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Reflecting on the Election
Posted on April 21, 2019 by susanonthesoapbox
Now that the election is over and the dust is settling, Ms Soapbox has been reflecting on the results.
What do we make of this?
The thrust of Mr Kenney’s victory speech was that Albertans value the economy and jobs above all else. (Whether this is a conservative ideal remains to be seen, Mr Kenney mentioned the word “conservative” twice, only because it happens to be in his party’s name, the United Conservative Party).
Is he right? Do Albertans value the economy and jobs above everything else?
Let’s look at the election results: a record 71% of eligible voters went to the polls. 54.8% voted UCP, 32.7% voted NDP, 9.1% voted Alberta Party and 1% voted Liberal. Out of a total of 87 seats, the UCP took 63 and the NDP took 24. The Alberta Party and the Liberals were shut out.
Bottom line: 45.2% of Albertans supported someone other than Mr Kenney’s UCP. Not exactly an overwhelming endorsement of the free enterprise party.
Let’s dig a little further.
Ever since Jason Kenney arrived on the scene, he’s preached the same line: the NDP’s win in 2015 was a fluke and the only way to defeat the “accidental government” was to unite the Wildrose and the Progressive Conservatives under the one leader who would oust the NDP.
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that Mr Kenney is right and the 2015 election was an aberration. If so, we can toss the 2015 election results on the slag heap and turn to the 2012 election for a more accurate representation of NDP versus conservative support. The combined WR and PC votes will serve as a proxy for UCP support.
In 2012 the NDP won 4 seats with 9.8% of the popular vote. The WR/PC won 78 seats with 78.3% popular vote.
Seven years later Mr Kenney’s UCP dropped from 78 seats to 63 seats; popular support for the UCP dropped from 78.3% to 54.8%. The NDP under Rachel Notley increased its seat count from 4 to 24 (that’s a 6 fold increase) and popular support climbed from 9.8% to 32.7% (that’s a 3 fold increase).
This dramatic shift in support—down in the UCP’s case and up in the NDP’s case—took place in the sturm und drang of a knock down drag out campaign that resulted in the highest voter turnout since 1935.
Mr Kenney can’t have it both ways. If the 2015 election was a fluke that only he could rectify by uniting the two conservative parties, then he owns the 2019 results; a decrease in conservative party seat count and popular support.
Maybe Alberta is not the conservative/free enterprise bastion he’d have us believe.
What’s your price?
Which leads me to the issue that troubled me the most.
We know why racists, homophobes, Islamophobes and misogynists (Charles Adler’s “knuckle draggers”) voted for the UCP, they picked up the dog whistles and jumped on board, what we can’t understand is why our family and friends voted for a party that espoused policies which made the knuckle draggers feel at home.
The answer lies in Winston Churchill’s pithy exchange with Lady Astor:
”Would you sleep with me for a million pounds?” Churchill asks.
“A million pounds?” says Lady Astor. “I’d have to think about it first but, in all likelihood, yes.”
“How about for a six-pence?”
“Why I never!” Lady Astor huffs. “What do you take me for?”
“That, my dear,” says Churchill, “has been established. We are just negotiating price.”
The UCP bought our friends and families’ votes for a price.
In some cases the price was high enough to get them to compromise a core principle, such as protecting the LBGTQ community or a woman’s right to choose.
The greedy ones voted for Mr Kenney because they believe he’ll lower taxes and fatten their bank accounts (even though Mr Kenney’s tax promise so far relates only to reducing corporate taxes, not personal income taxes). As for the impact of the UCP’s cuts on public services, well, they agree with Mr Kenney belief that in order to be a compassionate society, we must be prosperous first and are willing to take their chances.
The bullies voted for Mr Kenney because they think Ms Notley was too soft—when a woman negotiates she’s a push over, but when a man negotiates he’s diplomatic. They want a bellicose premier who’ll take the fight to Ottawa, and BC, and Quebec, and the environmentalists, and the Rockefellers, and their co-conspirators, and anyone else who’s made them feel like victims. The cost of their votes was the UCP’s promise to help them forget they’re living in the age known as the “twilight of the white male dinosaur.”*
Where to next??
So, what do we do as we grind through the next four years?
First, we will adopt Rachel Notley’s rallying cry: don’t look away, ever! We will not look away when the knuckle draggers go after the LBGTQ community, women, children and minorities. We will call them out wherever and whenever we find them.
Second, we will amplify the three fold increase in NDP support from 2012 to 2019. An increase of this magnitude shows NDP votes are “sticky” votes and NDP supporters don’t fade away after an election. They will get even “stickier” when the damage from Mr Kenney’s free enterprise strategy ripples through our public services and cripples our relationship with the rest of Canada.
If there’s a lesson to be learned from this election, it’s that it’s made us even stronger.
*“Cause of Death: Fox News” Poem by Tony Hoagland
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45 Responses to Reflecting on the Election
nurishah1 says:
“Negotiating the price “ indeed! Great summary Susan
Thanks Nurishah1. One can always count on Winston Churchill for a pithy quote that gets to the heart of the issue. In this case a lot of Albertans sold out the rest of us, for what….?
Jerrymacgp says:
I must say, the joke is one I first heard a long time ago, but I didn’t know until now it came from Sir Winston … makes it even more clever. Thanks 🙂
communitynetworks says:
“Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation.” – Simon Sinek | Interesting amiga; it would appear that it all it boils down, according to your analysis, to numbers. I posit though that fellow progressives, broadly & widely speaking, need to look themselves in the mirror, have serious conversations about what sort of society do we really wish to become, and walk the talk. This exercise should be done with some regularity, not just around electoral cycles (…). I also think that we need to start actually supporting a range of community economic initiatives (cooperatives, social enterprises, workers cooperatives) – that if successful may become inspirational models for other fellow citizens fearfully stuck in one particular conventional paradigm; oil & pipelines; pipelines & oil. – LCA
Marilyn Johnman says:
Agree – didn’t Jim Prentice suggest Albertans “look in the mirror?” He was dead right!
Indeed; gracias. We have been around various electoral cycles – so, this particular result is not a surprise, but a disappointing set-back. The pendulum will swing back, it always does. What I think progressives must do is sooner rather than later start talking|listening to each other and over a period of time, come to some essential understandings and prepare for 2023. The role of civil society cannot be underestimated again – remember, parties also loose elections when they become too rigid, aloof and distanced from the commons – that needs to change. Two of my favourite educators|social thinkers Paolo Freire & Ivan Illich once said: “Leadership does not depend on being right and leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people, they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.” | LCA
Leo, I like your suggestion that progressives need to start talking/listening to each other. I am aware of at least two groups of progressives that have formed in the wake of this election. Time will tell whether this will come to anything, especially given our tendency to over analyze the issues and then draw hard lines between this group of progressives and that group of progressives. I would hope we can take the advice of former Governor General of Canada, David Johnston. He said minds, like parachutes, work best when open.
Leo, you nailed it. We absolutely need to have a serious conversation about what sort of society we wish to become. When I reviewed Kenney’s victory speech it became clear why he started to call the UCP the “free enterprise unity party”. He isn’t interested in the Peter Lougheed traditional conservative ideology, he just wants to make it easier for those with money to make more money. “Cutting red tape” and being “open for business” is code for Alberta is for sale to the highest bidder. That plus the knuckle draggers element is deadly. We need to address this now, and your community economic initiative model may be just the way to do it.
Gracias amiga; you and I have been around various cycles – so, this particular result is not a surprise, but a disappointing set-back. The pendulum will swing back, it always does. What I think progressives must do is sooner rather than later start talking|listening to each other and over a period of time, come to some essential understandings and prepare for 2023. The role of civil society cannot be underestimated again – remember, parties also loose elections when they become too rigid, aloof and distanced from the commons – that needs to change. Two of my favourite educators|social thinkers Paolo Freire & Ivan Illich once said: “Leadership does not depend on being right and leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people, they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.” | LCA
Michelle Graff says:
I’m trying to get this kind of movement going. Face-to-face group conversations focussed on issues like, global-warming, racism of all stripes, rising extremism and violence, misinformation versus reality, the role social media plays in election results and democracy, how automation and A.I. will affect jobs, support for public instiutions, ihealthcare, educuation for all…” I could go on. I just want to be proactive and get information and ideas out there, but social media and the majority of the press in Canada are not onside. Any tips as to how to move forward are welcome.
Michelle, this is a very good idea. Based on my limited experience I’d suggest you invite a bunch of like minded people to meet you for coffee at an out of the way coffee shop and ask them to bring a friend. Tell them what you’d like to talk about and see who shows up. The reason I suggest an out of the way coffee shop is you’ll have a quiet corner where you can talk freely and they’ll welcome the extra business. Once you get the founding group on board you can open up a Facebook group and keep in touch that way. I don’t know it it will work but it’s worth a try.
Neil Kirkwood says:
Just checked results on Elections Alberta site. In 2015, 604,518 votes were cast for the New Democrats. In this year’s election, with a higher voter turn-out overall, 615,428 Albertans cast ballots in favour of a New Democratic candidate. At this point, after actively campaigning for my New Democratic MLA for the past 4 years, only to see her defeated last Tuesday, I’ll take my moral victories where I can.
Thanks for the consolation, Susan.
Thanks Neil. I saw an interesting tweet after the election. It said, “a 2019 supporter is a 2023 lawn sign. A 2019 lawn sign is a 2023 volunteer or donor. A 2019 disappointment is a 2023 victory… Don’t mourn, organize!” This illustrates what I meant when I said NDP votes are “sticky” votes. Once NDP supporters have made the decision to vote NDP they stick with the party (assuming it continues to attract leaders like Notley and Shannon Phillips).
alisacaswell says:
Great post. I feel a little less like a lone liberal in Alberta when I read your blog. Fyi: even in Fort Mc, the percent of votes to NDP candidates was groundbreaking.
Well that’s heartening Alisa. Thanks!
ed henderson says:
Quote..””Bottom line: 45.2% of Albertans supported someone other than Mr Kenney’s UCP. Not exactly an overwhelming endorsement of the free enterprise party.””
My humble opinion is that in 2015 the NDP win was such a surprise to the NDP that they never recovered. I really believe that had the NDP really got it’s act together and run Alberta like it was more important than their little 2 bit political party they would have been re-elected. I was hoping someone would join the NDP and run who had an education that would enable them to run Alberta’s finances better. The NDP had too many elected members who were picked just so that the party could claim it ran a full slate. Hopefully they can spend the next four years attracting some competent people not “just fill this slot” types.
It’s too bad that Grant Notley wasn’t available.
I also suspect that Albertan’s are now quite a bit more aware that Alberta needs more than just a friggin know it all so it wouldn’t surprise me to see Kenney given the kick four years from now.
Ed, I think Notley recognized she needed more bench strength when she won in 2015. That’s why she brought in experts like David Dodge, former head of the Bank of Canada, to advise on infrastructure spending, and Peter Tertzakian and Andrew Leach, top notch economists to advise on modernizing the royalty structure and the climate leadership plan. She did this throughout her term.
However Kenney convinced conservative voters she wasn’t tough enough and he’d fix everything by yelling louder, which is ridiculous.
I agree with your last sentence. I don’t know if Kenney really believes that yelling at the other side will get him what he wants or whether he just said that to manipulate the voters, in either case it’s pathetic.
The turnout was so high, of course, because the right was very mad at the NDP and the left was very scared of the UCP. Predicting elections 4 years out is a fool’s game, but I think one of those groups will be less motivated next time while the other will be more motivated than ever.
Well put Sean. I was on a political panel on CBC Radio One on election night. My fellow panelists included a staunch UCP supporter and a journalist who is more centre/centre-right. I was there representing all the progressive parties. Both the UCP supporter and the journalist said Kenney made some very BIG promises and his supporters won’t be very patient if the jobs, jobs, jobs don’t start rolling in within a year. I’d add to that the impact of reduced wages when banked overtime rolls back to straight time, the ratcheting down of pay to track the reduced minimum wage for young people and those in liquor service, and paying extra for services that are now public but will soon be privatized, etc.
I am heart sick that Kenny is now the premier of the province. And I am praying that the next four years fly by quickly. I still believe Rachel Notley was and is the best choice,
carol hopkins: I totally agree with you. I recall a former Peter Lougheed era MLA stating that Rachel Notley is the best premier since Peter Lougheed. He was correct.
I agree – totally!!!
Carol and Dwayne, Agreed! I just hope he doesn’t do too much damage to our public services in the interim.
You mean like his buddy, Harper, did to Canada? Grrrrrrr
Bob Raynard says:
One of the unintended, but positive, consequences of the NDP’s win in 2015 is that it consolidated the progressive vote. For years my progressive vote bounced back and forth between NDP and Liberal, wishing one of them would beat the PC, in my riding at least. I really hated the fact that the two parties were not willing to look for some way to cooperate, preferring instead to focus on their differences. While their lips described the differences, my ears heard “We really want the PCs to win.” Sure enough, in 2012 the combined NDP/Liberal vote in my riding was more than the PC who won the election.
I would argue that the NDP’s success in 2015 was a major contributor to the Liberal’s dismal showing; progressive voters knew where their vote could have the most impact.
Bob, this is a conversation I often have with my Liberal friends. I’m not sure why they see the provincial NDP as being so very different from the provincial liberals. David Khan (and Stephen Mandel) tried to paint Notley as the far left and Kenney as the far right, but they only got it half right. Notley has moved so close to the centre that it’s hard, at times, to distinguish her policies from those of the Lougheed progressive conservatives. I understand the concern about devolving to a two party system here in Alberta, but having one massive conservative/free enterprise party and a bunch of tiny progressive parties surely isn’t the answer.
Bill Malcolm says:
Not even here do I read a single word about the environment. Unbelievable. That’s the number one thing that should be on people’s minds and shipping more synthetic oil to burn is hardly going to help things globally.
I live on the east coast and have relatives in Calgary. If there’s one thing that stands out about my visits there for over 45 years, it’s the provincialism of the place. It’s a navel-gazing spot interested only in itself and nowhere else, very inward looking.
Notley was supposed to be an NDP premier, a social democrat, but externally all we ever heard from her was the usual Alberta whining, complaining and caterwauling about oil/dilbit/pipelines. She was vindictive and spiteful towards BC, and for almost a year the rest of us got lying TV ads beamed our way about pipelines making new schools and happy shiny Canadians. Because the NDP makes no distinction between provincial and federal membership, she screwed up the entire NDP federally, especially the environmental file, stamping her feet in Blairite neoliberal petrostatish fashion. She even made not particularly nice comments about Davis Suzuki and his honorary degree from U of A Edmonton.
So I’m not sad to see her go. Yet I’m not happy that Big Baby Blue got hisself elected either – far from it. But Kenney is not two-faced, he’s unabashedly and idiotically an oil-pumping twit and social regressive, easy to target. Notley? I always hoped she’d do better on the oil business but nothing ever happened; she retreated into the Albertan habit of blaming everyone else for the oil price and the shipping ever more “problem”.
As the smoke drifts in from BC wildfires this summer and ruins outdoor barbecues in Alberta, producing megatons of extra CO2 no government counts towards their “share” of their emissions quotas and providing numerous other poisons and particulates for free, sea levels rise, the Arctic ice disappears and Alberta gives not one sh!t as far as I can see. Yet our world is close to collapse. I live in a wooded area, and the only birds are now crows, June bugs haven’t been heard rattling off windows for three years now, and the whole place is starting to run down, the Atlantic advancing against our shores. Yet all Alberta wants to do is ship more poison. I’m paying through my taxes for a run-down pipeline and promises to build another that Canada bought Albertans when Notley stamped her feet. Alton Gas is washing out a salt dome here in NS to store methane and dumping the brine in a freshwater salmon river here, while First Nations people are arrested for demonstrating against this first class idiocy. I don’t thank Alberta for its intrusions here and head-in-the-sand policies and the crowing over not paying a provincial sales tax at other Canadians’ expense. Not one bit.
Alberta is the very definition of cognitive dissonance. And apparently incapable of seeing beyond its collective nose. As I said, a provincial place which somehow thinks it should be lauded and listened to.
Bill, thanks for bringing us back to reality. I support Notley because she actually had a plan for transitioning our economy away from fossil fuels to renewables–Alberta’s energy would have been 30% renewables by 2030. She put a cap on oilsands emissions, she imposed limits on methane emissions, she implemented a carbon tax and passed legislation to close coal fired electricity plants by 2030. Under Kenney all that is toast.
I also agree that we need to get off fossil fuels for the good of the planet (40% of Canada’s GHG come from Alberta). The problem we have here is 20% of our GDP comes from mining, quarrying, oil and gas extraction, the next highest sector is real estate and leasing at 11% GDP, from there it dwindles down into the single digits, for example agriculture & forestry sits at 1.5% GDP. Albertans are used to easy money and go bananas at the suggestion we need to swing our economy off fossil fuels and implement a provincial sales tax to provide a sustainable predictable source of income like the rest of Canada .
I also agree with your comment that Albertans are parochial. The fact we sit here with the highest median after tax income ($95,500), the lowest debt to GDP ratio, and the lowest taxes, and people still think we’re being victimized by the rest of Canada boggles the mind.
Notley is our best hope to pull our heads out of the sand. The trick is convincing the Kenney me-first supporters that this is what’s required if we hope to leave anything for future generations. Like I said in the post, we’re witnessing the twilight of the white male dinosaur and they’re not going to go quietly.
aratureis says:
Thanks. Great column.
Yvonne Spies
On Sun, Apr 21, 2019, 6:24 PM Susan on the Soapbox, wrote:
> susanonthesoapbox posted: “Now that the election is over and the dust is > settling, Ms Soapbox has been reflecting on the results. What do we make of > this? The thrust of Mr Kenney’s victory speech was that Albertans value > the economy and jobs above all else. (Whether this is ” >
You’re welcome aratureis. Like I said, this will make us stronger. 🙂
Susan: Thanks for another great blog. It sure is mind boggling as to how people can go back to a style and type of government that had to be defeated in 2015. The NDP win in 2015 was not an accidental government. The Alberta PCs had been really fiscally reckless, negligent with our infrastructure maintenance, our resources, like our oil, and plagued with unethical conduct, since Peter Lougheed was not the premier. It was about time that they were shown the door. The Wildrose were not a practical alternative to the Alberta PCs. They were pretty much the same thing, but with a different name, and had candidates that were less than desierable, based on things they said and did. The UCP is a party that was formed out of desperation. Jason Kenney entered into Alberta politics out of desperation. He could not make it in Ottawa, so he thought he could go to Alberta. During the provincial election debate, Jason Kenney was telling so many lies. He was even using his deceased father as a cheap political pawn to frame Rachel Notley for Alberta’s health care woes. There were people who obviously bought into that. Rather sad and pathetic, because Jason Kenney’s father did not pass away when Rachel Notley was in power, but when the Alberta PCs were in power. His father passed away from an illness that ended his life abruptly, not from health care related issues. Jason Kenney is continuing to contradict himself. He claims to be a staunch defender of Alberta’s oil and gas industry, and wants to support jobs in that field, yet wants to shut off the taps to B.C. Also, Jason Kenney blames Rachel Notley for not dealing with the pipeline issue properly, yet what did he do about it, when he was in Stephen Harper’s CPC cabinet, basking in a huge majority government, and had oil prices that were soaring to record heights? Absolutely nothing. Furthermore, Jason Kenney wanted to fight Ottawa, over the Trans Mountain pipeline issues, but now agrees with Ottawa over the delay with it. Jason Kenney also wants to spend $30 million trying to defend Alberta’s oil industry, from anti-oil activists. Does that mean he can fight Saudi Arabia for permeating the market with oil that is impossible for Alberta to compete with, or force America to cease its shale oil productions? I can’t see that happening. Recently, on YouTube, there was an advert from some organization that said that there is a big mess to clean up from Alberta’s oil industry. I think it was referring to different aspects of thie industry, like tailings ponds and oil wells that were left sitting there, which the mess from them was not cleaned. The video mentioned a cost of around $260 billion to remedy this. That is a staggering amount of money, and this stemmed from the Alberta PC days. I remember Peter Lougheed calling Ft. McMurray a mess, when he was no longer the premier of Alberta. Is that bill for the cleanup of the mess from the oil industry the reflection of what he said? Also, Jason Kenney is parroting Rachel Notley’s ideas and giving himself credit for them. Then, we see Jason Kenney’s corporate tax cut scheme. Jason Kenney thinks this will be an effective means to create jobs. I only see it as a way for corporations to line their pockets. Since oil booms have gone the way of the dial telephone, and it is doubtful they will return, this is going to leave a big gap in Alberta’s revenue streams. The inevitable result is austerity.
How did it the austerity from Ralph Klein work out for Alberta? It still has lasting, adverse consequences. Also, there are questions regarding Jason Kenney becoming leader of the UCP. It was done by suspect means. I wonder what will happen when the R.C.M.P investigation has been completed? I heard there are 3 R.C.M.P investigations involving the UCP. I have a feeling the provincial election was manipulated and tampered with, giving the results we saw. Certain media outlets had a hand in it, and I’m pretty certain off that too. If Jason Kenney gets criminally prosecuted, (which I heard is likely), will the UCP collapse? What will the defenders of the UCP say about that? The NDP were pretty much scandal free, but the UCP were the opposite. Even before the UCP got into power, plenty of mistakes were popping up. I have heard UCP supporters stating they regretted voting for the UCP. It will be an interesting 4 years. We better fasten our seatbelts. It will be a very bumpy ride. Hope you and your family have a Happy Easter.
John B. says:
Hardly and so unfair.
We were saving it for future application and it’s still there to apply again. You don’t waste an issue like that one when you’ve already got the job. Everybody knows that.
Now back to absolutely nothing. That one is and will be Trudeau’s fault. It’s what we do best because it’s the only thing we know.
Dwayne, what worries me the most about Kenney’s win is he calls himself a conservative but he’s really not a conservative at all. In an interview with the Globe and Mail he said he was the leader of the “free enterprise” unity party. Free enterprise is not a political ideology, it’s an economic model. It has no core values other than to allow private businesses to operate with minimal government oversight. There’s a reason why occupational health, safety and environment laws came into being. Workers could not count on the benevolence of businesses to look out for their interests and had to unionize and elect pro-worker political parties to protect them. I’m already hearing stories about people who are paid at or slightly above the minimum wage being told by their bosses they’re getting a pay cut. Ironically one of these people is someone who voted for the UCP believing that Kenney wouldn’t hurt him because he voted for the UCP. When Kenney said Alberta is “open for business”, he meant Alberta will be kind to companies, not their employees. But these people who still think trickle down economics works fell for it hook, line and sinker.
A few comments:
– my take on the election was that it was about anger, perhaps even rage: an inchoate, diffuse, undirected anger at a perception that the economy is in the toilet and the NDP—not global economic forces—is to blame. As evidence for this position, let me first cite the voter turnout, which set a record for Alberta elections in living memory—the previous high was 66% in 1982, and the record was 81.8% way back in 1935. Province-wide this time, over 71% of Alberta voters cast a ballot, far higher than we are used to out here, and more in line with what we see in high turnout jurisdictions like PEI.
– In my own part of the province, the Peace Country, turnout ranged from 66.1% in the sprawling northern rural riding of Peace River, to 81% in the mixed urban-rural Grande Prairie-Wapiti (the doughnut around the Grande Prairie urban riding, where turnout was 68.9%). Comparing turnout to past elections is a bit labour-intensive and challenging due to the boundary redraw, but for the six ridings that encompass the Peace Country*, recent turnouts averaged 31.9% in 2008, 45% in 2012, and 48.9% in 2015. This time, it was 72.8%. (Satisfied voters don’t bother to vote).
– Then take a look at the popular vote breakdown. While I haven’t done this analysis for all 87 ridings, in the Peace Country, the UCP got 68.7% of the votes cast; this is more than a two-thirds majority. Their highest vote total was in Central Peace-Notley, at 75.3%; their lowest was 56.8% in Lesser Slave Lake
– The economy of the Peace region is based on mixed resource extraction: agriculture—from beef to grain farming to canola to apiculture—forestry, and oil & gas—but conventional oil, not oilsands.
– Grande Prairie is a major service centre for the Montney gas formation which extends under northeastern BC, and is also a major retail hub for northwestern Alberta and northeastern BC, including the last Canadian Costco on the route to Alaska.
– Because of the structure of the oil & gas industry here, which revolves around a vast assemblage of small to medium-sized contractors and subcontractors and self-employed tradespersons, a lot of the people who are out of work are ineligible for many public supports like EI. Area residents are worried they’ll lose their homes, or lose the value in their homes due to a lethargic real estate market, and they voted accordingly. Readers of this blog, and other progressive blogs, know that these concerns are not under the provincial government’s control, but most voters didn’t believe that and blamed the government of the day.
– Peace Country voters also displayed that uncanny tendency, common all across Canada, to vote against their own best interests: this is one of the demographically youngest regions in the entire country, and yet they voted out a government that refused to choke off funding for schools and worked to make child care less expensive. Maybe when their kids have to sit on each other’s laps in overcrowded kindergarten & elementary school classrooms, they’ll reconsider their politics.
Democratic elections don’t always make logical sense. Voters often act irrationally, and this election is a clear example of that. They went to the ballot boxes to vent their spleens, not to choose a government, and they saw in Jason Kenney and the UCP an avenue to do that.
*Central Peace-Notley, Grande Prairie, Grande Prairie-Wapiti, Lesser Slave Lake, Peace River, & West Yellowhead
Jerrymacgp, I think you summarized it very well with the statement “They went to the ballot boxes to vent their spleens, not to choose a government, and they saw in Jason Kenney and the UCP an avenue to do that.” Given the big promises Kenney made and his inability to deliver on most of them (yes he can call a referendum on equalization, no it won’t do any good, yes he can call a public inquiry into foreign funded environmentalists, no it won’t change anything), one wonders how these vented voters will react when the jobs, jobs, jobs fail to materialize. I hope they won’t turn on the women, minorities and gay people in their communities in classic “bad day at the office, kick the dog” fashion, but if they do, we’ll be ready for them.
Tamara Lee says:
Nailed it, Susan. We volunteered for the sign crew for our NDP candidate (who won her seat)–wherever we went, we saw orange signs everywhere and recognized that this was an historic shift back to centre-centre left. Nice to see the data supporting this, although of course we’re disappointed (but unsurprised) by the results.
Tamara Lee, I must admit at first I thought we might be able to squeak into a minority government position (not that that would have been much fun), then I ran into the Greedy Man while door knocking. The Greedy Man wasn’t angry at Notley. He thought she was a good leader. He just refused to vote NDP because Notley raised his taxes and that’s criminal (in his opinion). He doesn’t care if reducing taxes means inferior public healthcare and public education because he can afford private healthcare and private education. It was all about him and his pocket book. He was a very shallow man. I wonder if he’s going to remember our conversation when he’s lying on a stretcher in ER waiting for a doctor to tell him whether he’s just had a heart attack. It’s not as if he can whip down to the Cleveland Clinic at 2 a.m. to check it out.
GoinFawr says:
“Cutting off your nose to spite your face.”
Judging from the current ‘conservative’ schadenfreude, every time they look in the mirror over the next four years Albertans will be ‘reflecting’ on that one.
GoinFawr. Either that or they’ll make up another fairy tale to explain why the nirvana Kenney promised failed to appear.
… if a single section of pipe goes in the ground anywhere, or the global price of oil skyrockets, be absolutely certain that that job killing Temporary Foreign Workers’ Fairy Godfather Kenney and his Used Car Party will be right there to grab their wholly unearned credit for it
HOCUS POCUS!
Cole Pederson says:
I love your analysis of the results, and I agree with your recommended actions. I think I’ll print this off for easy reference in the coming four years.
Thanks Cole. Sometimes digging a little deeper helps us understand what’s really going on. (I’ll admit it’s getting harder and harder to do that in a world where we can’t even agree on the facts, let alone the truth!).
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I don’t think Kenney would go for the analysis here. In my observation this is far too complex and he really prefers things that are simple but not accurate. It also seems like he is fairly good at getting some of the mainstream media to regurgitate most of what he says almost verbatim. Of course the UCP narrative will be that they won a landslide victory everywhere except for Edmonton so further resistance is futile. Perhaps it wouldn’t be a bad thing if the UCP come to believe their own spin. Governments that become arrogant or over confident usually defeat themselves. However, I am hopeful that less partisan Albertans will not believe that spin.
My sense was that there was a level of economic desperation, much of it carefully manufactured by the UCP and its media friends over the last year, that led a number of Albertans to sort of hold their nose and vote for the UCP despite various odious social positions and all those questionable, possibly illegal things, around their leadership race. Mr. Kenney painted a picture of an economic crisis and then offered himself as the one savior who would perform an economic miracle. By objective standards (say in comparison to other provinces) Alberta’s economy is actually doing ok, but compared to the boom time from 2010 to 2014, perhaps not as well. However, I think it will be easier to paint a picture of economic crisis than to fix what ails Alberta and return us to those petro happy days.
My sense is the support for Kenney is conditional and if he fails to significantly improve the economy, it could quickly evaporate. There is a saying about support being a mile wide, but an inch deep. Those Albertans who are uneasy about the UCP, but who voted for him because he promised an economic miracle, may easily abandon him if he does not deliver. Fortunately, we have a capable, competent and large opposition that can take his place.
I agree David, I’m sure Kenney’s view is he led the Alberta conservatives out of the wilderness, next stop Ottawa; but even his die-hard supporters recognize he has a huge challenge ahead of him if he’s going to delver on his promises. I suspect the era of governments being entrenched for decades is over. The world is changing very fast, the threats we face from climate change for example are becoming real for the ordinary man in the street. Those who can’t keep up will gravitate to parties like the UCP, the rest of us will be looking for a government with a vision for the future who is prepared to act on it.
I suspect the narrative for the next Alberta election will have to be more clear on the choices we have to make–maybe something like climate first, period.
It will be interesting to see how the federal Liberals frame their campaign given the results here in Alberta and PEI.
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SVN Auction Services to conduct sale of 25 tax-delinquent properties in Richmond
January 26, 2017 In Blog By Manage
Feb. 8 auction features 16 single-family houses, 6 residential lots, 2 commercial lots, and 1 eight-bedroom multifamily building
Richmond, VA (Jan. 26, 2017) – SVN Auction Services founding partner SVN/Motleys – in conjunction with the City of Richmond – will conduct the sale of 25 tax-delinquent properties. The sale includes residential homes, commercial and residential lots, and a multifamily building.
The sale will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, at the offices of SVN/Motleys at 3600 Deepwater Terminal Road in Richmond. Online bidding is available now at svnmotleys.com.
This four-bedroom, two-bath single-family house at 1107 N. 35th Street in Richmond is among the offerings.
One property singled out by Tim Dudley, CAI, AARE, senior advisor for SVN/Motleys, is a four-bedroom, two-bath single-family house at 1107 N. 35th Street in Richmond.
The home was built in 1920 and features more than 1,700-square-feet of living space. Its 2017 tax-assessed value is $100,000.
“This is a fantastic opportunity to purchase a fabulous home close to downtown Richmond,” Dudley said. “We anticipate an enthusiastic sale, not only for this house, but for the other development opportunities with the available properties.”
The home, one of 16 included in the auction, is within walking distance of historic Chimborazo Park and fewer than 2.5 miles from downtown Richmond. It is situated on a 0.143-acre lot and features a metal roof, hardwood flooring and aluminum/vinyl siding.
The sale offers investment opportunities in Church Hill, Northside, East End and Manchester, with six residential and two commercial lots. Also among the listings is a two-story multifamily building at 630 N. 30th Street with eight bedrooms and nearly 2,700 square feet of living area. It has a metal roof and is of concrete-block construction, and its tax-assessed value for 2017 is $72,000.
The properties are listed below with address, type and 2017 tax assessment.
1816 Bainbridge Street, vacant lot, $10,000
2712 Alexander Ave., vacant lot, $10,000
200 Jefferson Davis (Highway 50), vacant lot, $10,000
2410 Royall Ave., vacant lot, $15,000
1303 Willis Street, three-bedroom/one-bath house, $24,000
1823 Rose Ave., vacant lot, $19,000
3301 Florida Ave., single-family house, $33,000
1704 Hickory Street, three-bedroom/one-bath house, $34,000
511 Hunt Ave., single-family house, $36,000
3126 5th Ave., single-family house, $49,000
3209 Fendall Ave., four-bedroom/one-bath house, $55,000
2118 Lamb Ave., single-family home, $83,000
1420 Spotsylvania Street, vacant lot, $11,000
1122 N. 24th Street, three-bedroom house, $26,000
1619 Rogers Street, three-bedroom house, $27,000
417 N. 33rd Street, vacant lot, $30,000
1630 N. 28th Street, two-bedroom/one-bath house, $39,000
1202 N. 33rd Street, three-bedroom/one-bath house, $37,000
1421 Garber Street, three-bedroom/one-bath house, $43,000
1401 Oakwood Ave., single-family house, $40,000
630 N. 30th Street, eight-bedroom multifamily building, $72,000
1107 N. 35th Street, four-bedroom/two-bathroom house, $100,000
For more information, please visit motleys.com.
About SVN Auction Services
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Tim Dudley, CAI, AARE, senior advisor, SVN/Motleys / 804-822-3131 [email protected]
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Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
I saw the first Happy Death Day film at the historic Prytania Theatre in Uptown New Orleans, blocks away from the film’s shooting locations around the college campuses on St. Charles Ave. As a horror franchise, this series is a little too tongue-in-cheek to take especially seriously, but there was still something eerie about that geographic proximity. The Happy Death Day films have a killer hook in how they adapt the late-90s slasher model to the Groundhog’s Day time-loop narrative structure, generating a body count horror film where the exact same body can be stabbed to death dozens of times with little consequence, as our protagonist wakes up in the same time loop every time she’s taken out by her masked killer. For New Orleanians, the familiarity of the film’s scenery only adds to that cosmic terror, but in unexpected ways that extend beyond the oak trees & streetcars in the blurred background of the college campus setting. It’s the inspiration the film pulls from our most terrifying local sports mascot for its serial killer’s design that really makes this series a nightmare. As I noted in my review of the original film, the fictional school mascot mask the killer wears bears “a striking resemblance to the (even more terrifying) King Cake Baby mascot that appears at our local NBA games,” an observation I suspect was common among local horror nerds. The Blumhouse team behind that film’s recent sequel, Happy Death Day 2U, gleefully emphasizes that comparison in a scene set at a college basketball game, where characters note in the dialogue how strange it is that a sports team would have a baby for a mascot, and how creepy the baby costume is – almost as if the film were directly trolling The Pelicans for their seasonal King Cake Baby appearances. This was likely infuriating to Jonathan Bertuccelli, the designer of the King Cake Baby (who is currently suing Blumhouse for the killer’s resemblance to his ungodly creation), but it personally just made me appreciate the series more for ditching the pretense that the connection was a coincidence.
Unfortunately, if you’re watching this series solely to see the King Cake Baby live out his rightful destiny as a horror movie villain, the first Happy Death Day is much better suited to your needs. Happy Death Day 2U allows itself much less time for slayings & cheeky repetitions of late-90s slasher tropes, which means less screentime for the terrifying infant. To be honest I’m not even sure this sequel is enough of a horror movie in general for me to recommend it in that context. It frequently strays from the serial murder half of its premise to further explore the mechanics of its time loop conceit. Whereas the first Happy Death Day’s time loop crisis appears to be a cosmic morality tale about the serial-murdered protagonist’s selfishness, Happy Death Day 2U provides concrete sci-fi explanations as to how the time loop was initiated. Instead of being chased through scary hospitals & frat house hallways for the majority of the runtime, return protagonist Jessia Rothe spends most of the film in her college’s Quantum Mechanics lab with several hopeless nerds trying to figure out how to break out of her time-loop crisis for a second time. Her recurring slayings are explained to be the result of a proton laser machine on the fritz, which has blurred the borders of alternate timelines & dimensions – a very different sentiment than the Universe temporarily changing its own rules specifically to teach one mean sorority girl a lesson. There are still baby-mask murders interspersed throughout this newfound sci-fi paradigm, but for the most part this film feels more like an 80s college campus comedy than a high-concept late-90s slasher. The resetting timelines antics feel like they belong to a previously unadapted Back to the Future sequel screenplay. The flustered college dean who attempts to shut down the supernatural shenanigans of the Quantum Mechanics lab feels as if he were airdropped into the picture from a contemporary Animal House knockoff. There’s an All That-level broad caricature of a blind French woman that’s allowed an alarming amount of screentime in the film’s climactic shift from sci-fi campus comedy to heist thriller. The jokes in Happy Death Day 2U are broad, but they’re also conceptually ambitious enough to be surprising & rewarding. Most horror sequels stay fresh by upping the brutality of their gore; this one does so by dropping the horror pretense altogether and gleefully digging around in the genre grab-bag for a new toy every few minutes – mostly to the audience’s perplexed delight.
When considered in the abstract, divorced from its context as a local curio, Happy Death Day 2U is the best kind of horror sequel: the kind that offers an entirely different flavor & mouthfeel than its predecessor instead of just funneling in more of the same. Its delayed fascination with the mechanics of the Groundhog’s Day time-loop narrative structure is a well-timed participation in a larger, still-growing zeitgeist as well. Other recent media like Russian Doll & Edge of Tomorrow have found pop culture gazing back into the temporal abyss in similarly comedic fashion; Happy Death Day 2U only outdoes them by allowing its inherent silliness to go as broad as possible, really leaning into the unnecessarily complex narrative mechanics necessary to pull this kind of story off. A mean sorority girl bully being killed over & over again on her birthday until she becomes a better person, always resetting to the same starting point, is more or less a manageable conceit. This follow-up to that relatively straightforward Groundhog’s Day-as-a-slasher launchpad is ambitiously, irreverently convoluted by comparison – expanding into the realms of doppelgangers, alternate timelines, and quantum physics to push this newly refreshed subgenre to its conceptual extreme. It even makes things doubly hard on itself by returning to the square-one reset point of the first film, so that it has to maintain the same cast & production design continuity to make any sense for those of us attempting to follow along. Hilariously, the movie also takes on this increasingly convoluted endeavor without an upfront recap of what happened in the previous film, as if everyone in the world has already seen Happy Death Day (not to mention having seen it recently enough to remember all the details of its plot). When Rothe begrudgingly does provide a “Previously on . . .” recap roughly 15 minutes into the film, she rushes through it, annoyed at the obligation. Whether or not you’re enamored with the sci-fi campus comedy deviations Happy Death Day 2U takes from its initial horror template, you have to admire its confidence that its audience is following along with every non-sequitur indulgence as if it makes perfect logical sense (and, for the most part, it does).
Speaking selfishly, what I’d most like to see from a Happy Death Day 3 is a truce between the series’ baby-faced killer and the real-life King Cake Baby mascot. Bad-blood lawsuits between Blumhouse & the King Cake Baby’s designer aside, I think it would be incredibly satisfying to see the real deal make an official cameo in a sequel to the horror franchise that “allegedly” took inspiration from his look. That crossover synergy would even help the series’ scare factor, as there’s nothing quite as terrifying as the dead eyes & bulbous baby body of the real thing. The tonal direction of Happy Death Day 2U indicates the series isn’t especially interested in being scary at this point, but it also does convey a willingness to throw anything & everything at the screen as long as it’s good for a gag. The only x-factor there is how open to reconciliation Bertuccelli is feeling to a series he believes ripped him off; the staggering settlement he’s seeking in his lawsuit (“half the movie’s profits”) isn’t a good sign, but maybe there’s a better timeline out there where he & Blumhouse manage to work it out.
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I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Fair Shares: Shareholder Agreements for the Real World and is located at https://tiger-law.com/fair-shares-shareholder-agreements/.
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At their best, as with all legal documents, Shareholders’ Agreements are about creating successful business relationships based on clarity and understanding of each other’s rights and responsibilities.
As legal advisors, our role is to ensure that you have covered and provided for both typical and unexpected events that might alter or have an impact on your control of what is rightfully yours. The goal is to ensure that everyone involved is protected and that the balance of power is both fair to individuals and beneficial to the ongoing health and sustainability of the business itself.
Vanessa Challess outlines the scenarios your Shareholder Agreement needs to cover and how cross-options can and should form the main plank of your provision for dealing with both the routine and they unexpected occurrences in the life of a business.
Routine Business
& Downright Disasters
It’s difficult for a layman to predict all the scenarios in which a group of shareholders might want to revert to a legally binding agreement to resolve an issue, much less to determine appropriate courses of action in those events. By and large though, the scenarios your agreement should provide for would fall into two main categories: Routine Business Events – and Downright Disasters.
Typical routine areas might include:
Simply put, what are the roles, areas of activity and influence, duties, privileges and voting rights in given circumstances of each director or member.
Significant business changes
What happens and who has the right to decide on changes in the nature or direction of the business.
Role Changes
Some members may be actively engaged in the decision-making and management of the business or in providing its services. Others may be completely inactive in routine matters, for instance a sleeping partner who has invested in or lent money to the business. What happens if this changes and someone wants to become more or less active?
Any loan agreement the company enters into will likely involve some restrictions on what the company can and can’t do. Who makes or contributes to the decision to borrow? If the lender is also a member or director it’s even more important to be precise about what his or her powers are. Alternatively, it may be that a director wants to borrow money from the company, what would the shareholders want in place to govern this?
Shareholder Exit
What happens if a member wants to sell their shares or wind up the business? It’s advisable for your agreement to include precise provision for potential scenarios such as:
The sale of the company
Buy outs by one or more shareholders
Public flotation
Seeking further capital from a new/external source
Sale of assets or winding up
In the normal and non-contentious run of things, shareholders may want to sell their shares for a variety of reasons. Shareholder agreements need to contain clauses so that the other members have some control over who may purchase them and what role and powers they will have. It’s not necessarily ideal for the new owner to simply step into the same set of rights and roles that the previous one held.
Company Law restrictions
Shareholder Agreement scenarios and the requirements and limitations that you are able to define to deal with them are not a free range matter. Some shareholder rights are protected under UK Company Law and can’t be granted or withheld at will. If there is a shareholder who other members are prepared to accept but only on limited terms then an alternative route will need to be found, either by issuing a different class of shares or by having special clauses drawn up to deal with the matter.
The Sad, the Bad – and the potentially Dangerous
Of course, life doesn’t always go to plan and, when we are wearing our respectably lugubrious lawyer hats, it’s often our job to remind our clients that Death, Divorce, Dispute, Bankruptcy and assorted other disasters and general skullduggery can and do occur.
As gloomy as it makes us look we are really rather happy and cheerful when we can get people to put some thought in to these things sooner, when everyone’s still romping about bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, rather than later, when the you-know-what has already hit the fan.
In short, “Cheer up, it may never happen” is not something that you want to be saying to a lawyer. The amount of angst, distress and damage that can be averted by agreements that do a fine-tooth-comb job on possible future disasters is amazing. We know, because we’ve seen the alternative.
All contracts and agreements that are going to tie people’s fortunes and futures together need a dose of this lawyerly gloom but Shareholders Agreements, where a lot of money and people’s livelihoods are involved, really do need special care. When it becomes necessary for shares to be transferred at short notice due to unfortunate or unforeseen circumstances, you need powerful legal safeguards in place to ensure that one member’s sad or bad circumstances do not threaten everyone else’s wellbeing and the functioning and control of the business itself.
This is where Cross-Options come in.
What are Cross-Options?
Cross-options allow shareholders to retain control over their company whilst looking after the families of the shareholders. They can give the personal representatives of a deceased or shareholder the right to sell the shares back to the surviving shareholders (by “putting” their shares to them) and also allow the surviving shareholders the option to buy the shares of the deceased shareholder (by “calling” on them). This is set up as an option rather than a compulsory transfer for tax reasons. It means that if one of your co-shareholders in a venture meets with misfortune, which can include mental incapacity, then the others will be able to buy their shares whilst the family will receive a lump sum instead of share in a company that they may have had very little involvement with.
Essentially, the point is to prevent shares falling in to the hands of people not involved in the business. This might be family members of a deceased member who has no experience or particular interest in the business for instance.
All of these scenarios have huge potential to be detrimental to the business and the other shareholders’ interests. Cross-options permit them to exercise their right to buy and regain control of the business. In most circumstances it’s a good solution for whoever has become the new owner of the shares, such as the beneficiaries under a will.
Financing share purchases
Most scenarios in which a cross-option is exercised are unforeseen and therefore the necessary finance has to be arranged quickly, and often inconveniently.
To deal with this, an insurance policy can be taken out on each shareholder to cover the value of his or her shares. This is regularly reviewed and adjusted so that the money will always be available should it become necessary to exercise the cross-option.
There are a variety of different possible approaches to the type and structure of the insurances. There are tax implications too so devising and implementing a cross-option strategy really does require professional advice.
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U of O Saudi students caught in crossfire of diplomatic dispute
Matt Gergyek
Of 246 Saudi students currently enrolled at the U of O, 132 are in graduate studies, primarily engineering, science and medicine. Photo: CC, Odilon Dimier/Getty Images.
Managing void created by students’ abrupt departure will require “Herculean efforts”
Saudi Arabian students at the University of Ottawa have found themselves caught in the crossfire of an ongoing diplomatic dispute between Canada and their country of origin. One of a handful of measures enacted by the Saudi government is the order moving all students studying in Canada on government-funded scholarships out of the country.
The initial deadline for Saudi students to leave Canada was originally reported as Aug. 31. However, a statement released by the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau, which manages Saudi students in Canada, on Aug. 23 announced an extension to Sept. 22.
Saudi students who pay for their own education do not appear to be impacted by the dispute at this time. Meanwhile, students studying under government-funded scholarships are being transferred to different post-secondary institutions across the world or returning home.
The conflict erupted on Aug. 2, when Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland, sent out a tweet calling for the release of two Saudi women’s rights activists.
Very alarmed to learn that Samar Badawi, Raif Badawi’s sister, has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia. Canada stands together with the Badawi family in this difficult time, and we continue to strongly call for the release of both Raif and Samar Badawi.
— Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland) August 2, 2018
The following day, Global Affairs Canada voiced its concerns on Twitter, urging the Saudis to “immediately release” the activists and all other peaceful human rights advocates.
Canada is gravely concerned about additional arrests of civil society and women’s rights activists in #SaudiArabia, including Samar Badawi. We urge the Saudi authorities to immediately release them and all other peaceful #humanrights activists.
— Foreign Policy CAN (@CanadaFP) August 3, 2018
On Aug. 5 the Saudi government responded in a series of tweets spelling out a list of retaliations for criticizing the country’s human rights record, including expelling the Canadian ambassador, suspending new trade and investment transactions, and forcing Saudi students studying under the King Abdullah Scholarship Program (KASP) to leave Canada.
#Statement | The Canadian position is an overt and blatant interference in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of #SaudiArabia and is in contravention of the most basic international norms and all the charters governing relations between States.
— Foreign Ministry 🇸🇦 (@KSAmofaEN) August 5, 2018
KASP covers tuition, language lessons and health insurance for Saudi international students.
There are 246 Saudi students enrolled at the U of O according to Véronique Valleé, spokesperson for the university. Of these students, 132 are in graduate studies, primarily engineering, science and medicine.
The U of O is home to the most Saudi students in the capital region , with 130 Saudi students enrolled at Carleton University and 74 at Algonquin College for the fall semester. Ten of those at Algonquin do not study under KASP.
“Like all other Canadian universities, the U of O is monitoring the situation very closely,” Valleé said. “Our primary concern is the wellbeing of students,” and “we are currently assessing the impact of a potential withdrawal of students coming from Saudi Arabia.”
Concerns are especially high surrounding healthcare. Many Saudi students are training at the U of O’s medical school and doctors have warned that their quick and unexpected departure could pose problems for local hospitals.
In an article published on LinkedIn, Frank Rybicki, professor and chair of the Department of Radiology at the U of O, asked the Saudi government to consider pushing the deadline for departure to mid-October. He said at the U of O, there are almost 80 Saudi medical residents and clinical fellows.
“Disrupting the training for young Saudi physicians is heartbreaking for most, and stressful for all,” Rybicki wrote. “Finding the proper human resources to manage the void created by the departure of our Saudi trainees will take Herculean efforts.”
According to a statement from the Council of Ontario Universities emailed to the Fulcrum, close to 9,500 students from Saudi Arabia studied in Canada as of last year. One in five of them in Ontario, meaning that Saudi Arabian students compose the fifth largest group of international students in Ontario, following China, India, Nigeria and the United States.
The statement also notes that “there is a financial loss in the recall of Saudi students to Ontario universities of tens of millions of dollars.” According to an education report released by Global Affairs Canada, the average annual tuition cost for international undergraduate students was over $22,000 in 2015, while the cost for international graduate students was close to $15,000.
The Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau did not respond to the Fulcrum’s requests for comment by the time of publication. This story will be updated as necessary.
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Dependence on Google caused errors: Aryal
Published: November 12, 2019 7:01 am On: Nepal
KATHMANDU: Minister of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation Padma Kumari Aryal on Monday said the erroneous maps of Nepal in practice, including that in the National Emblem of Nepal in the Constitution, were a result of the trend of copying and pasting of materials found on Google.
Aryal said so in a meeting of the Parliamentary State Affairs and Good Governance Committee where she represented Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who could not make it to the meeting.
She was responding to lawmakers’ queries on Nepal maps not including the Kalapani region. She, however, said the latest maps published by the Survey Department had rectified the error.
A version of this article appears in print on November 12, 2019 of The Himalayan Times.
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“Development” of Gujarat Muslims?
Narendra Modi and his supporters have been challenging to fight this sixteenth Lok Sabha election on the issue of development and governance. It’s pathetic to see how neither media nor intelligentsia or political commentators of this country has not been cornering Modi over deteriorating condition of Muslims in Gujarat in development related field such as education, employment, health, etc. The conservatism of the current Gujarat government is visible most not only in case of their discriminatory policies against the Muslims on the issues related to religion or governance but also on economic issues.
Our concern here is not to find what the condition of Muslims of Gujarat at current time is but instead to find what really had happened to them in last ten years. Thus we need a comparative study of Muslims in Gujarat between the beginning and end of the last decade (2000s).
A comparative analysis of NSSO surveys for the year 1999-2000 and 2009-10 revealed that Muslims in Gujarat had experienced very little decline in absolute poverty. As per the Tendulkar definition of poverty line there were only 1.8 percentage points decline during the decade of Modi’s rule. Gujarati Muslim is marginally ahead of most of the Indian states and national average in terms of poverty reduction, but in past (during Pre-Modi Gujarat) they were much ahead of other communities.[1]In terms of MPCE Muslims’s position is worse than even SC and ST in Gujarat (also Bihar Bengal, Rajasthan, MP, WB). So is the situation in case of urban poverty among Muslims. It is not that the condition of all the minorities in Gujarat is in bad shape. Ironically poverty among other minorities (Christians and Parsi) of Gujarat is 0%.[2]
The same Sachar Committee report about which the supporters of Modi have often been seen quoting from in order to propagate the well being of Muslims in Gujarat, states that Gujarat is one among the states where the work participation rate/ratio of Muslims is lowest. In most of the state Muslims’ participation in manufacturing, trade and self-employment is higher than of other religious groups but it is not the case with Gujarat.[3] The ratio of self-employment in Gujarat is lesser than national average for both Hindu and Muslims but at least for the Muslims same was not the case in 1999-00.[4] In Gujarat, Self employment among Muslims in 1999-00 was much higher than among Hindus but by the end of decade the situation became totally opposite.[5]
In 2004-05 around 41% Muslims in Gujarat were involved in service sector which came down to 31.7% in 2009-10. In 2004-05, 59% Muslims were self-employed which came down to 53% while in case of salaried services the proportion of Muslims come down from 17.5% to 14% during the same period. It is also to be noted that Muslim share in causal labour increased from 23% to 32% during the same period.[6] This means, Muslims are repeatedly being marginalized in Gujarat in terms of better employment choices. They are being offered third grade unsecured and low wage employment. The total gap between Muslims and non-Muslims in terms of persons currently attending schools in the age group of 6-14 year is far more than national average. In 2001 when literacy rate (age above 7 Year) in Gujarat was 69.1% the literacy rate of Muslims in Gujarat was at 73.5% but in 2007-08 when literacy rate of Gujarat went to 74.9% the literacy rate of Muslims in Gujarat remain at 74.3%.[7]
Without referring to age old Malthusian Trap of population increase, Gujarat’s CM blame fertility trends among Muslims for their backwardness. If that is so, how Gujarati Muslims were doing well before the coming of Modi into power? The fertility rate among Muslims is highest not in Gujarat but in Rajasthan, UP and Bihar. The differences between fertility rate of Muslims and Hindu in Kerala has been much higher than in Gujarat but their condition is better in other parameter of development. The popularity of contraceptives among Muslims in Gujarat is only 1 % below than of Hindus.[8] Muslim’s Participation in Sterilisation and IUD is slightly more than their ratio to population.[9] At least in Gujarat, Modi cannot blame the Madarsa education for the bad performance of Muslims in field of education because the popularity of Madrasa education is least among Muslims of Gujarat.[10]
The real causes for the deteriorating condition of Muslims in Gujarat are the consistent policies of Government of Gujarat. Muslims constitute about 9.7 % of the poor population in Gujarat but share of Muslims in most Government’s welfare schemes (for poor’s) is below their ratio to total population. Their share is satisfactory only in SJSRY and NSAP schemes.[11] Under Krishi Bima Yojana Muslims got only 3.5% of total allocation. Only 1.4% of total allocated power tiller; and 4.1% of total allocated tractor were in the Muslims. Not a single loan from co-operative department or from Rural Development Department has been disbursed to Muslims in Gujarat.[12].
The contribution of Gujarati Muslims in forming Thrift, Credit Societies; and micro enterprises is more than double of their ratio to population but their participation in training given (5.5%) for unemployed is less than their ratio to their population. Only 4.5% of total lands allocated for the construction of houses, meant for the weaker section of society, were given to the weaker section among Muslim. In contrast to that they got 13.9% of benefits in national family benefit scheme run by central government.[13] Muslim has 12.4% of total bank accounts in Gujarat but the loan amount disbursed to them is only 2.6%.[14] Individual deposit per account in scheduled commercial banks by Muslims is almost 20% higher than of Hindus. Despite that disbursement of loan to Muslims is less than loan dispersed to Hindu. Under SIDBI scheme the sanction of amount to Muslims is only 0.44 crore out of total sanctioned amount of 3133.77 crore during 2000-01 and 2005-06. Similarly the Refinance by NABARD to Muslims in Gujarat is only 1.7% of the total amount during 2004-05 and 2005-06[15].
Based on the figures of Sachar Committee Report, Modi is claiming that the situation of Muslims in Gujarat is much better than West Bengal. Modi is right in his facts and figures. But it should also be noted that United Nations has observed that in terms of the poverty head count ratio for Muslims, the rank of Gujarat is fourth in India.When we compare the conditions of Muslims or any other community in two or more states we should first look into the historicity of that community in particular state. If we can refer to Medieval History, Gujarati Muslims till recent period were one of the most vibrant business communities of the world. Remember the Bohras and Menons? If we compare those with that of landless Muslims of medieval Bengal province who were converted to Islam because of their poverty,[16] it will be obvious to believe that the situation of Muslim in contemporary West Bengal cannot be expected to be better than ST/SC Hindus because there is hardly much difference in terms of practice of casteism among Hindu and Muslim.
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[1] Times of India, 16 May 2012.
[2] Sachar Committee Report 2005-06, pp 155 & 158-9
[3] Sachar Committee Report 2005-06, p 102, App 5.5 & pp 105-6
[4] 55th Round of NSSO, p 43 & 66th round of NSSO, p 59
[5] Sachar Committee Report 2005-06, p 343
[6] Atul Sood, Povery amidst prosperity: Trajectory of Development in Gujarat, 2012, p 268, Table 8.19
[7] Atul Sood, 2012, p 270, Table 9.9
[8] Sachar Committee Report 2005-06, pp 284-85
[9] Sachar Committee Report 2005-06, pp 374
[10] Sachar Committee Report 2005-06, p 293
[11] Sachar committee Report, 2005-06p 178
[12] Sachar Committee Report 2005-06, pp 373-5
[14] Sachar Committee Report 2005-06, p127 & (Ministry of Minority Affairs, MMA, GOI, 2011-12)
[15] Sachar Committee Report 2005-06, pp 351-53
[16] See Richard Maxwell Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760
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REVIEW: Norsemen [Norwegian title: Vikingane] Available Currently on Netflix
Sex, Violence, Art and great hair, on display in Norsemen [aka Vikingane]. [Via Film/NRK-Fair Use]
Andy Brockman takes a look at a new historical sitcom from Norway, Norsemen.
Anyone familiar with the current vogue for Scandi’ Noir drama and the associated lifestyle choices, Hugge and Lagom, will know that a common theme among writers and programme makers is the the conflict between modern civilization and the primal physical and mental Scandinavian landscapes of mountain, lake, forest and fjord. Fans of Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole, Sarah Lund, Martin Beck and Kurt Wallander, will also know that there is another strand of Scandinavian culture that is common to many of these tales. That is a bone dry, and often midwinter dark, sense of humour. When it comes to depictions of the Viking period in literature and film those traits are present certainly in the seminal 20th century novel set in the Viking period The Longships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson [original title Röde Orm]. The new series Norsemen, made by Viafilm for NRK, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, and now available on Netflix, picks up the baton carried by Orm, the anti hero of that Swedish classic, and runs with it, with tremendous humour and a visual style. Indeed, the series boasts production values worthy of that other series which mixes a big budget look with violence and black humour; a certain family saga set on Westeros, Game of Thrones.
Indeed, for a UK audience brought up on sitcoms set in the past and shot in the studio, like Dad’s Army, Blackadder [from series 2 onwards] and the long forgotten, except by connoisseurs, Chelmsford 123, the first thing which is noticeable about the inhabitants of the village of Norheim is that they do not live in sets which wobble. Instead they live in a real life Viking village in the great outdoors of western Norway complete with hall, boats and even neighbours. That is no surprise as the series is shot in and around the replica Viking age buildings of the Nordvegen historiesenter at Avaldsnes.
The next thing that an audience used to the subtitled BBC4 style of presenting foreign programmes will notice is that Norsemen is being shown by Netflix in an undubbed version in English.
In fact the co creators of the series, Jonas Torgerson and Jon Ivar Helgaker made a conscious decision to shoot every scene twice. Once in their native Norwegian for the domestic showing and then using the same actors speaking in English for the international market. The choice was a pragmatic one, as producer Anders Tangen, who was also the man behind the Norway set, international hit Lilyhammer, told the media,
“Broadcasters can choose the English or Norwegian version, it allows us to bypass the remake option, plus Norwegian actors who speak fluently English can use this as a calling card to boost their international career.”
Among the comedic and historical, set pieces, plucked from the headlines of the latest saga, which the cast are called upon to perform are are a holmgang, trial by combat, where an attempt to cheat ends about as well as as a certain similar encounter with the Mountain at Kings Landing and a raid on England which interrupts a fundraiser for a new children’s hospital [I told you the humour could be dark]. While you will never watch the flaming send off of a Viking chieftain, like that which Hollywood gave Kirk Douglas in The Vikings, in the same way again after watching the depiction of a similar fiery funeral in Norsemen.
In what must be a first for television, there is also really good joke based on the potential of runesticks to take on the role of political and sexual graffiti on a toilet wall, when there isn’t a toilet wall to graffiti on. And yes, some of the humour is based on the graphic and very funny, depiction of bodily functions.
There is even a homage to a certain heritage based joke in the legendary This is Spinal Tap. and you will also discover how many slaves you need to sacrifice to Odin in order to bring a raiding party safely home.
Spoiler alert: it is two.
Norsemen may be set in the year 790, and it looks the part, with a level of period detail which could make the most hardened living history authenticity officer smile, [rather than choke on the mead and salted herring, the reaction induced by the BBC’s The Last Kingdom set during the same era]. But in the end, like all the best comedy and drama which is set in the past, from Shakespeare to Dad’s Army and the Life of Brian, the series actually tells us more about the absurdities and paranoia’s of the lives we live today. A point which is made explicitly and hilariously, when captured and enslaved Roman actor Rufus is appointed “Creative Director” of Norheim, on the grounds that, with all that raping and pillaging and feasting, the Vikings have overlooked the potential for the arts and culture to enrich the community.
It is a deliciously knowing send up of the pretensions of the very lifestyle books which have made contemporary Scandinavian culture, like Norsemen, so popular in the first place.
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Review – The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Two seems to be the magic number for Spider-Man films. Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 is a sequel that outdoes the first film, and director Marc Webb’s Amazing Spider-Man 2 is such a massive improvement over its predecessor that it may cause whiplash.
Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) has settled into life as Spider-Man, swinging around New York City stopping criminals while keeping up appearances as a teenager with his on-again, off-again girlfriend Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). When an electrified villain aptly named, Electro (Jamie Foxx), starts attacking the city, Peter discovers that all evil deeds lead back to the tech-giant Oscorp and the new CEO Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan).
Webb’s Amazing Spider-Man was a complicated birth of a new series with the ‘too soon’ cloud overhead and a tedious retracing of the Spider-Man origin story. I wasn’t a fan. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 wastes a little time dwelling on what came before with a brief James Bond style prologue revisiting the disappearance of Parker’s parents (yawn). Jolting you to attention immediately after, Webb shows Spider-Man free-falling between skyscrapers and then snapping into an exhilarating web slinging sequence, switching to Spidey’s point-of-view, and showing the character bouncing around the urban environment like a graceful pinball. Oh boy, it’s fun to be Spider-Man, especially when Parker starts wise-cracking from behind the mask reminding you that you’re in the company of a teenage superhero. From the opening chase sequence alone it’s clear that the price of admission is worth it for the spectacle of Spider-Man zipping through New York, and it continues to astound with each action sequence. What’s apparent is that Webb has managed to make a comic book film that’s exciting as opposed to the dreary attempts that so many superhero outings take when trying, and I hate to say it, be ‘gritty’.
Peter Parker’s struggle to maintain the equilibrium between his superhero life and an adolescent existence has always been the most engaging part of the character throughout his 50 year occupancy of pop culture. Screenwriters Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner (re-writing an early draft by James Vanderbilt) compress Parker’s juggling act into his relationship with Stacy. The chemistry between Garfield and Stone is weapons grade romance, yet they manage to exist as two strong personalities being drawn and propelled away from each other. Stone manages to break the bonds of the superhero love interest stereotype to make Stacy strong, witty and independent. Garfield fills the boots of Spidey with the infectious enjoyment of being the hero while showcasing the heavy burden his decisions have on his normal life. Parker feels guilt over the dangerous situation his union with Stacy creates and it’s the precipice that Kurztman, Orci and Pinkner hang all the major conflicts. Each tumultuous part of Parker and Stacy’s relationship is interrupted by villainous deeds as if to exemplify the rocky elements of their association, and the sign posts for tragedy appear. Webb handles one of the most crucial elements of Peter Parker’s evolution as hero brilliantly and Garfield is more than capable to give it the emotional punch needed.
When it comes to the other relationships in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, it gets complicated. The short changed character is Electro who is played by Foxx pre-powers like a combination between Jerry Lewis’ pre-formula Nutty Professor and Steve Urkel from Family Matters. Webb practically paints a giant ‘L’ on Foxx’s forehead and the screenwriters give him a Spider-Man stalker vibe. Once he becomes Electro he has zero motivation for his evil deeds besides Spider-Man forgetting his name and being a little too needy. Despite excellent special effects that give Electro life beyond looking like a human glow stick, Foxx is left on goon duties and is presented as a rogue who must be defeated because he suddenly wants to be a god, and he wants a friend, and he hates Spider-Man for the sake of needing a primary villain. DeHaan is the underutilised secondary scoundrel who has far more at stake in the plot than his sparkling counterpart, but not enough of the screen time. There’s a nice camaraderie between Osborn and Parker as they reconnect and reflect on their days as childhood friends. The souring of this friendship is treated like a subplot when it actually makes for an interesting contrast with Parker and Stacey’s bond. There’s a mad desperation with a hint of spoilt brat to DeHaan’s portrayal of Osborn that intensifies as he inches towards the hover glider of the Green Goblin. Once DeHaan is in Goblin mode it’s so miniscule compared with the scope of the story, but his actions resonate hard through the film and the franchise that his return will be hotly anticipated. The veteran actors help keep things sturdy with Sally Field as Aunt May who shows great love and frustration over life without Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and her responsibility to Parker as a parent. Chris Cooper fulfils terrible parent duties as Norman Osborn who has nothing but venom for his son.
If only Kurztman, Orci and Pinkner could completely trust the audience with their own intellect. As if unsure, major plot points are made clear and a majority of exposition is handled via characters reading off computer screens, talking to a camera or reading news stories directly from a Google search. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 also contains a lot of franchise world building with planning underway for film number three and four as well as a spinoff film about a team of bad guys called The Sinister Six and a movie based on the character Venom. There are characters and organisations name checked for the sake of a return later in the series that’s a fun bit of fan service. It seems Sony may have finally learnt something from Marvel Studios.
The Amazing Spider Man 2’s score by Hans Zimmer and co-composers Pharrell Williams, Johnny Marr, Michael Einziger and David A. Stewart soars in a heroic old school way that’s reminiscent of John Williams’ work on Superman: The Movie. Almost all of it works despite a strange ‘they hate you’ internal monologue rap song and dubstep beats that accompany Electro’s appearances.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 didn’t have to do much to beat The Amazing Spider-Man in quality but Webb has returned to the essence of Peter Parker’s struggles. In the midst of an expanding cinematic universe The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a comic book movie that explodes with equal amounts of spectacle and tenderness.
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Øystein Edvardsen on April 18, 2014 at 11:48 am said:
Spider-Man’s parents? Killed while on the run from Oscorp. Spider-Man’s girlfriend? Employee of Oscorp. Spider-Man himself? Result of a scientific accident at Oscorp. Bad-guy the First? Also the result of a scientific accident at Oscorp. Bad-guy the Second? Also the result of a scientific accident at Oscorp, and son of the founder of Oscorp
Cameron Williams on April 18, 2014 at 11:54 am said:
I don’t mind Oscorp being the big bad organisation, I know hardcore fans have gripes over it, but it works in the context of the new films
Three Rows Back on April 20, 2014 at 10:40 pm said:
Looking forward to this even more now 🙂
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Candidate Profile: Rachel Haywire
The U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party Electronic Primary concluded on October 1, 2019, with Johannon Ben Zion winning the USTP’s endorsement for President of the United States. Full results can be found here. This candidate profile remains on the USTP website for historical and informational purposes only.
The U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP) has asked all of its declared candidates for its 2019 Presidential Primary to answer the same essential questions so as to inform the USTP membership of the candidates’ stances on key issues and provide each USTP member the opportunity to make an informed decision, including through comparisons of the candidates’ answers.
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Candidate Name: Rachel Haywire
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Discuss your background and why you think it would render you an effective President of the United States.
I am a musician, event producer, writer, and model who served on the board of Humanity+ in 2013 in which I was elected via popular vote by a landslide. I brought the underground creative sector into Silicon Valley when I pioneered the Extreme Futurist Festival in 2011, which was the first event of its kind. I booked transhumanist icons Aubrey de Grey and Ben Goertzel alongside cyberpunk bands like Atari Teenage Riot lead Hanin Elias, Lydia Lunch, and Negativland. I also booked San Francisco cult favorite Survival Research Laboratories who performed a live show involving robots and pyrotechnics in front of hundreds of established transhumanists. I shifted the playing field as young artists and musicians became transhumanists due to my influence and outreach. I am in touch with people from all classes of society, speak with people from all over the political spectrum, and understand what is going on with the emerging demographic of tech enthusiasts and creatives who are building the future. Currently, I am the CEO of Avant Design, a new agency focused on bringing a unique aesthetic to both tech and media.
What do you consider to be the most important aspects of transhumanism and the kinds of impacts it should have upon the world?
Life extension for everybody, regardless of economic status. It is time to make these technologies accessible to a wider portion of society and ensure that each and every human has access to life extension regardless of their social position. It is also important to begin creating legal protections for cryonics patients in order to avoid tragic incidents of improper suspensions such as the recent incidents with Danielle Baker and Dr. Laurence Pilgeram. Additionally, I would like a deeper focus on visionary technology such as Augmented Reality in order to bring more creative people into our sphere. We need a new aesthetic that is not just for people in STEM.
What are the areas of the U.S. Transhumanist Party Platform that you identify most strongly with?
Civil liberties and individual freedom. Nobody should be left out of the future because of external factors, and everybody should have the freedom to join in the next step of the human race.
What are, in your view, some of the major problems in contemporary American society? How can transhumanism aid in resolving those problems?
Polarization. We have both political extremes fighting, and people are losing friends over silly disagreements on social media. We need a beyond-the-center approach in which people from all over the political spectrum find common ground and reunite. This common ground is transhumanism.
In your view, what aspects of contemporary American politics work well? What aspects of contemporary American politics are broken or malfunctioning?
The entertainment sector works well. Through people making videos on platforms like YouTube and sharing their ideas online, hundreds of new independent politicians have been given a voice. At the same time, the way the media represents popular issues is broken and malfunctioning. There is always an agenda or narrative, whereas we need a more open and honest discourse. I believe that the entertainment sector of politics can work to change this.
If elected President of the United States, what policy measures will you pursue?
-Life extension for all humans
-Public education on transhumanism
-UBI (2K a month for every citizen)
-Legal protection for cryonics patients
-An end to overseas intervention
-Restrictions on imperialist global trade
-Decriminalization of all non-lethal substances
-Funding for MDMA and LSD as therapeutic remedies
-Release all non-violent drug offenders and sex workers from prison
-Better jobs and pay for working class Americans
-Medical insurance for freelancers in the gig economy
-Cryptocurrency healthcare options for specialized treatments
-Funding for the transgressive arts
-Greater awareness on neurodiversity
If elected President of the United States, what changes do you hope to achieve during your first term in office?
I’d like to increase openness and self-expression in regards to our general culture. People feel like they cannot be themselves now, and I would like to change that through working inside the establishment. Our culture is in a state of artistic decline, and it is time for a Promethean uprising. I’d like to usher in an era in which the producers of challenging content no longer feel ostracized from society. I would decrease the importance of Ivy League credentials and make way for a new establishment in which we are judged on merit, output, and skill rather than our social connections and academic upbringing.
What are your thoughts on the U.S. Constitution and its relevance and implications in the transhuman era? Are transhumanism and the current U.S. Constitution compatible?
I strongly support both the 1st and 2nd Amendments, and believe that every citizen deserves to have their freedom of speech and right to bear arms protected. There is no doubt in my mind that both of these amendments are compatible with the goals of transhumanism.
A Transhumanist campaign for President is primarily an educational endeavor. What are the key insights about which you would like to educate the public during your campaign? How would you like to educate them?
I’d like to talk to them about life extension, Artificial Intelligence (both its risks and realities), Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, cryptocurrency, biohacking, mind uploading, and cybernetic enhancements. I’d like to make it so people on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum are no longer afraid of transhumanism. Furthermore, as someone with credentials on the fringe, I could dispel myths that conspiracy theorists may have about transhumanism, and make sure the new generation is aware of transhumanism through creating educational programs for the youth of America.
Given that a President would need to act on behalf of the interests of the entire population, with regard to members of the public who are either not transhumanists or may be implicit transhumanists (but may not be familiar with or use that term), what would make you an effective candidate for appealing to them and representing their interests?
I have proven experience in dealing with both the creative world and dissident politics. I am a working-class artist myself, understand the grievances of the angry and disaffected, and know how to entertain people while uplifting their spirits. I am not a boring politician who appeals to the interests of the establishment, yet I have the ability to change the establishment from the inside as a visionary with a track record of starting trends that catch onto popular culture and helping the disenfranchised feel like they are a part of the wider whole.
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Lou Reed hosts 120 Minutes
In the first clip from the show, Lou Reed grills Mark Josephson, co-director of the 1986 New Music Seminar, in his signature take-no-prisoners style:
Next, Lou shares some thoughts on “E=MC2” by Big Audio Dynamite:
Here, Lou Reed sits down with Suzanne Vega for an interview:
Finally in the last clip, Lou talks about U2 and Cactus World News:
Thanks to dpallen on YouTube for recording and sharing these video clips.
Remembering Lou Reed
From his days as the founder of The Velvet Underground through his extensive solo career, Lou Reed and his incredible contributions to music and culture will be remembered as long as either of those things exist.
My friend Jim Shearer, currently of VH1 and former host of 120 Minutes on MTV2, shared this thought shortly after we learned of Lou’s passing:
Lou Reed: Pioneer of art-conscious, sleazy, sassy, glass-half-empty rock music. Seemingly lived as he played. Music press loved/feared him.
— @JimShearer, October 27, 2013
I couldn’t have said it any better. Rest in peace, Lou.
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Explore Union Arts
Union Arts Center
2 Union Avenue
Email:info@unionartscenter.com
Our mission is to establish an elegant space where artists, performers, and healing arts practitioners can share their work, passions and energy with our engaged and appreciative community. Through the restoration of a classic fire house in the charming hamlet of Sparkill, Union Arts Center has become a supportive and welcoming venue for cultural exchange and creative expression.
The building was originally a barn, built in 1876 by David W. Kipp, a successful grocer and tenth generation resident of the area, for use as a livery and carriage house. In 1899, a catastrophic fire at St. Agnes Convent and Orphanage brought home to Sparkill the necessity of having its own fire company, as did Tappan, Nyack and Piermont; thus, in 1901, the John Paulding Engine Company #1 was formed and subsequently incorporated in 1912. The carriage house was purchased in the same year from Donald Kipp’s estate. Its first truck was a horse-drawn, hand-powered pumper and then the building was upgraded in 1914 to accommodate a new motorized hose truck.
Even from the beginning, the engine company, when not fighting fires, made the building available for community events such as dances, weddings, minstrel shows and vaudeville. In 1906, it organized a circus to benefit victims of the San Francisco earthquake. The engine company, the building, and the community continued on in this way until 1970, when the engine company moved to its present location on Rte. 340. The next twelve years saw a series of short-lived businesses take up residence in the empty building: dress assembly and manufacturing, toy and statue manufacturing, an environmental safety laboratory and a vitamin store.
Then in 1982, the Firehouse Craftsmen acquired the building and established an arts and crafts cooperative based on the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff, the founder of The Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. Its members studied craft and its relation to self-knowledge. On the lower floor, they engaged in fabric design, woodworking, weaving, ceramics, stained glass and toy design and on the upper floor they practiced movement exercises designed to heighten self-awareness and vitality.
In 2011, the Craftsmen left and the building was acquired by Piermont resident Simon Basner. From 2011-2012, the building was revitalized and transformed under Simon’s direction. The painstaking renovation has allowed the creation of The Union Arts Center.
Quincy Hall
With its original turn-of-the-century wood floors and tin ceiling, Quincy Hall features beautiful natural light and lively acoustics. Our grand upstairs room is a welcoming, elegant space for concerts, visual arts, and private events as well as larger classes and workshops.
A functional yet sophisticated atmosphere and rotating exhibit of visual art make the first floor Gallery a destination in itself. Easy access to the kitchen and Library and floor-to-ceiling glass garage doors create a unique and friendly environment for corporate or social gatherings.
Featuring a handcrafted wraparound oak bench, wall-to-wall plush carpeting, and gas fireplace, the Library is home to healing arts sessions, small workshops, and yoga. Its comforting, quiet ambience renews the spirit and quiets the mind.
Our expertly appointed kitchen is available for caterers, cooking instructors, and hospitality coordinators in tandem with special occasions. This chef’s kitchen is meticulously maintained and features high-end stainless steel appliances and counters.
Traveling to Union Arts Center
Coming From:
Palisades Parkway North
Use Exit 4 and then Left onto 9W north. After the next traffic signal, continue past The Market (a good stop for food and drink) on your right. Soon after, there will be a sign for Tallman State Park on your right, slow down and then a Left turn onto Valentine Road. Use caution, as you must cross 9W at an angle. Follow this road down the slope and then about two blocks. At the sign for The Christ Episcopal Church, make a left onto Union St. Our address is 2 Union Ave. on the left. Continue another half-block for parking in the village center.
Palisades Parkway South
Use Exit 5 S for 303 S. towards Tappan. Turn Left at the 1st traffic signal onto Kings Highway, and follow until the end. There, at Orangeburg Road/340 East, make a Right Turn. At the next traffic signal, turn Right following 340 E. and what becomes Main St. of Sparkill, NY. At the Blinking light you are at the intersection of Main St. and Union St. If you look towards your Left you will see the front of Union Arts Center just a little down Union St. Continue straight for parking in the center of the village.
From Nyack
Take 9W South about 4 miles, passing a School on the Left. At the next traffic signal, use the Right lane and turn Right onto Hickey St. Then a Left onto Rt. 340. At the next intersection turn Right onto 340 E, This is Main St. of Sparkill. At the Blinking light you are at the intersection of Main St. and Union St. If you look towards your Left you will see the front of Union Arts Center just a little down Union St. Continue straight for parking in the center of the village.
Download printable directions here, or view us on Google Maps here.
Parking is available along Main & Washington St, and in the center of Sparkill: Depot Square. Parking is free and no permits are required. Please do not park across the street (residential lot) or in the Chase Bank lot.
ADA Accessibility:
Union Arts Center, a restored 100 year old firehouse, is currently not handicapped accessible to the 2nd floor performance space, Quincy Hall. Building plans for an elevator, and fundraising plans for its installation, are being developed to create this accessibility in the future.
Accommodations – Dining – Attractions
Union Arts Center is located in the beautiful Hudson River Valley of NY. It’s home in the hamlet of Sparkill, NY is just 1 mile from the majestic Hudson River by the village of Piermont, and just 15 miles north of the George Washington Bridge and New York City. Close to the vibrant town of Nyack and peaceful Tallman State Park in Palisades, the Union Arts Center is nestled in an area of wonderful attractions.
RiverView Bed & Breakfast, Piermont & Nyack, NY
Holiday Inn, Orangeburg, NY
Residence Inn, Orangeburg, NY
The Castle, Tarrytown, NY
The Ritz Carlton, White Plains, NY
Pearl River Hilton, Pearl River, NY
HNA Palisades, Palisades, NY
SPARKILL, NEW YORK
PIERMONT, NEW YORK (.5 miles)
O Lar
Café Portofino
Freelance Café
Sidewalk Bistro
TAPPAN, NEW YORK (1.4 miles)
Mimi’s Plate
PALISADES, NEW YORK (1.5 miles)
NORTHVALE, NEW JERSEY (1.8 miles)
NYACK, NEW YORK (3.0 miles)
Art Café
True Foods
Bus, red & tan line, bus stop one block from UAC
Train, tarrytown train station, metro north line
Parking, located along main street
Piermont & Nyack, charming riverfront villages with restaurants, views, walks and local shops
Tallman Mountain State Park, a beautiful river front park with hiking trails just a few minutes from UAC
Piermont Pier, a beautiful walk along a strip of land that leads from Piermont to the middle of the Hudson River
Tappan, New York, historic village just minutes from UAC
Woodbury Commons, outlet stores
West Point Military Academy, West Point, NY
Dia, art museum located in Beacon, NY
Storm King Art Center, world-renowned outdoor sculpture park and museum located in New Windsor, NY
Simon Basner
Elena McCabe
Arts and Facilities Coordinator
Yolanda Aguilar
SIMON BASNER • EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Mr. Basner’s visionary groundwork has created a renewed center for the practice and appreciation of the arts, and the old Sparkill firehouse with all its history stands strengthened and refreshed to begin its second century as a hub of creative and social endeavor. –10964 Newsletter
Melissa Forbes, artist & author
Charlotte “Charlie” Wilson, founder of Help Yourself Organic Cafe
Roger F. Crosby, mentor.
Caitlin Burck, project designer, Piermont Design Group
Dave Sirois, master carpenter, Sirois Construction
Allen Ross, architect, 203.832.3536
Jase, artist, World of Mouth
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Extremely weird experience. Help?
(Ok this is important for context, but we’re in high school, and she hasn’t dated before.) So me and this girl kicked it off and everything went great for a month. We went to a dance, had a few great dates, moves were made and what not. It was fast paced and easy. But then out of the blue she said she had to talk to me. I agreed and talked with her. Olivia (not her name) said she had a lot of responsibilities going on and her parents were being back and forth about her dating. Said she really wanted to date and be with me but couldn’t because of life circumstances. I told the crying girl it was ok and I wasn’t mad or anything and I understood. I told her I would wait if she actually did want to keep it going and she said yes. Skip ahead a few days and she kept saying “friend” in her texts. I asked her friend about it and Abby (not her real name) basically said I got friend zoned and they had be hoping I would realize sooner. I was frustrated not going to lie. Later on I asked my friend to ask olivia what happened. He came back and told me she “felt too in the spot light when you two had dated and was nervous around you and her mom said that when she found the right guy none of that would happen” She hadn’t really been in the spot light or anything really so I started to get confused. I would be kind to her in the halls and in classes like a normal friend, but I would catch her staring at me multiple times per class and I didn’t understand why. A few weeks later, I had people over to my house and the song called the country diss track came on. ( I sang along cuz come on it’s a fun song) and after it said “screw your friends for tearing us apart” her friend Abby said “ouch that stings” I asked her why and she informed me that she and a couple other girls had “talked” to olivia about us dating before we split. Later that night I told her that I wanted to wait for her and still be her friend in the meantime and Abby told me that “she has already moved on and you should too. She’s weirded out by it all and you need to stop trying to talk to her and be her friend”. That stung a little. I gave it some time to think about it and I came to the conclusion that I still wanted to date and be with Olivia so I was going to give it a go and be honest and talk to her. Olivia said she “wasn’t weirded out at all” and was “hoping i would talk to you”. What the **** is happening? I’m so confused.
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You are probably confused because you keep using go betweens... your friend, then her friend. Did you not get a totally different response when you went straight to the source? Life lesson. Speak to her directly again, live. No messaging, texts or friends involved. Not sure what moves were made and what not meant, but if you would like to pick up where you left off, tell her that. Wanna start over? Say that. Want her to basically be your girlfriend? Ask for that. Good Luck
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@mytwosense: Ok I’ll do it. Thank you.
What is happening to you is you're getting yourself involved in the emotional world wind of high school drama.
Everyone is beginning to get the itch to "date," hormones are running up and down everyone's spine making everyone hyper-sensitive about everything.
Somebody said this, somebody else said that, she did this, he did that.... do not involve yourself in the day to day drama of emotional willy dillies who think everything is a crisis.
Do this.... stop playing this game. The facts are... you went out a few times, had a few laughs and for whatever reason, you got dumped.
Every other fact is irrelevant. It does not matter what Susie said or what Lillie did or what her mom wants or who cares one silly shit about any of it.... what matters is you went on a few dates, you have a few laughs and you got dumped.
You deal with that by asking someone else out on a date and IGNORING completely everything else. Let them play the game of why. It's dating, it happens all the time.
This will be the pattern... have a few dates, have a few laughs, get dumped. The sooner you learn to recognize the pattern, figure out where you are in the pattern and learn to manage the pattern, the better off you'll be.
If you sit around trying to find out WHY you were dumped, who helped you get dumped, any of the details in the dumping, you're wasting your time. Instead learn to manage the pattern.
Now, go get another date.... have a few dates,... have a few laughs and know that either you or her will sooner or later get dumped. Just like you'll want her to be cool, not make a scene and just move on while you date the girl you dumped her for.... that's how you should be when the end of the pattern arrives for you.
Don't ask why, just know it happens and when it does, give her a hug, tell her she's great and then move on. That's how you play the game. Everything else is just drama.
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"her friend Abby said “ouch that stings” I asked her why and she informed me that she and a couple other girls had “talked” to olivia about us dating before we split"
You got dumped because her friends didn't like you. Also look back at things:
"her parents were being back and forth about her dating. "
Olivia said her parents were to blame for the breakup. Her friends say you were friendzoned and later that they were to blame for the breakup. Olivia lied to you dude.
"Olivia said she “wasn’t weirded out at all” and was “hoping i would talk to you”. What the **** is happening?
Most likely, she doesn't know what she wants, but enjoys being entertained and doted on. That doesn't mean she likes you, but the attention is nice, because it validates that she's attractive. It also says that she puts more value on her friends than she does her own feelings and can't be trusted since she lied about the parents thing.
Basically, if you keep in contact with her, you're going to get burned if you develop any sort of emotional attachment to her. (e.g. she'll change her mind randomly one day, one of her friends will convince her to dump you, her parents will say stop or a combination of all three, you'll find out she's constantly saying bad things about you to her friends to look like a victim...)
Personally, I'd cut her and her entire clique of girls out of my life, but I know that may not be easy to do. Either way none of them can be trusted.
You seem to put a LOT of trust in what Abby Not Her Real Name has to say.
Why not muster up the gumption to sit down and talk with Olivia Not Her Real Name, and not Abby NotHer Real Name, and find out which one of them has been lying to you?
You want the truth? Always go directly to the source and ask in person.
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Start: Houston
Drive: 11h 15min
667 miles / 11h 15min
Houston Hobby Apt (HOU) — Birmingham (BHM)
Houston (IAH) — Huntsville (HSV)
Huntsville (HSV) — Birmingham
Birmingham (BHM) — Atlanta (ATL)
511 miles / 9h
Atlanta (ATL) — Charlottesville (CHO)
Atlanta (ATL) — Washington Dulles (IAD)
Washington Dulles (IAD) — Charlottesville
Williamsburg — BWI Airport Amtrak
BWI Airport Amtrak — Ocean City
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Baltimore (BWI) — Norfolk (ORF)
Fastest: 56min
Norfolk (ORF) — Raleigh/Durham (RDU)
Raleigh/Durham (RDU) — Myrtle Beach (MYR)
Fastest: 5h(flight time: 3h)
Chapel Hill — Greensboro/High Point (GSO)
Greensboro/High Point (GSO) — Myrtle Beach (MYR)
Myrtle Beach — Charleston Air Force Base-International Airport (CHS)
2h 15min
Charleston Air Force Base-International Airport (CHS) — Monroe Regional Airport (MLU)
Monroe Regional Airport (MLU) — Shreveport
Shreveport — Monroe Regional Airport (MLU)
Monroe Regional Airport (MLU) — George Bush Intercontinental Houston Airport (IAH)
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Birmingham may be one of America's most controversial cities.
To see maps, ratings, more things to do, and more tourist information, refer to the Birmingham trip planning website .
Houston to Birmingham is an approximately 4.5-hour flight. You can also drive; or take a bus. Prepare for little chillier weather when traveling from Houston in July: high temperatures in Birmingham hover around 90°F and lows are around 72°F. You'll set off for Atlanta on the 19th (Thu).
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The Capital of the South
Georgia’s largest city and capital, Atlanta is a thriving metropolis anchored by its southern roots.
Your day-by-day itinerary now includes CNN Studio Tours as well as World of Coca-Cola. Kick off your visit on the 21st (Sat): see the interesting displays at World of Coca-Cola and then see some familiar sights at CNN Studio Tours.
For photos, traveler tips, maps, and more tourist information, read Atlanta trip builder tool .
You can drive from Birmingham to Atlanta in 2.5 hours. Other options are to take a bus; or fly. You'll lose 1 hour traveling from Birmingham to Atlanta due to the time zone difference. In July, plan for daily highs up to 89°F, and evening lows to 72°F. Finish your sightseeing early on the 21st (Sat) to allow enough time to travel to Charlottesville.
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Hoo-Ville
Situated at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville is perhaps best known as the home of three of the United States' founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson.
Your day-by-day itinerary now includes Thomas Jefferson's Monticello as well as University of Virginia. Kick off your visit on the 22nd (Sun): admire the landmark architecture of University of Virginia and then steep yourself in history at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.
To find other places to visit, photos, where to stay, and more tourist information, go to the Charlottesville online trip itinerary maker .
You can fly from Atlanta to Charlottesville in 3 hours. Alternatively, you can do a combination of flight and shuttle; or drive. In July in Charlottesville, expect temperatures between 88°F during the day and 68°F at night. Finish your sightseeing early on the 23rd (Mon) so you can drive to Williamsburg.
Things to do in Charlottesville
Parks Historic Sites
2:00pm, Sun Jul 22
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Colonial Capital
Founded in 1632 as a fortified settlement on the high ground between two rivers, Williamsburg served as a colonial capital of Virginia for over 80 years.
Your day-by-day itinerary now includes Colonial Williamsburg as well as Historic Jamestowne. Kick off your visit on the 23rd (Mon): take an in-depth tour of Colonial Williamsburg. Keep things going the next day: contemplate the long history of Historic Jamestowne, putt your heart out at Pirate's Cove Adventure Golf, and then savor the flavors at The Peanut Shop of Williamsburg.
To see more things to do, where to stay, ratings, and more tourist information, you can read our Williamsburg day trip tool .
Getting from Charlottesville to Williamsburg by car takes about 2.5 hours. Other options: take a bus; or do a combination of bus and train. Expect a daytime high around 91°F in July, and nighttime lows around 73°F. Finish your sightseeing early on the 25th (Wed) so you can drive to Ocean City.
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Historic Sites Museums Fun & Games
11:00am, Mon Jul 23
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1:00pm, Tue Jul 24
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One of the country's favorite vacation resorts, Ocean City draws nearly 8 million visitors annually with its oceanfront boardwalk, clean beaches, and amusement parks.
Assateague Island National Seashore has been added to your itinerary.
To find where to stay, more things to do, traveler tips, and other tourist information, use the Ocean City driving holiday planner .
Getting from Williamsburg to Ocean City by car takes about 4 hours. Other options: do a combination of train and bus; or do a combination of train and shuttle. Traveling from Williamsburg in July, expect nights in Ocean City to be about the same, around 70°F, while days are little chillier, around 84°F. Wrap up your sightseeing by early afternoon on the 25th (Wed) to allow enough time to drive to Virginia Beach.
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Assateague Island National Seashore
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The Resort City
Holding a record for the longest pleasure beach in the world, Virginia Beach showcases 35 miles of coastline and maintains a longstanding reputation as a family-friendly vacation destination.
Your day-by-day itinerary now includes Virginia Beach Boardwalk as well as Military Aviation Museum.
For ratings, reviews, maps, and other tourist information, go to the Virginia Beach attractions planning tool .
You can drive from Ocean City to Virginia Beach in 3.5 hours. Alternatively, you can do a combination of taxi and bus. Expect a daytime high around 89°F in July, and nighttime lows around 73°F. Finish up your sightseeing early on the 27th (Fri) so you can go by car to Chapel Hill.
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12:00pm, Thu Jul 26
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10:00am, Thu Jul 26
Chapel Hill is a town in Durham and Orange Counties, and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care. Your day-by-day itinerary now includes Triangle Boat Tours. Kick off your visit on the 27th (Fri): take a memorable tour with Triangle Boat Tours and then relax in the rural setting at Homeland Creamery. Keep things going the next day: meet the residents at North Carolina Zoo and then explore the activities along Apex Community Park.
To see ratings, photos, other places to visit, and other tourist information, read our Chapel Hill online trip itinerary maker .
Traveling by car from Virginia Beach to Chapel Hill takes 4.5 hours. Alternatively, you can do a combination of taxi, flight, and bus; or take a bus. In July in Chapel Hill, expect temperatures between 89°F during the day and 70°F at night. Finish your sightseeing early on the 29th (Sun) to allow enough time to drive to Myrtle Beach.
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10:00am, Sat Jul 28
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Myrtle Beach is a coastal city on the east coast of the United States in Horry County, South Carolina. Your day-by-day itinerary now includes I Love Sugar as well as J & L Kayaks, LLC Kayak Tours and Rentals. Start off your visit on the 29th (Sun): get a dose of the wild on J & L Kayaks, LLC Kayak Tours and Rentals and then look for gifts at I Love Sugar. Keep things going the next day: zoom along the surf with a waterskiing or jet-skiing adventure.
For where to stay, maps, ratings, and other tourist information, refer to the Myrtle Beach road trip app .
You can drive from Chapel Hill to Myrtle Beach in 4 hours. Other options are to do a combination of bus and flight; or take a bus. In July in Myrtle Beach, expect temperatures between 88°F during the day and 75°F at night. Wrap up your sightseeing by early afternoon on the 30th (Mon) to allow time for travel to Shreveport.
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Shreveport is the third-largest city in the state of Louisiana and the 113th-largest city in the United States. Keep things going the next day: identify plant and animal life at Chimp Haven.
To see other places to visit, reviews, traveler tips, and more tourist information, read Shreveport trip planner .
The Route module can help you plan travel from Myrtle Beach to Shreveport. Due to the time zone difference, you'll gain 1 hour traveling from Myrtle Beach to Shreveport. While traveling from Myrtle Beach, expect somewhat warmer days and about the same nights in Shreveport, ranging from highs of 93°F to lows of 74°F. Cap off your sightseeing on the 3rd (Fri) early enough to travel back home.
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Felicity Jones to Host First SNL of 2017
By Ryan Schwartz / December 17 2016, 9:00 PM PST
Felicity Jones will usher in the new year as host of Saturday Night Live.
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The Good Fight on CBS All Access: Cancelled or Renewed for Season Three?
by Telly Vulture
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Are Maia, Diane, and Lucca still going to the mat? Has The Good Fight TV show been cancelled or renewed for a third season on CBS All Access? The television vulture is watching all the latest TV cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of The Good Fight, season three. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
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A CBS All Access TV series, The Good Fight stars Christine Baranski, Cush Jumbo, Rose Leslie, Delroy Lindo, Audra McDonald, Sarah Steele, Justin Bartha, Michael Boatman, and Nyambi Nyambi. A sequel to The Good Wife, the legal and political drama centers on Diane Lockhart (Baranski), her goddaughter Maia Rindell (Leslie), and Lucca Quinn (Jumbo). When a client at another firm kills his lawyer for over-charging, it inspires a copycat murder. Since Chicago’s murder rate is rising, the firm starts to eye its own clients, with fear and suspicion. Diana goes head to head with Liz Reddick-Lawrence (McDonald), a new partner. Meanwhile, her parents’ scandal has inspired Maia to be a bit tougher, and Lucca returns to someone’s orbit.
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MEP Tajani for European Parliament President
The promotion of the former EU Industry top civil servant Antonio Tajani (Italy, EPP) from Barroso’s Commission to the position of the European Parliament president, once again demonstrates the failure of the institution to renew. The civil servants becoming politicians and politicians styled into mandarins, surfing freely between Schuman and Luxembourg squares, just hanging backdrop of the official photos, do not inspire confidence of the EU citizens, trying to figure out a raison d’être of the EU costly project, while getting increasingly confused between loyalties and separations of powers.
Nobody is going to held Antonio Tajani (63) responsable for a move of his former boss José-Manuel Barroso accepting a chairmanship at Goldman Sachs, however the maneuvering of Tajani as the Industry Commissioner to Member of the European Parliament (MEP), with a view of ascending to the top of the latter, makes the whole intrigue look more as a part of a chess game, than a progressive political process, reflecting public interest.
Once the spokesperson of Silvio Berlusconi, Tajani made a spectacular career in the EU institutions, coming just as a replacement of a departing for a national appointment college. With zero chance to receive a second mandate as a civil servant to ‘reign’ over the EU industry while rival party gained power at home, he returned to active politics in European elections to mold into a Member of the European Parliament immediately after
the end of his mandate in the Commission.
At present a much-anticipated farewell of twice a president of the European Parliament Martin Schulz (61),(Germany, S&D) evoked European People’s Party (EPP) to claim its rights, indicating that the second mandate of Schulz was already against all the odds, because according to the major agreement the five years Parliamentary term was divided between representatives of two biggest political groups EEP and Socialists and Democrats.
However the double mandate of five years of a Socialist did not become a window of opportunity to new political actors. No new generation, no new member-states, no new leaders, but the former Commission apparatchik from fading ‘Forza Italia’ party, claiming to be a brand new political group, led by one of the most controversial figures of Italian politics, four times Prime Minister – Silvio Berlusconi (80), whose lucky star is at decline.
Reportedly Tajani is campaigning, looking for support at home and among the other political groups in the European Parliament. The situation should be clarified mid-January, because Social democrats leader Gianni Pittella (IT, S&D) does not accept EEP president bid, claiming it will ruin the fine balance among the EU institutions, leaving socialists in minority in position of leadership.
The beginning of this year a long standing leader of EP Liberals – Guy Verhofstadt (63) (ALDE, Belgium) entered the presidential race, in hope for tactical votes.
However the chances of Mr.Tajani to raise to the summit remain high, thanks to support of his own political group – the most representative in the EP.
Still it looks the idea of renewal remains foreign to the Europarl, along with the idea of gender equality largely remaining a rhetoric exercise: since Simone Veil (1979-1982) no one women-politician ascended the president’s position, acutely no women before either.
The true impact of institutional stagnation expressed in reshuffling the very same people over and over again will be concluded at next Parliament elections, when the European citizens will come to drop their ballots, or will not come. So far last two decades the turnouts for European elections are in study decline.
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Marty Walsh pulls over on 93 to help motorist whose car had burst into flames
By adamg on Tue, 02/05/2019 - 9:11pm
Photo by BFD.
On the way home after the Patriots parade this evening, Mayor Walsh spotted a car on fire on the Expressway. The Boston Fire Department reports Hizzona stayed with the driver until firefighters could arrive to douse the flames.
Anybody remember the time there was a fire in the Pru tower and Ray Flynn ran up the stairs towards it?
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Flynn's Famous Feat of Strength
By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 02/05/2019 - 9:29pm.
I believe he carried a woman down several flights of stairs.
Mayor Walsh pulls over or his police driver did?
By O-FISH-L on Tue, 02/05/2019 - 9:46pm.
It would be highly unusual for any Boston Mayor to "pull over" or be driving at all. Since there's no mention of the traditional 24/7/365 Boston Police security detail that guards and drives every Mayor, Walsh must have ditched him. When seconds count, the police are minutes away. Or else the police didn't make it into the press release.
Yeah, I was wondering about that
By adamg on Tue, 02/05/2019 - 9:49pm.
I thought he got driven around by somebody in an SUV, like Menino.
But I guess this is a reason to be glad he never takes public transit home?
By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 02/05/2019 - 10:24pm.
I bet the driver of the auto-da-fe wished that they had taken public transit.
By Bugs Bunny on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 7:02am.
Yes, to ride the T with hundreds of loud drunk passengers that took an extra hour due to over capacity was
Hell on Earth. Driving in yesterday was the smart choice.
Maybe some public transit
By adamg on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 8:07am.
The Orange Line was fine.
Man, I can't believe I just typed that, but it's true.
He Does
By Rob O on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 9:38am.
Walsh is regularly driven around by BPD, in what can only be described as a complete waste of money and a way to insulate himself from the great unwashed masses he supposedly represents.
By Waquiot on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 10:52am.
Was it a complete waste of money and a way to insulate from the great unwashed massed supposedly represented when Tom Menino was driven around by the BPD?
Heck, I remember once having to pull over when the Menino detail car flew by with it lights on and sirens screaming on a Sunday morning. And it should be noted that it they were heading towards Readville.
By Rob O on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 12:12pm.
Yes, it was. And it is a waste of money when Baker is shuttled around by the police too.
I appreciate the consistency
By Waquiot on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 12:56pm.
And I do agree, though there are times when a car and driver should be provided.
As you see, it gets me when a politician is attacked for doing whatever when his/her predecessor did the exact same thing in a way that makes it look like they are the first ones doing it. I hate to make the discussion more national, but it does happen with national political figures, too.
He should ride the T.
By CopleyScott17 on Tue, 02/05/2019 - 11:14pm.
Baker, too.
By BostonDog on Tue, 02/05/2019 - 11:24pm.
Lots more opportunities to help people...
Mayor/Ambassador Flynn
By anon on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 6:50am.
was a Mayor for the working people, the poor, middle class and not so fortunate citizens. Marty? Not so much, in fact the complete opposite.
What did Mahty "help" with? Did he pull over to recap the parade with the motorist?
By Stephen Bickerton Sr on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 8:59am.
Is the driver BPD was told to pull over by the Mayor.
Good job Mayor
"Do uh you guys needs some help uh sumthin?"
By Old Groucho on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 9:43am.
Stay in your car and go home, Marty.
If it was a genuine act of kindness we wouldnt have heard about or saw pictures of it.
Hes such a clown.
Globe has more details
By adamg on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 2:14pm.
The mayor had his BPD driver pull the guy over after they noticed sparks flying out from under the car.
Now the Mayor
By Jackie Conway on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 3:52pm.
is a Cop? I see a grievance in the making.
By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 6:52pm.
He'll care this much about pedestrians being killed by motorists.
By lou on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 9:48pm.
The mayor gets on 93 to go home?
Anyone know where this was?
Don't know where it was, but ...
By adamg on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 11:54pm.
93 to Neponset Circle or Granite Avenue for his commute?
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What is Equity? Equity is a term used in accounting, in real estate and home-ownership, in investing, as well as in startup financing and valuation. The meaning of the term equity is very similar in the various areas where it is used, so it will be good to review all four of these to get the best understanding. In accounting, equity is a term that you will find on the balance sheet. What you own is on the left: assets. What you owe is on the right: liabilities and equity. Equity is the book value of the shareholder capital. The accounting equation tells you that assets equal liabilities plus equity. That also means that equity equals assets minus liabilities. Equity on a balance sheet goes up when a company is profitable: the net income for the year gets added to equity through retained earnings. Equity on a balance sheet goes down when the company is loss-making (losses “eat up” the equity), or when the company pays a dividend to its shareholders. Equity in home-ownership works very similar to equity on the balance sheet. What we own is on the left: the house worth $500.000. What we owe is on the right: $400.000 of mortgage loan from the bank, and the owner of the house, Jim, has $100.000 of equity in the house. Equity in home-ownership is what a home is worth minus how much you owe to the bank. Just like equity on the balance sheet of a company can go up or down, the equity that you have in your home can go up or down. If Jim is paying down the mortgage on his house by $50.000, then the amount of the loan outstanding will decrease and his equity in the house will increase. If the market value of the house increases, then Jim’s equity in the house will increase. Remember that equity is what a home is worth minus how much you owe to the bank. If the market value of the house decreases, then Jim’s equity in the house will decrease, or even become negative. Jim will need to have a conversation with the bank to make a remediation plan to get back to positive equity, or in the worst case scenario Jim might lose the ownership of the house and the bank will need to take a partial write-off of its outstanding loan. Investing in equity. Remember the example of the small manufacturing business that owned a machine, had a loan from a bank, and equity from one shareholder. What if we make that a big manufacturing business that owns lots of machines at different sites totaling $1 billion, has many loans outstanding totaling $800 million that are publicly traded in the bond market, and has many different shareholders as the certificates of ownership, the equity, is traded publicly as well. As an investor, you have the choice of buying bonds (which would have a predetermined interest rate, and has the machines as collateral), or the choice of buying stocks (which are perceived as having more downside risk as well as more upside potential). Invest in debt, or invest in equity. Equity in a startup company. How do you put a “price” on what is essentially so far just an idea, that still has to be developed and will find many ups and downs along the way? The company does not have any assets, liabilities and equity yet. The financing and valuation depend on the estimate of the revenue, profit and cash flow that the business idea might bring in the future. A good way to learn about startup companies in the tech field is the comedy series “Silicon Valley”. What happens if the app you are developing turns out to have a great compression algorithm, you are courted by investors ready to fund you, and your friends and roommates suddenly become your employees while you become the CEO? In season one of “Silicon Valley”, landlord/incubator Erlich Bachman has 10% of the shares in startup company Pied Piper, eccentric billionaire Peter Gregory buys 5% for $200.000, and the three employees Gilfoyle, Dinesh and Jared get 3% each in what someday might be a multi-billion $ company. By my math, that sets the CEO Richard Hendricks up with 76% of the shares in the company. In subsequent seasons of the comedy series, Pied Piper goes through various rounds of financing, as well as acquisitions and other ownership changes. Having equity can be a great thing. Equity has potential risks as well as potential rewards. The term equity is used in accounting, in home-ownership, in investing, and in start-up financing and valuation. Probably the easiest metaphor to remember is equity in home-ownership: what a home is worth minus how much you owe to the bank. Philip de Vroe (The Finance Storyteller) aims to make strategy, #finance and leadership enjoyable and easier to understand. Learn the business and accounting vocabulary to join the conversation with your CEO at your company. Understand how financial statements work in order to make better #investing decisions. Philip delivers #financetraining in various formats: YouTube videos, classroom sessions, webinars, and business simulations. Connect with me through Linked In!
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🔴Subscribe for more Accounting Tutorials → https://geni.us/subtothechannel Discover what Equity means in Accounting. This episode is part of a series exploring Accounting Basics. To see the whole playlist check out the link below. In this Accounting tutorial you’ll find the definition of Equity in Accounting. You'll also learn how Equity is made up of Capital Contributions, Retained Earnings and Withdrawals. And as if that wasn't enough, you'll also find the link between the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet in the context of the expanded Accounting Equation. ⏱️TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 01:35 - Equity definition #1 02:37 - Equity definition #2 04:37 - How to structure your business? 04:44 - Sole Proprietor 04:50 - Partnership 04:43 - Corporation 05:29 - Capital Contributions Explained 07:27 - Retained Earnings Explained 08:52 - Withdrawals Explained 09:39 - How the Expanded Accounting Equation works ♻️PLASTIC FREE FEB ▪ Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/pffeb ▪ Insta → https://www.instagram.com/plasticfreefeb/ 🔎FAQ ▪ My Favourite Accounting Book for Beginners → http://geni.us/5mKR7m ▪ The Gear I Shoot With→ https://accountingstuff.co/faq 🔝 CLOUD ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE ▪ QuickBooks Online USA (FREE TRIAL) → http://geni.us/jA9N ▪ QuickBooks Online Canada (60% OFF for 6 MONTHS) → https://geni.us/bNN7 🚶FOLLOW ME ON ▪ Insta → https://www.instagram.com/accountingstuff ▪ Twitter → https://twitter.com/AccountantStuff 🎬LEARN ACCOUNTING BASICS FOR FREE ▪ The Full Playlist → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5zKSeS09l339nB6ujJPQ9Rsv99_b-aTb ________________________ DISCLAIMER Some of the links above are affiliate links, where I earn a small commission if you click on the link and purchase an item. You are not obligated to do so, but it does help fund these videos in hopes of bringing value to you! For sponsorship, product reviews, and collaboration, you can email me here: james@accountingstuff.co ________________________ #accounting #accountingbasics #accountingstuff
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How do you find real estate with equity? Is it really possible in today's market? I talk a lot about equity on this channel, and I hear from a lot of nay sayers that it's not really possible. We're about to prove them wrong. I share 3 simple steps to find equity, and show examples of the money I've found. Watch and Enjoy! Kris Krohn & Nate Woodbury WORK WITH KRIS: ======================== Becoming a successful real estate investor is easier than most people know… as long as you have the right Mentor and the right system. Click here to learn your best options: http://LimitlessMentor.com/TV/ BOOKS By Kris Krohn ======================== The Straight Path To Real Estate Wealth: http://amzn.to/2zT0Bur The Conscious Creator: http://amzn.to/2gFEkblLimitless: http://amzn.to/2gLQXoV Be On Limitless TV ======================== Record your questions on video, and join me in a future episode: http://bit.ly/2yO78c7 MUSIC ======================== Tobu - Infectious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux8-EbW6DUI Artist: https://www.youtube.com/tobuofficial Licensed under Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 ======================== Video by Nate Woodbury (The Hero Maker) BeTheHeroStudios.com http://YouTube.com/NateWoodburyHero
75% OFF the Full Crash Course on Udemy: http://bit.ly/2oZIdcP In this financial accounting tutorial I explain what the financial accounting element equity is. Equity is split into common shares and retained earnings and represents the residual interest owners have in the business after liabilities. Equity essentially represents net assets and is calculated using the accounting equation by subtracting liabilities from assets. ** Notepirate is privately owned and exclusive to notepirate.com.** Website: http://www.notepirate.com Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Note-Pirate/514933148520001 Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/notepirate We appreciate all of the support you guys have given us. Be apart of the mission to help us reach more students by subscribing, thumbs upping and adding the videos to your favorites!
How to use equity finance (Refinance) to buy investment property DOWNLOAD FREE CHECKLIST: https://yourfirstfourhouses.com/ Equity is the difference between what your property is worth MINUS your mortgage and in today's, I talk through how you can use that equity to buy investment property (Real Estate). If you want to learn how to invest in property, or if you want to build a property portfolio of you own, be sure to download the above property investing checklist, because in there I give you a detailed list of everything I think you need to consider BEFORE buying that first investment property. You are also welcome to download my FREE list of every property related website tool and app you'll need in your property business here: https://goo.gl/qtvdQb If you're thinking of releasing the equity from your property to buy an investment property, I would love to hear from you in the comments section below I wish you every success... Tony Law - Your First Four Houses :-) PS. There are some great opportunities in the property market right now!
Susan Schreter defines equity. http://cr8.lv/ssfybgyt This clip is from the CreativeLive course, Fund Your Business for Growth. In this video Susan Schreter helps small business owners understand the complex notion of business equity. Get more great business insight here: http://cr8.lv/ssfybgyt
Equity may refer to:
Finance, accounting and ownership
Equity (finance), the value of an ownership interest in property, including shareholders' equity in a business. Equity or shareholders´ equity is part of the total capital of a business.
Stock, the generic term for common equity securities is 'stocks'
Home equity, the difference between the market value and unpaid mortgage balance on a home
Private equity, stock in a privately held company
Equity in income of affiliates, an accounting term referring to the consolidated or unconsolidated ownership in affiliate companies
Equity (law), a branch of jurisprudence in common law jurisdictions.
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In jurisdictions following the English common law, equity is the set of maxims that "reign over all the law" and "from which flow all civil laws". The Chancery, the office of equity, was the "office that issued the writs that were the foundation of the common law system". Equity is wholly "unaffected by any state laws” (Pomeroy) and is "everything, even without law".
Equity is commonly said to "mitigate the rigour of common law", allowing courts to use their discretion and apply justice in accordance with natural law. In practice, modern equity is limited by substantive and procedural rules, and English and Australian legal writers tend to focus on technical aspects of equity. Twelve "vague ethical statements", known as the maxims of equity, guide the application of equity, and an additional five can be added.
A historical criticism of equity while it developed was that it lacked fixed rules, with the Lord Chancellor occasionally judging in the main according to his conscience. The rules of equity later lost much of their flexibility, and from the 17th century onwards, equity was rapidly consolidated into a system of precedents (or case law) much like its common-law cousin.
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Equity or economic equality is the concept or idea of fairness in economics, particularly in regard to taxation or welfare economics. More specifically, it may refer to equal life chances regardless of identity, to provide all citizens with a basic and equal minimum of income, goods, and services or to increase funds and commitment for redistribution.
Inequality and inequities have significantly increased in recent decades, possibly driven by the worldwide economic processes of globalisation, economic liberalisation and integration. This has led to states ‘lagging behind’ on headline goals such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and different levels of inequity between states have been argued to have played a role in the impact of the global economic crisis of 2008–2009.
Equity is based on the idea of moral equality. Equity looks at the distribution of capital, goods and access to services throughout an economy and is often measured using tools such as the Gini index. Equity may be distinguished from economic efficiency in overall evaluation of social welfare. Although 'equity' has broader uses, it may be posed as a counterpart to economic inequality in yielding a "good" distribution of wealth. It has been studied in experimental economics as inequity aversion. Low levels of equity are associated with life chances based on inherited wealth, social exclusion and the resulting poor access to basic services and intergenerational poverty resulting in a negative effect on growth, financial instability, crime and increasing political instability.
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An introduction to the law of equity including the historical background as well as the principles of equity. Equity is at its heart about fairness and making sure that the law is not applied too strictly so as to create injustice. However it is also important to not have a system that is overly capricious and so certain maxims of equity have been developed to ensure a degree of consistency. A system of common law and equity also creates practical challenges and two court systems meant that cases could last for years as criticised by Charles Dickens in his novel Bleak House. This issue was resolved by the Judicature Act 1873 that amalgamated the two strands and left us with the court structure that we have today. The maxims of equity are as follows: Equity will not suffer a wrong to be without a remedy Equity follows the law Where there is equal equity, the law shall prevail Delay defeats equity He who seeks equity must do equity He who comes to equity must come with clean hands Equality is equity Equity looks to intent rather than to form Equity looks on as done that which ought to have been done Equity imputes an intention to fulfil an obligation Equity acts in personam Equity will not permit the law to be used as an engine of fraud Equity will not assist a volunteer Equity abhors a vacuum
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Equity definition with discussion of key components of definition and example to illustrate the term if equity. The definition of equity: Owner’s claim on the assets of a business; equals the residual interest in an entity’s assets after deducting liabilities; also called nets assets. Equity can be represented using the accounting equations of: Assets – Liabilities = Equity. Why Learn Accounting - Financial Accounting / Managerial Accounting https://youtu.be/uaWDB1YdA1k?list=PL60SIT917rv52SlrB3FFn2WMyZEkj6uBI 101 Double Entry Accounting System Explained - Accounting Equation https://youtu.be/66e9QbrkE4g?list=PL60SIT917rv52SlrB3FFn2WMyZEkj6uBI 101 Cash vs Accrual - Cash Method / Accrual method differenc https://youtu.be/i2O0cexCrqc?list=PL60SIT917rv52SlrB3FFn2WMyZEkj6uBI 101 Revenue Recognition Principle https://youtu.be/M_pauBGz5Jc?list=PL60SIT917rv52SlrB3FFn2WMyZEkj6uBI Double Entry Accounting System Explained - Balance Sheet https://youtu.be/kOItl8E3fNA?list=PL60SIT917rv52SlrB3FFn2WMyZEkj6uBI 101 Income Statement Introduction https://youtu.be/1k11H8icQxc?list=PL60SIT917rv52SlrB3FFn2WMyZEkj6uBI 101 Accounting Objectives - Relevance Reliability Comparability https://youtu.be/mO8tPzFmN8o?list=PL60SIT917rv52SlrB3FFn2WMyZEkj6uBI 101 Transaction Rules - Accounting Equation https://youtu.be/0vy6W_WTO2I?list=PL60SIT917rv52SlrB3FFn2WMyZEkj6uBI 101 Transaction Throught Process / Steps - Accounting Equation https://youtu.be/SlTo3EXDuqU?list=PL60SIT917rv52SlrB3FFn2WMyZEkj6uBI 101 Owner Deposits Cash Transaction Accounting Equation https://youtu.be/lPZoImc88eU?list=PL60SIT917rv52SlrB3FFn2WMyZEkj6uBI 101 Work Completed for Cash Transaction Accounting Equation https://youtu.be/ll5xIHVdrVs?list=PL60SIT917rv52SlrB3FFn2WMyZEkj6uBI 100.110 Pay Employee with Cash Transaction Accounting Equati https://youtu.be/bSa3NuVpkwc?list=PL60SIT917rv52SlrB3FFn2WMyZEkj6uBI 200 Debits & Credits Normal Balance - Double Entry Accounting Sy https://youtu.be/alSWKuWPlxU?list=PL60SIT917rv52SlrB3FFn2WMyZEkj6uBI 200 Debits & Credits - One Rule to Rule Them All https://youtu.be/RL3BFjL1eyE?list=PL60SIT917rv52SlrB3FFn2WMyZEkj6uBI
What is home equity. Because I talk about equity so commonly in my videos, I get lots of questions about what it is. It's very important to understand and makes all the difference in real estate investing. The difference between a investment property with equity and one without equity, is the difference between a treasure chest full of money vs. one that is empty. Hopefully this video clarifies how important it is to invest in properties that have equity waiting for you. Watch and Enjoy! Kris Krohn & Nate Woodbury RESOURSES: ======================== Limitless 3 Day Event: http://bit.ly/2j5r8wM Get Mentoring: http://bit.ly/2lPGp9d Real Estate Investing Help: http://bit.ly/2lPGp9d Free Real Estate Audiobook: http://bit.ly/2oiORxy Free Conscious Creator Audiobook: http://bit.ly/2sZmaYU ...
Patrick Bet-David shares 7 Types of Equity to Help You Make Millions. Don’t forget to subscribe to Valuetainment: http://bit.ly/2aPEwD4 Get the free PDF: http://www.patrickbetdavid.com/7-types-equity-help-make-millions/ Visit the official Valuetainment Store for gear: https://www.valuetainmentstore.com/ About Valuetainment: Founded in 2012 by Patrick Bet-David, our goal is to impact entrepreneurs around the world through value and entertainment. We are the #1 channel for entrepreneurs because of the best interviews, best how to videos, best case studies and because we defend capitalism and educate entrepreneurs. To reach the Valuetainment team you can email: marketing@patrickbetdavid.com Follow Patrick on social media: Website: http://www.patrickbetdavid.com Snapchat: betdavid19 ...
What is Equity? Equity is a term used in accounting, in real estate and home-ownership, in investing, as well as in startup financing and valuation. The meaning of the term equity is very similar in the various areas where it is used, so it will be good to review all four of these to get the best understanding. In accounting, equity is a term that you will find on the balance sheet. What you own is on the left: assets. What you owe is on the right: liabilities and equity. Equity is the book value of the shareholder capital. The accounting equation tells you that assets equal liabilities plus equity. That also means that equity equals assets minus liabilities. Equity on a balance sheet goes up when a company is profitable: the net income for the year gets added to equity through retained ...
Debt vs. Equity. Market Capitalization, Asset Value, and Enterprise Value. Created by Sal Khan. Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/stock-and-bonds/venture-capital-and-capital-markets/v/chapter-7-bankruptcy-liquidation?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=financeandcapitalmarkets Missed the previous lesson? Watch here: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/stock-and-bonds/venture-capital-and-capital-markets/v/more-on-ipos?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=financeandcapitalmarkets Finance and capital markets on Khan Academy: This is an old set of videos, but if you put up with Sal's messy handwriting (it has since improved) and spotty sound, there is a lot to be learned here. In particular, t...
🔴Subscribe for more Accounting Tutorials → https://geni.us/subtothechannel Discover what Equity means in Accounting. This episode is part of a series exploring Accounting Basics. To see the whole playlist check out the link below. In this Accounting tutorial you’ll find the definition of Equity in Accounting. You'll also learn how Equity is made up of Capital Contributions, Retained Earnings and Withdrawals. And as if that wasn't enough, you'll also find the link between the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet in the context of the expanded Accounting Equation. ⏱️TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 01:35 - Equity definition #1 02:37 - Equity definition #2 04:37 - How to structure your business? 04:44 - Sole Proprietor 04:50 - Partnership 04:43 - Corporation 05:29 - Capital Contributions Explain...
Get a FREE customized plan for your money. It only takes 3 minutes! http://bit.ly/2YTMuQM Visit the Dave Ramsey store today for resources to help you take control of your money! https://goo.gl/gEv6Tj Become a Channel Member today: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7eBNeDW1GQf2NJQ6G6gAxw/join Welcome to The Dave Ramsey Show like you've never seen it before. The show live streams on YouTube M-F 2-5pm ET! Watch Dave live in studio every day and see behind-the-scenes action from Dave's producers. Watch video profiles of debt-free callers and see them call in live from Ramsey Solutions. During breaks, you'll see exclusive content from people like Rachel Cruze, Chris Hogan, and Christy Wright —as well as all kinds of other video pieces that we'll unveil every day. The Dave Ramsey Show chan...
Equity Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Anna Gunn, Alysia Reiner Drama HD Subscribe to INDIE & FILM FESTIVALS: http://bit.ly/1wbkfYg Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Like us on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/1QyRMsE Follow us on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt EQUITY, the first female-driven Wall Street film, follows a senior investment banker who is threatened by a financial scandal and must untangle a web of corruption. You're quite the artsy one, aren't you? Fandango MOVIECLIPS FILM FESTIVALS & INDIE TRAILERS is the destination for...well, all things related to Film Festivals & Indie Films. If you want to keep up with the latest festival news, art house openings, indie movie content, film reviews, and so much more, then you have found the r...
How do you find real estate with equity? Is it really possible in today's market? I talk a lot about equity on this channel, and I hear from a lot of nay sayers that it's not really possible. We're about to prove them wrong. I share 3 simple steps to find equity, and show examples of the money I've found. Watch and Enjoy! Kris Krohn & Nate Woodbury WORK WITH KRIS: ======================== Becoming a successful real estate investor is easier than most people know… as long as you have the right Mentor and the right system. Click here to learn your best options: http://LimitlessMentor.com/TV/ BOOKS By Kris Krohn ======================== The Straight Path To Real Estate Wealth: http://amzn.to/2zT0Bur The Conscious Creator: http://amzn.to/2gFEkblLimitless: http://amzn.to/2gLQXoV Be On Lim...
75% OFF the Full Crash Course on Udemy: http://bit.ly/2oZIdcP In this financial accounting tutorial I explain what the financial accounting element equity is. Equity is split into common shares and retained earnings and represents the residual interest owners have in the business after liabilities. Equity essentially represents net assets and is calculated using the accounting equation by subtracting liabilities from assets. ** Notepirate is privately owned and exclusive to notepirate.com.** Website: http://www.notepirate.com Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Note-Pirate/514933148520001 Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/notepirate We appreciate all of the support you guys have given us. Be apart of the mission to help us reach more students by subscribing, th...
How to use equity finance (Refinance) to buy investment property DOWNLOAD FREE CHECKLIST: https://yourfirstfourhouses.com/ Equity is the difference between what your property is worth MINUS your mortgage and in today's, I talk through how you can use that equity to buy investment property (Real Estate). If you want to learn how to invest in property, or if you want to build a property portfolio of you own, be sure to download the above property investing checklist, because in there I give you a detailed list of everything I think you need to consider BEFORE buying that first investment property. You are also welcome to download my FREE list of every property related website tool and app you'll need in your property business here: https://goo.gl/qtvdQb If you're thinking of releasing t...
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6 of the Best – Big Hero 6 (DVD Review)
25/05/2015 Lee Hazell film, Film Review Leave a comment
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When Marvel made their deal with Disney, nobody thought that this franchise would be getting the movie treatment. Mostly because nobody had heard of it before the trailer came out. Big Hero 6 was an obscure Marvel creation, unable to achieve the widespread popularity of their brightest stars. This is probably why they opted for the Sandman style reboot.
The Sandman style reboot, for anyone wondering, is the kind of reboot where you keep nothing but the original, trademarked names, just like the kind Neil Gaiman did for the character the trope is named for. Big Hero 6 keeps slightly more than the names however; it also adapts the comic’s trademark style – halfway between Japanese Manga and American style graphic novel. Only in the movie, it is halfway between an anime and a Pixar film.
It also keeps the comic books themes of loss, with the creation of Baymax being inspired by the death of a family member. These themes are at the heart of the film as they motivate main character Hiro Hamada throughout the story. It never feels like a mere plot device to propel the action. These feelings are never forgotten and permeate every scene. It’s a sign of caring that explains why the film is so thrillingly good.
When a terrorist hatches a plot to wreak havoc on his home town of San Fransokyo using the technology Hiro created, no one believes him, so he has to investigate on his own. Devising a set of exoskeletons to give him and his friends super powers, he sets off to take down the mysterious man in the kabuki mask. And getting to him is a hell of a ride.
The city of San Fransokyo is one of the most alive and vibrant animated locations ever. There were several times I wanted to get off the tracks the camera was on to go off and explore on my own. It’s wonderfully lit and exquisitely colourful. The city is a character on its own, and in a lesser film it would have been the best character. But the deliberately diverse ensemble cast of Big Hero 6 is one of the greatest ever assembled in a kids film.
Unlike other films such as How To Train Your Dragon, they aren’t two dimensional cardboard cut outs with overly stereotypical teen traits. They are real human beings with several sides. Yes, they follow some very clichéd tropes, but they offer a lot more than that. Also, Go Go and Honey Lemon continue the new trend of animation leading the way in awesome female characters for kids to aspire to. Go Go has that tomboyish charm, but Honey Lemon proves that you don’t have to act masculine to be both a woman and a hero.
And, despite it being an animated movie, it is still made with all the deictic references that we have come to expect from any Marvel blockbuster, including a shot of the original characters that only 0.1% of the audience will recognise. Oh, and if you’re thinking that because it is a Marvel film you should stick around after the credits; you should totally stick around after the credits.
Big Hero 6 is everything a family film should be. Fun, engaging, heart-warming, and heart-breaking. Smart enough to keep adults entertained and silly enough to stop the kiddies from wandering off, Disney’s first foray into animated Marvel movies might just be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Dir: Don Hall, Chris Williams
Scr: Jordan Roberts, Daniel Gerson, Robert L. Baird
Starring: Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Jamie Chung
Prd: Roy Conli, John Lasseter, Kristina Reed, Brad Simonsen
DOP: Scott Watanabe
Music: Henry Jackman
Big Hero 6 is released on Blu-Ray and DVD on May 25th via Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
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04/13/2013 10/07/2013 by LaurenC
‘Survivor’ 26.09 ‘Cut Off the Head of the Snake’ — Sherri is Tenacity
Last week on Survivor, the tribes Gota and Bikal merged into Enil Edam causing everybody to fiddle with alliances and work on big blindsides. Malcolm and Corinne created a counter-alliance to Phillip’s Stealth-R-Us with fans and favourites, planning to vote out Sherri then Phillip. After Cochran won the first individual immunity challenge by eating disgusting things and Dawn learned of the blindside Malcolm and Corinne were planning, the biggest blindside of the season occurred that sent Corinne home.
Enil Edam
Reynold isn’t too upset that Corinne from his counter-alliance was kicked off. Surprising? Perhaps, but he feels secure in his alliance with Malcolm and Eddie, so hopefully that will help Malcolm stay longer even though he is on the outs. I’m so proud that Malcolm has kept his hidden immunity idol hidden for so long. That’s so rare and now with Corinne gone he is the only person that knows about it. It’s a bit concerning that they’re all so confident after one of their own is chucked though. At the Stealth alliance, Phillip tells Sherri she’s hot, which is so weird to hear from him, and then he gives her a Stealth-R-Us name: tenacity.
Reward Challenge:
They must divide into two teams of five. One member on each team must be a defender while one at a time members of the other team leap off a platform attempting to throw a ball past the defender into the net. After four points (four balls in the net) a team wins the reward of a picnic lunch at the bottom of a beautiful waterfall. Malcolm is defending for orange with Dawn, Phillip, Andrea, and Brenda throwing as Michael defends for purple with Eddie, Reynold, Cochran, and Erik. Sherri wasn’t picked to compete so she cannot go on the reward.
Malcolm catches the first ball launched at him by Eddie, as on Brenda’s first try for orange she gets the ball past Michael into the net. Erik scores for purple but Andrea comes back and gets the second point for orange. Reynold misses for purple and Dawn just misses for orange. Cochran is up next and gets it past Malcolm into the net. I’m so proud of my favourite, Cochran! Winning challenges and succeeding, good for him! Phillip does a stutter thing with his run making it look like he’ll fail but ends up getting it past Michael easily for orange. Orange leads 3-2 by now. Eddie scores for purple easily on his second try. After getting her first one, Brenda is up again with the opportunity to win the challenge for orange. She gets it past Michael but right on the edge of the net, bouncing off. After a few shots that we don’t get to see Erik is up next for purple and gets it past Malcolm allotting the win for purple.
Plans, plans, plans
I’ve missed Cochran’s witty chats with the camera. Him, Eddie, Reynold, Michael, and Erik repel down a waterfall to their picnic as their reward and Cochran is so proud of himself for making it down without dying. There’s masculine bonding and discussions of an all male alliance but Cochran scoffs at the idea of turning away from Stealth just formen, clearly they don’t know him well.
Back at camp, Malcolm starts up some strategy to get Sherri and Dawn over to his counter-alliance which is almost as bad as the guys convincing Cochran to join them. Dawn and Andrea immediately start plotting how to use this to Stealth’s advantage by making Malcolm think they’re splitting votes between Reynold and Eddie as Dawn pretends be align with his real plan. Stealth actually plans to vote out Malcolm because they expect he’s idol-less and then a simple vote. My Strategy would be for Malcolm to play his idol anyway, because it’s a risky move pulling Sherri and Dawn away from Stealth. That way, no matter what Stealth plans to do (the split vote or Malcolm) he’s staying in the game. If he gets his counter alliance (Michael, Eddie, Reynold, and himself) to vote Andrea while Stealth (Andrea, Erik, Cochran, Sherri, Phillip, Brenda, and Dawn) votes for Malcolm but he’s played his idol nullifying his votes, then Andrea goes home like he wants. Ultimate blindside!
We get a bit of Andrea + Eddie “island dating” drama at the lagoon (why do people not go there all the time? It’s BEAUTIFUL!). I used to think Eddie was a little daft, but this chat showed him to sound less silly and kind of sweet. Andrea is talking about falling for him as they’re playing each other, he’s talking about indirectly hitting on her… Basically, they’d make a cute couple.
Immunity Challenge:
Today’s challenge will force them to remain calm if they want to win. Everyone will take a spot in the water, underneath a graded steal barrier. As the tide rises the water will rise on them more and more. The person who lasts the longest will win immunity.
I thought it would be a boring challenge but turned out to be really intense. After an hour the water has risen enough for people to start dropping out. Phillip leaves first, followed by Sherri, Erik, and Dawn. Malcolm leaves next which is unfortunate as everyone is plotting against him. It’s gotten to be a challenge that’s making me really antsy. Michael leaves next as the water is above the grate. Eddie is out next, very quickly followed by Cochran and Reynold almost simultaneously. It’s down to Brenda and Andrea, both still looking secure. Their legs are linked through the grate so we’ll easily see them struggle by movement in their legs. Andrea starts to struggle a little but holds on well. Her legs come down but she isn’t out yet. She’s back in it, but after a few more struggles up and down she’s out. Brenda has won and looks completely unfazed by the challenge once two guys jump in to let her know she’s won.
Tribal Council:
Before Tribal everyone is discussing votes again and Malcolm doesn’t see what’s about to happen. Reynold shows Dawn the idol then threatens her if she crosses him. Eddie and Andrea talk which makes Andrea concerned she’s about to be voted out as she never gives a straight answer to Eddie. It’s difficult to fall in love when no one gives a straight answer. Suddenly she doesn’t want to vote for Malcolm because she’s concerned about idol play. Michael is a safe write-off because they know he doesn’t have an idol. That was so silly. My Strategywould be for Andrea to tell Eddie Stealth plans to vote for Malcolm instead of splitting votes then she switches to the counter alliance to be with Eddie and go farther as Malcolm plays an idol and they vote off one of Stealth. It would completely change the game and allow her to be on beloved Eddie’s side.
During Tribal, Phillip starts creating drama and Malcolm starts getting very concerned. Even though they no longer want to vote for him, he looks utterly terrified like he’s considering pulling out his idol. The only vote we see is Malcolm’s for Reynold. Why are you choosing to go for Reynold? You can’t still think they’re splitting the vote just because you have no clue what’s going on? As Jeff asks for hidden immunity idols, Reynold steps up to use his but Malcolm convinces him to save Malcolm with it, because the Tribal talk all seemed directed at Malcolm rather than Reynold. Surprisingly, he does hand it over and the votes go 3-1-7, Andrea, Reynold, Michael ending in Michael being the first person sent to the Jury.
Next episode, Dawn seems to be going crazy.
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I’m at the DMZ
Looking for something? The Digital Media Zone (DMZ), a tech blog about the products and services available for home and mobile media consumption, is now home to my post about CableCARD and the HDHomeRun Prime. Expect to find future posts about home entertainment and consumer electronics devices there, while The World According to Richard continues to serve as the platform for my rants and perspective on all other things.
I Don’t Want Apps on My TV
With Google throwing its unexpectedly pricey hat into the TV set top box business, I grow ever more frustrated by a move that I just don’t understand: Apps on the TV. Apps give content owners and distributors an opportunity to offer branded, custom portals to their content. Yea for them. But that’s not what I want, and I question—despite all of the tech media hype—if it’s what the masses want.
I don’t want to hunt for shows that interest me in a bunch of different applications. Will I find How Your $#*! Got Outsourced in the CBQ app, the Buena Brothers app, or the huFlix app? Why does it have to be in any of them? I just want to watch the damned show. I don’t care who claims the digital streaming rights to it, and I sure as Hell don’t want some heavily-branded experience wrapped around it. I don’t want a different library browsing, selection, and playback experience from show to show or app to app. I just want to watch the damned show. Oh…and I don’t want another accessory on my coffee table: a keyboard. (TiVo: I think you nailed this one).
What we need is an aggregator. I want to see a service and/or device that can pull together all of the digital content available to me and make it navigable and discoverable (and even purchasable) in meaningful ways. Include the stuff I own, the stuff I can buy, the stuff I can or have recorded, and the stuff available to stream freely; but don’t throw up walls between those acquisition models. Let me search and browse across all of that content. Slice it up and group it in different ways, using robust metadata beyond just genre and network. I still want to browse by network, too, because that’s still a logical association, but define network more broadly than just what you find on your cable box, and include YouTube channels and Internet-only content, like CNET and Revision 3.
Boxee tries to do all this, but it’s still too disjointed, and the UI is overly complex. Apple TV—the old Apple TV—did it fairly well, but its appeal is limited to consumers who have bought into the walled iTunes media garden, and the entry price was too high. Hulu and Netflix both get partway there, but their content is limited by distribution rights that are governed by frightened license holders and greedy attorneys. TiVo teased this with Premier but didn’t deliver, and the Roku box is fundamentally designed around the concept of apps.
It’s a tricky issue, because the content rights holders want to paint their colors and logos all over the place, and then get out their rulers. Everyone wants to do their own thing, but ultimately that makes it harder for consumers to find and consume content. Ironically, this thwarts the content owners’ opportunities to distribute and monetize their content.
So the big question is whether Google can pull this off. They have the expertise in content aggregation and discovery, but Google’s user experience record is underwhelming. The solution needs to be simple, powerful, and engaging. And the price point needs to be right. So far, the $300 Logitech set top box and $1300 Sony television with baked-in Google TV have missed that mark. That said, I’ve already pre-ordered the Revue, so I’ll know soon enough.
Crestron’s Analog Sunset Ads Seem Misleading and Deceptive
I recognize that a large segment of high-end customers don’t want to be bothered with the licensing and legislative details of digital content protection on their devices and content, but that’s no reason for Crestron to be spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt by making false claims in ads. Crestron’s latest ads make the following statements:
Analog audio and video is being killed. By the end of the year component outputs will only support standard definition signals, and by 2013 component outputs and analog video will be gone forever.
These statements are false. Are they lies designed to mislead the otherwise ignorant public? The reality–the truth–is that the “analog sunset” to which these ads allude affects only Blu-ray players manufactured and some Blu-ray content distributed after December 2010. The AACS License Agreement that Blu-ray uses stipulates that after 31 December, 2010, manufacturers must stop designing Blu-ray players with analog component HD output capability, and content providers will have the option (but are not required) to disable analog HD output on new Blu-ray discs. Further, Blu-ray players with any analog output capabilities cannot be sold after December 2013. This is a digital rights management restriction imposed only on Blu-ray technology and nothing else. That’s all.
What doesn’t this affect?
Consumers’ current Blu-ray discs played on Blu-ray players manufactured by December 2010 (or, more realistically, as late as December 2011, depending on how quickly existing pipelines and stock are depleted)
HD and SD content from satellite and cable providers, with the singular possible exception of some new FCC-permitted constraints on first-run content like movies that are still in theaters
Content on or recorded to DVRs
Standard, progressive, and upscaling DVD players
HD and SD output from game consoles
Any content from Internet media streaming devices like RoKu, Media Center, Apple TV, and others
Existing HD and SD content on installed media distribution systems from Crestron or any of its competitors
Consumers’ existing high definition monitors and TVs that have any digital input options
Any other pre-existing component device in a consumer’s home
It’s baffling to me that Crestron would resort to such deceptive advertising practices. I understand that times are tough, but is misleading customers really the solution? These ads likely violate the Federal Trade Commission’s truth-in-advertising rules, satisfying key criteria in its policy statement against deceptive advertising. Primarily, consumers’ existing audio/video equipment is not going to suddenly stop working on 1 January, 2011, and the term Blu-ray doesn’t appear anywhere in these ads, even though that’s the only technology potentially affected by these ridiculous, fear-mongering claims.
I can hope that people wise up and see through Crestron’s false statements. But I can also help. I can share this very information with Crestron, on my blog, on Twitter, and with the FTC.
So that’s exactly what I’m doing.
Feedback for CBS.com
I love that you make content available online. I love that I can CHOOSE a sponsor to favor during breaks, but I can’t believe you’re applying the same, annoying practice of making the audio for advertisements notably louder than the content itself. For years the networks have been claiming technical limitations prevent proper limiting. That’s crap, and we all know it. There’s no reason whatsoever that you can’t level and normalize the audio streams so that the ads are at roughly the same level as the content. To claim otherwise is a blatant lie. To do otherwise simply demonstrates a disregard for your audience.
Marriott Understands Travelers’ Technology Needs
After finally giving up on the Sheraton Stamford, I strayed from my Starwood roots to stay at Marriott’s Courtyard Stamford Downtown earlier this week. I was surprised and delighted to find the room appointed with many perks, including an LG high definition LCD TV, and a desktop interface with power, communication, and media connections galore!
Check out the options here:
4 outlets, specifically oriented to accommodate multiple wall-bricks
1 telephone jack
1 Ethernet jack
1 3.5mm stereo audio jack
1 set of RCA audio/video jacks
1 S-video jack
1 HDMI connector
The A/V connectors all feed into the widescreen LCD TV, which auto-detects and selects the connected source. Of course, if you want to go wireless, you can do that, too. The hotel provides wired and wireless Internet access in the rooms at no cost. The only negative: the hotel’s television and video service offers just standard definition programming and content.
Response to Netflix
I am enormously disappointed to see Netflix abandon its HD DVD customers in favor of supporting just the Blu-ray format. Clearly Blu-ray looks like the inevitable winner in the wake of confusion left by this unfortunate format war. However, many consumers invested in HD DVD hardware over the past year or so [I’m included in that lot]. This decision by Netflix to stop stocking discs in the HD DVD format leaves these people with few options. Also, there are likely to be upcoming HD DVD titles that are unavailable in the Blu-ray format for a while. Netflix, you’re simply going to deny your customers of these titles in HD altogether? Even with Blockbuster switching [who really cares, right?] and retailers now clearly favoring Blu-ray, many consumers took comfort in the fact that some major studios still support the HD DVD format and that, all the while, Netflix has provided unwavering support for both formats. Until today. Until now.
I understand the need to gain economies. I understand the costs associated with distributed fulfillment. So here’s my plea, Netflix: Continue to offer titles in the HD DVD format as they’re released and as long as demand exists, but centralize the distribution. This allows for a smaller inventory while continuing to serve customers with the latest in high-def content. When customers select movies in the HD DVD format, they’ll do so knowing that the distribution process may take a little longer. That’s OK. I’m willing to wait a little longer for a title in a high definition format that I can use.
Eventually, one format will prevail, but that day hasn’t truly arrived yet. That day won’t arrive until all the major studios abandon support for and discontinue the release of titles in the other format. That day may be tomorrow, but from what I see, it’s at least five months—if not a full year or so—from now.
Long-time Netflix customer and HD DVD adopter (doh!)
DirecTV Tuner for Media Center Closer to Becoming Reality
Yesterday DirecTV started officially talking about its upcoming new PC tuner. At CES, product sheets outlined the features of a stand-alone, USB-connected, two-tuner device called the HDPC-20 (think external CableCard tuner). Specifically, this product provides significant new options for Media Center and DirecTV customers alike. It delivers DirecTV HD content to Windows Vista Media Center, opening new markets for Media Center and (finally) an alternative to DirecTV’s own less-than-spectacular DVRs. DirecTV isn’t offering up any information about dates and cost, but price-wise, I’d expect it to fall somewhere between their set-top HD tuners and HD DVRs. Whatever the schedule, it’s nice to see that this relationship between Microsoft and DirecTV, first announced by Gates at CES two years ago, is real.
Feedback for NBC
I’m frustrated and disappointed that NBC has decided to walk away from iTunes–the leading online store for purchasing TV episodes to watch on a mobile device. While I’m sure the executives have everyone convinced that this was the right move, I believe that it was short-sighted. Like many, many other consumers, I have no interest in purchasing television content that I cannot take with me on my iPod–the market’s leading mobile media device available today. I have no interest purchasing content that I cannot play on multiple devices around my home (with iTunes I can play the episodes on my iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, and on my laptop–all without an Internet connection). I have no interest in streaming TV shows on my computer while tied to my desk. And I have no interest in paying more for a season of episodes than I would pay for the entire box set of DVDs for that season. It’s just not going to happen. So it seems that NBC has lost my business for video downloads. I suspect I’m not alone.
NBC and the Business of TV Downloads
Apparently, NBC Universal thinks that consumers should pay more than the going rate of $1.99 per episode to download single episodes of television shows…as much as $4.99!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. HA ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Wow…they just really don’t get it, do they?
Feedback for Amazon and TiVo about Unbox on TiVo
I love Amazon Unbox video downloads for TiVo. When Amazon first unveiled Unbox, I was leery of its proprietary desktop playback solution. I don’t want to watch a movie at my computer. I want to sit back and use my remote—I don’t want to have to fumble clumsily with my mouse for some soft pause button hidden who-knows-where on the screen.
Unbox on TiVo solves this problem. I can go online anywhere to rent movies, Amazon pushes the movies to my TiVo automatically, and I can watch them on my TiVo, just like any other recorded video in my Now Playing list. Well, not just like. Almost just like. Unbox rentals expire 30 days after downloading or 24 after first playing them—whichever comes first. This is a pretty standard model, but it still sucks. It means that you likely can’t start to watch a movie one night and then finish it later. You also can’t shuffle Unbox content between your TiVo boxes, so you can’t start the movie in the family room, and then finish watching it in your bedroom using TiVo’s multi-room viewing feature. And it gets worse. Apparently, Amazon does not permit you to re-rent an Unbox video once it has “expired!”
I recently rented Stranger than Fiction from Amazon Unbox. If you’re unfamiliar with this movie, the movie follows a man whose life is being scripted by an author who kills off her hero in every book. The whole question of this movie is: will the hero die at the end or won’t he? I watched Stranger than Fiction at the end of the 24-hour period on the last of the 30-days’ viewing window. Five minutes before the movie’s end, my TiVo deleted it automatically. I had reached the end of my permitted viewing period. OK, anyone could argue that it’s my fault that I waited until (literally) the last minute, but c’mon…there should be some slack there while it’s actually playing. Adding insult, I can’t rent the video again through Unbox. Amazon’s site apparently doesn’t allow it.
Were I renting from Netflix or from some brick and mortar store, I’d have the ability to re-rent something that I didn’t get the chance to watch or to finish. If the movie rental business is ever going to work in the digital world, you’re going to have to be more flexible and at least provide the minimum of services available through traditional retailers. Give me the option to extend my rental period (even if at a cost). Give me the ability to re-rent content. And give me more flexibility on when and where I can watch the video. If digital rentals can’t ultimately provide these options, then they’re doomed to stand behind the superior offerings of companies like Netflix and Apple—companies that better understand and respect how people want to consume media.
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Lovable Losers: 2002 Sacramento Kings
Recently the 2002 Western Conference Finals was commemorated with an oral history by the people closest to the action.
A lot has happened in 12 years and there was so much I’d forgotten or just plain missed during that epic series. I wanted so badly for the Kings to dethrone the champs that I’d forgotten how lousy the officiating was for both teams throughout that series. I’d forgotten how poorly the Kings had played besides Bobby Jackson (why didn’t Rick Adelman give my boy more burn during crunch time?) and Mike Bibby (who was absolutely clutch). Let’s not waste anymore time, here is a long overdue, installment of “Lovable Losers”–an homage to the 2001-2002 Sacramento Kings.
Head Coach: Rick Adelman
Record 61-21
Starters: C Vlade Divac, PF Chris Webber, SF Peja Stojakavic, SG Doug Christie, PG Mike Bibby
Key Bench Players: C Scot Pollard, SF Hedo Turkoglu, PG Bobby Jackson
Were it not for Lebron James ascent into basketball royalty, the Eastern Conference would still be a doormat. Besides the Heat, there isn’t a team in the east what could beat any of the top Western Conference teams twice in a 7 game series. After Michael Jordan retired, the Eastern Conference became a doormat and once the Lakers grabbed the mantle away from the Bulls, the NBA Finals was about as entertaining as a community pick up game. The New Jersey Nets were atrocious and everyone knew that whoever won the West would take the title. The kings won 61 games that year, had home court advantage and looked primed and ready to finally give the Lakers a run for their money.
Well what happened? Why did they lose? The Kings had one of the most entertaining teams around. They played good enough defense. They were easily the best passing team in the NBA at that time with a legitimate point guard taking over the duties from Jason “White Chocolate” Williams. Chris Webber (a human highlight reel all by himself and Vlade Divac were two of the best passing big men around. Bobby Jackson was an electrifying spark plug that came off the bench (he won the sixth man award that year). Peja Stojakavic and Doug Christie were bombing 3 pointers from the wings and the corners. They also had one of the loudest arenas around (Think OKC’s Chesapeake Arena but with Cowbells). Watching the Kings play at home was about as good of a basketball watching experience as you could get back then. Just hearing the crowd go apeshit to Rock N “Roll part 2, after a back breaking 3 pointer, would get me and my brother hype. “Beat L.A.! Beat L.A.!” I’m serious. I thought 2001 was the year. They had a better team than the Lakers from top to bottom, but a lot of things conspired to happen to keep that from happening (we’ll leave the refs out of it this and only discuss the things that were in the Kings’ control).
Most players will tell you that Rick Adelman is a “player’s coach” and great to play under. He is a great offensive mind who has gotten multiple teams deep in the playoffs. However, no coach has cock-blocked Adelman’s path to the title more than the Zen Master, Phil Jackson. Jackson had Jordan when the Trailblazers ran into the ’92 Bulls, and ten years later he had Shaq AND Kobe Bryant. What the fuck you supposed to do with that? Outside of the Spurs and Kings, nobody could give the Lakers any run, and that was at Shaquille’s absolute peak as a player, and Kobe had barely scratched the surface of his potential. Phil was always a step ahead of Adelman, and Adelman’s failure to give Bobby Jackson any meaningful minutes (in game 7) when the rest of the players were nutting up, was a gigantic coaching error. Doug Christie was chucking up bricks, and Peja was shooting air-balls. I’m saying though.
Bench and role players
The Kings had no bench really. They only went 8 deep. Los Angeles had chess piece upon chess piece. Robert Horry, Rick Fox, Derek Fisher, Brian Shaw chipped in just enough to help out Shaq and Kobe. Scot Pollard was good for committing fouls on Shaq, and offensively he was good for rebounding, or passing.
I’m going to name off these names and you tell me if any of these guys scare you:
Mateen Cleaves
Lawrence Funderburke
Jabari Smith
(a young) Gerald Wallace
Brent Price
Chucky Brown
That is what Adelman had to work with. When it came down to crunch time, the starters were tired. Christie was asked to guard Kobe Bryant on defense and then was expected to create shots on offense. Hedo Turkoglu was still green. Vlade was banging with Shaq the entire game, and Chris Webber preferred to get his teammates involved rather than take over (Bill Walton would call out Webber time after time saying “Chris Webber needs to take over this game”). Webber made great passes, they were just to people who didn’t want the ball in crunch time.
The Lakers had been there. Let’s face it. Experience is a motherfucker. Think about the first time you fell in love. Shit was overwhelming wasn’t it? All these hormones and feelings that you had never felt before. Some people got it right the first time, and said and did the right things. Often times this is not the case. More often that not, the flubs and mistakes from that first serious relationship are the reasons why you make things work the next time around. The Kings had never made it this far, and the Lakers were two time defending champs. Being down 3-2 did not scare them in the least bit. I remember in one interview Kobe said that “was looking forward to the challenge.” That was when I knew that it wasn’t going to be easy (though I still thought the Kings would win). The Lakers never blinked while the Kings traded haymakers with them. Any other team would have folded like lawn chairs in an overtime game 7 on the road. Not the Lakers. They stayed focus, climbed on the back of the Big Diesel and pounded their way into the NBA Finals against the putrid New Jersey Nets.
So did the Kings choke? Was there a conspiracy in game 6 to give the game to Lakers? Was Rick Adelman just a basketball version of Buck Showalter (the classic good enough coach to get you there but not good enough to win)? Or were the Lakers just the better team? Maybe it was all of these things, maybe it was none, or maybe the results speak for themselves. The Lakers were good and the rest of the NBA was really bad. It’s hard to call a team that won 61 regular season games and the only team that gave Los Angeles any type of run, a loser.
Maybe they were losers,but they were a fun team to watch, and if they were losers, then what does that say about the rest of the NBA at that time? San Antonio was winning championships back then, but no one outside of south Texas would pay to watch them play. I lived in Texas back then (in Austin) and their style of play put me to sleep. I’d have rather watched those Kings play and lose, than tune in to the Malik Rose, Speedy Claxton, slow it down Spurs of 2002. It just wasn’t entertaining. Maybe we all lost when the Kings were knocked out of the playoffs back in 2002. You’ll never convince me otherwise.
Posted in NBA, NBA Playoffs
Tagged Bobby Mickey, Chris Webber, Jonathan Abrams, Kobe, Los Angeles Lakers, Mike Bibby, NBA, NBA Playoffs, Sacramento Kings, Shaq
Lovable Losers Part Two: ’99-00 Portland Trailblazers
[Originally posted on sportsblog.com 12/29/13]
This will probably be one of the more painful posts I will ever have to write. Not just because this was one of my favorite NBA rosters of all time, but also because it signaled the beginning of a Lakers dynasty that (arguably) should have never been. Had Portland won that series, Jalen Rose, Reggie Miller, and Rick Smits may have won themselves championship rings. Rip City might have had a different decade than the one that elicited this video essay from Bill Simmons. We would be talking about Kobe Bryant and the Lakers in a whole new light. Maybe even the 2002 Kings would have managed to not get jobbed out of a chance to compete for the NBA title. As it stands, the Lakers beat the Blazers in the ’99-00 playoffs and this play will remain in NBA folklore forever. Today we will examine one of my favorite all time teams not win a dog gone thing: the ’99-00 Trailblazers.
Head Coach: Mike Dunleavy
Team Record: 59-23
C Arvydas Sabonis, PF Rasheed Wallace, SF Scottie Pippen SG Steve Smith, PG Damon Stoudamire
Key Bench Players: PG Greg Anthony, SG Stacey Augmon PF Jermaine O’Neal, PF Brian Grant
SF Detlef Schrempf , SF Bonzi Wells
Besides Scottie Pippen, no one on the team had won an NBA championship. Scottie was supposed to be the player they needed to get them over the hump. I was never crazy about Scottie as a player (I hated the Bulls) but I had to admit the dude was good, and he definitely had championship experience playing with Jordan.
Rasheed was already one of my favorite players of all time. I had watched him as much as I could during his Carolina days and I loved his game. Rasheed could post up anyone on the block (something I always wished he’d done more of–he seemed to fall in love with shooting the 3 pointer). He could also get hot and make teams pay with his long range shooting (I remember him yelling at the Mavericks one time to “get someone on him” after he was taxing them with 3 pointers). Best of all, ‘Sheed refused to break under the iron fisted rule of David Stern. He managed to become one of the best quotable athletes of my generation (Warren Sapp is one of the other guys who comes to mind too)
Greg Anthony was one of may favorite guys too—I had first started watching hoops during his UNLV days and rooted for him when he played on the Knicks. I can’t say enough about Sabonis. I loved how he passed, I loved his shot, I loved that he was old and rickety, but still had enough old man game in him to make an impact. The whole time he played in the NBA, I wondered just how good he’d have been had he came into the league when he was young and healthy.
The rest of the guys I was whatever about. My little brother loved Bonzi for some strange reason (I think it was the head band). Mighty Mouse (Stoudamire) was an okay player, Augmon, Steve Smith, and Schrempf were good enough. I had never been too crazy about them as players, but I had owned their basketball cards at one time or another when I collected. Brian Grant seemed like a cool dude (this would be confirmed years later when I would run into him at PDX airport one summer).
There is something about game 7 of the Western Conference Finals that still haunts me to this day. I watched the game with my little brother and we laughed, oohed and awed in glee at the way the game was going. The Lakers were making mistakes and the Blazers were capitalizing on it. Los Angeles couldn’t figure out an answer to the Blazers’ offense the whole series.
Sabonis was setting up outside of the paint and daring Shaq to come and guard him. If Shaq ventured out to pick him up, Sabonis whipped a sick pass towards a cutter for an easy bucket (and for those of you who don’t know, Sabonis is one of the best passing big men the NBA has ever seen–check out this pass). If Shaq stayed in the paint, then Arvydas just hoisted up a 3 ball. Rasheed was popping it like he was known to do back then (he had 30 points in that game 7 while shooting only 2 3 pointers). There was even a stretch where Bonzi Wells seemed to be taking over the game (eliciting a “give it to Bonzi!” every time the Blazers brought the ball down).
To this day I can’t stand to watch replays of that game. My brother and I watched in uncomfortable silence as the Blazers all of a sudden stopped making baskets, and the Lakers started to digging into the (what appeared to be a comfortable) 15 point lead. By the time Kobe hit Shaq on the alley-oop, we were too stunned to speak. I spent the rest of the day trying to process the disappointment of not only the hated Lakers being back in the Finals, but my favorite cast of characters (since the ’93 Suns) losing their chance to face the Pacers. It reminded me of the feelings of bewilderment as I watched the Houston Oilers collapse against the Buffalo Bills in the 1992 playoffs.
So was it the Lakers defense or were the Blazers just standing around and settling on bad shots? I can’t tell you, and I don’t care to remember. But if you look at the box scores of that game you will see that Schrempf and Bonzi were the only two players to come off the bench and score (a combined total of 13 points). Robert Horry, Brian Shaw, and Derek Fisher combined for 25 points off the bench.
I can vividly recall the growing frustration with Portland’s inability to get buckets (there may have been a 8 minute scoreless stretch during the 4th quarter). They played great defense that game. If someone told me beforehand that Kobe would only get 25 points and Shaq would only get 18 points on 5 for 9 shooting, I would have penciled in a W for the Blazers. But it just wasn’t meant to be. No one could get any buckets in the paint (Sabonis and Pippen combined to score as many as Shaquille).
I’m sure some of the outcome has to do with the coaching match up of Phil Jackson vs. Mike Dunleavy. I’m sure by game 7 Phil had made the necessary adjustments to curb the Sabonis-O’Neal advantage that Portland had been exploiting over the course of the series. I’m also certain that Phil had made sure the Lakers stuck to their defensive assignments and forced Portland to be a jump shooting team.
Looking at things now as a 35 year old man, and not as an emotional 21 year Lakers hater, adds a little context to the situation. If I were to watch that tape now, it would probably be more of an examination of how brilliant of a coach Phil Jackson was, rather than revisiting one of the greatest collapses in sports history. The final score of the game was 89-84, Los Angeles, and the rest is history.
The Lakers became a dynasty and Portland well…. just watch the video essay by Simmons. I can’t necessarily say the Trailblazers were losers, they fought back from a 3-1 series deficit to get to that pivotal moment for both franchises. I can say that every Trailblazers fan I have come across since that night wears the same look of disappointment when that game 7 comes up in conversation. If you watched game 7 of the Western Conference Finals that year, its something that is impossible to forget.
Unfortunately Sabonis never got a ring, neither did Anthony,or anyone on that team other Rasheed (2004 Pistons). Only three players from that series are even active now, Derek Fisher, Kobe Bryant, and Jermaine O’Neal. Of the three, Derek Fisher is the only one not on the injured list (I’m not sure what this says about OKC that they are still relying on his production). O’Neal broke his hand playing for the Warriors, and Kobe of course broke his kneecap.
You know what? This post wasn’t quite as painful as I thought it would be. After careful examination, its much easier to give props to L.A. than to chastise Portland for choking. A few years ago, my buddy and I replayed this game on X-BOX, with me as Portland and he the Lakers. The game wasn’t even that close. He smashed me. Besides an occasional 3 pointer from Sabonis and Wallace, it was difficult getting buckets. I figured Greg Anthony and Schrempf would keep his team honest, but if the jumpers weren’t falling, I was in trouble. Every time I took the ball in the paint, my players would get blocked by Shaq or the ball would get stolen by one of his lengthy defenders. The frustration was building and soon I was cussing and yelling at the players on screen. His response was classic. ” Why you getting mad dude? There is a reason why they didn’t win anything. Pick a better team next time.”
Sometimes it’s not meant to be. Just ask Spurs fans.
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Tagged Bobby Mickey, Kobe, Los Angeles Lakers, Shaq
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Floating villages, - what do you mean? Yes, far away there is a real community of people who live on the water with floating homes, schools and businesses. Sailing along floating village in Halong Bay you'll have the opportunity to meet the locals, to visit a small school and see what it's like everyday living above the most beautiful emerald sea.
Floating villages are among the most remarkable sights of Halong Bay. Most of the floating villages are on the World Heritage List: Ba Hang, Cua Van, Vung Vieng and Cong Dam. Among these villages belong Vung Vieng and Cong Dam in Bai Tu Long Bay to the least touristy. It is home of traditional floating villages, which date from the early nineteenth century.
Each fishing village has about 30-50 families with a population of about 200-600 people. In total there are about 400 families in the floating villages with about 1,800 residents. Because most of the islets in Halong Bay are too poor to grow anything, everyday life in the floating village is very hard and bad.
Food and water must be imported from the mainland and the largest source of income comes from fishing and some tourism activities. Residents bind the floating homes together to protect themselves against hurricanes and storms.
Children in the villages usually learn to swim before they can even walk. They help their parents at an early age and support by doing anything in the floating village, which they call their "home".
The village is a real water world. These houses come with the rising and falling with the tides, sheltered amid majestic limestone islands. The floating village is home to many generations. Many of the residents will never leave the floating village, but the village, where they are born, is old and unique in the world. The residents are inseparable from their environment.
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Most of the junks which make a cruise through the Halong Bay, sail along these floating villages. They probably make a short stop at a fish farm and you can get an impression of everyday life in such a village. You might get a glimpse into the basic needs of the villagers. Some locals come to pick you up with their sampan to give you a glimpse into their village life."
Traditionally, each floating house in the floating village has a separate household. Beside that the house is also a raft or boat, which is always serves multiple functions. It's a home, a vehicle and a source of income.
The impressive towering islands of Ha Long Bay makes so special, but there is on the inside of the islands something special: beautiful caves.The impressive towering islands of Ha Long Bay makes so special, but there is on the inside of the islands something special: beautiful caves.
"It is quiet and isolated and hard to believe that people would spend their entire lives there, but clearly many do so they accept the random hoard of tourists kayaking around them every day. Kayaking in the hot sun wasn't fantastic and we weren't allowed to go too far .
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Video: How to Manage Integrated Airspaces: Real World Experiences Flying with NASA – a Drone Focus 2018 Presentation
by admin | Jun 1, 2018 | Events |
We are honored to have been invited to speak at the 2018 Drone Focus conference in Fargo, North Dakota in front of 500+ UAS industry professionals this past week.
Vigilant Aerospace CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson took to the main stage on May 30, 2018 – the first day of the conference – to share insights into the safe integration of commercial and civil drones into the national airspace.
For all of those who were not able to attend, we’ve created a short 5 minute 18 second video of the presentation:
“How to Manage Integrated Airspaces: Real World Experiences Flying with NASA”
From the video:
Drones should be able to separate themselves automatically for the other aircraft.
That was a concept that senior research engineer Ricardo Arteaga, at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, came up with in 2013. And, he built a system that, included: the algorithms, included some hardware integration, included the filters and then included the algorithms to do the actual tracking of aircraft, and then ultimately, to create avoidance maneuvers when necessary for those aircraft.
He started flying in 2013 on something called the NASA Ikhana, which is a civilian Predator B and began testing that [system].
In 2016, my company Vigilant Aerospace licensed the patent and the software and we began working with that system in order to enable it to work in different airspaces and be able to work with different aircraft. So, we went out and we did some research at NASA Armstrong. We actually flew the system out there and began taking it out into the field.
So, the system that we began commercializing is FlightHorizon. [It] includes the capability of detecting, tracking, and avoiding other aircraft. It includes the ability to pull in data from a variety of sensors and from online sources like UTM. [We] built that into an airspace model and are now able to detect when there might be a collision far enough ahead of time that you can send that information either to a pilot or a user interface or directly to an autopilot, which is really where we expect the world to ultimately go with fully autonomous flight.
We saw this system tested in Hurricane Harvey with response and relief flights with the Humanitarian-Drones.org team. We brought a system and we sponsored that team with our system. [It] allowed them to have immediate airspace deconfliction. They were able to go out and work with the FAA to get five emergency COAs from the FAA and then fly for FEMA using our system to watch the other aircraft. Keep them safe. Keep their drones away from those aircraft. And ultimately, they were able to do, in a matter of two hours, entire neighborhood damage assessments that normally would take a week. So, that was a really exciting outcome.
The other thing that we’ve had that has happened is that we have been called upon by NASA to work with a couple of really interesting programs. We’ve learned a tremendous amount. Upgraded and advanced our system a lot doing this.
We were called upon to work with the NASA commercial supersonic technology development program and they’re using our system to track their aircraft, to deconflict and do a lot of flight tests off the coast of Florida and now a variety of other places for developing new commercial supersonic aircraft in the United States, which was really exciting.
The other thing, simultaneously, is we were asked to work on the ND-MAX program, which is an environmentally sensitive program that is testing emissions and looking at different fuels and emissions.
That in ND-MAX program flew out of Ramstein Airbase in Germany in addition to flying in the U.S. and they were able to use our system for detailed flight logging and also for actual aircraft formation keeping during the flights.
So, as part of that process, we launched the new FlightHorizon COMMANDER system. This is actually intended for a command band or command center and it’s intended to be a system that is Federated – you can have multiple units. They all talk to each other forming one big airspace model.
It allows you to drop in new sensors as they become available and can expand your system as your operations become larger and have new needs.
We are really excited about that and that’s really based on what we’ve learned from NASA. So, most recently, we have been involved with the IPP program.
We were selected to work with Alaska and work with the team right here [North Dakota]. We are very excited about that.
We know that there has been some talk about that in-regards-to the operations that will be going on there. And so, we’re going to be learning more about this and, as we go forward, we’re just really excited that that initial idea of allowing drones to automatically avoid another aircraft has now generated an entire family of safety applications that we are taking to market as fast as we can. So, thank you very much.
MC: You’re early stage company. There’s over 500 of us here today. What can we do to support you and your team to help you reach your full potential?
Kraettli: Absolutely, so we are eager to get test customers using this system [FlightHorizon]. We’re eager to integrate with companies that have new innovative sensors and other ways to track. We track cooperative aircraft really well. We’re looking for people with great non-cooperative to different types of passive sensors and active sensors that can find these aircraft that aren’t on the transponder system. So, we’re looking for partners and we’re looking for places that we can test fly with you.
MC: Where can folks find you if they want to have that conversation?
Kraettli: Absolutely, so VigilantAerospace.com or @VigilantAero on Twitter. And, I will be around and would be happy to talk with you.
MC: Congratulations. Keep going alright?
Kraettli: Thank you.
MC: Thank you for being here.
For more information on FlightHorizon detect-and-avoid and airspace management, visit our Products and Services Overview page.
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SEALs face review following death of Islamic State militant
Posted 6:55 PM, November 20, 2019, by Associated Press
SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 02:R, Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher celebrates after being acquitted of premeditated murder at Naval Base San Diego July 2, 2019 in San Diego, California. Gallagher was found not guilty in the killing of a wounded Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. He was cleared of all charges but one of posing for photos with the dead body of the captive. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)
SAN DIEGO — Navy officials on Wednesday notified a SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State militant and three of his superior officers during a 2017 deployment to Iraq that all four will face a review to determine if they should remain on the elite force.
Attorneys for Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher said the Navy is trying to remove his Trident pin, designating him as a SEAL, in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s decision last week to restore his rank.
Gallagher was acquitted last summer of a murder charge in the stabbing death of the militant captive, but a military jury convicted him of posing with the corpse while in Iraq in 2017. He also was acquitted of attempted murder for allegedly shooting at civilians.
His lawyers said Wednesday they have filed a complaint with the inspector general’s accusing Rear Adm. Collin Green of insubordination for defying Trump’s actions and asking for an investigation into the Navy’s handling of the Gallagher’s case. Green is the Naval Special Warfare commander.
It was the latest twist in what has been a tumultuous case that has shaken the secretive SEAL community and revealed rifts within its ranks after SEALs testified against one of their own. The case was dogged from the start with the Navy’s lead prosecutor being removed in the middle of the court-martial after it was discovered the prosecution was tracking the defense team’s emails.
Trump restored Gallagher’s rank on Friday after he was demoted from chief following his conviction. “What the bureaucracy is doing to him now is pure and simple retaliation,” said Marc Mukasey, one of Gallagher’s lawyers.
Two U.S. officials familiar with the case but not authorized to speak publicly disputed that and said discussions about convening a review board began shortly after Gallagher’s conviction in July.
Eugene Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School, said he’s not surprised the Navy would call for a review. “I think this would have happened anyway to a SEAL with a court-martial conviction,” he said.
In a letter from Green, obtained by The Associated Press, Gallagher was notified that a peer-review board has been instructed to determine whether he should remain a SEAL.
The five-person board will convene Dec. 2 behind closed doors. It will include one SEAL officer and four senior enlisted SEALs, according to the two U.S. officials. Gallagher can appear once before the board on Dec. 4 but without his lawyers. He can dispute the evidence given to the board that will include his conviction and call witnesses. He also can appeal the final decision that will be made by the Naval Personnel Board, which will take into account Green’s input and the board’s recommendations.
Green also notified three SEAL officers who oversaw Gallagher during the deployment — Lt. Cmdr. Robert Breisch, Lt. Jacob Portier and Lt. Thomas MacNeil, according to the officials.
Removing their Trident pins means they will no longer be SEALs but could remain in the Navy, though Portier and Gallagher were already planning on leaving the service. Still it would be considered a mark on their career that they were cast out of the prestigious force.
The Navy has revoked 154 Trident pins since 2011.
The other three officers will go before three-person boards. Attorneys for Breisch and MacNeil could not be immediately reached for comment.
According to Portier’s letter, his review board has been instructed to specifically look at Portier’s 2017 deployment in Iraq and his actions through July 2019 to see if he “displayed a gross lack of professional or personal judgment, lack of moral or ethical behavior and/or conduct inconsistent with the SEAL ethos.”
Portier was Gallagher’s platoon commander and was charged with failing to report the alleged murder. He denied the charges and they were dropped after the jury acquitted Gallagher of murder.
His attorney, Jeremiah Sullivan said Trump recognizes “the honorable sacrifices that my client has made in his combat deployments,” and that Green is challenging the “integrity of the president.”
Naval Special Warfare spokeswoman, Capt. Tamara Lawrence, said in a statement that Green “remains focused on delivering a capable, ready, and lethal maritime special operations force in support of national security objectives, which includes assessing the suitability of any member of his force via administrative processes.”
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Indian Ocean humpback dolphin
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In almost all countries’ coasts where they occur, Indian Ocean humpback dolphins, are either hunted or accidentally caught and kept and used for food.
Unfortunately, living so close to lots of people has led to the species becoming endangered and increasingly vulnerable.
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What do Indian Ocean humpback dolphins look like?
Pretty similar to other species of ‘humpback’ dolphins, with a less distinctive ‘hump’ than their Atlantic cousins, yet a more obvious one than their Indo-Pacific and Australian cousins. All humpback dolphins have a small triangular fin sitting atop the ‘hump’ of varying degrees. Mostly grey in colour these dolphins pay homage to their Latin name ‘plumbea’ meaning ‘lead.’
What’s life like for an Indian Ocean humpback dolphin?
Tough. Although once thought to be widespread throughout their range and present in large groupings, their numbers have declined significantly over the years and only small, localised populations are thought to remain. This decline is a serious concern. Populations simply can’t withstand any further pressure.
What do Indian Ocean humpback dolphins eat?
As with other humpback dolphins, Indian Ocean humpback dolphins prefer nearshore, inter-tidal and estuarine waters. They are opportunistic feeders – meaning they’re not fussy as to what’s for dinner. Mackerel, mullet and sardines are known favourites.
Where do Indian Ocean humpback dolphins live?
As noted, they prefer the shallow, nearshore waters of countries in the Indian Ocean, ideally with a freshwater input. They can be found not far from shore in the coastal waters of South Africa in the south, northwards around the coast of East Africa, throughout the Middle East, and down the west coast of India.
Indian Ocean humpback dolphins have only been recognised as a species in their own right since 2014, yet they are classified as Endangered and their numbers continue to fall.
The threat from shark nets
Between 1980 and 2009, 203 humpback dolphins died in the shark nets off KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
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How many orcas are there in the world?
There are tens of thousands of individuals spread throughout the world’s oceans and, taken as a whole, they appear to be doing well. But there is much discussion going on at the moment about whether there are in fact several species or sub-species or orcas.
Some orca populations show differences in their genetic make-up and behaviour that make them quite distinct from each other. Some of these distinct populations are faring better than others, with a few populations having experienced a decline of 30% or more, which would lead to them being treated as endangered. But until agreement has been reached on these possible different orca species, their official IUCN status is ‘Data Deficient’.
Do all orcas speak the same language?
Talking in clicks and squeaks, each pod has its own distinctive dialect – similar to regional accents. But orcas from different areas of the world can have languages as different as French is from Cantonese.
Are these whales killers?
Orcas are also known as killer whales, but this name is misleading. These marine mammals are not mindless killers, but highly intelligent predators hunting in co-ordinated raids. They care for old and sick individuals in their pod. And they are actually the largest member of the dolphin family.
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Indian Ocean humpback dolphins need your help
Stop hunting – whether used opportunistically as a result of bycatch, or the victims of directed hunts, the Indian Ocean humpback dolphin is under serious threat.
Entanglement in fishing gear – their preference for nearshore waters brings them into close contact with a variety of fishing gears.
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Incremental benefits from increases in sanitation service level
April 15, 2018 April 16, 2018 IanRoss
The Indus valley civilisation (c.2,000 BCE) coupled on-plot water supply from wells with the first known sewers. However, it was the Minoans (also c.2,000 BCE) who were the first to have piped water systems – I marvelled at the clay pipes and stone sewers at Knossos on Crete. The Minoans understood that piped water on demand provided a better service than carrying it in jars. Their piped systems are likely to have cost more than alternatives, especially in a slave-owning society where labour was “cheap”/free. But the richer households of Knossos were willing to pay for that higher level of service.
Turning to modern day sanitation, a high level of service such as a sewer connection is going to cost more than an unimproved pit latrine, but also provide more benefits. By extension, each movement up the rungs of the sanitation ladder has incremental costs and incremental benefits. Note that ‘incremental’ is different from ‘marginal’ – in welfare economics marginal benefit is strictly speaking the additional satisfaction or “utility” we receive from an additional unit of a good or service (e.g. from an additional litre of water). Incremental benefit, however, can refer to any change in the output of interest.
It was thinking about this, and playing with the cost data in Hutton & Varughese’s 2016 report on SDG costs, which led me to produce the below chart. It aims to visualise which incremental benefits are associated with the incremental cost of an increase in sanitation service level. For example, the movement from open defecation to a private but unimproved pit latrine is associated with time savings and ideally some privacy and security too (depending on the superstructure). This movement has a fairly small annualised life-cycle cost per household, which is even lower if the latrine is shared with other households. Achieving such a service level increase might be the objective of many CLTS programmes.
The bars are ‘annualised life-cycle costs per household’ of that option (comprising hardware/software CapEx, OpEx and CapManEx). The coloured text qualitatively describes possible incremental benefits of moving up to that rung on the ladder, from the previous.
Figure 1: Incremental benefits of moving up the sanitation ladder, alongside costs of different levels of sanitation service (average for Sub-Saharan Africa)
A similar logic applies to the other increases in service level. Moving from an unimproved pit to an improved-but-shared system (“limited” in SDG terms) can bring health benefits in the right circumstances, as well as some ‘wellbeing benefits beyond health’ such as privacy, dignity, security and comfort. However, many factors will determine whether these benefits are realised, including consistency of use, cleanliness of the facility, the sanitation practices of the rest of the community, and many more. For the move to ‘basic’ services, there is evidence for higher benefits over ‘limited’ services but it is mixed – no space to go into that here. Finally, the move to safely managed services (whether non-networked with FSM or networked sewerage) is where significant health benefits community-wide should be seen, through the removal of negative externalities once a high enough proportion of people are at that service level.
The cost data comes from Hutton & Varughese 2016 – the World Bank has helpfully published the dataset here. I used their raw data for urban areas for four technology options, reported in annualised per capita life-cycle costs: (i) cost of any pit latrine, (ii) cost of a septic tank system, (iii) incremental cost of septic tank system with FSM, and (iv) incremental cost of sewerage with treatment. Since the latter two are incremental costs, I added them to the cost of a septic system to get the total cost. I calculated the average for Sub-Saharan African countries, and then used assumptions as follows: I assumed a household size of 5 to get to per household costs, and an assumption of 3 households sharing to get to the shared estimates. Finally, an unimproved pit was assumed to cost 25% of an improved pit.
The figure above represents a simplification of reality, since all benefits rely on contextual factors – note the ‘likelihood’ framing in the figure. Around 1,000 people building and using improved pit latrines is likely to have a bigger health effect in a village of 1,200 people than in a city of 1 million, depending on the baseline situation. Similarly, a new borehole is likely to have more benefits in a village where everybody drinks from the river, than in a village where most people already have piped water.
Furthermore, there are other economic benefits from different levels of service, such as avoided healthcare costs and time wasted in sickness or caregiving, or the potential value of resource reuse. Nonetheless, I think the figure represents a useful way to think about what we get for our money when we invest in higher levels of service.
Has someone else visualised incremental costs/benefits before, like this or in a different way (I couldn’t find anything)?
What would you improve about the figure? Do comment below.
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Buildings in any geographic location are subject to a wide variety of natural phenomena such as windstorms, floods, earthquakes, and other hazards. While the occurrence of these incidents cannot be precisely predicted, their impacts are well understood and can be managed effectively through a comprehensive program of hazard mitigation planning.
Ongoing changes in climate patterns around the world may alter the behavior of hydrometeorological phenomena within our lifetimes. The frequency and severity of floods, storms, droughts, and other weather-related disasters is expected to increase, as is the risk from associated changes in the manifestation of other hazards such as wildland fires.
Only after the overall risk is fully understood should mitigation measures be identified, prioritized, and implemented. Basic principles underlying this process include:
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Hazard mitigation is at the core of disaster resistance and supports achieving resilience. Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 8 (PPD-8 2011) defines resilience as "the ability to adapt to changing conditions and withstand and rapidly recover from disruption due to emergencies. PPD-21 (2013) expanded the definition to include "the ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and to withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions. (NIST Special Publication 1190: Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems, Volume 1, p. 2) Mitigation is an essential part of ensuring continuity of businesses, schools, government facilities, utilities, and communities following hazard events.
Unsustainable development also is one of the major factors in the rising costs of natural disasters. Many mitigation design strategies and technologies serve double duty, by not only preventing or reducing disaster losses but serving the broader goal of long-term community sustainability. For example, land use regulations prohibiting development in flood-prone areas may also help preserve the natural and beneficial functions of floodplains.
Mitigation serves to attenuate the cascading effects where hazard events degrade an asset, or community of assets, followed by such degradations propagating throughout the asset, or community of assets. During this propagation of degradations, additional hazards might be created, thus further increasing the rate and magnitude of functional degradations of assets.
Unanticipated interactions from concurrent or sequential multi-hazard events (dependent or independent; natural, man-made or accidental) may result in a compounded impact with cascading effects and previously unconsidered consequences. Such consequences may be further amplified by outside factors such as poor maintenance of assets, or failure to increase infrastructure capacity with rising demand. Failure to follow an interdependent multi-hazard resilience strategy considering cascading effects may result in unanticipated and costly consequences from an asset-based perspective, and from corresponding effects projected into the community.
The impacts of natural hazards and the costs of the disasters they cause will be reduced whether mitigation measures are implemented during new construction (preventively) or as retrofits (correctively). Proactively integrating mitigation measures into new construction is typically more economically feasible than retrofitting existing structures.
Risk reduction techniques must address as many applicable hazards as possible. This approach, known as all-hazard mitigation, is the most Cost-Effective approach, maximizes the protective effect of complementary mitigation measures and optimizes all-hazard design techniques with other building technologies.
High-performance buildings should be designed to adopt strategies that exceed model building code requirements for disaster resistance.
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A variety of techniques are available to mitigate the effects of natural hazards on the built environment. Depending on the hazards identified, the location and construction type of a proposed building or facility, and the specific performance requirements for the building, the structure can be designed to resist hazard effects such as induced loads. Later in the building's life cycle, additional opportunities to further reduce the risk from natural hazards may exist when renovation projects and repairs of the existing structure are undertaken. When incorporating disaster reduction measures into building design, some or all of the issues outlined below should be considered in order to protect lives, properties, and operations from damages caused by natural hazards.
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Building design will often be influenced by the level of seismic resistance desired. This level can range from prevention of nonstructural damage in occasional moderate ground shaking to prevention of structural damage and minimization of nonstructural damage in occasional moderate ground shaking, and even avoidance of collapse or serious damage in rare major ground shaking. Seismic resistance for stronger events also can support higher numbers of occupiable buildings post disaster. These performance objectives can be accomplished through a variety of structural engineering measures or structural components like shear walls, braced frames, moment resisting frames, and diaphragms, base isolation, energy dissipating devices such as visco-elastic dampers, elastomeric dampers, and hysteretic-loop dampers, and bracing of nonstructural components. Simpler techniques also are available including avoiding soft stories and bolting the sill plate of houses to the foundation. Note that the primary focus of earthquake design is initial life safety and getting people out of the building safely, not necessarily the ability of a building to withstand the effects of an earthquake, or to ensure occupancy or functionality following an event. Seismic design of DoD projects requires mandatory compliance with UFC 3-310-04 and IBC chapter 16, the International Existing Buidling Code (IEBC) and ASCE 7 for other federal agencies and private sector buildings.
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The key strategy for protecting a building from damage caused by tornados under F2, hurricanes, and gust fronts is to maintain the integrity of the building envelope, including roofs and windows, and to design the structure to withstand the expected lateral and uplift forces. For example, roof trusses and gables must be braced; hurricane straps must be used to strengthen the connection between the roof and walls and walls and foundation; and doors and windows should be protected by covering and/or bracing. The load path and connectors are just as important as bracing. When planning renovation projects, designers should consider opportunities to upgrade the roof structure and covering, and enhance the protection of openings by considering the addition of impact-resistant windows, doors, louvers, etc. In addition to protection of the structure, life safety is a key goal of design or upgrades to protect from wind damage. The ability to "shelter-in-place" within an otherwise deficient structure can meet this goal. These areas can be constructed to protect a large number of people from a natural hazard incident for occupant refuge during catastrophic windstorms. The Additional Resources section of this page includes several FEMA publications for designing community shelters. The key strategy is mandatory compliance with UFC 3-301-01 and IBC chapter 16 for DOD and ASCE 7 for other federal agencies and private sector buildings.
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Flood mitigation is best achieved by hazard avoidance—that is, risk-informed site selection away from coastal, estuarine, and riverine floodplains. Still flooding and velocity flooding present hazards.
Riverine hazards are associated with flooding from stream networks.
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Still-water events are characterized by rising water with no horizontal movement.
Velocity events are characterized by fast moving waters at any depth.
When buildings must be sited in flood-prone locations, they should be elevated above expected flood levels for at least the design return period to reduce the chances of flooding and to limit the potential damage to the building and its contents when it is flooded. Other flood mitigation techniques include; dry flood-proofing, or making the building watertight to prevent water entry; wet flood-proofing, or making uninhabited or non-critical parts of the building resistant to water damage; relocation of the building; and the incorporation of floodwalls into site design to keep water away from the building. Note that levees require a significant amount of care and are discouraged as a mitigation measure. American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE7-16 has a new chapter on tsunami loads and effects.
Rainfall, Wind-Driven Rain, and Ice Dams
One of the primary performance requirements for any residential building and most commercial buildings is that it should keep the interior space dry. All roofs and walls must therefore shed rainwater, and resist water penetration. For example, roof drainage design must minimize the possibility of ponding water, and existing buildings with flat roofs must be inspected to determine compliance with this requirement. Pitched roofs in cold climates need to be designed to prevent ice dams. Recommendations for addressing rainfall and wind-driven rain can be found in the International Building Code (IBC) series.
Differential Settlement (Subsidence)
Ground subsidence can result from mining, sinkholes, underground fluid withdrawal, hydrocompaction, and organic soil drainage and oxidation. Subsidence mitigation can best be achieved through careful site selection, including geotechnical study of the site. In subsidence-prone areas, foundations must be appropriately constructed, and utility lines and connections must be stress-resistant. When retrofitting structures to be more subsidence-resistant, shear walls, geo-fabrics, and earth reinforcement techniques such as dynamic compaction can be used to increase resistance to subsidence damage and to stabilize collapsible soils.
Gravity-driven movement of earth material can result from water saturation, slope modifications, rainfall occurring after wildfire, and earthquakes. Techniques for reducing landslide and mudslide risks to structures include selecting non-hillside or stable slope sites; constructing channels, drainage systems, retention structures, and deflection walls; planting groundcover; and soil reinforcement using geo-synthetic materials, and avoiding cut and fill building sites. Design for the direct effects of a landslide is not cost-effective.
Mudslide - El Paso, Texas
Wildfire - Rancho Bernardo, California
Wild Land Fire / Urban Interface
As residential developments expand into wild land areas, people and property are increasingly at risk from wild land fire. Fire is a natural process in any wild land area and serves an important ecological and regenerative purpose; however, if ground cover is burned away, erosion, landslide, mudflow, and flood hazards can be exacerbated. A cleared safety zone should be maintained between structures and combustible vegetation, and fire-resistant ground cover, shrubs, and trees should be used for landscaping (for example, hardwood trees are less flammable than pines, evergreens, eucalyptus or firs). Only fire-resistant or non-combustible materials should be used on roofs and exterior surfaces. Roofs and gutters should be regularly cleaned and chimneys should be equipped with spark arrestors. Vents, louvers, and other openings should be covered with wire mesh to prevent embers and flaming debris from entering. Overhangs, porches, and balconies can trap heat and burning embers and should also be avoided or minimized and protected with wire mesh. Windows allow radiated heat to pass through and ignite combustible materials inside, but dual- or triple-pane thermal glass, fire-resistant shutters or drapes, and noncombustible awnings can help reduce this risk.
A tsunami is a series of ocean waves generated by sudden displacements in the sea floor, landslides, or volcanic activity. In the deep ocean, the tsunami wave may only be a few inches high. The tsunami wave may come gently ashore or may increase in height to become a fast moving wall of turbulent water several meters high. Although a tsunami cannot be prevented, the impact of a tsunami can be mitigated through urban/land planning, siting away from shorelines, community preparedness, timely warnings, and effective response. For resistance in buildings ASCE7-16 will include a new chapter on tsunami loads and effects.
Areas of Refuge
An area of refuge is a location designed to protect facility occupants during an emergency, when evacuation may not be safe or possible due to area contamination, obstruction, or other hazard natural or manmade. Occupants can wait there until given further instructions or rescued by first responders. Areas of refuge can be safe havens, shelters, secure rooms, or protected spaces, each intended for protection from specified hazards and for different durations of occupancy. Safe Havens and shelters generally provide protection for a relatively short duration, of hours, not days or weeks. A secure room is generally constructed to meet specified hardening criteria based on the design hazard. Protected areas are readily available locations that afford safety to people by their shielding characteristics, such as a firewall. Areas of refuge may be freestanding or integrated in a building.
Planning, rehearsal, and preparatory procedures (routine maintenance/testing of equipment, checking shelf life of stored provisions and materials) are paramount to a successful area of refuge. Well-written standing operating procedures (SOP) should outline who makes decisions, when and how to evacuate, responsibilities and operating procedures, and when and how to leave the area of refuge. Depending on the function, planning may include, but is not limited to, personnel accountability protocol, communications for notification and instructions (transmitters/receivers, megaphones, whistles), comfort provisions such as seating and bedding, life-support systems such as fire apparatus, dedicated ventilation/filtration, plumbing, emergency power/fuel supply, lighting (including emergency lighting), decontamination, and maintenance. In addition to storage provisions of food, water, and first-aid, other items/supplies may include: current emergency contact numbers, dust masks, flashlights, vests or other identification/apparel, wind-up or battery-operated radios, toiletries, stationary for emergency administration (assignments, name/billet labels, instructions, etc.), an audible sounding device that continuously charges or operates without a power source (e.g., canned air horn) to signal rescue workers if refuge egress is blocked, tools and maintenance manuals.
Key design considerations include reaction time (travel distance to refuge and activation time for emergency support systems), duration of occupancy, privacy, security (secure storage, doors, locks, windows/view ports), isolation areas for ill or contaminated occupants/equipment, and hardening criteria to mitigate specified threats. The refuge size is based on the maximum intended occupancy. The location should be readily accessible to all people who are to be protected. Travel time is especially important when refuge users have disabilities that impair their mobility and may need assistance from others to reach the refuge. Alternate accessible routes should be considered for use in the event that the primary route is blocked or inoperable. If the refuge is integrated into a building, a centrally located, interior room/space is preferable. If the refuge has windows, they should be capable of being sealed. Stand-alone refuges should be sited away from potential hazards, such as debris, excessive glazing, flooding or storm surge, power lines, or nearby structures that may be toppled or become airborne. In some situations, multiple small shelters may best suit the situation rather than one large shelter. The location should not be selected based on height above ground level if it would increase the travel time to the refuge. Signage and warning signals are critical for users to know when and where to seek refuge. Critical support systems located outside of the area of refuge area should be afforded the same protection criteria as the refuge.
During an emergency, preparatory actions may be required by designated team members outside the area of refuge, such as the turning off of fans, air-conditioning, or forced heat systems, the closing of windows or blinds, and the shutting of doors (securing doors in a lock-down situation). To close all doors quickly in a large building, there must be a notification system such as a public address system. Also, occupant furniture may have to be relocated to allow the maximum number of occupants in the room or building.
Emergency backup generator destroyed by storm surge during Hurricane Katrina
Photo courtesy of Applied Research Associates, Inc.
In providing the desired level of natural hazard protection and resilience within the constructed environment, stand-alone and integrated critical infrastructure systems serve a vital role. Such systems require appropriate levels of redundancy, as well as positioning, hardening, and protection of critical elements for each system to enhance their survivability, while facilitating access for post-event functionality, maintenance and repair. Critical elements include resources needed to achieve the desired level of survivability and post-event performance (power, water, communications, personnel, transportation, supplies/materials, etc.). These should be identified and prioritized, with evaluation of consequence of loss for each critical resource during a multi-hazard event. In evaluating required critical infrastructure needs, a balance must be struck between on-site (stand-alone) resilience, and off-site (community-based) resilience needed to support survivability and post-event response and recovery for each building.
Within the building, design and positioning of critical infrastructure and backup systems should consider protection from identified multi-hazard events, with a goal of maintaining post-event operability or rapid restoration based on facility function and requirements. Stand-alone backup systems and redundant utility feeds within the facility, such as power, water, communications, gas, etc., should be provided as needed to meet the intent for achieving facility resilience. Design measures should also include appropriate anchorage and attachment of critical infrastructure systems for multi-hazard events that may impact the facility.
External to the building, all exterior backup systems should be protected from direct exposure to a multi-hazard event. Utility backup access points at the building envelope, avenues of approach to these access points, and corresponding equipment setup locations for rapid post event restoration of critical utilities should be provided. Such access points will also provide for advance-positioning of additional emergency backup equipment for added capacity, should outages exceed the limits of current in-place backup systems. These backup provisions should be pre-coordinated with outside response agencies as appropriate, with specific access points and types of services documented.
Beyond the building site, redundant utility feeds available to serve the building site (power, water, communications, gas, etc.) should be utilized as available. The multi-hazard resilience of the surrounding community should be evaluated, particularly with regard to community-based critical infrastructure such as public and private utilities and transportation. Even if stand-alone backup systems are present at the building level, prolonged disruptions within the surrounding communities may impact building resilience from a response and recovery perspective.
Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety. The Interagency Committee on Dam Safety (ICODS) has prepared and approved these federal guidelines for federal agency dam owners and regulators.
Regulations, codes, standards, and best practices guide the design of buildings to resist natural hazards. For new buildings, code requirements serve to define the minimum mitigation requirements for life safety and serviceability, but compliance with regulations in building design is not always sufficient to guarantee that a facility will perform adequately when impacted by the forces for which it was designed. Indeed, individual evaluation of the costs and benefits of specific hazard mitigation alternatives can lead to effective strategies that will exceed the minimum requirements. Additionally, special mitigation requirements may be imposed on projects in response to locale-specific hazards. When a change in use or occupancy occurs, the designer must determine whether this change triggers other mitigation requirements and must understand how to evaluate alternatives for meeting those requirements.
Finally, designers should augment the codes and standards to consider the importance of nonstructural elements, assets, and mission of the building, i.e., windows, hoods, parapets and balcony railings, and electrical and mechanical systems, because they may account for more than 70% of the value of a building.
ACI 318: Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete and Commentary
ICC IBC International Building Code
ASCE/SEI 7 Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, includes model requirements for dead, live, soil, flood, wind, snow, rain, ice, and earthquake loads, and their combinations, that are suitable for inclusion in building codes
NFPA 1: Fire Code, National Fire Protection Association
Many states and municipalities have also adopted supplemental codes to meet local requirements for all-hazard protection. Examples of such codes include:
California Building Code, Title 24
Miami-Dade County Code
Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC)
General All-Hazards
Public Law 106–390, Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000
Executive Order 13717, "Establishing a Federal Earthquake Risk Management Standard" (February 5, 2016)
Public Law 95–124, Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act (1977) 42 U.S. Code Chapter 86, Earthquake Hazards Reduction
Public Law 101–614: National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act (1990)
Public Law 103–374: Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act Of 1977, Authorization and Amendment (1994)
Public Law 106–503: Earthquake Hazards Reduction Authorization Act (2000)
UFC 3-301-01 Structural Engineering
UFC 3-310-04 Seismic Design for Buildings
Hurricane, Typhoon, and Tornado
FEMA Hurricane Sandy Recovery Office
Public Law 108–146: Tornado Shelters Act (2003)
Executive Order 11988, "Floodplain Management"
Public Law 93–234: National Flood Insurance Act (1968)
Public Law 109–424: Tsunami Warning and Education Act (2006)
Rainfall and Wind-Driven Rain
NISTIR 4821 Envelope Design Guidelines for Federal Office Buildings: Thermal Integrity and Airtightness
UFC 3-440-05N Tropical Engineering
DOE-STD-1020 Natural Phenomena Hazards Analysis and Design Criteria for Department of Energy Facilities
DOE-STD-1021 Natural Phenomena Hazards Performance Categorization Guidelines for Structures, Systems, and Components
DOE-STD-1022 Natural Phenomena Hazards Characterization Criteria
DOE-STD-1023 Natural Phenomena Hazards Assessment Criteria
American Planning Association—Growing Smart
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Applied Technology Council (ATC) — A nonprofit organization dedicated to developing and promoting state-of-the-art, user-friendly engineering resources and applications for use in mitigating the effects of natural and other hazards on the built environment
Council for Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (CFIRE) — A program of the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS)
Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Mitigation Information
Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS)
Multihazard Mitigation Council (MMC) — A program of the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS)
National Hazard Mitigation Association (NHMA)
University of Colorado, Boulder — Natural Hazards Center
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) — For Flood and Seismic Mapping
U.S. Resiliency Council (USRC)
Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology, Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA)
National Emergency Management Association (NEMA)
Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) — Established by the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) to develop and promote building earthquake risk mitigation regulatory provisions for the nation
Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE)
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
FEMA Hazus-MH (Hazards US-Multi Hazard earthquake model)
Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center(PEER)
National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA)
PGC International
Texas Tech University — National Wind Institute (NWI)
Wind Load Test Facility (WLTF) at Clemson University
Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM)
FEMA National Flood Insurance Program)
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
California Fire Safe Council (CFSC)
Department of Homeland Security — Wildfires
NFPA Firewise Communities Program
National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC)
Utah Fire Information
Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States. Mileti, Dennis S. Washington, DC: John Henry Press, 1999.
Building Science Publications
Mitigation Best Practices Portfolio
Mitigation Assessment Team (MAT) Program
FEMA 364 Planning for a Sustainable Future: The Link Between Hazard Mitigation and Livability
FEMA 421 Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction
FEMA 424 Design Guide for Improving School Safety in Earthquakes, Floods and High Winds
FEMA 365 Rebuilding for a More Sustainable Future: An Operational Framework
FEMA 386-2 Understanding Your Risks: Identifying Hazards and Estimating Losses
ICC 500 Standard for the Design and Construction of Storm Shelters
Regional Disaster Resilience: A Guide for Developing an Action Plan , 2011 Edition. The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP)
FEMA P-749 Earthquake-Resistant Design Concepts: An Introduction to the NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures
FEMA E-74 Reducing the Risks of Nonstructural Earthquake Damage—A Practical Guide, Fourth Edition
FEMA 83 Seismic Considerations for Communities at Risk
FEMA P-154 Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: A Handbook, Third Edition
FEMA 156 Typical Costs for Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings Volume 1: Summary. Second Edition
FEMA 157 Typical Costs for Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings Volume 2: Supporting Documentation. Second Edition
FEMA 173 and FEMA 174: Establishing Programs and Priorities for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings: Supporting Report and Handbook
FEMA 198 Financial Incentives for Seismic Rehabilitation of Hazardous Buildings – An Agenda for Action. Volume 1: Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendations
FEMA 199 Financial Incentives for Seismic Rehabilitation of Hazardous Buildings – An Agenda for Action. Volume 2: State and Local Case Studies and Recommendations
FEMA 216 Financial Incentives for Seismic Rehabilitation of Hazardous Buildings – An Agenda for Action. Volume 3: Applications Workshops
FEMA 232 Homebuilders' Guide to Earthquake-Resistant Design and Construction
FEMA 306 Evaluation of Earthquake Damaged Concrete and Masonry Wall Buildings: Basic Procedures Manual
FEMA 307 Evaluation of Earthquake Damaged Concrete and Masonry Wall Buildings: Technical Resources
FEMA 308 The Repair of Earthquake Damaged Concrete and Masonry Wall Buildings
FEMA 310 NEHRP Handbook for the Seismic Evaluation of Existing Buildings
FEMA P-1050 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings And Other Structures, 2015 Edition
FEMA P-1051 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions: Design Examples
FEMA P-1052 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions: Design Examples Training Materials
FEMA 313 Promoting the Adoption and Enforcement of Seismic Building Codes: A Guidebook for State Earthquake and Mitigation Managers
FEMA 343 Case Studies: An Assessment of the NEHRP Guidelines for Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings
FEMA 349 Action Plan for Performance Based Seismic Design
FEMA 350 Recommended Seismic Design Criteria for New Steel Moment-Frame Buildings
FEMA 351 Recommended Seismic Evaluation and Upgrade Criteria for Existing Welded Steel Moment-Frame Buildings
FEMA 352 Recommended Post-Earthquake Evaluation and Repair Criteria for Welded Steel Moment-Frame Buildings
FEMA 353 Recommended Specifications and Quality Assurance Guidelines for Steel Moment-Frame Construction for Seismic Applications
FEMA 354 A Policy Guide to Steel Moment-Frame Construction
FEMA 356 Prestandard and Commentary for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings
FEMA 395 Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of School Buildings (K-12)
FEMA 454 Designing for Earthquakes: A Manual for Architects
FEMA 547 Techniques for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings
FEMA P-695 Quantification of Building Seismic Performance Factors
FEMA P-1026 Seismic Design of Rigid Wall-Flexible Diaphragm Buildings: An Alternate Procedure
Interagency Committee on Seismic Safety in Construction (ICSSC)/National Institute of Science and Technology
ICSSC TR-17 / NISTIR 5770 How-to Suggestions for Implementing Executive Order 12941 on Seismic Safety of Existing Federal Buildings, A Handbook
ICSSC RP 5 / NISTIR 5734 ICSSC Guidance on Implementing Executive Order 12941 on Seismic Safety of Existing Federally Owned or Leased Buildings
ICSSC RP 8 / NIST GCR 11-917-12 Standards of Seismic Safety for Existing Federally Owned or Leased Buildings
UFC 1-200-01 General Building Requirements
H-18-8 Seismic Design Requirements
FEMA 55 Coastal Construction Manual Brochure
FEMA P-312 Homeowner's Guide to Retrofitting
FEMA P-320 Taking Shelter From the Storm: Building a Safe Room For Your Home or Small Business
FEMA 338 Building Performance Assessment Team (BPAT) Report - Hurricane Georges in the Gulf Coast
FEMA 339 Building Performance Assessment Team (BPAT) Report - Hurricane Georges in Puerto Rico
FEMA P-361 Design and Construction Guidance for Community Safe Rooms (Second Edition)
FEMA P-499 Home Builder's Guide to Coastal Construction
FEMA P-762 Local Officials Guide to Coastal Construction
FEMA P-804 Wind Retrofit Guide for Residential Buildings
UFC 3-110-03 Roofing
IBHS
IBHS FORTIFIED HomeTM Hurricane; Bronze, Silver and Gold: An incremental, holistic approach to reducing residential
ASCE 7-16 Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures
ASCE 24 Flood Resistant Design and Construction
FEMA 15 Design Guidelines for Flood Damage Reduction
FEMA 54 Elevated Residential Structures
FEMA P-85 Protecting Manufactured Homes from Floods and Other Hazards
FEMA 102 Floodproofing for Non-Residential Structures
FEMA 116 Reducing Losses in High Risk Flood Hazard Areas: A Guidebook for Local Officials
FEMA L-198 / American Red Cross ARC 4476 Repairing Your Flooded Home
FEMA P-259 Engineering Principals and Practices for Retrofitting Floodprone Residential Structures
FEMA P-347 Above the Flood: Elevating Your Floodprone House
FEMA 348 Protecting Building Utilities From Flood Damage
FEMA 543 Design Guide for Improving Critical Facility Safety from Flooding and High Winds: Providing Protection to People and Buildings
FEMA FIA-TB-10 Ensuring that Structures Built on Fill or Near Special Flood Hazard Areas are Reasonably Safe from Flooding
FEMA Technical Bulletins
ER 1110-2-240 Engineering and Design—Water Control Management
ETL 1110-2-361 Life-Cycle Design and Performance of Structures for Local Flood Protection
Landslide, Mudslide
FEMA 182 Landslide Loss Reduction: A Guide for State and Local Government Planning
Progressive Collapse
FEMA Resource and Document Library—Offers many PDF format documents on Disaster Preparation and Prevention
UFC 4-023-03 Design of Buildings to Resist Progressive Collapse
FEMA P646 Guidelines for Design of Structures for Vertical Evacuation from Tsunamis
FEMA P646A Vertical Evacuation from Tsunamis: A Guide to Community Officials
FEMA P-737 Home Builder's Guide to Construction in Wildfire Zones
International Wildland-Urban Interface Code® 2015
Wind and Seismic Design for Wood Construction
Special Design Provisions for Wind and Seismic (SDPWS), American Wood Council (AWC)
National Design Specification (NDS) for Wood Construction, American Wood Council (AWC)
Low-rise wood buildings are often designed per the prescriptive provisions of the International Residential Code (IRC) and the International Building Code (IBC) which include provisions for high wind and high seismic design
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017 photo Hawaii state Sen. Karl Rhoads talks about legislation he proposed that could change the way foreign fishermen get permits in Honolulu. A federal legal loophole allows the fishermen to fish off the coast of Hawaii, even though they are technically not allowed to enter the United States. Rhoads wants to change that by barring state officials from issuing fishing licenses to crew members who don't have permission to land in the country. (AP Photo/Cathy Bussewitz)
Hawaii bill would ban licenses for some foreign fishermen
HONOLULU (AP) — A proposal in the Hawaii Legislature has the potential to shake up the fishing industry and the permit process for foreign fishermen. An Associated Press investigation found that foreign fishermen were confined to boats off Honolulu and living in subpar conditions. Some are earning...
Molly Hitt, of Boston, displays an American flag while standing in front of a memorial to the Irish potato famine, right, during a rally called "We Will Persist," Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Boston. According to organizers the rally was held to send a message to Republicans in Congress and the administration of President Donald Trump that they will continue to press for immigration rights and continued affordable healthcare coverage. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Millions targeted for possible deportation under Trump rules
WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of people living in the United States illegally could be targeted for deportation — including people simply arrested for traffic violations — under a sweeping rewrite of immigration enforcement policies announced Tuesday by the Trump administration. Any immigrant who is...
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More stringent environmental regulations worldwide make the disposal of end-of-life clothing more difficult and more expensive. By reusing, recycling or having a circular ‘fibre-for-fibre’ process, the removal and its associated costs can realistically be largely eliminated.
The challenge of a linear system
The consequence of a linear production chain is the mountain of textile waste piling up, amplified by an increase in consumption behaviour. By discarding textiles at end-of-life (after which they often end up in incinerators), valuable raw materials, water and energy are lost; a lot of CO2is emitted and superfluous use is made of polluting chemicals. In the Benelux, 285 million kilograms of end-of-life textiles are currently disappearing annually on landfills or in incinerators.
How do we convert this into a circular system?
Together with various partners, WEAR2GO makes the textile industry circular and therefore reduces the amount of waste. We support consumers, companies and governments to participate in the transition. By collecting textiles and, preferably “fibre-for-fibre”, convert them into new, high-quality products. On this way, we contribute to a cleaner, more beautiful world.
Reduction of your disposal costs
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Caribbean Dance Music: A Music Scene Under Construction
For years, there has been a distinct correlation between electronic dance music and the sweet music of The Caribbean. Countless dance records have already been released featuring caribbean artists and/or traditionally caribbean instruments. This growing interest in tropical sounds within the dance music community has sparked the cultivation of a very specific sub-genre, CDM (Caribbean Dance Music). All throughout the caribbean, producers, DJs, bloggers, and promoters have banded together to form The CDM Generation- a platform for caribbean dance music to continue to flourish globally. Launched in Trinidad & Tobago last year, CDM Generation has already established a strong presence...
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Major Lazer's New Album, "Peace Is The Mission" is MASSIV!
By now, you've probably become very familiar with the song that some are calling the summer anthem for 2015- "Lean On ft MØ" by Major Lazer & DJ Snake. The hit single from Major Lazer's 3rd studio album, "Peace Is The Mission" has already reached the #1 spot globally on Spotify and is possibly the most remixed tune of the year for DJ's and producers. The rest of the album, which dropped this morning, is a solid collection of well produced tracks featuring artists Machel Montano, Ellie Goulding, MØ, Chronixx, 2 Chainz, Ariana Grande, Pusha T, 2 Chainz, Travi$ Scott,...
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Mad Decent Block Party 2015 Is On The Way!
Summer is quickly approaching and that means Mad Decent's long awaited Block Party tour is coming back around! Every summer since 2008 Wes Pentz (aka Diplo) has taken his block party across the country, bringing music fans of all kind together. Featuring a stacked lineup of Mad Decent's best and brightest artists, these block parties are a staple in the dance music community all over the U.S. This year, we can expect appearances from Major Lazer, Jack U, and many more artists from the Mad Decent roster. Head over to www.maddecentblockparty.com to see tour dates, order tickets, and view lineups! P.S....
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DJ AC Slater's "Night Bass" Monthly Party Returns To Hollywood!
For LA club goers, AC Slater's "Night Bass" event is one of the city's most anticipated parties. For over a year, bass music fans have flocked to Sound Nightclub in Hollywood every month to experience a nice blend of house, UK garage, bassline, and 2-step, mixed by world renown DJ's such as resident AC Slater, Petey Clicks, and many more. This Thursday, May 28th, will be a special edition of "Night Bass" as AC Slater launches his record label, appropriately titled, "Night Bass"! We encourage all MASSIV crew in LA to come out and represent!
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Hollywood Carnival 2015- We Ready For Di Road!
Every year during June, Hollywood Boulevard is shut down to make way for the largest multi-cultural parade on the west coast. It is truly a sight to see as people of all different nationalities come together to celebrate and represent their heritage. From the beautiful dancing women in masquerade costumes, to the big music trucks and musicians coming down the road, this is one parade you wont forget! And if the wonderful blend of soca, reggae, and other worldly music doesn't grab you immediately, the authentic foods from around the world certainly will! Generally, these types of parades take place...
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"Peace Is The Mission" With Major Lazer's Upcoming LP
The Major Lazer crew is just days away from dropping their 3rd studio album, Peace Is The Mission, and we couldn't be more excited! Major Lazer has already been making plenty of noise this year with the premiere of their own animated series on FOX, as well as a slew of the freshest remixes and hit singles. With features from Ariana Grande, Machel Montano, Pusha T, DJ Snake, Chronixx, and many more, the expectations are high. Even so, they've already surpassed expectations with the release of "Lean On", one of the hit singles from the album which has gone beyond viral....
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Protoje- Answer To Your Name (Official Music Video)
Today, we're sending a MASSIV shoutout to Jamaican reggae artist, Protoje, who just dropped the music video to "Answer To Your Name", one of the many hit singles from his 3rd studio album, Ancient Future. Check out the video and go grab the LP! Buy the album here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ancient-future/id962614411
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Win Tickets To See Jack Beats Live At Exchange LA!
We’re excited to announce that our good friends, Niall and Ben of Jack Beats (OWSLA), will be returning to LA next weekend (May22nd) for a night of monstrous bass and UK underground vibes! Jack Beats has been a part of the MASSIV. family for quite a while now and of course we want to show our full support as they take the stage at Exchange for the first time ever. You are invited and encouraged to come and break a sweat on the dance floor! We will be giving away two free tickets to one lucky winner next week, enter...
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Festival Season is upon us
If you didn't get to Miami this past week for Ultra don't worry because festival season is only beginning. Arguably the biggest festival of them all, Coachella, is happening at the end of this month. Drake will be headlining along side a plethora of other artists. But the fun doesn't stop there, Stagecoach is just around the corner. On the East Coast you have the Sweetwater 420 festival in Atlanta. EDC will also make a stop in New York this June, lighting up the city that never sleeps. Following EDC you have the Governor's Ball, so if it's too late for you...
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Oct. 9, 2008 Six Years of Unheeded Warnings for GSE Reform
Sept. 19, 2008 Just the Facts: The Administration's Unheeded Warnings About the Systemic Risk Posed by the GSEs
Sept. 12, 2008 Afterword: Mr. Woodward's Reporting vs. Mr. Woodward's Editorializing
Sept. 9, 2008 Rest of the Story: President Bush Supports a Comprehensive Energy Plan
Aug. 13, 2008 President Bush Has Taken Action to Ensure Peace, Security and Humanitarian Aid in Georgia
May 19, 2008 President Bush's Interview With Richard Engel of NBC News
Apr. 11, 2008 Critics of Colombia Trade Agreement Ignore Facts
Apr. 3, 2008 The New York Times Mistakes Its Own Blindness for Presidential "Invisibility"
Feb. 24, 2008 FISA Fact Check: Setting the Record Straight on Speaker Pelosi
Feb. 22, 2008 President Bush Committed to Strengthening Democracy Throughout Africa
Jan. 8, 2008 President Bush Consistently Focused on Defining a Palestinian State
Dec. 28, 2007 Defense Authorization Bill Veto Necessary to Secure Gains in Iraq
Dec. 19, 2007 Statement by the Press Secretary
Dec. 15, 2007 President Bush Holds the Line on Irresponsible Spending
Nov. 14, 2007 President Bush Is Working to Keep Taxes Low for All Americans
Nov. 9, 2007 Congress Refuses to Compromise on Excessive Spending
Nov. 2, 2007 Democrats' SCHIP Bill Repackages Bad Policy
Oct. 14, 2007 Setting Speaker Pelosi's Record Straight: 14 Days and Counting: No Annual Spending Bills Sent to the President, No House Conferees Even Named
Oct. 3, 2007 Speaker Pelosi Misleads on SCHIP
Aug. 22, 2007 President Bush's View on Iraq's Elected Government Consistent
Aug. 9, 2007 Setting The Record Straight: The Administration Is Meeting Its Commitment To Border Security
Jul. 25, 2007 Targeting Al Qaeda
Jul. 10, 2007 Iraq Fact Check: Responding to Key Myths
Jul. 9, 2007 Democrats Are Proposing Billions in Unnecessary Government Spending
May 3, 2007 Iraq Is The Central Front Of Al Qaeda's Global Campaign
Apr. 29, 2007 Democrats Continue Misrepresenting Gen. Petraeus' Comments
Apr. 23, 2007 In Case Sen. Reid Missed It: Reid vs. Reid: A State Of Confusion
Apr. 3, 2007 Sen. Reid's Misleading Comments About Iraq Funding
Mar. 30, 2007 The Rest of the Story: CRS Memo Acknowledges the Challenges Facing the Army
Democrats Are Delaying Funding For Our Troops
Mar. 28, 2007 The Rest Of The Story: Gen. McCaffrey's Iraq Report Includes Optimism
Feb. 21, 2007 Sen. Reid On British Transfer Of Basra Responsibilities To Iraqis
Feb. 8, 2007 The Rest of the Story: Gen. Pace And Sec. Gates Discuss The Importance Of Congressional Support For Our Mission In Iraq
Jan. 31, 2007 The Rest of the Story: Sec. Baker Outlines "Common Elements" In The Iraq Study Group's Report And The President's New Strategy
Jan. 22, 2007 President Bush's Standard Deduction for Health Insurance Would Save Money for More Than 100 Million Americans
Nov. 22, 2006 America's Wage Growth Is Steady And Strong
Nov. 14, 2006 Comparing the Coverage: London Vs. Washington Reporting on Prime Minister Blair's Remarks
Oct. 26, 2006 Mainstream Media Reports Inaccurate; Distort Prime Minister Maliki's Press Conference
Oct. 14, 2006 The Associated Press' Iraq Analysis
Oct. 9, 2006 Bob Woodward On "Meet The Press"
Oct. 4, 2006 Setting the Record Straight: Bob Woodward
Oct. 3, 2006 The Rest of the Story: The Rice-Tenet Meeting
Sept. 30, 2006 Myth/Fact: Five Key Myths in Bob Woodward's Book
Sept. 26, 2006 The Rest of the Story: The NIE Reflects Previous Statements About the War on Terror
Sept. 15, 2006 Now and Then: Editorials on the McCain Amendment
The Rest of the Story: Iraq's Links to Al Qaeda
JAG Leaders Say Common Article 3 Provisions Would Be "Helpful"
Sept. 6, 2006 Detainees Will Not Receive POW Status
Jul. 21, 2006 President Bush's Foreign Policy Is Succeeding
Jul. 17, 2006 President Bush's Stem Cell Policy Is Working
Jul. 11, 2006 President Bush's Strong Record of Addressing Climate Change
The President's Policies Are Increasing Tax Revenues and Growing Our Economy
Jul. 10, 2006 More Than 2,500 National Guard Troops Are Supporting Operation Jump Start In The Border States
May 11, 2006 President Bush's Tax Relief Benefits All Taxpayers
AP's Misleading Military Recruiting Article
May 10, 2006 The New York Times Continues to Ignore America's Economic Progress
CBS News' Misleading Medicare Report
May 9, 2006 USA Today's Misleading Medicare Story
May 8, 2006 The ABA Finds Brett Kavanaugh Is "Indeed Qualified to Serve on the Federal Bench"
May 4, 2006 GAO's Inaccurate, Incomplete, And Outdated Medicare Report
Apr. 27, 2006 Medicare Check-Up: Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Is Cutting Costs
Apr. 12, 2006 The Washington Post's Reckless Reporting On WMD Claims
Apr. 11, 2006 Despite Democrat Claims, President Bush's Policies Are Growing Our Economy
Apr. 5, 2006 Just the Facts: President Bush's Pro-Growth Tax Relief Benefits All Americans Who Pay Income Taxes
Mar. 2, 2006 The August 28th Hurricane Katrina Videoconference
Feb. 13, 2006 The Washington Post's Sebastian Mallaby on Health Savings Accounts
Feb. 10, 2006 The New York Times Story On Hurricane Preparations
Jan. 24, 2006 Charges Of "Domestic Spying"
Jan. 22, 2006 Democrats Continue to Attack Terrorist Surveillance Program
Jan. 4, 2006 Critics Launch Attacks Against Program to Detect and Prevent Terrorist Attacks
Dec. 7, 2005 Rep. Pelosi Downplays Progress In Iraq
Nov. 30, 2005 Democrats On An Artificial Timetable In Iraq
Nov. 26, 2005 Sen. Biden Adopts Key Portions of Administration's Plan for Victory in Iraq
Nov. 17, 2005 The Senate Amendment On The Strategy For Victory In Iraq
Nov. 15, 2005 The New York Times Editorial on Pre-War Intelligence
Nov. 14, 2005 Senator Levin on Iraq
Nov. 13, 2005 The Washington Post On Pre-War Intelligence
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Objects in the shade of dim grey
The closest color to #585759 in the CSS3 color palette is dim grey which has the hex code of #696969.
Skylab Tool Kit #2 (USA), 1973–74
aluminum, anodized aluminum, steel, cardboard, ink.
This object was made by McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company.
Book, The Measure of Man: Human Factors in Design, 1969
offset lithograph.
Courtesy of anonymous lender.
Template, Humanscale 7b: Seated at Work Selector, 1981
offset lithograph on plastic with rotary wheels.
Template, Humanscale 6b: Hands and Feet Selector, 1981
Template, Humanscale 3a: Handicapped and Elderly Selector, 1974
Template, Humanscale 2a: Seating Guide Selector, 1974
Template, Humanscale 1a: Body Measurements Selector, 1974
Book, Bauentwurfslehre (Architects’ Data), 1938
Hand Axe (France), 300,000 years old
flint.
Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian....
Big Road Census (USA), 1881 or 1882
colored pencil, graphite, and watercolor on paper.
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution NAA MS 2372 (Inv.....
Hand Axe (Tanzania), 1.4 million years old
volcanic rock (trachyte).
Department of Archaeology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian....
Chopper (Tanzania), 1.85 million years old
volcanic rock (nephelinite).
Quipu (Peru), Made between 1400–1532
knotted and twisted cotton fibers.
Woman’s Workbox With Lid (USA), Created before 1870s
carved wood, walrus-ivory inlay.
Collection of Edward W. Nelson, 1879, Gift of Edward W. Nelson, Department of....
Work Bag (USA), Created before 1880s
stitched and embroidered sea lion intestine.
Collection of Lucien M. Turner, 1882, Department of Anthropology, National....
The Flame Winter Count (Copy), The Flame Winter Count, Covers 1786–1876
ink on muslin.
Gift of Lt. H.T. Reed, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian....
Fishhook (Solomon Islands), Before 1917
carved mother-of-pearl.
Halibut Hook (USA), Created before 1881
carved wood, cord.
Collection of John J. McLean, 1881, Baranof Island, Alaska, Department of....
Stone Pestle (USA), 19th century
carved stone.
Pestle (USA), Before 1842
carved basalt.
Collected by the United States Exploring Expedition, 1840, Department of....
Fishhook (USA), 19th century
whale tooth, cord.
Collected by Dr. Nathaniel B. Emerson, exhibited at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific....
Octopus Lure (USA), Before 1909
cowrie shell, worked stone, carved wood, cord, lashing.
Throwing Knife (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Created before 1889
iron, handle covered in bark cloth and tied with braided fiber.
Herbert Ward Collection, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of....
iron, handle covered in braided fiber.
Hoe Blade (Japan), Before 1855
cast iron.
Collected by Commodore Matthew C. Perry in 1853-54, Department of....
Sickle Blade (Japan), Before 1855
iron.
Plowshare Blade (Japan), Before 1855
Spade Blade (Japan), Before 1855
Stick Navigation Chart (Marshall Islands), Before 1950
carved wooden sticks, cowrie shells, twine lashing.
Bird Dart (USA), Created before 1870s
carved cedar, carved ivory, sinew lashing.
Collection of Lucien M. Turner, 1876, Saint Michael, Alaska, Department of....
Raven Rattle (USA), Created before 1910s
carved and painted wood.
Collected by Rev. Sheldon Jackson, 1877–94, Department of Anthropology,....
Cuneiform Clay Tablet, ca. 2000-1595 BCE
clay/mud.
Fluted Point (USA), ca. 11,000 BCE
chert (from edwards chert formation located north of austin, texas).
Clovis Point, ca. 11,000 BCE
chert from north central ohio.
Cylinder Seal And Two Casts (Iraq), 2nd millenium BCE
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Student Of The Year 2 Day-wise Box Office Collection Report: 4th Week Update
SOTY 2 Box Office Report
Student Of The Year 2; HIT or FLOP?
SOTY 2 Box Office Collection Analysis
The second installment of the teen college-drama film, 'Student Of The Year', has taken a good opening at the box office. The film collected around an estimated ~10.75 crores on its first day. The first day box office collection figures are exactly as we predicted in our prediction article before the release of the film.
SOTY 2's first day collection is not up to the level of Tiger Shroff's previous film, 'Baaghi 2', but that was a totally different kind with huge single screen appeal. The audience spectrum was also broad for 'Baaghi 2', unlike SOTY 2, where the film is primarily targeted towards the teenagers and the young college-going audience, and the audience appeal outside of the film's primary target is very limited. Hence. the opening day box office numbers are good enough to build-on in the weekend, if the film gets a thumbs-up from the audiences. And, also considering the fact that Tiger Shroff is the solo established lead face of the film. The other two actresses, Ananya Panday and Tara Sutaria, are debuting through this film. This is also a great number for director Punit Malhotra at the box office, as his previous film as a director, 'Gori Tere Pyar Mein', had collected around ~2.5 crores on its first day, and had went on to become a flop at the box office.
The first installment of SOTY was a mediocre film at best, and even the trailer for the second installment wasn't impressive at all. And unlike SOTY 1, this film isn't directed by Karan Johar. But, it still enjoyed a good buzz and the hype was consistent for days before the film's release; and the film went on to post a double digit opening day figure at the box office! Just shows the SOTY franchise's appeal and brand awareness amongst its target market.
The advance bookings for SOTY 2 weren't any particularly impressive, and were average at best. Apart from Hyderabad, it was Delhi-NCR which showed decent-good bookings at around ~15.5% seats booked from 874 shows (at the time of our report). The multiplexes did better business than the single screens on Day 1, and it was expected considering the genre of the film.
'Student Of The Year 2' opened to mixed reviews slightly leaning towards the negative side. The audience word-of-mouth appears to be mixed as well going by our initial ground reports from the cinemas.
SOTY 2 collections saw a growth of around ~18% on Saturday (Day 2). The film collected around an estimated ~12.62 cr. on its second day at the box office. The big growth is clearly missing, as the second day growth in collections are just moderate.
The Sunday collections failed to grow from Saturday, as SOTY 2 collected around ~1 cr. less than its Saturday collection. The not-so-positive audience word-of-mouth is clearly showing its effect on 'Student Of The Year 2' at the box office, and the high-profile IPL final cricket match further added to its woes. SOTY 2's first weekend box office collections stand at around an estimated ~35 crores.
Scroll down for the day-wise box office collection breakdown of SOTY 2.
ALSO SEE - SOTY 2 All Critic Reviews & Ratings
SOTY 2 Screen Count as on Day 1
Total Screens - Around ~2850 screens all across India on Day1.
SEE - SOTY 2 Screen Count & 1st Day Advance Booking Report
Student Of The Year 2 Total Budget
Budget - Around an estimated ~60 crores (CoP + P&A)
SOTY 2 Day-wise Box Office Collection Breakdown
Day 1 (Fri) 10.75 0.32
Day 2 (Sat) 12.62 0.40
Day 3 (Sun) 11.67 0.35
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Senate special election: Top issues for both candidates
by: Michella Drapac
LEBANON, Pa. (WHTM) — Less than a week is away from a special election to fill the state Senate seat left vacant by Mike Folmer for the 48th district, covering Lebanon County and parts of Dauphin and York counties.
Folmer resigned after he was charged with child pornography charges in September.
The special election will be held Tuesday, Jan. 14. with Lebanon County District Attorney Dave Arnold facing Lebanon Valley College associate history professor Michael Schroeder.
Schroeder is expected to face an uphill battle for the historically Republican seat as a Democratic candidate against Arnold, a Republican.
“I’m a conservative, consistently conservative individual. I’m going to make the right decisions for the right reasons, just as I’ve done as DA for the past 14 years,” Arnold said.
“I really enjoy doing the kind of community work that has permitted me to engage with political leaders across the spectrum here in the Lebanon Valley really and beyond,” Schroeder said.
The issues Schroeder looks to campaign on are education, clean energy, and affordable healthcare and prescription drugs.
“Pennsylvania families should not have to choose between say, buying needed medicine for a loved one and putting food on their table for their children,” Schroeder said.
Arnold looks to focus on public safety and property tax reform.
“It’s important that we make sure our residents are not losing their homes simply because they can’t afford to pay property taxes,” Arnold said.
Arnold was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in October and underwent surgery immediately after. He says he is in excellent health and the surgery will not impact his ability to serve if elected.
The special election is only coming now because of voting machines being locked after the Nov. 5 election.
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GENERATING ADDITIONAL ACCOUNTING SKILLS IN SOUTH AFRICA
As the South African economy grows, the skills shortage poses a serious threat. There is a particular need and demand for skilled accounting staff in all sectors and in all sizes and types of organisation.
To address the critical skills shortage of intermediate level accounting skills in both the private and public sector, the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) in partnership with the London based Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has launched a new professional body for Accounting Technicians.
The Association of Accounting Technicians South Africa [AAT(SA)] provides a new career path in accountancy, which will benefit learners, employees, employers and the South African economy.
The new organisation will offer seven membership levels to reflect increasing skills and experience. AAT(SA) will provide qualifications at NQF levels three to five and will also offer membership to people with relevant qualifications, prior learning and work experience.
A recent independent research survey into the shortage of financial skills commissioned by SAICA, and conducted by Research Focus (PTY) Ltd and the Tshwane University of Technology has indicated that there was a shortage of approximately 22 030 accountants among the 739 organisations interviewed, of which 16 642 vacancies existed for NQF level three to six accountants in business and government, and in both the financial and non-financial services sectors.
Ignatius Sehoole, executive president of SAICA says, “AAT(SA) represents a sound business case for SAICA to address the accounting skills shortage in South Africa. It is an opportunity to initiate an exciting partnership”.
In short, says Chantyl Mulder, director of AAT(SA) and SAICA’s senior executive for transformation and growth, “For any nation to be an equal player in the global market, it is essential that the workforce is well trained with the right skills needed to do their job. AAT(SA) is a unique partnership between SAICA and AAT developed to improve service delivery and skills for business and the economy, and to provide personal development opportunities for individuals”.
Unlike many other programmes, the AAT(SA) qualification is internationally recognised yet tailored specifically for the local market. “Our programme works with South African currency and local tax laws and requirements, therefore giving employees knowledge and skills that are tailored to our own economy and that they will be able to put into action,” says Mulder.
Mulder says that AAT(SA) is a designation from which both employees and employers will benefit. “Many employers have faced the challenge of recruiting someone with a qualification but who cannot do the job. By making sure you recruit staff that carry an AAT(SA) membership card, employers can provide a benchmark that enables them to grow their staff skills and their business simultaneously.”
Jane Scott Paul, chief executive of the AAT says the benefits of the AAT(SA) qualification for prospective members is that it provides them with the practical skills they need to work in all sectors of the economy, including public service, private enterprise, charities and NGOs.
According to Scott Paul, AAT(SA) will begin operations with 800 members, as both the current AAT members in South Africa and the AAT(SA) associates of SAICA will automatically be eligible for membership of the new organisation.
SAICA previously acknowledged associates, some of whom had completed the UK-based AAT programme. As AAT(SA) is a separate professional body, it will have its own Recognition of Prior Learning structure (as an introductory offer only) and will quality assure and promote the delivery of an AAT learning pathway locally, to support members who have completed the training and who register for membership. Existing associates of SAICA will, however, benefit from dual membership.
AAT(SA) will be housed in the SAICA premises at Bruma Lake in Johannesburg.
For more information on AAT(SA), call +27 11 621 6888 or visit www.aatsa.org.za.
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Definition of Capital Expenditure
A capital expenditure is an amount spent to acquire or significantly improve the capacity or capabilities of a long-term asset such as equipment or buildings. Usually the cost is recorded in a balance sheet account that is reported under the heading of Property, Plant and Equipment. The asset's cost (except for the cost of land) will then be allocated to depreciation expense over the useful life of the asset. The amount of each period's depreciation expense is also credited to the contra-asset account Accumulated Depreciation.
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Examples of capital expenditures include the amounts spent to acquire or significantly improve assets such as land, buildings, equipment, furnishings, fixtures, vehicles. The total amount spent on capital expenditures during an accounting year is reported under investment activities on the statement of cash flows.
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Vauxhall is double winner new car awards 2019
VAUXHALL IS DOUBLE WINNER AT AUTO EXPRESS NEW CAR AWARDS 2019
The Auto Express Awards are renowned as a notable industry benchmark for success, and nominees face a tough judging criteria with a voting panel composed of the magazine’s expert reviewers, meaning only the best cars and vans make it onto the winners’ list.
“The Vauxhall Insignia Grand Sport offers incredible value for money. Some versions are so affordable that they match cars in the class below – and yet the Insignia Grand Sport has a vast amount of space on offer, both for passengers and luggage,” said Steve Fowler, Editor-in-Chief at Auto Express. “The ride is smooth, the seats are comfortable and the cabin is quiet, making it an exceptional motorway cruiser; but it’s still huge fun on winding roads. The engines are efficient and the car is well-equipped – both helping to make it a great choice for company-car drivers.”
The Combo Cargo was Van of the Year by Auto Express Awards judges, who praised the flexibility of the van’s load carrying options and engaging driving experience, also highlighting the excellent value that the van presents to buyers.
Speaking about the Van of the Year category win, Steve Fowler continued, “The Vauxhall Combo Cargo is an outstanding new entrant into the small van market. The interior is comfortable and there’s a decent amount of safety kit, making the Combo a great place to spend time. The cargo weights are generous, with easy access, and there are plenty of load carrying options. The range of engines impresses and, with its car-derived running gear, it’s even good to drive. What sealed the deal for our judges were the comprehensive finance deals on offer, which make the Combo Cargo a strong financial proposition, too.”
Vauxhall has enjoyed a successful run of award wins in the commercial vehicle sector. The Combo Cargo was voted International Van of the Year 2019 by journalists across 25 European countries, and also awarded both Light Van of the Year 2019 and Light Commercial Vehicle of the Year 2019 by What Van?. The Combo Cargo then also won Van Fleet World Van of the Year and Small Van of the Year at the Great British Fleet Awards.
This double awards win proves that our offering to customers is consistent across both of our car and van ranges and Vauxhall is back in bringing customers best-in-class offerings,” said Patrick Fourniol, Vauxhall’s Marketing Director.
“The Insignia Grand Sport continues to attract plaudits, this being the second year in a row it has won at the Auto Express Awards. Our van offering is again boosted by another awards win, with the Combo Cargo receiving nothing but praise from industry experts since its launch towards the end of last year.”
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The story that got everyone talking about marriage
Lyle Shelton | August 23, 2016
There was confirmation from the Government this week that the long-awaited people’s vote on marriage is to be pushed back into next year.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Attorney General George Brandis had previously indicated their preference to hold it before Christmas.
Australian Electoral Commission advice is that there is not enough time to organise another national poll to meet this timeline.
The AEC had actually signalled this some weeks ago.
But a leak from somewhere within the Government to a Sunday newspaper confirming that the Government agreed with this advice set the media in a frenzy.
The story also contained details of a draft question.
This was disappointing given that consultations with both sides of the debate about the plebiscite process and question has not yet been held.
The Prime Minister’s office and senior ministers were quick to distance themselves from the story and stressed that Cabinet was yet to consider these issues.
That’s code for the process has a way to go yet and everyone should settle down.
A February date has been touted but the WA election is on that month.
Also, Parliament resumes next week and it is uncertain whether or not legislation enabling the plebiscite will make it through the Parliament.
I think there will be attempts to get a private member’s bill on same-sex marriage passed; that these will fail and that Labor will finally allow plebiscite enabling legislation to pass.
I could be wrong, but that’s how I think it will play out. Watch this space.
Whatever happens, it is important the plebiscite process is not rushed and that it is fair to both sides.
Meanwhile, it is disappointing to continue to hear commentary that allowing a plebiscite will somehow unleash hate upon the same-sex attracted community.
Yes, there are trolls on social media on both sides and they are reprehensible.
In the mainstream media space, however, there has been no evidence of “hate” or “bigotry” from the pro-marriage side. While debate may be robust at times, as it should be in a mature democracy, our spokespeople have always been respectful.
In contrast, a senior Canberra press gallery journalist this week took to Twitter to describe supporters of marriage as “Neanderthals”.
I have been called a “creep” and a “nauseating piece of filth” on Twitter by another senior journalist, who incidentally tweets this to 50,000 people.
These are not trolls, they are journalists who support changing the definition of marriage.
If I started calling same-sex marriage advocates these sorts of names on social media, I would be hounded from my job and rightly so.
But there are double standards in this debate.
Those of us who wish to preserve marriage must not give in to the narrative that assumes our side is about hate. It is not.
We must be free to make our case for marriage without being intimidated and bullied from the playing field.
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Gotze out for the season
March 16, 2017 Ricci Rox
Borussia Dortmund attacking midfielder, Mario Gotze, will not play this season according to news on the club’s official website. The German international was diagnosed with a metabolic disorder back in February, and news coming from the club today has stated that he will, at best, be able to join training by the early summer. Dortmund’s CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke was positive about the World Cup hero’s condition. “BVB wishes Mario Götze a fast recovery,” he said. “Also in the name of their ten million fans.” Gotze moved to league rivals Bayern…
Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Bundesliga, NewsNowBorussia Dortmund, Injury, Mario Gotze
Ibrahivomic to face three-match ban
March 8, 2017 Ricci Rox
After admitting to a charge of violent conduct, Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been hit with a three-match suspension, according to the FA’s official website. The striker was involved in a rather nasty incident with Bournemouth left-back Tyrone Mings during the United vs Bournemouth game on Saturday, an incident that saw both parties receive yellows, instead of deserved reds, and another Bournemouth player, Andrew Surman, receive his own marching orders. This suspension means that the Swede, who has scored an impressive 26 goals for the Manchester side already this…
Bournemouth, Manchester United, NewsNow, Premier LeagueAFC Bournemouth, ibrahimovic, manchester United
Five managers most likely to land the Barcelona job
March 4, 2017 March 6, 2017 Ricci Rox
Following Luis Enrique’s decision to step down from his position as Barcelona manager earlier this week, a host of candidates have been lauded as possible replacements for the job that is regarded as one of the most difficult in the world of sports. Here, we take a look at the five most likely managers to hold press conferences at the Camp Nou come June. Want to put a bet on who is going to be the next Barcelona manager? Check out cool betting tips at Football Tipsters. Ernesto Valverde @ 3/1 Probably the…
Barcelona, La Liga, NewsNow, OpinionBarcelona, Koeman, Luis Enrique, pochettino, Sampaoli, transfer, Valverde, Wenger
Ibrahimovic tables new contract demands
Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has demanded a reported two-year contract extension with a pay rise, according to a report from Mirror Sport. The former Swede international moved to Old Trafford last summer amidst suggestions that he has passed his peak. However, he has proved to be United’s best player this season. Manager Jose Mourinho, back in December, expressed his desire to extend Ibrahimovic’s current one-year deal. However, news resurfaced this past week that implied that the Swede is not quite as keen on the extension as his manager—at least not on the…
Manchester United, NewsNow, Premier Leagueibrahimovic, manchester United, transfer
Luis Enrique to resign at season’s end
EXCLUSIVA MD: ¡Luis Enrique anuncia al equipo que no renovará! https://t.co/xLZxjX31fy vía @ffpolo pic.twitter.com/ZyczYwzMwK — Mundo Deportivo (@mundodeportivo) March 1, 2017 Barcelona manager Luis Enrique has announced his decision to depart from the club at the end of the season. Enrique, 46, switched jobs from Celta Vigo to Barcelona in 2014 and lifted the treble in his first season at the Spanish club. In his second season, however, he found such success hard to replicate, as his side crashed out of the UEFA Champions League in the quarterfinals against local…
Barcelona, La Liga, NewsNowBarcelona, Luis Enrique, transfer
Liverpool star set for summer exit
Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge is set for a summer exit from the club, according to a report from the Telegraph. Sturridge has found opportunities hard to come by under Jurgen Klopp, with the German preferring to use Brazilian Roberto Firmino or Divock Origi for their work rates and movement. The England international has scored only two goals this season in 14 league appearances, of which only five have come as starts. According to reports, the Englishman will hold discussions with his manager to figure out his future at the club,…
Liverpool, NewsNow, Premier LeagueDaniel Sturridge, Klopp, Liverpool, transfer
Rooney wanted by Premier League club
Everton manager Ronald Koeman has publicly expressed his interest in Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney. Rooney, subject of intense rumors in the recent past linking him to a shock move to China, came out to declare his intention of staying at United, at least for the moment, but it would seem that the Everton manager has other plans. Koeman, when asked by Sky Sports about the possibility of a Rooney return to his boyhood club, minced no words. “I still think Wayne Rooney is playing at a high level and…
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Sanchez wants out – Report
February 26, 2017 Ricci Rox
Alexis Sanchez has told members of staff at Arsenal that he wants to leave the club this summer. (John Cross) — From The Stands (@FromTStands) February 25, 2017 Arsenal winger Alexis Sanchez has informed club staff that he wants to leave the club during the summer, according to John Cross of Mirror Online. The 28-year-old has carried his team at times this season, with his newly found central free-roaming role allowing him to express his more attacking abilities, a fact backed up by his nigh-insane statistics so far—20 goals and…
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Roberto Mancini turns down Leicester job
Former Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has rejected the Leicester City job, according to a report from Sky Sports. Leicester, on Thursday, announced their parting with manager Claudio Ranieri, much to the chagrin of managers and pundits in the Premier League alike. The Italian, last season, achieved, arguably the greatest feat in modern football, leading the Foxes to a historic league title. Their fortunes have turned for the worse this season; however, with their form since the start of the season—failing to score a single league goal—ensuring that they sit 17th…
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Real Madrid in for Monaco duo
Real Madrid are interested in acquiring the services of Monaco duo Kylian Mbappė and Bernardo Silva, according to reports by Spanish newspaper Marca. Mbappė, 18, graduated from the club’s academy and made his debut back in December 2015. He’s cemented his position on the team, developing a devastating partnership with Colombian striker Radamel Falcao—one that has seen 35 goals scored across all competitions, an integral factor in an impressive Monaco attack that is arguably the most impressive on the continent. Bernardo Silva, 22, technical and effective, possesses a playing style…
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Adam Lallana pens new contract
Liverpool midfielder Adam Lallana, yesterday, officially signed a contract extension at the club. The 28-year-old has been one of Jurgen Klopp’s best players this season, with his tally of seven goals and seven assists in all competitions keeping the Reds afloat at times this season. “I’m very proud and feel quite humbled by the show of faith from the club and the manager in particular. Signing for a club like Liverpool is obviously a big thing – but to re-sign shows you’ve obviously contributed enough that the people who make the…
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Wayne Rooney set for summer exit, Arsenal named as possible destination
February 23, 2017 February 23, 2017 Ricci Rox
Manchester United talisman Wayne Rooney is set for a summer exit, according to a report from the Times After reports earlier in the week had claimed that the United forward was set to leave the club before the pending closure of the Chinese transfer window, sources stated that the club record goalscorer would not leave, an opinion shared by manager Jose Mourinho. This morning, however, new reports from the Times claim that the Englishman will, in fact, stay at the club, but only until the summer, at which point the…
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This season’s FA Cup promises to be one of the best in recent history
Following Arsenal’s closely contested 2-0 win away at Sutton on Monday, this year’s FA Cup quarter-final lineup is almost done, with the odd one out being the clash between Manchester City and Huddersfield Town. Pep Guardiola’s City could only get a draw at Huddersfield on Saturday, and now have a replay at the Etihad on the cards. In the event of City beating Huddersfield, a result that is widely expected, the quarterfinals of the FA Cup this year will feature five of the six teams currently in the Premier League.…
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Premier League regular moves to the Middle East
Now confirmed – Mark Clattenburg to quit as Premier League referee to go to Saudi Arabia. pic.twitter.com/VznlSezDwS — Richard Conway (@richard_conway) February 16, 2017 English referee Mark Clattenburg has left the Premier League to join the Saudi Arabian Football Federation, an official announcement by the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) states. Clattenburg, although a divisive public figure, is without any doubt the most recognisable figure among his peers, evidenced by his role at the FA Cup final, Champions League finals, and UEFA Euros final, all within a period of…
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Verratti confirms Paris-Saint Germain future
Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Marco Verratti has reiterated his desire to remain at the club, Foot Mercato report. “The coach knows the Catalan team well, and he deserves praise for this performance. He worked perfectly. Everything went exactly in the direction we planned,” the Italian said, following their 4-nil thrashing of Barcelona yesterday. “I’m happy to attract the interest of other big clubs, but I do not want to change. I am part of a great project, and we want to become one of the three best teams in Europe.” In a…
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Jesus out for up to three months
#JesusGabriel ruptura del 5to metatarsiano. Estará entre dos y tres meses inactivo. Mala suerte la del @ManCity esta temporada. — Vero Brunati (@verobrunati) February 14, 2017 Following Man City striker Gabriel Jesus’s 15th minute substitution against in the 2-0 win over Bournemouth on Monday night, reports have claimed that the Brazilian forward will be out for up to three months. The 19-year-old, who moved to City in the January transfer window from Brazilian side Palmeiras, has impressed in his five appearances so far for the club, scoring three and assisting…
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United target turns down contract extension
Bakayoko has turned down an extension with Monaco. There is tension on the issue. https://t.co/NSLYiFvjx6 — Daniel Feliciano (@dmf180593) February 12, 2017 Manchester United target Tiemoué Bakayoko has reportedly refused to sign a contract extension with his club AS Monaco. His current deal with the Ligue 1 club expires in 2019. The 22-year-old defensive midfielder was reportedly identified by United manager Jose Mourinho as a transfer target during the January transfer window, with sources listing him as a possible replacement for club veteran Michael Carrick. Bakayoko has been one of…
Manchester United, NewsNow, Premier LeagueBakayoko, manchester United, Monaco, transfer
City set to spend world record fee for Alli
Manchester City are set to break the world record for Dele Alli, according to a report from the Express. Alli broke into the Tottenham team last season following his transfer from League One side MK Dons in the summer of 2015. The fiery 20-year-old won the PFA Young Player of the Year award at the end of last season after he set the league on fire with impressive displays, his ten goals and eight assists in the league helping Spurs on their way towards a third place finish. The England man…
Manchester City, NewsNow, Premier League, Tottenham HotspurDele Alli, Manchester City, Tottenham, transfer
Zouma to discuss Chelsea future at season’s end
Kurt Zouma admits “there will be discussions” regarding his Chelsea future once the 2016-17 campaign comes to a close.[L’Equipe] — Chelsea (@ouggi) February 10, 2017 Chelsea defender Kurt Zouma has announced his decision to discuss the terms of his future at the club come season end, L’Equipe report. Zouma, 22, seemed to had finally found his place under Jose Mourinho, but the sack of the Portuguese manager and a subsequent injury against Manchester United last season meant that he was laid out for months, missing the Euros in the process.…
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Juventus join race for Sanchez
February 11, 2017 May 4, 2017 Ricci Rox
Juventus have joined the race to acquire the signature of Arsenal star Alexis Sanchez, with odds on his move rated by Italian betting site Calcio Tips, suggesting a move could be a real possibility. Sanchez’s contract runs out in June 2018, but he has failed to reach an agreement with the North London club on a contract extension, with sources citing a discrepancy in wage demands. The 28-year-old Chile international has been in scintillating form for the Gunners this season, with 17 goals and 8 assists in the league this season…
Arsenal, Juventus, NewsNow, Premier League, Serie AAlexis Sanchez, arsenal, juventus, transfer
Liverpool set sights on Brandt and Gray
Liverpool are monitoring Leicester City’s young forward, Demarai Gray, according to reports by the Daily Mail. Gray, 20, has been in impressive form for the Foxes, making the most of his substitute appearances for the club this season, with a goal and three assists in 626 minutes in the league, a testament to his effectiveness. The pacy Englishman would serve as the perfect foil to Sadio Mane from the left-wing as his directness plays right into Jurgen Klopp’s brand of high-paced attacking football. Gray is highly-rated and it wouldn’t come…
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United make profit, club debt up by 27%
February 9, 2017 Ricci Rox
BREAKING: @ManUtd's net debt as of December 31 increased by £87.2m to £409.3m. #SSNHQ — Sky Sports News HQ (@SkySportsNewsHQ) February 9, 2017 Manchester United, this morning, announced the details of their books for the last quarter, with the club recording operating profits in the region of £37.6M, Sky Sports reports. Also relevant is a rise in the club’s net debt over the year, a 27% increase ensuring that United owe £87.2M more than they did at the end of 2015. This is said to be caused by the fall…
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Allegri vague over supposed Arsenal offer
Reports from the Express last month claimed that Arsenal had contacted Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri with an offer that would see him take over from Arsene Wenger at the end of the season. The Italian manager has refused to confirm or deny them, ESPN reports. “I won’t deny or confirm anything. I am in sync with the club, now we have to focus on winning,” Allegri said to Mediaset Premium. “At this time of the season the media always says I’m leaving, even when things are going really well.” While…
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Lallana set for mega Liverpool contract renewal
Liverpool are to tie Adam Lallana down for peak years with a£150,000-a-week contract until 2021. — Anfield HQ (@AnfieldHQ) February 8, 2017 Liverpool are set to offer star midfielder Adam Lallana a mega contract extension that will see him earn £150k per week until 2021. Lallana, 28, has been, debatably, the best player in the team this season, with an impressive seven goals and seven assists in all competitions showing his immense value to Jurgen Klopp’s side. The midfielder, who was recently voted as England’s best player, is in the…
Bill Gates rejected offer to buy Liverpool, court papers reveal
World’s richest man Bill Gates was offered a chance to buy Liverpool but the billionaire refused the offer, Sky Sports reports. Liverpool, in 2010, were at risk of bankruptcy and the club creditors took the case to court, against the wishes of then owners Hicks and Gillett, leading to the club being eventually purchased by John W. Henry, the owner of the Boston Red Sox. The information was recently revealed in court documents from the ongoing case between the Royal Bank of Scotland and former co-owner George Gillett. According to the…
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Premier League Season Review – Crystal Palace
May 26, 2016 May 25, 2016 Stephen Donovan
Crystal Palace: 15th FA Cup: Runners-up Capital One Cup: Round Four A feature of many Premier League seasons is when an unfancied side does brilliantly up until the turn of the year and is riding high in a position where qualification for Europe becomes a potentially realistic ambition, before fading away dramatically in the final months as performance levels deteriorate and opposition sides become more adept at eliminating their threat. This time around that team was Crystal Palace. Appointed manager in January 2015, Alan Pardew had seen the club to…
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Crystal Palace vs Leicester – Premier League preview and team news
March 19, 2016 March 18, 2016 Stephen Donovan
Leicester City can move a step further towards winning the Premier League title by taking all three points when they head to South London to face a Crystal Palace side that has taken just four points out of the last available 36. But football always has the potential to throw up a hugely surprising result that emphatically upsets the form book, so it would be ironic for Palace to end their abysmal run here. The FA Cup meanwhile has been a different story, with the club having advanced to the semi-finals with…
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Top 10 Premier League summer transfers of 2015
January 19, 2016 January 19, 2016 Vincent Van Genechten
The winter transfer period is in full effect, but with the Premier League season passed the halfway point, it’s a good time to evaluate the best summer transfers of 2015. 1. Kevin De Bruyne (Man City) Performance: 5 goals + 9 assists The Belgian joined City from Wolfsburg for a record £51.8m this summer. He once escaped from Chelsea, but has not disappointed one bit at the Etihad, scoring five goals and recording nine assists. No other new player has been involved in more goals this season than De Bruyne.…
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Tottenham vs Crystal Palace – Premier League preview and team news
September 20, 2015 September 18, 2015 Stephen Donovan
Two attack-minded teams come together at White Hart Lane on Sunday as Tottenham take on away specialists Crystal Palace in what has the look of a highly entertaining affair. There was much relief around the Spurs camp last time out at Sunderland as they claimed they claimed their first league victory of the season at the fifth time of asking, at a time where there were murmurs of manager Mauricio Pochettino coming under pressure. It was a tight affair on Wearside, but the one real moment of quality decided the game…
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Crystal Palace vs Arsenal – Premier League preview and team news
August 16, 2015 Stephen Donovan
After going down to a thoroughly unexpected home loss to West Ham United on opening weekend, Arsenal are targeting their first points of the season against another London club, Crystal Palace. A convincing success at Norwich City suggested that the Eagles are continuing to go places and look a good bet to improve on last season’s final placing of 10th. Although fortunate not to be pegged back to 2-2, they played with the authority of an established Premier League side, proving clinical in front of goal and coming up with…
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Premier League boss claims Arsene Wenger missed out on the chance to sign WORLD CLASS midfield star
Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew believes that though Arsene Wenger is one of the Premier League’s finest managers, he missed a trick by not moving to sign France international Yohan Cabaye this summer, according to the Daily Express. Palace take on Arsenal this weekend, looking for their first victory over the Gunners in 20 years with Pardew laying on the praise for his managerial counterpart. “He has introduced to the English game the type of football that has educated managers and coaches, and that is simply the beauty of possession,”…
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The best transfers of the summer so far: NO Man United or Chelsea players feature as title contenders do TERRIBLE business
It’s been another busy summer with several big names and big fees swarming the market. And the best part about it is that it’s not over yet! With just over two weeks to go there are a number of big deals left to be done. However, until then, we’re highlighting the best deals already done. Arturo Vidal – Juventus to Bayern Munich With Bastian Schweinsteiger departing, the Chilean stepped in to represent the changing of the guard at the Alianz Arena. His box-to-box all action approach should ensure that the…
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Analysis: Pardew and Cabaye reunion can continue Crystal Palace’s ascent
July 10, 2015 July 10, 2015 Stephen Donovan
Yohan Cabaye learnt many lessons on his return to Ligue 1. After repeatedly begging Newcastle United to be allowed to leave for what was seemingly the promised land of Paris St. Germain he found first-team opportunities relatively hard to come by and as a result he finds himself back in the Premier League, on Friday being unveiled as Crystal Palace’s new £10m record signing. That also means he reunites with Alan Pardew, who consistently got the best out of him on Tyneside. Luring him from Lille in the summer of 2011 was a…
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Twelve players in DESPERATE need of a summer move: including Liverpool flop and Bayern Munich stalwart
June 20, 2015 June 19, 2015 Jordan Harris
While content players tend to hate the prospect of the summer months, with pre-season training looming, those that are unhappy at their current clubs would have been counting down the days until the transfer window opened so they can engineer a change of scene that could help resurrect a stagnating career. READ MORE: Liverpool man denies contract resolution Valencia defender wants to join Man United Liverpool target raid for £17m Premier League midfielder The Daily Mirror has put a list together of the players that arguably need a move, and…
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Home Staff Picks Christ Was A Tamil Hindu? Claims A New Book !!
Christ Was A Tamil Hindu? Claims A New Book !!
By Team Wirally -
‘Jesus Christ was a Tamil Hindu’, is a statement of prominence in the controversial book penned by the brother of Hindutva ideologue V. D. Savarkar, being re-launched 70 years after it was first published. The name of the book being very clearly named ‘Christ Parichay’
The book, authored by Ganesh Savarkar, the elder brother of V.D. Svarkar, will be re-launched on February 26, the death anniversary of the Hindutva icon, president of the Swatantryaveer Savarkar National Memorial Ranjit Savarkar said.
The book, first published in 1946, also claims that Christianity was initially a Hindu cult and that Jesus died in Kashmir.
It claims that the followers of a certain Essene cult rescued the crucified Christ and revived him with medicinal plants and herbs from the Himalayas. It further goes on to say that Christ attained ‘Samadhi’ in Kashmir.
The book goes on to academically state that Jesus was a “Vishwakarma Brahmin” by birth and Christianity was a just a sect of Hinduism. The book claims that the present day Palestinian and Arab territories were Hindu land and that Christ travelled to India where he learnt yoga. The book says Christ’s real name was Keshao Krishna, Tamil was his mother tongue, and his complexion was dark.
Asked about the claims in the book, senior priest and director of the Bombay Archdiocesan Heritage Museum, Father Warner D’Souza, said such books cannot shake the faith of Christians.
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Kaul: More needs to be done to combat sex trafficking
January 9, 2020 11:56 am Leave a comment
Law-enforcement agencies in Wisconsin are not consistently reporting human trafficking cases, leading to incomplete information and is likely undercounting the number of people who are forced into the sex trade, a report released by the state attorney general on Thursday found.
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Legal fight over estate of man deprived of water in jail
A legal battle has developed over the division of the multimillion-dollar estate of a man who died after guards at the Milwaukee County Jail deprived him of water.
Prosecutors recommend probation for teen’s hoax SWAT calls
A 17-year-old boy who admitted in court to making hoax phone calls to authorities in a half-dozen states should receive a one-year sentence with credit for time served, an Ohio prosecutor said.
Court: Man properly sentenced despite inaccurate history
A Milwaukee judge relied on inaccurate information about a convict's criminal history when he sentenced him to 13 years in prison, but the mistake was harmless because of the man's brushes with the law, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
Vocal state bar critic Steve Levine dies at age 71
Steve Levine, a Madison lawyer and vocal critic of the State Bar of Wisconsin, has died. The State Bar reports that he passed away Jan. 4 at age 71.
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Evers, Democrats push bills to reduce prison population
January 9, 2020 9:56 am Leave a comment
Gov. Tony Evers and his fellow Democratic lawmakers have introduced a series of proposals designed to reduce overcrowded prisons, but without support from Republican leaders they are unlikely to gain momentum in the GOP-controlled Legislature.
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Competency exam ordered in 1976 murder case in Wisconsin
A competency exam has been ordered for a man accused of killing a couple in a Wisconsin park in 1976.
Milwaukee teen: Man started shooting after snowball hit car
January 8, 2020 2:19 pm Leave a comment
One of two Milwaukee children who were shot by a man because they threw a snowball at his car said he didn't expect the driver to retaliate.
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Ex-Michigan deputy charged in sex assault of boy, 16
January 8, 2020 12:32 pm Leave a comment
A former sheriff's deputy in Michigan's southwestern Upper Peninsula has been charged in the sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy.
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Appeals court stays out of voter purge case
A state appeals court will stay out of a closely watched Wisconsin case over the purging of up to 209,000 registered voters in the battleground state.
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Dane County receives approval for new ADA position
The Dane County District Attorney's Office will soon hire a new full-time assistant district attorney. The Joint Committee on Finance approved a request to create the position on Tuesday.
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Legislator’s daughter sentenced for woman’s death
The daughter of a Wisconsin state legislator was found guilty Tuesday of supplying drugs that led to the death of a pregnant woman and her baby.
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Milwaukee driver shoots children who threw snowballs at car
A driver shot and wounded two children who threw snowballs at a car in Milwaukee, police said.
von Briesen elects Susan Lovern as new president, CEO
von Briesen & Roper has elected Susan Lovern as its new president and chief executive officer, the firm announced on Monday.
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Wisconsin Legislature seeks to kill lawsuit on voter purge
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature asked a federal court on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to prevent the purging of up to 209,000 registered voters in the battleground state.
Wisconsin accountant sentenced for filing fake taxes, stealing refunds to pay prostitute
A Fort Atkinson accountant will spend two years in prison for filing dozens of fraudulent tax returns in an attempt to steal clients' refunds.
Doctor finds Milwaukee acid-attack suspect fit for trial
A 61-year-old Wisconsin man accused of throwing acid in a Latino man's face during a racist attack is competent to stand trial, according to a doctor's report released to court Monday.
Waukesha County Courthouse closed Monday because of bomb threat (UPDATE)
The Waukesha County Courthouse and Administration building has been closed because of a bomb threat. All morning court dates for Jan. 6 have been canceled, and the county expects to provide news on the status of afternoon proceedings soon.
Lindner & Marsack opens new offices in Madison, Manitowoc
The Labor and employment law firm Lindner & Marsack opened two new offices in Madison and Manitowoc on Thursday. The firm said Andrew Quartaro is leading the Madison office, on Capitol Square, and James Goonan is leading the Manitowoc office. Both ...
GOP resurrects bill to make English official language
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Claims board denies compensation requests for shoes, ear buds
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NYC education official charged in child sex crime case
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Wisconsin teacher admits to defecating in park for 2 years
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Wisconsin man charged in sister’s death needs mental exam
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Conservatives seek immediate purge of voters in Wisconsin
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August Specials: Get A Brutal Chill in August and/or An Augmented Fourth for just $11.99 each!
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A new month means a new featured book, and this month we’ve got not just one, but two awesome books at 25% off when you order direct: Alan M. Clark’s Whitechapel-set thriller A Brutal Chill in August and Tony McMillen’s rock-and-roller (with monsters) An Augmented Fourth. Just $11.99 each when you order direct. You don’t need to perform an augury to know this is one heck of a deal!
“With A Brutal Chill in August, Alan M. Clark continues his terrific fictionalized accounts of the Ripper’s victims–always compelling, and always expertly evoking nineteenth century London. Gripping, suspenseful–written with sensitivity and heart.” –Simon Clark, author of Night of the Triffids
“[An Augmented Fourth] is a wildly entertaining novel that is both a hilarious deconstruction and a tender love letter to rock and roll. McMillen has a knack for dialogue and that helps the action and the story move forward at breakneck speed. […] If you think you’d dig watching a psychedelia-infused version of The Thing while blasting awesome tunes and having a great acid trip, then you need to pick this one up.” –Gabino Iglesias, LitReactor
Trivia: Both A Brutal Chill in August and An Augmented Fourth feature fantastic cover art by the multi-talented Alan M. Clark!
Congratulations to Tony McMillen and his wife Taylor on the birth of their baby Nora Wren. If you’re picking up An Augmented Fourth this month and would like us to pass along a note of congratulations to the happy parents, please feel free to include it in the comments section of your order.
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It’s been a busy year. So busy that it’s quite possible you just realized (like us) that the holiday season is in full swing, and that you’ve got less than two weeks to get your Xmas shopping done. So, we decided to run a last minute year-end coupon. Just use coupon code word2017, and save 30% on all Word Horde books (excluding Scratch-and-Dent titles). Here’s where to order:
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This year, we published five books: The Raven’s Table, by Christine Morgan; Beneath, by Kristi DeMeester; An Augmented Fourth, by Tony McMillen, She Said Destroy, by Nadia Bulkin; and Tales from a Talking Board, edited by Ross E. Lockhart, featuring fourteen all-new stories of the strange and supernatural by Matthew M. Bartlett, Nadia Bulkin, Nathan Carson, Kristi DeMeester, Orrin Grey, Scott R Jones, David James Keaton, Anya Martin, J. M. McDermott, S.P. Miskowski, Amber-Rose Reed, Tiffany Scandal, David Templeton, and Wendy N. Wagner.
We also picked up a few awards, with Word Horde selected as Publisher of the Year 2016, Livia Llewellyn’s Furnace receiving Short Story Collection of the Year 2016, and John Langan’s The Fisherman landing Novel of the Year 2016 in the This Is Horror Awards, and John Langan’s The Fisherman capturing the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel. Don’t forget to nominate your favorite 2017 Word Horde titles in your favorite genre awards!
Here’s just some of the critical acclaim our 2017 titles have received (so far):
“These works have the sure, solid feel of a talented author deeply engaged with her source material and genre. They’re an excellent read for those who enjoy myths and legends of all kinds.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Raven’s Table
“The Raven’s Table is a must-have for anyone with an interest in stories based on Nordic mythology and lore.” —GreyDogTales on The Raven’s Table
“This novel is going to propel DeMeester onto that list of authors you’ll want to follow.” —John Boden, Ginger Nuts of Horror on Beneath
“…one of the most upsetting and horrifying tomes of dark fiction in recent memory.” —This Is Horror on Beneath
“Tony McMillen’s An Augmented Fourth (2017) is heavy metal rock and roll horror at its wailing-guitar best. Set in 1980, the point of transition from heavy metal to punk, An Augmented Fourth blends inter-dimensional eldritch horror, David-Cronenberg-movie grotesquerie, and psychedelia in a thrash-metal twenty-minute-guitar-solo of a story.” —Fantasy Literature
“This is a wildly entertaining novel that is both a hilarious deconstruction and a tender love letter to rock and roll. McMillen has a knack for dialogue and that helps the action and the story move forward at breackneck speed. […] If you think you’d dig watching a psychedelia-infused version of The Thing while blasting awesome tunes and having a great acid trip, then you need to pick this one up.” —LitReactor on An Augmented Fourth
“Weird fiction has been stuck in the era of new-fangled radio sets and fifteen-cent pulp magazines for ninety years. Finally, Nadia Bulkin has come to drag us kicking and screaming into the horrors of The Endless Now with a collection of hip, ultracontemporary, politically astute, and chilling stories.” —Nick Mamatas, author of I Am Providence on She Said Destroy
“Bulkin delivers a dose of delicious darkness with her debut collection.” —World Fantasy Award-winning editor Silvia Moreno-Garcia on She Said Destroy
“Striking debut collection” —The New York Times on She Said Destroy
“Tales from a Talking Board (Word Horde) is a brilliant collection of 14 short stories by some of today’s greatest authors, centered around the theme of the Ouija board, in its various forms and incarnations […] It’s an eerie compilation of tales that belongs in the personal libraries and/or Kindles of everyone who loves the macabre.” —Douglas Cobb, What’s New in Book Reviews
“Tales from a Talking Board is a seasonal treat meant for crackling fires in the fireplace and dark spooky evenings. Enjoy.” —Marion Deeds, Fantasy Literature
“A blast to read.” —TheShadesofOrange on Tales from a Talking Board
Remember: Use coupon code word2017, and save 30% on all Word Horde books (excluding Scratch-and-Dent titles). Here’s where to order:
Awards Eligibility
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As we come to the end of another year, it is traditional to look back through the last 365 days and take stock of one’s accomplishments. In 2017, Word Horde published five books: The Raven’s Table, by Christine Morgan; Beneath, by Kristi DeMeester; An Augmented Fourth, by Tony McMillen, She Said Destroy, by Nadia Bulkin; and Tales from a Talking Board, edited by Ross E. Lockhart.
If you read and enjoyed any (or all) of these Word Horde books in 2017, we ask that you consider nominating those books in their respective categories in the Hugos, Locus Awards, Nebulas, Bram Stoker Awards, This Is Horror Awards, or similar awards. Likewise, the Novellas, Novelettes, and Short Stories we published this year that are eligible for your awards consideration. Plus, we’ve included a list of Related Works you may have otherwise missed. Thanks for your consideration, it means the world to us!
Best Collection:
The Raven’s Table, by Christine Morgan
She Said Destroy, by Nadia Bulkin
Best Novel:
Beneath, by Kristi DeMeester
An Augmented Fourth, by Tony McMillen
Best First Novel:
Best Anthology:
Tales from a Talking Board, edited by Ross E. Lockhart
Best Short Story:
“Deep Into the Skin” by Matthew M. Bartlett (5215 words, Tales from a Talking Board)
“May You Live In Interesting Times” by Nadia Bulkin (5431 words, Tales from a Talking Board)
“When the Evil Days Come Not” by Nathan Carson (5229 words, Tales from a Talking Board)
“YesNoGoodbye” by Kristi DeMeester (3013 words, Tales from a Talking Board)
“Harupscate or Scry” by Orrin Grey (5300 words, Tales from a Talking Board)
“Worse than Demons” by Scott R Jones (4170 words, Tales from a Talking Board)
“Spin the Throttle” by David James Keaton (4900 words, Tales from a Talking Board)
“Weegee Weegee, Tell Me Do” by Anya Martin (6664 words, Tales from a Talking Board)
“The Devil and the Bugle Boys” by J. M. McDermott (3784 words, Tales from a Talking Board)
“Pins” by S.P. Miskowski (2618 words, Tales from a Talking Board)
“The Empress and the Three of Swords” by Amber-Rose Reed (2200 words, Tales from a Talking Board)
“Grief” by Tiffany Scandal (3259 words, Tales from a Talking Board)
“Questions and Answers” by David Templeton (5000 words, Tales from a Talking Board)
“The Burnt Sugar Stench” by Wendy N. Wagner (4100 words, Tales from a Talking Board)
“The Seven Ravens” by Christine Morgan (5010 words, The Raven’s Table)
Best Novelette
“Brynja’s Beacon” by Christine Morgan (9600 words, The Raven’s Table)
Best Novella
“No Gods, No Masters” by Nadia Bulkin (11900 words, She Said Destroy)
Best Poem
“The Shield-Wall” by Christine Morgan (480 words, The Raven’s Table)
“As We Drown and Die” by Christine Morgan (2070 words, The Raven’s Table)
Best Publisher:
Best Editor, Short Form:
Ross E. Lockhart
Best Editor, Long Form:
Best Original Cover Art:
An Augmented Fourth, Alan M. Clark
Tales from a Talking Board, Yves Tourigny
Music from the Novel An Augmented Fourth: “Beyond This Sleepless Dream”/”Frivilous Black” by Frivilous Black/Tony McMillen
Now Available: An Augmented Fourth, by Tony McMillen
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Tony McMillen’s An Augmented Fourth dropped on Tuesday, so if you’re looking to rock ‘n’ roll all night long this weekend, we’ve got you covered. Here are just a few of the reviews An Augmented Fourth has received so far:
Fantasy Literature‘s Marion Deeds says, “Tony McMillen’s An Augmented Fourth (2017) is heavy metal rock and roll horror at its wailing-guitar best. Set in 1980, the point of transition from heavy metal to punk, An Augmented Fourth blends inter-dimensional eldritch horror, David-Cronenberg-movie grotesquerie, and psychedelia in a thrash-metal twenty-minute-guitar-solo of a story.”
LitReactor‘s Gabino Iglesias says, “This is a wildly entertaining novel that is both a hilarious deconstruction and a tender love letter to rock and roll. McMillen has a knack for dialogue and that helps the action and the story move forward at breackneck speed. […] If you think you’d dig watching a psychedelia-infused version of The Thing while blasting awesome tunes and having a great acid trip, then you need to pick this one up.”
“It would take a real virtuoso to properly blend The Thing, The Mist, Black Sabbath, and Bowie into one rollicking, comical cosmic horror tribute to early metal and the dark beyond. Lucky for us, Tony McMillen has the chops to make this mutant beast fly on blessed black wings. An Augmented Fourth is a strange, sludgy, progged-out blast!” –Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of Skullcrack City and Entropy in Bloom
Ask for An Augmented Fourth wherever better books are sold.
Watch the Trailer for Tony McMillen’s An Augmented Fourth
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Are you ready to rock? Good. The trailer for Tony McMillen’s An Augmented Fourth just dropped.
Codger Burton, bassist and lyricist for Frivolous Black, the heaviest heavy metal band to ever come out of the UK, awakens to find his hotel snowed in, his band mates evacuated, and monsters roaming the hotel. Looks like Codger picked the wrong week to quit using cocaine. From the twisted mind of Tony McMillen comes the hilarious rock and roll horror novel An Augmented Fourth, a novel of The Lord of Low End.
Preorder your copy today!
“An arcane cosmic horror descends on the day of a heavy metal musician whose own music might just have been the dagger that sliced open the veil between the worlds. Tony McMillen’s novel is love letter pastiche to the occult mythos of rock by way of a mystically-tuned hotel, tentacled horrors, and inter-band relationships, as well as the real-life toll of a debauched life. McMillen’s love of music and occulture is infectious. An Augmented Fourth has me wanting to search for hidden clues on my old album covers all over again.” –Peter Bebergal, author of Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll
“Tony McMillen’s rock and roll fantasy is a fucking blast. This thinly veiled misadventure combines proto-metal lore with Lovecraftian tradition to birth a heavy hybrid written at maximum volume. Behind the music, in a world much like our own, the devil’s chord, church bells, rain, thunder, and weed all coalesce around a hilarious narrative that takes Frivolous Black bassist Codger Burton through withdrawals, cosmic tribulations, metamorphosis, Brummie banter, and world-shaking epiphanies. Tune in, turn on, rock out.” –Nathan Carson, author of Starr Creek
“Since Nefarious Twit, Tony McMillen has become one of the most unique writers I’ve read. Over the past weekend I had the great pleasure of cracking his forthcoming, An Augmented Fourth–it’s metal to the balls The Thing meets Black Sabbath riffing Thunderhorse cranked to 11. You guys are in for a treat come June.” –Chris Irvin, author of Ragged and Federales
“A ferocious and funny read, full of foot-chases, body horrors, and the requisite screeching monster immolation or two, even some fun wish-fulfillment for connoisseurs of heavy-metal cover art as one of the band’s mystery models literally jumps off one of their albums and into the action. […] To put it all in clearer terms for easier shelving at the video store, think This Is Spinal Tap meets The Thing meets From Beyond. Actually, there wasn’t a shelf for the new genre he’s conjured up here, but there should have been. In the meantime, I’ll be over there waiting for the soundtrack LP so I can scratch it up playing backwards messages.” –David James Keaton, author of The Last Projector
Preorder An Augmented Fourth, by Tony McMillen
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Are you ready to rock? We’ve got just the right book for you. Dropping June 27, and available to preorder now is Tony McMillen’s novel An Augmented Fourth, which has been called “This Is Spinal Tap meets The Thing meets From Beyond.” We know you’re going to dig it.
Cover art by Alan M. Clark.
Coming in 2017 from Word Horde
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We’ve got some great books on tap for you in 2017, starting with Christine Morgan’s The Raven’s Table, a collection of Viking-themed stories that Publishers Weekly calls “an excellent read for those who enjoy myths and legends of all kinds.”
The Raven’s Table is available for pre-order now, and will be shipping later this month, but here’s a preview of what else is coming this year:
When reporter Cora Mayburn is assigned to cover a story about a snake-handling cult in rural Appalachia, she is dismayed, for the world of cruel fundamentalist stricture, repression, glossolalia, and abuse is something she has long since put behind her in favor of a more tolerant urban existence. But she accepts the assignment, dredging up long-buried memories as she seeks the truth.
As Cora begins to uncover the secrets concealed by a veneer of faith and tradition, something ancient and long concealed begins to awaken. What secrets do the townsfolk know? What might the handsome young pastor be hiding? What will happen when occulted horrors writhe to the surface, when pallid and forgotten things rise to reclaim the Earth?
Will Cora—and the earth—survive? The answers—and pure terror—can only be found in one place: Beneath.
Coming June 2017
Black Sabbath meets John Carpenter’s The Thing in An Augmented Fourth, the new novel from Tony McMillen (Nefarious Twit).
Word Horde presents the debut collection from critically-acclaimed Weird Fiction author Nadia Bulkin. Dreamlike, poignant, and unabashedly socio-political, She Said Destroy includes three stories nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award, four included in Year’s Best anthologies, and one original tale.
Coming October 2017
Can we speak with the spirits of the dead? Is it possible to know the future? What effect do auspicious omens and cautionary portents have upon our lives?
Tales from a Talking Board examines these questions with stories of divination and fortune telling, through devices like Ouija boards, tarot cards, and stranger things.
Watch for cover reveals and pre-order information coming soon!
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Book Review: Songs At the River’s Edge: Stories From a Bangladeshi Village by Katy Gardner
Songs At the River’s Edge: Stories From a Bangladeshi Village by Katy Gardner
I wanted to like this book, I really did. A book about my beloved Bangladesh where I spent nearly six blissfully happy years written by a British woman who was a social anthropologist and should therefore have written with wonderful insight – how could I not like it? Unfortunately I was to be disappointed.
To be fair to the author, there may be many mitigating reasons for this. She visited Bangladesh in 1987, only 16 years after the terrible birth of the country, ravaged by a war the scars of which are still felt today. By contrast, the Bangladesh I knew was from 2005-2013 and much has changed. Likewise she lived for 16 months in a village in Sylhet – the region where most Bangladeshis living in the UK hail from, but one often seen as very different to the rest of Bangladesh. Moreover, Katy Gardner is a woman and I am a man. In Muslim-dominated and heavily patriarchal Bangladesh this inevitably means we both had very different experiences. I had the freedom to do almost anything I wished, talk to who I wished, wear what I wished. The woman who wishes to do the same invites hassle; if not, trouble.
Nevertheless, I’ve read many books on Bangladesh by foreigners and many articles, novels and stories by female Bangladeshis such as Niaz Zaman, Rizia Rahman, Tahmima Anam and Monica Ali and all of these writers tell stories I know and understand as true to my experience of this beautiful, terrible, contradiction of a nation. So there is only so much leeway I can give to Gardner.
Pinning down exactly why I didn’t enjoy the book is harder. Her words were right; the stories she told, the events which happened; the people she met – they all resonated with me. Though I was critical of how she portrayed Bangladeshi society I couldn’t disagree with the problems she highlighted. No one can come to Bangladesh and ignore the injustices, the poverty, the troubles and the corruption which pervade throughout. But there was something…missing.
I did struggle with her attempts at Bangla: ‘Dunndo bad’ instead of ‘dhonnobad’ for ‘thank you’; ‘Sassa’ and ‘sassi’ instead of ‘chacha’ and ‘chachi’ for father’s younger brother and his wife; and so on. But these were probably more to do with the extreme regional dialect of Sylhet than the author’s errors of understanding. I did find it irksome however and, again, never experienced such issues with other authors no matter which part of Bangladesh they were discussing. Perhaps most annoying was her insistence of using ‘elder sister’ in English to describe how the women referred to her. Why not use the Bangla term especially as she includes a glossary in the back and uses so many other terms frequently?
I think the biggest problem for me which bugged me from the start (and I’d hoped would change as the book progressed and the author learned of the culture) was that Gardner simply didn’t get it. She saw herself as the outsider, longed for western life, fled to Dhaka for a taste of ‘civilisation’ every month and generally seems to look down on the country even when she’s doing her best to tell the tales lovingly and with affection.
In short, it wasn’t that I didn’t recognise her Bangladesh: I didn’t recognise the author herself.
I’ve met too many ‘bideshis’ (foreigners) in Bangladesh who have similar attitudes to her, desperate to hold the people at bay, irritated by their closeness yet feeling isolated away from their western lifestyles. I never ‘went native’ in Bangladesh and, if anything, was made more aware of my own ‘Britishness’ by being there, yet this country is my heartland even if it isn’t the land of my birth. I may not be able to say “ami Bangali” (I am Bangladeshi) so truthfully as those born there but when I returned to the UK I certainly couldn’t say “I am British”. Gardner, I feel, never took off that mantle and couldn’t wait to throw off her Bangla trappings once she returned. You can almost hear her breathe with relief as she left despite trying to portray a very different attitude.
This would all be okay except that the author went to Bangladesh to live like a Bangladeshi woman for research into her Ph.D in Social Anthropology. Worryingly, there must be a thesis out there based on her findings and, if it is anything like this book, it won’t really truly reflect the deeper reality of what Bangladesh is. The author at least admits that her understanding can only be superficial. She was there just 15 months and was 23 when she went – barely old enough to understand her own self and culture let alone anyone else’s – so her reflections could only be limited.
This is not a book I would recommend to anyone coming to visit or live in the country. It will only reinforce stereotypes of the people which are so easy to form when arriving as it is. Read instead the works of Bangladeshi authors or those of foreigners who have lived for many years in the country; not a handful of months. Yes, there are immense issues in Bangladesh which haven’t changed in the slightest since Gardner’s time there. But there is a beauty, a majesty, a peace and an honour there which is much greater. It is not all about ‘sharom’ (shame). Far from it.
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Ainhoa Magrach
CARDINAL project
TRANSIT project
I am one of the beneficiaries of an Ikerbasque Research fellowship, a 5 year tenure-track to continue my research at BC3!
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I have been awarded a prestigious Beca Leonardo from the Fundación BBVA to study hummingbird functional roles along a latitudinal gradient!
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Teacher assistant at Spring University on Ecosystem Services in Bilbao
I am at present spending some days in my beautiful hometown helping as a teaching assistant at the International Spring University on Ecosystem Services offered by the Basque Center for Climate Change. We have a diverse set of students from many different countries working on a whole suite of ecosystem services, from pollination to water provision.
New paper accepted in Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Our paper investigating the key question of how selective logging impacts networks of interactions between species focusing on tree-liana interactions has now been accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Our study reveals that heavier liana loads within logged forests disproportionally affect slow-growth tree species, with cascading impacts for ecosystem services such as timber provision and carbon storage. In turn, simulation scenarios of host tree extinctions indicate that logging decreases the robustness of liana-tree networks owing to the preferential loss of heavily-infested trees (i.e. the most connected ones). We believe that our study addresses one of the core questions facing conservation biology today, and combines a high theoretical and applied interest!
Moving to a new lab!
I will soon be starting a new job at Estacion Biologica de Donana in Seville working with Ignasi Bartomeus and Montse Vila on the effect of land use change on plant-pollinator networks.
Interviewed by BBC Future about new paper
I was recently interviewed by David Robson for BBC Future about a new paper Jaboury Ghazoul and I published on the effects that projected climate change might have on coffee cultivation and the spillover effects this might have for forests and the biodiversity they contain
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150728-coffee-the-bitter-end-of-our-favourite-drink
Presentation at the ATBC annual meeting in Honolulu
I had the great pleasure to present some preliminary results of some work I am doing in collaboration with agricultural economist Antoine Champetier on tradeoffs between conservation and economic goals in a coffee-growing landscape in India.
New paper published in PLoS ONE!
A new paper written by Jaboury Ghazoul and myself has been published in PLoS ONE on the effects of projected climate change on coffee distribution in the future and its implications for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision.
Presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California
I recently presented some preliminary results on the future distribution of areas suitable for coffee cultivation across the globe given projected climate change and how this could affect forested areas.
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Basque Centre for Climate Change interested in human impacts to natural ecosystems across the globe.
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How Charity Can Result In A Stronger Work Culture
In the end, charity pays for itself. Regular donations can improve teamwork and strengthen your business.
Sandi Krakowski
When we started our company it was important to me to bring the concept of giving into everything that we do, as it has always been a fundamental aspect of our lives as a family. With each new hire, we share how we give a percentage of company profits to charities close to our hearts. We even provide monthly updates to our staff, with pictures and tangible evidence of our company’s efforts.
Charity is its own reward, of course. But we’ve found that involving our employees in our company’s charitable giving has helped us build a stronger culture and has improved our teamwork.
If you’re thinking about implementing a giving program, consider the following three principles:
1. Make a commitment
Set aside a specific percentage of all profits the company earns to be given to a worthy cause. Whether it’s 1 or 10 percent, make a commitment to always give this portion to the chosen organization. As a company, we donate 10 percent each month to several groups that we chose early on to give to.
2. Get everyone involved
Give to organizations and causes your staff cares about. Does someone know a family in need? Become a “Secret Santa” during the holidays. We’ve adopted single mothers and struggling families as our target charities during the winter holidays. These efforts have been a great motivator and help us stay focused when we might have otherwise lost our drive due to holiday parties, gift shopping and family visits. Making a big impact in someone else’s life gives everyone a reason to work harder.
3. Get local
Don’t forget to get involved in something local. If you partner with a small, neighborhood organization, you and your staff can focus on something closer to home instead of a distant “charity we donate to.” For example, every year our staff partners with an organization that feeds the hungry and the homeless during Thanksgiving. And because much of our staff works remotely and have to travel to be here for the event, it’s a good time to reconnect with far flung colleagues. What a great thing to be thankful for during the holiday season!
Giving motivates, inspires and encourages us to think beyond our personal challenges, obstacles and frustrations. Giving is a huge part of big company growth and healthy inner company relationships. Make a difference, give as a company and share the wealth and the wisdom with someone else.
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USFS Accessibility Guidebook for Outdoor Recreation and Trails
by USDA Forest Service
This guidebook was written to help designers and man- agers apply FSORAG and FSTAG to their work and to pro- vide guidance for integrating accessibility into outdoor recreation site and trail projects.
tags: accessibility and accessible trails
Forest Service Trail Accessibility Guidelines (FSTAG)
The FSTAG and the Forest Service Outdoor Recreation Accessibility Guidelines (FSORAG) are the legally enforceable standards for use in outdoor recreation areas on the National Forest System for the facilities, routes, and features addressed in these guidelines.
Soil Stabilizers On Universally Accessible Trails
For the past several years, national forests around the country have been looking for ways to make areas more universally accessible, while maintaining a natural appearance that is not as distracting as concrete, asphalt, boardwalks, and other obviously manmade pathways.
tags: maintenance, accessibility and accessible trails
Tennessee Greenways and Trails Program Accessibility Guidelines
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation guidelines on accessible trails
California State Parks Accessibility Guidelines
by California State Parks, Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division
The guidelines are, in essence, a summary of the Federal and State accessibility regulations set forth by the Americans with Disabilities Act and California’s Title 24 building codes.
Park and Trail Accessibility Design Guidelines
by MIG
An important goal of this plan is to provide integrated recreational experiences for all visitors—with and without disabilities—employing the principles of universal design that are incorporated into these accessibility design guidelines.
Universal Access Trails and Shared Use Paths
by Pennsylvania Land Trust Association
This manual reviews Best Management Practices (“BMPs”) to utilize when planning, designing, constructing, and maintaining pedestrian trails for universal accessibility.
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Helicopter Flight Conditions
Hovering Flight
During hovering flight, a helicopter maintains a constant position over a selected point, usually a few feet above the ground. For a helicopter to hover, the lift and thrust produced by the rotor system act straight up and must equal the weight and drag, which act straight down. [Figure 1] While hovering, the amount of main rotor thrust can be changed to maintain the desired hovering altitude. This is done by changing the angle of incidence (by moving the collective) of the rotor blades and hence the AOA of the main rotor blades. Changing the AOA changes the drag on the rotor blades, and the power delivered by the engine must change as well to keep the rotor speed constant.
To maintain a hover at a constant altitude, enough lift and thrust must be generated to equal the weight of the helicopter and the drag produced by the rotor blades
The weight that must be supported is the total weight of the helicopter and its occupants. If the amount of lift is greater than the actual weight, the helicopter accelerates upwards until the lift force equals the weight gain altitude; if thrust is less than weight, the helicopter accelerates downward. When operating near the ground, the effect of the closeness to the ground changes this response.
The drag of a hovering helicopter is mainly induced drag incurred while the blades are producing lift. There is, however, some profile drag on the blades as they rotate through the air. The term drag includes both induced and profile drag.
An important consequence of producing thrust is torque. Newton’s Third Law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Therefore, as the engine turns the main rotor system in a counterclockwise direction, the helicopter fuselage tends to turn clockwise. The amount of torque is directly related to the amount of engine power being used to turn the main rotor system. Remember, as power changes, torque changes.
To counteract this torque-induced turning tendency, an antitorque rotor or tail rotor is incorporated into most helicopter designs. A pilot can vary the amount of thrust produced by the tail rotor in relation to the amount of torque produced by the engine. As the engine supplies more power to the main rotor, the tail rotor must produce more thrust to overcome the increased torque effect. This is done through the use of antitorque pedals.
Translating Tendency or Drift
During hovering flight, a single main rotor helicopter tends to drift or move in the direction of tail rotor thrust. This drifting tendency is called translating tendency. [Figure 2]
A tail rotor is designed to produce thrust in a direction opposite torque. The thrust produced by the tail rotor is sufficient to move the helicopter laterally
To counteract this drift, one or more of the following features may be used. All examples are for a counterclockwise rotating main rotor system.
The main transmission is mounted at a slight angle to the left (when viewed from behind) so that the rotor mast has a built-in tilt to oppose the tail rotor thrust.
Flight controls can be rigged so that the rotor disk is tilted to the right slightly when the cyclic is centered. Whichever method is used, the tip-path plane is tilted slightly to the left in the hover.
If the transmission is mounted so the rotor shaft is vertical with respect to the fuselage, the helicopter “hangs” left skid low in the hover. The opposite is true for rotor systems turning clockwise when viewed from above.
In forward flight, the tail rotor continues to push to the right, and the helicopter makes a small angle with the wind when the rotors are level and the slip ball is in the middle. This is called inherent sideslip.
When hovering near the ground, a phenomenon known as ground effect takes place. This effect usually occurs at heights between the surface and approximately one rotor diameter above the surface. The friction of the ground causes the downwash from the rotor to move outwards from the helicopter. This changes the relative direction of the downwash from a purely vertical motion to a combination of vertical and horizontal motion. As the induced airflow through the rotor disk is reduced by the surface friction, the lift vector increases. This allows a lower rotor blade angle for the same amount of lift, which reduces induced drag. Ground effect also restricts the generation of blade tip vortices due to the downward and outward airflow making a larger portion of the blade produce lift. When the helicopter gains altitude vertically, with no forward airspeed, induced airflow is no longer restricted, and the blade tip vortices increase with the decrease in outward airflow. As a result, drag increases which means a higher pitch angle, and more power is needed to move the air down through the rotor.
Ground effect is at its maximum in a no-wind condition over a firm, smooth surface. Tall grass, rough terrain, and water surfaces alter the airflow pattern, causing an increase in rotor tip vortices. [Figure 3]
Air circulation patterns change when hovering out of ground effect (OGE) and when hovering in ground effect (IGE)
Coriolis Effect (Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum)
The Coriolis effect is also referred to as the law of conservation of angular momentum. It states that the value of angular momentum of a rotating body does not change unless an external force is applied. In other words, a rotating body continues to rotate with the same rotational velocity until some external force is applied to change the speed of rotation. Angular momentum is moment of inertia (mass times distance from the center of rotation squared) multiplied by speed of rotation. Changes in angular velocity, known as angular acceleration and deceleration, take place as the mass of a rotating body is moved closer to or further away from the axis of rotation. The speed of the rotating mass increases or decreases in proportion to the square of the radius. An excellent example of this principle is a spinning ice skater. The skater begins rotation on one foot, with the other leg and both arms extended. The rotation of the skater’s body is relatively slow. When a skater draws both arms and one leg inward, the moment of inertia (mass times radius squared) becomes much smaller and the body is rotating almost faster than the eye can follow. Because the angular momentum must remain constant (no external force applied), the angular velocity must increase.
The rotor blade rotating about the rotor hub possesses angular momentum. As the rotor begins to cone due to G-loading maneuvers, the diameter or the disk shrinks. Due to conservation of angular momentum, the blades continue to travel the same speed even though the blade tips have a shorter distance to travel due to reduced disk diameter. The action results in an increase in rotor rpm. Most pilots arrest this increase with an increase in collective pitch. Conversely, as G-loading subsides and the rotor disk flattens out from the loss of G-load induced coning, the blade tips now have a longer distance to travel at the same tip speed. This action results in a reduction of rotor rpm. However, if this drop in the rotor rpm continues to the point at which it attempts to decrease below normal operating rpm, the engine control system adds more fuel/power to maintain the specified engine rpm. If the pilot does not reduce collective pitch as the disk unloads, the combination of engine compensation for the rpm slow down and the additional pitch as G-loading increases may result in exceeding the torque limitations or power the engines can produce.
Hovering is actually an element of vertical flight. Increasing the AOA of the rotor blades (pitch) while keeping their rotation speed constant generates additional lift and the helicopter ascends. Decreasing the pitch causes the helicopter to descend. In a no wind condition, when lift and thrust are less than weight and drag, the helicopter descends vertically. If lift and thrust are greater than weight and drag, the helicopter ascends vertically. [Figure 4]
To ascend vertically, more lift and thrust must be generated to overcome the forces of weight and drag
Forward Flight
In steady forward flight with no change in airspeed or vertical speed, the four forces of lift, thrust, drag, and weight must be in balance. Once the tip-path plane is tilted forward, the total lift-thrust force is also tilted forward. This resultant lift-thrust force can be resolved into two components—lift acting vertically upward and thrust acting horizontally in the direction of flight. In addition to lift and thrust, there is weight (the downward acting force) and drag (the force opposing the motion of an airfoil through the air). [Figure 5]
The power required to maintain a straight-and-level flight and a stabilized airspeed
In straight-and-level (constant heading and at a constant altitude), unaccelerated forward flight, lift equals weight and thrust equals drag. If lift exceeds weight, the helicopter accelerates vertically until the forces are in balance; if thrust is less than drag, the helicopter slows until the forces are in balance. As the helicopter moves forward, it begins to lose altitude because lift is lost as thrust is diverted forward. However, as the helicopter begins to accelerate, the rotor system becomes more efficient due to the increased airflow. The result is excess power over that which is required to hover. Continued acceleration causes an even larger increase in airflow through the rotor disk and more excess power. In order to maintain unaccelerated flight, the pilot must not make any changes in power or in cyclic movement. Any such changes would cause the helicopter to climb or descend. Once straight-and-level flight is obtained, the pilot should make note of the power (torque setting) required and not make major adjustments to the flight controls. [Figure 6]
Figure 6. Changing force vectors results in aircraft movement
Translational Lift
Improved rotor efficiency resulting from directional flight is called translational lift. The efficiency of the hovering rotor system is greatly improved with each knot of incoming wind gained by horizontal movement of the aircraft or surface wind. As incoming wind produced by aircraft movement or surface wind enters the rotor system, turbulence and vortices are left behind and the flow of air becomes more horizontal. In addition, the tail rotor becomes more aerodynamically efficient during the transition from hover to forward flight. Translational thrust occurs when the tail rotor becomes more aerodynamically efficient during the transition from hover to forward flight. As the tail rotor works in progressively less turbulent air, this improved efficiency produces more antitorque thrust, causing the nose of the aircraft to yaw left (with a main rotor turning counterclockwise) and forces the pilot to apply right pedal (decreasing the AOA in the tail rotor blades) in response. In addition, during this period, the airflow affects the horizontal components of the stabilizer found on most helicopters which tends to bring the nose of the helicopter to a more level attitude. Figure 7 and Figure 8 show airflow patterns at different speeds and how airflow affects the efficiency of the tail rotor.
The airflow pattern for 1–5 knots of forward airspeed. Note how the downwind vortex is beginning to dissipate and induced flow down through the rear of the rotor system is more horizontal
An airflow pattern at a speed of 10–15 knots. At this increased airspeed, the airflow continues to become more horizontal. The leading edge of the downwash pattern is being overrun and is well back under the nose of the helicopter
Effective Translational Lift (ETL)
While transitioning to forward flight at about 16–24 knots, the helicopter experiences effective translational lift (ETL). As mentioned earlier in the discussion on translational lift, the rotor blades become more efficient as forward airspeed increases. Between 16–24 knots, the rotor system completely outruns the recirculation of old vortices and begins to work in relatively undisturbed air. The flow of air through the rotor system is more horizontal, therefore induced flow and induced drag are reduced. The AOA is subsequently increased, which makes the rotor system operate more efficiently. This increased efficiency continues with increased airspeed until the best climb airspeed is reached, and total drag is at its lowest point.
As speed increases, translational lift becomes more effective, the nose rises or pitches up, and the aircraft rolls to the right. The combined effects of dissymmetry of lift, gyroscopic precession, and transverse flow effect cause this tendency. It is important to understand these effects and anticipate correcting for them. Once the helicopter is transitioning through ETL, the pilot needs to apply forward and left lateral cyclic input to maintain a constant rotor-disk attitude. [Figure 9]
Effective translational lift is easily recognized in actual flight by a transient induced aerodynamic vibration and increased performance of the helicopter
Dissymmetry of Lift
Dissymmetry of lift is the differential (unequal) lift between advancing and retreating halves of the rotor disk caused by the different wind flow velocity across each half. This difference in lift would cause the helicopter to be uncontrollable in any situation other than hovering in a calm wind. There must be a means of compensating, correcting, or eliminating this unequal lift to attain symmetry of lift.
When the helicopter moves through the air, the relative airflow through the main rotor disk is different on the advancing side than on the retreating side. The relative wind encountered by the advancing blade is increased by the forward speed of the helicopter; while the relative windspeed acting on the retreating blade is reduced by the helicopter’s forward airspeed. Therefore, as a result of the relative windspeed, the advancing blade side of the rotor disk produces more lift than the retreating blade side. [Figure 10]
The blade tip speed of this helicopter is approximately 300 knots. If the helicopter is moving forward at 100 knots, the relative windspeed on the advancing side is 400 knots. On the retreating side, it is only 200 knots. This difference in speed causes a dissymmetry of lift
If this condition was allowed to exist, a helicopter with a counterclockwise main rotor blade rotation would roll to the left because of the difference in lift. In reality, the main rotor blades flap and feather automatically to equalize lift across the rotor disk. Articulated rotor systems, usually with three or more blades, incorporate a horizontal hinge (flapping hinge) to allow the individual rotor blades to move, or flap up and down as they rotate. A semirigid rotor system (two blades) utilizes a teetering hinge, which allows the blades to flap as a unit. When one blade flaps up, the other blade flaps down.
As the rotor blade reaches the advancing side of the rotor disk, it reaches its maximum upward flapping velocity. [Figure 11A] When the blade flaps upward, the angle between the chord line and the resultant relative wind decreases. This decreases the AOA, which reduces the amount of lift produced by the blade. At position C, the rotor blade is at its maximum downward flapping velocity. Due to downward flapping, the angle between the chord line and the resultant relative wind increases. This increases the AOA and thus the amount of lift produced by the blade.
The combined upward flapping (reduced lift) of the advancing blade and downward flapping (increased lift) of the retreating blade equalizes lift across the main rotor disk counteracting dissymmetry of lift
The combination of blade flapping and slow relative wind acting on the retreating blade normally limits the maximum forward speed of a helicopter. At a high forward speed, the retreating blade stalls due to high AOA and slow relative wind speed. This situation is called “retreating blade stall” and is evidenced by a nose-up pitch, vibration, and a rolling tendency—usually to the left in helicopters with counterclockwise blade rotation.
Pilots can avoid retreating blade stall by not exceeding the never-exceed speed. This speed is designated VNE and is indicated on a placard and marked on the airspeed indicator by a red line.
During aerodynamic flapping of the rotor blades as they compensate for dissymmetry of lift, the advancing blade achieves maximum upward flapping displacement over the nose and maximum downward flapping displacement over the tail. This causes the tip-path plane to tilt to the rear and is referred to as blowback. Figure 12 shows how the rotor disk is originally oriented with the front down following the initial cyclic input. As airspeed is gained and flapping eliminates dissymmetry of lift, the front of the disk comes up, and the back of the disk goes down. This reorientation of the rotor disk changes the direction in which total rotor thrust acts; the helicopter’s forward speed slows, but can be corrected with cyclic input. The pilot uses cyclic feathering to compensate for dissymmetry of lift allowing him or her to control the attitude of the rotor disk.
To compensate for blowback, move the cyclic forward.Blowback is more pronounced with higher airspeeds
Cyclic feathering compensates for dissymmetry of lift (changes the AOA) in the following way. At a hover, equal lift is produced around the rotor system with equal pitch and AOA on all the blades and at all points in the rotor system (disregarding compensation for translating tendency). The rotor disk is parallel to the horizon. To develop a thrust force, the rotor system must be tilted in the desired direction of movement.
Cyclic feathering changes the angle of incidence differentially around the rotor system. Forward cyclic movements decrease the angle of incidence at one part on the rotor system while increasing the angle at another part. Maximum downward flapping of the blade over the nose and maximum upward flapping over the tail tilt both rotor disk and thrust vector forward. To prevent blowback from occurring, the pilot must continually move the cyclic forward as the velocity of the helicopter increases. Figure 12 illustrates the changes in pitch angle as the cyclic is moved forward at increased airspeeds.
At a hover, the cyclic is centered and the pitch angle on the advancing and retreating blades is the same. At low forward speeds, moving the cyclic forward reduces pitch angle on the advancing blade and increases pitch angle on the retreating blade. This causes a slight rotor tilt. At higher forward speeds, the pilot must continue to move the cyclic forward. This further reduces pitch angle on the advancing blade and further increases pitch angle on the retreating blade. As a result, there is even more tilt to the rotor than at lower speeds.
This horizontal lift component (thrust) generates higher helicopter airspeed. The higher airspeed induces blade flapping to maintain symmetry of lift. The combination of flapping and cyclic feathering maintains symmetry of lift and desired attitude on the rotor system and helicopter.
Autorotation
Autorotation is the state of flight in which the main rotor system of a helicopter is being turned by the action of air moving up through the rotor rather than engine power driving the rotor. In normal, powered flight, air is drawn into the main rotor system from above and exhausted downward, but during autorotation, air moves up into the rotor system from below as the helicopter descends. Autorotation is permitted mechanically by a freewheeling unit, which is a special clutch mechanism that allows the main rotor to continue turning even if the engine is not running. If the engine fails, the freewheeling unit automatically disengages the engine from the main rotor allowing the main rotor to rotate freely. It is the means by which a helicopter can be landed safely in the event of an engine failure; consequently, all helicopters must demonstrate this capability in order to be certificated. [Figure 13]
During an autorotation, the upward flow of relative wind permits the main rotor blades to rotate at their normal speed. In effect, the blades are “gliding” in their rotational plane
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Amazon launches car-browsing tool
Amazon is introducing Amazon Vehicles, a site that potential car shoppers can use to get information about automobiles a la Kelly Blue Book. (Amazon.com)
The Seattle e-commerce juggernaut is launching Amazon Vehicles, a place on its online store that will house car specs and reviews for shoppers to research car purchases. They can’t buy vehicles there, though.
Amazon.com now wants you to shop for vehicles on its site — except it won’t sell you a car.
On Thursday, the Seattle e-commerce juggernaut is launching Amazon Vehicles, a destination on its online store that will house car specifications and reviews to help shoppers research car purchases on Amazon.com, just as they do when they lust after a fancy coffee maker.
But vehicles, in most states a highly regulated retail industry, are not for sale there. Nor are there links or special offers from car dealers, at least for now.
It’s more an information resource such as those provided by Kelly Blue Book or Edmunds.com, except the purpose seems to be to draw customers to the Amazon Automotive store, a part of the company’s retail empire that sells parts and accessories.
The move rides on Amazon’s growing role as the de facto search engine for products.
“More and more customers are turning to Amazon for researching products, and now we’re enabling that experience for vehicles — which is one of the most important, research-intensive purchases in customers’ lives,” an Amazon spokeswoman said.
Those in the market for a new ride can just type the model they’re curious about as they would for any other item. They also can browse by year, make, model, fuel economy or even customer rating.
Most important, they can pore over thousands of customer reviews and ask questions about a specific model.
Motor vehicles that need registration are one of the rare product lines, along with tobacco, assault weapons and other regulated items, that aren’t sold at on the Everything Store.
Dealers have long defended state laws that steer the buying and selling of most vehicles to franchised dealerships.
That doesn’t mean Amazon hasn’t tried. In 2000, the company backed Greenlight.com, a car-buying service that promised a “superior car-buying experience” without haggling, through a network of dealers.
The service was accessible through Amazon’s online store. But the experiment was short-lived; Greenlight was later acquired by CarsDirect, a service that connects shoppers with dealers.
Amazon to donate Kindles to schools
Amazon.com has launched the Kindle Reading Fund, an initiative to donate e-readers, tablets and digital books to libraries, schools and nonprofit organizations around the world.
The move was announced Wednesday in a blog post by Dave Limp, the head of Amazon’s devices business. It’s the latest high profile philanthropic initiative unveiled by the Seattle tech and retail giant, which seems to be finding its ground as a more vocal corporate benefactor.
“We recognize that not everyone has access to the books they want or need,” Limp wrote in the post.
The fund has a Web page where groups can request donations from Amazon.
Source : http://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-launches-car-browsing-tool/
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Exercise Unified Response: Tower block collapses at Waterloo Station
Exercise Unified Response prepares the emergency services and the European Civil Protection Mechanism for large-scale urban disasters
The collapse of a tower block into Waterloo Underground Station buried eight carriages full of passengers in 1,000 tonnes of rubble.
It was then a race against time for emergency responders to dig through the debris blocking the only entry point to reach the 2,500 casualties trapped inside the carriages.
Thankfully, the wounds were the work of 100 makeup artists, the cramped network of tunnels was built from shipping containers in the disused turbine hall of Dartford’s Littlebrook Power Station, and the desperate screams of the passengers were from budding actors from the local area.
This scenario was part of Exercise Unified Response - the largest disaster simulation exercise in Europe – taking place over four days between 29 February and 3 March 2016.
Designed to test the activation of strategic co-ordination arrangements in the event of a complex disaster with mass casualties, the exercise involved multiple agencies including the emergency services, public safety agencies and local authorities, not just from the UK, but also from countries across Europe.
A European dimension
The groundwork for Exercise Unified Response began in 2013, when the London Fire Brigade Emergency Planning team put together a bid for €1million co-funding from the European Union to test the implementation of the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism.
Following approval and funding, London Fire Brigade worked on behalf of the London Resilience Partnership (LRP) and alongside national and international agencies to demonstrate how it would mount an effective emergency response to an urban mass-casualty disaster.
The objectives of the scenario included:
Initiating and implementing the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism
As part of the exercise, the UK evaluated its resources and decided more support was required. The EU Civil Protection Mechanism received the request through the UK’s official channels (Cabinet Office and Civil Contingencies Secretariat).and the Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) was then established.
Planning for subterranean disasters
The testing environment with just one entry point required effective coordination to process the casualties.
Sharing learnings across Europe
The exercise included dedicated observers who recorded the decisions being made on-site. A comprehensive debrief will follow the exercise, and its findings will be shared with participating states and the European Commission to drive further improvements in emergency response and recovery procedures.
Integrating assistance from specialist teams
Exercise Unified Response tested response procedures including protocols for sharing information (e.g. missing person information) between the UK and EU participating states.
Meeting communications requirements
With so many agencies coming together from across the UK and abroad, it was vital that personnel could communicate with one another over the Airwave Network to keep the situation controlled and co-ordinated.
"Airwave radios were used extensively during Exercise Unified Response as a communications tool at the live site for exercise management, safety, evaluation temas, and live players from all agencies in various different roles," said Peter Cowup, the recently retired Assistant Commissioner for London Fire Brigade who was Exercise Director. "The satellite link provided by Airwave that provided access into their network proved reliable in operation and there were no reported issues during the whole of the three day event."
“What made this event unique was the location,” said Stuart Mitchell, London Engineering manager at Airwave. “London Fire Brigade had created a very real replica of Waterloo Station, but in a relatively suburban setting. This meant that our solution needed to protect the local blue light services by absorbing the event traffic.
“The challenge was to design a solution that protected the business as usual Network in the local area whilst providing the coverage required to meet the needs of the event.”
To simulate the communications environment in London and accommodate the increased volume of traffic in the Dartford area, Airwave deployed two of its specialist vehicles to the scene.
“We considered many delivery options before deciding on a two-stage underlay/overlay approach,” Mitchell explained. “This comprised two sites in the same location but independent of each other, one being the main site (provided by a Mobile Base Site) and then a secondary site in the form of a Site Replacement Vehicle. Virtually all the traffic was processed by the main site and the secondary site sat in reserve to provide additional support if there were any traffic surges or faults.”
"Using the four base radio VSAT link ensured that the fixed Airwave infrastructure that serves the Dartford area was not adversely impacted by the increased radio traffic that Exercise Unified Response inevitably created, given the scale of the exercise and the large number of responders involved," said Cowup.
"There were no reports of any queuing or delays in using Airwave radios to talk either on or off site during the exercise, even though, at one stage, 35 talkgroups were in simultaneous use."
“Supporting our customers in exercises such as Unified Response is a key aspect of the emergency planning programme for Airwave,” said Liza-Marie Turner, Business Continuity & Emergency Planning Manager at Airwave. “We plan and provide communication options to enable exercise play on the ground, and also make use of the exercise internally by engaging with the national emergency alert for telecoms (NEAT) and the various levels of command. Exercises like this enable our major incident management processes to be tested in a safe environment.”
“Having the opportunity to regularly test our incident management and business continuity processes means they have matured well, and we’ve been working with our customers on exercises like Unified Response for many years. Teams in Airwave are able to draw on their experience not only to offer the most appropriate communications set-up for the exercise, but they can also look back on when the Network has been used in real emergencies and simulate the comms environment a user would encounter if they found themselves in a similar situation in real life.”
Of course, the conclusion of the simulation did not mark the end of Exercise Unified Response, and the next stage of delivering a detailed debrief has already begun.
The learnings will be compiled into a report that will be shared across the European Union to highlight good practice and areas for improvement in mass-casualty scenarios, to shape future disaster response across the EU.
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Akron Public Schools » News » Past Archived News - 2019 » Past Archived News - January 2019 » First Woman to Ever be Named Chief
APS Alum is OSU PD Chief
(Jennifer Smola for Columbus Dispatch/Ohio.com)
As an Ohio State University student in the early 1990s, Kimberly Spears-McNatt never attended a football game.
The Akron native and former track star at Kenmore High School was too busy juggling her schoolwork and three jobs —at a Kroger store, her work-study program, and the university transportation and parking office — to make it to a Buckeyes game, but she did graduate debt-free.
Years later, that same work ethic has propelled her to become the first female chief of the Ohio State Police Division.
Spears-McNatt was sworn in Thursday. The division’s 10 previous chiefs were all men.
“It’s very humbling,” she said. “My personal and my professional philosophy is, ‘To whom much is given, much is required.’”
Her family was just as proud, especially her mother, Cilla Williams.
“I still got tears in my eyes,” the mother said. “I’m just so overjoyed and proud of her.”
Spears-McNatt, 48, served about six months as interim chief following the departure of former Chief Craig Stone, who took a position at the University of Illinois in June.
Spears-McNatt graduated from Ohio State in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and a minor in black studies. During her time working for the Ohio State transportation and parking department, where she was a clerical assistant, a campus police officer started talking to her about police work. By 1994, she had joined the police division, where she’s been ever since.
“I’m proud of her because she did this all herself,” Williams said. “She was always a hard worker in high school and she still is now.”
Despite her determination and success, Spears-McNatt wasn’t alone on her journey.
She said she is grateful to the many women in her profession who have paved the way, rattling off half a dozen names of women in law enforcement, including former Orlando Police Chief and current Democratic Florida Congresswoman Val Dennings and outgoing Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs, among others.
″[There are] a lot of shoulders I stand on to be able to sit here,” she said. “There’s a lot more women in law enforcement [now], but it’s always that challenge, as a woman, when you come to the table, for your voice to be heard. At the same time, I’ve received a lot of support from women and men counterparts that gives me the strength, a lot of encouragement, a lot of advice, a lot of mentors to let me know that they’re there to support me and I don’t have to figure this out by myself.”
Reports of sexual assaults have increased at Ohio State in recent years, going from 26 in 2015 to 71 in 2017, according to the university’s most recent Clery Act data.
“I graduated from Ohio State, so when I personally hear incidents happen on campus, I take it personal,” she said. “I know what it’s like to be a student on campus, and I understand that this should be the best four or five years of your life. And I want the students to be able to focus on their education, their dreams, their goals, and let me and the officers worry about their safety.”
When Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove a car into a crowd on campus and began stabbing people on Nov. 28, 2016, Spears-McNatt was incident commander, managing the scene, delegating tasks and disseminating information among officers and other law-enforcement partners. The incident ended when a university officer fatally shot Artan.
As chief overseeing 56 sworn officers, Spears-McNatt said she will make training a major focus, in part because of how important her training was during that 2016 attack. She had been cross-trained to be the Homeland Security branch director for football games and also had worked traffic operations, which helped her the day of the attack, she said. She said she wants all command staff to be cross-trained “so when they have to handle a situation, that they’re prepared for it.”
Spears-McNatt also plans to focus on recruiting and retaining the best officers while keeping in mind diversity and inclusion.
“I want to make sure that we have a police division that is just as diverse as the community that we serve,” she said.
Though she’s no longer juggling three jobs, Spears-McNatt is still working hard. She’s been to countless Ohio State football games now, but as a police officer reporting for duty.
She finally attended her first game as a spectator when she and her husband, Vince McNatt, and son Collin McNatt, 15, attended the Rose Bowl game on New Year’s Day in Pasadena.
“I don’t take that for granted that I will have the opportunity to lead our agency, shape our agency and keep the campus safe, which is our No. 1 priority,” she said.
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‘Palestine is not UN member state or any state at all’ – Nikki Haley
In a statement on October 16, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed a recent decision by the UN General Assembly to allow Palestine to chair the coalition Group of 77. The partially-recognized state will lead the UN-based coalition of developing nations starting in January 2019.
In her statement Haley noted that the US had voted against the decision because it considers such a move harmful to achieving peace between the Palestinians and Israelis. She also recalled that the State of Palestine is not a full member to the UN and is not recognized by all of its member states, including the US.
“The Palestinians are not a UN Member State or any state at all. […] Today’s UN mistake undermines the prospects for peace by encouraging the illusion held by some Palestinian leaders that they can advance their goals without direct peace negotiations,” Haley said.
The US envoy added that Palestine is not “eligible to be admitted as a UN Member State.”
Washington has been a consistent critic of the Palestinians over their methods of reaching a lasting peace with Israel. The US opposed the designation of the partially-recognized state as a UN non-member observer in 2012.
The Group of 77, a coalition of developing countries at the UN that was founded in 1964 and now includes134 states has announced that it has chosen the State of Palestine as its chair starting in 2019. The coalition is currently led by Egypt.
Source: Sputnik
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Now why would the shiksa chick say that ? Nearly all the countries in the world recognise the state of Palestine, it is only a few backward nations that fail to do so. In 2012, by a vote of 138-9,general assembly resolution 67/19 was passed in favour of upgrading Palestine to a ” non member observer state ” in the united nations. This change of status was described by the independent as ” de facto recognition of the STATE of PALESTINE “. So once again the deluded Ms Haley is quite wrong, and one can only conclude that when she… Read more »
You CAN’T be a UN member unless you have a territory and the only way they can get it is to sign a land treaty with Israel which they ALWAYS REFUSED.
As long as they don’t only the 1922 San-Remo treaty map is legal.
Israel will not define it’s borders with the Palestinian state as with Syria, so how can any land deal be agreed. In this map you have presented the Golan heights are shown to be within Syrian borders, but like the state of Palestine there is no recognised Isareli border that leaves the area in a flux like state and open to the theft of even more land.
You are wrong! The borders are perfectly recognised through the 1922 San-Remo treaty, and if you don’t recognise these, saying Israel is illegitimate, so are Syria, Lebanon and Iraq which were created the same way. These are the ruins of the Ottoman empire, dude!
They are not recognised that is why squatters are able to steal morre and more land.
Nobody is contesting that Israel invaded the Golan-Heights, but Syria can only blame herself for the loss : nobody forced her into participating the 1967 war of aggression on Israel.
If you start a war of aggression an lose territory, you can shove it in your a$$. So is the right of conquest.
>You CAN’T be a UN member unless you have a territory < The Palestinians have a territory, the trouble is Israel keeps stealing it.
Nope, they haven’t since, unless they sign a land treaty, it still belongs to Israel! And they refused to do so MANY times!
Stern Daler
The population of Palestine was not present and asked in San-Remo which created the casus belli for a dozen wars.
My dear Entente blockhead.
If you see the “non member observer state” as a de-facto recognition as a state, so the Order of Malta is a de-facto state too while they only rule 2 huge villas n Italy and a fort in Malta.
And since, instead of promoting peace and good neighbourhood, both PLO and Hamas went on with their stupid project to uproot Israelis and conquer the whole country, that’s even why PNA refuses to sign any land treaty…
It’s obvious that Israelis ended changing their mind, having finally understood that Oslo-II was a taqiyya (deception) that Arafat himself compared to the Hudaibiyah treaty.
Thus, since UN CAN’T CREATE COUNTRIES (read UN charter!), signing a land treaty is now off Israeli table. Thus, Palestine is not a country and actually will NEVER be, it’s an obvious FACT.
It could have happened, but Arafat/Abbas weren’t true to their parole.
In fact, Israelis are too optimistic. They should have puled out from Oslo-II when Arafat launched the 2nd intifada instead signing the land treaty in 2000AD.
PLO has NEVER stopped to promote the use of violence and even brags about their strategy of alternating violence and diplomacy to get gains without conceding anything.
Now they will end getting NOTHING.
The illegal entity of Israel was created so whats your point ?
If Israel is illegal, so are Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq since all were created “illegally” through the same process!
Yes and so be it !
I forgot : UNGA resolutions are non-binding => These worth as much as shït. And frankly, rabbi drewzif, your masters in Tehran don’t give a fück about binding UNSC ones since they keep arming UNSC-banned HELLbollah, so frankly, you’re very in double standards!
Including about your own Koran since Surat 5.20-21 give the land of Israel to the Jews and S.17.104 say that the Jewish diaspora will return and Jews will repossess their land, thus you curse your own creepy book, period!
I’m from the UK Daesh and have no allegiance to anybody. I just speak up for the TRUTH.
@Rabbe, my dear shegetz, as of 3 August 2018, 137 of the 193 United Nations (UN) member states and two non-member states have recognized the State of Palestine. So not only “backward” countries like the UK and the US do not recognise it. The countries that do not recognize take the position that the establishment of a Palestinian state can only be determined through direct negotiations and a treaty between Israel and the PNA. For them the State of Palestine exists de facto but not de jure.
George Heinrich Falke
Niki Haley MUST be confused! Palestine has always been a country except some idiots from Europe came over and are occupying it. I recognize Palestine and I recognize that Niki Haley is pas corrupt as they come.
Joe Yousef
YOU STILL HERE? I THOUGHT THE b***h IS LEAVING.
What role does the San Remo Conference play in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, if at all and why?
https://www.quora.com/What-role-does-the-San-Remo-Conference-play-in-the-Israeli-Palestinian-conflict-if-at-all-and-why
Yet another failed state and the best way is to throw it under the bus once and for all.
The Arab-League shall take its responsibilities on the people they dragged into this Fraud and send them back to the countries of their ancestors.
1 century ago, only about 15,000 Arabs were living west of the Jordan river, into “Jewish-Palestine” AKA Israel and only half of these were born here… Ending with 900-950k in 1948 wasn’t achieved by natural means.
All these were deliberately “imported” to derail the planned creation of the state of Israel even before its birth. The plot ended into an epic failure, as did all wars the Arab-League led and the propaganda they funded.
Now there are 5M ppl stranded in 6,000km² while the the “Arab-World” is 13 millions km² big. It’s high time to stop this ridiculous mess.
Just give ’em 30,000km² even of desert with a sea-shore, have the Israelis build ’em desalination and irrigation systems if they really want a state (which I doubt) or simply take ’em as citizens with UN compensations.
There is enough room on Easter island to accommadate all of world jewry. Everybody will be winners then.
There is enough room on the Falklands isls. to accommodate the Fakestinians and if prevented to use ships and the Port-Stanley airport is closed, they won’t do terrorism on Argentina
There is also enuff room in HËLL to accommodate all shitlamists… The sooner, the better 🙂
Frankly, 163km² of Easter island for 14M Jews, you’re not generous. Why not putting all muslims in the Gaza strip as a compensation for the world. Not a problem : Germans can build gas-chambers and crematory ovens for you : isn’t it the Golden rule? What you wish to others, you wish to yourself!
And as you want to kill all kâfir, it’d be just that you end killed instead 🙂 You had an absurd proposal, so you see, I can propose stuff as absurd as you!
You are the only one advocating violence Daesh, it’s your squatter instinct.
No need to build anything. Starve millions like the Allied Fascists did. 1945-1948,
The Gaza strip is densely overpopulated it is the biggest open air prison in the world so lets not talk generosity hey! Nice to see you putting your little hasbara handbook to use, when all else fails bring up the holocaust. This was the no1 weapon for the stealing of Palestinian lands. The Germans never built any gas chambers its a myth, as proven by jewish film director David Cole (Stein) in his documentaries. The 6 million figure is another fabrication with the real death total nearer 250,000 including non-jews, most of who died of disease. And in your rabidness… Read more »
In the case of Gaza the correct term to use is … The worlds biggest concentration camp.
More nonsense old boy. In 1914 Palestine had a population of 657,000 Muslim arabs, 81,000 christian arabs and only 59,000 jews. You’re maths just don’t add up. 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_
You include the population of Jordan which constitutes 77% of the Palestine region! Your 59k Jews were all west of Jordan river for a population about 90-100k.
Jerusalem alone had 42k Jews, 13k Christians and 5k muslims. There were 5k muslims in Haifa importded from Saudi-Arabia to build the Haifa-Damascus railroad in 1902.
Other muslims in Israel were nomad bedouins or seasonal workers hired in proto-khiboutz
No read it, Israeli Palestine it clearly says ,it’s simple.
@Rabbe, The 1914 Turkish demographic aka tax records were not very accurate for some reason. Plus there was legal immigration into the Palestine mandate from 1918 till 1948 when Israel was founded.
More nonsense old boy. In 1914 Palestine had a population of 657,000 Muslim arabs, 81,000 christian arabs and only 59,000 jews. You’re maths just don’t add up. ????
This is the “Palestine” you speak about, Mr. trickster 😉
How funny, nobody speaks about the Kingdom of Hejaz the al-Saouds stole from the Hashemites :
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/arabworld/hejazhist.gif
And as these idiots were then given Syria, lost it, then Iraq and lost it too, Brits cooked the “Arab-Palestine” thing to become Jordan for them.
In violation of the Balfour declaration promises… So be happy Israel didn’t invaded Jordan, especially since the Rothschilds’ got near ruined at buying all this!
No, israeli palestine, it’s quite simple even for you Daesh, but you seem to be confused about israels borders anyway.
Yes and send the . the false jews back to Georgia too.
Start sending Arabs BACK to their desert in Arabia, thus free Iraq, Syria, Iran, Egypt, Maghreb etc etc from Islam and have it sent crawling back in its hole between the two mosques as the serpent crawls back in its hole, as prophetised in Sahih Muslim book 1, Hadith 271, then I may agree with you.
Thus, the huge majority of Jews in Israel are the Misrahi ones since Arab-League didn’t only expelled 711k Fakestinians from their homes in 1948, but also 850k Non-Israeli Jews from A-L countries.
Then 350k additional ones until 1972 when other countries joined the Arab-League, e.g. Algeria…
So yeah, I can only agree with you if only the Mecca and Medina mosques end left : it’s absolutely OK to send Georgian Jews back to Georgia if the world gets rid of smth worst than Nazism: Islam
But Nazism has never gone away it’s alive and well in Israel.
the vast majority of jews in Israel are Ashkenazi fact !!
No. Rabbe. As of 2005, 61% of Israeli Jews were of full or partial Mizrahi ancestry. from Jews, Arabs, and Arab Jews: The Politics of Identity and Reproduction in Israel, Ducker, Clare Louise, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews
Face it. The Muslims decision to drive the Mizrahim to Israel made up the majority of the population and made it viable demographically.
Well according to the source you’ve quoted it says Mizrahi and sephardic jews account for about half of the total jewish population.
” If combined, Mizrahi and sephardic jews number about one half of Israeli jews “. That would leave the other half, the AshkeNAZI with a slight majority.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews_in_Israel
Hope this clarifies things for you.
“As of 2005, 61% of Israeli Jews were of full or partial Mizrahi ancestry.” You point to another Wikipedia article. I did not quote Yours. So 61% are full or partial Mizrahim. Plus the Sephardim according to Your article. Since they are mixing and You can count mixes both ways – You will end up with more than 100%. Mizrahim and Sephardim have higher birthrates than all but the Ultra Orthodox Jews. There are about 3.2 million Mizrahim and about 1.4 million Sephardim in Israel. Last census was the 2008 census with 7,412,200 people of whom 74.5 % were Jews.… Read more »
It would seem that wikipedia is a very unreliable source and cannot be trusted as being accurate, this also makes your research pretty shoddy too. On the plus side i found this on the world populationreview.com. http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/israel-population/ Here is a quote; The demography of Israel is monitored by a body named the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. The most recent demographics of Israel, taken on Israel’s Independence Day in 2013, found 75% of the population is Jewish while Arabs account for 21% of the population. The remaining 4% (318,000) are referred to as “others” and are family members of Jewish… Read more »
It would seem wikipaedia has 2 different sets of figures for the total Mizrahi jew population of Israel. They clearly befuddle the statistics with a view to deceiving people.
The Wikipedia article You quote is shoddy research. Goto articles about the groups.
Wikipedia has several individual articles about this and related topics.
It would seem your wikipedia quote is shoddy research too.
Misleading and erroneous info.
https://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-jews-the-hebrews-and-the-israelites-not-your-old-same-same-by-bishop/comment-page-2/
Deeper and deeper we go.
Your article by Bishop is not researched well. That the Israelites always were a mixture of peoples is written in the Holy Bible. They had ONE God and spoke a Semite language – no more no less. New genetic research has proven that the Bible is right. But mind me – all Middle Eastern and European people are a mixture. And they all come from similar sources. Look at Your UK Cheddar man with his swarty skin and blue eyes. He is a pre neolithic hunter gatherer not an English Aryan. Next came the neolithic farmers with fair skin and… Read more »
Nevertheless they are fake jews.
Revelation 3:9 King James Version (KJV)
So the jewish encyclopedia is an unreliable source is it. I’m surprised you haven’t called it anti-semitic. I’m afraid you can’t alter the facts to further your beliefs it doesn’t work like that. I’m not sure what jewish denomination you are Stern, but you have a very limited understanding of your historical/genealogical roots.
Bishop quoted the jewish encyclopedia wrongly. IMHO. Or did You check? You can become a Jew by conversion or be born by a Jewish mother. Only a minority of the current Jews have all Jewish ancestry on the maternal side. Some DNS studies suggest that anyway. They were not totally endogamous right from the start. The Bible says so. Revelation speaks of men belonging to the synagogue of the Satan. These men claim they are Jews. But that is a spiritual not a genetic claim. They are not Jews because they do not believe in God. https://biblehub.com/revelation/3-9.htm p.s. According to… Read more »
Wrong Ashkenazi have a slight majority. Here,
No the Ashkenazim in Israel are 2.8 million or less and the Mizrahim in Israel: 3,200,000. Due to efforts of the cradle they outgrew the Zionists since they arrived and are still outgrowing.
p.s. You were referring to the about 5,6 million US Jews who are mostly Ashkenazim. As I said the Wikipedia article You rely on is shoddy research. The majority of Jews in the world is Ashkenazim not that in Israel.
Wikileaks is an unreliable source Stern.
Rabbe. You can calculate the approximate number of Mizrahim when You know their original number, the elapsed time and their birthrate. They are in the range of three million and more.
I used Wikipedia not Wikileaks. You use Wikipedia also.
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By drbyosIn NewsPosted January 16, 2020 0 Comment(s)
The chances of a quick fix in the latest Bali assault case involving an Australian behind bars in Kuta seem to be fading.
The victim, a taxi driver who was allegedly attacked and hit in the face by a man from Perth, has so far refused to accept the compensation offered and has left Bali to consult with his family in Java.
Watch the video above
It is understood that he will stay in his hometown, in Banguwangi, at least until the weekend, which means that there is no chance that the Australian will be released in the next few days.
Tore Gerard Vincenzo Bempasciuto, a 23-year-old mechanic from Perth, was arrested early Tuesday, accused of assaulting a taxi driver in a fight over a mobile phone.
He has been detained since then at the Kuta police station, named suspect in an assault case involving a prison sentence of two years and eight months.
Mother support
His mother Patricia, who has flown from Perth to support him, left the police station on Thursday afternoon crying.
It occurs when hopes of reaching a quick conclusion of the case fade away with news that the victim is not ready to accept the money offered by Bempasciuto in exchange for abandoning his police report.
And the fact that he went to Java to consult with his family and participate in a ceremony means that it is unlikely that there will be a resolution until next week.
Patricia Bempasciuto leaving the Kuta police station today crying after visiting her son. Credit: 7News
The lawyer Daniar Trisasongko, who is on the team representing Bempasciuto, said that until now no peace agreement had been reached with the victim.
This is Bempasciuto’s only opportunity to avoid a criminal trial and possible imprisonment.
Daniar said the victim had not yet responded to the offer of the legal compensation team for his physical injuries, shattered cell phone and compensation for free time at work.
But he refused to discuss how much money the driver had offered the driver.
‘(The victim) will argue and think with the family.’
It has been revealed that the victim, Saipul Nurokhim, traveled from Bali to his hometown in East Java, to consult his family and any decision now depends on whether or not to accept money to abandon the case.
Daniar said the legal team had discussed the case in detail on Wednesday with the victim, but Bempasciuto had not met or had any conversation with the taxi driver.
“(The victim) will argue and think with the family,” Daniar said.
In the video below: Perth’s mother desperately goes to Bali to try to free her son
Tore Gerard Vincenzo Bempasciuto is being held in Bali, accused of hitting a taxi driver in front of a nightclub.
The victim, Saipul, has indicated that he would forgive Bempasciuto.
“As a creature of Allah, we must forgive each other. We can forgive other people. However, above other things, we will see later,” Saipul said.
Pressed on whether he would forgive the Australian, he said: “Yes. As human beings, we should (forgive). But what follows, we’ll see.”
Assault on disco
It is alleged that Bempasciuto assaulted the taxi driver Saipul, allegedly hitting his head and hitting him in the face, at approximately 4.15 in the morning outside the LXXY nightclub in downtown Kuta.
It is alleged that the telephone and belongings of the Perth man were stolen inside the Bounty nightclub and that he believed he was the 43-year-old taxi driver who had been following him and who was confronted outside for the robbery.
The alleged assault took place outside the LXXY Bar in Legian. Credit: Google
After the alleged incident, which was captured by CCTV, Bempasciuto and a woman with him fled the scene, chased by an angry crowd and took refuge in a minimart until the police arrived.
Ferndale’s man was arrested and taken into custody.
The woman who was with him was fired, but police say she could also be named a suspect, since it is alleged that she was also involved in the assault.
More at 7NEWS.com.au
7NEWS.com.au She understands from sources that she fled from Bali and returned to Perth.
The head of the Kuta police crime section, Putu Ika Prabawa, says the investigations continue and that if she is named a suspect and has already left Bali, she will seek help from the Australian Federal Police.
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Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. and tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang arrive onstage for the fifthDemocratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. Nicholas Kamm, AFP via Getty Images
Democratic presidential hopefuls, Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend Pete, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Former Vice President Joe Biden, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., arrive onstage for the fifth Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. Saul Loeb, AFP via Getty Images
Democratic presidential hopefuls Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and former Vice President Joe Biden, arrive onstage for the fifth Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. Saul Loeb, AFP via Getty Images
Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif, arrive for the fifth Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. Saul Loeb, AFP via Getty Images
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. participates in the fifth Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. Saul Loeb, AFP via Getty Images
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during the fifth Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. Saul Loeb, AFP via Getty Images
Democratic presidential hopefuls Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg speaks as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., during the fifth Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. Saul Loeb, AFP via Getty Images
Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the fifth Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. Saul Loeb, AFP via Getty Images
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during the fifth Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. Saul Loeb, AFP via Getty Images
Sen. Cory Booker, who dropped out of the presidential reace on Jan. 13, 2020, also had some star support. John Bazemore, AP
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., waves before a Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. John Bazemore, AP
Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Andrew Yang, and Tom Steyer await the start of the Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. Alex Wong, Getty Images
Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, speaks during the fifth Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. Saul Loeb, AFP via Getty Images
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg at the debate in Atlanta on Nov. 20, 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
Democratic presidential candidate investor Tom Steyer speaks during the Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. John Bazemore, AP
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., makes a point as former Vice President Joe Biden stands by during the Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. Alex Wong, Getty Images
Democratic presidential candidate former technology executive Andrew Yang walks onto the stage before the Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. Saul Loeb, AFP via Getty Images
And Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said that while Trump is "likely the most corrupt president in the modern history of America," his campaign cannot only focus on it.
"We cannot simply be consumed by Donald Trump, because if we are, you know what? We’re going to lose the election," Sanders said.
Warren defends controversial policies on the rich
In past debates, Democrats opened with lengthy exchanges on health care – an issue that has divided centrists and liberals in the fields for months. This time, the candidates had a longer-than-usual debate on taxes.
Warren began by touting her two-cent tax on the wealthiest Americans. "I’m tired of freeloading billionaires," Warren said, but also noted that "doing a wealth tax is not about punishing anyone." Rather, she says, it's about asking those at the top to contribute to others.
"Our government is working better and better for the billionaires," Warren said, "and worse and worse for everyone else."
The argument drew a quick rebuttal from New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who called Warren’s plan "cumbersome" and difficult to evaluate.
Saying that all the Democrats on stage support universal pre-kindergarten care and bringing "a lot more revenue in this country” through closing loopholes, Booker said that, "I don’t agree with the wealth tax the way Elizabeth Warren puts it."
More: Elizabeth Warren says 'Medicare for All' plan increases taxes on billionaires, avoids hike on middle class
Warren's wealth tax is also part of her plan to fund Medicare for All. After taking heat from 2020 rivals at previous debates for dodging the question of how she would fund for the policy, Warren released a plan that she says would not raise taxes on the middle class.
Sanders and Warren defended their Medicare for All approaches while Buttigieg and Biden argued people shouldn’t be forced into one government-run plan.
Sanders recycled one of his biggest applause lines from a previous debate during the health care discussion.
After Warren talked about the need for reform, the debate moderators gave Sanders a chance to respond.
“Thank you,” Sanders quipped. “I wrote the damn bill.”
It was a line that Sanders first rolled out during a debate in July in Detroit when challenged about the details of his health care plan.
“The vast majority of Democrats don’t support Medicare for All,” Biden said, asserting that it couldn’t pass the Democrat-controlled House. Biden supports a Medicare option that builds on the Affordable Care Act, and says that people don't want to lose their current health insurance plans.
“I trust the American people to make a judgement that they believe is in their interest," Biden said.
Gabbard prompts brawl with dig at Democratic Party
Candidates were at each other's throats early on in the November Democratic debate. In one instance, it started with Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard taking another swipe at the Clintons.
It ended with a broader debate about the future of Democratic foreign policy and whether, as Gabbard claims, the party needs to break with the past.
Asked to explain a Twitter firestorm between Gabbard and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton last month, Gabbard said that the party needs to break away from the “Bush-Clinton-Trump” foreign policy that she described as being driven by “greedy corporate interests.”
More: Tulsi Gabbard's lawyers sent a letter to Hillary Clinton demanding she retract Russia comments
That drew a response from California Sen. Kamala Harris, who accused of Gabbard of spending “four years on Fox News criticizing Obama.”
“What we need on this stage,” Harris said, “is someone who has the ability to win.”
I rest my case. pic.twitter.com/qoAPCSvB8J
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 21, 2019
Gabbard said that Harris continued to “traffic in lies and smears and innuendos because she cannot challenge the substance of the argument that I'm making, the leadership and the change that I am seeking to bring.”
What started it? Clinton’s comments to a podcast last month were initially erroneously reported as her saying Russians appeared to be "grooming" Gabbard. Clinton had actually said it was the Republicans who were "grooming" Gabbard, according to an aide.
But Clinton also said in the podcast that "She's a favorite of the Russians" and continued to also talk about former Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
Gabbard shot back on Twitter, calling Clinton the "queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long."
Stabs at rivals masked in quips and jokes
Quick wit served several candidates on stage as they sparred with each other over policy issues, prompting laughter and applause from audience members and spreading widely on social media.
And as Trump's rapid response team fired off emails to counter Democrats' points, they also fired off quips aimed at the president.
Booker slammed Biden for saying this week that he was not prepared to support legalizing marijuana, tying it to the disproportionate effect drug laws have had on communities of color. African Americans have faced a harsher application of those laws than white Americans.
“I thought you might have been high when you said it,” Booker said to Biden.
Biden said he supports decriminalizing marijuana, but said Americans should study the long-term effects of the drug before legalizing it. His earlier comments included that marijuana may be a "gateway drug."
That view has puts Biden at odds with a significant share of voters of both parties, according to polls.
Booker also used a question about how he would unify the country to get in a subtle dig at Buttigieg.
Asked how he would bring the country together if he is president, Booker said the nation achieves great things “when we stand together and work together.” He went on to cite his work as mayor of Newark, N.J., as an example.
“I happen to be the other Rhodes Scholar mayor on the stage,” Booker declared.
The quip was a clear reference to Buttigieg, who has overshadowed Booker and other Democratic candidates in the polls for much of the campaign.
Buttigieg’s rise – some polls put in him in first place in Iowa and New Hampshire – has rankled some of his Democratic rivals.
And entrepreneur Andrew Yang got a good laugh – and applause – when asked what, if elected president, he would say in his first call to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“At first, I’d say I’m sorry I beat your guy,” Yang said, taking a stab at Trump. Then he quickly added: “Sorry, not sorry.”
The return of Biden's gaffes
Before the debate even began, the Biden campaign mistakenly sent an email to supporters that was meant to go out after the debate had ended. "I hope I made you proud out there," the email said.
But that wasn't the end of it, as Biden turned some heads with comments he made on stage, after a respite in his notorious verbal flubs in public appearances.
Looks like Biden’s campaign has accidentally sent a post-debate fundraising email out early. It suggests he may target Warren again tonight.
“We need more than plans... We need to reach across the aisle and demand that our leaders do what’s right.” pic.twitter.com/7YSvzy1bGm
— Jess Bidgood (@jessbidgood) November 20, 2019
Biden’s response to how he would address sexual violence drew laughter for an unfortunate choice of words. He started by reminding the audience he authored legislation to address violence against women.
He argued that “No man has a right to raise a hand to a woman in anger other than in self-defense, and that rarely ever occurs.”
“So we have to just change the culture, period,” Biden said, but then added. “And keep punching at it and punching it and punching at it.”
The former vice president also touted his support from African Americans, one of the reasons he’s leading the field in South Carolina while lagging behind the other frontrunners in Iowa and New Hampshire.
“I have more people supporting me in the black community,” Biden said, then saying that he was endorsed by "the only African American woman who'd ever been elected to the United States Senate," likely referring to Carol Moseley Braun. The Illinois woman, the first black woman elected to the Senate, served a single term in the Senate during the 1990s.
“That’s not true,” both Booker and Harris interjected.
“The other one is here,” Harris said of herself, incredulously, as the stage erupted and Biden quickly tried to correct by saying he meant to say "the first," black woman elected.
Contributing: Nicholas Wu, Maureen Groppe, John Fritze, Michael Collins
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What is Android? Here is a complete guide for beginners
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Authored by: Cory Schmidt Jun 24, 2016
Today we begin the 'Android for Beginners' series. This is the first in a set of courses that ensure you know everything about Android. This introductory course will focus on the origins of Android and give you a list of the key terms you need to know before you start learning more.
What is Android?
Android is software for mobile phones, tablets and a growing range of devices encompassing everything from wearable computing to in-car entertainment. It launched in 2003 and is the world’s most popular mobile operating system (OS).
Android is an open source project (led by Google but it doesn't belong to them) called AOSP (Android Open Source Project). Google uses this project as a base to create its version of Android, which is then used by the other manufacturers.
As an OS, Android's job is to act as a translator between you and your gadget. When you take a photo, Android provides the button you tap and tells the phone what to do when you tap it. When you make or receive a call, Android tells your phone how to do that. When you play a game, Android tells the game what movements you’re making and what buttons you’re pressing. It’s like Windows, but for mobile devices.
The Android software itself is developed in conjunction with Google, who releases major updates to the platform every year. Manufacturers which run Android on their phones include Samsung, Huawei, Sony, Lenovo, HTC, LG and many others; it's currently operational on more than one billion devices.
The Android mascot is a green robot: you might have seen it around.
Just a selection of the phones which run the Android operating system. / © ANDROIDPIT
Where does Android come from?
It comes from Google, who actually acquired Android in 2005 (no, Google didn't invent it). The search giant performs regular updates along with an annual major update.
The operating system is based on the Linux kernel – if you have friends who work in IT, you may have heard of it. This is the GNU / Linux operating system based structure, which is a unix type system (portable operating system, multitasking and multi-user). The Linux kernel is one of the most prominent examples of free software.
What is the difference between Android and iPhone?
It’s not so much a difference between Android and iPhone but Android and iOS. You see, iOS is the software which runs on iPhones and the differences between this and Android are simultaneously big and small.
Smartphones with Android or iOS installed are capable of doing most of the same things: they can both run apps, connect to Wi-Fi, take photos, send messages etc. But there are many differences in how they look and feel, and the possibilities of both.
You can read more about how the latest versions of iOS and Android compare here.
The war between Android and iOS will not end soon. / © AndroidPIT
Why does Android look different on each phone?
Android doesn't look different on every device, but it does have a number of different versions. Android is open-source, which means that manufacturers are free to customize the software and make it their own.
The 'purest' version of Android is often referred to as 'stock Android' and it's often preferred by the Android community: it's the original software as Google intended.
Other user interfaces (UI) include Samsung's TouchWiz, Sony's Xperia, and Huawei's Emotion. See what they all look like in our Android UI comparison.
There are many Android UIs, each with subtle differences. / © ANDROIDPIT
What are the advantages of Android?
Choice. For example, if you want iOS, you have a choice of iPhone, iPhone or iPhone. If you go for Android there are stacks of great devices to choose from, from cheap and cheerful handsets to really impressive flagships. Those flagships are often cheaper than the equivalent Apple devices, too.
Android’s choice isn’t just about hardware. It’s about everything else too. Android is incredibly easy to customize, both in terms of how it looks and how it works, and the various app stores aren’t as tightly controlled as its rivals’ stores, like Apple.
What’s with the candy names?
Each new version of Android gets a code name based on consecutive letters of the alphabet. The most recent version is known as Marshmallow because it is the Android M release. Previous versions have included Lollipop, KitKat, Jelly Bean and Gingerbread.
Android version 4.4 was also known as Android KitKat. / © ANDROIDPIT
What’s the best thing about Android?
Options, many options. With Android you have hundreds of gadgets at your disposal, the cheapest, the most expensive and innovative market. Android is also incredibly customizable, both in their roles, as in his appearance. You can really make a unique mobile experience for yourself with this OS.
What’s the worst thing about Android?
Getting updates. In many cases manufacturers don’t seem to care about providing software updates for devices they’ve already sold you. Even when they do provide updates they take their sweet time about it. That’s why some consider rooting: you can download the updates yourself and apply them instead of waiting for the manufacturer to get around to it.
What is Google Play / Play Store?
The Google Play Store is a digital marketplace where Android users can purchase apps, games, books, movies, music and more. And it's a big advantage to owning an Android device.
The purchased content is connected to your Google account – something you must have in order to make these purchases – and is available on any device where you log in with your Google account.
Google Play tips and tricks every Android user needs to know
Google Play not working? Here's what you can do
The Google Play Store is where you find all of the available Android apps. / © ANDROIDPIT
Here are some Android terms you should know
Here is a glossary of terms you can refer back to as you continue in our series. Have a read through them right now to get a brief overview. Click on one in the table to jump to the term.
ADB Download Mode MicroSD ROM
APK Factory Reset ODIN Root
Application Firmware Open Source Soft Reset
Backup Flash Operating System Unlock
Bluetooth Kernel OTA Widget
Bootloader KIES QR Wipe
Brick Launcher Recovery Mode Window
ADB: Stands for Android Debug Bridge, a tool that is used primarily by developers to send commands from a computer to Android. It works as a client-server and gives you tools for the devices for debugging.
APK: Android application package file used to distribute and install apps. This file contains the app code, resources, assets and manifest file.
Application: An application or app is something you use to perform functions on the phone. These range from simple to incredibly complex.
Backup: To keep your data in a safe place in case of a problem where you lose your important information.
Bluetooth: Data transmission system between devices via radio waves without using wires or other connectors.
Bootloading: Procedure that allows you to access recovery mode.
Brick: When the device does not start and becomes unusable due to a configuration error after making a change.
Sometimes you need to factory reset your device. / © ANDROIDPIT
Download Mode: Used to install or replace the firmware of your device or a new ROM.
Factory Reset: Restoring the device to the original settings.
Firmware: The contents of the device's ROM. To find out the firmware version of your device go the Settings, tap About Phone and hit Software Information.
Flash: Changing the ROM of a device.
Kernel: The core of the operating system. It's responsible for uniting the software functions and the hardware.
KIES: Samsung application that allows you to update and synchronize the data from your smartphone or tablet.
Launcher: Responsible for customizing the device by modifying the user interface.
MicroSD: Removable memory card format. Smaller than MiniSD, it's used for mobile devices.
The microSD can provide you with extra internal storage. / © ANDROIDPIT
ODIN: Program to flash your device.
Open Source: Software that is made available to be distributed and modified.
Operating System: Software that controls a device's basic functions like scheduling tasks and executing applications.
OTA: Stands for 'Over The Air' and refers to updates that are made from your device without using cords or other connectors.
QR: Abbreviation for 'Quick Response' and is a black and white code that can be scanned with your device to open a link or application.
Recovery Mode: A method of starting your Android in order to install a ROM, wipe your device or format it.
ROM: Stands for 'Read Only Memory' and is a type of storage for Android devices. It has the programming for starting a device and performs most of the tasks.
Root: The act of unlocking the Android OS to gain complete control over the device through which you can access hidden files, change the ROM or install certain special apps.
Android Marshmallow is a version of the Android OS. / © ANDROIDPIT
Soft Reset: The act of rebooting your phone, intentionally or not. It has the same effect as when you remove your battery.
Unlock: You must perform this before you can use a SIM card from any carrier.
Widget: 'Icon' or part of an application that you can put on your home screen to quickly view information or to access the app faster and easier.
Wipe: Formatting the device. Deletes the external data from the device.
Windows: In Android apps, they are objects that specify the look and feel of the content.
Little by little we will be improving our knowledge of these and other Android terms and concepts. Stay tuned for the next episode of our 'Android for Beginners' series.
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Readers' favorite comments
Dnyaneshwar Mohan Sep 30, 2014
best article... so useful
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drkmgiri Sep 30, 2014
I love android. it's OS for everybody. I don't even think of buying an I phone. so much variety to choose from.
Dhananjay Yadav Mar 26, 2018 Link to comment
Android is an operating system based on a modified version of Linux kernel and other open source software which was developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). Contrary to what most of the people think, Android is not a programming language. In other words, Android is an open source operating system used for devices like smartphones and tablet computers. by Interviewsortout
Betsy P. Jul 1, 2016 Link to comment
Nice! Can't wait for the next article so I can finally understand more about my phone.
Conception “connie” Castro Jun 29, 2016 Link to comment
I really wish I stuck with LG switch to samsung cause new watch deal tablet.with at&t . But now wish I hadn't. LG is the greatest . Way better connection and understands what u say . Samsung watch is so frustrating. If only OK Google worked with gear 2 maybe I wouldn't complain. And the keyboard on active 7 is bad too. I have to keep back tracking and delete.
Corey Kirkwood Jun 28, 2016 Link to comment
So, I'm really trying to decide if I should make the switch to Android. Been an iOS user since the beginning. With a jailbreak, iOS becomes much more customizable and enjoyable. The main reason I am considering the switch is because I would like a dual sim with expandable memory. It has been said in this thread that there are many options for android but I have had a hard time deciding which dual sim phone to get. I don't want a large phone so 5" at the most. I also don't want to break the bank if I'm not 100% sure I'll like it. I was totally sold on the Huawei Honor 7 and then I noticed the dual sim tray combined with expandable memory. No idea why that was a good idea but I have had the hardest time finding something like it with separate sim and sd slots. Anyway, some tips from both iOS converts as well on android dual sim phones would be great! Thanks!
Ram SIngh Jun 26, 2016 Link to comment
Nice one i mostly knew all the other things but still got to learn few new ones too
storm Jun 25, 2016 Link to comment
Unlock also refers to the bootloader, an important part of rooting a phone.
Sergey Moraru Jun 24, 2016 Link to comment
One of the BEST articles on Androidpit! Very informative, and has very handy info to use it after. Thanks!
Vinicius. G. Romero Jun 18, 2016 Link to comment
I wish many of my Apple friends who owns an iPhone could read this article and understand.
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Carmelo Rivera Jun 24, 2016 Link to comment
They won't, because they know we have an Android device because of the freedom and coice we get, and they have an iPhone because of the name brand. They rather think they have a fashionable item, than having an OS that let's you do whatever you want to make it your very own.
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Cory Schmidt Jun 26, 2016 Link to comment
I agree Vinicius. I come across many iPhone owners who don't know what OS they have or know that there are alternatives. We can only try to explain and hope they see the benefits of Android.
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Moussa Jun 27, 2016 Link to comment
They will never see the benefit of android because "they've got the best phone in the world" and they let apple decide what's best for them meanwhile android users decide what's best for themselves. I just love the freedom I have with android and I am a former iPhone user.
Vinicius. G. Romero
I too was a iPhone user until fate brought me to my first Android device, Samsung Galaxy S3.
Christopher Harris Jun 16, 2016 Link to comment
i have a moto x play running 6.0.1 and its ace
Charles Peter Sanderson Jun 15, 2016 Link to comment
Very good article and so easy to understand
parayil h. Jun 12, 2016 Link to comment
I like Android and google play store. The"App store" in iPhone is not at all a substitute for google play store.
Jun 12, 2016 Link to comment
Android is the only way to go on a phone at this point in time. I agree with other that Apple's closed OS lacks flexibility.. Windows on a phone just sucks. It is what killed Nokia or at least finished off Nokia. There are a couple of new OS on the horizon, Sailfish looks promising.
I've had an iPhone, and I hate Apple's closed-source secretive ecosystem. I love Android's open source project. I can do whatever the hell I want with my device, and make it my own private OS.
Dwarfer66Mark
The worst of the worst that I remember with owning an iPhone was that cursed and broken prison called iTunes. Seriously... It felt like one was so limited transfering and downloading simple thing as audio files or pictures! Damn.
Reg Joo Oct 2, 2014 Link to comment
The best android app, per'se , if your rooting, is the xposed installer. As long as you have root, even on stock roms, it will give you numerous choices to install all types of software, and tweaks.
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Sandra Oct 2, 2014 Link to comment
Well written great article. I love android.. Won't sell my soul to greedy apple :)
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Born free-roaming
Return-to-field programs reassess ‘the right thing’ for community cats
By Bethany Wynn Adams
Animal Sheltering magazine Summer 2017
A cat from Baltimore’s Cherry Hill neighborhood awaits surgery. Photo by Jason Putsché
At Miami-Dade County Animal Services in 2010, staffers had so little room to spare and so few program alternatives that they euthanized 11,454 cats that year, many directly in their traps or carriers, without ever checking if they were feral or friendly. The sole public shelter in the most populous county in Florida simply received far, far more cats than it could hold—and it still does.
Yet Miami-Dade’s live-release rate soared from 43 percent in 2010 to 90 percent in 2015. The solution was relatively simple: Along with new nonprofit partnerships and community outreach efforts, the shelter simply stopped accepting and euthanizing stray cats in July 2012. Staff veterinarians vaccinate, sterilize and distinguish healthy community cats—snipping off the tip of an ear and tattooing a small mark during surgery—and the trapper or a volunteer puts them back where they were found.
The program was originally implemented on a case-by-case basis. Anyone attempting to surrender a stray cat or complaining of a “nuisance” cat was offered an alternative to euthanasia: Certify that he was found outside and provide the location, and the shelter would vet him and give him back.
“Between 30 to 40 percent of the people did not want the cat euthanized. … They wanted the cat back,” says director Alex Muñoz. At the time, the shelter didn’t have the spay/neuter capacity to sterilize all the community cats it received, but by offering this option, Muñoz says, staffers were able “to feel our way—to see what it was going to take.”
With the backing of the mayor and the Board of County Commissioners, who approved a significant increase in Animal Services funding that helped fund both community outreach efforts and a new facility, the program is now county policy. In five years, and with additional support from Florida Animal Friends and ASPCA grants, Muñoz has added five full-time staff veterinarians, partnerships with over 30 private vets who provide spay/neuter services for a $10 to $20 co-pay, six drivers to assist with the trapping and returning of cats and a program coordinator. The county fixes community cats for free and loans out traps in return for a refundable deposit, so in addition to staffers’ own trapping efforts in response to complaints, the shelter and its partners receive and return strays from the general public, as well as hundreds of strays a year from cat advocates involved in grassroots sterilization efforts, says Muñoz.
Miami-Dade County calls the program trap-treat-and-return or trap-neuter-give back, and as the name suggests, it’s similar to trap-neuter-return (TNR), an approach that specifically targets and humanely reduces community cat colonies. A 2015 study published in Wildlife Research suggests that, outside of island colonies, euthanizing outdoor cats is not an effective approach to reducing community cat colonies. Colony numbers stabilize, and sometimes even increase, within 12 months as other cats fill the void—meaning Miami-Dade’s previous approach was not addressing and may have been exacerbating the overpopulation problem.
In regions where friendly cats and kittens have high adoption chances, many TNR programs focus on feral cats. In Miami-Dade, however, staffers treat and return almost all healthy cats brought to the shelter in a trap, allowing them to limit cat admission to shelter capacity. The approach doesn’t add more cats to the community; it simply returns existing community cats—vetted, better-behaved and sterile—to their outdoor homes. Since 2010, staffers have adopted out roughly 9,000, mostly owner-surrendered, cats a year, but now they also return around 10,000 free-roaming cats a year back into the community.
More commonly known as return-to-field, the program is equal-opportunity TNR. And at Miami-Dade County Animal Services in 2017, return-to-field prevents the euthanasia of 27 cats a day.
In Washington, D.C., a caretaker has been feeding this colony for over a decade, say community cat photographers Elizabeth and Jason Putsché. Photo by Jason Putsché
One size fits (almost) all
In an ideal world, shelters provide a safe spot for lost pets until their owners can retrieve them. But research and experience have led many to question if this model actually serves the best interests of cats, whether they’re lost escapees, owned pets allowed to roam the neighborhood, loosely owned strays or part of a feral colony. The ASPCA estimates that the national return-to-owner rate for cats in shelters is less than 5 percent. And a 2006 study published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association found that cats and owners are 13 times more likely to be reunited by nonshelter means, like “lost pet” signs in the surrounding neighborhood, and that 60 percent of roaming cats return home on their own.
“People wait a lot longer to look for their cats, because they’re used to their cats kind of wandering off for a while,” says Julie Levy, professor of shelter medicine at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine and medical director at Operation Catnip, which operates community cat spay/neuter clinics in Gainesville, Florida. “Many times, it’s too late when they finally go look at a shelter.
“We’ve [also] spent decades training the public to think of the shelter as the first resort for dealing with a concern about animals, so whether that’s … an animal that’s a nuisance, or an animal that you see in the neighborhood, we’ve very much [ingrained] the concept of taking that animal to an animal shelter,” says Levy. “That’s disconnected from the reality that many animal shelters are underfunded, overcrowded and often a place where healthy and treatable animals either suffer a stressful incarceration or even lose their lives because the shelters are so overextended.”
When the alternative is euthanasia, any cat found outside in “thriving” condition—indicating he has one or several caretakers, or is simply a free-roaming owned cat—can and should be returned to where he was found, she says, with a few exceptions that may differ from shelter to shelter and from cat to cat.
“Everybody who’s doing this is trying to help shelters do a better job, but not at the price of the welfare of the cats involved,” she says. “It’s very important for shelters to do a self-analysis of what they can offer cats to make sure that when cats are admitted to the shelter, it’s not to a place of greater harm. … We need to keep finding ways to serve those special populations like small kittens or older cats or debilitated cats better than return-to-field. Sometimes the shelter is a better place for those cats, and sometimes it’s not.”
So at shelters where cats are at high risk of contracting a disease or being euthanized, staffers might develop a return-to-field program that includes friendly cats and older kittens brought in as strays, but shelters that have more space, foster care partnerships or adoption opportunities might exclude friendly cats and kittens from the program. At Miami-Dade, staffers take both approaches: They’ll return unowned, friendly cats if the shelter is overcrowded, but keep the cats when they have the space.
Before Jacksonville, Florida, embraced a large-scale return-to-field program in 2008, the city’s live-release rate for cats was just 10 percent. Feral cats were leaving alive in traps as part of a TNR program, but friendly cats were being euthanized because there were so few adoption options. “Staff actually started putting their favorite friendly cats in traps on the loading dock to be transferred to the TNR program,” says Levy. “And so that irony of ‘God help you if you purr’ was very blatant.”
In Laurel, Maryland, homeowners borrowed traps to TNR their backyard colony, consisting of five cats. The cats were fixed at Spay Now, a high-volume spay/neuter clinic. Photo by Jason Putsché
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Originally, Miami-Dade didn’t call its program anything, “because TNR could be a controversial issue,” explains Muñoz. Return-to-field was simply a quiet alternative offered to community members bringing in outdoor cats. By adding the new option without fanfare, the shelter was able to assess its impact with minimal interference or controversy before making a more public case for return-to-field—and before actively trapping cats for the program, as well, instead of only passively returning cats brought to the shelter.
“It’s always helpful to start with a pilot program, rather than committing to a full-scale, permanent policy change,” says Levy, suggesting a six-month trial focused in an area that generates a lot of community cat complaints. “Getting a few people on board to kick it off is a way to get some experience with it without causing too much fear about bad outcomes. And my experience is once people start doing it, they get addicted to it, and they love it, and those fears that they have just don’t materialize.”
In some cities, return-to-field and TNR programs are hindered by abandonment laws or stray hold requirements—requirements that assume animals are lost pets with the unintentional side effect of requiring shelters to hold unowned cats for a period of time, waiting for a nonexistent owner. In Miami-Dade County, the abandonment law is specific—releasing cats in a new location is considered abandonment and against county law, but returning cats to their original location is not.
However, abandonment laws and stray hold requirements are often unspecific or nonexistent, meaning cat advocates may be on more solid legal ground than they realize and can work with policymakers to exclude community cats from the laws; in tougher cases, some shelters outsource returning the cats to local rescues or volunteers to avoid directly flouting the law.
Other shelters might struggle with community members who consider cat colonies unpleasant or those concerned about the detrimental effects of cats on birds and wildlife. The latter concern is one shared by The HSUS, according to Bernard Unti, senior policy adviser. “Cat predation upon birds and wildlife is a serious matter to us,” he says. “That’s why we’re aggressive in promoting spaying and neutering of all cats and unequivocal in educating the public about the necessity of keeping pet cats indoors. We can minimize the impacts through intelligent management and long-term community education approaches.”
It can also be useful to remind people that, paradoxically, euthanizing outdoor cats doesn’t reduce the number of outdoor cats over time, but sterilization does—and return-to-field only returns already existing outdoor cats, minus annoying urine marking and breeding behaviors. “It’s really the same population of cats, and they’re being brought here from the field,” says Muñoz. “The overwhelming difference is that they’re just not being euthanized.”
“It’s important to remember that return-to-field programs have specific goals: To reduce euthanasia and free up overburdened shelters,” says Katie Lisnik, HSUS director of cat protection and policy. “Return-to-field programs can free up resources that are better spent on targeted TNR programs, which not only prevent euthanasia, but help reduce unowned cat populations in the community, leading to less wildlife predation and fewer public health and cat welfare risks.”
At Jacksonville Animal Care & Protective Services, where the city started returning all trapped cats to the field in 2008, former director Scott Trebatoski found success by compromising with birders, providing cat netting and banning feeding around protected areas. The city also doesn’t rule out relocating the largest “nuisance” colonies into smaller colonies. “Don’t let those large colonies make the public not want [return-to-field],” Trebatoski advised in a 2015 Maddie’s Institute webcast, adding that once return-to-field is implemented, “the number of nuisance calls also falls dramatically,” which saves the city money long-term and allows animal control officers to focus on larger issues.
Complaints usually happen where there’s a homeowner’s association, says Muñoz, and sometimes community members will take matters into their own hands—luckily, “there’s always a cat advocate around.” “What we’ve done repeatedly is we go in, we offer our services and in every case we’ve ended up doing TNR as opposed to having the cats [euthanized],” he says. Miami-Dade sometimes has a cat advocate serve as an intermediary in that community moving forward. “We’ve found that residents in the community tend to accept this change readily when it’s explained to them,” says Levy.
In the beginning, a minority of staffers had safety concerns about handling potentially feral cats, says Muñoz. “It’s a lot more work and skills to save [cats] than to euthanize them, [but] nobody signs up to work at the animal shelter to euthanize animals. They’re definitely happier.”
An unspayed farm cat oversees her kittens in Richfield, Pennsylvania. Shelters with limited live-release options may choose to include free-roaming kittens in return-to-field programs, says veterinarian Julie Levy. Photo by Jason Putsché
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ASLEF Press Release:ASLEF welcomes victory on Criminal Injury Compensation Scheme
ASLEF today welcomed the decision by the Home Office to continue to include train drivers in the Criminal Injury Compensation Scheme.
The decision follows a successful campaign by ASLEF, Members of Parliament and supporters to maintain existing arrangements whereby train drivers who witness or suffer trauma from suicide or trespass on the tracks are covered by the scheme.
The Home Secretary, David Blunkett, announced the decision in the House of Commons on Monday 14 June. ASLEF has congratulated ministers for meeting the union"s concerns and also thanked the ASLEF group of Labour MPs for their hard work in lobbying the Home Office.
The announcement follows a vigorous campaign by ASLEF that included a national day of action at mainline stations on the 26 May, making representation to the Home Office consultation and lobbying individual MPs.
The Home Office had been considering removing train drivers from the scheme claiming that it was an anomalous position.
An ASLEF spokesperson said: "This is important news for train drivers. The trauma or damage caused from witnessing a suicide can affect drivers and their families for years. We are very pleased that ministers have listened to our concerns.
"We are also very grateful to the support received from the ASLEF group of Labour MPs"."
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27Aug 27th August. Wednesday, Week 21
Saint Monica, widow
Monica of Hippo (331-387) was a 4th-century Christian from near Carthage (Tunisia) and the mother of Saint Augustine. She is honoured for her Christian virtues, her patience with a straying husband, and a prayerful dedication to the conversion of her son, who later wrote extensively about her in his Confessions. Monica followed Augustine to Italy where she found Saint Ambrose in Milan and through him ultimately had the joy of seeing her wayward son convert to Christianity, after seventeen years of resistance. She died at Ostia, on her way back to Africa.
First Reading: 2 Thessalonians 3:6-10, 16-18
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching you received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, labouring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate. For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you. I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand, which is the distinguishing mark in all my letters. This is how I write. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Gospel: Matthew 23:27-32
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of filth. So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous, and you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets. ‘ Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors.
Good Works and Faith as complementary
Our readings offer two complementary assessments of the value of our human activity. Paul stresses ordinary, daily work while the gospel condemns a hypocrytical kind of piety, an ideology based on scrupolous adherence to a code of laws. Paul’s church-work was unpaid, so he needed to was support himself by his handiwork as a tentmaker. Clearly he spent most of whatever he earned, and only a little was left over to share with the poor. Yet his religious message was to be received not as just one man’s opinion, “but as it truly is, the word of God at work within you who believe.” God must be “at work within you” before anyone can believe. Yet here external means help to enable people to recognize God at work. These external means preparing for faith are Paul’s daily work.
People who are willing to be thoroughly human have a better chance of being used by God than those who are always trying to seem sacred and different. Conscious sanctity carries the threat of pride and false superiority, which is destructive of healthy human relations. But Jesus’ attitude to the Pharisees was not so totally negative as might seem from today’s Gospel. His dining in the house of Simon the Pharisee (Lk 7:36ff) and his frequent public arguments with them suggests his openness to dialogue with them. Indeed his parables must have provoked the more open-minded Pharisees to reconsider whether their strictness towards others was truly the will of God. The most famous of all converted Pharisees was of course the great apostle to the Gentiles, our own Saint Paul of Tarsus.
We could reflect on the loving determination of Saint Monica, in praying and doing all she could to bring her son, Augustine, under the influence of Christ. There’s a useful commentary on her character at americancatholic.org.
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Rental Company Employees Arrested in Bill Dispute
February 7, 2017 • by Staff
Maria Diaz called police after she was held hostage at Signature Rent-A-Car in Orlando during a dispute over a bill. Clark Girges, president of Signature Rent-A-Car, and Juan Encarnacion, an employee of Signature, were arrested.
According to the arrest affidavit, Diaz was returning a vehicle to Signature Rent-A-Car and had an issue with her billing statement. When discussing her billing charges, Diaz stated that Encarnacion started to argue about her keys that were still on the rental car key ring, according to the arrest affidavit.
Officer Benjamin Bates, who responded to Diaz’s call, observed a bright red scratch on her left arm that she claimed Encarnacion caused during their struggle.
Diaz said that she was forced into a room at the Signature facility and denied multiple attempts to leave, according to the arrest affidavit. Diaz stated that there were other people in the room and Encarnacion assaulted her.
Encarnacion told Officer Bates that Diaz was at the business for hours and would not leave. He stated that she refused to return the rental keys and was causing commotion in the lobby, according to the arrest affidavit.
Encarnacion claimed that he entered the room where Diaz was being held and grabbed the keys out of her hand. He then said that she hit him on the chest multiple times and he had to be held back by his co-workers, according to the affidavit.
Girges told Officer Bates that he was reviewing the bill with Diaz for an extended period of time. Girges stated that Diaz took the rental keys from his office and was going to walk out, so he closed the door until she gave him the car keys.
Officer Bates reviewed video surveillance where Girges is seen with his hand on the door not allowing Diaz to leave. According to the affidavit, Officer Bates then saw Encarnacion enter the room and snatch the keys from Diaz, striking her in the left arm as she was backed into a small corner of the room and surrounded by at least seven Signature employees.
"After an extended discussion at the front counter, Ms. Diaz was invited into an interior office of the rental location to further the conversation while simultaneously allowing other waiting customers to be serviced," said a corporate representative of Signature Rent-A-Car. "Despite every effort to accommodate Ms. Diaz, she remained dissatisfied and refused to relinquish the keys to the rented vehicle. Signature Rent-A-Car denies that Ms. Diaz was a victim of any criminal conduct by its employees."
Based on the evidence from the video and sworn written statements by Diaz, Officer Bates placed Girges and Encarnacion under arrest. Girges is accused of false imprisonment while Encarnacion faces charges of battery.
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The L Word Episode 604 Recap: Leaving Los Angeles
11:04pm PST
This L Word recap was originally published on Riese’s personal L Word recap blog in early 2009, before the Autostraddle YOU know and love got invented! It has been republished here for your viewing delight, but there may be messed up formatting and missing pictures.
Remember last week when I said that I wanted 603 to be the finale because it was so lovely and ended with dancing? I bet you do, ’cause this was one of the worst L Word episodes ever!! Possibly one of the worst episodes of any television show ever, ranked somewhere between the Homeboys in Outer Space pilot and Taradise. About 15 minutes in, I literally started slamming my head against the wall. Chelsey left to do work, Natalie left for the gym. Carly & A;ex had their iPhones out, occasionally looking up to moan. It went a lot like this:
Riese: “Oh my God they aren’t!”
Carly: “Oh my God L Word I’m going to kill the fucking L Word!”
A;ex: “What the F*CK?”
This recap will ideally be funnier than the show, but be prepared for a serious waterfall of Haterade. Look, I wanna be positive whenever possible, but sometimes I have no choice. I must speak the truth!!
Firstly — I’m not recapping any of Max’s scenes because I find his portrayal offensive and counterproductive to anyone seeking increased media visibility for peoples of all genders and sexualities. I go into this in depth here: A Letter From Computer Search Champion Max Sweeney. Also, his scenes made us all really upset and I can’t go through that again, I just can’t.
[Wanna see a great episode of something? Watch me & Hav on Alexi’s Closet Episode #17!]
I’m gonna start off with a list of actual activities performed in this episode:
1. Sitting around and eating, unknown time of day (seemingly endless series of meals/beverages over the course of several hours, both Bette and Tina were actively taking meetings, the lighting changed, guests in and out).
2. One side of a boring telephone conversation making dinner plans. (twice)
3. Cleaning out a closet of unwanted clothing. (twice)
4. Waiting in line for a taxi at the airport.
5. Chopping vegetables.
6. Choosing between Scrabble or Monopoly.
7. Washing dishes.
8. Sleeping.
9. Standing around at work and talking.
10. Lying in bed, holding hands.
In conclusion, any of this week’s “scenes” (conversations) could’ve taken place at any of this week’s locations/activities. That’s a BIG teleplay-writing no-no — don’t miss the opportunity to enhance your story by making both dialogue and setting pertinent to the plot. Up the stakes whenever you can.
To anyone who’s ever condemned lesbians to hell: tonight you have won. Tonight we have been condemned to hell for nearly an entire hour and it was all we could bear. We didn’t even change our clothes to pretend like we saw it on a different day than 603. ‘Cause we were too depressed to take pictures, except for the intro pic and the one below, I’ve just recycled some old ones here and there.
It was the night before Monday and all through the land
Lesbians gathered ’round teevees wearing trendy wristbands
They wanted to see Bette & Tina naked but instead got this over-flowered “shirt”
They would’ve seen more action during a bubble bath scene with Ernie and Bert …
Angelica Made This Shirt For Me. She Also Made me a Macaroni Necklace.
Bette, Bette, Bette. Can’t you just wear a Free City t-shirt or something? Why must you constantly turn cake-decorating concepts into shirts? I already read The Secret Garden, I don’t need a visual aid. You make your OWN scene, Bette! Bette & Tina are going to Nevada to meet a potential birth mother. They should adopt a foster child instead, there are many in need of homes. I’m serious.
Well What Else Could We Be Forgetting? KEVIN!
Jenny just had an epiphany! This happens to me a lot too, I’m like “You guys! I know who killed Jenny!” But Jenny doesn’t seem to know who killed Jenny, she knows who stole the negative. She overheard William talking about burning down his building for insurance reasons. That’s really special/used. That sounds like a lie, yet I still don’t know if Jenny took it. Hey, look how pretty Alice and Tasha are!
Good Job, Grasshopper.
Alice tells Tasha she’s “doing so well” at being social. That’s condescending. If I were Tasha, I’d smack Alice in the face. Nothing halts your effortless flow of friendly conversation like a little bit of public congratulation. Alice should just stick a medal on her or give her a certificate for the Most Improved Socializer. Then Tasha would be like, I don’t get medals for socializing, I get medals for killing people. OBVS.
Ohhhh I thought that was Kelly KAPOWSKI!
Bette’s meeting up with Kelly the Bug-Eyed Monster from Showgirls, and when Kit sees Bette over there shooting the shit with Kelly Wentworth, she’s like what the fuck that Wentworth-fucking motherfucker, she needs to back the fuck off from my sister. Apparently Bette almost killed herself over Kelly, which means Jenny and Bette have something in common, attempted suicide. They should hook up. Why not, you know? I mean, let’s just tempt Bette ’till she caves.
In Episode 606, Bette will come home to a house completely filled with naked women. Like her top Celebrity Crush and all time favorite sculptor will be there and everything. There’ll be a moat and on the other side Tina will be standing with Angelica, mis-reading a thermometer and crying.
KITTISM: “My sister almost killed herself over that B-I-T-C-H.”
“Hey! I Thought SHE WAS IN THE VORTEX!”
Then Dylan shows up! She’s hoodwinked Tina into a meeting at The Planet by claiming to be a filmmaker with a different name. It’s like Office Hours in college, this is the clearing house/waiting room for meetings.
“What is going on in here today?” Kit exclaims as Tina dashes to her meeting. Oh, it’s an Ilene Chaiken episode. That means everyone sits around waiting for their turn to share exposition.
Personally, I’m waiting for Godot. Aren’t we all.
Bette and Kelly are having a meeting
But they’re not focused on what they’re eating …
No, not vagina, this show isn’t like that
I’d rather be reading LOL Cats
and I don’t even like cats, or rats.
Firstly, this convo isn’t fair, ’cause “Kelly” always looks so excited and enchanted by everything anyone ever says ’cause she can’t close her eyes or wrinkle her forehead anymore. Luckily Bette’s evening out the playing field by turning Rite Aid’s Easter-themed clearance rack candles into inspiration for a collarbone sheath.
If you take Kelly’s statements out of context, they’re really weird, like this one: “It’s amazing to me that you’ve had this passion, and you just stay true to it. It’s something that I’ve always dreamed of being a part of.” (That’s what she said) Isn’t that the point of life? Bette must really be into this chick ’cause typically she’d call a sister out for talking so much stupid.
Kelly’s been in love with contemporary art ever since Bette TA’ed her class, that’s why she wants to start a gallery. That’s how I feel about reading but you don’t see me getting Mrs. Doman from Eberwhite Elementary School on speed-dial and asking her to start a used Bookstore. Also I learned how to read before I started school, so really I’d be calling myself, not Mrs. Doman, also I suspect Mrs. Doman is dead, like Dana, Mr. Piddles and eventually Jenny.
Kelly’s got a lot of money, Bette’s got no job, Kelly owns a gallery, OMG! I just had an epiphany! Bette should work for Kelly! But Bette is too superfly for that nonsense, she’ll be Kelly’s PARTNER or nothing. They just throw the word “partner” around here like it’s nothing. Remember “Buddy Checks”? Like in the pool at summer camp? We should have those for life. You never know when someone could fall in the pool and drown.
Here’s my idea of how this writer’s meeting went:
Ilene: So what do we have on board for Bette & Tina this season? What stories are they gonna tell?
Writer #1: Well, I feel like they’ve been through a lot together, maybe this season should focus on the problems within a long-term relationship, rather than the problems threatening a relationship. Like Mad About You, but gay.
Ilene: So I want you to think about the one person in the world that could still force Bette to cheat after all this.
W #1: Well I think at this point Bette & Tina will be faithful, you know, that’s what we’re saying. Let’s get into parenting decisions.
Ilene: A-ha! I know! The straight girl from college you could never have comes back! With money, a job and an art gallery! That’d do it.
W #1: But why?
[Ilene presses the red button, writer disappears into an underground holding cell]
Dylan says “I’m not gonna lie to you Tina,” and Tina says, “too late you already did.” I love Tina!
‘”Helena is the love of my life, and I’d give anything for another chance to be with her.”
Look at this point, okey-doke. I mean obvs we’ll swallow anything. Who’s the love of who’s life? We’re on board. No one has conversations these days anyhow. Too busy with murder mysteries and the Bedazzler. Dylan asks Tina for help getting Helena back in her head but Tina won’t. Holler.
The girls gathered ’round a table to share in food and drink
This scene’s so long, we can watch them think …
The Planet-a-Thon Continues!
I am so confused about this day. Like the light has changed, time is moving, no one seems to have anywhere to go, there’ve been several meals served in different locations. Helena wants the deets on Dylan and Tina is forced to divulge that now Dylan’s successfully running “Do Ask, Do Tell Productions.” I can’t say it any better than Alice did: “Oh that’s RICH, so she’s a gay filmmaker now?” Tasha rips up the business card.
Carly: “That business card was made at the kiosk in the mall.”
Riese: “The graphics include a small flower and a cross.”
Let’s hook Helena up with someone, Alice says. Jenny suggests Jodi. Well, Jenny means well — she wants to incorporate another cast member, as we’ve only got four more episodes left, surely it’s too late to get a newbie involved. But everyone knows that Bette’s the only one evolved enough to handle Jodi Now everyone has to start thinking. Sometimes it seems like Kate and Leisha are making fun of the script while acting in it. They do a Scooby Doo-ish “hmm, let’s think,” followed by a “GUESS WHO” chin stroke of thinking.
I can hear the paint drying on Bettina’s new second floor addition that’s ruining Jenny’s hearing. Before long Jenny will be just like Jodi and then they can date. Unless Jenny dies or something. Well, I hope she didn’t die ’cause she couldn’t scream for help. Jeez. Someone needs Free Hugs and Breakfast I’m guessing.
Alice and Tasha have AN IDEA! – Jamie! She’s rad! They went bowling. She’s the director of Youth & Family Services at the Gay And Lesbian Center. They fight over who gets to call — and at this moment, I’m expecting them to cut away to the next scene. But instead we’re actually gonna watch both Tasha and Alice have phone convos that involve repeating “we have a good feeling about this” over & over until the thesaurus kills itself.
Carly: “It’s one in the afternoon, they’re drinking vodka?”
Natalie: “They’ve been there all day, as Chelsey so acutely pointed out.”
How many horses died to make this next scene? They’re having a horse buffet!! Horse cocktail, horse kebabs …
This One Reminds me of Jail
Jenny just saw Oprah or some other mid-afternoon teevee program and she learned a special fancy word called “clutter cleaning” (as opposed to other kinds of cleaning, which rarely address the clutter issue) — “it’s a good thing when you’re starting a new project or a new relationship!” So then we watch Shane & Jenny try to clean out the closet as a way of discussing all their past relationships. Jenny won’t let go of Marina (her “first love”) or her art supplies, which she might use some day. I hope not, remember her last art project? It involved her naked torso and a black Sharpie.
Shane says, “I don’t believe in changing people!” Write that down, Jenny. WRITE THAT DOWN. Why are they fuddling around with all these clothes when they could be removing each other’s clothes and making out? I dunno.
Lesbian Squabble #17: I’m Not Unfaithful But I’ll Stray
In the Ring: Bette vs. Tina
Content: Tina’s not okay with Bette working with Kelly, as a partner, and with not talking to Tina about it first. Good call Tina. Bette has done a total personality retcon since last episode, won’t be “on probation her whole life” and now is being haughty: “This is a business decision and if you don’t believe that than I suggest you come up with a better solution.” I think Bette has a good point because in reality, a woman in Bette’s situation would never cheat! She just wouldn’t!
But Bette on this show — who knows?
Who Wins? Bette, ’cause Tina apologized and took it back. So that means Bette won, even though I think Tina has a point and they should communicate better.Also she’s pretty:
Watching people pack is intriguing. I wonder if anyone’s interested in mowing the lawn or grocery shopping. I really would like to see some bricks get laid. I’d like to see SOMEONE get laid.
I clean, you clean, we all clean to lick ice cream
off each other’s bodies, but not today, Ilene is mean …
Take it! Take Whatever You Want! Take My Soul! Take the Goldfish!
Now it’s onto Shane’s closet! This has potential to be cute, but is wrapped in terrible, like an Oreo where the sandwich cookies are actually cardboard. It’s like episode 311 where the lovely flashbacks from Dana’s past were sandwiched by outtakes from the Hike on Witch Mountain. I’m glad that Shane’s standing up to Jenny, though she mostly seems impartial — I think that’s why Shane gets along so well with domineering women, she really is pretty chill to just go with the flow, whatever the flow may be.
Shane won’t get rid of the shirts that remind her of Carmen. Good, that red shirt was hot, I remember it.
Back in the Days of Glory and Light …
“That’s the old Shane,” Jenny says. “The one that couldn’t honor her commitments.”
But Shane says, “I’m not throwing [Carmen] away.”
Then they look at each other really cutely.
This is the most action anyone gets this episode
Did they take that gigantic motorcade of luggage on the plane? I could live in that thing, it’s bigger than my apartment. Also Bette — that shirt you’re wearing? LOVE IT! Do more like that! Also, Angie is sooooooo cute I could die. She has to alert them to the Taxi, ’cause they’re too busy talking about Kelly. I wonder what they talked about on the plane. Sometimes I feel like they only speak when we’re watching.
Who wants a burrito? Come on you’re not full, it’s still afternoon
If Shay could choke down those milkshakes, Shane can handle a taco soon
Let’s eat, let’s clean, let’s talk on the phone,
let’s stand around, do the dishes, and moan moan moan
Yeah It’s Me, I’m Wearing a Bib, So What?
Now Shane’s gonna meet Alice for another meal and along with the audience, Shane will witness Alice’s phone conversation. That’s a total social no-no, ALICE! Put your phone away! “Jamie’s like weirdly perfect,” Alice says. Really Alice? I haven’t heard you say that a million times.
Note to Max’s Costume Designer: this is the only situation in which plaid works.
In order to demonstrate Jamie’s honesty and self-sacrifice, Alice divulges that they’re gonna eat at home instead of eating out, ’cause they’re all broke and Jamie’s not a gold digger like Dylan. That’s a leap! Really? Do we get medals for not eating out now? Speaking of eating someone out! Let’s get naked! But before anyone can eat anyone or anything, the angel of darkness descends … Jenny’s done writing and has decided to join the crew for some rice and beans. Jenny’s Personality Ret-Con is in FULL EFFECT. Bring on the Clingy! Bring on the Manipulative!
Shane doesn’t seem too upset, and even takes Jenny’s “have you been smoking” inquisition pretty lightly, this is interesting, and confusing. Maybe this is supposed to be “ga ga in love” instead of ‘being clingy.’ Like how EZ Girl came with Ilene to this show. But if any of my girlfriends did this to me, I feel like Haviland would be raising an eyebrow of concern.
I Am Going to Make You an Offer You Cannot Refuse Because You Have No Choice KAZAAM!
Cutest. Family. EVER.
Here we are in a suburban cul-de-sac. An attack dog barks outside to indicate that White Trash lies beyond ye doors. “I’m really sorry if he scared you,” Winnie says. She’s so Canada! I’m still waiting for her to apologize for this outfit. I’m calling her Winnie ’cause she reminds me of Winnie from The Wonder Years, but slutty. I secretly love slutty girls, btw, bring it on.
The Dog’s Not the Father Guys Don’t Worry!
Now that I know her name is Marci, not Winnie, I’ll respect that. Marci’s already got two kids and her parents don’t want her to keep the other, she can’t afford it. They don’t even know she’s still fucking the dude who got her preggo this time. SKETCHY! Hello, I’d like to suggest Ortho Tri-Cyclen or Trojan Condoms.
Winnie’s impressed that Tina just did a movie with Nikki Stevens, Nikki Stevens is SO RAD! Did Bette just say Beverly Hills Chihuahua? Marci’s parents come in, they are white trash from Central Casting, probs also they are Max’s parents. They are a little confus
ed as to why such beautiful ladies are sitting in their living room.
Mom: “Are you guys still together with the father?”
Bette: “No, he was just a donor, I adopted Angelica from birth.”
Mom: “But you’re married?”
Bette: “You know it’s funny, we’d always said we wouldn’t even consider getting married until there were full & complete equal rights under the law, it should be a federal law, but in some ways having said that we’re getting closer to it you know if and when this latest ballot measure is overturned, we would probably think about it –”
Tina’s trying to give Bette the “ixnay on the agy-ights-ray” look but it’s not working.
Tina: “I think she’s asking if you’re married to a man?”
“Sorz!”
Bette & Tina are kicked to the curb once Marci’s Fam confirms that they are Lebanese. Poor Winnie. I mean Marci. Luckily Angelica is still cute.
Silly Elbow Crush Songs! La La La!
Now we’re going to watch Alice and Jamie cut vegetables and talk about work. Jamie was almost a police officer, it’s in her family, but she could only last a few weeks. Alice gushes about how what Jamie does is really important, and she’s serving in her own way. That’s sweet. Just wait ’til she tells Tasha about the cop thing! Now Jamie is going to teach Alice a trick for cutting vegetables, excellent. If you watch this on mute and listen to Tegan & Sara’s “Underwater” over it, it’s much better.
Jamie thinks Alice should work at the Center, but Alice doubts herself — she should! Alice could do much more with her life. Anyhow if she won’t take the job, I will. I need a job.
They make eyes at each other a lot.
Let’s set up our new girlfriend with Helena, she’s so hot
she changes her personality so much you’ll never be sure what you’ve got
a pregnancy fetish, a killer poker game, queen of the jailyard
she’ll be whomever you want her to be, and she’s totally got the best arms.
Chock Full O’Nuts!
Helena shows up just as Jamie’s talking about how much she loves Runyan Canyon. Coincidentally, Helena’s telling Alice how she hates it. This’ll be like that scene in When Harry Met Sally when they try to set up their friends with each other and end up chatting just the two of ’em, except with three instead of two. Alice made a nut-loaf, like meatloaf but with nuts. Neat. Fascinating. It becomes increasingly clear that Tasha & Alice love Jamie and Helena is the fourth wheel. Some may say that four wheels make a car, I say everyone just have sex with everyone.
Rarely does Tasha light up like this … Jamie brings out the best in both of them. Tasha is so pretty. Alice is so pretty. Jamie is so pretty. So so pretty. Everyone is so pretty.
Little Leisha
Now they’re gonna look at baby pictures. Leisha was a little tomboy and now she’s a girly girl, adorable then = adorable now. The girls chat about how they’d like kids (really? Talice haven’t already discussed this?) Bringing up Helena’s kids is a tricky subject — Helena doesn’t have custody, her ex took the children to the South of France. Jamie’s clearly uninterested in Helena and her hot mess of a storyline.
Oh Just Wait ‘Til I Tell You About PRISON!
Helena knows she looks bad as a potential date (though she looks good as a work of human being) and is thinking about jetting to find the woman who accepts her for all her flaws ’cause it’s Dylan’s fault this all happened in the first place. (Also – Helena used to LOVE her kids! What happened?! She seems totally over it now. RETCON alert.) She decides to split when they start bringing out the board games, and Jamie & Tasha have a cute moment about how it’s not gonna work between Jamie & Helena, so everyone stop thinking about if it’d be Jelena or Helenie.
NOW I Know You Still Care FOR SURE!
Helena runs to Dylan’s and asks her to have dinner. Then she runs away like she’s just warned her about The Ring. Helena’s so cute when she’s nervous. And haven’t we all been there? Your friends are trying to do the right thing and get you involved with someone good, but instead you’re running over to the enemy’s territory late at night and demanding a dinner date. Old habits die hard. Just like Jenny. Who I love.
I’m Having an Old Friend For Dinner …
Back to the land of Shenny where good things should be afloat
but they aren’t, because Ilene stole all of Jenny’s Depakote.
Pleasebeapupppleasebapuppy
Jenny turned Shane’s bedroom into an office and thinks Shane is going to love it. Does she really think that? If I were Shane, I would kill Jenny right then and there, that is SO not okay. Now the pressure’s really on for them to be 2gether 4ever, there’s only one bed now!
I Can’t Believe I’ve Let You In
Obvs Shane doesn’t think this is cool, and she — thank G-d — calls Jenny out and asks if she’s just “putting on the Crazy Jenny Show” to see how far she can push Shane. Jenny gets all sullen and passive-aggressively says she can put it back, obviously they are at different places in their lives.
Clearly. Shane is at that place where she wants to have a room with a bed to sleep in and etc., and Jenny is in a place where she turns Shane’s bedroom into an office.
Also Jenny’s been doing a lot of bizarre housecleaning projects. Perhaps she is preparing her Tomb for her suicide. She’s gonna have a big one like King Tut.
And Now Here I Am Telling You That I’m Suffocating in Here.
Shane quite maturely asks Jenny to do her a favor and not get melodramatic, says next time just ask before redecorating. Jenny says okay, and then she keeps being melodramatic.
JENNY MOMENT:
Jenny: “Do you hate me?”
Shane: “no.”
Jenny: “Do you love me?”
Shane: “I do. I love you.”
Cue EZ Girl’s Jenny Murder Remix.
This isn’t who Jenny is anymore. This makes me sad. I wanted this thing to have a chance.
Talice & Jamie are talking about how much they hate organising fundraising things and Alice slyly mentions that she was on Dance Marathon for Act UP in college. Of course she was. Tasha seems somewhat impressed by this, and Jamie is downright inspired! She’s like the little sprite of energy who brings happiness into the room! Threesome time!
Jamie spreads the flirt around. It’s an interesting story that could maybe have taken place last season when there was more time left. Also obvs a successful three-way relationship is pretty much impossible, but I’d like to see them try. Why? No reason. It might look nice on my teevee. La-la-la.
The good news is that they’re gonna have a dance party fundraiser! YAY!
With a dance party in the future, I can finally relax
something to look forward to — but still, no talking about Max.
Angie travels with a lot of technology. She’s got cute hair. She’s so cute.
Bette: “I’m just stunned by the ignorance.”
Tina: “Well, welcome to the rest of America.”
Do You Think I’ll Make it to the Morning If It’s Written?
Bette’s having second thoughts about it, they don’t know what to do. Maybe it’s not a good time … etc. Then someone knocks at the door. I’ve seen this before, it happens in horror movies and in hypothetical situations my parents warned me about and they actually get it.
OKAY THEY ARE STAYING AT A ROADSIDE MOTEL AND MARCI COMES TO THE DOOR AND THEY ANSWER IT? WTF?!!! NO WAY!! HAVEN’T THEY EVER SEEN A SCARY MOVIE? YOU DO NOT JUST ANSWER THE DOOR TO SOME BATSHIT CRAZY PREGNANT IDIOT GIRL WHO THINKS NIKKI STEVENS is Rad, knee socks and platform shoes and denim coveralls are an acceptable outfit to wear in public, and whose parents just got all homophobic on you. You do NOT answer the door without at least having a slight hesitation or conversation about the nearest blunt weapon.
Then they fully INVITE HER IN. They fully invite her into the motel room they are sharing with their dubiously 4.5 year old child who is using a LOT of technology right now that’s probs worth more money than my sanity, which is being severely altered by this exercise in lesbian torture!
Winnie: “My parents don’t approve of lots of stuff.”
Tina: “We understand.”
Bette: “These things happen.”
Winnie: “Yeah, but I really don’t care. this is my body, and my baby, and my decision, and you’re the family that I want my baby to go to.”
These Earrings Were Also My Decision, And I Don’t Know How to Defend Myself On That Point
Winnie wants her baby to have an interesting life. Well this show will certainly make it interesting. “This world needs boys who are gonna do things different, and I really want my baby to have a chance at that. Making this world you know, just a little better.” They get all teary-eyed. It’s somewhat moving, like as moving as this episode can get.
Is she gonna hook up with Shane or something? This girl is bad news bears, I can tell.
Suddenly we experience like 30 seconds of time lapse photography outside the hotel and crazy music, it’s almost like she’s just trying to kill time. Now … we are going to … watch … people … sleep.
I’d Spend All Night Losing Sleep
I’d Spend the Night And I Lose My Mind
We are going to watch people sleep. Oh, now they’re talking about the baby again, basically re-hashing previous convos but more slowly. This is perfect, this is just what society wants of us. They want us lesbos to lie in bed, stare into each other’s eyes, and talk about our feelings. Our boring, boring feelings.
OH! And hold hands. They’d like us to hold hands too.
Riese: “Wtf am I gonna say about this?”
A;ex: “No one’s gonna say ‘I can’t believe you skipped that part where Max took all his clothes off’!”
Carly: “We all know this was the worst episode ever.”
The Round-Up
Lesbian Sexy Moments: No
Lesbain Squabbles: One I think
Quote of the Week: Your Mom
Close your eyes and think about Angelica’s headphones.
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caitlinmae
I like my L Word to have plenty of throw shit at the TV absurdly bad moments, or cute, friendly sincere dance party moments.
All of those were missing, max left a nasty taste in my mouth, this was just painful, slow, and awful.
Luckily, there’s a recap to look forward to. Thanks for the rhyming- it’s a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down
word veri is sipsy- which is probably what I needed to have in order to make this palatable. mama needs a drink
You had me rolling with the Bedazzler comment. So true. I also thought that weird shirt Bette was wearing looked like it was covered in prize ribbons from the state fair. Bette won three!
.elida.
ok so, this:
Helena runs to Dylan’s and asks her to have dinner. Then she runs away like she’s just warned her about The Ring. Helena’ so cute when she’s nervous. And haven’t we all been there? Your friends are trying to do the right thing and get you involved with someone good, but instead you’re running over to the enemy’s territory late at night and demanding a dinner date. Old habits die hard. Just like Jenny. Who I love.
made me laugh so hard i choked on the food i was eating. omg. although this was, arguably, the worst episode of all time, this recap cracked my shit up.
Worst episode ever. I felt like a contestant on Boiling Points except I didn’t get cash money for making it through the entire episode without throwing my computer out the window or shouting obscenities. Lame. I’ll be sending Ilene a bill for that later.
Angelica was adorable though. If only they had actually put her in more episodes.. Oh well. Too late now.
was the best closing sentence of all time, I went away with a smile on my face instead of a twisted grimace of painful foreboding.
Your 100% right, worst episode ever, couldn’t wait for it to be over. And besides all the other boring shit creeping along on, Jenny and Shane had 1 episode of happiness and already they’re working them apart.
1. From the rumor mill. Jamie (Mei) is apparently perfect for Kate – not Alice or Tasha.
2. What was Max, Tom, Tasha & Alice talking about with squirrels, monkeys and rice in the very beginning? Anyone?
i just watched it this morning and fast forwarded through the bad parts, so really it took me about 3 minutes to watch this whole episode. as awesome as rose rollins looked, did alice ever have a problem with the way tasha looked? why did she change her entire look overnight? she blow dried her hair for their double date, that’s serious. i don’t know why i even care about this, i mean, people on this show change all the time, if jenny had done that to my room my head would have exploded, shane was able to be seriously cool about it. i feel like i’ve wasted all my “i hate this show”s, but umm i hate this show?
Talk about morphing personality disorder, Helena is the queen.
We’re all so used to it now, it’s hard to even notice.
Thank you for the wonderful recap.
None episode could be worst than ep512 oh nooooo …
just as i suspected; your recap was infinitely more entertaining than this episode. Those cute little baby leisha photos were the only highlight to this dreadful ep. Here’s hoping for a better next week…
I haven’t seen the episode yet (not sure I want to now), but was the young mother or whatever played by Katherine Isabelle? The chick who played Ginger in the Canadian horror franchise Ginger Snaps? I’m convinced that’s the best part of this episode…love her
I thought it was EVA amurri, susan Sarandon’s daughter?
Worst episode ever, but awesome recap, as always. Gosh, I hope next week’s episode is better. Not another snoozer, please!
Your recap was definitely better than the episode. I’d really like to get the hour of my life back that was spent watching this episode, that would be RAD.
norajoy
I had just watched “Loud and Proud” from Season 2 before watching 604 and I have a perfect example of why this show makes me want to kill myself:
“Loud and Proud” is the one with the pride parade, and Jenny just found out about Mark and his “rapey cameras” and Mark is trying to convince Jenny that now he knows what it’s like to be a woman and so on… and in this episode, Shane and Jenny (aka Shane and a completely different person than Jenny circa now) are having a conversation about how they still want to live together because they “have a blast” and whatnot. AND THEN… Shane says: “This is my home, Jenny. For the first time, I actually have a room of my own. That’s a huge thing for me.”
OK! It was heartwarming, and I love both of them in 211. It was way back before when everything started to suck, and I know that is stating the obvious. But really. Compare that scene with the scene of Jenny fucking Shane’s day up and moving her shit out of her room! HER OWN ROOM!
I know that these are somewhat minute details and that perhaps if I hadn’t watched these two episodes back to back I wouldn’t be so mad, but whhyyyyy is it so hard for there to be some hindsight and perspective in this stupid show. WHYY?!?!?!?
The best shows are the ones that bring stuff back around (see “Arrested Development” for details). That way, the show rewards its loyal viewers who get the jokes and the heartwarming, comforting, and maybe a little pathetic feeling that they truly know and understand these fictional characters.
ARGHHHH!!!
also ps. Probs not saying anything new but: Kate French was on “Gossip Girl” tonight, and Nadia or Natia or whatever Bette’s TA’s name was in season 4 is a lesbo on “Grey’s Anat.” Just keeping tabs :)
it’s not katharine isabelle and i’m pretty sure it’s not eva amurri but oh i wish there was a lady walking around who was a mix of the two who would eat neighbourhood dogs and date crippled macaulay culkin and make pithy remarks, and that we could be friends. i’d adopt her baby.
So now she’s stolen “Pregnant Man” from the world AND ripped off the main character from “Juno” and plopped her down in the middle of her rancid show to try to bring life back to its dying corpse. “Everyone saw that Oprah ep…oh and that adorable little movie where that adorable little lesbian plays that witty lil preggo teen who used big words and dressed weird? People ate that up! {whining like a child} I WAAANT THAAAT!”
What similarities to other wildly popular modern-day phenomenons will we see?
Tune in and find out!
This is the first time I have read the recap and watched the ep later. That bad.
slicey
I’m pretty sure the actress who played Marcie was the best thing (and the best actor) in the entire episode. She has cute facial expressions and, on the whole, seemed quite realisitc… except for the Canadian accent, the overalls, and the “rad.” But I actually liked her.
One half of this season’s episodes (4 eps) were written be Ilene. *puke* Which means we have more one-sided phone conversations, “telling” instead of “showing”, and bizarre character actions to [not] look forward to.
Next week’s episode probably won’t suck so hard — it was written AND directed by Angela Robinson. Woo-Hoo!
p.s. someone should tell ilene that just having someone talking on their cell phone doesn’t make it interesting a la Angela Robinson’s lesbian phone tree or the more recent Jenny/Shane phone gossip.
“Then she runs away like she’s just warned her about The Ring.”
L…M…F..A…O
So turns out that Marcie was played by Katherine Isabelle. I love her. I wish Tina and Bette took her home to live with them for the duration of her pregnancy. That way Ilene could rip off something else AND produce another suspect (RIP Jenny).
Really glad to hear that the next episode is in the hands of Angela Robinson.
Go Canadian accents! They’re so cute sounding.
mfjay
haha when Jenny first held up that t-shirt I thought she said “this is from that horrible page error,” as in, like, the t-shirt hadn’t printed properly or something.. (like something went wrong with the design on the computer..? I don’t know about this stuff, someone go get Max..). Took me a while to understand she said “Paige era”.
Anyway, I realise I’m commenting on a recap that’s over two years old, but just making my way through the last season now, and all I can say is thank god team AS got here first..
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2017 Seychelles meeting was effort to establish back channel to Kremlin
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Speculated in the press for a while, but good to know that Mueller is catching up.
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has gathered evidence that a secret meeting in Seychelles just before the inauguration of Donald Trump was an effort to establish a back channel between the incoming administration and the Kremlin — apparently contradicting statements made to lawmakers by one of its participants, according to people familiar with the matter.
In January 2017, Erik Prince, the founder of the private security company Blackwater, met with a Russian official close to Russian President Vladi mir Putin and later described the meeting to congressional investigators as a chance encounter that was not a planned discussion of U.S.-Russia relations.
A witness cooperating with Mueller has told investigators the meeting was set up in advance so that a representative of the Trump transition could meet with an emissary from Moscow to discuss future relations between the countries, according to the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
(click here to continue reading Mueller gathers evidence that 2017 Seychelles meeting was effort to establish back channel to Kremlin – The Washington Post.)
One wonders why any incoming administration would need to have a back channel to the Kremlin? Enough that multiple efforts to set it up have been discovered1
Remember Erik Prince:
Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security firm that became a symbol of U.S. abuses in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which the company’s guards were accused — and later criminally convicted — of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the firm, which was subsequently re-branded, but has continued building a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He now heads a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group.
Prince was an avid supporter of Trump. After the Republican convention, he contributed $250,000 to Trump’s campaign, the national party and a pro-Trump super PAC led by GOP mega-donor Rebekah Mercer, records show. He has ties to people in Trump’s circle, including Stephen K. Bannon, now serving as the president’s chief strategist and senior counselor. Prince’s sister Betsy DeVos serves as education secretary in the Trump administration. And Prince was seen in the Trump transition offices in New York in December.
(click here to continue reading Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel – The Washington Post.)
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Jared “dimpled slumlord” Kushner also tried to setup a back channel to the Kremlin, using the Russian embassy’s secure facilities. Strange, no?
Jared Kushner and Russia’s ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump’s transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports.
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak reported to his superiors in Moscow that Kushner, son-in-law and confidant to then-President-elect Trump, made the proposal during a meeting on Dec. 1 or 2 at Trump Tower, according to intercepts of Russian communications that were reviewed by U.S. officials. Kislyak said Kushner suggested using Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States for the communications.
The meeting also was attended by Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser.
The State Department, the White House National Security Council and U.S. intelligence agencies all have the ability to set up secure communications channels with foreign leaders, though doing so for a transition team would be unusual.
(click here to continue reading Russian ambassador told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret communications channel with Kremlin – The Washington Post.)
Why not have normal diplomatic communications with a supposedly hostile nation? What do the Trumpsters have to conceal about their relationships with Putin and the Kremlin? Why all the secrecy?
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And there was that weird computer server that connected Trump Tower to Alfa Bank for a still unexplained reason:
In late July, one of these scientists—who asked to be referred to as Tea Leaves, a pseudonym that would protect his relationship with the networks and banks that employ him to sift their data—found what looked like malware emanating from Russia. The destination domain had Trump in its name, which of course attracted Tea Leaves’ attention. But his discovery of the data was pure happenstance—a surprising needle in a large haystack of DNS lookups on his screen. “I have an outlier here that connects to Russia in a strange way,” he wrote in his notes. He couldn’t quite figure it out at first. But what he saw was a bank in Moscow that kept irregularly pinging a server registered to the Trump Organization on Fifth Avenue.
More data was needed, so he began carefully keeping logs of the Trump server’s DNS activity. As he collected the logs, he would circulate them in periodic batches to colleagues in the cybersecurity world. Six of them began scrutinizing them for clues.
The researchers quickly dismissed their initial fear that the logs represented a malware attack. The communication wasn’t the work of bots. The irregular pattern of server lookups actually resembled the pattern of human conversation—conversations that began during office hours in New York and continued during office hours in Moscow. It dawned on the researchers that this wasn’t an attack, but a sustained relationship between a server registered to the Trump Organization and two servers registered to an entity called Alfa Bank.
The researchers had initially stumbled in their diagnosis because of the odd configuration of Trump’s server. “I’ve never seen a server set up like that,” says Christopher Davis, who runs the cybersecurity firm HYAS InfoSec Inc. and won a FBI Director Award for Excellence for his work tracking down the authors of one of the world’s nastiest botnet attacks. “It looked weird, and it didn’t pass the sniff test.” The server was first registered to Trump’s business in 2009 and was set up to run consumer marketing campaigns. It had a history of sending mass emails on behalf of Trump-branded properties and products. Researchers were ultimately convinced that the server indeed belonged to Trump. (Click here to see the server’s registration record.) But now this capacious server handled a strangely small load of traffic, such a small load that it would be hard for a company to justify the expense and trouble it would take to maintain it. “I get more mail in a day than the server handled,” Davis says.
Earlier this month, the group of computer scientists passed the logs to Paul Vixie. In the world of DNS experts, there’s no higher authority. Vixie wrote central strands of the DNS code that makes the internet work. After studying the logs, he concluded, “The parties were communicating in a secretive fashion. The operative word is secretive. This is more akin to what criminal syndicates do if they are putting together a project.” Put differently, the logs suggested that Trump and Alfa had configured something like a digital hotline connecting the two entities, shutting out the rest of the world, and designed to obscure its own existence. Over the summer, the scientists observed the communications trail from a distance.
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Re: college football preseason polls
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Reply to: #259188 by Mn8X
IrishRef
Except for that Ohio State #1 part. Auburn and Clemson sure drop dramatically in that poll. Oklahoma is still a little high but they do well in the regular season.
But for a true motivation I like WVU being underrated and overlooked until late November. It fits the 'Eer persona better. The good thing with Rod gone, if we get back in the top 2 we certainly shouldn't overlook anyone especially our traditional arch rival Pitt.
Now is we can just beat Colorado, Auburn and South Florida. But that is getting ahead of myself.
Beat Villanova!
Go Utah beat Michigan!
There that is better living in the moment and all.
All laughs aside it should be fun doing the college bowl challenge again this year. Did you by any chance end up with my WVU-Oklahoma Fiesta Bowl stamp? If so I would love to trade one of other stamps I got for it! I have a Buckeye and Clemson one!
WOW Wake Forest goes 11-0 and is ranked 7th behind three teams with a loss. Looks like the ACC is getting NO RESPECT! Kind of where the Big East was supposed to be once Miami, Va Tech, Boston College left. Looks like there presence in the ACC has instilled a death spiral for football in the ACC. Particularly with Florida State and Miami hovering around .500 records.
Reply to: #259213 by IrishRef
Jul 29, 2008 1:01pm
Florida football pecking order:
1 Florida Gators
2 South Florida Bulls
3-5 Toss up between Florida State, Miami, and Central Florida Knights
6. Florida International
REDWINGS!!!
BigRedOne
I am going out on a limb here...but I pick the MIGHTY MIGHTY REDWINGS from the one and only true HOCKEYTOWN...to repeat their feat again this year...HOOAAHHH!!!!
be safe...
Re: REDWINGS!!!
Reply to: #260415 by BigRedOne
wassamatta u
I pick the MIGHTY MIGHTY REDWINGS from the one and only true HOCKEYTOWN...to repeat their feat again this year...
Dream on, big guy!
Sharks have a new coach (straight from a successful engagement at the aforementioned so-called hockeytown), and I am REALLY itching to change the name of my Shark Tank Letterbox from "Maybe Next Year" to "Finally This Year!"
-wassamatta_u
Mn8X
Quote I pick the MIGHTY MIGHTY REDWINGS
We know how much you love Ohio teams...are you sure you don't want to pick the Blue Jackets???
(J/K)
Who the heck are the blue jackets???...if they aren't part of the original 8 they aren't sheisse...go WINGS!!!...
Sorry to burst your bubble my dear misguided friend from sanjose...but there is a reason the sharks have the new coach...he couldn't cut it in Hockeytown...or else he would still be there...HAHAHAHA...
Aug 1, 2008 12:04am
GreatBigSabres
Who the heck are the blue jackets???
HaHa. I think Peca just signed with them.
TAWLK TO ME ANYTIME ABOUT HOCKEY.. (see my PT)
I'm from Buffalo, the closest thing to Canada and a hockey mindset.
70 days till my Sabres drop the puck.................
Reply to: #260419 by wassamatta u
Sharks have a new coach (straight from a successful engagement at the aforementioned so-called hockeytown)
Let me tell you something wassa. Sharks just lost their rental d-man (Campbell) from Buffalo to CHiCAGO Who also has Patrick Kane (BUFFALO NATIVE), Jonathan Toews, and Huet in Net.
Not to mention Scotty Bowman just went there. If only Havlat could stay healthy...
AND Buffalo just got Rivet from SJS :lol:
LET'S TALK HOCKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Umm.. The originals were 6 not 8: Detroit, NYR, Habs, Leafs, Boston, & Blackhawks.
MY SABRES were in the second expansion in 70/71.
WANNA TALK HOCKEY?? :-D I'm game !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply to: #260582 by GreatBigSabres
Aug 1, 2008 1:04am
You are right about the Originals...my bad for miscounting...and I bet Scotty Bowman doesn't last as long in SJ as he did before in HOCKEYTOWN...but I do admit he is he winningest coach around...but he still isn't in HOCKEYTOWN...now if only someone would off those losers with the funny name from that Disney movie...be safe...
Dodgers/Pirates/RedSox
Interesting trade triangle. Did the Dodgers hit a jackpot or go bust?
Re: Dodgers/Pirates/RedSox
GoSox
Two months of Manny Ramirez...and then a fairly quick exit in the playoffs, should they manage to even qualify.
I wouldn't think that is hitting the jackpot.
I doubt Manny stays in LA even if they try to resign him at the end of the year.
Look at his OPS...it's been falling for 2 years...with Boras negotiating the contract this time around, I would not want my team to overpay for a Hall of Famer whose skills are degrading and who brings so much baggage with him.
--GoSox
Reply to: #260614 by GoSox
In a division where the top two teams are struggling to be above .500 with rather weak offenses he could be the difference in making the playoffs. Once in the door anything can happen (like the Rockies surprise last year).
Anything can happen, sure.
But what happened to the Rockies? They were swept in the series.
Maybe we have a different opinion about what hitting the jackpot means....
I don't see anybody beating the Angels at this point, and I don't think anyone but the Cubs have a shot at beating an AL team in the Series, but that's just an opinion.
The Dodgers now have 5 outfielders for 3 positions, and with the injury problems in the rotation, I think the Dodgers would have helped themselves better by doing something to bolster a group that is hardly menacing with Lowe and Billingsley in the first two spots.
You make yourself better by adding a Hall of Famer to your club for 2 months, but I don't think the Dodgers made a move that really puts them any closer to a title.
SlowFoot
I couldn't agree more. I am not sure how much Manny is going to help with their less than steller pitching.
I am just glad he did not end up on the Mets (not that they don't have a ton of issues themselves)
Reply to: #260754 by SlowFoot
Yeah, who are they going to sit?
Pierre? Leads the team in SB
Manny? You don't trade for him to not play him
Andruw? He sucks but makes nearly 15 million dollars...
Ethier? or Kemp? Stats very similar and both deserve to be playing over Pierre and Andruw.
The Merry Pranksters
Quote You make yourself better by adding a Hall of Famer to your club for 2 months
If you're talking about Manny, he's currently only in the "Hall of Whiners"! That guy has way too much baggage for a true professional. Can't wait to see him cut that mop and be corralled in by some other management. Good luck to them! Manny's real claim to fame is his bad attitude. You can call him "Mr Nohustle". Besides hitting, he's a very weak player on the field and cancerous in the clubhouse........ good riddance!
Morgantown distractions
Musings from WVU world.
#1 Thuggins (Coach Huggins) Ball is here. He screamed at Alexander into the NBA draft and now two players were arrested for underage drinking, resisting arrest etc. Okay only one of them was a Huggins recruit
#2 The baseball coach is not "high" on black players? So said Patrick White (Heisman candidate again who is continually drafted by Major League Baseball teams. Of course he recanted his comments later.
#3 The school will have a new President forcing out Garrison. Main reason was the degree awarded but not earned by the Governor's daughter.
Let's Play some football already!
Aug 1, 2008 12:06pm
Bowman went to Chicago as the team's senior adviser of hockey operations. The San Jose Sharks hired former Detroit Red Wings assistant Todd McLellan as their head coach.
I just missed meeting Scotty on Wednesday when he visited my place of employment. I would love to have chatted with him.
Anyway, for all the hockey fans out there, how does one go about coordinating a stamp challenge; One in which several get together and carve and plant the logo for all 30 teams?
Aug 1, 2008 2:12pm
Quote I don't see anybody beating the Angels at this point, and I don't think anyone but the Cubs have a shot at beating an AL team in the Series, but that's just an opinion.
Well the Dodgers took the recent series with the Angels 2-1. Way back in the spring the Angels won 2 game to 1. That makes their series for the year 3-3. The Angels are beatable. The Cubs! Are you serious? We are talking about the Cubs here. Where's Bartman?
Rockin Lunch Lady
Nashville Predators are already carved and planted!
RLL
(but I'll carve again, if you like :-)
Reply to: #260773 by The Merry Pranksters
I appreciate your anger...and I understand that your comments are basically an ad hominem, but I think you should revisit his work defensively so that you can stay true to the facts.
He is constantly among leaders in outfield assists, no doubt helped my the Green Monster.
He has also worked very hard in the outfield to improve his abilities. He is no Gold Glove, but you should at least recognize the improvement he has made throughout his career.
You may do that right here: http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/ramirma02.shtml
er dvm
As long as Ohio State stays in the #1 spot, it's all good!
O-H
I-O!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(sorry I am a little behind on my board reading or I would have had your back sooner!)
GO BUCKEYES!
I like seeing Michigan waaaaay down at #47. LOL
Quote If you're talking about Manny, he's currently only in the "Hall of Whiners"! That guy has way too much baggage for a true professional. Can't wait to see him cut that mop and be corralled in by some other management. Good luck to them! Manny's real claim to fame is his bad attitude. You can call him "Mr Nohustle". Besides hitting, he's a very weak player on the field and cancerous in the clubhouse........ good riddance!
Well he is batting .500 with a slugging percentage of .875 in his first two games. Maybe he will do much better without the Red Sox baggage. How amazing how Boston fans love a player then degrade them irregardless of past accomplishments and spit them out like sour milk. I used to root for the Red Sox to beat the Evil Empire. Now they act just like the Yankees. Go Rays, Go Dodgers!
Quote I'm from Buffalo, the closest thing to Canada and a hockey mindset.
dude I am from the UP of MI...crossing into Canada was a highschool pasttime to get tore up from the floor up...not to mention having lived in Detroit in the early 90's...so I can talk Hockey...
plus my former LTC (GOD rest his soul) and I used to be on mission in Iraq during my first tour and that is all we did was talk hockey to pass the time...his son was on a farm team for the st louis blues...and he was from Buffalo...
I call the REDWINGS LOGO...the flying wheel...HOOAH...
hey Wassa has already carved one for the perinneal losers...the sharks...kinda like that team from south of the border...and they won the Toledo War...and MI got the YOOP...thank GOD...
Retire already
Brett Farve...just retire already...you waffle and flip flop more than Obama...who has no substance or backbone...
disagree (7)
dude I am from the UP of MI...not to mention having lived in Detroit in the early 90's...so I can talk Hockey...
Just change "dude" to "hockey chick" and we're all good!
I'll post a separate message for hockey fanatics!
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UPS TRUCK CHASE-SHOOTOUT — Four people, including a UPS driver, were killed after robbers stole the driver’s truck and led police on a chase that ended in gunfire at a busy South Florida intersection during rush hour, the FBI says. By Brynn Anderson and Tim Reynolds. SENT: 740 words, photos, video.
UBER-SEXUAL-ASSAULTS — Uber, as part of a much anticipated safety report, reveals that more than 3,000 sexual assaults were reported during its U.S. rides in 2018. That figure includes 229 rapes across the company's 1.3 billion rides. The ride-hailing company noted that drivers and riders were both attacked, and that some assaults occurred between riders. By Technology Writers Rachel Lerman and Barbara Ortutay. SENT: 700 words, photo.
PEARL HARBOR-LAST ARIZONA INTERMENT — Divers will place the ashes of a survivor from the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor in the wreckage of his ship during a ceremony this weekend. Lauren Bruner will be the 44th and last crew member to be interred on the Arizona in accordance with this rare Navy ritual. By Audrey McAvoy. SENT: 980 words, photos. Also see PEARL HARBOR-SHOOTING below.
COAST GUARD-NAVY BOAT COLLISION — Coast Guard, Navy boats collide in Alaska; nine injured. SENT: 380 words, photo.
OLE-MISS-CONFEDERATE-MONUMENT — Board considers plan on moving Ole Miss Confederate monument. SENT: 170 words, photo.
OBIT-LEONARD-GOLDBERG — Veteran producer of “War Games” “Blue Bloods" dies at 85. SENT: 250 words, photo.
MISSING-HELICOPTER-MINNESOTA — Three soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard were killed when the Black Hawk helicopter they were riding in for a routine maintenance test flight crashed in a farm field in central Minnesota. SENT: 530 words, photo, video.
PEARL HARBOR-SHOOTING — Officials will beef up security as usual for the ceremony to remember those lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor 78 years ago, with service members and dignitaries confronting a fresh tragedy after a U.S. sailor killed two civilians, wounded another and then turned the gun on himself at the storied military base. SENT: 810 words, photos, video.
RELIGION-LGBTQ COMPROMISE — As Democrats champion anti-discrimination protections for the LGBTQ community and Republicans counter with worries about safeguarding religious freedom, one congressional Republican is offering a proposal that aims to achieve both goals. SENT: 490 words, photo.
HARVEY-WEINSTEIN-BAIL-REFORM — Harvey Weinstein wasn't the kind of criminal defendant New York lawmakers had in mind when they passed a law this year eliminating cash bail for most nonviolent crimes. SENT: 670 words, photos.
RAPE-ACCUSER'S NAME — A Texas woman is fighting for anonymity in a lawsuit alleging she was sexually assaulted by a co-worker, but a federal judge who plans to dismiss the case has ordered that her name be made public first. SENT: 710 words.
KANSAS-JUDGE-COMPLAINTS — A foul-mouthed Kansas judge accused of bigotry and racism who cursed at courthouse employees so often that a trial clerk kept a “swear journal” documenting his obscene outbursts is facing complaints that his conduct violates the central judicial canons of independence, integrity and impartiality. SENT: 740 words, photo.
EXECUTION-TENNESSEE — A blind prisoner convicted of killing his estranged girlfriend by setting her on fire in her car was put to death in Tennessee's electric chair, becoming only the second inmate without sight to be executed in the U.S. since the reinstatement of the nation's death penalty in 1976. SENT: 890 words, photo.
UKRAINE-RUSSIA-SUMMIT — For new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a summit meeting with Russia, France and Germany marks a decisive moment in his push to end more than five years of fighting with Moscow-backed separatists in the eastern part of his country.
BRITAIN-BREXIT-ELECTION-SCOTLAND — The question of Scotland's independence from the rest of the United Kingdom is not on the ballot, but it’s uppermost in the minds of many voters in Scotland as they make their final choices. SENT: 990 words, photos.
HONG KONG-HOMEMADE BOMBS — Hong Kong's much-maligned police force provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at its bomb disposal squad to show the potentially deadly destructive force of homemade explosives seized during months of protests that have shaken the Chinese territory.
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AP-INTERVIEW-JON-HUNTSMAN — Trump’s former ambassador to Russia says Vladimir Putin is likely “joyful” about the renewed prominence of a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine was responsible for meddling in the 2016 election, which experts consider Russian disinformation. By Lindsay Whitehurst. SENT: 500 words, photos.
R KELLY — Federal prosecutors are accusing singer R. Kelly of scheming with others to pay for a fake ID for an unnamed female a day before he married R&B singer Aaliyah, then 15 years old, in a secret ceremony in 1994. SENT: 690 words, photos.
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FLESH-EATING BACTERIA-DEATHS — A flesh-eating bacteria linked to the use of black tar heroin has killed at least seven people over the past two months in the San Diego area, prompting health authorities to alert law enforcement and other officials in California. SENT: 530 words, photo.
OPEN WATER-HERE WE GO AGAIN — Open water swimming is facing another round of troubling questions leading up to the Tokyo Games. By National Writer Paul Newberry. SENT: 920 words, photos.
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Almost entire population of Ecuador has personal data leaked online
Almost the entire population of Ecuador had their personal data leaked online from an unsecured server in Miami, security experts said Monday.
Ecuador's Interior Minister María Paula Romo. | CEDOC
Almost the entire population of Ecuador had their personal data leaked online, security experts said Monday, a massive breach that the government called a "very delicate" issue.
As many as 20 million people, including almost seven million minors and children, may have had their data exposed by a breach on an unsecured server run by an Ecuadorean marketing and analytics firm. All have been put at risk of identity theft after the security breach exposed a trove of data including names, phone numbers and birth dates.
Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno said he would push through legislation to ensure stricter data security, while Interior Minister María Paula Romo vowed to hold those responsible accountable.
The information that I can share with you at this moment is that this is a very delicate issue, it is a major concern for the whole of the government and the state," said Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo. "The information we've received is very serious."
The security company vpnMentor uncovered the breach on an unsecured server located in Miami run by the firm Novaestrat, which included citizens' full names, dates and places of birth, education levels, phone numbers and national identity card numbers. Researchers said the server contained information on over 20 million individuals, most of whom reside in Ecuador. The small South American nation is home to just over 17 million people, meaning nearly everyone could have been exposed.
ZDNet, the cybersecurity website that first reported the breach, said there was even data on the country's president and on Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder who applied for asylum in Ecuador and who spent years holed up in the country's London embassy before being arrested this year by British police.
As part of his application for asylum, Assange was issued with an Ecuadorean identity card.
The security company contacted Ecuador's Computer Emergency Response Team to secure the leaked data, ZDNet said.
Romo said the government was "working on an investigation which will permit us in the coming hours to assess who is responsible for what happened."
"I hope, too, that in the hours to come, the Telecommunications Ministry will be able to assess more thoroughly technical information about data protection," she said.
Experts said Ecuador does not have mechanisms in place requiring companies to protect personal data.
According to vpnMentor, the server in question is owned by Ecuadorian company Novaestrat, which did not respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press.
It wasn't immediately clear if anyone had wrongfully accessed the data. And while vpnMentor said the breach was closed Wednesday, it also noted the impact can be long lasting.
The information could potentially be used to commit everything from phone scam to business fraud.
"A malicious party with access to the leaked data could possibly gather enough information to gain access to bank accounts and more," the firm said in a statement.
The data includes national identity card numbers, tax identification numbers and even names of relatives.
The breach is one of several large-scale security lapses exposing the personal data of millions this year.
In July, Capital One said a hacker had accessed the personal information of 106 million credit card holders or credit card applicants in the United States and Canada.
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Calder Quartet performs Feb. 14 at the Tower Theatre in Bend.
This sterling silver cuff with fire agate, by Mary Jo Weiss, shows as part of the COCC Faculty Exhibit.
A clear-eyed look at the arts in 2020
By DAVID JASPER The Bulletin
David Jasper
Assistant features editor
Each year, it seems there can’t possibly be any more going on in the arts, and then the next year comes around, proving otherwise. Here are some highlights of things to look forward to from local arts groups in the months ahead.
Choral and classical“In April, we’re going to perform Brahms’ ‘Requiem,’” said Christian Clark, director of Central Oregon Mastersingers. “This is a big work that I’m excited to explore. I’ve never directed the piece. I’ve only sung it. … We’re going to do a version Brahms wrote a little bit later for four-hand piano. It’s going to be a really interesting experience exploring this music that’s known to be a big work, but we’re going to explore the more intimate version.”
The Mastersingers will be on hand at the Tower Theatre in Bend during producer Damian Sneed’s March 12 presentation of “We Shall Overcome,” which combines the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. with music traditions such as jazz and gospel. In August, the group will perform with the Sunriver Music Festival Orchestra, returning for its 43rd season, which will also mark outgoing conductor George Hanson’s last year with the orchestra. If you’re a visual artist, SRMF seeks original artwork for consideration for this year’s poster. For details, contact information@sunrivermusic.org or visit sunrivermusic.org.
Central Oregon Community College’s Cascade Chorale, led by James Knox, will hold its next concert, March 14 and 15 at Nativity Lutheran Church in Bend, and will feature the works of female composers interspersed with readings by women. May 16 and 17, the Chorale will tackle Modern Broadway songs.
According to Michael Gesme of Cascade Winds Symphonic Band and the Central Oregon Symphony, both groups will continue their missions “of making wonderful wind ensemble and symphonic music accessible to all who have ears to hear,” as Gesme colorfully put it. “Our outreach includes programs for youth in the schools, meet and greet opportunities for aspiring musicians, music in public places, children’s concerts. Of special note (Feb. 20), the COS Virginia Riggs Children’s Concert will feature a potpourri of shorter orchestral works that prominently feature the brass section and the winners of the annual Young Artist Competition will appear with the orchestra on their regular season concerts.” In the days after the Children’s Concert, COS will present its Winter Concert (Feb. 22-24), followed by the season-concluding Spring Concert (May 16-18). The Cascade Winds winter and spring concerts will contain familiar tunes (Bernstein’s “Overture to Candide” and John Williams’ “Cowboys Overture”) and new works including Cesarini’s dramatic, sweeping Symphony No. 1, “The Archangels.”
High Desert Chamber Music continues its 2019-20 season with a Valentine’s Day performance by the Calder Quartet at the Tower Theatre in Bend. At 5 p.m. on Feb. 13, the four will lead a master class — of the kind they’ve previously led at places including The Juilliard School — at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon and the public is invited to observe. Crown City String Quartet, regarded as HDCM’s resident foursome, returns March 28, performing at Wille Hall in COCC’s Coats Campus Center. Pianist Robert Thies will conclude the 12th season when he returns to perform May 9, also at Wille Hall. A bonus on the season: HDCM’s founder and director, Isabelle Senger, will perform on violin when she and the Bend Children’s Choir take part in the Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass concert April 24 at the Tower Theatre.
OperaBend will perform Gaetano Donizetti’s comedic opera “The Elixir of Love” March 13 and 14 at COCC’s Pinckney Center for the Arts, which then heads north for a March 15 performance at Madras Performing Arts Center. The show will be sung in Italian, with English supertitles and a full orchestra conducted by Michael Gesme. Details are still forthcoming, but OperaBend also plans to introduce a Young Vocal Artist Scholarship competition this year, according to OperaBend co-founder and artistic director Nancy Engebretson.
TheaterThe musical “Nine,” about a famed Italian filmmaker fighting battles personal and professional, is on stage through Jan. 18 at Cascades Theatrical Company’s Cascades Theatre in Bend. The show is being produced by Mejaski Choreography and Productions, one of a few productions being presented by outside theater groups this season at Cascades Theatre. Another group making use of the space is BEAT Children’s Theatre, presenting “The Neverending Story” Jan. 24-Feb. 2, followed by “And a Child Shall Lead,” running March 5-8.
Primarily, of course, this is the home of CTC, and much of its 2019-20 Mainstage season lies ahead: Agatha Christie’s “Spider’s Web” runs Feb. 14-March 1, followed by Ken Ludwig’s “Shakespeare in Hollywood” March 20-April 5. The always popular Cascades 10 Play Festival returns April 23-26. CTC’s All Aspects Teen Theatre presents “The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf” May 1-3. Finally, the season concludes with “Bright Star: A New American Musical,” by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, running May 15-June 7.
Thoroughly Modern Productions will present “Matilda the Musical” Jan. 24-Feb. 1, with the two young actresses, ages 9 and 12, taking turns at the demanding title role on alternate nights. That’s followed by “Into the Woods Jr.,” a TMP teen program, in May. In early July, TMP will produce a new play about John and Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In August, TMP presents “Beauty and the Beast Jr.” featuring an all-youth cast. Just as last year, TMP will produce a major musical in September at the Tower. Last year it was “Mamma Mia!” and in 2020 it will be “Titanic the Musical.”
Two Twisted Sisters Productions, the company behind the recent original thriller “A Stone in the Water,” will present the Broadway musical “Gypsy” March 12-28 at Eagle Mountain Event Center in Bend. Visit twotwistedsistersproductions.com for more.
May 1-17, Topsoil Theatrics will present the comedy musical “Little Shop of Horrors” at the new, multi-use Open Space facility at 220 NE Lafayette Ave., the former home of 2nd Street Theater. Auditions are Feb. 3. Sign up at somewheregreen.com.
Fresh off “The Nutcracker” in December, Sunriver Stars Community Theater returns with the comedy “Let Him Sleep ‘til It’s Time for His Funeral” Feb. 28-March 7 at The Door in Sunriver. Sandy Klein, who resurrected “Evil Dead the Musical” in the fall, comes aboard to direct “Greater Tuna” May 15-23 at The Door. Sunriver Stars will offer a complementary drama camp running April-June for kids in south Deschutes County for the third time.
March 12-15, Silent Echo Theater Company in Sisters returns with “Now You’re Talking,” made up of one-act plays by local, regional and international playwrights. Stay tuned for more details.
Limelight Entertainment’s popular Cocktail Cabaret series, which features local musical theater performers tackling genres including jazz, Broadway and more, launches for the year at 7 p.m. March 10 at Seven Restaurant and Nightclub. Titled “And the Award goes to,” the evening will feature songs nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Song.
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Visual artsWith the plethora of galleries in Bend and surrounding towns, it’s almost impossible to include every one in this context. Here are but a few highlights:
The Pence Pinckney Gallery at COCC will show works in a variety of genres from COCC art faculty members Thursday, when it opens with a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., through Feb. 5. It’s part two of a two-part exhibit, with works by art instructors Bill Cravis, Carolyn Platt, Shin Yeon Jeon, Mary Jo Weiss, Terry Gloeckler, Ian Factor and Moe Carolin.
Red Chair Gallery, a downtown Bend group gallery run by its members, went through some major reorganization over the past year — and according to managing cofounder Rita Dunlavy, it’s going well. “We have accomplished everything we set out to change, reorganize and restructure,” Dunlavy said in an email. Of the gallery’s 30 artists, 20 have been with it since its start, and Dunlavy expects to hold a 10th anniversary party in August. “We have longevity in this gallery, and I think it has everything to do with a community of friends that the community of artists has become.”
In February, Tumalo Art Co., an artist-run gallery in Bend’s Old Mill District, will host a group show speaking to the theme of “JOY.” Along with the show, there will be an interactive area outside the gallery where folks can write and attach notes about what brings them joy. Marty Stewart will be the featured artist in March, with the gallery’s Best Fine Art Sale Ever returning mid-month for its ninth installment. In April, Susan Luckey Higdon and Tracy Leagjeld will be the featured artists. Summer will see the return of Artists in Action, with gallery artists working inside and outside, doing demonstrations and painting plein air, on Thursday mornings.
Peterson/Roth Gallery in downtown Bend has group shows opening in February (Ken Roth and Rand Scot Smithey), May (Scott Switzer and Glenn Ness), August (Leslie Duke, Valerie Winterholler and Holly Rodes Smithey) and November (Anton Pavlenko, Donald Yatomi and John and Robin Gumaelius.
Art in the High Desert, the juried art show on the left bank of the Deschutes River, returns to the Old Mill District Aug. 28-30 with 120 artists from all over North America.
BendFilm Fest, classic moviesBendFilm’s 17th annual independent film festival will take place Oct. 8-11 at venues around Bend, including BendFilm’s Tin Pan Theater, with passes going on sale this month. Speaking of Tin Pan, BendFilm plans to roll out education programs including Early Release Film Club for students on early-release Wednesdays and the Food for Thought Movie Series, which begins Tuesday . 2020 will also see the return of Spaghetti Western Wednesday, a popular event featuring everyone’s favorite pasta paired with Westerns. And watch out for MoWo Presents, featuring films selected by Bend’s own Mosley Wotta. Visit bendfilm.org for more details.
The Tower Theatre celebrates its 80th birthday this year, and the Tower board and staff will celebrate by showing a 1940s classic each Wednesday night in March on the big screen. Each feature film will be accompanied by newsreels, cartoons and features from the era. Admission is only $1, with free birthday cake served. The schedule is “Casablanca” on March 4, “The Philadelphia Story” March 11, “The Maltese Falcon” March 18, “Gone With The Wind” March 25. More at towertheatre.org.
ComedyBend Comedy Festival, a new event, comes to life May 14-16 in downtown Bend. If you or someone you know is a stand-up comic, the application submission process opens Friday . Visit bendcomedy.com for more information.
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Cars of Bendix December 2019 – Adelaide Auto Expo!
This month we ventured over to South Australia to find some Cars of Bendix at the Adelaide Auto Expo. This show encompasses all walks of automotive life from customs, muscle, imports and race cars, basically there is something to look at no matter what your taste. So lets get into the action and check out Novembers Cars of Bendix!
BOXER’S 1997 XH FALCON UTE
Starting life as a garden variety Ford ute, Mark or Boxer as he’s known has transformed this 1997 XH Falcon ute into a fire-breathing drag car. Featuring a full drag car rear end, trans-braked Turbo 400 and a 1000rwkW capable Atomic Barra engine with a rather large turbo hanging off the side. Having just been completed, the car has done some shakedown runs on the dyno and made promising power with just over 800rwhp only running 25psi boost at 6000rpm. Mark says the car has beenin the build for a while, but he’s very happy to have it completed and even more so to have it featured in the current issue of Street Machine magazine. His current plan is to sell the car as a brand-new build as he’s already working on another project, yet says that he hopes someone who will use it regularly buys it and runs some fast times.
ROBERT & AMANDA’S EVOS
Robert first bought his Evo from a past customer who owned the car, it had previously won the best Japanese car at an Extreme Auto Expo event and when the car came up for sale he just had to have it!
The car came with a 2.3ltr stroker kit and a bigger turbo for maximum power. Thanks to Mike Dale the engine was rebuilt and tuned for 354kw at the wheels on 22psi running E85. The team at Salisbury Exhaust hooked him up with cooler pipes and a custom exhaust. All that was left to do was change the colour of the car to Rakio in house at Spikes Auto, switch to a set of XO Luxury Cario wheels with a carbon finish and have a big stereo installed by the team over at ACDC.
Amanda’s car was bought almost as you see it today with a full custom interior and crazy stereo system. The interior did need some work however and a few bits and pieces needed to be resprayed and touched up. The car then went into the workshop where it had the holes welded up on the Evo 9 boot, then the clear coat was fixed and resprayed on the Evo 9 carbon wing blade. The car then went into the paint shop where it was sprayed in a colour-shift paint appropriately named Tsunami. Finally the wheels were refreshed and painted in a black colour to finish the car off.
JARRETT’S PORSCHE 911S TARGA
Jarrett’s 911s Targa is one of a kind. Whilst keeping the main German styling of the car, Jarrett has also put his personal flavour into the mix, as well as creating something that suits him own personal tastes. The car was not gathered but rather hunted. Jarrett was on the lookout for the perfect car when the opportunity arose to purchase this 1975 Porsche 911s Targa which he was told had “Gearbox problems”. After many hours on Google and some trial and error, a little access hatch was removed which gave assess to the trans tunnel and he discovered a pile of dust and debris. The remains of a coupler joint bushing which cost him a grand total of $25 to replace. After this, the months following saw a full restoration of the car, in which time he added his own flavour to the 911. Jarrett says he’s put about 800 hours of hard work into getting the car to where it is today in its immaculate condition.
FRANK’S ‘FAST & FURIOUS’ DODGE CHARGER
If you’re a fan of the Fast & Furious series you will be no stranger to this car, Frank’s 1970 Dodge Charger. Originally found in a shed after sitting for 10 years the opportunity arose for Frank to purchase this beauty. While the plan originally was to turn it into a burnout car, after getting it back from the paint shop, he couldn’t bring himself to wreck such a well-presented car. It’s fitted with a 440 big block bored out to a 498ci and runs a forged crank, H-beam rods and Callies forged pistons. On top of the engine sits a pair of Edlebrock RPM heads fitted that are pumped full of boost supplied by a BDS 8/71 blower and fed by twin 950cfm carbs to ensure that there is no shortage of fuel supply.
Creating a movie-car tribute was not originally on the table, but one thing let to another and with help from his brother, Frank’s Charger is a great tribute to Toretto’s Dad’s car from the original movie. He even displayed it wheels up at the show!
RICK’S 1932 HOTROD
Ricks’ hot rod is a great example of building something right. Originally purchasing it as a rolling shell from Canberra 15-years ago with a 351 twin ram tunnel, he later changed it to a blown 351 Clevo. After 2 years of regulatory discussions, it’s now a fully street legal South Australian based American Hot Rod. With its 12” wide Mickey Thompson rear tyres, 5” American Racing rims on the front and a 3000-stall converter making this one very cool hot rod. Rick takes pride in having his car driven and not hidden. He’s driven in 42-degree heat and done numerous trips to interstate events. The car has also won many trophies at events held in VIC and it’s not only a car that Rick enjoys driving, but something his family love and take pride in. With its custom interior, flame paint job and big blower, it’s defiantly a car you want to keep an eye out for on the street and at future events.
ADAM’S MAZDA FD3S RX7
Boasting a 13B rotary engine and upgraded turbo, Adam’s Mazda is one of a kind stance weapon. Famous for their curvy body line and pop up heads, the FD RX-7 is the pinnacle of the Japanese 90’s era of imports. With the car sitting static, it had to have been one of the lowest cars at the Extreme Auto Expo. Underneath a freshly polished set of Work Meisters tuck right up under the guards. With only a few things left to do on the car, Adam can’t wait to get out and enjoy his rotary-powered Batmobile.
JOHN’S NISSAN SKYLINE R33 GTR
John was born with drag racing in his blood and what started out as a streetcar quickly became a fully upgraded drag car. Starting out with the usual modifications, an aftermarket exhaust, Apexi FC, pod filters and larger intercooler saw it make a 227rwkw. John says the was fun for a little while, but his thirst for beating V8s down the quarter mile was strong so he decided it was time for some serious power gains. The car under went more bolton upgrades, receiving a pair of HKS 2540’s were installed, 680cc injectors, bosh fuel pump, cam gears, Cusco exhaust catch can and Nismo upgrades, this made for a car that ran 11.8 down the quarter-mile with 338rwkw. Eventually, the engine decided enough was enough and at that point John was all in. An OS 3-litre short block engine package fitted with a brand new N1 head and even bigger HKS turbos. ON it’s first outing the car put down a 10.7. Everyone was impressed yet knew that it was capable of going faster and John dropped the clutch to launch off the line harder. Unfortunately he snapped both rear axles and that was the end of the outing. A few more axles and gearboxes later John ran a 9.66 at 148.85mph. Relieved he didn’t break anything, he attempted a few more runs and found that the car was capable of doing good consistent 9.6-second runs. These days the car not only still makes trips to the drag strip, but he often takes it to The Bend Motorsport Park to do some fairly entertaining but fast laps!
DANIEL’S TORANA
Daniels baby blue Torana is an absolute weapon and boasts a very tough sounding 650hp V8 engine. Having been in his position since the ’90s as a bare shell, he built it slowly over a number of years fitting the build in with his busy lifestyle. It was all long night, hard work and cash. The custom paint job was done by the team at Muscle Cars in Salisbury SA and it really sets the car parent from every other Torana. The 400ci V8 is fitted with alloy heads, a twin throttle body EFI setup and is run by an Autronic SMC ECU. Did we mention is also has a cheeky direct port nitrous system? Whilst being fitted out with as many modifications as he could, he also adamantly wanted to make sure that the car was going to be street-legal, so after a vigorous engineering process and a mandatory roadworthy inspection, it’s engineered and 100% street legal.
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Brian and Michael are back for the latest Between the Ropes broadcast as they discuss the latest news and notes from the world of professional wrestling. The duo dig into Hulk Hogan’s controversial, racist remarks, and what this means to his legacy, and for WWE moving forward. They also look at an interesting WWE Raw that saw two solid Diva’s ...
WWE Raw Review 7/13/2015, NXT Women Debut
It’s the latest Between the Ropes broadcast as Brian and Michael talk about an interesting WWE RAW from 7/13/2015. They break down John Cena’s latest open challenge, the debut of three hugely popular NXT women on the main roster, and the final build for Seth Rollins vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WWE Battleground. Plus, other ...
WWE Raw Review 7/6/2015, Brock Lesnar Destroys a Cadillac
Enjoy what we do? Support Between the Ropes on Patreon! Your generous donation will help keep our lights on, and make it possible for us to do even more! Wrestling fans everywhere will thank you. Brian and Michael are back for the latest Between the Ropes broadcast talking RAW, Brock Lesnar utterly destroying J&J’s pricey Cadillac, Cesaro answering John Cena’s ...
WWE Beast in the East Post-Game Show at 11am ET
Enjoy what we do? Support Between the Ropes on Patreon! Your generous donation will help keep our lights on, and make it possible for us to do even more! Wrestling fans everywhere will thank you. Join Brian and Michael LIVE at 11:00am ET on July 4th for a special Between the Ropes broadcast following the unique WWE Beast in the ...
Between the Ropes: WWE Raw Review 6/22/2015, Seth Rollins Gets Best of Brock Lesnar
It’s the weekly Between the Ropes broadcast as Brian and Michael discuss everything in the wild world of wrestling: Seth Rollins proving that Brock Lesnar is in fact human on Monday Night RAW, John Cena debating Kevin Owens’ challenge, and more! Plus, other news and notes, and your questions answered LIVE on-air! And be sure to watch on YouTube where you ...
Between the Ropes: WWE Raw Review 6/16/2015, Brock Lesnar Returns
It’s the latest Between the Ropes podcast as we discuss all things in the world of wrestling. Brian and Michael break down an interesting edition of WWE RAW that saw Brock Lesnar return, Kevin Owens attack a rapper, and the entire Divas division turn its back on Paige. Plus, a look at the new TNA Impact Wrestling X Division championship, thoughts on ...
Breaking News Live Broadcast on the Passing of Dusty Rhodes at 6:00p ET
Sad news hit the wrestling world today with the passing of Virgil Runnels, aka “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes. Join us live at 6:00pm ET as we discuss one of the all time greats: his career, famous matches, and the legacy he leaves behind. We’ll talk about some of your favorite memories as well, and celebrate the legendary WWE Hall ...
LIVE WWE Elimination Chamber 2015 Post-Game Show
Join us LIVE at 11:05 ET immediately following WWE Elimination Chamber as we talk all the latest news, matches, title-changes, and more coming from the WWE Network exclusive show. How did Kevin Owens fare against John Cena? Did Seth Rollins retain his WWE World Heavyweight Championship? Who is the new Intercontinental Champion? We’ll give you the results, and break-down what ...
Between The Ropes: WWE Raw Review 5/26/2015, TNA Impact Wrestling Cancelled
Brian and Michael are back again looking at a newsworthy week in wrestling that included cancellation rumors for TNA Impact Wrestling on Destination America. Plus, thoughts on another surprisingly entertaining edition of WWE RAW, NXT TakeOver: Unstoppable fallout, Elimination Chamber predictions, and your questions answered on-air! Subscribe to Between The Ropes on iTunes so you automatically get the latest podcasts ...
Extra Videos Featuring Tyler Breeze, Colin Cassady from E:60 Pictures
On Tuesday night, the E:60 feature WWE: Behind the Curtain aired on ESPN. It was a fascinating expose on NXT, showing what it takes to make it WWE developmental and the many details and choices that go into the characters and the personalities of the stars as well as how decisions get made from management. The show focused on three guys: ...
LIVE! WWE Extreme Rules 2015 Post-Game Show
Right after the dust settles from WWE Extreme Rules, we’ll be going LIVE on the air with our post-game show! We’ll be discussing the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match between Seth Rollins and Randy Orton, Rusev vs. Cena, the latest on the Daniel Bryan injury situation, and Neville’s first big win on a WWE pay-per-view.
Curtis Axel Explains How Long He Has Been in the WWE Royal Rumble
You know, Curtis Axel really does have a beef when it comes to this year’s Royal Rumble. Since then, Axelmania was born and is running wild in the WWE. While on the current European tour, Axel took it one step further and explained that he’s been in the Rumble a lot longer than anyone knew. Yeah that’s right — Curtis ...
WWE WrestleMania 31 Post Show from Levi’s Stadium
Brian and Michael come to you LIVE from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, home of WrestleMania 31, to discuss all the happenings of WWE’s biggest show. They discuss what Seth Rollins’ surprise MITB cash-in means for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, the reactions for Lesnar and Rollins, a fantastic segment including the People’s Champ The Rock and UFC Champ Ronda ...
Video Coverage from WWE WrestleMania31 AXXESS
Brian Fritz and Michael A. Wiseman are LIVE on location in San Jose for WWE WrestleMania 31 AXXESS. The duo talks about all the events they’ve been to this week (including an awesome NXT live show), share thoughts on the Hall of Fame and Randy Savage, and give a little bit of perspective on how incredible the whole WrestleMania weekend ...
Max Landis parodies Triple H’s career in funny, NSFW ‘Wrestling Isn’t Wrestling’ (video)
Forget all of WWE’s official Triple H biographies. Hollywood screenwriter Max Landis has summarized the Game’s career in a 24-minute film called Wrestling Isn’t Wrestling, and it’s an amazing, hilarious (and not safe for work) piece of art. This is Landis’ followup to The Death and Return of Superman, and though he calls Triple H his favorite character, he’s brutal in ...
Watch: Vince McMahon and the Power Walk Returned on Raw
When WWE Raw began on Monday night, the Buffalo fans — and people at home — had to catch themselves with what they heard. No, it wasn’t John Cena’s music or even The Authority’s. Instead, there was the intro music for the Chairman. Yes, Vincent Kennedy McMahon made a surprise appearance on Raw and it was everything you would expect. The strut, ...
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MERCEDES has sparked privacy concerns by admitting it spies on drivers with tracking devices covertly installed in its cars
Source: the sun uk
MERCEDES has sparked a privacy row by admitting it spies on drivers with tracking devices covertly installed in its cars.
Drivers who buy a Mercedes through a finance plan give their permission for the vehicle to be tracked when signing lengthy terms and conditions
The secret sensors, fitted to all new and used motors sold by the firm’s dealers, pinpoint the vehicle’s exact location.
The firm sold more than 170,000 new cars in Britain alone last year.
Mercedes will not say how long it has used the sensors.
And it insists they are only activated in “extreme circumstances” — when finance customers have defaulted on their payments.
But it admits sharing car owner information and vehicle location details with third-party bailiffs and recovery firms who repossess the cars.
Ex-Cabinet minister David Davis today called for the Government to investigate.
He added: “This is not the first time big business has behaved like Big Brother — but it’s rare to be quite as deceitful as this.
“I have to question whether it is even legal to pass on information to other people such as bailiffs.
“I would think the relevant minister ought to look very closely at the legality of this procedure.”
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Interior 123
Virtual Reality performance
Music: Florian Magnus Maier
Virtual reality images: Marcel Wierckx
‘As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche.’
The quest for brutal expression in the work of Spanish-Catalan surrealist master Joan Miró (1893-1983) can be compared to the effect one aims to create with Virtual Reality: power, total immersion, clarity, impact.
One characteristic of Miró is his biomorphic paintwork; objects are divorced from their actual function, only to be incorporated into an organic world. Striking features include his bright use of colour, and the frequent depiction of objects from space. This organic and imaginative world is dominated by nature, the moon, the stars, and women. Spontaneously erupting poetry is the principle tone. This predominantly ideogrammatic world of shapes and forms is strongly inspired by contemporary multimedia, using the newest visual technology.
Miró visited the Netherlands in 1928, and in awe of the old masters, especially Vermeer, decided to re-paint his own idiosyncratic, abstract versions of these works. In particular:
Dutch Interior 1, based on ‘The Lute Player’ by Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh
Dutch Interior 2, inspired by ‘The Dance Lesson’ by Jan Steen and
Dutch Interior 3, inspired by ‘Woman at her Toilette’, also by Jan Steen.
These three ‘Dutch Interior’ paintings form the theme of this production.
INTERIOR 123 (trailer)
The visuals of the VR-production Interior 123 are presented in 360-degrees, in three virtual spaces. These virtual spaces are filled with a range of living asymmetrical forms. Details of the three works of Miró come to life in a vivid virtual environment. Colour palettes and depths of contrast are borrowed from works of the old masters such as ‘The Lute Player’ by Martensz Sorgh and ‘The Dance Lesson’ by Jan Steen. Images of the musicians from Black Pencil have been shot in a green screen studio, and can thus be digitally placed into these virtual spaces. A combination of pixel smearing techniques and 3D transformations transform the musicians into abstract shapes. The visitor experiences an arresting and surreal world where nothing is as it seems. A short yet powerful story that leaves room for one’s own associations.
Interior 123 is a Virtual Reality production lasting six minutes, running on a continuous loop. Depending upon the location it can be played for two to four hours, with appropriate breaks (for example, for audience changeover or breaks for the musicians).
The capacity of the installation is ten audience members per performance. The placement of the installation is according to a square truss construction, with dimensions measuring 400 x 250 x 250cm (LxWxH). LED lamps (Par 64) hang on the truss to create the appropriate atmosphere, as well as powerful ventilators (wind generators) for sensory effect. The ten chairs for the audience are screwed into a wooden floor; five chairs in front and five behind. Four ‘Buttkickers’ are also attached to the wooden floor, and produce in effect no sound. Their function is to create vibrations that correspond to the lowest frequencies of the music, creating the impression of a powerful sound system at considerable volume – very effective! All effects used - wind, vibration, live music and electronic sound processing - are controlled by a central synchronising system, and thus form an integrated and coordinated part of the Virtual Reality video projected.
The installation is operated by our own technician and assistant. The technician is responsible for all connections and for the seamless operation of the equipment. The assistant takes care of welcoming the audience and gives a short explanation of the performance. He or she leads the visitors to their places, gives out the VR-glasses and wishes them an enjoyable experience.
The performance can be given in two variations:
The live musicians surrounding the audience. This is only possible in spaces with sound isolation. For example, a small concert hall or studio space, easily accessible within the building where other activities are taking place. Sound will be played through a 5.1 audio surround system.
The musicians performing live from the Black Pencil studio in Amsterdam (Studio Ladon). Only the technician and PR assistant are present at the performance location. Audio is live streamed, and the visitor listens through high quality headphones. This variant is particularly suited to foyers of theatres/concert halls, or entrances of busy events where there is a large public but live music may not be played due to noise disturbance. The visitors can see the musicians after the performance via a flat screen monitor.
Audience members waiting their turn outside can observe the faces of those within the installation, piquing their curiosity and encouraging them to go inside too. This installation is a concept that appeals to a broad range of people (including children from 8 years of age).
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CBRNE Sensing Platforms: Human, Animal, and Autonomous
25 September 25, 2015
in Distributed Sensing, Emergency Notification, Fusion, Hybrid Life Support, K9, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Uncategorized
Blueforce DC METRO Field Day is quickly approaching. No Powerpoint. No lectures. Just a day of “hands-on” with leading-edge emergency management, first responder, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism technologies. The event is sponsored by Blueforce Development, Tech Data, Sprint, and Mac Business Solutions. “Track 2” will feature “Sensing Platforms for WMD/CBRNE” and will demonstrate the latest in technology for mobile curtains of WMD sensing plus shared Situational Awareness. Person-carried, unattended, and K9 carried radiological, multi-gas, and imagery sensors will be demonstrated with hands-on access for all attendees. Scott Safety’s Military and Civil Defense unit will provide a hands-on demonstration of their next generation hybrid (PAPR, SCBA, and APR) respiratory protection gear. We believe this track is of vital importance for a whole host of reasons.
The intelligence community has been warning for some time about “home made” explosive and chemical weapons, many of which can be fashioned from materials bought at Home Depot or the local pool supply store. Fast forward to Saturday March 14, 2015 when leaders in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq provided the Reuters news organization with soil and clothing samples taken by the peshmerga from an Islamic State suicide bombing in northern Iraq in January. The samples contained high levels of chlorine which suggested the substance was used in a weaponized form. Chlorine is a choking agent whose use as a chemical weapon dates back to World War One. Disturbingly though, it appears that radicals have succeeded in building a repeatable blueprint for weapons using industrial chemicals. Given the asymmetric nature of these organizations, detection of such weapon systems will be difficult without a strategy that embraces distributed detection. And recent UN reports coming out of the “caliphate” region indicate ISIS is using mustard and sarin munitions as well.
Since 9/11, radiological dispersal devices (RDD, also know as “dirty bombs”) have been high on the radar for first responders and counter-terrorism organizations. RDD’s continue to be a threat because the ability to build and deliver an RDD is not confined to nation states; the Aum Shinryko and subnational groups such as the Chechens have pursued development of RDDs. Chechen rebels in November of 1995 placed a 30-pound container of radioactive cesium in a Moscow park. A chilling reminder of a terrorist organization’s willingness to use an RDD.
To date, the idea of “networked detectors” was confined to specialty pole-mounted and/or body worn gamma radiological detectors. Even then, the idea of “networked” and “shared” detectors was a dream. Two years ago, Blueforce delivered a software plugin for Blueforce Tactical that made Thermo RAD PRD data sharable and reportable such that peer responders, incident command, and fusion centers could have real-time shared awareness of radiological detections. We launched support for Sensorcon’s SensorDrone more than two years ago for detection of pressurizing, oxidizing, and reducing gases. As budgets become tighter, thought leaders inside of Homeland Security and law enforcement agencies are keen to leverage communications and mobile platforms that they already own to turn every responder into a mobile sensing platform. The days of carrying multiple devices, each with their own communications exfil and data plans, are coming to an end. Gamma radiological detection is now entering the mobile IoT age with technology from companies like Image Insight and their software-based radiological detection platform, GammaPix™.
Increasingly, we are seeing our customers move out on a concept of operation that has every deployed endpoint serving as a “sensor”. Not just the native olfactory or visual senses of a human or working dog, but fusing body worn sensors for a type of “crowd-sourcing” of body worn sensors with the smartphone as the gateway for delivery and sharing of ground truth intelligence. See all of this and more at Blueforce Field Day which will be helf on Wednesday October 14, 2015 from 8:30AM until 2:00PM EDT at Mac Business Solutions in Gaithersburg, Maryland. This free event is 100% “hands-on” and demonstrates best-in-class technologies using four real-world scenarios. Space is limited and attendence is strictly controlled to those with US citizenship. For more on this topic and/or to register, please visit our event homepage which is available here, or call us at 866-960-0204 for more information.
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Bontrager WaveCel XXX Road Cycling Helmet Review
Taylor Jones May 03, 2019
After one of the most effective hype campaigns in recent memory, Trek’s in house component arm Bontrager pulled the curtain back on its revolutionary new line of WaveCel helmets a few short months ago. Promising to be up to 48 times more effective at mitigating the chance of a concussion than a standard EPS foam helmet in the event of a crash, with thanks to Trek Australia, we got our hands on the new Bontrager WaveCel XXX and set about putting it through its paces.
Whos is for?: The performance orientated road cyclist chasing the latest in helmet safety technology.
What we liked:Supreme comfort, BOA adjustment and the sweat diverting padding options.
What we didn’t: Additional weight and compromised ventilation won’t suit all comers.
Related Reading: Bontrager WaveCel Helmet Technology – Six Things to Know
Safety in Spades
The biggest drawcard of this lid and the chief reason many punters will shell out their hard earned will likely be for the WaveCel safety technology. Best described as a cellular structure, WaveCel is designed to both reduce rotational forces imposed on the head and brain and deflect energy away from the head. The cellular structure is designed to compress three different ways in the event of an impact; First, the cells flex to reduce initial friction forces, the cells them crumple to absorb the impact and then glide to disperse energy away from the head. The end result is a helmet that Trek and third-party testing lab, Virginia Tech claim is “48 times more effective at preventing a concussion than standard foam helmets at preventing concussions from common cycling accidents.”
At the time of publishing, the XXX helmet (RRP AU$349) provided sits atop the WaveCel road helmet hierarchy. The lid features an aerodynamic shape that’s best described as a hybrid of the wind-cheating Ballista and high-end Velocis helmets in the Bontrager product line-up.
In addition to the WaveCel liner, the XXX features a BOA retention system at the rear of the helmet, AgiON antimicrobial moisture wicking pads (with a new Nosweat pad featuring a silicone channel to keep sweat out of your eyes), a Trek-Segafredo sticker kit and a crash replacement guarantee. The Crash Replacement Guarantee provides buyers with a free helmet replacement if the wearer is involved in a crash within the first year of ownership.
All told our size Medium (54-60cm) review unit tipped the scales at 360 grams, just 8g above the claimed 352g weight. The XXX is available in a host of colours including; White, Black, Red, Azure Blue, and a limited edition metallic colour dubbed Purple Phaze. Sizing on offer includes; Small (51-57cm), Medium (54-60cm), and Large (58-63cm).
Ride Impressions
Upon taking delivery of our test unit, the Wavecel structure hiding beneath the EPS liner of the lid is strikingly apparent. The cellular structure on our unit was shipped in a fluoro green colour that contrasted well with the white colour scheme of the helmet. Also included in the box was a helmet bag, additional padding with a silicone sweat diversion band, and a sticker kit with instructions for punters to have their lid mimic those worn by Trek-Segafredo.
Sliding the lid out of the box, the weight of the unit is immediately noticeable, especially when compared to the feathery light Kask Valegro to which I am accustomed. I wouldn’t go as far to say that the weight was an inhibiting factor; however, those with an aversion to adding an extra 50-100 grams on their bonce may want to try before they buy.
Slide the helmet on though, and the weight qualms disappear entirely. The weight of the helmet is evenly distributed around the wearers entire head with no pressure points to note. In fact, i’d go as far to say that this is the most comfortable lid I’ve ever worn. The oval-shaped interior suited my dome well with a number of other members of the BikeExchange team also remarking on the supreme comfort. This is mostly thanks to the positioning of the padding on the inside of the helmet and the nature of the WaveCel lining. Being a cellular structure that covers the full interior of the helmet, it feels as if the lid conforms to the shape of the head, rather than bony protrusions on the head sticking into the foam padding as is common on other helmets. Also on the subject of fit, the singular BOA IP1 dial at the rear of the helmet provided an excellent level of hold and adjustability. Additionally, the straps are just as they should be. Lightweight and minimal in design, easily adjustable and typically a set and forget item.
Moving to the exterior, the aero-inspired aesthetic of the lid was adept at filtering air over the shell and onto my noggin; however, there was a noticeable difference in breathability compared to the ventilated helmets I typically use. I rarely found the helmet too warm on my head despite using it in temperatures ranging from the single digits through to the mid-thirties, but it's worth remarking that it's best suited to riding in a colder climate. On the whole, I’d put the ventilation on par with many other aero helmets on the market.
While I wasn’t too keen on throwing myself off my bike on purpose to test the bold safety claims made by Bontrager, it's safe to say that more than a few competitors in the industry have taken notice. Chief among which is rival helmet safety outfit MIPS Protection who have publicly called the tech into question after subjecting the new technology to a battery of tests. So while the jury may still be out with regards to just how safe the new tech is, third-party testing and a five-star safety rating from Virginia Tech certainly bolster the safety credentials of the WaveCel range.
In an industry where technology is evolving at a rapid rate, it’s clear that Bontrager is onto a new standard with its latest innovation. After all, anything that enhances the protection a rider is worth investing in, particularly if it doesn’t come at the expense of comfort and wearability. So if you’re in the market for a new lid packed with the latest tech and can live with an additional 50 odd grams of weight and slightly compromised ventilation, the WaveCel XXX, and it’s siblings are well worth the investment.
Thanks to Trek for providing the product for this review. Our main tester wears a size Medium
Looking for more information? Our Ultimate Cycling Helmet Buyer’s Guide is loaded with all you need to know.
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Michigan Truck Driver Makes Left Turn, Reportedly Causes Deadly Motorcycle Accident
In Lansing, Michigan, a Republican state legislator lost his life on the afternoon of Monday, September 13, when a truck driver allegedly made a left turn into his path. The Michigan State Police (MSP) released a statement that Rep. Peter Pettalia, who represented Presque Isle, was wearing a helmet when the fatal motorcycle crash occurred at 5:30 p.m.
The legislator, who advocated the 2012 repeal of Michigan’s compulsory helmet law, was headed south on M-33 in Montgomery County when the collision took place. His motorcycle reportedly hit the pickup truck broadside. The operator of the truck was a 59-year-old Fairview woman who was driving alone. She was uninjured in the motorcycle collision.
The accident occurred on M-33 in northern Michigan as Rep. Pettalia was en route to Lansing to attend a session at the House of Representatives. Although the House met Tuesday, officials stated that they would not vote on any imminent bills due to the abrupt death of Rep. Pettalia. His colleagues spoke favorably of the 61-year-old legislator, who served as Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and was finishing his final two-year term in the state House. His fellow lawmakers described him as “a great legislator and even better person” and as “…honest and sincere in all he did.” Pettalia leaves behind his wife, Karen, and two adult children, Anna and Peter.
Left-Turn Collisions involving Motorcycles
According to a study authorized by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), approximately 75 percent of all motorcycle accidents involve crashes with another vehicle. In most instances, the other vehicle is a passenger car. Additionally, roughly two-thirds of these accidents are caused by a violation of the motorcyclist’s right-of-way by the motorist operating the passenger vehicle.
The NTIS study also indicated that, in a considerable number of these cases, the accident was caused by the failure of the other motorist to notice the motorcyclist or to see the motorcyclist in time to avoid a crash.
If you were injured in a motorcycle accident, call the motorcycle accident attorneys at Proner and Proner. We can help you get compensated for your motorcycle accident injuries.
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Ubisoft fights off Vivendi takeover attempt
Tags: #activision-blizzard #financial #shares #tencent #tencent-holdings #ubisoft #vivendi #vivendi-universal #yves-guillemot
Companies: #tencent #tencent-holdings #ubisoft #vivendi
Media giant Vivendi has pulled out of a years-long hostile takeover attempt of Ubisoft, selling up the 27.3 percent of the company it had managed to acquire.
Vivendi was once a major player in the gaming industry: Born form Compagnie Générale des Eaux, founded by Napoleonic decree in 1853 to supply water to the city of Lyon, the company built up an impressive range of subsidiaries including Diablo, WarCraft, and Starcraft creator Blizzard and point-and-click pioneer Sierra before merging with Activision and creating Activision Blizzard in 2007. The company would split from Vivendi, however, in 2013, and today Vivendi owns no stock in Activision Blizzard - and has been working over the years to get back into the gaming game.
Vivendi made its intentions clear when it began buying up stock in Ubisoft, starting in 2015, which Ubisoft chief Yves Guillemot correctly interpreted as the beginnings of a hostile takeover attempt. Claiming such a takeover would leave Ubisoft 'managed by people who don't understand our expertise and what it takes to succeed in this industry', Guillemot has been unsuccessfully fighting Vivendi while the company increased its share of Ubisoft from an initial 6.6 percent to just shy of the 30 percent that would trigger a takeover under French law by November 2017.
Now, though, Vivendi is abandoning its takeover attempt, reaching an agreement with Ubisoft to sell its entire stake in the company - amounting to 27.3 percent - with capital provided by Chinese investment giant Tencent Holdings and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan who acquire shares valued at 5 percent and 3.4 percent of the capital respectively with Ubisoft itself, Guillemot Brothers SE, and a sale to institutional investors via Accelerated Bookbuilding taking the remaining shares at 8.1 percent, 2.7 percent, and 8 percent respectively. The deal will also see Ubisoft partner with Tencent, which holds considerable investments in the Chinese gaming industry, to push Ubisoft in the region.
'The evolution in our shareholding is great news for Ubisoft. It was made possible thanks to the outstanding execution of our strategy and the decisive support of Ubisoft talents, players and shareholders. I would like to warmly thank them all,' claims Guillemot of the deal. 'The investment from new long-term shareholders in Ubisoft demonstrates their trust in our future value creation potential, and Ubisoft’s share buy-back will be accretive to all shareholders. Finally, the new strategic partnership agreement we signed will enable Ubisoft to accelerate its development in China in the coming years and fully leverage a market with great potential. Today, Ubisoft is fully reaping the benefits of our long-term strategy and the successful transformation towards a more recurring and profitable business. Ubisoft is perfectly positioned to capture the numerous video game growth drivers in the coming years. We are focused more than ever on delivering on our strategic plan.'
Vivendi has confirmed the deal, but its executives have offered no comment on the matter beyond confirmation that it has undertaken to acquire no shares in Ubisoft for a period of five years from the date of the agreement.
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Leans heavily on its back catalogue.
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Ubisoft announces Far Cry 5 Arcade map editor
Create, share your own levels.
Ubisoft completes For Honor dedicated server roll-out
Now available on PS4 and Xbox One, too.
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The Patriots’ first test run for the 2014 season didn’t go too well — a 23-6 loss to the Redskins last Thursday in which they didn’t generate any points for 58 minutes, they put the ball on the ground too many times, and couldn’t tackle in the run game.
Not to fret, of course — many starters didn’t play, including Tom Brady and Darrelle Revis, and the ones who did were mostly off the field by the second quarter.
But coach Bill Belichick still wants to see a better effort, especially from the backups, when the Patriots hit the field at Gillette Stadium Friday night against the Eagles in the second of four preseason games.
Here are five areas to watch:
1. Quarterback rotation will speak volumes
Brady is likely to play two or three series, or about the first quarter of the game. What Belichick does next at quarterback, though, will speak a lot about the team’s intentions at backup.
The safe play is to keep three quarterbacks on the roster, like the Patriots did in Ryan Mallett’s rookie season. But there has been increasing talk about keeping only two after Mallett struggled against Washington and Jimmy Garoppolo shined.
We’ll see how Belichick views the quarterback race with the snap count Friday night. If Mallett plays most of the second, third, and even into the fourth quarter, it will be a clear sign that the Patriots are preparing him as Brady’s backup. But if Belichick lets Garoppolo play most or all of the second half, it could be a sign the team is willing to move on from Mallett and use his roster spot on a special teams player.
2. Competitions at strong safety and interior offensive line
The Patriots really have only two positions up for grabs this camp — strong safety next to Devin McCourty, and one of the interior offensive line spots, either center or right guard.
Second-year player Duron Harmon was presumed to be the leader for the safety job this spring, when he worked exclusively with Revis, McCourty, and Brandon Browner in drills, but Harmon has lost a lot of playing time in the last two weeks to Tavon Wilson and Patrick Chung. Is it a sign Harmon has lost his grip on the job, or are the coaches just giving Chung and Wilson more snaps to evaluate whether they should make the team? Wilson was nicked up all week in practice and likely won’t play Friday, so it will be interesting to see how the reps are split between Harmon and Chung.
An interesting battle has also developed on the offensive line, with three roster spots to hand out among Dan Connolly, Ryan Wendell, Marcus Cannon, Josh Kline, and Jordan Devey. Wendell was presumed to be the leader at center after signing a two-year deal with an $850,000 signing bonus this offseason, and Connolly looked like he was on the outs with an unfavorable contract and subpar performance at right guard last season. But Connolly has seemingly taken Wendell’s place as the starting center for now, with Kline getting a lot of work at right guard. Cannon and Devey also have versatility to play three or four spots on the line. Two players, though, will eventually get squeezed, and Kline probably won’t be one of them.
3. Steve Maneri at tight end
The Patriots didn’t have great depth at tight end to begin with, and now are perilously thin with Rob Gronkowski, Michael Hoomanawanui, and D.J. Williams all banged up and unlikely to play against the Eagles. The Patriots are picking up and dropping tight ends like candy — they released rookies Asa Watson and Justin Jones, picked up Steve Maneri, Ben Hartsock, and Terrence Miller, and subsequently released Hartsock and Miller. That leaves Maneri, a fifth-year veteran now on his sixth team, as the only healthy tight end on the roster for Friday. Maneri, who began his career as an offensive tackle and was on the Patriots’ practice squad in 2010, has a decent chance of sticking around in the “Matthew Mulligan” role as a blocking tight end and core special teams player, and he’ll certainly get plenty of snaps Friday (fullback James Develin can also perform tight end duties). But the Patriots aren’t done looking for tight ends, either.
4. Youngsters who have excelled
As always, a handful of unheralded youngsters have performed well in camp, and a good performance against the Eagles can help them lock up one of the final roster spots.
On offense, receiver Brian Tyms was the breakout star in the first exhibition game, catching five passes for 119 yards and a touchdown, all in the second half. A four-game suspension to start the season for testing positive for a banned substance will likely give the Patriots reason to keep him around no matter what, but he still has to convince the team to keep him around once his suspension ends. Devey, a member of the Patriots’ practice squad last season, also has impressed the coaches and played every snap on offense last week.
Undrafted rookie cornerback Malcolm Butler has had an excellent camp, played the most out of any defender against Washington, and is doing a good job of convincing Belichick to keep six cornerbacks on the roster. And this game is a great chance for young pass rushers Michael Buchanan and Zach Moore to lock up backup spots.
5. Veterans who need to pick it up
Left tackle Nate Solder was one of the few starters to play the entire first half last week, and he obviously needs the work after allowing a sack and committing a bad holding penalty. Veteran pass rusher Will Smith, the longtime Saint looking to keep his career going with the Patriots following ACL surgery last year, doesn’t look like he has much left in the tank and is in danger of getting cut. Browner needs to prove he can make it at least one game without getting busted for defensive holding or illegal contact, and Brandon Bolden, who sat out the last game with an injury, needs to prove to Belichick it’s worth keeping four running backs.
Ben Volin can be reached at ben.volin@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @BenVolin
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Egghead Winners Support Carers
Bowdon Business Club recently entered a team in the BBC quiz programme `Eggheads` using the team name “The Businessmen”
The episode, broadcast in 2014, saw the team of Gary Hutchings (Greenkey Ltd), Mark Haywood (The Decorating Company), Mark Slater (Wilson Fink), Tony Dagnall (Trafford Carers Centre) and Stuart Jamieson (CFI Labels) walk away with the jackpot of £41,000 after defeating the Eggheads in the final round.
The earlier head to head rounds saw victories for each of the Eggheads and left Tony, who has the charity seat at the business club, to take on the combined might of all five Eggheads on his own.
After answering each of his questions correctly the Eggheads tripped up on their final question, leaving the challengers delighted winners. Team members, including the reserve Chris Wrighton (Howard Sharp Accountants), agreed to donate part of their winnings to Trafford Carers Centre as part of the club’s ongoing support for the charity.
Photographs show the team at the Eggheads studio in Glasgow when the programme was recorded and presenting Trafford Carers Centre with a cheque for £3,466. (Team members are in order left to right as referred to above).
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8th Annual Blue Water Bash
The 8th annual Blue Water Bash took place on July 20, 2019 at the Boys Town Okoboji Camp and this year they made a splash by raising more than $175,000.
The event hosted more than 300 guests with The Dixon Family Foundation as 175k the event Anchor Sponsor.
Those in attendance enjoyed live and silent auctions, a game of heads or tails sponsored by Sazerac Distributors, the Boys Town graduation video and a speech from our chair, Joe Johns, whose dad was a 1963 Boys Town graduate.
In his speech, Joe reflected on how the skills and examples his dad learned at Boys Town served as an instrumental roadmap for his life.
"As the oldest of three boys growing up in the South Omaha projects in a broken home, my dad was robbed of his childhood," said Joe. "Boys Town offered my dad a safe haven, a solid foundation and stable environment, where he could foster relationships, focus on his schoolwork, and achieve success. Boys Town molded my dad into a young man with a pathway to and vision of success. Boys Town exposed my Dad to what is possible, and he went out and provided endless opportunities for me."
This year's event also honored Knobby Meysenburg posthumously with the Wavemaker Award. The award recognized all of Knobby's contributions to the Boys Town community. Knobby was an employee for more than 40 years and ran the Okoboji camp from 1976 – 1992. He was a selfless individual who was always giving back. From teaching kids how to ski, to helping maintain the physical structure of the camp, Meysenburg was an instrumental part of the camp for many years. His wife, Betty Meysenburg, accepted the award on his behalf.
The bash ended of the night with drinks, dancing and music by The Fishheads was kicked off with a rendition of "He Aint Heavy" by the Hollies.
Boys Town extends a thank you to all the gracious donors and sponsors who contributed to this year's event which affords our youth and families the opportunity to experience a safe and memorable family vacation while helping to revitalize the existing camp facilities so they're safe and preserved to meet future needs.
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Seleção squad latest
Posted on 3 November, 2019 by Brian Davidson
Renan Lodi’s good form for Atletico Madrid has earned him a spot in the Seleção
Tite has named a 23-man squad consisting solely of foreign-based players for the upcoming friendlies against Argentina and South Korea.
The side hasn’t won in four attempts since their Copa America win in July, and Tite will be desperate that the team will get back to winning ways. They have drawn three (Colombia, Senegal and Nigeria) and lost one (Peru) over this period, in matches you would really expect them to win. Performances have been poor too and the pressure is starting to mount on the coach.
Tite hasn’t named any locally-based players in the latest squad, letting them focus on their club duties instead. Despite this being a FIFA date for international friendlies, the domestic league will not pause and the Copa Libertadores final, in which Flamengo play River Plate, takes place just four days after the game against South Korea.
Tite is a conservative coach by nature, but he had done some tinkering in the previous friendlies. Bruno Henrique’s s scintillating form for Flamengo was rewarded and he was given a debut aged 28. Gabriel Barbosa, who has also been excellent for Flamengo, was given a chance too. Jorge (Santos), Weverton (Palmeiras), Ivan (Ponte Preta), Santos (Athletico-PR), Matheus Henrique (Gremio), Rodrigo Caio (Flamengo) and Marcinho (Botafogo), were also called up, but none of them made it onto the pitch.
Renan Lodi, who moved from Athletico-PR to Atletico Madrid earlier this year, was given some game time in the matches and has also made the most recent squad again too. Real Betis’s right back Emerson has also been called up to the senior squad for the first time, while Rodrygo is in and Vinicius Junior is out. Felipe (Atletico Madrid), Douglas (Aston Villa) and Daniel Fuzato (Roma) are some of the other less familiar names on the list.
It will be interesting to see how some of these new names do, and whether Tite actually gives them any game time. Tite is looking at different options, but the core of his team remains the same for most matches and even a guy like Paqueta, although he keeps getting called up, doesn’t get very many minutes to show what he can do on the pitch.
The general impression at the moment is that the team is a ruderless ship, without direction – the results are getting worse, along with the performances. There is still plenty of time to get things right ahead of Qatar 2022, but at the moment the jury is out on whether Tite should be that man. Winning the Copa America on home soil was something of an obligation. He passed that hurdle but style is important too, especially in Brazil, and there were question marks about the style of football that Brazil played in that competition. A defeat to Argentina, and another couple of lukewarm performances in the upcoming friendlies will crank up the pressure another notch.
The match against Argentina will be played in Saudi Arabia on 15 November and the game against South Korea is in the UAE four days later.
GK: Alisson (Liverpool), Ederson (Manchester City), Daniel Fuzato (Roma)
Full backs: Danilo (Juventus), Alex Sandro (Juventus), Emerson (Real Betis), Renan Lodi (Atletico Madrid)
Centre backs: Éder Militão (Real Madrid), Felipe (Atletico Madrid), Marquinhos (PSG), Thiago Silva (PSG)
Midfielders: Casemiro (Real Madrid), Fabinho (Liverpool), Douglas (Aston Vila), Arthur (Barcelona), Lucas Paquetá (AC Milan), Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool), Willian (Chelsea)
Forwards: Richarlison (Everton), David Neres (Ajax), Rodrygo (Real Madrid), Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City), Roberto Firmino (Liverpool)
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Brian Davidson on 3 November, 2019 at 7:09 pm said:
CORRECTION: an earlier version of this post incorrectly listed Neymar in the squad and omitted Gabriel Jesus. In fact, Neymar was not called up and Gabriel Jesus has been included. These changes have been corrected in the text.
Ederson and David Neres pull out with injuries. Santos replaces Ederson. As of yet, no replacement for Neres
Brian Davidson on 13 November, 2019 at 12:26 pm said:
Wesley – Aston Villa’s tall 22-year old forward – has been called into the squad to replace David Neres. Not exactly a like-for-like replacement
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Alligator Bites Off Night Swimmer's Arm
Katie Herrel
Swimming at night can frighten just about anyone — something about the unknown blackness below your feet (and a certain shark movie that opens at night) can unsettle even the normally brave. 18-year-old Kasey Edwards isn't going to make anybody feel any safer: While swimming across a 25-foot-deep canal at 2 a.m. in Okeechobee County, Florida, an 11-and-a-half foot alligator attacked him and bit off his left arm.
He escaped by grabbing on to a buoy line as the gator went into a death roll. When the gator let go, he swam to escape and noticed his arm was gone. Friends pulled Edwards to safety, and now he's in the hospital listed in fair condition, other than missing a left arm 3-4 inches above the elbow. In an interview with the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Edwards ascribes his survival to intervention by a higher power:
"It's a very surreal feeling. You know, feeling like you're about to die here and you know, praying to God," Edwards said. "I have to give all the credit to God for keeping me out there."
"I don't care who you are or how strong you think you are. You aren't going to be able to hold on to a buoy line while an 11½-foot alligator is trying to pull you underwater," he said.
The official report indicates that Edwards had been drinking and "may have been impaired" at the time of the incident. The report also states that his friends urged him not to attempt the late-night channel crossing. Still, Edwards thinks some of the fault should go to the alligator:
"Edwards said his attack shows something needs to be done about the overpopulation of gators.
"They're not protected creatures. They're nuisance animals," he said.
Edwards mentioned he never paid "too much mind" to canal-swimming gators in the past, but it's probably a safe bet he'll pay them plenty of attention before attempting another late-night channel crossing.
— Ted Alvarez
Alligator bites off arm of late-night swimmer in Okeechobee (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
Jerk Elk Bites the Dust
Well-known, aggressive Yellowstone elk dies in freak circumstances
Please, BeesBuzz Off!
Arizona hiker stung 120 times by bees while waiting for rescue
Eagle Scout Off The Hook
New Hampshire decides to drop $25,000 bill for rescuing a scout on Mt. Washington
Everest/First Ascents: Night in Gorak Shep
The team fights off altitude sickness and infection on their last day before arriving at Everest Base Camp
Hike of the Day: Matthews Arm in Shenandoah
This rugged, 16.8-mile, 2-day backpacking trip reveals classic Appalachian wonders: idyllic waterfall-laden hollows, reborn woodlands, and scenic backcountry campsites.
Bite this, West Nile
Teen Hiker Falls Off Muir Beach Cliff
UPDATE: Authorities confirm the teen took a social trail to position himself for a better view near the cliff
Friday Video: Falling Off A Cliff
Skier Stefan Ager takes a mighty whipper off a steep slope--and captures it all on video
Video: Riding Off the Rails
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A Framework in Search of an Optimal Margining Policy for Official Institutions: The Canadian Experience
Staff Discussion Paper 2016-9 Tomo Nakashima, Mihai Cosma, Boran Plong
One of the main outcomes of the global financial crisis has been a series of new regulations imposed on the financial system and specifically on banks.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Discussion Papers Topic(s): Financial markets, Foreign reserves management JEL Code(s): G, G3, G32
What Is Behind the Weakness in Global Investment?
Staff Discussion Paper 2016-5 Maxime Leboeuf, Robert Fay
The recovery in private business investment globally remains extremely weak more than seven years after the financial crisis. This paper contributes to the ongoing policy debate on the factors behind this weakness by analyzing the role of growth prospects and uncertainty in explaining developments in non-residential private business investment in large advanced economies since the crisis.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Discussion Papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Central bank research, Domestic demand and components, Economic models, International topics, Recent economic and financial developments, Uncertainty and monetary policy JEL Code(s): C, C2, C23, C3, C33, D, D2, D24, D8, D80, D84, E, E2, E22, F, F0, F01, G, G3, G31
Shock Transmission Through International Banks: Canada
Technical Report No. 105 James Chapman, H. Evren Damar
In this paper, we investigate how liquidity conditions in Canada may affect domestic and/or foreign lending of globally active banks and whether this transmission is influenced by individual bank characteristics.
Content Type(s): Technical Reports Topic(s): Financial Institutions, Financial stability JEL Code(s): E, E4, E44, F, F3, F36, G, G2, G21, G3, G32
Managerial Compensation Duration and Stock Price Manipulation
Staff Working Paper 2015-25 Josef Schroth
I build a model of optimal managerial compensation where managers each have a privately observed propensity to manipulate short-term stock prices.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Economic models, Labour markets, Recent economic and financial developments JEL Code(s): D, D8, D82, G, G1, G14, G3, G30, M, M1, M12
Persistent Leverage in Portfolio Sorts: An Artifact of Measurement Error?
Staff Working Paper 2014-55 Michael Mueller
Studies such as Lemmon, Roberts and Zender (2008) demonstrate how stable firms’ capital structures are over time, and raise the question of whether new theories of capital structure are needed to explain these phenomena.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Financial markets JEL Code(s): C, C1, C18, G, G3, G32
The Use of Financial Derivatives by Canadian Firms
Bank of Canada Review - Autumn 2014 Teodora Paligorova, Rhonda Staskow
In Canada, about one-third of publicly listed non-financial firms use financial derivatives. The use of derivatives is widespread across all sectors of the economy and increases during periods of greater uncertainty. Non-financial firms that use derivatives are typically larger and more profitable and have lower volatility of earnings than those that do not use derivatives. Overall, the firm characteristics of Canadian hedgers seem to be consistent with those found in other jurisdictions.
Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review Article Topic(s): Exchange rates, Financial markets JEL Code(s): G, G1, G10, G3, G32
Removal of the Unwinding Provisions in the Automated Clearing Settlement System: A Risk Assessment
Staff Discussion Paper 2014-4 Nicholas Labelle, Varya Taylor
A default in the Automated Clearing Settlement System (ACSS) occurs when a Direct Clearer is unable to settle its final obligation.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Discussion Papers Topic(s): Financial stability, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): C, C1, C15, G, G0, G01, G2, G3
Corporate Governance, Product Market Competition and Debt Financing
Staff Working Paper 2014-5 Teodora Paligorova, Jun Yang
This paper examines the impact of product market competition and corporate governance on the cost of debt financing and the use of bond covenants. We find that more anti-takeover provisions are associated with a lower cost of debt only in competitive industries.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Financial markets JEL Code(s): G, G1, G12, G3, G34
Funding Advantage and Market Discipline in the Canadian Banking Sector
Staff Working Paper 2013-50 Mehdi Beyhaghi, Chris D'Souza, Gordon S. Roberts
We employ a comprehensive data set and a variety of methods to provide evidence on the magnitude of large banks’ funding advantage in Canada, and on the extent to which market discipline exists across different securities issued by the Canadian banks.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Financial Institutions, Interest rates JEL Code(s): G, G0, G01, G2, G21, G28, G3, G32, G33
Public/Private Transitions and Firm Financing
Staff Working Paper 2013-36 Kim Huynh, Teodora Paligorova, Robert Petrunia
A large body of empirical literature investigates differences in financing structures across firms. Private firms’ financing receives little attention due to the lack of data.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Credit and credit aggregates, Financial markets JEL Code(s): G, G3, G30, L, L1, L11
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Out of a burning desire to bring a broader range of colors to the current Christian music palette, Strangers & Aliens was born. Led by 19 year old Liza Vervoordt, this group combines high quality vocal ability with powerful and original alt rock composition. The name “Strangers” comes from 1 Peter 2:11. As the days pass, we feel increasingly like strangers in this world.
Liza has won NY Metro area attention performing at the 2004 & 2005 Colgate Women’s Games at Madison Square Garden and as a finalist in McDonalds Gospelfest 2004, as well as performing in various Christian and secular clubs in the area with different groups and accompanists.
After coming together during last part of 2004, Strangers & Aliens have drawn great interest playing venues such as Paul Colby’s The Bitter End and Crash Mansion in NYC during January and February of 2005. Remarkably, secular audiences have reacted extremely positively to overtly Christian lyrics!
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Banks warned over text message verification
Banks have come under fire from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) and mobile phone network EE for their reliance on SMS for two-factor authentication. They say the security measure is easily circumvented by the use of so-called Sim swapping. Phillip Keating, senior crime reviewer at the NFIB, said that he agreed with the findings of a report from the FBI, which highlighted text messages as a weak link in the banks' security chain. Other means of meeting EU requirements for a “second factor” of identification include phone calls, card readers and codes sent by email. The Sunday Times notes that Monzo is among the challenger banks which exclusively use encrypted passwords sent over wi-fi. Separately, fraud experts have criticised Apple and Google for allowing SpoofCard on their stores. The app lets users "spoof" their caller ID - allowing them to pretend they are calling from a bank or another safe number.
Barclays boosts case for investment banking after strong results
Barclays reported a strong set of results on Friday with pre-tax profits at the corporate and investment bank jumping to £882m in Q3, an increase of 77% compared with the same period last year. Income was up 18% to £2.6bn. CEO Jes Staley said the results support the strategy of maintaining the group’s presence in global investment banking. However, the investment bank’s performance was overshadowed by a £1.4bn charge for compensating UK consumers who were mis-sold payment protection insurance. The charge dragged the group to a net loss of £292m. Its return on tangible equity for the quarter was minus 2.4%.
TSB plans cost-cutting moves
Sabadell‘s third-quarter results on Friday showed restructuring costs had helped push TSB back into a €9m pre-tax loss in the nine months to September, but the bank “continues to regain its business momentum”, Sabadell said, pointing to growth in customer deposits and lending. The bank’s new executive team is looking to put last year’s IT migration crisis behind it under new CEO Debbie Crosbie. Meanwhile, Suresh Viswanathan, TSB’s new chief operating officer, indicated work would begin immediately on reducing costs with a detailed strategic plan due to be outlined next month.
Lloyds profits holed by late PPI claims
Lloyds Banking Group will unveil weak quarterly results this week with the consensus view that the bank will turn a modest profit of £163m for the third quarter. Lloyds is expected to announce a fresh hit of up to £1.8bn from the PPI scandal, bringing its total PPI provision to almost £22bn. Last week Royal Bank of Scotland set aside £900m for PPI while Barclays set aside £1.4bn. HSBC will announce results today, followed by Santander on Wednesday and Lloyds on Thursday.
Loyalty to banks is costing homeowners
Britain’s banks have been accused of exploiting their customers' loyalty after analysis revealed many withhold their best deals for new customers. Figures published by UK Finance revealed that, in the worst cases, loyalty is costing hundreds of pounds a year in additional interest payments. There has also been an increase in the number of so-called product transfers in the past year, which allow customers to secure a new deal with their current lender and avoid the hassle of switching. About 292,500 transfers were carried out in the second quarter of 2019, up 7.3% year-on-year.
HSBC and Standard Chartered vulnerable to Hong Kong turmoil
The Mail’s Ruth Sunderland considers how the turmoil in Hong Kong could affect profits at HSBC and Standard Chartered, which both report third-quarter figures this week. HSBC’s UK business will likely be hit by Brexit uncertainty, low interest rates, a bill for PPI mis-selling and competition from challenger banks. Although Standard Chartered does not have a UK high street operation, it has also warned it will be hit by the wider impact of Brexit.
Hedge fund bets £70m on Cobham deal
Hedge fund Westchester Capital has built up a 1.8% stake in Cobham in a £70m bet its sale to Advent will go through. The Competition and Markets Authority is due to rule on the acquisition on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the Cobham family, which owns about 1.5% of the shares, is thought to have contacted lawyers last week with a view to pursuing a legal challenge should the deal be approved.
US private equity bids for UK companies switch to dollars
The FT reports that US private equity groups buying UK-listed companies have started paying in dollars rather than pounds in an effort to protect them from Brexit-related swings in sterling.
Banks battle fresh Libor claims
Barclays, Lloyds and HSBC are among the British banks urging US courts to dismiss a multibillion-dollar Libor claim. The Telegraph has seen court papers claiming that 18 banks – including RBS, Deutsche Bank, UBS, JP Morgan, Bank of America and Citigroup artificially set low rates “to the detriment of investors in financial instruments”. The non-US banks accused of rigging the rate argue they are not subject to US jurisdiction in this case.
Lazard names Jean-Louis Girodolle new investment banking chief
Jean-Louis Girodolle has been named Lazard’s new CEO of investment banking in France, effective immediately. Mr Girodolle joined Lazard in 2007 and replaces longstanding head of France Matthieu Pigasse.
Surge in China sales helps JLR back to profit
An increase of sales to China and its continued cost-cutting programme helped Jaguar Land Rover return to profitability in the three months to September. Worldwide sales reached £6.1bn, a rise of 8% on the same period in the previous year while pre-tax profits hit £156m against a loss of £90m a year earlier.
IT failings left customers “cashless and cutoff”
MPs on the Treasury select committee have called for levies on big banks to pay for better regulation of their IT systems. Steve Baker, who led the Treasury committee inquiry, said: “The number of IT failures that have occurred in the financial services sector, including TSB, Visa and Barclays, and the harm caused to consumers is unacceptable. For too long, financial institutions issue hollow words after their systems have failed, which is of no help to customers left cashless and cutoff.”
Proportion of women in senior positions almost unchanged
Despite a push by the financial services industry to increase the proportion of women in senior roles the Financial Conduct Authority says the number of women in senior roles has barely changed in 15 years. Just 17% of senior roles are filled by women, almost the same as in 2005, but there had been more improvement at some of the biggest banks. the FCA added. Investment management had the highest proportion of women with 26% in senor roles while brokerages had only 5%. The FCA said the overall picture was “sobering”. A spokesman for UK Finance said: “Firms recognise the importance of having a fair and inclusive workplace. However, there is still clearly more work to be done.”
QuickQuid owner collapses into administration
Payday lender QuickQuid is folding after its owner, Enova, failed to reach agreement with the UK’s financial ombudsman over how many customers it should compensate over past loans. CashEuroNet UK, which operates the QuickQuid and On Stride brands, stopped lending after Grant Thornton was appointed as its administrator on Friday. Payday lenders have been struggling after the Financial Conduct Authority imposed affordability checks and capped payday loan charges in 2014.
Havisham and Salesforce acquire stake in Snoop
Havisham, the investment vehicle owned by Lord Brownlow, has bought a £5m share in Snoop – the tech start-up founded by ex-Virgin Money chief executive Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia. Snoop is designed to exploit open banking to automatically transfer consumers to better utility and financial services deals. Salesforce Ventures also pitched in with funding.
European equity funds net large inflows
European equity funds enjoyed inflows of $300m (£234m) in the week to Wednesday, their highest since February 2018, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, who said the change indicated investors had become less bearish about the global outlook. Globally, equity funds saw outflows of $3.8bn over the period.
UK regulator under fire over £12bn annuity deal
The Prudential Regulation Authority has been criticised for approving the transfer of annuities from long-established insurers to newer specialist rivals after the High Court in August blocked a £12bn transfer from Prudential to Rothesay Life.
Online brokerages scramble to recover from gruelling fee war
The decision by Charles Schwab to scrap commissions to US stock trades is a smart move - hurting rivals more reliant on the fees and laying down a challenge to no-cost newcomers.
Priory to be split ahead of sale
Priory’s American owner Acadia is considering plans to split the health and social care provider into two or more parts ahead of a planned sale. CapVest is among the private equity investors weighing a potential bid for Priory’s social care operations, according to the Telegraph, but Priory’s troubled health division is more likely to end up in the hands of a medical services provider.
Telegraph newspapers put up for sale
The Barclay brothers have put the Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers up for sale as the family reviews its investments. Telegraph newspapers recently said that its operating profits had fallen from £16.3m in 2017 to £3.1m last year as revenues slipped by £7m to £271m. The brothers could also put Shop Direct up for sale.
Investment bond to help property deals
Aberdeen-based Maven Capital has launched an investment vehicle aimed at providing funds to support UK property. Maven Bonds has been designed to provide investors with the chance to diversify their investment portfolio while earning annual tax-free returns of up to 7.75%. The initiative was launched by Maven Capital Partners in conjunction with fintech firm Growth Capital Ventures (GCV). It aims to raise up to £7m from the initial bond offer with minimum investments starting at £1,000.
John Lewis aims to grow personal finance arm
The John Lewis Partnership has been ramping up its marketing of personal finance services as it seeks new sources of income to counter recent losses at John Lewis and Waitrose and £2.4bn debts.
Investment fund builds stake in Morrisons
Silchester International Investors has doubled its stake in Morrisons to 10.4%, worth £480m, thereby becoming the second largest shareholder in the supermarket. It comes amid speculation that Morrisons could be a takeover target after a decline in its share price.
ONS admits £1.5bn public finances error
The ONS has said that the UK budget deficit is as much as £1.5bn less than what had been previously reported after a statistical error. A year-to-date budget deficit of £40.3bn, excluding public-sector banks, was reported earlier this week. The ONS now says there was “an error in the measurement of local government social benefits.”
Walters on Labour: Bankers will just leave
Harriet Dennys interviews Robert Walters in the Mail on Sunday. Walters, whose headhunting firm is worth £12.5m, says workers are “sitting on their hands” as they wait for a resolution to the Brexit negotiations. But his biggest concern is a potential Corbyn-led Labour government. A ban on bankers' bonuses would hurt his UK business, he says. Labour “would be a massive negative for the country,” he adds. “People will just leave.”
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Jazwares Named Master Toy Partner for YouTube Sensation CKN Toys
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An exclusive VIP event on October 25 kicked off the launch of “50 Years and Counting” an immersive exhibition bringing together a collection of 50 bespoke pieces of art from artists across the globe, who have re-imagined 50 of Sesame Street’s most iconic and beloved characters – as well as some that perhaps you’d not…
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Haven, Showtime Attractions and Silvers Circus Bring Sesame Street to Life Across Australia!
As celebrations for Sesame Street’s 50th Anniversary continue around the world in 2019, Haven Global has formed a new partnership with Showtime Attractions and Silvers Circus for the most exciting and ambitious performance in Australia and New Zealand. In a world-first, the Sesame Street Circus Spectacular launched this month in Melbourne, the first stop in…
Haven Signs Bob Ross for Australia and New Zealand
Instantly recognisable, effortlessly cool and as authentic and real as a man can be – brands the world over would give anything for the pop culture awareness that American painter Bob Ross still currently commands! The pop culture relevance of Bob Ross’ art and television show has grown exponentially over the past few years, with…
Nickelodeon Signs Exclusive Multi-Territory Agreement with Youtube Sensation CKN Toys
LONDON / NEW YORK / SYDNEY – (OCT. 1, 2019) – Nickelodeon announced today that it has entered into an exclusive multi-territory agreement with YouTube sensation CKN Toys to develop original content for Nickelodeon-branded linear and digital platforms. The agreement was created and brokered by Haven Global, CKN’s worldwide licensing agent, which will partner with…
Haven, Blackmilk and Sanrio Collab to Say ‘Hello Tokyo’!
Renowned for their bold prints, distinctive styles and high-quality comfortable stretch fabrics, BlackMilk Clothing has built their reputation as a leading fashion brand with a significant (and fiercely loyal!) customer following. This time around, they’ve brought their distinctive style to much-loved Sanrio characters including Hello Kitty, Cinnamoroll and Gudetama in a creative mish-mash of patterns,…
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China’s Carmakers Drive in Circles at Home as Exports Evade Them
By Zheng Lichun and Yang Ge
China exported just over 1 million cars last year, or 3.6% of total domestic production, according to a new report.
China remains one of the world’s weakest car exporters despite its status as the top manufacturer and consumer of the big-ticket item, as both local and foreign brands producing in the country focus on the domestic market, a new industry study showed.
China exported just over 1 million cars last year, or 3.6% of total production, according to a report released Monday by the Ministry of Commerce. Cars were even weaker in terms of China’s overall exports, representing just 0.6% of the total figure for one of the world’s top trading nations.
The report pointed out that major car-exporting countries such as the U.S., Japan, Germany and South Korea typically notched overseas sales of more than 2 million cars annually, representing 20% or more of their total production.
China has been the world’s biggest carmaker and consumer for the last decade. Most of its exports are in the middle- to lower-end market, with the average exported car costing $15,000 in 2018 — well below the $46,000 average for Germany, and $28,000 for cars exported from the U.S.
China’s domestic brands like BYD and Geely are unprepared to compete with their big global rivals outside their home market, said Wu Songquan, chief compiler of the report. But he also pointed out that consolidation is now occurring among those brands as China’s domestic car market goes through its worst period in recent memory, set to shrink for the second straight year in 2019.
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That consolidation should ultimately result in the emergence of a smaller field of stronger domestic brands, which will be better positioned to actively develop their exports once the market settles, he said.
Names like Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. Ltd., Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. and Great Wall Motor Co. Ltd. made plans to export their cars to Europe and the U.S. But the U.S.-China trade war led Guangzhou Auto to slow down its plan. Geely, in the meantime, is aiming to export its higher-end Lynk & Co. brand to Europe starting in 2020.
To date, Chinese brands have mostly exported to developing markets including Southeast Asia, South America and the Middle East. China’s car exports to countries that are part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which typically target these developing markets, totaled 692,000, or about 70% of its total for 2018. Exports to developed markets that year came in at a modest 122,000 vehicles, with many of the vehicle produced by foreign brands operating in China.
Wu said such foreign brands with China joint ventures are better equipped to export their cars due to their overseas connections. But most of those choose not to export, he added, as their local strategy focuses mostly on the local market.
The report pointed out that many foreign brands that manufacture in China are starting to change their strategies, following the country’s decision to scrap limits in 2022 that have prevented foreign carmakers from owning majority stakes in their China ventures. The report predicted that many foreign brands may start to boost their China operations when the limits end, and that China hopes it can someday become a main base for those companies to locally manufacture cars for export.
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China asks for suspension of Canadian meat, citing forged certificates
China finds faults with forged certificates and loopholes in Canada's meat export supervision system
by Mike Blanchfield
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OTTAWA – The Chinese Embassy said Tuesday it has asked Canada to suspend all meat exports, a surprise move that comes amid the diplomatic dispute over the December arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver.
The latest Chinese move comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to depart Wednesday for a G20 leaders’ summit in Japan, where he is expected to rely on U.S. President Donald Trump to raise the plight of two detained Canadians during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The embassy said in a statement to The Canadian Press on Tuesday that this latest move follows Chinese customs inspectors’ detection of residue from a restricted feed additive, called ractopamine, in a batch of Canadian pork products. The additive has permitted uses in Canada but is banned in China.
“The subsequent investigation revealed that the official veterinary health certificates attached to the batch of pork exported to China were counterfeit and the number of those forgery certificates was up to 188. The Canadian side believes that this incident is criminal offence,” said the embassy statement.
“These forged certificates were sent to the Chinese regulatory authorities through Canadian official certificate notification channel, which reflects that the Canadian meat export supervision system exists obvious safety loopholes.”
China is therefore taking “urgent preventive measures” to protect Chinese customers and has asked the Canadian government to suspend all meat-export certificates, the embassy said.
“We hope the Canadian side would attach great importance to this incident, complete the investigation as soon as possible and take effective measures to ensure the safety of food exported to China in a more responsible manner.”
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said in a statement that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency “identified an issue involving inauthentic export certificates” and “has informed appropriate law enforcement agencies.”
Bibeau said the agency was investigating a “technical issue” and was working with industry partners and Chinese officials.
A report in the newspaper Journal de Quebec, which first reported the story, quotes a Montreal-based diplomat with the Chinese consulate-general as saying the ban is temporary.
China detained former diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor and sentenced another Canadian to death in an apparent attempt to pressure for Meng’s release.
China has also stopped imports of Canadian canola and has suspended import permits for three pork producers.
Bibeau defended the quality of the Canadian meat industry.
“Our government will always stand shoulder to shoulder with our producers and workers, who export the finest products around the world,” she said.
“The Canadian food system is one of the best in the world and we are confident in the safety of Canadian products and Canadian exports.”
The Conservatives blamed Trudeau.
“Conservatives know that Canadian farmers produce some of the highest-quality meat in the world. Any assertion by the Chinese government to the contrary is both false and baseless,” said a statement from Tory agriculture critic Luc Berthold. “It is clear that this is not an issue of food safety, but a political issue caused by Justin Trudeau’s incompetence and weakness on the world stage.”
Berthold said Trudeau has to “personally raise this issue” with Xi in at the G20 meeting and demand the trade barriers be lifted.
Livestock producers are worried.
Chad MacPherson, general manager of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association, said China’s action will affect producers across the country.
“This is very disappointing news to hear, that the government of China would be taking these measures,” he said in Regina.
“We feel that we produce some of the safest food in the world. We have very rigorous health inspections and protocols and all the scientific measures that we can to ensure that we produce safe food.”
MacPherson said China’s concerns are unfounded.
“This is just more punitive actions from the government of China in reaction to the arrest of the Huawei executive,” he said.
“We can work with our federal government to try to get the consulate back on the ground in China and try to get this issue resolved. It is going to impact the bottom line of all livestock producers in Canada.”
– With file from CKRM
News from © Canadian Press Enterprises Inc. 2020
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Fortescue Metals Group has been busy.
Then again, busy may not fully describe this customer, a mining company based in Western Australia. In less than a decade, they’ve grown into the world’s fourth-largest producer of iron ore.
Chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman recently visited Fortescue’s Solomon mine site and was, in his words, "blown away" by what he saw.
The mine features the largest fleet of Caterpillar autonomous trucks operating in the world -- a fleet of 20 Cat® 793Fs. It is a showcase for how Caterpillar’s innovative technology solutions can increase operational efficiencies while also improving safety at mine sites.
“This was an incredible opportunity to witness first hand a fleet of these driverless trucks running on the haul roads of this mine,” Oberhelman said. “I always love seeing our machines in the field. But at Solomon, I also saw how quickly we’ve put this technology to work, and heard directly from our customer that the autonomous trucks are improving their efficiency. That’s a great testament to the dedicated Caterpillar and dealer employees who have been working so hard to make this happen.”
Fortescue’s nearby Cloudbreak mine is also home to the world’s largest Cat MineStar operation, which gives Fortescue a comprehensive fleet management system that does everything from monitoring machine health and operational safety to autonomous capabilities.
In total, the Solomon mine has more than 100 large mining trucks, dozens of other pieces of Cat equipment and uses EMD locomotives to haul the iron ore to ports.
The mine site has the ability to produce and export 60 million tonnes of iron ore per year. The work never stops, and it’s Caterpillar’s technology that helps keep it going.
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Oberhelman joined the Caterpillar treasury department in 1975 and has worked in or led a wide variety of businesses across the company.
Oberhelman’s Latin America visit takes him back to early days at Caterpillar
Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman’s recent visit to Ecuador and Panama brought back fond memories of his early career.
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Compromise and leadership critical to Northern Ireland's future prosperity - CBI President
More than 4 in 5 CBI Northern Ireland members are ‘very concerned’ about the impact of ‘no deal’ on the region’s economy, CBI President John Allan will reveal in a speech today (Thursday).
Speaking at the Titanic Belfast before an invited audience of business leaders, he will also highlight the importance of a post-Brexit immigration system that works for all parts of the UK. Mr Allan will say Northern Ireland’s economy will be damaged if businesses cannot get the people they need to succeed.
At the CBI Northern Ireland Annual Lunch, Mr Allan will also stress the necessity of re-establishing power-sharing at Stormont, enabling local decision-making on critical infrastructure projects such as the North/South Interconnector, A5 upgrade and Belfast Power Station.
Speaking on the need for compromise regarding Brexit, John Allan, CBI President, is expected to say:
“I want to speak directly to the politicians. You’re arguing about Northern Ireland.
“Why not learn from recent history what compromise can achieve?
“We’re twenty years on from the Good Friday Agreement that put people, peace and prosperity first – we need that spirit now.
“Specifically, 90% of CBI Northern Ireland members believe the proposed backstop is a better outcome for the Northern Irish economy than ‘no deal’.
“Does anyone want history to say a reasonable exit from the EU was thwarted by a generation of politicians who would not compromise?
“Let’s not sleepwalk into a ‘no deal’ Brexit.”
On the importance of a post Brexit immigration system that works for all parts of the UK, John Allan, CBI President, will say:
“Businesses are already achieving amazing things all over Northern Ireland – from world-class agri-food and tourism, to fintech and engineering.
“We must keep those success stories going - but to do that, Northern Ireland needs people.
“96% of our members here say accessing skills and people is a growing problem.
“Northern Ireland doesn’t have an immigration problem - it has an emigration problem.
“With all the uncertainty in the air, people we need are going elsewhere.
“Many back to their home countries in the EU. A third of young people leave Northern Ireland to complete their education. Many don’t come back.
“Year by year, Northern Ireland’s reliance on international workers, whether via the EU or the Common Travel Area, has increased.
“So businesses need action now to address the shortfall, support prosperity and secure vital public services.
“If Northern Ireland companies can’t get the people they need, Northern Irish GDP could fall by nearly 10% over the long term.
“The Migration Advisory Committee report left people scratching their heads a bit.
“Their analysis was right - immigrants contribute far more than they take out.
“But their conclusions were wrong. Reducing access to lower-skilled workers - through a £30,000 salary threshold - simply won’t work for Northern Ireland, or for anywhere else.
“A single, global immigration system is a huge change from where we are today. So businesses right across the UK will need ample time to adjust.
“So let me once again speak directly to the politicians.
Let’s give firms access to all the skills we need, not just brightest and best.
Ensure any future system is accessible for firms of all sizes.
And finally, let’s make that link between immigration and trade deals. Our allies abroad have raised it, and it could create the flexibility we need.
“All along the CBI has called for a single UK system. But the longer politicians ignore Northern Ireland’s needs the greater the pressure for bespoke immigration rules for Northern Ireland.”
Concluding his speech, the CBI President will say leadership and compromise is needed to restore the power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland enabling decisions to get made that can improve people’s living standards.
John Allan, CBI President, will say:
“Let me deliver a message from our members to politicians here.
“It is time to do what you were elected to do - govern.
“It’s not just Brexit. It’s about a billion pounds worth of Northern Irish infrastructure projects awaiting a decision.
“It’s failure to reform the health system, failure to deliver a regional Industrial Strategy,
“Northern Ireland deserves better.”
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Daily Downshift: December 1, 2009
+ Audi unveils the 2011 A8 and we got to take a look at it in Miami. Check out the photos and details. [Car and Driver] + We drive the 2011 Chevrolet Volt in range-extending mode, fully experiencing the General’s newest powertrain for the first time. [Car and Driver] + GM’s board has decided to […]
+ Audi unveils the 2011 A8 and we got to take a look at it in Miami. Check out the photos and details. [Car and Driver]
+ We drive the 2011 Chevrolet Volt in range-extending mode, fully experiencing the General’s newest powertrain for the first time. [Car and Driver]
+ GM’s board has decided to get rid of CEO Fritz Henderson effective immediately. Chairman Ed Whitacre will fill in as CEO while the company searches for a replacement. [Car and Driver]
+ General Motors names former Ford executive Michael Richards as the new head of Buick and GMC. [Car and Driver]
+ Having fought the good fight, Hyundai throws a white flag as it gracefully exits the Japanese market after an unsuccessful eight-year stretch with only 15,095 sales to show for its efforts. [4WheelNews.com]
+ Returning to Detroit this January, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, and Porsche have all booked a stay at the MGM Grand Casino, where by invite-only the high-end automakers will display their latest offerings for the black-tie crowd. Also, Nissan will come back to Cobo where its all-electric Leaf will be displayed in the basement Electric Avenue exhibit. [Detroit Free Press]
+ The mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaragosa, announces an agreement has been reached by the state water and power department, and Southern California Edison, to provide 500 public charging stations for electric vehicles throughout the L.A. area by the end of 2011. The plan will upgrage the city’s 400 existing stations along with building an additional 100, while residents will receive a $2000 incentive for installing their own charging stations at home. [Green Car Advisor]
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