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Curb the car? The debate continues on European style transportation policy
by Fred Camino , June 30, 2011
The front page story from Monday’s N.Y. Times about Europe’s transportation policies that push the car to the perimeter is still sparking discussion.
Yesterday the Times invited nine experts to debate the issue: should the historically car crazy U.S. adopt a similar policy?
It’s obvious from the commentaries that one reason this story has legs is that it’s a divisive topic that is tangled up with all sorts of other contentious issues. Gentrification, taxation, central planning vs. market forces and generational differences are all mixed up making a cocktail that you either love or hate.
Good points are brought up on both sides of the issue. Urban planning professor Robert Bruegmann notes that while Europe’s dense central cities may be implementing anti-car policies, more Europeans are actually moving to the suburbs and living in American style sprawl.
One of the most interesting takes on the issue comes from Laurie Volk and Todd Zimmerman – two researchers who look at housing market trends and demographics. They think that while most Americans currently flinch at the thought of curbing the car, a cultural change is coming with the Millennial generation.
Millennials, now the largest generation in the nation’s history, are the first generation raised in the auto utopia of the ’70s and ’80s. Many millennials have vowed to spare their offspring a similar auto-oriented childhood. We predict that millennials in much larger percentages than predecessor generations will remain in urban neighborhoods when they become parents, fighting for school excellence and robust transportation alternatives to the private automobile.
Lets continue the debate here. Will the U.S. naturally adopt a more anti-car policy as the Millennials come into power? Our informal poll has received 270 responses, and 76% of our readers are for European style transit policy. How different do you think these numbers would be if the entire population of L.A. was polled?
One thing to keep in mind is that Angelenos, despite our car-crazy stereotype, did vote for Measure R. It took a super majority (66%) to pass this tax increase that funds new transit projects around the region – something I think speaks volumes. Of course, Measure R doesn’t only fund transit projects (20% of the tax revenue goes to highway projects) and a lot of the promotion of the measure emphasized congestion relief – not exactly anti-car rhetoric.
Categories: Feedback, Polls
Tagged as: alternative tranpsortation, bus rapid transit, congestion pricing, Europe, New York Times, poll, urban planning
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I don’t understand the idea of making it inconvenient to drive. Don’t get me wrong I’m all for transit as a matter of fact I personally prefer it but when it comes to having a road network already in place why not just slow or stop expansion on that system and instead invest in viable public transportation options. I think making driving inconvenient will just shift the burden from the roads to public transit and that doesn’t make logical sense. Idk maybe I understood wrong? I picked the second only because I do think we should stop spending expanding/widening roads and instead send those funds directly to public transit.
Or maybe I’m just way off; anyone?
Mitch Bart says:
All this discussion is interesting but within the Volk/Zimmerman quote they use the phase “urban neighborhood”. In New York you can see the “urban neighborhood”, in a LA context what’s a “urban neighborhood”? Is it only DTLA, the old eastside areas like Boyle Heights and maybe Hollywood. Much of “Urban” LA is developed with single family homes and small-to medium two to four story apartment/condo buildings.
Are the “streetcar” suburbs of the inner westside of LA an “urban neighborhood”. What about the San Fernando Valley, a true 1950/60s suburb, but now seems pretty urban!
Y Fukuzawa says:
One part that bugs me about “let’s look up to Europe” articles is that they make it sound like they have better public transit options and sound like they live in public transit utopia, but neglect that many systems in Europe also make public transit riders pay a higher fare as well.
Whether it be the London Underground, the Brussels Metro, or the trams in Amsterdam, many of them make public transit riders pay on a variable, distance/zone/time based system.
So not everything that Europe has is great. We have flat rate fares where one can go from Santa Monica all the way to Downtown LA in $1.50. For a 15 mi distance, that’s a steal.
In constrast, transit agencies over there make people pay more if you ride the system over longer distances. It could be as cheap as £1.90 (approx $3.00) within the same zone to as much as £4.50 (approx $8) across multiple zones using the Pay-to-go Oyster Card.
Considering how big the city of LA is, that could be a part that needs to be addressed as well.
This is why I question getting rid of cars is just a solution to a part of the problem. You want real public transit, passengers need to pay their fair share in cost as well.
Yuri says:
I take the opposite view of YFukuzawa. The problem is that driving has been subsidized far too much over the decades, starving all other modes. The true costs have to be factored in and made visible via tolls, carbon tax, giving up space and priority on streets to other modes, variable parking fees and congestion pricing. Once these costs are placed upon drivers, they will naturally migrate to other alternatives and demand more resources being placed in rapid, clean and convenient public transit. When that day comes, and it will come, Los Angeles will finally begin its multi-modal future.
Erik G. says:
Actually, the European nations are being prudent in both their economies and national security.
Many of them no longer produce automobiles so any auto purchases by their citizens results in capital leaving the country going to places from where it may never return.
The few that do recognize that their own workforce will be less and less competitive on the world market as production in places like Eastern Europe, India, the former Soviet Union and China achieves higher quality at unbeatable pricing. (Sadly, the USA may join this category thanks to wage suppression and currency devaluation).
The other issue that the Europeans are facing up to is the fact that they have passed peak oil production in their own oil producing regions (i.e. North Sea) and that they cannot afford to ramp up the military might that would be needed to extract oil from other regions around the world.
James Fujita says:
Actually, I sort of agree with some of what Fukuzawa says this time (a stopped watch and all that…)
A flat-fee fare makes no sense with a transit system the size of L.A. Metro and neither does POP.
A good TAP card (with the help of a good fare gating system) ought to be able to calculate the changes in a distance-based fare system automatically so the commuter doesn’t have to.
You could probably drop the “base fare” down to about half of what it is now and encourage short-hop “lunch” trips.
Even a relatively high fee to ride from Chatsworth to Long Beach would be cheaper than driving, especially if you add up all of the associated “hidden” costs of driving.
( This is the way Tokyo operates as well as the European way, maybe it should be called the “non-American style transportation policy”? )
Even with distance-based fares, it still makes sense to shift funds from cars to transit.
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Metro Art
Meet Me @Metro IV: Bringing it Home to Watts
by Heidi Zeller , May 23, 2013
The fourth annual Meet Me @Metro, an event that combines public transit with theater, will be heading back to the Metro Blue Line on Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26. Join the Watts Village Theater Company for theatrical presentations of original poetry exploring the subjective theme of “home” with [continue reading]
Impromptu music performance in New York subway station
by Heidi Zeller , April 29, 2013
Musician Michael Bublé performed an a capella version of “Who’s Lovin’ You” inside New York City’s 66th Street-Lincoln Center subway station last Thursday alongside the group Naturally 7. Video of the performance has been making the rounds online. On performing inside the NYC subway station, Bublé called it: “The most authentic organic way [continue reading]
Metro Art rendezvous: May art tours
Did you know that Metro has worked with more than 300 artists to enhance nearly 100 stations in the Metro system? For those adventurous types out there, Metro offers walking tours that provide insights into the artworks, the artists who created them and the processes of making them. Explore the Metro [continue reading]
'Dreaming' in full color
Following an intricate maintenance effort last week, the artwork City of Dreams/River of History, a mural by Los Angeles based artist Richard Wyatt, has returned to its original luster. City of Dreams is part of an art grouping in Union Station’s East Portal that was installed in 1996. To keep it looking bright and new, specialized [continue reading]
See Metro Art as you CicLAvia to the Sea
This Sunday, when you’re walking, cycling, skating or otherwise playing your way through the streets at CicLAvia, be sure to check out bounties of art along the way! The 15-mile CicLAvia route – the longest yet – connects with six Metro Rail stations, each featuring artwork created specifically for the site. (See map [continue reading]
Inglewood Through the Eyes of Wakana Kimura
Four artists have designed new posters for the Metro Through the Eyes of Artists series highlighting Metro accessible destinations. One of the artists, Wakana Kimura, discusses her original artwork celebrating Inglewood and what she hopes to share with transit riders who see the poster on Metro buses and trains in [continue reading]
Pico Rivera through the eyes of Ramon Ramirez
Four artists have designed new posters for the Metro Through the Eyes of Artists series highlighting Metro accessible destinations. In the conversation below, one of the artists, Ramon Ramirez, discusses his original artwork celebrating Pico Rivera and what he hopes to share with transit riders who see the poster on [continue reading]
Every lane is a bike lane
In the spirit of sharing the road, Metro launched the “Every lane is a bike lane” campaign in late March to increase motorists’ awareness of cyclists’ rights to the road. Not everyone—both motorists and cyclists—realizes that cyclists are allowed use of a full lane to safely navigate certain traffic [continue reading]
New artist opportunities at El Monte Station
by Heidi Zeller , April 9, 2013
Metro is seeking four artists for El Monte Station. The two-level El Monte Station opened in 2012, and is located at the corner of Santa Anita Avenue and Ramona Boulevard in El Monte, 12 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. The station provides transit service on numerous lines for Metro, [continue reading]
Eight artists selected to create art for Expo Line Phase 2 stations
by Zipporah Lax Yamamoto , April 4, 2013
The Expo Line Construction Authority Board this afternoon authorized the CEO to issue art program contracts with eight highly-qualified and well-regarded artists, selected by panels of arts professionals and community members. Selected artists include: Shizu Saldamando, Abel Alejandre, Susan Logoreci, Nzuji de Magalhaes, Constance Mallinson, Carmen Argote, Judithe Hernandez and Walter [continue reading]
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Tag: depressed
Ahh Crap, Celebrities, TV
Whitney Cummings Gets Candid About The Criticism Towards Her Show
Whitney Cummings became a friend of the Howard Stern Show back in late 2008 after she gained notoriety for her Comedy Central roast jokes.
Since then she’s become the writer and producer of two shows, 2 Broke Girls and Whitney, one acclaimed, one heavily criticized.
Cummings appeared on Stern last week (I get a lot of story ideas from there because I’m a non-famous member of the wack pack) in a state of disarray (about the backlash towards Whitney) and honesty about her sister’s drug and alcohol addiction. When Howard expressed concern about her emotional state, the insult comic known for her tough-exterior nearly broke down in tears. Continue reading “Whitney Cummings Gets Candid About The Criticism Towards Her Show” →
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Fall Out Boy Patrick Stump Is Broke, Skinny And Sad
Fall Out Boy lead singer Patrick Stump opened up about his fans, almost going bankrupt after his solo album and the success of the CDs Take This To Your Grave and From Under The Cork Tree.
On his blog, he talks about the pain of being recognized for a recording made when he was so young and the “constant stream of insults” he endures now that he has just enough money to avoid bankruptcy.
He also opens up about the missuccesss of Fall Out Boy’s last album, Folie à Deux (“We were rotten vegetable targets in Clandestine hoodies”) and calls himself a 27 year old has-been. Continue reading “Fall Out Boy Patrick Stump Is Broke, Skinny And Sad” →
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The Screen ►
Vlade Divac Takes Shots At Shaq But Here’s Why He’s Shooting Blanks
By Jose Oliveros
Source: Gary Miller / Getty
Former NBA great Vlade Divac had a successful and storied NBA career with the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings, but he has a peculiar take on Shaq. He couldn’t be more wrong.
Divac spent a good part of the ’90s and ’00s battling with Shaquille O’Neal for superiority in the western conference.
Shaq, former Magic, Lakers, Heat, Suns, Cavs and Celtics player, got the best of Divac on many occasions, which is why his comments on “the Big Arsitotle’s” skill set were surprising.
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The big Serbian, who currently works for the Kings organization, stated in an interview with the AP, ”I’ve been in basketball a long, long time and I have to say [DeMarcus Cousins is] the most talented big guy I have ever seen.”
”Shaq wasn’t talented, he was just strong. I was talented, but I wasn’t strong,” he added.
While the comments weren’t meant to be malicious, they were most definitely wrong.
I’m only focusing on the assists statistics because strength does not make or break good passing on the court, which Shaq excelled at.
Shaq, a big man with vision
Shaq, a minority owner of the Kings, was a monster on the court, not just because of his scoring and strength, but because of his vision on the court.
O’Neal averaged nearly 24 points, 11 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game in the regular season during his 19 year career.
His assist total is quite impressive for a guy whose job was to score.
Shaq’s 2.5 assist per game stack up favorably against former and current NBA centers. For example, Cousins averages just 0.1 most assists per game in the regular season, but his career is only in his fifth NBA season and his numbers could drop.
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When you compare “Shaq Diesel’s” assists totals to a current all-around stat monster Joakim Noah, there is only a 0.9 difference in assist totals in favor of the Bulls center, but his scoring averages are way below that of Shaq’s. Noah only averages about 10 points a game.
Big men like Divac or Bill Walton averaged more assists per game, but they were not nearly as effective (points and shooting percentage) scoring the basketball.
The only center that can truly outshine O’Neal was another former Laker, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The truth is if the only guy in the conversation is Kareem, you are pretty damn good.
Shaq Diesel was a one-of-a-kind center with power, grace and vision. While everyone is entitled to an opinion, Divac was wrong in his assessment.
Now, had he said that Shaq can’t shoot free throws, that’s another story all-together.
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Roy Hill plays plant catch-up
Nick EvansThe West Australian
Wednesday, 4 February 2015 9:46AM
Camera IconRoy Hill plays plant catch-up Credit: The West Australian
Contractors at the Roy Hill iron ore project, majority owned by Gina Rinehart, are working closely with the company to "implement recovery schedules" at the mine's processing plant after safety bans delayed heavy lifting operations for more than a fortnight last month.
The Department of Mines and Petroleum lifted prohibition notices relating to crane and lifting operations at the project's processing facility on January 23, three days after a crane toppled over during a test lift designed to demonstrate operator competency in heavy lifting. The bans were put in place on January 7 over concerns about a number of safety incidents.
While construction of the rail line and port facilities is understood to be running on schedule, the safety bans slowed work on the mine's critical processing facility for more than two weeks.
It is believed several key contractors at the project have contacted workers on waiting lists to advise them that recruitment for some work has been delayed.
A spokeswoman for Roy Hill did not respond directly to questions about recruitment deferrals yesterday but said Roy Hill was still "well-positioned" to meet a September deadline for shipment of first ore.
She said Roy Hill was now 74 per cent complete. In late November, it was 68 per cent complete.
Roy Hill is believed to be financially viable even at current iron ore prices of about $US62.50 a tonne but sources suggest the company is coming under increasing pressure from financiers to find ways to cut a four-year ramp-up schedule to its full 55 million tonne-a-year run-rate down to 18 months.
The spokeswoman said Roy Hill chief executive Barry Fitzgerald had long flagged an accelerated ramp-up, and it had been the "objective from the outset".
Roy Hill's safety performance also faces further scrutiny from regulators in coming months.
While prohibition notices were lifted on January 23, DMP safety director Andrew Chaplyn said the DMP had issued four improvement notices to the com- pany in the wake of audit inspections conducted last week.
The Roy Hill spokeswoman said the company had done a "significant amount of work" to reassure the DMP and workers about safety standards at the project.
"Together with our contractors, we strengthened team structures within Roy Hill, at the PMC, Samsung and its contractors," she said.
"Changes were also made to planning, systems and processes as well as in the area of training and verification of competency; and a more rigorous inspection regime was implemented."
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12 Words Better than “Happy” To Spice Up Your Blog Posts
As a photographer, you have the opportunity to commemorate some of the best moments in people’s lives. While the subjects of your photos vary wildly, as do their pictures, one thing is almost universally true no matter whether you’re capturing a wedding, engagement, family portrait or new baby: these images are defined by an overwhelming feeling of happiness.
So to tell the stories of these sessions in blog posts, or even to share on About Me pages or in Mission Statements why you love the work you do, the word “happy” gets tossed around A LOT.
But just like any word that gets overused, it quickly loses all meaning, becoming weak and uninteresting, and that’s the last thing you want to convey when describing the best day of someone’s life…or the way you feel about your job.
Breathe a little life into your blog posts or web copy by replacing the word “happy” with these more impactful, specific, emotion-filled words.
Meaning very happy or proud, this word is a perfect choice for describing the posture of the parents of the bride and groom as they greet wedding guests, embrace their new family members or deliver a heartfelt toast.
This word carries with it almost a drunken or dreamlike state of happiness, making it the ideal word choice when recounting the bride and groom’s exit from the ceremony or reception as husband and wife. It’s also a great way to describe the guests on a packed dance floor.
This word is a sweet, innocent, almost peaceful replacement for “happy” making it a heartwarming way of expressing the emotions felt by grandma during the ceremony or the flower girl when she sees herself all done up for the first time. It’s also perfect for describing the feelings of excitement and joy you have when you meet a new client.
This word always strikes me as a first-impression kind of emotion because it conveys optimism for something that hasn’t yet happened. It’s excellent for describing an initial coffee date with a client or the vibe a couple gave off when they met you at the engagement shoot location.
OVERJOYED
Let the prefix “over-” be your guide here, indicating a time when emotions are overwhelming or bubbling over, like that uncontainable burst of laughter from the bride after the first kiss or the whooping cheer from the groom as he leads his bride from the ceremony.
This word conveys a sense of perfection as well as happiness. Whether you’re describing an engagement session, a family portrait session or a moment mid-wedding reception, use this word to highlight a moment when the rest of the world seemed to fall away, and only the love between your subjects — and the joy it brings them — seemed to exists.
Rather than conveying the sense of abiding happiness found in a word like “blissful,” this word is much more alive and action-packed, bursting with a sudden surge of intense joy, making it perfect for bouquet tosses or surprise proposals. And who can forget the most thrilling moment of all: the moment the groom sees his bride for the first time.
For maximum impact, use this word — and its feeling of weightlessness — to describe someone who has put a lot of time and effort into planning the wedding, like the mother of the bride or the bride herself and contrast that pressure with the current state of happiness. It’s also perfect for describing someone living their best “dance like no one’s watching” life.
This is, like, top tier, bursting through the roof, uncontrollable joy. Sparking with energy, this overwhelming feeling isn’t your average, everyday happiness and so should only be used to describe the happiest of people. If it gets overused, it loses its punch.
Defined by an expression of great happiness or triumph, I always associate this word with laughter, and find it is a perfect way to describe the feelings of a loving, supportive bridal party as they celebrate their best friends’ love for each other.
GLEEFUL
This word has an almost precocious ring to it, making it a flawless descriptor for happy children no matter the setting, whether they are giggling on a picnic blanket during a family photo shoot or twirling on a wedding reception dance floor.
Perfect for describing a happiness so uncontainable that it sets the room aglow, this word carries with it a feeling of awe, wonder and beauty that is absolutely tailor-made for describing a bride on her wedding day. It is also a favorite of mine when sharing the tear-filled look of pride on the faces of parents, love glowing behind their eyes.
No matter what word you choose to describe the joy of your subjects, the key to make sure the word is true to the moment. If you do that, you can’t possibly go wrong!
Did I miss your favorite substitute for “happy?” Share it in the comments below. Happy writing!
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Series Review! The Mapmaker Chronicles by A.L. Tait
By ThisKidReviewsBooks on April 2, 2018 • ( 11 )
I really want to highlight this incredible series!
Race to the End of the World
The Mapmaker Chronicles #1
By A.L. Tait
Published by Lothian Children’s Books on October 14, 2014
Synopsis from Publisher- “The King is determined to discover what lies beyond the known world, and has promised handsome prize to the ship’s captain who can bring him a map. To do that, they’ll need mapmakers – and 14-year-old Quinn is shocked to be one of the chosen. While his older brothers long for adventure, Quinn is content with a quiet life on the farm, but when word of his special talent gets out, he has no choice but to pack his bags and join the mismatched crew of slaves and stowaways on board the Libertas.”
What I Thought- Wow. I did not know what to expect with this book, so I was utterly transfixed when it just blew me away. Quinn is utterly fascinating as a character as well – he is affected by hyperthymesia, a neurological condition that causes one to never forget pretty much everything. A pretty handy trait for a person making a map. The world built by Tait is extraordinarily realistic and engaging. Tait creates a somewhat superstitious populace that is satisfied within the confines of their island nation…and draws our main character from this mindset. It’s fascinating to see him react and change with the time he spends on a ship sailing to lands nobody knows of. Quinn is a prime example of a character we can get behind, as he always has a strong moral sense whether he succeeds or not. Tait keeps to the medieval sense throughout the book, keeping everything logical. The story has many twists and turns, making for an engaging read as the book carries on. I would recommend this to fans of adventure and medieval-type settings!
Prisoner of the Black Hawk
Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers on April 6, 2017
Synopsis from Publisher- “After being betrayed by a fellow scribe, Quinn is captured by ruthless explorer Juan Forden, who will stop at nothing to beat the Verdanians. On board Forden’s ship, the Black Hawk, Quinn struggles to outwit his captors, makes new enemies and unexpected allies, and encounters bloodthirsty pirates.”
What I Thought- Tait has gloriously met the standards set precedent in the first book in the series with this sequel. The characterizations do not drastically change, allowing for character growth, but essentially being the same character. This continuity is a nice comfort, making the transition between the two books seamless. Because the characters are sailing in their world, we see many settings come and go. However, Tait manages to build up the setting for each destination in an overachieving sort of way – the details are full and supportive, yet not overbearing. You get a clear picture of every place the ship stops, and it is exhilarating. The tension continues to build as rivalries increase and time begins to run low. Tait has a definite knack for writing tales that grabs the reader by the heart and doesn’t let go until the very end. To say I am hooked is putting things lightly.
Breath of the Dragon
Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in September 2017
Synopsis from Publisher- “The prize for winning the race around the world is almost within reach. But sometimes the biggest danger can lie close to home.
Quinn, Ash, Zain and the crew of the Libertas are racing against the clock to get back to Verdania before the King’s deadline. Will they make it in time? Will Quinn complete the first map of the whole world? Will Zain bring back enough treasure to satisfy the King? Will they win the race to the end of the world?
Or will their enemies stop them from getting back at all?”
What I Thought- This was a thrilling installment for The Mapmaker Chronicles. Tait brings the first two books successfully together as the race to map the world comes to a close. Yet Tait doesn’t let that mean no more action and dilemmas for our characters! At times, it truly seemed that everything that could go wrong, did – and that was oddly satisfying. The book has its ups and downs, leading to a well-rounded adventure as loose threads were tied up. Quinn starts to encounter personal troubles as well, adding a layer of depth to his personality. There is a lot going on in this book, but it all rounds out to be a fine conclusion, leaving room for another book, but still concluding the adventure of the past few books. I hope to see another book come from this series!
I really liked this entire series. Five out of five bookworms all-around! Yay!
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Sounds like an exciting series for middle-grade readers!!
These books sound amazing and exciting. Thanks for sharing your reviews, Erik. I want to read these and I’m thinking my grandkids, especially my grandson, will be interested in a few years.
I bought the Kindle version of the first book and told my friend about the series, knowing her grandsons might like them. She’s going to order the series for her grandson’s birthday. It would be neat if you got a cut of the sales! Haha!
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Thank you so much for your wonderful review Erik. You made my day. 🙂
I’ve only read the first book in this series, but I totally agree with you. I inhaled the book in one sitting! This book might be hard to find as it is a Kane Miller publication and mainly sold in the US through Usborne Books and More consultants. But score if your local library has it!
This series REALLY looks good, Erik, and I’m in LOVE with the covers! That last one made me think of the new debut by Diane Magras— THE MAD WOLF’S DAUGHTER. I’m really hoping to read it some time soon. In fact, she just got a GREAT review in The New York Times. Will you be reading that one?
This series looks great!
But I would hate to never forget anything. All of my embarrassing moments ready to be recalled at a moment’s notice! Torture. Sheer torture.
I think I’d like this!
I am 73 years old and an avid reader and I thourghly enjoyed this susspenceful series! My grandson is 10 years old and is really excited reading this series.
Thank you for stopping by my blog! I am glad that both you and your grandson loved this series. 🙂
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5*Review: COURTING CARLYN by Melissa Chambers #NowLive
Courting Carlyn by Melissa Chambers
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Vaughn Yarborough is ready to trade the fame and glory of the international junior pro tennis circuit for college and a more settled life. First stop: spearhead a summer camp for underprivileged kids. The girl who’s agreed to run it with him has Vaughn more intrigued by the minute, but with the strict no-fraternizing rules, he’s got to figure out how not to fall for her.
When the boy Carlyn Sadowski has crushed on for years asks her to work with him for the summer, she has to pinch herself. When his world-famed coach offers her training for free, she can’t believe her luck. He could actually help her follow in her mother’s footsteps by playing college tennis. But when she finds out the catch is she’s got to convince Vaughn to go pro, Carlyn will have to decide between her dreams and the boy currently stealing her heart.
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Vaughn is trying to redesign his image from party boy to straight laced college guy. He wants more than anything to get into the prestigious Avery but he has to show the school that he has what it takes. But first he needs the help of the sweet, kind-hearted Carlyn. She is the one to help him do just that.
This is my first book by Chambers and I have to say, I was thoroughly impressed. This book and these characters were absolutely adorable and definitely loveable. I am not sure if this is planned to be a series, but I could see a couple stories blooming from it. And I would be one of the first to read them. I will also be checking out the author’s other works as well.
I loved the gradual change that took place with Vaughn. He was so very sweet and charming all through the book, but he just got even more so as the book carried on. I loved the way he took care of Carlyn all throughout their time together. I also adored that Carlyn, though a good girl, would sometimes show a different side when with him. They brought out the best in each other.
Absolutely loved this book and Chambers’ zeal for writing an excellent romance. It is a fantastic, well written, quick read that I 100% recommend to anyone looking for a sweet YA read.
Melissa Chambers writes contemporary novels for young, new, and actual adults. A Nashville native, she spends her days working in the music industry and her nights tapping away at her keyboard. While she’s slightly obsessed with alt rock, she leaves the guitar playing to her husband and kid. She never misses a chance to play a tennis match, listen to an audiobook, or eat a bowl of ice cream. (Rocky road, please!) She serves as president for the Music City Romance Writers and is the author of the Love Along Hwy 30A series and the Before Forever series (YA).
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Arrives on Linux Without AMD GPU Support
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is now available for Linux computers, port developer Feral Interactive has announced. The Linux port comes a little over 2 months after the game’s original release for Windows PC, PS4 and Xbox One. A Mac port is also under development, as was revealed back in September, but there is no word on when it will be released.
Earlier this week, Feral Interactive also revealed the system requirements for the Linux version of the game. Here’s what you’ll need to play Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on Linux:
Intel Core i3-4130 or AMD FX8350 processor
2GB Nvidia 680 graphics card (driver version 367.57)
For better performance, you’ll want to meet the “augmented” system requirements:
Intel Core i7-3770K processor
6GB Nvidia 1060 graphics card (driver version 367.57)
The game’s Steam page further clarifies that you will require a minimum 67 GB of space to house the game, and that 70 GB space is recommended. Interestingly, the requirements on both Steam and Feral interactive’s post indicate that the game will not support AMD GPUs, at least at this point of time.
You can get Deus Ex: Mankind Divided for Linux from Steam or Feral Interactive’s online store.
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| 2013 || April || Staff || EAA hires its first employee, Jon Bockman, as Executive Director.<ref name="2015 YEAR IN REVIEW">{{cite web |title=2015 YEAR IN REVIEW |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ACE_2015_Year_In_Review.pdf |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref>
| 2013 || November || || EAA becomes an official 501(c).<ref name="Animal Charity Evaluatorsgithub.com">{{cite web |title=Animal Charity Evaluators |url=https://github.com/vipulnaik/working-drafts/blob/master/wikipedia/ace.mediawiki |website=github.com |accessdate=17 August 2018}}</ref>
| 2013 || November || Reorganization || EAA becomes an official {{w|501(c) organization}}.<ref name="Animal Charity Evaluatorsgithub.com">{{cite web |title=Animal Charity Evaluators |url=https://github.com/vipulnaik/working-drafts/blob/master/wikipedia/ace.mediawiki |website=github.com |accessdate=17 August 2018}}</ref>
| 2013 || December || || EAA rebrands as Animal Charity Evaluators, in order to be more accurately aligned with its activities (which does not include actual activism).<ref name="MISTAKES">{{cite web |title=MISTAKES |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/transparency/mistakes/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=31 July 2018}}</ref>
| 2013 || Year-round || Reorganization || Effective Animal Activism undergoes significant changes. Although its original focus is on creating discussion about tactics to help animals, this would shift towards an emphasis on creating quality educational and research content. Around this year EAA is rebranded as Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE).<ref name="OUR HISTORY"/><ref name="MISTAKES">{{cite web |title=MISTAKES |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/transparency/mistakes/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=31 July 2018}}</ref>
| 2013 || Year-round || Reorganization || Effective Animal Activism undergoes significant changes. Although its original focus is on creating discussion about tactics to help animals, this would shift towards an emphasis on creating quality educational and research content. Around this year EAA is rebranded as Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE).<ref name="OUR HISTORY"/>
| 2014 || April 4 || Interview || ACE publishes an interview with American animal activist {{w|Matt Ball}}, who co-founded and served as executive director of {{w|Vegan Outreach}} for over twenty years. In the interview, Ball expresses the thought that research will not play as significant a role in the future of animal advocacy as it could or should, because there are relatively few individuals who are truly motivated by maximum impact.<ref>{{cite web |title=ACE INTERVIEWS: MATT BALL |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/ace-interviews-matt-ball/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=21 July 2018}}</ref>
This is a timeline of Animal Charity Evaluators, an organization whose claimed mission is to find and promote the most effective ways to help animals. Animal Charity Evaluators has considered over 300 animal charities for evaluation, reached over 900,000 people with its research through its website, awarded 8 grants from its Animal Advocacy Research Fund, and influenced millions of dollars in funds to its recommended charities.[1]
1 Sample questions
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Development summary
2012 Animal Charity Evaluators begins under the name Effective Animal Activism (EAA), as a division of nonprofit 80,000 Hours. EAA is founded by Eitan Fischer with the purpose to offer a resource for those looking to give effectively to animals, as no other animal organization provided evidence-based advice focused on total impact.[1]
2013 EAA experiences significant changes. Although its original focus is on creating discussion about tactics to help animals, this would shift towards an emphasis on creating quality educational and research content. EAA is rebranded as Animal Charity Evaluators[1]
2016 ACE recommends a dozen charities, including Mercy For Animals, The Humane League and The Good Food Institute.[2] ACE helps direct more than US$3.5 million to their recommended charities.[3]
2017 ACE influences US$6 million in donations to effective animal charities, and receives grants from both the Open Philanthropy Project and the EA Animal Welfare Fund.[4]
Present time To date, ACE has considered over 300 animal charities for evaluation, reached over 900,000 people with its research through its website, awarded 8 grants from its Animal Advocacy Research Fund, and influenced over $11 million in funds to its recommended charities.[1]
Animal Charity Evaluators financial report of total expenses and revenues per year. In US$.
Full timeline
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2012 Animal Charity Evaluators begins under the name Effective Animal Activism (EAA), as a division of the United Kingdom–based charity 80,000 Hours—a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing career advice to people who want to be highly impactful in their work.[1]
2012 November 10 Interview EAA publishes an interview with Brian Tomasik, who spent several years writing essays about how to most effectively reduce suffering in the world. Tomasik recommends donating to Vegan Outreach and/or The Humane League.[5]
2012–2013 Donation Patrick Brinich-Langlois and Brian Tomasik are rated at the first position among EAA top donors.[6]
2013 April Staff EAA hires its first employee, Jon Bockman, as Executive Director.[7]
2013 November Reorganization EAA becomes an official 501(c) organization.[8]
2013 Year-round Reorganization Effective Animal Activism undergoes significant changes. Although its original focus is on creating discussion about tactics to help animals, this would shift towards an emphasis on creating quality educational and research content. Around this year EAA is rebranded as Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE).[1][9]
2014 April 4 Interview ACE publishes an interview with American animal activist Matt Ball, who co-founded and served as executive director of Vegan Outreach for over twenty years. In the interview, Ball expresses the thought that research will not play as significant a role in the future of animal advocacy as it could or should, because there are relatively few individuals who are truly motivated by maximum impact.[10]
2014 May Charity review ACE publishes its first review on Top Charity-ranked The Humane League (THL), a nonprofit which engages in a variety of programs that aim to persuade individuals and organizations to adopt behaviors that reduce farmed animal suffering. ACE recommends THL due to its "exceptionally strong commitment to using studies and systematic data collection to guide their approach to advocacy", and finds THL an excellent giving opportunity because of its strong programs and evidence-driven outlook.[11] ACE also publishes its first review on Mercy For Animals, which engages in a variety of farmed animal advocacy programs generally centered around their undercover investigations and subsequent videos of factory farms.[12]
2014 October 21 Interview ACE publishes an interview with American leading anthrozoologist Hal Herzog, author of the book Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard To Think Straight About Animals.[13]
2014 December Charity review ACE publishes its first review on a number of charities. Top Charity-ranked Animal Equality, an international organization which advocates for animals by conducting undercover investigations and promoting them through media outlets, is recommended by ACE which states AE does an exceptional job given their level of resources.[14] ACE also recommends Standout Charity-ranked Albert Schweitzer Foundation for being "extremely smart and strategic about their activities",[15] and Standout Charity-ranked Vegan Outreach, which is recognized for its long track record (over 10 years) of carrying out its leafleting program.[16] Assigning an "Exploratory" status, ACE publishes its first review on the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations.[17] Assigning a "Comprehensive" status, ACE publishes its first review on Compassion in World Farming USA (COMPASSION USA).[18]
2014 Program launch ACE begins to pilot a long-term social movement analysis project, with the goal to supplement its animal advocacy research by compiling information about other social movements.[19]
2014 December Review ACE publishes its first review on New Harvest, a 501(c) organization which funds academic research in cellular agriculture.[20]
2014 Donation Simon and Linda Knutsson are rated at the first position among top donors.[6]
2014 Year-round Financial ACE moves US$147,239 throughout the year (counting donations through its website as well as donations made elsewhere that donors reported as influenced by ACE).[21]
2015 March 13 Interview As part of its investigation of undercover investigations and open rescue, ACE interviews Wayne Hsiung, co-founder of animal rights network Direct Action Everywhere, whose activists trespass into factory farms, video-record, and rescue animals.[22]
2015 May Evaluation ACE undertakes an internal evaluation of the organization. Findings are summarized, with some areas of high performance including strong leadership and high-functioning staff, good reputation in the effective altruism community, and early met goals; whereas some areas for improvement include need to continue fundraising, to move away from evaluating the same charities repeatedly, to increase evaluation of interventions, and to create a strategic marketing and outreach plan to help connect with the right target audience for their message.[23][24]
2015 June 2 Interview ACE publishes interview with Australian moral philosopher Peter Singer. In the interview, Singer states that we don’t really know how to prevent wild animal suffering, and argues that the likely ways of preventing wild animal suffering would lead to a confrontation with values that many environmentalists regard as no less important than the reduction of animal suffering.[25]
2015 December Charity review ACE publishes its first review on Standout Charity-ranked Nonhuman Rights Project, citing it as the only organization ACE knows of working directly towards attaining legal personhood and rights for nonhuman animals.[26] ACE also publishes its first review on Standout Charity-ranked Faunalytics, which works to connect animal advocates with information.[27] It also publishes its first review on Faunalytics.[28] Other charities ACE reviews for the first time include Animal Ethics[29], Compassion in World Farming International[30], and Centre for Animals and Social Justice[31].
2015 Donation Greenbaum Foundation, Thomas Mather, Martin Jacobson, and Jorge Lugo are rated at the first position among ACE's Top Donors.[6]
2015 Year-round Statistics Throughout the year ACE reviews 203 charities, conducts 19 conversations and interviews and receives 348,641 website visiors to animalcharityevaluators.org.[7] ACE also moves US$828,156 to its recommended charities.[21][7]
2016 April 14 Interview ACE publishes an interview with animal law and policy expert David Wolfson, who states in the interview: "Many aspects of industrial agriculture are truly scandalous and simply wrong by any person’s standards, from popular topic items like pink slime, to hormones and antibiotics, to government subsidies, to hiding the true cost of meat when considering the environmental effects, to the treatment of animals and of farm workers."[32]
2016 May 6 Interview ACE publishes an interview with award-winning investigative journalist Will Potter, whose book Green Is The New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege exposes how non-violent animal rights and environmental protesters came to be classified by the FBI as “eco-terrorists.”[33]
2016 July 25 Interview ACE publishes an interview with Canadian award-winning photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, who documented the plight of animals on all seven continents for over a decade, and whose project We Animals became an internationally celebrated archive.[34]
2016 Fall Advocacy ACE creates an explainer video introducing the concept of effective altruism for animals.[32]
2016 October Advocacy ACE launches its Animal Advocacy Data Repository, which provides a hub for research data compiled from animal advocacy studies, so that researchers and advocates can continue to improve on previous efforts to understand the effectiveness of efforts to help animals.[32][35]
2016 November 12–13 Advocacy ACE, along with the Princeton University Center for Human Values, and the Princeton Animal Welfare Society, organize and co-sponsor the 2016 Effective Animal Advocacy Research Symposium, held at Princeton University. Researchers, professors and graduate students across various disciplines present projects with practical application to the animal advocacy movement, with particular emphasis on the social sciences. Presentations reveal cutting edge research as well as avenues for further research, highlighting areas of greatest research need. The event also provided an overview of effective altruism as it applies to animal advocacy, in addition to providing information on the state of the advocacy movement.[36]
2016 November Review ACE publishes its first review on a number of charities, including Top Charity-ranked The Good Food Institute, a nonprofit working to transform the animal agriculture industry by promoting the development of competitive alternatives to animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs. ACE recommends GFI for being one of the few charities that intervene by developing and promoting attractive alternatives to animal products.[37] ACE also publishes its first review on Standout Charity-ranked ProVeg International, citing its focus on effectiveness, and ability to work with many different partners.[38]
2016 November Website launch ACE launches a completely redesigned website, modernizing it with a new template that improves user experience.[32]
2016 December 9 Criticism Harrison Nathan releases an extensive critique of the current Effective Altruist work on animal welfare, accusing in particular Animal Charity Evaluators of using pseudoscience, fabricating figures, ignoring scientific literature, using unrealistic metrics which promote co-optation, and suspending its own formal criteria in its evaluation of the Good Food Institute (GFI).[39][40]
2016 December 21 Publication ACE's Jon Bockman publishes a blog post addressing selected critiques toward ACE's management, including use of old, less rigorous data, usefulness of cost-effectiveness calculations, lack of diversity in ACE's recommendations, and diverting resources from other groups.[41]
2016 December Review ACE publishes its first review on Danish charity Anima International, which advocates primarily for animals in factory farms and the fur industry.[42] ACE also publishes its forst review on The Animal Cruelty Exposure Fund, which aims to promote public awareness of animal cruelty by funding television commercials through mainstream media.[43]
2016 Program launch ACE launches the privately-funded Animal Advocacy Research Fund, with the purpose of supporting research that contributes to an understanding of effective animal advocacy.[44]
2016 Interview ACE publishes an interview with Brad Goldberg, who organized in 2001 the Animal Welfare Trust (AWT) as a private operating foundation dedicated to animal protection and animal rights issues. In the interview, Goldberg defines Animal Studies ideally as an interdisciplinary academic program that includes the relationship with food, law, public policy, the arts, ethics, etc., and also states that animal issues touch on virtually every aspect of human life, and the moral status of animals should be of great universal concern.[45]
2016 Donation Matt Ashton, The Greenbaum Foundation, Jorge Lugo, and Thomas Mather are rated at the first position among ACE's Top Donors. [6]
2016 Year-round Financial ACE moves US$3,574,048 throughout the year (counting donations through its website as well as donations made elsewhere that donors reported as influenced by ACE).[21]
2016 Year round ACE helps direct more than US$3.5 million to their recommended charities.[3]
2017 June 9 Donation ACE announces a grant awarded by the Open Philanthropy Project, totalling US$500,000, with its disbursement to be spread over a two-year period.[46][47]
2017 June 9 Policy ACE announces setting a donation cap of US$1 million, meaning that every penny over that amount in unrestricted donations raised to support ACE’s work in the year would be allocated to ACE's Recommended Charities Fund and regranted to its recommended charities.[48]
2017 July 13 Interview ACE publishes an interview with American animal rights advocate Lauren Ornelas, the founder and executive director of the Food Empowerment Project.[49]
2017 September 29–October 1 Event ACE holds the 2017 Research Workshop on Effective Animal Advocacy at Claremont Graduate University, in California. The event is intended to complement its 2016 Symposium on Multidisciplinary Research in Effective Animal Advocacy, held at Princeton University last fall. 36 academics and advocates attend the event, working collaboratively in small groups to develop ideas for empirical research aimed at advancing the understanding of effective animal advocacy.[50]
2017 November 27 Recognition ACE updates its charity recommendations, and announces that its newest Top Charities are Animal Equality, The Good Food Institute, and The Humane League, with GFI and THL retaining their top positions from the previous year.[51]
2017 November Review ACE writes review on AnimaNaturalis International, an organization working to reduce the suffering of animals in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile.[52] It also writes its first review on L214, which works to reduce the suffering of farmed animals in France.[53]
2017 Year round Donation ACE influences US$6 million in donations to effective animal charities, and receives grants from both the Open Philanthropy Project and the EA Animal Welfare Fund, among others.[4]
2017 Donation Thomas Mather, the Open Philanthropy Project, Morgan & Michael C. Hall, Jorge Lugo, Martin Crowley, Matt Ashton, craigslist Charitable Fund, Richard Wernick, S.N., Eivind & Kristin Vesterkjær, and Nate Liu are rated at the first position among ACE's Top Donors.[6]
2018 February 23 Fundraising ACE announces a new fundraising cap for unrestricted donations at US$1.25 million, a 25% increase from its 2017 cap. It includes the amount ACE believes could be raised and spent efficiently as well as some additional funds to fill out a full year of reserves. Some additions made to the 2018 budget include recruiting people, providing full-year salaries, increasing salaries, increasing the size of grants, adding a number of software services, and hiring contractors during the busiest time of the year.[54]
2018 March 8 Quiz launch ACE launches its recommended charity quiz, which allows users to discover charities that match their interests and values, determined by some of the distinguishing features of ACE's recommended charities.[55]
2018 March 12 Staff ACE introduces Samantha Berscht as the new Program Officer for ACE’s Animal Advocacy Research Fund (AARF).[56]
2018 May 9 Interview ACE publishes an interview with American social psychologist and author Melanie Joy, who gave an acclaimed carnism presentation and trained vegan advocates on six continents.[57]
2018 June 18 Interview ACE publishes an interview with British politician Kerry McCarthy, the first vegan Member of parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.[58]
2018 July 31 Donation Under the influence of Lewis Bollard, Effective Altruism Funds (EA Funds) donates US$500,000 to ACE.[59][60][61]
2018 September 7 Criticism A blog post criticizing ACE's research is published at effective-altruism.com, stating that some of ACE’s older research is of low quality. The post also emphasizes that ACE’s research on the impact of corporate campaigns is flawed, and consequently ACE’s research does not provide much reason to believe that its recommended charities actually improve animal welfare.[62] On the same date, ACE's new director of research publishes a post as a response, explaining ACE's position on its older intervention research, clarifying several points, and outlining some of ACE's research priorities for the coming year.[63]
2018 November Review ACE publishes its first review on a number of organizations, including the Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira (rated Standout Charity: Special Interest)[64], Sinergia Animal, a Brazilian organization operating in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Argentina[65], The Humane Society of the United States[66], The Save Movement[67], and the Cellular Agriculture Society.[68]
2018 Donation Animal Welfare Fund (Centre for Effective Altruism’s EA Funds), the Open Philanthropy Project, Ariel Nessel, Jorge Lugo, craigslist Charitable Fund, Morgan & Michael C. Hall, Eivind and Kristin Vesterkjaer, and Martin Crowley are rated at the first position among ACE's Top Donors.[6]
2019 January 19 Staff ACE announces Leah Edgerton as its new Executive Director.[69]
2019 March 26 Staff ACE announces Persis Eskander, Eric Herboso, and Allison Smith as the three new members of its Board of Directors.[70]
2019 April 8 Publication Kieran Greig at ACE publishes ACE Highlight: Farmed Fish Welfare Report, which generally concludes that the initial effects of changing common slaughter methods from asphyxia and live chilling to properly applied electrical or percussive stunning seem promising.[71]
2019 April 19 Grantmaking ACE announces its Spring 2019 Effective Animal Advocacy Fund Grants, disbursing about US$1.42 million of its US$1.94 million fund to 49 of the 106 received applications.[72]
2019 May 21 Publication Victoria Schindel at ACE publishes report entitled Animal Advocacy in Brazil, concluding that although Brazilians’ attitudes towards animal welfare suggests that it is possible to persuade the Brazilian public that farmed animals deserve moral consideration, achieving an animal welfare reform is likely to be more difficult in Brazil than elsewhere due to the "significant political influence of producers and the lack of understanding of alternative systems of production."[73]
2019 July 30 Publication ACE publishes blog by Melissa Guzikowski, entitled Animal Advocacy in India. The report concludes highlighting a number of opportunities for effective animal advocacy in India, including vegetarianism as an already common and accepted diet in Indian culture, and that meat is eaten in relatively small quantities compared to other parts of the world, as this could lower the barrier to dietary change.[74]
2019 December 2 Charity ranking ACE updates its list of Top Charities and lists four in this category: Albert Schweitzer Foundation, Anima International, The Good Food Institute, and The Humane League. Five charities are listed under the Standout Charities category: Compassion In World Farming USA (Compassion USA), Faunalytics, Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations (FIAPO), Sinergia Animal, and Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira.[75]
2019 December Review ACE publishes its first review on Animals Now, a charity working to reduce the suffering of farmed animals, mainly in Israel.[76]
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↑ 4.0 4.1 "Discussion with Animal Charity Evaluators (RSVP required)". meetup.com. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
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↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 "TOP DONORS". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
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↑ "MISTAKES". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
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↑ "THE HUMANE LEAGUE". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
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↑ "ALBERT SCHWEITZER FOUNDATION". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
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↑ "FEDERATION OF INDIAN ANIMAL PROTECTION ORGANIZATIONS". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
↑ "COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING USA (COMPASSION USA)". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
↑ "WE ARE DISCONTINUING OUR SOCIAL MOVEMENT PROJECT". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
↑ "NEW HARVEST". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
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↑ "CONVERSATION WITH WAYNE HSIUNG, DIRECT ACTION EVERYWHERE". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
↑ "2015 INTERNAL EVALUATION RELEASED". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
↑ "INTERNAL EVALUATIONS". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
↑ "INTERVIEW WITH PETER SINGER". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
↑ "THE NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT (NHRP)". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
↑ "FAUNALYTICS". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
↑ "FAUNALYTICS". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
↑ "ANIMAL ETHICS". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
↑ "COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING INTERNATIONAL (COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL)". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
↑ "CENTRE FOR ANIMALS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (CASJ)". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 32.3 "LOOKING BACK AT 2016 PROSPECTIVE GOALS". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
↑ "ACE INTERVIEWS: WILL POTTER". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
↑ "ACE INTERVIEWS: JO-ANNE MCARTHUR". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
↑ "ANIMAL ADVOCACY DATA REPOSITORY". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
↑ "2016 SYMPOSIUM ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN EFFECTIVE ANIMAL ADVOCACY". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
↑ "THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
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↑ "The Actual Number is Almost Surely Higher". medium.com. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
↑ "RESPONSES TO COMMON CRITIQUES". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
↑ "ANIMA (NOW ANIMA INTERNATIONAL)". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
↑ "ANIMAL CRUELTY EXPOSURE FUND". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
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↑ "INTERVIEW WITH BRAD GOLDBERG". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
↑ "ON RECEIVING A GRANT FROM THE OPEN PHILANTHROPY PROJECT". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
↑ "Animal Charity Evaluators — General Support". openphilanthropy.org. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
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↑ "ACE INTERVIEWS: LAUREN ORNELAS". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
↑ "2017 RESEARCH WORKSHOP ON EFFECTIVE ANIMAL ADVOCACY". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
↑ "UPDATED CHARITY RECOMMENDATIONS: DECEMBER 2017". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
↑ "ANIMANATURALIS INTERNACIONAL". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
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↑ "ACE'S ROOM FOR MORE FUNDING IN 2018". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
↑ "ACE'S NEW CHARITY QUIZ". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
↑ "RESEARCH FUND UPDATE". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
↑ "ACE INTERVIEWS: MELANIE JOY". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
↑ "ACE INTERVIEWS: KERRY MCCARTHY". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
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↑ "HSUS FARM ANIMAL PROTECTION CAMPAIGN". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
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↑ "CELLULAR AGRICULTURE SOCIETY". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
↑ "ANNOUNCING ACE'S NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
↑ "ANNOUNCING ACE'S NEW BOARD MEMBERS". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
↑ "ACE HIGHLIGHT: FARMED FISH WELFARE REPORT". animalcharityevaluators.org. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
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General: The Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) is a member of the dove family, C olumbidae. The bird is also called the American Mourning Dove, and formerly was known as the Carolina Pigeon or Carolina Turtledove. It ranges from Central America to southern Canada, including offshore islands. Many individuals in northern areas migrate south to winter within the breeding range where January temperatures are greater than minus 12 Celsius (10 F).
Mourning doves live in various open and semi-open environments, including agricultural and urban areas. The species has adapted well to areas altered by humans. The bird is abundant, with an estimated population of 130 million birds. In many areas, the Mourning Dove is hunted as a game bird for both sport and its flesh. Its plaintive woo-oo-oo-oo call is common throughout its range, as is the whistling of its wings as it takes flight. The species is a strong flier, capable of speeds up to 88 km/h (55 mph).
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Identification Tips: Mourning doves are approximately 10.5 inches long. The sexes are similar. They are a medium-sized, somewhat slender dove with very thin neck. Mourning doves have black bills. Identification of adult mourning doves is: Pale buff-brown head, neck, breast, and belly, purple and green iridescence on neck, small black mark on lower neck, medium brown back and upperwings, with large black spots on coverts. Their long tail is pointed at the tip. They have dark brown tail with white tips to outer four tail feathers.
Coloration Juvenile: Dark brown mottled head neck and breast, scaly neck and upperwings with numerous black spots on coverts and scapulars. They have pale belly. Their medium length tail is pointed at the tip.
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General: Gambel’s Quail (Callipepla gambelii) are plump, volleyball shaped birds whose preference for remaining on the ground stems from their inability to fly fast or for extended periods of time. These social birds reside in desert habitats of the American southwest and can be found hiding amongst shrubbery and dense, varied desert vegetation. A popular game bird, Gambel’s Quail populations are healthy because of reproductive success. They are categorized as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Description: Gambel’s Quail are plump, round birds with short, square tails and wings, stout necks, and petite heads and bills. They are best known for their comma-shaped plume that sits atop both males’ and females’ heads, although males’ plumes tend to be fuller. They reach a mature length of just under 10” and weight of 5.5 oz. to 7 oz, and have a wingspan of 13.5” to almost 14.5”1.
Gambel’s Quail have chestnut/gray bodies, olive wings, cream bellies and white or cream markings. Their richly patterned plumage provides camouflage from predators. Quail living in areas with greater rainfall tend to be darker and more vivid overall. Sexual dimorphism is also evident. Males have black faces, necks and patches on their breasts, fuller darker plumes, and are generally more striking than females, who tend to be grayer with thinner plumes and no black markings. Juveniles are mottled in gray and brown and have miniature head plumes.
Gambel’s Quail are known to hybridize with California Quails as well as Scaled Quails, although it is not common2.
Although Gambel’s Quail are diurnal, they rest during the heat of midday in shady areas. In cooler temperatures, quail tend to be active for longer periods of time. These social birds spend much of their time walking in groups, called coveys, of 12 or more birds3. They are fast runners and tend to remain on the ground. They only fly when necessary, in short, explosive bursts but prefer to lay motionless and camouflaged to escape from predators.
Gambel’s Quail live in coveys that generally contain a mature pair and up to 16 young4. These coveys have specific home ranges that they do not defend; rather covey’s home ranges tend to overlap.
Gambel’s Quail communicate with a number of calls. In addition to clucking and chattering, they emit a loud, high pitched “ka-KAA-ka,”5 and a plaintive qua-el6.
Gambel’s Quail live, on average, 7.4 years in the wild7.
Habitat: Gambel’s Quail may be found in hot deserts, thickets, mesquite springs, mountain foothills, river valleys, shrublands, grasslands, plains, and fields throughout the American Southwest. They prefer areas with brush and diverse vegetation and to be in close proximity to a water source, although they have minimal, if any, free water requirements8. Areas with dense desert shrubbery and trees offer shade and protection to Gambel’s Quail during the day and a place to roost at night. Predators within their native habitats include snakes, coyotes, bobcats, foxes, and birds of prey.
Gambel’s Quail do not migrate and their annual movements typically do not exceed 1.5 miles.
Location: Gambel’s Quail are found in desert thickets and shrublands9 in the southwestern U.S., especially in Arizona. Populations may also be found in parts of Mexico, Texas, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, and California. There are small, non-native populations living in Hawaii, introduced beginning in 192810.
Diet: Gambel’s Quail are group foragers and feed twice a day, moving slowly along the ground in the morning and afternoon. Approximately 90% of their diet consists of plant matter, which they scratch up from beneath vegetation. They also consume seeds and leaves year round. Gambel’s Quail will eat insects during the spring and early summer, while partaking in reproductive activities. They also eat fruit, berries, and cacti during certain seasons and in certain geographic areas11.
Reproduction: Gambel’s Quail reach sexual maturity by one year of age, breed once annually and are generally considered monogamous. However, females have been observed leaving their young with the male in order to find a new mate and have a new brood. Reproductive success is affected mainly by two factors: temperature and rainfall. During years of above average temperatures and greater than normal rainfall, these birds experience reproductive success and, therefore, population growth (due in part to increased plant growth and food supplies.) These ideal breeding conditions oppose the usual dry, arid habitat of the Gambel’s Quail.
To attract their mates, male Gambel’s Quail give small offerings of food to females. Studies have shown that males who exhibit faster rates of food offering, also called “tidbitting,” tend to have greater reproductive success.
Females tend to choose nesting sites that are hidden or in a protected place on the ground, although quail nests can be located up to nearly 30’ off the ground if conditions allow. These nests are shallow and broad, often measuring 5” to 7” wide and are lined with feathers, leaves, or vegetation.
Between 10 to 12 smooth white eggs are laid, camouflaged with brown splotches. During dry years, clutches tend to be smaller. Female Gambel’s Quail do the majority of incubation, lasting between 21 and 23 days on average, although males will assume incubation duties if the female leaves the nest or dies. Down-covered young are able to follow their mothers, run and feed soon after birth, and both parents participate in caring for the young. In the event that one parent leaves the brood or dies, a single parent is capable of caring for the young quail12.
Notes of Interest: The Gambel’s Quail is a popular game bird. Hunters enjoy a long season with few restrictions and are able to bag up to 15 birds in a single day13.
1. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Gambels_Quail/id
2. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Callipepla_gambelii/
6. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birding/gambels-quail/
10. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Callipepla_gambelii
11. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Callipepla_gambelii/
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Gambels_Quail/id
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Callipepla_gambelii/
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birding/gambels-quail/
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Released in the USA on January 19 of 2013, "Mud" is a Drama film . Reese Witherspoon is starring, alongside Michael Shannon, Sarah Paulson, Sam Shepard, Ray McKinnon and Joe Don Baker.
What was the release date of "Mud":
Mud was initally released in the United States on Saturday, January 19, 2013 (Sundance Film Festival). Also released on Saturday, January 19, 2013 have been V/H/S/2 (dir. Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo S�nchez, Timo Tjahjanto and Adam Wingard), Valentine Road, Blackfish, and Fruitvale Station. This was seven (7) years ago.
It has been released on Friday, May 10, 2013 in the United Kingdom and on Saturday, May 26, 2012 in France.
What is the cast of "Mud":
At the casting of Mud we find Reese Witherspoon, previously seen in This Means War (2011) and Water for Elephants (2011); Michael Shannon (Machine Gun Preacher (2011), Return (2011)); Sarah Paulson (New Year's Eve (2011), Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)) [ more... ]
Michael Shannon, Ray McKinnon and Stuart Greer also appeared together in Take Shelter, released in 2011.
Paul Sparks and Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard also worked together in Midnight Special, released in 2015.
Ray McKinnon and Joe Don Baker also appeared together in The Grass Harp, released in 1995.
Michael Abbott Jr. and Douglas Ligon can also be seen in Shotgun Stories, released in 2007.
What is the Storyline of "Mud":
MUD is an adventure about two boys, Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and his friend Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), who find a man named Mud (Matthew McConnaughey) hiding out on an island in the Mississippi. Mud describes fantastic scenarios-he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper (Reese Witherspoon), who is waiting for him in town. Skeptical but intrigued, Ellis and Neckbone agree to help him. It isn't long until Mud's visions come true and their small town is besieged by a beautiful girl with a line of bounty hunters in tow.
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Exclusive: Rya Park announces ‘Bitch’ tour, signs management & booking deals
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By Nathan Gunn
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Melbourne singer Rya Park today announces multiple signings, a new single & video, and a tour to match.
The London-born, Singapore-raised performer has had a blockbuster year already, taking in all of Australia, touring with CLEWS, Tyne-James Organ (to name a few).
Equally as huge, she’s co-written tracks with Alex Lahey, Oscar Dawson (Holy Holy) and Peter Farnan (of Boom Crash Opera).
Her last two singles, ‘Tokyo’ and ‘Act Your Age’ copped radio play across triple j, RRR and PBS, and she also got featured by triple j Unearthed as a spotlight artist.
Now, she gears up to release ‘Bitch’ – the dissonant, emotion-fuelled number. The track, which she says made her feel “scared and sad”, touches on her vulnerabilities.
“Releasing this kinda feels like a sigh of relief. When I first wrote it, I felt scared and sad… But I’ve managed to pick myself up a little bit and push through. I want this song to be there for someone else that may be going through something similar, to feel like they aren’t entirely alone,” she said.
It’s officially out this Friday, but we’re premiering the track and accompanying music video now, below.
Rya Park said:
“I’m so excited to welcome both Piper’s Son and 123 Agency into my team! The most important thing to me was that both Tom and Will were fans of my music before anything. Their passion was ever-present and it was a no brainer really to know that I had to work with them.”
“As well as working together, we all have a really special friendship which is super lovely. I can’t wait for the year ahead and can’t thank these boys enough for believing in me the way that they do!”
Will Hollonds, 123 Agency, said:
“On behalf of both myself and 123 Agency, we are thrilled to welcome Rya Park into the 123 family! Having quietly observed the growth of Rya as an artist for many years, I’m beyond excited to be a member of her artist team as her booking agent. With sold out headline shows already next to her name; Rya Park’s music has also seen export her talents overseas, jump on as main support for many flourishing artists and release music which perfectly encapsulates the fierce image and performance energy into one exciting package.”
“Watch out for lots more exciting news moving forward from Rya Park!”
Tom McGenniss-Destro, Piper’s Son, said:
“I first stumbled upon Rya Park performing an acoustic set at The Retreat Hotel in Brunswick last year, I was in awe of her voice and song-writing. I couldn’t be more excited to be working with such a passionate musician alongside a forward thinking agent, Will at 123 Agency”
Hear the brand new single ‘Bitch’ by Rya Park:
With the announcement of the signings and the new track, comes the news of an Australian tour. The ‘Bitch’ Tour will kick off this September in Melbourne, and wrap up with a show at a show at Sydney’s Oxford Art Gallery. See below for all tour dates and ticketing information.
Premiere: The brand new Rya Park video for ‘Bitch’:
‘Bitch’ is officially released this Friday, 16 August. Tickets for the ‘Bitch’ Tour are on sale now, and are tipped to sell fast!
RYA PARK – ‘BITCH’ TOUR
Friday, September 20th (18+)
Grace Darling Hotel, Melbourne VIC
Tickets: Rya Park
Saturday, September 28th (18+
Oxford Art Factory, Sydney NSW
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No cellular data
1700/1900/700/2100 /800/850/2500 MHz
HiSilicon Kirin 960s Octa core 2.1 GHz
Body: 0.40 W/kg
USB Power Adapter, Manual, Data Cable
Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion)
Up to: 11.7 hours
Space Gray, Champagne Gold
25.87 x 17.18 x 0.73 cm (10.2 x 6.8 x 0.3 in)
Water Resistant / Waterproof
LCD (IPS)
Ambient Light, Motion / Accelerometer, Gyroscope
Capacitive touch screen
A2DP, AVRCP, OPP/FTP, HFP, HSP
SBC, aptX
13+ megapixels
Auto focus, Effects, Face detection, Geotagging, ISO, Self-timer, White balance, Exposure value, Time lapse mode
Ultra HD (3840 x 2160 pixels)
AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MIDI, MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, WAV
3GP / 3GPP, H.264 / AVC, MPEG-4, WMV
Other Names (AKA): Huawei MediaPad M5 Pro
LTE variant with Nano SIM card slot also available.
The only difference of Huawei MediaPad M5 10 Pro from the M5 10 is it comes with M-pen, a 4096 pressure level digital pen that comes with a Type C charger.
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A solid mid-range tablet
Henry T. Casey from Laptop Magazine ( 24 Jan 2019 00:00 )
Huawei has a contender with the M5 Pro, thanks to the tablet's great battery life, nice display and good performance. For much more battery life, you can get the Lenovo Tab 4 Plus, which also costs $200 less than the M5 Pro. But if you're looking for an Android tablet with solid performance, and...More
Huawei has a contender with the M5 Pro, thanks to the tablet's great battery life, nice display and good performance. For much more battery life, you can get the Lenovo Tab 4 Plus, which also costs $200 less than the M5 Pro. But if you're looking for an Android tablet with solid performance, and if you love to draw with a pen, the MediaPad M5 Pro is worthy of your consideration.
A top-notch piece of hardware
Alex Hernandez from Techaeris ( 01 Oct 2018 00:00 )
More than the sum of its parts
Matt Adams from Android Guys ( 05 Sep 2018 00:00 )
It doesn’t have the most powerful processor, the most ram, storage, or the biggest battery. The software isn’t the cleanest or most feature-packed, but we loved every moment with the Huawei MediaPad M5 Pro. From getting some work done to watching way too many Casey Neistat videos on YouTube, it was a pleasure to use.
Fastest and most well-equipped Android tablets on the market
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One of the most high-end Android tablets on the market
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The best all-around Android tablets you can buy
Rita El Khoury from Android Police ( 02 Aug 2018 00:00 )
I recognize that Android tablets aren't for everyone these days, and the market is moving toward Chrome OS, but for those of you who don't want to bother with a different operating system, don't live in a market where Chromebooks are available, or want a smaller and more portable tablet only, the Huawei MediaPad M5 is the way to go.
A premium Android tablet takes on the leader
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Huawei's MediaPad M5 Pro is more than a solid Android tablet, it's a true iPad competitor with a great design, gorgeous screen, and real PC abilities.
One of the nicest Android tablets
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The HUAWEI MediaPad M5 lives up to its name with its large display and Harman Kardon speakers. This tablet is a great device for surfing, and watching videos on your favorite streaming service. The tablet isn’t perfect though due to the issue with using WiFi and Bluetooth at the same time.
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If you want a little more fire than a Fire Tablet can provide or need to escape Apple's walled garden, the Huawei MediaPad M5 series is about as good as Android tablets get.
Good price-to-performance ratio
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Because the cameras are pretty good for a tablet and the input devices work very reliably and offer extensive customization options, we can easily give the Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8 a clear recommendation. Those who do not need LTE functionality can save some money by getting a simple Wi-Fi version.
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Optimising broiler performance with new technology
Technology Data management Training and development Broilers Production management
by The Poultry Site
3 July 2019, at 4:37pm
At the 2018 British Pig & Poultry Fair, ABN invited The Poultry Site to the unveiling of their answer to the uptake of technology in the poultry industry: Total Farm Performance (TFP). We followed up with producer Will Wastling, who’s implemented ABN’s on-farm solutions, to find out how Total Farm Performance measures up to the competition.
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Total Farm Performance: three solutions for today’s producers
TFP is a whole-farm approach to upgrading poultry production. It combines the latest technological innovations with actual farming expertise, as well as advanced analytics to give real insight to producers.
This approach is separated into three offerings:
inFarm provides producers with practical farm management advice from technical experts who will come to the farm to recommend and help implement best practice.
inFocus is the data capture and insight aspect of TFP which utilises cutting edge technology to put all the producers’ data at their fingertips in real time.
inDepth provides bespoke data analysis to help producers find solutions to their unique challenges
Producers have the option of signing up for all three solutions, just one or mixing and matching to find a combination that suits their unique needs. This has the advantage of broadening Total Farm Performance’s potential audience, while also offering producers a solution that will work best for their operation.
Drives efficiency
But how does it work? We ask Will Wastling, who’s signed up for the inFarm and inFocus solutions, whether Total Farm Performance is all it promises to be.
“Our productivity has definitely improved. We’re able to keep a much closer eye on a number of the key factors impacting performance across our operation,” says Will.
“What’s been particularly transformative for us is the way Total Farm Performance has helped us to react to issues quickly. Because the data comes through to our central office in real time, we can monitor problems as they arise and act to solve them much earlier than we could before.”
This quick reaction time is imperative, especially today when demand has not only been greater than ever before but calls for more than just meat: it’s for meat from animals produced sustainably, humanely and cost effectively.
Saves on costs
When demand is not only so high, but so varied, both the pressure and the cost fall to the farmer. Ultimately, if new technology doesn’t help the bottom line, it won’t be taken up by producers.
Mr Wastling, however, was impressed: “Total Farm Performance has absolutely saved us time which has enabled us to work better across the business. Instead of people needing to drive to and from our different units to deliver this information by hand or finding a time to call, it is uploaded in real-time, and we can access the information from our central office immediately and as it happens.
“It’s cut the waiting time by huge amounts and, without a doubt, has made our processes more efficient, given us visibility across our operations, and ultimately improved our performance.”
Some producers may question the financial reality of signing up for such a system, but Mr Wastling says that the Total Farm Performance team works with producers to find an option that best suits their needs and means. “It’s worth having the conversation to see what they can do for you,” he adds.
Easy to use and set up
According to Mr Wastling, his operation now has tablets set up in each of his sheds. The tablets are connected to 3G or WiFi and send all the captured data back to the central office to create digital farm records. This, he says, is a huge improvement on the handwritten data they used to record and still meets the requirements of farm assurance schemes
“Not only have the team helped us to set-up Total Farm Performance on-farm, they are a constant point of contact and offer us invaluable advice, all derived from our data. They regularly look for trends, offer advice on things like ventilation and lighting patterns, and are constantly looking for improvements we could make across the farm to maximise our production levels.
“It fantastic to know they are there to support us and they have already made a huge impact on our business.”
Mr Wastling says that, after a week, he and his team were all very confident with the new tech. “It mirrors exactly what we were doing previously, but instead of writing information down on a piece of paper, it’s now done digitally, which makes it much easier to use the insights from this data to improve performance.”
Keeps a close eye on all the details – safely
All this data is stored centrally and can be accessed 24/7 by Mr Wastling from his tablet. It saves him time driving around and allows him to check on bird weights, mortality, and water and feed consumption from anywhere at any time.
This, says Mr Wastling, is better biosecurity as well. Not having as many staff going on and off the site as often as they used to means that there’s less risk of exposing the flocks to outside pathogens.
This is one aspect of production that, in light of the global effort to reduce antimicrobials on farm, is essential. It’s clear that technology can go a long way to keeping flocks healthier, not only for the data it can capture and insights it can provide, but for its ability to keep flocks separate from disease-causing pathogens.
Support from start to finish
When implementing new technology anywhere it’s imperative that it’s supported, especially when it comes to raising chickens, which can be time sensitive and costly.
The Total Farm Performance team, “have all been brilliant,” says Mr Wastling.
“They ran through the entire process with us when we were migrating to the service and are always on the end of the phone when we need them.
“If we’re ever stuck, they have always managed to sort out our problem. If there’s something going wrong that we haven’t spotted, it’s likely they will spot it before we do too.
“Having them as part of our extended team is really invaluable.”
So, how does Total Farm Performance’s triad of solutions measure up? Well, Will Wastling has been signed up to inFarm and inFocus for a while and was among the first to trial the system. With access to real time data and insights on demand, as well as on-farm expertise from the TFP team, it’s hard to deny the applications of this system.
“I think that my business would take a step backwards if we were not to use it anymore,” concludes Mr Wastling.
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October 29, 2017 January 24, 2019 by Start Up Kumar
Tell Rahul Gandhi Anything Unorganised is Crime
Business, Economy, Governance, politics, Uncategorized
Business, current affairs, Demonetisation, Evolution, GDP, Governance, politics, Rahul Gandhi, World Politics
Our Gandhi scion is back with a scathing series. “Demonetisation killed all unorganised businesses”, said the Bhai Saab as he rekindled the flame, who has been running Gareebon ki Government, the Government of India since 1965 after Shastri. And as we know all, it has already rebooted thrice in 70 years. Like in chess, a game gets over the momemt Queen gets killed, beginning from Daddy Gandhi at the inception to Princess Gandhi mid-way to Grand Prince Gandhi on the fag end who were also formally, on the designation Queen for the institution. And as a result Gandhi from the state being more than father with a share of more than 100% in Government of India, through 2/3 rds the GoI, today sits reduced to 1/545 the GOI. Hence has a blame game begun between the sides. Last major furore over the last big move of Demonetisation. And in trial are the Businesses Unorganised.
This is to judge what’s correct. How Unorganised are Businesses? To find what’s the correct stand. All with reason. While its true that the sectors pointed to are dying, but why? We’ll see what’s killing. And we the team of The Sane Observer, led by Start Up Kumar, represent the sector Businesses, not very organised at the moment and at distance closer to death than life. We’ll analyse death with depth with respect to processes. We’ll talk Indian Evolution vs Human Evolution, and thereby getting into the skin of Businesses. And for with businesses come always Governance, will come Governance.
We’d be going around via route technical and methodical, testing different hypothesis to reach conclusions, like those MBAs do. They look into things through a special prism called PESTLE, to give verdicts which is done by screwing arguments through a maze of walls as Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal/logical and Environmental. Which also generally provides with right conclusions if done properly. We’ll be doing something similar. As we rotate the prism, it will throw up a kaleidoscopic burst of scenes in motion to guide us to conclusion. And apart from all that it is, it is also a story of Evolution. So, count not the words. This is one Story of Evolution beyond Darwin.
Let’s begin with a look on Government of India: the Entity.
It was brought into introduction in 1935, by Government of India act as the Political/International/Regulatory owner of the peninsula of the South of Himalayas, the world’s densest Monetary Corridoor. The territory had the importance as the crucial most light house to the world’s sensitive most Maritime Lane, in essence, say for the triangle of Bangkok, Dubai and Somalia, the world needs to have a Chennai to hold in secure always. Else the world would go Chinese vs Non-Chinese, only to end into Communism vs Capitalism. Between the South China Sea and the Pacific through the Hambantotas of the world, India works up as The Buffer House or The House of Reconciliation. Government of India holds for the formal accountable authority of that, under the new structure of the world, in the age of VISA-passport, WTO and all.
And hang on, this is not a new arrangement. Or to put the other way, now you should know the reason why Indians have always been wise. Why the Tamilian Brahmins have been the geekiest or why the Meenakshi temple is at Madurai, a little far from Chennai or why so many massive temples in South India. And, of the productivity and profits, and stakes of the arrangemensts, it used to be reflected best as late as until the British colonisation, when it used to sum up for one third the Global Trade Volume.
Prior to British advent the territory all it was, was it, Every time a Subcontinent, known by rivers and features. Borderless, Seamless, license-raj free, Visa free until 300 years at least prior to the existence of United Nations or the World Trade Organisation or even the tiny breaking European Union. The land and inhabitants knew that Borders are all but devices of making goods and services expensive. The trades and businesses were so engineered to provide the cheapest last mile delivery of Goods and Services, so as to draw maximum efficiency per unit currency, per transaction. Mastered to the extent to have it as specialised as customs and castes. After developing the first lantern, had they not stopped, going by customs’ pace with evolution, The World’s largest Deep Cleaning Services would have been of the “Doms” of India, completely automated. And probably so for Waste Engineering.
Then one fine day Britishers came. After which, with the beginning of Doctrine of Lapse, to the Act of Government of India, 1935, the administration evolved. Simultaneously also changed dynamics in the world order. Went through two major Wars until the US once dropped two Chocolate Bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, coupled with many mini-bullets along the way. Went the humans to deafening silence even as were Allah, Jesus, Ram, Krishna, and the rest all fired, and sent for PIP (Performance Improvement Plan) under Buddha. Born were slew of control towers of the likes UNO, WTO, World Bank in quick successions and forcing the Brits to retract. The Government of India took over with Sovereignty and came into democratic form after the first General Elections of 1952.
And you see the turn Human Evolution took. Exists a Club of Nations called The Common Wealth in submission to crown, the one which couldn’t survive in a club of countries on its own. In the name of the crown, which didn’t know itself the decorum of Club of Countries. In India as they say that as “Gulam Gulam Mausere Bhai” as in Slaves Slaves make cousin brothers.
So, as put in the beginning, the GOI took reins over the importance and relevance of India formally, in the capacity of Chennai to secure the ends of Bangkok, Dubai and Somalia, even as providing assistance to little brothers of Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia to Afghanistan. For you need a rock solid defense service pack in the region to let life happen. From Himalayas to Pacific through the Indian Ocean, almost a third of the Date line’s extent. Has lied that Stake authoritatively with Government of India, since, into hands of the team Government of India since one day very long back. And that as demonstrated has been amazingly fair to everyone, just by maintaining a right level of Mediocrity. It protected them who protected them, paying them who paid them, in proportions. After all, Stakes of One third the Global trade it has been. From few hundreds of years for India, it has been the outsiders, beginning from the employees of East India Company to the containers of Pepsi and McDonald’s, and Googles and Amazons. Paid back to them who paid back.
Even as effectively the Indians lost the race by themselves sabotaged by themselves, in the environments wherein no Google, no Amazon, no Pepsi, no DNA, no computer, no atom moved ever until there was a hand Indian. The Indians lost in India, in the race Evolution, despite a 1/3rd the stake perennial on the vector Evolution.
Ironically you’d also find India had even that technology to have World’s first Peace Keeping Forces, even before United Nations came into existence. That’s what Gandhi hired for the World War, Right? So they lost it as close as that. The natives had the sense of Governance, but not the ruler. Gandhi didn’t know what he was hiring.
Had Gandhi known what he was hiring, Neta Shubhash wouldn’t have to be reduced to India, and wouldn’t have those chocolate bombs dropped ever over Japan. Would have been units of massive peace keeping forces on two fronts, Left and Right, and would have been Negotiations. Wouldn’t have been NATO, would have been IATO, the Indo-Atlantic Treaty Organisation working towards Optimum most Security beginning From Alaska to Trivandrum, from Trivandrum to Perth. Had been No Pakistan, No Bangladesh, and had turned the world Solar by 80s. Wouldn’t have been any Gulf Escalation, would Dubai have Got Burj Khalifa in 1991 and Saudi Arabia getting the artificial citizen on 01/01/2000 as memorial to ace Y2K. And would have been Tokyo and New York less polluted. Would have been Singapore a weekend joint for Indians. And for those who eloped for Love, would have been Tel-Aviv the hideout. And had been India, always a sub-continent. Would have been the Human Evolution Fast and Fluid.
You as a citizen pay it back by choosing to live, choosing to consume, choosing to buy, choosing to multiply, all here. In Delhi’s Air, or by the Bellandur Flames in Bangalore, or into the BMC’s jurisdiction at Mumbai Terminal. You choose to stay despite the knowledge that its the land which will pay the 123rd worst mileage per unit effort, when begins a vicious cycle, just at the moment as you choose, as we talk about 2017, landing back to the moment present on the timelines of Evolution.
Which is about this furore is. Of the vicious cycle of conflicts because of incumbent conflicts, over the mother conflict- of Conflicts of Interests, of conflicts of short run and long run, finally getting reduced to at the ground levels in micro as the basic conflict: who paid, with how much. Begins Trust being at loggerheads with Mis-trust, carrying though one unit of Divide vs Rule vs many Divides vs Rules vs many units of Divide and Rule to end up into a wide range of varieties of Rules, to finally give into an assortments of Divides, like a world’s hypermart of divides.
You know what happens next!
Yes, exactly about what the furore is all about, where the matter phasej. Creates Flipkart, Sachin Bansal, runs Flipkart Tiger Global. Dies Bokaro, Rises Shanghai. In comes hunger, In comes stress, In comes Kasab, In comes Government of India: Unity in Diversity snugs in Government of India, silently, when none’s watching.
Therafter you live for life expectancy of 68 on average, 14 short of all great lands which developed along the same time frame as you, under $1500 per capita, 87% of the workforce works under sectors informal as labours off roll, under $120 a month. Passport 80th worst, ill branded, less paid. Inside India you’ve the top 1% of the population DJ-ing the 58% the wealth or the potential stored for Opportunities and on another end, a Parle-G with tea serving for breakfasts followed by a kg of rice if available, to end with Tharra Desi (country liquor) to finally dissipate into violence domestic for 800 millions almost . The luckiest ones however, craft dreams of fire in the city Traffic, as we land to the instant present of 2017, in the ages After Indian Demonetisation of 2016, descending to the day India pipping the US in count of smartphones.
Smartphones workout as Handhelds in the hands of customers, as devices to bring economies of scales in transactions. That pivotal tool to align the world into JIT (Just in Time) of transactions and businesses and crimes. Sending off the days of storage, forecasting and Sales to obsolete to transit into the days of Make to Order and Communications. From the days of Shaky Sales to Make on Order. But as you see, there have been people, communities, nationalities, or volumes of mobs of different scales to play decelerators to the Evolution. Today they’re striving for a salvage of old positions, without evolving, while ignorant as they’ve been always by blood. Someone told them, from the Days of “Shaky Sales” in the days of smartphones, they could eye for the days of “Fishy Sales”. And is the conflict, the furore, which we’re to judge. And you know of the stakes, of the control to world’s catchment of customers, of One-third the World Trade. So is the Noise and the Chaos.
We’re to go find, the roots and stems, body and sternums. Keep the belts fastened, we’re to shift gears.
We’re to run through the trial of biggest of conflicts: of maintenance of the process of conflicts, of the triggers to the vicious cycles. Of orientation of world, of the split of Karma, of buckets of verbs, of distinction between Businesses and Crimes. That by taking the model use case of Indian Conflicts of Conflicts of Interests Post Demonetisation. And somewhere through that, as a hobby, to tell Gandhi what is Unorganised.
To not lose in the maze of turns, mind the colors of fonts.
The Conflict: The Government of India processed Demonetisation.
The Accusation: The Unorganised businesses are dying
Stakeholders: a) You, the 78th worst passport holder and 88 times less paid per hour to a US counterpart. 14 short in life expectancy against the Global elites. b) Start Up Kumar: The Unregistered Entrepreneur c) Rahul Gandhi: 1/545 the Government of India, d) the Government of India e) Global citizen paying less for goods for the stability in the Pacific, with a goal to drive Happy Human Evolution.
And we begin with a top down approach. Killing Problems by weightage of Constraints, one by one, bit by bit. May get a tad longer, but you know whom its addressed to!
With 99% Cash back into the banks, we assume demonetisation didn’t harm anyone adversely but for those who died in the queues. Designating them as Martyrs of System for calculation convenience. Say on the note of deaths, we’ve a range of uncontrolled deaths from Pradyuman’s at School to Dr Deepak Amarpurkar of Mumbai swept down the gutters, to Bhopal Gas tragedies to Train Accidents to attacks of 26/11 including hundreds of Dantewadas and Uri ambush. From honest civil services officers to Farmers, every one, but with little control. Government of India never really had control over Mortality right from the onset of Daddy Gandhi, though it did manage a fair pace with human evolution, pushing it from 45 to 68 since independence. We used to have more riots per capita per day or in British Raj than the GOI-Raj. To take note is the fact Demonetisation killed none in human. A mini-conclusion for the time being.
Next we go to the structure of Businesses, the entities speculated to die beyond the humans- the livelihoods, or as under inverted commas, those “Unorganised Businesses”.
Are Businesses Unorganised? If yes, which part and why? What makes Businesses Unorganised and the factors? And finally what a unorganised business means. Who are the Unorganised Businesses?
Going by technicalities on legal papers, according to National Commission for Enterprises the Unorganised Sector, are unincorporated private enterprises owned by individuals or households engaged in the sale or production of goods and services operated on a proprietary or partnership basis and with less than ten total workers. Out of the 458 million persons employed in India, 87 percent or over 400 million work in the unorganised sector, generating 50.6 percent of the country’s GDP of the 458 million persons employed in India. (And to deduce you’d say 50% of the GDP stands unorganised, under the gun)
Add a food for thought to take a small pause: Can 50% of your GDP be Unorganised. It includes farming. And from the political and factual corner, Has the GDP retracted by half? Who’s the one who’s dying? And will you find the vicious cycle exfoliating and myths bursting.
If you take a deep dive, to scroll through floors and ceilings and beyond, you’d find no business ever, as long as it was a business, was never any of them Unorganised. You’d find they were not vendors, not hawkers, not service providers, not a “Rediwala”, not a “Thelawala, not a Warren Buffet, not Elon Musk, not Larry Page, not Jobs, not Sachin Bansal, not Bikanerwala, not Google, not Citi, not HDFC, not Airtel, not Edission, not Bezos, not Toyota, but all they were, “Gods of Livelihoods” as drivers of evolution.
And as you scan and scavenge the depths shallower, you’d find, no business, no transaction executed ever without a string of processes. That businesses ran on a fundamental of identity, or brands, from that ferrywala to your favourite Kulfiwala to the handcart of vegetables to any streetfoods kart to your favourite i-Phone. Those who have not much of a name plate, you recognise them by face, or by place of standing. You’ll find while standing at place is discipline, dishing out your favourites, customised to taste, budget, need, even monetary condition was a result of processes, recipes, and conscious continuous improvements. So mastered, to make into list of your rank charts of go to guys in your logs, for a particular feature.
As you go down to anatomy, you’ll find, those processes were not just processes but a specialised domain of their own, to go on to give rise to billions of occupations to finish into career options to their levels highest. You’d find they were not processes, but value chains, so engineered to churn unit merchandise at a definite scale. From human resource, to Finance, to Operations to Marketing to Sales and After Sales, they stood for responsibilities. From that roadside hawker to that so called arrogant drop-out Steve Jobs, the guys stood until their products’ lives. Could there be an iota of dis-order for a business to turn business ? Ask that beginning from your nearest food-joint or just any vendor, ranging from a hawker with handcart to Google with brains on hire, you’d find they were all but ‘Effort wala Stand’ built on the back of well structured organisation called Discipline.
He, whom you called or business unorganised, you’d find was the cheapest last mile delivery you could afford. You’d find them you classified to be unorganised, have been delivering till the top of Mount of Everest since thousands of years without ERPs. The Mumbai Dabbawala, a pristine example.
Businesses, they ran on Names, each of them. How could they be Unorganised? And just when you scratch the crust little deeper, you’d find the secret. They were not Unorganised, but all they were Unregulated, for a reason, to yield for other side of organisation of businesses unregulated. Say for instance, “Hafta” of the Police which stands for a daily levy on the stores, stalls, shops or counters on roads in respective jurisdictions informally as informal protection against informal hooligans/ informal security threats or That unregulated hiring of Gandhi for the informal Peace keeping Forces. You’d find the Un-organisation or the disorder was in Governance, and not in businesses. You’d find there was disorder in regulating and validating businesses, that under a different set up Organised in order to create a consistent supply of informal supply of funds and influence.
Mark that India has just about 50% of GDP under informal/unorganised sector. That the GOI paid them who paid them, that in proportions. (You need to apply brains here to understand the structure. Every single thing is by design and we’ve hit 3000 words!)
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FDA Announces Deeming Deadline Delays
Jim McDonald
Is the Trump administration planning to make changes to the deeming regulations? A letter circulated online last night that indicated that the agency will delay all deeming rule deadlines by 90 days.
The letter, from an FDA policy analyst, says that, “This extension will allow new leadership at the FDA and the Department of Health and Human Services additional time to more fully consider issues raised by the final rule that are now the subject of multiple lawsuits in federal court.”
As we report in a separate story today, it may be possible for new leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to change the agency’s course on regulating vapor products. This delay may have been initiated by the Trump administration, which recently appointed Dr. Tom Price to run the DHHS.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is announcing information about the outstanding compliance deadlines related to the May 2016 final rule that extended the agency’s authority to additional tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, cigars, hookah tobacco and pipe tobacco, among others.
In lawsuits regarding the final rule, the FDA has stated that it will defer enforcement of all future compliance deadlines under the rule for electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) such as e-cigarettes, cigars, and pipe tobacco for three months. In light of this, the FDA also intends to defer enforcement of all future compliance deadlines for all categories of newly regulated products for three months and plans to issue guidance describing its position in the near future.
This concerns deadlines set for May 10, 2017, or later, including those for manufacturer submission of cigar warning label plans, registration and listing, ingredient listing, health documents, substantial equivalence exemption requests, substantial equivalence applications, premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs), and harmful and potentially harmful constituent (HPHC) reports.
This does not apply to provisions of the final rule where compliance deadlines already have passed, such as mandatory age and photo-ID checks to prevent illegal sales to minors.
This extension will allow new leadership at the FDA and the Department of Health and Human Services additional time to more fully consider issues raised by the final rule that are now the subject of multiple lawsuits in federal court.
Please contact me with any questions.
Lindsay R. Tobias
Policy Analyst, Stakeholder Relations Office
Center for Tobacco Products
Office of the Center Director
Two of the previous compliance deadlines for manufacturers of the newly deemed products had already been extended, so this delay may not indicate anything unusual. But the timing is interesting, since DHHS Secretary Price just received a letter signed by over 2,000 vaping manufacturers and vape shop owners last week, asking for a review of the rule’s enforcement.
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By Jesse Berney
Jesse Berney is senior editor of Blue Nation Review and a stand-up comedian in Washington, DC. Follow him on Twitter at @jesseberney.
I Love 2012. So I Decided To Live In It.
4 years ago in Humor
Previously by Jesse Berney: The Other Avengers Are Pretty Busy Right Now No one knows better than I do how cruel society can be to those who choose not to conform to its mores. My wife and I have chosen to live our lives strictly as though it were the year 2012, and we face near constant mocking of our uncompromising lifestyle. The looks I get when people see me using my iPhone 5…
The Other Avengers Are Pretty Busy Right Now
Jesse Berney's previous work for The Toast can be found here. The Avengers is the best comic book movie of all time, and anyone who disagrees is a shill for the Batman-industrial complex. It introduced us to the greatest team of superheroes the big screen has ever seen, and then it sent them their separate ways. But they didn’t stop saving the world. In the three Marvel Cinematic Universe movies that have followed the…
The Citizens of Gotham Are Not Terribly Bright
5 years ago in Cartoons & Comics
Jesse Berney's previous work for The Toast can be found here. Gotham Citizen #1: Did you see the news about that guy who dresses like a bat, wears sophisticated body armor, drives a military-grade vehicle, and beats up criminals? Gotham Citizen #2: I did! Did you see that magazine profile of Bruce Wayne? Gotham Citizen #1: You mean the young billionaire defense contractor who mysteriously disappeared for several years with no explanation? Gotham Citizen…
The Coen Brothers’ Garfield Movie
Ethan – Did you see Bill Murray recently said the only reason he did that Garfield movie was that he thought I wrote it instead of some schlemiel named Joel Cohen? Not sure why he didn’t just pick up the phone. But it got me thinking -- why shouldn’t we do a Garfield pic? Gritty reboot. I sketched out a few scenes. Let's talk tomorrow. -Joel
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Wrestlemania XXX Review – The Streak Is Over! Daniel Bryan Wins The Title!
Ladies and gentlemen, we had probably the biggest pay-per-view in WWE history last night. It was the first PPV to be broadcasted on the WWE Network, we had so many legends dropping in and we had some of the biggest matches in a long time for the WWE. Undertaker vs Lesnar, Cena vs Wyatt, Bryan vs HHH, the Andre The Giant Battle Royal and the WWE World Title match! This PPV was STACKED and for four hours, we were in for a treat. I won’t go through the pre-show match but I’ll just say that it was really good and I loved how over the Real Americans were! Cesaro turning was awesome too!
Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold and The Rock Open Wrestlemania 30!
Yes. Probably the greatest way to open such a big Wrestlemania… three icons together in the same ring to electrify New Orleans! Wrestlemania host Hulk Hogan got things started pumping up the Hulkamaniacs! Despite referring to the New Orleans Super Dome as the Silverdome, Hogan was somehow able to recover from his mistake and made light of his error! If there’s anyone that can make a monumental error like that and still able to get a huge reaction, it’s Hulk Hogan! It’s always best to just make light of mistakes. Hogan produced a lot of laughs and it was a great added element to this phenomenal segment. The star power of Hulkamania was added by the power of Austin 3:16 as STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN made his way to the ring!
Austin got an amazing pop! I love how Austin immediately took the piss out of Hogan’s error upon arrival! “Well it sure does feel good to be back at the Silverdome!” Epic moment seeing Hogan and Austin in the ring. No coming to blows just a mutual sign of respect between the Icon and the rattlesnake. And in came The Great One to enter the fray!
The Rock made his way down the ring to add to the star power! I was not expecting The Rock to actually be at the event! I knew that he was in New Orleans because he put it on Twitter but I never thought he’d be at Mania! Amazing! After these three came out I really wanted Sting! Unfortunately I never got that but this was still an unreal way to kick off Wrestlemania!
By the way really awesome clip of the behind the scenes before this segement below. You should check it out…
Daniel Bryan vs Triple H
WWE sure as hell didn’t start the match card lightly either! Getting straight to it with Daniel Bryan vs Triple H as the opening match! Triple H’s entrance was over-the-top as usual! I didn’t know why he was trying to be Shao Kahn from Mortal Kombat! FINISH HIM!
Triple H: I AM SHAO KAHN!
This match was fantastic! You saw Triple H whip out a lot moves that he’s never really used before in the ring! For example, the release Tiger Suplex, which I thought he pulled off tremendously! I don’t know how, but the chemistry was top-notch between two guys that were so different in wrestling styles. It’s nice they added “Ring Psychology” in the match with Triple H targeting the arm of Bryan and even his leg. In the end it was Daniel Bryan that got the victory and qualified for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match in the main event. His celebration was short-lived as Triple H was not going to take his defeat lying down. He attacked Bryan and whacked him in the arm with a chair. Indeed the cards were stacked against Bryan just before his main event match.
The Shield vs The New Age Outlaws and Kane
This isn’t gonna end well…
Very disappointing that this match was essentially a squash match. I know the Outlaws and Kane are old-timers but surely they would have lasted more than 3 minutes. This seemed heavily due to time restraints. Nevertheless, we had some cool moments in the match. Roman Reigns delivering a DOUBLE SPEAR to the Outlaws and a Triple Double Powerbomb to the Outlaws for the victory! Two cool Wrestlemania moments for the Shield! If I had to guess, a rematch is to be expected soon because I doubt the Shield and the Authority are far than through with each other.
Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal
Like most battle royals, very messy with a lot going on. Nevertheless this battle royal had a lot of star power to it that gave it some added significance, especially if you’re the winner. Eliminations came fast. 3MB was surprisingly dominant! They actually eliminated three guys in the match!… until of course Big Show eliminated all of them in a dick mover. -.-
Fandango eliminated Big E Langston and then danced around the ring which the fans majorly popped for! Kinda of annoyed how easily the Intercontinental Champion was eliminated especially by someone like Fandango. Dolph Ziggler lasted quite a while in that match which took me off guard. I guess he’s back on the rise again? Kofi Kingston had an amazing elimination-escaping moment when got elevated over the top rope but landed so his feet were on the steel steps! That looked sick! This is why Kofi Kingston is going to have a job for life! We saw a lot of moments for a lot of the superstars until it came down to the final four…
Sheamus, Alberto Del Rio, Big Show and ANTONIO CESARO! Yes Cesaro was in this match! He was unannounced and we thought that he would be here just for the pre-show but obviously we were wrong! Sheamus and Del Rio eliminated each other leaving it down to Cesaro and the favourite to win The Big Show! And Cesaro did something that could only be described as outstanding! As a dedication to Wrestlemania III, Cesaro body-slammed Big Show over the top rope to win the battle royal! Fantastic end to the match and a more than deserving winner of the Andre The Giant battle royal! Amazing moment!
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
I’m not going to lie. I actually really enjoyed this match! A bit long-winded mind you but it was really good storytelling with Wyatt trying to “unleash the monster” in John Cena. A bit of deja-vu don’t you think? XD It would have been awesome if he actually did it but it wasn’t meant to be as Cena picked up the victory after an Attitude Adjustment.
If this doesn’t make you shit bricks any time you see it…
It was disappointing to me that Bray Wyatt didn’t win the match but I don’t think a loss like this will be too damaging to his character. After all, Bray beat the shit out of him for 20 minutes! This match was a lot like Cena vs Lesnar from Extreme Rules 2012 – the heel beating up the good guy all match until the good guy finds a way to pick up an unlikely win. It’s whole good vs evil story, but something tells me that this is far from over. Good match though, regardless of the outcome.
Undertaker vs Brock Lesnar
And here we go…. the match everyone and their grandma is talking about. Not really because of the match quality but because of the finish.
First of all, let me start by saying this was a piss-poor match. No disrespect to both guys, but there was literally no chemistry between them and the fans were not that into it. That is until the end of the match…
Taker had been on the receiving end of an ass-kicking throughout the match. He had little offence in while Lesnar had dominated with two F5s and locked in the Kimura Lock. As Taker went for a second tombstone piledrvier, Lesnar countered into a THIRD F5 to Taker. And to the amazement of everyone… that F5 did the trick. Lesnar pinned Taker for the three count… the streak was over….
Trust me, this actually happened….
I don’t think anyone knew how to make of it at the time. The Super Dome was almost completely silent (other than Paul Heyman screaming in joy)! We all thought that this was some kind of trick or something. I for one believed that the streak would never end and I think 90% of wrestling fans believed the same. And now… it’s done.
It’s still hard for it to sunk in for a lot of people including myself. A lot of rumours came about afterwards that they fucked up the ending, but of course they were wrong. Lesnar had been booked to win all along. To give WWE the credit it deserved… no one saw that coming. The shock value went THROUGH THE ROOF! The Undertaker actually lost at Wrestlemania. You never thought you’d ever saw that in your life but it happened. However, despite believing for so long that the streak should never be broken…. I’m OK with this.
I’m not particular that big on the match this historic being so bland mind you, but the decision to have Taker get beat was literally a stroke of genius. They took us of guard with the streak ending like this. If this would have been announced as Undertaker’s last match, you might have suspected that it would have ended and the surprise element would have slightly disappeared. Instead they did it so none of us would have guessed it. I saw some bookmakers make Lesnar 40/1 to win a singles match! When a wrestler is 40/1 in the bookies to win a match, you know that it would be unexpected. It’ll be the shock of the moment that’ll make it so historic. And Lesnar was not a bad candidate to break the streak. Someone as big of a star as him and someone as dominant as him should have been the one to end it. However, I do think if anyone should have broken the streak… it should have been Roman Reigns.
Sean Waltman tweeted it on Twitter as well, an up-and-comer like Roman Reigns would be elevated so much by a win as big as this one! It would have been much better to put over a wrestler that wasn’t a star yet than someone who already was. All we know now is that the Undertaker is no longer perfect at Wrestlemania… so what now? Does The Undertaker try to get revenge next year? Or does Undertaker call it quits? We’ll have to wait and see.
What a meme this is going to be…
The Vickie Guerrero Divas Championship Invitational
I actually heard this was Vickie’s last appearance in WWE as she was pursuing business ventures outside of WWE after this. All I can say is good luck to her in her future endeavours. Anyway… the divas match.
This was actually not that bad of a divas match! Compared to most WWE divas match nowadays, this was probably one of the best in the last six months! I think everyone though was just rattled and still shocked by what happened in the last match. Hell, AJ Lee didn’t even get a slight reaction. AJ retained in the end, but damn everyone was still shocked by what happened before.
Randy Orton (c) vs Batista vs Daniel Bryan for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship
This really was a fantastic Wrestlemania ending match! The fans were able to refocus for this one! I actually thought Rev Theory were really good performing “Voices” live for Randy Orton! Orton had a pretty cool entrance! Bryan was still injured following his match from earlier on but it was not going to stop Bryan from the main event of Wrestlemania!
Bryan was up against it in this match. HHH and Stephanie re-emerged from the scene to try to screw Daniel Bryan with the rogue referee Scott Armstrong. However, Daniel was having none of it as he took out the ref and took out the Authority with the dive to the outside. With HHH and Steph out-of-the-way, Batista and Orton formed an unlikely alliance which saw one of the most insane announce table spots I’ve ever seen. Batista set up Bryan for a Batista Bomb which Orton caught with the neckbreaker to send himself and Bryan crashing through the table! I was literally blown away by that spot! It looked so sick and amazing! It really was the spot of the night in my opinion. And considering every thing that happened tonight, that’s saying an awful lot. By the way… it was a neckbreaker Orton caught him with, not an RKO! Why the hell are people still calling it an RKO when it wasn’t? There’s a distinct difference between the two!
Somehow, Bryan got back into the match off the stretcher. And somehow, despite all the shit that had happened to him Bryan was able to pull off the victory by making Batista submit to finally have his moment in the sun!
You know I have bitched about how much they were shoving Daniel down our throats and his push to the main event over the last couple of months but this was such a fantastic moment! Even though it was predictable as hell, WWE really pulled this ending off in style! The fans were ecstatic by the end of it! I kind of wanted to see Batista win at the end because I’m such a big Heel Batista mark, but I’m still happy with this! It was a fantastic way for the PPV to end! I think Bryan doing it all by himself was a bit too much for my liking, but I don’t think the fans cared! Amazing moment for him to finish off the show and a quality match!
This Pay-Per-View was something else! This was something many will remember for years to come! I’m going to go out on a limb and say this may have been one of the greatest Wrestlemanias of all time! So many moments we’ll not soon forget and a lot of matches that were off the charts! This PPV, whether it’d be for the right or the wrong reasons, will never be forgotten and that is what Wrestlemania is all about. We come into the show buzzing with anticipation and excitement and we get moments that will live on for decades to come! The moments that shook the foundation of WWE! Moments that you’ll be proud to say “I watched that live!” I’m from the UK so it’s really hard to find the time to watch WWE PPVs live so for me to able to watch it LIVE and live-tweet and for it to be as good as it was is such a great feeling for me! Hell, writing this review has been awesome because I have so much to write about. Whether certain superstars were here or not, whether you agreed or disagreed with the results, you will never forget Wrestlemania XXX…
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Brad Paisley Joined By Carrie Underwood While Opening for the Rolling Stones in Nashville [WATCH]
Brad Paisley certainly made the most of his opening slot on the Rolling Stones' Nashville Zip Code Tour stop on Wednesday (June 17).
When Paisley was first announced as the Stones' Music City opening act, he admitted that he was "thinking about ‘What do I do in my set, and how do I win over the hipsters from East Nashville before it’s over?’" Evidently, his plan involved playing his hits, showing off his stellar guitar skills ... and bringing out a couple special guests.
Carrie Underwood joined Paisley during "Remind Me," their hit duet from 2011 (see video of the performance above), while Paisley invited the Eagles' Joe Walsh out to play Walsh's 1978 song "Life's Been Good" and Paisley's "Alcohol."
"I know a lot of you have waited your whole lives to see the Rolling Stones," Paisley told the crowd (quote via the Tennessean). "You have to sit through me first."
During the Stones' set, Paisley joined the band for "Dead Flowers." He previously played the song live with the legendary band during their 2013 50 & Counting Tour, during a show in Philadelphia.
"Did you try your Southern accent?" Paisley joked with Mick Jagger from stage.
"Hi, y'all," Jagger responded. "He keeps telling me to say that."
According to Nashville's WKRN, Paisley's guitar tech also proposed to his girlfriend on stage during Paisley's opening set. She said yes.
On Instagram, Paisley called his opening gig "truly an honor."
Paisley isn't the only country act to earn an opening slot on the Stones' current tour: Rascal Flatts are set to open for them at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 4.
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Motorcycle Racing News Harley's Krawiec 2nd at Englishtown NHRA Summernationals
Harley’s Krawiec 2nd at Englishtown NHRA Summernationals
2013 NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Racing
Harley-Davidson Screamin’ Eagle/Vance & Hines riders Ed Krawiec and Andrew Hines battled the first wave of summer heat to qualify both of the team’s Harley-Davidson V-Rod motorcycles for Sunday eliminations at the Toyota NHRA Summernationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown, N.J. Krawiec advanced to the second round of Pro Stock Motorcycle racing on Sunday.
Temperatures topped 90 degrees during Friday and Saturday qualifying rounds and the Screamin’ Eagle/Vance & Hines team had its first experience tuning its new two-valve V-Twin engine for the extreme heat.
Hines qualified in seventh position with an Elapsed Time (ET) of 6.980 seconds. Krawiec, the defending Pro Stock Motorcycle champion and 2012 Englishtown winner, placed the team’s other Harley V-Rod in 10th position with an ET of 7.002 seconds. Steve Johnson led all qualifiers with a 6.931-second pass on his Suzuki.
Ed Krawiec says: “We’ve never tuned this new engine for this air, so it was another learning opportunity,” said Krawiec, the defending Pro Stock Motorcycle champion and 2012 Englishtown winner. “We just have to take it as it comes in the first part of this season and keep improving the motorcycles.”
For the second race in a row, their qualifying positions resulted in Hines and Krawiec being paired in the first round of Sunday eliminations. Krawiec emerged the winner on a holeshot, with a 0.030-second reaction time and 7.013 ET to the 0.073/7.007-second run posted by Hines. Krawiec lost to Lucas Oil Buell rider Hector Arana Sr. in round two. Sovereign-Star Racing Buell rider Michael Ray defeated Arana Sr. in the final to take his first win of the season and the second of his career.
Andrew Hines says: “The new V-Rod motorcycles are working well, but we need to find about 10 more horsepower from this new engine to race with the front runners. We know it’s there and finding that power will be our focus on the dyno and in testing going forward.”
Following four rounds of Pro Stock Motorcycle competition of the 2013 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, Lucas Oil Buell rider Hector Arana Jr., who lost to his father in the first round at Englishtown, continues to lead the class with 417 points. Sovereign-Star Racing Buell rider Scotty Pollacheck did not qualify at Englishtown but remains in second place with 266 points. Arana Sr. is third with 265 points, followed by Ray with 260 and Viper Motorcycle Company Buell rider John Hall in fifth place with 243 points. Krawiec is in sixth place with 226 points. Hines is in 11th place with 179 points.
The Pro Stock Motorcycles will next race at the inaugural Auto-Plus NHRA New England Nationals, June 20-23, at New England Dragway in Epping, N.H.
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University of Northern Iowa students are making an impact on communities throughout Iowa and learning skills they can use in their professional and private lives. Following are stories from students who benefited from the Robert and Yvonne Koob Fund for Student Community Engagement during spring 2015.
Tyler Adams, ‘15 – Volunteer Center of Cedar Valley
“Volunteers are vital to the success of a nonprofit organization,” says Tyler Adams “and volunteerism is vital to the success and overall happiness of a person. Getting to be part of this organization has helped me share the power of volunteerism to community members in the Cedar Valley. Knowing that an impact has been made in this community is definitely rewarding.”
Adams implemented the Virtual Volunteer Fair, helped organize the Mayor’s Volunteer and Top Teen Awards, and assisted with Appetite for Service, the Volunteer Center’s major fundraiser.
This past summer Adams completed an internship with the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Arizona as a special events intern. He plans to pursue a Master’s in Nonprofit Management at Arizona State University.
Emily Hanson, ‘15 – R.J. McElroy Trust
Hanson facilitated the selection of 10 outstanding teachers in the Cedar Valley and planned an event to recognize the service of all teachers in Black Hawk County (Iowa).
“Emily did a great job organizing the Gold Star teacher program,” said Stacy Van Gorp, executive director of the R. J. McElroy Trust. “Her effort resulted in 1,250 nominations for outstanding teachers. By implementing a new email marketing system, Emily also helped us realize a 40 percent increase in applications for the award.”
“My internship allowed me to take the knowledge I had obtained in the classroom and put it into action,” said Hanson. “I am so grateful for this opportunity to learn and grow in a professional nonprofit setting.”
Hanson is pursuing her Master’s from the University of Nebraska-Omaha in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management. She is working for the university’s College of Education as a graduate assistant.
Clarissa McPheron, junior – Cedar Falls Tourism & Visitors Bureau
“Working for the Cedar Falls Tourism & Visitors Bureau was a fantastic way to utilize my skills for a community I have grown to love, said Clarissa McPheron. “It was a great privilege to learn the tools to promote Cedar Falls as a travel destination.”
McPheron’s main project was to research, produce and distribute a customer service training resource to be used by the hospitality community. She also maintained an online blog that featured local attractions and organizations.
McPherson plans to work in the tourism industry after completing her studies at UNI.
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World of Speed
Eileen Garvin, Author
March 24, 2015 (Updated November 22, 2016)
World of Speed Museum features dozens of specialty cars — NASCAR racecars, classic autos, muscle cars, motorcycles and the original early-20th century racers called opened wheeled cars. (Photo credit: Gregor Halenda)
Even undeclared car buffs will find themselves wowed by the dramatic displays at this interactive motorsports museum. (Photo credit: Gregor Halenda)
World of Speed aims to be an educational resource for lifelong learning about the automotive industry, including informing young people about professional opportunities in the industry.
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! It’s time to make your way to World of Speed, a celebration of motorsports, in Wilsonville. Even undeclared car buffs will find themselves wowed by the dramatic displays at this interactive motorsports museum.
The 80,000 square foot museum (occupying a former Dodge dealership) includes exhibits of dozens of specialty cars — NASCAR racecars, classic autos, muscle cars, motorcycles and the original early-20th century racers called opened wheeled cars.
Just inside the front door, visitors will see four classic stock cars mounted in the wall — Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Chevy Impala, Jim Vandiver’s 1974 Dodge, Terry Labonte’s 1988 Chevy Monte Carlo and Cale Yarborough’s 1979 Oldsmobile 442. (Bonus for the ladies: slide into the driver’s seat of Danica Patrick’s Swift 008a Formula Atlantic.)
World of Speed offers permanent and changing exhibits, including racing simulators, hands-on displays and activities for little kids as well as classroom space, archives and a reading room.
Exhibits include “ZERO to 1000,” which chronicles the history of land speed racing that began in 1898 when Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat clocked 39.24 mph in a French electric car; “Heroes and History,” celebrating the 100th running of the Indy 500; and “Women in Racing,” which highlights the accomplishments of Cindi Lux, Lyn St. James, Courtney Force, Betty Burkland and Michelle Miller.
In going beyond the museum model, World of Speed offers a series of classes for kids, including car design, racing, fabrication and maintenance. In partnership with local high schools and a college, World of Speed hosts automotive classes for college and high school CTE credits. The organization aims to be an educational resource for lifelong learning about the automotive industry, including informing young people about professional opportunities in the industry. Memberships are available, and World of Speed can be rented for private events.
Eileen Garvin
Eileen Garvin lives and writes in Hood River. When she’s not hunched over her keyboard or digging in the garden, you can find her mountain biking, kiteboarding, hiking, skiing or camping somewhere in Oregon.
Wilsonville, Willamette Valley
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Delta’s stunning plan for Los Angeles – LAX
Los Angeles International’s Terminals 2 and 3 will be Delta’s new home at the airport. (Image: Delta)
Just a year after Delta partnered with Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) for a big redevelopment of Terminal 5 at Los Angeles International, the airline has revealed details of a much larger project at LAX – and it doesn’t involve Terminal 5 at all.
The airline said this week it will team up with LAWA again to undertake a massive, years-long overhaul of what will become Delta’s new home at LAX : Terminals 2 and 3, replacing its current base in Terminals 5 and 6. LAWA’s board has just signed off on the deal, which will also include the eventual construction of a post-security connector to the north side of the Tom Bradley International Terminal.
The overhauls of T2 and T3 at LAX will feature a light, spacious design. (Image: Delta)
It seems like there is no end to the ongoing construction and improvement projects at LAX, and this new one will certainly keep things going for a while. Delta said completion of all aspects of the big $1.9 billion project isn’t expected for seven years.
The idea is to bring Delta close to its various partner carriers in T2 and T3, including Aeromexico, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia. The new connector to the Bradley Terminal will also mean “seamless access” for Delta passengers to international partner airlines like Air France-KLM, Alitalia, China Eastern and China Southern.
Delta said that after the terminal overhauls are finished, its customers will see new Delta Sky Clubs in both terminals, a private check-in lounge for Delta One travelers, expedited check-in services for its Delta Shuttle flights, and an integrated in-line baggage system. “The facility will offer convenient passenger flows, sufficient gate-area seating, and a world-class concession program in partnership with Westfield Corporation,” Delta said.
The airline’s announcement didn’t give a timeline for the actual move into the new T2/3 space, but Delta won’t wait until the work is finished before it changes locations. That move is likely to happen as soon as next year. “We will renovate while there (i.e., in T2/3), so four years of construction,” Delta’s Ranjan Goswami told TravelSkills. “It was the only way to do it.” He added that the airlines currently occupying T2 and T3 that are not Delta partners will move over to T5 and T6.
Related: San Francisco’s new $2 billion terminal
The overall layout of LAX terminals. (Image: Los Angeles International Airport)
The move to the north side of the airport will give Delta the extra space and gates it needs to support its ongoing expansion of operations at LAX. The company noted that over the past seven years, it has increased its LAX operations from 70 daily departures to more than 175, and has more than doubled the total number of seats it offers there. Just this year, it added five flights a day from LAX to Denver, broadened its Delta Shuttle service to include LAX-Seattle as well as LAX-San Francisco, and added a third daily LAX-Boston flight.
Do you fly through LAX much? Thoughts on the move? We were just there today, and the place was bulging at the seems! See below.
Delta’s Terminal 5 at LAX on a busy summer day (Photo: Chris McGinnis)
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Chevron In Talks Regarding License Renewal For Venezuela Operations
Dow 30 component Chevron Corporation (CVX), through its subsidiaries, engages in integrated energy, chemicals, and petroleum operations worldwide. Recently, as per reports, the Trump Administration is discussing the renewal of Chevron Corp.’s license due to expire on July 27, to continue operations in Venezuela as informed by Larry Kudlow, economic adviser under Trump’s Administration. Chevron Corp, the only U.S oil major wants to continue operations with state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), even though the oil major roughly makes 1 percent of its global output from the venture. Venezuela deems to be the world’s largest oil reserves with several oil companies pouring in for potential business opportunities.
“It is under discussion. Chevron has done a great job. They have a long and illustrious tradition as you may know in Venezuela.” stated Larry Kudlow at the White House as reported.
Oil purchases from Venezuela have become difficult, after U.S expansion of sanctions regimen including doing business with Petroleos de Venezuela SA and after the U.S denied to regard Nicolas Maduro as the country’s president, after last year’s election.
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Redmond Review
At Build, Microsoft's New Execs Take the Lead
Satya Nadella, Scott Guthrie usher in a new era of openness and sharper vision.
By Andrew J. Brust
The tech industry today is vastly different from the one Microsoft entered in the 1970s and the one it dominated in the 1990s. This year's Build conference in San Francisco felt like the first Microsoft conference at which the company not only acknowledged these fundamental industry changes, but truly embraced them.
The banner announcements at Build were around Windows Phone 8.1 and its addition of the "Cortana" personal assistant, as well as some much needed usability enhancements for mouse users in the Windows 8.1 update. There were also numerous additions to Microsoft Azure, including a very sophisticated and attractive management portal. But banner headlines aside, the more minor announcements seemed much more important, strategically.
To begin with, Microsoft demonstrated a new application development architecture, called Universal Windows Apps (UWAs), which are created within a single Visual Studio project and run on both Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1. The Redmond software giant also announced the open sourcing of numerous previously closed-source components of the .NET Framework, along with creation of the .NET Foundation to administer these projects. In fact, Anders Hejlsberg, the father of C# and .NET, announced the end-user preview of Microsoft's "Roslyn" compiler-as-a-service project, and literally published its source code to the CodePlex open source platform onstage at Build.
Microsoft also revealed that licensing fees for Windows Phone would be zero, as would the fees for Windows itself on devices with screens measuring 9 inches or less diagonally. If that weren't enough, there were also revelations around goodies still in the works: a Windows Store version of Office, the return of the Start Menu to the Windows desktop, the ability to run Windows Store apps in non-full-screen windows and support for running UWAs on Xbox One.
Forward-Thinking
The elimination of license fees on smaller devices will improve the OEM economics for building Windows devices. Open sourcing bigger chunks of the .NET Framework and inviting community involvement in the resulting projects could drive greater interest from younger developers, for whom open source is a key indicator of platform vitality. Bringing back the Start Menu, and integrating the desktop and modern app environments will help Windows veterans transition more smoothly to the new full-screen interface.
Perhaps most important at Build was that Microsoft saw fit to share Windows roadmap information with the audience, something that hasn't happened for a long time. The company's execs didn't just announce a new update for Windows; they also gave us a sense of what to expect in the update that will follow it. We learned that Windows Phone, Windows and Xbox would indeed converge as app dev platforms, and Office would run in the converged environment. Microsoft even assured developers still using Windows Phone's Silverlight app model that they would have access to new features on the platform.
The sharing of roadmap information, a warm embrace of open source and the utterance of the "S word" (i.e., Silverlight) are a marked departure from prior Build events, especially the first Build event in 2011. Why the change? Here's a hint: Build 2014 was the first major public Microsoft event featuring Satya Nadella as CEO and Scott Guthrie as his successor as head of Microsoft's Enterprise and Cloud division.
No Rat Pack
It would be naïve to think that the recent rise of Nadella and Guthrie was the sole cause of the new initiatives announced at Build, but it's no mere coincidence either. Guthrie was instrumental in the previous open sourcing of certain ASP.NET components, and in integrating the open source jQuery library in ASP.NET. Nadella -- Guthrie's boss then and now -- was supportive of these decisions. The moves announced at Build were teed up by these two gentlemen (and others), perhaps with some hope that they might one day have greater power to implement them.
Nadella, Guthrie and Hejlsberg are Microsoft veterans who have demonstrated for years their loyalty to the Microsoft platform, as well as their very progressive ideas in how to bring it forward. Even if the initiatives announced at Build have been incubating for quite some time, it would seem that in a post-Sinofsky, post-Ballmer Microsoft, we can expect such forward-thinking strategies to take the lead in Redmond.
These changes aren't casual or reckless; they're prudent, significant, and very pro-developer. They're the right moves to reinvigorate and extend Microsoft's relevance and influence. Microsoft has no guarantee of success, however. It could continue to have anemic market share in the mobile sphere and could see its existing strong businesses shrink. But Microsoft's new executive leadership seems intent on a thoughtful, courageous strategy that works to address the company's weaknesses while simultaneously playing to its strengths. And there's just no downside to that.
Andrew Brust is Research Director for Big Data and Analytics at Gigaom Research. Andrew is co-author of "Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2012" (Microsoft Press); an advisor to NYTECH, the New York Technology Council; co-moderator of Big On Data - New York's Data Intelligence Meetup; serves as Microsoft Regional Director and MVP; and is conference co-chair of Visual Studio Live!
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That’s the great thing about geo-location. It doesn’t really know where you are. It just makes the (frequently) safe assumption that where you appear to be and where you are will line up. So, if your laptop’s geo-location says you’re in London, this is good enough to say that you are also in London. So, is that necessarily true?
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Virginia Tech Procurement receives state recognition for efforts in boosting supplier diversity /
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Virginia Tech Procurement Director Mary Helmick honored with 2019 Governor’s SWaM Innovator Award
Virginia Tech Director of Procurement Mary Helmick (fifth from left) received the 2019 Governor’s SWaM Innovator Award for Virginia Tech's efforts to boost supplier diversity. Photos provided by Helmick.
Virginia Tech Procurement Department’s integrated efforts to bolster supplier diversity have been recognized by the state.
Under the leadership of Mary Helmick, director of procurement, Virginia Tech has transformed its small, woman-owned, and minority-owned (SWaM) efforts through a dedicated SWaM program. In the past year, the department debuted a first-of-its-kind searchable SWaM directory and launched the SWaM Champions advocacy program to raise awareness about this important university commitment.
In light of these achievements, Helmick was honored with the 2019 Governor’s SWaM Innovator Award at the 2019 Virginia Public Procurement Forum in November 2019.
Helmick oversaw the project to create the searchable SWaM directory – a critical component for achieving the university’s strategic goals for supplier diversity. The Procurement Department had identified a need to help university purchasers more easily identify SWaM-certified vendors and worked to develop this tool with one guiding principle: create a frictionless search experience for any Virginia Tech user.
Unique among Virginia public institutions, this search-optimized, online directory launched in summer 2019 and offers many features that improve usability, including:
Typo tolerance, which allows the user to make a mistake while typing and still locate the supplier, good, or service they were searching for.
The creation of a custom synonym list to improve search results (such as typing “VA” instead of “Virginia”).
Custom rankings that allow Virginia Tech to increase the visibility of a supplier, good, or service if or when needed.
The directory updates its search results as the user is typing a query, and users can select from a host of filters – certification type, region, state, zip code, etc. – to further refine search parameters. The directory has already begun to transform the user experience and facilitate greater connections between SWaM-certified businesses and Virginia Tech.
More than $70 million in university discretional spending was awarded to SWaM vendors in fiscal year 2019.
The SWaM program’s upward trajectory is a product of robust sustained outreach and creation of new opportunities for vendors and the campus community. Virginia Tech’s annual Supplier Opportunity Vendor Fair attracted more than 90 vendors and 140 university purchasers this year. Presently, any university purchase up to $10,000 can be procured from a micro-small business without further competition. Helmick’s team regularly contributes to vendor fairs, outreach events, and statewide workgroups focused on supplier diversity.
The SWaM Champions program at Virginia Tech is comprised of university individuals who meet with potential vendors, share good experiences working with SWaM businesses, and help engage others at Virginia Tech with SWaM activities and best practices.
The SWaM program’s growth is embedded as a key milestone in The Virginia Tech Difference: Advancing Beyond Boundaries, with a goal to increase SWaM vendor utilization percentage each year.
“I am proud to accept the 2019 Governor’s SWaM Innovator Award on behalf of the entire hardworking Virginia Tech Procurement team,” said Helmick. “Creating a welcoming environment and strong relationships with SWaM businesses is something we are really passionate about at Virginia Tech. Supplier diversity has such wide-reaching positive economic and social impacts across the commonwealth, and we are dedicated to further incorporating it into our purchasing activities and strategic goals.”
Helmick also currently serves as president of the Virginia Association of State College and University Purchasing Professionals, an organization that identifies opportunities for cooperative procurements and cost savings for higher education institutions in Virginia.
“I congratulate Mary and the entire Virginia Tech Procurement team for their continued contributions in championing supplier diversity, not only at Virginia Tech, but across the commonwealth. These efforts remain vital as the university continues to pursue institutional excellence across the administrative enterprise and beyond,” said Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer Dwayne Pinkney.
More information about Virginia Tech’s SWaM efforts, the supplier directory tool, and how to join the SWaM Champion program is available here.
Helmick, pictured with her award, has led the delivery of Virginia Tech Procurement's first-of-its-kind searchable SWaM directory.
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Connemara & Western Way – 8 Day Self-Guided Walking Tour
Connemara and the Western Way takes in part of the Wild Atlantic Way – translated as “the Conmaicne” or Tribe of the Sea” – even the name is wildly inspired!
Stretching from Galway Bay to Killary Harbour and bounded on the east by Lough Corrib and Lough Mask, the principal range of mountains is the Twelve Bens and the smaller Maumturks. Grey quartzite peaks shimmer majestically over bogs and small loughs. The Western Way is a wild and wonderful place with some of the finest scenery Ireland has to offer. This self-guided walking vacation is the perfect way to explore the west of Ireland.
Early settlements were mainly on the coast, the interior deemed too infertile and wet for any useful occupation. The area suffered huge population loss in the mid 19th century due to the Great Famine, but through the guidance of the Irish Land Commission, land leases were offered to tenant farmers and fishing in the area was slowly rejuvenated. Today, much of the valley land is now under forestry schemes and intensive fish farming fills the coastal loughs. The predominance of hills and water means a relatively small road network but despite this, a strong native population remains.
Route: The Western Way walking trail takes you from Oughterard in Co. Galway to Westport in Co. Mayo. Our itinerary covers the south and central section – often distinguished in literature as Western Way Connemara and Western Way Mayo. From the Pass of Mám Éan, the Way descends to the beautiful Lough Inagh Valley, with the Maumturk Mountains on one side and the equally awe-inspiring Bens on the other. Then from the shore of Killary Harbour, the Way enters County Mayo.
The Western Way continues into County Mayo and the lower Sheeffry Mountains before reaching granite hills, crossing forest and bogland. It is truly wild and the landscape is some of the most stunning in the country. Under the towering bulk of Croagh Patrick, the Western Way meanders to the island studded Clew Bay and the historic town of Westport, where there is still a strong tradition in Irish music and rural way of life.
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Day 1 / Travel to Oughterard
Travel to Oughterard where you will be picked up and taken to your guesthouse. Oughterard is a traditional village, nestled beside Lough Corrib (the largest lake in the Republic of Ireland), at the start of the Connemara Mountain Range and only 17km from Galway City.
Day 2 / Oughterard to Maam Cross "By the shores of Lough Corrib"
Your first walk on the Western Way Connemara takes you along the south-western shore of Lough Corrib, one of the great western lakes of Europe, known for its trout and salmon fishing and its myriad of islands. You will continue into the townland of Curraun More, across the Owenree River and through the forest of Folore to join the Maam Road and your first glimpses of the breathtaking mountains of Connemara.
This is a perfect introduction to walking in Connemara countryside, where you will see the landscape change from picturesque to truly wild. The landscape has been largely untouched by the modern world. You will stay overnight in Maam Cross.
Distance: 24km / 15 miles, Ascent: 110 m / 360 ft, Approximate walking time: 5.5 hours
Day 3 / Maam Cross to Lough Inagh, "The Pilgrim Trail"
On the first section of today’s walk, you will pass the site of the famous movie “The Quiet Man” starring John Wayne & Maureen O’Hara, a John Ford’s classic movie, filmed in 1952.
You will witness the transformation of the landscape from yesterday's delightful scenery to the increasingly untamed as you walk amidst the splendour of the Maumturk Mountains (The Pass of the Pig). The trail follows an old pilgrim route that rises gently between mountains at Maumeen (the valley of the bird), passing St. Patrick’s Church and Holy Well as you travel.
It is said that St. Patrick rested in this spot on his way to “Croagh Patrick”, a sacred mountain that you will be passing on your way to Westport. Crossing the spine of the Maumturk Mountains, you will be presented with some fantastic views in both directions, back into the Maam Valley and ahead to the “Twelve Bens” mountain range. You will continue into the Inagh Valley with its stunning lake dotted with islands and a Crannog (an ancient man-made lake dwelling). You will stay overnight in Lough Inagh.
Distance: 25 km / 16 miles, Ascent: 280 m / 918 ft, Approximate walking time: 4.5 hours
Day 4 / Lough Inagh to Leenaun
You depart Lough Inagh by walking directly from your accommodation via an old road that dates back hundreds or possibly thousands of years.
The trail contours the base of the Maumturk Mountains, passing some old ruined deserted settlements as you travel. This area is now completely uninhabited and has been since the time of the great famine of 1845. This is one of the most remote parts of the trail where you will find a great sense of peace and distance from the bustle of modern life and its conflicts. As you descend into the village of Leenaun, some great views will open up to you of Ireland’s only fjord “Killary Fjord”. Glaciers moving off the mountains over ten thousand years ago, carved this fjord from the underlying rock and was subsequently filled by the Atlantic Ocean.
Your day finishes in Leenaun, a village nestling on the shore of Killary Harbour and backed by the mountains. Leenaun was brought to fame by the famous John B. Keane literary work “The Field”, first performed in 1965. It was adapted into a film in 1990 by Jim Sheridan. It tells the story of a family and a community torn apart by conflicts over the ownership and control of land, a theme very common in Irish history. Your overnight stay will also be in Leenaun.
Distance: 18 km / 11 miles, Ascent: 85 m / 278 ft, Approximate walking time: 4 hours
Day 5 / Rest Day
You could take a taxi and visit Kylemore Abbey and its Victorian walled gardens, or do a walk along the old Famine Road from Leenane to Rossroe harbour, a picturesque rural fishing community. Ludwig Wittgenstein took up residence here after World War II, taking advantage of its peaceful and remote setting, to concentrate on his writing.
The famine road runs for 9 km along the edge of Killary fjord. During the 19th century, this road was built as part of a program to provide food in exchange for labour during the famine. As you travel this road, bear in mind the history that lies beneath your feet. You will again stay overnight in Leenaun.
Day 6 / Leenaun to Drummin
Today’s trail takes you northeast from Leenaun to the head of Killary Fjord and across the county border into Mayo.
Here you will have an option to take a short detour to visit the famous Aasleagh Falls, where the Erriff River (world famous for salmon fishing), cascades to meet the inlet of Killary. When the rivers are full in late summer, you often see the salmon leap as they travel upstream to spawn.
The route takes you through some open farmland where sheep farming is the predominant activity. You will cross the Sheeffry Hills from where you can enjoy wonderful views of the Erriff Valley and your last glimpse of the Connemara Mountains. Your day finishes in the quiet hamlet of Drummin, where you can relax over a pint of your favourite tipple. Your overnight stay will be in Drummin.
Day 7 / Drummin to Westport
On your final walking day, you will walk in the shadow of Ireland’s Holy Mountain, Croagh Patrick. This mountain is a spectacular sight and many pilgrims from around the world come to climb it every year, many barefoot or on their knees. It is believed that the saint fasted here for 40 days and 40 nights. The mountain was crucial to his campaign to convert Celtic people to Christianity.
Following a small country road, the trail leads you to the wild and beautiful townlands of Bartaglanna and Glencally. Here you will have the option to take a detour to climb to the summit of Croagh Patrick or continue along the Western Way into the picturesque, yet lively and award-winning, town of Westport where a strong tradition in Irish music and rural way of life still prevails. Your overnight stay will be in Westport.
Distance: 23 km / 14 miles, Ascent: 420 m / 1377 ft, Approximate walking time: 6.5 hours
Day 8 / Depart
After a hearty breakfast, you will depart for home.
7 nights bed and breakfast
All accommodation is pre-booked in approved family-run guesthouses with all rooms en-suite
Connemara and Western Way walking Maps and waterproof route notes, route notes of the Western Way and trail checked my Christopher from Footfalls
Details on restaurants and places of interest to visit along the way
Luggage transfers daily while you walk with a small day pack
All information on trains or buses needed to get to your first accommodation and back at the end of the tour
Full back up service, should you require it, while on our tour
And thank YOU, our fearless leader! You did a great job tending your flock!
I had a most wonderful time, albeit a little more challenging than I had expected.
But, I am grateful that the wind only knocked me down on some Valencia heather and not over a cliff! ;
The scenery was stunning and the lodgings (particularly Casey’s and The Grand) and meals were superb!!
And the icing on the cake was the pleasure of your company and great sense of humor!
A perfect package all together!!
I have more compliments to pay, but I will save them for the next time we connect. Perhaps you, Teresa and I can
chat via Facetime after the New Year. I’d also like to talk a little bit more about the Wicklow Mountains Tour.
Hope you have a wonderful and well earned holiday in New Zealand!!
Take care and all the best,
Wild Atlantic Way South West
Dear Christopher, thank you for another wonderful vacation! I really enjoyed seeing another area of your beautiful country. Thank you for leading us on some amazing hikes, and for taking care of everything while we were here. It was a very relaxing week, and we’re going home renewed and rejuvenated. Until we meet again!
Christopher, as the official Irish Tourism Board’s representative, it gladdens me to award you the Golden Shamrock, our top tourism award. That last part was bullshit. I had an amazing experience and I am so glad that I got to see Ireland’s most intimate spots. Thank you for a wonderful trip and all of your knowledge and humour. Looking forward to doing another trip together!
Christopher, thank you for a second tour through your beautiful Ireland. It was another amazing experience of hiking and food and laughter. What a wonderful week and I can’t wait to return soon for another Footfalls tour. Thank you for everything!
Dear Christopher, thank you so much for another beautiful journey in your Ireland. We loved our first walking holidays with you, so much that we couldn’t wait to do it again! And this second time in Connemara and the Burren Way didn’t disappoint. You make each trip so special with your warmth, quick wit and what I like to think of your Irish spirit. Thank you for another week of memories that I will always treasure, for your friendship and coring.
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Stephen Curry won back-to-back MVP trophies in 2015 and 2016 -- Keith Allison via WikiCommons
Last season, Curry finished sixth in Most Valuable Player voting with no first or second-place votes.
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Golden State Warriors point guard and two-time MVP Stephen Curry had an amazing year last season, averaging 25.3 points, 6.6 assists and 4.5 boards in 79 regular-season games. In the playoffs, Curry increased his scoring to 28.1 points per outing on top of 6.7 assists and 6.6 rebounds as he led the Warriors to their second NBA title in three years.
Despite these numbers, Curry finished just sixth in the Most Valuable Player voting with no first or second-place votes and just three third-place votes, one fourth-place vote, and 34 fifth-place votes for a measly 52 points -- way behind the 888 points garnered by eventual winner Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The voting result came as a surprise since Curry earned all 131 first-place votes in the 2015-16 season to become the first unanimous winner of the MVP award.
Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James tallied the best rebound and assist averages of his career last season but he failed to make it into the top three in the 2016-17 MVP race. According to ESPN senior writer J.A. Adande, Curry and James reached new statistical heights in their careers but “they didn't push boundaries." Adande said voters want to see breakouts and breakthroughs, just like Westbrook’s triple-double average in the regular season.
Curry has no more territory to explore
According to Adande, Curry has no territory left to explore, especially when he reached the summit during the Warriors' historic 73-win season in 2015-16 where he made 402 three-point shots in 886 attempts. He said that Curry’s sixth-place finish in last year’s MVP voting was an indication that he’s no longer considered one of the very best players in the league.
In addition, Adande said voters seem to impose a one-year punishment on members of superteams, just like what happened to James when he moved to the Miami Heat in 2010. In his first season with the Heat, James finished third in MVP voting despite averaging 26.7 points, 7.5 rebounds and 7.0 assists. He recovered and won back-to-back MVP trophies in 2012 and 2013.
Durant to win MVP next season
Based on ESPN's Forecast Panel, Curry’s teammate Kevin Durant will take home the 2017-18 NBA MVP trophy with 17 first-place votes and 116 points.
James follows suit with 88 points, Kawhi Leonard of the San Antonio Spurs is projected next with 58 points, and Houston Rockets’ James Harden is expected to garner 48 points. Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks is projected to occupy the fifth spot with 29 points, while Westbrook is expected to tally 20 points, and Curry is expected to finish with 19 points.
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SB 276 and S B714 will protect ‘community immunity’ by preventing physicians from selling fraudulent vaccine exemptions from school-required vaccinations.
SACRAMENTO – Vaccinate California and thousands of families from across the state today applauded Governor Gavin Newsom for signing Senate Bills 276 and 714 which would protect children from vaccine-preventable diseases. The landmark legislation will require health officials to approve requests for medical exemptions to school-required vaccinations and grant officials the authority to revoke medical exemptions if they are found to be fraudulent or inconsistent with state guidelines.
“Senate Bill 276 will help protect children in our schools who cannot be vaccinated – such as newborns, children with serious allergies, or children with weakened or failing immune systems, such as children living with cancer – and the small percentage of children for whom immunizations do not work, and as a result, all our communities will be stronger,” said Vaccinate California Executive Director and Cofounder Leah Russin. “We applaud Governor Newsom for signing SB 276 and SB 714 and we are grateful to Dr. Pan and Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez for their leadership in helping to ensure that medical exemptions can be reviewed and, where appropriate, invalidated. This bill is a testament to the thousands of parents across the state who made their voices heard – who wrote letters, made calls, enlisted their friends, showed up at town halls, and testified at hearings – all so that our children would be safe from vaccine-preventable disease in schools, and so that science and public health could prevail over fear and misinformation.”
Quotes from Vaccinate California parent members:
“The passing of this bill means that immune compromised members of our community will finally have better protection in schools like the Waldorf charter my children attended.” — Hannah Henry, mother of four from Napa, co-founder of Vaccinate California.
“I’m so grateful this legislation will be implemented quickly, so that it can protect children like my daughter, who had a heart transplant and will be on immune-suppressing therapy for the rest of her life. She is very vulnerable to diseases like measles, and this legislation will dramatically reduce the chance she is ever exposed.” — Jenni Balck, mother of a 10-year-old heart transplant recipient, member of Vaccinate California, Orange County.
“I have a newborn as well as three older children, and I’m thrilled that this legislation means that parents like me can worry a little less about vaccine preventable diseases like measles.” — Kayla Colburn, mother of four children, nurse, lactation consultant, and member of Vaccinate California, Redding.
“As a mother and a pediatrician, I am so grateful the legislature has stepped up again to address the issue of unjustified exemptions to school vaccine requirements. I am very confident that implementation of this legislation will ensure that exemptions receive appropriate scrutiny so that those who need them will get them, and that all children will be safer in school.” — Dr. Lisa Meneses, mother of three, pediatrician in West Sacramento, and member of Vaccinate California.
“This bill means that infants like mine will be far less likely to be exposed to preventable diseases like measles at daycare and the doctor’s office. It cannot be implemented soon enough for me.” — Sheila Warren, lawyer and mother of three, member of Vaccinate California, San Francisco.
“As a father of two, and someone who will take immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of my life, I am so proud that my state has passed SB276. This legislation ensures that transplant patients like me can volunteer at our children’s schools and worry less about being exposed to deadly diseases like measles.” –— Michael Levinson, liver transplant recipient and father of two, Menlo Park, CA.
“I am so grateful to our California legislature for the passage of SB 276. As a pediatric oncology nurse for the last 33 years I know first-hand how important it is to ensure that we protect the most medically vulnerable among us from vaccine preventable infectious diseases. Children with cancer whose immune systems are damaged by chemotherapy want to be able to move about their communities without fear of exposure. Their parents are breathing a sigh of relief with the passage of this crucial legislation.” — Wendy Bloom, pediatric oncology nurse, mother and grandmother and member of Vaccinate California, Berkeley CA.
“In high school, I had to undergo chemotherapy which meant I lost my immunity to most diseases. When I returned to school, I was very vulnerable and wasn’t well enough to be vaccinated until recently. This legislation will protect students like me from exposure to diseases during a transitional period when we are trying to return to a normal life. Knowing that everyone else, who can be, is vaccinated will be huge relief.” — Mela Seyoum, college student from the Bay Area
Senate Bill 276 is cosponsored by Vaccinate California, California Medical Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
About Vaccinate California
Vaccinate California is a grassroots coalition of thousands of pro-vaccination parents, educators, health professionals and other advocates working to raise vaccination rates in California and protect children and communities. For more information about Vaccinate California, please visit, www.vaccinatecalifornia.org, Twitter, and/or Facebook.
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Vaccinate California and thousands of parents across the state applaud Governor Newsom and Dr. Pan for reaching an agreement to advance Senate Bill 276 and for helping to protect our children from vaccine-preventable diseases. Today’s agreement is a victory for science over fear and for sound public health policy over conspiracy and misinformation. We urge Governor Newsom to sign SB 276 immediately.
No parent should have to make the choice to pull their child from school to protect them from vaccine-preventable illness. That is why parents from Vaccinate California have made their voices heard in support of SB276 – to help protect our communities and ensure that no schools in California have unsafe numbers of unvaccinated students. Unvaccinated children are at higher risk for contagious disease — in schools, in physician waiting rooms, on playgrounds, on public transportation and elsewhere — and they pose a significant risk to infants and immunocompromised children, including cancer patients and children who have had organ transplants. These children — the most vulnerable among us — need the rest of us to be vaccinated.
The parents of Vaccinate California are grateful to Dr. Pan and Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez for the leadership and the courage they have shown in bringing SB 276 to this point as well as Senate President Pro Tem Atkins for backing her legislative colleagues. Because of their efforts to ensure that medical exemptions can be reviewed and invalidated where appropriate, more of our children will be protected from vaccine-preventable illnesses in schools.
More information about this new agreement from the Los Angeles Times
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Vaccinate California and parents across the state applaud the members of the California state legislature for passing Senate Bill 276 and taking strong action to protect our children and our communities from vaccine-preventable illness. Infants, immunocompromised children, cancer patients, children who have had organ transplants and other vulnerable populations need us all to keep fighting for this bill until it becomes law. We urge Governor Newsom to sign SB 276 immediately to help ensure that fraudulent medical exemptions can be reviewed and invalidated where appropriate and that our children are protected from vaccine-preventable disease in schools.
The revised version of SB276 passed the Senate this morning on a 28-11 vote. Thank you to Dr. Richard Pan, State Senator and the others who have worked humbly and tirelessly to protect our children. SB276 next heads to the governor, who needs to sign it.
SB276 Advances Another Step
SB276 cleared the Assembly floor this afternoon! Call your Assembly member and thank them! Next, call your senator, because the bill has been amended since the Senate last voted on it, so they need to approve it a second time. And then, call Governor Newsom, who indicated in June that he was willing to sign the bill with the changes that were made to the Assembly version.
SB276 Passes Out of Appropriations — Next Stop: Assembly Vote
SB276 passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Friday, Aug. 30! It now heads to the Assembly floor! Get those calls in to your legislators. We don’t yet know the date when they will vote, but Assembly members need to hear from you that you support the bill. Head to our Take Action page, or find your Assembly member here.
Editorial: Anti-vaxxers can’t traffic in violent language then claim ignorance when someone gets hurt — LA Times
Activism or Terrorism? Anti-vaccine movement must use facts, not violence, to argue — SacBee
PD Editorial: Add accountability to vaccine medical exemptions — Press Democrat
OUR VIEW: Vaccinate! Return of diseases endangers us all — Bakersfield Californian
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Opened: July 5, 2014
Fastpass: Yes
Handicapped Accessibility: Guests may remain in their wheelchairs to experience this attraction. Reflective Captioning is available, check with a cast member at the entrance for assistance.
Overview/History: Guests that love the hit animated film Frozen will love the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration! In the attraction two royal historians of Arendelle retell Anna and Elsa’s story. Audience members are invited to sing along to many of the prominent song from the film’s soundtrack. Of course, the show wouldn’t be complete without appearances from Anna, Elsa, and Kristoff. This show is approximately 30-minutes long.
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First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration originally opened in the Premiere Theater, which has since been demolished to make way for Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. The show moved to its current location the Hyperion Theater on June 17, 2015. The Hyperion Theater is the former location of The American Idol Experience, which closed on August 30, 2014.
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Posted on June 17, 2015 by Gearoid O'Neary
In my work as a professional genealogist, overseas clients who are the descendants of Irish immigrants regularly relate to me the passed-down stories of why their ancestors had to leave the beautiful island of Ireland. More often than not, these tales are wildly romanticized having been created by ancestors who lived centuries ago, safe in the knowledge that their claims could not be checked out; well, not in their lifetimes anyway.
I have heard a story about a Kerryman who once lived in a grand castle until he was forced to flee Ireland as part of a honorable settlement between warring clans, thereby bringing peace forever more to his native region. Then there was the Corkonian Catholic who passed every course on offer at Trinity College with flying colours only to find that jealous business-owning Protestant families would not employ his inventive engineering skills, so he had to relocate to America to show off his talents. And I’ve been told many a yarn about numerous brave freedom-fighting Republicans who had to be smuggled out of Ireland with hundreds of British Government spies hot on their heels.
Thorough research can often reveal the truth behind the romance, although many clients prefer to ignore the unearthed evidence and stick to their fantastic family lore. The Kerryman more than likely lived in a pitiful timber shack on a bleak hillside until his heartless British landlord decided that the value of his vast Irish country estates could be increased by ridding them of quarrelsome Irish paupers. Eviction could have been forcefully applied, or at best, “negotiated” by offering the poor Kerryman and his family a handful of tickets for the next available ship sailing out of Queenstown harbour.
The Corkonian was really an uneducated and frustrated young labourer who was not permitted to attend school in rural Ireland purely on the grounds of his religion – but this man flourished as a Civil Engineer in the US when he fell under the tutelage of a kindly American benefactor who had spotted the Irish boy’s potential talents.
The hunted-down Irish freedom-fighter saga seems to have been applied to every Irish immigrant who ever broke the law of the land, centuries ago, and who decided that it was a better option to emigrate than risk serving a long, harsh prison sentence in Ireland. Many laws were unjust way back, but they were laws all the same.
I was reminded of these kinds of contradictory ancestral tales concerning romantic fiction set against bland truisms when I came across an archived newspaper article dating from 1880 which describes my remote genealogical homestead. My American cousins prefer to picture the place in the 19th century with its quaint thatched roof cottages, and the cheerful occupants always singing and dancing to the sound of flutes and fiddles, as healthy children curl up on comfy hay beds in front of a roaring fire in the hearth. The words of The Nation journalist, on the spot in 1880, paints a somewhat different picture … as I always suspected, but could never prove until now.
The reality for the vast majority of rural Irish Catholics over decade upon decade before 1900 was a life lived on the precarious edge of breadline poverty. Poor Irish folk died in their thousands as a result of starvation, even outside of the recognized Famine years. Many, many more suffered with prolonged disease and fever. Most homes would be classed as uninhabitable today, with no sanitation or even running water. The bare-footed Irish paupers of yesteryear often slept next to their livestock for warmth, all housed within a filthy shack called “home.”
My 19th century ancestors drifted down from the barren and windswept Ox Mountains to take leases in the boggy townland of Tullinaglug. To them, it must have seemed like a step up from the very bottom of the social ladder. They survived the Great Famine, only losing the weakest children to hunger and undernourishment, and battled on throughout the following years of nationwide economic depression. Some of the extended family had to up and leave for America; there was not enough space for all to exist on the small farmstead in Tullinaglug. Without knowing it, the US emigrants were to become a Godsend for the survival of their kin back at “home.”
By the winter of 1879, after another year’s crops had failed, the Sligo natives were in the midst of another “mini-famine” which became known as An Gorta Beag in the Irish language. No food meant no income, and the poor tenant farmers could not meet their extortionate rent demands. Rather than provide some economic assistance (or abatement), the landlords of Connacht insisted upon full payment of overdue rent or legally enforced eviction. That was all the thanks my folks got for turning worthless swamp, which scarcely afford footing for snipe into much improved farmland. If it wasn’t for the occasional gift of a few Dollars sent home from American relatives, I am certain that my great-grandparents would have starved to death, and my grandfather Ned (and all who followed) would never see the light of day.
To legally evict tenants who fell behind with rent payments, a landlord (or his representative) had to commence a legally-backed “process” wherein the defaulting tenant was served with a notice setting out the terms in which he or she must pay monies owed, or vacate the ramshackle premises immediately after further default. In Tullinaglug, the landlord Phibbs demanded full payment within days … or else!
And so it was that on 7th January 1880, Mr Phibbs, accompanied by 60 policemen carrying muskets with fixed bayonets, set off from Tubbercurry to “process-serve” in Tullinaglug and Escra (aka Eskragh). There he saw his loyal hard-working tenants half-naked, pale and ill-fed, in the words of the journalistic observer.
Their wretched houses black, damp, and poorly thatched, are fast sinking into the mud.
It is apparent that the people of Tullinaglug were too weak to offer physical resistance (as attempted by the residents of neighboring Curry parish in the same newspaper Process-serving report of January 1880). The Sligo serfs made a peaceful but noisy protest – yet the more bloodthirsty police constables still could not resist striking out at defenseless, even heavily pregnant, women:
A little girl named Stenson was knocked down senseless, and a poor woman named Mary Walsh, on the eve of her confinement, was stunned by a blow from the butt end of a policeman’s musket, and remained unconscious for some time.
This is all a far cry from the Americanized vision of the twee life of villagers in dear auld Ireland. Now you know why America was seen as a last desperate place of sanctuary. Now I know why my grandfather Ned took my family to a damp but much pleasanter home in England. Four of Ned’s eleven siblings were born before Mr Phibbs insisted on slipping a very threatening court eviction notice under the Neary’s cottage door.
For those that can stomach hearing more about the horrors endured by their Irish ancestors, the full-page report of just a few examples of Process-serving is accessible by clicking on this link: 1880 The Nation (PROCESS-SERVING IN THE WEST)
Posted in Ancestral Tales, Genealogy | Tagged ancestry, genealogy, Ireland, Irish Ancestry Research, Kilmacteigue, Kilmactigue, Ox Mountains, Sligo, Stenson, Tubbercurry, Tullinaglug | 1 Reply
Confirmation of a name
Posted on October 29, 2014 by Gearoid O'Neary
If any of your ancestors were raised as Catholics, consider looking for a record of their Confirmation. This holy event is one of the seven sacraments in which Catholics participate as they pass through life. According to Catholic doctrine, in this sacrament participants are sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit and are strengthened in their Christian life.
Traditionally, these days, Confirmation is the third of the three sacraments of Christian initiation (following Baptism and First Holy Communion) normally undertaken when Catholic children are in their early teens. However, in ancient times and still today in some more obscure parts of the world, a younger Catholic child could be “confirmed” prior to Holy Communion, so long as the baptism ceremony had been completed.
Fortunately, history dictates that the vast majority of our Irish ancestors were raised as Catholics, so if you have Irish heritage, then extend your vital record search criteria for each Irishman or woman to the following events. A written record of each occasion would have been registered at the time.
Birth / Baptism
Marriage (if applicable)
Recently, I was delighted to find a preserved copy of my Irish grandfather Ned’s Confirmation record held in the custody of his native RC parish church in Tourlestrane, County Sligo. The library in the Parochial House had the usual Baptismal and Marriage Registers but I noticed a smaller section headed Liber Confirmatarum or Confirmation Book. This hand-written register had only been formally kept since the start of the 20th century but this was late enough to include the Confirmation of the 12th and last child of Tom Neary & Kate Stenson born in May 1894. In fact, Ned Neary must have been one of the oldest participants (at age 15) to receive the Bishop’s blessing because the date of the event was May 1909. The poor education of Ned and his parents was displayed by the fact that my grandfather was wrongly registered as a fourteen year-old.
Confirmation records are very interesting because they record the full names (and “reported” ages) of all the ancestral children in a generation who lived into their teens. This information may not appear in registered format anywhere else. It is easy to detect siblings where the full names and address of each child’s parents were recorded, as shown here. In some instances, the parental data might enlighten or verify your understanding of a mother’s maiden surname which was not forthcoming from other research sources.
As part of the Confirmation ceremony, each child is awarded a Confirmation forename which must be an established Catholic saint’s name. My grandfather chose a popular one, Joseph, but the record above is the only document I possess which proves that Edward Neary ever had a middle name. So, 120 years after his birth, my granddad can now be officially referred to as Edward Joseph Neary.
Perhaps even more poignant for me was reading the Confirmation record of my granddad’s sister, and the 11th child of Tom & Kate. This was the Neary girl known by the giggle-inducing name of Fanny who no-one could seem to recall. My earlier detective work verified that she was born in April 1892, but she passed away at the age of just 25 in the Sligo Asylum Hospital. Now, at last, funny Fanny had a proper and saintly title. As a young teenager in St Attracta’s RC church, my “lost” great-aunt was blessed with the full name of Fanny Mary Agnes Neary.
I am so glad that she chose a female saint’s name. 100 years ago, the vogue at Confirmation time in Ireland seems to have been that boys picked boys’ names, but girls could choose either gender. The Confirmation Book shows many examples of poor ill-advised teen-aged girls choosing new but odd male middle names such as Aloysius or Stanislaus.
One last research tip, worth remembering. Our Irish ancestors had a strange tendency of adopting their middle names as alternative new first names in adulthood, particularly if they migrated abroad. When searching for those elusive records featuring your forefathers (and mothers!), don’t forget that extra Confirmation Name as you fill in the search data box.
Then again, I can’t imagine that “Stanislaus Brennan, gender: female” will return many search results … unless she became a nun … but that’s another story for another day.
Posted in Ancestral Tales, Genealogy | Tagged ancestry, genealogy, Ireland, Irish Ancestry Research, Kilmacteigue, Kilmactigue, Neary, Stenson, Tourlestrane | 2 Replies
Murder in Medieval Kilmactigue
The oldest memorial stone in the graveyards of Kilmactigue parish in south County Sligo commemorates the death of a local resident in the 16th century. The image on the right obviously portrays the more modern recreation of the inscribed obituary of Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn which can be found at Banada Abbey cemetery. The story behind the premature death of Tadhg (pronounced as Tigue or Ty-g) reveals the perils of being an Irish literary artist in Medieval times. As shown, Tadhg Dall was a renowned Poet and Scholar who was often asked to recite his nationalistic compositions in the courtyards of provincial Irish lords and clan leaders.
Tadhg was descended from a family of respected professional poets from the north of the Connacht region in the west of Ireland. He was given the distinguishing middle name of “Dall” because he was blind, and this is the Irish language word for blind. He made his home in the townland of Coolrecuil in Kilmactigue parish. Tadhg’s brother Maol Muire also rose to prominence as an Archbishop of the Tuam Diocese.
For centuries, the Ó hUiginn family had been aligned to the O’Conor clan of Sligo, their historical patrons, but by the 1500’s, the O’Hara’s had the upper hand in the south of the county, and Kilmactigue became the O’Hara stronghold. It appears that Tadhg Dall’s bravery in speaking out about the injustice meted out by the ruling O’Hara’s to his fellow parishioners, cost him his life.
An inquisition held at Ballymote in 1593 recorded that Tadhg Dall had died at Coolrecuil on the last day of March 1591. Many years later, a special chancery inquisition in 1617 provided further details of the circumstances of Tadhg Dall’s untimely death as he entered middle age. The 1617 inquest notes tell us that members of the Ó hEadhra (O’Hara) sept from Cashel Carragh, Kilmacteige, were detained in 1591 for “murdering one Teige Dall O Higgen his wife and childe in the year one thousand five hundred ninetee and one or thereabouts”. Apparently, Tadhg had composed a satirical poem which narrated the actions of six “robbers,” all called O’Hara. The ruling Lord of the Manor was outraged and reacted by ordering that Tadhg Dall’s tongue be cut out. The obedient perpetrators clearly went even further and butchered all the inhabitants of the Ó hUiginn cottage in Coolrecuil.
The ancient poetic works of Tadhg Dall and his forefathers were preserved in early 17th century manuscripts created by banished Irish exiles living on mainland Europe. Fortunately, Tadhg Dall’s bloodline was also preserved because his nine year-old son, Tadhg Óg Ó hÚigínn, was absent from his childhood home when the murderous O’Hara gang spilled blood in medieval Coolrecuil. Tadgh Óg’s grandson, Pól Ó hUiginn also became a scholar and preacher of repute, although he defiantly converted to Protestantism after falling out of favour with his Roman Catholic peers.
In a perverse way, the gruesome events of 31st March 1591 at Coolrecuil have permitted historians to compile the oldest definitive Family Tree of a non-aristocratic resident of Kilmacteigue parish. Here is the upper part of the Ó hÚigínn tree covering the pre-18th century years which rarely feature in typical Irish Ancestry research projects.
Posted in Ancestral Tales, Genealogy, Lucky Dip | Tagged ancestry, cloongoonagh, coolrecuil, Ireland, Irish Ancestry Research, Kilmacteigue, Kilmactigue, O'Hara, Sligo | Leave a reply
Aclare in 936 [to be precise]
Posted on October 3, 2014 by Gearoid O'Neary
Information from 900 years back (written in 1836)
How the name Aclare originated is thus (according to the OS Memoirs of Lance-Corporal Henry Trimble in December 1836) :
In former days there was no bridge at Aclare but a ford with large stepping stones across the river, and when flooded the people had to throw a plank across those stones to get across the opposite side of the river.
In them days there were three brothers of the name of O’Hara. Their place of residence were in three castles, two of which are in this parish and the third in the parish of Achonry, namely Ballyara Castle. The Kilmacteige castles were at Bellaclare and Castle Rock.
The eldest brother was Clare O’Hara who lived in Bellaclare (Belclare) Castle.
The “modern” Aclare Bridge over the River Eignagh
A in Irish is “a ford,” and the Christian name of O’Hara being Clare, A and Clare joined together to make Aclare, being the name and true origin of this market village.
Posted in Ancestral Tales, Genealogy, Irish Maps | Tagged Aclare, ancestry, genealogy, Ireland, Irish Ancestry Research, Kilmacteige, Kilmacteigue, Kilmactigue, Ox Mountains, Sligo | 1 Reply
The Fair Day in Aclare
Posted on May 11, 2013 by Gearoid O'Neary
(Recounted by John Sheerin, 25th February 2001)
“On the fair day each townland had its own area where they kept the cattle. The people from Gurterslin and Drumartin areas always parked near the entrance of the village on the low road. The people from Tourlestrane, Carrane, Tubberoddy and Coolreagh parked from the barracks up the high road. Carrowloban, Kincullew and that area parked down the main street. The Killassers parked on the bridge. Each townland had their own place to park. When the cattle were sold they were put into Leheny’s yard. Then they were loaded on to lorries up the road. Before my time, the pigs were taken to Sligo. The farmer of that time would bring the pigs by horse and cart to Sligo. They would bring loads of meal and flour back on the return journey.
There were a lot of pubs in Aclare in those days. Some shops had both groceries and hardware on sale. There was Kathleen Feehely, Loftus’s, Higgins’, Ellen Haran’s (which became Mayes), Bradleys, Flatleys and Quinns. We had the fair winter and summer. Each farmer herded his animals in a cluster. The villagers from each townland would hold their animals together up against a wall or steer them around the street. Everyone watched their own cattle.
The sheep were on the backway. They were held with the dogs. They stayed together. When they had walked ten miles they were damn glad to stand for a while. When they were bought they were taken home on carts.
1961 Aclare Fair Day
The country people brought the banabhs in on carts. They’d sell them in front of Gallaghers. Touhy’s from Ballaghaderreen came with lorries for banabhs, which they kept in crates.
On the fair day the village was hard to pass through. It was noisy with voices bargaining, donkeys braying, the mooing of cows and baaing of sheep. The smells were strong. The place used to be in an awful mess when the day was over and the animals were taken home. The next day the County Council would come and sweep the streets. There was no water or electricity that time. We didn’t get the electricity until the 50’s. In the late 50’s we got the water on tap.
Of course there was many a row on a fair day. When the tinkers were around we often had fights with them. Mind you, not on fair days. One day there were only two guards in the barracks and a row got up. The guards came looking for help to put the troublemakers out of the village. Four or five of us tackled them with the guards. We put them out over the bridge and gave them a good hoisting. Nobody got injured and there were no bad feelings. The fair days were great. I miss them. They ended sometime in the 60’s. Then the mart was started in Aclare by Kennedys. That continued for about ten years.
The village had a shoe maker called Dinny Walsh. Kate Fahy was another shopowner. She sold sweets. Other owners were Bretts, Sheerins, McAllisters and Evans. Each shop had a hardware section. Charlie Brett was the blacksmith. Years before I remember there were three bakeries in Aclare; Loftus’, Higgins’ and Lundys. There was also a cooper who lived down at the edge of the river where the car park is now. I don’t remember him but he was in it. There was also a butter house down along the river.
But getting back to the fair day. It was one of the best fairs in Ireland. The jobbers used to come from Sligo, Ballina, Northern Ireland and Roscommon. The fair was held on the last Wednesday of the month. We stayed in the shops and protected the outside by putting barrels and bars on the streets. These stopped the cattle coming up on the footpath and breaking the windows.
The jobber would come along and ask the farmer the price of the animal. They made the bargain and finished the thing with a slap of the hand. The deal was made. After that they’d go into the pub and have a drink.”
Posted in Ancestral Tales, Lucky Dip | Tagged Aclare, Ireland, Kilmacteigue, Kilmactigue, Sligo | 1 Reply
All-Ireland Inquest
Posted on September 26, 2012 by Gearoid O'Neary
Dear Danny,
Went to the Roaring Cock yesterday lunchtime for a pint and the post-All-Ireland inquest discussions. I overheard this bar-room conversation between two locals:
“What time did you leave on Sunday?”
“I dunno. I woke up in Charlestown, early hours Monday. Why – what time did you leave?”
“So – did I see you on Sunday?”
The Irish really know how to celebrate big sporting events.
Gearoid, Ha ha, brilliant ! I was really sad to hear The Green and Red had been beaten again; I thought they might have done it this time around. I’m sure mighty craic was had whatever. Did you watch it in the Cock ? I was wondering if the Killybacside gang were for Mayo or Donegal.
Danny, as you should know – Mayo & Sligo are in the Connacht province, and even though Mayo “bet” Sligo in the Connacht final, healthy local tradition says that you support your neighbours – even after defeat. I know it’s the opposite in Lancashire. Could you ever support Burnley in the FA Cup Final if they beat Blackburn Rovers in the semi!! Then again, this FA cup final could only ever be played on Fantasy Island.
Donegal play in the Ulster Championship. They are close neighbours but they’re separated by a small strip of Leitrim. We were glad that the GAA final involved two teams from the West for a change, but the Green & Red flags were flying in our parish on Sunday. My great-grandmother was a Mayo lady, so I cheered them on too. I was first in the Roaring Cock on Sunday morning (before the bar officially opened), escaping early from yet another midday funeral mass. I even beat old Hughie O’Gara to the bar, and he is a permanent fixture on the bar stool by the turf fire. I took my car home when I was only 1 or 2 jars over the limit, and vowed to return if Mayo got off to a good start. They didn’t. Two goals down in no time. Game over – barring a miracle. So I got sozzled at home, channel-hopping between Premier League soccer, GAA & Formula One.
I think Mayo’s failure just contributed to excess partying in the Cock for no good reason at all. Many say they cannot remember the second half – or the next few hours – or the closed door session after midnight, etc. Where do they get the stamina? Years of practice, I suppose.
Gearoid, I am so happy. I slept ! I went out for dinner with the Dublin/Nottingham girls and had a few beers before I leave Pamplona; I put the earplugs in to drown out the phantom snorer and was dead to the world. Today’s another day. I woke at 6.00am today pleasantly surprised to have slept so well. I wasn’t at all surprised to hear that ”Foghorn Leghorn” had kept half the dorm awake again. In the spirit of the Camino, I gave a spare pair of earplugs to an Australian pilgrim who looked like she was more in need than I was.
Early start for me too, today, Danny. Got to research some Dubliners called Costello, a typically Irish surname – but they turn out to have been the Costa family originally from Lucca in Tuscany 200 years ago, and then they started to appreciate their Italian heritage in the 20th century and they start calling themselves Castello after further emigration around the world. Irish genealogy is never straightforward, especially as many Irish folk “adopt” forenames in adulthood which were never mentioned on their baptism records. I have Irish three aunts; my dad’s sisters. They were always known to me in Lancashire as Maureen, Eileen & Doreen. It turns out that they were born as Mary, Attracta & Joan ….. and even Hughie O’Gara (Cock fixture & fitting) was never christened as Hugh or anything like!
Danny, as you’ll appreciate, drink-driving around our parish involves keeping your vehicle in the two well-worn ruts in the single track lanes separated by the green strip of overgrown grass which has sprung up from the ancient tarmac last laid decades ago. It is impossible to leave the road, but meeting a fellow drink-driver coming the other way is a difficult challenge. And if the approaching fellow traveler is perched upon a rusty old red (unlicensed) tractor, then take evasive action. My shiny new motor now has the scars of one of these encounters.
But a bump or two on the family car is like a badge of honour around here – as is the 12 months driving ban for those heroes daft enough to venture into town after a few pints in the village “shops”. Liver complaints are unheard of – but bowel cancer seems to be the price you pay in old age for a lifetime of living off nothing more than Guinness soup. The recommended local medicine for bowel cancer is more Guinness, so that’s alright then.
By the way – Happy Arthur’s Day! Will you find a pint of the black stuff beyond Pamplona – if you dare venture off today.
Arthur’s Day is a great Irish invention which now ensures that the 12 month wait for Paddy’s Day is halved. It’s always better to have a reason to get totally “locked” as the Dubs say. But with Arthur’s Day falling midway between the GAA Football Final and the All-Ireland Hurling replay this year, there won’t be much turf cut this week ……
Which reminds me – a great headline in the Western People this week, as follows:No sun, no silage, no turf, no Sam – a Bad Year for Mayo.
Up Galway, in the replayed hurling final. Might venture out for a drink.
Gearoid , that cracked me up. You should write a book. Oh I forgot , you already have! Did you see the news? Rioting in Pamplona by Spanish austerity protesters.
The Spanish are mid-table rioters as far as I can see on the TV news. Be thankful you’re not passing through Athens. The Greeks really know how to trash the place.
Meanwhile, in parallel to your long trek, the 9-Day West of Ireland Drinking Olympics reached midway on Arthur’s Day. I gave up work early and ventured into the main stadium (aka The Roaring Cock) at about 4pm to check on progress. After patiently waiting for landlord Con’s middle daughter, Mae O (from Sligo), to set me up the perfect pint of Guinness, I jokingly asked whether I was too early for the Happy Hour free black stuff which I knew officially commenced at precisely 17:59. Hughie O’Gara in his familiar corner piped up that in Charlestown they had free drinks for two hours. Now Hughie has an odd Sligo accent which combined with the effects of a mild stroke makes him speak in a strange Dalek-like tongue. To me, it sounded like Hughie said that our Mayo neighbours were offering “free drinks for chihuahuas” – so as my pint settled right on cue, I was able to raise my glass to the regulars and exclaim (as per the Guinness TV ad) –
“Chihuahuas!”
Hughie didn’t get it. He just said, “I’m not kidding ye. Two hours.”
The session had been re-invigorated. Mae O gave everyone a free pint ahead of time as we giggled like kids and saluted our hero – “TWARTA!”
Next up, Matt The Truth explained that a new word had been invented locally. He told us that the definition of the word is – “to fall into a drunken stupor whilst watching your sporting heroes not unexpectedly let you down yet again in the biggest match of the season.” He advised that this word is DEJAVOODOO.
And then we saw the story in the Irish Independent newspaper on the bar top, wherein a Hong Kong business tycoon is offering $50 million to any man who will “woo his lesbian daughter”. This headline gave ample scope for a prolonged debate about different folk’s interpretation of the art of wooing, especially if the lady prefers to bat for the other side. As you might expect, the conversation degenerated and made young Mae O blush, and cannot be repeated here. Pious Peter was cringing, and said with his lisp, “Now, that’s what I call wooed [rude]” – so I retorted with “as the Chinese millionaire said to his spread-eagled dyke of a daughter.”
My drinking companion, innocent 89 year-old bachelor ‘uncle’ John asked his usual question when female homosexuality is raised. “What do lesbians actually do?” he enquired. Matt The Truth gave him a subtle clue when he said that there’s two lesbians who live on his lane, and they grow a lot of courgettes. John was baffled and advised us that he prefers cabbage.
Sore knees are nothing. My guts are starting to ache this week. Is it the porter, the side-splitting craic, or both?
Keep going Dan. You’ve progressed about 1.5 inches along the Camino map on my 12″ screen.
Where’s he heading?
Posted in Ancestral Tales, Camino Rambling | Tagged Aclare, ancestry, genealogy, Ireland, Irish Ancestry Research, Kilmacteigue, Kilmactigue, Sligo | Leave a reply
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Books > Art and Architecture > Architecture > The Torana in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture
The Torana in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture
by Parul Pandya Dhar
From the Jacket
The present work discuses in depth the subject of toranas (arched portals or festoons) in the ancient and medieval architecture of South- and South-east Asia, with special emphasis on Indian representations. Their antiquity and rationale; their continued presence in association with stupas, caves, temples, mosques, cities, forts, and palaces; their myriad forms and transformations; and their aesthetic and symbolic relationship to the structure in question are analyzed stage-by-stage in this book. The rich corpus of toranas included here has been critically and comparatively analyzed in relation to traditional practice, as well as in the light of the medieval architectural treatises, historical records, and other literary sources. The approach is ‘micro’ in the sense of being focused on a specific architectural element but ‘macro’ in its regional and temporal span. In addition, the exposition reveals the grammar as well as the manifold visual formulations of the torana as representative of the basic principles of traditional Indian architectural ornament: integral to the structure, functionally apt, aesthetically significant, and visually evocative, with sound and sophisticated design principles.
The text is richly illustrated, bringing together material scattered over several well-known as well as remote sites, museums, and archival collections. Whereas a major part of this book details the journey of the torana in ancient and medieval India, the section on early beginnings also includes references from Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the final chapter surveys, with a view to compare, parallel yet distinct expressions in Cambodia, Thailand, Champa, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
Parul Pandya Dhar is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi. Prior to this she was teaching Indian Art History at the National Museum Institute, New Delhi. Her research interests focus on the cultural history of ancient and medieval India and Southeast Asia. She has been awarded prestigious research fellowships and grants such as the Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral research fellowship (Germany) and the Nehru Trust Research Grant (U.K.). She has contributed several research papers and has edited a book, Cultural Interface of India with Asia: Religion, Art & Architecture (2004).
Indian art-historical studies have covered considerable ground, changing course several times during the last hundred and fifty years. When Alexander Cunningham argued for a separate body for this study, the focus of his argument was on the survey of India’s antiquities, and when it was established in 1871, this term received centre space in its name, Archaeological Survey of India. However, the results of the first comprehensive survey of Indian monuments under the title History of Indian and Eastern Architecture were presented by an enterprising architectural historian, James Fergusson, in the year 1876. He wrote this as a complement to his grand series, History of Architecture in All Countries, begun earlier. Though Fergusson made a pioneering attempt at synthesizing a vast monumental material collected across the country, the traditional context of the monuments was felt missing in his History. Rajendralal Mitra and others had already engaged themselves with this issue, though not to the full liking of Fergusson, but to be fair, we must not that Fergusson himself had been bitten by Indian mythologies almost a decade before he began to study the history of architecture. His Tree and Serpent Worship, or Illustration of Mythology and Art in India (1868) had preceded his History.
The textual studies on Indian traditional arts received momentum in the early part of the 20th century. This is made evident by the publications of Ganapati Sastri (1913-1919), T.A. Gopinatha Rao (1916), Jouveau Dubreuil (1917), E.B. Havell (1915, 1920), P.K. Acharya (1921, 1927, 1933, 1946), P.N. Bose (1926), Bhattashali (1929), Gravely and Ramachandran (1936), H. Zimmer (1946), M.V. Mallayya (1949) and others. A Dictionary (1927) as well as an Encyclopaedia (1946) of Hindu Architecture also came out during this period. More studies followed, covering not only the vastu, silpa, and citra, but also symbols, motifs, myths, and legends. While all these may have pointed out the missing links in the study of Indian architecture by the early western scholars, Forgusson’s masterly synthesis of Indian architecture could not be surpassed by his successors. This is true despite the expansive and extensive coverage of V.A. Smith on Fine Art, E.B. Havell and Ananda Coomaraswamy on Art, F.H. Gravely, O.C. Ganguly, and Percy Brown on Architecture, and S. Kramrisch on Temples.
During this period the archaeological reporting, that had occupied the centre stage in art-historical studies, was continued both at the national and provincial levels alongside studies in iconography, iconology, mythology, philosophy, aesthetics, chronology, composition, ritual, technique, artisanship, and such other aspects. Some of these studies were made in isolation, while some others were made across boundaries. Some maintained a balance between the archaeological material and textual terminology; some others ignored one for the other. Excessive application of Indian textual terminology caused as much discomfort as excessive employment of western jargons and clichés. Whatever virtuosity one may find in such excesses, there is no doubt that it made the reading difficult and the meaning distant. On occasions, exposition in unintelligible vocabulary became the hallmark of scholarship and this was true of both Indian textual scholars and western-oriented Indian art-historians. While this state continues even now - especially among those engaged in modern arts or modern interpretation of traditional arts - the situation is made bearable by some at least who try to balance tradition with modernity and write to convince rather than to confound. It is in this background that I read Parul’s Torana and found it very refreshing. She writes to convince without abandoning Indian textual terminologies but without parading them.
Parul has made a massive attempt to study a single but very striking architectural member of Indian monumental art. It is massive because she covers nearly the entire history of the torana-motif, beginning from the earliest Buddhist and Jain instances (Bharhut, Sanchi, Mathura) and ending with those of Indo-Islamic times (notably of the Sultanate and Mughal periods). The spread is also vast. It includes examples from the major part of South Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka) and Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Champa or Vietnam). We find among the examples, religious (cave and structural) establishments, civil, civic, ceremonial, and defence architecture, free-standing ones, and many more of this kind. In the temple complex, this architectural member is situated at the entrance to the temple as well as the sanctum-cella, in the halls, as decorative adjunct to the vestibule, as arched frame of niches, as the prabha or aureole of the deities in the sanctum and on the outer wall, and as decorative frame on the parapet and tower. Outside of the temple-complex, examples associated with forts, streets, mountain paths, and tank bunds are also covered. The memorial (kirti-torana) and ceremonial (tulabhara, hindola) pavilions are also not left out.
Parul frames her arguments effectively, making use of more than two dozen ancient and medieval texts. But the weight of the scholarship is so carefully concealed that the labour gone into it is hardly felt. The reading is made easy though the subject matter is complex. This is achieved by employing textual terminology only where it is inevitable, but always ascertaining its meaning first. The clarity is enhanced by an amazing variety of illustrations- photographic and hand-drawn - chosen with considerable care and placed in appropriate contexts. This makes consultation easy and the context and the content clear.
P.K. Acharya was perhaps among the first to draw attention to the term Torana in his Dictionary, though Cunningham, Alexander Rea, Fergusson, and Smith had noticed its architectural contexts. He instanced descriptions occurring in three major texts on architecture, two epics, two puranas, and the Arthasastra, besides a dozen and a half inscriptions. Parul has added more texts and inscriptions. For the first time, we learn about two dozen types of toranas found in South Asian and Southeast Asian monuments. Some attempts have been already made to study the temple towers, ceilings, traceries, and gateways (gopuras), but the depth of inquiry is far more formidable here than in any I have read so far.
Parul briefly discusses the etymon of torana (tur-tvarane), but quickly passes on to concentrate on its variety, form, and context. This creates scope to explore the other dimensions of this architectural member. The provincial styles presented here provide firm clues to the existence of several regional language texts and traditions, especially in Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Karnataka. To sample how a study of these could be rewarding, I may instance one or two of what I am aware of in Karnataka.
Though this term occurs first in the Pali-Prakrit records, its entry in Sanskrit and then in the regional languages was not delayed far too long. I have not been able to locate this term either in the Vedic texts or the Sangam compendium, but its occurrence in the epics, puranas, and sastras (especially Arthasastra) and the Cilappatikaram (5,104) and Manimekalai (1, 45), cannot be disputed. Parul has drawn attention to several references occurring in the Ramayana and Mahabharata, but the Toranasphatika built by Dhritarashtra for the dice play, mentioned in the Sabha Parva, seems to have eluded her. This was obviously a pavilion of palatial scale built of crystals or a creeper, as the term sphatika carries both these meanings.
I have not been able to trace the term torana in the Kannada inscriptions of the first millennium CE., but its occurrence, though somewhat sparingly, in Kannada literary works and Sanskrit inscriptions of this period cannot be doubted. However, from about the beginning of the second millennium, its occurrence becomes as common in Kannada texts and Karnataka inscriptions as in monumental representation. I may present a couple of unusual instances which may or may not be found elsewhere. Some records in Karnataka assign auspicious (mangala) and honorific (vaibhava) significance to toranas and also make them moving objects on the model of the moving idols (utsava vigrahas) of divinities. A Vijayanagara copper plate (1450) associated with the Raghottama Matha describes how its pontiff was honoured with auspicious symbols that could accompany him wherever he traveled in the four directions of the empire. These symbols comprised the throne, crown, palanquin, white-parasol, double-whisk, fan, day-torch, cymbals, yellow and red flags, auspicious musical instruments including cymbals and conch, and the torana. Interestingly, the record which makes this declaration is called vaibhava (pump, glory)-tamra-sasana (copper plate record).
Just as the receipt of the makara-torana was a matter of great pride and privilege, the loss of it was a matter of great insult and humiliation. That capturing the makara-torana of the vanquished adversary (like capturing the enemy’s tutelary deity) was an act of great bravery is proven by an 11th century Tamil record found in Karnataka. It describes how, after defeating the Chalukyan king in a celebrated battle, the Chola king captured not only his wives, family treasure, conches, umbrella, trumpets, white-whisks, the royal banner, the camel force but also his makara-torana. While this makara-torana was one of the regal paraphernalia of the king, there was also an immovable one called vicchadira- (vidyadhara-) torana at the war gate of the enemy’s extensive capital-city, which he had already captured along with the splendid wicket door set with large jewels.
Another point of interest is the deification of torana. This seems to have a hoary history, for one of the thousand names of Siva is stated to be Torana and Tarambika’s alternative name is mentioned as Toranesvari in the puranas. The worship of toranas, especially those attached to tanks, was not uncommon. Like the goddess Laksmi, this deity seems to have been associated with water and lotuses. A medieval Kannada Jain purana describes a lofty stone Torana located amidst lotuses. This kind of deification seems to have continued through the ages, making the images of Siva, Visnu, Ganesa, Laksmi, Saraswati or Sakti, Indra, and such other gods located in the centre of the architrave. These are pointed out only to show what kind of provocation could be provided by this study and what more could be added to it by exploring the regional sources, both textual and monumental. Parul’s observation on the ritualistic significance accorded to the torana in the worship of goddess Pattini in Sri Lanka is to be understood in this background.
Parul has tread in the path of Professor M.A. Dhaky, who besides his encyclopaedic pursuits, has also pioneered such in-depth studies as an author of a couple of monographs on temple ceilings and traceries. Professor Dhaky should be pleased to accept the dedication of this book, not only because it is a continuation of his work but also because it is satisfying in scholarship. I am sure other art-historians will not be far behind in welcoming this very gratifying study.
As the architectural expressions of ancient and medieval India grew in dimensions and complexity, detailed attention was lavished on specific members such as pillars, traceries, ceilings, doorframes, and archways. Consequently, each of these gained a rich repertoire replete with intricate relationships between form and function, symbol and significance, structure and ornament. A study of the rationale, grammar, and visual formulations of the units of traditional Indian architecture expectedly provides significant ground for art historical research, one that has so far received limited attention. The present work focuses on a specific architectural entity, the torana (arched portal or festoon), and examines the ways in which intent, function, artistic criteria, and cultural contexts determined its manifestations in different architectural settings during the ancient and medieval periods.
Semantic Concerns
Though difficult to translate into English, the torana may best be described as an arched portal or festoon associated with traditional Indian architecture. The etymon of the word torana (tur-tvarane) implies ‘to forge forwards’ or ‘to rush forth’, plausibly relating to a portal or passage which enabled efficient entry and exit. An associated root word, tr, means ‘to pass or cross over,’ or ‘to attain an end or aim. The latter, though grammatically not the correct root word for torana, non-the-less suggests its role as an architectural symbol of a rite of passage or liminality. The gloss of torana in the Amarakosa (c. sixth century) mentions its function in early Indian architecture as an outer gateway (bahirdvaram), as compared to the gopura, which is defined there as a city gateway (puradvaram). The Halayudhakosa (Abhidhanaratnamala), a medieval lexicon (c. 11th century), identifies the festooned garland (vandanamala) itself as the torana. The commentator of the Abhidhanaratnamala refers to its context, configuration, and constituent units: it is bow-shaped, ornamented with a variety of jewels and clothes, placed in the upper regions between two pillars, and situated in front of an outer entrance. The torana made up of such festoons is seen in several parts of the country to this day. The dual implication of the term as a free-standing archway and an arched festoon encountered in the lexicons can also be observed in practice. The first interpretation alludes to the free-standing torana comprising the base, pillars, lintel, and pediment, with or without the arched festoon (vandanamala or toranamala) between the pillars, whereas the second refers to the festoon itself as the torana. As per the Abhidhanacintamani of Hemacandra, a torana is the free-standing structure at the outer entrance and includes an auspicious garland (vandanamalika) in its upper portion. The twin connotations are merged in one architectural unit in this text, as seen also in practice in the free-standing examples and the miniature versions carved in relief on temples.
Early texts such as Kautilya’s Arthasastra (c. third century BCE to first century), the Brhat Samhita (c. 8560 CE) and the Visnudharmottara Purana (c. seventh century), as also Nirgrantha texts such as the Rajaprasniya Sutra and the Jivajivabhigama Sutra (c. second to third century), Buddhist jatakas, and the epics [the Ramayana (c. first century) and the Mahabharata (c. second century BCE to fifth century)] provide information on toranas, though from these texts it is not easy to visualize their precise configuration (see Chapter 1). Detailed and technical articulations of the typology, placement, form, proportion, and thematic content of the toranas is met in the vastusastras (architectural treatises), the agamas, and the samhitas (texts of a ritualistic and technical nature) of medieval times.
A degree of fluidity appears to have prevailed in the application of terms such as torana, gopura, and pratoli during the early period. Kautilya’s Arthasastra mentions the torana and the pratoli while discussing the construction of forts. Both occur as architectural members placed at the main entrances punctuating a fortification. The pratoli, located between two gate towers or pylons (dvara-attalakas), served a defensive purpose, while the torana (about which no detail other than its measurement [two cubits] is mentioned) as a part of the gatehouse appears to have had no more than a symbolic and ornamental role. An early example of a torana as part of the gatehouse (pratoli with gate towers) may be seen in a relief sculpture from Amarvati (Fig. 1.24).
Yet, the differentiation in the usage and meanings of the two terms is not always clear. Destroying the torana of a fortified city in order to break into the enemy’s territory finds mention in the Samgamavacara Jataka. Here, the term torana appears to have been used loosely for indicating the gopura or the pratoli, which are not mentioned (see App. 2, The Jataka…). In the Amarakosa, Abhidhanaratnamala, and later Sanskrit dictionaries, the meaning of pratoli is associated with the synonyms rathya and visikha, which indicate the main street or the carriage road of a city. Perhaps implicit is the association of the city gateway (pratoli) leading directly to the main street (rathya, visikha) or a city. An even greater merging of boundaries is noticed in case of the terms pratoli and gopura, which seem to have acquired clearer formalistic differentiation only during the medieval times, as for example, the medieval Dravidian temple gopuras. Etymologically, gopura (gup: to guard, defend, or protect) shares the defence function of the pratoli.
The medieval pratolis such as those at Jhinjhuvada (Fig. 4.91; c. 1100-1140 CE) and Dabhoi (Figs. 4.92-4.94;c. 122-1253 CE) are embellished with toranas in their upper regions. Such toranas are designated as pratoli-toranas and are distinct from other free-standing examples. Yet, the confusion between pratolis and free-standing toranas resurfaces in the interpretations of medieval texts (such as the Silpa Smrti Vastuvidyayam, the Prasadamanjari of Sutradhara Nath, the Ksirarnava, and the Diparnava) by traditional practitioners of architecture who describe the five types of free-standing toranas as pratolis and pratolya-toranas. In this study, the term pratoli is employed for the main gateways of medieval forts and the term pratoli-torana is used to indicate the toranas gracing the upper regions of the gateways after such references in medieval texts such as the Samaranganasutradhara (SS) and the Aparajitaprccha (Appr.) (App. 3, nos. 7a and 7b).
The toranas, free-standing or in relief, did not serve a structural or utilitarian purpose in the same manner in which the base, walls, pillars, ceilings, or traceries served in a building. Yet their continued presence attests to the importance given to them in traditional Indian architecture due to their auspicious, symbolic, didactic, narrative, and ornamental implications. They are encountered in association with stupas, cave temples, structural temples, secular buildings, and also some Indo-Islamic structures. The varied creedal and architectural settings and the different regional and temporal frameworks, alongside the growing complexity of India’s material culture, seem to have led to several adaptations of the torana in relation to the structure in question, its basic formulations, and its thematic content. Within each of these categories too, the torana underwent several incarnations. Some of the complex processes of form and transformation of the torana found codification in the medieval treatises. Along with the details of terminology, the treatises provide valuable information pertaining to their basic concepts and visual formulations. The reciprocal dialogue between theory and practice an the space for creativity within the textual constructs is highlighted when relating the texts to the actual creations.
The technical terminology employed in this work adheres to that mentioned in the architectural treatises, of southern as well as northern Indian affiliations. Despite criticism against employing technical terms occurring the treatises in some recent writings, I believe that they play an important role in arriving at a culturally viable framework for an art historical analysis of the Indian temple. There are several terms in Sanskrit that find suitable parallels in the English language; such instances are substituted by English equivalents for purposes of readability and lucidity. Yet this is not always possible. The necessity of using the vocabulary given in the treatises is evident when referring to those aspects which are specific to a culture and which may not be represented authentically by substitute terms belonging to another tradition. In the present case, for instance, the torana is not an arch in the sense that the arch is understood in European art history. Nor is it equivalent to a festoon, a garland, a lintel, or a niche-frame by virtue of its varied and changing locations within an architectural setting. The danger of arriving at misleading nomenclatures by studiously avoiding culture-specific terminology is perhaps greater than the effort required to understand the logic of the concepts and the constructs that went hand-in-hand with the architectural exercise. The pertinent focus in Indian art historiography of doing away with colonial mindsets and approaches on the one hand and also abandoning indigenous texts on the other hand, does appear paradoxical. No doubt, the technical treatises do not provide all the answers and are also unintelligible in parts. Yet, when understood in relation to actual practice and in conjunction with other historical sources, they constitute a significant corpus of traditional knowledge. The texts referred to in this study include the Brhat Samhita, Visnudharmottara Purana, Samaranganasutradhara, Aparajitaprccha, Mayamata, Kamikagama, Isanasivagurudevapaddhati, Jinasamhita of Bhattaraka Ekasamdhi, Kasyapasilpa, and Manasara, among others.
One of the main concerns of this study is to understand the shifts in the configuration and context of the torana during the ancient and medieval times. The manner in which the torana integrates itself in a stupa complex, for example, varies from that of its manifestation in cave architecture, which, in turn, differs from the way it appears in a structural temple. Its articulation on the Dravidian temples of the Pallava period is distinct from its presence on the medieval temples of Karnataka, which, in turn, reveal a repertoire different from that seen on medieval temples in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Within these broad parameters are the subtler alterations in the intent and rendition of toranas. An attempt to understand the broader shifts as also the subtler developments in the art-historical journey of the torana requires a comprehensive approach. Wherever possible, historical records in the form of inscriptions and literary sources of a non-technical nature have also been studied in addition to actual examples and the technical information given in the treatises. The endeavour here has been to consider ‘the text,’ ‘the image,’ and ‘the context’ as partners.
In arriving at a comprehensive visual database of sites and monuments relevant to a study of toranas, earlier researches, surveys, reports, documentations, and archival efforts made by organizations such as the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), Gurgaon, and the Institut Francais de Pondichery, proved indispensable. It is only recently that such comprehensive and comparative works have been made possible, largely due to the documentation and archival efforts made by these organizations. The inclusion of some Southeast and South Asian parallels in the final chapter is intended for understanding the comparative development of this feature in varied yet allied cultural contexts, often leading to visual formulations not encountered in India.
An important concern relates to chronology. No attempt is made here to suggest a date on the basis of the stylistic character of the torana along. A motif or an element with a long life does not always follow a linear path of development. Detailed research on the morphology of Indian architecture is already available to a large extent and the dating here follows the established norms. In Southeast Asian temples geared towards a holistic chronological assessment would perhaps yield more reliable results. For the present purpose, I have of necessity taken the available chronology of Southeast Asian structures as given to us.
The toranas are often embellished with representations of divinities, narratives, and with varied motifs and symbols such as kirttimukhas (gorgon faces), makras (fantastic crocodile-dolphin creatures), vyalas (leonine creatures), ganas (goblin-dwarfs), vidyadharas (angelic semi-divinities), kinnaras (bird-men), nagas (serpents), hamas (geese), ratnas (jewels), puspas (flowers), and patras (leafy motifs). Each of these is also found on several other parts of the temple and relates to the conceptual and symbolic basis of the structure with which the torana is associated. At some places, I have suggested their symbolic relationship to the torana. However, my emphasis throughout is on the visual processes of form an transformation of the torana within the framework of its shifting contexts.
The dividing line between the artisan and the artist, fine and decorative art, and, art and craft, is a product of the modern mind and circumstance. In Europe, the Renaissance marked a shift in attitudes towards the visual arts which were till then not considered as exalted as the liberal arts. This shift was reflected in the beginnings of a divine between fine art and decorative art that ultimately separated the artist from the artisan. Traditional ornament, which had been an integral part of art and architecture, ran out of favour in the midst of newer intellectual and ideological principles of design and rational aesthetics that advocated “a consciously celebrated poverty of ornament. The resultant design ideologies that spoke of the honesty of structure, function, and material also showed an aversion to traditional ornament, considered to be in “bad taste.” Yet, post-modern ideologies began to evince a renewed interest in the past histories of ornament. Though the history of medieval European architectural ornament has received fair attention from scholars, this subject is yet to receive its due share of attention in the Indian context. One offshoot of the present study, it is hoped, shall be to evoke a greater interest in the validity of traditional Indian architectural forms and ornament as integral to the structure, aesthetically significant, and visually evocative, that can offer certain visual criteria and aesthetic principles as a frame of reference to the contemporary world.
Foreword by S. Settar xii
Acknowledgements xvi
Semantic Concerns; The Approach
Notes and References 6
The Beginnings 7
Early Instances; Fragments and Inscriptions; The North-Western Region: Begram, Sirkam, Sirkap, Butkara; The Western Deccan: Pitalkhora, Nasik; The Eastern Deccan: Amaravati; Eastern India; Early Literary Sources; Free-standing Toranas: c. 300-500 CE
Notes and References 25
The Torana in Treatises 27
The Treatises and their Nature; Meaning of the Term; Role and Purpose; Architectural Setting; The Formal Types; Sculptural Embellishment and Material; Measurements and Proportions
Southern Representations: 37
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamilnadu
The Maharashtra Region (c. fifth to seventh centuries)
(Ajanta, Jogeshvari, Magathana, Kanheri, Ellora (Pre-Rastrakuta Phase) 38
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh (c. seventh and eighth centuries)
(Badami, Aihole, Sandur, Pattadakal, Undavalli, Kudaveli Sangameshvara) 43
Maharashtra: Ellora (Rastrakuta Phase) 50
The Tamil Region: (c. seventh and eight centuries)
Dalavanur, Siyamangalam, Mamallapuram, Kanchipuram 58
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh: (c. 9th-10th centuries)
(Bhavanasi Sangam, Kukkanur, Sirval, Hallur, Aihole, Pattadakal, and Mudhol) (Late Rastrakuta Period) 60
Biccavolu and Chebrolu: Eastern Calukyan (c. 9th-10th centuries) 65
Instances from Calukyan, Ganga, Nolamba, Santara, and other territories 67
Northern Karnataka and Maharashtra (c. 10th-13th centuries): 70
Antarala - and Dvara-toranas: Temple Interiors and Entrances
(Ron, Sudi, Bevur, Kuralgeri, Nagai, Lakkundi, Huli, Kallur, Kuruvatti, Unkal, Hampi (?), Niralagi, Belagavi, Sinnar, Sedam, Hottul, Kalgi, and Narayanpur)
Southern Karnataka: Hoysalas (c. 11th-13th centuries):
Antarala - and Dvara-toranas (Belur and Halebidu) 82
Karnataka: (c. 10th-13th centuries) 87
Kudya-toranas (wall toranas)
(Lakkundi, Kuruvatti, Dambal, and Ittagi)
Karnataka: (c. 10th -13th centuries)
Nasi toranas (Annigeri and Ittagi) 89
The Andhra Region: (c. 11th -13th centuries)
(Panagal, Hanamkonda, and Warangal) 90
Tamil Nadu and other Southern Regions: (c. 9th -12th centuries)
Patra toranas (Vijayanarayanam, Tirupattur, Tirunelveli, Melapalluvur, Kuruvitturai, Kambadahalli, and Hottul) 94
The Tamil Region: (c. 9th-12th centuries)
Citra - and Ratna-toranas (Kumbhakonam, Lalgudi, Srinivasanallur,
Tiruverumbur, Tirumiyaccur, Pudukottai, Kilaiyur, and Thanjavur) 96
Later Southern Indian Toranas (Post-13th century) 101
Free-standign Toranas (Ittagi, Aihole, Alampur, Warangal, Ainavolu, and Hampi) 102
Notes and References 108
Northern Representations: 111
Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, and Bengal
WESTERN AND CENTRAL INDIA 112
Early Representations (c. sixth to ninth centuries
Tala, Sirpur, Ghumli, Rampol, Chittorgarh, Abaneri, Karvana, and Deogarh
C. 10th century 115
(Kaleshvari-ni-nal, Nagda, Vadhvan, Kakoni, Khajuraho, Ghanerav,
Gyaraspur, Atru, Harshagiri, Badoli, Kiradu, and Gurgi) 115
C. 11th -12th Century 127
Illika-toranas (Khajuraho, Panna, Kiradu, Modhera, Kumbhariya, Mount Abu, Girnar, Delmal, Asoda, Vadnagar, and Siddhapur)
Andola-toranas (Khor, Jhalarapatan, Bijolia, Deogarh, Modhera, Kumbhariya, Mount Abu, Jhadoli)
C. 13th century : Luna Vasahi (Mount Abu) 145
Free-standing Toranas 148
Central India: Badoh, Gyaraspur, Terahi, Gurgi; Rajasthan: Medta-Phalodi, Harshagiri, Badoli, Nagda; Gujarat: Shamalaji
Free-standign Toranas (c. 11th century onwards): 158
Osian, Modhera, Mount Abu, Chandravati, Delmal, Menal, Eklingji,
Lodrava, Siddhapur, Vadnagar, Asoda, Piludra, Kapadvanj,
Some other instances (Deogarh, Prabhas Patan, Ghumli, Somnath,
Ratanpur, Lodrava, Jaisalmer, Abhapur, Darol, Amber)
Pratoli-toranas: 172
(Jhinghuvada, Dabhoi, Mandhata, Junagarh, Gwalior)
Leter Developments: 179
The Toranas in Medieval Indo-Islamic Monuments and Secular Structures
The Toranas on Later Temples 183
Later Illika-toranas 196
EASTERN INDIAN REPRESENTATIONS 199
Free-standing Instances
Engaged Toranas on Temple Walls
Depictions in Sculpture and Painting
Later Examples from West Bengal
Southeast and South Asian Parallels:
Cambodia, Thailand, Champa, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka 213
Terminological Concerns 214
Cambodia: The Sambor Prei Kuk Style; The Prei Kmeng Style;
The Kompong Preah Style; Later Styles; Indian and Cambodian Toranas : Comparative References 214
Champa: Type 1 (Mi Son E 1); Type 2 (Hoa Lai, Dong Khuong My); Type 3 (Mi Son A 1); Type 4 (Duong Long); Type 5 (Thap Mam) 238
Indonesia: The Central Javanese Candis: Architectural Setting of the Toranas; Kalamukha on Javanese toranas; Chronology and Links with India; Central Javanese Kala-makara-toranas: Affiliations with India; Prabhavali Toranas: The Candi Kalasan Variant: Gavaksa or Nadi Toranas; The Bow-shaped Variant: Capakara Torana; 241
Parikara and Kudya Toranas at Barabudur; some other instances; Eastern Javanese Style
Myanmar 260
Some South Asian Parallels: Nepal; Sri Lanka 262
Overview 273
Appendix 1: Inscriptional Notices 278
Appendix 1: Literary Sources 283
Appendix 1: References in Treatises 285
Appendix 1: Variants in Treatises 290
Glossary 292
Abbreviations and Conventions 296
Image Credits 297
Bibliography: Primary Sources; Secondary Sources. 298
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FCA US Quality Engineer Earns 2019 Black Engineer of the Year Gerald Johnson Legacy Award
U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine awarded its 2019 Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) Gerald Johnson Legacy Awardto Tanya Foutch, Quality Engineering Supervisor, FCA US LLC.
Foutch joins a growing list of diverse FCA US leaders recognized over the years for their technical achievements, management skills, leadership and community service.
.@FiatChrysler_NA Quality Engineering Supervisor Tanya Foutch awarded 2019 Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) Gerald Johnson Legacy Award by U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine: http://bit.ly/2TLd8d2
Award recognizes “high merit, impact on people and value to the community and society”
Three additional FCA US engineers recognized as Modern Day Technology Leaders
Awardees join a growing list of diverse Company leaders recognized for their technical achievements, management skill, leadership and community service
Monday, February 11, 2019 - 10:20am
NEWSROOM: FCA US LLC
CAMPAIGN: Diversity and Inclusion
CONTENT: Press Release
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., February 11, 2019 /3BL Media/ - U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine awarded its 2019 Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) Gerald Johnson Legacy Award to Tanya Foutch, Quality Engineering Supervisor, FCA US LLC.
Foutch received her award at the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Engineering Deans Power Breakfast on February 9 in Washington, D.C. This annual awards event is attended by distinguished HBCU engineers, deans and other prominent leaders from industry, academia and the military. The breakfast was part of BEYA’s 33rd Global Competitiveness Conference that took place February 7-9.
“I am very pleased Tanya received this prestigious award earned through her ongoing commitment to FCA US as an engineering leader and her passion for engaging youth about the promise and career opportunities of the STEM fields,” said Mark Champine, Head of Quality - North America, FCA – North America. "Tanya’s commitment to the Company and to her community are an inspiration to her colleagues and to me personally.”
Foutch was named Resident Engineering Supervisor at FCA US transmission plants in Kokomo and Tipton, Indiana, in 2016. In this role, she leads a team focused on identifying quality issues for the Company’s current and future portfolio of products.
Foutch graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. She earned a master’s degree in business administration in 2000 from Anderson University in Indiana.
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Since 2017, Foutch has been the energy and passion behind a successful annual STEM summer camp for youth in the Kokomo area.
“It is a tremendous honor to receive recognition for my accomplishments,” Foutch said. “I thank God for blessing me with the gifts, abilities and life lessons that have allowed me to be a help and an encouragement to others. My family, friends and peers have been a vital part of my growth and success. It is my honor and responsibility to share my life lessons with the community and the next generation of women leaders.”
U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine also honored Modern Day Technology Leaders at the conference, defined as “bright, high-performing women and men shaping the future of engineering, science, and technology who demonstrate superior technical skills and leadership capability.”
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“Bracing For It” in 19 Languages: AmazonCrossing Opens to Submissions
October 16, 2015 By Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson)
Image – iStockphoto: V Janez
Looking for the Lingo
The audience at Frankfurt Book Fair’s Business Club listens to AmazonCrossing’s Sarah Jane Gunter talk about her program’s new open-submissions program. Image: Bernd Hartung for #FBM15
The first thing Bloomberg News’ Allesandro Speciale wanted to know when he sat down to interview me here at Frankfurt Book Fair’s Business Club is: “Is translation as big an issue this year as it seems?”
Answer: yes. As the glut of content in the book marketplace deepens, what could be more natural than to look to distant readerships for new sales?
Canelo publisher Michael Bhaskar said it in starkly frank terms during his onstage interview with me yesterday, Thursday:
There are too many books.
He’s right. The digital dynamic, in both the traditional and self-publishing sectors, has created an historically unprecedented level of competition among titles, among authors, among publishers. While the number of titles out there has exploded (with nothing going out of print nowadays, “digital is forever”), the audience size has not. For the most part, we’re producing exponentially more material for a readership that largely has stayed the same size and is being wooed by other electronic entertainment media.
Nowhere is the pressure of oversupply felt more keenly than in the strongest centers of self-publishing, the US and UK and, to a lesser degree, here in Germany.
The subject of how independent authors might go about finding affordable and reliable translation was big in our First Word day on international outreach at the Novelists Inc. conference earlier this month in St. Pete Beach. There, Jane Friedman focused on input from LiteraryTranslations’ Athina Papa, something Friedman and I returned to in The Hot Sheet on the topic.
Even for publishers, translation is no walk through the park. And for many independent authors, the $10,000 price tag that Papa quotes as the ballpark rate for a good translation is impossibly steep.
No wonder, then, that the news from AmazonCrossing has been so well received, and particularly by authors.
Sarah Jane Gunter
AmazonCrossing is the translation imprint of the Amazon Publishing wing—not self-publishing but contracted authors and translators (all of whom are paid royalties and on a monthly schedule, by the way, reflecting one way in which “APub” is not entirely traditional in its approach).
As I wrote at The Bookseller’s The FutureBook earlier in the week ahead of my onstage interview with AmazonCrossing chief Sarah Jane Gunter, the company has announced a $10 million commitment to translation.
A part of that allocation goes to the production in early 2016 of English translations of Indonesian writers, including (from the AmazonCrossing statement):
Nirzona, a love story by Abidah El Khalieqy, set against the backdrop of the Aceh tsunami, a rare moment in recent history when the world’s eyes turned to Indonesia
English-language originals The Oddfits and The More Known World, the first two titles in the Oddfits series from Indonesia-born Tiffany Tsao, a translator and past Indonesia editor at large for Asymptote Journal
Paper Boats, a new adult love story from popular novelist, actress, and singer Dee Lestari
A new edition of Laksmi Pamuntjak’s acclaimed A Question of Red and her latest, Aruna and Her Palate, which follows a food writer’s travels through Indonesia
Hummingbird, a work of magical realism from Nukila Amal
Indonesia is the Guest of Honour at this year’s Buchmesse, of course, and the more widely talked about point coming from Gunter’s team this week has been the opening of the AmazonCrossing process to submissions.
Is this, then, suddenly the preferred avenue for authors to offshore markets?
My provocation for you: It’s all very well to say that authors are not in competition with each other, as many indies like to assure us in that community-forever way. Unfortunately, it’s not true. Everyone is locked in a rising siege of competition. And when trying to break open new territory to get a leg up on that battle, translation may be the one area in which independent authors really aren’t as effective, on the whole.
Lots of horror stories are out there about bad translations bought by indies at ridiculous prices, only to have to be done over at more cost and with dubious results.
And once you’ve had a book translated, even beautifully, can you market it in another nation?
Giving AmazonCrossing a good, hard look may be the smartest move you could make, if you’re contemplating crossing the linguistic frontiers of bookselling today.
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Revelation Tour and Giveaway
Blurb:Nora Carpenter is a trainee assistant physician, a part-time diner chef…and a witch. Hiding from the memory of a traumatic rape – fueled by prejudice over her eccentric reputation – she keeps herself to herself. Hard work, study, and a cold shoulder to any guy that crosses her path, seem like her best defense.
But when Nora starts having vivid dreams about a compelling, mysterious stranger with dark curls, sexy eyes and a charming Irish lilt, her defenses seem to be breaking. He says he is her soul mate – that he has conquered many centuries to contact her. Can this be real? Or is she going mad? Nora tries to fight the gentle seduction that threatens to thaw her icy façade. But when she’s forced to come face to face with real evil she must call on all her magickal resources, including her lover from another life, to save her.
In an adventure outside of time, Nora learns that you cannot run from your destiny.
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Her fingers drifted to her neck to calculate her pulse. It kicked up some, not out of fear, though.
The man looked over his shoulder, and their eyes caught. Her fingers still on her throat caught the jump in her heartbeat.
“Are you coming, darling?” His voice, warm with promise, carried a hint of laughter.
Nora found herself smiling. How strange. She almost never smiled at men, because it could be considered an invitation. Odd that she’d ended up in a relationship with Ogden. Then again, “relationship” might be a misleading term. She ran errands for him while using their association as a shield to keep other men away. Their physical relationship was almost non-existent. Ogden was not a hand-holder or casual kisser. He never pushed her for sex, which made him the ideal pretend boyfriend. The peculiar affiliation kept her safe from the wild emotional swings other women experienced when involved with men. She also believed it erected a barrier around her that other men dared not try to pass. Her interaction with various men had proved that wasn’t always the case.
The man regarded her with patient and amused eyes. “Are you holding your head on? Was it about to tumble off your swan-like neck?”
He thought he was a funny one. “I was taking my pulse. It’s when you—”
“I know what taking a pulse is. That’s one of the reasons I need you here—to help with the sickness.” He held her arm and helped her over a fallen log.
Illness she understood. “How can I help?” She considered his hand on her elbow. She had never been one to take assistance, even as a child. As the oldest, she felt the need to do everything on her own. She was a trailblazer of sorts. No one told her she had to, unless you counted her inner voice. No reason she couldn’t have scampered across the log on her own, but she appreciated the gesture.
“What’s your name? You keep calling me by my mine, but never mentioned yours.”
“My sainted grandmother would have my head if she saw my poor manners.” Holding on to her hand, he led her to two fallen logs bordering the fire. “Your chaise, my lady.”
He sat on the other log and used a long-handled spoon to stir the pot suspended over the fire. “I am Clayton McFane. I supposed I expected you to recognize me since we have loved each other for several lifetimes. The first few were a little rocky, but once we got the sense of one another as soul mates, we came together quite well.” A grin brightened his face as his eyes flickered up, demonstrating he was recalling times gone by.
Make that, times he thought had gone by. Nora wasn’t all that sure she believed they’d known each other for lifetimes. Still, she’d witnessed both her sister and grandfather transported through time, as easily as if only going to the next city for shopping. Her nana swore she and Grandpa Buell were soul mates. There was also something reassuring about Clayton.
Placing her hands on the log, she leaned back and stretched her legs toward the fire. Her cartoon pajama pants looked wildly out of place in the woodland setting. You’d think she would have picked out something more appropriate to wear in her dream.
Clayton ladled the fragrant stew into a bowl.
“Clayton,” she started, earning a smile for using his name. “How come you know me and where I was?”
“Oh, that.” He straightened and walked toward her, carrying the bowl. “Granny McFane claims I have a touch of the fey about me. That’s why I often know things that are going to happen.”
Rayna Noire is an author and a historian. The desire to uncover the truth behind the original fear of witches led her to the surprising discovery that people believed in magick in some form up to 150 years ago. A world that believed the impossible could happen and often did must have been amazing. With this in mind, Ms. Noire taps into this dimension, shapes it into stories about Pagan families who really aren’t that different from most people. They do go on the occasional time travel adventures and magick happens.
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His Substitute Wife Author Interview & Giveaway
Life has never been worth living for Charisse before her father died. After three attempts to kill herself were unsuccessful, she makes a deal for release from hell on earth, with one of the people who made her life what it was.
It wasn't until Chyna finds out that her husband, Parker Mills, was having an affair with her twin sister, Cheyenne, that she realizes she's losing the best thing she's ever had. Feeling the ultimate betrayal by her own sibling, Chyna knows she has to do whatever it takes to keep her husband and give him what he longs for - a baby. Knowing that she's unable to have children and Cheyenne is afflicted with the same condition, she decides to go to the only person that can help her save her marriage - her younger sister, Charisse.
In the end, one sister will die, another will lose everything and one will get everything that she wants.
“Spending fifty thousand dollars to produce off spring is crazy. Do you know what I could have done with that money? By this time, I’d have hundred college funds set up for you to donate to some third world child you could have adopted.”
Frustrated, Parker sunk down in the chair in front of Jaelen’s desk. “Yeah, but it’s not the same and you know it, Jae. Look at you. Five kids. Five damn kids.”
“Two are from my wife’s first dead husband.”
“But you’re still a family. You have off spring. You have someone to carry on your bloodline and you’re sharing these moments with the woman you first fell in love with and married. I want that. I want to be you… well not all ornery and mean, but you know what I mean. I’ve been married ten years to Chyna and you weren’t even married to Kim before you were bopping out twins.”
“Well, she raped me to get mine.”
“Let’s not even go into that. I think you just harbor that over her just so you can take advantage of her.”
Jaelen smirked wickedly. “It does make the mundane marriage very exciting when you can tie up your wife and make her beg for you. You should try it sometime.”
“Chyna says it might mess up her hair and hands.”
“If you can spend fifty on a baby, you can spend a couple of hundred– “
“Let’s not go into this.” Parker really didn’t want to expand upon his wife’s shallow behavior.
Jaelen took the hint, understanding in advance this was a sore subject for Parker. “So, this crazy sister-in-law, what’s her story?”
“Nothing I haven’t already told you. Chyna says her sister is so pathetic she can’t even kill herself.”
“How many times has she tried?”
“This last time makes three.”
Jaelen stopped what he was doing and frowned. “I’m not religious and all that, but she ever thought that it just wasn’t her time, and that she had a purpose in life.”
“You ever thought you’re just saying that shit because you’re an ass and you’re trying to find some hilarity out of a bad situation?” He stood up.
“So I take it you haven’t told Chyna about the boat?”
Parker didn’t answer because he knew Jaelen already knew the answer. He was saving it for the moment when Chyna announced that they were going to have a baby. Knowing that they were going to dedicate eighteen more years together deserved an award and “the boat” was the key.
Yet that moment hadn’t come and he was starting to think it never would. The majority of Parker’s friends were married and those that were had children, vibrant healthy off spring. Their blood running through small versions of themselves.
1. Tell us about yourself. I am first and foremost a person deeply and devoted to words – a writer and a reader, always wanting more. Words are my drugs. Words are my life. Words are my Everything. Being a mother, a woman and a human being becomes secondary in my life.
2. How did you get started writing? When I was six years old. I used to lie to my mother a lot and after she would give me punishment I would have to write my lies down. My pain became my pleasure. My lies looked so good on paper and I could make them longer and longer. The only bad thing is that I can’t lie verbally anymore so I have very little friends.
3. What genre(s) do you write in and why? I started writing first historical romance because that is the genre I started reading in. I was a little paranormal fan, but I didn’t want to make up new worlds. Although I love history, I found that I couldn’t find my voice because it was a lot of research and I didn’t want to keep facts so straight and accurate. By the age of seventeen I realized I wanted to be a contemporary suspense romance novelist and the first book I ever finished was Stone’s Revenge, my psychological thriller, which actually became my 2nd independent work I published.
4. How many books have you written? Do you have a favorite?
I have over thirty published works since 2000 and to ask me which is my favorite is to ask me which is my favorite child. My books are so hard to choose from and I actually try to re-read them every once in a while not just to pass the time or look for new characters to bring into other stories, but just because they are that enjoyable. I write because I can’t find what I want to read and I still have that challenge as a reader. I love really all my books. Now my favorite character, and most challenging one, would be Lethal Heart. I’ve woven him throughout a lot of my books. He’s dangerous, sexy and crazy. Just the way I love my men.
5. Tell us about your current series/WIP.
My current book series is His Substitute Wife. (Two books as eBooks but one whole paperback book.) Bringing Charisse to life with her problems and past was difficult and hard. I could feel her inner emotional pain. Dealing with her family, especially her sisters, the frustration grew to a tipping where she had nothing to live for. Parker Mills was a man who knew he wasn’t perfect, but he craved a family. Doomed to be in a loveless marriage he tries to make the most of his situation by allowing his wife to convince him to let Charisse have his baby. Getting Charisse pregnant with Parker’s baby was easy part. Filled with drama, suspense and romance, The His Substitute Wife… My Sister Series has given me a great joy to bring to my readers.
6. What inspired your latest book?
Studying other phobias, I found Charisse condition and wondered if I could actually write a romance with a woman who hates to be touched? It was a challenge and I’m proud of the story.
7. What is your next project and when will it be released?
Betrayed is my current Work In Progress. Cons, Revenge, Deceit and Love can’t mix, but I’m going to try.
8. Where do you get the ideas for your stories?
Life, living and observing the world around me. My mind is an open syringe looking for the unique, strange and ominous.
9. What is your favorite part of writing?
The initial process itself. When an idea hits and you must go to write it down. Once I start I can’t stop. It’s addictive. I sleep with my kindle with a keyboard right by me or under my pillow in case I wake up in the middle of the night and get the urge.
10. What is your least favorite part of writing?
The marketing of my work, but I’m glad I earned a degree at it so it comes a little bit easy to me.
13. How much time do you spend promoting your books? I try to spend at least four hours a day marketing, two hours blogging and one hour working on websites I manage in order to make my books sells work for me. I look at promoting like a real business. If I opened a store, I’d dedicate at least twelve to sixteen hours a day to my business. I do that for my writing career tirelessly promoting and tirelessly writing more for the upcoming year.
What works best for you? Blogging on my website always has worked best for me or being on other bloggers. I’m an avid tweeter and FB’er, but I use those as breadcrumbs to get more people to the website.
14. How has your experience with self-publishing been?
Awesome. Since I’m a control freak I love it.
15. What advice do you have for other authors wanting to self-publish?
Research and learn what you have to do before you do it.
17. Where can readers find you?
I can be found on my website at http://sylviahubbard.com, FB: http://facebook.com/SylviaHubbard& Twittter: http://twitter.com/sylviahubbard1
Sylvia Hubbard knew she’d wanted to be a writer of romance long before she knew there were black writers in the world. Weaving stories magically as a summer past time to writing stories to get through the humdrum of school, she was able to create something from nothing.
Today, she has independently published over 28 books, is the founder of Motown Writers Network and The AA Electronic Literary Network, CEO of HubBooks Literary Services, runs over five blogs on a variety of subjects, host The Michigan Literary Network Radio Show and is a happily divorced mother of three children in Detroit, Michigan.
“I’m no superwoman,” she states with a smile that seems infinite on her lips. “I’m just being an asset in the world instead of a liability.”
Considered an addicted blogger by HoneyTechblog.com, nominated and recognized for her literary work in the Metro Detroit area, referred to as “A Literary Diva” by Detroit City Council and donned “Cliffhanger Queen” by her readers, she finds solace in speaking and educating on a variety of topics.
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Spring Fling Blog
Are you ready for spring? Depending on where you live, spring may already be at your house.
GETTING READY FOR SPRING
Here in central Indiana, we had our last snow on Friday. Still, we are prepping for the season changes.
1. Car washes get busier.
2. Grass gets greener.
3. Clearance sales on winter clothes
4. Swimsuits appear in stores.
5. Closets get a seasonal exchange.
6. The tender buds of spring flowers
7. The birds return and try to build a nest in the dryer vent.
8. The ants creep out of the frozen ground to enter the house.
9. The heating & air man shows up to tune up the air conditioning.
10. The snow shovels go into the shed, instead of the garage.
Reading a new book is another way to get ready for spring. I will be giving way 10 ebooks this spring blog. Your choice from the side bar. You have to comment to win a free romance.
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30. RhiReading
31. Christina Irelan
32. Lacey Leigh
33. E.S.P.
34. Sedona Venez 35. Gretchen Roberts
36. Elise Hepner
37. Rayna Noire
38. Morgan K Wyatt
39. Dawn Marie Hamilton Writes
40. Taking Time for Mommy
41. Jeanine McAdam
42. Tawdra Kandle
43. Mama Knows Books
44. Holley Trent
45. Renee Luke
46. Ambrielle Kirk
47. MYTHICAL BOOKS(INT)
48. Tista Ray
49. Natasha Blackthorne
50. Between The Pages
51. Natalie-Nicole Bates
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Anyway, Walking Dead fans should want to check out AMC and Republic Records' "The Walking Dead" singles. The second single, Baby Bee's "Love Bug" (the first was Beth & Maggie Green's "The Parting Glass").…
Dear musicians, are you interested in getting your band on W♥M? I get so much mail that I've put this music submission guideline for your benefit. Basically, the more information you give me, the more I have to work with.
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Are you excited that The Walking Dead is back? New episode, "The Suicide King", is airing tonight on AMC.
This is just an announcement that you can start your pre-order for The Walking Dead AMC Original Soundtrack - Vol 1 now on iTunes. Pre-ordering will get you an automatic download of Jamie N Commons' "Lead Me Home". You may remember how Lara is absolutely in love with Commons, saying that "inevitably, the ladies will swoon."
1. Jamie N Commons – "Lead Me Home"
2. Bear McCreary – "Main Title Theme Song" (UNKLE Remix)
3. Voxhaul Broadcast – "You Are The Wilderness"
4. Baby Bee – "Love Bug"
5. Fink – "Warm Shadow" (Dactyl Remix)
6. Of Monsters And Men – "Sinking Man"
7. Emily Kinney and Lauren Cohan – "The Parting Glass"
8. Delta Spirit – "Running"
The Walking Dead AMC Original Soundtrack - Vol 1 hits stores March 19th, 2013.
BURNT ONES
burntones.bandcamp.com
San Francisco's garage rock revival band, Burnt Ones, has second LP called You'll Never Walk Alone, coming out April 30th on Burger Records.
The band is heading out on tour of/around SXSW:
Feb. 27th - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
Mar. 9th - Denton, TX @ 35 Denton
Mar. 10th - Denton, TX @ 35 Denton
Mar. 12th - Dallas, TX @ The Crown & Harp
Mar. 13th - Mar. 16th - Austin, TX @ SXSW
Mar. 20th - Denver, CO @ Rhinoceropolis
Mar. 21st - Salt Lake City, UT @ Richard Street Art
Mar. 22nd - Boise, ID @ The Linen Building
Mar. 23rd - Portland, OR @ Crayon Canyon
Apr. 20th - San Francisco, CA @ Brick & Mortar
JON PATRICK WALKER
You may have seen Brooklyn-based actor Jon Patrick Walker on Law & Order and various television programs. Well, guess what? He is also a musician, and his debut album, The Guilty Party, is coming out March 5th.
The first single, "House On A Hill", premiered last week at American Songwriter. You can hear it on Soundcloud.
Connecticut's Spirit House is an indie/electronic duo (Bailey Lawless and Jon Yeston). Their single, "Walking Distance", is taken from their debut album Dear World, Love Me, Love, Me.
Hear "Walking Distance" now:
Posted by W♥M on Sunday, 10 February 2013 at 12:55 PM in Burnt Ones, Jamie N Commons, Jon Patrick Walker, Republic Records, Spirit House, Vu, Walking Dead | Permalink | Comments (0)
01/19/13 Sydney, Australia Sydney Festival Grounds
01/24/13 Brisbane, Australia The Zoo
01/25/13 Richmond, Australia Corner Hotel
02/28/13 Cambridge, UK The Junction
03/01/13 Liverpool, UK O2 Academy
03/03/13 Dublin, Ireland Olympia Theatre
03/07/13 Leeds, UK Stylus
03/08/13 Birmingham, UK The Institute
03/10/13 Manchester, UK The Ritz
03/11/13 London, UK O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
03/17/13 Dallas, TX House Of Blues
03/26/13 Vancouver, BC Rio Theatre
03/29/13 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre
03/31/13 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater
04/01/13 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
04/02/13 Ferndale, MI The Magic Bag
04/04/13 Toronto, ON Opera House Concert Venue
04/05/13 Montreal, QC Corona Theatre
04/07/13 Philadelphia, PA World Cafe Live
04/09/13 New York, NY Webster Hall
04/12/13 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
04/13/13 Atlanta, GA The Loft At Center Stage
This is a follow-up to W♥M #166: Winter Shows.
As I have said time and time again: I just don't go out in the winter because of the snow. There are some exceptions (especially if the band is from the UK).
Craig is making my decision to stay indoors even harder by offering his insight on British bands coming to Minneapolis:
Bunch of great upcoming shows announced last week here for Minneapolis - the sleeper of the bunch for my taste is Lianne La Havas at The Varsity Theater on March 31st (Easter). She is from London, 23 years old and is going to be huge. Check her out, hopefully that is past your winter hibernation so you can make it.
Two more UK Mercury Award nominees announced last week will also be soon playing Minneapolis. - The Maccabees and Django Django (DD sounds like a mix of The Beta Band and the Beach Boys).
January and February are shaping up to be decent concert months; I'm planning on making these shows:
Niki and The Dove (Swe) Jan. 19th
Keanne (UK) Jan. 21st
Emili Sande (UK) Jan 23rd
The Maccabees (UK) Feb 8th
The Vaccines (UK) Feb 9th
Opening up for La Havas in the U.S. is Jamie N Commons, a guy that Lara absolutely is in love with.
Commons just recently played with The Maccabees (November 23rd) at the Mencap Music's Little Noise Session. The live series is curated by Mencap ambassador and BBC Radio 2 DJ, Jo Whiley.
As for most of the UK dates, Josh Kumra is slated for support. Kumra is described as "a gutsy and heartfelt performer and songwriter" with a similar sound to a young Ray LaMontagne or Ben Harper.
Josh Kumra's new single is called Waiting For You and will be out on January 6th, via RCA Victor. Details of his tour dates below:
24/11 Effenaar, Eindhoven
27/11 Bi Nu, Berlin
28/11 Stadtgarten, Cologne
29/11 Zoon, Frankfurt
01/12 Kaufleuten, Zurich
02/12 Ampere, Munich
03/12 Gruenspan, Hamburg
04/12 Vega, Copenhagen
06/12 Den Atelier, Luxembourg
09/12 Vrandenburg, Utrecht
27/2 The Louisiana, Bristol HEADLINE
28/2 The Junction, Cambridge
01/3 02 Academy, Liverpool
02/3 Queens Hall, Edinburgh
04/3 ABC, Glasgow
05/3 Deaf Institute, Manchester HEADLINE
06/3 The Borderline, London HEADLINE
All dates are Lianne La Havas support, unless where noted 'headline'
craig + vu ( ) ♥ weheartmusic.com ♥ liannelahavas.com
Posted by W♥M on Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 12:13 PM in Craig, Django Django, Jamie N Commons, Josh Kumra, Lianne La Havas, The Maccabees, Vu | Permalink | Comments (1)
W♥M122: Minnesota to London
W♥M122 (37 mins)
W♥M122
This is the last of the Trilogy of Lara's W♥M Radio appearance. Listen to Part One and Two.
Since most of the topics about music were pretty much used in parts one and two, this last show is a bit of a potpourri, with loads of random things that didn't fit anywhere. These little segments would work great in a 'best of' or bloopers show, but as it is... a bit of a jazz-theme.
Here's what went down:
The reason why Lara doesn't buy expensive electronic.
The 'genius' of Beady Eye. The podcast was recorded in early December, I've since saw them at First Avenue.
7th Street Entry and its revolting men's bathroom.
Fort Wilson Riot
Jamie N Commons' "The Preacher"
Second part of the show is just random nonsense: Black Friday, Jazz, Minnesota bands: Howler, Total Babe, and The Abdomen/Lynhurst.
Since I randomly saw Howler and noted they were "the buzz of the town". That was in early November. Now they're currently touring the UK, coming back to the states in March:
01/29 – Sheffield, The Bowery FREE SHOW
01/30 – Manchester, Deaf Institute (14+)
01/31 – Nottingham, Bodega (14+)
02/1 – Newcastle, The Cluny (16+)
02/3 – Leeds, Cockpit (14+)
02/4 – Glasgow, King Tuts (18+)
02/5 – Birmingham, HMV Institute (14+)
02/6 – London, The Lexington (14+) SOLD OUT
02/8 – Paris, Fleche d’Or (16+)
02/9 – Brussels, AB Club (All Ages)
02/10 – Amsterdam,Paradiso (All Ages)
02/11 – Berlin,Comet (16+)
02/14 – Tokyo,Harajuku Astro Hall
03/7 – Lawrence University – Appleton, WI
03/8 – Schubas Tavern – Chicago, IL
03/9 – The Old Rock House – St Louis, MO
03/10 – The Riot Room – Kansas City, MO
03/12 – House of Blues – Dallas, TX
03/13 – Mango’s – Houston, TX
03/22 – Soda Bar – San Diego, CA
03/23 – Echo – Los Angeles, CA
03/24 – Hemlock Tavern – San Francisco, CA
03/26 – Mississipi Studios – Portland, OR
03/27 – The Media Club – Vancouver, BC
03/28 – Sunset Tavern – Seattle, WA
03/30 – Kilby Court – Salt Lake City, UT
03/31 – Hi Dive – Denver, CO
04/2 – Waiting Room – Omaha, NE
04/4 – Happy Dog – Cleveland, OH
04/5 – Underground at The Drake – Toronto, ON
04/6 – Le Divan Orange – Montreal, QC
04/7 – Great Scott – Boston, MA
04/10 – Knitting Factory – Brooklyn, NY
04/11 – Mercury Lounge – New York, NY
04/12 – Kung Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA
04/13 – Red Palace – Washington, DC
04/14 – Smiling Moose – Pittsburgh, PA
05/03 – Liverpool, The Kazimier (16+)
05/08 – London, The Garage (14+)
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Posted by W♥M on Saturday, 28 January 2012 at 04:09 PM in Beady Eye, Fort Wilson Riot, Howler, Jamie N Commons, Lara, Lynhurst, Podcast, The Abdomen, Total Babe, Vu | Permalink | Comments (0)
Jamie N Commons – The Baron EP
Jamie N Commons (why no punctuation, brother?) is a curiosity. To try and match his 22-year-old face with his cigs-and-bourbon voice is like working on a jigsaw puzzle that’s missing a few pieces—the image is there, but it doesn’t quite match the photo on the box. How, you might wonder, does a boy from Britain manage to evoke the spirit of a mysterious American outlaw? Or, better yet: how does he pull it off?
The Baron, Commons’ debut EP, paints a vivid picture of someone who prefers living on the fringe of society. A loner—or maybe an “avoider”—by nature, but a dark romantic at heart, he’d probably frequent dodgy alleyways and sad open spaces to emote without being bothered. He is a Cohen brothers’ character. He is the Man with No Name. He is the one your mother warned you about. Like his icon, the original “man in black,” Commons seems to identify more with the antihero than with the sweet, perpetuallylovesick protagonist. Inevitably, the ladies will swoon.After all, what is more intriguing than a musician who adopts a highly stylized persona without losing credibility?* (And for the record, his cred looks good.)
Commons makes ample use of Johnny Cash-esque filters but there are also shades of Tom Waits, whose “fire and brimstone stomp” is cited as creative impetus. Waits’ influence is especially prominent in the young singer’s distinct tone: references to Christianity as a sort of brutal allegory (“The Preacher”); genre bending (the bluesy rock ballad “Now Is Not the Time”); and haunting musical rifts (all of the above). They even share a love of odd chapeaus. Check out the music video for “The Preacher”:
Jamie N Commons will celebrate the release of The Baron with an official launch at The Old Queens Head (London) on October 17. The EP is available digitally via iTunes and limited edition signed copies can be pre-ordered at Rough Trades (UK) and Recordstore.co.uk. For more information, visit his website: www.jamiencommons.com.
*Sorry Garth Brooks.
lara ( ) ♥ jamiencommons.com
Posted by W♥M on Wednesday, 12 October 2011 at 07:33 PM in EPs, Jamie N Commons, Lara | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Pocket of 50 homes in Mount Lawley revealed as Perth’s most socially advantaged
A pocket of 50 homes in Mount Lawley has been revealed as the most socially advantaged in WA, according to new data which shows the disparities between the haves and the have nots.
Read the full article at:
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/pocket-of-50-homes-in-mount-lawley-revealed-as-perth-s-most-socially-advantaged-20190313-p513vs.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national_western-australia
Fire threat downgraded as crews bring Canning blaze under control
A bushfire advice warning remains in place for people living in parts of Ferndale and Lynwood in the City of Canning.
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/fire-threat-downgraded-as-crews-bring-canning-blaze-under-control-20190330-p5197j.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national_western-australia
‘We need young voices’: Why Freo Press has launched a $20,000 writing prize
Many industries choose younger employees at the expense of more experienced ones, but in one sector, WA ‘jobs’ are actually going to older people.
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/we-need-young-voices-why-freo-press-has-launched-a-20-000-writing-prize-20190325-p517fe.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national_western-australia
How a lone DFES worker raced to save 100 locals as two bushfires closed in
“I told them windows up, air vents closed and they weren’t to stop for anything. Not anything.”
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/how-a-lone-dfes-worker-raced-to-save-100-locals-as-two-bushfires-closed-in-20190328-p518oz.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national_western-australia
Hopman Cup canned, expected to be replaced with men’s only event
Hopman Cup has been scrapped after 31 years as Perth’s iconic tennis event.
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/hopman-cup-canned-expected-to-be-replaced-with-men-s-only-event-20190328-p518dz.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national_western-australia
Bring it on: Perth was never more ready for its own Rugby League team
The clock is ticking after a decade of hard work the opportunity to have our own Ruggy League team in Perth. could be about to pass.
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/bring-it-on-perth-was-never-more-ready-for-its-own-rugby-league-team-20190325-p517bf.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national_western-australia
Passenger freed after getting stuck between train and platform at Perth train station
A man has been freed after he became stuck between a train and the train platform at Stirling station on Tuesday morning.
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/man-stuck-between-train-and-train-platform-at-stirling-freed-20190326-p517lq.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national_western-australia
Nic Naitanui calls out racist slurs against teammate Liam Ryan
Eagles ruckman Nic Naitanui has taken to social media to call out racist slurs made against his teammate Liam Ryan on a football commentary thread.
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/nic-naitanui-calls-out-racist-slurs-against-teammate-liam-ryan-20190325-p5178j.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national_western-australia
WA priest under investigation for alleged child abuse when he died
A Perth priest who is believed to have taken his own life this week was under investigation after an allegation of child sexual abuse was made against him.
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/wa-priest-under-investigation-for-alleged-child-abuse-when-he-died-20190322-p516qp.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national_western-australia
Beloved Perth priest dies ‘suddenly and unexpectedly’
Father Joseph Tran was a well known and loved figure in the community.
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/beloved-perth-priest-dies-suddenly-and-unexpectedly-20190322-p516qp.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national_western-australia
‘It would have killed me’: Elderly man attacked by neighbour in his home over horn spat
Man in custody over suspected Balcatta murder
Claremont killer trial LIVE: Critical fingernail DNA evidence was collected in the presence of now disgraced forensic biologist
Suspect in deaths of WA prospecting couple couldn’t explain blood on his boots
Claremont killer trial LIVE: Court begins to hear of international journey Ciara’s hair exhibits took
Western Australia News
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MOUNT ELDEN
22N-7E-36
February 20, 1914: "A new lookout station has been completed on the highest point of Elden Mountain by the Forest Service, as a vantage point in keeping a lookout for fires during the summer months. A one room house has been built for the convenience of the ranger to be stationed there.
Work will soon be commenced by Forest Supervisor Drake, on a trail up to the station that can be traveled on horseback. The trail will start at the foot of the mountain north of Greenlaw's mill and will be about four miles long. It will be a magnificent point for tourist to get a sweeping view of the whole country, including a wonderful view of the Painted Desert which lays off to the northeast in its magnificent splendor." (The Coconino Sun)
May 7, 1915: "Fire Lookout Frank G. Lewis who went to the top of Elden Mountain about two weeks ago has 'skeery' tales to tell of his experiences up there during the recent snowstorm. He reports over four feet of snow on top and drifts on the trail were so deep that he dared not atte4mpt to come down, so he stuck to his post. His supply of firewood ran short and but for an ample supply of bedding he would have suffered. Fortunately he had a generous supply of chuck. The telephone instrument was under snow. His account rivals that of Perry when he got back from the Pole." (The Coconino Sun)
August 27, 1946: "A hiking excursion up Mount Eldon that turned into a rescue mission for a starving dog was a novel experience, it was learned Monday afternoon.
The hiking party climbed Mount Eldon Sunday and a carefree outing was being thoroughly enjoyed until near the lookout tower was reached. Near the tower the hikers came upon an emancipated dog, hardly more than a pup in age. The animal had apparently attacked a porcupine and quills were stuck in its mouth and nose. It was so weak from lack of food it had collapsed.
The hikers made a stretcher, loaded the four-footed patient aboard and started downhill. Part way down the dog fell off the stretcher. The fall bounced some desire to live into the animal, for he staggered around a bit, came across a defunct chipmunk, and gulped down the smelly tidbit before collapsing again.
Remodeling the stretcher into a sling type carrier the rescuers repacked their dog and continued to succor without further mishap. Dr. Butchart met them and took charge. With pliers he extracted the quills and administered first aid in the form of food when he got the rescued patient to the Butchart home.
Then the unforeseen happened. The dog disappeared. Whether it went back up the mountain to seek another porcupine or merely wanted to put some distance between itself and the stretcher, the worried first-aiders have no way of telling." (Arizona Daily Sun)
December 5, 1950: "When the season's first snow fell a few days ago scattering a thin white blanket over the pine clad slopes and rocky ridges of Mount Elden at Flagstaff, an era came to a close.
For with the snow the first fire season officially came to an end on Coconino national forest, and with it the career of Bill Pradt, fire lookout on Mount Elden for (23) years.
Pradt, native of Laguna, N.M., worked for the forest service since 1916 except for two years in the navy during World War I. His father was a Massachusetts civil engineer and his mother was a Laguna Indian.
Each year forest officials credited Bill with at least 100 'first discoveries' of forest fires. He has amazing eyesight, and often has reported house fires in Flagstaff to the local fire department. His lofty 9100 foot perch in a tower on Mount Elden is about 12 miles from here.
Much of Coconino national forest's fire control work is handled through the Elden lookout by radio.
Pradt, christened Albert William Pradt, says he is going back to Laguna to stay—but he is hoping the government decides it still needs an oldtime fire lookout to man one of its many towers in the southwest." (Prescott Evening Courier)
November 27, 1951: "Now, the top of Mt Eldon, (9,280 feet elevation) is getting to be a pretty busy place.
Last fall a road was built up to the lookout.
Now the mountain's summit bristles with radio towers, and some new experimental electronics work is also expected to get underway up there soon.
For years the lookout tower and the little cabin stood alone on the deeply wooded summit, but now even the cabin has felt the touch of progress. A new two-room building for quarters for the lookout has recently been built. The cabin will be equipped with electric lights, butane stove, and will even have a pump for its cistern." (Arizona Daily Sun)
November 28, 1951: "Marian Loy of Cornville helped to build the lookout tower on Mt. Elden for the forest service and he reports interesting developments up there. The Sheriff's department has a radio tower up there, the natural gas company has a tower, the new tower for the forest service and he reports that the army is to set up a radar tower, all on a small area of land. There is a graded road up a low-gear hill right to the top, which is a closed road. During deer hunting season there was snow enuff that it had to be shoveled off the road. There are a few wide places where cars can pass. Some hunters found their way up there, and some did some deer hunting."(Arizona Daily Sun)
July 29, 1974: "There's a tired foot sore dog atop Mt Eldon today, but no owners are in sight. Francis Street, wife of Arthur Street, the Forest Service fire spotter at the Mt Eldon lookout tower, reported a male boxer dog wandered up to the tower Friday, apparently lost.
The dog, which is extremely gentle, Mrs. Street said, is wearing a leather strap, but no tags." (Arizona Daily Sun)
June 20, 1977: "Through an unforgettable Friday night fire fighters battled to keep the glowing mountain from igniting the surrounding residential areas.
A Forest Service lookout tower and some radio communications systems atop the smoking mountain were destroyed Friday night as the fire reached its crescendo.
High winds, sometimes near 40 m.p.h. have hampered the fire fighting efforts, a forest service spokesman said." (Arizona Daily Sun)
September 11, 1977: "Dan and Monica McGrew find living at the top exciting--the top of 9,300-foot Mt Eldon that is.
The McGrews have lived atop Mt Eldon since April. manning the U.S. Forest Service fire lookout tower there five days a week.
They live in a 24-foot trailer provided by the U.S. Forest Service and work in a temporary "box" of a tower until the two structures, destroyed in the Eldon fire, can be rebuilt next season." (Arizona Daily Sun)
National Geodetic Survey
DESIGNATION - ELDEN MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT TOWER
PID - FQ0635
STATE/COUNTY- AZ/COCONINO
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - FLAGSTAFF EAST (1983)
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1958 (RCM)
THE STATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF FLAGSTAFF
ON THE HIGHEST POINT OF ELDEN MT.
THE STATION IS A GLASS ENCLOSED CAB THAT IS SUPPORTED BY A 4
LEGGED STEEL STRUCTURE AND HAS AN OVERALL HEIGHT OF APPROXIMATELY
100 FEET.
A TRAVERSE CONNECTION WAS MADE FROM A POINT DIRECTLY BENEATH
THE CENTER OF THE LOOKOUT TO TRIANGULATION STATION ELDEN AND
THE DISTANCE WAS FOUND TO BE 10.296 METERS.
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Last weekend, Last chance
Hey! It’s the weekend!
What are you going to do to end 2019 in style? In insanity? With memories? With someone new? …Too much to ask? We’ve got some ideas right here.
Photo by Billy Huynh on Unsplash
Meta House is putting on music for everyone. Meaning, they’re rolling several events into one night. Not sure you’ll like the musical stylings of French jazz trio NHK Jazz? Well, first of all, you might want to be open-minded as the invite says it’s a “treat not only for jazz fans”, but even still you can stick around for a pop-up avant-garde concert by young German musician Notorische Ruhestoerung. Mr. Notorische is part of a collective of Berlin artists focused on social struggles. A bit too avant-garde for your tastes? Then Marie Thach’s DJ set has got your back. She’s made a name for herself through her many pursuits (acting, singing, DJing), and her deep house and techno will sort you out for dancing the rest of the night. All of these events are free, by the way.
7:30pm, Meta House, St. 178
Reggae: another cool musical genre from another part of the world that for some reason doesn’t come up that much, even though many people like it. Now’s its chance. Three DJs who play nothing but this Jamaican-born sound – Papa Dub, Gorimaa and (all the way from Hong Kong) Heavy HK Sound – are taking over Cloud tonight.
8pm-1am, Cloud, St. 9
Filipino band The Roots is back again this weekend to lay down its R&B, Latin, pop and golden oldies at Farm to Table. The singing duo will be joined by guitarist Arone Silverman.
6:30-9:30pm, Farm to Table, St. 360
Alchemy is hosting Phnom Penh’s pop and feel-good tunes trio The Boxchords. How does frontman Joshua Chiang describe the mood? “Pop music with a twist”.
8-11pm, Alchemy, St. 123
For those seeking something to dance to, Party Patio has two French DJs (Toke and Lateral) playing disco, techno and house.
9pm, Party Patio, St. 308
And for a hard(er) sound, check out GC Riders at Duplex Belgian Taverne. These guys get their heavy rock influence from Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, Cream, Ozzy Osbourne, but their songs are original.
8:30pm, Duplex Belgian Taverne, St. 178
What’s On Screen?
A struggling father decides to run a scam by convincing a camgirl to marry him. That’s the plot line of My Dear Liar, the new Chinese comedy opening at Legend Cinemas today (in Khmer with no subtitles). If it doesn’t make you laugh, it may at least give you something to talk about.
Various showtimes, Legend Cinemas, various locations
Been feeling a little too warm and fuzzy with that Christmas spirit? Um, okay. Well, you can head to remake of 1974 horror film Black Christmas, in which a group of students is stalked by a stranger during their winter break…likely to most of their demises. (In English with Khmer subtitles).
Various showtimes, Major Cineplex Cinema Aeon Mall, Sothearos Blvd.
[Cats is also out, but given all of the ridicule it’s received on social media and its ridiculously low IMDB rating of 2.6 (yes, that’s out of 10), you’re better off with the other two…or anything else.]
What’s On Stage?
Bassac Lane is opening, er, itself to Filipino band The Roots. Last night they were playing a chilled dinner set as a trio, but tonight the whole band is together (plus guitarist Arone Silverman again) to play this free pre-New Years gig.
9pm-midnight, Bassac Lane
Angelic singer Lisa Conception will be playing an acoustic set at The K’s (above Vito Club). The sound is soulful covers.
9pm-midnight, The K’s, St. 208
Scott Bywater, a favourite guitar player and singer at open mics and long-time performer in Phnom Penh, is playing a solo acoustic show at Botanico. He’ll be performing his own musical poetry (aka songs he’s written).
7-9:30pm, Botanico, St. 29
What’s On Late?
There are two new dance parties kicking off tonight. At One Love Reggae Rooftop is “Shindig”, playing disco, funk, nu-disco and house – “the music dominating the dance floors of London, Sydney, New York and Ibiza”. $4 after 11pm, but comes with a free shot.
10pm-3am, One Love Reggae Rooftop, St. 172
Meta House is also launching a new dance party. At the decks for the first instalment is Turkish DJ Batu and German DJ Nick E. Meta. Called Saturday Emergency, this is an all-night techno fest. This party is free all night.
9pm-2am, Meta House, St. 178
DJ Saint Vincent will be playing the NeuDrop collective’s Psynovation party at Party Patio for the first time. Joining him is DJ Dalah. The sound is electronica, house, techno and tech house. And it’s free.
9pm-1am, Party Patio, St. 308
What a beautiful way to have an arty day. Sa Sa Art Projects is holding an art workshop and open studio with artist-in-residence Opoku Mensah. A graduate of École Nationale Supérieure Beaux-Arts, the artist looks at consumption, displacement, culture and globalization through a very unique medium – headwear. He’ll be leading a workshop on creating a “Sacatete” hat bag (French readers will get where that name comes from). All of this is free, unique and beautifully random and open all afternoon.
2-8pm, Sa Sa Art Projects, St. 350
Retro game night is back at Cloud. Board games and card games abound as they always do at this Bassac Lane-adjacent bar, but tonight they’ll also have set up retro video game consoles! Can your Princess Peach make Bowser eat your dust in Mario Kart? How’re your ass-kicking Street Fighter skills? If you can beat all levels of Street Fighter without dying, you win a free drink of your choice at the bar! Just saying. $2 Kampot Ciders and punch; $1 canned beers. Free to play.
Wherever you go the world over, there is always a tight-knit, passionate and active salsa community. It’s pretty cool how dependable a fact that is. So salsa is a good activity to pick up as you can always find friends when moving to new cities (and dancing is fun). Duplex Belgian Taverne is holding an all-night Salsa and Bachata Party for Phnom Penh’s salsa community as well as those who’d like to meet them.
7pm-1am, Duplex Belgian Taverne, St. 278
Flicks screens classic British-American children’s comedy adventure Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Written by beloved children’s author Roald Dahl and director Ken Hughes, it stars Dick Van Dyke (whom you may know as the chimney sweep from Mary Poppins) as a madcap inventor who has to rescue his father, mistakenly kidnapped by the evil Baron. As can be expected, absurdity and hijinks ensue. Reserve a space to guarantee your seat.
2:30pm, The Flicks, St. 95
Model of Impact is a creative way to gain ideas for different kinds of much-needed and feasible social enterprises, and to formulate a plan to get one underway. The role-playing exercises will cover themes of: tackling poverty, zero hunger, good health and well-being, and clean water and sanitation. They will also announce the launch of “SmartSpark (social welfare)”, which will remain a mystery to you unless you go and find out what that means.
4-7pm, Impact Hub, St. 306
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Kids eat free at Hard Rock Cafe on Sundays. Take your little ones (11 and under), and indulge in ordering your own plate instead of waiting to see what’s leftover from theirs.
11am-5pm, Hard Rock Cafe, St. 102) Duplex Grand Cafe also holds its all-you-can-eat meat barbecue for $12.
12-4pm, Duplex Grand Cafe, Sisowath Quay
Rosewood’s Living Room is holding prix fixe afternoon tea for $34. Their restaurant CUTS is also holding an oyster and bubbly evening you can toddle over to after tea, ranging in price from $45-95 depending on choice of bubbly.
12-5pm, 6-10:30pm Rosewood Phnom Penh, Vattanac Tower
Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI was elected to the papacy in 2005. Elected by his peers, the Pope is the leader of the entire Roman Catholic faith as well as of the tiny sovereign nation of the Vatican. He is meant to lead the church until his death – only Benedict decided to resign, throwing the church in turmoil. His decision and the transition to the current leader, Pope Francis, is the subject of The Two Popes, starring Anthony Hopkins (who, oddly, is most-known for playing the cannibalistic serial-killer Hanibal Lecter).
8pm, The Flicks, St. 95
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The 5 Best Crossfit Gyms In Bangkok
By Staff Writer 22nd January 2018 No Comments
Looking for the best crossfit gym in Bangkok? Look no further…
The CrossFit fitness craze has taken Bangkok by storm, proving to be a popular workout method for both expats and Thai locals.
These high intensity workouts contain essential elements of cardio, weight lifting, gymnastics, calisthenics, sprinting and core training which are specifically designed to work every aspect of your body and whip it into peak condition to achieve your fitness goals.
CrossFit can work to improve endurance and stamina, strength, flexibility, speed, agility and more.
A typical CrossFit session lasts up to 45 minutes, with dynamic new workouts every time to keep things interesting — by all accounts, it’s an excellent way to build muscle, lose fat, improve fitness, be healthier, and increase energy.
Thanks to the recent surge in popularity, CrossFit sessions are available all over the city of Bangkok.
Here’s our list of the best classes in town to get you into shape, fast…
1 CFBK
2 Training Ground Bangkok
3 CrossFit Ten500
4 Crossfit Arena Bangkok
5 Ari Fitness
CFBK
348/2 Sukhumvit Road
Asok BTS Exit 4
Sukhumvit MRT Exit 3
Via CFBK/Facebook
CFBK CrossFit has been going since 2012, making it the original dedicated crossfit gym in Bangkok.
There’s a great sense of community at CFBK, with crossfitters coming from all over the city to the location next door to Asok BTS station to be inspired by the motivating team of coaches and as well as benefiting from the support of the community at large.
CFBK is open weekdays from 6 am to 9 pm, and weekends from 8am to 6 pm.
Foundation classes for beginners are held on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Classes for the more experienced are held twice daily (morning and evening), or you can simply schedule a drop in WOD session by email or by using the online service to suit your schedule — it’s essential to book in advance (or else risk an additional 20 burpees!).
There are a ton of different membership options at CFBK, with membership for 1 month costing 6900 THB, and a drop in fee of 690 THB without membership.
Training Ground Bangkok
3798 Rama IV Road
36/2 Sukhumvit Soi 69, BTS Phra Khanong
Via Training Ground Sukhumvit 69/Facebook
At Training Ground the coaches want to help you ‘build a body to be proud of’ with their world class crossfit training in a motivating and dynamic environment.
The box is filled with like-minded people of all ages and body types who are committed to working hard and achieving lasting fitness results. It’s actually one of Thailand’s biggest health and fitness communities thanks to its enormous gym space and the latest crossfit equipment.
Every workout is programmed and tailored specifically to individual ability and fitness goals with over 50 classes available weekly (beginners classes, regular classes and one on one classes), and trial classes are free if you’re looking to test the waters.
If you’re just getting started, 3 beginners classes cost 2500 THB, or you can benefit from a full membership with the price for one month at 4500 THB. Coaches speak English.
Training Ground Bangkok has two locations; on Rama 4 and Sukhumvit 69, which are open Monday to Friday from 7 am to 8 pm and at weekends from 10 am to 3 pm.
CrossFit Ten500
KCC Building, Silom Soi 9
BTS Chong Nonsi
Via Crossfit Ten500/Facebook
Providing a safe, fun and positive environment where people of all fitness levels can come together and be challenged to achieve their health and fitness goals, CrossFit Ten 500 is based at KCC Building on Silom Soi 9.
There are group classes 5 times a day from 7 am to 7 pm during the week. All new members are required to go through a few one on one sessions with the English speaking coaches in order to familiarise themselves with the sport and ensure that they are training safely when they join the daily WODs.
The price for an unlimited monthly membership for group classes is 4200 THB, with drop in sessions priced at 700 THB. One on one training starts at 10500 THB for 5 hours. They also offer a free trial class for new members.
Crossfit Arena Bangkok
1624 Phetchaburi Road
Phetchaburi MRT
Via Crossfit Arena Bangkok/Facebook
CrossFit ARBKK has a training philosophy that coaches people of all shapes and sizes to improve their physical well-being and cardiovascular fitness in a friendly and encouraging environment.
They use constantly changing workouts to challenge your fitness levels each time you train. The Foundations for Beginners Course (1400 THB) consisting of three private classes is required for members new to crossfit, in order to familiarise yourself with the sport and learn safe, proper techniques.
Unlimited access to crossfit sessions for 1 month costs 4900 THB, and private personal training classes start at 2500 THB per session.
CrossFit Arena Bangkok is open weekdays from 6:30 am to 8 pm, Saturdays from 10 am until 4 pm and for 1 hour at 11 am on Sundays.
Coaches can also provide nutrition planning and tracking to aid you in achieving your goals. CrossFit Arena is located at 1624 Phetchaburi Road just a short stroll from Phetchaburi MRT station.
Ari Fitness
Soi Ari 3
Ari BTS exit 3
Via Ari School of Fitness/Facebook
The mission at Ari Fitness is to bring people together to build a great community and deliver professional crossfit coaching through a combination of honesty, professionalism, and friendship to support and motivate members.
A free 45 minute introduction session with a personal coach is available to get you on the right track and adapt your training to your needs and abilities.
CrossFit group WOD classes are available at several times throughout the day, 7 days a week and cost 4800 THB for one month unlimited membership or 700 THB for a drop in session.
If you just want to come and use the gym facilities at Ari Fitness they are open from 10 am to 5 pm weekdays and 10:30 am to 5:30 pm at weekends. Ari Fitness is just 400 metres from BTS Ari station exit 3 at No. 6, Soi Ari 3.
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by: John Langeler
Posted: May 2, 2019 / 10:48 AM PDT / Updated: Jun 20, 2019 / 10:55 AM PDT
When Dr. Charles Maguire is in his element, his back is to a large crowd. His attention is towards the collection of talented musicians and the notes they play.
Maguire is a local music teacher, conductor of the Desert Winds Ensemble and member of the Making Music Matter Foundation.
“Music is the thing that connects all of us,” said Dr. Maguire, “It puts us back in contact with the thing that makes us human.”
The Making Music Matter Foundation funds the Desert Winds, Chambers and Honor Winds ensembles. It also pays for young musician scholarships and holds a music camp every summer for 300 children.
Maguire is deeply involved in the organization. It involves conducting and teaching, but it also involves listening and, above all, caring.
He recalled a recent compliment he gave to one of his players that turned out to be the perfect note.
“(I said) your playing is absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for that. Then I found out the kid wanted to attempt suicide.
“I did not do well for weeks,” continued Maguire, “I think it’s important that we remind people they’re importantly constantly, and we let people know how we feel about them.”
For Maguire, it’s proof music really does matter.
“This happens in the Clark County School District,” said Maguire, “We have students that are dealing with incredible burdens at home and the music making process allows them to connect back to humanity.”
Maguire was recently nominated for an Acts of Kindness award of $800.
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Angry newlyweds are suing a Southwest Florida wedding videographer for not delivering exactly what was paid for.
Thursday, February 23rd 2017, 5:31 PM EST
Your wedding is an unforgettable memory – one that several couples won't have on video.
"All my wife and I thought about was we can't wait to enjoy the wedding video," said Ryan Van Laeys.
Months after his wedding, he and his wife were still waiting to relive that day through video. They had flown down from New Jersey to get married in Southwest Florida.
"Our wedding was June 24th and at this point approaching February, we have yet to receive anything, anything at all," he told us weeks ago when ABC7 first started investigating the wedding videographer this couple hired.
The videographer's name is Trae Smith. He owns Viral Media Group.
According to the Van Laeys' Viral Media contract, Smith was supposed to produce a 4- to 6-minute highlight reel in 30 to 60 days, along with footage of their ceremony and all raw video. They paid Smith $1,590.
"The refunds were promised. The footage was promised. Everything that we have been promised hasn't been received," Ryan said.
Soon after ABC7 stepped in, Ryan said the couple received a full refund but still no video from their wedding.
"I don't believe any of his lies. It's just lies upon lies upon lies," said Lindsey Soca.
Soca and her husband, who live in Lehigh Acres, also hired Viral Media Group for their wedding.
According to both couples, Smith told them a hard drive crashed with their wedding videos on it. ABC7 uncovered several more clients suing Viral Media Group for the same reasons.
"This behavior is unacceptable," said attorney Michael Mummert, who's representing one of those clients.
We asked Mummert about the fine print in Viral Media's contracts.
"It's very clear as to when the payment terms are due (for the client)," Mummert said.
Smith's contracts require clients to pay by specific deadlines before they walk down the aisle. His contracts, however, are not as specific as to when clients can expect to receive what they paid for.
"If it was an honest mistake, we wouldn't have so many of these people saying where are my videos?" Mummert said. "This may be a situation in which a judge says no, you're going to give all of these people all of their money back."
This month, Trae Smith failed to show up for court appearances involving two lawsuits against him. His absence meant default rulings in favor of the wedding couples. Though, it doesn't mean an end to the story for these couples because now their attorneys have to find Trae Smith to demand repayment.
"This just can't keep happening to people," said Van Laeys. "It's terrible."
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Of all the worries that keep CPA firm owners up at night, chances are the specter of potential litigation is the one that causes them to lose the most sleep.
Unfortunately, there may be a good reason for that.
Since 2000 â on the heels of several corporate scandals and financial reporting fiascos â judges have been less likely to throw out cases against CPAs than they once were, according to CPA Mutual, a national risk retention group and accounting firm liability coverage provider. Judges today also grant fewer motions for summary judgment and seem to require additional discovery before rendering decisions on cases.
The numbers speak for themselves, said CPA Mutual President Bill Thompson. Firm claims with actual expenses paid have increased by 41 percent since 1998, while accounting firms can expect, on average, to experience one liability matter per every 38 employees each year.
And smaller firms â where the consequences of litigation can be much more catastrophic â are not exempt. Based on CPA Mutual's total membership count and the number of reported incidents per year, nearly one out of every nine firms can expect to have some kind of legal issue annually, Thompson said.
It's not that CPA firms have become more reckless in their practices. Rather, Thompson said, a combination of factors within the legal system and the CPA profession are driving this trend.
âI believe public perception may be at the forefront of this change,â Thompson noted. âCPAs may have lost a little of their âtrusted profession' luster post-Enron and all the other scandals in the early 2000s, when the accounting firms in many of these cases were implicated of shoddy accounting or looking away while the bad guys cooked the books.â
Plaintiffs' lawyers in those cases also discovered two key factors that continue to haunt CPA firms to this day, Thompson said. They found accounting firms have deep pockets, and sympathetic juries were willing to believe the CPAs did, in fact, assist in the fraud or, at the very least, turned a blind eye to protect the relationship.
Add to that the CPA profession's labor shortage and the fact that accounting firms carry professional liability insurance (which makes them an easy target for lawsuits), and you've created a legal climate rife with opportunities for litigation.
The labor shortage, in particular, Thompson said, has only exacerbated the problem.
âThere is nothing worse for firm owners than to hear a staff member explain at deposition, âI had no idea what I was supposed to do, and there was no one on the job to answer my questions,'â Thompson said.
When it comes to diligent risk management against a legal claim, purchasing liability coverage isn't enough, he added. The time and expense of a lawsuit can disrupt firm operations and cause clients to question their choice of advisor.
In addition to the right coverage, CPA Mutual advises firms to add the following five strategies to practice management. These steps can improve their odds of avoiding claims or, at the very least, properly manage them should they occur.
1. Invest in consistent staff training. Plaintiffs' attorneys like the idea of âkidsâ doing audits; that is, less-experienced auditors. Firms need to have enough senior-level staff people to adequately supervise each engagement. Before adding a new client, think long and hard about whether you have the right people to take on the engagement. For quality control, make sure that qualified staffers are positioned at every level and phase of the engagement â and documented as such.
2. Update and enforce document-retention policies. Paper and electronic files are discoverable in a lawsuit. These include workpapers, but also emails, text messages, instant messages, blogs, and any other message stored electronically. The firm's document-retention policy should include electronic communications even on personal home computers and phones used for business. Remember, Arthur Andersen wasn't found guilty of performing a bad audit â it was found guilty of a cover-up based upon one bad email. Train staff on saving client and firm communications in all forms.
3. Review communication protocols. Remind staff that anything they write â regardless of its form â may be discoverable. When in doubt, speak about sensitive information in person and determine how to communicate it to the client or other staff. Electronic documents are extremely expensive to produce for a subpoena, and there is a very complex set of rules for their retention and safekeeping once a claim is imminent or threatened. This alone will require the help of an attorney.
But how can you hammer this point home with text-happy millennial employees?
âEmphasize ânever write anything that can be said,' which can be applied perhaps when discussing internal issues or personnel differences,â Thompson said. âI wouldn't want to be in the middle of a claim and discover that one of the junior staff persons texted an associate with a comment such as, âThe senior on this job is so over his head, all he does is surf the Internet while I do all the work! L.' We'd probably be forced to settle even a defensible claim. This would apply to personal comments regarding a client, as well.â
However, any recommendations or comments made to the client relative to the engagement should be in writing, he added. Those comments should be brief, but enough to understand the point you are trying to make, as well as the client's response. It wouldn't hurt to have an email in the file outlining your conversation. Send it to the client, and ask to confirm his or her understanding of the discussion, Thompson said.
4. Revise contracts and invoices. One of the most dangerous liability risks to CPA firms today is contract language. Firms are adding a number of specialized service niches in order to differentiate and compete, but they are not updating their letters of engagement and invoicing to clarify the exact nature of services rendered or the CPA's role in the engagement. Firms run into problems in areas such as consulting on tax implications that tie to investments or estates. An innocent conference call, improperly documented, can create the appearance that the accountant offered investment or legal advice. If the client's investments or estate run into trouble, the accounting firm must be able to clearly demonstrate its role.
5. Choose insurance providers carefully. As claims statistics worsen, insurance companies that recently entered the accounting market may be heading for the exits. It happened in the mid-'80s and then again in the early 2000s, so CPAs should not be surprised if they receive a nonrenewal letter in the mail informing them that the company to whom they have paid premiums all these years won't be around to service their claims. The last thing CPAs want to deal with is claim litigation serviced by an insurance company that no longer serves their market, Thompson said.
He recommends two strategies to find a reliable insurance carrier. First, ask how long the carrier has written professional liability for CPAs. Have they ever written it before, but then withdrew from the market only to re-enter in the future? Carriers like to enter and leave markets depending upon results.
âYou don't want to file a claim with a carrier only to see them exit our market. The claim will be handled in a runoff department with little regard to insured satisfaction because they know renewing the firm is no longer a concern,â Thompson said.
Secondly, seek out the confidential opinion of a local attorney who defends CPAs. Ask the attorney about his or her knowledge of the claims philosophy and claims-handling procedures of a prospective carrier. Some carriers pay claims a little faster than others, and some like to dispute every exclusion or coverage term with their insured [the CPA firm itself] even before dealing with a plaintiff.
Over the years, Thompson said he's seen lawsuits filed against even some of the most well-intentioned, cautious CPA firms, usually as the result of one of two incredibly common mistakes.
First, firms accept engagements they are not fully qualified to perform and then don't seek a second opinion or review from someone who is qualified before releasing the work product. The other mistake is being too concerned about the client relationship in attest engagements.
âSome firms face a lawsuit from attest work because they believed the client could turn around and straighten the Titanic before it sank,â Thompson said. âYou need to be honest and direct in attest engagements, even if findings may threaten a long-term client relationship. Be prepared to walk away.â
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Deanna Arteaga is a professional freelance writer and public relations specialist who for the past six years has covered CPA industry trends for AccountingWEB. She also writes about CPA firm marketing, higher education and professional development for CPAs, and workplace trends in the accounting profession. She has more than 20 years...
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This is exactly why we are working on "tort liability reform" in Maryland. Our managing partners of Maryland CPA firms indicated that this continues to be a major issue they face and we have introduced legislation in Maryland to help limit the risks of large frivolous lawsuits. Our appeal bond legislation puts a cap on the bonds that may be required to get an appeal.
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Don’t worry about getting seasick aboard one of Kansas City’s four riverboat casinos. Each is firmly anchored in its own tiny, landlocked pond hundreds of feet from the muddy banks of the Missouri River. Built atop massive barges, these state-of-the-art gambling palaces are boats in name only.
Among them only the Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa in suburban Riverside is defying the odds and remarkably shrugging off the nation’s economic malaise with property-record revenues, turnstile admissions and market share in recent months.
“It’s the simple things, like the cleanliness of our restrooms…dealers who know their players’ names,” said marketing director Dean Doria. “We don’t make a lot of changes and people reward you for that consistency with their feet and keep coming back.”
A view of The Argosy Casino from outside
Located just a few miles north of downtown Kansas City’s new, nine-square block Power & Light convention and nightlife district, the Mediterranean-themed and squeaky-clean Argosy is also a short hop from many other local visitor hotspots: the upscale Country Club Plaza famed as the nation’s first shopping “mall;” the restored Union Station and Science City museum (a must for kids); Sprint Arena; and the world-class National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Penn National Gaming poured $66 million into Argosy’s 258-room hotel that opened two years ago and last year was ranked by Expedia.com at No. 8 on its “Insiders’ Select” list of the world’s best hotels. If the long menu of luxury spa treaents doesn’t float your boat perhaps the shower-stall “rain” experience in each oversized and elegantly furnished room will.
A Standard room in The Argosy’s hotel
Wake up to a complimentary cup of Kansas City’s own and addictive Roasterie coffee before hitting the fitness center or the business center. (Be sure to request a room with southern exposure for a postcard view of the Missouri River and the Kansas City skyline. Note: Smoking rooms are available on one floor only, and smoking is permitted in some dining areas.)
The hotel’s six high-tech meeting rooms and 5,000 square feet of smoke-free, pre-function space and 8,000 square feet grand ballroom won the Nielsen Company’s MeetingNews magazine’s “Planners’ Choice” award in 2008 and have emerged as popular venues for wedding receptions, business meetings and other gatherings.
Hungry? Argosy has five restaurants including Zoe’s bakery and gift shop and Leo’s Deli on the casino floor with its big menu of hot sandwiches, soups and salads.
For fine dining the choice is Journey Wood Fired Steaks, where the daily special recently included Florida stone crab claws for $14. Really hungry? Go for the 18 oz. ribeye ($32) or twin pork chops in a brandy glaze ($24) topped off with a creme brulee ($7).
Journey Wood Fired Steaks, Argosy’s fine dining experience
Of course there’s a buffet, and the Terrace Buffet just might be the most intimate casino buffet room in the land. Cuddle up in a dining alcove with your significant other and a heaping plateful from the salad bar or carver table. Be sure to arrive early Wednesdays and Thursdays for wildly popular all-you-can-eat crab legs and prime rib nights ($24.99).
The Crazy Olives sports bar specializes in martinis and other libation concoctions (try the Flirt-tini with a splash of champagne and raspberry) or wander in until 3 a.m. on weekends to cure those late-night munchies after a go at the gaming tables.
Oh yes, the games. Argosy’s 62,000-square-foot casino floor all on one Tuscan-themed level offers more than 1,900 of the latest in coinless slots plus 47 table games including an eight-table, smoke-free poker room.
One unique Kansas City offering at Argosy is its progressive “Colossal Cash” jackpot promotion that can be hit on any machine on the floor where a player is using a club card. Guaranteed to hit before reaching $25,000, the progressive tally board recently stood at $21,642.90` and quite due for its 13th winner.
The casino floor decor – from faux stone castle walls to copper pots hanging overhead as they might in an old-world marketplace – could more accurately be described as Mediterranean melange, “with a little of everything from Italy to Morocco,” says General Manager Ameet Patel.
The casino floor inside The Argosy
The architectural fun at Argosy actually starts outside where 850 strobe lights are built into the casino’s exterior walls and are switched on at dusk where they perform in one of the largest computerized light shows in the country. The lower floors of the 9-story glass hotel tower are wrapped in a Mediterranean village streetscape facade of modest dwellings and storefronts.
There are several entrances, including from the 1,200-car indoor parking garage. But be sure to stroll through the colonnaded main entrance atrium that links the casino to the hotel and where a stunning, 2,000 square feet stained glass dome streams sunlight onto an inlaid Moroccan tile floor for an effect that has drawn rave reviews in the architectural world all by itself.
Nevermind Missouri’s infamous $500 “loss limit” cramping your gaming style. Voters last year repealed the state’s unique wagering restriction and its mandatory player ID-at-the-door rules.
For a real multi-media adventure have a seat at the casino floor VP bar on any Friday or Saturday night where the stage above and behind the hardworking bartenders will be rockin’ with local band talent. Drop by on New Year’s Eve for a rare free performance by the home-grown, tap-dancing, jazz-playing McFadden Brothers who, for the third consecutive year, will make Argosy a year-end tradition for their legions of fans.
Shortly after the Mediterranean-themed playpen for grownups replaced Argosy’s picturesque and classic three-deck riverboat in late 2003, the American Gaming Association awarded its owners the industry’s top architectural redesign award. “The tastes of today’s casino customer are increasingly sophisticated, and Argosy literally transformed its property to respond to this trend, creating a destination resort that is truly unique for its market,” said AGA president Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr. at the time.
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Day In Rock 6/9: Velvet Revolver Nix Tour- Live 8 Spice Free- Bon Jovi Vs LA Reid?- Franz Espionage- AC/DC- Sad Lit News- Tom Petty- Def Leppard- Motley VH1- Ozzy, Slash Pull A Bono- Indie RIAA- Stone Sour- Opeth- Les Claypool- Arch Enemy- All That Remains- Flaming Lips Cruise- Jacko- USO Idol- Idlewild- Hellfes- Randies- Helloween- Backyard Babies- Couch Tour 2005- Twisted Sister- more
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Velvet Revolver Nix tour
AP reports: Rock supergroup Velvet Revolver abruptly cut short its overseas tour Tuesday, leaving many wondering if the band's future was in jeopardy.
A newspaper and television station in Finland reported that the band had split, but Velvet Revolver spokeswoman Kristine Ashton-Magnuson disputed those reports.
"The band has not broken up," she said. "In fact, theyre coming back to the U.S. early to start the next record." [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story
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Live 8 Spice Free
Ananova reports: Bob Geldof has put an end to a Spice Girls reunion at Live 8.
Bob says the girls will not perform at Live 8 because they are not popular enough reports IOL.com.
Geldof said: "I can't afford to have bands who won't pull the crowds. This is a political event, not a cultural one. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story
Franz Espionage
Rockdirt reports: The Daily Star reports that during his recent visit to Russia, Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos was held by intelligence forces under suspicion of being an international spy. Kapranos was travelling under his mother's maiden name Huntley, giving him the same moniker as the former MI6 agent. "Alex protested his innocence, but the officials, initially, would not believe his story," a source said. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story
Bon Jovi Vs LA Reid?
Rockdirt reports: Island Def Jam chief L.A. Reid celebrated his 48th birthday with several of his music acts, but Jon Bon Jovi wasn't one of them. "L.A. wasn't satisfied with Bon Jovi's new album," a source told The New York Daily. "He didn't believe it had a radio hit. So - just like they did with Mariah - he sent Jon back into the studio." But Reid denied the feud and blamed Bon Jovi's no-show on the weather.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story
Back in Black: 21 Million Rocked!
Yahoo reports: AC/DC's 1980 breakthrough "Back in Black" has been certified for U.S. shipments of 21 million copies, tying it for fifth place with Billy Joel's "Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & II" on the Recording Industry Assn. of America's all-time best-sellers list.
The Australian hard rock group's first album with lead singer Brian Johnson, who replaced Bon Scott following his alcohol-related death, "Back in Black" was originally released by Atco and was reissued in 2003 by Epic along with the rest of the band's catalog. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story
Sad Lit News
Lit reports: A. Jay & Jeremy Popoff of the Orange County rock band Lit received terrible news this past weekend. Their mother, Sheri Suglia, and their step-father Kerry Suglia, were travelling on the Ortega Highway following an afternoon visit with A. Jay, Jeremy and their children when their motorcycle was struck by a drunk driver in an SUV. Kerry Suglia was killed on impact and Sheri is in extremely critical condition with massive multiple injuries. A memorial fund has been established:
Kerry Suglia Memorial Fund
c/o R & R Business Management
17609 Ventura Blvd. Suite 203
Encino, CA 91316- Click Here for the Full Story
Tom Petty LA
Press Release reports: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers will headline a concert at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine, CA on Sunday August 14 as part of the band's first major North American tour in nearly three years. The Irvine date marks the first Los Angeles-area concert that the band has played since November, 2002. Joining Petty & the Heartbreakers as Special Guest will be the legendary Jackson Browne. Tickets go on sale this Saturday, June 11 at 10:00AM, and can be purchased at all Ticketmaster outlets, at ticketmaster.com, and at the venue's box office.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story
Def Leppard Add Dates
liveDaily reports: British rockers Def Leppard, who recently launched a co-headlining run with Bryan Adams, have lined up lots of new headlining dates for themselves, including a late-summer swing through Canada.
The group, which wraps up its first batch of shows with Adams in Texas on Saturday (6/11), will then tackle a dozen additional June dates, most of which will feature fellow rock quintet Tesla. A handful of July headlining stops--for which a support act has not yet been named--will follow, as will a 12-date run through Canada with Canadian rock trio The Tea Party in the opening slot. [see full story for more including dates]- Click Here for the Full Story
Motley VH1 Reality
Blabbermouth reports: Mediaweek.com is reporting that VH1 has acquired rights to the six episodes of NBC's upcoming reality series "Tommy Lee Goes to College"; a spokesman for the network said the first episode will run on cable just three days after the broadcast premiere, which is scheduled for August 16, with two back-to-back episodes slated to air on NBC starting at 9 p.m. ET.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story
Ozzy, Slash Pull A Bono
Blabbermouth reports: Ozzy Osbourne, Slash (VELVET REVOLVER) and Nicko McBrain (IRON MAIDEN) are among the music icons from across the globe that have come together to design the ultimate collectable wristbands for one aim � to raise a minimum of $3 million for worthwhile causes and support fair, sustainable employment in developing countries
The wristbands contain a message and symbol of hope for the future and 100% of net profits of sales will be donated to a chosen cause or charity, important to each celebrity.
21st Century Leaders is the unique organisation that has gathered original artwork from over 200 celebrities in all fields: film, music, sport, literature, royalty and Nobel peace laureates. Each leader has donated a self-portrait, in addition to the message and symbol of hope. The artwork will be used to create �merchandise with a meaning' under fair working conditions. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story
Indie RIAA
Audio Aggression reports: TVT, Beggars, Roadrunner, Lookout, and Tommy Boy records are among 125 independent record labels who have joined forces to form the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM). The main focus of A2IM will be to represent indie labels in Washington, D.C. and lobby for better treatment from online music services such as iTunes and Napster.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story
Stone Sour Soph
Audio Aggression reports: Slipknot / Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor told toazted.com that he will be entering the studio in January '06 with his side project Stone Sour to record the band's second album, which is tentatively due next Spring/Summer via Roadrunner. [see full story for a link to the full interview]- Click Here for the Full Story
Opeth August
The PRP reports: Opeth are shooting for an August 30th release date for their new album "Ghost Reveries". The outing will be the groups first for their latest label, Roadrunner. - Click Here for the Full Story
Les Claypool Tour
The PRP reports: Les Claypool of Primus fame has announced the line-up for his touring band this summer. The group will feature Skerik, Mike Dillon, Jay Lane and Gabby La La at most stops. They will be touring throughout the summer and dates include:
June 19th San Francisco, CA - The Independent
June 30th - 01st Quincy, CA - High Sierra Music Festival
July 07th - 08th Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
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Arch Enemy Lose Member
The PRP reports: Arch Enemy guitarist Christopher Amott has decided to step away from his touring commitments to the band for the near future. In turn, he will temporarily be replaced by Gus G. (Firewind, Nightrage) at the bands upcoming live dates. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story
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Jersey Shore: JWoww and Roger's divorce finalized, how the couple got here
Jenni 'JWoww' Farley feels like Nicole Kidman
Jersey Shore: JWoww and Roger's divorce finalized, how the couple got here Jenni 'JWoww' Farley feels like Nicole Kidman Check out this story on app.com: https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/television/2019/08/29/jersey-shore-jwoww-and-rogers-divorce-finalized-how-couple-got-here/2157628001/
Chris Jordan, Asbury Park Press Published 7:57 p.m. ET Aug. 29, 2019 | Updated 11:57 a.m. ET Aug. 30, 2019
JWoww, what a feeling.
Jenni “JWoww” Farley of “Jersey Shore” feels like a post-Tom Cruise Nicole Kidman now that she's finalized her divorce from ex-husband Roger Mathews.
“Jenni and Roger have reached an amicable conclusion and finalized their divorce,” said a spokesperson for Jenni to the USA Today Network New Jersey on Thursday, Aug. 29. “They remain devoted to co-parenting their children in a happy and healthy environment and they both wish each other the best.”
Jenni posted a pic on her Instagram account on Thursday of jubilant Kidman that's become associated with her split from Cruise.
As for Jenni and Roger, it's been a rocky road to this point. Jenni filed for divorce on Sept. 12, 2018 in Superior Court in Ocean County, citing irreconcilable differences.
“The plaintiff and the defendant have irreconcilable differences which have caused the breakdown of the marriage for a period of at least six months which make it appear that the marriage should be dissolved and that there is no prospect of reconciliation,” Jenni's complaint said.
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Roger did not want the marriage to end.
“I'm not done fighting,” he said. “I'm going to win my wife back. I'm going to win her affection back. I'm going to win her love back. I have no intention of being a single dad.”
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Yet, things got ugly. Police were called to their Toms River home in early December. Jenni filed a restraining order against Roger. Later, she charged him with domestic abuse, along with other indiscretions, on her web site on Jan .30.
“You are an abuser to the core, Roger Mathews,” read the statement, all in caps and signed by Jenni. “I stand strong today. For me. For Greyson. For Meilani. (Their children) They will not grow up watching their mother being a victim of domestic violence. I will be a victim no longer. Roger, know this here and for always – my kindness should never again mistaken for weakness. Remember that. I will not be threatened. I will not be controlled. I will not be broken.”
On the July 11 season debut of “Jersey Shore” family vacation, Jenni said that she and Roger had different views of how their son Greyson, who was diagnosed with autism, should be treated.
It caused a rift in the marriage, she said.
In honor of hitting 7 million followers, I shall post this amazing glow up... from looking like I haven’t showered... to contour, filters and fillers... but always the same expression #unbothered 🤷🏽♀️ love all of you ❤️ even the hating ass ones 🙃
A post shared by Jenni JWOWW (@jwoww) on May 20, 2019 at 5:38pm PDT
“Roger believed that Greyson was just a slow learner and he was going to learn on his own and that caused a lot of tension in our household because you have one parent who’s, ‘I need to get ahead of this,’ which is me, and fix it. You have another parent who’s, ‘What are you doing? It’s not a big deal. There’s nothing wrong with Greyson.’ “ Jenni said.
Jenni has a new boyfriend, wrestler Zack Clayton Carpinello.
F--- Cancer benefit with DJ Pauly D rocks Headliner in Neptune
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Staff writer Kathleen Hopkins contributed to this report.
Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey. His multiple awards include recognition for stories on both Bruce Springsteen and Snooki. Contact him at @chrisfhjordan; cjordan@app.com. Stay with app.com or consider a subscription today.
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Hi, I'm Amy O'Donnell, an educator at the American Museum of Natural History. I am fascinated by coral reefs and the creatures that live near them.
Did you know that giant coral reefs are built by thousands of tiny organisms called coral polyps (pah-lips)? The outside layer of a reef is alive. A coral polyp produces a cup-shaped skeleton around itself. The inside layers of a reef are made of the skeletons of dead coral, some of which lived millions of years ago.
Today, I'm going to show you how to make a model of a coral reef called a diorama, a 3-D scene set against a painted background. Dioramas come in many sizes. Like Museum scientists and artists, I love to make scientific models of different kinds of organisms from interesting materials in my classroom. I use these models to help people understand how these creatures live and their amazing body forms.
Create a diorama of a coral reef.
What's a Museum Diorama?
At the Museum, we create dioramas of many interesting environments. For the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, we created a large diorama of a coral reef near Andros Island in the Bahamas. These dioramas give Museum visitors a chance to observe unusual ecosystems up-close. It takes Museum scientists and artists many months to construct a diorama. First, they go into the field to make careful observations of an ecosystem. Then they reconstruct all the organisms, plants, and rocks that they found into a life-like scene.
Cool Coral Facts
The world's first coral reefs formed about 500 million years ago.
Coral reefs are made of millions of tiny, fragile animals called hard coral polyps, living and dead. A group of coral is called a colony.
Each different kind of coral, as a community, creates an amazing shaped structure. These architectural shapes are used by scientists to identify corals.
Coral polyps feed at night. They have tentacles with small stinging cells called nematocysts. Hard coral also get nutrients from the algae that live on them.
Coral reefs are found in shallow water because the algae that live with them need sunlight for photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the process by which plants harness the Sun's energy and use it to turn water and carbon dioxide into their food, sugar. As corals compete for sunlight, the reef gets bigger and bigger.
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Thirty-one students from 14 Universities in Japan, from International Volunteers of University Student Association IVUSA, worked alongside 12 of Amrita University’s Masters of Social Work (MSW) students and faculty members to deploy clean drinking water filters in 31 flood-hit communities in the Kerala State districts of Alappuzha and Pathanamthitta, in February 2019.
The effort was part of the Jivamritam clean water initiative {news} for rural India.
Traveling all the way from Japan to Kerala, the students expressed much joy and happiness for the opportunity to perform selfless service. Some students shared their thoughts.
“I want to join this program next year too. I would like to say many thanks to Amma for this opportunity. And I hope the Jivamritam program will spread around the world.” – Kurumi Kusano – Otsuma Women’s University – Japan
“I’ve heard that Amma works hard to help many people, so I also want to be someone who helps other people with love like her. The days I have spent in India have become unforgettable memories.” – Miu Suzuki – first year student at Toyo University – Japan
“It was a great experience for me to participate in this project. I didn’t know how serious the water problem was in India. I learned many things by seeing how people live here, by working with MSW students, and through communicating with people in the villages.” – Yuya Kitano, second year student of Faculty Law at Chuo University – Japan
“I never imagined that I would have such a wonderful experience!” – Yuya Morimot – second year student at Kwansei University – Japan
“The Jivamrita Project has become a turning point in my life.” – Nagisa Ueda, First Year student at Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts – Japan
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Flood relief activities in Kerala
MAM volunteers have been active in numerous relief activities related to the recent floods in Kerala caused by continuous heavy rains. The landslide and rains have hit about half the state, with more than 60,000 people rendered homeless.
Dr MGK Pillai and Dr.Jaggu leading the consultation and free medicines from a boat
In the past week, a medical team from Amrita Hospital has visited 13 Panchayats in Alappuzha district, providing 18 medical relief camps to said areas and serving 3618 patients. Twenty more such camps will be conducted in Alappuzha alone. In many places, the team has had to deliver service and medical assistance by boat as the areas are deeply flooded.
Dr Vishnu & team in Wayanad tribal area
Another team of doctors and paramedics have been conducting medical camps in Wayanad district with the support of a telemedicine unit. The team will be conducting another 25 more camps in the hilly areas of North Kerala. Offering round the clock services, the team will remain until the flooding has abated.
MAM volunteers are also distributing drinking water, bags of food, grocery, clothes, blankets and bed sheets to the affected people. The AYUDH team will also begin clean-up drives in the flood-affected areas starting Wednesday. More help will be planned out as the situation and needs are evaluated.
-Tulasai
Compassion and Devotion, Jnana and Bhakti are not two
21 Jan, Kanichukulangara, Alappuzha, Kerala -Bharata Yatra 2016
After the wrapping up the five Brahmasthanam programs on the 2016 North Kerala tour, Amma travelled to Alappuzha. Amma came there upon the invitation of the Temple committee, to dedicate the newly constructed “Chuttambalam” of Kanichukulanghara Devi temple.
Amma dedicating ‘Chuttambalam’ of Kanichukulangara Devi Temple
The Kanichukulanghara temple was set up at the behest of Sree Narayana Guru and as per the temple records. Narayana Guru visited and stayed in the temple along with his disciples. He had also trained Ezhava community members enabling them to perform poojas in the temples.
At 10:30am a sea of devotees were on hand to welcome Amma as she arrived to visit the temple. Upon entering the temple, she lit the lamp and dedicated the Chuttambalam amidst Vedic chants.
After visiting the temple Amma continued the program across the street in a large venue set up for the event. During the public function SNDP General Secretary Vellappalli Natesan welcomed Amma to Kanichukulangara, “We are blessed to have darshan of two Devis’ today. Kanichukulangara Devi (the presiding deity of the temple) and Amritanandamayi Devi…who are one in the same. Amma has no cast, no religion, no racial discrimination. Her religion is Love.”
During the function Amma handed over keys to 10 houses newly built in Kanichukulangara area as part Amritakuteeram project.
On addressing the large crowd, which seemed to be the entire village, Amma said “Human beings need a job, money and basic comforts to live, but in today’s society, where selfishness reigns supreme, the greatest wealth we can gather within our hearts is devotion. Where there is bhakti, there is the real ‘meeting’. It is not a physical meeting, but a meeting where the Jivatman, the individual self, and Paramatman, the cosmic Self, unite.
“The real question is not whether God exists or not, but whether human beings have sorrow or not. Bhakti, or devotion, is the practical way of getting rid of sorrows. Bhakti is a practical science. Bhakti is not blind superstitious belief. It is this faith that removes darkness from our hearts. Not only does it help us unburden our heart, it also amplifies our sense of righteousness and inspires us to be compassionate towards the distressed. Devotion to God and compassion for the world are but two sides of the same coin. Jñana and Bhakti are not two; if Jñana is the fruit of a tree, Bhakti is the juice of that fruit.
“Temples are sacred places where God’s presence can be felt the most. But we should have the awareness that God’s presence is not limited to the sanctum of the temple. God is the all-pervading consciousness, which enlivens every being, sentient or insentient. It is only when we think and act with this knowledge that we will be able to experience God- consciousness within oneself. We should also be able to serve everyone, seeing the God within them. A heart devoid of compassion is like a closed parachute- it cannot save us.”
At night, the Tantri (temple priests) came to Amma while she is giving darshan and did a ‘shodasa upachara puja’ to Amma as they do daily to the deity in their temple. With all the mudras and steps of the Tantric puja, they did arati to Amma.
Amma also sang bhajans and gave darshan till the stroke of midnight thus concluding the first leg of Bharata Yatra 2016.
-Kannadi
All 150 houses in Alappuzha completed
26 August 2005 — Alappuzha District, Kerala
The Ashram has finished the construction of all the houses it is building for tsunami victims in the Alappuzha District of Kerala. Next week, the Ashram will hand over the completed houses to the government, and they, in turn, will distribute them to the recipients. The Ashram has built 150 houses in Alappuzha, which is just to the north of the Amritapuri. The Ashram handed over the first 88 of these houses in June, and now the remaining 62 have been completed. Of this final batch, 58 houses have two storeys; the recipients were given the choice of having one or two floors.
New boats to the tsunami victims
As a part of the tsunami rehabilitation project, 25 newly constructed boats were distributed to villagers in the Kollam and Alappuzha Districts who had lost theirs in the tsunami.
Each boat cost 1.25 lakh to build, and came equipped with a 9.9 Yamah outboard engine (costing 70,000 Rs.), 110 kg of fishing net (worth 37,000 Rs.), and additional accessories including diesel fuel.
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IDeaS Revenue Solutions rolls out first voice-based rate-management program
Ravi Mehrotra, founder: Technology 'is changing the culture of people working and trusting their guts'
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Ravi Mehrotra, founder and president of IDeaS Revenue Solutions in Minneapolis, Minnesota, an SAS subsidiary, led the development of the company’s first voice-activated rate management program, which launched in March.
WHILE CONSUMERS AND third-party vendors might be going gaga over guest-facing voice technology, other companies are exploring how to use voice to streamline hotel operations and make owners more money.
One company has recently integrated voice into its revenue management programs. IDeaS Revenue Solutions in March launched the first voice-based interface designed for a revenue management platform.
IDeaS G3 Revenue Management System is compatible with devices such as Amazon’s Echo and Google Home.
Hotel managers and employees can access real-time data and performance metrics through smart speakers. The program is accessible anywhere the user has a device and internet access.
Imagine walking into your hotel office each morning and asking, “Alexa, what are my occupancy rate and competitor rates today?” And getting an answer.
While IDeaS, a subsidiary of SAS, has been creating solutions for revenue management for nearly 30 years, the addition of voice is just one way the company “increases the ability of our clients to profit,” said Ravi Mehrotra, founder and president of the company. “We want to optimize hotels’ operations and make sure the information we are giving them is something they can’t do themselves.”
Klaus Kohlmayr, IDeaS chief evangelist (his actual title), said IDeaS “has been on a journey to make revenue management as accessible as possible. Voice is a natural evolution of our philosophy of making something that is complex easy to use.”
David Berger, CEO of Volara, who worked with Amazon for two years toward its launch of Alexa for Hospitality in June, called the deployment of voice in hospitality a “tectonic shift” in hotel communications in both the guest room and back-office operations.
An article Berger wrote in July for Phocuswright, said voice technology will increase in use and value as it is integrated more and more with the hotel technology stack. It will “reduce the friction” in the hotel technology ecosystem as managers and employees access the systems and “engage in a new and enjoyable way.”
IDeaS pioneered revenue management science, said Mike Chuma, the company’s vice president of marketing, enablement and engagement. IDeaS has clients all over the world across all chain scale segments. It works with major hotel companies, management firms, REITs and independent hotel owners. It supports systems in large full-service hotels to small limited-service properties.
The company’s cloud-based software programs and applications do not require voice to work. “Voice is just a way to interact,” Chuma said. “We are continually trying to find ways to innovate and make revenue management simple for all hotels.”
IDeaS voice-based technology can interface with hotels’ legacy platforms and tools. Owners who cannot afford to employ a specialized revenue manager can depend on the technology to make intelligent and more impactful pricing decisions. “If the shuttle driver does not show up for work, the general manager can take over knowing the system is doing its job,” said Mehrotra.
Mehrotra said the beauty of IDeaS’s products for property management is the process is automatic. Most importantly, its revenue management system removes the guesswork and emotion from making pricing decisions.
“Let the science and the data do their jobs,” Kohlmayr said. He talked about an hotelier who at first did not fully trust the RM system to handle pricing. “When he stepped back and let the system do its job, the hotel ended up making $150,000 more in eight weeks.”
While IDeaS likes to tout its G3 Revenue Management System as all-knowing, Chuma noted that owners can still make their own decisions. “The ones who regularly interact with our RMS and pay attention might not agree with a price.” He tells about a customer who knew the market demand well enough to confidently increase the price on Mondays and Tuesdays. Once the data was part of the system, his overall revenue significantly increased.
Still, when hoteliers take pricing matters into their own hands, they risk leaving money on the table. “If you go back 20 to 25 years, pricing for hotels was simple,” said Kohlmayr. “You did not have to worry about changing prices, maybe weekends versus weekdays. But today you have to be on the ball every minute of every day or you will be out-priced by your competition.”
He said IDeaS research shows a hotel is faced with an average 3 million pricing decisions in 24 hours. “There are millions and millions of data points. The new generation of owners understand that. There is no longer a person who can do that, it requires a system.”
Mehrotra said, technology, including voice, “is changing the culture of people working and trusting their guts.”
“When you cooperate with technology, even the small things make a difference, and you will run your business in a more consistent manner. Customers will see that and start to trust you more.”
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Five Proposals Unveiled for Presidio Parklands in San Francisco
The Observation Post / CMG Landscape Architecture. Image © CMG Landscape Architecture Courtesy of the Presidio Trust
Written by Rory Stott
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Last week, the five teams competing for the Presidio Parkland project in San Francisco unveiled their proposals in a public meeting at the project site. The parkland, made possible by the replacement of an elevated highway by a new tunnel, will command stunning views of the San Francisco bay, including views of the Golden Gate bridge.
"This is a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to create and design new parklands," Executive Director of the Presidio Trust Craig said. "We are extremely pleased with the caliber of the work of the five design teams and look forward to hearing the public’s feedback on these early concepts."
Competing for the prestigious project are James Corner Field Operations, OLIN with Olson Kundig Architects, Snøhetta with Hood Design Studio, West 8, and CMG Landscape Architecture. A winner will be announced in January.
Read on after the break to see all five proposals
Your Gateway Park / OLIN + Olson Kundig Architects
Your Gateway Park / OLIN + Olson Kundig Architects. Image © OLIN Courtesy of the Presidio Trust
The scheme by Olin + Olson Kundig Architects recognizes the repetition of a u-shape in both the buildings and topography of the site. Inspired by the way this shape is inwardly focused, offering shelter and a sense of enclosure, but also outwardly focused, directing attention towards views, their proposal makes repeated use of the gesture to inform the layout of the park.
Inserted into this framework are a number of interventions, including an observation deck, a flexible plaza space known as 'the runway,' a 'serpentine' walkway, and a number of oval-shaped lawns known as 'U-Pods' for recreational use.
In addition to the physical interventions, the team also proposed an app which helps users explore the park when in the vicinity.
Presidio Point / James Corner Field Operations
Presidio Point / James Corner Field Operations. Image © James Corner Field Operations Courtesy of the Presidio Trust
James Corner Field Operations focus on three key ideas: "panorama," a desire to make the most of the site's stunning views; "connect," a plan to link the site with other nearby landmarks; and "stage," with a series of features which allow the park to play host to a variety of events and gatherings.
An amphitheater and the large 'West Lawn' provide ample space for events, while a series of lookout points - including the reflective 'looking glass' outlook offer views across the bay.
Arcs & Strands / Snøhetta + Hood Design Studio
Arcs & Strands / Snøhetta + Hood Design Studio. Image © Snohetta Courtesy of the Presidio Trust
The team of Snøhetta and Hood Design Studio also focused on the idea of connecting the Presidio to the wider context of the Golden Gate recreation area, with their idea that "the site is bigger than the site."
They focus on both protecting the natural landscape of the site, and bringing the disciplines of architecture and landscape closer together, with buildings and outlook ledges that emerge seamlessly from the topography of the site.
The Observation Post / CMG Landscape Architecture
The focal point of the proposal by CMG Landscape Architecture is the Observation Post, a which allows users to view the bay from the roof.
Complementing this key intervention are a series of smaller structures which add life to the park, such as the 'cyanoscope' which allows users of the park to see just how blue the sky is that day, the 'listening coves' which enhance the user's sense of hearing to listen to the surrounding environment, and the kinetic dune fence which is animated by the wind.
PresidiO / West 8
PresidiO / West 8. Image © Team West 8
In order to create a park that is at the same time respectful of the history and existing form of the site, but also striking and contemporary in its own right, West 8 looked for inspiration to designs that are "simple in form and spectacular in concept" - namely, IM Pei's Louvre Pyramids and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial designed by Maya Lin.
Following that tradition, the focal point of their design is a single elliptical bowl in the landscape, surrounded by a 'ring promenade.' Rising from the landscape, this also gives space for a colonnade hosting cafes and culture centers.
Outside of this central feature, other ecologies allow for a varied park experience, with woodland and wetland areas enhancing the park's landscape.
Rory Stott
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Cite: Rory Stott. "Five Proposals Unveiled for Presidio Parklands in San Francisco" 09 Sep 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/546346/five-proposals-unveiled-for-presidio-parklands-in-san-francisco/> ISSN 0719-8884
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4 June – Funeral Mass of Sister Eileen Carmel Keoghan, MMM – Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Drogheda
FUNERAL MASS OF SISTER EILEEN CARMEL KEOGHAN, MMM
OUR LADY OF LOURDES CHURCH, DROGHEDA
SATURDAY 4 JUNE 2011
HOMILY GIVEN BY
The funeral liturgy which we are celebrating has been carefully chosen and prepared in advance. Sister Eileen has left nothing to chance. The lovely hymns and the Scripture readings would have been selected, by her, for their beauty and their message. One of the tasks of every funeral liturgy is to identify and celebrate how God has been at work in the life of the deceased.
So, thank you, Sister Eileen, for your thoughtfulness and usual concern for the rest of us today.
Thank you for these past few months which you spent preparing for this week.
Thank you for the History of Pastoral Care and for the letters from Father Hugh Kelly, your Spiritual Director for some 47 years.
Thank you for the instructions to the Sisters and to your family so that this celebration would be a real celebration of your life and love.
You see, Sister Eileen was a mature woman. One of the marks of maturity is the ability to face reality. The reality is that we have not here on earth a lasting kingdom but we seek one that is to come.
The lovely Entrance Hymn – I Watch the Sunrise expresses so well her love of beauty – especially the beauty of nature.
I watch the sunrise lighting the sky
Casting its shadows near.
And in the morning, bright though it be,
I feel those shadows near me.
But that hymn does much more than that. I think it expresses Sister Eileen’s keen awareness of the beauty of nature – which is, of course, an expression, a reflection, a reminder of God, the source of all beauty. But that hymn also expresses her awareness of the shadows which are cast through all of our lives. For Sister Eileen that shadow would have come early on with the sudden death of her beloved mother at an early age and the death of her brother, Father Paddy, in 1957.
But the real message comes, I suggest, in the refrain and Eileen would have seen this as the treasure of her life which she glimpsed early on in life- and for which she gave all and set out to acquire the field in which it is to be found. That treasure is the Presence and Closeness of God.
But you are always close to me
Following al my ways,
May I be close to you,
Following all your way.
Sister Eileen would have felt that closeness of God through her parents and through her four brothers and four sisters and her education, first in Kilmainhamwood National School and later in Loreto College, Cavan. She would have felt that closeness of God as she discerned, in the early 40s, where God was calling her and what she has been called to do.
Mother Mary Martin had just then founded the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1937 and shortly afterwards set up the Mother House here at Our Lady of Lourdes. The young Eileen Keoghan would have been well aware of the great need of the missions for trained medical missionaries. She would also have known that the Church was just then encouraging religious congregations to devote themselves to all branches of medicine and so bring the compassionate love of Christ to the poorest of the poor at the ends of the earth.
So she joined the MMMs in 1944 and played her part in the phenomenal growth of the community. In less than 25 years it grew from three members to more than 400 doctors, nurses, medical personnel, teachers, and secretaries. By 963 the MMMs were maintaining 19 houses in Afraica, 7 in Ireland and one each in Italy and in the USA. By then it was operating four Nursing Training Schools in Africa and two in Ireland. It was staffing 14 General Hospitals, 18 Maternity Hospitals, 8 leprosaria and 159 Out Stations. It is a glorious chapter in the history of Irish Missionary activity.
Today we thank God for all of those valiant and generous women. We give praise to all those who responded to Mother Mary’s appeal personally but also those who supported them financially and spiritually.
Sister Eileen played her part in all of that:
• As a midwife here in the maternity hospital from 1947 to 1953.
• As a Medical Missionary in Tanzania from 1953 to1967,
• It fell to her lot to open up very different but new initiatives for the MMMs on three continents.
A new hospital in Makiungu, Tanzania
A new MMM House in Chicago for promotion work, and finally,
The new initiative of Pastoral Care for the sick and dying and the bereaved.
• She discovered and studied Pastoral Care in the United States
• She pioneered it here in Drogheda and throughout Ireland.
• She expanded it to Nigeria
• Explained it to the Universal Church at a European Bishops’ Conference in Rome in 1989.
• Discussed Pastoral Care on the Late, Late Show in 1978 where Gay Byrne called her the ‘Dying Nun’, and most importantly,
She practiced what she preached – in her care of the sick, the dying in this hospital and far beyond, up until her retirement in 2002 and well beyond. In fact, until the day of her death. Sister Eileen was caring like the Good Shepherd for people in sickness and distress. She was attentive to her family and her friends with her prayers and sacrifices, her telephone calls and letters and communications. Just this Easter I got this gift from her. It is an Ode to Friendship – one of life’s special gifts. It says:
Thank goodness for friends who care so much about us.
They want us to be all we are
They see the good qualities other may miss and
Inspire us to keep our aims high and
They are behind us in all that we try
They give the encouragement all of us need and
You realise that friendship is life’s Most Special Gift.
Of course, Sister Eileen would be the first to admit that all of her long, varied and gracefilled life was built on a solid foundation – a solid spiritual foundation. The building blocks were laid in the Keoghan home in Kilmainhamwood, in the National School and in the Parish Church. The Loreto Order and the Venerable Mary Ward would have played their part. Then there was Mother Mary Martin and her new vast family of the MMMs. Today we salute the Medical Missionaries in Angola, Brazil, Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda.
The love of her family members was special and precious to her – a love which she returned a hundred fold. The spiritual direction offered by Father Hugh Kelly, S.J. provided her with a compass for life. Her devotion to St Therese – the Little Flower and to Our Lady of Guadalupe all contributed to lead her ever more dearly and ever more nearly to Jesus. Of course, Jesus responded to all of that by granting her the request she so often repeated in recent weeks: “I want to be with Jesus”. I think it is hugely significant that one hour before she had her massive stroke last Tuesday afternoon, she had passed over responsibility of her small chore to Sister Bernadette, saying that she would not be able to do it anymore. What truly prophetic words! The reminded me of the words of Simeon when he took the child Jesus in his arms in the temple and blessed God saying:
“Now Master, you are letting your servant go in peace as you promised;
For my eyes have seen the salvation which you have made ready in the sight of the nations,
a light of revelation for the Gentiles and glory for your people, Israel”
Yes, the Master has now let his servant Sister Eileen go in peace as he promised. Her life has indeed been a light of revelation for so many. A revelation of God’s abiding and compassionate love for us all and glory for God’s people – the Church – the new Israel.
For me the final revelation from Sister Eileen comes in the final words of the Gospel she chose. There the Risen Lord says to Mary Magdalene:
Go and find the brothers and tell them: I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. So Mary of Magdala told the disciples: ‘I have seen the Lord’ and that he had said these things to her.
Sister Eileen is challenging each one of us to see the Lord in our own life and to really listen to what he is saying to us.
The Lord Jesus welcomes us, and I welcome you, as we gather around His table. We come to be nourished with the Word of Life and the Bread of Life. We come to give praise and glory to God – praise and glory and thanks, in this instance for the life of Sister Eileen Carmel Keoghan.
Sister Eileen departed this life at 10.15 pm on Wednesday night last – the eve of the Ascension of Our Lord to Heaven – after a long and fruitful and love-filled life of service to her Creator and to others – especially the sick, and the dying and bereaved.
I offer my sympathy to Phelim and Séamus, to her brother and sisters-in-law; to her nieces and nephews, extended family, and to her MMM family and very wide circle of friends.
As we give thanks, we also ask for mercy for her that God may give her a merciful judgement and admit her to the glory of Heaven.
We also think of our own death and judgement. We judge ourselves and we beg pardon for our sins
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The 2019 Fair Australia Prize (FAP) single work essay
Author:agent Tim Kennedy
Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 The 2019 Fair Australia Prize (FAP)
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'We are once again pleased to support the Fair Australia Prize, this year co-sponsored by Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, and the newly formed United Workers Union. Members of both the National Union of Workers and United Voice came together to vote for the bigger and stronger union which officially came into being in November this year. Already we have taken action which speaks to the heart of this year’s theme: STRIKE!' (Introduction)
y Overland no. 237 Summer 2019 18455896 2019 periodical issue Abstract
'I didn’t expect to be making the magazine you are holding, which is why earlier editorials this year read like farewells, but this is definitely it: my twentieth, and final, edition.
'People have asked why I would leave a magazine that is so politically and culturally necessary and, therefore, satisfying.
'To ensure a magazine stays vibrant, it’s essential to make room for new editors and writers. As for the satisfying nature of the work here, it is undeniably true. But workplaces, and political and literary projects, are made of people who motivate and challenge you.
'Last night I attended a talk by former editor Jeff Sparrow, about his new book on fascism and the Christchurch massacre. ‘What can we do about the intense alienation and isolation that many people seem to feel today?’ someone in the audience asked.
'It seems obvious, but workplaces are part of the answer (and why the era of freelancing and the gig economy has been disastrous for unionism and collectivism more generally). These spaces are inherently social: on many levels, work is about the relationships you form and the people you work with; who help to ease the intense loneliness that we can feel, the kind described by Rachael McGuirk and Hannah McCann in this edition.
'It is also true that there are not many workplaces like Overland, where one can start as an intern and progress to editor. The democratic traditions and collaborative nature – where everyone in the office has control over how each edition looks and reads – is unique.
'Workplaces are always about the people. I would like to thank: Alex Skutenko, the backbone of Overland for more than two decades; copyediting genius John Marnell; the aforementioned Jeff Sparrow; inspired fiction and poetry editors Peter Minter, Jennifer Mills, Toby Fitch and Claire Corbett; designers Brent Stegeman and Lynley Eavis, the nimble-fingered Sam Wallman, and so many other talented artists!; the brilliant and committed interns and volunteers; Giovanni Tiso, one of my favourite writers who I now call a colleague; and Rachael McGuirk, who always meets every challenge.
'I look forward to reading future editions edited by Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk, and seeing the new directions they take Overland.' (Jacinda Woodhead Introducing Overland 237)
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The Value of Nurturing Your Special Needs Child’s Hidden Talent
Our son, Himal, was only two years old when he was diagnosed with profound, non-verbal autism. Fifteen years later, despite all the unknowns and challenges ahead, we have never felt more hopeful about his future.
As the parent of a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), do you feel genuinely optimistic about your child’s future? For too many parents, it seems hope is a rare commodity.
Even as the number of those with ASD grows, school systems, social norms, and the medical community seem unable or unwilling to rise to the challenge of autism’s reality. This leaves us to wonder: What will become of our children? What do they have to look forward to in the years ahead? What is out there to give them a spark of hope?
Himal was constantly sick due to a compromised immune system and a terrible gut. Being non-verbal, he had no way to communicate even basic needs to us and would simply cry and scream for hours in frustration.
However, most terrifying of all for us as parents is that Himal has run away from home twice, and requires around the clock supervision.
Faced with such challenges, where does a family dealing with autism find hope?
Ours came one day in 2010, in the form of a paintbrush…
Despite not being able to hold a fork properly at the time, Himal grabbed the brush from the hand of his mother and started dabbing paint onto the canvas she was working on. Curious to see him take an interest in anything besides videos on his iPad, we pursued this and found him an art teacher.
One of Himal’s Early Paintings
Started With One Minute
We started small…our first victory being him holding the brush and standing next to the canvas for one minute. Learning was very hard for Himal. We continued to teach him in small increments, reinforcing each gain and building on it. For weeks, there would be no progress, which led to frustration; we almost gave up a few times. After several months, he started painting on canvas, and it gave us our first glimmer of hope!
Combating Therapy Bills
A few years later, as therapy and medical bills piled up (there was no insurance coverage for autism then), we decided to hold a fundraiser showcasing 50 of Himal’s paintings, along with art donated by the people in our community.
We converted his paintings into 1,500 greeting cards, and within two hours, they had sold out. Most of the paintings sold as well. We were thrilled! As for Himal, while he may not have understood what was going on, his face lit up when people complimented him. Imagine the boost this was to his self-esteem: people validating his work!
As parents, the value of helping our special children find activities that tap into both their passions and strengths cannot be overstated. For families dealing with autism, this is where the much-needed hope they’re so hungry for comes from. According to Desmond Tutu, “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” What better light into the darkness of an unknown future is there than creating a work of art and possibly earning one’s own income?
Himal’s Painting “Autumn Stroll”
A Pathway
With the success of the fundraiser, we had found another pathway to hope. Himal’s sense of pride, accomplishment, and passion about his art deepened. Each time he finished a painting, he insisted we take a picture of him with it.
The fundraiser also sparked an idea. Could we somehow capture the spirit of the event, while also giving other children with autism, as well as their families, a way to experience the kind of transformation Himal had? Could we help them find hope too?
This is how Zenaviv, a social enterprise, was born. Launched to promote the artistic talent of people impacted by autism, Zenaviv currently promotes eleven artists and counting. Their goal is to improve the self-esteem of these artists by bringing their talent to the world, while simultaneously challenging and changing the perceptions of the general public about those on the spectrum. Artists earn 66 percent of profits from the sale of their art, and the remaining helps to further Zenaviv’s mission.
The Progress
The heartwarming response from parents of children on the Zenaviv platform has validated the power of the cause. One mother, speaking of her son, says it has “given him a greater sense of satisfaction in his artwork, and consequently made him feel like a more valuable member of society. [He] is a happier person as a result of Zenaviv.”
Thanks to recognition from organizations such as The Washington Post, Woman’s Day, and Four Seasons Hotels, the confidence level of Himal and the other artists has grown by leaps and bounds. They feel a huge sense of accomplishment whenever their art is displayed, sold, or appreciated.
Himal, though 17, is developmentally at age six. He faces several challenges and may never be independent. He is friendly, lovable, and willing to explore new things. He’s not usually very expressive, but when he sees one of his paintings hanging in a local business, the expression on his face is priceless for us as parents. This is how the power of artistic expression has impacted him. For our family, it was the very spark of hope we so desperately needed to forge ahead.
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The experiences with Himal and Zenaviv have taught there is always hope. There always is the possibility that things can get better—that you may discover your child has a hidden talent or interest or passion. Maybe he/she is an artist, like Himal, or perhaps a violinist or a swimmer. It may take time to identify the talent but trust your instincts. Be creative and try a few things.
It may not be easy as you try new things, support and encouragement to the individual will go a long way. With enough passion, patience, and perseverance, you may be pleasantly surprised! By nurturing your child’s talent, you will also nurture confidence, social skills, and an overall sense of well-being!
Share your story and this story with your friends and community so we can build a brighter future together! Here at Zenaviv, we dream of a day where all families nurture the strengths of their children and are proud of them and live with hope. Furthermore, we hope the public looks past autism to see the dignity and value of every person. Our vision is to provide recognition, opportunity, and income for every artist with autism.
Earlier, I asked: “What do our children have to look forward to in the years ahead?” The answer to that, of course, depends on us. What are we as parents doing to give them hope? To help them find their passion and purpose? With Zenaviv, our family is sharing one possible pathway to a brighter future.
This article was featured in Issue 92 – Developing Social Skills for Life
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Harish Bikmal
Harish Bikmal lives in Virginia with his family, is the co-founder and Chief Empowerment Officer for Zenaviv, and has in his career launched cutting-edge technology products that improve the lives of children with autism. He holds an MBA from Duke University and an Executive Certificate in Social Impact Strategy from the University of Pennsylvania. Harish and his family, wife Sandhya and son Saket, were motivated to create Zenaviv after witnessing the way that painting empowered his youngest son Himal, now a teenager, who was diagnosed with profound, non-verbal autism at the age of two. To learn more about Zenaviv (www.zenaviv.com) check out this brief video: https://youtu.be/Wns5UCgjpVQ. Instagram: www.instagram.com/zenaviv
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Shop Owner Invents MyShop Traffic Software for All the Right Reasons
Written by Ed Attanasio
Cortes invented MyShop Traffic to improve every aspect of each repair at Clarkstown International Collision in Nanuet, NY. MyShop Traffic
It was in the early 2000s when Gene Cortes’ shop in Nanuet, NY, was hitting its numbers and plugging along with a crew of 31 people fixing approximately 200 cars every month.
Since opening in 1992, Clarkstown International Collision, Inc. turned a profit as Cortes tracked everything with pen and paper, including the shop’s workflow, cycle time, parts, supplies, expenses, payroll; but, soon, he realized that is was too time-consuming, unreliable and not sustainable for continued growth.
Cortes, age 67, began looking for a solution to make his life easier and the first thing he did was to get rid of his old ways. At first, he shed all of the paper he was using previously and started relying on a Palm Pilot before changing over to a digital tracking system of his own. “When it got busy here at the shop, things could get chaotic and a little overwhelming,” he said. “Tracking our workflow on pen and paper or on a whiteboard wasn’t working well anymore. There’s just too much room for error if you don’t have a central location with all the information that is easily accessible.”
Cortes saw a definite need for a piece of software that could help his operation, but knew he would need help to get it done. “I’ve been in the collision repair industry for 47 years, as a car guy and a businessman, but I’m not a software guru,” he said. “So, I hired a programmer and told him what my issues were and that’s how MyShop Traffic was created.”
Now Cortes is the founder & CEO of MyShop Traffic, a company that is growing at a rapid rate. Shops all over the country are currently using the system, but in the beginning, the program was only intended for Clarkstown International Collision, he said. “The idea for MyShop Traffic was originally for my own use only. I knew I was losing money by not tracking everything accurately or reliably. Everything in this program was developed out of personal challenges and problems I needed to solve in my business. After talking with many other shop owners and industry people throughout the years, I learned that they all have the same frustrations.”
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About Dan Pimentel
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Sometimes serious. Sometimes humorous. Always unpredictable.
By Dan Pimentel - Topics include coverage of general and business aviation, the airlines, life, health and happiness, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, and the generous community of aviators called #Avgeeks...they are my aviation family.
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There is one fantasy scenario that all GA pilots have ran through their minds at one time or another, one dream assignment we all are waiting for. It goes something like this:
There you are, Average Joe private pilot, maybe 300 hours, a decent stick at the controls of a Skyhawk. You're cruising back in coach on a Boeing 767-400 owned by XYZ Airlines at FL380 over one of the square states between the Rockies and the Appalachian Trail. Somewhere about Omaha, the flight attendant comes running down the aisle screaming "My GOD, both pilots have had simultaneous heart attacks...we're ALL GOING TO DIE!" You look around, and notice the other pax are freaking out, so you proudly raise up your hand and tell her you're a pilot, and you THINK you can safely land the plane. The passengers cheer as you rush forward to the cockpit door.
After dragging the Captain and FO out to the galley, you slip into the left seat, and the pressure mounts. But wait, this is just an airplane, they all fly pretty much the same - at least that's what you are TELLING yourself. You find a radio, dial up 121.5 and inform the nice ATC voice in the sweet airline headset that you have an emergency. You ask them for two speeds, the approach speed of a 767 and the dirty stall speed. You burn that stall speed into your brain, knowing that like the 172 back home, as long as you are moving through air faster than that critical number, this beast of a flying machine will still...FLY. Once you know these speeds, it's all like driving the Cessna, you tell yourself. Throttle back, trim nose up, the thing slows down and the houses get bigger. Three in the green – you know that from riding with your buddies who own Bonanzas – now just where IS that gear lever anyway?
ATC gives you vectors to the largest airport around, and after a smooth descent, you trim for approach speed, steer to the runway and drive it onto the numbers like you've done it a million times. The cattle in back roars even though the "arrival" is torturous on the landing gear, and as you exit the jetway, the waiting paparazzi is a mob and soon your mug is plastered on the cover of every magazine in the land as this week's flying hero. After appearances on Leno, GMA and Ellen, you sign a lucrative book and movie deal and retire as a gazillionaire to a small island near Fiji.
Far-fetched? Yeah, maybe. But something kinda close actually happened last week, according to this from AP:
An Air Canada co-pilot having a mental breakdown had to be forcibly removed from the cockpit, restrained and sedated, and a stewardess with flying skills helped the pilot safely make an emergency landing, an Irish investigation concluded Wednesday. None of the 146 passengers or other nine crew members on board the Boeing 767 bound from Toronto to London was injured after the 58-year-old co-pilot had to be removed by attendants and sedated by two doctors on board. The pilot then asked flight attendants to find out if any passenger was a qualified pilot. When none was found, one stewardess admitted she held a current commercial pilot's license but said her license for reading cockpit instruments had expired.
So the flight attendant – current with her commercial but not current on her IFR ticket – slipped into the right seat and helped the Captain bring the -67 home safely. This just goes to show how cool having your pilot's license really is...you never know when you are going to be called upon to save the day.
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Title: Eight Million and Rising – Can Switzerland Cope?
The Swiss population is about to pass the eight million mark and is set to continue to grow strongly in the coming years. But the small, densely populated alpine nation is struggling to keep pace with this recent demographic boom.
Over the past decade the Swiss population has grown rapidly from 7.2 to 8 million, driven by large numbers of qualified workers from Europe who have settled mainly in the Lake Geneva and Zurich regions.
Simon Bradley: What are the main challenges Switzerland faces due to demographic growth?
Daniel Müller-Jentsch: The key driver of immigration is demand from the labour market for qualified staff. The workforce in Switzerland has expanded by ten per cent over the past decade and thus immigration from the EU has been the main source of the country’s economic boom in the 2000s. But the negative side effects are now coming to the fore caused by the speed of population growth and its cumulative effect over the years.
The traffic system, both the road and rail networks, is increasingly congested and reaching its capacity limits. In the central Plateau region, where two-thirds of the population live, urban sprawl has become a widespread concern.
Real estate prices have risen sharply over the past five to ten years, especially in certain hotspots like the Lake Geneva and Zurich regions, and in low-tax cantons like Schwyz and Zug. In certain prestigious holiday destinations they have literally gone through the roof.
But isn’t Switzerland currently investing massively in its transport system, especially the railway?
Rail investment per capita is approximately ten times the level in Germany. Switzerland continuously expands and improves its transport system, but still can‘t keep up with demand.
In rail and public transport, users only pay 40 per cent of total costs and the high levels of subsidies inflate demand artificially. Yet there is very low political acceptance for the necessary reforms such as higher prices. As a result, the system is being pushed to its limit.
You say there is a housing problem but if you drive through Switzerland you see cranes everywhere.
Switzerland has indeed experienced a building boom in recent years, but it’s still not enough to keep up with the fast pace of population growth.
A key challenge is to increase the density of the major urban areas. Many efforts are underway like the redevelopment of brownfield sites, the renewal of the housing stock and amendments to building laws that allow higher densities. But all this takes time.
Urban sprawl has been a problem for years but over the past decade has got worse. What should be done?
The biggest reform of federal planning laws since the 1980s is underway and there is a broad consensus that this is badly needed. The law has just passed parliament, but there is likely to be a referendum against it as some cantons like the Valais oppose some of the stricter rules associated with the reform.
As an alternative to adapting to this demographic growth can we expect a tighter immigration policy?
The majority of the population is aware of the economic benefits of the recent immigration, but there is growing unease about the negative side effects that are becoming more pronounced – traffic jams, housing shortage, rising cost of living and urban sprawl.
Given the fact that Switzerland has direct democracy, sooner or later this unease could translate into a vote for more restrictive immigration policies. And that poses a risk.
Two-thirds of immigrants currently come from the EU and Switzerland has no unilateral control over those inflows. If it revoked the bilateral agreement on the free movement of people, the whole system of bilateral agreements with the EU would be put in peril and the economic price – in terms of more restricted access to the single market – could be high.
So we could expect a public backlash in Switzerland?
Any country with such levels of immigration, both in terms of speed and magnitude, is bound to experience a counter reaction. That’s natural. The 70,000 net immigration per annum in Switzerland would be equivalent to 600,000 in France or 800,000 in Germany – and that over an extended number of years.
I’m rather amazed at the tolerance to immigration in Switzerland, which partly results from its long history of immigration and the fact that it has a privileged migrant mix. Most new immigrants come here to work, are well qualified and speak one of the three national languages as their mother tongue. This facilitates their integration. But there are limits.
The Federal Statistics Office predicts between nine and 11.3 million permanent residents by 2060, according to their mid and high forecasts. What’s your feeling?
Their projections have regularly erred on the low side. Given past experience, the high-case scenario tends to be more realistic. I expect nine million in 2030, but would be cautious to make projections further into the future.
My feeling is that the current growth rate will continue for some time. Switzerland has had full employment for a long time, demand for workers is still relatively strong and the Swiss economy has been amazingly resilient to the financial and economic crises.
The composition of immigration in terms of nationality might change though. In the past there were mainly Germans, French and Italians due to geographical and linguistic proximity.
But in Germany, the economy is doing very well right now. Unemployment has decreased dramatically over the past five years – down from five million to less than two million. Neighbouring German regions like Bavaria and Baden Wurttemberg virtually have full employment today, so one of the main pools of immigrant workers is slowly drying up.
The effect is not yet visible in the statistics, but we may see a shift away from Germany and more towards EU countries with high levels of unemployment.
This interview was published by swissinfo.ch in July 2012.
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Dr. Daniel Müller-Jentsch is Senior Fellow at Avenir Suisse since 2007. He focuses on territorial development, location competition, transport policy and foundation policy. Previously he worked for eight years as economist at the World Bank Group. He completed his studies in economics at the Yale University and the London School of Economics.
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The frenetic world of the financial trading floor is about as different from the atmosphere of a university classroom as it is possible to get; yet anyone graduating from a business school without hands-on experience in electronic trading is regarded by many prospective employers as unsuitable to hire. Recognising this, the Business School at the University of Western Australia (UWA) decided that it was critical to provide an opportunity for its students to gain experience on live, industry-standard trading and research systems as part of their training. As Professor Andrew Caminschi from the Business School describes it: “We are narrowing the gap between the world of learning and the world of employment.”
To achieve this, an existing 10 metre by 17 metre space on the first floor of the UWA Business School has been transformed into an electronic trading room that looks and feels like the trading rooms found in any international financial or commodities trading house. The big difference is that this room is designed with the flexibility to also serve as a lecture room or an experimental laboratory at the touch of a control icon.
Coordinated by Prof. Caminschi, a team of UWA staff specialising in AV and IT joined with design specialist 3D Audio Visual to meet the challenge of converting this limited space into a fully functional trading room and classroom. Despite the significant technology requirements for such a facility, the space has a flat concrete floor and a limited ceiling height, which together eliminated the possibility of using a conventional raised-floor system to facilitate the complex cabling, and effectively excluded the use of ceiling-mounted video projectors. While it was a significant challenge to shoehorn 45 trading stations, teaching facilities, and the control room into the available space, some clever design and creative placement of the elements has created a room that feels quite spacious.
AN AVALANCHE OF VISUALS
Before you even enter the room, there is a sense of the busy trading environment within. Along the outer wall of the room, and visible to everyone in the business school foyer, is an impressive live stock exchange ticker. This 11-metre, (23,040 × 540 pixel) display consists of 12 x half-height HD (1920 × 540) monitors driven by a server in the control room equipped with a pair of Matrox C-380 six-head video cards. The frosted-glass external wall is also used as the screen for two rear-projected video feeds visible to passers-by. However, at a touch on the room’s control screen, the projectors are doused and the frosted LCD-glass wall dissolves to transparency, providing an uninterrupted view of the spectacular trading room within.
On entering the trading room, the sheer number of video screens is at first overwhelming. If the 45 trading stations, each with dual 580mm (23-inch) monitors weren’t enough, around the walls are three pairs of videowalls, each of 4 x 1,400mm (55-inch) panels, for the teaching displays, and three groups of 3 x 1,100mm (43-inch) screens for live news feeds. Then there are the five ‘pods’ of 6 x 580mm (23-inch) screens, located overhead in the centre of each trading station cluster to carry live news feeds. Finally, the main teaching position has a height-adjustable 2,100mm (84-inch) Microsoft Surface Hub interactive touchscreen, together with a matching 2,100mm (84-inch) LCD panel.
While on paper, the sheer number of screens may sound outrageous, the placement of the news feed monitors and teaching display videowalls is a direct consequence of the limited space in the room. To squeeze the required number of trading stations in such a confined space necessitated that the desks be laid out in a series of connected semi-circles, with all workstations facing in toward the workstations on the opposite curve. While this face-to-face configuration is not particularly uncommon in trading rooms and other screen-based workplaces, it is a very difficult and unusual layout for a teaching space. As few of the workstation positions have a clear line of site to the teaching position for lectures and tutorials, the teaching screens and news feed screens must be replicated around the room to provide an adequate view to all student positions. The five ‘pods’ of overhead news screens in the junctions of the curved desks can also be discreetly lowered back into the desk to assist with sightlines to the lecturer’s position when the room is in classroom mode.
Programme sources for the news feed monitors, teaching displays and window projection include internet feeds, cable television set top box decoders, a simulation server in the control room, and BYOD inputs at the teaching position. The available internet feeds include direct stock market streams, while the cable television feeds include CNN, Bloomberg TV, and MSNBC News. All video is distributed via a fibre-optic, TCP/IP network, using AMX SVSI encoders and decoders, running low-latency JPEG 2000 codecs. The feed to each display or video wall is independently assignable. Audio for the room comes from JBL ceiling speakers and in-ceiling subwoofers, powered by a Crown amplifier, and driven by Biamp digital signal processing.
All operations and configuration for the facility are controlled by an AMX NetLinx central system controller and an N-Series SVSI video controller through a graphical touch interface on a Wi-Fi-linked iPad. This system controls every element, from the room lighting and the assignment of audio and video feeds for every device in the room, to the lifts that raise and lower the news feed pods, and the transparency of the Ethernet-controlled glass walls. The simple control interface for the room in each of its guises: Trading room, teaching space and experimental lab were programmed by 3D Audio Visual to be readily operated by academics, students and support staff.
TRADING ON THE TECHNOLOGY
While the trading room’s technology may be impressive, its only role is to provide a range of learning experiences for students. As Prof. Caminschi put it: “Instead of reading a dry textbook that looks at historic market movements, this lab allows our students to work with the most current tools and data to track real-world events in real time.”
To achieve this, every dual-screen workstation is loaded with the same financial technology tools that are used in the places where students will be employed. Each has a full, live licence for both major trading and research packages: The Bloomberg Terminal and its major competitor, the Thomson Reuters (now Refinitiv) Eikon system. There are also feeds from the Australian Stock Exchange Market Source service and the CME Globex trading and information system operated by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Each workstation is also loaded with the TT (Trading Technologies) Platform for access to trading tools and live data for trade futures, options markets, other derivatives and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform has the capacity to conduct simulated live trading in a sandbox environment, without spending any money. In the next few months TT will also be offering a replay function that can display historic data movements. Students will be able to look at past news events from the CNN archives, then track the ensuing market responses on TT.
THE MULTI-FUNCTION RESEARCH TOOL
In its research role the lab can readily be used for such activities as market research; however, the university sees that perhaps its most valuable capability may be that the system can be configured to engage the lab participants as research subjects. As each terminal is equipped with a headset, microphone and a webcam, the lab could quite easily be configured to use for screen-related behavioural studies, while observers control and monitor the experimental procedures, either through the room’s one-way observation mirrors, or from the overhead camera feeds that can be viewed in the control room. The possible uses for a controlled environment with large video screens, a sound system and 45 computer workstations are only just being considered by other departments within UWA.
The trading room project for the School of Business was completed in a very tight time window between February and September of 2017, yet still managed to come in under budget: great accomplishments for the UWA and 3D Audio Visual teams. In the year that the project has been serving the university, it has met and exceeded all UWA expectations and hasn’t revealed any flaws in the design and execution of the design. The final measure of success comes from Prof Caminschi, Director of the Rosemarie Nathanson Financial Markets Trading Centre: “Our students can step onto a trading floor and feel completely comfortable with the tools on offer”.
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Heifer - Drown In LiesHailing from Sydney, Australia, Heifer's new album, titled "The Judas Belt", is now available in Australia, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. They made a brief visit to Europe in 2006 and, after only two weeks and four shows, managed to attract a small but enthusiastic following with some intense, legendary live shows. It was obvious to all who saw them why they had built a cult following in their home country. As a result of the 2006 tour, the band attracted label interest in Europe which led to the album being released there in July 2007. They have just returned from another very successful tour (June and July 2007) in support of the album release. .. .. HEIFER have been described as an alternative/metal band, but there's so much more to them than that. Whilst they cite influences such as Helmet, AC/DC and System of a Down among many others, what they actually produce on "The Judas Belt" is a style all their own - heavy guitars with virtuosic drums and rasping vocals, interspersed with moments of melodic instrumental and vocal lines, and some odd time signatures. As acknowledged by Australian heavy music website "Faster Louder": .. .. "To their credit, their sound is nothing like the predictable retro-rock you'll hear 'representing' Australia overseas or on the country's 'pop' radios - HEIFER are an original band with a punch to pack and something real to say, as shown by 'The Judas Belt', their first full-length album." – www.fasterlouder.com.au .. .. This album feels like a punch in the face both musically and lyrically – an alt/metal aural assault, with lyrics inspired by current world events, as well as some dark auto-biographical accounts. Heifer writes songs about things that are important – both on a personal level to themselves, and on a global scale. They rally against injustice, apathy, political manipulation, and the lurking evil forces of cynicism and conservatism with sound, fury, originality, and righteous indignation. A breath of fresh air in a world largely devoid, it seems, of meaningful and truly honest, passionate music.
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Wildlife on four wheels: Binder Park Zoomobile takes animals on the road
Educational program brings up-close animal encounters to audiences
Wildlife on four wheels: Binder Park Zoomobile takes animals on the road Educational program brings up-close animal encounters to audiences Check out this story on battlecreekenquirer.com: http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/entertainment/2018/04/09/wildlife-four-wheels-binder-park-zoomobile-takes-animals-road/489789002/
, Battle Creek Enquirer Published 6:30 a.m. ET April 9, 2018 | Updated 11:19 a.m. ET April 9, 2018
'Stevie,' a blue-fronted Amazon parrot, at Willard Library as part of the Zoomobile program on Thursday, April 5, 2018.(Photo: Nick Buckley/The Enquirer)
Children sat elbow-to-elbow on a crowded floor or sandwiched between bookshelves, hoping to catch a glimpse of the creatures encased and covered on the table in front of them.
Spring break week meant the audience at Willard Library's Helen Warner Branch was larger than anticipated. The crowd of more than 250, mostly kids, eagerly waited to find out who had come to visit the library via the Zoomobile.
Hannah Smedley, education supervisor for Binder Park Zoo, was giving the presentation, but the main attractions were her friends, Hikma, Radar, Monty and Stevie.
Hikma, a female curly-haired tarantula, was the first to be unveiled.
Hannah Smedley, Education Supervisor at Binder Park Zoo, shows off 'Hikma,' a curly hair tarantula, at Willard Library as part of the Zoomobile program on Thursday, April 5, 2018. (Photo: Nick Buckley/The Enquirer)
"My favorite animal to present is actually tarantulas," Smedley said. "They have so many awesome facts and are so different from us. So I tend to blow people's minds when talking about tarantulas."
Blowing minds with awesome facts is one of the goals of the outreach program offered by Binder Park Zoo, which uses animals as roving ambassadors. The Zoomobile has visited schools, senior care centers and community events. The program topics vary with the animals.
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“We get to go out into the community and bring the zoo to people," Smedley said. "Our hope is that, when people see animals up close, get the chance to touch them and get an up-close look at them, they will form an emotional connection with that animal, they will be interested in it, and that will translate into being more environmentally conscious in the future."
Photos: Zoomobile at the library
Children listen to the presentation at Willard Library as 'Monty,' a Dumeril's ground boa, is displayed as part of the Zoomobile program on Thursday, April 5, 2018. Nick Buckley/The Enquirer
'Stevie,' a blue-fronted Amazon parrot, at Willard Library as part of the Zoomobile program on Thursday, April 5, 2018. Nick Buckley/The Enquirer
The Binder Park Zoomobile sits parked outside of Willard Library on Thursday, April 5, 2018. Nick Buckley/The Enquirer
Leiana Livingston, 1, pets 'Radar' a Flemish giant rabit, at Willard Library as part of the Zoomobile program on Thursday, April 5, 2018. Nick Buckley/The Enquirer
Tucker Darlington, 4, and his sister Alivia Darlington, 5, pet 'Radar' a Finnish giant rabbit, at Willard Library as part of the Zoomobile program on Thursday, April 5, 2018. Nick Buckley/The Enquirer
Children listen to the presentation at Willard Library as part of the Zoomobile program on Thursday, April 5, 2018. Nick Buckley/The Enquirer
'Monty,' a Dumeril's ground boa, is displayed for the audience at Willard Library as part of the Zoomobile program on Thursday, April 5, 2018. Nick Buckley/The Enquirer
'Radar' a Flemish giant rabbit, is displayed at Willard Library as part of the Zoomobile program on Thursday, April 5, 2018. Nick Buckley/The Enquirer
Joslyn Gallagher, 2, listens to the presentation at Willard Library as part of the Zoomobile program on Thursday, April 5, 2018. Nick Buckley/The Enquirer
Hannah Smedley, Education Supervisor at Binder Park Zoo, shows off 'Hikma,' a curly hair tarantula, at Willard Library as part of the Zoomobile program on Thursday, April 5, 2018. Nick Buckley/The Enquirer
Hannah Smedley, Education Supervisor at Binder Park Zoo, shows off 'Stevie,' a blue-fronted Amazon parrot, at Willard Library as part of the Zoomobile program on Thursday, April 5, 2018. Nick Buckley/The Enquirer
Jennifer Allen saw the Zoomobile as an educational opportunity for her three daughters: 9-year-old Aletheia, 6-year-old Tenley and 3-year-old Belle.
"They love animals," Allen said. "I home school them, so we've been studying animals a lot, like jungle animals and desert animals. So any chance they get to be around them, they want to be. We decided it would be a fun opportunity to come out and see them up close, the parrot and the snake — stuff that we have specifically studied. So it was so cool for them to get to see them in real life."
Children listen to the presentation at Willard Library as part of the Zoomobile program on Thursday, April 5, 2018. (Photo: Nick Buckley/The Enquirer)
The animals used in the program cover a wide range from cockroaches to a Patagonian mara, one of the world's largest rodents. At Willard Library were Hikma the tarantula, Monty, a male ground boa; Stevie, a female blue-fronted Amazon parrot; and a male Flemish giant rabbit named Radar, who audience members were permitted to touch at the end of the presentation.
Tucker Darlington, 4, and his sister Alivia Darlington, 5, pet 'Radar' a Finnish giant rabbit, at Willard Library as part of the Zoomobile program on Thursday, April 5, 2018. (Photo: Nick Buckley/The Enquirer)
Before animals leave zoo grounds to be used in the program, they are trained to be comfortable riding in the Zoomobile and being around people.
"We’re not bringing them for entertainment or asking them to do anything that wouldn’t come naturally to them," Smedley said. "I would think of them more as ambassadors for their species. They are just being able to give people and up-close look. We’re not asking them to do any tricks or do anything that wouldn’t be normal to them in the wild."
The popularity of the Zoomobile program was one reason Willard Library invited the animals for a visit.
"We have had quite a few requests recently to have the zoo come out," said Alisha Daugherty, Willard Library youth librarian. "It was just the perfect time to do it, during spring break when everyone is looking for something to do, the zoo is not open yet and we're all kind of antsy. So animals are always popular, and we love the zoo."
Binder Park Zoo opens for the season on Thursday.
BINDER PARK ZOOMOBILE
COST: First program - $200; Additional program - $150 (same day visit)*
INFO: Visit binderparkzoo.org; contact 269-979-1351, ext. 154, or aross@binderparkzoo.org
*Mileage fees apply for facilities beyond 30 miles of Binder Park Zoo
BINDER PARK ZOO OPENING DAY
WHEN: Thursday, April 12
WHERE: Binder Park Zoo, 7400 Division Drive
HOURS: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays.
PRICE: $12 ages 2-10; $13 seniors; $14 adults.
INFO: Chilly spring weather can mean some animal exhibits delay opening, such as the giraffes.
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Federal investigators probe Ascension, Google project
Mackenzie Garrity - Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 Print | Email
The Office of Civil Rights of HHS is asking for more information about Google's "Project Nightingale" with St. Louis-based Ascension, according to a Nov. 12 The Wall Street Journal report.
Investigators "will seek to learn more information about this mass collection of individuals' medical records to ensure that HIPAA protections were fully implemented," OCR Director Roger Severino told WSJ.
Ascension and Google partnered last year to gather and share patient information to create healthcare solutions. Physicians and patients from 21 Ascension locations were not informed that information was being shared with Google. It is estimated that Google will gather data on 50 million patients.
Patient data that is being secretly shared with Google includes lab results, diagnoses and hospitalization records, reports WSJ. In some instances, Google has access to patients' complete health history, including names and dates of birth.
Although Ascension employees have questioned the ethical and technological ways Google is gathering data, privacy experts said it appears to be acceptable under federal law. Hospitals are generally allowed to share data with business partners without informing patients if the information is used "only to help the covered entity carry out its healthcare functions."
An Ascension spokesperson said patient data wouldn’t be used to sell ads, reports WSJ.
"We are happy to cooperate with any questions about the project. We believe Google's work with Ascension adheres to industry-wide regulations (including HIPAA) regarding patient data, and comes with strict guidance on data privacy, security and usage," a spokesperson for Google said in a statement to WSJ.
Legislators on Nov. 12 also commented on the project. Presidential hopeful Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said that there needs to be government oversight for the amount of data Google is handling, adding there are "very few rules of the road in place regulating how it is collected and used."
Google has mapped out plans to develop a search tool that would aggregate patient data into a central location. Ascension physicians would then be able to use the tool to more quickly access patient information.
Ascension leader Eduardo Conrado, executive vice president of strategy and innovations for Ascension, shared his reactions to the WSJ Nov. 11 report on Project Nightingale on Nov. 12. Find his commentary here.
Editor's note: Becker's has reached out to Ascension for comment and will update this story accordingly.
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Home Business McDonald’s stops serving Heinz ketchup in its restaurants after 40 years
McDonald’s stops serving Heinz ketchup in its restaurants after 40 years
McDonald’s has decided to stop serving Heinz ketchup in its stores after 40 years.
McDonald’s said it would drop the ketchup after Bernardo Hees, the former head of rival Burger King, took over as Heinz’s chief executive.
“We have decided to transition our business to other suppliers over time,” the world’s biggest fast-food chain said.
In February, Heinz was purchased in a $28 billion takeover.
McDonald’s has decided to stop serving Heinz ketchup in its stores after 40 years
The company said that it would work with Heinz “to ensure a smooth and orderly transition of the McDonald’s restaurant business”, which has 34,000 restaurants around the world.
Bernardo Hees took over after Heinz was bought by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian investment fund 3G Capital. Burger King is controlled by 3G Capital.
McDonald’s uses Heinz ketchup at many stores around the world, though only in Pittsburgh and Minneapolis inside the US.
“As a matter of policy, Heinz does not comment on relationships with customers,” the ketchup-maker said.
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FIVE primary schools in the Bendigo and Chewton areas will participate in a pilot program that aims to empower teachers to intervene early when mental health issues arise in children. Kangaroo Flat, Lockwood, Specimen Hill, Golden Square and Chewton primary schools, along with five others in Melbourne, will take part in the $1.2 million initiative from next year. Under the program, experienced teachers will be trained in identifying and addressing mental health and behavioural issues, acting as a resource for school and parents. The initiative is a partnership between the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, the Ian Potter Foundation and the Victorian government. Dr Frank Oberklaid, research group leader at the MCRI, said schools were an ideal platform to address mental health issues in children. All children went to school, he said, and such a setting was a "non-stigmatising" environment. Dr Oberklaid said teachers were also in a good position to recognise signs of mental health issues and intervene early. The teachers chosen to undertake training will work with classroom teachers to increase their confidence in managing behavioural issues and identifying mental health issues. Related: Underfunding hurting mental health system, expert says Dr Oberklaid said they would also act as a bridge between the school and external services that could help students with mental health issues and their families, with each school to map the available resources in their area. In developing the program, he said, those leading the pilot would co-design it carefully with the schools. Some of the work has already begun and come the new year, the pilot developers will start conducting surveys, focus groups and interviews to shape the initiative. Dr Oberklaid said he expected it would begin to come into effect in schools from mid-2020. Education Minister James Merlino said the government was ensuring the health of children so they could focus on learning. "Mental health among students is one of the biggest concerns raised with me by both parents and teachers - this is a first step in looking at what more we can do in our schools to address this issue," Mr Merlino said. Dr Oberklaid told the Bendigo Advertiser targeting mental health concerns in childhood was important because, for many people, this was when long-term issues emerged. "We know from the research that half of adult mental health problems begin before the age of 14," he said. Like any health condition, he said these issues became more complex and difficult to treat the longer they were left. Research shows about one in seven children experience a mental health issue. Related: What Bendigo residents want from a mental health system But unlike adolescents, who could turn to headspace, or adults, who could take themselves to a GP, Dr Oberklaid said children had to have their parents understand there was an issue and be able to take steps to address it. Through the pilot, he said the school could become a resource for parents in this regard. But Dr Oberklaid said the pilot was not aimed solely at children with mental health problems. There were children who did not meet the diagnostic threshold for a mental illness, he said, but were experiencing some depression, anxiety or anger, who would receive help through the pilot. Kangaroo Flat Primary School principal Kim Saddlier welcomed the opportunity to participate in an initiative that could increase the expertise of its staff in supporting students with mental health concerns. "Any help in supporting teachers' confidence and capacity is really important," Ms Saddlier said. She said the pilot would also give the school the chance to connect to health services and understand what resources were available. Currently, Ms Saddlier said, her school would refer any students for which there were concerns to its own wellbeing team, who could then meet with the family and refer them to other services if required. However, she pointed out each school did things differently. Ms Saddlier said the health and wellbeing of students was a primary focus of schools. "It's important as the literacy and numeracy we teach," Ms Saddlier said. Related: Youth lead the way on mental health with new project Dr Oberklaid said the project would involve an evaluation of the pilot, to provide an evidence base that it worked so it could expand into more schools. He said he was pleased the Bendigo region was involved as regional and rural areas had different needs to the city. This was echoed by Ms Saddlier, who hoped her school's involvement would provide a rural perspective on mental health. She also hoped the pilot would provide an opportunity to show there needed to be clear pathways into health services. Next year will also see the further roll-out of the Mental Health Practitioners in Schools initiative, which the government says will see mental health professionals working in every secondary school by 2022. Eighteen secondary schools in the Loddon Campaspe region will see mental health practitioners - such as psychologists, mental health nurses and social workers - working from term one. These schools are Bendigo Senior Secondary College, Bendigo South East College, Boort District P-12 School, Castlemaine Secondary College, Crusoe College, Eaglehawk Secondary College, East Loddon P-12 College, Echuca College, Kyneton Secondary College, Maryborough Education Centre, Pyramid Hill College, Rochester Secondary College, Wedderburn College, Weeroona College, Rushworth P-12 College, Kyabram P-12 College and Gisborne Secondary College.
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November 27 2019 - 12:01AM
Pilot program in Bendigo, Castlemaine schools for early intervention in children's mental health issues
Natalie Croxon
FIVE primary schools in the Bendigo and Chewton areas will participate in a pilot program that aims to empower teachers to intervene early when mental health issues arise in children.
Kangaroo Flat, Lockwood, Specimen Hill, Golden Square and Chewton primary schools, along with five others in Melbourne, will take part in the $1.2 million initiative from next year.
Under the program, experienced teachers will be trained in identifying and addressing mental health and behavioural issues, acting as a resource for school and parents.
The initiative is a partnership between the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, the Ian Potter Foundation and the Victorian government.
Dr Frank Oberklaid, research group leader at the MCRI, said schools were an ideal platform to address mental health issues in children.
All children went to school, he said, and such a setting was a "non-stigmatising" environment.
Dr Oberklaid said teachers were also in a good position to recognise signs of mental health issues and intervene early.
The teachers chosen to undertake training will work with classroom teachers to increase their confidence in managing behavioural issues and identifying mental health issues.
Related: Underfunding hurting mental health system, expert says
Dr Oberklaid said they would also act as a bridge between the school and external services that could help students with mental health issues and their families, with each school to map the available resources in their area.
In developing the program, he said, those leading the pilot would co-design it carefully with the schools.
Some of the work has already begun and come the new year, the pilot developers will start conducting surveys, focus groups and interviews to shape the initiative.
Dr Oberklaid said he expected it would begin to come into effect in schools from mid-2020.
Education Minister James Merlino said the government was ensuring the health of children so they could focus on learning.
"Mental health among students is one of the biggest concerns raised with me by both parents and teachers - this is a first step in looking at what more we can do in our schools to address this issue," Mr Merlino said.
Dr Oberklaid told the Bendigo Advertiser targeting mental health concerns in childhood was important because, for many people, this was when long-term issues emerged.
"We know from the research that half of adult mental health problems begin before the age of 14," he said.
Like any health condition, he said these issues became more complex and difficult to treat the longer they were left.
Research shows about one in seven children experience a mental health issue.
Related: What Bendigo residents want from a mental health system
But unlike adolescents, who could turn to headspace, or adults, who could take themselves to a GP, Dr Oberklaid said children had to have their parents understand there was an issue and be able to take steps to address it.
Through the pilot, he said the school could become a resource for parents in this regard.
But Dr Oberklaid said the pilot was not aimed solely at children with mental health problems.
There were children who did not meet the diagnostic threshold for a mental illness, he said, but were experiencing some depression, anxiety or anger, who would receive help through the pilot.
Kangaroo Flat Primary School principal Kim Saddlier welcomed the opportunity to participate in an initiative that could increase the expertise of its staff in supporting students with mental health concerns.
"Any help in supporting teachers' confidence and capacity is really important," Ms Saddlier said.
She said the pilot would also give the school the chance to connect to health services and understand what resources were available.
Currently, Ms Saddlier said, her school would refer any students for which there were concerns to its own wellbeing team, who could then meet with the family and refer them to other services if required.
However, she pointed out each school did things differently.
Ms Saddlier said the health and wellbeing of students was a primary focus of schools.
"It's important as the literacy and numeracy we teach," Ms Saddlier said.
Related: Youth lead the way on mental health with new project
Dr Oberklaid said the project would involve an evaluation of the pilot, to provide an evidence base that it worked so it could expand into more schools.
He said he was pleased the Bendigo region was involved as regional and rural areas had different needs to the city.
This was echoed by Ms Saddlier, who hoped her school's involvement would provide a rural perspective on mental health.
She also hoped the pilot would provide an opportunity to show there needed to be clear pathways into health services.
Next year will also see the further roll-out of the Mental Health Practitioners in Schools initiative, which the government says will see mental health professionals working in every secondary school by 2022.
Eighteen secondary schools in the Loddon Campaspe region will see mental health practitioners - such as psychologists, mental health nurses and social workers - working from term one.
These schools are Bendigo Senior Secondary College, Bendigo South East College, Boort District P-12 School, Castlemaine Secondary College, Crusoe College, Eaglehawk Secondary College, East Loddon P-12 College, Echuca College, Kyneton Secondary College, Maryborough Education Centre, Pyramid Hill College, Rochester Secondary College, Wedderburn College, Weeroona College, Rushworth P-12 College, Kyabram P-12 College and Gisborne Secondary College.
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Wake up. Eat breakfast. Drink coffee. Ride to work. Do work, etc. Is this a familiar pattern? If so, Suzuki has found a way to save you 5 minutes of every day. It’s called the GSX-S1000 and when you ride it you won’t require any caffeine because it’ll have you buzzing all day. It’s a full-on entertainment package.
The new-for-2015 GSX-S1000 arrives slightly late to a popular party of highly strung super-nakeds already in full swing. Among those supping the home-made punch and talking to the pretty girls are the Ducati Monster 1200, BMW S1000R, Kawasaki Z1000, Honda CB1000R, Aprilia Tuono V4R, KTM Super Duke 1290R, Yamaha MT-09 and, arriving earlier than everyone, Triumph’s Speed Triple.
Thankfully for fans and potential customers of these street-fighter style bikes, each model offers its own party piece with differences in price, power, engine performance, comfort, range, handling and so on, leaving plenty of options to choose from despite similarity in their foundations. For that reason doesn’t it make you think that if a manufacturer was to send its brand new product to a party where it has already seen, ridden and analysed the other attendees, it would offer something a little different, its own unique selling point? So the question is; does Suzuki have what it takes to stand out from the crowd?
Super-naked machines are designed for the purpose of street-riding as a preference over long-range cruising thanks mainly to their lack of weather protection. As a result low down and mid-range grunt is more important than all-out high rev power and this gave Suzuki a chance to whip out their trump card; the 10-year old engine that was used in their GSX-R1000. Yep, the beautiful K5 model with its legendary motor.
The engine has been redefined though to suit the style of its new house. Lighter and with a revised injection system, the 1000cc motor produces a maximum of 144bhp at 10,000rpm which slots it firmly into the middle of the aforementioned rivals. Down versus the BMW, KTM and Aprilia but up on Kawasaki, Yamaha and Honda. And true enough, when riding the Suzuki, accelerate as hard as you dare from rest or even out of corner and the bike will give you a second of bum-clenching drama before softening off. 144bhp is plenty of power for sure and enough to get everybody from A-to-B with no complaints of a lack of pace but the initial eye-straining thrill could be extended with an extra 10bhp, for example. The throttle is hyper-sensitive between being completely shut and 1% open which adds to the bikes’ urgency but doesn’t necessarily assist low-speed cruising through the 30mph limits or town centres. It’s certainly responsive at low speed but too touchy when you’re ready to open the throttle coming out of a second or third gear bend. If you’re aware of it before getting on, or even after 1/2 mile, you’ll get used to it and in my opinion it adds to the character of the bike.
But don’t assume this is simply a GSX-R1000 minus its fairings. Oh no, the GSX-S1000 is a whole new bike. The frame is thicker in areas for rigidity while the wheels, exhaust, suspension and electronics all differ and that results in a 4kg heavier bike (209kg inc. ABS) although you wouldn’t believe it such is its compact appearance and light feeling to ride. The bike is quick to turn, skittish and alert like a rabbit changing directions at full gallop, hopping over B-road bumps, it keeps you alert, awake and fully entertained. Like I said, no need for caffeine. The rider is really positioned ‘in’ the bike allowing plenty of knee grip against the tank with a deep, flat and more-comfortable-than-it-looks seat. It feels like you’re positioned over the front wheel which is a handy place to be when adjusting your position for the corners. The token gesture of a pillion saddle is high above on the sub-frame part of a pointy rear seat unit and is handy to push your arse against for an optimum MotoGP-esque riding style. The 810mm seat height and riding position is suitable for the shorter rider (says my 5’ 5” colleague), even the kick stand is ideally positioned.
The raspy, race bike roar from the standard 4-2-1 stubby pipe complements the sharp throttle at lower revs. That noise turns toward a scream as you head towards the 11,500rpm red line. And it’s in the latter half of the rev range where you should spend as much time as you can. It may displease other road users who will immediately have you marked as a hooligan but you’ll be too busy being entertained to worry. 85mph is easily achieved in 1st gear alone such is the long power band. The downside to this tactic is the lack of requirement for the super-sharp, blink-and-its-changed gearbox. The clutch lever is so light you only need to think about moving you finger(s) towards it and the bike knows what it needs to do, in fact it’s probably in the next gear. Then, back down the box, the slipper clutch has everything under control. I tried to fool it but banging down the gears race-box style but the Suzuki was not to be moved. No wobbles, locking rear or over-revving motor just a tidy change and a little more engine braking.
An aggressive nose-forward concept styling is assisted by the mono-headlamp complete with frown. The bike has very few options and is rather basic. There’s nowhere to tie-down luggage, it has minimal electronics and options. In fact riding options are restricted to just a three-stage (plus off) traction control system. This is operated via the large ‘MODE’ button on the left handlebar and the easy-to-read display. Rear-view mirrors are easy to adjust and offer a clear view although the turning circle is more barge than London taxi despite its agility at speed.
A 17 litre tank on the GSX-S1000 should offer a range of 120 miles and we managed to eek out 40 mpg during our week on the bike.
Interestingly, modern Suzuki’s have always required the rider to pull the clutch in to start the bike, even in neutral, but Suzuki have dropped this on the GSX-S1000 range. Just engage neutral and push the starter like most other modern bikes.
Dump the daily Costa run and ride a GSX-S1000 instead. It’s a street bike that’s made for the B-roads. It arrives in dealerships in June but if you’re attending the MCN Festival of Motorcycling this weekend, you could ride it!
IN OTHER SUZUKI NEWS, HOW ABOUT 0% FINANCE?
Suzuki GB has announced its new 0% finance campaign, which is available over 48 months with just a £1 deposit, and will run until July 30 on a range of models including: V-Strom 650 and new V-Strom 650XT and all variations of the V-Strom 1000. The Hayabusa and Hayabusa Z models are available as part of the new offer, along with the GSR750 and GSR750Z, the M800 and C800 cruisers, the SFV650, and Burgman 650 Executive luxury scooter.
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Auris Medical Receives FDA and EMA Guidance for Keyzilen® Late-Stage Clinical Development Program
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Hamilton, Bermuda, Sept. 13, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Auris Medical Holding Ltd. (NASDAQ:EARS), a clinical-stage company dedicated to developing therapeutics that address important unmet medical needs in neurotology and central nervous system disorders, today announced that it has obtained advice on the development plan and regulatory pathway for its investigational tinnitus treatment Keyzilen® (AM-101) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") and from the European Medicines Agency ("EMA"). The Company had reached out to the two agencies in order to discuss and validate the design of a new Phase 2/3 trial for the Keyzilen® program. The advice was provided in the context of a Type C meeting and a Scientific Advice procedure, respectively.
In their feedback, both the FDA and EMA supported the use of the Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI) questionnaire as the primary efficacy outcome measure. The TFI captures the impact of tinnitus on the patient's day-to-day functioning. Furthermore, the two agencies agreed on a less frequent collection of patient-reported tinnitus loudness than in the previous Keyzilen® trials, where daily ratings had turned out to be problematic. The FDA considers the improvement in tinnitus loudness as a co-primary efficacy endpoint, whereas the EMA endorsed it as a secondary efficacy endpoint. In addition, the two agencies endorsed the planned sample size for the trial and provided important guidance on the regulatory path forward.
"We very much appreciate the objective feedback and guidance from the FDA and EMA on our Keyzilen® program", commented Thomas Meyer, Auris Medical's founder, chairman and CEO. "We are very pleased to be aligned with the FDA and EMA on the key design aspects for the planned Phase 2/3 trial and look forward to working with the agencies as we continue to develop Keyzilen® as a potential first-in-class treatment for acute inner ear tinnitus."
The planned Phase 2/3 trial shall, in two stages, reaffirm and confirm the efficacy of Keyzilen® in the treatment of acute tinnitus following traumatic cochlear injury. It will incorporate learnings from the previous four late-stage trials, TACTT2, TACTT3, AMPACT1 and AMPACT2, notably with regard to the collection of patient reported outcomes and certain elements of study conduct. In addition, the trial will explore the use of a novel method for objective tinnitus diagnosis and measurement. The Company aims to further develop Keyzilen® with the aid of non-dilutive funding. The funding options which are currently under consideration include: strategic partnering, special purpose vehicle financing, grant funding or a combination thereof.
About Tinnitus
Tinnitus, the perception of sound without external acoustic stimulation, is a symptom common to various ear or other diseases. Inner ear tinnitus may be provoked by various injuries to the cochlea, the organ of hearing, such as overexposure to noise or inflammation. Tinnitus may be transitory; however, it may also become permanent. Tinnitus of less than three months of duration is considered acute, while older tinnitus is considered chronic. Inner ear tinnitus often has a serious impact on the ability to sleep, relax, or concentrate, and it may lead to tiredness, irritation, nervousness, despair, frustration, or even depression. As of today, neither a universal standard of care for acute inner ear tinnitus, nor a truly proven and effective treatment method is available.
About Keyzilen® / AM-101
Keyzilen® is a small molecule N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist formulated in a biocompatible gel and delivered by intratympanic administration. Keyzilen® is in development for treatment of acute tinnitus following traumatic cochlear injury. Emerging evidence suggests that NMDA receptors in the cochlea play a major role in the occurrence of tinnitus following acute traumatic injury to the inner ear. Persistent overexpression of NMDA receptors may lead to pathologic excitation of auditory nerve fibers, which in the brain is perceived as tinnitus. The development of Keyzilen® is based on research conducted at the INSERM Institute for Neurosciences, and patents have been granted in more than 40 countries worldwide so far.
About Auris Medical
Auris Medical is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing therapeutics that address important unmet medical needs in neurotology and central nervous system disorders. The company is focused on the development of intranasal betahistine for the treatment of vertigo (AM-125) and for the treatment of antipsychotic-induced weight gain and somnolence (AM-201). These projects have gone through two Phase 1 trials and entered into proof-of-concept studies in 2019. In addition, Auris Medical has two Phase 3 programs under development: Sonsuvi® (AM-111) for acute inner ear hearing loss and Keyzilen® (AM-101) for acute inner ear tinnitus. The Company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda. The shares of Auris Medical Holding Ltd. trade on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol "EARS."
This press release may contain statements that constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements are statements other than historical facts and may include statements that address future operating, financial or business performance or Auris Medical's strategies or expectations. In some cases, you can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as "may," "might," "will," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "projects," "potential," "outlook" or "continue," or the negative of these terms and other comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, developments and business decisions to differ materially from those contemplated by these statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, Auris Medical's need for and ability to raise substantial additional funding to continue the development of its product candidates, the timing and conduct of clinical trials of Auris Medical's product candidates and that such trials will not meet their endpoints , the clinical utility of Auris Medical's product candidates, the timing or likelihood of regulatory filings and approvals, Auris Medical's intellectual property position and Auris Medical's financial position, including the impact of any future acquisitions, dispositions, partnerships, license transactions or changes to Auris Medical's capital structure, including future securities offerings. These risks and uncertainties also include, but are not limited to, those described under the caption "Risk Factors" in Auris Medical's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2018 and future filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and Auris Medical does not undertake any obligation to update them in light of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable law. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
Joseph Green
Edison Advisors for Auris Medical
jgreen@edisongroup.com
investors@aurismedical.com
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DJI Phantom Aerial UAV Drone Quadcopter for GoPro
Complete quadcopter and remote transmitter, pre-tuned by the factory and ready in minutes! Just charge the included battery, attach the propellers and landing gear, and add 4 AA batteries to the remote and you're flying.
Fun flying by itself or even better with a GoPro to record the action. Tested with Hero2, Hero3 and Hero3+ models, sold separately. Produce dramatic cinema-quickly results from the air! Note: Wi-Fi streaming from a camera is not possible because it may interfere with the Phantom's remote control.
Outdoor flight is made possible by advanced GPS positioning that compensates for light wind. The Phantom has a fail-safe function and can be configured to automatically fly to and land at its take-off position if connection to the transmitter is lost. Note: indoor flight or operation by persons under 18 years of age is NOT recommended.
With a maximum horizontal speed of 22 miles/hour (10 meters/second), the Phantom lets you capture the action of almost any sport, event or scene.
The Phantom's high tech Naza-M autopilot system lets you configure advanced parameters via software (USB port and separate download required).
The Quadcopter comes with a camera mount suitable for GoPro 3. The highlight of this drone is its Intelligent Orientation Control (IOC) which means that the drone can memorize its position. This agile Drone is easy to manoeuvre, but mastering this drone is a bit hard. The compatibility with Naza-M autopilot system is quite amazing.
This drone with GoPro mount, once mastered (which can be done with a couple of hours of practice) can help in getting the first shots in no time. It is not tough even for a person with no prior experience. Let us review this product in detail.
The DJI Phantom Aerial UAV Drone Quadcopter for GoPro is a perfect choice for people who want an affordable and easy-to-use copter with Camera. The only preparation required for operating this copter is to attach the rotors and include the battery.
Once you’ve attached the rotors and battery, the drone automatically starts and tunes up. The process of self-tuning and configuration takes a few minutes and then, its ready for the fun. Some of its best features include
Design: The Copter is in the shape of a traditional ‘X’ with four rotors at the four ends. It is white in colour and has a camera mount in its undercarriage. The use of ‘X’ design is to provide a lightweight device but with a sturdy functionality.The Camera mount is simple and is compatible with all the GoPro Hero series cameras. The camera can be fixed in two ways – front or facing straight down. The mount holds the camera so firmly and there is no need to worry about the camera becoming loose during the time the copter is in air.
Aerial Filming Device with a GoPro Mount:The mount is a GoPro mount which makes the filming process easy. This Phantom series has been constructed for supporting the filming using GoPro Cameras.It has been tested with GoPro HERO, Hero3 and Hero 3+ models (that are sold separately).
Modes: There are essentially two important modes of operating this drone. One is the GPS mode, which is a unique feature. This mode is helpful for capturing events like sports.Also, new users can make use of this mode to correct the flight path of the drone if it goes astray. The other mode is the Attitude mode, which is nothing but the manual mode. This is enabled when the user wants to take full control of the drone.In the GPS mode, if the controls are let go, the drone hovers at the same spot. But in the Attitude mode, the drone keeps moving in the same side it previously was moving. The Attitude mode is essentially meant for advanced fliers who are very familiar with the operation of this drone.
Intelligence Orientation Control (IOC): This is the most important feature of the Phantom Series. There is a switch in the device that activates this functionality. Once switched on, the flying pattern of the drone can be changed by the user.The usual movement of a drone is front and back, but with this switch, the drone can fly relative to a certain home point, thus making it more traceable. With this Autopilot feature, it can perform smooth, sweeping motions in a controlled fashion.The highlight of this feature is the ‘Return to Home’ function. If the copter loses the transmission signal, then it automatically come back to its home point. The Naza-M autopilot system allows the user to configure more advanced features and flying modes.Once the Attitude mode is learnt thoroughly, the Naza-M functions can be utilized for a fun-filled experience.
GPS Positioning:With the help of advanced GPS positioning, outdoor flight is made possible with much less disturbance.
Speed: The maximum horizontal speed of the copter is 22mph. If the user gets used to the joystick, then it is quite easy to manoeuvre. The speed is of great help when it comes to capturing sports, event or a quick scene.
[PDF]PHANTOM FC40 User Manual
Negative Points
Every Gadget will have its own advantages and disadvantages. There are not many negative points to think of, in this drone. But here are a few that might as well be considered as a disadvantage by a few.
The instruction manual that comes along with the package is not so easy to understand. It sometimes complicates the setup process. Sometimes, it requires a look up at the YouTube to understand things in a much clear perspective than look inside the manual.As an advanced gadget, the manual could have been better to explain the steps clearly.
The battery for this copter is a rechargeable battery and requires a charge of approximately 90 minutes. But the flight time is limited to 15 minutes. Either the battery need to be recharged again or a spare battery should be in hand to continue the ongoing shoot. However, extra batteries for this drone is available at a cheaper rate!
This point is a risk and doesn’t get termed as con. As this drone is quite expensive, this might not be suitable for beginners as they tend to crash the equipment. The spare parts for this gadget is also expensive and crashing it would lead to a loss in investment.It is better for beginners to buy a drone below $100, practice on the controls and then buy this gadget.
Advantages Over Competition
The DJI Phantom model dominates the market and it is not for no reason. With every version of the Phantom model, there are new improvements and innovations on the way like the version 4 of this model having an obstacle avoidance system.
For almost all the entry-level shoppers, the standard model of DJI is on rage in the best drone under $1,000 category. Here is why it is the most preferred Drone.
The photographs and videos taken through this drone are stunning. This is because of the stability of the gadget while in air.
The flight features are quite impressive and the drone moves faster than expected. It has the capability to fly extremely high.
The software intelligence is something that is very special in this copter. It is advanced than other copters and the user can program advanced functions with the help of Naza Assistant Software (which can be downloaded and connected to the copter via USB).
There is also a fail-safe configuration that can be done to make the drone fly back to its take-off position in case the copter loses the transmission signal. There are not many such copters in the market having such kind of an advancement.
Connecting the GoPro models to the mount is very easy as this is a drone with gopro mount and this is one of the main reasons for people preferring this drone.
There is no better model than the DJI Phantom Aerial UAV Drone Helicopter for GoPro. The stability, reliability and safety features are all quite satisfactory. There might be many models in the market having similar features.
The DJI Phanton Aerial UAV drone with gopro mount, is a ready-to-fly type of gadget for ready use with much less effort on setup. Though not much suited for the beginners, they can still try it out using the GPS mode which assists them in a lot of ways.
But this is a professional drone that excites the advanced fliers by offering a variety of functionality through Naza-M. This is certainly a “must buy” product.
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Ride of pride for heroes
PUBLISHED: 10:26 30 April 2009 | UPDATED: 16:36 25 August 2010
A ROYAL Engineer from the Territorial Army is riding 300 miles on a Vespa motorbike to raise money for a charity that helps injured members of the armed forces.
Shaun Shand, 36, of London Road, Northfleet, is due to set off from his home this Saturday, travelling to Lille in France.
Mr Shand, who is a member of a motorcycle club called the Odd Mod Squad, based in Eltham, will be completing his journey with 20 other members to raise money for Help for Heroes.
He said: "I am really looking forward to it. It will be a bit of a challenge riding all that way on the bike, but I know it will make it.
"These people put their lives on the line to fight for the country. Being a soldier, I know people that have been injured, so raising money for this charity is something I really wanted to do."
Mr Shand, has decorated his bike with Help for Heroes logos, will be in the town centre this week collecting money for the charity. To donate money to Help for Heroes, visit www.helpforheroes.org.uk.
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And the Lord said unto Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and recount it in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
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(Maftir) Adonai said to Moshe, “Write this in a book to be remembered, and tell it to Y’hoshua: I will completely blot out any memory of ‘Amalek from under heaven.”
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Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this reminder on a scroll, and make sure that Joshua hears it, too: I will completely erase any memory of the Amalekites from the earth.”
Then the Lord said to Moses: Write this down in a book as something to be remembered, and recite it to Joshua: I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
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Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.’
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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this in a book, to be remembered, and tell Joshua that I will take away everything under heaven that would help you remember Amalek.”
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Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Write this as a reminder in a book and recite it in the hearing of Joshua: I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.’
And Hashem said unto Moshe, Write this for a zikaron (memorial, remembering) in a sefer, and rehearse it in the ears of Yehoshua; for I will utterly efface the memory of Amalek from under Shomayim.
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Eternal One (to Moses): Write down what I say on a scroll as a memorial record of these events, and read it aloud so Joshua can hear: “I will erase all traces of the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
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And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Write this, a memorial in a Book, and set [it] in the ears of Joshua, that I do utterly wipe away the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens;'
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Tom-Jelte Slagter Wins Tour Down Under
Former speed skater earns his first professional cycling victory
By andrew dent/bicycling.com
Tom-Jelte Slagter won Stage 3 of the Tour Down Under on his way to taking the overall win. (Mark Gunter/AFP/Getty Images)
ADELAIDE, Australia, Jan 27, 2013 (AFP) - Dutchman Tom-Jelte Slagter from Blanco Pro Cycling won the season-opening UCI WorldTour Tour Down Under on Sunday, securing his first title as a professional. Slagter stayed out of trouble in the final 90-kilometer stage through the streets of Adelaide to win the general classification in 18hr 28min 32sec, finishing 17 seconds ahead of Spaniard Javier Moreno (Movistar) and 25 clear of British rider Geraint Thomas (Sky Pro Cycling).
The 23-year-old Slagter, a former speed skater who took up cycling only to stay fit during the summer months, was almost at a loss to describe his emotions after his victory.
"It's really strange for me, I'd never won a race like this," he said. "My first win was [on stage three] at Stirling and that I take the jersey now, it's really amazing. "I can't believe it actually."
Slagter conceded he would have to reassess his goals for the rest of the season after his form during the week. "The start of the season couldn't be better, for me and the team also," he said. "The next goal will be the Classics, with La Fleche Wallonne, Liege-Bastogne-Liege and Amstel Gold. Those races are completely different [but] I've got a bit more confidence now."
Germany's Andre Greipel proved he was the dominant sprinter when he overpowered Australian Mark Renshaw (Blanco) and Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky) to win the final sprint and take his third stage win of the tour and his 14th overall. After Greipel's Lotto Belisol team led him out perfectly with a kilometer to go, Renshaw surprised the big German when he slipped past him with only 200 metres remaining. But Greipel didn't panic and swept past Renshaw on the line to take the stage.
Slagter had gone into the final day with a 13-second advantage after a brilliant ride to finish second to Simon Gerrans in Saturday's penultimate stage up Old Willunga Hill. He was never in any real danger of losing the ochre leader's jersey and stayed safely in the peloton for the duration of the race.
The real attack came from stage two winner Thomas, who lost the leader's jersey to Slagter on Saturday, slipping from first to fifth in the process. Thomas won the first intermediate sprint and came third in the second to pick up enough bonus seconds to move him to third place, leapfrogging Spaniard Jon Izagirre (Euskaltel Euskadi) and Belgium's Ben Hermans (Radioshack Leopard).
"Obviously we were disappointed yesterday but there was still one more day of racing left and we still had a slight chance of getting third," Thomas said. "The boys in the team were incredible again—it was a perfect day really and it's been a pretty successful week. "I was pretty down yesterday but coming into the race, if I thought I could come away with a stage win I'd have definitely been happy with that."
Stage 6 Results:
1. Andre Greipel (GER/LTB) 1hr 52min 59sec
2. Mark Renshaw (AUS/BLA) s.t.
3. Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR/SKY) s.t.
4. Matthew Goss (AUS/OGE) s.t.
5. Tyler Farrar (USA/GRS) s.t.
6. Geraint Thomas (GBR/SKY) s.t.
7. Klaas Lodewyck (BEL/BMC) s.t.
8. Barry Markus (NED/VCD) s.t.
9. Yauheni Hutarovich (BLR/ALM) s.t.
10. Kenny van Hummel (NED/VCD) s.t.
22. Arnaud Demare (FRA/FDJ) at 04sec
24. Mickael Delage (FRA/FDJ) s.t.
29. Mikael Cherel (FRA/ALM) s.t.
51. Simon Gerrans (AUS/OGE) 14
65. Philippe Gilbert (BEL/BMC) 25
Did not finish Andy Schleck (LUX/RLT)
General Classification:
1. Tom-Jelte Slagter (NED/BLA) 18hr 28min 32sec
2. Javier Moreno (ESP/MOV) at 17sec
3. Geraint Thomas (GBR/SKY) 25
4. Jon Izagirre (ESP/EUS) 32
5. Ben Hermans (BEL/RLT) 34
6. Wilco Kelderman (NED/BLA) s.t.
7. Gorka Izagirre (ESP/EUS) 36
8. Daniele Pietropolli (ITA/LAM) s.t.
9. Tiago Machado (POR/RLT) 38
10. Jussi Veikkanen (FIN/FDJ) 41
13. Kenny Elissonde (FRA/FDJ) at 54sec
18. Mikael Cherel (FRA/ALM) 1min 20sec
24. Simon Gerrans (AUS/OGE) 3min 31sec
28. Guillaume Bonnafond (FRA/ALM) 4min 25sec
34. Philippe Gilbert (BEL/BMC) 6min 15sec
37. Arnaud Demare (FRA/FDJ) 6min 47 sec
60. Andre Greipel (GER/LTB) 12min 24sec
Sprints:
1. Geraint Thomas (GBR/SKY) 46 points
2. Andre Greipel (GER/LTB) 45
3. Tom-Jelte Slagter (NED/BLA) 41
King of the Mountains:
1. Javier Moreno (ESP/MOV) 22 points
2. Jack Bobridge (AUS/BLA) 20
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Leading Senior Care Franchise Offers Award-Winning Senior Care Services to Scottsdale, Fountain Hills, Paradise Valley, Phoenix and Surrounding Areas
ROSEVILLE, Calif., Dec. 9, 2019
ROSEVILLE, Calif., Dec. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Always Best Care Senior Services, one of the leading senior care franchise systems in the United States, announced today that franchisees John and Ganeen Harstick and their son, Trevor Keeling, have expanded their business to reach more residents in Arizona. The home office is currently located in Mesa, at 7165 E. University Drive, Ste. 144. The entrepreneurs will now serve Scottsdale, Fountain Hills, Paradise Valley and Phoenix, in addition to their existing territory in Mesa, Apache Junction, San Tan Valley, Gold Canyon and surrounding areas. The Harsticks and Keeling opened their first Always Best Care location in Mesa earlier this year.
"John, Ganeen and Trevor have proven to be dedicated and passionate business owners that have continued to go above and beyond for each of their clients," said Jake Brown, President and CEO of Always Best Care. "Their eagerness to provide exceptional services to those they serve, and a rewarding work environment for their caregivers and staff, has fueled their success and their ability to expand into a new territory within months of their initial opening. We are thrilled to continue to be part of their journey and look forward to all they will achieve as they celebrate this next level of their business."
As long-time residents of Mesa, the entrepreneurial family brings unique skillsets and decades of combined professional experience across various fields, including human resources, leadership development and management and healthcare industries. Ganeen previously served as the Executive Director of Higher Education STO, a nonprofit dedicated to helping at-need students attend a school of their choice that addresses their unique physical, emotional and educational needs. John brings 36 years of experience in the human resources field, where he worked in various industries including healthcare, financial services and manufacturing. Trevor is a practicing Registered Respiratory Therapist and Vascular Access Specialist.
The Harsticks and Keeling opened their first Always Best Care location in Mesa in March of this year. Since launching senior care services within the community, the franchisees have prioritized giving back locally by working with organizations that better the lives of seniors, including Hospice of the Valley, Santa to a Senior program and Saws for Seniors, to name a few. Additionally, the entrepreneurs have specialized in providing exceptional care to veterans. By contracting with the Veterans Administration in Arizona and working with organizations like The Center for Elder Veterans Rights, they strive to serve veterans with integrity, respect and quality care.
"As a local and family-owned business, we pride ourselves on developing partnerships in the area that aid in helping our clients find the resources they may need when choosing care for a loved one," said Ganeen. "By offering 24/7 phone hours and matching consistent caregivers with clients, our business exists to help those in our community that need extra assistance. This past year has been very exciting for us as we've integrated into the senior care industry right in our hometown, and we are excited to expand our reach into Scottsdale, Phoenix and the surrounding areas."
Always Best Care is one of the nation's leading providers of non-medical in-home care, assisted living referral placement services and skilled home health care, and is the only senior services franchise system that combines the three to create three separate revenue streams for its franchisees. The company delivers its services through an international network of more than 200 independently owned and operated franchise territories throughout the United States and Canada.
By working with case managers, social workers, discharge planners, doctors, and families, Always Best Care franchise owners provide affordable, comprehensive solutions that can be specifically matched to meet a client's particular physical or social needs. The hallmark services of Always Best Care include non-medical in-home care and assisted living finder and referral services, with skilled home health care now being phased in throughout the country.
For additional information on services available through Always Best Care Senior Services of Greater Scottsdale, or for a free evaluation, please call 480-984-8000, email gharstick@abc-seniors.com and visit www.alwaysbestcarehelp.com.
About Always Best Care
Founded in 1996, Always Best Care Senior Services is based on the belief that having the right people for the right level of care means peace of mind for the client and family. Always Best Care assists seniors with a wide range of illnesses and personal needs, and currently provides more than 4 million hours of care every year. Franchise opportunities are available to individuals interested in leveraging the company's clear strategy and proven track record for delivering affordable, dependable service to seniors in their local areas.
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The information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry issued the notice inviting applications with a deadline for August 1. The much-anticipated move is expected to bring radio services to small towns and cities. The Modi government has been instrumental in popularising radio through his monthly talk show 'Mann Ki Baat'...Read more
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The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) has approved R-1 (requisition for registration) application of the company. The nod was given by the regulator at its board meeting held in Hyderabad yesterday, the official said.
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In our work studying entrepreneurship-through-acquisition (EtA) — in which individuals purchase an existing small business to own and run themselves — we’ve found that most graduating MBA students agree that being the CEO of a small firm dominates traditional post-MBA careers like consulting, investment banking, private equity, and the like on these non-pecuniary dimensions. Owners of small businesses can set their own hours, make their own management decisions, and take pride in the ownership of their work...Read more
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Moran Yacht & Ship sells 62 metre Feadship Rasselas with Burgess
26 June 2014 by Malcolm MacLean
News now from Moran Yacht & Ship that they've found a buyer for Feadship's 62m motor yacht Rasselas, listed for sale by Burgess.
Rasselas was built by the Dutch yard De Vries and delivered in 2005. This modern classic superyacht can trace her ancestry to a number of iconic boats such as Paraffin and Gallant Lady, as well as her earlier namesake, also built for the same American owner.
Her designers, De Voogt, placed special emphasis on creating an extraordinary top deck and outer areas for the yacht. With a classic mahogany interior she is one of the last major yachts with an interior made from this tropical wood. Rasselas sleeps up to 14 guests in a master, four doubles and a twin cabin along with three Pullman berths and all staterooms have en suite facilities. A powerful propulsion package of twin 2,000hp Caterpillar engines gives her a cruising speed of 14 knots and she tops out at 16 knots.
Rasselas was asking $57.5 million and will be renamed Positive Carry by her new owner, who intends to cruise her around the world.
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TOP 10 30th Annual Royal Rumble Winners (Men’s Predictions)
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By Evan Landon Last updated Jan 8, 2018
4. John Cena – The champ is definitely making a come back in the Royal Rumble this year. Duhr. It is almost like the New England Patriots making it to the playoffs: the company could not afford to leave them out, win or lose. But allowing “The Face That Runs The Place” to win another Royal Rumble is not far off base. WWE has been guilty of much, much worse…
What could the company possible gain from handing another title opportunity to Cena? Oh, that’s right. He IS their merchandise champion of all time. Unless The Rock made his way into the fray, but we all know he’s locked up in the next Fast & The Furious.
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is a writer/columnist from south Florida and host of the Villainous Cinema podcast, as well as a musician, screenwriter, and voice actor.
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Microsoft v. Baker: Supreme Court Blocks Plaintiffs' Path to Immediate Appeal of Orders Denying Class Certification
In an important ruling for class action litigants, the Supreme Court held yesterday in Microsoft v. Baker that appellate courts lack jurisdiction to review orders denying class certification following voluntary dismissal with prejudice by the plaintiffs. The ruling reversed a Ninth Circuit decision, Baker v. Microsoft, 797 F.3d 607 (9th Cir. 2015), and resolved a circuit split. It also puts an end to the practice of plaintiffs voluntarily dismissing their claims following denial of class certification in order to “manufacture” an appealable final judgment. The decision is a positive development for class action defendants, as plaintiffs can no longer circumvent the final-judgment rule to take immediate appeals of orders denying certification.
The named plaintiffs in Baker sued Microsoft for breach of express and implied warranties, alleging a defect in the Xbox 360 game console and seeking to recover on behalf of a national class comprising all Xbox 360 owners. The district court struck the class allegations, and the plaintiffs sought permission for an interlocutory appeal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f). After the Ninth Circuit denied permission to appeal under Rule 23(f), the plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed their case with prejudice. They then appealed the order striking class allegations to the Ninth Circuit, arguing that their voluntary dismissal constituted an appealable “final decision” establishing appellate jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. The Ninth Circuit agreed, holding that a voluntary dismissal with prejudice, without a settlement, constitutes a final decision under § 1291. After concluding that appellate jurisdiction existed, the Ninth Circuit reversed the order striking the class allegations. Microsoft appealed to the Supreme Court, which granted certiorari.
The Baker decision, authored by Justice Ginsburg, is grounded in the “final-judgment rule,” codified in § 1291, which grants jurisdiction to federal appellate courts to review only “final decisions of the district courts.” The opinion holds that the plaintiffs’ voluntary dismissal with prejudice “subverts the final-judgment rule” and “invites protracted litigation and piecemeal appeals.” The Court therefore reversed the Ninth Circuit, holding that federal courts of appeals do not have jurisdiction under § 1291 to review an order denying class certification or striking class allegations following voluntary dismissal with prejudice by the named plaintiffs.
The Court’s analysis relies in large part on Rule 23(f), which provides for a permissive, discretionary interlocutory appeal from an order granting or denying class certification. Under this rule, courts of appeals “wield ‘unfettered discretion’” to hear appeals from class certification orders. Describing the rule as the “product of careful calibration,” the Court noted that the plaintiffs’ manufactured dismissal tactic would deprive the appellate courts of the discretion afforded them under the rule, empowering plaintiffs to create jurisdiction for immediate appeals simply by dismissing their claims with prejudice.
Further, the Court expressed concern that the voluntary-dismissal device would facilitate repeated interlocutory appeals throughout the course of litigation and provide a one-sided benefit, permitting “plaintiffs only, never defendants, to force an immediate appeal of an adverse certification ruling.” The Court concluded that it “is not the prerogative of litigants or federal courts to disturb” Rule 23(f)’s “evenhanded prescription.”
Notably, Justices Thomas, Roberts, and Alito concurred in the judgment only (Justice Gorsuch took no part in the decision), eschewing the majority’s analysis under the final-judgment rule in favor of an argument based on the case-or-controversy requirement of Article III to the United States Constitution.
The concurrence, authored by Justice Thomas, argues that the plaintiffs’ dismissal is a “final decision” under § 1921 because it “ends the litigation on the merits and leaves nothing for the court to do but execute the judgment.” But the concurrence concludes that the appellate court nevertheless lacked jurisdiction because the plaintiffs dismissed their claims with prejudice: “they consented to the judgment against them and disavowed any right to relief from Microsoft”; the parties were thus no longer adverse on any claims. Moreover, the concurrence noted, class allegations in the absence of underlying individual claims cannot satisfy the Article III case-or-controversy requirement.
Regardless of the analytical framework, this result is welcome news for class action defendants. Without the opportunity to manufacture a right to appeal through voluntary dismissal, plaintiffs who lose on certification now face a daunting path forward: they can seek an interlocutory appeal under Rule 23(f) or the more stringent requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 1292; settle their individual claims; or continue to litigate their individual claims. The inability of plaintiffs to fashion appealable final judgments through voluntary dismissal protects the rights of defendants, preserves the appellate courts’ discretion as to interlocutory appeals, and prevents the costly and inefficient practice of plaintiffs filing multiple interlocutory appeals throughout the course of litigation.
Read the full decision of Microsoft v. Baker.
For more individualized analysis on the impact of this decision and how it may affect your cases, please feel free to contact the authors or any member of Bowman and Brooke's Class Action and Multidistrict Litigation practice group.
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Erkan Teper defeats Derric Rossy in controversial return bout, David Price’s trainer “fuming”
James Slater - July 4, 2016
Last night in his native Germany, “suspended” heavyweight Erkan Teper returned to the ring for the first time in almost a year, since his European title winning fight with Britain’s David Price. As fans may recall, Teper failed a drugs test after the 2nd-round KO he scored last July, and was suspended for two years. Yet he was allowed, controversially so, to box yesterday because the ban was only directed towards EBU-sanctioned bouts. Last nights bout, against New York’s Derric Rossy, was sanctioned by the German Boxing Commission – (The BDB) who are, we read, supposed to be keeping strict checks on Teper.
The 34-year-old won yesterday, out-pointing Rossy over ten rounds to win by scores of 98-92, 97-93 and 96-94. Now 16-0 (although some record books list Teper’s bout with Price as a no-decision) Teper has seemingly avoided anything other than a token punishment. Indeed, Price’s trainer Dave Coldwell is “fuming” at the way Teper has been allowed back in the ring so quickly.
“It’s an absolute joke,” Coldwell told Sky Sports. “I haven’t spoken to David about it and it is what it is. We’re just focused on Price’s career but we’re fuming that there’s no punishment. The BDB organisation has just proven what it’s worth. You’re not talking about him buying a minor product off the shelf that was recently banned. The test was one of the most potent failures they’ve ever had. They’ve let him get away with it and he’s back in business. It’s just wrong.”
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It is of course impossible to disagree with Coldwell. But Teper is, as the trainer says, “back in business,” and he seems certain to fight again soon. But what if he tests positive for an illegal substance again? Teper should be thankful he has been allowed to box again and he should keep things clean from here on in; as of course every fighter should.
Price is obviously disgusted at this turn of events but as Coldwell says, they are focusing on his career. With regards to that, Price has said a number of times how he would like a shot at IBF champ Anthony Joshua.
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The Lord knows that Hillary Rodham Clinton is not my favorite Democratic politician. She is very smart, extremely hard-working, immensely public-spirited, has her head screwed on straight, and understands what our national and global interests are. She is also not very good at telling which of the people around her are telling things straight and which are telling her pleasing lies. (Of course, George W. Bush is infinitely worse than she is along any possible dimension.
But surely she deserves better than David Broder. David Broder talks about the "two sides" of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The first side: she knows and cares and has thought deeply and widely about public policy:
The Shadow of a Marriage: The two sides of Hillary Rodham Clinton -- the opposites that make her potential presidential candidacy such a gamble -- came into sharp focus Tuesday morning at the National Press Club. For the better part of an hour, the senator from New York held forth in a disquisition on energy policy that was as overwhelming in its detail as it was ambitious in its reach.... For the next 45 minutes, she read a wonkish text that covered every aspect of the energy situation, down to and including a description of the "geologic sequestration" potential for reducing global warming and making better use of coal....
It turns out that the senator has been thinking about energy issues for 35 years -- since she edited a fellow student's paper on OPEC at Yale Law School. And with her disciplined mind, she can fit separate pieces -- everything from mileage standards for cars to biomass and wind power -- into a rational plan that will, she says, not only move the nation substantially toward energy independence but improve living standards for almost every American.
The tone was not partisan; there were bows to Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana for his proposal to expand the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and a polite challenge to President Bush to help the U.S. auto industry meet its foreign competition.
At the end of her talk, little time remained for questions, and the first three simply asked for clarification of points in the energy plan....
The second side: David Broder and his friends like to sneak into her bedroom, go through her hamper, and sniff her underwear:
But the buzz in the room was not about her speech -- or her striking appearance in a lemon-yellow pantsuit -- but about the lengthy analysis of the state of her marriage to Bill Clinton that was on the front page of that morning's New York Times. The article, by Patrick Healy... touched only lightly on the former president's friendship with Canadian politician Belinda Stronach.... But for all the delicacy of the treatment, the very fact that the Times had sent a reporter out to interview 50 people about the state of the Clintons' marriage and placed the story on the top of Page One was a clear signal -- if any was needed -- that the drama of the Clintons' personal life would be a hot topic if she runs for president.
The Clintons, according to the Times, urged friends not to answer questions about the relationship and declined to be interviewed.... Three times in the question-and-answer session, she referred to her husband as "Bill," praising him for seeing that his library in Little Rock incorporated a lot of energy-saving features.
Other than that, the elephant in the room went unmentioned.
God forbid that David Broder should actually write about public policy. He can't, after all, listen to a 4000 word speech without finding it "overwhelming in its detail."
I'm swinging around to the view that there won't *be* a Washington Post in fifteen years. What value will it offer?
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Release Me, Claim Me & Complete Me (The Stark Trilogy)
J Kenner Release Me, Claim Me & Complete Me (The Stark Trilogy)
By Apple, February 23, 2015 in Historical & Romance: Authors and Books
Here we go again. Another erotic romance trilogy about a gorgeous too hot for his own good billionaire businessman and the girl he sets his sights on. I picked these up of my own free will partly because I was curious to see how many variations of rip off could be achieved but partly because they had attracted some decent reviews with favourable comments.
This time the story is set in Los Angeles and the surrounding area and the obscenely rich entrepreneur is Damien Stark, a former top of his game tennis star and now wealthy business man. Damien is handsome, magnificent you know the usual thing and like the other exceptionally rich leading men in similar stories he has a dark side. I have to say though I did like Damien’s love interest Nikki Fairchild. She is a refreshingly original character who is well educated with degrees in both electrical engineering and computer science. A former child beauty pageant participant, Nikki is a straight A student who has plans for her future and those plans involve launching her own company, but despite that ambition and strength there is a vulnerability to her and it’s that vulnerability which manifests itself in some dark and distressing behaviour.
I really wish this story had been written before Fifty Shades of Grey, because it is actually reasonably well written and has a degree of intelligence to it. Both characters are strong and likeable, the back story is that they both endured hideous childhoods of varying degrees and were forced to do things which neither of them really wanted to do, leaving them both with scars (mental and physical). It is undeniably head and shoulders above FSOG and the equally nauseating Crossfire series. The sexy scenes were hot and the characters had chemistry together, BUT it feels formulaic, this premise has been done and done to death with the market being saturated by similar books jumping on the now overcrowded bandwagon. Obscenely rich but dark billionaire with secretive and troubled past (are there any other kinds?) meets young college graduate with equally troubled past and mental health issues, some hot and steamy moments ensue, a little kink is thrown in for good measure, there is the inevitable appearance of a bad person who causes trouble for the couple not to mention a misunderstanding that causes a temporary break up, they get back together, even more steamier sex scenes, and a happily ever after.
If you loved the Fifty Shades trilogy and are looking for something similar, then Release Me and its sequels are books you will most likely enjoy. If you are looking for a nice, well written romance with a touch of kink and a few dark moments, you may also like these books Although this was a very good readable story and you find yourself rooting for the couple, it inevitably had a sense of deja vous surrounding it and that is a real shame.
Stark series of books and novella's
By Apple
I thought long and hard before posting this rather extensive review, mainly because the genre of book isn't universally well liked on the site, and I personally have contributed to less than favourable reviews on similar books in this genre. But something about these attracted me. I was practically forced to read FSOG and the first three Crossfire books by a well meaning friend who thought I would really like them and generally speaking I didn’t so right back when these first appeared I didn’t bother with them, initially dismissing them as just more cringeworthy drivel and not worth bothering with. Despite that original assessment and decision I would like to say at this point that I picked the first three books in this series up of my own free will, (no I hadn't completely lost my mind - although that thought did cross my mind when I first bought them!) A couple of years or so later I came across them whilst browsing and partly because they had attracted some decent reviews with favourable comments and many of the reviews had commented how they were head and shoulders above FSOG – which lets face it wouldn’t be hard to achieve but nevertheless that sparked my interest plus I was kind of curious to see just how many variations of rip off could be achieved but the deciding factor was the fact they were ridiculously cheap, at that point I had acquired a kindle and the initial trilogy was stupidly cheap at that time in kindle version so I didn’t feel as though I had lost anything if they were crap.
My reason for finally deciding to post it now is I recently re-read a couple of the better novellas, you see after reading the totally outstanding All Souls Trilogy, I wanted to read something but to put it bluntly nothing could follow those books and I felt anything new wouldn't get a fair unbiased reaction after those books. So I took the decision to do a quick re-read and the novellas fit the bill nicely, which led me back to the fact I had never written a full review for this extensive series of novels and novellas, I remembered the stories reasonably well and so this what I've came up with.
So first of all here is a review of those original three books:
The first three books were:
1. Release Me
2. Claim Me
3. Complete Me
When the first three books in this series came out around the time of Fifty Shades of Grey (E L James) & the Crossfire series (Sylvia Day) I thought - oh god here we go again!. Another erotic romance trilogy about a gorgeous too hot for his own good billionaire businessman and the girl he sets his sights on. The titles didn’t strike me as too promising as they were very similar names to other stories in this sector. This time the story is set in Los Angeles and the surrounding area and the obscenely rich entrepreneur is Damien Stark, a former top of his game child tennis prodigy and now wealthy business man. Damien is handsome, magnificent you know the usual thing and like the other exceptionally rich leading men in similar stories he has a dark side. The first thing which was different though was the fact he had one physical flaw, a damaged eye, a blown pupil which gives his eye the impression of being completely black.
I have to say though I did like Damien’s love interest Nikki Fairchild. She was a refreshingly original character who is well educated with degrees in both electrical engineering and computer science – to me this was a really refreshing difference. Nikki was a former child beauty pageant participant, forced to compete by her overbearing selfish mother. Nikki is a straight A student who has plans for her future and those plans involve launching her own company, but despite that ambition and strength there is a vulnerability to her and it’s that vulnerability which manifests itself in some very dark and distressing behaviour.
I really wish this story had been written before Fifty Shades of Grey, because it was actually reasonably well written and had a degree of intelligence to it and it had a much deeper and darker feel to it. Both characters are strong and likeable, the back story is that they both endured hideous childhoods of varying degrees and were forced to do things which neither of them really wanted to do, leaving them both with scars (mental and physical). I would agree that it is undeniably head and shoulders above FSOG and the equally nauseating Crossfire series. There was a significant difference in the story as there was a slightly controversial aspect involved where Damien offers Nikki a substantial amount of money to pose for a commissioned painting, a portait - a naked portrait, now this could easily have been portrayed as sleazy and dirty but it was actually very well written and tastefully done. The sexy scenes were not too cringeworthy and the characters had chemistry together and the sex wasn’t totally overdone, BUT despite all that it feels formulaic, this premise has been done and done to death with the market being saturated by similar books jumping on the now overcrowded bandwagon. Obscenely rich but dark billionaire with secretive and troubled past (are there any other kinds?) meets young college graduate with equally troubled past and her own raft of mental health issues, some hot and steamy moments ensue, a little kink is thrown in for good measure, there is the inevitable appearance of a bad person who causes trouble for the couple not to mention a misunderstanding that causes a temporary break up, they get back together, even more steamier sex scenes, and a happily ever after.
If you loved the Fifty Shades trilogy (yes there are people out there who did, and even I admitted that by the time I got to the last book there was something there which got into my head about the characters and their story) and are looking for something similar, then Release Me and its sequels are books you will most likely enjoy. If you are looking for a nice, reasonably well written romance with a touch of kink, and a few dark moments, you may also like these books. However, there is a but, although this was a very good readable story and you find yourself rooting for the couple, it inevitably had a sense of déjà vous surrounding it and that is a real shame.
After I had completed the trilogy I noticed that a number of short novella’s were written continuing the story as the original trilogy was now complete and curiosity got the better of me once more as these novella’s were all eBooks and some were free or only a matter of pence when I got them, I wasn’t expecting anything from them as I generally go by the saying – you get what you pay for.
The novellas after the main trilogy were:
1. Take Me
2. Have Me
3. Play my Game
4. Deepest Kiss
5. Seduce Me
6. Unwrap Me
7. Entice Me
8. Hold Me
Some were stand alone stories which didn’t have any link to the main story line which had been built, some were blatantly introducing new characters which would go on to get their own spin off series of books (which I haven’t read) but the majority had snippets which and when put together answered many questions but also raised many more some were good, some were ok and some were bloody dire. In my opinion the majority could have been put together and produced as maybe two decent sized novels, but obviously that wouldn’t have been as lucrative and I felt these small stories were leading to another full novel at some point. It was! Anchor Me came along and after enjoying some of the short stories I decided to buy it. It was good but not as good as the original trilogy, I don’t know if I was bored with the characters or if the entire story had just run its course or it was like my reaction to the original trilogy, that although good it had a sense of déjà vous.
The series didn’t end there, yet another novella and another full novel has since been released, the Novella – Please Me and the full novel Lost with Me are in my opinion the weakest of all the stories, they meander along and don’t have the depth to them and unlike the other stories these feel just like a money making exercise to milk this series that has now been done to death and that is quite sad considering how much better it was at the beginning. So, in conclusion – the original trilogy is worth a read if you like that sort of thing, and maybe the first couple of novella’s, after that it definitely becomes a manipulative attempt at marketing other series’ of books and just milking the original story.
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Broadland Wineries starts trading as a fruit wine producer.
BWL launches brands of chocolate liqueurs, British Sherry and is one of the first to produce wine kits.
1980's / 1990's
Broadland Wineries partners with Ian Macleod to bottle historic brand, Wincarnis and has exclusive supply in the UK. Now sold as a tonic wine, it was once famously recommended by doctors.
Starts one of the first UK imported wine contract bottling businesses.
The company installs an innovative Bag-In-Box filling line.
BWL goes into administration in 2006 and is taken over by a new management team.
Between 2007 and 2011, the company repays £3.5m.
Production of BWL brands restarts and state-of-the-art filler and case lines are installed.
Following success with its own branded products, BWL begins selling directly to retailers.
The company wins tenders with national supermarkets and wholesalers to develop private label products.
The UK's first wine pouch filling machine is installed, as is the UK's first Oenoflow and Oenefine machines.
BWL's quality assurance team and winery demonstrate adherence to the rigorous standards set by BRC Global Standard and receive a Grade A.
New low MOQ Glass/PET/Screwcap/Novatwist 18.7cl - 1L bottline line.
First production of varietal British wines.
BRC Grade A retained.
BWL celebrates its 50th year of trading and organises an epic 50th birthday for employees and family.
The company becomes an international wine supplier and establishes sales teams in North America and Nordic markets.
The company is named No.11 in The Grocer's Fast 50 list of the fastest growing private companies.
Minivino is launched, an all in one ready to drink format that is glass free and fully recyclable.
Broadland Wineries achieves the highest possible level in its BRC Food audit: BRC Grade AA.
New state-of-the-art bottling line is installed.
After 11 years of 20% per annum growth, BWL faces into the challenges of Brexit and international expansion, as it strives to move towards its vision of becoming a £100m per annum turnover company by 2025. Broadland Wineries achieves BRC Grade AA+. The company is named for the second time in The Grocer's Fast 50 list of the fastest growing private companies.
BWL’s UK winery upgrades its sparkling wine bottling capability.
Broadland Wineries continues to grow and gains further major listings within the UK and US. The Sales and Marketing team continue to enhance their capabilities and a Marketing Director is appointed. In response to this growth, the company installs an additional 400,000 litres of bulk wine storage capacity. The new stainless steel tanks were manufactured just 25 miles away.
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Sump Pump Systems in Delta, Contractor Near Vancouver, Surrey, Langley
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Buckley Old Engine Show
August 13, 14, 15, and 16, 2020
How To Exhibit At Buckley
Club Tractors
Map to show
Webber Building
Click here for pictures of the Webber Building Dedication
The Buckley Old Engine Club broke ground on September 23 for a new building which will house the Snow Engine and a new demonstration area for primitive farm equipment. The 7200 square foot building, built by Hilbrand Construction of Grant, is a beautiful addition to the club showgrounds, and is nearly complete.
The club received the Snow Engine in 2008 from the Elder family in West Virginia. It was used for pumping natural gas from West Virginia to New York. At 1100 hp, it is one of the largest known Snow Engines left in the world.
The demonstration area will be a hands on exhibit, demonstrating primitive farm equipment. The area will feature corn grinding, flour grinding, fanning mill, seed sorter and several other primitive pieces. The mechanics of a threshing machine and reaper will be demonstrated as well.
The building was donated by The Wayne and Joan Webber Foundation of Clinton Township. Wayne Webber spent his early childhood in Thompsonville and is dedicating this building to the memory of his parents, Chris and Theresa Webber. The Wayne and Joan Webber Foundation is know in the area for its generosity to the children of Benzie County for its yearly distribution of new coats and boots to elementary students throughout the Benzie County Schools. The Wayne and Joan Webber Foundation was also instrumental in funding the Webber Heart Center at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City and building The Betsie Valley District Library in Thompsonville.
The Webber Building is open for the Buckley Old Engine Show and during Education Days. It will be a great addition to Education Days in September, a yearly event hosting 4th graders from the surrounding schools, as they explore agriculture in Michigan History.
New Video of Buckley Education Days
September 18th and 19th, 2019
18th Annual Education Days
May 15th, and 16th, 2020
38th Annual Spring Swap Meet
August 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th, 2020
53nd Annual Buckley Old Engine Show
6090 W 2 1/2 Rd, Buckley, Michigan 49620
(231) 269-3669 After August 1st.
Please see our Contact Page.
Map to grounds
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MuséoParc Alésia
In the footsteps of Vercingetorix
A place of remembrance is emerging in the Auxois countryside. The Alésia visitor centre and new archaeological museum opened to the public in 2012. Today, below the statue of Vercingetorix, you can visit the Gallo-Roman ruins and observe the progress at a major European cultural project.
An 'oppidum' and its secrets
Mont-Auxois has been inhabited since prehistoric times. In 52 BC, Gallic knights were routed by Romans and their Germanic allies. Vercingetorix withdrew his troops to the fortified town of Alésia, which then suffered the famous siege leading to his defeat.
An historical controversy has raged since the 19th century – is the Mont-Auxois really where the siege of Alésia took place? Historians are today agreed that it is.
The MuséoParc cultural project
The Alise-Sainte-Reine district and surrounding villages welcome visitors to two different venues.
On Les Laumes plain, the visitor centre will concentrate on the siege of Alésia and the story of France's Gallic origins. Visitors will experience the event from both points of view: besiegers and besieged.
The archaeological museum, linked to the remains of the Gallo-Roman town, recreates the lives and culture of its successive populations.
Alésia, here and now!
There's no need to wait if you want to see the shrine, forum and amphitheatre at Alésia. This ancient site survived for five centuries following the end of the Gallic era!
Impressed by the tall statue of Vercingetorix? This giant copper statue, the work of Aimé Millet, was erected in 1865 on the western edge of the Mont-Auxois. It serves to reinforce the romantic image of Vercingetorix, founder of the Gallic nation.
Alésia has other activities on offer: the "Nuits péplum" festival in July features an explosive mix of pop and rock!
Alésia provides a truly memorable stop during any trip through the Pays de l'Auxois, which would not be complete without also seeing Fontenay abbey, Châteauneuf-en-Auxois and Flavigny-sur-Ozerain.
1 route des Trois Ormeaux - 21150 - ALISE-SAINTE-REINE -
http://www.alesia.com
contact@alesia.com
Horaires d'ouverture du Muséoparc Alésia
Le Centre d'interprétation et les vestiges de la ville gallo-romaine sont ouverts 7 jours sur 7 y compris les dimanches et jours fériés.
Durée de visite moyenne du Centre d'interprétation : environ 3 h
Durée de visite des vestiges de la ville gallo-romaine : environ 45 min
- Du 1er février au 31 mars, de 10 h à 17 h. (Seuls les vestiges de la ville sont accessibles)
- Du 1er avril au 30 juin, de 9 h à 18 h.
- Du 1er juillet au 31 août, de 9 h à 19 h
- Du 1er au 30 septembre, de 9 h à 18 h
- Du 1er octobre au 30 novembre, de 10 h à 17 h (Le centre d'interprétation est ouvert jusqu'au 11 novembre seulement)
- Du 1er décembre au 31 décembre, de 10 h à 17 h (Seul le centre d'interprétation est accessible)
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American Girl Brings New In-Store Experiences to Its Flagship Stores in New York and Chicago in Time for the Holidays
Brand Debuts New Doll Hospitals, Immersive Character World and Newly-Renovated Salon
The all-new American Girl Doll Hospital available exclusively at the company's New York and Chicago retail locations. (Photo: Business Wire)
Travel back to the 1970s with fan-favorite, Julie Albright, at this brand-new interactive space at American Girl's New York store. (Photo: Business Wire)
Girls can now join their favorite dolls for a day of pampering at the newly-renovated Salon at American Girl Place Chicago. (Photo: Business Wire)
October 10, 2019 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
MIDDLETON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Girl, the inspiring world of dolls, content, and experiences, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mattel (NASDAQ: MAT), today announced new in-store experiences at its New York City and Chicago flagship stores. Launching ahead of the holiday season, new retailtainment includes a doll hospital in both locations, a fully-immersive space that brings to life Julie, a classic character from the 1970s, in New York, and a newly-renovated salon in Chicago for both girls and their dolls.
“For more than twenty years, since we opened our first American Girl flagship store, we’ve been creating engaging, interactive retail experiences for kids and their families,” said Jamie Cygielman, General Manager of American Girl. “These experiences are a key part of what connects American Girl doll owners with the brand, and the new doll hospitals, salon and Julie’s Groovy World take that to the next level.”
The new retail experiences include:
Starting this month, girls can bring their dolls in need of a check up to all-new American Girl Doll Hospitals in New York City at 75 Rockefeller Plaza and Chicago at 835 Michigan Avenue. The hospitals offer a variety of free services, including a doll wellness exam with a specially-trained Doll Doctor who checks the pulse, temperature, and reflexes of each 18-inch patient. It also features free interactive play stations, where girls can perform doll eye exams, take doll-sized x-rays, and give a dental checkup. A complementary Certificate of Good Health is given to doll owners after each visit, along with wellness tips to help girls care for their dolls at home. For dolls that have been so loved they need to see a specialist, on-site doctors can schedule appointments for more extensive doll repairs.
Fans will be transported to the 1970s with Julie’s Groovy World (New York) that shows girls what growing up was like for American Girl fan-favorite, Julie Albright™. The space is brought to life through memorable scenes from Julie’s stories. Girls can explore and relax in a 70s-inspired living area – complete with rotary phone, beaded curtains and classic Egg Chair; shoot hoops at the Pop-A-Shot basketball game; take a selfie in the full-size 70s-era VW Beetle and more.
For the first time, the newly-renovated American Girl Salon in Chicago is inviting girls to join their favorite dolls in getting matching hairstyles, mini manicures, and ear-piercing. The salon, which also has a sophisticated new look, includes four girl hair stations, twelve doll hair stations, four girl manicure stations, and one nail drying station. The salon is equipped with a full ear-piercing suite – for girls and dolls. Guests can make salon reservations in advance or day-of, and special packages are available with plenty of options for personalization. The Salon services for girls are also currently available in the New York store.
In addition to the new in-store experiences, American Girl retail guests across the country can enjoy dining with their dolls at the AG Cafe, design custom dolls and outfits at the Create Your Own Studio and visit the Doll Salon. To make a reservation or learn more about American Girl’s premier retail locations nationwide, visit americangirl.com.
ABOUT AMERICAN GIRL
American Girl is a premium brand for girls and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAT, www.mattel.com), a leading global children's entertainment company that specializes in the design and production of quality toys and consumer products. Headquartered in Middleton, WI, American Girl offers an inspiring world of dolls, content, and experiences that nourish a girl’s spirit and help develop her strength of character. Best-selling lines include Truly Me™, Girl of the Year™, Bitty Baby™, WellieWishers™, and American Girl’s classic historical characters. The company sells products through its award-winning catalogue, on americangirl.com, in its proprietary U.S. experiential retail stores, as well as at specialty retailers nationwide. By inspiring girls to be their best, American Girl has earned the loyalty of millions and the praise and trust of parents and educators.
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SPENDING TIME WITH SHERLOCK: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
20th Century Fox, especially under the auspices of Darryl Zanuck in the 1930s, was adept and successful at historical dramas and literary adaptations. Consider the quality and entertainment value in Lloyds of London, Steamboat 'Round the Bend, Wee Willie Winkie, Kidnapped, Jesse James, Young Mr. Lincoln, Stanley and Livingstone, Drums Along the Mohawk and The Little Princess.
Then, as now, the world could never get enough of Arthur Conan Doyle's creation, the consulting detective of Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes. William Gillette was the first to adapt Holmes for the stage and the recently "found" film version of the great actor in the role is a treasure, yet only one of countless screen versions of Holmes stories.
In 1939 another actor was added to the roll call of Holmes portrayers when Basil Rathbone was perfectly cast as the detective in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Ernest Pascal (Kidnapped, Wee Willie Winkie, Canyon Passage) adapted Conan Doyle's story and the film was directed by Alfred Werker (Lost Boundaries, He Walked by Night). Nigel Bruce was tagged to play Dr. John Watson and he and Rathbone displayed a chemistry that immediately captured audience's imaginations. Another success and feather in the studio's cap.
The "Hound" was soon followed by The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The screenplay by Edwin Blum and William Drake is credited as being adapted from Gillette's play, but I see scant similarities. Nonetheless, the story is a grand, if somewhat messy, pastiche of all we love about the brilliant and quirky Sherlock Holmes.
Any old cab in a rainstorm.
Rathbone and Zucco
Like the previous film, "Adventures" is set in the 1890s era of the original stories. The exciting opening finds an indifferent Professor Moriarty, played by the one and only George Zucco, on trial for murder. The criminal mastermind has placed the court with no option but to exonerate him of the charge, Holmes arriving too late with critical information. In a shared cab ride through rainy, cobblestoned London Moriarty expresses his distaste for Holmes' constant meddling in his affairs. He informs the detective that he will devise and commit the greatest crime of all-time, thus eliminating the troublesome snoop before a gracious retirement. Challenge accepted.
The violin, the arms, an experiment, footwear as tobacco holder
Home, sweet home.
The Baker Street flat is a comfortable abode made more so by its inhabitants. Mary Gordon is a fussy and vague Mrs. Hudson. Terry Kilburn is young Billy who sweeps and tidies while picking up the tips of the trade. Nigel Bruce is the faithful, but befuddled Dr. Watson who supports his friend as we would all like to be supported.
Henry Stephenson plays Sir Ronald Ramsgate who is in charge of the safety of the crown jewels in the Tower of London. The imminent arrival of a gift from India of a precious emerald has Sir Ronald concerned. Threats have been made against the gem which require Holmes attention. Holmes is not as enamoured of this task as he might be, but agrees to assist Sir Ronald.
If ever there was a damsel in distress, it is Miss Ann Brandon.
Ida Lupino, on the brink of her break-out roles in The Light That Failed, They Drive by Night and High Sierra plays Miss Ann Brandon. The young society woman is distraught over threatening letters that harken back to her father's murder of a decade ago. She is worried for her brother's life and she has grown distrustful of her fiance Jerrold Hunter played by Alan Marshal. Mr. Holmes is the only one who can help her. Holmes is intrigued by Miss Brandon and the puzzle she poses which includes a cryptic drawing and exotic music. The death of her brother in a public park by means which elude the police, as exemplified by E.E. Clive as Inspector Bristol, makes the case irresistible. Only good old Watson has the wherewithal to remind his friend that they have another case of equal importance. Ah, have you forgotten about Sir Ronald as well?
I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside
Man of many disguises and talents.
Professor Moriarty hasn't forgotten anything; not his promise to Holmes, not the revenge seeking South American in his employ and not the crown jewels. Ah, Holmes, will you be letting the archcriminal put his plan over? I will certainly not place Miss Brandon's life below the security of the Tower, but isn't Holmes having just a little too much fun in his disguise as a music hall entertainer?
Even his own mother wouldn't know him.
Zucco, Stephenson, Bruce
Holmes' enjoyment in his role may almost match Moriarty's pleasure in playing one officious police officer by the name of Sergeant Bullfinch! I daresay he enjoys this aspect of his plan as much as his constant berating of his servant Dawes played by Frank Dawson or his belittling the brain capacity of his henchman Bassick played by Arthur Hohl. He's a scamp is our Moriarty!
The game's afoot!
Bruce, Rathbone
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes simply oozes atmosphere from its foggy city streets to the enticing garden of a country home. Noirish shadows play about London Bridge and the criminal activities in the Tower. Leon Shamroy, who won all of his Oscars (Leave Her to Heaven, The Black Swan, Cleopatra) for colour cinematography paints us a background right out of Sidney Paget's imagination for our characters to play out the story.
"Elementary, my dear Watson."
Rathbone, Bruce
Why this story wasn't immediately followed with another Rathbone - Bruce outing is a mystery. Was it the timing or availability of personnel, too many other irons in the fire, inability to get a script together? That last thought seems highly unlikely, but whatever the reason The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the last we would see of our leads in the Victorian setting. Three years would pass before Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce would again play the beloved characters of Holmes and Watson. Universal Studios would revive the series (12 in all) bringing the team to a contemporary setting to settle the Nazi's hash in Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror. Who better?
Phyl January 11, 2017 at 1:51 PM
I keep wanting to watch all the Sherlock movies but never seem to get around to it! I did start watching the show once with Ronald Howard...
Caftan Woman January 11, 2017 at 2:57 PM
I adore Ronald Howard. It's a grand Sherlock and my sister imagines he would have been equally grand as a star of Doctor Who.
There are 14 Rathbone/Bruce pictures all told, the 2 Victorians and 12 mid-century. Each has their strong points and once you start with one, you won't be able to keep from going through them all. Think of it as vacation and choose a couple of weeks strictly for Holmes. You'll love it!
Rick29 January 11, 2017 at 4:34 PM
Terrific review of one of the best of all Sherlock Holmes movies. Zucco is one of the two best Moriarty's and, as you point out, it's wonderfully atmosphere. I'm flummoxed, too, as to why there wasn't a third one to follow this one and HOUND.
Truly, when they speak of atmosphere surely they are speaking of this movie. I forgot to mention the eerie piece of music that haunts Miss Brandon. If not the stuff of nightmares, then the stuff of a troubled sleep.
John/24Frames January 12, 2017 at 12:53 PM
Rathbone has always been my Favorite Mr. Holmes. Wonderful review.
When I read my Conan Doyle it is always the voice of Basil Rathbone I hear in my head. Such a delight as Holmes.
Silver Screenings January 14, 2017 at 5:01 AM
I'd never thought about the fine literary/historical adaptations done by 20th Century Fox as a whole, but as I read through your list I realized what a terrific legacy that studio last left us.
I really must see "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in Victorian England is something I've put off for far too long!
Caftan Woman January 14, 2017 at 6:13 AM
Yes, a legacy we enjoy to this day. Oh, I hope you watch Sherlock's Adventures soon. You'll have a great time.
Jacqueline T. Lynch January 16, 2017 at 8:47 AM
Love the Sherlock Holmes stories, but I don't remember seeing this one. Ida Lupino? Sign me up. Thanks for another great review!
Caftan Woman January 16, 2017 at 11:52 AM
I imagine your memory might kick in after the first couple of scenes, if not then I am pleased to present something new for your movie loving palette to enjoy.
Yvette January 24, 2017 at 3:30 PM
I love the scene of Holmes (Rathbone) singing and dancing 'beside the seaside'. But I've always had a bone (well, several bones actually) to pick with the screenplay which makes NO sense whatsoever. First of all, Ida Lupino is supposed to be South American? Where's the accent? (Minor quibble, okay.)
Her father was killed in South America years before and at the time the same eerie music now being played in and around the fog bound streets of London, was heard. How does the killer in London know about the eerie music? The gaucho-looking guy that's doing the eerie music - did he kill her father? And oh by the way, what is the motive for killing Ida Lupino's brother (apparently he goes to his death rather willingly early on for no intelligent reason I can think of) and Ida herself? (Well, not her, but you know...) NO MOTIVE, it's all a misdirection!!! And also, why does that stiff shirt who supposedly loves her, rant and rave about Holmes and Watson entering the case and why does he keep insisting that he and he alone can take care that nothing happens to Ida? Terrible character. None of this makes ANY sense. But the movie is still a lot of fun despite the peculiarities.
Precisely! That's why I described it as messy, but grand. I have the feeling that large swatches of screenplay never made it to the set or, if it did, there is coherence to be found on the cutting room floor.
In my mind, that fiend Moriarty somehow knew of the earlier murder and gave that South American fellow a chance for further vengeance (for something or other) as a distraction for Holmes. After that I just sit back and enjoy the fog.
PS: Even as a "tween" I knew that bird was an albatross. Holmes had to go to a museum for the heaven's sake.
Yvette January 25, 2017 at 12:44 PM
Oh yeah, forgot about the albatross. HA! So Moriarity knew that the father had also received a pix of the bird. :) (Yeah, but Holmes didn't have google. Oh wait, wasn't he supposed to be his own google?)
Watson would lead us to believe that Holmes was indeed his own Google.
I have taken to using a Holmesism when referring to my blog. I tell the family that I have written a "well-received monograph" on a particular movie or actor. They roll their eyes. Sigh.
Christian Esquevin January 27, 2017 at 4:21 PM
Two wonderful movies and the actors that brought them to life. As you know Caftan Woman they were not the first nor the last to play the roles but they have to so many of us been the yardstick by which all others are measured. I am fortunate to own three original costume sketches of the pair from the Hound of the Baskervilles.
What an exquisite treasure you have in those sketches. Yes, for many of us Rathbone/Bruce were the portal to the world of Sherlock Holmes, and we're lucky because of it. No matter how many Holmes I have seen or enjoyed, it is always Rathbone's voice I hear when reading my Conan Doyle.
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