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The growing "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) movement is presenting a new series of employee privacy challenges for organizations striving to uphold data security, compliance, and transparency obligations for e-discovery, investigations, audits and other complex processes. Join our panel of experts to discuss how new technologies and changes to privacy laws and regulations are affecting best practices in this hyper-dynamic landscape.
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The potential discoverable data sources in today's mobile device and technology-enabled world have expanded to mountainous proportions. Identifying and preserving this relevant data, as well as presenting it in a usable and persuasive format is paramount to gaining the upper hand in any electronic discovery related investigation. Our panelists will discuss the various types of emerging data sources not to be overlooked as well as identify how each can be connected to tell a better story.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Amis, LaValle, Auster, Fesperman, Pylväinen, Coplin
C. Max Magee August 21, 2012 | 6 books mentioned
American readers can now get their hands on the latest from Martin Amis, Lionel Asbo: State of England. Also out this week: The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle, Paul Auster’s memoir Winter Journal, Dan Fesperman’s spy novel The Double Game, and a pair of debuts, Hanna Pylväinen’s We Sinners and Amanda Coplin’s The Orchardist.
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Among the books hitting shelves this week are Pulitzer winner and New Yorker staffer Louis Menand’s The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University and memoirist and poet Nick Flynn’s The Ticking is the Bomb. Also new, Melville House is putting out a novella, Union Jack, by Nobel laureate Imre Kertész, and NYRB Classics has published Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy a novel by Olivia Manning based on her time in Eastern Europe during World War II. Rachel Cusk provides an introduction to the edition.
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A.S. Byatt’s new novel The Children’s Book has won a ton of praise overseas – it may take home the Booker tonight — and now it’s finally available in the States. Meanwhile, Michael Chabon is trying his hand at memoir with his new book, Manhood for Amateurs.
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Review: ‘Emma Hamilton – Seduction & Celebrity at the National Maritime Museum’
As the pithy saying goes: ‘behind every great man is a great woman’. We think of Michelle and Barack Obama, Bill and Melinda Gates, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir as prime examples. Similarly, Emma Hamilton’s memory has been connected with her association with famous men, particularly as the mistress of Admiral Lord Nelson. “Emma Hamilton: Seduction & Celebrity” at The National Maritime Museum reveals an intimate portrait of Emma alone — a woman whose staggering accomplishments have often been overshadowed by the men she inspired.
The exhibition is laid out chronologically, split into theatrical Acts to mimic her dramatic life. Exploiting the galleries’ ample space, each section represents a chapter of Emma’s life through artefacts, audio-visuals, thematic music, digital projection, and text. The microscopic attention to detail highlights the expertise of the researchers and of curator Quintin Colville, who clearly communicates Emma’s importance in her context and ours. The layout also uniquely takes us into Emma’s psyche. The coloured lighting changes from a sultry red representing her life as a seductress, to a powdered pink as an artist’s muse, and finally to a morose black at the tragic close of her life. Simultaneously, the exhibition manages to convey the difficulties of constructing a portrait of Emma Hamilton because, like many legendary women in history, she was enigmatic and much-misunderstood — a powerhouse of potential and “infinite variety” that made her a sensation in 18th-century Europe.
George Romney, ‘Emma Hamilton as Miranda’
Emma was born into a poor family in Cheshire in 1765 and consigned to a career as a domestic servant. Early on, inspirited with an adventurous impulse, she left for London’s Covent Garden to find a better life, as did many other country girls in that period. The concept of performing must have been an enticing prospect for Emma since in 1780s Britain performance was like a social fast-track; through the quality of one’s art and its reception, performers could redefine their identities. Emma’s vulnerability as a young girl in bustling Covent Garden is evoked by an engraving depicting the employment of a fictional young lady called Harriet Heedless (1780). Harriet presents herself as a servant to prospective employers — a demure country belle who smiles trustingly at onlookers, unaware that the woman passing her a card is a brothel keeper and those who look on her do so with ill-fated intent. The dangers of Covent Garden did not go amiss for Emma, as she mingled among the high-society brothel owned by Madame Kelly. Beautiful, talented girls in the world of 18th century prostitution could aspire to find security from a wealthy protector.
At the age of 16, the young aristocrat Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh took Emma as his mistress. This period of her life ended abruptly when she fell pregnant with his child, at which point he disowned her. Emma was left deprived of both money and friends; her desperation is acutely evident in a heart-felt letter to one of Fetherstonhaugh’s associates Charles Greville featured in the exhibition, “What else am I but a girl in distress, in real distress…tell me what is it to become on me” (1782). Greville was a scholarly aristocrat who was accustomed to the treatment of courtesans and prostitutes amongst his class. He agreed to give Emma protection as a lover, with the exception that Emma had to give up her child once it was born. Even on these extreme terms Emma was so close to destitution that she agreed. It was Greville who took Emma to be painted by London’s leading portraitist, George Romney, who became infatuated with her, painting her more than 70 times between 1782-91. The room showcasing Romney and Emma’s relationship is a beautiful, moving space, documenting the boundaries left undefined and crossed in a painter’s pursuit to capture the raw beauty he found in Emma. She was a set apart from girls of her century, which Romney captures vividly in his paintings; slung in classical dress, she languishes in experimental poses that Romney’s high society clients would have shunned.
There is a sense that beneath the various dramatis personae through which Romney presents Emma, he was translating her “infinite variety” to the audience; from the seductive Circe in Homer’s Odyssey, to the courageous Miranda in The Tempest. No work pins down Emma’s magnetism more than “Emma as Circe” (c.1782). Auburn colours orbit around her, contrasting with her paused expression of entrancement. Half of her face illuminated, the other half eclipsed in shadow, it depicts a woman who is simultaneously present yet withdrawn from our public knowledge. Strikingly, the portrait bears an uncanny resemblance to Romney’s own self-portrait; the brushstrokes are rough and untamed, the paint jutting in unruly directions. To me this is a testament to the personal empathy Romney had for Emma — she was a muse who mirrored his own genius. “Emma as Absence” is a powerfully melancholy piece that Romney completed after Emma departed for Naples in 1786, after which he slipped into depression. We see the Emma who leaves England from Romney’s paintings — the masses of white clothes accentuating her innocence, yet in her vibrant expressions, a lady who was clearly self-possessed, determined, and a little lost.
George Romney, ‘Emma as Circe’
Greville sent Emma to Naples as a mistress to his widowed uncle, the British envoy Sir William Hamilton. This was a time when a woman of Emma’s socio-economic status depended on the rich aristocrats who protected them. Despite the inertia of such a situation, Sir Hamilton was respectful to Emma and fuelled her desire to learn by giving her a genteel education. Emma became an exemplar of sophistication, fluent in French and Neapolitan Italian, and a masterful singer. William Hamilton’s admiration for Emma’s latent potential can be seen in a commissioned triple portrait depicting Emma excelling as a musician, scholar, and an actress. Emma also proved to be inventive by developing a hybrid of dance and acting called her ‘Attitudes’, attracting the likes of Goethe and sparking a fashion revolution for Grecian dress in its trail.Within fourteen years in Naples, Emma invited European fame through her ‘Attitudes’ and political alliance with Queen Maria Carolina. This period marked Emma’s ascent to glory. In a letter from Sir Hamilton to Greville (1790) in the exhibition, he writes, “she really deserves everything and has gained the love of everybody…she is preached up by the Queen & the nobility a rare example of virtue.” Here, Emma’s determination and wonder for the Arts (previously denied to her because of her social position) are truly celebrated.
Naples became entangled in the French revolutionary wars of 1793, where a young Horatio Nelson requested King Ferdinand’s aid in Britain’s war against France. It was here that Nelson first met Emma, and the alliance they formed would prove politically and romantically advantageous. The final galleries, the most emotive of the exhibition, are dedicated to Emma’s relationship with Lord Nelson. Emma was an instrumental political agent during the turbulent war, helping the Royal family escape to safety in Sicily and donating grain to the starving population of Malta during the famine. Lord Nelson himself saw Emma as a hero, requesting her to be awarded the Maltese Cross for her efforts in helping the island, making her the first English woman to bear the proud achievement.
The codicil to Nelson’s will requested a pension for Emma Hamilton. But after Nelson’s death in battle, not only was Emma denied admittance to Nelson’s state funeral for being a mistress, but while Nelson’s estranged wife received £200 a year, Emma received nothing. The final item in the exhibition is, like much of Emma’s life, laced with sorrow and love; Lord Nelson’s uniform, which he left her. The end of Emma’s life was very much like her beginning; a victim to socio-economic hierarchy, a commodity for the upper-class, yet someone who was bursting with potential and destined to be a star. For all the splendour Sir William Hamilton believed she deserved, Emma’s fans who claimed to love her were never beside her deathbed. After being imprisoned for debt in 1813, Emma spent her last moments in Calais with her daughter Horatia, dying on the 15th of January 1815.
Yet there is a shining, redemptive light to Emma’s story. As one Hungarian newspaper in 1800 put it, ‘one of her many rare qualities is her clear, strong voice…she filled the audience with such enthusiasm that they almost became ecstatic’. Despite her struggles with the social Leviathan, she eventually found her voice, becoming a romantic ideal of the individual rising above bureaucracy. Her voice and utter conviction empowered other voices to be born. This exceptional exhibition enables Emma’s legacy to continue leaving a blazing trail even after she has gone.
Pratibha Rai
‘Emma Hamilton: Seduction and Celebrity’ runs at the National Maritime Museum, London, until 17 April. To read more about the exhibition and to buy tickets, please visit the museum website.
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SL Green’s 125 Park gets new high-profile tenant
Personalized music service Pandora inks 10-year lease
By Hiten Samtani
Internet radio provider Pandora Media has inked a 52,450-square-foot lease at SL Green Realty’s 125 Park Avenue, according to data from CoStar.
Pandora, which recommends songs and artists to users based on their listening history, is set to move into the 19th and 20th floors of the 26-story tower, between East 41st and 42nd streets, at the beginning of next year. The deal was for 10 years at a rate of $65 per square foot, a source involved in the transaction confirmed to The Real Deal.
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Match Analysis: South Africa v New Zealand
New Zealand secured one of the greatest victories of modern times by overturning a seventeen point deficit and emerging as victors in a game they never truly deserved to win.
By Edward Kerr
The greatest rivalry in rugby played out a match at Loftus Versfeld that will reverberate through the ages.
South Africa were imperious throughout this fixture, and had the opposition been anyone else, they would have come away as victors. All Blacks or not, turning around a seventeen point deficit having been so utterly dominated throughout the game is some achievement.
The performance from the men in green was incessant. They mercilessly pushed New Zealand in attack with their high tempo, and Faf de Klerk’s kicking was consummate throughout, pinning the men in black back in their own 22 regularly. In defence, they tackled hard and true, and they worked tirelessly to disrupt the ball at the breakdown.
After 13 minutes, they were six points to nil up, with eighty-eight percent of the possession. Their intensity forced New Zealand into uncharacteristic errors and stifled their attempts to get any sort of foothold whatsoever in the game. They were winning all of the key battles; in the air; at the breakdown; in the contact area. They had the momentum.
By half time, they had amassed seventy-one percent of possession, and seventy-eight percent territory. Perhaps the most telling statistic was their nineteen tackles to New Zealand’s sixty-eight.
Despite this, they went in to the dressing rooms tied six points all.
New Zealand certainly wouldn’t have been disappointed by the scoreline, especially given their propensity for scores shortly after half time, but they had never truly been in this game. Despite close scores by this stage in their previous fixtures of the competition, there was always a feeling of when as opposed to if. In this fixture, they had been totally outplayed; it was certainly if as opposed to when.
As the second half got underway, there was feeling of inexorability heavily weighted in South Africa’s favour.
They didn’t disappoint their fans. Three minutes into the half, an incisive run from Willie le Roux spilt open the defence, and the quick ball de Klerk was able to distribute forced New Zealand onto the back foot. As the ball moved wide, Jesse Kriel stepped back inside and having shrugged off two tackles touched down. Handré Pollard’s conversion gave South Africa a thirteen points to six lead.
Two minutes later, and Kriel was the hero again, turning the ball over in the ruck when Rieko Ioane was isolated on the half way line. Up stepped Handré Pollard, and from 50 metres, South Africa extended their lead.
The men in green continued their ferocity, and the high tempo and intensity of their attack was ripping the All Blacks apart. After Faf de Klerk had passed the ball to a camera man, New Zealand were unable to put their clearance into touch. After a handful of phases, the ball found its way to the hands of Siya Kolisi who wrestled away from his tackler before popping the ball to Damien de Allende on his shoulder who cantered through to the try line. Twenty-three points to six, and the match was beginning to feel over as a contest.
And yet, it wasn’t. One can never shake the feeling that New Zealand are out of the game.
There was some hope for them once they had kicked off. Faf de Klerk returned a high ball which was taken into contact. From the resulting ruck, Codie Taylor picked and ran down the blind side before passing (hard to argue it wasn’t forward) the ball to Aaron Smith who glided over the line for the score. The conversion brought the score to twenty-three points to thirteen, and with it, a remarkably muted crowd.
There was a brume of nervousness, the shiver that the cold of winter permeates through your body, the belief that New Zealand could still do this.
Even on the hour mark when Cheslin Kolbe somehow scrambled over in the corner to give South Africa their seventeen point lead, the shiver remained.
Indeed again, it only took a few minutes for New Zealand to claw their way back into the game. South Africa knocked the ball on from the kick off, and New Zealand won a penalty from the resulting scrum. Having gone for the corner, they won the line out and slickly spread the ball through the hands of their backs for Rieko Ioane to canter to the corner.
The momentous pace of the game continued unabated. Eben Etzebeth continued to thwart the New Zealand line out, but much like their win in Wellington, it was their defence that was put to the test through the last ten minutes of the game.
Sustained pressure from New Zealand was soaked up by some superhuman defence, but the feeling of inexorability that favoured South Africa as the half had started was now in the hands of the All Blacks. Scott Barrett dove through the mountainous terrain to make it a five point game with six minutes to go.
The tension through the crowd was palpable. That shiver of winter had become a frost.
South Africa kick off, but immediately concede a turnover penalty. Richie Mo’unga puts the ball deep into South African territory, but it looks rushed and wayward, bouncing before deciding its final destination.
It crosses the touch line five metres out. The frost had permeated so deep that all emotion was subdued.
Taylor lifted the ball into play and New Zealand pushed relentlessly for the line. Like the ocean crashing against cliffs, there was no way through, the strength of the nation seemed to be imbued in the men in green.
It wasn’t enough though; Ardie Savea found a pass through the mountains, and crashed over for the try. The game tied at thirty points apiece was left with time only for Richie Mo’unga to kick at goal.
As the ball intersected the posts, the crowd succumbed to the frost, their spirit extinguished.
Quite how New Zealand managed to emerge from this fixture as victors despite having been against the odds for so long is testament to the magic of the All Blacks. That belief, and the ability to defy the odds is why they are perennial contenders, and where the first test between these sides sent out a message of hope to the world, this fixture has seen the All Blacks emphatically quash that feeling.
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A lot has changed for Big Deal since the release of their critically acclaimed debut album Lights Out back in September 2011. Comprised of California-born Kacey Underwood and London’s Alice Costelloe, Big Deal’s bedroom-composed songs struck a pure and resonant chord with music fans and critics all over the world. Built on the duo’s gilded melodies and just two guitars, it was this sparse set up which allowed their intensely honest and at times, shockingly intimate lyrics to take centre stage. Anyone who’s felt the sting of love unrequited, or the poignant pull of experiences savoured and lost; anyone who’s ever been consumed with feelings for another, can’t help but be moved by their music.
Post-SXSW, Big Deal travelled to southern California where their second album, June Gloom, began to take shape. Appropriately for the transatlantic twosome, the lion’s share of the writing was split between California and London, the environment bleeding into their compositions. The carefree, sunshine pop of ‘in your car’ for instance, evokes endless summer days and sure enough, it all began with Costelloe humming the melody while they cruised down the California coastline.
June Gloom not only marks a sonic step forward, but lyrically, the duo broaden the themes of their previous work. Where Lights Out mapped out an internal world, here Big Deal continue to anchor their songs with emotion while looking outwards too. There’s a sense of expectation versus reality in the happy-sad swing of ‘Catch Up’, while the blissed out ‘dream machines’ — one of the album’s standout tracks—was inspired by a recurring dream.
The band’s boldest stroke is also the album’s finale. ‘close your eyes’ weds the pared back yet up front aesthetic of Lights Out to the distorted fuzz and commanding drums their new configuration allows. At its core June Gloom is a rock record that represents all aspects of the duo - their ability to communicate volumes in the almost stillness of their most spare compositions, plus tunes which soar thanks to Big Deal’s honeyed melodies set to slacker anthems.
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Report: CBS Made Offer to Acquire Lionsgate Owned Starz for $5B+
May 17, 2019 11:15 am PDT – Jason Gurwin
According to a report from The Information, CBS made an informal offer to buy Starz, the premium channel and subscription service for $5B. Starz has reportedly declined the offer, in the the hopes to increase the valuation for the channel. The company had been previously acquired by Lionsgate in 2016 for $4.4 billion in cash and stock.
While less popular than HBO and Showtime, the channel has been quietly building an audience with successful originals like Outlander, Power, Vida, American Gods, and Howards End, as well as films through output deals with studios like Sony Pictures. Starz offers 14 different channels, including Starz Encore, live and on-demand. Their OTT service is $8.99 a month, cheaper than HBO ($14.99) and Showtime ($10.99). The
As of last official reports in 2017, Starz had 2 million paid subscribers, but due to its success internationally in UK and Germany, and growth through Amazon Channels and streaming services like PlayStation Vue, Hulu Live TV, and YouTube TV — the company has hinted that it could rival the 8 million subs of HBO NOW.
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The Warm South
A novel by Paul Kerschen
“Crystalline… reminiscent of Shakespeare” (Los Angeles Times)
“Brilliantly wry… a subtle rewriting of history” (Tor)
“Mellifluous, alert and hungry throughout” (Music & Literature)
What if John Keats had not died in Rome at twenty-five, just as he was coming to realize his gifts? In this audaciously imagined alternate life story, the young poet is pulled back from the brink of death only to find his troubles far from over. He is short on money, far from home, his literary reputation anything but assured—but his life and imagination have been spared, and a new country awaits.
In an Italy at uneasy peace, full of foreign armies and spies, Keats soon finds his loyalties divided. He is drawn into Percy and Mary Shelley’s expatriate circle, resumes his old profession of surgery and falls in with student revolutionaries who are plotting a more radical cure for their nation. His fiancée in London expects his return, and everyone is expecting his next poem, but he has not returned from his deathbed quite the same person—or poet—that he was.
Written with erudition and compassion, Paul Kerschen’s debut novel is a spellbinding historical yarn and a heady engagement with the literature of the past, a thing of beauty in itself and a meditation on the writer’s duty in troubled times.
Paul Kerschen was born in 1978 and has been a fellowship recipient at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a doctoral student at UC Berkeley, a title examiner, a software developer, an essayist and reviewer for Music & Literature and the Times Literary Supplement, and a blogger at www.metameat.net. He lives in California. The Drowned Library, a collection of short fiction, was published by Foxhead Books in 2011.
“Kerschen’s gem-like, crystalline prose is the book’s best feature…. The plot that gets underway in The Warm South is full of both stuff and matter. It’s reminiscent of Shakespeare, replete with political intrigue, missed connections, gender-swapping disguises and a nested play, as well as deep themes and foundational questions about the imperfect, porous skins that are never quite able to encase and separate art from politics, life, love and duty.”
“Brilliantly wry… [a] subtle rewriting of history. But for every literary Easter egg situated here, there are also moments of raw emotion.”
“A novelist could hardly request a more fully stocked scene… Mellifluous, alert, and hungry throughout.”
“An ambitious, thrilling work of the imagination… The Warm South is so much: a love story, a historical thriller, a great literary what-if, and a profound meditation on the act of creation itself.”
DANIEL MASON, New York Times bestselling author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner
“A lyrical and profound exploration of mortality, second chances, art, and ambition. Kerschen writes an alternate history for the beloved poet Keats, allowing him to rise from an early deathbed and experience the gory operating theaters of Pisa, the decadence of Italian Carnival, and a seductive and sometimes dangerous entanglement with Mary and Percy Shelley. Written with elegance and heart, The Warm South pulses with life.”
FRANCES DE PONTES PEEBLES, author of The Air You Breathe and The Seamstress
“Paul Kerschen’s miraculous first novel grants the poet John Keats an extended life in Italy as the surgeon he trained to be, and as the husband and father he never became. Superbly imagined, impeccably written, uncanny in its intimacy with Keats’s mind and feelings, this book also conjures the Italy in which Keats lived and died—and here lives on. Kerschen brings this mate- rial astonishingly alive and close. This is the best novel I’ve read all year.”
CARTER SCHOLZ, author of Gypsy and Radiance
“The Warm South offers an alternate biography, a second chance—a daring and deeply imagined portrait of genius made more human, more accessible, and more moving and vital than any history or scholarship can allow.”
VU TRAN, author of Dragonfish
“A bold strike. Kerschen applies SF’s classic ‘what if’ to literature itself. And like stern Mary Shelley’s monster, the dead poet stirs, and rises, and walks. But the path between the old world and his new friends is steep… Come.”
TERRY BISSON, author of Any Day Now and Bears Discover Fire
Prologue in Hell
He died; but they turned the lock on his bones and shut the ghost inside. Everything had to go on as before. He discovered the persistence of walls, the dominion of furniture. Look long enough into the ceiling and the ceiling ends up inside you.
I have not begun the last work, that of losing things.
They fed him on milk and toast. They bled him from the neck, and they took away the cork-stoppered bottle of laudanum that he had been saving in his travel chest, under the Paradise Lost. Think of your soul! they said. He wept. That bottle, which he had never uncorked, had been his last comfort. The pain cannot get worse. The pain did get worse, every time, and the consolations of his soul went up in bonfires, except for the knowledge that he might kill it. He would swallow from the bottle only once and endure five seconds more. The five seconds stretched forward their fibers, became an hour, and his senses were cut away.
I will tell you what is the life you have saved… the cough and hemorrhage you know. The night sweats are to come. The palpitations. The wasting diarrhea, that empties the structure. You are tending a corpse….
He couldn’t draw breath. His throat scorched. An ocean hung at his lips and he could not drink for weakness. He started awake at night with his sheets drenched and his heart skipping in him like something tumbling over ice. Instead of the old scarlet spittle he now brought up a black vomit into the chamberpot, threaded with clots. Yet he always had enough blood to fill the leeches in the morning. How, then, could anyone believe in his death?
The pain prowled him from side to side and scratched for its exit. He knew it as he had known faces. His skin had begun to sag at the joints, with a waxy cast as if ready to peel away.
He could not play this game forever, always extending the same five seconds.
Say farewell.
His ambitions were forgotten. Friendship and love were fond, faraway dreams. Lay them into bed, let them drowse. His secrets were harder to let go, being his alone. That evening field of wheat, dipping its stalks in the wind—will it not survive me? No. Nor the very near things. The wall, the slant of yellow sun. Unwind them from your heart. This sheet and blanket are the span of your being. You lie still as a saint. Do not cling to breath, neither shrink from pain. The world spins outside your door, and from now on will have to answer its own questions. For you there is drowsing and letting go.
He dreamed his death. A physician’s scalpel slit him from sternum to navel. A violet track, the mark of poison, touched his innards.
Was I betrayed?
Someone laughed. You may go to law.
Kindling was heaped under his pallet and set alight. Everything he had touched in life must be burned.
Deep in the earth, where the dead had their courtroom, up and down were turned about. Benches hung in rows above his head and he clambered down an arched ceiling into the well of a dome. A crowd was gathered around a magistrate, and he shoved between their shoulders, calling, who is not dead, let him live! In fact he was saying, I alone am living, let me die, since in the courtroom of the dead every word had its meaning turned about. The pages in his hand were out of order. He could not read a single line from beginning to end, and everything was mixed in with his poems and plays, not his finished work but the abandoned things he had never brought to print. He tried to hide them against his breast, but a bailiff in riding clothes leaned from behind and said, ah, Cockney poetry, the rare wild weed.
On the far side of the crowd there showed a woman’s white hand, a color cool as water. To touch it would end him. He tried to reach around the bailiff, but the man’s shoulders kept moving to block his way.
Thou, spoke the magistrate. Unsay thy farewells.
Sir?
Thou shalt take up each thread at the place it was dropped. Ravel them back into the whole.
The key turned in the lock. The bone cage cracked open. He was flung upward, tumbling fast as if rising from the bottom of the ocean. The blue arm of night flowed up his limbs, kissed his temples, and a trickle of snow touched his throat. He lifted his chest to suck and a torrent of ice poured into him. He was penetrated to the fingertips and could not be filled. What was this power?
He was drowned; he was alive. With all his heart he had expected to be finished.
Piazza di Spagna 26
A Roman morning is a glass bead on the horizon, pearl-gray to start, then stained by lower lights. Blue rises from the roofs, flat white follows and in a flash of gold the sun mounts the sky and divides the world into light and shade. Knife-sharp shadows cut the piazzas, a lesson in perspective: things stand as they stand. There shall be no doubting of place, nor time, nor substance. All dreams are locked in their cabinets for the day. The light’s edge touched bricks and deep-carved porticos, the bright Bourbon flag over the Spanish embassy, church steps and apartments across the way and the upper-story window that dropped a bar of sun onto the lids of John Keats. He winced and moved his head. The shutters traced a golden diamond on the hearth.
A tread on the steps, a soft rap at the outer door would be the doctor. Severn would receive him in the outer chamber, which was Severn’s to sleep in but outfitted during the day as a sitting room, with a couple of French chairs and a hired pianoforte. Severn set up his easels to block the bed and shuttled around between wooden panels with bright oil sketches, watercolors of Roman scenes and the half-length canvas where he’d chalked out the start of his Royal Academy painting. The doctor, a sober Scotsman who knew his landscapes and classical themes, always stopped to admire the works in progress before continuing into the sickroom. Severn laughed nervously at his compliments.
“Doctor Clark, you very much flatter me. I am always afraid my daubing shall disturb you….”
“But, Mr. Severn, I should say you prefer to daub before a public. Did you not sketch these upon the Pincio?”
Severn gave another high laugh. “One works from life. I can’t very well get the Pincio to come to me.” But he really did take pleasure in being watched. Every so often he would set down his brush and strike poses, running his hand through his curls. He had twenty-seven years to Keats’s twenty-five but had always seemed the younger man.
“Good morning, Mr. Keats.”
The doctor was large, the doorway small, and his shoulders and elbows had a way of filling it. His frock coat blocked the light. As he stepped in, one saw his thin ginger hair and the hooked nose that gave him the look of an eagle, though a kindly eagle, perhaps from a storybook. He opened the shutters and threw southern sun over Keats in bed.
“How did we pass the night?”
Keats muttered in answer. So early in the morning, he felt the breath uneasy in him.
“I think no leech today. If you would oblige me by lifting the nightshirt.”
His large hands undid the clasp of the medical bag, took out the wooden auscultation tube and held it to the patient’s breast. Keats inspired and expired, and the doctor nestled his balding head below, just as Keats had nestled his head against Severn those nights that Severn had carried him choking from room to room.
“Good.” The doctor raised his head. “Clearer by the day. Sit upright, please, and turn your back.”
Keats pushed himself up, arms slightly quaking, and hung his head out the window three stories over the piazza. The steps of Trinità dei Monti had sprouted their carpet of hats and parasols over the young women for hire as artist’s models. At the bottom of the steps carriages stood in line and fountain water shipped over the bow of the elder Bernini’s sinking boat. At times Keats would start in his room, realizing that for hours he had been hearing phantom patterns in the splash, a triple-time dance measure or the iambs from Philaster:
As you are living, all your better deeds
Shall be in water writ—
“What do you feel if I press here?” asked the doctor.
“Pressure,” Keats gasped, “but no inflammation. I should say the liver and pancreas are very well.”
The doctor chuckled, glad to hear the patient making a sally. In Keats’s own ears his voice sounded high, almost childish, since the illness. No one else had remarked on any change. The doctor returned his instruments to their bag, exactly reversing the order in which he’d taken them out, and Severn showed his face at the door.
“The liver is sound,” said Doctor Clark. “The pancreas is sound. I suspect the lungs were well from the start. The greater part may have been an affliction of the mind.”
“The mind,” said Keats.
“A nervous complaint.”
Doctor Clark could talk at length of nervous complaints, their various forms, their connection to bodily ailments—inasmuch as the brain, we now understand, is a fibrous organ like any other. He was kind. More than a doctor he’d been their factotum. He’d secured their rooms across the piazza from his own, gone out to find books in English, arranged for the hire of carriages and the pianoforte, brought sheet music of Haydn for Severn to play. What he said about the nerves was surely correct, and it struck Keats as an attack. He spoke from inside his profession as if it were a coat he had pulled around him, knowing that Keats, who had never taken the surgeon’s examination, must face him naked.
Keats sank back into bed. In his new, weak voice he asked, “Then I may soon return to England?”
The doctor shut his bag. “I recommend against haste. You haven’t the look of a man who has much encountered the Roman sun. Have you been about the city?”
Keats was coming back to walking as a child. His feet had become hilarious foreign implements, to be trusted only while he kept them in sight.
“Mr. Severn? You haven’t taken Mr. Keats onto the Pincio?”
Severn smiled narrowly. “Mr. Keats yesterday said that he found the stairs, er, of a difficulty to rank with German philosophy.”
“My life is in England,” said Keats.
“It shall wait for you there,” said the doctor. “I fear to send you on a sea voyage if the onset of winter should precipitate another attack and require you to be shipped back here in six months. Let the Roman spring do its work. Given the Roman summer, in a month or two I might suggest a removal to the hill country.”
“Consumption killed my younger brother,” Keats said.
The doctor lifted his brows and, getting no further information, turned his look to Severn.
“They prescribed him bloodletting,” he continued, “and a vegetable diet. Tom would not quarrel with physicians. Only when he was near his end did he whisper that more than anything in the world he wanted a beefsteak. We didn’t give him it. At times my heart is pierced to think we kept it from him.”
The piazza’s sounds receded, becoming remembered sounds. From far above the doctor replied, “It is a truly sad necessity.”
“Nor to dispute your diagnosis,” said Keats, “but you are aware, are you not, that my hemorrhages in England were of arterial blood, not from the stomach. They came up in a froth—”
“Bless me!” cried Severn, shuddering, “must you say ‘froth?’”
“It is a fact.”
“I understand,” said the doctor. “You are not quarreling with me, Mr. Keats, but with the gods.”
Keats crossed his arms and made a wry face.
“I cannot encourage you to travel. The risk that we would gladly run ourselves, we shrink from imposing on another. If it does not sound too parsonical from a man in middle life, I would counsel patience, to think of the years you have left, and to recall that as recently as Christmas, it was doubtful you should get to live any of them.”
Under his folded arms Keats felt his own slightness. “Believe me to be grateful for all you have done, Doctor Clark.”
“Believe me to be sorry I can do no more.” The doctor bowed. “Until tomorrow. I always look forward to the effects of another day upon Alcibiades”—he gestured to Severn’s canvas—“and I have your volume, Mr. Keats, on order from Taylor and Hessey.”
“My volume?” The frontispiece came faintly to mind. “They will have a happy surprise that anyone wants it.”
The doctor made a strange face and reached as if to touch Keats’s shoulder, but withdrew. “Mr. Severn,” he said, “if I might trouble you apart for a moment.”
They stepped out. Keats heard the door unlatch and swing open, and murmurs from the entryway, in the embarrassed tones of people with nowhere private to talk. They lived very close here. A muslin drape screened the landlady and her daughter from sight, but their footsteps were as clear as one’s own. One heard their food on the gridiron, their water jars and chamberpots being emptied. They were always boiling egg noodles and filling the place with steam. The mother never stopped exclaiming in her Roman dialect; the daughter was silent. During his fever Keats had forgotten she was there. Now that he sat in the front room, he would see her step past the drape in bright, coarse calico, hair pulled up from her long neck and a basket in her hand. Her shy glance as she walked to the door struck him dumb. He felt himself viewed: slight, ill, poor, from a foreign land. A quarter hour later she came back with bread or a wrap from the butcher and was hurried by her mother behind the drape.
Footsteps went down the stairs and Severn stepped in with a dejected look.
“What was that?” asked Keats.
“Nothing,” said Severn. “The bill. As courteous as a duke, of course.”
“The purse is a fibrous organ like any other.”
Severn blinked and forced a smile, but his eyes darted about the room. He muttered, not quite to himself, “The lodging—full-crown dinners—seven for the pianoforte.”
“Are we very poor now, Severn?”
“Poor!” Severn raised both hands and brushed back his curls. “On my honor, Keats, I spared you every trouble so long as I could. I cooked for economy’s sake; I washed up; I made you coffee,” he cried, waving at the hearth, “and you threw it away, and I made it again, and you threw it out the window again, and I made it a third time—and then you would have me read to you. And I was supposed to begin a painting! With my son yet in London, nearly two years old and not baptized—”
“It was good of you.”
Severn colored and looked down. “It is a fortnight since I drew the last on your publishers’ letter of credit. Doctor Clark was not inquiring after professional fees. He has been providing for us out of his own pocket.”
A pot clanged in the outer room and the landlady shouted. Past these walls were other walls in morning light, and others again, then farther roads, country hills and mountains, all the lands of Europe that Keats knew only from guidebooks and poetry, each stood up as a barrier between him and the life he had loved.
“I had made peace with this country being my grave,” he said. “It can’t be my home.”
“You are advised to stay,” said Severn.
“I am desired to stay. And how? With the good doctor dispensing scudi from the one hand and asking them back with the other—only around the corner, so as to spare my condition? It is not tolerable.”
“He has been kind,” Severn said haltingly. “There was that certain fish.”
“Fish?”
“Last month. He went all over Rome to find it, and had in his wife to cook, though you couldn’t eat—”
“Then mightn’t I as well have choked?”
Severn winced. The blood began to ebb from Keats’s face and very slowly, as if guided by an older hand, he sat up in his blankets. The stream of the world had found its way back to him. The moment he set foot out of bed, it would take him up again.
“Forgive me, Joe,” he said. “It is the melancholy. It came first of my illnesses, and it will be the last to take leave.”
“So says Doctor Clark. The nervous fibers.”
“I do not speak of fibers,” said Keats. “It is the trouble I have put you to. I’ve so depended on you, and on everyone, I don’t know how I am to make good.”
“It is nothing,” said Severn.
“I shall settle my debts to the penny.”
He had said it to give confidence. But Severn turned aside with a twist to his mouth, and Keats realized he was embarrassed to have such a promise made him by a sickly man in a nightshirt, sitting up in the cot that ought to have been his deathbed.
Copyright © 2019 Roundabout Press. Excerpt copyright © 2019 Paul Kerschen.
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SAP NS2 buys intelligence IT firm TMA
SAP National Security Services -- a subsidiary of the German software giant -- said Tuesday it has acquired intelligence community IT contractor Technology Management Associates to add new work in “C4ISR” and engineering services.
Terms of the transaction were undisclosed and the deal was completed on April 30, while TMA will operate as a subsidiary of SAP NS2.
Chantilly, Virginia-based TMA focuses on command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies that support national security programs.
The deal seeks to combine SAP NS2’s data fusion and analysis services with TMA’s C4ISR and engineering work for intelligence agencies.
Investment bank KippsDeSanto and law firm Holland and Knight advised TMA on the transaction and Cooley LLP represented SAP NS2.
Herndon, Virginia-based SAP NS2’s last acquisition was two years ago for Volume Integration to grow software engineering and analytics work, including services for cloud environments used by national security agencies.
SAP NS2 launched in 2012 out of a realignment that combined the SAP Government Support and Services businesses with the Sybase federal division.
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List of all-electric MPV, LDV, EV panel vans and EV taxi’s
Last mile delivery is fast becoming a key development area for electric vehicles. This obvious market for electric vehicles has been neglected by automakers. Last mile delivery and taxi services are expected to be a key area for regulators to focus on in their attempt to reach emission targets and combat inner-city pollution. The average distance traveled by MPVs used as multi people transporters and delivery vans easily fall in the rangeability of the latest battery technology.
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Week 8 2018 - Mercedes eActros enters pilot phase
Mercedes announced that it would pilot ten of its eActros electric trucks with customers. At first, the focus will be on inner-city goods and delivery traffic, as the Mercedes-Benz eActros is well capable of covering the ranges required in this sector. The pilot customers will test the vehicles in real operations for twelve months, and the trucks will then go a second round of customers for a further twelve months. The innovation fleet will, therefore, be in operation until at least mid-2020. The aim is to achieve series production maturity for economically competitive electric trucks for heavy inner-city distribution operations from 2021.
The Mercedes eActros Truck has a range of 200km provided through a 240kWh lithium battery and is charged through a system with more than 400V and a 1000A current.
Week 6 2018 - Mercedes announces electric Sprinter
Mercedes Benz launched the 3rd generation of its popular Sprinter LDV this week. The Sprinter sold over 3.4 million vehicles in 130 countries and will now be available from 2019 with an electric drivetrain as the Mercedes eSprinter LDV. The new eSprinter which can be configured for over 1,700 custom purposes and is standard equipped with Mercedes PRO connect solution providing fleet managers with a tool to connect with all drivers and vehicles in his/her fleet.
Week 5 2018 - Renault trucks to go electric in 2019
Renault Trucks, a Volvo owned company, announced that it will bring a range of electric trucks to market in 2019. Renault Trucks sees the technology as indispensable for city center access. Renault Trucks have been field testing EV technology with various partners such as Nestle and Delancy Group with experimental full-electric 12 to 16-tonne trucks. Renault Trucks also has a 4.5-tonne Maxity Electric truck since 2010. A dedicated assembly line for all-electric trucks is being installed at Renault Trucks’ Blainville-sur-Orne plant in Normandy, France.
Week 4 2018 - Volvo trucks to offer medium duty electric truck
Volvo Trucks announced that it aims to sell medium-duty electric trucks from next year with Europe as its initial target market. According to the Volvo Truck President, Claes Nilsson, “Electromobility is fully in line with Volvo Truck’s long-term commitment for sustainable urban development and zero emissions”. Mr. Nillson went further saying “We believe in full electrification for urban distribution as a first step. However, we are working with electrification for other transport applications. This is only the beginning.” Volvo is gearing for the transition towards electrification of its commercial vehicles working closely with customers, cities, suppliers of charging infrastructure and other key stakeholders to create the necessary framework for electrical trucks according to Jonas Odermalm the Swedish automakers Head of product strategy medium-duty vehicles. Volvo is competing with other commercial vehicle manufacturers such as Daimler and Isuzu to produce electric light delivery vehicles which provide reduced noise and cleaner vehicles for cities which can operate at night when it does not have to compete for road space traditionally limited to daylight operations.
In related news, Volvo’s parent company, Geely, and US-based VIA Motors entered into a JV partnership to develop range extended medium-duty electric trucks for the Chinese, North-American and Latin American markets.
VIA Motors develops and markets extended-range electric (eREV) and all-electric (EV) power-train systems, incorporating industry-leading VIA developed vehicle software and control systems technology, which provides clean energy solutions for most vehicle classes from light duty through Class 8. VIA’s vehicle integration capability, at both production facilities in Utah and Mexico, provides a range of commercial vehicles to meet zero emissions requirements. VIA vehicles are marketed under the VTRUXtm brand and VIA power-train systems V-Drivetm brand.
The JV targets 2019 as the launch date for its first truck in China and the America’s. The JV makes provision for the co-development of medium-duty trucks by VIA Motors and Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicles (“GCV”) which include a technology transfer of VIA software and control systems.
Week 42 2017 - VW unveils e-Delivery Truck
Volkswagen unveiled the e-Delivery electric distribution truck during the Innovation Day event in Hamburg this week. The-Delivery truck, which is to be assembled at Volkswagen Caminhões e Onibus in Brazil in 2020 is one of the results of the German company’s new focus on alternative drive platforms coupled with autonomy and connectivity. The Truck and Bus unit is also making significant progress in last mile EV solutions. Dr. Scholz, CEO of VW Commercial Vehicles said “The eCrafter is a high-performing van with a range of up to about 200 km. The vehicle will be shipped to selected customers by the end of 2017. The VW I.D. Buzz Cargo, a compact van that runs on electricity, is also being developed, its design and suitability for day-to-day life reminiscent of those of the classic VW Bulli.” The model is set to be launched in 2022.
Navistar, VW’s partner in the USA is also to use the new electric platform for distribution trucks from 2019. In Europe, MAN is said to start rolling out a test fleet of nine electric distribution trucks to customers in Austria as soon as the end of 2017, targeting retailers, brewers, and haulers. MAN will follow the test phase with a limited release of trucks from the end of 2018.
Week 40 2017 - SAIC Maxus EV80 launched in Europe
Light Delivery Vehicles is hotting up as the next growth market in the EV sector. Recently we have seen some new and improved models announced in this vehicle class. The drive to make the last mile 100% electric is a low hanging fruit and an obvious target for regulators enforcing emission control in cities. Already Chinese manufacturers have electrified a host of existing combustion LDVs. This week wattEV2buy published a list of over 1,400 special vehicles in China which consists mostly of cargo vans, panel vans, and multi-purpose vehicles.
This week big manufacturers SAIC and Nissan announced the launch of two new electric LDVs. Nissan unveiled the new e-NV200 with a range of 280km (175mi). SAIC unveiled the Maxus EV80, available as a panel van and a chassis cab. The Maxus EV80 has a cargo area length of 3300 mm, width of 1770 mm and height of 1710 mm, resulting in a total volume of 10.2 m3 accessible through wide-opening rear and side doors and capable of a maximum payload of 950 kg (2,100 lbs) and a maximum towing mass of 750 kg (1,650 lbs). The EV80 has a range of 200 km (124 miles) and charges in two hours. The Maxus EV80 LDV comes with a three-year bumper-to-bumper warranty and a battery warranty of five years or 100,000 km.
Flowing from Ford‘s strategy shift announced above it transpired that the US automaker would focus on developing EV vans for the Chinese market in an attempt to play catch-up.
2017 Week 34 - University of Warwick develops delivery EV prototype
World-leading research and education group, WMG, the University of Warwick, and design company Astheimer unveiled a lightweight prototype delivery vehicle, the DELIVER-E this week. According to a press release by Warwick University advanced battery experts, at WMG fitted the vehicle with a powerful 48V 6.5kWh battery system, increasing its peak power from 12 kilowatts to 36 kilowatt – helping it to cope with an increased weight of goods, and to conserve energy despite the start-stop nature of deliveries. DELIVER-E will be showcased as a demonstrator, at a number of events through the year. WMG and collaborative partners will also use it when undertaking research around electric vehicles.
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FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2019, file photo, Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price speaks during the Iowa Democratic Party's Liberty and Justice Celebration in Des Moines, Iowa. Two of the first three states to vote in the Democratic presidential race will use new mobile apps to gather results from thousands of caucus sites. The technology is intended to make counting easier, but that raises concerns of hacking or glitches. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
Amid hacking fears, key caucus states to use app for results
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Two of the first three states to vote in the Democratic presidential race will use new mobile apps to gather results from thousands of caucus sites — technology intended to make counting easier but that raises concerns of hacking or glitches. Democratic Party activists in...
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Gaming ⋮ Hardware
Razer Raiju Tournament Edition PS4/PC Controller Review – Premium Quality for Competitive Gaming
By Aernout van de Velde
Razer Raiju Tournament Edition
Type Controller
Razer released its Raiju Tournament Edition controller for the PlayStation 4 alongside the Raiju Ultimate Edition by the end of last year, and ahead of this year’s holiday season (and with Black Friday around the corner) we thought it would be interesting to see whether the Raiju Tournament Edition is worth its still rather hefty asking price.
Wireless controllers with a good build quality usually don’t come cheap, and this is especially the case with the Raiju Tournament Edition. Priced at roughly $139USD (€150 in Europe), Razer’s premium PS4 controller is primarily geared towards the competitive gamer playing shooters and fighting games. Being roughly twice as expensive as Sony’s original DualShock 4 controller, this controller probably isn’t for everyone to buy. Nonetheless, dedicated eSports players will be happy to learn that this premium controller may give them the edge they have been looking for.
Razer Raiju PS4 Controllers Announced, Priced at $200 and $150, Alongside Thresher Headset
In the controller’s box we’ll find the following items:
Raiju Tournament Edition
Detachable 2 m / 6.5 ft. lightweight braided fiber cable with Micro-USB connector for charging and wired play
The Raiju Tournament Edition can either be used wirelessly or wired on both the PlayStation 4 and PC. Compared to Sony’s DualShock 4 controller, the Raiju Tournament Edition comes with 4 additional, fully programmable buttons. Two of these buttons are placed on top of the controller next to the L1/L2 and R1/R2 triggers, while the other 2 buttons are placed on the back. These four extra buttons are by default programmed as X/O/triangle/rectangle buttons and allow users to stay away from using the face buttons to increase response time – an essential feature for competitive players.
Button programming can be done through Razer’s Raiju companion app which uses Bluetooth to sync to the controller. In addition to that, the app also includes an option to adjust the controller’s rumbling function.
Razer has also included 2 switches at the back of the controller to lock the L2 and R2 buttons. This so-called ‘Hair Trigger Mode’ reduces the amount of travel of the two buttons for faster response times. Gamers using a wired headset will be pleased to know that the controller has a 3.5 mm audio port for stereo audio output and microphone input.
When I was given the chance to review this Razer Raiju Tournament Edition controller, I opted for the Classic Black or Mercury White edition, but since those weren’t available for testing, I settled with the Quartz Pink one. I told myself not to write too much about this particular color, but I’ve yet to figure out why anyone would pick the pink version over the black or white one - it just doesn’t match any available PlayStation 4 or PC setup and it makes this premium product look too much like a kids toy. However, as a Dutch saying goes: “Beautiful pink isn’t ugly". Even if you disagree, it’s the inside that counts after all and Razer has hit the sweet spot with this one.
At first glance, the Raiju Tournament Edition seems to be designed by the team responsible for the excellent Xbox One controller. It’s heavier (322g), more robust and has the same asymmetric joystick placement that Microsoft’s controller has. Personally I prefer the bulkier Xbox One controller over the more elegant DualShock 4 and as soon as you pick up the Raiju with its mechanical buttons that provide a pleasing click with each press, you know you’re dealing with a well-built, premium product.
The battery life of this controller is outstanding. According to Razer, the battery will last approximately 19 hours while playing when fully charged. For this review, I’ve spent many hours playing various titles and the controller lasted for roughly 17-18 hours on a single charge. Compared to the rather disappointing battery life of the DualShock 4, which lasts around 7 hours, the difference is quite substantial and a huge advantage when playing wirelessly.
Having played various titles across several genres, I can safely say that the Raiju Tournament Edition shines in shooters. The additional rear and top buttons basically allow you to skip using the traditional face buttons altogether. In turn, this allows players to respond somewhat quicker to the situation at hand. In competitive games where every millisecond counts, this could give players the edge that is needed. Razer’s Hair Trigger Mode on the Raiju will be welcomed by the competitive players as well as the trigger locks allow for a much faster fire rate compared to using the triggers without the Hair Trigger Mode enabled.
While the controller stands out in shooters and fighting titles, clearly it's not aimed towards those only playing single-player titles. On more than one occasion I’ve found myself jumping down a cliff due to me accidentally pressing one of the controller’s additional buttons. After more than 20 hours of play, I would have imagined having become accustomed to using these, but I can still hear Uncharted's Sully yelling at me because I let go of that rope when I shouldn’t have.
As discussed earlier, the Razer Raiju Tournament Edition is aimed towards competitive gamers playing fighting games and shooters. Alas, this is where the controller shines with its mappable additional buttons, Hair Trigger Mode, comforting weight and mechanical buttons. As a matter of fact, I haven’t touched any other controller since having picked this one up. While gamers playing single-player titles will also be satisfied with the controller’s excellent build quality and battery life, the Raiju's steep price probably may not justify its purchase with the knowledge that other great, but much cheaper, controllers are also available on the market.
Review unit provided by the manufacturer.
The Raiju Tournament Edition is a great option for competitive gamers looking for a new controller that gives them that edge. The more casual gamers playing mostly single-player titles will likely be held back by this premium controller’s high asking price, especially since there are more affordable options on the market more suited for casual gaming.
Design & Aesthetics9
Features9
Great battery life
Programmable buttons via Razer App
Trigger stops
Still rather expensive
Not particularly suited for single-player games
Buy for $129.99 from Amazon
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Fundraising Dinner raises over HK$3.4 million to support student development
Student Exchange Programme with Lingnan (University) College, Sun Yat-sen University
700 alumni reunited on Homecoming Day
Farewell dinner of the Shanghai-Hongkong Future Leaders (Lingnan Elites) Internship Programme
Awards and people
New Appointments and re-appointments to the Council and the Court
Lingnan University appoints new Associate Vice-Presidents and Dean of Faculty of Arts
Lingnan Karate Team wins second runner-up in joint university competition
Lingnan Rugby Team scores championship of Standard Chartered Rugby Tertiary League – Varsity Cup
Research and academic activities
Lingnan achieves excellent results in RGC grant applications
Visual Studies teachers and students participate in curatorial work for the “Made in Hong Kong: Our City, Our Stories” exhibition
Master class gives comprehensive approach to the empirical study of culture
Read the stories of two outstanding international students in "Lingnan Chronicle"
Prof Ip Iam-chong’s new book reviews theories and ideas on the eve of the Umbrella Movement
New book by Prof Law Wing-sang investigates hotly debated identity of Hong Kong Chinese after handover
Prof Annie Chan’s new book showcases changes in women’s role in Hong Kong Police
New book by Prof Ma Kwok-ming explores the meaning and possible development of civil disobedience movements
Prof Chin Wan-kan’s new book on city-state sovereignty released
Lingnan Gardeners Newsletter No. 8
Seminar on “Cheap-Talk Information Disclosure in Auctions” (3 August 2015)
Lingnan University Fundraising Walkathon 2015 (25 October 2015)
2015 Academy of International Business Southeast Asia Regional Conference (3-5 December 2015)
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Lingnan scholars have successfully obtained funding support for 13 General Research Fund (GRF) and five Early Career Scheme (ECS) projects totaling over HK$6.8 million in the 2015/16 funding exercise of the Research Grants Council (RGC). The amount of funds obtained is more than double of last year’s HK$3.1 million. Results of the funding exercise, released by the RGC on 30 June, is a vivid demonstration of Lingnan’s unique research strength.
For GRF applications, Lingnan has 13 projects funded out of 36 applications, ranking second among all the eight UGC-funded institutions with a success rate of 36.1% (sector-wide is 34.9%). Lingnan’s performance in the panel of Humanities & Social Sciences is excellent with a success rate of 47.4% (sector-wide is 32.7%) which is the highest among the institutions.
Lingnan’s performance topped the chart in ECS applications with a success rate of 71.4% (sector-wide is 39.9%), and five out of seven proposals succeeded in obtaining funding. Lingnan also came first under the panel of Humanities and Social Sciences with a success rate of 66.7% (sector-wide is 34.3%). Among the ECS proposals submitted, 43% have been evaluated as having high quality with ranks of 4.5 or 5 (on a scale of 1 to 5), which is much higher than the sector-wide figure of 20%.
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Lincoln Kirstein and Richard Sherman Nutt research material on William Rimmer, 1849-1971
Kirstein, Lincoln Edward, 1906-1996
Author, Art historian
Size: 1.6 linear ft.
Summary: Research material on William Rimmer compiled by Lincoln Kirstein, 1944-1955, and added to from 1958 on by Richard Sherman Nutt. Included are correspondence, notes and writings, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed materials.
Included are Rimmer family documents and genealogy; Kirstein's (1944-1955) and Nutt's (1958-1971) correspondence regarding Rimmer, mainly responses to Kirstein's requests for information from libraries, museums, relatives, and owners of Rimmer's work; subject files containing correspondence, photographs, writings, notes and printed material on people, places and topics relating to Rimmer, among them the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Whitney Museum, Margaret French Cresson, Henry W. Kent, Cooper Union, Marion MacLean, and others;
writings and notes by Kirstein on Rimmer, including a typescript of his catalog essay for the 1946 exhibition at the Whitney and notes on other artists; a typescript of a poem by Rimmer "The Love Chant"; Rimmer's annotated diagram of a wheel in motion, 1860; a book by Rimmer's daughter, ANIMAL DRAWING: A SERIES OF THIRTEEN PLATES WITH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS BY CAROLINE HUNT RIMMER (Houghton, Mifflin, 1895), and ART ANATOMY (Houghton, Mifflin, 1884, c1887?) by William Rimmer, containing eighty one plates from the original drawings; a scrapbook compiled by Kirstein containing reproductions of catalogs, clippings, printed material, and photographs; photographs of Rimmer's family, including 2 on glass and a tintype; cartes de visites of French royalty; and printed material, 1864-1945, including material kept by Rimmer, articles and booklets about him, 2 clippings, 1898 and 1900 on Rimmer's daughter Caroline, a booklet "Rapport sur une Mission dans l'Amerique du Nord by M. Armand Dumaresq" reporting
on American drawing instruction and including a section on Rimmer and his work at the Cooper Institute and inscribed by Rimmer to his daughter Caroline, 1972; and other printed material compiled by Kirstein.
Lincoln Kirstein: writer, art historian; Richard S. Nutt: art historian. Dr. William Rimmer: noted 19th century painter, sculptor, and anatomy instructor.
Donated 1985 by Richard Nutt. The materials were mainly compiled by Lincoln Kirstein, who had hoped to write a book on Rimmer. In 1946 he wrote the catalog essay to the exhibit "William Rimmer, 1816-1979" at the Whitney, and in 1955 turned the materials over to Nutt for a catalog raisonne (never published). Both Kirstein and Nutt believe Mrs. Rimmer discarded her husband's papers.
Lincoln Kirstein and Richard Sherman Nutt research material on William Rimmer, 1849-1971. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Nutt, Richard Sherman, 1914-2003
Rimmer, William
Kent, Henry Watson
Rimmer, Caroline Hunt
Cresson, Margaret French
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Painting, Modern
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International Women's Day: Promotion of women's sport worth applauding, but not at the cost of progress
By Jon Healy
Photo: Superstars like Ellyse Perry (right) are just part of the show, not the whole feature, in women's cricket. (AAP: David Moir)
Related Story: Top women's sport performances in 2016
It is a time of consolidation, realisation and actualisation in women's sport.
Heartwarming moments are all well and good but, on International Women's Day, it is worth looking forward to what those "moments" can bring us.
Michelle Payne's 2015 Melbourne Cup win and speech were great; the Matildas' World Cup run was as exciting as it was brutally tough; and the ratings figures on women's exhibition AFL games gave us all hope for a more equal future.
But, with all those moments behind us, turning them into regular occurrences, rather than aberrations, has become the focus.
Photo: Fans have gotten behind the inaugural AFL Women's season. (AAP: Joe Castro)
That is not to say those moments are anything less than spectacular and entirely necessary — Chloe Esposito's Olympic gold medal in the modern pentathlon was an objectively exciting moment even if it does next to nothing for the sport as a whole — but the bigger picture is what matters.
Australia's Pearls winning the inaugural rugby sevens gold medal in Rio was an awful lot of fun, but it was more important because it backed up a world title, and recognition of the skill and athletic ability of rugby guns like Ellia Green and Charlotte Caslick followed.
Ellyse Perry's exceptional run of ODI half-centuries was a remarkable display of her talent, but the WBBL's success and popularity showed it was a superb league brimming with talent regardless of whether the biggest names were firing.
The ratings for last year's women's exhibition match and the crowd for the opening AFL Women's game showed promise, but the marked improvement in quality in week two and beyond meant more in the long run.
AFLW in their words
The word 'inspiration' is used too often in sport, but the first AFLW round was fairly labelled just that by those at both ends of the spectrum.
Indeed, the inaugural AFLW season is probably the best example of taking female brilliance from occasional flashes in the spotlight and turning them into the norm, but even that is far from finished.
The sometimes scrappy skills of cross-code athletes playing competitive Aussie rules for the first time in years is not the end game.
That comes years later when the young players currently in the league hone their abilities, and the next generation start making their way from the stands to the oval after a decade of watching women excel at the highest level.
The path to professionalism
Photo: The W-League grand final was a stunning finale to a lacklustre year. (ABC News: Naomi Woodley)
Now is not the time for administrators and decision-makers to stop, happy with their progress.
Unfortunately, for every case of a league getting it right — as the AFL and Cricket Australia often do — there are umpteen cases of women being forgotten.
After a less than stellar season, the W-League semi-finals were overshadowed by the AFLW's opening round, the WNBL gets less recognition than the already low-key NBL, and women's rugby league is still struggling to get into the public eye at all.
Photo: World titles and Olympic gold medals pushed women's rugby sevens into the spotlight. (AP: Themba Hadebe)
Wallaroos captain Ash Hewson said something as simple as referring to a women's match being played before a men's game as a "double-header" instead of a "curtain-raiser" was indicative of the how far they had come.
While the women's sevens team enjoys unprecedented spotlight, Australia's 15s side is struggling for recognition ahead of the World Cup in August.
Hewson still works as a prison officer and does not get paid for training, which she does almost every day.
"At the end of the day the reward of playing for your country is enough for me, but I feel that making it professional improves the game it makes it more of a spectacle it's more physical," she told Grandstand.
Professionalism brings better quality and better quality attracts more sponsors, which translates to higher pay, but that is not the only progression.
Photo: The Brisbane Lions are well-placed to become the first AFLW premiers. (AAP: Dan Peled)
Cricket Australia has been blessed with excellent female stars and actively promoted the women's game, the AFL has put women to the fore and largely trusted the product to speak for itself, Australia's women's rugby sevens have taken every opportunity in the spotlight and shouldered their way to prominence ... There is no one formula for success.
It is on all the governing bodies to find their own path towards equality and put women on the same lofty pedestal that men enjoy.
External Link: ABC Grandstand's celebration of women in sport
Topics: women, community-and-society, sport, australia
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The CAN Bus: Driving the Future of Autonomous Military Vehicles
It’s a crisp November day in Michigan, and a convoy of British and American resupply vehicles are rumbling along at a comfortable 25 miles per hour. In the lead is a British Army Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles (RMMV) HX-60 truck, trailed closely by two U.S. Army Oshkosh Light Medium Tactical Vehicles (LMTVs). In total, there are zero humans operating this convoy.
Seven unmanned military trucks were driven at speeds up to 40 mph during AMAS CAD II. (Photo: U.S. Army)
This was the scene in November 2017, when the US-UK Coalition Assured Autonomous Resupply (CAAR) demonstration took place at Camp Grayling, Michigan – the result of three years of research and engineering to examine the use of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in resupply situations, to tackle so-called “last mile” issues regarding supplying troops on the front lines of active conflicts around the world.
CAAR is a collaboration between the United Kingdom’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl); the U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center (TARDEC); and the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center (ARDEC). While this project had been in the works for three years, the U.S. military has been exploring autonomous vehicle technology in earnest since at least the 1980s. In the time period since then, there have been huge leaps in autonomous vehicle technology, and the military has seen already dangerous and logistically difficult resupply issues multiplied in the era of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and protracted conflicts in remote and desolate terrains.
CAN Bus Board
The technologies powering these UGVs are cutting edge. Many could hardly have been envisioned a decade ago, but the secret weapon of nearly all of these vehicles is a technology that has been standard in civilian vehicles for nearly 30 years: the Controller Area Network, or CAN bus.
What Is a Controller Area Network (CAN)?
A controller area network (CAN) is a message-based protocol that allows internal systems to communicate with one another without a central computer. CAN technology is used in applications as wide-ranging as agriculture, robotics, industrial automation and medical systems, but it is most known for its use in the automotive industry.
In today’s connected vehicles, the CAN bus facilitates communication between UGVs microcontrollers (MCUs) along a larger vehicle bus, without the use of a central computer. For example, the cruise control system can quickly communicate with the anti-lock braking system to disengage when a quick stop is needed.
The more complex vehicles become, with ever-more interconnected MCUs needing to transfer information, the more important the reliability of the vehicle bus becomes. And with each model year bringing new cameras, sensors and display screens, the efficiencies that CAN provides in the physical layer of a vehicle become more attractive. In the past, cars were limited in their features due to the finite amount of space for the physical cables and complex wiring that was required for each system to communicate. CAN allows for a leaner networked system that not only underlies the connected vehicles of today, but also the drive-by-wire functionality necessary for the autonomous vehicles of tomorrow.
How Is CAN Being Used in Military and Defense Vehicles?
As previously mentioned, the CAN bus has been the communication standard for embedded systems in vehicles for decades, and even huge leaps in vehicle technology like electric and autonomous vehicles have continued to utilize the CAN bus due to its flexibility and reliability. These same features make CAN an ideal component for autonomous military and defense vehicles, including UGVs and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones.
Commercial autonomous vehicles must have highly attuned sensors when navigating city streets – able to sense changing road conditions, other vehicles and pedestrians. Tactical military vehicles, on the other hand, must be prepared for off-road conditions in every kind of hostile environment. The obstacles are greater and the consequences are higher stakes. That means that a higher priority must be placed on sensors and algorithms that can calculate and make split-second decisions; and the need for near-instantaneous, error-free communication is critical. CAN enables all of these complex systems to communicate with the clarity and speed that are necessary when lives are on the line.
In addition to its functionality, CAN’s inherent ruggedness is a clear draw, performing just as consistently in extreme heat and cold as it does in arid and dusty climates and extremely wet conditions.
What Sensors Are Attached to the CAN Bus?
The technologies that enable autonomous driving can vary slightly, but they all require advanced vision and sensing equipment to “see” the road ahead, as well as high-powered software to make decisions based on that visual information. Most autonomous military vehicles would support some combination of the following sensors, among others:
Light Detection and Range (LiDAR) technology, for creating a 3D map of the road ahead;
Color cameras, for determining the changing position of the road and other obstacles in front of the vehicle;
Infrared cameras, adding another layer of complexity to obstacle-sensing;
GPS, for navigation and creating a larger contextual map that the vehicle can reference.
With autonomous vehicles, and especially autonomous tactical vehicles, the in-vehicle networks supporting the advanced vision and sensing technologies require a higher bandwidth connection like those provided by Ethernet or FlexRay. But these connections can combine with CAN or CAN FD (CAN with flexible data rate) to create a robust network that is flexible when performing tasks that require high-data throughput, and that is quick and reliable when performing more simplified communication tasks.
The CAN bus allows for communication between embedded systems within a UAV, as well as the transfer of information between a UAV and the remote operator.
Many military vehicles make use of the CAN bus to log and transfer periodic operational data that are reviewed by maintenance personnel (or, more likely, computer algorithms) for predictive maintenance – in other words, analyzing operational data to look for potential vehicle maintenance issues so that they can be addressed before they become critical.
The use of the CAN bus isn’t just limited to UGVs. Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) have also adopted CAN technology for its low-latency, reliable communication capabilities. In fact, there’s even a UAVCAN protocol designed for aerospace and robotic applications.
For instance, the CAN bus can allow the flight controller to manage the throttle on the electronic speed controller (ESC), but it also allows the ESC to return hard real-time data to the flight controller, including temperature, amperage, voltage, warning signals, etc. via live telemetry. The real-time data, transferred within microseconds, allows remote pilots to react immediately, making for much safer and more reliable UAV flight operations.
MilCAN
To account for the many issues specific to military vehicles, a working group of the International High Speed Data Bus-Users Group (IHSDB-UG) developed the MilCAN higher layer protocol in 1999, with the goal of creating a standard interface for utilizing CAN bus in military vehicle development. There are two versions of MilCAN: Mil-CAN A and MilCAN B.
Widely used in armored vehicles, MilCAN A uses 29-bit identifiers and uses a similar frame format to SAE-J1939. Mission-critical in mind, Mil-CAN A prioritizes message transmission, and defines 1-Mbit, 500-Kbps, and 250-Kbit communication rates.
MilCAN B is actually an extension of the CANopen application layer, using 11-bit identifiers and only periodically allowing data to be transmitted via the bus. MilCAN B supports data rates from 10 kbps to 1 Mbps.
Both protocols were developed to specialize the use of CAN around deterministic data transfer, so the specifications can also be used for non-military applications.
The Future of CAN in Autonomous Military Vehicles
Don’t expect robotic armies to be taking over the front lines any time soon, but with successful pilot programs like CAAR demonstrating the viability of heavy-duty military grade autonomous vehicles, there is hope for making extremely risky situations – like resupply missions – a little safer. And for the foreseeable future, the CAN bus will be along for that journey.
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Viscous shock profile and singular limit for hyperbolic systems with Cattaneo's law
On the Chapman-Enskog asymptotics for a mixture of monoatomic and polyatomic rarefied gases
Céline Baranger 1, , Marzia Bisi 2, , Stéphane Brull 3, and Laurent Desvillettes 4,,
CEA-CESTA, 15 avenue des sablières, CS 60001 33116 Le Barp Cedex, France
University of Parma, Dept. of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Sciences, Parco Area delle Scienze 53/A, I-43124 Parma, Italy
University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, IMB, UMR 5251, F-33400 Talence, France
University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu - Paris Rive Gauche, UMR 7586, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, F-75013, Paris, France
* Corresponding author: L. Desvillettes
Received August 2017 Revised November 2017 Published April 2018
In this paper, we propose a formal derivation of the Chapman-Enskog asymptotics for a mixture of monoatomic and polyatomic gases. We use a direct extension of the model devised in [8,16] for treating the internal energy with only one continuous parameter. This model is based on the Borgnakke-Larsen procedure [6]. We detail the dissipative terms related to the interaction between the gradients of temperature and the gradients of concentrations (Dufour and Soret effects), and present a complete explicit computation in one case when such a computation is possible, that is when all cross sections in the Boltzmann equation are constants.
Keywords: Boltzmann equations, gas mixtures, Chapman-Enskog procedure.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 76P05; Secondary: 82C40.
Citation: Céline Baranger, Marzia Bisi, Stéphane Brull, Laurent Desvillettes. On the Chapman-Enskog asymptotics for a mixture of monoatomic and polyatomic rarefied gases. Kinetic & Related Models, 2018, 11 (4) : 821-858. doi: 10.3934/krm.2018033
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1 dead, 2 seriously injured in crash with elk on Hwy. 18 in Cowichan
North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP were called to the scene at about 8 p.m. Tuesday night
Andrea Rondeau
A woman from Lake Cowichan has died and two other people are in serious condition after a two-vehicle crash involving elk on Highway 18 last night.
North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP were called to the scene at about 8 p.m. They determined that two vehicles travelling in opposite directions were involved. One of the vehicles attempted to avoid hitting an elk on the road, but hit the elk anyway, then hit an oncoming vehicle. A woman from Lake Cowichan was declared dead at the scene, and one man and one woman were airlifted to hospital in life-threatening condition.
“This is a very tragic situation,” said Sgt. Trevor Busch of the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP. “Collisions with animals are not uncommon. I would like to remind motorists to drive defensively, slow down and leave plenty of distance from the next vehicle to allow the best chance to see wildlife.”
The BC Coroners Service is in the early stages of its fact-finding investigation. The BC Coroners Service investigates all sudden, unexpected and/or unnatural deaths in the province to determine who died, how, where, when and by what means. Investigators from the North Cowichan/Duncan General Investigation Section and Island District Traffic Services Collision Reconstructionist have spoken with witnesses to the crash and are continuing to investigate.
This wasn’t the only crash involving an elk in recent days.
This morning, Nov. 20, at 7 a.m. a second crash was reported with an elk near Lake Cowichan on Highway 18. In this incident the driver of the car was able to walk away with minor injuries.
“This incident is a reminder that collisions with wildlife can happen at any time,” said Corporal Dave Motley of the Lake Cowichan RCMP. “I would urge motorists to drive according to conditions and be extra vigilant in foggy or dark conditions at dawn or dusk when wildlife is most active.”
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Amanda Harlech
Amanda Harlech is a creative consultant and writer with a long association with the couturiers John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1997.
Amanda Jane Grieve was born in 1959 in north London, the daughter of Alan Grieve, a solicitor and director of the Jerwood Foundation and his first wife, Anne Dulake. She grew up in Regent's Park where one of her childhood companions was Jasper Conran.
Harlech was educated at South Hampstead High School and Marlborough College before studying English at Somerville College, Oxford University, specialising in the work of Henry James.
In 1986, Harlech married Francis Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech. The couple had two children:
Jasset David Cody Ormsby-Gore, 7th Baron Harlech (b. 1 July 1986), studied at Central St Martins
The Hon. Tallulah Sylvia Ormsby-Gore (b. 16 May 1988), studied at the New York Film Academy.
Harlech and her husband were divorced on 31 August 1998. She now lives in Shropshire, with a base at the Ritz Hotel, Paris for the city’s fashion shows.
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Harlech (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈharlɛx]) is a town and seaside resort in Gwynedd, within the historical boundaries of Meirionnydd in northwest Wales. Lying on Tremadog Bay and within the Snowdonia National Park, it has a population of 1,447, of whom 51% speak Welsh. The town is located in the unitary authority of Gwynedd which was formed in 1996, from 1974 to 1996 it was in the Meirionydd District of the 1974 County of Gwynedd, and before 1974 it was in the historic county of Merionethshire.
The town is best known for the landmark Harlech Castle, begun in 1283 by Edward I of England, captured by Owain Glyndŵr, and later the stronghold of Henry Tudor. The castle was originally built next to the sea, but geological processes have changed the shape of the coastline, and the castle now lies on a cliff face, about half a mile (800 m) inland. The town has since developed with housing estates on the flat low town area and hillside properties in the high town around the shopping street, church, and castle. The two areas are linked by a steep and winding road called "Twtil".
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CKNX-FM 101.7 (The ONE) Wingham, Ontario Adult Contemporary,Pop Canada
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Vogue 03 Dec 2019
In the middle of the ceremony, Anna Wintour joined Amanda Harlech, a close friend of the legendary designer, on stage to announce that Chanel will now be offering an MA scholarship to Central Saint Martins in his honour ... “Get on it, or it’s gone.”. Read more ... ....
“There Will Never Be Another Like Him” – Edward Enninful On His Friend Karl Lagerfeld
Vogue 20 Jun 2019
I was utterly in awe, completely star-struck. Some years later, I started working at W magazine ... What creative director designs the buttons these days?) After I’d finally found the courage to talk to him – up until that point, I used to busy myself talking to the models and to Amanda [Harlech, Karl’s right-hand woman] – the conversations didn’t stop....
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The Hollywood Reporter 04 Jun 2019
Lopez was named the 2019 Fashion Icon, following in the footsteps of past honorees Rihanna, Beyonce and Lady Gaga ... Both Roitfeld and Lady Amanda Harlech paid tribute to Karl Lagerfeld, who passed away on February 19. “His work at best was visual music, sometimes as punctuated as rap and sometimes as mysterious as Schubert,” Harlech said ... ....
Pre-order our limited-edition Karl Lagerfeld cover
Harpers Bazaar 29 Mar 2019
Created specially to honour the legendary Karl Lagerfeld, this limited-edition May issue is one of only 500 produced - with just 100 available to pre-order online ... Renowned figures from the world of fashion, including Adwoa Aboah, Claudia Schiffer and Amanda Harlech, also contribute exclusive quotes, recalling their memories of the beloved designer....
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The Telegraph India 02 Mar 2019
ARTIST.. You become a designer because you are an artist. I am an artist first. When you are an artist, all the things you work with are connected. Architecture, interiors, motifs, draping and proportionate form ... We cannot go back... MUSE. ... Amanda Harlech was hired by Chanel to challenge and give Karl Lagerfeld ideas… ‘What if I wore a jacket like this?’....
Karl Lagerfeld cremated in France
Gulf News 24 Feb 2019
He was battling pancreatic cancer ... “I just want to disappear like the animals in the virgin forest ... Amanda Harlech, a creative consultant known as being Lagerfeld’s right-hand woman and close friend, was seen wearing a black netted veil and black wool coat ... ....
Karl Lagerfeld goes out with style: Anna Wintour joins fashion high society to see Chanel legend cremated before his ashes will be 'mixed with those of his mother and his one true love'
This is Money 22 Feb 2019
The German designer who famously quipped 'I'd rather die' than be buried was cremated in Nanterre, west of Paris ... She is pictured with Amanda Harlech, British creative consultant and writer with a long association with Lagerfeld ... She is pictured left with Amanda Harlech who joined Lagerfeld at Chanel in 1996 ... She previously said of Lagerfeld....
Karl Lagerfeld: Luxury is the ease of a T-shirt in a expensive dress
Yahoo Daily News 22 Feb 2019
Circa 2011. It was freezing in Paris. I sat nervously twiddling my thumbs in the corridor of the creative studio of Chanel, an 18th century building soaked in nostalgia, on Rue Cambon ... Amanda Harlech, the famous Chanel muse, swept into the room with the flourish of a Mughal princess, exclaiming, “It’s the spirit, the pure spirit of India!” ... “My mother....
There's so much more to being a fashion muse than just being beautiful
Irish Independent 20 Jan 2019
The most famous contemporary muse is Amanda Harlech, who inspired John Galliano's vision for 10 years and has worked with Karl Lagerfeld for the last 20 ... Harlech perhaps sums it up best when she describes her work with Lagerfeld....
The fashion Muse - from Audrey Hepburn to Alexa Chung
'I talk to my clothes': why Courtney Love is selling her best-known outfits
The Guardian 07 Dec 2018
Courtney Love is one of those rare figures whose sense of style helped to define an era ... Courtney Love ... Read more ... It’s who you are ... Reflecting on another key moment in her fashion graduation, Love recalls being spotted in the lobby of the Mercer Hotel by Karl Lagerfeld and his long-term creative collaborator Amanda Harlech. “Amanda sees me and says....
Real Estate Transactions for Sunday, August 12, 2018
The Post and Courier 12 Aug 2018
Dougherty sold 1960 Shields Lane, Rivertowne to John Steven and Amanda Rae Samples Wilson for $949,000 ... and Amanda E ... Hoadley and Angela Casey sold 207 Harlech Way, Dunwoody at Shadowmoss Plantation to Vanessa and Susan Kristensen for $320,000 ... and Amanda M....
Lucy Helmore: The upper-class model who bewitched Bryan Ferry
This is Money 25 Jul 2018
Her friends were glamorous and often outrageous — troubled titans of the fashion set such as Isabella Blow and Alexander McQueen, aristocrats including Lady Amanda Harlech and, of course, musicians like her first husband, the pop star Bryan Ferry ... She told an interviewer ... Otis, Isaac, Tara and Merlin ... ....
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Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Adam Driver for Marriage Story
Christian Bale for Ford v Ferrari
Joaquin Phoenix for Joker
Leonardo DiCaprio for Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Taron Egerton for Rocketman
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
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Cynthia Erivo for Harriet
Lupita Nyong’o for Us
Renée Zellweger for Judy
Scarlett Johansson for Marriage Story
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Al Pacino for The Irishman
Brad Pitt for Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Jamie Foxx for Just Mercy
Joe Pesci for The Irishman
Tom Hanks for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Jennifer Lopez for Hustlers
Laura Dern for Marriage Story
Margot Robbie for Bombshell
Nicole Kidman for Bombshell
Scarlett Johansson for Jojo Rabbit
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Alan Arkin for The Kominsky Method
Andrew Scott for Fleabag
Bill Hader for Barry
Michael Douglas for The Kominsky Method
Tony Shalhoub for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Alex Borstein for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Catherine O’Hara for Schitt’s Creek
Christina Applegate for Dead to Me
Phoebe Waller-Bridge for Fleabag
Rachel Brosnahan for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
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Billy Crudup for The Morning Show
David Harbour for Stranger Things
Peter Dinklage for Game of Thrones
Sterling K. Brown for This Is Us
Steve Carell for The Morning Show
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Elisabeth Moss for The Handmaid’s Tale
Helena Bonham Carter for The Crown
Jennifer Aniston for The Morning Show
Jodie Comer for Killing Eve
Olivia Colman for The Crown
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Emily Watson for Chernobyl
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9 Creepiest Websites On The Internet (Complete List)
By: @StrangeBuzz
Published: August 13th, 2017 at 7:20 pm
#9. Plane Crash Info
Planecrashinfo.com is a library of black box voice recordings taken from devastating and tragic plane crashes. The recordings range from the 1960’s till present time.
What’s so creepy about these recordings is that you can feel the pilots’ anguish as they look death in the eye.
What makes this website even more creepy is that they have a collection of last words taken from the most frightening crashes, including the 9/11 tragedy
#8. Sunshine Skyway Bridge
Sounds like a website for tourists, right? Partially, the website is named after a bridge in Tampa Bay, Florida. However, the site’s purpose is to showcase the amount of suicides that occur on the bridge each year.
Before you enter, there’s a warning to people that get “offended easily” or “who are dominated by political correctness” to leave now.
Source: skywaybridge.com
#7. The Last Meals Project
Before a criminal on death row is executed, he/she has the small pleasure of feasting on a meal of their choosing. This site has detailed reports of each inmate’s last meal. On top of each inmate picture, is a clipart of what they ate.
Some request nothing to eat, while one person requested a bag of assorted Jolly Ranchers.
It sounds silly until you find out these images are of actual people that died by lethal injection, electric chair, or hanging.
Source: lastmealsproject.com
#6. Human Leather
One of the most disturbing and creepy sites on the Internet, Human Leather does what you think it does. They provide an assortment of products created from human matter.
They receive the human material from corpses who have donated their bodies. They craft the human torso into belts, wallets, and even shoes. Prices for these products can range in the thousands.
The company argues that what it’s doing is perfectly legal and humans have used human leather since the 17th century. The website has a reputation for being one of the freakiest; yet, open sites on the internet.
Source: human-leather.co.uk
#5. Texas Executed Offenders
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a page where you can view all the death row’s inmates last words. Ordered by execution number, inmates say their last words before they are executed.
This page is crazy because it gives you a taste of what runs through the head of a person who is looking at death’s door.
The state of Texas still executes major criminal offenders so the site is updated periodically.
Source: Texas Executed Offenders
#4. Housecreep
Ever wonder what kind of creepy things are in your area? Well Housecreep accomplishes just that! Enter your address and find haunted houses, creepy apartments, and other shady areas near you.
Source: Housecreep.com
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In 2006, a vlogger YouTuber by the name of “Magibon” started uploading videos of her just staring into the camera. Surprisingly, her videos ended up being very successful raking up millions of views.
Strange enough, in 2015 she stopped uploading videos. No one knew where she went, but this is where the story becomes creepy.
Magibon.com is a creepy website that showcases a man with a gasmask on rolling around on the floor.
Freaky dolls and insects flicker on the screen while the video is set on loop. In between these disturbing scenes, images of Magibon are flashed on the screen.
Source: Magibon.com
#2. Zombo.com
One of the creepiest websites on the internet, Zombo is a site that depicts a loading spinner spinning and spinning forever. While you’re on the site, there is a male carnival voice that plays in the background.
The longer you wait, the more compliments you get from the voice
Source: Zombo.com
#1. Web Ouija
A creepy and famous board game, Web Ouija is the Internet’s version of the game. The website’s version suggests that it can talk to the dead.
Users can ask a question by typing into an input box; afterwards, the cursor starts moving to show the answer.
Asking the web board game if the site’s creator, Mike Hall, is living will reveal a shocking answer. “NO”.
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Late Night with Cal. Music Edition.
The title of this post is pretty much the most straight forward title. You already know what I am about to do here. But, you gotta cut me some slack. I came up with that baller title of “Adele; Adieu” …Straight up gangsta. So, here’s another music post. It’s all about those late nights. When you’re out and bumbling your way to your house. And you got your iPod, and you are too tired to search for something different, and so you settle for your favorite band. Which ain’t no bad thing. But there are some great albums that match late night drives. I am gonna try and hit the no-brainers, but then enlighten you with some stuff that you might have missed.
Rules: Top 15. And we’re talking: you’re in the car, by yourself, on your way to sleepy sleep. And you’ve got at least a fifteen minute drive and you are tired.
1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
2. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
3. James Vincent McMorrow - Early in the Morning
4. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
5. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
6. Gorillaz - Demon Days
7. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon
8. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
9. Norah Jones - The Fall
10. Ascend the Hill - Hymns
11. P.O.S. - Never Better
This music video is so cool, that it should be in my blog.
12. Jeremy Messersmith - The Reluctant Graveyard
13. Priscilla Ahn - A Good Day
14. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
15. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
There you go. A quick little blog. Not a review on any of them. Just great albums that you should get, and then jam out to while driving.
A quick anecdote: My buddy J-Tables totally looks like Justin Vernon (lead singer of Bon Iver).
J-Vern of Bon Iver
J-Tabes of Two Tables. They totally look alike. Danger Zone.
Who am I missing? Let me know, In the comments. Online.
Becoming a musician or GarageBand made me who I am.
Yet another expedition into the Grinsell archives yields a fruitful bounty of blogs and Nesquik mix. However, as I shuffle through the darkness my ears catch a faint whistling echo in the distance. ”Merely the wind,” I say as I brush off my dusty memories of old sheriffs and Barney Fife. I continue my journey, with the determination of a guido at a nightclub, but I can’t help but think that some music would indeed lighten the mood as the cold dark surrounds me…
Oh, so it’s Thursday? That means the only class you have is a discussion for an introductory course on scratching your butt. You already have a B in that so there’s really no reason you should wake up before ten-thirty. Once the relentless sunshine rustles you from your slumber, you realize you got nothing to do today. You could sit on the couch and doing homework scratching your butt and it wouldn’t even matter! So you whip out the Mac Book and suddenly it hits you. Today, you are becoming a musician. And it’s all thanks to this little guy.
Actual guitar and talent not included.
A Day in the Life of a GarageBand Musician.
Phase 1: Optimism.
Optimism. A deadly first timer's mistake.
As the little guitar icon bounces up and down in eager anticipation to destroy your hopes and dreams, an almost overwhelmingly strong wave of positivity cascades over the Musician. Thoughts wander to back stage parties, hotel foam parties, and Bob Saget Parties. The program finally loads and gates of musical paradise have opened. It’s time to make some music.
Phase 2: Snack Break.
We recommend Gushers. After a grueling fifteen minutes setting up GarageBand with the new Billboard chart topper, a musician wants food that gushes flavor in the same way their fans will be gushing adoration for the rock star’s tight pants. Everyone loves fans. Except for the groupies. Groupies are nasty.
These ladies are definitely not smuggling narcotics... in their noses... and in their bloodstreams.... Okay, they do cocaine.
Phase 3: Choosing a genre.
Usually when someone makes a song, they like to stick with formulas and styles they are comfortable with and have proven successful in the past. Since an up-and-coming musician doesn’t want to make a potentially career altering move so early in the game, a GB Musician must at all costs throw in a hint of every genre they have been exposed to in the last five years. EVERY. GENRE. No exceptions.
June is also my birthday month. This is not a coincidence.
This decision allows the artist to remain “hot and fresh” so as not to become old, stale, and irrelevant like that Bob Dylan guy. If Owl City can hit number one with his monster hit, “Koala Bear Skylines Behind Electric Eel Sunsets” than anyone can, right?
Phase 3: Smoke Break.
If you don’t smoke, skip this step. If you do smoke, this will be the first of many. I hope you bought a new pack of Camel Crushes, because you are going to need them.
Phase 4: Looking around the house for lyrical/band name inspiration.
At this point, the musician understands that the next sentences they write must be the most insightful they have ever penned. They must write something that shows off their caring, thoughtful side, while establishing themselves . The closest thing to them is a lamp, so their song must be about being a light in the darkness.
Watch your back Adele.
But mostly, it’ll come across like a song that was written about a lamp. Also, band names that contain the word Mud or Mudd or any other spelling are gonna have it rough. A musician must spend more time naming the band than actually being in the band. Crucial step.
Phase 6: Lunch Break.
A musician must be careful with their diet. Their body is now a national treasure along the lines of Monica Lewinski’s blue dress. No longer can one eat what they want, but rather, they are confided to the brown-bagged lunches of champions and diplomats.
Coming back! Netflix 2013, baby!
Anything with unnecessary syllables or accents is now their bread and butter. Goodbye chunky chicken noodle with a Snickers, hello Ayam Bakar with a side of Achaar. Which may sound like a plateful of jihad, but actually is quite the tasty Indonesian dish. (We do not condone the eating of snickering puppies. That’s something a meanie pants would do.)
Phase 7: Actually recording musical sounds.
Now that their belly is full of top shelf delicacies, the music must be made. The next two hours will be spent with the tinkering with the distortion on the bass. This is not a fruitful phase. Nothing gets done. Another Camel Crush is consumed.
Phase 8: Talent Haters.
Any successful GB musician will say that a fundamental part of becoming a successful entertainer is addressing those who don’t share the same artistic vision as you. You have to address these people in as many songs as possible, so you can let them haters know who has the true skills. Be sure to reference the haters at any given opportunity, even if there are no haters. The people who say, “We aren’t haters, we just want you to shut up,” are secret haters, and are not to be trusted. When it appears there are no haters, that’s when people hate the most.
Nothing more should be said.
Phase 9: Taking a step back to admire the work.
Another day of music laid to rest.
A musician must be aware of the socio-economic environment they are releasing their music into. Are the people ready? Is it too progressive? Will there be enough room in the mailbag for all the letters of gratitude? The answer is always no, to all of these questions. It’s in a musician’s blood oath to change the landscape of music forever, starting with trimming off the nu-metal leaves. It’s really time to kick that one to the curb.
Yes, people listened to Mudvayne at one point. NEVER FORGET!
Phase 10: Party and Wait for praise.
At this point, a musician will want to turn off all their phones, as they will be ringing off the hook. It’s time to spend some alone time with their thoughts and a mountain of drugs, and exotic animals. It’s time to get so weird they turn into corn.
Not KORN, thank Talos. The C/K is crucial.
At this point, all interest is lost in finishing the project, and it becomes yet another shelved work of genius. Years later, a musician will come across their old pieces of work, and upload them various places in an attempt to raise interest and relevance. However… it will still sound mostly like songs about lamps.
p.s. included is my own landscape shaping piece of futuristic art. Let it load, and revel in my mastery.
Minnesota, Music
Nostalgic or Just Sick?
As a selfish way to promote the blog, I would like for you to know that you can open up the ‘comments’ section and click on the ‘facebook’ or ‘twitter’ link. That way it is an easy way to share us with your friends. I know, this is a blatant begging for the views. But I need them. Give them to me. I’ll have Gob follow you to your car… The other thing is, this post is going to relate to about nobody. So my friend like Josh Mitchell is not going to be able to relate to this post. And for that I apologize. But, hopefully he’ll enjoy it anyways.
Middle School. We all did it. The worst three years of your life. The constant battle with trying to be “normal.” Eh. Whatever. This blog is not about that. We’re about references, and bringing up stuff that you have not thought about in a bit/ever. But here’s where I’m getting at my little confused marmots (last night, Cole and I were chillin and watching Lost when Cole farted. I looked at him and I was all like, “Something is dead in you. A thing died in you!” And Cole was all like, “Yeah man, it’s a marmot.” That was the first rodent he thought of. A marmot. Like, not a rabbit or raccoon. A marmot. Cole’s mind is a scary place). We listened to garbage in middle school and high school. Yeah, you know what else sucked? High School. Like, not all of it. I am not about to rip on high school. It really wasn’t the worst thing ever. As for the music goes, there were some gems in there. But man were there some poop-pies.
The music was either like angsty punk or angsty rock or just angsty angst. Hey the 90’s have been done for a bit. It took us middle-schoolers and high kids awhile to realize it. So here’s what I gotta do. It is my obligatory obligation to oblige you with a list. A list to break down the music we listened, broken down in two categories: 1. Music that is worth going back and listening to again. and 2. Music to bury and repress those memories like a bad camp memory where you were sick because you ate too many uncooked hot dogs and then fell out of your bunk bed because you had to puke, but the fall knocked all the air out of you so you couldn’t make it to the bathroom or even outside so you ended up puking all over yourself and cabin. Or, at least, the memory of your elementary school friend Michael Smith pissing on you. As always, we’re gonna miss some stuff. Let it be known in the comments section.
I did do some research for this blog. I know, “research” is more like casual conversations. But here me out, interviews are primary sources.
ALBUMS TO LISTEN TO AGAIN:
These are some great bands that you might have forgotten ’bout. But, you know, they still exist in many cases, and are worth your time to check out again. Most of these are pop punk bands. My friends and I were all about that. In no particular order, we’ve got:
Motion City Soundtrack.
Commit This to Memory - 2005
These guys are from Minneapolis. And their most recent album, My Dinosaur Life was really really good actually. As far as pop punk goes. But it’d be worth checking out Commit This to Memory Again… again.
My Chemical Romance.
The Black Parade - 2006
Brosephs, I know. It doesn’t get more emo than this. But! The Black Parade is absolutely phenomenal.And I mean that. I still enjoy this album. It’s got guitar solos, and not every song sounds the same, and like… drums… Check these guys out. Adam actually made me listen to these guys back in 2006, and I have never regretted it.
Say Anything.
...Is a Real Boy - 2004. Re-Issue: 2006.
What I mean is, …Is a Real Boy. Check that album out. Don’t listen to In Defense of the Genre. It’s not good. But, knowing my friends, ...Is a Real Boy has never once left our iPods since 2006. It defines high school for me.
Mae.
Everglow - 2005
Honestly, I forgot about these guys. But they’re still good. Everglow feels like an album. And most music that I lsitened to back in the day ws just a bunch of singles. But Everglow flows really well.
Anberlin.
Never Take Friendship Personal - 2005
Hahaha. No seriously, these guys had some good tracks that haven’t aged. I swear. They’re still good. I promise. Is this what false security tastes like?
…Wait, this is what they sound like. I thought they rocked. They were so heavy man!
…Yeah. Still on the fence. I saw Anberlin perform this Summer and they were awesome. So… That counts for something. Shut up.
Linkin Park.
Meteora - 2003
Um. I’m serious. Is this post losing all of the faith in this blog in one post. I’m not even done yet. I am going to crash and burn this site harder than Italian boats captains.
– Side note: Adam and I watched this music video like every time we hung out from 2003 to 2005.
Paramore.
Riot! - 2007
The Postal Service.
Give Up - 2003
These guys are Indie gods. You all know this. If you haven’t done so in awhile, go back and just listen to this album. Its completely mind-numbing. Ben Gibbard’s best music. This isn’t an argument. Everyone agrees with me. Ben Gibbard’s best life moment: getting Zooey on lock. And then getting divorced is basically like the divorce of Zeus and Hera, only in terms of the future of scene kids everywhere. Ben and Zooey’s kids were going to be the coolest kids ever. I already hated them. And they didn’t even happen.
MUSIC TO CHECK OUT ONCE MORE AND THEN PROBABLY LEAVE ALONE FOR AWHILE AGAIN.
As before, no particular order.
Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek - 2001
Two Lefts Don't Make a Right... But Three Do - 2003
Mmhmm - 2004
This is a weird pick, because they had three albums that I jammed to all the time. And since then, they have sat on my shelf collecting dust and stories. They’re like the Buzz and Woody of my CD collection.
The Darkness.
Youtube video is all that is needed.
– Like, the whole album is worth listening to once more and then leaving alone. But this song should forever have a starting spot on your iPod.
Circa Survive.
This album is worth a check out. His voice was awesome back in high school, and now sounds terrible. Worth one last hurrah!
– Remember when titles of songs could be paragraphs? Thanks Fall Out Boy/ Devil Wears Prada/ Circa Survive….Which Reminds me.
Fall Out Boy.
From Under the Cork Tree - 2005
Their best album, Folie a Deux, came out my freshman year of college. And I still listen to that album quite a bit, actually. But their other stuff is worth remembering.
ALBUMS TO FORGIVE AND FORGET:
Okay. There’s too many to like… talk about… So I’ll talk about some and leave the others to just yourself to remember.
First off, let’s just get these outta the way, rock bands:
Superchick
Decyfer Down
The Classic Crime
Wow. Some of those hurt to look at. Kinda hit me. Because, I’d defend early Trivium to the death man. And Emery was like the first screamo band I ever listened to! And I listened to State of the Union by Rise Against last weekend. But they really are best to just forget about.
My buddy and I were on a two hour car drive. And we got on the topic of high school, and just depressing music that he used to listen to after his girlfriend broke up with him. It was hilarious. check out this list:
and Blue October
…Here’s some videos reminding you to never listen to them again.
You know who else we need to move on from?
Hardcore bands anyone:
Sky Eats Airplanes
They were on your iPod or Zune. or Zen. Don’t lie. Forgive and Forget.
Oh Yeah. Just a couple more…
-You listened to them. Don’t lie to me about it. It’s on your xanga.
Shiny Toy Guns
And one more:
Switchfoot.
Switchfoot’s army is about to kill me.
I still wanna like Switchfoot. I do. Like. But I can’t. idk. brb. How are these guys still headlining festivals? Same with Skillet. Hey Christians, other bands have come out in the last decade. You can like them too. Switchfoot hasn’t come out with a good all around album since The Beautiful Letdown. Switchfoot fans everywhere are ready to blow up. “Dude! ‘Oh! Gravity’ was so good!” No it wasn’t. And I heard the song Dare You to Move enough times to not listen to Switchfoot ever again. You were fun Switchfoot.
That’s all I wrote. You didn’t read any of this did you? Good thing it took me all morning. Gah. Pathetic. It was fun to take a ride on the nostalgia train.
So guys,
2012. Let’s Get it Started.
Welcome back to What the Fwaah! It’s 2012, and I am feeling good about this year. Let’s get it started:
As America continues to become a more and more secular society so does
our media and what is becoming acceptable to us as a mass. If you
don’t believe me, then imagine showing an episode of Family Guy in the
1950’s. Heck, imagine showing anything that was even remotely popular
in 2011 to the 1950’s. It is what happens. Ideals and morals change.
It’s an advancement. It is not anything bad, I promise you my young
readers. But there are sometimes when cleaner is better. And one
band’s career really shows why.
The biggest argument that cleaner is better comes from a simple band
that you might know as the Black Eyed Peas.
And I know what you guys are thinking, you are thinking, “Cal. You stupid idiot gypsy. The
Black Eyed Peas’ music is full of obscenities.” Well, let me take your
argument and shoot it back at you: they have edited music, and it is
better. Come on. Take the hit song, “Let’s Get Retarded” by the Black
Eyed Peas. Wait. You’ve never heard that song? Really? It reached
number 4 on the charts in 2004. It was used as the NBA Playoff theme
song in 2004, and has been used to kick-off every party at every effin
frat house and high school get together for the past five years. Oh
wait, that’s right. “Let’s Get Retarded” is a terrible song. Nobody
ever listened to it. The NBA did not use it for a commercial (but,
honestly, I wouldn’t put it past the NBA. Its marketing decisions are
sometimes… well… retarded.). The song we all know and love is “Let’s
Get it Started.” You know, the song that put Black Eyed Peas as more
than just a “Where is the Love?” band. That jump started their career.
The career that, for me, imploded at the 2011 Super Bowl halftime show
(can we quick take a second and analyze that? Of course we can, it’s
That half time show was terrible. It started off with the
Black Eyed Peas fully relying on electronics and special sound
technologies to make them sound even close to good. Come on guys, you
guys used to be a band. You used to be doing something new and
original, and you have slunked ((just made up that word)) to new lows
as a complete sell-out and just crap music. On the biggest stage in
the entire world. In the words of the great Chris Berman, “C’mon,
man!” Not to mention that the Super Bowl has been relying on oldies
(but goodies) since the nipple thing ((I love that we as a society have a ‘nipple
thing’)). And, to add, Fergie did the Guns n’ Roses thing with Slash.
Gah. Words can not express the amount of vile that shit was. Fergie
looked like a mix between Jocelyn Wildenstein and Leonidas.
Fwaahgie.
That performance by Fergie ended the debate Fergie Vs. Gwen Stefani (never
a debate. Gwen is a Goddess, and Fergie pees her pants.) And Slash was
possibly the worst one out there. Completely devoid of a care. Imagine
that conversation, “Hey Slash, we need you to look like you usually
do. Play the riff you have been playing a kajillion times, and just
stand on a platform as Fergie attempts to sing like Axl, but
ultimately takes a dump on your best song.” Slash, “eff that. Go
away.” Super Bowl, “we will pay you a million dollars, and for two
days, you will be relevant.”
You can feel Slash's apathy towards all of this.
If it was not for Usher coming in and
saving the day the Super Bowl would have been a COMPLETE bust.
Fleetwood Mac needs to do a Super Bowl. I have
been saying it for years, and I don’t mind if the Super Bowl goes back
to pop bands, but the oldies weren’t so bad either. Fleetwood Mac:
Super Bowl 2012 should be a Facebook thing at the very least.) Black
Eyed Peas’ “Let’s Get it Started” made them totally cool at parties,
sporting events, and every other time where pop music is accepted. It
ALL came because of their hit Grammy-winning song, “Let’s Get it
Started.” The song was played live at the 2004 Democratic National
Convention. You think John Kerry would have been down with the B.E.P.
if the Peas whipped out the “Let’s Get Retarded” to kick off their
event? Can we please just take a second and realize that the clean
version of this song is phenomenal. Everybody can totally dig it. It’s
been a pop song staple for over five years, and I would still throw it
out there if I was the DJ at a wedding, or whatever. Cleaner may not
ALWAYS be better, but in this case, it definitely was.
The 2011 Post
This is it. The 2011 post. We have been preparing this post for quite some time now, because you guys are worth it. What we wanted to do was take all of our favorite things of 2011 and make it into one great long post. And this is it. We will trade off talking about our favorite albums, songs, movies, and whatever else that just might have happened. So, sit back and enjoy 2011 with us. We will be starting it now, and adding to it as the month moves along. Also, please tell us what we missed in the comments section!
Best Albums of 2011 – Cal
You are first going to notice that I have a much different music style choice than my co-writers. I’m a huge metal fan, but I also dabble in pretty much everything. So let’s get after it!
10. House of Balloons – The Weeknd
House of Balloons - The Weeknd
This album does not disappoint. Abel Tesfaye’s voice ascends through the clouds, with some of the fattest snare sounds in the history of music. His voice surrounds the area like a poisonous gas. Songs like “What You Need” start out with some of the most sexy grooves that bring an immediate smile to your face. Easily, the most straight up sexy album I have ever heard. You know how everybody says that James Brown is “baby makin’ music”? Listening to The Weeknd makes me realize exactly what that term means. House of Balloons is the sexiest and most pure hip hop albums I have heard in a long time.
Recommended Songs: What You Need, Wicked Games.
9. Dead Throne – The Devil Wears Prada
Dead Throne - The Devil Wears Prada (TDWP)
Here we go, straight into the metal. True metal heads would never acknowledge the existence of TDWP, but I am not really a true metal head. TDWP is generally the best produced metal band out there. And Dead Throne kept up with its predecessors. Everything just sounds so pure and crisp. Devil is taking the forefront of the hardcore/metalcore scene, and this album shows why. They have been abandoning their emocore sound, and embracing metalcore at its finest combing a fury of breakdowns, chugging, blast beats, synth, chorus chants, and they even left behind their auto-tune. This album has some of their best guitar work yet. “Constance” has a riff in the middle that both bounces and chugs better than anything I have heard them release to date. Having thought out rhythms and riffs that stack perfectly on top of each other that creates song flow that they have always been phenomenal at. Songs like “Born to Lose” and “Mammoth” really exemplifies Chris Rubey’s maturing as a lead guitarist, and Jeremy DePoyster’s settling into his role as not only the clean vocalist, but as a strong rhythm guitar player as well. “We’ve put the world up onto a dead throne.”
Recommended Songs: Born to Lose, Constance
8. Goblin – Tyler the Creator
Goblin - Tyler the Creator
The only other hip hop album to crack my top ten, Goblin is a barrage of hate strewn together and thrown right into your face. I am not sure I have ever heard anything filled with so much hate. Which, personally, I do not mind. Tyler the Creator is a twenty year old rapper who has been making quite a storm in the hip hop scene. Not taking crap from anybody, he writes and raps about what he feels. Which is an incredible amount of hate, sex, and just general lack of morals really. With that said, I enjoy a good album to put on and escape from the world. And that’s exactly what Goblin does. Talking about how much he hates having to be anything other than yourself, Goblin is a strewn baggage of lyrics that exclaim that I am what I am, and nobody can tell me otherwise. Tyler’s lyrics are honest, and that is missed by a lot of rap artists nowadays. I am sick of the rap artists that rap about how great they are over and over again, and how rich they are ….ahem, Drake, Kanye, Jay-Z, and Eminem, how many more albums are you going to tell me how great you are? Tyler does not do that. He honestly tells you that he is a normal guy just writing lyrics about dealing with people that irritate him, and just anything that irritates him (“I’ll stab Bruno Mars right in his —- esophagus, and won’t stop until the cops come in” – Yonkers). His voice is hurtful and harsh, and it can shoot through the listener’s ears straight to their inner emotions. I recommend this album to the people who are strong enough to deal with it. Warning, this album is hard. Really hard. The hardest album I have ever listened to. After all, Tyler the Creator says himself in the opening track, “The devil doesn’t wear Prada; I’m clearly in a f–king white tee.”
Recommended Songs: Yonkers, Sandwitches
7. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming – M83
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - M83
When Adam first heard this album, he texted me to tell me to give it a listen. His initial thoughts were that it was the “Passion Pit album of 2011.” Meaning that it was an electronically lead album. This is high praise from Adam, who loves Passion Pit’s Manners quite a lot. I did give it a listen. Casually listening to it with my housemate while we played MW3. At first, I wanted to compare it to M83’s album from 2006, Before the Dawn Heals Us. However, they are significantly different and yet keeps the M83 flair. Keeping with their electronic sound, but I found this album to be a perfect blend of rock, ambiance, Halloween music, dance, and a strong 80’s pop resemblance; quite the eccentric blend. When I think of M83, I think of their encompassing electronic sound with limited lyrics. They even released an instrumental album in 2007. But this album was not that. They still created a wall of noise with the compassing synth noises and drums, but this time Gonzalez’s beautiful rhythmic and French voice soars through most of the album. Zola Jones sings beautifully on the Intro track, conveniently titled “Intro.” Honestly, as soon as I heard “Intro” I was hooked, and Gonzalez and M83 did not let me go through the entire dual albums. That’s right, this album is two CDs of over 70 minutes of music. Usually, I am put off by dual albums. I’ve been let down by them before (Say Anything, Showbread), but M83 did it correctly. A beautiful wall of noises that titillates all emotions of your body. They will make you want to party, and then take you somewhere else where you want to cry and be alone. That’s why music is so fantastic, and M83’s understanding of music is timed perfectly in this fantastic album.
Recommended Songs: Intro, New Map
6. Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes
Helplessness Blue - Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes’ sophomore album was ultimately a struggle for me. Fleet Foxes had to live up to, in my opinion, the best folk album of all time: their own. Although this album was not as great as their first self-titled album, this album was great. It is hard for a band to come back from an album that defined themselves, especially when it was their first album (Say Anything, Fall Out Boy), but Helplessness Blues is still a fantastic album that does not disappoint the listener. This is a beautiful album. That’s basically it. It’s beautiful. The harmonies, and singing, and guitar parts, and the small army of instruments makes everything fit perfectly to create a perfect composite of beautiful music. This album makes you want to walk among roses with a pretty girl, and never look back. It makes you want to quit your daily grime and move out west and start a farm. Literally, this album is so ‘homey’ that I feel like I am in the 1930’s listening to music on the old radio. But without the cheesy lyrics and add even better melody lines. Fleet Foxes harmonies as a band are the only harmonies that could come close to Bon Iver’s. They are beautiful, that blends perfectly to create a loud and focused sound that resonates and is still catchy. A fun blend of folk instruments make you realize that you are listening to a fantastic folk album, but at times you forget and it blends perfectly into the background music of your daily life. However, this album is a quiet and subdued album that is a perfect way to end your day and rest up from your daily life. Lyrically, this album is much stronger than the first. Taking stances on real issues, and calling out capitalism and economic growth. Another reoccurring theme is the need to leave behind all your cares for wealth and riches that pressure you all the time. “Helplessness Blues” offers some of the best lyrics of 2011. Fleet Foxes are an amazing band, and this album proves that their first album, Fleet Foxes, was not luck. Fleet Foxes are a real band to be remembered and “reckoned” with.
Recommended Songs: Helplessness Blues, Montezuma
5. Celestial Completion – Becoming the Archetype
Celestial Completion - Becoming the Archetype
Becoming the Archetype is my favorite metalcore band ever. And I do not think I have looked forward to an album quite like I looked forward to Celestial Completion in a long time. The thing about metalcore music is, Christian metal artists are taking the forefront of it. With big name acts like For Today and Impending Doom dropping albums last year there was some metalcore albums to look forward to again this year: August Burns Red, Plea for Purging, In the Midst of Lions, and Becoming the Archetype. Of those, Becoming the Archetype’s album was the clear forerunner for the 2011 albums. Their new guitarist, Daniel Gailey, gave them a new edge that has not been seen in BTA’s arsenal yet. BTA has gone through a lot of line up changes throughout the year (including this year; a couple months after this album released their lead singer and bassist Jason Wisdom and drummer “Duck” left the band), but Daniel gave them something that they have really lacked in the past: a strong writer and solo guitarist. Celestial Completion offers a lot of varying styles in one album. It’s almost a prog-metal album when you sit back and look at its full spectrum. With a ska section led by Five Iron Frenzy’s Dennis Culp on the track “Cardiac Rebellion.” However what should most be remembered from this album is the three part song “Requiem Aeternam.” Starting off with a simple but lovely piano melody the song transforms into a full blooded metal song, and just when you think it’s done it come right back into the midst of the song with operatic vocals over blast beats and guitar sweeps. I apologize for my drooling, but just think about that. This album offers so much other than a simple metal album that it really should be honored for its impeccable ability to travel from sitars to opera to ska to metal and back again. I strongly recommend this album to any metalcore fans that seem to get bored of the constant chug that is taking over the metal scene nowadays.
Recommended Songs: Path of the Beam, Requiem Aeternam (Parts I, II, III)
4. Agony – Fleshgod Apocalypse
Agony - Fleshgod Apocalypse
Okay. Metal. Italian metal band Fleshgod Apocalypse. This is the best straight up metal album to have come out from 2011. Combining metal gods like Nile and Rhapsody. It is a blend of orchestra and metal. Fleshgod Apocalypse is a symphonic technical death metal band. Like… what? That’s a genre. And when I say metal, I mean metal. There is never a doubt at this band’s ability to shred faster than anybody else out there, as they do so song after song. To be honest, I think a lot of metal heads might get thrown off by this band by their inability to slow down. It is blast beat after blast beat creating a machine gun of noise that shoots right into your face and does not let up until the album ends. Loud enough to make your ears bleed, and musical enough to peak your interest. Fleshgod Apocalypse needs to be on every person’s iPod, because of their band name alone. I love having people go through my iPod and come to Fleshgod Apocalypse and just stop and think about it. There needed to be a metal band named Fleshgod Apocalypse. It’s the ultimate band name ever! You know exactly what you are going to get based off their band name only. The orchestra value really adds a level of musicality that has been used in meal music for a long time, but Agony finds a way to make it a forefront part of Fleshgod Apocalypse’s sound. It is not just a filler or a instrumental track thrown into the album. On tracks such as “The Deceit” and “The Violation” (“The Violation” is my favorite metal song of 2011) Fleshgod Apocalypse offers a tenor operatic vocal style that soars over the blinding metal base. Honestly, I am usually not a fan of clean vocals in my metal, but the notes he hits are both incredibly impressive and catchy. I strongly recommend Agony to anyone who is thinking about giving metal a chance. It combines near dizzying speed, the fastest blast beats, beautiful operatic clean vocals, and a brutal frontal voice attack. Agony is just a phenomenal metal album that really reignited my love for metal music.
Recommended Songs: The Violation, The Deceit
3. El Camino – The Black Keys
El Camino - The Black Keys
Coming out earlier this week (December 6) El Camino is the newest album on this list. Perhaps I am all about this album because it just came out, but I do not think so. I have listened to this album a good dozen times already. The Black Keys are fantastic. Offering some of the best rock n’ roll since Led Zeppelin. On tracks such as “Little Black Submarines” you might get confused and actually think you are listening to Led Zeppelin. That is an incredibly prestigious comment that I would never just throw out. The Black Keys are combining a blend of blues and rock and heaviness that has yet to be seen in modern rock. Maybe Wolfmother, but Wolfmother is annoying once you get past their singles. The Black Keys are getting back to the roots of music to create sounds that blend from the 60s, 70s, 90s, and modern rock. El Camino combines some of the greatest rock sounds from Led Zeppelin, The Zombies, Kansas, CCR, The White Stripes, and Black Sabbath. On every track of El Camino there is something to remember. They have not abandoned their sound of their previous album Brothers, but rather refined it. On the track “Gold on the Ceiling” I found myself head banging harder than I do to some metal songs. The song also offers guitar tones that was seen on Brothers, and the guitar riff is so catchy that the song will cloud your brain for the remainder of the day. On the track “Little Black Submarines” you start quietly with an acoustic jam, but then evolves into a full on blues-rock song that you can just jam and air-guitar to. This song change has become sort of a trademark for the Black Keys, and I absolutely love it. To be fair, it reminds me of “Hangar 18” and “Holy Wars” by Megadeth where the songs change halfway through itself. Their are many great guitar riffs on “Little Black Submarines,” and some of The Black Keys’ most catchy melodies to date. On the opening track “The Lonely Boy” the Black Keys combine a fun guitar riff with their traditional drum sound that really defines the sound of the remainder of the album. The drumming on this album is probably The Black Keys best they have ever done as well. A fun White Stripes sort of loud jam sound and Led Zeppelins fast tom driven drums. Honestly, El Camino is some of the best straight up indie rock music that will last forever. Years from now a lot of the pop music that dominates the radio now will be forgotten and thrown out, but The Black Keys have created an album that will stand the test of time. And I can honestly say less than one week from its release.
Recommended Songs: Little Black Submarine, Gold on the Ceiling
2. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Bon Iver is just perfect all the way through. It’s a journey of music. It’s an adventure for your emotions. This album takes its hand and grabs your heart and does not let go for its entirety. Justin Vernon has encompassed some of the most heart warming sounds that have ever come through speakers in the history of speakers and music. Creating the chillest sounds and yet an enveloping sound of warmth that blankets you. Vernon redefined indie folk with his album For Emma, Forever Ago and again redefined it with his self-titled album. It is a phenomenal album by a phenomenal artist that truly jumped him to the forefront of the music industry. The harmonies are perfect, tasteful, and catchy. The guitar is beautiful. The vocals are angelic and charming. Vernon’s voice is an added instrument that meshes itself perfectly into the overall sound of the album. The songs are arranged perfectly to create an album that does not disappoint through its entirety. Ending with the 80s sounding song “Beth/Rest” you feel as though you understand everything and nothing all at once. Standing alone “Beth/Rest” makes for a rather unusual sound for Bon Iver, but once you travel there through the entirety of the album the song makes sense. On the opening track “Perth” you are filled with a reminder of war times, bringing in a drum beat that would have been used during Civil War marches and then a perfect and singable trumpet line that really punches you right in the face. Also, this song has a catchy drum part that listeners can drum along to. Moving through the album, Vernon’s vocals are amazing and nothing less than perfect. The album comes to a peaceful hiatus between tracks “Michicant” and “Calgary.” You are eventually reawakened by “Lisbon, OH” and reunited with the perfect ending to the album “Beth/Rest.” An incredible sounding album with a plethora of instruments that intertwine perfectly to create a wall of beautiful songs that creates a fantastic experience.
Recommended Songs: Perth, Holocene
1. Olives & Oil – Asunder Minstrel
Olives and Oil EP - Asunder Minstrel
For those that know me, this should not be a surprise. For those that don’t; Asunder Minstrel is the best band you have never heard of. The reason you have never heard of Asunder Minstrel is because it is my band. I wish I could say that this number one pick is a joke, but it is not. I absolutely love this album. I love what my friends and I have created. We combine rap, rock, shred, and indie into a dynamic album. Our songs are some of the best songs I have ever heard, and I say that with an honest opinion. You always say to not create an album that you would not want to listen to, and this was not the case at all. I listen to Asunder Minstrel almost everyday. If you want to read background information on every single one of our songs, then I recommend that you catch out our SoundCloud page. On the page you can click on the songs and read about what happened during the recording process and other information about Marshall that I picked up from working with him. You can also download the songs for free off of our SoundCloud or Facebook. Marshall is the singer and writer off AM’s songs. Seeing that Marshall has been in Alaska for awhile now, reading these information tidbits might give you a little bit of an edge to break up your grief for his absence. Marshall’s grimy voice mixed with my heavy electric guitar, and Dan’s technical and spot on drum techniques, and Wes Armbrust’s catchy bass lines make this album truly the best album of 2011, right? Right?! I just love this album. I am proud of what we have created, and I look forward to recording them again someday when we are signed by Ike and Joe Sullivan’s record company, Camaraderie Records. Listen to it, download it for FREE (great for Christmas!), like us on Facebook, and tell your friends. If you like music, then you will love Asunder Minstrel.
Recommended Songs: Temper, Gift of the Fairies …all of them… It’s my number one album!
Honorable Mentions AKA Albums that were close, but did not make the cut:
w h o k i l l – Tune-yards
Dye it Blonde – Smith Westerns
Weightless – Animals as Leaders
Ceremonials – Florence + The Machine
Atonement – Your Memorial
Most Disappointing Albums of 2011:
Scurrilous – Protest the Hero
Take Care -Drake
Watch the Throne – Jay-Z and Kanye West
Th1rt3en – Megadeth
Odd Soul – MUTEMATH
There you go. Albums of 2011.
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App Detail » The Return of Monte Cristo HD
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Wed 7 Dec 2016 01:55 PM
Dubai ruler orders expansion of International Humanitarian City
Sheikh Mohammed issues directive to enhance operations, accelerate aid response and improve management of relief projects
A C-17 Globemaster III airlifters built for the United Arab Emirates Air Force and used to deliver humanitarian aid. (Getty Images - for illustrative purposes only)
Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has ordered the expansion of International Humanitarian City to enhance operations, accelerate aid response and improve management of relief projects in high stress regions worldwide.
Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of Sheikh Mohammed and chairperson of the International Humanitarian City (IHC), announced the plans on Wednesday.
The expansion plan comes as the IHC, the only humanitarian free zone in the world, has now grown to host 9 UN Humanitarian Agencies, and over 50 international NPOs, intergovernmental organisations and commercial companies.
With a vast warehouse network, it stores, protects and organises aid supplies for its members and facilitates the delivery of this humanitarian aid when called upon.
In the last two months, it has made heavy lifts of emergency aid after being called upon by the United Nations. In September, under the directives of Sheikh Mohammed, an airlift carrying more than 100 tons of relief supplies was sent to Entebbe, Uganda on his Boeing-747 to provide assistance to more than 60,000 refugees from South Sudan.
In October, the IHC also delivered 90 tons of relief supplies on the same Boeing 747 to those affected by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti.
“What we are seeing is a growing demand in terms of frequency of response, to more hard to access places,” said Princess Haya. “The IHC is known for its ability to make big single lifts of aid in record response times... But Sheikh Mohammed has now guided the board to look at solutions to operate simultaneous smaller aircrafts at the same time.
"Additionally, we want to be able to respond to several crises at the same time. The frequency of demand for response is increasing, and the demand of our members for delivery is also becoming more frequent.”
The IHC board has appointed logistics advisor, Giuseppe Saba, at the International Humanitarian City for a period of 3-6 months to devise ideas on how to best maximise the IHC’s output. Saba previously served as head of the UN Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD).
“I have had the honour of working with Mr Saba on several occasions in the past, and I am confident that he will help manage the day-to-day running of operations at the IHC but most importantly be an incredible partner for us to work with in order to expand the IHC,” added Princess Haya.
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Wed 7 Aug 2019 01:50 PM
India set to ease licensing requirements for fuel marketing
Companies like Saudi Aramco are required to invest a minimum of $282m
India is working on a policy change in fuel marketing in the country, with a view to allow entry of overseas petroleum majors such as Saudi Aramco and even supermarket chains to this sector without any restrictions.
Under the existing policy in India, companies – Indian and overseas - are required to invest a minimum of $282 million (Rs 2,000 crore) in any of the value chain in the petroleum sector – such as exploration and production, refining, pipelines or terminals - to seek government licence for fuel marketing.
Ministry of petroleum at the federal government is currently in discussions with the ministries of finance, commerce and law before finalizing the policy change on this for Cabinet approval, according to a report in Economic Times.
The move to liberalise the norms for fuel marketing followed recommendations to this effect by an expert panel, constituted last year, to review the 2002 guideline on grant of transport fuel marketing licence.
The expert panel had favoured ending minimum investment by companies as a licensing condition while introducing minimum net worth bar for licence-seekers. It also suggested opening up the sector to non-oil companies, imposing strict timelines for setting up petrol pumps, and penalties for not meeting the rollout plan.
The expert panel consisted of renowned economist Kirit Parikh, former oil secretary G C Chaturvedi, former Indian Oil Corp (IOC) chairman M A Pathan, IIM Ahmedabad Director Errot D’souza and Ashutosh Jindal, joint secretary in the ministry of petroleum and natural gas.
With India’s fast growing transportation, including aviation sectors and vast industrial sectors, demand for petrol, diesel and aviation fuel is projected to register sustained growth for several years to come.
Demand growth for petrol, diesel and ATF for 2018-19 was at 8 percent, 3 percent and 9 percent respectively.
Saudi Aramco has been keen on investing in India’s petroleum sector and has entered into a partnership agreement with India’s state-run refining companies for a proposed 60-million-tonne a year refinery.
Separately, the Saudi energy major has also said to have held parleys with Reliance Industries for investing in latter’s refinery project. It, however, was reportedly not keen on entering fuel marketing without having its own manufacturing hub in India.
Petroleum sector analysts said the proposed policy tweak on fuel marketing may not lead to a rush for entry by international energy companies or supermarket chains in the Indian market because of pricing and supply related issues.
“India’s fuel marketing sector is controlled by integrated refining and marketing oil companies and because of this sourcing of fuel for new stand alone or even overseas oil companies will be a problem,” Kalpana Jain, a petroleum sector analyst with Deloitte India told Arabian Business.
Pricing will be another issue. Even big companies like Saudi Aramco will have to assess availability of supply in term of how much of its production is tied up contractually and how much is available for free marketing, as also the business viability of the cost of building storage facilities and importing fuel to India for marketing, she added.
“They (foreign oil companies or supermarket chains) may not necessarily come or may come because of the proposed policy change in fuel marketing, as at the end of the day, it will be a business decision each company will have to take, considering supply sources and international prices trend of crude,” Jain said.
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Tue 18 Nov 2014 05:16 PM
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Announcement comes nearly 6 years after it raised $85.9m in an IPO
Viva Kuwait, the country's No.2 mobile phone operator by subscribers, will list its shares on the Kuwait Stock Exchange on December 14, nearly six years after it completed an initial public offer of shares, the company's chairman said on Tuesday.
In a statement carried by Kuwait's state news agency (KUNA), Adel Mohammad al-Roumi said the firm's listing is an important strategic step towards its development, adding the company fulfilled all the technical and legal requirements to list.
Roumi added the bourse is currently reviewing arrangements with parties connected to the listing, including taking the necessary precautions and procedures to ensure a seamless listing process. He did not elaborate further.
Viva Kuwait, an affiliate of Saudi Telecom, raised 25 million dinars ($85.9 million) from selling half its shares to Kuwaiti nationals in its IPO in September 2008, beginning services later that year.
The company never publicly explained the delay in listing.
However, the global financial crisis appeared to play a role; from its June 2008 peak, Kuwait's main stock index plunged nearly 60 percent to February 2009, and it remains about 55 percent below that high.
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When Eleanor Pendleton met Louis M. Ream in 1911, it was love at first sight. She was a Broadway actress known for her beauty and dancing ability in musical comedy productions during the early twentieth century. Louis was tall, dark, and handsome and, as she soon discovered, the youngest son and presumptive heir of Norman B. Ream, one of America’s wealthiest men. The problem for Eleanor, as she learned after eloping with Louis, was her father-in-law’s deep-seated aversion to the theatre; he regarded all actresses as disreputable. After an overnight trip to seek his father’s forgiveness and understanding, Louis disappeared.
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Six killed in Afghan blasts
At least six people have been killed in two blasts at a house owned by an explosives trader next to an American air base in Afghanistan.
The ruined town of Bagram is the headquarters of occupation forces in Afghanistan
No coalition troops were reported hurt in the explosion on Friday, which was not believed to be an attack on the base.
An AFP correspondent saw five bodies, including those of a woman and a child, and two wounded people carried from the blazing home in
the village next to the gate of Bagram Air Base, 50km
north of Kabul.
A 14-year-old boy in an alley near the house was killed by
shrapnel when a rocket exploded after the main blast.
Villagers said
another six to 10 people were injured in the second explosion.
A trader was storing mortars and rockets inside the house which
exploded around 08:30 GMT, according to residents.
unclear how he was able to keep so many munitions close to the
tightly-guarded military base.
Afghanistan is awash with weapons after two decades of war.
Explosives and munitions stores are often set off by power short
circuits and other accidents.
"People initially told us that 15 people were living in the
house but they now say there were six people living there," US Major
David Long said at the scene.
Afghanistan is awash with arms
after two decades of civil war
Villagers also said six people - the owner, his wife and four
children - lived in the house, and that a seventh had been staying
there as a guest.
Long said it would take some time to determine the exact toll.
"There are still bodies lying on the ground and people inside
but we can't go to rescue them," said Abdul Rahman, a villager who
lives near the destroyed house.
Five fire trucks were dispatched from Bagram Air Base to
extinguish the blaze.
Dozens of US soldiers, several ambulances and
two military vehicles were at the scene as troops kept people away
from the house.
Villagers said more explosives were stored in the house, which
US troops were trying to remove.
"The owner of the house was buying rockets and bombs and then he
removed the explosives and sold them to people mining for precious
stones in Badakhshan province and the Panjshir valley," villager Jan
Mohammad said.
Mohammad said the owner had lost his left leg and left eye two
years ago in an explosion but he had continued his trade.
"It's a good business - he was making a lot of money."
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Actors Who Were Paid Shockingly Little for Famous Roles
Money Gabriela N. Thursday, 18 December 2014, 12:43 0
Gabriela N.
10 Actors Who Were Paid Shockingly Little for Famous Roles
They are the 10 actors who were paid shockingly little for famous roles.
Hollywood is a big thing that annually makes a lot of money. And everybody knows that the actors get paid way too much.
But occasionally, actors chose to appear in movies for low paychecks. But why they do agree to such terms?
Because of a combination of reasons such as: they loved the role so much, they were desperate to appear on the big screen at the time or because they are first-time actors and therefore they are not able to negotiate a bigger amount of money.
Either way, because of their performances, many of these films managed to gross millions at box office.
10. Chris Evans – The Avengers- $2 million
10 Actors Who Were Paid Shockingly Little for Famous Roles 10. Chris Evans – The Avengers- $2 million |via: movpins.com|
Chris Evans starts this list with actors who were paid shockingly little for famous roles.
Disney’s The Avengers is one of the largest movies ever made. Its budget was $220 million and managed to gross $623,279,547 only in the USA.
Quickly became one of the largest and popular films of all times at it broke numerous records.
Starring in such a high-profile film you would expect that all the starts to receive equal and impressive salaries for their work. But nope.
Chris Evans, who played Captain America, unlike his co-stars was paid only $2 million.
You will say that isn’t that enough? No, it isn’t.
Compared to some of the other actors such as Robert Downey Jr., who played Iron Man, who had an estimated pay of $50 million, Chris’s paycheck becomes insignificant.
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Houghton, Mich. ~ Oliver Solberg was thrust upon the American rally scene last January. The then seventeen-year-old son of a former WRC World Champion was tabbed to be the number two driver for Subaru Motorsports USA for six rounds of the 2019 American Rally Association season. The idea: get the young Norwegian enough quality seat-time, while learning from and challengingn defending ARA champion and teammate David Higgins.
By the time the series finale Lake Superior Performance Rally (LSPR) rolled around, Solberg had found more than enough quality seat time, and with two wins already under his belt, was considered Higgins biggest challenger to date. At LSPR, Solberg continued upon his upward trajectory by limiting his mistakes, driving fast and winning his third ARA national of the season.
"I have to say it's very nice to end the season with a win, it's fantastic,” said Solberg. “The weekend didn't start off perfectly, and I had to get used to the car again, which took four or five stages to get used to it. Then we showed good speed and it was good fun for us as well. End the season on a high."
After eight rounds, Higgins had wrapped up his tenth U.S. rally championship and second straight ARA title while Co-Driver Craig Drew notched championship number eight. With the titles secured, the only thing left was to put an explanation point on their 2019 season. They were well on their way, winning the first four stages and holding a 14-second leader over Solberg and Co-Driver Aaron Johnston. But in a blink of an eye, their day came to a sudden halt after the number one car stalled out and slid into a tree stump, damaging the suspension.
“It’s disappointing not to end the season with the performance we wanted, especially here at LSPR where we’ve won in the past, but I’m very proud to have earned my tenth title,” said Higgins after the event on Subaru.com. “We put together strong events when we needed to, and lots of credit to Craig and the rest of the team for all their hard work this year as well.
Securing a second-place podium, and locking up second overall in the national championship brought forth some uneasy moments for Barry McKenna and Co-Driver Andrew Hayes. They were having a great rally, keeping pace with the cars out front and holding off Piotr Fetela and Dominik Jozwiak. But drivetrain troubles meant some major scrambling during the final service. The team only persevered and only incurred a 30-second penalty, and was able to stay in the rally, finishing second.
"The last three stages were cruel,” said McKenna. “We lost power steering on the first stage after service. We also couldn't put it in stage mode because we lost the wastegate pipe before service, and after the gearbox change in that service. But we got to the end."
After winning the season opener at Sno-Drift in January, Fetela and Jozwiak were looking to cap off their 2019 campaign with another podium. He entered LSPR tied with McKenna for second overall. In the end, they got the podium they were looking for, but Solberg’s win was enough to knock them out of the top three overall for the season.
“Good weekend. Absolutely good weekend,” said an emotional Fetela after the final stage. “I didn't expect third place, but I'm kind of unhappy because we just missed the podium for the championship. Anyway, a very good season for us. Before we started, I didn't even know we were going to get this far, so that's good. Thank you to everybody, all the fans, the family, all the sponsors and partners, Dominik, the whole crew! Thank you! A good season!"
LSPR can become a fickle beast, especially on day two. The 61 cars that entered the rally were hoping that the rainy weather that fell earlier in the week wouldn’t become a factor. More rain, however, found its way onto the stages on Saturday. By the end of the weekend, 18 cars would register a DNF, including frontrunners Higgins and Drew, Ramana Lagemann and Nathalie Richard (exhaust), Limited 4WD champion Cameron Seely and co-driver and Steven Harrell (fire) and El Diablo Racing’s Matt Dickinson and Daniel Piker (broken suspension).
Even for those that finished, and finished well, the problems caused by the rough LSPR stages followed them until the very end. Grzegorz Bugaj and Elizabeth Dziubanski took home the win in the Limited 4WD, finishing fourth overall just before the engine let go after the finish line.
“Very good until we started overheating,” said Bugaj. “I think we just finished off the motor as we crossed the line. But we're here. Very happy with our result.”
Seamus Burke and Martin Brady won the competitive Open 2WD class, bringing out the popular 1977 Ford Escort MKII for LSPR. Burke-Brady finished eighth overall nationally, and took the class win by more than 1:34 ahead of Jordan Guitar and Steve Olona.
"Rough day,” said Burke at the podium. “We broke a steering arm and drove two miles on it. We were lucky enough to take a bolt out of the suspension and replace it. Tough day, but we're here."
David Wallingford and Leanne Junnila captured the inaugural RC2 Cup championship, but the LSPR win went to John Coyne and Doug Nagy at LSPR. Coyne and Nagy finished fifth overall in the McKenna Motorsports M-Sport Ford Fiesta R5.
"The stages are magnificent,” said Coyne. “It was great. Car was faultless all weekend."
Blake and Tricia Lind put an explanation on their NA4WD National Championship with the overall win at LSPR. It was their fourth win of 2019, giving them back-to-back series titles. In second place was the 1997 Subaru Impreza driven by Amanda Skelly and co-driver Jason Grizaniuk.
"The rally went really well,” said Blake Lind. “First time at LSPR for us as competitors, and it's just an awesome rally."
In regional action, Zachary Whitebread and Cameron Carr (1st - O4WD) took the overall by just two seconds over Jimmy Pelizzari and Kate Stevens (1st - NA4WD) after a late scoring change.
"It was an awesome rally.” said Pelizzari. “This is my favorite, and I think it’s probably the best with epic roads. Awesome conditions that changed throughout the night and today, and it's just been an awesome weekend!"
John and Kristin Kosmatka pushed their 2013 Subaru BRZ to third overall and a win in Limited 2WD. Jordan Locher and Thomas Addison (NA4WD) were fourth while Stephen and Katherine Gingras finished fifth.
Kevin Schmidt and Jay Anderson took home the Open 2WD class win, and Ivo Draganor and Vladimir Yanev grabbed the Limited 4WD honors. Click here for full LSPR National and Regional results.
The 2019 American Rally Association presented by AMSOIL finishes the national portion of its schedule October 25-25 at the ARA Super Regional Empire State Performance Rally. There are still two standalone regionals left on the schedule, Tour de Forest Rally November 9 and Nemadji Trail Rally December 7.
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A Possibility of Whales (Hardcover)
By Karen Rivers
The story of a girl who—thanks to her friends, her famous dad, and a chance encounter with a whale—learns the true meaning of family.
Twelve-year-old Natalia Rose Baleine Gallagher loves possibilities: the possibility that she’ll see whales on the beach near her new home, that the boy she just met will be her new best friend, that the photographers chasing her actor father won’t force Nat and her dad to move again. Most of all, Nat dreams of the possibility that her faraway mother misses and loves Nat—and is waiting for Nat to find her.
The thing is, Nat doesn’t even know who her mother is. She left Nat as a baby, and Nat’s dad refuses to talk about it. Nat knows she shouldn’t need a mom, but she still feels like something is missing.
In this heartfelt story about family, friendship, and growing up, Nat’s questions lead her on a journey of self-discovery that will change her life forever.
Karen Rivers’s books have been nominated for a wide range of literary awards and have been published in multiple languages. When she’s not writing, reading, or visiting schools, she can usually be found hiking in the forest that flourishes behind her tiny old house in Victoria, British Columbia, where she lives with her two kids, two dogs, and two birds. Find her online at karenrivers.com and on Twitter: @karenrivers.
“A remarkable novel . . . Nat’s witty and vulnerable voice drives the novel, from her wry observations about contemporary celebrity culture to the thoughtful collection of untranslatable words that help define her world. The chapters that center Harry’s perspective are just as strong, emphasizing his desire to be seen and understood, not as an abstract exemplar of a transgender child but as an individual. The novel avoids offering simple solutions for questions of identity and adolescence, instead reveling in life’s nuance and complexity. Perfect for fans of Raymie Nightingale and Counting by Sevens, Rivers’ latest work brings an improbable combination of elements together in an unforgettable story that is quirky and wise.”
“Charming and sweet as it explores personal identity, life changes, love, and, of course, whales . . . Nat’s story of self-discovery is sure to inspire anyone searching for their place in the world.”
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“A coming-of-age story that’s both relatable and moving . . . [Rivers] strikes the perfect tone of innocence, confusion and a touch of obstinance with Natalia, as she wades into the wild world of growing up . . . a bright, optimistic book that touches on growing up, celebrity visibility, transgender topics and more — refreshingly, and without being too weighed down with any insurmountably sombre notes.”
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
Publication Date: March 13th, 2018
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Cannibal Holocaust 1980 is a controversial exploitation film directed by Ruggero Deodato from a screenplay by Gianfranco Clerici. Filmed in the Amazon Rainforest, the movie tells the story of four documentarians who journey deep into the jungle to film indigenous ...expand text.
Cannibal Holocaust 1980 is a controversial exploitation film directed by Ruggero Deodato from a screenplay by Gianfranco Clerici. Filmed in the Amazon Rainforest, the movie tells the story of four documentarians who journey deep into the jungle to film indigenous tribes. Two months later, after they fail to return, famous anthropologist Harold Monroe travels on a rescue mission to find the group. Eventually, he recovers and views their lost cans of film, which reveal the missing filmmakers' fate. The film stars Robert Kerman as Monroe, Carl Gabriel Yorke as director Alan Yates, Francesca Ciardi as Alan's girlfriend Faye, Perry Pirkanen as cameraman Jack Anders, and Luca Barbareschi as fellow cameraman Mark Tomaso. Close text
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Upon its release, the film made claims to being "The most violent film ever made". Claims were also made in promotional material that Cannibal Ferox was banned in 31 countries, though the official list of countries that have banned it ...expand text.
Upon its release, the film made claims to being "The most violent film ever made". Claims were also made in promotional material that Cannibal Ferox was banned in 31 countries, though the official list of countries that have banned it has never been released also, many countries that originally banned the film have since lifted the bans.
The film is in the mold of a survivalist adventure yarn set in the Amazon jungle, with set-pieces including animal mutilation, eye-gouging, castration, cannibalism as the title suggests, and a live and screaming female victim impaled through both breasts by suspended iron hooks, identical to the ritual Richard Harris' character endured in A Man Called Horse. John Morghen AKA Giovanni Lombardo Radice stars as a drug-crazed, womanizing lout, and porn star Robert Kerman turns up as a world-weary New York detective. Close text
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The Beyond also known as E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldil or Seven Doors of Death is a 1981 Italian horror movie directed by Lucio Fulci. It is considered by some horror film fans to be one of the ...expand text.
The Beyond also known as E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldil or Seven Doors of Death is a 1981 Italian horror movie directed by Lucio Fulci. It is considered by some horror film fans to be one of the best movies made by the Italian director 1. The second film in Fulci's unofficial Gates of Hell trilogy along with City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery, The Beyond has gained a cult following over the decades in part because of the films gore-filled murder sequences, which had been heavily censored when the film was originally released in the United States in 1983. Close text
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999 Eyes
From the producers who brought you ABC's "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" and Discovery Channel's "Would You Believe It!", here is the promo of their newest, soon to be released television series called "999 EYES", created by Big Cat Productions, ...expand text.
From the producers who brought you ABC's "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" and Discovery Channel's "Would You Believe It!", here is the promo of their newest, soon to be released television series called "999 EYES", created by Big Cat Productions, and produced by Big Cat in association with Outpost Worldwide. "999 EYES" follows the last freakshow in the world, at home, and on the road as they perform their one of kind vaudevillian show. AMAZing one of kind people, fantastic music, and unique situations, so... would you watch it? i would, im in it. Close text
999 EYES PRESENTATION
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Earache in My Eye Episode 3: A two-headed history lesson with the 999 Eyes Freakshow and That Damned Band.
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The 999 EYES is the Worlds last authentic traveling Freakshow featuring real living human oddities, the largest in over sixty years.
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Hello and thank you for visiting this site. This is a Raw Teaser Footage of a Horror Sci-fi Action Independent Film in production now. Lots of Asian Style Cinema Special Effects from the 70s and 80s are in this fun project.I Hope we can unite, work and network with other filmmakers out there. Drop by and say hello :Special Effects and Fight Coordinator Eric R. Molinaris can be contacted via MySpace athttp://www.myspace.com/latin_dragon Close text
Black Sunrise
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Short Horror/Thriller. Loosely inspired by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and other horror movies
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The complicated math behind buying a college education in Georgia
The average student who earns a degree from one of these 10 schools is graduating with more than $27,000 of student loan debt
Sean Keenan
Illustration by Ja_inter/Getty Images
When tech investor Robert F. Smith pledged to pay off the student loan debt of Morehouse College’s entire 2019 graduating class earlier this summer, he threw a spotlight on the enormity of the student loan debt that many college graduates shoulder. In Georgia alone, at least 1.5 million residents—that’s about 14 percent of the state population—carry at least some student debt. Together, they’re in hock to higher learning for some $58.7 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid
We set out to break down what it costs to attend some of Georgia’s top schools—and how much of those price tags is paid from the pockets of students. Of course, calculating the true price of college is far more nuanced than just looking at the tuition and fee costs institutions advertise on their websites. To help boil things down, College Factual, an online database that provides context to the numbers on students and graduates’ bills, has tabulated an annual net price for thousands of schools, and we’ve organized the data to help underline the sometimes stark disconnects between the sticker value and the bona fide cost of colleges in Georgia.
In some cases, the annual net price hardly resembles the tuition price the school advertises. At Agnes Scott College, Georgia’s foremost women’s college, for instance, the cost of tuition and fees for the 2017-2018 academic year was clocked at $39,960. The average annual net price, which factors in fees and expenses and subtracts scholarships and grants, is almost $11,000 cheaper than that—$29,028, to be exact. The disparity there stems in part from the fact that virtually all Agnes Scott freshmen are offered financial aid—predominantly from scholarships and grants—averaging $35,657 per person for freshman year. And with every incoming student receiving financial aid of some sort, it’s difficult to think of scholarships and grants as rewards, says College Factual CEO Bill Phelan.
Source: All data from College Factual
“It’s always more flowery to talk about ‘scholarships and grants’ because that’s the nomenclature, but, fundamentally, these are just discounts,” Phelan tells Atlanta magazine. “We find a lot of the schools around the country play this game, where they mark up the tuition really high, and when you see that Agnes Scott College, for example, awards each one of its freshmen $24,000 [in scholarships], that means it’s discounting [tuition]. It’s kind of a marketing gimmick.”
On the other hand, Kennesaw State University, which has the cheapest 2017-2018 in-state tuition ($6,347) of any of the 10 schools we studied, actually costs $22,453 annually, according to College Factual’s data, which comes from the U.S. Department of Education and private sources. That higher number accounts for student fees, room and board, and all other expenses after financial aid has been subtracted.
But perhaps the most striking data point that emerges when crunching these numbers is the amount of loans students take out to help pay for a four-year education. At the private schools we studied—Morehouse College, Spelman College, Clark Atlanta University, Emory University, and Agnes Scott College—about 21 percent of the tab for four years of schooling is being paid through student loans. For public schools—Georgia State University, the University of Georgia, Kennesaw State University, Georgia Southern University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology—almost 31 percent of an undergraduate degree is paid for with loans.
The average student who earns a degree from one of these 10 schools—public or private—is graduating with more than $27,000 of student loan debt. It’s yet unclear how much Robert F. Smith’s gift to Morehouse grads will cost the billionaire philanthropist, but some estimates have put the number in the tens of millions—possibly as high as $40 million. And that’s for a graduating class with just about 400 students.
“We have no way of knowing who’s paying along the way, but we surveyed students at a number of different colleges a few years back and found that virtually nobody’s paying their loans along the way,” Phelan says. “They think of that as cheap money, and since they don’t have interest accruing during this period of time, we couldn’t find anyone who’s trying to pay it during the school year(s).”
The below charts and blurbs provide further insight to the hefty burden that student loans play in graduates’ post-college lives, as well as paint a clear(ish) picture of how much schooling really costs.
When sifting through this data, it’s important to note that, contrary to popular belief, student loans are not considered financial aid. “[Student loans] have never been financial aid,” Phelan says. “[Calling loans financial aid] is something schools often get away with, but if you were a car dealer selling a car, and you treated a car loan as financial aid, you’d probably go to prison. Or at least the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would be chasing you.”
University System of Georgia schools (in-state prices only)
2017 undergraduate population (not including Georgia Perimeter College): 25,228
2017-18 tuition and fees: $9,112
Annual net price (including student fees, room and board, and all other expenses minus scholarships and grants): $20,766
Spring 2019 graduates: 2,455 undergrads
Percent of first-year students on financial aid (not student loans): 89
Average student loan debt: $23,380
Student body: 27,951
2017-18 tuition and fees: $11,818
Annual net price: $18,742
2017 undergraduate population: 32,166
Spring 2019 graduates: 3,400 grads and undergrads
Percent of first-year students on financial aid (including student loans): 83
Georgia Independent College Association schools
2017 undergraduate population: 2,108
Spring 2019 graduates: 396 grads and undergrads
2019 graduates: 474 grads and undergrads
Spring 2019 graduates: 562 undergrads
2017 undergraduate population: 927
Percent of first-year students on financial aid (not student loans): 100
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Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal
Author: Renia Spiegel, Elizabeth Bellak, Sarah Durand, Deborah Lipstadt
Narrator: Ann Richardson
Unabridged: 12 hr 53 min
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Historical
The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English
Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary. “I just want a friend. I want somebody to talk to about my everyday worries and joys. Somebody who would feel what I feel, who would believe me, who would never reveal my secrets. A human being can never be such a friend and that’s why I have decided to look for a confidant in the form of a diary.” And so begins an extraordinary document of an adolescent girl’s hopes and dreams. By the fall of 1939, Renia and her younger sister Elizabeth (nee Ariana) were staying with their grandparents in Przemysl, a city in the south, just as the German and Soviet armies invaded Poland. Cut off from their mother, who was in Warsaw, Renia and her family were plunged into war.
Like Anne Frank, Renia’s diary became a record of her daily life as the Nazis spread throughout Europe. Renia writes of her mundane school life, her daily drama with best friends, falling in love with her boyfriend Zygmund, as well as the agony of missing her mother, separated by bombs and invading armies. Renia had aspirations to be a writer, and the diary is filled with her poignant and thoughtful poetry. When she was forced into the city’s ghetto with the other Jews, Zygmund is able to smuggle her out to hide with his parents, taking Renia out of the ghetto, but not, ultimately to safety. The diary ends in July 1942, completed by Zygmund, after Renia is murdered by the Gestapo.
Renia's Diary has been translated from the original Polish, and includes a preface, afterword, and notes by her surviving sister, Elizabeth Bellak. An extraordinary historical document, Renia Spiegel survives through the beauty of her words and the efforts of those who loved her and preserved her legacy.
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The thrilling family saga of five unforgettable women who remade EuropeFrom the great courts, glittering palaces, and war-ravaged battlefields of the seventeenth century comes the story of four spirited sisters and their glamorous mother, Elizabeth...
Narrator: Laura Kirman
Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-in)
by Shrabani Basu
Now a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears.History’s most unlikely friendship—this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearest companion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim.In the twi...
Narrator: Elizabeth Jasicki
The Meaning of Everything
From the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and KrakatoaWriting with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language and pays homage to the great dictiona...
Narrator: Simon Winchester
by Volker Ullrich
A major new biography-an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil. For all the literature about Adolf Hitler there have been just four seminal biographies; this is the fifth, a landmark work that sheds ...
Narrator: Don Hagen
by Frank McLynn
Mongol leader Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known. His empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East, and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such co...
Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon
by John B. Boles
From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most co...
Narrator: Michael Johnson
In this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based on extensive new material, the true genius of the man, statesman and leader can finally be fully seen and understood--by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of WarWhen...
Narrator: Stephen Thorne
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Siemens helps Vietnamese car manufacturer produce first vehicles
September 6, 2019 - VinFast, Vietnam’s first volume car manufacturer, has successfully produced its first cars ahead of schedule using Siemens’ portfolio of integrated software and hardware. By deploying its portfolio, Siemens helped VinFast achieve its automotive production timeline for building the factory, car design and start of the production in 21 months. This is half of the average time to build such a manufacturing plant. The VinFast plant in Hai Phong went live in June 2019 and has a total design capacity of 250,000 cars per year.The first vehicles have been E-Scooters, compact cars, sedans, and SUVs. These will be followed by battery electric passenger cars as well as electric buses.
The entire value chain has been integrated and digitalized with Siemens’ Digital Enterprise portfolio, which includes the Xcelerator portfolio of software and Totally Integrated Automation (TIA). Xcelerator enables creation of digital twins, melding model-based simulations with test data and real performance analytics with intelligent edge control. VinFast is using Teamcenter software as backbone of collaboration for product lifecycle management and NX software, an integrated solution for computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE), to develop the digital twin of cars and production. Teamcenter connects the digital twin with a digital thread, which is helping VinFast use the insights gained from product and plant operations to improve future performance. VinFast has also implemented Siemens Opcenter software (formerly Simatic IT Unified Architecture). This MES solution supports closed-loop manufacturing by driving real-time production data to the digital twin of product and enables innovation of product design and production operations.
Automation is realized by the modular and flexible automation concept Totally Integrated Automation (TIA), that controls and drives all productions. VinFast deployed Siemens’ automation equipment for its manufacturing lines in all shops: press shop, paint shop, body shop, assembly shop, sub-assembly- and engine shop. Simatic Controllers enable VinFast to automate factory operations such as robots or conveyor lines, including safety functionality. VinFast uses the engineering framework TIA Portal to program automation tasks from the press shop through to the final assembly. Simatic HMI’s are used in the factory, allowing VinFast to operate and observe the status of machines and entire systems for the production staff. Using Siemens’ Industrial Identification products, VinFast can track and trace parts and optimize the entire flow of materials. In addition, Sinumerik controls guarantee highest efficiency and quality in their powertrain machinery. Further portfolio provided by Siemens features network components, power supplies, control products, low voltage distribution and switchgears, an energy distribution system as well as motors and drives. The comprehensive automation components from Siemens enable VinFast to build up the factory with high quality of global standards.
Advancing Automation using IIoT and Industry 4.0 Concepts, Systems Integration, Plant & Asset Management, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) Software, Manufacturing Operations Management, Automotive, HMI & Operator Interfaces, Factory Automation
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The Diversity Project
At Aviva Investors, we're proud to be part of The Diversity Project, which aims to create a truly diverse and inclusive UK investment and savings industry. Find out more about the mission, vision and strategy here.
The Diversity Project was launched in early 2016, when Aviva Investors and other leaders in our industry decided to act to accelerate progress towards a more inclusive culture. We believe we have an extraordinary opportunity to press the reset button in our industry: to recruit, nurture and retain the first truly diverse generation of Savings and Investment professionals.
The Project is founded on the principle that an inclusive culture across all levels supports more effective teamwork, gives wider perspectives, better investment decisions, improved results for our clients and ultimately more sustainable businesses.
Development of the Project’s strategy is led by a CEO and Chair Advisory Council, of which Euan Munro is a member, and implemented through a Steering Committee. Further volunteers from all levels of our industry help drive change through their individual engagement.
Members of The Diversity Project believe that recognisable and measurable progress can be achieved over a 5 year timeframe. The aim is to achieve diversity across all dimensions, including gender, ethnicity, socio-economic background, LGBTI+, age and disability, measuring and publishing progress as the Project continues. Equally, the Project spans the whole range of the profession: asset owners, fund managers, fund selectors, pension consultants, actuaries, trustees, wealth managers and the professional standards and trade bodies.
Members share and help amplify best practice, and where there are gaps, establish new initiatives to help create a more diverse industry at all levels - from intake to senior leadership and the board - with a real sense of urgency.
You can find out more about this initiative on the Diversity Project website.
Culture in action
Equal parental leave programme
We believe that unconscious hiring and promotional bias is inevitable in any system that treats men and women differently when they become parents. We also know that parenting is seen as equally important no matter people’s gender.
Women in leadership programme
Our success as a business — now and in the future — will only be possible with a diverse senior leadership team. However, as with the industry as a whole, we still see too much imbalance.
Parent coaching programme
We know how important it is for our people to feel supported — especially when it comes to having a child. By being there for them through those critical first steps of parenting, we give them the support they need to balance home and work life, and to ultimately feel good about coming back to work.
We are the investment experts who choose the power of integration to answer investors’ challenges.
Our integrated approach creates an environment where everyone can contribute, collaborate and succeed.
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Euro Bounce Deceptive As Divergence Trades Bloom
October 3, 2017 11:47 AM UTC in News
Large option expiries push euro up from 6-week lows
Political uncertainty weighs on single currency
The euro bounced from a six-week low on Tuesday as markets consolidated positions after a selloff, though investors grew cautious about the single currency’s outlook in the coming months on rising political uncertainty in Europe.
The unexpected outcome of the German election on Sept. 24 and Sunday’s violence-marred independence referendum in the Spanish region of Catalonia has put the brakes on euro-bullish trades, with markets increasingly looking for the single currency to test the July lows of around $1.15.
“I think there’s a possibility, given what’s going on in Spain right now and given the fact Germany still doesn’t have a government and isn’t likely to get a government anytime soon, the political uncertainty is going weight on the euro,” said Michael Hewson, chief market strategist at CMC Markets.
A pro-independence protest in Catalonia on Tuesday kept tensions between the wealthy Spanish region and the central government in Madrid in the spotlight though Spain’s bond market calmed following heavy selling the previous day. Sunday’s independence vote was marred by police violence.
Still, the euro was partially supported by large option expiries on Tuesday that put a floor under the single currency. About $4 billion worth of currency options was expiring between the 1.1750 to 1.18 levels on Tuesday.
The euro bounced a quarter of a percent to $1.1758 and was trading above a $1.16955, a level it last hit on Aug. 18.
Currency markets were also looking to add bets on possible divergence between the monetary policy outlooks in the United States and Europe, with expectations growing that the European Central Bank will adopt a more cautious stance.
“I don’t think the market is pricing how cautious they are likely to continue to be and that will be reiterated by (European Central Bank chief) Mario Draghi on Wednesday,” said Martin Arnold, a macro-strategist at ETF Securities in London who expects the euro to weaken against the dollar.
Meanwhile, the dollar climbed for a second consecutive day as a strong reading for U.S. manufacturing activity pushed bond yields higher, prompting investors to trim some of their extreme short bets against the greenback.
As anticipation of a U.S. rate increase spread to more than 71 percent by December from 42 percent a month earlier, according to the CME’s Fedwatch indicator, the dollar has rallied more than 3 percent over the last month.
The dollar climbed 0.2 percent to 93.74 against a broad basket of currencies, its highest level since Aug. 17. Despite its recent gains, the dollar is down more than 8 percent this year, on track for its biggest annual decline in a decade.
The dollar’s surge put the pressure on carry trade currency favorites such as the Aussie and the New Zealand dollar , which were down by more than 0.3 percent each.
The Australian dollar fell to its lowest in more than two months after the Reserve Bank of Australia left interest rates unchanged and gave a cautious assessment of the local economy.
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Is a Wedding in Comcast and Netflix’s Future?
Alexander Eule
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For years, Comcast and Netflix have been a symbol of digital disruption: old versus new. East Coast versus West Coast. Big payments versus small ones. And all-in-one versus a la carte. In the world of corporate rivalries, it’s hard to do better than Netflix and Comcast.
The long battle was the basis of a Barron’s cover story three years ago (“Don’t Touch That Dial,” Aug. 5, 2013). At the time, Netflix (ticker: NFLX) talked about how the world of “linear TV” was coming to an end, how the future was online. Comcast (CMSCA), meanwhile, was sticking by the old cable bundle and touting its ability to innovate.
Somehow both companies have thrived, but the bickering never stopped. In 2014, Netflix was the most outspoken opponent of Comcast’s attempt to buy Time Warner Cable. Comcast eventually dropped the bid. Then last month, in what seemed like rubbing salt in the wound, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings offered his support for the megamerger between AT&T (T) and Time Warner (TWX). You could almost hear the sound of Comcast execs gnashing their teeth.
But back-channel talks have softened the divide. Since September, the companies’ engineers have been rolling out a joint beta test that allows Netflix to stream content directly to Comcast’s X1 cable boxes. The official détente arrived on Friday, when the companies announced the public rollout of Netflix on X1, starting this week. In a joint statement, Comcast called Netflix a “terrific partner.”
So what does the agreement actually mean? For one, it solves the first-world problem of switching inputs on the big-screen TV. Netflix will flow right into the cable box. The agreement applies to the overlap between Comcast’s 22 million TV customers and Netflix’s 47 million U.S. streaming subscribers. But the deal means that other cable providers will probably have to respond with their own agreements.
WHY WOULD NETFLIX, the disrupter, partner with the icon of the pay-TV establishment? And why would Comcast willingly invite Netflix into its subscribers’ living rooms?
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Netflix is no longer the start-up but the legacy streaming player that’s under threat on multiple fronts. The company’s latest earnings report was strong, but it’s facing increasing competition from rivals like Amazon.com (AMZN) and Hulu, which are producing quality streaming content of their own. And then there’s HBO and Showtime, which now offer streaming packages directly to consumers. A Comcast partnership could help Netflix recruit some of the Comcast subscribers it doesn’t already have.
Comcast, meanwhile, is doing whatever is necessary to keep its cable bundle together. The company needs to make convenience a big part of its offer, now that cord cutters can piece together their own cable package through multiple vendors like Sling TV, HBO, and Hulu. Going forward, Comcast’s best selling point is: all of your content, all on one box.
For those reading between the lines of the Comcast/Netflix announcement, it’s enough to wonder if the companies are talking about more than just a cable-box partnership. AT&T’s $85 billion deal for Time Warner has shaken up the media world, and the industry is scrambling to respond. Goldman Sachs has reportedly pushed Apple (AAPL) to make a rival offer for Time Warner. A deal between CBS (CBS) and Viacom (VIAB) seems likely.
So what’s Comcast to do? Some analysts have suggested a purchase of T-Mobile US (TMUS) to help Comcast counter the suddenly TV-centric AT&T. But Comcast has a preference for entertainment. It tried to buy Walt Disney (DIS) in 2004 before settling on NBCUniversal a few years later. That has been a rare success story among big media mergers. If Comcast execs are feeling antsy, a few of their colleagues already have Netflix on speed dial.
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Tenor. Born 3 September 1969
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Marcel Beekman Biography (Wikipedia)
Marcel Beekman (born 3 September 1969) is a Dutch operatic tenor.
Born in Zwolle, Beekman sang as a boy soprano in church choirs and then studied piano and singing in Zwolle with Frouke Vonk. His first recording appeared in 1982. In 1993 he completed his vocal studies at the Meander Conservatory in Zwolle and continued his education with Margreet Honig in Amsterdam.
Beekman has sung with orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Musica Antiqua Köln, the Schönberg Ensemble, the Sinfonietta Amsterdam, the Netherlands Bach Society, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra among others and performs at international festivals. His repertoire includes Baroque music (François Couperin, Georg Friedrich Händel etc.), Johann Sebastian Bach and 20th-century composers (Frank Martin, Arthur Honegger, Carl Orff, Benjamin Britten etc.). With Pieter Jan Leusink and the Holland Boys Choir he recorded the complete Bach cantatas. Beekman regularly gives recitals with Hans Adolfsen (piano). On the opera stage he sang in Monteverdi's L’Orfeo, Rameau's Les Indes Galantes, in Gluck's Alceste and in Kurt Weill's Down in the Valley, as well as the title role in Willem Breukers opera Jona.
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Wozzeck - opera in 3 acts Op.7 - Act 3
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Jacob Jutte
Willard White
Frank van Aken
Jason Bridges
Ursula Hesse von der Steinen
Scott Wilde
Morschi Franz
Dutch National Chorus
Nieuw Vocaal Amsterdam
Ching-Lien Wu
Eline Welle
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Vespro della Beata Vergine ('Vespers') (1610) Part 2
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Maria Skiba
Piotr Olech
Radoslaw Pacholek
Robert Pozarski
Mitchell Sandler
Andrzej Zawisza
Sonatore Pannoniae
Contrasto Armonico
Chorale Festival Chorus
Marcel Pérès
Visegrad Baroque Orchestra
Motet: Usquequo, a voix seule
François Couperin
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Ukraine crisis: Report alleges Crimea rights abuses
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Ukraine conflict
Image caption Russian troops and local militia seized Ukrainian bases in Crimea in March
Europe's top human rights watchdog, the Council of Europe, says serious human rights abuses have been committed in Crimea since Russia annexed the peninsula in March.
A council report called on Moscow to thoroughly investigate suspicious deaths, abductions and intimidation.
Minority Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians who refused Russian citizenship had been targeted, the report said.
Russia's takeover and annexation of the Crimean peninsula was widely condemned.
The author, rights commissioner Nils Muiznieks, visited Crimea last month.
He said the violence there was often carried out by local volunteer militia groups. He called for the Crimean Self-Defence forces to be disbanded and said that human rights violators must not be granted an amnesty.
Journalists in Crimea have also suffered attacks and intimidation, he complained.
His report urged the authorities to investigate thoroughly the death of protester Reshat Ametov and three missing local civil society activists - Leonid Korzh, Timur Shaimardanov and Seiran Zinedinov.
Crimea was part of Russia until 1954, when the Soviet authorities transferred it to Soviet Ukraine.
The new Crimean leaders loyal to Russian President Vladimir Putin do not have international recognition.
The 300,000-strong Muslim Tatar community - which makes up 15% of Crimea's population - opposed the peninsula's incorporation into Russia.
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Kilmarnock: Gary Harkins to miss Cup tie with Stenhousemuir
Gary Harkins will miss Tuesday's League Cup tie against Stenhousemuir after being stretchered off in Kilmarnock's 3-1 win over Dundee United.
The midfielder came off worse in a clash of heads with Gavin Gunning and manager Kenny Shiels has ruled him out.
"He will be out for Tuesday and we've got a really tough game against Stenhousemuir, who are a very good team," Shiels told BBC Scotland.
"That's the second time he has had to come off early this season."
Shiels praised Rory McKenzie for his debut goal and another of his summer signings, Spanish striker Borja, who scored the second from the penalty spot.
The 18-year-old McKenzie pounced for the opening goal shortly after the break after full-back Barry Douglas tried to dribble out of his own penalty area.
Interview - Kilmarnock manager Kenny Shiels
"It was opportunistic," said Shiels. "He was in the right place to pounce.
"If he had dropped down and been lazy, he would not have been around to score.
"I think Rory has done very well."
The third goal was scored by another teenager, 19-year-old Jude Winchester.
"When young players score, you do get more satisfaction," said Shiels.
"It integrates the community and the supporters see it as one of theirs.
"We lost Harkins early on, but I thought the young lads who came in did really well.
"And Borja stepped up to the plate and did very well."
Shiels suggested that few teams would score three against a strong United defence this season, the Tannadice side having started the day top of the Scottish Premier League.
"I think it is a really good result for the spirit and confidence of the team," he added.
"I think the weather had a significant part to play. The rain just come on at half-time and it suits the team that plays on the ground and it enhanced our performance because we go it down a bit more.
"It became a little more difficult to defend for Dundee United because of our mobility and movement.
"But they are a really good team and I'm really pleased to beat them. I thought they were outstanding from the first whistle."
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BCD Meetings & Events Wins SITE Crystal Award
CHICAGO, IL – November 7, 2016 – BCD Meetings & Events (BCD M&E) won a 2016 SITE Crystal Award for “Most Impactful Effort toward Corporate Social Responsibility as Part of an Incentive Program” at the Crystal Awards Recognition Ceremony held November 6 during the SITE Global Conference in Panama City, Panama.
“We are honored and excited to receive a SITE Crystal Award for the CSR program we developed in conjunction with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company,” said Christine Erickson, Vice President, US Conference and Event Management, BCD M&E. “Creating meaningful experiences that exceed our client’s goals while positively affecting attendees and local communities is at the heart of what we do. This award reflects our global commitment to driving business growth with our customers while giving back to the local communities; we couldn’t be happier for the recognition.”
BCD M&E won the SITE Crystal Award for designing Goodyear’s annual incentive trip which they executed with their valued DMC partner, AMSTAR. The goal for Goodyear’s program to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico was to reward and connect customers from across the Americas region. For the first time, a CSR component was integrated into the program to bring the group closer together and to positively impact the lives of the local community with a lasting contribution—a new playground for a local school in need.
“BCD M&E created an opportunity outside the corporate setting for our customers and hosts to connect in a meaningful way and form friendships giving back to the local community,” said Mark McDonald, Director, Customer Relations & Events, Goodyear. “One thousand children now have a fun playground that promotes health and well-being, and the engagement among our customers and associates translated to engagement back at the office. It was a true success to everyone involved.”
The Crystal Awards Program is sponsored by IMEX Group, the worldwide exhibitions for incentive travel, meetings and events.
“The Crystal Award is the most prestigious form of recognition in the global incentive travel industry,” said Rajeev Kohli, SITE President. “It not only recognizes the outstanding organizations that win them, but also showcases the innovative ways planners can create extraordinary motivational experiences to maximize human potential and achieve tangible business results for their companies.”
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About BCD Meetings & Events
Tatiana Canaval
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BCD Meetings & Events, a trusted, award-winning global meetings & events agency, helps companies design and execute meetings and events through strategic solutions, innovation and the power of imagination. BCD Meetings & Events employs more than 1,100 passionate, creative employees that believe in the power of human connection. Headquartered in Chicago with locations in more than 50 countries, BCD Meetings & Events offers customers solutions ranging from event design and execution to full strategic meetings management programs. BCD Meetings & Events is an independently managed operating company of BCD Group and a sister organization of BCD Travel. For more information, visit www.bcdme.com.
About BCD Group
BCD Group is a market leader in the travel industry. The privately owned company was founded in 1975 by John Fentener van Vlissingen and consists of BCD Travel (global corporate travel management), Travix (online travel: CheapTickets, Vliegwinkel, BudgetAir, Flugladen and Vayama), Park 'N Fly (off-airport parking) and joint ventures Parkmobile International (mobile parking applications) and AERTrade International (consolidating and fulfillment). BCD Group employs over 13,000 people and operates in more than 110 countries with total sales of US$25.4 billion, including US$10.0 billion partner sales. For more information, visit www.bcdgroup.com.
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Bishop's Castle Heritage Resource Centre
Local History Centre
BCHRC is becoming a fully fledged Local History Centre involved in some exciting new initiatives.
On this site, you'll get a taste of the breadth of activities at Bishop's Castle Heritage Resource Centre. We are involved in community heritage projects, often linked to the town's museums and in a range of educational activities. We are always happy to hear from schools, individuals and groups of all ages.
We are open on Saturday mornings as a Local History Centre, hosting a growing collection of research resources.
More about other heritage groups and resources in Shropshire at
Discovering Shropshire's History
Welcome to Bishop's Castle Heritage Resource Centre
Bishop's Castle Heritage Resource Centre is a local heritage store and activity centre celebrating local history and keeping it within the community for people to use and enjoy.
The Lost Pubs of Bishop's Castle
A fascinating new interactive map and historical archive detailing the 34 pubs known to have existed in Bishop's Castle.
Bishop’s Castle Heritage Resource Centre is owned and run by the House on Crutches Museum Collection Trust, which is responsible for the displays in the House on Crutches Museum.
In our museum standard store we hold heritage items belonging to individuals and organisations who want to preserve their archives, as well as the reserve collection from the House on Crutches Museum Collection Trust. This collection depicts rural life in this corner of South West Shropshire and much of it can be viewed online.
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House History Research
Chronicles of Our Shropshire Hills
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Student Council raise over £1100 for Stand Up To Cancer
On Friday 21st October, the School Council organised a 'Stand Up To Cancer Day' in aid of Cancer Research. On this day the Council held a non-uniform day - students who took part donated £1. In addition to this, the School Counci
Year 9 History students get creative
Year 9 students here at The Henry Beaufort School were set the challenge of demonstrating visually their knowledge of trench warfare as part of their study of World War One. Models, diagrams, plans and cakes were created to show their understa
Work begins on Thought Garden
Tuesday the 15th of November saw the first phase of the work to turn our Optimal Learning Centre garden into a 'Thought Garden' for our students. Last academic year we brought news of the preliminary plans, which you can read about here, and
Over £1,400 raised for Children in Need
This week, The Henry Beaufort School has been raising funds for the charity Children in Need in memory of Mac Sutcliffe. We are delighted to announce we have raised £1474.26 via various student-led activities. Well done to everyone involve
Gold and Silver wins for Henry Beaufort swimmer
Now in Year 8, we are delighted to announce Isla has done it again - winning a gold medal and a personal best for her 400 Individual Medley last week. Gold wasn't enough for Isla however, who also won a silver medal for her 200 Freestyle! Isla al
Billy Elliot comes to Henry Beaufort
We are delighted to announce students here at The Henry Beaufort School will be performing another musical spectacular this Autumn – Billy Elliot. Following the success of 2014’s Les Miserables at the Theatre Royal, Winchester, 65 talente
Lieutenant Colonel Cox joins Governing Body
We are delighted to bring news of a new governor here at The Henry Beaufort School - Lieutenant Colonel Mark Cox will be joining our Governing Body as a co-opted governor. Lt Col Cox is a Commanding Officer and Deputy Garrison Commander of Winchester
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Art to Wear: Andrea Geer on Embracing New Technologies | Artful Home Blog
When I speak with Andrea Geer about her craft, her passion is palpable.
“Basically, there are three ways that I capture images…,” the fashion designer begins, before launching into detailed descriptions of her artistic process.
As she excitedly relays her method’s finer points, she projects an enthusiasm that’s inspiring and infectious. But her animated affect should come as no surprise—after all, the artful pieces she creates evoke a similar kind of dynamism.
A sampling of Geer’s energetic designs.
With a BFA in graphic design and an MFA in painting from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Geer has held several posts in the art world, ranging from instruction to print making. But it’s in knitwear design that she first made her name, taking on the enterprise more than a decade ago after purchasing a knitting machine—a buy that “opened up a new world for me.”
“[Knitting] sort of blended everything I was interested in because I was able to work with texture and color, and actually just [create pieces] from the very beginning,” Geer says.
Sculptural works with vivid colors recalling Ad Reinhardt's abstract expressionist paintings, her hand-knit apparel has garnered her plaudits at art shows across the country. It’s appeared on runways and in the glossy pages of magazines. “It was wonderful,” Geer notes. And yet, five years ago, Geer was faced with a choice: continue apace in a medium she says left little room for technical growth, or lean in and purchase a computerized knitting machine.
The answer? Neither. Instead, Geer shifted her focus to a decidedly different form of technology: digital printing.
For a person who welcomes change and challenge, this new medium—which she encountered at a fabric show—presented her with an exciting opportunity to learn and grow her craft, Geer says. Inspired by her discovery, the designer excavated a college-era artwork from her attic, had it photographed, and printed the design on various leathers and fabrics—and the aesthetic stuck.
Geer with one of her original acrylic paintings.
Now, a handful of years later, Geer has developed a creative process built on the aforementioned three-pronged approach: snapping images on a hulking megapixel camera (she says she’s particularly drawn to architectural elements); returning to her first love, creating traditional paintings with acrylic and canvas; and drafting drawings with an Apple Pencil and iPad on programs like Photoshop or the app Procreate.
“I don’t consider these, like, great works of art. It’s more like I’m playing,” says the ever-humble Geer of her found images and original works. “I’m having a good time with it.”
From there, Geer might digitally manipulate these elements further—for example, sometimes layering electronic drawings on photographs—until she arrives at a design that’s ready to be printed. It’s an experimental process, she notes, that sometimes yields imperfect results. “I have too many fabrics here,” Geer laughs when discussing the castoffs.
But the patterns that do make it to a dress form become true pieces of wearable art: vivacious prints trace in energetic zigzags across a sculptural top; a series of numbers creates a graphic counterpoint to a flowy poncho; bold blocks of color act as an edgy complement to a structured jacket.
Three versions of Andrea Geer’s Nikola Poncho, showcasing her different approaches to digital printing, including an original painting (left), an electric pen drawing (center), and her numerical design (right).
From fabric choice to color selection, Geer designs with flattery and comfort in mind. Shades are chosen to complement the wearer; Geer notes that many of her customers prefer more vibrant hues, but she balances her collections with pieces in neutral tones. For her fans in warmer climates, she opts for lighter-weight, gauzy cottons and shapes them into breezy silhouettes—each of which, by the way, is personally sewn by either Geer or her part-time assistant.
Andrea Geer at work in her studio.
When we speak on the phone, Geer not only takes the daunting amount of work in stride, but she meditates on the mutually beneficial nature of her craft. “Every way I look at [designing], it’s a really positive experience in every possible way. It’s like, ‘What’s going to make people look good? What’s going to be a really great new design to be able to make?’ You know, ‘Do I want to paint? Do I want to go out and take some pictures?’”
Or does she want to try another medium? In the past, Geer has worked with polymer clay to create the buttons and brooches that have adorned her inventive knits; it’s a discipline she loves but she says she finds hard to manage alongside her bustling apparel business. She also expresses interest in working more with 3-D printing, having previously commissioned 3-D-printed elements to create more structure in her knit designs.
Andrea Geer’s Long Reversible Vest, which features her electric pen drawings on the front and her original painting on the reverse. The look is topped off with a handmade polymer clay pin.
Geer continues to look to advances in the digital realm to push her art in fresh, exciting directions. “I’ve been doing new work because I understand a little bit of the technology,” Geer says. “And it’s like I’m able to do new things; it’s like these tools give you more ways to be an artist.”
Others may disagree with this interpretation, she notes. But the beauty of art lies in its subjectivity: what some may regard as a shift from more traditional craft, Geer sees as opportunity.
“There’s just so many things to learn, and the learning of new things is what makes this very exciting to me.”
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EU ministers to allow bass angling to continue as further measures announced to rebuild threatened bass stocks
David Mitchell, Head of Marine at the Angling Trust, braving the snow and cold at the EU Council of Ministers Fishing Opportunities meeting to display Angling Trust and Save Our Sea Bass posters
After two days of tough negotiations over proposals from the European Commission that could have seen bass angling banned for the first six months of the year EU Fisheries ministers have announced the final measures for 2018.
This followed strong representations from the Angling Trust and representations from angling bodies and the tackle trade across Europe, including a 18,000 signature petition, calling for no further restrictions on recreational fishing for bass.
The package of measures for 2018 have been produced in response to advice from the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) which shows that the Northern European bass stock is crashing. It was nearly 19,000 tonnes in 2010, but the forecast for 2018 is just 6,414 tonnes, a fall of two thirds. The stock is now well below the critical level of 8,075 tonnes (Blim), which means the future regeneration of the stock is now critically endangered and the stock may remain depleted for extended periods.
Anglers have argued that ministers need to address the prime cause which is commercial overfishing with nets rather than targeting the limited impact on the fishery from angling with hook and line.
Ministers announced this morning that catch and release angling for bass all year round can continue with the prospect of a recreational bag limit in the second half of 2018 depending on a data review of the updated ICES advice in March. (This was specifically pushed for by the UK delegation in response to our representations).
There will be further limits on commercial bass fishing as follows:
Fixed nets:
1.2t provision over 10 months (Feb-March closed).
– reduction of approx. 50 per cent on 2017 BUT now a provision rather than by-catch. Therefore likely to be more enforceable as the by catch allowance was being widely abused.
Demersal trawls and seines:
Bycatch down to 1 per cent of catch capped at 100kg for trawls and 180kg for seines per month over 12 months.
– reduction from 5 per cent and reduction of cap on 2017
Commercial Hooks & Lines:
5t per vessel per year over 10 months (Feb-March closed)
– reduction of 50 per cent on 2017.
The Angling Trust is pleased that commercial over fishing of bass numbers continues to be addressed but obviously disappointed with the extra restrictions on bass angling. However, overall the settlement looks like about the best we were going to get in the context of the ICES stock assessment of bass numbers.
David Mitchell, Head of Marine at the Angling Trust, said:
“We are pleased that the proposed six month ban recreational fishing for bass was rejected and members of the public will be able to continue to fish for bass in 2018 on a catch & release basis all year round. Charter skippers, bass angling guides and other businesses reliant on bass angling at least now have some certainty and can plan ahead for 2018.
"The UK government confirmed that the measures for recreational fishing will be reviewed in March when updated scientific advice will be issued which will take into account the impact of the restrictions on recreational fishing since 2015. We hope at this point that the impact of recreational fishing will have been reduced and there may be the leeway for a bag limit to be introduced in the second half of 2018.”
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Approval of Embalming Products and Funeral Supplies
Keywords : Biocides, Embalming, Funeral (supplies), Coffins, Body Bags
Under the terms of the transfer of responsibilities from the French High Council for Public Health to individual health agencies, Ministerial approval for funeral supplies depends on a scientific opinion from ANSES. These products are defined in Articles R. 2213-15, R. 2213-25 and R. 2213-27 of the French General Local Authorities Code (CGCT). They concern coffins, body bags, leak-proof linings, airproof coffins and gas purification devices.
By Decree No. 2006-1675 of 22 December 2006, some of the expertise missions of the French High Council for Public Health were transferred to ANSES, including those concerning approval of embalming products and funeral supplies. The French General Local Authorities Code (CGCT) specifies the scope of these new responsibilities:
Art. R. 2213-3 – Embalming fluids;
Art. R. 2213-15. – Body bags;
Art. R. 2213-25. – Wooden coffins, fittings and accessories inside or outside coffins intended for cremation;
Art. R. 2213-27. – Airtight coffins and gas purification devices.
To aid it in this mission, the Agency set up a multi-disciplinary working group of independent scientific experts to produce:
a reference guide for funeral equipment;
opinions on funeral equipment;
a reference guide on the efficacy of embalming fluids (Product-Type 22);
opinions on embalming products, under the terms of Directive 98/8/EC (Product-Type 22) and of the Opinion of 31 July 2007 for manufacturers, distributors, importers and users of products intended for preservation treatment of the bodies of deceased persons.
As a part of its mission, ANSES has also produced:
assessment guidelines for body bags and coffin liners (July 2010). These guidelines review the criteria listed in Articles R. 2213-15 and R. 2213-15 of the General Local Authorities Code (CGCT);
assessment guidelines for leak-proof coffins and gas purification devices (February 2012). These guidelines review the criteria listed in Article R. 2213-27 of the General Local Authorities Code (CGCT);
two Opinions on an application for marketing authorisation for body bags and coffins intended for cremation;
a reference guide on the efficacy of Product-Type 22 biocides as understood for the transition period mentioned in Directive 98/8/EC (September 2011). The purpose of this reference guide is to identify the efficacy criteria that biocidal embalming fluids must satisfy to be granted approval for use during the transition phase, under the terms of Article 16 of Directive 98/8/EC.
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What do any of the married couples do with each other to have a close connection? (What do you do for fun)
by Justwonding 3 hours ago
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I think a close connection is formed when the both of you can "share the glories of your victories and the agonies of your defeats" with each other and know that even in the heat of anger, the other is not going to bring up an admitted vulnerability and beat you with it. Of course, it's good to have things in common and a sense of humor. But what do I know . . . I've been divorced for over 40 years, lol.
Go out at night and play hide n seek in the dark
What is an example of something a family can do together to have fun?
What do you do for fun that's free?
What do you think is fun that other people would consider boring?
What is something fun that YOU do?
I think its time for some good clean fun! What do you think?
So we all have our crushes/fetishes for fictional characters like Hermione Granger, Captain Jack Sparrow, etc. Aside from finding them attractive, do you think you could handle a relationship with said char or is it fun just to crush?
Do you think married couples should have access to each other's email?
What do you get when you mix a psychotherapist with a couple of nuts?
What do you think about Roseanne coming back to TV?
Do you know what kind of tree you are? http://www.paradiseawaits.com/Tree.html Do you agree with the description?
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Politics surrounding the permanent 'doc fix' debate: 10 key points
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House leaders are working on a permanent fix to the flawed sustainable growth rate formula to prevent another temporary patch to the problem, which has been done 17 times before. However, the plan is likely to face opposition, and it will be a struggle to resolve the issue in time to prevent healthcare providers' Medicare payments from being cut at the end of the month.
Here are 10 things to know about the role politics is playing in the debate to find a permanent solution to the SGR formula.
1. House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are working together to roll out a permanent SGR fix. Although little information has been released about the permanent solution the House is crafting, U.S. Reps. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), Sander Levin (D-Mich.), Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), the top two members of two key committees, confirmed members of both parties are discussing a permanent fix. "We are now engaging in active discussions on a bipartisan basis — following up on the work done by leadership — to try to achieve an effective permanent resolution to the SGR problem, strengthen Medicare for our seniors and extend the popular Children's Health Insurance Program," they said in a statement, according to The Hill.
2. Although House Speaker Boehner has formed an alliance to find a permanent solution to the problem, the deal he has worked to put together may not sit well with other members of his party or conservative groups. He is expected to pitch the plan to his caucus Tuesday, the National Journal reported.
3. Replacing the SGR formula, as proposed in bipartisan legislation in 2014, would cost $174.5 billion from fiscal 2015 to fiscal 2025, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Along with the $174.5 cost of an SGR replacement, the deal the House is closing in on also includes a two-year extension of the Children's Health Insurance Program. That brings the legislation's price tag to more than $200 billion, and both sides cannot agree on how that should be covered. If an agreement is not reached by the end of the month, lawmakers will need to pass another short-term patch to the tune of approximately $20 billion to avoid a cut of more than 20 percent to providers' Medicare payments, according to the National Journal.
4. Of the permanent solution, about $70 billion of the more than $200 billion total would be offset in the deal the House is putting together. Half of the $70 billion would come from cuts to providers, such as hospitals and insurers, and the other half would come from cuts to Medicare beneficiaries, according to a Politico report.
5. The part of the deal calling for cuts to providers will likely face resistance from hospital groups like the American Hospital Association. In January, the group said it "cannot support any proposal to fix the physician payment problem at the expense of funding for services provided by other caregivers." The American Medical Association, on the other hand, has repeatedly endorsed a permanent fix and is putting together a coalition of physician groups to support the emerging measure, according to the National Journal.
6. Another funding option, which lobbyists and aides have said House negotiators are exploring, involves charging wealthier Medicare beneficiaries more and also implementing a surcharge on "first-dollar" private health insurance plans that are sold to supplement Medicare, according to a Kaiser Health News report. However, that option is likely to face opposition from Democrats, who will take issue with a provision requiring seniors to pay more, according to the report.
7. Another option is to leave the legislation unfinanced. "Tired of yearly SGR battle, veteran members in both chambers may be willing to repeal the SGR on the basis that it's a budget gimmick — the cuts are never made — and therefore financing is unnecessary," according to Kaiser Health News. However, many Republican lawmakers, who have conservative groups putting pressure on them to fully finance any SGR repeal, and some Democrats would likely disagree with that route.
8. In a recent contributed piece to The Hill, Robert E. Moffit, PhD, the Director of the Center for Health Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank based in Washington, D.C, provided his input on negotiators' plan to rationalize not finding offsets. "Such a combination of cynicism and fiscal irresponsibility, if it came to pass, would be breathtaking," he wrote. "There is no excuse for this. House Energy and Commerce Committee hearings have identified a wide range of bipartisan savings option to fund a permanent doc fix." The Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups have already criticized the emerging deal.
9. Partial financing for the deal may be unpopular, but getting full funding for a permanent solution from the Republican-controlled Congress may be a far greater battle, as GOP leaders are trying to cut trillions of dollars from spending under a new budget blueprint.
10. The CHIP funding extension included in the House deal is a point of contention as well. Republicans would agree to a deal with a two-year extension of the program, but Senate Democrats will likely want a four-year extension like the one called for in legislation from Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) that the Senate Democratic caucus signed on to last month.
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Home Entertainment Dayton WDTN-TV apologizes to Julie Chen for telling her to fix her...
Dayton WDTN-TV apologizes to Julie Chen for telling her to fix her Asian eyes
Ohio television station WDTN-TV in Dayton has issued an apology to CBS reality show host Julie Chen after she revealed that she had undergone surgery to look “less Asian” in response to remarks from her then-news director.
Julie Chen, 43, best known as the presenter of the Big Brother show, made the admission on The Talk Wednesday, describing how as a young reporter, she was told by her supervisor at WDTN-TV that she would never be an anchor because she looked too Chinese.
The same sentiment was echoed some time later by a talent agent, who told Julie Chen that her eyes were too small and inexpressive.
Julie Chen’s revelations sparked an outcry online, prompting the management of WDTN to release a statement apologizing to the TV personality for the comments made by a news director at the station nearly two decades earlier.
WDTN-TV in Dayton has issued an apology to Julie Chen after she revealed that she had undergone surgery to look less Asian
“We are sorry to hear about what happened to CBS’ Julie Chen in 1995 when she was a reporter at WDTN-TV,” Joe Abouzeid, the station’s president and general manager, stated.
“The station was under different management and ownership during that time. At WDTN and WBDT, we don’t tolerate racism or discrimination of any kind.”
During Julie Chen’s tenure at WDTN, the station was owned by the Hearst Corporation, according to Dayton Daily News, but has since been sold to LIN Media.
On Friday, The Talk co-host spoke to Us Magazine about her bombshell revelation, saying through her publicist that she was both relieved to get the secret off her chest, but also concerned about a possible backlash.
“I felt vulnerable and nervous that the haters who hide behind their computers on the Internet would come out and say mean things,” Julie Chen said in a statement.
“And some did. That was expected.”
Julie Chen went on to say, however, that she was pleasantly surprised when her Twitter and email accounts were flooded with messages of support from viewers, many of them not Asian, who said they empathized with her experience.
The veteran journalist also got positive feedback from her parents, who had no idea she was going to make the confession on national TV until the episode aired Wednesday.
“I was overwhelmed with love and relief when she [Julie Chen’s mother] sent me an email right after it aired, saying she and my father could not be more proud of me,” Julie Chen’s statement said.
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353 E Louetta Road
Spring, Texas 77373-2696
The Best Western Plus Spring Inn & Suites is conveniently located near major business centers such as The Woodlands and George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), major restaurant chains, entertainment and attractions near Spring, Texas.
This hotel is one of the newest one in the area and 100% non-smoking, with nearby points of interest like, Old Town Spring, Mercer Botanic Gardens, Cynthia W. Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands Mall & the Houston Zoo.
Stay in our spacious rooms offering a king size bed, two queen size beds, king suites or queen suites with a fully equipped kitchen. Guest rooms feature flat-screen 40-inch HDTVs, hairdryers, coffee makers, desks, microwaves, refrigerators, irons/ironing boards and complimentary high-speed Internet. Keep your electronic devices charged with the recharging device including AC and USB outlets provided in all guest rooms.
Get going with a great breakfast. Start your morning with our complimentary full hot breakfast offering everything from eggs, waffles and breakfast meat to healthy options like yogurt and fresh fruit. If you don't have time to stop by for a hot breakfast, we offer free on-the-go breakfast bags at the front desk.
Other hotel highlights include an on-site business center, a fitness center, seasonal outdoor pool, truck/bus parking, guest laundry and dry cleaning service. Our meeting room can accommodate up to 50 individuals, depending on how the seating is arranged.
At the Best Western Plus Spring Inn & Suites, enjoy a hotel designed to meet the demands of business travel or a relaxing vacation. Hotels like ours give you everything you need during your stay to ensure you leave feeling refreshed and ready for a successful day ahead. Enjoy your stay!
Upon arrival we were warmly welcomed by the staff, my names were mentioned on the board.The staff was extremely friendly Note, this is not a 4/5-star hotel or so, but the atmosphere is so special...
By BLo2020
New Orleans, Louisiana on 17-Jan-2020
This is a nice property that was modern and clean. The staff was very friendly. The general manager checked us out and was most helpful. Enjoyed the breakfast. They had a nice variety of food. I had...
By PLKPRJ
Lufkin on 06-Jan-2020
My husband and I had a reward voucher for a free night. We booked a king room and at check in, were asked if a walk-in shower would be ok. We said sure, it didn't really matter. When we went into the...
By frankandphil
on 14-Dec-2019
My wife and I have been booking a room at this location for the past 4 years and have always had a great experience. We will continue to book here for our stay during any function we have around the...
By Safari297212
on 11-Nov-2019
Is the best place to stay having the best team.i also enjoyed the breakfast every morning and also it was very good place to stay cause they had alot of places to go around the area.The team was very...
By miatye98
Franklin, Louisiana on 14-Oct-2019
Complimentary full hot breakfast. Featuring eggs, Breakfast meat, Assorted breads, Muffins, Sweet rolls, Fresh fruit, Yogurt, Tea or coffee. We offer free on-the-go breakfast bags at the front desk Monday thru Friday.
Outdoor pool open from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Seasonal: March through September
Exercise facility, 24 hour, free, a relaxing atmosphere facing the pool while working out on the multi-gym, treadmill, elliptical, recumbent bike or lifting weights
Stair stepper
Multilingual staff, English, Spanish and Hindi
Guest laundry, 24 hours, fee of $4.00
Laundromat, guest laundry, 24 hours at a nominal fee to operate the washer, dryer and soap dispenser
Dry cleaning, same day available
Late check out
Safe deposit box, free at front desk
Cable or satellite television, DirecTV® with more than 100 HD channels.
Free wireless internet available in public areas; Free in-room wireless internet access; Free wireless internet access available in public areas and all guest rooms; All guest rooms are hardwired and offer free wireless internet access; All guest rooms are hardwired for internet access
Business center, 24 hours, free, two work stations with printers and free business stationary
Fax services, free for hotel guests
Dataports, available in meeting room
Meeting facilities, one meeting room available to host weddings, birthdays, showers, church events, small group meetings. Capacity of 50 people.
Hearing impaired services TDD Kit upon request to aid phone accessibility to hearing-impaired person.
Physically challenged facilities, pool lift
Parking for the physically challenged, 24 hours, free
Gift shop or newsstand
Free parking, 24 hours
Outdoor parking, 24 hours, free
Cribs, available
Rollaway beds, available
Closed-caption TV
Emergency alerting lighting
Extra wide doors in bathrooms
Property meets ADA of 1990 (US hotels only)
1 mile(s) from Union Pacific Corporation
3.0 mile(s) from ExxonMobil Headquarters
3 mile(s) from Southwestern Energy®
6 mile(s) from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
0.3 mile(s) from Wet 'n' Wild® SplashTown
1.0 mile(s) from Old Town Spring
6.0 mile(s) from Cynthia Woods Pavillion
12 mile(s) from Lake Conroe
0.2 mile(s) from Rudy's Country Store and Bar-B-Q®, Full Service, American, Open for: lunch, dinner
0.3 mile(s) from Cheddar's, Full Service, American, Open for: lunch, dinner
0.3 mile(s) from Panera Bread®, Cafe, American, Open for: breakfast, lunch, dinner
0.4 mile(s) from Chipotle Mexican Grill, Fast Food, Mexican, Open for: lunch, dinner
0.4 mile(s) from Starbucks®, Coffee Shop, American, Open for: breakfast, lunch, dinner
0.4 mile(s) from VertsKebap®, Full Service, Mediterranean, Open for: lunch, dinner
0.4 mile(s) from Schlotzsky's®, Deli, American, Open for: lunch, dinner
0.5 mile(s) from Salata®, Fast Food, American, Open for: lunch, dinner
1.0 mile(s) from Denny's®, Full Service, American, Open for: breakfast, lunch, dinner
1.0 mile(s) from Bullritos®, Fast Food, Tex-Mex, Open for: lunch, dinner
1 mile(s) from Gringo's Mexican Kitchen, Full Service, Tex-Mex, Open for: lunch, dinner
2.0 mile(s) from Nik's Steak & Seafood, Full Service, Seafood, Open for: lunch, dinner
4.0 mile(s) from Gratzi Italian Restaurant, Full Service, Italian, Open for: lunch, dinner
5.0 mile(s) from Zato Thai Restaurant, Full Service, Thai, Open for: lunch, dinner
5.0 mile(s) from Namaste Indian Restaurant, Full Service, Indian, Open for: lunch, dinner
1.0 mile(s) from Spring High School
1.0 mile(s) from Carl Wunsche Sr. High School
2.0 mile(s) from Haude Elementary School
4 mile(s) from University of Phoenix®
8 mile(s) from Lone Star College
4.0 mile(s) from The Woodlands
7.0 mile(s) from Shenandoah
10 mile(s) from Tomball
15 mile(s) from Humble
25 mile(s) from Houston
0.1 mile(s) from inSPIRE Rock Indoor Climbing Gym
1.0 mile(s) from Topgolf Spring
5.0 mile(s) from Bowlero Bowling
6.0 mile(s) from iFLY Indoor Skydiving
6.0 mile(s) from Main Event Entertainment, arcade, rock climbing, mini-golf, laser tag and more
6.0 mile(s) from Meyer Park
0.2 mile(s) from Michael's® Arts & Crafts
0.2 mile(s) from Kohl's®
0.2 mile(s) from Walmart®
0.5 mile(s) from H-E-B Grocery
0.5 mile(s) from Target®
0.5 mile(s) from Best Buy®
0.5 mile(s) from Gander Mtn.®
0.5 mile(s) from Walgreens
1.5 mile(s) from Old Town Spring, has original artwork, jewelry, woodwork and clothing for adults and children. Browse through over 150 shops - boutiques, museums, galleries, restaurants and antique shops.
3 mile(s) from CVS Pharmacy®
4.0 mile(s) from The Woodlands Mall, offers more than 160 stores and retail outlets under one roof. The current anchor stores are Dillard’s, J.C. Penney, Sears, and Macy’s and Forever 21.
5.0 mile(s) from Market Street, represents one of the nation’s finest shopping and entertainment destinations. Some shops include Ann Taylor, J. Crew, L'Occitane, Lululemon Athletica, Michael Kors, Tommy Bahama, Tumi and Tiffany & Co.
15 mile(s) from George Bush Intercontinental Airport
35 mile(s) from William P. Hobby International Airport
1.5 mile(s) from Spring
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ACCOLADES & RECOGNITION
OUR MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
The Bharat Petroleum Mumbai Refinery has received several prestigious awards and recognition for its projects and initiatives. Take a look at some of our award-winning and felicitation moments over the years.
BPCL-MR has achieved “First Indian Oil Refinery” to be rated under GreenCo Rating Certification
BPCL-MR has achieved the distinction of being “first Indian Oil Refinery” to be rated under GreenCo Rating Certification & based on a comprehensive quantitative assessment rated in the “SILVER Category”.
Organizing various awareness programs for employees on World Environment Day
World Environment Day, 5th June is celebrated every year by organizing various awareness programs for employees, students and general public such as display of banners, drawing competition for school children, tree plantation at various locations in Mumbai, free PUC check-up for petrol/diesel driven vehicles for public etc.
Best improvement in Furnace Efficiency
Mumbai Refinery has been judged as winner of OGCF 2018 under the category of “Best improvement in Furnace Efficiency” presented during the inaugural function of the 23rd Refining & Petrochemical Technology Meet (RPTM) in the year 2019.
Award for Excellence in “Energy Conservation and Management
BPCL Mumbai Refinery bagged ICC award for Excellence in “Energy Conservation and Management” for 2017-18.
Winner for Refinery Performance Improvement Award 2016-17
Mumbai Refinery has been judged as winner for Refinery Performance Improvement Award 2016-17 which was presented during the Inaugural function of the 22nd Refining & Petrochemicals Technology Meet (RPTM). The award was based on refinery performance parameters viz. crude throughput, Specific Energy Consumption, Carbon Emission Intensity, Operating Cost & specific water consumption.
INSSAN AWARD 2008 FOR SUGGESTION
The Mumbai Refinery Suggestion from Refinery Main Warehouse on PALLETIZED RACKING SYSTEM was adjudged the best suggestion and awarded the 1st prize in the National event organized by Indian National Suggestion Schemes Association (INSSAN) on 16th February’08.
The award was received by Mr. S.F. Kanchwalla, DGM (P&CS) and Mr. P.R. Sawant, Sr. Manager (Warehouse) at the hands of Mr. Date, President, INSSAN. This award was won amidst stiff competition from industrial giants like Tata Electric, Tata Motors, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd., DRDO, Reliance Industries, Tata Power, Rastriya chemicals and fertilizers, Hero Honda Motors, BHEL and SAIL, etc..
RBNQA PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE 2007
Mumbai Refinery won the prestigious "Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Special Award 2007" for Performance Excellence under Manufacturing category on 21st March 2008.
The award was received by Mr. Ashok Sinha, C&MD , Mr. RK Singh Director (R), Mr. PS Bhargava ED (R) along with Mr. SS Sunderajan, DGM (Manufacturing I/C) and Mr. KA Kunjumon, Chief Manager (Quality Management) at the hands of Hon’le Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, Govt. of India, Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia Chief Guest on this occasion.
GLORY OF MUMBAI AWARD
Mumbai Refinery won the “Glory of Mumbai” Award at the 13th Exhibition of Plants, Flowers, Fruits & Vegetables and Workshop held on 7th February 2008 at Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan, Byculla and the 49th Annual Vegetables Fruits and Flower Show held on 23rd February 2008 at VJTI, Matunga.
It also bagged the 1st prize and Rolling Trophy in the category of the Best Maintained Housing Colony gardens, Best Collection and Display of Ferns and the Most Beautiful Tree (An old rain Tree at Trombay Club). This apart, ten more prizes were won under the various categories during this competition. 180 participants which included companies from the private and public sectors.
The awards were received by Mr. K Ravi, Chief Estates Manager at the hands of Mrs. Joyce Shankaran, Addl. Chief Secy. Education (Higher) Govt. of Maharashtra.
INTERNATIONAL ASIA PACIFIC QUALITY AWARD QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE
ON 18/06/2008 ‘ THE WORLD CLASS WINNERS ‘of the " INTERNATIONAL ASIA PACIFIC QUALITY AWARDS ( IAPQA) " were announced by ASIA PACIFIC QUALITY ORGANISATION (APQO) , Phillipines for the year 2008. The award is presented to exemplary companies of world – class quality performance chosen from more than 38 member countries.
Bharat Petroleum Mumbai Refinery won the "Quest For Excellence "award under large Manufacturing category. It is another ‘FIRST’ for BPCL since no other oil company in India has ever won this award since its inception in 1985.
GOLDEN PEACOCK ENVIRONMENT AWARD 2008
Bharat Petroleum, Mumbai Refinery won the Golden Peacock Environment Management Gold Award, 2008 under the large manufacturing category. BPCL was the only refinery to receive the award under oil & petroleum sector under Environment Management. The Award is instituted by World Environment Foundation, U.K.
ECONOMIC TIMES SMART WORKPLACE AWARD 2008
Mumbai Refinery was adjudged the winner of the "Smart Workplace Award 2008" under the Industrial manufacturing category. This Award instituted by the Economic Times in association with IT majors Acer and Intel. BPCL was amongst the 20 who emerged winners in different categories and verticals amongst 600 companies who vied for the top places.
Eminent Jury from Price Waters Coopers examined various facilities which included driven IT Systems and Infrastructure for staff productivity, world class quality and Business standards, Office Layout, furniture & facilities, Staff Health care measures and facilities at Colony and Club.
The award was received by Mr. MD Agrawal, DGM (Refinery IS), Mr. Anik Kumar Kaushik, GM (IS Applications), Mr. Kunjumon, Chief Manager (WM), Mr.Kedar Dhamanskar on 17.7.08.
QCFI MUMBAI CHAPTER QUALITY CIRCLE TEAM AWARD
Mumbai Refinery QC Teams from Maintenance, P&CS and P&A (Canteen) participated in the 22nd Annual Convention on Quality Circles organized by the Quality Circle Forum of India- Mumbai Chapter on 27.08.2008. Around 30 different companies / their units participated in the Annual Convention in which employees made presentation on the work done by their Quality Circles. Total 78 presentations were made in the convention and e participating employees from various organizations were fully charged and their presentations were made through models, short films.
The Team from Canteen and Ware House got Meritorious Award while team from Maintenance- Machine Shop won the Distinguished Award.
QUALITY CIRCLE NATIONAL CONVENTION DISTINGUISHED AWARD – TECHIES
The Mumbai Refinery Quality Circle team from Maintenance " TECHIES" was awarded the Merit Certificate for their presentation on ‘ HIGH REPAIR TIME ON 131- P-110 PUMP’ in the National Convention on Quality Circle , 2008 held on 10.11.08 at Vadodara.
This was a second award in row for the same team which won a distinguished award recently in the convention organized by Quality Circle Federation of India, Mumbai Chapter. Though there was a stiff competition from other reputed organisations both public and private sector from all over India, our Quality Circle Team clinched this award.
The winners were R C Agarwal-QC Co-ordinator, Manish Agarwal-QC Facilitator, SH Bagwe, AP Doke, TL Tuscano, MC Ghopane, PV Gavandi, KM Koli.
GOLDEN PEACOCK NATIONAL TRAINING AWARD
Mumbai Refinery was awarded the "Golden Peacock National Training Award (GPNTA)" on 17.1.09. The award is the most prestigious and valuable recognition for training and synonymous with Excellence in training practices and effective training with improved business and individual performance in all sectors of Indian Corporate life. The Award has indeed created a benchmark for the Refinery and is a measure that will hold the key to business leadership in the 21st century.
hands of Hon’ble Governor of Maharashtra, Shri SC Jamir in the presence of former Prime Minister of Sweden Dr.Ola Ullsten after a scrutiny by a panel of judges headed by former Chief Justice of India, Shri PN Bhagwati.
JOURNEY OF BUSINESS EXCELLENCE
Mumbai Refinery won the prestigious Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Performance Excellence Award – 2008 on 24.3.09 the most sought-after Business Excellence Award in the country. BPCL Mumbai Refinery is the only refinery in the country to have won RBNQA Performance Excellence Award and winning it a second time in a row.
The Award was received by Mr. P.S. Bhargava, (ED) – MR from His Excellency S.C. Jamir, Governor of Maharashtra.
Mumbai Refinery team was adjudged the "BEST SUGGESTION" for "Reduction in Bitumen Lorry Turn around time in Mumbai Refinery" . and awarded the Ist Prize in the 19th Annual Convention organized by INSSAN at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand on 10th & 11th April 2009.
It was a joint effort of Refinery Product Dispatches / Operations Departments and the second consecutive year Mumbai Refinery has won this prestigious award. Besides, it was won after stiff competition from 50 Industrial giants in the likes of TATA Motors, TATA Electric, Hero Honda
The Best Suggestor’s Trophy and citation was received by Dr. V.K. Jacob, Sr. Manager (IT), Mr R.D. Sawant (Manager PD –LPG) & Mr. A. Mukherjee , Manager (CDU) at the hands of Mr. S.B. Borwankar CEO TATA Steel, Jamshedpur who was the Chief Guest. Other prize winners of Mumbai Refinery at the award function were Mr. Vikram Gupta, Officer Maintenance Instruments - Merit prize in the Poster competition, Mr. P.S. Sahota, Instrument Technician - Second prize in Hindi Slogan Competition. Mr. S.P.Gharat, Manager (Learning Centre) had the Honor of becoming the Member of Panel of Judges for selecting the "Best Technical Paper" which were presented during this event by various organizations.
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GESCHLECHT: Italian Industrial/Melodic Death Metallers Launch ‘An Infinite Nightmare’ Single
Thursday, November 28th, 2019 at 9:31 pm
Italian Italian industrial/melodic death metal outfit GESCHLECHT release ‘New Load Continue their debut album tomorrow. On the eve of the album’s official release, we bring you ‘An Infinite Nightmare, the record’s closing track.
GESCHLECHT‘s upcoming debut album “New Load Continue” is due out on 29th November 2019 via Time To Kill Records.
The album narrates the story of a player trapped in a videogame. The band comments: “The protagonist gets swallowed up and has to complete the questline of the game by himself. His task will be to break the curse that plagues the 5 great warriors of the game world who will accompany him throughout his journey. The curse brings the warriors in a constant state of inebriation, depriving them of their powers as well and rendering them unable to perform their duty, or defeat the evil demons and gods. Only a gem imbued with the power of the blood moon can break the spell. The player will have to travel the game world to find the gem, in a race against a prophecy that announces the rise of a new god”.
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Hailing from northern Italy, the band consists of Amedeo Finati (vocals), Amedeo Casale (guitar), Edoardo Volpato (bass), Fabio Speroni (drums): together they have been perfecting their musical skills since 2016, sharing the stage along the way with important Italian acts such as Cripple Bastards, Genus Ordinis Dei and Deathless Legacy.
Produced by Lacuna Coil’s Richard Meiz (also in Genus Ordinis Dei), courtesy of Eclipse Records, the upcoming follow-up to 2016’s self-titled debut EP displays the young band’s dazzling ambition and artistic vision. Not afraid to merge industrial vibes and extreme metal hardness, GESCHLECHT has chiseled out a modern metal album of undeniable impact.
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Best Document Management Software and Systems of 2020
Adam C. Uzialko, Writer
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The days of bulky and cumbersome file cabinets are gone. Drawers jammed full of paper records that no one has touched in a decade are a thing of the past. Losing or damaging vital records could have had a devastating effect on businesses of yesteryear, but no longer. Document management software offers businesses an easy way to digitize, store and access all their documents, as well as control which members of the organization are able to access certain files.
Document management software essentially works like an advanced version of Windows File Explorer, organizing your documents in a digital format. Files can then be shared with relevant stakeholders in the organization or restricted for specific users. Documents can also be edited collaboratively; these solutions often include a versioning feature that allows you to review changes that have occurred over the life of the document, when they occurred and by whom the changes were made.
Document management software provides businesses with a more efficient way to organize the many files it takes to track performance, communications, projects and regulatory compliance. This guide includes our reviews of top document management software, as well as our best picks for exceptional solutions.
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Provides secure collaboration on all platform types
Editor's note: Looking for document management software for your business? Fill out the questionnaire below to have our vendor partners contact you about your needs.
What to Expect in 2020
Document management software is generally available as an on-premises solution or cloud-based software. We anticipate further growth in the cloud-based solutions in 2020, as more businesses opt for cloud storage and software as a service model. Keeping your document management software in the cloud reduces the overhead associated with purchasing and maintaining a server-based solution. It also, however, puts security in the hands of a third-party company. Check the security practices of the vendor you're considering to ensure they are up to par before signing up with them as a client.
Another growing trend in document management software is increased mobile accessibility. In an ever-growing remote work environment, people need to access shared documents from a variety of devices, including smartphones and tablets. More document management software providers are baking mobile accessibility into their product offerings.
Document management software is a growing industry, albeit modestly. Research from Technavio suggests the document management system outsourcing market will grow by a compound annual growth rate of 6% through 2020. Much of this growth is driven by increased affordability and accessibility through the expansion of cloud-based services.
eFileCabinet
eFileCabinet Online is a cloud-based solution that allows remote employees to log in from any computer with internet access and have the exact same functionality as they do when working from the office. In fact, we selected eFileCabinet last year as the best document management system for businesses with a remote workforce. It has a sophisticated mobile app that provides access to every stored file. The system uses a traditional cabinet-folder filing structure and provides several ways to search for documents. eFileCabinet Online is available in three pricing plans, which vary in features and storage. Go here for a full review of the eFileCabinet Online document management system. To read our review of the software we chose last year, Dokmee, click here.
Read our full review of eFileCabinet
M-Files is a comprehensive document management system that contains numerous features so businesses can organize documents, digitize large volumes of physical papers and automate several workflow processes. The interface is modeled off Windows Explorer and easy to learn. M-Files offers an on-premises, cloud-based or hybrid system.
November 2019: M-Files has announced a new feature that can integrate software like Salesforce with documents stored in on-premises devices. M-Files Ground Link connects cloud-based applications to documents and applications stored in on-premises servers, such as SharePoint or existing enterprise content management systems. The integration is designed to help businesses centralize their document storage and improve the usefulness of information stored via on-premises methods.
Read our full review of M-Files
FileHold Express
FileHold's self-hosted document management system is accessible to businesses just starting out, thanks to its one-time payment and financing options. The system is easy to use for employees who are used to a Windows Explorer interface. It's simple to file documents away and even easier to search for them when needed. FileHold offers nearly every feature businesses need from a document management system, including collaboration tools, multiple remote-access options and numerous security restrictions. Go here for a full review of the FileHold self-hosted document management system.
Read our full review of FileHold Express
Alfresco One offers document management systems in on-premises, cloud or hybrid models and supports automated workflows and secure collaboration on all platform types. The software supports a wide range of document types, including digital files, scanned documents, photos and videos. All automated workflows and collaboration can be synced in the cloud, so all users see updates and changes in real time. With the hybrid solution, users can collaborate both inside and outside the company firewall at the same time without missing a beat, making Alfresco One our best pick for document management software for team collaboration. Go here for a full review of the Alfresco One document management system.
Read our full review of Alfresco
To help you find the right document management system, we researched and analyzed dozens of options. Here is a roundup of our 2020 best picks and an explanation of how we chose them.
Locating the Best Services
To determine the best document management systems, we started with a pool that included all the vendors on the list below. After some preliminary research, which included looking at other best-picks lists and researching each system, we interviewed small business owners and discovered more vendors to add to our list.
Choosing the Best Services
Next, we researched each provider by investigating its services, watching tutorials and how-to videos, testing out the system when possible, and reading user comments. We also considered the pricing listed on these services' websites. After narrowing down the list to 11 contenders, we contacted each company's customer service department by phone, or live chat if possible, and posed as new business owners to gauge the type of support each provider offers.
Researching Each Service
Our process involves putting ourselves in the mindset of a small business owner and gathering the data that would be readily available to such an individual. We evaluated ease of use, whether the solution was on-premises or cloud-hosted, the file cabinet structure, search capabilities, scanning options, editing abilities, collaboration tools, security measures, integration options, workflow abilities, mobile access, customer service, and, finally, cost.
Previous Best Picks
In the past, we've selected companies for a wide range of best pick use cases. Some of our picks have changed, but if you'd like to more thoroughly review your options, you can still see our previous best picks below.
2018 Best Document Management System for Businesses with a Remote Workforce: eFileCabinet
In 2018, we named eFileCabinet as our best pick. You can read our current review here.
Best Low-Cost Document Management System for Small Businesses
Our 2019 research and analysis of document management systems leads us to recommend eFileCabinet as the best low-cost document management system for small businesses. We chose eFileCabinet from the dozens of document management systems we considered. Previously, we selected eFileCabinet as our best pick for businesses with a remote workforce. You can read our previous review here.
Full List of Document Management Solutions
Agiloft
Agiloft is available as a cloud-based or self-hosted system. It offers features such as full text search of documents and their attached files, a graphical workflow editor, revision tracking with check-in and checkout control, full audit trails, and email integration.
Box is a cloud platform that allows businesses to securely store, share and manage all their company files. With this system, small businesses can collaborate on any kind of document or media file. It supports more than 200 file types, including PowerPoint, spreadsheet, PDF, image, video and audio files. Box allows you to organize files using a familiar structure that's easily tailored and lets you invite co-workers to view folders and customize their level of access.
Computhink Contentverse
Computhink's Contentverse is made for companies of all sizes. The system stores all contents in a digital file cabinet and allows you to retrieve any file quickly, even if you remember just a sliver of its name or contents. The system lets you view more than 400 file types, regardless of whether you have the native app on your computer. The company's conversion team can even scan all your company's existing paper documents into the system for you. The software is compatible with all mobile devices and integrates with Microsoft Office.
DEVONthink Pro Office
DEVONtechnologies' DEVONthink Pro Office only works on Mac, but it lets you share data with both Mac and PC users. This system keeps all information in one easy-to-back-up database and presents it to you in a variety of ways optimized for your work style. The software automatically files new documents for you based on how you filed similar documents. The advanced search function retrieves the documents you need for your task, while smart groups present related files together. With DEVONthink, you can view all your data in one place and write in a rich-text editor.
DigitalDrawer
AscendoSoft's DigitalDrawer is on-premises, secure digital filing software. Businesses use it to electronically store, organize, find and manage documents. The software is typically used in various small and midsize businesses, such as retail, manufacturing, real estate, car dealerships and education.
Doccept
Doccept is a multiuser system that allows organizations to streamline business processes. The system uses the latest Java and web technologies, which enables it to be a cross-platform application. Doccept is accessible over a local area network or the broader internet. It doesn't require any client-level installation. The system is mobile-friendly and can be used on both iOS and Android tablets. Doccept allows unlimited documents, folders, workflows, document metadata properties, document types, roles, groups and users.
DocPoint
DocPoint Professional Edition is a document and imaging management solution for small businesses that deal with large volumes of paper documents, computer-generated files and email correspondence. The software is installed on the organizational server, and each workstation is securely connected to the server. DocPoint adapts to meet multidepartmental needs while allowing users to maintain established and preferred procedures. It can capture a large volume of information, as well as retrieve documents and records quickly.
DocStar Enterprise Content Management Software
DocStar's document management system is available as self-hosted software or a cloud-based solution. The service offers specific solutions for a variety of industries, including insurance, financial services, healthcare, real estate and property management, manufacturing, legal, nonprofit, education, banking and financial institutions, and the public sector.
Docsvault
Docsvault is a complete document management solution that allows you to capture, centralize, manage and secure all your paper documents, electronic files and emails. The system allows you to access data outside your office using any web browser or an Android or iOS mobile device. The software features electronic document workflows, version control, document profiling and tagging, audit trails, and email notifications.
Document Locator Software
Document Locator by ColumbiaSoft is available as an on-premises or cloud-based document management system. Version control, document workflow, paperless scanning, email management and a full complement of document control features are included in the system. The software is built right into Microsoft Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office.
Ricoh's cloud-based DocumentMall offers features such as full text search, document type indexing, auditing, check-in and checkout options, and workflow capabilities. You can access documents whenever and wherever you need them using PCs, BlackBerrys, iPhones and iPads.
DocuPhase
DocuPhase's document management software features full text search, automated document routing and auto-indexing. The system links to your existing business software and applications, which means your documents and records are updated once and then pushed to your other databases and systems. Included with the document management system is a "lite" version of DocuPhase's Workflow Automation software, which allows document routing and workflows.
DocuVantage
DocuVantage's cloud-based system includes document capture, imaging, archiving, optical character recognition, full text search, annotation, redaction, collaboration and version control. DocuVantage has four service plans, each of which includes 1GB of storage per user. The system can store a wide variety of document types, including word processor files, photographs, scanned images of paper documents, text and graphics files, contractual documents, marketing files, spreadsheets, PDFs, customer service and maintenance records, patents, patient and legal records, engineering drawings, student transcripts, accounting and product development records, and material safety data sheets.
DocuWare can be hosted on your own server or in the cloud. Paper or digital documents arrive in electronic baskets that mimic the inbox on your desk. You can sort, organize, staple or clip them together, and add notes, comments, signatures and stamps before the documents are filed away in digital cabinets. DocuWare's indexing features automatically ensure all document types are filed away in the right place.
Dokmee Cloud from Office Gemini has multiple editions targeted to companies of all sizes. It can run in a Windows-based intranet, as a web-hosted system or on a software-as-a-service model. The system is designed for various purposes, including document capture and storage, search and retrieval, and file sharing. You can automatically create folders from index fields and store an unlimited number of files in each folder. You can also index documents and folders for easy search and retrieval. Additional features include email management, an audit log and the ability to annotate.
You can use Dropbox's user-friendly interface and cloud storage for your office's document management needs. The standard version provides you with 2TB of storage, which you can upgrade to unlimited storage. Dropbox integrates with Office 365. Additional business features include file backup, recovery, administrative tools and two-step authentication.
DynaFile
DynaFile's scan-to-cloud software uses metadata properties to index every document added to the system. You can store an unlimited number of documents and access them anytime from your web browser. DynaFile offers a completely configurable search method to find the documents you are looking for quickly and easily. The textual search area allows you to define how you classify and categorize documents, with as many indexing fields and types as you require. You can set access permissions for individual users or groups of users and apply them to specific types of documents.
ENSUR
DocXellent's ENSUR is a commercial off-the-shelf, web-based document control and quality management software system. Document version control, workflow, change controls, packaging specifications, standard operating procedures, nonconformance investigations, corrective and preventive actions, training, and other quality procedures are swiftly automated by ENSUR. The software's multilayered security model and comprehensive audit trail keep your documents in the hands of only the people with the proper rights to access them. The software is available as a cloud-based or on-premises solution.
Easy PDF
Easy PDF provides users with a straightforward website that can turn a PDF into many different file formats. Word documents can also be turned into PDFs. The service also offers the ability to merge and compress PDFs if needed. The website says users have no limits on the PDF conversions.
Enadoc
Enadoc is a cloud-based document management system. Users can create libraries before capturing documents and then store the documents in the libraries. From there, you can locate documents by clicking on the tag that contains all the keywords assigned to the document, and give colleagues permission to access the documents they need.
FileCenter Pro
Lucion's FileCenter Pro uses a familiar cabinet/drawer/folder design for organizing files. But FileCenter also provides an Explorer view for those who prefer a traditional Explorer layout. The system can store any kind of Windows file and is fully compatible with most cloud service providers.
FileHold
FileHold is our pick for the best document management system for small business. FileHold can support as many users as needed. Its suite of features allows document scanning, capture, indexing, storage, search, versioning, and document workflow review and approval. It can be installed locally on your server or in the cloud. Integrated with Microsoft Office, FileHold works on your desktop, browser and mobile device.
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eBridge
eBridge is a cloud-based document management system. You can access all the information stored in your electronic filing cabinets via web browser. eBridge allows you to attach or import images from any scanner, office copier or multifunction printer. You can search with up to seven key fields, find documents from your mobile device and search text in PDFs. The system allows unlimited users, storage and retrievals. All data includes an audit trail and is encrypted when stored.
eDoc Organizer
eDoc Organizer offers three types of solutions: a cloud edition, which allows secure access to documents from anywhere using any device; an on-premises edition, which allows you to store documents on your computers; and an enterprise edition, which provides secure access from anywhere while still being housed on your corporation's server. Features include optical character recognition, a comprehensive search engine, audit logs and version control.
Canto's Flight is an on-premises or cloud-based digital asset management system that allows you to store, organize, track and repurpose your branded assets, such as photography, videos, rich graphics, 3D imagery, text documents and presentations. Users can create workflows to organize and deliver assets or access content from anywhere and any device.
FossLook
FossLook is an electronic document management solution that can organize, secure and manage all your business's documents. Key features include an integrated mail server, customizable document types and folders, document collaboration, workflows, templates for printing documents, and a log of document history and statistics. The system also allows businesses to link documents together and provide specific employees access to certain files and documents.
Fujitsu ScanSnap
Fujitsu's PaperStream Capture Pro is front-end capture software. It automates documents by offering seamless front-end capture, image enhancement, and organized, indexed and extracted data for release. The software, in combination with Fujitsu's Fi Series document scanners, automates processes that were once manual, including document separation, image cleanup, data extraction, indexing and validation. The solution is easy to set up, with no IT resources required. PaperStream Capture Pro is customizable and scalable. It's designed for any paper-intensive business, big or small. Fujitsu also offers PaperStream Server, a web-based document processing platform that enables organizations to scan, import, process, tag and introduce business-critical content into enterprise content management systems.
Google's suite of applications, including unlimited storage, is available for business and enterprise use. Along with using your business email through Gmail, video and voice conferencing, a shared calendar, and the rest of Google's ecosystem, you get an expanded version of Google Drive. Features include versioning, archiving and data loss prevention.
Square 9's Global Search is document management software for small and midsize businesses. With its modular design, the software offers flexibility in both pricing and configuration by allowing organizations to select only the tools needed for their specific business application. All documents are securely deposited in the archives you designate. You dictate permissions and determine who has access to your files and what they can do with them.
Greenbox serves as Discus Business Solutions' document management system. The platform helps companies keep their data secure and stored. The business, which is based in India, includes features like cloud storage, system and administrative authority measures, and search tools on Greenbox.
HyperOffice
HyperOffice's document management system allows you to store, organize, search, collaborate and manage access to documents from any web-enabled PC or Mac. You can store documents online in a familiar structure, set permissions on who has access to which files, and share documents with colleagues and clients. Added features include version controls, full text searches and online data backup.
ImageSite
eQuorum's ImageSite is a single-source document management system. Installation is simple and typically completed in a few days. The ImageSite suite includes document management software tailored to your industry and unique business requirements. Using ImageSite: Business Management With Workflow and Lifecycle allows organizations to productively manage all files throughout their life cycles. This system also works well with large engineering files like CAD and scanned drawings.
Active Innovations' InfoRouter is on-premises, fully browser-based document management software. InfoRouter includes workflow, document routing, electronic forms, scanning, storage, archiving, indexing and records management modules under a single integrated software suite.
isoTracker
Lennox Hill's isoTracker enables businesses to take an automated approach to document management. This web-based system provides a central repository to store and organize documents. Integrated workflow tools are used to upload, review, approve, check out, modify and access documents from any location in a controlled way. Automatic email notifications ensure that tasks are communicated instantly, while integrated analytics and reports provide information on each document from the time it's created until it's superseded by the next version.
Konica Minolta's Enterprise Content Management system allows you to manage documents and control the auditing and access of data. Its automated workflow solutions can scan, process and index documents, allowing you to cut down on paper waste and boost efficiency. You can monitor certain tasks or documents and get alerts when things change.
Laserfiche Enterprise Content Management allows organizations to securely manage and share documents, videos, photos and other content. You can update documents, add document annotations, redact confidential information and change document metadata from a single interface. It includes the ability to add, view and modify document metadata to index, search and retrieve documents.
LogicalDOC can be hosted on your own server or in the cloud, and it can be installed on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It contains a web-based user interface that allows file sharing, setting security roles, and finding and auditing enterprise records. Features include full-text indexing, version controls, check-in and checkout functionality, retention policies, and incremental backups.
MaxxVault
MaxxVault provides cloud-based and self-hosted electronic document management systems to companies of all sizes in more than 25 industries. The system can be scaled as needed, from just a few features for a single department to a full-blown, enterprise-wide installation. The system organizes documents based on index criteria and tracks each document's access and activity.
NetDocuments
NetDocuments offers a suite of tools for document creation, organization and editing. You can organize documents across cabinets, tags, folders or workspaces. The cloud-based system also lets you conduct full-text enterprise searches, including search analysis, metadata, phrase and proximity searching.
Nuance PaperPort Pro
Nuance's PaperPort Professional 14 is a complete solution for scanning, converting, organizing, assembling, and sharing documents and photos on a PC or on the go. The system's All-in-One Search uses optical character recognition technology to let you easily find scanned PDF documents, and even digital photos, anywhere on your local PC or network. The system includes the Nuance Cloud Connector, which adds connectivity to more than 20 online services. The software is compatible only with Windows computers.
OnBase by Hyland is a flexible document management system you can tailor to meet your business needs and grow with your organization over time. Apart from using it to store, secure and organize your documents, you can access documents anytime and from anywhere on the device of your choice, review and approve workflow processes online, and keep a full audit trail of your documents.
OpenKM allows businesses to control the production, storage, management and distribution of electronic documents. The system includes administration tools to keep detailed logs of activity, set automations, and define the roles of various users, their access control, user quotas and the level of document security. Some other features it includes are automatic cataloging, automatic metadata capture, optical character recognition, version control, tracking and barcode reading.
OpenText's enterprise content management systems are available on-premises, across mobile devices and in the cloud. OpenText's Content Suite is a set of enterprise content management technologies, including a platform that unites capture, document and records management. It also includes workflow, search and archiving tools; auto-classification; contract management; and engineering document management.
PSIsafe
PSIGEN's PSIsafe (formerly Cabinet SAFE) is a completely paperless document management solution. The system is available as licensed software either installed on your server or hosted in PSIGEN's secure, private cloud. Both versions are configured with each installation, creating a tailored solution for all organizations. This document management system lets you access and use any document, anywhere, anytime. The software integrates directly with a wide variety of third-party programs, including accounting software, email clients and customer relationship management suites.
PaperTracer
PaperTracer automates workflows by integrating paper and digital documents into a centralized database. The tracking and reporting capabilities simplify audit procedures to support management and regulatory compliance requirements. The system is available in two versions: PaperTracer Enterprise, which allows you to choose from customizable templates or create your unique integrated solution, and PaperTracer Express, which offers the most commonly needed templates that are the right size for small and midsize businesses.
Paperless is a simple electronic system that helps you convert your paper files into digital documents, and organizes all those digital documents and files in one library. Once you've scanned and imported your documents and files, Paperless allows you to input metadata to help you search for your files later. You can sort files into categories and subcategories, adding as many tags as you need to each file. Additional features include the ability to integrate your email program and send documents to employees and clients directly. Paperless is available for both Windows and Mac.
PinPoint is a cloud-based or self-hosted system that does not need any workstation installations and can be run from any PC (Windows 7 or higher), Mac, iPad, iPhone or tablet. The system files documents automatically, allows batch processing, and gives you the ability to search content and metadata to locate documents and files instantly. PinPoint also integrates with popular applications such as Dropbox, Salesforce, Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint and QuickBooks.
Imagetek's Radix is a secure, hosted document management software service that is accessible through a web browser. All your content is indexed and can be retrieved through an easy-to-use interface. You can also use your current internal databases and software.
ShareDocs Enterpriser
The ShareDocs Enterpriser document management system lets you create, share, preserve, procure and manage official documents. The system is meant for all sizes of enterprises, geographically distributed companies and enterprises where critical information is locked away in physical documents. With the system, users can search with a word or phrase from the title of that document. Because it has a provision for hierarchy-specific access, people in every component of the organization can only access data permissible to their roles.
Speedy Organizer
Speedy Organizer Enterprise is a complete digital document management system that operates on Windows and Windows Network Servers with up to 200 users. Speedy Organizer automatically applies filing rules to digital documents that already exist in a Windows file folder, as well as when they are being scanned in and created from paper originals. The software allows you to choose where your documents can be stored: on your local computer, on a server, on a network storage device or anywhere in the cloud, including Google Docs and Microsoft OneDrive.
Thru is a file-sharing and collaboration platform that allows enterprises to securely access, manage and share documents from web browsers, mobile devices and business applications, such as Microsoft Outlook, IBM Notes, Microsoft SharePoint and Salesforce. The platform is available as a cloud-based or on-premises solution. With Thru, companies can streamline large-scale business projects by categorizing files of any size based on project name within shared folders. You can prevent unauthorized deletions and changes with the system's access rights and permission controls.
Xerox's DocuShare is a cloud-based or self-hosted system that is available in various versions. Designed specifically for small businesses, DocuShare Express automatically indexes document content and properties for easy search and retrieval. With this system, employees can review the latest versions of materials 24/7 from a web browser in any location.
Optix's Workstation by Mindwrap is available for both Windows and Mac OS X. The system allows all users to scan, index, view, search and store documents. The system includes check-in and checkout tools, and processes workflow items.
Zoho Docs is an online document management system where you can store all your files securely in a centralized location and access them from anywhere on any device. You can upload, store, create, edit, share and view files such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations, pictures, music and videos. Tools such as shared folders, tasks and groups provide a collaborative environment for you and your team. You can also collaborate on documents in real time.
eFileCabinet is our pick for the best low-cost document management software for small business, because it offers effective features at a highly competitive price point.
Alfresco Content Services's workflow automation and collaboration tools make it an effective document management system for working in teams, earning it our pick as the best document management software for collaboration.
Document management software comes in varying degrees of complexity and diverse price points. For small businesses, the enterprise solutions might be too expensive or unwieldy. Here's a look at the best document management software for small businesses.
Our pick for the overall best document management system in 2019 is M-Files because of its comprehensive feature set and ease of use.
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The Downtown Development District announced several new business openings and updates.—Cornerstone Government Affairs, which provides lobbying, public affairs, consulting and marketing services, has…
The Downtown Development District announced several new business openings and updates.
—Cornerstone Government Affairs, which provides lobbying, public affairs, consulting and marketing services, has moved its Baton Rouge office from United Plaza Boulevard to Laurel Street. Cornerstone also has an office in Washington, D.C.
—The 525 Executive Suites is now open on Florida Street, providing office space, phone answering, a conference room and other amenities.
—Acapulco Mexican Grill will open Monday on North Boulevard in the former Grape Leaf location.
—Punchers, a sports bar and live music venue, will open Feb. 21 on Third Street.
—Stroube’s Chophouse, next to the Shaw Center, is scheduled to open in April.
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Ben Carson and the ‘National Coalition for Homeless Veterans’ Sideshow
'Sanctuary' Areas: The Elected Puts the Public at Risk and Must Be Held Liable
Trump Saves UCLA ‘Shoplifters’; No Thanks from Ball, #BLM
Lawyer Lisa Bloom Offered Women Money to Smear Candidate Trump
In this whole sexual harassment awareness “movement”, in too many cases, the accused apologize and/or resign from positions when the most expeditious of investigations conclude guilt. However, in some cases, it’s just a question of he said-she said and we’re told women are always to be believed. Of course, there is an observed statute of limitations so any allegations made to Bill Clinton happened in another time, so they don’t count.
The left and their media has poo-pooed the notion that women are capable of lying about these matters, for a variety of reasons, but now that demands for the resignation of the President of the United States based on the claims from many women that Donald Trump disputes, the following is an aspect that could be damaging to the narrative.
On the December 8th edition of The Glenn Beck Show, guest Bill O’Reilly offered up a new twist on the ongoing efforts to undo the results of the 2016 presidential election….
Just who could that lawyer be?
Prominent lawyer sought donor cash for two Trump accusers
“Hill” reporter John Solomon detailed some of his findings on The Sean Hannity Show, December 15, 2016, and what he found proves that elections can be tampered with… for the right price.
Again, so much of what we’re now finding out now would never have come out had a friendly Hillary Clinton administration been able to dictate the daily narrative. But there just may be women whose stories about sexual harassment and/or abuse may come with a price tag. Those who were promoting a “film” about their supposed incidents with private citizen-Trump (that just so happened the day before a certain election in Alabama) are not doing this just for the cause. There is an expected return and a willing broker.
We all know there are entities that peddle in paying for false allegations to damage the reputations of a given target, i.e. Fusion GPS being paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign to produce a “dossier” to slime opponent Donald Trump.
It’s just about how much they can get and the public to believe before the truth comes out… again.
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Sens. Gillibrand and Warren’s #MeToo Judgment in the Liberal Gutter
Former RB DeAngelo Williams Dresses Down NFL Network On-Air Talkers
‘Russian Collusion’ Provides Cover for a Treasonous FBI-CIA-DOJ Coup D’état
LeBron Calls Ohio Trump Voters ‘Uneducated’ in His Own Way
‘Dignity of the Office’… Remember President ‘Cigar in the Intern’ Clinton?
Levin Mocks GOP Delegates Who Clinched Trump Nomination
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Lancashire lightning and thunder storm lights up night sky
A time lapse of the lightning storm over Buckshaw Village last night/this morning Pic: Iain Lynn
Storm watchers were left stunned after a fierce lightning storm lit up the skies above Lancashire this morning (July 24).
The storm made landfall in Lancashire in the early hours of this morning, signalling its arrival with a menacing clap of thunder at around 2am.
Many people reported being woken up by the explosive thunder, which was preceded by a blinding flash of lightning.
The storm put on an showstopping spectacle of ball lightning, which continued to charge across the sky for nearly two hours.
Kimberley, from Ashton, said: "I’ve never experienced thunder and lightning like last night's. my en suite looked like a disco!"
Jess, from Garstang, said: "Funny how there was a huge thunderstorm last night. Almost like even the sky is livid about the whole Boris Johnson mess!"
READ MORE: This is how you can stay safe when thunder and lightning storms strike Lancashire tonight
But this morning the showers have eased and we can expect a return to bright skies and warm sunshine, with a maximum temperature 27 °C.
Do you have pictures of last night's lightning storm that you'd like to share with us?
Share your best shots in the Facebook comments section or tweet them to us at @leponline
Will it snow in February 2020? North West long-range weather forecast as temperatures drop
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View our fine collection of vintage Rolex watches like the iconic Rolex Submariner 5512, 5513, and 1680 Red. Price values have grown significalntly over the past 20 years despite the ups and downs of the economy. Some vintage Rolex models have increased five fold over the past 10 years and continue to rise each year as more and more watch enthusiasts seek to build on their collections.
Below you will find some useful information on vintage Rolex watches including but not limited to the celebrated Rolex Submariner, along with useful info and facts about the most significant changes in its long history. We also wish to include the most prominent references and auction results (hammer prices) from Sothebys and Christies. We hope you find this brief guid helpful.
Looking for a vintage Rolex watch to add to your collection or to learn more about some of the most celebrated models in history? Throughout the years, Rolex has prided itself on creating beautiful luxury watches that last the test of time. We hope the following information on vintage Rolex watches will both educate and enlighten as to Rolex's amazing value in today’s world. It doesn't matter if you're buying or Selling a Rolex, the value of a finely crafted Swiss luxury watch is undeniably worth every penny.
Born in 1954, the vintage Submariner was given the distinction of being the first watch a diver or submarine operator could wear 200-meters down into the sea. The watch boasts of a time-recorder that can be calibrated from zero to 60 and comes encased in a beautiful pressure resistant Oyster case. The Submariner 6200 also includes an 8mm-diameter crown and elegant explorer dial that features a triangle at its top.
In 1959, Rolex made some major changes to the much loved Submariner. The main difference was the addition of “shoulders” that were featured on the crown side in an effort to protect the winding and setting mechanism. Through 1964, the shoulders were pyramid shaped and as the model further evolved became rounded. The Submariner 5512 can be taken down to depths of 200-meters and is also noted for its oversized crown.
Rolex Submariner 5513, 5514, 5517
This beautiful watch boasts of an oversized crown and the first-ever crown guard. Released in 1962, the Rolex Submariner 5513 includes a rotative bezel which helps divers gauge the length of their dive. History reveals that the 5514 model was originally developed for a French diving organization named COMEX so that they could more effectively navigate the depths of the seas.
Rolex Submariner 1680 & 1680-8
In 1969, the Rolex Submariner 1680 wowed Rolex fans with its rugged simplicity. The model included an all-new glass made of plastic crystal and the date stood out larger than life under its all-new magnifying glass.
Around the same time, the Submariner also came in 18K gold. Rather than only being available in stainless steel, the model turned a more luxurious corner. Noted as the Rolex Submariner 1680-8, it was made of yellow gold. Additionally, the elegant watch included a bi-directional bezel and automatic movement.
Rolex Submariner 16800 and 168000
In the 80s, the Submariner entered an all-new class with its sapphire crystal. Divers were even more enthusiastic about the model because it could be taken to depths of 300-meters. Because Rolex felt it necessary to make some major improvements on the 16800, within less than a year they upgraded it to the 168000. One of the key differences between the models is the quality of the stainless steel utilized, as the newer model was made with three times higher grade material.
The Rolex Submariner 16610 wristwatch was brought to market in 1986 and is still produced today. Available in either stainless steel or 18K gold, it can be taken to depths of 300-meters and is equipped with the Superluminova dial and Triplock bracelet. Upon first glance, it is quite obvious that the watch is both elegant and practical for use in nearly any situation.
In keeping with the Submariner’s legacy of amazing quality and supreme performance, the Rolex Submariner 16618 timepiece is a favorite model for many. The major difference between it and the 16610 is the wide variety of choices such as the choice between a black or blue face and the possibility for diamonds or sapphires.
Rolex Submariner 14060 and 14060M
By the time 1988 rolled around, the Rolex Submariner 14060 revealed the beauty of tropic glass. Additionally, its movement was smoother than ever at Caliber 3035. Divers and submarine operators continue wearing the classic at depths of up to 300-meters which equates to 1000 feet.
In 2001, the 14060M was showcased featuring 31 jewels and its movement was updated to 3130.
Rolex has a rich history that has seen it continually evolve its products and wow its customer-base. The Rolex Submariner sport watch is a prime example of the company’s ability to stay true to their classic roots, while carefully revolutionizing the watch throughout the decades. The study of vintage Rolex is quite amazing indeed!
Vintage Rolex Submariner Ref. 6538
This Rolex wristwatch was first produced in 1954 and continues to be a rare find today. It is often called the "James Bond" model since it was the one worn by James Bond in the movies in the 1960's. What is unque and interesting about this Rolex 6538 is that the crown has no guard, hence the term "no crown guard james bond"
Rolex Milgauss 6541
The Oyster Perpetual Chronometer Milgauss Ref. 6541 was released in 1958, and was the first watch developed by Rolex to have 1000 Gauss anti-magnetic ability. The Milguass’s unique anti-magnetic resistance is due to a shield inside the Oyster case made of ferromagnetic alloys, surrounds and protects the movement from magnetic interference. Most of the existing Milgauss reference 6541s feature a bezel with black scales, which is visually similar to the early Submariner watch. However, the Milgauss features a unique lightning bolt second hand with a small red arrow at the tip. Some versions of the Milgauss feature this lightning bolt in a bold orange. Milgauss reference 6541 is equipped with the 25 jeweled calibre 1080. The dial of Milgauss 6541 offers a distinctive design, featuring 3-6-9 steel hour markers, while the other hour markers are radium-coated rounded dots. Like many of Rolex’s watches, the Milgauss reference 6541 uses the waterproof Oyster case and stainless steel bracelet.
Rolex Daytona 6239
The Rolex Cosmograph Daytona reference 6239 is the first Daytona released by Rolex. Daytona reference 6239 was manufactured from 1963 until 1969. The majority of the original Daytona reference 6239s were made in stainless steel, though rare 18k gold models do exist. During its production time, Rolex utilized plastic crystal rather than the later sapphire crystal. Rolex did utilize the Oyster case, however, with its screw down crown to ensure water resistance. Until 1963, Rolex watches were not routinely categorized. With the release of the Daytona reference 6239, Rolex was able to consistently categorize and name this model. Initially, the “original” Rolex Daytona reference 6238 was named LeMens. However, with the push into the American market, coupled with its emphasis on racing, the name Daytona was issued with reference 6239. The Rolex Daytona reference 6239 was also the first Rolex watch to feature inverse colors for its three sub-dials, as well as featuring the tachymeter scale on the bezel as opposed to the dial. These wristwatches are still coveted secondhand wristwatches to a number of collectors.
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Social & The Finance Industry: Can Twitter Really Predict Share Prices?
Can Twitter really predict share prices? We find out.
In the world of finance, immediacy is key and nothing is more immediate than social media.
The financial industry is all about getting the next tip; the quicker you get that tip, the more chance you have of making money. That’s why communication between traders, journalists and industry leaders is so important.
People in the industry have always looked for the newest and quickest ways to keep up to date and ahead of the competition and Twitter provides the perfect platform to get information to people across the world as quick as possible.
But what makes it so vital?
It’s a resource
Out of all social media channels, Twitter in particular is an extremely effective method of communication.
Users generally post quick and short messages that allow their followers to get information at a faster rate than anywhere else.
Not only this, but all of the major financial institutions and journalists now use it. 255 million is a lot of people.
Twitter is essentially a pool of information hat traders can extract information from. And it’s not just how many people, but who they are.
Zak Mir from industry publication Spreadbet Magazine believes that
“if you follow the right 20 – 30 people in the trading and financial markets area then you should be fully informed in terms of what to think, what to trade and when to trade it. Yes, Twitter is that good.”
It’s a barometer
As well as being a method of conveying information, Twitter is also good at quickly gauging public opinion.
This is important in an industry driven in part by public opinion.
Tammy Poon, Marketing Campaign Executive at a leading spread-betting company, says that those in the industry should pay close attention to how a story is perceived, “has it got shares or favourites”?
Twitter can show “whether a story is reactive or not” and therefore whether it will have an effect on share prices.
There is indeed evidence to suggest that Twitter sentiment can have an effect on share prices as is displayed by the study results below.
This data shows that Twitter users talking about Facebook online actually affected confidence in the market and therefore the share price. Studies like this have led to the creation of tools that can analyse twitter sentiment, such as Wall Street Birds.
Social media is a useful tool for many industries and it definitely has a place in finance.
However, it shouldn’t be used as a sole frame of reference. In my opinion, an example of where this is evident outside of finance was during the Scottish Referendum.
Twitter sentiment was firmly on the side of the ‘Yes’ vote, but when it came down to the result it was a clear victory for ‘No.’ This was probably due to the largely young user demographic of Twitter, who were more likely to vote yes but only made up a minority of the vote.
In short, Twitter is useful in this way, but should really only be used to supplement more concrete information.
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ITSM Adoption Forces a Streamlined Operations Culture at Desjardins that Paves the Way to Better Cloud Use
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how a Canadian cooperative banking organization is using ITSM to put best practices in place and deliver higher IT value to the company.
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Dana Gardner: Hello, and welcome to the next edition of the HP Discover Podcast Series. I’m Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, your host and moderator for this ongoing sponsored discussion on IT innovation and how it’s making an impact on people’s lives.
Once again, we're focusing on how companies are adapting to the new style of IT to improve IT performance and deliver better user experiences, as well as better business results.
This time, we're coming to you from the HP Discover 2014 Conference in Las Vegas. We're here to learn directly from IT and business leaders alike how big data, cloud, and converged infrastructure implementations are supporting their goals.
Our next innovation case study interview highlights how Desjardins Group in Montréal is improving their operations in IT through an advanced IT services management (ITSM) approach.
To learn more, we are joined by Trung Quach, ITSM Manager at Desjardins in Québec. Welcome.
Trung Quach: Thank you very much, Dana, for having us.
Gardner: First tell us a little bit about your organization, for those who aren’t familiar. You're in Canada and you have a large network of credit unions.
Quach: It’s more cooperative banking. We are around 50,000 people across Québec, and we've started moving into both Canada and the US.
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Gardner: Tell us a little bit about your IT organization, the size, how many people, how many datacenters? What sort of IT organization do you have?
Quach: We're around 2,500 and counting. We're mainly based in Montréal and Lévis, which is near Québec City. Most of them are in Montréal, but some technical people are in Lévis.
Gardner: Tell us about your role. What are you doing there as ITSM manager?
The ITIL process
Quach: I joined Desjardins last year in the ITSM leader position. This is more about the process, the ITIL process and everything that's invloved with the tool, as well as to support those overall processes.
Gardner: Tell us why ITSM has become important to you. What were some of the challenges, some of the requirements? What was the environment you were in that required you to adopt better ITSM principles?
Quach
Quach: A couple of years ago, when they merged 10-plus silos of IT into one big group, Desjardins needed to centralize the process, put best practice in place, to be more efficient and competitive -- and to give a higher value to the business.
Gardner: What, in particular, were issues that cropped up as a result of that decentralization? Was this poor performance, too much cost, too many manual processes, all of the above?
Quach: We had a lot of manual processes, and a lot of tools. To be able to measure the performance of a team, you need to use the same process and the same tools, and then measure yourself on it. You need to optimize the way you do it, so that you can provide better IT services.
Gardner: What have been some of the results of your movement toward ITSM? What sort of benefits have you realized as a result?
Quach: We had many of them. Some were financial, but the most important thing, I think, is the services quality and the availability of those services. So one indicator is a reduction in major incidents of 30 percent for the last two years.
Gardner: What is it about your use of ITSM that has led to that significant reduction in incidents? How does that translate?
Quach: We put our new problem management approach to work as well with the problem processes. When we open tickets, we can take care of the incidents in a coordinated way at an enterprise level. So the impact is everywhere. We can now advise the line of businesses, follow up with the incident, and close the incident rapidly. We follow up with any problems, and then we fix the real issues so that they don’t come back.
Gardner: Have you used this to translate back to any applications development, or custom development in your organization? Or is this more on the operations side strictly?
Better support
Quach: We started all of this on the operations side. But then we started last year on the development side, too. They're involved in our process slowly, and that’s going to soon get better, so we can support the full IT lifecycle better.
Gardner: Tell us about HP Discover. What's of interest to you? Have you been looking at what HP has been doing with their tools? What's of most importance to you in terms of what they do with their technology?
Quach: I can tell you how important it is for us. Last year we didn't go to HP Discover. This year, around eight in my team and the architecture team are here. That shows you how important it is.
Now we spread out. A lot of my team members went to explore tools and everything else that HP has to offer -- and HP has a lot of offer. We went to learn about the cloud, as well as big data. It all works together. That’s why it was important for us to come here. ITSM is the main reason we're here, but I want to make sure that everything works together, because the IT processes touch everything.
Gardner: I've talked to a number of organizations, Trung, and they've mentioned that before they feel comfortable moving into more cloud activities, and before they feel comfortable adopting big data, analytics platforms, they want to make sure they have everything else in order. So ITSM is an important step for them to then go to larger, more complex undertakings. Is that your philosophy as well?
Quach: Yes. There are two ways to do this. You use that technology to force yourself to be disciplined, or you discipline yourself. ITSM is one way to do it. You force yourself to work in a certain manner, a streamlined manner, and then you can go to the cloud. It's easier that way.
Gardner: Then, of course, you also have standardization in culture, in organization, not just technology, but the people and the process, and that can be very powerful.
Quach: If asked me about cloud -- and I have done this with another company -- in a 30-minute interview about cloud, I would use 29 minutes to not talk about technology but about people and processes.
Gardner: How about the future of IT? Any thoughts about or the big picture of where technology is going? Even as we face larger data volumes, perhaps more complexity, and mobile applications, what are your thoughts about how we solve some of those issues in the big picture?
Time to market
Quach: IT more and more is going to have a challenge for meeting the speed demanded for improved time to market. But to do that, you need processes, technology, and of course, people. So the client, the business, is going to ask us to be faster. That’s why we'll need to go in that cloud. But to go in the cloud, we need to master our IT services, and then go in the cloud. If not, it would be like not going to the cloud and not having that agility. We would not be competitive.
Gardner: Looking back, now that you have gone through an ITSM advancement, for those who are just beginning, what are some thoughts that you could share with them?
Quach: In an ITSM project, it's very hard to manage change. I'm talking about the people change, not the change-management technology process. Most of the time, you put that in place and say that everybody has to work with it. If I would redo it, I would bring more people to understand the latest ITSM science and processes, and explain why in five or 10 years, it's going to really help us.
You always have to be close to your clients. Even if they are IT, they are your client or partner.
After that, we'll put in the project, but we'll follow them and train them every year. ITSM is a never-ending story. You always have to be close to your clients. Even if they are IT, they are your client or partners. You need to coach them, to make sure they understand why they're doing this. Sometimes it’s a bit longer to get it right at the beginning, but it’s all worth it at the end.
Gardner: Thanks so much. We’ll have to leave it there. We've been talking about how Desjardins Group in Montréal has been embarking on an ITSM journey and we've been learning how that's helped them improve their quality and reduced incidence of IT problems. So thank you to our guest Trung Quach, ITSM Manager at Desjardins Group.
Quach: Thank you very much.
Gardner: And thank you, too, to our audience for joining this special new style of IT discussion coming to you directly from the HP Discover 2014 Conference in Las Vegas. I'm Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, your host for this ongoing series of HP-sponsored discussions. Thanks again for listening, and come back next time.
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Oxford United snap up midfielder previously linked with Bristol City, Portsmouth, Ipswich Town and Blackburn Rovers
He recorded some impressive stats last season
Motherwell's Alex Rodriguez-Gorrin and Rangers' Scott Arfield battle for the ball (Image: PA)
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Oxford United have secured the signing of Alex Rodriguez Gorrin.
The 25-year-old midfielder was linked with Bristol City earlier this summer after rejecting an offer of a new contract at Motherwell.
He made 24 appearances last season and averaged the highest interceptions per game across Europe, which saw him linked with the Robins along with other Championship clubs such as Blackburn Rovers and Wigan Athletic.
Alex Gorrin of Motherwell is challenged by Ross McCrorie of Rangers (Image: Getty Images)
Yet it is unclear how concrete the Robins' interest was, and the Spaniard quickly became linked with League One clubs Portsmouth and Ipswich Town.
Now the former Sunderland youth prospect has joined Oxford United after his impressive season at Motherwell.
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Speaking about the deal, U's boss Karl Robinson said there was plenty of competition for Gorrin's signature.
He told the club website: "There was a fair amount of interest from a lot of clubs.
"That doesn’t surprise me because he was highly impressive last season and really caught the eye. He is a real competitor and a terrific athlete.
"He loves a challenge, is a good tackler and we think will be a very good player for us."
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Who's looking after this talented trio?
WSTRN Facts: 8 Things You Need To Know About The 'In2' Collective
7. Who's looking after this talented trio?
Co-managed by talent scout and video director Morgan Keyz alongside talent-management veteran Jonathan Shalit, this group has a wealth of experience to draw on to help them navigate the difficult terrain of the UK urban music scene. Picture: Instagram
See the full gallery: WSTRN Facts: 8 Things You Need To Know About The 'In2' Collective
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City of Victoria wins court battle over right to ban plastic bags
With the court challenge cleared, the city's ban will come into effect on July 1
'This isn't just a victory for the City of Victoria, it's a victory for cities,' mayor says
CBC News · Posted: Jun 19, 2018 5:09 PM PT | Last Updated: June 20, 2018
Victoria has won a court battle with the Canadian Plastic Bag Association over the city's right to ban plastic bags. The ban comes into effect July 1. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)
Victoria has won a court battle over its right to ban plastic bags, meaning the bylaw approved last winter has the green light to roll out next month.
The Canadian Plastic Bag Association (CPBA) challenged the bylaw in B.C. Supreme Court in January, saying the city didn't have the authority to enact the ban.
On Tuesday, the court rejected that challenge.
Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps called it a win that could have an impact beyond city borders.
"Today, we've been given permission by the courts to manage waste in a sustainable way and I think that's a good thing," she said.
Bylaw's approval
The bylaw, approved last December, prohibits grocery stores from offering or selling plastic bags to shoppers, although stores can still offer paper bags or reusable bags for a cost if customers ask.
The CPBA claimed councillors acted outside their jurisdiction because B.C. cities don't have the authority to regulate the environment — that's something that falls to the province.
But in his ruling, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Nathan Smith said the plastic bag bylaw works because cities have the power to regulate business transactions — in this case, giving a bag to a customer to carry goods they've purchased.
Victoria, like other cities across Canada, is struggling with the amount of waste single-use, plastic bags create. (John Gaudi/CBC )
Smith said the bylaw also falls under a city's responsibility to manage waste however it can.
"This bylaw is basically those two things hand-in-hand," Helps said.
Other cities watching
The mayor said the decision could have big implications for other jurisdictions who've been keeping an eye out for an outcome, as they consider bans of their own.
"This isn't just a victory for the City of Victoria, it's a victory for cities, because cities do have very limited powers," Helps said.
Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said the ruling is a victory for her city, as well as any others that may be looking to ban plastic bags. (Andrew Clippingdale/DoddsEyeMedia)
Tuesday's ruling comes as Helps travels to Montreal to speak at a global sustainability conference around what cities can do — and are doing — to take climate action.
"It'll be nice tomorrow morning on my panel to be able to talk about this decision," she said.
With the challenge cleared, Victoria's ban will come into effect as planned on July 1.
Plastic bags no more: Victoria to implement ban July 1
Non-conforming businesses could face fines from $100 up to $10,000 by 2019.
Last year, the city said Victoria residents used 17 million plastic bags annually. It also said the bags account for more than 15 per cent of landfill waste.
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Endicott Outlasts UNE for CCC Field Hockey Tournament Championship
#2 University of New England
#1 Endicott
#2 University of New England (12-10) 0 0 0
#1 Endicott (17-4) 0 1 1
2nd - 63:48 - Julie Champigny (#1 Endicott)
Sh: Jillian Lachapelle - 5
Sv: Liz Sargent - 10
G: Julie Champigny - 1
A: Kristen McCarthy - 1
Sh: Sydney Poulin - 7
Sv: Taylor Farrin - 3
Penalty Corners
INTERACTIVE BRACKET | PRINTABLE BRACKET | CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
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BEVERLY, Mass. – The Endicott field hockey team captured its third Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) championship in program history on Saturday at North Field with a 1-0 win over the University of New England (UNE).
Deadlocked at 0-0 with under seven minutes to play, Gulls junior forward Julie Champigny (Acton, Mass.) scored the eventual game-winning goal with 6:12 remaining in the contest to dethrone the four-time defending CCC Champion Nor'easters (2014-17).
UNE didn't go away quietly down the stretch, however, as Endicott also needed a defensive save from Cameron Molinare (Simsbury, Conn.) at 67:42 and two saves by Taylor Farrin (Danvers, Mass.) – including one that came with 20-seconds left to play in the matchup – to secure the victory.
Endicott dominated the majority of play outshooting UNE, 26-7, while also producing a 15-2 differential in penalty corners. Farrin finished the contest with three saves in the win (16-4), while UNE goalie Liz Sargent (South Burlington, Vt.) was forced to make 11 saves in the loss (12-10).
Endicott evened up the all-time series against UNE at 15-15 with today's victory.
The Gulls are 10-3 at home all-time versus the Nor'easters.
Endicott is 9-1 at home this season.
The Blue and Green outscored UNE 6-2 in three meetings this year (includes two shutouts).
2018 CCC FIELD HOCKEY TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
All matches hosted by higher seed
Quarterfinals – Tuesday, Oct. 30
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La Caixa and ACS may buy transport infrastructure company Abertis
The two largest Abertis shareholders study the possibility of a leveraged buy-out through the investing firm CVC. The operation is worthy 25 billion euros, according to the Financial Times. La Caixa and ACS own 55% of Abertis.
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Catalan businesses make alliances with Quebec firms
The Catalan and Quebec Governments are working together on an initiative to create business alliances in order to strengthen economic bonds and gain access to financial credits.
Fertilised eggs from Catalonia exported to Iran, Iraq, Russia and Africa
A farm in Girona exports 71% of its production all over the world. 90% of the incubated eggs will become living chicks. In order to operate in these new destinations, the company will have to overcome the lack of air connections for its merchandise.
Sabadell United Bank open for business in the U.S.
The Catalan bank, Banc Sabadell, has an important presence in Florida, where its U.S. headquarters are located at the heart of Miami?s financial district. Banc Sabadell is Catalonia?s 2nd financial institution and the 4th in Spain.
Catalan Minister of Economy dismayed at the lack of an energy model in Spain
Antoni Castells considers that the minimum social conditions necessary for consensus do not exist, as the energy model is often used as a political weapon. In the last 5 years there have been large controversies around mergers within the Spanish...
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30 June 2010 04:18 AM
The first two sections of the B-40 ringroad unveiled
The ringroad will eventually run between Barcelona, Granollers and Abrera via Terrassa
29 June 2010 05:21 PM
Construction giant Sacresa goes bankrupt
Catalan construction company Sacresa files for bankruptcy. It will not be able to pay back its total debt of around 1,800 million euros to various financial entities.
Subway lines 9 and 10 reach Barcelona thanks to two new stations
President Montilla declares that the economic crisis may affect the timetable of such infrastructure work but will not alter governmental objectives
President of Relais Chateaux says that Alguaire airport will be too small to handle winter tourism
Jaume Tàpies argues a new terminal must be built to handle those skiers who have used Toulouse airport up until now
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MRA captures MAIS AAAA title
Devin Gilmore scored 28 and the Patriots beat Hillcrest 63-60 in overtime.
MRA captures MAIS AAAA title Devin Gilmore scored 28 and the Patriots beat Hillcrest 63-60 in overtime. Check out this story on clarionledger.com: http://on.thec-l.com/2mqvujr
Tyler Cleveland, The Clarion-Ledger Published 9:51 p.m. CT Feb. 25, 2017 | Updated 9:01 a.m. CT Feb. 26, 2017
The MRA Patriots celebrate with the trophy after their 63-60 overtime win against Hillcrest on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss.(Photo: CHRIS TODD/For the Clarion-Ledger)Buy Photo
Madison-Ridgeland Academy got more than it bargained for in the MAIS AAAA Tournament finale Saturday night at Jackson Academy.
The Patriots took the tournament title, just as they did last year, but they got a challenge from an upstart Hillcrest team that forced overtime before the Patriots pulled out the 63-60 win.
Devin Gilmore scored 28 points and pulled down 10 rebounds, and Donovan Lewis scored 21 points to push MRA to the title.
“Yeah, I ended up scoring a lot of points,” Gilmore said. “But it was only because my teammates put me in position to be successful. That was a great team victory tonight, and the kind that will help us get better.”
All night, the Cougars chased the Patriots. They never led, but they forced overtime and had a chance to tie right at the final buzzer.
They knotted the score 60-60 with 23 seconds left on a layup by Darien Newchurch, but MRA answered right back with the dagger — a long, contested 3-pointer from Donovan Lewis.
It was the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back, and Hillcrest finally couldn’t respond. They inbounded the ball with 11 seconds left and tried to run a set play on the other end of the floor, but ran out of time and never got a shot off.
#MSPreps: MRA vs. Hillcrest
The MRA Patriots celebrate with the trophy after their 63-60 overtime win against Hillcrest on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. Chris Todd/For The Clarion-Ledger
The MRA Patriots celebrate with the trophy after their 63-60 overtime win against Hillcrest on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
The MRA Patriots celebrate their 63-60 overtime win against Hillcrest as MRA fan John Harvey holds the trophy on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
MRA's Devin Gilmore (23) and the Patriots celebrate the 63-60 overtime win against Hillcrest on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
MRA's Devin Gilmore (23) shoots over two Hillcrest defenders on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
MRA's Jake Lape (5) shoots a jumper against Hillcrest on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
Hillcrest's Mayowa Asagunla (12) rebounds against MRA on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
MRA's Devin Gilmore (23) starts the break upcourt against Hillcrest's Mayowa Asagunla in the first half on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
Hillcrest's Mayowa Asagunla (12) puts up a shot from the baseline against MRA on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
MRA's Donavon Lewis (11) shoots a three pointer against Hillcrest on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
Hillcrest's Mayowa Asagunla (12) pulls down a rebound against MRA on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
MRA head coach Richard Duease talks to the Patriots during a time out on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
MRA's Braxton Eubanks (10) gets the rebound in a sea of arms on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
Hillcrest's Darien Newchurch (4) passes over MRA's Cory Jackson on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
MRA's Jake Lape (5) shoots a layup against Hillcrest on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
MRA's Devin Gilmore (23) shoots a jumper from wing over Hillcrest's Darien Newchurch (4) on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
Hillcrest head coach Wes Prather directs the Cougars defense against MRA on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
Hillcrest's Thomas Cain (11) shoots a trey against MRA on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
Hillcrest's Kenneth Beverley puts up a one hander against MRA on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
MRA's Devin Gilmore (23) dunks against Hillcrest in the first half on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
MRA's Braxton Eubanks (10) rebounds over two Hillcrest defenders on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
MRA's Devin Gilmore (23) draws a crowd in the lane as he passes away from two Hillcrest defenders on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
Hillcrest's Kenneth Beverley (left) and Ishmael Harley celebrate going into overtime against MRA on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
MRA's Donavon Lewis (11) nails a three pointer against Hillcrest to make it 63-60 in overtime on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
The Hillcrest Cougars pray before the game on Saturday, February, 25, 2017, in the MAIS AAAA state basketball championship at Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. CHRIS, CHRIS TODD
“That was great for our guys to win under pressure,” MRA coach Richard Duease said. “We haven’t had a close game like that in a while, and I’d much rather it happen tonight than next week (during the MAIS overall tournament).”
MRA (29-9) had cruised through the tournament until Saturday. They beat Lamar School 63-27 in the opening round and drummed Jackson Academy 70-45 on the Raiders’ home floor in the semifinal.
For a moment early in the game, it looked like they were going to walk away with the championship.
The Patriots jumped out to a 10-2 lead, but the Cougars closed that gap and only trailed 12-10 by the end of the first quarter. They trailed by as many as nine in the second quarter, but cut it to 27-24 by halftime.
Hillcrest (21-10) trailed by 11 at one point in the third quarter, but they had pulled within four, 43-39, by the start of the fourth quarter.
Hillcrest finally pulled even with 1:15 left in regulation when Mayowa Asagunla drained a 3-pointer from the top of the arc to tie the game at 54.
Gilmore hit a couple of free throws with 12.4 seconds left on the clock, but Hillcrest came right back and tied the game on an inside bucket by Bruce Reed as time expired.
The first half was totally back-and-forth, with Hillcrest playing one step behind.
The Cougars made 24 out of 47 shots (51.1 percent). Asagunla led the way with 18 points. Thomas Cain scored 14 and Bruce Reed chipped in 12.
"They have a great team with great athletes and they shot the ball well,” Duease said. “If they shoot it like that they are going to be a tough team to beat.”
“Hillcrest definitely came out to play,” Gilmore said. “They gave us a challenge and we responded. We know to beat MRA is like winning the Super Bowl, so we’re used to getting everyone’s best shot.”
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I am a volunteer at The Cinema Museum, I love film, cinema and what those shared experiences can mean for people and how it brings people together. The old Lambeth Workhouse where filmmaker Charlie Chaplin spent some of his childhood has been home to The Cinema Museum for 20 years. That local historic film connection makes it a perfect home for us. Despite numerous attempts to buy the building over the years and promises in writing from SLaM (South London and Maudsley NHS Trust) that they would sell it to the Museum for a fair and independent price, SLaM have sold the larger piece of land upon which our museum sits, to property developers (Anthology Limited) who plan to build flats on the site.
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‘London property company, Anthology, has acquired a 1.75 acre site on Dugard Way in Lambeth with the commitment to support renowned, The Cinema Museum, existing residents of the Grade II listed Master’s House situated at the Woodlands site.’
They also say “We look forward to working in partnership with the Board of Trustees of the Cinema Museum to ensure the successful development of Woodlands and The Master House site.”
The Museum is entirely run by volunteers at no cost to the public purse and it has a committed following – proven when the Museum recently won the Time Out Love London award.
We call on Steve Bangs of Anthology and their funders, Oaktree Capital Management to keep their promise, be fair to the Museum who have provided vital community services (as well as housing the countries most significant collection of cinema memorabilia) and agree to work with us to find a solution that guarantees not just their sale profits, but also our sustainable future.
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Wylie, Service diverge on issues in 49th District race
Incumbent touts her long political resume
By Lauren Dake, Columbian Political Writer
Published: October 21, 2014, 5:00pm
49th District incumbent Sharon Wylie, a Democrat, will face Republican Anson Service in the November general election.
Sharon Wylie
Age: 65.
City: Vancouver.
Occupation: State legislator.
Party affiliation: Democrat.
Endorsements: NARAL Pro-Choice; Sierra Club; Clark County Association of Realtors; Washington Council of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs; Planned Parenthood NW.
Total funds raised: $65,199.
Campaign website: www.sharonfor49th.com.
Anson Service
Occupation: Mental health clinic director, licensed mental health counselor.
Party affiliation: Republican.
Endorsements: Gun Owners Action League of Washington; Human Life PAC; Pacific Security owner AJ Gomez; Robert Service; Stephen Mosier.
Total funds raised: $8,213.
Campaign website: www.electansonservice.com.
The sales tax exemption for Oregonians and certain other nonresidents is one of the issues Rep. Sharon Wylie, D-Vancouver, could “argue from both directions.”
For her, it’s the perfect example of dilemmas lawmakers face. For her opponent, Republican Anson Service, “it’s probably his favorite topic of all time.”
They both believe the exemption helps local businesses and should continue to exist.
That’s largely where the common ground between the two candidates ends.
Wylie points to her long political résumé — once a lobbyist and a former lawmaker in Oregon and now the 49th District incumbent — as an asset.
“I was once Clark County’s lobbyist and I don’t consider lobbying a dirty word,” Wylie said at a recent candidate forum. “I represented the citizens of Clark County to the Legislature and I know the process.”
Wylie said she’s proud of the work she’s done scrutinizing the state’s tax breaks. She’s become a vocal proponent for pressuring the federal government to figure out a way to tax internet sales, saying states and local governments are hemorrhaging money without any action.
Wylie is currently the vice chairwoman of the Government Accountability and Oversight Committee and sits on the House Higher Education Committee and Technology and Economic Development Committee.
“I’m proud of the work I’ve been able to do in the short time (I’ve been) in the Legislature,” she said, adding she was one of the first lawmakers to take a stand and sponsor a bill on oil train safety.
Her opponent, Service, is a licensed mental health counselor in Vancouver. He has said he’s currently working on taking the exams to become a licensed psychologist.
Service said he would like to be an approachable representative who translates wonky policy into information that is easily comprehended. Service said he prides himself on being a good communicator. Service declined requests from The Columbian to be interviewed over the phone or in person.
Previously, Service wrote he is running to stop “the pattern of our current representatives who have continually supported wasteful spending programs, such as the Columbia River Crossing TriMet light rail expansion into Vancouver.”
Service said at a recent candidate forum he would prioritize funding for the state’s public schools and fight to improve education. He said he would not be “swayed” by special interest groups who lobby lawmakers.
Service is a proponent of ensuring people have access to affordable health care and believes a key component of curbing crime in Vancouver is helping people with mental health issues. He touts fiscal conservatism and believes the state can fund its public schools without raising taxes.
When asked about public records showing that his home was in foreclosure proceedings in 2009, Service wrote in an email he was limited in what he could say by attorneys. He wrote “there was no foreclosure,” and documents appear to show he kept his home. The experience, he said, shows “there needs to be better and more effective laws on the books to protect homeowners from predatory lending practices and illegal acts by mortgage companies.”
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March 29, 2017 — 12:09
DCM Ventures has led a US$11 million series B round in Beijing-based Sensors Data, a big data analysis company, according to a company announcement.
Sequoia Capital China also participated in the round.
Sensors was founded in 2015 by Sang Wenfeng, former technology manager at Baidu Inc’s big data department. It currently provides big data analysis services for over 300 companies, including bike sharing company ofo, Chinese workout mobile app Keep, and video sharing and live streaming app Miaopai.
It previously raised an undisclosed angel round from Linear Venture, FutureCap, and well-known Chinese investor Charles Bi-chuen Xue in 2015. Last April, it completed a US$4 million series A round from Sequoia Capital China and existing investors.
The start-up plans to use the latest proceeds to invest in research and development, as well as expand it business to focus on the customers in the fields of financial banks, new retails and Internet of things.
Last week, Hejin online, a Beijing-based big data company focused on the insurance industry raised an undisclosed series B round. Earlier this month, Shumei Technology, a big data solution provider, received US$10 million from Shunwei Capital and Baidu Ventures.
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Fun Games to Play over the Holidays
Are you a game person/people? We have friends over almost weekly to eat, chat and play games and it’s become one of our favorite, very chill, traditions. But over the Holidays, it seems like everybody becomes game people–and isn’t that fun!? Here are a few of our favorites:
Monopoly Deal —probably 100x more fun than regular Monopoly
Exploding Kittens (Great for small groups. Our girls even love it. Definitely get the expansion pack! It adds some fun twists to the game)
Code Names –This is our current favorite when we have a big crowd over. It’s so fun and hilarious and sparks a lot of conversation.
The Game of Things–We played this with some friends at a New Year’s party and then went out and bought it and played with my family because it’s so fun! It’s a game you can play it as couples or individuals where you read the hilarious topics and write down your answers, then try and guess who said what.
Trouble–Our daughters’ favorite game
Time’s Up! –If you’re familiar with the game “Celebrity” then you know what Time’s Up is all about. The first round you try to get your partner to say what’s on your card (could be a person, movie, song, book, place, etc.!) by saying pretty much anything besides what’s on the card, the second round you can only say one word and the third round you can only act it out. It’s one of our favorite party games and we still haven’t gotten through all the cards it came with!
Wacky Six –We’ve been in the dark about this one, but some friends introduced us to it and we’re hooked. They actually sent it to us as a thank you for hosting game night with a note that said, “No game house should be without it.” It was so sweet (and true!).
Sequence –Classic but every time we play, I remember how much I love it
Name 5–This is one of those games that we end up playing for hours, lounging around the living room
Like Minds–Another great one to mix up partners with!
Farkle–Great for all ages!
Scrabble–Lately, we have been using the tiles to play speed scrabble! Everyone starts with 7 tiles and as soon as someone has connected all of their tiles into word(s), they say “go!” and everyone has to grab 2 more tiles and build on their personal crossword.
America —we played this a few times in a row over the holidays it was so fun.
Telestrations–Maybe our favorite game of all time, that we play year after year with all sorts of groups–even our 8 year old joins us.
Scum. When I showed my family playing this card game up at our cabin over Christmas, a few of you chimed in that you know it as a$$ho#*. By either name, my whole family loves this game and we often play it with our friends, too. All you need is two decks of cards for a group. Here’s a breakdown of the rules.
Mafia. I hadn’t played Mafia for a decade, but it’s still just as fun as I remembered! Basically everybody is handed a card besides the moderator/narrator. For our group of 12 there were 3 Mafia (Aces), 2 Police (Kings) 1 Doctor (Queen) and the rest were towns’ people (number cards). Every “night” (the portion of the game where everyone closes their eyes) the Mafia chooses someone to kill by quietly pointing out someone to the moderator. Then they go back to sleep and the police silently ask the moderator if someone is mafia or not. Then the doctor is able to save one person. In the “morning” (when everyone opens up their eyes), someone is announced dead by the moderator (unless the doctor saved the exact person the mafia chooses to kill) and deliberation to vote someone out of the town begins. You can lie. Persuade. Anything but show your card. And then you do it again until all the mafia or all the common folk are eliminated. It’s a riot.
Reverse Charades. You can actually buy this game, (we always use the free app called Reverse Charades). This game is one we played with Chris’s family a few years ago and we still laugh about it! The rules are simple, roles are reversed in charades (so your whole team is acting something out while one person tries to guess what it is.) but it’s hilarious to see what people come up with!
Karaoke. Ever since I got a karaoke machine for Christmas back when I was a tween, we’ve had a karaoke night around Christmas time. Nowadays, the setup is a little different. We use our TV (it’s one of those smart ones that can access apps including YouTube) as the Karaoke machine–YouTube has never let us down as far as lyrics and songs go–and these mics that can hold your smartphone and sync with your bluetooth if you don’t have a smart TV you want to use.
Did I miss any of your favorites? Sound off in the comments!
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We love the games Cover Your Assets (a great group game!), One Night Ultimate Werewolf, my kids adore Sleeping Queens (it’s so fun and I even enjoy it!), and we love Code Names too. That’s our favorite right now. Thanks for the list!
Kathleen Wright
Mexican Train is the game we play more than any. It is easy to understand and set up, and allows for some talking and munching while playing, too. It is not a “funny” game but we always end up laughing until our sides ache.
Kirstin
My kids LOVE Sleeping Queens! They also like Rat-A-Tat-Cat and Pass the Pigs….just a couple of fun suggestions for the kiddos. They also make great stocking stuffers!
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Very good ideas!
Balderdash and Apples to Apples are two favorites.
Bang, Avalon and Betrayal at House on the Hill are all really fun for large groups. Dominion and their expansion packs, splendor, and ricochet robots are some of our favorites. Bohnanza is a fun game for all ages and if you’ve never played Dutch blitz or euchre definitely look up the rules for those games! There’s soo many more but those are some of our favorites :)
My son is studying in Japan for a year and lives in the university’s international house with students from around the world. They play Codenames more or less in English but try to figure out clues in German, Finnish, Korean, French, and of course, Japanese. He says the game is loads of fun!
KarenJ
Cards Against Humanity! I love games but everyone I know hates them! I often have to literally beg family and friends to play. So sad
My husband designs board games as a hobby, so shameless plug for his published games :) they’re more strategy type similar to Catan: worlds fair 1893, gold west, atlas enchanted lands, prowlers passage, daxu, and sentient are all games you should check out!
Mandee McEvoy
TENZI! fun dice game for all ages!
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We love Machi Koro: Harbor Expansion, No Thanks, Gamewright’s Sushi Go and Sushi Go Party. Playing games with family and friends is one of the best things!
Wits and wagers is a fun one to play with a small group.
We are big on games. Love Telestrations. I always end up crying at some point because I’m laughing so hard. For another train game (when you want something quicker than Ticket to Ride), TransAmerica is great and easy to teach. Kids can even play it. Everyone seems to love playing 7 Wonders when they come to out house. The rules can be tricky but once you play it once, you start to get the hang of it. Nice thing is that experience playing the game doesn’t necessarily mean you are more likely to win because the strategies of other players will have an effect on you. Happy Salmon is a super easy game that kids can play as well. It does get loud though as you are yelling out your card to try to match it with other players. Spyfall is a fun game for older kids and adults. One person is a spy while everyone else is at a location. You ask questions and the spy tries to determine the location while the other people try to figure out who the spy is. Cash & Gun is a fun game too. You are thieves dividing up your loot and decide that dividing among less people is more advantageous. Complete with orange foam guns. And Wits and Wagers. If you don’t know the answers to the trivia questions, you can at least get ahead by betting on the answer that you think is correct. Those are our go-to games when we are playing with 6 or more people. And if all else fails, there is always “spoons.” Can get dangerous depending on who you play with. I was once dragged over the table (while pregnant) by my uncle who refused to let go of a spoon! Happy gaming everyone!
One of our family favorites is Say Anything. It’s so much fun. Love this list for Christmas gift ideas.
Where is that cute Christmas tree w the buffal check holder from?
Tree is from Crate & Barrel (they are selling a flocked one this year right here), buffalo check basket is from the Target dollar spot if you can believe that!
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I’ve stayed up into the wee hours of the morning playing Canasta. However, it’s only a game for four but SO much fun!
Goodness, great list! Has anyone heard of Dixit? It is a French game that has spread around the world… and since we started playing 3 years ago, it’s been a main stay at all our family gatherings. Such a beautiful, creative, fascinating game! Totally worth a try.
Dixit is great. We have a friend who enjoyed playing it with us so much that he gifted us a bunch of expansion decks as well.
I also love Dixit! Our whole family gets into that one.
King of Tokyo is such a fun game too.
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This is my favorite game, we call it beans. It’s super fun easy to understand and great in a group.
Brittany D
Search Amazon for “The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow.” It’s a version of Mafia and it’s SO much fun! Thanks for all of the great suggestions! We are definitely game people. We used to host game night weekly in college and continued that tradition a couple of years into our marriage.
They’ve made mafia into themed games you can purchase- look up Werewolf or Secret Hitler, but I’ve always loved the original mafia handed out via card deck. I was a summer camp counselor in college and mafia literally saved us one rainy week when we couldn’t be outside. We used to come up with the most elaborate backstories for the townspeople and the death of each person.
Your list is missing Settlers of Catan which is a little more elaborate than any of the others you’ve mentioned but a great strategy game. It’s also ruthless if you add the Cities and Knights expansion. My sister-in-law is still talking about a game from three christmases ago.
Otherwise this is a great list!
I love this list! We really love playing the Mexican Train domino game (no idea why it’s called that), we’ll play for hours! I’m thinking about giving my four-year-old niece a couple of her first board games for Christmas. Do you have any recommendations for games for young kids/good first board games that parents don’t mind playing too?
Alex E.
Do you have any games you enjoy playing when it’s just you and Chris? My husband and I used to play Boggle and Scrabble sometimes but have stopped playing many games when it’s just the two of us.
We love playing Rummikub when it’s just us!
Adore Rummikub! Been playing it with my college student since he was 8 : )
There is a Code Names version called “duets” for two people, my boyfriend and I love playing Lost Cities, too!
Thre3peat has been a fun one for our family the past couple years. I don’t know that it is available beyond a couple game stores located in west MI though.
Gurston
If you like playing ‘speed scrabble’ try Bananagrams, it’s the same but comes with some interesting twists and cool packaging!
We cry with laughter playing Bananagrams. And yes, the cloth banana packaging alone is worth it!
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Diaspora Voters, Canadian Voters: What Roles?
Natalie Brender
In a recent Globe and Mail column, Jeffrey Simpson notes that the Harper government’s pro-Israel stance is likely responsible for a shift of Jewish Canadians toward the Conservatives, who were supported by 52% of Jewish voters in the last election. The inverse of that trend among Muslim Canadian voters was even starker, with only 12% backing the Tories. “On this highly polarized issue of Israel and its neighbours, where almost no middle ground exists,” Simpson writes, “such a position risks alienating Muslims, whose numbers in Canada are growing much faster than the Jewish population.”
Those remarks might simply acknowledge the obvious fact that the government’s Middle East policy is not calibrated to win maximal electoral support. But perhaps Simpson is implying something more profound: a divergence of voter preference and government policy that potentially alienates Muslims from a sense of citizen identification with Canada.
To the extent that the latter interpretation is plausible, it might seem to open up a can of worms about the voting behaviour and citizenship not just of Canadian Muslims (and Jews), but of diaspora groups as a whole. If many members of diaspora groups cast their votes primarily on the basis of Canada’s policy toward a foreign country or region—and if they identify with Canada only in proportion to their approval of that policy—is that what citizenship is supposed to be about? In focussing their gaze beyond our shores, aren’t such voters forgetting the duty to act as Canadians in choosing a government that’s best for Canada?
Such concerns are all the more vital given that most of today’s immigrants to Canada come from currently or potentially turbulent regions, with respect to which the federal government may take divisive foreign policy stands. The top ten source countries for immigration to Canada in 2010 included the hotspots of India, China and Iran, as well as Morocco and the United Arab Emirates. So it’s likely that future federal elections will continue to see various diaspora groups up in arms about Canadian foreign policy. And uncomfortable concerns about diaspora groups’ voting will likely continue as well.
Of course, diaspora voting isn’t the only sphere in which there are question about how actors in the democratic process should function. In September, the thinktank Samara released a study showing that Canada’s MPs suffer from an unclear sense of their roles—whether they’re primarily responsible for serving the interests of their constituents, their parties, Parliament, their own conscience or Canadians at large. To improve the functioning of federal politicians—and the broader health of Canadian democracy—Samara recommends orientation training for MPs that explicitly clarifies their responsibilities as elected representatives.
To be sure, there are legitimately different conceptions of where the ultimate loyalties of MPs should lie. Because they are tied to fundamentally different views about representative democracy itself, training can’t dissolve the deep conflicts of political philosophy at stake. Still, such training would open up conversations that could only benefit Canadian democracy.
The same holds true for electors: the potential for a more robust exercise of voters’ democratic role could only be strengthened by a candid discussion—within and without diaspora communities—about the practice of casting votes on the basis of Canada’s foreign policy toward a country of origin or region of attachment.
But in fact this conversation must encompass all voters, whether their roots in Canada go back several years or many generations. For members of diaspora groups aren’t the only ones to hold strong views about foreign policy issues that might determine how their ballot is cast; so do Canadians of all stripes. Indeed, millions of Canadians cast their votes on single issues running the gamut from taxes to gay marriage or the environment.
Concerns about the nature of diaspora voting are real, but they’re no direr than ones about single-issue voting as such. There’s a case to be made that a single policy preference is all a voter needs to justify the casting of her ballot. And arguably, there’s a stronger case to be made that responsible voting should reflect a voter’s assessment of a much broader array of policy and other considerations. It’s a debate worth having for the sake of keeping Canadian democracy healthy in an era of increasing citizen diversity.
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March Park Rangers Youth Club need more girl players for their under 14 team
The March Park Rangers Youth under 14 girls team is seeking two more players to enable the girls to continue playing their matches. Photo: Joanne Kent
A March girl's football club may have to fold unless they get more players.
The March Park Rangers Youth under 14 girls team is seeking two more players to enable the girls to continue playing their matches.
They currently have eight players.
Girls must be in school years 8 and 9 starting this September.
Joanne Kent, manager, said: “We are a couple of players short and if we do not get anyone the team will have to fold.
“For anyone who is interested I would say come along and see. They are a lovely, fun bunch of girls. Don’t worry about ability, just come and have a go.
“It is a great to make friends and be part of something socially too.”
Training is on Tuesday evenings from 6.30 to 7.30pm at the Elm Road Sports Field in March.
But as from October 2, winter month training will take place on the Neale Wade Astroturf from 7pm to 8pm.
The first session is free and is £2 thereafter. Coaches are FA qualified and CRB checked.
For any further enquiries contact Joanne on 07933706462.
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VECOZO offers healthcare providers IDIN and CM Sign for signing agreements
May 09, 2019 • 3 minutes read
VECOZO, the national communication hub for healthcare, uses iDIN and CM Sign in addition to physical identification for contract signing. Below you can read why VECOZO also opts for online identification and electronic signatures for contracts.
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VECOZO offers a safe and high-quality digital environment in which healthcare and it's supply chain parties can exchange administrative data. VECOZO has grown considerably in recent years. Legislation and regulations have changed. That is why VECOZO has started renewing agreements with its users. Now it's the turn of 50,000 healthcare providers, from the dentist on the corner to the large specialist hospital. "Of course we want to help them through the process and make it as easily as possible," says Johan Boons, innovation manager at VECOZO.
Previously, a lot was done via traditional mail. To save costs and time, VECOZO started looking for alternatives in addition to physical shipping and signing. Johan: “Previously it could take up to 28 days before the entire registration process was completed. Now this is possible in ten minutes thanks to the additional iDIN option. Moreover, the complete registration process has been digitized. It's a bit more efficient and therefore also cost effective. Moreover, we want to offer a higher level of security. Not only because of legislation, but also because of the demand from our clients".
Now a link can be sent via e-mail to the portal containing the agreement that is submitted for signature. Before access to that online environment, the user must be authenticated via iDIN. He can then view the document and sign it via CM Sign.
About iDIN: iDIN is a local Dutch identity service that uses the trusted and secure log-in method of a user's own bank. That way, online identification is both reliable and user-friendly. iDIN offers certainty about the identity of the customer. This considerably reduces the risk of identity fraud or incorrectly entered data.
Other countries such as Belgium and Germany have their own variants of such a system. For countries that don't, such as South Africa, extra verification can be achieved via SMS and a OTP (One Time Password).
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CM.com was approached as a supplier for iDIN. In the first conversations it soon became clear that CM.com could possibly mean more in this process. “CM.com recognised and understood our challenge. They also indicated that they were also working on the development of an online signing solution: CM Sign. In addition to iDIN, this perfectly suited our wishes" says Johan.
The collaboration was found quickly. VECOZO and CM.com jointly evaluated the existing processes, both practical and technical. These were then converted to a fully digital process. VECOZO, for example, has contributed to the development of CM Sign, from which other customers can benefit.
Jeroen van Glabbeek, CM.com CEO: “For CM it is important to be able to collaborate with customers who are actively involved in the development of final products and services. With this we ensure that our products meet the actual demands in the market. "
Involving supply chain partners
VECOZO will use iDIN in combination with CM Sign. Customers can also opt for physical identification. The campaign tools in the CM.com platform offer VECOZO the opportunity to quickly inform the chain partners via mobile communication channels.
"Ultimately, the choice of iDIN or physical identification remains with the care provider," explains Jan-Hein Willemse (director of VECOZO). VECOZO. "
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The fact that everything and everyone is connected 24 hours a day, brings both advantages as disadvantages. 5G paves the way for an ultrafast IoT ecosystem, companies, organisations and consumers have to bear in mind that connectivity means privacy dangers as well.
The New Mobile Identity: more security, more privacy
Mar 05, 2015 • Access
Safer, more secure and with more convenience. The mobile identity has been lacking efficiency, was too complicated for developers and missed engagement opportunities. Until now.
Recent hacks push telcos to think about security and data protection
Mar 02, 2015 • Identity
The Gemalto hack has made telecom operators worldwide to think more about security in the mobile atmosphere. Although without a chance to prevent theft by the NSA and GCHQ, the hack shows technology security can fail, even with SIM cards.
‘The password is fundamentally broken. How do we protect ourselves?’
Dec 02, 2014 • Access
Kimo Quaintance is ‘trying to get his head around of what’s happening in the social world and the political world because of the changes in the digital age’. He spoke at Mobile Convention Brussels on security in a digitizing society.
Securing mobile messaging and how you benefit from it
Aug 01, 2014 • Identity
With companies globally demanding more security for their communications, CM, market leader in mobile messaging in Northern Europe, developed a new and safer way of sending push notifications to clients and/or employees: encrypted and masked push notifications.
Securing login sessions with two-factor authentication
May 08, 2014 • Identity
Concepts such as mHealth and eHealth are advancing; health insurers and hospitals are more and more aware of its advantages. Parallel to this development there is more attention for securely logging on into client and patient portals by means of one time passwords and two-factor authentication.
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What Judge Kavanaugh Confirmation Means for the Future of the CFPB
Earlier this month, the Senate voted to confirm Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, solidifying a conservative tilt. The latest balance shift has many in Washington revisiting the question of what will happen to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) leadership structure. Previously, Kavanaugh has written that he believes the way the CFPB is currently structured is unconstitutional. He also authored the Court of Appeals decision in the PHH Corp. vs CFPB case that declared the CFPB leadership structure unconstitutional in 2016.
Kavanaugh wrote in his decision, “As an independent agency with just a single Director, the CFPB represents a sharp break from historical practice, lacks the critical internal check on arbitrary decision making, and poses a far greater threat to individual liberty than does a multi-member independent agency. All of that raises grave constitutional doubts about the CFPB’s single-Director structure.”
Since former CFPB Director Richard Cordray resigned, Acting Director Mick Mulvaney has headed the bureau. Mulvaney, himself, has questioned the constitutionality of the agency’s leadership structure. Kavanaugh claimed that the CFPB director was more powerful than the speaker of the House, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, and the secretary of Defense.
However, earlier two years later the full Court of Appeals overturned Kavanaugh’s ruling, declaring the CFPB to be constitutionally structured. The full court compared the case against the CFPB to a, “wholesale attack on independent agencies – whether collectively or individually led – that, if accepted, would broadly transform modern government.” PHH had the opportunity to challenge the decision but chose not to once the Court of Appeals vacated the $100+ million fine levied against the lender.
Opponents of the CFPB’s leadership structure claim that because the CFPB director holds too much power since they can only be removed by the President in the vent of “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” The President cannot remove the director at will. In its landmark case, PHH argued that since the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have administrative boards to rule on cases and issue decisions, the CFPB should be structured the same way. If a case involving the CFPB’s leadership structure does make it to the Supreme Court, political analysts are wondering if Kavanaugh will vote along the lines of his previous decisions.
The CFPB was organized as an independent agency following the Financial Crisis as a way to regulate financial institutions. The purpose of the CFPB is to “promote fairness and transparency for mortgages, credit cards, and other consumer financial products and services.” There have been no significant changes to the CFPB since its inception, until this year. In May 2018, President Trump signed a law repealing the enforcement of automobiles lending rules and later another law exempting dozens of banks from the CFPB's regulations. With the continued change in today’s political climate it is distinctly possible that further financial-related reform could take place.
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Ghostbusters Multiplayer Patched 1.5 Years Too Late?
News 12/3/2010 at 10:25 PM by Katrina Pawlowski 7
When Ghostbusters came out a year and a half ago it had a few disappointing flaws. First, it had no co-op campaign (which can't really be changed now), but it also had broken achievements in the multiplayer mode. Four of the achievements in the co-op "horde" mode would not unlock. Now that the game has filtered through all of the Microsoft red tape to get the patch, is that really enough to bring us back to the game?
It sounds like 360Achievements.org has found an issue with the new patch, stating that it doesn't quite work.
The Ghostbusters Xbox 360 multi-player patch is now available! Many thanks to all of our wonderful supporters for their patience and continued support! The next step is to go get those achievements, and they are some doozies! Thanks to our awesome QA staff, we have a step-by-step walkthrough of how to go about getting them.
However, Achievements Payday and No Job Too Big have been complained about on the forums at 360Achievements saying that if you've already tried for these over-powered achievement they still won't unlock. If you've never tried for either of these high-score battling achievements though, it sounds like you're in the clear.
Are the patched achievements enough to bring gamers back to the horde-only co-op of Ghostbusters? I suppose we'll have to wait and see.
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BitPay Project Aims to Do for Networks What Bitcoin Did for Currency
Oct 28, 2014 at 12:01 UTC Updated Oct 28, 2014 at 16:52 UTC
Daniel Cawrey
BitPay took to the stage to announce an intriguing new project called Foxtrot at the San Francisco Bitcoin Developer Meetup yesterday.
BitPay CEO Stephen Pair made the presentation, explaining that the open-source effort is designed as a simple, secure and decentralized communications network based on bitcoin cryptography.
The company describes Foxtrot as a decentralized routing network that enables easy peer-to-peer (p2p) communications, with built-in mechanisms for peer discovery, creation of services addressable by public keys and establishing encrypted connections.
Pair explained:
“Foxtrot is a network that allows nodes to communicate with one another.”
Enhanced security and privacy
Like bitcoin, Foxtrot is based on elliptic curve cryptography and enables a trustless p2p network of nodes specifically for networking and communications.
“This works in a very similar way to bitcoin itself,” Pair told the meetup.
If they were to gain traction, p2p connections on the scale of the Internet could bring greatly increased security and privacy.
In order to bring this about, BitPay is using some of its other technologies to build Foxtrot, including Insight, an open-source stack that interfaces with a full bitcoin node, and Copay, the company’s own multi-signature wallet.
Pair explains the similarities of Foxtrot to bitcoin.
The BitPay CEO made the proclamation that while Foxtrot is currently in its early stages, he could see the project as a way to replace TCP/IP, although he conceded there would need to be a lot of work done in order to accomplish that goal.
Monetizing network connections
In addition to practical applications BitPay is planning to use Foxtrot internally; for example, in protecting its own network from attacks by utilizing distributed peer connections.
Pair suggested that networks in general could incentivize themselves with Foxtrot, saying: “The idea here is that nodes would charge money for a data connection,” he said.
The concept could include Internet service providers (ISPs) automatically transacting with each other with stores of value via nodes. This could simplify some aspects of the Internet, as ISPs often compensate one another for network traffic by using complex peering agreements.
Pair said:
“I used to work in networking, and I think it is really interesting to think about how ISPs can charge each other for connections. It could totally change the economics how the Internet works.”
Additionally, he said, a p2p scheme like Foxtrot could innovate networking by securing systems with cryptography and end-to-end encryption, which Foxtrot also provides.
Ultimately, Foxtrot could provide protection against hacking, so the project is being built to protect BitPay’s own systems.
“We’re building something that [for example] allows our accounting system to be secured by the bitcoin network.”
Additional features planned
Pair cautioned that the Foxtrot project is in its infancy and explained that BitPay wants to add many more features – such as stealth addresses to better protect nodes – to the project.
Pair added that the technology would need to be used on the outer edges of networks to begin with, then move inwards to more complex networks, such as those run by ISPs. “You would want to start small at the edges, like with wireless mesh nets,” he explained.
Starting today, Foxtrot is openly available on GitHub.
Disclaimer: CoinDesk founder Shakil Khan is an investor in BitPay.
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Back to the ’70s as Labour’s far left crank up for selection battles
Liam Fox: Now we must focus on getting Brexit done – and on Labour’s threat to wages, job and savings
The poor bloody infantry: why people join political parties
Watson quits. Will Labour’s moderates follow his example – or endorse an extremist as Prime Minister?
Robert Colvile: Here’s how to show that the Left doesn’t have a monopoly on compassion
Neil O’Brien: Corbynomics – and why it means that your house, business and savings don’t really belong to you
I have discussed before the indulgent attitude that Ed Miliband takes towards the far left and also noted how blatant Len McCluskey of the Unite union had been about his intentions. Mr Miliband poor judgment was recently confirmed by his schmoozing of George Galloway.
Peter Watt, a former Labour Party General Secretary, has warned Ed Miliband that far left union activists are "running rings" the Labour leader in candidate selections. So far these have been for Euro Election candidates. Recently The Times splashed on the subject. Still, who cares about Euro MP selections as who cares about the European Parliament, aren't the Lefties more Eurosceptic than the Blairites anyway, etc.
However Mr Watt says the same will happen for selections for Labour candidates to be MPs at Westminster in their target seats at the next election.
"We shouldn’t be surprised; it is what the trade unions have been saying that they would do. Unite have a political strategy that explicitly says that they will operate on this basis; get onto local committees, selection panels and regional boards and then wield power to get sympathisers selected."
Mr Watt warns Mr Miliband that he "needs to be prepared to do something about it. And Ed and his office need to wise up to this fast because right about now the trade unions are quietly running rings around them and soon will control much of the party. At some point, it will be more than just favoured sons and daughters on euro candidate lists that they are securing."
The death of Margaret Thatcher has prompted reminders of the state the country was in before she became Prime Minister. Part of the political narrative was of Marxists in the Labour Party mounting a determined effort to deselect social democrats. Harold Wilson and James Callaghan made some effort to resist it. Even Michael Foot did. Neil Kinnock really got stuck into the task. That meant that for John Smith, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown there wasn't too much of a problem.
Now the threat has returned. Ed Miliband strategy is to ignore it.
The media aren't very interested, so far. But they will be.
Labour leadership contenders are lurching to the Left to placate Corbynistas
All the Labour leadership contenders have a credibility gap in their condemnations of anti-semitism
The Lib Dems are down, but not out
Will Starmer prove to be the new Kinnock?
Labour’s civil war is set to get worse before it gets better
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On the NHS, Corbyn has deployed his weapon of last resort with two weeks to go
An idea for McDonnell. Pledge £1 million to every voter in Britain.
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Graeme Archer: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
Rebecca Lowe Coulson: If gender, or even race, is a choice, what becomes of the fight against prejudice?
Wanted next week: a Conservative manifesto for fairness between the generations
In this election, Christians should deploy the power of the cross
The debate about Britain’s future is already settled. There will be an Open Brexit – because we have no other choice.
Iain Dale: “Um…I…er…it depends on the context.” The stinking hypocrisy of the new LibDem MP over Turkey.
Graeme works as a statistician, and won the Orwell Prize for Political Blogging in 2011. He writes a column in Saturday's Daily Telegraph. Follow him on Twitter.
It was cold. Nothing new there;
not in this damn-awful, endless winter. New to me, however, was to experience
that cold while standing in a damp field, watching a nearly naked man offer a
prayer for our salvation.
The man was playing Christ, of
course. We were watching a Passion play, performed by a group called Soul by the Sea in
the open air, in the centre of town, just in front of St Peter's church; today
is Good Friday.
Good Friday, Brighton! -
repeated in my head, makes me expect Robin Williams, but this actor is called
Matthew Howell, and he's good; so good that twice, on the brink of begging
Keith to give up and leave (it's so cold, can't feel my feet, we could be
watching Barrabas and
getting the same sort of experience, but at home, in the warm): twice on the
point of doing so, this gospel according to Matthew Howell and cast has brought
me up short.
It wasn't (just) the obviously
dramatic bits in the story that held the attention – the betrayal, the
crucifixion, the resurrection. The deepest impact came from the parable of the
prodigal son, a story I've never been able to get my head round before: why should the rotten
brother get the fattened calf? On Friday, the cast member who acted the wronged
(in my previous view) brother caught that look of indignation so well, that the
audience laughed to see it; which may have let me into the parable's truth, for
the first time.
Perhaps the mechanical act of
the play – the actor's face as mirror – let us laugh at ourselves, reminding us
of those days when we can't stop ourselves from judging, or seething (should have been me) as
the spotlight falls elsewhere. Rather than thinking: thank God that love exists.
Rather than remembering that everyone deserves a second chance, and that all of
us – all of us -
will one day or other be grateful to receive one.
The sacred love machine: that's
the story of the prodigal son, and the Church's story of Easter, too, I should
think (though not according to Lord Carey, about whom I have nothing to say,
lest he feel victimised by
my aggressive
secularism).
The next day, the Saturday, the
switch was thrown on the machine which permits a more profane celebration of
love to happen: the city by the sea made a determined return to life. Winter –
the months in which those of us who wander up and down the pier look like
characters deleted from some early draft of an Anita Brookner novel ("They're miserable enough,
darling, but too poor, and they can't speak French") – is turned off,
overnight. By lunchtime on Easter Saturday, the seafront tearooms and bars
dug out their tables and chairs, the Volk's railway is chugging along the
front, and the tourists were back.
You don't have to live in
Brighton, of course, to feel the power or the necessity of love, whether sacred
or profane. But this year, the temporal conjunction between celebrations of
both versions underlined the importance – the (it seems to be) essential unity
– of both. In the same twenty-four hour period, we had Easter, when
Resurrection gives us hope of everlasting renewal. We had Easter, when Man
pushes time forward from Winter to Summer. And we had Easter, when the seaside
returns to life, and the non-natives return, to satiate their earthly, earthy
passions.
The conceit (and title) of this
piece is nicked, unsurprisingly, from Iris Murdoch,
but for once I'm going to disagree with my fiction-goddess. Her novel charts
the dissolution of a man who swings between the two poles, as he sees them, of
his duty and his desires. But a life well-lived surely requires both forms of
what we're perhaps too quick to classify as antithetical forms of human love,
and Easter is the machine that lets us see that. It is sacred and profane;
completely necessary, and Good.
Graeme Archer
Johnny Leavesley: What Johnson should do to help boost business
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Rebecca Ryan: Help us to get Big Ben bonging for Brexit
Edward Parson: Keep the International Development Department. But scrap the 0.7 per cent aid target.
Festus Akinbusoye: The scandal of rising assaults on police officers. And what must be done to help reduce them.
Robert Alden: CCHQ should be relocated to Birmingham
Tom Tugendhat: Huawei’s human rights record needs scrutiny before 5G contracts are signed
Nicholas Boys Smith: The housing mission that Scruton and I pursued is inspired by a quest for beauty
Julian Brazier: Volunteers can help protect us from terror
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Site Clearing Completed Through ’Shear’ Effort
Fri April 13, 2007 - Southeast Edition
Gwenyth Laird Pernie
W. S. Agee Grading Contractors Inc. of McDonough, Ga., faced 80 acres (32 ha) of heavily timbered land in Covington that had to be cleared for a housing development.
According to Owner Danny Agee, the building site was susceptible to extensive runoff due to severe elevation changes of upward to 300 ft. (91 m); therefore, implementation of erosion control plans had to be in place before site development could begin.
“The first phase of the site preparation was cutting the timber and shipping it to Atlanta area mills,” Agee said. “The second phase, stumping and piling debris, followed closely behind. Equipment used included two Caterpillar D8 bulldozers, four Caterpillar 963C track loaders, and two Caterpillar 325 excavators — all owned by Agee and Conkle Tree Service [of Lovejoy, Ga.].”
Conkle Tree Service was brought in to grind the stumps and debris down to wooden chips after Agee had cleared and piled 40 percent of the project.
Conkle placed more than 15,000 linear ft. (4,600 m) of the wooden chips around the perimeter of the project, some in double rows, to prevent erosion problems. Further erosion control plans included the installation of retention ponds.
Conkle used the following equipment to harvest and recycle the timber; two Caterpillar 963C track loaders, two 320CL excavators with LaBounty MWS40 wood shears attached and one 1300 Morbark tub grinder. Conkle employed five workers at the job site daily.
“Our most challenging aspect of this project was staying on schedule through a wet and rainy Georgia winter, which leaves the timber damp and muddy,” Agee said.
According to Charles N. Conkle, vice president of Conkle Tree Service, Conkle overcome this issue with the help of the LaBounty MWS40 wood shears, which he said efficiently demolished and recycled the wood.
Conkle explained, “To accelerate the grinding process, the large stumps are split using LaBounty MWS40 shears, which are mounted on 320CL Caterpillar excavators. The shears also remove 90 percent of the dirt. Cutting the large treetops into small pieces and cutting the logs to 7- or 8-ft. (2.1 to 2.4 m) lengths also quickens the grinding process. After the wood has been split or cut into smaller pieces, it is ground through a hammer mill (located within the Morbark tub grinder). The ground wood can then be used for many purposes: to heat pulp and other lumber products at burner plants, in coloring and bagging facilities for the public to use, or in the case of this project, in erosion control.”
Conkle purchased its first LaBounty MWS40 wood shear to process wood waste for recycling in 1998. The attachment weighs approximately 3,000 lbs. (1,360 kg), has a jaw opening of 30 to 40 in. (76 to 102 cm), depending upon what excavator it is mounted to, a jaw depth of 29 in. (74 cm) and a reach of 4.5 ft. (1.4 m). The shear attaches to a 40,000- to 60,000-ton (36,000 to 54,000 t) excavator. Conkle now owns five LaBounty MWS40 wood shears and recycles wood left on site by timber harvesters.
“The use of LaBounty Shears has greatly increased the efficiency in which we clear land,” Conkle said. “Before the shears we ground approximately 2 acres of land a day. With the use of the shears, we now grind approximately 3 to 4 acres a day. This increase in productivity has lowered the cost per hour to run and maintain the equipment. In addition, the components of the shears are replaceable, which simplifies maintenance of the equipment.”
Conkle said it’s improved safety, since his employees no longer use chain saws.
“The main reason, however, we have continued to purchase LaBounty shears over other brands, is that they are very durable,” Conkle said. “We have gotten over 8,000 working hours off the LaBounty without equipment failure. With other brands, we only got 1,500 working hours before equipment failure.”
Site preparation began in December 2006. The clearing was completed in February 2007 and the grading is currently underway. Total cost for the clearing and chipping was approximately $300,000. CEG
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Online Book Retailer Bookrepublic Grows Business With ContentWise Recommendation System
Online Book Retailer Bookre...
MILAN — Aug. 24, 2011 — ContentWise, a division of Moviri, has been chosen by Italian book retailer Bookrepublic to supply the recommendation system for its online store. Bookrepublic, one of Italy’s top-selling eBookstores for Italian-language titles, will integrate the ContentWise recommendation engine as part of its drive to become a dominant player in the field.
“Since the launch of Bookrepublic, we have grown rapidly both in numbers of titles and customers,” said Bookrepublic CEO Marco Ferrario. “To provide a better service to our readers and to increase the volume of sales through our online store, we chose ContentWise for its superior technology, which creates a much closer match to the reader’s tastes and interests.”
ContentWise is built for high-volume, scalable content recommendation of digital media and online store applications. By producing personalized recommendations that increase content demand and consumption, ContentWise empowers operators to better engage their customers and maximize the return on their catalogs of movies, TV programs, music, ringtones, eBooks, and games available from the Web, mobile devices, tablets, and connected TVs.
Recommendation engines have become a fundamental feature of online stores, suggesting additional choices to purchasers based on their profiles, social network data, and previous buying behavior.
“Any kind of online retailing or media service can benefit from recommendation technologies,” said Paolo Bozzola, CEO of ContentWise. “Book and eBook readers are a perfect target, as the rich set of reading and purchasing information available can be leveraged to understand their tastes and provide meaningful and effective recommendations. Furthermore, Bookrepublic is a perfect partner for us, given its innovative approach to the online business and its growth strategy.”
About Bookrepublic
Co-founded by Marco Ferrario and Marco Ghezzi, Bookrepublic (www.bookrepublic.it) is a distribution platform for small and medium-sized quality publishers. It is also an online eBookstore, covering several topics and already having 8,000 Italian-language eBooks in stock. The company, established in Milan, was founded by the owners of DigitPUB, a company focusing on digital publishing and technology implementation in the publishing sector.
About ContentWise
ContentWise (www.contentwise.tv) is a division of Moviri that develops and markets a real-time recommendation engine for high-volume digital media and IPTV applications. The ContentWise recommendation engine enhances the quality of digital TV services (IPTV, OTT, or Web) by enabling viewers to find the content they like easily, lifting revenue and reducing subscriber churn. Moviri (www.moviri.com) has offices in Milan, London, and San Francisco and a track record of more than 10 years’ success in IT optimization, software, and consulting services. Moviri major references include key U.S. and European players in the Media, Telco, IPTV, and electronic industries.
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Paolo Cremonesi, renowned AI expert, joins ContentWise’s parent Moviri Group as Chief Research Officer and ContentWise’s CTO.
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How Uber allegedly manages to manipulate fares to charge passengers more and pay drivers less
Are we both being played by the app?
By Catriona Harvey-Jenner
Uber can't catch a break. If the ride-hailing app isn't being inundated with accusations of its drivers sexually assaulting passengers, then its former employees are making claims about sexual harassment and gender bias in the workplace. And now there's this: allegations that Uber's technology sneakily defrauds both passengers and drivers in order to make both parties lose out in the financial stakes.
According to Ars Technica, a class-action lawsuit against Uber has been proposed over the manipulative system that apparently short-changes riders and drivers when it comes to upfront fare calculations (a feature which isn't yet available in the UK). The system apparently works as follows: passengers are shown an upfront ride fare that's higher than it should be because it calculates a "slower and longer route" compared to the one the driver is shown.
Drivers, therefore, are shown a lower fare for the quicker, more efficient route which is the one ultimately paid out by the app. If this is true, Uber is effectively playing drivers and passengers off against one another; we're made to pay a higher price for an indirect route, while drivers aren't earning commission from that higher fare. They're only making money off the quicker, lower-priced route.
Not cool, Uber, not cool.
The lawsuit has allegedly been filed by a driver based in LA, and the legal documents accuse Uber of having "deliberately manipulated the navigation data used in determining the fare amount paid by its users and the amount reported and paid to its drivers."
It goes on to label the sneaky technology as a "well-planned scheme to deceive drivers and users", before calling it "shocking", "methodical", and "extensive".
The legal case claims Uber's programme acts as a "breach of contract, unjust enrichment, fraud, and unfair competition," according to Ars Technica. If courts find against Uber in this instance, not only could it lead to a potentially massive payout in miscalculated fares, but also the prospect of an entire overhaul of its technology. Ouch..
Cosmopolitan.com/uk has reached out to Uber for comment in relation to this article.
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The Sheer Madness That Was The Star Wars Horror Book Series
Kristen Mohr ·
Back in the late 1990s Lucasfilm got jealous that R.L. Stine was making oodles of money by scaring the pants off of children. So they decided to tap into the lucrative Goosebumps market with a 12-book Young Adult series called Galaxy Of Fear that stretched into the more bloodcurdling corners of the Star Wars universe, thereby creating their own line of pantsless children.
There was just one little problem with the series: it bypassed Goosebumps and jumped directly to The Exorcist. It was like if Star Wars was written and directed by David Cronenberg, but for kids. What horrors awaited '90s kids who were looking for a little of that classic Star Wars adventure? How about ...
A Living Planet That Eats People
In Eaten Alive, the first book in the series, Tash and Zak Arranda's ship lands on the unrecorded planet D'vouran. D'vouran isn't an ordinary planet, because ordinary planets aren't alive and hungry. Oh, and it was a part of an on-going weapons development project by the Empire, because of course it was.
All throughout the book, characters are randomly sucked into sinkholes, eaten alive by cracks created by earthquakes, or slurped up by quicksand, as D'vouran munches on tourists for its three square meals a day. In one particularly horrifying scene, Zak rides the Star Wars universe's version of a hoverboard out of a hole trying to swallow him, only to find it would have been safer to drop into the planet's stomach so he could be painfully digested for a week. The surface of the planet had turned into a violent sea of molten lava that was actively attempting to capture him.
In the end, a medallion that somehow kept its wearers safe from planetary consumption was thrown into the planet's core, causing D'vouran to collapse in on itself and die. But not before author John Whitman squeezed in this stomach-churning description of a planet in its death throes:
"The planet D'vouran was squirming. It wriggled and trembled as though trying to change its shape. Bright flashes of light that looked like volcanic eruptions appeared on its surface. The planet bulged outward, becoming a horribly misshapen mass. Then it collapsed in on itself, churning and swirling into a smaller and smaller lump of writing matter in space. With a final shudder, D'vouran vanished altogether."
The planet popped itself, expanded like a cartoon character that swallowed a bundle of dynamite, then basically ate itself into nonexistence. Alderaan got off easy.
Wait. Did Star Wars just rip-off Spaceballs?
Everything Is Undead, Even In A Nightmare
No long-running sci-fi or fantasy series is immune to the zombie apocalypse. Give J.K. Rowling long enough and she'll release a zombie Harry Potter story on Pottermore about Hermione blasting undead heads with a 12-gauge wand. Star Wars is no different.
In the second book in the series, City Of The Dead, Zak and Tash journey to Necropolis. You know how planets in the Star Wars universe all tend to have no diversity? Hoth is all snow, Tatooine is all sand, Coruscant is all city, Dagobah is all swamp. Necropolis is pretty much all cemetery. Its biggest enemy is probably Goth kids whose dark rituals are interrupted by security guards threatening to call their parents.
LucasfilmOr overrated bounty hunters.
The entire book is packed with one horror after another that would scar a young reader. There are the boneworms, slithering creatures that suck the marrow out of people's bones. When they're done slurping marrow they leave behind a slime that the story's villain harnesses to create a serum that reanimates the dead, which brings on legions of zombies. But before Zak and Tash even step foot on the planet, Zak has a nightmare that's not only horror-movie scary, but cuts way too deep for a children's book:
"A dead, gray hand rose into view.
It was followed by a pale white arm, and then strands of blackened hair. Finally the figure's face floated into view. It was white with empty sockets for eyes, but he recognized the face anyway.
It was his mother.
As he watched in horror, the mouth moved, and Zak heard his mother's voice moan, 'Zak, why did you leave us behind?"
LucasfilmDon't worry, if any kids lacked the imagination to picture Zak's mom's decaying skull they included a hologram of it on the deluxe cover.
In a nightmare, Zak gets guilt-tripped by the corpse of his dead mother, proving that even in death a mother can still get under your skin. And then when he lands on the planet itself, the nightmare is the least of his worries. Because, again, boneworms.
The Empire's Secret Baby That Turns People Into Jelly
In the sixth book of the series, Army Of Terror, our heroes visit the lab of Borborygmus Gog, a mysterious scientist working for the Empire. The lab is empty, save for one thing: an alien baby named Eppon. Tash wants to keep him safe, and Eppon wins over everyone he meets, including the book's guests stars Han, Leia, and Luke, with his adorable giggles and coos.
But Eppon is growing before their eyes. Literally. Soon after they find him he grows too heavy to carry, which doesn't matter because soon after that he's walking on his own. The gang finds out what Eppon really is when they encounter a squad of Stormtroopers in their travels. Eppon rips off a Stormtrooper's helmet, grabs him by the head and melts his face into jelly using only his touch. Remember, this is a children's book. Keep that in mind as you read what happens next:
"Then, with a loud, wet slurping sound, Eppon sucked the liquefied skin into himself. He simply absorbed the trooper's face into his own body.
The rest of the stormtrooper quickly followed. Skin, bone, organs, everything, simply turned to liquid and was absorbed into Eppon."
LucasfilmMeanwhile, the underpants of any kids reading had to absorb another liquid.
Eppon is later revealed to have been yet another Imperial super-weapon in the making, because planet-destroying lasers and man-eating planets weren't enough, so Palpatine figured he'd hedge his bets with a walking blender that can turn enemies into protein shakes within seconds. Again: Children's book.
Bugs That Hollow You Out From The Inside
In the series' eighth book, The Swarm, giant grasshopper-like people called S'krrr rule a beautiful garden planet that has a delicate ecosystem. Mess with one part of it and everything goes nuts. The shreev bats eat the drog beetles, and the drog beetles eat anything and everything, but at least they're kept in check by the shreev bats. But someone is killing off bats by the dozens and the drog beetle population is skyrocketing. Imperial forces soon realize just how dangerous the beetles can be at around the same time the child reading the book realizes their parents will be paying some hefty psychiatric bills in the near future.
An Imperial aide is found choking and clutching his throat. Admiral Thrawn, a legendarily brilliant Imperial military leader in the expanded universe, asks the aide to explain himself, because for a super-genius Thrawn is an idiot. When the aide opens his mouth a swarm of beetles pour forth and eat him from the inside out, clothes and all.
LucasfilmHe then asks the beetle swarm to explain themselves.
It's later discovered that the culprit behind the spike in the beetle population is an evil grasshopper man named Vroon. I wonder what gruesome yet ironic fate he's met with at the book's climax?
"Just as Zak had hoped, Vroon was inside. But all that was left of him was his hard, transparent S'krrr shell. His eyes and the rest of his body had been eaten away."
The end. Good night, kid! Sweet dreams!
Cannibal Swamp Children
Mired in the Dagobah swamps, 16-foot-tall swamp slugs appearing from nowhere, the Arranda siblings face their final adventure in book 12, The Hunger. Not even a guest appearance from Yoda can distract readers from the horror in this one. And what is the horror?
"Two figures were rising up out of the water beside him. Zak saw two human heads covered with stringy hair, two sets of pale eyes, two gaping mouths missing several teeth, and two sets of bony arms. The skin hanging from those arms looked old and dead.
They were corpses. Human corpses.
And they were reaching out to grab him."
No, not more zombies. That would be too cute and cuddly. At this point in the series Tash and Zak have lost everyone they know, have nearly died over a dozen times, stood toe-to-toe with Darth Vader, and now they have to deal with The Children, the remains of an ill-fated exploratory group. The Children have become so emaciated by hunger that their bones can be seen outlined clearly by their skin. They claim they survive on swamp moss and the occasional bit of meat if they get lucky.
LucasfilmThey can't even eat bugs, because the bugs are trying to eat them.
At one point, a member of the Arranda's crew becomes injured, so The Children offer their homestead as a shelter while they provide medical attention. The rest of the crew are invited to sit at the fire and share in The Children's meal. Zak is about to dig into his bowl of stew when a silver ring floats to the surface.
"He suddenly realized why the Children had started finding food just after their arrival.
The smuggler on guard duty had been killed, and soon the Children had prepared a feast.
The next smuggler had gone down in the spider battle. Then the Children had cooked more food.
Traut had been wounded. His arm had been cut off, and then his leg. Each time, the Children had cooked more food."
Zak investigates but he's knocked unconscious and wakes up in a makeshift cage. Of all people, who should be captured in the cage next to him: Boba Fett. The legendary bounty hunter was captured by a bunch of starving Children, officially killing your mental image of Boba Fett as the most badass guy in the galaxy.
Lucasfilm I wasn't joking with that overrated comment earlier.
Fett and Zak break out and lead The Children on a mad dash through the swamp. The Children force the chase into the cave where their parents left their last records detailing the failures that sunk their mission.
Triggered by motion, a video plays on a nearby screen. Zak, Fett, and The Children alike are frozen in their tracks as they watch the story told by The Parents.
"Zak saw the survivors, starved into madness, turning on a corpse. He and Galt and the other Children could clearly see how horrified the parents were by their own acts. What they had done was a last, desperate attempt to save their children. It was the act of beings so hungry they had lost their minds. As the parents fed their starving children, they cried."
The Children are so transfixed by their parents' anguish that they forget their prey entirely. They cannot survive on their own. They cannot be allowed to continue as cannibals. The captain of the crew agrees to take them on her ship, to find somewhere for them to live.
As the series ends, a few questions remain unanswered. Will The Children fall back on their instincts once more? Will the Arranda kids ever find a planet that does not try to kill them? But most importantly, did the twelve-year-olds reading this ever sleep through the night again?
Kristen Mohr has encountered many more nightmares in the library since then. She has a Masters degree in Information Science and a mental archive of facts from Cracked.
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How many People have Account on Facebook - "We're reaching a size where it deserves actually taking a careful look at exactly what are all the things that we can do to earn social media sites one of the most favorable pressure for good possible," Facebook Chief Item Officer Chris Cox informed TechCrunch regarding the company's new turning point. Thirteen years after launching as well as less than 5 years after striking 1 billion, Facebook now has 2 billion monthly energetic users.
Facebook desires individuals to commemorate with a personalized "Great Adds Up" video they could make and share here. On The Other Hand, Mark Zuckerberg played it great with this short news message.
2 billion makes Facebook the biggest social app in terms of logged-in users, over YouTube's 1.5 billion, WeChat's 889 million, Twitter's 328 million and also Snapchat's approximated 255 million (extrapolated from its December 2015 proportion when it had 110 million daily as well as 170 million regular monthly customers). Beyond YouTube, only Facebook's various other apps have more than 1 billion, including WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, with 1.2 billion each. Instagram might soon join that club as it lately rocketed previous 700 million.
Facebook's development the last half decade has actually been fueled by the establishing globe. The company has actually non-stop optimized its application for affordable Android smart devices and also low-bandwidth connections. It's added 746 million individuals in Asia and the Rest of Globe area given that striking 1 billion users complete. Meanwhile, it just added 41 million in the United States and Canada.
In spite of Facebook's dimension and also age, at 17 percent its customer matter is expanding as rapid or quicker compared to any type of year considering that 2012. And also people typically aren't using it less either. Actually, 66 percent of Facebook's month-to-month customers return daily currently compared with 55 percent when it hit 1 billion. If the teenaged social media isn't really as trendy to teens any more, it's not showing in the huge metrics.
However neither does the enormous impact Facebook has actually carried culture, which it's currently attempting to flex toward positivity with its new mission declaration to "Offer people the power to build community and bring the world closer together."
"There's most definitely a deep sense of duty in every part of the firm," Cox informed TechCrunch. "We're reaching the scale where we need to obtain far better concerning comprehending exactly how the product has been made use of." That's why he's been traveling around the globe doing individual study. And it's why Mark Zuckerberg has actually been crisscrossing the nation on a paying attention tour that lots of people cynically presume is the start to a run for head of state, in spite of the CEO's rejections.
Maybe stewarding a 2-billion-person neighborhood is responsibility sufficient to get from Silicon Valley and determine just how Facebook impacts people's lives.
There are the large, detailed things like self-destructions on Facebook Live and also is afraid that fake information got Donald Trump chose. Yet deeper down, there are a lot more complicated ramifications of a near common social media. It could drive net dependency that estranges individuals, and help with the filter bubbles that polarize society by strengthening our viewpoints. Facebook has actually mainly dominated its competitors, providing it the slack to ultimately address the contemporary sociological challenges that come from its appeal.
Cox claims a crucial pattern Facebook is embracing is "When you consider very complicated systems that are influencing humankind, simply being open about exactly what's happening. And after that as an example in the case of something like suicide or intimidation, going and dealing with subject professionals, getting the research study on what's the very best feasible point that we can do, and afterwards speaking with the world about it." To make the discussion regarding these tragic minutes as easily accessible as well as efficient as feasible, Facebook has actually taken to publishing openness records and explainers about its plans and procedures.
"I cope with the continuous objective of understanding, for every solitary thing that we do, how do we take full advantage of all that goodness, and also reduce any way that it can be mistreated or turned into something depressing" Cox solemnly ends.
If reaching 1 billion had to do with building a product, as well as getting to 2 billion had to do with building an individual base, Facebook's obligation is to develop empathy between us as it reaches for 3 billion
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Is Russia Changing Its Calculus in Eastern Ukraine?
Ukraine's President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy greets his supporters as he walks to take the oath of office ahead of his inauguration ceremony in Kiev, Ukraine May 20, 2019. ÊPavel Zmey/Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS
Commentary / Europe & Central Asia 11 June 2019
Amid expectations that Russia will test Ukraine’s new president with escalatory actions, it appears that its calculus is to wait for Kyiv’s administration to make the first move – while quietly helping the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics entrench themselves economically.
Anna Arutunyan
Senior Analyst, Russia
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Five years into a war in its east, Ukraine has elected an unlikely new president: professional comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy. To date, Zelenskyy has hinted at both dialogue with and new punitive measures against Ukraine’s formidable neighbour to the east, but offered little in the way of specific plans for either course of action. Some Ukrainians fear that Moscow might take advantage of this seeming hesitancy to cement its influence in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (D/LPR) – the breakaway statelets in eastern Ukraine controlled by Russian-backed separatists since 2014. In April, after Zelenskyy’s election, but before his inauguration, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree making it easier for D/LPR residents to obtain Russian citizenship. Many in Ukraine saw in this move a threat that Russia would seize the moment of Zelenskyy’s ascent to gain full control of the statelets by either recognising their independence or annexing them – or that Moscow would seek to co-opt Zelenskyy himself. Outgoing President Petro Poroshenko, who lost to Zelenskyy, tweeted that his “inexperienced” rival would allow the Kremlin to “return Ukraine to Russia’s orbit”.
Before Zelenskyy’s election, some in Moscow did express hope that he could undertake a “reset” in Russian-Ukrainian relations. Since then, the mood has become more guarded. Putin has refused to congratulate the new president in Kyiv. Nor has the Kremlin shown any inclination thus far to exploit Zelenskyy’s inexperience through escalation. Instead, Moscow appears to be taking steps to consolidate the status quo in eastern Ukraine even as it tries to figure out the new Ukrainian leader.
Russian officials are baffled by what they see as Zelenskyy’s flip-flopping between overtures toward reconciliation and tough talk.
Russian officials are baffled by what they see as Zelenskyy’s flip-flopping between overtures toward reconciliation and tough talk. He has proposed both a referendum on peace talks with Moscow and tougher U.S. sanctions on the Kremlin for its continued backing of pro-Russian separatists in the east. “Poroshenko was an adversary”, said one official. “At least we knew where we stood. With Zelenskyy, we don’t”. Another said: “We don’t know who stands behind him”. In short, the Kremlin is waiting for Zelenskyy to make the first move.
The decision to wait fits into Moscow’s quietly shifting strategy in eastern Ukraine. From 2014 to 2018, the Kremlin bolstered the D/LPR with military support with the apparent aim of destabilising Ukraine. Its vision of the implementation of the Minsk agreements, signed during talks involving Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France in 2014 and 2015, in which Kyiv would be forced to grant these statelets autonomy on their terms, would have given Russia substantial and lasting influence in Ukrainian politics. Since last year, however, Moscow has changed tack. While it continues to pay lip service to Minsk, its priority has shifted from the military conflict itself to helping the statelets mitigate their financial dependence on Russian support.
This approach aims to entrench the statelets’ nascent institutions while allowing Moscow to avoid costlier moves like recognising their independence or annexing them. It keeps Minsk alive, but unimplemented, such that Russia can continue to accuse Ukraine of failing to abide by its terms. It also lets Moscow off the hook financially, as better developed client economies would have less need for Russian subsidies. If those economies are better integrated with Russia’s own, with gains for each, so much the better. There’s a reason why the Emergencies Ministry, which has been sending convoys of humanitarian aid, has paused its shipments in recent months: to paraphrase one Russian official, it is time for the statelets to stop being dependent on Russian aid and start trying to break even.
The economic embargo that Ukraine imposed on D/LPR in 2017 makes above-board trade difficult, and may push them closer to Russia, albeit via grey zone commercial interactions. For example, according to media reports and Ukrainian specialists interviewed by Crisis Group, anthracite coal and other minerals travelled freely across the line of contact into Ukraine from the start of the conflict in 2014 until the blockade. Now, those sources say, a complicated scheme sends these minerals first east to Russia, then west to Belarus, and from there to other markets – including Ukraine itself.
Because Russia denies being a party to the conflict and says it offers nothing to the D/LPR but humanitarian aid and moral support, it is difficult to verify how exactly Moscow is assisting the coal trade or any other commerce. But for over a year now, Kremlin-connected observers have noted the growing influence of the deputy prime minister, Dmitry Kozak. Kozak, who is responsible for Russia’s energy sector, oversees a government commission that manages humanitarian aid to rebel-held areas in eastern Ukraine. Russian investigative reporters have linked his role to a Russian decision to prioritise business integration with the statelets, including allegedly facilitating coal trade from Ukraine’s east.
Asked about the prioritisation of economic above military ties, one Russian official said that the current D/LPR leadership is not as militaristic as its predecessors. In November 2018, the self-proclaimed statelets held elections, which were not recognised outside of Russia and which Moscow allegedly choreographed. Denis Pushilin, who became DPR leader, is widely believed to be less ideologically passionate, less popular and thus easier to control from Moscow than his assassinated predecessor Aleksandr Zakharchenko. Much the same applies to the LPR’s new leader, Leonid Pasechnik, who took over after a power struggle in 2017 and retained the leadership in last year’s election.
The Kremlin’s offer of Russian passports to D/LPR residents may also be intended to strengthen the breakaway region’s economies and ties to Russia. One Kremlin adviser said the measure had been in the works for some time. Domestic political pressures in Russia might also have played a role. Many Russians know that life in D/LPR is difficult, as Crisis Group has reported. During a widely watched call-in show featuring Putin last June, D/LPR residents phoned to complain about how hard it was to settle in Russia after fleeing the war. On the air, the president ordered the Interior Ministry to make it easier for them to obtain citizenship. Issuing passports strengthens D/LPR residents’ ties to Russia. If more residents go to work in Russia, they may well send remittances home, another boost to the local economy, even as they provide cheap labour to Russia.
While Ukrainians are surely right to distrust Russia’s intentions in the east, Moscow’s actions so far do not suggest a plan of escalation.
While Ukrainians are surely right to distrust Russia’s intentions in the east, Moscow’s actions so far do not suggest a plan of escalation. The passport move does signal Moscow’s resolve to bolster ties with Russian speakers in Ukraine. But Zelenskyy’s election was likely not its impetus. “We’re not orienting our policy around Zelenskyy”, a Russian official said. Overestimating Moscow’s appetite for escalation could have its own negative consequences. If Kyiv interprets Moscow’s move to expedite passports as escalatory and pushes back, even if only rhetorically, it risks feeding a spiral of both words and action, rendering the escalation prophecy self-fulfilling.
Instead, the new administration in Kyiv and its European supporters could take advantage of Moscow’s waiting game, and use the time to construct a better policy for engaging the people of the east. Kyiv should also decide on what terms it wants to deal with Moscow in order to move toward real peace, including how it wants to move forward on Minsk. Zelenskyy’s administration is already taking tentative steps in this direction: at a 5 June meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group, formed in 2014 to broker Russian-Ukrainian talks over the rebel-held east, Kyiv’s representatives explored several proposals for a truce, including lifting the embargo. Moscow sounded encouraged, but said it wanted to hear more specifics.
In Kyiv, Zelenskyy faced blowback, however. Because the Trilateral Contact Group meeting came so soon after his election, his offer raised concerns among some Ukrainians that the new president is making concessions to Russia in hopes of sealing a fast truce. Already, some politicians in Kyiv call his proposals a capitulation to Russia.
The president can prove them wrong. First of all, he should avoid rushing proposals in hopes of clinching a fast deal; Moscow in any case is unlikely to commit to concessions in return anytime soon. Secondly, no deal will be viable absent Ukrainian consensus on the conditions under which it can implement its commitments under Minsk. He needs to involve political parties and civil society in Kyiv in formulating proposals for a truce. He also needs to ensure that any proposal is a means of restoring Kyiv’s control over the breakaway regions. Whether he seeks to lift the embargo or agrees to a ceasefire, he must do so with a view to how this helps restore Ukraine’s ties with its citizens in the east and its social and territorial integrity. And, indeed, restored Ukrainian economic relations with this region would push back against Moscow’s efforts and help bring it back into the fold.
Moscow is still sizing up Ukraine’s new president. Zelenskyy should convince his own base that he is developing a plan for eastern Ukraine that will serve Ukraine’s long-term social and political cohesion.
Commentary / Europe & Central Asia
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Art of the Real 2018
On Film / The Daily — Apr 22, 2018
This year’s Art of the Real, the fifth, running from Thursday through May 6 and co-presented by MUBI and the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York, “offers a survey of the most vital and innovative voices in nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking.” Here’s a quick sampling of reviews.
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection (Julien Faraut)
April 26, 7pm
It’s “like a feature film version of David Foster Wallace’s famous essay on Roger Federer, coupling John McEnroe and auteurism instead of Federer and religion,” writes Giovanni Marchini Camia in the Brooklyn Rail. “Like Wallace, Faraut here acts as a passeur, to use a term coined by Serge Daney (who, as the film reveals, had a decade-long stint as a tennis columnist for the newspaper Libération): the film’s geeky enthusiasm is so extreme and genuine, it generates in the viewer a vicarious enjoyment of the other’s passion.”
Braguino (Clément Cogitore)
April 26, 9:30pm
Image at the top. It’s “set in the hinterlands of Eastern Siberia,” writes David Perrin in the Notebook, and revolves “around the titular Braguino family and their embroiling feud with the neighboring Kilines family on opposite banks of a river—both members of a sect of the Russian Orthodox Church, who have been living there isolated from society and the law for over forty years. . . . Cogitore pushes hard on the side of drama, especially using sound and music to craft deep pools of suspense and unease.”
Once There Was Brasília (Adirley Queirós)
The collection of reviews gathered at Critics Round Up opens with Notebook editor Daniel Kasman’s: “Queirós’s film uses makeshift future-world production design (space ships and cosmic warriors!) to cast this fiercely topical speculation in political assassination, class revolt, and intergalactic intercession as a bare bones sci-fi film that makes John Carpenter’s Dark Star seem like a mega-production. The result may be too dedicated to the audience experiencing repetitious duration of action, but the spirit of the production—a sense of camaraderie, shared anger, creative handicraft and a wry sense of humor—is supremely admirable.”
Milford Graves Full Mantis (Jake Meginsky and Neil Young)
Writing for 4Columns, Geeta Dayal notes that “the documentary is focused entirely on the legendary drummer and his kaleidoscopically varied interests—herbalist, martial artist, musician, acupuncturist, scientific tinkerer. The feature-length film pulses with energy, and Graves talks a mile a minute, each sentence a mouthful almost more inconceivable than the last one.”
Artist Spotlight: Steffani Jemison
“What I admire about Steffani Jemison’s work,” wrote Ben Lerner at the top of his interview for BOMB last year, “is its combination of structural elegance and situated critique—how, for instance, her 2014 video Personal can, through deft repetition and reverse motion, make us see mundane movement as balletic while also attuning us to the tremendous violence with which the black body is policed. Her work across media challenges facile narratives of progress while rediscovering moments of possibility in the history of utopian thought.”
Such a Morning (Amar Kanwar)
“Where Kanwar’s earlier films always had one foot in reality,” writes Colin Perry for Art Agenda, “this eighty—five-minute work unfurls a loose narrative in which a famous but unnamed mathematics professor quits his job for no good reason (his colleagues guess at a ‘deep inner question of the soul’ or ‘a complex conflict of ideology and prejudice’), and retreats to the wilderness to live in an abandoned train carriage. Previously installed at Documenta 14, Such a Morning voices a general existential question: how to live in the present? Such a Morning is a cinema of affect at its most seductive.”
Let’s add here that, on Sunday at 4:15pm, Kanwar will present and discuss “two core films from his multimedia installation work: The Scene of Crime (2011), composed of a series of visual ‘maps’ that document the landscape of Odisha in minute detail, serving as a memorial to the local land and lives lost to industrialization; and A Love Story (2010), a tender love letter to the region’s lost landscape.”
Inland Sea (Kazuhiro Soda)
“The sleepy life of a remote Japanese fishing village is languorously celebrated,” writes Neil Young in the Hollywood Reporter. Inland Sea is “primarily a work of simple and unapologetic humanism, happily in love with people (‘We’re as we are,’ one remarks). . . . The bygone ways of this area are being eroded by progress and modernity; many traditions and practices die with the elderly residents. A working port is well on the way to becoming a tourist trap, bustling in the summer but otherwise torpid. While these undercurrents are unmistakeably elegiac, Inland Sea rejects gloom.”
Francisco Rodriguez’s A Moon Made of Iron, Laura Huertas Millán’s La Libertad, and Deborah Stratman’s Optimism.
Nicolás Pereda’s The Private Property Trilogy
“In this interactive performance, Nicolas Pereda will explain his relationship to C.B., an amateur archaeologist, activist, artist, and the creator of the Mining Museum in La Union, who lives in the Sierra de Catorce (one of the highest mountains in Mexico).”
Baronesa (Juliana Antunes)
From FIDMarseille: “Antunes shows favelas as we seldom get to see them: from the women’s point of view, in the backyards of makeshift homes, only a few low walls or metal sheets away from a gang warfare that is never shown, but whose violence pervades the main characters’ daily lives and fates.”
One or Two Questions (Kristina Konrad)
Writing for Artforum, Leo Goldsmith notes that it “draws upon hours of interviews conducted by two journalists, María Barhoum and Graciela Salsamendi, around Uruguay between 1987 and 1989. These years saw the lead-up to a fateful referendum in the nation’s history: a popular vote to uphold or overturn a 1986 law that guaranteed amnesty to members of the military junta that had ruled the country since 1975. Edited by the German documentary filmmaker René Frölke, Unas Preguntas unfolds in long, largely unedited sequences as Uruguayans mull over the pros and cons of the referendum, expressing frustration, anger, and fear—usually over the false opposition between ‘peace’ and ‘justice’ stoked by propagandistic TV ads and news reports. What emerges is not a televisual mishmash of stock images and sound bites, but the rare archival film that actually trusts its material, a work of the most profound respect for those who become, in varying degrees of complicity, the subject of media images. It is an eminently diligent, honorable attempt to let the people speak—even if it is too late—and not a second of it is superfluous.”
Wild Relatives (Jumana Manna)
As Erika Balsom writes for frieze, “the fate of the Aleppo-based seed bank ICARDA prompts an exploration of the geopolitics of agriculture in the age many call the Anthropocene.” Manna “works decisively on how humans transform their environment, examining practices of care for the Earth that attempt to mitigate harm already done and prepare for an uncertain future. From the wheat fields of Lebanon, where ICARDA moved after the Syrian Revolution, to the tundra of Svalbard, an island in the Arctic Ocean home to the Global Seed Vault, Manna traces intersecting narratives of biodiversity, migration, land use, war, and survival.”
All That Passes by Through a Window that Doesn’t Open (Martin DiCicco)
Luciano Barisone for Visions du réel: “Caucasus. While labourers from Azerbaijan are working on the construction of a new high-speed train line intended to bring glory to future generations, in Armenia, a station master has been awaiting, idle, the return of the trains for twenty years beyond a closed border, in an abandoned depot. . . . With wonderful sequences and an original narrative structure—fragments of magic appear through the editing (of images and sound)—All That Passes by Through a Window That Doesn’t Open seizes the history and the present of a world crossroads.”
Artist Spotlight: Hiwa K
The exhibition Hiwa K: Blind as the Mother Tongue will open on the same day at the New Museum and remain on view through August 19: “Drawing on vernacular forms and collaborative and performative actions, Iraqi-Kurdish artist Hiwa K (b. 1975, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq) makes work inspired by political events, chance encounters, oral histories, and his own experiences, including fleeing Iraq on foot in the late 1990s. Hiwa K approaches his subjects with curiosity, pragmatism, and spontaneity, and his videos, performances, and objects speak to themes of political memory and belonging—as well as what the artist refers to as ‘placelessness’ and ‘zones of possibility.’”
Yours in Sisterhood (Irene Lusztig)
May 2, 8:45pm
“Beginning as an insert in New York magazine, before becoming the first ever mainstream feminist magazine in the US, Ms. Magazine provided a space for feminism within the public, commercial realm of the 1970s,” writes Patrick Gamble for CineVue. “Between 2015 and 2017, Lusztig decided to gather over 300 strangers from across the US to read aloud letters written in the 1970s to the editor of Ms. Magazine. These submissions, the majority of which went unpublished at the time, provide a ground floor window to experiences of those living through the woman liberation movement.”
Fail to Appear (Antoine Bourges)
Introducing his interview with Bourges for the Notebook, Lawrence Garcia notes that the filmmaker has “turned his eye towards Canadian social institutions and support networks, particularly for those struggling with mental health issues or addiction. More specifically, he looked at their fundamental inadequacy—not through a feature-length exposé, but by observing the individuals that often bear the brunt of the cost. The film, Fail to Appear, charts the meeting of two such individuals: Isolde (Deragh Campbell), a well-meaning, but inexperienced social worker, and her client Eric (Nathan Roder), a man charged with theft and awaiting a court hearing, first introduced solely by a case file. Pointedly bifurcated to follow each character individually, the film structures itself around negative spaces, various gaps—in personal attention, social interaction, and institutional bureaucracy—and the incremental weight of what gets lost therein.”
Casanova Gene (Luise Donschen)
For Dan Sullivan, writing for Film Comment, this is “one of the year’s best debut features thus far . . . A beguiling, formally eclectic, and frequently funny investigation of desire, Donschen’s film seems to contain many others: a documentary on the mating habits of birds and their genetic predisposition against monogamy; a woozy fiction about young people killing time in a purgatorial bar straight out of Fassbinder’s Beware of a Holy Whore; a dressing-room interview (conducted by Donschen herself) with John Malkovich on the subject of seduction, filmed amid his onstage run as, appropriately, Casanova in The Giacomo Variations; an oblique portrait of a dominatrix seeing a client and, later, visiting a hypnotist; tranquil images of life at a monastery and more enigmatic images of children at play in a forest; and sundry other elements that enter the film and capture our interest, only to recede again into the absolute obscurity of their disappearance. Masterfully lensed in 16mm by the filmmaker Helena Wittmann, Casanova Gene sets out to paint the mystery of desire, and the articulation of its constituent parts illustrates the ineffable quality it ascribes to its slippery subject.”
On May 6 and 23, Acropolis Cinema will present An Image of Complicity: Films by Luise Donschen and Helena Wittmann in Berlin.
Meteors (Gürcan Keltek)
The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London will present the film this coming Thursday as part of Frames of Representation: New Visions for Cinema 2018: “At night, in a Kurdish town in eastern Turkey, meteors start to fall. Stepping out of their homes to look, the city's inhabitants encounter fragments of the past and remember those who have been lost. In this environment, the tracing of absences becomes both an imaginative and a political act; the impact of the violence which has scarred the area has been erased from official records, leaving memories and stories to fill the gaps.”
The Image You Missed (Donal Foreman)
“After the passing of his father, filmmaker Arthur MacCaig, Foreman went through his father’s archive of footage from The Troubles in Northern Ireland, looking not for images of revolutionary IRA fighters but of the man he never knew,” writes Kiva Reardon for Filmmaker. “He contrasts these with the films he was making at the same time in Dublin with friends as a tween and teen, only a few hours from Belfast but a world away—from both the conflict and his absent father.”
Artist Spotlight: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
“Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme are part of an emerging generation of artists, generally with a background in music, who are mining the immersive possibilities of sound, image and environment,” writes Katya García-Antón for frieze. “They draw, on the one hand, from the remix techniques of the drum ‘n’ bass scene that emerged in the mid-1990s in the UK (where they studied), applying them to sound, text and image; and, on the other hand, from research that explores sound’s relationship to science fiction, aesthetics and popular culture. Indeed, Abbas and Abou-Rahme’s practice looks at vectors (often sonic in nature) for illegible or unimagined perspectives that can’t be pinpointed on contemporary mappings of the world.”
Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu)
“Front-and-centering Corneliu Porumboiu’s childhood friend, Laurentiu Ginghina, Infinite Football is drawn up in reminiscences from youth and long-shadowed disappointments of adulthood,” writes Steve Macfarlane for Slant. “In the arena of arthouse cinema, it would be too easy to assume Porumboiu is deploying such unflashy material in service of a sweeping subtextual reveal. But the Romanian auteur resists spelling anything out but the bare essentials, instead continuing his project of inviting viewers to closely parse the acerbic day-to-day banalities of post-Ceausescu Romania.”
Victory Day (Sergei Loznitsa)
Michael Pattison for Sight & Sound: “Victory Day, as a strictly observational record of people engaging with a historical monument—in this instance, the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin’s Treptower Park—is most appropriately contextualised as a follow-up to Austerlitz, Loznitsa’s recent account of tourists in and around Nazi concentration camps. While the two are extremely similar in structure and approach, there’s a key visual difference: color. If the earlier film’s monochrome palette worked to neutralise the many meanings (T-shirt slogans and so on) to be found at a fascist death site, here the almost-saturated grading places much emphasis on the banners, flags, costumes and excessive paraphernalia with which a Russian diaspora visits Berlin each year to commemorate the Soviet Union’s victory over the Third Reich.” Loznitsa’s “strategies are nothing if not canny: they make the viewing process reflexive, they make us attuned to small details and narrative clues.”
I Remember the Crows (Gustavo Vinagre)
It’ll be screening on April 30 and May 2 at IndieLisboa: “Júlia Katharine, a trans woman, tells the story of her life in a night of insomnia. Gustavo Vinagre makes this apparently simple portrait where personal memories get mixed with filmic memories, as a way to better understand the trauma.”
Central Airport THF (Karim Aïnouz)
In Variety, Jay Weissberg calls it “a rare observational documentary that recognizes the beauty of spatial forms without forgetting the individuals who inhabit those voids. Struck by the irony that Berlin’s former Tempelhof Airport, a place of transit amplified by Nazi dreams of grandeur, is now used as a refugee center, the Berlin-based director combines his superb compositional eye with an empathetic glimpse of the lives of a few people living and working in the center.”
Tribute to Eugenio Polgovsky (1977-2017)
Eugenio Polgovsky was only forty when he died last year and, as a tribute, the festival will screen Tropic of Cancer (2004), “a pointed dispatch from the deserts of inland Mexico, where impoverished families use homemade traps and weapons to hunt snakes and birds amid arid brushland, a state of existence that might as well be prehistoric,” and Mitote (2012), “which weaves through the hunger strikers, wrestlers, soccer fans, and shamans at El Zocalo, Mexico City’s vast main plaza, evoking a hallucinatory, vérité snapshot of the nation.”
Empty Metal (Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer)
This will be a world premiere, so naturally, there aren’t any reviews yet. The festival notes that it “takes place in a world similar to ours—one of mass surveillance, pervasive policing, and increasing individual apathy. The lives of several people, each inhabiting extreme poles of American social and political consciousness, weave together as each attempts to achieve some kind of forward motion, sometimes in contradiction, and always under the eye of far more controlling powers. Filled with energy, rage, and the smallest measure of hope, Empty Metal is a new kind of political film for these extraordinary times.”
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Microsoft Releases Temporary Plug For Duqu
Microsoft is distributing a temporary fix for the Windows vulnerability was exploited by the infamous Trojan that experts believe was created for industrial cyber-espionage.
By Antone Gonsalves November 04, 2011, 04:58 PM EDT
In releasing the workaround late Thursday, Microsoft officially confirmed the existence of the zero-day vulnerability exploited by the Duqu Trojan. The flaw is in the Win32k TrueType font parsing engine, where the vulnerability can be used to run code in kernel mode, the company says. Such access could enable an attacker to install programs, change or delete data, or create new user accounts with full rights to a system.
The latest release, called Security Advisory 2639658, is a "fix it" that provides enterprises with one-click installation of a workaround to block the installation of malware. Microsoft said detailed information on how to detect malware trying to exploit the vulnerability would be released to anti-virus companies, which were expected to update their products within hours.
"Additionally, our engineering teams determined the root cause of this vulnerability, and we are working to produce a high-quality security update to address it," Microsoft said. The permanent patch would be published through the company's regular monthly security releases, but not in this month's distribution set for Tuesday.
The Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary reported the Duqu-targeted flaw this month, after the school's lab recovered the malware's installer. Symantec, which along with Microsoft was given a copy of the installer, reported that the application had been hidden in a Word document and distributed via email in an attempt to trick recipients into opening the file.
Duqu's code similarities to Stuxnet has led some experts to believe that both malware were created by the same team of developers, a theory that is not embraced universally.
Experts do agree that Duqu doesn't have the destructive capabilities of Stuxnet. Rather, the malware is geared more toward gathering information and sending it to a command-and-control server where the data can be accessed by hackers to mount future attacks.
Stuxnet, first discovered in June 2010, targeted Siemens industrial equipment running Windows. Nearly 60 percent of infected systems worldwide were in Iran, where the malware is believed to have damaged control systems in the country's nuclear facility.
Duqu, reported in 12 countries, has also been targeted at specific industrial facilities. Security experts have refused to identify the victims, which have not been in the United States.
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WATCH: Intel Talks Edge Computing, 5G And More At Dell Technologies World
Intel’s Ryan McCurdy discusses its new Video Security & Surveillance product and other collaborations with Dell Technologies in an interview with CRNtv.
By Diana Blass May 01, 2019, 05:38 PM EDT
It’s been 35 years since Dell got its start and Intel Corp.’s been by its side from the beginning. At Dell Technologies World, Intel’s Ryan McCurdy, VP of Global Accounts, discussed what’s next for the partnership as they push ahead towards a 5G future.
Dell has transformed its portfolio to help customers take advantage of transformative trends like 5G, AI and cloud. How are you innovating with Dell to transform IT from edge to core to cloud?
McCurdy: “I think one of the great things that Dell and Intel are working on together is the Video Security & Surveillance, a real example where explosion of data is happening. We are allowing businesses to create products, real time analytics at the edge for video and security and surveillance. You mentioned 5G and this reduces latency and allows core-to-cloud-to-edge and you have these products that basically couldn’t exist in the old infrastructure. Now that we have 5G, low- latency networks and high bandwidth, you’re able to do things we didn’t do in the past.”
You recently launched new data-centric solutions. How are you taking these to market with Dell?
McCurdy: “We have the construct that we call move, store and compute and we brought the entire set of products together to show what Intel can do. That’s unique. And, really the star of the launch was the Second Generation Xeon Scalable Product. This product will be the fastest ramping product in history and that’s really due to the gen over gen performance increases. It’s almost 30 percent. It’s more than we’ve delivered in the last five years and in addition to that we have deep learning boost and, essentially, it’s the first CPU integrated with enhancements for AI. It’s the fastest growing workload and we’ve integrated that into our CPU, so no new software or hardware needed. Dell and Intel are taking these products to market this year and we are excited about what we can do together.”
How will partners play a role in bringing these solutions to market?
McCurdy: “I heard today over 50 percent of Dell’s business goes through the channel. Double-digit growth in servers and client. The business is exploding. With the complexity of the solutions that we are bringing to market, the importance of the channel partners is so critical. Whether you’re a national service provider, a distributor, a regional partner, we are going to need these partners going forward to grow and ramp the business together.”
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Rave selects Barco
In their Phase 2 Cinedigm deployment, Rave Motion Pictures will install the full array of Barco Series-II digital cinema projectors for nearly 300 screens across the US
Barco, a global leader in digital cinema technology, proudly announces that Dallas, Texas-based Rave Motion Pictures has selected Barco Series-II projectors exclusively for a major deployment of 277 new digital cinema screens nationwide.
As one of the nation's most prestigious exhibitors, Rave selected Barco after an extensive evaluation based on Barco's innovative technology, the comprehensive lineup of Series-II projectors, and the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. All Rave's theatres will become Cinedigm Certified™ with Cinedigm's proven technology to provide exhibitors the very best experience possible along with choices of programming never before available.
Commencing in April, with a full deployment target by Q4 2010, Rave's agreement with Barco marks the largest Cinedigm Phase 2 rollout to date. The Phase 2 rollout encompasses screens of all sizes across 22 theaters in 9 states, thus the new lineup of six Series-II projectors perfectly underscores Barco's ability to match the right projector to the right auditorium.
Barco's six new Series-II projectors support 2D and 3D projection, and represent, by far, the most complete family available today. Specifically, the three projector models in Barco's “C family” utilize Texas Instruments' 0.98” DLP Cinema® chip, and are perfectly positioned for Rave's small and mid-sized theatre venues. In addition, the three new projector models in Barco's “B family” use Texas Instruments' 1.2” DLP Cinema® chip, and are ideal for Rave's mid- and large-sized auditoriums. These Barco projectors will be connected to central library servers which will store content and will use Cinedigm-developed software to manage and program each auditorium's playlists from a central location using the movies, trailers, advertising and other content stored on that central server.
“Barco continues to distinguish themselves as a trusted partner and a catalyst for our Phase 2 deployments,” said Bud Mayo, Chairman and CEO of Cinedigm. “With an impressive work ethic and a genuine focus on serving exhibitors, Barco continues to help Cinedigm provide our shared customers with inspired solutions. Cinedigm has enjoyed a lengthy and productive partnership with Rave and we believe they are in excellent hands with Barco.
“We're very excited about our relationship with Barco, and going forward, the impact it will have on Rave and especially our audience,” said Thomas Stephenson, President and Chief Executive Officer for Rave Motion Pictures. “Barco's willingness to listen to our business needs with openness and integrity, combined with their ability to directly and deliberately bring solutions, sets Barco at the top of our list.”
“With this year's release of DLP Series-II technology and the changes that result, it's my team's job to secure the best solutions for Rave,” explained Rob Warnes, Manager of Digital Services at Rave Motion Pictures, “In our discussions with the Barco Team, they spoke to the unique capabilities of their projectors —both from a deep technical standpoint, as well as from a layman's point of view. By doing so, everyone involved in our discussions walked away with a very clear understanding of what sets Barco's technology apart. These are the right projectors for our complete mix of screens.”
“On behalf of everyone in Barco's digital cinema organization, we're honored that Rave Motion Pictures has selected Barco for their deployment,” said Todd Hoddick, Barco's Vice President of Digital Cinema, North America. “Given Rave's high standards for presentation quality and audience experience, we're confident that we've secured a mutually beneficial relationship — one in which we're excited to share our passion for picture quality, accurate colors, and the brightest images in the industry.”
About Barco: Barco designs technology to enable bright outcomes around the world. Seeing beyond the image, we develop visualization and collaboration solutions to help you work together, share insights, and wow audiences. Our focus is on three core markets: Enterprise (from meeting and control rooms to corporate spaces), Healthcare (from the radiology department to the operating room), and Entertainment (from movie theaters to live events and attractions). In 2018, we realized sales of 1.028 billion euro. We have a global team of 3,600 employees, whose passion for technology is captured in 400 granted patents.
Barco is one of three licencees of Texas Instruments DLP Cinema™ technology. TI developed DLP Cinema™ technology working in close cooperation with Barco and others in the movie industry, to develop Cinema Projector and support systems based on DMD™ technology, to meet the requirement of studios, film distributors and exhibitors alike.
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Dec 18, 2019 Cinemark Partners with Cinionic for Barco Laser in 10-Year Worldwide Exclusive Agreement
Cinionic, the Barco cinema joint venture illuminating more than half of the world’s movie theaters, announces an exclusive laser agreement with long-term strategic partner Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK), one of the world’s largest movie exhibitors, operating more than 6,000 screens. During the 10-year deal, Cinionic will upgrade Cinemark’s chain with award-winning Barco Series 4 laser projectors and integrated Barco Alchemy media servers. The transformation of Cinemark’s fleet in the United States and Latin America into state-of-the-art, laser-powered entertainment destinations further solidifies both companies’ commitment to elevating the movie-going experience for global audiences.
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Sep 12, 2019 Unilumin Collaborates with Barco to Expand its Global LED Display Business
Apr 1, 2019 Cinionic Takes Cinema into the Smart Projection Era at CinemaCon 2019, with All-New Barco Series 4 Laser Projectors
Cinionic, the Barco, CGS, and ALPD cinema joint venture providing a new visual standard with enhanced services and technology solutions, today returns to CinemaCon with the launch of its brand-new Barco Series 4 projector line-up. This next generation of projectors will deliver an unmatched cinema experience for moviegoers today, future-proofed for tomorrow; leveraging 4K, RGB-laser, as well as being ready for 4K 120fps high frame rate, high-dynamic-range (HDR) and wide-color-gamut capabilities.
Dec 9, 2018 PVR Cinemas and Cinionic Form Long-Term Alliance to Elevate Cinema Experience in India with Barco Projection
PVR Cinemas, one of the largest and most premium film exhibition companies in India, today inked a long-term alliance with Cinionic, the Barco cinema joint venture.
Sep 26, 2018 EclairColor HDR Solution for Cinemas to Be Showcased in Deauville at the Annual Convention of French Theater Owners with Support from Cinionic
CinemaNext, the European specialist in cinema exhibitor services (Ymagis Group, ISIN: FR0011471291, TICKER: MAGIS, PME-PEA, TECH 40), today announced that it will be presenting its revolutionary EclairColor HDR cinema solution at this week’s Annual Convention of French Theater Owners (FNCF) in Deauville (France).
Aug 21, 2018 Theater Pole Pole Thrills Audiences with Barco Laser
Japanese movie fans are in for a treat next time they visit the Pole Pole theater in Onahama: nine brand new Barco laser projectors will present movies in dazzling brightness and vibrant color.
Aug 13, 2018 Cineplex Renews with Barco Laser at Popular South Bank Brisbane Cinema
Cinionic continues to lead the digital cinema renewal wave, deploying Barco projectors across the Australian continent. The latest is an exclusive deal with Cineplex, elevating movie showings with Barco Smart Laser projectors at the South Park Brisbane theater.
Aug 8, 2018 Reel Cinemas Launches First Hotel Cinema in UAE with Cinionic
Guests of the new avant-garde Rove Downtown hotel in Dubai will enjoy the latest movies in a stylish, casual-chic theater: Reel Boutique by Reel Cinemas at Rove Downtown. The best news for visitors? Reel Cinemas has selected Barco Laser projection to ensure that every movie scene features the best image quality!
Jun 13, 2018 Kinepolis Chooses Cinionic and Barco Laser Technology to Renew 300 Screens Through 2021
Cinionic, the Barco cinema joint venture, will be the exclusive laser projection partner for Kinepolis, launching the replacement wave by outfitting hundreds of existing and new screens with Barco laser over the next three years across Western Europe and Canada.
Jun 11, 2018 Cinionic and AMD Collaborate on Interactive, Augmented Reality Lobby Experiences
At CineEurope 2018, Cinionic, the Barco cinema joint venture, and AMD, a high-performance chip designer and a leader in the discrete GPU market, will showcase the world’s first multiplayer, Augmented Reality (AR) cinema lobby gaming applications aimed at creating a new social adventure in theaters and other location-based entertainment venues.
More Rave News:
May 26, 2011 Deluxe/Echostar Signs Satellite Distribution Deal with Rave Cinemas
Sep 20, 2010 IMAX and Rave Motion Pictures Sign Joint Venture Deal for 13 Imax® Theatres
Apr 13, 2010 Rave Motion Pictures Extends Doremi Partnership for Phase 2 Deployment
Apr 7, 2010 Cinedigm Announces Agreement with Rave Motion Pictures For Phase 2 Deployment Program
Aug 20, 2007 ravemotionpictures - Becomes United States’ Largest Exhibition Chain to go to 100% Digital Projection
Jul 5, 2006 Rave Motion Pictures Commits 445 Screens To Christie/AIX Deployment Plan As Digital Cinema Roll-out Momentum Continues
Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. (“AccessIT”) (NASDAQ: AIXD) today announced that Rave Motion Pictures (“Rave”) (www.ravemotionpictures.com), one of the fastest growing and most prominent independent exhibitors in the country, has signed a contract with Christie/AIX, a wholly owned subsidiary of AccessIT, for the initial installation of 445 state-of-the-art digital cinema systems. Rave currently has 23 multiplexes in nine states with plans to add 4 more locations throughout the balance of 2006. It has operations in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama and Florida; and as part of its 2006 expansion, it will add two additional states, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Rave is the sixth exhibition company to contract with AccessIT for its total conversion to digital cinema; its commitment brings the total number of screens for the Christie/AIX deployment to almost 3,000 of the planned 4,000.
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May 8, 2006 REAL D and Rave Motion Pictures Theaters Accelerate Digital 3-D Rollout with 20 Screen Deal
May 19, 2004 Rave Motion Pictures to premiere Shrek 2 digitally with Barco Digital Cinema 2K projectors
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