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Representative Gene DiGirolamo and Rep. Pamela A. DeLissio, Rep. Thomas P. Murt , Rep. Harry Readshaw
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Proposal to Add a 3.2% Drilling Tax to Act 13 Impact Fee
In the near future, we plan to introduce legislation to create a 3.2% severance tax, or drilling tax as we prefer to call it, on unconventional natural gas extraction. This tax will be in addition to the existing Act 13 impact fee. Our legislation will also direct the distribution of the proceeds.
Under the current impact fee, each well is assessed a fee which declines over time for the first fifteen years of operation. All unconventional wells drilled each year, no matter how much natural gas is produced, pay the same fee. For what is thought to be a typical unconventional well, the total impact fees paid over 15 years amount to less than 2% of the value of the natural gas sold from the well. Our proposal leaves this intact, but creates a new drilling tax that would be paid in addition to the impact fee.
Our proposal, like that of so many other states, is to tax the value of the natural gas produced. Added together, the impact fee and the 3.2% drilling tax would equal approximately 5% of the value of natural gas sold. Pennsylvania, now the second largest producer of natural gas in the nation, is the only major gas producing state that does not impose a drilling tax.
Adding a severance tax on the value of Pennsylvania’s natural gas production would generate additional funds above the existing impact fee, while still protecting host communities who benefit from the fee. As the value of production grows, so would the severance tax revenues. This would provide needed additional funding dollars for education, human services, and environmental programs, while also helping to make the required increase in pension contributions more manageable.
For ease of understanding the distribution of the tax revenues, it is helpful to know that in the first year 1% of the new tax will equal at least $5 to $5.5 million based on a range of conservative estimates of natural gas prices, and could easily escalate with continued modest growth in production.
The drilling tax revenue will enhance funding to the following programs that invest in education, paying down pension debt, the environment, and human development:
2017-18 Estimate
Basic education including a portion for Accountability Block Grants: 40% $200 to $225 million
SERS and PSERS pension liabilities 30% $150 to $165 million
Human services programs 15% $ 75 to $82.5 million
Environmental programs including Growing Greener 15% $ 75 to $82.5 million
In our view, any good drilling tax proposal should meet the following criteria:
Is it fair and reasonable to the industry and allows it to grow? Is it comparable to other states?
Does it assist host communities with the economic, social and environmental impacts of drilling?
Does it make long-term investments in our natural resources and environmental programs?
Does it make long-term investments in human capital and our economy?
Does it strengthen the stitching of the Commonwealth’s safety net for times of need?
Does it make sure that every citizen of the Commonwealth can potentially benefit from the development of the Marcellus shale and other deep gas reserves?
We strongly believe that we have come up with a proposal that meets these criteria, and can serve as an excellent starting point for discussion and action moving forward.
We welcome you to join us in co-sponsorship of this proposal.
Introduced as HB1401
#PaHouse Committee Meeting, ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, 01/21/2020, Call of Chair (CANCELLED): http://tinyurl.com/yhd2359s#01/21/2020 about 2 days ago
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PNE substitutes feature in a new booklet
Tom Barkhuizen is replaced by Stephy Mavididi this season
Dave Seddon
Substitutions are a key part of football, managers able to turn to a bench of seven and introduce three of them.
However, it was not until August 1965 that substitutes became a feature of the English league game.
Archie Gemmill made his PNE debut as a substitute and scored
Teams were able to name one sub then, that number increased to two in 1987 and gradually up to the seven we have now.
Preston North End used a sub in a league game for the first time on September 1, 1965.
Frank Lee replaced Dave Wilson nine minutes from the end of their 4-1 defeat against Portsmouth at Fratton Park.
In the 1965/66 season, PNE used 11 substitutes in their 42 Second Division matches.
David Beckham came off the bench to score on his PNE debut
A history of North End substitutes has been compiled by PNE fan and statistician Tony Woodburn.
For a number of years, Woodburn was the National Football Museum’s joint PNE historical statistician.
Woodburn, who attended his first North End game in 1967, has produced a booklet titled ‘PNE Substitute’.
He has listed a number of stats about the substitutions made by Preston down the years which makes for some interesting reading.
Chris Sedgwick was substituted 100 times during his time at PNE
Archie Gemmill was the first player to make his PNE debut as a substitute.
Gemmill also scored after coming on in a 3-1 victory at Norwich in August 1967.
Only three other debutantes have done what Gemmill did, David Beckham, Richard Cresswell and Paul Reid.
Preston North End 2 Charlton Athletic 1 - Match report from Deepdale on PNE's first victory of 2020
Joe Garner is the only PNE sub to have scored a hat-trick, that coming in an FA Cup replay against Ipswich in January 2014.
The highest-scoring North End substitute is Patrick Agyemang with eight goals.
Cresswell and Jason Harris could be classed as ‘super subs’ having both scored five times from the bench in a single campaign.
The most subbed Preston player in history was Chris Sedgwick, the winger taken off 100 times – very often we witnessed the ‘Sedgwick walk’ when Billly Davies was boss.
Jon Macken is second in that list having been taken off in 86 games.
The first goalkeeper to come off the bench for PNE was Lee Bamber at Mansfield in 1993 –Bamber was needed after Kelham O’Hanlon was sent-off.
The 'PNE Substitute' booklet costs £6 including postage and is available from www.pnesub.co.uk.
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McKimmon, Jane Simpson, 1867-1957
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Dalla Pozza, Ada
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North Carolina Extension and Community Association Records, 1916-2011
Size: 84.25 linear feet (75 boxes, 4 legal boxes, 1 oversize legal box, 7 oversize flat boxes, 11 flat boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 3 half boxes, 1 album, 14 cartons) Collection ID: UA 102.052
The records of the North Carolina Extension and Community Association document the activities of the association from 1916 to 2011, with the bulk of the records falling between 1929 and 1975. The files contain correspondence and memoranda, programs and brochures, reports, meeting minutes and agenda, member lists, financial ... More
The records of the North Carolina Extension and Community Association document the activities of the association from 1916 to 2011, with the bulk of the records falling between 1929 and 1975. The files contain correspondence and memoranda, programs and brochures, reports, meeting minutes and agenda, member lists, financial information, clippings, news releases, photographs, and handbooks and yearbooks. The association was organized in 1920 as the Federation of Home Bureaus, and the name changed to the Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs in 1924. An African-American organization was formed in 1940, and it integrated with its white counterpart in 1966. The current designation was assumed in 1995. Less
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North Carolina State University. Libraries. University Archives
North Carolina State University -- Wrestling
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University Archives Photograph Collection, Athletics Photographs, 1893-2003
Size: 28.25 linear feet (102 albums, 5 card boxes, 2 boxes, 3 half-boxes) Collection ID: UA 023.004
The North Carolina State University Athletics Photographs contain photographic prints, negatives, contact prints, slides, and transparencies that document the history of NC State athletics and supporting activities from 1893 to 2003. North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University) ... More
The North Carolina State University Athletics Photographs contain photographic prints, negatives, contact prints, slides, and transparencies that document the history of NC State athletics and supporting activities from 1893 to 2003. North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University) officially became involved in athletics when it financed the school's football team in 1893, the year after the team's first unofficial games. Other sports were organized by the early twentieth century. All teams began using the nickname "Wolfpack" in 1947. As of 2006, NC State University has eleven men's and eleven women's varsity athletic teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Less
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Circle K International (Organization). Carolinas District
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North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Circle K Club of North Carolina State University Records, 1959-1979
Size: 2.25 linear feet (4 archival boxes, 1 archival half box) Collection ID: UA 021.441
The records of the Circle K Club of North Carolina State University contain information on the club, the district the club is in, and the international offices of the Circle K organization. Types of materials include meeting minutes, constitutions and by-laws, financial information, newsletters and other publications, information ... More
The records of the Circle K Club of North Carolina State University contain information on the club, the district the club is in, and the international offices of the Circle K organization. Types of materials include meeting minutes, constitutions and by-laws, financial information, newsletters and other publications, information about activities and events, and other general information. Circle K organizations are collegiate affiliates of local Kiwanis service groups. Circle K was established at NC State in November of 1961, and it is sponsored by both the Capital City Kiwanis and the Raleigh Kiwanis Club. NC State's Circle K club is a member of the Carolinas District of Circle K organizations. Circle K remained active at NC State as of 2008. Less
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Category: Accessibility
RetroArch 1.8.2 – Accessibility features for blind people
December 12, 2019 December 26, 2019 Daniel De Matteis
RetroArch singlehandedly takes big strides to cater to an underrepresented group of people, opening up a whole new world of entertainment.
See here the perspective of a blind person talking about the new accessibility features available in the latest nightly versions of RetroArch. This and more will be available out of the box starting as of version 1.8.2.
Also read our version 1.8.2 release announcement post here.
Written by Devin Prater, Certified Assistive technology instructor
Edits by Barry Rowe, AI Service and Accessibility contributor
For decades, video games have offered entertainment for many people. Childhoods were changed by iconic franchises like Super Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Castlevania. People can reasonably count on others to understand the meaning behind video game references.
For people who are blind, however, these games could only be enjoyed through their great music, or by reading novelizations or fanfiction. Audio games have been created, to fill the void of video games which could not be played, an some blind people braved fighting games by memorizing menus and special attacks, but audio games were few in number, and didn’t usually have much content.
Emulation has helped many people who are blind relive their childhood playing fighting games. With the rise of machine learning, however, blind gamers now have another tool in their arsenal: optical character recognition, the extracting of text from images. With this being a part of many screen readers, blind people could use that to read menus, character select screens, and unspoken dialog.
RetroArch is the first “emulator” to now offer Accessibility to blind people by speaking the interface. Along with the text-to-speech AI service, RetroArch has not only become the first emulator to implement accessibility for blind people in menus, but also in reading game text as well.
This doesn’t, however, mean that all games are accessible. A blind person still cannot get Super mario into the castle in Super Mario 64, nor defeat Lavos in Chrono Trigger, although perhaps one could probably play Radical Dreamers now. Much more work will be needed to make video games completely accessible to blind people, even portraying health bars in fighting games through sound cues. Even so, the accessibility of RetroArch means that blind users of Windows, MacOS, and Linux can enjoy the state of the art in video game accessibility through emulation.
How to enable accessibility
Once you’ve downloaded and installed RetroArch, there are two ways to enabled accessibility. The first way is by turning it on via the menu. Once RetroArch is started press: right, then up seven times, then enter (on some systems this could be the x key), and then right. You should hear “Accessibility Accessibility Enable ON” at this point. If this doesn’t, restart RetroArch and try again. This method navigates the menu, which may change in later versions, so you should read the RetroArch Accessibility Docs for any updated key presses.
The second method is to enable it via the command line. This is done by running the RetroArch executable (for example: retroarch.exe) in the command line or terminal. On windows for instance, once you’ve opened the command line, navigate to the RetroArch folder, and run “retroarch.exe –accessibility” and you should hear “RetroArch Accessibility On. Main Menu Load Core.” From there you can navigate right to the settings submenu, and then down to the Accessibility option, and then turn set Accessibility Enable on. Now you’ll be able to start RetroArch with accessibility from outside the command line as usual.
If these options don’t work for you, it could be that your OS does not have the required speech libraries or voices that RetroArch needs. For windows, RetroArch uses the Windows Narrator, which you can read how to download additional voices for here. On MacOS, it uses the “say” command, which you can read how to download voices for here. And on Linux it uses Espeak. For Ubuntu, you can install espeak by running “sudo apt-get install espeak” and then “sudo apt-get install espeak-data” for the additional voices.
Using the AI Service with Accessibility
The AI Service can also use the Accessibility narrator for Text-to-Speech. This can be done by going to the AI Service settings section, and changing the AI Service Output to “Narrator Mode.” This handles the Text-To-Speech, but the AI Service still needs to process the game screen to get that text. You can follow the setup instructions for the AI Service here.
While people without disabilities have been able to play thousands of video games, both current and past, blind people have not had the ability to enjoy more than a handful of video games. Through
emulation, this is beginning to change. Games which were once only playable if one could memorize menus and selection screens are becoming accessible using OCR, and more will be possible through the hard work of developers who may build upon this foundation for accessible video game emulation.
RetroArch is the first emulation center to provide accessibility for the user interface, and an AI service to perform OCR on video games, allowing blind users of all three major desktop operating systems to enjoy playing fighting games now with knowledge of any text that appears onscreen. It is hoped that this is only the beginning of a great advancement in accessibility, with RetroArch paving the way to even greater video game accessibility for people who are blind.
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Emmy Awards group tells members to promote abortion in upcoming event
Leading Hollywood creators will gather to discuss how TV can 'influence attitudes and access' to abortion.
Thu Oct 25, 2018 - 4:26 pm EST
By Calvin Freiburger
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NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California, October 25, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Hollywood is overwhelmingly pro-abortion, and an upcoming event is slated to shed light on just how the industry justifies and strategizes its injection of an agenda into mainstream entertainment.
On November 7, an event called “The Power of TV: Reproductive Health and Access in Storytelling” will take place in North Hollywood, according to an announcement posted on the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences’ website. The Academy is the organization responsible for doling out Emmy Awards every year.
“Developed in partnership with the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center's Hollywood, Health & Society,” the post says, the event “assembles storytellers and experts to discuss television's depiction of reproductive choice, family planning and maternal health. From Maude to Murphy Brown to Jane the Virgin and Dear White People, how has television influenced attitudes and access to safe reproductive choice and women's healthcare?”
The discussion, which will be open to the public but has sold out, will be moderated by Dear White People actor Logan Browning and feature University of San Francisco sociologist Gretchen Sisson, as well as Hollywood creators Janine Sherman Barrois (Claws, Criminal Minds, ER), Dorothy Fortenberry (The Handmaid's Tale, The 100), Amanda Lasher (The Bold Type, Riverdale, Gossip Girl), and Hayley Schore (The Resident, Code Black).
Maude and Murphy Brown are considered watershed moments in television history for tackling abortion, let alone positive depictions of the subject.
Brown’s divorced lead character ultimately chose life, but Vice President Dan Quayle infamously criticized the show for “mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.” Quayle was widely derided for the speech, but in 1993 The Atlantic went on to publish Barbara Dafoe Whitehead’s admission that “Dan Quayle Was Right, based on a “growing body of social-scientific evidence” on children in fatherless homes.
The much more recent Jane the Virgin initially appeared as if it would be a pro-life show, but in its third season featured what Vanity Fair calls an “empathetic, but casual” depiction of abortion. Season 2 of Dear White People sees a character imagine sending her unplanned, “intersectional feminist daughter” off to college – just before deciding to go through with aborting her.
The push for pro-abortion TV matches that of the film sphere. Many of America’s biggest celebrities vocally support Planned Parenthood, and every major distributor rejected Gosnell, a rare exception telling the true story of abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s murder trial, forcing producers to rely on crowdfunding.
No less than three films are currently in the works glorifying the Jane Collective, an underground network that helped women obtain illegal abortions in the years before Roe v. Wade. The films’ creators frame them as cautionary tales about potentially overturning the 1973 Supreme Court decision.
All of these projects appear predicated on similar logic to pro-abortion initiatives such as Youth Testify and Shout Your Abortion, which assume people oppose abortion not out of an informed desire to protect preborn children, but simply because they can’t empathize with women facing unwanted pregnancies.
Despite Hollywood’s depictions of abortion being overwhelmingly sympathetic, some pro-abortion activists have complained for years that they aren’t favorable enough.
In 2014, the University of California-San Francisco’s think-tank Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) released a study objecting to the fact that 9% of on-screen abortions end with maternal deaths, when the real-world rate is much lower (albeit not as low as the abortion industry claims). The authors claimed the rate helps “stigmatize” abortion, despite the fact that many of these deaths were pre-Roe and meant to further another misleading pro-abortion narrative.
Despite the Television Academy’s pro-abortion bent, some pro-life messages have managed to win recognition in the entertainment world.
After eight seasons, Brad Mattes’ Facing Life Head-On garnered three Emmy Awards and two Emmy nominations. The show “uses short-form video to dig into the critical life issues of our time—abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide and more,” according to its website, “fus[ing] education with entertainment to promote the value of life at all stages.”
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Emmy Awards group tells members to promote abortion in upcoming event Emmy Awards group tells members to promote abortion in upcoming event News By Calvin Freiburger
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Fintech: from challenger to collaborator
The fintech industry is evolving, with recent innovations focused less on wholesale disruption of financial services and more on integrating their services into the wider sector offering.
Recent fintech developments have been aimed at improving the customer experience, making transactions more transparent, intuitive and instant.
As a result of this shift, traditional financial services companies are increasingly approaching fintech startups as collaborators rather than competitors.
According to PWC research, 82 per cent of financial services incumbents are looking to increase partnerships with fintechs over the next three to five years.
The same research showed that rather than being a threat to their business, 63 per cent of bankers see fintech as an opportunity to expand their products and services.
Macquarie Capital's Divisional Director Glen Butler says fintechs can quickly adapt to changing behaviours in a way some traditional financial services firms aren't equipped to do.
“People have become used to platforms such as Facebook and Uber and there is enormous pressure on retail banks and other institutions to offer a similar experience," he explains.
Why the fintech approach has changed
Just a few years ago, fintechs were the emerging disruptors of the Australian financial services sector.
By 2016, Australia had become the largest market for alternative lending in the Asia- Pacific region outside of China, with an annual turnover of $US609.6 million, according to joint research by Cambridge University and Melbourne's Monash University.
But while fintechs have been able to offer an alternative to the banks in parts of the lending market, Butler argues this disruption is unlikely to spread across all areas of financial services.
“The high barriers to entry and scale benefits mean that we are unlikely to see the same disruption in the core banking sector that we saw in areas like media,” he explains.
“Any startup that expects to compete head on with major global organisations such as the retail banks has an enormous challenge ahead of them.”
Traditional financial services operators are looking to build partnerships and joint ventures with fintech startups to capitalise on their innovations.
Only nine per cent of respondents in a recent McKinsey study favoured acquisition as a way of integrating fintech services into their offering.
People have become used to platforms such as Facebook and Uber and there is enormous pressure on retail banks and other institutions to offer a similar experience.
Australian fintechs changing the landscape
One area where the partnership model is already well established is at the point of sale, where fintechs such as AfterPay - which allows consumers to pay for merchandise in instalments - are partnering with retail banks.
Another fintech, LanternPay, helps process provider payments in the National Disability Insurance Scheme and Victoria's Transport Accident Commission.
LanternPay lets providers see immediately whether a patient is eligible for treatment and allows for overnight payment - a process that once took up to 90 days.
In smoothing out this inefficiency, LanternPay has encouraged participation from providers and given them certainty of payment.
“The best fintech businesses today aren't just about making money,” says LanternPay's Simon Terry. “They are about rethinking the way customer services are delivered. In that sense, they also have a social purpose.”
“By providing customers with greater choice and control, in the process they're making a meaningful contribution to society.”
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Infrastructure & urbanisation
UK infrastructure investment: the next 30 years
Women in infrastructure
Tomorrow’s infrastructure is being shaped by women in our sector today. That’s why we’re delighted to be the principal sponsor of Infrastructure Investor’s 2019 Women in Infrastructure Forum. We asked some of our female colleagues to reflect on their careers and what it means to be a part of the industry today.
Japan Infrastructure and Energy Conference 2019
As Japan's energy transition continues to evolve, deregulation and structural change is creating new opportunities across the electricity and power sectors. These changes are driving innovation and technological change in the world's third largest economy.
Market commentary & analysis
2020 Global economic and markets outlook
As 2019 draws to a close, Macquarie’s Chief Economist Ric Deverell shares his global forecast for 2020.
In this video, he talks about the outlook for markets and the impact of geopolitical uncertainty, with the view that global growth will recover next year.
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Orion Elwin Gerron
Full Name: Orion Elwin Gerron
Date of birth: September 21, 1906
H 88 Jan 9, 1945 - Jan 14, 1947 49th Democrat Odessa / Ector Andrews, Crane, Ector, Jeff Davis, Loving, Martin, Midland, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves, Upton, Ward, Winkler
H 100-1 Jan 8, 1929 - Jul 20, 1929 41st (1) Democrat Waxahachie / Ellis Ellis
(1) S. Bowden Farrar, in special election 12/3/1929, sworn 1/20/1930, succeeded Elwin Gerron, resigned after 3rd Called Session. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
49th Legislature, R.S., HSR 144, naming Thomas Gerald Gerron, son of Rep. O.E. Gerron, mascot of the House, pp. 586-587. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
Orion Elwin Gerron, birth date 9/21/1906, death date 5/14/1952, interment in Ector County Cemetery, Odessa. Stone in memory of Judge Orion Elwin Gerron, birth date 9/21/1906, death date 5/14/1952, son of Walter Jay & Loudie Patterson Gerron, in Elm Branch Cemetery, Bardwell, Ellis County. Find a Grave. Ector County Ellis County
Family tree chart includes Orion Elwyn Gerron, birth date 9/21/1906 in Durant, Oklahoma; death date 5/14/1952 in Odessa, Texas; wife Lucille Carney Gerron, "Descendants of Pierre DeGuerin," Genealogy.com, 2004.
O.E. Gerron, lawyer, age 38 in 49th Legislature, born in Oklahoma. Texas Legislative Manual.
Photograph. Orion Elwin Gerron, 41st Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Orion Elwin Gerron, 49th Legislature, State Preservation Board
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338 SW 6th St, Des Moines, IA 50309
©2019 by Lumber Axe DSM
3 Day Halloween Bash!
Join us at Lumber Axe DSM for 3 days of Halloween fun. We'll have live music, costume contests ($4,400 in total cash prizes!), giveaways, as well as food and drink specials, featuring specials from Captain Morgan and Liquid Ice. There will also be beer tastings.
We'll be joined by Lazer and Nash radio throughout the event, and the Top 10 Lazer Rock Girl contestants will be joining us Saturday night!
First 100 people in the door each night will get a Trick or Treat Swag bag, so get here early!
Costume Contest Details
Nerdvana - Thursday
A real live Nerd band that rocks out to the best jams of the 90's!
Elizabeth Mary - Friday
Elizabeth Mary, local singer-songwriter with her current singles “Breathe in Girl” and “Sweatpants and Wine”.
Jake McVey - Friday
Rising Iowa country star, Jake McVey, with his latest singles "Never Give Up" and "Grow".
90's alternative rock cover band featuring songs from Nirvana, Green Day, STP and more!
Last Crack - Saturday
This five-piece rock band live is an experience of total immersion.
Live Bands Lineup
To kick things off on Thursday is Nerdvana!
A experiment bringing back the 90's one equation at a time!
Check out their website here.
Friday opens with the local singer-songwriter Elizabeth Mary!
Elizabeth Mary wrote her first song, "I Have a Dream,” at age 10 and has been pursuing that dream ever since. Raised on a dairy farm in rural Iowa, Elizabeth
Mary performed her first shows to herds of disinterested cattle and cornfields. Destined to become a n entertainer, Elizabeth got her first taste of performing
in local choirs and talent shows in her community.
At age 22, she earned her loyal fanbase with her first band combining her powerful vocals and energetic performances that captivated audiences in the Tri-State area throughout her 8-year run with the band.
Early 2018, Elizabeth set out to begin her solo career as a singer-songwriter recording and releasing her six-track debut EP Album, “Dance wih the Fear’. Her first single, Mirror, Mirror was picked up by local radio and is streaming nationwide.
Following the success of “Breathe in Girl”, Elizabeth Mary went right back to the studio to begin work on her full-length album. Her newest single “Sweatpants and Wine” released June 2019 and became her third single to receive regional airplay and regular rotation. Her highly anticipated 14 track, all original album, “Meet Me in Madison” is expected to be released in Fall 2019.
Check out her website here.
To continue Friday's country theme, we are proud to present Jake McVey!
Music has the power to move the masses and few artists understand that better than Jake McVey. A relentless road dog who performs 250+ dates a year, McVey has earned a loyal fan base that’s addicted to his fiery stage show and arsenal of ear-grabbing songs.
A compelling performer who combines his upbeat music and a youthful enthusiasm with a seasoned eye for reading a crowd, McVey gives his all at every show. “It’s all about entertaining the fans and showing each and every person in the room a good time.” He’s shared the stage with some of country’s most acclaimed acts, including Blake Shelton, Thomas Rhett, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Little Big Town, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, and Dierks Bentley.
Check out his website here.
Saturday get ready to rock out with the Foo Foo Dolls!
Foo Foo Dolls are Wisconsin's new 90's alternative rock cover band. Featuring songs from Nirvana, Green Day, STP & more.
Saturday continues with Last Crack!
Last Crack, live or recorded, is always an experience of total immersion. Their brooding disposition, dynamic dueling guitars, tight rhythm section and visionary lead-singer take the listener on a sound-scape journey as they travel from rocket highs to railroad lows.
Epic Costume Contest!
For each night of the costume contest:
1st place - $500
2nd place - $200
3rd place - $100
The top winners from each night will compete on Saturday for an additional $2000, for a grand prize of $2500! First place winners are not eligible for contests on subsequent nights.
*Note winners from previous nights must be present Saturday night to be eligible for the $2000 prize.
Schedule of Events!
Thursday 10/31
Liquid Ice and Captain Morgan Drink Specials
Ice sculpture
Captain Morgan tastings
Liquid Ice samples
Breckenridge tastings
Ranger with Swag
Friday 11/1
Jake McVey
Bulleit tastings
Big Grove
Saturday 11/2
Josh Sinclair
Foo Foo Dolls
Rock girl voting
Last Crack
COSTUME CONTEST FINALE
RumpleMintz tasting
Jager tasting
Natty Seltzer
Concept Bars
Escape Chambers
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Video – Tom Schwarz talks Tyson Fury fight, calls him a “crazy boy”
Undefeated heavyweight boxer Tom Schwarz will be fighting Tyson Fury on Saturday, June 15 at MGM Grand.
After the press conference, he spoke to Helen Yee about his upcoming fight and how he will retire if he beats Fury.
Moments of UFC 246: Conor at the mic, Cowboy's grandma and Floyd's post January 20, 2020
Conor McGregor's TKO made the loudest splash, but it wasn't the only noteworthy moment at UFC 246.
Packers' title window still open, Rodgers says January 20, 2020
Aaron Rodgers, while clearly disappointed after a 37-20 NFC Championship loss to the 49ers, projected optimism after the gap between his first and potential second Super Bowl widened by yet another year.
Third horse dies in three-day run at Santa Anita January 20, 2020
Tikkun Olam, a 4-year-old gelding trained by Eric Kuljac, was euthanized because of his undisclosed injuries on Sunday as an alarming stretch continues at Santa Anita.
The Niners and Chiefs will go head-to-head for the Lombardi Trophy in two weeks. We have early predictions, looming questions and more for the big game.
Reid failed in his only Super Bowl as head coach. Shanahan gave up a 28-3 lead in his first shot as an OC.
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Best ways to get from The Hult Center for the Performing Arts to Motel 6
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When it's time to call yourself a writer
cj Sez: Author Pat Conroy, who wrote literary fiction—including The Prince of Tides which was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film—credits his English teachers . . . no, make that lauds the “genius of” his English teachers for instilling in him a love of the English language.
As Mr. Conroy was quoted on Goodreads:
“I've been in ten thousand cities and have introduced myself to a hundred thousand strangers in my exuberant reading career, all because I listened to my fabulous English teachers and soaked up every single thing those magnificent men and women had to give. I cherish and praise them and thank them for finding me when I was a boy and presenting me with the precious gift of the English language. ” (http://bit.ly/1ldfCg2 ).
Though I will never have anything close to Mr. Conroy’s expertise, I was, am, and always will be fascinated with words and syntax. I love, love, love the task of putting words together to create characters and plots that lure readers into the story, where they can see the scenes and experience the emotions in their imaginations.
What really draws me to Mr. Conroy is something he wrote in his memoir My Losing Season: A Memoir
“Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. . . . But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary.”
That’s what it’s all about. We have to call ourselves “writers.” That’s a grand title I long hesitated to give myself despite having been published in several genres (and been paid for it) over several years. Now that I’ve said it out loud, guess what? It sounded good and natural.
I hope you have taken ownership of the title you've earned through study, discipline, and determination. If not, maybe it's time to try it. Celebrate it. Say it: “I am a writer!” I bet you’ll like it too.
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A Journey into the Mystery of the Criminal Mind . . . A Conference for Writers and Readers of Crime Fiction
Sponsored by Sisters in Crime - New Orleans
Featuring keynote speaker Hank Phillipi Ryan and local authors BJ Bourg, O'Neil De Noux, Jean M. Redmann, and Erica Spindler.
Holiday Inn, New Orleans Airport 2261 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, LA
As the masthead of Lyrical Pens says, if you have a book you want to promote, let me know. We can arrange a blog date…the only caveat is that this site is PG 13.
That’s it for this week’s post. You-all guys keep on keeping on, and I’ll try to do the same. See you next week?
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Protect yourself from hidden fees: Consumer Reports
Posted: Jun 24, 2019 / 11:03 PM EDT / Updated: Jun 24, 2019 / 11:03 PM EDT
CONSUMER REPORTS — You never want to pay more for something than the advertised price. But these days, that’s exactly what’s happening to consumers when they buy something with an added fee. Fees across a wide range of industries are siphoning billions of dollars out of Americans’ wallets each year. Consumer Reports tells you how to spot, negotiate, and avoid extra fees altogether.
Companies are doing everything they can to make their prices appear lower to bring consumers in the door. The problem is that they have to increase the price somewhere along the way, and they do it by hiding fees in the final price.
A CR survey of more than 2,000 adults in the U.S. shows at least 85 percent of Americans say they’ve encountered an unexpected or hidden fee over the past two years.
As for who’s most likely to charge consumers hidden fees, CR’s survey finds that telecommunication providers, live entertainment or sporting events, and gas and electric utility companies top the list.
It’s important to check your bills regularly to make sure there are no fees you didn’t know about. And ask companies a lot of questions before you pay them.
Consumer Reports says StubHub offers a feature that lets you set your search for tickets so that fees are included in the price, which will help budgeting and avoid any surprises.
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Getting out of a timeshare contract: Consumer Reports
CONSUMER REPORTS -- If winter weather has you dreaming of a warmer vacation spot, maybe you’re considering a timeshare. It might sound like a good option, and buying one is often easy. But getting out of one of those contracts can be tricky. That's where timeshare exit companies say they can help. But as Consumer Reports reveals, those exit plans aren’t always foolproof.
Exit companies often make the sweeping promise that they can get you out of a timeshare contract, but that often comes with a hefty upfront price.
Decoding bread labels: Consumer Reports
CONSUMER REPORTS -- Food shopping isn’t always as simple as filling your cart and checking out. Often you want to make sure you’re picking the healthiest options. But how do you navigate the endless barrage of labels even on something as simple as a loaf of bread?
In the average bread section, shoppers are faced with dozens of options: whole wheat, multigrain, organic, rich in fiber. But what does it all mean? Consumer Reports says it comes down to the flour.
Crash test bias: Female drivers at risk: Consumer Reports
CONSUMER REPORTS -- Crash test dummies: You know them from the iconic public service announcements. Over the years they’ve contributed to making cars safer for everyone. But a revealing new Consumer Reports investigation took a look at how these test dummies are designed, and why a troubling flaw could result in potentially deadly consequences.
You might think that crash test dummies represent a wide range of drivers. But despite their blank faces and androgynous features, most dummies used in auto crash tests represent a very specific type of driver—an average adult male—which researchers say poses a safety risk for women.
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BANGALORE, 19 September, 2019
Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH) today announced that it has expanded and enhanced its Indian operations with the opening of a new facility in Brigade Tech Gardens. This investment increases Manhattan’s footprint in India and reflects the company’s strong commitment to the country. The new facility was inaugurated on September 18, 2019 in a dedication ceremony hosted by company executives.
Over 1,400 Manhattan team members will be located in this new 170,000-square-foot facility. Designed by NBBJ, a world-renowned architecture, planning and design firm based in Seattle, the 26 acre campus offers amenities like a health and fitness centre, a wide range of dining options, a retail plaza, a hotel, apartments and a conference centre.
“We are excited to move our world class talent to this world class facility,” said Eddie Capel, president and CEO of Manhattan Associates. “This new office reflects Manhattan’s commitment to providing our employees with a state of the art work environment and gives us ample room to grow as we continue to invest in this important region.”
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How To: Make a LEGO Death Star Ornament
Master brickster Chris McVeigh offers step-by-step instructions to build your own Death Star ornament.
How To: Make Easy Mod Christmas Paper Decor
It's always very obvious when it's December in my house. I simply can't help but add a little bit of holiday cheer to each room.
But, there's not an inch of greenery, nor Santa Clauses, reindeer, or snowman. My home is really pretty modern, and the traditional Christmas vibe just doesn't match my stuff. So, I have an aluminum Christmas tree and metallic stockings, and to balance all that synthetic industrial-ness, I like to add plenty of handmade elements.
This year, in additional to my infamous paper snowflakes, I wanted more paper decorations that brought in a bit of color. So, I came with two easy how-tos: some mid-century inspiration paper ornaments, and a mod paper garland.
The Ultimate Guide to the 2010 Holiday TV Schedule!
Only during the holiday season do we allow ourselves to consume things we never would otherwise: namely, too many calories and terribly cheesy television and movies.
But when its Christmas, that's okay. Normally, most of us wouldn't watch the same programs, intended for children, year after year, but buddy, when the Grinch is on, I'm watching.
And in 2010, no one needs to spend hours in front of the television, waiting for that magic moment when Home Alone comes on (Kevin, you're such a disease). Take a minute to look at these great schedules, then set your DVRs or other recorders, and have them available for whenever you get around to wrapping those gifts!
How To: Make the Perfect Snowball
Admit it: if you live in a snow-receiving climate, you make at least one snowball a season. Sometimes the closest tree is your target, sometimes its your significant other (which, if you can get away with it, means that individual is a total keeper), and sometimes its just to see how far you can throw it. But if you have gloves, and there's snow, you're gonna make one
But then there are those icy orbs that never seem to form...they fall apart in your hands, or stay in a weird rectangle the whole time, or disintegrate not two feet in front of you. "It's the snow, it's the snow!" you shout. Which, sometimes it is, but that doesn't mean its not something a little technique can't fix.
How To: Make a DIY Geek Power Tie (from Scratch)
Take this one to the bank: never give a guy a tie for Christmas. Ever.
Unless, of course, it's a handmade tie, that you not only sewed, but did so from a handmade pattern on fabric that you designed and printed yourself, that is.
Says author Michele Beschen, "When I was asked to share a project that was geared towards geeks and dudes, I immediately started contemplating the many interesting ways I could incorporate code into something. I don’t even know what much of that tech jargon means, but I sure like how it looks — the text, the symbols and the layout. I played around with different ideas and just kept seeing it on a tie: not a stuffy, business-like tie, but a tie that looks great worn loose and casual with a vintage short-sleeve button down. Keep your dude in stylish duds this holiday season, and add a little personality with this "power of code" tie that you can create in an afternoon."
How To: Make a "Sliceform" Christmas Tree
Sliceforms are "are geometric models constructed from interlocking sets of planar pieces," basically a 3D model made of flat pieces, creating a grid. Mathematically-minded folks, of course, can create super complex structures with the technique, but it can be scaled down to make simpler structures, like this 3D Christmas tree.
How To: Make an Industrial Menorah from Pipe Fittings
This year, Chanukah starts on December 1st, this Wednesday night. As for most holidays, we wanted to find appropriate decor to match the ManMade goals - guy-friendly, contemporary, and handmade.
We found it in this industrial menorah, or chanukkiah, which was assembled entirely from pipe fittings easily found at the hardware store.
Here's how its done:
PostCarden Brings the Christmas Card to Life
Christmas card update: Nativity scenes or snow covered farms have been outdated for decades, and even thoughtful phrases like "peace on earth" or "comfort and joy" have grown a little tired over the last few years. But now? Now, non-plant producing Christmas cards are so 2009.
The "Seasons Greetings" PostCarden: "Once opened and unfolded into its log cabin, pop-out the skaters and simply sow the enclosed seeds and add water. In a few days your card will start to grow into a festive forest and will keep for 2 - 3 weeks."
Check out the video of it in action:
Clever (and Weird) Gingerbread Mannovations
Somewhere between age eight and wherever you are now, classic gingerbread shapes no longer satisfied. Sure, they still taste delicious, but a human shaped cookie with a head, two arms, and two legs, and no pyrotechnics? Well, that's just boring.
From architecturally satisfying houses to human rights campaigns to Nazi re-creations (what?!), we love some gingerbread inventiveness.
The 2010 Barney's Christmas Window Display Goes Foodie
Every year, I'm officially ready for the holiday season when three things happen: 1) I stop being surprised by all the Christmas commercials; 2) I begin to toy with the idea that maybe, just maybe, this will be the year I learn to like egg nog; and 3) Simon Doonan's Christmas windows at Barney's are unveiled.
Last year, I actually got to see the SNL-themed displays, sporting a Conehead Christmas and an extra-large Mango, Gilly, and Mary Catherine Gallagher. This year, Doonan and co. have hit the kitchen for inspiration.
How To: Make Your Own Pop Up Cards
Illustrator, author, and artist Robert Sabuda provides these free, downloadable pop-up card templates and how-tos that'd be great for the upcoming holiday season. We especially like the new pirate ship design and all sorts of Star Wars models, including R2-D2 and a totally excellent Millennium Falcon.
We also love the "Pop-Up Basics" that show you how to create your own, custom designs.
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Eye in the Sky for Inland INTEL
Joseph Keefe, Editor
Joseph Keefe is the lead commentator of MaritimeProfessional.com....
Genscape Maritime’s Vessel Coverage of U.S. Inland Waterways offers new perspectives and a leg up on the competition. In today’s transportation markets, information is everything.
It was back in 2016 that Genscape announced the complete integration of more than 400 terrestrial AIS antennas in North America, providing an impressive level of data accuracy and visibility into ship movements in the U.S. today, Genscape’s proprietary antenna network offers customers insights into ship movements, commodity flows, and other important data metrics in North America.
Genscape’s private monitoring network covers every commercial port in the U.S., and over 90 percent of U.S. inland waterways, including extensive coverage of key regions such as the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, and the Gulf Coast. With this enhanced coverage, Genscape customers – commodity traders, ship owners and operators, and port service providers – gain unique, real-time insight of vessel movements in North America, and an understanding of their associated commodity flows and trade patterns.
For traders and analysts, Genscape’s comprehensive AIS network offers unrivaled insights into the opaque inland-waterways trade with the finest possible level of granularity, not available elsewhere. This empowers customers to identify patterns associated with routine operations, so that they have real-time indications of potential market opportunities when vessels deviate from regular routes, experience delays, or exhibit unusual activity. Every day, so it seems, new partners find unique ways to leverage the Genscape network.
The Vesseltracker antenna partnership model
Genscape’s value isn’t limited to commercial applications, and its reach extends to many users through data sharing arrangements that provide value to both sides of the equation. One such partnership involves the OKI Regional Council of Governments and the Raven 991 program, which signed a data share deal with Genscape Vesseltracker. In a nutshell, they became a Vesseltracker Antenna Partner by sending Genscape data from a few antennas. In exchange, Genscape sends back data from their antennas in the “region of interest.” OKI serves two million residents in eight counties spanning three States.
In cases like this, Genscape looks for reliable partners who are interested in tracking vessels in their own geographic areas. The firm provides AIS antenna equipment free of charge, including shipping. In exchange, the partner installs the antenna and connects it to the Internet and then receives free Vesseltracker access for as long as their antenna remains online. Genscape realizes improved service quality in that partner‘s area and the partner gains free (or discounted) access to professional AIS service that can include more than 2,800 antennas, to date.
In the case of the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI), a council of local governments, business organizations and community groups committed to developing collaborative strategies to improve the quality of life and the economic vitality of the region, the need for better information on the river was paramount. Locally, the local fire department put up 3 receivers, in part for homeland security purposes, but these proved too limited in scope to provide the breadth of information that OKI required.
David Shuey, GIS Manager for the Greater Cincinnati Transportation Planning group, explained, “Freight is critical to the local economy. We had many data sources, pooling from variety of sources.” OKI in particular needs to know which tugs and what type of freight is transiting the region, when it is coming, and which of these cargoes might be an import (coming into the region from other domestic sources). The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) wanted verification tools.
The solution involved the barter of three AIS antennas for access to Genscape’s Strong Network. The local RAVEN911 (Regional Asset Verification & Emergency Network), an internet based mapping system developed from the perspective of an emergency operator utilizing exemplary technical expertise, and the latest in GIS computer technology, needed to pool data to anticipate river bottlenecks. The ultimate goal included such tasks as controlling traffic and promoting safety zones during local events such as ‘Riverfest,’ which might take place in close proximity to commercial traffic also transiting the region.
Access to a common data set is, for OKI and RAVEN911, most important. And, that means real time data. “Now, with Netscape, we have real time quality data,” said Shuey. In a similar way, Genscape provides logistics INTEL for barge operators, in ways such as timing, price of freight, and the question of time of arrival vs. today’s freight price.
The new OKI project also involves looking back at historical vessel tracks in the interests of local and public safety. They want to encourage recreational use, but at the same time avoid interference with commerce and/or putting recreational users at risk. This might involve creating what OKI characterizes as a “commercial marine activity zone.” OKI is even developing an APP specifically designed for boaters to keep them out of trouble. Another APP, this one intended to provide the number of barges in an area, and notice of casualties to area stakeholders and first responders, is also being developed. According to Shuey, OKI is working with the U.S. Coast Guard and other stakeholders on the project. Shuey adds, “The Coast Guard is excited about it.”
Commercial Applications: Information is Power
For traders and analysts, Genscape’s comprehensive AIS network offers unrivaled insights into the opaque inland-waterways trade with the finest possible level of granularity, not available elsewhere. This empowers customers to identify patterns associated with routine operations, so that they have real-time indications of potential market opportunities when vessels deviate from regular routes, experience delays, or exhibit unusual activity.
For vessel owners and managers, Genscape’s network expansion provides the only source of current information on all vessels operating in U.S. coastal areas and inland waterways. Port service providers can expect the most reliable and up-to-date information available on expected vessels and estimated times of arrival.
With 500 million messages processed every day, Genscape tracks more than 144,000 vessels in near-real-time daily, with more than 98 percent of the data originating from a privately-owned and operated terrestrial AIS antenna network. Activity analysis of all of this allows Genscape to create compelling products on top of raw AIS data, such as tracking global commodity movement and storage to a high degree of accuracy.
Also on the commercial side, one new Genscape US market involves the import and export of LNG, something which Genscape covers closely. And, while AIS isn’t an exclusive tool for any one provider, Genscape’s terrestrial AIS coverage, as compared to satellite reception, involves almost real time information. In the greater logistics pool, time is money. In contrast, satellite-based AIS can involve as much as a few hours of delay. By September, Vessel Tracker will provide via APP, SMS and/or Text messaging, vessel type and cargoes to all subscribers.
In fact, Genscape delivers innovative solutions across a number of asset classes including, but not limited to Oil, Power, Natural Gas and LNG, Agriculture, Petrochemical and NGLs, Maritime, and Renewables. Genscape clients often gain important insights, improve risk management, and/or increase operational efficiency. Powered by the Vesseltracker AIS network, exceptional transparency and insight is delivered to customers, providing the market with a detailed view of the global commodity supply chain.
With 500 million messages processed every day, Genscape daily tracks more than 144,000 vessels via 2,800+ AIS antennas in near-real-time. Importantly, more than 98 percent of the data originates from a privately-owned and operated terrestrial AIS antenna network. Activity analysis of all of this allows Genscape to create compelling products on top of raw AIS data, such as tracking global commodity movement and storage to a high degree of accuracy. In the heartland, spanning the far flung and sometimes fragmented world of U.S. inland river commerce, the picture could get a lot clearer for stakeholders. Will you be one of them? www.genscape.com
This article first appeared in the June 2019 print edition of MarineNews magazine.
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Sea Lions and Heart Disease
A growing number of California sea lions rescued by The Marine Mammal Center with acute or chronic domoic acid toxicity also have heart problems. By implanting EKG loop recorders into sea lion patients, the Center's researchers will gain a better understanding of the relationship between these two health issues.
Veterinarians from The Marine Mammal Center prepare to sedate "BBQ", a California sea lion patient, before she receives an EKG loop recorder.
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"Chance" and "BBQ" are just two of about 28 California sea lions admitted to The Marine Mammal Center between January and July 2010 suffering from a neurotoxin that affects their brains, and in many cases, can be fatal. This neurotoxin is known as domoic acid toxicity and is produced by several types of marine algae that eventually enter into the marine food chain.
Chance and BBQ have consumed enough domoic acid to have caused permanent damage to their brains which could result in debilitating seizures or heart attacks if they were out in the wild. While the prognosis for these animals is not good, researchers at the Center are using the opportunity to study the relationship between the neurotoxin and heart lesions while these patients are under medical care. Researchers implanted EKG (electrocardiography) loop recorders into each sea lion, in order to detect rhythm disturbances in the heart that could be fatal. This information is valuable and can help prevent the suffering of countless other animals that are rescued and exhibiting signs of acute or chronic domoic acid toxicity.
Dr. Vanessa Fravel of The Marine Mammal Center places a small EKG loop recorder into a California sea lion patient suffering from domoic acid toxicity.
The life threatening aspects of this disease are the sequel to uncontrolled seizures; hyperthermia if a sea lion is on a beach in the hot sun, aspiration and drowning, or secondary pneumonia. It may be hard to know that these animals might die, but, it is comforting to know that they will not get turned loose to suffer at sea and that the tremendous knowledge gained from them will help researchers continue to investigate a better understanding of this uniquely aquatic toxin that is itself a potential marker of ocean health.
Click here to read a science paper about this topic co-authored by The Marine Mammal Center.
Chance rests in her pen after her EKG loop recorder surgery.
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Who are Chance and BBQ?
BBQ is a female California sea lion that was rescued on June 25, 2010 at New Brighton Beach in Santa Cruz County. She was thin and lethargic. When rescuers from the Center arrived, they saw that good-intentioned people were pouring water on her. At the Center, veterinarians diagnosed her with chronic domoic acid toxicity. Learn what to do when you come across a marine mammal that appears to be ill or injured by click here.
Chance is a female California sea lion that was rescued on July 8, 2010 at Oceano Dunes in San Luis Obispo County. She too was thin and lethargic and didn't react when approached by people on the beach. Her working diagnosis is acute domoic acid toxicity.
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Snapchat tests deep linking, lead gen ads
Snapchat is testing allowing marketers to deep link within ads to send ad viewers out of the app as well as a demand generation option with ads including an auto-fill feature for lead gen forms, according to Adweek.
The auto-fill option is particularly valuable because filling out forms on mobile devices with little screen real estate can be tricky for ad viewers. To protect users’ privacy, Snapchat has ad viewers opt into seeing the option every time there is a form after being presented with the first auto-fill form.
With deep linking, Snapchat users can swipe up and tap a link in Snap Ads to leave the app for another app or a webpage such as a product page in an e-commerce app.
Snapchat has been very active in rolling out new advertising formats and options for marketers looking to reach its active, younger-skewing audience, and these two tests are arguably the most marketer-friendly ad options yet. Allowing for deep linking gives marketers much more control over the messaging and communication after getting that initial conversion by enabling users to easily click to their own digital property. And for mobile users, auto-fill lead gen forms are almost a necessity to make the process as easy as possible on the small screen.
With Snap Inc., Snapchat's parent, expected to make an initial public offering of its stock in the near future, the moves can be viewed as an attempt to shore up the platform's monetization strategy and position it for further growth, characteristics that investors will be looking for when deciding to purchase stock. Snapchat is likely to invest a portion of the money raised from the IPO to build out its marketing offerings even further.
It's interesting that Snapchat is actively increasing its lead generation advertising options — something that Facebook began offering in 2015 — as the news arrives just as Twitter is dropping its lead gen campaigns. Last month, the micro-blogging platform said it was ending lead generation campaigns on Feb. 1 when it will be no longer possible to create those campaigns although marketer can still view, edit and delete existing campaigns. Twitter will also remove the ability to create or edit lead gen cards at the same time and marketers can view existing cards through March 1.
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Mail on Sunday ad chief promoted to top role at Evening Standard
By Marketing Week 16 Mar 2000 12:00 am
The Mail on Sunday’s advertisement director Sally de la Bedoyere has been promoted to managing director of Associated Newspapers’ Evening Standard, following the announcement that the previous incumbent Kevin Beatty is to head the publishers new media arm.
Beatty replaces Martin Dunn as managing director of Associated New Media. Dunn will set up an Internet-related company funded by Associated’s holding company Daily Mail & General Trust group (DMGT).
Metro deputy managing director Mike Anderson becomes managing director and will take on full responsibility for the free title from Beatty.
Evening Standard advertisement director Sue Dear will take on Bedoyere’s role at the Mail on Sunday, reuniting her with Mike Ironside, managing director of the Mail on Sunday and former Standard managing director
The new company headed by Dunn, will be called Front of Mind. It will concentrate on developing services for digital TV, mobile phones and the Net.
Dunn says: “The company will develop new concepts for Net, mobile phones and digital TV and take them to the point of launch when DMGT will consider financing them wholly or partly.
“We will also be talking to the various technological companies about their requirements.”
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MISSION'S VISIT TO CAMERIMAGE 2018 WAS NOTHING SHORT OF SPECTACULAR
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Every November, cinematographers from all over the world converge on Bydgoszcz, a small city in Poland for the Camerimage International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, founded by Marek Zydowicz and Kazimierz Partuki in 1992. Bydoszcz has been the home of the festival since 2010; it began in Toru’n, relocating to Lód’z (home of Poland’s film school) in 2000. And now it might move again.
Cinematographers are joined by camera and equipment manufacturers, rental companies, film students and cinephiles. Mission’s team was excited to head to the Festival again, especially as we were a sponsor for the first time this year, meaning that our trailer would be playing before every screening at the Opera Nova, the main festival screening location.
And we took a risk by hosting a happy hour – well actually it was 4 hours – every evening before the main parties began. The happy hour was at an amazing wine bar called Karafka (Polish for carafe…). The location was stunning, the food was incredible, even if sometimes it was a little hard to tell what we were eating, and most importantly, we got the opportunity to mingle with clients, cinematographers and friends over a glass or two of great wine.
From discussions about colour science with Charles Poynton PhD, to hanging out with one of our favourite clients, Angus Hudson BSC, to discussing workflows with Henning Radlein from ARRI, the wine bar proved to be a great way for us to continue existing relationships and form some new ones. Word spread, and by the middle of the week, the place was packed.
We saw some great panels – a highlight was the “Any Questions” panel, sponsored by ARRI and moderated by Oliver Stapleton BSC (The Cider House Rules). It featured a wide ranging and fascinating discussion between cinematographers Philippe Rousselot ASC (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), Ed Lachman ASC (Carol), Seamus McGarvey BSC ASC (Nocturnal Animals), Dick Pope BSC (Mr. Turner) and Amy Vincent ASC (Eve’s Bayou) plus production designer David Gropman (Life of Pi). Audience members were able to email questions prior to the panel. Topics ranged from how to decide which script to accept to how best to learn about lighting to the relationship between the cinematographer and the production designer. The auditorium was packed with attendees (including cinematographers Nancy Schreiber ASC, Jendra Jarnagin and Geoff Boyle) who appreciated seeing this amazing group engaging with the audience and each other. Other panels included an IMAGO/ASC/Netflix seminar where members of Netflix’s post production team discussed their requirements with a panel of cinematographers (including our friend David Proctor) and the audience (which again included Geoff Boyle!) and an IMAGO panel on diversity and inclusion which featured female DOPs from around the world, including Rachel Morrison ASC, discussing the challenges of having a family and a life outside cinematography.
By the end of the festival, the Mission team was exhausted but elated. And ready to head back next year, wherever the venue is (we’re hoping it stays in Bydgoszcz so we can make our happy hour a tradition at Karafka).
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https://doi.org/10.1051/mmnp/20138510
Math. Model. Nat. Phenom. Vol. 8, No. 5, 2013, pp. 155-172
Dynamical Features in a Slow-fast Piecewise Linear Hamiltonian System
A. Kazakov1, N. Kulagin2 and L. Lerman1⋆
1 Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia
2 The State University of Management, Moscow, Russia
⋆ Corresponding author. E-mail: lermanl@mm.unn.ru
We demonstrate that a piecewise linear slow-fast Hamiltonian system with an equilibrium of the saddle-center type can have a sequence of small parameter values for which a one-round homoclinic orbit to this equilibrium exists. This contrasts with the well-known findings by Amick and McLeod and others that solutions of such type do not exist in analytic Hamiltonian systems, and that the separatrices are split by the exponentially small quantity. We also discuss existence of homoclinic trajectories to small periodic orbits of the Lyapunov family as well as symmetric periodic orbits near the homoclinic connection. Our further result, illustrated by simulations, concerns the complicated structure of orbits related to passage through a non-smooth bifurcation of a periodic orbit.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 34A36 / 34C23 / 34C37 / 34C28 / 34E15 / 70K70 / 74H65
Key words: slow-fast system / Hamiltonian / piecewise linear / homoclinic / periodic / nonsmooth bifurcation
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Complex Dynamics in Predator-prey Models with Nonmonotonic Functional Response and Harvesting
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Home MMO News Neverwinter Goes Live On XBox One
Neverwinter Goes Live On XBox One
Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment have unleashed the free to play world of Neverwinter on the XBox One today. XBox Live Gold members will be able to download the game and play as soon as they’re finished reading this article if they want to, but Silver members shouldn’t feel TOTALLY left out.
XBox Live Silver (free) members can download Neverwinter and give the MMORPG a try between now and April 2nd, but after that date if you want to keep playing you’ll have to pay and upgrade your XBox Live membership to Gold status.
The console version of Neverwinter comes with all of the updates up through the Tyranny of Dragons update which includes the Scourge Warlock class. The Xbox One version of Neverwinter will also utilize console features including friends list integration and optimized controls to easily transition the MMORPG experience from PC to console.
“Neverwinter represents Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic’s entrance and dedication to the console market,” said Bryan Huang, CEO for Perfect World Entertainment. “Our development team has worked relentlessly to ensure that the Neverwinter experience lives up to console player’s expectations for a high-quality free-to-play MMORPG. We’re excited to welcome players to the Forgotten Realms and continue to build on their experience as we release updates throughout the year.”
You can get more information about the XBox One official launch on the Neverwinter website.
Mike "Magicman" Byrne has been a part of the MMOBomb family for years and serves as the site's current Editor-in-Chief. His love for MMOs and gaming in general has led him to covering games for numerous websites including Gamebreaker TV and XIV Nation where he proudly displays his fanboy flag for FFXIV:ARR.
hokka April 1, 2015 at 1:55 am
no need for trash it, the game is really nice on xbox one so yea, if yea cant buy gold suck it. less people begin and bothering, also we can try evading gold seller but that will always happens
Yokki April 3, 2015 at 6:00 pm
they never did anything about the gold sellers spam on pc.
aedn March 31, 2015 at 8:35 pm
still need xbox gold to play it otherwise theres a popup, or is there a way to get rid of it without gold??
zero March 31, 2015 at 7:16 pm
All shit like this generic asian crap should go to consoles.
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2019 BMW C400 X
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A refreshing alternative
Inigo S. Roces, Kelvin Christian Go May 24, 2019 18:53
Make:BMW
Model:C400 X
Engine:350cc single cylinder, liquid cooled, 4 valve SOHC
Transmission:CVT
Max Power:34 PS @ 7,500 rpm
Max Torque:35 Nm @ 6,000 rpm
Frame:Tubular steel
Wheelbase:1,565 mm
Seat Height:775 mm
FR Suspension:35 mm fork
RR Suspension:Adjustable preload twin shock swingarm
FR Brake:Dual disc with ABS
RR Brake:Single disc with ABS
Wet Weight:204 kg
Fuel Capacity:12.8 liters
Price as Tested:₱ 475,000
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BMW may be new to the scooter market, but its entry is well worth taking note of. The C400X is the first of what could be a whole line of mid-size scooters to come. Based on our short time with the bike, it's something to look forward to.
The C400X isn't exactly BMW's first relatively small scooter. A decade ago, BMW used to sell a small 200cc scooter with its own roof, called the C1. Since that bizarre model, BMW has avoided the segment for a while, until its recent return with the C600, manufactured by Bertone, with engines sourced from Kymco. The C400X, by contrast, was designed from a blank slate by BMW, with the engine developed in-house. It may be manufactured by Loncin Motors in China, but is 100% BMW.
This mid-size scooter was designed to appeal to the many fans of the segment in Europe and compete against maxi-scooter favorites like the Yamaha TMax, Suzuki Burgman, and Kymco Xciting.
The C400X has refreshingly boxy and angular design, compared to its competitors that are typically round and bulbous. It takes a page from its off-roading siblings, the F and R GS's by integrating a distinctive asymmetric headlight.
The LED headlight also has the same Y-shaped daytime running lamp as the R1250 GS. A chunky swingarm and exhaust make it a bit wide at the rear. It all comes together to make the bike look high-tech and robust in an almost Gundam kind of way.
Powering it is a 350cc liquid-cooled, single cylinder engine. This 4 valve SOHC unit produces 34 PS at 7,500 rpm and 35 Nm at 6,000 rpm. It delivers power to the rear wheels via a CVT. BMW has also fitted a unique bearing system on the swingarm that eliminates vibration on the seat. Quite surprisingly, the engine vibration is still transferred well to the handlebar, giving you tactile feedback on the throttle.
It's held aloft by a conventional fork in front and twin shocks with adjustable pre-load in the rear. Bringing it to a stop are a set of twin cross-drilled discs in front and a single cross-drilled disc in the rear, governed by ABS. There's also automatic stability control (ASC).
The handlebars feature very crisp switches. You'll find controls for flashers and hazard lights on the left handlebar. After sharp turns, the turn signal even turns off by itself. Unfortunately, you can see some cutout outlines where more buttons should be. It would be nice if it were just a flush piece that doesn't remind you that you bought the base model.
Perhaps the best part is the amount of storage. There are two glove compartments on the front shield (one large enough to fit an iPhone X Plus or Note 9). Under the seat is even more storage space. In its regular configuration, it can store two open face helmets.
The Flexcase compartment in the rear can expand to fit a full-face helmet. Take note that the bike will not start until the expanded compartment is retracted. The underside of the seat itself has elastic bands that can hold in tools and relevant documents.
Our unit was the base model (PhP475,000) with a standard LCD screen. It shows relevant info on a 6.5-inch monochrome LCD screen. It shows trips, fuel consumption, range and various other details. ABS and ASC can also be turned off in the menu.
The premium variant (PhP555,000) with keyless start, a full color LCD screen, navigation, and phone connectivity is PhP80,000 more. Both come with BMW's industry-leading 5-year warranty.
Nonetheless, the basic package is already quite appealing. The bike itself is very accessible, even to riders who are short of stature, thanks to the low seat height. It's quite heavy, tipping the scales at 204 kg., particularly when walking the bike. It gets much easier to maneuver once you get rolling.
Like I mentioned earlier, you don't feel any vibration on the seat, but get good feedback on the throttle. The exhaust note at low speeds is not so pleasant, but begins to sound more like an F650 GS the faster you go. Twist the throttle and the power comes instantly. It's got some serious neck-snapping acceleration, and continues pulling well into triple digits speeds. BMW says its top speed is 140 km/h, but it feels like it can easily do more. The brakes are very powerful and ABS kicks in very reliably and unobtrusively.
Around the city, the C400X is great in heavy traffic despite its perceived width. I had no trouble squeezing in between vehicles at stoplights to get to the front. At stoplights, the bike attracted a lot of attention, and I'd get questions and compliments at practically every intersection.
Longer rides
It's also got very enjoyable handling. Unlike most scooters, this C400X has dynamics similar to a big bike. Countersteer and you'll find it will eagerly lean in. It's also easy to keep it leaned in through rough patches of road. It's quite enjoyable to ride out of town, thanks to the very palpable and responsive power and surprising stability.
Its 12.8 liter fuel tank should be good for a range of about 350 kilometers. Expect an average of 26 km/l in the city in heavy traffic and even better fuel economy on the highway.
We only have minor complaints, like the lack of a lockable glove box, no power outlet, and the lack of a keyless start system. Many of these, of course, are available in the higher end model, but for a staggering PhP80,000 more.
As it is, the C400X is a very enjoyable scooter that will perform well both in the city or out of town. The starting price of PhP475,000 is quite a lot compared to its competition, but it's got a leg up in terms of performance, comfort, stability and its very long 5-year warranty. If you have the extra cash, the more expensive Connectivity model is highly recommended.
It will be tough to win over fans of the more affordable Japanese, Taiwanese, or even Italian maxi-scooters with that price tag. However, for current BMW bike owners that need a more practical daily bike, this is the perfect fit.
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Megaworld allocates P5-B to build 10 office towers in Iloilo Business Park by 2021
Property giant seen to generate around 30,000 jobs in the IT-BPO sector in five to seven years
Iloilo City, Philippines, April 4, 2014 – Megaworld, the country’s leading property developer and no. 1 office developer and landlord, will build 10 office towers in the 72-hectare Iloilo Business Park by 2021. The office towers will provide a total of about 100,000 square meters of office space inventory for the biggest cyberpark in Western Visayas, generating approximately 30,000 jobs in the Information Technology-Business Process Outsourcing (IT-BPO) sector.
“Iloilo Business Park is positioned to be Western Visayas’ biggest cyberpark and a major hub for IT-BPO outside of Metro Manila. More and more BPO companies have already expressed strong interest to set up operations in Iloilo Business Park. Most of them are first-time locators,” says Jericho P. Go, first vice president, Megaworld.
Megaworld is allocating P5-billion for the office towers in Iloilo Business Park.
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As part of the first phase at the IT-BPO cluster of the township, three office towers are set to be operational within this year – One Global Center, Two Global Center, and the Richmonde Tower.
Colorado-based StarTek, Inc., one of the leading BPOs in the country, with call centers located throughout the US, Latin America, Canada, Honduras, and Costa Rica, will be the first company to set up operations in Two Global Center tower by August this year. The four-storey tower has a total of 9,000 square meters of office spaces that could accommodate around 2,600 workers.
“With StarTek coming in to jumpstart our cyberpark operations, we see Iloilo City rising fast to become a major BPO hub in the region,” declares Go.
Megaworld is currently the country’s office space developer with around 27 corporate office towers across the country – 11 in Eastwood City, 14 in McKinley Hill, 1 in Newport City, and 1 in The Mactan Newtown in Lapu Lapu City, Cebu. Ten more office towers are expected to be completed this year in Uptown Bonifacio, The Mactan Newtown, Iloilo Business Park and McKinley Hill.
Megaworld recently announced that it is expanding its office space inventory to 712,000 square meters this year, cementing its leadership as the Philippines’ no. 1 office developer and landlord.
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The Most Significant, Defining Featured Of Personality Disorders: Interpersonal Difficulties
Problems with interpersonal relationships are common to all personality disorders. Experts consider these interpersonal difficulties to be the most significant and defining feature that all personality disorders share.
Quite logically, the three defining features described above (i.e., problems with thinking, emotional regulation, and impulse regulation) cause significant interpersonal difficulties. These problematic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors converge to create a very negative impact on people's ability to fulfill social roles, and their ability to form and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships.
Previously, we suggested two core features of personality disorder, affective (emotional) regulation and impulse regulation, could be understood along a single continuum of regulation. At one pole of this regulation continuum is extreme over-regulation (of emotion and/or impulsivity).At the other pole is extreme under-regulation (of emotion and/or impulsivity). In other words, there is a single dimension of regulation ranging from very high to very low, with personality disorders falling at each end of the continuum, and healthy personalities falling somewhere in the middle of these two extremes.
However, the interpersonal problems associated with personality disorders are a bit different. Instead of a single dimension, some experts believe that two dimensions are necessary to properly describe these interpersonal problems. These two dimensions are called the need for power and the need for relationship and are understood to be at right angles to one another (orthogonal), just like the X and Y axes on a graph. On the vertical Y axis is the need-for-power dimension ranging from high need-for-power (dominance) to low need-for-power (submission). On the X axis is the need-for-relationship dimension ranging from high need for relationship (affiliation) to low need for relationship (detachment).
Most of the personality disorders can be placed into one of the four quadrants that are created by the intersecting lines of these X and Y axes. Some personality disorders, such as the Borderline Disorder, are considered to bounce back and forth between two quadrants (see diagram A). In contrast, healthy personalities exhibit a full range of interpersonal approaches and will generally adjust their manner of relating to others based on the person, the type of relationship, the situation, and the circumstances. Thus, they can comfortably interact in each of the four quadrants and modify their interpersonal style as needed. For instance, it's probably best to interact on the slightly deferential, submissive side of things when we interact with our boss, but probably best to operate on the more dominant side when parenting our children. Once again we see that healthy personalities are distinguished by flexibility; in this case, interpersonal flexibility.
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Flexibility: The Key to a Healthy Personality
Interpersonal Difficulties Continued
Kernberg’s Dimensional Approach: An Alternative Classification System
Medications for Treating Personality Disorder
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Other Explanations of Personality Disorders: Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB)
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Merrill Corporation Wins 2019 Bronze Stevie® Award for Customer Service
ST. PAUL, MINN. – <February 25, 2019> – Merrill Corporation, www.merrillcorp.com, the premier technology provider for M&A professionals around the world, has been presented with a 2019 Bronze Stevie® Award for Customer Service Department of the Year - Financial Services – for 100 or More Employees.
“We are very proud of our service organization and this this award reflects our global team’s hard work,” said Deven Lindemann, Merrill Executive Vice President, Client Services, who accepted the award on behalf of the company at a ceremony for the 13th annual awards in Las Vegas on Feb 22. “Our clients can contact us at any time and receive a real-time response and expert service. This is important because companies are moving faster than ever before and our clients rely on us to make sure the right deal information is shared with the right people at the right time.”
Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service are considered the world's top honors for customer service, contact center, business development, and sales professionals. More than 2,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry, in 45 nations, were evaluated in this year’s competition. Finalists were determined by the average scores of more than 150 professionals worldwide, working in seven specialized judging committees. Entries were considered in 93 categories for customer service and contact center achievements, including Contact Center of the Year, Award for Innovation in Customer Service, and Customer Service Department of the Year.
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Steve McQueen’s Wife Pushes for Asbestos Ban
Written byTara Strandon June 20, 2017
Barbara Minty McQueen, wife of the late actor and mesothelioma victim Steve McQueen, continues to create awareness and fight for an asbestos ban in the name of her film icon husband’s legacy. Steve McQueen died of mesothelioma cancer at 50 years old.
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Steve McQueen grew up in Indiana, and at one point during his service in the U.S. Navy, he met Barbara Minty and ran off with her. When the tryst was discovered, he was made to scrub the inside of a submarine from top to bottom. It’s believed that’s when the asbestos exposure occurred with flakes flying everywhere as he cleaned.
Asbestos doesn’t only affect blue-collar workers. Housewives, Congressmen, movie stars, rock stars, and everyone else can be exposed. Even Hollywood film industry professionals have fallen victim to mesothelioma. Fake snow, special effect boards, piping, and curtains containing asbestos were used on numerous sets throughout history.
Barbara McQueen is a presenter at the 2017 Harvest America Festival to be held in the University of Phoenix stadium. Almost 63,000 people will be in attendance, and the speech will be broadcast to millions of viewers around the world.
According to Barbara McQueen, “Steve once said, ‘When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.’” That’s why she’s also written a new book titled Steve McQueen: the Salvation of an American Icon with Marshal Terrill, coauthor of Barbara McQueen’s first book, and Greg Laurie, founder of the Harvest Christian Fellowship.
Barbara McQueen has also published Steve McQueen: The Last Mile. It discusses the couples’ three-and-a-half-year relationship before he passed.
The revised edition of the book includes a page for mesothelioma information and talks about the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization to share more on the deadly effects of asbestos. Many international conference attendees and even Michelle Obama have been presented with the book.
Asbestos is still not banned in the U.S. American businesses legally import, use, and sell both raw asbestos and products made with it today. Hundreds of thousands of pounds enter the country each year, according to the EWA Action Fund.
“I think he would think that’s wonderful. That he could use his death, his celebrity, for something to help people open their eyes,” said Barbara McQueen. “I think he’d be proud to be a part of it.”
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The 2017-2018 is now in full swing! Here is a glimpse into the beginning of the school year at Archbishop Molloy. Meeting teachers, gathering workbooks, finding lockers, class liturgies and we can forget an exciting Freshman Field Day with the Class of 2021!
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Rating Action: Moody's assigns definitive credit ratings to RMBS Notes issued by Holmes Master Issuer plc Series 2018-2
Announcement: Moody's: Older interest-only mortgage borrowers in the UK face biggest refinancing risk
Announcement: Moody's: Moderate interest rate rises to have limited effect on UK mortgage borrowers but those in Northern Ireland, East Midlands, East Anglia and South West will fare worst
Rating Action: Moody's assigns definitive credit ratings to RMBS notes issued by Holmes Master Issuer Series 2016-1
Moody's: No Rating impact following amendments to Holmes Master Issuer
London, 18 December 2014 -- Moody's Investors Service has determined that the proposed amendments (the "Amendments"), will not, in and of themselves and at this time, result in a downgrade or withdrawal of the current ratings of the notes (the "Notes") issued by Holmes Master Issuer PLC (the "Issuer"). Moody's opinion addresses only the credit impact of the Amendments, and Moody's is not expressing any opinion as to whether the Amendments have, or could have other, non-credit related effects that may have a detrimental impact on the interests of note holders and/or counterparties.
The main components to the Amendments were as follows:
• The sample audit of trust property by independent auditors will take place should Santander UK PLC (A2/P-1) be rated below A3 rating rather than below P-1;
• Ability to repurchase loans which are not the borrowers' main residence (up to 1% at time of repurchase) which do not comply with liquidity coverage requirement paragraph 2(g)(i) of Article 13 (Level 2B securitisations) of the Commission Delegated Regulation with regard to the Liquidity Coverage Requirement;
• The Mortgage Sale Agreement has been updated to provide that, upon a repurchase of loans from the trust, the related security will be automatically released; and
• The prospectus has been updated for regulatory and other developments.
Moody's considers the Amendments, would not, in and of themselves and at this time, result in a downgrade or withdrawal of the current ratings of the Notes issued by the Issuer.
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Factory Closing Makes Tort Reform A Burning Issue
On July 22, 2012 an editorial in the Wall Street Journal entitled “The Tort Bar Burns On” was subtitled “A case in modern robbery: Targeting the red plastic gas can.” The next day, Fox Business published a piece entitled “Fueling Lawsuit Abuse,” in which John Stossel concluded that “more Americans will store gasoline in less convenient and much less safe containers.” The day after that, Norm Van Ness, the chief meteorologist at Toledo’s WNWO-TV, published a column entitled “Your big red gas can just got harder to find thanks to ‘consumer abuse.’”
At least Van Ness was honest enough to file his work under “Tort Reform,” since the story that these three articles and many more like them center around is the upcoming closing of the Miami, Oklahoma factory for Blitz USA. If you were to take the company at its word, it has been forced to close its doors on July 31 because of the cost of “frivolous lawsuits.” In numerous media outlets, Blitz has suggested that this litigation is the result of consumers pouring gasoline on open fires.
Unfortunately, much like the infamous 1994 hot coffee lawsuit Stella Liebeck filed against McDonald’s, business groups like the US Chamber of Commerce (USCC) are aggressively spinning the Blitz story into one where an innocent company has been bankrupted by dishonest, foolish consumers who were harmed only because of their own carelessness. As usual, there is a lot more to this story than the USCC wants people to know about.
The news program “Dan Rather Reports” first covered the Blitz lawsuits in 2008, and three years later, Rather spoke with a whistleblower who was laid off after 17 years at the Oklahoma factory. William Bailey told Rather that he refused a “generous pension package when he learned he would have to sign a confidentiality agreement.” He has testified that Blitz was cutting corners, citing consumers “misusing” the gas cans as being the cause for injuries and deaths. “The quality test forms were basically printed out with the results already recorded on them,” Bailey said.
As the video below from Rather’s 2008 report demonstrates, countless catastrophes could have been avoided if Blitz had simply installed a five-cent part called a “flame arrestor” (WARNING: Readers who may be uncomfortable viewing images of burn injuries should fast-forward this video to the 1:57 mark on the toolbar at the bottom of the player):
“The flame arrestor’s been proven,” Bailey told Rather. “They just need to figure out what type of flame arrestor will work on their can- or design their own flame arrestor and put it on the can. That just needs to start today.”
Insisting that all of these people hurt by Blitz gas cans were only injured because they poured gasoline onto an open flame is stunningly dishonest, and we will talk about why when we discuss one of these victims in our next post. Negligent companies need to be held accountable when they manufacture products that hurt consumers. You can learn more about burn injuries at our website, but you should know that you may be entitled to compensation if you have sustained serious injuries as a result of a defective or dangerous product. You can contact our firm at (513) 494-6941 or fill out the form on this page to let us review your case.
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State of the art technology designed to track fitness progress was trialled by Middleton Hall residents when they took up a series of health challenges.
Eighteen residents at Middleton Hall Retirement Village, took part in walking, cycling and aqua walking challenges while using an innovative new mobile app developed by London-based de Salve, owned by entrepreneurs Dr Dylan Jenkins and Neil Bunting.
The event was part of Move Week, a European wide initiative to promote the benefits of being active. Each of the residents were allocated wristbands registered to them with a unique ID so that when the band was swiped on a phone, it logged their progress and a table of results could be produced.
Using the same technology as contactless credit cards, it meant the residents could track their achievements throughout the day. The technology has already been piloted in schools across the UK but Middleton Hall thought it would also be great for their residents.
Neil, a director at de Salve, said: “It’s about finding a way to motivate people who may not necessarily be into sport and getting them active. Working with the residents has been about teamwork and the social aspect of supporting each other. It’s been a fantastic day with great results.”
The event ties in with Middleton Hall’s Living Well philosophy, which encourages residents to enjoy maximum health and wellbeing.
Resident Eileen Davey, 81, who had not been in the pool for 12 months following a hip operation won a prize for best effort. She found herself walking two miles around the grounds followed by swimming 26 lengths in the pool.
Afterwards she said proudly: “The challenge got me back in the pool and I’m planning to go swimming regularly in the spa pool from now on. I was completely shocked to get a prize but I’m thrilled.”
Fellow resident and overall winner, Audrey Perry, 85, said: “The great thing was being able to walk at my own pace. You can do as much or as little as you can. I’m very competitive and felt better than ever afterwards.”
The day ended with a drinks reception and prize presentation by Middleton Hall’s managing director Jeremy Walford, director Lesley Henderson and Neil Bunting.
Jeremy Walford said: “It was a really interesting experiment in that every single person did more than they normally would when they used the technology, and there was a sense that they were competing with themselves. The residents loved tracking their progress and also they were keen to encourage and support each other. We are planning to introduce this new technology permanently at Middleton Hall in 2015.”
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To health and happiness
The Employee Wellness Committee has curated and collected campus opportunities focused on fun, friends and fitness.
By Diane Yee
The Employee Wellness Committee regularly offers on-campus events, activities and programs focused on helping you have happier, healthier work experiences.
Read on to see what’s happening on campus, and to share or suggest new wellness opportunities please email Diane Yee.
Office Stretching Workshop
Wednesday, 12:30-1 p.m., Plaza 211
Join Beth Sandlin, assistant director of Educational Services for the Health Center at Auraria, in this 30-minute workshop to learn practical stretches you can incorporate into your workday.
Join colleagues for 20-minute walks around campus. All walking levels are welcome. Meet by the post-office box in the front (west side) of the Tivoli on Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m. or Fridays at 2 p.m. Contact Lisken Hays.
Friday Fundays
Escape the office with Friday Funday events at noon on the West Court in the PE Building. No experience/skill necessary.
2/22 - Badminton*
3/22 - Basketball/shooting games
4/12 - Field games (hoop hop showdown, egg on a spoon, ladder golf, cornhole, Spikeball, Kan Jam, Kubb)
4/26 - Volleyball
5/3 - Badminton*
* badminton takes place on the East Court and is also offered Thursdays from noon-1 p.m. with Professor David Klein.
Faculty and staff can also access locker rooms and showers. Stop by the Campus Recreation front desk to get your card encoded. For questions/comments, contact Diane Yee.
Healthy Potluck
Attend the first-ever Healthy Potluck. Bring a healthy dish and share a tasty meal with new/old friends from across the campus.
JSSB 400
Contact Tiffany Bathrick
Mindful Breaks Workshop
Join Beth Sandlin to learn how to reduce stress and increase well-being and balance.
West Classroom 262
March 13, 12:30-1:20 p.m.
Connect with fellow MSU Denver faculty and staff by creating and/or sharing events on this page to support or mingle with fellow Roadrunners.
Pilates, yoga and Zumba classes improve health and fitness from the inside out and are offered at no charge to the Auraria Campus community.
Flow Yoga 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Power Yoga 11-11:50 p.m.
Pilates 12:30-1:20 p.m.
Energize Yoga 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Zumba 5:15-6:15 p.m.
Faculty and staff can join Campus Recreation for just $50 per semester, and partners can join for just $60 per semester. Membership includes access to the fitness center and loft, group fitness, open recreation, intramural sports, outdoor pursuits, gear rentals and more. For more information, email CampusRec@msudenver.edu.
Campus Recreation offers personal training with certified trainers for just $13-24 per one-hour session, and Exercise Science students offer seven training sessions for just $75. For more information, contact Louie Morphew.
The Health Center at Auraria offers free nutrition consultations with registered dietitian nutritionists who can provide recommendations and answer questions whether you are trying to manage a chronic condition, find a healthy weight or optimize athletic performance.
Healthy Cookbook
We are gathering favorite healthy recipes from MSU Denver Faculty and Staff. To participate or for questions/comments, contact Kyle Garrity.
Lunch Buddies allows employees to grow their MSU Denver community. Each month, participants are paired with someone from a different department for a lunchtime chat. For questions/comments, contact Armando Jaquez.
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Home Tech MIDI A Down Scaled Classic: The Casio CZ101
A Down Scaled Classic: The Casio CZ101
By Samantha Lane
MUSIC SKANNER SCORE
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Classic 80's synth sounds.
Extensive programming capabilities.
Very hard to find in an untarnished condition.
Might be difficult to operate in today’s world.
LEGENDARY SYNTH
This is a legendary entry level miniature synth that was made popular back in the 80s, due to it being the first affordable polyphonic synthesizer with programing capabilities. This synthesizer might be difficult to program and operate today, but the tones it offers bring us right back to the 80s.
Casio is one of those manufacturers that make decent keyboards but that have everything you would need in a simple and intuitive package.
Their CZ1000 was their entry level model that has become somewhat popular thanks to its decent features and a good set of 8-stage envelope sections.
It has proven to be a formidable choice for many who didn’t want to commit to more advanced models like the CZ2000 and CZ 5000. This trust and good track record draws roots from another model that was first in the series.
Casio CZ101 is a miniature version of the CZ1000 that started the whole CZ lineup of synths. When it first appeared, it really changed the playing field in the industry.
Needless to say, it became extremely popular over a very short period of time. This vintage synth is regarded as one of the most important synths ever made, and is still in high demand to this day. Let us do a quick review.
What this old synth is capable of
When it was first released in 1984, CZ101 was a game changing synth. It brought some features that were exclusively seen in more expensive synths. Keep in mind that these devices were still very much pricey back in those days.
Especially since they were pioneering the whole new type of technology. CZ101 was the first synth to bring the features everyone wanted within a price range that was accessible to a large number of people.
Looking at it today, Casio CZ101 looks like your average vintage synth. There’s the keyboard section with 49 keys and four octaves, and a whole range of controls surrounding it. The keys weren’t full size, they were miniature.
However this didn’t impact the popularity of this synth as it sold in over 60,000 pieces. Aside from being cheap compared to other synths of that time, Casio CZ101 brought one more important innovation which is partially why it is considered legendary today.
It was the first fully programmable polyphonic synthesizer that didn’t require you to take a mortgage on your house. This allowed a whole lot of artists to access this feature for which they had to set aside a pretty big chunk of money before CZ101 appeared. This was a huge deal back then.
The 8-stage envelope design CZ1000 was known for first originated on the CZ101. Speaking of which, the Phase Distortion synthesis which this Casio was based around allowed the user to create some pretty interesting voices. It used eight wave types that you could choose, but programming anything wasn’t all that easy. Compared to what we have today, you could say that programming the CZ101 would be like trying to shape a preset in your DAW with a blind fold.
Aside from its core capabilities, CZ101 featured a whole array of analog effects. You had a very decent choice of different vibratos that all together functioned as a spartan LFO of sorts. There were only 16 presets available, although you had 16 additional slots to save your own creations. By our standards today, this nothing to write home about. However, back in the day having 16 presets and 16 additional memory slots was about as good as it got in that price range.
Judging the performance of this synth requires us to go back in mid ’80s. At the time, Casio CZ101 was considered to be among the most powerful entry level synths. Sure, there were some larger and more complex models that offered more in all areas of synthesis. However, this Casio gave you the necessary portability which made it so practical to use.
The presets that come with the synth were more than enough for a great majority of the users who decided to pick up a CZ101. The rest managed to meet their requirements by creating their own. Over time it was determined that percussion were something this synth was very good at delivering.
No matter how complicated it appears to us today, Casio CZ101 gave you that additional dimension of control that people back then longed for desperately. You definitely had to have solid knowledge of audio synthesis in order to use this synth to its fullest extent. Most of the people who got one of these fit that description.
You just have to appreciate the classic vintage synths, and this Casio is definitely one of the most notable ones. These are still around, and even though they were rendered obsolete a long time ago, owning one is a real blast. It is a rugged synth with still has a lot to offer.
What we don’t like
You can’t really critique a vintage synth. Whatever limited features CZ101 has, they were ground breaking at the time. The only thing we can say is that you will have to look hard to find one of these in a decent condition. Otherwise, Casio CZ101 is a pretty well rounded synth.
To sum up..
In a world where you can do just about anything on a laptop, it is good to pause and remember the legendary vintage synths that propelled the whole technology to a level where it is today. Casio CZ101 was a true pioneer of sound.
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Anime Review: Lovely Complex
Lovely Complex is another typical shoujo romcom anime for those anime-loving girls which just want to relax and enjoy a romantic yet amusing anime series.
Risa and Otani are always being laughed at as the comedy duo. Risa, a girl, is taller than the average girl, and Otani, a boy, is shorter than the average boy. The two are always bickering and even their teacher sees them as a comedy act. But as their friendship develops, so do Risa's feelings toward Otani.
I keep asking myself 'Why do I keep watching these shoujo romcoms?'. Short answer: depends on my mood. I try not to solely focus on one genre of anime and forget about the rest. Anyhow, on to the story of Lovely Complex. As the name does not suggest, this is one typical shoujo romcom anime with a slight twist. That is the girl is taller than the boy. This probably already rings many bells. How does a girl like a guy shorter than her? Well everything is practically answered as you watch throughout the anime. However, during the journey many misunderstandings and embarrassing moments appear and it adds to the enjoyment to the anime. If I was a girl, I probably would have enjoyed the anime a lot more. As a guy, it was more of a slight smirk and a convincing nod.
The art was plain and simply illustrated. The characters did not have much detail on them so you are always left staring at a blank face. On the other hand, the backgrounds and environments were good enough to justify the overall experience of watching the anime. I would say though, perhaps the anime was more focused on the development of the characters and output of the story that they lacked the visual appeal of the characters.
Sound was perfect and voice synchronization was spot on. The opening and ending themes were not that memorable so I would have to say it was pretty average. You may notice some nice music in some scenes but those occasions are quite rare. Overall, sound was not really important here.
The lack in detail and visual presentation of the characters made them difficult to like. Otani is probably the most clueless and airheaded guy ever in all the anime I have watched. It is just hilarious and frustrating watching Risa trying to get Otani to like her. Of course, lots of complications happen and that just adds more fun to it. In the end, the characters took a while to get used to. In the end, I found them rather generic.
Overall, it was rather enjoyable to watch even though its really meant for teenage girls. There are plenty of hilarious and embarrassing moments to enjoy and the conflicts between Risa and Otani is just entertaining.
It's your typical romcom anime with plenty of conflicts and misunderstandings.
Rather generic and plain. Took a while to get used to.
Good voice acting and theme songs were pretty average.
Rather generic and not really memorable. Risa and Otani is probably the only characters worth reminiscing about.
I probably would have enjoyed it even more if I was a girl.
Really depends on many factors if this anime will appeal to you. If you are a girl, likes comedy, romantic relationships, and slice of life, then this will definitely work for you.
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2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Reviews and Ratings
Sedan 4D S550 AWD 4dr Sdn S 550 4MATIC 4dr Sdn S 550 RWD 4dr Sdn S 63 AMG 4MATIC
I love this car! It performs flawlessly across every category. It provides endless hours of driving pleasure.
NADAguides Test Drive Team
For years, the Mercedes S-class has been one of the major automotive benchmarks in terms of design, luxury, quality, technology, performance, and reliability. Our 2014 S550 4Matic tester hit the mark in all of these categories, as it features modern, attractive lines; a spacious cabin, where diamond-stitched leather, wood trim, and machined aluminum vents and switches abound; and dual 12.3" screens that display digital gauges, navigation information, Intelligent Drive, etc. Acceleration is quick, handling is confident and composed, and reliability... well, this is a Mercedes-Benz after all!
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The Mercedes-Benz S-Class has been completely redesigned for the 2014 model year. The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class has a soft-spoken style but boasts technology unheard of when the previous S-Class arrived as a 2007 model.
Essentially, the new 2014 S-Class has more of everything. Leaving alone for a moment the sumptuous perforated-leather seats, the rear-seat legroom that would accommodate a stretched-out LeBron James, the illusion that the windshield actually seems to widen out toward the top, well, there's the extraordinary safety systems and sophisticated electronics built into this iconic automobile.
The 2014 S-Class deserves a doctorate as a study in automotive technology and safety features. It is stuffed with sensors, surrounded by cameras and radar, and it can sense rough roads, pedestrians and other cars in its path, predict collisions and initiate braking. Data are collected by a stereoscopic camera able to see a 3D view of the environment up to 50 meters ahead and sense the spatial position and movements of objects ahead of the vehicle.
Mercedes calls all of these sci-fy-ish systems Intelligent Drive. Some of the components are standard, such as Collision Prevent Assist and Magic Vision Control. Others, while others such as the Driver Assistance Package and Magic Body Control are options.
The latter is worth a special mention. While the standard S-Class receives a pretty good air suspension, Magic Body Control employs the stereo camera to detect irregularities in the road surface ahead, and to automatically adjust the hydraulic suspension damping to a softer mode in a fraction of a second. The system works at speeds of up to 80 MPH. Goodbye, bumps.
The curvaceous interior is welcoming to all occupants, with fine leather and threads and a wraparound sweep to the cockpit. This is no cabin to cozy up to, but this is no sports car either.
The 2014 S-Class arrives in the U.S. in its long-wheelbase iteration (124.6-inch wheelbase, 206.5-inch overall length), making it ideal for a chauffeur-driven sedan, where it's possible to stretch out in the expansive rear seat, and on the passenger's side to recline much as in the first-class cabin of an international jet.
The all-new S-Class begins in the U.S. market with the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S550 and S550 4MATIC and the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG 4MATIC.
The 2014 S550 and S550 4MATIC are propelled by a V8 that displaces 4.6 liters and outputs 455 horsepower at 5250 rpm and 516 pound-feet of torque from 1800 to 3500 rpm. Zero-to-60 acceleration performance is 4.8 seconds, according to the manufacturer. Top speed is limited to 130 mph. All 2014 S550 models come with a 7-speed automatic. The S550 uses rear-wheel drive, while the S550 4MATIC is all-wheel drive.
The 2014 S63 AMG 4MATIC is powered by a 5.5-liter V8 biturbo engine hand-built by Mercedes-AMG rated at 577 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque. All-wheel drive is standard as is a 7-speed AMG Speedshift sports transmission and an AMG ADAPTIVE sports suspension. The new S63 AMG is 220 pounds lighter than a comparable previous-generation version. This high-performance sedan is capable of 0-60 mph in a very quick 3.9 seconds, according to Mercedes-Benz USA.
Options are plentiful for those who wish to extend their car payments. How many makes offer heated armrests?
Competition in this autobahn-blaster segment is robust. There are the usual suspects from Germany, including the Audi A8 and the BMW 7 Series, but they lack the cachet of the Mercedes brand (although they maintain a fashionable cachets of their own). Lexus also presents an appealing luxe alternative with its top of the line LS series.
The all-new S-Class launches in the U.S. as the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S550, S550 4MATIC, and S63 AMG 4MATIC. All three are sedans. (The other 2014 S-Class variants are built on the previous-generation platform.)
The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S550 rear-wheel drive and S550 4MATIC four-wheel drive come with a 4.7-liter twin turbocharged V8 and 7-speed automatic transmission.
The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S550 ($92,900) comes standard with leather upholstery, heated front seats, the COMAND system with navigation, a panoramic sunroof, rearview camera, a complete LED lighting system. Technologies include Magic Vision control, Attention Assist, Pre-Safe, Adaptive Braking, Collision Prevention Assist, mbrace2, electronic trunk closer, soft-close doors.
The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S550 4MATIC ($95,900) includes all-wheel drive.
The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG 4MATIC ($139,500) is powered by a 5.5-liter V8 biturbo engine hand-built by Mercedes-AMG rated at 577 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque. All-wheel drive is standard as is a 7-speed AMG Speedshift sports transmission and an AMG ADAPTIVE sports suspension. The S63 AMG is equipped similarly to the other S-Class but also includes powered AMG sports seats in Nappa leather, Keyless Go remote starting, an AMG exhaust system, LED ambient lighting, and a Burmester audio system.
The dimensions of the all-new 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class are only a few millimeters different from the previous version, but this new one shaves off some bulk and has a more playful exterior demeanor. From the rear, the car presents a familiar, trapezoidal rear end, although it's busy where the rear spoiler collides with the stylized exhaust.
The front fascia is a cohesive sculptured design with a large, slatted grill and headlamps encased in the body fenders. Flared arches in the front fender melt into the bumper, and sharp character lines shape the side profile, an element called the dropping line, that defines part of Mercedes's current style language.
The rear windscreen cuts into the C-pillars, which have a powerful swoop where they meet up and evaporate into the rear shoulder.
The outer body panels and the roof are made of aluminum, and there's aluminum in the interior structure and the suspension bits. Mercedes engineers claim to have achieved a 5-percent improvement in efficiency with these materials.
The overall effect is imposing and expensive, exactly what a new generation of an S-Class should be.
While the new S-Class is defined in part by its technology and a handsome, conservative exterior, the cabin is where stylists have let loose.
Notwithstanding the stereo speaker mood lights, the softest headrest pillows in creation and the option to waft perfumed air into the cockpit, the S-Class interior is sublimely inviting.
The cockpit sweeps around the driver and front passenger, and the dash is a vista of contrasting woods (some with pearl effects), metals and soft-touch leathers, with controls and buttons that are all-intuitive but can be baffling where you first meet them.
Behind the exquisite wood-and-leather two-spoke steering wheel is one of the pair of 12-inch high-resolution color displays that sits in for the conventional instrument cluster. The circular tach and speedometer flank a computerized information panel. To the right, above the four circular HVAC louvres and a fancy analog clock, is display for infotainment, navigation and comfort functions. On the center console is the command center and rotary controller, along with direct access keys for features like the radio and navigation and the menu. A speech dialog system allows users to enter complete addresses by voice. There's also the option of having emails or text messages read aloud.
A chauffeur package is part of a $3,000 Rear Seat package so that the passenger in the right rear seat can electronically raise the footrest and recline, first-class-airline style. Another option for $2,350 offers power rear seats that can be heated or ventilated, a heating steering wheel, and heated armrests front and rear.
Of course, what's a luxo sedan worth if you can't get a massage? There's an Energizing function as well as a hot-stone component if the day's been particularly rough.
Lighting inside the S-Class is something of an art form. The colors and intensity of the LEDs ambient lights in the cabin can lend a soft, romantic glow or, turned up, convert the interior into a mobile disco. In all, there's a choice of seven colors with five dimming levels and four dimming zones.
If an unpleasant odor wafts into the cabin, the S-Class offers a $350 Air Balance Package to infuse the air with a variety of scented liquid packs, including Sport, Nightlife, and Fireside( no Burnt Rubber, alas). A high-end surround sound system from Burmester kicks in if you pony up the $6,400 option price; the standard audio system features 10 speakers.
Rear passengers also have inflatable seatbelts with buckles that rise up for handy access.
Official cargo space in the new S-Class is still to be determined, but suffice to say that the trunk will accommodate more than a couple of golf bags.
Solid and stable, the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class performs as advertised: It is fast without any touch of drama, monolith-solid, and, once you figures out the buttons and the controls, awesome in terms of its tricks.
By trimming mass with extensive use of aluminum, the 2014 S-Class is a finesse-balancing act on the road, totally isolated from wind and road noise even at prodigious highway speed. The firmed-up air suspension dismisses potholes with a soft thump (we only found one pothole in Canada), and rough tarmac is history thanks to the optional Magic Body Control system. Occasionally at lower speeds in traffic, we felt an awkward little bark from the transmission as its settles into what's usually the appropriate gear, thanks to the dual-clutch.
Steering feel is light and neutral, as we'd expect in this class. Several curves set up a suggestion of body lean but didn't upset the civility in the cabin.
Peering over the long, flat hood, sightlines are excellent, as are the ergonomic visibly of the major controls.
We had the chance to experiment with some (but not all, there are too many) safety systems available in the 2014 S-Class.
The autonomous Mercedes isn't here yet, but one can option Distronic Plus with Steering Assist and Stop & Go Pilot, which allows for hands-free driving at 37 mph, as the stereo cameras follow the car ahead, even on gentle bends, says Mercedes. The system uses both the car you're trailing, as well as road markings, to keep centered in your lane. It's all part of the $2,800 Driver Assistance Package, which also includes Mercedes's Pre-Safe Brake. Using data from radar and the camera, it will automatically apply braking at up to about 30 mph without driver input if it detects a pedestrian or stopped vehicle. Jetsons stuff.
The S550 and S550 4MATIC use a 4.6-liter that produces 455 horsepower from 5250 to 5500 rpm and 516 foot-pounds of torque from 1800 to 3500 rpm. Mercedes-Benz says these two models can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 4.8 seconds. Top speed is limited to 130 mph. Fuel economy data were not available from the Environmental Protection Agency at press time.
The S63 AMG features a twin-turbocharged 5.5-liter V8 with an output of 577 horsepower and 664 foot-pounds of torque. Mercedes-Benz USA claims the S63 AMG can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds.
Completely redesigned for 2014, the Mercedes-Benz S550 boasts a seamless driving experience and cosseted luxury. The sublime, inviting interior is swathed in rich leather and wood, complete with mood lighting and aromatherapy. The S550 is fast and extremely stable at high speeds. Steering is light, there is little body lean and precise handling yet the suspension muffles the worst potholes. The S-Class is quiet underway and the driver benefits from excellent visibility.
Stephen Williams filed this NewCarTestDrive.com report after his test drive of the S550 in Ontario.
Model as tested
Mercedes-Benz S550 ($92,900)
Basic Warranty
48 months/50,000 miles
Assembled in
Destination charge
Price as tested
Options as tested
Premium 1 package ($4,500) includes Parktronic with Active Parking Assist, heated and active ventilated front seats with massage function, Keyless-Go; rear-seat entertainment system ($2,650); Magic Body Control ($4,450)
Model Line Overview
Mercedes-Benz S550 ($92,900), S550 4MATIC ($95,900); S63 AMG 4MATIC ($139,500)
Safety equipment (standard)
Collision Prevention Assist; Magic Vision Control; mbrace2; LED Intelligent Light System; rearview camera; Attention Assist; Pre-Safe; electronic stability control; ABS; Adaptive Braking
Safety equipment (optional)
4.7-liter aluminum twin-turbocharged V8 with double overhead cams and four valves per cylinder
7-speed direct shift automatic with paddle shifters
Specifications as Tested
leather upholstery, climate control; Burmester sound system, two 12.3 inch high resolution screens for instrument and infortainment clusters; COMAND system with navigation; ambient lighting; heated front seats; electronic trunk closer; panorama sunroof; power seats with memory; rearview camera; illuminated doorsills
Drivetrain type
Horsepower (hp @ rpm)
455 @ 5250-5500
EPA fuel economy, city/hwy
Torque (lb.-ft. @ rpm)
Brakes, front/rear
Suspension, front
multilink air spring, single-tube shock absorber with continuously adjustable damping
Suspension, rear
multi-link, independent
Head/hip/leg room, middle
Head/hip/leg room, front
42.1/na/na
Head/hip/leg room, rear
Length/width/height
206.5/74.8/58.7
Track, front/rear
NADAguides Test Drive Review
One of the most technologically advanced vehicles we've ever been in, exuding beauty, luxury and grace.
Infotainment center can be a bit tricky, there are so many options.
Completely redesigned bodystyle.
Exterior Impressions
Holding reign as Mercedes flagship sedan, the S-Class is known for its effortless superiority. It has a larger radiator grille and a long hood featuring a gently sloped roofline at the rear. Taillight design is all new as well being completely encased by the body of the car. This new redesign looks much more regal than the previous generation. Our test model has the optional Sport Package with includes 19" AMG wheels with all season tires, sport bodystyling which makes changes to the front and rear bumpers as well a the side skirts.
Exterior features include LED technology. This is the first vehicle in the world whose interior and exterior are bulb less and lit by purely LEDs. The new design also equips the vehicle with better aerodynamics. The exterior may be subtle, but the real showpiece is the interior.
Fit&Finish
AttentionToDetail
Interior Impressions
All I can I say is wow. The interior of the S550 consistently out does itself time and time again. It is the perfect blend of opulence and forward thinking technology. Probably some of the greatest technology features we've seen to date. Every amenity you could dream of is available, although it will cost you! Our test model had upwards of $30,000 worth of additional options. All LED lighting is used, and on top of that, you have ambient lighting that is interchangeable. The infotainment center alone offers two 12.3 inch screens. The COMAND system lets you control just about every aspect of the car. It is almost overwhelming and does take some time to get used to. A Burmester® Surround Sound System comes standard, but the optional Burmester® High-End 3D Surround Sound System with 24 high performance 3D speakers sounds fantastic. The plush leather seats hug the body, and with the addition of the Premium 1 Package you will also enjoy ventilated from seats, keyless entry and start, parktronic with active parking assist, and active multi-contour front seats with a hot stone massage feature. Can't beat that.
Standard interior features include dual-zone climate control, SiriusXM Radio in addition to CD player, DVD (which can also be displayed in the COMAND center, viewable for the front passenger) SD card, two USB ports, wireless Bluetooth audio streaming and a Music Register for storing 10GB of music on the hard drive. Another extra option is the Air Balance package which is a cabin-air purification system spritzing a chosen fragrance (four different options) from your vehicle. Mercedes really left no stone untouched. Heated steering wheel, front and rear seats are also available as well as electronic trunk closer, sunshades and a panoramic roof.
Technology Effectiveness
Audio/Entertainment
Comfort and Romminess
There really isn't much to complain about at the wheel of this vehicle. Every aspect is done right. The cabin is quiet, the ride is smooth, and when you need some power the 455 horsepower V8 engine gets this large sedan moving. If you wanted to take the next step up, the S63 would be the way to go. Not in the mood to keep your hands on the wheel? Not paying attention? No worries, the S-Class has got you covered. The Driver Assistance Package is a life saver...literally. Distronic Plus with Steering Assist allows the driver to remove their hands from the wheel and let the car steer for you. Upon testing, I was nervous to try it, but now I'm hooked. Set cruise control and let the S550 do all the braking and accelerating for you. Active Lane Keeping Assist, Pre-Safe Brake with Pedestrian Recognition and Cross Traffic Assist will detect a possible accident before you can react. The technology is truly incredible. Not only does it drive like a dream, its quiet, agile and hard to find a sedan that can top it.
MPG Experienced
Driving Impressions Summary
Power/Acceleration
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Nigerian Twitter Users have a lot to say about Wizkid & Tiwa Savage’s “Fever” Video
Guys, Have you seen the video to Wizkid‘s “Fever” staring Tiwa Savage as video vixen?
Nigerian Twitter users have gone wild after the video was released early this morning. People can’t stop talking. Or tweeting.
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A leap for artificial leaves
(Nanowerk News) As an idea, the notion of an “artificial leaf” was always meant to be simple: Could scientists, using a handful of relatively cheap materials, harness the power of light to generate two powerful fuels — hydrogen and oxygen — by breaking apart water molecules?
In practice, however, the idea faced a number of hurdles, including how to pattern the catalysts on silicon that would power the reaction. But that could soon change, says Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy Daniel Nocera.
Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy Daniel Nocera.
Using an electro-chemical process similar to etching, Nocera and colleagues have developed a system of patterning that works in just minutes, as opposed to the weeks other techniques need.
Dubbed reactive interface patterning promoted by lithographic electrochemistry, or RIPPLE, the process can be so tightly controlled that researchers can build photonic structures that control the light hitting the device and greatly increase its efficiency. The new system is described in two papers that appeared in recent weeks in the Journal of the American Chemical Society ("Facile, Rapid, and Large-Area Periodic Patterning of Semiconductor Substrates with Submicron Inorganic Structures") and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ("High-throughput patterning of photonic structures with tunable periodicity").
“This is what I call frugal innovation,” Nocera said. “We called it RIPPLE because you can think of it like dropping a pebble in water that makes a pattern of ripples. This is really the simplest patterning technique that I know of. We take silicon, coat it with our catalyst, and within minutes we can pattern it using a standard electro-chemical technique we use in the lab.”
The project was one of seven research efforts supported in the inaugural year of Harvard President Drew Faust’s Climate Change Solutions Fund. The $20 million fund was created to spur the development of renewable energy solutions and speed the transition from fossil fuels.
“It’s already working,” Nocera said of the project. “We already have a home run, and that makes me very happy, because the idea we proposed actually works.”
The ability to pattern catalysts — using cobalt phosphate to spur the creation of oxygen and a nickel-zinc alloy for hydrogen — on the silicon substrate is particularly important, Nocera said.
“In our current system, we just have flat silicon and the catalyst is covering it, so the light has to come through the catalyst, and we have some energy loss,” he explained. “Using this, we are able to pattern the catalyst, so we have bare silicon in one location and the catalyst in another, so the light doesn’t have to go though the catalyst, making the system more efficient.”
Equally important, Nocera said, the system allows for fast patterning of relatively large areas — far larger than other systems that use nano-scale patterning techniques.
Ironically, the discovery of the technique came about almost by accident.
“What we were trying to do was generate intense electrical fields to deposit the catalyst selectively on silicon,” Nocera explained. “It was during what was basically a control experiment that we noticed we didn’t need an intense electric field and could pattern the silicon quite easily.”
While the mechanism at work in the patterning isn’t fully understood, Nocera and colleagues can maintain precise control over the process and produce everything from patterns of lines to rings to squares on silicon substrates.
“It’s phenomenological. We don’t understand the mechanism yet,” Nocera said. “But we do understand how to control it, so we can fine-tune the spacing of the patterns, and what we’ve already produced can work for energy applications — with the catalyst and the artificial leaf, it’s remarkable.”
Source: By Peter Reuell, Harvard University
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War Horses: WWI primary resource
Discover more about how these animal heroes helped soldiers in World War I
This primary resource explores some of the stories surrounding the unsung heroes of the Great War; horses. Discover more about how these animal heroes helped soldiers in WWI with this light-hearted comic strip. How many horses were sent to the front line? What challenges did Warrior the War Horse face?
Pupils will learn about Warrior, the famous War Horse, and how he helped flush out the German army from Moreuil Wood in our National Geographic Kids’ History primary resource sheet.
The teaching resource can be used in study group tasks looking at different elements of World War I. It can be used as a printed handout for each pupil to read themselves, or for display on the interactive whiteboard, as part of a whole class reading exercise.
Activity: Ask the children to discuss, either as a class or in groups, why animals were used during World War I and the pros and cons they can think of associated with this. Pupils could use the resource as a starting point for their own research about other types of animals used during WWI (e.g. carrier pigeons, dogs, etc.), and create their own comic strip about these animals, including any specific case studies they can find. Pupils could use our First World War primary resource and First World War comic to help them.
Know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative
Pupils should be taught: significant historical events, people and places in their own locality
Pupils should be taught a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066
I can compare aspects of people’s daily lives in the past with my own by using historical evidence or the experience of recreating an historical setting.
I can describe the factors contributing to a major social, political or economic change in the past and can assess the impact on people’s lives.
Scottish Curriculum for Excellence Fourth level Social Studies objective:
I can describe the main features of conflicting world belief systems in the past and can present informed views on the consequences of such conflict for societies then and since.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown!
Wimpy Kid fans, get ready for the 13th hilarious new book by Jeff Kinney…
A wintry battlefield is the location for this latest book by Jeff Kinney about your favourite wimpy kid… Let’s find out more about a Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown…
When snow shuts down Greg Heffley’s middle school, his neighbourhood transforms into a wintry battlefield. Rival groups fight over territory, build massive snow forts, and stage epic snowball fights.
It’s a fight for survival as Greg and Rowley navigate alliances, betrayals, and warring gangs in the neighbourhood meltdown. When the snow clears, will Greg and Rowley still be friends?
Find out today! Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown by Jeff Kinney is OUT NOW!
Read our review!
This hilarious books got our attention from the very first page – when the main character, Greg, writes in his diary about global warming and how it’s already really having an impact on his town. It’s really hot at the moment but it’s supposed to be the middle of Winter!
Greg gives a really funny run-down of al the kids in his neighbourhood – and we get to understand how things work on his street, Surrey Street. There’s the kids who live on the hill, like him and his best friend, Rowley, and then there’s the kids who live at the bottom of the hill on Lower Surrey Street. The hill kids and the non-hill kids can’t stand one another – that’s just how it is and how it’s always been.
Finally, Winter does arrive and it starts to snow big-time. Greg comes up with the idea of hanging out at his grandmother’s place while she is away for the holidays but this doesn’t turn out as planned. Greg finds his old toy puppet, Mr. Morsels. that his mum used to use to try to get him to eat vegetables when he was little. Anyway, Greg and Rowley end up in trouble again.
Greg hatches a plan to work for the Safety Patrol girls so he and Rowley can get home quicker, but this doesn’t eventuate and they end up catching a bus with the Whirley Street kids who they don’t get along with. Before long the Whirley Street kids are chasing them and Greg and Rowley end up in the woods… and at ground zero of the infamous and terrifying Mingos family headquarters! One thing leads to another and Greg is grounded for the weekend – his mum tells him he has to stay outside ALL weekend – with absolutely no screen-time.
So Greg and Rowley decide to build an igloo to take up some time. Before long the neighbourhood kids are throwing snowballs at them and climbing all over the igloo. That’s when Greg’s dad gives him a history lesson about castle warfare and this inspires the pair to take charge…
What follows is total mayhem! There’s massive snow forts, snow balls made from snow that dogs have weed on and even ammunition made from hot chocolate. It’s all out war and it’s not just the hill kids versus the non-hill kids, the Safety Patrol girls are involved as well as the Whirley Street kids and not to mention the Mingos. It’s a total free-for-all!
This book is really fast-paced and we reckon you’ll be so keen to find out what happens next, that you might even read the whole thing in one sitting – just like us. Whether you’ve read the other 12 Wimpy Kid books or your new to the series, The Meltdown is a serious page-turner!
TheWimpy Kid series started off online on Funbrain.com in 2004 and made its print debut in April of 2007. There are now more than 200 million copies of Diary of a Wimpy Kid books available in 59 languages in 70 editions!
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Election 2014: A Voter's Guide to the Federal Budget
By Lindsay Koshgarian
Posted: Sept. 4, 2014 | Budget Process, Debt & Deficit, Education, Health Care, Military & Security, Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net, Taxes & Revenue, Transparency & Data
Photo by Theresa Thompson
It’s election season, when the political ads and campaign claims will fly. Complex issues like the response to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, continued high unemployment and job creation, student aid and loans, and what to do about the national debt all have one thing in common: they require Congress to make tough decisions about federal spending and tax collection. With gridlock and political polarization in Congress at an all-time high, this mid-term election season will have a profound impact on the future of policy decisions that impact you and your community.
National Priorities Project’s 2014 Voter’s Guides will help you pierce through campaign rhetoric and get to the bottom of how candidates approach critical federal budget issues.
Here’s what you’ll find in our Voter’s Guides:
Facts and figures about federal spending on the military, health care, social security, education, and more
Hotly debated policy proposals likely to come up in Congress – and how federal spending on those proposals may impact you
The truth about common federal budget myths and misperceptions
What Americans think about key budget issues like tax reform, unemployment insurance, Social Security, and the border crisis
Targeted, timely questions to ask candidates
For a start, our Federal Spending Voter’s Guide will tell you how the federal government will spend $3.7 trillion dollars in fiscal year 2014. The guide will help you make comparisons in relation to your own priorities, too: for instance, you’ll see that we spend nine times as much on the military as we do on education.
From now through Election Day on Tuesday, November 4, NPP will be spotlighting election issues and our accompanying Voter’s Guides weekly on the blog. For the full scoop right now, click on over to our voter’s guides for more information about:
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If you care about any of these issues, your vote in this year’s election can make a difference. Get informed, get registered and get out to vote on November 4!
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Woman arrested after police find father living with hundreds of rats
Woman arrested after police retrieve hundreds of rats from elderly father’s home
March 21, 2019 at 2:24 PM EDT - Updated March 21 at 2:24 PM
OJAI, CA (KEYT/CNN) - A California woman is accused of keeping her 96-year-old father in a filthy house, infested with hundreds of rats.
Catherine Ann Vandermaesen faces animal cruelty charges and adult neglect charges.
Karin and John Rudio, neighbors of Vandermaesen, have seen hundreds of rats come through their backyard and ruin their belongs.
“The rats have eaten all my flowers,” said Karin Rudio. “Rats just running around here. The house of horror. It was dirty, there was papers on the floor, dog crap all over. It was inhabitable and very unsanitary.”
Catherine Ann Vandermaesan faces animal cruelty and Officials also impounded dogs, cats and rabbits from the home. (Source: KEYT/CNN)
Ventura County deputies made a visit to the house last week.
They got a tip from the Ventura County Adult Protective Services about Vandermaesen not properly caring for her 74-year-old sister and elderly father.
But Vandermaesen and her sister did not allow authorities inside the house.
"We came up with a plan the very next day to have a task force go out to the residence and when Adult Protective Services were contacted again the 96-year-old male was now the focus of our entry to make sure he was OK," said Detective Joseph Preciado, of Ventura County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies said a strong urine and feces odor could be smelled from 20 feet from the front door.
Officials said eight dogs were impounded, two cats, a parrot, two bunnies, and hundreds of rats.
"Based off of Ventura County Animal Control and the humane society they estimated another 200-700 rats, wild rats living within the residence," Preciado said. "She was actually in charge of the care for her elderly father and for all the animals in the residence, that is why we are able to arrest her for the elder abuse charge and also for the animal neglect charge."
Catherine Ann Vandermaesan faces animal cruelty and Officials also impounded dogs, cats and rabbits from the home.
Deputies said this isn’t the first incident with Vandermaesen.
There have been reports of these same issues in the past.
“That poor dad is one 90 years old, and he is basically bed ridden,” Karin Rudio said.
"We have been trying to get rid of these people for the last year,” she said. “We have been to the city plenty of times and filled out papers, and we are not the only ones."
Medical professionals made sure that Vandermaesen father and sister were fine.
Both are in custody of adult protective services.
Copyright 2019 KEYT via CNN. All rights reserved.
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Trail Blazers Pregame Notebook: All five guys can't fall asleep against Nikola Jokic
By Jamie Hudson December 12, 2019 6:31 PM
DENVER – The Trail Blazers said they are looking to keep the momentum going after Monday’s win over the Knicks.
Now as the Blazers get set to face the Nuggets on national television tonight, both Blazers head coach Terry Stotts and Blazers All-Star point guard discussed how they need to defend Nuggets big man Nikola Jokic.
I think you try to make him a scorer. It’s kind of like – not comparing him to LeBron [James]- but with LeBron you want him to be a scorer you don’t want him to be picking you apart, then scoring, and doing everything that he wants to do. Jokic, he’s a point-center, like he’s facilitating everything and making them go, making all the plays. -- Blazers point guard Damian Lillard said at Thursday's shootaround
This season, Jokic is averaging 16 points, 10 rebounds, and 6.3 assists per game.
Coach Stotts added, “You try and pressure [Jokic] as much as you can. Part of it is the other four people have to not fall asleep… Don’t give up backcuts, if you fall asleep he’ll find them. So, it’s kind of a team thing.”
In the first meeting between these two, in which Denver won, Jokic got into early foul trouble. Lillard mentioned at Thursday morning’s shootaround that because the Nuggets 7-footer sat for most of the first half, he was ready to go in the final period. Lillard even smiled saying, “I almost think on opening night when they beat us, it would’ve been better for us to not have him in foul trouble because he basically rested the whole game. He came in the fourth quarter fresh.”
Coach Stotts on the other hand said he “wouldn’t subscribe” to not getting Jokic in foul trouble early.
HEAR FROM COACH STOTTS HERE:
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— NBC Sports Northwest (@NBCSNorthwest) December 13, 2019
Tags: Nikola Jokic, Terry Stotts, Damian Lillard, Denver Nuggets, NBA, Portland Trail Blazers
The real reason for making the Trevor Ariza trade is the most obvious one
By Dwight Jaynes January 19, 2020 5:33 PM
One last clarification on the imminent addition of Trevor Ariza and his impact on trades and the Trail Blazers' salary cap:
Though the contract counts only as the current guaranteed amount of $1.8 million, the salary protection can be adjusted upward to any amount up to the full contract number of $12.8 million to make a trade work. So based on the 175 percent range to make a trade work, the contract can still bring back significantly more salary than the Trail Blazers would send out, making it very favorable to the other team.
It has been speculated that the Trail Blazers are taking the first step toward moving under the tax threshold by making this deal. But that's not likely. Most league sources believe that to get its payroll pruned to that extent, Portland would have to convey a first-round draft pick -- which the team is not likely to do.
The real reason for the trade is likely the most obvious one -- it brings in a player who may be a better fit than the ones who left, while saving the team $12.3 million. The team may be slightly more competitive with a 6-8 small forward, who at one time was a solid 3-and-D player, while making the payroll a bit more responsible.
Tags: Portland Trail Blazers, Trevor Ariza
Here's the inside scoop on Trevor Ariza and Wenyen Gabriel
By Jamie Hudson January 19, 2020 10:14 AM
Sacramento Kings Insider for NBCS James Ham his here to the rescue!
Ham is providing Trail Blazers fans with everything they need to know about the newest Trail Blazers before Saturday’s trade with the Kings becomes official.
Ham has been covering the Kings since September of 2015.
And, he thinks Blazers fans will like what they see from the two players they’ve never seen in a Blazers jersey.
First up: NBA Champion Trevor Ariza
“Ariza signed a two-year, $25 million deal in the offseason to provide veteran leadership and depth at the forward position. The final year is only guaranteed for $1.8 million, making him slightly more than an expiring contract for Portland. He was a calming influence on the Kings younger players, especially on the defensive end. He's not as mobile as he once was and his 3-point shot goes on the fritz at inopportune times, but he’s a solid player that can help replace some of the defense that the Blazers lost during the offseason with the departures of Moe Harkless and Al-Farouq Aminu.” – James Ham
Ariza seems like a guy who could fit in nicely with Terry Stotts’ system. The 43rd overall pick of the 2004 NBA draft is averaging six points and 4.6 rebounds this season.
And then there is Wenyen Gabriel:
“After a strong showing in Summer League during the summer of 2018, the Sacramento Kings inked Wenyen Gabriel to a two-year, two-way contract. He didn’t play a minute for the kings last season, instead spending his entire season with the Kings’ G League affiliate in Stockton.
While he didn’t have a breakout season with the Stockton Kings, Gabriel hit the weight room hard during the summer and impressed new head coach Luke Walton with his work ethic. During training, Garbiel continued with his strong play and the Kings converted his two-way contract to a regular roster contract.
With a bevy of injuries, the Kings reduced their rotation down to a small number of players early in the season. Gabriel has seen limited action, but the coaching staff continued to work on his development off the court. He is a hard worker with an NBA body. He’s long and athletic and he’s worked hard to stretch his shooting range beyond the 3-point line.
Wenyen is well liked in the locker room and he has plenty of potential as a combo-forward. He will need time to develop, but there is a chance for him to become an NBA rotational player down the road.” – James Ham
One thing is certain when it comes to Gabriel:
He has a good sense of humor.
Damn I just got Woj’d 😂 https://t.co/6zyJ2AXTZT
— UPMΛN™ (@WenyenGabriel) January 18, 2020
The 22-year-old has played in 11 total games for the Kings this season.
Portland will host the Golden State Warriors Monday night and will be short-handed once again because the trade will not be official until at least Tuesday.
Make sure to keep it locked on NBCSNW for more on the newest Trail Blazers.
Tags: Wenyen Gabriel, Caleb Swanigan, Sacramento Kings, Trevor Ariza, NBA, Portland Trail Blazers
Keeping the faith: How Bazemore and Tolliver will be missed
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By Jamie Hudson January 19, 2020 9:14 AM
Thinking back to last July when Kent Bazemore first spoke with the media: He was dressed in a suit for his official press conference as a Trail Blazer -- a bright-eyed veteran forward who was eager to have a fresh beginning.
Anthony Tolliver had just finished a workout before addressing the media on a warm summer day. He discussed his excitement to join a team that was coming off a Western Conference Finals run. He was ready to help the Blazers space the floor and provide leadership off the bench.
It didn’t pan out the way these two had hoped, to say the least. Although, their eventual trade was prognosticated.
And while it was expected that Baze and AT wouldn’t be in Portland very long, based on their contracts, that doesn't mean there isn't plenty that their teammates are going to miss about them.
Reports of the two being traded surfaced Saturday afternoon, nearly four hours before the Blazers tipped off their final game of their three-game trip with Portland visiting OKC.
For many of Rip City faithful, they will miss Bazemore’s chase down blocks and the energy he brought on the defensive end.
Yet, fans may not know exactly what will be missed when it comes to Bazemore and Tolliver in the eyes of the Blazer players themselves.
While reminiscing about the past four months, the Blazers mentioned how they will miss the way Tolliver carried himself as a journeyman in the league.
They will also miss the way he connected them to their faith.
Tolliver was a big advocate of attending chapel.
The chapel sessions usually last about 15 minutes. For some players, such as Tolliver, attending chapel service has become a staple in their pregame routine.
All 30 NBA teams have volunteer chaplains who meet with the teams an hour before every game inside every arena. There’s no requirement that players attend, though more did this year.
Directly following Saturday’s loss to the Thunder, all eyes were on Trail Blazers floor general Damian Lillard as he spoke about the move.
For Lillard, it’s all about staying neutral when a trade comes down the pipe. He’s the face of the franchise. He has to remain steadfast, diplomatic.
Strong.
But now, thanks to Tolliver, Lillard has his faith to lean on more.
I’m always in the middle when the moves happen because I develop friendships and relationships with my teammates... Me and Baze spent a lot of time around each other, interacted a lot even before he was brought to Portland… It’s sad to see him go.
Same thing with AT.
AT has been a big part of me taken a step forward in my faith. Being in Chapel and sending scriptures and stuff like that – so, he’s had an impact on me and our team in that way and how he is with the younger players – showing them how to be a true professional. -- Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard on losing Bazemore and Tolliver
While a handful of Blazers addressed the media about the trade, Jusuf Nurkic and Mario Hezonja took to Twitter to thank their now former teammates and wish them luck.
Guys wish you all the best 💯 all love here✊🏻 #RipCity @24Bazemore @ATolliver44 pic.twitter.com/Vw5vxKfhlR
— Jusuf Nurkić (@bosnianbeast27) January 19, 2020
❤️✊🏼✊🏼 @24Bazemore @ATolliver44 wish y’all the best man! Great people! #RipCity
— Mario Hezonja (@mariohezonja) January 19, 2020
The two veterans, who are about to embark on their new life in Sacramento, may have had the most impact on the young Blazers just like Lillard said.
On a career night for Gary Trent Jr., he discussed how difficult it is to lose teammates to a trade.
The second-year player believes there are two big things he will truly miss: The energy and faith...
AT and Baze were great teammates. I learned a lot from Baze. Same with AT. With AT, with his presence, having a bible study for the team, we’re going to miss that type of stuff. Baze, with his energy. Me and Baze was always joking around, playing around every day with each other. But, it’s a business, at the end of the day, and teams are going to have to do what they have to do. We all know, we all signed up for that. I wish nothing but the best for them. -- Trail Blazers shooting guard Gary Trent Jr.
Just because every professional athlete knows and says “it’s a business,” doesn’t mean they have to be okay with it all.
And from the sounds of it, it doesn’t ever seem to get any easier.
Seventeen-year veteran, Carmelo Anthony has witnessed his fair share of trades.
He said he “was shocked” to get the text about the move, but offered up an explanation on how he deals with teammates coming and going:
“I say it’s a part of the game… Because you start to build friendships and relationships and bonds with guys, and at any given moment something like that can actually happen. I’m more talking about everything outside of basketball. I think the front office had to do what they had to do -- I don’t question that, but from our standpoint as players and guys who got a chance to kind of bond and build a friendship that’s a tough one,” Melo said.
It’s all part of the game, fair or foul.
Still, it’s part of Lillard’s approach of ‘staying in the middle’ when it comes to trades is about making sure he’s not just focusing on losing teammates.
“You’ve got new guys coming in and you don’t want to lose sight of the fact that it’s a business and make guys who are coming in not feel welcome – that’s why I’m always in the middle, because I’m always going to welcome new teammates, but it’s always sad to see guys you’ve got a relationship with [go].”
As Lillard and the rest of the Trail Blazers welcome in Trevor Ariza and Wenyen Gabriel, while also welcoming back Caleb Swanigan, it’s about starting anew right now.
The second half of the season is about to ramp up for the Blazers, Lillard is looking forward to what Ariza could bring to this team.
"I think he can really help us. I think the situation that we in 18-26 I think; it’s not where we planned on being. Things haven't been working out, we haven't been winning a lot of games and his experience, his skill set --3 and D, he can guard, pretty much four positions… And his size, it gives us something we could really use,” Lillard said.
The Trail Blazers will still have to wait at least one more game to start figuring it out with their new pieces. The trade will not become official until Tuesday.
Portland hosts Golden State Monday night at 7:00pm on NBCSNW.
Tags: Portland Trail Blazers
Trail Blazer fans: Relying on someone else's expertise is not always the best thing
By Dwight Jaynes January 19, 2020 8:36 AM
Tom Ziller added a paragraph to his post a few minutes ago that pretty much takes all the punch out of it, The paragraph reads:
An earlier version of this story said Ariza could be traded in the offseason at his full salary of $12.8 million. That’s not true: only his guaranteed salary of $1.8 million would count in a trade.
Anyway, here's the rest of the post as written:
I've never considered myself an NBA salary cap expert. It's gotten too complicated these days and frankly, things like that don't interest me too much. So I leave it to the experts.
But Tom Ziller IS an expert and he's opened my eyes to the Easter egg in the Trevor Ariza trade that's waiting for the Trail Blazers:
All of these contracts expire this summer, with the exception of Ariza: he’s due $12.8 million next season, with a wrinkle. Bazemore makes much more (he’s a Free Agent Class of 2016 alum), and this deal significantly cuts Portland’s tax bill, apparently saving the Blazers $16 million. The Kings did the Blazers an enormous favor here at little cost to them, except giving up on Swanigan and Gabriel, who had been spending much of their recent time in the G League for the Stockton Kings.
The wrinkle on Ariza’s deal is that he’s only guaranteed $1.8 million of his $12.8 million contract next season. If he doesn’t help the Blazers, they can waive him and escape most of salary cap hit. Bazemore’s contract is expiring; Ariza’s might as well be. That $1.8 million would count against the salary cap and potential luxury tax for Portland next season, but the current season savings and theoretical better roster fit counter that. (Plus, there’s a decent chance Portland could unload one of Swanigan or Gabriel before the deadline to further lower the luxury tax hit.)
But Ariza’s mostly unguaranteed 2020-21 salary is interesting for another reason: it makes him a fascinating trade chip as fake salary filler, especially in the time around the NBA draft. The Blazers will be able to use Ariza in a trade to match salaries as if he’s a player making $12.8 million. The team that trades for him in such a deal can then waive him before next season — we don’t know the exact non-guarantee deadline, but these things are often in June and typically negotiable with the player — to cut salary.
There are plenty of positives in this deal and not all of them are obvious. I like the "fake salary filler" gambit the best. More from Ziller:
We don’t know that the Blazers are big game hunting as this season has been shredded by injuries to Nurkic and Zach Collins, and the ownership situation is somewhat unsettled in the wake of Paul Allen’s death. Allen would consistently spend to make the team better. We don’t yet know if that will continue.
If it does, and if Portland elects to make a major splash in the next couple of weeks or this summer, Ariza’s contract could really help make the numbers work. If nothing comes to pass, the Ariza trade saves the Blazers a substantial sum of money. And if all that’s not enough, there’s a chance — not a big one, but a chance — that Ariza helps Portland in the right ways to take hold of the up-for-grabs No. 8 seed in the West.
Tags: Portland Trail Blazers, Sacramento Kings, Trevor Ariza
Gary Trent Jr.'s Flu Game leads to a career-high and a trip down memory lane
By Jamie Hudson January 18, 2020 11:01 PM
OKLAHOMA CITY – The flushed face, glazed over eyes, and low energy feeling being exerted from Gary Trent Jr.’s face was what his teammates witnessed at their team meeting Saturday morning in OKC.
Trent Jr. not only played, he dropped a 30-piece.
“There’s no way I thought he was playing today,” Carmelo Anthony chuckled when thinking about how Trent Jr. was barely moving at the team meeting.
With injuries and a trade that sent Kent Bazemore and Anthony Tolliver to Sacramento, the Blazers had the required league-minimum of eight players on the active roster.
One of those eight was Trent Jr. who was still dealing with a “flu-like” illness.
Fortunately for the Blazers, he was feeling a lot better by tip-off.
“When you’re sick, the morning is always the worst,” Trent Jr. said postgame. “You’re groggy, you’re tired, you’re sore and obviously playing that night before, but like I said though, the medical staff made sure I was well prepared for the game. So, I’m fortunate they were there for me."
Portland fell to the Thunder 119-106 despite Trent Jr.’s career-high and Damian Lillard’s 34-point performance.
The short-handed Blazers clearly ran out of gas Saturday night.
But, even though it didn’t look like Trent Jr. had any gas left in his tank after dealing with the worst of the illness Friday night in Dallas, he wasn't about to take a sick day.
There was no time when I didn’t think that I wasn’t going to be good to go. You know, your job is to play basketball. Some people go to work still sick, you still have to work, you still have to do your job in a sense. I was always going to be available no matter what my state was. -- Trail Blazers shooting guard Gary Trent Jr. said postgame
And hey, “just be great,” right?
That mantra is found all over Trent Jr.'s social media accounts whether he’s posting a photo to Instagram or tweeting out a highlight video with the ‘love-you gesture’ emoji hands, he says he not only plays by that motto, but also lives by it.
The now 21-year-old says he was trying to come up with a saying since LeBron James coined the ‘strive for greatness’ phrase and once he came up with ‘just be great,’ he “has been running with it ever since.”
“I’ve been saying that for a while now, since like high school,” Trent Jr. said.
Blazers head coach Terry Stotts reminded the media before the game that it was Trent Jr.’s 21st birthday. After the game, he gave praise to the birthday boy.
“I was very happy Gary Trent had a good game. Obviously, it was one of the best games of his career. Particularly coming off an illness, I thought that was a great game by him."
Anytime a professional athlete has a career night and doesn’t get the win, they’re obviously not satisfied.
“We came here to win,” Trent Jr. said. “I’m not here to get numbers, but it was a great thing for my birthday. But we lost, so we have to go back to the drawing board, and a good thing about the NBA is that we have another game Monday to redeem ourselves.”
A person's 21st birthday is usually one they remember forever. The best year in a long string of birthdays. That may not be the case for Trent. Not only was he sick, but his 21st birthday has some stiff competition.
“My 21st birthday I was sick, so nothing can beat five-year-old, six-year-old at Chucky Cheese,” Trent Jr. said with a smile. “It’s second to that,” he laughed.
Even with slightly glazed over eyes still late Saturday night, the second-year player grinned from ear to ear when talking about his birthday's of the past.
“There was a place that I used to love growing up in Columbus, Ohio called Magic Mountain. It was super fun. It’s an arcade mixed with a thirty-foot jungle gym. You should really check it out.”
While Magic Mountain is going to have to wait until the offseason, right now the Blazers are forced to battle through injuries and then work to integrate their new players on the roster.
Portland’s All-Star point guard Damian Lillard is going to continue to be proud of what Trent Jr. did on Saturday night, but also what he’s been able to do to improve this season.
“He’s battling the flu. He’s tough for lasting through two nights playing through the sickness, and he had a great game. He was aggressive. He shot the ball well. He played a great game,” Lillard said. “We knew he could fill it up coming in. In training camp, he was scoring and was able to get baskets, I think his understanding of the game has improved from last year to this year as far as recognizing plays calls, remembering coverages, knowing personnel, knowing where to be, knowing how to make plays and be in positions.”
Trent Jr. knew he could not call in sick with his team so undermanned. He has always said he is here to do whatever he needs to do to help his team win and with no CJ McCollum because of a left ankle sprain, Trent Jr. was doing his best to pick up the slack.
January 18th, 2019 will always be known as the Gary Trent Jr. Birthday Flu Game.
Tags: Carmelo Anthony, Damian Lillard, Terry Stotts, Gary Trent Jr., Oklahoma City Thunder, NBA, Portland Trail Blazers
After being traded, Kent Bazemore and Anthony Tolliver are flying back with Blazers to Portland
By Peter Socotch January 18, 2020 10:43 PM
Since being traded earlier Saturday, now former Trail Blazers guard Kent Bazemore broke his silence on social media.
I have A LOT of love for Portland... a place I always saw myself playing. A place I PRAYED about getting too, and it happened... unfortunately the sh***y part about this game is this side of it. Years and years of cultivating a relationship with your peers to all see it wiped away with in a couple hours. Even though my stay here was short lived, I felt like I gained some lifelong friends. My guys held me down regardless of how I played, we were all in this together... I dont even know what else to say but #GetOffThePropertyBruv 🤣🤣 #InsideJokes @trailblazers thank you for the opportunity ❤️
A post shared by Kent Bazemore (@24baze) on Jan 18, 2020 at 10:26pm PST
I have A LOT of love for Portland... a place I always saw myself playing. A place I PRAYED about getting too, and it happened... unfortunately the sh***y part about this game is this side of it. Years and years of cultivating a relationship with your peers to all see it wiped away with in a couple hours. Even though my stay here was short lived, I felt like I gained some lifelong friends. My guys held me down regardless of how I played, we were all in this together... I dont even know what else to say but #GetOffThePropertyBruv 🤣🤣 #InsideJokes @trailblazers thank you for the opportunity
The heartfelt post revealed one thing, however. Bazemore and Anthony Tolliver, who were traded to Sacramento for Trevor Ariza, Wenyen Gabriel, Caleb Swanigan, and two second round picks are headed back with the Trail Blazers to Portland before they move on to their new team.
The first photo shared in Bazemore's Instagram message shows the Trail Blazers players posing for a group photo. It became clear Bazemore and Tolliver were traveling back to Portland with the team when we noticed the clothing in the photo were the fits each player wore for Saturday's game in OKC.
It shouldn't be shocking Baze and AT are headed back with the team, but since the deal hasn't yet been finalized, players and Coach Stotts are unable to provide much detail.
Players have to pass physicals and paperwork has to be completed. It may take until Tuesday before the deal is completed with the league office.
So rest assured, Bazemore and Tolliver weren't left high and dry in Oklahoma City or forced to hitchhike to Sacramento.
Social Media reacts to Gary Trent’s flu game
Less than 24 hours before Saturday’s game vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder, Trail Blazers second-year forward Gary Trent, Jr. was getting an IV and being treated for flu-like symptoms in Dallas.
On Saturday morning, coach Terry Stotts and members of the Portland Trail Blazers said Trent continued to not look good. “He was pale,” Carmelo Anthony said of Trent, Jr. at the team’s morning meeting. “Head on the table.”
“He did not look good.”
Then, the Trail Blazers made a trade, sending Kent Bazemore and Anthony Tolliver out of town. The already depleted Blazers needed Trent, Jr. to suit up just to meet league requirements to field a team vs. the Thunder.
"[I'll do] whatever I can do to help this team,” Trent, Jr. said pregame. “Whether that’s cheering on the team or playing. I’m all for it."
Instead of just riding the end of the bench, Trent, Jr. balled out.
He made his first seven shots before a three pointer finally rimmed off. But, he remained hot, connecting on 12 of 18 of his attempts and scoring a career-high 30 points in the effort.
It was his flu game. And while the Blazers may have lost, many on social media marveled in his effort.
That’s it... This is officially a flu game for Gary Trent
— Jamie Hudson (@JamieHudsonNBCS) January 19, 2020
Kobe Trent Jr birthday flu game. https://t.co/yYkabaibNx
— ً (@oscars2t) January 19, 2020
Gary Trent Jr > Klay Thompson
— 𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓩𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓜𝓪𝓴𝓮𝓘𝓽𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝓮𝓷 (@TrevanR8501) January 19, 2020
Gary trent is the goat
— juiceman🥤🥤 (@Goated_Brees) January 19, 2020
Gary Trent Jr overcoming sickness on his 21st birthday to bag a career night #RipCity pic.twitter.com/2UO1UrvAyq
— Pinwheel Empire (@PinwheelEmpire) January 19, 2020
Gary Trent Jr. is cooking.
— Omar Hersi (@HerciMerci) January 19, 2020
GARY TRENT JR HAD 30 TONIGHT? @oscars2t pic.twitter.com/FVyV3HXNda
— Express🦅 (@ExpressMoose_) January 19, 2020
*buys Gary Trent Jr. jersey* #RipCity
— Ben Meaders (@QuesoCaliente) January 19, 2020
Whatever the Blazers trainers gave Gary Trent Jr., they need to give to the rest of the team! #RipCity
— Matt Brawley (@mbrawley1) January 19, 2020
Gary Trent with 30 points on his birthday 🎂🎉 pic.twitter.com/TAp9W1549r
— MicMarc (@MicMarc3) January 19, 2020
Gary Trent Jr. had a night! That’s a wrap for NBA Basketball tonight!
— Chanelle M. (@chanellemanus) January 19, 2020
What a way to ring in your 21st birthday, GT!
Just be great!
Instant Analysis: Gary Trent Jr. drops career-high despite flu
By Jamie Hudson January 18, 2020 8:28 PM
OKLAHOMA CITY – Just four hours before the Trail Blazers and Thunder tipped off from Chesapeake Energy Arena, reports surfaced that Portland had traded Kent Bazemore and Anthony Tolliver to Sacramento.
With the two forwards no longer with the team, along with the recent injury coming Friday night in Dallas keeping CJ McCollum out of Saturday's game due to a left ankle sprain, the Trail Blazers suited up the league minimum eight players versus the Thunder.
And one of those eight players was Gary Trent Jr. who is still dealing with a “flu-like” illness.
Fortunately for the Blazers, Trent Jr. said before the game he was feeling better and had more energy.
It showed.
After being down by as many as 13 points in the first quarter, it looked as though the Blazers were going to be able to rally back after outscoring OKC in the second quarter. But, it was apparent the short-handed Blazers ran out of gas by the fourth.
FINAL BOX SCORE: THUNDER 119, TRAIL BLAZERS 106
Here are three quick takeaways from Saturday's loss:
1. If you suit up, you had to play for Blazers
Besides Damian Lillard, Gary Trent Jr. was the only other Blazer in double figures midway through the second quarter. Lillard already notched 24 points at the break. But with McCollum out, Lillard was also trying to get his teammates more involved on the offense. He had four of the Blazers’ six assists in the first half.
It was a night for the young Blazers to show what they got.
Fighting through a flu bug, Trent Jr. hit his first seven shots. He didn’t miss a shot until the 2:54 mark of the third quarter. The second-year player showed his composure while getting extended minutes. Trent Jr. was Portland’s second-leading scoring on the night with a career-high 30 points.
2. CP3 leads the charge for OKC
Chris Paul was the Thunder's leading scoring at halftime with 21 points, while also being the hype man for OKC fans in attendance. With the trade deadline approaching, Thunder fans are making sure to show their love for the starting point guard. CP3 finished with 30 points on 11-of-15 shooting.
3. The battle on the boards
Through three quarters, Oklahoma City was outrebounding Portland, 39-32. Hassan Whiteside had nine of those 32 boards; however, Blazer fans have become accustomed to Whiteside reaching double-digit rebounds by the fourth quarter.
Up Next: The Trail Blazers host the Golden State Warriors on Monday. The Blazers and Warriors tip-off at 7:00pm.
Check back throughout tonight and tomorrow for more articles and videos from the players!
Tags: Carmelo Anthony, Damian Lillard, Oklahoma City Thunder, NBA, Portland Trail Blazers
Trail Blazers run out of gas in second half -- but really, what did you expect?
The worn-out and banged-up Trail Blazers ran out of gas after about two and a half quarters Saturday night in a 119-106 loss at Oklahoma City.
And what did you expect?
With only eight players in uniform after trading away Kent Bazemore and Anthony Tolliver earlier in the day and CJ McCollum's ankle sprain Friday night, there just wasn't enough firepower in Portland uniforms to stay with the Thunder. Especially on the second of back-to-back road games.
Damian Lillard, after playing 40 minutes Friday night in Dallas, scored 34 points in 35 minutes, in spite of an 0-for-8 third quarter, to keep his team close for nearly three quarters but this one was never in the cards.
Portland's recent struggles from behind the three-point line weren't as bad against OKC as the rest of the month but they needed more threes to stay in the game. After shooting a remarkably consistent 36.5, 36.8 and 36.3 percent from three over the first three months of the season, the Trail Blazers came into this contest shooting just 32.9 in nine January games. They were better Saturday, thanks in large part to Gary Trent's 5-9 from long distance. Portland's opponents in January were shooting 38.7 percent coming into this game, making an average of four more per game than the Trail Blazers.
Chris Paul was vintage Chris Paul. He scored 30 points in 27 minutes, had seven assists and just one turnover while making 11 of his 15 shots.
"I thought Chris Paul was a really good player tonight," Terry Stotts said. "He's been a really good player for his career but he had a really good game tonight, He really managed the game, scored and when he was on the court they were a much better team. Hats off to him. I was really happy Gary Trent had a good game. Best game of his career, I think."
Trent made his first seven shots of the game and scored 30 points on just 18 shots.
Did Stotts think his team ran out of gas?
"That's possible. we were hanging in there close," Stotts said. "They made some runs, I don't know if we ran out of gas or not. Mostly, Chris Paul's impact on the game more than anything else."
Well, coaches don't like to make excuses, but they ran out of gas. And they have just one day to rest before playing host to the Golden State Warriors Monday night in Moda Center.
Tags: Chris Paul, Portland Trail Blazers, Gary Trent Jr., Damian Lillard
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Am J Clin Pathol. 1992 Jul;98(1):61-6.
Mucin histochemical analysis in the interpretation of Barrett's esophagus. Results of a multicenter study. The Operative Group for the Study of Esophageal Precancer.
Lapertosa G1, Baracchini P, Fulcheri E.
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A multicentric study of Barrett's esophagus (BE) was started in November 1987 to evaluate (1) the prevalence of BE among subjects undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopic examination; (2) the pathologic features of BE; and (3) the correlation between BE and early malignant changes. In 157 of 330 patients who underwent multiple standardized biopsies, BE was confirmed with histologic evaluation. Specialized intestinal-type BE was observed in 84 patients. By applying Alcian blue (pH 2.5)-periodate oxidation-Schiff, high-iron diamine-Alcian blue (pH 2.5), and periodate borohydride-saponification-periodate oxidation-Schiff techniques, the intestinal type of BE was subclassified into colonic and ileal types, both complete and incomplete. Fifty cases had incomplete colonic metaplasia with sulphomucins in the columnar cells and 64 had complete colonic intestinal metaplasia, 49 of them containing O-acetylated sialomucins in the goblet cells. These patients are being included in a short-term follow-up. Dysplasia (six low grade, two high grade) was observed in eight patients in areas of intestinal colonic-type epithelium; in these patients, a complete loss of O-acetylated sialomucins in the dysplastic areas and a remarkable reduction of these mucins in the surrounding tissue were observed. The reduction of O-acetylated sialomucins might indicate relative tissue immaturity, which could represent an early sign of neoplastic dedifferentiation. Therefore, the relevance of O-acetylated sialomucin content in BE, first demonstrated in intestinal type, is now evident, although its biologic importance is being studied.
Barrett's esophagus. A preneoplastic disorder. [Am J Clin Pathol. 1992]
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Donald Trump's Refusal to Fire Kellyanne Conway is 'Dangerous' and She Should Resign: Ethics Experts
By Jessica Kwong On 6/14/19 at 11:56 AM EDT
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President Donald Trump's statement on Fox News Friday morning that he will not fire Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway for Hatch Act violations is "not just wrong, it's dangerous," a watchdog said.
Trump was asked on Fox & Friends about the Office of Special Counsel's (OSC) recommendation Thursday that Conway "be removed from federal service" for repeatedly violating the Hatch Act, which prohibits executive branch employees from using their official positions to influence the result of an election.
"I'm not going to fire her," Trump said. "It looks to me like they're trying to take away her right to free speech and that's just not fair."
Trump continued: "I think you're entitled to free speech in this country."
Jordan Libowitz, spokesman for the watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) which flagged Conway's violations to the OSC, told Newsweek on Friday that Trump's reaction was "dangerous" to government ethics.
"This is tantamount to the president announcing that laws don't apply to his administration," Libowitz said. "It's not just wrong, it's dangerous."
CREW also tweeted about the president announcing on national television that he will not punish people for violating ethics laws.
"This is a dangerous day for our democracy," the watchdog tweeted. "It's open season ethics laws."
This is a dangerous day for our democracy. The president just announced on national TV that he will not punish people in his administration for violating ethics laws. It's open season ethics laws. https://t.co/a60rnvKerE
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) June 14, 2019
Former White House ethics chief in the George W. Bush administration, Richard Painter, rejected Trump's claim that Conway's speech was protected by the First Amendment.
"Free speech—that's not at all a valid argument because these are official position interviews," he told Newsweek. "She has the free speech right in her personal capacity to endorse, so she can go on her own front lawn and trash [Alabama Senator] Doug Jones, she can do that if she's not talking to reporters hanging out outside the White House in official interviews. Now she's trashing on Joe Biden, there have been so many of these."
Painter, a frequent critic of the Trump, said the president had "complete disregard for the law."
"He doesn't get the point," Painter added. "He's defending her for doing this. His whole attitude toward the law, emoluments, obstruction of justice and now the Hatch Act—he has complete disregard for the law across the board.
"He's going to keep doing this until the House of Representatives impeaches him and if they want to not impeach, him they're asking for this," Painter concluded.
CREW's chief ethics counsel Virginia Canter and deputy director Donald Sherman in an opinion piece published on NBC News's website Thursday urged Conway to resign for Trump's sake if he would not fire her.
"In order to protect Americans' right to a government built on law, Conway must do what Trump will not—remove herself from the government.," they wrote.
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Conway reportedly declined to comment on the OSC's recommendation that she be removed from her job for the violation.
"Can you leave, please?" Conway told CNBC's Washington correspondent Eamon Javers when asked on Thursday. "I have no reaction. Why would I give you a reaction?"
The OSC in its letter to Trump Thursday referenced a May 29 interview in which Conway downplayed the Hatch Act being applied to her.
"If you're trying to silence me through the Hatch Act," she said, "It's not going to work."
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Home Food Critically acclaimed street food restaurant to open second Belfast outlet
Critically acclaimed street food restaurant to open second Belfast outlet
A second Taiwanese restaurant and a cafe are to join south Belfast’s hospitality venues if new planning applications get approval
A former hair salon on 338 Lisburn Road is to be converted into Belfast’s second Bao Bun restaurant, with an apartment on its upper floors.
And the Vape Lounge on Stranmillis Road will become an eco-friendly cafe if plans are approved.
Bao Bun, an independent Taiwanese street food restaurant/takeway, has received critical acclaim for its bao bun-based sandwiches since it launched in Botanic in 2017.
Now it is seeking to expand to Belfast’s Lisburn Road, just a few yards from The Chelsea Winebar.
It comes on the back of a surge in popularity for casual international dining here, which saw Mexican burrito chain Boojum cross into the Republic. It also set up shop on the Lisburn Road earlier this year. And family-run Tribal Burger has announced that it will open its second store in Belfast’s Callender Street soon, creating around 20 jobs.
Its owners, husband and wife team Paul and Elaine Catterson, opened their first outlet on Botanic Avenue at the end of 2017.
And on the Ormeau Road, Japanese noodle restaurant Bia Rebel Ramen is another success story in the sector after winning an award for ‘best cheap eats’ in the UK at the Observer Food Monthly Awards.
The award for the venue, which opened in March, was announced at a ceremony in London last month.
It is run by owner and chef Brian Donnelly and his partner Jenny Holland.
Meanwhile, in Stranmillis a former e-cigarette bar will get a hospitality conversion as an application reveals plans for a cafe on the site.
The focus of the new business will be to serve food with an emphasis on minimum waste and eco-friendliness, says the applicant, who has not been named.
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Inside Scoop: Happy Holidays!
by Michelle Crechiolo @PensInsideScoop / Penguins Team Reporter
When Justin Schultz first realized that the Penguins would be wrapping up their annual western Canada road trip right before the holiday break, he was ecstatic.
"You never really think being over here that you would be able to get home for Christmas, since we're so far away and don't have that much time off," Schultz said. "Definitely saw that and me and my fiancé were really excited, the family is really excited. Couldn't have worked out any better for us."
The defenseman, who grew up in Kelowna, British Columbia, is one of two western Canada natives on the Penguins roster along with goalie Tristan Jarry.
He grew up in Surrey, British Columbia, which is just 20 minutes from Rogers Arena - where the Penguins are played the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday.
"This will be my first time in probably nine years that I'll be going home for Christmas," said Jarry, who explained that he didn't get to go home during juniors because of the World Junior Championship. "It's exciting. It's something I've never gotten to do."
Overall, the schedule worked out extremely well for the entire team as a whole. Under the current Collective Bargaining Agreement, Dec. 24, 25 and 26 are designated as off-days for all purposes - meaning no team can practice or even travel.
But as luck would have it, with the Penguins playing their last game before the holiday break on Dec. 21, they will be off from Dec. 22 to Dec. 26 - giving them an extra couple of days to spend with their families.
"It's really nice to be home with your family and take your mind off hockey for once and not really think about it," Schultz said. "It's definitely needed."
While the team is scheduled to stay overnight in Vancouver and fly back that Sunday, a few players headed home right after the game.
"I'm taking the red-eye home after the Vancouver game to go see my family in Toronto," winger Brandon Tanev said. "Lucky there's a flight that goes out there."
Forward Jared McCann did the same.
"I'm going to take a flight home with some of the guys and just head home to Stratford, Ontario for the break," he said. "I built a house there last summer, so I'm going to have some of my buddies around town over for dinner and stuff like that. Maybe have a couple waters and go from there (laughs)."
With McCann being from the same town as Justin Bieber, the 'Under the Mistletoe' holiday album will probably be playing at the house.
"He's from Stratford, so I've got to represent," McCann joked.
This year marks the first time since becoming an NHL regular that goalie Matt Murray will be able to make it back to Thunder Bay, Ontario for Christmas.
"I think we only had a couple days my first couple years, and it's a long trip," Murray said. "So my wife Christina and I just stayed here and hung out together. This year we're going to go home and get some family together."
Murray's mother Fenny is Dutch, so one tradition they had growing up was to each open one present on Christmas Eve.
"Then we would open the rest when you wake up in the morning on Christmas," he said. "Usually make a big breakfast with pancakes, bacon, eggs - a whole spread. Then hang out and watch movies all day and have a fire. Just relax and enjoy some time together."
Rookies Sam Lafferty and John Marino are also heading straight home. Lafferty is joining his family in Montana, where they moved from Hollidaysburg, Pa., a few years ago for his stepdad's job, while Marino will be going back to Easton, Mass.
"Usually for Christmas Eve we have everyone over and do the Feast of the Seven Fishes, the Italian dinner," said Marino, who estimates that he's 75-80 percent Italian.
A few of the players will be staying in Pittsburgh, including forward Bryan Rust. For the second year in a row, he and his wife Kelsey will be hosting family from both sides at their house.
"It'll be a big loud house, but I think it will be fun," said Rust, who joked that his strength as a host is being an errand boy.
One tradition that he and Kelsey have started together is dressing in matching pajamas on Christmas morning - with their dogs, Cooper and Oliver, joining in on the fun too.
That's also a tradition in the Johnson household for Jack, his wife Kelly and their two kids, daughter Jacklyn and son Ty. Another tradition includes making cookies for Santa.
"We make sugar cookies. Santa prefers chocolate chip at our house," Johnson said with a grin. "You also have to leave carrots for the reindeer. My kids are really into the Grinch right now. The adults will watch Christmas Vacation. We make beef tenderloin and mashed potatoes for dinner. Then we usually try to get to Christmas Eve mass."
Christmas Eve is actually when the Penguins' European players celebrate the holiday. And since forward Dominik Kahun won't be able to make it home, his family is flying in from Germany to stay with him.
"It's going to be a great time," he said. "In Europe we do it on the 24th, in the evening. It's when you give and get the gifts. We make a nice dinner, watch some Christmas movies and then we get into the gifts."
Kahun was born in Czech Republic, but moved to Germany when he was 4 after his parents got divorced. Because of that, they mix Czech and German traditions at Christmastime, particularly at the dinner table.
"We do some fish because in Czech you eat fish in the evening, and we also do potato salads and some desserts," he said. "My mom always does different ones."
While they don't have any issues when it comes to the food, sometimes they have issues when it comes to the movies.
"I usually love watching Czech Christmas movies with my mom, but my brother and my stepdad don't understand because they're German," Kahun said. "So sometimes we just leave them and watch, my mom and I (laughs)."
In Sweden, starting on Dec. 1, there is a special Christmas Calendar show that airs 10-15 episodes every morning until Dec. 24 that defenseman Marcus Pettersson looks forward to every year.
"It's more for kids, but everybody watches it," Pettersson said. "You get up and you would watch it before school. We watch that a lot. That's every day."
Then on Christmas Eve, it is a Swedish tradition to watch the 1958 Walt Disney Presents Christmas special 'From All of Us to You.' Or, as it is known there, Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar God Jul - "Donald Duck and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas" - or Kalle Anka for short.
"We watch that at 3 o' clock on Christmas Eve every year," Pettersson said. "It's a Swedish thing. That's a great tradition too."
While the show airs on Swedish public television back home, Pettersson and his girlfriend will have to find it elsewhere as they are staying in Pittsburgh. They plan to make a traditional Swedish dinner consisting of Christmas ham, meatballs, Prince sausages, potatoes, and salmon - and just relax.
"Just take it easy," Pettersson said. "Eat well. Get some good food in me. And just get away from everything. Take a couple deep breaths. During the season you're kind of not aware of what's going on in the rest of the world and you're in a bubble. So you kind of step out of that bubble a little bit. Just take it easy and hopefully get some good presents (laughs)."
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Hobbii was recently confirmed as the fastest-growing company in Denmark during the last four years. Since launching in 2015, the business has enjoyed consistent growth, doubling its gross profit in 2018, and expanding its workforce to 140 people. Its operations include two warehouses, a physical store and a market-leading B2C ecommerce enterprise with dedicated sales and marketing teams selling to 100 countries worldwide.
The product? …Yarn.
We caught up with Co-Founder and CEO, Jens Reimer Olesen, who explained how the business identified a gap in this unlikely market and developed a concept which met the needs of a growing yet overlooked consumer base.
The team behind Hobbii have enjoyed previous successes, including founding Graduateland, a career portal with one million users across 200 countries; and Ontame, a plug-and-play analytics suite for recruiters. A company targeting knitting and crocheting enthusiasts, selling physical goods rather than “bits and bytes,” couldn’t be further from their knowledge and experience – so, how did Hobbii come to be? Jens explains:
“I’d love to say it’s because we all enjoyed knitting in our spare time, but that wasn’t the case. Through our affiliate marketing business, Starfly Media, we’d previously sold subscriptions for a craft magazine. Advertising data confirmed a high volume of traffic and good engagement via social media for this publication. We considered partnering with other craft magazines, but with an integrated product offering e.g. yarn. It soon became clear that the market for selling yarn itself had lots of potential.
Jens et al.'s previous business ventures were based on determining what’s popular with consumers and then identifying potential gaps in the marketplace. Through researching the yarn industry, he says, it was obvious that there was a large and dynamic community of consumers passionate about quality and always seeking new and better products. Their needs, however, were largely served by a fragmented market consisting of several small shops, with no ambition to expand.
With very few players having managed to scale a business, it appeared a perfect prospect for a new endeavour. A trial period was necessary, though, and the team started by buying one pallet of yarn and selling it – then two, then four, then eight. The stock sold very quickly, says Jens. And more customers led to higher transaction volumes and better prices for goods and shipping.
“Hobbii is one of the first companies to identify the ‘race to scale’ opportunity in this sector,” he highlighted. “Larger industries like fashion have operated this way for years; we were lucky to spot the potential when we did and ambitious enough to expand the business.”
Foresight and ambition have certainly led to enormous success. And two other factors, in particular, have played a critical role in Hobbii’s rapid growth journey.
First, the operation is built around trading own-brand products. Most of Hobbii’s yarn is produced in Italy, India and Turkey and shipped to Denmark. There it's stored, packed and sent to the end customers. By investing in high-quality manufacturing and materials and cultivating a strong brand, the business has differentiated itself from retailers selling third party yarn. It also enjoys better margins.
The second factor has been Hobbii’s eagerness to launch internationally. Because of previous experience, the team had a competitive edge within online marketing and IT and used these skills to achieve the customer-reach they desired. “Online marketing is 80% the same for any type of product,” says Jens. And he explained how entering lots of different markets in a short space of time enabled the business to invest in product development, build cost-effective infrastructure and reduce prices.
Although Hobbii’s Founders had expanded companies overseas before and managed large customer databases, transaction volumes and revenues, Jens admitted the fulfilment and warehousing aspect of selling physical goods was a major departure, which caused “lots headaches” at first. “We’ve persevered, though, he says. “And we’re in a position where we can say we’ve perfected that aspect of the business.”
He added: “Hobbii now buys 100 pallets of yarn per day and has customers across Europe, the US and Canada, Australia, South Africa, Chile and Brazil. We aim to make the best yarn at affordable prices. By introducing lots of high-quality own-brand products across multiple territories, we’ve achieved scale fast.”
Customer engagement has also played a major role in Hobbii’s journey so far. Jens notes how knowing “absolutely nothing” about the market was advantageous, as it meant the business started by asking “obvious questions” which those already operating in the sector weren’t asking. This enabled the team to understand factors that are important to people when buying yarn, as well as what other accessories and services they could offer those interested in the world of knitting.
The engagement piece is clearly important within the industry and Hobbii continues to leverage digital marketing expertise to embed conversations and customer interaction within its day-to-day operations. Google, Facebook and Instagram remain its largest channels, and through a combination of paid advertising as well as content, affiliate and influencer marketing, it has gained widespread brand recognition in key territories.
Only 20% of Hobbii’s revenue comes from Denmark, Jens revealed, and the company’s biggest markets are Sweden, Germany and the USA. Thirteen countries overall have dedicated marketing support and most also have local web-stores with 24/7 customer service. Hobbii’s marketing team is currently 27 people – “crazy for a business that sells yarn” – and Jens admits there’s enough work to justify doubling its size, which they may do as the business goes from strength to strength.
So, where is future growth going to come from?
There are two elements to this, according to Jens. First, customer experience is a major focus moving forward. Although Hobbii has used social media to establish a lively and active community of knitting and crocheting enthusiasts, some of its large international competitors benefit from exclusive customer access through bespoke community platforms. Ravelry.com, in particular, is a leader in this respect and Hobbii intends to match its success by developing a community platform of its own: “We intend to replicate the customer activity we get via Facebook and Instagram where people share ideas, experiences and creations, via our own exclusive web-portal.”
The other factor which will facilitate Hobbii’s future success is complimenting its ecommerce operation with traditional brick and mortar assets. And rather than it being a brand building exercise, Jens highlighted how this where the real opportunity in the sector exists, as 75% of all yarn is still bought in physical stores.
Hobbii started rolling out its high-street retail strategy in August 2019, when the business opened its first store in Copenhagen 1,500 customers visited on opening day, with people travelling from all over Denmark and even Holland for the occasion. The queue outside was 400 meters long, says Jens, and with 20 employees manning tills and helping customers sample products, the atmosphere within the 350 square metre space could only be described as “yarn mania” for much of the day.
“Together Hobbii and its customers are building an omnichannel yarn universe,” says Jens. The business has already experienced increased online sales for particular product lines after people have held yarns in store. And Jens expects the experience of visiting a store and being able to touch products and see colours more vividly will also attract new customers, improve re-purchase rates from existing customers, and boost sales for higher-quality yarns moving forward.
Hobbii’s decision to open a store was also driven by customer demand for a permanent location where the business could host regular knitting and crocheting events. And while these events are a great way to bring the vibrancy of its online community to life, Jens notes how they’re another valuable opportunity to listen to customer needs: “At events, our customers discuss the colours and quality of our yarn and make suggestions for pattern guides they would like to see – we’re always eager to act on these suggestions and tailor products to meet customer expectations.”
Further store openings are planned across Denmark during the next 12 months. And Hobbii is considering launching shops in Germany and even the USA too, where there is lots of untapped potential for growth. “Until this year, Hobbii has only ever tried to capture 25% of the yarn market,” says Jens. “Within three years, we anticipate our retail operation to be equal in size to the online business.”
The recent appointment of former Maersk and Kopenhagen Fur executive, Jeppe Kallesøe, as COO brings necessary supply chain, warehousing and fulfilment expertise to Hobbii as the business expands its retail operation. While introducing processes are a “ necessary evil” to ensure the business remains competitive, Jens is certain that Hobbii will maintain the entrepreneurial flair which has brought it so much success.
Culture is about setting the right example, he says. Two employees are now focused on people initiatives. And with the Founders all actively involved in “driving culture from the top down” he’s certain Hobbii is the perfect working environment for entrepreneurial people to accomplish great things.
Jens et. al believe a key aspect of being entrepreneurial is trying new things and always remaining at the forefront of product development, technology and channels. When a business experiences extreme growth, he argues, it enters a period of managed chaos. To thrive in that kind of environment, it requires people who are always finding better and smarter ways to meet and exceed their objectives. In Jens’s words:
“A Hobbii person is creative, curious, open-minded and ambitious. They thrive on autonomy and responsibility, are comfortable calling the shots themselves and having a strong intuition of how to solve problems. We’ve recently been confirmed as the fastest-growing company in Denmark over the last four years – that’s only possible because of the brilliant people we have here and a culture that facilitates fast decision making at all levels.”
As the business enters its fifth year of trading, Jens shared his desire to see Hobbii become the world’s largest direct to consumer yarn brand:
“We’re on track to achieve great things,” he says. “As an entrepreneur, it's always exciting starting a new enterprise and see it take off. There’s excitement too, though, in being part of a growth journey. Hobbii has become too big to fail. We must dedicate all our time and energy to reach our goals. I don’t know how long it will take, but we absolutely intend to see this through to the end.”
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Age of Empires: Castle Siege headed to Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 for 'free'
By Shreyas Gandhe Neowin @__shreyas · Aug 25, 2014 16:10 EDT · Hot! with 23 comments
Microsoft's successful Age of Empires franchise will soon be getting a touch-centric version in the form of Castle Siege, which will be launched in September.
Age of Empires is one of the most popular real-time strategy game franchises on the PC and Microsoft has been looking to bring the game to its mobile platforms for quite some time. However, the Age of Empires: World Domination game which was set to launch on all mobile platforms has been delayed till the end of the year but another Age of Empires game, which would be called Age of Empires: Castle Siege, will land on the Windows and Windows Phone stores in September.
The game will feature all the essential features from the classic Age of Empires games and will include six medieval civilizations such as Britons, Teutons and Kievan Rus. On the multiplayer front, the game will support Xbox Live achievements and cross-platform gameplay with other Windows and Windows Phone users.
Users will be able to download the game for free, but Microsoft has mentioned that the game will have in-game purchases for "accelerated gameplay." The minimum download size is set to be 168 MB and Windows Phone users will need to be connected via Wi-Fi in order to download the game.
Microsoft is showcasing the Castle Siege's gameplay on Twitch today.
Source: Microsoft Studios via WPCentral | Images and video via Microsoft
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Sportswomen asked to donate brains for research into gender differences in the link between sport and dementia
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Sportswomen across the UK are being urged to donate their brains to vital research into gender differences in degenerative neurological diseases such as dementia.
The initiative is being run by Dr Willie Stewart of the Glasgow Brain Injury Research Group, to bring attention to the detrimental effects of sport, domestic violence, accidents and military service on the female brain.
Previous research from Dr Stewart found significant links between male professional football and dementia and alongside PINK Concussions brain charity, he is now looking to investigate gender differences in this area.
Sportswomen can sign up on the PINK Concussions website in order to pledge to donate their brains to the Glasgow Traumatic Brain Injury Archive to investigate the link between sport and brain injury.
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“Despite the many advances in understanding outcomes from brain injury we and others have reported, we must recognise that sex differences have not been adequately explored,” said Dr Stewart. “I hope that through this partnership more females will consider registering to donate their brain for research to allow us to take forward these important studies.”
A number of world-famous Athletes, including FIFA Women's World Cup Golden Boot winner Megan Rapinoe, have already pledged to donate their brains to a US-based study titled “Soccer, Head Impacts and Neurological Effects."
It is hoped this research can make the sport safer and prevent detrimental long-lasting effects from repeated headers and collisions.
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The nine assets for sale are as follows:
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Apple Submits a Seven-Page Letter to the Australian Parliament Objecting to Six Major Points with one being Totally Hypocritical
Apple has submitted a seven-page letter to the Australian Parliament opposing the Australian government's draft law — known as the Access and Assistance Bill. A full copy of that letter is presented at the end of our report so you can view it in its entirety.
Many in the press continue to believe that Apple's fight with the Australian bill is about safeguarding encryption and yet Apple's letter makes it abundantly clear that Apple is fighting the bill in areas far beyond encryption.
In the big picture, Apple knows that their letter isn't just narrowly confined to the Australian bill, but rather responding to the concerns and positions taken by the Five-Eyes security group.
The five security agencies under the Five-Eyes umbrella represent Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and most importantly the U.S. If Australia's bill is passed to safeguard Australians, then the other four countries will no doubt use this case as a blueprint against Apple and other players in Silicon Valley.
Apple's concern about encryption is understandable being that they sell the most popular smartphones in the world. Apple's iPhone handles financial transactions via Apple Pay and will be a storehouse for user's personal health records over time.
You have to respect Apple for taking a stance on encryption in respect to the specific apps that they make a case for. 100% of consumers demand encryption for key apps and Apple fighting for them is applauded.
I don't believe however that 100% of those same consumers want general encryption to protect a jihadist from sending a kill order to blow up a school; or allow human smugglers to grab children from a specific playground at a specific time to assist an MS 13 kingpin reach his quota set by the Mexican cartel.
While the Australian Government wants major flexibility with tech companies like Apple, Apple says sure – but only under our 6 new deeply devised conditions. Apple's new list of six issues is designed to create a new wall of defense and causing gridlock in the Australian Parliament like it is in the U.S. With gridlock, lobbyists win, not the people.
Apple's letter to the Australian Parliament clearly shows that Apple is now widening their issue foundation from protecting encryption to now being concerned over general security matters.
At one point in the letter, Apple lists their five new deep conditions (+ encryption) that they're demanding be present in the Australian Bill. Apple states:
"While the bill presents many questions and opportunities for clarification, we focus our comments on several overarching themes: (1) overly broad powers that could weaken cybersecurity and encryption; (2) a lack of appropriate independent judicial oversight, (3) technical requirements based only on the government's subjective view of reasonableness and practicability, (4) unprecedented interception requirements, (5) unnecessarily stifling secrecy mandates, and (6) extraterritoriality and global impact."
You could read about Apple's 5 key themes and more below in a copy of Apple's 7 page letter to the Australian Parliament.
Apple's full Submission to the Australian Parliament courtesy of Patently Apple
Official Apple Comments to the Australian Parliament on Intelligence and Security Legislation by Jack Purcher on Scribd
Beyond the six deep objections/concerns presented in their letter provided above, Apple also provided a simple hypothetical scenario that has nothing to do with encryption. Apple said that the Australian bill could allow the government to order a smart speaker maker to install persistent eavesdropping capabilities into them. Of course Apple was thinking about their HomePod without identifying it specifically. This scenario has nothing to do with encryption.
In the new Australian bill, if Tim Cook and/or any of Apple's engineers would reveal such a secret government project to the media or in a press release, they could be thrown in jail and charged a huge fine.
Apple made that a point under #5 titled "unnecessarily stifling secrecy mandates." Apple doesn't like the fact that the government could fine and jail companies and employees who reveal secret project to the press. You have to wonder why Apple decided to make such a big deal over this point.
Apple's CEO Tim Cook has preached to their employees on a number of occasions that if they squealed about a secret project to the press that they would be charged.
Patently Apple covered a story about a senior employee that in fact did get fired over a simple iOS revelation – mercilessly. So on that point to the Australian Parliament we see Apple's pure hypocrisy at play.
If you've read Apple's full letter and have a well formed opinion on it, please send in your comments below.
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Schools and childhood roundup
Chicago mayor not the only one pushing this awful idea: New Mexico lawmakers propose requiring high school grads to apply to college or file alternate life plan [Dan Boyd, Albuquerque Journal]
“New York’s Bid to Control Religious Schools” [Avi Schick, WSJ/Yeshiva World]
“Couple’s three girls were taken away after Walmart reported innocent bath time photos” [Derek Hawkins, WaPo/The State, Jacob Sullum, Reason]
Also soliciting public comment: “Education Department delays Obama rule encouraging racial quotas in special ed” [Jerome Woehrle, Liberty Unyielding; Erica L. Green, New York Times; Hans Bader/CEI last fall] “Civil Rights Commission Takes on Issue of Minorities in Special Education” [Christina Samuels, EdWeek] And: “Federal Special Education Law and State School Choice Programs” [Tim Keller and Nat Malkus, Federalist Society]
New from Cato, edited by George H. Smith and Marilyn Moore: “Critics of State Education: A Reader.”
“Everybody Hates DC’s Proposal Forcing Daycare Workers to Get College Degrees” [Eric Boehm, Reason, earlier here and here]
Filed under: Child Protective Services, New Mexico, New York state, occupational licensure, racial quotas, religious liberty, schools, Washington D.C.
With respect to the photos, shouldn’t the CPS people take as a given that their intervention will necessarily cause harm–the only question being whether the harm is a necessarily evil to forestall greater harm. That should militate against rash actions in cases like these.
Instead it looks like we had a bunch of crusaders who were willing to think the worst of these people and obviously didn’t care so much about the consequences of their actions. Those are the worst kind of zealots. I don’t understand how it’s not possible to be completely against exploitation of children but also completely against witch hunts.
The sad thing is–these people probably don’t think they did anything wrong. Not everyone has the same views about these kinds of pictures. But the penalty for not complying with CPS’ sense of taste shouldn’t be a bogus search warrant and having your kids taken away.
New Mexico lawmakers propose requiring high school grads to apply to college or file alternate life plan.
It’s like they’re admitting their education system has failed the students, and at the end they wash their hands of the mess. “Sorry, Felicia didn’t file a life-plan. No diploma for her.”
Why is this the school system’s responsibility anyway? Of course the govt. has taken control of the children (see Seattle Public Schools marine biology fiasco, link below), but they are way overreaching by trying to slot people into “appropriate” tracks. They should buzz off.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/in-seattle-teachers-are-going-rogue-just-to-take-kids-on-a-field-trip/
By Canvasback
“Having spent a dozen years in the educational system set up by the legislature and having learned nothing of value to myself or anyone else, I have determined that the only role in life I am fit for is to become a member of the New Mexico Government, where I will fit right in and, indeed, excel.”
By Boblipton
Does young Andrew really want to take on the Archdiocese of New York over education? Of course, it might be the thing that finally causes the Archbishop to pronounce him anathema.
By Fox2!
Perhaps they should require a life plan for those who do apply to college. In particular, what is the earning potential of your major versus the debt you will accumulate?
By DarrellR
Regulating schools?
Parochial and Modern Orthodox Jewish schools are doing fine and should be left alone. Some Haredi (ultra-orthodox) Jewish schools might be another matter, however. In Israel, some of them are notorious for graduates able only to recite religious texts, unable to hold a real job.
To the extent that might be a problem in the USA, it could be diagnosed with standardized achievement tests that representative samples from all schools were required to take. The notion that local school committees would force substandard Haredi schools to improve is laughable; the Haredi make up a formidable local voting blocs, able to dominate local school committees.
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How to change your Facebook username – Vanity URL
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by Alexis Belle | Nov 18, 2011 | Social Media | 0 comments
This is one of our series of social media marketing video tutorials that were planning to roll out over the next few months covering Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Last month we released some great video tutorials on Twitter Marketing, so if you found these useful we hope you like our latest videos. How to change your Facebook username or Facebook Vanity URL is a beginners guide to Facebook, designed for people who are new to the Facebook social network or social media marketing as a whole. In this video we will show you how to change your Facebook username – we will show you how to successfully assign a vanity URL to your Facebook profile and Business page. If you found this tutorial helpful then please LIKE or leave a comment below. Remember to watch this space as we will be releasing Facebook video tutorials on the following hot topics over the next couple of months:
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Hi there, guys, and welcome back. In this video I’m going to be showing you how to set up a Vanity URL for your Facebook page or profile. Now a URL or a Vanity URL is basically an address. It’s a unique address that you assign to any particular website. So if we just go to the top here. We’ve got “www.Facebook.com/” and after the forward slash is “My Unique Profile”. It starts with “Profile.php” and then we’ve got a load of text and a load of numbers. So that isnt going to be too memorable if we want to give that out to people and put that on maybe a blog or a business card. So what I want to do is, after theyve got the forward slash, I want to pop in my name, Alexis R Bell. So there’s a few ways of doing this. The first way is if we go across here to the right, the little triangle upside down, I’ll click on that and it will bring a drop down menu and I’ll click “Account Settings.” So once that’s loaded up I want to go down to where it says “Username.” It says, “You have not set your username.” I’ll go across to “Edit” and click “Edit.” So on this page this is where you set your unique username. So after the forward slash, you want to put whatever is relevant to either yourself or your brand, if it’s a page. So here I want to set it to my name, so it’s Alexis R Bell, okay. Now it’s really important to make sure all the spelling is correct and it is exactly how you want it to be, because once you set this you cannot change it. No matter what you do, you cannot change it, so I really stress that. And once you’ve set that you want to pop in your password, and then you want to hit “Save Changes”. So Ill just check that, Alexis R Bell, and save changes. Now that’s saved, so what I want to do is go back up to Alexis R Bell, and there we go. My profile’s now set. If we go up to the top here we’ve got www.Facebook.com/Alexis R Bell. So that’s now set and if I want to give to that to anyone it’s a lot easier to remember, and it looks a lot better as well. Another way of changing your details, particularly if you have a Facebook page, is to go up to the top where it says “www.Facebook.com/” type in username and hit “Enter.” And this will ask you whether you want to change the name. Now I’ve already changed my profile name, but what I can do is I can change one of my page names. So I’ll just have a look here, let’s say “Grapple Videos”. So I’ve got another page here called Grapple Videos and this is to do with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, so what I can do is I can actually change the name if I want to. And again once I’ve changed the name, that’s it set in stone. So I can put something like “Jiu Jitsu Arts” okay, and I can click here where it says “Check Availability”. A few things to bear in mind, once you’ve changed the name you can’t change it back. It’s set in stone. And also you can’t transfer the ownership of that name to any other parties, and also if there’s anything that violates trademark rights you’re not allowed to do that on Facebook. So once youve decided and you’re really happy, and youve checked the spelling and youve checked it once, twice, three times, you’re very happy with it, click “Confirm.” And that’s how you change your Facebook Vanity URL.
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OpEdNews Op Eds 10/7/2006 at 11:39:14
Oscars for the "Homosexual Defenders" Please
By Dean Powers (Page 1 of 1 pages) (View How Many People Read This) 12 comments
Anne Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity deserve Oscars for their role as sympathizers in "The Passion of the Gays." After a career cumulative of a half-century of gay-bashing between the three of them, they are suddenly the homosexual's only protectors in a sea of gay-hating, liberal sharks. To attempt to make the leaps in their logic, you would need a cape bigger than Superman's. They don't realize it because they live in a different planet-zone than their listeners, but their change of loyalties rings false.
If you are going to oppose legislation for gay people, then do it because you are hiding your own homosexual behavior from Bubba and Chip, not because you are trying to score political points. I am being facetious, but apparently politics is exactly what prompts the right to inveigh against homosexuals. Limbaugh, sounding more like the type of human rights activist he typically drags behind his verbal pickup truck, denounced the left for "gay-bashing." He complained about their "gay bashing" over and over again on Friday before jetting off in his private plane for a golf tournament somewhere.
Anne Coulter regurgitated his sentiments a few hours latter on Sean Hannity's radio show. Meanwhile their audience, once blindly infatuated with them for their bedrock beliefs, is now realizing that those beliefs really depend upon the weather. They must think their audience is stupid to not smell something fishy about this newfound concern for gay people. It's funny that it comes at a time when the Grand Old Party is being exposed as the Gay Old Party. Nothing wrong with homosexuals, but I don't even need to point out the hypocrisy. And you have to wonder if they would be so reckless about "changing positions" if it weren't October.
So effectually, the Mark Foley sex scandal is threatening to undermine the credibility of some of the most popular conservative talk show hosts in the business. If they think that they can blow wind from the four corners of the world depending on which way they need to fly their kite, their audience will quickly see them for the corporate spokespeople they really are.
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For this report, the Center for American Progress collected and analyzed data on the location and capacity of licensed or registered child care providers in every state and Washington, D.C. These data were synthesized with estimates of the population, family income, and labor force participation rates in every one of the country’s 73,057 census tracts. This original and comprehensive analysis of child care supply at the census tract level finds that 51 percent of Americans live in child care deserts.
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Integration of the Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) model across primary care settings
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This project sought to assess the generalizability, barriers, and facilitators of implementing the Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) model for addressing psychosocial risk factors for maltreatment across multiple primary care settings, including a pediatric practice, federally qualified health center, and family medicine practice. The SEEK model includes screening caregivers for psychosocial risk factors at well-child visits age 0 to 5 years, brief intervention incorporating principles of motivational interviewing to engage caregivers, and referral to treatment.
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Economic change and the social safety net: Are rural Americans still behind?
Ziliak, James P.
This aim of this paper is to assess the economic status of rural people five decades after publication of President Johnson's National Commission on Rural Poverty report The People Left Behind. Using data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the CPS, along with county data from the Regional Economic Information System, I focus on how changes in employment, wages, and the social safety net have influenced the evolution of poverty and inequality in rural and urban places.
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Mobile coaching: Innovation and small-scale experimentation to better engage program participants in rural Colorado
McCay, Jonathan
France, Marcia
Lujan, Loretta
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Access to reliable transportation is a common challenge in rural communities across the country, especially for low-income families who may have few public transit options, if any. Human services providers, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs, regularly encounter this issue with the families they serve. The La Plata County (Colorado) Department of Human Services designed an innovative strategy to address this challenge and coach parents on planning and achieving their goals at the same time.
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More than one in four rural children live in a family with income below the official poverty line in 2013, compared to one in five in 1999. Possible reasons for this rise in rural poverty include changes in family composition, educational attainment, labor markets, and changes to social welfare policies. The social welfare system in the United States, comprising the full array of income transfers, tax credits, and other benefits available to those in need, was designed to offset economic hardship.
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Association of childhood trauma exposure with adult psychiatric disorders and functional outcomes
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Fairbank, John A.
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Costello, E. Jane
IMPORTANCE Being exposed to trauma is a common childhood experience associated with symptoms and impairments in childhood.
OBJECTIVE To assess the association between cumulative childhood trauma exposure and adult psychiatric and functional outcomes.
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How far Americans live from the closest hospital differs by community type
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Toor, Skye
Rural Americans are more likely than people in urban and suburban areas to say access to good doctors and hospitals is a major problem in their community. Nearly a quarter (23%) of Americans in rural areas say this, compared with 18% of urbanites and 9% of suburbanites, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted earlier this year. (Edited author introduction)
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Using data combined from the 2013–2015 National Health Interview Surveys, this brief examines characteristics of individuals with Medicaid coverage—children and adults—in rural areas, as well as their access to care and use of services, comparing their experience to their privately insured and uninsured counterparts. We also compare access and use between Medicaid beneficiaries in urban and rural areas, and by disability. (Edited author introduction)
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An institutional analysis of American Job Centers: AJC service delivery in rural areas
Betesh, Hannah
To systematically document key characteristics and features of American Job Centers (AJCs), Mathematica and its partners—Social Policy Research Associates, The George Washington University, and Capital Research Corporation—conducted the Institutional Analysis of AJCs for the U.S. Department of Labor. This paper discusses key features and experiences of 12 AJCs that are located in rural areas. The research focuses on AJCs as the unit of service delivery, which is a narrower focus than prior studies of the rural workforce system as a whole.
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VIDEO: Woman Jumps on Hood of Her Car to Stop Would-Be Carjacker
A Wisconsin woman fought back against a would-be carjacker by jumping onto the hood of her car and hanging on until he bailed.
A Wisconsin woman sprang into action—literally—by jumping onto the hood of her car after a would-be carjacker tried driving off with her vehicle during a harrowing incident captured on a surveillance camera.
It all began when 28-year-old Melissa Smith pulled into a gas station in Milwaukee and got out of her car to remove the gas pump, leaving her keys in the ignition.
That’s when Smith “turned around and realized someone was in my car,” she told ABC news.
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Her first thought? “I’m not dealing with this sort of crap today!” she told CNN.
As a result, Smith “ran around my car and then decided to hop on,” she said.
Smith jumped onto the hood of her car, grabbed the windshield wiper and started yelling at the would-be carjacker.
“I was screaming at him. I pounded on the windshield a couple times,” Smith recalled to CNN. “He, in turn, laughed at me…tried throwing me off, and continued to laugh at me.”
The video shows the suspect turning on the windshield wipers and lurching the car forward before hitting the brakes in an attempt to get Smith off the hood, but she continued to hang on.
Eventually, the failed car thief gave up. The surveillance footage shows him bailing out of Smith’s car—taking her purse—and getting into the backseat of another car full of accomplices nearby. The car then sped off.
While the fact that the suspect ditched Smith’s car was a positive outcome, she was put in a very dangerous predicament—the vehicle was left in drive and was rolling into traffic while she was still on the hood.
Fortunately, Smith managed to jump off the hood and climb into her moving vehicle to stop it just as it moved into traffic.
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Smith suffered only minor bruising during the incident. She told ABC News she “definitely should not have jumped on my car and risked my life, but that was not what I was thinking at that moment.”
Smith also said the encounter has taught her to “be more aware of your surroundings no matter where you are.”
“And take your keys with you and lock your car doors when you get gas!” she added. “I will never not do that.”
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Johnny Carson's former estate, owned by Sidney Kimmel, drops $16 million off price
Carson lived at the Malibu property for more than 20 years
By Adam Hermann
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The former home of Johnny Carson in Malibu, California, has a pool, tennis court and fitness center overlooking Point Dume Marine Reserve.
Johnny Carson’s Malibu estate, which is owned by Philadelphia native film producer, fashion mogul, and philanthropist Sidney Kimmel, has taken a whopping 20 percent off its asking price, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The asking price is now $65.2 million, which is still quite a bit of money.
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The late “Tonight Show” host had lived in the 4-acre oceanfront property for over 20 years before passing away in 2005. Carson purchased the estate in 1984 for roughly $9.5 million, according to the Times. The Kimmel family acquired the home from Carson’s widow in 2007 for $46 million.
The main house measures 7,083 square feet, with a 843-square-foot guest house, a tennis court, an indoor arboretum, a swimming pool and a koi pond, and plenty more. It overlooks the Point Dume State Marine Reserve.
You can find the listing's brochure here, and you can find more photos of the property at its Coldwell Banker web page.
Kimmel’s history of donating to his hometown is well-documented. Through his foundation, the Sidney Kimmel Foundation, he’s donated millions to Thomas Jefferson University, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, the National Constitution Center, and the National Museum of American Jewish History.
Kimmel, 90, is worth $1.3 billion according to Forbes.
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Phnom Penh Post - Bricks face regional competition
Bricks face regional competition
Moeun Nhean | Publication date 28 July 2016 | 10:09 ICT
Inside a Kandal province brick factory. Despite an increasing degree of automisation in domestic brick production, imports from Vietnam are often still cheaper. Kali Kotoski
Moeun Nhean
Over the last decade, Cambodia has witnessed rapid urban development in many areas.
As tall buildings and thousands of shop houses continue to be built across the country, materials of modern construction are pouring into Cambodia to fulfil the demands of the growing construction sector.
Modern construction materials vary across a huge range; wood, bricks, cement, and metal as the basic necessities, and many other secondary materials such as tiles, porcelain, glass, plastic, paint and rugs. Most of these materials are imported, even hollowed bricks and solid bricks, which can be easily made here in the country.
A 50-year-old owner of Santepheap Brick Factory, located at Bakheng in Russeikeo district, said demand for his bricks vary with the seasons.
“We’re mostly busy only in the dry season,” he said.
“The sales decrease in the rainy season. It’s normal.”
He continued, “This year, sales have decreased because solid and hollowed bricks are being imported from the neighbouring countries. Mostly, more people living in provinces like Kampot, Takeo, Kandal, Prey Veng, Svay Rieng, Kampong Cham, Tbong Kmom, Ratanakiri, and Mondulkiri – areas close to the borders – are using imported bricks.”
When asked what were the factors contributing to locals and businesses using imported construction materials over local ones, he said local bricks are more expensive.
An autmatic brick maker with conveyor belt. Kali Kotoski
“The production costs in our country are high. We have to pay the electricity, petrol, labour, and transportation costs.”
In terms of quality, however, “It’s comparable, but most [construction workers] tell us that local bricks are stronger than imported bricks.”
He added that building companies are also struggling with a lack of skilled workers. “Right now, we are facing a lack of workers because most young Cambodians are emigrating abroad,” adding that a brick factory worker earns about 20,000 riel ($5) a day but can earn more if they put in overtime work.
Hen Vuthy, head of a family-owned construction firm in Svay Rieng province, who has been in the industry for almost a decade, said, “In fact, if local bricks are heated properly they’re stronger than Vietnamese bricks, but Vietnamese bricks usually have a more even shape, better colouring, and easier when used to set up walls.”
Nonetheless, he said that he still prefers to use Cambodian bricks, even though they are more pricey compared with Vietnamese bricks.
In comparison, Vuthy added, “Most heads of construction at my hometown in Svay Rieng and Prey Veng use bricks imported from Vietnam.”
The price for bricks in Phnom Penh is $285 to $300 for 10,000 bricks, including the transport fee from the factory – around Bakheng – to Phnom Penh.
Vietnamese bricks are not sold as widely in Phnom Penh compared to the provinces, but the price is roughly the same.
Chan Kea, from Kampong Trach in Kampot, had just finished constructing his small house: “I saved up and purchased bricks from Vietnam since the dry season. [A set of] 5,000 bricks cost about $120 to $130.
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Philadelphia Planning Commission Approves ADU Bill
The commission recommended a trio of bills focused on historic preservation, including one that would permit accessory dwelling units on historic properties.
August 27, 2019, 7am PDT | Camille Fink
Jake Blumgart reports that Philadelphia City Planning Commission recently approved a bill to allow accessory dwelling units in historic buildings. The city’s zoning code currently does not allow ADUs even though they are defined in the code with dimensional standards, notes Blumgart. Advocates say allowing ADUs will help preserve older buildings and provide affordable housing.
The ADU bill was one of three bills the planning commission approved. Another bill would remove parking minimums for historic buildings and reduce required parking for expansions and additions. The third bill gives more flexibility in the use of historic buildings in order to make reuse a better option over demolition.
"The bills are seen as part of a strategy to incentivize historic preservation in the city, although they fall short of the 'demolition delay' legislation that many preservation advocates call for," notes Blumgart.
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Plunket Transition Update
People are talking about Plunket this week and we understand some people are wondering what we are doing.
We want to assure New Zealanders that hundreds of dedicated Plunket staff and volunteers up and down the country are doing the same thing today that we’ve been doing for over 110 years – looking after families at one of the most critical and special times of their lives. We continue to do this and our Plunket nursing service is not changing.
But Plunket has recently made some changes to our structure – because we have to - but it looks like not everyone knows that story; why and how we are transforming, and what it means for New Zealand.
Through our proud 110 year history, everything our dedicated staff, volunteers and supporters have done has been about investing in families and children so we can make the biggest difference in their lives. But we all know, society is constantly changing and we have to change with it.
New Zealand has too many children living in poverty, and we have a new generation of parents wanting our services delivered in ways that work for them and at times that suit them, including through digital channels.
This is what led us to make historic changes over the last few years to our governance structure and to become a single national entity.
Our previous structure had led to vast disparities in our support to communities. In those areas with an active area society and volunteer base – Plunket’s extra services were plentiful. But in others, often those that needed it most, dwindling volunteer numbers and fewer members to support area societies, meant there were hardly any community services at all.
This was a courageous step by our membership to vote to consolidate and work together to address the needs of all families.
We will continue to work with our volunteers, communities and funders. These friends play a vital role in building our future because, while our Well Child service is funded by the Government, all our other services including parenting education, refugee family groups and playgroups for example, only happen because of their generous support – of funding, time and local people understanding local needs.
We know change is hard. But our decisions will necessarily be bold and brave so we can be there when families need us and we can deliver our strategy, the Journey Towards Generational Change.
Around a quarter of all New Zealand children live in poverty. That’s why we’re doing the things we’re doing – to improve the lives of those babies, children and communities missing out under our old way of working. Find out how we are Becoming a Modern Plunket.
If you would like to hear Plunket CEO, Amanda Malu talk about Plunket’s changes you can listen here.
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What's new? KAMI, Cavorite 3, Duet, Escape from Doom, and more
Hands-on with this week's new iPhone and iPad games
By Mark Brown
New releases round-up
At the end of every week, we take time out to look at the new and noteworthy iOS games from the past seven days in both words and video.
These are often just our very first impressions of play. If you want our in-depth judgement, we'll have full reviews for most of these games up on the site soon. Let us know in the comments section below what you want to see reviewed.
Anyway. This week, we've got pint-size acrobats, steam-powered tanks, papercraft puzzlers, dancing dots, anti-gravity paint, a history of fonts, massive strategy games, and a handful of mummies.
Check out the video below to see these games in action, or read on for words, screenshots, and links to the App Store.
Ring Run Circus
By Kalio - buy on iPhone and iPad (£2.49 / $3.99)
Clever puzzler Ring Run Circus stars a tiny acrobat named Nina who roller skates around in giant floating rings. If you hold the left side of the screen, Nina will run on the outside of circles. This also enables you to transfer between rings.
You can also jump, get speed boosts, and eventually unlock other characters. It's well presented, filled with content, and goes to show that there are still innovative ways to re-imagine the platformer for touchscreens.
If you fancy something fresh, check it out.
By Bulkypix - buy on iPhone and iPad (£1.99 / $2.99)
Type:Rider is a jolly jaunt through the history of the written word. Here, you are served up simple NightSky-style physics conundrums while you learn about Johannes Gutenberg and Cuneiform script.
And the written word isn't just an interesting backdrop. The game's obstacles and traps are linked to the current history lesson, so you'll meet a giant letterpress that aims to squish you and movable type tiles that fall like dominoes.
A fun game and surprisingly educational.
By Komubius - buy on iPhone and iPad (£1.99 / $2.99)
Like many, many game developers before it, Komubius marries abstract shapes, an electronica soundtrack, and hard-as-nails gameplay to construct its game. But while the aesthetic of Duet is familiar, the gameplay is all new.
You control two balls - one red and one blue - that are linked together by a giant ring. As they drift through the environment and encounter obstacles, you have to carefully rotate your duo to avoid immediate death.
It's an unnatural and sometimes counter-intuitive way to interact with a game, but that just makes it all the more satisfying when you figure it out and become one with the game. If you fancy a challenge, get this game.
Monster Adventures
By Foursaken Media - buy on iPhone and iPad (£1.49 / $1.99)
Why buy Pokemon X and Y this week when you could get this new monster-hunting RPG from Foursaken Media (of Block Fortress and NY Zombies 'fame')?
Monster Adventures boasts randomly generated roguelike levels, for one. Plus, you can customise your crew of hideous critters and let them loose on rival "Wildings".
Okay, so maybe it's because the graphics are embarrassingly bad, it's packed with in-app purchases, the fighting controls are terrible, and the writing is poor. Pokemon it is, then.
By State of Play Games - buy on iPhone and iPad (69p / 99c)
KAMI is the latest game from Lume creator State of Play. You're presented with a colourful pattern, and your goal is to systematically re-colour each section until the whole screen is just one colour.
It means making judicious use of taps, thinking several steps ahead, and formulating a clever plan. Fun, but we've played it before.
What makes it stand out, though, is the beautiful presentation. Everything is made from paper, new colours eat through the old like a crazy virus, and completed levels fold into a pleasing origami shape. Lovely stuff.
By DreamGate Studios - buy on iPhone and iPad (69p / 99c)
Steampunk Tower is a new tower defence game. Wait, wait. Come back.
This isn't a boring corridor of death game. In this one, you see, you equip a central skyscraper with extra weapons, like in Lucky Frame's Bad Hotel. You'll then use your towering gun turret to destroy steampunk tanks and choppers.
It's all very touchy as you reconfigure your tower in real time to focus on different directions or make your guns upgrade or reload. Unlike a typical tower defence game, then, this never gets boring. But it is a little fiddly on iPhone.
It's good fun, but expect to find a lot of in-app purchases. It is, after all, published by Chillingo.
Escape from Doom
By Trigger Happy - buy on iPhone and iPad (£1.49 / $1.99)
Escape from Doom is last year's Into the Dead - that claustrophobic first-person endless-runner - but with an Egyptian theme. So, you now dodge and shoot mummies instead of zombies. Oh, and your vision is impaired by a sandstorm rather than thick fog.
It's not quite as finely engineered as PikPok's game, and it just doesn't have the same super-immersive sense of physicality and horror. So, if you missed Into the Dead, go get that instead.
Cavorite 3
By Cascadia Games - buy on iPhone and iPad (£1.49 / $1.99)
The latest Cavorite game is still a pixel-art platformer with tricky touchscreen controls and tricky puzzles on single-screen stages. In game #3, however, the dev adds the ability to fill or drain water; cavorite-washing gas; quicksand; and jetpacking selenites.
The Cavorite games are a little too fiddly and finicky to be an instant recommendation. But if you're happy to put up with some frustration (or enjoyed the first two games), you'll find a lot to like here.
By Crazy Monkey Studios - buy on iPhone and iPad (£1.99 / $2.99)
Empire, from 100 Rogues creator Keith Burgun, is like a patchwork quilt of different strategy games. It has Civilization-style city building, a lane-based battle system, a big deck of cards, and even some RPG elements for good measure.
The game is also easy to pick up (though deep enough to keep strategy veterans occupied) and should never get slow and stodgy. You're constantly being attacked, for example, and you'll have to give up your cities when the land is ruined.
If you're looking for the next big strategy game on mobile, this will do quite nicely.
Random Runners
By Ravenous Games - buy on iPhone and iPad (69p / 99c)
Ravenous Games (of League of Evil and Random Heroes fame) is back. And back with another pixel-art run-and-gun. This time around, however, Ravenous has taken inspiration from the likes of Kid Tripp and turned the whole thing into an auto-runner.
You're still leaping over pits, shooting zombies, and doing wall-jumps. You just don't have to worry about movement any more. And you're still suffering some pretty cheap and unfair deaths... until you upgrade your character and guns, of course.
A fun little twist on the Ravenous formula, then, but expect to endure some grinding here and there.
Drift Mania Street Outlaws
By Ratrod Studio - buy on iPhone and iPad (69p / 99c)
Drift Mania is all about drifting, funnily enough. The entire game centres on that thrilling feeling of snapping your boot out into the road and careening around a corner at rather dangerous speeds.
It sure is fun. Though when you're not drifting around a corner and you're just trying to drive through some simple corners, it feels less like driving a car and more like trying to steer a hockey puck.
It's filled with stuff to do, including a multiplayer mode and the option to upgrade your car with armfuls of performance boosts. If this looks up your alley, you'll probably like it.
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Charred and Burned: The School That Turns Firefighters Into Fire Detectives
When a wildfire stops burning, an important job begins: Figuring out how it started, and who should be held responsible.
By Kevin Dupzyk
In October 2017 a series of fires tore through the sleepy goldenrod hills and green trellised vineyards of California’s wine country, 15 miles from where I grew up. My friends packed up their families and left their homes behind. When the fires were extinguished, firefighters eventually deduced that the initial spark came from power lines belonging to Pacific Gas & Electric. If true, the penalty could be in the billions of dollars.
But how could anyone know? How could investigators determine if it had been powerlines or something far more subtle, like a bicycle pedal striking a rock (a real cause cited in an investigation)? Burning with curiosity, I called the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection—more commonly known as Cal Fire— and they invited me to enroll in FI-210, Wildland Fire Investigation, to learn first hand. I was the first journalist ever to attend the class, which trains firefighters to be Wildland Fire Investigators.
This is where firefighters become fire detectives.
Reading a Wildfire
Remains of damaged homes after a wildfire in October 2017.
Justin SullivanGetty Images
Class began at 0800 hours on Monday, June 11. I drove up that morning from Sacramento, where my family lives now, an hour and a half due almost directly north through land that’s a cross between Central Valley agriculture and Gold Country river-wound foothills.
Class was at the Butte College Skyway Center in Chico, but I decided to camp for the week in Oroville, the town almost drowned by a dam failure last February. Growing up in Northern California, I’d been raised with a mild fear and healthy respect of earthquakes, but as an adult I’d come to see that California is in fact a verdant garden of nature’s caprices.
I arrived that first day to a classroom full of off-duty firefighters wearing business casual and instructors milling around the front of the room. The head instructor, Chief Shawn Zimmermaker, wore a tight shirt, close-cropped hair, and a gun. The men in charge of the class were a step beyond Wildland Fire Investigators; having gone through Cal Fire’s peace officer academy, they were the guys that launched investigations and staked out crime scenes and tripped up arsonists in interrogation rooms—cops, as much as LAPD officers, but specializing in fire.
The most obvious indicator is the familiar “V” shape that fires cut through forests...but there are more subtle indicators.
That first day of class, the heart of the lecture was fire pattern indicators. What FI-210 teaches, at the most basic level, is how to use the physical evidence a fire leaves behind to trace its growth. Indicators are fingerprints left in a fire’s aftermath.
The most obvious indicator is the familiar “V” shape that fires cut through forests, with ignition at the vertex, and the legs expanding as the fire grows. But there are more subtle indicators.
Foliage freeze is when a fire heats up leaves and make them malleable, so that when they wind blows them and they cool they dry into position, like a windsock on the moon.
Protection is when the down-fire side of an object or landscape is sheltered from charring by the side that takes the brunt of advancing flames. As fire advances, it burns higher and hotter at the front as it consumes fuel, resulting in a noticeable angle of char on the objects in its path.
The indicators were new to me, but I could tell the firefighters recognized them. They knew fire’s effects, even if they hadn’t yet been taught to see them as clues.
Getting Into the Field
Investigators on the scene at 2009’s Station Fire, the largest in the history of Los Angeles County.
Justin Sullivan / StaffGetty Images
We spent the entire first day on these patterns, but starting the next day, we spent mornings on lectures and afternoons in the field. The cadre of instructors did demonstration burns and, more significantly, arranged to have several fires intentionally set in the grass at the Oroville Airport before we arrived. It would be up to us, in teams, to investigate those burns.
The first few days of class, we’d get help. Then, on the fourth day, the culmination: a full investigation. Us, alone, determining the cause of a fire and whether we’d recommend any charges be brought against someone for causing it. That was the thing looming in all our minds. Me because I didn’t want to make a fool of myself, and the firefighters for a much better reason: In real life, these investigations have consequences. They have to be done right.
After lunch we drove to the Oroville Airport, the venue that had agreed to let the class set fires. We stood around a tuft of grass wearing suits of a yellow flame retardant material called NOMEX. This part of Northern California hits the low 90s on a comfortable day, and I thought we were liable to catch on fire, shimmering in our NOMEX.
One of the instructors wrapped a cigarette in a book of paper matches, lit it, took a drag, and tossed it into a clump of dry grass. “Someone turn on a stopwatch,” he said. “Let see how long this takes.”
Casually tossing a cigarette out into a clump of grass, it turns out, rarely starts a fire. Cigarettes don’t burn hot enough. But cigarettes do act as excellent time-delay devices for arsonists: They’ll burn down a while without starting a fire—long enough to flee the scene—and then they’ll ignite the matches. And matches are designed for exactly one purpose.
In real life, these investigations have consequences. They have to be done right.
After a few minutes, smoke and a small lick of flames climbed out of the stalks of grass.
“Ok, let’s watch,” the instructor told us.
The fire burned slowly outward in every direction. At first it was a perfect circle, but then the wind shifted, picking up from the west. The circle became an ellipse, expanding east, pushed by the gust. One side of the fire hit a thin patch of grass and the flames shrunk and stopped advancing. Another edge hit a small rise in the mostly flat ground and picked up speed as it climbed. The ellipse changed shape. The wind shifted again, now west southwest, and the fire ran to the east northeast.
When it had burned maybe 300 square feet, a company of firefighters who’d been enlisted to oversee the burn walked the edges with hand sprayers and knocked it down. In the burn patch you could trace the fire’s life. You could read predominant winds, see where the grass had been thicker, map topographic shifts. I was surprised to see that if you understood that feeding fire the right ingredients gave it direction and intensity, you could play a burn in reverse.
With the demo over, we were sorted into teams, and each team was assigned a pre-burned fire to examine. My team trudged across the airfield and made our way to a blackened patch of ground. One of my teammates took charge, telling a couple people to walk the perimeter, someone to sketch the scene, and someone else to prepare our equipment. Then it was up to us.
One of my assigned partners, Jake, surveyed the burn. He tossed his head slightly toward our fire scene. “You see that?” he said, almost whispering. “We all made that, right?” He pointed to a spot in the middle of our burned patch, where we could see the remains of a matchbook and the twisting blackened husks of a few matches. He’d already spotted what caused the fire without having done any investigating. He was proud of his eye, and we were proud that we knew what had started our fire before we’d even started investigating.
Except that wasn’t how the class was supposed to work.
Investigators plant colored flags by each fire pattern indicator. Red marks places where the fire was advancing; blue places where it was backing; and yellow places where it was slowly expanding laterally. The pattern formed by the flags leads them back to the area where the fire started.
Kevin Dupzyk
We still had to investigate: We walked the perimeter of the fire in teams of two, clockwise, then counter clockwise. Based on this initial assessment, we determined the general origin area in which the fire started and roughly the direction and intensity of its travel. Then we walked the field, looking for indicators and marking evidence with red, yellow, and blue flags to note the fire’s advancing, lateral, and backing movements.
The reason you use colored flags: throw enough and you can take a step back, look at the larger pattern of colors, and identify a specific origin area. But then things get tricky. When you’re close to pinpointing the fire’s origin, the flames are weak and the evidence is much more subtle. So you lay out a rudimentary grid with lengths of string, get down on your hands and knees, grab a hand lens, and work your way through inch by painstaking inch of hot, charred ground.
So that's what we did: We picked through dirt with fine-toothed combs—literally—to look for something Jake had already spotted. We knew we’d never get this lucky on the final investigation, so we had to go through the mock investigation on this first attempt. It hurt our knees and we sweated in the NOMEX and we looked through dirt with pretend curiosity while flashing furtive glances at the burnt match heads we’d already found.
“I kind of wish I’d never seen it,” Jake said.
Understanding That Fire is Everywhere
NASA ER-2 high altitude plane surveys California wildfires in December 2017.
The next day’s investigation introduced a new element to learning the ropes of a fire detective—interviewing.
When a Cal Fire instructor walked us to the scene, a volunteer “fireman” from the company that had knocked down the fire was waiting to answer our questions about the incident. We used his info to narrow down our general origin area, so we spent less time throwing flags and more time on the ground looking for the cause.
Once we’d internalized the fireman’s firsthand account, we put our training to use. We did the same kind of investigation we’d done the day before, but without having spotted the cause ahead of time.
It worked. We were one of the first teams to wrap up, and we got it right. We didn’t just find the matches that started the blaze; we had the precise count and the exact type.
I left class that day and drove south to my campsite. Everywhere was hot undulating ground with only occasional stands of green where there were pockets of water, at least until you get far enough east to touch the foothills of the Sierras.
It would be a supreme irony if I somehow managed to start a wildfire just by cooking dinner.
I’d spent most of my life driving that landscape, and now I saw it in a whole different way. I was looking at the cutbacks in the interstate median and along the shoulders, imagining cars downshifting for the grade and ejecting superheated catalytic converter particles. I mentally logged cars billowing exhaust. Back at my campsite, I surveyed the ground and imagined the fine dead fuel moisture of the twigs and leaves strewn around its perimeter before lighting the night’s fire.
Though it had occurred to me my first night in camp that it would be a supreme irony if I somehow managed to start a wildfire just by cooking dinner, on this night, I took even greater care. I arranged my chores so that I did not leave the campsite while my fire was still burning. I put my fuel canister and my campstove and my piezo igniter on opposite corners of the table, even though I’m certain there’s no Rube Goldbergian chain of events that could have caused them to light.
After I doused my fire with water, I stayed awake in my tent for a time, reading and watching the faint glow of embers from my dying fire.
The Final Investigation
A survey of potential ignition objects near the origin of a fire. Left: A cigarette used to start a fire—not smoked—will often be well preserved at the point of ignition. Right: Suspicious objects—like the charred mass beside the measuring tape—can sometimes be unidentifiable without further testing and analysis.
The next afternoon, after a morning lecture about litigating a fire’s origin and cause, we were marched out to the site of our burn, far off the runway and just adjacent to an access road on the airport side of the fence bounding the property. There was an SUV parked there with someone inside. We were informed she was a witness. There was another witness, a man who looked between, perhaps, 12 and 14 years old.
We divvied up jobs. Jake opted to interview witnesses. Two of the team started walking the perimeter. Another guy joined me in prepping materials—flags and such—and when that was done, he walked the perimeter himself and left me to draw up a map of the scene. Then I walked the perimeter, too. We all agreed on the general course of the fire: It had started in the northwest corner, farthest from the SUV, and proceeded southeast. We split up and started throwing flags.
The trick of reading a fire near an airport runway bound by a uniform covering of dry scrubby grass is that little of what you learn in class shows up. Large-scale V patterns? Nope. Foliage freeze? Angle of char? Forget it. There are no large trees, no limbs, no woody shrubs. Protection shows up on a minimalist scale behind minor stones or the occasional beer can.
But we were doing something right, because slowly a pattern started to emerge. We isolated a specific origin area to grid out and pore over.
At almost the same moment, Jake returned from his interviews. “Ok,” he said. “So I talked to that young man—gentleman—over there.”
“He told me he was camping out here, and he heard a sound like fireworks, and then he saw a woman drop something and run in that direction.” Jake pointed to the SUV. “So I went over there. On the way I found a cap and a brown bag of fireworks, just alongside a footpath that looks like it was recently beaten through the brush.”
Jake had talked to the woman, and she’d denied having anything to do with the fire. Then he laid out a few facts for her and she’d cracked.
Jake’s interview sounded pretty conclusive, but even with a culpable witness, we still had to investigate the fire. Cal Fire treats every fire as a crime scene until proven otherwise, and if they opt to bring charges, they have to be backed up by ironclad evidence.
We set up our grid and the lot of us got down on our hands and knees. We picked through the char, and were soon fighting over who was going to use the comb, and who the trowel, and who the eyedropper (a tool that’s surprisingly effective at moving minute amounts of dirt with puffs of air).
Cal Fire treats every fire as a crime scene until proven otherwise, and if they opt to bring charges, they have to be backed up by ironclad evidence.
As we worked our grid smaller and smaller, we came upon three possible ignition devices. There was a cigarette, nearly perfectly preserved and seemingly unpuffed—a giveaway that dropping it was intentional. We also found a set of matches and a couple fireworks, melted but recognizable.
We ruled out the cigarette because cigarettes rarely start grass fires. But there wasn’t much we could do to figure out if the matches or the fireworks started the fire. The woman could have been an arsonist who lit the fireworks and the matches and dropped them to burn.
But suppose she was just a minor-key pyro who lit fireworks, startled at the sparks thrown by the fuse, panicked, dropped everything, and ran?
We had two competent ignition sources in the specific origin area. We realized we couldn’t charge arson—we settled on a lesser charge related to mishandling fireworks. It felt like a defeat.
Back To a State on Fire
The Mendocino Complex fire, which started in July and reached full containment in mid-September, was the largest wildfire in California history.
We seemed to be the first team done with our investigation, so we stood around, joked about the investigation, parried boredom. Until Jake said, pointing off to the horizon, “Should I go investigate that fire?”
I wheeled around, and sure enough, northeast of the airport, maybe 30 miles out, there was a light plume of smoke forming. As it got bigger, it caught more people’s attention. A few of the men who worked in the local fire district were able to gauge, simply from the direction and distance, the highway nearest the burn. One of the instructors— dressed in full gear because he’d been on call—walked past our investigation toward where everyone’s trucks were parked. He had to report to the firefight.
My team gathered our things. Loaded the combs and trowels and eye droppers back into the tackle box we’d carried them out in. We pulled the flags. We picked up our NOMEX tops, which we’d piled on the ground, opting to work in our undershirts in the midday heat.
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We made for the lone tent the Cal Fire team set up at the staging area, where cold waters waited in a huge ice chest. When we got there, someone was sitting in a white Cal Fire truck, engine running, and a half dozen others were gathered around the open passenger-side window. I walked over. They were listening intently to a dispatcher on the radio.
I didn’t understand all the language, but I saw the men’s foreheads crease as they listened. I saw them blink slowly. I saw them subtract themselves from the crowd, one or two here or there, get in their cars, and head for the fire. I would return to my family home in Sacramento, and a few days later, back to New York City. But these men would fight fires. And when the fires are put out, they would come to know them.
A little more than a month later, the largest fire in California history would light. It has now been contained. The cause is yet to be determined.
Fire smolders after a California wildfire in October 2017.
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5 families displaced after weekend fire in Yonkers
YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) — Five families have been displaced after a weekend fire damaged three houses in Yonkers.
The fire broke out at 53 Herriot Street at around 2 p.m. Sunday and quickly spread to two homes on either side.
The Journal News (http://lohud.us/25UmJPY ) says the Creative Word Chapel was housed on the first floor of No. 53.
The Red Cross says 10 adults and seven children were provided relocation assistance
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Cenovus boosts oil output plans on Alberta move to curtailment relief for rail
CALGARY — Cenovus Energy Inc. says it will add as much as 70,000 barrels per day of oilsands output following the Alberta government’s decision to ease production curtailments for producers that add crude-by-rail capacity.
The company can quickly add 10,000 to 20,000 bpd of raw bitumen output from its Christina Lake and Foster Creek northeastern Alberta thermal oilsands projects, said CEO Alex Pourbaix during a conference call Thursday morning after the decision was announced.
Meanwhile, it plans to begin startup procedures on its $675-million, 50,000-barrel-per-day Christina Lake phase G oilsands expansion project with production expected within six to 12 months.
Construction of the expansion was completed earlier this year but commissioning was put on hold until market access questions were answered.
“We think it’s a great way to incent further rail takeway capacity out of Alberta and we applaud the government for moving forward with this initiative,” said Pourbaix.
He added the move doesn’t remove the necessity of building more oil export pipelines.
Under the previous NDP government, Alberta put a cap on the amount of oil the industry can produce starting in January as a way to narrow local price discounts that grew as oil production exceeded the ability of pipelines to get the crude to market.
The measure was continued by the United Conservative government when it was elected last spring. The total industry quota is to increase to 3.81 million barrels per day in December, up 250,000 bpd from the original limit of 3.56 million barrels a day.
“Overall, we believe this program will be an important addition to the efforts to increase market access,” said Energy Minister Sonya Savage on Thursday.
“Looking ahead, maximizing the amount of crude shipped by rail is an important factor in moving forward towards an orderly exit out of curtailment altogether, which, under the enhanced policy, is scheduled to be concluded by the end of December 2020.”
Alberta currently ships around 310,000 barrels per day on rail, she said, but the rail system has the capacity for daily shipments of 500,000 to 600,000 barrels.
The new program is to be available as of Dec. 1 and operators will need to apply on a monthly basis and verify their rail shipments.
The province is still working on a plan to divest railcar contracts signed by the NDP government, Savage said.
Suncor Energy Inc. CEO Mark Little also welcomed the Alberta initiative, which had been requested by several oilsands producers earlier this year.
“I think this is a very positive development because the whole purpose of curtailment was to reduce production to align with the takeaway capacity,” he said during a conference call Thursday morning.
“But I think we all know that ever since that was implemented, the takeaway capacity in Western Canada has declined, which is the exact opposite of what you want to happen when you have excess production.”
Between 200,000 and 300,000 bpd of additional rail could be brought to market to accompany about 200,000 bpd of incremental pipeline capacity additions, Little said.
He added Suncor will work to fill its currently contracted capacity of 30,000 bpd on rail “in the next month or two.”
In third-quarter results released Wednesday afternoon, Suncor cut its production guidance for 2019 to a mid-point of 785,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, down from 800,000 boe/d, in part because of curtailments that have been in place for longer than anticipated.
Last week, Husky Energy Inc. CEO Rob Peabody said his company was directing most of its spending to regions other than in Alberta because of the curtailments.
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Series: College Debt
How Financial Aid Letters Often Leave Students Confused and Misinformed
The Department of Education has a model financial aid award letter. It's very different from what schools are actually sending.
by Marian Wang
Oct. 16, 2012, 11:55 a.m. EDT
How College Debt is Putting the Squeeze on Families
The financial aid award letters that colleges send to prospective students can be confusing: Many mix grants, scholarships and loans all under the heading of "Award," "Financial Assistance," or "Offered Financial Aid." Some schools also suggest loans in amounts that families can't afford.
Take Parent Plus loans, a federal program that allows families to take out as much as they need, after other aid is applied, to pay for their children's college costs. As we recently reported with the Chronicle of Higher Education, Plus loans are remarkably easy to get. With minimal underwriting and no assessment of whether parents can actually afford the loans, families can end up overburdened by debt.
Colleges often exacerbate things when their letters lay out, or "package in," large Plus loans to cover unmet need when student aid falls short. Just like the government, many colleges recommend loans without regard to family income or ability to repay.
The practice can leave students feeling misled. As we reported, Agostinha Depina, a 19-year-old college student, said that one of her award letters — from her top choice, St. John's University in New York — "made it seem like they gave me a lot of money."
After consulting a counselor, she realized that "it was more loans in the financial-aid package than scholarship money." St. John's did not return our request for comment.
"Financial aid award letters need to be more transparent around laying out aid that doesn't need to be paid back and loans that do," Education Department spokesman Justin Hamilton said in an email.
The department has laid out what it says is a better option. Earlier this year it created a model award letter [PDF], which separates "gift" aid — grants and scholarships from the school or the government — from "loan options." Parent Plus loans are included in a separate category — "Other options" — with no suggested dollar amount.
The award letters many students are actually getting from schools look very different from the Education Department's preferred — but not required — layout. Here's one package from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, a public school.
Notice that the student in this case — whose name we have redacted for privacy — was suggested a $16,800 Plus loan in the financial aid award letter, bringing the student's total estimated financial assistance to $33,200.
Conveniently, the figure matches the stated cost of attendance for that year. Not so conveniently for this student, it was beyond what her family could afford. (MassArt has yet not returned our request for comment.)
The language on award letters can also leave the wrong impression. The MassArt letter starts by saying the student will be "eligible to receive the following assistance" — even though getting the Parent Plus loan requires a credit check and applicants are sometimes denied.
Another award letter from Pace University, a private university in New York City, also packages in the Parent Plus loan to bring the total "offer of financial assistance" to just a few dollars short of the full cost of attendance. The student in this case also qualified for a federal Pell grant — need-based aid that typically corresponds to a household income of $50,000 or less. Pace still suggested a nearly $19,000 Parent Plus loan for just one year.
Robina Schepp, Pace's vice president for enrollment and placement, said the school offers financial aid counseling and information sessions for parents and students.
Long Island University, another private university in New York, also packages in the Plus loan to match the estimated costs down to the dollar. An LIU spokesman did not comment.
Some colleges do consider parental income when they suggest Parent Plus loans. Ringling College of Art and Design uses an algorithm to determine the recommended loan amount. The school's letter notes that the listed amount is "an estimate of what you may wish to consider borrowing, and is partly based on your income." Parents, it says, "may apply for more or less."
Similarly, Drexel University — a private university in Philadelphia — packages in Parent Plus but "does take into account the ability of the family to contribute to the education cost for the suggested Plus loan amount," said Niki Gianakaris, a university spokeswoman. (Gianakaris said the school is also revamping its award letter to make clearer distinctions between grants, scholarships and loans.)
It's not clear whether these more conservative approaches to packaging in Parent Plus loans actually result in more conservative borrowing: At Drexel, the average Parent Plus loan was more than $24,000 in the 2010-2011 fiscal year. Meanwhile, the average parent loan at Ringling topped $26,000. That's much higher than the average Plus loan across all schools that year: $11,877.
As of late last month, more than 300 schools — representing about 10 percent of all undergrads — had adopted the Education Department's model letter.
Some members of Congress have tried to go further. Earlier this year, Sen. Al Franken sponsored legislation that would make it mandatory for all institutions of higher education to adopt a standardized financial aid award form. The bill is still in committee.
"Students and parents are not getting consistent, accessible and comparable information about college costs and their financial aid offers," Sen. Tom Harkin said in an emailed statement. Harkin is chairman of the Senate education committee and a co-sponsor of Franken's bill. "A concerted effort at all levels — campus, community, state and federal — is necessary to ensure that families have the information they need to make the decision that is best for them."
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Bradley Vincent Hellen v Capricornia Homes Pty Ltd
Hellen v Capricornia Homes Pty Ltd
CIVIL JURISDICTION
HELMAN J
No 6733 of 2003
BRADLEY VINCENT HELLEN
CAPRICORNIA HOMES PTY LTD ACN 055 351 141 IN LIQUIDATION AND YUNA EAST PTY LTD ACN 052 287 313 (IN LIQUIDATION)
HIS HONOUR: This is an application - or rather there are two applications, as I shall explain under s. 564 of the Corporations Act 2001.
By an application filed on 28 July 2003, Mr Bradley Hellen, the liquidator of Capricornia Homes Pty Ltd and Yuna East Pty Ltd who had been appointed by order of White J on 22 August 2000, an order was sought that $20,000 paid by Lesley May Schinkel and Michael John Schinkel to Mr Hellen “for settlement monies” be paid out of the net value of the property of “the company” in priority to other creditors of “the company” to Michael Osbourne. That application came before me on 11 August 2003, and, after I had pointed out an obstacle to its succeeding, namely that Mr Osbourne was not, it appeared, a creditor of either company, the application was adjourned to 22 August 2003, when, on Mr Hellen's behalf, leave was sought and obtained to file a further application, this one naming a company called Guanaba Nominees Pty Ltd and not Mr Osbourne as the beneficiary of the order sought. The second application was otherwise in the same terms as the earlier one.
The power provided for in s. 564 is to make orders in favour of certain creditors.
The obstacle to the success of the earlier application was that the evidence did not show that Mr Osbourne was a creditor of either company, although, according to an affidavit sworn on 11 August 2003 by Ms Anne Gubbins, an employee of the firm of solicitors acting for Mr Hellen, Mr Osbourne had “incurred $6,612.00 in liquidator's fees pursuant to the Funding Agreement” and furthermore the firm had “recorded approximately $11,980.00 in professional fees and disbursements”, giving “an approximate total of $18,592.00 incurred to date by Mr Osbourne in funding this litigation”. The funding agreement referred to was one dated 2 June 2002, entered into between Mr Hellen, the companies in liquidation, Mr Osbourne and Guanaba Nominees Pty Ltd. The litigation referred to was a proceeding begun on 29 November 2001 in this Court by Mr Hellen against Mr and Mrs Schinkel, who were former directors of the companies in liquidation. The claim was to $92,205.23 and was settled on 23 May 2003 with their agreement to pay Mr Hellen $20,000. Ms Gubbins continued in paragraph 3 of the affidavit: “Whilst the Funding Agreement was entered into by both Mr Osbourne and his company Guanaba Nominees Pty Ltd, Mr Osbourne has chosen to pay the liquidation costs personally.”
In a further affidavit sworn on 11 August 2003, Ms Gubbins referred to the affidavit I have mentioned and said that she had “incorrectly deposed that payment of the liquidator's fees and the fees of [her employers] had been paid by Mr Osbourne”. No explanation was given as to how that mistake had been made, but Ms Gubbins continued that it was “in fact the case” that all moneys received to 11 August 2003 in payment of the liquidator's and her employers' fees “have been paid from Guanaba Nominees Pty Ltd”. Attached to her later affidavit were copies of trust matter ledger reports showing that from 22 August 2000 all receipts had been from Guanaba Nominees Pty Ltd. The liquidator's accounts and the solicitors' fees have been paid from the trust account, Ms Gubbins swore.
In a notice to creditors dated 26 September 2001, Mr Hellen had asserted that Mr Osbourne and Guanaba Nominees Pty Ltd were creditors of both companies in liquidation. A copy of that notice was attached to an affidavit sworn by Mr Hellen and filed on 28 July 2003.
In yet another affidavit sworn by Ms Gubbins, this one on 21 August 2003, for which Mr Hellen sought and obtained leave to file and read on 22 August 2003, Ms Gubbins said that Guanaba Nominees had incurred approximately $11,980 “up to 11 August 2003 in fees from [her employers] in pursuing the litigation” and that deposits received from Guanaba Nominees Pty Ltd in respect of the litigation into her employers' trust account had been in all $14,351.83. Ms Gubbins estimated that at most $5000 would be available for distribution to the companies' creditors after her employers had rendered their final bill.
According to an affidavit sworn on 18 August 2003 by Mr Hellen, the only debts of the companies are, in the case of Capricornia Pty Ltd, $72,357.50 (WorkCover $2357.50 and Guanaba Nominees Pty Ltd $70,000), and, in the case of Yuna East Pty Ltd, $15,184.87 (Telstra $184.87 and Guanaba Nominees Pty Ltd, $15,000). Accordingly if the estimated $5000 were distributed pro rata to the creditors, WorkCover would receive $134.65, and Telstra, $10.56, since the companies have no other assets.
After the hearing of 11 August, the creditors were notified that an order in favour of Guanaba Nominees Pty Ltd would be sought on 22 August and none appeared to resist the order.
Bearing in mind the sums involved, the history of the litigation, and the apparent indifference of the other creditors to the litigation and the application, I shall make the order sought in favour of Guanaba Nominees Pty Ltd and dismiss the application filed on 28 July 2003.
I shall invite further submissions on the form of the order to be made in favour of Guanaba Nominees Pty Ltd and on costs.
HIS HONOUR: The application filed on 28 July 2003 is dismissed.
On the application filed by leave on 22 August 2003, I order that the $20,000 paid by Lesley May Schinkel and Michael John Schinkel to the applicant be paid out of the net value of the property of the respondents to Guanaba Nominees Pty Ltd in priority to the claims of other creditors of the respondents.
I order that the costs of this application, limited to the costs incurred on 22 August 2003, be costs in the winding-up.
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The "False Chronicles," Cardinal Baronio, and Sacred History in Counter-Reformation Spain
By Olds, Katrina B.
In 1594, Jerónimo Román de la Higuera (1537-1611) claimed to have received four lost annals from a fellow Jesuit in central Europe. Three of the texts, which chronicled Iberian history from Christ to the early Middle Ages, were known to early-medieval authors, but had since disappeared without a trace. The fourth-a history of the eleventh-century Christian conquest of Islamic Toledo-was entirely unknown. According to Higuera, a fellow Spanish Jesuit had sent him the texts from the Benedictine abbey of Fulda, home to a rich monastic scriptorium raided by Renaissance manuscript-hunters such as Poggio Bracciolini.
These prestigious origins helped grant the texts entrée among the several scholarly acquaintances who received them from Higuera in the last years of the sixteenth century. With their concatenation of details about the antiquity and continuity of the Iberian Church that featured a continuous chain of exemplary martyrs, saints, and bishops across the centuries in Spain, Portugal, Rome, and Spanish Sardinia, the chroniclesfirst in manuscript and later in print-proved particularly appealing to fellow students of the sacred past such as seventeenth-century authors of local sacred histories. Thanks to their combination of both new and familiar sacred traditions, the texts were destined to have an enduring influence among generations of readers, not only among prominent intellectuals but also among small-scale enthusiasts of the sacred past, well into the nineteenth century.
However, the texts possessed one disadvantage, at least from the perspective of their seventeenthand eighteenth-century critics: Higuera had fabricated them. This inconvenient fact earned the annals their disparaging nickname of the falsos cronicones ("false chronicles") from their first systematic critic, Nicolás Antonio (1617-84). Yet such was the value of these purportedly late-antique and medieval chronicles as sources that, even after Antonio's treatise was published in a posthumous eighteenth-century edition, Spain's intelligentsia could not agree unanimously that Higuera's texts should be rejected entirely. Instead, in the intervening centuries, the chronicles' confirmation of familiar traditions-as well as their introduction of new holy people, objects, and narratives-continued to provide raw material for more vivid visions of the sacred past in Iberian history, hagiography, and liturgy.
Higuera's role in prompting the seventeenth-century heyday of Iberian historia sacra has long been acknowledged, albeit in a backhanded manner. Antonio was the first to complain about the many spurious histories that Higuera's texts were engendering:
Every day countless Histories of Cities, Churches, Religious Orders, and Kingdoms are born, which treat almost nothing except fabulous origins, Apostles, and supposed Preachers of the Faith, Martyrs carried from distant lands to falsely ennoble places that were not their motherlands, and badly-invented or ridiculous Antiquities.
Thanks to the wide circulation and appeal of the false chronicles, Antonio lamented, "there is no place in Spain, no matter how small or obscure, that is not thinking of writing its own history now with the material it finds in this recently-discovered mine, which is most abundant in oddities and novelties."1 More recently, scholars have moved beyond simply deploring Higuera's forgeries to analyze the texts' depiction of some of the most controversial matters in Spanish society and religion of the time, including the status of Jews and Jewish converts (conversos) to Christianity and the authenticity of the forged "lead books" of Granada.2
Thus, it is now possible to reexamine Higuera's role in the evolution of Spanish sacred history from a different vantage point, one that takes seriously his enduring preoccupation with the sources and narratives of the past, particularly as Roman reformers began to reevaluate and reshape them in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries. …
Publication date: Winter 2014
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Academic journal article College Composition and Communication
"Gifts" of the Archives: A Pedagogy for Undergraduate Research
By Hayden, Wendy
In their 2011 article "Remembering Sappho: New Perspectives on Teaching (and Writing) Women's Rhetorical History," Jessica Enoch and Jordynn Jack describe pedagogical projects that invite undergraduate students both to participate in and to question the memorialization of women's rhetorical activities. Jack developed an archival research project where undergraduate students recover southern women absent from histories of rhetoric and interrogate the politics of both disciplinary and public memory (534). Inspired by Enoch and Jack (from discussions with them at the CCCC in 2009), I piloted an archival research project in my undergraduate rhetoric courses, where students recover the rhetorical activities of Hunter College women. Initially, my goals were similar to Enoch and Jack's. Students would recover women's rhetorical practices from the archives at our college, which enlivens the students not only to engage in critical scholarship but also to confront the politics of recovery firsthand. The archive project, though, went beyond my initial pedagogical goals of moving from, as Thomas P. Miller describes, " The Rhetorical Tradition to the rhetoric of traditions" (75).
Patricia Bizzell offers a model for feminist historiography in rhetorical studies that I also use as a framework for teaching histories of rhetoric. First, students are "resisting readers" of rhetorical traditions. Reading texts from the canon of rhetorical studies, students think about whom the theorist envisions as a rhetor and what situations and speakers he or she might be ignoring. This approach also creates a solid background in traditional rhetorical analysis. We also look at rhetorical theory by women that is similar to rhetorical theory by men, such as the work of Gertrude Buck, and examine women's theory that redefines rhetoric to include work traditionally done by women, such as work treating conversation (Donawerth). Throughout the semester we also discuss how we might extrapolate rhetorical theory from a particular rhetor's practice. This approach incorporates the work of recovered rhetors and also introduces them to the major debates of the field. Current classes in rhetoric often acknowledge the existence of lost voices and help students think critically about these traditions. One of my initial goals in assigning archival research to students was to promote their understandings of the complications of recovery. Often, students work with an anthology without engaging the politics involved in such a volume. Undergraduate archival research projects promote exploration of such questions and elicit new ones, as well as make questioning "who gets recovered" a practical issue rather than only a theoretical one.
In her seminal 2002 article "Claiming the Archive for Rhetoric and Composition," Susan Wells identifies three "gifts" the archives provide the field: resistance to closure, loosening of resentment, and the possibility of reconfiguring the discipline. The work done in the field since the publication of her article has certainly solidified the promise of the archives. This essay uses her conception of these three gifts as a way to articulate a pedagogy for undergraduate research inspired by teaching undergraduate archival research projects. That is, these gifts apply not only to the scholarly field but also to what students learn by undertaking archival research of their own. These lessons have applications beyond courses in rhetoric. Thus, in addition to outlining the pedagogical possibilities of archival research, this essay explores a pedagogy that can apply to classes where an archival research project might not be feasible, such as first-year writing classrooms.
The Promise of Archival Research
Many rhetoric and composition scholars have pointed out the limited opportunities we have to train in the practicalities of archival research (FerrieraBuckley 582; Brereton 575; Miller and Bowdon 585; Buehl, Chute, and Fields 278; Gaillet, "Archival Survival" 30; L'Eplattenier 67; L'Eplattenier and Mastrangelo 218). …
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Hayden, Wendy
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Academic journal article Merrill-Palmer Quarterly
Correlates of Prosocial Behaviors of Students in Ethnically and Racially Diverse Middle Schools
By Spivak, Asha Leah; White, Samantha Simmons; Juvonen, Jaana; Graham, Sandra
Prosocial behavior represents a broad category of voluntary acts intended to help or benefit others (Eisenberg & Müssen, 1989). The results of many studies suggest the importance of identifying factors that relate to adolescents helping their peers and engaging in other prosocial behaviors. Adolescents' prosocial behavior is linked to greater empathy (Barr & Higgins-D'Alessandro, 2007) and self-esteem (Rigby & Slee, 1993), higher grades and educational aspirations (Johnson, Beebe, Mortimer, & Snyder, 1998), and more stable and supportive peer relationships (Markiewicz, Doyle, & Brendgen, 2001; McDonald, Wang, Menzer, Rubin, & BoothLaForce, 2011). Moreover, prosocial relationships may serve as protective factors for youth at risk for social and academic difficulties (Catalano, Haggerty, Oesterle, Fleming, & Hawkins, 2004). Prosocial behavior may not only be beneficial to the helper and recipient but may also be a source of social harmony (Twenge, Baumeister, DeWall, Ciarocco, & Bartels, 2007).
The extent to which individuals engage in prosocial behavior appears to be influenced by (or at least related to) personal characteristics, socialization experiences, and situational influences (e.g., relationship to others, social expectations, type of environment) (Eisenberg, Fabes, & Spinrad, 2006). In early adolescence, sociocultural contexts outside the home, such as peer groups, ethnic/racial groups, schools, and communities, become especially important influences on attitudes and behavior (Lerner, 2005). This influence shifts in part because youth are forming their social identities and developing a greater awareness of social norms and perspectives of others (Erikson, 1968).
Social identity theory proposes that individuals are likely to perceive differences between themselves and others and classify themselves and others into different social categories. These self-other categories may shape the way individuals interact with others such that to enhance their social identity people will be more likely to behave prosocially toward members of their own social group than toward members of other groups (Tajfel & Turner, 1986). Ingroup preference in prosocial behavior may extend to categorizations of ethnicity/race. Some studies, for example, show that adults are more likely to help members of their own racial group than members of a different racial group (Benson, Karabenick, & Lerner, 1976; Brigham & Richardson, 1979; Wegner & Crano, 1975).
A central task of social identity development in early adolescence is ethnic/racial identity exploration and identification (Quintana, 1998). From Quintana's developmental perspective, in early adolescence with its advances in social perspective-taking capacities, social awareness of ethnicity/race and ethnic/racial differences develops, including awareness of the implications of ethnic/racial status for social interactions, interpersonal relationships, group memberships, prejudice, and discrimination. At this stage, ethnicity and ethnic group membership appears to also take on psychological significance for prosocial peer interactions. An example of this can be seen in Quintana's (1998) research revealing that sixth graders believe that a peer group composed of one ethnic group would cooperate better than members of an ethnically diverse peer group. The emerging salience of ethnicity in intergroup and intragroup social relations in early adolescence suggests that it is a critical developmental period in which to examine how perceptions of ethnicity relate to prosocial behavior.
Consistent with social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1986), the extent of homogeneity or heterogeneity of individuals' background char- acteristics may be a contextual factor with relevance for how individuals treat one another. The interpersonal effect of perceived similarity upon helping has been widely noted in the literature on prosocial behavior (e. …
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What is an IVA
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What is an IVA #472211
By JaneClack - Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:09 pm
JaneClack
- Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:09 pm #472211 On the landing page of www.payplan.com there is a section lower down on the page in a green box that describes IVAs but I thought I would write a simple guide here for those who want to read it.
An IVA ( an individual voluntary arrangement) is a proposal made by a debtor – through an insolvency practitioner – to their creditors to make a reduced payment to their unsecured debts. It is a legally binding arrangement and is a form of insolvency that stops short of full bankruptcy and allows business people to continue to trade and indebted individuals to pay back a proportion of their debts.
A very simple generic explanation:
It is basically an offer to the creditors for payments over a period of years – traditionally five but could be fewer or even one year longer to compensate for any equity the debtor may have in their property. It can also be one lump sum offered in full and final payment to the creditors. Basically it is anything the debtor puts forward that the creditors will accept. There can even be 100% IVAs where someone pays back the whole of their debt plus fees in order to avoid bankruptcy . There are a large number of examples which can be found on the Payplan home page in the green shaded box on IVAs – click on “View all examples”.
To apply for an IVA a debtor must be insolvent – that means that their debts outweigh their assets or they are unable to pay their debts as they fall due ie not able to make the full, monthly contractual payment for loans or credit cards etc or pay bills due.
An IVA is not fee free but many of the large companies do not charge any upfront fees. There are fees for putting forward the proposal and then if it is successful for supervising it. The companies that charge no upfront fees take their nominees fees from the first few payments into the IVA and the supervisor fees as a proportion of the payments into the IVA. This means that creditors do not get all the money paid into an IVA but a proportion and so receive a dividend. The dividend the creditors will get is more than they would get if a debtor were to go bankrupt and the dividend will be specified in the proposals. There are also other charges such as disbursements and insurance.
The insolvency practitioner (IP) – every firm that does IVAs must have at least one – acts as the nominee whilst the proposal is being set up and as the supervisor once it has been approved. As the nominee s/he has a responsibility to the debtor to put forward the best proposals possible for them and an obligation in law that these proposals be realistic and sustainable. Once the IVA has been approved the supervisor’s obligations remain the same for the debtor and in law but now they also have an obligation to the creditors that they will collect the money offered in the proposals. If the IVA is satisfied then the remainder of the debts are written off when the period ends. Whilst the IVA is proceeding the debtor is protected from creditor contact and further interest and charges.
The proposals are always sent to the debtor for checking and signing and various proofs are asked for whilst the proposals are being prepared. The IP company will write to all the creditors asking them to prove the debts and the budget is checked for accuracy.
For an IVA to be approved 75% by value of all creditors voting have to vote in favour. Imagine that £16,000 was owed to 6 creditors and four creditors voted on the day of the creditors meeting– as although all creditors are contacted not all will vote and the majority of creditors today vote through groups who vote on their behalf. Creditor A is owed £4000 and votes in favour and creditors B,C,D are owed £200 each and vote against. On the day 75% of the creditors have voted against the proposal but creditor A (with 75% and more of the debt on the day) has voted for the proposals – so the IVA is approved. If it were the other way round, the meeting would be adjourned and the other creditors would be canvassed as if they all voted in favour then 75% would be voting for the IVA. Creditors have various voting patterns and criteria and all IP companies are aware of these so cases are not put forward willy nilly.
If the IVA is continuing over several years there will be annual reviews of the income and expenditure and if there are significant increases in income over expenditure then it would be expected that the instalments would increase. Also any bonuses would have to be declared and any overtime would be counted up – if the overtime was more than 10% of the normal salary then 50% of any increase above 10% would be expected to be paid in.
A lump sum IVA basically is one payment made in one day – including fees of course – in full and final settlement of debts. Proposals are still made and put forward but as there is payment on approval there is no lengthy supervision.
Equity in a property is always taken into consideration and if the debtor’s share of equity is substantial then this will be included in the proposals. For most IVAs there will be a clause in the proposals that will ask for a debtor to release as much equity as possible in month 54 of their instalment IVA. However if they are unable to remortgage for whatever reason or the cost would be prohibitive and various other factors then the IVA can be extended for up to another 12 months to compensate for the equity.
IVAs sit on a person’s credit rating for 6 years from the day they are approved so if someone could repay their debts in less than 5 years it would seem unnecessary to do one and creditors do check proposals carefully so it is unlikely that one would be put forward in anything other than exceptional circumstances.
More information on what an IVA is as a debt solution and the advantages and disadvantages of this can be found from the landing page at www.payplan.com and also there is a useful factsheet on IVAs on www.nationaldebtline.org
Re: What is an IVA #472213
By quidproquo - Sun Feb 22, 2015 12:13 pm
quidproquo
- Sun Feb 22, 2015 12:13 pm #472213 Further to my previous posting about Full & Final Settlement negotiation whilst in a DMP, I conclude that the main distinction between that and a lump sum IVA settlement is that you need to be technically insolvent in order to apply for the latter?
The IVA option also appears to cost more, is less negotiable than the DMP option (which ultimately can only be rejected if no agreement is reached), and affects your credit rating much more, and for a longer period if I understand correctly?
By JaneClack - Sun Feb 22, 2015 2:05 pm
- Sun Feb 22, 2015 2:05 pm #472214 In brief yes - but technically insolvent means you cannot pay your debts as they fall due OR have an asset that outweighs your debts in total. If one is in a DMP then one cannot pay your debts as they fall due as you would be making reduced payments.
It costs you no more but the creditors get less that is true. And as it is a lump sum from a third party the creditors know that you would not be able to offer them this and then continue to repay. It is an offer no more, no less. As in a DMP if the creditors reject your offer, you are not in a position to offer anything else.
However, you could put forward a proposal - it costs nothing to try as if it is rejected you would revert to your current situation and go for short settlements.
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We generally create three detailed comprehensive indexes for each of our volumes in the British Baptist Biographies and Histories Series and the Particular/Regular Baptists in America Series. The Index of Persons includes dates of birth and death on known entries whether these dates appear in the text or not. The Index of Subjects includes doctrinal and theological subjects, as well as separate entries on the Persons of the Godhead. The Index of Churches includes churches mentioned in the book, organized by state, along with its denominational affiliation and the date it was constituted—a unique addition that most books do not have. As you can see in the examples below, we spend a great deal of time compiling each top quality index. In our latest books—A Noble Company series—the indexes have been averaging about 60 pages or more in length. These indexes prove to be a valuable help to historians, family researchers, seminary students, theologians and genealogists. Whether you are researching the history of your church, the history of your family, the history of missions and the missionary movement, the history of a particular individual, or even working on your doctoral thesis, these indexes will be of great benefit.
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A Cluster of Camphire
A Cluster of Camphire: Words of Cheer and Comfort to Sick & Sorrowful Souls By Mrs. C. H. Spurgeon “A Cluster of Camphire was written by Mrs...
British Particular Baptist 4 volume set
The British Particular Baptists Each volume of this four-volume set contains professionally written biographical sketches of the British Particular Baptists. Volumes 2 through 3 are edited by Dr. Michael A. G. Haykin. Volume 1 (Revised) and 4 are edited...
C. H. Spurgeon collectible coin - Bronze
C. H. Spurgeon Collectible Coin This Charles Haddon Spurgeon coin is available in 3 different metals - Bronze ($10), Silver plated in plastic case ($15), and Gold plated in plastic case ($20). Each coin features a likeness of C. H. Spurgeon on...
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Calvinism and Communion in Victorian England
Calvinism and Communion in Victorian England, Studies in Nineteenth-Century Strict-Communion Baptist Ecclesiology By Geoffrey R. Breed “This study illustrates tensions between Particular and Strict Baptists during the first...
The British Particular Baptists -- Volume 1 Revised
The British Particular Baptists - Volume 1 Revised Edited by Michael A. G. Haykin and Terry Wolever Volume 1 Revised contains: British Particular Baptist Biography by Michael A. G. Haykin Thomas Patient (1591-1666) by Dennis Bustin John Spilsbury...
The British Particular Baptists -- Volume 2
The British Particular Baptists - Volume 2 Edited by Michael A. G. Haykin Each volume of this three volume set contains professionally written biographical sketches of the British Particular Baptists from 1638 - 1910. This set is edited by Dr. Michael...
The British Particular Baptists - Volume 3 Edited by Michael A. G. Haykin Volume 3 contains: Anne Steele (1717-1778) by Sharon James John Sutcliff (1752-1814) by Michael Haykin John Saffery (1763-1825) by Brian Talbot Joseph Kinghorn (1766-1832) by...
The British Particular Baptists - Volume 4 Edited by Michael A. G. Haykin and Terry Wolever Volume 4 contains: The Stennetts by B. A. Ramsbottom Benjamin Stinton (1677-1719) by Jonathan Arnold Edward (1678-1733) and Benjamin (1711-1782) Wallin by...
The First Counsellor of our Denomination
"The First Counsellor of our Denomination": Studies in the Life and Ministry of Abraham Booth (1734-1806). Edited by Michael A. G. Haykin with Victoria J. Haykin This volume is a collection of papers presented by Baptist historians on the...
The First London Confession of Faith, 1646 Edition
The First London Confession of Faith, 1646 Edition. With an Appendix by Benjamin Cox. Historical Introduction by Michael A. G. Haykin. William L. Lumpkin in his Baptist Confessions of Faith stated that “Perhaps no Confession of Faith has had so...
The Life and Works of Joseph Kinghorn - 3 volume set
Three volume set includes: The Life and Works of Joseph Kinghorn - Volume 1 Compiled and edited by Terry Wolever A widely known and well-respected figure in his own day, Kinghorn has been all but forgotten and usually overlooked by most of the...
The Life and Works of Joseph Kinghorn - Volume 1
The Life and Works of Joseph Kinghorn - Volume 1 Compiled and edited by Terry Wolever A widely known and well-respected figure in his own day, Kinghorn has been all but forgotten and usually overlooked by most of the literature dealing with Baptist...
The Life and Works of Joseph Kinghorn - Volume 2 Compiled and edited by Terry Wolever Joseph Kinghorn began a public writing ministry in the year 1795 which would continue for the rest of his life, motivated as he said by "the wish to do good and...
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Represented unofficial committee of defrauded investors in viatical settlement company where creditors successfully elected a chapter 11 trustee after an election disputed by the United States Trustee and interim trustee.
Represented creditors' committee in chapter 11 case of California wholesale electricity exchange, where unsecured creditors received 100 percent distribution on allowed claims.
Represented the assignee of large outsource packing company in assignment for the benefit of creditors. Completed negotiation of settlement of lender liability action that allowed unsecured creditors to receive an approximate 15% distribution on claims.
Advised an unofficial committee of defrauded investors in viatical settlement company where creditors successfully elected a Chapter 11 trustee after an election disputed by the United States Trustee and interim trustee.
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Non-model citizens take model phones
Posted Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:05 am
JULIUS CONSTANTINE MOTAL
By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN
Most people use the phones on display in a tech store to check out the newest models, maybe take some selfies for notoriety, and kill time waiting for the next salesperson to free up.
But in the early evening hours of Dec. 3, two men reportedly went a little farther than that at the T-Mobile store at 5670 Riverdale Ave.
Police said the men entered the North Riverdale store just after 4 p.m., telling both shoppers and employees not to move or make any phone calls. While one cut the cables to display phones near the front entrance of the store, the other kept his hand in his pocket, telling everyone “not to move, and nobody gets hurt,” according to police.
The men reportedly made off with different iPhone models and an LG Aristo, all valued at a little more than $5,000.
The police are looking for two black men, one about 5-foot-10, and the other 5-foot-8 with straight hair.
Riverdale’s own jewel thief
A woman living in an apartment on the 5000 block of Fieldston Road returned home on the night of Dec. 2 to find she was missing several of her most valuable possessions.
Police said a burglar scaled the woman’s fire escape sometime between 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 p.m., that day, taking rings, earrings, a watch, and a video camera, among other items. In all, the stolen property was valued at $11,500 by police.
Detectives are still investigating, but there’s not much to go on, because there simply were no witnesses.
Woman loses her grocery money
A Key Food shopper helped himself to more than just groceries on Dec. 1.
The man reportedly reached into a woman’s purse at the West 235th Street store, taking her wallet for himself. Inside were a credit card, driver’s license, and Chase bank card.
Video cameras at the Key Food didn’t catch anything, the store manager told police, but the investigation continues.
Need a gift idea? Try Honda tires
A Riverdale driver found himself unable to make his way out of the neighborhood on the morning of Dec. 2, because someone took off with his tires.
The 28-year-old left his 2018 Honda Accord parked at West 254th Street and Broadway overnight, returning the next morning at 11 to find his car up on blocks and all four tires gone.
Aside from the missing tires, nothing else on the car was damaged, police said, and nothing had been stolen from inside the vehicle.
There were no witnesses, but the investigation is continuing.
‘Roid rage much?
People who lift are pretty intense. They’re always bragging about the astronomical weights they can bench press or dead lift. Maybe somebody got carried away at Astral Fitness the evening of Nov. 25 — or maybe we’re (astral) projecting.
Police said a man was at the 5500 Broadway gym at about 6:30 p.m., when a guy approached and slashed him across the face with a knife. The perp ran while the victim was still reeling from what happened, according to reports. Fortunately, he was taken to the hospital and stitched up.
Police are looking for the knife-wielding fitness enthusiast described as a white Hispanic man, 5-foot-9, and about 150 pounds.
— Heather J. Smith
Police Beat, Kirstyn Brendlen, Heather J. Smith
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Taliban kidnap four Albanians, Reportedly Kill Them
Taliban insurgents have abducted four Albanian nationals in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the Islamist movement said. The four people, whose identities were not immediately clear, were kidnapped at gunpoint in Maiwand district in the southern province of Kandahar, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, a spokesman, said. "The four Albanians were travelling in two vehicles when our Mujahideen [holy warriors] kidnapped them," Yousuf said by satellite phone from an undisclosed location in Pakistan. Yousuf said the fate of the four would be decided by Mulla Mohammad Omar, the Taliban's fugitive unemployed potentate supreme leader.
The Taleban says it has killed four foreigners kidnapped at the weekend in southern Afghanistan. A spokesman for the group, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, said the bodies of three Albanians and a German had been dumped "between Helmand and Kandahar". The authorities have not confirmed the claim. A spokesman for the company which employed the four foreigners says they were all Albanian Muslims.
Four Afghans seized at gunpoint along with the foreigners have been freed.
The Taleban spokesman said the four foreigners had been shot dead. "We will kill any one who is helping the Americans," he told the BBC.
One of the freed Afghans said they had been stopped by a group of 20 men dressed as police as they left Helmand for Kabul on Saturday morning. "They tied our hands and feet and blindfolded us," the man, who did not wish to be named, told the BBC. "They took the Albanians away from us to another location. We heard firing and the Albanians screaming. We couldn't see any thing because our eyes were closed."
Ecolog, the company the men worked for, is a German firm that treats dirty water at US and Afghan army bases. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Yousaf Stanizai told the BBC the authorities were investigating the kidnapping.
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Category: Movie/TV Tie-in
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Why Girls Go Back Home: A Story of the Stage, Based on the Motion Picture Story
By: Brody, Catharine
Publisher: New York, Jacobsen-Hodgkinson-Corporation: (c.1926)
ISBN: NO
[pretty beat-up, with heavy external wear (covers edgeworn/creased, small piece missing at bottom front corner, etc.), tears in title page and first page of text, bottom inch or so of spine covering missing, etc.]. (Popular Plays and Screen Library) Series (B&W photographs) A cheaper version of the popular "Photoplay Editions" issued mostly by Grosset & Dunlap and A.L. Burt, this is a novelization of the 1926 Warner Bros. film of the same name, starring Patsy Ruth Miller and Clive Brook. Illustrated with a whopping TWO stills from the film, plus small portraits of the six principal ac... View more info
The Mocking Bird: An Underworld Story of the London Limehouse District
By: Browning, Tod (based on the motion picture story by)
Publisher: New York, Jacobsen-Hodgkinson Corporation: (c.1925)
[worn copy, rear cover detached, pages browned and somewhat brittle, chipping/flaking at corners, creasing to covers, etc.]. (Popular Plays and Screen Library) Series (B&W photographs) Novelization of the 1926 MGM film THE BLACKBIRD starring Lon Chaney, Renée Adorée and Owen Moore, and directed by Tod Browning. (The book, bearing a 1925 copyright date, seems to have been issued prior to the release of the film itself -- which obviously had an 11th-hour title change -- in January 1926.) The three photographic plates in the book itself are full-page portrait shots of Adorée, Moore, and Tod... View more info
Arrest & Trial
By: Daniels, Norman
Publisher: New York, Lancer Books (72-696): 1963
[spine roll, moderate edgewear, binding splitting at front of book, previous owner's name inside front cover]. Mass Market PB Paperback original, based on the TV series starring Chuck Connors and Ben Gazzara -- a precursor of the modern-day series "Law and Order," with pretty much the same format: the cops arrest 'em, the prosecutors try 'em. View more info
By: Herlihy, James Leo
Publisher: New York, Dell Publishing Co. (5611): 1969
Edition: 1st printing thus
[tight and clean, minor edgewear, uncreased spine]. Mass Market PB Stated "New Dell edition / First printing - February 1969," the less common of the two contemporaneous movie tie-in covers, featuring a color still of Jon Voight in bed with a woman. (Most later printings featured a photo-montage cover built around the two-shot of Voight and Dustin Hoffman, familiar from the one-sheet poster; this edition's cover might be explained by its "pre-release" status, since it preceded the movie's premiere by about three months.) A curious design, in any case, bearing the front cover ... View more info
Visit to a Small Planet [movie tie-in edition]
By: Vidal, Gore
Publisher: New York, Signet Books (S1788): 1960
Edition: 1st printing
[nice tight copy, moderate edgewear but appears unread, a couple of soft creases in front cover, some surface-scratching to rear cover]. Mass Market PB (photo covers) Vidal's screwball comedy/satire about an alien visitor to Earth, adapted from his original TV play. Although this is the tie-in for the movie version (transformed magically into a vehicle for star Jerry Lewis), it is still the text of the play. (Probably just as well, as I'm pretty sure the author disowned the movie (screenplayed by other hands) at some point.) View more info
The Best Man: A Play About Politics [movie tie-in edition]
Publisher: New York, Signet Books (P2423): 1964
Edition: 1st Paperback printing
[nice tight copy with uncreased spine, slight bend in book but otherwise looks virtually brand-new]. Mass Market PB (photo covers) Incisive drama about hardball political campaigning. Although this is the tie-in for the movie version (which starred Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson, under the direction of Franklin Schaffner), and though Vidal himself did the adaptation, please note that it's the text of the original play that's presented here, not the screenplay. View more info
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1B | San Diego Padres
Bats / Throws: L / L
0.265 72 22 99 --- 0.324
209 ↘ 212.3 $4 18.4 +3.3
4 months agoSan Diego Padres first baseman Eric Hosmer finished his 2019 season Sunday with a .265/.310/.425 slash, 22 homers and 171 runs-plus-RBI. The 29-year-old was on pace to set career highs in homers and RBI heading into the final month but fell flat along with most of the Friars offense. Hosmer’s .516 OPS in September dipped his season-long WAR to -0.5, marking two consecutive disappointing seasons with the Padres. After appearing in 160 games, Hosmer still has at least three years under contract in San Diego and should continue being a veteran presence on a young team. For fantasy owners, Hosmer’s campaign was palatable given his basement-level ADP but he’ll never be the prototypical slugger at the first base. He’ll likely enter 2020 outside of the top-15 options at the position--Andrew Le - RotoBaller
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Howards Grove edges Kohler
Bryce Pedrin led the Tigers with 15 points.
Howards Grove edges Kohler Bryce Pedrin led the Tigers with 15 points. Check out this story on sheboyganpress.com: http://shebpr.es/2maikGj
USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 7:40 p.m. CT Feb. 18, 2017 | Updated 7:57 p.m. CT Feb. 18, 2017
Howards Grove's Bryce Pedrin (3) aims for the basket by Kohler's Ian Ruminski (3) Saturday February 18, 2017 at Lakeland College near Howards Grove.(Photo: USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin)
Despite a slow start, Howards Grove scored a quick flurry of points early in the second half and held on to top Kohler 42-32 in the Big East Conference Tournament third place game.
The Tigers only led by a point at halftime, but quickly opened up an eight point lead after the break, and rode its defense from there.
Head coach Wade Gerogeff said his guys were playing with something to prove after losing a heart breaker to Hilbert in their semifinal game.
Big East Tournament - Howards Grove 42, Kohler 32, at Lakeland U
Howards Grove's Isaac Dirker (33) aims for the basket by Kohler's Charlie Keller (21) Saturday February 18, 2017 at Lakeland College near Howards Grove. USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin
Howards Grove's Justin Miller (41) aims for the basket by a Kohler player Saturday February 18, 2017 at Lakeland College near Howards Grove. USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin
Howards Grove's Justin Miller (41) aims for the basket by Kohler's Charlie Keller (21) Saturday February 18, 2017 at Lakeland College near Howards Grove. USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin
Howards Grove's Jack Baldwin (25) aims for the basket against Kohler Saturday February 18, 2017 at Lakeland College near Howards Grove. USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin
Kohler's Joe Bugbee (25) looks to pass the ball by a Howards Grove player Saturday February 18, 2017 at Lakeland College near Howards Grove. USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin
Kohler's Caleb Holzman (24) aims for the basket by a Howards Grove player Saturday February 18, 2017 at Lakeland College near Howards Grove. USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin
Howards Grove's Bryce Pedrin (3) aims for the basket by Kohler's Ian Ruminski (3) Saturday February 18, 2017 at Lakeland College near Howards Grove. USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin
Kohler's Caleb Holzman (24) drives to the basket against Howards Grove Saturday February 18, 2017 at Lakeland College near Howards Grove. USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin
FINAL - Howards Grove 42, Kohler 32, in the third place matchup at the Big East basketball tournament Saturday February 18, 2017 at Lakeland College near Howards Grove. USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin
“They have a lot of heart and a lot of character,” he said. “We were disappointed after the Hilbert game. We thought we had a real good opportunity to win that game, and it just didn’t work out. We wanted to come out here and we were angry. We wanted everyone to know we were going to give it our best, but the first half didn’t turn out that way. We didn’t really set the world on fire.”
When the Tigers needed a boost, Georgeff said the guys who have helped lead Howards Grove all year stepped up again.
“Bryce Pedrin and Caleb Holzman stood out,” he said. “Derek Stauss struggled at the free throw line, but he still plugged away down low, which we needed. We need him to score and convert those opportunities down low. Jack Baldwin did a great job controlling the offense, taking care of the ball and choosing his opportunities to get to the hoop.”
Pedrin led all scorers with 15 points, including an impressive performance from beyond the arc where he finished 4-of-6.
“It’s a big confidence booster going into the playoffs,” he said. “It’s a win we needed for seeding, as well. The shots weren’t falling right away, but we got it going. Hopefully that confidence is there next week.”
Jack Baldwin finished with nine points and Derek Stauss added eight points for the Tigers.
While the Tigers struggled to put the ball in the hoop for much of the first half, it leaned on its defense to keep them in the game, just as they’ve done all season long.
“Our defense, for the most part, has been great all year,” he said. “We give up 50 points a game. That alone will keep you in a lot of games. We’ve got some things to clean up as far as help side, but that’s what next week is for.”
Howards Grove ends this season’s Big East Tournament with a third place finish, but Georgeff said the real prize is the tournament style atmosphere they’ve endured. It’s the kind of experience that could pay dividends when the playoffs begin.
“It adds a lot of excitement to it,” he said. “You get the longer floor, but that won’t come into play until Madison. It’s a nice feeling to match up and go through scouting reports the day before. It’s a big deal to get ready for the playoffs.”
Andrew Hildebrand: ahildebran@gannett.com or follow on Twitter at @ByAHildebrand
Kohler…14 18 – 32
Howards Grove…15 27 –42
KOHLER: Maki 8, Keller 6, Farrell 6, Kelly 4, Knuth 2. 3-pointers: None. FTs: 6-9. Fouls: 17.
HOWARDS GROVE: Pedrin 15, Baldwin 9, Stauss 8, Holzman 5, Grimm 3, Dirker 1. 3-pointers: 6 (Pedrin 4, Holzman, Grimm). FTs: 10-22. Fouls: 8.
Oostburg 71, Sheboygan Christian 69: The Flying Dutchmen pulled off the two-point win over the Eagles to finish in fifth place in the Big East Conference Tournament.
Oostburg led by four points at the half and held on after the break to come away with the win.
Tristan Van Ess had a huge game for the Flying Dutchmen, sinking 7-of-11 three-pointers on the way to a 30-point performance.
Jake Daane added 17 points.
Sheboygan Christian finished in sixth place overall.
Oostburg…27 44 – 71
Sheboygan Christian…23 46 – 69
OOSTBURG: Van Ess 30, Daane 17, Maier 12, Ebbers 8, Arndt 3, Wilterdink 1. 3-pointers: 11 (Van Ess 7, Ebbers 2, Daane 2). FTs: 22-29. Fouls: 10.
SHEBOYGAN CHRISTIAN: Stecker 17, Heinen 17, Modahl 13, VanEss 9, Balint 7, Wisse 6. 3-pointers: 8 (Stecker 3, VanEss 2, Balint, Wisse, Heinen). FTs: 11-16. Fouls: 23.
Sheboygan Lutheran 63, Cedar Grove-Belgium 60: The Crusaders led by three points after the first half and held on after the break to finish in seventh place at the Big East Conference Tournament. With the loss, the Rockets finished eighth overall.
Vincent Montazella led the way for Sheboygan Lutheran with 21 points, including three buckets from beyond the arc.
He was joined in double figures by Evan Olsen, who finished with 16 points.
Cedar Grove-Belgium…29 31– 60
Sheboygan Lutheran…32 31 – 63
CEDAR GROVE-BELGIUM: Hilbelink 22, Brochtrup 10, Theune 9, Weiss 9, Heimburg 5, Villa 5. 3-pointers: 4 (Hilbelink 2, Weiss, Villa). FTs: 10-14. Fouls: 13.
SHEBOYGAN LUTHERAN: Montazella 21, Olsen 16, Jurss 9, Schimberg 9, Grabowski 6, Leland 2. 3-pointers: 4 (Montazella 3, Schimberg). FTs: 11-13. Fouls: 12.
St. Mary Catholic 41, Random Lake 36: The Rams finished in tenth place at the Big East tournament after falling to St. Mary Catholic in the ninth place game.
No additional information was provided.
Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah 66, Mishicot 60: The Resorters won a double overtime game against Mishicot to finish in 13th place at the Big East Tournament.
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New acts announced including IDLEWILD and JIM BOB exclusive set
Shiiine On are delighted to announce the latest acts to play the 2019 Weekender this November. The 3 day indoor festival which takes place at Butlin’s Minehead Arena is a celebration of Indie and Dance Music from the sub cultures which brought together the masses in the 80’s, 90’s and beyond.
All packages for the Weekender include 3 nights’ accommodation on site at the resort.
Leading the way are Scottish Indie cult hero’s Idlewild who play the Weekender on the back of the release of their 8th studio album ‘Interview Music’.
Famously described in their early days by the NME as sounding like ‘a flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs’, Idlewild’s marriage of punk rock, poetry and Highland spirit saw them grow from a raucous cult curiosity into chart-bothering national treasures with their huge hits ‘You Held The World In Your Arms’, ‘Rosability’, ‘American English’ and ‘A Modern Way Of Letting Go’.
They will play the Main Stage Saturday alongside Embrace, Steve Mason and Turin Brakes.
Also joining the bill is the one and only Jim Bob. Having recently played a sold out show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, the Carter (USM) frontman will be performing an EXCLUSIVE ‘30 Something’ set followed by an encore of Carter classics. This is not one to miss…
Supergroup ShadowParty will also be heading to Minehead also. Boasting members of New Order, Devo, Marion and Bad Lieutenant in their ranks the band released their debut album in 2018 to critical acclaim.
There will also be a performance from Cold Water Swimmers, the new group formed by former Dub Sex and The G-O-D front man Chris Bridgett. One of the finest up and coming bands in the country, Ivory Wave also join the bill following recent support slots with DMA’s whilst Babyshambles man Adam Ficek and up and coming Liverpool artiste Tracky are also confirmed.
Back by popular demand are The Clone Roses. Undoubtedly the best Stone Roses tribute band about, their electric live show is as good as the real thing.
A host of club nights are also announced including Absolute Radio’s Andy Bush’s Indie Disco, the legendary Birmingham night Menangarie, Spinout Review and Northern Soul Rave Patrol.
With a whole host of new acts still in the pipeline to be announced this is lining up to be the best Shiiine On Weekender yet. Over the coming weeks we will also be announcing more live acts, cinema screenings, pool parties, club nights and exhibitions .
With the Shiiine On Weekender selling out in each previous year, you are advised not to wait too long to reserve your place. Our deposit scheme remains open where you can reserve your place for just £25pp.
All packages include 3 nights on site accommodation with a range of chalets available.
Acts already announced for the Weekender include:
Embrace / The Lightening Seeds / The Wonder Stuff / Ned’s Atomic Dustbin / Cast / Pop Will Eat Itelf / Steve Mason / Reverend & The Makers / Bob Mould / Turin Brakes / The Farm / Dodgy / Swervedriver / Jesus Jones / Jah Wobble / Inner City / Apollo 440 / Adamski / Red Snapper / Transglobal Underground / Bassheads / Together / Babybird / Sultans Of Ping / Steve Lamacq / Mike Joyce / Bez & Rowetta
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Regulation of gibberellin 20-oxidase and gibberellin 3beta-hydroxylase transcript accumulation during De-etiolation of pea seedlings
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Kohl’s Stores Will Soon Accept Amazon Returns
by Nick Nowaczyk — Vice President, Phoenix
Kohl’s is a department store offering clothing basics, homewares, shoes. CNN described its shoppers in April as “a loyal shopping base of middle-aged moms,” in a story about how the retailer is pursuing the coveted Millennial market.
Millennials may have a new reason to go to Kohl’s, however — one unrelated to “style bars” and other retail experiences.
In July, Kohl’s will begin accepting all Amazon returns at stores nationwide.
In October 2017, Kohl’s announced a pilot version of this partnership at 82 stores in Chicago and Los Angeles. Customers could bring any products they’d purchased on Amazon to Kohl’s, and the retail chain would handle the return process.
When Amazon said “any item,” they meant it. It didn’t have to be a Kohl’s product. It didn’t even have to have a box or a label. Kohl’s would pack the items and ship them back to Amazon’s vast network of warehouses – for free.
“We are thrilled to launch this unprecedented and innovative concept, allowing customers to bring in their unpackaged Amazon returns to Kohl’s and we will pack them, ship them, and return them to Amazon for free,” said Richard Schepp, Chief Administrative Officer for Kohl’s, in a statement at the time.
“This is a great example of how Kohl’s and Amazon are leveraging each other’s strengths – the power of Kohl’s store portfolio and omnichannel capabilities combined with the power of Amazon’s reach and loyal customer base.”
In April, Kohl’s announced that it was expanding its Amazon returns service to all of the 1,150 locations in the department store chain.
The expanded partnership, which launches in July, is a big deal for both companies. For Kohl’s, it means more foot traffic and a foothold in the quickly shrinking big-box retail world. And for Amazon, it means customers will have a much easier time returning items — and Amazon will have a much easier time working them back into its logistical network.
Breaking down the partnership between Kohl’s and Amazon
The expansion suggests that this pilot partnership was very good for both Kohl’s and Amazon.
In March, Inc. Magazine writer Justin Bariso said its relationship with Amazon, along with a few other clever partnerships, had helped Kohl’s “return to relevance” as a retailer.
Amazon customers return items all the time. But filing a return request online, re-packing an item, and waiting weeks for Amazon to receive and process it isn’t exactly a procedure that screams convenience to customers. Kohl’s offered a convenient alternative to those customers — who began to stop at a store they otherwise may have driven right past.
Every retailer knows that getting a customer in the door is the first step to making a sale. If even a small fraction of the people Amazon brought into Kohl’s made purchases, even small ones, they generated buckets of revenue Kohl’s wouldn’t have had otherwise.
“I think that the most important thing that we’re seeing is how excited our customers and the Amazon customers are about this service,” Kohl’s CEO Michelle Gass recently told investors, per that Inc. piece. “It’s really unique. It takes a lot of the hassle out of returning items.”
And that was only at about 100 Kohl’s stores nationwide. In July, the effect will increase exponentially.
Amazon, which is by far the world’s largest retailer, has long struggled to make returns convenient not just for customers, but for itself. Returns are essential for customer loyalty, so it has no choice but to offer a process. But currently, most customers put returns in the mail themselves. That inventory travels to warehouses, where Amazon likely liquidates it.
But Kohl’s is giving Amazon the opportunity to put human faces on its return process — a physical customer service counter, where customers can ask questions and be helped. It’s never been possible for Amazon to replicate that feeling at scale. At least, not until now.
What does this mean for parcel shipping?
Amazon Marketplace — where third parties sell products, enhancing Amazon’s omnichannel capabilities — and Amazon.com comprise a total of 47 percent of online retail sales. It’s possible that almost half of goods shipped from e-commerce retailers touch Amazon’s logistics network.
For that reason, Amazon spends a lot of money on shipping — an estimated $27.7 billion in 2018, up from $21.7 billion in 2017, Marketwatch reported. The e-commerce giant is making a number of moves into the shipping industry, from its own air fleet to package pickup robots that customers can own themselves.
Its partnership with Kohl’s is another one of those moves.
“Amazon looks to be enticing customers to bring returns to a limited number of known Kohl’s addresses, instead of picking up returns at an endless number of home or office addresses,” said Pete Madden, a director in the AlixPartners LLP retail practice, told Marketwatch. “This likely saves Amazon money because customers are absorbing Amazon’s transportation cost by doing the driving and Kohl’s would be acting as Amazon’s consolidator.”
Instead of Amazon accepting thousands of shipments from thousands of individual customers, it can accept a fraction of the shipments from a limited number of Kohl’s stores. In effect, Amazon is buying in bulk — paying to pack and ship whole loads at once rather than one parcel at a time.
We’re not privy to details of the partnership between Kohl’s and Amazon, but its benefits are clear: More foot traffic for Kohl’s, and more consolidated shipments for Amazon — shipments that may soon fit snugly into an Amazon-owned and Amazon-operated network.
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The Hongcouver by Ian Young
Yang Kuang burned a Chinese flag outside Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s court hearing in Vancouver – here’s why
Protesters at Meng Wanzhou’s latest Vancouver court appearance called for the release of Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, who are held by China
The demonstrators included Yang Kuang, well known in Hong Kong for his activism, and now living as a refugee in Canada
Ian Young in Vancouver
Published: 7:15am, 7 Mar, 2019
Updated: 2:18am, 13 Apr, 2019
Ian Young is the Post's Vancouver correspondent. A journalist for more than 20 years, he worked for Australian newspapers and the London Evening Standard before arriving in Hong Kong in 1997. There he won or shared awards for excellence in investigative reporting and human rights reporting, and the HK News Awards Scoop of the Year. He moved to Canada with his wife in 2010.
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EFL AND PROSTATE CANCER UK EXTEND CHARITY PARTNERSHIP
The EFL has announced that its successful charity partnership with Prostate Cancer UK will continue until 2018 with a two year extension confirmed today.
The leading men’s health charity, also club partners of the Iron, has been affiliated with the EFL since 2012, and Official Charity Partner of the EFL from the 2013/14 campaign, with the two organisations working together to raise vital awareness of a disease that affects one in eight men in the UK and raised over £2 million to date for vital research.
Throughout the four years working together, there have been a number of highlights, such as the EFL’s annual end of season cycling fundraiser, Football to Amsterdam, which last June took Prostate Cancer UK to new heights as a record-breaking field of 350 riders from EFL clubs raised over £500,000.
Earlier this year Jeff Stelling and former Hartlepool United Chief Executive Russ Green added a further £415,000 by visiting 32 clubs across the country on their epic Men United March, and this week Hartlepool United have pledged yet more support by unveiling the Prostate Cancer UK Stand at Victoria Park.
Since 2012 clubs across all three divisions of the Sky Bet EFL have hosted a range of imaginative events and over 230 Men United matchday collections have been held including at the EFL’s five annual Wembley finals. A host of EFL clubs have also gone the extra mile - Millwall and Scunthorpe United have both proudly had the Prostate Cancer UK logo emblazoned across their home and away shirts for a season, while for one night only on March 24, 2015, Luton Town hosted Wycombe Wanderers at the Prostate Cancer UK Stadium.
For the 2016/17 Sky Bet EFL season, the iconic Prostate Cancer UK ‘Man of Men’ logo will adorn new EFL shirt numbers and appear more than 60,000 times between the season’s start on Friday 5 August and its finale at the Sky Bet Championship Play-Off Final on 29 May. On touchlines up and down the land, EFL managers will continue to wear the Prostate Cancer UK pin badge to raise awareness of the disease.
Shaun Harvey, Chief Executive of the EFL said: “Following the inception of this charity partnership four years ago, fans across EFL clubs have shown a real sense of togetherness and have helped raise millions for the vital work Prostate Cancer UK does in our communities.
“We’re immensely proud of that work and delighted to be working alongside the Prostate Cancer UK team once again as we all continue to raise funds and much needed awareness in the ongoing fight to stop prostate cancer becoming a killer. And as part of our ongoing commitment to raising profile for the campaign, all of our players will continue to wear the now iconic Prostate Cancer UK logo on their shirts in every EFL fixture, a first for football when it was introduced two years ago.
“The events and activities that took place under the League banner throughout last season were nothing short of remarkable. Many hundreds of people deserve enormous credit for the extraordinary lengths they went to get involved. It made a real difference. Exciting plans are in place for the 2016/17 season and I have no doubt that the EFL, its clubs and fans will raise the bar once again.”
Prostate Cancer UK Chief Executive Angela Culhane said: “Over the past four years our relationship with the EFL has gone from strength to strength and we’re delighted to have extended our partnership with them for a further two seasons.
“One man every hour dies from prostate cancer; it’s the most common cancer in men, and football has proved to be an amazingly effective way of driving home our messages in a variety of ways to fans, players and club officials, many of whom had no idea about the dangers of the disease.”
“Ignoring prostate cancer will not beat it. But this partnership has helped to wake men up to the need to take action. Thanks to the money raised as a result, we can fund more ground-breaking research to fight back against the disease. It will also help us provide dedicated support and information to men and their families. United against prostate cancer, we can make it a disease the next generation of men need not fear.”
For information about Prostate Cancer UK’s work in football go to prostatecanceruk.org/football. And for details of the 2017 Football to Amsterdam ride go to prostatecanceruk.org/amsterdam.
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Students weigh in on tuition hikes at UMass Lowell
UMass Lowell students began moving into university housing on Saturday, Aug. 31 for the start of the academic year. Among them was, at right, first-generation Honors College student Monineth Hang, a computer science major from Lowell. Helping her settle in to her new home at University Suites was her friend, Sreynoun Neang, also of Lowell. The Honors College will see record participation this fall with nearly 2,000 students, as the university’s total enrollment exceeds 18,000.
By Elizabeth Dobbins | edobbins@lowellsun.com | Lowell Sun
LOWELL — For many students returning to the University of Massachusetts Lowell, a new year means new dorms, new classes and — like each of the past five years — a new tuition price.
Earlier this month, University of Massachusetts trustees approved a 2.5 percent increase for in-state undergraduate students in the system, continuing a series of annual increases since the expiration of a two-year tuition freeze in 2015.
According to the University of Massachusetts Lowell website, an in-state, full-time, undergraduate student should expect to pay about $15,078 in tuition and fees this school year. The out-of-state equivalent should expect to pay just over $33,000. Room and board is another $13,000 on top of these price tags.
Over the weekend, students preparing for the start of the semester this Wednesday, said they’ve noticed the increases.
For some students, the school’s relatively low tuition compared to out-of-state or private schools was a major draw. Sophomore Owen Johnson and freshman Joey Bonanno, two engineering students who met growing up in Burlington, said price was one of the university’s attractions.
“Price is definitely a reason,” Johnson said.
UMass Lowell students began arriving on campus for the start of UMass Lowell’s 125th anniversary year on Saturday, Aug. 31. Incoming Honors College student and chemistry major Jordan Ventura of Lowell, left, moved into University Suites with the help of UMass Lowell sophomore Mudit Shukla, right, a biology major from Lexington. Ventura is among the 3,300 first-year and new students who make up UMass Lowell’s largest-ever group of incoming students.
Johnson said he feels he has seen the several hundred dollar annual tuition increases reinvested in the school. Some buildings are being redone, including the bathrooms in his residence hall, he said.
However, Gian Soares, a junior from Worcester, said he hasn’t felt like he has seen these tuition increases reflected in his studies. Though the campus has seen new buildings, he said they’re more for researchers and graduate students than his own education.
Soares and fellow biomedical engineering student Bilal Ali said they chose UMass Lowell because it offers their major, unlike other nearby options. It’s also about half the cost of some private school options, said Soares, an in-state student.
“It’s harder to get a scholarship, but cheaper,” he said.
So far, the tuition increases do not seem to be impacting enrollment. Last school year, the university reported record high enrollment and test scores.
This school year, representatives from UMass Lowell and UMass Amherst told the Boston Globe freshmen enrollment numbers were once again record breaking. UMass Lowell is welcoming 2,380 freshmen, up by 300 over the previous year, the representative told the Globe.
Several freshmen said scholarships have helped offset their tuition. Jenna Silk, a sophomore from Greenfield, said she has noticed the tuition hike, but other aid has helped reduce her costs.
“The school gave me a lot of grants and financial help so that was good,” Silk said.
She is majoring in exercise science and chose the university for its seven year physical therapy program, which she said will allow her to get her bachelors up to her doctorate degree in one place.
Ben Gill, a lacrosse player and business major from West Newbury, is entering his first year at the university this fall. However, he remembers coming to Lowell and the Tsongas Center growing up and watching the development of the UMass Lowell campus.
“It’s pretty cool to see,” he said.
Elizabeth Dobbins
Elizabeth Dobbins is a reporter covering the Lowell School Committee and Lowell city governmemt. She previously worked at the Sentinel & Enterprise in Fitchburg and the Medina Gazette in Ohio. Elizabeth is an Arizona native and graduate of Oberlin College.
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No one wins in a war over ending clean car policies
Opinion // Open Forum
By Chris Busch March 29, 2018 Updated: March 29, 2018 5:06 p.m.
Vehicles on the East Shore freeway during rush hour in Emeryville, Calif. are seen on March 29th, 2018.
Photo: John Storey / Special to the Chronicle
California’s ambitious clean car standards to reduce vehicle emissions have jump-started a clean transportation economic boom in our communities as well as helping clean our air. Unfortunately, President Trump could roll back these policies before the weekend is out. This would set up an unprecedented attempt to reverse California’s ability to set its own emissions standards via our state’s special authority under the federal Clean Air Act.
Eleven years ago, I testified before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, urging approval of California’s plan to reduce tailpipe emissions. I cited the extraordinary danger climate change poses to California and how reducing vehicle emissions ameliorates that risk, but I could have just as easily cited how tailpipe emissions harm public health.
Fortunately, EPA approved the plan, and in the decade that followed, California became America’s clean transportation leader. Now, 13 states plus Washington, D.C., follow California’s clean car standards, covering 35 percent of the U.S. population and roughly one-third of America’s auto market.
California’s clean car policies have helped restore auto manufacturing and the good jobs that come with it. The Bay Area is now home to thousands of green jobs and cutting-edge companies such as electric bus manufacturer Proterra in Burlingame, Fremont’s electric car manufacturer Tesla, and charging station manufacturer ChargePoint of Campbell. Statewide, around 300 clean transportation companies employ more than 20,000 Californians building electric vehicles, designing advanced engine technologies, and producing cleaner fuels.
Clean car standards are also helping California achieve its ambitious climate change goals, have contributed to a 10 percent overall emissions reduction since 2004, and have driven deployment of nearly half the nation’s electric vehicles onto our roads. Clean cars use less fuel, so California’s clean car standards give consumers the gift of lower gasoline bills, saving families and businesses billions of dollars at the gas pump — especially whenever gasoline prices spike as a result of the inevitable disruption in global oil supplies.
Unfortunately, the Trump administration is now threatening California’s clean car successes. In early 2017, Trump said he supported rolling back California’s clean car standards, and while EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt initially backed away from the fight, he recently said California “shouldn’t and can’t dictate to the rest of the country what these (standards) are going to be.”
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The EPA has begun negotiating with the California Air Resources Board to find a plan suiting Trump’s anti-regulation push, but Pruitt downplayed California’s initial offer to work together.
If these negotiations fail, then the EPA could attempt something that’s never been attempted before: a unilateral revoking of California’s federal waiver. Mary Nichols, California’s top environmental regulator, predicted this would start “a war with many states lining up with California.” States would certainly sue to block the move, starting a protracted legal fight over clean air between Trump and California where no one wins, with everything to lose.
Trump’s attack on clean cars could take a heavy toll on California. Even though our air is much cleaner than it used to be, transportation still contributes 37 percent of statewide emissions, and California added more than 2 million new vehicles annually from 2015 through 2017. Because we won’t abandon cars anytime soon, the cars on our roads must be as clean as possible.
Beyond the increasingly obvious dangers posed by climate change like drought and wildfire, vehicles are the largest source of dirty air in California, which the American Lung Association says costs California $15 billion every year in asthma attacks, premature deaths, lost work days and hospital visits.
Throwing clean cars in reverse would cause wide-ranging damage and threaten California’s right to reduce smog in our cities, cut transportation costs, and tap the economic potential of clean car technologies.
When I stood in front of EPA in 2007, I testified as a citizen on behalf of our climate future. Now, I’m also testifying as a parent on behalf of my young son’s health and future.
California must be allowed to continue protecting its residents and leading the clean transportation economy.
Chris Busch is director of research at the San Francisco think tank Energy Innovation.
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Truckee River restoration to begin at Mustang
News | April 15, 2009
RENO, Nev. ” Washoe County commissioners have approved giving the Nature Conservancy $2.9 million in state grants for flood control efforts on the Truckee River at the site of the old Mustang Ranch brothel.
The entire project is estimated at $7.8 million, and includes $4.1 million in a federal grant and nearly $776,000 in grants from Reno and Sparks.
Naomi Duerr, director of the Truckee River Flood Management Project, said construction is expected to start in mid July.
It’s the latest phase of an ongoing effort to return the river to a more natural state and provide a flood plain to help alleviate severe damage in floods.
Similar efforts at under way at Lockwood, the 102 Ranch and the McCarran Ranch.
When all are completed, more than nine miles of river will be restored.
“We are making tremendous progress,” Duerr said.
The Mustang area will connect with five miles of restored river at the McCarran Ranch, which opens to the public next spring, said Patti Bakker, Mustang project manager for the Nature Conservancy.
Bakker said the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will develop a specific plan later this summer for recreational uses on the 250-acre Mustang Ranch site.
The Mustang river project will use $1.67 million of $4.75 million in grants provided by the Nevada Legislature in 2007 for the Truckee, Duerr said. Another $1.3 million came from a state bond issue approved by voters in 2002 for outdoors projects.
“It’s a true partnership at the state, local and federal level,” Duerr said. “And the Nature Conservancy, our great nonprofit partner, has tremendous expertise.”
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