alternatives.
Lebanese government gives "blessed" hashish a break
The minister of interior Charbel promised to find solutions for cannabis farmers, including finding alternative crops. Talk about alternative crops has been around since the Taif Accord, which ended the civil war in Lebanon more than two decades ago. “The government had allocated 35 billion Lebanese pounds annually to aid the farmers, as part of a five-year project for alternative crops to hashish. Unfortunately, none of this has been put into practice.” Charbel finds the continued talk about alternative crops irritating, saying that it seems this will remain forever a pipe dream and spoke about legalizing the cultivation of hashish.
Cannabis legalization: the seed of a good idea or a pipedream?
According to Jalal Mahfouz, head of the Planning and Development Center in Hermel (Lebanon), any move to legalize the illegal industry, which is believed to be worth millions of dollars, would backfire by reducing prices and demand. He argued that hashish was currently expensive because it was illegal, and that if that changed the plant’s value would plummet. He also cast doubt on the idea that the government would be able to enforce any such law – even if supportive of the industry – given its near total absence from the remote area.
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UK house prices fall at fastest rate in seven months: RICS
LONDON (Reuters) - British house prices dropped last month by the most since April, as uncertainty about Brexit and the election weighed on the property market, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said on Thursday.
The RICS survey - released on the day Britain votes in a national election intended to break a parliamentary deadlock over Brexit - showed home-buyers and sellers stuck on the sidelines.
The monthly house price balance declined to -12 in November, its lowest since April, from -5 in October.
The number of new buyers and sellers continued to fall - though the drop in sales seemed to be bottoming out and the proportion of surveyors who expected a rebound in activity over the next year rose to its highest since February 2017.
"Whatever happens in the general election today, it is important that the new government provides reassurance both over the stewardship of the economy and the ongoing challenges around Brexit," RICS chief economist Simon Rubinsohn said.
Britain's housing market has slowed since June 2016's Brexit referendum. Prices have fallen in London and surrounding areas, where a rise in property purchase taxes bit hardest and concerns about Brexit were high.
Official data has shown that British house prices rose by 1.3% in the year to September and a Reuters poll of economists has forecast a 1.5% rise for 2020.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson intends to take Britain out of the European Union by Jan. 31, if he wins Thursday's election. Most opposition parties have said they want a second referendum.
(Reporting by David Milliken; Editing by William Schomberg)
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FCA questions Aviva over cancelled shares
Harry Wilson, City Editor
March 15 2018, 12:01am, The Times
Aviva was considering cancelling preference shares to save moneySTEPHEN HIRD/REUTERS
The City watchdog has quizzed Aviva over its decision to cancel £450 million of preference shares, enraging the thousands of retail investors who own the stock.
The Financial Conduct Authority said yesterday it was “making active inquiries into the matter” and had spoken to the insurance and savings company, its advisers and to the holders of the shares.
“We are seeking to understand the basis upon which the firm is taking this action and we are considering whether they have put sufficient information into the public domain,” the FCA said.
The FCA’s intervention, in particular its questioning of the information given to ordinary investors by Aviva, marks an escalation in the battle over the move, which has led some preference shareholders to accuse the company…
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Michael Moore on Guns…Now More Than Ever
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Michael Moore speaks at the “Bernie’s Back Rally” at Queensbridge Park, Long Island City on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)
The anti-gun left, the civilian disarmament industry and their oh-so-willing friends in the media love to push the narrative that America is in the midst of an unprecedented gun violence epidemic. They tell us that the only way to DO SOMETHING about this disgraceful national affliction is for Americans to give up some or all of their Second Amendment rights.
Somehow, though, they manage to ignore details such as the FBI’s most recent crime report that shows yet another reduction in both violent and firearms-related crimes. The drop in these crimes comes as part of a generation-long trend that’s taken place at the same time that the number of civilian-owned firearms has more than doubled.
And look how the scariest, most assaulty-looking weapons have proliferated . . .
Courtesy NSSF
But data like that doesn’t help to further the message that America has a serious problem with guns. A message that says guns in the hands of everyday citizens…people who simply can’t be trusted with such a responsibility…is inherently dangerous and simply not who our betters think we should be as a society.
That’s how you get Salon trying to breathe new life into a quaint piece of anti-gun agitprop like Michael Moore’s hoplophobic screed seventeen years after it was released.
At the time, the focus of the film was the gun culture that spawned the Columbine shootings. As the film opens, it sets the scene for the Columbine shootings by describing it as a “typical day.” The message is clear: Columbine was not an anomaly; it was a predictable consequence in a society that glorifies guns more than human life.
In scene after scene, from a bank that hands out guns to a mom who thinks the only way to protect her kids is by being armed, the film digs into the disturbing ways that gun culture has been not just justified, but normalized in the United States. Moore conducts a series of interviews with a wide range of gun owners — militia members, suburban housewives, farmers and more — all of whom are happy [to] explain that they only feel safe if they have weapons. …
Great films hold up over time. They are worth watching for the art of their style, for their messages, and for the ways that they remind us of their context. Satirical films also help us think through moments when society was caught up in habits and behaviors that were profoundly irrational, destructive or delusional. Their messages continue to resonate because the flaws they diagnose persist. Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film “Dr. Strangelove, Or How I l Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” for example, continues to offer poignant commentary on toxic military masculinity.
“Bowling for Columbine” is worth screening today for all of those reasons.
– Sophia A. McClennen Why Michael Moore’s “Bowling for Columbine” matters now more than ever
Imayeti says:
There are certain people who show up whenever there is a controversy. They hope to bring clout to one side of the issue on the assumption that their presence carries more weight, importance, correctness, or publicity to one side of the issue, and gain more power for themselves. Michael Moore is little more than a low life ankle biter IMHO. He would have helped by staying home.
He can’t profit from tragedies by staying at home.
California Richard says:
Michael Moore brings about 100-lbs more weight to the gun debate today, than he did when he made that movie.
Thixotropic says:
Pure Lard.
That’s MANTECA if you are an Illegal Alien.
Sam Hill says:
They call him CRISCO, CRISCO they call.
ffl07 sot2 multicert instructor says:
moore’s presence actually does bring weight, about 400 pounds worth. i typically refrain from insulting an individual by only focusing on the policies they support. however, this was such a slow pitch over the plate i could not help but swing.
anyone with any sense whatsoever looks at moore as a egocentric buffoon who truly believes that he has some magic power to know what is right and demands that we all bow to his superior intellect.
i cannot resist one more statement regarding moore. the photo at the top of the article shows moore in a “Jesus on the cross” pose, further illustrating his deranged self image that he is the country’s new savior. i have to stop now or moore (pun intended) insults will just burst out of me into this comment.
I think this song is for people like the Moore-tard.
Brought to you by Michael Moore. The ignorant nitwit that literally joined a Russian sponsored event to “attack our democracy”.
The brief summary above seems to blame regular gun owners for what some teenage killers did. Basically the same thing they’re doing now.
Green Mtn. Boy says:
Michael,Rosie’s leftarded brother,both of them more,pun intended,irrelevant,so have to inject themselves into the culture somehow.
What a disgusting waste of skin! So desperate to be relevant, like most “celebrities. Wonder how he’d feel about “tweaking” the first ammendment, it gets abused more than the second, by idiots like him!
Steven Lynch says:
Every time I see this man it makes me want to go on a diet
anarchyst says:
Michael Moore’s “schlockumentaries” are anything but honest and are based on half-truths and outright lies.
In “Roger and Me” he claimed that GM CEO Roger Smith refused to meet with him and dodged every attempt to meet with him. In fact, Roger Smith offered Michael Moore an interview, but was promptly rebuffed. This meeting would have destroyed the whole premise of the movie.
In “Bowling for Columbine”, Moore’s flawed premise was that the free, unrestricted commerce in lawful firearms was responsible for that deadly event. He brings up one bank’s successful marketing of its services by insisting that firearms were being given out to depositors in an indiscriminate fashion. Once again, Moore failed to note that every firearms transfer was done in a lawful manner, with federally-mandated “background checks” being performed in every case.
In “Sicko”, his “schlockumentary” on the American health-care system, he used Cuba as a prime example of a good health care system. What he failed to mention was that the average Cuban citizen has no access to high-tech health care, but is relegated to a lower tier of service. Cuban patients even have to supply their own bed linens and other items. The high tech health care services are available only to foreigners and communist party officials–not the average Cuban citizen.
All of Michael Moore’s “schlockumentaries” are “full of holes”, lies and fabrications.
Michael Moore is not to be trusted.
GS650G says:
When MM was going through a Brit hospital sarcastically asking where the billing department was I wondered why he wasn’t at a gas station, a store, even the post office.
The crushing sales taxes are just one revenue stream for the NHS which always seems to be low on funds.
Paul Hill says:
Michael Moore is nothing but a obese , ugly individual with a personal hygiene problem. He needs to be run through a carwash several times to remove that grime. Disgusting slob.
Todd in the sticks says:
The author lives about an hour from me in a bluish college town. If you drive 15 minutes in any direction from her town and you are in a very rural part of PA that is as red as it gets. I don’t know how she can stand being trapped on a virtual island surrounded by people who support the second amendment. Funny thing too is that PA has fairly easy concealed carry requirements…no required training, very reasonable prices etc. You’d think this area would be a war zone (it’s not) with this many firearms and ease of access for citizens with less wealth so nobody is priced out of self-defense like some states. Maybe she should spend some of her research dollars explaining that…
M1Lou says:
I bet she will eventually build a wall to keep all of the undesirables out. Leftists hate walls at the border, but love giant ones around their houses.
LifeSavor says:
Michael Moore’s grooming and attire makes Steve Bannon look like a candidate for the cover of GQ.
Jerry Sweet says:
Jusr take a look at him says it all
doesky2 says:
BTW, whenever someone shows the violent crime report downhill curve it should always be mentioned that the 2015-206 bump up is most likely due to Obama and the resultant “Furgeson effect”.
jwm says:
Parker and Stone did about the most honest eval of Moore.
Ed Schrade says:
The “documentary ” Sicko should have been about Moore the slob, the name would fit the subject.
SoBe says:
And his premise is that my hard earned money taken away as taxes will eventually pay for his free triple bypass surgery and coronary stents, not to mention the CPAP machine and all the blood pressure, blood thinner, penile vasodilator (ie., Viagra), statins, anti demencia and anti diabetic medications to treat the medical complications of his gross obesity, the consequence of his poor voluntary lifestyle choices.
former water walker says:
One would think the obese Moore(or less) would keel over from a heart attack by now what with Drumph pizzing off leftards daily. Or hope…is the rotund hutt still claiming NRA membership?!?😏
Bob Wyman says:
Pointing out who the idiots are is easy. When will we organize and take people and government to courts of law to stop the infringing/ I have stopped donating to NRA GOA etc as they are doing nothing but accepting donations while states NOT the federal government add more gun control laws everyday. States Rights are being overlooked and if federal government had any power Obama would have outlawed private possession long ago or even Clinton. My state of residence, Colorado is now one of the hardest places to purchase or sell and carry without having permission slips from the new governor who is a socialist in disguise as was his predecessor and use executive orders excessively. Your state will soon be the same as mine and that is a fact. Talk is cheap, we have to have real action, enough is enough, they are chipping away and are getting there quickly now.
Prndll says:
Yes, there sure is an epidemic. I absolutely agree with that 100%. Only fools like Mr. Moore seem oblivious to it.
Among others, the epidemics are opioids and illegal narcotics.
TonyL says:
And an autism epidemic. We’re looking at a 50% autism rate in males by the end of this decade.
Hankus says:
*Waiting for Michael Moore to disappear in the distance like Jesse Jackson*
MLee says:
Someone please tell me when I should start to care what Michael Pig Moore says!
Thought Moore had dried up and blown away. Sad to note, looks like I was wrong.
enuf says:
“Roger & Me” was terrific film making, top notch documentary. That was 30 years ago.
Since than, just blowing hot air, could’ve been great, totally blew it. At least he ate well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_%26_Me
Timothy Toroian says:
Let’s campaign to get rid of private automobiles and life sentences for the first DUI.
Southern Cross says:
It won’t be long before people are blamed for climate change and the final solution will be to eliminate the people. Some call it the “Voluntary Human Extinction Movement”, but for most of us it won’t be voluntary.
UpInArms says:
” the final solution will be to eliminate the people ”
Not all of them. Just the poor ones.
Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR says:
“It won’t be long before people are blamed for climate change and the final solution will be to eliminate the people.”
That’s already in process, which makes no sense, as you would think they would want to accelerate ‘climate change’ and all the mass death that comes with it…
Al Fuqyagood says:
This toxic masculinity, we don’t have that in my country. In Saudi Arabia, woman like her be beaten like donkey. Not true. In my county, donkey have right. A man cannot rape his donkey, very many consequences. In Saudi Arabia, woman, she know her place.
Timothy V Noecker says:
What’s a MSR? It Sounds Like a Motorcycle or Medical Drug Acronym – I Prefer To Just Call My AR-15 What It Is, an AR-15!!! It Makes Those Gun-Grabbers Pissed Off Even More…
Ragnar says:
“…toxic military masculinity”
That “toxic military masculinity” are the men that continue to protect her life and rights. The only thing “toxic” about us is the lethality we offer to our enemies, foreign and domestic.
Did anyone else notice Sophia McClennen begging for money at the end of her article?
… And even stating an amount. Since I am sure part of her job like any good academic is writing grant and research contract proposals she apparently isn’t very good at her job.
Al Benecki says:
Don’t you hate it when a non American,” Canadian citizen”,gives speeches as a if he was born and raised in the good old USA.Can I go to Canada and give speeches on how the Canadian man child leader,pokes anything he can get his ,moose horn,in?Mike you have not earned the right to make any comments on America!
The way that graph is trending, by the time we hit 40 million AR-pattern rifles, violent crime should be down to about zero.
Spread the word everywhere you can! Buy more guns!
I’d get my news from The Onion before I got it from Salon
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Netanyahu Threatens To Fire Bennett and Smotrich From The Ministerial Positions Unless They Unify The Right
On Tuesday evening, after the party lists were submitted to the Central Elections Committee, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Defense Minister Naftali Bennett that if he runs on a separate list without bringing full unity to the Right-Wing parties of the New Right, National Union, Jewish Home, and Otzma Yehudit, then there is a reasonable chance that he will not be able to continue as Defense Minister. The threat was reported by Channel 12 News.
According to the report, there was some misunderstanding between the Netanyahu and Bennett according to sources close to both, whereas Bennett felt that this was a direct threat addressed to him, sources close to the Prime Minister said that it was not a threat but rather a situation analysis.
The report also stated that there was a similar threat given to Transport Minister Betzalel Smotrich. The two men, Smotrich and Bennett eventually decided to run together on a joint list, but left Rafi Peretz and the Jewish Home party alone with Itamar Ben Gvir and the Otzma Yehudit party to run together.
The New Right and National Union Parties issued a statement this evening calling on Rabbi Peretz and the Jewish Home Party to join their list.
“We have called and we continue to call on Jewish Home and Rabbi Rafi Peretz to join one victorious party. No vote should be wasted,” they added.
Earlier in the day, the Likud issued a formal call on all right-wing parties to include the Otzma Yehudit Party in the list.
“The Left unites; they aren’t going to lose any votes. Now the Right must do everything to avoid wasting votes,” the statement said.
Continuing to accuse Bennett for the lack of a government the statement continued, “Unfortunately, Bennett wasted votes in the April election, and in the last election he pushed Otzma out of his party, so we couldn’t form a Rightist government.
“As Orly Levy found herself in the same party with Tamar Zandberg of Meretz, and as in the Joint Arab List they joined Islamists and Communists, Bennett has the responsibility to formulate a technical block to save all Right-leaning votes. Bennett, show responsibility,” the Likud concluded.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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#WeddingGoals: 11 Indian ‘Weddings With A Difference’ We All Should Be Cheering
These young couples and their families dared to fight stigmas, break stereotypes and opened their hearts to help those in need!
Sanchari Pal
Here are 11 wedding stories of young couples and their families who dared to fight stigmas and break stereotypes and helped others. They will rekindle your faith in humanity and leave you happy if not inspired!
1. No Band-Baja, No Flowers And No Sweets. This IRS Officer had a Wedding with a Difference
At a time when couples usually want lavish weddings and grand honeymoons, Abhay Deware and Priti Kumbhare set an example by spending their wedding money on the education of children of farmers who committed suicide. The couple also donated Rs. 20,000 each to 10 farmers’ families, where the sole bread-earner of each family had committed suicide due to mounting debts and successive crop failures. Additionally, they provided books worth Rs. 52,000 to five libraries in Amravati.
2. Kerala Couple Boldly Challenges Taboos by Having a Transgender Person as Witness on Their Wedding
Ramnath from Alappuzha and Shruthi from Wayanad, young activists of Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP) had been friends for about a decade when they decided to get married. Making a bold and progressive statement, the bride wore jewellery made from jute and cereal, not gold– something unthinkable in a typical marriage in Kerala. In another move that tackled an age-old stigma, they invited Sheethal Shyam, a transgender activist and Secretary of the Sexual Minorities Form, Kerala (SMFK), to sign as a witness for the marriage held at the Sub-Registrar’s Office.
3. This Bride from MP Refused Gold in Lieu of 10,000 Saplings as a Wedding Gift from Her In-Laws
As per tradition, in-laws are supposed to gift the bride something on the day of the wedding – usually ornaments or clothes. When the bridegroom’s sister asked the soon-to-be bride Priyanka Bhadoria what kind of gold and ornaments she wanted, she was in for a pleasant surprise. The 22-year-old science graduate from the village of Kisipura, in Bhind (about 80 km from Gwalior) said that she preferred being gifted plant saplings more than anything else. The pleasantly surprised groom’s family fulfilled her wish by gifting her 10000 saplings that the couple planted after their wedding.
4. Businessman Uses Money Saved for Daughter’s Wedding in Building 90 Homes for the Poor
Manoj Munot and his family
In the spirit of the wedding season, Manoj Munot, a businessman from Maharashtra, decided to give the ultimate gift of all — he gifted 90 homes to underprivileged families. These homes were built using the money that Munot had originally planned on spending on his daughter Shreya’s wedding. Instead, both of them decided to forgo a lavish celebration and used the savings to help those who needed it the most.
5. Instead of Spending on Festivities, This Bride Decided to Honour Her Teachers on Her Wedding Day
Nishadbanu Vajifdhar, a 22-year-old woman from Haldharu village in Gujarat, found a wonderful way to honour all the teachers who have taught her right from primary school till college. On her wedding eve, she felicitated all the 75 teachers who had taught her from nursery with a memento and shawl. Her family also donated Rs. 10 lakh to schools where she completed her primary and secondary education.
6. Why This Malayali Bookworm Bride Didn’t Want Gold at Her Wedding.
For Kerala’s Sahla Nechiyil, a post graduate in political science from the Hyderabad University, the wedding had to be more meaningful than the customary exchange of goods and golds. Nechiyil decided to demand 50 books from her fiancé as mehr, a mandatory payment in the form of money or possessions paid or promised to be paid by the groom to the bride at the time of marriage.
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7. One Man in Gujarat Broke a Taboo by Inviting 18,000 Widows to His Son’s Wedding
A widow’s presence at a wedding is considered a taboo at many places in India. It is believed that they bring bad luck, and are no invited to festivals and other celebrations. But when Jitendra Patel, a businessman in Gujarat, was organising his son’s wedding, he decided to crush this superstitious belief and invited about 18,000 widows to bless the bride and groom. Every widow who attended was presented with a blanket and a sapling. Additionally, 500 widows from financially weaker backgrounds were presented with a milking cow each, to help them earn a living.
8. Strong-Willed Mother of 5 Girls Sets an Example by Performing Marriage Rituals Reserved for Men
When Hernoor Grewal got married, her mother performed the marriage rituals at her wedding – rituals like “giving the daughter away” that are usually performed by men. A strong-willed woman who didn’t let taunts deter her, Hernoor’s mother had single-handedly raised her five daughters to become strong, independent women. In an interview with BBC radio, Hernoor spoke out about how her mother’s actions had inspired her by breaking gender stereotypes.
9. IAS Couple Sets Worthy Example With a No-Frills Court Wedding Costing Rs. 500!
Ashish Vashisht and Saloni Sadana
In today’s extravagant world of lavish ceremonies, simple and thoughtful wedding celebrations are as rare as hens’ teeth. But two IAS officers, Ashish Vashisht and Saloni Sadana, decided to go against the norm. The couple ditched the extravaganza and set an example for many by getting married at the Additional District Magistrate’s (ADM) office in Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh. The wedding cost just Rs. 500, which was the court’s fee.
10. A Gujarat Businessman Saved Money in His Son’s Wedding to Spend on the Wedding of 100 Girls
When it was time to plan his son’s wedding, Gopal Vastapara, a businessman from Surat, decided to go for a simple ceremony – inviting only friends and relatives. And with all the money that he saved in the process, he decided to fund a mass wedding ceremony for 100 girls, all of whom come from economically weaker families. He also asked wvery newly-wed couple to pledge to save the girl child and save the environment on the wedding day
11. 258 Grooms in Surat Cycled to Their Weddings to Raise Awareness about Traffic & Pollution
Traditionally, grooms arrive at their wedding venues on horses or in cars, with a large procession of friends and relatives trailing behind them on foot. However, this November, 258 grooms environment-conscious grooms in Surat decided to pedal to the wedding along with community leaders and family members in order to encourage people to switch to sustainable practices.
Also Read: ‘Saas-Bahu’ in 21st Century India: Andhra Woman Builds Toilet as Wedding Gift for Son’s Bride
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Mercy Bus due to stop at Scottish Parliament
A double decker bus promoting the Catholic faith will visit the Scottish Parliament tomorrow when the Bishop of Paisley, John Keenan, will meet MSPs and parliamentary staff.
The Friends of Divine Mercy Scotland are taking the Mercy Bus to the Scottish Parliament to spread the joy of the Gospel. The bus toured Scottish towns last year and more than 1,000 Miraculous Medals and Divine Mercy Chaplets were given out on the streets of Scotland.
Commenting on the initiative, Bishop Keenan said: “The Mercy Bus has been a great initiative of the New Evangelisation Pope John Paul II hoped for.
“Its presence in the heart of town centres is welcomed by shoppers and workers of all faiths and none, as a joyful and hopeful presence of God in their midst. I’m sure the visit to the Scottish Parliament will be no different and look forward to meeting politicians and members of the public and bringing the message of the Mercy Bus to them.”
Supporting the initiative, Anthony Horan, Director of the Catholic Parliamentary Office said; “The Mercy Bus is an excellent initiative, giving the Scottish public the chance to learn more about the Catholic faith and practising Catholics the opportunity to participate in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The Friends of Divine Mercy team are doing something quite incredible through this initiative, something the Catholic faithful in Scotland should celebrate.
“As Director of the Catholic Parliamentary Office I am particularly delighted that the Mercy Bus will visit the Scottish Parliament. I hope that MSPs will recognise the positive message that Friends of Divine Mercy are trying to convey through the Mercy Bus and that Catholic MSPs and their staff in particular will enjoy the experience.”
Picture: The Mercy Bus. (SCMO).
Tags: Anthony Horan, Bishop John Keenan, Bishop Keenan, Bishop of Paisley, bus, catholic, double decker, double decker bus, faith, Friends of Divine Mercy, Mercy Bus, MSP, parliamentary staff, Scotland, Scottish parliament
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The Cross Trust
About The Cross Trust
Testimonials of Beneficiaries
Deadlines Dates
Referee's Report Form
Lauren McQuistin
MMA, Yale School of Music, Connecticut, USA
Coming from an area with few resources for the arts, a career in opera could easily have been considered an impossible feat.
Thanks to the generosity of The Cross Trust I have not had to limit my ambitions due to financial hardships, and have been studying for a Master of Musical Arts at the Yale School of Music.
Because of this I have been a Metropolitan Opera National Council Award District Winner, have summer employment with an opera festival, and kickstarted an international career as an operatic soprano.
Updated: 4th April, 2018
Author: Clare Meredith
Scottish Opera Pop-Up Tour 2019
The Trust supports the Pop-Up Opera Tour again in 2019
Cross Trust Young Musicians Concert 2019
The talents of three Cross Trust beneficiaries were showcased at the inaugural Cross Trust Young Musicians concert, as part of 2019 Perth Festival of the Arts.
Cross Trust Special Collections Internship
The Cross Trust is pleased to be supporting The National Library of Scotland in offering two four-week internships working with special collections to begin in late July 2019.
Cross Trust Young Musicians
The Cross Trust presents four award-winning artists who pay homage to musical traditions whilst simultaneously developing their own voices.
St Andrews Voices Festival
St Andrew’s Voices festival is Scotland’s only festival dedicated to vocal and choral music.
Paws for Progress
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Hamish Napier
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Murphy Robertson
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Flautist
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Deadline Dates
Essential dates for submissions of applications
The Trust was established by Sir Alexander Cross to carry out his wish to provide opportunities for young men and women of SCOTTISH BIRTH OR PARENTAGE to extend the boundaries of their knowledge of human life.
The Trust carries out Sir Alexander Cross's wish to provide opportunities for young men and women of Scottish birth of parentage to extend the boundaries of their knowledge of human life.
Making Your Application You can obtain an electronic application form or by contacting the Secretaries.
Helpful notes on the application forms and referees forms
Only Organisations which are SCOTTISH and CHARITABLE are eligible for an award to be made (on a restricted basis).
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Dangerous New Drugs
By The Doctors Staff on 4:00 AM PDT, July 27, 2011
Parents: Did you know that more than half of American teens and pre-teens have tried or are planning to try illegal drugs? If you think that statistic can't possibly include your child, think again. You won't believe what kids are doing with the latest drugs - some of which you've probably never even heard of. And chances are, even if you haven't heard of them, your kids most likely have.
Vodka Soaked Tampons
Alcohol enters the bloodstream faster through mainlining, which is what happens when the alcohol is absorbed directly in the vagina or anus. "It's just like injecting it," Dr. Ordon comments. "The effects are instantaneous and the potential consequences are devastating." Dr. Lisa adds that vodka soaked tampons will destroy the vagina's delicate balance and cause bacterial and yeast infections, as well as crack and burn the vaginal tissue.
Anal Beer Bongs
When consumed orally, alcohol goes through the stomach, passes into the bloodstream and is filtered through the liver, which is the body's natural detoxification system. When that system is bypassed, the alcohol is absorbed directly into the body and can have dire and deadly consequences.
Cheese Heroin and Strawberry Quick Meth
In an attempt to make narcotics more appealing to children, drug dealers have begun to "sweeten" their products with fruity flavors. Cheese heroin, for example, is a mixture of heroin and Tylenol PM, and Strawberry Quick is the street name for methamphetamine mixed with strawberry flavoring that minimizes the acidic taste of the drug.
"We have no clue what the long-term affects are for mixing medications like this," Dr. Ordon explains. "One thing is bad enough, but when you mix many medications -- we've talked about this before -- it's called polypharmacy - anything can happen."
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Delhi yet to confirm $4.5b third LoC
FHM Humayan Kabir | Published: August 15, 2017 03:36:09 | Updated: October 21, 2017 03:21:44
India is yet to confirm its third line of credit (LoC) worth US$4.5 billion credit (LoC) despite Bangladesh's request for holding a meeting on this issue, officials concerned said Monday.
Officials said although India assured Bangladesh of providing the loan during the visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to New Delhi in April last, the lender is delaying signing of the final agreement on the promised loan.
"We have reminded New Delhi about holding negotiations on the third LoC. But they are yet to fix any date for negotiations. This has delayed the confirmation of the loan," said a Ministry of Finance (MoF) official.
He told the FE they had primarily selected 17 development projects for execution with the third Indian LoC. But the process is now stalled due to delay in the loan confirmation.
The MoF official said soon after completing negotiations, the two sides will sign a loan deal.
During the visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India on April 8, Delhi and Dhaka signed an MoU for the 3rd LoC.
Another official at the MoF said: "We are waiting for the draft of the loan deal from India. When we get it, we will take preparation for negotiations with New Delhi."
Earlier, India confirmed two LoCs for facilitating Bangladesh's development, especially for improvement of infrastructure for setting up cross-border transportation links.
In August 2010, India offered Bangladesh first LoC worth $862 million under which it undertook 15 projects. Out of the 15, eight projects had already been completed and the remaining seven are in the process of execution.
Besides, the neighbouring country signed the second $2.0 billion LoC in March 2016 under which some 14 projects have been taken up for execution.
The MoF official said setback in the way of implementing some projects under the first LoC could affect confirmation of the 3rd LOC.
Although the first LoC was signed seven years ago and some projects are yet to be completed, the lender could delay its third $4.5 billion LoC for Bangladesh, he added.
Most of the schemes under the $2.0 billion second LoC are yet to be started, he added.
Meanwhile, the government has selected some 17 projects including construction of 4-lane road from Benapole-Jessore-Narail-Bhatiapara-Bhanaga; 4-lane road from border Ramgarh to Baruirhat and 4-lane road from Mynamati (Comilla)-Brahmanbaria-Sarail for implementation under the third Indian LoC.
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Sydney waste-power incinerator plans halved amid pollution and health fears
Plant’s operator seeks approval for a phased development in the face of residents’ opposition and concerns over air quality
Anne Davies
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Tue 3 Oct 2017 22.32 EDT Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2018 11.34 EST
More than 552,000 tonnes of waste a year would be burnt under revised plans for an energy incinerator in Sydney’s west. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
Plans for the world’s biggest waste-to-energy plant in Sydney’s west have been cut in half, in an effort to address concerns from health and environmental authorities, and residents.
The Next Generation, a company owned by one of the largest waste operators in Australia – Ian Malouf, founder of Dial A Dump – has lodged new documents seeking a phased development of the plant.
The documents, submitted in response to more than 1,000 submissions, say: “Construction and operation will be phased. Initial waste processing will be limited to phase one, allowing up to 552,500 tonnes of residual waste fuel to be thermally treated per annum.”
The company says it is now only seeking approval for phase one and that phase two “will be subject to the proponent satisfying the Environmental [sic] Protection Authority of the availability of eligible waste fuels”.
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The original environmental impact statement was for a plant capable of burning 1.35m tonnes of garbage a year. It was fiercely opposed by local residents because of its 800-metre proximity from the nearest suburb, Erskine Park, and its location in the sensitive Sydney basin.
High-temperature incineration of industrial and household waste to generate electricity is common in Scandinavia and Germany, but in Australia it has been confined to small cogeneration plants at factories, burning waste paper and wood.
The Next Generation plant would be a first. The original proposal was for a plant double the size of similar plants in Europe.
The Next Generation claims that the plant offers a source of “green energy” and would use state-of-the-art technology. But the sheer scale of the original proposal – to be located at Eastern Creek at the junction of the M5 and M4 motorways – prompted objections from both the New South Wales Environment Protection Authority and the state’s health department over air quality and its likely impact on rates of recycling.
The Sydney basin already has some of the poorest air quality in Australia, particularly during the summer months.
Is incineration holding back recycling?
The new documents contain additional modelling on the composition of fuel stock for the plant – domestic and construction waste, including plastics. They also contain new modelling on air quality from a smaller plant.
“Based on the updated modelling inputs, cumulative predictions detail no exceedances [of emission limit] of the EPA criteria when the EfW [energy-from-waste] contribution is added to maximum background concentration under expected operating conditions,” the company says.
But residents’ group No Incinerator for Western Sydney said that to describe the project as “clean and green” was false.
“This is not clean green energy, it is simply burning fossil fuels in another form. Mass combustion incinerators rank as one of the dirties known forms of energy production, and produce far more carbon dioxide per unit of energy generated than coal-, oil- or gas-fired power stations,” the group said in a recent submission to a parliamentary inquiry looking into the project.
“Incinerators also produce toxic emissions that consist of toxic metals, such as dioxin, arsenic, mercury, cadmium, and over 200 organic chemicals, including known carcinogens, mutagens and hormone disrupters.”
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The group is also concerned about the disposal of the toxic residual ash, which, it said, required handling similar to radioactive waste.
Spokeswoman Melinda Wilson said the reduction in the size of the incinerator would not alter local opposition.
“There are already air-quality problems in the Sydney basin. It’s a ridiculous to put an incinerator at this location,” she said.
The other concern raised by the EPA was the impact an incinerator would have on recycling rates, particularly of plastics and organic material. The submission says new modelling has shown there is currently 551,200 tonnes of waste eligible to be used as waste-to-energy fuel, sufficient to power phase one.
The proponent says the waste used in the incinerator would otherwise go to landfill.
The project will be determined by an independent planning assessment commission in coming months, but faces continuing stiff opposition from residents.
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February 06, 2014 City Week
Paper Planes for a Purpose
By David McGlothlin @mc_glothlin
Third Annual Great Paper Airplane Fly-Off
10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 8
Pima Air & Space Museum 6000 E. Valencia Road
574-0462;greatpaperairplance.org
Throwing paper airplanes in class used to be a sure way to get detention and a lecture from your teacher. But this weekend, the maker of the paper airplane that flies the farthest will win an iPad and a flight for two over Tucson.
About 350 children have registered to compete in the third annual Great Paper Airplane Fly-Off, which is divided into three age groups: 6 to 8, 9 to 11 and 12 to 14. Ken Blackburn, a Guinness World Records holder for paper airplane flights, will be on hand to give the kids demonstrations on folding and flying techniques. The contestant with the longest flight in each age bracket wins an iPad with a flight simulation app, a 30-minute flight from Double-Eagle Aviation valued at $200, and a Great Paper Airplane Project flight jacket. The winners also get their name engraved on a trophy that's on permanent display in the museum.
New this year is the Family Fun Fly-Off, where 10 families, or teams of up to six, compete for a yearlong family membership to the museum and a 30-minute flight for two from Double Eagle Aviation.
The Great Paper Airplane Project started in 2011 as a way to get kids interested in aviation and aerospace engineering through a childhood pastime.
"Our objective is just to inspire kids to get interested in aviation," said Mary Emich, director of marketing, sales and visitor services at the museum.
Emich said that the number of commercial airplanes is expected to grow fivefold in the next 20 years, which could mean five times the current demand for people in the aviation field.
"We want to continue growth and enthusiasm," Emich said.
Registered contestants will be admitted free to the event, but standard Pima Air & Space Museum entrance fees apply to all other guests.
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Russia’s NTV Plus will use Grass Valley for Sochi 2014
Grass Valley will provide Russian satellite broadcaster NTV Plus with multichannel sports production equipment for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. The Grass Valley-NTV Plus collaboration was completed via Grass Valley’s long-term Russian partner OKNO TV, alongside System Integrator PTS.
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NTV Plus selected Grass Valley solutions as the hub for its integrated production, post, and distribution system. The systems will be reconfigurable after the Games and can also integrate with NTV Plus’s existing Grass Valley solutions. The semi-portable platform is due to be installed in Sochi in January 2014.
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The K2 media server and storage platform includes the only media client that supports end-to-end SD/HD workflows in DVCPRO, MPEG-2, AVC-Intra, H.264/AVCHD, and DNxHD formats. Teamed with the K2 Dyno S Replay Controller and integrated with GV STRATUS, it offers an ideal solution for live events. K2 Summit can be configured as part of a SAN solution comprised of multiple K2 Summit clients, K2 media servers, and K2 RAID storage.
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Case shows cycle of domestic violence
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At age 20, she stands just 4-foot-11 and weighs less than 130 pounds.
Her Trumbull County Jail booking photo shows the Warren woman’s heavily bruised face, including two blackened eyes.
The charge filed May 26 against her is listed in the Warren Municipal Court file as obstructing official business.
Two days later, charges of felonious assault also were filed against a man identified in a police report as the woman’s boyfriend. In that case, she is listed as the “victim.” As we’ve detailed in recent news stories, that man is accused of brutally beating the young woman inside a Warren home as two children, ages 2 and 8, watched in horror.
The woman was left with “bruises covering her arms, shoulders, chest and legs,” a Warren police report said, adding she was bleeding with both eyes swollen shut and what appeared to be multiple fractures in her face.
This wasn’t the first time she had been brutalized.
Court records list her as a victim of domestic violence in 2017, that time at the hands of a different man.
Police say the woman identified her most recent assailant as the man convicted in the 2017 case.
Now, police and court records indicate investigators believe that story was fabricated.
Shelly Bell, a specialist with the Ohio Domestic Violence Network in Columbus, told me it’s not at all uncommon, unfortunately, for a domestic violence survivor to end up on the other side of the law.
Bell said a victim can be charged if they defend themselves against an abuser or recants; if the abuser forces a victim to participate in crime or even if the victim flees with the children and is charged with kidnapping.
In the case at hand, it appears the woman is being charged because police believe she lied to them about her attacker.
Experts say when domestic violence victims change their stories or simply aren’t truthful with investigators, it often is due to being terrorized by the abuser.
Alicia Williamson, director of Domestic Violence and Visitation Services at Someplace Safe and Solace Center in Trumbull County, said she believes most victims who fail to cooperate do it simply because they fear more violence when their abuser is released from jail. Or it can be because they are so reliant on the abuser for financial support for her or her children.
Police and prosecutors, who are obligated and sincerely want to help victims, become frustrated by this seemingly illogical lack of cooperation. They historically have charged victims who change their stories or fail to appear in court when subpoenaed — all a tremendous waste of public resources.
This sad, vicious cycle goes on and on, until victims find the strength to break the control of the abuser. Sadly, that doesn’t always happen. Last year, Ohio saw 91 domestic violence deaths.
Statistics provided by Bell indicate that each minute, 24 people are victims of domestic violence, rape or stalking by an intimate partner.
Still, if a victim feels unsafe testifying, Bell believes it’s preferable for law enforcement to move forward without the victim’s testimony.
That makes the prosecution’s case much harder — juries aren’t likely to convict without victim testimony!
But charging a victim also is not going to guarantee her cooperation, and Bell says it can have a chilling opposite effect — leading victims to never again reach out for help due to fear of prosecution, or leading other victims who saw media coverage also to avoid seeking help.
In the end, the only way to break the vicious cycle is for these victims to find help.
The National Domestic Violence Hotline can help victims and survivors by calling 1-800-799-7233 or logging on www.thehotline. org.
And if you are a jailed survivor, Williamson and Bell suggest calling a defense attorney first, and then connecting that attorney with the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women (NCDBW) at 1-800-903-0111, Ext. 3.
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NCC says active lines increased to 129m In April
By The Citizen
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Friday said that active lines in the nation's telecommunications industry increased to 129,391,392 in April.
The commission made this known in the Monthly Subscribers Data, published on its Website.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the lines increased by 2,294,196 on the 127,097,196 recorded in the month of March.
According to the data, of the 129,391,392 active numbers, the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) networks service 126, 958,904 subscribers, as against the 124,884,842 customers recorded in March, having an increase of 2,074,062.
The Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators, who had 2,039,391 users in March, added 217,221; hence, having 2,256,612 subscribers in April.
Also, the subscribers' data showed that the Fixed Wired/Wireless networks' consumers reduced to 172,876 in April, after losing 87 of the 172,963 subscribers recorded in March.
The data also showed that the connected lines in the telecom operators' networks increased from 173,007,027 in March to 177,319,310 in April, thereby increasing by 4,312,283.
From the total connected lines, the GSM operators were able to connect an extra 4,318,158 to the 168,595,831 lines they had in March, hence increasing their connected numbers to 172,913,989 in April.
The CDMA networks lost 6,739 from the 4,083,672 lines in March, leaving them with 4,076,933 connected phone numbers in April.
The Fixed Wired/Wireless operators, with 327,524 connected numbers in March, added 864; thereby increasing to 328,388 connected lines in the month of April.
Also, the data revealed that the teledensity of the country's telecommunications industry increased to 92.42 per cent in April, from the 90.78 per cent in March.
The teledensity measures the percentage of a country's population with access to telecommunications services, as determined by the subscriber base.
Nigeria's teledensity is currently calculated by NCC on a population of 140 million people. (NAN)
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If you’re only spending 5 days in Tokyo, don’t fret – there’s a lot you can still see. Read this guide to learn more about how to maximize your precious time.
I left Tokyo after four years and felt like that still wasn’t enough time. But, if you’re only there for five days, there’s still a lot you can do.
If you want to maximize your time and get to know Tokyo on a truly more profound level, I recommend my book The Hidden Tokyo Neighborhood Guide. This guidebook goes into specific detail of nearly 30 of Tokyo’s top neighborhoods, organized by ward. Each section packs a brilliant list of Tokyo’s most hidden recommendations for things to see and places to eat. This guidebook is specifically designed to help you experience the best of this city in the most efficient possible way.
For each of these days, of course, you can change up the order.
Day 1 | Start the Day in The Shibuya Ward
The Shibuya Ward
The best place to start exploring is in the Shibuya Ward. You can easily spend the entire day and night here. The Shibuya Ward doesn’t just include Shibuya, but it’s also home to Daikanyama and Harajuku.
Train Stations: Shibuya Station, Meiji Jinju Mae, Harajuku & Daikanyama
I recommend starting the day in either the Daikanyama or Harajuku neighborhoods. These neighborhoods are best seen during the day and are perfect for some side-street exploring.
Daikanyama is one of Tokyo’s trendiest neighborhoods with some lovely places to brunch and boutique shop. Harajuku is of course on the younger and funkier side of Tokyo’s fashion scene. It’s where you can see the epicenter of Lolita fashion culture.
While in Harajuku, you can get off at Meiji Jinju Mae Station to see the Meiji Shrine. This is also right close to Harajuku’s main street, Takeshita Dori. So, spend an hour wandering my favorite shrine in Tokyo and then hit up Harajuku’s colorful neighborhood.
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Afterward, wander over to the more sophisticated neighborhoods of Omotesando and Aoyama. Lastly, end the night in Shibuya Crossing, where the nightlife filled and fun.
Day 2 | Exploring Shinjuku
The Shinjuku Ward
The Shinjuku Ward has some of Tokyo’s best free views and nightlife.
Train Stations: Shinjuku Station is the main station.
Shinjuku is ripe for exploring if you’re into photography. Tokyo’s Camera Town is located only a few minutes away from Shinjuku’s West Exit. You can find a hub of quality used camera shops where you can purchase new equipment tax-free.
Shinjuku is also home to some of Tokyo’s best free views, such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. Lastly, you can find some of the best nightlife in the city at both Omoide Yokocho and the famous Golden Gai. Here, you’ll find a dense network of local, small bars and yakitori stalls.
Day 3 | Take a Trip to Kamakura
Kamakura is the perfect day trip in Tokyo to get your fill of traditional Japanese culture and nature.
Train Station: Take the train Kamakura Station and explore the area on foot. There are bus options too if you’re not up for walking.
I don’t recommend a trip to Tokyo without seeing Kamakura. It’s one of the richest places in Japan in terms of culture and nature. You have some of the most beautiful hiking trails in Japan and outside of the city. There’s also a hub of Zen Buddhist temples to explore. Kamakura is the seat of the old shogunate as well as an epicenter of Zen Buddhism in Tokyo. Because of this, you can also find some of the best vegan and vegetarian food options due to monks’ dietary restrictions. You can find more of these recommendations in my book, The Hidden Tokyo Neighborhood Guide.
Day 4 | Explore Old Tokyo
Asakusa, Yanaka, Sumida
There’s a hub of Shitamachi (Old Tokyo) influence around the city to explore. These districts are the best for exploring this more nostalgic side of the city.
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Train Stations: Yanaka, Asakusa, Nihonbashi
One of the best parts of this city is its Shitamachi presence. You have one of the most modern cities in the world, and yet, you can also step back in time. Yanaka, Asakusa, and the Sumida neighborhoods offer a great experience. You can walk through old cemeteries, visit the Shitamachi Museum, or even go to a sumo match. Consult my guidebook for specific details on where to find the best experiences in each of these neighborhoods.
Day 5 | Roppongi's Art, Architecture & Nightlife
Roppongi is where you can find some of the city’s most modern architecture and best nightlife.
Train Station: Take the train to Roppongi Station
It’s hard to pick a favorite neighborhood in Tokyo, but Roppongi is up there precisely because it offers so much. You have some of the city’s finest modern architecture, art, and nightlife. It’s also one to my favorite view in all of Tokyo – The Mori Tower Observation Deck.
Take the train to Roppongi and get off at Tokyo Midtown Mall. You’ll find yourself in one of the most beautifully designed pieces of architecture in the city. Lastly, The National Art Center is a must-see – and it’s free. Just wander inside and prepare to gasp in awe of the architecture.
Like most complex things in life, it’s easy to oversimplify its complexity without knowing it. That’s precisely why I wrote The Hidden Tokyo Neighborhood Guidebook. I’ve designed this book to leave you actually knowing Tokyo – the most complex city in the world. Learn more.
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Jitender Wins Trial, Bags Chance to End Sushil’s Olympic Dream
Sushil Kumar’s rival Jitender Kumar won the 74kg trial to qualify for the season-opener in Italy and the Asian Championship in Delhi.(Photo: UWW)
PTI Updated: 04.01.20
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Sushil Kumar’s rival Jitender Kumar won the 74kg national trial to compete in the season-opener in Italy and the Asian Championships.
Sushil pulled out of the trial due to an injury.
The women’s trial will take place on Saturday in Lucknow.
Jitender Kumar earned a chance to shut the door on Sushil Kumar's hopes of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympic by winning the 74kg trials for the season-opener in Italy and the Asian Championships on Friday.
However to compete at the Tokyo Olympic qualification event, Jitender will have to impress the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) with medal-winning performances in Rome and New Delhi.
World Championship stars Deepak Punia (86kg) and Ravi Dahiya (57kg) did not have to break much sweat as they were given direct entries in the final which they won easily. They had earned their Olympic quotas at the World Championship in Nur-Sultan. Sumit Malik (125kg) and Satyawart Kadian (97kg) also locked their places with smart victories over their opponents in the men's freestyle trials.
Competing in the most competitive category of the day, Jitender prevailed 5-2 in the final against Amit Dhankar while Sushil pulled out of the trails due to a hand injury.
The WFI had earlier announced that winner of the Friday's trials will compete at the ranking series event in Italy (January 15-18), Asian Championships in New Delhi (February 18-23) and also the Asian Olympic qualifiers in Xian (March 27-29) but its president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh said they can hold fresh trials ahead of the Xian event.
“If we find that performances of our wrestlers is not satisfying at the first two events, we can have fresh trials to select wrestlers for the Asian Olympic qualifier. We want to send our best wrestler, so that India can have maximum number of quotas for Olympics,”
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, President - WFI
Sushil had beaten Jitender in a bitterly-fought trial bout for the World Championships in September 2019. The WFI has made it clear that if Jitender does well in the upcoming two events, Sushil won't be considered.
"If we are happy with performance of our wrestlers in Olympic categories, where we have not got the quota, we will not have trials. As for Sushil, no one will be allowed to go for Olympic qualifiers, without having to compete in trials. He said he is injured, so we have to believe in him," he added.
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Jitender Trumped Dhankar
Amit Dhankar impressed till the final. His moves from the headlock position and counter attack was very impressive but the seasoned grappler lacked stamina.
Jitender, who had the habit of conceding early lead, was aggressive from the beginning. His defence too looked much better.
“I have worked on my attacking game in the last few months. Mentally too, I am better after working with Shako Bentinidis (Bajrang Punia’s coach). I have curbed this habit of wiping out the leads later on in the second period.”
Jitender Kumar
His coach Jaiveer said Jitender had a mental block, going against wrestlers, to whom he has lost but has improved on this count.
"We prepared him to be aggressive from the beginning. He was asked to practice short sprint (20m, 10m) for increased speed. He was also asked to make 'holds' carefully and strong. The defeat against Sushil in the World trials had hurt us all.
"But he needs to improve more to stand a chance to get Olympic qualification slot. He can do it, we are confident," the coach added.
In the other bouts, Deepak quelled the challenge of Pawan Saroha 6-2 while Ravi Dahiya ended his final against Rahul in the first period itself with a flurry of rolls.
Satyawart beat Mausam Khatri by technical superiority while Sumit defeated Satender 9-0.
Trials were not held in 65kg with WFI exempting Olympic medal hope Bajramg Punia from trials.
From among the Greco Roman style wrestlers, Gurpreet Singh (77kg) expectedly won, beating Sajan Bhanwal.
Gyanender (60kg), Ashu (67kg), Sunil (87kg), Hardeep (97kg) and Naveen (130kg) also booked their places in the Indian squad.
The women's trials will be held on Saturday in Lucknow.
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UPDATE: “Hateful Idol” stunt angers singer's Holocaust-denying fans
David MenziesMission Specialist
"Hateful Idol" singer Mohammed Assaf visited London, Ontario recently to perform in a city-owned venue.
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Watch as I speak with a few shockingly candid attendees.
David. Next time you do something like this, take printed pages from Facebook and show it to the ppl you’re interviewing. As for the gent that wanted to play the relativism game about the holocaust, some questions about evidence and victims still alive today might have helped!
Good effort David but you have to stand your ground better going forward. That security guard had no authority to kick you off the ppty, and you should’ve stood your ground. Be prepared to be arrested, it won’t stick and it’s they that will look like the authoritarians that they are in the end. You stood up to him when he touched you, you shoulda done the same when he told you where you could stand.
Keith and Helen Harvey commented 2017-10-11 23:36:29 -0400
Good luck getting a Muslim to admit to the Truth.
Bravo Zulu you are so right and you can see with the City of London’s response that as they turn our country into the shit hole they left, ours is starting to smell a little more each day.
Evelina Silveira you used the correct word “COWARDICE” and there’s going to be a lot more of it when that Nazi Legislation M103 is made law.
We are going to regret letting these people into Canada, their reality is so far removed from the truth it truly is scary. And we continue to take in more of these anti Canadian, anti Jew, anti Christian, anti gay, anti woman, anti freedom, anti peace extremists that are Muslim. And when they are approached with the truth they immediately build their anger which fuels their hate, blossoming into violence. They are like rabid dogs and lose all control. The day WILL come when this WILL explode into an internal conflict Canada has never been exposed to.
The last guy before the two girls, the denier who thinks Israel exterminated its own people, says doesn’t care about Hamas? Hamas is what is getting Palestinians killed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8bwiour-iM
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Woman Used As Human Shield Reacts To Hamas’ Strategy
“Palistinians have perfected using children to win the worlds sympathy”
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’Some bomb shelters shelter people. Some shelter bombs.
Why do they not protect their citizens? Why do they put them on roof tops of buildings they are firing rockets from? Why do they shoot from Hospitals?, why do they use children as human shields? This is what gets civilians killed. There is no military in the world more conscious of human collateral than Israel. They warn for civilians to evacuate before any retaliation, Hamas keeps them in harms way.
This guy and all of those people think we are stupid. They are taking advantage of our hospitality and insulting us. They should take their taqiyya back to Palestine. We don’t need them spreading their poison here.
Canada was a free country until Islam. It is not a free country anymore.
Evelina Silveira commented 2017-10-11 21:55:01 -0400
I am completely disgusted by the cowardice of City Hall and the double-standard they have demonstrated when it comes to tackling issues of hate. When it comes to Islam they want to silence citizens even in peaceful non-hateful demonstrations, but when it comes to preventing a holocaust denier from having a concert —they are mute. They are antisemitic losers who only care about getting into office and have no problem ignoring the Jewish community because it is so small. Any diversity/ race relations initiatives at City Hall consistently leave out antisemitism yet they have no problem with supporting a anti-Islamaphobia charter. When it comes to systemic discrimination against Jews, the Corporation of the City of London comes out on top!
Bravo Zulu commented 2017-10-11 21:43:23 -0400
As I have seen in many other countries – they come to take and at the same time turn their new home in to the same schitte hole they left behind.
Deport the lot of them and shut the doors.
(The above comment would probably get me arrested in the UK and will likely do the same in Canada within the next two years.)
I have said it before and I will say it again. Allowing Islam into our country is the biggest mistake Canada will ever make.
These people wouldn’t know respect for Canadian values if you spelled it out to them. They are disrespecting everything we stand for in this country by spewing their hatred here. If you cannot leave your hate at the door don’t bloody well come here!
I hope that guy who agrees it is okay to defend your home against occupiers remembers that when he is shown the door. How can we be allowing such bloody hateful people into our country. We should keep their ignorant hatred of Jews and Israel the hell out of our borders. This makes me sick and seething.
James Richardson,‘some bad mojo’ is right!
Carole Masse you can say that again!
Clearly Islam is a problem in Canada and promises to be much more of a problem in the future. Not compatible, should not be here.
Edward Jobin commented 2017-10-11 21:05:13 -0400
I wish every Canadian had the opportunity to watch this then they might understand the push the government has to try to silence the critics of the religion of peace.
Elton Braun commented 2017-10-11 19:06:12 -0400
Until a few short decades ago there was no such thing as Palestinians. They were simply called Arabs just as all the rest of the people in the Near and Middle East who weren’t Jews. When it became apparent that all the Arab countries surrounding Israel wanted to annihilate them and indeed tried in 1967, they realized they would never get the world’s sympathy because Israel was the obvious underdog and vastly outnumbered. Therefore they designated all Arabs still living in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank as Palestinians so they could be identified as the new underdogs being a smaller group than the mean old Israelis.
James Richardson: Frightening and leaves one feeling powerless.
Years ago I hired a young Muslim university student as my assistant, wonderful young woman; this gave her a start. She didn’t think this way, but in retrospect, now I realize though she didn’t feel or think this way, she was afraid. I’m afraid to say I would not do that now. Things were different then.
James Richardson, excellent post!
James Richardson commented 2017-10-11 17:08:16 -0400
This is some bad mojo. If you do not know who or what B’nai Brith is then you may not understand the true state of crap we are in. B’nai Brith is a Jewish rights group who are always on the lookout for anti Israeli anti Jew sentiment. They are powerful and have been a force in the past. A few years back they had a man Earnest Zundel deported from Canada because he was a holocaust denier who has been living here for decades.
But this group is/was powerless to do anything about this POS who advocates death of Jews and the destruction of Israel. Muslims have such a free reign now in Canada that these hate filled womanizers can preach their hate openly and without fear of the laws of the land. Speech that would have the rest of us charged with hate crimes. M103 has emboldened these haters to a level we have not seen in Canada. But I guess if you have the leader of this country defending you, you may feel empowered.
If B’nai Brith can not stop this hate from entering Canada we are truly screwed.
Donald Bennett commented 2017-10-11 15:56:16 -0400
And this is what Trudeau allowed in our country ! Sad..
Al Peterson, good question.
Space Moose, why didn’t you just not watch the video since the word “petition” is in the title?
Ah, the joys of multiculturalism. Bringing these old world hatreds to life over here. So now we can look forward to the Canadian intifada. Those who speak against it will be jailed when M-103 becomes a law.
Dan Mancuso commented 2017-10-11 14:22:26 -0400
Menzoid, if you were trying to produce a sense of fear/rage/frustration in us Canadians in regards to our Islam problem – you were successful!
Karan Singh commented 2017-10-11 14:06:56 -0400
CAROLE MASSE commented: “If Jews are the occupiers of foreign land and Palestinians must defend their land, then Canadians must defend their land too against islam occupiers such as all those people”.
If Jews are the occupiers of foreign land and Palestinians must defend their land, then Canadians must defend their land too against islam occupiers such as all those people. Remember, the hate they all have for Jews is at the same level of their hatred towards Christians. One day, they will openly show it all. They are hate-filled people and they all showed it in a very disrespecful and bordering violent way. I have personnally learned from life experience that the best way to respond to that kind of attitude is to be more aggressive than the aggressor. Being polite and subdued to a bully is suicidal.
J Kay commented 2017-10-11 13:14:40 -0400
Basically we have two sets of laws in Canada: One law that allows Muslims and their supporters to say/do/be violent in whichever way they choose. Eg, David got hit in the face by a Muslim woman at Toronto City Hall a couple of years ago, because he was taking photos. She wasn’t charged because she was only trying to destroy his camera, not hit him. The Edmonton Muslim terrorist we now find isn’t a terrorist at all, simply an ordinary criminal. Imams can preach Jew hatred, rallies like Al-Quds can preach Jew hatred and it’s no biggie. But let someone like David Menzies try to ask people on public property about the same kind of hateful messages, that’s not allowed and if he caused trouble about it, the full force of the law would come down on him. Look what happened to Kevin J Johnston!
Space Moose commented 2017-10-11 12:32:38 -0400
I stopped watching the video the moment Menzies mentioned petition. I am so sick of these rebel petitions.
From the crowd of hundreds of muslims I tried hard to differentiate between ‘moderate, peaceful muslim’ & ‘extremist, radical, jihadist muslim’, couldn’t discern any. None of the women wore niqab/burka, all spoke english, drove cars men didn’t had long beards or wore arabic garb, all the signs of moderate, peaceful muslim-canadians but for one crucial detail; all carried the same hateful, poisonous, violent views against jews & non-muslims like their violent jihadist brothers.
One young guy played ignorance on the hateful, violence supporting FB posts of mohammed assaf that was a very fine live example of ‘Taqiyya’. Another mohammedan hide behind our canadian law of ‘freedom of speech’ while denying holocaust & violence against jews but the same mohammedans don’t want others Canadians to exercise their right to freedom of speech to criticize islam or muslim terrorism.
More examples of why motion M-103 should be defeated & eliminated once and for all.
Paul Taylor commented 2017-10-11 12:15:39 -0400
The Clown Prince of the Muslims, Justin Mohammed Trudeaup must be so proud. Look at what he’s done to Canada in such a short time.
I always enjoy watching David Menzies in action. he has a great sense of humor and is serious when needed. Two of the funniest comments I thought from some of these commenters he interviewed was the guy who tried to claim the Jews in Israel were responsible for the holocaust. Really? I think they would be a little old if there are any still alive to add one more layer of insanity to his conspiracy b.s. bigotry. The other comment I thought was amusing was the girls claiming he wanted to protect women like you would protect jewels from the public and yet he doesn’t mind displaying his family’s jewels.
David Menzies, excellent report. Please keep us updated re: City Council and the petition.
Hateful Idol is a very accurate title for this singer/purveyor of Islamic extremism. The fans agree with Assaf, and, bring their children to idolize hatred. I find it very disturbing this person was given a Visa to enter Canada & London City Council shut down a peaceful protest of people who value free speech and oppose M-103.
What this country has come to; such hateful, bigoted, xenophobic people like mohammedans now call themselves ‘Canadians’.
I guess in 21st century we’ve lost Canada.
Clarke Oak commented 2017-10-11 11:49:56 -0400
Great job David…thanks for doing this! I also appreciate how unpleasant it must be to deal with the volatile energy and heinous views offered by most of those interviewed in your report. The "precious jewel in a box " metaphor took the cake. Pathetic and frightening to see youth so brainwashed and unable to articulate a logical response when presented with brutal truth. The women are as bad as their male counterparts.
I called London City Hall before the long weekend asking for a rational explanation as to how they could issue a permit to this hateful lounge act. They were about as useful as ‘Shrek’ the security guard was to Menzoid in the video.
David Nuspl commented 2017-10-11 11:45:30 -0400
Such wonderful contributors to our society. Jews are evil Israel is occupied land of Palestine Jews caused theholocaust jews are baby killers. These are the scum we let in? There are no “moderate” Muslims. Just Muslims. They can profess their hatred of jews but if i was to profess my hatred of Muslims I’d be labeled a racist islamophobe. Actually I welcome their anti semetic opinions. Maybe the more people who hear their bullshit the more people will open their eyes to what islam really is. No more muslims.
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Acting BBC DG Tim Davie ends his interview with Sky News by walking off..
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Updated on Monday 12 November 2012 by @TVNewsroom
The acting Director-General of the BBC, Tim Davie, ended his interview with Sky News this afternoon by walking off..
The live interview, conducted by Dermot Murnaghan, ran for seven and half minutes before the DG said: “Anyway, I will go now, because I’ve got a lot to do.
“The BBC is taking action, that’s what we’re going to do.. I’ve got a job and I am going to get on with it.. Thank you Dermot!”
“Are more heads going to roll Mr. Davie?” said Dermot..
“Thank you!,” came Tim’s reply as he walked away from Sky’s camera position..
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UPDATE: in the last few minutes the BBC Press office said: “DG did not walk off from his interview with Sky. Interview overran, clashing with other interviews.”
Lucy Manning, ITV News’ UK Editor, also echoed the BBC line, saying: “Not sure Davie actually stormed off. Sky had v long intv & we & others were waiting..”
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The BBC and Sky Sports have been awarded the live rights to Formula 1 in the UK between 2012 and 2018.
The new rights deal will see all races, qualifying and practice sessions live on Sky Sports.
The BBC will show half the races and qualifying sessions, including the British Grand Prix, Monaco Grand Prix and the final race of the season. The BBC will also show extensive highlights of all races and qualifying sessions that BBC is not covering live.
And build-up coverage of each Grand Prix on BBC News, Sky Sports News and Sky News.
Barbara Slater, Director of BBC Sport, said: “We are absolutely delighted that F1 will remain on the BBC. The sport has never been more popular with TV audiences at a 10 year high and the BBC has always stated its commitment to the big national sporting moments. With this new deal not only have we delivered significant savings but we have also ensured that through our live and extended highlights coverage all the action continues to be available to licence fee payers.”
Barney Francis, Managing Director of Sky Sports, said: “This is fantastic news for F1 fans and Sky Sports will be the only place to follow every race live and in HD. We will give F1 the full Sky Sports treatment with a commitment to each race never seen before on UK television. As well as unrivalled build up to each race on Sky Sports News, we will broadcast in-depth live coverage of every session. Sky customers with Sky Sports will also be able to enjoy F1 across multiple platforms and devices, including Sky Go.”
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Ciara Mageean in medal contention as UCD runner cruises into 1500m final at European championships
Posted 10 August, 2018
UCD graduate Ciara Mageean qualified for the 1500m final with time of 4.09.35, coming second in her heat.
The Donegal native is among the top female Irish athletes in the European rankings.
She one of only three Irish female track athletes to recieve a European Championship medal, winning bronze in 2016.
Track & field star Ciara Mageean has comfortably qualified for the 1500m final at the European Championships.
Placing second in her heat, the UCD Ad Astra athlete clocked in at 4.09.35 behind Great Britain's Laura Muir – who finished with a time of 4.09.12.
A podium finish at the championships is now on the cards for the 26-year-old from County Down.
A cool 4:09.35 from @ciaramageean is good enough for second behind Laura Muir and a place in the 1500 metres final at #Berlin2018 #EuropeanChampionships2018 #RTEsport pic.twitter.com/zMEcNbMgU0
— RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) August 10, 2018
The former student of the School of Physiotherapy is likely Ireland’s best chance for a medal at the six-day long competition in Berlin, having previous won bronze at the competition in Amsterdam in 2016.
The Portaferry women is one of only three Irish female athletes, alongside Sonia O'Sullivan and Derval O'Rourke, to have won a European Championship medal, and is confident she can repeat the feat.
“I don’t come into a championship unless I believe I’m going to go and give 100% and hopefully that will reap the rewards that I want,” Mageean told RTÉ Sport after her heat.
“It’s going to be a tough race out there so hopefully give a good account of myself.”
Mageean runs in the final at 8pm on Sunday.
Quality morning performance by @ciaramageean and into the 1500 final pic.twitter.com/P8EWL63qJG
— Athletics Ireland (@irishathletics) August 10, 2018
Elsewhere Mark English, from the School of Medicine, was eliminated in 800m heats despite a season’s best time of 1.48.98.
A dejected English said after his race that things hadn’t click how he’d wanted them to “but sometimes that’s the way it goes”.
“I wasn’t feeling the best around [the National Championships last month], but niggles are part and parcel for every athlete, you get up and get over them,” he told RTÉ.
‘Sometimes it just doesn’t click,’ and unfortunately it was one of those days for Mark English pic.twitter.com/KV2e9SOn2j
— Athletics Ireland (@irishathletics) August 9, 2018
“I suppose not being on form can sometimes be a very powerful weapon, but today just got away from me too soon.”
UCD Smurfit School student Claire Mooney and her team were eighth in their semi-final heat in the women’s 400m relay.
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THE MAJOR TOURIST AREAS of Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Cozumel, Mexico, escaped relatively unscathed from the fury of Hurricane Dean, which made landfall as a Category 5 storm near Costa Maya and Majahual, some 225 miles south of Cancun. Tourists had largely evacuated the three major coastal areas by the time Dean roared ashore before dawn Tuesday, with some 75,000 tourists fleeing by air or to more secure areas inland by car or charter busses, according to the Mexico Tourism Board. Those who couldn't or decided not to get out rode out the storm in their hotels or at the airports. Hotels in Mexico are mostly open for business and reported minimal damage, and airlines are making their return to the affected areas. Resorts in Cancun, Cozumel and Playa del Carmen that did sustain damage reported mostly broken windows and blown sand. Damage to Costa Maya, the Mexican cruise port near the border of Belize where Hurricane Dean made landfall, is still being assessed, said Cesar Lizarraga, Costa Maya's director of sales and marketing. Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, the Mexican airport group that operates several of the country's top airports, said the Cancun, Cozumel and Merida airports have resumed operations and reported minimal or no damage.
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7 BEST Destinations in France for Foodies
If you happen to be a person with a fancy for #food and if you were to stop by the West of Europe then France might just be the best spot for you! With a blend of cultures and its own regional specialties, the country proves to be a foodie's retreat. Whether you are a food lover or a music lover, a trip to France can be the most satisfying in life.
Grand opera houses, amazing museums, chateaus, churches, cathedrals, and pilgrimage sites take you to a surreal world. Art and culture are ingrained in every small place of this country. It is the place where fashion reigns supreme, and the famed Cannes film festival is held. The rolling hill slopes, bewitching beaches, and bustling markets create long-lasting memories.
Here are the top foodie cities that France is a host to:
Located in the north of France and right near the border of Belgium, Lille is one of the top-notch sites of tourist attention, predominantly famous for their cuisine. The city’s food is well known for a blend of beer and meat. Carbonnade de boeuf (beer-stewed beef), Coq à la bière (beer-stewed chicken) are two of the most relished dishes one can try while on a trip to Lille.
The best restaurants at Lille get their meat from the historic butcher’s shop turned bistro Le Barbier Lillois. Two of the best restaurants you must visit while at Lille are Estaminet Au Vieux de la Vieille, and certainly A L'Huîtrière, prized for its artistic interiors.
2. Reims
The unofficial capital of French champagne is located in the north-eastern part of the nation. Apart from being a home to perceptive Gothic architecture and also the famous Notre-dame de Reims, the city is also a leading dealer in champagne. Reims provides to its admirers some of the best forms of whiskey, Weller Bourbon in particular.
Reims has a wide number of first-class restaurants, including four Michelin starred eateries and the remarkable seafood restaurants Le Foch and Le Millénaire.
3. Grenoble
Sitting at the foot of the French Alps, Grenoble, a city in the south-east of France, brings to the people a blend of the Swiss, Alpine and Italian delicacies. The city accounts for fifty percent of the total walnut production of France, owing to its regional walnut orchards. Grenoble takes pride in its regional specialty, Gratin Dauphinois, a creamy potato gratin that offers a mouth-watering experience to the customers.
The best restaurants, namely La Madelon, appraised for their zonal food, and Les Terrasses, which has two Michelin stars, is in the heart of the city. Grenoble is also a host to many affordable restaurants with decent budget options. La Fondue is one such restaurant providing the finest traditional dishes at fairly reasonable prices.
Located in north-eastern France, the Alsatian capital is a goldmine of history and heritage. The food here comes with a German influence. The use of sweet onions in starter dishes is a marked German stamp. The tarte flambée tops the list of the Alsatian foodies. It is fundamentally a pizza with a pastry base that comes with several combinations – like cheese, smoked ham, onions, créme fraîche and other fan favourites.
The city is host to four exquisite restaurants with Michelin stars- Buerehiesel, Vieille Enseigne, Au Crocodile and Julien. S'kaechele and Pizz'arôme are some of the other noteworthy restaurants around the city.
Here there are many cafes and restaurants that prepare typical Alsatian specialties such as cocido or baeckeoffe, sauerkraut (fermented cabbage and accompanied by sausages or bacon), flammeküche, a kind of pizza with cheese, onion and mushrooms, and fleishnacka, a roll of pasta stuffed with minced meat and stewed, which is served cut into slices and served with green salad.
If you like good cuisine, in Alsace you can enjoy a wide variety of pastries, such as Pain d'épice (Alsatian Gingerbread with spices) and brédalas, small biscuits typical of the Saint Nicholas Day (December 6) during the winter in France.
The traditional cuisine is based on the Germanic culinary tradition, as it often uses pork, but also has foie gras, snails, honey and fresh cream without forgetting the many wines of denomination or the beers. Go into any Winstub and discover the Alsatian gastronomy and the french onion soup.
The third-largest city of France is often a go-to destination of a foodie. Located close to Grenoble, Lyon exhibits a mixture in the food it serves to its visitors. The city is characterized by bouchons- small but lively restaurants that were set up in the 1930s.
Some of the best ones include Café Comptoir Abel and Chez Georges. Salade lyonnaise, Quenelles de Brochet and tablier de sapeur are some of the best dishes one can try, while at Lyon.
Did you expect an article on the best foodie cities of France would be without the capital? Paris is a host to thousands of tourists from different corners of the globe and it wouldn’t remain a delight if it failed to satisfy the tongues of people. Already a perfect spot for a dinner date with your partner, the city is also a masterclass in the food it serves.
The City of lights has abundance in every form of food that a foodie would desire. It also has its own specialties, which include- pastries, crêpes, crème brûlée, camembert and good, old liquor.
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7. Annecy
You will also find some typical French shops with delicious cold cuts of Haute Savoie and cheese. Yes, there is an excellent ice cream parlor in Annecy. Desserts, like tiramisu, are pretty good too! Annecy is also the perfect place to eat a good tartiflette, croziflette, cheese fondue, savoie diots (sausages) or, of course, lake fish like perch, trout or arctic trout.
Apart from the ones mentioned, there are several other French cities which serve the people with the best food and never fail to impress a foodie! So, plan your trip to France soon.
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Burri Collection in Albizzini Palace - Città di Castello
Burri Collection in Albizzini Palace
The Collezione Burri has its premises inside Palazzo Albizzini, right in the historical city center of Città di Castello. This 15 century palace has a sober Renaissance architectural look of Florentine influence
The records of the Albizzini family remount to the 14 century; in fact members of this family have been prominent protagonists in the historical events of the town. Their altar inside the Church of San Francesco, held Raphael's Wedding of the Virgin altarpiece—today displayed at the Brera Art Gallery in Milan.
This important museum of contemporary art has been open to the public since 1981 and collects 130 works of art of Alberto Burri (1915-1995) dating between 1948 and 1989. They are displayed in 20 rooms, and subdivided—and chronologically ordered by the artist himself—into four sections: paintings, sculptures, graphics and scenography.
The exhibition covers two floors of the building, and entirely retraces Burri's artistic experience; from the outset up until the most complex and abstract works, where the often torn-off and "suffering-matter", becomes a work of art in itself. The attention of the artist towards the transformation of matter—both natural or induced—directly exercised on materials such as tar, sacking, woods, iron and plastics by the artist himself, recalls his scientific background-in fact Burri graduated in Medical Science in 1940.
The theatrical scenographic sketches are also of great interest; in fact, the artist signed scenes and costumes for an edition of Wagner's Tristan and Iseult, staged at the Teatro Regio of Turin, La Fenice of Venice and the Opera of Rome in 1975. The works of large dimension, subdivided into cycles, are exhibited at the Former Tobacco Drying Plant—Ex Seccatoi del Tabacco.
For information and tickets:
http://www.fondazioneburri.org/informazioni/biglietti.html
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Democrats threaten to skip LA debate over union dispute
Danielle Haynes
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said they wouldn't cross a picket line to participate in Thursday's debate at Loyola Marymount University. Photo by Tami Chappell/UPI | License Photo
Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Several Democratic candidates for president threatened Friday to skip next week's debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in response to a union dispute at the school.
The Unite Here Local 11 union, which represents some 150 cooks, dishwashers, cashiers and servers at the school, is involved in contract negotiations with Sodexo, the company that runs Loyola Marymount's food service.
Collective bargaining negotiations began in March, and workers and students began picketing at the school in November.
"We had hoped that workers would have a contract with wages and affordable health insurance before the debate next week," said Susan Minato, co-president of Local 11. "Instead, workers will be picketing when the candidates come to campus."
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Several of the candidates expected to participate in Thursday's debate said they wouldn't cross the picket line.
Unite Here Local 11 "is fighting for better wages and benefits -- and I stand with them," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., tweeted. The Democratic National Committee "should find a solution that lives up to our party's commitment to fight for working people. I will not cross the union's picket line even if it means missing the debate."
"We've got to stand together with @UniteHere11 for affordable health care and fair wages. A job is about more than just a paycheck. It's about dignity," former Vice President Joe Biden added.
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The five other candidates who qualified for the debate -- South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, philanthropist Tom Steyer and entrepreneur Andrew Yang -- also agreed not to cross the picket line. Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro also expressed support for the union, though he didn't qualify for the debate.
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FOLSOM TYLER L
CW3 Tyler L Folsom was a VHPA member who died after his tour in Vietnam on 02/10/2018 at the age of 71.7
O Brien, FL
Flight Class 69-13
Served in the U.S. Army
Served in Vietnam with 118 AHC in 69-70
Call sign in Vietnam THUNDERBIRD 25
This information was provided by Sammie Williams-obit
More detail on this person: Tyler Lee Folsom, Sr.,71, of O'Brien, FL, passed away Saturday, February 10, 2018 in the Suwannee Valley Care Center, Lake City, Fl. The Mayo, FL native moved to O'Brien 15 years ago from Mayo, Fl. He was a U.S. Army veteran serving in the Vietnam Era, a member of the American Legion, Mayo, Fl, a member of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilot Association and of Baptist faith. Mr. Folsom is survived by his wife of 48 years: Karen R. Folsom, O’Brien, Fl; Two sons: Tyler (Emily) Folsom, Suwannee County, Fl and Eric (Yvonne) Folsom, Fort Walton Beach, Fl; One sister: Gail (Frank) Garrard, Mayo, Fl; Two brothers: Manuel (Frances) Folsom, Sr. and Walter (Ruth) Folsom, Sr. both of Mayo, Fl; Five grandchildren: Hunter, Wesley, Kady, Michael and Leah Folsom. He was preceded in death by sisters: Mary Bates and Frankie Nail; Brothers: Paremore Folsom, Jr. and Filmore Folsom. Memorial Services will be held at 11:00 am, Saturday, February 17th at Daniels Memorial Chapel, Branford, FL. A visitation will be prior to the service from 10 - 11 am.
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Carmelo Anthony Launches New Watch Lifestyle Magazine
April 24, 2013 - 4:08 pm by Christopher Harris
Carmelo Anthony believes his time is now.
The New York Knicks star recently claimed the NBA's scoring title, averaging a league high of 28.7 points-per-game with his team currently ahead of the Boston Celtics in the first round of the playoffs. On Monday (Apr. 22), Anthony launched a luxury bi-annual, watch lifestyle magazine titled Haute Time.
Melo's column includes commentary on timepiece trends, styles and new products. His "Watch of the Day" feature for the mag can be seen on his Instagram.
“Whether you’re at the start of your journey or you’re already a collector, Haute Time will get your heart racing,” Anthony stated in a press release. The publication marks Anthony's first stint as a publisher.
Haute Time will available in four major cities including New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco and online at www.hautetime.com. Coverage will also include NFL, NBA, and MLB locker rooms, private jets, and distributed to around 14,000 homes over $5 million in value—in addition to over 500 luxury watch boutiques worldwide.
Motivational speaker Tonny Robbins covers the magazine's debut issue.
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Beyoncè’s Ivy Park x Adidas Collaboration Is Already A Major Success
The internet has been buzzing with anticipation for Beyonce’s new Ivy Park x Adidas collaboration so its no surprise that the line sold out in a day. Pre-sale items from the new collection, and Bey’s first with Adidas after dropping Top Shop and becoming the sole owner, went on sale on Friday (Jan. 17). By the end of the day, the only items still available were Ivy Park socks and even those were sold out by Saturday.
The line consists of an orange burgundy and off-white color pallet and includes track pants, jackets, hoodies, dresses, sneakers, bras, bodysuits, cycling shorts, fanny packs, and more.
Live on https://t.co/SDScvRTZ6p 12 PM PST pic.twitter.com/ozhQd1chIx
— BEYONCÉ (@Beyonce) January 17, 2020
Beyoncé for adidas x IVY PARK.#adidasxIVYPARK pic.twitter.com/jnBa6OEfCI
“My team has worked hard with the adidas team in bringing my vision to life for the first collection and I am grateful and proud,” Bey said in a statement last year. “From the accessories to the clothes and footwear, I wanted to design and re-imagine pieces that serve as favorite armor for anyone who acknowledges the strength in their individual style and lives freely and boldly.”
Prior to the launch, Bey gifted some of her celebrity friends and family members including her mother, Tina Lawson, Kelly Rowland, Yara Shihidi, Janelle Monae, Ciara, and stylist June Ambrose, with the entire Ivy Park x Adidas collection.
Portions of the collection are still available at select Adidas stores, as well as Nordstorm, Bloomingdale’s, ASOSA, Finish Line and Foot Locker.
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Dutch Lingerie Designer Accused Of Stealing Rihanna's 'Savage x Fenty' Show Concept
They say nothing is new under the sun and while fashion has reminded us of this over time, some inspirations are hard to ignore.
On Monday (Jan 13), Dutch designer Marlies Dekkers revealed her new 2020 collection with a gathering of dancers, a viral rapper and a very familiar stage step up that has fans of Rihanna's Savage x Fenty collection outraged.
The show bears a striking similarity to Rihanna's Savage x Fenty show which took place in Brooklyn, New York in September 2019. The presentation took a lot of creative risks as dancers, models, actors, and rappers walked throughout a Romanesque stage set with plenty of stairs to include moments for elaborate dance numbers and performances by Halsey, Normani, Big Sean and Migos.
As visuals from the Marlies Dekkers show made their way to social media, fans quickly pointed out the similarities. For one, the stage set up is slightly familiar as white stairs and antique rounded Roman door openings were presented on the stage. The similarities in creative concepts continue with groups of dancers wearing Marlies Dekkers lingerie as artist Famke Louise took the stage. Colors that divided segments also seem to be featured in the show. To make things more awkward, a mix of Rihanna's "Rude Boy" was heard during the show.
Savage x Fenty 2019:
Marlies Dekkers 2020:
DID THEY JUST LITERALLY STEAL THE SAVAGEX CONCEPT? pic.twitter.com/VuObKhINHO
— ✨ (@marleyaq) January 14, 2020
Every one is a suspect @marliesdekkers #ss20 #fw20 pic.twitter.com/YZ8RIP5zkC
— tanja neckebroeck (@TanjaNecke) January 13, 2020
Dekkers has yet to comment on the comparisons. Dekkers launched her collection Undressed in 1993. Sold in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Paris, Bangkok, Berlin and Moscow, Dekkers brought the brand to the US with a show in New York in 2008. Guests included a young Solange, Kelly Rowland and Usher.
Meanwhile, Fenty x Savage has released new looks featuring Joan Smalls and Paloma Elsesser. The collection is a sweet ode to Valentine's Day with Rihanna participating in the fun as well.
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'The Flash' season 3 release date, spoilers: Production begins in Vancouver;...
J.Paclibar - July 8, 2016
The CW's "The Flash" has gone back into production and some of the stars have shared the behind-the-scenes happenings during their first day filming...
'The Flash' season 3 spoilers: Carlos Valdes remains mysterious about Cisco's...
J.Paclibar - June 6, 2016
After season 2 of "The Flash" featured Cisco having a pair of working Vibe goggles that helps him focus his power, fans are said...
'The Flash' season 3 news: Tom Cavanagh to portray Earth-1 Harrison...
J.Paclibar - May 31, 2016
When The CW's superhero "The Flash" returns to the small screens for season 3, fans may see a different version of Tom Cavanagh. According to...
'The Flash' season 2 spoilers: Carlos Valdes talks Laurel and Black...
H.Reyes - May 1, 2016
"The Flash" actor Carlos Valdes discussed the upcoming appearance of Katie Cassidy as the Earth 2 counter part of their fallen friend and what...
'The Flash' season 2 news: Zoom's painful Earth-2 backstory and megalomaniac...
J.Paclibar - April 14, 2016
When The CW's superhero series "The Flash" returns after its short hiatus next week, fans will finally find out why Zoom, also known as...
'The Flash' season 2 episode 14 spoilers: Barry, Wells and Cisco...
M.Condez - February 11, 2016
After Barry (Grant Gustin), Cisco (Carlos Valdes) and Wells (Tom Cavanagh) visited Earth-2 to assist the latter in rescuing his daughter from Zoom, they now...
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COMMENTARY: Parental nightmares in public schools
Valley Morning Star Editorials
By BRENT BOZELL and TIM GRAHAM, Special to the Star
Public schools are reopening for business across America, meaning it’s time to get back to reading, writing, arithmetic … and revolution.
As usual in matters such as these, California is leading the way.
On the first day of classes at Denair Middle School near Modesto, science teacher Luis Davila Alvarado handed out a worksheet from a transgender advocacy group titled “The Gender Unicorn” asking students about their “gender identity,” “gender expression” and their sexual and emotional attractions.
These are children. And yet the teacher did not ask permission to hand the worksheet out. Most parents were outraged. The school estimated about 50 children received the worksheet. It turns out Alvarado was educating the children about his own life. He declared he rejects the term “Mr.” and prefers to be addressed with the newfangled “Mx.” pronounced “Mix.” A school official quickly put a stop to it, but the damage was done.
In California, waiting until middle school for this boatload of propaganda is actually inappropriate! In May, the California State Board of Educationestablished a set of guidelines insisting schools should begin discussing “gender identity” in kindergarten. “While students may not fully understand the concepts of gender expression andidentity,” the guidelines insist, “some children
in kindergarten and even younger have identified as transgender or understand they have a gender identity that is different from their sex assigned at birth.” Schools apparently must leap to address the “harm of negative gender stereotypes.”
Public schools aren’t just undermining parents with the curriculum. When children “decide” they “might” be transgender, parents better not object, or else they will be treated as a threat to their own children’s well-being.
On Aug. 12, USA Today published a chilling op-ed from Jay Keck, a parent in the Chicago suburbs, about how his autistic teenage daughter — who showed “no signs” of being unhappy with her gender — suddenly decided in 2016 that she was male and wanted to be addressed with male pronouns.
She first “came out” at school, and Keck says the school immediately addressed her with male pronouns and provided access to a gender-neutral bathroom. When Keck and his wife found out, they insisted the school address their daughter by her legal name — and were ignored. They met with an assistant superintendent, who asserted the school had to, as USA Today wrote, “follow the law” — a nonbinding directive from the Obama administration, which was repealed by Team Trump.
According to Keck, surprise, surprise: The AmericanCivil Liberties Union has sent threatening letters to schools telling them that “students have theconstitutional right to share or withhold informationabout their sexual orientation
or gender identity from their parents, teachers, and other parties.”
Then the real nightmare kicked in. Put yourself in the position of the Keck family.
“My daughter told me that the school social worker was advising her about halfway houses,” he said. “The social worker confirmed this when I scheduled a meeting with him to discuss it. This felt like a horrifying attempt to encourage our daughter to run away from home.”
Keck had his daughter evaluated by a psychologist approved by the school district. He said, “He told us it was very clear that our daughter’s sudden transgender identity was driven by her underlying mental health conditions, but would only share his thoughts off the record because he feared the potential backlash.” When his daughter graduated high school, parental wishes that her birth name would be announced were again ignored.
This growing gender-bending orthodoxy is what Pope Benedict called the “dictatorship of relativism,” or, if you prefer, “the tyranny of tolerance.” Dissent — even from parents — is being condemned as bigotry, cruelty and hate speech.
This will not stop until the nuclear family is destroyed. Or until parents stand up as one and declare a commitment to destroy this movement.
L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
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Arthur Espiritu in the stratosphere
Pablo A. Tariman
Arthur Espiritu as Edgardo in the graveside scene in Lucia di Lammermoor in Korea. From Daegu Opera House.
While opera remains a rarity in Metro Manila (except for some concerts offering token arias and some once-a-year opera production), tenor Arthur Espiritu is leading an opera life that the Filipino opera lover can only dream of.
For instance, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor was heard in the Philippines only in the late 40s with Maestra Mercedes Matias Santiago singing the title role at the UST Gym. She became a Free Press cover girl without asking for it.
Filipino tenor Arthur Espiritu recently sang the role of Edgardo in the Donizetti opera at the Daegu Opera House in South Korea and won more than his share of compliments.
A Vienna-based opera critic noticed the Filipino tenor’s voice was reminiscent of (Luciano) Pavarotti and (Placido) Domingo during their heyday. Critics found his graveyard scene as Edgardo very moving.
When the opera house released the video footage of Lucia, one heard the ecstatic stomping of feet from fellow musicians during the curtain call.
It was no doubt a clear signal the Filipino tenor has risen way beyond everyone’s expectations and has in fact soared to the stratosphere of opera.
“I had an amazing time in Daegu,” the tenor said. “On top of that, the audience was great and so was stage director Bruno Berger-Gorski and conductor Roberto Rizzi Brignoli. The orchestra was great! Best of all, the people were so accommodating and nice to me. They treated me with respect and appreciation. I had wonderful time.”
If there was one impression left on him when he left Korea, it was the fact that his fellow Asians are hungry for good music and the arts. “They appreciate the craft and value it as a way of life.”
After Korea, he sang a few more Boheme (Rodolfo) in Munich in the same opera house where he won great acclaim as Elvino (La Sonnambula) and watched by no less than the reigning King of Opera, Jonas Kaufmann. A German magazine called the same production as Opera of the Year.
Triumphant curtain call for Arthur Espiritu's first Lucia di Lammermoor in Korea. From Daegu Opera House.
Going back and forth Germany and Switzerland for more Boheme and rehearsals for Faust which opens second week of October, his schedule is indeed a whirlwind of frequent flying and hotel check-ins and rushing to the opera house. “Yes, I’m glued to my score whenever I get a chance to study,” he said. “I try to get some sleep whenever I can and I try not to get anxious. Singing is 80 percent psychological and 20 percent technique. When you panic, your body reacts and that will get you in trouble.”
With Rossini roles fading in his repertoire and more Puccini and Gounod operas getting into the picture, he discovers he is really more like lyric tenor than its light equivalent. “But I still have the flexibility and the means to be able to translate what’s on the pages of the music. The voice has settled and I find it easier to sing different styles now. Thanks God, I have not encountered any hiccups.”
He himself wonders how he is keeping up. “All I know is that I am actually pretty tired. But I have to keep going. I keep saying to myself that, ‘Oh really don’t deserve having this career.’ But as someone just recently told me, it is a responsibility to be able to share your art with people. In a way, I find peace in the thought of having to affect people and helping them feel something as an audience. As long as I can do that, I will try my best to keep going.”
The tenor with wife Christina and son, Aaron in Apsan Mountain in Korea.
A good break from hectic opera schedule.
For now, his eyes are on the title role of Gounod’s Faust running at Theater St. Gallen in Switzerland October 13, 2019 to March 25, 2020 with musical direction by Michael Balke and staging by Ben Baur.
He has no doubt his latest opera assignment is a quality role and a supreme vocal challenge. “It is one role where one has to remain in the drama. Vocally, it’s not very demanding tessitura-wise but it is demanding in the size of the orchestration and how it’s composed. You really have to sing it. There are some dolcissimi sections where you have to express your vocal skills in the way it’s phrased. It’s a very long opera. You have to know the interjections or else you will lose your entrance. You always have to count and anticipate.”
He admits his duet with Marguerite is his favorite part of the opera. “That duet in the third act has some of the most beautiful music ever written.”
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Portrait of Filipino tenors as Edgardo di Ravenswood
When Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor opera unfolds at the Cultural Center of the Philippines…
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Arthur Espiritu shines at Sydney Opera
Filipino tenor Arthur Espiritu logged another well-received international debut when an Australian…
Filipino tenor debuts in a Polish opera in Melbourne
After his well-received Rodolfo in La Boheme at the Sydney Opera, Filipino tenor Arthur Espiritu…
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