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New appointment boosts AVID’s Maitland team
|In Staff Appointment Release
|By AVID
AVID Property Group (AVID) has strengthened the team at the company’s highly successful Maitland developments, Harvest and Waterford in Chisholm, with the recent appointment of community engagement specialist Olivia Power.
Ms Power has joined the ambitious development company as Community Development Officer and will be responsible for community events and engagement activities with current and future residents.
The role is imperative in carrying out AVID’s place making vision of creating neighborhoods built on connectedness. This is carried out by fostering community through events, regular communication via social media and community newsletters as well as partnering with and sponsoring local clubs and schools.
The appointment comes as the booming development brings its total number of generously sized blocks sold since it launched in 2018, to more than 152 blocks.
Formerly a Community Manager with Newcastle Light Rail, Ms Power brings a wealth of knowledge to her new role in Maitland.
Ms Power said her appointment with community minded developer AVID brought her back to what she loved – being on-the-ground interacting with the local residents, across all elements of a development.
“I love being involved in all facets of the project – it’s exciting to see how my role has a direct influence on the dynamic and quality of life of a developing community,” Ms Power said.
“My passion has always been to work with the people for the people, giving stakeholders a voice and allowing them insight and influence on the shaping of a project for their community.
“Waterford is such a dynamic project – I’m excited to be working on-site with the current and future Waterford community as well as with Harvest residents next door.
“This is a unique opportunity as I am able to build upon strong ties between the already established Harvest community and the emerging community at Waterford.
“What I like about Waterford, and what attracted me to the role, was the opportunity to make an impact as part of AVID’s core team, working closely with an expansive group of specialists to deliver a community that is real and heartfelt,” she said.
Ms Power spent the first portion of her impressive career in London and Sydney, before returning home to Newcastle 10 years ago to be closer to family and friends.
A graduate of The University of Newcastle, Olivia has an extensive background in Business, Human Resource Management, Communications and Community Engagement across various industries.
She has most recently worked on the Sydney Metro Project a $7 billion infrastructure project for CPB John Holland.
AVID New South Wales Project Director Nathan Huon said Ms Powers’ vast experience across both commercial and public sectors would be invaluable to the team.
“Olivia’s ability to connect with people and understand their needs gives residents a sense of ownership allowing them to help AVID continue to create communities where people love to belong,” Mr Huon said.
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McAleenan receives award from El Salvador ahead of DHS departure
Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan with El Salvador's Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill, Oct. 28. Photo: DHS
Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan received the National Order of José Matías Delgado award from the government of El Salvador on Monday morning, a thank you for his key role in advocating for Salvadorans in the U.S. under the Temporary Protected Status program.
The big picture: McAleenan, whose last day as acting DHS secretary is Thursday, is married to a Salvadoran native and has sought to blunt the humanitarian impact of some of the Trump administration's hardline immigration policies, even as his department has carried them out. The White House has yet to announce his replacement.
What's next: DHS' undersecretary of the Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans, Chad Wolf, has been seen as one leading contender to step in, at least in the near term. The White House's personnel office informed Trump that one favored candidate, USCIS acting director Ken Cuccinelli, could not legally take the acting position.
"There's been no one more committed to the DHS mission and the president's agenda than Chad," a senior administration official told Axios.
But some conservative hardliners have pushed back against Wolf, who they don't see as sufficiently committed to Trump's immigration agenda.
"If Wolf’s background as a lobbyist for employers of H-1B workers doesn’t disqualify him, then his time as chief of staff to Kirstjen Nielsen, who utterly failed at the job, should," Rosemary Jenks, the director of government relations at NumbersUSA, an organization that advocates for stricter limits on immigration, told Axios in a statement.
Trump could still nominate Cuccinelli for the permanent position of DHS secretary, launching a Senate confirmation process.
But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made it clear he does not support Cuccinelli for any administration position. Cuccinelli was president of the Senate Conservatives Fund, which has backed McConnell's primary challengers.
Between the lines: McAleenan is getting a warmer send-off from El Salvador than from the U.S. The president and his team have at times viewed McAleenan warily because he served during the Obama administration. Trump has been more enthusiastic about personalities like Cuccinelli and CBP acting commissioner Mark Morgan.
Meanwhile, McAleenan was subpoenaed by the House Homeland Security Committee and received blowback from panel Democrats for saying he wouldn't testify in his final week on the job.
Go deeper: DHS grants hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans an extra year to leave U.S
Editor's note: This story has been updated to clarify that Numbers USA seeks reduced immigration and not an outright ban.
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Reporting Always: Writings From The New Yorker by Lillian Ross
Is there a writer who has not aspired to contribute to The New Yorker? Merely even one piece? That would be a prize. But to have written for this celebrated magazine for 60 years under its famed and awesome editors, and to have begun there more or less by serendipity surely qualifies for a charmed writer's life.
In 1944, Lillian Ross was writing for a left-leaning New York daily called PM. The editor of PM, Peggy Wright Weidman, was asked by William Shawn, then the managing editor of The New Yorker, to join their staff. When she turned down the job she wrote to Shawn suggesting he hire Ross, which he proceeded to do.
Ross began writing pieces for The Talk of the Town, the enduring, chatty opening to each issue. Before long she was reporting on personalities and events in lengthier pieces, which expanded her range to include national and international stories; both her shorter and longer stories are well illustrated in this book.
A notable short section in Ross' introduction itemizes her "basic rules," a brief exegesis by this accomplished writer that reveals her approach and serves as precious coaching for all writers. She says she only writes about people who want to be written about, which no doubt kept her friends with her subjects. She urges writers to report only on what they "observe," what can be seen and heard, and to never presuppose what someone might be thinking (or feeling, one supposes).
She does not use a tape recorder but rather relies on her notes and memory, which she believes gives the material more spontaneity and flavor. What interests her is the subject's talent and how they uniquely lived their lives and "revealed" their gifts. Her reports are always about living characters and what she calls "present truth." Perhaps her most important rule is "hold onto yourself" in order to maintain your "innocence." These insights into writing well also orient the reader to her style when taking in the reports that follow.
The articles appear in five sections with stories from 1948 to 2005. We are offered from five to nine examples in each section (chosen from different decades of her work), which are titled Players, Writers, Youngsters, New Yorkers, and Big Cheeses. Ross was a trusted confidante of writers, actors, directors, athletes, painters, entrepreneurs, designers, beauty contestants, and even small town folks visiting NYC or smart-ass upper east and west side teenagers.
Her subjects are a celebrity pantheon including Ernest Hemingway (also a friend), Robin Williams at age 34, Willie Mays (a great piece written with a NYC fifth grader), Dames Maggie Smith and Judie Dench, John McEnroe, Wes Anderson, Clint Eastwood, Julie Andrews at age 19, John Huston (which led to her book on the filming of The Red Badge of Courage), Federico Fellini, Edward Albee, Lassie, and others. David Remnick, the current New Yorker editor, gives us a foreword, and he is always worth reading.
Ross' capacity to observe and make the reader a part of the moment is quite remarkable. But after reading this collection of reports, compressed into a few sittings, one wishes she also had covered world leaders, dissidents, bad guys, and down-and-outs. There is too much glitz and not enough grit. Yet what emerges is discovering once again that what makes for great writing is less the actual subject and more the passion and skill of the writer. And Lillian Ross has had an abundance of those qualities and the exceptional capacity to sustain them for decades.
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Jazz Aspen Snowmass Café season opens with two nights at Aspen Art Museum
Activities & Events | June 30, 2015
Andrew Travers
Jazz Aspen did a dry run of the new JAS Cafe venue at the Aspen Art Museum earlier this month.
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What: Django Festival Allstars, presented by Jazz Aspen Snowmass
Where: JAS Café at the the Aspen Art Museum
When: Tuesday, June 30 and Wednesday, July 1, 7 & 9:15 p.m.
Tickets and more info: www.jazzaspensnowmass.org
The Django Festival Allstars will open the summer JAS Café season Tuesday, beginning a promising new chapter in the popular jazz series’ life. The hot jazz outfit will be the first artists in the series to perform on the rooftop of the Aspen Art Museum, where Jazz Aspen Snowmass is staging three of its six Café runs this summer.
Café shows were previously housed exclusively downstairs at the Little Nell, an intimate and dimly lit space reminiscent of a cosmopolitan jazz club.
“This is the polar opposite of the downstairs space at the Nell, it couldn’t be more different,” Jazz Aspen president and CEO Jim Horowitz said this spring. “In our 25th year, we’re looking for opportunities to stretch a little bit. And not just with the artists; we wanted to find some things that are a little different.”
To work out the kinks at the new venue, earlier this month, Jazz Aspen did a dry run in the rooftop café, featuring Horowitz playing piano with a jazz trio (he christened the space, appropriately, with Diana Krall’s “I Love Being Here With You”) and vocalist Allan Harris doing a full set before a crowd of Jazz Aspen donors and friends.
The stage was set up on the Hyman Avenue side of the rooftop, giving the audience a view of Smuggler and Red Mountains behind Harris, and the soaring vistas of Independence Pass and Aspen Mountain behind them.
Along with the view and a diverse lineup of world-class jazz musicians, museum rooftop shows include a three-course meal by Epicure Catering, who also handle the menu at the museum’s SO Cafe. The dinner-and-a-show option is available only at the 7 p.m. performances at the museum. The second sets, at 9:15 p.m., will have lighter fare available, similar to the bar menu snacks available at the Nell shows.
The four Django Allstars performances tonight and tomorrow kick off a lineup of performances at the museum also featuring Lizz Wright (Aug. 7-8) and the Pacific Mambo Orchestra (Aug. 13-14). Back at the Little Nell, the Café series will feature Jacqui Naylor (July8-9), Christian McBride Trio (July 15-16), and Ann Hampton Callaway (July 22-23).
The rooftop café and sculpture garden is emerging as Aspen’s newest performance venue this summer, as the museum nears its first anniversary. An free Aspen Music Festival and School series, with chamber music performed by students, begins there on July 7.
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Beta-Quenching of Zircaloy Cladding Tubes in Intermediate or Final Size—Methods to Improve Corrosion and Mechanical Properties
Three batches of Zircaloy-2 tubing were beta-quenched prior to the final cold-rolling, cold rolled 80 percent, and annealed at 475 to 575°C. A fourth batch was β-quenched in the final size. For comparison, standard tubing was included in all tests performed. The second-phase particles were studied by means of optical and scanning electron microscopy. Corrosion testing was carried out at 400°C and in high-temperature (475 to 500°C) high-pressure steam. The mechanical tests comprised tension, burst, and creep testing under internal pressure.
Beta-quenching instead of an intermediate or the final anneal results in significant structural changes. The most striking features are the formation of a Widmanstätten structure consisting of plates of α-phase and the reprecipitation of much finer second-phase particles in the plate boundaries. Cold-rolling of β-quenched hollows followed by a final anneal in the α-range will give an equiaxed structure, but the size and distribution of the second phase obtained in β-quenching will not be markedly changed.
The weight gain at 400°C increases slightly as a result of β-quenching in intermediate or final size. In high-pressure steam at 475 to 500°C, on the other hand, such β-quenching has a dramatic beneficial effect on the corrosion resistance. At 500°C, for instance, specimens from tubing β-quenched in intermediate size show weight gain values of 55 to 95 mg/dm2, whereas specimens from standard tubing take values in the range 360 to 4280 mg/dm2. The explanation of this improvement seems to be the existence of small second-phase particles formed in α-plate boundaries as a result of dissolution and reprecipitation during β heat treatment and quenching. Experiences from boiling water reactor (BWR) channel corrosion of β-quenched Zircaloy-4 indicate that the 475 to 500°C high-pressure steam test forecasts very well the in-reactor resistance of Zircaloys to nodular corrosion under BWR conditions.
The short-term strength as measured in tension and burst testing is improved by β-quenching of hollows or finished tubes, whereas such treatment results in a slight drop in ductility, especially for tubing β-quenched in the final size. The 400°C transverse creep strength is increased by the introduction of β-quenching prior to the final cold-rolling. The improvement is caused mainly by small second-phase particles, formed during β-quenching, which give rise to precipitation hardening.
Zircaloys, cladding tubes, beta-quenching, nodular corrosion, second-phase particles, creep, zirconium, nuclear industry
Andersson, Th
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Publication of definitive interim outcome of Baloise's successful takeover bid for Pax Anlage AG
Basel, May 2, 2017. Following expiry of the offer period for the successfully completed public takeover bid for all publicly held registered shares in Pax Anlage AG, Baloise has published the definitive interim outcome.
On 6 January 2017, Basler Leben AG (the 'Offeror') published a public tender offer pursuant to section 125 et seq. of the Swiss Federal Act on Financial Market Infrastructures and Market Conduct in Securities and Derivatives Trading (FMIA) for all publicly held registered shares in Pax Anlage AG ('Pax Anlage') each with a par value of CHF 100.00 (the 'Pax Anlage Shares') (the 'Offer').
Up to the end of the offer period on 25 April 2017, 4pm (CET), a total of 17,685 Pax Anlage Shares were offered to the Offeror, equating to 9.83 per cent of all Pax Anlage Shares listed as at 25 April 2017 or 34.37 per cent of the 51,461 Pax Anlage Shares to which the Offer related at the time the offer period ended (success rate). Assuming the transaction is completed, Baloise's long-term equity investment in Pax Anlage at the end of the offer period – including the 803 Pax Anlage Shares that the Offeror has acquired on or off the stock exchange since 10 March 2017 – stands at a total of 146,224 Pax Anlage Shares, equating to 81.24 per cent of the voting rights and the share capital of Pax Anlage (percentage of shareholding).
The additional acceptance period of ten trading days, during which the public shareholders of Pax Anlage can accept the Offer, begins on 3 May 2017 and is likely to end on 16 May 2017, 4pm (CET). Subject to all conditions being fulfilled (or their fulfilment being waived) and completion being postponed pursuant to section A.7 of the offer prospectus (offer conditions, waiver of offer conditions, validity period of offer conditions and deferral), the tender offer is likely to be completed on 30 May 2017.
The Offer is subject to the offer restrictions pursuant to the offer prospectus dated 10 March 2017.
Provisional schedule
Start of additional acceptance period: 3 May 2017
End of additional acceptance period: 16 May 2017
Publication of final outcome: 22 May 2017
Completion: 30 May 2017
This media information, the offer documents relating to the public tender offer and further information on Baloise and Pax Anlage AG can be found on our websites www.baloise.com and www.paxanlage.ch.
This media information contains forward-looking statements, such as about developments, plans, intentions, assumptions, expectations, beliefs and possible effects, as well as the description of future events, prospects, income, results and situations. These statements are based on current expectations, beliefs and assumptions of Bâloise Holding Ltd. Consequently, such statements are uncertain and may differ substantially from the latest facts, the current situation, current effects or developments.
This press release is for informational purposes only and constitutes neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation to buy securities. Furthermore, this press release does not constitute a prospectus within the meaning of article 652a and/or 1156 of the Swiss Code of Obligations or a listing prospectus within the meaning of the listing rules of the SIX Swiss Exchange. The public tender offer (the "Public Tender Offer") for all publicly held shares in Pax Anlage AG will be made solely by means of, and on the basis of, an offer prospectus which is to be published. An investment decision regarding the acceptance of the Public Tender Offer should only be made on the basis of the offer prospectus. The offer prospectus will be available free of charge from UBS AG, Swiss Prospectus Switzerland, P.O. Box, CH-8098 Zurich (tel.: +41 44 239 47 03 (voice recorder); fax: +41 239 69 14; e-mail: swiss-prospectus@ubs.com).
Diese Pressemitteilung dient ausschliesslich zu Informationszwecken und stellt weder ein Angebot zum Verkauf noch eine Aufforderung zum Kauf von Wertpapieren dar. Ferner gelten diese Pressemitteilung nicht als Emissionsprospekt im Sinne von Art. 652a und/oder 1156 OR oder als Kotierungsprospekt im Sinne des Kotierungsreglements der SIX Swiss Exchange. Das öffentliche Kaufangebot (das "öffentliche Angebot") in Bezug auf sämtliche sich im Publikum befindenden Aktien der Pax Anlage AG erfolgt ausschliesslich durch und auf Basis eines zu veröffentlichenden Angebotsprospekts. Eine Anlageentscheidung hinsichtlich der Annahme des öffentlichen Angebots sollte nur auf der Grundlage des Angebotsprospekts erfolgen. Der Angebotsprospekt ist kostenfrei bei UBS AG, Swiss Prospectus Switzerland, Postfach CH-8098 Zürich (Tel.: +41 44 239 47 03 (Anrufbeantworter); Fax: +41 44 239 69 14; E-Mail: swiss-prospectus@ubs.com) erhältlich..
This press release is not for distribution in the United States, Canada, Australia or Japan. Neither this press release nor the Public Tender Offer for all publicly held shares in Pax Anlage AG constitutes an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities in any jurisdiction in which such an offer or solicitation would be unlawful.
The Public Tender Offer referred to in this press release (the "Offer") is not being made directly or indirectly in or by use of the mail of, or by any means or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce of, or any facilities of a national securities exchange of, the United States of America and may only be accepted outside the United States of America. This includes, but is not limited to, facsimile transmission, telex or telephones. The offer prospectus and any other offering materials with respect to the Offer may not be distributed in nor sent to the United States of America and may not be used for the purpose of soliciting the sale or purchase of any securities of Pax Anlage AG, from anyone in the United States of America. Basler Leben AG (the "Offeror") is not soliciting the tender of securities of Pax Anlage AG by any holder of such securities in the United States of America. Securities of Pax Anlage AG will not be accepted from holders of such securities in the United States of America. Any purported acceptance of the Offer that Offeror or its agents believe has been made in or from the United States of America will be invalidated. Offeror reserves the absolute right to reject any and all acceptances determined by it not to be in the proper form or the acceptance of which may be unlawful. A person tendering securities into this Public Tender Offer will be deemed to represented that such person (a) is not a U.S. person, (b) is not acting for the account or benefit of any U.S. person, and (c) us not in or delivering the acceptance from, the United States.
The offer documents in connection with the Offer are not for distribution to persons whose place of residence, seat or usual place of residence is in the United Kingdom. This does not apply to persons who (i) have professional experience in matters relating to investments falling within article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the "Order"), (ii) are persons falling within article 49(2)(a) to (d) («high net worth companies, unincorporated associations, etc.») of the Order or (iii) to whom it may otherwise lawfully be communicated (all such persons together being referred to as "Relevant Persons"). The offer documents in connection with the Offer must not be acted on or relied on by persons who are not Relevant Persons. In the United Kingdom any investment or investment activity to which the offer documents relate is available only to Relevant Persons and will be engaged in only with Relevant Persons.
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The Offer referred to in this press release is not addressed to shareholders of Pax Anlage AG whose place of residence, seat or habitual abode is in Australia, Canada or Japan, and such shareholders may not accept the Offer.
Roberto Brunazzi
Head of Media Relations
media.relations@baloise.com
Marc Kaiser
Head of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
marc.kaiser@baloise.com
Publication du résultat intermédiaire définitif relatif à l’offre publique d’acquisition réussie de la Bâloise pour Pax Placements SA FR
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The Baloise Group is more than just a traditional insurance company. The changing security, safety and service needs of society in the digital age lie at the heart of its business activities. The 7,200 or so employees of Baloise therefore focus on the wishes of their customers. The best possible customer service, combined with innovative products and services, makes Baloise the first choice for people who want to feel ‘simply safe’. Located at the heart of Europe, with its head office in Basel, the Baloise Group is a provider of prevention, pension, assistance and insurance solutions. Its core markets are Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. In Switzerland, with Baloise Bank SoBa, the Group also operates as a specialised financial services provider, offering a combination of insurance and banking services. The Group offers innovative pension products to retail customers throughout Europe from its competence centre in Luxembourg. Bâloise Holding Ltd shares are listed in the main segment of the SIX Swiss Exchange.
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Harold Frank Kurtzman
Bats Right, Throws Right
Height 6' 0", Weight 170 lb.
High School University High School
Born April 2, 1951
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Hal Kurtzman was a minor league infielder who went into scouting.
Kurtzman was taken by the Boston Red Sox in the 7th round of the 1968 amateur draft, one round after they picked Cecil Cooper. He hit .318/.408/.439 in 25 games for the 1969 Jamestown Falcons, fielding .980 at his main position (2B). He fell to .241/.305/.282 with 19 RBI in 96 games for the 1970 DeLand Sun Caps while fielding .963 at 2B to end his playing career.
Kurtzman was an assistant coach at University High School from 1985-1992. He later was the Arizona Diamondbacks scout for Los Angeles, signing Hector Ambriz, Trevor Bauer, Ryan Wheeler, Charles Brewer, Ryan Cook, Barry Enright and Doug Slaten.
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Western Michigan's key players for 2018: No. 8 Giovanni Ricci a sleeper at tight end
Enquirer counts down the 20 players projected to be most key to Western Michigan's success in 2018
Western Michigan's key players for 2018: No. 8 Giovanni Ricci a sleeper at tight end Enquirer counts down the 20 players projected to be most key to Western Michigan's success in 2018 Check out this story on battlecreekenquirer.com: https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/sports/college/2018/07/26/western-michigan-key-players-giovanni-ricci-sleeper-college-football/835434002/
Nick Buckley, Battle Creek Enquirer Published 6:00 a.m. ET July 26, 2018 | Updated 4:27 p.m. ET July 26, 2018
Western Michigan tight end Giovanni Ricci (87).(Photo: Getty Images)
Western Michigan begins fall practices on Aug. 2, and 29 days later the Broncos will kick off the season against Syracuse on Aug. 31 at Waldo Stadium.
Second-year coach Tim Lester and the Broncos are coming off a 6-6 season and will seek to recapture the Mid-American Conference title they won in 2016.
Leading up to fall camp and before the incoming freshmen class arrives, we're making an early projection at the top 20 players who will be most key to the Broncos' success in 2018:
No. 8: Giovanni Ricci
Giovanni Ricci (Photo: Courtesy of WMU Athletics)
Position: Tight end
Hometown (H.S.): Loveland, Ohio
2017 stats: Six games, five starts, 12 receptions, 80 yards
Why he's No. 8: Ricci emerged from spring camp as a proverbial sleeper candidate after making the switch from receiver to tight end. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound Cincinnati native was a starter in 2017 before a lacerated spleen ended his season after six games. He played in all 14 games as a true freshman in 2016, helping the Broncos win the Mid-American Conference. He came to WMU as a two-star recruit at Loveland High School, where he also played quarterback and helped the team win the 2013 state championship. Head coach Tim Lester and offensive coordinator Jake Moreland were a stellar quarterback-tight end combination during their playing days at WMU, and the tight end position remains a major weapon in the current offensive scheme. Due to high expectations, Ricci earned a spot on the Mackey Award watch list, given to the top tight end in college football. His blend of size, toughness, athleticism and catching ability make him a matchup nightmare and a versatile weapon for the Broncos.
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No. 20: Drake Harris returns west
No. 19: Jaylon Moore a "hidden gem"
No. 18: Juwan Dowels battle-tested
No. 17: Ali Fayad ahead of the curve
No. 16: Stefan Claiborne rises to occasion
No 15: A.J. Thomas oozing with upside
No. 14: Eric Assoua to wreak havoc
No. 13: Josh Grant has Texas-sized role
No. 12: Alex Grace an ascending talent
No. 11: Keishawn Watson acrobatic
No. 10: D'Wayne Eskridge a burner
No. 9: Drake Spears ready to break out
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Robbie Williams hits number one and equals Elvis Presley's UK chart record
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Image caption Robbie Williams performed at London's Hyde Park Winter Wonderland in November
Robbie Williams has become the joint most successful solo act in UK album chart history after scoring his 13th number one, level with Elvis Presley.
Robbie's The Christmas Present has moved to the top spot after entering at number two behind Coldplay last week.
The Beatles hold the overall record with 15 UK number one albums.
Meanwhile, Dance Monkey by Australian singer Tones & I equalled the record for the longest-running number one single by a female artist, on 10 weeks.
That matched the stints at the singles summit achieved by Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You in 1992 and Rihanna's Umbrella in 2007.
UK top five singles
1. Tones & I Dance Monkey
2. Lewis Capaldi Before You Go
3. Stormzy/Ed Sheeran/Burna Boy Own It
4. Dua Lipa Don't Start Now
5. Arizona Zervas Roxanne
Lewis Capaldi is at number two, but is the bookmakers' current favourite to top the chart when the Christmas number one is announced in two weeks.
UK top five albums
1. Robbie Williams The Christmas Present
2. Rod Stewart You're In My Heart
3. Coldplay Everyday Life
4. Lewis Capaldi Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent
5. Michael Ball & Alfie Boe Back Together
Robbie's rise means only two of his solo albums have failed to reach number one. His 2003 live album from Knebworth and 2009's Reality Killed the Video Star both reached number two.
The star also sang on four number one albums as part of Take That, meaning he has appeared on 17 chart-topping albums as a solo artist or part of a group.
That's still some way behind Sir Paul McCartney, who has had a total of 22 number one LPs with The Beatles, Wings and across his solo career.
While Robbie's festive collection heads the albums chart, a host of Christmas songs have shot up the singles chart as people start streaming festive classics in their droves. The top Christmas songs in this week's chart are:
Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (8)
Wham - Last Christmas (13)
Pogues feat Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York (22)
Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas (23)
Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone (26)
Michael Buble - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas (32)
Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me (33)
Elton John - Step Into Christmas (39)
Ellie Goulding's new cover of Joni Mitchell's wintry classic River has also entered the top 40 at number 14.
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Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio says the New Year 2020 Honours List highlights the valuable contribution Pacific social entrepreneurs and innovators make to New Zealand, the Pacific region and the world.
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Foreign Minister and Pacific Peoples Minister to visit Samoa
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters and Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio will travel to Samoa on Friday, where New Zealand medical teams are helping Samoa respond to an outbreak of measles.
Bali Democracy Forum to focus on democracy and inclusivity
Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio will travel to Bali to represent New Zealand at the 12th Bali Democracy Forum that will be held on the 5-6 December.
Keynote Address at the Ministry for Pacific Peoples Lalanga Fou Languages and High Tech Fono
Talofa lava, malo e lelei, kia orana, taloha ni, fakaalofa lahi atu, ni sa bula vinaka, Talofa, Kia ora, tēnā koutou katoa. Warm Pacific greetings to you all.
I am really pleased I could be here with you today - to share this time with so many great innovators, thinkers and policymakers. Thank you for making the time to be here and for answering the call to come and share your expertise with us. I am looking forward to meeting and chatting with some of you later and hearing about the outstanding work you do.
Languages inspires Pacific innovations
The Minister for Pacific Peoples, Aupito William Sio, says the new Languages Innovation Fund is designed to support Pacific grassroots initiatives that will increase awareness, celebrate, grow and inspire the daily use of Pacific languages in Aotearoa.
Keynote Address at the Third Pacific Parliamentary Forum
Talofa lava, malo e lelei, kia orana, taloha ni, fakaalofa lahi atu, ni sa bula vinaka, Talofa, kia ora, tena koutou katoa. Warm Pacific greetings to you all.
A great pleasure to be here at Orakei Marae with you all to welcome you to the third Pacific Parliamentary Forum.
Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to be here with us in New Zealand.
Courts and Tribunals amendments in effect
Associate Minister of Justice and for Courts Aupito William Sio has announced that the final amendments in the Courts Matters Act 2018 and the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 come into effect today.
New Zealand’s future is Pacific and languages must be part of it
Tokelau Language Week starts today and the theme encourages us to reflect on the unique place of Aotearoa as a Pacific nation, now and in the future.
Pacific Peoples Minister to attend Our Ocean Conference in Norway
Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio, heads to Oslo today to represent New Zealand at the sixth Our Ocean Conference, which is being hosted by the Norwegian Government from the 23-24 October.
Speech to the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, Pacific Futures Conference: Connections, Identity and Security
Kia ora tatou katoa and Warm Pacific greetings to one and all.
Representatives of Tainui, the local people of the land, or manawhenua – the indigenous peoples of this area – have welcomed you this morning in accordance with local custom.
Pacific languages are a source of strength, they ground us and build confidence
The Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio says for Pacific people, language can be a source of strength. It can help ground us and give us confidence.
Young Pacific people can access earning and learning opportunities in Hawke’s Bay, Otago and Southland
Pacific young people living in the Hawke’s Bay, Southland and Otago regions will have access to support services that have proved successful in helping young people find new earning and learning opportunities.
Pacific languages are a root from which prosperity will grow
“Fijian Language Week starts on Sunday and the theme reminds us how important it is that we each have something to anchor ourselves to, something that can help us pause and feel in control in a rapidly changing world,” says Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio.
SAMOA Pathway High-Level Review, United Nations, New York
Chair, New Zealand commends this mid-term review of the Samoa Pathways. Let me convey to you the picture that I see as we conduct this review.
There is an unprecedented, man-made storm coming our way. Our youth can see the dark clouds gather at the outer limits of the horizons. We must paddle our canoe to safety and we must do it quickly. We must all paddle in the same direction or we’ll be caught by the storm and die.
Climate change will have a profound impact on Pacific languages
The Minister for Pacific Peoples, Aupito William Sio says when he was in Tuvalu recently for the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), the leaders reaffirmed climate change as the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and wellbeing of the peoples of the Pacific, but it was the youth of the Pacific region who reminded everyone that one of the issues often overlooked is the effect this crisis could have on Pacific languages.
High-level meeting on Migration and Climate Change, United Nations, New York
We acknowledge that the subject of this event can be highly sensitive, and we understand and respect the reasons why this can be a delicate issue for people in our region. Ideally, countries of the world would be rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions to ensure that people do not need to move because of climate change.
In the Pacific, climate change-related mobility is, so far, limited to internal movements, such as people moving inland away from rising sea levels and coastal hazards. That’s what we would expect, given the passionate desire of Pacific peoples to not be forced to leave their homes, their communities, their countries, and their land and sea.
High Level Meeting of the Group of Friends on Climate and Security, German House, New York
I wish to extend thanks to the organisers of today’s High Level Meeting.
In 2018, New Zealand’s Defence Assessment identified climate change is one of the most significant security threats of our time. The Pacific Island Forum’s Boe Declaration expands on this definition.
New Zealand is pleased that the links between climate change and security are increasingly being recognised, including through the good work of this Group of Friends. We add our voice to Germany and others to call on all big industrial nations to pick up the pace.
Pacific Small Island Developing States Reception, 100 UN Plaza, New York
Excellences, colleagues, members of the diplomatic corps, ladies and gentlemen, kia ora tatou katoa, warm Pacific greetings to one and all.
Thank you for this opportunity to speak today.
We know that climate change is the single biggest threat to the livelihoods and wellbeing of the peoples of the Pacific and there is an urgent, immediate, and unprecedented need for greater and more ambitions action. And in my privileged position as Minister for Pacific Peoples, as I listen to my elders, the two, three, that have spoken earlier and as I get to engage with our Pacific leaders right across the Pacific region – we’re leading.
Commonwealth Ministers Dialogue on Climate Change, resilience building and ocean action, United Nations, New York
Introductory remarks as Chair
This is an important and timely meeting. Here in New York the climate conversation has shifted from positions and negotiations, to action and ambition. The discussion about science and impacts and commitments is no longer controversial. Most of the world has now turned to action. Many of us here have set our sights on 1.5 degrees, a goal which resonates so strongly in the Pacific region.
Group of Friends of Victims of Terrorism Meeting, United Nations, New York
It is a privilege to be here today at the inaugural ministerial meeting of the Group of Friends of the Victims of Terrorism. And I’d like to convey our warm thanks to the governments of Afghanistan and Spain for their leadership on this important issue.
The 15th of March 2019 is forever etched into the psyche of our peoples. New Zealand experienced its worst ever terrorist attack in which 51 individuals were killed – men, women and children – and dozens more injured in attacks against our Muslim community when they were worshipping in two mosques in the city of Christchurch.
Investing in Humanity through Multilateralism, United Nations, New York
Moderator, your Excellencies.
We in New Zealand remain deeply committed to supporting the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, which form the core of the body of international humanitarian law, applicable to armed conflicts.
Universal Health Coverage High Level Meeting, United Nations, New York
Your Excellencies, good afternoon, tēnā koutou, warm Pacific greetings for you all.
I thank you for this opportunity to reaffirm Aotearoa New Zealand’s commitment to universal health coverage.
New Zealand believes firmly in the objectives of today’s event, the acceleration of progress towards achieving universal health coverage to build a healthier world for all.
Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAS) High Level Assembly, United Nations, New York
Kia Ora and Warm Pacific Greetings.
The IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land is unequivocal: reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors is essential if global warming is to be kept to well below 2°C, if not 1.5°C. Changes to the global agriculture and food system are necessary if we are to address climate change, eliminate hunger and halt biodiversity loss.
Report Back to the United Nations Secretary-General on Nature-Based Solutions, United Nations, New York
Mr Secretary-General, it has been New Zealand’s honour to work with China in assisting you to prepare for your Summit.
The commitments on Nature-Based Solutions have demonstrated the significant action under way, working with nature to increase resilience and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But more than that, the commitments and initiatives will also protect biodiversity, strengthen food security and underpin sustainable livelihoods around the globe.
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Home World U.S. News Steven Hayes, a Connecticut home invasion triple murderer, speaks about killing other...
Steven Hayes, a Connecticut home invasion triple murderer, speaks about killing other 17.
Steven Hayes from Connecticut, who is convicted of killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters in a deadly home invasion, spoke about how he killed 17 others and raped dozens of women in leaked letters revealed yesterday.
Steven Hayes, 48, described in detail how in two of the attacks he had tied up, tortured and killed women – and even made a 16-hour video of him murdering one of his victims.
The serial killer, who is on death row for his role in the 2007 home invasion, boasted to a female companion about how he had collected the sneakers of all of his victims as trophies, but said “the 17 kill trophies” meant the most to him.
Steven Hayes, a Connecticut home invasion triple murderer speaks about killing other 17 women and raping dozens in sickening prison letters
In 2010, Steven Hayes was convicted of raping and strangling Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, before tying her daughters, Hayley, 17 and Michaela, 11, to their beds and setting the house on fire.
Steven Hayes is currently appealing the conviction.
Steven Hayes’ accomplice was Joshua Komisarjevsky, who was also convicted for his role in the killings earlier this month and is due to be sentenced on Tuesday.
Three of Steven Hayes’ victims pictured in a 2007 photo, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, right, and her daughters Michaela, front, Hayley, centre rear
In the four letters revealed yesterday, which were written in August and September, Steven Hayes wrote that he would have killed Joshua Komisarjevsky if he had not been jailed because while he had the same “capacity for evil”, the accomplice was not committed enough.
Steven Hayes told a female in North Carolina, only identified as “Lynn”, that he wanted to share his “dark secret” as “someone else really should know the truth about” him.
In the letters which were obtained by the New Haven Register, Steven Hayes wrote:
“Yes, I’ve killed before.”
“I have 17 kills throughout the Northeast United States. Perfect victims and well executed, controlled endeavors.”
There are 17 pages of handwritten letters, which were confiscated by prison authorities.
Steven Hayes also recounted the rape and murder of his first victim in 1982 and the eighth. The killer wrote that all of his victims were aged between 14 and 25.
According to the New Haven Register, which has not detailed how it acquired the letters, they read “like a twisted pornographic fantasy”.
Steven Hayes wrote that he spotted his first victim, a girl who was hitchhiking, as he was driving home from a bar, describing her as “short, hot and the perfect victim”.
“Like any great hunter, timing is critical,” Steven Hayes wrote about how he chose his victims.
The serial killer told how he picked up the girl and drove her to a secluded location where he tied her up and threw her in the trunk before taking her to a cheap motel, which he said became his “location of choice” for his attacks.
He described in detail how he sexually assaulted the woman and then pinched her nose and suffocated her.
“A monster was born,” Steven Hayes wrote.
“This carried on with my top 17 sexual conquests and kills.”
“The trophies, the signature kill, the thrill of the hunt and the disposal of my adventure buddies.”
He said that he picked up his eighth victim, who he found drunk walking along a road, and told her he would take her back to his house to smoke crack cocaine and drink beer.
Steven Hayes claimed that he tied her to his bed for an entire weekend and tortured her before killing her.
“The more pain and emotional abuse she went through, the better I liked it.”
“And believe me, I was in heaven.”
The serial killer also claimed that he recorded the assault and killing on a 16-hour video, which he described as “by far the best snuff film ever created”.
Steven Hayes said that he kept hold of the tape for six months before it “found a home” in Portland, Oregon.
He described Joshua Komisarjevsky, who could also face the death penalty for his part in the attacks, as being a disappointment to him in the letters.
“I’ve searched my whole life for someone who could embrace and had the capacity for evil as I possess,” Steven Hayes wrote, according to the newspaper. “I thought I finally found it in Josh.”
“But events show Josh, while [he] had the proper evil intent, lacked in the most serious aspects, commitment and control.”
Steven Hayes asked the recipient to hold on to the details of the letters until after his execution because the information “could be worth millions to the right people”.
Michael Dearington, State Attorney and FBI spokesman have declined to say whether Steven Hayes’ purported crimes are being investigated or whether authorities are aware of 17 unsolved homicides matching details in his letters.
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The Sounds of Nine Special Birds
Can't get enough bird sounds? Enjoy a full minute of beautiful sounds of Cerulean, Golden-cheeked, Swainson's and Kirtland's Warblers, plus the Piping Plover, Lark Bunting, American Golden-Plover, Black-capped Vireo, and Olive-sided Flycatcher, recorded throughout North America, from Texas to... read more »
Topics & Themes: birding, sound, vocalization
Related birds: Swainson's Warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii), Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea), Golden-cheeked Warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia), Kirtland's Warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii), Olive-sided Flycatcher (Contopus cooperi), Black-capped Vireo (Vireo atricapilla), American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica), Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus)
A Different Drumming
The drumming of the male Ruffed Grouse is one of the most evocative sounds of the North American forest. Familiar as these accelerating burps are to hunters and hikers, the origin of this bizarre sound was long a mystery. It took the advent of wildlife cinematography to solve the riddle. In the... read more »
Topics & Themes: sound
Related bird: Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus)
Costa Rica Winter Sunrise
On a winter morning in Costa Rica, a colorful choir welcomes the day. A pair of Bay Wrens sings a brisk duet just before sunrise. Perched in the upper canopy of the tropical lowland forest, a group of Keel-billed Toucans calls out. In a nearby tree, Purple-throated Fruitcrows (like this one) add... read more »
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Late Fall Sounds to Listen For
By the time November rolls around, the bird songs of summer can seem a distant memory.But there’s always something to listen for. Small birds like chickadees and kinglets, including the Golden-crowned Kinglet pictured here, often mix in flocks while foraging. Geese can be heard overhead in the... read more »
Topics & Themes: birdwatching by ear, migration, sound, vocalization
Related bird: White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis), Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula), Snow Goose (Chen caerulescens)
Birdsong, Music, and Neuroscience
Brain imaging studies have shown that hearing enjoyable music “lights up” the mesolimbic reward pathway in the human brain. But how does a bird experience a song from its own species? Scientists at Emory University found a similar pattern in the sparrow’s brain. Female White-throated Sparrows,... read more »
Related bird: White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)
Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers
These Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers appear nearly identical, but the Hairy Woodpecker is larger than the Downy, with a distinctly longer bill. And it doesn't have the black spots on its outer tail feathers like the Downy. But even if you can’t observe these spunky birds, you can identify them by... read more »
Topics & Themes: birdwatching, birdwatching by ear, sound
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Despite its name, the Burrowing Owl doesn’t do much digging. It’s better known for its hair-raising hiss, which may have evolved to mimic the warning of a cornered rattlesnake. The sonic threat of a venomous reptile could be just enough to warn away most unwanted visitors from the owl’s nest... read more »
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At the close of a summer day, the songbirds go silent. As if on cue, the birds of the night make their voices known. In an Eastern woodland, the eerie trills and whinnies of an Eastern Screech-Owl are among the first sounds of the night. Meanwhile, as night falls west of the Rockies, the Western... read more »
Topics & Themes: birdwatching by ear, sound, vocalization
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Topics & Themes: birdwatching by ear, sound
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The Meadowlark and Water Ouzel - featuring Gordon Hempton
Gordon Hempton, the Soundtracker, likens the joy he feels after a day of recording Western Meadowlarks (their eastern cousin is seen here on the left...) to the experience of John Muir, who knew individual American Dippers (also known as Water Ouzels; seen here on the right) by their songs.... read more »
Topics & Themes: recording, reflection, sound, vocalization
Related bird: Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta), American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus)
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Democracy, Ow: A Q&A with Discordia authors Laurie Penny and Molly Crabapple
by Emily McAvan
Published on November 29, 2012 at 5:27pm
Laurie Penny is an English journalist whose work on protest movements, sex, and desire has been at the forefront of feminist writing of the last few years. Molly Crabapple is a New York artist whose Victorian-inspired work includes Shell Game, a crowd-sourced series of ornate paintings of the 2011 financial-world metdowns and revolutions. This summer, these two kickass women travelled to Greece together, and their gorgeous new e-book, Discordia, is the result. The graphic novel–meets–travelogue pairs Penny’s gritty, witty reportage with Crabapple’s pen-and-ink drawings for an on-the-ground portrait of a nation adrift in both crisis and possibility. It’s out now on Vintage Digital, and Emily McAvan chatted with the authors about meaning, mythologizing, and why Hunter S. Thompson owes a debt to his lady-journo forebears.
How did this book come about?
Molly Crabapple: Laurie and I became close during Occupy Wall Street. We had wanted to create something together, and when I decided to go to Greece to make some art, Laurie asked to go with me.
Laurie Penny: I was so happy that Molly said yes! I feel like together we made something pretty unique that’s a fusion of our two creative worlds.
Why Greece and not Madrid, Tahrir, London?
MC: Greece is the birthplace of democracy. It’s also the place in Europe where austerity is coming to bear hardest. Anarchists have their own neighborhood. Violent Nazi gangs are being elected into parliament. Greece is where Europe is deciding what it wants to be. History is happening there. We wanted to record it.
You two spent a week in Greece together, but then worked separately on the art and words. Was there much communication back-and-forth, or did you leave each other to just get on with it?
MC: We worked together to figure out important points that had to be made. While I was in Athens, I kept a running list of images that knocked me flat—a printing press in the occupied newspaper Eleftherotopia, or a little girl at an antiracist festival. Laurie suggested other images, and I worked from her iPhone snaps of the antifascist demonstration in Nikea. We helped and inspired each other’s work, while also creating our own with a lot of autonomy.
LP: It was a really interesting way to work. As a journalist I’m very much used to solo projects, so this was a learning experience. Molly had very definite ideas about what she wanted to draw after our discussions, and I was able to shape some of the scenes of the book around the images. It was a useful way to structure the project.
Journalist Paul Mason’s introduction situates your collaboration in dialogue with Hunter S. Thompson’s collaborations with illustrator Ralph Steadman. Thompson inspired a generation or two of macho gonzo journalists; how do you feel about the comparison? Is gonzo different when it’s done by women?
MC: Women are trained to see the outside world as a big scary rape trap. Because of this, gonzo-style adventures take a bit more toughness for a woman than a man. I love Steadman’s work to the bottom of my cruel, ink- splattered artist’s heart. I drew much inspiration from him, technically and spiritually. While Thompson, like Hemingway, is one of those writers whose work has spawned a thousand jackasses, when he is good his writing is so darkly funny, his soul so daring, that he is Wild Danger and Freedom. He is No Fucks Given. How can one not aspire to that?
LP: What some people don’t realize is that the first people to really do gonzo journalism in its truest sense—going deep into a story, using your body to tell it and allowing yourself to be changed and challenged by it—were women at the turn of the 20th century, long before Hunter Thompson ever picked up a bottle of Wild Turkey. There was Nelly Bly, who got herself institutionalized at age 21 to report from inside the New York mental-asylum system, and Djuna Barnes, who had herself force-fed in order to write about what the experience was like for suffragettes fighting for the vote in Britain. Christopher Hitchens totally ripped off that idea for his famous piece on waterboarding, by the way.
My favourite bits of the book were actually the conversations between you two. For instance, the one where Laurie says “People don’t want women with swagger.” Is this book a response to that sentiment?
LP: The sad thing about today’s world for women artists and writers is that people are going to be vicious and try to tear you down whatever you do. But that’s also a little bit liberating, once you realize that no matter how good and small and quiet you try to make yourself, no matter how much you shy away and try to stick to your permitted boundaries as a woman, people are going to hate on you anyway. So you may as well just go for it.
“Molly Crabapple is her name, though it isn’t the name her mother gave her” is a fabulous line. Is there an element of conscious self-mythologization in Discordia?
LP: Oh, of course there is. I rather enjoyed having someone to mythologize in a way I would never dare to write about myself—it’s one reason I’m so keen to work with Molly again, because I admire her so much and I’m not afraid to let that admiration show through in my writing. I think it’s important for women writers and artists not to shy away from doing big, proud, ambitious things and talking them up.
What can the American left learn from Athens? What can feminists learn?
MC: One of the most enlightening moments of our trip was in Exarchia with Georgia Sagri, an anarchist organizer, and our fixer, the journalist Yiannis Baboulious. They both spoke about how the group who had gained the most from the Syntagma Square protests was the ultra-racist Golden Dawn. This was because while leftist groups in-fought and argued theory, the Golden Dawn provided practical street-level services—food, medicine. They also did PR stunts like walking old ladies to ATMs. The bane of the left, and of feminism, is attacking each other over ideological and linguistic lapses. This doesn’t expand our base. It’s not real organizing. It’s fighting friends rather than enemies.
But while I’m complaining about this, I will also give shout-outs to amazing American feminist projects like Women With a Vision in which [participants] risk their necks providing practical, non-condescending, community-based services.
Any plans for further collaborations?
MC: Oh yes. For now they are secret.
LP: But exciting. Very exciting. Oh yes.
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Jacqueline Winspear Books In Order
Publication Order of Maisie Dobbs Books
Maisie Dobbs (2003) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Birds of a Feather (2004) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Pardonable Lies (2005) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Messenger of Truth (2006) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
An Incomplete Revenge (2008) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Among the Mad (2009) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Mapping of Love and Death (2010) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
A Lesson in Secrets (2011) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Elegy for Eddie (2012) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Leaving Everything Most Loved (2013) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
A Dangerous Place (2015) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Journey to Munich (2016) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
In This Grave Hour (2017) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
To Die But Once (2018) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The American Agent (2019) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Maisie Dobbs Non-Fiction Books
What Would Maisie Do? (2019) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication of Standalone Novels
The Care and Management of Lies (2014) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Jacqueline Winspear was born of parents who resided in Kent town of England. In her early years, Europe was still in the throes of the first World War which greatly affected the direction her books would take. When she became older, Jacqueline got her first higher learning education at the London Institute of Education and there after proceeded to work several jobs which later were to shape her as a writer.She did not start on writing immediately, instead she worked as an Academic publisher, a marketing communication agent and also took up positions in higher learning to earn her income. Her decision to move to the United States saw the commencement of her dream as an author. Her first book was based on the character Maisie Dobbs, a female detective she was introducing to the world. This book proceeded to win the Agana Award for Best First Novel which was good motivation for the young author to create several other sequels.
Jacqueline Winspear as a Child Her childhood days were characterized by both the occurrence and aftermath of war which began to reshape her thinking. She was living in a period when a good percentage of the men in England were sent to war expeditions as the women were left to take charge of all social roles; including manly ones. In that period, in Britain, women took up jobs that were previously designated for men and it was the first time ladies went to war to work behind the scenes. The men, on the other hand, dodged bullets and shrapnel on the battlefield as the ladies worked as military nurses, bus drivers, aircraft/boat builders and even code breakers for intercepted messages during war. It was also the age when women for the first time were forced to become financially independent which saw the birth of so many female novelists in Britain.Jacqueline Winspear also had a story to tell but her initial idea was not about war. The war affected her just like it did so many children who saw their fathers leave home, with the possibility of never coming back, and their mothers who went through thick and thin to make sure food was on the table each day. All this made young Jacqueline curious about the war as it took its toll on her family. She watched her grandfather limp and breath with difficulty after serving in the Somme War of 1916. After the war, his life was never the same as he spend days dubbing at his wounds and also extracting remnants of shrapnel from his legs. The young aspiring author had to watch as the old man suffered but her curiosity became louder when World War I came in and the social and economic life of Europe transformed completely.
Maisie Dobbs (2003)Her first book Maisie Dobbs, is centered on a female character who was born in a poverty stricken section of South-East London in the 18th Century. Given her background, Maisie Dobbs’ first job was a maid in service but deep inside she had a hidden gift which her employer couldn’t see. But her employer’s friend could see that Maisie was special and this is proven when she wins a chance to study at the prestigious Girton College. However this education short-lived when the First World War happens and she has to enlist as a clinical nurse. When she comes back, she continues her education and sooner she gets a job as an assistant with Dr Maurice Blanche; the very same friend who noticed her interest in reading when she was caught in the Employer’s library. Dr Blanche became her mentor learning so much from her especially in the field of Psychology. Soon she sets business as both a professional psychologist and private investigator. Her first assignment is to investigate an infidelity case which she is to later find out that a Killer is involved and the entire case would bring memories of the First World War; a war she vowed never to remember again.
Birds of a Feather (2004)This was the sequel to the first book Jacqueline Winspear wrote on Maisie Dobbs. In this second book, the female detective and psychologist is still running her sole-proprietor business based in London. She manages to get a professional place to run her business and even employs an assistant by the name Billy Beale. In this sequel, Maisie Dobbs’ investigative skills are recognized even by the finest detectives in London and her reputation wins her a lucrative job of finding a runaway Heiress.The runaway female is the daughter of wealthy self-made tycoon by the name Joseph Waite.
Waite seems like a great father on the outside, loving his daughter so much that he lavishes her with fancy gifts and privileges only the wealthy enjoy. But ironically, her daughter feels cages and yearns to be set free; a feeling that saw her run away once and now Maisie is assigned to look for her on this second assignment. What almost seemed like easy money to the witty detective turned out to be another Deja Vu of the Stratton Murder case. Again the female investigator is thrown into the throws of World War I and her past nightmares brought back to light again.
Jacqueline Winspear had a very wide imagination with her first character Maisie Dobbs that she wrote eight other novel series as the adventure of the female investigator unraveled more. One thing the author was praised for in these ten detective series was the well researched background of World War 1 to which the characters were pieced into and the story woven. Her first stand alone novel is dubbed ‘The Care and Management of Lies’ which centers on two childhood friends, Kezia and Thea, whose friendship starts getting strained when their families begin to twist into each other’s lives and the onset of a war between Britain and Germany brewing.Even with Jacqueline Winspear putting an end to her first character Maisie Dobbs in the 10th sequel, it is still evident that war fiction became her signature angle owed to the childhood she experienced.
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Majority of Brits don't trust Boris...
Majority of Brits don't trust Boris Johnson
Around sixty per cent of the country and over a third of Conservative and Leave voters don't trust Boris Johnson, according to a new poll.
With under a week until the new Prime Minister is announced, a new poll carried out by YouGov for Best for Britain shows the country does not trust frontrunner Boris Johnson.
A whopping 58% said they did not trust Johnson, with only 21% saying he could be trusted.
Among Conservative and Leave voters there were also high levels of distrust, with 37% of both groups saying they do not trust the No 10 hopeful. No region, age group or social grade said they trusted Johnson.
The news comes as MPs prepare for a crunch vote on a plan to stop Boris Johnson suspending Parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit.
"Boris Johnson is a shoe-in to become Prime Minister this week, but nobody trusts him - not even Conservative voters.
"And why should they? Just last week he threw our ambassador to the US under a bus in a desperate attempt to cosy up to Donald Trump.
"With reports that Boris Johnson is threatening to suspend Parliament in order to force through a disastrous no-deal Brexit, I fear public trust in politicians will sink to a new low."
Also commenting, Best for Britain CEO Naomi Smith said:
"No one trusts Boris Johnson because he's made a career out of lying.
"He lied to people back in 2016, and has continues to create fake news to promote his Brexit agenda. Now he wants to suspend Parliament to get his own way.
"But the country is fighting back. The public aren't stupid - they know Brexit won't be the land of milk and honey Johnson promises. That's why the majority of Brits now want to stop Brexit and stay in the EU."
All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 1,675 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 11th - 12th July 2019. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all GB adults (aged 18+).
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VISION NEXT 100: The motorcycle of the future.
Glasses in place of a helmet, smart clothing, full balance without a kickstand: Only three of the many inventions that could become standards for riding a motorcycle and add a new dimension to the sense of freedom in an increasingly digitised world. And the best thing about it: this vision vehicle is already here. Introducing the BMW Motorrad VISION NEXT 100.
The futuristic two-wheeler glides through the auditorium, the jet-black triangular frame illuminates the blue and white BMW logo. The female driver only wears a visor, which looks like a pair of glasses from the next century instead of a helmet. She stops and stands up from the seat, without taking either foot off the pegs. The vision bike presented at the "iconic impulses" exhibition. "The BMW Group Future Experience" that is celebrating its world premiere in Los Angeles, transports the viewer to the year 2130.
A time when mobility is yet more diverse and interconnected; a time when digitalisation takes on a shape which we today perceive to be surreal; a time when motorcycling becomes an analogue and at the same time extraordinarily emotional experience. "The motorcycle provides my escape from everyday life. From the moment I climb on board, I experience nothing but absolute freedom – The Great Escape," says Edgar Heinrich, head of design at BMW Motorrad.
Absolute freedom.
Together with his design team, Edgar Heinrich drafted this future scenario and designed the BMW Motorrad VISION NEXT vision vehicle based on that. "When we develop a motorcycle, we are usually thinking around five to ten years in the future. So taking a look further into the future was especially exciting for us and highly appealing," Edgar Heinrich paints the picture. Designers are assuming that in 30 years, most vehicles will be driving around autonomously. Life is crammed up in cities and organized by means of digital services. More and more digitalised, more and more interconnected, more and more automated. During this presentation, the importance of analogue 'oases' becomes apparent, which give people the feeling of freedom back.
Freedom means experiencing the environment with all your senses, and feeling centrifugal forces, acceleration and the wind. Ideally without a helmet or protective clothing. The BMW motorcycle VISION NEXT 100 doesn't need that either. Because the "digital companion" – a functional unit consisting of motorcycle and our own version of rider's equipment – ensures a high degree of safety. The digital companion acts imperceptibly in the background and always intervenes when required or desired. "It was important to us that the analogue riding experience would remain undisturbed. The display and operating concept acts so discreetly that it creates a natural and familiar movement," explains Holger Hampf, head of design, customer experience, at the BMW Group.
The motorcycle provides my escape from everyday life. From the moment I get on, I experience total freedom - the great escape.
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It's still a roadster.
All new – and yet the BMW Motorrad VISION NEXT 100 still captures elements from the BMW Motorrad timeline: black triangular frame, white lines, classical opposed-twin engine type. In the side-on view, the vision vehicle looks naked. Accordingly, ergonomics and seat position are set up like on a roadster. The design of the front is minimalistic and refined with high-quality detailing. Above the front wheel, a large metallic reflector is integrated in the frame. It serves as a wind guide and together with the integrated windscreen, ensures aerodynamically optimised airflow.
Body elements like the seat, the upper frame cover and the front-wheel cover are made of carbon. Two delicate red lights under the body serve as tail light and turn signal. The tyres have a damping function and actively adapt to the terrain. The red rocker arm on the right handlebar stands out. Designed as a consciously mechanical element, it blocks the throttle grip or releases it.
The frame follows the wheel.
The black triangular frame is visually reminiscent of the R 32 from 1923 – the first BMW motorcycle. However, the frame has functionally little to do with the original. The Flexframe is flexible and allows steering manoeuvres without the joints we are familiar with today. If the handlebars are moved, the entire frame changes shape and facilitates the change in direction. Depending on the traffic situation, the forces required for this vary: steering manoeuvres are especially easy at a standstill, while the frame firms up at high speeds. The surfaces are attached so that they offer the wind and weather protection of a fully enclosed motorcycle. The surface of the frame is made of matt black textile.
Opposed-twin engine with emissionless drive.
A special engine is mounted in the middle of the frame. It is simultaneously a style element and a memory of things long past. In form and performance it resembles the traditional BMW Boxer engine, but houses the emission-free drive unit. Depending on the riding situation, the exterior shape of the opposed-twin engine changes. At a standstill, it lies tight.
As soon as you begin riding, the engine block protrudes out of the sides. In doing so, it optimises the aerodynamics and the motorcycle's weather protection during the ride. Polished aluminium in this area exudes that high-quality vibe.
Self-balancing: no chance of tilting over.
A motorcycle doesn't need a stand. Not when assistance systems ensure perfect balance. Self-balancing enables the BMW Motorrad VISION NEXT 100 to remain stable both during the ride and at a standstill. This enhances safety for the driver. It also makes it easier for beginners, because they are led safely through every riding situation and cannot fall over. But experienced bikers can also profit from self-balancing. Because the motorcycle becomes even more agile, making the riding experience even more dynamic. The assistance systems also expand the rider's capabilities. Regardless of ability and practice, riders are able to constantly expand their boundaries and positively intensify the riding experiences. Making every ride an experience of pure freedom from start to finish.
When we develop a motorcycle, we are usually thinking around five to ten years in the future. Looking further ahead is particularly exciting for us and very appealing.
Data glasses instead of a helmet.
With the BMW Motorrad VISION NEXT 100, rider and motorcycle are engaged in a direct exchange. Relevant information is collected from the environment, which the visor - essentially data goggles that cover the driver's field of vision and block wind - projects directly into the driver's field of vision. If the rider looks straight ahead, no data is displayed, so as not to impinge on the riding experience. Only when action is required – for instance in case of hazards – or if the rider requests information, does the visor become active. In this case, the symbol of the digital companion appears in the lower third of the glasses: an upturned triangle forming two horizontal lines. The display is similar to that in an aircraft cockpit. It shows the current angle of lean and the ideal line. If there is any deviation, the rider can correct this. If the rider fails to react or does so too late, the motorcycle corrects itself. Looking up will have a rearview mirror function. If the rider lowers his gaze a little below the normal viewpoint, a menu opens where he can trigger each function using finger gesture control. If he lowers his gaze even more, the map view opens, showing the rider his selected route.
Fashion statement instead of heavy protective clothing.
Light fabrics instead of leathers and accessories. The rider apparel from BMW Motorrad VISION NEXT 100 is a fashion statement and offers protection against wind and weather, thus contributing significantly to the overall driving experience. An A/C function either cools or warms the rider as desired. Heavy clothes that are too hot or too cold are a thing of the past. The flexible band structure of the clothing and footwear was inspired by muscle strands. It actively supports the rider depending on the riding situation and in so doing relieves him of the burden. The neck region of the rider clothing can be filled with air at higher speeds. It then relieves the cervical spine and increases the level of comfort. With vibrating elements on the arms and legs, the clothing provides navigational signals or indicates when a limiting tilt angle is reached. A safety function of the rider clothing is not required due to the intelligent assistance systems.
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Home » News » Bollywood News » Lata Mangeshkar discharged from hospital, returns home
Lata Mangeshkar discharged from hospital, returns home
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BySubhash K. Jha
Created: Dec 8, 2019 - 10:19 pm IST
After 28 days in hospital, India’s most beloved singer Lata Mangeshkar finally returned to her home in Prabhu Kunj , Peddar Road to a rousing welcome from her fans, well-wishers and friends.
But for those close to her, hoping to visit and meet Lataji, there is disappointment in store. Lataji is allowed no guests, at least not for some time. And it is doubtful whether she will be able to meet even those outside the family who are very close to her, as the family is keeping strict vigil over her routine ensuring she does not strain herself in any way.
Lataji was admitted to the hospital on November 11 due to severe lung infection. Since then she has been slowly and steadily recuperating while some twitter users continued to play prophets of doom, declaring her dead.
I recall an earlier incident when Twitter had declared Lataji “no more”.
Her voice brimming with mischief, Lataji’s legendary sense of humour had surfaced unannounced when she said, “Every time they kill me off on social media, I think a few years are added to my life.”
Welcome back, Lata Didi. We love you more than you would ever know. We need you down here. The Gods can take care of themselves.
Also Read: Lata Mangeshkar is recovering fast
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To establish certain lands as part of Fleming Avenue
To amend By-law 151-88 (Part of Lots 12 and 13, Concession 2, E.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To amend By-law 151-88, as amended (Part of Lot 12, Concession 4, E.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To authorize the transfer of part of Block 9 on Registered Plan 43M-643 to The Regional Municipality of Peel
To authorize the execution of a lease with 1012363 Ontario Inc.
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Regular meeting held on January 11, 1993
To establish lands as part of a public highway (Torbram Road)
To amend By-law 200-82 and 151-88 (part of Lot 8, Concession 2, W.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To authorize the execution of a lease with the Brampton Public Library Board
To establish certain lands as public highways (Heart Lake Road)
To prevent the application of part lot control to part of Registered Plan 43M-1026
To amend By-law 51-92, being a by-law to formulate an emergency plan for the City of Brampton
To amend by-law 151-88 as amended (part of Lots 9 and 10, Concession 1, E.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Regular meeting held on February 8, 1993
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To repeal Township of Chinguacousy By-law 162-71
To amend By-law 139-84 as amended (part of Lot 15, Concession 2, W.H.S., in the geographic Township of Toronto)
To amend By-law 281-85 being a by-law to establish a local advisory committee under the Ontario Heritage Act (Brampton Heritage Board)
To establish certain lands as part of Bramalea Road and to amend By-law 6-77
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To adopt Amendment Number 226 and Amendment Number 226A to the Official Plan of the City of Brampton Planning Area
To amend By-law 139-84 as amended (part of Lot 15, Concession 2, W.H.S., geographic Township of Toronto)
To amend by-law 139-84 (part of Lot 14, Concession 1, E.H.S., in the geographic Township of Toronto)
To authorize the acquisition and transfer of part of Lot 14, Concession 2, West of Hurontario Street to the Peel Board of Education and the execution of a construction agreement
To amend By-law 141-92 being a by-law to provide for the maintenance, management, regulation and control of certain cemeteries within the City of Brampton.
To authorize the execution of an addendum to a lease between The Corporation of the City of Brampton and The Brampton Public Library Board and to repeal By-law 10-93.
To authorize the execution of an agreement with Garden Manor Construction Inc. and Wellington Community (Brampton) Inc.
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Regular meeting held on March 29, 1993.
To authorize the acquisition of property known municipally as 234 Main Street North and to repeal By-law 280-92.
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Special meeting held on April 5, 1993
To amend by-law 193-83 (the regulation of traffic) for the placement of RATE OF SPEED – KILOMETRES/HOUR Creditview Road
To appoint Municipal By-law Enforcement Officers
To appoint inspectors to enforce the Weed Control Act in the City of Brampton and to repeal by-law 122-91
To amend By-law 200-82 (part of Lot 5, Concession 1, W.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy
To amend By-law 151-88, as amended, (Part of Lot 11, Concession 6, E.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To amend by-law 151-88 as amended (part of Lot 11, Concession 2, E.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Regular meeting held on April 14, 1993
To authorize the execution of a lease with the Canadian Turkey Marketing Agency
To authorize the execution of a lease with Public Works Canada
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Special meeting held on April 19, 1993
To establish certain lands as part of the public highway system (Panda Lane)
A by-law to repeal by-laws 234-92 and 257-92 and to amend by-law 15-91
A by-law to regulate the sale and setting off of fireworks and to Repeal By-law 35-74
To provide for certain matters under the Line Fences Act and to amend By-law 70-91
To authorize the execution of an offer to lease with Her Majesty the Queen as represented by The Minister of National Defence (Chapel Street Firehall)
To appoint a chief building official and inspectors for the enforcement of the Building Code Act and Regulations and to repeal By-law 240-90
To amend By-law 193-83 (the regulation of traffic) for the placement of PARKING METERS, PROHIBITED TURNS, NO STOPPING, AND TOW AWAY ZONES Main Street and Queen Street
To amend By-law 193-83 (the regulation of traffic) for the removal of PARKING RESTRICTIONS on McMurchy Avenue North
To authorize the acquisition of part of LOT 14 CONCESSION 2, W.H.S. for highway purposes
A by-law to amend By-law 70-91, to provide for the appointment of Fenceviewers
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Regular meeting held on May 10, 1993
To establish certain lands as part of Clarence Street
To authorize the temporary borrowing of funds for the Corporation of The City of Brampton
To regulate the operation of Motorized Snow Vehicles within certain areas of the City of Brampton including any highways therein or any part or parts thereof and to repeal By-law 31-75
Amendment List 2
Amendment List
A consolidated By-law to regulate use of highways and parking in the City of Brampton
See Amending By-law List for Applicable Nos.
To amend by-law 151-88 (part of Lot 13, Concession 1, E.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To amend By-law 200-82, as amend, (Part of Lots 4 and 5, Concession 1, E.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To amend By-law 139-84, as amended, (Part of Lot 13, Concession 1, E.H.S., in the geographic Township of Toronto)
To levy an amount on, Sheridan College, on the Ontario Correctional Institute (Clinic) and Vanier Centre (Female Institution) and on Peel Memorial Hospital, for the year 1993
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Special meeting held on June 7, 1993
To amend By-law 193-83 (the regulation of traffic) for the placement of NO STOPPING ON SPECIFIED HIGHWAYS on Newbridge Crescent
To amend By-law 193-83 (the regulation of traffic) for the placement of an ALL WAY STOP John Street and Lynch Street
To amend By-law 193-83 (the regulation of traffic) for the placement of NO PARKING RESTRICTIONS ON SPECIFIED HIGHWAYS on Wilson Avenue
To authorize the granting of a realty tax credit to elderly residents of the City of Brampton pursuant to The Municipal Elderly Residents’ Assistance Act, R.S.O. 1990, C.M. 52 and to repeal By-law 47-92
To amend by-law 4-83 as amended respecting the City of Brampton Safety Council
To appoint Municipal By-law enforcement Officers and to repeal By-law 127-90
To appoint a Chief Building Official and Inspectors for the enforcement of the Building Code Act and Regulations and to repeal By-law 79-93
135-94 (only repeals section 1 & 2) 74-95
To authorize the execution of an agreement with Branch 15, Royal Canadian Legion respecting Gage Park and Memorial Square
To amend By-law 151-88, as amended (part of Lots 9 and 10, Concession 1, W.H.S., in the geographic Township of Toronto)
To amend by-law No. 86-77
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Regular meeting held on June 14, 1993
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Special meeting held on June 21, 1993
To amend By-law 151-88, as amended, (part of Lot 5 Concession 4, E.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To establish certain lands as part of the public highway system (McMurchy Avenue North) and to repeal By-law 115-87
To amend By-law 151-88, as amended (Part of Lot 11, Concession 6, E.H.S., formerly in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To amend By-law 193-83 (the regulation of traffic) for the placement of PARKING RESTRICTIONS AND THROUGH HIGHWAYS
To repeal Certain Parts of the Official Plan of the City of Brampton Planning Area and to Adopt the Official Plan of the City of Brampton
358-06 (Section 2)
To permit an encroachment onto Elizabeth Street South
To amend By-law 200-82, (part of Lot 5, Concession 2, W.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy
To amend By-law 200-82, (part of Lot 5, Concession 2, W.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To amend By-law 11-91 respecting Memorial Square and Ken Whillans Square
To amend By-law 193-83 (the regulation of traffic) for the placement of PARKING METERS, TOW AWAY ZONE AND ALL WAY STOPS
To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer or the Treasurer to execute certain documents in tax collection maters
To prevent the application of part lot control to part of Registered Plan 43M-795
To authorize the execution of a lease between Bramalea Nursery Schools Ltd., and The Corporation of the City of Brampton
To authorize the sale or lease of the property known municipally as 129 Glidden Road
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Regular meeting held on July 12, 1993
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Special meeting held on July 28, 1993
To amend By-law 200-82 (part of Lot 5, Concession 1, W.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To establish certain lands as part of McMurchy Avenue South
A By-law to amend By-law 308-83, as amended, and to appoint a Commissioner of Community Services for the Corporation of the City of Brampton
To authorize the transfer of part of Block 129 on Registered Plan 43M-785 to the Regional Municipality of Peel
To amend By-law 193-83 (the regulation of traffic) for the placement of RATE OF SPEED – KILOMETRES/HOUR Vodden Street East
To amend by-law 193-83 (the regulation of traffic) for the placement of SCHOOL BUS LOADING ZONES Massey Street
To amend By-law 63-87 (to regulate, supervise and govern the parking of vehicles on municipal parking lots)
To authorize the encroachment of a barn upon Torbram Road
To Adopt amendment Number 233 and Amendment Number 233A to the 1984 Official Plan of the City of Brampton Planning Area
To Adopt Amendment Number OP93-1 and Amendment Number OP93-1A to the Official Plan of the City of Brampton Planning Area
To amend By-law 151-88, as amended (Part of Lot 1, Concession 3, E.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy
To adopt Amendment Number 235 to the 1984 Official Plan of the City of Brampton Planning Area
To adopt Amendment Number OP93-3 to the Official Plan of the City of Brampton Planning Area.
To amend By-law 200-82 as amended (Part of Lot 6, Concession 1, W.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To amend Development Charges By-law No. 234-91 (Brampton Hydro)
To amend Development Charges By-law No. 235-91
To authorize the execution of a lease for space at 150 Central Park Drive
To adopt Amendment Number OP93-5 to the Official Plan of the City of Brampton Planning Area
To amend By-law 151-88 as amended (Part of Lot 17, Concession 1, W.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To establish certain lands as public highways (Kingknoll Drive)
To authorize the acquisition of part of Lot 14, Concession 6, East of Hurontario Street
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Regular meeting held on August 16, 1993
To amend By-law 200-82, as amended, (part of Lot 5, Concession 1, E.H.S., in the geographic township of Chinguacousy)
To establish certain lands as part of Ken Whillans Drive
To authorize an application to The Regional Municipality of Peel for the issuance of debentures in the amount of $1,864,900 on behalf of the Corporation of the City of Brampton
To authorize a Capital Expenditure in the amount of $603,000 for the purchase of 6.4369 acres at 120 Sandalwood for future use as a transit bus storage (OMB File E930002) and to authorize a request that The Region of Peel issue debentures in respect thereof.
To change the name of Woodsmere Road on Registered Plan 43M-1026
To accept and assume as public highways the streets and street widening on Registered Plan M-282.
To accept and assume as public highways the streets and street widening on Registered Plan M-314 and to establish certain lands as public highways.
To accept and assume as public highways the streets and street widening on Registered Plan 43M-520 and to Establish certain lands as public highways
To accept and assume as public highways the street on Registered Plan 43M-560
To authorize the execution of a Computerized Traffic Signal Control System Operations Agreement with HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, in right of the Province of Ontario as represented by the Ministry of Transportation.
To establish a Scale of Costs under the Municipal Tax Sales Act, (R.S.O. 1990) and to repeal By-law 105-85
To amend By-law 193-83 (the regulation of traffic)
To amend by-law 200-82, as amended, (Part of Lot 6, Concession 1, W.H.S. in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To authorize the execution of a lease with the Peel Board of Education
To authorize the execution of a lease with Brampton Multicultural Community Centre and Brampton Muslim Community Centre Inc.
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Regular meeting held on September 13, 1993
220-93 & 291-04
To amend By-law 151-88 (part of Lot 5, Concession 3, E.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To amend by-law 139-84 (former Town of Mississauga Comprehensive Zoning By-law)
To amend By-law 200-82 (former Town of Brampton Comprehensive Zoning By-law)
To amend By-law 151-88 (former Town of Chinguacousy Comprehensive Zoning By-law)
To amend By-law 56-83 (former Township of Toronto Gore Comprehensive Zoning By-law)
To accept and assume as public highways the streets and street widening on Registered Plan M-84 and to establish certain lands as public highways
To authorize the execution of an agreement with Peel Memorial Hospital
To establish certain lands as part of Queen Street West and Elizabeth Street South
A by-law to repeal By-law 204-93
To amend By-law 193-83 (the regulation of traffic) for the placement of PARKING RESTRICTIONS on Bramalea Road and Torbram Road
To amend By-law 56-83 (former Town of Toronto Gore Comprehensive Zoning By-law)
To amend by-law 151-88 (former township of Chinguacosuy Comprehensive Zoning By-law)
To authorize the execution of an agreement with The Canada Employment and Immigration Commission
To adopt Amendment Number OP93-6 to the 1993 Official Plan of the City of Brampton Planning Area
To amend By-law 56-83 (former Town of Mississauga Comprehensive Zoning By-law)
To amend By-law 151-88 (former Township of Chinguacousy Comprehensive Zoning By-law)
To amend By-law 96-86 as amended to incorporate newly constructed group home as a Site Plan Control Area
A by-law to amend Lodging House Licensing By-law 67-92
To amend By-law 244-82 the Group Home Registration By-law
A by-law to authorize execution of a Supplementary Downsizing Benefits Agreement under the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Regular meeting held on October 13, 1993
To establish certain lands as part of the public highway system (Valonia Drive)
To amend By-law 93-93, to regulate use of highways and parking in the City of Brampton
To amend By-law 193-83 (the regulation of traffic) for the placement of NO STOPPING RESTRICTIONS Heart Lake Road
To authorize the execution of a lease with Brampton Muslim Community Centre Inc. to repeal By-law 202-93
To amend By-law No. 67-81 and to authorize an application to the Ontario Municipal Board to alter the boundaries of the Urban Service Area
To amend by-law 200-82, as amended, (part of Lot 4, Concession 1, W.H.S., in the former Town of Brampton)
To authorize the sale of part of Lot 9, Concession 3 East of Hurontario Street
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Regular meeting held on November 8, 1993
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Special meeting held on November 22, 1993
To amend By-law 93-93 to regulate use of highways and parking in the City of Brampton
To prohibit and regulate the keeping of animals other than dogs and to repeal By-law 165-92
50-97; 265-97; 37-98; 46-98; 51-04; 149-04; 263-04; 249-05; 78-09; 340-12;
To amend By-law 200-82 as amended (part of Lot 5, Concession 2, E.H.S., in the Geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To amend by-law 151-88 (part of Lot 18, Concession 1, W.H.S., in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To prevent the application of part lot control to parts of Registered Plan 43M-816 and Registered Plan 639
To amend By-law 151-88, as amended, (part of Lot 12, Concession 1, in the geographic Township of Chinguacousy)
To authorize the execution of a lease with the Board of Governors of Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Regular meeting held on November 22, 1993
A by-law to amend by-law 67-92 as amended, which licenses lodging houses in the City of Brampton
To accept and assume as a public highway part of Woodstream Avenue on Registered Plan 43M-1068
To stop up and close and authorize the sale of part of Woodstream Avenue on Registered Plan 43M-1068
To amend by-law 160-92 which is a by-law to establish a Fire Department and repeals by-law 7-64, 2682, 11-64, 31-64 and 36-74
By-law to require the care and maintenance of Building Fire Alarm Systems
To prevent the application of part lot control to parts of Registered Plan 43M-1076
To prevent the application of part lot control to parts of Registered Plans 43M-1091 and 43M-951
A by-law to amend by-law 15-91
To establish certain lands as public highways (Glenbrook Boulevard and Castlemore Road)
To appoint Property Standards Officers and to repeal By-law 239-90
To amend By-law 93-93 to regulate use of highways and parking in the City of Brampton for the placement of NO PARKING AND NO STOPPING Ward Road and Nuttall Street
To amend By-law 193-83 (The regulation of traffic) for the placement of NO PARKING AND NO STOPPING RESTRICTIONS Ward Road and Nuttall Street
To authorize the expropriation of certain lands in the City of Brampton (part of Lot 14, Concession 6 East of Hurontario Street, former Township of Chinguacousy)
To amend By-law 56-83 and to repeal By-law 209-93
To amend Amendment Number 241 and Amendment Number 241A to the 19984 Official Plan of the City of Brampton Planning Area
To adopt Amendment Number OP93-10 to the Official Plan of the City of Brampton Planning Area
To authorize the acceptance of an offer to lease from Unique Kitchens Inc.
To confirm the proceedings of Council at its Regular meeting held on December 13, 1993
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Paris Hilton Has Already Decided if Kim Kardashian Is Getting an Invite to Her Wedding
Kim K was her former assistant, after all
Christina Oehler
Christina Oehler is a New York based writer and editor.
Paris Hilton isn't wasting any time—the DJ and heiress is already wedding planning with fiancé Chris Zylka. The newly-engaged couple attended HBO’s Golden Globes after-party on Sunday night where they dished the details on their upcoming nuptials—including whether or not one major A-lister will be making her list.
“We’re going to have dinner with my parents this week to start planning,” Hilton, 36, revealed to Entertainment Tonight of her and Zylka's future nuptial plans . “We want to do it as soon as possible.”
And apparently, her guest list would not be complete without her former BFF and assistant, Kim Kardashian West.
When TMZ asked the 36-year-old if Kardashian would be attending, Hilton replied, "Of course!"
Meanwhile, Kathy Hilton, Paris's mom, was in on her daughter's surprise proposal the whole time. Zylka showed her the $2 million pear-shaped diamond engagement ring at Christmas, prior to the couple’s engagement.
“She was flipping out,” Paris said. “My mom loves big diamonds.”
Kathy spoke to People at the Amazon Golden Globes after-party, saying she was “beyond excited” about her daughter's engagement, and is confident she will not be a bridezilla. “She’s easy,” Kathy, 58, says. “At Nicky’s wedding, Nicky and Paris were the easiest ones there.”
Paris's big sis Nicky Hilton and English banking heir James Rothschild tied the knot in 2015 at Kensington Palace. The two share two daughters together, one-year-old Lily Grace Victoria and one-month-old Teddy Marilyn.
“It’s going to be such a great year,” Kathy gushed. “I have a new grandbaby, my son is engaged, and now Paris!”
Paris added that she's already adjusting to her newly-engaged lifestyle, saying that she hasn’t called Zylka her “boyfriend” for a while, though the term fiancé is new for her. “I used to call him ‘my love’ or ‘my hubby’ already,” she said. “I’ve been saying that for a year now, so fiancé is different.”
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Fourth Grade Presents Scrambled States
Fourth graders played the part of their own state that is assigned to them as part of the state project, a decades-long tradition at Bright School.
Third Graders Send Toys, Letters to Children's Hospital
The theme of this year's community service program is friendship. Third graders wrote letters to pen pals at Children's Hospital and chose matching plush toys, keeping one and sending the other to the hospital.
Fourth Graders Take Top Spots in Bee
Three fourth graders took the top places in the school spelling bee. In the end, it was like a real "xanadu" for the winner, Matilda Joels, who spelled that word to win.
Teachers Visit from Atlanta
Teachers from a school in Atlanta visited Bright to learn about responsive classroom strategies and our language arts and math curriculum.
Combo Class: Music in P.E.
Movement and music are natural combinations. Students got to learn several dances as part of Music in P.E. Day.
Students performed songs about the states in this year's Thanksgiving music program. Our break is November 16-23.
Bang That Drum! Alumni Honored for Musical Program
The Lee University Percussion Ensemble visited Bright for two days as artists in residence, funded by the generosity of two Bright alumni Fontaine Patten Moore and Henry Aldridge.
Third Graders Speak to Change Minds
Third graders finished their persuasive writing unit with a "Battle of the Speeches," a friendly competition to see which speech was the most persuasive.
Alumni Profile: Children's Book Author
Reading and writing have been a big part of Lisa Lowe Stauffer’s life since she first discovered a love of books while a student at Bright. Now, she is an author of a new children’s picture book out this summer called Two By Two.
Visit Us at the Playground Play Date
This is the first admissions event of the year. Plan to join us on November 15 at 4:30 p.m.
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15 September 2018 Venue Kenilworth Road Attendance
English Football League - League One
Focus On: Luton Town
By Gerry Prewett.
Having already secured a 3-point haul earlier in the season in Buckinghamshire (at Wycombe), Rovers will be hoping to repeat the performance when they visit Luton Town’s Kenilworth Road on Saturday.
Hotly tipped as one of the promotion contenders after their strong season in Division Two last season, the Hatters have not yet hit their stride and their early season form has been a little patchy.
As Rovers kept their first clean sheet of the campaign in a 0-0 draw with Plymouth, Luton went down to a 2-1 defeat at Doncaster. Goals from Matty Blair and Ben Whiteman helped Doncaster to a first win in seven matches as they overcame Luton.
Much of the pressure came from visitors Luton, who equalised once through Elliot Lee but could not find another.
Matty Blair opened the scoring for Doncaster with a superb individual effort just six minutes in. Starting from halfway, he was allowed to surge forward before slamming a well placed shot into the top left corner from the edge of the box.
Luton responded well and piled on the pressure with Elliot Lee, James Collins and Jorge Grant all going close to drawing them level. They got their reward in first-half stoppage time when Lee headed in from close range from a Dan Potts knock-back.
But just 35 seconds into the second half Doncaster were back in front. A shot from Blair was blocked out only as far as Ben Whiteman, whose low strike from 20 yards was diverted into the corner of the Hatter’s net. Luton again had the more threatening play with chances for Potts and Pelly Ruddock but they could not break Doncaster's resolve.
Boss Nathan Jones was disappointed with the result and the way his team allowed Doncaster an early lead, "We keep saying it. We're controlling games, we were pretty dominant first half. We started the second poorly. We work on starts, we work on what we have got to do, maybe we shouldn't, maybe we should just let them get on with it.
"After the goal I thought were excellent, chance after chance, opportunity after opportunity. We controlled the game. They are a very good footballing side, all our reports came back and we were watching games, they cause sides real, real problems.”
"We caused all the problems, they changed their shape at half-time, we come in at half-time right after scoring, thinking all the momentum is with us. One ball into the box, it's not even a good ball into the box and our six-foot left-back who is very good in the air doesn't win his header, it drops, we don't get on the second, we don't get on the third. Then you've got another mountain to climb.”
"We're having to show a lot of character lately, but the reason we're having to show a lot of character is because we are giving goals away and it's poor. Our structure going forward, the way we play and how we cause problems is very good, it's excellent. But at the moment we're not keeping clean sheets and if you don't keep clean sheets then you don't win games."
Rovers have a long history of games against Luton Town going right back to the inaugural Division Three Season. Rovers won both those games, 2-1 (goals by Sid Leigh and an o.g. by Fred Tirrell for Rovers and Allan Matthieson for the home team) at Kenilworth Road on New Years Day 1921 and 5-0 at Eastville on 29 March with Leigh (penalty), Ellis Crompton, Bill Palmer, and Harry Boxley (2) scoring Rovers goals.
In fact, despite meeting every season it wasn’t until 26 September 1925 that the Hatters recorded their first victory over the Pirates, a 1-0 win in Bedfordshire at the 11th attempt.
Without doubt the most notable match between the teams occurred on 13 April 1936 and it was certainly an unlucky day for Rovers. Town’s Joe Payne notched up a record 10 goals that day as his team recorded a 12-0 win over the hapless Rovers. Payne later recalled that one of those goals even went in off his backside! The teams had met 3 days before at Eastville and fought out a 2-2 draw, but there was no Joe Payne in the Hatters line-up. The previous January Rovers had gone down 6-2 at Kenilworth Road.
In the game at Kenilworth Road on 19th February 2000 Phil Gray gave the home team a 1-0 lead on 13 minutes, but goals by Jason Roberts (27 and 90 mins) and Jamie Cureton (38 and 58 mins) secured a memorable 4-1 win.
On 8 September 2007 Rickie Lambert scored a stunning volley at Kenilworth Road as part of a double to give Rovers a 2-1 victory. The Boxing Day fixture at the Mem finished 1-1, with that man Rickie Lambert scoring a penalty and a David Edwards goal for the away team.
The last times the teams met in Bedfordshire there was a dramatic homecoming for Stuart Sinclair. On the Hatters books since a youth player and having been released before making a League appearance he was picked up by Darrell Clarke at Salisbury and had been Rovers talisman. In only his 3rd Football League appearance Sinclair popped up with the only goal of the game in the last minute of the game played on 18 August 2015.
There hasn't been much to separate the teams down the years, but the Hatters do slightly have the upper hand, winning 36 games, losing 31 with the other 24 drawn. Luton have faced Rovers in the Luton 43 times and have an impressive record, winning 28 games, losing 10 and drawing 9.
In a pre-season interview Manager Jones gave to the BBC he spoke of how his Christian beliefs shaped his football thinking, "I have a philosophy of the way I do things that is deep-rooted within me. It stems from my upbringing, my Christian faith, and my beliefs in football - all of those values I put into management."
"I think we're a wonderful side to watch," he adds. "A lot of people say varied things about us, good and bad, but I know what I see. Not many people will remember me as a footballer, but as a manager I believe in what I do and I know I'm a far better coach than I ever was a player.”
"I believe the work I do, tactical awareness I have, the way we train, I don't think there's many doing better work than we do. That's a bold thing to say, arrogant maybe, but we change lives her
Match Report: Luton Town 1-0 Bristol Rovers
Andrew Shinnie's goal on the hour mark proved to be enough to separate the two sides at Kenilworth Road on Saturday afternoon.
After a number of bright first half saves from Jack Bonham, Shinnie bulleted a low volley home on the hour mark, as the hosts claimed all three points on offer and condemned Rovers to a first defeat in the month of September.
Named in Rovers starting eleven was three changes to the side that faced Plymouth last weekend. With his return from international duty, captain Tom Lockyer slotted straight back into the heart of the Rovers defence, while both Joe Martin and Ed Upson returned to the fold.
In the early flurry, a free header from Matty Pearson from a corner rose steeply over the Rovers goal - as the attempt didn't cause too much concern from Jack Bonham, who was able to watch the ball sail high and wide.
Bonham was called into further action inside the opening fifteen minutes, as a searching cross from the left meandered into the Rovers area. The delivery found Jorge Grant, who was able to leap in the air to steer a powerful header towards goal, which was met by a strong save by Rovers 'keeper, who managed to push the ball away from danger.
There were anxious moments to come for Rovers, who had to withstand pressure from the hosts, as Luton managed to get the ball into the net thanks to Jack Stacey poking home a cross at the far post. The was goal quickly ruled out by the officials, as it was deemed that Stacey pushed Tony Craig in his attempts to connect with the delivery.
As the half-hour mark approached, Tom Nichols was introduced from the bench, replacing Sam Matthews, in what was a tactical switch.
For the second time during the opening forty-five minutes, Rovers had to rely on a smart stop from Bonham to keep the scores level. The move was instigated by Elliot Lee, who managed to create a shooting angle after cutting inside from the left. With an obstructed view of goal, Lee attempted to curl an effort to the far post, which was met by a strong hand from Bonham to push the attempt away from danger.
Moments later, Luton again threatened, as deep cross wrangled its way to the unmarked Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu. From close-range, the midfielder connected with a first-time volley that boasted a lot of power, but Bonham had his near post covered to make a routine stop.
As the clock ticked down as the interval approached, the busy afternoon for Bonham continued. The Rovers shot-stopper was alert to dash off his line to close down the shooting angle for Mpanzu, with Bonham deflecting the midfielder's goalward effort, with Glen Rea ballooning the rebound high over the target.
After the break, Rovers started in a positive fashion. A direct forward run from Chris Lines allowed the midfielder to draw in a number of defenders, before guiding a pass to Ollie Clarke. Clarke was able to win a corner, which Lines was tasked with taking, as his inswinging delivery narrowly avoided Tony Craig inside the six-yard box.
There were encouraging signs for Darrell Clarke's side, as an efficient break forward lending the opportunity for Kyle Bennett to slide a pass through towards Tom Nichols. The striker held his run to stay onside, but the pass from Bennett was a touch too heavy and ran into that grateful arms of Luton goalkeeper, James Shea.
While creating chances at the other end, Rovers did had to be alert in defence. A quick venture forward from the hosts led to the ball falling to the feet of Mpanzu, who saw his fiercely struck strike deflected away from goal by a brave block from Ollie Clarke, who threw his body at the attempt from ten yards.
The deadlock was broken on the hour mark, as a free-kick from the right was only half-cleared by the Rovers defence, with Andrew Shinnie rifling home a driven volley to open the scoring.
Rovers looked to respond and a flighted set-piece from Chris Lines asked questions of the Luton defence. The delivery sailed to the far post where an array of players lept to meet the ball, with Tom Lockyer winning the aerial duel, but could only force his header past the goal frame.
The advantage for the hosts could have been doubled and the game entered the final twenty minutes. A winding run from Elliot Lee saw the striker break into the Rovers area and was able to steady his balance to produce a low shot towards goal the saw Bonham dive to his left to tip the shot wide.
As the contest wound down to the final ten minutes, there was a lengthy break in the action as Eunan O'Kane was injured after a clean tackle but an awkward collision with James Clarke; after lengthy treatment, the Luton substitute required a stretcher to leave the field of play.
With eleven minutes of stoppage time signalled as a result of the delay, it was Andrew Shinnie who again troubled the Rovers defence, as the attacking midfielder broke into the area and forced Bonham into making a save down low.
Rovers did muster a late chance, as a well-aimed cross from Tom Lockyer narrowed missed Gavin Reilly, who saw the cross header away from him as he poised himself to head towards goal.
Rovers XI: Jack Bonham (GK), James Clarke, Tom Lockyer (c), Tony Craig, Joe Martin, Ollie Clarke, Chris Lines, Ed Upson, Sam Matthews (27' Tom Nichols), Kyle Bennett (72' Alex Jakubiak), Stefan Payne (52' Gavin Reilly).
Subs: Adam Smith (GK), Tom Broadbent, Daniel Leadbitter, Stuart Sinclair, Alex Jakubiak, Gavin Reilly, Tom Nichols.
Luton XI: James Shea (GK), Dan Potts, Sonny Bradley, Matty Pearson, Jack Stacey, Elliot Lee, Andrew Shinnie, Glen Rea (c), Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu, Jorge Grant (74' Eunan O'Kane (87' James Justin)), James Collins.
Subs: Harry Isted (GK), James Justin, Alan McCormack, Harry Cornick, Aaron Jarvis, Eunan O'Kane, Alan Sheehan.
Attendance: 8,912 (519 away)
Ticket Update: Luton Town
Updated ticket information for Saturday's fixture at Luton Town.
Darrell Clake's side head to Kenilworth Road on Saturday, 15th September - kick-off 3pm.
Tickets are no longer available from the Club's outlets at the Memorial Stadium.
If supporters have missed the deadline for advance tickets - then we have had confirmation from Luton that Rovers fans can call 01582 416976 to purchase tickets. This number will be operational until 5pm on Friday and will be open until 12:30pm on Saturday.
There will be no cash turnstiles on the day of the fixture and tickets will only be available by calling the number above.
Ticket Update: Luton Tickets on Sale to Priority Group Two Supporters
Tickets for our upcoming away trip to Luton Town are now on sale to Priority Group Two members.
Luton v Bristol R - Extended Highlights
Luton v Bristol R - Highlights
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10 of Britain’s best hotels for Valentine’s Day
Britain Magazine
Barnsley House is a 17th-century Cotswold stone manor house
From a palatial Italianate mansion in parkland on the Thames to a loch-side Scottish hunting lodge, via a picture-perfect Cotswold village and the wilds of Romney Marsh, The Good Hotel Guide recommends 10 of Britain’s best hotels for Valentine’s Day.
CLIVEDEN HOUSE HOTEL, TAPLOW, BERKSHIRE
William Waldorf Astor once owned this Italianate ducal ‘summer palace’ above the Thames. He shipped in from Rome the Fountain of Love and a balustrade from the Villa Borghese, installed the Rococo French dining room, then made a gift of the lot to his eldest son, Waldorf, and Waldorf’s bride, Nancy Langhorne. In the 1950s the walled outdoor pool would set the scene for the Profumo affair. Rooms, some with alfresco hot tub, are furnished with antiques and original artwork. Pleasure grounds and woodlands are in the care of the National Trust. ‘Romantic indulgence’ packages include red roses, champagne, and use of the spa.
B&B £445–£1,535. Tasting menu £98, à la carte £73. Romantic indulgence package £325 per person. 01628 668561, clivedenhouse.co.uk
THE ROYAL CRESCENT HOTEL AND SPA, BATH, SOMERSET
Behind the honeyed facade of adjoining town houses at the centre of this sublime Georgian crescent where Jane Austen would walk after church, this five-star hotel offers views across the city to the fore, with a manicured acre of garden behind. Interiors blend heritage colours and antique furnishings with modern comforts and original artworks. A ‘totally indulgent’ Valentine’s Day package includes chocolates, champagne, and unlimited use of the Spa and Bath House with hot tub and vitality pool. There is fine dining in the Dower House restaurant, or book ahead and come by for a decadent afternoon tea.
B&B from £330–£960, à la carte £72, tasting menu £82,Valentine’s weekend D,B&B package £940 for 2 nights, afternoon tea £37.50. 2 nights min stay Sat. 01225 823333, royalcrescent.co.uk
LIME WOOD, LYNDHURST, HAMPSHIRE
At the heart of the New Forest, where deer, cattle and ponies roam, every modern comfort is laid on at this updated Georgian lodge, favourite haunt of celebrities. You’ll find a beautiful spa, Italian-inspired cooking by Luke Holder and Angela Hartnett, roaring log fires in welcoming lounges. Even ‘cosy’ bedrooms have a king-size bed, a bath with forest views and a separate shower. Most romantic are the cabins built out over a lake, with a balcony on three sides, triple-aspect picture windows, and an alfresco bathtub.
Room £345–£1,250. Breakfast £22, à la carte £65. 1-night bookings refused most weekends.02380 287177, limewoodhotel.co.uk
BARNSLEY HOUSE, BARNSLEY, GLOUCESTERHSIRE
Fires burn in snug lounges, there’s an in-house cinema and a room for every budget at this 17th-century Cotswold stone manor house and its sister and neighbour, The Village Pub, each supplied with coffee machine, fluffy robes and upmarket toiletries. Most romantic are the ‘secret hideaway’ Potting Shed suite with private garden and wood-burning stove, and the Rosemary Verey Suite with a bath tub for two, a garden-inspired four-poster and a courtyard conservatory and grotto. It was Verey, who, with husband David, from the 1950s, created the magical gardens. Produce from the potager appears on Francesco Volgo’s enticing seasonal menus.
B&B double £280–£650 (pub from £109), à la carte £45 (pub £35). 01285 740000, barnsleyhouse.com
LANGAR HALL, LANGAR, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
You can sleep in Barbara Cartland’s old room at this apricot-washed Georgian mansion set in parkland in the Vale of Belvoir, or maybe go for Bohemia, with poetry on the walls and a canopy bed. When the late Imogen Skirving first opened her home to paying guests, she wanted them to feel they had been invited to dinner by dear friends, and her granddaughter Lila Aurora runs the place in that spirit. Raise a Bellini in the bar. Dine on such dishes as home cured goose ham, foie gras, cep, wild garlic capers; roast Belvoir partridge; vanilla cheesecake, passionfruit, coconut sorbet.
B&B £150–£225, dinner (Fri, Sat) £54.50, other nights £39–£44.50. 01949 860559, langarhall.com
HOTEL ENDSLEIGH, MILTON ABBOT, DEVON
In landscaped parkland laid out by Humphry Repton, with the River Tamar running through, this cottage orné was built by Jeffry Wyatville as a fishing lodge for the Duke of Bedford and his Duchess, Georgiana. She bore 12 healthy children then moved in her young artist lover, Edwin Landseer. Hotelier Olga Polizzi’s unerring sense of style is everywhere apparent. Bedford room has a fireplace and original hand-painted wallpaper. Panelled public rooms have antiques and roaring fires. Locally produced, fished and foraged food, beautiful walks, birdsong, champion trees and a star-filled night sky are among many glories.
B&B £205–£460, Valentines dinner £65. 1-night bookings refused Fri, Sat.01822 870000, hotelendsleigh.com
ROMNEY BAY HOUSE, NEW ROMNEY, KENT
Built for Hollywood actress Hedda Hopper by Clough Williams-Ellis, this house stands isolated between the English Channel and golf links. All around lies the wild, evocative landscape of Romney Marsh, haunt of writers and smugglers, with its little stone churches, stoic sheep and whispering reeds. Within, the ambience is welcoming, with cheery log fires. A four-course set dinner of local produce is cooked by chef-proprietor Cinton Lovell and served by candlelight. Clinton’s wife, Lisa, is the perfect hostess. Choose a sea-view four-poster room, wake to a sunrise, spy France through the binoculars provided.
B&B double £110–£164, dinner £49. 01797 364747. romneybayhousehotel.co.uk
THE GORING, LONDON
Your budget might not run to the sumptuous suite where Kate Middleton spent the night before her wedding, but even the Goring’s smallest bedrooms have bespoke furniture, 24-hour room service, mood lighting, Italian linen… This Edwardian hotel is the last of its kind in London to be run by the founding family, and its surprisingly large garden is a green oasis. You can eat Richard Galli’s Michelin-starred food in the David Linley-designed dining room, seafood in Nathan Outlaw’s Siren – or just drop in for afternoon tea, or for cocktails in the bar with resident pianist.
Dine-and-stay packages from £520, afternoon tea from £50 (£62 with a glass of Bollinger). 020 7396 9000, thegoring.com
COES FAEN, BARMOUTH, GWYNEDD
In woodland gardens overlooking the Mawddach estuary, with views of Cader Idris, this adults-only hotel is a stunning conversion of a Victorian lodge. A glass staircase is set into the hillside. Each of the six bedrooms, designed to make the most of the view, has its own unique feature – an ash-wood bath on a slate plinth; a cedar and Welsh slate steam room; velvet armchairs and private widescreen cinema with electric blackout blinds; a hot tub on a private terrace… Dine on Tuscan inspired cooking of local Welsh ingredients in Môr restaurant. Bring the horses – they have stabling.
Fixed-price menu (Wed–Sat) £45–£55. 01341 281632, coesfaen.co.uk
SHIELDAIG LODGE, GAIRLOCH, HIGHLANDS
You follow a winding single-track road and pass between gateposts topped with stone eagles, to find this loch-side Victorian hunting lodge surrounded by gardens on a 26,000-acre estate. Bedrooms furnished with antiques have a view of the loch or the walled garden. Some have an in-room roll-top bath. Best is the four-poster suite with a bay window looking out over the water. In the liberator bar there is a choice of 250 whiskies. In the dining room, locally reared meats, estate game, fish and shellfish from the loch, and home-grown produce appear on Jerome Prodaunu’s menus. Romantic-break packages including flowers, chocolates and champagne are available.
B&B £220–£320, fixed-price dinner £39, tasting menu (on request) £59, ‘romantic getaway’ 1-night D,B&B from £450. 01445 741333, shieldaiglodge.com
READ MORE: 10 Best walking hotels
City guide: Attractions in Chester
A weekend in Bray
The Crown Inn, Church Enstone review
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Birmingham Rep and the Touring Consortium
Lyric Theatre, The Lowry, Salford
Arthur Miller's 1953 play was performed to a packed house at the Lowry including a large number of school parties, but then with a cast of nineteen actors plus four understudies Birmingham Rep has a large wage bill to cover. The play was written as a thinly-veiled allegory of Senator McCarthy's 'witch hunts', in which the sinisterly-titled House Un-American Activities Committee used the mythical threat of the spread of communism to discredit people with opposing political views and to empower themselves by promising to provide protection from the non-existent threat. As similar groups are using similar methods today - this time using the myth of an international network of organised terrorists - for identical ends (the parallel is completed with the line, "you either support this court or you are opposed to it"), the message of the play is still frighteningly relevant.
The play is set in a Puritan community in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Abigail Williams and her friends, including the daughter of the rather materialist village clergyman, have been caught dancing naked in the woods, and in order to avoid getting into trouble they say they were bewitched by the servant Tituba. They are believed, and they use their newfound power to accuse anyone they do not like or who speaks out against them, a number of whom are hanged for witchcraft.
The first half seems very static; the first scene in particular introduces a lot of characters who just stand around talking, and a number of performances do not project very well into this large auditorium. For instance, Leah Muller as Abigail acts the part well, but her performance is directed mostly onto the stage and not into the audience, so her words are not always clearly audible and we are left feeling as though we are spying on something happening in the distance. However the scene comes more alive when Malcolm Storry enters as John Proctor; after this first scene, it is Storry's excellent performance that holds the whole production together. There are some good supporting performances from a number of other actors, including Patricia Kerrigan as Proctor's wife, Sara Beharrell as Mary Warren and Oliver Cotton as Deputy Governor Danforth.
After the interval, the production livens up quite a lot and is full of moments when the audience cries out or laughs in despair at the tortured logic used to discredit witnesses' testimony or evidence and to convict people of crimes that do not exist. Even so, there were times when the rise in volume of whispering and paper rustling from the less-well supervised school groups indicated that at least some spectators found their attention wandering.
This is a very long production (three hours including the interval) that is very static at times but gets much more interesting after the interval, largely due to a compelling central performance from Malcolm Storry.
"The Crucible" runs until 13 November 2004 and continues to tour until 4 December 2004
Steve Orme reviewed this production at Birmingham Rep
Reviewer: David Chadderton
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Showing results for tags 'AlleyCat conversion'.
AlleyCat conversion
Avro SHackelton MR1, Airfix kit and Alley Cat conversion 1/7nd scale
Mr T posted a topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
After the Group builds have been finished i though I would do a relaxing build, but no instead I have started work on a Shackleton MR1 using the Airfix kit and the Alley Cat conversion set in resin. I will concentrate on the conversion and only discuss the base kit when there are issues that I feel are worthwhile highlighting and that effect the build of the kit. Although I suspect most members who will look at this section will be aware of the Shackleton, there might be some unfortunates who have never come across what was the last iteration of the line that started with the Avro Manchester just before WWII. At the end of the war, it seemed clear that long range land based aircraft were a vital means of combating any hostile naval forces, especially submarines. The problem for coastal Command was that its long range aircraft were neither designed for the task (although still quite successful) and were American and provided under Lease-Lend. A new aircraft was needed and in the interim a number of Lancasters were converted as stop-gap MR aircraft. An obvious starting point was the Lincoln, which had been designed as a long range bomber for use in the Pacific. At first it was thought a minimum change Lincoln airframe could be used, but it was then realised that to produce an effective long range maritime patrol aircraft more power and space was needed. Thus although the Shackleton used a suitably strengthened Lincoln wing and undercarriage, the fuselage was widened and made deeper, larger fins and rudders were needed and the Merlins were replaced with new low altitude rated Griffon engines that had contra props to absorb the extra power and keep the engine spacing on the wing. Originally the Shackleton was to have a rear turret with two 0.5 inch machine guns and two 20mm cannon in the nose , but these were not fitted to production aircraft. The MR1 also had a blunt nose with an undernose radar scanner. The MR1 entered service in 1951, and was used until the late 1950's. Some were converted to a trainer as the T.4 and these remained in service until 1968 (one makes a fleeting appearance in the Beatles ' Magical Mystery Tour' TV film shown in December 1967 and available on YouTube ) The contents of the conversion kit are shown below. note that the tailwheel and leg are ordinary resin and I have drilled the part out and added a brass rod as I not trust the resin not to buckle. The nose and radome are in clear resin, which cannot be easy to cast cleanly. Decals are provided for white and Medium Sea Grey airframes. The kit is also available with decals for aircraft in overall Dark Sea Grey Most of the changes in the conversion are confined to the fuselage at the nose and tail end and the fuselage is shown ready to take the new nose and tail. Some of the windows will need to be blanked off. This varied from airframe to airframe over time. This will be a longer project for me and I will add as and when, so it might not be terribly regular.
1/72nd scale Shack
1:48 EE Canberra T17A
RMCS posted a topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
This is not a subject I would have chosen to build. However having been asked to build it I thourghly enjoyed the challenge and loved learning about this iconic, groundbreaking aircraft.
1/48 Raspberry Ripple Canberra
MODeller posted a topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
Hi all, Just finished this Alleycat conversion on the Airfix B2 Canberra, not the easiest to do as the replacement cockpit section did not want to play but I eventually beat it into submission! Inspired by seeing the real thing at Bruntingthorpe but took too many photos with too many details on! Paints used Revell Aqua, Humbrol Acrylics and Xtracrylics with the markings coming out of the spares box. A very pleasing result but I could have spent a lot more time on it but ended up just wanting it finished! MODeller
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SUPPORT THE U’S WOMEN’S TEAM AT THE CAMBS GLASS STADIUM THIS SUNDAY!
LOCAL DERBY FOR CAMBRIDGE UNITED WFC THIS SUNDAY
Cambridge United WFC are returning to the Cambs Glass Stadium this Sunday, with U’s supporters urged to get behind them as they face Ipswich Town in the FA Women’s Premier League South Est Division. 2pm KO.
Steve Edwards’ side are still when in the hunt this season, sat in fourth place with eight games to play and now the Amber Army can back the girls on home soil. Ipswich Town are set to cross the county for a hotly contested local derby against United.
The U’s comprehensively put their local rivals to the sword in the reverse fixture earlier this season, running away 0-5 winners back in December and will hope to deliver a similar performance in front of the United faithful.
Tickets for the game are priced as follows:
Adult - £3
Under 18 - £1
Tickets are available online by clicking here and will also be available on the gate.
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Top Executive MBA Colleges in rajasthan
Are you searching executive MBA colleges in Rajasthan? An Executive MBA ( EMBA ) is a Master of Business Administration ( MBA ) program aimed at senior professionals / business executives to meet higher career opportunities / goals. Various Top full-time MBA colleges in Rajasthan offered EMBA programs on a flexible schedule either weekday evening classes or weekend class enable to work full time while earning MBA degree.
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Vivekanand Institute of Management and Engineering Executive MBA(Part Time), Kota
Vivekananda Institute of Management and Engineering (VIME) is an autonomous institute started with the objective of providing quality education to working professionals. They provide encouragement ...
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The NIIT Imperia Center for Advanced Learning focuses on the professional and educational needs of the professionals who work. It was started in the year 2006. This institute caters long-term...
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Center for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management (CESBM) was founded in the year 2004. This Institute is the first and only university based Entrepreneurship Development Institu...
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Global stocks, dollar slip as U.S.-China trade deadline looms
Andrew Galbraith
By Herbert Lash
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar eased and global stock markets slipped on Tuesday as uncertainty kept risk appetite in check days ahead of the Dec. 15 deadline for a new round of U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports.
Investors were again torn between remarks that suggested a positive outcome to the 17-month U.S.-Sino trade war but also indicated a deal might not come until after U.S. presidential elections in November 2020.
Prospects for an initial "phase one" trade deal look good, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said at a Wall Street Journal event.
But Mulvaney also repeated U.S. President Donald Trump's assertion that he did not feel pressure to get a trade agreement signed with Beijing before the election.
Joe Saluzzi, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading in Chatham, New Jersey, said the mixed signals were typical, but he also sounded a note of caution.
"They're going to posture one way then posture the other way, and that's classic negotiation," Saluzzi said. "That's fine, we can all wait for that. But until you see the actual news, we really don't know."
Stocks meandered near breakeven. MSCI's gauge of stock performance in 49 countries shed 0.11%.
Shares in Europe closed lower while stocks on Wall Street edged higher after Canada, Mexico and the United States agreed to a fresh overhaul of their quarter-century-old regional trade pact known as NAFTA.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 27.88 points, or 0.1%, to 27,881.72, the S&P 500 lost 3.44 points, or 0.11%, to 3,132.52 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 5.64 points, or 0.07%, to 8,616.18.
Emerging market stocks lost 0.12%.
"We seem to be on the cusp on a continued trade detente with China, which is quite a turnaround from a year ago," said Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer at Independent Advisor Alliance in Charlotte, North Carolina.
"But the market is treading water until we find out for certain whether or not those tariffs will be postponed or possibly even walked back," he said.
Investors were also awaiting the outcome of this week's U.S. and European central bank meetings. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold interest rates steady after cutting them three times this year.
U.S. Treasury yields rose after The Wall Street Journal reported that American and Chinese trade negotiators were planning to delay $156 billion in U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports scheduled to take effect on Dec. 15.
Benchmark 10-year notes fell 3/32 in price to yield 1.8416%.
Germany's benchmark Bund yield inched up to -0.29% after the ZEW research institute said its monthly index on economic morale among investors rose to 10.7 from -2.1 a month earlier, much higher than forecasts.
The dollar slipped against the euro on the better-than-expected German economic sentiment survey.
The dollar index fell 0.2%, with the euro up 0.28% to $1.1093.
The Japanese yen weakened 0.18% versus the greenback at 108.77 per dollar.
Oil prices inched up as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' deal with associated producers last week to deepen output cuts in 2020 provided a floor for prices, but the U.S.-China trade tensions clouded the outlook for demand.
Brent crude settled up 9 cents at $64.34 a barrel and West Texas Intermediate oil gained 22 cents to settle at $59.24 a barrel.
Gold got a further lift from dollar weakness and the uncertainties surrounding trade talks. [USD/]
U.S. gold futures settled up 0.2% at $1,468.10 an ounce.
(Reporting by Herbert Lash; Editing by Richard Chang, Sonya Hepinstall and Jonathan Oatis)
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SB2800 SD1 HD1 CD1
Measure Title: RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM CHILD CARE LICENSING.
Report Title: Child Care Licensing; Exemptions
Description: Adds exemptions for any kindergarten, school, or program licensed by the charter school review panel, the Hawaii Council of Private Schools, or any federal agency and certain child care programs conducted by the counties from child care licensing by the department of human services. Effective July 1, 2013. (CD1)
Companion: HB2538
Package: Gov
Current Referral: HUS, EDN, FIN
Introducer(s): TSUTSUI (Introduced by request of another party)
1/25/2012 S Introduced.
1/25/2012 S Passed First Reading.
1/25/2012 S Referred to HMS/EDU.
2/17/2012 S The committee(s) on HMS/EDU has scheduled a public hearing on 02-21-12 1:00PM in conference room 016.
2/21/2012 S The committee(s) on EDU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EDU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Tokuda, Kidani, Chun Oakland, Slom; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Nishihara, Taniguchi.
2/21/2012 S The committee(s) on HMS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HMS were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chun Oakland, Green, Slom; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Ihara.
3/1/2012 S Reported from HMS/EDU (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2442) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
3/1/2012 S Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1).
3/1/2012 S 48 Hrs. Notice 03-06-12.
3/6/2012 S Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 1). Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House.
3/6/2012 H Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 316) in amended form (SD 1).
3/8/2012 H Pass First Reading
3/8/2012 H Referred to HUS, EDN, FIN, referral sheet 41
3/9/2012 H Bill scheduled to be heard by HUS on Monday, 03-12-12 8:30AM in House conference room 329.
3/12/2012 H The committees on HUS recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Mizuno, Jordan, Belatti, Hanohano, C. Lee, Morikawa, Yamane, Ching; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Wooley, Pine.
3/15/2012 H Reported from HUS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1009-12), recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to EDN.
3/15/2012 H Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on EDN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Herkes, Souki excused (2).
3/15/2012 H Bill scheduled to be heard by EDN on Monday, 03-19-12 2:15PM in House conference room 309.
3/19/2012 H The committees on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Takumi, Belatti, Aquino, Awana, Hanohano, Mizuno, Nakashima, Nishimoto, Saiki, Takai, Fontaine, Johanson; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Chang, Wooley.
3/23/2012 H Reported from EDN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1222-12), recommending referral to FIN.
3/23/2012 H Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Herkes excused (1).
3/27/2012 H Bill scheduled to be heard by FIN on Thursday, 03-29-12 10:00AM in House conference room 308.
3/28/2012 H Broadcast of hearing/briefing available. See: www.capitoltv.org
3/29/2012 H The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 16 Ayes: Oshiro, M. Lee, Choy, Cullen, Giugni, Har, Hashem, Ichiyama, Jordan, Kawakami, Morikawa, Tokioka, Yamashita, Marumoto, Riviere, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: C. Lee.
4/5/2012 H Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1688-12) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Third Reading.
4/5/2012 H Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 04-10-12.
4/10/2012 H Passed Third Reading as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0). Transmitted to Senate.
4/12/2012 S Senate disagrees with House amendments.
4/12/2012 H Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 679).
4/16/2012 H House conferees appointed: Mizuno, Takumi, Jordan Co-Chairs; Belatti, Pine.
4/16/2012 S Senate Conferees appointed: Chun Oakland, Chair; Tokuda, Co-Chair(s); Slom.
4/16/2012 H Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 752).
4/17/2012 S Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 611).
4/18/2012 S Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-20-12 3:00PM in conference room 229.
4/20/2012 S Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-24-12 10:00AM in conference room 229.
4/27/2012 S The Conference committee recommends that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes of the Senate Conference Managers were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chun Oakland, Tokuda, Slom; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.
4/27/2012 H The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Mizuno, Takumi, Jordan, Belatti; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Pine.
4/27/2012 H Reported from Conference Committee (Conf Com. Rep. No. 77-12) as amended in (CD 1).
4/27/2012 H Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 05-01-12.
4/27/2012 S Reported from Conference Committee as amended CD 1 (Conf. Com. Rep. No. 77-12).
4/27/2012 S 48 Hrs. Notice (as amended CD 1) 05-01-12.
5/1/2012 S Passed Final Reading, as amended (CD 1). 25 Aye(s); Aye(s) with reservations: none . 0 No(es): none. 0 Excused: none.
5/1/2012 H Passed Final Reading as amended in CD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Marumoto excused (1).
5/1/2012 H Received notice of Final Reading (Sen. Com. No. 831).
5/2/2012 S Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 720).
5/8/2012 S Enrolled to Governor.
6/26/2012 H Act 163, on 6/26/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1266).
6/26/2012 S Act 163, 6/26/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1266).
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Anna Hopkins | May 8, 2019 | 2:42pm
For those unfamiliar with some of the new additions to the Rolling Loud lineup, DaBaby is definitely one to know. The rapper from Charlotte, North Carolina, has been making major waves this year and already boasts a rabid fan base that will undoubtedly be lit at his May 10 performance.
The 27-year-old gained initial fame with his breakout hit “Baby on Baby,” filled with energetic rhymes and creative lyricism. He has been on the map for a few years, in 2016 linking up with South Coast label CEO Arnold Taylor, who connected him with Interscope executives this year. DaBaby inked a deal with the major label in January and has quickly become a force to be reckoned with.
His debut album, named for his first major hit, was released this past March to critical acclaim. It earned an impressive 7.7 on Pitchfork’s notorious album review chart, and its 13 tracks reveal an ascendant raw talent.
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Many will argue that a good test of an artist’s rap chops is freestyling, a skill DaBaby effortlessly checks off his list. Last month, he stopped by Power 106 in Los Angeles to fire off a freestyle with the musical group the L.A. Leakers, in which he floated over the beat to the hit “Act Up” by Miami's City Girls. Off the top, he delivered impeccable bars that showed off not only his lyrical ability but also his charming and lighthearted personality.
Some say that for artists trying to make it, personality is as important as skill, which is another positive for DaBaby. As he makes the rounds with publications, his genuineness and sense of humor ooze from the page.
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To see those qualities, simply watch one of his music videos. In his visual for “Walker Texas Ranger,” which has garnered more than 12 million views since its release in January, DaBaby dons a cowboy hat and displays some impressive footwork as he drives around the countryside and participates in hilarious high jinks. It sounds like a simple concept, but DaBaby’s creativity and humor make it something much more special.
Even more revelatory is his stage presence, which Rolling Loud attendees will witness. During a recent performance, he brought out a special guest — someone dressed in a giant baby costume to dance with him. That wasn't the first time DaBaby took his name literally: He also showed up at South by Southwest 2017 as a baby wearing a diaper.
However, there are some not-so-funny aspects of DaBaby’s past. In November 2018, he was charged in connection with a shooting at a North Carolina Walmart that killed a 19-year-old man. DaBaby later admitted he was involved in the shooting but said he acted in self-defense, according to XXL. Last month, all charges against him were dropped.
Now that DaBaby is signed to a major label and playing major stages such as Rolling Loud, his star will likely continue to rise. At the very least, we’ll certainly continue to see his commitment to his craft. In an interview with Rolling Stone, he responded to a question about why he often begins rapping the very moment the beat drops on his songs.
"It’s just a testament to my hunger. I can’t even wait for the beat to drop to start eating,” he said.
"Anything that’s not given, what’s worked for, I’m gonna take it."
Rolling Loud Miami 2019. With Migos, Travis Scott, Kid Cudi, DaBaby, and others. Friday, May 10, through Sunday, May 12, at Hard Rock Stadium, 347 Don Shula Dr., Miami Gardens; rollingloud.com. General-admission passes cost $429 via frontgatetickets.com.
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Embassy of Switzerland - Foreign Interests Section
Switzerland and Iran
Living in Iran
Embassy of Switzerland in Iran
The Swiss embassy represents Switzerland's interests in the country and provides consular services and visa support for people resident in: Iran
In the absence of diplomatic or consular relations of the United States of America with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Swiss government, acting through its Embassy in Tehran, serves as the Protecting Power of the USA in Iran since 21 May 1980.
Travel advice for Iran
Bilateral relations Switzerland–Iran
Foreign Interests Section © FDFA
In the absence of diplomatic or consular relations of the United States of America with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Swiss government, acting through its Embassy in Tehran, serves as the Protecting Power of the USA in Iran since 21 May 1980. The Swiss Embassy's Foreign Interests Section provides consular services to U.S. citizens living in or travelling to Iran.
Important General Information
U.S. passport holders living in Iran are kindly invited to register at this office and to keep their contact information updated.
The Foreign Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy in Iran cannot perform any U.S. visa, green card or immigration related services. For information on U.S. immigration matters for residents of Iran please check the relevant document under ‘Leaflets’.
The following consular services are provided by the Foreign Interests Section:
Renewal of U.S. passports
First-time U.S. passport applications (only for individuals under the age of 18)
Lost U.S. passports
Registration of births and deaths
Notarizations and authentications
Please check ‘Leaflets’ for additional information and requirements.
Any consular services require a prior appointment. To make an appointment please call the Foreign Interests Section at (+98 21) 2254 2178.
Please make sure to be on time for your appoinment; late arrivals or no shows need to make a new appointment. If you have to cancel your appoinment please inform this section at least 48 hours in advance.
For the collection of issued U.S. passports no appointment is needed.
The processing time from the time of application for routine passport applications is approximately 4-6 weeks and for birth registrations approximately 6-8 weeks.
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs
Virtual U.S. Embassy Iran
U.S. Embassy in Yerevan
U.S. Embassy in Ankara
U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul
U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi
U.S. Consulate General in Dubai
U.S. Social Security Administration
U.S. Diplomatic and Consular Posts in neighboring countries to Iran (PDF, Page 1, 233.7 kB, English)
U.S. Immigration Affairs (visa, green card etc.)
(PDF, Page 1, 241.4 kB, English)
Notarization / Authentication
Simplified Renewal of U.S. Passports for Eligible Individuals (PDF, 477.3 kB, English)
Ordinary Renewal of U.S. Passports (PDF, 468.5 kB, English)
Lost or Stolen U.S. Passports - Replacement
First U.S. Passport Applications for persons born in the U.S. (PDF, Number of pages 2, 326.3 kB, English)
U.S. Passport Application under Child Citizenship Act of 2000 (PDF, Number of pages 2, 325.8 kB, English)
Birth Registration and First U.S. Passport Application for persons born in Iran (PDF, Number of pages 2, 326.1 kB, English)
U.S. Passport Photo Requirements (PDF, Page 1, 261.5 kB, English)
Replace or Amend a Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA) (PDF, Number of pages 2, 457.7 kB, English)
Report of Death of a U.S. citizen abroad (PDF, Page 1, 235.0 kB, English)
Disposition of Remains Report
(PDF, Number of pages 3, 111.5 kB)
U.S. Social Security Card - First time application (PDF, Page 1, 285.4 kB)
Lost or Stolen U.S. Social Security Card - Replacement (PDF, Page 1, 238.1 kB, English)
U.S. Social Security Retirement Benefits (PDF, Page 1, 288.4 kB, English)
U.S. Social Security Survivor Benefits
List of English Speaking Physicians in Tehran (PDF, Number of pages 3, 488.1 kB, English)
Fees for Consular Services
(PDF, 215.7 kB, English)
Holiday Schedule (PDF, 835.3 kB, multilingual: English, Farsy)
If you wish to do so as a preparation, you can fill in the respective form before you visit this office in order to make sure that you have all the required information at hand. Please note that the forms may not be submitted electronically and that the staff of the Foreign Interests Section will have to issue new applications based on your indications for transmission to the U.S. authorities.
U.S. Passport Renewal Application for Eligible Individuals (Form DS-82) (PDF, 522.9 kB)
Application for a U.S. Passport (Form DS-11) (PDF, 261.0 kB)
Application for Consular Report of Birth Abroad of a Citizen of the United States of America (Form DS-2029) (PDF, 110.1 kB)
Statement of Consent: Issuance of a U.S. Passport to a Minor Under Age 16 (Form DS-3053) (PDF, 52.8 kB)
Authorization for the Release of Information under the Privacy Act (Form DS-5505)
Statement regarding a Lost or Stolen U.S. Passport Book and/or Card (Form DS-64) (PDF, 73.0 kB)
Application for a Social Security Card (Form SS-5-FS) (PDF, Number of pages 6, 211.1 kB)
Foreign Interests Section
No. 39, Shahid Mousavi St.
Golestan 5th, Pasdaran Ave.
Headquarters +98 21 22 54 21 78
Headquarters tehran.fi@eda.admin.ch
P.O. Box 19395-4683
19649-63751 Tehran
Appointments for consular services can be made by phone. The Foreign Interests Section can be reached by phone Sunday through Thursday (except on public holidays according to the holiday schedule under 'Downloads').
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In this Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, photo, a medic administers medicine to a recovering drug addict at a de-addiction center in Kapurthala, in the northern Indian state of Punjab. Researchers estimate about 4 million Indians use heroin or other opioids, and a quarter of them live in the Punjab, India’s agricultural heartland bordering Pakistan. These pills, the world had been told, were safer than the OxyContins, the Vicodins, the fentanyls that had wreaked so much devastation. But now they are the root of what the United Nations named “the other opioid crisis,” an epidemic featured in fewer headlines than the American one, as it rages through the most vulnerable places on the planet. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
In this Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, photo, a recovering tramadol drug user signs a register after taking her medication at a de-addiction center in Kapurthala, in the northern Indian state of Punjab. India has twice the global average of illicit opiate consumption. Researchers estimate 4 million Indians use heroin or other opioids, and a quarter of them live in the Punjab, India’s agricultural heartland bordering Pakistan, where some of the most vulnerable are driven to drugs out of desperation. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
In this Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, photo, a recovering tramadol addict waits for her medication at a de-addiction center in Kapurthala, in the northern Indian state of Punjab. The pills were everywhere, as legitimate medication sold in pharmacies, but also illicit counterfeits hawked by itinerant peddlers and street vendors. India has twice the global average of illicit opiate consumption. Researchers estimate about 4 million Indians use heroin or other opioids, and a quarter of them live in the Punjab, India’s agricultural heartland bordering Pakistan. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Reports rolled in with escalating urgency — pills seized by the truckload, pills swallowed by schoolchildren, pills in the pockets of dead terrorists.
These pills, the world has been told, are safer than the OxyContins, the Vicodins, the fentanyls that have wreaked so much devastation. But now they are the root of what the United Nations named “the other opioid crisis” — an epidemic featured in fewer headlines than the American one, as it rages through the planet’s most vulnerable countries.
Mass abuse of the opioid tramadol spans continents, from India to Africa to the Middle East, creating international havoc some experts blame on a loophole in narcotics regulation and a miscalculation of the drug’s danger. The man-made opioid was touted as a way to relieve pain with little risk of abuse. Unlike other opioids, tramadol flowed freely around the world, unburdened by international controls that track most dangerous drugs.
But abuse is now so rampant that some countries are asking international authorities to intervene.
Grunenthal, the German company that originally made the drug, is campaigning for the status quo, arguing that it’s largely illicit counterfeit pills causing problems. International regulations make narcotics difficult to get in countries with disorganized health systems, the company says, and adding tramadol to the list would deprive suffering patients access to any opioid at all.
“This is a huge public health dilemma,” said Dr. Gilles Forte, the secretary of the World Health Organization’s committee that recommends how drugs should be regulated. Tramadol is available in war zones and impoverished nations because it is unregulated. But it is widely abused for the same exact reason. “It’s a really very complicated balance to strike.”
Tramadol has not been as deadly as other opioids, and the crisis isn’t killing with the ferocity of America’s struggle with the drugs. Still, individual governments from the U.S. to Egypt to Ukraine have realized the drug’s dangers are greater than was believed and have worked to rein in the tramadol trade. The north Indian state of Punjab, the centre of India’s opioid epidemic, was the latest to crack down. The pills were everywhere, as legitimate medication sold in pharmacies, but also illicit counterfeits hawked by street vendors.
This year, authorities seized hundreds of thousands of tablets, banned most pharmacy sales and shut down pill factories, pushing the price from 35 cents for a 10-pack to $14. The government opened a network of treatment centres, fearing those who had become opioid addicted would resort to heroin out of desperation. Hordes of people rushed in, seeking help in managing excruciating withdrawal.
For some, tramadol had become as essential as food.
“Like if you don’t eat, you start to feel hungry. Similar is the case with not taking it,” said auto shop welder Deepak Arora, a gaunt 30-year-old who took 15 tablets day, so much he had to steal from his family to pay for pills. “You are like a dead person.”
Jeffery Bawa, an officer with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, realized what was happening in 2016, when he travelled to Mali in western Africa, one of the world’s poorest countries, gripped by civil war and terrorism. They asked people for their most pressing concerns. Most did not say hunger or violence. They said tramadol.
One woman said children stumble down the streets, high on the opioid; parents add it to tea to dull the ache of hunger. Nigerian officials said at a United Nations meeting on tramadol trafficking that the number of people there living with addiction is now far higher than the number with AIDS or HIV.
Tramadol is so pervasive in Cameroon scientists a few years ago believed they’d discovered a natural version in tree roots. But it was not natural at all: Farmers bought pills and fed them to their cattle to ward off the effects of debilitating heat. Their waste contaminated the soil, and the chemical seeped into the trees.
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Police began finding pills on terrorists, who traffic it to fund their networks and take it to bolster their capacity for violence, Bawa said.
Most of it was coming from India. The country’s sprawling pharmaceutical industry is fueled by cheap generics. Pill factories produce knock-offs and ship them in bulk around the world, in doses far exceeding medical limits.
In 2017, law enforcement reported that $75 million worth of tramadol from India was confiscated en route to the Islamic State terror group. Authorities intercepted 600,000 tablets headed for Boko Haram. Another 3 million were found in a pickup truck in Niger, in boxes disguised with U.N. logos. The agency warned that tramadol was playing “a direct role in the destabilization of the region.”
“We cannot let the situation get any further out of control,” that alert read.
Grunenthal maintains that tramadol has a low risk of abuse; most of the pills causing trouble are knock-offs, not legitimate pharmaceuticals, and American surveys have shown lower levels of abuse than other prescription painkillers. The company submitted a report to the WHO in 2014, saying that the abuse evident in “a limited number of countries,” should be viewed “in the context of the political and social instabilities in the region.”
But some wealthy countries worried about increasing abuse also have acted to contain the drug.
The United Kingdom and United States both regulated it in 2014. Tramadol was uncontrolled in Denmark until 2017, when journalists asked doctors to review studies submitted to regulators to support the claim that it has a low risk for addiction, said Dr. Karsten Juhl Jorgensen, acting director of the Nordic Cochrane Centre and one of the physicians who analyzed the materials. They all agreed that the documents did not prove it’s safer.
“We know that opioids are some of the most addictive drugs on the face of the planet, so the claim that you’ve developed one that’s not addictive, that’s an extraordinary claim, and extraordinary claims require evidence. And it just wasn’t there,” said Jorgensen. “We’ve all been cheated, and people are angry about that.”
Jorgensen compares claims that tramadol is low risk to those made by American companies now facing thousands of lawsuits alleging misleading campaigns touting the safety of opioids unleashed the U.S. addiction epidemic.
Stefano Berterame, a chief at the International Narcotics Control Board, said there is a critical difference: The crisis is not as deadly as the American one, which began with prescription opioids and transitioned to heroin and fentanyl. Tramadol does not as routinely cause the respiratory depression that leads to overdose death.
But it is mostly afflicting poor nations, where overdose statistics are erratic, he said, so the true toll of tramadol is unknown.
The United Nations established the International Narcotics Control Board in 1961 to spare the world the “serious evil” of addiction. It has since tracked most opioids.
Tramadol’s exemption means authorization isn’t required as the drug moves across borders. Its easy availability also leads to confusion about what tramadol even is, experts say. In many countries, it is thought to be a mood enhancer or treatment for depression and post-traumatic stress. Some take it to improve sexual stamina or endure grueling labour.
Grunenthal synthesized tramadol in the 1960s, as the company was embroiled in scandal over its marketing of the sedative thalidomide, which caused extreme birth defects in thousands of babies whose mothers took it. Tramadol was initially believed to have a low risk of abuse because initial trials studied injected tramadol, the most potent route for most opioids. But researchers later found that tramadol releases a far more powerful dose taken orally because of how it is metabolized by the liver.
Tramadol’s worldwide market quickly expanded in the 1990s. In 2000, the WHO, which assesses medications and recommends scheduling, noted reports of dependence. A committee has reviewed the drug numerous times since, recommended it remain under surveillance but declined to add international regulation.
There is no alternative to tramadol, said Forte, the committee’s secretary. It is the only opioid available in some of the world’s most desperate places; relief organizations rely on it in war zones and natural disasters. It is used extensively not because it is a particularly good medication, he said. The most effective opioid is morphine, but morphine is strictly controlled and countries in crisis fear abuse. Tramadol became the default precisely because it’s uncontrolled.
The WHO is analyzing whether any other drug could take its place but have so far found none. Meanwhile, Forte said, the agency is working with battered nations to ferret out counterfeits.
Legitimate tramadol remains a lucrative business: market research estimates the global market amounts to around $1.4 billion, according to Grunenthal. The medication long ago lost its patent protection. It is now manufactured by many companies and sold under some 500 brand names. Grunenthal markets it as Tramal as well as Zaldiar, tramadol combined with paracetamol. In 2018, those products brought in 174 million euros ($191 million), according to the company’s annual report.
“Our purpose at Grunenthal is to develop and deliver medicines and solutions which address the unmet needs of patients with the goal of improving their quality of life,” the company wrote in a statement that said it acknowledges opioids pose a risk of abuse and addiction. “”We do so with the highest ethical standards.”
Grunenthal also sells other opioids and is expanding around the world. The Associated Press this year revealed executives were swept up in an Italian corruption case alleging they illegally paid a doctor to promote the use of opioids.
The company has campaigned to keep tramadol unregulated. It funded surveys that found regulation would impede pain treatment and paid consultants to travel to the WHO to make their case that it’s safer that other opioids.
Spokesman Stepan Kracala said regulation would not necessarily curtail illicit trade and could backfire: Some desperate pain patients turn to the black market if no legal options exist. Egypt’s long struggle with tramadol abuse is an example, he said. The country enacted strict regulation in 2012 and a later survey found some suffering from cancer using counterfeit tramadol for relief.
Kracala also pointed to regulato
ry decisions as proof of tramadol’s comparable safety: The U.S. in 2014 added tramadol to its list of controlled substances but included it in a lesser category than opioids like oxycodone or morphine, signalling it is less risky.
There are growing calls to chan
ge that.
The Mayo Clinic hospital in Minnesota worked to reduce opioids prescribed post-surgery as the American epidemic escalated, said surgeon Cornelius Thiels. Doctors there started shifting patients to tramadol because it was billed as safer. But Thiels and his colleagues analyzed prescription data and were surprised to find patients prescribed tramadol were just as likely to move on to long-term use.
They published their findings this year to alert authorities, he said: “There is no safe opioid. Tramadol is not a safe alternative. It’s a mistake that we didn’t figure it out sooner. It’s unfortunate that it took us this long. There’s a lot more that we need to learn about it, but I think we know enough that we also can’t wait around to act on this.”
Indian regulators knew the massive quantities manufactured in the country were spilling over domestically and countless Indians were addicted. But S.K. Jha, responsible for the northern region of India’s Narcotics Control Bureau, said he was shocked to learn in 2018 that tramadol from India was ravaging African nations. They realized then they needed to act, he said.
India regulated tramadol in April 2018. Regulators say exports overseas and abuse at home came down. But they acknowledge that the vastness of the pharmaceutical industry and the ingenuity of traffickers makes curtailing abuse and illegal exports all but impossible. Tramadol is still easy to find.
Jyoti Rani stood on her front steps and pointed to house after house where she said tramadol is still sold in her neighbourhood of narrow roads and open drains, where school-aged boys sit hunched over the street in the middle of a weekday.
Rani’s addiction began with heroin. When her 14-year-old son died, she fell into depression.
“I wanted to kill myself, but I ended up becoming an addict,” she cried. A doctor prescribed tramadol to help kick the habit — instead, she formed a new one. She locked herself in her room, not eating or taking care of her two children. Rani used tramadol until she ran out of money and entered treatment. Now her family tells her she’s her old self again.
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The crackdown on tramadol coincided with the opening of dozens of addiction clinics that administer medicine and counselling to more than 30,000 each day.
“We are trying our level best,” Jha said, “but it’s a challenge for all of us.”
Countries’ efforts to control tramadol on their own often fail, particularly in places where addiction has taken hold, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
India has twice the global average of illicit opiate consumption. Researchers estimate 4 million Indians use heroin or other opioids, and a quarter of them live in the Punjab, India’s agricultural heartland bordering Pakistan, where some of the most vulnerable are driven to drugs out of desperation.
Amandeep Kaur was pregnant when her husband died of a heart attack. She turned to the sex trade to make ends meet. She wanted not to feel, and a fellow sex worker suggested tramadol. She had no idea she’d get addicted, but eventually needed three pills to get through the day.
“If I didn’t have it I felt lifeless, my body ached as if I was going to die,” she said, and joined the line stretching from the addiction clinic’s doors.
This story was produced with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Associated Press journalist Rishi Lekhi contributed to this report.
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By Zoe Suen January 7, 2020 05:20
Global fashion brands are still learning how to leverage powerful apps like WeChat and TikTok, but Asia’s digital ecosystem has already hatched the next generation of social platforms. With hundreds of millions of users ready to be converted into consumers, brands need to invest now.
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LONDON, United Kingdom — It has become abundantly clear that the future of digital connectivity lies in Asia. Beyond the sheer number of “next-gen” social media platforms cropping up across the continent, it is the speed at which they evolve that stuns the average marketing executive. Dozens of dynamic networks mingle and collide in this region’s vast, vibrant and increasingly tangled ecosystem where the variety on offer can overwhelm would-be partners and fashion brands alike.
Though tech hubs from Stockholm to Tel Aviv have been heralded the “next Silicon Valley,” the “social media industry in Asia is advanced and more competitive than [those in] other regions,” says Hiromi Yamaguchi, a Tokyo-based senior analyst at market research firm Euromonitor.
While growth on major social media platforms is slowing in western economies, the potential looks brighter in the east. GSMA Intelligence forecasts that in Asia Pacific the rate for unique mobile penetration will grow from 67 percent in 2017 to 73 percent by 2025 and that the region will account for just over half of new mobile subscribers globally by the same year.
The region’s early rollout of 4G and then 5G networks and the mobile-first nature of consumer behaviour has long meant that Asia is a natural environment for social media to flourish. The result of these and other digital advancements is that Asia is now where the bulk of social innovation is happening — so much so that Silicon Valley’s giants have begun to imitate their new eastern rivals.
Earlier this year, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to reshape Facebook’s social networking apps into a super-app, not unlike China’s WeChat, South Korea’s KakaoTalk, Indonesia’s Gojek or Japan’s Line. More recently, Google began moving toward the super-app model through its new Spot platform in India, which will allow businesses to create in-app experiences accessible through Google Pay (mirroring WeChat’s mini programme function and Gojek’s multi-service model).
A gap is widening between local Asian fashion players [...] and global fashion players.
These and other Asian behemoths have become an indispensable part of daily life across the continent, but global fashion players — many of which rely on young Asian shoppers to keep their businesses buoyant — have only begun to wake up to their potential.
Greater Fluency and Earlier Adoption Is Needed
While mobile users in the west remain tethered to their Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat accounts, Asia’s local social platforms continue to optimise and pioneer new functions at a dizzying pace, preparing to usurp screen time from the global giants. The same can be said about the fashion companies trying to harness these “next-gen” social platforms.
A gap is widening between local Asian fashion players, typically fast and fluent in local platforms, and global fashion players, often slow to adapt and not as fluent as they need to be. So long as this gap remains, the former will have a marketing advantage over the latter. International fashion brands and retailers must move faster to keep up.
Tech experts and marketers are now marvelling at the astronomical rise of Chinese social video platform TikTok, which raked in 188 million downloads in 2019’s first quarter and continues to dominate global rankings, according to mobile app intelligence firm Sensor Tower. But global recognition of TikTok — and of its Beijing-based parent company Bytedance — came late.
Two years before the global fashion and beauty industry woke up to the popularity of TikTok, local Chinese brands recognised the opportunity of Douyin, TikTok’s sister app. Douyin was launched by Bytedance in 2016 and has since lured Chanel and Dior to build their own accounts. While not every brand can be an early adopter and not every platform is suitable for every brand, it is important to be nimble enough to deploy a dedicated social strategy for platforms when the time is right.
People [in Asia] don’t hold onto legacy behaviours such as using Facebook or sticking with credit cards instead of mobile payment.
Thanks to the rapid economic development that took China by storm (and is now sweeping through India and Southeast Asian economies like Vietnam), mobile users in these countries appear to be more receptive to the unfamiliar.
“People [in Asia] don’t hold onto legacy behaviours such as using Facebook or sticking with credit cards instead of mobile payment,” says Arnold Ma, founder and chief executive of Chinese digital marketing agency Qumin. “When something new comes out, people welcome it with open arms.”
This explains why tech currents increasingly flow from the east. “The west is just seeing successful examples and copying it,” Ma says. “They’re using Asia as a guinea pig.”
Staying on top of Asian social platform developments is not only important to better reach consumers in Asia. Brands can also apply learnings from social media trends in Asia to their business elsewhere, giving them an edge over competitors in non-Asian markets. So, what do Asia’s next-gen social media foretell?
Vertical Communities in the Era of Nichification
“Human beings don’t live their lives as one massive community on one platform. We’re specific about the activities we engage in,” wrote Kavin Bharti Mittal, the founder and chief executive of up-and-coming Indian messenger app Hike, in a blog post. In 2016, Hike raised $175 million in funding from Tencent and Softbank.
“It would be the norm as these new social networks cater to a more verticalised audience,” Mittal continued, referring to “the rise of social niches” as the future of social media.
While not all up-and-coming platforms will become social media channels or advertising partners for fashion and beauty marketers, they help colour in a wider picture of how people will communicate, shop and seek entertainment.
Elijah Whaley, vice president of growth at Shanghai-based Acorn Digital, echoes that Asia’s successful next-gen platforms are catering to users’ “psychographic and demographic appeals.” He cites Bilibili, a Chinese short video platform that emerged almost a decade ago as a community for anime lovers and gamers, but since grew into a NASDAQ-listed company boasting over 110 million monthly active users (MAUs) watching videos on topics from gaming and e-sports to makeup and wardrobes.
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Though largely untapped by global brands, Bilibili’s audience is predominantly Gen-Z and the company recorded net revenues (from in-game purchases, live-stream transactions, advertising and e-commerce) of $224 million for the second quarter of 2019 — a 50 percent year-on-year boost. Despite a “no advertisements” policy, it inked a deal with Alibaba’s Taobao in 2019 to connect its creators with the e-commerce marketplace.
A platform more familiar to fashion and beauty marketers is Chinese social e-commerce unicorn Xiaohongshu, which caters to millennial women looking for beauty, fashion and lifestyle recommendations. Years before Instagram unlocked in-app purchasing, the Shanghai-based company set a precedent for successful e-commerce functionality within a social media, community-centric infrastructure, finding a seamless balance that global retailers and tech firms will probably try to replicate for years to come.
But in addition to its success as a social e-commerce hybrid, Xiaohongshu tailors its experience to users’ various social niches. When a user responds well to content, be it lipstick swatches, Tokyo restaurant recommendations or weight-lifting tutorials, their ‘Explore’ page adapts accordingly, and immediately.
By contrast, Instagram’s ‘Explore’ page algorithm has been known to, as Refinery 29 described it, get “out of whack.”
Xiaohongshu recently found its male-centric equivalent in Chao, which allows users to join communities of interest from Star Wars to the brand Supreme. “Firms are creating products and aggregating communities with more in common with each other, and developing functionality specifically tailored to their needs,” Whaley says.
The list of increasingly specialised social apps goes on: while India’s “interest-based community app” Helo specialises in viral news, Beijing-based social network Douban appeals to users interested in arts and culture (and could be an option for the likes of Chanel, which invests in global exhibitions and an arts and culture podcast).
South Korean app WeVerse — developed by the entertainment label behind global boy-band phenomenon BTS — allows K-Pop idols to communicate with their fans across the globe. Considering the clout of stars such as Gucci global ambassador Kai (of boy-band EXO), Jisoo and Chanel house ambassador Jennie Kim (of Blackpink), the platform has the potential to become an asset for luxury houses eyeing K-Pop’s young audience.
Meanwhile, science-backed skincare companies could appeal to consumers by reaching out to key opinion leaders (KOLs) on knowledge-sharing platforms like Zhihu, the Chinese Quora clone-turned education and social community. According to iResearch, 80 percent of Zhihu’s registered users have a bachelor’s degree or above.
“You find a lot of sharing on social media but it’s hard to know what to trust,” says Yash Mehta, Bengaluru-based tech columnist and contributor to Tech in Asia. “A platform where you know a person has a subject-matter expertise through a badging system is in great demand.”
Even blogging and messaging apps are becoming more tailored to reflect IRL vertical communities and will provide brands with a unique opportunity to communicate with shoppers, take customer service to new heights and cultivate vertical communities with high engagement.
A platform where you know a person has a subject-matter expertise through a badging system is in great demand.
As Hike climbs the ranks in India, messaging app Telegram has drawn 300 million monthly users across Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines as well as parts of the Middle East and Eastern Europe, by allowing people to customise their messaging experiences. The encrypted app (a draw for increasingly privacy-minded users in some of these markets) also includes a platform for developers, allowing anyone to build specialised tools and integrate services. Where retailers are already using personal exchanges to build relationships with consumers over WeChat and WhatsApp, Telegram, while still quiet where global brands are concerned, could prove integral for Southeast Asia. British e-commerce site Asos has already set up its own channel.
Social apps that focus on dating and women’s empowerment are also potentially lucrative marketing channels. Take Singapore-based Dayre, a female-only paid blogging app and network, that aims to foster “a safe space where women could come together to express themselves in whatever way they choose” — a community and ethos that could appeal to women-focused brands from Glossier to intimates brand ThirdLove.
Couples’ messaging apps such as Japan’s Pairs and South Korea’s Between are also thriving, allowing users to communicate, share media and match their schedules — a channel with potential for luxury brands looking to market Valentine’s Day campaigns and gifting-friendly items such as jewellery, accessories and perfume.
Customised Content Meets Cutting Edge Technology
Despite the move toward nichification, some big platforms that serve broader audiences will continue to perform well for fashion and beauty brands, but only by investing in sophisticated new functions.
Live streams, for all the attention they have garnered, aren’t losing steam. Singaporean Bigo Technology’s live streaming and short video apps Likee Video and Bigo Live both ranked in Sensor Tower’s top ten social media apps globally in August 2019. But users are spoilt for choice and the space is competitive.
Regionality is key to understanding how to spread a brand’s marketing spend. According to SimilarWeb, Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian audiences are partial to Bigo Live, TikTok and Tango, while Livza is an Indian favourite and Japan loves Pococha Live. In China, YY.com, Inke, Huajiao and Yizhibo are just a few of the contenders, while giants like Alibaba’s Taobao, Tencent’s WeChat and Xiaohongshu have all optimised their apps with live stream functions of their own.
Beauty brands in particular should pay attention to Asian live stream opportunities. Live stream influencer Li Jiaqi, also known as China’s “Lipstick Prince,” rose to fame for reportedly selling over 15,000 lipsticks in just 15 minutes on Taobao. But the medium is also being used by luxury houses, from live streaming runway shows and makeup demos (cue Burberry and Dior) to advertising and seeding products to influencers and celebrities. Such platforms may cater to a younger demographic, but users aren’t afraid to spend. According to Sensor Tower, Douyin and TikTok grossed $11.7 million through in-app sales of virtual coins in July 2019 alone.
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One of Japan and South Korea’s favourite apps, Snow was launched as a Snapchat dupe by Korean internet search giant Naver but has since abandoned messaging functions to focus on helping users take flattering selfies and videos with an impressive array of augmented reality filters. Last year, Snow raised $50 million from Softbank and Sequoia Capital China, and as of January 2019, James Mattone reported that Snow ranks among the top 100 apps for MAUs via Facebook logins, beating Netflix and ubiquitous US payments app Venmo.
Snow has already seen its share of fashion and beauty ads, but its augmented reality and facial recognition capabilities (the result of a partnership with Hong Kong-based AI unicorn SenseTime) will enable global brands to craft new online-offline experiences.
Artificial intelligence will become more integral to engagement. On Douyin (and TikTok, as well as rival apps like Xigua), users’ home pages feature an AI-powered curation of content. “Rather than having a niche platform, I think all this content will live under the same platform, but everyone will have a different experience according to what they want,” says Ma. “It will all be tailored to users.”
In September, Douyin launched a game-changing in-video search function, allowing users to select a person or item of clothing and search for other posts containing them or buy the goods directly. “Brands need to be working toward how they can leverage the direction that social is moving to, and they need to be doing that now,” Ma wrote online.
“This is merely the tip of the iceberg.”
Super-Apps Morphing into Operating Systems
Though standalone apps will become more targeted, personalised and community-centric, super-apps won’t stop being a valuable channel for engagement and sales.
Take WeChat, which in early 2019 announced that its daily active users had hit a staggering one billion. Growth is now slowing down, however, and some users are abandoning the super-app.Research firm Jiguang estimates that only 15 percent of people born after 2000 post daily on WeChat, as younger users dedicate more screen-time to platforms like Douyin (51 percent of the latter’s user base was born after 1995).
Though some users may look elsewhere for their social media needs, Ma doesn’t think WeChat will lose its dominance in China. Fortunately for parent company Tencent, the platform has morphed into something far greater than a social media tool.
“WeChat will never be irrelevant as a social operating system, with the utilities it provides such as mini programmes,” he says, referring to the app-in-app function allowing users to access other platforms and perform transactions without leaving WeChat’s interface — not unlike software such as Apple’s iOS that grants a user the opportunity to run other applications.
Brands need to be working toward how they can leverage the direction that social is moving to.
Louis Vuitton, Celine and Dior have all invested in e-commerce and gamified mini programmes of their own for the super-app, and Armani beauty partnered with L’Oréal this year to launch theirs: an augmented reality virtual try-on shop that allowed users to try on lip colours without leaving their seat, or WeChat. “[WeChat is] more of a platform for other apps now,” Ma adds.
It is a similar positioning for Line, which in addition to 81 million MAUs in Japan has an avid user base in Thailand and Indonesia (amounting to 194 million globally) and counts Fendi and Dyptique as advertisers. Line users are likely to stick around for its range of services from mobile payments to navigation, if not the whole package. “Line has penetrated into every corner of Japanese lifestyle,” Euromonitor’s Yamaguchi says.
Yet fashion and luxury brands have so far been less willing to invest in ways to leverage super-apps like Line, South Korea’s KakaoTalk or Indonesia’s Gojek. Most have been focusing all their efforts to keep up with WeChat in China. China’s colossal size may be the justification, but that does not discount missed opportunities elsewhere using Asia’s other super-apps.
Despite the domination of super-apps, the rise of hyper-personalised platforms also presents fresh opportunities to reach an engaged and targeted audience. This is good news for brands, given the rising costs of acquiring and retaining consumers in competitive markets like China: the cost per thousand user views (CPM) of advertisements placed on Tmall has increased by an average of 60 percent since 2017, according to McKinsey’s ‘China Digital Consumer Trends in 2019’ report.
Either way, companies will be empowered to tailor their offerings and activations to their platform of choice, and each platform will acquire a stronger purpose. “Connect with your audience in different ways on different platforms, adapt your strategy [and] tactics to the user behaviours on various platforms and you will be rewarded for your effort,” advises Ma.
Connect with your audience in different ways on different platforms, adapt your strategy.
As ever, the caveat is for fashion players to ensure that any new platforms align with the brand’s DNA and objectives — and, wherever possible, to create content especially for that platform. For apps like Douyin, this means highly engaging content in a vertical short-video format. “Don’t use recycled videos from other channels and previous campaigns because the type of video that works well is very different and unique to Douyin,” Ma adds.
Though strategies will vary per platform, Whaley predicts that the brands who get the most out of “next-gen” social media will be the ones who see them through the eyes of everyday users. “Brands are always promoting or selling, and they forget that being on social media should be a social experience,” he warns.
Above all, crafting an engaging brand voice is what ties a digital presence together, especially on platforms that are new to brands. “Take a value-first approach to communication. Don’t miss the vision of being [genuine] communities,” Whaley adds.
Cutting-edge social platforms from Asia represent a lucrative opportunity in more ways than one, but for fashion and beauty players to cash in, they will need to remember to build trust and credibility on each platform.
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The Donald Trump phenomenon is "reality television moral sewage", according to the head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
Speaking on CBS News 'Face the Nation', Russell Moore said a key tenet of conservatism was that "character matters" and that "virtue has an important role to play in our culture and in our politics". Now, he said, "we have a Republican party that seems ready not only to surrender on the culture wars but to join the other side".
Moore has been a trenchant critic of Trump, saying in an op-ed for the New York Times that opposition to the property mogul would put evangelicals "on the right side of Jesus" and that "The man on the throne in heaven is a dark-skinned, Aramaic-speaking 'foreigner' who is probably not all that impressed by chants of 'Make America great again'." However, his remarks on the programme are some of his hardest hits against Trump and evangelical Republicans who vote for him.
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27-year-old credits PMV Canada for leap into Saint John development business
As Fredericton-based PMV Canada makes its final withdrawal from Saint John's rental housing market, Adam Pottle has nothing but fond thoughts of the company.
Adam Pottle bought 3 PMV Canada properties for $107K
Connell Smith · CBC News · Posted: Jan 13, 2020 7:00 AM AT | Last Updated: January 13
Adam Pottle stands in front of his four-unit heritage building. (Connell Smith, CBC)
"To the PMV people, honestly, thanks," said Pottle.
The 27-year-old landlord credits the often discredited company with getting him into the development business.
Just over a year ago he'd never been a homeowner.
But today Pottle owns a four-unit building in the Orange Street Heritage District. His own apartment has a spectacular view of the Bay of Fundy, while tenants in the three other newly renovated units pay his mortgage and expenses.
"It's absolutely an income property [and] without that excessive a mortgage on it either," he said. "It definitely turns a profit every month. It's clean, it's dry, everything's freshly redone."
PMV arrived in Saint John in a big way in 2016, buying up dozens of older wood frame apartment houses in a bankruptcy sale.
Developer PMV sells Saint John buildings as city demolishes others
At the time, the company promised to renovate many of the buildings and demolish a handful that were in poor condition.
Pottle swapped out kitchens and windows, and added new floors. His tenants now cover the mortgage and other expenses. (Connell Smith, CBC)
But while the company did renovation work on some of its more profitable rental properties, others were left vacant and dilapidated.
Municipal bylaw enforcement staff eventually moved in. City councillors later approved demolition of at least eight PMV buildings before the company decided to pull up stakes.
With PMV's retreat underway, Pottle purchased three properties from the company. They include, his own building at 147 Orange St., the two units next door at 151, and an empty building lot at 153.
The total cost was $107,000.
He flipped the building at 151 for $20,000 to a Toronto owner who, he says, is planning to renovate it. He then listed the empty lot for $39,000.
City of Saint John cracks down on developer PMV
But the renovation of the four-unit was a challenge. There were broken windows. Someone had been squatting in the building. There were hundreds of used needles. And the floor of another unit was covered in Warfarin blocks to control rodents.
Five dumpster loads, mostly containing junk, were hauled to the landfill.
PMV Canada purchased dozens of Saint John properties but is in the process of retreating from the city. (CBC)
On the plus side, said Pottle, the previous owner had made a good start on some important upgrades.
"PMV had actually taken care of a lot of the electrical, and they had modernized the plumbing. So a lot of stuff had been done, but things weren't necessarily connected to the right unit."
Pottle hired a contractor to swap out windows, renovate kitchens and replace floors, and rebuild the front entrance. Finding tenants was surprisingly easy as each unit became available.
The experience has fostered a love for heritage development in him. Pottle is now eyeing another central peninsula multi-unit.
Now he's urging other Saint Johners to get involved in the business.
"People need to realize it's not that hard. I'm not a wealthy guy," he said. "I've got a normal, average-paying desk job and I was able to go into the bank and put a case together."
Connell Smith
Connell Smith is a reporter with CBC in Saint John. He can be reached at 632-7726 Connell.smith@cbc.ca
Developer PMV's long goodbye to Saint John
Saint John to demolish vacant building owned by PMV Canada
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Irish Citizen Arrested As Passport Imposter At Champlain Port Of Entry
CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the Champlain Port of Entry arrested a subject who attempted entry into the U.S. by the false use of a passport.
“Our officers are expertly trained in imposter detection,” said Port Director Paul Mongillo. “This arrest displays their high attention to detail when inspecting travelers.”
An individual is considered an imposter when they present a travel document that does not belong to them in an attempt to gain entry into the U.S.
Suspect arrested at Champlain Port of Entry as passport imposter.
CBP Officers encountered Rowan Taylor, a 27 year-old male Irish citizen traveling on a bus. Taylor presented an Italian passport bearing a different photo and name to enter the United States. CBP officers used observational and interview techniques along with biometric verification to determine Taylor’s false passport use.
Taylor was arrested by CBP officers, and later presented before a U.S. federal magistrate. He was charged with Misuse of a Passport and remanded into custody pending a detention hearing.
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On a typical day in Fiscal Year 2015, CBP officers intercepted 75 individuals attempting to gain entry to the U.S. with the fraudulent use of a travel document.
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Животът на книгата
Author(s): Anna Angelova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2017
The text deals with a special kind of books - those special editions that make us aware of long-passed events and tell about personalities and ideas that marked the course of history and science. Some of the most curious specimens searched and collected by the bibliophiles are the so-called “curiosities”.
За видовете интернет форуми по съдържание
Author(s): Rusin Kotsev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2017
Тhe paper is an attempt to overcome the asymmetry in the descriptions of web forums as a genre of Internet communication. It supports the classification based on content by challenging the differentiation of forums according to their communicative goals.
За новото стандартно издание на Универсалната десетична класификация на български език
Author(s): Antoaneta Totomanova,Alexandra Dipchikova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2017
The article briefly traces the development and distribution of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) on a global level. A particular emphasis is placed on the future role of the classification as an ontology in the semantic network and the work that is carried out in establishing interactions with other systems for organizing the contents of a library (the Library of Congress Classification, Colon Classification, some national classification systems, thesauruses and controlled lists of subject headings). The article describes the traditions and changes in the application of the UDC in Bulgaria. It further elaborates upon the process of creating the new Bulgarian edition of the UDC and specifies the main changes in the standard abridged edition of the Universal Decimal Classification compared to Decimal Classification Tables of 1985.
Институции и памет. За влиянието на историческите из следвания върху архивната практика в България
Author(s): Anna Kochankova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1-2/2016
Usually we search for the relation between the archives and the access to the archival information and historical research. The article changes the perspective analyzing the opposite effect – the historical guild and history production on archival practice. Underlying this attitude is the functioning of the memory modes giving rise to the nature of historical research and their requirements for programs and practice of archival institutions. In the new and modern Bulgarian history there are periods of intensive construction and re-composition of the value matrix. With its help and around it the historical picture of the past is built. This includes “secondary” historical documentation – a phenomenon which seeks to compensate for the characteristic deficits. One of the target periods is related with the processes of nation-building in the decades before and after the establishment of the modern Bulgarian state. The creation and the maintenance of archival centers in Bulgaria bears the burden of modern national construction, including writing an official history. After World War II the public system in Bulgaria authorizes the history with important functions governing the society. Created in the early 50s of the XX century system of the state archives must meet the needs of repeatedly increased (and increasing) bureaucracy, but also – the special treatment of the new power to history and historical knowledge. The state archives commit more tangibly with the academic and the ideological institutions dealing with the interpretation of the past. Largely this attitude determines the policy of acquiring documents and, of course, providing access to archival information. In these conditions, historical studies are becoming an important factor for the development of the archival system and practice in Bulgaria.
Иудаика в книжной коллекция Рихарда Koха
Author(s): Sara Spitalinic / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 1-2/2014
The authors presents a rare book collection, which Nicholae Testemiţanu Scientific Medical Library, which belongs to German doctor bibliophile Richard Koch. In 1937 R. Koch settled in Kislovodsk city, in 1944 he gave a portion of his library Kislo-vodsk Institute of Medicine, which in 1945 was transferred to Chisinau. Koch collection numbers about 2600 volumes of medicine, biology, philosophy, history. Exclusively, 150 books of XVI-XVIII Centuries are considered rare books. A special place is occupied by Jewish-related books. All books in the collection are provided with an ex-libris of R. Koch and enforced by a particular graphic
Кой управлява правописната норма във Фейсбук? Българският случай
Author(s): Sofiya Mitsova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2017
The article presents a survey over the behavior of some Bulgarian Facebook users, who participate in groups which are oriented toward the problems of Bulgarian grammatical and orthographical norm. The analysis of the communicative models shows that the four phases of Language management can be defined – noting and registration of deviations from the language norm; an evaluation of the deviations; the desight of adjustments to these deviations and the real process of the adjustments.
Международна конференция „Зографската библиотека и архив: Изследователски подходи при дигитализацията, описанието и изданието на изворите“
Author(s): Margaret Dimitrova,Maria Kiprovska / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 35/2017
Многокомпонентные термины в функции ключевых слов в информационной базе славянского языкознания iSybislaw
Author(s): Oksana Ostapchuk,Madina M. Alekseeva / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 49/2014
This article is devoted to the problem of the criteria on which multi-word terms should be selected and verified for the bibliographic database of Slavic linguistics publications iSybislaw. The text is based on Russian and Polish linguistic material. Such criteria as actuality, frequency, transparency of form are applied separately in each language and different sets and variability of terms in the each case are established. The authors examine also the reasons of formal and semantic asymmetry between Polish and Russian terminological units in the database.
Модулът на PISA 2015 „Решаване на проблеми в сътрудничество“. Концепция на изследването, анализ на резултатите и примерни въпроси
Author(s): Svetla Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 6/2017
For the first time, the international study PISA 2015 includes a special “Collaborative problem solving” module in which students solve team tasks with one, two or more virtual partners. The study was conducted among 15-year-olds from all over the world. Its main objective is to assess whether students can effectively engage in problem-solving activities with one or more partners sharing their knowledge, skills and efforts to achieve a certain outcome.
Музейният архив
Author(s): Iveta Pirgova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2018
ОРГАНІЗАЦІЙНО-РОЗПОРЯДЧА ДОКУМЕНТАЦІЯ ЯК ДОКУМЕНТАЛЬНЕ ДЖЕРЕЛО ДРУГОЇ СВІТОВОЇ ВІЙНИ
Author(s): Lesya Kovalska / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 3/2019
The purpose of the article. Definition of types of organizational and administrative documents, clarification of information and communication properties in the formation of social reality, place in the documentary body of sources of the Soviet resistance movement. The methodology of the study involves the use of methods of historical documentation science, source criticism, social communication. Historical documentation science and source criticism methodological positions have allowed establishing hierarchical relationships in the power structure of society in the conditions of hostilities, to trace the movement of documented information. Information and communication methodology has helped to establish the scientific potential of organizational and administrative documentation for the researcher. Scientific novelty of the work is to determine the specific features, the formation of the classification model, the introduction of organizational and administrative documents in the scientific discourse of the Soviet resistance movement, to determine the role in social interaction in society.
От съставителя. Етнографският архив – между терен и интерпретации
Отново за езика в интернет
Author(s): Mariya Grozeva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2017
The language used on the Internet continues to attract the interest of researchers from various scholarly fields. The rapid development of information technology and the specific characteristics of the new media environment bring about changes in the language, as well as the emergence of new electronic genres and styles. The issue being discussed in the present study is to what extent Internet language can be considered a different weblanguage, an internet-language, or whether it is rather a language variety, a type of a cultural dialect. In addition, it is worthwhile tracing the changes and the trends that are discernible in this language variety – whether it is diverging from- or converging on the standard language norm, or whether it is developing and imposing its own rules and norms.
Оценка на конкурентоспособността на телекомуникационен оператор
Author(s): Tania Kirkova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 5/2017
The assessment of the competitive position can answer the question what are the competitive advantages and disadvantages of the company at that time. The results could be useful for the selection of priority areas for action by the company management. In this study an assessment of competitiveness by selected indicators of two of the largest Bulgarian telecom operators - Mobiltel and BTC, was made. There is a comparison of labor productivity levels, financial indicators (return on equity ratio, current ratio, financial autonomy ratio, financial autonomy indicators); indicators of company growth (revenue increase, increase of the relative market share in relation to the main competitor, fix assets increase, staff increase). The results could be useful for the selection of priority areas for action by the company management.
ПОКАЖЧИКИ ЗМІСТУ УКРАЇНСЬКИХ ЧАСОПИСІВ – СКЛАДОВА НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ БІБЛІОГРАФІЇ УКРАЇНИ
Author(s): Tetiana Vasylivna Dobko,Vitalina Shkarina / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 3/2019
The purpose of the article aims at historical and bibliographical generalization and determination of the role and place of contents indexes of magazines as an integral part of the national bibliographic system of Ukraine; review of the historiography, problems and source base of the study of a specific genre of bibliographic aids; sectoral, content and structural analysis of Ukrainian periodicals contents indexes. The methodology of the applied research involves, first of all, usage of bibliographic methods for the object of research cognition as a compulsory component of the problem research method as well as analytical and synthetic processing of a set of selected bibliographic aids. The following methods have been also applied: general scientific methods of systematic and historical approaches, empirical methods of description and modeling; thematic analysis method, source, and statistical analysis, etc. Communicative-informative and documentary principles of library and information technology methodology have been also taken into account.
Предметна класификација „историје” кроз примере из праксе Народне библиотеке Србије
Author(s): Dragan Miloševic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2018
This work tried to show all the complexity of classifcation in the feld of history. Certainly, the best way to present the complexity and variety of possibilities is by giving the appropriate examples, but above all by giving solutions that can satisfythe given determination, or classifcation of a particular work. All examples were taken from daily practice of the National Library of Serbia
Произведния триодного цикла Климента Охридского в славянских рукописях, хранящихся в Польше
Author(s): Jan Stradomski / Language(s): Russian,Old Slavonic,Old Bulgarian / Issue: 53-54/2016
Church Slavonic manuscript collections in Poland hold over forty copies of homilies and encomia traditionally attributed to Clement of Ohrid. Although scholars have known about these copies for years, they have not been subjected yet to detailed linguistic and textual studies. The analysis of the works from the Lenten and Paschal cycles reveals that part of the copies retain old linguistic features – spelling and lexical units – from South Slavonic manuscripts which, no doubt, were still in use in areas of Western Russia during the 14th–16th centuries. As a rule, Clement’s works were faithfully copied, but there are occasionally examples of textual interventions that evince editorial activity by local scribes and compilers. The source material confirms the opinion that, within the Polish-Lithuanian state, Russian Orthodoxy was actively drawing from the South Slavonic literary tradition.
ПРОФ. АНАТОЛИЙ А. ТУРИЛОВ НА 65 ГОДИНИ. От археографията до културната история
Author(s): Krassimir Stantchev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 53-54/2016
Публикации на проф. Анатолий А. Турилов за 1979–2016 г.
Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,Russian,Old Slavonic,Old Bulgarian / Issue: 53-54/2016
Работата на архивиста по обработката на ценно архивно дарение (Фонд 2072 „Христо Вакарелски“ в Централния държавен архив)
Author(s): Elena Bugarcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2016
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Christmas Miracle Raises Small Fortune For The Most Generous Homeless Guy Ever – Amazing Story!
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Out of all the Christmas miracle stories we've written about in the last month, this is by far my favorite. Sure it was heart warming to hear about NFL player Andre Johnson buying $16,000 worth of toys for a bunch of underprivileged kids in Houston. Of course I loved the stories of people paying off layaway balances at their local Walmart and Toys R Us. And who could forget the homeless guy in England who offered his only money in the world, roughly $5 in coins, to a young woman who had lost her wallet and couldn't get home? The young woman ended up raising thousands of dollars from random strangers so her "homeless hero" could get a new apartment. But I really think the story you are about to hear tops them all…
Here's how it all began: Last week a YouTube prankster named Josh Paler Lin set out to see what would happen if he walked up to a random homeless person and gave him $100 cash. He was literally planning on titling the video "How Does a Homeless Man Spend $100?" And judging by his previous prank videos, "Sex in a Public Bathroom", "Speaking Chinese With Random Girls", "Mafia Murder Prank" and "Baby Kidnapping Experiment", Josh was undoubtedly expecting his homeless subject to spend the $100 in a totally insane and frivolous way. Like a carton of cigarettes, 100 Slim Jims and a keg of beer… all for himself.
Josh set out to find a subject to conduct his $100 homeless experiment and soon found a man standing at the entrance of a Los Angles freeway who identified himself as Thomas. Thomas explained he is just out there trying to make enough money to get something to eat. The whole scene is being filmed by a hidden camera man in the distance. Josh explains that he wants to help Thomas out and proceeds to fiddle through his wallet as if he only has a couple dollars to give. He then hands over a crisp $100 dollar bill. Thomas is visibly stunned. Actually on the verge of tears. He doesn't even feel comfortable taking the money. After being ensured that this was not a mistake, Thomas shakes Josh's hand and promises to use the money in a good way. Even several minutes after Josh had left, Thomas can be seen shaking his head, in utter disbelief.
At this point Josh runs away, almost giddy that it went down so well. He and the cameraman then follow Thomas as he packs his stuff up from the corner and walks a few blocks into the neighborhood. To their delight, Thomas basically walks straight into a liquor store. Typical hobo!
This is exactly what Josh predicted. Hilarity is about to ensue, right?! Thomas is probably gonna walk out of that store with a handle of Vodka, $50 worth of lottery tickets, a dozen jelly donuts and a 30 pack of Natty Ice, right??!! Or maybe a case of Colt 45, 8 hot dogs, a carton of Virginia Slims, and a stack of adult magazines, like a homeless Homer Simpson on bender. RIGHT???!!!
As it turns out, Thomas might be the best example ever of why you should never judge a book by its cover. When Thomas emerged from his $100 shopping spree, he was indeed holding what looked like a half dozen of those standard-issue black liquor store plastic bags. Probably filled to the brim with dozens of mini Jack Daniels bottles, RIGHT??!!
Josh and the cameraman follow Thomas as he walks out of the liquor store, crosses a street and wanders into a local park. Must be party time! Thomas the Tank! Thomas the Tank! It's so good when it hits your lips! Oh man this is gonna be the best prank video in the history of youtube!
Well as you may have ascertained by now, Thomas didn't buy liquor or cigarettes, or Slim Jims or lottery tickets at that store. He bought food. Food that he then proceeded to give away to other homeless people at the nearby park. Homeless people who he had never met before.
After seeing his prank backfire in the most unexpected way possible, Josh was ashamed and embarrassed. He had no other option but to reveal himself to Thomas and explain what had been going on. Fortunately Thomas wasn't upset. Thomas explained that he had been homeless for around four months. He had to quit his job to take care of his parents who were both sick, one with cancer and the other with kidney failure. They couldn't afford all of their medical bills and needed Thomas to help them with basic care. Tragically, both parents ended up dying, at which point Thomas was forced to sell off their condo to cover all the outstanding bills. In his own words, Thomas explains his turn of bad luck and how it can happen to anyone:
"There's a lot of people that are just victims of circumstance and they didn't go homeless because they're lazy or … it could be a divorce, one thing leads to another and the man sells his boat, his home, everything, and all of a sudden he finds out he's got no money. There's a lot of good people that are homeless."
Here's the full video of everything that went down:
Make Way For A Christmas Miracle
If you think the story stops there, you are in for a treat! Understandably, Josh was feeling a little bit of shame for his ill-conceived prank. He was also feeling serious sympathy for Thomas, who was clearly an amazing human being that suffered a few too many sudden setbacks. So to make up for his transgression, Josh launched an indiegogo fundraiser.
Titled "Help Thomas Get a Fresh Start!", the indiegogo page detailed the story of everything that you just read. The fundraiser set out to raise $10,000 in 30 days. That money would be used to help Thomas either get his family condo back or a find new place he could call home, and help him get on track with a job.
The campaign was launched late last night (December 22). Less than 24 hours later, that $10,000 goal has already been obliterated. When I started writing this article an hour ago, the fundraiser had already raised $28,000. I just refreshed the page and it's now at $35,365!!! And there are still 29 days left of fundraising! How incredible is that??? If you don't believe in Christmas miracles by now, then I don't really know what to say. You might actually be Mr. Grinch.
***Update*** As of December 24 at 4:30pm, the fundraiser has raised $77,414!
If you would like to contribute to the Help Thomas Get A Fresh Start campaign, I'm embedding the necessary information from indiegogo below:
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CentralSquare provides an integrated public safety suite that manages everything from receiving a 911 call, dispatching responders, managing the records of the incident and providing tools for corrective actions. Genetec provides a powerful software backbone that not only allows cities to manage video surveillance for hundreds to thousands of cameras, but also provides the ability to gain strategic, data-driven insights pulled from a range of critical data sources. This partnership is a first in the public safety sector and marks a critical shift away from siloed and ineffective video surveillance towards a smarter future that unifies critical, lifesaving data into a single pane of glass.
As public safety concerns such as active-shooter incidents have increased by over 30 times since 2000, and natural disasters such as wildfires have destroyed more than 8 million acres in 2018 alone, the need for powerful tools to aid rapid and meaningful response is urgent. This new partnership between CentralSquare and Genetec delivers proven technology for police officers and emergency responders so that they can make effective decisions, based on real-time data, when and where it is most needed.
“As a result of this partnership, when a citizen calls 911, dispatchers will be able to seamlessly see what is happening at the caller’s location, ensure the right type of emergency response is dispatched, improve the situational awareness and safety of the responding officer, and have an integrated video record of the incident for future investigations,” said CentralSquare CEO Simon Angove. “By seamlessly integrating CentralSquare’s world-class Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) software with Genetec’s ground-breaking, real-time crime center technologies, we are enabling thousands of public safety agencies to speed-up dispatch center operations, shorten emergency response time, and reduce the number of victims of crimes and disasters across North America.”
“Cities today rely on disparate, often disconnected, systems and information to make critical, lifesaving decisions,” said Guy Chenard, Chief Commercial Officer of Genetec. “By working closely with a leader in public safety software like CentralSquare, we are able to bring the most advanced data-driven policing software and digital evidence management systems to an even broader array of customers. Together, we are delivering a powerful solution that will better equip our country’s police officers and first responders and ultimately make our cities safer, smarter, and more livable.”
Additional information about the partnership, including product demonstrations, is available at the annual IACP Conference in Chicago, October 26-29, CentralSquare booth 3018 and Genetec booth 5218.
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Michael J. Hassen
Published on: February 4, 2009
Amex Class Action Defense Cases–In re American Express: Second Circuit Reverses District Court Order Enforcing Class Action Waiver And Compelling Individual Arbitration In Antitrust Class Action
by Michael J. Hassen
As Matter of First Impression, District Court Erred in Antitrust Class Action in Compelling Arbitration Pursuant to Mandatory Arbitration Clause in Commercial Contract and Enforcing Class Action Waiver because Absent Class Action Relief it was Unlikely Merchants would seek Redress for Alleged Wrong Second Circuit Holds
Several class action lawsuits were filed by various merchants against American Express alleging violations of federal antitrust laws in the form of a “tying arrangement” between its charge cards and credit cards; the first of these class actions was filed in August 2003 in the Northern District of California, but in December 2004 the district court granted a motion filed by defense attorneys to transfer the class actions, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a), to the Southern District of New York, where it was consolidated with several class actions against Amex pending in that district. In re American Express Merchants’ Litig., ___ F.3d ___, 2009 WL 214525, *2, *5-*6 (2d Cir. January 30, 2009). According to the allegations underlying the class action, Amex “is the leading issuer of general purpose and corporate charge cards to consumers and businesses in the United States and throughout the world. It is also the leading provider of charge card services to merchants.” Id., at *3. The class action plaintiffs are “(1) California and New York corporations which operate businesses which have contracted with Amex and (2) the National Supermarkets Association, Inc. (‘NSA’), ‘a voluntary membership-based trade association that represents the interests of independently owned supermarkets.’” Id. The Card Acceptance Agreement entered into by the merchants-plaintiffs provided, in pertinent part, that any dispute was subject to a broad and mandatory arbitration clause, which was governed by the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and which contained a class action waiver provision. See id., at *3-*5. Defense attorneys moved to compel arbitration and to enforce the class action waiver provision, id., at *6. The district court granted the motion, finding that the arbitration clause was broad enough to govern the dispute. Id. With respect to whether the matter could proceed as a class action, the district court suggested that enforcement of the class action waiver would not preclude individual merchants from enforcing their rights because the Section 4 of the Clayton Act allows for recovery of treble damages, costs of suit and attorney fees, but deferred the issue of enforceability of the class action waiver to the arbitrator. Id. The Second Circuit reversed.
The Circuit Court explained that it was “consider[ing] here only the narrow question of whether the class action waiver provision contained in the contract between the parties should be enforced,” In re American Express, at *3. The Court began by noting that it “frequently enforces mandatory arbitration clauses contained in commercial contracts,” but that this case presented a case of first impression in the Ninth Circuit as it dealt with the enforceability of a class action waiver in the context of a commercial contract with a mandatory arbitration clause. Id., at *1. And the court summarized the countervailing arguments surrounding the enforceability of class action waivers, see id., at *1-*2. Ultimately, the Ninth Circuit concluded that the class action waiver was unenforceable under the facts of this case “because enforcement of the clause would effectively preclude any action seeking to vindicate the statutory rights asserted by the plaintiffs.” Id., at *2.
The Ninth Circuit first addressed the issue of whether the enforceability of the class action waiver should be decided by the federal court or by the arbitrator, and readily concluded that “the district court erred in holding that the question of the class action waiver’s enforceability is a matter for the arbitrator, not the court,” and observed that Amex did not argue otherwise. In re American Express, at *8 (citing Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna, 546 U.S. 440, 444 (2006)). Accordingly, the Circuit Court turned to whether the class action waiver was enforceable. After a detailed analysis of the “general considerations” underlying the enforceability of class action waivers, which we do not summarize here, see id., at *8-*12, the Court found that plaintiffs adequately had established that would “incur prohibitive costs if compelled to arbitrate under the class action waiver,” id., at *13 (footnote omitted). In this regard, it found “compelling” the affidavit submitted by plaintiffs’ expert economist, see id., at *13-*14, who concluded that “it would not be worthwhile for an individual plaintiff … to pursue individual arbitration or litigation where the out-of-pocket costs, just for the expert economic study and services, would be at least several hundred thousand dollars, and might exceed $1 million,” id., at *14. And while the district court correctly summarized the relief available to plaintiffs under Section 4 of the Clayton Act, see id., at *14, the Ninth Circuit concluded that even treble damages would not pay for the expert fees likely to be incurred and that “plaintiffs must include the risk of losing, and thereby not recovering any fees, in their evaluation of their suit’s potential costs,” id., at *15. In the Circuit Court’s view, under the facts of this case, the class action waiver “flatly ensures that no small merchant may challenge American Express’s tying arrangements under the federal antitrust laws.” Id., at *15. Accordingly, the Court held that the class action waiver was unenforceable, id., at *17.
The Ninth Circuit stressed, however, that there were “two important limitations” on its: (1) that plaintiffs’ characterization of themselves as “small merchants” or “small businesses” was immaterial to the issue before the circuit court, and (2) that it is not holding that class action waivers in arbitration agreements are per se unenforceable. In re American Express, at *17. Rather, the enforceability of class action waivers must be resolved on a case-by-case basis, id., at *17-*18. In sum, it reversed the district court order compelling arbitration on an individual basis and remanded the class action for further proceedings. Id., at *18.
NOTE: The specific class action waiver provision stated:
IF ARBITRATION IS CHOSEN BY ANY PARTY WITH RESPECT TO A CLAIM, NEITHER YOU NOR WE WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO LITIGATE THAT CLAIM IN COURT OR HAVE A JURY TRIAL ON THAT CLAIM…. FURTHER, YOU WILL NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY OR AS A MEMBER OF ANY CLASS OF CLAIMANTS PERTAINING TO ANY CLAIM SUBJECT TO ARBITRATION. THE ARBITRATOR’S DECISION WILL BE FINAL AND BINDING. NOTE THAT OTHER RIGHTS THAT YOU WOULD HAVE IF YOU WENT TO COURT MAY ALSO NOT BE AVAILABLE IN ARBITRATION.
There shall be no right or authority for any Claims to be arbitrated on a class action basis or on any basis involving Claims brought in a purported representative capacity on behalf of the general public, other establishments which accept the Card (Service Establishments ), or other persons or entities similarly situated. Furthermore, Claims brought by or against a Service Establishment may not be joined or consolidated in the arbitration with Claims brought by or against any other Service Establishment(s), unless otherwise agreed to in writing by all parties.
In re American Express, at *4.
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Michael J. Hassen's litigation practice spans almost 30 years and emphasizes general business and commercial litigation, including class action defense and unfair business practice representative actions (section 17200).
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Queer Board Games
17th December 2019 by Philip
Monthly Queer Board games event held in Lichfield.
LGBTQAI+ or just general queer folk chance to get together, chat & play board games.
Please remember to bring your favourite board game.
Please note with the move to The Field, we will have the room to ourselves.
Tagged With: board games, genderqueer, LGBT, queer, social, Trans
Xmas Meeting Trans social
by Trans-Staffordshire
Trans-Staffordshire Monthly Social
NEW VENUE!!!!! come and join us for a knees up to celebrate our new home… xmas nibbles…dj…so get us your requests..
Tagged With: social, SOFFA, Trans
TransTogether
by Warwickshire Pride
A monthly social group for trans people. This is a friendly, informal group in a safe and welcoming environment. TransTogether is run by trans people for trans people. There is no cost to attend, although you will need money to buy drinks at the bar. There will be a small trans flag or a Warwickshire Pride sign on the table where the group is sitting.
TransTogether takes place on the first Saturday of each month from 2:00pm – 4:00pm at Bedford Street Bar, Bedford Street, Leamington Spa, CV32 5DY.
Tagged With: genderfluid, genderqueer, LGBT, non-binary, Trans, transgender
Campaigners to demonstrate at the Parliament to defend trans rights
5th September 2019 by Philip
Campaigners from the Scottish Trans Alliance will demonstrate for three days at the Scottish Parliament this week, to highlight what they describe as a major threat to trans people’s rights. They are warning of a new “section 28”, targeting trans people, as attempts are made to try to change the rules that currently recognise trans people’s lived sex.
Over the first three days of the new Parliamentary year, Tuesday 3rd to Thursday 5th September, the campaign will maintain a presence outside the Parliament under the banner “Defend Trans Rights – Our Lives Are Real”.
The focus of the demonstration is on attempts to change the basis of the next Census, in 2021, so that instead of answering the sex question in the sex they live as, trans people are forced to answer with the sex they were assigned at birth. The Scottish Government proposes to continue with the arrangements for previous Censuses, under which trans men and trans women answer in their lived sex. But the convener of the Parliamentary Committee considering the Census rules, Joan McAlpine MSP, is calling for this to be changed to require trans people to answer with their “biological sex at birth”.
James Morton, Manager of the Scottish Trans Alliance said, “In all previous Censuses, trans men and trans women have answered using their lived sex, and that has worked well. To change that would fundamentally undermine the long established practice, and internationally established human right, of recognising our lived sex. There is no doubt that if those who want this change to be made in the Census are successful, they will move on to try to stop trans people being recognised as our lived sex in other areas such as our use of services including the NHS and education, and in government and other equality policies.”
He added, “If the Census is changed in this way, it will be the first time that LGBT equality in legislation has gone backwards anywhere in the UK since the introduction of section 28 under Margaret Thatcher in 1988. Section 28 labelled same-sex relationships as ‘pretended’. The suggested change to the Census sex question would similarly state that trans people’s lived sex is not real. That’s why we’re here at the Parliament to defend against this threat to trans rights, and to say Our Lives Are Real.”
Filed Under: Community Tagged With: Equality, Equality Network, Scottish Trans, Trans, Trans Equality
Performers come together in Leith to fundraise for trans equality
9th August 2019 by Philip
More than 20 performers, artists and authors will come together on Sunday 11th August for a day of music, comedy, storytelling, poetry, zines and artwork, to celebrate and fundraise for trans equality. The event takes place on Giles Street, Leith, and in Harmonium Bar (Giles St) and Sofi’s Bar (Henderson St), from 2pm to 10pm. It is organised by the Equality Network, Scottish Trans Alliance, Harmonium and Sofi’s, and sponsored by Absolut and Electric Spirit Co.
The line-up includes Teddy Lamb, Kate Charlesworth, Emilie Hwang, Sheboom, Rachel Plummer, Jo Clifford, Lavender Menace Returns, Ryan Brown, James Cuddihy, Helen Reeves, The Prettiest Dunce, Hawf a Dug Crisp Box, Hidden Ink Child, Bombinate, Gordon Shaw, Wild and Kind, Andres Ordorica, Gloria Bittman and Ink Asher Hemp.
There will also be vegan street food and an outdoor bar on Giles Street.
The event is a fundraiser for the Equal Recognition campaign, which is campaigning for reform to Scotland’s Gender Recognition Act, to make it easier for trans people to change their legal gender to match the gender in which they live. The Scottish Government has proposed making such changes, and later this year will be consulting the public on a draft bill to do that. All parties represented at Holyrood had manifesto commitments on this at the 2016 Holyrood election.
Becky Crowther, organiser of the event at the Equality Network, said, “Showing solidarity with the trans community in Scotland is so important right now. Whilst trans rights and trans people are under attack online and in the media, we are so grateful to all of our contributors for standing with them to do something positive and celebratory.”
Ben Thomson, manager of Harmonium Bar said, “We wanted to team up with Scottish Trans Alliance on this because this is a positive campaign to be involved in. As a venue we value equality and diversity and we want to be a place that does good food, good booze and is open to everyone.”
Jo Clifford, world-renowned playwright who is performing at the event, said, “This is a difficult time for everyone in the LGBTI and queer community, and it’s really important we find occasions to show our pride and our solidarity for each other. So I’m really happy this event is happening in the middle of the Edinburgh Festival, and really proud to be taking part in it.”
Putting the T first at Trans Pride in Brighton
22nd July 2019 by Philip
Shaan Knan, Consortium’s trans-specific worker, reports back from Trans Pride Brighton
Spending a sunny day at the 7th Trans Pride in Brighton last Saturday was an absolute joy.
It was an amazing turnout for #TransPrideBrighton. According to the organisers, around eight thousand people took to the streets of to celebrate Trans Pride – two thousand more than was anticipated.
This year’s mile-long parade kicked off at the Marlborough Pub and Theatre in Prince’s Street,and finished at Brunswick Square Gardens in Hove where we could enjoy community and food stalls, a stage featuring trans bands, musicians and spoken word artists as well as sports in the park programme.
The slogan for this year’s festival was “putting the T first” – a reference to the LGBT acronym in which Trans appears near the end.
I felt the huge amount of love and pride all around, and I was also very pleased to see so many visible allies from all walks of life.
Armed with a brand new set of Trans Organisations Network business cards and a Consortium staff member rainbow lanyard, I meandered from one stall to the other, chatting with members old and new about – of course – all things trans. I was keen to keep everyone up to date with Consortium and TON activities, including current campaigns such as ‘Ask your MP/MSP to support GRA reform’ and our ongoing London strategic roundtables and mapping exercises.
It was inspiring to see so many new local initiatives springing up such as a support group in Ashford, and I was happy to tell them about the many benefits of a Consortium/TON membership.
This year, Northern Ireland held its first ever Trans Pride, and London will hold a Trans + Intersex Pride in September.
It gives me hope for a better future for trans communities in the UK.
Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Brighton, Pride, Trans, Trans Pride, Trans Pride Brighton
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Covertex supplies Water Containment Solutions for Wellington’s above ground Emergency Water Network
A significant earthquake in the Wellington region will result in damage to the potable water network, and could result in parts of the region being without water for long periods.
To overcome this, Wellington Water Ltd (WWL) initiated the Community Infrastructure Resilience (CIR) project. The goal of this project is to provide 20L per person per day of potable water within 1,000m of their residence, for a total of approximately 400,000 people in the Wellington region.
The emergency water network includes 22 community water stations. The water station can be deployed to areas of highest need after the earthquake and used to extract surface water.
Working with central and local government emergency management experts, Covertex supplied a range of fluid containment solutions. Key to the project was Covertex’s ability to deliver a full gamut of fluid containment solutions – from the settlement tanks right through to the flexible community water stations,
Utilising existing reservoirs, including bores, rivers and streams to extract water it will pass through a community water station where it is treated and made safe. At these on-site reservoirs water will then be stored in 20,000 litre bladders.
Smaller transportable bladders will then used to transfer to the community collection points. These specially designed transportable bladders that can be used on utes, trailers and vans for safe transportation and partial off-loading on route.
Water collection points using flexible 5,000 litre drums will then be set-up in locations like schools, parks and roadsides to enable accessible water collection from every home.
• Easy to transport and self-erecting
• Lightweight & compact
• Quick to deploy
• Highly durable – clean and reuse
• Withstand repetitive handling – shelf life of 20+ years
• Designed for long-term storage – 25+ years
The solution provides significant value-for-money and will achieve the goal of providing access to emergency water within 1,000m of every dwelling at a fraction of the ‘dig and lay pipe’ alternative.
By installing the 22 water stations and developing a temporary distribution network, the Wellington region has created a resilient water supply network that is well prepared for the next significant earthquake.
Learn more about Covertex Fluid Containment solutions
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Wellington’s drinking water network is vulnerable, with some suburbs without water for more than 100 days after a major earthquake. The above ground water sources won’t be the only supply of emergency water. Water within existing reservoirs and the time of the earthquake can also be used, this includes bores, rivers and streams.
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Arizona Builders Bring Solar Age to 'Our Town'
By Miriam Davidson Special to The Christian Science Monitor
TUCSON, ARIZ.
Imagine homes so well-designed and insulated that utilities will cost practically nothing. Residents will recycle or compost almost all their trash and use reclaimed water for outdoor irrigation. Best of all, they won't need to use their cars because jobs, schools, churches, and stores all will only be a short walk or bike ride away.
After 15 years on the drawing board, the utopian project of Civano is nearing reality in Tucson, Ariz. If all goes according to schedule, construction on what is touted as the most ambitious, energy-saving, and self-sufficient community ever attempted will begin here in a few months.
"People will be coming from all over the world to see this project," says John Wesley Miller, a solar-home builder in Tucson, Ariz., who is one of the visionaries behind the new development.
The 2,500-home project on Tucson's southeast side - called Civano after the golden age of the Hohokam Indians - will be a sustainable community where up to 6,000 people can enjoy a small-town atmosphere while saving resources and cutting pollution.
Some of the design elements of Civano, such as narrow streets, smaller lots, and a village center, have already been employed in Seaside, Fla., and Kentlands, Md. Energy-saving features such as solar hot-water heaters and double-paned windows also are increasingly being used in homes throughout the Southwest. But Civano is the first project to combine the latest concepts in both urban planning and energy-efficiency on such a large scale.
As such, it underscores Arizona's emerging role as a laboratory for the so-called "green home" movement - technologies that are resource-wise and environmentally sensitive.
These include everything from an experimental home in Tucson in which the carpeting is manufactured from recycled soft-drink containers to a development north of Phoenix that will be a cluster of solar "skyscrapers."
For Civano, Tucson has zoned the land and set specific goals for reduced energy and water use, more recycling, and less air pollution, but how to achieve these goals will be up to the developer. "We want to encourage innovation by not being too prescriptive," says John Laswick, Civano project manager for the city.
The problem, developers say, is cost. They're not sure they can afford to build energy-efficient homes, offices, stores, and community centers without raising the home prices beyond what people would be willing to pay.
"The real history of pioneers is they end up dead on the prairie," says David Butterfield of the Trust for Sustainable Development in Victoria, British Columbia. Mr. Butterfield, who also is planning a similar community near Victoria called Bamberton, is one of two developers expected to bid for the right to build Civano when the state-owned land goes to auction June 26. The other is Phoenix-based SunCor Development Co.
Civano's developer won't have to face all the risks alone. The city is expected to make up some of the cost through infrastructure improvements and in-kind contributions, and home buyers also will probably have to pay a few thousand dollars more to live in Civano. Housing prices will range from $70,000 for a small townhouse near the village center to $200,000 for a custom home on the development's edge.
The hope is that the money the city saves on road maintenance, trash disposal, pollution abatement, water treatment, and other costs will more than make up for its initial investment in Civano.
"The spinoff from all this could be very beneficial," says city councilmember Janet Marcus. "We could apply what we've learned at Civano to rebuilding the inner city."
Beside the additional cost of making the homes energy efficient, whoever builds Civano also must attract one job for every two homes. Both developers say several high-tech and alternative-energy firms are interested in locating in Civano, and the city is expected to help with recruiting.
Another potential difficulty lies in the requirement that Civano attract people of mixed incomes. Often wealthier people, concerned about crime and housing values, don't want to live close to lower-income people. But Mike Corbett, the architect of Village Homes, a 240-home development in Davis, Calif., similar to Civano, says home values are higher and crime lower in his neighborhood than in surrounding ones because people know each other better.
Mr. Miller and others say they have received inquiries from all over the country about buying a home in Civano. "Arizona really owns it, but the nation as a whole will benefit from what we do here," he says.
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"For there stood by me this night the angel of God."
Today's Devotional Reading
Tempest and long darkness, coupled with imminent risk of shipwreck, had brought the crew of the vessel into a sad case; one man alone among them remained perfectly calm, and by his word the rest were reassured. Paul was the only man who had heart enough to say, “Sirs, be of good cheer.” There were veteran Roman legionaries on board, and brave old mariners, and yet their poor Jewish prisoner had more spirit than they all. He had a secret Friend who kept his courage up. The Lord Jesus dispatched a heavenly messenger to whisper words of consolation in the ear of his faithful servant, therefore he wore a shining countenance and spake like a man at ease.
If we fear the Lord, we may look for timely interpositions when our case is at its worst. Angels are not kept from us by storms, or hindered by darkness. Seraphs think it no humiliation to visit the poorest of the heavenly family. If angel’s visits are few and far between at ordinary times, they shall be frequent in our nights of tempest and tossing. Friends may drop from us when we are under pressure, but our intercourse with the inhabitants of the angelic world shall be more abundant; and in the strength of love-words, brought to us from the throne by the way of Jacob’s ladder, we shall be strong to do exploits. Dear reader, is this an hour of distress with you? then ask for peculiar help. Jesus is the angel of the covenant, and if his presence be now earnestly sought, it will not be denied. What that presence brings in heart-cheer those remember who, like Paul, have had the angel of God standing by them in a night of storm, when anchors would no longer hold, and rocks were nigh.
“O angel of my God, be near,
Amid the darkness hush my fear;
Loud roars the wild tempestuous sea,
Thy presence, Lord, shall comfort me.”
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning & Evening - Daily Readings
Prayer for the church, for others, for myself
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Mostafa and Mona Sharkawy serve among Arab Muslims in the U.K. Their goals are to see Arabic churches arise from Muslim background believers, to see new generations of leaders from Muslim believers, and to teach and prepare them for future ministry. Pray today for the growing ministry inside the Immigration Removal Centre as they anticipate more refugees arriving to the United Kingdom. Pray also for the follow-up ministry that Mona is doing with the Syrian refugee women in England.
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January 2019 – Gourmet Loose Leaf Tea Subscription | Curious Tea
Happy 2019 to all our friends and subscribers! Welcome to the January 2019 edition of the Curious Tea subscription. Let’s take a look at the four new teas we’re sharing with our subscribers this month.
The first light tea this month is a lovely Roasted Sencha green tea from Japan that has a satisfying toasty and savoury character. The next light tea is a complex white tea from Fujian Province in China, a very fine Xue Ya Snow Bud. For the dark side of the selection we have a unique ‘Assamica’ Taiwanese black tea grown in Yuchi, on the shores of the famous Sun Moon Lake. Finally, the last tea we are featuring this month is a highly oxidised Four Seasons ‘Red’ Oolong from Taiwan that has a captivating character with tangy, fruity flavours.
Light: Makinohara Roasted Sencha and Xue Ya Snow Bud;
Dark: Yuchi Assamica and Four Seasons Red Oolong;
Mixed: Makinohara Roasted Sencha and Yuchi Assamica.
Our Discovery subscription boxes contain 10g taster pouches of all of the above mentioned teas. If you are a subscriber you will benefit from a 10% discount on all teas from our tea shop!
Let’s get into further detail on the products featured in our January tea subscription boxes.
Makinohara Roasted Sencha
Makinohara Roasted Sencha is a green tea from Japan that undergoes additional roasting during finishing, imparting a lovely, lightly toasty character. Grown at low altitude around Makinohara in Shizuoka Prefecture, it is made from the Yabukita (やぶきた) cultivar. This particular batch is a second flush tea, harvested in May 2018. Like all of our Makinohara Japanese teas, we source it directly from the grower in Shizuoka.
Japanese green teas, like this Makinohara Roasted Sencha, have a distinct flavour profile which is quite different to many others. They are generally steamed in order to stop oxidation of the leaves and keep it as a green tea. After steaming, the leaves will be rolled, shaped and dried. This processing imparts a particularly grassy, vegetal, savoury and umami flavour. The level of savouriness does vary, but teas particularly high in savoury and umami flavours are highly sought after in Japan and tend to command much higher prices.
Makinohara Roasted Sencha is processed like any other Japanese green tea: by steaming the leaves. The process is referred to as kill-green or fixation. After rolling and shaping, the tea undergoes a finishing, or drying process. This can be done in various ways but often involves baking or roasting the tea. With most sencha teas this process is done quickly in order to preserve the green grassy nature of the tea. However this Roasted Sencha undergoes additional baking during the finishing process to impart a lovely toasted character and to further balance the flavours. The baking is stronger than on most sencha green teas, however it is nowhere as strong as the popular roasted Hojicha green tea.
The leaves of this Makinohara Roasted Sencha are dark green in colour, thin in shape and have a typical polished appearance. Like any good quality sencha, the dry leaves are sort of slippery and have a waxed feel to them and have a deep, sweetly green aroma. The liquor produced is a pale green colour, with a nutty and verdant fragrance. The savoury character of this tea has clean, grassy and toasted umami notes that are well balanced. It has a satisfying quality and full flavour, with a touch of vegetal astringency and light sourness on the aftertaste, reminiscent of flower petals or sorrel soup.
It is best brewed at 80°C for 2-3 minutes, with multiple infusions.
You can also buy Makinohara Roasted Sencha green tea in our online shop.
Xue Ya Snow Bud
Xue Ya Snow Bud (雪芽) is a complex organic white tea that comes from Fujian Province of China. Grown around the famous Fuding tea growing area, it has neat small silver leaves. This Xue Ya Snow Bud white tea has a smooth and clean taste with a touch of smokiness that makes it rather unique. It is grown in a fully organic tea garden at an altitude of 800-900m. We source it direct from the grower in Fuding and this lot is from the May 2018 harvest.
The Xue Ya name, which literally means Snow Bud, comes from the appearance of the silver buds when plucked – they look as if covered by snow. There is plenty of this silvery, downy ‘fur’ on the dried leaves of this tea, signifying it is made from fine tips. When the leaves are brewed and unfurled, it is possible to see that they are mostly represented by smaller buds and leaves. The use of such small, young leaves that are still covered in silvery ‘fur’ results in a very fine taste.
This tea is made from young leaves of Fuding Da Bai (福鼎大白 – Fuding Large White) white tea cultivar. This is the same cultivar that is used for producing various white teas grown around Fujian Province, including Yin Zhen Silver Needle white tea. While Silver Needle generally has a very delicate profile, the leaves and processing selected for this Snow Bud white tea produce a more complex character that is a little more challenging.
Xue Ya Snow Bud has fine, small silver leaves that have a light fruity aroma. The pale golden liquor has an appealing colour and a light fragrance with just a touch of smokiness. The smooth taste has a juicy, mouth-watering quality and clean notes. The main flavours are those of light wood, unripe fruits, quince and a touch of smokiness. The aftertaste is complex, a little drying, chalky and verging on being lightly astringent. It is definitely more on the complex than delicate end of the white tea spectrum.
Xue Ya Snow Bud is best brewed at 70°C for about 2-3 minutes according to your taste. It can be brewed multiple times. As with all white teas, you can brew this one for a longer amount of time at lower temperature or alternatively you can brew it for a shorter period of time of around 1 minute at 90°C, also brewing multiple times.
You can also buy Xue Ya Snow Bud white tea in our online shop.
Yuchi Assamica
Yuchi Assamica (魚池鄉阿薩姆) is a wonderful showcase of the complex and unusual black teas that are produced in Taiwan. This black tea is crafted from a TRES #8 Assamica cultivar that is grown at an altitude of around 700m in Yuchi Township, located on the edge of the picturesque Sun Moon Lake (日月潭) in central Taiwan. It was hand picked in April 2018 and is sourced by us from the grower via our Taiwanese tea master.
This Yuchi Assamica is made from the TRES #8 cultivar that is also known as the Assamica tea plant in Taiwan. This particular cultivar was registered by the Taiwan Tea Research and Extension Station (TRES) in 1973. It was selected from camellia sinensis var. assamica plants that were originally brought from Assam in India.
The story of the arrival of these plants goes back to the Japanese colonisation of Taiwan. During the Japanese rule of Taiwan (1895-1945) the Japanese established the first Tea Research Institute in Taiwan with a view to create a black tea industry to rival the black tea exports of the British Empire. In the 1920’s, the first camellia sinensis var. assamica tea plants were introduced from Assam in India and planted around the Sun Moon Lake area as this was judged to have the perfect growing conditions. The production quickly took off and Taiwan was producing black tea on a large scale until the end of the Japanese rule at the end of World War II. After World War II the production of black tea declined significantly as it became too costly and unprofitable for the farmers.
Taiwan Tea Research and Extension Station undertakes significant research and selection procedures for Taiwanese tea cultivars and started building up a catalogue of standardised cultivars, the first of which were registered in 1969. Some of the descendant plants of the camellia sinensis var. assamica plants originally introduced by the Japanese were selected and recognised as the new TRES #8 cultivar. In a nod to the origins of this tea, this cultivar is still known as the Assamica cultivar in Taiwan.
Sun Moon Lake is still the epicentre of black tea production in Taiwan. Our Yuchi Wild Shan Cha and Yuchi Red Jade (TRES #18) are the other examples of the very fine black teas of this terroir.
This Yuchi Assamica has very large twisted leaves that have a savoury aroma. The liquor produced has a rich amber colour with good clarity and a sweet-savoury, fruity and vegetal fragrance. The produced flavours are complex and multi-layered. The taste, much like the aroma, is sweet, yet savoury. It has a soup-like thickness of flavour, reminiscent of the taste of a vine tomato soup. There are lightly mineral, malty and herbaceous notes. The overall flavours are clean yet complex, signifying a tea of great quality. The aftertaste has a nice mineral and savoury touch with a hint of assam-like astringency that serves as a gentle reminder of the origins of this cultivar.
We suggest brewing at 90°C for 2-3 minutes according to your taste. It should be brewed multiple times as each infusion brings out new exciting flavours!
You can also buy Yuchi Assamica black tea in our online shop.
Four Seasons Red Oolong
Four Seasons Red Oolong (四季春紅烏龍) is a highly oxidised oolong that hails from Zhu Shan Township (竹山鎮), known as Bamboo Mountain, in Nantou County, Taiwan. Crafted from the Four Seasons cultivar, it has a complex yet clean taste with satisfying fruity notes. This particular batch is from the August 2017 harvest, sourced directly from the farmer and baked by our tea master in May 2018.
Four Seasons Red Oolong is named after the cultivar that is used to make this expressive tea, Si Ji Chun (四季春), which translates as Four Seasons Spring and started appearing in Taiwan in the 1980’s. It favours low altitude conditions but also provides farmers with a consistent crop throughout the whole year. The leaves that are plucked from Si Ji Chun plants have a fresh and light flowery aroma year round, hence the English name often follows in full the Chinese name, rendered as Four Seasons Spring.
Unlike our classic lightly oxidised Four Seasons Oolong from Mingjian Township in Nantou County, this is a “red” oolong, meaning that it undergoes heavy oxidation at around 90%. This means that it falls into a category of oolong teas that treads a fine line between an oolong and a light black tea, much like our popular Moc Chau Red Buffalo Oolong from Vietnam. It is always difficult to classify such teas and to decide whether they should be included in black or oolong tea categories. However, since this particular tea is made from a cultivar that is normally used for oolongs and as it follows the method of production closer to an oolong tea, we felt it was more apt to classify it as an oolong. The addition of the “red” in the Four Seasons Red Oolong name serves as a marker of the high degree of oxidation and close proximity to a light black tea.
The leaves of this Four Seasons Red Oolong are hand-picked. The harvest was in the summer of 2017, after which the tea was allowed to rest and develop. It was finished by additional baking by our tea master 9 months after in May 2018. The dry leaves are tightly rolled and when brewed, open up to produce a clear pale amber liquor with a sweet, stony aroma. The taste of this tea is clean and satisfying. There are lovely notes that are mineral, sweet, tangy and lightly floral. For us, the stand-out notes are those of red berries and honey. The aftertaste has more red berries on the aftertaste with a sweet and tangy character typical of raspberries. The tangy finish is clean and mouth watering. This is a very exciting tea that provides an amazing quality and taste for the price.
This Taiwanese Four Seasons Red Oolong tea is best brewed at 90°C for 3-4 minutes according to your taste and can be brewed multiple times, increasing steeping time with each next brew if desired.
You can also buy Four Seasons Red Oolong tea in our online shop.
We really do hope that you enjoy the tea selection for January and are looking forward to the next selection in our February box!
If reading this has made you curious about our teas, but you don’t yet subscribe to a monthly tea selection, you can sign up for our tea boxes in just a few clicks. We ship worldwide from London, UK.
We always love to hear from you, so if you have any questions, suggestions or just want to chat about tea, email us at contact@curioustea.com, via our Facebook page or via Twitter.
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Happy tea discoveries!
This entry was posted in Monthly boxes and tagged black tea, China, green tea, Japan, oolong, Taiwan, white tea on January 17, 2019 by Curious Tea.
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Florida surfer takes action after charter captain tossed overboard in big waves
Kimberly Miller @KMillerWeather
A Florida man was surfing alone at the Boynton Inlet when he saw the captain go over, clawing at the boat’s Bimini top before falling into a frothy sea the color of steel.
The captain was in the water and the boat, with eight charter passengers aboard, bobbed precariously Sunday in powerful waves heaved at South Florida from a deepening coastal storm off the Carolinas.
Burt Garnsey was surfing alone at the Boynton Inlet when he saw the Starfish Scuba captain go over, clawing at the boat’s Bimini top before falling into a frothy sea the color of steel. Garnsey looked to the bridge of the 34-foot vessel. The wheel was unmanned.
“I just started paddling toward the boat,” said Garnsey, an experienced mariner whose family has worked on the water for three generations. “It was still sideways.”
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The low pressure system barreling up the East Coast sent down high surf that battered beaches and pushed brackish Intracoastal water up storm drains, flooding coastal streets during high tides in a seepage of water that could last at least through Tuesday.
Waves that towered over surfers’ heads at Lake Worth Beach closed the pier Sunday and Monday, but not before a few pieces of the removable decking were punched out by the waves, said Doug Yoakum, manager of Lake Worth Beach Ocean Rescue. He estimated wave faces were 10-feet high Monday — the biggest swell of the season, he said.
It was also the first significant cool front of the season, leaving Palm Beach International Airport with a chilly high of 65 degrees Sunday — a reading that set a record cold high for the day. Fort Lauderdale reached just 62 degrees Sunday, also breaking a record. Miami topped out at 65, tying its record cold high for the day set in 1901.
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Dangers on the growing swells off Boynton
At dawn Sunday, Starfish Scuba co-owner Maggie Birdwell, as well as at least three other charter operators, checked the waves at the narrow Boynton Inlet and deemed it safe for a morning trip. Two- to three-foot swells with 30 seconds in between, was Birdwell’s assessment.
“It was definitely doable,” she said. “But as anyone on the water knows, conditions can change really quick.”
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Bruce Cyr, captain of the 65-foot Lady K in Lantana, agreed with the swell size and left the Boynton Inlet with a fishing charter at about 8:15 a.m. By then, the waves had built to 5 feet. Three hours later when he navigated back through the narrow inlet, they were higher still.
“Surfers are looking for the biggest sets. We’re looking for the calm in between,” he said.
Garnsey, 51, was eyeing the horizon at about 10:30 a.m. when the Starfish came into view, got whacked by a wave that turned it parallel to the whitewater, and then another that threw Starfish Captain Bradley Williams off the bridge.
A group of Jet Skiers were able to reach Williams, who injured his shoulder in the fall.
Garnsey bellied in a wave toward the boat. Concerned it would capsize with no one on the bridge, he climbed up on the dive platform, undid the leash that attaches him to his surfboard and ran to the wheel.
“My adrenaline was just pumping,” said Garnsey, whose family owns the Boynton Beach-based Sea Mist III fishing charters, which was also out Sunday.
Scuba diver Steven Joffee, who was aboard the Starfish on Sunday, said the waves didn’t seem overwhelming to him and that they look worse on a video being shared of the incident on social media than they actually were. Joffee said no one on the boat was hurt.
“It was certainly a little scary once the captain went overboard,” said Joffee, of Salt Lake City. “The crew jumped into action immediately.”
Unbeknownst to Garnsey, a dive master with Starfish Scuba had grabbed the wheel on a lower deck, but Birdwell said the crew was happy to let Garnsey take over to navigate the 130-foot wide Boynton Inlet.
The inlet is known for its treacherous sand bars and dog-legged approach — a challenge for even experienced boaters.
“Everything worked out. Everyone’s OK,” said Garnsey, who found his hand-hewn board washed up on the beach later that day. “We’re lucky.”
This story originally published to palmbeachpost.com, and was shared to other Florida newspapers in the GateHouse Media network via the Florida Wire. The Florida Wire, which runs across digital, print and video platforms, curates and distributes Florida-focused stories. For more Florida stories, visit here, and to support local media throughout the state of Florida, consider subscribing to your local paper.
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Parents accused of AJ Freund's murder appear in court for separate civil case
This combination of undated photos provided by the McHenry County Sheriff's Department in Woodstock, Ill., on Thursday, April 25, 2019 shows JoAnn Cunningham, left, and Andrew Freund Sr. The two have been charged in the murder of their five year-old son, Andrew "AJ" Freund. A criminal complaint filed Thursday, April 25, 2019, outlines first-degree murder, aggravated battery and several other charges against the couple. A judge set bail at $5 million for each parent. McHenry County Sheriff's Department
The former house of slain 5-year-old AJ Freund on Dole Avenue in Crystal Lake. The mortgage holder is seeking foreclosure and the city wants it torn down. Paul Valade | Staff Photographer
City of Crystal Lake code violation notices remain tacked to the door of Andrew Freund Sr. and Joanne Cunningham's Dole Avenue house in Crystal Lake. The couple has been charged in AJ Freund's murder. Paul Valade | Staff Photographer
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Andrew Freund and a sobbing JoAnn Cunningham stood side by side before a McHenry County judge Thursday, but the appearance had nothing to do with first-degree murder and other criminal charges against them in the April death of their 5-year-old son, AJ.
They were in civil court as defendants in a foreclosure case involving the family house at 94 Dole Ave., in Crystal Lake. It has been vacant since April 24, when the couple was arrested and AJ's body was recovered from a makeshift grave near Woodstock.
Thursday's proceeding was a continuation of a case that began in July 2018. Real estate investor William Progar, who acquired the underlying note and mortgage from Home Sites LLC on May 20, says the outstanding debt as of July 30 is nearly $107,536, including penalties and interest, which is accruing at $13.55 per day.
Progar is seeking a judgment allowing the foreclosure to proceed. When he acquired the mortgage, a loan was due for a March 1, 2018, payment, according to court records.
Crystal Lake attorney Jonathan B. Kaman, representing Progar, on Thursday urged Associate Judge Suzanne C. Mangiamele to act on the request. While Mangiamele agreed it was time to move along, she continued the matter until Aug. 20 to allow Cunningham -- who had been represented in the matter by Freund, an attorney by profession -- time to find another lawyer to represent her in the case.
Also pending is a July 10 lawsuit filed by the city of Crystal Lake to have the house demolished. During an inspection May 24, the city found 41 violations and/or dangerous and unsafe conditions. Freund and Cunningham were notified in jail of the findings June 24.
According to that suit, which is separate from the foreclosure, the property is "beyond reasonable repair."
"The highest and best use of the property is demolition, not repair," the suit contends.
Crystal Lake also wants Freund and Cunningham each to be fined $500 per day from June 24 through the time a judgment is made. The next court date for the suit is Oct. 9.
Freund and Cunningham have appeared separately or had others between them in previous court dates, but they were side by side Thursday -- and wearing orange jail suits with a chain running between their cuffed hands and feet.
Freund withdrew as Cunningham's attorney in the foreclosure case July 11. At the time, she was given 21 days to retain new counsel, according to court records.
"She's been well aware this was pending," Kaman contended. Mangiamele gave Cunningham seven days and granted her five phone calls to legal aid or private attorneys to find new representation. But it came with a caution.
"I'm not going to prolong this," Mangiamele said.
Freund also was given seven days to respond to the newly filed affidavit of "amounts due and owing." He spoke to a requirement to file documents electronically.
"Being incarcerated, I don't know how that would work," Freund said. Mangiamele waived that requirement.
Once a judgment of foreclosure is entered, borrowers by law have three months to repay the lender before the property can proceed to a foreclosure sale, Kaman said after the proceeding.
He said mortgage acquisitions, such as Progar's, were common in the real estate industry but he didn't know his client's plans for the property.
Progar is one of about a dozen defendants in the Crystal Lake suit but how the city's action would affect a foreclosure judgment is unclear.
Freund, 60, and Cunningham, 36, remain in custody at the McHenry County jail on $5 million bail. Their next court dates are Aug. 28 and 29 respectively.
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Demonstrators seek to keep AJ's memory alive as case against parents proceeds
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Crystal Lake residents angry, heartbroken over murder charges against AJ's parents
Search for 5-year-old Crystal Lake boy focused on residence
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Cops step in to separate pro and anti-Donald Trump supporters in Glasgow as 'bawbag' President sparks demo
Mounted police were drafted in as they attempt to keep tempers calm in the city centre with a small group of pro-Trump supporters being drowned out by mass demo.
Peter DavidsonDigital journalist
Cops have had to step in to separate pro and anti-Trump supporters as thousands gathered in George Square in Glasgow.
A group of 'Scots for Trump' turned up to give their support to the US President as he heads to Scotland later this evening.
Mounted police are on the scene to keep the two groups apart.
Trump supporters gather in George Square, Glasgow as they get ready to welcome the US president (Image: SWNS.com)
Spectacular Turnberry protest slams Donald Trump's 'human rights nightmare'
A small group of pro-Trump supporters were escorted into the square beforew they unveiled a banner backing the 45th president.
Thousands of other people gathered in George Square to show their anger at the 'working' visit of Donald Trump.
An old Irn-Bru advert is used to send Donald Trump a special message (Image: DAILY RECORD)
Ahead of the event getting underway protesters decided to build a wall in front of the stage where a number of speakers will address the gathering crowd.
The Scotland United against Trump demo in George Square tonight comes ahead of a march in Edinburgh tomorrow.
Earlier tens of thousands took to the streets of London as the president met with Theresa May at Chequers and then the Queen at Windsor Castle.
Donald Trump gets the bawbag treatment from a protester in George Square in Glasgow (Image: DAILY RECORD)
The protesters in Glasgow provided a flavour of what is to come with some peculiarly Scottish signs and placards urging Trump to "Bolt, ya nugget" while the US President was also called a "bawbag".
Donald Trump has been is said to have small, wandering hands and this protester wants them to stay in his pockets (Image: Katielee Arrowsmith / SWNS.com)
At the rally Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called on the billionaire tycoon to "rethink your whole political approach".
Speaking as he joined the crowds in Glasgow city centre, Leonard said the cross-party, multi-faith demonstration would give people a voice.
Even Batman is against US President Donald Trump's visit to Scotland (Image: DAILY RECORD)
"Today I think there's a carnival atmosphere. There will be music, poetry and also serious political speeches," he said.
"Lots of people will have a voice to show why they are protesting against Donald Trump's visit."
He added: "My message to Trump is to think again about racism, think again about your misogyny, think again about your Islamophobia, think again about climate change, think again about trade unions and workers' rights.
"Rethink your whole political approach and then there might be some possibility of there being some meaningful dialogue."
Mounted police have been drafted into George Square as protesters gather (Image: SWNS.com)
Scottish Greens co-convener Patrick Harvie said it was important to show Scotland as an ally of those against the US leader.
He said: "People want to stand here not just in revulsion at his attitudes but in solidarity with those in the US whose lives he puts at risk.
"We want to say our special relationship is with them, the people in the US, not with this vile bully in the White House.
Thousands attend an anti-Donald Trump protest in George Square in Glasgow on Friday evening (Image: DAILY RECORD)
"I don't think anything will immediately make a change to Donald Trump. He's such delusional, arrogant, vain person. He's entirely made of ego.
"But what this can make a difference to is the people in the US who are organising against him."
SNP depute leader Keith Brown later said the Glasgow rally was "important as it tells the world what Scotland thinks of the US president".
Mr Brown said: "This city and this country has got an extremely proud record of welcoming refugees and immigrants from all around the world, that's one of the defining aspects of Scotland and difference between us and Donald Trump."
He told the crowd: "Let's show Donald Trump what we think of his policies.
"Let's show what Scotland thinks of his immigration policies, of his anti-Muslim policies, of the way that he treats women.
"And let's show the world what Scotland thinks of Donald Trump."
US President Donald Trump is called a 'nugget' and told to bolt during Glasgow protest (Image: PA)
With no meeting scheduled between the president and Scotland's First Minister, Brown commented: "People are saying to me why is he not meeting Nicola Sturgeon?
"The reason is she would tell him what she thinks, unlike Theresa May."
And he questioned Trump's assertion that the people of Scotland love him.
He asked: "Does Scotland love Donald Trump?
To the chorus of boos and shouts of no, he said: "I don't think Scotland likes Donald Trump very much."
Donald Trump may fly on Air Force One but this Glasgow demonstartor is urging him to get on his bike back to America (Image: DAILY RECORD)
The Glasgow protest is one of several planned to take place in Scotland this weekend, as Mr Trump makes a "private visit" to his Turnberry golf resort in Ayrshire.
Trump is due to fly into Prestwick Airport for the private Scottish leg of his UK visit later. He has been delayed after an unscheduled interview with Piers Morgan.
EntertainmentRuPaul's DragCon chaos leaves Scots schoolgirl in tears and her raging mum £400 out of pocketAdele McSorley is livid after travelling hundreds of miles to take superfan Leah, 12, to the event in London only to be refused entry over health and safety concerns.
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COURT: Co-operative Bank secures convening order for single-class meeting in restructuring scheme despite challenge from individual noteholders
A London High Court judge has ordered shareholders of Co-operative Bank, as well as holders of its subordinated debt, to hold a meeting and vote on a scheme of arrangement that will transfer control of the troubled bank to its current bondholders.
The creditor meeting is scheduled for 21 August, and will likely be followed by a sanction hearing on 24 August. The liabilities subject to the scheme comprise the GBP 206m 11% 2023 notes as well as the GBP 250m 8.5% 2025 notes.
In today’s convening hearing, which kicked off at 2pm UKT, Mr Justice Arnold issued the order despite opposition from a couple of individual holders of the 2023s. The 2023 bonds have a minimum denomination of GBP 10, which means that a significant portion of them (estimated at around GBP 30m) are held by individuals with holdings below GBP 100,000. The company has proposed to buy out those claims outside the scheme by paying them a pro rata share of GBP 13.5m of allocated funds.
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One of the individual challengers, Roy England, expressed his objection to the plan in writing as well as in person at the hearing. He argued that the scheme should not, as it does, propose to leave 5% of the bank’s post-workout equity to the current shareholders, while imposing haircuts to bondholders. He also raised questions about the assertion that the company was facing imminent threats of insolvency and liquidation due to alleged breach of capital adequacy regulations.
Arnold J noted that some of the grievances raised by the challenger were not relevant to the convening hearing, as at this stage the court was more focused on the correct constitution of creditor classes (and jurisdiction) rather than the general fairness of the scheme.
The bank’s lawyers heaved a sigh of relief as the judge agreed to place all scheme creditors in a single class for the purpose of voting on the plan, despite differences in the rights attached to the shares they will own in the restructured bank.
Under the scheme, holders of the 2023 and 2025 notes will agree to have their claims written off in exchange for a 17.4% equity stake in a new HoldCo which will be incorporated in the context of the workout. Current shareholders, who for the most part are former creditors who took over the company after its 2013 restructuring, will give up their shares for a pro rata stake in 5% of the new HoldCo’s equity. The lion’s share of the post-workout equity, however, goes to existing noteholders who chip in to a new GBP 250m capital increase. They will receive a pro rata share in 67.6% of the new HoldCo’s shares. The remaining 10% of the new shares will go to members of an ad hoc committee of bondholders who have been involved in the restructuring preparatory works, and have committed to backstop the capital increase.
Individual holders of the 2023 notes, whose stakes are smaller than GBP 100,000, will not be involved in the equity allocation.
Representing the company, Anthony Zacaroli QC said that the pro rata cash payment to the small retail holders represented a much better outcome for them compared to the rest of bondholders.
“In short, they should be given cash rather than being locked into an illiquid company,” he said. “The amount of cash on offer is substantially higher than the value of the equity they would have got, had they been party to the scheme.”
He noted that the new money providers stood to recover GBP 1.50 for every GBP 10 of their existing claims, while the proposed cash payment amounted to a minimum of GBP 3 for every GBP 10 of held claims, adding that the figure could possibly rise to GBP 4.5 for GBP 10 of claims. Inclusion of the small retail noteholders, he said, would have also complicated compliance with numerosity threshold requirements of the scheme.
One potentially controversial feature of the plan is that the abovementioned equity allocation only relates to the “A Shares” class of equity. Holders will benefit from full economic rights, but the A Shares do not carry any voting or control rights. Those rights are reserved for holders of “B Shares”, which will only be allocated to existing creditors who will hold more than 10% of the A Shares.
Instructed by Clifford Chance, Zacaroli QC said that currently five institutions were in such a position.
The preferential position of certain creditors in debt for equity swaps has at times led the court to order creditor classes to be fractured. That was the case in a debt scheme presented by Stemcor in 2015, where Mr Justice Snowden ordered Apollo Capital Management to vote in its own separate class due to its position as future anchor shareholder.
However, in today’s hearing, Arnold J was convinced by Zacaroli QC that in the Stemcor scheme, the role of anchor shareholder was solely reserved for Apollo, whereas in the present case any creditor had the possibility of increasing its stake in A Shares to above 10%, and thus the path to owning B Shares was open to everyone.
Zacaroli QC added that the scheme provided a better outcome for all stakeholders given that, in its absence, the bank cannot meet its capital adequacy requirements, with sanctions on the horizon from the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA).
He added that, based on a valuation study carried out by financial advisors Grant Thornton, recovery prospects for the subordinate bondholders in a liquidation scenario was nil, especially as the company has upcoming maturities on its GBP 400m senior notes in September 2017.
Co-operative bank’s subordinated bondholders, among which Silver Point, and GoldenTree, mandated back in April PJT as financial adviser to the troubled bank’s restructuring process, after a sale process failed to attract enough interest from investors, as reported.
Last 28 June, the funds agreed to equitise GBP 206m 11% Tier 2 notes due 2023 and GBP 250m 8.5% Tier 2s due 2025 to raise GBP 443m of CET1 eligible equity and participate in a GBP 250m equity raise in exchange for a 67.6% stake, according to a press release.
The unsolved issue making Co-op’s prospective suitors walk away was a hefty GBP 1.3bn pension scheme the bank shared with its former shareholder Co-operative Group.
However, investors agreed to inject GBP 100m over 10 years and provide more than GBP 216m of collateral to split the two pension schemes, a press release stated.
The upcoming maturity of GBP 400m 5.125% senior notes due next 20 September accelerated the timetable of a liability management exercise (LME) to avoid being declared insolvent.
Back in 2013 a group of hedge funds, including Monarch and Aurelius, became 70% shareholders of the troubled UK lender as a result of a GBP 1.5bn liability management exercise (LME).
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No more sunrises at Legislative Hall, says Delaware Senate President Pro Tem David McBride
Sen. David McBride says Senate will not work past 1 a.m. on July 1.
No more sunrises at Legislative Hall, says Delaware Senate President Pro Tem David McBride Sen. David McBride says Senate will not work past 1 a.m. on July 1. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/09/no-more-sunrises-legislative-hall-says-delaware-senate-leader/2524560002/
Scott Goss, Delaware News Journal Published 7:41 p.m. ET Jan. 9, 2019 | Updated 1:48 p.m. ET Jan. 10, 2019
David McBride, D-New Castle during the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover.(Photo: Jason Minto, The News Journal)Buy Photo
One of Delaware's highest-ranking lawmakers says he is done with the General Assembly finishing its business in the wee hours every year.
Senate President Pro Tem David McBride, D-New Castle, declared Wednesday that he has seen his last sunrise at Legislative Hall and vowed to shut down the upper chamber at 1 a.m. on July 1 – whether or not its work is finished.
If the Senate has not passed one of the state's three budget bills by McBride's deadline, the 40-year lawmaker said he will reconvene at 4 p.m. later that day and every day thereafter until the Legislature's work is complete.
"It is no secret that I have never been a fan of the extraordinary end of session marathons that extend well into the morning," the 76-year-old said Wednesday to a standing ovation from his colleagues.
"I have always believed that these long night journeys into day create an environment where we are incapable of doing our best work," he said. "And, worse yet, we put ourselves and our staff in harm’s way when we wearily climb into our cars for the journey home."
The General Assembly typically works past midnight each June 30 so they can call themselves back if necessary in the new fiscal year.
But legislative gridlock has pushed the final gavel hours beyond that mark in recent years – a bone of contention for lawmakers, staffers and members of the public who then must stay awake overnight as the General Assembly attempts to unravel those political knots.
A dispute over taxes caused the Legislature to miss its June 30 deadline for the first time in a generation in 2017, a stalemate that was reached at 5:20 a.m. on July 1. Meanwhile, a fight over minimum wage pushed the Senate's final gavel to 8:35 a.m. in 2018.
Once debates like those are finally resolved, hundreds of staffers and political watchers then drive home, bleary-eyed and exhausted – a practice McBride and others have described as "a serious threat" to their safety.
"You're going to have a tragedy," said state Sen. Colin Bonini, R-Dover South. "It's only a matter of when."
State Sen. Harris McDowell, D-Wilmington North, said the overnight sessions also tend to make lawmakers cranky.
Sen. Harris B. McDowell III (Photo: JASON MINTO/THE NEWS JOURNAL)
"Tensions build up earlier in the night and then the ability to compromise is diminished," said the 41-year lawmaker. "People just get so wrapped up in what they are trying to do and they say, 'Let's stay a little longer get one more thing through.'"
A co-chair of the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee, McDowell promised to have an operating budget ready for final votes in both chambers "no later than the second week before the end of session."
McBride first gave word Wednesday morning that he would be making "a big announcement" during the Senate's proceedings later that day, leading to hours of speculation about whether he planned to retire.
McBride said he told neither Gov. John Carney nor House Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf, D-Rehoboth Beach, about his July 1 action plan in advance.
"They can do what they want," he said. "I can't affect what they do."
Schwartzkopf said all lawmakers want to finish the legislative session as close to midnight as possible but doing so does not result from "an arbitrary deadline."
Democrat House Speaker Peter C. Schwartzkopf gives his remarks in the house chambers during the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. (Photo: Jason Minto, The News Journal)
"It’s what happens during the next six months that sets the tone for June 30," he said. “There are many variables that exist and late-session curveballs, and I don’t believe it’s best to draw a line in the sand."
Carney spokesman Jonathan Starkey struck a more conciliatory tone.
"Anything that gets us closer to a balanced, sustainable budget before the last minute on June 30 sounds like good news," he said.
Contact reporter Scott Goss at (302) 324-2281, sgoss@delawareonline.com or on Twitter @ScottGossDel.
Start of the 150th General Assembly
Legislators being sworn in for start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha, D-Wilmington North being sworn in in the house chambers for the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Democrat House Speaker Peter C. Schwartzkopf gives his remarks in the house chambers during the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Kendra Johnson, D-Bear waves to the crowd after being sworn in for the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
David McBride, D-New Castle during the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Dave Lawson, R-Marydel takes video during the swearing in ceremonies before the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Trey Paradee, D-Dover after being sworn in for the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover in Jan. 2019. Jason Minto/Delaware News Journal
Laura Sturgeon, D-Brandywine West holds up a stuffed animal for Bryan Townsend's son Logan before the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Anthony Delcollo, R-Wilmington West holds up a stuffed animal for Bryan Townsend's son Logan before the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Bryan Townsend, D-Newark holds his son Logan while being sworn in for the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Ernesto Lopez, R-Lewes/Milton being sworn in during the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Brian Pettyjohn, R-Georgetown during the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Darius Brown, D-Wilmington East during the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
David Wilson, R-Lincoln before being sworn in for the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Laura Sturgeon, D-Brandywine West being sworn in for the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
S. Elizabeth "Tizzy" Lockman, D-Wilmington being sworn in for the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Krista Griffith, D-Fairfax being sworn in for the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Franklin D. Cooke, D-New Castle North being sworn in for the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Sherry Dorsey Walker, D-Wilmington after being sworn in for the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
Majority Leader, Valerie Longhurst, D-Red Lion before the start of the 150th General Assembly at Legislative Hall in Dover. Jason Minto, The News Journal
A line forms to enter Legislative Hall in Dover for the start of the 150th General Assembly. Jason Minto, The News Journal
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Daniella On Design
The Stylish of Marguerita Mergentime
Modernism Week, an annual celebration of the legacy of American Modernism in Palm Springs, is coming up next month (February 13-23). This time, the program will include a presentation by Virginia Bayer on the rediscovered work of her grandmother, Marguerita Mergentime. A Manhattan-based textile designer, who was active in the interwar years, Mergentime pioneered modernism, while reimagining table linens as a modernist canvas. With her signature style of abstracted colorful graphics, powerful texts, and radical table setting, she was a part of a generation, seeking to formulate a genuine American expression in modern design.
Bayer, who manages the family's archive, has done an extraordinary work in bringing the legacy of her grandmother to life. She has recently published a monograph, reissued several of her original designs, made loans and gifts to museum collections, and has conducted talks across the country. One of the most powerful aspects of Mergentime's legacy was her avant-garde Manhattan apartment, situated in the Beresford, the iconic Art Deco residential tower on Central Park West (above). The sleek, streamlined interiors were created by Austrian émigré Frederick Kiesler during the Depression era, and its B&W photographs have been recently included in several museum exhibitions.
The presentation during Modernism Week will be a great opportunity to learn about the life and work of one of the handful female members of the American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen, an organization that brought together such pioneers of modern design as Donald Deskey, Russel Wright, and Gilbert Rohde. It will illuminate the role of the department store in promoting modern design, and the notion of modernism during the years of the Depression. The talk will conclude with a book signing of Bayer's 'Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas.'
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How much could MacKenzie Bezos get in a divorce?
Published Wed, Jan 9 201910:12 AM EST Updated Fri, Mar 8 20196:11 PM EST
Robert Frank@robtfrank
Bezos announced in a tweet Wednesday that he and his wife of 25 years, MacKenzie, have "decided to divorce."
Washington state, where the Bezoses live, is a community property state, meaning any wealth made during their marriage could be split equally between the two.
Divorce attorneys say that is highly likely MacKenzie Bezos would want the family fortune to continue to grow.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie announce amicable divorce
Jeff Bezos' divorce could become the most expensive in history — exactly what he pays out will depend on the complexities of marital law and the value of Amazon.
Bezos announced in a tweet Wednesday that he and his wife of 25 years, MacKenzie, have "decided to divorce." His tweet suggested that it will be an amicable parting, saying "we remain a family and we remain cherished friends."
And it's possible that any settlement and support he gives MacKenzie is negligible in the context of his wealth, which at the latest tally was around $137 billion.
But Washington state, where the Bezoses live, is a community property state. That means that any wealth made during their marriage could be split equally between the two. Since Amazon was founded a year after the Bezoses were married, MacKenzie could argue that she is entitled to half of Bezos' entire Amazon-based fortune. That means she could get as much as $66 billion based on the value of the company today.
To fund a settlement that big, Bezos would have sell or pledge shares, which could dilute his ownership and control of the company. Bezos owns just under 80 million shares of Amazon, or just under 16 percent of the company, according to regulatory filings.
But divorce attorneys say that is highly likely MacKenzie would want the family fortune to continue to grow — and that is tied in large part to Jeff Bezos' control of the company. So she would be unlikely to push for a settlement that would require him to sell shares that would dilute his control — and any reduction of his stake in the company.
Remember when Amazon's stock tanked 90%? Long-term investors still got rich
"The issue will be how to value the assets with diminished control," said Jeffrey Fisher, a divorce attorney in West Palm Beach, Florida, who has handled several billionaire divorces. "There would be an argument by the attorneys that the Amazon stake is not worth as much without Bezos in control, so that would affect any settlement."
The most expensive U.S. divorce so far is believed to be Steve and Elaine Wynn in 2010, which was estimated at $1 billion. Oil tycoon Harold Hamm famously wrote a check for $974.8 million in 2015 for his divorce.
Correction: Harold Hamm wrote a check in 2015 for his divorce. An earlier version misstated the year.
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Confirmed: TRON Acquires Major P2P Platform Operator BitTorrent
July 24, 2018 Altcoin, Blockchain, Decentralization, TRON coins 0
TRON’s long-rumoured acquisition of BitTorrent Inc., the operator of popular torrent client uTorrent, has been confirmed by TRON founder Justin Sun.
TRON’s long-rumoured acquisition of BitTorrent Inc., the operator of popular torrent client uTorrent, has been confirmed by TRON founder Justin Sun in a community letter published July 24.
The BitTorrent protocol launched in 2001 and relies on distributed “seeding’” by users who upload shareable content. In his letter, Sun celebrates the software as “the genesis of the decentralization movement,” a legacy protocol for the blockchain revolution, noting
“Bittorrent is […] the first decentralized Internet protocol with large-scale global application, [which] even today [... ] retains its status as the world’s largest decentralized protocol, once transmitting 40% of daily Internet traffic.”
According to Sun, BitTorrent and TRON will be wholly integrated, with the TRON and BitTorrent teams merging into one. Today’s letter emphasizes their shared vision, which was already indicated by the repeated mention of torrents and explicit reference to BitTorrent in the TRON white paper.
As Cointelegraph has reported, rumors of the acquisition have been circulating since late May, with the inclusion of Sun’s lawsuit against the company for allegedly violating an exclusivity clause in early negotiations. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed, and unconfirmed details surrounding the finalization of the deal surfaced in June.
As of press time, TRON (TRX) is ranked the eleventh largest cryptocurrency globally, trading around $0.04 with a total market capitalization of over $2.3 billion, according to CoinMarketCap.
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Art by Ariel Olivetti.
Anthony’s DC Comics picks for August 2017
May 24, 2017 Anthony Media
Here’s a look at what’s coming out from DC Comics for August 2017. As usual, a full list of solicitations is available here.
Future Quest Showcase #1, on sale Aug. 16, $4
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #29, on sale Aug. 23, $3
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #84, on sale Aug. 9, $3
Astro City #47, on sale Aug. 16, $4
Trade paperbacks/graphic novels
DC Super Hero Girls: Past Times at Super Hero High TPB, on sale Sept. 20, $10 (digital first)
Batman ’66 Meets Wonder Woman ’77 HC, on sale Sept. 27, $25
Batman ’66 Meets Steed and Mrs. Peel TPB, on sale Sept. 27, $17
DC Meets Hanna-Barbera TPB, on sale Sept. 20, $17
Future Quest, vol. 2 TPB, on sale Sept. 27, $17
Future Quest Showcase #1 (August 2017). Art by Ariel Olivetti.
The variant covers this month seem to be some sort of sign theme?
“Future Quest” relaunches this month as the new series “Future Quest Showcase.” Things kick off with Space Ghost teaming up with the Herculoids.
“Scooby-Doo Team-Up” this month is with Top Cat and his gang! Top Cat’s still popular in Latin America, at least… enough so that Warner Bros. recently made several animated features just for there. TC’s also in the “DC Meets Hanna-Barbera” trade paperback out in September, in a story where Top Cat meets Batman.
There’s two “Batman ’66” collections out this month, and on the same day no less. Still, fans of the 70s “Wonder Woman” TV show will be pleased, as will fans of the 60s “The Avengers” TV show. The recent “Avengers” comic’s called “Steed and Mrs. Peel,” to avoid trademark issues with a certain other “Avengers.”
“Astro City” also happens to feature a canine hero this month. An homage to Krypto, maybe?
Out this month “for the first time” (as the solicit states) is an omnibus collection of the Golden Age Green Arrow’s stories. Oliver Queen debuted in 1941’s “More Fun Comics” #73; Aquaman also debuted in the same issue. Initially, Green Arrow was pretty much “Batman as Robin Hood.” This extended to his sidekick Speedy, plus an “Arrowplane,” “Arrowcar,” and “Arrowcave.” There’s also the famous trick arrows, of course. Things greatly deviated from this at the start of the Bronze Age, when much of the above was dropped. Oliver’s personality also basically became a superhero version of comedian George Carlin (the crankier and leftist aspects, versus the humorous aspects).
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What killed off traditional superhero sidekicks?
Anthony's Marvel Comics picks for June 2016
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Renovation Realities: Dale Jr. & Amy
Renovation Realities: Dale Jr. and Amy
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Dale and Amy Earnhardt's Historic Home Renovation in Key West
NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his wife, and interior designer, Amy rescue a crumbling 150-year-old home in Key West’s historic Old Town district. The project gets underway with shoring up the foundation and flooring then reconfiguring the ground floor to add a full bath and guest bedroom.
By: David L Haynes
Show: Renovation Realities: Dale Jr. and Amy
Photo By: Emilee Ramsier
Photo By: Rocky Gonet/ AP Images
The Renovation You Are About to See Is Real
So begins the opening sequence in DIY's series, Renovation Realities: Dale Jr. and Amy. In it, recently retired auto-racing superhero Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his wife Amy get set to embark on a real-life adventure, one that's far removed from the racetrack. It's an eventful time for the Earnhardts. "In the last 18 months," says Dale, "we got married, I announced my retirement from racing and we decided to buy and renovate a 150-year-old vacation home in Key West."
We saw this run-down old house in the Key West historic district. It was full of cats, and you could smell it from the street. It's the only house within several square blocks that's in this kinda shape.
It's a huge eyesore, but I have a vision for how we can bring it back to life.
Because the house is in a historic district, the renovation had specific guidelines and strict limitations on changes and upgrades. Though the exterior got a fresh coat of paint and new doors to replace the old rotted ones, the configuration of the windows, doors and facade remains essentially true to its original form. "They want the houses really to not change from how they've looked over the last hundred years," says Dale. "I think that's why Key West is so charming."
Quintessentially Key West
People have always asked me, "Is there anywhere you go where you don't get recognized?" Key West -- That's the place where I feel like I can be myself. I love the old bars. I love the history, the restaurants, the food.
I like that it's laid back all year round. We just feel comfortable here.
"The house is sagging," said Dale, "the porch is sloping, none of it's level."
The side exterior, prior to the renovation, shows wood rot and wear to the exterior, and the yard is filled with debris.
The eventual plan for the backyard is to install a pool, wraparound deck and privacy fence.
Front Entry, Before
During initial demolition of the first-floor ceiling it was discovered that a hive of bees had taken up residence between the floor joists of the second floor, with a network of honeycombs extending from the front entrance to the middle section of the house. Happily for everyone, the bees were safely relocated.
The house interior was in worse condition than initially thought, with severe flooring and support issues, widespread wood rot and termite damage.
The foundation had to be stabilized, the floors rebuilt and walls taken down to bare studs.
Dale secures some support posts during the rebuild of the foundation and footings. During the renovation, work was delayed for five weeks in the wake of hurricane Irma which caused widespread damage in the Keys.
Amy's home improvement skills aren't limited only to interior design. Here she pitches in on repair and rebuilding of the floors which, prior to the renovation, were badly deteriorated.
Dale uses the wet saw to cut tile for the bathroom renovation.
Creative Repurposing
Some of the original exterior doors were rotted or damaged but could be salvaged and refinished for use indoors. Here Dale and Amy paint one of the bedroom doors.
Coastal Color
The vibrant color Amy selected for the doors is Festoon Aqua.
Dale and Amy wanted a full bath on the first floor, but code restrictions meant they couldn't add on to the outside of the house, so they had to work within the home's existing layout. This room was once the home's dining room. In the new floor plan, it will become a full bath adjacent to a downstairs bedroom.
The overall design plan calls for creating a guest bedroom, bathroom and laundry room on the home's first floor.
The downstairs gets a full-sized bath with glass enclosed shower, marble floor tiles and custom vanity. Vintage brick pavers salvaged from the home site were cut down, given a whitewash finish and used for bathroom tiles. This was one of Amy's favorite design features in the renovation.
In the new floor plan, this space gets converted into a spacious downstairs bedroom.
"This space was used as a living room," said Amy, "but we're gonna wall it off to create a first-floor bedroom."
Twin iron beds, new hardwood flooring and lots of aqua blue and butterflies make for an inviting guest room with a soothing motif.
The first floor bedroom is a desirable feature, but this space could function equally well as a home office.
Dale and Amy pause to reflect on the transformation in the first-floor guest bedroom.
As you probably know, this is not my day job.
Dale Jr. takes a breather during the construction of what will be a poolside outdoor shower.
Dale installs some of the new hardwood flooring on the first floor.
Dale and Amy pose for a snapshot with general contractor Steve Krieger.
Hurricanes and renovation challenges weren't the only news during Key West project...
...It was also during this time that Dale and Amy announced they were expecting their first child. When Dale returned home after a public appearance, Amy surprised him with a welcome-home gift in the form of a baby onesie. The message was clear.
Soon-to-be parents Amy and Dale Earnhardt
Not So Fast!
This is just the beginning of the story. There's lots more to come. Keep checking back here for more new exclusive photos, behind-the-scenes video and updates.
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Swimming for Canada - The Candidates
Watch Philippe Gagnon's story here !
Every Canadian relies on our health care system. Our experiences vary depending on what our needs are and where we are in life, but we all need it. It’s critical that quality services are there for us when we do. That’s Andrew Scheer's commitment to you.
Standing up for Canadians
Andrew Scheer will stand up for Canada and its interests. Watch as Andrew Scheer explains.
Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant : Andrew Scheer
Justin Trudeau came to office promising transparency and accountability. In just four short years, he's shattered that trust. Andrew Scheer explains.
Our Beautiful Country
Andrew Scheer is committed to reaching out to voters across Canada. This summer, he will be traveling the entire country -- spreading our positive conservative message across this country. Watch him talk about our beautiful country.
A Real Plan to Protect our Environment
Yesterday @AndrewScheer put forward the most comprehensive environment plan ever put forward by a political party in Canada. http://cpcp.cc/M2nAk1
Angelo Esposito | The Candidates
Episode 2 profiles Angelo Esposito, Canadian hockey player and 2009 World Juniors champion. Angelo is running in the Quebec riding of Alfred-Pellan in the 2019 federal election.
We're less than 200 days until Canadians can turn the page on the disastrous Justin Trudeau government. A Conservative Government will put people first, not powerful corporations or insiders.
Justin Trudeau's failure
The last few months have been a dramatic time for Justin Trudeau's government -- but the analysis has been too narrowly focused on how this scandal will impact Trudeau's re-election campaign. Andrew Scheer is running to be the Prime Minister of Canada because this country deserves better than Trudeau's nonsense....
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Colloid milium =الدخنية الغروانية
Colloid Milium
Colloid milium is a rare condition characterized by (1) the presence of multiple, dome-shaped, amber- or flesh-colored papules developing on light-exposed skin and (2) the observance of dermal colloid under light microscopy. The 4 variants are (1) an adult-onset type, (2) a nodular form (nodular colloid degeneration),1 (3) a juvenile form,2,3 and (4) a pigmented form, thought to be due to excess hydroquinone use for skin bleaching.4
Colloid milium is a degenerative condition linked to excessive sun exposure and possibly exposure to petroleum products and hydroquinone. The origin of the colloid deposition in the dermis is not certain, but it is thought to be due to degeneration of elastic fibers5,6 in the adult form and due to degeneration of UV-transformed keratinocytes in the juvenile form. Juvenile colloid milium is inherited.
Colloid milium is rare, but more than 100 case reports are present in the world literature. No known figures exist on prevalence.
Most cases of colloid milium persist with no natural resolution. Lesions reach their peak within 3 years, after which very few new papules occur.
Colloid milium is more common in fair-skinned individuals.
The adult form of colloid milium is more common in males.
The rare juvenile form of colloid milium occurs before puberty. Adult colloid milium is more common in elderly patients.
Papules develop gradually over the facial area and light-exposed sites. Patients with colloid milium are usually asymptomatic, but they may have transient itching in affected areas.
The physical findings in colloid milium are usually limited to the skin.
Skin lesions of colloid milium: Amber, waxy, partially translucent, firm papules occur in crops, ranging from 1-5 mm in diameter. Gelatinous material can be expressed. In the nodular form, larger nodules (5-10 mm) or plaques develop. The underlying skin may be thickened, furrowed, and hyperpigmented. In the pigmented form, the papules are gray-black and confluent or clustered.
Skin distribution of colloid milium lesions: The lesions occur on light-exposed skin, with the cheeks, periorbital area, nose, ears, and neck most frequently involved; however, lesions may also occur on the backs of the hands and forearms. Nodules arising on one side of the face and the ipsilateral forearm have been described in a taxi cab driver. Upper eyelid margin involvement alone has been reported.7 Juvenile colloid milium may be associated with ligneous conjunctivitis or ligneous periodontitis. Rarely, lesions occur in the oral cavity.
The classic adult and nodular forms of colloid milium are believed to be due to excessive sun exposure, which appears to cause degeneration of elastin. Evidence to support this comes from the exposed site distribution and the tendency for colloid milium to occur in individuals with fair complexions and outdoor occupations.10,11
The juvenile form of colloid milium is inherited, perhaps suggesting an inherited susceptibility to UV light. Autosomal recessive inheritance has been reported.
An outbreak of colloid milium occurred in oil refinery workers in the tropics.13 A mechanic with occupational exposure to lubricating oils developed colloid milium over the backs of the hands.14 This may represent an interplay between light and petroleum constituents. Phenols have been suggested as causative agents.
Prolonged use of hydroquinones has resulted in the development of the pigmented form of colloid milium, sometimes in association with ochronosis
For colloid milium, no treatment is available that is entirely satisfactory.
Dermabrasion, cryotherapy, and diathermy have been tried with limited success. Advice about sunscreen use may also be helpful. Systemic ascorbic acid and exfoliating agents have also been tried with variable results. The Er:YAG laser may be more successful for colloid milium than dermabrasion
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Membrane Distillation, Texas, Desalination, Wastewater Treatment, Recovery, Cyprus, Oil & Gas, Hawaii
MD+VC succeeds at produced-water disposal site
A new desalination technique of membrane distillation (MD) combined with vapour compression (VC) has been pronounced a success in an effort to reduce produced water disposal costs at a Texas disposal well.
STW joins HFEIS developer to target power/desalination
STW Resources Holding Corp of Texas, USA, announced on 18 September 2013 a mutual strategic relationship with Colorado‑based Tat‑Tech Inc to remediate oil-sands waste, brackish groundwater and seawater via the construction and operation of proprietary systems developed by Tat‑Tech.
Registration open for AMTA/AWWA membrane conference
Registration has been opened and new sessions added to the programme for the 2013 Membrane Technology Conference & Exposition in San Antonio, Texas, on 25-28 February 2013.
Pflugerville location for SCMA membrane workshop
An introduction to the use of membrane technology in water and wastewater treatment is being offered in a Texas workshop being held by the South Central Membrane Association (SCMA) on 9 February 2012.
Joint venture aims to treat Texas frac water
A joint venture to treat brackish/produced water sources has been set up in Texas by STW Resources Holding Corp and CK Investments Energy Company (CKI).
Drilling starts for SAWS brackish-water desalination
San Antonio Water System (SAWS) in Texas, USA, launched work on its 25 MGD (95,000 m³/d) brackish-water desalination system on 27 March 2012.
STW fires up Salttech reclamation demonstration in US
US water reclamation company STW Resources has started operation of a Salttech zero liquid discharge water reclamation system demonstration in Fort Stockton, Texas.
SAWS board goes for expanded desalination project
The San Antonio Water System (SAWS) board in Texas, USA, decided on 10 February 2012 to go for expanded desalination rather than importing groundwater.
GE and memsys in joint MD development accord
Singapore-based membrane distillation (MD) specialist memsys clearwater Pte Ltd has entered into an agreement with GE to jointly develop the technology for the fast-growing oil and gas market.
AMTA unveils annual gongs for membrane experts
The American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) has conferred its annual roster of awards for membrane specialists, include its Lifetime Service Award, Hall of Fame Awards, and Operator of the Year Award.
Energy Recovery bags US$ 1 mlllion US deal duo
Flow energy technology firm, Energy Recovery, has won US$ 1 million in deals for desalination projects in California and Texas.
Brownsville pilot study published
Pilot study results from consultant NRS Consulting Engineers have confirmed that seawater desalination on the shore of the Ship Channel in Brownsville, Texas, USA, is technically feasible.
San Antonio to get brackish desalination in 2016
The San Antonio Water System (SAWS) in Texas has announced that by October 2016 it will start up a brackish water desalination plant that will eventually become the largest in the US.
Nearly 200 abstracts received for AMTA/AWWA conference
The American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) says that 193 abstracts have been received for its joint conference next year with the American Water Works Association (AWWA) in San Antonio, Texas.
Water Standard finds its shipbuilder in Samsung
Texas-based Water Standard and Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries announced an agreement on 28 June 2011 to collaborate on the design and development of vessels to deliver water treatment solutions to the offshore oil and gas sector.
Veolia in mineral recovery partnership at inland desalination plant
Texas-based company, Enviro Water Minerals (EWM), is to deploy its novel mineral recovery technology in a partnership with water and waste giant, Veolia, to produce potable water from brackish water desalination effluent.
"We're now at more than $100 million revenue." Doug Brown, AquaVenture chairman and CEO
AquaVenture chief executive Doug Brown has a track record of delivering shareholder value. When he joined water technology and engineering firm Ionics as chief executive in 2003, the struggling business was trading at $16 a share.
Oasys forward osmosis concentrates in China
Massachusetts-based Oasys Water has claimed its recent contract to supply a forward osmosis brine concentrator to a fossil-fuelled power plant in China to be a world first.
Loans for Texas town proposing direct potable reuse
The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) on 20 September 2012 approved loans totalling US$ 12 million to the City of Brownwood from the Texas Water Development Fund to finance wastewater system improvements, including possible direct potable wastewater reuse (DPR).
Texas reuse project nears construction stage
A proposed US$ 2.4 million water reuse project in Olney, Texas has moved closer to the construction phase following a city council environmental review public hearing.
ZLD technology from GE for Texas powerplants
Two new Texas powerplants are to use zero liquid discharge (ZLD) wastewater treatment technology supplied by GE, the company announced on 15 January 2013.
Morocco's first solar-powered desalination starts up
Morocco's first solar-powered desalination plant has started operations near Marrakech.
Desalination quartet booked for Masdar pilot plants in UAE
Three major contractors in the global desalination business - Abengoa, Degrémont and Sidem/Veolia - together with forward-osmosis developer Trevi Systems, were awarded contracts on 5 May 2014 by Abu Dhabi's Masdar, to each start the construction of a 1,500 m³/d desalination plant as part of Masdar's pilot project announced in 2013.
memsys and Horizon combine to reduce ZLD costs
A pilot trial is due to start in May 2014 of a method to reduce the costs of zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technology at a coal to chemical (CTX) project in northern China.
MD plant using generator heat starts on Maldive island
The world's first desalination unit using waste heat from a power generator with membrane distillation has started up on Guhli island in the Maldives in the Indian Ocean.
Desert community MD trial produces first water
First water was produced in mid-November 2013 by the membrane distillation plant set up in the Great Victoria Desert, Australia, by a team from the National Centre for Excellence in Desalination Australia (NCEDA).
Commercialization moves nearer for memsys MD system
In what memsys CEO, Götz Lange, calls "a clear step towards commercialization of the company's membrane distillation (MD) technology", the Germany/Singapore based company has announced the formation of a Business Development Unit.
Saudi strikes desalination deal with Korea in bid to stem foreign influence
Saudi Arabia's Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has signed a deal with Korea for access to the latest seawater desalination technologies in a bid to reduce foreign influence on the kingdom's power and water industries.
Nine water purification projects bag US$ 1.49 million in funding
The US Bureau of Reclamation has selected nine projects to receive US$ 1.49 million under its Desalination and Water Purification Research programme.
Abengoa forms desalination research partnership in Abu Dhabi
Spanish energy sustainability company Abengoa has formed a research partnership with the Masdar Institute and the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company to optimize membrane distillation technology for the treatment of reverse osmosis brines.
MD developer seeking US powerplant partners
Swedish membrane distillation (MD) manufacturer Scarab AB is seeking US powerplant operators to allow it to demonstrate the technology's ability to convert waste streams to feedwater using waste heat from turbines and engines.
US DoE awards $21 million for solar desalination projects
The US Department of Energy has unveiled funding of $21 million for 14 projects to advance solar-based thermal desalination technologies.
Abilene wastewater overhaul uses GE pretreatment
The city of Abilene, Texas has completed its installation of GE's LEAPmbr wastewater pretreatment system as part of a major upgrade to the city's Hamby wastewater treatment plant.
Vacuum-driven MD breakthrough promised by memsys
Vacuum-driven membrane distillation (MD) delivers high flux and true multi-effect distillation with very good energy recovery. The process runs at low temperature levels and is fully modular. This article describes the background of the development of the memsys company, membrane distillation, its specific advantages and potential applications, current and planned demonstration plants, and MD s future role in desalination. This article first appeared in the February/March 2011 issue of Desalination & Water Reuse magazine.
University may manage Texas desalination study
The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) in Texas, USA, is to negotiate an agreement with the Sustainable Energy Research Institute at the University of Texas at San Antonio to manage a feasibility study for a proposed seawater desalination plant.
New COO and business lines for STW Resources
US water services provider STW Resource Holding Corp announced a new chief operating officer (COO) on 25 October 2012 and expanded business lines, including large-scale desalination and oil/gas water reclamation.
Sixteen bid for Texas seawater desalination qualification
The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) in Texas, USA, has received 16 responses to its request for qualifications issued in April 2012 for a feasibility study of a major seawater desalination project to supply the river basin with a fresh source of water.
Another TWDB loan for SAWS desalination project
The Texas Water Development Board has given a US$ 50 million loan to the San Antonio Water System (SAWS) towards its first-ever groundwater desalination plant in southern Bexar County.
Texas passes bill to deliver water resources
Texas has referred a major bill designed to boost desalination projects in the state to the Senate Agriculture, Water and Rural Affairs Committee.
Texas desalination RFQ period ends on 14 September
The qualification period for a feasibility study for a large seawater desalination plant in Texas, USA, ends on 14 September 2012.
Texas cities ponder desalination as lawmakers seek to remove legal obstacles
Texas cities McAllen and Edinburg are mulling the construction of a desalination plant to service both cities.
Land commission looking at Texas desalination
The Texas General Land Commission (GLO) has contracted two consulting firms to investigate the possibility of brackish-water desalination north of New Braunfels.
IDE opens shop in Texas
IDE Technologies has furthered its expansion in the US with a new office in Texas headed up by newly appointed regional director of sales, Mark Ellison.
San Antonio first phase desalination set for 2016 finish
The first phase of a groundwater desalination plant in San Antonio is set to be completed next year. The US$ 193 million first phase will produce fresh drinking water at about 50 Ml/d for customers of the San Antonio Water System.
Texas county desalination scheme slated to supply industry
The Texas General Land Office has agreed a deal with desalination firm, Seven Seas Water, to develop a plan for building a seawater desalination plant in the San Patricio-Nueces county.
New Texas desalination plant could reuse fracking water
A new desalination test facility in Loving County, Texas could be deployed in treating water used in hydraulic fracturing - tracking- for shale gas for reuse in the oil industry.
Texas opens public hearings on desalination
The US state of Texas has begun a series of public hearings on desalination costs and benefits that will inform the drafting of new laws next year.
SCMA annual conference set for San Antonio
The 7th Annual Conference of the South Central Membrane Association (SCMA), an affiliate of the American Membrane Technology Association, is to be held in San Antonio, Texas, on 22‑24 August 2012.
Texas Desalination Association plans September conference
The Texas Desalination Association is hosting its second annual conference Texas Desal 2014: Best Practices and Emerging Technology on 11-12 September 2014 in Austin, Texas.
Grant for Texas pilot wind-powered desalination plant
The Texas Department of Rural Affairs (TDRA) has made a US$ 2.75 million grant to Mitchell County, Texas, towards a US$ 8 million pilot project to use wind power for a brackish-water desalination project.
Desalination pilot-study funding approved for Corpus Christi
A further step towards a future seawater desalination plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA, was taken on 22 April 2014, when the city council approved funding for a pilot study to be undertaken by Freese & Nichols Inc.
Nine projects get Reclamation feasibility funding
The Camp Pendleton desalination project in California is one of nine advanced water treatment and reuse projects in three US states selected for feasibility-study funding by the Bureau of Reclamation.
Further funding for San Antonio BWRO desalination project
Initial project construction for the brackish groundwater desalination program planned by San Antonio Water System (SAWS) in the USA will now be possible following a US$ 24.6 million loan from the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB).
URS to assist El Paso desalination solar project
The Public Services Board in El Paso, Texas, on 10 November 2010 voted to hire URS Corporation as a consultant to assist with the choice of a solar energy system to power part of the Kay Bailey Hutchison desalination plant.
Wave-powered desalination about to be installed
A company in Texas, USA, is preparing to demonstrate the use of desalination with the wave-power facility it is about to install in the Gulf of Mexico.
Desalination joint venture abandoned
Daniel Dror, chairman and CEO of American International Industries, Inc (AMIN) announced on 2 March 2010 that discussions with Centriforce Technology Corporation regarding the possible development of a joint venture to operate in the water desalination industry have terminated.
El Paso to explore solar power for desalination plant
The City of El Paso Public Service Board voted on 10 February 2010 to explore the possibility of using solar power at the Kay Bailey Hutchison desalination plant in Texas, USA.
Texas state funding wind-powered desalination pilots
The Texas Department of Rural Affairs (TDRA) is offering US$ 1.5 million to smaller local governments in the US state for brackish-water desalination demonstration projects using wind energy. Deadline for applications for the 2010 Desalination Fund is 29 January 2010.
Wave-powered desalination plant to produce bottled water
The Texas General Land Office has granted the first-ever state offshore wave-energy lease to Texas-based Renew Blue Inc (RBI), who will use ocean water and waves to produce 3,000 gal/day (11,350 L/d) of bottled desalinated water.
Contract let for Laredo AdVE desalination plant
Applied Water Management (AWM), a subsidiary of American Water, announced on 15 May 2009 a contract from Terrabon LLC for engineering services and the operation of the 50,000 gpd (190,000 L/d) Advanced Vapor Compression desalination pilot plant in Laredo, Texas.
AdVE desalination pilot plant approved for Laredo
A 50,000 gpd (190,000 L/d) advanced vapor compression desalination (AdVE) pilot plant is to be constructed and operated for the City of Laredo, Texas. The City Council has approved a US$ 1.6 million joint proposal by Terrabon LLC and the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES).
Masdar desal pilot: the results so far
Masdar Clean Energy set a target for its pilot projects of one cubic metre of water for every 3.6 kilowatt hours of energy used. This is a particularly challenging target in the Persian Gulf, where salinity is very high, the water temperature is high, it's very shallow, and there's high organic matter.
Texas creates state desalination committee
Following recent severe droughts, a Joint Interim Committee to Study Water Desalination has been created by the legislature in the US state of Texas, including members of both houses.
Abstracts invited for WateReuse symposium in Dallas
The WateReuse Association (WRA) has issued a call for presentations and posters for its 29th Annual WateReuse Symposium, which will be held on 7-10 September 2014 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
Multi-technology GE upgrade for Russian refinery treatment
Membrane bioreactor (MBR), electrodialysis reversal (EDR) and reverse osmosis (RO) technology will all feature in a major upgrade for the wastewater treatment at one of Russia's biggest oil refineries.
Texas group to hold desalination conference in Sept 2014
The Texas Desalination Association, which is not yet affiliated to either the American Membrane Technology Association or the International Desalination Association, has announced that its annual conference will take place in Austin in September 2014.
Texas US$ 3.9 billion water funding plan gets green light
The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) has approved the inaugural round of funding from the US$ 3.9 billion State Water Implementation Fund for Texas (SWIFT) ten-year financial assistance programme.
Solar desalination champion teams with university
Louisiana, engineer and solar powered desalination entrepreneur, Hill Kemp, has teamed up with University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP) to market the technology to industrial customers.
Texas will need desalination says land commissioner
The Texas Land Commissioner, Jerry Patterson, said on 29 August 2013 at the Texas Groundwater Summit in San Marcos that the state would need more alternatives such as desalination to provide a solution for its thirsty growing population.
Details published of AMTA/SCMA Texas workshop
The American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) has released details of the technology transfer workshop it is holding in Texas in September in conjunction with the South Central Membrane Association.
MWH selected for 250 MGD Texas desalination study
MWH Global has been selected by the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) in Texas, USA, to carry out the feasibility study to assess the development of ocean water desalination of up to 250 MGD (950,000 m³/d) as a regional water supply, including the option of co-located power generation facilities.
Desalination considered for Texas PTA/TEP plant
Desalination is among the possible options to source water for M&G Group's purified terephthalic acid / polyethylene terephthalate (PTA/TEP) plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.
SCMA conference has an eye to the weather
The contribution that membrane desalination and water treatment can make to combating the extreme weather conditions prevalent in the southern United States will provide a focus for the 2013 Annual Conference of the South Central Membrane Association (SCMA).
Parsons lands SAWS brackish water desalination job
Parsons Corporation is leading a joint venture to serve as the construction manager at risk for the San Antonio groundwater desalination program in Texas, USA.
Texas state office joins seawater desalination study
The Texas General Land Office (GLO) formally agreed on 15 April 2013 to partner the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) on the feasibility study it has launched for a seawater desalination plant on the Gulf of Mexico.
Membrane Distillation OR Texas OR Desalination OR Wastewater Treatment OR Recovery OR Cyprus OR Oil & Gas OR Hawaii
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Seeing smoke in Palm Desert? That's because of a structure fire, Cal Fire says
The incident was reported around 6 p.m. in the 75000 block of Mediterranean Avenue.
Seeing smoke in Palm Desert? That's because of a structure fire, Cal Fire says The incident was reported around 6 p.m. in the 75000 block of Mediterranean Avenue. Check out this story on desertsun.com: https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/local/palm-desert/2019/07/30/seeing-smoke-palm-desert-thats-because-structure-fire-cal-fire-says/1874278001/
Shane Newell, Palm Springs Desert Sun Published 7:07 p.m. PT July 30, 2019 | Updated 7:07 p.m. PT July 30, 2019
Three people, including two firefighters, had minor injuries from a house fire in Indio on Sept. 21, 2019. A Cal Fire Riverside County firetruck is pictured in this undated file photo. (Photo: Cal Fire-Riverside County Fire Department)
A commercial structure fire broke out Tuesday evening in Palm Desert, according to Cal Fire.
The incident was reported around 6 p.m. in the 75000 block of Mediterranean Avenue. Initial reports said a large single-story building had "heavy smoke showing."
Fire personnel are calling the blaze #Renovaincident on Twittter.
#RenovaIncident [UPDATE] - The fire was contained at 6:50 pm. Resources will remain on scene for approximately 1 hour for overhaul.
— CAL FIRE Riverside (@CALFIRERRU) July 31, 2019
More: Small fire ignites in Beaumont neighborhood, but it is quickly put down
More: California may be first to force water suppliers to notify customers of myriad toxic 'forever chemicals'
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Nonprofit: 2,000 affordable housing units coming to valley
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What's new for central Iowa cyclists this year
Looking for a new trail route or organized ride this summer? Wondering what cycling-related changes to expect in the near future? These are changes that local cyclists are excited about — plus a few developments in the works:
What's new for central Iowa cyclists this year Looking for a new trail route or organized ride this summer? Wondering what cycling-related changes to expect in the near future? These are changes that local cyclists are excited about — plus a few developments in the works: Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: http://dmreg.co/29z4pCX
Special to the Register Published 11:52 a.m. CT July 12, 2016 | Updated 12:56 p.m. CT July 12, 2016
7 photos: Great Western Trail expands on Southwest side of Des Moines
Orlondo's is an establishment located on the Great Western Trail. A recently made new trail connection allows riders to go from downtown to Gray's Lake to Carney Park to Orlondo's and beyond on the Great Western Trail in Des Moines, Sunday, July 10, 2016. Rachel Mummey/The Register
Couples Michael and Nancy Rice of West Des Moines, and Joe and Judy Shepard of Des Moines prepare for a bike ride on the Great Western Trail. A recently made new trail connection allows riders to go from downtown to Gray's Lake to Carney Park to Orlondo's and beyond on the Great Western Trail in Des Moines, Sunday, July 10, 2016. Rachel Mummey/The Register
A recently made new trail connection allows riders to go from downtown to Gray's Lake to Carney Park to Orlondo's and beyond on the Great Western Trail in Des Moines, Sunday, July 10, 2016. Rachel Mummey/The Register
Orlando's is an establishment located on the Great Western Trail. A recently made new trail connection allows riders to go from downtown to Gray's Lake to Carney Park to Orlondo's and beyond on the Great Western Trail in Des Moines, Sunday, July 10, 2016. Rachel Mummey/The Register
A recently made new trail connection allows riders to go from downtown to Gray's Lake to Carney Park to Orlondo's and beyond on the Great Western Trail in Des Moines, Sunday, July 10, 2016. (Photo: Rachel Mummey/The Register)Buy Photo
Trail expansions and connections
Although the Des Moines metro area has over 600 miles of bike trails, there are significant gaps separating them, making it difficult to get from one trail to another or from trails to popular business and recreation destinations. Recent efforts have focused on bridging those gaps. A few recent examples:
An extension of the Great Western Trail on Des Moines’ south side. The Great Western Trail starts at Martensdale and runs northward through the south side of Des Moines. A new ¾-mile extension of the trail runs parallel to the south of George Flagg Parkway from Park Avenue to Southwest 30th Street, creating a new direct connection to the Bill Riley trail. This bypasses the previous route that necessitated crossing George Flagg Parkway and riding through Water Works Park to get to the Bill Riley trail.
“Even if the Raccoon River is high and is flooding Water Works, you can now get by on this new extension,” said Jason Scholbrock of Des Moines.
The Great Western Trail will soon see some additional changes, said Richard Leopold, Polk County Conservation director. When Maffitt Lake Road is extended, it will relocate a portion of the trail. But Leopold said the developers of the plan have agreed to complete the relocation before they begin construction that will disrupt the current trail.
New bike lanes from Prairie City through the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge. Each side of Prairie Parkway now has a 4-foot-wide, 6-mile-long bike lane creating a 12-mile loop from Prairie City, through the refuge, to the visitor’s center for a water and bathroom break, and back to Prairie City.
“The new bike lanes provide a safe way to ride through the refuge and witness the tallgrass prairie in bloom as it changes through the seasons,” said Cheryl Groom, deputy refuge manager.
“It's a great ride!” said Siobhan Harmon of Des Moines. “It’s a fun family experience to ride by the buffalo and the prairie in bloom, and then continue to Prairie City to Goldie’s Ice Cream Shoppe.”
An extension of the High Trestle Trail to Southwest Ordnance Road in Ankeny. Ankeny last year extended the High Trestle Trail just under a mile south to Southwest Ordnance Road. This extension takes cyclists to the Uptown Ankeny area where they can visit such businesses as the bike-friendly Firetrucker Brewery. The project also included a new stoplight to help get pedestrians and cyclists across the busy West First Street.
“When the city does surveys of Ankeny residents, bike trail extensions are always the No. 1 recreation-related request,” said Nick Lenox, director of Ankeny Parks and Recreation. “The High Trestle Trail now gets you to the Ankeny community trail and lets you navigate through town, so this was a big extension.”
10 photos: A Spring day on the High Trestle Trail
Bikers and hikers cross the High Trestle Trail near Madrid in April. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Bikers and hikers cross the High Trestle Trail near Madrid on Sunday, April 17, 2016. Temperatures were unseasonably warm reaching the upper 70s. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Ankeny is at work on a trailhead at the current end of the trail that will include restrooms, shelters, and green space for riders to enjoy. The city is also conducting a feasibility study to extend the trail another 1¾ miles. The proposed extension would connect the High Trestle, Gay Lea Wilson and Neal Smith trails in Ankeny
An extension of the Chichaqua Valley Trail. This spring’s 6-mile extension makes the trail about 28 miles long from East 29th Street in Des Moines to rural Baxter. The extension allows central Iowa cyclists to access the trail from the metro, since it now crosses the Gay Lea Wilson Trail just northeast of the east mixmaster. It also creates a link from other metro trails, such as the Neal Smith Trail, Great Western Trail, and beyond to the Chichaqua Valley Trail, which was isolated in years past.
“I’m excited about the trail extension because Chichaqua is one of my favorites,” said Kerri Sorrel of Des Moines. “It’s beautiful with lots of tree canopy. Businesses are popping up along the trail, which speaks to the power of trails to foster small businesses and communities. I think the trail’s extension down to Des Moines plays a huge role in that.”
24 photos: Chichaqua Trail grand opening
Mark Arentsen of Bondurant (from left) Loren Lown of Pleasant Hill and Maribeth Arentsen talk Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Rich Leopold, director of Polk County Conservation, speaks Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Lisa Hein of the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation speaks Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Nathaniel Young pf Johnston gets ready to ride Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Guests wait in the rain for a ribbon cutting Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Visitors watch as officials officially open the Chichaqua Valley Trail Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Chris McCarthy (right) and Mark Raney, both of Ankeny, go for a ride Saturday, April 25, 2015, after the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Guests talk Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Jill Frohwein and Dan Frowein of Berwick Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Rich Voelker of Ankeny and Lisa Hein of Ames Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Cynthia Smith of Hall (left) and Gay Lea Wilson of Pleasant Hill Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Carol Burt (left) and Jeri Bartley, both of Mingo, Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Penny Thomsen of Pleasant Hill (left) and Nancy Crowfoot of Des Moines Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Stacey Young of Bondurant (left) and Traci Shoemaker of Des Moines Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Visitors listen as Rich Leopold, director of Polk County Conservation, speaks Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Guests and riders walk to the trail Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Officials hold a ceremony Saturday, April 25, 2015, during the Chichaqua Valley Trail grand opening at Mally's Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register
Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Riders make their way to Bondurant Saturday, April 25, 2015, after the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
Tami Cochran of Ankeny (left) and Susan Appler of Norwalk get ready to ride Saturday, April 25, 2015, after the Chichaqua Valley Trail Grand Opening at Mallys Weh-Weh Neh-Kee Park in Berwick. Scott Morgan/For the Register, Scott Morgan/For the Register
For a bird’s-eye view of the entire Des Moines-area trail system including these most recent additions and upcoming proposed trails, check out maps available from the Des Moines Metropolitan Planning Organization (https://dmampo.org) or Des Moines Bicycle Collective (dsmbikecollective.org).
Businesses catering to cyclists
Joining such popular metro-area biking pit stops as Cumming Tap and Mullets, a new spot on the local bike-trail circuit is Reclaimed Rails Brewing Company. Located at 101 Main St. in Bondurant, Reclaimed Rails sits at the intersection of the Chichaqua Valley Trail and the Gay Lea Wilson Trail.
Ride over to Reclaimed Rails to try a flight of four beers from among their 16 on tap. Enjoy the history-rich building, including brewing equipment from the former Raccoon River Brewing and a deck built of wood from the former Log Ride at Adventureland Park.
“It’s a very cool brewery,” Scholbrock said. “They have a nice patio and it’s a great place to stop for a refreshing drink during a long ride on the trail.”
Reclaimed Rails Brewing Co. in Bondurant (Photo: Susan Stapleton/The Register)
Urban and commuter cycling
Many Des Moines cyclists say they’re most excited about what they see as a shift in how the Des Moines community views urban cycling. Residents are expressing interest in biking around town and to work as their means of transportation. And just as importantly, local governments are starting to implement the infrastructure to support urban cycling.
Andrea Metzler of Des Moines lives and works downtown. Last spring she sold her car and bought a $100 bike from the Des Moines Bicycle Collective. The bike is now her main form of transportation.
This summer Metzler started Des Moines City Ride — 5- to 10-mile bike rides around town every Monday evening. Previous rides have taken residents to the Blank Park Zoo, downtown music venues, the Art Center and the East Village. Events planned for later this summer include a ride to the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Weekly rides are posted at dsmcityride.com.
8 photos: Des Moines City Ride
Riders pass through Cowles Commons during the first official Des Moines City Ride on Monday, May 23, 2016, in downtown Des Moines. The ride is held on a different route through the city every Monday night until September. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Deborah Blair, of Altoona and Alicia Norman, of Pleasant Hill laugh together before the first official Des Moines City Ride on Monday, May 23, 2016, in downtown Des Moines. The ride is held on a different route through the city every Monday night until September. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Riders pass city hall during the first official Des Moines City Ride on Monday, May 23, 2016, in downtown Des Moines. The ride is held on a different route through the city every Monday night until September. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Larisa Staples, of Des Moines and Brianna Davis, of Des Moines walk their bikes over to the first official Des Moines City Ride on Monday, May 23, 2016, in downtown Des Moines. The ride is held on a different route through the city every Monday night until September. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Rick Gillispie, of Pleasant Hill, rides down Court Avenue during the first official Des Moines City Ride on Monday, May 23, 2016, in downtown Des Moines. The ride is held on a different route through the city every Monday night until September. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Riders make their way down Court Avenue during the first official Des Moines City Ride on Monday, May 23, 2016, in downtown Des Moines. The ride is held on a different route through the city every Monday night until September. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Riders make their way down Locust Street during the first official Des Moines City Ride on Monday, May 23, 2016, in downtown Des Moines. The ride is held on a different route through the city every Monday night until September. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Metzler wants City Ride to make cycling “more approachable to people who are intimidated by Spandex and 50-mile trail rides,” she said. “I wanted to show people that you don’t have to buy an expensive bike or special clothes to ride a couple miles across town.”
Metzler is also excited to hear talk of new street design guidelines that will make city streets safer and more accessible to everyone.
A few such projects in the works in central Iowa include a Complete Streets program being funded by the Wellmark Foundation and administered by the Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization. All of the projects are designed to enable safe urban transportation for walkers, bicyclists and motorists.
These Complete Streets projects are all slated to be done around Aug. 1. They include:
Add bike racks and two parklets (portable mini parks) along University Avenue in Windsor Heights.
Connect the Neal Smith Trail to Sixth Avenue in Des Moines.
Add a dedicated bike lane and shared lane markings on South Fifth Street in Carlisle.
Extend the trail and provide safe crossing of Northwest 60th Avenue in Johnston.
Support the expansion of the BCycle bike-share program in Des Moines.
Convert three parking spaces to protected bike corrals along Ingersoll Avenue in Des Moines.
“Our local communities are also pushing forward on bicycle and pedestrian projects,” said Mike Armstrong of the Metropolitan Planning Organization. “Johnston is working on the Terra Lake trails that would ultimately connect from Des Moines to Urbandale; Urbandale is completing the trail through the Jackaline Baldwin Dunlap Arboretum; the list goes on. Communities throughout the region have recognized how valuable this work can be.
“But I think what’s most exciting is that we are on the precipice of big changes,” Armstrong continued, citing examples such as Des Moines’ Downtown Mobility Study and Windsor Heights’ plan for a regional trail hub.
“Many of our communities have been working on improving the walking and bicycling experience in the area,” Armstrong said. “While there is still room for improvement, we are pushing toward safer, more comfortable, and more connected networks that provide healthy transportation options for the entire region.”
Jeremy Lewis, executive director of the Des Moines Bicycle Collective, is “cautiously optimistic” that Des Moines could soon be a great place for widespread urban and commuter cycling similar to cities like Minneapolis or Portland.
“I’m excited about the local explosion of interest in biking as a means of transportation,” Lewis said. “It used to be that I’d see one or two people riding bikes on my short commute from Beaverdale to downtown and now I see half a dozen or more. More people want to ride their bikes around town but they don’t always feel safe. We need to keep trying more progressive approaches so more and more people will feel comfortable riding their bikes to work and school.”
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Mechanisms and Ecological Significance
SPIDER COMMUNICATION Mechanisms and Ecological Significance
In the last ten years aja-rge nuar-ber of published ra^^JhaBéi:-ported for the first time r^aits of the application of moderfSentific technology to the ^^^^ga-tion of spidp^BSsiology and behavior. ^Concentrating on tlle^^Bflex spider communication Jätern, this book assembles* the most regent multidisciplinary advances rJMi ing researchers |ir#m many tries^|B^j||| the peculiar role spiders pl^^M fht animal HHk Here ^P^K^iu’s* contributors Æ view their mp9fe^^|place them within the general tidft and speculate on the «vantages and disadvan-.J?#ges that special ffifelopment has provided for spiders.
Topics covered and their aÄiOjs are: significance and complexity of spidif communication ■(Bertrand Krafft); vibratory signals (Friedrich G. Barth); acouslB communication and reproductive isolationRI^sfaSäs W. Uetz and Gj|§ E. Sfratton); visual communication in jumping spiders (Lyn Forste» communication behavior in jumping spiders (RoM® R. Jackson); Hmaical communication in LycOsid| and other” (William J. Tietjen a® jferomBs. Rovher); social spacing strJ§|jffl (J. Wesley Burgess and George W. Uet^)|i»d foraging (Susan E. Riech-ert and fadwiga Euczak ).
Peter N. Witt w&fbrmerily ChdM^ il Mental Health Research, Depart-ment of Human ^ef9^Cû|âta$e of i^iprA Carolina.
Jerome S. Rovner is Professor of Zoology at Ohio Unw^as^B
INTRODUCTION: COMMUNICATION IN SPIDERS
Peter N. Witt
North Carolina Mental Health Research Anderson Hall Dorothea Dix Hospital Raleigh, North Carolina 27611
Most of the authors of this book were invited by me to come together as part of the International Meeting sponsored by the American Arachnological Society in the summer of 1978 in Gainesville, Florida. They agreed to discuss their work as it contributed to our knowledge about communication in spiders. I conceived the plan for the book at the symposium and thus became its senior editor. At a later date I asked Jerome Rovner to join me in the editorial work, and we bear together the responsibility for the present list of contributors and the present jshape. The final version developed after the symposium through additional reviews of the relevant literature and inclusion of current laboratory and field work. All along we tried to preserve the attraction of the immediateness of the reports from the authors’ own laboratories and combine them with a more general review of the field. The text aims at presenting the present state of knowledge and is a compromise between completeness and readability. Sometimes a chapter fits only the widest definition of “communication,l^e.g., Riechert and Tuczak’s “Spider Foraging: Behavioral Responses to Prey.” Because it contains valuable information on spider behavior and ecology which is not to be found summarized elsewhere, and because it rounds off the other chapters by applying some of the sensory physiology and other knowledge to predator-prey interactions, the editors decided to include fi> After all, the subject matter of that chapter is an important part of the spider’s relationship with its environment. A special effort is made to address readers beyond arachnologists, so that they can sample and compare how much (or little) is known about one aspect of this one group of animals at the present time.
To many readers opening this volume, the title will seem strange, if not unworthy of serious and lengthy treatment. On the face of it, spiders do not deserve reputations for communicability. Rather, they are popularly regarded as solitary and silent predators, who neither seek, nor are likely to obtain, partners in any gentle exchange. A moment’s reflection will revise that judgment, but it is probably the first task of an introduction to offer some explanation of why the volume is thicker than one might anticipate. The events of courtship would probably be granted at once to be a matter of communication. Even the “news” which prey provides, however regretfully it does so, could be construed as communication. Indeed, this latter, very broad interpretation of the term “communication” is the one I have chosen to use in order to include material in this volume which is relevant to a consideration of mechanisms underlying communication sensu stiictu. Thus, even where the research dealt with a system for prey detection, the findings of such a study could also be of interest to those seeking to understand the use of the same channel for signaling by a male spider when courting a female.
For the reader who pictures only the solitary web-builder, there will be surprises in thfs book, especially ivhen communal spiders are considered. But the topic is capable of even wider expansion; So much so that in preparing this book one became convinced that to cover the problem thoroughly, it will never be thick enough. Scarcity of knowledge, rather than lack of subject matter worthy of discussion, has limited the size of the present work. In the search for knowledge, this book is a way station where we review how far we have come in order to determine where we want to go.
Invertebrates have recently become particularly interesting to neuroscientists. Chase (1979) points out that papers in invertebrate neurobiology constituted the third largest of 41 topical categories at the 1978 meeting, which represented the whole Society of Neuroscience’s interest. He discusses the advantages of relatively fewer neuronal elements for identification in invertebrates, together with greater technical accessibility. This accounts for the fact that physiological descriptions of behavioral control are more complete for invertebrate models than they are for vertebrate models. If one assumes evolutionary continuity from animals to man, it follows that studies of identification of the role of particular neurons in invertebrates become relevant to the human situation. This in turn permits more enlightened speculation on the mind-body problem (see Chase, 1979).
Spiders, one of several groups making up the class Arachnida, are invertebrates which show a number of peculiarities. An example of die special body structure of spiders is shown in Figure 1.1. Spiders show a number of precoded behavior patterns, frequently called fixed action patterns. In several places in this book such behavior
Figure 1.1a. Dorsal view of Aianeus diadematus, the cross spider, hanging face-down in its orb-web. Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 designate the first, second, third, and fourth right legs, respectively. P: pedipalp; CE: céphalothorax; A: abdomen; TA: tarsus of fourth left leg. Note that, in contrast to insects, the spider has a two-part body, four pairs of legs, and a pair of pedipalps instead of antennae. Figure 1.1b. Scanning electron micrograph of the ventral view of the same spider (face-down as in 1.1a). C: chelicera with fang; P: pedipalp; S: sternum (on the ventral side of céphalothorax); A: abdomen; CO: coxa; T: trochanter; F: femur of fourth leg.
patterns as courtship, web-building, and feeding will be described as highly ritualized and species-specific. The neuronal substrates of such behavior probably will be elucidated one day. The following chapters review much of the present knowledge as an early step in this process. Table 1.1 lists the families of spiders containing one or more species whose names will appear in these chapters.
Why do we focus on communication? Communication is important for an animal’s survival. Animals change their behavior as a consequence of the information they receive. In social animals all communal life is based on a communication network, which car-
Table 1.1. Families of spiders included in this book.
Web-weavers Wanderers
Agelenidae – funnel weavers Anyphaenidae
Amaurobiidae Archaeidae
Araneidae – “ordinary” orb-weavers Clubionidae – sac spiders
Argyronetidae – water spiders Ctenidae
Atypidae – purse-web spiders Dysderidae
Barychelidae Gnaphosidae (Drassidaej ^
Ctenizidae – trapdoor spiders Lycosidae – wolf spiders
Dictynidae Mimetidae – pirate spiders
Diguetidae Oxyopidae – lynx spiders
Dinopidae – ogre-faced spiders Philodromidae
Dipluridae – funnel-web tarantulas Pisauridae – nursery-web spiders
(mygalomorphs) Salticidae – jumping spiders
Eresidae Scytodidae – spitting spiders
Filistatidae Sicariidae
Hahniidae Sparassidae (Heteropodidae) –
Hypochilidae huntsman spiders
Leptonetidae Theraphosidae – “ordinary”
Linyphiidae – sheet-web weavers tarantulas (mygalomorphs)
Liphistiidae Thomisidae – crab spiders
Loxoscelidae
Micryphantidae (Erigonidae) -dwarf spiders Ochyroceratidae Oecobiidae
Pholcidae – long-legged spiders Segestriidae
Tetragnathidae – long-jawed orb-weavers
Theridiidae – comb-footed spiders
Urocteidae
ries information among the individuals, letting each know what it has to do to assist in the survival of relatives and thereby insure its own best genetic interest. Communication between sexually reproducing animals is 6ne prerequisite for their genes’ survival.
There are many ways in which living beings communicate. Some of the ways are so characteristic for a species or genus that they can be used for defining the difference between that group and others. Humans are frequently distinguished from animals by the ability of our species to use language for communication. The more recent investigations of chimpanzees’ ability to master and apply American Sign Language are efforts to resolve the controversy over the degree of sophistication, abstraction, and generalization which these apes can develop in this communication medium as compared to humans fGriffin, 1977, 1978; Premack and Woodruff, 1978).
Understanding communication between living beings requires insight into many different aspects of life. The organs which transmit and receive signals can be studied as to their physical appearance and particular function. The signal itself—its variation, nature, means of transmittal, and its information content—is another subject for investigation. These components cannot be understood as part of the communication process if the meaning of the message is not clarified: how it was encoded by the communicator and how it was decoded and interpreted by the ieceiver. Usually, observation and the measurement of the individual’s behavior under specified conditions are used as methods for gaining some understanding of the content and meaning of a communication process.
The central position which communication plays in animals’ Slves can be deduced from the observation that studying communication leads to an understanding of the peculiarities of that animal and its conspecifics. The description of a simple experiment will illustrate the point.
A spider hangs face down in the center of its intricate orb web. A low-frequency tuning fork is struck. As soon as the vibrating prongs of the instrument touch a radius of the web, the spider turns and positions one front leg on the moving radius (Figure l|||). This trial can be repeated over and over, and the results will nearly always be the same. Further reaction is more variable and depends on a number of circumstances: the duration of the signal, the response of the web to short jerks on the radius by the first legs, the spider’s appetite, the number and character of preceding trials, and even general circumstances such as time of day, sun, wind, and rain.
What has just been described represents certain aspects of communication (broadly defined) which are characteristic of many species of spidêfcs. The tuning fork produced -a^measurable signal; frequency, intensity, and variability of the signal could have been tested for the ranges in which they elicit a response. The instrument was used in place; of another animal—a COn-specific or prey-8 to test the nature, frequency, and intensity of effective signal production. The signal was transmitted through a specific channel, in this case mechanically through the silken radial thread. The channel connected the signaler with the receiver: ThC resulting behavior of the spider, i.e., turningiin the direction of the tuning fork, provided evidence that the signal wks received and decoded. Äe lyri-form and slit organs on the legs of the spider (here Araneüß diäde-matus) hayi been shown in öther spiders to be sensitive to vibration-induced strains in the exöskeleton, as wilb be^discussed by Barth. These receptors ëërit impulses (action potentials) along nerve fibers through the legs to tS central nervous systëüî. Here the message was decoded and translated into outgoing nerve-borne signals, which resulted in patterned muscular contractions that produced movements of the legs and body. All sections of this communication system worked together to produce an observable ac-tion-reactiw sequence. As will be fully discussed in later chapters, fhf” investigator can analyze? the various parts of the system, and define the role each plays in the total pitleysdÄ Beyond the general conception of communication whigl We have derivèd from this observation, it has taught us much about the animal in its living space. This particular spider, like many of its relatives, has made qse of #lpfecific-‘ signal quality, namely the vj-bration of the substrate oii which it rests. Each type of signal, be it chemical, acoustic, visual or, as in this case, vibratory, has propertied which make it practical for a specific environment. Vibration, for example, is independent of light and can be as effective at night as during the day. It is relatively independent of air currents, which can, on the other hand, carry chemicals with~#em. Nocturnal spiders, which build an invisible trap to catch visually orienting flies, were preadapted with a sensory system which is highly receptive, independent of vision. Many spiders have compensated for the absence of a suitable substrate over which a vibratory signal can be conducted, as well as for limitations in the distance of conductMh in available substrates, extending the perceptual range of the legs with a silken structure. It is not enough that the area of capture is enlarged; the fact üf contact by the prey with the silk must be communicated.. Suddenly the radiating shape of the web (Figure 1.2) takes on a new meaning for the observer: the web extends the perceptual range of the sense of vibration from about 15mm to more than 500 mm bf-forming a suitable substrate for the transmission of vibrations to the legs. The legs, in turn, improve reception by pulling the silk tight.
Knowledge of the organs for communication letsms understand other behaviors of the animal. During orb-web construction, the spider pulls and probes existing threads to gather information on the degree of completion, before new strands are laid (Peters, 1938| Reed, 1969). It straddles angles, apparently assessing their width and comparing them to an internal “plan” of template, which guides web construction. In the laboratory we have let the cros^ spider build an orb-web in a closed box in complete darkness. Elaborate measurements carried out on the resulting webs showed no differences between these webs and those built by the same animal in partial light. No longer dependent on vision, and in darkness safe from visually searching predators, the spider builds an almost invisible web on whifh if will catch visually orienting prey.
Pertinent to the topic of communication is the fact that the web also plays a delicate and essential r©|e in the spider’s courtship behavior, A male may drum or pluck on the web ©f a female over long periods of time, until the aggressive attack of the female changes to acceptance of the male for copulation. It can be shown, by comparison of the webs of a few spider species (Risch, 1977), that the web built by the adult female is more species-specific jhan is the juvenile web. This observation holds for measures of size, fine structure, and shape. It raises the question of whether the specific resonance of the female web plays a role in Species recognition for the “short-sighted” male. Blanke’s (1973) experiments revealed reactions of males to wind which had blown across sexually mature females, suggesting that in finding the female web the male may be aided by an airborne signal, probably a chemical. This may then be followed by vibratory communication. Rarely is only one sensory modality involved in communication behavto#; JgBtead, one channel is usually predominant and others assist in one stage communication. The roles may be reversed in the next stage.
Jt is not necessary to suppose that the spider has any conception of the world which she so nicely manages. In this respect, the condition bears some resemblance to the human condition. The world outside us, and the mental picture we have of it, is a product of what we can detect through our receptor organs and the subsequent analyses in the brain. We s,ee colors and shades from which we guess at shapes and materials. We smell, feel, hear; and we use those inputs to recognize, categorize, understand objects and other living beings. Philosophers like Schopenhauer have gone so far as to describe the world as a product of our Will and imagination.
Arthur Schopenhauer’s principal work is the book Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, which appeared first in Leipzig in 1819, and was translated into English in 1883 under the title The World âà Will and Idea (see ref. Schopenhauer). The second part of the title, which describes the first part of his philosophy, is OfJ special interest here. The German word*Vorstellung can also be translated as “representation, conception, mental image”r (The New Cassell’s Dictionary, 1958). Any of those three words appear to this writer to describe part of Schopenhauer’s philosophy better than the common translation “idea.” Based on Descartes, Kant, and Locke, Schopenhauer stressed the distinction between the phenomenon, or the appearance that a thing presents to the perceiving mind, and the thing as it is in itself. Through perception the mind is presumed to be aware only of the observable facts or events, i.e., of the phenomena: what lies behind them, being beyond all possible experiertë; is unknowable. It is impossible to dissociate conceptual thinking from the perceptual experience on which it is based. To use Schopenhauer’s words (in translation): “Conceptions and abstractions which do not ultimately refer to perception [translator’s italics] are like paths in the wood that end without leading out of i|P In brief, our conception or understanding of the world informed by the organs we have to perceive it; thus, we have a predominantly visual world. A very different world, mainly filled with touch and vibration signals, exists for the web-building spider. By discussing the spider’s organs for communication, some of the contributors to this book try to introduce the reader to the “inner world” of the spider.
Such an argument is not intended to mean that the present author believes exclusively in the familiar “idea that there can be nothing in our intellect which has not entered it through our senses.” We must assume that “every animal is born with expectations and anticipations” (Popper, 1974), which means that it possesses inborn knowledge. However, it is argued that observation of the perceptual repertoire of an animal (including the central nervous processing of signals) introduces some special understanding of the animal and its works, in our case of spiders, which cannot be gained otherwise.
So far the word “communication’ ‘ has been used loosely; no definition Èês been given! We have talked about communication between living beings, thereby excluding communication processes iftMde one being, i.e., nervous or chemical signals which carry messages from one part of the body to another. We have excluded passive communication between an individual and its environment, i.e., the perception of and reaction to temperature changes can sometimes be called passive communication (E. O. Wilson, 197® Internal messages and the impact of the environment will only be discussed so far as they affect communication processes between animals. There are many definitions of communication available {see Smith, 1977; Sebeok||jl9^; Wilson, 1975^ Each definition serve,s a specific purpose; they-, are nibt mutually exclusive, but rather complementary. For that reason, none has been sinf$|à out. Rather it has been left to the authors of the different chapters jt>o choose the definition which best suits their approach to the overall theme of communication in spiders.
Special signals carry messages for communication (for exceptions see Smith, 1977, p. 13). Such signals have to be produced by an organ which is specially adapted fiffflsignal production. A number of conditions have to be fulfulled before a signal is actually sent] out: the physiological stage of the signaling organism has to B right before the environment, (or the partner) can elicit the signal. Both the state of the organism and the avironmental releaser determine whether a signal is sent.
Some of the Slowing chapters focus attention on the nature of the ,signal, i.e., they discuss airborne, chemical, and other modes of communication. In pulsed signals, for example, one may distinguish between frequency and intensity, find graded and stereotyped repertoires, and note the manner in which the beginning and end of the signal are determined by the signaler or the environment. However, very few messages depend on one channel of communication only. In humans the visual perception of the signaler’s face joins with the tactile message of a handshake and.tl^auditory message of a greeting to communicate “welcome/’The quality of any one of these elements, or its absence, may radically alter the message. The problems raised by the spectrum of signals and their possible combinations require additional kinds of study, and are the concern of other chapfcy^^
The message can only get across to another lining being if that individual has an organ sensitif to the nature of the signal, a way to decode the message, and is ready Jo receive it. .The study of receptor organs—their sensitivity and ability fi discriminate—is combined with observation of the behavior o| ÊÈÊ receiver to reveal whether a message was received and what its significance was. Analysis of communication behavior requires a special line of investigation, at a level of analysis which is just as important for our understanding of communication as are the anatomy and physiology of the communicating organisms and the physics of signal production, transmission, and reception.
Another way to lookët communication is to place it in the wider context of its contribution to the survival of the organism, i.ë., to gauge its adaptive value (Burghardt, 1977). It is generally assumed that organisms which live communally, frequently in structured societies, use more and a greater variety of signals than do solitary animals. However, an animal which lives alone is still dependent on communication with conspecifics (and sometimes with animals of other species). One has to assume that the lonely spide¥ of our example, in the middle of its orb-web, is at leist occasionally interacting with other orb-web builders with whom she competes for prey.
Communication sÿstems: change throughout the lifetime of an animal as requirements to communicate differ. The tiny immature spiderling, its nutritional nëéâs supplied By the yolk, probably has communication requirements different from those of the adult female, one hundred times heavier, sexually mature, and a voracious feeder (Burch, 1979). Such ontogenetic development in the communication system of spiders has been little studied, an exception being Aspey’s (197Sfpstudy of ontogeny of display in a #blf spider. On the other hand, a type of communication like thewlsual signaling given and received by jumping spiders may vary from species to closely related species. Comparison of communication systems can assist in tracing the phylogenÿfèf^whole taxonomic groups of spiders.
Communication involves at least two, and frequently more than two animals. If there is no receiver for a message sent out by a display of an animal, communication cannot take place. There is always a mutual evolutionary advantage (Smith, 1977)” involved in successful communicat-feii.1 Frequently it achie^if^a central social function. One can assume that the degree of social organization of a species can be measured by its use of intraspecific communication.
Filially, one may ask whether spiders have developed ways specific to them iM’which they communicate? Do their communication systems set them apart from other animals? In many, the production and daily usé of silk has opened up for them a means of communication which only few other animals can rival. When some of that knowledge was reviewed several years ago, Witt (1975), focusing on the orb-web, found that a small amount of evidence went together with a large array of speculation and surmise. Much has been discovered since that time, and some chapters in this book update our knowledge of various aspects of spider communication.
The reader may be convinced by now that there is a good case for bringing together much of the existing knowledge about this topic. By reviewing communication in spiders—the organs involved, the purposes which communication serves, the circumstances under which it takes place, and the effect it has—we will increase our understanding of the more than 30,000 species of spiders (Levi and Levi, 1968) as much as we would by a review of their size, shape, and color. One may even be convinced that several authors are necessary to bring all the pieces of knowledge together in order to make it possible to understand fully the peculiarities of spiders and the relationship of species with each other. Platnick (1971) stresses that stereotyped patterns (e.g., courtship behavior) must be considered at least as important a character for systematics as morpholi ogy. But one can still ask whether the beautifully illustrated large books, like the recent volume by Gertsch (1979) on American Spiders, do not sufficiently cover the subject. The material presented in our book is so different from that discussed in other “spider books“ (see references) that it can serve as a complement to these without repeating any of their details. Indeed, only the ten-page review by Weygoldt (1977) on “Communication in Crustaceans and Arachnids“ has tried anything similar to this book and did so, of necessity, in a very much shorter form. Ours is the first book of its kind, one which discusses a specific aspect of all spiders’ lives, and so increases our knowledge of this interesting group of animals.
The author’s more than thirty years of web analysis, which led to the organization of this book and the insights discussed in the Introduction, was for many years supported by the Swiss National Fund, the National Science Foundation, and many co-workers, whose names appear in the reference lists. Mrs. R. Daniels worked untiringly on the arrangement and retyping of manuscripts. Dr. C. F. Reed provided invaluable stimulation and advice.
Peter N Witt – Spider Communication
Dr Peter Witt‘s work applied drugs to orb web spiders using spider web geometry to identify biochemical abnormalities. Peter Witt (1940’s – 1990’s)’s comprehensive body of work features articles (Life, National Geographic), Spider Communication, Life on a Thread and his work with the North Carolina Department of Mental Health.
After what he always described as his accidental discovery of the effects of drugs on the geometry of the orb web, a major portion of Dr Peter Witt’s subsequent written work (over 100 papers and 3 books – like Spider Communication) was concerned with the behavior and biology of spiders. Scientific Articles offer Peter Witt’s complete works, while human interest articles include features like experiments by NASA in the Skylab in the early 1970’s.
“He was a man of courage when it was dangerous to be so, of boldness in his experiments and of generosity with his colleagues, students and friends” said Charles Reed in Peter Witt’s 1998 obituary. He is survived by his daughters, Elise Witt and Mary Witt.
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EFFECTS OF PHÍSOSTIGMINE ON SPIDER’S WEB… September 1963
The Web as a Means of CommunicationBiosciences… May 1975
Spider Webs: Design and EngineeringINTERDISCIPLINARY… May 1976
Dr. Peter N Witt’s Biography
Movie: Life on a Thread
Book: Spider Communication
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High, higher, ‘The Troika’! The London-based architects Foster + Partners designed Malaysia’s highest and, at the same time, most luxurious residential complex in the heart of the capital, Kuala Lumpur.
Three interconnected apartment towers of varying heights rise into the sky. The skyscrapers have 38, 44 and 50 storeys emerging out of a four-storey podium, which houses shops, restaurants and also offices. A courtyard created by the circular arrangement of the three towers forms the green lung of the building. A cool place of retreat for the inhabitants of hot and humid Kuala Lumpur.
At level 24 of each tower, special elements, so-called sky bridges, link the buildings and create a Sky Lobby with a spectacular view of the metropolis. The bathrooms of the residential units also feature the signature of Lord Norman Foster and are equipped with products from the Bathroom Foster series, which the architect designed for Duravit.
Foster + Partners paid particular attention to the outer façade of the residential towers. Fully glazed, the external structure consists of vertical slender sheer walls, a design element with an important protective function: they support the subtle rotation of the building, for example, during an earthquake or in a strong wind. Not only safe but also sustainable, 'The Troika’ complies with international sustainability criteria with regard to design, the materials used and low energy consumption.
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In honor of April Fool’s Day, DreamBox Learning is adding up some of the greatest math and science related April Fool’s Day hoaxes of all time. If you have a great story that didn’t make the list, feel free to add your own math April Fool’s Day hoax below, and join in on the fun!
Top 5 April Fool’s Day Math Hoaxes of All Time
5. Metric Time
In 1975, the Australian news program This Day Tonight devised a clever plan to convert the country to “metric time.” With the 10-hour metric clock face, the new time system used 100 seconds to make one minute, 100 minutes to make an hour, and 20 hours to make one day. A swarm of confused callers bombarded This Day Tonight when viewers found out seconds were now called millidays, minutes turned into centidays, and hours took on the name decidays. One caller even asked how he could convert his newly purchased digital clock because he didn’t want to take it back to the store.
4. Operation Parallax
In 1979, London’s Capitol Radio put “Operation Parallax” into effect. Reported as a government task force, Operation Parallax set out to resynchronize the British calendar back 48 hours as it supposedly fell out of sync after decades of switching back and forth from British summer time. As a solution, the government planned to cancel April 5th and April 12th that year. After the announcement, Capitol Radio received calls from all over the country asking about how to schedule their upcoming workweek, and one confused woman even asked what she should do about her birthday, as it fell on one of the canceled days.
3. Big Ben Goes Digital
In 1980, the BBC pulled a fast one on London by reporting the Big Ben clock was going digital. The BBC reported four large LCD screens were to replace the outdated clock face in order to give London a more modern appeal. Outraged by the possible change to their national landmark, Londoners clogged the BBC phone lines with worried concerns. In a related hoax, the Japanese BBC station announced the hands on the old analog Big Ben were up for auction to the listeners of the show. One offshore Japanese seaman immediately radioed in his bid.
2. Zero G’s
In 1972, BBC Radio 2 announced an once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to take place on April 1st. British astronomer Patrick Moore hypothesized that at 9:47 AM London time, Pluto would pass behind Jupiter and create a gravitational alignment that would counteract and decrease the Earth’s own gravity. Moore advised listeners if they leap in the air at the precise moment of planetary alignment, they would experience a weightless floating sensation. The BBC2 radio station received many phone calls confirming the mid-morning phenomenon, highlighted by one woman’s report of her eleven friends and her lifting off their chairs and floating around the room.
1. Alabama Takes a Bite Out of Pi
In 1998, an article issued by the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter claimed the state of Alabama considered changing the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.1415… to the “Biblical value” of 3.0. Alabama state legislation never actually voted on the status of pi, but this article spread like wildfire through the internet as millions of readers forwarded the story through email. The Alabama legislation received hundreds of phone calls from concerned citizens protesting this mock legislation.
Special thanks to Museum of Hoaxes, where you can find the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of all time.
Looking for a simple April Fool’s Day hoax activity? Bring the math learning fun into the kitchen and serve up these meatloaf cupcakes topped with cream potato frosting as a tricky treat. Check out even more math excitement all month long with the April math activity calendar.
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Vitamins You're Not Getting Enough Of
Ensure you're covered by getting the essential A-Zs, from these all-natural sources.
By Michael Martin February 5, 2016
When it comes to eating right, it's easy to get distracted by complex eating plans. But you also need to ensure the bases are covered. You need—to quote mom—to get your vitamins.
Researchers found that many adults aren't getting adequate levels of Vitamins A, C and D, in a recent study at the University of Illinois. This doesn't mean you should start popping multivitamins and supplements as insurance (especially because recent studies indicate that they're largely ineffective)—in fact, it's best to get our nutrients from whole foods.
Here are some of the most common vitamins we don't get enough of, along with the foods that can replenish your natural stores.
There's been a lot of talk about vitamin D deficiency recently, and it's worth repeating. Up to 70% of us aren't getting enough. The sunshine vitamin—so named because the sun produces D upon skin contact—is essential for healthy bones and teeth, and emerging evidence links it to a lower risk of some cancers. "The most common deficiency that I see in my practice is vitamin D," says Gina Consalvo, a registered dietitian who practices in Pennsylvania. "Our body does make some D when exposed to sunlight, but usually not enough to meet our body's needs," she adds.
How to get it: Consalvo recommends whole eggs, fish oil and fish such as herring, halibut, salmon, mackerel, or tuna. Fortified foods like milk, breakfast cereal and yogurt are also rich in D. For more, read these 5 Best Sources of Vitamin D.
Essential for the production of red blood cells, nerves and DNA, B12 also plays a crucial role in the production of energy. It's found in whole food sources like meat, eggs and fortified milk. But plants don't make B12; if you're following a vegetarian or vegan diet, unless you're a lacto-ovo vegetarian, you might not be getting enough.
How to get it: Beef (always go for grass-fed), chicken, seafood, dairy products and eggs. According to the USDA, the foods with the highest levels of B12 are beef, clams and lamb.
Poor vitamin A—despite its place at the top of the alphabetical heap, it's underappreciated. But you definitely want to ensure you're stocked up: It's essential for proper immune system function, tissue growth and repair and bone strength.
How to get it: According to the USDA, foods in the top-10 highest sources of A are beef, veal, sweet potatoes and carrots. The CDC's Diet and Nutrition Report adds that fish-liver oils, liver, egg yolks, butter and cream are known for their higher content of vitamin A. Discover more nutritious eats—and lose weight eating the foods you love—with The 9 Best Flat-Belly Superfoods!
Up to 15% of us aren't getting adequate C, and that number's on the rise compared to previous decades, according to the CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. It may not prevent colds, but C is a powerful antioxidant and is essential for healthy skin tendons and blood vessels. In a University of Arizona study published in the journal Nutrition & Metabolism, researchers found that vitamin C levels impacted fat oxidation during exercise, and cited a survey that showed levels of C have a direct relationship to body fat and waist size. (But don't use that as an excuse to go C-crazy: megadoses aren't effective and may be toxic.)
How to get it: Oranges are considered the gold standard, but many more foods are richer in the vitamin: Red peppers have almost four times the C of an orange! Also good sources: Chiles, broccoli, brussels sprouts and strawberries. Vitamin C also makes your skin tighter and look younger; read on to learn more in this special report: Eat This, Not That! to Avoid Turkey Neck.
Only 4.7% of Americans consume adequate potassium, University of Illinois researchers found. You best get to it as the mineral is crucial in maintaining healthy heart and kidney function. The nutrient also helps flatten your belly in two ways: you recover after a workout, and it helps the body flush out water and sodium, reducing belly bloat.
How to get it: Add bananas, avocados, nuts and leafy green vegetables to your grocery list. According to the USDA, the food highest in potassium is molasses, if that's your jam.
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Jock Talk: Fitness for all
by Roger Brigham
Wednesday Oct 3, 2018
Lindsey Page founded Radically Fit in Oakland. Photo: Courtesy Lindsey Page
Some health clubs and training facilities seem stuck in a primitive past — intimidating places with auras seemingly inhospitable for women, gays, transgender individuals, people of color, or the cast of "Modern Family." Even when gay men embraced weight training a few years back to create buff bodies for showing off at bars and dances, the atmosphere of many gyms could feel catty and judgmental. Now, some local efforts are bucking that trend, notably UC Berkeley's Recreational Sports Facility and a recently formed gym in Oakland's Fruitvale district focused on fitness for all.
At its training facility late last month, Berkeley opened a new locker room focused on serving the needs of transgender and gender-nonconforming students and those with physical disabilities. The facility draws on fees from a 2015 "wellness referendum." The facilities include five private toilets, seven private showers, 16 single-person changing rooms, and 400 lockers.
Radically Fit (http://www.radicallyfitoakland.com) opened in July on Fruitvale Avenue in Oakland. Founder and trainer Lindsey Page, who identifies as a queer woman of color, said the gym is a "body-positive community gym for all queer, trans, POC, big-bodied and fat-identified folx and their allies, regardless of experience or ability."
(Yes, an encounter with the gym's website greets visitors with alternative spellings and grammar, the personal pronouns various trainers prefer, the catchphrase "Fit is not a body type," and every other linguistic clue the gym can provide to signal this is a place of support and inclusion, not isolation and judgment.)
"Big-body people weren't getting the same options as everyone else as far as creating safe spaces in gyms," Page, 31, told the Bay Area Reporter. "Some people didn't feel welcome. I wanted to create a really genuine body-positive space. The community asked for it."
Trainers said they emphasize strength and fitness, not body sculpting or conforming to beauty stereotypes. The tools of the trade are largely the same — barbells, core strength training, yoga, Zumba — but the goals, attitude, and support are different. Individual sessions are offered and seven days a week there are group sessions that include sections just for queers of color and for transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals.
"We've gotten so much positive feedback," Page said. "We're really starting to build community within this community. There are other queer spaces in Oakland, obviously, but a lot of them don't focus on people of color. They are not always feeling validated in terms of representation."
Page said there are many factors that can make some people uncomfortable in fitness clubs.
"There can be issues about which bathrooms people use," she said. "People can be staring at them, especially people with fat or bigger bodies. People stare at them when they try to work out. Even cisgender heterosexual women can feel uncomfortable with a lot of toxic masculinity."
Page said trainers are focused on keeping members positively focused on what they can do, rather than fearing what they cannot.
"We want everyone to feel challenged mentally and physically, but we don't want anyone to feel overwhelmed or defeated," she said. "When they come, there might be hurdles, but they are so happy they found this space."
The gym offers economic subsidies to make the gym affordable. There are different fee rates for different membership levels, The costliest includes a $50 charge that is applied to scholarships for those who cannot otherwise afford membership.
"Nobody is turned away for lack of funds," Page said.
These days, Page is doing what she wants, the way she wants, with the people she wants.
"I fell in love with fitness about 10 or 11 years ago," she said. "When I decided to be a personal trainer, it was solely because of the work I had done through fitness to change my mental and physical health. I've also had my fair share of dealing with body issues. You can feel a lot of pressure to look a certain way. But the way your body looks doesn't indicate what you can do with it."
Ottawa to host Bingham Cup
The next Bingham Cup, a biennial global championship for LGBT rugby, will be played in 2020 in Ottawa, Canada, hosted by the Ottawa Wolves.
The announcement was made this week by International Gay Rugby. The Wolves had bid for the cup, along with Huarpes Rugby Club of Argentina, but the Argentine club withdrew following issues confirming facilities.
"The Ottawa Wolves are one of IGR's most active and successful clubs, having competed in every Bingham Cup since their club's creation including the first women's competition at the Bingham Cup Amsterdam 2018," said Ben Owen, IGR chairman.
The Bingham Cup was started in San Francisco in 2002 and is named after gay former SF Fog club member Mark Bingham, one of the heroes who fought against terrorists on United Flight 93 on 9/11.
For more information on IGR and the Bingham Cup, visit http://www.igrugby.org. For information on the SF Fog, visit http://www.fogrugby.com.
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Turning anxiety into creative energy
Anne Fisher
In these uncertain times, how do you keep moving forward? And, if you own a business, how do you avoid either responding too slowly to shifting economic conditions, or panicking and rushing into decisions you'll regret later on?
Jonathan Fields has pondered these questions at length. In a new book, Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance, he offers some intriguing (and timely) answers.
Mr. Fields knows a thing or two about uncertainty. In 2000, after cutting his teeth at the Securities and Exchange Commission, he won a coveted spot on the partnership track at Wall Street powerhouse law firm Debevoise & Plimpton. However, round-the-clock hours and heavy stress made him question his choice of career.
"I had a couple of "˜Aha!' moments," Mr. Fields recalled recently. "One of them came when I was hospitalized for exhaustion. When your body rejects your job, that's a wake-up call.
"I also realized that the carrot I was working toward — partnership in the firm — was something I didn't really care about," he added. "I thought, why not take all the time and effort I was putting into that and dedicate it to a business of my own?"
So Mr. Fields, who's had a longtime passion for mountain biking, left Debevoise and set up shop as a $12-an-hour personal trainer, guiding clients on biking expeditions.
"When I quit [Debevoise], everybody's reaction was, "˜How can you give up so much?' — meaning, of course, all the money, prestige and so on," he said. "My response was, "˜Why not reframe that question?' It seemed to me that the real issue was, why should I let a career choice I made seven years ago dictate the next 40 years of my life?"
Along the way, Mr. Fields had developed a strong interest in yoga. On Sept. 10, 2001, he launched another business, the Sonic Yoga center on West 51st Street.
"Not the best timing," he noted wryly: Even if the Sept. 11 disasters had not taken place, he and his wife had a 3-month-old baby at the time.
Thus, by necessity, began his study of how to turn fear into creative energy.
"As an entrepreneur, you live and breathe change. You're always responsible for innovating and creating," Mr. Fields noted. "So if you don't have processes in place for dealing with uncertainty, you either get paralyzed by anxiety and pull back, which eventually kills the business, or you race ahead, lose mindfulness and miss all kinds of great opportunities."
Mr. Fields' research shows that executives who have learned the art of pacing themselves productively rely on certain daily rituals, including a regimen of physical exercise.
"A vast amount of scientific evidence shows that exercise improves mood, energy levels and even cognitive ability," he noted.
Another key to using fear as fuel: "Action relieves anxiety. Take small steps. Instead of leaping ahead or stalling out, ask yourself, "˜What five things can I do today to gather data and explore whether my assumptions are right or wrong?' "
If those assumptions turn out to be flawed, be willing to scrap them and go with what the market tells you, Mr. Fields added: "The ability to "˜pivot,' as venture capitalists call it, is crucial to thriving in uncertain times."
Of course, any entrepreneur whose business has stayed afloat through the turbulence of the past few years is probably already adept at pivoting. Curious about how skilled you are at turning uncertainty to your advantage? Mr. Fields' website, www.JonathanFields.com, offers a "Creative Mindset Audit": a 27-question quiz that will give you a pretty good idea.
What has helped you stay creative in uncertain times? Tell us in the comments section.
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23 of the Most Stylish Celebrity Honeymoons
Future newlyweds take note
Typically, celebrity nuptials follow the same format as the average wedding ceremony. Vows are read, the cake is cut, and the bride is carried over the threshold. Come the honeymoon, however, newlyweds celebs can be divided into two categories: Those who opt for a low-key getaway a la John Lennon and Yoko Ono versus the kind of pull-out-all-the-stops, high-end luxury trips favored by Elizabeth Taylor. Here, click through 23 of our favorite honeymoon moments from both camps.
Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales pose together during their honeymoon in Balmoral, Scotland, 19th August 1981.
Liza Minnelli with her husband, Australian singer Peter Allen while on their honeymoon in Florida in 1900.
Ringo Starr and his bride Maureen stroll hand-in-hand outside their honeymoon retreat in Sussex, England. The bride was just 18-years-old.
Audrey Hepburn and husband Mel Ferrer on honeymoon in 1954.
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Soon-Yi Previn kisses husband Woody Allen in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris while on honeymoon.
Princess Caroline of Monaco and her first husband Philippe Junot kiss during their honeymoon in French Polynesia in the South Pacific.
Television host, Diane Sawyer and her husband, Mike Nichols arriving back to New York from their honeymoon in 1988.
Grace and Rainier of Monaco boarding the Royal yacht 'Deo Juvente 11' for their honeymoon in 1956.
George Harrison of the Beatles, with his model wife Patti Boyd, during their honeymoon in Barbados.
Marilyn Monroe carries a basket as she start out on a honeymoon picnic with her new playwright husband, Arthur Miller in Connecticut.
Brigitte Bardot and her new husband, German industrialist Gunther Sachs, leave Los Angeles International Airport on a flight bound for Papeete, Tahiti.
Jean Luc Godard and new wife Anne Wiazemski honeymooning with their dog in Cap Ferret, France in 1967.
Newlyweds Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman lean on a white picket fence, after playing ping pong during their honeymoon at El Mirador Hotel.
Tony Curtis carries his new wife, Janet Leigh into their honeymoon suite at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
American actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward prepare to board a Jetstream flight to London for a month-long honeymoon.
Newlyweds Brigitte Bardot and Jacques Charrier look out from a balcony while on their honeymoon in Saint Tropez.
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Natalie Wood gets a lift from her husband Robert Wagner, as they arrive at Penn Station for their honeymoon.
Rita Hayworth and husband Orson Welles en route to Acapulco, Mexico, for their second honeymoon, 1946.
Princess Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh during their honeymoon in Malta, 1947.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono in bed during their honeymoon at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel. They told the press that they would stay in bed for seven days to protest violence.
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HOMEPAGE COMPUTERS & ELECTRONICS
Manual & Specs for an Alpine MRV-F400s Car Amp
By: Jake Damon
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One of the best-selling car audio brands over the past few decades has been Alpine. Alpine produces a wide array of car audio equipment, including amplifiers. One popular amplifier model by Alpine is the MRV-F400.
The MRV F-400 RMS power at 12 volts, 20-20k hz produces 40 watts per channel into 4 ohms, 20 watts per channel into 2 ohms. The bridged dual channel into 4 ohms is 100 watts.
This amplifier has numerous features including 4/3/2 Channel Operation, multimode function, no current limiting, STAR circuitry, input mode selector, gain control, hidden output circuitry, gold-plated connectors and screw-down terminals, PWM (pulse width modulated) power supply and LED status indicator.
The dimensions of the MRV F-400 are 12 inches wide, 2 1/2 inches high and little over 9 inches deep. The overall weight is between 4.08 and 4.99 Kilogram, depending on the mounted hardware.
The MRV F400 manual can be downloaded at Manuals and Guides (see Resources). Also, the MRV F401 uses the same schematics and this manual can be downloaded at Reviews and Opinions (see Resources).
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Jake Damon has his Ph.D. in English from Texas Tech University. Damon has been a writer and editor since 1998. He edits two professional journals, has published books including "Catullan Consciousness" and "Re-Reading Thomas Traherne," and written articles for various academic and trade presses, including Oxford University Press, Associated University Presses and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University.
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eternal youth: two dancing souls living in century young bodies-tao prochon-lynch and phyllis sues
phyllis sues born on April 4 1923
tao porchon-lynch, born on august 13 1918 to a french father and indian mother
For a few moments while reading an article about Phyllis sues, an American woman of 94 dancing tango and doing yoga, I confused her with another woman named Tao prchon-lynch who also does yoga and dances tango, and the more I read, the more I felt the sense of Deja vu, the two woman were so distinctively different, and yet so surprisingly similar, in so many ways.
Both of them have lived so long and achieved so long, their lives read like a dictionary alive.
A for age and agility
Age and Agility
Tao porchon-lynch: is 99 and Phyllis sues is 94, but their bodies are as agile as two angels that will never age, from the headstand asana on yoga mat to full leg split on the ballroom floor.
B for beauty
phyllis sues in 1950s and 1960s
tao porchon-lynch in the 1940s
Today, tao and phyllis are just two diminutive old ladies full of wrinkles, but when they were young, both women were graced with movie star like beauty. In her early years, tao had been model for french haute couturiers including Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Jean Dessès, etc, she was also theatre, film and tv actress, playing in films like the last time i saw paris which featured elizabeth talor.
Phyllis sues had been a successful broadway dancer for decades touring the world, before she decided to combine her beauty and intelligence creating her own fashion brand, which became another success.
D for dance and diet
Tao learned african and indian dance in her childhood, and became a famous cabaret dancer in the second world war london, then in 2005, at the age of 87, she learned ballroom dancing, and so far has won hundreds of first place awards in the dancing competitions around the world.
Phyllis learned ballet at 14, and became professional dancer soon afterwards, performing different types of dances, on broadway stage, tv screen and around America and Europe, for almost half a century. At the age of 80, she was bitten by the tango bug, which has since become the love of her life.
tao has a very interesting and unusual diet: she does not drink water. In the morning she only drinks fruit juice, and again at night before bed together with fruits to cleansing her body.
She is vegetarian, does not eat much, and uses microwave to warm her vegetables like broccoli(so perhaps the waves of microwaves are not so bad?....)
Phyllis sues's diet seems more conservative, in the post titled what i've learned about birthday after 93 years she composed for hufftingtonpost, she described her usual breakfast as follows: oatmeal, honey, cinnamon, walnuts (for the brain) protein powder (for the joints) and espresso (for the boost). But it's obviously very health conscious, and a joyful one--see how much she enjoys playing with words!
E for entrepreneurship
These two women are beautiful and intelligent, but they are also entrepreneurs.
tao porchon-lynch:
In 1967 she assisted in the establishment of the American Wine Society (AWS) with her spouse.
In 1970 she was selected the Vice-President of the AWS in Southern New York and later became the publisher and editor-in-chief of the wine appreciation magazine, The Beverage Communicator.
In 1982 she set up the Westchester Institute of Yoga in New York.
phyllis sues:
In 1968, she created her own fashion brand specializing high end sportswear for women, which enjoyed more than 20 years of success.
tao and phyllis, two spirits of entrepreneurship
L for longevity and languages
longevity:
Tao has had three hip replacements, phyllis admitted she has osteoporosis and arthritis, but other than that, both still enjoyed robost health, they both have full head of hair, beautiful teeth and limitless energy.
They are both multilingual. Tao was born speaking french and an Indian dialect, learned english after moving to america, and now she speaks perfect english.
Phyllis's native language is enligh, but at the age of 70, she decided to learn italian as well as french!
N for nonagenarian and non conventionality
.Nonagenarian:
According to wiktionary, a nonagenarian is one who is between the age of 90 and 99, inclusive. And it looks both are going to become centenarians!
Non conventionality:
When looking at their long wonderful life journey, it's not hard to see they share a very unusual pattern: both chose their career in response to their calling: tao found yoga at the age of 8, fell in love with it and started to teach others yoga while still a MGM contracted actress out of love. After deciding to become professional yoga teacher, she has never stopped, and is still teaching 8 yoga class every week in her home town New York. Phyllis fell in love with ballet at age 14 and danced her life away in bliss for decades until she had to retire in 1968. But she continued to dance-dancing her way into being a fashion designer of vision. Now she is a passionate musician composing tango songs and playing piano, but nobody knows what will be her next career choice, not even herself......
Both women married for love, outlived their husbands and never had children. I don't know if it just happened or they have chosen not to be a mother, perhaps it's divine choice of god to allow these two wonder women to devote more time to growing and blossoming into the flowers of miracle they are today.
tao and phyllis, two young flower girls
P for philosophy
After living such an extraordinary and extraordinarily full life, the two women have learned and cultivated their own philosophy and are more than willing to share with others.
S for sensuality
Their muscle tones may have lowered, their skin may have thinned, their height may have shrunken over the years, but they have never allowed the gravity to take away their sensuality. Perhaps that is part of the reason why they both took up with dancing tango, the most sensual ballroom dance in the world. When you look at them dancing with partners decades younger, you can feel the electricl charge transmitting from their dynamic bodies, making you feel like crying.
V for versatility and vitality
Tao is model, actress, activist, yoga instructor, award winning ballroom dancer and writer. Years ago she wrote a book titled reflections: the yogic journey of life, and has just written her autobiography: dancing light with the help of her student teresa kennedy
In the author introduction of the blog column she writes for hufftington post, phyllis sues is defined as dancer & musician, but she is much more than that.
From ballet dancing to broadway dancing to ballroom dancing, she is a dancer through and through, like she said herself: I was born dancing. But she also composes and sings, she plays piano and tennis, she jumps ropes and hikes, she swings on the trapeze and dives into the sky.
In one of her post the thoughts of an aspiring writer, phyllis asked herself: I am a writer? I think she is. All of her posts were written with the clarity and fluidity that belong to a natural born or a professional one, particularly at an age of over 90.
And they are doing everything with such proficiency and vivacity that you realize there is nothing these two ladies are not willing to try and nothing they can not do.
Y for yoga
for two, yoga is her life, from an 8 year old girl who decided to learn yoga because she refused to accept that yoga is only for boys, to the oldest yoga instructor in the world, yoga has given her joy, strength, an incredibly flexible body, boundless energy, and dancing light.
Phyllis met yoga when she was 85, and in her first class her body told her: I am actually liking this......and since then she has never stop practicing and loving yoga. Together with her passions of dance and music, it inspired her to write and compose this beautiful poem: listen.
“Yoga is not just a pose.
Music is not just notes.
Dance is not just steps.
The quality and the beauty of the pose,
The notes and the steps,
Depends on the transition from one to the other.
In yoga and dance, I listen to my body.
In piano and composition, I listen to my fingers.
These are my tools.
What is born from this is a miracle.
Don’t wait to expire,
Grab hold of the wire,
And fly with me.”
I wish these two blessed dancing angels keep flying, for years to come.
Tao porchon-lynch photos taken in Central Park are by Robert sturman, please contact me if you are the artists of other photons and wishes to be credited properly.
tao porchon-lynch official website:
http://www.taoporchon-lynch.com/
phyllis sue official website:
http://phyllissues.com/index.html
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A Sneak Peek at Trump's List of Possible SCOTUS Nominees
By R. Eric Thomas
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Following the retirement of Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy, it now falls to the current occupant of the White House to pick his second replacement for the bench, because America has a curse on it as a result of various crimes and misdemeanors in the past, present, and future. A true respecter of executive authority and the three branches of government, President P. T. Barnum will be preempting television this evening at nine o'clock to announce his nominee via an understated fireworks display in the Rose Garden featuring cast members from CBS's Big Brother who were blind-folded and removed from the house for the occasion. It's an exciting pre-apocalyptic event, unparalleled in presidential history unless you count the time Herbert Hoover nominated Benjamin Cardozo by firing him out of a cannon.
While the White House has stayed tight-lipped about whom the president will announce this evening, reports suggest the West Wing in in a characteristic flurry finalizing a process that usually takes weeks. We gained access to a list of candidates Trump is considering. As you might suspect, each of them is a winner, a true patriot, and will live for 4,000 years. Let's meet them!
The creepy animatronic Trump from Disney's Hall of Presidents.
TWITTER.COM/WDWNT
"There's no rule that says I can't do this," the president said, probably accurately.
A Masterpiece Cake Shop cake in the shape of Anita Bryant
This nominee also comes with pie.
Actual Andrew Jackson
Just, like, his decrepit, hateful, dusty bones in a judicial robe.
No, not that Wade. You know, Wade. As in v. Wade.
A burning copy of the Constitution
The sentient sheath of paper is said to be tough on borders, lenient on guns, and mysteriously aflame.
The president likes his decision-making ability and the fact that he openly hates at least half of all living creatures.
The entire Halliburton Company
All of them. Even the emeritus board members.
Darth Vader Ginsburg
Karl Rover has reportedly been working on this in a secret lab for a long time.
LOL Ivanka.
At this point, would it surprise you?
An infant wearing a MAGA hat.
"He doesn't say much, but he's a male and he's highly susceptible to outside influence, so of course I like him," Trump said.
The Anger emotion from Inside/Out
Sadness was also said to be a strong contender.
Bobby Newport
Not Paul Rudd, unfortunately. Actual Bobby Newport.
"Nothing owns the libs more than giving them what they sort of wanted years ago," said Stephen Miller, probably accurately.
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R. Eric Thomas R Eric Thomas is a Senior Staff Writer at ELLE.com, home of his daily humor column "Eric Reads the News," which skewers politics, pop culture, celebrity shade, and schadenfreude.
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Elisabeth Moss Clarifies Comments That The Handmaid's Tale Isn't A Feminist Story: 'It Was An Interesting Wake Up Call'
'If I said anything that led people to think I'm not a feminist, then I didn't say the right thing'
By Naomi Gordon
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Elisabeth Moss has admitted she 'clearly said the wrong thing' when she remarked that The Handmaid's Tale 'isn't a feminist story, it's a human one'.
The 34-year-old actress is fully aware that the TV series adapted from the classic Margaret Atwood novel is 'first and foremost feminist', but for her, it's 'not only a feminist work'.
'I don't think it has been distanced from being a feminist show,' Moss told reporters, including Elle UK.
'I don't think I said the right thing clearly. If I said anything that led people to think I'm not a feminist or The Handmaid's Tale is not a feminist, then obviously I didn't say the right thing.
'I think for me it's just it's not only a feminist work. There are many groups that are punished and much maligned in the show. It's not just only feminist. Is it first and foremost feminist? Of course.
'So first and foremost it is about a woman. [But] it's about many other things.'
The Top of the Lake star also said that while she's not a politician, she's aware that women now more than ever have to take 'ownership of their feminism and become vocal and active'.
'I also think I'm not a politician - I'm not trained to talk about this shit. I'm a woman, I'm a person, And I do my best,' she continued. 'It was an interesting wake up call. It was an interesting learning experience. I didn't know that anyone gave shit about what I said.
'I've lived a privileged existence as a white woman in America, and I think that a lot of women like me have had to take ownership of their feminism and become vocal and active in a way we didn't feel like we needed to before. We live in a different time,' she added.
Back in April during a panel discussion at the Tribeca Film Festival, Moss had said: '[The Handmaid's Tale] It's not a feminist story; it's a human story, because women's rights are human rights.'
Atwood later tweeted that the comment needed 'an 'only,' an 'also' and a human rights definition of the feminist word.'
Moss plays the enslaved Offred in the Hulu and Channel 4 series, forced into sexual servitude to bear children for the infertile wives of the elite while living under a totalitarian theocracy.
As property of the state, and under a military dictatorship, Offred becomes the enforced concubine of The Commander (Joseph Fiennes) in order to conceive for his wife Serena (Yvonne Strahovski).
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9 Ways To Make A Statement Piece Work In Your Home
These expert tips will help you balance a room.
By Caylin Harris
David Duncan Livingston
If you've got your eye on a piece of furniture you absolutely love but it's a bit of a statement-maker, don't be afraid to buy it. There's always a way to make even the most eye-catching pieces work in your home, and as the great Bunny Williams said: "If you love something it will work, that is the only real rule."
1. Let it stand out. Reagan Hayes, furniture and interior designer makes an important point. "If everything is special than nothing is special," says Hayes. "If you're trying to let one piece be a statement, keep other things smaller or less ornate." You can't fill a room with statement makers; it will feel like the room is shouting at you.
2. Mix it up. Figure out what type of piece it is and try combining it with its opposite says Cecilie Starin of Cecilie Starin Design. "Get it clear in your mind what type of furniture it is, old, new, painted, or wooden. Simple or complicated? Then try to juxtapose things," says Starin. "Organic with geometric. Dark with light. Busy with simple. I think that is what makes a room interesting. Try to do something that is not like a piece that's already in the room."
3. Go back to the basics. Don't be afraid to go back to Art 101 and pull out your color wheel. "You're going to want to stick with accent colors that are a complement," says Hayes. "Whenever I get really stuck with color pairings, I pull out a color wheel and start playing with it. Maybe you won't be using the same tone, but if they can complement or stay in an analogous color scheme it will create balance."
4. The rule of three. When incorporating a piece of furniture forget about matching everything. "We're in a time now, where there isn't a lot of matching," says Starin. "Instead, when adding color to a room it's good to pick it up in three different accent areas. You don't have to use that much color to make it feel like there is color in the room. When you start using a lot of different colors it can be hard to make it all work without looking too busy."
5. Play with pattern. If your statement making piece has a pattern on it, don't be afraid to combine it with other patterned accents says Hayes. "For pattern, it's generally best to not mix a lot of pattern that all has the same scale," explains Hayes. "Instead a large pattern like a bold stripe pairs best with a smaller print, again it helps to create balance, where two or three large patterns thrown together could look garish."
6. Look at the big picture. "Take a step back. Sometimes you need to squint and see what is standing out," says Starin. "You won't even read the really recessive colors or features. Make sure what you are seeing is what you want to stand out." See what colors and shapes are visible so you don't lose perspective. If you're overthinking the nitty-gritty details the whole room can feel wrong.
7. Don't be afraid to play. At the end of the day it's your own personal style. "Just play with rooms and areas and don't be so stuck on a plan," says Hayes. "Sometimes you have to shuffle and sometimes the smallest tweaks can make a really big difference and balance everything else out."
8. Choose a focal point for your statement piece. There are certain pieces that are more secondary like an end table, mirror, or nightstand and it's a supporting element says Starin. If your looking for your statement piece to really up the wow factor make sure it's a main part of the room i.e. a sofa, bed, etc.
9. Keep scale in mind. You want to make sure that you're really paying attention to scale. "You're not going to want to combine a very large piece with something that is very small," says Starin. "Not only does it look out of place in the room, it will throw off the balance and makes day-to-day living harder. You won't be able to use things like a coffee table, end table, or lamp the way you need to if it's too tall or too short."
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Lead Developer, Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University Library
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The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) is an interdisciplinary research center in the Princeton University Library. While the global digital humanities community is constantly defining and redefining itself, the CDH embraces an inclusive understanding of DH that respects and investigates the myriad ways digital methods and technologies are opening new avenues for research into the human experience, past and present. The CDH research team serves as a hub for expertise in digital methods, tools, and best practices that allow scholars to analyze traditional and unconventional source bases to discover and share new insights. More information: https://digitalhumanities.princeton.edu/
Lead Developer /Requisition # 1500793
As a leader of the new CDH Development team, and reporting to the Associate Director of CDH, the developer in this position will manage, by Summer 2017, a Development team of at least three additional programmers. The Lead Developer and the Development team are charged with building innovative digital humanities projects in a collaborative environment that includes fellow CDH staff, humanities and social science faculty and graduate students, and other campus partners.
The Lead Developer will implement and manage test-driven development workflows for DH software projects and ensure that projects developed at CDH are released with stable codebases and clear documentation. The Lead Developer will also serve as lead programmer on CDH projects that best align with the Lead Developer’s technical expertise. This position will also promote the work of CDH in workshops and other outreach activities, including attending national and international conferences. This position qualifies for 20% R&D time, on a project chosen in consultation with the Associate Director.
CDH seeks to amplify the voices of developers who are women, people of color, queer/LGBT, or otherwise under-represented among programmers, and we strongly welcome applications from developers in these communities.
Demonstrated experience in management
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Minimum four years experience, with similar responsibilities, working in a similar environment that includes complex software systems, object-oriented programming, web based applications and services, and distributed architecture
Demonstrated experience with several high level scripting languages and their associated web/micro frameworks (ex. Python/Django/Flask, Ruby/Rails/Jekyll, PHP/Zend)
Demonstrated experience with test driven development frameworks (ex. PHPUnit, RSpec, Cucumber, Jasmine, Selenium, Jenkins), the git versioning system, and deployment frameworks and scripting (ex. vagrant/docker, fabric/capistrano)
Demonstrated familiarity with multiple data structures (relational databases, XML, and RDF) so as to recommend appropriate data structures for projects
Sufficient familiarity with front-end development languages/ frameworks (ex. CoffeeScript/JavaScript, Backbone, Ember, jQuery) to effectively manage a UX Designer
Strong knowledge of RDF and API development
Preference will be given to candidates who have significant (ideally two or more years where applicable) experience with the following:
Software and Frameworks
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OMEKA/Neatline environment
Protocols and Data/Metadata Standards
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IIIF, ResourceSync
RDF/Linked Data
Experience with Digital Humanities research projects and/or a Masters degree in a humanities discipline.
Applications will be accepted only from the Jobs at Princeton website: http://www.princeton.edu/jobs and must include a resume, cover letter, and a list of three references with full contact information. This position is subject to the University’s background check policy.
Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Weekend in numbers
Ryan Percival
We take a look at the numbers that make up the weekend's Sky Bet Football League action.
0 – The 0-0 draw between Sheffield Wednesday and Brighton & Hove Albion was the only goalless game in The Football League.
0 – Not one of the 10 Sky Bet League 1 games over the weekend ended level.
1 - Rochdale's Joe Rafferty scored the first goal of his professional career, thundering home a 25-yard screamer in their 2-1 defeat at Peterborough United.
1 - David Martin scored on his debut for Stevenage as they beat Hartlepool United 3-1.
2 – Bristol City lost for only the second time this term in Sky Bet League 1, going down 3-1 to Sheffield United.
2 – That result saw the Blades notch back-to-back wins for the first time since October.
2 – York City sealed their second victory in 16 home matches this season courtesy of a 2-0, Wes Fletcher-inspired win against Tranmere Rovers.
3 – Nicky Ajose hit his third goal in as many games in Crewe Alexandra's 2-0 beating of Fleetwood Town.
4 - Bristol City striker Matt Smith found the back of the net for the fourth consecutive game at Ashton Gate, but the Robins lost 3-1 to Sheffield United.
4 – Walsall saw their unbeaten run of four games come to an end as Port Vale beat them 1-0 for their first victory in five outings.
4 – Cheltenham suffered their fourth successive defeat, losing 2-1 to Bury, to fall into the Sky Bet League 2 drop zone for the first time this campaign.
5 – Crawley Town fired five goals past Barnsley in a 5-1 win just days after being hit for five by Doncaster Rovers. The weekend win was the Reds' second in 18 games in all competitions.
5 – Dagenham & Redbridge are now undefeated in five following a 3-2 victory at Morecambe on Sunday.
5 – Gillingham tabled a fifth win in six in Sky Bet League 1 by overcoming Milton Keynes Dons 4-2. The reverse fixture at stadiummk back in August also ended 4-2.
5 – That loss at Gillingham means the Dons are still yet to come away from the Kent club with three points, having made five trips since their first visit in 2005.
6 – The top six teams in the Sky Bet Championship are separated by only six points.
6 – A brace from Yan Klukowski inspired Newport County to their first win in six, against Wycombe Wanderers, in Sky Bet League 2.
7 – Blackpool's match with Nottingham Forest featured seven second-half goals, finishing 4-4. That result denied Forest a third successive win under new boss Dougie Freedman.
7 – Peterborough United scored two goals in the first seven minutes of their game against Rochdale, and that set them on their way to a 2-1 victory.
8 – Doncaster made it back-to-back wins with eight goals scored and none conceded by beating Yeovil Town 3-0, after they overcame Crawley 5-0 in midweek.
9 – Plymouth Argyle scored twice in the final nine minutes of their game against Cambridge United to triumph 2-0, which was their third win on the spin.
9 – Exeter City lost 1-0 at Portsmouth to make it just one success in their last nine and no victory in their most recent five.
10 – Tom Pope netted his first goal since October after returning from injury – his 10th of the season – in Port Vale's win against Walsall.
10 – Southend United's 10-match unbeaten stretch was ended by Accrington Stanley, who triumphed 2-1 at Roots Hall. That was the first time the Blues have conceded at home since early November.
11 – Dean Cox's winner for Leyton Orient against Chesterfield came in the 11th minute of injury time at the Proact Stadium.
11 – Wolves lost 2-0 at Norwich City, which was only their second defeat in 11 Sky Bet Championship outings.
12 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink watched his Burton Albion team overcome Oxford United 2-0 to extend their run without a loss to 12 matches.
12 – In-form Watford striker Odion Ighalo has netted 12 goals in his last eight appearances after scoring in the Hornets' victory against Bolton Wanderers.
13 – Charlton Athletic ended a 13-game winless run by seeing off Brentford 3-0. The Bees had won their previous three away matches.
16 – Shrewsbury Town maintained their unbeaten home record by seeing off AFC Wimbledon 2-0. Overall, they haven't lost in their last seven matches.
17 – Marc Richards stole a point for Northampton Town at Mansfield by netting his 17th goal of the season from the penalty spot.
17 – Dagenham & Redbridge midfielder Luke Howell scored the club’s fastest ever league goal when he netted after just 17 seconds in a 3-2 win at Morecambe.
18 – Stevenage's Ben Kennedy, 18, hit a brace in only his third Football League appearance to inspire Boro to a 3-1 win at Hartlepool United.
20 – After turning 20 on Friday, Alex Mowatt notched the only goal of the game for Leeds against Millwall, for the Whites’ fourth victory in five.
21 – Daryl Murphy took his tally of goals for the season to 21 as Ipswich Town saw off Fulham 2-1.
1988 – Millwall have still only won once at Elland Road since 1988 after they were defeated by Leeds.
2011 – Izale McLeod's hat-trick for Crawley against Barnsley was his first treble in four years, since bagging three for Barnet at Gillingham in April 2011.
26,322 – Norwich City's match with Wolves pulled in the biggest crowd of the weekend with over 26,000 in attendance at Carrow Road.
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ISSUE #004 - Jan 30, 2018
Suzanne Newcombe
Entanglements and Metaphors
This popular image of the ‘Yoga Poster’ (http://theyogaposter.com/(link is external)) depicts the history of yoga as that of a branching tree with its roots in the ‘Vedic Period’ and leaves which could potentially include all the forms of yoga in existence today. As Singleton and Jain have pointed out, by anchoring a contemporary belief-practice in an ancient tradition, a “touchstone of authenticity” is created (Singleton 2010 and Jain 2015). Practices of yoga and ayurveda are justified in new global contexts with an appeal to tradition, while national discourse within India also emphasizes the authenticity and validity of yoga and ayurveda as pre-colonial knowledge. There is often an assumption that a tradition involves a linear progression from teacher to student, from guru to śiṣya, and that the yoga traditions with an unbroken paramparā are somehow more pure or authentic than others.
The AyurYog project aims to ‘reveal the entanglements’ of no less than three historical traditions – but what do we actually mean by the use of the word tradition? How should we understand this word and its associations with authenticity and truth?
Join Suzanne Newcombe and 11 other Scholars and Scholar-Practitioners as they explore the historical roots of hatha yoga. Feb 16th – 18th, 2018. Click the Image to Register.
The handing down of knowledge between generations is central to the understanding of tradition implicit in the AyurYog project. In any study of historical periods, reference to texts is a central criterion to the continuity of knowledge between generations. It is also a way to ensure knowledge is not lost through gaps in oral transmission. Often, it is the only evidence that exists about what people in the past did and believed.
At the same time, Yoga, ayurveda and rasaśāstra are living traditions, which involve a transformation in the practitioner to ensure both successful practice and that the essence of transmission reaches the next generation. The ability to create a transformation in consciousness appears to be most effectively communicated through interpersonal relationships.
As the Welsh theorist Raymond Williams (1976) and the Indologist Johannes Bronkhorst (2005) have both eloquently articulated, traditions provide continuity and structure – but this continuity and structure can also restrict innovation and adaptation to new circumstances. As Bronkhorst observes: ‘traditions, once in place, may have a tendency to force the past into a straightjacket: the past has to be seen in this particular way, and dissonant opinions are not accepted’ (2005, p. 64). Much recent controversy in the field of yoga has stemmed from notions of the possibility that yoga, or a part of yoga could be an ‘invented tradition’ (Hobsbawm and Ranger 1983 and Singleton 2010).
When seen from the perspective of the longue durée, certain fluidity in all traditions becomes apparent. What has been practiced as yoga and ayurveda over millennia shows both great continuity and great discontinuity. Contemplating the vast diversity of contemporary practice within yoga and ayurveda, family resemblances (Wittgenstein 1953) are apparent, but a coherent narrative tradition is often more elusive. If we want to avoid the fallacious dichotomy of ‘invented’ versus ‘authentic’ traditions, how should we understand the central focus of our research?
Fortunately there are growing voices towards alternative understandings of tradition. Central to these alternative understandings are tradition as a set of resources that can be drawn upon in a particular context. An influential figure in Folklore Studies, Lauri Honko advanced an understanding of culture as drawing on a ‘pool of tradition’:
“Tradition would thus look like a store, only some parts of which are in use at any given time. The other parts are simply waiting to be activated, stored in museums, archives and libraries or, in the case of oral tradition, in the library of the human mind, always in danger of passing into oblivion because of the lack of use and lack of function.” (1995, p. 133)
Honko’s understanding of tradition as a repository of resources upon which a culture can draw may be clarifying in conceptualizing the vicissitudes of yoga, ayurveda and rasaśāstra practices across millennia. As Henry Glassie remarked ‘tradition, a key to historical knowledge, is to be understood as a process of cultural construction’ (1995, p. 398). Thus understood, traditions are in a constant process of creation through drawing on different elements from this imaginary ‘store’.
Honko’s conception helpfully allows for one to drop the trope of ‘invention’ when contemporary movements creatively draw upon the past to meet present needs. But perhaps this understanding does not adequately explore the role of innovation, and how and when are artifacts added to the storehouse of a ‘tradition.’ It is interesting that often texts on yoga and ayurveda often go out of their way to obscure any innovations into the main narrative of continuous tradition.
Shifting the focus to the level of definition, Michael Satlow (2011) points out in a more recent, thought-provoking re-definition of tradition returning in part, the Latin root, traditio, means to ‘hand over or transmit’ and traditum is the thing being handed over. He has proposed an interesting definition of tradition that promises to be discussed in religious studies for years to come. Tradition is:
(i.) static (ii.) resources that (iii.) individuals, communities, and institutions understand as (iv.) authentic and regard as (v.) authoritative. (2011, p. 133)
While also seeing tradition as a resource of narratives, objects and practices upon which can be drawn, Satlow emphasizes the constraining aspect of these resources. They are ‘inheritances or the innovations with which we must deal’ (p. 134). Ayurvedic practitioners must deal with the Suśruta Saṃhitā and Caraka Saṃhitā, even if these only preserve a selection of the understandings and practices of the ayurvedic tradition in often-copied compendiums. The Yoga Sūtras/ Yogaśāstra of Patañjali is an essential referent of the yoga tradition even in the absence of a continuous paramparā lineage. This use of Patañjali can be acknowledged as performing a specific function in the modern world (Singleton 2008), but its use does not diminish Patañjali’s place as a central resource of yogic traditions.
But there are still interesting questions to ask about innovation in tradition. As Satlow reflects: ‘Instead of inquiring about the reasons for change (for example, to what extent has it stayed the same, or why was there a historical shift?), we might instead ask about the specific strategies that religious actors employed to work with their traditions in different environments?’ (2011, p. 135). This approach is being accepted implicitly within the growing emphasis on case-studies as opposed to meta-narratives in histories of both yoga and Indian medical history (Mukharji 2011).
However, there is still a need for a more coherent understanding of the longue durée of traditions. The Indic knowledge store has been influenced and enriched by millennia of global trade, and the knowledge-legacy of colonialism has added to the potentials of this store of knowledge, even as it sought to oppress and control. From this framework, the ‘traditional’ as a mark of authenticity and knowledge demanding respect, can still remain valid – even in the absence of direct line continuity. Again to quote Satlow on tradition:
“Traditions are created not when particular practices first arise, but when they are received and preserved by the next generation. A culture produces a fluid, complex, and vast number of practices; cultural life is, as Claude Lévi-Strauss claims, a bricolage. Traditions are the preserved and transmitted elements of this bricolage.” (2011, p. 136)
The ‘pool of tradition’ we are researching in the AyurYog project includes a vast accumulation of wisdom on health, longevity, and enlightenment-promoting activities that incorporate millennia of influences of trade and exchange between culture and belief systems both within India and between India and the wider world. Entanglement is an essential aspect of the continuation of tradition.
This piece was originally published on ayuryog.org.
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5Yoga In Transformation
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This is the world's favourite Batman and it's not George Clooney
This new poll has some mixed news for Robert Pattinson
Sarakshi Rai
Batman is arguably one of the comic world's best protagonists. And given how many different Batman movies have been made, the studios definitely know this already. After Ben Affleck's controversial take on the superhero in DC's Justice League, it was recently announced that Robert Pattinson will play the Batman in an upcoming movie. It's even set to be a trilogy.
There have been some good ones and there have definitely been some bad ones. Anyone remember Val Kilmer's horrible suit? In the last decade or so, actors Christian Bale and Ben Affleck have portrayed the caped crusader in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, respectively.
But there is one Batman playing actor that has stood out from the crowd. According to a new poll from The Hollywood Reporter/Morning Consult, America has (two) favorite Dark Knights. Christian Bale barely took first place with 39 percent, followed by Michael Keaton at 38 percent. George Clooney came in third with 19 percent, then Ben Affleck with 18 percent. Poor Val Kilmer landed dead last with 17 percent, even though his suit didn't even have nipples.
Esquire Middle East reported when the news was announced that the new series will be a fresh start for the franchise with no connection to Snyder's films. Affleck's now-scrapped script was rumoured to be a dark noir-style story that has elements of a detective film. However, the new direction is focusing on a younger Batman and the first of the trilogy likely an origin story in the same vein as Batman Begins.
That said, Reeves told The Hollywood Reporter that the tone might not be too dissimilar.
"It's very much a point of view-driven, noir Batman tale," he said. "It's told very squarely on his shoulders, and I hope it's going to be a story that will be thrilling but also emotional. It’s more Batman in his detective mode that we’ve seen in the films."
He explained, "The comics have a history of that. [Bruce Wayne] is supposed to be the world’s greatest detective, and that’s not necessarily been a part of what the movies have been."
But will the world have a new favourite Batman and Joker with Robert Pattinson and Joaquin Phoenix playing those two roles? Well, the movie comes out on June 25, 2021. So, we'll just have to wait and see.
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Home » Programmes and Fellowships » Postdoctoral Max Weber Programme » Activities » Thematic Groups 2019-2020
Thematic Research Groups 2019-2020
The core of the Programme’s multidisciplinary activities are the Thematic Research Groups (TRG).
TRG are organized on a multidisciplinary basis and bring together Fellows from different disciplines working on a similar range of issues. The groups meet regularly with the faculty members acting as Thematic Leads throughout the course of the academic year. The meetings of the groups will consist of presentations of work in progress and the discussion of more general research issues, such as the reading of key or recent works related to the group’s theme. All Max Weber Fellows must produce a Research Proposal and Working Paper, which they can present to their group.
Many of the Max Weber Lecturers are chosen with one of the Thematic Groups in mind, and as well as giving a lecture they are available to discuss the research of Fellows on an informal basis.
One or more Fellows from the group often do a videoed interview with the Lecturer and the Lecturers also conduct a Masterclass built around their work with the whole group.
The Thematic Research Groups for the academic year 2019-2020 are:
Citizenship and Migration
Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy
Experimental Methods in Social Sciences
Europe in the World: International Relations, International Security and World Politics
Ideas, Concepts and Theory
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa: Assessing the Fiscal and Monetary Framework of the EU
This theme has a double focus on citizenship and migration.
It looks at issues of political and legal constructions of community, boundaries and membership at local, national and supranational levels and to newest developments (empirical and theoretical) in this field. It also discusses novel trends in the field of migration and mobility. Finally, and most importantly, the theme draws the link between evolving conceptions of citizenship and community with social and economic phenomena of transnationalism and of cultural diversity management in an increasingly mobile and interconnected world.
Leads: Andrew Geddes (RSC), Martin Ruhs (RSC)
Fellows:
Cretu Anca (HEC)
Fargues Emilien (RSCAS)
McNamee Lachlan Andrew (SPS)
Müller Viola Franziska (HEC)
Procter Caitlin (RSCAS)
Reijers Wessel (RSCAS)
Sigilló Ester (RSCAS)
This theme addresses national, transnational and supranational political systems in both democratizing and established democratic systems. It looks at issues of political equality, the shift from government to governance, and the relations between law and politics. It combines empirical and normative analysis, and perspectives from history, political science and law.
Leads: Dorothee Bohle (SPS/MWP) and Gabor Halmai (LAW)
Larsen Rehling Signe (LAW)
Murphy Karl (LAW)
Mushövel Fabian (SPS)
Onoda Takuya (SPS)
Paniagua Maria Victoria (SPS)
Popic Tamara (SPS)
Tassinari Arianna (SPS)
Thomas Anja (RSCAS)
Trouillard Pauline (LAW)
Vasel Johann Justus (LAW)
Vranceanu Alina (SPS)
Woodhouse Eleanor Florence (ECO)
Ziolkowski Michal (LAW)
This thematic group brings together social scientists from different disciplines interested in experimental methods, both in the laboratory and in the field. The idea is to explore a diversity of social issues and topics that can be studied experimentally, including for example trust and social norms, risk and time preferences, political processes, gender differences in decision-making, or inter-temporal decision making. Fellows have the opportunity to present their experimental design and results.
Leads: Klarita Gërxhani and Michele Belot
Avril Lola (LAW)
Battu Balaraju (SPS)
Bucca Mauricio (SPS)
Ray Ari (SPS)
Wang Xiaoren (LAW)
Wittels Annabelle (SPS)
Zschirnt Eva (SPS)
This thematic area brings together cutting edge research in the areas of international relations, international security, and world politics, all broadly defined. It seeks to integrate theoretical and conceptual insights with empirical research and political or historical relevance. It involves projects from the disciplines of international relations, political science, history, and law, as well as from related fields, and is both inter- and transdisciplinary. While the cluster focuses on the EU and or one or more European states, it also embraces innovative projects investigating other geographical regions or states or otherwise engaging with world politics, as well as comparative research. The sorts of topics likely to be explored include: Europe’s role and place in the emergent world of 21st century global politics; Europe’s foreign relations broadly, including the EU’s or European states’ evolving relations with the major and emerging powers (including the U.S., China, Russia, India, Brazil), as well as regional and global international organizations; foreign, security, and defense policy; the impact of the grand shifts and continuities in international affairs on Europe itself.
The foreign affairs-international security-world politics thematic area is hosted by the program on Europe in the World within the Global Governance Program at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
Leads: Ulrich Krotz (RSCAS/SPS) and Corinna Unger (HEC)
Banks Elizabeth (HEC)
D'Amato Silvia (RSCAS)
Greiner Andreas (HEC)
Hathaway Ian (HEC)
Lott Gaia (HEC)
Wilhelm Lola (HEC)
Zeitz Alexandra Olivia (SPS)
This group brings together researchers with an interest in legal, political and social theory, both past and present, and those working in intellectual history and the history of ideas more generally.
The group will provide a forum for interdisciplinary exchange and dialogue between fellows concerned with various contemporary theories and their application to the assessment of public policies and practices, and those working on different aspects of past thought.
It will provide opportunities to confront different approaches and methodologies and to think about the relevance of historical study to theoretical and contemporary issues, including the nature of law, normative and metaethical theory, the relationship of law and politics to morality, or social and political philosophy.
Leads: Andrea Sangiovanni (SPS) and Ann Thomson (HEC)
Alvarez-Nakagawa Alexis Javier (LAW)
Deschepper Julie (HEC)
Díaz Ceballos Jorge (HEC)
Kniess Johannes Eduardo (SPS)
Gold Meira (HEC)
Grochowski Mateusz (LAW)
Jakovac Gasper (HEC)
Martysheva Lana (HEC)
Soyemi Eniola (SPS)
Tagiuri Giacomo (LAW)
This theme is inspired by the work of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa (1940-2010), a central banker and Minister of the Economy and Finance in Italy (2006-08). He is often credited as the father of the European single currency. The theme brings together economists working on monetary policies, international macroeconomics and finance, economic historians, political economists, and lawyers interested in financial regulation and constitutionalism, to explore issues in these broad areas in which Padoa-Schioppa worked and wrote.
Leads: Jean Pisani-Ferry (RSCAS) and George Papaconstantinou (STG)
Diessner Sebastian (RSCAS)
Grevenbrock Nils (ECO)
Tsiaras Stylianos (RSCAS)
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Brain Features Point to Addiction Vulnerability (1 of 5) (image)
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The red coloring in these images represents areas where gray matter is abnormally increased in drug users, compared to controls. The blue represents areas where gray matter is abnormally decreased in drug users, compared to controls. The yellow shows white matter tracts, called fractional anisotropy or FA. FA is significantly reduced in both the drug users and in their siblings, which suggests that the white matter tracts work less efficiently. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 3, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by K.D. Ersche at University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Abnormal Brain Structure Implicated in Stimulant Drug Addiction."
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Bruno, Saint
Bruno, Saint bro͞o´nō [key], 925–65, German churchman and statesman; brother and chief adviser of the first Holy Roman emperor, Otto I, whose chancellor he was from c.950. He was made (953) archbishop of Cologne and in the same year became duke of Lotharingia . He organized the civil service, led the revival of learning, and reformed the monasteries according to the pattern laid down by the Cluniac reform. He is also known as St. Bruno the Great. Feast: Oct. 11.
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U.S. Senators Ask: What’s Up at OSHA?
Posted By Paul Feldman On May 30, 2017 @ 12:05 am In FairWarning Reports | 1 Comment
(Photo by Charles Evans Jr.)
In the four months since President Trump took office, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued four news releases announcing penalties for job safety violations.
By the end of May last year, it had issued 199.
The recent reticence has spurred six U.S. senators, all Democrats, to ask what’s up at OSHA. In a letter to OSHA’s parent agency, the Department of Labor, the six lawmakers are demanding a review of the agency’s “decision to cease public notification of major findings.”
Under previous Democratic and Republican administration, OSHA has used announcements of major enforcement actions, and the threat of bad publicity, to combat health and safety hazards.
“For employers, they serve as a reminder to implement require[d] safeguards, which in turn could save workers’ lives,” stated the letter, signed by Massachusetts’ Elizabeth Warren, Vermont’s Bernie Sanders, Minnesota’s Al Franken, Washington’s Patty Murray, Connecticut’s Christopher Murphy and Pennsylvania’s Robert P. Casey Jr. “For employees, they serve as an impetus to report wrongdoing, thereby protecting themselves and their coworkers.”
The shift in tactics was first reported by FairWarning in early March. At that point, OSHA had failed to announce a single enforcement action since the Jan. 20 inauguration.
In April, OSHA finally broke its silence, announcing penalties of $1.475 million against Atlantic Drain Service of Boston related to last October’s deaths of two workers in a trench collapse.
A break with the past
Yet by then, according to the senators’ letter, OSHA had already assessed more than 100 fines greater than $40,000 — the threshold for public disclosure during the Obama Administration. A FairWarning review of records for the last year of the Republican administration of George W. Bush also revealed a steady stream of enforcement news releases.
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Another sign of the break with the past is that the OSHA website now includes an advisory on pre-Trump news releases that reads: “Please note: As of January 20, 2017, information in some news releases may be out of date or not reflect current policies.”
The Democratic lawmakers say in their letter that the spotlight on violators during the Obama administration rankled some employers, who viewed it as unfair public shaming. “Lobbyists for trade groups and large employers have opposed these disclosures, claiming that the data will be ‘distorted’ or ‘misconstrued,’” the senators wrote.
But, they added, “public communication regarding these findings is important for OSHA to fulfill its mission.’
Labor advocates say highlighting abuses is a crucial tool to deter bad employers because OSHA is so thinly staffed that, according to union researchers, it would take the agency 145 years working at its normal pace to inspect every workplace under its jurisdiction just once.
OSHA officials did not respond to a request for comment on the Senate letter.
‘What really scares them is getting mentioned in a press release’
Jordan Barab, the No. 2 OSHA official in the Obama Administration, said that the $40,000 threshold had proven a smart strategy for boosting workplace safety.
“Attorneys have told us that their clients don’t care about low OSHA fines; what really scares them is getting mentioned in a press release,” he said in an email. Such announcements also show workers “that OSHA is on the job and what their rights are.”
Cone of Silence on Enforcement News from U.S. Labor DepartmentOSHA’s Wall of Shame
Since OSHA’s April 12 announcement about Atlantic Drain – which was indicted, along with its owner, two months earlier on manslaughter charges – the agency has issued three other news releases involving fines to companies in injury cases.
The senators’ letter calls on the Labor Department’s inspector general to review the change in information policy, including possible involvement by the White House and Trump transition team members.
Safety regulation delays
The senators also ask for a review of decisions to delay new safety regulations aimed at reducing workers’ exposure to cancer-causing silica and beryllium.
A beryllium rule, adopted after 15 years of study and delayed twice since the inauguration, took effect May 20, two days after the senators sent their letter, OSHA officials say. However, the compliance deadline for shipbuilders, construction firms and other employers is not until March 2018, and OSHA already is preparing revisions that, critics fear, will dilute the new standards.
Enforcement of tougher restrictions on exposure to crystalline silica, which can cause lung cancer and other respiratory diseases, has also been delayed by two months, to Sept. 23.
The Department of Labor “finalized both rules only after lengthy, thorough, and transparent rulemaking processes,” the senators wrote. “In contrast, the decisions to delay the rules were made precipitously, with no public engagement and no public analysis of the impacts.”
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Case Study: Apartment Complex Sales & Leasing Office
Apartment Sales & Leasing Office
ECI Group, a large real estate organization, required a durable and versatile leasing and sales office for their newest apartment complex. It would sit at the base of their NorthPointe Apartment building in Greenville, South Carolina until all the units were leased, inviting potential customers into their new homes.
Key Challenges: Create an Inviting Space, Reflective of Their Brand, That Could Relocate to Future Complexes
The NorthPointe Apartment building needed a portable office that would welcome potential renters into an inviting space. ECI Group wanted the space to look nice and feel comfortable for potential renters by including necessary amenities such as a small kitchenette and a bathroom. Appearance was important to ECI Group as this office would be the first space potential renters would encounter. The office also needed to fit at the edge of the parking lot without obstructing parking. Additionally, they wanted to move the office to new complexes as more were built. Therefore, the structure needed to be more durable than a traditional office trailer yet easy to transport.
The Solution: A Durable and Portable Shipping Container Leasing Office
To create an inviting space, a 40-foot shipping container was modified to include three sliding glass doors, welcoming natural light into the space. The doors were strategically placed to ensure both sides of the container could be customer-facing in the event the structure would be turned to reach utility connections at future sites, helping it fit into whatever space was available. A single stall bathroom was built into the end of the container and a kitchenette was added against the wall to provide guests with necessary amenities while still providing room for potential renters to discuss their new homes. These modifications couldn’t be achieved with another portable structure. Their choice to work with Falcon Structures, and purchase a modified shipping container, gave them aesthetic control over the office. ECI Group decided to wrap the structure in a branded vinyl cover that could be changed or removed as the structure relocates. The container structure also helped prioritize durability and portability. Relocating the office is made easy thanks to the inherent portability of shipping containers which easily fit onto the bed of a truck, making transportation hassle free. As an added bonus, a shipping container provides a unique introduction to potential residents that they are unlikely to forget.
Single person restroom
Three sliding glass doors
Additional personnel door
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TimTheTatman and Thursday Night Football Audience Analysis
Insights, Twitch
On September 27th, 2018, Amazon-owned Twitch aired Thursday Night Football for the first time on the platform. While traditional sports have found a home on the platform, this broadcast marked the first time a major league match was licensed and aired on Twitch. Luckily for us at FanAI, this game and all future installments provide a unique opportunity to leverage our Twitch capabilities to measure the reach of traditional sports with the platform’s gaming-focused audience.
Last week, we examined the unique viewers that watched the TNF week 1 broadcast and the recent Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major organized by FACEIT in London. While only 83K logged-in viewers tuned into the TNF broadcast, 1 in 7 of those viewers also watched the FACEIT Major the prior weekend. Thursday Night Football clearly appeals to a segment of the CS:GO audience, and we would expect to see similar types of viewership overlap across other game segments as the broadcasts continue over the coming weeks.
Building a Brand Audience with Influencer Help
This week, we turn our attention to the impact seen by some of the marketing efforts to expand the reach of the game on the platform. Week 1 may have launched without much fanfare, but Twitch upped their promotional game for week 2. In addition to teasing further integrations coming to the platform for TNF, Twitch partnered with streaming talent native to the platform to bring even more viewers to TNF through their co-streaming functionality. Our analysis sought to investigate the impact this promotion had on the viewership numbers week-over-week for Thursday Night Football.
One of the major partners for this initiative was TimTheTatman, a popular and established Twitch personality. His co-stream singlehandedly expanded the week 2 audience for TNF from 86K on the Twitch-owned Prime Video channel to 310K+ unique logged-in viewers on both. This 260% increase in audience size demonstrates the massive impact that a single influencer can have on a brand’s broadcast.
Viewership Retention Week-Over-Week
While many services can provide data on standard viewership metrics and some can estimate the total audience size, only FanAI can measure if those same viewers tuned in to two or more different broadcasts. Without this key information, you might assume that the same viewers are tuning in from one week to the next. This simply isn’t the case on Twitch, as demonstrated by deduplicating the actual logged in viewers week over week.
Of those viewers that tuned in on week 1, only 34% returned to Twitch to watch the second week of Thursday Night Football. Of those viewers who returned, 73% watched week 2 on the main prime video channel. This is also equivalent to 25% of the week 1 audience. However, this flow of viewership does not tell the full story.
Without deduplicating the 13K viewers who tuned in to both the main channel and TimTheTatman’s co-stream of TNF, you would be overestimating the number of fans who actually tuned in. Further, 3.3K of these viewers who watched both streams were also returning viewers. Once these factors are taken into account, we can show that 61% of returning viewers only watched on the prime video channel, 27% only watched on TimtheTatman’s channel, and 12% watched on both.
This shows that fans who tuned into the week 1 broadcast were most likely to return to the same channel, if they returned. Additionally, the lure of TimTheTatman’s commentary and involvement attracted his fans to watch the NFL with him, as only 5% of his total audience watched the original broadcast on the prime video channel.
Why This Matters
For brands looking to bring their own content to Twitch, our data demonstrates the real impact that integrating a Twitch influencer into a digital activation can have. The additional reach provided by streamers and influencers into their own communities ultimately expands the reach of a campaign into a new segment of fans who might not have tuned in otherwise. While there are a number of ways to make this type of analysis actionable, ultimately it depends on the goals you have for your campaign. Making decisions about which influencers to bring on-board can be difficult, but our data can help you answer questions such as:
Which influencer is the right influencer to reach new segments of fans?
What is the right set of influencers to generate repeat impressions of a campaign?
What other games or types of content is my audience interested in on Twitch?
What was the real reach of my campaign, across multiple streams?
Interested in diving into unique viewership statistics like these, for a past or future campaign? FanAI can help.
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Everyday Health Lung & Respiratory Cold & Flu
Overview of Xofluza, First New FDA-Approved Drug for Flu Treatment in 20 Years
Clinical Trial and Safety
By Julie Marks
Medically Reviewed by Justin Laube, MD
Xofluza was granted priority review by the FDA before it was approved on October 24, 2018.
Courtesy of Genentech
Xofluza (baloxavir marboxil) is an oral medicine used to treat symptoms of influenza, or flu, in people ages 12 and older.
The drug has been shown to cut the time you’re sick by about a day. You only need one dose, but you have to take it within 48 hours of your first symptoms.
Xofluza belongs to a new class of antivirals, which inhibit an enzyme called polymerase acidic endonuclease.
Xofluza is manufactured in the United States by Genentech. (1)
When Did Xofluza Become an FDA-Approved Flu Treatment?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Xofluza on October 24, 2018. (2) It's the first antiviral medicine approved to treat the flu since Tamiflu (oseltamivir) was approved in 1999. (3)
Xofluza was granted priority review, which means the agency put the drug on the fast track for approval. This action sometimes occurs when a medicine is believed to significantly improve the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of a serious illness. (2)
What the New Drug Means for the Current Flu Season
For nearly 20 years, Tamiflu was the gold standard for treating the flu. Xofluza offers a new option.
“How this medicine will impact the current flu season remains to be seen because it’s a new drug,” says William Schaffner, MD, professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. “It’s an attractive treatment, but doctors still have to learn about it. I think there are many that still don’t know about it. It takes a while for new drug information to get out there.”
Some preliminary results suggest that Xofluza might treat certain strains of the flu that have become resistant to Tamiflu.
RELATED: Cold and Flu 101: What You Need to Know
Xofluza may be an effective option for the following flu types: (4)
Avian type A (H5N1)
Type A (H1N1)
Type B viruses
Type A (H1N1 H275Y)
Type A (H3N2 E119V)
Type A (H7N9 R292K)
Type B (D198E)
The A (H1N1), A (H3N2), and influenza B viruses are expected to be the major circulating strains during the current flu season. (4)
Influenza is one of the most common infectious diseases. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that flu epidemics result in 3 to 5 million cases of severe illnesses and about 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory deaths each year.
How Do I Know if Xofluza Is Right for Me?
Xofluza may be a suitable option if you:
Have been diagnosed with acute, uncomplicated influenza
Have had the flu for 48 hours or less
Are older than 12
Weigh more than 88 pounds (lbs)
Are not pregnant or nursing
“Anyone who you might give Tamiflu to would be a candidate for Xofluza,” says Dr. Schaffner. “These medicines are especially important to give to people who are more likely to get a very serious case of influenza, such as older adults and people with other medical problems or chronic illnesses.”
The Impact of Influenza: What to Know About the 2018–2019 Flu Season
Are you worried about getting the flu? Stay up to date on what’s happening this season, what’s happened historically, and what you can do to stay healthy.
Dosage Information for Adults and Teenagers
Xofluza comes as a 20 or 40 milligram (mg) tablet that you can take with or without food. Your doctor will determine your dosage based on your weight. (5)
Dosage by Weight
If you weigh between 88 and 194 lbs, you’ll take a single dose of 40 mg
If you weigh 194 lbs or more, you’ll take a single dose of 80 mg (5)
Follow the instructions on your prescription label carefully when taking this medicine. Don’t use more or less of it than is recommended.
If you overdose or take too much Xofluza, go to the nearest emergency room right away.
Do You Need a Prescription for Xofluza or Is It Over-the-Counter?
You can’t purchase Xofluza over the counter (OTC). Your doctor will need to give you a prescription to receive this medicine.
Remember, you’ll need to see your doctor within 48 hours of your first symptoms for Xofluza to be effective. (5)
What Are the Side Effects of Xofluza?
Side effects of Xofluza are generally mild and may include (5):
Symptoms of the common cold
Pricing and Cost With and Without Insurance
Xofluza will cost about $150 per dose if you don’t have health insurance. If you do have health insurance with drug coverage, check with your provider to see if you can get a discounted rate. (6)
“So it’s not cheap, and we don’t yet know if insurance companies will cover it,” says Schaffner. “If I were prescribed Xofluza, I’d look into the company’s coupons.”
Genentech plans to offer a coupon program to patients with and without insurance that may cut the cost to as low as $30. (7)
What Makes Xofluza Different Than Other Treatments?
Unlike Tamiflu, which is taken twice a day for five days, Xofluza is given in a single dose. (2)
“The biggest advantage is it’s a single-dose medication. You take it once, and you can forget about it,” says Schaffner.
Xofluza also works a little differently than Tamiflu.
“Both drugs interfere with the multiplication of the virus. They don’t let it get worse, but they use different mechanisms of action to do that,” says Schaffner.
Tamiflu targets the last stage of the flu virus cycle, known as the “viral release.” This occurs after the virus has already been replicated. On the other hand, Xofluza goes after the virus at an earlier stage, so it prevents it from reproducing. (8)
How Should I Store and Handle Xofluza?
Keep Xofluza in its packaging until you use it.
The drug should be stored at a temperature between 68 and 77 degrees F. (5)
Clinical Trial and Safety Information
Xofluza was evaluated in two randomized controlled clinical trials.
Results from both studies showed Xofluza significantly shortened the amount of time participants experienced flu symptoms when compared with placebo. Specifically, the duration of flu symptoms was reduced to just 2.3 days for those who took Xofluza, compared with 3.3 days for those who took a placebo. (1,2)
In the second study, treatment with Xofluza produced nearly identical results as treatment with Tamiflu. (2)
Let your doctor know about your current and past medical conditions before using Xofluza.
You should know that serious bacterial infections may occur while you have the flu. Xofluza hasn’t been shown to prevent these types of infections. Your doctor will need to give you another medicine if you develop this complication.
It’s not known if Xofluza can harm an unborn baby or if it passes through breastmilk. Talk to your physician if you’re pregnant, plan to become pregnant, or are breastfeeding a baby before taking Xofluza.
Xofluza shouldn’t be given to anyone who is younger than 12 years old or weighs less than 88 lbs.
Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take before starting on Xofluza. This includes OTC medication, prescription drugs, vitamins, and supplements.
You shouldn’t take Xofluza with dairy products, calcium-fortified beverages, antacids, laxatives, or supplements that contain iron, selenium, calcium, zinc, or magnesium.
Let your healthcare provider know that you’ve taken Xofluza before receiving a live flu vaccine. (5)
Potential Public Health Benefits
Treating the flu with medicines like Xofluza may help the public at large by shortening the time that the infection’s contagious.
Also, having more options to target the different types of flu is important. Xofluza may be a suitable solution for flu strains that have become resistant to Tamiflu. (4)
RELATED: Everyday Health Flu Map
Schaffner points out that Xofluza could particularly benefit the population that’s at a higher risk of developing a severe or life-threatening case of the flu.
“Anyone who’s older or who has a chronic illness, if you’ve heard there’s a flu outbreak in town, and you have symptoms, talk to your doctor about whether this is a good medicine to take,” he says.
Should I Still Get the Flu Shot?
Xofluza doesn’t prevent the flu. It only treats the virus once you have it. You should still get a yearly flu shot to avoid infection. (6)
“As Benjamin Franklin said, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” says Schaffner, “And the best way to prevent influenza is to get your vaccine every single year.”
He adds that even if you do get the flu after being vaccinated, your symptoms will likely be less severe.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that all people ages 6 months and older should receive a flu vaccine every season.
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Editorial Sources and Fact-Checking
Why Xofluza? Efficacy. Xofluza.com.
FDA Approves New Drug to Treat Influenza. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). October 24, 2018.
Tamiflu Prescribing Information. Genentech. April 2018.
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Roberts C. What to Know About Xofluza, the New Flu Drug. Consumer Reports. October 26, 2018.
Save on Xofluza. Xofluza.com.
Xofluza: Mechanism of Action. Xofluza.com.
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Learn more with my recommended Christening Resources
Perhaps you'd like to dig deeper with more christening resources even after you've read Fantasy Ireland's articles about christening traditions.
Or perhaps you would just like to go to the source... learn more from those who helped me bring these articles to you. After all, I can't cover everything here...there's always more to know than any one christening resource can provide.
But it's a tangled web out there, and you don't need to waste time sorting out what's useful and what's not. Well, perhaps I can help...
From here you can go where I've gone in my own research... read what I've read... see what I've seen.
Helping you find what you need is part of my business. So here are Fantasy Ireland's top-rated christening resources...
Christening Resources in Print
Little Book of Christenings: Creative Ideas for a Special Day
This book is one of the best christening resources for anyone planning a ceremony to welcome a baby into the world, whether you are Irish or not. Plenty to inspire you and help you make your baby's christening day unique!
Irish Wedding Traditions by Shannon McMahon-Lichte
And this little gem, although primarily for planning a traditional Irish wedding, is also one of my favorite christening resources. It will help you find ways to bring the Irish spirit into your wee one's new life. Chapter Five, entitled "From This Day Forward", has a section filled with charming rituals and superstitions surrounding "The Irish Child".
Traditional Christening Resources:
AmericanCatholic.org
This site is simply a treasure trove of information about the Catholic faith. Although their articles cover just about every aspect of the faith, here are ones that we recommend as excellent christening resources:
"Helping the Newly Baptized", St. Anthony Messenger Magazine Online, September 2002
Father Pat McCloskey, O.F.M., shares what is required to be godparents, his answers coming directly from Canon Law.
"Godparents and Sponsors : What is Expected of them Today?" - Catholic Update, 2002
Father William F. Wegher explains the evolution of the role of godparents and what is expected of them in our modern society. He offers new parents advice for choosing godparents and tells new godparents how to carry out their roles.
"The Sacrament of Baptism : Celebrating the Embrace of God"
Sister Sandra DeGidio, O.S.M., presents a fascinating article that covers not only the history of baptism, but also reveals the theological significance behind this sacrament. She explains why we need to be cleansed of Original Sin with this ritual as well. Finally, she provides helpful advice to parents who are preparing for their baby's baptism.
BeliefNet.com - Welcome Your Baby: Catholic Traditions
Lisa Konick offers numerous ways to welcome your baby into the world incorporating Catholic traditions. Her article includes a little information about formal infant baptism as well.
Absolutely wonderful resource for specifically Irish-Catholic christening traditions. This article is an excellent christening resource which gives you an overview, but also leads into other related, but more secular, issues that may concern you...like how much the event may cost and whether it matters if you're a single mom.
Emily Post (1873–1960). Etiquette. 1922. Chapter XXIII. Christenings
An oldie, but a goodie. Unquestionably indispensable christening resource, especially if adherance to the rules of etiquette in christening tradition are important to you.
Contemporary Alternatives
to Traditional Christenings
BabyWorld.co.uk - Christenings and naming ceremonies
Joanna Moorhead investigates the best way to go about celebrating the birth of your baby. This article is wonderful for people who want to mark the occasion in a solemn way, but who are not devoutly religious and are looking for alternatives.
Pagan & New Age
There is an ancient ritual very similar to christening that is practiced by pagans. The ceremony is called "seining", and it is for publicly welcoming, naming, and blessing the newborn child. For those of you who are very spiritually connected, but not devout Christians, and you really want to honor your Celtic roots...these resources are a good start.
BeliefNet.com - "Welcome Your Baby: Pagan Traditions"
Lisa Konick offers various ideas to welcome your child into the world in accordance with pagan beliefs and traditions.
"The Finer Points of Ritual"
Mike Nichols argues why it is inappropriate and disrespectful people to call the pagan ritual that is similar to christening "Wiccaning".
The Pagan's Path - Grimoire - Paganing Rite
Whether you're Pagan, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim or traveling on any other spiritual path, PagansPath will help you learn about other beliefs and ways and teach you how similar we all really are.
PagansUnite.com
This article tells you when, where, how, and why to perform a Pagan welcoming, naming, and blessing ritual for your child.
"The Saining"
Rev. John "Fox" Adelmann presents a comprehensive explanation of the pagan ritual called "seining" (he spells it "saining", though). He clearly contrasts the pagan ritual and the Christian ritual. He also offers specific guidelines for the ceremony, including special prayers.
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Baptism and Christening Keepsakes
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Christening Resources on Fantasy-Ireland.com
Fantasy-Ireland's Christening Guide
Your baby's christening will be more memorable once you better understand the meaning behind it and discover ways to honor that. Find out the symbolism behind the ritual, when and how it began, how to plan an Irish christening, and more....
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‘Super Mario Odyssey’ Now Shows Porn Thanks to Hackers
Many parents are suggest turning off the ability to play online until the problem is solved.
By Raz Robinson
Youtube Nintendo
Over the years, Nintendo has managed to maintain its image as the more wholesome of the large video game console developers. When compared to the likes of Sony (Playstation) and Microsoft (Xbox), Nintendo has seldom gone down the rabbit hole of super mature gaming experiences, preferring to release games that an entire family can enjoy. But, Switch hackers, i.e, those who modify the rules of online Nintendo Switch gameplay, are changing that, as they have begun inserting pornographic pictures into Super Mario Odyssey.
The images are limited to the level called “Luigi’s Balloon World” in which payers hide balloons in the clouds for other players to find. If you find the ballon, you win. But the kicker is, the game is online based, so once you find another plays balloon, you’ll also see their profile image. So basically, Switch hackers are now changing their profile pictures such that they depict pornographic imagery and leaving the now explicit balloons around for people to find.
In the gaming community, online hijinks are normally nothing to write home about, but given the number of kids who play Super Mario Odyssey, several concerned parents took to a Nintendo Switch subreddit to discuss the problem.
“[I]t seems hackers have found a way to insert indecent content into our children’s games,” one parent wrote in the forum. “We only have seen this happen on Mario Odyssey, but who knows how many other games could be affected. While we wait for Nintendo to offer better parental controls, I am taking my child’s switch offline and I encourage others to do so with me.”
While these concerns from parents are certainly valid, it doesn’t seem to be a parental control issue. The hackers are using a homemade piece of software called Dev Menu which is uploaded onto the Switch and allows players to upload custom profile images. The part that was clever on the hackers end was making it such that Nintendo can’t identify the users who upload custom profile pictures. Because Nintendo’s system only recognizes its pre-approved images, people who use custom profile pictures can’t be reported.
Nintendo has yet to release a statement, but the longer the ability to upload the custom images remains, is the more people who will see it. Currently, Super Mario Odyssey has sold more than 10 million copies on a console that has been sold almost 18 million times.
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Four leadership traits that are crucial in the 21st century
By Sabine Vollmer
People and leadership skills
Stopping the sale of tobacco products on September 3rd will cost CVS an estimated $2 billion annually, or about 15% of annual revenue, but the US chain of pharmacies and drugstores took the step anyway, ahead of its competitors.
“By eliminating cigarettes and tobacco products from sale in our stores, we can make a difference in the health of all Americans,” Larry J. Merlo, CEO of CVS Health, said in an announcement the company issued the day the decision took effect.
The stand CVS’s leadership took against tobacco and its health risks impressed Hubert Glover, CPA, CGMA, who chairs the accounting department at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. “That took guts,” Glover said during his presentation on leadership at the AICPA Global Manufacturing Conference.
To Glover, CVS set an example for the kind of tough decisions businesses need to at least consider in an environment in which the influence consumers have on what products and services companies offer is increasing and change promises to be constant. It’s an environment that harbours challenges but also offers opportunities, especially for management accountants.
“I hope accountants were in the room saying, ‘Don’t worry. It lowers our risk and it increases opportunities to put other products on the shelves that generate a greater return,’” Glover said.
The past decade is littered with examples of toppled icons, reminding business leaders that there’s no room for complacency in the 21st century, regardless of how young an industry is or how commanding a lead a company enjoys.
US video rental chain Blockbuster failed after revolutionising the video industry in the 1980s and 1990s because customers abandoned its rental stores in favour of fewer late fees and more conveniently available videos from its competitors such as Netflix. Blackberry’s command of the smartphone market ten years ago shrank as customers flocked to Apple and Android phones with larger screens and more functionality.
Examples of more mature industries that either no longer exist or are struggling for relevance include imaging company Kodak, electronics and appliance retailer Circuit City, and Borders bookstores.
Mature companies that are still thriving, such as diversified machinery conglomerate General Electric, automaker Ford, Macy’s department stores and Harley-Davidson motorcycles, have escaped a similar fate, Glover suggested, because rather than rest on their laurels, their leadership focused on innovation and constant learning and is willing to experiment and go the distance to do what’s difficult – just as CVS did.
Along with taking cigarettes and other tobacco products off its shelves, CVS changed its name to CVS Health and announced the upcoming launch of a comprehensive and personalised smoking cessation campaign aimed at millions of US smokers.
“This is the right thing to do,” Merlo said in a CVS video announcement.
“You can’t get away with bad behaviour any longer,” Glover agreed. At the heart of each success story, he said, are the following four time-tested qualities of good leadership:
Listen to your customers.
Care for your employees.
Keep up with technological developments.
Know your business and its cycles.
Related CGMA Magazine content:
“Inspiring Collaboration Is Critical for Higher Growth”: “Network leadership” – the ability to facilitate employee collaboration across business silos – is a key to growth, according to a report from earlier this year. Research suggests that many leaders are lagging in this important skill.
“Innovation: Five Key Questions Organisations Should Ask Themselves”: Visionary leadership and a culture that supports innovation are the two most important ingredients for successful innovation at a company, according to a PwC survey of CEOs.
“A Taste for Innovation”: Cross-functional, self-governing employee boards help global spice company McCormick & Co. identify business process improvements and other innovations. McCormick executive Ken Kelly, CPA, CGMA, explains how it works – and how employees benefit.
—Sabine Vollmer (svollmer@aicpa.org) is a CGMA Magazine senior editor.
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Korea's Youngone launches $130 million GDR offering
The OEM manufacturer of garments opened the order books yesterday for what is set to be the first equity deal of size in Korea this year.
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Youngone Corp, a Seoul-headquartered original equipment manufacturer OEM of garments, opened the order books yesterday for its debut offering of global depository receipts GDRs that could raise about $120 million to $130 million, a source said yesterday.
The deal is set to be the first equity deal of size this year in Korea, where the biggest straight equity deal so far has been a $50 million follow-on by Hansol Technics, according to Dealogic.
Youngone, which makes outdoor sportswear, shoes and backpacks for the likes of Nike and North Face, plans to use the proceeds mainly for capital expenditures, for the expansion of manufacturing facilities at different...
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Books of the week: From spymaster RN Kao's story, to Aimless in Banaras by Bishwanath Ghosh, our picks
Living Aarushi Agrawal Dec 23, 2019 10:31:47 IST
We love stories and there is nothing like a good book that promises a couple of hours of absorption.
Every Sunday, we will have a succinct pick of books, across diverse genres, that have been newly made available for your reading pleasure.
We love stories, and even in the age of Netflix-and-chill, there's nothing like a good book that promises a couple of hours of absorption — whether curled up in bed, in your favourite coffeehouse, or that long (and tiresome) commute to work. Every Sunday, we'll have a succinct pick of books, across diverse genres, that have been newly made available for your reading pleasure. Get them wherever you get your books from — the friendly neighbourhood bookseller, e-retail website, chain store — and in whatever form you prefer. Happy reading!
For more of our weekly book recommendations, click here.
So All Is Peace
By Vandana Singh-Lal
Penguin Random House India | Rs 499 | 416 pages
Writer and policy adviser Vandana Singh-Lal’s So All Is Peace revolves around the lives of twin sisters Layla and Tanya. The two are found starving in their apartment located in a posh neighbourhood of their city, soon attracting media attention and frenzy. Several theories about them are afloat, but when journalist Raman speaks with Tanya, he uncovers dark truths about the sisters’ lives.
Read more about the book here.
– SHORT STORIES
My Mother's Lover and Other Stories
By Sumana Roy
Bloomsbury Publishing India | Rs 499 | 252 pages
Author Sumana Roy’s My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories is a collection of 14 stories. From a poet whose family thinks her writing is an illness, to an insomniac attending sleep therapy; from a woman obsessed with getting rid of plastic to one living in Darjeeling, desperate for a drop of water — the stories revolve around the lives of oddballs, suffering from strange conditions of the body and mind.
– MEMOIRS AND BIOGRAPHIES
Aimless in Banaras: Wanderings in India's Holiest City
By Bishwanath Ghosh
Westland | Rs 399 | 264 pages
Author and journalist Bishwanath Ghosh’s Aimless in Banaras is a memoir of the time he spent roaming the streets of India's holiest city. From seeing a sadhu showing off his penile power, to sharing a boat with a woman who’s been prophesised to have seven marriages; from conversing with atheist writer Kashinath Singh to sharing tea with a travelling priest and a god-fearing doctor — Ghosh captures the many moods of Banaras, thereby also presenting a portrait of the city.
RN Kao: Gentleman Spymaster
By Nitin A Gokhale
Strategic analyst, author, and journalist Nitin A Gokhale’s RN Kao: Gentleman Spymaster is the story of Rameshwar Nath Kao, founder of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India's foreign intelligence agency. He led an intensely private life, and is considered among India’s greatest spymasters. A ruthless professional, Kao put national interest above his own, and among his countless career highlights is the role he and RAW played in the creation of the nation of Bangladesh.
– NON-FICTION
Final Frontier: India and Space Security
By Dr Bharath Gopalaswamy
As more nations rely on space programmes for strategic and military influence, Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation Dr Bharath Gopalaswamy discusses India’s approach to space security and its position as a player in space weaponisation. Final Frontier: India and Space Security examines the ethics, and technical and political options of defence, when using space assets. He argues that non-terrestrial weaponisation is an inescapable reality, and calls for bold steps in order to reconfigure India’s plans in the near future.
Hang Till Death: India's Most Notorious Cases of Capital Punishment
By Prateek Jain
Bloomsbury India | Rs 399 | 150 pages
Advocate, teacher and writer Prateek Jain recounts 11 cases from independent India, where the accused were sentenced to death by hanging, after being examined through the lens of criminal law. It also considers the background, circumstances and motivations of each convict, — from Nathuram Godse to Ajmal Kasab and Yakub Memon — in order to understand their reasons for committing such crimes. And after all, was justice truly served?
Vision for a Nation: Paths and Perspectives
Edited by Aakash Singh Rathore, Ashis Nandy
Philosopher Aakash Singh Rathore and writer Ashis Nandy present essays about nation and nationhood, and the idea of India in the inaugural volume of the series titled Rethinking India. The book serves as a reminder of a progressive, inclusive and equitable nation that's committed to individual dignity. It provides a narrative to reclaim the centrality of the ideals of the Constitution, and adopt a fresh approach for a nationwide discourse on subjects of national interest moving forward.
– YOUNG READERS
Boys Will Be Boys: Inspiring Stories for Smart Kids
By Aparna Jain
Context | Rs 799 | 192 pages
Author Aparna Jain’s Boys Will Be Boys: Inspiring Stories for Smart Kids offers inspiration to young boys, laying before them the possibilities of all that they can be. Jain presents to readers stories of 45 men, going beyond cricketers, movie stars and businessmen that one may have heard of already. The book upholds men who followed their hearts and changed lives, — from a sailor who compassed the earth, to a designer who took Indian fashion to Paris; from a doctor whose work revived rivers, to a barefoot artist, — and includes stories of rocket scientists, entrepreneurs, journalists, writers, and activists as well.
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Bellagio Security Worried Over Possible Shootout in Casino
Many questions have been asked as to how a gun wielding man wearing full motorcycle gear, including a helmet, was able to pull off a $1.5 million heist at the posh Las Vegas Strip Bellagio Tuesday in under 4 minutes.
Bellagio security explained their decision: Let him escape or face the very real possibility that the gunman might start shooting randomly throughout the casino. Of course, they opted for the first choice.
The gunman ran off with over $1.5 in chips that are believed to be traceable if cashed in at another casino.
"He had a gun. You just don't want that guy to fire that gun," said David Schwartz, director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a former casino security guard. Schwartz spoke to the Associated Press and asked the question: "Which is a worse headline? '$1.5 Million Stolen from Casino'? or 'Patrons Killed in Casino Firefight'?"
Police claim to be “following positive leads” but still have no clues as to the identity of the gunman. They do believe his stash is worthless.
Gordon Absher, spokesman for Bellagio owner MGM Resorts International, declined to tell the Associated Press whether MGM Resorts, parent company of the Bellagio, was among the casino groups that embed radio frequency devices inside casino chips.
Schwartz also noted that attempts to cash in the $25,000 chips would require identification post-9/11. The federal currency reporting limit is $10,000.
Police officer Barbara Morgan explained that the bandit “pulled the gun out, told the patrons to get back, took the chips, put them in a bag on his waist and turned and jogged out the door."
Officer Morgan added: "He's got a gun. He steals the chips and leaves, rather than taking hostages. You have to think tactically.”
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