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Home Front Page MORE THAN 43,000 REFUGEES FROM SOUTHERN CAMEROON ARE SEEKING ASYLUM IN NIGERIA
MORE THAN 43,000 REFUGEES FROM SOUTHERN CAMEROON ARE SEEKING ASYLUM IN NIGERIA
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Cameroon/CAR refugees/ TO GO WITH BAPTISTE DE CAZENOVE'S STORY / Adama, a CAR refugee, cook of the Gado's refugees site and host family for orphans and unaccompagnied children, feeds children in her kitchen, on november 05, 2014. /UNHCR/O.Laban-Mattei/November 2014
According to reports, more than 43,000 Cameroonians have crossed the border from Cameroon into Nigeria, as the government crackdown on Anglophone separatists continues in Cameroon. Thousands of English-speaking Cameroonians have crossed the border hoping to escape the Cameroonian government riposte after a series of guerrilla attacks on the Cameroonian army. This number is more than the number the United Nations said it expected recently, showing how under-reported the crisis in Cameroon is.
Cameroon is majorly a Francophone African country, with a small percentage of English speakers in the Western part of the country. On October 1st, 2017, the English speaking part of Cameroon declared itself independent, calling itself ‘Ambazonia,’ after decades of repression and lack of representation in politics by the Paul Biya-led Cameroon government.
Many of the refugees have ended up in Cross River State, the closest Nigerian state bordering South-West Cameroon where the refugees are coming from in droves. But many are also in nearby Benue state. According to Emmanuel Shior, Director General of Benue’s State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), it seems the United Nations Refugee body, UNHCR, has been negligent to account for people who have crossed the borders between Nigeria and Cameroon using unusual routes, hence the number reported just a few weeks ago. “This is a war situation and refugees are trooping in by the minute through the bush paths, rivers and every other unconventional route open to them,” he told Reuters.
The separatists are Paul Biya’s biggest challenge yet, and the evolution of an armed branch of the movement has meant this is a point of no return for Cameroon. Some Gendarmarie, members of the Cameroonian army, were killed late last year by the separatists, while the murder of another policeman last week in another South-west region of Cameroon has placed emphasis on the militarization of the agitation. Cameroonian authorities have replied with reprisal attacks, many of them leading directly to the migration to Nigeria.
This easy mass movement of refugees into Nigeria might not go down well with the Cameroon government, who have accused Nigeria in the past of sheltering the separatists. Nigeria’s State Security Service arrested an Ambazonia leader in early January in the capital Abuja, which gives credence to the allegations that many of the leaders of the group are scattered around Nigeria.
As Cameroon prepares for its presidential elections this year, Paul Biya would be cautious of causing more tension in the Central African country. Already the crisis has caused resources in host communities to be overstretched and would be even worse if more people begin to come into Nigeria. It is up to the African Union and the United Nations to wade into the crisis before it becomes a full-blown civil war.
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Supporting neurodiversity in cybersecurity
By Neil Thacker 2019-05-29T08:00:35Z
Neurodiversity recognises our brains interact in different ways, which can create challenges, but also advantages.
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In similar comparisons to early developments in racial and gender diversity in industry, and even mental health at work, discussion about neurodiversity within the workforce has so far been driven by those who are personally associated with it. Neil Thacker, CISO at Netskope, believes it is time to get broader contribution to the efforts of inclusiveness for the benefit of all and to showcase how inclusiveness can lead to organisational advantage.
What is neurodiversity?
Neurodiversity is the term used to cover a range of differences in brain function and behavioural traits. It generally includes conditions such as ADD, ADHD, Autism and Asperger’s syndrome, as well as Dyslexia and Dyspraxia. In essence, neurodiversity recognises that our brains interact with the world in different ways, which can create challenges, but, most importantly, also advantages.
What is the current situation for the neurodiverse?
It is estimated that around 15 per cent of the UK population is neurodiverse in one or more identifiable or “diagnosable” way. Whilst the last two decades have seen progress, we are still at the early stages of awareness of neurodiversity, both in terms of scientific research and societal response. Our education systems have been attempting to adapt, serve and support neurodiversity for many years, but in the workplace and amongst the adult population, neurodiversity can still be seen to carry a stigma, and be perceived as a weakness or a nuisance.
The National Autistic Society says that 68 per cent of autistic adults in the UK are unemployed, and yet 77 per cent of those surveyed, state that they want to work. NeuroCyberUK, a not-for-profit group that is working to improve outcomes for neurodiverse individuals, juxtaposes these statistics with the predicted 3.5 million skills gap that the cybersecurity sector is expected to suffer globally by 2021; it states that up to three quarters of cogitatively able neurodiverse adults may possess the aptitude and skillset for a successful career in cybersecurity.
Data trends vs stereotyping
I work closely with NeuroCyberUK, and value the knowledge, expertise and commitment of those involved with the group. I have personal experiences of neurodiversity within my family and a vested interest in any organisation working to increase the success of their inclusion and accessibility programmes. However, I feel for broader discussions on neurodiversity with those first introduced to the topic, we run into a shortage of data. We choose our words very carefully in an effort to balance our well-meaning intentions with effective and critical analysis.
Stereotyping should be avoided and we are quick to educate those who simply assert that autistic people are all great at maths but struggle to empathise or communicate. Addressing neurodiversity is not about legitimising pigeon holes into which we can place people, it is about acknowledging that we are all different and that individuals need to be supported with, and valued for, their unique strengths and weaknesses. So how, then, can we simultaneously acknowledge neurodiversity whilst justifying sweeping statements about the natural talents of the neurodiverse? It doesn’t add up.
A shortage of data
There are two ways we can address this void of information. The first is better data on the aptitudes found within individuals in conventionally challenging parts of the neurodiversity spectrum. Data on neurodiverse populations is hard to find, which is why we often step back into the more abundant, yet narrow, autism data sets. But even there we do not have much in the way of statistical evidence of aptitude.
This data will be found through academic research; something that needs funding. In today’s public spending climate, we need altruistic private companies to step up and fund this research with no guarantees of what the results will find.
Unpicking prejudices and negative associations around neurodiversity (“can be a little blunt” or “isn’t very sociable”) requires us to add positive associations to the mix. We need data to prove that autistic people have a high attention to detail, can spot patterns, trends and anomalies and are able to make independent unbiased decisions. Otherwise we are going on a positively intentioned hunch. All my life experience tells me that neurodiversity can be an enormous asset in cybersecurity, but we can’t expect to convince people to make changes based on anecdotal evidence.
The second way we can address the data shortage is to better assess the impact on organisational performance of having a genuinely neurodiverse workforce. We have seen this approach, as an example, employed to good effect by those championing greater female inclusion at the higher echelons of business.
Years ago, discussions around gender diversity in the workplace moved from consideration of HR and compliance (and jettisoned cringe-worthy assertions of women being stereotypically better suited certain tasks), towards assessment of the performance of organisations with and without women on the board. It was no longer imperative to attest that a specific woman was better than a specific man, because it could be proven that excluding the women was detrimental to the business. We now state as fact that companies with women on the board outperform those without.
We need to analyse the relationship between company performance and the extent of neurodiversity within the workforce to be able to conclusively prove our hypothesis that neurodiversity is an asset and move beyond discussions of the specific traits of individuals.
We are seeing the start of this research in the cybersecurity industry, championed by progressive employers who are driven by market need to make the necessary changes. Organisations like NeuroCyberUK, the National Autistic Society and employers such as HSBC, the civil service and GCHQ, to name a few, have shown the value of neurodiversity inclusiveness.
However, despite the data and the discussion, we must not overlook the stigma that can go alongside a spectrum diagnosis. The National Police Autism Association states on its website “Autism would be an additional hurdle to overcome during the assessment centre and initial training”, and a google search will leave many aspiring pilots concerned that a diagnosis is likely to restrict their ambition.
We use a very few labels to describe a vast spectrum of human neuro characteristics, and it is resulting in confusion and prejudice. Just as many are battling to make mental health less taboo, broadly understood and better supported, so we need to open up awareness of the natural variation in our own brains and support neurodiverse role models to prove that a diagnosis can be a certificate of aptitude, not a limiter on achievement.
Neil Thacker, CISO, Netskope
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Parchman, Mississippi Domestic Violence Lawyers
Jeffrey Padgett
Batesville, MS Domestic Violence Lawyer with 19 years experience
(662) 563-9625 22260 Hwy 6 E
Domestic Violence, Criminal, Divorce and Family
For the last 17 years, I have been representing clients in the areas of personal injury/accidents, criminal defense including DUI and drug charges, along with securing visitation rights for dad's and their children. Feel free to call me to discuss your case 662-563-9625.
Anna K. Robbins
New Albany, MS Domestic Violence Attorney with 4 years experience
113 E. Bankhead st.
New Albany, MS 38652
Free ConsultationDomestic Violence, Criminal, Divorce and Family
Anna is focused on providing high-quality general legal counsel in a variety of areas, including divorce, child custody, estate planning and probate, land issues, real estate closings, juvenile law, criminal law, elder law, family law, and business formation.
Philip A. Stroud
Southaven, MS Domestic Violence Attorney with 23 years experience
(662) 536-5656 5779 Getwell Rd
Building C1
Domestic Violence, Criminal, DUI and Personal Injury
Serving the Southaven, Mississippi community and the Memphis Metro Area, the personal injury attorneys at The Stroud Law Firm will help you get the compensation that you deserve. If you have been injured in a car or truck accident, been a victim of medical malpractice, or need representation for a criminal offense such as public intoxication or driving under the influence, the lawyers at The Stroud Law Firm will use their experience to get you big firm results while providing small firm personality and dedication. For more information, call (662) 536-5656.
Jeffrey Douglas Odom
Hernando, MS Domestic Violence Lawyer with 13 years experience
(901) 634-6093 2375 Memphis St., Ste., 200
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Mary Elizabeth Milek
Oxford, MS Domestic Violence Lawyer with 24 years experience
(662) 234-3927 2086 Old Taylor Road, Suite 1021
Oxford, MS 38655-1144
Free ConsultationDomestic Violence, Divorce, Estate Planning and Family
Robert E. Hayes Jr.
Southaven, MS Domestic Violence Lawyer with 17 years experience
5740 Getwell Rd., Bldg. 9, Ste. A
Free ConsultationDomestic Violence, Criminal, DUI and Workers' Comp
Robbie Hayes founded Hayes Law Firm, PLLC in January, 2014 after being a being a partner at Rozier Hayes, PLLC since 2009. Hayes Law Firm, PLLC handles cases involving criminal law and general civil litigation.
Brandon Lyle Flechas
(662) 536-5656 5779 Getwell Road, Building C1
Dianne Herman Ellis
Ocean Springs, MS Domestic Violence Lawyer with 11 years experience
(228) 215-0037 1145 Robinson Avenue
We are a South Mississippi law firm serving the needs of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and surrounding areas. We represent clients in all of the courts of Harrison, Jackson, and Hancock counties, with the surrounding counties upon request. We represent our clients in Chancery, Circuit, County, Youth, Justice, and Municipal Courts, as well as in the Federal Court systems. Our practice is limited to Family Law, including Divorce, Child Custody, Child Support, Modifications of Child Custody, Paternity, Youth Court actions, Adoptions, and other family matters, and to Criminal Defense. including felony defense, DUI, drug crimes,...
Devin Whitt
(601) 607-5055 774 Avery Blvd N
Free ConsultationRidgeland, MS Domestic Violence Lawyer with 17 years experience
Are you being threatened by a spouse relating to a divorce or child custody matter? Have you recently been arrested and now face significant jail time, loss of driving privileges or other significant fines? Please be aware that you have rights. We are a Jackson, Mississippi area family law and criminal defense firm dedicated to providing each and every client experienced, aggressive representation at a reasonable prices.
When you retain out firm, you ensure that your case will be thoroughly reviewed and it will given the personal,critical attention necessary to meet your objectives. We believe...
Jim Lloyd Davis III
(877) 576-7279 1904 24th Ave
Free ConsultationGulfport, MS Domestic Violence Attorney with 36 years experience
• Third generation lawyer
• 35+ years of criminal defense experience handling 1,000’s of felony and misdemeanor cases in State and Federal courts in South Mississippi, including:
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Amy Kathryn Pietrowski
Oxford, MS Domestic Violence Lawyer with 6 years experience
(662) 372-1622 Oxford, MS 38655
Attorney Amy Pietrowski overcame personal hardship, abuse and poverty to become a leading courtroom advocate for clients in Mississippi and Tennessee.
A native of Michigan, Pietrowski was only 2 years old when she was placed in foster care. She endured a turbulent childhood and in disobedience, rebelled by joining the Marine Corps. The trajectory of her life changed when she joined the U.S. Marine Corps at age 18.
Pietrowski was one of only 2,200 women serving in the Marine Corps during the first Persian Gulf War. She completed boot camp at Parris Island in Port Royal, South Carolina, followed by her Military...
Keri Temple Haralson
Brandon, MS Domestic Violence Attorney with 14 years experience
(601) 824-9768 106 Town Square
Brandon, MS 39042
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Kerry M Bryson
Tupelo, MS Domestic Violence Attorney with 6 years experience
(877) 717-5718 125 Robins Street
Kerry M. Bryson is a graduate of University of Mississippi School of Law. He was formerly a Network Engineer and Information Technology Systems Administrator for law firms and owned computer service companies. He leverages his broad legal training and technology skills to bring efficiency and savings to his clients. Mr. Bryson obtained a degree in philosophy from the University of Mississippi. He focused on the study of logical systems. He obtained his Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer status through self-study. He has a passion for finding more efficient methods for accomplishing tasks, and he is skilled at comprehending complicated systems....
Lindsey B. Abdalla
Summit, MS Domestic Violence Attorney
(601) 276-3131 701 S Laurel Street
Summit, MS 39666
Domestic Violence, Divorce, Family and Personal Injury
Francis Springer
Madison, MS Domestic Violence Attorney with 8 years experience
Madison, MS 39130-1280
Rufus Alldredge Jr
(228) 863-0123 1921 22nd Ave
Domestic Violence, Criminal, DUI and White Collar Crime
I represent and defend people against government. Usually this means representing and defending people on misdemeanor and felony charges. Representation also extends to asset seizures and forfeitures. I also help people maintain professional or technical licenses, their job and their livelihood.
I was formerly a partner in an established Mississippi Gulf Coast corporate law firm. The call of the court room led me to the District Attorney’s office for the Second Circuit Court District where I served as an Assistant District Attorney, principally in Harrison County. As a felony prosecutor, I handled high profile cases of every type including drugs, crimes...
Steven N Eckert
Biloxi, MS Domestic Violence Lawyer with 15 years experience
Steven obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the Swalm School of Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University. During his undergraduate studies, Steven completed Mississippi State’s cooperative education program with Union Carbide Corporation. Following the completion of his undergraduate studies, Steven went to work for Union Carbide as a production engineer at their Texas City, Texas and St. Charles, Louisiana manufacturing facilities. He began law school during the evenings at Loyola University’s School of Law in New Orleans. Steven received his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Loyola University School of Law in 2003. Following law school, Steven began his legal...
Ed Edwards
Bay St. Louis, MS Domestic Violence Lawyer with 13 years experience
(228) 342-8128 305 Reese St.
Free ConsultationDomestic Violence, Criminal, DUI and Traffic Tickets
Loyola University New Orleans and University of Mississippi
R.L. “Ed” Edwards is a graduate of Southern Illinois University, having earned a degree in Workforce Education and Development cum laude. In December of 2005, Ed completed his legal training at Loyola University of New Orleans School of Law receiving a Juris Doctor degree.
Admitted to the Mississippi Bar in 2006, Ed started his own law firm in Hancock County, Mississippi. While in the solo practice of law from 2006 to 2009, Ed was able to work at refining his skills in the litigation of personal injury claims, domestic and family law issues, and criminal defense.
Jon Powell
Flowood, MS Domestic Violence Attorney with 25 years experience
(601) 706-2915 1084 Flynt Drive
Domestic Violence, Divorce, Family and Juvenile
Author of the book "Divorce in Mississippi", Jon has extensive trial experience in all matters concerning divorce, family law, estates, guardianships and conservatorships and real estate related issues. Jon's 23 years of experience and practical common sense approach in representing clients and seeking solutions to their problems makes Jon different from other lawyers in his desire to efficiently get the client what they want instead of seeking for more ways to bill the client.
Delilah Alford Shandy
McComb, MS Domestic Violence Attorney with 21 years experience
(601) 684-7030 2009 Shawnee Dr
Timothy James Evans
Hattiesburg, MS Domestic Violence Attorney with 18 years experience
(601) 255-5085 606 Adeline Street, Suite 1A
Free ConsultationDomestic Violence, Animal, Criminal and Divorce
Hello. My name is Tim Evans, and I'm a native of Quitman, Mississippi. I attended the University of Mississippi on a Naval ROTC scholarship and served as a commissioned officer in the Navy for three years. I taught middle school and high school before attending and graduating from Mississippi College School of Law. After law school, I served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable William H. Myers, presiding judge for the Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi. I moved to Hattiesburg in 2003 to begin private practice, and I have had a wide range...
Brandon, MS Domestic Violence Lawyer with 31 years experience
Free ConsultationDomestic Violence, DUI, Elder and Probate
John Shirley, while serving as a Rankin County Justice Court Judge, was appointed by the Chief Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court to serve on the Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance in 2004 and was reappointed in 2008. John Shirley currently serves as a Youth Court Judge, Justice Court Judge, Municipal Court Judge, and Law Enforcement Academy Instructor. John Shirley is a former prosecutor and he currently has a private law practice representing clients in all Rankin County courts except those in which he is a judge. Visit John Shirley's website at www.ShirleyLawFirm.com and he may be...
Tanya Hasbrouck
Pascagoula, MS Domestic Violence Lawyer
(228) 769-8200 3106 Canty Street
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Alonzo Holmes Sturgeon III
Woodville, MS Domestic Violence Attorney with 30 years experience
(601) 888-6152 Post Office Box 1175
503A Commercial Row
Woodville, MS 39669
Domestic Violence, Collections, Divorce and Family
Holmes Sturgeon has practiced law throughout the counties of Southwest Mississippi since 1989. He is originally from Woodville, Mississippi, which is where he maintains his primary office.
Mr. Sturgeon graduated with honors from the University of Southern Mississippi with a degree in biology.He lettered in track there and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Mr. Sturgeon was also a member of Omicron Delta Kappa honor society. He graduated from law school from Ole Miss in December of 1988, and was admitted to the Mississippi Bar in March of 1989. He also currently serves as the County Prosecutor for Wilkinson...
Charles Bruce Brown
Starkville, MS Domestic Violence Attorney with 29 years experience
Charles Bruce Brown is a third generation attorney who has been representing clients throughout Mississippi since 1990, in virtually all aspects of law. A graduate, with honors from Ole Miss, he is extremely knowledgeable in the law and aggressive in Court.
Joseph Turney
Columbia, MS Domestic Violence Attorney with 16 years experience
Columbia, MS 39429
Consider my office in Columbia @ (601)731-2098 for all your legal needs. As a 38 year old Christian, I am married 17 years with three children, a son and two daughters. I was raised in Marion County on a farm in the Improve-Blue Springs Community attending Bassfield schools for ten years and East Marion for two to graduate. I then served active duty in the U. S. Army. Thereafter, after trade school at PRCC, I worked in the heating and air conditioning trade until I was injured and returned to school. With the support of my wife I successfully attended PRCC...
(601) 825-6455 CRIMINAL DEFENSE / PERSONAL INJURY
202 E. Government St.
Domestic Violence, Appeals, Criminal and DUI
Stanley Keith Smith
Gulfport, MS Domestic Violence Attorney
(228) 265-8808 1818 20th Avenue
Attorney Stan Smith has been practicing law for 17 years. His areas of practice include criminal defense (all misdemeanor, felony, and capital crimes), personal injury (including car and truck accidents), family law, and wills. Stan is admitted to all Mississippi courts, (Municipal, County, Justice, State, Circuit, and Appellate courts including the Mississippi Court of Appeals and the Mississippi Supreme Court, as well as the Federal District Court of Mississippi). Education: Bachelor of Science in Finance from University of Southern Mississippi. (Hattiesburg, MS) MBA in Finance from Mississippi State University. (Starkville, MS) Juris Doctor...
L. Joe Beard
Leakesville, MS Domestic Violence Attorney
501 Lafayette Ave.
Leakesville, MS 39451-1177
Domestic Violence, Business, Divorce and Family
Jeffrey B. McGuire
Ridgeland, MS Domestic Violence Attorney
(601) 853-2223 855 S Pear Orchard Rd
Domestic Violence, Criminal and Family
Kelley M. Berry
Hazlehurst, MS Domestic Violence Attorney
336 West Gallatin St.
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Home Subjects Global Competency/World Languages UK Confucius Institute offers programs for K-12 schools
UK Confucius Institute offers programs for K-12 schools
Visitors to the 2016 Global Confucius Institute Day celebration in Lexington paint a Beijing opera mask. The annual event is hosted by the University of Kentucky’s Confucius Institute, which offers a variety of Chinese language and cultural programs for K-12 students in the Commonwealth.
Submitted photo by Lian Zhu, UK Confucius Institute
The University of Kentucky’s Confucius Institute’s (UKCI) K-12 Chinese Language, Culture Development and Enhancement Program is designed to help Kentucky schools develop Chinese language and culture study programs. The program also promotes international exchange between the United States and China.
Educators can bring innovative international programs into their community, while also building their school’s Chinese program offerings. The Confucius Institute assists schools in the following programs:
Launch and/or expand a Chinese program — Provision of Chinese teachers
Assists in designing and planning the program and bringing the professional Chinese language teachers to jump-start the Chinese language and culture program.
Assists schools in conducting professional development workshops for the sponsored Chinese teachers.
Enrich your Chinese program: Field trips to China
UKCI Kentucky Educators’ Trip to China: This is a 12-day education trip hosted by the Confucius Institute and designed to help education decision makers start and expand their Chinese language and culture programs. All expenses within China are paid by the institute, excluding international airfare and visa application fees.
UKCI Kentucky High School Students’ China Trip: This is a 14-day study tour of China designed to help high school students to expand their Chinese language and cultural experiences. All expenses within China are paid by the Confucius Institute, excluding international airfare and visa application fees.
Professional development for social studies and art teachers: The UK Confucius Institute offers a series of four seminars on China: Chinese Religions and Philosophies, Chinese Art, Chinese Literature and Modern Chinese History. These one-day seminars, presented by scholars in the field, are designed to enrich your knowledge of these topics in preparation for their integration into your classrooms. While teachers may choose to attend one or more of these seminars, teachers who attend all sessions will be highly considered for the Kentucky Educator’s Trip to China. Books in the four areas will be purchased by the Confucius Institute and each participant will be given a set of these “course books” for their classroom use.
UKCI cultural showcase and school visits: The UKCI Chinese culture specialist team will make visits to K-12 schools at the request of the schools and teachers. Demonstration and workshops include:
Chinese martial arts and Tai Chi
Chinese calligraphy
Chinese tea ceremony
Chinese dance
Chinese paper-cutting art
For more information, contact huajing.maske@uky.edu or call (859) 257-4607. More information is also available on the institute’s website. Follow UKCI on Twitter: @UKConfucius.
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Paradox Oil in Belfast wins new business in Pakistan
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Pictured are (L-R) Vicky Kell, Invest NI, with Michele Hayhurst, Director of Paradox Omega Oils.
Paradox Omega Oils, the Belfast-based specialist on healthy Omega oil supplements, has won new business in Pakistan following participation in an Invest Northern Ireland stand at the big Arab Health exhibition in Dubai.
The company, a pioneer in the development of Omega fish oils, has signed a distribution agreement with Lifesign Healthcare in Islamabad that will see the east Belfast company’s products on sale in hospitals, clinics and pharmacies throughout Pakistan.
The contract in Pakistan was announced by Michele Hayhurst, a Paradox Oil Director, and welcomed by Dr Vicky Kell, Invest NI Trade Director, who said: “This is an immensely encouraging development for this progressive company which is focused on developing its international sales and has been using a number of trade missions and exhibition presentations in target markets especially in the Middle East and Far East.
“The company is clearly benefiting from its participation in the Arab Health Exhibition in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, now recognised as one of the most important events in the global healthcare, biotechnology and life sciences calendar. Invest NI has organised a Northern Ireland presence at the exhibition in the past and assisted companies to secure worthwhile business throughout this important marketplace. We will be organising an Invest NI stand at Arab Health again next year.
“Companies interested in doing business in the Middle East and South Asian markets can also take advantage of the expertise available from our trade teams in Dubai, Mumbai and Bangalore.”
Mrs Hayhurst said: “Winning business in Pakistan gives us an important foothold on the huge South Asian marketplace and is an important endorsement of the quality and efficacy of our products in a region which is focused on cardiac and fertility issues. Paradox Omega Oils products have been proven to provide significant health benefits to people concerned about these conditions. Our Omega Oils have been developed after extensive research alongside the Dept of Biomedical Science at the University of Ulster, partially funded by an Invest NI innovation grant.
“Taking part in Arab Health, along with the follow up support extended by Invest NI’s locally based teams in the region, enabled us to reach a broad range of potential customers in the medical and pharmaceuticals industries.”
Paradox Omega Oils, formed in 2007 by Dr Geoff Hayhurst, a leading osteopath, and wife Michele, is now a UK and Ireland market leader in Omega oil products sold primarily through pharmacies.
In addition to this new business in Pakistan the company is successfully expanding its sales outside the UK and has so far won significant business in more than 10 international markets.
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Paris protests: France to suspend fuel price hike amid 'yellow vest' campaign
France is to suspend a planned fuel price hike after "yellow vest" protests erupted into violence over the weekend, prompting calls for calm and government talks.
According to CNN affiliate BFMTV, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will announce a moratorium Tuesday on fuel price hikes, which had been scheduled to come into effect on January 1.
The rising cost of gasoline and diesel fuel sparked protests which have since evolved into broader demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron's government, exposing tensions between the metropolitan elite and rural poor.
The protests take their name from the high-visibility "yellow vests" or "gilets jaunes" that drivers are required to keep in their vehicles for safety reasons.
Macron had requested political leaders meet the protest organizers this week. However on Monday two protest leaders, Benjamin Cauchy and Jacqueline Moreau, pulled out of a meeting with Prime Minister Philippe planned for Tuesday, according to the movement's spokesman Maxime Nicole.
Philippe canceled a trip to the COP24 climate conference in Poland to address the issue, which had threatened to flare again this coming weekend.
The government is likely hoping the suspension of the fuel hikes will take some heat out of the protests, which brought an estimated 36,000 people onto the streets of France on Saturday.
Around 400 people were arrested after a violent minority turned on police, throwing projectiles and vandalizing statues.
The city's famed Arc de Triomphe was scrawled with slogans in support of the yellow vest movement and others criticizing Macron as the President "of the rich."
Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said that among the protesters were people from across the country who had descended upon Paris with the express intent of causing trouble.
He added that authorities would crack down hardest on those who had joined the street demonstrations explicitly carry out violent acts.
"There are varied profiles but there are definitely profiles of people who have come from the provinces all over France, obviously to carry out acts of violence, and it is to these people that the criminal response I will say will be the strongest."
The cost of diesel has surged 16% this year from an average 1.24 euros ($1.41) per liter to 1.48 euros ($1.69), even hitting 1.53 euros in October, according to UFIP, France's oil industry federation.
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Investigation: Nashville schools broke law, misled school board about contracts
Posted: 10:03 AM, Feb 04, 2019
By: Phil Williams
Metro Nashville Public Schools steered $1.8 million in no-bid contracts to a software company with whom Director of Schools Dr. Shawn Joseph had done business in the past, violating state purchasing laws, a NewsChannel 5 investigation has discovered.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Metro Nashville Public Schools steered $1.8 million in no-bid contracts to a software company with whom Director of Schools Dr. Shawn Joseph had done business in the past, violating state purchasing laws, a NewsChannel 5 investigation has discovered.
Our exclusive investigation also uncovered evidence that, in doing so, Joseph and his team repeatedly misled members of the Metro School Board about key aspects of the deals.
"That just raises red flags for me," said school board member Amy Frogge, who has emerged as a frequent critic of how Joseph's administration has handled the district's business. “Those are alarm bells.”
In a written statement, Metro Schools insisted that mistakes were made “in good faith.”
The contracts in question involve Performance Matters, a Utah-based firm that markets student assessment software to help educators track student progress and professional development software to monitor training that teachers are required to complete.
Joseph, who took control over the Nashville school system in July 2016, had appeared in a slickly produced video that touted how Performance Matters' student assessment software had been utilized in his previous job in Prince George's County, Maryland.
Performance Matters video
A complimentary quote from Joseph was included in the company's promotions. He had even been the keynote speaker at a Performance Matters conference in 2014.
Metro Schools insisted Joseph’s relationship with Performance Matters was “professional, ethical and aboveboard.”
But, just six weeks after starting as the director of Metro Schools, Joseph's calendar shows he was hosting Performance Matters salesman Roderick “Rocky” Sams in the district offices.
A month later, chief academic officer Dr. Monique Felder directed MNPS staff to get to work on a contract with the company for its Unify student assessment platform, according to emails obtained by NewsChannel 5 Investigates under the Tennessee Public Records Act.
"Dr. Joseph wants to pilot Performance Matters in the Priority Schools," Felder said in an email, referring to the district's lowest performing schools.
Frogge told NewsChannel 5 Investigates that, about the same time, she began to hear rumblings about the relationship between Joseph and Sams.
"Multiple employees were coming to me with serious concerns about Performance Matters," Frogge said. "They said that both the salesman and the project manager for Performance Matters told them, 'You are going to get these products.'"
We asked, "Whether you want them or not?"
"Right," Frogge replied. "And there were conversations along the lines, you know, we've got Dr. Joseph on speed dial. If you don't do this, we'll call your boss -- that kind of thing."
A separate Metro Schools source confirmed similar conversations.
Emails show employees questioned need
Internal emails show that veteran employees were not sure what Performance Matters' Unify platform could do that the school system's own “data warehouse” did not already do.
The data warehouse is an in-house product that was developed specifically to meet the district’s needs in tracking student progress.
Metro Schools argues “there was confusion among staff” who simply did not understand the intentions of their new leadership.
In fact, the emails reveal frustrations that Joseph and his team had seemingly not taken the time to learn what MNPS' existing system could do before they turned to Performance Matters.
"No one here really knows what the intent [is] for this," wrote Dr. Tina Stenson, the district's director of research and evaluation.
Toni Russell, then the executive director of technology and information resources, was trying to figure out "what problem are we trying to solve?"
"My first impression of what I saw with Performance Matters was it was simply a way of presenting data in the DW [data warehouse] pretty," Russell continued.
Dr. David Williams, then the interim executive director of curriculum and instruction, admitted, "Honestly, I don't know the answer to hardly any of your questions."
"I don't know the rationale for moving in this direction," Williams added, "other than our new leadership has experience with it and likes the product."
We showed the emails to Frogge.
"Those are exactly the kinds of concerns I was hearing," the school board member said.
Metro Schools says the intention was to replace another assessment platform that the district was using, although no other companies were invited to demonstrate their products.
In fact, the emails also show that a potential competitor got wind that Performance Matters was in the building and wanted to know whether her company would have a chance to vie for the district's business.
Paul Changas, MNPS’ executive director for research, assessment and evaluation, assured the competitor that the district would eventually release a formal Requests for Proposals (RFP) to all interested bidders.
"I expect an RFP process and an opportunity for vendors to have the same opportunity," Changas emailed.
But that never happened.
"What I have seen time and again with this administration is that our employees are trying to do the right thing, but the administration has shown that they have been willing to skirt the rules, to violate the policy in some instances," Frogge said.
"And they are hiding information about spending."
No-bid contract awarded to Performance Matters
Instead, Joseph's team convinced the school board to give Performance Matters what turned out to be a million-dollar, no-bid contract -- without waiting for the results of a pilot program and without giving any other company a chance to compete.
Under the terms of the 2016 contract, Metro Schools agreed to pay up to $72,000 for the last six months of the 2016-17 school year for the pilot project, then $387,000 per year for 2017-18 and 2018-19 for all 86,000 Nashville students. (View Performance Matters contracts here.)
Joseph and his team defended the no-bid contract, saying they engaged in a practice called "piggybacking" -- in this case, duplicating a Performance Matters contract with Orange County Public Schools in Florida, which had been put out for bids.
Advocates argue piggybacking can help governments save money.
But former Baltimore County Schools superintendent Dallas Dance, who served on Joseph's transition team when he came to Nashville, was sentenced to six months in jail last year for failing to disclose money he took from a vendor.
Court records show Dance steered no-bid contracts to that vendor using the piggyback method after the vendor indicated “his least favorite letters are RFP.”
At a recent board meeting, Joseph responded to those concerns, saying: "We have had people across the country do bad things. We have not."
Still, in Tennessee, state law only allows local governments to piggyback on contracts that have been put out for bids by other governmental units "of this state."
"The way I read the code it does not speak to piggybacking on contracts outside the state," said retired state auditor Dennis Dycus, who headed up the division in the state Comptroller's Offices that watchdogs municipal governments.
Metro Schools agreed that the contract did violate state law.
In its written statement, the district said staff simply misinterpreted the law, insisting they “were acting in good faith and with the full intention of being good steward of taxpayers’ dollars."
A district spokesperson also noted that the contract was signed by an attorney with the Metro Department of Law.
Metro Law Director Jon Cooper said the attorney’s signature was designed to show approval of how the contract was drafted, not for the procurement process.
“There is nothing legally objectionable about the terms of the contract itself,” Cooper said in an email to NewsChannel 5 Investigates.
Still, “in hindsight,” Cooper said, “the attorney who signed the contract should probably have recognized that the underlying contract was procured by an out-of-state government entity and raised a question about it.”
State law also says piggyback contracts “shall be made on the same terms … as regular purchases of the purchasing entity.”
But, in this case, the Florida contract had one set of compensation terms; Metro Schools negotiated completely different terms.
"It has to be the same contract, there cannot be any changes in that contract," Dycus said.
Orange County pricing vs. MNPS pricing
Generally speaking, those kinds of scenarios, the retired auditor said, raise all sorts of red flags.
"Being the mindset I have as an auditor, I have to ask the question: why did they change?" he added. "And, as a rule, they change it to benefit somebody -- and I would want to know why."
Second no-bid contract awarded to Performance Matters
But that wasn't the only contract that Dr. Joseph's team steered to Performance Matters.
In 2016, MNPS signed a second contract for $845,651 -- again with no bids -- for the company's TrueNorthLogic platform. That platform is designed to track professional development training for teachers.
At the time, internal emails show Metro Schools was paying another company $6,250 a month for its SchoolNet service.
Performance Matters offered its product for what turned out to be a $118,000 set-up fee, plus $12,862 a month – more than double the previous monthly cost.
MNPS claimed that higher offer was piggybacked on a Shelby County contract with Performance Matters, although the district again changed the terms of the deal.
In the end, Joseph's team decided to go with the higher price.
We showed the numbers to Amy Frogge.
"That's just an absurd jump," Frogge said. "I don't know why we would be paying that much more for the same product."
In June 2018, MNPS director of purchasing Jeff Gossage told the school board that, while he did not work for the district when those contracts were signed, he had been told that Metro Schools was facing a time crunch that forced them to go with Performance Matters without conducting its own bidding process.
MNPS officials blame time crunch (June 2018)
"My understanding is we were at a point where we didn't have time to conduct a normal RFP process," Gossage said.
Joseph did not attempt to correct Gossage during that board meeting, nor did any member of his team.
In fact, the district had initially been told that SchoolNet planned to stop offering that professional development service in April 2017.
But emails obtained by NewsChannel 5 Investigates show that then-director of purchasing Gary Appenfelder learned in mid-November 2016 that SchoolNet would keep offering its program at least through June 2018 at the same price of $6,250 a month.
The company had “further agreed to discuss service support continuance beyond that point, if desired,” Appenfelder said in a later email.
In other words, contrary to what the board was told, there actually had been time to put the contract out for bids.
"The only reason that the PM (TrueNorthLogic) PD Management product has been considered and pursued is because … it is immediately available without going through a formal solicitation," Appenfelder wrote in an email to MNPS leadership.
"But the immediacy of that need has been removed."
Still, Joseph’s team presented that Performance Matters contract to the board for approval on November 29, 2016, and executed the final contract about a month later.
Frogge said the emails confirm her suspicions.
"The administration is not being truthful with us, they are just not being truthful," the school board member said.
We noted, "It sounds like they didn't want to bid this out."
"No," Frogge agreed. "I think that's the consistent theme on this particular contract. They didn't want to bid it. They wanted to rush it through."
MNPS goes beyond school board's contract approvals
As NewsChannel 5 Investigates previously revealed , the school board approved a two-year, $594,000 contract for the Performance Matters student assessment platform, but Joseph's team signed a three-year, $1 million contract.
The board approved a two-year, $530,000 professional development contract; then the district signed a three-year, $845,000 contract.
Altogether, contracts that should have been drawn up for $1.1 million were increased to $1.8 million.
At the June 2018 meeting, Joseph told the school board that the former purchasing director, Gary Appenfelder, went off on his own and negotiated new terms -- to get a better price --without even telling his boss, chief operating officer Chris Henson.
Joseph blames ex-purchasing director (June 2018)
"He was able to re-negotiate a cheaper rate than what the board originally approved. It did extend the contract, but because it was a cheaper contract, he went ahead and did it. He did it without consulting with me,” Joseph said.
Turning to Henson, the director of schools continued: “I'm not sure if he spoke with you. I believe he had not consulted with you on the issue, but he was looking for the best interest of the district to get a cheaper rate and went ahead and did that."
In reviewing hundreds of pages of emails involving the Performance Matters contract, NewsChannel 5 Investigates never saw any indication that Appenfelder engaged in any such negotiations that resulted in a lower price in exchange for a longer term nor that he informed his bosses that they were signing contracts that differed from what the board had approved.
Metro Schools was unable to provide any documentation to back up Joseph’s claims.
However, the emails do reveal that Performance Matters was eager to enhance the numbers on its books before the end of 2017.
"Dec 31 is the end of the PM fiscal year," Appenfelder emailed. "Their primary objective is to have executed contracts in hand before the end of the FY. This is doable."
A few weeks later, it was announced the Performance Matters had been sold to PeopleAdmin for an undisclosed price.
District leaders promise contracts to be put out for bid
Then, in June 2018, Joseph's team brought forward a last-minute request for the school board to approve the third year of those two Performance Matters contracts, warning of dire consequences for teacher training if the deals were not approved.
Still, they promised the professional development contract would soon be put out for bids -- to let other companies compete -- if the school board approved the yearlong extension.
MNPS officials promise RFP process (June 2018)
"It is for 12 months," Gossage told the board. "The plan is -- internally, we've had a discussion about that -- is doing an RFP during that time."
The head of research, Paul Changas, told the board, "We would probably have to have that RFP out sometime this fall."
"Maybe sooner," Gossage quickly added.
Now, seven months later, WTVF television station in Nashville has learned that Joseph's team never followed through on that promise either -- and the district has no plan to give any other company a chance to compete for the contract to track professional development for teachers.
In its statement, the district said “MNPS is still working toward that goal.”
Frogge is frustrated.
"Again, the board is not being told the truth on a lot of issues -- and this seems to be some sort of coverup," she explained.
Despite the urgency three years to piggyback off a Florida contract for the student assessment software, now Joseph and his team have no plans to continue that million-dollar contract with Performance Matters either, a district spokesperson acknowledged.
Metro Schools released the following statement:
“In 2016, a transition team made up of local, state and national experts shared that Nashville needed to focus on student achievement -- with a sense of urgency. MNPS did not have a user-friendly platform for student assessment and professional development. Performance Matters was the right product at the right time.
“On Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, Metro Legal advised that while acting in good faith, MNPS purchasing staff made an error in interpreting state law that governs the use of out-of-state jurisdictions’ contracts to secure competitive rates on products. Their use of in-state competitive contracts for this product was
appropriate. Metro Legal will meet with procurement to ensure that their practices are in line with state law. MNPS is following-up with the individual who made the error.”
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Kingston Jr. Ice Wolves forward Sarah Roger scored at 8:29 of the third period to tie the score 2-2 in Provincial Women's Hockey League action on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019, at the Invista Centre. The Ice Wolves lost the game in overtime, 3-2, to the Nepean Jr. Wildcats. (Tim Gordanier/The Whig-Standard) jpg, KI
A Provincial Women’s Hockey League game that saw both teams playing with considerable top-of-the-lineup absences was not lacking for excitement on Sunday afternoon.
The Kingston Jr. Ice Wolves and Nepean Jr. Wildcats, without four and five players, respectively, who are taking part in the 2019 National Women’s U-18 Championship in Winkler and Morden, Man., this week, took the Sunday clash into overtime before the outcome was decided.
Hillary Sterling’s goal 1:11 into extra play gave the Wildcats a 3-2 victory, after the visitors earlier watched their 2-0 second-period lead evaporate.
Nepean pickup Gracie Sacca had opened the scoring 2:44 into the second frame, and Sterling tallied 8:39 later to give her team a 2-0 lead.
Kingston began its rebound not much later as pickup Taylor Gilmour netted her first PWHL goal at 13:02. Sarah Roger tied the score at 8:29 of the third period, on a power play, sending the game into overtime.
Coupled with a 2-1 win over the Barrie Jr. Sharks on Friday, also at the Invista Centre, the Ice Wolves (7-2-1-1) emerged from the weekend in a tie for third place in league standings with the Mississauga Jr. Hurricanes. They are a point behind the second-place Ottawa Jr. Senators and six back of the league-leading Etobicoke Jr. Dolphins.
Missing Sunday’s game were Ice Wolves Maddi Wheeler and Tatum White with Ontario Red, Melissa Jefferies with Ontario Blue and Madison Corbett with the Atlantic team, and Wildcats Sarah Thompson, Charli Kettyle and Michelle Pasiechnyk with Ontario Red and Mya Vaslet and Kathryn Stockdale with Ontario Blue.
Kingston was also without Zoe Uens (concussion).
On Friday night, Barrie snapped a scoreless tie 1:51 into the third period on a goal from Gabby McNabb before Kiara Zanon scored twice, at 9:49 and 15:36, to lift Kingston to victory.
Amelia Van Vliet gained the goaltending win, stopped 21 of the 22 shots she faced. Kingston recorded 42 shots on Katelynn Fawcett in the Barrie net.
The Ice Wolves return to action this coming weekend when they again host games on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. (Whitby Jr. Wolves) and Sunday afternoon at 12:30 p.m. (Central York, formerly Aurora, Panthers).
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Witnesses at July 3 shooting say man turned on officer and lunged with screwdriver in hand
Before his fatal encounter with a police officer at a fireworks show, witnesses said Stonechild Chiefstick was intoxicated, intimidating people
Witnesses at July 3 shooting say man turned on officer and lunged with screwdriver in hand Before his fatal encounter with a police officer at a fireworks show, witnesses said Stonechild Chiefstick was intoxicated, intimidating people Check out this story on kitsapsun.com: https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2019/10/22/witnesses-july-3-shooting-say-man-turned-officer-and-lunged/4066934002/
Andrew Binion, Kitsap Sun Published 8:49 p.m. PT Oct. 22, 2019 | Updated 9:06 p.m. PT Oct. 22, 2019
Stonechild Chiefstick (Photo: Contributed photo)
Witnesses of the July 3 fatal shooting of a Native American man told investigators that after Stonechild Chiefstick scuffled with Poulsbo Police Officer Craig Keller, he broke free and then faced off with Keller, armed with a screwdriver.
A witness described Chiefstick lunging at Keller. Another witness in the crowd gathering at the Poulsbo waterfront to watch a fireworks show wrote in a statement that Chiefstick “continued to hop around in semi-circles holding the object close to his side” before Keller shot him. Another said the man swung an object at the officer. An officer behind Keller wrote Chiefstick started charging Keller when he was shot.
The Kitsap Sun obtained the accounts of the shooting from the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office as part of an ongoing state Public Records Act request. Last week Prosecutor Chad Enright began reviewing the investigation to determine if Keller should be charged with a crime. Enright said his goal is to complete the review within 60 days. The department will have its own review conducted to determine if Keller violated any policies. Keller started as a police officer in February 2014 working for the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribal Police before being hired by Poulsbo police in May 2015. He remains on administrative leave.
The witnesses, who spoke to an inter-agency team of investigators from multiple Kitsap County-area police departments, told investigators the officers pursuing Chiefstick through the crowd gave multiple orders to stop and drop the object. Some in the crowd told officers they thought what they saw was a knife, but others said they heard Keller order Chiefstick to drop the “screwdriver.”
Keller was responding to a report that a man had lunged at someone with the screwdriver. About 10 seconds before the shooting, Keller approached Chiefstick, tried to talk to him and grabbed him, witnesses said, demanding to know what was in his pocket. Chiefstick broke free and moved a short distance away, tripping over the picnic blankets people had spread on the grass.
Keller's body camera was knocked off his uniform but continued recording, providing the 10-second time frame between Keller's first encounter with Chiefstick and when shots were heard, according to a summary of the investigation.
“When (Chiefstick) was on the sidewalk amongst a large group of people, he started swinging the knife back and forth in front of him, almost like he was trying to get people to back off,” one witness told a detective working for the team, called the Kitsap Critical Incident Response Team, or KCIRT.
Though other officers were also pursuing Chiefstick, and one had his Taser drawn, the lead officer in the chase was Keller.
Law enforcement responds to Poulsbo's waterfront park on Wednesday where a large crowd was gathered for the Third of July fireworks show. (Photo: Contributed / Shawn Kenaston)
Keller fired twice, at a distance of about 9 feet, hitting Chiefstick in the face and the chest. An autopsy found the shot to the chest was fatal and the bullets did not exit his body. Blood tests showed Chiefstick had alcohol and meth in his system.
The fireworks show proceeded, though the area near the shooting was taped off. After being shot Chiefstick was pronounced dead before he could be flown to a Seattle hospital.
Keller declined to be interviewed by investigators.
Other witnesses said earlier they had seen Chiefstick acting in an odd and intimidating manner at the gathering. Some reported he was following people, getting close and staring at them, making intimidating statements like “They all bleed the same” and demanding to know what they just said.
Some described his behavior as “agitated,” “tweaking,” or “sullen” and that he appeared to be intoxicated. One witness said Chiefstick, who was alone, caught his eye because he stood out in the family-oriented atmosphere, which people attended with others.
The reports document multiple accounts of Chiefstick's behavior before the shooting, which people found alarming, including a woman who went to Poulsbo Police Chief Dan Schoonmaker to report a man leering at a group of young girls. A police officer had contacted Chiefstick earlier after a report of strange behavior, smelled alcohol on him and offered to get him medical aid, which Chiefstick declined.
Chiefstick was a member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe in Montana and had family who are members of the Suquamish Tribe. His girlfriend told an investigator that the day before the shooting they had requested beds at a chemical dependency treatment facility and were waiting to be admitted. Family members said he was close friends with Jeana M. Rogers, 33, who in February killed herself inside the Kitsap County Jail.
Family members and friends placed a memorial for Stonechild Chiefstick in Poulsbo's Waterfront Park, where Chiefstick was shot by a police officer earlier this month. (Photo: Nathan Pilling / Kitsap Sun)
“After that death, Chiefstick began struggling with alcohol, which led him to become aggressive and hostile,” the detective wrote. Another family member said Chiefstick carried a screwdriver for protection.
The shooting heightened tensions between Native American communities and the city of Poulsbo, where a memorial for Chiefstick was vandalized. Loved ones of Chiefstick have demanded justice for his death.
More than 25 investigators worked on the 3 ½-month investigation, where more than 100 people were interviewed. Though the Kitsap Sun reviewed about 300 pages of documents for this story, more documents and records are likely to be released. Those as-yet-unreleased documents may provide additional details that support or contradict the reports reviewed for this story. The sheriff's office is reviewing the documents for redactions and releasing them in installments.
Included in the statements was one by a volunteer North Kitsap Fire and Rescue firefighter who was approached by Chiefstick that afternoon while fueling a fire truck at the Chevron gas station on Suquamish Way.
The firefighter described an unsettling encounter, where Chiefstick got close to him and seemed to take offense to him.
When back in the truck, the firefighter told his co-worker that he expected later they would be called for a report of public intoxication for the man.
“When he heard the tone later in the evening, he wondered if it was the same person,” the investigator wrote.
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Company's water unsafe to drink in Cooke County
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Updated: Wed 7:08 PM, Feb 25, 2009
Weber Aircraft, a company with 1250 employees, is giving out water bottles to employees because their water isn't safe to drink.
When an employee of Weber Aircraft noticed discoloration in the water in the bathroom last Friday, the company immediately called the Gainesville Water Department.
Public Services Director Ron Sellman says they discovered an uncommon problem with Weber Aircraft's water system.
"What we've seen is an oil problem in the Weber Aircraft facility, and that has migrated throughout the facility1,” said Ron Sellman. “They've seen oil inside their system, inside their plumbing fixtures and their sinks.”
In a statement to KXII, Weber Plant Manager Steve Starnes said the company sent a sample of the discolored water to Denison and Gainesville’s water departments to test whether it's a problem with the city's system or with the Weber facility.
“The problem is inside Weber Aircraft, the problem could not have gotten into the city supply because of backflow prevention devices that are installed to prevent any kind of a contaminant to get into the water supply,” said Sellman. “Public water supply is safe, but it just isn't safe for the employees inside because of their internal problem with their plumbing. It is being investigated by Weber Aircraft at this time.”
A sample of water was also sent to The Lower Colorado River Authority in Austin. They are one of only two companies in Texas that does extensive water safety testing.
Starnes says the company has been providing its employees with bottled water since last Friday and will continue to do so until all of the tests come back clear.
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Sunday Night is Still "Mad Men" Night
As the fourth installment (the 2 hour premiere covered two episodes) of Mad Men Season 5 approaches (see below for Episode 4 update), there are no signs of waning interest from its audience or the rapt media. In my travels through cyberspace over the past two weeks I've come upon a wide assortment of posts about the new season of this most intriguing series. Here is a sampling - click on titles for links...
Betty Francis
In Episode 3 Roger Sterling (John Slattery), becoming ever more frustrated with changing times, utters a phrase that will no doubt echo on the series - and off - for some time to come, "When is everything going to get back to normal?" Laurel Brown, senior writer at BuddyTV, contemplates the implications of Roger's question with Normal Isn't Coming Back.
By far the most talked-about element of last week's episode was the revelation that beautiful Betty Hofstadt Draper Francis (January Jones) had gained more than a new home in recent months. This new twist in Betty's story arc created intense discussion, some controversy, and a variety of reactions. Jessica Grose presents her Defense of Betty Draper at New York (.com) magazine's Vulture. Bruce Handy of Vanity Fair considers Betty's dilemma from a different perspective by delving into The Amazing Junk Food of the '60's.
Megan and Don Draper
Not soon to be forgotten is that 5th Season opener moment when Don Draper's young and slender new wife, Megan (French-Canadian actress Jessica Paré), turned heads and inspired tongues to wag when she gave Don (Jon Hamm) a surprise 40th birthday party and a very special gift. Megan's rendition of the French pop tune "Zou Bisou Bisou" lit up the Twitterverse, and was the water cooler subject of the week. Leaving no stone unturned, Lauren Streib looks into the History of Zou Bisou Bisou for The Daily Beast.
The Return of the Ladies of Mad Men is the focus of Alison Willmore at Indiewire, who views the series as one "about gender, about masculine ideals and shifting female identity." Eleanor Clift, a former Newsweek staffer (and sister-in-law of Montgomery Clift), recalls her memories as a woman in that news magazine's workplace during the '60s with Mad Men and Working Women (here, courtesy of The Daily Beast).
Joan Harris and Peggy Olson of SCDP
At the UK's Daily Mail, Kristie Lau contemplates How Mad Men Embraced the Fashion Trends of 1966, and at GQ, Matthew Sebra posts weekly on what the men of Mad Men are wearing, so far: Season 5/Style Report 1 and Season 5/Style Report 2.
Update: Click here for Bonnie Stiernberg's take on Episode 5.04 at PasteMagazine.com
Note: Sunday Night is Mad Men Night will continue. Next up, Jill of Sittin' on a Backyard Fence - date TBA...
Posted by The Lady Eve at 6:00 AM
Labels: Mad Men, The Lady Eve (author)
Motorcycle Boy April 8, 2012 at 7:45 AM
I look forward to reading "In Defense of Betty Draper". Last Sunday's Mad Men was quite an extreme turn on her character (but not really, if you think about the road she's traveled over the previous four seasons). Here are some words, courtesy of Jagger and Richards, that captured back in the 60's the plight of many women of Betty's generation.
"Kids are different today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she's not really ill
There's a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day
Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old.
The Lady Eve April 8, 2012 at 8:26 AM
MCB - Betty seems well on her way to an Rx for "Mother's Little Helper" - at the very least.
Dave Enkosky April 8, 2012 at 12:41 PM
If only the Mad Men effects people could have also applied some acting ability make-up on January.
whistlingypsy April 8, 2012 at 1:04 PM
The trials of Betty get more troubling, and I’m beginning to question Matt Weiner’s objectivity. The past four seasons, “Mad Men” has excelled in authentic characters, believable melodrama and excellent storytelling. This season we have characters devolving into stereotypes and stock villains (yes, the characters reflect individuals of the period, but drama calls for an arc). I have been waiting for a plausible explanation for Betty’s behavior and unhappiness, and I thought they had found one in the thyroid. My parents have often repeated the anecdote of a young neighbor who displayed similar erratic behavior, until she was diagnosed with a tumor on her thyroid. Poor Betty, she doesn’t find any other answer but that she’s fat. Matt Weiner also gave us “a peek at his slip” by making a reference to a current presidential candidate (a bit of a reach blending historical fiction and personal politics). Ah well, I still can’t help myself, these characters fascinate me and I’m along for the ride, no matter how bumpy it might get.
The Lady Eve April 8, 2012 at 1:15 PM
Dave - I haven't seen January Jones in anything but "Mad Men" and think she is perfect as Betty (Hofstadt Draper) Francis, a very depressed and repressed woman who's been expected to be nothing but pretty since childhood.
Gypsy - We're having different reactions to this season's storylines and character development, it seems. Glad you're hanging in there, though...by the way, last episode's reference to "Romney" was George Romney, Mitt's father, who was governor of Michigan and who vied for the Republican presidential candidacy.
Motorcycle Boy April 8, 2012 at 1:42 PM
I gotta put my two cents worth in on this one - I really think that January Jones is perfect as Betty. Sure, you don't see any Meryl Streep-like emoting or exotic accents that announce her performance as "great acting" but I feel she embodies that role and the repressed psychology of the Betty character and that she hits just the right subtle note - she's believable. The arts aren't something where you can measure quality objectively, like sports statistics (I think the Oscars is an example of just how hit and miss it is) but I personally feel that Jones captures the inner life of Betty. To me her character has traveled an almost predictable arc, including putting on weight. The thyroid problem would have been a neat way of explaining many things, but probably too neat.
I'm not sure why Henry Francis would have considered George Romney "a clown", since Romney was a moderate republican like John Lindsay who Francis was working for. Given his track record for obsessive accuracy, I assume Matthew Weiner did some detailed thinking on this, but offhand I don't know what it would be.
Eve and MCB, my comments were made in and with a spirit of irony. The show has always been a thoroughly enjoyable mix of nostalgia and provocative storytelling, and continues to excel in subtlety communicating the frenzied pace as which change took place (poor Roger). The first episode of the season made me laugh more than any other episode, and I, too, would have found the thyroid explanation a bit too easy, but a step in the right direction. Perhaps as Betty begins to shed the pounds; she'll shed whatever other defenses she holds equally closely as a form of camouflage. I also realize that the reference was to Mitt's father, however, in an election year it seemed too much of "a tweak" of the candidate's metaphorical nose.
'Gypsy - My guess would be that Weiner couldn't resist the "two Romneys" coincidence. But I do think Henry Francis might've made his snide crack about George out of loyalty to the NY GOP which was his bread and butter. 1968 should be an interesting year in the political life of Henry Francis.
FlickChick April 8, 2012 at 5:23 PM
Yay! It's Sunday night! Is it 9 o'clock yet? I have to admit that I always feel like defending Betty Draper/January Jones against her critics. Poor Betty - she couldn't even have a private meeting with a shrink. I hope that this season lets her character evolve a bit. If I could write her progress, she would become a Jackie O-like editor (she is a college grad, after all - and she did meet her current husband by getting involved in community affairs). Don would be intrigued, but she will have outgrown him (not physically, though!). I just hope she & Sally can work it out. But, I think Matt Weiner is probably more creative than I am!
Still 2 hours to go here on the West Coast, FlickChick, by now you know more about how poor Betty is faring...
I have to say, though, that while Betty has been maligned and taken a drubbing over the years, she has had her staunch defenders. Does anyone care about or defend Pete...or Harry? I had the sense of millions of pairs of eyes rolling at the mention of their names...
Okay - the dark horse story is that Megan runs off with Harry.
The Lady Eve April 9, 2012 at 10:54 PM
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Give 'Em the Old Pizzazz - Funny Face (1957)
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Dramatic dashcam footage shows 'close call' with lorry on A444
The driver turns into the A444 to find an overtaking HGV heading straight for him
Dave Owen
A motorist has shared a hair-raising video showing a lorry hurtling towards him on the wrong side of the road.
Anthony Kisley posted the dash cam footage on Twitter as a stark warning to other drivers.
The incident took place on the busy A444 in the west of the county, at a notorious 'dog leg' junction outside Fenny Drayton, on Wednesday evening, at 6.21pm.
It shows Mr Kisley's car approach the junction from Old Forge Road before turning left into the A444 Atherstone Road.
Dash cam footage of the near miss (Image: Anthony Kisley)
He is immediately faced with two HGVs, taking up the entire road, heading towards him, as one vehicle overtakes the other.
Mr Kisley, can be seen slamming on his breaks as the overtaking lorry narrowly misses his vehicle, and the second HGV being overtaken, as it pulls sharply back into the southbound side of the road with just inches to spare.
Sharing the footage, he wrote: "I don't normally do this kind of thing, but two close calls today...this being the worst of the two."
Mr Kisley was invited by Highways England, @HighwaysEngland, to forward the footage to Leicestershire Police, something he said he is considering.
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He added his thanks to the driver of the lorry being overtaken for "being calm, sensible and breaking so this person could avoid hitting me".
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Steelers have depth, diversity at receiver
In this photo from July 28, 2017, Pittsburgh Steelers wide receivers Cobi Hamilton (83) and Darrius Heyward-Bey take a break during practice at NFL football training camp in Latrobe, Pa. The Steelers won't lack for options at wide receiver heading into 2017. From rookie JuJu Smith-Schuster to mercurial Martavis Bryant to erratic Sammie Coats to veteran Justin Hunter, the picture behind Antonio Brown is crowded and cloudy. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — Their All-Pro wide receiver spent the day welcoming newborn son Apollo into the world. Their talented but enigmatic project watched practice in a long-sleeved T-shirt and shorts waiting for the NFL to fully reinstate him after a year away from the game for running afoul of the league’s substance abuse policy.
The guy with more receptions of 40-yards or more than anyone on the team last fall jogged around with his surgically repaired left knee wrapped in ice.
Oh, and perhaps the NFL’s best running back remains in Miami, his pen yet to sign his franchise tender.
And yet even without Antonio Brown, Martavis Bryant, Sammie Coates and Le’Veon Bell on Wednesday, the Pittsburgh Steelers and quarterback Ben Roethlisberger weren’t exactly lacking for options.
There was veteran Justin Hunter — trying to catch on in Pittsburgh after splitting last season with Miami and Buffalo — using every inch of his 6-foot-4 frame to haul in a pass in the back of the end zone. There was Eli Rogers — a slot guy by trade — lining up on the outside and winning a 50/50 ball. There was 20-year-old rookie Juju Smith-Schuster — fresh off an ankle injury that forced the second-round pick to watch the opening few days of camp from the sideline – making a sliding grab one minute then showing off his blocking prowess for former Steeler wide receiver Hines Ward the next.
Brown will slip back into his familiar No. 1 role when he returns. Bryant will be given every chance to show he can be the No. 2 provided he keeps taking all the necessary steps. After that, the picture is considerably blurry. And that’s a good thing for an offense that expects to be among the NFL’s most dynamic.
Maybe that’s why Roethlisberger is even chattier than usual these days. The depth and diversity at wide receiver has never been greater in his 14-year career. So is the potential.
“I want them to know what I see and I expect when we’re out there,” Roethlisberger said.
Namely, production. Lots of it.
Roethlisberger won’t lack for options, a sharp contrast to the makeshift group the Steelers took to New England in January. Bryant was suspended. Coates wasn’t anywhere close to 100 percent. Markus Wheaton was on injured reserve. Tight end Ladarius Green in sweats dealing with a concussion.
In their place were seventh-round pick Demarcus Ayers and undrafted free agents Rogers and Cobi Hamilton. Hamilton provided Pittsburgh’s lone touchdown, a 30-yard rainbow to save a little face at the end of a 36-17 blowout. It was also a cap on Hamilton’s rise from a player who began 2016 on his couch to significant contributor on a division champion.
Seven months later, Hamilton is well aware a job come early September is anything but assured. That’s the business.
“Every team drafts a wide receiver, every team went out and got a wide receiver from another team,” Hamilton said. “This is kind of how it goes.”
Brown, Bryant and Smith-Schuster’s spots are secure. Darrius Heyward-Bey remains one of the fastest players in the league and is a special teams ace. That leaves two spots at most to emerge from a cluttered group that includes Hunter, who has played for three teams over the course of the last two seasons searching for the right landing spot.
Hunter has spent most of the opening week working with the starters while Bryant clears the league-mandated procedural hurdles required to end his winding path back to the team. The former second-round pick hasn’t wasted any time making an impression, making at least one highlight reel grab during every session.
“I thrive off competition,” Hunter said. “I like the offense and how they distribute the ball real well during the season. I just wanted to be a part of it.”
Hunter and Smith-Schuster give the Steelers some insurance in case of another misstep by Bryant, one that Bryant knows would likely end his career. He and Roethlisberger sat down for a heart-to-heart recently to clear the air after Bryant took issue with the quarterback’s public admonishment of him following Bryant’s most recent suspension.
Roethlisberger stressed he and Bryant “were never really off the same page” and that “there never was an issue.” Roethlisberger is more concerned with getting Bryant back on the field, saying Bryant has “paid his dues.”
Bryant’s absence, however, will provide Hunter, Smith-Schuster and everyone else an opportunity to get a long look. There’s no doubt Brown is the alpha dog. After that, it’s kind of wide open. While the receivers insist they’re not counting reps, when one of them gets going, the rest take notice.
“When (Hunter) made two great catches with the (starters), it’s like àOK, now I’ve got something I’ve got to do when I come back,'” he said. “At the end of the day, we’re going to play the best players the (most) and it’s going to help us win the Super Bowl.”
NOTES: RB James Conner is day-to-day with a sprained AC joint in his shoulder. … Brown wasn’t the only Steeler to welcome a new addition on Wednesday. Defensive end Cam Heyward was excused from
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Avoiding Hotel Data Breaches With a Risk Assessment Audit™ - Lessons From the Marriott International “Glitch”
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USA November 30 2018
Data breaches are back in the news, and this time, it’s a well-known hotel industry player: Marriott International. The company announced today that unauthorized access to their systems going back several years has exposed the names and other personal details of over 500 million guests. For hoteliers, this situation can be avoided by using the Global Hospitality Group® Risk Assessment Audit™, a comprehensive tool that combines your internal resources with our expertise in analyzing your risk profile, both for compliance purposes and to create effective data security strategies.
Bob Braun, senior member of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group® and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Cybersecurity & Privacy Group, sums up what Marriott is facing and what lessons other hotels can learn from this incident, below.
It’s unlikely that anyone in the hospitality industry – perhaps anyone who watches the news – hasn’t heard about the data breach at Marriott. Marriott’s pre-eminent position in the hotel industry, and the very size of the breach, with an estimated 500 million individuals impacted (putting it second behind the Yahoo breach) make this noteworthy.
What Happened? While some of the information is available, most of the details have yet to be filled in. However, there are some key takeaways that every hotel owner, operator and brand should consider:
First, this breach dates back more than 4 years, to 2014, prior to Starwood’s acquisition by Marriott. This highlights a key problem with data breaches in general, and a particular problem for the hospitality industry: data breaches are difficult to discover, creating not a one-time problem, but a continuing issue. In this case, Marriott reported that the intruders encrypted information from the hacked database, possibly to avoid detection by any data-loss prevention tools when removing the stolen information from the company’s network, further complicating the discovery and analysis of the breach.
Marriott’s statement also detailed the information that was compromised, which it said “includes some combination of name, mailing address, phone number, email address, passport number, Starwood Preferred Guest account information, date of birth, gender, arrival and departure information, reservation date and communication preferences.” The theft of this information raises the possibility of creating significant damage to individuals, and its ramifications will be felt for a long time.
One concern that needs to be considered is that Marriott was aware of potential issues at Starwood. Just after Marriott’s acquisition of Starwood, Starwood disclosed a breach involving more than 50 properties. According to Starwood’s disclosure at the time, that earlier breach stretched back at least one year — to November 2014.
As we have noted earlier, while the size of this breach is breathtaking, Marriott is not alone. Virtually every major hotel company (and many smaller brands) have been impacted by breaches. This highlights that hotel companies are an attractive target, both for the vast amounts of information they collect, as well as systemic issues (multiple legacy systems, extensive use of vendors, and a variety of access points).
There will be a significant cost to this breach, including both direct costs (including breach notification and remediation, responding to regulatory and private actions) as well as reputational costs, translating into potential loss of business. And hotel owners operating under Marriott brands will undoubtedly bear at least part of the cost, as Marriott implements new policies, procedures and systems, and as consumers reconsider the security of Marriott systems.
Industry Challenges This breach comes at particularly sensitive time, as privacy laws in the United States and abroad are becoming increasingly strict. Marriott will have to report and consider its obligations not only under United States laws – which are fragmented, and will include virtually every state, as well as the federal government – but also the impact of the European Union General Data Privacy Regulation, which itself is enforced by a variety of data regulators. Beyond this, other countries – ranging from India to Canada to China and Russia – have varying regulatory schemes which Marriott must address.
What Do Hoteliers Need to Do? The Marriott data breach, however it ultimately plays out, should be a wake-up call for the hospitality industry. Owners, operators and brands need to create effective and comprehensive policies, procedures and systems to address an increasingly dangerous data environment. Existing processes – often a patchwork of uncoordinated documents – simply will not work in today’s new environment, which demands attention not only to the ever-increasing sophistication of hackers, but also the adoption of new laws and regulations that impose greater responsibility, and impose greater potential liability, on the collection, retention and use of personal information.
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Doctors Seek Asylum After Exposing Ukraine Abortion for Cosmetics Scandal
Wed Mar 29, 2006 - 12:15 pm EST
By LifeSiteNews.com
By Gudrun Schultz
DUBLIN, Ireland, March 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two Ukraininan doctors, Vadym Lazaryev and Vladymyr Ishchenko, have been seeking asylum in Ireland since 2004, after they were forced to flee their country for exposing appalling human rights abuses of women and unborn children in the Ukraine.
The doctors were part of a group working to uncover a macabre system of medical trafficking in the bodies of unborn babies, European Life Network reported today. Doctors were deceiving women into aborting their babies for false “medical” reasons, and then selling the bodies of the children. The children would be aborted live, and their bodies cut into separate organs. In some cases live dissection took place.
Most of the body parts were apparently sold to the burgeoning cosmetic industry of “foetal tissue” youth-enhancing treatments, as well as quack “medical therapies.”
In many cases, women were paid to get pregnant and to deliver the baby at a given gestation. They were paid a higher price for carrying the child closer to term, since abortion is illegal in the Ukraine after 12 weeks gestation.
In September 2005 the rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, issued a report on the disappearance of newborn babies in the Ukraine. Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold called for an immediate re-opening of judicial investigations into allegations of trafficking of babies for adoption and of aborted or premature babies for “scientific” purposes, after visiting the Ukraine August 29-Sept. 1, 2005.
She obtained detailed information on four cases during her visit, reported the Council of Europe Press. In one instance, the family of the missing child had been told by doctors that their baby had died but had not been given permission to see or bury the baby.
Doctors Vadym Lazaryev and Vladymyr Ischenko had full police participation in their investigation, but when the investigation revealed government sanction of the trafficking and the involvement of prominent doctors, they were advised to stop. The police told them they could not guarantee their safety. After an attempt was made on their lives, they fled the country to Ireland, leaving behind their families. A documentary on the expose was screened in the Ukraine after they had left.
They are now seeking permanent asylum in Ireland for themselves and their families. Both have children-Dr. Vladymyr Ischenko has not seen his first children, twins who were born six months after he fled the Ukraine.
After four intensive interviews over fifteen months, they were denied refuge in January. Their appeal will be heard in Dublin tomorrow, March 30. It could take up to a year for the outcome to be known. They are asking for support and prayers for a satisfactory and speedy outcome.
To lobby the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern [email protected]
Minister for Justice: Michael Mc Dowell [email protected]
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The Best Restaurant Interview Questions Per Position
by Susan Johnston Taylor
Chances are that if you’re reading this, you’re preparing to interview a candidate for a role at your restaurant and want to know the best questions to ask them. You want to predict if they’re going to be a good cultural fit and whether or not they’ll be competent in their role.
Understanding an applicant’s personality and work style is crucial to finding the right cultural fit for restaurant employees. But the typical job interview questions—“tell me about yourself” and “so, what’s your biggest weakness?”—may not elicit the kind of information you need to assess if someone will be a charismatic server or a quick but accurate line cook.
We sat down with restaurant owners, managers and business developers to find the best restaurant interview questions to ask when you’re conducting interviews for each position in a restaurant. We broke down our interview questions by front of house and pack of house positions.
Front of house interview questions
Back of house interview questions
Line chefs
Sous chefs
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For the front of house, the main roles you’ll hire for are hosts, servers, bartenders and managers.
Hosts and servers need excellent people skills.
“Hire the smile, train the skill,” says Zach Mutchie, a former restaurant server and current senior business developer with Talent Plus, Inc., which provides online assessment tools to help employers understand candidates’ strengths.
“If we can find somebody that is naturally energized by interacting with people on a consistent basis, we can teach them to work with the restaurant POS. You can’t teach somebody to be guest-centric.” To find out if someone is guest-centric, Mutchie recommends asking questions like “tell me about a time that you entertained a group of people.”
Asses the candidate’s answer for how good of a host they are. Did they prioritize their guests’ needs and go the extra mile to make sure they enjoyed themselves.
Unfortunately, working front of house sometimes also means dealing with demanding patrons, so Monique Rose, co-owner of Milk & Honey Café, which has locations in Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, wants to know if potential front of house employees can keep their cool. “It’s not always pleasant guests in the building, so I tend to ask questions like ‘describe a scenario where someone might have been unruly,’” she says.
The trick with this question is to assess whether or not this is the appropriate response. Did they keep their cool or did they let their emotions get in the way of great service? Chances are, if they power through and still offer great service, they won a positive customer review on Yelp or another review platform.
For bartenders, Rose likes to assess not only the candidate’s personality but also their beverage knowledge.
“I might ask them to name me a few vodkas and a few wines,” she says. “The first place I take them is behind the bar.” She’ll ask prospective bartenders to make her something simple like a Long Island Iced Tea. “Even if you don’t know that bar, if you’re a bartender, you’re comfortable behind the bar,” she says. “That’s most important as far as skill level.”
There are plenty of hard skills to look for in a bartender, the most important of which are social skills and a deep understanding of each drink’s taste profile. For more tips on what makes a bartender great, check out our article How to Become a Bartender: 14 Tips From Seasoned Professionals.
Restaurant managers must not only be personable but also keep an eye on the bottom line.
Pamela Shand, career coach and rounder of Offer Stage Consulting, teaches job seekers how to conquer their job interviews and spent nearly six years hiring all restaurant employees at all levels. She suggests asking prospective managers questions like “What is your food cost? How do you manage it?”
She’ll also ask what food programs they have implemented. There’s a huge difference between managing a quick-service restaurant and a fine dining establishment, so the ideal manager has likely worked at a similar establishment.
To evaluate a potential manager’s ability to maintain grace under fire, Shand recommends asking questions like “how do you ensure positive communication with back of house during stressful times?” and “talk to me about a time you dealt with a difficult guest.”
A restaurant manager plays a key role in not only assuring that each service runs smoothly, but also that your business stays fiscally responsible and follows food safety guidelines day-in, day-out. For a deeper look into what separates the good from the great restaurant managers, read our article on what skills to look for when hiring a restaurant manager.
For your restaurant’s back of house, the main roles you’ll hire for are line chefs, sous chefs and cooks.
Line chefs, sous chefs and cooks
Food preparation requires careful attention to detail; Mutchi suggests asking candidates to “give me an example of a time that you showed expertise in exactness.”
Rose asks potential cooks to demonstrate how they scramble eggs. “Is the pan hot? Do they know how to crack the egg? Do they scramble it to death or make it so it’s appetizing?” she observes. During the interview, she’ll also quiz them on restaurant health codes to make sure they understand proper food safety protocol and how to ace a restaurant health inspection.
Shand examines a candidate’s culinary expertise with questions like “what are the five mother sauces?” and “what cuisines are you most familiar with?”
Interview questions for all potential employees
In addition to job-specific questions, Rose asks all potential hires why they left or are considering leaving their current job.
“If someone that loves their job and wanted to be there but didn’t see an opportunity for advancement or growth, that says to me that they’re motivated enough to try to elevate within the company,” she says.
She likes to hire entry-level people who will rise through the ranks and stay loyal to the brand versus bouncing around for an extra fifty cents an hour. More experienced restaurant workers also tend to be set in their ways, whereas entry-level staff are more likely to absorb the policies and procedures in your restaurant employee handbook like a sponge and learn your restaurant’s way of doing things.
Find out what a candidate’s interests outside of work are
Rose also asks about applicants’ other interests. “That gives you an idea of not only their personality but what their life outside of work is like,” she says. Their answer can also help “give you some insight into how they could be an asset to the company,” Rose says. For instance, if someone has artistic skills, that could mean they have great ideas for food plating and presentation. Maybe they have experience planning events, which is also a huge asset for your restaurant if you want to start hosting private events.
Do the candidate’s availabilities match your needs?
Lastly, because scheduling is key to a smooth restaurant operation, Rose wants to know an applicant’s availability. “We’re a breakfast and lunch place, so making sure that they’re able to be there early,” she says.
Rose also points out that you should assess whether a candidate’s lifestyle matches your needs. For instance, a musician or artist who works late into the night might not be the best candidate for serving or preparing an early-morning breakfast.
That said, even when you ask all the right questions and get promising answers, not every employee is the right fit. Rose stresses that it’s best to fire quickly than keep an employee who’s ill-suited to the job. “No matter how good you think you are, no matter how much their references check out, sometimes it doesn’t work out,” she says.
Personalize your interview questions to the role you’re hiring for
Whenever you’re conducting an interview, it’s important that you personalize the questions you ask for the role you’re hiring for. While it’s easier to ask generic questions, you risk not getting the information you need to make the best hiring decision.
The next time you conduct interviews, try the personalized approach to assure that a candidate will be a valuable asset to your restaurant operations.
Susan Johnston Taylor
Austin, Texas-based freelancer Susan Johnston Taylor has written about food, retail, and business for publications including The Boston Globe, Civil Eats, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Fresh Cup, and Pizza Today. She can't resist a veggie breakfast taco.
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Home » Appellate Division Reverses Site Plan Approval Requiring Merger of Six Individual Lots into One Shopping Center Lot
Appellate Division Reverses Site Plan Approval Requiring Merger of Six Individual Lots into One Shopping Center Lot
By Farrell Fritz P.C. on May 14, 2018
Posted in Land Use Regulations, Planning Board, Property Rights
It is not uncommon for municipal planning departments to require applicants who are seeking land use approvals involving multiple contiguous parcels to consolidate or merge the properties to form one single larger parcel. Consolidation or merger typically results in a new tax map number, a new single tax bill for the consolidated or merged lots, assurances to the municipality that the otherwise single unconsolidated or non-merged lots will not be individually sold off post land use approvals and that the proposed project which is subject to the land use approvals will be assessed for real property tax purposes as one single improved unit (versus partially improved and partially vacant land).
Consolidation or merger of single parcels into one larger parcel provides for certainty when it comes to ownership of the lands subject to the approvals and provides the municipal assessing unit with certainty as to the use of the lands while imposing a single tax class and assessed value to the overall project. Consolidation or merger is most often required prior to issuance of a building permit or Certificate of Occupancy. Consolidation can be set forth as a covenant or condition in a written and signed Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions, which is recorded against the property in the applicable County Clerk’s or County Registers Office. Similar to any other covenant or restriction, failure to comply with the covenant or restriction to consolidate can result in revocation of the relevant land use approvals.
In a recent Second Department case involving a real property tax assessment dispute, failure by the property owner to consolidate or merge six individual parcels that form the boundaries of a shopping center gave rise to unequal tax assessments among the six parcels, resulting in the exact problem that municipalities try to avoid by requiring consolidation or merger.
In re Blauvelt Mini-Mall, Inc v. Town of Orangetown, as a condition of site plan approval granted in 1992, the Town required that six individually owned parcels be merged into one single parcel forming the boundaries of a proposed shopping center. Despite the condition, no formal steps were ever taken to effectuate the merger. The facts of the case do not indicate whether the merger requirement was reduced to a recorded Declaration of Covenants and Restriction with revocation language.
Over the years, although a formal merger was never accomplished, the Town assessed the shopping center as one real property taxable unit by undervaluing five of the parcels while overvaluing the sixth parcel. This valuation strategy lead to the unequal tax assessments that consolidation or merger seeks to avoid. What is interesting about this case from a land use perspective is the fact that despite the 1992 Town directive to consolidate or merge the lots, the Appellate Division reversed the trial court holding that directed the merger by stating that “[n]one of the parties sought merger of the parcels or similar relief, merger of all the parcels at issue into one tax lot is not supported by the record, and merger of all the parcels could be potentially prejudicial to the petitioner.”
Hence, despite all outward appearances by the property owner to use the unconsolidated parcels as one consolidated improved shopping center parcel, failure to take the necessary steps to consolidate, such as transferring all six parcels into one deed, providing one overall property description or metes and bounds instead of six individual metes and bounds, and modifying the official tax maps to reflect one single parcel, the petitioner in this case could potentially benefit from the unequal tax assessments to the detriment of the municipality. Likewise, even though the Town conditioned site plan approval on consolidation or merger of the lots, failure by the municipality to insure that consolidation actually occurred seems to have resulted in a waiver or estoppel against the municipality, which is not typically applicable to municipalities.
Author note: Although the facts of this case do not indicate the basis for under valuation of five parcels and over valuation of the sixth parcel, it would likely be reasonable that the five undervalued parcels are perhaps being assessed as vacant land containing only parking areas, or open space, while the sixth parcel houses the actual shopping center structure. If this is the case, petitioner could easily argue that parcels one to five should receive a lower vacant land assessment, while only parcel six should receive a full commercial improved real property assessment. Allowing this fact pattern to exist provides for uncertainty in tax assessments.
Tags: consolidation of lots, contiguous lots, lot merger, Municipal Estoppel, Municipal Waiver, Planning Board conditions, Tax Assessments, Vacant land versus Improved land
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Darlinghurst Nights (Hayes Theatre Co)
This beautiful 30th anniversary production reveals a little gem of an Australian musical.
by Jo Litson on January 10, 2018
Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney
Though comparatively little known today, the Australian musical Darlinghurst Nights was a huge hit when Sydney Theatre Company premiered it in 1988 – and this 30th anniversary revival at the Hayes Theatre Co shows you why. It’s a beautiful little gem of a show with a distinctively Australian voice.
Inspired by the work of Sydney poet and journalist Kenneth Slessor, who lived in Kings Cross and wrote about the people he saw there, Darlinghurst Nights takes its name from a collection of Slessor’s poetry. Written by Max Lambert (music) and Katherine Thomson (book), the musical is set in the Cross during the 1920s and 30s at a time when it was the only place in Sydney where a bohemian life was possible and difference accepted. It was also a magnet for people arriving in Sydney with little money, and criminals.
Justin Smith and Sean O’Shea in Darlinghurst Nights. Photograph © Brett Boardman
The show features a narrator figure called Ken (Sean O’Shea), based on Slessor, and various colourful characters living in the Cross at that time, including Ken’s good friend Joe Lynch (Justin Smith), a political cartoonist and genial, knockabout character with a ready wit, a lively mind and a thirst for a beer, who is also beset by demons. A real-life figure, Lynch died in 1927 when he disappeared from the railing of a Sydney ferry, with bottles of beer in his pockets, presumed drowned.
We also meet Mabel (Baylie Carson), a girl recently arrived from the country; Frank (Andrew Cutcliffe), also from the country and now working as an iceman at a time when more and more people are buying their first Kelvinator, who befriends Mabel; Cora (Billie Rose Prichard) a sex worker who dreams of opening a corner shop but whose aggressive, petty criminal boyfriend Spud (Abe Mitchell) forces her to keep working the streets to help fund his hopeless get-rich-quick schemes; and the enigmatic Rose (Natalie Gamsu), who dresses in furs and other finery and drives a green Rolls Royce. They are all familiar, recognisable types and the musical vividly captures the era and locale – a world we still recognise but which is disappearing fast.
Natalie Gamsu, Billie Rose Prichard and Baylie Carson in Darlinghurst Nights. Photograph © Brett Boardman
Directed by Lee Lewis, the production begins with the entrance of Ken to a soundscape of sirens, traffic and people on the streets. As he takes off his coat, voices begin to sing from the darknesss and then Joe emerges from the shadows – long dead but still haunting Ken who has clearly never quite gotten over the loss, the memory whisking him back to a time long gone when Joe was still very much alive. Slessor’s poem Five Bells, about Joe’s death, is interwoven throughout the musical, along with other pieces of his poetry.
Thomson (who was in the opening night audience) has done an inspired job of moving between the poetic lyrics to dialogue that feels authentic in the mouths of the characters. Mabel may utter a poetic line like “champagne, it’s like drinking wishes isn’t it?” but it still comes across totally believably and the way the characters speak feels real. The segue between poetry and rough-and-ready speech flows naturally and seamlessly.
Lambert’s beautiful music is written in a delicate minor key for the most part and ranges from numbers with a Kurt Weill feel to jazzy, bluesy influences. One song for the men sounds like an English hymn performed by a barbershop quartet, while another is more of a showtune with John O’Connell’s choreography including a kickline. There’s also a searing torchsong given a blazing performance by Gamsu, all of it fitting together perfectly within the soundworld that Lambert creates.
Andrew Sutcliffe and Baylie Carson in Darlinghurst Nights. Photograph © Brett Boardman
It’s a beautiful score, full of complex harmonies and lovely melodies, performed by two musicians at the back of the stage – Lambert himself as Musical Director on grand piano and Roger Lock on a number of instruments including double bass, guitar and a bowl of water.
Helming her first musical, Lee Lewis (the Artistic Director of Griffin) has cast it impeccably and directs with a sure but understated touch on a set of wooden palettes designed by Mason Browne. The staging suggests the dock or the dark interior of a pub or back streets at night. There are times when you miss the bright, gaudy lights of the Cross so frequently mentioned (though Trent Suidgeest’s lighting suggests them) but the simplicity works. Browne’s costumes are also highly evocative, adding colour and character.
The performances are spot on across the board. Justin Smith captures just the right mix of robust, easy, larrikin charm and dark emotional undertow as Joe and the friendship between him and Sean O’Shea’s more dapper, restrained Ken is utterly believable. Baylie Carson sparkles as the wide-eyed, naive but spirited Mabel, Andrew Cutcliffe exudes thorough decency as the kind-hearted, handsome Frank who falls for Mabel yet still yearns for the country, Billie Rose Prichard is a rough diamond as Cora who longs for a better life, Abe Mitchell has the necessary grunt and sense of danger about him as the hot-tempered, bullying Spud, while Gamsu brilliantly conveys the pain beneath Rose’s elegant, haughty façade and when she falls apart it is heartbreaking.
Darlinghurst Nights is a small, intimate show about a Sydney now all but gone. Nostalgia and a sense of what has been lost are part of its touching charm, while the cast and creative team bring it to vivid, heartfelt life. A true delight.
Darlinghurst Nights plays at the Hayes Theatre Co until February 3
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Michael Cassel Group)
On its 10th anniversary tour, the musical reaffirms the huge, loveable heart it has beneath the camp, shiny exterior.
by Deborah Jones on May 18, 2018
Sydney’s Capitol Theatre is a glorious monument to excess, with its night-sky ceiling, intricate mouldings and classical statuary in alcoves lining the walls. Naturally it’s perfect for Priscilla Queen of the Desert – The Musical, back in the city where it premiered 10 years ago. (Even the statues dressed up for opening night, sporting pink feather boas.)
Priscilla arrives back on the Australian scene after a decade of world travel that’s taken in Broadway and the West End as well as countries as far-flung as Israel, Brazil, Japan and South Africa, among many others. There’s even a cruise-ship version that’s going gang-busters. Obviously the show has universal appeal and yet it is entirely, emphatically Australian. Part of a movement, almost.
It’s impossible to think about Priscilla (both the musical and the 1994 film that spawned it) without also thinking about its near kin, 1992’s Strictly Ballroom and 1994’s Muriel’s Wedding, which opened in Australian cinemas just three weeks before Priscilla. All three are a hymn to raucous humour, retina-burning colours and flamboyant personalities. They’re big and messy and far from perfect but that’s part of the charm. Rough edges are good. They offset the sweetness and add a homespun feel to pieces that flirt endlessly with the fantastical. It’s a tricky mix, actually, where the chance of failure is high.
Crucially, in each of the three popular music isn’t just a soundtrack, it’s integral to the action. It’s no surprise therefore that each has been adapted for the musical theatre stage. Muriel premiered in Sydney last year and is to return next year, the heavily reworked Strictly opened on the West End last month, and Priscilla is now in Sydney after starting its 10thanniversary tour in Melbourne in January, produced by the Michael Cassel Group and Nullarbor Productions.
So far, so fabulous. But best of all is that beneath their off-beat surface each is so very, very life-enhancing. The people in these narratives, outsiders all, seek the light instead of succumbing to the dark. They don’t deny that life can be cruel and they don’t run away from a fight, but they deal with it and move on. Some may think this kind of optimism isn’t useful or even possible, or that it’s just sentimental nonsense. And yet, more than a quarter of a century on these stories and these characters still resonate. To borrow from Strictly Ballroom, it would seem audiences are still moved by the idea that a life lived in fear is a life half-lived.
Priscilla has been tinkered with over the years but is still essentially the show Simon Phillips originally directed, with assists more recently from Associate Director Dean Bryant. The book was co-written by the film’s writer and director Stephan Elliott (with Allan Scott) and takes the film’s broad outline as a starting point. It then ramps the fantasy factor up to 15 on a scale of 10.
Tick, whose show name is Mitzi (David Harris) has been invited to perform his drag act in Alice Springs. He asks fellow artists Adam, aka Felicia (Euan Doidge), and Bernadette (Tony Sheldon), a trans woman, to join him on the long journey from Sydney to the Centre. A bus is procured and christened Priscilla, and off they trot on an outback road trip full of adventure, smart-arse repartee and brushes with danger. Also coming along for the ride: a vast wardrobe of stunning stage attire. Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner’s costumes are, as they were from day one, peerless.
The production is otherwise on a slightly smaller scale than it once was – it’s a bit deflating to find the majesty of Uluru impersonated by a wash of red light on a bare stage – but is serviceable enough. Happily there are still the flying divas (Angelique Cassimatis, Samm Hagen and Cle Morgan), who sing their socks off while whizzing high above the action and, of course, designer Brian Thomson’s titular bus. There is no show without Priscilla.
David Harris, Tony Sheldon and Euan Doidge. Photograph © Ben Symons
Absolutely central to proceedings is the return of Tony Sheldon as Bernadette, a role he played first in Sydney and then in London and New York. It has brought him the international career he so richly deserves. Sheldon’s Bernadette is warm, wise and wise-cracking, but one never loses sight of the deep-seated courage she has had to draw on as a trans woman, nor the pain she keeps damped down. It’s a beautiful performance, overflowing with witty touches.
Harris attractively plays Tick as straight man, if you’ll excuse the expression, to Doidge’s crazy-brave Adam, all mouth and no impulse control. Robert Grubb is the salt-of-the-earth Bob whose generous, non-judgmental spirit keeps the bus in working order and gives Bernadette a shot at happiness. Xion Jarvis (he shares the role with three other boys) was delightful on opening night as Benji, the son who needs to be part of Tick’s life.
One could argue that the early Tick-Benji scene in which they sing Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s I Say a Little Prayer is perilously close to mawkishness but Harris and Jarvis sang it touchingly. Mostly, though, the songs are there to get the blood pumping and the memories rolling back the years. There’s something for everyone really, from disco to pop to opera to country, most of it the excuse for yet another bout of high-energy dancing (choreography by the late Ross Coleman and Andrew Hallsworth). It must be mayhem backstage as the cast changes costume with each new song but the results are spectacular for all concerned, including especially the men of the ensemble, as buffed and waxed as a fleet of new Ferraris. The camp-o-meter is off the wall, which isn’t a criticism.
In Susan Sontag’s marvellous 1964 essay Notes on Camp, she wrote that the “hallmark of Camp is a spirit of extravagance”, and also cited the embrace of artifice, aesthetics, theatricality, passion, playfulness and “the attempt to do something extraordinary”. I think we can see Priscilla fitting in there nicely. Beneath its shiny exterior beats a huge, lovable heart. Its fundamental thesis is that family is important and you find it where you can. It revels in difference and asks for tolerance and understanding – all the while laughing, singing and dancing.
Deborah Jones is the Sydney music theatre critic for The Australian, which reviewed the show in Melbourne
Priscilla plays in Sydney until July 22 then tours to Adelaide and Brisbane
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My Brilliant Career – a new musical
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A special evening with a gracious, classy, legendary performer.
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With Johnny Carr and Geraldine Hakewill shining in the central roles, Simon Phillips' production is the real deal.
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Six Australian plays, five of them new, a Tony Award-winning musical and contemporary writing from overseas – all relevant to today, says AD Brett Sheehy.
Simon Phillips talks about meeting Tom Stoppard, how The Real Thing is beautiful as well as brilliant, and why Australian actors need to understand that for Stoppard the brain is sexy.
Review: Shakespeare in Love (Melbourne Theatre Company)
This beautiful, joyous production reveals why the Oscar winning rom-com truly belongs in the theatre.
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2019 Helpmann Awards Act I presented
The first 20 winners at the 19th Annual Helpmann Awards were announced tonight, with Counting and Cracking taking home four awards.
Muriel’s Wedding: Here Comes the (new) Bride
When Natalie Abbott was told she’d been cast as Muriel Heslop in the musical, she couldn’t believe it. She tells us about making her professional debut in her dream role.
Review: Saturday Night Fever (John Frost)
Aside from the dancing, there’s little real fever in this underwhelming adaptation of the 1977 film.
Review: Muriel’s Wedding the Musical (Global Creatures)
A star is born in this clever adaptation of a beloved Australian film.
Review: The Lady in the Van (Melbourne Theatre Company)
The indomitable Miriam Margolyes shines as the real-life vagrant who lived in playwright Alan Bennett’s front yard for 15 years.
Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (John Frost and others)
It's maybe not as thrilling a show as some of Willy Wonka's confectionery, but there's plenty to enjoy.
Review: North by Northwest (Kay + McLean Productions)
The stage adaptation of Hitchcock’s spy thriller strikes a balance between suspense and slapstick in its Queensland premiere season.
Review: Twelfth Night (Melbourne Theatre Company)
A dream cast, sublime design, charming music and assured direction deliver a delightful end-of-year Shakespearian romp.
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Florian Sedlmeier
Prof. Dr. Florian Sedlmeier
Lansstr. 7-9
Room Raum 303c
florian.sedlmeier@fu-berlin.de
As of October 2018, Prof. Sedlmeier is "Vertretungsprofessor Amerikanistik" at the University of Hamburg. The professorship is sponsored by the VolkswagenStiftung (Opus Magnum, Prof. Rohr). The appointment ends March 2020.
October 2018 - March 2020
Visiting Professor American Studies, University of Hamburg (sponsored by VolkswagenStiftung, Opus Magnum for Prof. Rohr).
April 2017 - September 2018
DFG Research Fellowship for the projekt "On the Conditions of the Field Imagination: Realism and William Dean Howells", University of California, Los Angeles and University of Texas at Austin.
September 2015-January 2016
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Brandeis University
Assistant Professor of North American Literature, JFKI
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April 2012-March 2015
Postdoc, Department of English and American Studies, Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg
Dr. phil. in American Culture and Literature, Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg.
Title of Dissertation: Rereading Literary Form: Transpositions, Paratexts, and Postethnic Literature around 2000 (Advisory Board: Prof. Dr. Ralph J. Poole, Prof. Dr. Peter Schneck, Prof. Dr. Gabriele M. Schwab)
Doctoral Assistant, Department of English and American Studies, Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg (Chair: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ralph J. Poole)
Research Associate, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, USA (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Gabriele M. Schwab)
Doctoral Fellow at the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg "Die Figur des Dritten," Universität Konstanz
Magister Artium in American Studies, German Studies, and Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Conference Grant, German Research Foundation (DFG), for the conference “Forms and Practices of Narrating”, John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin, June 5-7, 2014. (with Laura Bieger)
Annual Fulbright Prize for the best dissertation in American Studies in Austria
Federal Assistance Award, Embassy of the United States of America in Vienna, participation at the SSASAA Conference "To Honor Emory Elliott: American Literary History in a New Key," Salzburg Global Seminar
Research Grant, Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences, Universität Salzburg, participation at the 33rd Session of the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University (funded by the Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences, Universität Salzburg)
April 2006-August 2008
Dissertation Fellowship, German Research Association (DFG), Graduiertenkolleg "Die Figur des Dritten," Universität Konstanz.
Library Grant, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University Berlin
Teaching summer term 2016
32200 Seminar (BA)
Introduction to Literary Studies II
Do 10:00-12:00
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
32216 MA Colloquium Literature/Culture
Fr 12:00-14:00
32217 Enlightenment Trajectories: Continuities and Ruptures (MA, with Christian Lammert)
Theses under supervision
Engwer, Sabine. Writing the African American Nation: Notions of Folk, Volk, and Nation in the Literature of the Nadir.
M.A. Theses (completed)
Ciufoletti, Teresa: The Authorial Persona and the Ethics of Listening in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.
Gabriel, Florian: Barbary Captivity, Abolitionism and the Public Sphere in the Early Republic.
Muth, Xenia: The Short Story Cycle in North American Literature: The New Genre and Its Narrative Structures of Identity in Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder.
Nötling, Florian: Decoloniality and Arab American Literature: Epistemic Disobedience on Mohja Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf.
Sharma, Anke: Intertextuality in David Foster Wallace’s “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” and John Barth’s “Lost in the Funhouse.”
Soxberger, Josef Michael: “Why does the perfect rational, in its own time, often sound like mumbo-jumbo?” Tracing Ishmael Reed’s Agenda in Flight to Canada.
Current Research Project
The Conditions of the Field Imagination: Realism and William Dean Howells
Against the backdrop of a renewed interest in the institutional conditions of contemporary literature, my book project positions the closing decades of the nineteenth century as the moment when the nexus between literature and institution first surfaces as a concern in the U.S. I identify the emergence of a field imagination and I argue that it centers on the shifting signifier “realism” and the signature “William Dean Howells.” Reading three formats of criticism (interview, editorial, review), the first part of the project explores the conditions of this field imagination, as it constitutes itself from within an accelerated and diversified industrial print capitalism that necessitates its imagination in the first place. Looking at three literary genres (novel, one-act play as farce, novella), the second part examines the consequences of reading for a field imagination; it redefines the poetics of Howells’s realism as a self-archiving one, which manifests itself in the iteration of characters across the confines of individual works. While the first part offers an analysis of the sociology of literature, or the social and institutional dimensions of literary production, the second part probes the conditions of a literary sociology, or the literary dimension of the social.
See here for a more detailed description.
The Postethnic Literary: Reading Paratexts and Transpositions around 2000, Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2014.
Ed. with James Dorson, MaryAnn Snyder-Körber und Birte Wege. Faultlines of the Anecdotal. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020. (in preparation)
Ed. with Clemens Peck. Kriminalliteratur und Wissensgeschichte. Bielefeld: transcript, 2015.
Ed. with Eric Erbacher and Nicole Maruo-Schröder. Rereading the Machine in the Garden: Nature and Technology in American Culture. Frankfurt and New York: Campus. 2014.
Ed. with Ralph Poole and Susanne Wegener. Hard Bodies. Berlin et al.: LIT, 2011.
"Howells and the Properties of Modern Literature." In: Modernities and Modernization in North America. Hg. Ilka Brasch und Ruth Mayer. Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. (in print)
"The Paratext and Literary Narration: Authorship, Institutions, Historiographies." In: Narrative 26.1 (2018): 63-80.
“On the Conditions of the Field Imagination: Realism and William Dean Howells.” In: Frank Kelleter und Alexander Starre (Hg.), Projecting American Studies: Essays on Theory, Method, and Practice. Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. 81-94.
“Kunst als allegorische Geheimsprache und die Poetik der seriellen Sequenz in Don DeLillos Falling Man.” In: Uta Degner und Martina Wörgötter (Hg.), Literarische Geheim- und Privatsprachen. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2016. 197-221.
“Die Allegorie in der postkolonialen Literatur und Literaturtheorie.” In: Ulla Haselstein (Hg.). Allegorie. DFG Symposion 2014. Berlin und Boston: de Gruyter, 2016. 528-556.
“Eindeutigkeit und Ähnlichkeit, Bruch und Kontinuität: Mark Twains Pudd’nhead Wilson.“ In: Clemens Peck und Florian Sedlmeier (Hg.). Kriminalliteratur und Wissensgeschichte: Genres – Medien – Techniken. Bielefeld: transcript, 2015. 79-112.
“Einleitung: Kriminalliteratur und Wissensgeschichte.“ (mit Clemens Peck) In: Clemens Peck und Florian Sedlmeier (Hg.). Kriminalliteratur und Wissensgeschichte: Genres – Medien – Techniken. Bielefeld: transcript, 2015. 7-27.
"Zu den Bedingungen einer Poetik des Vorläufigen: Theatralität und Absorption, Bedeutung und Praesenz in Gertrude Steins 'Plays'." Zur Ästhetik des Vorläufigen. Skizze – Entwurf – Probe. Hg. Thomas Hochradner. Heidelberg: Winter, 2014. 131-149.
"Introduction: Rereading The Machine in the Garden" (mit Eric Erbacher und Nicole Maruo-Schröder). In: Eric Erbacher, Nicole Maruo-Schröder und Florian Sedlmeier (Hg.). Rereading the Machine in the Garden: Nature and Technology in American Culture. Frankfurt/M. und New York: Campus, 2014. 7-41.
"Against Totality: Reading for Intermedial Constellations." Journal of Literary Theory 7.1-2 (2013): 64-85.
"The Cool Touch of Things: Libertarian Economics, Complex Simplicity, and the Emergence of the Tactile Erotic." Is It Cause It's Cool? Affective Encounters with American Culture. Ed. Astrid M. Fellner, Susanne Hamscha, Klaus Heissenberger, Jennifer Moos. Wien: LIT Verlag, 2013. 273-293.
"Cover und Transparenz: Die US-Fernsehserie Glee." Coverstrategien in der Popularmusik nach 1960. Hg. Joachim Brügge. Freiburg i. Br.: Rombach, 2013. 229-243.
"Problems of Historicizing and Practices of Reading: Ralph Ellison's Three Days Before the Shooting..." Revisiting the Sixties. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on America's Longest Decade. Ed. Laura Bieger and Christian Lammert. Frankfurt/M. and New York: Campus, 2013. 217-236.
"(Re-)Staging Venice: William Dean Howells's Intermedial Flânerie." PhiN: Philologie im Netz Supplement 5 (2012): 101-127.
"Rereading Literary Form: Paratexts, Transpositions, and Postethnic Literature around 2000." Journal of Literary Theory 6.1 (2012): 213-233.
"Hollywood Hard Bodies: The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow and the Alliance of Neoconservatism and Neoliberalism." Hard Bodies. Ed. Ralph Poole, Florian Sedlmeier, Susanne Wegener. Berlin et al.: LIT, 2011. 139-173. (with Susanne Wegener)
"Hybridität und Dritter Raum im Kontext von Inter-Disziplinarität und postkolonialer Theoriebildung." PhiN: Philologie im Netz 55 (2011): 40-51.
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How the Fed rate cut could increase dealmaking
The Federal Reserve’s decision to lower interest rates may influence commercial real estate investors to continue buying property, even at lofty valuation levels.
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The Federal Reserve’s decision to lower interest rates may boost real-estate investor confidence, leading to increasing investment volumes and, potentially, riskier dealmaking.
The Fed lowered its benchmark interest rate Wednesday by a quarter point to about 2.25 percent, the first of what could be multiple cuts this year.
Commercial real estate investors will likely take the decision as a signal to continue buying property, even at lofty valuation levels, says Ryan Severino, Chief Economist at JLL. This could extend the trend real estate markets worldwide have seen during the last decade, with investors piling into the asset class amid a hunt for higher yields and stable returns.
“The rate cuts should keep the market attractive to investors in the short run,” Severino says.
Longer term, “it risks widening the rift between market expectations and the underlying economic reality, which could form the seeds of an asset bubble,” he says. “Since we did not see a strong chance of the economy backsliding into negative growth over the rest of this year if there was no cut, the risks associated with the Fed’s decision may be greater than any boost to the market.”
Global slowdown?
The rate cut is the Fed’s first since 2008, when rates were cut amid the financial crisis. It was also an abrupt reversal from last autumn, when the Fed was signaling multiple rate increases for 2019.
Similar turnarounds — or at least the maintenance of dovish stances —are happening at central banks worldwide. The European Central Bank, which appeared to at least prepare for the prospect of tightening, now sees rates unchanged through at least the middle of 2020 and could cut rates if data further weakens. Other major central banks are watching the data as well, looking for greater clarity before making decisions.
“The Fed’s decision on interest rates will hold far-reaching implications for other central banks and the global economy,” Severino says.
Explaining the cuts, the U.S. Federal Reserve chair, Jerome H. Powell cited risks to the United States economy from the U.S.’s trade war with China and a global economic slowdown.
“Fear and uncertainty, more than any tangible economic metric, were at the root of this slowdown in the global economy during the second quarter,” Severino says. Actual fallout in the U.S. from trade policy remains limited thus far, and the risk of recession in 2019 is quite low, he says.
Although growth in 2019 seemed set to slow after a growth spurt in late 2017 and 2018, it’s really fear and uncertainty over trade policy that exacerbated the loss of momentum in the first half of this year, Severino says. Underlying momentum, particularly in the labor market, is still stout, and while the unemployment rate has cooled and job growth is slowing, both remain at healthy levels, he says.
“Real estate valuations already sit at or near record-high levels, while cap rates hover at or near record-low levels, so the market is hardly deteriorating,” Severino says.
“Many feel the economic outlook alone did not justify the bullishness of the rate cut, which is why the Fed cited trade war tensions as a major factor. But the political headwinds, notably on trade, that are causing so much consternation could also evaporate quickly. If anything, they appear stable, if not improving.”
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Guide to the Euphonium Repertoire The Euphonium Source Book
by R.Winston Morris
Guide to the Euphonium Repertoire The Euphonium Source Book Synopsis
Guide to the Euphonium Repertoire is the most definitive publication on the status of the euphonium in the history of this often misunderstood and frequently under-appreciated instrument. This volume documents the rich history, the wealth of repertoire, and the incredible discography of the euphonium. Music educators, composers/arrangers, instrument historians, performers on other instruments, and students of the euphonium (baritone horn, tenor tuba, etc.) will find the exhaustive research evident in this volume's pages to be compelling and comprehensive. Contributors are Lloyd Bone, Brian L. Bowman, Neal Corwell, Adam Frey, Marc Dickman, Bryce Edwards, Seth D. Fletcher, Carroll Gotcher, Atticus Hensley, Lisa M. Hocking, Sharon Huff, Kenneth R. Kroesche, R. Winston Morris, John Mueller, Michael B. O'Connor, Eric Paull, Joseph Skillen, Kelly Thomas, Demondrae Thurman, Matthew J. Tropman, and Mark J. Walker.
Guide to the Euphonium Repertoire The Euphonium Source Book Press Reviews
... outstanding documentation of the low brass repertoire... indispensable acquisitions for any library supporting tuba/euphonium studies.... Essential. Lower-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. * Choice * This text is so loaded with important information for the euphonium that it simply cannot be... thought of as anything but one of the most essential texts every serious low brass player must have... * ITEA Journal *
Publication date: 1st March 2007
Author: R.Winston Morris
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Categories: Brass band, military music & marches,
About R.Winston Morris
Lloyd Bone is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia. Eric Paull is Adjunct Professor of Music at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. R. Winston Morris is Professor of Music and Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium at Tennessee Technological University, in Cookeville, Tennessee, where he has been on the faculty since 1967.
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Tanker-for-tanker
Rodger Shanahan
Iran’s retaliation after an earlier tanker seizure should have been obvious, so why wasn’t Britain better prepared?
Iranian Revolutionary Guards patrol around the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero anchored off the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas (Photo: Hasan Shirvani via Getty)
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The most perplexing question following Iran’s capture of the MV Stena Impero on Friday is why the British were unable to foresee this action as a natural response to Britain’s earlier seizure of the Iranian-flagged tanker Grace 1 in Gibraltar and make appropriate preparations. The Grace 1 was impounded earlier this month as part of a crackdown on Syrian sanctions-busting and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had even publicly flagged a response would be coming.
Regardless of the legality of the Iranian actions, British merchant shipping was exposed the minute the British cabinet made the decision to seize an Iranian vessel.
Some would argue that the UK already has more permanent assets in the Persian Gulf than any other Western nation, other than the US. And while this is true and sufficient for steady operations, it is patently not enough for raised security threats.
The week before the single UK frigate in the area, HMS Montrose, had to stare down a possible attempt by the Iranians to impede or possibly seize a UK vessel. But in the case of the Stena Impero, all the British navy could do was to warn the Iranians by radio because it was too far away to influence the outcome. And even if the Montrose had been close enough, the Iranians also temporarily detained a second, UK-owned vessel MV Mesdar and would likely have held this ship if the Montrose had been able to interfere in the seizure of the Stena Impero.
HMS Montrose during 2012 exercises in the Mediterranean Sea (Photo: Royal Navy Media Archive/Flickr)
One of the roles of military planners is to allocate “troops to task” and it is rare indeed for there to be enough troops for every task. So troops (or “task units”) need to be allocated according to priority.
Clearly there are not enough British task units to protect every UK-flagged or owned vessel transiting the Straits of Hormuz. Yet alternate methods should have been put in place, such as enlisting US support for UK vessels following the seizure of the Grace 1. Otherwise, if the safety of UK shipping could not be guaranteed as a consequence of seizing the Grace 1, then Britain should either have declined to capture the vessel, or sought other less exposed or more robust parties to do the job.
Regardless of the legality of the Iranian actions, British merchant shipping was exposed the minute the British cabinet made the decision to seize an Iranian vessel. And it should have known what the response was going to be (the 2007 HMS Cornwall incident is a good example of the way the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps navy operates) and put in place unilateral or multilateral measures designed to limit the ability of the Iranians to undertake the inevitable retaliation.
Its inability to do so says as much about the Britain’s limited military capability nowadays as it does about the present standard of political Brexit-afflicted decision-making in London.
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Lumosity Glossary: Logical Reasoning
At Lumosity, our products draw inspiration from neuroscience and psychology, and we have a team of in-house scientists who constantly evaluate research in these areas. But what do we mean when we tell you a game challenges “working memory”? And what’s the difference between “selective attention” and “divided attention”? Our new blog feature, Lumosity Glossary, is here to explain. First up: logical reasoning, the cognitive skill challenged in our newest game, Fuse Clues.
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The ability to combine multiple cognitive processes to recognize patterns, draw conclusions, and make decisions.
Logical reasoning is a sub-skill in our larger Problem Solving games category, and a simple way of describing it is the ability to analyze information to solve a problem. There are several types of logical reasoning, including deductive and inductive. Think of deductive as a “top-down” approach, where you start with a rule or pattern, which you then apply to a situation to solve a problem correctly. Our game, Organic Order, relies on deductive reasoning, tasking you with planting different seeds in a specific sequence, dictated by conditions. Inductive reasoning is the “bottom-up” approach, where examples allow you to hypothesize the general rule governing the situation. New game Fuse Clues requires inductive reasoning — here, you figure out the governing numerical sequence based on the different numbers available.
Classic deductive reasoning tasks include the “Logic Games” questions on the Law School Admissions Test (or LSAT). In these games, test-takers are given a series of rules, from which they must determine how to sequence or group a set of items. When looking to build new Problem Solving games, our team found inspiration in these deductive reasoning tasks, leading to the development of Organic Order (read more about how we created the game here).
One study that looked at the effects of LSAT practice on the brain is “Intensive Reasoning Training Alters Patterns of Brain Connectivity at Rest,” published in The Journal of Neuroscience in 2013. The study used fMRI to measure brain connectivity before and after participants completed an intensive three-month LSAT prep course — as the study authors write, this “standardized test places strong demands on reasoning.” They explain, “Broadly, we sought to test the hypothesis that engaging in novel, complex cognitive tasks would strengthen connectivity within the [brain’s] reasoning network at rest,” and they did find evidence to suggest a correlation, but the gains observed were not permanent. Nonetheless, the authors write, “Demonstrating neural plasticity in the network that supports reasoning—a skill that is central to theories of intelligence (Gray and Thompson, 2004)—is particularly significant because it runs counter to the widespread assumption that intelligence is a fixed ability,” and they conclude that, “to maintain a high level of reasoning ability, we hypothesize, it is important to regularly tax the underlying brain circuitry.”
It is very important to note that the study evaluated a small number of students who were enrolled in a 70+ hour LSAT training course — not short, computerized games like Organic Order — and more research needs to be done before reaching definitive conclusions about the effects of LSAT practice on the brain, computerized or not. Nevertheless, we were excited to model the kinds of logical challenges in the LSAT into the fun and challenging new game Organic Order.
In “A cognitive analysis of number-series problems: Sources of individual differences in performance,” the study authors note, “inductive reasoning is...generally considered to be an integral component of many cognitive abilities.” The study used a classic neuropsychology task, “Number Series,” to measure inductive reasoning skills in participants. The Number Series task was first published in Cognitive Abilities Test in 1971, and it asks participants to supply the next number in a given sequence. Our team modified this task to develop Fuse Clues: Research Associate Shelby explains, “For instance, in Fuse Clues, the gaps in the sequence aren’t always at the end, and we also provide options for which numbers to complete the sequence with rather than leaving it open ended.”
Ready to try your hand at logical reasoning?
For a deductive reasoning challenge, play Organic Order. More interested in inductive reasoning? Fuse Clues launched last month on web and mobile.
Intensive Reasoning Training Alters Patterns of Brain Connectivity at Rest (Mackey et al. 2013)
Cognitive Abilities Test (Thorndike & Hagen, 1971)
A cognitive analysis of number-series problems: Sources of individual differences in performance (LeFavre & Bisanz, 1986)
Analyzing aptitudes for learning: Inductive reasoning (Pellegrina & Glaser, 1984)
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YEOVIL WIN EARNS LMA'S LG PERFORMANCE OF THE WEEK AWARD!
Sir Alex Ferguson & Co pick the Town's gr-EIGHT show as their No.1
For the second season in a row, Nathan Jones and his Luton Town staff and squad have received recognition from the League Managers’ Association for an outstanding performance in the opening week of the campaign.
The Hatters gaffer has picked up the LG Performance of the Week award for the stunning 8-2 victory over Yeovil Town in the Sky Bet League Two opener at Kenilworth Road last Saturday.
Just as last year, when the 3-1 EFL Cup victory over Championship giants Aston Villa caught the eye, an LMA panel of Sir Alex Ferguson, Howard Wilkinson, Barry Fry, Dave Bassett and Joe Royle plumped for the Town’s goal glut against the Glovers as their week’s best.
Well done to Nathan and the guys for kicking off the season in fine style.
The gaffer will be presented with the award tomorrow when Sky Sports visit The Brache to interview him for this week’s Gillette Soccer Saturday show.
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Lassie Bowman Driver, 87
Published: Tuesday, February 24,2009
Lassie Bowman Driver, age 87, of Red Boiling Springs, Tenn. passed away Mon., Feb. 16, 2009 at the Lebanon Health & Rehabilitation Center in Lebanon, Tenn. Funeral Services for Lassie Mae Bowman Driver were conducted Thurs., Feb. 19, 2009 from the chapel of the Phillip Anderson & Son Funeral Home in Red Boiling Springs, Tenn. with Elder J.E. Shoulders officiating. Interment followed in the Smith Chapel Cemetery. Her pallbearers were James Bradley, Channie Newberry, Larry Tucker, Kenneth McLerran and Joe Hackett. Lassie was born July 11, 1921 in Macon County, Tenn., the daughter of the late John and Maudie Pedigo Bowman. On Nov. 14, 1937, she married Genie Ralph Driver, who preceded her in death on Jan. 22, 1978. She was a member of the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church and was a machine operator for the former Formfit Rogers Inc. She is survived by her son & daughter-in-law, Charles & Bambi Driver, Monticello, FL, brothers, Homer Bowman, Sarasota, FL, Clyde Bowman, Brownsburg, IN, granddaughter, Charlene Putnam, Tallahassee, FL, grandson, Gene “Rusty” Patrick, Sarasota, FL, 3 great-grandchildren, special cousins, Jessie Nichols and James Bradley both of Lafayette, Tenn.
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Apple Music enjoys the advantage of being the default music streaming service. It integrates directly with iOS and Siri. But for many users, Apple Music is second-rate. Unable to match the superior design, interface, and recommendations of the Spotify app. If you’re curious about Spotify or if you want to switch over to it, here are a couple of Spotify tips and tricks for iPhone to get you started.
1. Follow Artists and Albums
The first thing you should do after installing the Spotify app is to search for artists. This is to build your own library. Find all the music that you like and add it to your library. The more music you listen, the better Spotify can recommend you new music that you’ll like.
2. Save Music to Your Library
If you’re coming from Apple Music, you’ll find the act of adding an album, song or playlist to your library, a bit odd. In Apple Music, you just tap the Add button or the + button. It’s consistent everywhere.
On Spotify, it’s different. Spotify gives more significance to searching and playing songs, or adding to playlists, rather than adding to your Library. So if you search and go to an artist page, you’ll see a Shuffle Play button. And when you go to an Album view, you’ll see a Save button. Tap on it to add the album to your library.
But the same thing doesn’t work on a song. You come across a song and tap on the menu button, you’ll see a Like button, not a Save button. Tap on it and Spotify will say “Added to your library”. This is the only and quick way to add a single song to your library. The upside is that you can do this from anywhere. From the Apple Watch app, just tap on the Heart button when you come across a song.
3. Find and Add Playlists
The best thing about Spotify is playlists. Either created by Spotify itself, or by the wider community. Spotify makes it very easy to create and share playlists. And anyone with the link can embed or import the playlists directly to their account. Or you can just play a couple of songs or import a specific song to your own playlists.
The “This is X” playlist is a great place to start discovering a new artist. Spotify also has playlists based on moods, genres, and activity.
Community playlists also come up when you search. Again the terminology for a playlist is different. Here, you “Follow” a playlist to add it to your library. Spotify playlists are dynamic though. And they’ll change when the person who made it changes them. To get around this, you can import a playlist and create your own.
The best thing to do is to search for Spotify playlists only. Just start googling for the music that you like. Reddit’s r/music community is also a great place to find Spotify playlists.
4. Start Creating Your Own Playlists
Find a song you want to add to a playlist, tap on the Menu button and select Add to Playlist. If you haven’t already, create a playlist. Next time, when you go to the Add to Playlist screen, all your playlists will be there. Just tap on one to add it. Now do it for all the songs you want to add to the given playlist.
Creating a playlist is not the best experience on the iPhone app. If you’re planning to curate a long playlist, I’ll suggest you use the Mac app or the web player on your laptop. Creating and adding to a playlist takes way too many taps on the iPhone app because you have to add each track individually (there is no way to add multiple tracks together like in Apple Music).
But there’s a way around it. Once you’ve created a playlist and added a couple of songs, open the playlist. At the bottom, you’ll see the Recommended Songs section. Because Spotify’s algorithms are on-point, you’ll find awesome music to add to the playlist here.
5. Share and Collaborate on Playlists
Spotify is a great way to share and collaborate on playlists. In fact, creating a collaborative playlist is a great way to have a stress-free party. Create a playlist, tap on the menu button and make it collaborative. Then share the link with your friends. Now they can add songs to the playlist and change the queue as well.
If you just want to share the playlist as is, tap on the Menu button and then tap on Share. Share the link with your friends on any network. If you want, you can also make the playlist public so people can find it in Search.
6. Try Spotify Radio
Forget Pandora, Spotify Radio is all you need. Just go to an artist page and start the radio. You can just keep playing the songs from the artist and related music for hours at end, without having to fiddle with the app at all.
7. Control Spotify From Other Devices
This is one of the best features of Spotify and it’s amazing how seamlessly it works. It’s like Spotify’s own AirPlay system. When you have Spotify playing on one device and you open it on another, Spotify app will throw a pop up saying that music is playing on another device. Now you can choose to continue to listen on the other device and use the current device as a remote. Or you can switch the playback seamlessly to the current device.
The first option is quite awesome. This way, you can keep using Spotify on your PC or TV but control it all from your iPhone. Even after starting playback, you can tap on the Devices button to change the output to another device.
8. Use Gestures
When you’re browsing around and you come across a song in a list form, you can swipe right to quickly add it to your library and swipe left to add it to the queue.
9. Manage Queue
Spotify’s queue management feature is quite stellar. When you start playing a song from a playlist, or even from a page, it automatically builds a queue for you. Go to Now Playing screen and tap on the Queue button in the bottom-right. You’ll see the upcoming songs in the Next section. This is Spotify’s own intelligent queue for you.
You can use the handlebar to move the songs up or down. Or you can tap on the checkmark icons to select multiple songs. You can remove songs or tap on Add to Queue to create your own queue.
10. Download Music for Offline Use
When you’re browsing a playlist or an album, you’ll see Download toggle at the top. Tap on it to save the songs on your device. This only works for Spotify Premium account holders.
11. Change Music Streaming and Download Quality
Go to Your Library and tap on the Settings icon. Now select Music Quality. From here you can switch to High or Very High quality for music streaming or downloading. From here, you can also turn on the toggle for downloading music on cellular.
12. Turn on Data Saver
There might be times when you don’t want to use too much data when streaming music. In such a time, go to Settings -> Data Saver and turn on the feature. It sets your music quality to low.
13. Delete Cache to Free Up Space
Spotify is one of the few iPhone apps that have the feature to delete cache. This is not the same as deleting your downloaded music. This is just temporary files that Spotify has built-up. Go to Settings -> Storage and tap on Delete Cache button.
14. Listen Without Sharing With Your Friends
Spotify is better with friends. You can turn on the feature that shares your currently playing songs with your friends. But what if you don’t want to share the playing music, just for a while? This is where a private session comes in. Go to Settings -> Social -> Private Session. And now for the current session, no activity will be shared. Once you’ve been inactive for 6 hours, the private session will end.
15. Use the Made For You Section
All of Spotify’s genius recommendations will be available in the Made for You Section in Your Library. This is where you’ll find playlists that Spotify has created specifically for you. The Discovery Weekly playlist is especially something you should listen to, every week. You’ll find new music that Spotify thinks you’ll like. Just listen, discover and add the music that you like to your library.
Bonus: Spotify Automation with Siri Shortcuts
One of the biggest problems with using Spotify on the iPhone is the lack of Siri integration. On Android, Spotify works with Google Assistant, but Siri just doesn’t allow access to third-party apps in the same way. Thanks to the new Shortcuts app though, there is a workaround. You can create shortcuts for searching and playing songs, or playing a specific playlist using Siri shortcuts.
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Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15
All Themes Life, Death, and “Carpe Diem” Education Conformity and Success Rebellion and Passion Men, Women, and Love
All Characters John Keating Todd Anderson Neil Perry Charlie Dalton Knox Overstreet Richard Cameron Headmaster Gale Nolan Mr. George McAllister Mr. Perry
All Symbols The Candle Puck’s Crown Standing on the Desk
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Life, Death, and “Carpe Diem”
Conformity and Success
Rebellion and Passion
Men, Women, and Love
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Knox Overstreet
Richard Cameron
Headmaster Gale Nolan
Mr. George McAllister
Mr. Perry
Puck’s Crown
Standing on the Desk
Education Theme Analysis
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Dead Poets Society, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
As its boarding school setting would suggest, Dead Poets Society is in large part a novel about education. The book articulates two competing theories about how young people should be educated: first, the process of rote memorization and blind obedience practiced by most teachers at Welton Academy (the “Welton way”); second, the process of training students to think for themselves (the “Keating way”).
At Welton, students are trained to obey authorities and internalize whatever knowledge their teachers deem fit to pass on to them. According to the “Welton way,” education consists of an older, more experienced teacher passing on specific information to a classroom of younger, relatively inexperienced students. Therefore, the ideal Welton student will obey authority without question, memorizing Latin, trigonometry, history, etc. But although the Welton way defines education as the internalization of specific pieces of information, education itself is just a means to an end: i.e., a way for Welton students to go to a good college and later get a good job. The Welton way isn’t designed to foster any real passion for knowledge whatsoever; rather, it’s designed to produce graduates who will go on to make lots of money.
The “Keating way” of educating students, by contrast, is designed to get young people to think for themselves. Content-wise, Keating’s classes stress the idea that a “good life” must be structured around one’s unique passions, not society’s rules. Similarly, Keating’s theatrical, sometimes over-the-top methods push students to think originally and independently. He lets his students stand on desks, walk around the schoolyard, yell in class, and generally break out of their old, familiar habits at school. The goal of these seemingly frivolous exercises is to train students to “un-learn” their blind obedience to Welton, and to authority in general. Keating believes that students have innate passions and talents—his job, then, isn’t to pass on information to his students, but rather to help them cultivate the abilities they already have.
As many critics have pointed out, however, it’s not clear that Keating really trains his students to think for themselves at all. He tries to use humor, performance, and wit to train his students to think freely, but it seems likely that he’s just training his students to worship him. It’s telling that the novel shows Keating analyzing specific poems only once—he claims that he wants his students to love poetry, but in fact, he seems to want his students to love him. In short, one could argue, Keating’s students become blindly loyal to Keating where before they were blindly loyal to Welton. While such an interpretation of Dead Poets Society may be beyond Kleinbaum’s authorial intent, it’s important to keep in mind. There is a potential contradiction in the notion of teaching students to think originally (how can you teach originality?), and at times, Keating seems to fall prey to such a contradiction, his theatricality as much of a barrier to free thought as the other Welton teachers’ dullness.
Education ThemeTracker
The ThemeTracker below shows where, and to what degree, the theme of Education appears in each Chapter of Dead Poets Society. Click or tap on any chapter to read its Summary & Analysis.
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Education Quotes in Dead Poets Society
Below you will find the important quotes in Dead Poets Society related to the theme of Education.
Chapter 1 Quotes
Sixteen-year-old Todd Anderson, one of the few students not wearing the school blazer, hesitated as the boys around him rose to their feet. His mother nudged him up. His face was drawn and unhappy, his eyes dark with anger. He watched silently as the boys around him shouted in unison, “Tradition! Honor! Discipline! Excellence!”
Related Characters: Todd Anderson
Page Number and Citation: 3
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The audience rose to a standing ovation as the octogenarian haughtily shunned offers of help from those beside him and made his way to the podium with painstaking slowness. He mumbled a few words that the audience could barely make out, and, with that, the convocation came to an end.
Related Characters: Alexander Carmichael
As the other boys stared at him, Todd fought back tears.
“You'll like soccer here, Anderson. All right, boys. Dismissed.”
Related Characters: Headmaster Gale Nolan (speaker), Todd Anderson
He jumped dramatically onto his desk and turned to face the class. “O Captain! My Captain!” he recited energetically, then looked around the room.
Related Characters: John Keating (speaker)
Related Symbols: Standing on the Desk
Did most of them not wait until it was too late before making their lives into even one iota of what they were capable? In chasing the almighty deity of success, did they not squander their boyhood dreams? Most of those gentlemen are fertilizing daffodils now!
Keating grabbed onto his own throat and screamed horribly. “AHHHHGGGGG!!” he shouted. “Refuse! Garbage! Pus! Rip it out of your books. Go on, rip out the entire page! I want this rubbish in the trash where it belongs!”
He stood silent at the back of the room, then slowly walked to the front. All eyes were riveted on his impassioned face. Keating looked around the room. “What will your verse be?” he asked intently.
The teacher waited a long moment, then softly broke the mood. “Let's open our texts to page 60 and learn about Wordsworth's notion of romanticism.”
“Ah,” McAllister laughed, “free thinkers at seventeen!”
“I hardly pegged you as a cynic,” Keating said, sipping a cup of tea.
“Not a cynic, my boy,” McAllister said knowingly. “A realist! Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams, and I'll show you a happy man!”
Todd stood still for a long time. Keating walked to his side. “There is magic, Mr. Anderson. Don't you forget this.”
Neil started applauding. Others joined in. Todd took a deep breath and for the first time he smiled with an air of confidence.
Chapter 10 Quotes
“There is a place for daring and a place for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.” Keating said.
“But I thought …” Charlie stammered.
“Getting expelled from this school is not an act of wisdom or daring. It's far from perfect but there are still opportunities to be had here.”
Page Number and Citation: 110-111
“Talk to him, Neil,” Keating urged.
“Isn't there an easier way?” Neil begged.
“Not if you're going to stay true to yourself.”
“Damn it, even if the bastard didn't pull the trigger, he …” Todd’s sobs drowned his words until, finally, he controlled himself. “Even if Mr. Perry didn't shoot him,” Todd said calmly, “he killed him. They have to know that!”
“Cameron's a fink! He's in Nolan's office right now, finking!”
“About what?” Pitts asked.
“The club, Pitts. Think about it.” Pitts and the others looked bewildered. “They need a scapegoat,” Charlie said. “Schools go under because of things like this.”
As Nolan started down the aisle toward him, Knox, on the other side of the room, called out Mr. Keating's name and stood up on his desk too. Nolan turned toward Knox. Meeks mustered up his courage and stood up on his desk. Pitts did the same. One by one, and then in groups, others in the class followed their lead, standing on their desks in silent salute to Mr. Keating.
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She May Be a Bitch — But Is She a Bully?
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By Sophie Moura
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So who bullies more — men or women?
The breakdown is about even. But 70 percent of the time, women target other women, whereas men bully both men and women. And while men and boys who bully are more physical, women and girls use their social antennae; they're indirect and gossipy.
Are women just meaner to one another?
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Your book was inspired, in part, by a work experience of yours. What happened?
I was 29, had just graduated from law school, and found a job with three other recent graduates. Part of the week, I was working remotely, which my boss was totally OK with. But my coworkers started to resent the arrangement. We had to coordinate our summer vacation days with one another, and it blew up into a big fight. One woman complained that I was never there. For the next four months, they shunned me — no one talked to me unless they had to. It grew excruciating; I was constantly on pins and needles and dreaded work. The job was only a year long, so I could leave, but that experience stayed with me and was in the back of my mind as I wrote this book.
Does that qualify as bullying?
If you're ostracized in an environment that you can't escape, it's devastating. Workplaces and schools are captive environments. And if you're being victimized by a supervisor, she has authority over your vacation time, assignments, promotions, and salary.
How has the Internet changed the dynamics of bullying?
You can't go home and get away anymore. We're all connected all the time. One of the first cyber-bullying verdicts was in 2008 against Lori Drew, the Missouri mom who created a MySpace account in the name of a fictitious cute boy and used it to manipulate a 13-year-old girl who eventually committed suicide. It shows the power social media has over our lives. [That verdict was later thrown out by a judge.]
Is the term "bully" overused?
It is having a moment. The term can be constructive, like when Jennifer Livingston, a Wisconsin TV anchor, confronted a viewer last fall for calling her obese. But there's some crying wolf. People have figured out that if you claim bullying, you get all the sympathy. There's even been talk of passing laws to make it possible to claim damages for bullying, but inviting a new class of lawsuits isn't the answer. We have to allow for some abrasive behavior while emphasizing communication and empathy.
What should you do if you're being bullied?
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F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The network technology company reported $2.59 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.55 by $0.04. The network technology company earned $590.40 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $582.51 million. F5 Networks had a return on equity of 31.79% and a net margin of 19.07%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 4.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $2.90 EPS. View F5 Networks' Earnings History.
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Student leader rules out link-up with advocacy group Cage
October 7, 2015 - by admin
The president of the National Union of Students has emphatically ruled out working with the controversial advocacy group, Cage, which has opposed counter-terrorism legislation.
“I will not work with Cage, the NUS will not be working with Cage and there will be no NUS resources used to work with Cage,” said Megan Dunn.
The NUS had been criticised by David Cameron for “allying” with Cage.
Cage has argued counter-terror policy threatens “freedom of expression”.
The NUS president said she wanted to stop a “lack of clarity” over the relationship between the students’ union and the organisation.
Ms Dunn said the NUS was still strongly committed to opposing the government’s approach to tackling extremism on campus – but any campaign would have no connection with Cage.
Cage describes itself as “an independent organisation working to empower communities impacted by the War on Terror”.
It has criticised counter-extremism policy as creating “unprecedented levels of censorship and self-censorship of Muslim opinion”.
But Ms Dunn said she believed working with Cage would not be compatible with the NUS’s policies on “anti-racism, anti-fascism and how we define anti-semitism”.
Cage spokesman, Ibrahim Mohamoud, said: “We support the NUS’s opposition to Prevent, but we disagree strongly with Megan Dunn’s assertions about Cage.
“Islamophobia is the new racism and buying into this narrative is simply unacceptable,” said Mr Mohamoud.
Campus extremism
The NUS president was responding to criticism by Prime Minister David Cameron in a speech on tackling extremism.
“I want to say something to the National Union of Students. When you choose to ally yourselves with an organisation like Cage, which called Jihadi John a “beautiful young man” and told people to “support the jihad” in Iraq and Afghanistan, it really does, in my opinion, shame your organisation and your noble history of campaigning for justice,” said Mr Cameron.
Cage has said it “does not support terrorism in any form”.
The prime minister’s comments followed a motion passed by the NUS annual conference in April which had agreed to campaign against the government’s counter-extremism Prevent strategy alongside Cage.
However the NUS president is now making it clear this will not happen.
Ms Dunn accused the prime minister of “grandstanding” and wanting to stop the NUS raising legitimate concerns about the impact of counter-extremism policy in universities.
‘Counter-productive’
This term saw new legal duties put on universities to stop radicalisation on campus.
But student leaders argue that it will be counter-productive and make vulnerable students feel that they cannot talk to staff in confidence.
Ms Dunn says that universities are uncertain on what is meant by extremism and that free speech would be limited on campus.
A postgraduate student in Staffordshire University studying counter-terrorism received an apology from the university after concerns had been raised when he was seen reading a book called Terrorism Studies.
“The NUS is against terrorism, that’s never been in question,” said Ms Dunn.
“But government needs to look at the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act and see that there are consequences to this act that are hugely damaging – and they need to look at it again.
“The NUS and the education sector would be more than willing to engage in a conversation about keeping our campuses safe.”
The government’s Extremism Analysis Unit says that last year there were at least 70 events in universities where “hate speakers” had appeared.
And it says that a number of people who had committed terror-related offences or travelled to fight in Syria had studied at UK universities.
Universities Minister Jo Johnson wrote to the NUS in September, saying: “Universities represent an important arena for challenging extremist views.
“It is important there can be active challenge and debate on issues relating to counter terrorism and provisions for academic freedom are part of the Prevent guidance for universities and colleges.”
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#WhiskySanta is back for 2019 with a £250k haul of gifts!
Master of Malt’s multi-award-winning #WhiskySanta campaign is back for 2019, with an enormous £250,000-worth of whiskies, gins, rums and more to give away in the run-up to Christmas.
Master of Malt, the leading eCommerce platform for delicious drinks, is gearing up to give away more than £250,000-worth of Christmas gifts as its award-winning #WhiskySanta campaign returns for a sixth year.
#WhiskySanta is everyone’s favourite supernatural, omniscient, festive, heavily-bearded being. He takes over the Master of Malt social media feeds and website, granting wishes and surprising shoppers with free gifts, right up until Christmas Eve.
Drinks fans can ‘wish’ for anything from the Master of Malt site on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, using the #WhiskySanta hashtag. Each day, #WhiskySanta will cast his eye over the social media universe, making some of those wishes come true!
With almost 11,000 products in stock, from single malt whiskies to surprising gins, wonderful rums, delicious brandies and beyond, Master of Malt is the dream drinks shopping destination. To help booze fans with their wishing, #WhiskySanta has popped a useful ‘Wish’ button on every product page, which generates a pre-populated Twitter or Facebook post, making it even easier to take part.
For Instagram users, #WhiskySanta has curated a daily supercut of superb bottlings followers may enjoy. Followers on the platform can view the video, screenshot the bottle they want and post to their own feeds as a simple way to ‘wish’ for a tasty tipple that day!
When he’s not busy on his smartphone or granting wishes, #WhiskySanta will reside at the Master of Malt checkout, tucking everything from 30ml sample drams to full bottles, and gift vouchers worth up to £50 into orders. From time-to-time, he’ll even pick up the entire tab!
Weekly Super Wishes are also back for 2019. A Super Wish is an exceptionally rare, highly sought after or high-value treat, set to be granted to one incredibly lucky wisher. Announced every Monday in the run-up to Christmas, customers, fans and followers will have up until the following Friday to get their wishes in. Last year’s Super Wishes included a Lalique decanter of The Macallan M worth £3,300, and a bottle of Glenfarclas 1956 (cask 1767) Family Cask Spring 2015 Release worth £4,995!
In 2018 Master of Malt took #WhiskySanta with them on a distillery tour for a game of hide and seek – or Find #WhiskySanta. Captured on virtual reality video, customers fans and followers could look for #WhiskySanta, and when located, enter a competition to win a £250 Master of Malt voucher. It’s game on again for Christmas 2019, after the team briefly ‘lost’ #WhiskySanta at the English Whisky Company!
“We can’t wait to have #WhiskySanta back from his holidays ready to give away more delicious gifts for 2019 as he helps drinks fans gear up for a thoroughly jolly Christmas!” said Master of Malt campaign manager, Jake Mountain.
“With £250,000-worth of the finest spirits treats to gift our fantastic customers, fans and followers, in Master of Malt orders and across social, as well as the VR Find #WhiskySanta game, this year’s campaign is set to be more compelling than ever.”
He might have been jet setting on his holidays, but #WhiskySanta has had a stellar 2019 so far. He took home trophies for Best Use of Social Media – Retail and Best Social Media Campaign at the UK Social Media and Communications Awards, and eCommerce Social Campaign of the Year at the UK eCommerce Awards. These add to a bulging trophy cabinet that also includes Consumer Initiative of the Year at The Grocer Gold awards 2018 and gongs from The Drinks Business and Drinks International.
This year’s campaign builds on a stellar 2018, when #WhiskySanta exceeded all objectives.
Total Twitter timeline deliveries hit a whopping 98.2 million, compared to 68.9 million in 2017, while on Facebook, impressions increased by 192% over the 2017 #WhiskySanta campaign. Meanwhile, on Instagram the #WhiskySanta hashtag hit 11.5 million impressions, up from one million the previous year.
#WhiskySanta returns on 15 November, and will be granting wishes up until 24 December.
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Prescription Fish Oil Goes Beyond Preventing First CV Events
— New REDUCE-IT data point to secondary prevention benefit
by Nicole Lou, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today March 18, 2019
This article is a collaboration between MedPage Today and:
NEW ORLEANS -- A prescription-grade fish oil was able to prevent multiple cardiovascular events, not just first events, according to a secondary analysis of REDUCE-IT trial data.
Patients randomized to Amarin's icosapent ethyl (Vascepa) had significantly fewer total events over 4.9 years of follow-up relative to those assigned to placebo (RR 0.70, 95% CI 0.62-0.78), according to Deepak Bhatt, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, here at the American College of Cardiology's annual conference.
Broken down, that 30% event reduction was observed for the primary endpoint of combined cardiovascular death, non-fatal MI, non-fatal stroke, coronary revascularization, and hospitalization for unstable angina in:
First events: HR 0.75, 95% CI 0.68-0.83
Second events: HR 0.68, 95% CI 0.60-0.78
Third events: HR 0.69, 95% CI 0.59-0.82
Fourth and subsequent events: RR 0.52, 95% CI 0.38-0.70
Results were simultaneously published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
The REDUCE-IT investigators had previously reported that icosapent ethyl recipients experienced fewer first events (23.0% vs 28.3%, HR 0.75, 95% CI 0.68-0.83), which were the study's main prespecified endpoints.
Now, accounting for those who may have survived their first event but gone on to have subsequent ischemic events, the benefits of fish oil still held up. Total rates of first and subsequent events, including cardiovascular death, MI, and stroke, yielded another advantage to the icosapent ethyl group (RR 0.72, 95% CI 0.63-0.82).
"The implication is that this sort of analysis should be done in all trials that have MACE [major adverse cardiovascular event] outcomes," commented Eileen Handberg, PhD, ARNP-BC, at a press conference. She called REDUCE-IT a "paradigm shift for clinical trial reporting."
“Several approaches to recurrent event analyses have been tested. All have limitations, as complex assumptions are made in statistical modelling. One concern is overestimation of the treatment effect, and another is how best to manage the competing risk of death,” said Sanjay Kaul, MD, of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, who was not involved with the trial.
“The results of this analysis show that the benefits [of icosapent ethyl] are preserved, and to some degree amplified, when all events are accounted for, thereby capturing the totality of treatment benefit,” he told MedPage Today.
Participants in the double-blind study were 8,179 patients randomized to icosapent ethyl or placebo. These were adults with established cardiovascular disease (or diabetes with one cardiovascular disease risk factor), with elevated triglycerides and LDL cholesterol who were told to stay on statin therapy.
That patients were still on statins is what makes the 30% risk reduction striking, according to Michael Miller, MD, of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, who was on the steering committee for the trial. He cited risk reductions of 7% with statin plus ezetimibe and 15% with PCSK9 inhibition, as found in prior studies.
Icosapent ethyl is pure eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) with no docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).
"It's efficacious, and the results are unprecedented," Miller told MedPage Today (an an Amarin representative was present during the interview).
The fish oil and placebo arms in REDUCE-IT shared similar baseline characteristics and medications taken. There was some waning in study drug adherence over follow-up, albeit to the same extent between groups.
First events accounted for 55% of all events (n=2,909).
In the case where a patient had multiple events occur on the same day, Bhatt's group opted for a conservative statistical approach in which they counted only one cardiovascular event that day. This was done post hoc, with the prespecified full dataset showing "effect sizes at least as large, and more extreme p values," he emphasized.
Bhatt added that cost-effectiveness analyses for icosapent ethyl are now underway.
"The total event data from REDUCE-IT are impressive, clinically relevant, and extend what we know about targeting patients with elevated triglycerides. Exciting ongoing trials such as STRENGTH and PROMINENT will teach us about the consistency of triglyceride targeting as well as a great deal about mechanisms of effect," commented Paul Ridker, MD, also of Brigham and Women's Hospital, who was not involved with the trial.
STRENGTH is a trial comparing another fish oil preparation, combining EPA and DHA (Epanova), to statin therapy in patients with high triglycerides. Meanwhile, the question in PROMINENT is whether pemafibrate (Parmodia) can bring down event rates for those with high triglycerides and diabetes.
Vascepa, you may recall, was at the center of a dispute with the FDA over Amarin's marketing of the product. After a court battle, the agency agreed to allow Amarin to distribute "truthful, non-misleading information" about the product's event-prevention effects without getting a formal expansion of its approved indications. In exchange, Amarin promised to finish the REDUCE-IT trial and report its findings -- on which the firm has now delivered.
REDUCE-IT was sponsored by Amarin.
Bhatt disclosed relevant research funding from Amarin.
Ridker is Trial Chairperson of the ongoing PROMINENT trial funded by Kowa.
Source Reference: Bhatt DL, et al "Reduction in total ischemic events in the reduction of cardiovascular events with icosapent ethyl -- intervention trial" ACC 2019.
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What has Trump done so far as president? We scored his first 100 days.
By Will Drabold
This is Mic's daily read on Donald Trump's America. Can you believe we've been together with this president for 100 days already?! As always, thanks for reading.
The final week of President Donald Trump's first 100 days felt like a reprise of the previous 13 weeks of this presidency. Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resurfaced in the news amid allegations he broke federal law by accepting money from Russians. The president prepared to pull the U.S. out of NAFTA, only to withdraw that possibility as quickly as it came. Republicans pushed closer and closer to a vote on the American Health Care Act — only to back off late Thursday night. Trump signed another flurry of executive orders that sound important but don't actually do much.
The past seven days generated the typical burst of headlines. A majority of Americans remained unenthusiastic about Trump while his ardent supporters demonstrated unwavering support. Protesters marched for science last Saturday and they plan to march for climate change this Saturday. Democrats threatened to shut down the government over funding for Trump's border wall, a sticking point the president backed down on.
This is the constant chaos Trump has brought to America, a new normal of White House in-fighting and ambitious, controversial proposals that so frequently flop. Just as the "America First" ideology seems to be on its way out, for example, Trump considered destroying NAFTA — only to reverse his position hours later. Despite Republican control of Capitol Hill, Trump and Congress have failed to reach an accord on anything major, except for (probably) keeping the government open for another week.
Yet judging Trump depends on your point of view. His supporters are overjoyed with his push to cut government regulations, slash tax rates, gut the Affordable Care Act and much more. The president has ordered a review of nearly every corner of government in a hunt for regulations to slash. Many executive orders have yet to produce concrete results, but conservatives are hopeful the orders will result in widespread change.
That threat has so energized his opponents that grassroots movements have driven millions of people into the streets to protest his presidency. Even as the Democratic Party still struggles to find its identity, dozens of organizations have sprung up to put their spin on the burgeoning movement to "#resist."
Whether you want the president to succeed or fail narrows your ability to evaluate his work. Those who believe in Trump's "make America great again" vision will view the president's comment that "I thought it would be easier" with a grain of sympathy. Those who champion the "#NotMyPresident" approach see Trump's comment about "major, major conflict" with North Korea as a sign of warmongering.
We're trying a different approach. Below is our scorecard, a literal interpretation of the president's promises: Did Trump do what he said he was going to do?
Reply to this email with your thoughts on Trump's first 100 days. We'll share your responses on Monday.
The definitive scorecard to Trump's first 100 days
In late October, the president made 28 promises for his first 100 days. These were not the only promises the president made for his first 100 days, but they comprised the "contract with the American voter" Trump introduced immediately before the election. Here are Trump's promises, followed by where they stand:
• "Propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress." Not proposed by the president.
• "A hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety and public health)." Done, then rolled back this month.
• "A requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated." Done.
• "A five-year ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service." Done for White House officials, with loopholes.
• "A lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government." Done.
• "A complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections." Not done.
• "I will announce my intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205." Done.
• "I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership." Done.
• "I will direct my Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator." Not done — says he won't.
• "I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately." Done.
• "I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars' worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal." In process: Trump ordered a review of what regulations to cut.
• "Lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward." Done.
• "Cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America's water and environmental infrastructure." Not done.
• "Cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama." Done.
• "Begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia from one of the 20 judges on my list, who will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States." Done. Neil Gorsuch was confirmed to the Supreme Court.
• "Cancel all federal funding to Sanctuary Cities." Done, but blocked by federal judge.
• "Begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won't take them back." Done.
• "Suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered extreme vetting." Done, but blocked by federal courts — twice.
Overall, Trump is 14 for 18 on these actions and measures.
Trump also promised to introduce ten pieces of legislation in his first 100 days. He has introduced or announced three of them.
• Cut taxes for the middle class and businesses. Announced: Trump's tax plan cuts the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15%, but it's unclear how the plan will help the middle class.
• Establish tariffs on goods created by U.S. companies overseas and shipped back. Not done.
• Leverage public-private partnerships to spur $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. Not done.
• Let parents send their child to the school of their choice. Not done.
• Fully repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace with a conservative option. Introduced.
• Allow Americans to deduct child care and elder care from their taxes. Not done.
• Fully fund construction of a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Not done.
• Increase training and support for local police to fight violent and drug crimes. Not done.
• Increase funding for the military, reform the Veterans Administration. Announced.
• Enact new ethics reforms to "drain the swamp." Not done.
Trump is 0 for 10 on passage of those pieces of legislation, and 3 for 10 on introducing or announcing them.
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• OPINION: 100 days of Trump brings no regrets for supporters — and people of color are paying for it12 Trump tweets that have aged the worst in his first 100 days
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These are the 9 best 'America’s Got Talent' Golden Buzzer moments of all time
By Natelegé Whaley
When an America's Got Talent judge presses the Golden Buzzer for a performer, the contestant often breaks down in happy tears and gold confetti descends from above. The show introduced this element of surprise to the judging process in season nine. If one of the judges presses the Golden Buzzer during auditions, their decision overrides the panel's votes and the talent automatically gets a spot in the live shows round.
There is a catch: Each judge and the host can only use the Golden Buzzer once a season. This makes it a moment of distinction for talent on the show. Here is a look at nine of the best America's Got Talent Golden Buzzer moments.
1. Mandy Harvey
Simon Cowell was moved to press the golden buzzer for Mandy Harvey, a deaf singer in season 12's auditions. Before performing an original song, "Try," the young woman shared the inspirational story of how she re-learned to sing and play music after losing her hearing.
2. Dorothy Williams
On season 11, not everyone was impressed by Dorothy Williams' burlesque strip tease act. But Nick Cannon broke the rules and pressed the buzzer to give the 90-year-old a chance to prove that age is just a number, not a limitation, when it comes to living out dreams.
3. Craig Lewis Band
The Craig Lewis Band, made up of two Atlanta besties, received a standing ovation for their cover of Mary J. Blige's "I'm Going Down" in season 10. Guest judge Michael Bublé decided to give them the honor.
4. Freckled Sky
In season 10, Freckled Sky's performance told a emotional story through a mix of modern dance and cool lighting technology. Before pressing the Golden Buzzer, Howard Stern praised the dancers and the producer behind the act for their gifts.
5. Light Balance
Host Tyra Banks couldn't contain herself after watching Light Balance's audition during this current season, and ran over to the judges' panel to press the buzzer. The dancers wore special lights which blinked on and off as they executed their movements.
6. Sofie Dossi
During the judge cuts in season 11, Sofie Dossi showed off many breathtaking tricks, including the moment when she brought her leg over her head and used her foot and hand to hit a target with a fire-lit arrow. This turned guest judge Reba McEntire into a believer who pressed the Golden Buzzer.
7. Christian Guardino
During this season, 16-year-old crooner Christian Guardino blew the audience away with his soulful rendition of the Jackson 5's "Who's Loving You." Guardino made a big impression on Howie Mandel, who gave the teen the Golden Buzzer acclaim.
8. Grace VanderWaal
In 2016, Howie Mandel believed Grace VanderWaal showed promise of being an amazing songwriter after her performance of her song about self-acceptance, "I Don't Know My Name." With her ukulele, the pre-teen sealed the deal and Mandel sent her further in the competition with the Golden Buzzer.
9. Darci Lynne
This season, ventriloquist Darci Lynne and her singing puppet performed a charming cover of "Summertime," a jazz standard composed by George Gershwin and written by DuBose Heyward. Darci's talent made Mel B's "heart melt," leading the judge to hit the Golden Buzzer.
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Diamond Jubilee Wood
Carnfunnock Country Park
Carrickfergus Mill Ponds
Ecos Centre Nature Park
Oakfield Glen and Bashfordsland Wood
The People’s Park
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Countryside Access
Love Parks Week
The Mid and East Antrim Flower Show
Mid and East Antrim In Bloom
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Missing Names Project
Beach Bonanza
Mid-Antrim Museum and The Braid Arts Centre
Carrickfergus Museum
Larne Museum and Arts Centre
Andrew Jackson Cottage and US Rangers Museum
The Coastline and Beaches in Mid and East Antrim Borough
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Ballygally Beach
Carnlough Beach
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The Gobbins
This 60 acre native woodland site was developed by the Council and the Woodland Trust in a partnership projected to commemorate the 2012 Diamond Jubilee, marking Queen Elizabeth’s 60th year as a monarch. Whitehead Diamond Jubilee Wood is one of 60 Diamond Jubilee Woods throughout the UK and the only on in Northern Ireland.
The site is a haven for wildlife largely due to the variety of habitats. In addition to woodland a walk around the 2km circular route will enable you to experience a wildlife pond, wildflower areas, native hedgerows as well as picnic/BBQ areas, gym equipment and range of sculptures.
Friends of Whitehead Diamond Jubilee Wood
The woodland includes an orchard planted and maintained by the Friends of Whitehead Diamond Jubilee Wood. This is a group of local volunteers who dedicate their time and energy to care for and improve this beautiful site. To find out more about this or other Friends of Groups in the area get in touch!
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Opening Hours, Facilities and Location
Diamond Jubilee Wood is open 24 hours a day.
There are picnic and barbequing facilities in Diamond Jubilee Wood, as well as outdoor gym facilities which are all free to use.
A site map of the Wood is available for download.
From 1915 to 1917, the site was home to the first military aviation facility in Ireland - one that played an important role in the First World War. Royal Naval Air Service airships based at Bentra patrolled the waters between Ireland and Scotland, combating the German U-Boat menace.
The airships operated from an airship station at Bentra, which had an airship shed comprising a steel frame covered by canvas and measuring 150 feet long by 45 feet wide and 50 feet high. Wooden huts provided accommodation for the pilots and engineers. At least four airships operated from the station at Bentra - SSZ11, SSZ12, SS20 and SS23. Various types of aircraft also landed at the station and it became known as Whitehead Aerodrome. Affectionately named "battlebags" by their crews and "blimps" by civilians, Royal Naval Air Service airships were a familiar sight around Britain's shores during the war years 1914 - 1918. At least 226 airships were built and operated by the Royal Navy during the First World War in a bid to beat the deadly German U-boats.
Action in the Air
The primary task for the airships stationed at the Bentra Aerodrome was to protect the Princess Maud cross channel ferry and guard incoming convoys in the North Channel from German submarines. When the prevailing wind permitted, the crew would scout from the air, looking for submarines on the surface or the wake of a periscope. Success depended on close cooperation between the naval airmen and the warships operating from Larne harbour.
Images courtesy of PJ O'Donnell
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Miller Funeral Homes
Send Flowers for Donald
Donald L Heidt
June 11, 1937 ~ June 22, 2019 (age 82)
Donald "Herbie" L. Heidt, of rural St. Marys Twp., OH died 9:00 p.m. Saturday June 22, 2019 at his residence.
He was born June 11, 1937 on a farm west of New Knoxville, OH to Henry and Lydia (Schrolucke) Heidt.
On October 11, 1958 in Wapakoneta, OH he married Carol J. Rohrbaugh, who survives.
Also survived by: daughter Karen (Kirk) Smith of Toledo, OH
son Douglas (Kim Koenig) Heidt of New Knoxville, OH
4 grandchildren: Brandon (Colleen) Smith of Toledo, OH; Tiana (Robert Fisher) Heidt of New Knoxville, OH; Mitchel Heidt of New Knoxville, OH; Brett Smith of Toledo, OH
sister-in-law Virginia Heidt of Lima, OH
brother-in-law Donald (Mary) Rohrbaugh of Wapakoneta, OH
Preceded in death by: parents Henry and Lydia Heidt; brother Kermit Heidt DVM; sister Grace (Earl) Klopfenstein; brother Melvin (Dorothy) Heidt; infant sister Marian Heidt
He was a graduate of New Knoxville High School (Class of 1955).
A life-long farmer, he also retired from Moulton Gas Co., where he worked as an installer.
He was a member of First Church of New Knoxville, where he had served as an elder, deacon and trustee. He also served on the Producers' Livestock Board for many years, and was a co-founder of the Western Ohio Feeder Pig Sales.
As a proud grandfather, he enjoyed being involved in the lives of his grandchildren as he attended sporting events and the Auglaize Co. Fair when they showed their livestock projects.
Most afternoons, he could be found filling a seat at the daily roundtable discussion held at the Main Street Station in New Knoxville.
Funeral Rites are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday June 26, 2019 at First Church of New Knoxville, with the Rev. Joel Bucklin, officiating.
Burial will follow at the Pilger Ruhe Cemetery in New Knoxville.
Visitation 4 - 8 p.m. Tuesday and one hour prior to services on Wednesday at the church.
Memorial contributions may be directed to either First Church heating fund or Grand Lake Hospice.
Condolences may be expressed to his family via: www.millerfuneralhomes.net
Arrangements are entrusted to the Vornholt-Miller Funeral Home in New Knoxville.
To send flowers to Donald's family, please visit our floral section.
First Church of New Knoxville
105 North Saint Marys Street
New Knoxville, OH 45871
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What your sleeping position says about you
By MiNDFOOD | September 27, 2017
Those who have a university degree are most likely to sleep on their left sides, while those who take to the bed on the opposite side each night are probably smokers.
According to a UK bed manufacturer poll of 5000 sleepers, the position you sleep in reveals plenty about your age, job, hobbies and how rested you will be.
Heavy drinkers are regarded as ‘stomach slumpers’, while those who drift off lying on their front and those who adopt the star fish position spread out on their back wake up feeling the most refreshed.
Laying on the left or right side promotes a clear, unobstructed airway and helps the body reach a deep REM sleep, repairing the body overnight.
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The Power of Accountability: Driving Ownership in Your Child Care Center
Cindy Maher and Katy Kessler
Most childcare directors and managers want teachers and employees to act like owners. But what does that really mean? What they’re looking for is a shift in culture – where people don’t pass the buck or drop the ball. They’re looking for employees, at all levels, to own mistakes and not blame others or make excuses. Accountability means having a sense of ownership of processes and problems that cut across classrooms AND the willingness to face consequences that come with success or failure. People are usually willing to own success; they’re less willing to own mistakes or unmet goals. With a unique and engaging blend of improvisational comedy, cutting edge research, and audience interaction, this learning session will build your awareness around how much ownership is really taken on your team – and what you may be doing that gets in the way of the accountability you want.
10:45a - 12:00p
Representors from DHA including Licensing, Background Studies, Child Care Assistance as well as Child Development Services will be attending the session. This group will give updated information from all areas. They will be able to answer questions about changes and updates.
12:00 - 1:00p
Lunch, Door Prizes in the Upper Level Concourse, Exhibit Hall Viewing
1:15 - 2:15p
Breakout Sessions:
Minnesota Legislation and How It Affects Your Center
Chad Dunkley, New Horizon Academy; Clare Sanford, New Horizon Academy; Jess Myers, Ewald Consulting
This workshop will give updates on legislation that has affected or will affect child care center programs in
Minnesota.
Accessing Systems to Support the Early Childhood Workforce -
Kylie Cooper, Grace Kintzinger, Matt Evans
Learn about the supports and Opportunities at Child Care Aware of Minnesota and explore various system supports to invest in and retain quality staff including professional development, trainers, leaders, and higher education.
Play, Passion, and Professionalism…Where Are You?
Dawn Braa
Play, passion, and professionalism are all critical elements in the field of early childhood. Unfortunately, when put through the daily grind of early care and education, these elements can get pushed aside. It’s time to reclaim your passion and get serious about play! Learn. Love. Lead. Be the best version of YOU!
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ME and WE: The Role of Goals, Intrinsic Motivation, and Teamwork in Building Sustainable Excellence
Dr. John Tauer
How do we get people to work together towards a common goal? How can we build teams that are cohesive and
enjoyable? How can we achieve success while enjoying our work and our co-workers (teammates)? Research on intrinsic motivation and team building, combined with anecdotes from Dr. John Tauer, head coach of the 2016 National Championship University of St. Thomas Men’s Basketball team, weave a fascinating story of how motivation at the individual and group level can be understood to maximize performance and enjoyment.
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NAMM 2012: Zynaptiq Pitchmap offers real-time polyphonic pitch correction
By Ben Rogerson 2012-01-18T16:21:00.17Z
Zynaptiq Pitchmap promises to work pitch-based wonders.
NAMM 2011: Seemingly designed as a rival to Celemony's Melodyne Editor, Zynaptiq's new pitch Pitchmap plug-in promises real-time pitch correction and pitch mapping within mixed/polyphonic audio material.
Pitchmap is said to be capable of 'de-mixing' an incoming signal into individual elements so that they can be processed separately. The pitch correction features are pretty self-explanatory; pitch mapping refers to the way in which you can change harmonies and melodies.
You can find out more in the press release below, and there's a quick example of Pitchmap in action in the video above. It's scheduled for release on 19 January priced at €269, though the price will rise to €399 on 1 April. A demo will be available, too.
Zynaptiq Pitchmap press release
We're proud to announce the imminent release of Pitchmap, the world's first and only audio plug-in capable of polyphonic pitch-correction and pitch-mapping in real-time.
Pitchmap allows real-time correction of pitch inaccuracies within mixed signals, as well as completely altering the tonality, chords, harmonies or melodies of a musical signal on- the-fly, a process we call Pitch Mapping.
Pitchmap does this using our proprietary, artificial intelligence based MAP technology (Mixed-Signal Audio Processing) to de-mix an incoming signal - like, for example, a full mix - into individual elements, and then allows the user to arbitrarily or automatically correct and modify their pitches. Additionally, Pitchmap provides means to deliberately induce processing "errors" to make results sound synthetic in a very futuristic and unique way.
"Our DSP Developer Stephan M. Bernsee has come up with what we believe to be a real game-changer." Zynaptiq CEO Denis H. Goekdag said. "Pitchmap lets you reach into a recording and change the pitch-related aspects of the composition on-the-fly. You can change an entire song from minor to major with just a couple of clicks, simultaneously correcting any tuning issues and changing the key. While there are other pitch processing solutions available, Pitchmap combines polyphonic capability, a real-time workflow and an exceptional processing quality based on techniques that model the human auditory system, thus opening up a whole new level of creativity."
Zynaptiq GmbH, based in Hannover, Germany, creates audio software based on artificial intelligence technology, and was founded in 2011 by Stephan M. Bernsee and Denis H. Goekdag, known for their involvement with Prosoniq, Hartmann Music, Surround SFX and the DSP Dimension, amongst others.
Pitchmap provides all of the following functionality in real-time:
Automatic correction of pitch inaccuracies in polyphonic/mixed signals
Pitch Mapping via GUI-created source/destination maps or real-time MIDI-input
Macro controls for near-instant creation of harmony- and key-changes
Snapshot functionality for fast workflow and easy automation
Perceptive modeling based Natural mode for voice-adapted processing
Continuously variable Electrify parameter for making results sound synthetic in an exciting and unique way
Pitchmap as well as a free trial will be available from our website January 19th, 2012.
Pitchmap will initially be released as Mac AU (AudioUnits) Plug-In, with VST and AAX support for both Mac and Windows platforms planned for later in 2012.
Pitchmap is priced at USD/EUR 399,- and a limited-time introductory price of USD/EUR 269,- is available until April 1st, 2012 (prices inclusive of VAT or sales tax if applicable).
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Explore for a day Outer Hebrides leaflet
Explore for a day
Your access rights
Get active outdoors
Routes to explore
SNH in your area
SNH nature reserves
Find a country park
Discover your Local Nature Reserve
Explore a regional park
Discover our National Parks
Communities and landscape
Volunteer in the outdoors
Visit a geopark
Heart of Argyll
Ayrshire and Arran
Caithness and Sutherland
Easter Ross
Stirling and The Trossachs
An island chain off the west coast of Scotland, the Outer Hebrides is almost unrivalled for its untamed natural beauty. Explore the exquisite cultural and natural heritage of these islands by following one of the itineraries in this leaflet.
Fly to Barra from Glasgow over its turquoise seas and land right on the beach. Discover a traditional crofting township and visit the final resting place of Compton MacKenzie, author of the famous Whisky Galore.
For incredible archaeological landmarks, there’s no better place than Lewis. Here, find the 4,500-year-old Calanais Stones, an awe-inspiring site of towering standing stones. And just along the coast is a remarkably well-preserved Iron Age broch, Dun Carloway, from which there are fantastic views over Loch Roag.
Home to both golden and sea eagles, Harris boasts wildly contrasting landscapes. See one of the first lighthouses to be built in Scotland and, for the best view across the island, head to the MacLeod Stone, a Neolithic standing stone over 3 metres high.
From Harris, catch a ferry across to the St Kilda archipelago, perched on the edge of the world. Finally abandoned in the 1930s, these islands tell the fascinating story of human survival over 2,000 years.
Publication 2015 - Explore for a day Outer Hebrides
Discover paths and trails suited to walking, cycling and horse riding. Stay close to home or take to our hills and glens on 6,000 miles of paths – and counting.
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Omega-3 supplements: are you getting enough?
People who don't get enough omega-3 in their diets are also more prone to depression and may find it harder to concentrate....
By Thea Jourdan
Omega-3 fats, found mainly in marine oils, are essential for human health.
Dozens of scientific papers have linked omega-3 fats in the diet, known as called docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) to healthy brain development and heart health.
Research has also shown that long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, which cannot be made by the body, reduce build-up of plaque in the arteries and lower blood pressure, as well as reducing inflammation.
People who don't get enough omega-3 in their diets are also more prone to depression and may find it harder to concentrate. For lots of reasons, including expense and the fact that many people don't like to eat oily fish, most people in the West don't get sufficient amounts of omega-3 in their diets.
A shorter chain omega-3 known as alpha linolenic acid (ALA) can be obtained from vegetable sources, but humans can only convert a tiny amount into useable DHA.
The European Recommended Daily Allowance of EPA/DHA is 250mg, but few people get anywhere close to that amount. Typically, people in the UK get around 150mg a day.
Not surprisingly, the global market for omega-3 supplements is huge – worth an estimated £30bn per year and growing.
Most popular of all are fish oil capsules, made mainly from oil harvested from the South American anchovy and the humble sardine.
'These supplements are from a sustainable source and are highly effective,' says Dr Alex Richardson - an experienced omega-3 researcher from Oxford University, UK.
Omega-3 is carried on triglycerides that need to be converted in the body into a more useable form, but plenty of the long chain fatty acids can move through the cell walls to bring their health benefits.
'The crucial thing is to check how much EPA/DHA a given supplement actually provides – and ideally, to get your blood levels checked.'
If you want to pop a supplement pill of omega-3 that is carried on phospholipids (this is are more bioavailable), there are a growing number of sustainable alternatives to fish oil capsules, including herring caviar (or roe) which is stripped from herring during the packing process and sold in the UK as MOPL (marine omega-3 phospholipids).
MOPL is a very rich source of DHA, which is critical for brain health. There are also marine omega-3 oil supplements, which are derived from green-lipped mussels grown and harvested in the aquaculture farms of New Zealand.
Furthermore, algae-derived DHA/EPA omega-3 supplements exist already, which don't need to remove any fish stocks from the oceans at all.
'It's cutting out the middle man. Fish get the DHA/EPA direct from algae in the sea,' says Dr Richardson
'This way, we can do the same by growing algae in tanks without relying on an unsustainable resource. This technique is eminently scalable, and it's available right now.'
Further down the line, genetically modified (GM) crops could also offer a solution to the sustainability issue regarding long-chain omega-3 in the future.
The Crop Research Institute in the UK has already successfully created a GM crop of camelina (false flax),which produces marine DHA thanks to the insertion of a fish gene.
Krill - the best source of omega-3?
The pink shrimp-like kritter that munches algae off glacial ice in the Southern Ocean has been earmarked as the next major source of omega-3 supplements.
Relatively cheap to harvest, it contains omega-3 and a range of other nutrients and vitamins. Unfortunately, it is also a rich food source for many pelagic species, including whales.
Krill is considered one of the very best sources for omega-3 because it is supposedly less contaminated than fish oil, and is more readily utilised by the body because the omega-3 is in the form of phospholipids rather than triglycerides.
The phospholipid-bound omega-3s from krill are slightly more easily absorbed and incorporated into cells of the body.
Environmentalists who care about Antarctica are already concerned. The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, an umbrella organisation representing NGOs including the World Wildlife Fund, Pew Charitable Trusts and Greenpeace among others, believes that the current management of the fishery is insufficient to prevent serious harm to the many animals dependent on krill for food.
They worry that this new predicted boom in krill oil could be enough to cause a catastrophic decline in krill numbers. Many species of whales depend entirely on krill, but krill species are important throughout the entire oceanic eco-system.
In addition, the science promoting krill as an 'ideal' form of omega-3 is yet to be confirmed.
Despite the hype, the concentration of omega-3 fatty acids in krill oil is usually much less than in fish oil products. Krill does contain a range of other nutrients which can have benefits, like vitamin A, vitamin E and antioxidants including the powerful carotenoid, astaxanthin, but these can be gained from other non-marine sources.
Studies show that blood concentrations of EPA/DHA are generally similarly boosted whether people take supplements of fish oil or krill and benefits are the same.
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What does it mean to be “missionary”?
As missionary women, we are sent wherever there is a need, either in our own country or in foreign nations. We are sent to serve in established missions or to newly emerging ministries. We term this openness, “disponabilita’” or “availability”.
As missionaries, we are called to flexibility and adaptability whether in institutional or non-institutional settings. Our religious communities are equally diverse, bringing together sisters of different backgrounds, cultures and ministries.
To hear a Missionary Sister explain what a missionary charism is, click here.
Para oir a las Hermanas Misionera explicar cual es el carisma de las Hermanas Misioneras, oprima aqui.
What does it mean to be a Missionary Sister?
As Missionary Sisters (MSCs), we are committed to a life-long journey of discernment and conversion in order to hear God’s word and carry out his plan for us in mission and ministry. We seek to grow and mature in relationship with God, with ourselves and with others throughout our lives. We try to be women of generosity, honesty, integrity, peace and justice.
We try to be friends to immigrants, educators of the heart, advocates of women and children and defenders of those who are most underserved.
To hear a Missionary Sister discuss what it means to be an MSC, click here.
Para oir a las Hermanas Misionera explicar que significa ser Misionera, oprima aqui.
What are the ways in which the MSCs minister to others?
We MSCs minister in schools, universities, hospitals, clinics, parishes, retreat centers, social agencies, outreach to immigrants, elders, AIDS victims, women and children.
We are spiritual directors, teachers, nurses, and counselors.
We minister in both institutional and non-institutional ministries. In all of our ministries, we value our collaboration and partnership with our lay collaborators and volunteers who share our spirit and mission.
Who would be attracted to our way of life?
A woman who has a personal relationship with God and a strong desire to follow Jesus is someone who would be attracted to life as a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Someone who is relational, generous, down to earth, practical, willing to grow and learn, to mature in her faith and spirituality; someone who is open to new experiences, new cultures, new regions, new ministries would be a good fit with the MSCs.
We are looking for women who are open to discerning God’s will in their lives. We do not ask that women possess these characteristics already, but, rather that they are willing to work on developing them over time.
What type of educational expectations do you have for candidates?
Our expectation would be that the applicant be open to life long study and learning, as demonstrated both by formal and informal education. Applicants are normally expected to have completed professional or college studies.
What steps would I need to take to become a sister?
If you feel drawn to religious life, you may first want to initiate contact with us. Inquiry and application processes are very individual procedures.
Generally, they contain the following elements:
Contact the MSC Vocation Promotion Office at mscvocations@mothercabrini.org / 610-902-1039 for an initial exchange of communication
Meet with the Vocation Director
Participate in a program of vocational discernment
Become acquainted with the sisters and their ministries
To hear a Missionary Sister explain discerning a religious life click here.
Para oir a las Hermanas Misioneras explicar si una vida religiosa es para todas, oprima aqui.
What does the application process consist of?
Making application to the Missionary Sisters is a mutual process. The length of the process is approximately three to six months and includes the following steps:
Completion of application forms
Baptismal, Confirmation certificates and any certificate pertinent to your legal status in the USA
Three letters of recommendation
On-going meetings with the Vocation Director
Attendance at MSC prayer meetings and assemblies
Live-in experiences at MSC communities
A visit of the Vocation Director to your family
To hear a Missionary Sister explain the process of becoming a sister click here.
Para oir a las Hermanas Misioneras explicar el proceso en para ser una Hermana, oprime aqui.
How will you help me through this process?
We encourage all who are interested in religious life to discern God’s call. Discernment is a model of Christian decision making developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola. This process invites us to use our ability to think, imagine and feel. This is how God speaks to us.
In discernment, we prayerfully reflect on our thoughts feelings and imagination to discern what is coming from God and what is coming from our own self-interest. This frees us to see and carry our God’s personal will for us in our lives and our mission.
How will you help me as I am discerning?
Once you indicate a desire to pursue a religious vocation with our congregation, a Missionary Sisters will journey with you.
Typically, this could happen through:
FaceTime or Skype conversations
Personal visits
Come and See opportunities
Once accepted as a candidate, what should I expect during the formation process?
The guidelines for the various stages of the MSC formation process are set forth in Journey of Fidelity, the International MSC Formation Ratio which is followed in all provinces throughout the Institute.
Each woman in the process is treated as an individual in light of the essential formative criteria during the various phases of her journey.
To learn more about the formation process click here:
What are the phases of formation?
An introductory phase
in which the woman is accompanied personally in her spiritual and psychological growth, has experience in community and in mission and discerns with her formation director readiness to proceed in the formative MSC process.
A pre-novitiate phase
in which, through personal accompaniment, study, experience, community living and mission, the person seeks to grow humanly, spiritually, and apostolically.
To listen to a Missionary Sister speak about developing a life of prayer click here.
Para oir a las Hermanas Misioneras hablar sobre desarrollar una vida de oracion, oprima aqui.
A canonical novitiate of two years
alternating times of being in the novitiate with a formal program of study and experience of MSC spirituality and life, with varied experiences of mission immersion. At the end of the novitiate, after an appropriate discernment, the sister pronounces her first vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
A period of temporary vows
in which the sisters seeks to grow and mature more fully in her Cabrinian Missionary Identity while serving in ministry, continuing her studies or other mission related experiences. In collaboration with her provincial and formation personnel she will discern her readiness for perpetual profession in the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
To learn more about the phases of formation, click here.
What kinds of experiences would I have as a Missionary Sister?
Our ministries are very diverse. Depending upon your educational background and training, you can work in healthcare, eldercare, education, social services, parish ministry, spiritual direction and retreat work.
We have a particular commitment to serving women, children, frail elders and immigrants.
To hear a Missionary Sister describe daily life as an MSC click here.
Para oir a las Hermanas Misioneras describir un dia tipico en la vida de una Hermana Misionera, oprima aqui.
Para oir a las Hermanas Misioneras hablar sobre la internacionalidad de la congrecion, oprima aqui.
Are there symbols of membership as a MSC?
Yes, the Missionary Sisters wear a silver cross that bears the motto “Heart burning with love for us”, We also wear a gold crucifix ring.
To hear a Missionary Sister speak about the sacred symbols of the congregation, click here.
Para oir a las Hermanas Misioneras hablar sobre los symbolos de la congrecion, oprima aqui.
Would I wear a habit as an MSC?
When the MSCs were founded in Italy in 1880, we dressed in the manner of the day, much like widows of that period.
Much later, in the mid 1960s, a Vatican II document on religious life mandated that religious communities of women return to the spirit of their foundress. In the spirit of Francesca Cabrini, our foundress, that meant we were not to be separated from the neighbor we served. Therefore, those of us in the United States dress simply in today’s styles, but we are always recognizable as religious.
Many of us wear simple outfits of grey and white. Some of us choose to wear a veil. Others, do not.
To hear a Missionary Sister speak about the habit, click here.
Para oir a las Hermanas Misioneras hablar sobre un habito, oprima aqui.
Where would I live as an MSC?
Some MSCs live in apartments, others in houses or larger convent settings. This is largely dependent upon a sister’s field of work. It is important for MSCs to live in community from which we draw our strength and support for the work we do.
Do you have to be a Catholic to become a sister?
Yes, to be a vowed member, a woman must be a baptized and practicing Catholic.
Do I have to be a virgin to become a sister?
No, one need not be a virgin to become a sister. Women in our community are expected to have the capacity and willingness to live a chaste, celibate life.
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Pseudo-Adventure in a Supersport Package
If you find sport bikes uncomfortable but still want the thrill of speed and acceleration, this just might be the bike for you
Story by Costa Mouzouris
KTM’s latest 1290 Super Adventure S is fittingly named, since it’s the adventure bike equivalent of a supersport machine. A quick look at the spec sheet reveals that its 1,301 cc liquid-cooled, 75-degree V-twin pumps out 160 hp. That’s two ponies more than Ducati’s powerful Multistrada S, but more importantly, the Super Adventure S produces 8 ft-lb more torque than its Italian rival, at 103. That’s huge torque on a bike that claims a dry weight of just 222 kg.
But supersport machines are temperamental, highly focused machines that sacrifice comfort and utility on the road in their relentless pursuit of track-day lap times. The S tagged onto the Super Adventure’s name signifies that it’s the road-oriented version of the Super Adventure R, which is also focused, and designed for serious off-roading. All of this points to a bike that should be a beast to handle, but the Super Adventure S is aimed at riders who desire a sporty ride, want to pile on the mileage in comfort, and plan on taking only occasional forays onto gravel roads and moderately challenging trails. KTM held a press launch for the 1290 Super Adventure S in Southern California, where we discovered that this superbike in adventure-bike clothing is actually a splendid overall performer.
Semi-active Suspension
The immediate visual cues differentiating the Super Adventure S from the R are the former’s wheels. And while the R rolls on trail-ready 21- and 18-inch front and rear spoked wheels, the S makes do with 19- and 17-inch cast wheels, onto which are mounted Pirelli Scorpion Trail II radials. It’s also equipped with WP-sourced, semi-active and electronically adjustable suspension that has 20 mm less travel than the R’s manually adjustable suspension. You can adjust the suspension for damping and preload via a directional keypad on the left handlebar switch assembly while using the 6.5-inch TFT colour screen to choose your settings. Suspension damping can be adjusted while riding, but preload (four load-based settings) must be adjusted with the engine running and the bike propped up on the centre stand to unload the spring.
Regardless of which setting you choose – Street, Sport, Comfort or Off Road – because the suspension is semi-active, it uses sensors and a computer to tell it what’s happening at the wheels, and it makes continuous finer adjustments depending on the surface condition. In practice, the suspension works remarkably well, soaking up bumps seamlessly and gliding over rough roads with no harshness. Switching to Sport mode firms it up enough to maintain an aggressive pace through twisty sections of road without wallowing through sweepers, while keeping the bike composed through tight turning transitions. The only noticeable adventure-bike trait the Super Adventure exhibits is the tall arc you make as you swing from side to side when manoeuvring through successive turning transitions. Despite its height, brake dive is modest, unless you’re charging and braking hard going into turns.
As mentioned earlier, the engine is very powerful, but to make things more manageable, KTM has included a comprehensive electronics package including adjustable lean-sensing traction control and combined braking with ABS. Traction control and ABS can be tailored to cope with different riding environments via the different ride modes, which include Street, Sport, Rain and Off Road.
KTM also offers the My Ride app, which you can download onto your smartphone for $12.95. I think it should be offered at no cost, but it does add a lot of functionality and convenience, including turn-by-turn navigation that you can see on the screen, and hear in your helmet headset when connected to the bike via Bluetooth. If you prefer looking at a map while being guided by the navigation system, though, you’ll have to mount your phone to the handlebar, since the bike’s screen is not configured to display a map. With Bluetooth connectivity, you can also listen to music or accept calls. If you’re worried about your smartphone’s battery life when using it for navigation or other functions, fret not: the Super Adventure has a waterproof phone case that includes a USB port for charging your device. Although this case seems to be tacked on like an afterthought (mounted inside the right-hand side of the fairing), and accessing it is somewhat tight, it is a very convenient addition. There’s enough room in the case for my iPhone 5s and its charging cable, but there didn’t seem to be much more room available for larger phones. There is also a 12-volt accessory outlet mounted conveniently on top of the central fairing bracket, just below the instrument panel.
A Lot of Amenities
Cruise control and self-cancelling turn signals are standard, but curiously, a heated seat and heated grips are optional. KTM should follow BMW’s lead in this respect and at least make heated grips standard on all its big adventure bikes. The windscreen is height-adjustable, and it can be raised or lowered easily while riding by turning either of the knobs mounted to the side of the screen. It offers good wind protection for the torso and shoulders, though it produces some buffeting at…
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Destiny 2’s Season Of Dawn, Features Time Travel And The Return Of A Legendary Guardian
Jason Winter
Bungie has pulled back the curtain on the next season of Destiny 2, the Season of Dawn, which begins on Dec. 10 and runs until March 9. It focuses on Osiris and a new war throughout time that sees the Red Legion attempting to change the course of history. Along the way, you’ll meet a legendary Titan and score an exotic scout rifle.
Your tasks for this season include journeying back in time and defend Osiris’ Sundial from the Cabal in a six-player activity, while aiding Saint-14, who calls himself “the greatest Titan who ever lived.” You’ll also be helping Osiris “fix the timeline by restoring Obelisks on four destinations.” Time travel, man … it never goes as planned.
For your efforts, you’ll be rewarded with Timelost weapon frames you can convert into weapons. Other rewards for the season include the usual seasonal armor sets and an exotic weapon — in this case, the scout rifle Symmetry. Some rewards will require a purchase of the Season Pass or will allow you to earn them quicker with that purchase. There are also the usual slate of seasonal triumphs, bounties, finishers, and other cosmetic perks.
Check out the Season of Dawn page on the Destiny 2 website to get all the information on what’s included in the next season and its accompanying pass.
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Getting There… To Woodstock
Dan Cole was the lead singer for the Boston-based band Quill
It has been said that it is not the destination that is most important, it’s the journey along the way. And sometimes it’s the journey after, too.
Like many bands in early ’69, we were aware of the rumors going around about the possibility of a massive festival being put together to take place sometime in the summer somewhere in upstate New York. The names being mentioned as potential acts for the festival were mostly big-name, established recording stars, although through the cracks one heard the names of some lesser-known regional acts being bandied about. We had no notion that we could be one of those bands. But our manager Ray Paret, being an ambitious and persistent sort, contacted the festival in June to see if they would be willing to give us a shot. We couldn’t believe it when he told us that Michael Lang, the lead promoter of the festival, had agreed to listen to us play in NYC at Steve Paul’s Scene, one of the hippest live music nightspots in the city.
On the big day, we got on a plane in the mid-morning to fly from Boston to Cincinnati to do a TV show, Scene ’70, that had been previously booked. The plan was to do the TV show, which would be filmed (sorry, no portable video yet) at the Cincinnati Zoo in the early afternoon to be aired later that night. We would catch a plane to NYC, getting there in the early evening. Our roadie Berred Oulette was to pack our equipment into our truck in Boston, drive down to the city and set it up at Steve Paul’s, so that when we arrived we could play almost immediately. And it all worked to plan… except for one thing.
As we flew out of Cincinnati, we hit a huge lightning storm. Not only was it scary, but after an hour or so of circling around, waiting for the storm to subside, the pilot announced we would be diverted and landing in Philly. Oh no… It couldn’t be. We were freaked!
When we got off the plane, Ray immediately ran off to the taxi area and corralled one of those large cabs with jump seats and then called ahead at a pay phone to let Michael know we would be really late, but not to leave. This was before cell phones, even before airplane phones. The six of us, the band and Ray, squeezed into the cab, and it was a real squeeze, with three in the back, two in the jump seats and one upfront with the driver, who had made sure Ray had enough money when he was informed that we were going to NYC, 150 miles away.
I don’t know what we were worried about. NYC nightlife doesn’t even start until 10, which is about when we arrived. Berred had set up our kit and after a brief period to gather ourselves, we played our set. It went by in a blur, but the upshot was that Michael liked us enough to invite us to play at the festival. We thought we had done well given all of the circumstances, but our drummer Roger North later told me he saw B.B. King in the audience giving us some dour looks over our (my) performance shenanigans. Oh well, Quill was not designed around the blues, even though we played some of that, too. A sidebar to the evening was that Johnny Winter had a promo party after our set and was short some sidemen, so he asked our rhythm section — Roger, my brother Jon (bass), Norm Rogers (guitar) and Phil Thayer (keyboards) — to sit-in and jam with him. Jimi Hendrix later joined them all on stage. It was an exciting day capped by an even more exciting evening, and another step in Quill’s journey.
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In this latest installment of the acclaimed Christopher Marlowe Cobb series it’s autumn 1915 and the “Great War” is devastating Europe, but the United States has yet to enter the fray. Impatient with President Woodrow Wilson’s pacifism, intrepid Americans are volunteering at the front, driving ambulances and staffing hospitals in France. Cobb—known as Kit to his friends—is an American journalist writing about his heroic countrymen for the Chicago press. He interviews and rides along with ambulance drivers Cyrus Parsons, a Midwestern farm boy, and John Barrington Lacey, a Harvard man. Meanwhile, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the cool and beautiful Louise Pickering, a supervising nurse at the American hospital.
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Kenya's Beatrice Chepkoech competes in the women's 3000m Steeplechase during the IAAF Diamond League competition on August 29, 2019, in Zurich. PHOTO | FABRICE COFFRINI | AFP
While most Kenyan athletes have attained the qualifying time in middle and long distance races, Kenya has only four sprinters, who have made it to Doha
Kenya has four World champions and their status gives them an automatic place at the Doha event but Athletics Kenya insists they must participate at the national trials
The deadline for qualifying for the Doha World Championships is this Friday
By AYUMBA AYODI
Athletes attaining the World Championships qualifying standards during the national trials next week at the Nyayo National Stadium won’t make it to the Doha event.
Athletics Kenya director for competitions Paul Mutwii clarified that the qualifying window for the World Championships planned from September 27 to October 6 has been closed.
However, Mutwii hastened that the trials that run from September 12 to 13 presents a good window for athletes especially sprinters to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
While most Kenyan athletes have attained the qualifying time in middle and long distance races, Kenya has only four sprinters, who have made it to Doha.
They are the women’s 400m duo of national record holder Hellen Syombua (51.09secs) and Africa Under-20 champion Mary Moraa. Others are national 400m champion Alphas Kishoyian (45.30) in 400m and Nicholas Kiprotich Chirchir (49.40) in 400m hurdles.
The deadline for qualifying for the Doha World Championships is this Friday.
Mutwii said the first three athletes across the finishing line during the national trials will make it to Doha adding that besides the standards set in time and distance, athletes must have met the International Association of Athletics Federation’s (IAAF’s) Athletes Integrity Unit (IAU) anti-doping requirements.
Mutwii explained that athletes hoping for selection must have undergone three out-of-competition and one in-competition doping tests before the trials date.
Notably, the three out-of-competition tests for both urine and blood must include at least one Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) test and one Erythropoietin (Epo) test. All such tests are to be conducted not less than three weeks apart and the results recorded in ADAMS.
Kenya has four World champions and their status gives them an automatic place at the Doha event but Athletics Kenya insists they must participate at the national trials.
The World champions are Conseslus Kipruto (3,000m steeplechase), Elijah Manang'oi (1,500m), Hellen Obiri (5,000m) and Faith Chepng'etich (1,500m).
More so, 3,000m steeplechase world record holder Beatrice Chepkoech has already sealed a place at the World event, having retained her Diamond League Series title with victory in Zurich on August 29 this year but she is expected at the trials.
Kipruto and Obiri will Friday be defending their respective Diamond League Series titles in Brussels in the last of the two Diamond League Series finals.
Athletics Kenya picked the men and women’s 10,000m teams during the National Championships held from August 20 to 22 at the Nyayo National Stadium.
The reigning World Under-20 10,000m champion Rhonex, Rogers Kwemoi, the 2016 World Under-20 10,000m title holder and experienced long distance runner Alex Oloitiptip, make the men’s team.
The 2015 World 10,000m silver medallist Geoffrey Kamworor won the national 10,000m title during the trials but had earlier opted out of Doha event.
Obiri, who is also the Olympic 5,000m silver medallist, World 10,00m bronze medallist Agnes Jebet and Japan-based Rosemary Wanjiru prevailed in the women’s race to ease through to Doha.
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It's not easy being green; on a cellular level, our leafy brethren are staggeringly complex.
Day to day, it might be tempting to take plants for granted. But you'd do so at your peril; our leafy brethren are staggeringly complex, as revealed when they're put under the microscope.
To give their progeny a shot, some plants get unwitting animals to act as taxis for their pollen or seeds. Plants can't get up and move to avoid their herbivorous predators, so they hunker down and fight, deploying a mind-boggling arsenal of toxins and irritants that we humans mistake as flavors. And some plants even turn the tables, using acid baths or trigger-haired cages to prey on animals.
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NBC & CBS Scare Viewers With Climate Panic: Millions Will Be Underwater!
By Kyle Drennen | October 30, 2019 11:28 AM EDT
On Wednesday, both NBC’s 3rd Hour Today show and CBS This Morning engaged in climate change hysteria as they touted dire predictions that huge portions of land around the world would be underwater by 2050 and displace hundreds of millions of people. The network hosts all blindly accepted the warnings as true without pointing out that such wild claims have been made for decades without coming to fruition.
“And speaking of climate change, on the flip side of that, too much water actually becoming an issue....rising seas could affect way more people than they previously thought....this is an estimate for 2050, which is only 30 years from now,” co-host Dylan Dreyer proclaimed early in the 9:00 a.m. ET hour for NBC’s Today. “It shows that 150 million people are now living on land that will be below high tide by 2050,” she hyped.
Worried co-host Sheinelle Jones gasped: “Really?” Dreyer continued:
...they say southern Vietnam could be totally underwater. It’s mostly – the research that they did, it doesn’t include the United States, but we can assume some of this information for the United States as well. I mean, think about Miami, think about New Orleans, think about areas that are right on the coast. And people love to live by water.
Weatherman and co-host Al Roker chimed in: “Well, 60% of our population in this country live along the coast....But look at Vietnam, that’s 20 million people who could theoretically be displaced.”
Moments later, Roker increased the fearmongering: “In fact, just last year, the Department of Defense said that climate change is probably the number one threat to homeland security because so many of our defenses and defense facilities are along coasts.”
As the discussion concluded, Jones lamented: “It seems like a bad movie and you see it happening and there’s nothing you can do.”
Missing from the coverage was any acknowledgment that such radical predictions have been pushed for years without actually happening. Just recently, NBC repeated a claim that Washington D.C. could soon be underwater – the same prediction the network made thirty years ago in 1989.
“In this morning’s Eye on Earth, a stunning new report shows many major coastal cities around the world could be underwater by 2050, in our lifetime,” co-host Tony Dokoupil declared on CBS This Morning. Leading off a segment late in the 8:30 a.m. ET half hour, he touted: “Scientists from Climate Central say that means 300 million people would be waterlogged in just 30 years.”
Turning to Bernadette Woods Placky, the chief meteorologist for the climate activist group, Dokoupil feared: “So the original projections were already frightening. Now we have new projections, even more concerning.” Placky asserted: “And this is a nice piece of the puzzle in understanding more about how climate change is really affecting the people, places, and things that we love.”
Later in the conversation, Dokoupil piled on the doomsday predictions: “...if people are displaced, that creates conflicts, that creates wars for resources. U.S. Military involvement could follow.”
Co-host Gayle King remarked: “So now that you’ve scared the bejesus out of us, can you explain simply why is it happening and what we can do?” Placky professed: “So my goal’s not to scare you, it’s to inform you. To inform everybody that this is what we’re looking at if we don’t make changes.”
She proceeded to suggest some of those changes: “And that’s why there’s an urgency to change to cleaner sources of energy, electrify our transport, make for refined ways of working our buildings, our heating and lighting systems, and focus on our farming and our agriculture where we have some opportunities with our soils.”
In response, Dokoupil made a campaign pitch: “I can’t personally redefine our electricity system, but I think what you’re saying is people can vote for people who do.” Placky agreed: “That is one of the ways.” In other words, CBS was instructing viewers to vote for Democrats.
Wrapping up the segment, King recalled an off-camera exchange with Placky: “I thought it was funny when I said, ‘Doesn’t it drive you crazy when he people still don’t understand climate change?’ You go, ‘Yeah, like my dad.’”
The media are constantly looking for ways to frighten people into signing on to extreme left-wing policies like the Green New Deal and other favorite Democratic Party agenda items.
Here is a transcript of the October 30 segment on NBC’s 3rd Hour Today:
DYLAN DREYER: And speaking of climate change, on the flip side of that, too much water actually becoming an issue. It was an article that was published in Nature Communications. It suggests that rising seas could affect way many more people than they previously thought. So I was just thinking, it’s 2019, this is an estimate for 2050, which is only 30 years from now. It shows that 150 million people are now living on land that will be below high tide by 2050.
AL ROKER: Wow.
SHEINELLE JONES: Really?
ROKER: Yeah.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Underwater?; New Research Predicts Rising Seas Could Cause Dire Situation]
DREYER: I mean, especially southern Vietnam, they say southern Vietnam could be totally underwater. It’s mostly the research that they did, it doesn’t include the United States, but we can assume some of this information for the United States as well. I mean, think about Miami, think about New Orleans, think about areas that are right on the coast, and people love to live by water, people love to live on the coast.
ROKER: Yeah, well 60% of our population in this country live along the coast.
JONES: Is it that high?
ROKER: Yeah, oh yeah. But look at Vietnam, I mean, that’s 20 million people who could theoretically be displaced.
DREYER: Lose their homes.
CRAIG MELVIN: This [graphic on screen] is courtesy of The New York Times.
JONES: So then help me understand how this works. So if we say in 30 years, which is in no time at all, right, so is it so gradual that you don’t, I mean, you obviously see it happening, so will people have to move in a few years. You what I mean, like?
DREYER: Well, I think it’s a situation – for example, let’s use Miami, when they get their king tides, you know, they get those high tides on a perfectly sunny day with no storm around and the water just inundates the city. So eventually there’s going to be a point where more and more water comes in, more and more water comes in, buildings are compromised.
ROKER: They’ve already invested, in Miami alone, about $3 billion in pumps and moving and raising street levels. It’s really crazy. In fact, just last year, the Department of Defense said that climate change is probably the number one threat to homeland security because so many of our defenses and defense facilities are along coasts.
DREYER: Right on the coast.
JONES: So can we – with that statistic, can we change the tide, so to speak, no pun intended, but can we do anything to change that?
DREYER: I don’t think there’s much you can do. Putting in pumps requires a lot of work and a lot of maintenance.
ROKER: A lot of infrastructure changes.
JONES: It sounds like a bad movie and you see it happening and there’s nothing you can do.
Here is a full transcript of the segment on CBS This Morning:
TONY DOKOUPIL: In this morning’s Eye on Earth, a stunning new report shows many major coastal cities around the world could be under water by 2050, in our lifetime. Scientists from Climate Central say that means 300 million people would be waterlogged in just 30 years. Take a look at these images, here are the original predictions for 2050, and then these are the Climate Central’s new projections. Take a look at the dramatic impact in places like Bangkok, Thailand, Alexandria, Egypt, and closer to home, coastal Louisiana. It shows each area almost completely underwater.
Bernadette Woods Placky is chief meteorologist at Climate Central and she joins us now. Bernadette, good morning.
BERNADETTE WOODS PLACKY: Good morning.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Coastal Crisis; New Research Shows Many Major Cities Could Be Underwater By 2050]
DOKOUPIL: The original projections were already frightening. Now we have these new projections, even more concerning. First question, why the change?
PLACKY: Well, first of all, thank you for having me here to talk about this very important subject. And this is a nice piece of the puzzle in understanding more with how climate change is really affecting the people, places, and things that we love. What we did with this study is we looked at land beneath our feet. Sea level rise projections in the past were based on this wonderful global data set from NASA. But what it did was read our land as a satellite went around the Earth. And what that land was reading was trees, buildings, and land that was way above where we actually walk.
DOKOUPIL: Yeah, wow.
PLACKY: So when we were able to correct this elevation data set, it brought land closer to where we live. So when you have the same amount of water and land went from here to here, there’s a lot more at risk.
ANTHONY MASON: What are the most vulnerable areas here in the U.S.?
PLACKY: In the United States, actually our data set has not changed that much, because we have a really robust, wonderful scientific system and we use what’s called LIDAR data, so it’s a little more refined. So we already know major areas at risk. As we showed, Louisiana, Florida, all of the entire southeast coat. And even we saw just this past month with king tides, water coming up with no storm system from Virginia, New Jersey, all the way up into Boston.
DOKOUPIL: But the reason this matters to Americans, even if the flooding is happening somewhere else, is because if people are displaced that creates conflicts, that creates wars for resources. U.S. military involvement could follow. Instability is bad for global security and for security here at home. I noticed that Asia teams to be particularly hard hit. Why?
PLACKY: Well, one of the reasons, it is so highly populated and there’s a lot of low-level ground. And with population levels so high and not much protection there, you already are seeing those are some of the places already at risk. But then when you correct this data set, it just raises those numbers off the charts.
GAYLE KING: So now that you’ve scared the bejesus out of us, can you explain simply what – why is it happening and what we can do?
PLACKY: So my goal’s not to scare you, it’s to inform you.
MASON: Well, you’re doing a good job.
PLACKY: To inform everybody that this is what we’re looking at if we don’t make changes. But we do still have the opportunity to make changes. I kind of compare it to a diet. You know, even if you choose to eat healthy, it’s going to take a while to see those impacts on your body.
KING: Yes.
PLACKY: Our greenhouse gases stay in the atmosphere for hundreds to thousands of years. And that’s why there’s an urgency to change to cleaner sources of energy, electrify our transport, make for refined ways of working our buildings, our heating systems, our lighting systems, and focus on our farming and our agriculture where we have some opportunities with our soils.
DOKOUPIL: I can’t personally redefine our electricity system, but I think what you’re saying is people can vote for people who do.
PLACKY: That is one of the ways.
KING: I thought it was funny when I said, “Doesn’t it drive you craze when people still don’t understand climate change?” You go, “Yeah, like my dad.” [Laughter]
PLACKY: That’s right, that’s right.
KING: So you’re dealing with it even in your own house.
DOKOUPIL: Alright, Bernadette Woods Placky, thank you very much. We appreciate it.
PLACKY: Thank you.
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Kyle Drennen is the Senior News Analyst for MRC
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Scottsdale, Arizona - April 5, 2018
Nextiva (www.nextiva.com), an industry-leading cloud-based communications provider, today announced its debut as an Innovator in The Aragon Research Globe for Unified Communications and Collaboration, 20181.
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Academic & Professional Books Mammals Primates
Apes Gorillas, Chimpanzees, Orangutans and Gibbons
By: Ray Hutchins
80 pages, Col illus
Publisher: Merlin Publications
Excellent introduction to all species, finely illustrated by the author
ISBN: 9780954307028 Hardback Mar 2011 In stock
Excellent, well-illustrated introductory guide to all species and subspecies of gorilla, chimpanzee, orangutan and gibbon, which would also serve as an educational resource. Preliminary sections explain how the apes are related and provide information on biology, ecology, life history, behaviour and physiology.
The bulk of the book is devoted to species accounts: 7 species of Great ape in 4 genera and 16 species of Lesser ape in 4 genera. Each species account contains information on appearance, distribution, population size, conservation, breeding biology and ecology. Each account is laid out as a 2-page spread for easy cross-referencing.
It is the artwork that makes the book stand out. Ray Hutchins brings his skills as an artist to produce attractive, accurate images of all the species.
The title has been endorsed by the Jane Goodall Institute and The Orangutan Foundation.
&b;Dedication and Acknowledgements
Foreword;
Introduction to the Apes
Gorillas&o;
Western Lowland Gorilla
Cross River Gorilla
Eastern Lowland Gorilla
&b;Chimpanzees&o;
Western Chimpanzee
Central Chimpanzee or Tschego
Nigerian/Cameroon Chimpanzee
Eastern or Long-Haired Chimpanzee
Bonobo or Pygmy Chimpanzee
&b;Orangutans&o;
Sumatran Orangutan
Bornean Orangutan
&b;Gibbons&o;
Lar Gibbon
Kloss's or Mentawi Gibbon
Agile Gibbon
Bornean White-Bearded Gibbon
Pileated Gibbon
Muller's Bornean Gibbon
Silvery or Moloch Gibbon
Hoolock Gibbon
Yellow or Buff-Cheeked Crested Gibbon
White-Cheeked Gibbon
Black Crested Gibbon
Cao-vit Crested and Hainan Crested Gibbon
&b;Those Who Care
Addresses of Major Ape Conservation Groups
Scientific Names Explained
Index of English and Scientific Species Names&o;
Ray Hutchins worked as an illustrator with Rolls-Royce (Aero) Limited until 1969 and then moved on to the Ministry of Defence (Naval) and, later, MOD (Army) at Bovington where he was introduced to tanks and fighting vehicles. Unimpressed by the strictures of the Civil Service and the monotony of technical subjects he started as a freelance in 1980 and has not looked back since.
He has a lifetime's experience of illustrating all subjects from technical works including: aircraft, ships, tanks, guns and military vehicles. These include coloured profiles, 3D views and cutaways. He wrote and illustrated "TANKS and Other Fighting Vehicles", considered as one of the best books on the subject. Also, in 2008, he wrote and illustrated WILDFOWL of the Northern Hemisphere, a book, beautifully illustrated, showing all species of Whistling duck, Swan, Goose, Shelduck and Duck, on the water and out of the water.
The most startling aspect of this book, before even opening the front cover, is the colour illustrations. The illustrations are nothing less than beautiful and stand in stiff competition with any justice photographs can do to these majestic primates. The book thoroughly represents each of the ape species in splendid detail, and uses the illustrations to compare morphology between the species, including humans. A relatively unseen, but incredibly useful, comparison.
A foreword from Professor Colin Groves precedes the main body of the book. Such accreditation serves to reinforce the validity of the taxonomies the author presents. Taxonomies, and indeed other encyclopaedic information, are thoroughly researched, and presented in such a way that makes this book extremely accessible to all, regardless of education level. Additionally, the inclusion of bright diagrammatic representations of ape habitats, and interesting historical fact boxes for each species, takes this book away from dense text and into an altogether lighter" understanding of our closest living relatives.
The author begins the book with an overview of what constitutes an ape and then continues with an in-depth look at each ape species and their associated subspecies. The gorillas set the investigation in motion, followed by the chimpanzees, the orangutans, and finally the gibbons. Many of the facts about these animals can seem repetitive, for example, the age range of many gibbons in the wild is similar. Hutchins deals with these repetitions by placing them in engaging "Did you know?" boxes, each one worded differently enough to keep the reader entertained and interested in the more mundane facts, such as the animal's height or arm span.
The book concludes with a "those who care" section detailing the efforts of pioneers in the field, such as Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey. This section is a particularly useful reference guide and includes a comprehensive list, with up-to-date contact details and website addresses, of the major conservation groups for each ape species and the broader protection agencies such as WWF.
This is a short book (80 pages) aimed at people who need a quick, reliable reference guide. However, the ability of this book to appeal to a vast audience is possibly one of its greatest assets. The book, both pictorially and factually, bring apes into your living room. One glance at the front cover invites further examination and most people would be unable to resist "sneaking a peak".
The illustrations are the story of this book. Each picture really does paint a thousand words. The book presents many of the facts and a large proportion of the information pictorially, making its interpretation simple, exciting and alluring. It is rare to encounter a book of such design with such a range of accurate information. Many books are either one or the other, text or illustrative. The crossover between the two, as presented in "Apes..." makes it relatively unique.
"Apes..." has mileage and could possibly be the first in a series of books. The author could potentially cover lemurs, New World monkeys and Old World monkeys using the same format. More so, other mammalian species could be incorporated, and even non-mammalian animals, should there be a market. The primate order, in general, sparks peoples' interest, whether at a professional or scientific level or as a curiosity. Therefore in many respects primates warrant a range of books that cover the entire order. Certainly a wealth of primate books exist, none however, quite like the work produced by Hutchins."
- Tara Cooper Queen's University
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Mental health and behavioural conditions
Personality disorders: borderline and antisocial
Quality standard [QS88] Published date: June 2015
Uptake of this guidance
List of quality statements
Quality statement 1: Structured clinical assessment
Quality statement 2: Psychological therapies – borderline personality disorder
Quality statement 3: Psychological therapies – antisocial personality disorder
Quality statement 4: Pharmacological interventions
Quality statement 5: Managing transitions
Quality statement 6: Education and employment goals
Quality statement 7: Staff supervision
Using the quality standard
Diversity, equality and language
Development sources
Related NICE quality standards
Quality Standards Advisory Committee and NICE project team
About this quality standard
What the quality statement means for service providers, healthcare professionals, and commissioners
What the quality statement means for service users and carers
Source guidance
Equality and diversity considerations
People with antisocial personality disorder are offered group‑based cognitive and behavioural therapies and are involved in choosing the duration and intensity of the therapy.
The NICE guideline on antisocial personality disorder recommends psychological therapies for managing and treating the symptoms and behaviours associated with antisocial personality disorder. Group‑based cognitive and behavioural therapies help to address problems such as impulsivity, interpersonal difficulties, and antisocial behaviour, and can help to reduce offending behaviours. Because of the variety of symptoms and the variation in needs, flexible approaches that are responsive to the needs of each person with the disorder are important. Involving people with antisocial personality disorder in decisions about their own care is key for their engagement with treatment.
a) Evidence of local arrangements to ensure that group‑based cognitive and behavioural therapies are available to people with antisocial personality disorder.
Data source: Local data collection.
b) Evidence of local arrangements to ensure that people with antisocial personality disorder are involved in choosing the duration and intensity of group‑based cognitive and behavioural therapy that they receive.
a) Proportion of people with antisocial personality disorder who received group‑based cognitive and behavioural therapy.
Numerator – the number in the denominator who received group‑based cognitive and behavioural therapy.
Denominator – the number of people with antisocial personality disorder.
b) Proportion of people with antisocial personality disorder who chose the duration and intensity of group‑based cognitive and behavioural therapy they received.
Numerator – the number in the denominator who chose the duration and intensity of the group‑based cognitive and behavioural therapy they received.
Denominator – the number of people with antisocial personality disorder who received group‑based cognitive and behavioural therapy.
Evidence from experience surveys and feedback that service users feel actively involved in shared decision‑making.
Service providers (mental health trusts) offer people with antisocial personality disorder group‑based cognitive and behavioural therapies that are defined by the service user in terms of duration and intensity.
Healthcare professionals offer people with antisocial personality disorder group‑based cognitive and behavioural therapies that are defined by the service user in terms of duration and intensity.
Commissioners (clinical commissioning groups, NHS England local area teams) commission services that have sufficient resources to provide group‑based cognitive and behavioural therapies for people with antisocial personality disorder that are defined by the service user in terms of duration and intensity. They also ensure that referral pathways are in place for people with antisocial personality disorder to be referred to these services.
People with antisocial personality disorder are offered group therapy that helps them manage their condition. They can choose the length of the sessions, treatment and frequency of the therapy they receive.
Antisocial personality disorder (2009) NICE guideline CG77, recommendations 1.1.3.1, 1.4.2.1, 1.4.2.2 and 1.4.2.4
Consideration should be given to the provision of services for adults within the prison population who present with symptoms of antisocial personality disorder.
Specialist mental health services should ensure that culturally appropriate psychological interventions are provided to people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and that interventions address cultural and ethnic differences in beliefs regarding biological, social and family influences on mental states and functioning.
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Ashley Boggs-Russell
Biochemical and Exposure Science Group
ashley.russell@nist.gov
Research Biologist, NIST, 2015-Present
National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, NIST, 2013-2015
Oceans and Human Health Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical University of South Carolina and NOAA, 2011-2012
Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Ecology, University of Florida, 2011
B.S. cum laude, Zoology, University of Florida, 2005
Dr. Ashley Boggs works in the fields of vertebrate endocrinology and endocrine disruption, which she combines with analytical chemistry techniques to develop measurement solutions for clinical, wildlife, and aquacultural applications and research. Current research projects include the development of multi-analyte measurement methods for steroid, thyroid, and protein hormones, development of clinical standard reference materials (SRMs), and development of endocrine measurement methods for alternative matrices from non-model species. She is a Research Biologist and has been with the Biochemical and Exposure Science Group located at the Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, SC, since 2013.
Dr. Boggs’ expertise support endocrine research and clinical diagnostics through development of multi-analyte measurement methods for steroid, thyroid, and protein hormones using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry and high resolution mass spectrometry. She works with the clinical community by maintaining clinical standard reference materials (SRMs) to underpin measurements on hormones for accurate diagnostics and develops new measurement methods and SRMs to harmonize and standardize endocrine measurements for the community. During her career at NIST she has developed new SRMs specific to thyroid health during pregnancy (SRM 1949), new measurement methods for steroid pathway analysis, and comprehensive thyroid hormone measurement methods.
Dr. Boggs’ work also supports endocrine research and applications to aquaculture and wildlife. Working with universities, non-governmental organizations, and state and federal government agencies, Dr. Boggs develops multi-analyte measurement methods using remotely collected matrices and other matrices alternative to blood, to increase the information gathered from small samples, limit stress to the study species, and reduce monetary expenses of collection and assessment. She has developed and applied a method to measure stress and reproductive hormones in remotely collected blubber biopsies from marine mammal species. Currently she is assisting in the development of in-field biomarker assays for fish reproduction through mucus samples to increase aquacultural yields and monitor sport, game, and endangered fish species.
Professional Awards and Recognition
First place poster in Biology/Chemistry at the Sigma Xi NIST Postdoctoral Poster Symposium, 2014
National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship, 2012-2015
First place poster Envirotox/SETAC Australasia, 2011
NASA Graduate Student Research Program fellowship, 2009-2011
Remote blubber sampling paired with liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry for steroidal endocrinology in free-ranging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
Ashley S. Boggs-Russell, Jared M. Ragland, Eric Zolman, Tracey B. Schock, Jeanine S. Morey, Thomas M. Galligan, Greta Dalle Luche, Brian C. Balmer, Randall S. Wells, John R. Kucklick, Lori Schwacke
Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry allows for the measurement of steroid hormone suites in the blubber of marine mammals. By combining this
Examining the Relationships Between Blubber Steroid Hormone and Persistent Organic Pollutant Measurements in Common Bottlenose Dolphins
Thomas M. Galligan, Brian C. Balmer, Lori Schwacke, Jennie L. Bolton, Brian M. Quigley, Patricia Rosel, Gina M. Ylitalo, Ashley S. Boggs-Russell
In this study, we use remotely collected blubber samples from common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) inhabiting the waters near a U.S. Environmental
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in plasma of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus)
Kady Palmer, Jacqueline T. Bangma, Jessica L. Reiner, Robert Bonde, Jeffery Korte, Ashley S. Boggs-Russell, John Bowden
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitous, synthetic anthropogenic chemicals known to infiltrate and persist in biological systems as a result
Characterization of Circulating Steroid Hormone Profiles in the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) by Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
Thomas M. Galligan, Lori Schwacke, Dorian S. Houser, Randall S. Wells, Teresa Rowles, Ashley S. Boggs-Russell
Circulating steroid hormone concentrations are typically measured by immunoassays, which have imperfect specificity and are limited to the measurement of a
Evidence for cortisol-cortisone metabolism by marine mammal blubber
Thomas M. Galligan, Lori Schwacke, Wayne E. McFee, Ashley S. Boggs-Russell
Blubber, a specialized form of adipose tissue in marine mammals, has been identified as a useful matrix for the assessment of steroid hormone homeostasis in
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Fans react to Ian Brown’s new song ‘First World Problems’
King Monkey also announced his first solo album in nine years
Ian Brown has shared his new single ‘First World Problems’ and announced ‘Ripples’, his first solo album in nine years.
The musician teased his return earlier this week, with posters advertising the new track spotted in Liverpool. This follows a similar pattern to when The Stone Roses plastered their iconic ‘Lemon Posters’ across Manchester in 2016 – before returning with new music and tour dates.
Having not released a solo album since ‘My Way’ in 2009‘, it was rumoured that Brown was working on material away from the Roses since last year.
Now, he has shared ‘First World Problems’ and confirmed ‘Ripples’ will be released on March 1, 2019. Listen to the album’s first single below.
Fans seem divided over the song with some praising the track and others writing of their disappointment.
“The new Ian Brown tune is a 0/10,” a listener wrote, while another likened it to Primal Scream‘s track ‘Loaded’. Another also noticed the similarities, posting a picture of Bobby Gillespie’s unimpressed face, captioning it: “when you hear the new ian brown song”
The new Ian Brown tune is a 0/10
— . (@NaziBasher) October 26, 2018
Is Ian Brown's first world problem, nicking Loaded from Primal Scream?
— Si Farrier (@SimonFarrier1) October 26, 2018
when you hear the new ian brown song pic.twitter.com/zym9DAgBqL
— nihilist dad (@kid_smoke) October 26, 2018
The reviews weren’t all bad, with one fan writing: “Sorry I’m not hip enough to slate it but I quite like that new Ian Brown tune,” while another added: “always loved ian brown’s solo work, very experimental and groooovy.”
Sorry I'm not hip enough to slate it but I quite like that new Ian Brown tune
— Adam Donnelly (@18Donnelly) October 26, 2018
always loved ian brown’s solo work, very experimental and groooovy
— chester draws (@SugarSpunHope) October 26, 2018
One fan praised the track and commented on the possibility of a Stone Roses reunion. “First time I heard it this morning. Grown on me already. Me thinks it’s gonna be an Ian Brown day while working. As for the Stone Roses… I think that ship has already sailed. Be surprised if they did anything else together,” they wrote.
First time I heard it this morning. Grown on me already. Me thinks it’s gonna be an Ian Brown day while working. 😉 As for the Stone Roses… I think that ship has already sailed. Be surprised if they did anything else together.
— Matt Lawrence (@Gills_Mod) October 26, 2018
Another said that the new song reminded them of Brown’s debut solo album. “First World Problems by @ianbrown takes me back to my Huddersfield days, listening to Unfinished Monkey Business as a teenager,” they wrote.
First World Problems by @ianbrown takes me back to my Huddersfield days, listening to Unfinished Monkey Business as a teenager …
— Michael S. Taylor (@MickSTaylor) October 26, 2018
Brown produced the new record and wrote most of its tracks. He co-wrote three songs from the album with his sons, who also play various instruments across the LP. ‘Ripples’ was recorded in Liverpool, with some enhancement done on it in “The Beatles room” at Abbey Road Studios.
It also features covers of Barrington Levy’s ‘Black Roses’ and Mikey Dread’s ‘Break Down The Walls’. The full tracklist is as follows:
‘First World Problems’
‘Black Roses’
‘Breathe And Breathe Easy (The Everness Of Now)’
‘The Dream And The Dreamer’
‘From Chaos To Harmony’
‘It’s Raining Diamonds’
‘Ripples’
‘Blue Sky Day’
‘Soul Satisfaction’
‘Break Down The Walls (Warm Up Jam)’
Last summer, rumours began to circulate that the Manchester legends’ show in Glasgow would be their last – before comments made by Brown during the show seemed to confirm that the band had come to an end once again.
As the gig at Hampden Park drew to a close, Brown told the crowd: “Don’t be sad it’s over, be happy that it happened.”
Sources close to the band then claimed that Brown had been in the studio working on his next solo album. Meanwhile, documents on the Government’s Companies House show that ‘Second Touring Limited’ (which was set up by the band in 2015) had its First Gazette notice for compulsory strike-off in October. This meant that the company was struck off the register and dissolved on December 24, 2017.
“It’s not official 100% confirmed that they’ve stopped, but it looks like they have, doesn’t it?” Roses biographer and journalist John Robb told NME. “The thing about those guys, is that nothing is ever certain with The Stone Roses. That’s one of the things that made them such an interesting band.
“I love Manic Street Preachers, but there’s a certainty to them. That’s not a criticism of them, just that you know they’ll all be in the Manics for the rest of their lives. The thing about The Roses, is that from day one that band could have combusted at any moment. Their brilliance is so fleeting and hard to grasp, that it disappears. They get it in their hands, then they just let it go again.”
The Stone Roses initially reformed in 2011 and played London’s Wembley Stadium earlier this summer – their first gig in the capital for four years. Fans were also eagerly hoping for a new album from the band, after they released the singles ‘All For One’ and ‘Beautiful Thing’ in 2016
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Jessica Strahan is the 2019 Art Prize winner for Louisiana Contemporary presented by The Helis Foundation. She poses by her winning piece, "Survived." The announcement was made at a private reception on Aug. 2, 2019 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, which puts on the exposition.
Sue Strachan | NOLA.com staff photo
Jessica Strahan's "Survived" will be featured at the Ogden, opening on White Linen Night Saturday.
Jessica Strahan
Sarrah Danziger, Fen and Jake in Their Garden, 2018, Archival pigment print, 22" x 30", Collection of the artist
Image courtesy of Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Sarrah Danziger, Stevie Ray Along the Mississippi River,2018, Archival pigment print, 24" x 36", Collection of the artist
Sarrah Danziger, Alli at Crawfish Boil, 2018, Archival pigment print, 30" x 30", Collection of the artist
Thomas Deaton, Garden, ca. 2019, Acrylic on canvas, 40" x 40", Collection of the artist
Thomas Deaton, Night Game, 2019, Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 48", Collection of the artist
Rachel David, Covetous, 2018, Hand-forged, formed, and fabricated steel, 20 " x 22" x 30", Collection of the artist
Rachel David, Dripping Cycle, 2018, Hand-forged, formed and fabricated steel, 34" x 20" x 24", Collection of the artist
Winners of Ogden Museum’s 2019 Louisiana Contemporary announced
BY SUE STRACHAN | Staff writer
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Aug 5, 2019 - 4:00 pm
It was the evening before Hancock Whitney White Linen Night, and the crowd in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s fifth floor gallery eagerly gathered around David Breslin.
Breslin, jurist for the 2019 Louisiana Contemporary presented by The Helis Foundation and director of Curatorial Initiatives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, was about to announce the four winners of this juried art show, highlighting contemporary art in Louisiana.
The two-part selection process included an open call for applications, then a jury process overseen by a different juror each year. For 2019, there were 364 applicants with 1,066 entries of work. Twenty-three artists were chosen, showcasing 44 pieces.
“The works hold us here, as testaments of our time, but also signal that other, better futures can still be within reach,” was part of Breslin’s juror’s statement.
Starting with third place and working up to the top prize, Breslin announced the honorees: Third prize: Rachel David; Second prize: Thomas Deaton; first prize: Sarrah Danziger. The Helis Foundation Art Prize, which comes with $5,000, was won by Jessica Strahan for "Survived." Strahan's most recent paintings explore the African diaspora within the context of life in New Orleans.
Other artists in the show include: John Alleyne, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Mac Ball, Sean Clark, Tony Dagradi, Ben Depp, Sarah French, John Gargano, Kristina Larson, Julian Martin, Kristin Meyers, Lara Morgan, Tom O’Brien, Ruth Owens, Dan Rule, Claire Samani, Jill Shampine, Leona Strassberg Steiner, and Carlie Trosclair.
Fancy linen: Galleries, museums spotlight the best for White Linen Night
“Louisiana Contemporary provides an essential ongoing platform to discover and experience the depth and diversity of work being produced by Louisiana artists, in support of our wider mission to connect audiences with and widen understanding of art of the American South," said William Pittman Andrews, executive director of the Ogden Museum. "Each year, we are inspired by the visions and innovations of the featured artists, whose work engages with formal and conceptual dialogues within contemporary practice, as well as with some of the most pressing social and political issues of our time.
"We are grateful to The Helis Foundation for their ongoing support for this initiative and to the artists who continue to challenge and compel us in new and exciting ways.”
Since 2012, the Ogden Museum has shown 394 artists and 674 of their art works in this exposition.
Louisiana Contemporary officially opened to the public on Saturday (Aug. 3) for White Linen Night and is on view through Jan. 5.
Contact Sue Strachan at sstrachan@theadvocate.com.
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Edtech Integration
Memory Tricks
This Is Your Brain On Games
By Saga Briggs
January 24th, 2015 6 Comments Features
Illustration by Terry Fan
The past year has illuminated many things about the way the brain works, including how it responds to games. It is now erroneous to conflate ten hours of Super Mario with minor head trauma. We know that you won’t go blind if you’re looking for coins and bananas and rings on a screen all day. Your motivation and attention span will remain intact no matter what level you reach in Skyrim. In fact, the very latest science is telling us the exact opposite of what we thought all along: video games actually increase brain function.
“Action video games have a number of ingredients that are actually really powerful for brain plasticity, learning, attention, and vision,” says brain scientist Daphne Bavelier in her TED Talk on the subject.
Findings like Bavelier’s have been cropping up over the last few years, forcing us to reevaluate our firmly held beliefs. Many educators now use video games in formal learning settings, and others are teaming up with members of the gaming industry to design programs that target specific learning goals. The controversy is ebbing, and this year neuroscientists have discovered something that may end the discussion once and for all:
Video games actually make the brain bigger.
Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger
A new study, presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2014, has found that playing games actually increases brain volume. The findings build on previous studies which have linked playing video games to larger brain structures.
Stephanie Schultz and colleagues at two Alzheimer’s research institutes in Wisconsin examined 329 middle-aged people who did not currently have dementia, but many of whom were at risk because of their family history. Along with a brain scan, they were surveyed to see how cognitively active they were: how much they played games, read books, went to museums and so on. The results showed that people who played the most games–like crosswords, checkers, cards and puzzles–also had the largest brain volume.
“Our findings suggest that, for some individuals, engagement in cognitively stimulating activities, especially those involving games such as puzzles and cards, might be a useful approach for preserving brain structures and cognitive functions that are vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease,” Schultz says.
Because of the design of the study, it’s hard to tell if playing games is really affecting brain size or if other factors may be at play. For example, it may be that people with larger brains happen to play more games. But there is other research that has linked game-playing with larger brain volumes.
In a study published last year, German researchers asked people to play video games for 30 minutes a day over a 2 month period. Their brain volumes were then compared with a control group. People who’d been playing the game (Super Mario 64) had larger grey matter structures in areas of the brain associated with memory, spatial navigation, strategic planning, and fine motor skills.
The study’s lead author, Simone Kuhn, explained: “While previous studies have shown differences in brain structure of video gamers, the present study can demonstrate the direct causal link between video gaming and a volumetric brain increase. This proves that specific brain regions can be trained by means of video games.”
Kuhn conducted a follow-up study earlier this year, recruiting 150 male and female 14-year-olds to play 12 hours of video games per week. He found “a robust positive association between cortical thickness and video gaming duration” in teens who invested the most time in games. Even more telling, the cortical matter increased in two different areas of teens’ brains: the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for decision-making and self-control, and the Frontal Eye Fields (FEF), which govern visual-motor processing. The fact that two cortical areas are involved suggests that gamers may be better at multi-tasking and decision-making than non-gamers.
In August, British researchers found that certain video games, particularly strategic games such as “Starcraft,” can increase a player’s “brain flexibility,” which the scientists described as “a cornerstone of human intelligence.”
The study, conducted at Queen Mary University of London and University College London, is based on psychological tests conducted before and after 72 volunteers played “Starcraft” or the life-simulation game “The Sims” for 40 hours over six to eight weeks. They found that participants assigned to play “Starcraft” experienced gains in their performance on psychological tests, completing cognitive flexibility tasks with greater speed and accuracy.
Even more significant, we now know that these effects can last over a long period of time. When Bavelier asked subjects to do a simple mental rotation task, followed by several hours of action games over the course of a few weeks, she found that they were far better at the rotation task when tested again after the gaming period. But here’s the best part: the improvement was still there five months after having done the training.
“That’s really, really important,” Bavelier says. “Why? Because [if] we want to use these games for education or for rehabilitation, we need to have effects that are going to be long-lasting.”
Using the Neuroscience of Games to Boost Learning
The University of California, San Francisco has opened a new laboratory to explore these patterns further. The Neuroscape Lab is esentially a room containing two large screens. One screen displays a game; the other displays what’s going on in the gamer’s brain as he or she plays. Neuroscape’s team is working to design the most entertaining and educational program imaginable: a game that responds to your brain activity, sensing where a particular task activates the brain, and then adjusting to challenge that particular network.
Bavelier puts it this way: “After one month of release of the game Call Of Duty: Black Ops, it had been played for 68,000 years worldwide, right? Would any of you complain if this was the case about doing linear algebra?”
“The game will essentially understand where the weaknesses are, and then change the mechanics to put pressure on those processes to lead to improvements,” Gazalley told Amy Standen, radio reporter for KQED Science.
But will these improvements transfer to brain function outside of the gaming world?
It appears that they will. Here is some of the new and fast-growing research that supports the idea of transferred learning:
In a paper published in Nature last September, Gazzaley and his co-authors showed that older adults were better at multi-tasking in real life scenarios after training on a game called NeuroRacer. They first recruited around 30 participants for each of six decades of life, from the 20s to the 70s, and confirmed that multi-tasking skills as measured by the game deteriorated linearly with age. They then recruited 46 participants aged 60–85 and put them through a 4-week training period with a version of NeuroRacer that increased in difficulty as the player improved. After training, subjects had improved so much that they achieved higher scores than untrained 20-year-olds, and the skill remained six months later without practice.
In February, Italian researchers found that playing fast-paced video games can improve the reading skills of children with dyslexia. The team separated children aged 7 to 13 into two groups, one of which played an action game called “Rayman Raving Rabids,” while the other played a slower-paced game. When the reading skills of the children were tested afterwards, those who played the action game were capable of reading faster and more accurately. The authors of the study hypothesised that the action games helps kids increase their attention spans, a skill considered crucial to reading.
In 2012, scientists at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston found that high school gamers who played video games two hours a day were better at performing virtual surgery than non-gaming medical residents. The players had completed a series of tasks on a device that replicated real surgeries and measured skills in 32 different categories, such as hand-eye coordination, pressure on the controls and timing. A separate study found that surgeons who played video games for at least 3 hours a week saw 37 percent fewer mistakes during laparoscopic surgery.
So when will we start accepting this data enough to use it in a formal learning setting? Bavelier puts it this way: “After one month of release of the game Call Of Duty: Black Ops, it had been played for 68,000 years worldwide, right? Would any of you complain if this was the case about doing linear algebra?”
We need to drop the assumption that video games lead to brain rot and embrace the very real picture scientists are painting for us.
How to Ditch Your Biases
We’ve all heard, and probably believed, the idea that too much screen time makes your eyesight worse. Well, Bavelier has actually tested this statement in the lab. People who don’t play a lot of action games, and don’t actually spend a lot of time in front of screens, have normal vision, she says. What happens when these people indulge in playing video games five hours per week, 10 hours per week, 15 hours per week? Their vision improves. It’s better than those that don’t play.
“And it’s better in two different ways,” Bavelier says. “The first way is that they’re actually able to resolve small detail in the context of clutter,” like being able to read the fine print on a prescription without needing a magnifying glass. “The other way that they are better is actually being able to resolve different levels of gray. Imagine you’re driving in a fog. That makes a difference between seeing the car in front of you and avoiding the accident, or getting into an accident.”
Bavelier says her team is actually leveraging that work to develop games for patients with low vision, and to have an impact on retraining their brain to see better. Clearly, when it comes to action video games, screen time doesn’t make your eyesight worse.
Another idea you’ve heard before is that video games lead to attention problems and greater distractability. Bavelier has measured that in the lab, too, and found that people who play a lot of action games are actually more attentive.
“Actually, those action video game players have many other advantages in terms of attention, and one aspect of attention which is also improved for the better is our ability to track objects around in the world. This is something we use all the time. When you’re driving, you’re tracking, keeping track of the cars around you. You’re also keeping track of the pedestrian, the running dog, and that’s how you can actually be safe driving.”
The parietal cortex, which controls the orientation of attention, the frontal lobe, which controls how we sustain attention, and the anterior cingulate, which controls how we allocate and regulate attention and resolve conflict, all operate more efficiently in people who play action games.
Bavelier also says gamers are better at multi-tasking.
“When we design tasks on the computer where we can measure, to millisecond accuracy, how good they are at switching from one task to another, we actually find that people that play a lot of action games are really, really good. They switch really fast, very swiftly.” Different video games have a different effect on your brain, though, so Bavelier concedes that you actually need to step into the lab and really measure the effect of each video game to get an accurate picture.
The lesson here is that “general wisdom carries no weight.” Our previously held conceptions about gaming simply don’t hold when science enters the picture. It’s time for educators around the world to start paying attention to what the brain is telling us, or risk losing a priceless opportunity to engage future generations of students and enhance learning.
About Saga Briggs
Saga Briggs is Managing Editor of InformED. You can follow her on Twitter@sagamilena or Facebook.
Chennell Camejo says:
February 1 2015 at 6:32 am
Very informative. Thank you for sharing.
Saga Briggs says:
Thank you for reading, Chennell!
Paola Cigno says:
Reassuring and informative reading on the one hand, however anyone with teenaged kids will naturally be alarmed at the number of hours spent on gaming to the detriment of reading on paper or even, dare I say, going to the park. I’d better not tell my kids that their brains will actually increase, not to mention heighten their eyesight. Their heads are already big enough and their self-complacency alarming.
February 7 2015 at 10:57 am
Hi Paola, thanks for your comment. You are right that certain health risks come along with playing hours upon hours of video games–even if kids are exercising their brains more than we thought, they still aren’t exercising their bodies. But I don’t think that discouraging binge playing or hiding the benefits of video games will solve anything. Kids binge on games because they know they aren’t supposed to. If we encourage them to play, and help them connect the dots between games and brain health, then maybe they will begin to see the potential for other forms of learning to be just as fun.
Steve Mahaley says:
February 11 2015 at 9:01 am
Saga – thanks so much for this coverage of real research into the area of games and neuroscience. What a breath of fresh air. Much of this has been my experience (myself and for students I used to teach) and made sense intuitively when you just observe what folks can do when their brains are challenged in interesting ways, and engrossed in puzzle solving.
I’ll keep thinking about how to apply this to adult learning; my challenge continues to be both how to match the right kind of game to the right kind of learning outcomes, AND how to overcome the biases mentioned above.
Patricia Colley says:
March 26 2015 at 1:45 am
Not surprising to hear these benefits. And other commenters have pointed out the lack of physical exercise that kids get when they spend too much time online. There are other, more subtle risks as well.
Eyesight will begin to suffer from physical and neurological damage from looking at computer screens over a span of years. Night vision will be reduced. And the peripheral vision “muscles” may also start to atrophy. These are normally not dramatic changes but they are long-term risks. In my mind, that offsets the “improvements in eyesight” cited in the article.
More importantly, it’s not just that kids don’t go outside and exercise. Deep focus, concentration and immersive skill building are all extremely valuable skills to develop for problem-solving, complex task completion, and imaginative thinking. But only doing that in one very specific category (or “world” in video game parlance) can cause their cognitive “worlds” to become too narrowly focused.
For some, it becomes obsession, or compulsion. People along a certain spectrum may be inspired to withdraw even further. There are studies that show people further out on that spectrum do benefit greatly from certain games. But the fact remains, social skills and possibly cognitive skills suffer because kids are too drawn into a very narrow band of thinking and interaction. Their awareness of the world around them shrinks to the size of the screen and the depth of the game. Some can pop right back out. Others can’t stop thinking and talking about the game.
I have no problem with video games. I believe kids should play as much as they like. As long as everyone remains mindful of their need to be well-rounded human beings.
Some people go through phases where they do hardly anything else, but eventually develop other interests. Kids will do what kids will do, and I think we can afford to give them a wide berth. Too much control will only cause rebellion. You cannot protect kids from their own decisions. You can only prepare them to make good ones.
At a basic social level, it’s our job as parents, mentors and role models to teach kids some measure of self-discipline and social responsibility. At a self-actualizing level, it’s our job to do whatever we can to gently foster the expansion of their minds, broadly and deeply, across the span of their formative years. And it may take the entire span for them to get it. Some never do. Despite your best efforts, your kid may grow up to be a socially-awkward gaming convention fixture, so deal with that.
Gameplay can be very beneficial – and has proven valuable in delivering learning strategies. But this is not s not a black or white issue. Like most things in life, it’s all in how you use it, and in your ability to maintain a balanced perspective.
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Feds concerned about loophole that may have enabled UO to get alleged rape victim's records
Updated Jan 09, 2019; Posted Jun 13, 2015
By Richard Read | The Oregonian/OregonLive
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A student sitting in a chair such as this one in the UO Counseling Center can express intimate thoughts and feelings to a clinician, whose notes may be given to university lawyers without her foreknowledge or consent, if a federal official's interpretation of privacy laws is accurate. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., want to close that loophole to keep student records confidential.
(Mary Jane Schulte, for The Oregonian)
A top U.S. Department of Education official has expressed concern about a loophole in a federal law that allows schools such as the University of Oregon to gain access to students' private health-treatment records.
Kathleen Styles, the agency's chief privacy officer, sent a letter replying to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who along with Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., wrote almost three months ago to inquire about potential loopholes. The correspondence began after the UO Counseling Center gave university lawyers confidential therapy records in December of a student who says she was gang raped multiple times by three Ducks basketball players.
Styles' letter is the first statement by a senior federal official identifying a legal loophole that the University of Oregon may have used to gain access to the woman's therapy records. Styles' letter shows that federal education officials are concerned about the loophole, that they value student confidentiality and that they may issue national "guidance" instructing how privacy laws should be applied.
Wyden and Bonamici issued a joint statement in response, saying they would continue working with the U.S. Education Department to ensure student health records stay private whether they are on or off campus. They stopped short of saying they would file legislation.
"The Department of Education affirmed that students on college campuses are not given the same privacy protections that private citizens have when it comes to their health records," Wyden and Bonamici said in the written statement. "The last thing sexual assault victims should have to think about is whether their own words could be used against them when they seek help."
Federal and state lawmakers have jumped in to close loopholes since Dec. 10, 2014, when the UO Counseling Center complied with a request from university lawyer Samantha Hill to produce the unidentified freshman's confidential records without her consent or foreknowledge.
The Clackamas County woman is suing the UO, in part for the handling of her therapy file. State regulatory boards are investigating Hill, UO Interim General Counsel Douglas Park, Counseling Center director Shelly Kerr and three other UO psychologists in connection with the release, which Kerr tried to keep secret.
Both the lawsuit and the investigations concern state laws - and, for the psychologists, the American Psychological Association's ethics code - instead of federal laws that could be cited by the university as justification.
Federal laws and their interactions are complex. "Students are understandably getting lost in a maze of federal and state education and health laws when it comes to the implications of their medical treatment decisions," Wyden and Bonamici said.
Some national experts, for example, have urged students to avoid getting therapy at campus counseling centers, given what happened to the UO student's records.
In her June 8 letter, Styles discussed both FERPA (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act), HIPAA (the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) which is the province of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department.
"While both the HIPAA Privacy Rule and FERPA provide important privacy protections," Styles wrote, "we are concerned about the possibility that FERPA may offer fewer confidentiality protections than the HIPAA Privacy Rule in the limited instances where institutions choose to share treatment records with their attorneys in conjunction with litigation between the student and the institution."
HIPAA, she wrote, permits disclosure of protected health-care information to in-house counsel when litigation relates to an institution's health-care operations.
In comparison, Styles wrote, "FERPA's exception to consent for disclosure to school officials more broadly permits an educational institution to disclose, without a court order, treatment records to in-house counsel in the context of litigation with the student provided the institution has determined that counsel has a legitimate educational interest in the records."
Bradley Tellam, a lawyer defending Hill from a complaint filed with the Oregon State Bar, wrote that the Counseling Center records became "education records" under FERPA on or about Nov. 18, "when the student obtained the records and provided them to her attorneys for use in the litigation against UO."
Education records covered by FERPA are not confidential health information under HIPAA or state law, Tellam wrote in his March 27 letter to the Oregon State Bar. Therefore, he wrote, Hill's request for the records "was entirely appropriate and did not violate any state or federal law."
"Moreover," Tellam wrote, "student consent was unnecessary because Ms. Hill was a 'school official' with a legitimate interest in gathering and preserving the records."
Hill obtained the records, Tellam wrote, in response to a letter from the student's lawyer demanding that the university instruct employees to produce electronic copies of their relevant files and to make sure that all back-up materials were identified and safely stored. Tellam asked the Bar to dismiss the complaint against Hill filed by Counseling Center clinician Jennifer Morlok, identified in another Bar filing as the therapist of the woman who says she was raped.
Jennifer Middleton, one of the student's lawyers in Eugene, has said that by the time the university received the "litigation hold" letter, Hill and Park knew the student's attorneys already had the therapy records. Therefore, she said, nothing in the letter required Hill to procure the records from the Counseling Center.
In her letter to Wyden, Styles wrote that, "the Department, like you, believes student privacy is crucial, particularly for sensitive treatment records." She noted that Education Department officials have had several conversations with Wyden's staff members, "and we look forward to continuing to work with you on these issues."
"We are currently reviewing these issues to determine whether to release additional guidance on this subject," Styles wrote. The Education Department regularly issues "Dear Colleague" letters containing guidance on how to follow complex laws under its jurisdiction.
Asked for comment Friday, Tobin Klinger, a UO spokesman, wrote in an email that, "the university greatly appreciates Sen. Wyden and Rep. Bonamici's interest and leadership on this critical issue."
Styles' response to their inquiries, Klinger wrote, "is an important first step in the policy discussions about privacy, confidentiality and student confidence in university services."
"The university is eager to work with state and federal officials on initiatives designed to meet the needs of our students and bring an end to sexual assault on college campuses," Klinger said.
Klinger did not specify which section of FERPA or HIPAA University of Oregon attorneys used to obtain the student's therapy records.
A lawyer representing the UO also obtained confidential Counseling Center therapy records for Laura Hanson, another student who said she was raped in 2013 by a fraternity president, according to Middleton, the Eugene lawyer. Hanson obtained a $30,000 settlement from the university after claiming under Title IX that the UO mishandled her allegations, the Eugene Weekly reported.
-- Richard Read
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Red Hot Rage
The war continues. And the Maoists retain the upper hand for now.
Debarshi Dasgupta, Yeshwant Dhote 10 June 2013
Debarshi Dasgupta, Yeshwant Dhote June 10, 2013 00:00 IST Red Hot Rage
It is now almost routine. Every summer, after the biting cold of winter has receded and the monsoon is yet to make the thick jungles of Chhattisgarh even more inhospitable, Maoists launch their most audacious strikes of the season at the Indian State. If it was the massacre of 76 CRPF jawans in Dantewada in April 2010, last week saw the brutal attack on the top Chhattisgarh leadership of the Congress—momentarily dislodging the attention of urban Indians from such flighty matters as the IPL controversy to a real war, one where people die. The government may have showcased a lower death toll in Maoist-held areas this season, but the May 25 attack on a Congress convoy returning from a political rally left no doubt that the Maoists retain the power to strike hard. The Bastar massacre left 29 dead, with special violence being visited on Salwa Judum founder and party leader Mahendra Karma, as well as state Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel and his son Dinesh.
So where does this ‘retributive’ attack leave the fight against Maoism? What path should the state take from this point? Can a ‘security’ approach ever offer a permanent solution to the Maoist riddle? Questions arose one after the other as the government and the party tried to come to terms with the news. Yet, no doubt, the brazen attack will beget a hard and matching response from the state. Security experts have been suggesting on television that no war is ‘clean’. It is inevitably ‘dirty business’, implying a price needs to be paid, if required with the deaths not just of combatants, but also of innocents.
“I identified Patel but pleaded with them to spare him. They threatened me and shouted at me to go away.”
Kavasi Lakhma, Konta Congress MLA who survived
Former Chhattisgarh DGP Vishwaranjan is an exemplar of this approach. While refusing to use the term “all-out war”, he says the state must pile on “constant pressure” on the Maoists and “batter them into submission”. “Keep them on the run till they get tired, till they have a rethink on their core ideology that seeks to overthrow the Indian State through violent means,” he adds. “Yes, we have to try and reach equilibrium as far as socio-economic problems are concerned, but through democratic means, not with arms. Development is something that can be carried out in a scenario of peace, not war.”
Here, what came to be spoken about were the rites of war, an enactment of surplus violence: the Maoists, including women cadres, reportedly did a ‘victory dance’ around Karma and stabbed him 78 times, and killed Nand Kumar Patel’s son in front of him. The convoy of over 40 cars carrying these leaders and other workers was crossing Darbha Ghat that Saturday afternoon. They were on their way to Jagdalpur from Sukma, where they had just concluded a parivartan rally. An ied explosion blew up the first vehicle, bringing the others to a halt. This was when a reported band of over 150 Maoists, including over 30 women, started firing indiscriminately on the cars. Once the security forces accompanying the leaders ran out of ammunition, the Maoists descended, reportedly pinching people to ensure they were dead. They then asked for Karma and the two Patels to be identified, after which they took them to a nearby ditch and killed them. Senior leader V.C. Shukla was luckier as he had left Sukma later than the others and was at the end of the convoy. His Telugu-speaking driver pretended he was a businessman.
Prime targets A bloodied V.C. Shukla on his way to a Raipur hospital
The Maoists need not have spelt out why they chose these particular leaders as their targets—especially Karma—but a Communist Party of India (Maoist) press release, issued two days after the attack, did so anyway even as it claimed responsibility. For Karma, they invoked the anti-Naxal militia of Salwa Judum, which had itself become a byword for terror for adivasis; Patel because he had deployed paramilitary forces in the jungles of Bastar as state home minister; and Shukla because he was “an enemy of the common man”.
What no one can understand, however, is how the Maoists managed to strike with such deadly precision. Was it because of the poor security arrangements by the state administration? Or the foolhardy approach of the Congress leaders in having nearly its entire leadership file in together into the Maoist lair? Or did the Maoists simply get the better of the state this time? So striking was the attack that it triggered several political conspiracy theories as well. Especially because the attack eliminated two CM hopefuls (Patel and Karma) and severely injured another (former Union minister Shukla).
“Any area with governance deficit and lack of respect for locals turns a space for people’s alienation.”
E.A.S. Sarma, Former bureaucrat
That this attack came at a time when the Congress, including Karma, had adopted a conciliatory and softer approach towards the tribals hasn’t helped quell these theories either. The attack also accentuated yet again the perennial problem of coordination between the state and central forces. Separate inquiries by the National Investigation Agency and a state-appointed judicial commission may (or may not) throw some light on these issues.
Caught in this speculative storm around an insider’s hand is Konta Congress MLA Kavasi Lakhma, who was travelling in the same vehicle as Patel but who managed to come out alive. Strongly dismissing any such aspersion, he told Outlook, “I identified Patel once the Naxals asked me to but I pleaded with them to spare him. They threatened me and shouted at me to go away. I came straight to the police station. I still don’t know why they let me go.” Ajit Jogi too defended Lakhma (see interview with the former CM.)
The air has been further vitiated by the political bickering between the Congress and the BJP, each trying to get the other to accept responsibility for the tragedy. There has understandably been a growing clamour to fix responsibility for this high-profile strike. “Almost the entire Congress leadership of Chhattisgarh has been wiped out,” minister of state for home R.P.N. Singh told TV channels. “The buck will have to stop somewhere.” Bastar SP Mayank Shrivastava was suspended days after the attack. On May 30, the Congress accused the Raman Singh government of being responsible for the attack and backed out of an all-party meet on the issue.
Mahendra Karma, Nand Kumar Patel and son Dinesh
In this charged atmosphere, there are many who caution the government against adopting a hardened military stance that treats the Maoist problem solely as a law and order issue. “It is clear that there has been a security lapse,” says retired bureaucrat E.A.S. Sarma, who was one of the legal petitioners in the Supreme Court to push for a ban on Salwa Judum. “It should be investigated thoroughly, and those responsible for this heinous attack must be brought to book. There is no place whatsoever for violence in a parliamentary democracy.”
His concern, essentially, is to ensure a short-term approach to problem-solving not lead to a long-term problem, making it worse than the original one. “If the government moves away from development to treat this strictly as a law and order problem, it is not going to be a solution. It will only worsen the problem; as the experience so far has shown.”
“There are large tracts free of violence. At least there one should ensure devolution of power.”
Ajay Dandekar, Gujarat Central University, Gandhinagar
Unfortunately, these are dangerous times when a pro-adivasi stand or even a purely pro-Constitution one, which calls for nothing more than to give the tribals what the rulebook promises them, is immediately tagged as a pro-Maoist ideologising. For those like Sarma, a solution is possible only if justice is pursued vigorously and tribal rights implemented effectively along with professional security measures. This would mean avoiding civilian casualties and punishing those responsible for killing innocent tribals. The buck must stop not only when Congress leaders are killed but also when innocent tribals are murdered, as it happened in Edesmetta in Bijapur on May 17.
The basic measures key to a solution may or may not entail flooding the forests with troops but certainly fulfilling the law would be a part of it. For instance, implementation of tribal rights such as those scripted in the Forest Rights Act 2006 that gives both individuals and the community land ownership, adherence to the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution, whose Clause 5 even allows existing laws to be amended to suit tribals, and remaining faithful to the Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act 1996 that empowers gram sabhas to decide on local governance. And a lot remains to be achieved on these three counts. “The government should know that any area where there is a governance deficit and where the local communities’ views are not respected becomes a space for people’s alienation and extremist tendencies,” says Sarma.
But won’t the Maoists, for whom the cause of the locals only helps form a justificatory narrative for their aim of a violent overthrow of the state, find some other pretext to carry on with their armed struggle even if the tribals are given what should be theirs rightfully? Ajay Dandekar of the Central University of Gujarat in Gandhinagar thinks an effective local governance system will go a long way in whittling down the support base for Maoists amongst the tribals. “There are large tracts that are free of violence,” he says. “At least there, one has to ensure devolution of power and an effective participation of locals in local governance.”
Government officials have always pleaded that more often than not, development work cannot be carried out in Maoist-held areas because they are fundamentally opposed to any progress that might undermine their support base. To which, the critics retort that without development, this war can never be won. Are we then perpetually condemned to this hamster wheel?
“Keep them on the run till they rethink their core ideology to overthrow the state via violence.”
Vishwaranjan, Former Chhattisgarh DGP
A former collector who has served in the Maoist-held areas of Chhattisgarh and who wishes to remain anonymous as he’s a serving bureaucrat, says the way forward is to build trust. “Make the tribals realise that the Maoists are not at all for them,” he says. For instance, he points out, the Maoists have never done anything about the local petty dealers who continue to practise an unfair barter system with the tribals even in this 21st century, because it suits their interests. “Trust has to be built with them. It’s not the dream of the adivasis to capture the Red Fort,” he says. As of now, given the political history of India’s tribal tracts, there is a trust deficit. Maoism, rather than being contained, is taking hold in newer areas such as Assam.
One successful example being touted as a possible model to ward off the Maoist threat is the one in Mendha Lekha. This village in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra is the first in the country where the Forest Rights Act 2006 has been implemented in full, giving locals and the gram sabha the right to land and local forest produce. This success has angered the Maoists, who are said to have even issued petulant threats to locals in Mendha Lekha asking them to pull back from this cooperation. To their benefit, though, the state hasn’t been able to replicate this success elsewhere.
Even Saranda in Jharkhand, supposed to be an emulation-worthy model of developing areas wrested from the Maoists, now evokes more suspicion than inspiration. Development measures have been scant, patchy and slow to take off in this showpiece block where the state ought to have mounted a full frontal developmental assault instead.
Not just that, despite promises by Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh not to allow private mining in this region, known for its abundant iron ore deposits, mining leases are being handed out now that the Maoists have been kicked out. Over 1,500 hectares of forest land here in this West Singhbhum district were passed on to JSW Steel Limited and Jindal Steel and Power Limited earlier this year. The much-touted Saranda Development Plan has now become a ‘Saranda Business Plan’ for many—in other words, a retrograde step in the fight to curb Maoism.
Indeed, the CPI(Maoist)’s press release had some tough questions for the government. “Does your ‘democracy’ only applicable (sic) to the mass murderers like Mahendra Karma and ruling class agents like Nand Kumar Patel? Whether the poor adivasis of Bastar, the elderly, children and the women come under the umbrella of your ‘democracy’ or not? Are the massacres of adivasis a part of your ‘democracy’?” Not that the Maoists offer any ethical alternative. But as an armed retaliation looms closer, the State can hardly afford to give the tribals any reason to believe that the democratic system doesn’t hold them dear. This has to be a war to win their heart and minds, not their land and resources.
An all-out war that risks large casualties, including deaths of innocent tribals
A prolonged low-grade and localised conflict, backed up by a development offensive as and when areas are liberated
Enhance development work in vulnerable but violence-free areas
Sincere efforts at ensuring justice for tribals, just as those behind killing Congress officials are brought to book
Offer of talks, matched up with a truth and reconciliation commission
Purification Hunt That Turned Rogue
Originally comprised tribals, including minors, who were armed to fight the Maoists in a state-backed initiative
Literally meaning a “purification hunt” in Gondi, it began as a move to oppose a Maoist ban on collecting tendu leaves
Its supporters said they represented tribal anger against Maoists; soon enough, swamped by accusations of atrocities
After a long public campaign and petition, the Supreme Court in 2011 ruled that the state must disband the force
Post-judgement, few of the Salwa Judum cadre could return to their villages for fear of tribal/Maoist reprisals
Initially formalised as SPOs or special police officers, former cadre have now been incorporated into an auxiliary force, at a salary of Rs 8,000 a month and other benefits
There are about 4,500 of them, now forming part of the overall security apparatus engaged in anti-Maoist operations
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Unlit Lamps In Attics
Leprosy's ancient stigma still festers in India. It's time we cut the pain.
Navin Chawla 28 April 2008
Navin Chawla April 28, 2008 00:00 IST Unlit Lamps In Attics
The stigma born of leprosy cuts across all man-made barriers of race, caste, class and religion. Even after the leprosy bacteria is absent in the body thanks to now easily accessible medicine, the tell-tale scars pursue that unfortunate, affected person till the end. A generation or two ago, smallpox signs on the face were sometimes seen as a visitation of past sins. In the case of leprosy, this is sadly a perception that even the educated continue to have. From Malaysia to Japan to large parts of Africa, where the disease or its remnants exist, societal discrimination causes the leprosy-affected to be confined to slums and ghettos at one end of the spectrum, to more sanitised colonies and dormitories in more affluent societies.
Suresh (name changed), about 40, has no leprosy, but is a victim of its stigma. This is because his parents were afflicted with the disease. He was separated as a child from his parents and grew up in a hostel. That they are now cured seems to matter little to Suresh's peer group. He was lucky to get a government job. From the first, his colleagues began to shun him. What hurt him most, I once asked. He said his colleagues would not allow him to join them for lunch. A few weeks ago, some 18 years later, I asked him whether attitudes had changed. He gave a rueful smile that said all.
Suresh is fortunate. Not directly scarred, the security of a government job helped him break away from poverty and into the middle class. Asha (name changed), however, died a miserable death. Once the matron of a well-known prep school (where her charges over the years included many of the rich and privileged), she contracted leprosy in her later years. Terrified of its disclosure, she hid it for several years. Treatment in the early years would have cured her easily, and there would have been no ulceration. When nerve damage and ulceration set in, she became an embarrassment to her sons. Asha was brought to Mother Teresa's leprosy centre in Delhi. One day, when I was accompanying Mother Teresa on a round of the dormitories, she stopped to console Asha, a tiny woman with bandaged stumps for hands and feet. Mother Teresa told me she missed her elder son terribly. He had not visited her even once in the last few years.
India has eliminated leprosy as a public health problem. In the early '80s, the government set up the National Leprosy Eradication Programme. At first, the medicines were expensive and the administration seemed hard put to handle the enormous challenges of a 4 million caseload. But, a well-coordinated control campaign has proved its efficacy. Under the aegis of the Union government, multi-drug therapy is provided free of charge by Novartis through WHO. The central government provides the administrative apparatus, distribution and back-up. This effort is now also being assisted by Japan's Sasakawa Foundation, as well as by many committed NGOs. These efforts have helped to bring the caseload down to one case per 10,000 population (by December, 2005) and the total caseload to less than one lakh. A few states still lag behind, but we can see an end to this terribly disfiguring and traumatising disease. Speaking of NGOs, I recollect that two decades ago, I visited a German-funded NGO in Salem (Tamil Nadu) whose medical workers covered large distances to ensure that on the appointed day of each month leprosy patients were not only handed out medicines but actually took them, because an essential concomitant of the multi-drug therapy is the strict regularity of the regimen.
While control measures are firmly in place, it is necessary for us as a society to deal with the stigma that the afflicted, cured and even healthy children of the leprosy-affected face. Such is the discrimination that even 'normal' jhuggi-jhopri clusters will not accept anyone who has had any association with the disease. Society's boycott has an adverse affect on their mobility, inter-personal relationships, marriages, and sadly, employment. The disease is seen by even the most enlightened among us as a visitation of past sins or a sign of a hideous blemish. The result is complete exclusion—patients are not easily allowed to use public facilities or to send their children to normal schools. At best, they are seen as objects of pity; at worst, abhorrence. Today, other diseases are accepted—TB is no longer seen as threatening; cardiac disease is actually respectable, as it is viewed (somewhat simplistically) as a rich man's disease. Even AIDS is less dreaded than it was a decade ago, because the great and the good decided to lend the campaign their support. Similarly, the anti-leprosy movement in Africa got a boost when Princess Diana visited a leprosy station where she shook hands with its inmates. Today, in India, we need our icons to also shake a few disfigured, but by no means diseased, hands.
(Navin Chawla, Election Commissioner of India, is the biographer of Mother Teresa, and the author of a report on leprosy entitled The Vocational Rehabilitation and Social Re-integration of the Leprosy Affected in India.)
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Millions of dollars for councils in the Far West
Date: Thursday 17th May 2018
Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional NSW John Barilaro today announced a $20 million package for councils in the state’s Far West to help establish two Joint Organisations and fund air services, better roads, tourism and culture projects in the region.
Mr Barilaro made the announcement after presenting a multi-million dollar funding package to a meeting of representatives from eight Far West councils at Parliament House in Sydney this morning.
Mr Barilaro said the funding was critical to helping the councils deliver for the most remote parts of NSW.
“As Minister for Regional NSW, I recognise the unique needs and challenges of the vast Far West which covers almost half the land area of NSW,” Mr Barilaro said.
“We’ve put millions of dollars on the table to help encourage councils in the Far West to voluntarily join a Joint Organisation,” he said
Late last year the NSW Government introduced legislation to allow local councils in regional NSW to join forces and voluntarily form Joint Organisations.
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No Symptoms? Say Goodbye to Pelvic Exams
A routine doctor’s visit can be stressful, particularly for women, who deal with the added anxiety of undergoing a pelvic exam. But there’s good news for women who dread pelvic exams—the American College of Physicians has just released new guidelines recommending against pelvic exams for healthy, low-risk patients.
Why skip the pelvic exam?
The guidelines, published in the “Annals of Internal Medicine,” are based on an expert panel’s systematic review of studies over the past 68 years. After assessing the evidence, the researchers came to the conclusion that pelvic exams do not lead to any reduction in “morbidity or mortality of any condition.” In fact, they caution doctors that conducting the exams on asymptomatic women can “subject patients to unnecessary worry and follow-up” and “cause anxiety, discomfort, pain, and embarrassment, especially in women who have a history of sexual abuse.”
“The authors of this important analysis found no data to support the use of screening pelvic exams in asymptomatic women at average risk of ovarian cancer,” says One Medical’s Malcolm Thaler, MD. “They reported that not a single study has looked at the impact of the bimanual pelvic exam on the morbidity and mortality from ovarian cancer, other gynecologic cancers, and other conditions like pelvic inflammatory disease and endometriosis in this population.”
Nixing the exams also means avoiding a hefty price tag — the estimated total annual cost of preventive gynecological exams and associated lab and radiology services in the US is about $2.6 billion. And finally, there’s the risk of false positives associated with the exams that can lead to further, unnecessary procedures.
One Medical’s Kyoko Peña-Robles, MD, finds the new recommendations align with her longstanding stance on the issue. “There isn’t good evidence that indicates routine pelvic exams improve health outcomes,” Peña-Robles says. “The potential downsides of performing the exam — increased anxiety, unnecessary worry, unnecessary discomfort — far outweigh any kind of benefits if there is no clear indication for it. If a patient is experiencing pelvic pain or complains of symptoms, however, I’m likely to do an exam to assist in my evaluation.”
In the absence of symptoms, Peña-Robles finds it best to let the patient take control. “I always follow the patient’s lead and welcome the discussion,” she says. “If a pelvic exam helps alleviate any concerns a patient has or simply just makes her feel better, I’ll perform it. I think it’s important for providers to always ask the patient what her preference is and to respect her choice either way. In general, from a strictly medical perspective, the routine pelvic exam isn’t necessary for asymptomatic women.”
How do I stay healthy?
Thaler notes that the guidelines do not address women at an increased risk and women who are symptomatic. “This recommendation also does not change current screening practices for cervical pathology like the Pap test or HPV testing,” Thaler says.
Peña-Robles believes the focus should shift from annual pelvic exams to basic check-ups. “The emphasis should really be more on the annual well-woman exam — it’s important for women to receive regular check-ups to assess their overall health,” she says. “But if they’re not experiencing symptoms, the pelvic exam portion is not a necessary part of this exam.”
If you’re confused, concerned, or just have general questions regarding the pelvic exam and your health, make an appointment and discuss the options with your healthcare provider.
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Year : April-June 2015 | Volume : 12 | Issue : 2
DOI : https://doi.org/10.7199/ped.oncall.2015.6S
Paediatric trauma patients at an adult trauma centre: the kids are all right
Presented in NMPSC 2015, Brighton, UK, 2-3 May 2015
L Clark, M Lazner, C Bevan.
Royal Alexander Children’s Hospital and Freshfield library, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom.
Clark L, Lazner M, Bevan C. Paediatric trauma patients at an adult trauma centre: the kids are all right. Pediatr Oncall J. 2015;12. doi: 10.7199/ped.oncall.2015.6S
Major trauma is the leading cause of death and disability in children. However, compared to adults, paediatric major trauma (PMT) equates to a very small proportion of total trauma deaths. In 2012, England created the Trauma Network. The Royal Sussex County Hospital (RSCH) is an adult MTC with a paediatric trauma unit on the same campus, the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital (RACH). The aim of this study is to review the trauma cases seen at a paediatric trauma unit attached to an adult MTC.
The report is a retrospective review of all trauma patients age <17 years that were directly admitted or transferred to other specialist centres, between 1st August 2013 and the 31st July 2014. It has a particular focus on patients who presented as PMT. Trauma was considered major if, (1) patients were received following a trauma call, (2) patients were identified by Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN), (3) patients had a significant head injury on imaging.
Of the 4979 paediatric patients analysed approximately 10% were trauma. 43 out of the 491 trauma patients were classified as PMT. 53% of paediatric major trauma patients were male. The median age for paediatric major trauma was 10 years, 2 years older than all paediatric trauma. July was the most common month of admission and 84% of patients presented during the day (09:00-22:00). 67% of PMT patients received a trauma call and 44% of patients had data collected by TARN. The median Index Severity Score for TARN patients was 9. The most common type and mechanism of injury was single fracture injury and fall less than 2m respectively. 18.6% of injuries sustained by children assessed as PMT were soft tissue injuries suggesting patients are being over-triaged. 12% of PMT cases were transferred for further treatment and 100% of patients were alive at discharge, including those transferred, with a median length of stay of 2 nights for those admitted and 0 night for those transferred.
RACH is able to treat the majority of PMT, without the need to transfer. However, over-triaging and collecting current trauma data are still problems for the hospital to overcome.
DOI No : https://doi.org/10.7199/ped.oncall.2015.6S
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Per Mar Security Launches Making a Difference Program in 2018
DAVENPORT, Iowa – Per Mar Security Services, a leading provider of total security solutions for residential and commercial clients based in Davenport, IA, launched its Making a Difference Program in July of 2018. The service Per Mar provides to their customers makes a difference in their everyday lives by providing peace of mind and minimizing their risk of losing lives or property. Per Mar’s Making a Difference Program celebrates those instances where their team and solutions deliver excellent service to mitigate a specific threat to a customer. Per Mar is proud to announce the Making a Difference recipients for 2018.
Kent Geppert, Security Officer
Security Officer Kent Geppert was on duty at a customer’s site in Des Moines, Iowa when an employee was feeling ill. He recognized that the employee was experiencing diabetic and cardiac issues, and called for an ambulance. He then began administering stabilizing treatments, as he is also a trained EMT. The employee credits Kent with being instrumental in saving his life.
Dana Cox, Monitoring Center Agent
On June 19, we received a supervisory alarm from a home in Madison, WI. Within 2 minutes, Dana Cox called to notify the customer. The customer called back to thank us as his sump pump had failed in his basement, and he could have had costly water damage in his home. He was very grateful for our service and equipment working exactly as intended, as it has saved his property multiple times.
Steve Herborn, Sales Consultant
Chance Waterman, Technician
Jennifer Saldana, Installation Coordinator
Ryan Ross, Material Handler
A Des Moines, Iowa homeowner requested a security quote online after he had a break-in at his home the night before. Time was of the essence, so Steve Herborn was able to adjust his schedule to meet with him. With the help of Ryan Ross, who quickly ordered parts, and Jenn Saldana, who was able to work him into the installation schedule, Chance Waterman was able to complete the install and the customer had a monitored system within a week. The customer called to thank our team as he had another break-in following installation. The system worked, and the intruder ran right out at the sound of the alarm.
LaShawnica Tatum, Monitoring Center Agent
A residential customer in Davenport, Iowa, had a burglar alarm at 15:00:49 on October 19. LaShawnica Tatum called on the alarm and spoke with the customer by 15:01:08. The alarm was false, as the customer didn’t close their door completely after arming their system. However, she was so thankful for our call to make sure everything was ok. She has been a customer since 2008. She wanted us to know she truly appreciates Tatum and all of our staff, saying they are always courteous and calm. She feels very safe with us protecting her.
Tony Cervantes, Technician
Sylvia Gunter, Service Dispatcher
On the evening of November 26, a grocery store in Beloit, WI, experienced a break-in and robbery. The manager called us right away the next morning, to request service to check the system and add additional protection. Sylvia Gunter rearranged Tony Cervantes's schedule and sent him out first thing. Cervantes was able to install wireless contacts on the roof hatch and trash compactor door, where it had been determined the robber had entered and exited, along with motion detection in the warehouse. The burglar returned three days later, tripped the motion detector alarm and we dispatched authorities. The police arrived with search dogs and the suspect was found in the ventilation ducts. The manager called to thank us for the immediate service, the additional protection solution and being able to install that same day.
Darice Cossom , Security Desk Officer
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Michael Jones, Security Officer
Stacy Vagos, Security Officer
Ali Al-Obaibi, Security Officer
In December, a Chicago school district customer had a carjacking occur in their parking lot. The victims, a mother and daughter, were unharmed, and informed the Security Desk Officer, Darice Cossom, what had occurred. Cossom quickly notified the School Resource Officer and Security Staff Management to get assistance en route. Lead Security Officer, Gary Rivers, arrived early and was actively patrolling the grounds in a security vehicle. Security Officer Michael Jones, ushered the victims and witnesses into a room and stayed with them until the police officers arrived. Security Officer Stacy Vagos stayed and comforted the daughter while her mother was being interviewed by the police officers. Security Officer Ali Al-Obaibi assisted in the facilitating of tasks and remained diligently at the front door while multi-tasking his assignments. Our security officers were commended for their courageous response as a team to prevent a loss of property from possibly becoming much worse.
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The Spectatorial Press...
«Spectator»-Type Periodicals in International Perspective
Enlightened Moral Journalism in Europe and North America
Studien zur Geschichte europäischer Periodika / Studies in the History of European Periodicals
Edited By Misia Sophia Doms
As soon as the Spectator model spread from England to continental Europe and began to be incorporated in French, Dutch and German translations and adaptions, the respective journalistic networks and negotiations regularly exceeded local, regional, and even national boundaries and took on international dimensions. The contributions of the present volume outline the historical development and the intricate literary, artistic, journalistic and scientific communication and distribution networks of the moral weeklies and periodical essays inspired by the Spectator prototype in Europe and North America. Thus, these periodicals become visible as parts and products of ramified learned and creative negotiations on genres, writing techniques and topics.
Science, Society and Culture
Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2020. 484 pp., 1 fig. b/w, 2 tables.
The European Spectatorial Press in English
Case Study: Cosmopolitanism, National Character, and Spectatorship.
The Spectatorial Press in Dutch
The Spectatorial Press in French
The Late Period of French Spectatorial Writing
The Spectatorial Press in Spanish
The Spectatorial Press in Italian.
Case Study: The Intercultural Dimension of Antonio Piazza’s Gazzetta urbana veneta
The Spectatorial Press in German-Speaking Switzerland
The Spectatorial Press from the Holy Roman Empire.
The Early Spectatorial Press from the Area of Today’s Germany and Neighbouring Regions
The Late Spectatorial Press from the Area of Today’s Germany and Neighbouring Regions
The Spectatorial Press and the Spectator Offshoots from the Habsburg Hereditary Lands, from the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg and from the Kingdom of Hungary
The Spectatorial Press from the Kingdom of Bohemia
The Spectatorial Press from the Kingdom of Poland
The Spectatorial Press from the Russian Empire
The Spectatorial Press from Riga
The Spectatorial Press from the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway
Case Study: No Particular Place to go. Allegorical Devices in Jens Schelderup Sneedorff’s Den patriotiske Tilskuer
The Spectatorial Press from the Kingdom of Sweden
The Periodical Essay and the Newspaper in 18th-Century British America
A Case Study from Canada
Index of Periodicals
Chapter Price (Chapters only digitally available)
Case Study: The Beginning of Spectatorial Writing in Italy in the Gazzetta Veneta
Abstract: The contribution focusses on the earliest autonomous forms of Spectator-type periodicals in the Italian peninsula and, specifically, in Venice around the mid-18th century. Its main focus lies on the Gazzetta Veneta (1760–1762), a periodical issued by the Venetian count Gasparo Gozzi (1713–1789). During the second year of its publication period (1761–1762), after Gozzi’s resignation, the editorship of the Gazzetta passes to the abbot and novelist Pietro Chiari, who changes the style of this journalistic venture.
Keywords: Italian Spectator-type periodicals, Venetian journalism, spectatorial writing techniques
A certain new editorial fervour arises in Venice – an urban environment principally dedicated to maritime trade and a privileged destination for European travellers – around the year 1760. The city features both a widespread circulation of newspapers and books, and a port open to influences from all over the world.1 Reflecting the motto of the Roman poet, Horace, which had first been adopted by the essay-periodicals produced under the direction of Addison and Steele in England in the early 1700s, the novel sheets from the city of the Lion of Saint Mark focus on providing readers both with delight and moral education. Among the typical characteristics of the English prototypes that were adopted – in a more or less accentuated form – by these Venetian newspapers of the mid-18th century were:
– the presence of a number of personae (first and foremost, the gazetteer and...
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Rugby|South Africa Captain Kolisi Wins UK Writers' Award
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South Africa Captain Kolisi Wins UK Writers' Award
LONDON — Siya Kolisi was voted the UK Rugby Union Writers' Club personality of the year for 2019 on Monday after leading South Africa to their emotional World Cup triumph in Japan.
The Springboks' captain was recognised with the annual Pat Marshall Memorial Award at the RUWC's annual dinner in London following a poll of its 200-plus members.
The tough flanker, who was appointed South Africa's first black test captain in 2018, helped transform the side to win last year's Rugby Championship and then their third World Cup when they overwhelmed England 32-12 in the Yokohama final.
Kolisi won admirers the world over for his performances on the pitch in Japan and his grace off it, particularly following the triumph when he talked so emotionally and eloquently of his remarkable journey to the game's summit after being raised in poverty by his grandmother in a township outside Port Elizabeth.
The shortlist for the 2019 award, named after the former Daily Express rugby correspondent, was dominated by South Africa, with coach Rassie Erasmus and scrumhalf Faf de Klerk also nominated, along with Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones and Japan skipper Michael Leitch.
Kolisi succeeds Ireland flyhalf Johnny Sexton as winner of the award and follows in the footsteps of greats like the inaugural recipient, Welshman Mervyn Davies in 1976, Jonah Lomu, Martin Johnson, Jonny Wilkinson, Dan Carter and another Springbok captain, Francois Pienaar.
Former Scotland captain Tom Smith received the Special Award in recognition of his service to the game as he battles colorectal cancer.
The 48-year-old prop won 61 international caps between 1997 and 2005 and was a key member of the British and Irish Lions team that completed a 2-1 series victory over South Africa in 1997.
(Reporting by Mitch Phillips Editing by Ian Chadband)
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Football’s roots in Erakor
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Erakor Village is home base for OFC Champions League participants Erakor Golden Star and a place where football runs in the blood. At the end of a rural road in Vanuatu’s Port Vila, a school overlooks the well-used football…
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Raiders star returns to roots
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He may be on his way to making a name for himself as a star in America’s National Football League with the Oakland Raiders, but Shalom Luani still remembers where he came from. “One of the questions I’m always…
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Pahoa leaving her mark
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When it comes to football, finding motivation is easy for New Caledonia’s Jackie Pahoa. It’s a sport she loves more than any other, a sport where she’s keen to leave her mark. And if the 15-year-old’s performances for New…
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Tamanitoakula rewarded for leading from the front
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When Luisa Tamanitoakula arrived in New Zealand two weeks ago she had little idea that the OFC U-19 Women’s Championship would have such an impact on her and her teammates. Dealing with the bitterly cold and wet conditions was…
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Aengari aims to deliver
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For some, playing in front of a very vocal, patriotic home crowd might be intimidating, but for Solomon Islands defender Haddis Aengari it’s part of what drives him. The 26-year-old will once again wear the colours of his nation…
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Longo expanding her horizons
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Football Ferns midfielder Annalie Longo is already one of the most accomplished female players ever produced by New Zealand but is now looking to expand her horizons outside of her own career, a quest that continued with her participation…
New faces eager to make an impact
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Samoa’s and Solomon Islands’ search for technical directors went international this year, calling on Italy-born Valerio Raccuglia to swap Wellington for Polynesia, and former La Liga coach Felipe Vega-Arango Alonso to uproot his life in Spain for a taste…
Simane taking it in his stride
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Didier Simane missed a lot of the lead in to AS Magenta’s 2017 OFC Champions League campaign but the 20-year-old has quickly established himself as an integral member of the squad. “I joined the team about two weeks before…
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Lelengas leading football together
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A third team on the field made history in Navutoka’s 3-2 win against Veitongo FC in the TFA Women’s League Stage 2 final last week, with three Lelenga siblings officiating together for the first time in their careers. With…
Unknown quantity catches Gamel’s eye
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To many the name Josateki Tamudu doesn’t mean much. But for Fiji’s new national coach Christophe Gamel the name marks the future of football in the island nation. Playing for Rewa FC in domestic competitions, Tamudu’s attractive style of…
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Brian Setzer Orchestra cancels its Christmas…
Brian Setzer Orchestra cancels its Christmas Rocks! Tour due to illness
The band was set to close out its 16th annual holiday run in Southern California with shows in Palm Desert and LA.
Brian Setzer Orchestra has been forced to cancel its annual Christmas Rocks! Tour, which was set to wrap in Southern California in December.
By Kelli Skye Fadroski | kfadroski@scng.com | Orange County Register
Santa Setzer will have to sit out his annual Christmas Rocks! Tour due to a severe case of tinnitus. The Brian Setzer Orchestra’s 20-city run, which is now in its 16th year, has been cancelled after Setzer’s diagnosis.
“It’s heartbreaking to disappoint my fans who have shared my Christmas seasons with me for over fifteen years,” he said via a press release issued on Monday, Nov. 11. “I’m truly sorry for the inconvenience this has caused all of the amazing people who make my tour happen and to my unbelievable loyal and devoted fans. I hate to let you down and I hope you’ll understand.”
BSO was set to close out its run with two stops in Southern California on Friday, Dec. 20 at McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert and Saturday, Dec. 21 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
The 19-piece orchestra comes together every holiday season to play songs off of its three Christmas albums including 2002’s “Boogie Woogie Christmas”; 2005’s “Dig That Crazy Christmas”; and 2015’s “Rockin’ Rudolph.” The band also throws in a few Stray Cats hits, too.
Tickets will be refunded at the point of purchase.
Community gathers for Festival of Lights celebrations in Laguna Woods
Rose Parade float shines the spotlight on unsung humanitarians: Adult caregivers
Rainy, windy and snowy weather expected to stick around through late Thursday
Crime survivors focus on ‘good things’ during a day of fun in Irvine
Festival of Lights shines brightly in Laguna Niguel with music, dancing and latkes
Kelli Skye Fadroski
Kelli Skye Fadroski lives for entertainment. She’s worked at The Orange County Register since 2006 and has covered all things music, stand-up comedy, horror and more. When she’s not out reviewing a concert or interviewing some random famous person, she’s catching up on episodes of 'The Walking Dead,' somewhere sampling craft beer, enjoying Taco Tuesday or yelling at the contestants through the TV on 'Celebrity Name Game' for not knowing basic pop culture trivia. She’s also a diehard Detroit Lions fan.
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Surge in subsea expenditure
Global spending on subsea hardware could hit $117 billion during 2014-2018, according to analysts Douglas-Westwood.
Jeremy Beckman • London
Global spending on subsea hardware could hit $117 billion during 2014-2018, according to analysts Douglas-Westwood. This would represent a hike of more than 80% over the previous five-year period. Growth will come mainly from expansion of established deepwater provinces and from large-scale field developments in frontier areas such as East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Around 44% of total expenditure will be directed at projects in water depths of more than 1,000 m (3,281 ft), the analysts added.
The partners in the Perla discovery in the Gulf of Venezuela have agreed on a joint venture to develop the field's condensate. This will be run jointly by PDVSA affiliate CVP (60%) and Eni and Repsol (20% each). Perla's gas, currently under development, should begin flowing by year-end. According to Eni, production should peak at 300 MMcf/d under the current Phase 1, rising eventually to 1.2 bcf/d following implementation of two more phases. The field is in the Cardon block, 50 km (31 mi) offshore in 60 m (197 ft) of water.
Calgary-based CGX Energy has a letter of intent to use the jackupHakuryu-12 for exploration of the Corentyne block off southeast Guyana. The rig is due to mobilize initially to Trinidad in April-May 2015 before starting the program.
Location of the Sagitário discovery in the Santos basin. (Image courtesy Petrobras)
Petrobras has signed 41 concession contracts for blocks awarded under Brazil's 12th Bidding Round. All are in recently explored or mature basins. Petrobras' bid strategy was to increase its gas reserves and to boost production through existing infrastructure.
In the presalt Santos basin the company has completed formation testing of its 1-SPS-98 Sagitário-1 oil discovery well, the first on block BM-S-50. The location was 195 km (120 mi) off the Sao Paulo coast in a water depth of 1,871 m (6,138 ft). Results confirmed carbonate reservoirs with good permeability.
Premier Oil and Noble Energy have entered into a rig-sharing agreement offshore the Falkland Islands after securing a rig for a multiple-well campaign. The harsh environment DP semi is expected to mobilize to the islands during 1Q-2Q 2015 and will drill a minimum of six wells, four operated by Premier and two by Noble. The firm program, due to last 240 days, takes in wells on prospects south and east of Premier's Sea Lion development in the North Falkland basin, and on Noble acreage in the South and East Falkland basin.
Afren plans to expand production from its shallow-water fields off Nigeria. Development drilling was due to start this summer from the newly installed Ebok Central Fault Block extension platform and from a new wellhead jacket on the Okwok field. Additionally, Afren has approval from Nigeria's authorities for the Okoro Further Field development.
Cameroon's government has approved an application to develop the shallow-water Etinde permit by supplying treated gas to a government-sponsored fertilizer plant and an LNG scheme. Operator Bowleven was also granted development and exploration rights over block MLHP-7 within the permit area for an initial period of up to 20 years.
Rosneft and ONGC Videsh plan to team up for exploration and appraisal activity in the Arctic Ocean off northern Russia. Rosneft has also agreed to an Arctic Shelf drilling partnership with Seadrill and the latter's part-owned subsidiary North Atlantic Drilling Ltd (NADL). The accord could lead to Rosneft taking a stake in NADL, which is drilling the first two exploratory wells in the Kara Sea for the Rosneft/ExxonMobil joint venture.
Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula has not impacted Ukraine's existing oil and gas production greatly, according to analysts Douglas-Westwood. However, Ukraine has lost its offshore deposits in Crimean waters with local operator Chernomornaftogas due to be transferred to Russian control. As a result, Ukraine is set to lose out on 50 well completions over the next seven years, the analysts claimed.
Rockhopper Exploration, which made its name discovering the Sea Lion field off the Falkland Islands, has turned its sights to southern Europe. The company has agreed to acquire all shares in Mediterranean Oil & Gas (MOG), subject to approval from shareholders. MOG has production from the Eni-operated Guendalina field offshore eastern Italy, and the company will partner with Genel in this year's deepwater well on the Hagar Qim prospect in block 7 in Malta's Offshore Area 4.
To the northeast, MOG has teamed up with Greek independent Energean Oil & Gas to bid for three blocks off Montenegro, under the Balkan nation's first licensing round. Offshore Greece, Energean and partner Trajan Oil have been awarded a 30-year licensing agreement for the Katokolon block in the northwestern Peloponnese where a state-owned oil company proved oil with a well in 1981. The partners plan new seismic studies and extended-reach drilling from shore to tap Katokolon's oil.
Another consortium involving Irish independent Petroceltic have secured a lease agreement for the Patraikos block offshore western Greece.
Noble Energy and its Israeli partners hope to sanction their second deepwater development project offshore Israel by the end of this year. The first-phase program for the 19-tcf Leviathan field will likely call for a 1.6-bcf/d FPSO system, with gas exported to local and regional markets. Studies are also under way for a second phase involving a floating LNG production system.
Turkish state E&P company TPAO has agreed to purchase Total's 10% interest in the Shah Deniz field in the Azeri sector and the associated onshore South Caucasus Pipeline, for $1.5 billion. Total says it prefers to focus on development planning for its 2011 Azeri offshore gas/condensate discovery Absheron.
Saudi Aramco's frontier deepwater drilling campaign last year in the Red Sea off Saudi Arabia led to discovery of the Al-Haryd oil field, the company declared in its recent annual report. The previous year Aramco proved gas in this region in the Shaur structure. In the northern Red Sea, the company executed its first deepwater drillstem test on the Duba-1 well, in a water depth of 2,127 ft (648 m). Results revealed tight reservoirs that could be suitable for development.
London-based Soma Oil & Gas has started processing 2D seismic recently acquired over Somalia's Offshore Evaluation Area. The company expects to complete evaluation of the 20,500-km (12,738-mi) data set by the end of this year and will provide it to the Ministry of Petroleum & Resources' for storage in a data room in Mogadishu. Soma hopes to identify leads and prospects to assist its bids for production-sharing agreements.
Kenya's government has extended the initial exploration period of the L10B offshore license where earlier this year operator BG Group drilled the Sunbird-1 oil and gas discovery. The partners will use the extension to evaluate the potential for further drilling and the impact on prospects in the adjacent L10A license.
Offshore Tanzania, BG has proved gas in a new structure on the western boundary of block 1. The drillshipDeepsea Metro I drilled the Taachui-1 well, encountering 155 m (508 ft) of net pay in the targeted Cretaceous interval. Partner Ophir Energy estimated a recoverable resource of 1 tcf (28 bcm). The find lifted the partners' discovered volumes from three blocks off Tanzania to 16.7 tcf (470 bcm), potentially justifying a third LNG train in addition to the two under consideration.
Eni has successfully appraised its Agulha gas discovery in Area 4 offshore Mozambique. The Agulha-2 well was drilled in 2,603 m (8,540 ft) of water in the southern part of the block, 12 km (7.5 mi) south of the discovery well. Agulha-2 intersected a 25-m (82-ft) gas column in good-quality Paleocene sandstones. Eni is considering further drilling in the southern area of the block, where estimated reserves have risen to 85 tcf.
Rosneft and ExxonMobil aimed to start engineering and sea surveys this summer for their planned (Russian) Far East LNG project. The proposed 5 MMt/yr LNG plant would draw on gas from the region, including the offshore Sakhalin-1 fields. A new extended-reach drilling campaign should also be under way as part of the second-phase development of Sakhalin-1. The land rig Yastreb was due to drill from shore into the shallow-water northern part of the Chaivo field. The aim is to recover 14 million tons of oil and 12.6 MMcm of gas from the Northern Chaivo project.
Premier Oil has discovered wet gas with a well on the Singa Laut structure in the Tuna PSC offshore Indonesia. The well penetrated 177 ft (54 m) of gas-bearing sands in the target Oligocene sequence – the hydrocarbons appear to be of similar quality to the liquids-rich gas encountered in the nearby Kuda Laut well. Premier plans appraisal drilling on both structures next year.
Offshore Indonesia's East Kalimantan region, Chevron has awarded the McDermott International/PT Encona Inti Industri consortium an engineering, procurement, and construction contract for the Gendalo-Gehem gas development.
Salamander Energy has agreed to sell 40% of two concessions in the Gulf of Thailand to Kuala Lumpur-based Sona Petroleum for $280 million. B8/38 includes the producing Bualuang oil field while the surrounding G4/50 permit is undergoing exploration. Under the transaction Salamander will cover SONA's costs of two wells on G4/50 up to an agreed cap, and in return could receive up to $15 million if a commercial discovery results.
Singapore-based KrisEnergy wrapped up a $102.5-million deal for Mubadala subsidiary MP G10. This gave the company outright control of the G10/48 license in the southern part of the Pattani basin in the Gulf, which includes the shallow-water oil discoveries Mayura, Niramai, and Wassana. KrisEnergy estimates potential resources at 19.6 MMbbl. It planned to submit a Production Area Application later this year with the first-phase development calling for up to 14 wells.
The EP-491 permit in the Barrow sub-basin. (Map courtesy Carnarvon Petroleum)
Carnarvon Petroleum has been awarded three blocks on the eastern side of the oil-prone Barrow sub-basin off northwest Australia. Blocks L11-6, L11-7, and T11-3 cover a total area of 2,310 sq km (892 sq mi) and are south and east of the Wandoo and Stag oil fields and others in the Harriet area. Carnarvon plans to reprocess the relatively recent 3D seismic that covers much of the permits with a view to identifying analogous traps to these discoveries.
Neon Energy has secured its first exploration permit off Western Australia, WA-503-P, in the Dampier sub-basin and on trend with oil and gas fields such as Hurricane and Legendre. Of the two wells drilled to date on the permit, one – Janus-1 – confirmed the presence of a working oil system. Neon will acquire 80 sq km (31 sq mi) of new broadband 3D seismic data by early 2015, focusing on Lower Cretaceous to Upper Jurassic basin margin fan deposits.
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EXCLUSIVE: Koffee With Karan Time Machine Trailer: KWK revisits Shahid Kapoor's moments with Kareena, Priyanka
Koffee with Karan completes 15 glorious years on the small screen. To celebrate their successful run, the show is rolling out the red carpet and taking a walk down the memory lane to revisit some memorable episodes and jaw-dropping moments featuring our favourite stars. This week's episode is all about Shahid Kapoor.
Written By Dishya Sharma 332750 reads Mumbai Updated: September 9, 2019 11:51 am
Last week, they reminded us Shah Rukh Khan is the King of Wit. Now, Koffee With Karan is about to look back at some jaw-dropping moments from the time Shahid Kapoor sat on the couch in the new episode of Koffee With Karan Time Machine. For the unversed, the famous and controversial chat show has rolled out the red carpet to take a stroll through the memory lane. KWK is reminiscing some amazing episodes in the throwback episodes every week. The new flashback themed season kick-started with SRK and now, they are off to look back at Shahid's journey over the seasons gone by.
The second episode of Koffee With Karan Time Machine features all things Shahid: His father Pankaj Kapoor's reaction to Ishq Vishk from Shahid's appearance on the show in 2004. The actor then made an appearance with Esha Deol later on. But he grabbed eyeballs and made the headlines when he walked on the sets with Kareena Kapoor Khan. The throwback episode features moments from the iconic episode.
If that wasn't enough for you, the Koffee With Karan Time Machine episode on the actor features moments from episode when he sat on the couch with his rumoured girlfriend Priyanka Chopra, now Priyanka Chopra Jonas. We also will revisit the electrifying vibe Mira Rajput and Shahid Kapoor shared in their first episode on the show. All set to revisit those internet breaking statements made by Shahid? But before you grab the popcorn and go down the memory lane, check out the trailer before to find out what you are in for:
Koffee With Karan Time Machine, featuring Shahid Kapoor, will premiere this Monday, September 8, 2019, on Star World. Are you excited to watch it? We know we are going to be watching with a huge tub of popcorn. Let us know how you plan on watching the episode in the comments section below.
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Episode 86: Live at Perth Games Festival 2017 - Exhibiting your very first game
We're back for another live episode at Perth Games Festival and this year we're speaking with some early career developers from our home state of Western Australia.
We're back for another live episode at Perth Games Festival and this year we're speaking with some early career developers from our home state of Western Australia. In a freewheeling discussion we talk with Jak and Matt from Artisans Games, who previously joined us on episode 78 & Josh and Gus of Simple Productions who've taken their uni project to the public for the very first time. We spoke with both teams about the value of getting their games in front of the public and what they'd learnt from the experience.
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Best case scenario falls short of Canada’s 2030 GHG goal
But report says country is on track for significant reductions.
April 28, 2016 by CANADIAN PRESS
Deep Decarbonization
OTTAWA — A new study of current and planned emission reduction policies under a best-case scenario finds that Canada still falls well short of meeting its international climate promises.
But the report by the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project says provincial and federal measures have placed the country on track for what it calls “significant reductions” in greenhouse gases, with greater cuts possible.
And it finds that current and developing policies in Canada’s electricity sector are in line with an 80 per cent reduction in GHGs by 2050 – the trajectory needed to reach the Paris climate agreement’s target for holding average global warming to two degrees Celsius.
The research by environmental economists Dave Sawyer and Chris Bataille is the first to take into account new policy developments, including Alberta’s proposed emissions cap and carbon taxes, Ontario’s looming cap and trade market, federal vows to cut methane emissions and Saskatchewan’s new electricity standard.
The authors find that the full suite of measures still leaves Canada 91 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent short of its 2030 target, although that’s much better than the official forecast by Environment Canada.
Under the international Paris climate accord negotiated last December, Canada committed to cut emissions at least 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, a level federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna has called a “floor.”
Canada had previously promised under the 2009 Copenhagen agreement to cut emissions 17% from 2005 levels by 2020.
“Even if all announced policies plus a reasonable set of aspirational policies are implemented in the short term, Canada can still expect a significant gap to both the 2020 and 2030 targets,” says the report released this week.
Four federal-provincial working groups are currently studying a number of climate policy areas and will report back next September prior to a formal first ministers conference.
The goal is to have a pan-Canadian climate policy in place by early 2017 that finally puts the country on a path to meeting its international promises.
In an interview, Sawyer said provinces have already done a lot of heavy policy work over a number of years and the emissions trajectory has been demonstrably lowered. With the further Alberta climate plan and Ottawa’s methane regulations, the oil and gas sector is coming under a significant degree of control.
Meanwhile, “downstream” emissions from buildings and vehicles don’t yet face the same emissions constraints, he said. That points to gaps that can be addressed to further ratchet down greenhouse gases.
“The context is we’re entering into this national discussion where everybody’s screaming about how awesome their policy is, and others are screaming about how easy it is to reduce emissions _ or how hard it is,” Sawyer said in an interview.
“The paper is just trying to objectively take stock and say, ‘Where are we?’ It forms a reference point.”
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Memories Made Possible by Plastics
Plastics Make it Possible asked our community about their favorite childhood toys. We loved the results so much we had to share some of their great toy stories – all made with plastics. Did you have a favorite toy growing up?
“Once upon a time when I was one of the taller school kids I played forward on our middle school basketball team. Team practices were always tough and rarely fun. For the first two weeks, coach kept the rubber basketballs locked up and we just ran sprints and drills. But when we reached the playoffs that year we ran circles around our opponents. I’ll never forget that championship season”
The first basketballs may have been leather, but more than 100 years later, they’re usually made with plastics and plastic composites. That’s why today’s basketballs are more durable and easier to control on the court—whether the players are pros in a stadium or kids in a neighborhood park.
Polycarbonate is the super-strong, impact-resistant plastic used to make bulletproof glass—and possibly your childhood bike helmet. Combine that with a resilient EPS plastic foam lining for cushioning and durable nylon straps for a snug fit, and you were ready to ditch those training wheels like the little daredevil you were.
Sure, standard water guns have been around for decades. But the infamous, pressurized-air-powered piece of toy weaponry that’s taken summertime water fights to a new level? That was invented in 1991, and you and your childhood friends have durable plastics like PVC and acrylic to thank for it.
Since 1959, the Barbie doll—along with most of her accessories—has been made with a range of plastics that helped give this toy its iconic status. Originally molded with PVC, today’s Barbie dolls include other long-lasting plastics such as ABS, EVA, and polypropylene.
Whether it’s a raptor, triceratops, or stegosaurus, dinosaur toys have been inspiring kids’ imaginations for decades. Durable plastics like polypropylene and HDPE make these toys as tough as a real-life T-Rex … well, almost.
From superheroes to soldiers, action figures let kids be just about anything they want to be. The versatility of polyethylene plastic means these toys can be molded into any shape—and stand up to hours of battles with imaginary villains.
Did you know LEGO® debuted more than 60 years ago, and generations of kids across the globe have played with the imaginative little interlocking blocks, thanks to the unique properties of the plastic that allows them to be reused over and over. Do you still have yours?
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Chart of the Week: Most new gun laws since Newtown ease restrictions
By Drew DeSilver
In the immediate aftermath of last year’s school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, majorities of Americans favored several proposals to tighten rules on who could buy guns and what types of guns and ammunition they could buy, according to a Pew Research Center survey. But in the year since Newtown, no new gun-control measures have passed Congress, and most new state laws have loosened, rather than tightened, gun restrictions.
The chart above, compiled by The New York Times, summarizes 109 state-level gun statutes enacted since Newtown. The accompanying interactive provides a state-by-state rundown on legislative activity regarding ten different categories of laws (some statutes cover more than one category).
For example, all but one of the 29 new state laws addressing gun permits (partially shown in the screen capture above) made those rules looser; all 22 laws addressing when guns can be carried in public loosened restrictions. On the other side of the debate, 15 of 17 laws sought to make it harder for mentally ill people to buy guns; 12 of 14 laws tightened rather than loosened rules regarding background checks.
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The challenges of using Facebook for research
By Michael Barthel
When Pew Research Center studied how Americans access and share local news in three cities, we naturally wanted to analyze the role that Facebook played as a means for people to hear about, discuss and share local news. But getting the data we needed proved challenging.
While seven-in-ten online American adults are on Facebook, most do not make the information they share fully public. Facebook allows users to adjust their privacy settings in a number of different ways, which, for researchers, means it’s harder to study the platform holistically.
We decided to focus on the information we could gather on public Facebook pages. But the question then became how to round up relevant public data from Facebook in these cities.
What we did:
Trying to contact and “friend” individual users in each city was impractical and also presented ethical challenges.
Instead, we started identifying public Facebook pages related to news providers in the three cities we selected: Denver, Macon, Ga., and Sioux City, Iowa. Generally these Facebook pages included local media organizations, local celebrities and politicians. The pages were identified as part of the “audit” of each city. Using the public Facebook Application Program Interface (API) – a way to automatically request public data from online services – we pulled all of the Facebook activity of each page during the time period studied.
This meant that the analysis ended up focusing on local news providers and the content they post, rather than what citizens shared or posted themselves – on their own, private Facebook walls – about local news. While not ideal, it seemed the most complete way to study the flow of news in each city – and to be as certain as possible that we were focusing in on that city’s news system.
The API allowed us to easily access how many Facebook posts each public page had during the 14-day time period we studied and how many “likes” and comments each one got. We also used “share” data, but with the caveat that any piece of share data available from the public API represents someone using the “Share” button on the post. It does not reflect someone sharing the post in some other way, such as copying and pasting the link in the post. Using current tools, we had no way of knowing what percentage of overall sharing on Facebook occurs using the Share button.
One way of bringing in some analysis of citizen activity was through the comments users left on public pages. The Facebook data allowed us to capture both the posted content from the managers of that page and comments made by outside users. In this case, it provided access to thousands of comments.
Analyzing comments on the public Facebook pages helped us better understand how users were interacting with these pages, but it posed an ethical question: Do regular Facebook users understand that these comments are truly public and can be accessed for this kind of research?
Since we were unable to truly answer that question, Pew Research Center chose not to publish the content of any of these comments or the names of any of the users who commented. Only the metadata was used: the time and date of the comment; whether it included a photo, video or only text; and if it included a URL. The analysis was then able to focus on the nature of the activity on these public Facebook pages.
What we learned:
In theory, Facebook opens up a space for news and information providers to experiment with new ways to get their message out, interact with the audience and enable the audience to participate.
There was some evidence of this in our analysis. For example, of the 100 most commented on posts in Denver, half included some sort of audience outreach, in which news organizations or newsmakers asked questions, made requests for photos or videos, or conducted online polls. The most commented on post in the time frame we examined, with 564 likes and 639 comments, was posted by Denver’s local CBS TV affiliate: “Would you like to see Hillary as president?”
Although the Hillary Clinton question fell into the category of national news, such instances were relatively rare among the most-commented posts we examined. In each city, at least half (58% Denver, 71% Macon, 54% Sioux City) of the most-commented posts on public Facebook pages we studied were about local news.
Our analysis found that stories that were “big” on Facebook – in other words, attracted a high number of likes and comments – were the same as those that were widely covered in the traditional local press. For example, a house explosion in Denver received the third-most attention on Facebook according to likes, comments and shares; it was also the fourth-most covered story by the mainstream press in the five days of our analysis.
The Facebook posts that drove the most attention did so right away, but attention dropped off quickly. Almost all comments posted by users were made within the first 24 hours.
But overall, most Facebook posts we examined received few if any comments. In Macon and Sioux City, only one-in-three posts had any comments at all (43% did in Denver), and no more than one-in-ten had over 10 comments. Nor were audience members engaging in robust debate on these public pages: The vast majority of users (85% Denver, 88% Macon, 91% Sioux City) made only one or two comments on the pages of local news and information providers during the two weeks we studied.
What worked:
We know Americans increasingly use Facebook to get information and news. Our other research has found that 29% of Americans report liking or following political parties, candidates or elected officials on Facebook, while 36% say the same about news organizations, reporters or commentators and 41% follow issue-based groups.
However, the nature of Facebook as a mostly private network limits what can be learned from it. We were able to learn how news organizations and newsmakers use Facebook to get their message out and how users interacted with those messages. But this is a small sliver of the overall activity on Facebook and represents only a facet of the use of Facebook for local news. The majority of Facebook activity is still private and available only to Facebook itself. Even with just publicly available data, researchers face ethical and privacy concerns when deciding what to publish.
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Michael Barthel is a senior researcher focusing on journalism research at Pew Research Center.
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This pitch-black exoplanet is spiraling toward its doom
WASP-12b’s host star’s gravity will someday shred the entire planet.
By Charlie Wood
WASP-12b is hot, black, and spiraling toward a violent end.NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Somewhere in the constellation Auriga, a world is ending. Fortunately, WASP-12b is an inhospitable planet, so all casualties will be limited to gaseous explosions of apocalyptic proportion. Despite possessing twice the waistline of Jupiter and half again its heft, this giant exoplanet lives so close to its star that it whizzes around once each (Earth) day. It also appears darker than fresh asphalt, trapping almost all of the light that falls on it as heat.
Being this hot, swift, and dark comes with a downside: Under such conditions, the atmosphere burns so intensely that it can’t quite keep itself together. “The planet is so hot that the outermost layers are pumped up,” says Samuel Yee, an astrophysicist at Princeton University. Eventually parts of the planet’s atmosphere expand so far from its core that they fall into its hungry host star. In 2010, researchers gave the planet just ten million years left to live.
But according to new research, WASP-12b may not even have that long. As it wastes away to nothing, a separate gravitational effect also drags the world toward its star, which will rip the planet apart in perhaps 3 million years, Yee and his colleagues argue in their latest paper. Astronomers have long suspected that such planets, appropriately known as “hot Jupiters,” should be especially prone to this fate, but WASP-12b’s death spiral is the first to confirm it.
Researchers discovered WASP-12b in 2008, as its passage in front of its star dimmed the host’s light, causing a daily flicker. Follow-up observations also revealed that the planet’s heat makes it glow, letting astronomers tell when it disappeared behind the star as well.
After years of scrutiny from multiple teams, astronomers noticed that the star wasn’t flickering with perfect regularity. Rather, the sun started to dim earlier and earlier. Researchers initially wondered if a second, unseen planet was mucking with WASP-12b’s orbit, but after further observations the community settled on two possibilities: either the planet traced out an oval path, and the tips of that oval were also advancing slowly around the sun, or the planet was getting closer to its star, and its orbits were getting shorter.
The new research, which appeared in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, settles this debate. The researchers report new data from ten transits (which happen when the planet passes in front of the star) and four “occultations” (when it slips behind). If WASP12-b’s orbital oval were turning, the timing of the planet’s disappearances would evolve differently from those of its transits, because a planet’s speed changes more in an elliptical orbit. By combining their new data with a historical catalog of around 160 transits and occultations, Yee says, the team showed that both events are happening earlier and earlier—a nearly sure sign that the planet’s path shrinks with each new orbit.
The observations suggest that each Earth year, the planet orbits the star about 30 milliseconds faster. Over the course of this past decade, those imperceptible accelerations have accumulated, shifting the onset of WASP-12b’s transits by more than seven minutes overall, Yee says. He and his colleagues predict that in the next three to three and a half million years (a blip in the billion-year lifetime of the system), the planet will dive so close to its star that the increased intensity of gravitational forces will tear it apart.
WASP-12b’s impending demise marks a first for exoplanet astronomy and presents a rare opportunity to peer inside a star by studying its tides.
This alien planet is falling toward its star for the same reason that our moon is moving away from Earth. As the moon gravitationally stretches our planet, it raises the oceans around the equator, creating a tidal bulge. The Earth spins faster than the moon does, so this swell sits a bit ahead of the moon. All objects attract each other gravitationally, and the additional bulk from the higher oceans act as a carrot in front of the moon, spinning it faster and pushing it into a higher orbit. Because of this effect, the moon moves an inch or two further out into space each year.
The WASP-12b is big enough and close enough to its star to act as the moon does to Earth, raising a tide in the stellar material itself (tides stretch the entire planet, land and sea, into a slight, football-like shape. The shift is only noticeable to us in the oceans, though). The star spins much slower than the planet though, so the tidal tango plays out in reverse. The star’s bulge lags behind WASP-12b, slowing its rotation and dragging it inwards into a lower orbit.
While the Earth’s bulging depends on how its oceans rub against the ocean floor, the exact structure of tides on WASP-12b’s yellow dwarf star remains mysterious. “In the star there’s no ocean or surface, so what’s actually going on,” Yee asks.
Some sort of stellar waves must be brokering the transfer of energy from the planet to the star, he says, so measuring WASP-12b’s spiral more precisely will help researchers get a handle on the internal structure of its host star. The planet’s current three-million-year prognosis is already about 10 times shorter than simple calculations predict, indicating that the star may be running out of fuel and entering the final stages of its life.
In the bigger picture, Yee and his colleagues wonder whether tidally induced spirals have killed off other exoplanets. Research from last year has shown that stars hosting hot Jupiters tend to be young, perhaps because older stars have already destroyed their planetary companions. Other researchers speculate that the abundance of heavy elements in some stars could mark the final resting places of dead planets, Yee says. Only further observations of other close orbiting giants will help scientists better understand their fates.
“This is just one particular planet around one particular star,” Yee says, “but as we get more examples we can understand if this is a weird situation or if most [hot Jupiters] end up like this.”
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What draws a crowd? Population Media Center knows that if it's not entertaining, you won't create significant social change.
Empowering women and girls benefits everyone. Population Media Center and the rest of the organizations gathered in Copenhagen for the Women Deliver conference couldn't agree more.
Omi Thapa didn't expect his four-year-old daughter and Nepal's former president to sign the same New Year's resolution. But he did expect to help end child marriage.
Excited and curious reporters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo had a lot of questions for Mathy Babaka Vangu. Mathy answered every question.
Last month, PMC visited Awra Amba. In this Ethiopian village, there is gender equality, every child goes to school, and their neighbors are no longer trying to kill them.
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When women become income earners, communities become safer, healthier, and happier. That's why Population Media Center works to empower women socially and economically.
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Mothers around the world are caring for their children. Population Media Center realizes we must protect, appreciate, and care for mothers.
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It takes many people's voices to create change. Population Media Center advocates on issues to raise awareness and incite action.
The truth is powerful. Population Media Center's fictional storylines and characters are created from what's real.
Kids around the world are learning, laughing, and dreaming. Population Media Center wants this to be the reality for more children.
Population Media Center could not do this work without the help and support of many, many people. It's people like you who change the lives of these little girls.
Population Media Center serial dramas change lives by resonating with the audience, but they also change the lives of the in-country PMC staff.
To empathize, you must love (and hate). Population Media Center dramas build emotional bonds with the audience.
Empowering women also helps protect rivers and streams. Population Media Center works to protect the environment.
How do you reach everyone? Population Media Center brings messages to communities in many ways.
Every hour three more species become extinct. Population Media Center works to save habitats and save species.
A story is only powerful if it's heard. Population Media Center produces programs for the most powerful medium.
Population Media Center knows that every child deserves an education, including girls.
Drama comes in all shapes and sizes. At Population Media Center, we also create dramas for TV.
Women's empowerment benefits everyone. At Population Media Center, we work to promote gender equity.
Good ideas stem from passion. At Population Media Center, we know that local inspiration creates a meaningful program.
In order to communicate, you must listen. At Population Media Center, we find ourselves listening all the time.
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Iceways, a New Generatıon Winter Tyre From Lassa to Enjoy the Winter Driving Safely
ISTANBUL, December 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
Lassa tyres, produced by Brisa Bridgestone Sabanci Tyre Manufacturing and Trading Inc. (Turkey's largest tyre producer and Europe's seven largest producer), introduces Iceways, a new generation studdable winter tyre engineered to deliver high performance specially in heavy winter conditions.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20111212/498793 )
During winter, drivers often face unpredictable and challenging road conditions, which leave little room for error. Iceways features a combination of elements that work together to help drivers face these different winter weather and road challenges confidently.
To give Iceways its superior degree of driving, handling and control in heavy winter i.e. cold and dry, wet, icy and snowy conditions, Brisa engineers incorporated an advanced winter compound and intelligent tread design into Iceways. Iceways' optimized winter compound, developed by considering the artic winter driving conditions, unlike traditional rubber, remains stable before temperature changes, thus ensures excellent grip and traction. Its 3D waved, deep lamellen along with its nail installment property further optimize icy road performance and snow traction. The test results for the Iceways show the tyre's notable strengths in ice, snow and wet performance against its main competitors, which confirm the Iceways' performance capabilities: Iceways perform up to 12 per cent better handling and up to 8 per cent better traction. Its braking distance is shorter up to 17 percent on ice.
"Winter road and weather conditions put extra challenges on driving skills of even the most seasoned drivers. When it comes to road safety, the tyres are one of the most important factors that are effective in minimizing the accident risks. We, as Lassa, strongly advise drivers to prepare themselves and their vehicles for these challenges by using purpose-built winter tyres," said Halit Sensoy, Director of Lassa International Sales and Marketing.
About BRISA: Founded in 1988, BRISA Bridgestone Sabanci Tyre Manufacturing and Trading Inc. (Brisa) is a joint venture company between the Sabanci Group, the leading industrial conglomerate in Turkey and the Bridgestone Corporation of Japan, the world's largest tire and rubber company.
Equipped with state-of-the-art design and production technologies as well as its own dedicated research and development center, BRISA has one of the world's largest tyre production facilities under a single roof with 350,000 m2 surface area. With a 10 million-tyre production capacity, it is Turkey's number one and Europe's seventh biggest tyre producer.
About LASSA: Produced by BRISA, LASSA manufactures and sells a wide range of consumer and commercial tyres in over 50 countries worldwide together with 74 international partners at 5,000 points of sale.
Tested and approved by German TÜV SÜD Automotive, one of Europe's leading testing and certification organizations, the products of LASSA tyres earned the endorsements of several leading global automotive manufacturers operating in Turkey, i.e. Isuzu, Mercedes, Ford, Land Rover, Hyundai, John Deere, Tofas-Fiat, Karsan, Otokar, Mitsubishi, Temsa, TTF-Case New Holland.
Producing durable and high-quality tyres for the drivers, requiring both safety and performance as well as expecting maximum value for the money from their tyre choice, LASSA has strong commitment to sustainability which resonates throughout all of its business activities.
Please visit http://www.lassa.com for more information on LASSA tyres and its international sales network.
Aysegul Seferoglu - Effect PR/Edelman's Turkey Affiliate
Tel : +90(0216)474-00-04 ext: 116
GSM : +90(0537)831-02-71
E-mail : aysegulseferoglu@effect.com.tr
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December 23, 2019 Jordan Nisbet Parent Resources
It’s all fun and games until someone, well, takes away the fun and games. Yes, even the best browser games can be a time-suck sometimes.
But while putting this list together, I read some quotes that made me think about the benefits of browser games (and games in general). Even ones that seem pointless.
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
Nate Silver, American statistician and writer
Games give you a chance to excel, and if you’re playing in good company you don’t even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.
Gary Gygax, American game designer and author
Pretty compelling quotes. So spending time playing games can’t be all bad, right?
In this list of best browser games you’ll find fun for everyone, from classic reboots to fresh new titles.
Jump to a section!
Powerline.io
NoBrakes.io
BrowserQuest
Everybody Edits
Pokémon Showdown
Isleward
Frogger Classic
Flow Colors
Hexar.io
Helicopter Game
Surprising benefits of the best browser games
What are the best browser games?
Scroll down to find out!
Prodigy is a fantasy-inspired MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) with over 50 million players. It’s dedicated to boosting children’s confidence and improving math skills, in a way that’s incredibly engaging.
As a young wizard, you traverse the worlds of Prodigy battling creatures and bosses! (To win, you must answer sets of questions that adapt to your math level.) With every battle your wizard moves closer and closer to finding the long-lost keystones that will unlock the mysterious Academy.
Play Prodigy now!
2. Powerline.io
Remember playing Snake on the indestructible Nokia phone? In this version you’re not just a neon snake — you’re competing with other neon snakes for supremacy.
Beam across the field to eat the cubes that appear when another snake dies and grow longer. But don’t run into other snakes or else you’ll turn into cubes and have to respawn in your original size.
If you want to gain speed, slither alongside other neon snakes. This causes electrical impulses that give you speed which you can use to force other snakes to slither into you!
Play Powerline.io
3. RuneScape
In January 2001, developer Jagex released RuneScape, a point-and-click MMORPG set in the vast, medieval fantasy realm of Gielinor. Take part in over 200 quests while you explore a world filled with diverse races and guilds all seeking power.
You can choose the types of skills you want to train in: Combat, Artisan, Gathering, Support and Elite. As you level up, your skills will become more advanced which will ultimately help you complete your quests.
Play RuneScape
4. NoBrakes.io
Simply use your arrow keys to steer and you’re off to the races! NoBrakes.io is a multiplayer racing game where you reach checkpoints to gain a competitive advantage with power-ups that boost your speed or slow others down.
Sounds simple, right? Yes, until you realize this race isn’t a conventional one. If you’re near the front of a line, for example, checkpoints can pop up behind you. So you need to be ready for anything!
Play NoBrakes.io
5. BrowserQuest
This browser game invites you to explore a digital world from your — you guessed it — browser. Step into the shoes of a young warrior in search of friends, adventure and treasure.
Whether you defeat enemies alone or as a party is up to you. But don’t forget to collect the loot when you do!It will take you far in BrowserQuest.
Play BrowserQuest
6. Everybody Edits
Entrepreneur and developer Chris Benjaminsen created this real-time, multiplayer platform game. But the players are the ones who can build levels for others to try and complete.
Although you don’t compete directly with other players, they’re in-game creations can still indirectly affect you.
Since “everybody edits,” this unique browser game gives players two choices: 1) play the game or 2) play with the game.
Play Everybody Edits
7. AdventureQuest
AdventureQuest is a single-player RPG wherein you create a character, pick a class, and fight against hordes of monsters. Depending on your personality, you can choose to be a ninja, wizard, fighter, rogue, or paladin (to name just a few).
The AdventureQuest world is filled with magical powers, hundreds of items and over 700 monsters. Take part in dozens of quests! The more you win, the stronger your character gets and the more you progress.
Play AdventureQuest
8. Pokémon Showdown
Children and grown-ups alike love this online battle simulator. It’s like playing the Pokémon video games without having to put in the work. No waiting to rest or level up — you just jump straight into battle.
You can build a custom team if you have a preference for the Pokémon you want to use, or you can join a random one and battle with whatever you get. Instead of the goal to “catch ‘em all,” now you can beat ‘em all!
Play Pokémon Showdown
9. Neopets
In November 1999, game designers Adam and Donna Powell released arguably one of the best browser games: Neopets. Neopets is a virtual pet website where players can own virtual pets and care for them using neocash.
20 years later, Neopets still exists and is active thanks to its beloved events, dailies, pet customization and community.
Play neopets
10. Gartic.io
Remember playing pictionary or Draw Something? Similar to those games, you can sum up Gartic.io in three words: draw → guess → win! In this online drawing game, up to 10 people can play.
At the start of every round one person will randomly draw a word and draw it, while everyone else has to try and guess the word correctly.
Play Gartic.io
11. Slither.io
Jump into Slither.io, the new and improved Snake game, with millions of players around the world! As you probably know, the goal is to become the longest snake of the day. All you have to do to grow is get other slitherers to run into your body.
If you end up breaking the record for biggest snake that day, you get to leave a message on the screen for everyone who’s playing to see!
Play Slither.io
12. Isleward
Big Bad Waffle is the game developer behind Isleward, a roguelike MMO that drops you into the city of Strathford. (A “roguelike” is a subgenre of role-playing video game characterized by a dungeon crawl.)
Strathford is where you can form a party of your own, learn how to level up and explore different islands. Together or alone, you’ll find yourself doing dungeon crawls in search of loot.
Play Isleward
13. GeoGuessr
Take a trip around the world, visiting faraway places with GeoGuessr. In this geographic browser game, you’re placed in a semi-random location and must discover where you are in the world. But you can only use visible “street view” clues to inform your guesses!
When ready to guess, you place a location marker on a map. Based on the accuracy of your guess, GeoGuessr will give you points on a scale from zero (direct opposite of where you actually are) to 5000 (within 150 meters of your actual location).
Play GeoGuessr
14. Frogger Classic
This classic arcade game goes back to 1981. Playing as the frog, your goal is to get from one side of the road and river to another — all while cars, trucks, logs, turtles and other obstructions move horizontally across the screen.
Depending on your settings, a level can start with three, five or seven lives (or, in this case, frogs). Want to progress? Successfully get all the frogs across safely to their homes.
Play Frogger Classic
15. Spelunky HTML 5
Legends speak of a Colossal Cave that extends deep underground, so twisted by time that its passages shift like the sand under which it lies… The Cave is said to be filled with fabulous treasures, but also incredible danger!
Spelunky is a roguelike browser game that involves cave exploration and hunting for all the treasure you can find. What’s so amazing about this game is that every time you play, the cave’s layout is different. The longer you survive, the deeper you go and the more treasure you can find.
Play Spelunky
16. Flow Colors
This online puzzle game challenges players in a different way! Your goal is to connect matching colors using a pipe to fill the entire board. But don’t let your pipes overlap, or else they’ll break!
There are thousands of free levels available and 10 different board sizes. Flow Colors also offers different gameplay modes depending on your mood — you can play to relax or race against the clock.
Play Flow Colors
17. Apple Worm
If you think Flappy Bird was frustrating, you’ve got to try Apple Worm. The goal is to get your worm to eat the apples and reach the portals without getting stuck in the obstacles or falling off the level.
It sounds simple, but the levels get trickier as you progress. Think you can help the worm eat the apple in all 30 levels?
Play Apple Worm
18. World’s Hardest Game
According to game creator Stephen Critoph, “This is The World’s Hardest Game. I guarantee you it is harder than any game you have ever played, or ever will play.”
In this game, you’re a red square that needs to get from point A to point B while collecting yellow circles along the way. With each level you pass (if you can pass them at all) they get harder and harder.
Play World’s Hardest Game
19. Hexar.io
Drawing inspiration from Snake and Slither.io, Hexar.io is a free-for-all multiplayer game. Your mission is to conquer and keep as much hexagonal territory as possible. But others are trying to do the same, so don’t trail too far from your territory or else you might lose it.
You should also avoid hitting your opponent’s head because that can result in having to start expanding all over again — and there’s only so much map space. Don’t forget to collect green circles to gain speed!
Play Hexar.io
20. Helicopter Game
To close, here’s a classic that can end in triumph or fury. The goal of Helicopter Game is to fly your helicopter as far as possible without crashing into the cavern’s floor, ceiling or obstacles.
No matter how far you’ve flown, if you crash you start again — from the beginning. Do you have the masterful control and patience to fly the farthest?
Play Helicopter Game
“Hidden” benefits of the best browser games
Can playing the best browser games be a time-suck? It depends how much time you spend in front of the computer screen playing.
That said, believe it or not, the list of best browser games you just scrolled through can have some surprising benefits. For example:
Prodigy can boost overall confidence and increase math skills
Slither.io and Hexar.io can encourage strategic and creative thinking
World’s Hardest Game might make you a more patient person (or not 🤣)
Apple Worm can improve your problem-solving skills, understanding of cause and effect, and spatial reasoning
Playing browser games isn’t necessarily time well wasted. In fact, they can be beneficial in more ways than one — and that applies to kids and grown-ups. So what do you say? Let’s play!
Which one of these best browser games do you like most and why? Let us know in the comments below!
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Jordan crafts content for Prodigy — and wishes the game existed when he was in school. He's interested in education and passionate about helping build up the next generation!
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Election Hacking: Is it a Threat?
Election season is fully upon us. Voter registration drives, polls, smear campaigns, October surprises, and accusations of elections rigged by hacking.
Wait a minute, what was that last one? Could someone really pull that off? Could my vote be hijacked by hackers?
There’s been a lot of chatter in the news recently about cyber attacks directed at state voter registration systems and vendors of election systems. But pcworld.com reports that security experts often come to the conclusion that, "while the machines that process votes are riddled with vulnerabilities... they’re not the problem. The real attack surface is the way voters are processed."
Some of the news coverage has noted that the attacks seen so far have been "probing" attacks. These types of attacks are conducted for the purpose of allowing the attacker to learn about possible vulnerabilities to exploit when they attempt to break into the systems they are targeting. The coverage has noted, as well, that systems haven’t yet, at the time of this writing, been compromised.
So, if nothing has been hacked, how do we know that the attacks took place?
A standard component of an enterprise network is a technology known as an intrusion detection/prevention system. These systems do exactly what their name implies: they detect and prevent intrusions, and issue real-time alerts to network managers and security personnel, giving them the vital intelligence they need to protect their systems and networks.
SUNY Plattsburgh has an intrusion-prevention system in place, which allows us to prevent numerous cyber threats to our network and systems, and to you, our faculty, staff, and students.
Now that election hacking has made national headlines, it’s a safe bet that CIOs and information security personnel in every state and locality with responsibility for these systems are closely monitoring the situation and making sure their security is as tight as it can be.
Precisely none of us in these roles would like to be on national television explaining how "something awful like this" happened, so a significant effort is likely underway across the nation right now to ensure that all important systems are not compromised.
A scenario in which voter registration systems are hacked and voter registrations altered is very unlikely. For one thing, voting machines aren’t connected to the Internet. And attacks on individual voting machines would be very nearly impossible because our elections are decentralized. They run on an amalgam of very different voting equipment in tens of thousands of polling places across the country, set up temporarily on the free-throw line of your local elementary school gymnasium or under the flag at a VFW hall.
But however unlikely, if hacking did occur the data could be restored—much more easily than voter confidence in election results.
The fact is that administrators maintain comprehensive backups of the systems they manage. Modern backup solutions are very sophisticated, allowing the system administrator to retain dozens or hundreds of copies of entire server systems and all the data on them, and enabling complete restoration.
Our SUNY Plattsburgh systems have this kind of backup. Like the voter registration system admins, we could restore compromised server data and undo all of the hacker’s hard work, likely within minutes.
Hackers are not targeting election systems with the expectation that they will be able to influence the vote or rig the election in any meaningful way.
They are well aware that this feat is almost impossible due to the protections that information security professionals put in place on important systems.
Their real goal is to cause disruption and cast doubt on the integrity of our elections process. But, that only works if we let it work.
Make no mistake, your vote still counts! Exercise it wisely.
Hacking an election is about influence and disruption, not voting machines. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
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The PTC’s World Poet Series
By: Edward Doegar
Thursday 9th May 2019
For fifteen years the Poetry Translation Centre has been championing exciting contemporary poets from Africa, Asia and Latin America through collaborative translations, bringing together leading poets and bridge-translators to showcase exciting poets across the globe. To celebrate these fifteen years, we’re launching the World Poet Series, a new series of pocket-sized bilingual books, with the English and original-language text displayed side by side. Each book will commence with a translator’s introduction, setting the poet and their work in context, and end with a critical afterword by a leading poet responding to the translations.
Last week saw the launch of the first title from the series: Adelaide Ivánova’s the hammer and other poems translated by Rachel Long and Francisco Vilhena with an afterword by Emily Critchley. The book is a perfect expression of what the series as whole aims to be – bringing into English a vital, challenging poet in translations of the highest quality. Alongside the hammer and other poems this year’s forthcoming titles from the series are:
My Tenantless Body by Yu Yoyo, translated by A.K. Blakemore and Dave Haysom published in July.
Akin to Stone by Bejan Matur, translated by Jen Hadfield and Canan Marasligil published in October
Ask the Thunder by Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac ‘Gaarriye’, translated by W.N. Herbert and Martin Orwin published in October
You can pre-order all four books published this year at a discounted rate of 4 books for the price of 3.
Enlarging the English poetic tradition through translation has always been a key aim of the PTC and we hope that over the next fifteen years the series will encourage Anglophone readers to discover poetries beyond Europe and influence how poetry is written in English. The PTC’s founder, Sarah Maguire, often expressed admiration for Penguin’s Modern European Poets series and we want the World Poet Series to develop a similar platform for non-European poets. Literature in translation has long been underrepresented in UK publishing, and though this tide seems to be turning with Nielsen recently reporting a 5.5% growth, yet poetry in translation from Africa, Asia and Latin America is still frustratingly rare on publisher’s lists. Against this dark sky, we’d like the World Poet Series to be a new, bright constellation – preferably, one among many.
We’re particularly grateful to Kit Humphrey whose scrupulous care and aesthetic good sense has made it almost possible to judge our books by their covers. Likewise, our advisory board has been invaluable – a reminder of the immense generosity and passion that people who love literature in all languages share.
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W N Herbert
Martin Orwin
Canan Marasligil
Dave Haysom
Francisco Vilhena
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Serials Solutions Summon Service to Index Video Content from Kanopy Streaming Service
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, is working with Kanopy Streaming Service to make their growing collection of more than 18,000 videos discoverable via the Summon service. Kanopy partners with some of the world’s most creative filmmakers and respected distributors to offer libraries videos across diverse content areas like architecture, teacher education, health and safety, culture and politics in media, health studies, and more.
Kanopy is the leading provider of online video to Australian University Libraries, distributing a catalogue of videos sourced from leading filmmakers around the world. Kanopy offers a Patron Driven Demand (PDD) product whereby institutions can select PDD packages, and are only charged once a video is heavily viewed.
With a vision to pioneer education video through innovation and collaboration, Kanopy forges new educational applications to increase student/academic engagement and interactivity. In addition, they partner with filmmakers to promote and support a vibrant, active and sustainable screen community.
A highly subscribed to resource by libraries in Australia, Serials Solutions acted on requests to expand coverage of videos and specifically Kanopy content to the Summon service.
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