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New England Revolution trust in rookie defenders again with Brandon Bye
Julian Cardillo, Pro Soccer USA
Mar 10, 2018; Foxborough, MA, USA; Colorado Rapids midfielder Enzo Martinez (90) blocks a shot from New England Revolution midfielder Brandon Bye (15) during the first half at Gillette Stadium. (Brian Fluharty/USA TODAY Sports)
The New England Revolution don’t shy away from throwing rookie defenders into the fire and often reap the benefits of letting inexperienced players test their mettle on the back line.
Michael Parkhurst was an almost-instant sensation at centerback, earning MLS rookie of the year honors in 2005. Meanwhile, Andrew Farrell, AJ Soares, Darrius Barnes, Kevin Alston, and James Riley are among other defenders that made good enough first impressions in their rookie years to merit more playing time.
Now, the spotlight has turned to Brandon Bye.
The Kalamazoo, Mich., and Western Michigan University product played in the Revolution’s first two games this season. He slotted in at right back and earned his first professional start in Saturday’s 2-1 victory over the Colorado Rapids at Gillette Stadium.
“It was a pretty crazy moment,” Bye said of taking the field in Foxborough. “I’ve started plenty of collegiate level games and the summer league, but this was a different experience.
“Obviously, it’s a dream come true to get drafted. The coaches here had trust in me, which means a lot, and now through the first couple of games I think I’ve done alright. I just want to learn from everyone and compete, compete in practice and then go from there.”
Competition won’t be too hard to come by. Since both Farrell and Jalil Anibaba are natural right backs, Bye, who was selected eighth overall in the MLS Superdraft, will have to demonstrate what sets him apart.
The Revolution have the weekend off but return to action March 24 when they host New York City FC. Centerbacks Antonio Delamea and Claude Dielna, though suspended for last Saturday’s victory against Colorado, will be available for selection. That could force Farrell and Anibaba, who started the game in central defense, to fight with Bye for the starting spot at right back.
For now, though, Bye just wants to help the Revolution build momentum after last Saturday’s first win of the season
“We have some time off and it’s nice to get the legs fresh before our next game, but we also have to keep working and competing every day,” added Bye. “Training this week and next week is going to be very important, but we’re going to take this next game like any other.”
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In the age of political melodrama, Trump’s monstrous villainy makes us all complicit
The president understands that his political power relies on his willingness to play the villain. So how do we respond when children are ripped from their families?
by Lyndsey Stonebridge / June 25, 2018 / Leave a comment
Security forces observe the protesters behind a large poster with the image of US President Donald Trump during a protest against the migration policies of USA. Photo: PA
What kind of monstrous villain can listen to a child cry and pretend not to hear? We all know the answer to that question: the Trump monster. The rest of us know we are not monsters, because we do respond to the tears of children. But does that mean we’re human—or simply that we’re monsters with the capacity for pity?
One notable feature of the outrage over U.S. border children’s caged imprisonment last week was the conspicuous outpouring of public grief. MSNBC’s political TV host, Rachel Maddow, choked back her tears as she reported on the “tender age facilities” where the youngest children, including children under five, are held.
We are hardwired to respond to the cries of children, people told themselves; even the coldest hearts in this increasingly heartless world will object to the senseless, needless, cruelty of ripping children away from their parents.
For three long days—days that would have felt even longer for a child without her parent—Trump’s allies stared down the outraged tears of their fellow citizens with defiant lies and counter-blaming.
In another clip from the U.S news that went viral last week, Ann Coulter, with her signature blend of schoolgirl nastiness and fascist bravado, glared into camera and told us it was all fake.
By Thursday, the President intuited that the drama needed to take a new direction and signed an executive order ending future separations—but not, of course, his ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy.
But this was no victory for humanity: it was another turn in the melodrama of contemporary political life. Trump knows about melodrama. He certainly understands that his political power relies on his willingness to play the villain. As David Remnick wrote in the New Yorker this week, “Cruelty is the content of his character and the foundation of his politics.”
Melodrama emerges when the shared meanings of what is considered morally sacred collapse. It is so exaggerated and blatant about its villains and victims, and so absolute about its moral truths, because it responds to a world where the experience of real and meaningful justice is absent.
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FDA approves Dengvaxia® for the prevention of dengue in individuals ages 9 through 16 living in U.S. endemic areas
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., May 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Dengvaxia® (Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine, Live) for the prevention of dengue disease caused by serotypes 1 – 4 of the virus in individuals 9 through 16 years of age living in endemic areas of the U.S. with a laboratory-documented prior infection. Dengvaxia is the first and only vaccine approved for protection against dengue in endemic areas of the U.S.
"Dengue is endemic and prone to outbreaks in several U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa. Despite this public health threat, there is no treatment and there has been no previously approved vaccine available in these areas," said David Greenberg, MD, Regional Medical Head North America, Sanofi Pasteur. "Today's FDA approval of Dengvaxia allows us to bring a critical medical prevention tool to at-risk populations, helping combat and prevent dengue among children living in U.S. dengue endemic areas."
Dengvaxia is also approved for use in several endemic countries in Latin America and Asia where reducing the human and economic burden of dengue is a public health priority. In December 2018, the European Commission granted marketing authorization for Dengvaxia to prevent dengue in individuals living in endemic areas with a documented prior infection.
Indication for Dengvaxia® (Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine, Live)
Dengvaxia is a vaccine given to people 9 through 16 years of age to help prevent dengue infection due to dengue virus serotypes 1, 2, 3 and 4. Dengvaxia should only be given to people who have previously had a dengue infection, and live in areas where dengue is endemic.
Your child should not receive Dengvaxia if he or she has not had a previously confirmed dengue infection, or if this information is unknown. People who have not had a previous dengue infection are at increased risk for severe dengue when vaccinated with Dengvaxia and later infected with a dengue virus. Previous dengue infection can be verified by a medical record of a previous laboratory confirmed dengue infection, or by testing for dengue before vaccination.
It is unknown whether Dengvaxia is safe or protective for people living in areas where dengue is not endemic who travel to dengue endemic areas.
Important Safety Information for Dengvaxia (Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine, Live)
Dengvaxia vaccine should not be given to anyone with a history of severe allergic reaction to a previous dose of Dengvaxia or to any component of Dengvaxia.
Dengvaxia should not be given to people with a severely suppressed or compromised immune system.
Before your child can receive Dengvaxia, your child's health care professional must determine whether your child has had a confirmed dengue infection.
Currently, no available tests have been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to determine a previous dengue infection. Talk with your health care professional about available tests. For the month after receiving Dengvaxia, tuberculosis skin tests may be falsely negative. If you undergo tuberculosis skin testing in the month after vaccination, tell the health care professional performing the test that you received Dengvaxia.
The most common side effects of Dengvaxia include headache, pain at the injection site, general discomfort, tiredness, and muscle aches. Other side effects can occur.
It is recommended to continue personal protection measures against mosquito bites after vaccination since vaccination with Dengvaxia may not protect all people.
Please see the full Prescribing Information for Dengvaxia (Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine, Live).
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With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe.
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Pearling luggers, Thursday Island, 1959
Pearling luggers, Thursday Island, 1959. Slides by Lionel Bevis, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland
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Pearl swimming diving with goggles, 1917
Pearl swimming diving with goggles, 1917. The divers usually made such goggles from tortoiseshell. Collection of Regina Ganter
In 1917 some 550 Torres Strait Islanders worked on pearling boats, about half of them on community-owned ‘company boats’, typically employed as swimming divers. The community lugger scheme had been started by philanthropic effort in 1897 to free indigenous people from dependence on large and exploitative companies. For many years it was jointly conducted by the Papuan Industries Limited and the Queensland Government’s Department of Native Affairs, and became very popular among Torres Strait Islanders, who used the luggers which they were able to purchase through this scheme for transport, visiting, and various kinds of subsistence fishing. It was for this very reason that the Department considered it an economic failure and continued to tighten its grip over the scheme, until it could no longer be said that the communities were owning the luggers. This led to a ‘lugger strike’ against the paternalism of the Department in 1936, and to separate legislation for Torres Strait in 1939 (separate from mainland Aborigines) with some limited self-government.
Collection of Regina Ganter
Pearling became the largest industry in far north Queensland in the 1890s and had a massive impact on coastal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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As a trustee of a self managed super fund, you can only accept contributions as per the conditions specified in the law, and pay benefits by meeting the SMSF trust deed criteria.
Some reasons for the members of an SMSF to contribute to that SMSF are:
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AFRICA: In Kenya fresh ethnic clashes in the southeast of the country left at least 32 dead.
AMERICAS: Colombian president Santos expressed confidence that the OCT peace talks with the FARC will last months rather than years.
ASIA: The Japanese government said it will buy three islands at the centre of bitter territorial row with China.
EUROPE: In France, a series of explosions hit seven supermarkets on the island of Corsica causing minor damage and no loss of life.
MIDDLE EAST: Fugitive Iraqi VP Hashemi said he rejected the death sentence he was handed by a Baghdad court which found him guilty of murder.
TECHNOLOGY: Al Jazeera news network’s mobile service was hacked four days after a number of its Internet websites came under cyber attack.
Afghanistan: US formally transfers Bagram prison to Afghan control, possible fraud in fuel purchases by the Afghan National Army
Afghan military police commander Safiullah Safi said that 3,182 prisoners had been formally handed over to Afghan military police following a six-month transition.
The US said it was putting on hold the transfer of approximately 30 Afghan detainees because of doubts about the government’s commitment to other parts of the memorandum of understanding.
Foreigners are not covered by the agreement, and hundreds of other Afghans arrested since the transfer deal was signed on March 9 are also being held at the Parwan Detention Facility.
The American and NATO training missions in Afghanistan told US government investigators that more than four years of financial records covering about USD475 million worth of fuel purchases for the Afghan National Army may have been shredded, raising concerns about potential fraud.
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Region: A spokesman for Ansar Dine confirmed that a leader of AQIM was killed in a car crash. (AP)
Kenya: Fresh ethnic clashes in a village in the southeast of the country left at least 32 dead. (AFP)
Mali: Islamic militant group MUJWA said the killing of 16 Muslim preachers including by an army patrol in Mali was a declaration of war. (Reuters)
Somalia: The new parliament is due to vote for a new president. (AP)
Sudan: Insurgents in South Kordofan state said they have repulsed government soldiers who tried to seize two rebel-held villages near the state capital of Kadugli. (AFP)
Region: The US and Latin American countries are increasingly encountering narcotics operations employing diesel-powered submarines to circumvent anti-trafficking measures. (NYT)
Colombia: President Santos expressed confidence that the OCT peace talks with the FARC will last months rather than years. (Xinhua)
Cuba: A large blackout hit Cuba with a loss of electricity from the southeastern Ciego de Avila to the westernmost province of Pinar del Rio. (Reuters)
Region: Australia and Singapore called for de-escalation in tensions over the South China Sea. (AFP)
Japan: The government said it will buy three islands at the centre of a bitter territorial row with China. (AFP)
Korean Peninsula: The DPRK accepted the ROK’s offer to provide emergency relief aid. (Xinhua)
Nepal: US Peace Corps volunteers returned to Nepal eight years after they left due to a communist insurgency. (AP)
Pakistan: A car bomb exploded at a market in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 10 people and wounding 45. (Reuters)
France: A series of explosions hit seven supermarkets on the French island of Corsica causing minor damage and no loss of life. (AFP)
Greece: PM Samaras is to meet with representatives of the country’s international lenders to finalize a new package of austerity measures. (DPA)
Hungary: Former PM Gyurcsany began a week-long hunger strike to protest against a government shake-up of the electoral system. (AP)
Kosovo: The West was to grant full sovereignty to Kosovo after four years it declared independence. (AFP)
Moldova: PM Filat said Moldova’s policy towards EU integration does not prevent the development of cooperation with Russia and the CIS. (Itar-Tass)
Bahrain: Security forces opened fire on protesters in a Shiite village, wounding and later arresting a member of its municipal council. (AFP)
Iran: The Foreign Ministry said Iran would join officials from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey for a four-way “contact group” meeting in Cairo looking at the conflict in Syria. (AFP)
Iraq: Fugitive VP Hashemi said he rejected the death sentence he was handed by a Baghdad court which found him guilty of murder. (AP)
Israel: PM Netanyahu said Israel and the US are in discussion on setting a “red line” for Iran’s nuclear program. (Reuters)
Syria: New peace envoy Brahimi begins his Syria mission by meeting AL officials and Egyptian leaders before heading to Damascus on his first official trip to the region. (AFP)
Syria: At least 27 people were killed and 64 injured by a car bomb in Aleppo. (AP)
Cybersecurity: Al Jazeera news network’s mobile service was hacked four days after a number of its Internet websites came under cyber attack. (AFP)
Drug Trafficking: Spanish Drug and Organized Crime Unit Chief Quiros said Latin American drug cartels are increasingly using Africa as one of the main bases in the international cocaine trafficking network. (EFE)
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Hurricanes (Atlantic): Tropical Storm Leslie
Location: 225 miles NE of Bermuda
Movement: NNE at 16 mph
Winds: 60 mph
Hurricanes (Atlantic): Hurricane Michael
Location: 1020 miles WSW of the Azores
Movement: W at 7 mph
Hurricanes (Atlantic): 70% chance of tropical cyclone formation
Location: 675 miles W of the Cape Verde Islands
Movement: WNW at 20 mph
Hurricanes (Pacific): 40% chance of tropical cyclone formation
Location: A few hundred miles SSW of the Gulf of Tehauntepec
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SAN ANTONIO – Rackspace today announced a strategic partnership with Tech Mahindra Ltd., a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services and solutions, which will enable cross-selling to the Tech Mahindra customer base, joint product and services offerings, and improvements to Rackspace’s internal business applications and processes.
With this partnership, Rackspace will execute a new go-to-market commercial model and benefit from improvements and efficiencies to the management of business applications and processes. Partnering with Tech Mahindra will help Rackspace enable more customers close the gap between the complex reality of today and the promise of tomorrow, accelerating the value of the cloud during every phase of their digital transformation.
“Our partnership with Tech Mahindra is a powerful combination. Their understanding of innovative and customer-centric IT experiences is uniquely complimentary to how Rackspace provides a Fanatical Experience™,” said Subroto Mukerji, chief operating officer at Rackspace. “We believe that this will help generate industry leading technology services and platforms. With 121,000+ associates, working across 90 countries and helping 938 global customers, including Fortune 500 companies, this partnership will allow us to drive far more business impact for our customers.”
Rackspace’s partnership with Tech Mahindra will provide improvements and efficiencies for running multiple Rackspace business applications and processes. Rackspace will continue to own their application strategy and roadmap, while Tech Mahindra will bring world-class expertise and best practices to deliver against this.
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The RAMPF Group has taken a further step toward a sustainable future, receiving certification to the internationally recognized ISO 14001 standard. The certification of the environmental management system underlines the German-based SME’s environmental awareness and sustainable business practices.
The ISO 14001 standard of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the world’s leading specification for environmental management systems. It aims to create a balance between operational cost-efficiency and environmental protection, and to continually improve this.
The fact that RAMPF lives by a defined environmental policy and incorporates environmental factors into corporate decisions was confirmed by the internationally recognized DEKRA certification and test seal at the company’s Grafenberg site this summer. The companies tested and audited were RAMPF Holding, RAMPF Polymer Solutions, a developer and producer of reactive resin systems based on polyurethane, epoxy, and silicone, and RAMPF Tooling Solutions, an international market leader for board and liquid materials for cutting-edge modeling and mold engineering.
“With the introduction of the environmental management system to ISO 14001, we’re underlining that environmental protection and sustainability – which are firmly anchored in our RAMPF values – are a living, breathing part of our company philosophy. And we’re also making this clear to the outside world,” says Ralph Lutz, Quality, Health and Safety Manager at the RAMPF Group. Together with Rainer Faust, officer for the environmental management system, he is responsible for implementing and monitoring the targets that have been set.
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By carrying out regular internal audits and inspections, Lutz and Faust ensure compliance with the strict requirements to ISO 14001. Comprehensive documentation tailored to the RAMPF companies forms the basis for this. This includes organizing regular training courses for employees to consolidate sustainable approaches and environmentally friendly practices in the Group.
The measures also include an energy action program, with recording and evaluation of all energy flows relevant to the companies, such as electricity and gas consumption, and development of optimization measures.
As the continuous improvement process is a key part of the energy management system, it is an area of particular focus. Processes are coordinated and developed further thanks to precise documentation and evaluation of all data. Specific improvement measures are created based on set strategic objectives – examples include reducing resource consumption, emissions, and waste.
Other projects are currently underway with the aim of recycling the production waste occurring in manufacturing and machining processes. As Lutz notes: “We’re thus already following the German recycling management legislation applicable from 2017 onwards and making a further contribution to waste reduction and sustainability in terms of our production processes.” Working with renewable raw materials such as lignin is also part of RAMPF’s environmental policy.
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“By taking this systematic approach, we are subjecting our environmental processes to daily scrutiny, harnessing potential for improvement, and thus playing our part in environmental protection. The standard serves as a guideline and roadmap for us in this process,” says Faust. He’s proud that RAMPF has received early certification to the standard, which was revised in November 2015 and will not become binding on all certified companies till fall 2018. “A certified environmental management system is no mean feat for an SME of our size. So we’re all the more delighted to be at the cutting edge.”
“We would like to thank our managers and naturally our employees, too, for successfully launching the environmental management system. Without everyone’s dedicated contribution, certification would not have been possible. We continue to count on their comprehensive support so that the planned optimizations to the environmental management system can also be implemented effectively,” says Matthias Rampf, CEO of RAMPF Holding.
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Randa Shifts Executives in Luggage, Wallets; Names Chief Operating Officer
The changes are intended to position the corporation for future growth.
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Randa Accessories has repositioned some of the senior managers in its luggage and wallets and seasonal accessories divisions and also named a new chief operating officer.
Under the restructuring, Brad Kovaly has been named president of Randa luggage. Kovaly has 25 years of experience at the company, starting in the neckwear division, then managing a newly acquired leather goods business, and most recently, was chief operating officer.
As head of the luggage division, which designs, produces and distributes Columbia, Timberland, Nautica, Chaps, Vince Camuto, Weatherproof, Nine West and others, Kovaly will concentrate on the growing market of innovative travel solutions and technology.
“Having a longstanding history with Randa, I look forward to this new challenge to help shape and define our luggage division and the industry as a whole,” Kovaly said. “By leveraging our strengths and investing in our core competencies, we will continue to grow our current business while developing new product and distribution opportunities.” Succeeding Kovaly as chief operating officer is Ed Turner, a 20-year Randa veteran who has experience in sales, merchandising, sourcing and brand management. Most recently, Turner was president of Randa’s wallets and seasonal accessories division.
“With the evolving nature of our industry and our company, it is important to create new tools and relationships to support our growth and our associates,” Turner said. “In this new role of overseeing sourcing, information technology and logistics, I will make sure we leverage the most effective business processes to ensure even greater speed-to-market and financial success.”
Succeeding Turner as president of the wallets and seasonal accessories division is Al Jasman. Most recently senior vice president of Randa’s key accounts division, Jasman began his career at Bon Marche department stores as a sportswear buyer. Subsequently, he moved to the wholesale side of the business as a neckwear merchant and senior manager at Mallory & Church, and joined Randa as vice president of neckwear sales, eventually adding leather goods to his responsibilities.
“I look forward to working with our incredible team to enhance and extend our product lines and channels of distribution,” Jasman said. “I plan on increasing the tactical use of our consumer insights program and our extraordinary retail service team, while taking full advantage of the best design, forecasting and sales managers in the business.”
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Khalid Performs ‘Talk’ and ‘Better’ on ‘SNL’
Live from New York, it’s Khalid.
Less than a month ahead of his highly-anticipated album Free Spirit, the 21-year-old singer-songwriter made his “SNL” debut this weekend. Following an introduction from host Idris Elba, the El Paso, Texas crooner delivered the album’s Disclosure-produced lead single “Talk.”
Backed by three female singers and a band, he switched up the arrangement, starting off slow before picking up the pace. “Can’t we just talk? / Talk about where we’re goin’,” he asked while delivering the smooth rendition.
The Grammy nominee returned later in the show to perform his hit “Better” off his 2018 Suncity EP. Basked under blue lights, Khalid shined liked a diamond with his dreamy set, while his backup singers provided angelic harmonies.
The “SNL” appearance comes ahead of Khalid’s sophomore album Free Spirit, due April 5. Last week, he dropped another new song off the project, “My Bad.” Two days before its release, on April 3, he will debut a companion film at theaters worldwide.
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Binay turns to Facebook to fight ‘black ops’
Binay's spokesman explains why the VP created a new Facebook page: 'The disinformation has spread on social media so he is responding on social media'
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Published 10:57 PM, August 11, 2014
Updated 11:24 PM, August 11, 2014
'GOOD TOOL.' Binay's spokesperson says Facebook is a 'good tool' to fight the 'disinformation' against the Vice President. Screen grab from Sa Totoo Lang Facebook page
MANILA, Philippines – The man who decried criticism of his family on social media has a new tool for fighting what he calls smear campaigns: a Facebook page.
Vice President Jejomar Binay posted on Facebook on Monday, August 11, that he created a new page on the social networking site to respond to allegations against him.
Binay called the new page “Sa Totoo Lang” (For the record) in an introductory post also written in Filipino on his profile page.
“Mga kaibigan, naglabas po tayo ng Facebook page na Sa Totoo Lang dahil sa mga black propaganda at iba pang paninira ng aking mga kalaban sa pulitika. Haharapin po natin at sasagutin nang tapat ang lahat ng kanilang mga akusasyon,” he said.
(Dear friends, we launched a new Facebook page called ‘For the record’ because of the black propaganda and attacks against us by our political rivals. We will face and honestly respond to all their accusations.)
Binay asked his Facebook followers to help spread the word about the new page.
“At sana ay tulungan n’yo din ako na i-share sa inyong mga kaibigan at kapamilya ang laman ng page na ito para malaman nila ang katotohanan. Salamat po sa inyong suporta.”
(And I hope you will share the contents of this page to your friends and family that they may know the truth. Thanks for your support.)
“Sa Totoo Lang” includes infographics responding to the plunder and graft complaint filed against Binay and his son, Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin “Junjun” Binay Jr over the allegedly overpriced P1.56 billion ($36.05 million) “parking building” in Makati that was first constructed when he was mayor in 2007.
The Binays have denied that the structure was overpriced, saying it was not a mere parking building but housed offices of the city government.
Incidentally, the launch of the Facebook page came on the same day Senator Antonio Trillanes IV filed a resolution calling for a Senate investigation into what he called “outrageous overpricing.” Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano has also urged the Vice President to respond to the merits of the complaint instead of merely dismissing it as “politically motivated.”
On the Facebook page, photos of the building were posted with the Vice President’s response to the issue. Here is a sample infographic:
‘Facebook tool vs disinformation’
“Sa Totoo Lang” has 788 likes as of posting time while Binay’s own Facebook page has 386,213 likes. The Vice President also maintains a Twitter account that his staff handles. It has 94,000 followers.
Binay’s spokesperson, Joey Salgado, told Rappler why the Vice President’s team decided to create a page dedicated to the accusations against him.
“Why not Facebook? It’s the most popular social media tool of Filipinos," Salgado said.
“It’s a good tool for reaching our supporters and providing them with the right information to fight the disinformation campaign against the VP. So if you notice, he asked them to share the info with family and friends.”
A former Makati mayor for over two decades, Binay has long been accused of corruption as chief executive of the country’s financial center. He and his wife, former Makati Mayor Elenita Binay, faced several graft complaints over their projects in the city.
The leader of the opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), Binay leads surveys on the 2016 presidential elections. He has branded the cases and allegations against him as part of a “demolition campaign” ahead of the polls.
The Vice President and his family are constant subjects of criticism on social media, especially in the 2013 senatorial campaign where Binay’s eldest daughter Nancy Binay ran and won as senator. Netizens questioned her qualifications to run for office, even criticizing her skin color and lately, her fashion sense.
The Binays have often lamented the scrutiny they get on social media.
US Internet analytics company comScore has dubbed the Philippines “the social media capital of the world,” with the fastest growing Internet audience in the region in 2013. Nine out of 10 Filipino netizens are on Facebook. Still, the effect of social media on politics and elections has yet to be fully tested in the Southeast Asian nation.
Salgado said creating the new Facebook page for Binay is a logical decision two years before the election.
“The disinformation has spread on social media so he is responding on social media.” – Rappler.com
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Macau shuts down casinos for first time as Mangkhut approaches
Casino staff say that venues would be shut until further notice as the city raised its second highest storm warning
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Updated 11:47 AM, September 16, 2018
MACAU CASINOS. A general view shows Casino Lisboa (C) before the expected arrival of Super Typhoon Mangkhut in Macau on September 15, 2018. Photo by Isaac Lawrence/AFP
HONG KONG – Macau shut down all its casinos in a historic first as Typhoon Mangkhut approached on Sunday, September 16, with authorities warning the gambling enclave would be hit by severe flooding.
The Macau government was heavily criticized by residents last year for failing to prepare the city ahead of Typhoon Hato, which left widespread damage and 12 people dead.
A statement from authorities late Saturday said the decision to shut Macau's 42 casinos was approved by the city leader and agreed by gaming bosses.
"The suspension of gaming operations is for the safety of casino employees, visitors to the city and residents," the government statement said.
Casino staff told Agence France-Presse that venues would be shut until further notice as the city raised its second highest storm warning.
Macau's weather bureau said the storm warning would be raised to the highest T10 level later Sunday with the worst rain and winds expected around midday local time (0400 GMT or 12 pm Philippine time).
Shops and businesses were boarded up and protected by sandbags across the city and its streets, usually crowded with tourists, were deserted.
Macau, a semi-autonomous southern Chinese city, had to turn to troops from mainland China's People's Liberation Army stationed in the enclave to help with the massive clear-up after Hato.
The city's weather chief resigned after the storm, which was the worst to hit Macau in over 50 years, and the government was forced to apologize for failing to prepare sufficiently in advance. – Rappler.com
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was presented with a rice pudding made with his new neighbour’s leftover breast milk. The comic joked that if he had been in that situation, he would have offered to make her a ‘spunk sandwich’. •.
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Jan 06, 2018 · WEIGHT LOSS can be tricky, but Gary Barlow has revealed one trick he uses to keep his body looking trim. The singer embraces turmeric benefits, drinking the spice with milk. Usually an ingredient in curry, the spice has a warm and bitter flavour and smells like mustard. It has been used in Indian traditional medicine for many centuries due to its health benefits – and now even Gary Barlow is.
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Which isn’t surprising as these parts of Cambridgeshire are the equivalent of Stephen Fry enjoying a cream tea by a county cricket. What goes in first, milk or tea? Who invented the skip? Name.
The great French artist Jean Cocteau had a striking party trick. did Stephen Fry choose to tell the packed Albert Hall this story. It’s because he and Cocteau share an affliction. "All I have to do.
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Emma: Yes, a cup of tea without milk is like England without tea – utterly absurd. First, make sure the tea bag has truly stewed and brewed in a steaming mug of water before you even THINK about adding milk. How much milk then needs adding is a matter of personal taste, but only novices drink a brew that has more than an 80:20 tea-to-milk ratio.
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If one is at the movies with one’s date, proceed to buy a extra large bucket of popcorn and place it on his lap during the movie. Cut a hole in the bottom of the bucket, and proceed to stick your bare penis in the hole (preferably bonered). When your date reaches in to grab popcorn, she will be delighted.
A cocktail similar to a Bloody Mary, but a little ruder. First mentioned by Stephen Fry in the last episode in season four of the British comedy show "A bit of Fry and Laurie". (With "Ruder" they are of course not meaning literally, since this would be very horrible. I mean, a drink that starts insulting you. That’s pretty damn scary if you ask me.
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Tricky TV is a fast paced modern magic show for CITV.Presented by children’s presenter and magician Stephen Mulhern, the show features magic on the street, "wicked wind-ups", illusions, and teaches a number of tricks step-by-step. Format. The show featured magic tricks ranging from making a tank vanish to making an entire football team appear.
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46% Think Feds Might Try To Tax Bank Accounts Like Cyprus
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Americans don’t believe the federal government has the constitutional authority to tax bank deposits as they did in Cyprus, but a plurality worries they might try it anyhow.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 46% of American Adults think it’s at least somewhat likely that the U.S. government might try to tax money in individual bank accounts. Nearly as many (41%), however, view this as unlikely to occur Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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Official Live: 101 Proof
It's a bit surprising that Pantera waited until 1997 to release a live album, considering how brutal and powerful the band had been in concert. At an average Pantera show, it would not be unusual to see security evicting overzealous fans and club bathrooms filled with bloody wads of paper towels from mosh pit injuries. Official Live 101 Proof captures the group in its natural, violent element, combining abrupt, barbed riffs with pulse-pounding beats and furious vocals. The record spans Pantera's career, from the classic guitar lick of "Cowboys from Hell" to the fuzzbomb fury of "Suicide Note Pt. 2" (from album The Great Southern Trendkill). As an encore, the band offers album buyers two new studio tracks, the bluesy bonecrusher "Where You Come From" and the grinding "I Can't Hide". As the fortress of alternative rock continues to crumble, Pantera stomp vindictively through the rubble, their metallic legacy intact. --Jon Wiederhorn
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Rosberg apologizes to Hamilton and team for collision
By Alex Kierstein, Web Editor
This past weekend, you might recall that Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton had a standoff during a passing situation. Both drivers refused to yield; the collision lead to a cut tire for Hamilton, who retired, and a second-place finish for Rosberg. And as I mentioned earlier this week, it overshadowed everything else that happened that was worth talking about—particularly because of Rosberg's refusal to admit any mistake.
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His defiant attitude seemed to be the final straw for the Mercedes team. Teammates can and should compete against each other—that's healthy, and productive. Bashing cars together and knocking a teammate out of the race, well, obviously it hurts the team. Hence, after conferring with team principals Paddy Lowe and Toto Wolff, as well as Hamilton, Rosberg is back on the reservation.
Autosport quotes him as saying, "The number one rule for us ad teammates is that we must not collide, but that is exactly what happened. For that error of judgement, I apologize to Lewis and the team. I also want to say sorry to the fans who were deprived of our battle for the lead in Belgium."
Well, better late than never. And that last bit, about fans being deprived of watching the two battle for supremacy on track, is spot on. The moment a team rivalry goes beyond sportsmanlike competition, it needs to be dealt with. Rosberg should have known to say this right from the get-go, or been instructed to.
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Let's hope this apology marks a move away from the ill-tempered Hamilton-Rosberg spat and back into a rivalry worth following.
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Call for cli-fi stories for charity anthology
By Amanda Saint 2 years ago3 Comments
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Charity anthology of climate fiction stories
As well as writing fiction and running Retreat West I am a freelance journalist writing about environmental sustainability. I’ve been working in this field for almost 20 years and in that time things have got a lot worse. But they’ve also got a lot better in terms of the creative solutions that people are coming up with and the awareness of the issues we face.
Two of my most recent articles on the subject: The vanishing islands of the Pacific and the very sobering 2 billion climate refugees within 83 years, as well as two more that are being published soon about food security and vanishing coral reefs, have made me realise I need to do more to help.
So inspired by the amazing work the Stories for Homes project has done to raise money for Shelter, I’m helping in the only way I know how. Through storytelling. I’m calling for submissions for short stories and flash fictions in the newly emerging cli-fi genre, which is what my new novel fits into. They will be gathered into an anthology and the profits will be donated to the Earth Day Network, which is working to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. It also does tangible things like planting trees, lobbying governments, and tackling corporations who are some of the biggest threats to the environment.
I’m also looking for volunteers to help me with this project as it’s a bit too big to handle it all alone. I’d like help with reading submissions and choosing which stories go in the anthology, editing, cover design, proofreading, promotion and marketing. If you’d like to be involved email me to let me know how you can help.
Please also share this far and wide with all the writers you know.
Story Submission Details
Word Count: From 250 to 3,000 words
Deadline: 30th November 2017
Submit stories written in English through Submittable using the button below by 23.45 GMT on the deadline date (sorry late entries will not be included)
Do not include your name on the story or submission title but provide a short bio in the body of the email All stories are read anonymously so any showing the author’s name will be disqualified.
Stories must be your own original work and not have been published online or in print, or have won any other competitions (longlisted and shortlisted places in other competitions is fine)
By submitting you agree to your story being published in the anthology
Simultaneous submissions are allowed but if your story wins a prize or is published prior to the anthology announcement it won’t be included
Stories must be for adults – no children’s fiction
Only 1 story per writer
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Anneliese Schultz says:
Hi, Amanda,
This sounds like a great project.My story that would have fit best isn’t available right now, but I’d be interested in helping with proofreading/editing.
Any news on when winners will be announced?
Amanda Saint says:
Hello Phil, the details of the writers whose stories will be included in the anthology will be announced in February.
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Horror Movie Hall of Shame
Time to take out the trash.
My last couple posts have been kind of negative. So, I thought I'd compound the negativity with a list of some of the worst elements in the horror movie genre.
Film School Rejects has a great list of the worst horror movie remakes of all time. Not surprisingly, Psycho (1998) starring Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche ranks number one.
BloodyDisgusting.com has some great "worst of" lists including "The 10 Stupidest Motives In Slasher Movie History". Urban Legend: The Final Cut (2000) tops the list. The killer's motive? Oh, his script was passed over.... causing him to erupt into a murderous rampage twenty years later.
The lowest rated horror movie on IMDb is Demonsoul (1995). I've never seen it, and have no plans to. (By the way, the highest rated on IMDb is Psycho)
Karate Party has a list of the 100 worst names for horror movies. The list includes Aerobicide (1986) and The Carpet of Horror (1962). However, I didn't notice Lucio Fulci's Don't Torture a Duckling on there.
The Incredibly Strange Creature: Or Why I stopped Living and Became a Mixed-up Zombie made the top of the list for Retrocrush's worst movie titles.
According to Best-Horror-Movies.com, the worst horror movie ever made is called Robot Monster (1953). Click here for their top 5 list.
The film is a double loser since the costume (a gorilla suit and diving helmet) has also made lists for being the worst monster costume ever.
Entertainment Weekly has a list of 15 nominees for the worst movie dialogue ever. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) made the list with this:
THE SCENE: Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) tearfully breaks up with her boyfriend and heads to her death.
THE LINE: ''I'm gone, like a turkey in the corn. Gobble gobble!''
The worst music in horror movie history would HAVE to be Peter Carpenter doing an awful Tom Jones in Point of Terror (1971). Although, it kind of grows on you in a groovy psychedelic kind of way. I beseech you to watch this clip - it has to be seen to be believed.
The worst horror movie adaptation would be I Am Legend (2007). The movie didn't follow the wonderful Matheson novel at all. Lame and boring from beginning to end.
The worst DVD cover of all time has to be Happy Birthday to Me. They took a great movie poster and VHS cover, featuring the iconic shish-kebab impalement, and replaced it with Photoshop lameness.
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Uranium Willy October 18, 2008
Of course while there is no denying that these movies are bad movies does not mean that some of them are not worth a a watching. In fact I have seen Robot Monster at least 5 or 6 times.While the film is a bomb it hardly seems so bad as to justify the alleged suicide attempt by director Phil Tucker.
Of course you would gather fro my site that I am a consumer and purveyor of "bad" cinema. For example I will soon review a fine "bad" movie (in my opinion) starring Arch Hall Jr called The Sadist. I would take it any day over most of the stuff Hollywood is churning out these days with 100 Million Dollar budgets. Exactly why I can say. I just seem to find something fun and nostalgic about them and even their imperfections and obvious flaws make them that much more endearing.
All stinkers, but I can recommend most of them for a fun time.
gilligan October 18, 2008
Willy- Totally agree that some "bad" cinema can be "good" cinema. The robot gorilla movie was from another site's list - I've never seen it. Can't believe the director tried to off himself for it!
I love "bad" cinema. I could watch Eegah! again and again... although, the TV is on "mute" when Arch Hall Jr. starts to sing.
I think big budget Hollywood is as hit or miss as the B-movies. No matter what the budget, it might be great or it might be a dud. Some of the big budget stuff is pretty good - so I wouldn't write it off just because its studio.
Keith October 18, 2008
I've watched so many bad movies over the years. Some of them I enjoy though, whether it's for laughter, etc. I love a lot of the classic b-movies which were often trash. That doesn't mean I'm a big fan of the bad movies done by Hollywood today. They are just bad without much in the way of redeeming value.
Sure, I agree. I love big budget material. I loved the new Indiana Jones and Ironman and I am not against CGI effects. Of course in a real sense a film like Titanic is better than Fatser Pussycat, Kill! Kill! Better acting, better production, better sound, photography etc etc. I cannot really dispute that. I also feel these big movies are often better than they are given credit for. Seems today the whole mess is around how much is made when the film opens and how much $$$$$ it continues to make. The best movie now seems to be the one that makes the most dough, and when a movie, like Kevin Costner's Waterworld does not rake in mega millions it is a "bomb". Of course it is known that that film lost mega millions, but actually I thought it was a watchable movie, though it is considered a modern day turkey.
I actually love Hollywood endings and sappy stories that make my eyes moist.I got teary eyes during Babe... the talking pig movie. It is my truly dark side.
I love B-movies and big budget Hollywood movies. CGI doesn't bother me if it's done right. There's nothing worse than sloppy and fake looking CGI. I'm a snob against mainstream Hollywood movies. I enjoy them myself. I do think there's this big deal these days about how much money a movie makes. It's especially a big hoopla over how much it opens with. I've seen movies that made hundreds of millions of dollars that I couldn't stand. While I've seen movies that are bombs, but then I ended up loving them.
Ripplin March 21, 2012
Robot Monster is probably the worst movie I've seen. Absolutely nothing redeeming about it. It bothers me when I see lists from time to time proclaiming Plan 9 is the worst. I think 'that movie is incredibly entertaining! Are they forgetting "Robot Monster"?' :p
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I love a good motorcycle documentary and this upcoming release from Hot Rod builder/filmmaker Brian Darwas looks like one hell of a ride. Due for release on June 25th 2012, "White Knuckle" follows a group of pre-1916 antique motorcycles and their riders on an endurance run across the USA called "The Motorcycle…
I love a good motorcycle documentary and this upcoming release from Hot Rod builder/filmmaker Brian Darwas looks like one hell of a ride. Due for release on June 25th 2012, “White Knuckle” follows a group of pre-1916 antique motorcycles and their riders on an endurance run across the USA called “The Motorcycle Cannonball”. That’s 3325 miles on a bunch of motorcycles made a century ago!
“Witness as these bikes are pushed past their limits. Get an upfront look at parking lot engine rebuilds and watch as the top guys in the motorcycle industry machine parts in the back of their vans to keep their bikes on the road, and in the race!”
“I followed some friends as they rode on the first Motorcycle Cannonball. The run was all pre-1916 motorcycles. Some were single cylinder engines, some had no transmissions (just a belt and a tensioner). They started in Kitty Hawk, NC and rode clear across the country to Santa Monica, CA. Literally “Coast to Coast”, on all secondary roads, nohighways! . . and since I like to witness pain and suffering I tagged along and made a movie about the trip.”
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The number of individuals in Canada with physical disabilities is growing, and your support ensures that each and every one has equal access to the places we live, work, learn, and play. As a donor, you elevate this cause by increasing awareness, empowering youth across the country, and improving access.
In this issue you will learn about some of the wonderful impacts we are making together: sites that have achieved RHF Accessibility Certified Gold, individuals who are transforming the built environment, and students learning hands-on about inclusivity.
Thanks for all you do to create a Canada where everyone can thrive. Your support is critical to ensuring people of all abilities can contribute to our communities and reach their full potential.
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Once again this year the Foundation partnered with the Angus Reid Institute, a Canadian nonprofit foundation committed to independent research. The report reinforced the urgency of the cause, and confirmed that accessibility is a source of future anxiety and a significant consideration for Canadian consumers today.
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Two years ago, with funding support from the Government of Canada, RHF granted $1.7 million to schools and community groups for “Barrier Buster Projects” to remove physical barriers in public spaces. We’d like to tell you about Eva, a young woman who benefited from one of these grants.
Eva is an inspiring teenager: she’s active in her community when it comes to matters she cares about, whether it’s recycling or the local trails. She was born with cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair to get around. This means she faces barriers daily, but we were able to help bust one of them for good.
The Canada Games Centre in Eva’s hometown of Whitehorse is a community hub; however, until last year, Eva couldn’t access the pool. In 2017 the centre received an RHF Barrier Buster grant as part of our Access4All Canada 150 Signature Project. The grant built a ceiling lift in the aquatic centre to transfer people to and from their wheelchairs, allowing those who benefit the most from aquatic therapy to use the facility.
Eva was delighted! Visiting the aquatic centre quickly became part of her weekly routine. Eva also has dystonia, so swimming helps release tension in her muscles. The improvements to her quality of life and her joy at being able to visit the local pool are priceless. Eva’s story is what accessibility means in practice: inclusion, community, a sense of belonging, and joy.
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The businesses that have achieved certification through RHFAC are leaders in inclusion. They recognize the need for progressive thinking with our aging population, the growing number of people with disabilities, and pending federal accessibility legislation. Here are highlights of some who have earned the highest level of certification—RHF Accessibility Certified Gold.
At Cowbell Brewing, there’s something for everyone—and not just on the beer menu. The family-owned brewery in Blyth, Ontario is the first brewery in Canada to achieve a gold rating for their accessibility. From heated sidewalks for melting snow, to an accessible catwalk to view the brewing process, it’s a community hub where everyone feels welcome.
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Vancity credit union’s Burnaby Heights Community branch along with the Vancity Centre office in Vancouver both achieved gold certification with features like braille at ATM machines and wide pathways. Vancity was an early adopter of RHFAC, and is the first financial institution in Canada to receive a gold rating.
Vancouver International Airport (YVR) has a long history of inclusion. Achieving the highest score of any site to undertake a rating to-date—93 points out of a possible 100—is the culmination of years of commitment, consultation, and innovation. Alongside accessible features in the terminal, the entire staff participates in sensitivity and awareness training.
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Rick Hansen Secondary School in Abbotsford, BC, continues to be inspired by its namesake. Among their many accessible features are wheelchair-accommodating desks, visual fire alarms, and cane-detectable water bottle fill stations. Their commitment to accessibility ensures staff and students always feel included and led them to achieving their gold certification.
RHFAC Professionals have been hard at work rating buildings and helping organizations better understand their accessibility. As of April 2019, over 900 sites have achieved RHF Accessibility Certification. Another round of RHFAC Accessibility Assessor training will take place this Spring at post-secondary institutions across Canada.
Learn more about professional training.
Before her accident, which left her in a wheelchair, Julie Sawchuk had been a popular teacher in her small town of Blyth, Ontario. When she discovered that RHF has Ambassadors who teach students about disabilities and inclusion, the role was a natural fit. It was through this work as an Ambassador where Julie learned about RHFAC.
Now also a designated RHFAC Professional, Julie has already begun rating sites. “I’m really excited about it. I’m hoping that it will become something that people will seek out.”
It also came with another big perk—empowering her to design her dream house. “I applied my skills as an RHFAC Professional to build a completely accessible home.” Julie worked with architects to develop plans and spoke with contractors every day. The final result is a home that meets all of her needs, one where she was able to cook her family’s Christmas dinner herself. “It was a total game changer.”
“The meaningful moments for me are hearing from people who have been impacted by the work that I do either as a professional or an advocate. It’s those moments that kind of keep you going.” – Julie Sawchuk
Educating the next generation of leaders in accessibility and inclusion is an important goal of ours.
Last fall, the entire K–12 Three Hills School in Alberta immersed itself in inclusion education. With help from RHF School Program Coordinator Kuen Tang, they organized an ‘Abilities In Motion’ event that spanned two days. Each grade participated in a variety of lessons and games from the RHF School Program (RHFSP) resources to learn different perspectives and work together.
The principal was amazed when he watched one student, who typically doesn’t engage in activities with his peers, join in a game. The boy completely came out of his shell and an unseen chatty side of himself emerged. While he had originally been nervous to join in, at the end he told his Teaching Assistant that it wasn’t scary at all. With a little help from the RHFSP resources, the student found their inner confidence. We think it won’t be the last time he chooses to play with the other kids.
“If we can get more teachers running these lessons and teaching these activities, our goal is not that difficult to achieve.” —Kuen Tang, RHFSP Regional Coordinator
In March, Dr. Cragg, a postdoctoral fellow with the International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries (ICORD) was recognized by the L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science. She won the International Young Rising Talent Prize for North America.
Dr. Cragg’s work is helping uncover innovative treatment strategies and therapies for people with neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and spinal cord injury (SCI). She also co-organizes ICORD’s Women in Science event, which RHF was proud to support through the Blusson Integrated Cures Partnership (BICP).
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Women’s and Gender Studies: Book Series
Sexualities in Society
Series Editor:
Helen Hester
Sexualities in Society offers a dedicated and much-needed space for the very best in interdisciplinary research on sex, sexualities, and twenty-first century society. Its contemporary focus, methodological inclusivity, and international scope will provide a distinctive vantage point in terms of surveying the social organization of sexuality. It critically addresses numerous aspects of sex and sexuality, from media representations, to embodied sexual practices, to the sometimes controversial issues surrounding consent, sexual fantasy, and identity politics. It represents a critically rigorous, theoretically informed, and genuinely interdisciplinary attempt to interrogate a complex nexus of ideas regarding the ways in which sexualities inform, and are informed by, the broader sociopolitical contexts in which they emerge.
National Politics and Sexuality in Transregional Perspective
The Homophobic Argument, 1st Edition
Edited by Achim Rohde, Christina von Braun, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
National Politics and Sexuality in Transregional Perspective explores how modern identity politics around the world are gendered and sexualized in multiple ways. Constructions of the imagined collective "self" often contain references to a heteronormative order, whereas relevant internal or…
Consumer Sexualities
Women and Sex Shopping, 1st Edition
By Rachel Wood
Consumer Sexualities explores women’s experiences of shopping in ‘sex shops’ and using sexual commodities in their everyday lives. This enlightening volume shows how women take up sexual consumer ‘technologies of the self’ to work upon and understand themselves as confident and active sexual agents…
Sex in the Digital Age
Edited by Paul G Nixon, Isabel K. Düsterhöft
Shifts in societal development resulting from economic and technological advancements have had an impact upon the development of human sexuality and behaviour, and with the expansion of developments such as the Internet and associated technologies, it is likely that further societal shifts will…
Radical Sex Between Men
Assembling Desiring-Machines, 1st Edition
Edited by Dave Holmes, Stuart J. Murray, Thomas Foth
Bringing together theory and public health practice, this interdisciplinary collection analyses three forms of nonconventional or radical sexualities: bareback sex, BDSM practices, and public sex. Drawing together the latest empirical research from Brazil, Canada, Spain, and the USA, it mobilizes…
Viewing Pleasure and Being a Showgirl
How Do I Look?, 1st Edition
By Alison J. Carr
Drawing on interviews with a breadth of different showgirls, from shows in Paris, Las Vegas, Berlin, and Los Angeles, as well as her own artworks and those by other contemporary and historical artists, this book examines the experiences of showgirls and those who watch them, to challenge the…
Hardback – 2018-04-23
Rethinking Misogyny
Men's Perceptions of Female Power in Dating Relationships, 1st Edition
By Anna Arrowsmith
In this path-breaking book Anna Arrowsmith analyses gendered dating behaviour and shows how men’s behaviour is both defined and illustrated by societal norms that require a particular masculine performance, including those desired by potential female performers. Using the case-study of pick-up…
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The Princess Royal attends the first ever Accessible Regatta
The Princess Royal has attended the first ever Accessible Regatta at Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre.
The Regatta has been organised by the charities the Rivertime Boat Trust and Give Them a Sporting Chance, of which The Princess Royal is Guardian.
The event brought together over 350 young people with a wide range of disabilities, to enable them to have the same sporting opportunities other young people freely enjoy.
During the visit Her Royal Highness met a number of regatta participants and carers who were taking part in the races and activities - on the river and in the sports centre.
The river Thames had been transformed to allow a large number of accessible sports to take place. This included competitive bell boating, accessible sailing and powerboating, kayaking and stand-up paddle boarding.
The Princess Royal was able to tour a wheelchair accessible boat, to see how those with disabilities can still enjoy water sports, before acting as starter for one of the Bell Boating races.
Afterwards Her Royal Highness presented medals to some of the participants.
The Princess Royal was joined at the event by a number of Olympians and Paralympians, who hope to inspire the next generation of Paralympians.
Anne Dickens is a para-canoeist who won a gold medal at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio.
Before departing The Princess Royal unveiled a plaque to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Rivertime Boat Trust. The Trust offers disabled and disadvantaged children and adults the opportunity to get out on the River Thames on their specially constructed boat.
Give Them a Sporting Chance offers those with disabilities and their carers an opportunity to turn their sporting and recreational dreams into reality.
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Laura Whitmore set to be annouced as the new host of Love Island
She is currently dating popular Love Island voiceover Iain Stirling
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Laura Whitmore (Image: Instagram)
Laura Whitmore is reportedly set to replace Caroline Flack as the host of Love Island.
A source has revealed that the Irish presenter is now in final discussions about taking over the role, and will also become the co-host of the show's spin-off series Aftersun with the show's popular voiceover, Iain Stirling.
Laura and Iain have been dating since last summer making them the first couple to host the show.
A source exclusively revealed the news about Laura's role to Mirror Online today, saying: "Laura will replace Caroline. The deal is nearly finalised."
The change in the line-up comes after Caroline, was arrested and charged with assault by beating after an alleged bust-up with boyfriend Lewis Burton, last Friday.
The presenter was due to fly out to South Africa in the coming weeks to host the new series of Winter Love Island and has admitted she is 'absolutely devastated' by her decision to step down.
Confirming the news, Caroline told The Sun: "Love Island has been my world for the last five years, it’s the best show on telly. In order to not detract attention from the upcoming series I feel the best thing I can do is to stand down for series six.
"I want to wish the incredible team working on the show a fantastic series in Cape Town."
This image is strictly embargoed until 00.01 Tuesday 29th May 2018 From ITV Studios Love Island: SR4 on ITV2 Pictured: Caroline Flack. This photograph is (C) ITV Plc and can only be reproduced for editorial purposes directly in connection with the programme or event mentioned above, or ITV plc. Once made available by ITV plc Picture Desk, this photograph can be reproduced once only up until the transmission [TX] date and no reproduction fee will be charged. Any subsequent usage may incur a fee. This photograph must not be manipulated [excluding basic cropping] in a manner which alters the visual appearance of the person photographed deemed detrimental or inappropriate by ITV plc Picture Desk. This photograph must not be syndicated to any other company, publication or website, or permanently archived, without the express written permission of ITV Plc Picture Desk. Full Terms and conditions are available on the website www.itvpictures.co.uk For further information please contact: james.hilder@itv.com / 0207 157 3052
In a statement, ITV said: "ITV has a long standing relationship with Caroline and we understand and accept her decision.
"We will remain in contact with her over the coming months about future series of Love Island."
Earlier this week, Caroline's boyfriend Lewis Burton has spoken out following her arrest.
The sports star described the presenter as 'the most lovely girl' as he says he's sick of 'lies and abuse aimed at my(his)girlfriend.'
The 27-year-old posted on his Instagram story, "I'm tired of the lies and abuse aimed at my girlfriend."
Lewis added, "This is not a witch hunt this is someone's life. I have not signed any NDA, Why would I?
" Caroline is the most lovely girl. Loyal and kind. She doesn't deserve any of this."
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry turned down for dinner reservation by Canadian restaurant
'They said ‘How did you figure out who we were?’ And I said ‘It wasn’t too hard’'
Kayla Walsh
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are currently enjoying a break from royal life as they spend six weeks in Canada.
But not all of the locals have been falling over themselves to welcome the royals - with one restaurant owner turning down their request to make a booking.
Deep Cove Chalet, a fancy seafood restaurant in North Saanich, Vancouver Island, was scouted out by Meghan and Harry’s security team with a view to a visit from the couple .
But husband and wife Bev and Pierra Koffel turned them down because of the hassle of organising security.
Prince Harry & Meghan Markle share their family Christmas card with an adorable Archie taking centre stage
Bev told the paper: "They said ‘How did you figure out who we were?’ And I said ‘It wasn’t too hard’.
"You know what Pierre’s like. We’ll see what happens."
Bev said she wished the Duke and Duchess of Sussex an enjoyable stay in Canada, and added that she had seen them out and about.
She said: "Horth Hill’s become a very popular place now. And they jog around, so they’ve been seen.
"It’s kind of exciting. I hope everything goes fine for them.
"They’re breaking away from tradition and I just wish them all the best."
Take a look at Meghan's year in style in the gallery below
Meghan Markle's year in style
She added: "Let them have their peace and quiet. For us to be so lucky to have them in the area, how lucky is that?
"I wish them all the privacy they can possibly get. They deserve it."
She said she had bought two books as presents for Meghan and Harry and hopes to meet them one day.
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Clemson conference unveils opening seminar
Rubber & Plastics News Report
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.—A seminar titled “Retail Market Insights” will open the 31st Annual Clemson University Global Tire Industry Conference, scheduled for April 15-17 on Hilton Head Island.
The seminar, scheduled from 9:30 a.m. until 12 p.m. on April 15, will open with a speech titled, “What Training Do Tire Dealers Want or Need?” by Glen Nicholson of TBC Corp.
Other topics addressed in the seminar include:
• “Turn That Frown Upside Down: Utilizing Consumer Insights for Product Improvement,” by John Evankovich, Sam's Club;
• “What Information Do Tire Retailers Need/Want from a Tire Manufacturer To Help Launch New Products?” by Freda Pratt-Boyer, Purcell Tire & Rubber Co.; and
• “The Market Needs/Wants and the Challenges Facing the Tire Industry from an Innovation/New Product Development Standpoint,” by Andrew Lovell, Eastman Chemical Co.
Following the seminar will be sessions April 15-17 on new technology, the tire industry's outlook, materials and the environment.
Among the scheduled speakers and their topics will be Eugene Peterson of Consumer Reports on tire counterfeiting; Al Cohn of Pressure Systems International on commercial tires and truck fleets; Dean Tener of Smithers Rapra Inc. on creating and using tire models; Dennis Johnson of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the EPA's SmartWay tire testing; and Michael Blumenthal of Marshay Inc. on the history and current state of the scrap tire recycling industry.
The keynote speaker for the April 16 luncheon was not listed on the conference website as of March 17.
The Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort will be the headquarters hotel for the conference. Visit its website for registration, hotel reservations and other information on the conference.
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Thank fungi for cheese, wine and beer this holiday season
Antonis Rokas | Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences and Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt
It’s hard to imagine a holiday table without bread, meat, vegetables, wine, beer or a board of French cheeses for those with more adventurous palates. Savoring these delicacies with family and friends is part of what makes the holidays so much fun.
These foods and drinks are courtesy of the domestication of several different animals, plants and microbes. Plant and animal domestication has been well studied, since it is thought to have been the most momentous change in recent human history.
Scientists know much less about the domestication of microbes, however, and as a result, society fails to appreciate their pivotal contributions to the foods and drinks that we enjoy all year long.
I am an evolutionary biologist studying fungi, a group of microbes whose domestication has given us many tasty products. I’ve long been fascinated by two questions: What are the genetic changes that led to their domestication? And how on Earth did our ancestors figure out how to domesticate them?
Curious too? Recent studies shed light on these questions, so grab some Camembert cheese and a beer, and keep on reading.
Thank the large variety of microbes, including fungi, for this assortment of international cheeses. Umomos/Shutterstock.com
The hybrids in your lager
As far as domestication is concerned, it is hard to top the honing of brewer’s yeast. The cornerstone of the baking, brewing and wine-making industries, brewer’s yeast has the remarkable ability to turn the sugars of plant fruits and grains into alcohol. How did brewer’s yeast evolve this flexibility?
By discovering new yeast species and sequencing their genomes, scientists know that some yeasts used in brewing are hybrids; that is, they’re descendants of ancient mating unions of individuals from two different yeast species. Hybrids tend to resemble both parental species – think of wholpins (whale-dolphin) or ligers (lion-tiger).
Cells of the mighty brewer’s yeast, the cornerstone of the baking, brewing and wine making industries. wikipedia
For example, lager beer yeasts are hybrids of two closely related species: the brewer’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces eubayanus. Saccharomyces cerevisiae produces tasty beers, such as the British ales, but grows better at warmer temperatures. In contrast, Saccharomyces eubayanus grows better in the cold but produces compounds that taint the beer’s flavor. Lager yeast hybrids combine the best of both - good flavors from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and growth at colder temperatures, thanks to Saccharomyces eubayanus. This makes these hybrids great for brewing beer in the cold winters of Europe, where lagers were invented.
Researchers have also discovered natural hybrids from the union of other Saccharomyces species. What is still unknown is whether hybridization is the norm or the exception in the yeasts that humans have used for making fermented beverages for millennia.
To address this question, a team led by graduate student Quinn Langdon at the University of Wisconsin and another team led by postdoctoral fellow Brigida Gallone at the Universities of Ghent and Leuven in Belgium examined the genomes of hundreds of yeasts involved in brewing and wine making. Their bottom line? Hybrids rule.
For example, a quarter of yeasts collected from industrial environments, including beer and wine manufacturers, are hybrids.
Amazingly, some hybrids trace their origins to three or four different parental species. Why all this hybridization?, you may ask. Much like the lager hybrids, these newly discovered hybrids differ in what they like to eat and how quickly they grow. These preferences, which come courtesy of hybridization, influence not only how people use them in brewing but also the flavor profiles of the resulting brews.
This assortment of beer styles and flavors comes courtesy of brewer’s yeasts and their fondness for hybridization. Brent Hofacker/Shutterstock.com
The mutants in your cheese
Comparing the genomes of domesticated fungi to their wild relatives helps scientists understand the genetic changes that gave rise to some favorite foods and drinks. But how did our ancestors actually domesticate these wild fungi? None of us was there to witness how it all started. To solve this mystery, scientists are experimenting with wild fungi to see if they can evolve into organisms resembling those that we use to make our food today.
Benjamin Wolfe, a microbiologist at Tufts University, and his team addressed this question by taking wild Penicillium mold and growing the samples for one month in his lab on a substance that included cheese. That may sound like a short period for people, but it is one that spans many generations for fungi.
The wild fungi are very closely related to fungal strains used by the cheese industry in the making of Camembert cheese, but look very different from them. For example, wild strains are green and smell, well, moldy compared to the white and odorless industrial strains.
Colonies of Penicillium mold isolated from a blue cheese. The white colony is a domesticated version of the wild mold. Benjamin Wolfe, CC BY-SA
For Wolfe, the big question was whether he could experimentally recreate, and to what degree, the process of domestication. What did the wild strains look and smell like after a month of growth on cheese? Remarkably, what he and his team found was that, at the end of the experiment, the wild strains looked much more similar to known industrial strains than to their wild ancestor. For example, they were white in color and smelled much less moldy.
Fungi spend a lot of energy producing pigments and pungent compounds that enable them to compete and defend themselves. Living comfortably on a diet of cheese and safe from predators means that losing the ability to produce, say, pigments may actually be advantageous. That’s because the energy saved can instead be spent toward growth of the fungal colony.
But how did the wild strain turn into a domesticated version? Did it mutate? By sequencing the genomes of both the wild ancestors and the domesticated descendants, and measuring the activity of the genes while growing on cheese, Wolfe’s team figured out that these changes did not happen through mutations in the organisms’ genomes. Rather, they most likely occurred through chemical alterations that modify the activity of specific genes but don’t actually change the genetic code. Such so-called epigenetic modifications can occur much faster than mutations. The path toward domestication appears to be quicker than previously thought, which will perhaps encourage adventurous cheese makers to begin experimenting with domesticating wild fungi for new flavors.
While you savor your favorite foods and beverages this holiday season, spare a thought for these microscopic fungi, how they evolved their mighty powers and how much more bland our world would be without them.
Antonis Rokas, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences and Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
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UC San Diego professor: Recent closing of US coal power plants has saved 26,610 lives
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Pride shines at annual Out at the Fair
Jim Osborne, also know as Mister Rainbow, has his face painted with a rainbow streak by Aaron Dino while at the Trans Family Support Services booth during the Out at the Fair festival at the San Diego County Fair on Saturday.
(Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune)
By Gary Warth
DEL MAR —
Looking across the Paddock lawn and seeing a giant inflatable “Pride” sign, rainbow flags, and families enjoying a Saturday at the fair, Will Zakrajshek still laughs when remembering the origin of the annual Out at the Fair festival in Del Mar.
“We came here, me and my friend, to have a turkey leg,” he said about a 2011 outing to the San Diego County Fair. “We checked in on Facebook as an unofficial ‘Gay Day,’ wondering if we could get any more gay people to come.”
To his surprise, Zakrajshek got a message from a fair representative, who then created an official Facebook group for the event. The fair official also told Zakrajshek that a welcoming party would like to greet him and his friends at the front gate with commemorative buttons.
By 2014, Zakrajshek was meeting with fair officials to book acts on the Paddock Stage, which became the first officially sanctioned LGBTQ stage at any county fair in the nation, he said.
Saturday’s Out at the Fair featured an art show, dunking booth, a digital game competition and various musical acts, including In aChord Men’s Ensemble, who harmonized to songs by Burt Bacharach, the Four Seasons and others.
“For me, it’s a chance for all of us to come together from San Diego County, to celebrate who we are,” said Jolene LaSalle, who was at the booth Fellowship of Older Gays. “We can live in truth, and when we live in truth, we empower one another.”
LaSalle was born male and is transitioning to female, and at 56 said she remembers the struggles the LGBTQ community has faced, especially when growing up in West Virginia.
Patti and Tom Boman were at the booth for Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, more commonly known as PFLAG.
“It’s a safe place for LGBTQ people, where they don’t have to fear violence,” Patti Boman said about Out at the Fair. “And we want to be here to show young people that it’s going to be OK, that eventually, hopefully, their parents will come around.”
A San Diego resident since the 1970s, Boman said she believes acceptance of the LGBTQ community has become greater over the years.
“I never would have dreamed of this happening in the ‘70s” she said about Out at the Fair. “This is a new era.”
Elyce Shorb of Del Sur said she comes to Out at the Fair every year, and on Saturday was there with her husband, sister, brother-in-law and twin daughters, 8, who wore T-shirts featuring the event’s mascot Dabby, a unicorn with a rainbow mane doing a dab dance move.
“I love the message, I love the event and the family fun,” she said. “The message of just being out and proud, and everyone is accepted.”
Kelly Holmes said he was at the event to support a friend who sang with In aChord Men’s Ensemble.
“I think it’s wonderful to have a day like this to celebrate this community,” he said. “We’re your friends, your neighbors, you’re coworkers.”
Holmes also said he believes San Diego County already is very accepting to the LGBTQ community.
“I think it would be great if in the future, we don’t have a subgroup to celebrate,” he said. “We’re all just people at the end of the day.”
During a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the Paddock Stage, Zakrajshek and representatives of a few San Diego County cities were joined by members of Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, who took turns reading passages from L. Frank Baum’s “The Wizard of Oz,” the fair’s theme this year.
“There’s no place like home, and we hope you find a home here at Out at the Fair,” said one member who goes by the name Sister Amanda Reckinwith.
Zakrajshek said Out at the Fair has been growing each year and is not limited to San Diego. He regularly attends fair conferences to network and find partners, and in 2017 he introduced Out at the Fair to the New Mexico State Fair.
Last year the event was held at five fairs, and this year it is in county fairs at Alameda, Marin, Orange, Santa Clara and Sonoma and at state fairs in California and New Mexico.
His off-the-cuff Facebook post also has led to a new career. Zakrajshek, who had been working as a DJ, now is the only full-time paid employee organizing the various Out at the Fair events.
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Faulconer’s pledges on homelessness catch advocates, activists by surprise
Mayor promised to help toughen criminal penalties, open fifth bridge shelter
Local coalition aims to tackle child poverty
The newly formed group hopes to coordinate countywide efforts on housing, food insecurity and other issues related to childhood poverty
Homeless count drops paper surveys, increases tech with apps, drones
Volunteers still are needed for upcoming count on Thursday
House hearing reveals frustrations over housing vouchers for veterans
Hundreds of vouchers to house homeless veterans go unused while half requests for them are declined in San Diego County
Students learning building skills by creating homes for veterans
As more schools join the projects, students may build whole village for homeless veterans
Women’s expo at Palomar College to focus on human trafficking
The expo runs from 3 to 7 p.m. on Jan. 9.
Not in Kansas anymore: San Diego County Fair wraps up ‘Oz'-themed run
Fair visitors enjoy fireworks, food and last spin on rides on the final day of fair
Teen battling cancer auctions prized steer at fair to pay for treatment
Livestock auction at fair goes on despite scrutiny over animal exhibits following deadly E.coli outbreak
Animal exhibits closed at fair following E.coli death of 2-year-old boy
The boy was identified as Jedidiah King Cabezuela, one of four children sickened in the outbreak. Health officials suspect they picked up the bacteria from fair animals.
Dads celebrate Father’s Day at county fair
A father-daughter tumbling duo tied a tie dye-wearing father-son pair for first place in the look-alike contest.
Enthusiastic opening-day crowd ushers in 2019 San Diego County Fair
Some of the ticketholders in line Friday have been been coming on opening day for decades
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Fair vendors, food booth and exhibitors say Del Mar location is one of their favorite stops in the country
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Volume IV - Issue #27
Preliminary data from the SANS 2002 Security/Syadmin Salary Survey:
- -Average salary: $69,340 (median $67,000
- -Average bonus: 14.5% of base salary (median 10%).
- -Average salary increases 7% (down from 11.6% in 2000)
- -Global patterns: (variance from global average): US +5.6%, UK -9.7%,
Other W. Eur -13.3%, Australia -27.7%, Canada -34%,
Latin & S. America -51.2%
- -US regional patterns: (variance from US average) NY/NE +9.3%,
West Coast +4.2%, Mid-Atlantic +2.6%, Southwest -3.8%,
Southeast -5.6%, Midwest -6.1%
More data from the survey, including data on career paths (a new
feature this year) and factors affecting job satisfaction are at the
end of this Newsbites.
SANS salary survey is continuing through the summer.
You may get detailed data from the survey by filling it out at
http://rr.sans.org/survey In the process, you will also get access
to the 2,000 unique security research papers in the SANS Reading Room.
In a separate salary survey, reported in the second story below, SANS
GIAC and CISSP certifications accounted for the largest "certification
premium pay," ranging up to more than 10%.
25 & 27 June 2002 NIST Study Says Software Flaws Cost the Country a Bundle
1 July 2002 Security Salaries Up, Raises and Bonuses Down; Certification Pays
1 July 2002 BIND and BSD Resolver Library Buffer Overflow Flaw
25, 26 & 27 June 2002 OpenSSH Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
27 June 2002 al Qaeda Could Pose Significant Cyber Threat to US Critical Infrastructure
30 June 2002 Massive Cyber-Terrorism on Critical Infrastructure Unlikely, Say Experts
25 & 26 June 2002 IT Professionals Not Confident Government Could Handle a Cyber Attack
THE REST OF THE WEEK'S NEWS
28 & 30 June 2002 Media Player Patch EULA Harbors a Surprise
26 & 27 June 2002 Windows Issues Patch for Media Player Vulnerabilities
27 June 2002 Microsoft Issues a Patch for Commerce Server Holes
28 June 2002 GameSpy Installer Infected with Nimda
26 June & 1 July 2002 Yaha.E Worm Targets Pakistani Government Site
27 June 2002 W32.dotor.A
25, 26 & 27 June 2002 Legislation Would Okay Hacking Back at Filesharing Copyright Violators
27 June 2002 Polish Prosecutors Looking for NASA Hacker
26 June & 1 July 2002 Warchalking
24 & 26 June 2002 Florida Man Arrested for Keystroke Logging
26 June 2002 Site Will Tell You if Your Credit Card Number has Been Stolen
26 June 2002 Who's Who in Government Cyber Security
26 June 2002 BestBuy Files Suit Against Spammers
26 June 2002 A Timeline of Worms, Viruses and Other Cyber Attacks
25 June 2002 Near North Suit Alleges Former Employees Stole Sensitive Data
25 June 2002 Broadband Modem Password Problems
25 June 2002 NIPC, NIST and SBA to Offer Vulnerability Seminars for Small Businesses
25 June 2002 FBI Deluged with Applicants
24 June 2002 Mitnick Testifies at Las Vegas Call Diversion Hearing
24 June 2002 Microsoft Will Release Some Palladium Source Code
22 June 2002 TSA Won't Endorse Trusted Traveler Airport Security Project
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According to a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) study, "buggy software" costs the US $59.9 billion annually, with the lion's share of the burden falling on consumers. Better testing could reduce the cost by as much as 1/3, or $22 billion.
-http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/itspending/story/
0,10801,72245,00.html
-http://www.vnunet.com/News/1133047
-http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/n02-07.htm
[Editor's Note (Schultz) Good testing is only a part of good software engineering practices. Using the full gamut of software engineering practices would reduce the cost substantially more. ]
Two salary surveys agree that raises for security professionals are down substantially, but they are still getting better raises than their peers in other areas of IT. Security certifications from GIAC and ISC2 lead to substantial pay premiums.
-http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/0701secpros.html
-http://www.computerworld.com/careertopics/careers/story/0,10801,72432,00.html
A buffer overflow flaw in BIND and BSD resolver libraries could allow attackers to take control of vulnerable systems. If applications dynamically link to the library, the problem can be fixed by updating the library. However, if the libraries are embedded, administrators will have to recompile the applications.
-http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,72408,0
Open Secure Shell (OpenSSH) versions 3.0 - 3.2.3 on Open BSD and other operating systems are susceptible to buffer overflow attacks. The vulnerability could be exploited to gain control of the computer with a high level of access. OpenSSH developers have made a patch available; users are encouraged to apply the patch or upgrade to OpenSSH 3.4.
-http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/cryptography_article-5185.html
-http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25910.html
-http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-939887.html
-http://www.openssh.com/txt/preauth.adv
-http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-18.html
Evidence indicates that al Qaeda's cyber capabilities are stronger than previously thought. Digital control systems for various elements of the nation's critical infrastructure have been probed. Distributed control systems (DCS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are configured with very little security as they were not designed for public access. Additionally, information found on al Qaeda computers indicates members have been studying the structural integrity of a dam. The Washington Post article also describes the ease with which an Australian man was able to manipulate a digital control system to release sludge from a sewage treatment plant several years ago.
-http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50765-2002Jun26.html
-http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2070000/2070706.stm
-http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/27/alqaeda.cyber.threat/index.html
Computer security and terrorism experts are skeptical that al Qaeda could do serious harm to the nation's critical infrastructure with computers.
-http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/30/MN1
52350.DTL
Nearly half of 295 IT professionals participating in a recent survey believe the US could be the target of a major cyber attack in the next year; they do not think the government is adequately prepared to deal with an attack and its fallout
-http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19113-1.html
-http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,72268,00.html
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According to the End User License Agreement (EULA), when you install Microsoft's patch for Media Player vulnerabilities, you grant Microsoft the right to force automatic updates on your system.
-http://bsdvault.net/article.php?sid=527&mode=&order=0
[Editor's Note (Murray): Without getting into the debate over how much copyright owners should be able to cripple our systems to enforce their rights, few businesses would want to authorize "automatic updates" that might limit their use of their systems. Fewer still rely on Windows Media Player. However, most end users understand that AOL automatically updates their systems at its discretion. ]
Microsoft has issued a patch for security flaws in its Windows Media Player: an information disclosure vulnerability, a privilege escalation flaw, and a script execution vulnerability. The first and more critical of the flaws could let an attacker run rogue code on a vulnerable computer.
-http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-032.asp
Microsoft has released a patch for security holes in its Commerce Server software that could be exploited to run unauthorized code on vulnerable computers.
GameSpy Arcade Installer 1.09 was infected with the Nimda virus for several hours last week. An estimated 3,100 infected files were downloaded, and the company is contacting all who might have downloaded the affected software. The installer has been replaced with a clean version. In a separate incident, kaZaA users were exposed to the Backdoor.K0wbot1.3.B virus that contains a "remote backdoor component."
-http://www.msnbc.com/news/773650.asp?0dm=T227T
The Yaha.E worm carries a payload that lobs a slow denial-of-service attack against www.pak.gov.pk, the official website of the Pakistani government. According to some analysis, the worm also tries to disable anti-virus and firewall software. In addition, Hotmail's anti-virus scanner apparently did not detect Yaha.E as of June 26, allowing members to both receive and send the worm. Yaha.E also drops a text file on infected computers that claims the worm is the work of sNAkeeYes,c0Bra.
-http://online.securityfocus.com/news/501
-http://theregus.com/content/56/25389.html
W32.dotor.A is a mass-mailer worm that poses as a fix for macro viruses. It arrives as an attachment called Doctor.exe.
-http://www.silicon.com/public/door?6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=54212&REQSTR1=s
ilicon.com
-http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.dotor.a@mm.html
Congressman Howard Berman (D-Calif.) has proposed legislation that would allow record companies to launch cyber attacks on peer-to-peer content sharing networks that violate copyright laws. Permitted defenses would include interdiction, redirection and spoofing, but the law does not allow damage to computers or the spread of viruses. The legislation would provide for penalties for those who abuse their power.
-http://news.com.com/2100-1023-939333.html
-http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25903.html
-http://www.house.gov/berman/pr062502.htm
[Editor's Note (Schultz) I've lamented the lack of relevant computer crime legislation in the past, but this proposed bill is not at all what we need. Giving companies the right to launch attacks against the networks of organizations that engage in peer-to-peer sharing is extremely inappropriate. It is like giving a victim of home theft the right to break into the thief's home. What Congressman Berman is doing is promoting vigilanteeism instead of helping to promote law and order. Hopefully, this legislation will fail. ]
27 June 2002 Polish Prosecutors Looking for a NASA Hacker
A Polish prosecutor says efforts are underway to find the person who allegedly broke into NASA computer system, causing an estimated $1 million in damage.
-http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&Storyclass=11399
Matt Jones has devised "warchalking," a system of sidewalk chalk symbols that tell people where they can access wireless network nodes. There are different symbols to denote open, closed, and WEP-protected nodes, and each one is capped with the node's Service Set Identifier (SSID). According to Jones, some system administrators have been appreciative of the system because it helps them know where their networks are exposed.
-http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/newsid_2070000/
2070176.stm
Matt Jones's web site:
-http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/
Dimitri Sinilnikov has been arrested at Pasadena (CA) City College (PCC)as he was attempting to install keystroke capture software. The 48-year-old Mr. Sinilnikov, a.k.a. Michael Negron, was convicted of identity theft in Florida and faces parole violation charges for leaving the state.
-http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002062401t.htm
-http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/cybercrime/story/0,10801,72
274,00.html
CardCops has created a web site,
-http://www.Cardcops.com,
where people can enter their credit card numbers to find out if they have been stolen. The group garnered the credit card information from various chat rooms dedicated to credit card fraud, and they have turned their database over to the Secret Service. Cardcops says they have secured the database and they do not have people enter their cards' expiration dates.
-http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/06/26/identity.theft.ap/index.html
A list of people involved in the government's cybersecurity efforts includes Bush administration officials, legislators from both houses, and private sector representatives.
Hackers managed to steal a BestBuy.com e-mail list and used it to send spam with adult content. Best Buy Concepts, Inc. has filed suit in U.S. District Court against the as yet unknown defendants, referred to as John and Jane Doe, seeking damages greater than $75,000.
-http://www.ds-osac.org/edb/cyber/news/story.cfm?KEY=8399
An overview of virus and cyber-attack milestones.
Near North National Group has filed a civil lawsuit against three former employees who allegedly broke into company computers and obtained intellectual property and other confidential data and shared it with a Near North competitor. The company is seeking to recover $645,000, the cost of investigating the incident and securing their network. Near North has asked the FBI to investigate.
-http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?post_date=2002-06-25&id=5785
-http://www.nnng.com/NewsAtNearNorth/press_releases/pr26.html
Many broadband modems are installed with default passwords, leaving them susceptible to hackers and spammers, and the directions for changing the passwords are not always clear or easy. In addition, hackers can access broadband modems even when computers are turned off. A New Zealand programmer who found his modem was compromised wrote a program that looked for vulnerable connections and sent warning messages when they were found. He was threatened with possible legal action.
-http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyclass=2048412
[Editor's Note(Grefer): One more reason to place a NATing (netork address translating) router directly behind the broadband modem. ]
The National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) have joined forces to help small businesses identify security vulnerabilities in their computer systems. The alliance will begin by offering seminars in three cities this summer.
-http://csrc.nist.gov/securebiz
The FBI has received 47,000 applications for 900 special agent positions that director Robert Mueller hopes to fill with people possessed of strong computer and information technology skills.
-http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0624/web-fbi-06-25-02.asp
Some purveyors of adult entertainment in Las Vegas, NV have complained that calls to their businesses are being diverted, and Sprint denies the allegation, maintaining their systems have never been compromised. Kevin Mitnick testified at a hearing that he had once gained control of Sprint's switching systems in that city.
Microsoft will release the source code to the secure processing environment of Palladium. They hope that releasing the code will boost trust in the project. The group product manager for the Palladium project says releasing the code enhances its security. The statement is an apparent about face from the company's previous stance on open source code
[Editor's Note (Schultz): Some proprietary software is secure, some is insecure. The same applies to open software. The quality of the development process is the critical value. At any rate, Microsoft deserves credit for trying something new, releasing Palladium as open software, which is quite a bold experiment. ]
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will not endorse the "trusted traveler" project, which would use biometric technology and smart cards to allow prescreened passengers a faster route though airport security, because they believe the system could be vulnerable to terrorist infiltration. The White House Office of Homeland Security has shown interest in the project. It is unclear when testing would begin. Civil liberties activists are opposed to the idea.
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Additional data from the 2002 SANS Security/Sysadmin Salary Survey
- -Top paying industries: consulting, system integration, aerospace,
banking, computer and network manufacturing, and telecom.
- -Lowest paying industries: education, other not-for-profits, and
government agencies.
- -Employers with more than 10,000 employees paid their security and
system administration staff nearly 10% more, on average, than did
smaller employers.
- -Security and system administrators who work with UNIX reported
salaries nearly 25% higher than those who work primarily with
Windows systems.
Career Paths in Information Security
For the first time this year, SANS has tabulated information about
career paths by asking what positions people held three years ago.
Since most people are in the same position (at higher levels) the data
is sparse. Still it provides a fascinating picture of mobility among
various security and system administration jobs (with the exception
of auditing that seems to be more insular). The primary starting
points for people who want to work in security appear to be system
administration, network administration, and help desk analyst.
The Most Important Aspects of Job Satisfaction
Employers can affect job satisfaction for security and system
professionals in dozens of ways. The survey measured 25 of them.
Only five had a large impact:
Management that shows respect for and trust in your decisions
Tied for number 2:
Educational/training opportunity
Ability to work with and learn new, advanced technologies
Challenge of job/responsibility
Among the lowest rated aspects were the reputation of the company,
availability of workout facilities, and stock options.
Editorial Team:
Kathy Bradford, Dorothy Denning, Roland Grefer,
Bill Murray, Stephen Northcutt, Alan Paller,
Marcus Ranum, Eugene Schultz
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Welcome to San Francisco’s Church of Scientology
Our reception extends a welcome to anyone wishing to obtain an introduction to Dianetics and Scientology. We are open morning to evening, seven days a week.
The Scientology Public Information Center
Our Public Information Center offers more than 500 films, providing a complete introduction to every aspect of Dianetics and Scientology—including the beliefs and practices of the religion as well as a biographical presentation on the life and legacy of Founder L. Ron Hubbard. Our Information Center further presents exhibits on the many humanitarian initiatives and community outreach programs Churches of Scientology sponsor throughout the world. Visitors to the Center are welcome to tour the displays at their leisure for as long as they wish and to return as often as they like.
The Chapel naturally provides for all Scientology congregational ceremonies and services—including Sunday Services, Weddings and Naming Ceremonies. It also serves as a venue for weekly Church graduations, as well as public lectures, workshops and community gatherings.
Dianetics & Scientology Bookstore
The bookstore makes available Founder L. Ron Hubbard’s works on Dianetics and Scientology.
In all, Mr. Hubbard’s legacy comprises tens of millions of published words in dozens of books and thousands of recorded lectures. A Materials Guide Chart provides an informational overview of every book and lecture series, while an audiovisual system allows one to listen to selections from Mr. Hubbard’s lectures. These materials are available in 16 languages.
Our Church provides for the delivery of all Introductory Services. These include courses for the study of L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics and Scientology books and recorded lectures, and the Success through Communication Course that teaches the underlying skill to succeed in both work and social relationships.
Among the many further services available is an array of Scientology Life Improvement Courses that empower anyone with the tools to improve any aspect of life.
The Purification Center
L. Ron Hubbard developed the Purification Program to free individuals from the mental and spiritual damage caused by drugs and toxins, through a regimen of exercise, sauna and nutrition. These are all provided for in our Purification Center, housed in what was once the bank vault of the Transamerica Building.
The Hubbard Guidance Center
The Hubbard Guidance Center is where Scientologists participate in one-on-one spiritual counseling, known as auditing.
Auditing Room
Just beyond the waiting room are dozens of auditing rooms, each one ideally appointed to provide the calm, distraction-free setting requisite to achieving spiritual enlightenment.
The Academy is where Scientologists train to become auditors (spiritual counselors), capable of applying the technology of auditing to help others attain spiritual freedom. San Francisco’s Academy comprises an entire floor of our Church, with multiple course rooms, each devoted to a different aspect of training. Here, auditors are trained for dozens of Scientology Missions and Groups across the Bay Area.
The Office of L. Ron Hubbard
As is traditional in all Churches of Scientology, the Office of L. Ron Hubbard stands in honor of our Founder and symbolizes that this Church is true to his writings and ideals.
The History of the Transamerica Building
The original Transamerica Building, now home of the Church of Scientology of San Francisco, stands adjacent to the Transamerica Pyramid and is a registered historical landmark and prominent feature of the Jackson Square Historic District.
SCIENTOLOGY KIRCHE SAN FRANCISCO
Die Kirche restaurierte das ursprüngliche Transamerica Building, ein Wahrzeichen der Stadt, zu seinem ursprünglichen Glanz.
Ein Wahrzeichen an der Golden-Gate-Bridge
SAN FRANCISCO, KALIFORNIEN
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HomeInstrumentationsSolo instrumentThe First Cut Is The Deepest
Sheryl Crow, Cat Stevens
The First Cut Is The Deepest - Alto Sax Solo
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The First Cut Is The Deepest - Easy Guitar
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The First Cut Is The Deepest - Flute Solo
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Artist: Sheryl Crow, Cat Stevens
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Disarmament that Saves Lives
Opportunities and Challenges drawn from the Panel Discussion, “Building on the Secretary General’s Disarmament Agenda” (Centre for International Studies & Diplomacy at SOAS University of London, UNOG, 12th February 2019) by Marc Finaud, Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) Relevance of the Secretary-General’s Agenda in the Light of the Current Context This is probably the …
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By Pierce Corden January 19th, 2019 In considering denuclearizing the DPRK and efforts to address the Iranian situation and the JCPOA, steps can be taken to strengthen security in the regions where the states are located: Northeast Asia and the Middle East. Such steps would support denuclearizing Korea and ensuring that Iran does not …
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Disarmament, IPU139 / By Dan Plesch
By Harriet Hanssen, SCRAPweapons Social Media and Communications assistant and MA student at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS As SCRAP followers will remember, Monday October 15th saw SCRAP director Dr. Dan Plesch chair the discussion of the Standing Committee for Peace and International Security at the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (IPU) 139th assembly. The …
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Disarmament / By Dan Plesch
By Sid Bagri, MA student at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS. Even when broken down into statistics, the humanitarian toll is sobering. With 10,000 civilians dead, 22 million in need of aid, 8 million subjected to famine, and 1 million infected with cholera, the results of the disastrous Yemen war speak of …
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Future Weapons Technology: Why the analogy of nuclear cannot be applied to cyberspace, and how to respond to new logic
Disarmament, Publications / By Dan Plesch
Written by Isabella Steel, MA International Studies and Diplomacy Candidate 2017/2018 at SOAS University of London Comparisons are often made between the regulation of cyber and nuclear weapons. This analogy, however, is severely limited – particularly in relation to disarmament – and fails to reflect the unique dynamics of each. This short discussion will briefly …
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Interview with SCRAP Alumnus David Franco
Interview / By Dan Plesch
David Franco is a alumnus of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS University of London and, former SCRAP Project Co-ordinator from 2011 to 2012. Interview by: Alexandra MacAulay Abdelwahab What was it like working for SCRAP between 2011 and 2012? I first got involved with SCRAP in July 2011, near the end …
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Written by Alexandra MacAulay Abdelwahab, MA International Studies and Diplomacy Student at SOAS University of London and social media and public engagement coordinator for SCRAP. It’s been 73 years this week since the United States detonated atomic bombs over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during the final stages of World War II. The …
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Disarmament, GenevaDialogue2018 / By Dan Plesch
Dan Plesch, SOAS, University of London A network of global institutions were created in 1945 to try and avert another global conflict. They have been gradually undermined over the last 20 years, and now we see them being trashed wholesale. The world leaders responsible are perhaps best described by General Jack D. Ripper in Stanley …
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The summit strategy we really need
Written by Dr. Dan Plesch, Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD) at SOAS University of London and Kevin Miletic (PhD Candidate and Project Manager, CISD) Fear of war looms in the background of the latest round of presidential meetings. At a time when Stanley Kubrick’s General Jack D. Ripper in Dr. …
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SCRAP was recently mentioned in a new paper by Marc Finaud, an expert from the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), titled “Reconciling National Security with General and Complete Disarmament.” Finaud was invited by the Permanent Representative of Belarus, Ambassador Yuri Ambrazevich, coordinator of Subsidiary Body 5 of the Conference on Disarmament to present the paper on 21 …
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The Silver Mask
Written by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
Narrated by Paul Boehmer
Power over death is the ultimate power.
A generation ago, Constantine Madden came close to achieving what no magician had ever achieved: the ability to bring back the dead. He didn't succeed . . . but he did find a way to keep himself alive, inside a young child named Callum Hunt.
Now Call is one of the most feared and reviled students in the history of the Magisterium, thought to be responsible for a devastating death and an ever-present threat of war. As a result, Call has been imprisoned and interrogated. Everyone wants to know what Constantine was up to — and how he lives on.
But Call has no idea.
It is only when he's broken out of prison that the full potential of Constantine's plan is suddenly in his hands . . . and he must decide what to do with his power.
In this spellbinding fourth book of Magisterium, bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare take us beyond the realm of the living and into the dangers of the dead.
Publisher: Penguin Random House AudioReleased: Aug 29, 2017ISBN: 9780804122733Format: audiobook
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You are at:Home»Celebrity News and Photos»Breaking Celebrity News»Martina McBride Rides Her Soul Train
Martina McBride Rides Her Soul Train
By Contributing Writer on April 15, 2014 Breaking Celebrity News, Celebrity News and Photos, Music, Music Artists - Album Details, Biographies and News
Martina McBride (Photo credit: Glynis Carpenter)
By Bob Doerschuk © 2014 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc.
Country Music headliner Martina McBride’s catalog overflows with powerfully communicative performances. The playful “I Love You,” the heartbroken ballad “Wrong Again,” and the empowering anthems “Independence Day,” “This One’s for the Girls” and “Wrong Baby Wrong” unfold along clear lines of melody, which the five-time CMA Award winner animated with her own distinctive phrasing and interpretive sense.
In contrast, much of her new album, Everlasting, pays homage to R&B and showcases vocal improvisation. A perfect example would be “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long,” which in essence was a sketch over which Otis Redding unleashed his volcanic and highly extemporized performance. Speaking generally, the emphasis in soul music is often on the performance, while to paraphrase a familiar line in Music City, Country recordings start with and often stay grounded on the song.
“There are some differences in phrasing,” McBride noted. “When I was first thinking about making this record and finding songs that would fit my voice, I was a little bit overwhelmed. Tackling some of these songs was a bit intimidating. But then Don (Was, producer) helped me a lot. He said, ‘Just be you. Sing it how you would sing it.’ That was a liberating moment for me. I was like, ‘Oh! That makes sense!’”
Their collaboration began with a meeting in Los Angeles. “We just had a musical conversation,” McBride recalled. “We listened to music for hours in his office to figure out what I was drawn to. I was thinking about making a mellow, singer/ songwriter record in a soul vein, something with horns, like a Ray Charles record. At some point it just clicked and we decided to lean in that direction.”
Everlasting was a milestone for Was as well. For all he had accomplished in the industry, this was the first album he had ever produced in Nashville. The musicians exemplified the best of the city’s approach to tracking, working quickly and efficiently, with no problems crossing the Country Music divide.
“We were all in the same room, Don and us, except for Martina in the vocal room,” said her longtime music director and keyboard player Jim Medlin. “He sat there with us and listened, his eyes shut the whole time, smiling like a kid in a candy shop. We all had little talk-back mics; when we’d do a pass, he didn’t give a lot of direction but just let everything unfold with a couple of words here and there. It was a real laid-back endeavor.”
“I think it was really thrilling for the musicians because they were playing for an audience of Don Was,” McBride added. “With so few instruments, everybody played so tastefully. Nobody got in anyone’s way. It was like they’d been playing together for 20 years.”
One concern that didn’t come up in the studio was whether Country fans would have any trouble connecting with Everlasting. McBride still doesn’t worry about it; she’s played some of these tracks on shows with George Strait this year, trusting that the music would speak for itself.
“To some Country fans, it might sound like I’ve taken some kind of a left turn,” she admitted. “But this is so similar to Country Music! And anything I do is probably going to have a Country sensibility because that’s what I’ve sung for so long. The common thread is that it’s me. I hope people listen and go, ‘Oh, that’s just Martina, doing what she always does.’”
On the Web: www.MartinaMcBride.com
On Twitter: @MartinaMcBride
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MLB Plays Hard Ball in High-Asset Dodgers Divorce Matter
On behalf of The Siemon Law Firm | Sep 1, 2011 | High-Asset Divorce
It might strike some people as ironic that one of the priciest, volatile and flat-out complicated high-asset divorce disputes to take place in years in celebrity-laden Los Angeles involves a couple who is far removed from movie stars and the big screen.
We have mentioned the McCourts — Frank and Jamie — in previous posts, noting the acrimony of their dissolution and the confusion over how the legal ownership of the most valuable asset associated with them — the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team — should be divided.
Not long ago, the couple agreed to a settlement that would have involved the team’s lucrative television contract with a division of Fox Sports, but Major League Baseball (“MLB”) Commissioner Bud Selig used his plenary powers to nix that deal, saying that it would unduly enrich Frank McCourt at the expense of his team.
The Dodgers promptly thereafter filed for bankruptcy, a move likely engineered by Frank McCourt to lessen Selig’s power, given that the commissioner’s ability to summarily act has now been replaced by the requirement that he act “in a commercially reasonable manner” in a matter that involves bankruptcy.
What that means is that a full-out bidding war for media rights to the team could now ensue among multiple suitors, which would drive up the team’s price and put a huge amount of money into the hands of Frank or Frank and Jamie (depending on how the team ownership dispute eventually works out).
The rumor mill says that the MLB and Selig will fight against any scenario under which McCourt retains any ownership interest, considering him a financial risk and embarrassment to the game.
McCourt’s opponents might instead seek to force an auction of the Dodgers and promote an owner who is approved by the majority of MLB team owners.
The drama continues, on many fronts.
Related Resource: Reuters, “Analysis: McCourt’s long-shot odds to hang on to Dodgers” Aug. 30, 2011
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Arrest warrant issued for priest who admitted sex with teenage boy
By Mark Mueller, January 7, 2016, NJ.com
An arrest warrant has been issued for a suspended New Jersey priest who admitted to a reporter in August that he engaged in a sexual encounter with a teenage boy 13 years ago.
Union County's presiding municipal court judge, Joan Robinson Gross, issued the warrant for the Rev. Manuel Gallo Espinoza Thursday afternoon, one day after the alleged victim in the case filed a sexual assault complaint in Plainfield Municipal Court.
The Rev. Manuel Gallo Espinoza, seen in social media photos (top), fled the country in 2003 after a 15-year-old boy accused him of rape. At bottom is a copy of the visa he received when he returned to the United States to work as a teacher.
The accuser, Max Rojas Ramirez, contends . . .
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Bank of Ireland opens its new fintech-focused Startlab on Camden Street
17 Nov 20172.63k Views
Bank of Ireland group CEO Francesca McDonagh launching the new Camden Street fintech Startlab. Image: Connor McKenna
Start, scale and succeed – that’s the mantra of the new cohort of fintech start-ups.
In a suitable kick-start for its 17th National Enterprise Week, Bank of Ireland has officially opened its new Startlab incubator on Camden Street in Dublin.
This is the bank’s third Startlab. The first Startlab opened in Galway in 2016 followed by the New York Startlab in May this year.
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The first cohort of fintech start-ups consists of eight companies and, according to entrepreneur-in-residence Gene Murphy, there is room for four more in the present space.
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Innovation and enterprise
Bank of Ireland Group CEO Francesca McDonagh said that the launch marked the start of National Enterprise Week, forming part of its endeavour to support businesses of all shapes and sizes.
“This is where an old building meets the new economy. It is one of three Startlabs we have at the moment, including Galway and New York City.
“The new Startlab in Dublin represents our support of innovation and enterprise across Ireland.”
Bank of Ireland’s National Enterprise Week runs from 17 November to 24 November and will see up to 26 events take place across the country for SMEs with an interest in growing their business. Each event has been carefully planned to support specific industry sectors, including areas such as manufacturing, tourism and hospitality, agri-business, finance, fisheries and export markets.
Garvan Callan, director of strategy, innovation and digital at Bank of Ireland, said that the key role that Startlab has to play is to create the environment and space to grow.
‘Entrepreneurs are brave. But being brave is also about being vulnerable and being willing to engage’
– GARVAN CALLAN
“We have eight teams here and we want more teams to come to Startlab. We are proud in Bank of Ireland to have our third Startlab up and running focused on banking and fintech.”
He said that, until now, most entrepreneurs begin their journeys through conversations around kitchen tables, in pubs and in garages and factory floors. But the key is to provide a more solid ground for start-up to not only start, but start well.
“Entrepreneurs are brave. But being brave is also about being vulnerable and being willing to engage. Those engagements have traditionally happened around kitchen tables, in pubs and in garages and elsewhere.
“How do we enable the sector? Galway was our first foray. It is about creating a community and an environment. And if we can connect that community, we empower economies. It is important for our society and our economy’s well being.”
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A Glance at US and Singapore Math Textbooks
Singapore triple firsts at three Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) in 1995, 1999 and 2003 seems to be the envy of mathematics educators around the world. However, in the 2007 TIMSS results, Singapore lost to Hong Kong in the grade-four category, and came third behind Chinese Taipei and South Korea in the grade-eight category.
In spite of losing its first position at the last TIMSS, what is Singapore doing right that other [mostly, developing] countries may want to emulate this natural resources-poor nation-state when it comes to raising the mathematical proficiency of their student populations?
Even before the TIMSS ranking, developing countries that offered the Cambridge GCE O- and A-level examinations were keen to learn from the Singapore educational system, as Singapore has consistently outperformed all the other Commonwealth countries when it comes to academic performance.
In some regional mathematics contests like the Australian Mathematical Competitions (AMC), Singapore mathletes have been performing relatively well, winning a few gold medals every year, as compared to contestants from other Asian countries. Not to mention one particular year when a few Singapore mathletes had to retake the contest, because the AMC committee members didn't want to award too many gold medals to Singapore winners, because its gold tally that year was disproportionate to its size!
It’s no secret that Singapore students are skilled at spotting examination questions. This is one of the unwritten responsibilities of any Singapore teacher or tutor to help the students master that necessary evil. And it isn’t uncommon that many mathletes can even drill themselves to scoring well in regional contests and competitions. Singapore students may be likened to those credit-card hackers who seem to be always one step ahead of the security standards when it comes to spotting exam questions.
Even the SAT examinations have proven to be a breeze for many of our exam-smart A-level (high school) students, as they need the score to get entry to the local university–when that requirement was in force a few years back. The SAT score then formed 25 percent of the weightage in getting a place at the two highly-subsidized local universities, in addition to their A-level grades.
Since the TIMSS ranking, many countries–from developed nations like the US and Israel to developing ones like Malaysia and Korea–have shown keen interest in adopting Singapore textbooks. Let's have a quick comparison between Singapore and American textbooks, and how their teachers differ from each other.
Singaporeans: Mathematical success ∝ Effort + Teaching
Americans: Mathematical success ∝ Innate talents + Limitations
The top mathematicians and math educators are mostly in the US, and the worst ones are probably in the US as well. Singapore teachers would probably fit in the middle.
Singapore may be the math envy of the US, based on its ranking at the TIMSS, but Singapore teachers long to be as creative as their US counterparts.
American writers produce the best [creative, enrichment, and problem solving] math books; and Singaporean writers mostly plagiarize the best math books from around the world, be they from Russia, Hungary, Israel, Mainland China, United Kingdom, United States, and Australia, to name a few.
Singapore teachers are exam-oriented and work a few hundred hours more than their American counterparts.
Singapore textbooks differ from American textbooks in a number of ways:
Singapore math textbooks are about one-fifth the size of American textbooks for the same grade or level.
Singapore textbooks hardly ever give any references or bibliography, and don’t always have an index.
American textbooks are high in illustration but low in content–rich in form but poor in substance.
Singapore textbooks are shy of illustrations, as compared to numerous ones used in American textbooks.
Reviewers' names for a typical American textbook are all listed, as compared to the few, if any, ghost reviewers in a Singapore textbook: A few pages of reviewers versus one sole General Editor (or Consultant).
Academic credentials of Singapore authors, in particular the ones by the General Editor or Consultant, are always conspicuously given – to boost sales among titles-conscious parents.
Teacher’s and Student’s manuals, CD-ROM, Question Bank, Websites, and the like accompany American textbooks. Singapore teachers' resources are usually given free to adopting schools.
Singapore publishing houses hold expensive lunch or high-tea book launches at five-star hotels for teachers while their American counterparts promise cruises for decision makers of adopting schools or states.
Singapore publishers give away grand pianos, [budget airlines?] air tickets, computer gadgets, [non-branded] watches, and the like to local schools which adopt their titles–all these donations are done discreetly, as schools and teachers aren't supposed to accept these "gifts of appreciation." Maybe, iPad may feature in one of their future gifts!
American textbooks contain questions that are full of real-life applications of concepts; Singapore textbooks contain questions that are mostly impractical and artificial (fictional) to practice basic mathematical concepts.
American textbooks offer even or odd answers, while Singapore textbooks provide almost all answers.
What appears as ‘critical or creative questions’ for Americans are routine questions (exercises) for Singaporeans.
The US math curriculum is decried to be a mile wide and an inch deep by partisan educators and politicians. The Singapore math syllabus covers quite a fair bit of content–even more so, as compared to other South Asian countries–but its content isn't as rigorous as those from Hong Kong, mainland China, and Japan.
Singapore textbooks are value-for-money titles. However, this is not so when these local titles are exported to the US, where third parties often profiteer from the sales.
Copyrights seldom belong to Singapore authors, unlike their American counterparts who get to keep their intellectual rights.
Initially, Singapore had faithfully and blindly embraced the SAT system for two or three years, when the US was then questioning the reliability of the SAT score as a criterion to getting a place in the university. Fortunately, the SAT score is now optional for local entry college requirements, which had since translated to some loss of income for local publishers and SAT trainers.
Please share your own [often unspoken and unwritten] comparisons of US and Singapore textbooks to the rest of us.
© Yan Kow Cheong, April 10, 2010
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Still Night by Li Bai
By katrinaJ Sep 19, 2011 1768 Words
A Comparative Analysis on Five Versions Translations of “Still night thoughts” by Li Bai Abstract: Based on comparative analysis of 5 English versions of Li Bai’s “Still night thoughts”, the paper attempts to make a study of Chinese to English poetry translation. Since poetry is a special form of art in that poetry presents profound meaning and intensive emotions by means of various imageries and scrupulous selection of words, translators not only need to have a good command of both two languages and wide knowledge of the culture background, but also should do some apt recreation and pay much attention to the selection of words. Key Words: poem, translation, comparison
“Still night thoughts” is one of the most popular poems in china, for its words are simple, sentences are easily understood, and its meaning arouses sympathy. It depicts in a silent moon night, the author sitting on the bed saw bright moonlight on the floor, and then he raised his head and watched the same moon that was above him and also above his homeland, which reminded him of his home. After that, he hung his hand, missing his hometown. There are dozens of “Still night thoughts”’s translations, I pick up five of them and compare them as following to present the effect of recreation and word selection in the poetry translation.
Comparative Analysis:
举头望明月，低头思故乡。
Version one:
In front of my flooded with moonbeam,
I mistook for frost appears on the floor;
Lifting my head trying to watch the moon,
I dropped again for missing our home town.
This version is from a veteran writer Lin Jianmin (林建民). The length of sentence is almost the same that each sentence is composed of seven or eight words. At this point, it resembles five character quatrains. Meanwhile, the meaning of every sentence is very closely to the original one and there is only a little adjustment of word order in first two sentences. Obviously, Lin tried hard to accommodate his translation with the original one. In terms of form, this version is very faithful. However, the use of some verbs is not proper. For example, “trying” means make an attempt or effort, but in the third sentence, the author raised his head spontaneously when he found the light from the ground. In the fourth sentence, the verb “drop” means fall suddenly, but in that scene, writer was absorbed in nostalgia; therefore, according to common sense, he must not have made such a big movement. In addition, there are some commendable creations in this version. In the first sentence, Lin used the verb “flooded” vividly to highlight the brightness of the moonbeam. In the fourth sentence, “our hometown” instead of “my hometown” arouses association that someone in the author’s hometown is also watching the moon and missing him. They are the translator’s recreation of the original poem. In general, it is a good translation and expresses Li Bai’s emotion accurately.
Version two:
Thoughts in a Tranquil Night
Athwart the bed
I watch the moonbeams cast a trail
So bright, so cold, so frail,
That for a space it gleams
Like hoarfrost on the margin of my dreams.
I raise my head —
The splendid moon I see:
Then drop my head,
And sink to dreams of thee —
My fatherland, of thee!
This version is from the British sinologist L. Cranmer-Byng. His translation is very different from the original poem in form and meaning. The sentences are complicated and the expressions are too far away from the original one. We can find no evidence in Li Bai’s poem about “so cold, so frail” in the second sentence and “on the margin of my dreams” in the fifth sentence. Also, in the last sentence, the noun “fatherland” departed from the author’s opinion, because the creation time of “Still night thoughts” was in the glorious age of Tang dynasty, Li Bai wrote this poem to express his homesickness rather than patriotism. I suppose the translator was not familiar with the creation background of the original poem, yet the culture background is the important part to analysis the motivation of writer’s work and to comprehend it better. Though L. Cranmer-Byng tried hard to recreate “Still night thoughts”, his lacking of culture background led to improper change. As a whole, this version is not a successful translation.
Version three:
So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed,
Could there have been a frost already?
Lifting my head to look,
I found that it was moonlight,
Sinking back again,
I thought suddenly of home.
This version is from a Harold Witter Bynner, an American poet. Though its form differs from the original one, it is a simple and beautiful poem. It began with the phrase “so bright” attracting the readers to read forward and distinctively showed the brightness of the moonbeam. In the second sentence, the translator did not mention what the bright gleam was, instead he wrote a rhetorical question “Could there have been a frost already?” he did not used any words to express “疑” in the original poem, his expression manifested it well. In the next sentences, he selected the word “lift” and “sink” to display the writer’s movement. “Lift” and “sink” comported the slow movement which implied the complex emotion of he writer. In the last sentence, Bynner utilized the adverb the “suddenly” which added the finishing touch the pen. Despite of no related words in the original poem about the word “suddenly”, we can feel from the scene that Li Bai watched the moon which associated him with the homeland, and then the strong emotion of homesickness occurred to him, so the nostalgia was a spasm. Bynner stretched his imagination moderately and added the hidden meaning into the translation. Overall, this version not only displays the beauty of “Still night thoughts”, but also showed the translator bilingual language skill.
Version four:
As by my bed
The moon did beam,
It seemed as if with frost the earth were spread.
But soft I raise
My head, to gaze
At the fair moon. And now,
With head bent low,
Of home I dream.
This version is also from a foreigner John Turner. This version and it is a typical English poem. There are various sentence patterns and some sentences are separated into different lines and different in size. For instance, in the last two sentences, “With head bent low” is an independent nominative sentence and “of home I dream” is an inverted sentence. All these sentences in picturesque disorder present the irregular beauty of the English poem. As for selection of words, Turner did a good job as well. Since the translator has already mentioned the moon in the first line, it is proper to use “seemed as ” to express “疑”. Also, the verb “gaze” emphasized the writer looked at the moon for a long time that well displayed the complicated feelings in the writer’s heart. The phrase “bent low” used by Turner accurately depicts the slowly and gently movement of the writer’s head. Anther apparent characteristic of this translation is its rhyme. It adopts iambic pentameter that is “aba ccdd b” rhyme which makes the poem full of beauty of sound. However, the word “beam” in the second sentence is not suitable, for “beam” is used to indict a line of light which is different from the scene that the moonlight covered the ground. “Soft” in the fourth line is unnecessary, for the reason that the writer is not prepared to feel sad and he raised his head naturally when he saw the light on the floor. It is superfluous to add the word “soft” here to enhance the emotion of homesickness. In general, it is a good translation and displays “Still night thoughts” with the beauty of English language.
Version five:
Moonlight before my bed,
Could it be frost instead?
Head up, I watch the moon;
Head down, I think of home.
This version is from Zhao Zhentao (赵甄陶). This translation is simple and easily understood, its structure is clear and lucid, and it is easy to read, sing and memory. At this aspect, this version is very alike the original poem. But this translation is a good poem, because the wording of it is rough. For example, “head up” and “head down” in the last two sentences express the movement of raising head and falling head of the writer too straight and directly that they can not present the subtle emotions implied in the movement. In the first two sentences, the translator omitted all words about the brightness of the moonlight in order to keep the translation succinct. However, moon is the most important imagery in this poem in that moon has a special meaning in the Chinese culture that it often closely related to the family, hometown or motherland, and it is the key to arouse the nostalgia of the writer in this poem. Therefore, this omission is not desirable. Meanwhile, Zhao made little creative changes in the translations. Although this version gets on for the regular beauty of Chinese ancient poem, it is not a beautiful English poem and can not represent the splendor of “Still night thoughts”.
Generally speaking, the criteria of poetry translation are according to three sections -- faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance. Without enough knowledge of the culture background and the accurate understanding of the original poem, it is hard to achieve faithfulness and will mislead the readers, as version two mistakes homesickness with patriotism. On the base of faithfulness, excellent bilingual language skill is a must; otherwise original poem will lose its beauty under the translator’s hand, as version five is a plain and too direct poem. In addition, apt recreation is needed to cater for different language user and even add beauty to the poem. Version one, three and five are successful examples with the translator’s ingenuity, including wording, sentence pattern and organization. Although there is no equivalence between two different languages, especially the geography locations of two languages users are far away so that there is a huge difference between two culture backgrounds, in order to transform a form of language into another, translators have done a great job, doing research on the creation background the experience of the writer, and digesting original poem, and then tried their best to select and organize words, and make fit recreation to approach the beauty of the original poem.
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If you're looking for bachelor party ideas, you've come to the right place. It all depends on what you're in the mood for. There's actually an interesting variety of things to do in Miami. There's plenty of water activities in South Beach. Your hotel (should you go with one of our listed options through Suiteness) can connect you with everything from paddle boarding to private beach access. You can also wander Lincoln Ave. in South Beach for great shopping and some low key awesome bars (great for grabbing a beer to beat the heat). For more extreme options though, the Suiteness concierge can connect you with one of the following options:
Do you love fishing? Maybe you've always wanted to just get out on the open water and test your hand at catching something massive. If so, deep sea fishing is the way to go.
Exotic Car Driving Experience
You'll see plenty of exotic cars driving around South Beach. The problem is you can't really enjoy the drive. What's the point of renting a V-16 engine when driving in bumper to bumper traffic? With a driving experience, you'll pay less money and get to feel the full throttle of what these exotic cars can do.
Everglades Trip
Maybe and your buddies are a bit more green and like the great outdoors? Our concierge can connect you with the top Everglades boat tours. Just know that if you're looking to spend your time with the ladies, most of them on these boat trips will be of the retired variety.
Where to Eat and Drink in Miami
According to "World's Best Bars," the best bar in Miami is "Town Kitchen and Bar" near Downtown. However, there are plenty of other great food and drink joints in Miami to check out, including:
The Anderson
Looking for a bit of the 1980s? Of course, you are. The 80s built Miami (check out the documentary "Cocaine Cowboys" on Netflix to learn more about the city's pretty epic rise to fame).
In the mood for a killer cocktail? You'll be hard-pressed to find anything better than The Broken Shaker.
Hey, when you're in town for a Miami bachelor party, might as well remind your buddy what's going to happen to him once he's married. This is a Cuban-inspired restaurant with delicious food and amazing cocktails.
Where to Party in Miami For Your Bachelor Party
You come to Miami to party. Just what kind of party you're looking for depends on your style, but here are some of the best options to consider.
Yup, not only is it one of the best bars and restaurants but it's one of the best dance bars. At night it turns into an epic nightclub, but it is west of Downtown, so if you're staying in South Beach it might be a bit of a drive (but well worth it).
Club Space
Just north of Downtown Miami, if you're into the techno dancing scene, this is the spot for you. When searching for bachelor party ideas, this is a dancing must. Just make sure to dress to impress.
When Rolling Stone magazine has it listed in the top 5 best dance clubs in the country, it is a must. Just know it will be wall to wall people.
This joint is owned by the same great folks who own LIV, it's one of the best spots to just randomly meet people and dance the night away. YOu can also book your own VIP section.
If you need more suggestiong, feel free to look at our guide to the best nightlife in Miami> or ask our concierge for suggestions.
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Over 60 St Benedict's singers and instrumentalists went on a 5 day tour to southwest Italy in July, giving concerts in a variety of stunning venues and discovering Italian culture.
Evan Hobson (Year 13):
In the summer, over sixty St Benedict's musicians from years 7 to 13 had a spectacular time performing music in and exploring the area around Naples, Italy. The array of activities that we took part in as well as the phenomenal experiences performing in towns and at beaches for the locals were incredible. We were able to see the historic Pompeii and Herculaneum, and spent a day at a water park. The highlights were definitely the performances. Sharing our music with the locals and seeing the residents listening from their windows was amazing. Everyone was so thankful to the staff for making the week one to remember!
Harry Lubkowski (Year 13):
The music trip this Summer to Sorrento was full of laughter, friendship, but most of all music. The School choir performed alongside several percussion groups and the Pafties (chamber choir), all of whom, throughout our time on tour, gelled into a larger group, showing the true St Benedict's way of community. From singing by the sea, to a tiny village in the Italian hills, the tour acted as a way for students to show off their talents, while putting a smile on the faces of many Italian crowd members. We also enjoyed several trips to historical sites such as Pompeii, and Herculaneum, learning about the old civilisations. All in all, this was an amazing school trip that offered the opportunity for students to perform in a completely new environment.
Tuesday 9 July
Gatwick to Naples. Transfer to Hotel Eden Bleu, Sorrento.
Wednesday 10 July
Morning - visit to Pompeii.
Afternoon - visit to Herculaneum.
21:00 Evening Concert at Area Archeologica Etrusco-Sannitica di Fratte, Salerno
Thursday 11 July
Morning - explore Sorrento
Afternoon - explore Amalfi & Cathedral di S Andrea Apostolo
21:15 Evening Concert at Piazza S Francesco, Cetara
Friday 12 July
Visit to Waterpark near Salerno
Early dinner in Aquara
20:30 Evening Concert at Piazza Vittorio Veneto, Aquara
Saturday 13 July
Morning - visit local seaside
Afternoon - visit Mt Vesuvius
Evening - flight from Naples to Gatwick
With thanks to the Director of Music, Mr Eastwood, and his department.
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Man deported after disgruntled ex-girlfriend reports him to ICE
(FOX NEWS) – An illegal immigrant living in Kansas was deported Friday after his ex-girlfriend reported him to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), local media reported.
Mexican national Serafin Alegria-Zamora, 37, endured a “final act of terror” when his ex-girlfriend reported him to immigration authorities, his attorney, Rekha Sharma-Crawford said, according to The Kansas City Star.
Alegria-Zamora’s application for a “U” visa — a nonimmigrant visa designated for “victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse” — reportedly was pending for four months when he was deported.
He applied for the visa after being allegedly stalked by his disgruntled ex-girlfriend who had a “dark obsession” with Alegria-Zamora after he began seeing a new woman with whom he started a family.
In U.S. District Court in Kansas on Friday, Sharma-Crawford filed an emergency complaint stating her client should be granted the “U” visa, because Alegria-Zamora was being “terrorized” by his ex.
The ex, according to The Kansas City Star, sent Alegria-Zamora a photo of his new partner with a bullseye in the middle of her forehead, in addition to pictures of dead children.
Alegria-Zamora and the new woman reportedly received a doll “drenched in red paint with a note that said, ‘back off bitch, Serafin is mine,’” from the ex, the newspaper reported, citing the complaint.
But despite the emergency filing, Alegria-Zamora was ultimately deported. He was reportedly convicted of illegal re-entry into the U.S. and misuse of a social security number in Wichita.
His 5-month-old son and common-law wife will remain in the U.S.
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This is very sad, how can you do this to a human. You are the ex, leave people alone to go on with their lives, you may have been the problem. God don't like ugly, right now you have done an ugly thing ,seperating a father from his family. I pray for you and your family man........
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Gambians elect parliament to further transition into democracy
Gambians were, on Thursday, voting for a new parliament to further establish democracy in the West African nation after more than two decades of autocratic rule.
During the poll, the country’s first election since autocrat Yahya Jammeh went into exile in January, 239 candidates from nine political parties were competing for 48 seats in the national assembly.
Five additional seats would be appointed directly by President Adama Barrow, who took power on January 19.
Report says there is much hope in the nation of 1.8 million people that the legislative election will provide Gambia with a functional national assembly that will help amend the wrongs committed during Jammeh’s regime.
“Jammeh, who ruled the Islamic Republic for 22 years with an iron fist, is widely accused of human rights violations, including torture and arbitrary arrests,’’ it noted.
The autocrat caused weeks of political impasse by refusing to accept the result of the December 2016 presidential election, which saw him lose power to Barrow.
After regional pressure and the threat of arrest by West African troops that had entered Gambia, Jammeh eventually conceded defeat and went into exile in Equatorial Guinea.
Barrow promised to set up a truth and reconciliation commission to ensure justice and reparations for the victims of Jammeh’s government.
The European Union has sent 50 election monitors to observe Thursday’s polls.
In addition, 20 observers from the Economic Community of West African States and 30 observers from the African Union were monitoring the election.
Polling stations are scheduled to close at 1600 GMT, while results are expected on Friday. (NAN)
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Does New Focus on Corrupt Practices Act Signal that No One's Too Big to Escape Prosecution?
The news that Hewlett-Packard is the target of a German-Russian bribery investigation spotlights a seldom mentioned reason for the U.S. government's recently stepped-up enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: other countries are finally starting to crack down on corruption cases.
U.S. firms have their own government to thank for closing the pincers: the Justice Department has been leaning on foreign governments for years to enact, and enforce legislation that backs up long-standing OECD anti-bribery conventions. Now that they are, Uncle Sam has also stepped-up enforcement of the FCPA law, which has been on the books since 1977. The prior laxity in enforcement could well have come about because the U.S. government was loathe to put U.S. firms at a disadvantage to overseas competition. But with the international investigation into HP, the rules seem to have changed.
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Rory Bremner is Britain’s best-loved impressionist. With a repertoire of over one hundred characters, he impersonates everyone from film stars to chat show hosts, sportsmen to newsreaders and politicians to fellow comedians. His series Rory Bremner…Who Else? and Bremner, Bird & Fortune, have been among the sharpest satire shows on television. Rory frequently appears in one-off topical specials including Between Iraq and a Hard Place, and Silly Money, a four part satirical documentary on the global banking crisis. He frequently appears on a range of both comic and serious programmes including Question Time, The One Show, QI, and This Week. He was a regular on BBC 2’s Mock the Week and partnered Erin on the Saturday night hit Strictly Come Dancing.
Rory has also hosted Breakfast with Frost, written diaries for the Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman, and translated a number of operas including Kurt Weill’s Der Silbersee for Broomhill Opera (he speaks fluent German, French and Spanish). He’s even achieved charttopping status with his single 19 Not Out (performed with the BBC cricket commentary team).
He has twice won the British Comedy Award for Top Male Performer as well as BAFTA’s Best Light Entertainment Award.
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FROST 2ND IN NEW ZEALAND SBK OPENER
Team Suzuki Press Office – December 9.
Suzuki’s Sloane Frost raced to second place in the opening round of the New Zealand Suzuki-supported Tri Series at Hampton Downs race circuit near Meremere at the weekend.
As an annual three-race warm-up and testing-ground for the main Superbike Championship - that kicks-off at the beginning of January 2014 - Kawasaki's Nick Cole raced to 1-2 positions and Frost 3-1 positions to beat defending champion Dennis Charlett into third place overall.
Said Frost (pictured), who is tipped as a favourite for the New Zealand Superbike Championship honours: “I finished third in the first F1 race by just .0001-of-a-second. It all came down to tyre choice really. I decided to go with slicks because, even thought the track was wet, it was drying quickly. However, it took two or three laps for those tyres to warm-up properly on the cool tarmac. I got up to second place and had an epic battle with Dennis and, in the end, he beat me across the line.
“I felt I needed to redeem myself in the next race and I did, winning it ahead of Nick. I had a bad start but was in the lead inside the first lap. It was close racing and, at one stage when Nick was trying to go around the outside of me, I could feel his bike rubbing on my left boot. We have been racing each-other a while and we trust each other though. This series is certainly going to be tight."
Defending F1 champion Charlett was philosophical about his weekend. He said: “I didn't do myself any favours by only qualifying in 10th but I'm happy with how my races went. I'm feeling great on the bike and there is still a long way to go in the series. It's certainly not over yet. If this was a bad day for me, then it was not too bad."
The second race is this coming weekend at Manfeild with the third and final round of the Suzuki Tri Series at the legendary Boxing Day public street race on Whanganui’s Cemetery Circuit.
The four-round national championship series follows immediately afterwards.
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Search - Robert Merrill, Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini :: The Best of Italian Opera
Robert Merrill, Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini
The Best of Italian Opera
La Traviata, opera: Libiamo, libiamo
Rigoletto, opera: La donna è mobile
Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), opera: Una voce poco fà
La bohème, opera: Che gelida manina
Rigoletto, opera: Gualtier maldé Caro nome
Il Trovatore, opera: Vedi! le fosche (Anvil Chorus)
Il Trovatore, opera: Il balen del suo sorriso...Per me ora fatale
Tosca, opera: Vissi d'arte
Gagliarde: Di Provenza il mar, il suol
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Voi che sapete
Aida, opera: Se quel guerrier io fossi...Celeste Aida
Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Un bel dí vedremo
La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Cielo e mar
Lucia di Lammermoor, opera: Ardon gl'incesi (Mad Scene)
All Artists: Robert Merrill, Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini, Giacomo Puccini, Adrian Denss, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amilcare Ponchielli, Gaetano Donizetti, Tullio Serafin, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Colin Davis, Gabriele Santini, Reri Grist, Lamberto Gardelli, Thomas Schippers, Anatole Fistoulari, Alceo Galliera, Giuseppe Patanè, Franco Ferraris, Rome Opera House Orchestra
Title: The Best of Italian Opera
Label: EMI Classics
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Antonio Vivaldi, English Chamber Orchestra, Nigel Kennedy
Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons [Complete]
The Sopranos: Music From The HBO Original Series
Genres: Folk, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks, Classic Rock
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Giacomo Puccini, Eduardo di Capua, Gioachino Rossini
Amore: Romantic Italian Love Songs
Genres: Pop, Classical
To Love Again
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
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Label: Sire / London/Rhino
Not a better cd at this price
Robert A. Dunn | Alabama, USA | 10/27/2000
"Whether you are an opera lover already or want to find out if opera is something you would enjoy, this is a cd for you. I bought this cd on a whim because of the price and now I would gladly pay five times that to replace it in my collection. The voices are phenomenal and filled with emotion as I think they should be in opera."
A Great Introduction to Italian Opera
A student | 04/30/2005
"The artists on this CD succeed in their goal to create a CD that displays great Italian opera. Carlo del Monte and Victoria de los Angeles open the disc with the Brindisi from La Traviata. Victoria de los Angeles is not the best Violetta, but she does the job, along with her parner Carlo del Monte, an underappreciated tenor. Victoria de los Angeles also appears on the CD in "Un bel di vedremo" from Madama Butterfly, a role she was well known for. Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda appears on the disc twice. His first appearence is a superb rendition of "La donna e mobile" from Rigoletto. His final performance on this disc is in the heroric aria "Celeste Aida", a performance in a role that was not in his voice range. Anna Moffo is the star on this CD, appearing three times in three very different roles. First is her beautiful "Una voce poco fa", normally a role that calls for a mezzo-soprano. Her second is "Voi che sapete" from Le Nozze di Figaro, another mezzo-soprano role. Her final appearence is her best, "The Mad Scene" from Lucia di Lammermoor. Underrated tenor Giuseppe Campora performs "Che gelida manina" with a great tenor voice. Soprano Reri Girst is excellent in her performance of "Caro nome" from Rigoletto. One of my favorite baritones appears on this CD. Robert Merrill is a perfect Count di Luna, and it is evident in his rendition of "Il balen del suo sorriso". Another baritone appears on this CD: mario Sereni. He is not a world famous baritone, but he should have been. Overall, this is an excellent introduction to the world of Italian opera."
The Ultimately Unbeatable
an amateur soprano | Walnut, CA United States | 01/14/2001
"Best deal of Italian opera CD collection is found from this album. Although featuring Verdi's opera works, Mozart's Voi Che Sapete from Le Nozzi di Figaro was excellently recorded. Sound quality is excellent, and what a great gift idea this is!"
Italian Opera CD
Dorothy F. Doherty | Chicago, IL USA | 08/09/2007
"This was advertised as a salute to Robert Merrill. It is not, it a collection of Opera stars and more arias are sung by Victoria de Los Angeles than anyone else which is okay because the recordings are superb. I would be a bit more specific in the future.
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Labor Warranties Now Available on New HVAC Installations
As a Carrier Factory-Authorized Dealer, Terry’s A/C and Heating will begin offering extended service plans on top of the generous manufacturer’s warranties we already provide to our residential customers. Previously, warranty service covered the cost of parts but did not include the cost of labor to install the new part and return the defective part. Responding to customer feedback, Carrier facilitated a partnership with Prime Warranty, a third party company that provides these extended service plans, to make warranty service truly hassle-free for our customers.
How Long Do Extended Service Plans Last?
Starting November 1, 2019, Terry’s A/C and Heating will offer 5- or 10-year extended service plans on top of the manufacturer’s warranties for all new installations. Best of all, we can offer these for any new installations that have taken place in the 2019 calendar year.
What Do Extended Service Plans Cover?
These extended service plans will cover a variety of different residential HVAC configurations including the following:
Traditional central air and heat system (gas or electric heat)
Air conditioning only (covering a condenser and evaporator coil)
Furnace or heater only (covering an air handler and heater)
Ductless mini-split air conditioning and heating systems
Variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems
Extended service plans can ensure that a repair due to a defective part is almost carefree, costing only the diagnostic fee to determine the cause of the problem. From there, Terry’s A/C and Heating handles all of the paperwork for both the manufacturer’s warranty and extended service plan. We also return the part(s) to the manufacturer for reimbursement in about 30-45 days. These new extended service plans are optional for our customers, but they offer a way to build in even more security in the event of a large repair.
Contact Rob Terry at Terry’s A/C and Heating at 281-495-7830 to learn more about the options available for your home. Serving the Southwest Houston and surrounding areas including Katy, Richmond, Pecan Grove, Rosenberg, Fulshear, Sugar Land, Memorial and Bellaire, we would be honored to earn your business.
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HomeNews & EventsTFP announces DPSCreate™, the first comprehensive guide to learning and using Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite™
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TFP announces DPSCreate™, the first comprehensive guide to learning and using Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite™
Leading DPS reseller and implementation consultants capture best practices and tips in an easy-to-use app and handbook
BOLTON, Mass., Jan. 24, 2012 — Technology for Publishing™ LLC (TFP) hit the ground running in 2012, releasing DPSCreate™: Building Interactive Content on Jan. 10. DPSCreate is available as an app, a downloadable PDF handbook, or a hard-copy handbook and is the first comprehensive, self-guided learning tool for Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite™ (DPS) available to the publishing industry. For the thousands of users in organizations big and small who are anxious to take advantage of the new features offered by DPS, DPSCreate provides easily digestible information, real-world examples, and best practices essential for success in digital publishing.
DPSCreate™: Building Interactive Content covers the following digital publishing topics, and more:
DPS terminology
Getting started with file organization and document assembly
Creating interactive and scrollable content
Building and editing folios
Sharing folios for review and approval
“DPSCreate presents all of the information a user needs to learn about DPS in one place, with tips and extras you won’t find anywhere else,” said Stephanie Brockway, Director, Creative and Digital Publishing, at Technology for Publishing. “We provide all of the necessary instructions for creating rich interactive features and building a folio file, using an easy-to-follow, intuitive teaching method.”
TFP worked closely with Adobe early in the pre-release development stages of the Digital Publishing Suite, providing insight and direction based on customer feedback. As one of the first DPS partners in the industry, TFP has been able to mesh its comprehensive industry knowledge with current market and strategic requirements to provide valuable insight and guidance to its clients as they have released their first apps, including National Geographic and Men’s Health. TFP’s hands-on experience has been captured in the DPSCreate products and will be offered in exciting partner products soon to be announced.
“We launched DPSCreate because we saw that companies and designers were eager to know how to create publications on the iPad. When Adobe Digital Publishing Suite was released, there was no easy way for designers to learn about the process of creating an interactive publication. We developed DPSCreate to demystify the process and empower designers—and companies—to succeed in the tablet publishing market,” said Brockway.
Technology for Publishing™ LLC is a publishing consulting firm that has been providing process and technical consulting to publishers in the magazine, book, newspaper, and corporate industries for more than 20 years. With a notable list of long-standing clientele, TFP is a recognized leader in helping companies transform their content publishing strategies, processes, and systems from traditional, resource-heavy, paper-based models to fluid, automated content flows.
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6 of the best phones from CES 2020: folding phones to disappearing cameras
Some you may buy, some you won't
TCL's new folding phone concept (left) and the Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite (right) (Image credit: TCl, Samsung)
Annual tech trade show CES 2020 has seen the introduction of a variety of new smartphones, so we've put together a list of the best we've seen at the world's biggest tech show.
Some of these phones are real handsets you'll be able to buy soon and get your hands on; others are concept devices that show off what the future of phones might look like.
We've made a list of the six best phones we saw at CES 2020, and we'll run you through them all below. Some are 5G-ready, some are foldable and others are just new iterations of existing series of devices.
Check out all of the TechRadar CES 2020 awards in one place
OnePlus Concept One
Clear glass when the camera app isn't opened... (Image credit: Future)
...and present lenses when the camera app is activated. (Image credit: Future)
If you don't like the look of the camera on the back of your phone, OnePlus has a solution in the form of its OnePlus Concept One.
The cameras on the back of this device can 'disappear' when you're not using them. Basically, the phone shoots an electric current through the glass that houses the cameras, which makes the lenses invisible when you don't want to see them. It's a similar technology to what modern cars use to make sunroofs transparent.
The OnePlus Concept One isn't a smartphone you'll ever be able to buy, because as the name suggests it's just a concept device that OnePlus is using to show off its new tech.
The rest of the phone is just a standard OnePlus phone, with the phone intended simply to show off the disappearing act. Saying that, OnePlus has said this tech could come to its future smartphones.
Read our OnePlus Concept Phone first look
Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite (Image credit: TechRadar)
Almost eleven months after the release of the Galaxy S10, Samsung released the Galaxy S10 Lite. It's a device that's bigger than its namesake, but some of the specs are downgraded in a few key areas.
We haven't really seen this kind of device from Samsung before that matches the size of the main flagship series but offers lower spec. There's the Galaxy S10e that came out alongside the Galaxy S10, but that is far more similar to the existing phones.
The S10 Lite actually has as much in common with the affordable Galaxy A range as it does the premium Galaxy S phones.
The Galaxy S10 Lite is a tempting device for affordable phones fans, but it's also an intriguing look into the future of Samsung's phones. Could Samsung release annual budget versions of its Galaxy S phones like Google has begun to with the Google Pixel 3a range? Only time will tell.
Read our hands-on Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite review
As well as an affordable version of the Galaxy S10, Samsung took to CES 2020 to unveil the Galaxy Note 10 Lite, a budget version of – you guessed it – the Note 10.
This new phone is the cheapest Samsung smartphone to come with a stylus, so if you like the business-centric form of the Galaxy Note phones but don't want to break the bank, it might be a great phone for you.
We don't expect to see the Samsung Galaxy Note 11 until the second half of 2020, so it would now be a great time to pick up a more affordable version of the Note series. Hopefully this phone will open the stylus-toting handset to a whole new market of people.
Read our hands-on Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite review
Samsung Galaxy A71 (Image credit: TechRadar)
The affordable Samsung Galaxy A range gained two new devices at CES 2020, the Galaxy A51 and this, the A71, one of the most high-tech mid-range devices ever.
The device has a huge 6.7-inch screen, four rear cameras including a 64MP main snapper and a chunky 4,500mAh battery. On paper, it looks like it'll be great for a variety of users.
If this is indication of how the Samsung Galaxy A phones will look in 2020, it's a sunny forecast, and we're looking forward to seeing more of the devices throughout the year.
Read our hands-on Samsung Galaxy A71 review
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We've been waiting for affordable an 5G phone to be announced, and it looks like TCL wants to be one of the first to release one with its TCL 10 5G. The handset was launched alongside the TCL 10L and 10 Pro, although it's not quite like either.
The main selling point here is that TCL promises the device will be available for under $500 (and likely around £500, AU$700), which would make it much more affordable than most other 5G handsets on the market.
This is a forecast for 2020 as it seems many more companies could try to produce 5G phones that are cheap enough for most people to buy. It may all start with the TCL 10 5G, one of the most interesting mid-rangers from CES.
Read our hands-on TCL 10 5G review
TCL foldable phone (version two)
TCL Foldable phone (Image credit: Future)
We've seen TCL's foldable phone before, but at CES 2020 the company showed off a new version of its flexible device with some intriguing developments.
The biggest news here isn't that there's a new foldable phone, but what it means for the new form factor. Like with 5G phones, TCL is trying to develop a folding device that's affordable enough for most people to buy.
TCL want to make a device that doesn't cost a huge four-figure sum, like the Samsung Galaxy Fold, but an affordable range of handsets that are cheap enough to compete with normal smartphones.
The device might not quite be ready for a release just yet, as the design still feels a little fragile, but if this gets into our hands some time soon it might be enough to pressure other companies to make affordable foldable phones too.
Read our TCL foldable phone first look
Check out all of TechRadar's CES 2020 coverage. We're live in Las Vegas to bring you all the breaking tech news and launches, plus hands-on reviews of everything from 8K TVs and foldable displays to new phones, laptops and smart home gadgets.
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The #SlowDown social media campaign which aimed to highlight the risk of driving at illegal/ inappropriate speeds was delivered and gained over 28,000 views.
Corporate Communications ran a “Be bright, be seen” social media campaign about the need for reflective clothing to improve safety on the roads, which was seen by 12,143 people online.
Corporate Communications delivered social media activity as part of Motorcycle Safety Week, which was seen by around 16000 people online.
As part of the drink and drug driving summer operation, a video was produced featuring a bereaved mother whose daughter was killed in a drink drive collision caused by a family friend. There was a call to action for people to report drink drivers and not to drink and drive as it devastates lives. The short video sits on YouTube. Social media channels were used to promote this anti-drink and drug drive message and media were invited to speak to case study, Karen.
In August, a case study video of a young driver who killed another motorist when he was overtaking at speed was published across social media to highlight the dangers of speeding and the impact on lives.
Social media activity was delivered around the Driver Vision Pilot campaign in association with the Road Safety charity Brake, which highlighted statistics around poor driver vision and its effects on road safety. Results are yet to be published.
A theatre production project, Safe Drive Stay Alive, which explores the circumstances of a road traffic collision, was performed to 15,000 young people during November 2018. The campaign reaches new and pre-drivers to influence behaviour and attitude on the roads and was delivered by a road safety partnership including Thames Valley Police, local councils and emergency services.
The annual Roads Policing Christmas drink and drug driving awareness campaign was run in collaboration with Hampshire. Video materials had a total of 91,000 views.
Operation Tutelage was developed by the Joint Operations Unit of Thames Valley Police and Hampshire Constabulary to tackle uninsured drivers. It has been adopted as a national initiative and was launched in November 2018.
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Nicola Yoon, a new york times bestselling author, brings another one of her romantic books to life. A Sun is Also a Star is soon to be a major motion picture coming out on May 17th. Yoon’s other book Everything Everything was made into a movie and became very popular in 2017.
A Sun is Also a Star is about Natasha finding love at a difficult time in her family’s life. Her family is going to be deported and she trusts science and facts. She doesn’t believe in destiny or dreams that will never come true. Daniel is a poet and believes in all the things Natasha doesn’t believe in. Natasha is saved by Daniel from getting hit by a car and tried really hard not to fall in love with him, but fate has something else in store.
The role of Daniel will be played by Charles Melton, an American model, and actor. He is known for being on Riverdale, the CW television show. The role of Natasha is played by Yara Shahidi, an American actor, model, and activist. She is known for her role on the sitcom Black-ish and its spin-off series Grown-ish.
Many of the Annandale Students can’t contain their enthusiasm after seeing the movie trailer.
“Everything Everything is one of my favorite books and I was really impressed with the movie. When I found out that A Sun is Also a Star was becoming a star I was very happy,” junior Jennifer Sanchez said.
“I have feeling that this movie will be better than Everything Everything because of the actors. I can’t wait to see this movie in May,” freshman Stephanie Manco said.
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Your Voice | A Passover-friendly Fling
For the first time in recent memory, Spring Fling and Passover have coincided this year. Passover is arguably the most celebrated holiday in the Jewish faith. Fling is arguably the most celebrated tradition on the Penn calendar.
Your Voice | Be part of the solution
Each spring, the Nominations & Elections Committee nominates undergraduate students to University-wide committees comprised of undergraduates, graduates, faculty and administrators. This year, we are accepting applications for 20 committees.
Your Voice | Reacting the right way
We are all human and make mistakes. Most of us make numerous stupid, arrogant statements during our lives. What is gained by turning these statements into a cover story, especially a cover story that purports to present a public voice of Penn?
Your Voice | An open letter to Professor John DiIulio
I am writing to ask you to repudiate publicly your book Body Count and accept responsibility for your contribution to the sort of racist climate that enables grown men to think that they are acting in self-defense when they gun down black male youths in cold blood.
Your Voice | Geoffrey Canada is far from flawless
While Canada has a sterling reputation, he is not without some serious flaws. Paul Tough’s book, Whatever it Takes documents Canada kicking out an entire class of middle school students for having low test scores.
Your Voice | Chinese faces behind Apple products
The Chinese government often emphasizes the low cost of labor when trying to attract new investments. But should this be prioritized above the cost of lives and basic human rights?
Your Voice | Uncivil Disobedience
The difference between Thoreau’s civil disobedience and Chairez’s uncivil disobedience is that the actions taken by Thoreau did not directly affect the freedom and safety of others.
Your Voice | Supporting undocumented student activists
No middle schooler growing up in the United States should be forced to realize that she has inherited an outsider status.
Your Voice | Adding a critical perspective
A graduate student calls for a more ‘critical perspective’ in a recent article about the Philadelphia Police’s new surveillance center.
Your Voice | Navigating bureaucracy
Democracy works best when more people participate, and yet in states across the country and right here in Pennsylvania, our elected officials are devising ways to suppress voters.
Your Voice | Getting gun laws right
In an article on Feb. 8, Max Nachman, director of CeasefirePA, defends Philly’s Stolen Handgun Reporting Law by asserting that people selling or giving away guns illegally cannot be prosecuted.
Your Voice | Fees in Vain
At a time when students are struggling more than ever to pay their tuition, Penn, a university with the seventh largest endowment in the country (over $6 billion), enforces a late-payment policy that is as inflexible as it is unfair.
Your Voice | Budgeting for improvements
The $2,000,000 that the Board of Trustees allocates each year is not the student government’s money — it’s your money.
Your Voice | A message of solidarity
This threatens the hard work of student leaders at Penn to create an environment that is tolerant and accepting of students from all backgrounds.
Your Voice | Moving forward together
Things aren’t perfect for women — or for men — at Penn or in the world. But I am thrilled to be in a time and on a campus in which I, as an individual, could be elected the president of my class on a platform of inclusion and embracement of diversity.
Your Voice | Varieties of feminism
Should we blame Koren for feeling uncomfortable that from day one in office, she became identified as the female that won the competitive election?
Your Voice | A Reptile -Dysfunction- Spectacular
After 124 years of producing shows, their latest — “A Reptile Dysfunction” — continues to live up to the great tradition of the notoriously wild and wacky all-male musical comedy troupe.
Your Voice | Far from an even playing field
In reaching our leadership positions on campus, we have all learned to navigate these subtle forms of gender discrimination in our daily work.
Your Voice | Working for you
When the UA fails to do its job, we lose your trust. And when we lose your trust, we lose the ability to do our job.
Your Voice | Objections to Occupy Penn
Like many others, I read the guest column submitted on behalf of Occupy Penn with utter dismay.
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GARDNER There is something about beer and music that will bring people out even in the rain. On Saturday, hundreds of people turned up for the 12th annual Oktoberfest Party in the Street and Gardner Chair Luge Competition.
This in the ninth year the Chair City Luge has been run, and this year 17 teams showed up in their strange vehicles to race in three heats before a winner was determined.
“They have signed the waiver, so they are going down the hill today,” declared Brad Gallant, the spandex-clad Master of Ceremonies.
There were rolling caskets, a saw on wheels, and even a jet plane on wheels, all carrying some theme from the 1980s. As music like “Don’t Stop Believing,” and “Sharp Dressed Man” blared from the speakers, racers dressed in spandex and headbands holding back flyaway mullets and Twisted Sister locks peppered the track, and ladies in pink fuzzy leg warmers and colored glasses jumped on wheeled racers with sticks for breaks and raced to the finish.
Large men dressed in shirts that had “Bumper” written across the back guarded the people lining the track from any vehicle going off course.
Each vehicle had three chances to run the race. There were three separate heats. The first was jump on the vehicle and let gravity help the driver make it to the finish.
The second heat was a little more challenging as Gallant made the drivers spin on their feet and high five the luge committee chairman before jumping into the vehicle to be push-started by their teammate. There were a few that went off course as tunes by Devo and Whitney Houston accompanied them down the track.
Both sides of the street were packed with rain-coated people and umbrellas. There were a couple of crashes at the finish, but no one was hurt, and the “bumpers” kept the audience safe.
Team Fitchburg went up against Gardner 10 Pins and the Bar at Gardner 10 pins in a final heat grudge match.
“This is going to get personal ladies and gentlemen,” said Gallant. “They are already trash talking!”
Advanced Glass and Mirror went up against Home Town Barbers and Salvadore Auto Group in their final heat as the crowd got loud.
The last heat was for the money. It was the Green Monster, the Bar at Gardner 10 Pins and Salvadore Auto that took the final run as the crowd screamed.
When all was said and done, Salvadore Auto won the Gardner Chair City Luge Race, a race they have taken home the trophy for multiple times.
There were no sore losers. Many are already planning their next year’s vehicle.
Jason Cook of Winchendon said it was his first year running the luge. He recruited an engineer from Winthrop, Jason Servilas. The two are bound and determined to run the race next year.
Richard Bastien was racing a jet to honor the ’80s “Top Gun” movie. David Savenza was his teammate pusher. He said it was the fourth time out of nine years he has raced.
“It’s just a lot of fun,” he said. “It’s great seeing the creativity. It’s a big hit for Gardner every year.”
One of the biggest supporters of the yearly event, Andrew Boucher of Boucher Funeral Home and the Square Two downtown organization, was pleased with the turnout despite the weather.
“It was fantastic,” he said. “I have to admit I did not think there would be this many people.”
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British envoy not expecting anything specific out of Security Council meeting
Netanyahu dismisses wave of graft allegations as ‘complete chaos’
Amid slew of reports on suspected wrongdoing by PM and his associates, premier decries ‘campaign of persecution’ against him and his family
By Alexander Fulbright 20 February 2018, 2:01 pm 0 Edit
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend the inauguration of a new emergency ward at the Barzilai hospital in Ashkelon on February 20, 2018. (Flash90)
Former Communications Ministry director-general Shlomo Filber arrives for a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on February 18, 2018. (Flash90)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) speaks at the United Nations Security Council on February 20, 2018. (AFP Photo/Timothy A. Clary)
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and US President Donald Trump's senior adviser Jared Kushner are seen before Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' address to the United Nations Security Council on February 20, 2018. (AFP Photo/Timothy A. Clary)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the inauguration of the new emergency room at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon on February 20, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)
Police at the scene of a gas explosion at an apartment building in Jerusalem on February 20, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
A Palestinian holds a banner in Gaza City during a general strike to protest the humanitarian situation in Gaza on February 20, 2018. The writing in Arabic reads: "Gaza's children are dying, can anyone help?" (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)
In this photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets February 20, 2018, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense running to help survivors from a street that attacked by airstrikes and shelling of the Syrian government forces, in Ghouta. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)
The Times of Israel liveblogged Tuesday’s events as they unfolded.
Netanyahu puts Gaza terror groups on notice after IED attack
After an IED attack on an IDF patrol along the Gaza border over the weekend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not accept violation of its sovereignty by terror groups in the Strip.
“Every act of aggression by terrorist elements is met with a firm and powerful response from our side,” Netanyahu says at a dedication ceremony of a new emergency room at Ashkelon’s Barzilai Hospital.
He says Israel won’t tolerate sporadic rocket fire from Gaza or the planting of IEDs along the border, such as the one Saturday that wounded four soldiers, including two seriously.
“Whoever harms us will be hurt himself. Those who don’t act to calm the situation but choose to fan the flames will bear responsibility,” he warns.
Lawyers for Hariri assassination suspect calls for acquittal
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands — Lawyers for one of four alleged Hezbollah members accused of involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri are calling on judges at a UN-backed tribunal to acquit him, saying prosecutors have not presented enough evidence to convict him.
Tuesday’s call comes after prosecutors wrapped up their case after four years, but before defense attorneys presented any evidence. Lawyers for the three other suspects are not calling for acquittals at this stage of the trial.
None of the four suspects is in custody and the trial at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon is progressing in their absence. They are accused of involvement in the February 14, 2005, truck bombing in Beirut that killed Hariri and 21 others. They all deny the charges.
Egypt adds detained Islamist politician to terror list
CAIRO — An Egyptian court adds a detained Islamist politician to a list of wanted terrorists over his alleged links to the country’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.
The South Cairo Criminal Court adds Abdel-Monaem Abul Fetouh, 66, and 15 others to the list, which includes deposed president Mohamed Morsi, the Brotherhood’s spiritual guide, Mohammed Badie, and other group leaders.
Abul Fetouh was a longtime Brotherhood member, but quit the group in 2011 to run for president in the 2012 election won by Morsi.
Abul Fetouh was arrested earlier this month, shortly after his return from a trip to London.
Emergency crews respond to gas explosion at Jerusalem apartment bulding
Police say the explosion on Dan Street in Jerusalem was caused by a gas leak.
Several apartments were damaged by the blast, as was as the underground parking lot of the building, where the explosion apparently took place.
Two people were taken to Shaare Zedek Hospital with minor injuries, Magen Davd Adom paramedics say.
Police have opened an investigation into the incident, they say in a statement.
— Raoul Wootliff
Israeli kidnapped in Nigeria is released
A gag order is lifted on the kidnapping of an Israeli man in Nigeria on Friday.
The 62-year-old, who works for a company active in the country, was kidnapped on the outskirts of the capital of Abuja by armed men seeking a ransom payment for his release.
During the kidnapping, an exchange of gunfire ensued and the Israelis personal driver was killed.
He was released after negotiations between the CEO of the company where he works, Nigerian security forces and the kidnappers.
The Foreign Ministry says it and the Israeli ambassador in Abuja were involved in securing his release.
There is no word on whether a ransom payment was made for the Israeli man to be freed.
Syrian rebel leader accuses regime, allies of committing ‘a new Holocaust’
BEIRUT — A top Syrian rebel leader says government forces along with Iran and Russia are committing a new “Holocaust” in rebel-held suburbs of the capital Damascus.
Mohammed Alloush of the Army of Islam tells The Associated Press Tuesday that the United Nations is also to blame “because of its bankruptcy and lies about protecting security and peace in the world.”
Alloush’s comments come after opposition activists and paramedics said that more than 100 people have been killed since Monday in the worst daily death toll in the eastern suburbs, also known as eastern Ghouta, in three years.
Alloush, whose militant group is the strongest in eastern Ghouta, describes the government and its backers Russia and Iran as a “Satanic alliance” that is “unprecedented since World War II.”
Alloush adds that “a new Holocaust is being committed by the dirtiest regime on earth.”
Chief justice to testify on alleged offer to judge from Netanyahu ally — report
Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut will provide testimony to police on an alleged illicit offer a Netanyahu associate made to a judge, Hadashot TV news reports.
According to a Haaretz report, Hila Gerstel told Hayut she had been offered the post of attorney general in 2015 by former Netanyahu spokesman Nir Hefetz in exchange for stopping an investigation of the prime minister’s wife Sara Netanyahu. Gerstel and Hayut, who has since been appointed president of the Supreme Court, are reported to be close friends.
Gerstel, now retired, is also expected to provide testimony to police.
Hefetz is currently being held by police over his suspected involvement in so-called Case 4000, which involves suspicions Netanyahu made policies that would financially benefit Bezeq telecommunications Shaul Elovitch, in exchange for favorable coverage form his Walla news site.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on January 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Three hospitalized with minor injuries from Jerusalem gas explosion
Three people injured in a gas leak explosion at a Jerusalem residential complex have been hospitalized, a spokeswoman for Hadassah Hospital Ein Karem says.
The hospital says the three — a 62-year-old woman and a couple in their 70s — suffered minor injuries as a result of the explosion.
Critically wounded man rescued from rubble of Jerusalem gas explosion
Emergency crews rescue a man trapped beneath the rubble from a gas explosion at a Jerusalem residential complex.
Channel 10 reports the man is unconscious and in critical condition.
תיעוד מזירת פיצוץ בלון הגז בשכונת בקעה בירושלים @Yossi_eli pic.twitter.com/bPiSaVoqTF
— חדשות עשר (@news10) February 20, 2018
Abbas to unveil new peace plan during Security Council speech
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will unveil a new peace plan during his speech to the United Nations Security Council later today, the official Wafa news agency reports PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki as telling Voice of Palestine radio.
Malki says Abbas will call for halting Israeli settlement construction, rescinding Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and for an international conference that’ll formulate a basis for negotiations based on a two-state solution with a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem.
He says Abbas’ peace plan will reflect the content of his recent speeches and meetings with world leaders. Since Trump’s December 6 declaration, Abbas has said the US is no longer an honest broker and claimed Israel is a European colonial state with no basis in Judaism.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with the Palestinian Central Council, a top decision-making body, at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Man critically wounded in Jerusalem gas explosion dies
A man critically wounded in a gas explosion at a Jerusalem residential complex in the neighborhood of Baka is pronounced dead.
His death comes shortly after reports said he was rescued in critical condition from the rubble of the building’s collapsed parking lot.
Moscow says ‘dozens’ of Russians were injured in US strikes in Syria
MOSCOW — Russia says dozens of Russian citizens were injured this month in Syria but denies any responsibility for their activities, amid mounting reports of casualties among Russian mercenaries.
The US coalition on February 7 struck a formation attacking a position of the Syrian Democratic Force east of the Euphrates river in eastern Syria, killing about 100 people.
Many Russian mercenaries were reported killed in the strike, according to their relatives and paramilitary groups, as well as political organizations that published information about the casualties.
The Russian foreign ministry, which previously said that five Russian citizens were likely killed, on Tuesday releases a statement that “there are also several dozen of injured” in the attack.
It says “there are Russian citizens in Syria who went there with various goals” and “it is not up to the foreign ministry to evaluate the legality of their decisions.”
The ministry says it had helped the injured Russians return home where they were “receiving medical care in various medical institutions.”
It denies that the incident involved any Russian military.
France arrests 3 suspects linked to Barcelona attacks
MADRID — Three people were arrested in France on Tuesday for alleged links to a suspect in last year’s deadly terror attacks in Barcelona and a nearby seaside resort, the Spanish interior ministry says Tuesday.
The arrests were made during a joint operation with French and Spanish police in the south and southwest of France, the ministry says in a statement.
Ignoring Turkish threats, pro-regime fighters enter Syrian Kurdish enclave
BEIRUT — Pro-government Syrian fighters start entering the northern Kurdish enclave of Afrin where Turkish troops have been on the offensive for a month.
Syrian state TV shows about 20 vehicles with heavy machine guns mounted on them entering Afrin from the nearby village of Nubul.
Scores of gunmen are on the vehicles waving Syrian flags and chanting pro-government slogans.
There is no immediate comment about the deployment from Kurdish officials.
Tuesday’s deployment comes a day after Turkey warned the Syrian government against entering the Kurdish-controlled enclave where a major Turkish military offensive is underway, saying it would hit back at the troops if their goal is to protect the Kurdish fighters.
The deployment comes hours after Turkish media reported that Turkish troops and allied Syrian opposition forces have linked a swathe of land in the Afrin enclave to the Turkish-held Syrian city of Azaz.
Liberman visits IDF troops wounded in Gaza IED attack
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman visits IDF soldiers injured over the weekend in an IED attack on the Gaza border.
“The IDF will settle the score with those who placed the explosive and their dispatchers. We are proud of you and will give you every assistance and support,” Liberman tells the wounded troops at Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center.
Four soldiers were injured by the IED, including two critically, which was hidden in a flag tied to the border fence.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman visits an IDF soldier wounded in an IED explosion on the Gaza border, at Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center, on February 20, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
Diplomats arrive at Security Council session on Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Kushner, Greenblatt at Security Council for Abbas speech
US President Donald Trump’s special adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner is attendance for PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech to the UN Security Council.
Kushner is in charge of the Israeli-Palestinian portfolio in the Trump administration.
Also in attendance is Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s special envoy for the peace process.
L-R: UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov , UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, US peace envoy Jason Greenblatt and US Donald Trump’s special adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner speak ahead of a UN Security Council session on the Israel-Palestinian conflict on February 20, 2018. (Screen capture: United Nations)
British Ambassador to the UN Matthew Rycroft says he is not expecting “anything specific” to come out of the UN Security Council meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Speaking to reporters, he says the UK “remains committed to a two-state solution” and is looking forward to see the peace plan being drafted by the US.
He devotes most of his time to addressing the Syrian regime bombing of Eastern Ghouta, calling it “a zone of death and destruction” and urging the council to adopt a resolution to bring relief to the Syrian rebel area.
— Joshua Davidovich
UN Security Council begins its session on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The UN Security Council begins its session on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The meeting is chaired by Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi, the ambassador the UN from Kuwait, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council.
Abbas arrives to address the Security Council members.
UN chief: Global support for two-state solution ‘could be eroding’
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses the UN Security Council, saying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has gone on for “far too long.”
Guterres calls for the conflict to be solved with a two-state solution, while warning “the global consensus for a two-state solution could be eroding.”
He says “obstacles on the ground” are increasingly preventing the realization of the two-state solution.
UN envoy warns of ‘perpetual reality of permanent occupation’ without peace deal
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov addresses the UN Security Council on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Mladenov warns of a “perpetual reality of permanent occupation” in the absence of a two-state deal.
He says there is a need for “meaningful” negotiations on all final status issues, including Jerusalem’s status. He says a “sustainable peace” can only be achieved by a two-state solution reached through negotiations.
Mladenov calls for continued support for Palestinian refugees and, in a veiled criticism of the US, chides UN member states that have cut their contributions.
Abbas says Palestinians ‘are the descendants of Canaanites’
PA President Mahmoud Abbas tells the UN Security Council “we are the descendants of the Canaanites that lived in the land 5,000 years ago and continued to live there to this day.”
He slams the UK’s Balfour Declaration and says the British government bears responsibility for its “catastrophic consequences.”
Mahmoud Abbas speaking at the UN Security Council on February 20, 2018. (screen capture: UNTV)
Abbas claims Palestinians never rejected negotiations with Israel
Abbas says the Palestinians have long been commited to negotiations, name-checking a long list of conferences and meetings held over the past two decades to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Abbas says Palestinians have never rejected negotiations, blaming Israel for failed rounds of peace talks.
Abbas: Israel engaging in ‘permanent settlement colonization’
Abbas accuses Israel of acting as a “state above the law” and creating “permanent settlement colonization.”
He says the Palestinians have no problems with Jews or Judaism, only the “occupiers of their land.”
Abbas: Trump ‘punishing’ Palestinian refugees with UNRWA cuts
Abbas says Trump is “punishing” Palestinian refugees with cuts to UNRWA, the UN’s refugee agency for Palestinian refugees.
He also criticizes the Trump administration for its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and failure to fully endorse a two-state solution.
Rejecting US role, Abbas calls for multilateral ‘mechanism’ for peace talks
Abbas calls for a multilateral “mechanism” to reach an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal in a rejection of the US’ traditional role as the broker of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
He says this is not a rejection of negotiations or a call for violence.
Abbas: Recognition of Palestinian state doesn’t undermine peace talks
Abbas says unilateral recognition of an independent Palestinian state would not undermine negotiations.
He calls on Security Council members who do not recognize such a state to do so.
Abbas: ‘Deadlock’ in peace talks due to US Jerusalem recognition, settlements
Abbas says the “deadlock” in peace talks is due to the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and Israel’s “disrespect” of Security Council resolutions.
Israeli envoy says Abbas ‘ran away’ from direct dialogue
US Ambassador to Israel Danny Danon responds to Abbas’ speech.
He says Abbas “ran away.” Abbas quickly exited the Security Council room at the end of his speech.
Danon says he wanted a direct discussion with Abbas.
Danny Danon addressing the UN Security Council on February 20, 2018. (screen capture: UNTV)
Israeli envoy to Abbas: You’re the problem, not the solution
Israeli envoy to the UN Danny Danon blames Abbas for the absence of an Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
“Mr. Abbas, you have made it clear with your words and your actions, you are no longer part of the solution. You are the problem,” Danon says.
He attacks Abbas for speaking differently to Palestinian and international audiences. He takes aim at Abbas for claiming Israel is a European colonial state and that Jews have no claim to the Temple Mount.
“You inspire a culture of hate in Palestinian society,” he says.
Israeli envoy says Palestinians ‘choose conflict over coexistence’
Israel’s ambassador to the UN says the Palestinians should take after Egyptian and Jordanian leaders who reached peace deals with Israel.
“But the Palestinian leadership continues to choose conflict over coexistence,” Danny Danon says.
Danon criticizes the Palestinians for missing numerous opportunities to seal a peace deal, such as the Camp David talks and prime minister Ehud Olmert’s peace offer.
Israeli envoy: ‘When we extend a hand, Abbas extends a fist’
US Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon criticizes Abbas for not positively responding to Israeli overtures to restart peace talks.
“When we extend a hand, Abbas extends a fist,” he says.
He criticizes Abbas for seeking to reconcile with the Palestinian terror group Hamas.
Haley slams UN for ‘disproportionate focus’ on Israeli-Palestinian conflict
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley criticizes the Security Council for its “disproportionate focus” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“It is as if saying the same things repeatedly without the necessary compromises and hard work will achieve anything,” she says.
Haley slams the UN for not instead focusing on other Middle East conflicts, such as in Yemen and Syria.
Nikki Haley: UN using Israel as a ‘scapegoat’ for regional problems
Nikki Haley slams UN member states for “using the most democratic country in the Middle East as a scapegoat for the region’s problems.”
She says Israelis have suffered due to the conflict, with many dying in stabbings, shootings, and suicide bombings.
She says Palestinians are also suffering, with those in Gaza having to live under Hamas’ rule.
Nikki Haley to Erekat: ‘I will not shut up’
Nikki Haley responds to top Palestinian negotiator Saab Erekat’s remark she should “shut up.”
“I will not shut up. Rather, I will respectfully speak some hard truths,” she says.
Haley says the Palestinians must “put aside” their anger over the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
She says the US is ready to broker peace talks immediately, noting the presence of negotiators Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt behind her.
But, she says: “We will not chase after you. The choice [Abbas] is yours.”
Liberman to Abbas: ‘We all know who you are’
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attacks Abbas over his Security Council speech.
“Dr. Abbas and Mr. Abu Mazen, we all know who you are,” tweets Liberman, using Abbas’ nickname. “One hand pays salaries to terrorists who harm Israelis and the other requests recognition from the UN.”
Bennett on Abbas speech: ‘A nation that invents its past has no future’
Education Minister Naftali Bennett blasts Abbas for his claim the Palestinians are the descendants of Canaanites and have been in the Land of Israel for over 5,00 years.
“A nation that invents its past has no future,” tweets Bennett.
“The ancestors of the Palestinians maybe existed 5,000 years ago, but south of here in the Arabian Peninsula. I recommend to [Abbas] to focus not on constructing an imaginary past but rather creating a practical future,” he adds.
Lapid says Abbas speech a ‘crude lie’
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid calls Abbas’ speech to the Security Council a “crude lie” and criticizes the UN’s policy of granting the descendants of Palestinian refugees refugee status.
“Abu Mazen’s remarks at the UN on the the issue of refugees are a crude lie,” tweets Lapid, using Abbas’ nickname. “The world can’t allow the Palestinians to be the only nation in the world in which refugee status is inherited.”
“There aren’t millions of Palestinian refugees. There never were. Israel will never agree to the right of return,” he adds.
Polish opposition wants to amend disputed Holocaust bill
WARSAW, Poland — The main Polish opposition party on Tuesday tables an amendment to the government’s controversial Holocaust bill, which was meant to defend Warsaw’s image abroad but instead stoked tensions with Israel, Ukraine, and the US.
However, the liberal Civic Platform (PO) party’s proposal has no chance of being adopted since the governing right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party controls both houses of parliament.
“The political crisis triggered by clumsy and disastrous diplomacy, by thoughtless remarks, has brought us to a point where we politicians are forced to react,” PO leader Grzegorz Schetyna tells reporters.
“We are proposing a draft amendment that should correct the mistakes.”
Poland’s opposition suggests replacing the bill’s controversial passage with penalties against “anyone who, publicly and contrary to the facts, attributes to the Polish state responsibility or co-responsibility for the German Third Reich’s creation of concentration and death camps, as well as for the genocide that took place there, or who minimizes to a flagrant degree the responsibility of the real authors of these crimes by using the terms ‘Polish death camps’ and ‘Polish concentration camps.'”
The PO also suggests deleting a passage concerning crimes committed against Poles by Ukrainians, which according to Kiev presents Ukrainians as nothing but “nationalist criminals” and “Third Reich collaborators.”
State asks High Court for 3 month delay to illegal outpost demolition
The state calls on the High Court to delay its sanctioned demolition of the illegal Netiv Ha’avot outpost by three months in a petition submitted Tuesday on behalf of the residents.
Presented 14 days ahead of the slated razing, the purpose of the appeal is to provide time for the construction of a caravan community that the government approved last month for the 15 families on an adjacent hilltop.
In addition, the delay would allow for the advancement of another plan that would grant post-facto building permits to seven of the 15 homes slated for demolition, on the grounds that they sit only marginally on land that does not belong to the state.
If adopted, the plan would see the “problematic parts” of those seven homes sawed off while the rest of the structures would be allowed to remain standing. This would mean that only eight homes would require complete demolition by security forces.
— Jacob Magid
White House: ‘Old talking points’ won’t lead to Palestinian state
A White House spokesman reacts to PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech to the UN Security council.
“We appreciated the opportunity to listen to his speech. We were hoping to hear some new and constructive ideas, and the recognition that Jerusalem is holy to Jews in addition to Muslims and Christians is a step in the right direction, but as Ambassador Haley warned, setting forth old talking points and undeveloped concepts for each of the core issues will not achieve peace,” says Josh Raffel.
“We are trying to do the opposite and will continue working on our plan, which is designed to benefit both the Israeli and Palestinian people. We will present it when it is done and the time is right,” he adds.
Report: Netanyahu aide in ‘advanced talks’ to turn state’s witness
A longtime aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau is in “advanced talks” to turn state’s witness in the corruption investigation known as Case 4000, Hadashot TV news reports.
A reporter at the network tweets Filber is expected to sign the deal tonight.
Filber is a suspect in Case 4000, which involves suspicions Bezeq owner Shaul Elovitch gave Netanyahu and his family positive coverage at his Walla news site in exchange for the advancement of policies benefiting the telecommunications giant.
Reports say Netanyahu and his wife Sara are expected to be questioned in the investigation. Neither has been named as a suspect and they deny wrongdoing.
Communications Ministry Director-General Shlomo Filber arrives for a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court, on February 18, 2018. (Flash90)
Netanyahu dismisses flood of allegations as ‘complete chaos’
Netanyahu rejects the latest corruption allegations against him, calling the recent flood of media reports on suspected wrongdoing “complete chaos.”
“What has been happening in the last two days is simply complete chaos. A scandal. [They] are bringing two imaginary and false claims as part of the campaign of persecution against me and my family that has been going on for years,” Netanyahu says in a video statement.
Addressing Case 4000, he says every decision regarding Bezeq, Israel’s largest telecommunications company, was approved by professional committees and subject to judicial oversight. “There is no wild west here,” he says.
Netanyahu also denies any involvement in his former spokesman Nir Hefetz’s offer to a judge that she would be appointed attorney general if she halted an investigation involving Sara Netanyahu.
Netanyahu: Abbas ‘continues to run away from peace’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismisses PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech to the UN Security Council calling for a “multilateral international mechanism” to facilitate Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
“Abbas didn’t say anything new. He continues to run away from peace and continues to pay terrorists and their families $347 million [each year],” says Netanyahu.
Egypt to temporarily open Gaza border Wednesday
EL-ARISH, Egypt — Egyptian officials say the country will open its border with the Gaza Strip amid a military campaign against Islamic insurgents in restive northern Sinai Peninsula.
The two officials say Tuesday the Rafah crossing point will operate starting Wednesday for four days on a humanitarian basis. Both speak on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief the media.
The Palestinian embassy in Cairo confirms the opening of Gaza’s main gateway to the outside world.
Thousands of Gaza residents are on travel lists — most of them medical patients, students, and holders of residency permits of other countries. Only a few thousand will make it out in the time allotted.
Egypt has kept Rafah largely sealed off since 2013, after the ouster of Egypt’s elected Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.
Police release photo of Polish embassy vandalism suspect
Police release a photo of a man suspected of vandalizing the Polish embassy in Israel.
Police ask for the public’s assistance if they recognize the man.
Police opened an investigation Sunday after swastikas and anti-Polish graffiti was found scrawled on the embassy. The vandalism comes amid a row between Israel and Poland over Polish legislation outlawing blaming the Polish nation for the crimes of the Holocaust.
המשטרה פרסמה תמונה של אדם, שלדבריה חשוד שריסס כתובות נאצה בגנות ממשלת פולין על גבי השגרירות ברחוב סוטין בתל אביב, ומבקשת את עזרת הציבור בזיהויו @sharonidan pic.twitter.com/JfRspcNtho
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) February 20, 2018
Parts of Warsaw Ghetto wall to become historic monuments
WARSAW, Poland — Two sections of the wall that isolated the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II should be added to a list of historical monuments, a regional conservation official in Poland says Tuesday.
A proposal to list the red brick wall still standing at 53 Sienna Street says the barrier should be protected as a witness to history and preserved for future generations.
A fragment of the former Warsaw Ghetto wall on Sienna 53 street that a regional official for preservation of historical sites wants put on a list of protected historical monuments, in Warsaw, Poland, on February 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
It says monument status would give legal protection to a “unique historical memento, priceless to the Jewish and the Polish nation.”
The wall was built in 1940, when the Nazi Germans occupying Poland closed the area of Warsaw they called the “Jewish district.” It was four meters (13 feet) high, including one meter of barbed wire on top.
Most of the ghetto’s 450,000 residents died of hunger and disease there, or in the gas chambers of the Treblinka death camp.
The Germans destroyed the ghetto and most of the wall in 1943. Hundreds of residents resisted, but the Ghetto Uprising was crushed in May 1943 and almost all its fighters were killed.
Erdogan: Pro-regime forces pushed back in Syrian Kurdish enclave
BEIRUT — Turkey’s president says Turkish artillery fire has pushed back a convoy of pro-Syrian government forces from an enclave in northern Syria.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggests Tuesday that the Shite fighters who entered the enclave of Afrin in a convoy of a dozen vehicles were acting alone. He warns that Turkey would not allow “such [a] wrongful step” in the future, adding that those who do “would pay a high price.”
Speaking during a joint news conference with his Macedonian counterpart, Erdogan says that the convoy of a dozen vehicles “were forced to turn back” following the shelling.
“That file has been closed for now,” he says.
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Do you want to help make fusion power a reality? Are you a plasma physicist looking for a unique and exciting new opportunity? If so, Tokamak Energy are seeking talented and innovative individuals that are passionate about accelerating the development of fusion power to join our physics team. Tokamak Energy’s mission is to transform the way the world generates power by creating a clean, safe and sustainable source of energy for current and future generations. Our innovative approach to fusion is based on two emerging technologies: spherical tokamaks (STs) and high-field magnets made from high temperature superconductors (HTS).
We are looking for a research scientist to join our growing physics team to support ST40 operations and contribute to the design of future high field spherical tokamaks. The role will include analysing ST40 magnetics data to determine equilibrium properties and stability characteristics, as well as assessing and optimising equilibria for future devices. Specific duties will include: producing magnetic reconstructions of ST40 plasmas using EFIT and in-house codes; maintaining magnetics calibrations; developing more advanced reconstructions to include kinetic measurements; performing MHD stability analysis and optimisations; and analysing experimental results.
The role will involve working closely with collaborators within the fusion community to expand the spherical tokamak physics basis through research on ST40 and other devices.
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Sports Personality of the Year hustings
Police launch hate-crime investigation over Tyson Fury comments
• World heavyweight champion boxer made remarks about homosexuality
• MPs to question BBC director general Tony Hall over Spoty nomination
Ben Quinn and James Riach
Tue 8 Dec 2015 18.57 EST First published on Tue 8 Dec 2015 14.22 EST
Tyson Fury with some of his fans. Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Reuters
Police have launched a hate crime investigation following comments about homosexuality made by the world heavyweight champion boxer, Tyson Fury.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said that the force had received a report of hate crime following comments made about homosexuality on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme.
“We can confirm that at 10.30am this morning we received a report of a hate crime follow comments made about homosexuality on the Victoria Derbyshire programme,” said a GMP spokesperson. “As with all hate crime we are taking it extremely seriously and will be attending the victim’s address to take a statement in due course.”
Fury didn’t appear on the Victoria Derbyshire programme, but his uncle and trainer, Peter Fury, gave an interview in which he suggested that the boxer needed to apologise for linking homosexuality to paedophilia.
Fury, the world heavyweight champion who defeated Wladimir Klitschko in Germany last month, is one of 12 contenders for the award but his place on the shortlist has been a matter of significant controversy following homophobic and sexist remarks made by the fighter. By Tuesday evening more than 100,000 people had signed a petition arguing Fury should be removed from the shortlist, set up by the LGBT campaigner Scott Cuthbertson.
The BBC director general, Tony Hall, is expected to be questioned about Fury’s nomination for Sports Personality of the Year by the culture, media and sport select committee next Wednesday.
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Lord Hall is due to attend the select committee to discuss the BBC’s charter renewal, although his appearance has yet to be formally announced, but he is also set to face questions regarding the corporation’s decision not to remove Fury from the running.
The 27-year-old has defended comments made about the Olympic heptathlon champion, Jessica Ennis-Hill, when he said she “looks good in a dress” and “slaps up good”, adding that “a woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back”. He also appeared to compare homosexuality to paedophilia.
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John Nicolson – the SNP MP, member of the culture, media and sport select committee and a former BBC presenter – has written an open letter to Hall urging the corporation’s director-general to drop Fury from the shortlist.
He wrote: “By nominating Mr Fury, the BBC endorses his view that he’s a role model. Moreover it would, subsequently, be difficult for the corporation to defend itself against the accusation that it is half-hearted in its opposition to homophobia. I find it inconceivable that the BBC would allow his candidacy to proceed had he expressed racist, Islamophobic, or antisemitic views in such terms.
“All across the country young people – both gay and straight – will watch the awards. Mr Fury’s name going forward will send out the clearest of signals – namely that extreme bigotry is not a disqualification for one of our country’s highest sporting honours. That cannot be right.”
Fury, who was stripped of his IBF title on Tuesday night after signing up for a rematch with Klitschko, tweeted last week: “Hopefully I don’t win @BBCSPOTY as I’m not the best roll model [sic] in the world for the kids, give it to someone who would appreciate it”, but the BBC has no plans to remove him from the shortlist or make any special arrangements to avoid potential controversy in Belfast on 20 December.
BBC presenter calls boxer Tyson Fury 'dickhead' on live TV
The corporation insists that the nominations for Spoty were made by an independent panel whose members included Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Baroness Sue Campbell, Jermaine Jenas and representatives from the national media. Fury and Andy Murray were added to the shortlist after the panel had initially convened, following the boxer’s victory over Klitschko and Great Britain’s success in the Davis Cup, but every member was consulted.
The corporation says the panel of industry experts examine each contender’s sporting achievements and that the BBC does not endorse the nominees’ personal beliefs. One aspect of the judging criteria is listed as taking “into account ‘impact’ over and beyond the sport or sporting achievement in question”.
The BBC’s Clive Myrie says Fury ‘cannot be a dickhead and win the Sports Personality of the Year’
The BBC apologised on Tuesday after the presenter Clive Myrie described Fury as a “dickhead” during a live TV newspaper review on Monday night. Myrie looked at his watch, decided it was after the watershed and said: “You cannot be a dickhead and win the Sports Personality of the Year”. A BBC spokeswoman said: “We apologise to any viewers who were offended by the language Clive Myrie used during a discussion on the late-night paper review on the News channel.”
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Home News & Trends Shows & Events Success at the 63rd Bangkok Gems & Jewelry Fair Foreign Trade Partners...
Success at the 63rd Bangkok Gems & Jewelry Fair Foreign Trade Partners Admire “Thailand’s Magic Hands”
Ms. Chutima Boonyaprapatsorn, Deputy Commerce Minister has revealed that the 63rd Bangkok Gems & Jewelry Fair held under the theme of “Thailand’s Magic Hands: the Spirit of Jewelry Making” on February 20 to 24, 2019 at Challenger Halls 1-3, IMPACT, Muang Thong Thani experienced great success, with sales generated at the event totaling more than 2 billion baht (63 million USD). Buyers and visitors from overseas appreciated the intricate craftsmanship of Thai jewelry as well as the high quality of jewelry production which has led Thailand to be recognized worldwide as one of the world’s gems and jewelry hubs. Exhibitors at the fair met Thai and foreign buyers which offered them more opportunities to establish new networks and seek trade partners.
The 63rd Bangkok Gems & Jewelry Fair welcomed over 14,000 visitors from 118 countries from around the world, with the number of foreign visitors up 5.4 percent from the same period of last year. Trade generated at the event was nearly 2.1 billion baht (66 million USD), with immediate sales worth 700 million baht (22 million USD), up 85.2 percent compared to the Bangkok Gems and Jewelry Fair held in February 2018, while public days saw sales of approximately 360 million baht (11.4 million USD). Products with the highest value of trade at the fair were gemstones, fine jewelry, silver jewelry, machinery, and gold jewelry, respectively.
The Bangkok Gems & Jewelry Fair served as a platform for buyers and sellers to trade quality products in a secure atmosphere that matches world standards, and to hold business matching activities with quality exporter. Moreover, visitors enjoyed new product showcases and creative exhibits, for example, The New Faces which featured jewelry products from 123 SMEs manufacturers and designers nationwide from 21 provinces, such as Chantaburi, Tak, Sukhothai, Chiang Mai, Lampang, Pichit, Surin, Prachuab Khiri Khan, Nakon Sri Thammarat, and Phang Nga; and The Jewellers and Innovation and Design Zone, both of which demonstrated quality products that received good feedback from visitors, as well as generated over 120 million baht in sales during the event.
The Deputy Commerce Minister added that in the past year, exports of gems and jewelry from Thailand have been expanding in almost all markets. Last year, export of gems and jewelry products excluding unwrought gold was worth 7,606.45 million USD, up 6.96 percent, with high- growth products including gold jewelry, silver jewelry, imitation jewelry, and diamonds. Key export markets were Hong Kong (-1.17%), the U.S. (+15.72%), Germany (+16.24%), India (+2.23%), Belgium (+8.19%), while secondary markets with promising growth included Qatar (+103.49%), Singapore (+38.92%), South Korea (+36.98%), Lichtenstein (+25.04%), and Israel (+20.61%).
Moreover, this year, Ministry of Commerce focuses on developing the competitiveness and marketing for this industry by carrying out communications campaigns to promote the image of the industry to be recognized among buyers, importers, as well as increase the awareness of consumers with projects such as the Buy with Confidence campaign by the Gem and Jewelry Institute of Thailand (Public Organization) or GIT, along with the promotion of the industry image in overseas markets through the “Thailand’s Magic Hands: The Spirit of Jewelry Making” by the Department of International Trade Promotion. Moreover, the DITP is uplifting the Bangkok Gems & Jewelry Fair which is a platform for businesspeople, buyers, sellers in the gems and jewelry industry to expand their businesses in many dimensions from material sourcing, trading, and network-building, as well as working to expand online trade channels for gems and jewelry products through platforms such as Ali Express and Thaitrade.com.
The Ministry of Commerce is also focusing on Super Rich targets in the ASEAN region, South Asia, and China while expanding niche products such as jewelry for millennials in China, Japan, and the US; jewelry for pets among aging societies and singles; and jewelry relating to belief and opulence. Moreover, the ministry aims to develop The New Faces business operators to promote the manufacturing of a wide variety of products from Thai SMEs nationwide to enter the international gems and jewelry market.
The 64th Bangkok Gems & Jewelry Fair will be held from September 10 to 14, 2019 at Challenger Halls 1-3, IMPACT Muang Thong Thani. For more information, please visit www.bkkgems.com or dial DITP Call Center 1169.
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Meet the 3 Women Scientists Who Led India’s Mars Orbiter Mission
The women behind making MOM successful. (Photo Courtesy: YouTube screenshot)
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(This story was first published on 14 January 2017. It is being reposted from The Quint’s archives to mark the historic launch of the Mars Orbiter Mission, six years ago.)
The year 2013 put Indians on the global space map when ISRO launched the Mars Orbiter Mission aka Mangalyaan successfully. India, in its first interplanetary mission, became the first Asian nation to reach the Mars orbit and also the first one to do in its first attempt.
Amidst all the celebrations and smiles, three women scientists played crucial roles in the mission. Despite the unequal sex ratio in the country, women continue to appear as winners across the multiple male-dominated professions. The Mars Orbiter Mission is just another example of this.
Snapshots from Afar , a short film by Breakthrough, is a film about the women behind the Mars mission. The film features Seetha Somasundaram, the Program Director of the ISRO Space Science Program Office, Nandini Harinath, Project Manager, Mission Design, and Deputy Operations Director, Mars Orbiter Mission, and Minal Rohit, Scientist and Engineer, Project Manager, Methane Sensor for Mars.
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009, Sam Liu)
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I’m sure there are some hardcore gay comics less homoerotic than Jeph Loeb’s Superman/Batman, so the prospect of seeing it as a cartoon was irresistible. While Warner Premiere ostensibly intends their latest line of animated DC Comics adaptations for “adults” (i.e. men in their twenties and thirties with the discretionary income to waste it on a Blu-Ray of a poorly illustrated cartoon), these films are timed for eventual Cartoon Network airing–seventy minutes or less.
And Superman/Batman: Public Enemies is just as gloriously homoerotic as an animated movie as it was as a comic book. It’s a shame there’s no make-out scene.
The comic book also directly equated George W. Bush to a homicidal, drug-addicted maniac. Maybe the movie doesn’t go as far–Clancy Brown sounds way too smart–but it comes close. It’s something to see something geared, essentially, towards kids portray the President of the United States as a power mad psychopath, out to ruin the world for his own profit. It’s a little problematic (there’s no Dick Cheney analog in the movie), but it’s something.
Between the politics and the super-gay superheroes, the countless defects are almost forgotten. But not really.
Based on Ed McGuinness’s art, Public Enemies looks cheaper than an advertisement for Hostess fruit pies on afternoon television. It’s got some awful CG, but the composition is generally all right.
Brown is good, Tim Daly is good–Kevin Conroy is lost.
It’s a decent conversation piece, not a movie.
Directed by Sam Liu; screenplay by Stan Berkowitz, based on a comic book by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness and characters created by Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, C.C. Beck and Bob Kane; edited by Margaret Hou; music by Christopher Drake; produced by Bobbie Page; released by Warner Premiere.
Starring Clancy Brown (Lex Luthor), Kevin Conroy (Batman), Tim Daly (Superman), Allison Mack (Power Girl), John C. McGinley (Metallo), Xander Berkeley (Captain Atom), LeVar Burton (Black Lightning), Ricardo Chavira (Major Force), Jerry O’Connell (Captain Marvel), Robert Patrick (Hawkman) and CCH Pounder (Amanda Waller).
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Over Or Underpaid: Average Wage For Every London Borough
Daniel Blazer
London calling to the faraway towns
Now Brexit is declared and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the internet, you boys and girls
London calling, now don’t look to us
Phony Ed Sheeranmania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain’t got no swing
‘Cept for the ring of that Amazon Echo thing
Reality check: Minimum wage 33p increase to £7.83 an hour for 25s and over is still way below £8.75 real living wage or £10.20 in London
— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) November 22, 2017
The London life is expensive – no other capital city in the world charges as much as Londoners are forced to pay to travel around. And on top of that, no other country punishes you as much as England’s capital city does for travelling into it – with those London workers living outside of zone 6 forced to pay through the nose for a season-ticket.
But ask any London-dweller what’s the best city in the world? And without a moments hesitation “London” will be their answer – and that’s because London, for all its wealth, inflated beer prices and the inability to use the tastecard anywhere on a Friday or Saturday night, is a city that can fill a weekend, without spending a penny.
Want to buy a property, though? Well, you best hope you live in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea, with those residing in the South West of London on a cool average salary of £94,416 – doesn’t go very far on Theodore and Clementine’s weekly Waitrose shop, mind; avocados are expensive.
This bakery serves avocado toast with a twist. 🥑 🍦 pic.twitter.com/EvuZDuEQWC
— INSIDER food (@InsiderFood) November 23, 2017
It’s no surprise that Kensington & Chelsea is the London borough with the highest average salary – and, sorry to say, although stereotyping is wrong, they’re stereotypes for a reason – with the area almost £30,000 higher than Westminster, which comes in at second.
Bad news for those in Barking, with the average income for the borough sitting at £30,038, but it’s not all bad, when you consider the United Kingdom’s average salary is £27,600 – it just means one or two less coffees a week from a hipster barista, that you didn’t need in the first place.
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Will either have a GameBoy, Piña Colada or Viennese Whirl in my hand.
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Understanding Path Analysis
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by Ashley Crossman
Path analysis is a form of multiple regression statistical analysis that is used to evaluate causal models by examining the relationships between a dependent variable and two or more independent variables. By using this method, one can estimate both the magnitude and significance of causal connections between variables.
Key Takeaways: Path Analysis
By conducting a path analysis, researchers can better understand the causal relationships between different variables.
To begin, researchers draw a diagram that serves as a visual representation of the relationship between variables.
Next, researchers use a statistical software program (such as SPSS or STATA) to compare their predictions to the actual relationship between the variables.
Path analysis is theoretically useful because, unlike other techniques, it forces us to specify relationships among all of the independent variables. This results in a model showing causal mechanisms through which independent variables produce both direct and indirect effects on a dependent variable.
Path analysis was developed by Sewall Wright, a geneticist, in 1918. Over time the method has been adopted in other physical sciences and social sciences, including sociology. Today one can conduct path analysis with statistical programs including SPSS and STATA, among others. The method is also known as causal modeling, analysis of covariance structures, and latent variable models.
Prerequisites for Conducting a Path Analysis
There are two main requirements for path analysis:
All causal relationships between variables must go in one direction only (you cannot have a pair of variables that cause each other)
The variables must have a clear time-ordering since one variable cannot be said to cause another unless it precedes it in time.
How to Use Path Analysis
Typically path analysis involves the construction of a path diagram in which the relationships between all variables and the causal direction between them are specifically laid out. When conducting a path analysis, one might first construct an input path diagram, which illustrates the hypothesized relationships. In a path diagram, researchers use arrows to show how different variables relate to each other. An arrow pointing from, say, Variable A to Variable B, shows that Variable A is hypothesized to influence Variable B.
After the statistical analysis has been completed, a researcher would then construct an output path diagram, which illustrates the relationships as they actually exist, according to the analysis conducted. If the researcher’s hypothesis is correct, the input path diagram and output path diagram will show the same relationships between variables.
Examples of Path Analysis in Research
Let's consider an example in which path analysis might be useful. Say you hypothesize that age has a direct effect on job satisfaction, and you hypothesize that it has a positive effect, such that the older one is, the more satisfied one will be with their job. A good researcher will realize that there are certainly other independent variables that also influence our dependent variable of job satisfaction: for example, autonomy and income, among others.
Using path analysis, a researcher can create a diagram that charts the relationships between the variables. The diagram would show a link between age and autonomy (because typically the older one is, the greater degree of autonomy they will have), and between age and income (again, there tends to be a positive relationship between the two). Then, the diagram should also show the relationships between these two sets of variables and the dependent variable: job satisfaction.
After using a statistical program to evaluate these relationships, one can then redraw the diagram to indicate the magnitude and significance of the relationships. For example, the researcher might find that both autonomy and income are related to job satisfaction, that one of these two variables has a much stronger link to job satisfaction than the other, or that neither variable has a significant link to job satisfaction.
Strengths and Limitations of Path Analysis
While path analysis is useful for evaluating causal hypotheses, this method cannot determine the direction of causality. It clarifies correlation and indicates the strength of a causal hypothesis, but does not prove direction of causation. In order to fully understand the direction of causality, researchers can consider conducting experimental studies in which participants are randomly assigned to a treatment and control group.
Students wishing to learn more about path analysis and how to conduct it can refer to the University of Exeter’s overview of Path Analysis and Quantitative Data Analysis for Social Scientists by Bryman and Cramer.
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City trees suffer from not getting enough sleep
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Streetlights and other city circumstances lead to poor health and prevent urban trees from being all that they can be.
From the "Trees, They're Just Like Us!" department, my favorite forester has weighed in on an issue I have long suspected: Urban trees, like much of the natural world, have a hard time when the lights are left on all night.
“They also have to sleep at night,” Peter Wohlleben told the audience at the Hay Festival of Literature in Wales. “Research shows that trees near street lights die earlier. Like burning a lamp in your bedroom at night, it is not good for you.”
And if anyone knows trees – and embraces anthropomorphising them – it's Wohlleben. The German forester and best-selling author doesn't shy away from talking about trees as if they were people. “I use a very human language," he says. "Scientific language removes all the emotion, and people don’t understand it anymore. When I say, ‘Trees suckle their children,’ everyone knows immediately what I mean.”
Wohlleben has been studying and working in forests since 1987, so he comes to all of this with an admirable resume; and he points to research to back up his latest observations. In 2016 the European Commission funded a study into the impact of artificial light on trees and plants at night. According to The Times of London:
A paper published last year in the Journal of Ecology said there was evidence that artificial light affected the timing of “spring budburst”, leaf colouring and abscission (the shedding of dead leaves). This study concluded that changes in trees’ annual rhythm of producing leaves and blossom attributed to artificial light “may have significant effects on [their] health, survival and reproduction”.
Wohlleben states the obvious when he says that councils should turn off streetlights at night to help urban trees be healthier and live longer, as well as to save electricity. (The other benefits of reducing light pollution are legion, including the opportunity for us skygazing humans to enjoy the age-old pleasure of pondering the heavens ... and seeing actual stars while we do so.)
Other challenges faced by city trees include the fact that they are like orphans, Wohlleben says, striving to grow but doing so without the support system of their neighbors – a recurring theme for Wohlleben who has shown how trees in the forest are social beings.
“Urban trees are the street kids of the forest,” he says, adding that their roots struggle in the harder soil under sidewalks. If that weren't enough, they are also warmed at night by radiated heat from streets and buildings, unlike forests which cool down. They are deprived of the shared forest microorganisms that help them collect nutrients and water, and that they can be poorly attended to by city workers.
Meanwhile, these silently stalwart organisms of the streets do so much for us in return. As Mat McDermott wrote here earlier while singing the praises of trees:
• The net cooling effect of a single, young healthy tree is equivalent to 10 room-sized air conditioners, running for 20 hours a day. 10 air conditioners, a single tree!!
• A tree planted today on the west side of your house will result in a 3% energy savings in the five years time, 12% savings in fifteen years.
• A single stand of trees reduces particulate pollution 9-13%, with the amount of dust reaching the ground beneath those trees 27-42%, versus in an open area.
• If you have trees on your property near your home it accounts for 10-23% of your home value.
• In urban areas, assuming the cost of planting and maintaining a tree for three years at $250-600, it will return $90,000 in direct benefits over its lifetime (apart from beautification, etc.).
And there's so much more; think crime reduction, increased wildlife habitat, improved mental health, and on and on. With all that trees do for us, the very least we can do, it would seem, is to turn off the lights before we put them to bed.
Read more on Wohlleben's wonderful, forward-thinking thoughts on trees in his book, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World.
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-- NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "All the Young Dudes" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "All the Young Dudes" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "All the Young Dudes" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "All the Young Dudes" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Draw the Line" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Draw the Line" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Draw the Line" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Draw the Line" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Dream Police" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Dream Police" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Dream Police" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Dream Police" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Make It" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Make It" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Make It" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Make It" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Uncle Salty" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Uncle Salty" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Uncle Salty" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Uncle Salty" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "All Day and All of the Night" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "All Day and All of the Night" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "All Day and All of the Night" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "All Day and All of the Night" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "I Hate Myself for Loving You" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "I Hate Myself for Loving You" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "I Hate Myself for Loving You" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "I Hate Myself for Loving You" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Movin' Out" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Movin' Out" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Movin' Out" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Movin' Out" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "No Surprize" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "No Surprize" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "No Surprize" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "No Surprize" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Sweet Emotion" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Sweet Emotion" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Sweet Emotion" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Sweet Emotion" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Complete Control" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Complete Control" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Complete Control" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Complete Control" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Livin' on the Edge" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Livin' on the Edge" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Livin' on the Edge" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Livin' on the Edge" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Love in an Elevator" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Love in an Elevator" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Love in an Elevator" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Love in an Elevator" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Personality Crisis" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Personality Crisis" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Personality Crisis" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Personality Crisis" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Rag Doll" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Rag Doll" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Rag Doll" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Rag Doll" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "Bright Light Fright" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "Bright Light Fright" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "Bright Light Fright" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "Bright Light Fright" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "King of Rock" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "King of Rock" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "King of Rock" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "King of Rock" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "Nobody's Fault" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "Nobody's Fault" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "Nobody's Fault" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "Nobody's Fault" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "She Sells Sanctuary" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "She Sells Sanctuary" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "She Sells Sanctuary" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "She Sells Sanctuary" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "Walk This Way" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "Walk This Way" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 4. "International Superstars" - "Walk This Way" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Always on the Run" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Always on the Run" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Always on the Run" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Always on the Run" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Back in the Saddle" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Back in the Saddle" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Back in the Saddle" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Back in the Saddle" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Beyond Beautiful" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Beyond Beautiful" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Beyond Beautiful" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Beyond Beautiful" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Dream On" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Dream On" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Dream On" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Dream On" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Hard to Handle" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Hard to Handle" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Hard to Handle" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Hard to Handle" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Cat Scratch Fever" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Cat Scratch Fever" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Cat Scratch Fever" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Cat Scratch Fever" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Guitar Battle vs Joe Perry" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Guitar Battle vs Joe Perry" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Guitar Battle vs Joe Perry" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Guitar Battle vs Joe Perry" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Mama Kin" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Mama Kin" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Mama Kin" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Mama Kin" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Sex Type Thing" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Sex Type Thing" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Sex Type Thing" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Sex Type Thing" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Toys in the Attic" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Toys in the Attic" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Toys in the Attic" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Toys in the Attic" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Train Kept A-Rollin'" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Train Kept A-Rollin'" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Train Kept A-Rollin'" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Train Kept A-Rollin'" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Combination" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Combination" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Combination" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Combination" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Joe Perry Guitar Battle" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Joe Perry Guitar Battle" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Joe Perry Guitar Battle" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Joe Perry Guitar Battle" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Kings and Queens" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Kings and Queens" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Kings and Queens" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Kings and Queens" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Let the Music Do the Talking" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Let the Music Do the Talking" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Let the Music Do the Talking" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Let the Music Do the Talking" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Mercy" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Mercy" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Mercy" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Mercy" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pandora's Box" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pandora's Box" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pandora's Box" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pandora's Box" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pink" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pink" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pink" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pink" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Rats in the Cellar" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Rats in the Cellar" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Rats in the Cellar" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Rats in the Cellar" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Shakin' My Cage" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Shakin' My Cage" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Shakin' My Cage" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Shakin' My Cage" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Talk Talkin" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Talk Talkin" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Talk Talkin" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Talk Talkin" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Walk This Way" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Walk This Way" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Walk This Way" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] NTSC - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Walk This Way" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "All the Young Dudes" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "All the Young Dudes" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "All the Young Dudes" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "All the Young Dudes" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Draw the Line" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Draw the Line" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Draw the Line" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Draw the Line" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Dream Police" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Dream Police" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Dream Police" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Dream Police" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Make It" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Make It" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Make It" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Make It" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Uncle Salty" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Uncle Salty" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Uncle Salty" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 1. "Getting the Band Together" - "Uncle Salty" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "All Day and All of the Night" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "All Day and All of the Night" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "All Day and All of the Night" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "All Day and All of the Night" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "I Hate Myself for Loving You" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "I Hate Myself for Loving You" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "I Hate Myself for Loving You" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "I Hate Myself for Loving You" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Movin' Out" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Movin' Out" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Movin' Out" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Movin' Out" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "No Surprize" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "No Surprize" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "No Surprize" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "No Surprize" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Sweet Emotion" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Sweet Emotion" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Sweet Emotion" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 2. "First Taste of Success" - "Sweet Emotion" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Complete Control" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Complete Control" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Complete Control" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Complete Control" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Livin' on the Edge" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Livin' on the Edge" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Livin' on the Edge" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Livin' on the Edge" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Love in an Elevator" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Love in an Elevator" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Love in an Elevator" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Love in an Elevator" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Personality Crisis" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Personality Crisis" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Personality Crisis" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Personality Crisis" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Rag Doll" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Rag Doll" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Rag Doll" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 3. "The Triumphant Return" - "Rag Doll" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "Bright Light Fright" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "Bright Light Fright" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "Bright Light Fright" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "Bright Light Fright" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "King of Rock" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "King of Rock" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "King of Rock" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "King of Rock" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "Nobody's Fault" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "Nobody's Fault" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "Nobody's Fault" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "Nobody's Fault" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "She Sells Sanctuary" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "She Sells Sanctuary" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "She Sells Sanctuary" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "She Sells Sanctuary" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "Walk This Way" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "Walk This Way" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 4. "International Superstars" - "Walk This Way" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Always on the Run" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Always on the Run" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Always on the Run" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Always on the Run" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Back in the Saddle" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Back in the Saddle" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Back in the Saddle" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Back in the Saddle" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Beyond Beautiful" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Beyond Beautiful" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Beyond Beautiful" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Beyond Beautiful" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Dream On" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Dream On" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Dream On" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Dream On" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Hard to Handle" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Hard to Handle" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Hard to Handle" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 5. "The Great American Band" - "Hard to Handle" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Cat Scratch Fever" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Cat Scratch Fever" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Cat Scratch Fever" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Cat Scratch Fever" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Guitar Battle vs Joe Perry" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Guitar Battle vs Joe Perry" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Guitar Battle vs Joe Perry" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Guitar Battle vs Joe Perry" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Mama Kin" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Mama Kin" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Mama Kin" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Mama Kin" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Sex Type Thing" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Sex Type Thing" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Sex Type Thing" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Sex Type Thing" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Toys in the Attic" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Toys in the Attic" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Toys in the Attic" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Toys in the Attic" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Train Kept A-Rollin'" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Train Kept A-Rollin'" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Train Kept A-Rollin'" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 6. "Rock N Roll Legends" - "Train Kept A-Rollin'" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Combination" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Combination" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Combination" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Combination" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Joe Perry Guitar Battle" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Joe Perry Guitar Battle" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Joe Perry Guitar Battle" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Joe Perry Guitar Battle" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Kings and Queens" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Kings and Queens" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Kings and Queens" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Kings and Queens" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Let the Music Do the Talking" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Let the Music Do the Talking" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Let the Music Do the Talking" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Let the Music Do the Talking" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Mercy" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Mercy" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Mercy" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Mercy" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pandora's Box" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pandora's Box" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pandora's Box" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pandora's Box" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pink" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pink" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pink" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Pink" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Rats in the Cellar" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Rats in the Cellar" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Rats in the Cellar" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Rats in the Cellar" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Shakin' My Cage" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Shakin' My Cage" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Shakin' My Cage" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Shakin' My Cage" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Talk Talkin" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Talk Talkin" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Talk Talkin" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Talk Talkin" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Walk This Way" - Easy Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Walk This Way" - Expert Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Walk This Way" - Hard Difficulty - 1 Player [Points] PAL - 7. "Bonus Tracks" - "Walk This Way" - Medium Difficulty - 1 Player [Points]
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'Call of Duty: Black Ops 3' DLC release date: When to expect DLC 3 and DLC 4
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The previous week had this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) happen, with some first-person shooter (FPS) fans anxiously waiting for an announcement from either Treyarch or Activision about “Call of Duty: Black Ops 3”, only to be met with disappointed when nothing about the game arose during the event.
Many continue to wait for the next post-release content pack to hit the latest title in both the “Call of Duty” series and its “Black Ops” subseries, with the game’s third downloadable content (DLC) pack speculated to be arriving soon.
Months ahead of the game’s release in November of last year, Video Games Blogger shared a post detailing the tentative release dates for each of the major updates and post-release content for “Call of Duty: Black Ops 3.”
The list showed Activision’s new plans for the post-release content for the game, which will have all of the packs release for first to the PlayStation 4, a month ahead of its release to the other consoles. This is a marked contrast to the franchise’s years of partnership with Microsoft’s Xbox home console where it previously first released its DLC content, with the other platforms soon to follow.
On top of the list were the already released DLC packs for the game; DLC map pack 1, titled “Awakening,” released back in February first for the PlayStation 4 with the PC and Xbox One release following after a month in March, and DLC map pack 2, titled “Eclipse,” which released to the PlayStation 4 back in April before being followed by a release to the other platforms last month.
If the third map pack follows the pacing, then it should release sometime this month with the list setting the date for June 21. As always, it would first come to the PlayStation 4 before following to the other platforms next month, but with no news as of yet the possibility exists that the map pack was delayed.
According to the list, the fourth map pack would be following in August for the PlayStation 4 and September for the other platforms. That would end the post-release cycle for “Call of Duty: Black Ops 3” a little over a month before the next game in the series, Infinity Ward’s “Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare,” releases in early November.
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Guitar Hero: Aerosmith - PS2 Game
You are looking at Play Station 2 game Guitar Hero: Aerosmith.
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is the first game built around the legendary music of America's greatest rock 'n' roll band: Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer. Fans will experience Aerosmith's Grammy award winning career, from their first gig to becoming rock royalty, in a way that no other entertainment vehicle offers. As players progress through the game, they can rock out to the band's greatest hits, as well as songs from other celebrated artists that the band has either performed with or has been inspired by in some way. Venues from historical moments during the band's illustrious career offer the experience of "sweet emotion" and further capture the essence of the band's rise to fame.
* Let the music do the talking - This collaboration offers consumers an unprecedented level of access to Aerosmith’s music catalogue and an unbeatable soundtrack, with every Aerosmith song being a master recording. Each set includes chart-topping hits from renowned artists that the band has either performed with, or has been inspired by.
* Rock this way, talk this way - Relive rock 'n' roll history and witness all five members of Aerosmith in all their glory. Motion capture sessions with each member of the band further deepens the experience. Additionally, multiple memorable outfits capture the band's rise to rock royalty, enabling players to feel like they're really experiencing those historic performances.
* It started with a little kiss, like this - Completely redesigned venues featuring locations from historical moments in the band’s career offers fans the opportunity to live the Aerosmith life. Starting with their first-ever concert at Nipmuc High School players ascend to the pinnacle of rock stardom.
For 1 or 2 players.
Developer: Neversoft Entertainment
Genre: Music
Game comes in excellent condition!
Check out my other listings for many more great games!
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Welcome to TransportAPI – Placr Limited is our official name but most folks know us as TAPI. If you want to use our stuff you have to agree to the terms and conditions – so you need to read them. They make for heavy reading. They were written by lawyers. That’s the world we live in.
Legal version
Welcome to Placr Limited “we” or “us” and the Transport Application Programming Interface “TransportAPI” site at developer.transportapi.com “Services”, which provides you with access to public transport, social media and geospatial information in human and machine-readable form “Content”.
Use of the TransportAPI Services and Content is strictly subject to these Terms and Conditions. By using the TransportAPI Services and/or Content, as defined below, you accept these Terms and Conditions and agree to abide by them. It is, therefore, important that you read these Terms and Conditions carefully.
What we do and what you need to do
We supply the data and charge depending on your plan. We can change stuff but we’ll give you notice. You need to be old enough to sign a contract or you need to be the boss (or have approval to sign the T&C’s)
1. Services and content
1.1 Subject to these Terms and Conditions, we shall allow you access to the TransportAPI Services and Content with the right to re-use, and you shall pay the charges to access the Services and Content (the “Charges”), under the terms in clause 4 and Schedule 2, during the Term (as defined in clause 12.1).
1.2 We may change the Services and Content subject to the provisions and notice periods given in the Deprecation Policy in Schedule 5 of this Terms and Conditions.
1.3 You warrant that you have the authority to accept and enter into these Terms and Conditions in particular, you warrant that either:
1.3.1 as an individual, you are of legal age to form a binding contract with us; or
1.3.2 as a corporate entity, you are the relevant authorised representative of the corporate entity and have approval to agree these Terms and Conditions.
How do I get your stuff?
You’ll need an email address and you’ll have to complete the application form. You can only have one account but you can create as many applications on that account as you need. (so don’t try creating multiple accounts with different emails – we keep a watchful eye!).
Be accurate with your details and let us know if things change (just update your details on our site). If we change anything you might need to complete a revised form. So don’t ignore this if we send one to you otherwise our service to you might stop.
2. Application for access
2.1 Prior to granting your access to the Content and/or the Services, we require you to complete an application form (“Application Form”) in order to open an account on the TransportAPI site at https://developer.transportapi.com/signup (“Account”). You will need an email address to validate your online identity when setting up an account. We reserve the right to refuse your use of the Content and/or the Services on the basis of your Application Form.
2.2 Once you have opened an Account on the TransportAPI site, we request that you create as many access channels (“Applications”) as you need for your requirements, each of which will have its own Application ID and key. All of the usage for an individual or organisation must be combined under one Account using as many Applications are needed to differentiate usage. All usage of the Services and/or Content should be managed at an organisational level.
2.3 You warrant that:
2.3.1 at the time of entering into the Contract any information provided in relation to your Application Form or Account details is complete, accurate and not misleading; and
2.3.2 during the Term, you shall keep us informed in the event any details on the Application Form change by updating your Account details on the TransportAPI site.
2.4 In the event that we vary the process by which access to the TransportAPI is granted you may be required to complete a revised Application Form. Failure to complete a revised Application Form may result in the suspension or cancellation of the Services.
Licence (play nice)
We don’t own IP on what you use the data for and you can copy it, display it, store and cache it – yay! You can’t remove acknowledgement or disclaimers from us, do stuff like reverse engineer or do things that will damage the service for everyone (such as knowingly introduce viruses, trojans or the like.
Keep your account details to yourself and any authorized users but if you do become aware that someone is accessing without your permission then you need to let us know. Obvs you can’t break the law (check the local laws that apply in the country you are using the API) and you’ll need to let us know immediately if you receive any complaints relating to our service.
3. Licence
3.1 Subject to our approval of your Application Form and subject to terms in clauses 3.2 and 3.3, we shall grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, licence for any purpose of commercial or non-commercial re-use, by you, and your employees, agents and subcontractors (“Authorised Users”), during the Term only, subject to any user restrictions as contained in Schedule 1 (“User Restrictions”), in order to:
3.1.1 access and display the Services on any device;
3.1.2 access, copy and display Content on any device;
3.1.3 store and cache the Content on any device;
3.1.4 process the Content and combine it with any other information;
3.2 Except as expressly provided in these Terms and Conditions, you shall not (and shall not permit any third party to):
3.2.1 remove any acknowledgement or disclaimer in the Content and/or Services from the TransportAPI;
3.2.2 reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify or adapt the TransportAPI Services in whole or in part;
3.2.3 assign or novate the benefit or burden of these Terms and Conditions in whole or in part;
3.2.4 allow the Content and/or Services to become the subject of any charge, lien or encumbrance;
3.2.5 deal in any other manner with any or all of its rights and obligations under these Terms and Conditions;
3.2.6 misuse the TransportAPI, Content or Services by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or inhibits the normal operation of the TransportAPI Services;
3.2.7 attempt to gain unauthorised access to the TransportAPI Services, the servers on which the TransportAPI is running or any server, computer or database connected to the TransportAPI site;
3.2.8 attack the TransportAPI site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack; or
3.2.9 destroy the integrity of the Content and/or Services by altering their meaning and/or correct description without our prior written consent.
3.3 You shall:
3.3.1 Combine all organisational usage under a single Account, using multiple Applications to distinguish different developers, departments, apps or other services, as appropriate. If employees of your organisation or your authorised users open additional Accounts in good faith you should close the additional Accounts as soon as you become aware of the duplication of access and add a new Application to the single Account you keep. We reserve the right to merge and close multiple Accounts on TransportAPI from a single organisation when we become aware of them;
3.3.2 comply with the User Restrictions in Schedule 1 at all times;
3.3.3 ensure that the number of persons using the Content and/or Services as Authorised Users for your internal business use does not exceed the number in Schedule 1, para 1.2.2, unless we have granted prior written consent to exceed such numbers;
3.3.4 ensure that the Content and/or Services are deployed through equipment controlled by you;
3.3.5 keep a complete and accurate record of your disclosure of the Content and/or Services and to your Authorised Users, and produce such record to us on request from time to time;
3.3.6 maintain the confidentiality and security of your Account name and password at all times in accordance with clause 6.1 and notify us as soon as you become aware of any unauthorised use or misuse of the Content and/or Services by any person;
3.3.7 pay for any broadening of the scope of the licences granted under these Terms and Conditions to cover any unauthorised use of the Content and/or Services you make due to activities prohbited in clauses 3.2.7 and 3.2.8, being an amount equal to the fees which we would have levied (in accordance with our current normal commercial terms) had we licensed any such unauthorised use on the date when such use commenced, together with interest at the rate provided for in clause 4.11, until the date of payment;
3.3.8 display “source: http://transportapi.com/” within your service (for example, on an “about” screen) so that it is clear that the Content and/or Service is derived from us;
3.3.9 retain any analytics or authentication code placed in the Content and/or Services by us;
3.3.10 comply with all local laws applicable to publishers and service providers where your website, application or service is made available; and
3.3.11 inform us in writing if you receive any complaint or claim in respect of the Content and/or Services.
And the spondoolicks?
We like to keep things simple. Free (always) Grow (per hit) or Enterprise (for serious data munchers). We do revenue share too. If you are Grow or Enterprise charging starts on the 1st of the month and you’ll need to pay us at the end of that month – if you cancel mid month you’ll still be charged for the full month.
If you are using our free service and we will email you three times to let you know you are at 80%, 90% and 100% usage then that’s it you have to wait till the next day to start using our data again. Or you can just upgrade to Grow to get your additional hits. For this just put in your credit card details and we will automatically take the money out at the end of the month for the additional hits.
If at any time you think your bill is incorrect just let us know and we play fair about these kinds of errors – if it’s wrong you get a refund. End of. From time to time (but not often) we need to vary our charges – we’ll give you plenty of notice so you don’t get any surprises.
4. Costs and charges
4.1 In your TransportAPI Account, you must choose a usage scheme (“Plan”) from the options at https://developer.transportapi.com/plans for each Application you create. When creating an Application you can either: accept the default free but limited ‘Start’ Plan; request a change to a per hit ‘Grow’ paid plan (with pricing as defined in Schedule 2 for each level and type of usage); or agree a bespoke Software and Data Supply Agreement (“SDSA”) with us to cover Enterprise services or Revenue share arrangements, in which we set out the Charges for the usage you propose to make of TransportAPI (as defined in Schedule 3). You must access TransportAPI by reading data from a URL (“Request”) listed at https://developer.transportapi.com/documentation. Each Request will consume a certain number of credits (“Hits”) as listed from time to time at https://developer.transportapi.com/documentation. Your chosen Plan may define the maximum number of Hits (“Quota”) you can use from the TransportAPI during a specified period for the price specified in the Plan you have chosen. Hits shall be counted towards the Quota defined in your Grow paid Plan or SDSA when a request bearing the key associated with your TransportAPI Account is received by the TransportAPI, with the exception of requests for authentication.
4.2 The Charges you pay shall be determined by reference to the price of your chosen Plan as set out from time to time in https://developer.transportapi.com/plans, and as amended in accordance with clause 4.10. The current Charges for a Grow paid Plan are set out in Schedule 2, and are offered with a Service Level Agreement (“SLA”) set out in Schedule 4. The scope of Charges to be agreed in a Software and Data Supply Agreement are set out in Schedule 3, and may be offered with a Service Level Agreement (“SLA”).
4.3 The Charges for your usage under your chosen Plan shall apply per calendar month starting on the 1st of the month. The Charges become due and payable in full to us on the last day of each month or part thereof after you have used the Content and/or Services, except for i) a Software and Data Supply Agreement based on Revenue sharing (as defined in Schedule 3), in which case the Charges become due 5 days after you have received the revenue from each and every app store or sales platform using TransportAPI Services or Content; and ii) a Software and Data Supply Agreement establishing an Enterprise service when the Charges become due at such times as specifically agreed between the parties.
4.4 Should you reach any Quota limit for your Plan we will notify you through your Account and by email at 80%, 90% and 100% of your usage, and the following shall apply notwithstanding such notification:
4.4.1 if you reach the daily quota for the ‘Start’ free Plan your access to the Content and/or Services will immediately be suspended until midnight UK time when the next free daily Quota limit will apply;
4.4.2 If you operate your Account outside the terms of the Plan as set out in the Software and Data Supply Agreement for Revenue shares (as defined in Schedule 3):
4.4.2.1 we will notify you via the email account you have given us during registration and request a return to compliance in terms of hits received, or we will request that you negotiate a new Plan with us;
4.4.2.2 if we do not receive a response within 5 days of our notification about your preferred course of action, and if you have not requested a maximum periodic quota in the Software and Data Supply Agreement for Revenue shares, we will automatically transfer you to the equivalent Grow paid Plan’ in terms of Hits being received in the charging month;
4.4.2.3 you shall be liable to pay additional charges pro rata at your current Plan pricing for any additional Hit beyond the Quota as set out in your Software and Data Supply Agreement for Revenue shares prior to any upgrade or suspension of your access to the Content and/or Services has become effective.
4.5 Authentication and information requests will not be counted towards any Quota.
4.6 You shall pay the Charges, where applicable, plus VAT and/or any other relevant local sales taxes, for use of the Content and/or Services at such times as agreed between the parties in a Software and Data Supply agreement. If you request a Grow paid Plan we shall request that you fill out the details of your pre-nominated credit or debit card and associated details, so that we can take payment for the Content and/or Services after charges have been notified and are due. You consent to us being able to take any monies payable under these Terms and Conditions automatically and directly, without any further notice. Access to the Content and/or Services under a Grow paid Plan shall not be provided until such details have been supplied.
4.7 If you believe any error has been made in the calculation of the Charges as notified to you then you must bring it to the attention of TransportAPI along with appropriate evidence through the Messages function of your dashboard. Acceptance of errors shall be at our absolute discretion, but we will aim to act fairly, reasonably and promptly in making our decision. When we accept that an error has been made in the calculation of the Charges we will make a refunds to you.
4.8 We shall keep you informed about your usage via the ‘Dashboard’ messages function of the TransportAPI.
4.9 Time shall be of the essence regarding your obligations to make payments in accordance with this clause and such obligations are material obligations for the purpose of clauses 5.1.1 and 12.3.1.
4.10 We may, at any time by giving 30 days’ prior written notice, vary the Charges, the basis on which they are calculated (including Hit tariff and Quota), the Content, the Services and any other provisions of these Terms and Conditions, except where the terms of a Software and Data Supply Agreement state otherwise, for example, to fix the Charges under specified conditions.
4.11 Where an amendment to the provisions of these Terms and Conditions (other than the Charges, or the basis on which they are calculated) is required as a result of an addition to the Services or relevant Service (including, for example, an amendment to acknowledge third party rights), we may give you reasonable notice in writing of the necessary amendments that will take effect on the date specified in that notice.
4.12 If you fail to pay any amount payable by it under these Terms and Conditions we may at our sole discretion charge you interest on the overdue amount (payable by you immediately on demand) from the due date up to the date of actual payment, after as well as before judgment, at the rate of 1% per annum above the base rate for the time being of the Bank of England. Such interest shall accrue on a daily basis.
This repeats some things (lawyers eh?)
Like you’ll need to pay on time. We can cut you off if you don’t play nice (see above in Licence) or if you give unathorized people access to your account. (If you do this and people use data then you’ll be the one paying).
5.1 In addition to our right to terminate these Terms and Conditions in accordance with clause 12.3, we may suspend your access to the Services: 1.1.1 immediately, in the event that you commit a material breach of these Terms and Conditions (including, but not limited to, non payment of the Charges under clause 4);
5.1.2 immediately, if you fail to pay any amount due under these Terms and Conditions on the date for payment and remain in default not less than 10 days after being notified in writing to make such payment;
1.1.3 immediately, if either you or we exercise the right to suspend the access to the Content and/or the Services in accordance with clause 4.4;
5.1.4 immediately, if you breach any of clauses 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6 or 10;
5.1.5 on 30 days’ notice plus the remainder of the calendar month when notice is given, at any time; and/or
5.1.6 immediately, if we believe that you have provided or facilitated access to a third party who is not an Authorised User without our prior written consent.
5.1.7 Your access to the Services and/or Content is personal to you and the Authorised Users, it is not transferable to any third party that is not an Authorised User.
5.1.8 If any unauthorised access or use as defined in clauses 3.2.7 and 3.2.8 is made of the TransportAPI or the Content or the Services and such use is attributable to the act or default of, or through, you then, without prejudice to our other rights and remedies, shall immediately be liable to pay us an amount equal to the Charges that we would have charged, had we had we licensed any such unauthorised use on the date when such use commenced together with interest at the rate provided for in clause 4.12, from such date to the date of payment.
Password stuff
Keep your password secure and let us know quickly if there are any breaches.
6. Security and passwords
6.1 You shall ensure that the Content and/or Services and any access login or passwords to the Content and/or Services are kept secure, and shall use the best available security practices and systems applicable to the use of the Services to prevent, and take prompt and proper remedial action against, unauthorised access, copying, modification, storage, reproduction, display or distribution of the Content and/or Services.
6.2 If you become aware of any misuse of any of the Content and/or Services, or any security breach in connection with these Terms and Conditions that could compromise the security or integrity of the TransportAPI and/or the Content and/or Services or otherwise adversely affect us or if you learn or suspect that any of the Content has been revealed to or obtained by any unauthorised person, you shall promptly notify us and fully co-operate with us to remedy the issue as soon as reasonably practicable.
6.3 You shall not intentionally interfere with the TransportAPI site, and/or the Content and/or Services in any way by introducing malicious code or carrying out a denial of service attack.
Well yeah – data protection
If you supply any data to us you need to make sure you have consent from users to give us their data and only process that data as per our Terms and Conditions. And you will only keep that information for as long as necessary (so check out our Privacy Policy). If you provide us with data which is in breach of the Data Protection Act then you’ll be responsible for any claims or expenses as a result.
7.1.1 all relevant data subjects whose personal data (such as name, location, details of request made) you have supplied to us in connection with these Terms and Conditions whether staff or service users, including those data subjects who may have submitted personal data via our website or via the Application Form, have given their informed consent for us to:
7.1.1.1 process the personal data for all purposes ancillary to performing the obligations under these Terms and Conditions;
7.1.1.2 transfer such personal data to destinations outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) which may have lower standards of data protection than those applicable in the EEA;
7.1.1.3 disclose any personal data in response to any subject access request relating to these Terms and Conditions; and
7.1.1.4 retain such personal data for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected as set out in our Privacy Policy at https://developer.transportapi.com/.
7.2 You shall indemnify us for any cost, claim or expense arising as a result of you:
7.2.1 breaching any of the data protection obligations in clause 7.1; or
7.2.2 causing us to be in breach of any of data protection obligations including but not limited those contained under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and any to the legislation relating to the storing and processing of data.
7.3 Our Privacy Policy describes how we store and use personal data that we hold about you from your registration, and this can be found at the following location: https://developer.transportapi.com/
Who owns what?
Most of our stuff comes from the government on a modified Open Government Licence. Sometimes we have to pay for other stuff. You have broad rights to re-use and retain the TransportAPI content and any IP created by your processing of TransportAPI content belongs to you. Where technically possible you need to credit us as the data source.
8. Intellectual copyright
8.1 For the purpose of these Terms and Conditions, “Intellectual Property Rights” shall mean all patents, rights to inventions, utility models, copyright and related rights, trade marks, service marks, trade, business and domain names, rights in trade dress or get-up, rights in goodwill or to sue for passing off, unfair competition rights, rights in designs, rights in computer software, database rights, semi-conductor topography rights, moral rights, rights in confidential information (including know-how and trade secrets) and any other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications for and renewals or extensions of such rights, and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection in any part of the world.
8.2 The majority of Content supplied from the TransportAPI.com site is sourced from open data published by government agencies or partners on a modified Open Government Licence. As such this open data Content is supplied for any purpose of commercial and non-commercial re-use under the broad Licence in clause 3.1 of this Terms and Conditions. Where data is sourced from commercial partners the commercially licenced Content is also offered under the broad Licence in clause 3.1 of this Terms and Conditions. However, we offer the additional Warranties in clause 9 of this Terms and Conditions with respect to our right to redistribute this commercially licenced Content.
8.3 You acknowledge that:
8.3.1 all Intellectual Property Rights in the Services that operate the TransportAPI site are the property of Placr Limited;
8.3.2 you have broad rights to re-use and retain the TransportAPI Content and/or Services as defined by the Licence in clause 3.1 of this Terms and Conditions; and
8.3.3 any intellectual property rights created by your processing of the TransportAPI Content for re-use shall belong to you.
8.4 You shall co-operate with us to protect the goodwill and reputation of the TransportAPI.
8.5 Any display of the Services by you shall credit, wherever technically and commercially feasible, us, any licensor or any other source of the Content and/or Services specified by us at https://developer.transportapi.com/ as the source of the Content and/or Services.
8.6 You acknowledge that reference in any element of the Content and/or Services to our trade names or proprietary products where no specific acknowledgement of such names or products is made does not imply that such names or products may be regarded by you as free for general use, outside the scope of the use of the Content authorised by these Terms and Conditions, including but not limited to the obligations as set out in clause 3.1.4.
Things you can be sure of
Yup – we’ve got permission for all our stuff to be used but we can’t guarantee that the service never gets interrupted (except where you have a Service Level Agreement with us). Usually its beyond our control and we do our level best to alert you as quickly as possible. You can always see the live status of the service developer.transportapi.com/status
9.1 We warrant that we have the right to license the TransportAPI Content and/or Services as specified in these Terms and Conditions, except where GPL-licensed open source software is used, in which case any modifications to the software are shared, and details given at https://developer.transportapi.com/.
9.2 With respect to commercially licensed Content the Supplier additionally warrants that:
9.2.1 the Supplier or its licensors owns the Intellectual Property Rights in any commercially licenced Content;
9.2.2 the Supplier is not aware of any circumstances which might endanger the validity of the Intellectual Property Rights in the commercially licenced Content and all fees in respect of any Intellectual Property Rights in commercially licenced Content have been paid in full;
9.2.3 the commercially licenced Content does not infringe the rights of any third party.
9.3 Except as expressly stated in these Terms and Conditions, all other conditions, warranties or other terms which might have effect between the parties or be implied or incorporated into these Terms and Conditions or any collateral contract, whether by statute, common law or otherwise, are hereby excluded, including the implied conditions, warranties or other terms as to satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose or the use of reasonable skill and care to the extent permitted by law.
9.4 Without limiting the effect of clause 9.3, we do not warrant that:
9.4.1 the supply of the Services will be free from interruption, viruses or malicious code, except where we offer a Service Level Agreement (as specified in Schedule 4) as part of a Software and Data Supply Agreement (as specified in Schedule 3); or
9.4.2 the Content is accurate, complete, reliable, secure or timely except where we offer a Service Level Agreement as specified in Schedule 4; or
9.4.3 the Services will run on your systems; or
9.4.4 the TransportAPI, Content and/or the Services have been tested for use by you or any third party; or
9.4.5 that the TransportAPI, Content and/or the Services will be suitable for or be capable of being used by you or any third party.
9.5 Without limiting the effect of clause 9.3, we do warrant that:
9.5.1 We will use best efforts and reasonable skill to operate the TransportAPI Services continuously and to provide TransportAPI Content with integrity, subject to supply constraints in the source of the Content.
Sssshhhh!
You don’t be disclosing our business and we don’t be disclosing yours. If we want to promote anything you are doing – like feature your great applications on our blog – we’ll ask you. Our confidential information includes TransportAPI services (like the code running our site) and any of our operational details that we disclose to you. Obvs if you are asked by the law to disclose anything you’ll need to do that – but give as much notice as you can to your clients as we will to you.
10.1 For the purposes of these Terms and Conditions “Confidential Information” shall include all confidential information (however recorded or preserved) disclosed by a party or its employees, officers, representatives, advisers or sub-contractors involved in the provision or receipt of the Services in connection with these Terms and Conditions concerning:
10.1.1 any information that would be regarded as confidential by a reasonable business person relating to:
10.1.1.1 the business, affairs, customers, clients, suppliers, plans, intentions, or market opportunities of the disclosing party; and
10.1.1.2 the operations, processes, product information, know-how, designs, trade secrets or software of the disclosing party (or of any member of the group of companies to which the disclosing party belongs); and
10.1.2 any information which is either labelled as confidential or else which should reasonably be considered as confidential because of its nature and the manner of its disclosure.
10.2 Each party shall keep the other party’s Confidential Information confidential and shall not:
10.2.1 use any Confidential Information except for the purpose of exercising or performing its rights and obligations under these Terms and Conditions; or
10.2.2 disclose any Confidential Information in whole or in part to any third party, except as expressly permitted by this clause.
10.3 You acknowledge that our Confidential Information includes TransportAPI Services and any operational details disclosed to you.
10.4 A party may disclose Confidential Information to the extent required by law, by any governmental or other regulatory authority, or by a court or other authority of competent jurisdiction provided that, to the extent it is legally permitted to do so, it gives the other party as much notice of the disclosure as possible.
10.5 Each party reserves all rights in its Confidential Information. No rights or obligations in respect of a party’s Confidential Information, other than those expressly stated in these Terms and Conditions, are granted to the other party, or are to be implied from these Terms and Conditions.
10.6 The provisions of this clause 10 shall continue to apply after termination of these Terms and Conditions.
Neither us nor you excludes or limits liability to each other for fraud, death or personal injury or a breach of the Sale of Goods Act. We’re not liable if you misrepresent us or you breach your contract or for any losses relating to your IT systems and property. The majority of our suppliers are big, national, open data services that don’t offer us guarantees and there are no alternative sources but we will always bring you the data whenever its flowing.
11.1 Neither party excludes or limits its liability to the other party for:
11.1.1 fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
11.1.2 death or personal injury caused by negligence;
11.1.3 a breach of any obligation implied by section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 or section 2 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982; or
11.1.4 any matter in respect of which it would be unlawful for the parties to exclude liability.
11.2 Subject to clause 11.1, we shall not in any circumstances be liable whether in contract, tort (including for negligence and breach of statutory duty howsoever arising), misrepresentation (whether innocent or negligent), restitution or otherwise, for:
11.2.1 any loss (whether direct or indirect) of profits, business, business opportunities, revenue, turnover, reputation or goodwill;
11.2.2 any loss or corruption (whether direct or indirect) of data or information;
11.2.3 loss (whether direct or indirect) of anticipated savings or wasted expenditure (including management time);
11.2.4 any loss relating to your IT systems and property, tangible property or physical damage; or
11.2.5 any loss or liability (whether direct or indirect) under or in relation to any other contract.
11.3 Subject to clause 11.1, our total aggregate liability to you for direct losses in, tort (including negligence) or breach of contract under these Terms and Conditions shall in all circumstances be limited to 100% of the total Charges paid by you to us during the 12 month period immediately before the date on which the cause of action first arose.
11.4 Any dates quoted for delivery of the Services are approximate only, and the time of delivery is not of the essence. We shall not be liable for any delay in delivery of the Services that is caused by an event within the scope of clause 13.
It was nice while it lasted
Sometimes things just come to an end. If that happens just let us know and we’ll cancel your account. Remember, we work on calendar month so if you cancel mid-month you will still have to pay for that month. We’ll cancel if you don’t pay on time or if you breach any of other terms and conditions. When we part make sure that you remove any of our services from your applications. But we don’t expect that to happen – our customers are pretty satisfied all round.
12.1 These Terms and Conditions shall commence on the date when we notify you of our approval of your Application Form by opening your Account and shall remain in force unless terminated in accordance with these Terms and Conditions and any Software and Data Supply Agreement (if any) (the “Term”).
12.2 For the avoidance of doubt, if you have chosen a Start, Grow paid Plan or Software and Data Supply Agreement Revenue share you may terminate these Terms and Conditions by contacting us through the TransportAPI ‘Messages’ function on your ‘Dashboard’ telling us that you wish to close your Account and terminate these Terms and Conditions. On receipt of this notification we will close your Account and terminate your access to the Content and/or the Services at the end of the following calendar month after your notice of termination is received by us. You shall be liable for any Charges until we terminate your access to the Content and/or the Services, which shall include the rest of the calendar month in which the notice of termination was received by us. Such amounts shall be in addition to any other outstanding Charges. If you have chosen a Software and Data Supply Agreement Enterprise service, you may terminate these Terms and Conditions as defined in the Software and Data Supply Agreement.
12.3 Without prejudice to any rights that have accrued under these Terms and Conditions or any of its rights or remedies (including, but without limitation, clause 5.1), either party may terminate these Terms and Conditions with immediate effect by giving written notice to the other party if: 12.3.1 the other party commits a material breach of any term of these Terms and Conditions and (if that breach is remediable) fails to remedy that breach within a period of 30 days after being notified in writing to do so; 12.3.2 you are in breach of clause 5.1;
12.3.3 the other party:
12.3.3.1 suspends, or threatens to suspend, payment of its debts; 12.3.3.2 is unable to pay its debts as they fall due or admits inability to pay its debts;
12.3.3.3 (being a company) is deemed unable to pay its debts within the meaning of section 123 of the Insolvency Act 1986;
1.3.3.4 (being an individual) is deemed either unable to pay its debts or as having no reasonable prospect of so doing, in either case, within the meaning of section 268 of the Insolvency Act 1986; or
12.3.3.5 (being a partnership) has any partner to whom any of clause 12.3.3.1 to clause 12.3.3.4 apply;
12.3.4 a petition is filed, a notice is given, a resolution is passed, or an order is made, for or in connection with the winding up of that other party (being a company) other than for the sole purpose of a scheme for a solvent amalgamation of that other party with one or more other companies or the solvent reconstruction of that other party;
12.3.5 an application is made to court, or an order is made, for the appointment of an administrator, or if a notice of intention to appoint an administrator is given or if an administrator is appointed, over the other party (being a company);
12.3.6 a person becomes entitled to appoint a receiver over the assets of the other party or a receiver is appointed over the assets of the other party; 12.3.7 any event occurs or proceeding is taken with respect to the other party in any jurisdiction to which it is subject that has an effect equivalent or similar to any of the events mentioned in clause 12.3.3 to clause 12.3.6 (inclusive);
12.3.8 the other party suspends or ceases, or threatens to suspend or cease, carrying on all or a substantial part of its business; or
12.3.9 you incur a change of control (within the meaning of section 1124 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010).
12.4 Any provision of these Terms and Conditions that expressly or by implication is intended to come into or continue in force on or after termination of these Terms and Conditions shall remain in full force and effect. 12.5 Termination of these Terms and Conditions, for any reason, shall not affect the accrued rights, remedies, obligations or liabilities of the parties existing at termination.
12.6 On any termination of these Terms and Conditions for any reason, you shall promptly on demand pay any outstanding amounts owed to us under these Terms and Conditions and ensure that there is no further use of the Services in any of your website, application or systems.
12.7 On termination of these Terms and Conditions for any reason or expiry of the Term:
12.7.1 each party shall as soon as reasonably practicable return or destroy (as directed in writing by the other party) all materials provided to it by the other party in connection with these Terms and Conditions including all materials containing or based on the other party’s Confidential Information (as defined in clause 10.1); and
12.7.2 without limiting the effect of clause 12.7.1, you shall as soon as reasonably practicable ensure that all licensed Services are disconnected and removed from your website, applications or systems.
12.8 If a party is required by any law, regulation, or government or regulatory body to retain any documents or materials that it would otherwise be required to return or destroy under clause 12.7, it shall notify the other party in writing of that retention, giving details of the documents or materials that it must retain. That party shall not be in breach of clause 12.7 with respect to the retained documents or materials.
Things WAY outside our control
Like an Act of God or something similar – or if not God – nature (depends on your views). No way we can be responsible for that.
Neither party shall be in breach of these Terms and Conditions nor liable for delay in performing, or failure to perform, any of its obligations under these Terms and Conditions if that delay or failure results from events, circumstances or causes beyond its reasonable control. In these circumstances the affected party shall be entitled to a reasonable extension of the time for performing its obligations, provided that, if the period of delay or non-performance continues for one month, the party not affected may terminate these Terms and Conditions by giving 15 days’ written notice to the other party. You shall not be able to invoke this Force Majeure clause for your non-payment or delayed payment of the Charges under clause 4.
We’re talking to you – nobody else – so that’s the deal. When you sign the agreement it’s between us and you (or the organisation that you legally represent).
14.1 These Terms and Conditions are personal to you and the Authorised Users and you shall not assign, transfer, mortgage, charge, sub-contract, declare a trust of or deal in any other manner with any of its rights and obligations under these Terms and Conditions without our the prior written consent.
14.2 You confirm you are acting on your own behalf and not for the benefit of any other person.
14.3 We may at any time sub-license, novate, assign, transfer, mortgage, charge, sub-contract, declare a trust of or deal in any other manner with any of our rights and obligations under these Terms and Conditions without your consent.
You’re not signing away anything
A waiver means you give up rights and privileges. You don’t do that with our T&C’s.
No failure or delay by a party to exercise any right or remedy provided under these Terms and Conditions or by law shall constitute a waiver of that or any other right or remedy, nor shall it preclude or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy. No single or partial exercise of any right or remedy shall preclude or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy.
The law is the law
If something is legal it’s legal, so anything in our T&C’s is in addition to the law and does not preclude your natural entitlements under law.
16. Remedies
Except as expressly provided in these Terms and Conditions, the rights and remedies provided under these Terms and Conditions are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies provided by law.
How we communicate with each other
By email and via your account dashboard. Any legal stuff will be by recorded delivery.
17.1 Any legal notice or other communication required in connection with these Terms and Conditions:
17.1.1 to be given by us to you shall be by email, to the address you provide to us on your Application Form and/or in writing, at the postal address you provide to us on your Application Form, or as formally notified to us thereafter in writing; and
17.1.2 to be given by you to us shall be in writing through TransportAPI ‘Messages’ function on your ‘Dashboard’ and/or by email to info@placr.co.uk.
17.1.3 All legal notices hereunder must be sent by recorded delivery post and legal notices will be deemed received and properly served two days after the date of posting.
17.2 This clause does not apply to the service of any proceedings or other documents in any legal action.
This is the real deal
If it’s not in these T&C’s it doesn’t count.
18.1 These Terms and Conditions and the Software and Supply Agreement constitute the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes all previous discussions, correspondence, negotiations, arrangements, understandings and agreements between us relating to its subject matter.
18.2 Each party acknowledges that in entering into these Terms and Conditions it does not rely on, and shall have no remedies in respect of, any representation or warranty (whether made innocently or negligently) that is not set out in these Terms and Conditions.
18.3 No party shall have any claim for innocent or negligent misrepresentation based on any statement in these Terms and Conditions.
It does what is says on the tin
Unless we change it.
Except as expressly provided in these Terms and Conditions (including but not limited to clauses 4.9 and 4.10), no variation of these Terms and Conditions shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by us (or our authorised representatives).
If anything was found to be illegal we’ll change that
20.1 If any court or competent authority finds that any provision of these Terms and Conditions (or part of any provision) is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision or part-provision shall, to the extent required, be deemed to be deleted, and the validity and enforceability of the other provisions of these Terms and Conditions shall not be affected.
20.2 If any invalid, unenforceable or illegal provision of these Terms and Conditions would be valid, enforceable and legal if some part of it were deleted, the parties shall negotiate in good faith to amend that provision so that, as amended, it is legal, valid and enforceable, and, to the greatest extent possible, achieves the parties’ original commercial intention.
Much as we think you’re great we’re not partners
21. No partnership or agency
Nothing in these Terms and Conditions is intended to, or shall be deemed to, establish any partnership or joint venture between any of the parties, constitute any party the agent of another party, nor authorise any party to make or enter into any commitments for or on behalf of any other party.
Laws of England and Wales (definitely not Westeros)
23.1 These Terms and Conditions and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.
23.2 The parties irrevocably agree that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim that arises out of or in connection with these Terms and Conditions or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims).
OK Then! Congratulations on getting through all that. The following section includes the schedules (useful stuff you might want to read) we wrote these so they should be a little more user friendly.
Customer User Restrictions
1.2.1 limit access to the Services to your Authorised Users;
1.2.2 the number of Authorised Users will not exceed 100 users or the number as notified to you by Placr Limited in writing,
whichever is the higher;
1.2.3 not use the Services for any purpose contrary to any law or regulation or any regulatory code, guidance or request;
1.2.4 not do anything which may damage the reputation of us, the TransportAPI or the Services, including by way of using the Services
(wholly or in part) in any manner that in our reasonable view is pornographic, racist or that incites religious hatred or violence.
Charges for you use of the TransportAPI GROW Plan
1 The Charges shall be calculated from per hit charges and standing charges as follows:
Hits/month
Price/hit £
Standing charges £
All modes Single mode
Start free Plan Up to 30,000 0 0 0
Grow paid Plan Up to 100,000 0.0004 30 10
Grow paid Plan Up to 1,000,000 0.0002 30 10
Grow paid Plan Up to >1,000,000 0.0001 30 10
Journey plans As paid plan As paid plan 30 20
NextBuses All 0.0012 30 N/A
Note that not all endpoints are charged at 1 hit per request: see the Documentation at https://developer.transportapi.com/documentation for details. For example, public journey plans are charged at 10 hits per request for commercial users and 1 hit per request for UK Council Traveline members.
2 Start free plan offers 1000 free hits per day, resetting each day at midnight UK time. Upgrading to Grow paid Plans incurs a
standing charge but permits up to 30,000 free hits per calendar month before hit charging comes into effect at the rates in the table above.
3 Above 1,000,000 hits per month the price per hit remains the same.
4 NextBuses is charged to TransportAPI at £1.20 plus VAT per 1000 requests and is charged at cost.
5 Public and Private Journey planning responses come from the source you specify in the request parameters and the number of
hits/request vary according to the source as documented in https://developer.transportapi.com/documentation.
6 Paid Plans are offered for all TransportAPI.com Content (“All Modes API Plan”) and for selected Content in a single transport mode
(“Single Mode API Plan”). The Single Mode API Plan shall be offered for the following groups of Services at a discounted standing charge:
Bus/Ferry/Tram Single Mode
Bus/Ferry/Tram London live departures
Bus/Ferry/Tram timetabled departures
Bus/Ferry/Tram find nearby stops/ in bounding box
Bus/Ferry/Tram timetable line view
Bus/Ferry/Tram timetabled departure detail
Bus/Ferry/Tram operators list
Bus/Ferry/Tram list of lines for operator
Tube Single Mode
Tube live departures
Tube find nearby stations/ in bounding box
Tube network performance
Tube headway radar diagram
Tube list all lines
Tube list all stations
Tube list stations on line
Tube stations platforms list
Tube timetabled departures
Tube timetabled departure detail
Train Single Mode
Train live station departures
Train find nearby stations/ in bounding box
Train timetabled station details
Train timetabled departures
Train next timetabled departure
Train stations served by an operator
Widget Single Mode
Local transport summary in widget
Journey Planning Single Mode
Public Journey planning
Private journey planning
Pricing as at 1st June 2015
Charges for use of TransportAPI through a software and data supply agreement
Quota limit
Enterprise service Unlimited to the capacity of the deployed service instance defining the SDSA, except for limits on usage for NextBuses and journey planning12 Usage as specified in Annex 1 of the SDSA. NextBuses and journey planning usage will be limited to a sepcific amount Charges shall be as set out in Annex 1 of the SDSA, bundled usage of NextBuses and journey planning
Non-profit 5,000 hits per day3 Capped each day at UK time. For non-profit charity use (excludes public sector organisations) Free
Revenue share As agreed in Annex 1 Service Specification of the Software and Data Supply Agreement4 Assessed on net income received from the app store or platform for sales of each app or service containing TransportAPI Content 20% revenue share with Placr
1 (Contd) When requesting a Software and Data Supply Agreement, the desired pricing model should be entered in the Description field of the ‘New Application’ form. The SDSA must be signed before Services and Content are made available and the contract details must be registered in the TransportAPI Account and Application in the Developer portal.
2 NOTE 1. Enterprise services shall be charged at £6000 per month plus VAT for UK local authorities (with 3 days per month of included consultancy and up to 1m bundled NextBuses hits). Journey Plans from TravelineSE for UK Council Traveline members shall be free up to the limit to the limit of TravelineSE’s reasonable use policy.
3 NOTE 2. Enterprise services shall be charged at £8000 per month plus VAT for all bodies that are not UK councils (with 4 days per month of included consultancy, up to 1m bundled NextBuses hits and up to 1m bundled journey plans.
4 NOTE 3. Placr shall determine eligibility for the non-profit pricing model at its absolute discretion.
5 NOTE 4. In Revenue share pricing models requests for non-London bus live departures from Traveline NextBuses must be limited to the number agreed in the Annex 1 of the SDSA. Above this price extra hits must be charged at the rate charged by Traveline to us i.e. £1.20 per 1000 hits.
1 Placr shall offer this Service Level Agreement (“SLA”) to customers who subscribe to a Grow paid Plan and Enterprise service when defined in Annex 1 of the Software and Data Supply Agreement. The SLA shall only apply to the Grow paid Plan Services subscribed to by you i.e. if you have subscribed to a Single Mode API Plan then the SLA shall only cover the subscribed Services.
2 This SLA shall cover all the Services publicly offered on TransportAPI and listed at http://developer.transportapi.com/documentation, with the exception of those Services that are from time to time excluded, as listed at http://developer.transportapi.com/sla.
3 Placr shall use its best efforts to provide services via TransportAPI with a high degree of continuity (“Uptime”) and responsiveness (“Response time”). This SLA covers the fulfilment of syntactically correct responses from TransportAPI and does not guarantee semantic completeness at this time. The SLA performance metric for Uptime excludes the non-availability of the source services, which shall be subtracted from the total downtime to produce the final value of the metric for the purposes of this SLA.
4 The availability and responsiveness of TransportAPI Services is measured independently by http://pingdom.com/ from its European servers and the current performance achieved for representative set of Services the Metrics List in this Annex 3 is continuously displayed on our System Status page at https://developer.transportapi.com/status. At least one representative Service will be measured for each Single Mode API Plan.
5 This SLA shall be offered on Uptime and Response time when averaged over the previous 30 days, as assessed at 12 noon on the first working day of each calendar month.
6 Placr shall offer rebates on the cost of access to TransportAPI (‘Service credits’) when:
6.1 the average availability (“Uptime”) of any subscribed non-excluded Service (as measured every minute over a calendar month at six representative endpoints) falls below the percentage stated for each metric at https://developer.transportapi.com/sla in the Metrics list in this Annex 3; OR
6.2 the average response time (“Response time) for any subscribed non-excluded Services (as measured every minute over a calendar month at a representative endpoint) falls below the threshold stated from time to time at https://developer.transportapi.com/sla in the Metrics list in this Annex 3.
7 Alterations to Uptime and Response time thresholds or rebate rates shall be notified to you a month in advance of any change to the values shown at https://developer.transportapi.com/sla.
8 Rebates on the Charges shall be offered at the rates stated from time to time at https://developer.transportapi.com/sla.
9 Metrics may be specified in Annex 3 of each Software and Data Supply Agreement, and, if so, these metric shall take precedence over this Schedule and the metrics at https://developer.transportapi.com/sla.
1. TransportAPI Services and Content subject to this policy are the endpoints and responses documented from time to time for public use on the Developer portal (http://developer.transportapi.com/documentation).
2. The TransportAPI Services and Content are versioned according to the number in the endpoint URL e.g. transportapi.com/v3/. The current version is version 3 and versions 1 and 2 are now fully deprecated. Our commitments to continue to provide access to the Services and Content will apply separately to the endpoints and responses within each version published now and in future.
3. Within each version of the Services and Content, we aim to make no breaking (backwards incompatible) changes to the request or response structures within each API version. We may make breaking changes in the following circumstances:
3.2 where the Content is withdrawn or significantly changed by a data supplier, in which case we will give one month’s notice of the change or the amount of notice given by the data supplier to us, whichever is the lesser;
3.3 where the stability of the Service is affected by a current request or response structure, in which case we will give as much notice as is reasonably possible;
3.4 where there is a significant need among customers for a change, in which case we will give three months notice through our blog (http://transportapi.com/blog/) and regular developer communications
4. We may make non-breaking changes to the request and response structures at any time, in which case we will notify you within a month of making the change through our blog and regular developer communications.
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How do States transpose international human rights recommendations into local reality, and how to measure progress?
This project will adopt a ‘bottom-up’ approach to understanding how, and to what extent, States implement international human rights obligations and recommendations at domestic level, and will seek to replicate good practice and provide counsel to UN mechanisms and processes designed to support domestic implementation (e.g. follow-up and capacity-building processes).
Starting in January 2016, the URG is implementing a project that has the following three broad objectives, to:
Support the creation of an informal space for dialogue and exchange between States that have established or are undergoing the process of establishing such mechanisms, or that are simply willing to engage in dialogue on questions of implementation, follow-up, impact, and reporting.
Support the creation of a space for sharing good practice, lessons learnt, and challenges faced by Sates at domestic level in implementing, tracking, and reporting on human rights recommendations and identifying ways to better overcome challenges, including through bilateral and regional experience exchange.
Support the promotion of the role of national mechanisms responsible for implementation coordination, reporting, and follow-up and the wider ‘implementation agenda’ within related Council initiatives, with the ultimate aim of boosting efforts conducive to the overall strengthening of the ‘on-the-ground’ enjoyment of human rights for all.
Human rights implementation, compliance and prevention ('Glion III' report)
By The URG team
Visit the report page
Global Human Rights Implementation Agenda: the role of international development partners
OSLO+1 - International support for the national implementation of UN human rights recommendations, including as a contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals
By Universal Rights Group
Cross-regional statement of the Group of Friends on national implementation, reporting and follow-up (delivered during the 34th session of the Human Rights Council under item 2).
OHCHR side-event on ‘National Mechanisms for Reporting and Follow-up – A newly emerging national human rights actor?’ (14 November 2016, Room XII, Palais des Nations).
Joint statement by the UN70 Group at Human Rights Council (delivered during the 34th session of the Human Rights Council).
OHCHR publication: ‘National Mechanisms for Reporting and Follow-up – A practical guide to effective State engagement with international human rights mechanisms’
OHCHR publication: ‘National Mechanisms for Reporting and Follow-up – A study of State engagement with international human rights mechanisms’
Portugal statement (delivered during the 35th session of the Human Rights Council under item 2)
Portugal statement on behalf of Group of Friends on national implementation reporting and follow-up (delivered during Tuesday 9th May 2017 side-event on The UPR: An implementation reality check)
Portugal statement on behalf of the Group of Friends on national implementation, reporting and follow-up (delivered during the annual panel discussion on human rights mainstreaming at the 37th regular session of the Human Rights Council)
Portugal statement on behalf of the Group of Friends on national implementation, reporting and follow-up (delivered during the second intersessional seminar on the contribution of the HRC to the prevention of human rights violations)
OHCHR briefing – OHCHR Field Work General 2017 UPR Briefing
OHCHR briefing – 2030 Agenda
OHCHR briefing – UPR Follow up fund
OHCHR briefing – NMRFs
United Nations Development Group – UN Country Team support to tracking the follow-up of human rights recommendations
URG Insights
The role of UN field staff in supporting national tracking systems for following up to human rights recommendations
What are the human rights priorities of world governments in 2017?
Driving domestic implementation and impact: the Georgian Human Rights Council
NMRFs - A key State structure for effective reporting, coordination and implementation of human rights recommendations
UN takes important strides to build new human rights ‘Implementation Agenda’
Working Smarter for Human Rights: Are Digital Tools the Way Forward?
Restaurant Vieux Bois, Geneva
Implementation of Human Rights Mechanisms Recommendations: The role of national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up (NMRF)
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Man throws tortilla 54 feet, 5 inches to break world record
Ben Hooper
Sept. 23 (UPI) -- An Idaho man attending a Guinness World Records event in Toronto captured the record for furthest tortilla throw, hurling the disc-shaped food item a distance of 54 feet, 5 inches.
David Rush, who has broken over 100 Guinness World records to promote STEM education, make an official attempt with a Guinness adjudicator at the Science of Guinness World Records Exhibit in Toronto.
Rush said two dignitaries at the conference, put together by Science North and Guinness, managed to beat the previous record of 30 feet, 1 inch before it was his turn to throw.
Rush said his first throw, which didn't count toward his three official attempts, bounced off a wall, while his first official throw failed to meet the goal set by the dignitaries. His second throw was disqualified when it bounced off the ground at one point in its flight, but the third throw was declared the new record holder at 54 feet, 5 inches.
Nearly 600 kitesurfers break Guinness record at Brazilian beach Michigan company's 690-pound lint ball sets Guinness record Indiana students' paper mache sculpture surpasses Guinness record Man uses sword to slice 62 kiwis while standing on inflatable ball
Odd News // 15 hours ago
Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A Siberian husky with an eyelid deformity was adopted from a New Jersey shelter after photos of the dog went viral on Facebook.
Odd News // 2 days ago
Men caught on camera hitching a ride on back of Baltimore bus
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A traveler on a Maryland road captured video of two young men catching a free ride on the back of a Maryland Transit Administration bus.
Wife's need for a lighter leads man to $500,000 lottery prize
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A Virginia man scored a $500,000 jackpot from a scratch-off lottery ticket thanks to his wife's need for a new lighter.
Crews rescue struggling dog from freezing Washington state river
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Firefighters, police and animal rescuers responded to a freezing river in Washington state to save a dog that was unable to climb out of the water.
Two record-breaking fish reeled in by West Virginia anglers
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- West Virginia officials said a pair of anglers broke state records in the first two weeks the year with a 53.1-inch grass carp and a 49.84-inch blue catfish.
More than $40,000 found inside couch purchased from thrift store
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A Michigan man who noticed something amiss about the couch he bought from a thrift store found more than $40,000 stashed inside a cushion.
Pigeon spotted in Nevada wearing tiny sombrero
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Officials in a Nevada city said they are trying to find and rescue a pigeon seen wandering around with a sombrero apparently glued to its head.
Overturned truck releases 1,738 piglets onto Iowa highway
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Police and animal rescuers responded to a highway in Iowa to round up more than 1,700 piglets that escaped from an overturned truck.
World's largest Snickers bar unveiled in Texas
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Candy maker Mars Wrigley set a new Guinness World Record by producing a massive Snickers bar weighing in at 4,728 pounds.
Escaped horse rides city bus in Wales
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A horse found running loose in the streets of the Welsh capital was captured by witnesses and loaded onto a bus for a brief ride.
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American Go E-Journal » 2014 » May
Alex Kent to Challenge Andrew Kay for British Championship
Reigning British Champion Andrew Kay 4d (right) and Alex Kent 3d (below left) will meet in the final of the 2014 British Championship after taking top places at the Challengers’ League, held over the bank holiday weekend, Friday May 24 to Tuesday May 27, at the International Student House in London. The Challengers’ is a round-robin between the eight top players from the first stage of the Championship, the Candidates’ Tournament (see Ge Bei Lead UK Challenger, EJ 5/10), with 105 minutes each main time, and overtime of 15 plays in 5 minutes. Kay won all seven rounds, while Kent won five. Click here for full results.
As it transpired, four of those who qualified to contend for a place in the final in fact did not: Sandy Taylor 2d, Tim Hunt 3d and Bruno Poltronieri 3d all found they had other commitments which clashed while, most unfortunate of all, Ge Bei (below right) did not confirm his entry in time. Ge had come first in the Candidates’, beating all his opponents, including reigning champion Kay who had once again waived his right to bypass the first stage of the Championship.
The British Go Association’s (BGA) Championship organizer, Jenny Radcliffe explained that Ge “failed to update his contact information with the BGA and didn’t or couldn’t check the email address to which the invitation was sent. We tried to track down alternative modes of contact but failed to find any so eventually, since we really needed to be sure we had eight players, had to call up another reserve. By the time Bei got in touch, the reserve had already booked non-refundable travel and accommodation, and rearranged his personal life.”
BGA Rules state, “It is the responsibility of the qualified players to determine their eligibility for entry to the Candidates’ Tournament and the Challengers’ League and submit their entries to these events.” At the time of going to press we had been unable to contact Ge for comment.
In the circumstances, reserve Alistair Wall 2d was called up along with the next three highly-placed in the Candidates: Alex Rix 3d, Kiyohiko Tanaka 2d and Harry Fearnley 2d.
Radcliffe added “We hope that this will be a reminder to everyone that it really is important to keep the BGA informed of your contact details!”
Details of the final are yet to be arranged, but it will be a best-of-three (or five if so agreed between the finalists) with 180 minutes main time each and is likely to be broadcast live on KGS with professional commentary.
Report by Tony Collman, British correspondent for the E-Journal. Photos: Andrew Kay celebrates retaining the Championship in 2013; Alex Kent, both courtesy of the BGA website; Ge Bei at the Candidates’, by Tanaka Kiyohiko.
Lee Sedol Retirement Plans Apparently On Hold
Lee Sedol 9P’s plans to retire from competitive play and move to the US may not be quite as firm as they seemed last year (In Shocker, Lee Sedol Announces Retirement; May Move to U.S. 2/13/2013).
“One year later, it seems that Lee’s plans are less definite than we originally thought,” Go Game Guru’s David Ormerod reported on May 29. In 2013, according to Ormerod, Lee (at right, with Gu Li) was involved in projects like Go9Dan.com and was missing his daughter, who was studying in Canada. He started to seriously talk about retiring again at that time.
“Unfortunately, Go9Dan didn’t work out as planned, which affected Lee’s other plans,” Ormerod reported. “On a more positive note, the long mooted jubango between Lee Sedol and Gu Li finally became a reality and our source believes this has rekindled Lee’s passion for go. Because of this, Lee has stopped talking about retiring and doesn’t appear to have any plans to do so in the near future.” Lee now leads 3-2 in the jubango.
“If there’s no imminent plan for retirement, then that’s mostly good news for go fans, because we’ll be able to enjoy more of Lee’s spectacular games in the meantime,” Ormerod concludes. “In the long run, Lee will surely do whatever he thinks is best for his family. And North American go players can keep their fingers crossed.”
– based on Ormerod’s longer report on the GGG site.
Categories: Korea,World
EuroGoTV Update: Russia, Romania, Poland
Russia: Ru slan Dmitriev 5d took the Championship of Moscow on May 18 while Vjacheslav Kajmin 4d placed second and Vadim Khavin 4d was third. Romania: The Romanian Championship Semifinal also finished on May 18 with (left) in first, George Chirila 1d in second, and Liviu Oprisan 4d in third. Poland: Stanislaw Frejlak 4d championed the Turniej w Ozarowie Mazowieckim on May 18. Behind him were Kamil Konieczny 5k in second and Dawid Libront 7k in third.
Go Quiz Reminder: Name That Problem
The go problem on this year’s US Go Congress logo is from a collection of classic Chinese problems and like most such problems it has a name. Is it: The Warrior Escapes; An Ambush of Five Stones; or A Pearl Emerging from the Sea? Click here to submit your answer. And, for a chance to win $50 off your Congress registration, email your solution to the problem to registrar@gocongress.org before midnight on Saturday, May 31. In any case, if you’re definitely planning on coming to the US Go Congress in New York City this August you’ll want to register by the May 31 deadline to save $50 off your registration fee.
Categories: Go Quiz
Registration Opens for 2014 World Youth Mind-Sports Fair
Young go players are invited to participate in the 2014 World Youth Mind-Sports Fair, scheduled for July 25-28 at Gangneng Yeong-dong College in Gangwon-do, Gangneng-si, Rep. of Korea. Participants must be born after 1991; there’s an entry fee of $50 USD and the $150 accommodation fee includes meals. Sponsors include the Korea Amateur Baduk Association. Register online; payments must be made by June 30. For more info/details, email kchesskorea@daum.net, call 82-2-3448-6611 or fax 82-2-6280-9329.
Categories: World,Youth
The Traveling Go Board: Benjamin Hong’s Hong Kong Go Adventure
On his BenGoZen blog, Benjamin Hong recently posted a nice report on his Hong Kong go adventure earlier this year. After spotting an ad for go on a bus, Hong was disappointed to discover that the Hong Kong Go Association (HKGA) does not have a go salon where visitors can drop in for a game. “I was pretty bummed to hear that,” Hong, a 2-kyu who lives in the metro Washington area, writes. “After all, would my epic go adventure in Hong Kong be reduced to simply visiting the HKGA and maybe taking a few pictures? All hope was nearly gone until the secretary told my mom that I could take private lessons if I wanted to.” This launches an adventure across the city that will be familiar to anyone who’s tried to track down go in a foreign country. In addition to being entertaining, Hong’s tale has a happy ending and reveals the correct address of the HKGA, including a helpful photo of the sign to look for. Hint, not the one at right.
Categories: Traveling Go Board
4 Seats Open on AGA Board
Help determine the direction of play for the American Go Association by joining the AGA Board of Directors. “This is a very exciting time for American go,” says AGA President Andy Okun. “Our new professional system, more local activities and increased participation in major events make input from the American go community more important than ever.” Nominations are now open for four AGA Board seats, including the three regional seats and the At-Large seat. Nominations are being accepted through June 15. Nominations must be sent to elections@usgo.org. Click here for complete election information and qualifications.
David Lee Wins Scottish Open
David Lee 3d of Dundee scored a perfect six wins to take the Scottish Open Championship 2014, which ran Sat May 24 to Sun May 25 at the Gilchrist Postgraduate Club, University of Glasgow. Runner-up was Francis Roads 1d of Wanstead with four wins. Bob Scantlebury 8k of Sheffield distinguished himself with five wins and Joseff Thomas 10k of Glasgow and Carel Goodheir 9k of Skye also won four of the six rounds. Twenty-five took part in all, ranging from 3d to 17k. Click here for full results.
The tournament benefited for the first time this year from generous sponsorship from the University’s branch of the Confucius Institute, so as well as the Champion receiving a trophy and a pewter quaich (a shallow two-handled drinking cup or bowl), all 14 players on three or more wins selected a book from the British Go Association (BGA) bookstall and everyone took away a bottle of Isle of Skye Go Beer or a box of chocolates.
The event was organized on behalf of the BGA by Michael Comerford (venue and sponsorship) and Donald Macleod (tournament direction).
Report by Tony Collman, British correspondent for the E-Journal; photo (right) courtesy of Joseff Thomas: David Lee (right) is presented with the trophy by Donald Macleod. photo at left: Joseff Thomas (left) against Michael Comerford, by Gwenllian Thurstan
Go Quiz: Name that Problem
The vast majority of you (84%, or 38 out of 45) correctly chose Edward Lasker as the source of the quote “The rules of go are so elegant, organic and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe they almost certainly play go.” Lasker, a leading German-American chess and go player, was instrumental in developing go in the U.S., and together with Karl Davis Robinson and Lee Hartman founded the American Go Association. “It’s not go-related, but Arthur C. Clarke had a fine comment (quoted from memory here),” writes Fred Baldwin. “Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Each possibility is equally terrifying.” On a cheerier note, Ramon Mercado writes that “I truly enjoyed reading that bit about the Chumley’s speakeasy in NY. I’ll make sure to have a pint at it next time I’m in NY, if it’s allowed to be opened.” And speaking of Chumley’s, AGA Archivist David Doshay sent along these terrific shots of play at the club, shot for Life magazine in 1940.
This Week’s Quiz: The go problem on this year’s US Go Congress logo is from a collection of classic Chinese problems and like most such problems it has a name. Is it: The Warrior Escapes; An Ambush of Five Stones; or A Pearl Emerging from the Sea? Click here to submit your answer. And, for a chance to win $50 off your Congress registration, email your solution to the problem to registrar@gocongress.org before this Sunday, June 1.
– photos (top right & left) courtesy Life magazine
Categories: Go Quiz,U.S. Go Congress
Visit Seattle on a Tuesday
“Visitors to Seattle should save Tuesdays for the Go Center”, advises Center Manager Brian Allen. “It’s our biggest day.” On Tuesday, May 20, the Center had 47 players visit, including 12 children. New players can find instruction on Tuesday as well. Saturdays are smaller, but usually there are more than 20 visitors at all levels. There are evening classes on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Your first ten visits to the Go Center are free, including classes. Visitors are invited to check out the weekly schedule, and the special events calendar. Photo: A Tuesday night in June 2013.
– photo/report by Brian Allen.
Categories: Go News,Traveling Go Board,U.S./North America
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Hello, I’m Ray! Today we’ll be using English to discuss English names
Welcome to Ray’s English Corner
it’s been a while since I’ve done a video completely in English
but this topic in particular today, I feel like
it’s meant to be discussed in English and I’m talking about English names
Now first off, it is already pretty weird that every single person here in Taiwan
is kind of required to have an English name
I mean really, every single person that I know in my life has an English name
What’s most interesting to me is how people got their English names
So, taking me as an example, I just so happen to have the character 瑞 in my Chinese name
so I go by the English name, Ray, R-A-Y. Reasonable, right?
But for most people their names just don’t make any sense, it has nothing to do with their Chinese name
and some just got randomly assigned a name by their English teacher perhaps?
And that stuck for the rest of their lives
Come to think of it this is giving so much power to the English teachers
If in your classroom you don’t like a particular student
you can just name him Dick and ruin the rest of his life for him
As it stands, everyone here has their own English names
and I actually kind of, personally prefer it this way
just because of how English names are so much easier to spell out compared to Chinese names
Don’t know what I’m talking about?
Well this is usually what goes down when people ask me to write their names for them
Ray can you sign for me?
Yeah, sure, what’s your name?
I-Ting
Which “I” and which “Ting”?
(Describes Chinese character by positioning each parts)
Do you have an English name?
Oh, oh yeah, Cindy!
Oh! Cindy! Okay, good, Cindy~
But sometimes in Taiwan, you meet people with really, really strange English names
I think everywhere in the world, there’s gonna be weird names
but in Taiwan we have a particular style of English names weirdness
So in the States you can be creative and spell a name backwards and create another name off that
for example Nevaeh is heaven spelled backwards, and that’s pretty cool
But a problem with that
you start questioning regular names and start spelling them backwards and they’re ruined
For example, Natasha is Ah Satan
And here in Taiwan people can get really creative as well with their English names
In my past experience dealing with strange, weird English names here in Taiwan
I usually come across really literal sayings, you know
things that are not supposed to be names, but they’re used as an English name
For example, true story here
I’ve known people who call themselves “Steak”, “Purple”, “Diploma”
Wait...but why?
Usually they’ll go something like, “Oh I enjoy steaks, I like the color purple”
No. No, you don’t. No. Shut up. Go kill yourself. Don’t get that name
Now, I would like to think that I have a really regular name, Ray right?
R-A-Y, it’s very common, it’s very easy, it’s very short, nobody should get it wrong
But sometimes when I introduce myself in English, I be like, “Hi, I’m Ray."
and people would go, “Did you say Rain? Like 雨?"
Just because you have a weird name doesn’t mean I have to have a weird name, okay?
My name is Ray, R-A-Y, not any other words that’s not supposed to be a name
But it’s understandable, right? Ray and rain, it kinda sounds similar
but other times I be like, “Hi, I’m Ray.”, and they be like
“Rebecca?”
No, I’m just kidding, doesn’t happen
Another thing I can’t stand is people having my exact name
I remember in middle school there was this senior who was also called Ray
he was way more attractive and muscular than me
and he was taking all the attention and credit and glory away from my name
After a while I got so upset that I downright changed my name into X-ray
I know, it’s a little bit weird. (It’s very weird!) But, but it’s completely justified, right?!
There was dude stealing my name, I had to adapt!
So the name X-ray stuck with me from middle school to college
so all of my friends back in those days would still remember me as X-ray
After I graduated from college, however, I got into a master’s program, and as a MA student
as you all know, we have to write a thesis, and on the cover, you have to put what?
And it was at that moment when I had to put X-ray on the cover of my thesis
did I realize how incredibly stupid the name was
So, it was then when I dropped the X and became just Ray
But enough about me. What is your English name? How did you get it?
What do you think of Taiwanese people having English names in general?
Do you have a weird name? Do you think my name is weird?
Leave it down in the comment (section) below, I’m curious
If you like this video, please give a thumbs up
If you would like to see more videos in the future, please click on the subscription button here
we have new videos up every Monday and Thursday at 9 PM sharp
I also have a Facebook and Instagram account
you can find me by typing in 阿滴英文 or Ray Du English
And that is a wrap, thank you guys for watching as always, and I’ll catch you guys next time! See ya!
Taiwanese English Names // 台灣人一定會有的英文名字？
韓澐 published on July 19, 2016
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Annual Gratitude Report
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In 1993, the Woman to Woman Kentuckiana dream was born when six Louisville women traveled to the Island of Delavan, Wisconsin to attend a Woman Within Training Weekend. The experience was so powerful that it ignited the hope for bringing the Weekend closer to Kentucky for more local participation. The idea that as one person heals, the world heals was the concept that these pioneer women held in sacred patience as the Vision Keepers.
Between the years of 1993 and 1999, more Kentucky women participated in Weekend Trainings in other states. The Vision Keepers created a way to keep women connected in the Louisville and Lexington areas through circles of support called Empowerment Circles. Skills based Empowerment Circle trainings were offered by women who were called Guides. Women learned the empowering use of language, how to take self-responsibility and found wisdom in being supported in a safe and loving environment.
The Midwest region began to expand its offerings. In 1999, Indiana’s IN Our Circle hosted its initial Woman Within Weekend and St. Louis also began hosting the Trainings. At last, the Weekend experience was within geographic reach and women from Lexington, Louisville and southern Indiana participated in greater numbers.
Woman to Woman Kentuckiana flourished and formalized its structure. The Leadership Circle expanded to attend to growth initiatives and ongoing needs of Empowerment Circles. As part of embracing the Woman Within mission, the Kentuckiana Community, now officially named Woman to Woman Kentuckiana, honored graduates of the Woman Within Weekend with an annual Celebration Ceremony. Family and friends joined in understanding how the lives of women were changing.
Woman to Woman Kentuckiana hosted its first Woman Within Weekend in October 2002. Over 50 women applied to staff and there was a waiting list for first time participants.
Each year since that landmark 2002 Weekend, the Kentuckiana Community has hosted an annual Woman Within Weekend. Numerous on-going Empowerment Circles for graduates have thrived. Guided Wisdom Circles were offered as a way to meet others in a Circle setting. However, women in the Leadership Circle knew there was more to do. It was time to find more opportunities for women to be a part of the Kentuckiana Community.
In 2006, a new generation of leaders came together with the original “grandmothers." The result was the opportunity for women in addition to Woman Within graduates to join the experience of support and Community. The Empowerment Circle Training was revised and reintroduced. This time it was open to any woman and the mission of this Community was unveiled – Woman to Woman Kentuckiana is a community of women who stand with you to support and empower your authentic self.
In 2014, Woman to Woman Kentuckiana, Inc. became a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity.
The dream of Woman to Woman Kentuckiana continues to unfold and grow as each woman chooses to step into her journey to find healing and support, empowerment and authenticity.
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Jamaican Singles
Wailers Productions
Wail´N Soul´M Label
The label „Wail´N´Soul´M“ was founded in late 1966 by Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh. Bob Marley invested the money he had earned while working in a factory in USA. The name has its origin in „WAILers“ aNd „SOULettes Music“.
The very first single appears with a label art with four stars. This label was used only for this single and its repressing in 1966 and 1967.
The label with green, gold & black background is the most expensive in production and is understood as the classic label. It was used for singles in 1967 and early in 1968.
During 1968 when Bunny Wailer was in jail the income of the label decreased and so a couple of singles were released without an expensive printed label art but as blank singles, some of them stamped with different kinds of stamps used.
The label with vertical writing on coloured background is used for early repressings of circa three singles. Bunny Wailer tells on „Wailers Legacy“ that it was him who took care to restore the label and to release some repressings and some new singles after his release from jail in September 1968. It may have took a while until early in 1969 to have some records ready to sell. That is why I think the repressings with the vertical writing are from 1969.
Circa 45 Wailers singles were released from 1966 to 1969 on the Wail´N Soul´M label. Besides these a single „Gee Whiz“ by Esete was released on Wail N Soul. And another single was „Medley / Version“ by I Thess Marcia, Judy & Rita.
Wail´N Soul´M, Original, 1966 or 1967
Bend Down Low (Credit: Bob Marley And The Wailers With The Soul Brothers) (Matrix: CS Dodd-127-RM01) /
Freedom Time (Credit: Bob Marley And The Wailers With The Soul Brothers) (Matrix: CS Dodd-128-RM02)
Both tracks were recorded in November 1966. Then the tracks were mastered and the 7-inches were pressed. I would estimate they tried to have the single out in December 1966. Released then or a bit later early in 1967.
The matrix indicates that Clement Dodd was responsible for the production of the stamper. Nevertheless the tracks are the first Wailers self-productions.
This first single on the Wail´N Soul´M label and the only one that appears on a label with four stars.
The original appears with silver stars on red background.
Wail´N Soul´M, Repressing, circa 1967
This repressing on Wail´N Soul´M appears with black stars on green background.
Wail´N Soul´M, Original, 1967
Hypocrite (Credit: Bob Marley And The Wailing Wailers) (Matrix: WIRL BM 3084-1) /
Nice Time (Credit: Bob Marley And The Wailing Wailers) (Matrix: WIRL BM 3023-1) (RS tells: The matrix is probably a mistake at mastering and should be: WIRL-BM 3083-1)
Both tracks were recorded circa June 1967 and the single was released July 1967. A top ten hit in the Jamaican charts during August and September 1967.
This single appears on the classic label with black writing on red, green & gold background.
Hypocrites (Credit: Bob Marley And The Wailing Wailers) (Matrix: WIRL BM 3084-1) /
This reissue has „Hypocrite“ retitled as „Hypocrites“. The label has „Wail N“ „Soul M“ written vertically on plain background with silver writing on black background.
This reissue has „Hypocrite“ retitled as „Hypocrites“. The label has „Wail N“ „Soul M“ written vertically on plain background with red writing on white background. This label has the address: „18 Greenwich Rd. KGN 5“.
This reissue has „Hypocrite“ retitled as „Hypocrites“. The label has „Wail N“ „Soul M“ written vertically on plain background with black writing on red background.
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The poor girl
The poor girl - Season 1 Episode 15
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Henry’s result was so poor that melody didn’t understand what happened but she had a plan in her mind on what to do.
The holiday was a long one thereby giving students the privilege to enjoy their holiday, Mrs Armstrong was already warned by the doctor and her daughter not to sell again in the street thus giving the family a tough time to feed themselves. Melody took over her mom’s duty to do the selling on the streets.
Henry was seen sitting in his room pressing his phone, the room was well arranged as if he was expecting a visitor but none was to come. The thought of hearing melody’s voice came into his mind but the problem is that she doesn’t have a phone and that’s the worst.
It was on a hot Monday afternoon, the sun was so high and anyone who passes on the road will have an umbrella that covers him or her. Melody was walking under the hot sun shaking her butt voluminously selling orange, she was really sweating as the results of the high sun. Henry was on his way to visit one of his friends when he sighted a lady selling orange and he needed some to store in his refrigerator so as to lick it anytime he wants.
“Drive to that orange girl”he instructed his driver who did according to his command.
“Tell her to give you orange of #1000 naira “he said to his driver while he was busy pressing his phone.
Melody put the orange just as she was instructed, she handed it to his driver. Henry brought out the money to pay, instantly Henry was shocked to see that it’s melody that was selling orange in the streets, Melody too though she wasn’t that surprised to see that it’s Henry that she sold to due to the fact that it’s her business.
“Melody! “Henry called and drop his phone and then step out of his car while melody adjusted backward.
“Henry, it’s me please give me my money so that I leave this place “she said almost immediately Henry step out of the car.
Henry didn’t know what else to say as he saw the one he love selling orange under the hot sun in the streets. He open the car door again and brought out a bundle of #500 notes and then stretch it to melody.
“I’m sorry Henry your money is #1000 naira and that’s what I’m collecting “she said
“I know but you have to take this too, this orange selling is not cool for you ”
“But this is what we do to survive and there’s no way to stop selling unless you want us to die of hunger “she finally opened up to Henry thus making him to feel the more for her.
“Please give me my money let me leave this place, customers are waiting for me”she broke the silence
“Please melody accept this token, it’s from my heart and I mean no harm “he said stretching the money to her but she looked down thinking whether to accept or not then she finally agreed to accept it.
“Fine I’m only accepting this because of f one thing, and sorry to say this. I hope you don’t want anything in return? She asked collecting the money. Henry giggled knowing fully where she driving to.
“Nothing, there’s nothing I want in return please just accept that token ”
“Thank you “she said and turned to leave but suddenly turned back as Henry wanted to drive away.
“Henry! “she called and Henry stopped and looked back at her
“Thank you for the other day, I mean that rainy night “she said looking at him
“You are welcome dear it’s my pleasure “he said smiling that finally she has realized his help.
Days turned into weeks as melody keep selling oranges on the streets just to survive with her family. It was Saturday morning as melody sat down thinking about her life and how she’s going to overcome her challenges in life. Mr Armstrong noticed her daughter was lost in thought as he tap her on the shoulder and she jerked out of her thought. Her father assured her not to worry because the future is bright and all this suffering will pass away in a twinkle of an eye.
Melody didn’t touch even a kobo of the money Henry gave her, just incase he wants anything in return then she will hand it back to him.
Night finally draw near as the sun began going down slowly giving space for darkness to resume it’s duty, Melody and her father and mother were seen sitting around a small local table they assume to be their dinning table eating together. Though there was not much ingredients in the food but the food aroma took over the house this making it to smell nice.
“Thank you my daughter for such a delicious meal”mr Armstrong said after the meal
“Dad, you have to thank mom because she thought me”she said smiling and her mom smiled along with her.
“Fine, thank you mother and daughter for the meal” Mr Armstrong said and they all end up laughing together. Soon the wind began blowing as never before and lightening began flashing, the laughter slowly faded away as the family remember their predicament if it happens to rain that night not knowing that the worst is about to happen. The wind was so strong this time around as it carries sand and dry leaves along in the process, doors that were opened were banked closed by the strong wind.
The family of Mr Armstrong were sleeping peacefully and soundly when suddenly they heard a very loud sound as if the house as fallen which made them to jump out of sleep only for them to be soaked with the rain in the night, that was when they look up to see that there was no longer roof again in the house as the wind had blew it off. The rain directly fell inside their house as it does in the outside, it was a very painful and tearful situation for the family to experience.
They didn’t have anywhere to move to talkless of where to sleep in the night as they stood inside the roofless house and the rain keep on pouring on them as a shower of blessing.
The house was now roofless adding to the situation of the family. It was really heartbreaking in the morning as people came and checked the roofless house shaking their heads pitifully without anyone offering them help. Melody was lost in thought standing at a corner, she didn’t know what to do, just then she remembered the money Henry gave her that it was in a bundle and it was huge, she remembered that she didn’t count it after collecting the money, she ran inside the roofless house to where she kept it and took out,she went into the backyard so as not to be noticed by anyone, she counted the money to discover that Henry gave her #30,000 she was stunned as she covered her mouth with her hands. She knew that instant that she owes Henry a lot because that was the same amount of money needed at that time to see them through the situation they found themselves. Melody put the money back in her cloth and then sneak out ofthe roofless house heading to the street without anyone knowing what she has in mind.
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The Top Five – D.C. High School Basketball
Daniel Kucin Jr. January 17, 2018
Courtesy of purplehoops.com
For the duration of the season, The Washington Informer will feature our choices for the top five high school basketball programs in the greater Washington area, specifically the DCIAA (District of Columbia Interscholastic Athletic Association) and the WCAC (Washington Catholic Athletic Conference), for their efforts based upon win/loss record, strength of schedule and winning streak:
1. Theodore Roosevelt (17-2) (DCSAA)
The Roughriders secured their 10th consecutive win after taking down Ballou Senior High School (Washington, D.C.), 88-52, on Jan. 12.
Six-foot-four junior center Darius Buchanan led the way in the contest with 15 points, more than twice his season average of 6 ppg.
2. Gonzaga (12-1) (WCAC)
Gonzaga is still hot after defeating DeMatha Catholic High School (Hyattsville, Md.) 71-62 on Jan. 11 for its 12th win of the season.
Eagles senior forward Terrance Williams went off for a double-double, scoring 22 points and grabbing 10 rebounds against the Stags.
Williams currently leads Gonzaga in scoring so far this season (17.8 points per game) while senior forward Myles Dread and sophomore point guard Chuck Harris are averaging in double-figures per contest up to this point.
3. Thurgood Marshall Academy (11-6) (DCSAA)
Thurgood Marshall is on a two-game winning streak after dropping Paul Public Charter School (Washington, D.C.) by 35 points on Jan. 9 and Parkside High (Washington, D.C.) by 27 on Jan. 12.
Senior small forward Darius Richardson led his team in scoring with 23 points with eight rebounds and senior guard Savion Gallion scored 18 points against Parkside and accounted for six rebounds and two assists.
4. Dunbar (11-6) (DCSAA)
Dunbar dismantled Anacostia High School (Washington, D.C.), 65-19, on Jan. 10.
Senior guard Ahmad McKeithan led the Crimson Tide in scoring with 15 points, while senior Husain Mubah-Neal and junior Tyrek Simmons scored 10 points each.
Senior shooting point guard Rasheed Gatling leads Dunbar in scoring on the season, averaging over 16 ppg.
5. Woodrow Wilson (12-8) (DCSAA)
Woodrow Wilson defeated Capital Christian Academy (Upper Marlboro, Md.) in a gritty dogfight, 66-64, on Jan. 13.
Sophomore shooting guard Dimingus Stevens led the Tigers in scoring with 20 points, but it was the play of junior point guard Carlos Dunn that stole the show in the second half. Dunn, who finished the game with 15 points, scored seven in the fourth quarter, including a late go-ahead free throw, earning him MVP honors.
The Washington Informer Top 5 is strictly based upon the opinions of The Washington Informer sports division and will run throughout the duration of the DCIAA and WCAC basketball seasons.
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Courteney Cox: ‘What makes me unhappy? When I am not understood.’
Interview Courteney Cox: ‘My mum wasn’t a go-getter. I’m thankful I could be the opposite’
The actor on kissing Johnny McDaid, her Banksy painting and being locked outside naked
Born in Alabama, Courteney Cox, 54, studied architecture before becoming an actor. From 1994 to 2004 she played Monica Geller in Friends; she also made four Scream movies and starred in the television series Cougar Town from 2009 to 2015. Her partner is the songwriter and Snow Patrol guitarist Johnny McDaid; she has a daughter, Coco, with her ex-husband David Arquette. She narrates the new pregnancy docuseries 9 Months, on Facebook Watch. She lives in Malibu.
What is your earliest memory?
Not the earliest, but the most impactful was when my parents got divorced. I was 10.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
The inability to be accountable.
What was your most embarrassing moment?
When I was very young, my older brother and two older sisters told me that there was an emergency and I had to get out of the shower, then pushed me outside and locked the door. I was completely naked and couldn’t get back in.
Property aside, what’s the most expensive thing you’ve bought?
A Banksy painting.
What would your superpower be?
To be able to click my fingers and have two opposing parties see each other’s perspective.
What makes you unhappy?
When I am not understood.
What is your favourite word?
“Darlin’ girl” is something that Johnny says that makes me melt.
What did you want to be when you were growing up?
An architect.
What do you owe your parents?
My mum wasn’t a go-getter so I am thankful that I was able to witness that and be completely the opposite.
If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose?
I would like to stop things from becoming extinct. The way we are going… humans.
What does love feel like?
Safe and peaceful. It gives you a sense of ease.
What was the best kiss of your life?
The first time I kissed Johnny, and I, actually, was the person who kissed first. Ed Sheeran brought him over to my house one Sunday.
Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
Johnny, and Lisa [Kudrow] and Jennifer [Aniston], because they are fun.
When did you last cry, and why?
Yesterday, when I heard songs that Johnny has been writing.
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Uninterrupted sleep.
What has been your closest brush with the law?
I don’t even have a lawyer, so I don’t feel like I get into trouble in those ways.
What keeps you awake at night?
Worrying about not being able to go back to sleep.
Where would you most like to be right now?
I would be in the sun, but not get brown spots or skin cancer.
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Nothing is personal.
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Wellington talent shown-off at Gold Awards
Date Added: 26th July 2019 from
The Wellington Gold Awards have again shown the wide scope of talent within our city, says the Wellington Chamber of Commerce.
"On behalf of their local Chamber of Commerce, I would like to congratulate all of the winners for their hard work and well-earned success," says chief executive John Milford.
"All the finalists deserved to be there on the night, and it was great to see several of our members up for awards. We are proud of the contribution each business makes to the vibrancy of our city.
"In particular we want to acknowledge and congratulate New Zealand Tube Mills, who won the Global Gold award and then also took out the Supreme Award.
"NZ Tube Mills are the classic Kiwi-ingenuity story, and the initiative of their staff is leading the way in improving sustainable horticulture practices.
"A special mention from us to local arts and film leader Bill Sheat for his work in the industry and his influence in setting up the New Zealand Film Commission. We would like to thank him for his service to the city and congratulate him on a fantastic career.
"We had a great contingent of Chamber members announced as finalists; Te Auaha for Creative Gold, Xero Learn for Innovation Gold, Mojo Coffee Cartel in the Global Gold category, City Gallery Wellington nominated for the Vibrant Gold category, and Thankyou Payroll in the Team Gold category.
"And we would like to acknowledge our members Sharesies who took out the Cyber Gold Award last night. Sharesies have accomplished so much since their launch in 2016 and we couldn’t be prouder of their achievement.
"Lastly, we want to recognise the great job John Dow does with these awards. In its 21st year, it has become quite the institution for Wellington. The Awards are always an excellent showcase for businesses, organisations, and individuals who do so much for Wellington.
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Ephrata police said a bicyclist has died after being hit by a truck.It happened in the 100 block of Hahnstown Road in Ephrata Township, just before 4 p.m. Friday.Police said the victim is a 78-year-old man from Ephrata.The truck was driven by a 19-year-old man from Stevens.
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Ephrata police said a bicyclist has died after being hit by a truck.
It happened in the 100 block of Hahnstown Road in Ephrata Township, just before 4 p.m. Friday.
Police said the victim is a 78-year-old man from Ephrata.
The truck was driven by a 19-year-old man from Stevens.
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Vintage BBC Technics SP-10 Mk2 studio turntable unit turns up on eBay
By Joe Svetlik 2017-02-01T11:14:37Z
Bidding currently stands at over £2500.
If you want to add some retro chic to your home system, look no further than this doozy found on eBay.
Spotted by The Vinyl Factory, it's a professional ex-broadcast studio twin disk stereo reproducer, as used by the BBC. The unit was designed and built by the Beeb in the late 1970s, and it still works - things were built to last in those days…
It was used in the BBC's London studios in Broadcasting House to play vinyl and 78rpm material for transmission. It was also used to transfer records to tape for post-production projects. So it's a genuine slice of broadcasting history - and now it could be yours.
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As well as looking like something Austin Powers would use to play Barry White, the unit packs some seriously retro tech.
It comprises two Technics SP-10 Mk2/RP2/9 turntables mounted on oak motorboards that are adjustable using independent spring suspensions, Technics SH-10 EP control power supply units that have been recapped and fully serviced, BBC-designed MP1-18 tone arms with headshells (complete with Ortofon OM moving-magnet pro cartridges and styli), stereo panel amplifiers, pre-amplifiers, and twin headphones jacks with pre-fade listening abilities and variable gain control.
"Both Technics turntables operate smoothly and silently offering visual internal strobes and fast start times," the listing reads. However, while groove optical indicators are fitted, "they require setting up and alignment with the aid of a service manual".
Other than that, it all seems to be working fine.
Obviously such a historic piece commands a high price tag. At time of writing, the highest bid was £2550. But with over nine days to go, you can expect to pay a lot more than that.
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Naomi Dunbar 20th December 2019 AdventureInspire Me
Author: Naomi Dunbar X Montenegro
Looking for a European adventure with a difference? Naomi Dunbar details the best way to spend 72 hours in Montenegro for a weekend filled with adventure like no other…
Sometimes, we just don’t have the annual leave to dedicate to a full-blown adventure. I know, you yearn for the thrill of exploring somewhere new and you spend hours at your desk daydreaming about the possibilities out there. I feel you. Unfortunately, that’s just the way of life for most of us nine to fivers.
So, what can be done to satisfy those itchy feet of ours? How about 72 hours in Montenegro? Okay, hear me out. It might not be a two-week-deep wild escape, but it’ll be somewhere magnificent to keep you ticking over. Tempted?
Montenegro, set with rolling mountains, medieval villages and fine architecture, is a Balkan country nestled within Southeast Europe and on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Home to brown bears, wolves and wildcats, vast national parks and mountain trails, whether you’re an animal lover, passionate hiker or keen cyclist, you’ll be tantalised by the array of life this country can offer you.
It doesn’t matter if you take a long weekend or a quick three days from your precious annual leave, you can fly from London to Montenegro in under three hours and flights are usually a steal if you head to the likes of Skyscanner. In fact, as I’m writing this, it took me about a minute to find a return flight to the capital city of Podgorica in January for £51. Bargain.
But why 72 hours in Montenegro? Well, if you’re a traveller like me (and I’m sure you’ll know this by now) who likes to do their damn best to avoid other tourists, you’ll find Montenegro to be just as beautiful as the likes of Croatia but without the crowds to spoil the view. You’ll also find costs in the country to be a fraction of the price because of this. Ideal.
72 hours in Montenegro: What to do?
So, you’ve booked your flights and you’ve got three days to pump some serious thrill into your veins before you head back to the office on Monday morning. What to do? Luckily, this adventurous haven is simply brimming with activities and sights that’ll get you going. So, your trickiest task will be fitting as much of it into three days as you can. Here are some of my favourite things to do in this magnificent country to give you a head start – good luck.
1. Marvel at the wonders of Lake Skada
Contiguous to Albania and Montenegro, Lake Skadar (also known as Lake Shkodër) is the largest lake in Southern Europe and is named after the city of Shkodër in northern Albania. This freshwater paradise offers a vast range of different highlights – if you’re a sucker for a view with some serious bite, then head to Horseshoe Bend. This dramatic viewpoint meets a natural curve to the lake and its background is a textured tapestry of rich green hills and mountains. Make sure you have your camera ready for this one.
If you’re a bird lover, then you’ll not only be amazed by the lake’s offering of over 280 different bird species, but by some of Europe’s last pelicans – the Dalmatian pelican. Much to my disappointment, this was not a bird resembling the black and white spotted puppies of my childhood, but nonetheless, it’s an impressively big bird. In fact, they are some of the world’s largest freshwater birds. If the pelicans alone aren’t enough to have you fumbling for your binoculars, then the vast number of mallards, herons, eagles and other winged fellas certainly will.
2. A rewarding up-hill ride to Jezerski Vrh
For those who love life on two wheels, a cycle up Montenegro’s spectacular mountain pass, Jezerski Vrh, is one for the adrenaline seekers during an adventure-filled 72 hours in Montenegro. This steep, old road snakes and bends you through tree-lined corners, past butt-clenching cliff edges and is a test on the legs as you peddle to an elevation of 1,660m. You’ll not only be rewarded by the sheer achievement of it, but the soaring 360-degree views that this incredible peak has to offer are pretty slap-you-in-the-face good. If cycling isn’t your bag, then fear not, there are plenty of hiking routes to the top that will give you just as much, if not more, dramatic effect than cycling it does.
3. Hike to Montenegro’s highest peak
If you’re looking for eye-wateringly good views on your whirlwind 72 hours in Montenegro, then you’ll of course want to head to the highest point of the country. Measuring a lovely 2,523m high, Bobotov Kuk is the highest mountain in Montenegro and you can find it nestled within the majesty of Durmitor National Park. This particular national park is truly a sensational sight and offers the kind of drool-inducing scenery that every hiker seeks.
Four trails lead to this summit and they can be combined for different route options, but if you’re looking for a more challenging trail to get your teeth into, then start from Žabljak, passing Crno Jezero (Black Lake) and approach Bobotov Kuk from the northeast. This route will take you around five hours to reach the summit, but boy is it one heck of an exciting journey. The other three trails this peak offers begin from the south and west, all joining together at Zeleni Vir Lake and continuing as one route until they meet up with the Žabljak route on the Velika Privija Pass. All the trails on offer here are well marked out along the way.
The views at the top of Bobotov Kuk are so phenomenal, you’ll find yourself almost lost for words when you reach the top. You’ll feel the sensation of achy feet and strained legs slide away as you stand and marvel at the landscape – framed by dramatic clouds, a sweeping view of grey peaks and craggy rocks touched by an incredible carpet of greenery. After scraping your jaw off of the floor, it’ll make one heck of a spot to dig into your sarnies.
4. Meet the gravity defying Ostrog Monastery
If you like the quirky and interesting, and if you have a head for heights, then I recommend checking out the Ostrog Monastery. I love this place, it’s unlike any religious site I’ve ever visited – it’s built within the rugged body of a sheer cliff face. After the initial eye boggling, it’s fascinating to see how this incredible piece of architecture was crafted and it’s clear to see why it’s one of the most photographed spots in the country.
From afar, the Ostrog Monastery looks like it defies all rules of gravity. Towering 900m above the plains below, you can see the white of this stunning building shining like a beacon against the surrounding dark rock from miles and miles away.
Constructed in 1665 within two large caves, this monastery is the most important pilgrimage site in the country and, without a doubt, is the most dramatic of them all. The site was founded by Saint Basil and is dedicated to him. In fact, it is believed that his remains are still in the monastery to this day and, therefore, many people come to pray as they believe he can cure illnesses or ease the hardships of a difficult life
5. The historic town of Kotor
Set in a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the beautiful historic town of Kotor was once the jewel of the Venetian Empire, so there’s an abundance of fascinating sites to visit. Dine in the charming restaurants of Kotor’s Stari Grad (Old Town), wander quaint medieval streets and marvel at impressive fortifications.
If you’re looking to stretch your legs after all the excitement of history, then head up to St. John’s Hill for sunset. It’s a 500-metre climb to the top, but oh boy, the views are sublime (especially around the time of our good old friend the Golden Hour) and stretch out over the Bay of Kotor.
72 hours in Montenegro: What to eat?
With an array of different foods and drinks to try, you won’t be short on menu choices in Montenegro, but a few firm favourites of mine would be:
Buzara – If you’re heading to the coast and you find yourself partial to a seafood dish, then a bowl of Buzara is going to please that rumbling stomach of yours. With a sauce dubbed as a form of art, this dish is made with white (or sometimes red) wine, onions, tomatoes, herbs and spices, paired with the most deliciously fresh shellfish, prawns and shrimps.
Krempita – Oh boy! If you’re a total foody and dessert lover like me, then make sure you get your chops around a big slice of Krempita. Served in almost every café or cake shop, this dessert is made with thin pastry sandwiching a custard and cream filling of absolute goodness. As you can imagine, it’s a very popular choice amongst locals and visitors alike.
Moussaka – One of my favourite meals, ever. I thoroughly recommend you trying the Moussaka in Montenegro and, with it being a traditional dish, you can absolutely bet that they nail it – every single time. It’s made with potatoes here and is paired with minced beef, tomatoes and a generous amount of cheese. This rich dish is what’s needed after a day of adventure. Marry it up with a local red wine for maximum mouth-watering potential.
Rakija – Widely considered the national drink of Montenegro, Rakija is made out of pretty much any fruit going and has an alcohol content of anywhere from 40-80%. Good times are guaranteed when you’re knocking back this stuff. Not only this, but I like the story behind Rakija. Harvest time is a particularly communal time in Montenegro, and family and friends come together each season to gather the fruits needed to make it.
72 hours in Montenegro: How to get there?
Price-wise, we all know it’s the cheapest to fly from London, and if you don’t live too far away then this is a great option for setting off on your trip to Montenegro. As I said, flights from London to the capital, Podgorica, take just under three hours – so you won’t find the travel time eating away at too much of your adventuring time.
I usually use Skyscanner to find my best flight options, as you can search for the cheapest dates in a specific month, this feature is great if you’re not able to flash the cash around. Sites like Kayak are also a good option and, sometimes, I even head straight to the airlines’ websites such as Easyjet and Ryan Air to see if there are any sneaky sales on.
Car hire is always a good option when time is precious during a shorter trip, so I would recommend doing so if you’re planning on just spending 72 hours in Montenegro. I usually head to the likes of Travel Supermarket or Kayak to find the best deal. And always be vigilant when hiring cars in foreign countries, I always take lots of photos and videos of the car before I sign the contracts and drive away.
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Architects design Sonora House playing with vivid colours and strong geometries in Sonoran Desert
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Different hues of pinks, yellow colors, protruding windows and a perfect combination of solid-void relationships are all mixed in this toy-like private residence in the Sonoran Desert of Mexico.
Envisioned by Moscow-based architect Davit Jilavyan and designer and visualizer Mary Jilavyan, the house - called Sonora House - was commissioned by a Mexican client to design a family residence with a minimal geometry but bold finishes and strong outer visual appearance.
Instead of completely trying to invent new kind of house, the team tried create a harmonious atmosphere for the house that plays with colors, form and punctuated windows. According to the architects, the result is a pastel-colored house but minimalistic in form which can be adapted to the existing landscape.
"We didn’t want to invent something new, we wanted to harmoniously combine the color and shape," said the architects. "We thought that the house should be adapted to the surrounding environment."
Resembling a kid's toy lost in the desert, the irregular system of windows is introduced to take the light from different windows of the rooms as part of the structure. Being a very strong in expressionism, different color paints explode the house at night which save it from its miniature appearance.
While its pitched roof unifying the house, it seems that the house can be arranged in different programs through its verticality. Although the design process of the house were suspended, the architects said: "we were passionate about the idea of this concept, so we completed it."
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World Land Trust ambassadors united in call for action SEARCH NEWS
Simon Barnes, Nicola Davies, Su Ingle and Chris Jenkin called for action to save the destruction of the world’s last wild places, at an event organised by World Land Trust (WLT) in London.
The event, focusing on spreading the word, was designed to inspire WLT supporters, ambassadors and sponsors to help WLT and its work and success become better known.
The four guest speakers were chosen specifically because each of them enjoys finding innovative and creative ways to communicate the WLT message. Simon is a WLT Council member and Nicola, Su and Chris are ambassadors for the Trust. All four of them are passionate advocates for World Land Trust.
As an author and journalist, Simon uses his books and regular columns in The Times to report on endangered species and threatened habitats that are the subject of WLT appeals.
Simon believes that WLT “by being comparatively small and highly transparent is far easier to trust that many much larger organisations.”
“It was suddenly clear that this world is the only world we’ve got – and admittedly we still carried on as if we still had several more to spare…”
(Simon Barnes, writer and WLT Council Member)
In his talk, he described the moment when people began to realise that time is running out: “It was suddenly clear that this world is the only world we’ve got – and admittedly we still carried on as if we still had several more to spare – but even as we do so we are aware of the desperate frailty of our world, and of the need to do something about it.”
Drawing on his experience of foreign travel and in particular his visits to WLT projects, he argued that the WLT approach is the most effective: “So this then is the way forward… being so clever and so deeply involved with the local people that you can use a comparatively small amount of money to bring about a comparatively large miracle.”
Nicola Davies
Children’s book author Nicola Davies described a trip to a WLT project in India to research her children’s book The Elephant Road set in the Garo Hills. The purpose of the visit was to understand better the people of the Garo Hills so that the cultural, economic and emotional roots of the story would “wiggle their way down into the hearts of my readers”.
“The battle for the natural world is by no means lost. Organisations and individuals can take action to save it, bit by bit, tree by tree, plot by plot.”
(Nicola Davies, author and WLT ambassador)
Following the visit Nicola was able to base her book on “drawing from life”, real children and adults living in the way of an elephant migration path. By communicating in the book elements of the culture of the Garo Hills, she hopes that readers will absorb the conservation message on a deeper level and come to appreciate why creating safe elephant corridors is vital for both people and wildlife.
Nicola defined a WLT supporter as someone who “believes that we have the power to protect what remains of the natural world, that we have the power to take action to protect the natural world from the tsunami of threats that are currently facing it.” She stressed the importance of putting across the message that “the battle for the natural world is by no means lost. Organisations and individuals can take action to save it, bit by bit, tree by tree, plot by plot.”
Su Ingle
Television presenter Su Ingle believes that painting virtual pictures is vital to trigger enthusiasm. Simply listing facts and figures such as acres of trees cut down, for example – can be meaningless because they are often impossible to envisage and too much for people to take in. Instead, she suggests, strong, visual descriptions of events and experiences can be much more effective.
“WLT is about taking action before it’s too late, and that’s why we need to spread the word.”
(Su Ingle, presenter and WLT ambassador)
Hearing someone’s reactions when entering a dense rainforest after travelling through acre after acre of desolate monoculture can conjure up powerful images and make people take notice.
Trying to define the importance of a wildlife corridor may be tricky, but talking about a simple rope bridge between trees for an Orang-utan to cross a tributary may be a better way to explain why wildlife corridors are vital for the survival of some species.
“Passion and pictures are the two main ingredients in successful communication. If you’ve got that you’re going to make people care. And when they start to care they want to go and do something.”
And doing something is what WLT wants people to do.
Su called on those present to do their utmost to communicate the message of the Trust in their own words: “WLT is about taking action before it’s too late, and that’s why we need to spread the word.”
Chris Jenkin
Chris Jenkin is Managing Director of WLT’s longest standing corporate sponsor, Enterprise Plants, and uses his business activity to promote the Trust. Where possible, Enterprise Plants finds imaginative ways to donate to World Land Trust, through sales of its orchid planters, for example, or through its orders for Christmas trees.
“Our relationship with WLT has always been about more than just giving money.”
(Chris Jenkin, Managing Director of Enterprise Plants and WLT ambassador)
He believes that WLT understands that commercial support works both ways. “Our relationship with WLT has always been about more than just giving money and we have looked for ways of not only raising funds but also raising the profile and awareness of the Trust’s work.”
This approach has helped raise the profile of Enterprise Plants and set the company apart from the competition in what is a very competitive market. Chris is always happy to pass on WLT information to clients in the hope that they will either donate or at least become WLT aware.
For Chris, one of the highlights of Enterprise Plants’ partnership was working with WLT on the gold medal winning exhibit at Chelsea Flower Show three years ago. More recently, in 2013, Enterprise Plants has also sponsored BBC Magazine’s Camera-Trap Photo of the Year competition in association with WLT.
Without the partnership with WLT, he argues, “we’d certainly be a different company and probably a smaller one. The overall relationship is one that is bigger than the sum of its parts and that is what is important to us. “
Puro Fairtrade Coffee
Also present were Frans Van Tilborg (Managing Director) and Andy Orchard, both from Miko Coffee, WLT supporters through the Puro Fairtrade Coffee brand. The Puro Coffee promotional video was shown during the evening and Frans and Andy answered questions from the audience about the beneficial aspects of Puro’s support for WLT.
The event, entitled Spreading the Word, was held at the Charlotte Street Hotel in London on 16 April 2013.
Both Simon and Nicola donate to WLT the public lending rights in their books via Green Ink. More about Green Ink »
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Watch as anti-fracking protesters stage demo against Team Ineos on Tour de Yorkshire 2019 opening day
Tour de Yorkshire 2019 anti-fracking protesters
Nick Westby
Published: 13:02 Thursday 02 May 2019
Anti-fracking protestors have gathered outside the Team Ineos bus at the startline of the Tour de Yorkshire in Doncaster on Thursday morning.
The cycling team, formerly known as Team Sky, have been taken over by Ineos, the chemicals multinational company involved in fracking in parts of Yorkshire.
Tour de Yorkshire protesters gathered peacefully in Doncaster on Thursday
This is their first race under the Ineos banner and they have been subjected to peaceful protests in Doncaster by around three dozen protestors.
Chris Froome is riding for the team in this week's race.
Anti-fracking protests are expected along the route over the next few days but Froome – for so long the standard-bearer for the dominant Team Sky before they were taken over by Ineos – is concentrating on the cycling.
He said on Wednesday: “There are going to be tens of thousands of people out on the roads, and I’m going to be focused on that positive energy,” said Froome.
“The fact that people are going to be coming out to celebrate sport, to bring their families out for a great day out, those are the things I’m going to be focused on.”
Fracking protestor Cassie Steel said on Thursday morning: "We are opposed to fracking in this area and to cycling's involvement with this company."
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Highway 61 Revisited gets revisited by professors
By Trever McKenzie on 14 Nov 2018
Bob Dylan’s 1965 album receives original reactions from a response project
Photo courtesy of Amazon | Bob Dylan’s 1965 album will be responded to in the form of nine original compositions and films as a part of “Something is Happening Here.”
When Dr. Graley Herren, chair of the English department, was invited to participate in a panel about Bob Dylan, he was ecstatic.
“I have Tyrone Williams to blame,” Herren said. “He, somehow, I still don’t know how, but because he’s way artsier than I am, swims in different circles. And he knows or met Brianna Matsky… She contacted me, and it took me as quickly as I could type out, ‘Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.’ I agreed because I will go anywhere, anytime, to talk about Bob Dylan because there’s no subject that interests me more.”
The panel, which was held in the Blackbox Theater of the Contemporary Arts Center on Nov. 7, was the opening act of “Something is Happening Here,” a response project curated by Matsky, a professor at Wilmington College. The project was built around inviting 12 different composers to create original piano pieces responding to Dylan’s 1965 album, Highway 61 Revisited, though it has grown to also include nine filmmakers and six interdisciplinary artists.
As the crowd of only thirteen people gathered, Herren leaned back in his chair, allowing his Triumph Motorcycle t-shirt to be exposed — the same shirt that Dylan is wearing on the album cover, which Herren told Michael Fiday, one of the other panelists, he had ordered online shortly before.
The panel was composed of Yemi Oyediran, a musician and historian currently working on a documentary about King Records, Fiday, a professor of composition at the University of Cincinnati, and Herren, and was hosted by Matsky.
The panel was opened with Matsky giving a short recap of why she had chosen this album in particular to respond to. She hails from Minnesota, a few towns away from where Dylan grew up as Robert Zimmerman, and said that she had decided on Highway 61 Revisited because of two reasons: Dylan went electric and wasn’t explicitly political, and she had a personal connection to it because of her hometown and she had been given a copy of it by a boyfriend when she was younger.
The panel opened with Oyediran speaking about the sound scape that Dylan created, and eventually evolved into him claiming that Dylan essentially created punk rock with this record because of the subversive political attempt he made to communicate with sound, rather than lyrics. This claim was Herren’s highlight of the night.
“Though I was fascinated by what Michael and Brianna had to say, I also just don’t have the vocabulary to follow everything they were talking about in terms of chord progressions and notes,” Herren said. “Whereas Yemi’s area of expertise was not so far afield with things I was familiar with, I could understand more of what he was saying and apply it usefully to my little niche of Dylan studies.”
Overall, Herren believed the night to be a rousing success because of the different perspectives of all the different panelists.
“I liked (the panel) a lot,” Herren said, “and I learned a lot because… analyzing words is my specialty. And so, even though I’m aware that a song is more than just words on a page, much more, it’s performance art, it’s music, it’s variations in vocal delivery… But all the lyrical stuff is what I tend to focus on, whereas the panelists came from different perspectives.”
The response project will continue at 7 p.m. on Thursday and Friday evening at the Woodward Theater with the premiers of the nine original compositions and films. Thursday night will focus on the A-side of the album, while Friday will be the B-side. Tickets are available on a sliding scale here.
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A Xavier Students for Life (XS4L) event was met with demonstrations Tuesday evening as Students for Life America (S4LA) President Kristan Hawkins was set to speak. The free event was open to the public and part of Hawkins’ “Make Abortion Illegal Again” speaking tour. The demonstrations were organized by Xavier College Democrats, and consisted of approximately 40 students. Story by Mo Jeunger & Joseph Cotton Read the full story online and in the 16 October issue of the Newswire.
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From April 24, 2019, taxpayers with long-due liabilities and pending criminal cases are enjoying the benefits of the tax amnesty on delinquencies, except the vetoed general amnesty provision due to lack of safeguards.
Republic Act (RA) No. 11213 or the Tax Amnesty Act of 2019 was signed by President Duterte last February 14, but the chief executive vetoed the general tax amnesty provision covering those who failed to pay correct taxes in 2017 and prior years. This decision rooted from pointing out the lifting of bank secrecy for tax purposes as well as automatic exchange of information in order to strengthen enforcement against tax evasion. The said general amnesty was supposed to cover all unpaid internal revenue taxes, except customs and import duties.
The law will cover all national taxes—capital gains tax, documentary stamp tax, donor’s tax, excise tax, income tax, percentage tax, value-added tax (VAT), and withholding tax—for the taxable years 2017 and previous years.
The new law’s set of guidelines, Revenue Regulations (RR) 4-2019 dated April 5, signed by Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III and Internal Revenue Commissioner Caesar R. Dulay, was published in a newspaper of general circulation Tuesday; as such, it will take effect fifteen (15) days later or on April 24.
According to the guidelines of this act, all persons, whether natural or juridical, with internal revenue tax liabilities covering taxable year 2017 and prior years, may avail of Tax Amnesty of Delinquencies within one (1) year from the effectivity of the Regulations, under any of the following instances:
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We're a little surprised to hear that The Killers have already been asked to do the next Bond theme.
Surely they'd wait until the film had been, you know, scripted at least?
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Girls Aloud at the dispatch box
As a spot of Christmas frippery, the New Statesman have spent some time seeking Girls Aloud for their political views.
Yes, it does turn out to be as much of an oxymoron as you'd expect:
"There should be adverts in the breaks during Coronation Street spelling it out in bullet points: This is what the Conservatives stand for. This is what Labour stands for," says Cheryl.
"You know that basically Labour is the working-class and the Conservatives are the really kind of upper-class, and then everything else is... I have no idea. I only vote Labour because me mam does."
Bandmate Nicola Roberts agrees that politics are a big turn-off for teenagers: "I know there are programmes on late at night when they have debates and stuff. But young people are not going to choose to watch them. It's boring.
"No 18-year-old wants to watch Gordon Brown doing his whole speech - turn it over!"
Is it just us, or is that ever-so-slightly about all 18 year-olds?
Sarah Harding chips in: "We need to make politics more user-friendly. It just isn't talked about in normal magazines and newspapers. We never get asked who we'd vote for. It could be a general question in an interview, but it isn't."
"Normal" magazines being, presumably, the sort that Girls Aloud feature in. You might wonder, though, what would be the point of asking a political question of a band who are so ignorant of the world that they want it boiled down into a bullet-pointed thirty seconds in the break of Corrie?
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Putting the screws on Yoko
Police have apparently foiled an attempt to blackmail Yoko Ono by her driver.
Koral Karsan apparently demanded two million bucks, or he was going to send photos of Yoko in her nightwear to the press.
Never mind trying to get cash out of her, if the threat is "give me money or see Yoko in her jimjams", we'd happily put in a few quid.
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Gene Simmons: career master
Gene Simmons reckons that if he and Mick Jagger hadn't made it in the charts, they'd both be caught in humdrum work:
The Channel 4 Rock School presenter added: "They'd probably now be asking you if you want fries with that.
"That includes Jagger and myself.
"Classical musicians are real musicians, the rest of us are lazy entertainers who never took time to learn how to play our instruments properly and can't read or write music."
You, Gene, might have been heading for a life behind the fryers, but Jagger? He went to the LSE on a scholarship and was taking a degree in accountancy. His music career wasn't to flee a life of hardship and poverty, it was to try and escape a middle-class future.
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Mariah Carey leaving humps in the snow
In a bid to try and show what's at risk if Mariah Carey can't protect her image and stop the public confusing her with a glamour model, Mariah has been sharing her idea of a special, family Christmas:
“I like to get out of the hot tub and roll in the snow,” she told Aspen magazine.
“Somebody told me that it was a tradition in Aspen, but maybe they were lying to me.”
She continued: “It’s a tradition for us to have Santa Claus-looking bikinis, jump in the hot tub, and roll in the fresh snow.”
Well, at least there's an upside to global warming then.
By "Santa Claus-looking" we presume she means "red", by the way.
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Pssst... wanna buy tickets to the Diana gig?
We're a little confused by eBay's statement as they attempted to block sales of tickets to see the Lovely Lovely Lady Diana Spencer Big Gig on their site:
A spokesman for eBay said: "In view of the unique and commemorative nature of the Concert for Diana event and as a mark of respect for the memory of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, eBay has decided to not allow the re-sale of tickets to this event on the site."
Eh? What sort of line is this? Back during the run-up to Glastonbury 2005, eBay pointed out there was nothing illegal about selling tickets online, and allowed auctions to go ahead. They did, however, put the cosh on Live8 tickets - presumably because that was "unique", like the Diana Concert is unique in, erm, exactly the same way.
Seriously, this gig isn't unique - it's a charity gig with a royal name attached, so on a par with the Princes Trust one or that thing where Brian May played on the roof of Buckingham Palace. And, well, yes, it might be commemorative, but then so were, say Diana memorial stamps, but eBay doesn't block sales of them.
What they mean, of course, is more "because, like eBay, people will kick up a stink over this one, we're trying our hardest to stop sales in a way that won't create a precedent."
Still, Arcade Fire were looking for a way to stop their tickets being sold by eBay - all they need to do is say the gig is in memory of, say, Peter Boyle and eBay will surely have no choice but to remove sales of entry to this "unique and commemorative event".
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iTunes nosedive?
Can it really be true that iTunes sales dropped 65% year-on-year?
Possibly. Apple deny the figures, which have come from Forrester Research.
Forrester's claim is, in effect, a stab in the dark based on some rather vague figures:
Forrester said it got its figures by analysing 2,791 US iTunes debit and credit card purchases conducted by members of its consumer panel.
Apple claim to have sold one and a half billion tunes. We make that a sample of 0.0002% of all sales, which gives us the feeling this is somewhere between an semi-educated guess and a random suggestion.
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Folding His Magazine
Just in passing: The American edition of FHM is to close. It was the biggest-selling of all 30 regional versions of the magazine, but was trading at a loss.
Bad news for popstar wannabes who have only their belly-buttons to offer by way of entertainment.
Rocksicklist: The Horrors
No noise tonight from the Horrors: Faris Rotter has lost his voice. They've pulled the Newcastle date of their tour - depending on your viewpoint, it's either lucky or otherwise that it was supposed to be the end of their dates.
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Global warming? No problem
Showing the clear grasp of complex facts that makes him the greatest Prime Minister this nation never had, Noel Gallagher turns his attention to ecology:
“Greens are fucking hippies with no place in the world.
How do you suggest we get millions of Chinese not to have a fridge? Or get millions of Americans to stop using their big, stupid cars?”
He's right. Let's all give up now, shall we? But what of the future generations?
“Kids adapt. Our parents are horrified about the society we built for ourselves – drugs and sex and drink and rock ‘n’ roll and television."
Ah, that's it then. The inundation of low-laying land, the failure of global agriculture, millions of people starving, the methane frozen in the seas being released and raining fire down upon us all is akin to the introduction of jukeboxes.
Thank god we have Noel to put it all into context.
[Thanks to Gary White for the link]
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Beyonce denies B-Day claims
Beyonce is having to take action to try and stare-down a potentially career-destroying rumour:
That she's actually over 30.
Heavens, imagine that: almost as old as dinosaurs. She insists she's actually twenty-five, and that's that.
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Kanye jumped by Evel Knievel
The continuing misery of Kanye West: Kanye's clunking Evel Kanyevel visual pun in the video for Touch The Sky has landed him with a grumpy lawsuit from Evel Knievel, who is claiming breach of copyright:
Knievel has filed a suit in the US District Court, for "illegally using and tainting his image with vulgar, sexually and racially-charged content."
Kanye's co-opting of the Knievel image broke Evel's heart; ironically, it was the only part of Evel's body he hadn't broken for himself doing a job which seemed to revolve around trying to get himself injured.
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Gwen snatches back hope from hapless ex-bandmates
Last month, it was good news for theotheronesfrom No Doubt, as Gwen Stefani held out the prospect of a reunion, soon.
Now, the band's hopeful flicking through the Swiss Colony catalogue, dreaming that maybe this Christmas they might have a ham instead of a can of sardines, has been stayed. She's changed her mind and it's receding into the distant future:
"I see it on the horizon, but I'm not focusing on it. Life is going by way too quick," she told Billboard.com. "I can't really put a timetable on it, but I think it would be really great. Nothing can compare to the energy of the four of us onstage."
Well, certainly your solo sets don't.
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Another record shop closes...
To be honest, we didn't even know that Nick Hornby's High Fidelity had been turned into a Broadway musical.
Neither, it seems, did anyone else.
It's closing after 18 performances and houses more than half-empty.
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A grand does come for free after all
Mike Skinner is celebrating a modest casino win and not being killed by polonium poisoning (don't ask us) by offering a faasand paaands (USD2000) for anyone who can tell him what the new Mitchell Brothers single is about:
“After a long day last Thursday talking to the Mitchells about their new song, it was The Beats’ Christmas dinner. I decided to have it at a casino when I saw the James Bond film.
“So Magic Mike was saying he would take it easy but, as each beer flowed, he seemed to be taking on strange powers.
“He’s not just a pretty sound engineer, he had this thing that he called ‘the vibe’ and by the time he was hammered he was always right.
“Then I got into an argument with one of the bankers who thought I’d been stealing from this Russian dude, which I thought might escalate into me getting polonium in my drink, but the security cameras were on my side. Anyway, I walked away with £1,025 cash (I woke up with £1,020 due to a lady taking £5 on the way out to work).”
So, that clears that up, then.
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No mention of Stay by the Wedding Present, we note
What, you probably weren't wondering, is the best song to play during sex?
We can't help wondering how badly your sexual technique must be if, not only can you fit it into the length of a three minute pop single, but you're also aware of what's playing on the CD player while you're doing it.
Anyway, some website company have collated a list of the "most arousing songs", mp3s of which we fully expect to be turning up for sale alongside "blue pills" in your inbox round about now:
1. Marvin Gaye Sexual Healing
2. U2 With Or Without You
3. Barry White My First My Last My Everything
4. Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin Je T'aime
5. Chris Isaac Wicked Game
6. Al Green Let's Stay Together
7. Phylis Nelson Move Closer
8. INXS I Need You Tonight
9. Madonna Justify My Love
10. Kylie Minogue Slow
11. Justin Timberlake Sexyback
12. Massive Attack Teardrop
13. Portishead Glorybox
14. Jimi Hendrix Foxy Lady
15. Goldfrapp Number 1
Now, we don't really want to even dignify this with any sort of response which suggests we should treat this as if it's some scientific research, but... does anyone really think "uh-oh... I'm moistening" when they hear that Marvin has a love that's like an oven, or has this just been put at the top because it's a song that's about the sex?
And, while we think With Or Without You is one of U2's better moments, does its cold bleakness really do it for anyone other than Bono?
And Sexyback? Really? Has anyone who fell for Timberlake's Action Man no-groin sexual simulacrum actually been through puberty yet?
Or is this just a list of songs which come up when you type "sex + music" into Google?
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O leaker says "sorry"
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs were apparently less than delighted at the leak of Karen O's bedroom demos onto the internet, emailing the leaker to remonstrate. M - who is full of remorse - told Stereogum:
This afternoon, the band emailed me via MySpace with the simple message, "What the fuck were you thinking?" And now I feel completely shitty. Because I wasn't thinking. I wanted to share this rarity, but it wasn't mine to share. This stuff wasn't supposed
to be released; just because I stumbled onto it didn't mean I had the authority to do so.
I'm glad most people are appreciative of the files, but I feel like a total dick.
That was, of course, before they would have read Dave Sitek's response:
WHAT MOTIVATES YOU ?
as far as i can see , you havent turned a profit , and i (the person you did NOT return something dear to ) feel the same as i always have about you. you are a tired and confused animal who has no grasp on consequences ( i coincidentally feel that way about ALL of our species since we have outlived our usefullness (1970) ) You gained NOTHING ... unless you and those around you who "over look " these thoughtless acts get a betray-o-rection for swiping at someones belongings and making them public .... but even still.... that boner will go down... your "hard cock idea" will go soft whe you realise that you never got any credit.... never got any money .... never got to highfive someone pretty in the sun for this ... it will probably be RIGHT around the time you are getting what you deserved for this . all you got was what you just gave me as i read about it. a heartsickening murmur and an INSISTANCE that we are dumb animals with no purpose and too much free time. we will continue to go to wars , we will die of disease , we will kill our children , we will shame our parents , we will steal from our family, we will poison the land that gives us life , we will deny the existence of the godly, and we will become extinct ... this will not help you in the least in your quest to become immortal...
Hold on there, Dave... it's a few demos which have leaked out onto the web - it's hardly on a par with biting the apple on the tree of knowledge, or sending cossacks to their death.
What's slightly disappointing, though, is Dave's supposition that there must have been a motivation to M's actions. That it didn't occur to him that M might have heard the songs, and liked them, and wanted to share them.
M shouldn't have posted them; they weren't theirs to post. But let's not go so over the top with the reactions, shall we? Some music has got to wider audience, and made some people happy. It's not quite a station of the cross on the way to Armageddon.
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While it's difficult to feel too sorry for Virgin and HMV as they struggle to try and find a role in the future, the plight of independent record shops is heartbreaking. Even the best of them are starting to struggle: Spillers Records in Cardiff, believed to be the oldest record shop still in business, is being threatened by increased rent demands from their landlords.
The rent is being ratcheted up because the opening of two soulless shopping centres have suddenly made Spillers' location desirable, and as a thank you to the store for having kept faith with the location for over 100 years, they're being given the bum's rush.
The Manic Street Preachers are just the top of a very outraged tree:
"Spillers was a lifeline, it gave us our musical education. The only record shop in Wales where we could find the music that made us who we are."
Petitions are being run up in a bid to stop the landlords from wrecking something important and valuable in Welsh musical heritage.
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Courtney without a blemish on her character
Courtney Love has been spat out of the court system a changed woman, Judge Rand Rubin has decided.
He's ended her probation early, telling her she's done very well:
"Early on in this case, Ms Love, I think you came very close to coming into custody.
"I think you've done very well. You've shown to me you are interested in a much less destructive lifestyle."
Excellent news. Well done Courtney for... hang on, what's this?
Courtney has a few words for Steve Coogan:
"I've kept journals of every single thing, every single person I've ever slept with. Steve Coogan needs to lose the naughty fucking altar boy routine. When I was with him, he passed the line of what even I thought was normal. He has an intense sex addiction. He never wanted to stop. If he's given me anything, I swear to God I'd cut his dick off!"
Thank God she's left that destructive behaviour in the past, eh?
[Thanks to Michael M for the Coogan link]
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It's what she would have wanted
The giant, creaking event around which pop is destined to spin next year has been confirmed: William and Harry Windsor are throwing a massive party to celebrate ten years since their mother died. (Can that be right?)
The Princes explain:
Prince William said: "We both wanted to put our stamp on it. We want it to represent exactly what our mother would have wanted.
"So therefore the church service alone isn't enough. We wanted to have this big concert full of energy, full of the sort of fun and happiness, which I know she would have wanted.
"And on her birthday as well, it's got to be the best birthday present she ever had."
Perhaps, although if someone gave us a Joss Stone gig we'd be gently probing to find which store we could return it to for a credit note.
We, obviously, didn't know Diana as well as her sons, but from what we saw of her last couple of years she was less all about the "fun and happiness" and more about screwing the Royal Family at every available opportunity, which would make her ideal birthday present less an Elton John gig, and probably something more like having Camilla dragged through the streets of Windsor with a bright red A scratched on her breast while Charles is made to wear a pointy hat as people throw rotting vegetation at him.
Still, we're not organising it, are we?
Who's in, besides Joss Stone? Well, there's Elton, of course:
"I applaud Princes William and Harry for choosing to honour their mother with this concert. I am absolutely thrilled to be performing at this great event.
"Diana was a personal friend and someone I greatly admired for her tireless and enthusiastic work for charity."
Close personal friend, lot of good work for charity - he's not getting her muddled up with DLT, is he?
Duran Duran have signed on:
Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran added: "The concert next summer seems an entirely fitting way to celebrate her life and her work.
"We are honoured that she always referred to Duran Duran as her favourite band as she was certainly our favourite princess."
Pharrell Williams is also on board - Diana often mentioned how much she was going to like his work, she expected. And there's some ballet there, too. Because she wasn't just a teenybopper, of course. Andrew Lloyd Webber has been promised.
Tickets will cost forty-five quid (or more on eBay) and the funds raised will be shared amongst organisations Diana supported during her life. And not, oddly, to the Diana Memorial Fund to help make up some the cash it pissed away trying to sue the Franklin Mint.
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Saving McGowan from himself
Some hotels will pop extras in the rooms of their regular customers.
Not if the guest is Shane McGowan, though. To save him time at check-out, anything breakable is being taken out of his room in the Malmaison, as last time it took quite a while to tot up the cost of damage he'd done.
Forewarned is forearmed, and so on.
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Robbie Williams is not in possession of a soul
Basement Jaxx supported Robbie Williams on his tour this year. They weren't impressed with the circus they joined:
Felix said: "I wouldn't want to repeat that experience. We didn't hang out with him. He tried to be down to earth but I think sometimes he probably wonders what he's doing.
"It's a big money-making corporate machine. Fans pay a lot of money to get to the gig then they get there and the programme costs £12 for a few pages, then there's the Robbie ring tones and Robbie everything.
"It's milking money at every point."
Simon added: "There are adverts on the big screens. It's like an all day event with people arriving from 2pm with five bands before he comes on.
"We had different screens from the ones Robbie used and on his there was adverts for Orange phones and BMW.
"The thing is he's doing very well, he's very popular, but it's mass entertainment and it just felt a bit soulless."
We're not even sure about the "entertainment" bit - it's a little like the Grand National; everyone watches it, but very few have any idea if what they've seen was a good horsereace or not; there's nothing for them to compare it with apart from the other Grand Nationals they've seen.
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...very big house in the country...
Normally, radio presenters buy a farm and move out to the country. Alex James, on the other hand, has moved to the country and become a radio presenter.
James is going to guest on Radio 4's On Your Land. Radio 4 seem to realise this might be as popular as Oliver Stirling offering advice on warble fly to Phil and David:
Radio 4’s Steve Peacock said: “I would anticipate there are plenty of farmers who would sneer at being told about their living by a guy from Blur.
“But when they get to know him, they’ll realise he’s keen on the life and really getting a grip on it.”
"I do so love harvest, when it's traditional for young men to toil, shirts off, under a setting sun. Livestock? I make my llamas wear nappies; it does so save one's Hush Puppies when the fields aren't full of poop. Next year, my priority is to replace the top field with some astroturf. Much, much more durable, and when you have a champagne picnic with Dave Gilmour and Shaun Ryder, you'll find it's less likely to give you grass stains on your derrière, and isn't keeping our bottoms free of unwelcome staining the very essence of agriculture? Erm ... will this do?"
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Serge comes to the aid of his chum
Ooh, there's a right old playground scrap brewing. Elton John was rude (but accurate) on the question of Noel Gallagher ("“an absolute twat who looks like Parker from Thunderbirds), Noel's chum in plodrock isn't 'avin any of that, la:
“Elton’s just a fat man in a tracksuit. Whereas anything that comes out of Noel’s mouth is absolute genius.
“Noel is the last man you want to start with. He’s so quick he can destroy anyone. Elton John needs to watch out.”
Yes, who would want to get locked in a battle of words with Noel Gallagher. Gallagher is famed for his rapier-like wit, albeit a rapier which he never takes out its case, choosing to use the dull end of the box it comes in to beat his targets repeatedly over the head.
It's true that Elton has elevated comfort above style when choosing daywear, and - like many of us - shows the signs of over-enthusiasm when the sweet trolley comes round. But he's also the man who recorded Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Rocket Man and Philadelphia Freedom; he also still listens to and absorbs music which has led him to take more risks in the last few years. Sure, he might have dubious taste in friends, and enjoy the company of the gliterrati a little too much.
But, seriously: a choice between Elton or Noel. You're not going to be going with Noel, are you?
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Monkeys "advertising" rule scuppers charity
Curious news from the Arctic Monkeys world: having agreed to do the Buena Vista style makeover of one of their tracks for a charity album against global warming, the band have apparently flown into a squawking rage that the track is being used in a video to promote the album:
[The Daily Mirror's] source tells us: "The Monkeys were initially very excited about the project as it's for such a good cause. The charity sent them a copy of the video for approval and presumed everything was OK.
"But once it was shown briefly on GMTV, all hell broke loose as the Monkeys' people consider it 'advertising'."
This doesn't make any sense - presumably the band believe in the cause, otherwise they wouldn't have donated the track; and they must have understood they were being asked to take part because their namehttp://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1930103 would be used to sell more records and so raise cash and awareness for the Artists' Project Earth project. So would the band really be that outraged at the organisation attempting to do just that?
After all, a band who turn up to pick up a cheque written by a Building Society at a sponsored "best album" event can't really have too many qualms at getting their hands dirty with a spot of commerce, can they?
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Kicking downwards
America being America, everything can usually - with a little legal intervention - be proven to be someone else's fault.
So, Catherine Lewan is launching a class action suit. She was sued by the RIAA, and she's blaming, well, Kazaa:
Accoridng to Lewan's filing, Kazaa deceptively marketed its product as allowing "free downloads", designed the software in such a manner as to create a shared files folder and make that folder available to anyone using Kazaa, while at the same time failing to make the user aware that it had done so and, surreptitiously installed "spyware" on users' computers which made the shared files folder accessible to the Kazaa network even after the user had removed the Kazaa software from his or her computer.
Kazaa's parent company has settled its legal battle with the RIAA; doubtless at the moment they're sitting with their legal team trying to see if they can sue Bill Gates. It must, after all, be his fault they're in this mess; him and his damn computers.
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Arcade Fire try to burn touts
Having seen the tickets from their London residency smash onto eBay, Arcade Fire are grumpy as hell:
"Due to the overwhelming demand for The Arcade Fire London shows, we would like to advise fans that we will be releasing some tickets for sale prior to doors opening for each London show."
"There will also be extra shows announced soon giving more people the opportunity to see the band perform. Please don't encourage the touts."
"Wherever we have email addresses and ticket numbers for sellers we will cancel the tickets and put them back up for sale on show day."
"Please don't buy from them and risk your tickets being cancelled."
We're not sure the promise of more tickets on the door is going to stop people searching eBay for tickets - after all, if you're willing to pay eBay prices, would you necessarily think "no, I'll take my chances in the queue on the night instead"?
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Doherty, death and the dance of doubt
The police are still fairly certain that they're not treating the death of Mark Blanco as anything more than a tragic accident, and the row he had with Pete Doherty shortly before he died as nothing more than a tragic coincidence.
But the more reports and rumours which appear, the murkier the story seems. For while there's no evidence that anything amiss has taken place, Doherty's reaction hasn't exactly reflected well upon him.
The Guardian spoke to one party-goer who claimed that Doherty had seen Blanco, on the pavement, but still hadn't bothered to wait for police or ambulance to show up:
Doherty left for another party before the ambulance arrived. "He came out of the house and was clearly very concerned. He came and stooped down next to me. I was saying to Peter 'it's okay, it's alright'," said the woman. "Peter went 'it's not fucking okay; it's not alright' and was clearly very distressed.
"It seems that it's a very tragic accident," she added. "I'm sure that from the inquest they will be able to tell us what's happened, and I trust they will be right."
The family of the dead man seem less sure of that:
The family of Blanco, a Cambridge graduate, are understood to be frustrated at the police's apparent failure so far to question all potential witnesses, and a refusal to go beyond describing the death as "unexplained". In a statement, friends described the actor, cast in the lead of Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist, as a "solid, intelligent and loving man". They added: "We absolutely do not believe that Mark committed suicide, or that his death was a simple accident."
In yesterday's Mail On Sunday, Johnny Headlock, Doherty's "unofficial minder", gave an interview putting what's so far the closest thing to an official line:
Headlock says he cannot remember how 30-year-old Blanco's body was discovered.
'I remember someone saying, "Mark's had an accident",' he said. 'We came down and there he was on the floor and the girls were checking him. I assumed he walked down and he just fell over because there was no blood anywhere. I thought he was drunk and he just slipped and fell on the floor.
'Mark could have fallen over the balcony, 'cos the balcony's not that high. But he didn't look that bad. No one actually knew he'd fallen over the balcony. No one saw it. How do we know?'
Headlock says he can't explain Blanco's death. He does, however, confirm that hard drugs were available at the flat. He says Roundhill had been taking crack and admits taking cocaine himself.
Nobody, of course, has any real idea what happened, or how Mark died - hopefully the inquest will shed some light on events.
But this is already shaping up to be Pete Doherty's Stuart Lubbock moment - by taking his usual half-arsed approach to the accident, he's managed to leave himself in the shadow of a perpetual question mark. It's not so much the question of how Blanco died: it's more the question of what sort of man sees a friend dying in the street, and heads off to another party?
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Priscillas pressie
It's that most wonderful time of the year - the time when people slip something into your ripped fishnet stockings.
The all-too-lovely Priscillas are thanking everyone for their support this year with a free downloadable Christmas single thingy. It's there to be plucked from their MySpace pages. So, every time you download it, Rupert Murdoch's profits take a tiny hit. Gift that keeps on giving.
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Cod science is overfished
We're sceptical about how much science has actually gone into the discovery of the saddest song ever, because while Dr Harry Witchel, an expert in physiology and music, is doubtless a fine man, he's carried out his investigations at the behest of a mobile phone manufacturer to help push the idea that your telephone can function as a record player.
His findings?
Sad tunes lowered heart rate, happy ones rekindled good memories and made test subjects sigh and exhilarating ones made them breathe heavier.
Happy songs remind you of happy times. Whoever would have thought?
Mind you, Witchel claims that Lily Allen's LDN is the "happiest song" of all time - because, after all, who wouldn't have a little smile to themselves hearing of a crack whore and her pimp and an old lady having her wedding ring stolen?
The most "exhilarating" song is Blur's Song 2 - here, we imagine, the well-known Hoffmeister Correlation was brought into play, which states "the more times a song is used to flog dodgy beer or rubbish films, the more exhilarating that song will be."
And the top ten sad songs?
1 The Drugs Don’t Work — The Verve
2 Angels — Robbie Williams
3 Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word — Elton John
4 I Will Always Love You — Whitney Houston
5 Nothing Compares 2 U — Sinead O’Connor
6 Leave Right Now — Will Young
7 Are You Lonesome Tonight? — Elvis Presley
8 Beautiful — Christina Aguilera
9 Goodbye My Lover — James Blunt
10 Fake Plastic Trees — Radiohead
But isn't Beautiful meant to be empowering rather than sad? And how can you have a list like this without Gloomy Sunday on it? Or any Joy Division?
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"Our outrage goes up to 11"
It is, perhaps, one of the less-popular tracks when labels are compiling their Christmas compilation CDs, but Christmas With The Devil seemed just the ticket for the BBC to use as a bed for their "compilation of festive villains" trailer. After all, everyone enjoys a bit of Spinal Tap, don't they?
Not quite. The sort of Christians who manage to give a two-thousand year-old religion a bad name have missed the point entirely, and have kicked up one of their "look at us, with our wounded pride" calling the song "Satanic":
Canon Peter Howell-Jones, of Birmingham Cathedral, said: “It’s in very bad taste. I’ve enough to do without having to defend God from things like this.” Retired Rev Betty Stephenson added: “It’s disgusting, diabolical.”
She said the Devil — also called Beelzebub — “always works quietly in the background” and mentioning him demeaned the “true meaning of Christmas”.
The Devil is working quietly in the background making trails for BBC One? I find that very hard to believe. Writing the puns they use in Homes Under The Hammer, maybe. Constantly reminding Trevor McDonald of the deal they did (for why else would McDonald repeatedly turn up to demean himself on Tonight, twice a week, for all eternity?), for sure. Scheduling Channel Five, unquestionably. But working doing the trailers?
The BBC have elected to take the line of least resistance and re-record the trailer (clearly, the devil must have taken an attachment to the sports department, tallying the results of Sports Personality of the Year), thereby freeing up Canon Peter Howell-Jones to concentrate on all those other things he has to do now he no longer has to defend God, the deity, from a thirty second snatch of music from a spoof film about a made-up rock group being used on a short advert to promote a special episode of Doctor Who.
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Liam Gallagher discovers metaphor; similes taken into hiding as a precaution
Liam Gallagher thinks he's the luckiest kitten in the golden litter:
“I’m the geezer with the champagne getting Man Of The Match. I think we all know that.
“I’m the one who scores in the last minute. NOEL’s the defender who drives it and that. You do the work and I’ll just have a laugh and look good.”
Maybe, Liam, although looking at it, Noel's more the player-manager who seems to be giving you less and less time on the pitch as the season progresses. And while you might win the odd man of the match award, is that really going to make up for the way your team, once Premiership contenders, is sliding down the table and relying on the support of old men who refuse to accept the glory days are over? Is it really so great to be the most flamboyant member of the QPR squad?
Still, at least Liam has finally come clean about the low horizons Oasis suffer from:
“A lot of people like lots of music. I don’t. I think that’s ignorant.
“It’s like having loads of girlfriends. I don’t like lots of styles of music, I just like rock ’n’ roll.”
This isn't much of a surprise - if you've ever heard two Oasis records, you'd have spotted that - but for someone to think that his blinkered, white-bread-and-marge only approach is, in some way, clever and noble almost makes you feel sorry for him.
“I want Oasis to be bigger. I want to make great records that people love. I think there’s a special one round the corner.”
Yes, there certainly is. Unfortunately, it's a corner you've already gone round over ten years ago.
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Kate Bush needs canal douche
The recent unlikely weather has caused all sorts of headaches - not least for Kate Bush, whose weir has collapsed, blocking off part of a canal. Bush is going to have to ensure the silted-up waterway is cleared , which could cost her upwards of a hundred grand.
Or she could just offer to recreate the Babooshaka video on the bank while people dig. We're sure that would summon a large enough team of volunteers.
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Victoria Beckham suggests denim men didn't try too hard
Nobody plays Victoria Beckham for an idiot.
Oh, alright then.
But if the mutterings coming from her legal team are correct, she believes that Rock & Republic have been shortpaying her share of profits from the jean range she signed off ("designed") for them.
Victoria has already pocketed half a million quid, but is starting to think that she should have got more - although she doesn't think anyone set out to diddle her, apparently. Surely half a million quid for some - literally - butt-ugly jeans must be a more than generous return, considering even corpses refused to wear them on the grounds that "you can buy ugly jeans from Wal-Mart for a tenth of the price."
Another corpse said she wouldn't be seen dead in the jeans because "although I like the faded look, I want the denim to be faded rather than the career of the supposed designer". Which isn't much of a joke, but isn't bad for someone who died in 1963.
Rock and Republic think the whole thing is "ridiculous" - although so was signing up Beckham to the deal in the first place, but that didn't stop it happening - and insist they owe her nothing. Nothing, nothing at all.
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Krall: it's twins
Allowing himself a wry smile and maybe a small glass of something festive this morning will be Elvis Costello, whose partner Diana Krall has given birth to twins.
They're two boys, which means there's every chance they could take over from the Chuckle Brothers when the to-me, to-you pair eventually retire.
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Being Sunday, we must again collect the week on No Rock and Roll Fun.
The ten most-looked at individual news stories were:
1. Does KT Tunstall like girls?
2. Heather Mills porno past
3. Heather Mills naked present
4. McFly remove their trousers
5. Kooks "leaked email" turns out, disappointingly, to be just an amusing review
6. Bono wishes U2 were called something else
7. Grammy nominations list in full
8. Pete Doherty rows with man; man dies shortly afterwards
9. Amy Lee admits Evanessence albums were a bit samey
10. North Korea braces for iPod shortage
You can slurp the week in one page, or
skim the previous week in one post.
We've started our annual round-up of best of lists. It's the most statistical time of the year.
And we hinted you might like to expand your collections with some of these:
Tidying up Hefner's posthumous remains - the BBC sessions
Lee Hazelwood poses the Izzard question: Cake or death?
One of the more complete "memorial" Desmond Dekker collections
Kat Vipers: if you call her spiky one more time, she'll shove her heels up your ass, you know
We're not sure there is a present-buying problem to which "DVD of the Sultans of Ping reunion gig" is the solution
Einsturzende Neubaten live DVD. Best switch the home theatre sound off.
Collection of some of the best blogging moments of the year, drawn from a range of writers including (cough, cough) this one
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Companies may think they are ready for GDPR, but their employees are not
While EU organizations have been scrambling to meet the GDPR deadline, more than half their employees are not ready, according to a UK survey from Egress Software Technologies....
By Jack Schofield for Jack's Blog | May 22, 2018 -- 15:34 GMT (08:34 PDT) | Topic: Security
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) comes into forces this week - on May 25 - but 57 percent of employees still don't know what they are supposed to do to protect personal data, according to a OnePoll survey of 1,000 employees undertaken for London-based Egress Software Technologies.
Tony Pepper, Egress CEO
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Tony Pepper, Egress's CEO, said in a statement: "Over the past two years, GDPR has been effective in pushing data protection up the boardroom agenda, and technology and compliance teams have been working overtime to make sure their organisations are ready." However, he sees "a worrying disconnect between what organisations have agreed at a corporate level versus the communication and education of employees who will need to act out these changes."
The survey suggests that only 42 percent of employees had been provided with ways to share personal information safely, "such as email encryption, encrypted file transfer or secure project collaboration tools".
However, 20 percent "admitted to using personal apps or web services to share company documents. Unsurprisingly, personal email led the charge on this with 12 percent of respondents choosing it as one way to quickly share documents, while other answers included social media (seven percent), messaging apps (seven percent) and personal clouds (three percent)," says Egress.
"This behaviour puts personal data at higher risk of unauthorised access and makes the organisation liable for a data breach under GDPR."
Marketing departments are the worst offenders because these employees are most likely to handle personal data (96 percent of marketing respondents) and most likely to use social media accounts (70 percent).
According to the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), many reported security incidents are due to simple human errors. The most common (see bar-chart below) are:
Data posted or faxed to incorrect recipient;
Loss or theft of paperwork;
Data sent by email to incorrect recipient;
Failure to redact data;
Failure to use bcc when sending email.
One approach is to provide an encrypted email and file transfer system, which is one of the things Egress is selling. Egress Switch can be cloud hosted on on-premise. While companies pay a subscription to send encrypted messages and files, it's free to recipients, via web browsers or desktop and mobile apps. Further, users who self-identify can use the secure system to send data to subscribing organisations, such as local authorities, not just respond to emails.
Organisations that use Office 365 can also use Office Online securely inside Egress's Switch Secure Workspace.
Egress told ZDNet: "We're not advocating replacing email or fundamentally changing the way people work - we know from past precedent that typically that's not going to be a successful approach! Users simply want to get their jobs done, so security tools must enable them to both be productive and secure personal data."
Another idea is to use DLP (Data Loss Prevention) software.
Egress says that "emails can be scanned against DLP policies to force encryption of messages and attachments should users forget to do so, and machine learning can be used to highlight when an incorrect recipient has been added to an email. In this way, we can take the tools and processes staff are used to working with to help them continue doing their jobs but also avoid putting personal data at risk."
But every technology solution must be backed up with education and training.
Pepper says: "Awareness is a huge part of compliance: everyone who handles personal data should be able to identify and protect it. Organizations need to be doing all they can to provide staff with security safety nets that prevent data breaches. This can only be achieved through a blend of awareness, training and getting the right security technology to support the day-to-day work staff are doing."
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has created a bar chart of the most common data security failures reported. The ICO has recently opened a Personal Data Breach helpline.
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The Vodafone Red Lounge, The Real Tech Party At VGMA 2018
Since taking over as headline sponsor of the Ghana Music Awards some six years ago, Vodafone has spared no expense to ensure that they add more than a bit more to the experience of their customers at the annual event.
It was Vodafone that started an added ambiance of music, food, and drinks on the side of the main night of VGMA at the VIP and presidential rooms of the Accra International Conference Centre. For about five years the telco brand entertained people it referred to as valued customers as they enjoyed the awards in those privileged rooms.
This year, however, Vodafone decided to flip the script and they did so by changing the name of the entertainment arena from a room to a lounge, thus Red Lounge was introduced at the 19th Vodafone Ghana Music Awards last Saturday night. It has always been Red Room
While the name may have changed, it was still a Vodafone event and so came with all the trappings of what the brand has been known for on VGMA nights: class, food, drinks, music and a real reddish party atmosphere.
There were couches, settees and there also were the bars that served all manner of drinks. And then the stand that served the grills, mini-sandwiches and wraps, fruits, cake and other such canapés to the very privileged few who got invited by Vodafone to the place reserved for its key consumers.
The new idea of engaging with the consumers in the Red Lounge is the inclusion of technology to depict the new focus of Vodafone as the telecom brand that is leading the way into the digital space.
First was the invitation by an SMS alone and a simple SMS scan at the entrance to allow those invited to enter the lounge! No invitation cards. Next was how drinks were ordered via an app on tablets. No shouting to order drinks and food and definitely no jostling between people.
And then there was the robot engagement inside the Red Lounge. The role of the robot in the lounge was multiple: it showed patrons the way to the washroom and also took a picture and printed for them.
The pre-event party in the Red Lounge started from 7pm-9pm with guests arriving to take a bite or two and have a drink while songstress Yaa Yaa crooned melodious songs with the support of her band and also strummed her guitar strings away into the night.
Starr FM’s DJ Vyrusky was on hand to help Yaa Yaa with good music from his turntables and also sent the lounge into a party mood after the main event during the post-event party. The party went on until the dawn as MC Kabutey Ocansey became the hype-man on the night.
It must be mentioned that space was a bit small to contain the partying crowd, there were some confusion at the entrance to the lounge and it seemed the noise level was too much to have a decent chat with the robot during the after party.
However, the transformation of the left wing of the AICC into a club feel, the addition of technology in the experience and the uniqueness in the setup and engagement need commendation. It was another awesome addition to the VGMA experience by the brand that knows how to do it best!
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