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Dramatic Images Show Severe Flooding Across DC Area
Published at 7:59 am on July 8, 2019
Heavy rain and flash flooding in D.C. drenched roads and caused commuters to be stuck on Monday due to high waters.
Torrential rain flooded multiple roads in D.C. on Monday.
A torrent of water in a Metro train during historic flash flooding in the Washington, D.C. area on Monday, July 8, 2019.
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A pool in Potomac, Maryland, was flooded after torrential rain swept through the area.
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A large section of Belfast Rd. just off of MacArthur Boulevard in Potomac, Maryland, was blocked on Monday after flash flooding and heavy rain.
A Camaro that was stuck on the Clara Barton Parkway is ruined after flash flooding drenched roadways in the D.C. area.
Torrential rain on Monday flooded streets and left behind destruction in Montgomery County, Maryland.
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At least 5 vehicles were rescued on Monday after heavy rain drenched roadways across the D.C. area.
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A park bench sits under water in East Potomac Park in Washington, D.C. after flash flooding.
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Prosperity Avenue between Route 50 and Route 236 may take a couple of hours to reopen after severe flooding, Fairfax police said.
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Roadways in D.C. were drenched by heavy rain and flash flooding on Monday.
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Roadways in Frederick were flooded due to heavy rain on Monday.
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Four Mile Run Trail, Long Branch Creek at Glebe Road was flooded on Monday.
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Multiple roads in D.C. were drenched by heavy rain and flash flooding on Monday. Commuters around the D.C. area were stuck and crews around the region reported high water rescues.
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Multiple roads in D.C. were drenched by heavy rain and flash flooding on Monday.
Water rescue crews were seen helping commuters on Monday.
Flash flooding poured into some metro stations in the D.C. area on Monday.
Flash flooding in metro stations in the D.C. area
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Heavy rain flooded multiple roadways and homes in D.C. on Monday.
Many roads were closed on Monday due to high water.
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The basement of the White House briefing room was flooded on Monday.
Water rescue crews helped people get out of their cars on Monday after flash flooding due to high water.
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Flash flooding drenched roadways in D.C.
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Roadways were drenched after flash flooding in D.C. on Monday.
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Several crews in D.C. were out rescuing drivers in high water on Monday.
Roadways in Virginia were flooded after heavy rain swept through on Monday.
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Crews made multiple water rescues on Monday after flash flooding and heavy rain drenched roadways in D.C. and Virginia.
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15th and Constitution NW was closed on Monday due to high water.
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Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk Welcome First Child
The 42-year-old actor and the 31-year-old model were first romantically linked back in May of 2015
By Corinne Heller • Published at 3:45 pm on April 9, 2017
Congratulations are in order for Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk. The two have welcomed their first child, according to reports.
A source told People magazine Sunday Shayk gave birth two weeks ago. No other details were made available.
E! News had confirmed Shayk's pregnancy in November, after she showcased a baby bump while walking the runway at the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. The 31-year-old model and the 42-year-old actor were first romantically linked back in May of 2015 when they were spotted kissing in New York City.
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Last month, Shayk had a "beautiful baby shower" in Los Angeles, a source had told E! News.
Cooper also attended and was "hanging with his mother, making sure everything went smoothly," the source said, adding, "He is always very chill and relaxed."
Shayk received "adorable" baby gifts, including "many designer outfits and toys, all with an expensive price point, the insider continued.
Another source had said last December that the two hope to have more kids after their baby is born.
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San Clemente HS Finds Evidence of ‘Racial Epithet’ at Lincoln HS Football Game
San Clemente Principal Chris Carter sent a letter to both high school communities confirming the allegations of racist language at a football game between San Clemente High School and Lincoln High School.
By Sophia McCullough and Danny Freeman • Published at 4:07 pm on September 21, 2019
San Clemente High School confirmed Friday they found evidence of racial taunting during a football game against San Diego-area Lincoln High School at their school last week.
“Based on our extensive investigation, we were able to confirm that two individuals in the restroom used a racial epithet when addressing a Lincoln High School student. In addition, statements we collected confirmed that derogatory words were heard in our bleachers,” San Clemente Principal Chris Carter wrote in a letter to parents.
Students and community members from Lincoln High School claimed they were taunted with racial slurs by fans and community members of San Clemente High School on Sept. 13.
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"I didn't want to be here anymore. What's the point of being up here if we are going to be called names?" Lincoln High School cheerleader La'ren Daniel said in an earlier interview.
San Clemente’s letter said they compiled statements from both high schools and law enforcement. “In addition, we reviewed eight hours of video captured during the game from multiple cameras throughout the stadium.”
Lincoln High School also confirmed the investigation was complete in a Facebook post Friday.
"The most important finding from my investigation is that our students behaved themselves with the dignity and self-control we expect from them. I could not be prouder of their restraint in the face of open racist abuse," Principal Stephanie Brown at Lincoln High School wrote.
The post also said students were "subjected to anti-African American, anti-LatinX and anti-gay verbal abuse. African-American students in particular were told to go back to Africa."
Brown said the complete investigation will be posted on the school's website early next week.
According to an NAACP letter, San Clemente supporters repeatedly used the “n-word” towards members of Lincoln High’s football players and cheerleaders. The organization also said members of the cheer squad were verbally harassed in restrooms and the snack stand area.
“This harassment came not only from high-school-age youth but also from adult fans,” the letter read.
The NAACP’s letter to the principal of San Clemente High School expressed outrage at the lack of response from the San Clemente High's administration. The letter also called for implicit bias training and other resources to address the incident.
San Clemente Principal Carter said their students would participate in a "Restorative Circle and a one-day workshop facilitated by the Anti-Defamation League to address bias, bullying and allyship."
“Additionally, San Clemente High School will be doing ongoing work with the Anti-Defamation League to provide meaningful and comprehensive resources, trainings, and support to address implicit bias and hate speech. We will incorporate lessons that help educate students and staff on the history and current reality of prejudice and racism in our country,” he added.
Read the full letter below or click here.
Lincoln High School serves less than 1,500 students and is comprised of 99 percent minority students, according to Public School Review.
San Clemente High School is part of the Capistrano Unified School District and serves about 3,000 students. About 63 percent of the student body are described as white and less than 1 percent are described as African American, according to their School Accountability Report Card.
Principal Stephanie Brown added, "We will challenge San Clemente to become a 'No Place for Hate' school with an ongoing focus on anti-bias education."
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Developers Eye Alexandria Waterfront
Published at 6:32 am on June 6, 2011
The waterfront in Old Town Alexandria is about to get a makeover, and developers have already started making plans.
Walk into the Art League Madison Annex at Duke and Union Streets, and you're confronted with colorful murals and a series of classrooms where artists teach their craft. But as Art League director Linda Hafer explains, the landlord says that's about to become a thing of the past because a developer has other plans for the site.
"It's keeping us up at night because, in terms of finding affordable space here, it's quite a challenge," Hafer said.
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The warehouse is one of three spots on the waterfront where city leaders want to allow hotels and increase density. Business groups support the move, but many Old Town residents oppose the plan. One of the opponents is Boyd Walker, chairman of the Greater Alexandria Preservation Alliance.
"Should a private land owner be able to do what they want? Well, my answer is that there's zoning and that we regulate what we want in our communities by zoning," Walker said.
The small-area plan currently under consideration would increase allowable density on this block by more than 62,000 square feet. Critics say that's too much density.
But supporters of the plan, like former City Councilman Lonnie Rich, say adding density is a way for the city to pay for amenities.
"Well, you want to get the right density to produce the effect you need," Rich said. "If the current density won't allow sufficient activity to make it be successful, then it's reasonable to consider increased density."
Many residents in Old Town say they are concerned about the increased amount of foot traffic along the waterfront -- the same thing that Virginia shop owner Bob Lorenson says is the reason City Council members should approve the plan.
"People moved here knowing this was a touristy town,” Lorenson said. “And it's like people who move next to the airport and complain about the noise. I don't get it. I just don't get it.”
City Council members are expected to vote on the plan this month.
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UK’s Theresa May Faces Pressure to Step Down to Save Brexit
Parliament may take a series of votes this week to determine what proposals, if any, could command majority support
By Gregory Katz • Published at 7:27 am on March 24, 2019
Embattled Prime Minister Theresa May was scrambling Sunday to win over adversaries to her Brexit withdrawal plan as key Cabinet ministers denied media reports that they were plotting to oust her.
May spent the afternoon ensconced in a crisis meeting at her country residence Chequers with fellow Conservatives and outspoken Brexit advocates like Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and others who would prefer to leave the European Union without a divorce deal rather than delay Britain's departure from the bloc further.
Her office released a statement afterward giving no hint about whether she had gained any new backing. It said only that they discussed "whether there is sufficient support" to bring her Brexit divorce plan back to Parliament for a third vote.
The prime minister has found her authority weakened after a series of setbacks in Parliament and her inability to win meaningful concessions from EU leaders who refuse to sweeten the Brexit deal.
The Sunday Times claims that 11 Cabinet ministers plan to tell May to resign so a caretaker leader can be put in her place to kick start the stalled Brexit process. She faces growing pressure from within her own party either to resign or to set a date for stepping down as a way to build support for her Brexit plan.
The confrontation may come to a head at a Cabinet session expected Monday.
Under Conservative Party rules, May cannot face a formal leadership challenge from within her own party until December because she survived one three months ago. But she may be persuaded that her position is untenable if top Cabinet ministers and other senior party members desert her.
Despite headlines about a Cabinet coup, there was no indication from Downing Street on Sunday that a resignation was near. Two of the people mentioned as possible successors — Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington and Treasury chief Philip Hammond — expressed strong support for May.
Hammond said Sunday that senior party members plotting to oust May were being "self-indulgent." He said a change of leadership would not provide a solution to the U.K.'s political deadlock on Brexit.
"We've got to address the question of what type of Brexit is acceptable to Parliament, what type of way forward Parliament can agree on so that we can avoid what would be an economic catastrophe of a no-deal exit and also what would be a very big challenge to confidence in our political system if we didn't exit at all," Hammond said.
Lidington, mentioned as a possible caretaker prime minister should May be ousted, said Sunday that talk of a Cabinet revolt was far-fetched speculation. He said May is doing a "fantastic job" and that he has no desire to take her place.
Still, May thus far has been unable to generate enough support in Parliament for the deal her government and the EU reached late last year. Lawmakers voted down the Brexit plan twice, and May has raised the possibility of bringing it back a third time if enough legislators appear willing to switch their votes.
The Cabinet is focused on the best way to get May's withdrawal plan passed in the House of Commons, Lidington said.
The U.K.'s departure from the EU was set to take place on March 29, but the absence of an approved divorce agreement prompted May last week to ask the leaders of the 27 remaining EU nations for a postponement.
The leaders agreed to delay Brexit until May 22, on the eve of the EU Parliament elections, if the prime minister can persuade Parliament to endorse her twice-rejected agreement.
If she is unable to rally support for the deal, the European leaders said Britain only has until April 12 to choose between leaving the EU without a divorce deal and a new path, such as revoking the decision to leave the bloc or calling another voter referendum on Brexit.
Parliament may hold a series of votes this week to determine what Brexit proposals, if any, could command majority support.
Conservative Party legislator George Freeman, a former policy adviser to May, tweeted that the U.K. needs a new leader if the Brexit process is to move forward.
"I'm afraid it's all over for the PM. She's done her best. But across the country you can see the anger. Everyone feels betrayed," Freeman tweeted. "This can't go on. We need a new PM who can reach out & build some sort of coalition for a Plan B."
May also faces pressure from groups demanding a second Brexit referendum. Huge crowds turned out Saturday for an anti-Brexit protest march in London, which organizers claimed involved more than 1 million people.
On Sunday, an electronic petition designed to cancel Brexit altogether passed the 5 million signature mark.
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DELAND POST 6 ADVANCES TO LEGION WORLD SERIES
Buddy Collings, Sentinel Staff WriterTHE ORLANDO SENTINEL
Exactly a week after learning that a season it thought was over had been resuscitated, the DeLand Post 6 American Legion baseball team made history by winning the Southeast Regional Monday.
The Sixers (41-5) won 11-3 over Bayamon, Puerto Rico, (29-6) in Columbia, Tenn., to secure the program's first berth in the Legion World Series, which opens Friday in Corvallis, Ore.
DeLand finished fourth in the state tournament, but took the Florida berth in Columbia because champion Bay County, runner-up West Boca and Sanford Post 53 were for various reasons unable to advance.
"It's amazing. We had a second chance so we just went with that and had the attitude that there's nothing to lose," said Nick Pugliese, who notched two pitching victories -- including the final -- as the Sixers swept the double-elimination regional with a 5-0 record.
Pugliese had the game-winning hit in the 13th inning Saturday night to decide what DeLand Manager Paris Hayden called the key game of the tournament, an 8-7 victory over Bayamon.
"That guaranteed us a spot in the final, and put us in position where we had our pitching ready," Hayden said. "The baseball Gods are smiling on us. You hear everybody say this, but this has been a complete team effort. Everybody came through in one or another."
Mark Rood went 3-for-3 and Junnie Munoz delivered an RBI double in a 4-3 Sunday afternoon victory over Spartanburg, S.C.
DeLand is scheduled to fly out of Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday morning for the eight-team Legion World Series.
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Term for the return of lost or looted cultural objects to their country of origin, former owners, or their heirs. The loss of the object may happen in a variety of contexts (armed conflicts, war, colonialism, imperialism, or genocide), and the nature of the looted cultural objects may also vary, ranging from artworks, such as paintings and sculptures, to human remains, books, manuscripts, and religious artefacts. An essential part of the process of restitution is the seemingly unavoidable conflict around the transfer of the objects in question from the current to the former owners. Ownership disputes of this nature raise legal, ethical, and diplomatic issues. The heightened tensions in the process arise because the looting of cultural objects challenges, if not breaks down, relationships between peoples, territories, cultures, and heritages.
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Ming Fay comes 'Full Circle' at Butters and Rick Bartow captures the moment at Froelick (review)
Updated Jan 10, 2019; Posted Aug 03, 2011
By Bob Hicks, Special to The Oregonian
View full sizeCourtesy of Butters GalleryFrom Ming Fay's installation at Butters Gallery.
There's something to be said for longevity.
Butters Gallery has been in business in Portland's Old Town for 23 years, and for 20 years it's represented the work of Shanghai-born, New York-based artist Ming Fay, whose biomorphic sculptures are scattered like fertile seeds across the planet.
Fay knows the upstairs Butters space intimately, and this summer he came to town to design a new installation, "Full Circle," in the gallery's front spaces. The exhibition is carrying over through August, providing a little inside jungle for Portland's late-blooming summer (remember most of July?).
View full size Courtesy of Butters GalleryA photo from Ming Fay's installation at Butters Gallery.
At a time when abstract and frankly anti-object conceptualism is demanding much of the art world's theoretical attention, Fay's work remains resolutely based in organic reality. Indeed, his lush and oddly oversized communities of vines, bulbs, seeds, tendrils, pods, fruit clusters and even nautilus shells seem to anticipate and fit in with the handmade democratic artistic countermovement of the Do It Yourself nation.
Unlike, say, Mandy Greer's richly vegetal installation "Dare alla Luce" at the Museum of Contemporary Craft a couple of years ago, "Full Circle" feels more like a map than a fully realized environment. Or maybe it's just a sparser environment -- an archipelago, not a rain forest. Fay has gathered pieces from the past 20 years or so and arranged them in several clusters around the space -- on the floors, on the walls, hanging from the ceiling.
It's all carefully plotted, the way a good gardener lays things out, and though it's an installation the pieces are priced separately. If you want to make a theory out of that, try this: Fay's sense of nature isn't forest primeval, it's the harvested landscape -- a garden or forest constantly guided and carefully filled in after part of it's been used.
In the meantime, it's a soothing, strangely pleasing place to visit, like a trip to some weirdly benevolent science-fiction farm.
520 N.W. Davis St.; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays through Aug. 27. Free. 503-248-9378, buttersgallery.com
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Like Fay and Butters, Oregon Coast artist Rick Bartow and Froelick Gallery have a long and fruitful history together, going back to the days of Froelick's predecessor, the Jamison Thomas Gallery. The late William Jamison more or less discovered Bartow, who has gone on to a rich and fulfilling international career.
"Coyote's Road," Bartow's newest show at Froelick, continues his fruitful exploration of the idea of transformation, in particular the human/animal transitions of Native American tradition. (Bartow's family line is partly Yurok and Wiyot.)
View full sizeRebekah-Johnson-Photography(C)20Rick Bartow, Fish III, 2011
His drawings, prints and paintings, which were once mainly black and white, have long since evolved into a fluid and colorful palette, set down with an almost scrawled sense of urgency that suggests the painful and illuminating moment when a being realizes it's becoming someone or something entirely different, yet somehow also the same. In European terms, it's the werewolf moment, with all the turmoil of otherness and connectedness that that implies.
View full sizeRebekah-Johnson-Photography(C)20Rick Bartow, Salmon Boy, 2011
The enduring astonishment of Bartow's art is that somehow he captures the almost unbearable beauty of the moment of transformation -- that moment at which we come to realize that we are more than what we realized we were. It is, strangely, a moment of birth, and a moment that can be experienced many times.
In recent years, Bartow's been paying more attention to his 3D pieces -- little assemblages of castoff material and bigger, more formal carvings that begin with found or leftover pieces of wood but are carefully and intricately fashioned inside their haphazard borders. The little assemblages, such as "Little Dog Dressed as a Crow" (the beast has a tail made of a pencil stamped "Barrelhead Supply South Beach, Or.," where Bartow lives) have the charm of naive pieces that are also unexpectedly sophisticated. The bigger pieces, including the giant "Bear Mother Dancing on Ignorance/Fear," have the iconic presence of traditional Northwest Coast carvings but are more fierce and startlingly psychological in their interior details -- an intriguing contemporary combination of communal stylization and individual expression.
View full sizeMichael Schultheis, Menelaus 01, 2011
Entering his mid-60s, Bartow seems to be playing at the top of his game. There's longevity for you.
Froelick is also showing a large selection of recent acrylic paintings by Seattle artist Michael Schultheis, who describes his work as drawing on the mathematics of Euclid and Menelaus -- plane geometry and spherical trigonometry, "a triangular ship's sail" and "the wind that billows the sail into a volumetric form." These things are undoubtedly present in these large abstracts, but I find myself captured by their elusive movement (no doubt the mathematics of the equation) and their bright, eye-smacking color. Theory be damned: The things just look good.
714 N.W. Davis St., 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays through Aug. 27. Free. 503-222-1142, froelickgallery.com
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PTE live news: Vanderlande announces successful trial of FLEET at Rotterdam The Hague Airport
By Hazel King on March 26, 2019 Expo, News
Vanderlande has announced the successful trail of its FLEET autonomous vehicle technology at Rotterdam The Hague Airport , the Netherlands, at Passenger Terminal Expo 2019.
In an exclusive press conference held on Vanderlande’s stand at the event, Ron Louwerse, director of Rotterdam The Hague Airport, and Koen Evers, manager FLEET at Vanderlande, outlined how the new technology has improved operations at the airport in its first year of operation.
“For us, it was important to have a flexible, efficient, sustainable system that could be scaled up and down as needed,” said Louwerse. “We needed a new baggage system because the current one was very outdated, but we needed it to be flexible enough to manage future growth. FLEET gave us the opportunity to trial a system that was independent of the actual number of bags.”
Evers added, “For us it was about proving the system in a live operational environment and learning about how the users interact with the systems, and that is one of the positive learnings we took from the trial.”
Aviapartners, the baggage handler at the airport, was trained to use the system over a few weeks so that when an error occurs the handler who is loading the bags can easily solve any issues and keep operations on track. “That was the theory behind FLEET, and it was nice that we were actually able to show that the theory worked during the trial at The Hague Airport,” Evers explained.
The system has now been optimised and the routing has been adapted during the trial to better suit the airport’s operation and increase capacity.
It is hoped that the FLEET system will now be rolled out to other airports in the Netherlands, including Amsterdam Airport. “We were the pilot airport for the system and now Amsterdam is looking to expand its baggage facilities, so I think they can learn lessons from what we’ve done at The Hague Airport on a small scale and upscale it to suit their operations,” commented Louwerse.
Vanderlande’s Evers also announced plans to roll the FLEET system out at a big US airport in the next few weeks, as well as at Lelystad Airport, and announced a small demo trial at another big airport in Europe. “Before the end of the summer, we will have four systems up and running at airports in various locations,” he added.
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Karachi faces extreme load shedding due to technical fault
by Agencies , (Last Updated May 11, 2018)
KARACHI: Many areas of the metropolis faced a power outage for over 14 hours on Friday.
A technical fault at K-Electric’s (KE) Bin Qasim power plant was said to be the reason for the power crisis that the power utility has been unable to address the malfunction for the last eight days.
The metropolis is faced with a shortfall of 600MW-700MW due to the Bin Qasim power plant breakdown, leading to unannounced load-shedding in the areas that were previously exempted from power outages.
KE, the city’s sole power supply company, had earlier promised that the grim power situation would be in control in three days.
With mercury levels rising in the city and Ramzan just around the corner, citizens have expressed concerns over the grave power situation in Karachi.
KE now maintains that all measures are being taken to fix the affected turbine at the Bin Qasim power plant. The power supply company, which has ordered materials from abroad, has said that it will require a further period of between three to four days to completely fix the issue.
The power utility’s spokesperson stated that the city’s industrial areas and the water board’s pumping stations were exempt from the electricity load-shedding. There has been no unannounced power outage across the city, claimed the spokesperson.
Reports of heavy load-shedding in various parts of the city have been received including Liaquatabad, Malir, Orangi Town, Lines Area, Landhi, Shah Faisal Colony, and adjoining areas.
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MMNA marketing execs resign
NORMAL — Mitsubishi Motors North America has lost two top marketing officials, just weeks before the company will push the sale of two redesigned vehicles.
Hiroshi Harunari, who became co-chief executive officer last December to assist Rich Gilligan, now assumes marketing duties until the two resigning executives are replaced at the company’s California headquarters, Mitsubishi announced.
Dave Schembri, executive vice president of sales and marketing, resigned after a year on the job, and Wayne Killen, vice president of marketing, resigned after just six months at Mitsubishi. Both men were recruited from Mercedes-Benz U.S.A. by Gilligan, who previously headed the manufacturing plant in Normal.
The move sparked curiosity around the industry. Resignations like this are usually triggered by three events, said Dave Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Either another automaker recruited them with a higher salary, their positions were cut due to company downsizing or they were asked to leave, he said.
“It’s always a little more suspicious when you have two like this,” Cole said. “Generally these kind of things are not positive, but it’s hard to speculate when you just don’t know what happened there.”
Schembri and Killen were not asked to resign, said Mitsubishi spokesman Dan Irvin, saying only that the company found out about the resignations last Friday.
Gilligan was unavailable for comment.
The resignations come just before Mitsubishi’s redesigned 2007 Eclipse Spyder is expected to hit dealership lots in late March, along with the new Galant Ralliart, with a sportier body and the faster engine of the Eclipse.
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The High Druid of Shannara Series
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High Druid of Shannara: Straken
The High Druid of Shannara trilogy draws to a thrilling close as a young hero nears completion of his trial by fire, a banished ruler fights for her life in a wilderness of dread, and forces of darkness and light square off in a battle unto death for the right to absolute rule. Prepare to be spellbound by the masterly hand of bestselling legend weaver Terry Brooks, conjuring at the peak of his skills.
For reasons known only to himself, the King of the Silver River has charged young Penderrin Ohmsford, barely more than a boy, with the daunting task of rescuing his aunt, Grianne, Ard Rhys of the Druid order, from her forced exile in the terrifying dimension of all things damned: the Forbidding. With the noble dwarf Tagwen and the prodigal elven princess Khyber Elessedil by his side–and with the outcome of the bloody war between the Federation and the Free-born at stake–Pen has accepted his mission without question. But not without risk . . . or sacrifice.
Because Shadea a’Ru, the ruthless Druid responsible for imprisoning the true Ard Rhys and usurping leadership at Paranor, has sent her agents and assassins in relentless pursuit of Pen and his comrades. And in securing the talisman he needs to breach the Forbidding, Pen has paid a devastating price. Now if the Free-born forces–already decimated by the Federation’s death-dealing new weapon–should fall, Shadea’s domination of the Four Lands will be assured. Nothing short of Pen’s success can turn the tide.
But Pen’s challenge grows greater when he learns that his parents, Bek Ohmsford and Rue Meridian, have fallen into Shadea’ s hands. He must try to help them–but once within the walls of Druid’s Keep, where Shadea’s minions and dark magic lurk at every turn, Pen’s survival is far from assured. Yet it will all pale in comparison to the horrors that wait inside the Forbidding–horrors poised to break free upon the Four Lands when the time is right. . . .
High Druid of Shannara: Tanequil
Dark magic has opened a gateway to the Forbidding and trapped within it Grianne Ohmsford, rightful High Druid of Shannara. Rescuing Grianne will be merely the beginning of the effort to return the Four Lands to some semblance of peace. Only her young nephew, Penderrin, has any hope of returning her to power. But to breach the Forbidding and bring Grianne back to the natural world, Pen must find the fabled Tanequil . . . and the talisman it alone can provide. That means journeying into the Inkrim–a dreaded region thick with shadows and haunted by harrowing legends. And there, Pen will strike a bargain more dire than he could ever imagine.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Expect no end of wonders and suspense, no shortage of adventure and enchantment, as Terry Brooks begins the next extraordinary quest in the magical world of Shannara. . . .
Twenty years have passed since Grianne Ohmsford denounced her former life as the dreaded Ilse Witch. Fulfilling the destiny predicted for her, she has established the Third Druid Council and dedicated herself to its goals of peace, harmony among the races, and defense of the Four Lands. But despite her devotion to the greater good as Ard Rhys, the High Druid of Paranor, Grianne still has bitter enemies. Even her few allies—chief among them her trusted servant Tagwen—know of the plots against her. But they could never anticipate the sudden, ominous disappearance of the Ard Rhys, in the dead of night and without a trace. Now Tagwen joins Grianne’s brave young nephew, Pen Ohmsford, and the wise, powerful elf Ahren Elessedil on a desperate and dangerous mission of search and rescue—to deliver the High Druid of Shannara from an unspeakable fate.
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Everett, Reese
Series: Earth's Continents
Annotation: Discover the history, terrain, people, culture, government, wildlife, and cuisine of Australia.
Genre: World history
Catalog Number: #170574
Format: Library Binding
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Publisher: Rourke Publishing
LCCN: 2018930433
Dimensions: 24 cm.
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Australia. Juvenile literature.
ALA Booklist
Continents and countries are a mainstay of elementary- and middle-school reports, and these entries in the Earth's Continents series (7 titles) offer the usual fare ographic features, history, states or provinces, etc. ong with some intriguing contemporary topics, unusual facts, and plenty of helpful context. Australia showcases the country and continent's diverse wildlife (including "17 species of the world's most venomous snakes"), varied biomes and geological structures, and World Heritage sites. Notably, the author does an excellent job of explaining the history of the Aboriginal people as well as the detrimental affect European colonization had and continues to have on Australia's native population: "The Australian government has taken steps to make things better, but there is more to be done." Each volume is heavily illustrated with captioned photos and closes with the usual back matter, along with a recipe and an activity. Although broad in overall scope, these introductions to continents offer enough pithy, interest-piquing facts to encourage further, deeper research elsewhere.
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Bibliography Index/Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reading Level: 3.0
The world's smallest continent is one of the world's largest deserts. But that dry land is teeming with wildlife. Australia, the only country that's also its own continent, is home to more species than any other developed country. Discover Australia's people, government, cultures, wildlife, and foods. Create an Aboriginal dot painting. Then bake some classic Australian Damper biscuits! This book supports the C3 framework for Social Studies State Standards focusing on civics, economics, geography, and history. Readers will explore Australia to learn about its geography, climate, culture, history, and more. Book jacket.
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The Red Board
Bucs got hit with a cheerleader lawsuit a few weeks ago
This topic has 11 replies, 9 voices, and was last updated Jun. 13, 2014 at 1:30 pm by Anonymous.
Jun. 12, 2014 at 9:47 pm #27437
tpeluso
http://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2014/05/tampa-bay-buccaneers-latest-nfl-team-to-get-hit.htmlThis is just a massive facepalm because it's easily avoidable... I really wish the Glazers would get out ahead of all the other teams dealing with this and publicly and loudly proclaim that our cheerleaders will get a fair wage going forward. Even with all of the issues selling out the stadium in recent years, the team still makes tons of bank and can certainly afford to pay 30 women who serve as a value part of the PR machine minimum wage (if not a lot more). There have to be more worthwhile places in the budget to trim things than this.
Jun. 12, 2014 at 9:59 pm #188047
lynnst
Give them more money…they work hard; and look good
Jun. 12, 2014 at 10:14 pm #188048
meadorsp
Meh… They should cheerlead for FREE! Any of them that can, typically parlay their “hobby” into bigger and better things.If not - there's always Mons Venus.
And just think what will happen if Bucs bosses try and make them deliver drinks to fans as has been proposed.
Waaaaaaaaaaahhhh ... who cares. Cheerleading for an NFL squad is a hobby and a privilege , not a real job deserving of a living wage. At the end of the day they are just anorexic bimbos who dance badly in skimpy outfits . How much is that really worth ?? They could ax the entire squad and I wouldn't even notice they were gone . There are hotter girls in the stands . Buhbye now.
Jun. 13, 2014 at 3:33 am #188051
java is as java does
+1Said it before and will say it again, they knew the salary, workload, etc before signing the contract and signed it anyway so whos fault is it really if they are being treated that way, I can't imagine anyone held a gun to their heads and forced them to become a professional bimbo.Don't like the terms & conditions of a job don't take it, it's not a hard concept, there's a long line of girls who would love to do that job just waiting for a spot.I swear, the way some defend these cheerleaders you would think teams dragged them out of bed in the middle of the night, kidnapped them and threatened their families to force them to sign up, it's borderline slavery..
Jun. 13, 2014 at 11:12 am #188053
dzejms
Give me a break. The Bucs were throwing her a bone letting her on the field as a cheerleader. She’s not even attractive. I would have considered paying her 10 bucks a game to NOT be a cheerleader.
Give me a break. The Bucs were throwing her a bone letting her on the field as a cheerleader. She's not even attractive. I would have considered paying her 10 bucks a game to NOT be a cheerleader.
I know a couple of the Falcons cheerleaders up here in Atlanta. They all have professional-ish jobs. Not a single one of them is lied to when brought in, every one of them who tries out knows that they will put in a lot of hours for not a lot of money. They want a little pay raise from here on out, fine…negotiate one. If you want to go back in time and collect money because you felt you were underpaid when you knew exactly what was going to happen…GTFOH!
The most these dumb broads could accomplish with this is getting the cheerleading squad discontinued altogether. They are not essential.
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Accessories iOS Android Picks
Best wireless Bluetooth earbuds and in-ear headphones
by Peter Kostadinov / Dec 18, 2019, 5:25 AM
Wireless headphones are nothing new as this old and proven concept fits in particularly well with the nature of accessories whose purpose is to comfortably and unobtrusively pump sound in your ears while you go by with your daily business. Truly, die-hard audiophiles probably cringe and wince at the thought of surrendering their high-end cans for Bluetooth earbuds, but this wouldn't make a difference to the average Joe out there who will certainly value the comfort and added ease of use of the wireless buds.
But which ones to buy? You'd be forgiven to be a little torn between all the options that exist n the market as device and accessory manufacturers are stepping their game and coming up with newer and newer gadgets of the type; take the currently-ongoing CES for a prime example - a large portion of all new devices that got announced were either wireless or wireless and smart headphones.
As we always strive to make things easy for you, we summed up some of the wireless in-ear headphones and earbuds that you should consider if you are entertaining the idea of getting yourself a set. To make matters easier for you, we've separated all the noteworthy option into different price ranges which should make it easier for you to find a neat pair for your budget.
1. Best wireless earbuds under $50
2. Best wireless earbuds under $100
Best wireless earbuds under $50
FocusPower F10
Get them on Amazon
Really compact
Not water-resistant
Only one color option
The Focuspower F10 is a budget offering that we would cautiously recommend. Despite that some users report the occasional connectivity issues while being outside, the majority of its owners seem to be pretty happy with these truly wireless Bluetooth-enabled earbuds. Apparently, these have the rather okay-ish battery life of around 4.5 hours at full volume and more than 7 hours if you dial things down and spare your ears at 40% volume. Should the earbuds run out of juice, you will have to use the included bespoke USB dongle charger that uses inductive charging to top them up, which usually takes half an hour. Similar to other gadgets in the same category, these arrive with 3 pairs of interchangeable ear tips that will help you find the best possible comfort for your ears.
Senso Bluetooth headphones
Noise-canceling
These are tethered to one another via a wire, but for all intents and purposes, they are otherwise wireless, and have a pretty good battery life of over 8 hours of continuous music playback and 240 hours of standby after 1.5 hours of charging. With a V-shaped sound that features exaggerated bass and treble, these would likely be enjoyable to the not-so-picky listeners out there. Boastiung IPX7 waterproof rating, these Senso earbuds can be used in sweaty predicaments and would always fit nicely into your ears thanks to the gel flex silicone ear tips that snuggly fit inside your ears. But that's not all - there's also active noise-canceling on board. On top of that, the manufacturer offers a full year of warranty as well as as 30-day no-questions-asked return policy.
Soundmoov 316T
True wireless stereo
Charging box
The truly wireless Soundmoov 316T are a rather decent pair of earbuds that offer real wireless stereo as per the TWS (True Wireless System) standard. This means that you can enjoy true wireless stereo without the hassle of the cord. You can use either the two of the earbuds together or share one of them with, say, your phone and the other one with another Bluetooth device; of course, you can pair the two with one another and enjoy true stereo. As far as battery life goes, Soundmoov promises up to 3 hours of continuous music listening on a full charge, whereas popping these inside their 450mAh charging box will let you recharge the earbuds up to 3 times. Just like other earbuds of the same ilk, these also come with a number of additional ear caps.
Best wireless earbuds below $100
Anker Soundcore Liberty Air 2
Very impressive battery life, four mics, Bluetooth 5.0
Fiddly controls
These are probably your best bet for great true wireless buds under a Benjamin. The second edition of Anker's Liberty Air uses Bluetooth 5.0 and has 7 (yes, seven) hours of battery life on a charge, plus four more charges in the case. While not providing active noise cancellation, they sport 4 mics for isolating surrounding noise during calls, as well as large, diamond-coated drivers for, you guessed it, extra bass.
beyerdynamic Byron
Get them on Beyerdynamic's store
Excellent sound quality
aptX support
Superb battery life
Beyerdynamic's emphasizes on sound quality with its Byron wireless Bluetooth earbuds, and we wouldn't expect nothing less from the popular audio gear manufacturer. So, what do the Byrons have that other earbuds fall short of? Easy, they are tailored with audiophiles in mind, offering a more neutral audio representation that doesn't exaggerate low or high frequencies as much as the vast majority of earbuds you can think of; the earbuds cover all frequencies between 10 - 23,000 Hz and a nominal pressure of 90dB. There is aptX support for even higher-quality and lower latency sound, which is something we'd expect of beyerdynamic. With a battery life of around 7.5 hours, these will easily last you a workday of continuous listening to music. There's also a remote control attached on the cord that tethers the two earbuds together, allowing you to easily control music playback. A pair of different ear tips and optional ear fins are also included so that you can find your most comfortable fit.
Extreme battery life
Superb design
Good audio quality
A bit cumbersome around the neck
British audio gear maker RHA has really come up with something pretty good here: its MA650 wireless earbuds really have any feature you might think of, including the kitchen sink. Their biggest strength it probably the stupendous 12-hour battery life that's times better than what other wireless earbuds offer. The MA650 also feature colorful LEDs that indicate the battery's level and also feature a battery-saving feature that kicks off after a certain time of inactivity. RHA's fancy earbuds are also made of aluminum and have IPX4 water-resistance, a USB Type-C charging port, easy NFC pairing with your phone, as well as noise isolation. AAC, aptX, and SBC support is also on board, and with a V-shaped equalizer that covers all frequencies between 16 – 22,000Hz, these will cater to people that want their music to sound fun. As you might expect, a number of additional accessories are also included in the package.
Best wireless earbuds above $100 and beyond
Get them on Apple's store
Easy pairing
Dual noise-canceling mics
iOS/Android-compatible
Only one color option (white)
You probably saw that coming, but Apple's AirPods are among the better and most versatile smart wireless earbuds you can get today. With a great battery life of up to 5 hours, fast charging (up to 3 hours of playback after a 15-min charging session), dual noise-canceling microphones that filter out background noise during calls, and compatibility with any Bluetooth device you can think of, the AirPods tick all the boxes for truly wireless earbuds. They also bring Siri straight to your ears for easier communication with the smart assistant, but this feature naturally only works when hooked up to an iPhone or an iPad.
Building on the veritable success of the crudely named WH-1000XM3 (our review here), Sony did the undoubtedly harder thing, and trued to shoehorn the technology into a pair of earbuds with active noise cancellation that are still above and beyond them all, even Apple's popular AirPods Pro.
They last more on a charge and are cheaper than Apple's finest, but are bigger and less resistant to your sweat and tears while you work out. Tap on the bud, though, and immediately get a conversation through, and, with the latest software update from 11/26, Sony added Alexa support, as well the ability to adjust the volume using the headphones' touch sensor.
Class-leading battery life
Potent active noise-cancellation
Balanced sound
Easy one-tap return to noisy reality
Quick recharge in the case
Alexa and Google Assistant support
No moisture-resistance rating
In-call background noise
Comparatively bulky buds and case
Comfortable and elegant design
Useful Active Noise Cancellation
Solid sound quality
Flawless integration with iOS
Splash proof
Comparatively expensive
Just as long rumored, Apple stepped in the wonderful world of true wireless noise cancellation with the new AirPods Pro buds that are on top of that water resistant, so brace yourselves for people on the treadmill next to you not hearing what you are shouting at them.
We kid, as the AidPods Pro do include a transparency feature that lets a bit of the surrounding noise in, just as any self-respecting isolation headphones should, so that you can survive in traffic for longer than the next crossroad. While we were expecting the Pro to be priced above the current AirPods + Wireless Charging Case = $199 bundle, and yet below the $250 that Apple wants for its PowerBeats Pro and their whopping 9 hours of listening time, Apple went for the jugular.
Yes, the new AirPods Pro don't cost $230 (or $199 on sale) as Sony's direct WF-1000XM3 competitors, but Apple is rather pricing them directly as much as the PowerBeats Pro, even though they last less on a charge than Sony's noise-cancelling buds. They are, however, more sweat resistant and more elegant-looking than the Sony pair, plus the fit and the call quality when paired with an iPhone is some of the best out there.
Amazon Echo Buds
Amazon's Echo Buds are cheaper but are rated for noise 'reduction' rather than cancellation
Good sound and call quality
Decent ambient noise reduction
Moisture-resistance
Great Alexa integration
Fiddly build and fit in the ear
Comparatively bulky case
Teething pair and connection issues
Due to the sheer power of the brand and its marketing reach, Amazon's faux-cancellation Echo Buds are proving a very popular budget alternative. They offer Bose's Noise Reduction technology which doesn't completely tune out the ambient noise but is better than earphones that simply try to isolate the sounds physically like the Galaxy Buds. In fact, anecdotal evidence from Joe Sixpack say they are good enough to cancel out the noise of the leaf blower across the street, for instance.
Unfortunately, Bose, the creator of this ANC market niche, is keeping a next generation proprietary noise-cancellation tech for its own mysterious Earbuds 700 that are to appear in 2020 and presumably climb be on top of the noise-cancelling pile but we'll review and compare when time comes.
Jaybird Run
Get them on Jaybird's store
Customizable sound
Battery life too short for a tethered headset
Jaybird's answer to the AirPods is more than a decent one. Their waterproof design is perfectly-tailored with sportier folks in mind as the sweat that's prevalent during workouts wouldn't damage the internals of the earbuds no matter how hard you push yourself. The battery inside will last you around 4 hours on a charge, with the battery case allowing you to charge earbuds twice more. Don't worry though - these charge quite fast, with a 5-min charge equaling to a hour of playback time. You can also only use a single bud to stay in touch with your surroundings. Thanks to the comfortable fit, these won't simply fall out during your workout, which is among the number one nuisances when working out. Aside from listening to music on these, voice calls are also on the menu. As far as sounds is concerned, you get to customize how tunes sound thanks to Jaybird's phone companion app.
Sony WF-SP700N
Get them on Sony's store
Noise-cancelation
IPX4 water-resistance
Future support for Google Assistant
Battery life leaves a lot to be desired
Slightly bulky
Ah, Sony's device names are just rolling off the tongue, like a well-roasted corn on the cob. Jokes aside, the Sony WF-SP700N are a pair of totally wireless and quite promising earbuds that are not yet technically available for purchase. With their snug fit, IPX4 water-resistance, sporty design including a super-cool charging case, noise-cancellation that still can let ambient sound to pass through thanks to Sony's Ambient Sound Modes, and the Google Assistant coming along with a software update at a later date. While they do sound good indeed, the battery life is a bit disappointing, with Sony promising only up to 3 hours of music playback before you have to fall back to the charging case for a quick top-up. At least you can choose between four different color versions - black, pink, yellow, and white.
Samsung Gear IconX (2018)
Get them on Samsung's store
Multi-functional button controls
4GB of internal storage
Independent usage (no phone needed)
Multiple colors available
Android/iOS-compatible
Samsung's multi-functional IconX (2018) earbuds are truly one of the best and most versatile accessories you can get for your contemporary Samsung flagship. Honestly, playing music is the most boring and mundane feature of these, as they are among the few earbuds in-between that track your health data with a built-in sensor live, feeding it directly to Samsung Health. Additionally, they have 4GB of built-in storage that allows you to throw in thousands of songs on the native memory and listen to music even if you don't bring your device along. How would you control playback, then? Easy - the front side of each earbud functions as a capacitive, multi-functional button that allows you to play/pause, forwards, skip songs, and even access your virtual workout coach. As far as battery life goes, you can eke out 7 hours of listening to songs from the internal storage and up to 5 hours of streaming on Bluetooth. The supplied charging case allows you to re-charge both IconX earbuds almost fully, but even a 10-minute charge will get you another hour of functionality.
Bose SoundSport Free Truly Wireless Sport Headphones
Superb audio quality
Track lost earbuds feature
The top-of-the-line Bose SoundSport Truly Wireless Sport headphones will wow you with the sound quality they are capable of putting out. With an IPX4-rating, the earbuds are a perfect match for sporty activities. The Bose Connect app has a 'Find My Buds' feature that tracks when and where your headphones were last connected to your phone. If you still can't find your earbuds, they will emit an audible sound that will make tracking them a little bit easier. This charging case protects and recharges your earbuds while you recover from your workout. It’s magnetized, so it keeps them in place while they charge. It also provides two additional full charges—or up to 10 hours of battery life.
Anker Soundcore Liberty 2 Pro
Record battery life for true wireless buds
Focus on audio and call quality
7 pairs of eartips and tailored acoustics
Needs multiple device pairing update
We saved the best for last, as Anker is currently running a promo for its second Liberty Pro edition that knocks $40 off for the already great $150 price down to $110. Even at their usual tag, you needn't look anywhere but the popular AirPods for an alternative, and the Liberty 3 Pro lasts much more on a charge than Apple's creation. How do 8 hours of play time on a single charge at mid-volume level sound? Well, as a record, that's how, and you have three more charges in the case for a long weekend away.
Anker didn't stop here, and outfitted the Liberty 2 Pro with "Knowles balanced armature and an 11mm dynamic driver," and did some performance marketing with Grammy winners to prove how good the buds are sounding tp unbridled success. If you are not adamant for active noise cancellation, the Soundcore Liberty 2 Pro are one of the best sounding and longest-lasting true wireless buds in their price range, and then some.
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Foundations of quantum physics I. A critique of the tradition
Foundations of quantum physics III. Measurement
Foundations of quantum physics II. The thermal interpretation
Born's rule and measurement
Foundations of quantum physics V. Coherent foundations
Concrete Foundations for Categorical Quantum Physics
Correlations in Quantum Spin Systems from the Boundary Effect
Experimental demonstration of quantum advantage for one-way communication complexity
A Unified View of Quantum Correlations and Quantum Coherence
Single-world interpretations of quantum theory cannot be self-consistent
Foundations of quantum physics IV. More on the thermal interpretation
Referee this paper: arXiv:1904.12721 by Arnold Neumaier
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Abstract. This paper continues the discussion of the thermal interpretation of quantum physics. While Part II and Part III of this series of papers explained and justified the reasons for the departure from tradition, the present Part IV summarizes the main features and adds intuitive explanations and new technical developments.
It is shown how the spectral features of quantum systems and an approximate classical dynamics arise under appropriate conditions.
Evidence is given for how, in the thermal interpretation, the measurement of a qubit by a pointer q-expectation may result in a binary detection event with probabilities given by the diagonal entries of the reduced density matrix of the prepared qubit.
Differences in the conventions about measurement errors in the thermal interpretation and in traditional interpretations are discussed in detail.
Several standard experiments, the double slit, Stern-Gerlach, and particle decay are described from the perspective of the thermal interpretation.
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As to me, I clearly remember H. Poincarré remarque that quantum case is a case of low intensity of light, if we speak of light interference. He said that a light quantum (a photon in the modern language) interferes with itself.
I do not know whether it was a common opinion or his genious guess, but from here we can easily conclude that a classical (in any sense) picture is an inclusive one = where many events (photons dots, pixels, etc.) are joined in one picture. I myself encountered this while working with the second atomic form-factors.
I must say I did not read tthe "thermal interpretation" at all, but I feel Arnold means exactly this - a single event, contrary to an inclusive picture (whose numbers may be very diffrerent and subjective), is our subjective choice.
I also want to underline that our understanding of a "free space" and a "free particle" must (MUST) be replaced with "low intensity regions" and "high intensity regions" created by the surrounding matter (source), and the "particles" must (MUST) be understood as quasi-particles of the surrounding matter/environment.
Sorry, I am out of order.
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This fourth paper of the series about the foundations of quantum physics continues the discussion of the thermal interpretation as introduced in the second paper and applied to measurements in the third paper.
By considering the properties of so-called anonymous collections, the notion of indistinguishability known from quantum mechanics is taken over to classical (statistical) mechanics. A rather nice proof that classical mechanics emerges in the thermal interpretation from the dynamics of q-expectations using the weak law of large numbers is given. For a system with a Hamiltonian with a purely discrete spectrum, the Ritz recombination principle is recovered. This is then applied to probing a quantum system (modeled as an external forcing) with a (damped) harmonic oscillator to measure spectra. A single qubit can be described by considering the density operator of the universe to be the tensor product of the density operator of the qubit system and the density operator of the environment. To measure its properties, the response of macroscopic environmental variables to the qubit is analyzed. For a scattering process, Born’s rule can be rigorously derived. To generally describe a measurement process, the thermal interpretation considers measurement results as the sum of a so-called true value which is a matter of choice or convention plus some residual measurement errors. As true values are chosen the q-expectations that follow classical dynamics. For example the Stern-Gerlach experiment is described using a true value between [-1,1]. The double slit experiment is explained by assuming a classical continuous electromagnetic field and a detector that is the only source of discreteness in the outcome of the experiment. In a similar way, low intensity measurements of continuous fields are explained by the behavior of the detector as a quantum bucket which can only produce discrete responses. Reactions in (particle physics) are described by the in and outgoing currents and metastability of the system, which can by symmetry breaking decay into the initial or final state.
At least in the examples given, the true values seem to be obtained by “brushing” over the discreteness of the spectrum of the operator measured and replacing it by its mean (or center) and an uncertainty spanning the range of the spectrum. This is in agreement with the notion that q-expectations are the only measurable observables. However, a true value that can (not even in principle) turn up as a measurement result of a single experiment seems not very natural to me. For example regarding the measurement results of a spin-$1/2$ particle as approximations to an individually never measured true value of 0 seems a bit questionable. In addition, in case of matters of spin the true value seems to ignore the issue of spin-statistics which should still be there in the quantum formalism but does no longer show up explicitly in the outcome of the measurement. In principle, subtracting from a measurement result the properly modeled measurement errors should give the true value describing the system. They can then be compared to models and theories to choose the one which agrees best with experiment. In this way, the true values are not a matter of choice or interpretation. More precisely, if one allows for scientific validity of single measurements in quantum mechanics and takes the conventional point of view, the Eigenvalues of the operator measured are what is approximately (depending on the resolution of the instrument) left of the result of a single measurement after subtracting the measurement errors. If an how all errors can really be correctly determined is another (experimental) question.
As acknowledged in the paper, the two spots in the Stern-Gerlach experiment do appear because the spin of the silver atoms gets aligned to the B-field. So observing the two macroscopic spots is usually considered to be a (indirect) measurement of the microscopic spin of the entities making up the current. It is not obvious to me why this should not be a measurement of the spin. The fact that it is unknown a priori on which of the two spots a single particle will land is well explained by the conventional quantum formalism.
Even though one of the goals of the thermal interpretation seems to be to make classical and quantum mechanics more look alike, it still is the case that conversely to the quantum case classical statistical mechanics the entities making up the system considered can in principle be distinguished or even labeled. The system also does have microstates that are described by the properties of the microscopic constituents. The number of microstates that agrees with a given macroscopic variable what quantifies the entropy of the system.
Usually, when investigating the interaction between matter and radiation, the quantum system is modeled by an oscillator and the external field is the external forcing. To retrieve the Ritz combination principle in this paper, things are done the other way round. More generally, to describe the quantum behavior of many microscopic systems the point of view presented in this paper seems to be to shift the focus interest to the (macroscopic or classical) behavior of the detector.
In summary, I still think as said earlier that the thermal interpretation makes a lot of sense in statistical mechanics, whereas concerning the microscopic implications I have my reservations. For example the true values as defined in this paper are highly non-intuitive for me personally to say the least. However some derivations, such as the one for the classical limit or the response of environmental (detector?) variables for example, look also rather cute to me.
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Questioning the foundations is natural when physics fails to get a global ( continuous ) consistency, as it is shown here and on most debates platforms, including the well known magazines. Moreover, it is always natural, at least as an exercise for future teachers.
However, you did a serious work :)
commented May 6, 2019 by igael (360 points) [ revision history ]
Thanks for the review. We clearly differ in our views about which interpretation is more natural....
''In principle, subtracting from a measurement result the properly modeled measurement errors should give the true value describing the system.'' - Yes, this defines the notion of measurement error. But what constitutes the true value is a matter of interpretation. Tradition takes eigenvalues as true values, the thermal interpretation q-expectations.
''it still is the case that conversely to the quantum case classical statistical mechanics the entities making up the system considered can in principle be distinguished or even labeled.'' - No. As mentioned in Section 1.1, assuming classical particles to be distinguishable by Laplacian demon leads to a spurious entropy of mixing.
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Neenah seeks help to curb Pokemon traffic
City crews recently installed a fence Kimberly Point Park to protect the grass.
Neenah seeks help to curb Pokemon traffic City crews recently installed a fence Kimberly Point Park to protect the grass. Check out this story on postcrescent.com: http://post.cr/2m45OLr
Duke Behnke, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 1:05 p.m. CT Feb. 28, 2017 | Updated 3:58 p.m. CT Feb. 28, 2017
Neenah put up a fence at Kimberly Point Park to keep Pokemon Go players and other park visitors off a newly seeded lawn.(Photo: Danny Damiani/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)Buy Photo
NEENAH - City officials have established a dialogue with Niantic, maker of the location-based augmented reality game Pokemon Go, in hopes that the company will lessen the concentration of PokeStops at Kimberly Point Park.
PokeStops are real-world landmarks, monuments or memorials where players, using smartphones, can collect in-game items to increase their chances of catching Pokemon. Kimberly Point has eight PokeStops, and players have flocked to the 3½-acre park in great numbers, trampling the grass, leaving litter and at times disturbing the neighborhood.
Neenah officials sought changes from Niantic last year, but the San Francisco-based software developer failed to respond to repeated emails. This year Niantic responded to the city's emails within 24 hours.
Mayor Dean Kaufert said city officials have scheduled a conference call with Niantic for Wednesday afternoon.
"We're going to see if we can convince them to downgrade the stop, not eliminate it, just downgrade it," Kaufert told USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin.
Kaufert said Niantic removed some PokeStops last year, including one at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
RELATED: Pokemon Go players overrun Kimberly Point Park
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Mike Kading, Neenah's parks and recreation director, is encouraged by the company's newfound willingness to talk about the city's concerns. He would like Niantic to set a limit on the number of PokeStops within a specific radius.
"If they did that, I think they would resolve most of their conflicts nationwide or even internationally," Kading said.
The fence at Kimberly Point Park in Neenah will stay in place until the newly seeded lawn can recover. (Photo: Danny Damiani/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Kimberly Point Park has been a hot spot for players since Pokemon Go debuted in July. The popularity of the game waned during the winter months, but on Feb. 16, Pokemon Go released a new batch of characters.
The Generation 2 release brought out players in droves. It coincided with a week of unseasonably warm weather that melted snow and thawed frozen ground. The heavy foot traffic turned the park lawn into a muddy mess. City crews had aerated and reseeded the lawn last fall to repair damage done by Pokemon Go players.
"It was just that perfect storm, with the new release of characters and great weather," Kading said.
Upon realizing the damage, Kaufert ordered crews to fence the area to prevent further harm. He said the number of people in the park was estimated at 350 several days after the Gen 2 release.
"The park was not built for that many people," he said.
Gayle Kagen of Appleton visits Kimberly Point twice a week to enjoy the beauty of the park and to play Pokemon Go.
"The beauty has definitely changed with the fence," Kagen said Tuesday. "If there were a walkway, maybe the people would stay off the grass. I'm always amazed at how many people are down here."
Terry Cleveland of Neenah said he plays Pokemon Go from his car. He understands why the city put up the fence.
"Everything's worn out," he said. "There's nothing but mud right now."
Kading said the fence will stay in place until the lawn can recover.
In addition to the fence, Kaufert is considering other means to improve the condition and safety of the park, if the conversations with Niantic prove unsuccessful.
He said the city could:
Strengthen the police presence to strictly enforce the park's 10 p.m. closing and the bans on alcohol and littering. "Last year the number of individuals who were in the park after 10 p.m. caused a lot of heartburn for the adjacent neighborhood," Kaufert said.
Prohibit the use of tents and tent awnings.
Restrict parking on the south side of the park.
Place garbage cans in the park. Neenah typically has a "carry in, carry out" policy for garbage in parks.
Some residents have encouraged Neenah to follow Milwaukee County's lead in requiring Niantic and other software companies to obtain a permit before they could incorporate park locations into games. The revenue from the permits could offset the cost of added park maintenance.
City Attorney Jim Godlewski said he has examined the requirement but thinks it could be difficult to enforce if a company were based outside the area, as Niantic is.
"To enforce a judgment, we would have to do that in California court," he said. "If they are international, that makes it even more difficult."
Kaufert also has concerns with a permit system.
"If we set up a permit similar to Milwaukee County and the company decides to pay for the permit, whether it be $1,000 or $2,000, then we have legitimized the use of that park for that venture," Kaufert said.
Duke Behnke: 920-993-7176, or dbehnke@postcrescent.com; on Twitter @DukeBehnke
Cars are parked alongside a fence that keeps visitors off the grass at Kimberly Point Park in Neenah. (Photo: Danny Damiani/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
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Donald Trump Demands ‘Non-Stop Oral’ For CNN Debate Appearance
Republican 2016 U.S. presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump pauses at his podium during the first official Republican presidential candidates debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign in Cleveland, Ohio, August 6, 2015. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Not only does he want five million bucks, Donald Trump wants something a lot more personal to appear at the next CNN debate.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — At a press conference earlier this week, billionaire mogul and current Republican presidential front runner Donald J. Trump told reporters that he was “adding some stuff” to his list of demands that CNN must meet in order for him to participate in their next televised debate, and that stuff is namely that he “gets non-stop oral” for the duration the debate.
Trump’s first demand was an eyebrow-raising request for the cable news network to give him $5 million. Trump claimed he’d donate the money to charity, but there would likely be no legal requirement for him to do so. A spokesman for Trump said last week there were three charities being considered for the donation — The Trump Foundation for Trumps, The Donald J. Trump Fund for Continuing Our Trumpish Ways, and The Illinois Nazi Party which last week endorsed Trump. The same campaign spokesman also told the press last week that Trump could be trusted to follow through with the donation because “even if he loses it, he’s filed for bankruptcy so many times that losing large sums of money is almost like second nature” to the tycoon.
“Their network sucks in the ratings,” Trump told reporters at his New York press conference, “so it only makes sense they’d suck my dick for two hours.” Trump said when pressed that he “doesn’t give a rip” who does the oral copulation, as long as “they don’t make eye contact and keep their filthy hands off my custom merkin,” which he says he had made especially for him, so that it’d match what he claims is hair on the top of his head. “I don’t care if it’s that Cooper guy, or that Bartiromo broad,” Mr. Trump told reporters, “someone’s gonna hand me a check for five million that’ll totally get donate to charity — wink, wink — and someone is going to oral me the entire debate.”
When asked how someone could be expected to moderate a debate and give him sexual gratification with their mouth, Trump shrugged. “That’s for the scientists to figure out,” he said glibly, adding, “my needs are quite simple. One — Five million smackeroonies. Two — oral. All the time. Constant, never ending oral. Bing. Bang. Boom.”
Representatives from CNN could not be reached for comment at the time of publication.
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Kurt Vile. | Beto de Nigris
Streets of Your Town: Live shows in New York, featuring TORRES, Kurt Vile, Patti Smith, Tune-Yards
By J. EDWARD KEYES
You don't need to listen closely to the lyrics to get a clear sense of the emotional mood that pervades the debut from Mackenzie Scott, who records as TORRES (Feb. 22, Cake Shop; Feb. 24, Paper Box). Just listen to the way it sounds.
There's Scott's electric guitar – bare, untreated, spiraling like a solitary metal ballerina atop an ancient music box – and there's Scott's voice, a worn, pleading alto that conveys hurt and resentment and longing with each gasped syllable. The net effect is wrenching, like eavesdropping on a downstairs neighbor as she pours her heart out over the phone in the small hours of the morning.
As it turns out, the sparseness isn't deliberate but accidental – the album was recorded with room mics in Scott's home in five short days after her family gave her the guitar she plays on it as a Christmas gift. Lyrically, the album is just as spare and just as crushing. "This cannot happen again," she pleads in the opening moments of "Honey," "twice in a year's too much."
From there, she lays out a narrative of emotional despair that's all the more devastating for its precision. "While you were ashing in your coffee, I was thinking about telling you what you'd done to me," she seethes in the song's most damning line. Scott's songs depict the kind of cruel, quiet heartbreak that set in daily and kill slowly and quietly.
Aly Spaltro, better known as Lady Lamb the Beekeeper (Feb. 23, Knitting Factory), is also a skilled storyteller. Unlike Scott, the songs on her debut, Ripley Pine, are rich and expansive, bursting with brass and buoyed by rollicking back porch country rhythms. Where Scott exposes romantic disappointment with minimalism, Solange (Feb. 20, Webster Hall) conceals it in lush, bubbling productions. Her latest album, True, radiated the thump and glide of '80s R&B, Solange's slippery voice wriggling through the sluices between the drums. My Midnight Heart (Feb. 20, Glasslands), the musical guise of Angelica Allen, is more mysterious. The music is languid and foamy, Allen's voice a spirit gliding over the waters. Heaven's Gate (Feb. 18, Brooklyn Bowl) are grimmer and darker, great swipes of guitar cutting into Jess Pap's sirenlike voice.
Like TORRES, there's an intimacy to the music of Kurt Vile (Feb. 23, Kimmel Center at NYU). His stunning last record, Smoke Ring for My Halo, felt like an old sailor's journal set to music. Vile's voice – a lazy, drawn-out wheeze – sang out songs of romantic longing, endless, troubled journeys and strange visions, and the music, an obtuse take on folk and classic rock , felt like a peyote-gobbling trip through Neil Young or Bob Dylan's catalog.
But even at its most lyrically obtuse, there was a peculiar, irresistible beauty to the music. Vile's conversational approach to singing – and his tendency to emphasize unlikely syllables - made each line feel strange and surprising, and the music had an almost subliminal melodicism: it took a few listens for the hooks to take hold, but when they did, they became irresistible. Vile is a ragamuffin romantic, a scruffed-up streetcorner singer with a warm, oversized heart.
There's some of that same weathered beauty in the music of the Portalnd group Porches (Feb. 23, Shea Stadium). Like Vile, they work from a base of folk music and classic rock but, also like Vile, they refract it so violently that only traces of it remain. "Daddies," from their last album, Smoke and Love Songs Revisited, is a perfect example. The guitar turns a lazy curlicue, but the lyrics, which arrive slow and measured, tell of late-night drug use and pining for lost friends.
The Australian group Tame Impala (Feb. 19, Terminal 5) also dismantles familiar pop forms, but their choice base material is '60s psych pop. The resulting music is woozier and more kaleidoscopic, full of blown-out guitars, clanging pianos and distant vocals.
Acid Baby Jesus (Feb. 22, The Bell House; Feb. 23, Cake Shop) take that same fondness for psychedelia to noisier extremes. The Greek group's outstanding debut, LP, treats garage rock like an acid blotter, letting its edges bloat, distort, buckle and go neon.
Beach Fossils (Feb. 23, Bowery Ballroom) take a similarly narcotic approach to '80s jangle pop, slowing its tempos and burying the vocals while retaining its melodic ease.
EULA (Feb. 21, Death By Audio) have no patience for such niceties. The Brooklyn group gets more startling and more ferocious with each new effort. Their latest single, "I Collapse," is their strongest yet, a bit of minimalist post-punk that lurches like a wagon with a square wheel before detonating in a blinding flash of dissonant guitar.
Dissonance has been the motto of the Norwegian band Enslaved (Feb. 22, Bowery Ballroom) for the last 22 years. After a career characterized by scorching black metal, they expanded on last year's RIITIIR, working in open-ended art metal structures, cascading keyboards and operatic vocals.
They are joined by the Arkansas band Pallbearer, whose gorgeous 2012 album Sorrow and Extinction made doom metal feel emotive and elegiac, and Royal Thunder, whose feral update on '70s hard rock was one of last year's most thrilling surprises.
Things will be quieter at the 23rd Annual Tibet House Benefit (Feb 23, Carnegie Hall), a concert to raise money for the non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of Tibetan culture. Tibet House was founded at the request of the Dalai Lama in 1987, and has since become a quietly dependable source of art exhibitions and lectures.
The concert, curated by Philip Glass, has rounded up a typically eclectic lineup: though Jim James and Patti Smith both offer a reliable – if slightly iconoclastic – takes on roots rock, the bill is rounded out by weirdo crayon-pop innovator Ariel Pink, the ecstatic, yelping music of Tune-Yards and betboxer/rapper Rahzel.
Other notable Tibet enthusiasts include the director David Lynch, who not only made an obsession with Tibetan culture a notable character detail for Twin Peaks' Special Agent Dale Cooper, but who had himself traveled to the region numerous times. He's curating a night of his own, simply entitled: David Lynch Presents Chrysta Bell & Special Guests (Feb. 22, Le Poisson Rouge). Though Lynch himself will not be performing, Bell – whose smoky delivery hypnotic presence was featured in the deeply unsettling Inland Empire – is sure to embody his knack for making the familiar feel strange.
Atlas Moth (Feb. 18, Music Hall of Williamsburg) also spike familiar music with a bit of the surreal – their take on doom metal is churning and psychedelic, working strange textures into thundering sound.
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A SIC Joke
Nearly six years ago, the former Labor State Government released a Draft Special Infrastructure Contribution (SIC) Scheme to cover 4,291 square kilometers’ of the Lower Hunter. The Property Council’s Hunter Director, Andrew Fletcher, said that industry had been ringing alarm bells ever since.
“At the time, we warned the Government the SIC was a poorly designed and extremely blunt instrument that would strangle new housing supply”.
“Latest research proves those predictions were spot-on. Since its introduction, housing supply has been in decline and the Hunter now faces a shortfall of 30,000 homes within a decade.”
Mr. Fletcher said the scheme had been wildly inconsistent across the region, stripping the market of certainty and making investors reluctant to tackle new residential developments on the urban fringes. He said it was another example of how planning in NSW had “gone mad”.
“We had one instance of a young couple in Nulkaba wanting to sell half their rural residential lot to fund construction of a new home and being slugged with a $32,000 SIC bill by the NSW Government.”
Responding to industry pressure and a deepening housing affordability crisis, the NSW Planning Minister has now released a Discussion Paper to create a more transparent and consistent scheme.
“This is a crucial policy setting for the Hunter because it will determine the economics of land development for the next decade or more.”
“It will directly influence how many houses get built, where they get built and how affordable they are.”
He said the development industry accepted the need to contribute towards infrastructure funding, but said three things were non-negotiable in the Hunter.
“The charge itself must not scare away investors, the funds raised must be allocated to infrastructure which supports new housing development and control of the scheme must be handed to Hunter Development Corporation.”
“Unfortunately, the current Hunter SIC Discussion Paper reads like a $510 million shopping list from various state government agencies and contains none of those safeguards for home owners.”
Mr. Fletcher said he expected the Hunter SIC to be a hot topic of conversation when the NSW Chief Planner delivers the keynote address at today’s Hunter Lunch.
Media contact: Andrew Fletcher| M 0407410017 | E afletcher@propertycouncil.com.au
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Former Kansas Attorney General has Law License Suspended Indefinitely
Loaded on Nov. 8, 2014 by Christopher Zoukis published in Prison Legal News November, 2014, page 50
Filed under: Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Attorney Misconduct, Attorneys General. Location: Kansas.
by Christopher Zoukis
On October 18, 2013, the Kansas Supreme Court indefinitely suspended the law license of former State Attorney General Phillip D. “Phill” Kline, who became nationally known for his repeated prosecutions of Planned Parenthood and Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider later murdered by an anti-abortion activist.
In a 154-page decision that detailed Kline’s violations of the Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct, the unanimous state Supreme Court held there was “clear and convincing evidence” that he had demonstrated “overzealous advocacy” and failed to operate “within the bounds of the law.” The Court concluded he had “violated his duties to the public, the legal system, and the legal profession.”
Kline, who served as Attorney General from 2003 to 2007, is now an assistant law professor at Liberty University in Virginia – a Christian-oriented school founded by evangelist pastor Jerry Falwell. He will be able to apply for reinstatement of his law license every three years.
The Supreme Court found Kline had engaged in misconduct when he had staffers attach sealed records to a public brief in violation of a court order, then ordered them to provide “misleading” information about their actions in an ensuing investigation.
He was also found to have repeatedly lied about how he obtained confidential patient records from Planned Parenthood while he was a district attorney. As a prosecutor, Kline filed at least 107 criminal charges against Planned Parenthood, charging the organization with performing illegal abortions and altering records. All of the charges were ultimately dropped, as were charges filed against various doctors associated with the clinic.
Kline became well known in connection with his aggressive prosecutions of Dr. George Tiller after being elected Attorney General. He appeared on Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor during a 2006 “Tiller the Baby Killer” campaign – an appearance that the Kansas Supreme Court found did not constitute misconduct. Dr. Tiller was murdered by anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder in May 2009.
Kline’s attorney said the disciplinary board, which had recommended disbarment, “cherry-picked” incidents from Kline’s past to paint a “false picture” of his conduct. While the Court did not make the suspension permanent, it wrote that “Kline’s inability or refusal to acknowledge or address [the misconduct’s] significance is particularly troubling in light of his service as the chief prosecuting attorney for this State and its most populous county.”
While in office, Kline served as the Chairman of the Republican Attorneys’ General Association and Co-Chair of the National Violent Sexual Predator Apprehension Task Force, and was an executive committee member of the National Association of Attorneys General.
Kline appealed his indefinite suspension to the U.S. Supreme Court, which denied his petition for writ of certiorari in April 2014. Ironically, Kline had previously argued before the Supreme Court himself, in a 2006 death penalty case. See: In re Kline, 298 Kan. 96, 311 P.3d 321 (Kan. 2013), cert. denied.
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Man Freed Who Sat in Prison Nearly 30 Years While Prosecutors Withheld Evidence of Innocence, Nov. 18, 2019. Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Release and Reentry, Wrongful Conviction.
How the Secretive 'Discipline' Process for Federal Prosecutors Buries Misconduct Cases, Nov. 16, 2019. Misconduct/Corruption, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct.
Florida DOC Attorney Resigns After Posting Racially-Charged Comments, Sept. 8, 2019. Misconduct/Corruption, Racial Discrimination, Attorney Misconduct.
Stormy Daniels’ Former Attorney Accused of Ripping Off Prisoner, Other Clients, Sept. 8, 2019. Attorney Misconduct.
Sixth Circuit: Prosecutor’s Numerous Improper Comments Constitute Flagrant Misconduct Depriving Defendants of a Fair Trial, Aug. 19, 2019. Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Prosecutors.
Fourth Circuit Reverses Lower Court for Giving Dispositive Weight to Plea Agreement Language Rather Than Fact-Based Evaluation of Weight of Evidence in IAC Claim, Aug. 19, 2019. Attorneys, Attorney Misconduct.
Police, Prosecutor Misconduct Continues Unabated as Evidenced by Record Number of Exonerations in 2018, July 17, 2019. Police Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Pardons/Clemency.
Maine: Prosecutorial Misconduct in False Rape Case Results in $2.1 Million in Damages, July 2, 2019. Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Prosecutors, Damages.
Ohio Mayor’s Courts Are Huge Sources of Unjust Revenues, June 17, 2019. Misconduct/Corruption, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Filing Fees, Bond Fees, Booking Fees.
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Report: Mexico Getting Illegals Bus Tickets to ‘Different Places Along The Border’ to ‘Spread Them Out’
Chris Menahan
Mexico is ferrying around illegal aliens to “different places along the border to kind of spread them out” so they’ll avoid the “bad optics” of crossing “all in one big unit,” the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies said Tuesday.
From OneNewsNow, “Mexico good at PR, poor at stopping migrants”:
Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, agrees that Mexico has been more cooperative with the Trump administration.
“There is lots of room for improvement obviously,” he says, “but they’ve been much more cooperative than they have been before in trying to limit this flow of people from Central America.”
With that said, however, he advises that supposed assistance has been just for show such as the caravan that was halted at the border.
“What they ended up doing was just getting people bus tickets to different places along the border to kind of spread them out,” Krikorian recalls, “so that if they were going to cross they wouldn’t be doing it all in one big unit, which would be bad optics, be incendiary.”
Much of the supposed “cooperation” therefore amounts to an attempt at good public relations with Trump, he adds.
When they make it into the US, the Department of Homeland Security puts them on buses and planes and places them throughout the country.
Most illegal immigrants dropped at gas station in Deming, NM to wait for bus carried duffle bags & backpacks. Woman (in pink shirt) directed them to enter, then left.
These are taxpayer dollars. At beginning of video you see homeless man begging. Where is money for him? #nmpol pic.twitter.com/UQ1RIMiXyk
— Politix Fireball™ (@PolitixFireball) June 3, 2019
“In congressional testimony, [DHS head Kevin McAleenan] said his agency is releasing ‘100 percent’ of adult border crossers who arrive with children at the U.S.-Mexico border and giving them work permits shortly thereafter,” Breitbart reported last week.
This article was posted: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at 4:18 am
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10.9.2018 Music Videos
Video: DJ Snake feat. Selena Gomez, Ozuna, & Cardi B – ‘Taki Taki’
Taki taki, rumba! DJ Snake unleashes the explosive video for his hit collaboration with Selena Gomez, Ozuna, and Cardi B.
The Colin Tilley-directed clip takes place in a dark and forbidden forest. Right in time for Halloween, the enchanting Bardi emerges to spit some bilingual rhymes, while dressed in a busty black outfit. She changes into a red ensemble before joining her co-stars on a volcanic surface while lava explodes behind them. Stunning in sparkly green, Selena seduces in a sexy jungle scene.
“Taki Taki” is quickly rising up the charts. It is currently the most-streamed song in the world on Spotify, and is No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The video premiered during the 2018 American Music Awards, where Cardi was nominated for eight awards. During Tuesday’s broadcast, she won her first award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist and thanked her daughter Kulture. “I really wanna thank my daughter. And not just because she’s my daughter,” she said. “They said I wasn’t gonna make it after I had a baby.”
She DID that! @iamcardib accepts the first award of the night for #AMAs Favorite Artist – Rap/Hip-Hop. 🎉 pic.twitter.com/t2Hnpv70zn
— American Music Awards (@AMAs) October 10, 2018
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Our view on air pollution and the climate emergency
The UK has environmental problems which are contributing to and exacerbated by climate change - a serious threat to future generations. Jo explains how the College is playing its role to speak up on behalf of young people.
UK General Election 2019 - view from the nations
Health and social care in the UK is devolved. Our Officers for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland set out what the UK General Election means for them.
NHS plan
Why good prevention policy means providing the best possible start in life for children and young people
Our work on prevention is a vital part of our advocacy with policy makers and politicians. In this article Max Davie writes about our response to the green paper on prevention, and why focusing on the early years is so important for children and young people.
A carrot a day: child health during World War II
The Second World War began 80 years ago in September 1939. The war brought huge changes to the lives of children in Britain and to the country’s health services.
History and archive
Time to raise the standard: children presenting to emergency departments in mental health crisis
For the first time, the College has developed an audit toolkit to support Emergency Departments treating children to monitor how well they are meeting the 70 “Facing the Future” standards. Dr John Criddle and Dr Virginia Davies discuss the development of the toolkit and its impact for children in me...
Facing the Future - emergency care
Early intervention can help us win the battle against child poverty and ill health
Responding to Call 9 of Children in Scotland's 25 Calls campaign, Claire Burnett, External Affairs Manager, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Scotland, explains how we can act to ensure children born today grow up in a truly healthy nation.
A focus on children's wellbeing - reflections on our St David's Day Conference
For the final chapter in the "fetal life to adulthood" series devised by Dr Abby Parish, ST6 trainee at Swansea's Singleton Hospital, this year's conference looked at mental health and wellbeing. Here Abby reflects on another successful event before she leaves her position as our Wales Trainee Repre...
International Women's Day - Celebrating 75 years of female members
Today, over 60% of our 19,000 members are women - and both male and female paediatricians take up flexible working and less than full time training. But gender equality is a work in progress. This International Women's Day we look at the history of women in the RCPCH and celebrate 75 years of female...
Time to Talk- Supporting children and young people with mental health
There has been a lot in the media about mental health recently, with the government promising that mental health will be a key focus of the NHS Long Term Plan. But we know that lots of parents will still have niggling questions. Dr Lee Hudson, Mental Health Lead at the Royal College of Paediatrics a...
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The depths of winter - building pressure in children Emergency Departments
The author Paul Theroux said, “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation” and yet the reverse is true in paediatrics. Our last few winters have been so bad that government talk of winter pressures funding seems to start as soon as the daffodils emerge in spring. But when did you last read about...
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On the Mirrors at Standing Rock
The Evil Nobody Saw in the Trump - Hitler “Person of the Year” Nonsense
Aleppo as the 21st Century Hiroshima?
We might want to think of Aleppo as the Hiroshima of the 21st century.
This photograph brought the analogy to mind, and yet it would seem to argue against the comparison. The Hiroshima mushroom cloud was not as large, symmetrical, and awe-inspiring as the Nagasaki explosion or many of the atomic test explosions to come, but it was bigger than this blast plume over Aleppo. This smaller image is closer to those from the tactical nuclear weapon tests, and even so, the nukes would still be worse, so what’s the point?
The point is that a hazy, moody photograph of the aftermath of an explosion might make someone stop and think. To consider, for example, just how many people have died in Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria. (Here’s a clue: more than at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.) To consider how much conventional warfare is excused because it is assumed to be less destructive than nuclear weapons. To realize that for those burnt, maimed, shocked, sickened, starved, orphaned, and killed by the unrelenting violence, the mechanism doesn’t really matter. To ponder just how much is lost when a city is allowed to die.
One consolation of the analogy is that Aleppo, like Hiroshima, could be rebuilt to become a vibrant modern city again. But don’t get your hopes up. The analogy is imperfect from the start, and that may be part of the message. The destruction now is not the product of a single bomb but instead of thousands upon thousands of bombs over days, weeks, months, and years of warfare. Likewise, the damage may be evident for generations, a continuing witness to the politics of revenge and abandonment. The first salvos of atomic warfare were effectively the last, whereas the violence unleashed on Aleppo is part of something that may be spreading across the globe: a dark age where localized violence occurs persistently enough to terrorize millions while tearing down civilization itself.
The photograph is not news, but something else. An elegy, perhaps. The damage has been done, and for many it is too late even to mourn. By turning the fog of war into an atmosphere of remembrance, the photograph suggests that history changes only the names and the weapons, but not the slaughter. It also asks: If the world wants to prevent another Hiroshima, why not stop the bombing of Aleppo?
— Robert Hariman
Cross-posted from No Caption Needed.
Photo: Omar Sanadiki/Reuters. Caption: Smoke rises after air strikes on rebel-controlled besieged eastern Aleppo, Syria December 5, 2016.
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The Irish Open
This week, the Irish Open is being held at Portstewart Golf Club, one of Ireland’s top links golf courses. Be sure to catch it on The Golf Channel, and if you can’t catch it live, fire up the Tivo machine. Located along the beautiful Causeway Coast in the North East corner of Ireland, Portstewart’s front 9 especially is the match of any 9 holes of links golf in Ireland. Many of these holes were built more recently in the Sand Dune range known locally as the ‘Thistly Hollow’. You”ll see no artificially bulldozed sand hills here – all natural, tumbling, exhilarating, ‘in your face’ links golf at its finest. Watch it and you’ll see what natural links golf is all about.
Northern Ireland: Geography, History and Politics
Geography: A potted lesson. The island of Ireland is divided into divided into 32 counties. Ulster is the Northern province on the Island and has 9 counties. “Northern Ireland” is comprised of a subset of six counties out of those nine counties in Ulster – check out the brown area on the map.
History: Now here’s is where we could get into trouble! so we’ll stick with the modern era. After a War of Independence between the IRA and the British forces in the early 20th century, The Anglo Irish Treaty was signed which partitioned the island of Ireland into the Irish Free State (Republic of Ireland) and Northern Ireland …. the Six Counties referred to above.
Politics: Now we’re really getting close to the edge so let’s stick with ‘the facts’. Northern Ireland is currently part of The United Kingdom and has its own local devolved government. With the signing of the ‘Good Friday Agreement’ in 1998, the modern day ‘Troubles’ by and large came to an end. This agreement provided that Northern Ireland may only be re-united with the Republic of Ireland (The South) based on a majority of people in Northern Ireland and separately in Southern Ireland voting accordingly in a referendum. Brexit? Well that story remains to unfold and even the so-called ‘experts’ are spoofing it on that one and how it might impact Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland – Golf and Golfers
Golf in Northern Ireland
Because of ‘The Troubles’, the potential for Golf in Northern Ireland suffered hugely through the mid to late 20th century. That has now all changed. With The Irish Open at Portstewart this year and the Open Championship coming to neighboring Royal Portrush in 2019, golf in Northern Ireland is firmly on the up. And as if that was not enough, Golf Digest named Royal County Down (also in Northern Ireland) as the number one ranked golf course in the World in 2016. But don’t think those are the only great courses up North. There are many beautiful hidden gems also, with Ardglass, Kirkistown Castle, Ballycastle, and Royal Belfast recommended. And if that wasn’t enough, just over in the neighbouring county of Donegal (in the South!) , you will find some of the finest undiscovered links golf on the Island. Check out of “Rory Recommend’s Tour”.
Golfers in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland has a population of about 1.8 million and represents a land mass of approx. 5.5 thousand square miles. Yet through some strange phenomenon, four of Golf’s major championships were captured by three separate golfers from Northern Ireland between 2010 and 2012. Being Graeme McDowell, Darren Clarke and Rory McIlroy. Indeed, add Padraig Harrington (he’s from Dublin in the South) into the mix, and the island of Ireland captured 7 major golf tournaments in the five years from 2007 through 2012. However, maybe we should not be surprised as Northern Ireland has a track record of producing creative mercurial geniuses having also given the world George Best, Alex Higgins, and Van Morrison in recent times.
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With great courses in natural surroundings, it is no surprise that major golf tournaments are flooding back into Northern Ireland. Royal County Down hosted the 2014 Irish Open, this year’s Irish Open is at Portstewart and the daddy of them all, The Open Championship comes to Royal Portrush in 2019. Northern Ireland is indeed OPEN for Golf. Want to experience those courses first hand? Check out our customized Northern Lights Tour and contact us today to walk in the footsteps of Northern Ireland’s modern day major champions.
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Jeff Mauro's Pork & Mindy’s Declares Bankruptcy
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Pork & Mindy’s Teams Up with Music Icon Paul Oakenfold
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Chicago's Star-Powered Sandwich Joint Preps for Growth
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Pork & Mindy's Fundraises During National Pork Month
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Common Mistakes That Can Sink Your M&A - Microsoft Platform Management - Blogs - Quest Community
Microsoft Platform Management M&A Security Series: Common mistakes that can sink your M&A (Part 1)
M&A Security Series: Common mistakes that can sink your M&A (Part 1)
ITintegration
Mergers and Acquisitions require big bucks to make happen. Poorly protected data during and after an M&A IT Integration will cost even bigger bucks with a few nasty headlines thrown on top!
The ICO just announced its intentions to fine Marriott International, Inc. more than $124 million for failing to protect customer data during and after its acquisition of Starwood Hotels (where the breach originated). The ICO investigation found that Marriott failed to perform sufficient cybersecurity due diligence when it bought Starwood and didn’t secure its systems.
“The GDPR makes it clear that organizations must be accountable for the personal data they hold. This can include carrying out proper due diligence when making an acquisition.”
- Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner1
In Part 1 of my new series dedicated to M&A IT security, I’ll dive into the common mistakes that can sink an M&A and the expected cost synergies pre- and post-Legal Day One.
Common M&A Security Mistakes Pre-Legal Day One
It’s important to remember that 50 percent of expected cost synergies of an M&A – you know, those $$$ reasons you do an M&A in the first place – comes from IT integration. When so much money and potential revenue is on the line, many organizations hyper focus on achieving that as quickly as possible, making crucial IT integration mistakes along the way.
After a deal has been inked but before it closes, one of the biggest rush mistakes is establishing an Active Directory trust before performing a cybersecurity analysis. Everyone wants to get employees from the two organizations working together and sharing resources – the quickest way to do that is to set up the AD trust between domains. However, creating a trust with another domain creates a pathway for anyone in that domain — including a malicious insider or a compromised account — to traverse laterally into your environment. Before you take that risk, you need to thoroughly review the security policies and procedures in place in the other AD domain and have a plan for how to monitor users and resources in this trust.
Find more Pre-Legal Day One security pitfalls in this ebook: How Mergers and Acquisitions Impact Data Security.
Common M&A Security Mistakes Post-Legal Day One
On the way to Legal Day One(LD1) goals of basic communication and interoperability, IT teams often have to make some compromises, such as leaving legacy systems in place and using workarounds to enable the associated workflows; all those shortcuts need to be cleaned up. And of course, there’s still all the work that was beyond the scope of LD1, such as various server, application and workstation migrations.
One of the riskiest Post-Legal Day One security overlooks sits within those hard to integrate legacy applications. Moving legacy applications, especially home-grown applications that are AD-dependent, often seems not to be worth the effort. Because of the work and complexity involved, organizations opt to leave the old directory in place to work with the legacy environment and set up some sort of coexistence between the old AD and the primary AD. But it’s almost inevitable that the old AD will get out of sync with the primary AD, or the old servers won’t get patched properly — leaving you with security gaps that can be exploited by insiders and intruders.
Complexity breeds risk – just ask Equifax. The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform put it best: “While the acquisition strategy was successful for Equifax’s bottom line and stock price, this growth brought increasing complexity to Equifax’s IT systems, and expanded data security risks.”2
Find more Post-Legal Day One security pitfalls and learn how to protect your organization during an M&A IT integration in this ebook: How Mergers and Acquisitions Impact Data Security.
Quest Repeatable M&A Framework
We know IT integrations of an M&A aren’t easy or small. While each M&A is different, the methodology doesn’t change. Your chance of success for an M&A is much higher when you implement repeatable processes. Quest offers a complete and repeatable software and services framework for M&As from Day 0 IT Due Diligence, to Day 1 IT integration and Day 2 ongoing management and security.
Don’t complicate your M&A IT integration further by using multiple products from multiple vendors. Standardize on a partner with the tools and expertise to offer a multitude of flexible approaches for Day 1. Quest delivers a repeatable framework that allows you to become familiar with a set of solutions, and a single support and services team.
Read the rest of the series here:
Part 2: Lessons learned from the Equifax and Marriott data breaches
Part 3: How to protect your next M&A
Information Commissioner’s Office, “Statement: Intention to fine Marriott International, Inc. more than £99 million under GDPR for data breach,” July 2019.
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Majority Staff Report, “The Equifax Data Breach,” December 2018.
How Mergers and Acquisitions Impact Data Security
Before your next M&A IT integration, read this ebook to discover how to avoid M&A IT integration missteps and protect yourself from security breaches.
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Rackspace and Hortonworks Collaborate to Deliver OpenStack and Hadoop-based Big Data Solutions for Public and Private Cloud
New joint initiative expected to extend current Hadoop Big Data capabilities to allow customers to quickly and seamlessly deploy Hadoop in an open cloud solution
San Antonio, TX – October 24, 2012 – Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the open cloud company, today announced a strategic agreement with Hortonworks, a leader in Apache Hadoop development, implementation, support, operations and training, to empower customers with an enterprise-ready Hadoop platform that is easy to use in the Cloud. Together, Rackspace and Hortonworks will focus on eliminating the complexities and time-consuming, manual processes that are required today for implementing a Big Data solution. The joint effort will pursue an OpenStack-based Hadoop solution for the public and private cloud, which can easily be deployed in minutes.
According to a recent Gartner report, Big Data will drive $232 billion in IT spending through 2016. Big Data is enabling organizations to store, process and analyze very large sets of both structured and unstructured data in ways that were not possible or practical until now. However, implementing a Big Data solution can be complicated and typically requires a large investment in infrastructure, as well as specialized skills and tools that most organizations do not possess.
“Running Hadoop on your own is complex, which is why we’re excited about our development efforts with Hortonworks. We believe Hortonworks as a collaborator brings a substantial advantage in technology, services and experience that will clearly benefit customers,” said John Engates, CTO of Rackspace. “We have customers today that deploy Hadoop clusters on dedicated hardware at Rackspace with support from Hortonworks. By joining forces, we intend to turn Hadoop into an on-demand service running on the Rackspace open cloud and in clusters on private cloud infrastructure in our data centers or the customer’s data center. The Hortonworks Data Platform packages the open source Apache version of Hadoop. That aligns with our vision of an open cloud future that eliminates fear of vendor lock-in, and allows customers to confidently invest in a technology for the long term.”
Rackspace and Hortonworks will now align efforts to deliver the “gold standard” for Hadoop on OpenStack public and private clouds. The parties believe that, through these collaborative efforts:
Rackspace will release an OpenStack public cloud-based Hadoop service, which will be validated and supported by Hortonworks and will enable customers to create a Big Data environment in a matter of minutes;
Customers will be able to engage Hortonworks to support running Hadoop on Rackspace infrastructure, including its public cloud, private cloud inside Rackspace, and its dedicated servers;
Hortonworks will provide customer guidance and support to customers who want to deploy Hortonworks on Rackspace Private Cloud Software in their own datacenter; and
Hortonworks and Rackspace will join the technical certification programs for Rackspace Private Cloud Software and the Hortonworks Data Platform, respectively.
Rackspace itself is an early adopter of Big Data and has been using Hadoop since 2008 for mission critical uses: the Emails & Apps division processes billions of emails a year to troubleshoot and diagnose customer issues; the billing department analyzes Cloud usage data daily to generate customer invoices.
“Working with Rackspace is ideal because they are leading the industry towards a vision where open technologies give customers the flexibility to choose the right solutions for them, while also helping them to simplify and implement advanced technologies like Hadoop in a way that produce business value,” said Shaun Connolly, VP of Strategy at Hortonworks. “OpenStack is clearly becoming the standard for open cloud platforms and combining that with the 100 percent open Hortonworks Data Platform provides organizations with an incredible technology solution.”
Hortonworks is the leading contributor to Apache Hadoop and has been partnering with a number of companies, including Intel, to deliver solutions aimed at making an enterprise-grade, Hadoop environment that can be deployed seamlessly.
“An OpenStack-based Hadoop solution can help enable businesses to more quickly implement Big Data solutions," said Jason Waxman, general manager of Intel's Cloud Infrastructure Group. "Intel is working closely with Rackspace and Hortonworks to deliver open source solutions optimized for the Intel Xeon platform that make it easier for the enterprises to extract valuable business insights.”
Customers interested in learning more about the current deployment options for Hadoop or forthcoming integrated Hadoop solutions from Rackspace and Hortonworks should contact Rackspace at hadoop-solutions@rackspace.com.
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is the open cloud company, delivering open technologies and powering more than 190,000 customers worldwide. Rackspace provides its renowned Fanatical Support® across a broad portfolio of IT products, including Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting and Dedicated Hosting. The company offers choice, flexibility and freedom from vendor lock in. Rackspace has been recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company and is featured on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. Rackspace was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the “2011 Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting.” Rackspace is headquartered in San Antonio with offices and data centers around the world. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of Rackspace Hosting could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including any statements concerning expected development, performance or market acceptance associated with any big data products or services or relationships with third parties such as Hortonworks; anticipated operational and financial benefits from any big data products or services or relationships with third parties such as Hortonworks; any statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions including the possibility that expected benefits from big data products or services or relationships with third parties such as Hortonworks may not materialize because the products or services are not generally accepted in the marketplace, which could occur due to certain factors including (i) a failure to market the product or service cost effectively, differentiate the product from competitive products or communicate differentiations effectively, (ii) the reliability, quality or compatibility associated with the product or service, (iii) failure of third parties to properly or adequately fulfill their obligations; (iv) changes in technology which adversely affect the benefits of the product or service, (v) slowdowns in the general economy or technology industry that impact consumer spending habits, (vi) internal strategy decisions that impact the products and services, and (vii) and other risks that are described in Rackspace Hosting’s Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2012, filed with the SEC on August 9, 2012. Except as required by law, Rackspace Hosting assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.
Learn more at www.rackspace.com/en-sg or call (+65) 6428 6102.
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Macho men are finished – and Grayson Perry knows why
In a new documentary, the artist says men need to rediscover their feminine side
Thursday, 5th May 2016 at 10:00 am
Hey you! Yes, you! Bear Grylls man – all macho and rugged with your Swiss army knife and jutting jaw. You’re finished, mate. Done for. Fit for the scrapheap. An embarrassment to humanity. A caveman in a computer age. This is the thrust of Grayson Perry’s latest offering for Channel 4: an attack on masculinity and manly men.
When I met him in his north London studio, Perry was dressed as a man, not his trademark alter ego Claire. But this was a diversionary tactic, as I soon discovered. Nothing about masculinity is pleasing to Grayson Perry. And very few men manage to make his list of acceptable chaps: in fact we had to struggle to think of the four he eventually selected. And top of the long list of those he certainly didn’t select was Bear Grylls. The great adventurer is, says Perry, “a hangover”.
“He celebrates a masculinity that is useless. Try going into an estate agent in Finsbury Park and come out with an affordable flat. I want to see Bear Grylls looking for a decent state school for his child!” And it’s not just the arm muscles that don’t work for Perry. It’s the whole he-man package: including at its core the idea that manly men must put up with danger and life’s slings and arrows because, well, that’s what men do.
Bear Grylls: a hangover from another age?
Nonsense, says Perry. The stoicism that we think of as a vital part of masculinity is damaging and wrong. We men should be courting vulnerability – we should be more than willing to cry and run when the creepy crawlies attack us in the woods, because this vulnerability is what makes us open to relationships, and relationships are the making of us all, men and women, in the modern world.
As Perry puts it, “Men might be good at taking the risk of stabbing someone or driving a car very fast, but when it comes to opening up, men are useless.” Of course these days the stabbing and fast driving are dimwitted things to do: it’s opening up that works, but we can’t do it.
He accepts that this is a big change. For much of human history, masculinity of the Bear Grylls type was a boon. It worked. It built empires and wealth and drove progress – he admits all that – but now in the 21st century, “masculinity is a decorative feature that is essentially counter-productive.” We are done for if we don’t change? I enquire in tones slightly more feminine than I intended. “Exactly.”
The evidence, he suggests, is in his new series, particularly the episode that focuses on crime. It is indeed difficult to make a case for the masculinity of the young men he meets on an estate in the former mining town of Skelmersdale in Lancashire. We see them puffed up with bravado and happy to take risks in their endless petty battles with the hulking sweaty police who follow them around, but could they do anything useful? Speak a language – even English? Cure cancer? Nurse a mentally ill patient? Or even hold down a job in the local Asda distribution centre?
These men come across as utterly defeated. If life is a great manly battle for success and prowess, they’ve already lost. They’re thin, wan little chaps who stand around in their estate, hating (for reasons they can’t explain) the boys who live on the next estate. And that’s about it. And poverty, Grayson Perry insists, cannot be the whole reason for their plight. After all, girls grew up on the estate, too: are they chasing around in stolen cars or dealing drugs or bashing each other over the head with hammers? Mostly not. And yet they are every bit as disadvantaged. Perry asks the boys why this is the case and they are, he says, “dumbfounded”.
Those boys have never thought deeply about anything, especially not themselves. Nor have most of the other men he interviews. “I got the impression,” he says, “that when I asked them to talk about masculinity, it was like asking a fish to talk about water. Self-examination was alien to them. Gender was a women’s issue.”
Perry is tough on masculinity and the causes of masculinity. He’s also aware of how utterly ghastly it is to be a modern man, particularly if you’re at the bottom of the social scale. “They’ve been sold a pup and you can’t suddenly turn around and say, ‘You know all that stuff about the dignity of working with your hands – well, it’s not really necessary any more.’ ” Only, of course, that is exactly what modern society has done to an entire generation of men. As Perry puts it, “Of the 15 professions said to be on the up employment-wise, only two are traditionally male.” And they are? “Computer programmer and janitor.”
Weep for masculine men. Not in front of them perhaps and don’t expect them to join you, but watch this series and weep for them anyway.
And then what? I ask Perry what his blueprint for new manliness might be and he admits quite openly that the masculinity he thinks would be successful might also be a bit, well, dull.
“Who has sex fantasies about gender equality?” he asks. “Our sexuality is formed in the past – we are invested in sexual differences.” In other words girls (even in Skelmersdale) fancy risk-taking, manly men. And men fancy women who are girly and soft-skinned and fluttery around the eyelids – in other words, as Perry says, “to an outdated stereotype of women”. And so it goes on: even though the male attributes are useless, they are still the ones that turn women on.
But things can change. Human behaviour changed when we stopped hunting and gathering and started to domesticate animals and practise farming. Now the male of the species has to make another profound change, Perry argues, and the time to start is now.
How convincing is all this? Grayson Perry is a funny old cove. He’s bright, articulate and in touch with his feminine side, to the extent of dressing (sometimes) as a woman. But he is also, as he admits, the victim of pretty ghastly male experiences, principally a stepfather who was “an alcoholic, violent, scary person”. My own father – BBC newsreader Peter Woods – abandoned my mother after getting her pregnant while married to another woman and fathering other kids. So I too have a dim view of those Philip Larkin called “fools in old-style hats and coats”.
However, the restless energy of masculinity that Perry suggests leads to crime and social collapse is also surely responsible for much human progress. Risk taking might be OK in sport or war, Perry sniffs, but not in much else. Really? Hasn’t risk-taking, sweaty masculinity powered all manner of cultural and artistic achievement? Has not capitalism – which has arguably been the chief driving force of the staggering rise in wealth that we’ve seen around the world in recent decades – been fuelled at least in part by the crazy pursuit of the dreams of men?
Or are we to agree with Perry that the game is up, and it’s time to hang up the club and animal skins and join the women reading in the library? Or perhaps we could keep the clubs and go to the library, too?
Years ago I was passing through Bath Rugby Club’s training ground and chatting to the captain Stuart Hooper and a former player, the very talented ITV rugby pundit David Flatman. For reasons I can’t quite remember, we were discussing machismo. First: what it is? Then, because we’re new men: how you spell it? And then (the epitome of girly) how you pronounce it? “Ma-chees-mo” rather than “ma-kis-mo” because the word is Spanish not Italian.
This is the modern locker room. Hoops and Flats can heave weights but they can talk linguistics, too. Grayson Perry’s men are losers. Not all men will feel themselves properly represented by his Channel 4 broadside. We need not be the stars in his show. We are better than Grayson Perry suggests.
Or, if I’m being feminine about it, I hope we are…
Grayson Perry: All Man begins on Channel 4 tonight (Thursday 5th May) at 10.00pm
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Belgrano revival continues
ARGENTINA: President Cristina Fernández visited Barranqueras in Chaco province on December 29 to mark officially the re-opening to freight traffic of a 199·7 km section of the metre-gauge Belgrano network between the river port and Avia Terai. Following the reopening of the Pichanal - Joaquín V González route (RG 1.09 p7), soya is now being carried from Salta province to Barranqueras in 40-wagon trainloads with a payload of up to 1 450 tonnes.
Speed limits and axleloads were due to be further increased this month under the programme costing a total of 90m pesos. Work undertaken by Comsa, Ferromel and Sogesic has included replacing sleepers, rail fastenings and fish plates, the construction of 30 culverts to improve drainage and repairs to level crossings.
During 2009, the federal government’s Belgrano restoration programme will turn its attention to the Avia Terai - Joaquín V González route, with bids invited for work between Salta and the Chilean border at Socompa. Technical studies are due to be completed later this year for re-opening the route between Pichanal and the Bolivian border at Salvador Mazza.
Passenger operator Sefecha is hoping to take advantage of the upgrading work to restore services between Resistencia and Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña. Owned by Chaco province, the company is planning to spend up to 15m pesos on acquiring additional rolling stock this year, which may be sourced secondhand from Spain or Portugal under the federal government’s purchasing programme.
Belgrano to be split
ARGENTINA: The federal government has begun the process of returning the metre-gauge Belgrano network to public ownership, by means of a decree published on October 31. The concession awarded to Belgrano Cargas SA in 1999 was to be terminated within 90 days, while the ‘state of emergency’ under which the ...
Argentina sets a new course
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US$47m Belgrano spend proposed
THE GOVERNOR of Argentina’s Salta province, Juan Carlos Romero, has presented a plan that would see US$47m invested in the metre-gauge Belgrano network (RG 7.06 p376) to restore key routes over a 16-month period.
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Pigeons and other nuisance birds are capable of transmitting a wide range of diseases and can be a source of secondary infestation by pests such as lice, mites and flies. Learn more below about common types of pest birds found across the country.
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(Columba livia)
Also known as city doves or street pigeons, they are descended from wild rock doves. They thrive in an urban environment and only require the smallest amount of shelter on buildings.
12 1/2" long.
Blue–grey in colour (although other colours are common).
2–3 broods per year, with 2 eggs in each clutch.
17–19 day incubation period.
Young birds spend 35–37 days in the nest.
Feeds on seeds, green feed, domestic scraps in and around cities, near roosting sites.
Nests on ledges.
Get rid of birds
(Passer domesticus)
The House sparrow is a significant pest to the food industry because of the risk of contamination from their droppings and the damage done to packaged goods.
Less than 6" long.
Males can be identified by the grey crown on their heads, and black throat ‘bib’.
Females and young are mostly plain brown.
Sparrows live for four to seven years, with up to five breeding seasons.
The breeding season runs through Spring and Summer, and up to three broods of 4–6 eggs may be laid in this time.
The same nest will tend to be used every year, resulting in a build up of nest debris, and insects associated with their nests.
It is a pest to the food industry in particular because of the risk of contamination from their droppings and the damage done to packaged goods.
Collared Dove
(Streptopelia Decaocto)
Collared dove nests just consist of a platform of sticks and branches. They usually nest in trees or shrubs but will also use buildings, favoring ledges, guttering, and the brackets of security lights or satellite dishes.
Fawn-grey colour with a narrow black band at the back of the neck.
A 14–15 day incubation period, with young birds spending 15–19 days in the nest.
Eats seeds and grains near roosting sites.
Nests in trees and canopies.
(Sturnus vulgaris)
They are 7 1/2"–9" long, and can be recognised by their pointed wings and short tail when flying. At first sight they appear to be plain black, but the feathers catch the light and may appear iridescent green or purple.
Starlings can rear up to two broods a year. Each clutch usually consists of 4–6 eggs, the young staying in the nest for about 3 weeks.
The breeding period can extend if conditions are favorable.
The concentration of droppings from a large roosting flock provides a good medium for pathogenic fungi, some of which can be harmful or even fatal to humans.
It is an agricultural pest of standing crops, but will also flock into cities in large numbers.
House Crow
(Corvus splendens)
The Crow is one of the most common pest birds in the Philippines. These birds can overwhelm trees, creating a lot of noise and harassing people and animals in the vicinity which can be a nuisance to the suburban resident.
They are 40–43 cm in length with wingspan of 80 cm.
Crow lays 3–5 eggs in a typical stick nest and occasionally there are several nests in the same tree.
Peak breeding in the Philippines is from April to July.
Large trees with big crowns are their preferred nesting spots.
Preferred roost sites are in well-lit areas with a lot of human activity and food sources.
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Readers Rides: 9HUNGE Yamaha XJ900
Melbourne based builder Carlo converted his ’86 Yamaha XJ900 in to this 100hp Cafe Racer last year. Carlo sent me the story of how the "9Hunge" came to be which you can enjoy below. "The Yamaha 86 XJ 900 is in many ways like your typical Aussie man. Simple, unfussy and gets…
Melbourne based builder Carlo converted his ’86 Yamaha XJ900 in to this 100hp Cafe Racer last year. Carlo sent me the story of how the “9Hunge” came to be which you can enjoy below.
“The Yamaha 86 XJ 900 is in many ways like your typical Aussie man. Simple, unfussy and gets the job done. It’s a bike that does what it does well, without complaining. With a bullet-proof motor that revs to 12,000rpm what better base could there be for a custom Cafe Racer?
9 Hunge… A hunge (pronounced hung-ee) is a uniquely Australian term for one hundred. “How much did that cost you?” “a hunge”. We found that our pet name for the motorcycle was “the 900”, which true to Australian form, quickly turned into “nine hungey”. When I finished the bike and tried to choose a name, it turned out the name had already been chosen. The 9Hunge was born.”
“When building the 9Hunge, I got rid it of any unnecessary metal and plastics. Power to weight was the key and that boosted performance before even touching the engine. We undressed the 9Hunge of almost 30kg of fat.
A tight backend was achieved by replacing the traditional rear shocks with two gas filled dirt bike shocks. We threw out the rule book; it’s just how we wanted the suspension to feel. We stripped back and then powder coated the frame, bars, steering and bits.
We love the clean line the Benelli tank gave to the build. I think the introduction of an Italian tank to a Japanese bike gave it some extra street cred, or maybe it’s just that it looked right with the line of the seat? When you sit on the 9Hunge and you look down past the tank you see the brutish four cylinder engine jutting out from either side and you smile.
It’s not a traditional Café Racer look, but I just love that I have 100bhp at the turn of the throttle.”
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Coalbed Gas Exploration and Development on Federal and Other Lands in the West
Charles L. Kaiser, Mark D. Bingham, Coalbed Gas Development (1992)
Today coalbed gas is seen as an enormous resource — experts currently estimate coalbed gas reserves of 400 trillion cubic feet, the equivalent of total conventional gas reserves in the United States,3 and thousands of coalbed gas wells have been drilled.4 That evolution is undoubtedly one of the brightest spots in the oil and gas industry over the past decade.
In the western United States a critical player in that evolution has been the federal government. Technical works published in the 1970s by federal government scientists played an important role in changing the perception of coalbed gas from a hazard to be avoided to a valuable resource to be exploited.5 Tax policy, particularly the Section 29 tax credit, has significantly encouraged coalbed gas exploration and development.6 And in the public land states where title emanates from the federal government, where the federal government continues to own or control hundreds of millions of acres of land, and where other lands are surrounded by and developed in association with public lands, the federal government greatly influences who owns coalbed gas and how it is developed.7
II. THE “SOURCE ROCK” OF COALBED GAS IN THE WEST — THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
A. The Statutory Scheme.
A central theme in public land law is how change is wrought.8 Not infrequently critical lands and resources are withd
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Seven: The Days Long Gone •
Seven: The Days Long Gone shows off sneaking, disguises and murder
24th November 2017 / 5:36PM
Seven: The Days Long Gone is a terrible name and a fascinating game. It’s a stealthy RPG from former Witcher 3 devs that calls to mind everything from Thief to Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. It’s due out next week, but in the meantime I’ve been playing a little. Carry on for some thoughts and a new trailer with some stealth lessons to learn.
I’m in the process of reviewing it for RPS fanzine PC Gamer [Traitor – Ed] and have mostly been stripping corpses and running off with their clothes in an effort to create a selection of handy disguises. Peh, the prison island on which the game is set (not the dismissive noise I make when I hear something ridiculous) is largely open, so I’ve been getting up to mischief on my own terms, breaking into places I shouldn’t be, stealing everything not nailed down. I’m already in prison — what have I got to lose? Actually quite a lot, but we’re venturing into spoiler territory.
The trailer says there’s “always more than one solution to a problem” and that sort of free-wheeling experimentation is very much present right from the get-go. I was able to ignore all of the tutorial’s instructions and complete the first mission in an entirely different way, just by mucking around and testing the game’s limits. I left a lot of naked, booby-trapped bodies lying around.
Peh itself, and the world it resides in, is an unusual place. It’s a post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting, but there’s mysticism and magic that verges on the fantastical, along with the trappings of an industrial dystopia with a dash of cyberpunk. It’s a mashup of a lot of different settings, which I haven’t decided if I love or just find really confusing.
Seven: The Days Long Gone is due out on Steam, GOG and the Humble Store on December 1.
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Zak McKracken And The Alien Mindbenders: The LucasArts game you don't want to play any more
She blows poodles over old noizglunk
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Published in 1994, this book gathers together a series of original studies on occupational socialization and the everyday realities of work. It includes detailed, empirically based accounts of a variety of occupational settings. Included are: social workers; trainee midwives; prison officers; accountants; teachers; psychiatrists; postgraduate research students. They all reflect the tradition of qualitative research that has been developed at Cardiff.
This book was originally published as part of the Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research series edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont and Amanda Coffey. The series publishes original sociological research that reflects the tradition of qualitative and ethnographic inquiry developed at Cardiff. The series includes monographs reporting on empirical research, edited collections focussing on particular themes, and texts discussing methodological developments and issues.
Introduction, Coffey, Atkinson. 1. The Happy Family: Learning Colleagueship in a Social Work Team, Pithouse. 2. Collective Responsibility and Individual Success: The Early Training Experience of Graduate Accountants. 3. Prison Officers and their Survival Strategies, Carter. 4. Retreat and Regroup: Occupational Boundaries of Teaching in a Special School, Todd. 5. ‘There is More than One Way to Kill a Cat’: Making Sense of Post-experience Professional Training, Salisbury. 6. Novices and Experts: Initial Encounters in Midwifery, Davies. 7. Reproducing Psychiatry, Bunton. 8. Suspended Between Two Stools: Doctoral Students in Higher Education, Delamont, Parry, Atkinson, Hiken.
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A good week for us - Kinder
Under-21s boss Eric Kinder has paid tribute to his side's spirit and determination after they recorded their third league win in succession on Monday.
After away victories over West Bromwich Albion and Derby County, the development squad made it a welcome hat-trick of 1-0 wins with a triumph over Wolverhampton Wanderers.
The Rovers coach has been delighted with the reaction his team has shown after their extra-time defeat to Southampton in the U21 Premier League Cup final last Monday, as they put the disappointment behind them with excellent league displays in the days following.
"It has been a good week for us to be fair," said Kinder.
"It has been a contrasting week, if you look at the final last Monday where we played ever so well and took an outstanding Academy right to the wire in a cup final.
"We played in front of 12,500 people at a magnificent stadium, to then play two games in the league at training grounds and psychologically it does affect players.
"But I've been really happy with how they've reacted. They could have just downed tools, they could have said we've got to a final lets just go through the motions.
"But we went Derby, we scrapped and we fought and put our necks on the line and we end up with a 1-0 win. And what you saw against Wolves was just like Derby.
"We didn't do too badly in the first half but in the second we were under the cosh. But what has developed over this season is a desire and an enthusiasm to win a game and I thought their attitude was magnificent.
"You look at the side, you see young Lewis Mansell up front and Lewis Hardcastle in midfield, they played 90 minutes on Friday and had to do that again on Monday, and they also had a six-hour road trip to Southampton and back and the emotions of losing a final.
"The only thing I can say is they are learning from it and they'll be better players and will understand the game more."
The winning goal on Monday came courtesy of a first half strike from midfielder David Carson.
The Rovers captain grabbed his first goal of the season, claiming possession off a Wolves defender before cooly slotting home.
"It shocked us all, we see it every now in training," added Kinder.
"That is his first goal I think, but he read the situation well, his positional play from where the ball was was excellent and he read it.
"I thought he was going to take it first time but as soon as he moved it onto his right foot, we see it in training that he's got the quality to finish off that angle so I'm delighted for him."
The Under-21s play their final away game of the season next Tuesday 5th May when they take on Newcastle United at St. James Park, kick-off 7.00pm. Before they end their campaign at Brockhall against Bolton Wanderers on Thursday 7th May, kick-off 2.00pm.
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Rutland Regional Once Again Receives an “A” for Patient Safety from the Leapfrog Group
Rutland Regional Medical Center was awarded an “A” rating from The Leapfrog Group’s spring 2019 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, something the hospital has received consistently since 2013! Rutland Regional was one of only 832 hospitals out of over 2600 nationwide, and the only hospital in Vermont, to be awarded an “A” for its efforts in protecting patients from harm and providing safer healthcare.
The Leapfrog Group is a national nonprofit organization committed to improving healthcare quality and safety for consumers and purchasers. The Safety Grade assigns an “A”, “B”, “C”, “D” or “F” grade to hospitals across the country based on their performance in preventing medical errors, injuries, accidents, infections and other harms to patients in their care.
“We are immensely proud to be among the group of hospitals recognized nationwide by the Leapfrog Group for patient safety,” said Claudio Fort, president and CEO of Rutland Regional Medical Center. “To earn our 7th “A” rating in a row reflects how hard our staff works in fulfilling our promise to provide the best care possible to every patient, every day, every time.”
“To be recognized nationally as an “A” hospital is an accomplishment the whole community should take pride in,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “Hospitals that earn an “A” grade are making it a priority to protect patients from preventable medical harm and error. We congratulate hospital leaders, board members, staff, volunteers and clinicians who work so hard to earn this “A”.”
Developed under the guidance of a national Expert Panel, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign grades to more than 2,600 U.S. acute-care hospitals twice per year. It is peer reviewed, fully transparent, and free to the public.
To see Rutland Regional’s full grade details, and to access patient tips for staying safe in the hospital, visit hospitalsafetygrade.org.
About the Leapfrog Group
Founded in 2000 by large employers and other purchasers, The Leapfrog Group is a national nonprofit organization driving a movement for giant leaps forward in the quality and safety of American healthcare. The flagship Leapfrog Hospital Survey collects and transparently reports hospital performance, empowering purchasers to find the highest-value care and giving consumers the lifesaving information they need to make informed decisions. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, Leapfrog’s other main initiative, assigns letter grades to hospitals based on their record of patient safety, helping consumers protect themselves and their families from errors, injuries, accidents and infections.
About Rutland Regional Medical Center
Rutland Regional Medical Center, founded in 1896, is the largest community hospital and the second largest healthcare facility in Vermont. With a strong patient focus, consistent quality performance, nursing excellence and award-winning care, Rutland Regional remains dedicated to improving the health of families and individuals throughout Rutland County and beyond.
Rutland Regional has received many different honors and awards over the years, including: Best Regional Hospital by U.S. News & World Report and was the first hospital in Vermont to receive both the Governor’s Award for Performance Excellence and Magnet Recognition® for quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovation. Learn more about our Quality & Awards>>>
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Adi Roche and volunteers welcome Chernobyl children 'home' for Irish Christmas
“This is the true meaning of Christmas - it’s about family and giving - the family we gather round us and hold close at this time of year and the giving of our time with open hearts, open arms and open homes.”
A group of 30 special needs children from Belarus affected by the Chernobyl disaster have arrived to spend Christmas in Ireland.
Some of the children who were flown in are orphaned or abandoned by parents who were unable to cope with their illnesses and live in an orphanage in a remote village, 175 kilometres from Chernobyl.
This orphanage was discovered by Irish volunteers working with the Adi Roche Chernobyl Children International charity in the 1990s, and since then it has been transformed into a world class childcare centre, with residents coming to Ireland for Christmas and summer holidays every year.
How to 'film' a reindeer in your home this Christmas Eve for your kids
CCI Voluntary CEO Adi Roche welcomed the young people into Dublin Airport on Thursday December 19, where they also met their host families with whom they will spend their Christmas holiday.
“This makes our Christmas,” Adi Roche said.
See all of the heartwarming photos below
Pictures: 30 young people affected from Chernobyl disaster arrive in Dublin Airport for Christmas
“It is the most wondrous and heartwarming moment of the year for me,” Roche continued.
“The Irish people have been reaching out to these children for thirty three years and their enthusiasm and kindness never waivers.
Sign that told mum her baby was dying
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“Irish families from all over the country unite here every Christmas to show love to abandoned and orphaned children who live with huge physical and intellectual disabilities.”
CCI has delivered €107 million worth of humanitarian and medical aid to impoverished communities and children across Belarus, Ukraine and Western Russia since 1986. More than 26,500 children from Belarus – the country most affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster – have come to Ireland with CCI for life-prolonging holidays during the summer and at Christmas time.
For more information or if you would like to make a donation, log on to www.chernobyl- international.com or call 021-4558774.
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Worker dies at Vitafoam Products plant
DOWNSVIEW, Ontario (June 22)—A worker died June 21 at polyurethane foam producer and converter Vitafoam Products Canada Ltd. of Downsview.
The worker was found motionless in an industrial machine at 4 a.m., according to a spokesman for the Ontario Ministry of Labor. Paramedics were called, but they could not revive the worker.
The ministry is investigating the incident, but had no further comment. CanWest News Services reported the worker died at a foam-cutting machine. Company officials were not immediately available for comment.
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Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm (11) makes a pass. The Georgia Bulldogs faced the Tennessee Volunteers on Oct. 5, 2019, in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Bulldogs secured a decisive victory with a final score of 43-14. (Photo/Ryan Cameron, rcameron@randb.com)
4 numbers to know ahead of Georgia’s matchup with Auburn
Andy Walsh | Assistant Sports Editor
No. 4 Georgia will face No. 12 Auburn at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday in Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Alabama. Here are some numbers to know before the game:
As of Nov. 13, the lowest price for a ticket on Stubhub to the Georgia and Auburn matchup at Jordan-Hare Stadium is $115. Ticket prices are much lower across college football in Week 12. Tickets to No. 5 Alabama’s away matchup with Mississippi State are as low as $35, and tickets to No. 9 Penn State against Indiana bottom out at $50. The Bulldogs trip to Auburn, Alabama, is the most anticipated of the week and could set Georgia up for a postseason run. When Georgia last traveled to Auburn in 2017, the final score was 40-17 in favor of the Tigers.
Out of the 37 total touchdowns Auburn has scored, 23 of them have been on the ground, good for 62.16%. The Tigers get their rushing production in a variety of ways, with nine different players scoring touchdowns. The leader is JaTarvious Whitlow, who has seven scores on the year, but dual-threat quarterback Bo Nix isn’t far behind with five of his own. Georgia’s defense has yet to give up a rushing touchdown, something no other team in college football has done. Auburn’s backfield poses a threat and could put an end to the streak on Saturday.
Auburn is tied for No. 4 in the Football Bowl Subdivision and No. 1 in the SEC with 11 fumble recoveries. Two fumbles of note came against Florida when highly-touted defensive tackle Derrick Brown recovered two fumbles and returned them for 53 yards combined. On the flip side, Georgia doesn’t lose the ball often. Lead running back D’Andre Swift has yet to fumble in his three-year college career.
Georgia’s junior quarterback Jake Fromm has passed for 1,858 yards through the first nine games of the season. Through nine games in his freshman year, Fromm reached 1,459 yards, and in 2018, he was at 1,762 at the same benchmark. Against Auburn in 2017, Fromm threw for 184 yards, one touchdown and zero interceptions. Heading into Georgia’s matchup with Auburn, Fromm’s improved passing ability could be relied on more often in anticipation of the Tigers’ defensive line.
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Georgia’s defense is flirting with history this season. It hasn’t allowed a single point inside Sanford Stadium since Oct. 12.
Keeping pace: Georgia’s strong defense readies for up-tempo Auburn offense
Senior safety J.R. Reed has played Auburn three times and recorded 11 tackles — his single-game career high — in Georgia’s 40-17 loss in 2017, the last time UGA played in Jordan-Hare Stadium. Since that game, Georgia football has defeated the Tigers twice.
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Viberzi Lawsuit Claims Allergan’s Pancreatitis Warning Came Too Late
Published on December 10, 2018 by Laurie Villanueva
A new Viberzi lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania claims Allergan USA withheld important safety information from patients and doctors in the United States.
Specifically, the fact that Viberzi increases the risk for pancreatitis in patients without a gallbladder
Viberzi Lawsuit Allegations
According to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Mary Anne LaPorte began taking Viberzi to treat irritable bowel syndrome on December 2, 2016. Previously, she had undergone a cholecystectomy to remove her gallbladder. (Case 5:18-cv-05092-CFK)
LaPorte was hospitalized with pancreatitis just two days later. Her doctor discontinued Viberzi after confirming the diagnosis.
“An episode of pancreatitis increases a patient’s risk that she will later develop pancreatic cancer. Fear of developing pancreatic cancer subsequent to pancreatitis is reasonable,” the lawsuit states. “Plaintiffs remain at an increased risk for recurrent acute pancreatitis and/or chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer, which she fears, and she continues to be monitored for health issues.”
Among other things, LaPorte claims Allergan knew or should have known that Viberzi could cause pancreatitis in patients without a gallbladder.
“Prior to December 2016, Defendant had received numerous spontaneous reports of acute pancreatitis and/or SOD, the vast majority of which were dosed at 75 mg, indicating use by patients with prior cholecystectomies,” the Viberzi lawsuit charges.
“Prior to December 2016, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) informed Defendant that it would contraindicate Truberzi (the company’s name for Viberzi in Europe) use in patients without a gallbladder,” it continues.
Viberzi and Pancreatitis
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved Viberzi in May 2015. At the time, the drug’s label recommended a 75 mg dose for cholecystectomy patients.
In March 2017, however, the FDA advised doctors not to prescribe Viberzi to patients without a gallbladder. Apparently, the agency had received 120 reports of serious pancreatitis or death associated with the medication.
“Among the 68 cases that reported gallbladder status, 56 cases of pancreatitis or death occurred in patients who do not have a gallbladder,” the agency noted. “The majority of patients (n=44/56) received the currently recommended dosage of Viberzi (75 mg) for patients who do not have a gallbladder. Of the 56 cases in patients who do not have a gallbladder, 21 reported that the patient did not abuse alcohol and 35 did not report the patient’s alcohol use status.”
Furthermore, 76 patients required hospitalization, including two who died. Neither of those patients had a gallbladder.
A month later, Allergan finally updated the Viberzi label to include a contraindication for patients without a gallbladder.
What Should Viberzi Patients Do?
Before starting Viberzi, patients should tell their health care professional if they have:
No gallbladder
A blockage in the gallbladder or a sphincter of Oddi problem
Inflammation of the pancreas
Serious liver problems
A history of chronic constipation
A bowel blockage
Habit of drinking more than three alcoholic beverages a day
Patients should stop taking Viberzi right away and get emergency medical care if they develop:
New or worsening stomach-area or abdomen pain, or
Pain in the upper right side of the stomach-area or abdomen that may move to the back or shoulder
With or without nausea and vomiting
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In this book, the authors propose a set of improved and modernised provisions expressing the general principles of criminal responsibility. This set of principles will comprise a “General Part” which, it is proposed, will form part of Singapore’s Penal Code. The key objective of devising and enacting the General Part is to significantly revitalise the Penal Code and restore many of its original technical attributes. Each chapter of this book comprises: (a) a carefully considered and drafted provision on a general principle of criminal responsibility; (b) a summary of the existing law in Singapore pertaining to that principle; (c) a selection of recent formulations of that principle from other jurisdictions to benchmark Singapore’s law (both current and proposed) with international best practices; and (d) a comparison of these formulations with the provision proposed in this book for inclusion as a General Part in Singapore’s Penal Code.
Authors' Profiles
Chan Wing Cheong is an associate professor of law and Amaladass Fellow at the National University of Singapore. He specialises in criminal law and family law, and has written extensively in these areas.
Stanley Yeo is a professor of law at the National University of Singapore. He is an internationally-renowned comparative law scholar who has studied the criminal laws of various jurisdictions for three decades. He has authored several books on the Indian/Singapore Penal Code.
Michael Hor is a professor of law at the National University of Singapore. He has researched, published and taught criminal law and criminal evidence and process for more than two decades.
All three authors are regularly consulted by both the Singapore Ministry of Law and the Criminal Practice Committee of the Law Society of Singapore on matters concerning criminal law reform.
Chapter I Introduction
By Stanley Yeo
PART 1 Purpose and Application
Chapter 1.1 Purpose and Application
PART 2 Proof of Criminal Responsibility and Establishing Guilt
By Michael Hor
Chapter 2.1 Burden of Proof
Chapter 2.2 Principle of Concurrence between the Fault and Physical Elements of a Crime
PART 3 External Elements of Offences
By Chan Wing Cheong
Chapter 3.1 Physical Elements
Chapter 3.2 Voluntariness
Chapter 3.3 Omissions
Chapter 3.4 Causation
PART 4 Fault Elements of Offences
Chapter 4.1 Fault Elements
Chapter 4.2 Transferred Fault and Defences
Chapter 4.3 Offences without Specific Fault Elements
Chapter 4.4 Corporate Criminal Liability
PART 5 Offences Which Do Not Require Fault
Chapter 5.1 Strict Liability
Chapter 5.2 Absolute Liability
PART 6 Extensions of Criminal Responsibility
Chapter 6.1 Abetment, Conspiracy and Group Liability
Chapter 6.2 Attempt
PART 7 Defences
Chapter 7.1 Children
Chapter 7.2 Mental Impairment
Chapter 7.3 Involuntary Intoxication
Chapter 7.4 Voluntary Intoxication
Chapter 7.5 Mistake or Ignorance of Fact
Chapter 7.6 Mistake or Ignorance of Law
Chapter 7.7 Private Defence
Chapter 7.8 Duress
Chapter 7.9 Necessity
Appendix Penal Code (General Part) Act
“To revitalise a code such as the Penal Code is to give it a fresh vitality and invigorate it. As views about crime and punishment change, the Penal Code, which carries a substantial portion of the laws that dictate this area of law, must keep pace with social norms and attitude. Parliament has to be the gauge of changes in those norms and attitude, but it will need ideas to see how modern it thinks the criminal law should be. Criminal Law in the 21st Century – A Model Code for Singapore is a source worth examining. For students of current law, this book exposes the areas that invigorate discussion and debate.”
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The Law of Torts in Singapore (2nd Edition)
Tort law has continued to develop apace in the intervening period since the first edition of the book was published in 2011: new torts have emerged, existing torts re-formulated, and important clarifications made on the scope of specific torts and doctrines. These developments are captured in this second edition, salient examples of which include See Toh Siew Kee v Ho Ah Lam Ferrocement (Pte) Ltd (occupiers’ liability); Anwar Patrick Adrian v Ng Chong & Hue LLC and AEL v Cheo Yeoh & Associates LLC (solicitor’s duty of care); EFT Holding, Inc v Marinteknik Shipbuilders (S) Pte Ltd (unlawful means conspiracy); and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (Publ), Singapore Branch v Asia Pacific Breweries (Singapore) Pte Ltd (vicarious liability). The scope and impact of new statutory torts introduced pursuant to the Protection from Harassment Act and Community Disputes Resolution Act 2015 are also examined. As with the previous edition, a comparative view is offered by considering, where relevant, new developments in other leading Commonwealth jurisdictions.
Author(s)/Editor(s)/Contributor(s): Gary Chan Kok Yew & Lee Pey Woan
Date of Publication: Dec 2015
The Criminal Procedure Code of Singapore – Annotations and Commentary (softcover edition)
Authored and edited by a team of prosecutors under the guidance of the former Chief Prosecutor of the Criminal Justice Division (who is now the Deputy Chief District Judge of the Subordinate Courts), this book attempts to provide an insight into the raison d’être of each of the provisions in the Criminal Procedure Code 2010. It also discusses some of the jurisprudence surrounding predecessors of the provisions (where applicable) and how they might serve to form the contours of some of the provisions of the new Code. This book serves as a useful guide to all who are involved in the administration of criminal justice in Singapore, as well as academics and students of criminal law.
Author(s)/Editor(s)/Contributor(s): Jennifer Marie (editor-in-chief) and Mohamed Faizal Mohamed Abdul Kadir (general editor)
Date of Publication: Mar 2012
Coroner's Practice in Medical Cases (softcover edition)
The work of the coroner, even within the legal and medical professions, is not often well understood. Though the law on negligence relating to medical cases is well established, little or none has been written on the coroner’s practice in medical cases. Currently, there is little guidance available in Singapore for lawyers, doctors and other professionals who may become involved in the investigation of deaths where issues of medical mismanagement are raised. It is hoped that the publication of this book will fill the gap.
Author(s)/Editor(s)/Contributor(s): Lee Eng Hin, Gilbert Lau, George Paul, Lai Siang Hui, Yeo Khee Quan, Chin Jing Jih, Ong Yong Yau, Lee Kok Onn, District Judge Danielle Yeow, District Judge Tan Boon Heng & District Judge Amy Tung
Date of Publication: Oct 2008
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SALSA members who wish to propose a public action statement should read the following Procedures for Advocacy and Policy Statements and address their proposal to the chair of the Public Issues and Action Committee, or the President of SALSA, Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin.
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The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) encourages its members to bring anthropological perspectives on timely issues into policy, media, and other public venues. It is sometimes relevant for SALSA itself to take a public stand, as it has in the past in order to bring the full weight of the organization to bear on an important issue. SALSA supports its members, respects their right to present statements and letters in their own voices, and recognizes the need for intellectual diversity and freedom. However, only the President of SALSA or his/her delegates may write or otherwise make claims in the name of the organization. Actions are complex procedures that involve several steps. Members wishing to propose an action should present their requests to the PIAC.
SALSA will not evaluate or condemn the scholarship of particular individuals.
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The Executive Board has adopted the following procedures for considering requests by SALSA members to issue letters and advocacy and policy statements in the name of the SALSA. The Board, the President, and the PIAC will engage with such requests as expeditiously as possible.
2.1. Before drafting a full proposal or statement, proposing members shall write to the chair of the PIAC to discuss whether the matters in question are indeed appropriate for SALSA to act upon. The chair shall consult with the PIAC to make a determination. The chair will communicate the PIAC’s conclusion to the proposing members.
2.2. If the matters in question are appropriate for SALSA to act upon, proposing members shall develop and send a carefully researched, full proposal to the chair of the Public Action Committee and to the President. Correspondence should contain the following elements:
2.2.1. A complete draft of the letter or statement that the proposing member(s) wish SALSA to issue, with its intended addressees and their correct addresses (e-mail and regular mail, when relevant). The letter should include this paragraph, with any necessary changes and/or translations:
“The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) is an international professional association for anthropologists specializing in lowland regions of South America. SALSA’s main goals are to foster sound and ethical research on the peoples and environments of lowland South America, and to promote the education of students and the general public on issues that we study. For the organization, the well-being of lowland South America’s vulnerable peoples is of central concern. As anthropologists and regional specialists, we insist on accuracy in scientific research, integrity in interpretation, and defense against misuse of academic writings. We support indigenous leaders, organizations, and fellow scholars who focus the spotlight of public attention on the realities of life for native people in lowland South America and elsewhere, in the latter’s struggles to secure the rights and resources they need to survive and thrive as indigenous citizens of the 21st century.”
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2.3 The chair of the PIAC shall consult with committee members and with the President regarding the merits of the proposal. If no less than the majority of the PIAC agree that the proposal is meritorious, PIAC shall make any editorial, content, and addressee corrections they deem appropriate and necessary, and verify that the new version is acceptable to the proposing member(s). The process may be reiterative.
2.4 Once a final draft is agreed upon, the chair of the PIAC shall forward it to the President of SALSA, who shall move to have the letter or statement approved by the Executive Board.
2.5 If approved, letters or statements are to be forwarded to the addressees or published on the SALSA website, in official format and with the President’s signature.
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The President of SALSA may instruct the PIAC to address a public issue that has been brought to his/her attention, such as by the Board, members, or outside persons or institutions. In such cases, the procedure shall be as follows:
3.1 PIAC shall establish a task force that will include at least one member of PIAC, one expert in the area, and one other SALSA member.
3.2 The task force shall produce the required statement or letter, and submit it to the chair of the PIAC.
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By Danny D.
Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.5 hands-on impressions
So Samsung didn’t introduce only the Galaxy Tab S4 today. The Galaxy Tab A 10.5 has come along for the ride as well, as a cheaper offering with the same display size as the Tab S4. The Tab A is Samsung’s budget lineup of tablets and we had the opportunity to use the Tab A 10.5 at our hands-on session at Samsung Netherlands.
The first thing we noticed was the build. The tablet is made of plastic so it feels less premium than the Tab S4. The same goes for the display. It’s a 10.5-inch LCD panel that pales in comparison to the AMOLED display on the Galaxy Tab S4. It’s rather off-putting, to be honest. With almost every Samsung smartphone sporting an AMOLED display these days, it’s not nice to see that Samsung isn’t giving us AMOLED displays on its budget tablets.
What Samsung has given us are four speakers, just like the Galaxy Tab S4 and a first for a budget tablet. They aren’t tuned by AKG but do support Dolby Atmos, and the sound quality was great. The Tab A 10.5 is also unique in that it doesn’t have a physical home button or capacitive navigation keys, making it one of few Samsung devices without an Infinity display to have software navigation keys. The tablet is a tad bigger than the Tab S4 but didn’t seem too problematic to use. To see how the two compare in size, check out this post.
On the software front, the Galaxy Tab A 10.5 runs Android 8.1 Oreo with Samsung’s Experience 9.5 UX. It also comes with Bixby Home and Bixby Vision, an updated version of Kids Mode, and the Daily Board feature that turns on when you put the tablet into the charging dock. Daily Board shows you basic information such as the weather and calendar events and cycles through gallery pictures to work as a screensaver of sorts. Our short time with the tablet was enough to tell us that it’s not the fastest device around, but it will hopefully be good enough in the long run for the segment Samsung is targeting.
Our full Galaxy Tab A 10.5 review will arrive in the coming weeks and tell you whether it’s worth your hard-earned money. Do tell us what you think about the device down in the comments, and check out its complete spec sheet in our devices section.
“To see how the two compare in size, check out this post.”
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The North: Maenam & Bang Po (53 villas)
Mae Nam beach (14 villas)
7 bedrooms (2 villas)
Villa Sila
14 pers. max.
Ideal for accommodating large groups
Set within walking distance from Mae Nam village
Located a short drive away from restaurants and attractions
Take a look inside Villa Sila
A luxurious beach vacation awaits at Villa Sila. You’re greeted by an immaculately landscaped outdoor compound, tastefully appointed living spaces and sweeping coastal views the moment you step in. The villa’s full range of amenities - from the fitness centre to sauna room and entertainment room - ensures that there’s something for every vacationer. Containing a total of seven bedrooms, Villa Sila is ideally kitted out for large families or shared among a group of 14.
A maximum of 14 guests are accommodated in seven bedrooms. Each is generously proportioned and finely appointed, and comes complete with double beds or twin singles, quality linen, mini fridges, TVs and en suite bathrooms. A decorative feature wall, hanging lamps and indoor plants add on to the room’s ambience, while air conditioners and ceiling fans help ensure that the interiors are kept comfortably cool throughout the day.
Villa Sila’s beautifully manicured lawn contains a sparkling pool (filled with mineralised water), lawn and patio area. The villa’s excellent seafront position offers spectacular ocean views - whether you’re taking a dip in the pool, sunbathing upon the loungers or dining al fresco under a decorative outdoor sala. A full range of outdoor equipment - like barbecue facilities, surround sound speakers and a bar fridge - help create the right ambience for poolside dinner parties.
Villa Sila combines contemporary and traditional design elements in its architecture and interiors. Each pavilion boasts ornate Thai-style roofs, pillars, vaulted ceilings and large windows and doors that allow ample sunlight to cascade in.
Most of your social activities will take place in the main living area, which contains a lounge, dining area and kitchen. Pillowy sofas center around a flat screen TV, an elegant dining set seats 14 and the wood-dominated western kitchen allows access to a larger Thai-style kitchen, where your in-villa chefs work away at preparing delicious feasts.
Additional amenities on the ground floor include a sauna room, entertainment room, fitness centre and two outdoor salas.
Offering impeccable service, guests at Villa Sila won’t be left wanting for more. Housekeeping, butler, 24/7 security, nightly beach watchman and concierge services are included with your stay. Breakfast is served daily by your personal chef, while lunch and dinner will be prepared at no additional cost if you’re ordering from the in-villa dining menu.
- Beach: 50m
Villa Sila is located in the coastal town of Mae Nam, in north Samui. The town’s laid back ambience offers a refreshing change from the busy tourist hubs in the east, and will appeal to families and holidaymakers seeking a restful getaway.
Mae Nam Beach, with its calm waters and relaxed vibes is a popular hangout for families. It’s located just a skip away from your villa. And 15 minutes’ walk from the beach is Mae Nam walking street. Set up every Thursday evening, the walking street draws locals and tourists alike, and is a great way for travellers to discover the local street food and shopping scene.
Dining out is a breeze as restaurants and cafes are peppered all around the vicinity. Fisherman’s Village, a hub dotted with upscale dining and shopping establishments is about eight minutes’ drive away. Other venues that come with our recommendation include The Farmer Restaurant and Bar, Kobori Japanese Restaurant and Mathis Café.
Vacationers of all ages will enjoy visiting the island’s renowned cultural attractions. The iconic Big Buddha is just nine minutes’ drive away, while sites like Khao Chedi and Laem Sor Pagoda are about an hour’s drive from your villa.
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Pers. max.: 14
Garden: 1252 m²
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“Becky and I will be coming back in February,” my friend Bruce Anderson said, as we talked on the phone. “I want you to do me a favor if you can.”
“When I was in Belize in June I caught a barracuda that was the biggest fish I ever caught in my life. I wanted to get him stuffed and mounted so I could hang him on my wall at home but I didn’t think there was a taxidermist in San Pedro so the fish spoiled.”
“I saw a sign for a taxidermist yesterday,” I told him. “I’ll go check it out.”
The sign on the little shop on the back street said, “FISHING BLUES IN BELIZE.” A smaller sign said, “GREY’S TAXIDERMY.”
“Do you do taxidermy for fish?” I asked the man behind the counter.”
“We sure do,” he said. “We can stuff them for you and put them on a plaque to hang on the wall. We can also have them mounted on a wooden stand.”
Just then a little old lady entered the shop carrying a suitcase. I stepped back and let her go ahead of me.
“I understand that you stuff animals here,” she said.
“Well, we stuff mostly fish,” the proprietor said, “but we can handle just about anything. What do you have?”
“I have my two pet monkeys,” she said. “The male is Georgie and the female is Lupe. I have had them for fifteen years. Georgie died yesterday and Lupe died this morning.”
“That’s sad,” the shop owner said.
“I think Lupe died because they just couldn’t stand to be separated,” the lady said. “They were so close that sometimes I could barely pry the two of them apart. I would like to get them stuffed, if I can.”
“Why, certainly,” was the answer. “Would you like them to be mounted?”
“No. Just holding hands will be fine.”
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Letters to the editor Friday: Byrne has served constituents well
Aug 9, 2018 at 3:16 PM Aug 10, 2018 at 6:48 AM
Byrne has served constituents well
The attacks over the years on our School Board president, Jolene Byrne, by the Savannah Morning News have been unprecedented.
Particularly heinous was the editorial board attack published July 26.
First of all, you showed blatant disrespect for women who hold elected office by saying that she needs to be "flattered and coddle." That is downright is misogynistic.
Byrne was elected by an overwhelming majority of Chatham County voters on July 22, 2014 for a four-year term, and she has served her constituents well and with honor.
Your suggestion that she step aside for Larry Lower to finish the balance of the term that she was elected to serve is not only reprehensible, but also dangerous.
The people spoke loud and clear on May 22 that they want no part of Lower as School Board president. Lower has made a habit on demonizing teachers, being hostile to constituents, and falling asleep during school board meetings. Additionally, Lower did not openly report his campaign contributions when asked in a public forum.
Kris Edenfield, Savannah
Editor's note: Lower and all school board candidates disclosed their campaign contributions in writing to government officials as required by law.
A horse is a horse of course
Necessarily, jobs, roles, professions and endeavors carry requirements which, if not met, will make one a laughing stock, or even worse, unqualified.
So our presidents must be at least 35 years old (experience required; teenagers need not apply). One’s vision must be good in order for one to get a driver’s license (bad vision = danger). Legal residents of Savannah may not vote in Beijing’s elections. Football linemen must be big guys; jockeys must be small guys. Mathematicians must know how to count. Grammarians must know their ABCs. Aunts must be female; uncles, male. Muslim imams may not be Buddhists. Christian priests must be males; pagan priestesses may be females. Cannibals are unfit to be restaurant chefs. O.J. Simpson is not suited to appear in any more shaving cream ads, and so on.
In defiance of such rules, the tyrannical Roman Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse, Incitatus, a Roman Senator even though Roman Senators were supposed to be (a) human beings and (b) able to conjugate a few Latin verbs.
But Caligula’s power was unrestrained, so it didn’t matter if Incitatus lied when answering the “Are you a human?” question and marked the “Yes” box. Caligula’s foolishness gave the Roman people a good laugh under their collective abated breath — so as not to cost them their heads.
Television’s talking horse, Mister Ed, makes me wonder if maybe Incitatus might have asked to be a senator (speaking, of course, in horse-Latin, not in people-Latin or pig-Latin): “Hee-haw, Astermmhee Aligulachaw leasephee akemhaw emhee ahaw Enatorshee, Hee-haw.”
Be that as it may, if I had been a social-climbing Roman horse, a seat or a stall in the Roman Senate House would have gone right to my walnut-sized horse’s brain! I’d have kicked off my horseshoes, dyed my tail and mane day-glow pink, and whizzed around the Forum on rollerblades giving those stuffy old Senators what for.
I could go on and on with this sort of prattle, but I almost forgot to tell you about marriage. Just as Caligula shouldn’t have made his horse a Senator, so your readers, even if they are Episcopalians, shouldn’t marry a horse. I mention this because we Episcopalians permit a lot of weird and heretical stuff, but we certainly do not permit a person to marry a horse — at least not yet
Herbert Guerry, Savannah
Letter misses point on anthem protests
A letter published August 8 regarding the NFL players' anthem protests joins the many opinions expressed that totally miss the point about "taking a knee."
Colin Kaepernick never mentioned the armed forces when he began this personally devastating protest two years ago. The protest was, and is, to bring attention to the issue of police abuse of African Americans. There continues to be a concerted effort to conflate these two issues. This is merely a conservative tactic to muddy the water and by doing this, the right has avoided dealing with the issue, and has managed to again make this all about race.
Which of course, it is.
John G. Miller, Savannah
Kochs sticking up for real Republicans
President Donald Trump, a Republican, is attacking the Koch Brothers for opposing Republican candidates that stray from traditional Republican principles. Such principles include reduced government spending and free trade, both of which President Trump and his followers have jettisoned in favor of a populist brand of politics that often hurts his own base and threatens the economic growth he so often cheers.
Trump's tariffs, which have hurt American companies, workers and farmers through higher input costs and closed foreign markets, are Exhibit A. The Koch network is standing up for the very Americans who helped put Trump in office — farmers, construction and manufacturing workers, and small business owners — by making the case for traditional Republican policies that help these individuals and the vast majority of their fellow citizens. Real Republicans should too.
Scott Lincicome, Raleigh, N.C.
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Memorandum of Concerns about TTD submitted to Sri A K Shingal, Executive Offer
03 Jan 2020 Save Temples 94 Views
Sri Anil Kumar Shingal
EO of TTD
Tirupati, AP
Dear Sri Shingal Garu:
Sub: Concerns about TTD
I want to submit our concerns related to the activities related to a number of decisions your government had over the last 7 months. I sincerely hope that you will look at these concerns with open mind and fairness.
1. Christian Menace in TTD
There is rampant presence of Christians in Brrd Hospital and Devasthanam. As per our information from several sources, there are about 15-20 per cent working in TTD. There are more than 15,000 employees in TTD. That means there are as many as 3000 employees practicing Christianity. Except those 44 employees who revealed their identity as Christians at the time of their employment, thousands of employees willfully and deceptively hide their identity. Some of them may have joined by falsely filling up the application for employment or some of them may have been converted to Christianity while being employed at TTD.
These Christian Converts are making the life of the practicing Hindus employees miserable, depressed and disheartened. They are insulting the practicing Hindus, demeaning Hinduism and insulting the images of Hindu Gods and Goddesses.
2. In BIRRD Hospital
Following are the comments by some of the Christian employees of BIRRD (Sri Balaji Institute of Surgery, Research and Rehabilitation for the Disabled ( BIRRD) Trust hospital to Hindu employee:
Why do you worship that Shila / stone without even mentioning the name of Lord Sri Venkateswara?
Many Christian employees call the Hindus fools to worship that idol without mentioning Lord Venkateswara name.
They refer Sri Venkateswara as Saitan.
They ridicule them for putting big Tilak on their forehead.
One of the supervising nurses insults them constantly.
Some of the Christian nurses make Hindu nurses sick mentally and physically.
They are supposed to attend the Puja on Saturday morning, do pradikshna and take prasdam. They rarely attend this puja. If they attend that puja to show their presence, they do not do pradakshina and do not take prasdam.
They do not take Prasadam at any time because it is called saitan food by Christians.
Some of them got smart recently and putting a tiny tilak on their forehead which is hardly visible.
Some of the nurses’ husbands are the pastors who built churches. They go to churches regularly.
Some of the Christian nurses talk about Jesus to Hindu patients and emphasize that they will recover soon if they believe in Jesus. They will put the Bible under the pillow of the vulnerable patient.
3. In Devasthanam
Many of the Christian officials in their offices avoid not only doing namaskaram, they do not even look at Balaji and Padmavati picture.
Where there is back entrance to the office, they prefer to enter that way to avoid accidental glimpse of the Lord’s face.
They discretely engage in conversion tactics targeting junior and lower level employees.
One more Observation
It appears that some of the Managerial staff and even priests come to their duty drunk – after consuming alcohol.
In Balaji colony on the Tirumala Hills, some of the employees eat non-vegetarian food. It is inexcusable to allow them to eat non-vegetarian food and drink alcohol.
Abuse of Privileges
About 3 years ago during Brahmotsava time, all the employees were given Sri Venkateswara Gold Coin wrapped in a box. These Christians took the box, did not open the box to avoid looking at Lord Venkateswara image, called the Jewelers and sold them. Many of the practicing Christians do not have these Golden Coins in their houses.
If they really believe in Lord Balaji, don’t you think they would not keep it either in their Puja room or in a special place in the house?
All the TTD employees are entitled to have 10 Laddus per month. Many of these Christians buy them at Rs 5 and sell them there itself for Rs 50-100 to the pilgrims.
Before AP Chief Secretary L.V. Subrahmanyam was transferred, he announced that non-Hindus who are employed in Hindu Temples should leave their positions. He requested the Endowment Commissioner to visit the employees’ houses unannounced to find out if they are practicing Hindus. Few days later during his visit to the Tirumala temple in August 2019, he said that surprise checks would also be conducted at the houses of the employees to ensure that they are not practicing non-Hindu religions. He had said that they are aware that many employees have converted to other religions. Though the government cannot stop them from converting, they cannot continue in their jobs at TTD, he said.
On August 28, even the Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy announced that non-Hindus will not be allowed to work at Tirupati Temple.
What action have you taken to see that non-Hindus are identified and removed from their positions as per the announcement of L V Subrahmanyam and Chief Minister Jagan?
Have you made any surprise visits to the suspected non-Hindus homes as announced by L V Subrahmanyam?
Have you even identified the suspected non-Hindus working in TTD and BIRRD Hospital?
Appoint a Special Committee to investigate
We request TTD Board to investigate all the allegations surrounding the employees who are practicing Hinduism and insulting the very institution they are working for. Many people have no confidence in the management of TTD Board since it is appointed by the State government. A long as TTD and other Temples are under State government control, the Board cannot be impartial, independent and unbiased. They cannot resist the pressures from the government to warp the investigation.
Since RTI (Right to Information Act) cannot be applied to TTD activities, it is almost like a secret organization without accountability, transferency and openness. As we all know there are no audit reports of TTD for decades. Requests for audit reports are never fulfilled.
A Special Committee must be appointed on the basis of the recommendations of many Hindu organizations who are only interested in maintaining the sacredness of the Temple and who have a track record of working for the preservation of Hindu Temples and Hindu Dharma.
Install CC Cameras
TTD should install CC cameras in every patient room and offices of Supervisors, head nurses, nurse stations, and other rooms where two or more people meet in the Hospital to find out how Hindu nurses are insulted, disparage Hindu customs, and disrespect for Lord Venkateswara
On the Hill, install all the offices of the TTD employees to monitor their activities to find out if they have any faith in Lord Venkateswara.
Presenting book to JEO (joint executive Officer) Basant kumar
Dress Code for Employees
On December 5th, as an NRI we had darshan of Balaji. As we keep walking in the line we noticed that more than 80 percent of employees did not wear Govinda Namas (Tilak/Bottu) on their forehead. Is there any Dress Code policy for employees of TTD? How can we create spiritual and religious ambience in the most sacred place on the earth for Hindus if the employees look like zombies with no energy, enthusiasm and devotion.
Can you provide a copy of the Dress Code for the employees? They should be the role models for all the pilgrims by creating spiritual and religious ambience.
Dress Code for Pilgrims:
As you’re aware that to enhance the spiritual ambience among the devotees visiting Tirumala to have the darshan of Lord Sri Venkateswara Swamy, TTD had introduced traditional dress code in 2013. Pilgrims who are taking part in Arjitha Sevas and VIP pilgrims seeking general pilgrims who go for Rs.300 and Rs.50 darshan. For men the dress code is dhoti or pyjama with upper cloth.
For women the preferred dress code is a saree or a half-saree with blouse or churidar with pyjama and upper cloth. Few days ago the EO assured the caller that TTD will slowly take up a campaign on dress code so that even the general pilgrims follow the traditional dress code.
5. Mishaps after mishaps
Bus tickets with information on Jerusalem pilgrimage advertisement. Why nobody even monitored before the tickets are shipped.
Sri Yesaiah Sri Venkateswara in the Panchangam. The website would have access to only few people from TTD. Vigilance officer indicated that non-Hindus might be responsible for this action. What is revealed in your investigation and what action is planned against persons responsible?
Pushkarini was not filled with Water during Karthik Masam denying lakhs of devotees to take a dip in the auspicious month. To our knowledge it never happened before in the recent times.
Vaikunta Ekadasi Uttara Dwara darshan - Who made the decision to keep the door open for ten days in the beginning itself and how it was decided to reverse.
Bus tickets changed from Rs.55 to 65. What was the reason?
Room charges were hiked – Why they were increased?
Sri Y V Subba Reddy, TTD Chairman was invited as Chief Guest (Aatmeeya Visishta Athithi) by Christian Committee, Y S R C P, Rajamahendravaram. How can he take action against people who shared in the social media? The Chairman said he has nothing to do with Christian Committee and he expressed his anger. Public Relations Officer of TTD released a statement by saying that Chairman was not invited by anybody and somebody intentionally doing this to discredit him. He said he will report to the police.
Is he going to register a police case against the Christian committee who printed the invitation card without his knowledge or people who circulated it?
Some of the devotees have been manhandled by Security force/ any action taken against? Were they ever had a training to be sensitive to the needs of the devotees?
6. Golla Mantapam
So much discussion is going on the alleged dismantling or moving to another location of ancient, historical and sentimental Golla Mantapam. This discussion is not new; it was deliberated for many years. In 2004, the High Court already gave judgment saying that the dismantling of Golla Mantapam is “arbitrary, discriminatory, unjust, unwarranted, mallacious, contrary to the customs, Hindu Rites especially offending Yadava community at large which is in violation of the rt. 14, 16 & 21 of the Constitution of India and set aside the decision of the respondents and consequently restrain the respondents from damaging or removal of the said structure called as “Golla Mantapam.” (February 23, 2004).
It has a long history and a moving legend behind the construction Golla Mantapam. Let us preserve our heritage and culture and teach our children to make them proud of their rich heritage.
By making a clear statement, it will allay the fears of all the devotees.
7. RTI (Right to Information Act) should be made applicable to TTD
Devotees of Lord Venkateswara should be able to obtain information about various conducted activities, religious practices, Christian infiltration, financial management, responsibility to devotees, sacredness of the Temple, employees’ code of conduct and sacredness of TTD. No audit reports have been submitted for nearly decades.
TTD should be accountable to devotees. People against Corruption stated that “It’s absurd, immoral and illegal to plead that TTD is not accountable to people under the RTI Act. Such an unreasonable plea raises suspicion that something is rotten in it, and it wants to hide. Being one of the most efficiently administered organization, the TTD has no reason to fear the RTI Act and escape the accountability or answerability… people have every right to demand every bit of information about the way they are spending the money they have donated to Lord Venkateswara.”
It is obvious that something is wrong with the administration. What could be the reason for not sharing the information? Over the years some EOs felt that it would not only unnecessarily embarrass them but they are obviously abusing and misusing the funds. They do not want devotees to have access to the way they spend money and how they safeguard the jewelry. Hence, they decided to refuse RTI.
We request the TTD to honor the RTI for the sake of accountability and transferency.
8. 50 Percent Reservations is wrong
Global Hindu Heritage Foundation (GHHF) requests you to withdraw these two resolutions to respect the Indian Constitution. As you are aware that a certain percentage of reservations are made for socially and educationally backward communities and the scheduled castes and Tribes in the public sector units, union and state civil services, union and state government departments in all public and private educational institutions except in the religious/ linguistic minority educational institutions.
It means that percentage reservations for backward classes are excluded from the religious institutions. Any attempt to enforce the 50 percent reservations in the Temple Board is only to interfere with Hindu Religious Temple management and appoint Christians in the Temple management positions which is against the Indian Constitution.
Among these backward communities there may be as many as 50-60 percent Christians. By appointing them to Temple Boards, you are appointing Christians to the Temple management positions. Since it is the obligation of the Christians to proselytize and engage in missionary activities, the government is deliberately appointing them to Christianize Hindu Temples. It is tantamount to ruining the sanctity and sacredness of Hindu Temples.
Since nothing is mentioned about only Hindu candidates of SC, ST and BC will be appointed to the Temple Boards, it is certain that Christians are more likely to occupy the Temple Management positions. If the government is interested in maintaining the sanctity and sacredness of Hindu temples and not interested in tampering with the rituals and practices of Hindu tradition, government should openly declare that only Hindus from backward communities will be appointed by issuing a different G.O.
It is morally and ethically wrong to appoint either Christians or Muslims to the Temple Boards. As Chief Minister, it is your dharma (responsibility) to make sure every religion is able to follow their way of life as long as no religion threatens the very existence of another religion. No government has the moral or legal right to interfere with the management of their religious institutions.
There should be strict separation of state and religious institutions. Christian churches should not be interfered by government by appointing Hindus or Muslims to manage them. Similarly, Mosques should not be managed by either Hindus or Christians.
Hence, we request you to withdraw the resolution allowing backward classes – SC, ST and BC communities - to be appointed in Hindu Temple Boards.
9. TUDA Chairman appointment to TTD Board is equally wrong
GHHF is opposed to the appointment of Chairman of Tirupati Urban Development Authority as ex-officio to TTD Board. There is every possibility the TUDA chairman can be either a Christian or a Muslim. Appointment of such person may bring Christian perspective to the Temple management and engage in missionary activity on the Hill.
We request you to withdraw this resolution as soon as possible before TUDA chairman is appointment to TTD Trust Board.
10. Resume to Build 500 Hindu Temples in Poor Hindu Population
As per GO R T. No. 820 dated August 2, 2016, TTD has agreed to build 500 Hindu Temples in the weaker section localities. To our knowledge no Hindu Temples were built in 2017. In 2018, 500 Hindu Temples were built under the aegis of Hindu Dharma Parirakshana Trust (HDPT) through Samarasata Foundation.
It appears that the Board of Trustees of TTD during previous administration has discontinued the funding for 2019 thereby a successful program was axed. We feel TTD should find few other organizations to give this responsibility of constructing Hindu Temples in the weaker section localities.
We earnestly request you to see that the resolution is passed to build 500 temples in the year 2019 as per GO.
11. Sunday Schools for Children to Teach About Hinduism
As we all aware that Sanatana Dharma has no systematic method of transmitting the richness of Hinduism to the youth. Parents do not have enough knowledge to transmit to their children. Schools do not teach about Hinduism as they are considered secular institutions. The only institutions that can transmit and educate our children are our Hindu Temples.
Realizing the importance of teaching our faith, many Hindu Temples are conducting Sunday schools in USA. As you know that there are more than 1200 Hindu Temples in USA. I would estimate that nearly 20 percent of these Hindu Temples are conducting Hinduism classes to our children from ages 5 thru 15.
We request TTD to conduct Hinduism classes to our children in and around Tirupati to equip them with invaluable knowledge about their religion. You can start with may be 2-3 Sunday Schools programs in different neighborhoods. TTD will be able to make them proud of their religion and who would be our ambassadors to the future survival.
12. Funding of Educational Institutions
TTD manages about 33 educational Institutions. Some of them are designed to promote Hindu art, dance, Vedas, Music and scriptures. TTD funds these institutions at the rate of about 120 crores per annum. Many of the professional high schools, junior colleges, universities, Engineering colleges and others receive the funds from TTD.
We request that TTD should require all these institutions to offer 2-3 courses on Hinduism that would enable the students to know about their culture and meet the requirement that TTD funds are used for religious purposes only.
Why should TTD support financially any educational institutions if they do not even offer 2-3 courses on Hinduism and make it mandatory? TTD should not fund institutions that do not require all the students to take courses on Hinduism.
13. Hindu Dharma Prachara Parishad
Hindu Dharma Prachara Parishad of TTD should concentrate its mission to preserve, propagate and promote Hindu Sanatana Dharma to our youth by organizing different devotional methods to equip them with richness of Hindu Dharma which would help them to counter misinformation propagated by other Abrahamic religions. TTD cannot be a silent spectator for the missionary activities of other religions. TTD cannot close its eyes to the impending danger to its very existence. It should have investigative branch to find out the deceptive Christian conversion tactics and take necessary legal action against these illegal converts.
Should provide priests to the needed temples.
Should conduct Srinivasa Kalyanams in Dalit communities Regularly
Develop Bhajan Mandals in as many villages and Temples as possible.
Conduct Youth programs for extended period for them to absorb and digest the depth of knowledge in the rituals and scriptures.
14. Christian Employees at TTD – Revisit High Court
As we know that TTD identified 44 Non-Hindu working in Devasthanam following the release of video showing an employee attending Church by taking TTD Vehicle. Many Sadhus and other Hindus agitated demanding the identity of the Christian employees and to reveal the number of employees working in Devasthanam. TTD identified 44 Christians and Muslims as employees working at Devasthanam and agreed to terminate their jobs. These employees went to High Court demanding that they be allowed to work in Devasthanam. High Court agreed with the Christian employees and issued stay order until further order.
Speaking to reporters, TTD Executive Officer Anil Kumar Singhal, said, “As per our guidelines in tune with GOs issued in 1989 and 2007, non-Hindus will not be recruited either in teaching or non-teaching categories of TTD. We have identified 44 people who got appointed in the TTD against the guidelines since 1989. Majority of them are employed under the compassionate ground category. We are now contemplating sending them to other State government departments.”
We request TTD to move the High Court requesting that it should take up the case and make a final judgment at the earliest possible time.
TTD should request the High Court to expedite the matter and allow transfer to other departments.
TTD should in fact request the State government to transfer these Non-Hindu employees to other secular departments instead of keeping them at Devasthanam.
As we all know that believers in Abrahamic religions believe in proselytization and it is the WORD of their chosen God they are required to follow. High court’s decision will encourage them to engage in missionary activities on Devasthanam grounds
De we have any mechanism in place to find out that they are not engaged in conversion of other Hindu TTD employees to other faiths. The longer we keep them on TTD payrolls, more conversions may take place unless an investigative team is appointed to oversee their activities.
15. Islamic University
Global Hindu Heritage Foundation was the first one to expose the existence of Islamic University with photos in September 2013. Ms. Shaik Nowhera was building the structure illegally and in violation of the plan approved by TUDA. The permission sought from TUDA was only for constructing a building with ground floor and first floor. In spite of the efforts by Thondavada Village Panchayat’s efforts, the building was being constructed with a ground floor and 6 floors.
District Collector K. Ramgopal has instructed the revenue and police officials to demolish the unapproved floors of the building that houses the Heera International Islamic University in Thondavada village of Chandragiri Mandali. Now it is being litigated in the courts.
TTD should acquire the building and use it for educational purposes. It should move the courts to resolve the issue and see that influx of Muslims is avoided so that peace and tranquility will be maintained near the foothills of Sri Venkateswara Temple.
Hope that you will provide a meaningful response to this letter by taking appropriate measures to rectify the concerns expressed.
Dhanyavad
Prakasarao V Velagapudi, PhD
President, GHHF
India Phone: 8500738140
US number: 601-918-7111
Copy to: Sri Srinivas Vellampally, Endowment Minister
Sri Y V Subba Reddy, TTD Chairman Board
Sri Anil Kumar Shingle, EO, TTD
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Anti-Nausea Drug Zofran Linked to Heart Problems, Label Updated
June 29, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that they labels on Zofran (ondansetron), a drug that is used to prevent chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. Investigators have determined that a single dose can increase the risk of a deadly heart problem. The manufacturer of Zofran, GlaxoSmithKline, will remove the 32-mg single dose from the label.
The FDA had previously been investigating the risk of heart arrhythmia associated with the drug in collaboration with the drug’s manufacturer. The investigation found that Zofran could prolong the heart’s QT interval (the interval in which the heart recovers before another beat). This increased the risk of a life-threatening type of heart arrhythmia called torsades de pointes, in which the delayed QT interval interferes with the heart’s rhythm so severely that the heart is unable to effectively supply blood to the brain, body, and internal organs.
The updated labels will indicate that adults and children can use Zofran at doses of 0.15 mg/kg every 4 hours for up to three doses, but no single dose should exceed 16 mg. Oral dosages of up to 24 mg are approved by the FDA.
In a statement, the FDA said that they agency will continue to evaluate study data provided by the drug’s manufacturer, and they will work with the drug company to develop an alternative single-dose therapy if possible.
The FDA had previously issued a safety communication on the risk of Zofran heart arrhythmia on September 15, 2011. The FDA announced that the agency was asking GlaxoSmithKline to conduct a safety study, and they would be investigating reports that Zofran had caused changes in heart electrical activity. In the communication, the FDA also recommended that patients who are taking the dug should undergo EKG heart monitoring, especially for patients at risk of heart problems.
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Our immigration policy is intended to be implemented at the same time as our plan to build new cities, our plan to improve transport infrastructure and our measures to improve housing affordability. Our policy is a responsible plan to manage Australia's population changes. We intend to increase immigration to a level which is sustainable for our productive capacity and which is needed for a stable population pyramid. We will maintain the current proportion of skilled, humanitarian, family reunion and other visas.
The Science Party's population policy is unique: unlike other parties, we have plans to accommodate Australia's projected population growth. Australia is expected to have a population as high as 50 million people by 2066).
The Science Party (previously the Future Party) developed the Future Party 20/20 Report, which analysed current migration intakes and the ageing of society. To ensure that we continue to have a balance between the non-working and working population, to maintain a productive and prosperous economy and to ensure the stability of our welfare system, we predict that Australia's population should grow by roughly 20 million people over the next 20 years.
Australia has substantial resources to accommodate additional migrants. In addition to being the least densely populated country on Earth, Australia exports $44.8 billion of its $58.1 billion (77%) of its agricultural output, including 65% of our wheat (source).
The model used to inform the 20/20 Report can be downloaded here (excel format).
1. Net migration intake
1.1: The Science Party has a plan for migration, the 20/20 vision, to increase migration to keep our economy strong and counteract the ageing of our population. This plan aims to increase Australia's population by 20 million people over the next 20 years.
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Discussion about our policy regarding increased immigration can be found the 20/20 vision report which can be downloaded here: Future Party 20/20: Growing Australia for a prosperous future report (PDF, 931 KB)
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2. Asylum seekers
2.1: Close all Australian offshore immigration detention centres.
Under the 20/20 vision, the Science Party will increase Australia's humanitarian intake in proportion to other migration schemes. In the short term the additional places created should be offered to recognised refugees in Indonesia and Malaysia to reduce the demand for smuggling, as per the recommendations of the Houston Report. The Science Party has not yet resolved on further policy in this area; a number of options are under discussion. You can see ideas considered so far in our "Speculate" section.
3. Special migration zone
3.1: Our charter city, Turing, will act as a special migration zone. For more information, see our charter city policy.
4. Visa conditions
4.1: A new class of sponsored compassionate visa with limited access to public services.
Family reunion and other visas have requirements that people not have serious health conditions or otherwise be likely to increase the burden on the social safety net. The Science Party would introduce a new category of visa open to people rejected on such grounds but otherwise eligible to live in Australia. The visa would grant the right to residency but with an ongoing sponsorship requirement from the visa holders family, to cover all direct costs incurred by access to public services such as Medicare etc.
5. New Zealand migrants
5.1: New Zealanders living in Australia under Special Category Visa automatically receive a Permanent Residency Visa after living in Australia for two years.
Currently New Zealand citizens who migrated to Australia after 2001 under the reciprocal arrangements we have with New Zealand are treated equivalently to permanent residents for some purposes (such as tax law) but not others. For instance they will be required to pay the DisabilityCare levy, but will not be eligible to receive DisabilityCare services. In general they are far less well off than Australian citizens residing in New Zealand.
Automatically granting these residents a Permanent Residency Visa after two years will give rights in line with the reciprocal rights received by Australian citizens in New Zealand.
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Book review: Metro 2033
Dmitry Glukhovsky’s Metro 2033.
By Russell Whitfield 23-08-10 12,992
Author: Dmitry Glukhovsky
Dmitry Glukhovsky’s Metro 2033 was something of a phenomenon in his native Russia. Glukhovsky began posting chapters of his work online, soon gathering thousands of followers eager for his next instalment. A book deal was not long in coming and with a videogame adaptation soon after, Metro 2033’s extraordinary success seems fated to continue.
The novel is set in Moscow some years after a nuclear war. Survivors have been driven underground to the city’s subway system to escape an irradiated landscape. Here, they develop independent ‘states’, each based in a particular station. However, flesh-eating mutants known as Dark Ones also dwell in the tunnels making contact and travel dangerous.
Artyom, an inhabitant of the VDNKh station must penetrate the heart of the metro to curtail the spread of the mutants and by doing so save not only his own terminal but perhaps what remains of humanity.
It’s a great premise – essentially, Metro 2033 is a modern-day Gulliver’s Travels in which Glukhovsky comments on the socio-political landscape of Russia. The metro has Nazis, radical Christians, Communists and more – none of whom are spared sharp examination.
However, the book’s transcription leaves no room for subtlety, the prose often feeling like a first-person stream of consciousness tacked onto a loose plot. It left us wishing that we’d studied Russian, because underneath the clumsy phrasing it’s clear that Glukhovsky has a brilliant concept made more intriguing by its disparity to a western mindset.
Metro 2033 is an intellectual and fascinating novel, a five star book in its native language – but it’s gutting that much of its impact is lost in translation.
[isbn name=”Metro 2033″]978-0575086241[/isbn]
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Drive to boost tech gender balance debuts in Scotland
Claire Reid of PwC Scotland has seen first-hand how much work is needed to address the issue of gender balance. Picture: contributed.
Emma Newlands
Published: 06:05 Friday 06 December 2019
An initiative to address gender balance in technology roles has launched north of the Border, aiming to prompt a lasting increase in the number of women pursuing technology careers – and urging firms to signed up.
The venture is backed by PwC, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Morgan Stanley who have teamed up to launch the Tech She Can Charter in Scotland, and believe that if the people working in technology roles don’t reflect wider society, there is a genuine risk that the products and technology advances will be biased.
The charter was debuted nationally in 2018 to tackle the factors behind the shortfall of women in technology roles and share best practice. It now has 130-plus signatories.
The aim is that the initiative, which was launched in Scotland last night at PwC’s offices in Edinburgh, will encourage Scottish-based businesses to join forces to inspire more young women to pursue technology careers.
Tech She Can was created following PwC research finding that less than a quarter of people working in science, technology, engineering and maths jobs were female. Furthermore, only 27 per cent of women would consider a career in technology, compared to 62 per cent of men – and reasons cited for the gender imbalance included a lack of female role models.
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Claire Reid, regional leader of PwC Scotland, said: “Having worked in a variety of technology roles throughout my career, I know first-hand how much work is needed to address the issue of gender balance.
“We want to inspire and educate more females across Scotland to consider technology as a career option… we need businesses to sign up to the charter and I welcome other businesses to sign up and help create a better future with better opportunities for girls and young women.”
Wincie Wong, head of Rose Review Implementation at RBS, said: “Scotland is home to some of the sector’s leading businesses and this charter will not only play a role in helping drive gender balance and foster new opportunities but will help the sector attract more talent and build a sustainable, long-term future.
“By working together, we can encourage more girls and women to consider a career in technology and help the industry thrive.”
Siân Allsopp, executive director, enterprise technology and services at Morgan Stanley, said there is "abundant" evidence supporting the performance of diverse companies and teams.
As part of the charter, a schools-focused initiative will showcase careers available to them. The signatories believe that without co-ordinated action at school age onwards to create a sustainable pipeline of diverse tech talent, the UK could lose its competitive edge on the world stage.
Allsopp said the #TechSheCan initiative "is empowering teachers to ignite curiosity for a career as technologists in our younger generation.”
Top Edinburgh cop accused of park-and-ride sex with former Hearts footballer's wife misses court date
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Police confirm body is of missing hillwalker
Picture: Police Scotland
ALISTAIR MUNRO
Published: 07:54 Updated: 09:20 Monday 07 October 2013
A body found in the west Highlands has been identified as a missing 54-year-old hill walker from the East Midlands.
A massive air, land and sea search recovered the remains of Colin Barnfather, from the Derby area.
He had been walking in the Highlands last week but the alarm was raised on Friday when he failed to return home.
It was understood he had intended going to Kinloch Hourn in Lochaber and extensive searches were carried out over the weekend.
A police Scotland spokesman said: “Sadly, the body of a man was discovered in the Stob a Obhain area of Kinloch Hourn yesterday afternoon and he has now been identified as missing man, Colin Richard Barnfather.
“There do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances and a report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.”
It is understood Mr Barnfather’s sister travelled north at the weekend.
He had worked as chief design engineer for Aero Engine Controls and left his home in Chellaston on 21 September.
He initially visited South Lanarkshire, but told family he was moving onto Lochaber to go walking and camping.
He had intended to return home for a social event, but failed to turn up, sparking the search.
The body was found in the same area where the remains of Highland journalist and keen walker Clive Dennier were discovered in May after a two month search.
A memorial was held for Mr Dennier in Inverness at he weekend, attended by dozens of friend and colleagues as well as his sister and niece.
The CLIVE campaign - Climbers Location and Identification Verification Envelope – was also launched and encourages those taking to the hills to write details of their excursion and then leave them in an envelope with a responsible person.
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British Airways Pilots' Strike, All Flights Were Cancelled
The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) last month gave the airline notice of three days of industrial action in September, in what is the first ever strike by BA pilots.
By Scrabbl News
LONDON: British Airways pilots began a 48-hour strike on Monday, grounding nearly all its flights and disrupting the plans of thousands travellers in unprecedented industrial action over a pay dispute.
The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) last month gave the airline notice of three days of industrial action in September, in the first ever strike by British Airways (BA) pilots.
"We understand the frustration and disruption BALPA's strike action has caused our customers.
After many months of trying to resolve the pay dispute, we are extremely sorry that it has come to this," BA said in a statement.
"Unfortunately, with no detail from BALPA on which pilots would strike, we had no way of predicting how many would come to work or which aircraft they are qualified to fly, so we had no option but to cancel nearly 100% of our flights.
"Following strikes on Monday and Tuesday, another day of industrial action is scheduled for September 27. Both sides say they are willing to hold further talks.
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— British Airways (@British_Airways) September 9, 2019
BALPA has said British Airways (BA) should share more of its profits with its pilots.
British Airways has said the strike action is unjustifiable as its pay offer was fair. Thousands of customers have had to seek alternative travel arrangements, and the airline has come in for criticism over how it handled communications with passengers before the strikes. "We hope we can find a way of resolving this dispute.
We've been trying very hard to do so for the best part of nine months now but here we are now sadly having to take industrial action, "BALPA General Secretary Brian Strutton told BBC radio. He said they were willing to compromise but BA were not prepared to "budge".
The airline dismissed a new offer by BALPA last week as an "eleventh hour inflated proposal" that was not made in good faith.
BALPA had said it would have called off the strikes this week if BA had engaged with the offer. A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged both sides to end the dispute. The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is investigating the airline after it enraged some travellers by wrongly telling them their flights had been cancelled. The regulator also reminded the airline to tell customers their rights.
During the strikes, BA must offer passengers reimbursement for cancelled flights, alternate travel arrangements under comparable conditions or a new flight at a later date.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by Scrabbl staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
Original News: Reuters
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Membership itself is heroic in a period of time when the majority of Jews do not even belong to a synagogue. Each individual's decision to be a part of Sha'are Shalom creates our community and contributes to the foundation of our Congregation.
Upon this foundation, generous voluntary contributions enhance the quality of Jewish life at Sha'are Shalom. Numerous people give so much of themselves, not merely to ensure we exist, but to ensure that we thrive. This energy is contagious and inspiring.
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SSC completes Sports Center at Al Madam Club
Wednesday 04, September 2019 03:16 PM
Sharjah24: Sharjah Sports Council has completed the Sports Center project at Al Madam Cultural and Sports Club, which includes a swimming pool, two volleyball courts, a basketball court and a handball court.
The Sports Center project in Al Madam Cultural Club is one of the projects implemented for a number of clubs in the central region in the emirate, as part of an integrated plan for sports facilities.
His Excellency Issa Hilal Al Hazami, Secretary-General of the Sharjah Sports Council (SSC), said that this sports center comes in implementation of the directives and vision of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohamed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, and the support of Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Crown Prince, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah and Chairman of the Sharjah Executive Council.
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Sunday, Aug 05, 2018 06:35 PM
Fantasy Insider: 12 Tips For Fantasy Football Success In 2018
Scott Engel
Seahawks.com Fantasy Contributor
Scott Engel has been providing winning Fantasy Football advice on seahawks.com since 2012. His arrival coincided with Russell Wilson's and the rise of the Seattle offense into a consistently productive Fantasy resource. Scott is an inaugural member of the Fantasy Sports Writer's Association and he has over 20 years of experience and success in Fantasy Football. He won a prominent high stakes/experts league last season in New York and has an undefeated season to his credit, one of the rarest accomplishments in Fantasy Football. He begins this season of coverage with the most important points to remember as you head into your drafts this season, with naturally the number of pointers being 12 for Seahawks fans who are Fantasy Football enthusiasts.
1. Don't Go Blindly Into Your Draft
The first and most important rule of Fantasy Sports is to know your rules and scoring system. Not all player rankings are created equal when you review the scoring system. If quarterbacks receive four points for a TD rather than six, the position is devalued a bit more. If it's a points per reception league, pass-catching running backs get bumped up the board. Even kicker distance scoring can make a potential difference between a win and a loss. If your league settings call for three starting wide receivers and a flex, you may want to wait until the middle rounds for a quarterback, especially with a four-point passing TD designation. Do your homework, stay updated on preseason injuries and depth chart battles. Knowledge is Fantasy power. Walking into the draft room with a magazine and last-minute questions makes you a mark for deserved draft day barbs and a potentially shaky draft itself.
2. Don't Be A Homer
Some Fantasy players maintain it's more fun to root for a player in real life and have him on your Fantasy team, too. Well, rooting interest does not affect real life or Fantasy results. Drafting with your emotions can prevent you from constructing the ideal roster. If you build a team heavily comprised of Seahawks and they engage in a defensive battle in any given week, your Fantasy output will naturally suffer. If Russell Wilson is still on the board in the third round, and you need a running back or wide receiver more, and no QBs have been drafted yet, make the smart selection and get a key player at a position that is thinning out faster and requires more starters. You only have to start one QB and the position is very deep. (More on that soon). Also, don't avoid players you root against. When a rival player faces the Seahawks rooting against him won't shut him down. You play your best players regardless of allegiance and when the other team scores in real life, you get the Fantasy points and hope the Seahawks still win the game. Separate Fantasy and reality when making your decisions.
3. Don't Play The Guessing Game
Everyone wants to speculate about who will be available when their first round pick is up, especially with a later selection. They will try to guess who is going to be selected ahead of their slot. It's often a wasted exercise. You never know for sure what will happen ahead of you. Don't ask other players who they are going to take ahead of you, they will not be fully honest or could change their minds in an instant on draft day itself. Speculation can lead to frustration. If you have the eighth pick, simply have your Top 8 players listed and simply pick the best one available when it's your turn.
4. Don't Try To Rigidly Plan Ahead
It's great to be prepared, but every draft is different and you have to adjust to the flow on the go. You cannot prepare to target specific players in specific rounds. You may want to get Rashaad Penny in the fourth round, but if someone takes him a few spots ahead of you, then you must be prepared with alternatives. Focus on specific groupings of players. Penny's current NFL.com Draft Position is 39.68. Other RBs in that range are Kenyan Drake, Joe Mixon and Alex Collins. Be ready to take any one of them if available if you need a RB in the fourth round. Also, there is no set sequence for drafting players. Don't get locked into taking two RBs first, or two WRs first. If you start two RBs and three WRs, get those five slots filled in the first five rounds in no particular order. You never know who is going to drop to you or who you may miss out on at any point during the draft.
5. Wait On A QB
The quarterback may be the most important player in the NFL to many, but he certainly is not when you only have to start one in the majority of Fantasy leagues. The position is very deep. Aaron Rodgers has an ADP of 32.29, but when solid starters such as Matthew Stafford is going in the eighth round on NFL.com, and Philip Rivers as late as the 13th (earlier on other sites, but still in double figure rounds) I will gladly not consider the QB until I have all my WR and RB starting positions filled. Stafford and Rivers were the seventh and eighth highest scoring QBs on NFL.com last year, and you can definitely contend with those guys at QB.
6. Don't Sweat Bye Weeks And Schedules
Too many Fantasy players get caught up in drafting based on bye weeks and schedules. Don't worry about having too many players with the same bye weeks, because your team changes often throughout the season, and when the byes actually arrive, your roster may look much different than it does in August. Lots of schedule analysis is based on last season, and you cannot accurately look ahead to Fantasy playoff schedules when so much will change in the NFL from year to year. Also, the best players can stand out no matter who is on their schedule. Defenses don't win all the matchups by default.
7. Be Bold On Injured Players When It Matters
Many Fantasy owners will steer clear of a player if he is injured on draft day. But if you're smart and know if the injury is not a long-term one, you can nab a value. For example, the Seahawks are monitoring Doug Baldwin's knee injury right now, and if he is not participating in preseason action by your draft date, he could slide beyond the third round. That's when you pounce on him as a value WR2 and reap the benefits when he is back in action. Many summer injuries are only temporary.
8. Don't Ignore The Preseason
Many NFL fans dismiss preseason results, but savvy Fantasy players never do. Any Seahawk fan knows that Russell Wilson made his initial splash in the 2012 preseason. This could be the preseason when Jaron Brown seizes an opportunity to be a notable playmaker in the Seahawks passing game. You also want to watch situations in Chicago, where there is a much better group of playmakers around Mitch Trubisky, and RB battles in Cleveland and Denver, as examples. Many players have to earn their playing time in the preseason.
9. Revel In A Prime RB Opportunity
There is the "Big Four" at RB in Fantasy Football this year, and then, save for one potential rookie superstar, there is the rest. If you are in the Top 4 slots in your draft, you cannot pass on a chance to get one of Le'Veon Bell, Todd Gurley, David Johnson or Ezekiel Elliott. Those are four superstar RBs who soar above everyone else in terms of potential overall production. It may be hard to pass on WR Antonio Brown, but I'd rather get my WR1 with the second pick than miss out on RBs in rarefied Fantasy air. Giants rookie Saquon Barkley has the promise and abilities to join the group immediately, so he's a viable pick at the fifth spot. Personally, I put Bell first of the group because of his long track record at a high level, Gurley second in what is arguably the NFC's best offense, and Johnson third because I prefer the overall offenses of Pittsburgh and Los Angeles as a tiebreaker.
10. Don't Grab A Defense Too Early
The Jaguars and Rams defenses are being drafted in the seventh round on average on NFL.com. Don't be that guy/gal to jump too early on defenses when turnovers and defensive TDs can be very unpredictable year to year. You should not take a defense when prime skill position players are still on the board. New standout defenses emerge all the time annually, and you can stream defenses against weak offenses. The Jaguars and Rams were Top 3 Fantasy units last year, but neither was Top 15 the year before. The best defense of 2016, Kansas City, dropped to 12th last season. There is too much defensive variance from season to season. Avoid the defenses alone until at least your third to last pick.
11. Don't Draft To Trade
You should fill out your needs in the first one-third of your draft. You should not stack up at a position to make trades later on. When you do that, you are passing on areas of immediate need when you have the best opportunity to fill those needs. The type of player you may try to trade for later should be taken when readily available. And when other owners know you are in a position to desire a trade more than the average owner, you may never get the proper return you seek. You'll possibly weaken your draft day starting lineup by picking a player that you may not start early in the season. You can't start both Tom Brady and Drew Brees.
12. Don't Second Guess Yourself Too Much
Once your draft is finished, be happy with your roster and don't stress too much before the season begins. There is a temptation to keep tinkering with your roster or make trades because you are itching for some sort of action after draft day and before the season begins. If you have prepared well for the draft, be confident in the team you have put together and don't aggressively seek out changes. If you need something to fill the idle Fantasy time, do a Best Ball draft, where you draft a team once and never make trades or set lineups. Your results are based on cumulative totals with no transactions.
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Gary Clark Jr. Worked Up A Sweat On NPR Music’s ‘Tiny Desk Concert’ Series
Photo Credit: Amir Alfiky/NPR
One of the hottest places for artists to play when they come to the Nation's Capital is NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert series. And we mean "hottest" in the literal sense. Temperatures can get pretty warm in NPR's D.C. headquarters as people pack into the close quarters of the world famous desk. Guitar god Gary Clark Jr. learned this firsthand during his Tiny Desk Concert as he worked up quite a robust sweat during his scintillating performance.
Decked out in a leather jacket and knit cap, it was no wonder that Clark was burning up within seconds of kicking things off with "What About Us." He brought the track from his newly released album This Land to lush life backed by his four-piece band. Of course, Gary held it down on lead guitar and vocals on the funk-rock song. "It's a little bit warmer than I thought it would be, but I feel sexy in this jacket, so I'mma sweat through it," he quipped between songs, making light of his sweaty situation. Clark went on to perform two more tracks from the album, the soulful bop "When I'm Gone" and the bluesy single "Pearl Cadillac," which was punctuated with a rapturous guitar solo.
Gary Clark Jr. ended his Tiny Desk Concert to the sound of thunderous applause from all those gathered. He may have been drenched in sweat, but he was still the coolest cat in the room.
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Mystery Lines on Mars Carved By Water, Study Suggests
This image combining orbital imagery with 3-D modeling shows flows that appear in spring and summer on a slope inside Mars' Newton crater.
(Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona )
Salt water could be running down some slopes of Mars every spring, researchers suggest.
Such a finding would suggest new directions to search for any life that still existed on the Red Planet.
Clusters of dark, narrow lines that periodically emerge and lengthen on slopes in the warmer regions suggest briny water on Mars might still be flowing in a few rare places on the planet's surface.
"This is water today, not in the past," study co-author Alfred McEwen, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, told SPACE.com. [Photos: The Search for Water on Mars]
A great deal of evidence on the Martian surface suggests the planet was wet and perhaps capable of supporting life in the past. Although frozen water has been detected near the surface in many middle-to-high latitudes, there has been no definitive evidence that liquid water still runs across its surface.
"Water today on Mars was suggested previously, but it's not clear if those claims withstood follow-up studies," McEwen added. "That may prove true with this case as well, but for now, this is the best candidate for water today on Mars."
These slopes carved in Horowitz crater on Mars suggest the Red Planet might current host liquid water. Colors have been strongly enhanced to show the subtle differences, including light orange streaks (black arrows) in the upper right that may mark faded lines. (Image credit: Science/AAAS)
Strange lines on Mars
The scientists discovered the strange lines after a University of Arizona student used a computer algorithm on pictures of the Martian surface taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRise) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The algorithm was capable of identifying subtle changes on Mars over time. The images covered a variety of latitudes and span across approximately three Martian years.
The student, Lujendra Ojha, said in a statement: "I was baffled when I first saw those features in the images after I had run them through my algorithm. We soon realized they were different from slope streaks that had been observed before. These are highly seasonal, and we observed some of them had grown by more than 200 meters [650 feet] in a matter of just two Earth months." [FAQ: What the Possibility of Water on Mars Means]
These finger-like streaks extend down some slopes during the warmest months of the Martian year. They fade in winter, then re-emerge in the spring.
"What's most interesting to me is that it took so long to discover these details from images that were seen or acquired long ago but not examined in detail long ago," McEwen said. "It makes me wonder how many other things we're missing."
These features, called "recurring slope lineae," reach down steep slopes such as the rims of impact craters, usually on sides facing the equator. While they can be hundreds of feet long, they are only about 1.6 to 16 feet (0.5 to 5 meters) wide, much narrower than gullies seen in the past on Martian slopes.
The scientists detail their findings in the Aug. 5 issue of the journal Science.
This composite image shows odd lines on slopes of Mars' Horowitz Crater, which scientists say suggest the presence of liquid salt water. These images show the central structure of Horowitz Crater, including central peaks and pits. The arrows mark locations of the odd slope features. (Image credit: Science/AAAS)
Is saltwater flowing on Martian slopes?
The best explanation the researchers have produced so far for these features is that they are made by salty water, which would be capable of staying liquid at colder temperatures than pure water. [Video: Did Mars Make Life, And Lose It?]
A flow started by briny water could rearrange grains or change surface roughness in a way that darkens its appearance. "The flows are not dark because of being wet," McEwen said.
How these streaks brighten again when temperatures drop is harder to explain. "It's a mystery now, but I think it's a solvable mystery with further observations and experiments," he said.
As to what the source of this water might be, "that is the $10,000 question," McEwen said. "It probably has to come from vapor, either from the atmosphere or from subsurface ground ice, or it's coming from brines in the crust that are stable over geological time. But it's all speculation right now — we wish we knew."
This map of Mars shows relative locations of three types of findings related to salt or frozen water, plus a new type of finding that may be related to both salt and water. Blue boxes are caches of water ice; white boxes are fresh craters that exposed water ice; red boxes are salt deposits that may be from salt water evaporation. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/UA/LANL/MSSS)
Implications for life hunt?
When it comes to looking for extant life on Mars, "researchers mostly have thought about the deep subsurface, but the cost and difficulty of bringing a drill rig to Mars is not really feasible," McEwen said. "However, if there is extant life on Mars, it might be accessible in these brines, which gives us a new direction as to where to go."
The researchers caution their observations are not proof of liquid salt water on Mars. [7 Theories on the Origin of Life]
Still, "we've been trying to come up with alternate ideas, maybe some sort of dry avalanching process, but none of them work," McEwen said. "Why does this only seem to happen at certain temperatures and latitudes, and why darken and fade? Briny water seems to be the most viable explanation for these observations so far."
McEwen added that the ExoMars mission from NASA and the European Space Agency, planned for launch in 2016, is aimed to detect trace gases in the Martian atmosphere, including water, and might see whether these features really are caused by brines. "It could look for local enrichment of water and see if it corresponds to the times and places of these streaks," he said.
Follow SPACE.com contributor Charles Q. Choi on Twitter @cqchoi. Visit SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcomand on Facebook.
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Summary: Act III, scene ii
That evening, in the castle hall now doubling as a theater, Hamlet anxiously lectures the players on how to act the parts he has written for them. Polonius shuffles by with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Hamlet dispatches them to hurry the players in their preparations. Horatio enters, and Hamlet, pleased to see him, praises him heartily, expressing his affection for and high opinion of Horatio’s mind and manner, especially Horatio’s qualities of self-control and reserve. Having told Horatio what he learned from the ghost—that Claudius murdered his father—he now asks him to watch Claudius carefully during the play so that they might compare their impressions of his behavior afterward. Horatio agrees, saying that if Claudius shows any signs of guilt, he will detect them.
The trumpets play a Danish march as the audience of lords and ladies begins streaming into the room. Hamlet warns Horatio that he will begin to act strangely. Sure enough, when Claudius asks how he is, his response seems quite insane: “Excellent, i’ faith; of the chameleon’s dish: I eat the air, promise-crammed” (III.ii.84–86). Hamlet asks Polonius about his history as an actor and torments Ophelia with a string of erotic puns.
The players enter and act out a brief, silent version of the play to come called a “dumbshow.” In the dumbshow, a king and queen display their love. The queen leaves the king to sleep, and while he is sleeping, a man murders him by pouring poison into his ear. The murderer tries to seduce the queen, who gradually accepts his advances.
The players begin to enact the play in full, and we learn that the man who kills the king is the king’s nephew. Throughout, Hamlet keeps up a running commentary on the characters and their actions, and continues to tease Ophelia with oblique sexual references. When the murderer pours the poison into the sleeping king’s ear, Claudius rises and cries out for light. Chaos ensues as the play comes to a sudden halt, the torches are lit, and the king flees the room, followed by the audience. When the scene quiets, Hamlet is left alone with Horatio.
Hamlet and Horatio agree that the king’s behavior was telling. Now extremely excited, Hamlet continues to act frantic and scatterbrained, speaking glibly and inventing little poems. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern arrive to tell Hamlet that he is wanted in his mother’s chambers. Rosencrantz asks again about the cause of Hamlet’s “distemper,” and Hamlet angrily accuses the pair of trying to play him as if he were a musical pipe. Polonius enters to escort Hamlet to the queen. Hamlet says he will go to her in a moment and asks for a moment alone. He steels himself to speak to his mother, resolving to be brutally honest with her but not to lose control of himself: “I will speak daggers to her, but use none” (III.ii.366).
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In the first two scenes of Act III, Hamlet and Claudius both devise traps to catch one another’s secrets: Claudius spies on Hamlet to discover the true nature of his madness, and Hamlet attempts to “catch the conscience of the king” in the theater (III.i.582). The play-within-a-play tells the story of Gonzago, the Duke of Vienna, and his wife, Baptista, who marries his murdering nephew, Lucianus. Hamlet believes that the play is an opportunity to establish a more reliable basis for Claudius’s guilt than the claims of the ghost. Since he has no way of knowing whether to believe a member of the spirit world, he tries to determine whether Claudius is guilty by reading his behavior for signs of a psychological state of guilt.
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Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics
David Cameron has long been keen for his shadow Cabinet to exude greater empathy with recession-struck Britain — and he has inadvertently succeeded in one important regard. Most are now fearful of losing their jobs. The coming reshuffle is being spoken of like a vicious redundancy plan that could claim any scalp at random. Frontbenchers anxiously read and decode newspaper stories — particularly for the latest word on Ken Clarke’s potential return and what that might mean. The suspense is agonising.
Reshuffle speculation is normally a media game. This time, few shadow ministers have been able to wish each other happy new year without then discussing for whom, precisely, it will be most happy. The febrile atmosphere has itself shed intriguing light on the nervous system (and nervous state) of the Conservatives, the relationship between the party and its high command, and the direction in which power is shifting.
None of this can be explained without reference to the Norman Shaw South building, the adopted home of the Cameroons. It is only seven minutes away from the Commons chamber, via a bridge, a lift and a tunnel, but it has come to represent a quite separate inner sanctum where power rests and decisions are taken. George Osborne, Oliver Letwin and their respective staffs are based here — a sort of Downing Street-in-waiting. The rest of the front bench is dotted around the parliamentary complex — sometimes in clusters, elsewhere in isolation.
David Starkey made his name as a Tudor historian by demonstrating the importance of the layout of Henry VIII’s court to its politics and factions. He would find precisely the same principles at work today in Parliament. This is why, in the Strangers’ Bar, one hears grumbles that Norman Shaw South is a closed clique, ‘Dave’s Nest’. But, comes the retort, shadow Cabinet members are begged to get involved, to give up their second jobs and get stuck in. Many don’t. So this leaves those in the supposed Cameroon ‘nest’ to do the heavy lifting.
Those in Norman Shaw South may laugh at the more fevered reshuffle speculation in the press, much of which strikes them as demonstrable nonsense. ‘But the troops don’t think it’s nonsense,’ explains one frontbencher. ‘And that’s the problem’. Email is no substitute for direct contact. The geographic dislocation of the Tory office layout has broken lines of communication. All of this feeds paranoia and amplifies the Chinese whispers echoing around Parliament.
Many of these whispers can be traced to remarks that Andrew Mackay was making too loudly over dinner one evening recently — to the effect that Mr Cameron had decided to sack a senior frontbencher the day after the election. You might imagine these remarks to be of little consequence — Mr Mackay being only a former whip with almost no public profile. But those aware of his real significance in the party today would have craned their necks to listen, for he occupies an increasingly important and little-documented role. In the words of one shadow Cabinet member, he has become ‘something of a Rasputin figure’. Officially, he is ‘political and parliamentary adviser to the leader of the opposition’ — an intriguing title which gives him a passport to Mr Cameron’s morning meetings. But his real role is much broader. ‘Some time ago, David said to him: “I want you to be my Willie”,’ one MP tells me — referring, of course, to the service the late Lord Whitelaw supplied to Baroness Thatcher. ‘That’s Mackay’s skill: he can sniff the air, tell which tribes are forming, who’s up to mischief. He reports back to Cameron.’ Hence his potential relevance as a reshuffle rune-reader. Mr Mackay can advise as to which groupings need to be kept sweet, and which frontbenchers can be safely disposed of. His role does not require him to be popular, and his friends say he is happy in the shadows and ‘likes his holidays too much to join the front bench’. While his influence is rather mysterious, it is not seen as malign. As the leader’s office operates in a separate orbit from Parliament, Mr Cameron needs the best intelligence he can get.
Mr Clarke, the 68-year-old comeback kid around whom much of the speculation is swirling, is apparently birdwatching in Paraguay — although no one seems to be quite sure of that — unaware of the consternation caused by his proposed return to the front bench. The man he is tipped to replace as shadow business secretary, Alan Duncan, returned early from a skiing holiday to defend his turf and ended up being taunted by interviewers about being ‘worried about unemployment’.
In this way, the reshuffle speculation has taken on a life of its own — and it needs to be ended. Mr Cameron is expected to move Caroline Spelman, party chairman, but had wanted to wait until after the parliamentary investigation into her 1997 decision to pay her nanny with MPs’ expenses. He may now have to move her anyway, perhaps swapping her with Jeremy Hunt, the shadow culture secretary. Party chairman is no longer a coveted job, its powers having been already divided up between Lord Ashcroft (candidates), Mr Osborne (campaigns) and Mr Letwin (research). All that is left for the chairman to do is visit candidates and eat rubber chicken at Tory association fêtes.
Yet being chairman has one main advantage: it brings an unrivalled chance to charm the Tory members who would one day be voting on a new leader. The more extravagantly imaginative speculation presents Mr Hunt as the through-the-middle victor in a 2018 struggle with Boris Johnson and Mr Osborne. Yet if that is indeed his private game-plan, he’d be advised to wait and campaign for Ms Spelman to stay. ‘Being chairman is now a non-job,’ says one of her colleagues. ‘And Caroline does it brilliantly.’
The irony is that, after all this terror, there may be no major reshuffle. Last weekend, Mr Cameron had still not decided whether to promote Mr Clarke or leave him to his golden-winged warblers. David Davis would only come back for a senior job, but none will be on offer. Andrew Lansley has been told he will stay at health, Mr Osborne as shadow chancellor and Dominic Grieve as shadow home secretary. The reshuffle speculation has grown out of all proportion to Mr Cameron’s self-restricted room for manoeuvre.
It is, of course, no bad thing to unnerve one’s party now and again, and remind them that, as one Cameroon puts it, ‘no one is untouchable’. It is healthy for the Tories to believe that Mr Cameron is ruthless enough to move anyone. But it is less healthy when shadow Cabinet members are reduced to showing off text messages Mr Cameron sent them, supposedly as proof that they will keep their job. This is why the reshuffle, minor or extensive, will likely come sooner rather than later. If the aim was to send his front bench a message about complacency, then Mr Cameron has succeeded all too well. The poor souls have suffered enough.
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Low-dose Green Tea Extract May Fight UV Damage
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Topical application of low-dose green tea extract may help protect against UV damage, without the common side effects. A large body of scientific literature illustrates the protective quality of green tea catechins and polyphenols. However, these studies often investigate the protection provided by high concentration extracts, which have a green brown color and can stain, making them impractical as cosmetic ingredients.
Low concentrations may be effective
Recent research from scientists in Switzerland has looked at the effects of applying low concentrations of green tea extracts over a sustained period of time. According to the study, led by Dr. Christian D. Mnich from the University Hospital of Zurich, topical application of the green tea extract at 0.4% during a five-week period exhibited significant photochemoprotective effects.
During the study period 18 subjects applied the green tea-containing extract--commercially available as OM24 from Switzerland-based company Omnimedica--and a placebo to the skin of the buttocks, chosen as it is protected from UV rays. Subjects applied the lotions three times a day for 34 days, and participants were exposed to UVB rays between two and three hours after application.
According to the researchers there was no significant difference in erythema (skin reddening) between the skin treated with the placebo and the treatment. However, the scientists explained that UV-induced erythema is a limited parameter to quantify damage as it does not always link to p53 expression, a tumour suppressor protein that is induced in cells by UV radiation). In contrast, treatment with the green tea extract reduced the number of UV-induced p53 positive keratinocytes by 31.9% on day six and by 36.3% on day 34.
The researchers did note however, that the green tea extract did not appear to affect the formation of thymidine dimers--DNA lesions most commonly caused by UV radiation. When lesions such as these go unrepaired they can lead to the formation of skin cancer, and it is the tumor-suppressor protein p53 that is often involved in the repair process.
Anti-inflammatory action
,p>If the green tea extract was working as a sunscreen, one would expect the number of UV-induced lesions to decrease. As this is not the case, the researchers concluded that the protective effect (as illustrated by the smaller number of p53 positive keratinocytes) must be linked to other green tea extract-mediated effects. Such effects are likely to include the extract’s anti-inflammatory properties and its ability to reduce oxidative damage.
The scientists believe they have shown green tea extract to reduce UVB-induced damage at cosmetically usable concentrations, suggesting the extract has potential as an everyday photochemopreventative agent.
Source: Experimental Dermatology, 2008, "Green tea extract reduces induction of p53 and apoptosis in UVB-irradiated human skin independent of transcriptional controls," Christian D. Mnich, Keith S. Hoek, Leila V. Virkki, Arpad Farkas, Christa Dudli, Elisabeth Laine, Mirjana Urosevic, Reinhard Dummer.
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Birmingham is set to become home to the UK’s most landlocked wave park after plans for anew £25 million facility were revealed today (29 August).
The planning application lodged by Emerge Surf is for a 15-acre site, approximately seven miles to the east of Birmingham’s city centre at Coleshill. Features include a 5.4-acre surf lagoon, powered by Wavegarden’s Cove technology, an outdoor heated swimming pool, a perimeter track for Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards and a 1,600 sq metre hub building.
The park will be named Emerge Surf Birmingham and will also be home to a surf school, surf shop, café and restaurant, multi-purpose fitness studio, physio and massage room and children’s play area.
With the closest surfable ocean waves more than 100 miles away, this new facility will be a haven for landlocked surfers and those keen to try the sport for the first time.
Situated in North Warwickshire, described by the Chief Executive of North Warwickshire Borough Council, Steve Maxey, as “one of the most dynamic economies in the country,” the wave park will be easily accessible from the M6 and M42 motorways with more than 7.6 million people within a one hour drive of the venue and 27 million within two hours. It is also close to Birmingham Airport, Birmingham International Railway Station and the future HS2 Interchange Station, making it an extremely exciting destination for local, national and international visitors.
Emerge Surf Birmingham is expected to create 100 full time equivalent jobs, attract around 250,000 visitors a year and deliver an annual economic boost of between £18 million-£21 million to the region.
Current World Surf League Big Wave World Champion Grant ‘Twiggy’ Baker is on board as an ambassador for Emerge Surf, alongside the UK’s top professional surfers Peony Knight and Luke Dillon. Olympic gold medallist Tessa Sanderson CBE is the park’s non-surfing ambassador.
Initial plans, subject to planning approval, show construction commencing late this year and the park opening in spring 2021.
Steve Price, Founder and CEO of Emerge Surf, said:
“It’s an incredibly exciting time in the development of surfing. The mental and physical benefits of the sport are increasingly understood and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will hugely increase levels of interest and participation. In parallel, the significant strides made in wave pool technologies have the potential to make the sport accessible to all.”
“Our vision is to not only provide a world class surfing experience for surfers of all levels, but also a wide range of complementary activities. We are proud to be developing the UK’s most landlocked wave park with the support of our partners, Wavegarden, Surfing England, Surf Life Saving Great Britain, The Wave Project, Future Motion Inc and Seaholm.”
“We’re confident that bringing a little slice of the ocean to Birmingham will deliver a positive social impact and boost mental and physical wellbeing. In addition, we’re very keen to work with local schools not only to teach children to surf, but also to offer swimming lessons and instruction in water safety.”
Emerge Surf Birmingham will work in partnership with national governing body Surfing England to deliver certificated surfing tuition and with registered charity Surf Life Saving Great Britain on a wide range of courses for water safety. It is also partnering with The Wave Project to deliver therapy through surfing to local children suffering with a range of mental health issues.
Ben Powis, Operations Director at Surfing England, said:
“There has never been a more exciting time to be involved in surfing. We are in the midst of an artificial wave revolution which will bring our sport and our passion to a whole new audience. Emerge Surf Birmingham is absolutely part of the revolution and we are stoked to be supporting them as their plans develop to bring a world class facility to the Midlands.”
Fernando Odriozola, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Wavegarden said:
“We are extremely excited about Emerge Surf’s plans for Birmingham. As a landlocked city with one of the largest market catchments in the UK, there is a great opportunity to introduce the thrill of surfing perfect waves to a whole new generation of surf enthusiasts.”
About Emerge Surf Birmingham
Emerge Surf Birmingham is set to be the UK’s most landlocked wave park. Other similar facilities can be found in Snowdonia (operational since 2015) and in Bristol (currently under construction). Schemes are also proposed near to Edinburgh (where planning permission has been secured) and in Bournemouth where a planning application is still to be submitted. The planning application lodged by Emerge Surf is for a 15-acre site, approximately seven miles to the east of Birmingham’s city centre at Coleshill. Emerge Surf Birmingham will consist of a 5.4-acre surf lagoon, outdoor heated swimming pool, 1,600 sq metre hub building, car parking and a track for One wheel rental. Other planned features are a surf school, surf shop, café and restaurant, multi-purpose fitness studio, physio and massage room and children’s play area.
The current timings for the wave park, subject to planning approval, show construction commencing late 2019 and the park opening in Spring 2021.
In an Economic Impact Assessment carried out by the West Midlands Growth Company it was estimated that Emerge Surf Birmingham will create 100 full time equivalent jobs and deliver a positive economic impact of between £18million-£21million per annum. It will attract around 250,000 visitors each year. The development is aiming to use renewable energy and low carbon technologies to keep environmental impact to a minimum.
For more information please visit www.emergesurf.com.
About Wavegarden®
Wavegarden® is an engineering company based in the north of Spain dedicated to the research, design, manufacture, installation and maintenance of wave-generating systems, as well as the construction and operation of surfing lagoons. We remain true to our vision to share the exhilarating experience of surfing perfect waves with everyone, everywhere.
For more information check www.wavegarden.com
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Why do we still have 5 cent pieces (and what can you do with them)?
By Caitlin Wheeler
Updated December 31, 2015 — 8.10am first published November 9, 2015 — 2.16pm
It's a question that has troubled the most frugal among us.
What purpose do the loose pieces of silver shrapnel that decorate the bottom of bags, the floor of the car, and deep crevices of couches really serve? What, in today's terms, can you buy for 5 cents?
These days you cannot make a 5-cent coin for 5 cents. While the cost of producing a 5c piece varies with fluctuating metal costs, "it costs approximately 7 cents to product the 5 cent coin," Ross MacDiarmid, head of the Commonwealth's Canberra coin factory, said.
Yes, the price of producing the clunky silver echidnas now outweighs the value of the coins themselves.
Would you like half a slice of devon with that? Five cent coins Credit:Tony Walters
Not only are the coins not earning their keep, but last year Mr MacDiarmid told a Senate Estimate that Australia spends $110 million every year to replace lost coins - be it gold, silver or the costly 5c variety.
In 1992, Australian 1c and 2c coins were withdrawn from circulation because, like the 5c coin, the cost of production exceeded their value. Following their disappearance, prices across Australia were rounded up to 5c intervals.
A Treasury spokesperson confirmed that there were no current plans to withdraw the 5-cent coin from circulation.
While they remain legal tender, there are restrictions around how they can be used. Section 16 of the Currency Act states that merchants are only required to accept up to $5 worth of any combination of silver coins, after that, it is no longer legal tender. And, quite frankly, good luck to person who hands over 100 of the little silver ones at the cash register.
Self-serve supermarket cash registers are renowned for being slightly more lenient.
According to a Woolworths spokesperson, there are no software restrictions on the number of 5c pieces a self-serve register will accept, but practical constraints limit the number to the size of the register's coinbox - "about the size of a tissue box-and-a-half". Many parking metres and vending machines across Australia have phased out coins of the lower denomination entirely.
Perhaps a better home for the unwanted coins is into the hands of those in need. Australian charity Y-GAP, Y-Generation Against Poverty, designed a 5-cent fundraising campaign centred around putting value back into the unwanted coins. To date the charity has collected 10.9 million individual 5 cent coins.
"That's just short of $600,000 dollars that we've proudly taken off the hands of Australians and put towards remarkable initiatives aimed at eliminating poverty in Africa, Australia and Asia", Y-CAP chief executive Elliot Costello said.
Mr Costello, who isn't opposed to getting rid of the 5 cent coin, believes that in the interim Y-GAP has found the perfect use for the clunky shrapnel.
So, what does 5 cents buy you today?
At $7.30 a kilo, a slice of devon from the local supermarket costs 9c. Your humble 5c coin will get you just over halfway there.
Priced at $24.90 a kilo, a single cashew costs 3.5 cents. Your 5c piece gets you 1.5 cashew nuts.
A 125 gram punnet containing 96 blueberries set us back $3.50. A 5c piece will get you close to 2 blueberries, which each cost 3.6c.
Cocktail frankfurt
A cocktail frankfurt cost 17c. A 5c coin will buy you one-third of the entertainment staple.
A red seedless grape, sold for $6.90 a kilo, retails for 2.8c. A 5c coin will get you one large, and one small, red seedless grape.
A natural almond, priced at $26.90 a kilo, retails for about 3c. With a 5c coin you're just short of 2 almonds.
Cadbury Freddo frog
A 5c coin will buy roughly one-twelfth of a 35 gram Cadbury Freddo frog.
Two and a half (medium-sized) Twisties will set you back 5c.
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Girls basketball Games to Watch/Fine Performances
By Scott Ericson
Published 5:20 pm EST, Sunday, January 5, 2020
GAMES TO WATCH
Waterford at New London, Tuesday, 7 p.m.: Excellent early season test for two of the best in the ECC.
Stamford at Ridgefield, Tuesday, 7 p.m.: Stamford gets its first big FCIAC test on the road in the Tiger’s Den.
Kolbe Cathedral at Hillhouse, Wednesday, 7 p.m.: Midweek SCC-SWC clash before everyone dives into full conference play.
Berlin at Ellington, Thursday, 6 p.m.: CCC-NCCC crossover before Berlin gets into the teeth of its CCC schedule.
Notre Dame-Fairfield at Bethel, Thursday, 6 p.m.: Can any team stop Notre Dame this season? Maranda Nyborg and Bethel are one of the SWC teams with a chance.
Glastonbury at Northwest Catholic, Thursday, 6:45 p.m.: The CCC looks to be loaded, both of these squads feel they belong among the top teams.
Shepaug Valley at Nonnewaug, Friday, 5:30 p.m.: The first of two meetings between two of the best from the Berkshire.
East Haven sophomore center Taylor Salato goes up for a shot on Saturday against Foran in the SCC girls basketball tournament quarterfinals.
Photo: David G. Whitman / Hearst Connecticut Media
Sacred Heart Academy at West Haven, Friday, 6 p.m.: Sacred Heart’s early lock-down defense will be put to the test by the high-scoring Blue Devils.
Amity at Hand, Friday, 7 p.m.: Hand is the preseason favorite in the SCC. Amity feels like it maybe should have been them.
Darien at Greenwich, Friday, 7 p.m.: Two of the early surprises in the FCIAC looking to keep the momentum going.
Valley Regional at North Branford, Friday, 7 p.m.: Very early in the season but in the Shoreline, games like this can go a long way when determining league playoff participants at the end of the year.
FINE PERFORMANCES
Mackenzie Nelson, Greenwich: The freshman scored 21 points as Greenwich beat Ridgefield 59-42.
Natasha Rivera, Ansonia: Rivera scored 24 points in a 54-44 win over Oxford.
Maya Hillman, Montville: Hillman put up a double-double with 13 points and 14 rebounds in Montville’s 43-28 victory against Tourtellotte.
Lauren Keel, East Windsor: Keel put up a career-high 34 points in a 55-50 win over Granby Memorial.
Erin Carucci, Northwest Catholic: The senior had 19 points as part of a 57-44 win against South Windsor.
Taylor Salato, East Haven: The senior center scored a game-high 23 points in East Haven's 61-39 win over Hamden.
Abby Charron, Canton: Charron scored 23 points, adding seven rebounds and five steals against E.O. Smith.
Caitlyn Hunt, Sheehan: The junior center scored a game-high 17 points in the final of the Fred Kelly Memorial Holiday Tournament against Farmington.
Sara Wohlgemuth, Hand: Wohlgemuth had 45 points in two games during the Appalachia Tournament.
Alexie Armour, Newington: Armour finished with a double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds in a 57-46 win over East Haven in the Pomperaug Holiday Tournament.
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Family Activities over Half Term Break
There is a very long list below of various events and activities for the whole family to enjoy over the half term break.
Sefton Park Palm House – Family Fitness Day
Sunday 17 February 12pm – 4pm
Let us help you to find a fun way to become healthier and more active. Being active doesn’t have to be hard work or a chore, it’s just about finding something that you enjoy.
Come along to the Palm House and you can have a taster of a wide range of family friendly activities – choose from activities including dancing, cycling, kick boxing, boxing, singing and many more.
Indoor Class Timetable
12.00: Yoga
12.30: Sit & Dance followed by Active Bingo
1.00: MamaFit HIIT
1.30: Pop fit
2.00: Salsa
2.30: MD Productions
3.00: Singing
3.30: Yoga
Outdoor Time Table
2.30pm – Mamafit circuit training outside
Throughout the whole day you can try:
Ride Adapted Bikes
Ninja Fit
Family Walking Basketball
Come and try everything for free - Refreshments on sale.
https://palmhouse.org.uk/calendar/#family-fitness-day-17-02
Free Cycle Rides for families – Sefton Park Palm House
Sunday 17 February 1pm & 2pm
As part of the Family Fitness day there will be some free family cycle rides.
The rides are led and organised by British Cycling trained Ride Leaders, so you don’t have to worry about planning a route or having people to ride with.
The rides are grouped into three different levels so there’s something for everyone. This is a great traffic-free route which takes us through the beautiful Sefton Park on paths and trails. It is ideal for beginners and families, or for anyone wanting to get back on their bike after a time away.
Any bike is suitable, but please ensure that the tyres are pumped up and the brakes work properly. It's still winter so wear something warm and waterproof. Bring a drink and snack along.
https://www.letsride.co.uk/rides/sefton-park-family-fitness-day-palm-house
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City of Light – Lantern Company - Sefton Park Lake
Thursday 21 February – Sunday 24 February 5pm – 9pm
This February the Boating Lake in Sefton Park, Liverpool will become home to a spectacular floating city of lanterns. Created with massive community engagement, the city lights will flicker on as it comes to life with an epic soundscape of original music, real-life stories and poetry.
http://cityoflight.net/city-of-light-city-of-sanctuary/
‘Habitats’ – Lantern Company – Sefton Park Palm House
Wednesday 20 February – Sunday 24 February 5pm – 9pm
‘Habitats’ is a magical illuminated story trail for children from nought to ninety-nine. Located in Sefton Park Palm House grounds, you’ll encounter talking indigenous animal lanterns and giant illuminated plants and insects, as you explore the enchanted gardens after dark.
Tickets cost £6 (plus booking fee). Family tickets cost £20 (plus booking fee)
http://cityoflight.net/habitats/
Lantern Workshops – Sefton Park Palm House
Wednesday 20 February – Sunday 24 February 10am – 4pm
If you fancy making your own lantern house to light your way at the event, book onto one of our mini lantern-making workshops at the Palm House. Workshops last one hour and cost £6 (plus booking fee).
https://www.ticketquarter.co.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=city-of-light&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=
Victoria Gallery & Museum
Ashton Street, University of Liverpool, L69 3DR
Wednesday 20 February 1pm – 2pm
A special half-term holiday concert for children and adults. Come and listen to some of the best peripatetic music teachers and performers in the region who will play pieces of music for flute, oboe, clarinet, french horn and bassoon.
Then, if you are inspired, have a go on a woodwind instrument supplied by Rimmers Music.
Free event but booking is required.
http://vgm.liverpool.ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events/events/family/windupawindquintetconcertforchildrenandadults.html
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunchtime-concert-series-wind-up-a-wind-quintet-concert-for-children-and-adults-tickets-53179628701?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Holiday Workshop - Flower Power!
Thursday 21 February 1pm – 4pm
Take part in flower and plant themed experiments with university scientists, create giant tissue flowers and discover more about our Victorian flower and plant model display with National Museums Liverpool curator Donna who looks after this fascinating collection.
Free events, no booking required
Family Saturday – Mary Poppins Film & craft
Saturday 23 February 10.30am – 4pm
10.30 am – Family Film: ‘Mary Poppins’ (1964)
Drop in 1.00 – 4.00 pm – Craft: Create your own banner inspired by the Suffragist and Suffragette movements, highlighted in our current Eleanor Rathbone exhibition.
Free events, no booking required.
http://vgm.liverpool.ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events/events/family/februaryfamilysaturday.html
Garstang Museum Holiday Workshop – Egyptian trail
14 Abercromby Square
Take part in our Ancient Egyptian trail and create your own Egyptian cartouche or colourful collar to take home.
Free event, no booking required.
http://vgm.liverpool.ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events/events/family/garstangmuseumholidayworkshop.html
Central Library – Children’s Entertainers
Join us this half term for stories, fun and laughter. All activities are free and children must be accompanied by an adult at all times whilst in the library.
Mon 18th February - 11.30am-12pm, 1pm-1.30pm, 1.45pm-2.15pm, 2.30pm-3pm Barrington Powell - Our madcap magician is here to amaze you with an energetic frenzy of fun!
Tue 19th February - 11.30am-12pm, 1pm-1.30pm, 1.45pm-2.15pm, 2.30pm-3pm
Paul Storey - Puppets! Magic! Laughter! Don't miss this!
Wednesday 20th February -11am-12pm, 1pm-2pm, 2.15pm-3.15pm
Sal Tonge - Stories, music and singing with Sal.
Thursday 21st February - 11am-12pm, 1pm-2pm, 2.15pm-3.15pm
Fran O'Boyle - Travel with Fran around the world of stories.
Friday 22nd February - 11am-12pm, 1pm-3pm
Craig Bradley - Poetry is not pants! Beware the giant underpants.
https://liverpool.gov.uk/News/NewsItem/18568/1060/Half%20term%20fun%20at%20Central%20Library
Anglican Cathedral – Crafts with Derby Mouse
Monday 18 February 10.30am – 12.30pm
Head to Liverpool Cathedral for free art and crafts activities that are focused on the theme of "You Are Special."
Explore the Cathedral with your little ones using the fun child-friendly trail. As always, there will be time for a photo opportunity with Derby Mouse.
Even better, kids eat free at the Welsford Restaurant with every paying adult on Half Term Family fun days, so why not stay for lunch?
No booking needed, just turn up on the day.
http://www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk/114/section.aspx/108/february_half_term_family_fun_2019
Liverpool Echo Listing – Things to do for families Feb half term
Half-term can be a difficult time for parents, with a house full of wild kids and nothing to do with them - especially in the colder weather.
Spending some quality time with your little ones while they're off school is always a treat, but what do you do?
We've taken a look at some of the events coming up this February Half Term, which runs from February 16 - 24, that are definitely worth booking in advance.
There's everything from discos and circus trips to storytelling and interactive experiences on this list.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/things-book-now-february-half-15771153
Alice in Wonderland experience @ St George’s Hall
Friday 15 February – Saturday 23 February (excluding Sun 17th)
This marks the end of In Another Place’s long association with St. George’s Hall. All good things must come to an end – but not just yet.
St. George’s Hall will be transformed to create the magical, colourful, fantastical world of Wonderland! Join Alice on her adventures and experience Wonderland, meeting, amongst others, the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Caterpillar; sing along with the playing cards, play croquet and avoid losing their heads with the venerable Queen of Hearts!
How it works: Groups of 80 will be admitted every 30 minutes, where they will join Alice, following the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole, meeting lots of interesting characters and creatures. Have fun with the Hatter at his Tea Party, be guided by the Cheshire Cat but stay close to Alice! What will you learn? What decisions will you make? Which path will you choose?
The experience will last 90 minutes and is suitable for an audience of all ages, but recommended for 3yrs+.
£9 adults £6 children
https://www.ticketquarter.co.uk/visitliverpool/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=the-alice-experience&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=#get-tickets
National Museums
There are lots of drop in activities at the museums over the half term holiday – see the link to search them all.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/events/half-term-listings.aspx
International Slavery Museum – African dancing & drumming
Tuesday 19 February 1.15pm–2.15pm & 2.30pm–3.30pm
Join us for this exciting dance workshop led by Karim Mbaye, an urban Griot from Senegal, who plays and teaches African drumming and dance throughout the UK.
Senegal has a rich dance and drum tradition called ‘sabar’, setting it apart from other parts of West Africa. Sabar is the vibrant drum and dance of the Wolof people of Senegal, West Africa.
The workshop will start with a warm-up, followed by step by step choreography to the beat of sabar drum rhythms.
This workshop is suitable for all ages and abilities. Book a free place for the workshops on Eventbrite.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/events/displayevent.aspx?EventId=38871
Join us for an African Drumming workshop with Karim Mbaye, an urban Griot from Senegal, who plays and teaches African drumming and dance throughout the UK.
The drumming will be taught on the Djembe (a drum played with both hands) and Karim will also talk about other traditional drums (bringing some along to show and share) and he will also share information about the role of the Griot in his culture.
The workshops are suitable for all ages and abilities from beginners through to advanced drummers. Book a free place for the workshops on Eventbrite.
Lady Lever Art Gallery – Chinese cultural activities
Wednesday 20 February @ 1pm
Join the Liverpool Confucius institute for an afternoon of Chinese cultural activities. The Liverpool Confucius Institute is a collaboration between the University of Liverpool, Xi’an Jiaotong University and Hanban, the Chinese government agency to promote Chinese language and culture with a variety of activities
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/events/displayevent.aspx?EventId=38899
Lady Lever Art Gallery – Recital for families
An afternoon of wonderful music performed by talented students from Wycombe Abbey International School, China. The programme will include works by Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt.
Walker Art Gallery - Build a Boat craft activity
Monday 18 February – Friday 22 February 12pm – 4pm
Be inspired by the genius of Leonardo da Vinci, and invent your own boat built from recycled materials. Take it home to perform your own buoyancy test.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/events/displayevent.aspx?EventId=38892
Leonardo Da Vinci drawings @ the Walker
1 February – 6 May
The Walker Art Gallery will host an exhibition of 12 Leonardo da Vinci drawings to mark the 500th anniversary of the Renaissance master's death, exploring the diversity of subjects that inspired his creativity, including painting, sculpture, architecture, music, anatomy, engineering, cartography, geology and botany.
The free exhibition will also present new information about Leonardo's working practices and creative process, gathered through scientific research using a range of non-invasive techniques including ultraviolet imaging, infrared reflectography and X-ray fluorescence.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/leonardo/index.aspx
The Atkinson Theatre Southport – Kidfest 2019
https://www.theatkinson.co.uk/events/kidsfest-2019/
Kidsfest is The Atkinson’s family festival. This February Half Term take part, watch, see and learn in a jam packed week-long celebration for families of all ages. We have Kids Theatre, craft workshops, museums, exhibitions and more!
Make It! Craft activities
Monday 18 February & Saturday 23 February 11am - 3pm
Get creative with a fun activity! Create and make your own fun animal mask inspired by our animal themed KidsFest.
A Square World
Monday 18 February 11.30am & 2.30pm
A Square World is an honest, touching and quirky story of three friends and what happens when an unexpected change leaves one of them left out in the cold.
Tickets £8 adults £6 children. Recommended ages 3 - 6
Stripey Honey is very yummy
Tuesday 19 February 11.30am & 2.30pm
A new play for young audiences of adventure and fun with music by award-winning composer Arun Ghosh, song, dance and puppetry, exploring the lives of some of our most precious but endangered species, who unite to save their homes.
Tickets £6 per person. Recommended ages 5+
Tuesday 19 February 1.30pm & 3.30pm
Wednesday 20 February 11am & 2pm
Thursday 21 February 11am
Tickets £13 per person. Recommended ages 2 - 7
David Baddiel’s AniMalcom Musical
Saturday 23 February 11.30am & 3pm
Malcolm doesn’t like animals, which is a problem because his family are wild about them. In fact their house is full of pets of all shapes and sizes. The only bright spot on the horizon is the Year Six school trip, until there he is on the bus, heading to… a farm. But on a school trip like no other, Malcolm begins to understand animals more deeply than anyone. Will he end up the same as before? Because sometimes the hardest thing to become is yourself.
A vibrant, energetic and gloriously funny musical from the award-winning Story Pocket Theatre, AniMalcolm combines physical theatre, puppetry and the company’s outstanding storytelling style to bring David Baddiel’s magical and wonderfully comic story to the stage.
Tickets £13 per person. . Recommended ages 5+
https://www.theatkinson.co.uk/events/david-baddiel-animalcolm/
Storyhouse Arts Centre, Chester
Saturday 16 February - Sunday 24 February
Opened in May 2017, Storyhouse is a library, theatre, cinema, community hub, cultural centre and restaurant.
They are putting on lots of activities for children over half term including craft, den building and a Lego Workshop for ages 6 – 12 & their parents run by the winners of Channel 4’s Legomasters.
https://www.storyhouse.com/half-term
Trees 4 Kids, Childwall Woods
Outdoor activities for children aged 4 – 7
Monday 18 February & Wednesday 20 February 11am – 1.30pm
Time to leave phones, and computer games alone, get some exercise, fresh air whilst learning and having fun. Each session has a foundation of environmental learning. This will include:
* Learning about trees, woodlands, bats, animals etc.
* A nature detective activity
* Team building games
* Story telling
Snacks and drinks included.
Please wear sturdy footwear and warm clothes. Located in the woods so will be muddy.
£7 per child, £6 per sibling
For a pre-session registration form, please email: info@trees4kids.co.uk
Meeting place: Countisbury Drive, L16
https://www.trees4kids.co.uk/event/half-term-activity-in-the-woodland/
St Mary’s Church, Grassendale – Craft activities
Monday 18 February & Tuesday 19 February 9.30am – 12pm
Wednesday 20 February (no time given on Facebook page)
Monday 18th - Baking tasty bites
Tuesday 19th- Bits & bobs
Wednesday 20th - Family lunch at Linc
All welcome and please come to whichever sessions suits you and your children best.
(£2 for first child, £1 for siblings)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Church/St-Marys-Grassendale-L19-266392888579/
Afternoon sessions for children on the autistic spectrum and their families
Monday 18 Feb & Tuesday 19 Feb 1 – 3pm
Message on Facebook page – “Just to say our Austistic friendly sessions are filling up fast and although we didn't have a booking in system we will be capping these sessions off at around 20 children. If anyone would like to come it would be great if you let us know how many children and their ages so that we don't leave anyone disappointed.
All welcome, but good for us to know in advance. Thank you!”
Directory of activities and groups for children with additional needs & their parents/carers
This website has a searchable database with a wide range of groups for children with additional needs and their parents/carers.
If you know of anyone who would find this support helpful please forward it on to them.
http://fsd.liverpool.gov.uk/kb5/liverpool/fsd/localoffer.page
Waterstones – Half Term Storytime
Monday 18 February – Friday 22 February 2pm – 3pm
Join us this half term for storytime and crafts for preschoolers from 2pm - 3pm Monday-Friday.
We'll be reading a picture book together at 2pm and then having some fun with crafts until 3pm. It's completely free and no tickets needed.
Our colouring table will be back, and all week in our children's section we'll have colouring sheets to keep you entertained while you're choosing which books to buy.
https://www.waterstones.com/events/half-term-storytime/liverpool
The Bluecoat – Funny Looking Kids Comedy Club
Saturday 16 Feburary 2.30pm – 4pm
Liverpool's first regular comedy club for kids (and their invited guests/handlers…) crashes into the Bluecoat with its usual jokes, sketches, quizzes & mayhem!
From the first sketch to the final joke competition, Funny Looking Kids: Comedy Club is a rag tag bag of tomfoolery and nonsense. Chaos and cachophoney, silliness and stupidity. This club offers comedy for kids with an alternative twist.
(7+ suggested but we had a 5 year old laugh so hard they fell off their chair. All children must be accompanied by an adult.)
We are delighted to announce that this season, the Funny Looking gang will be running the Kids Comedy Club on the following dates:
Sat 16 Feb 2019 / 2:30pm - 4pm
Sat 16 Mar / 2:30pm - 4pm
Sat 13 Apr / 2:30pm - 4pm
Sat 18 May / 2:30pm - 4pm
Sat 15 Jun / 2:30pm - 4pm
http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/events/view/events/3729
FACT – Do Something Saturdays
Saturday 16 February 12pm – 4pm
Discover a different way of experiencing exhibitions at FACT.
Suitable for children aged 6 and over, Do Something Saturdays happen every week and give families a space to make, do and be creative together.
https://www.fact.co.uk/event/do-something-saturdays
Speke Hall – Half term activities
Every day between 10.30am – 4pm
“Jump into the past as Speke Hall reopens. Follow the Sleepy House Mouse trail around the hall, sit down for storytelling or make some winter and nature inspired crafts.”
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/events/2a1e10fa-4e99-4d2f-accf-6274be1d8d31/pages/details
Growing Sudley
Wednesday 20 February & Thursday 21 February
“We have some Outdoor Club sessions running during Feb half-term again. A full day on Weds 20th 9-3.30 for those feeling hardy or choose from a morning or afternoon session 9-1 or 1.30-3.30 - ideal for those not wanting a full day or wanting to try it out. On Thursday 21st we have a morning session 9-1.
Includes Shelter making, natural crafts, woodland games, safe fire making, mud sculpting and outdoor cooking.
The campfire will be on all day, wrap up warm and get some roses in the cheeks. Good nights sleep guaranteed!
Recent feedback from parent "This is a brilliant opportunity for children to be in a safe, nurturing environment with a good dose of wild! I feel happy in knowing that my son is in the capable hands of the absolutely lovely staff and has the chance to take part in a mix of structured activities, team working, independent exploration and of course, just getting mucky and soggy!"
Ages 5 – 11. £25 per day or £15 per half day
https://www.facebook.com/GrowingSudley/
Epstein Theatre
Thursday 28 February 4.30pm
Friday 1 March 1pm & 5pm
Malcolm doesn’t like animals, which is a problem because his family love them. Their house is full of pets. What the house is NOT full of is stuff Malcolm likes. Such as the laptop he wanted for his birthday. The only bright spot on the horizon is the Year Six school trip, which Malcolm never thought his parents would pay for. And yet there he is, on the bus, heading to…… Oh no. A farm.
After a bizarre school trip unlike any other, Malcolm begins to understand animals more deeply than anyone. But will he end up the same as before? Because sometimes the hardest thing to become is… Yourself.
A vibrant, energetic and gloriously funny musical from the award-winning Story Pocket Theatre. ANiMALCOLM combines physical theatre, puppetry and the company’s outstanding storytelling style to bring David Baddiel’s magical and wonderfully comic story to the stage.
Adults: £16, Children: £14, Family: £54
https://www.epsteinliverpool.co.uk/events/animalcolm/
Twirlywoos Live!
Wednesday 20 February 1.30pm
Thursday 21 February 11.30am & 1.30pm
From the producers of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show and Sarah and Duck Live on Stage comes another enchanting show for young audiences.
The Twirlywoos are setting sail around the UK to welcome young fans along for a theatrical adventure. Expect mischief, music and plenty of surprises as they share the delight of discovery. With beautifully inventive puppetry the show promises a cast full of all your favourite characters from the CBeebies’s hit.
https://www.epsteinliverpool.co.uk/events/twirlywoos/
Odeon Cinema Kid’s Club
Sat 16 February – Thu 21 February @ 10.15am – Smallfoot
Sat 16 February – Thu 21 February @ 10am – Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
The ODEON Kids Club at Liverpool ONE is great, not only is it super fun, tickets for a kids screening are just £2.50 each – and that’s for parents too!
https://www.odeon.co.uk/kids/#showtimes-anchor
Liverpool One – kids eat free offers over half term
“Looking for things to do this February half term? We’ve got plenty of activities that will keep the kids entertained during the Liverpool school holidays!
From kids eat free to craft workshops, discounts at your favourite stores or ODEON Kids club, check out what’s on below.”
https://www.liverpool-one.com/events/half-term/
Advance notice:
The Playhouse – Around the World in Eighty Days
Wednesday 17 April – Saturday 20 April
went to see this in October 2017 with a 6 & 8 year old and it was one of the best family plays we’ve ever seen. It’s the same production and I would highly recommend it.
“The mysterious and fabulously wealthy Phileas Fogg wagers his life’s fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days. Join him and his loyal valet Passepartout, as they voyage from the misty streets of Victorian London to the exotic subcontinent and the Wild West in a race against the clock.
Returns to the Playhouse before heading to New York. A cast of eight play over 125 characters in this imaginative, high-spirited escapade including six trains, five boats, four fights, three dances, two circus acts and an elephant!”
https://www.everymanplayhouse.com/whats-on/around-the-world-in-80-days
Grovesnor Park Chester – Open Air Theatre - The Borrowers
Saturday 13 July - Sunday 25 August (mainly weekend matinee performances)
"Borrowers don’t steal! Except from human beans…”
A brand-new version of Mary Norton’s irreverent children’s story of the little people who borrow in order to survive. Arietty, Pod and Homily Clock leave their home beneath the floorboards to explore the world beyond… A joy for all the family!
Under 12’s go FREE (each child MUST be accompanied by a full paying adult, please note: ALL children still require a valid ticket)
£26.50 – £46.50 – book early for the best prices!
Groups of 10+ save £3 per full priced ticket NEW for 2019! Contact us and we’ll reserve an area for your group
http://www.grosvenorparkopenairtheatre.co.uk/borrowers/?dm_i=1CEX,64GLX,V5OSND,O2CFW,1
Airborn Academy – Freerunning & Urban Sports
DBH THE LIVERPOOL FILM STUDIOS
Unit 3, 105 Boundary Street, Liverpool, L5 9YJ
Open every day – see link for timetable
Airborn Academy is a state of the art urban sports facility situated close to Liverpool City centre on Boundary Street. We are based within the film studio complex & are less than 10 minutes away from Sandhills train station.
Our unique venue is the first of its kind in the country dedicated to the coaching, training & development of freerunning but we don’t stop there! We also offer classes in a variety of alternative urban sports including; Cheerleading, Trampolining, Tumbling, Break dancing, Aerial & martial Tricking.
Airborn Academy’s facility includes an urban obstacle ‘Modublox’ set up, competition size sprung floor, cirque style Aerial equipment, Dance studio along with an innovative raised training area containing our dynamic bar set up, sunken trampolines & fast track, all leading to our state of the art stunt airbag.
Different sessions cover ages 4+
https://www.airbornacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Timetable-04.09.18-converted.pdf
https://www.airbornacademy.com/freerunning/
Sneaky Finders - Giant Cluedo Game
Saturday 4 May 1pm – 5pm
‘Sneaky Finders’, the new game from CluedUpp is coming to the city centre on Saturday, May 4 , where detectives will have the chance to take part in the Cluedo-inspired game as they race against the clock - and other teams, of course.
The game transports players back to 1921, where they’ll wake to discover on of the town’s most feared residents has been poisoned - but with money, crime and power comes enemies, so who could it have possibly been?
Teams of detectives will work on the complicated investigation, sifting through suspects and witnesses to find the true culprit. To play, you’ll need your own crack team of detectives - up to six players - access to a smartphone, a team name, and a ‘Sneaky Finders’ 1920s inspired fancy dress.
The game is played via CluedUpp’s award-winning event app, so players can guide themselves through the murder mystery.
The average detective squad takes around two hours 20 minutes to solve the crime - but can you do it faster?
Tickets are available now via the CluedUpp website , starting from £36 per team.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/giant-cluedo-game-cluedupp-coming-15746358?utm_source=liverpool_echo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Link7852&utm_campaign=whats_on_newsletter
Resonate – free music tuition
@Bellerive school L17 3AA
Every Tuesday during term time 4pm – 5pm
We’ve started going to this weekly music session at Bellerive school which is free for beginners. Beginners choose an instrument - I know children who are borrowing keyboard, violin, guitar, glockenspiel or flute – they will try to get whatever instrument the child is interested in.
Children receive small group tuition and can join the Let’s Play orchestra once they’ve mastered a few notes.
Any child can go along, parents just need to fill in a registration form on arrival.
http://www.resonatehub.co.uk/letsplay.php
http://www.resonatehub.co.uk
First News – children’s newspaper for 7-14 yrs olds
"First News is a weekly newspaper aimed at 7 to 14-year-olds that aims to get kids talking about the news in an easy to understand and non-threatening way.
We cover issues which are relevant to children and which specifically affect them. Inside you’ll find a mix of world news and UK news, but also loads of fun stuff, such as entertainment, games, animals, sport and puzzles.”
You can get 3 issues for £1 to try it out and then cancel if it’s not suitable.
https://subscribe.firstnews.co.uk/the-newspaper/
The Week Junior – current affairs magazine for 8-14 yr olds
"The Week Junior is a brilliant current affairs magazine for children aged between 8 and 14. It’s filled with fascinating stories and information, written to engage curious young minds and encourage them to explore and understand the world around them.
exploring real world matters, The Week Junior equips young people with the skills to think critically, learn about the world around them and ask questions. It gives context to what they learn in the classroom – and encourages them to look further.”
Try 6 issues for free.
http://theweekjunior.co.uk/?ppcad=true&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIy824zfGG2AIVSxgbCh1FPgmkEAAYASAAEgLrN_D_BwE
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Guitar Hero Live review
Tonight, you're a rock'n'roll star... but is the new GH game more Noel G or Kenny G?
RMTBC
Available on PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Wii U, Mobile
by Tom Wiggins
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21 October 2015 / 0:32MYT
There are two kinds of reunion tours: The Stone Roses Approach, where a band triumphantly returns to the stage amid huge nostalgic expectation and plays only old songs, and The Blur Approach, where the nostalgia is augmented by a whole load of new stuff.
Neither approach is ‘right’, but where Rock Band 4 is Ian Brown and co, Guitar Hero Live hopes to replicate the same rave reviews that Blur’s comeback record received earlier this year.
F**k Buttons
The biggest change to the way Guitar Hero Live plays will be apparent as soon as you pick up the redesigned axe. Rather than a single row of five coloured buttons, the new guitar has two adjacent rows of three. The concept, however, remains unchanged: as notes flow down the on-screen ‘highway’ you have to hold the corresponding button on the guitar’s neck and hit the strum bar as the indicator passes through the bottom.
As before, on lower difficulty levels what you play is so simplified that you almost have to ignore what you hear in order to hit each note, otherwise you find yourself trying to play what’s not there. It doesn’t help that the indicators can be a little confusing at first and even the slightest lapse in concentration can see you strumming away at the wrong row before realising your rookie mistake.
But once you get into it you’ll realise that they new axe does a much better job of representing the neck of a real guitar than the old Fisher-Price efforts. Previously, once you nailed reaching the orange button, all the game could really throw at you to make it harder was more notes. With the buttons split across two rows, however, there's a whole extra dimension that provides a significant new challenge to master, even for Guitar Hero veterans.
Pairs of buttons can be held to play rudimentary barre chords, while on higher difficulty levels you’ll sometimes be required to contort your fingers in order to hold multiple, non-adjacent buttons on different rows. Despite having more buttons in total, though, they occupy a smaller space on the neck, which makes it tougher to visualise what your fingers should be doing.
Once you’ve attached the neck of your guitar, it can’t be removed - which should hopefully help to prevent the loose connections that often plagued the old controllers.
The biggest issue with the game’s previous guitars remains, though: the noisy strum bar. Unless you’ve got the telly jacked up to neighbour-bothering volume the clack-clack-clack of the strum bar can cut right through whatever song you’re playing, which rather spoils the illusion.
Oh well, you never liked Graham and Trish next door anyway, did you?
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GH Live has two modes: Live and GHTV. The former is the game’s ‘career’ mode, in which you play guitar for a variety of bands at two fictional festivals, all recreated in first-person video rather than the tongue-in-cheek animation of previous games. The crowds and your bandmates are quick to respond to how well you play, which makes it feel very real when you’re hitting a load of bum notes. The audiences will even do things such as unfurl huge banners if you end a set in particularly triumphant manner.
Live mode doesn’t have the same feeling of career progression that previous games offered; each venue is more about reflecting the genre of music being played than showing a step up to the next level. The settings vary from woodland clearings illuminated by fairy lights (wimpy nu-folk, obviously) to huge outdoor enormo-gigs in the shadow of a big-city skyline (big-name alt-rock). This makes working your way up and reaching the end, only to triumphantly play a load of classic rock songs to a dingy little club, feel a little at odds with everything that’s gone before.
Still, it’s much more engrossing than the old cartoons, even if you only rarely have time to stop looking at the notes and take it all in. Sometimes it feels more like an attempt to make watching the game more interesting for anyone in the room with you - and with two-player mode limited to adding a second guitarist or a singer, rather than being able to put someone on bass, that might be quite important.
The overriding feeling is that this is very much a TopShop idea of what it's like to be in a band these days. Besides its fairly brief lifespan (playing through all 42 songs won’t take more than a couple of nights) that’s the major criticism of Live mode - it’s all a bit blandly unimaginative.
The songs being played are often by well-known superstars - and the crowd reacts as such - but the band playing them onstage is made up of nobodies, albeit impossibly good-looking nobodies. They’re like a covers band that can command crowds of thousands, which is an idea that’s a little hard to get onboard with.
It’s a good job, then, that the gameplay itself makes up for it.
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GHTV is an entirely new mode: essentially a playable music channel, with different genre-based shows scheduled every half an hour.
Within it, you get slightly different power-ups (such as one that allows you to blow all of the notes off the screen for a few seconds - useful if you’re getting swamped, but also a little against the spirit of the game) but the actual process of hitting the notes as they scroll down the screen is identical.
Familiar or not though, it is very easy to play GHTV for a very long time. You know that whole 'Go on then, just one more...' feeling that the best games have? Well you definitely get it here.
And that’s good, because outside of the channels GHTV works on a system of spending in-game currency in order to pick and choose which songs you play on-demand. In order to just choose a track and play it, you have to spend a play token, which you exchange for the coins you earn every time you complete a song or play the game on consecutive days.
You can spend actual money on them, or pay to unlock the entire catalogue for 24 hours (a feature not available during our review period), but over the course of a couple of nights we earned enough for 29 play tokens, so resorting to actual cash is probably only for the very impatient.
Guitar Hero on the road (or the bus, or the train, or the loo)
Although details are being saved for E3 in June, FreeStyleGames did confirm that there will be a smartphone version of Guitar Hero Live, and that it will offer the “same console experience”. In fact, I was even told there’d be a way to plug your mobile into your TV to play the mobile version of GHL on the big screen.
The Set Pistols
Music games often live or die based on what songs they allow you to perform and GH Live offers a mixed bag. This, of course, is entirely subjective but in Live mode its scope is just too wide. One minute you’re playing a Bring Me The Horizon tune, the next it’s Skrillex’s 'Bangarang'. That suggests the makers don’t fully understand the culture of guitar-based music and a number of songs feel out of place. 'Bangarang' isn’t even fun to play.
DJ Hero’s genre-hopping mash-ups worked because of the nature of the game, but trying to unite so many styles here feels like a mistake. In GHTV it’s less of an issue - you can just play the channels you like - but it means completing the career-oriented side of the game can become a bit of a slog if there are whole sets of songs that you don’t like.
That’s not to say they shouldn’t have been included at all - as part of a GHTV channel they’d make more sense - but festivals succeed because they allow their audience to choose what bands they see, not insist that you visit every stage for a minimum of three songs.
With a more focused idea of what it wanted to be, GH Live could’ve worked much better, but making all sets compulsory feels counter intuitive.
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Guitar Hero Live verdict
Trying to be all things to all people is often problematic, but a game of this type probably has very little option. How else do you appeal to the greatest number of people? Reduce the price and just sell track packs, allowing players to decide which direction they want to go? Perhaps, but some of the most enjoyable tracks to play on GH games have come from unexpected places. Indeed, Katy Perry’s 'Waking Up In Vegas' is far more fun to play than much of the angsty white-boy rock to be found here.
While Rock Band’s return feels like a remastered special edition, GH should be commended for trying something new. In hardware terms it’s entirely successful and while it means buying new guitars, the changes are a resounding success.
While we have some reservations about the songs chosen by Freestyle Games to appear on Guitar Hero Live, its GHTV mode should provide the longevity that normally only DLC can provide, especially if new songs are added as often as promised.
Considering that’s all free, it makes the initial price tag easier to swallow, and the lack of any meaningful local multiplayer a little less important.
Which bands' songs will you be playing?
Other than the three mentioned above, no specific songs have been confirmed for Guitar Hero Live. But the first handful of bands with featured tracks have:
Gary Clark, Jr
Karrie Underwood
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Bond Hair Religion Awarded For Its Service To The Community
By Styleicons on September 16, 2015 in Happenings, News 0
At this year’s Gala Awards Dinner in Canberra, Bond Hair Religion’s owner, Jenni Tarrant was announced as the winner of the Canberra Women in Business Award for Outstanding Community Spirit, writes Natacha Maloon. This is an impressive feat for the inspirational owner and Art Director, whose trophy cabinet is becoming increasingly cramped.
Jenni Tarrant was thrilled to have won an award that sits very close to her heart, describing winning as “both humbling and a greater incentive to make an even bigger difference for people without a voice.”
Jenni Tarrant
The Canberra Women in Business are a not-for-profit association created by women and run for women. They are responsible for nurturing local women in business, by supporting them through networking and the continuous distribution of necessary information. The organisation is dedicated to paying tribute to women who are thriving in their chosen vocation.
Jenni’s salon, Bond Hair Religion has been running for over 10 years, and in Jenni’s opinion is operating as more than a 5 star accredited salon whilst being implemented as a “vehicle to make a difference in the lives of others. A ripple effect can then occur which can potentially touch the lives of an infinite amount of people.” This is something all salons can relate to.
The recipient of the award for Outstanding Community Spirit is a recognized business owner who cares for their community, by enhancing the social, economic, commercial and environmental prosperity in the ACT region. This can be accomplished by encouraging participation in charities, sponsorship or general assistance to community organisations.
If your salon is thinking about how implementing community service and charitable activities may boost your profile – now is the time to do it. Jenni’s over-crowded trophy case is a testament to that.
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CHINESE FILM COUNTS THE COST OF LABORING FOR COMMON GOOD
CANDICE RUSSELL, Film WriterSUN-SENTINEL
The 35th anniversary of the People's Republic of China is to be celebrated soon. To prepare for a Beijing military parade that will last less than 60 seconds, an airborne squadron of soldiers rehearses their steps endlessly. A measure of their fidelity to the cause is if they can withstand months of cruel rehearsals from sunup to darkness, in spite of physical pain.
Da Yue Bing, or The Big Parade, is a stirring representative of current Chinese cinema, with which even hard-core cinephiles in this country are unfamiliar. Director Chen Kaige, who will answer questions following tonight's screening, focuses on the commanders and the followers preparing for their brief moment in history.
In one scene that sums up the film, Instructor Sun makes the men stand at attention for three hours in the brutal heat. The camera makes it look as if they are shimmering and about to melt.
It's also affecting when one of the leaders wonders whether or not he understands his men. Military films from any country don't usually portray self-doubting commanders who give their troops consideration.
The press notes say that Kaige regards his film as a metaphor for his country, where individual needs are put aside for the sake of the masses. Perhaps that is the reason why officials did not release the film for two years. However one chooses to interpret the quietly assertive patriotism of Da Yue Bing, it applauds the ardor of selfless men united in a task for the common good.
DA YUE BING
Young soldiers in China rehearse for a public military parade.
With Huang Xueqi, Sun Chun. Directed by Chen Kaige. In Chinese with English subtitles.
6 p.m. today at Downtown Library.
(Unrated) Coarse language, brief nudity.
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Mansour comeback complete after World Cup call-up
COMEBACK: Josh Mansour has been called into the World Cup squad. Brett Costello
by Ben Glover, Fox Sports
5th Oct 2017 2:42 PM
JOSH Mansour will complete an extraordinary comeback from the ruptured ACL that ended his Four Nations tour last year after he was called in to the Kangaroos squad to cover the withdrawal of injured star Darius Boyd.
Boyd injured his hamstring in the last game of the regular season, missing the Broncos' first two finals before pulling up lame following an ill-fated return in his side's preliminary final loss to the Storm.
The backline utility was named in Australia's World Cup squad and was expected to overcome the injury in time to take his place in the starting side by the time the tournament kicks off on October 27.
However, that won't be the case, with Boyd yesterday withdrawn from the squad following a team medical.
Boyd's disappointment will be offset by Mansour's joy as the Panthers winger returns to the Australian side after recapturing top form for Penrith following a long layoff to rehab his knee.
"Obviously it's disappointing for Darius, who has been a fantastic player for the Kangaroos," coach Mal Meninga said in a statement.
"It will be wonderful to see Josh back in the Kangaroos jersey after his injury in last year's Four Nations.
"I know how disappointed he was to be injured last year and I know how passionate he is about the green and gold.
"It is a credit to him that he has been able to return to the highest representative honours."
The Boyd withdrawal comes on the same day as Andrew Fifita's shock decision to quit the Kangaroos side so he could represent Tonga in the World Cup.
Reagan Campbell-Gillard was called in to replace Fifita, making it a big day for Panthers players.
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Bethlehem residents speak their minds about CCA Program before Town Board
Jan 15, 2020 Diego Cagara Bethlehem, Business, Environment, Government, News, Towns
BETHLEHEM — More than a dozen residents offered mixed reactions to the regional Community Choice Aggregation program the town is exploring during a public hearing at Jan. 8 town board meeting.
The public hearing addressed the Town Board intending to pass a local law authorizing the creation of the CCA program. The town board will vote on the proposed law in its Jan. 22 meeting. This local law is needed so that Bethlehem can continue exploring the program, which it has since last October. However, it does not force the town to ultimately enroll in it. It is important to note that Bethlehem is exploring it for now but it has not officially enrolled in it and the town has the option to leave the CCA program down the road.
The move towards renewable energy impacts some of the most unlikeliest of places. Both ports in Albany and Coeymans increased business due in part to the New York State Offshore Wind Master Plan that named them ideal locations to assemble windmills that are to be installed offshore.
Jim Franco / Spotlight News
Municipal Electric and Gas Alliance is a local corporation that would manage the CCA and help residents (and businesses that use under 2,000 kilowatt hours a month) purchase electricity in bulk from renewable energy resources. MEGA intends to get most or all electricity from renewable sources like solar, hydro and wind. By default, National Grid supplies and delivers electricity to all customers unless they choose a separate provider, but under CCA, National Grid would still deliver electricity while a new supplier is chosen after a bidding process through MEGA and agreement from enrolled municipalities. While National Grid’s supply price changes monthly, the price per kilowatt hour is fixed under CCA so residents know how much they will pay in advance for the energy they use.
The CCA program is regional in nature because 14 local municipalities, totaling over 90,000 households, have also joined to explore it, including the towns of Guilderland, New Scotland, Niskayuna and Knox, the villages of Kinderhook and Voorheesville, and the cities of Glens Falls, Troy, Watervliet and Saratoga Springs.
While the public hearing was initially meant to only happen on Jan. 8, Town Supervisor David VanLuven said it is now extended to the Jan. 22 town board meeting because the local law was “inadvertently” not posted in the Jan. 8 agenda.
Residents who supported the program often brought up the importance of being environmental and the potential of seeing their bills reduced. Those who opposed or were hesitant about it generally disliked the opt-out feature and how there is not a 100 percent guarantee yet of seeing their bills reduced.
Under the regional CCA program, if a municipality enrolls in it after agreeing to a set supplier, its residents will get a letter in their mailbox, including information about the program, pricing and contract’s terms as well as how to opt out of it, if they want. Residents have 30 days to opt out for free and if they don’t, they are automatically enrolled in the program. But even after the program officially starts, residents can still opt out at any time with no penalty.
This caused some residents to be concerned that they would be forced into the program, have to take time and effort to learn how to opt out, and be worried that not everyone in town will be informed about the program in time or how to opt out.
“My opinion is that one should always have to opt in to choose something; they should never automatically be opted in to anything and if you want to get people in, opt in,” said resident Frank Kuwik. “They should not force people to opt out of a choice. … The town should have more regard for its residents and that they shouldn’t be pulling a stunt on them. Instead of worrying how to get opt-out information to everyone, instead it should be an opt-in situation, showing how great this is and why you should sign up.”
Resident Linda Jasinski said, “This is not about the cheaper price for the people here. This is about your agenda for renewable resources and solar electricity. My agenda is a cheaper cost. Prove to me that it’ll be a cheaper cost and I’ll opt in.” She added that having an opt-in feature would be better instead as it gives residents a choice to join something if they want.
In contrast, resident Pattie Beeler, who is involved in citizen action group Bethlehem Tomorrow, expressed support for the CCA program and amazement at how many municipalities have joined to explore it so far. She said opting out “may be an extra step for some but maybe that extra step will give the pause necessary to think and educate and make the choice to not opt out.”
She continued, “A 100 percent clean energy Community Choice Aggregation is of vital importance to this community, to farming, to our forests, to the protection of our water systems and our earth.”
Eliza Compton, a Bethlehem High School sophomore and the secretary for its Students for Peace and Survival organization, said the environment is a top issue in the world now. She brought up the current Australian bushfires as an example which have devastated lands, killed around one billion animals, are costly and more.
“Bethlehem is a town proud to lead by example in our county and our state. The CCA will allow us to show what the future can be like for towns across Albany County, New York and even the country,” Compton said. “A vote for the CCA is a vote to continue Bethlehem’s tradition of leadership. A vote for the CCA is a vote for the future of the youth of this town. And it is a vote that we can defeat the climate crisis together.”
Louise Gava, the CCA project leader for MEGA, attended the meeting, briefly spoke about the program, listened to residents’ comments on both sides and even spoke to some after the meeting. She said she was touched by Compton’s words, especially how she was a young student speaking at a full town board meeting.
In a phone interview, however, Gava said, “I think it’s unfortunate that some folks who didn’t like the program didn’t get to attend an informational meeting or read the paper or whatnot. Some of their concerns come from how they don’t understand the program but I’m always open to listening and answering questions.”
She added that the concerns brought up in the meeting have similarly been discussed across other municipalities who have joined to explore the program too. “Almost all of the concerns I’ve heard so far are able to be managed,” she said. “But what you can’t manage are those who don’t like the opt out option.”
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Tamil youth killed in explosion in Kurunagala
Mr. Kanagasabai Thurairajasingham was killed in an explosion early morning at about 3 a.m. Monday at Polathapitiya near Kurunagala town in the northwestern province. He was later identified as a member of a Tamil group, probably a supporter of the renegade Karuna group, police said Monday.
This incident took place near the residence of a United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Deputy Minister for River Basin development and Rajarata Development, Mr.Salinda Dissanayake, police said
Police preliminary investigation has revealed that including the deceased three persons were handling an object resembling a claymore mine at the time of incident. Suddenly that object exploded killing Mr. Thurairajasingham on the spot. But the other two fled from the scene, police said.
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Schools Guide 2020
Wycombe Abbey
Wycombe Abbey has long been known for its hard-working girls and first-rate results: 30 per cent of 2018 leavers secured Oxbridge places and a growing number are now heading to US universities. But it’s recently begun to garner a reputation for its focus on pastoral care, and a sense of oneness and joy introduced by departing Head Rhiannon Wilkinson. A wave of change has helped to revamp the atmosphere: everyone loves the new Courtyard Café, the hall is set to be redone, and a twin school has been opened in China. This sense of innovation has pervaded the curriculum with a renewed focus on enriching and broadening young minds rather than just ticking boxes on a syllabus – the Director of Innovation and Learning has introduced a Creative and Critical Thinking Course for the Year 7s. There’s also a clear emphasis on sport and, in addition to the usual options, there’s a flourishing kick-boxing club. ‘Boarding, which creates a happy and close-knit community, is the key to our continued success at Wycombe Abbey. The school has a culture that both stimulates and inspires seven days a week, empowering the girls to achieve their very best, academically and socially. ‘In our happy community, each girl is known, and cherished, as an individual,’ says Wilkinson, who will be greatly missed – but new Head Jo Duncan, who comes from Royal High School Bath, will no doubt build on her predecessor’s stellar work.
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP11 1PE
Jo Duncan, PGCE, from September; previously Head of Royal High School Bath
639 girls: 66 day, 573 boarders
C of E
Term fees
Day: £10,090, boarding: £13,450
One year before entry; £250 fee
CE, school’s own exam or UKiset
Elsie Bowerman, Sally Phillips, Baroness Butler-Sloss GBE
Schools Guide: South-East
Downton Abbey’s real-life locations
Most Downton Abbey fans know all about Highclere Castle, aka Downton Abbey, but what about other locations used in the series?
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As fans eagerly await the upcoming Downton Abbey film, Tatler brings you everything you need to know about its real-life location, Highclere Castle
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America's Diplomatic Initiative in the Middle East
Prospects and Perils
WithRobert G. Neumann
This chapter looks at the consequences of that thesis for United States Middle-East policy. The Ronald Reagan Administration began to realise that sharp regional conflicts and in particular the unsolved Palestinian problem consigned to the realm of illusion any hope for a "strategic consensus." Among President Reagan's advisers there were sharp differences concerning the manner in which to counter that threat of conflict. Increasingly Reagan's advisers realised that Haig's policies brought the entire Arab world, including the most pro-Western and moderate countries into ever sharper conflict with the US. President Reagan's "territories for peace" formula was unequivocal and Reagan had not been known to waver as had his predecessor, Jimmy Carter. The Arabs in Fez realised clearly that the Reagan formula of "territories for peace" shifted both their own ideas and those of Reagan into a common diplomatic perimeter. Somehow the Reagan Administration remained optimistic that some formula could ensue which would result in actual negotiations.
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The emulator thrives as verification models mushroom
By Lauro Rizzatti | No Comments | Posted: July 22, 2016
Topics/Categories: Embedded - Integration & Debug, EDA - Verification | Tags: emulation, Palladium, Veloce, verification, Zebu | Organizations: Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys
Dr Lauro Rizzatti is a verification consultant and industry expert on hardware emulation. Gabriele Pulini is a product marketing manager in the Emulation Division of Mentor.
Emulation has evolved from infancy at the end of the 1980s to adolescence in the 1990s and finally to maturity in the 21st Century. Yes, emulation has been around for close to 30 years. Who remembers Supersim, the first custom-field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based emulator launched in 1988, pre-dating the rise of Zycad, Quickturn and IKOS, three icons of the 1990s?
During the 1990s, significant engineering effort went into decreasing the problem of design setup to be emulation-ready and into enhancing debugging features. Until then, in the absence of native visibility into the mapped designs, emulators were used as ‘black boxes’. Deployed in in-circuit-emulation (ICE) mode, they verified the design-under-test (DUT) with real traffic data, though running at a lower speed than the actual speed. In those early days, the deployment of an emulation system came with a “team of field application engineers in the box” to compensate for the drawbacks.
These limitations drove the introduction of custom chip emulators to replace standard FPGA-based solutions. They eased the task of mapping the DUT and opened it for complete visibility of its inner workings, supporting the acceleration mode driven by software testbenches.
In the first decade of the new millennium, the acceleration mode evolved into a virtualization mode made possible by the transaction-based communication between the emulator and the testbench running on the workstation.
The emulator achieves greater cost efficiency
Throughout hardware emulation’s existence, design capacity continued to increase while the typical selling price consistently dropped. Specifically, the capacity has grown from less than 100,000 ASIC gates to more than one-billion gates today. Designs now consist of multi-core processors with integrated graphics and networking switches and router with 256 or more ports. Initially priced at more than $10 per gate, it is not uncommon to see emulation deals now for less than one cent per gate.
From those early days, hardware emulation has moved into the verification mainstream and is considered the foundation of many verification strategies. Use models are growing as well because of its versatility and value as a resource. In fact, several new use models address tasks previously deemed inefficient or unachievable by this verification tool, giving hardware verification engineers and software development teams more options to increase their productivity and reduce verification risks.
For example, verification engineers can perform low-power verification and accelerate power estimation through a tight integration between the emulator and power estimation tools. Another use model is design for test (DFT), which lets test engineers verify the DFT circuitry and DFT patterns in a complex system-on-chip (SoC) design. While the DFT logic is synthesized automatically and inserted at the gate level, the insertion may disrupt the functionality of the design, making verification of the DUT mandatory to ensure there are no isolated scan chain or vector errors.
Since the complexity of most designs defeat the hardware description language (HDL) simulator, only emulators can perform thorough debug. Indeed, DFT verification can be completed before tape-out, ensuring that any errors can be fixed prior to the creation of masks.
The emulator beyond ICE
Another deployment mode overcomes one of the main drawbacks of ICE-based emulation. That is, the non-deterministic nature of the real world traffic. Real-world traffic is not repeatable, making design debug a frustrating and time-consuming experience. If a particular traffic pattern pinpoints a fault, repeating the scenario is virtually impossible. But by capturing the design activity from the initial ICE run, and replaying it over and over without connection to the real world, it is possible to create a repeatable and deterministic environment. If a bug is detected, instead of trying to repeat that traffic pattern on the original ICE setup, the verification team can use the replay database to re-run the test as it did in the first run that caused the problem. This accelerates the time required to unearth and fix bugs.
New use models are cropping up for hardware emulation at an accelerated pace, offering verification engineers many more options and helping them solve tough debug challenges. Several verification tasks can be carried out faster and more thoroughly, making possible new verification scenarios to tackle new vertical markets.
The emulation market has been growing steadily since 2001, from $120m to more than $300m in 2015. To say that it is thriving is almost an understatement.
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Brentwood Middle School mourns loss of beloved 'Coach Johnson'
David Michael Johnson, known as "Mickey," died March 30. He was a teacher and coach at Brentwood Middle School for 31 years.
Brentwood Middle School mourns loss of beloved 'Coach Johnson' David Michael Johnson, known as "Mickey," died March 30. He was a teacher and coach at Brentwood Middle School for 31 years. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/2019/04/01/brentwood-middle-school-coach-david-michael-johnson-dies/3330116002/
Amelia Ferrell Knisely, Nashville Tennessean Published 1:05 p.m. CT April 1, 2019
In his 31 years with Brentwood Middle School, David Michael Johnson, known as "Coach Johnson," touched thousands of lives with his firm but compassionate demeanor.
The beloved educator and coach died March 30 at age 68.
"The impact he had goes on in so many ways," BMS Principal Brandon Barkley said, who confirmed Johnson was still employed at the school before he died.
"He taught basically all of our students who have come through BMS in the past 31 years," Barkley said. "He gave so much of his time."
As we look to honor Coach Johnson, we want to celebrate two important aspects of who he was. He was a Viking and he was a Vol. So, we are encouraging students and staff to wear Green & Gold or Orange & White tomorrow to celebrate and honor Coach Johnson’s life and legacy. https://t.co/zaWsL7AvY8
— Brentwood Middle (@wcsBMS) March 31, 2019
Johnson came to BMS in 1988 as a physical education teacher and went on to coach many sports, including boys and girls basketball.
While he had a reputation for being a jokester, he was a tough but fair coach who expected the best out of his athletes.
"He was the prefect blend of reality and expectations," Barkley said. "He was hard on kids and tough nosed but genuinely cared and loved on them."
Liz Cleveland and David "Mickey" Johnson in 1988 at Brentwood Middle School. (Photo: Brentwood Middle School)
Liz Cleveland, a physical education teacher at BMS, taught and coached alongside Johnson for 31 years.
"He was strict, and he demanded a lot of the students, but he was compassionate," she said.
Trevecca College basketball coach Bill Boner, sitting left, smiles as he signs the school's first players to scholarships at the school April 19, 1969. Signing a grant is Gary Bedwell of Greenbrier High, while waiting their turn are Bill Griggs, standing left, and Nelson Ridley of Stratford High, Butch Baker of Joelton High, Mickey Johnson of Bethesda High and 1968 Hendersonville High guard Timmy Kemp. (Photo: J.T. Phillips / The Tennessean)
'He'd make sure they had a warm seat'
Johnson, who went by Mickey, graduated from Bethesda High School then attended Trevecca Nazarene University on a basketball scholarship.
Dennis Harrison, assistant athletic director at BMS, said Johnson worked in a prison before becoming a teacher.
"He saw what can happen with students when they don’t do what they are supposed to. All he wanted to do was stop those kids from ending up where he used to work," Harrison said.
Barkley said 50 BMS teachers and staff, past and present, gathered March 31 in the school's library to celebrate his life by sharing anecdotes and looking through old yearbooks.
Barkley shared that it was important to Johnson, always the first on campus at 6:30 a.m., to make sure kids who were dropped off early could sit in the cafeteria when it was cold or raining before school started.
"He'd make sure they had a warm seat," Barkley said.
Visitation will be held 3-8 p.m. Monday and again 1-4 p.m. Tuesday ahead of the funeral, 4 p.m., at Williamson Memorial Funeral Home, 3009 Columbia Ave. in Franklin.
BMS faculty and students will serve as honorary pallbearers in Johnson's funeral.
Memorials in Johnson's honor may be made to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital Vanderbilt at Williamson Medical Center.
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Bentley Mulsanne 6.75 Edition Bids Farewell to 60-Year-Old V-8 Design
Hybrid power plants will soon replace Bentley's fabled 6 ¾-liter.
By Chris TsuiJanuary 14, 2020
The full-size Mulsanne, far and away Bentley's oldest model, is being discontinued and to send it off, Bentley is introducing a final special edition: the 6.75 Edition by Mulliner. Limited to just 30 examples, it's named after the six-and-three-quarter-liter V-8 engine that will retire along with this car—the longest-ever continuously produced V-8 in the world, by Bentley's count. First seen in the 1959 Bentley S2, it is now entering its 60th and final year of production.
While the end of such a longevous engine alone would be cause for commemoration, the 6.75 Edition also marks the end of the Mulsanne itself because once production ends this spring, it isn't being replaced by a new version. Instead, the big-Bentley torch is being passed to the brilliant, new Flying Spur. Turns out, the sedan-ocalypse isn't just for poors.
Based on the 530-horsepower Mulsanne Speed, the 6.75 Edition tips its cap to its namesake engine with interior vent controls modeled after the V-8's oil cap instead of the regular "organ" stop knobs. Eagle-eyed owners will also notice that the analog clock, fuel gauge, and oil temperature gauge faces feature cutaway sketches of the 6.75-liter in question. As expected, badges that read "6.75 Edition" can be seen on the outside, inside, stitched onto the seats, in the engine compartment, and lit up at your feet when the doors are open.
From a distance, this special edition Mulsanne will be characterized by glossy black trim, a darkened hood ornament, front grille, and pre-smoked exhaust tips as well as 21-inch Speed wheels that now feature a layer of spoke-framing mascara. On the inside, all of that darkness is contrasted by upholstery trimmed in silver.
Bentley makes sure to mention that with the Mulsanne's demise and the planned 2023 arrival of a hybrid Flying Spur, it will have achieved its goal of offering a hybrid variant of every car it makes in three year's time. Because you know what else isn't just for poors? Climate change.
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Basel's St. Jacob Park
FC Basel 1893 claimed a second ever win over Manchester United, with a late Michael Lang handing the Swiss side a 1-0 home win. Uefa Champions League qualification looks near-certain for the Red Devils, but the late winner means it is not yet mathematically certain.
Jose Mourinho’s men dominated in Switzerland for long periods, but failed to turn swathes of possession into goals.
Marouane Fellaini and Marcos Rojo both fired chances against the woodwork, but Basel's resolute defence denied United a half-time lead.
The home side were far better after the interval, but despite a combined 27 shots throughout the game, matters were not settled until the 89th minute.
Lang popped up to turn home a deep Raoul Petretta cross, as Basel remain neck-and-neck with CSKA Moscow in the likely tussle for the other qualification spot.
United have not had things their own way against Basel historically. This was a second defeat at St. Jakob Park, with the two clubs having shared two wins apiece and two draws since they first locked horns in 2002.
Defeat means the Red Devils could, mathematically, still miss out and instead end up in the Europa League. However, CSKA will need to claim victory at Old Trafford by a six-goal margin for that to happen.
CSKA had beaten Benfica by two goals earlier on during Wednesday's European action. They, and Basel, both sit on nine points in Group A, but the Swiss side has a comfortably superior goal difference.
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Serena Williams and the epidemic of policing black women’s anger
Black women have a right to display the full gamut of human emotion
Serena Williams argues with referee Brian Earley during the second set. (Elsa/Getty Images; iStock; Lily illustration)
Shanon Lee
Malcolm X famously said black women are the most disrespected, unprotected and neglected people in America.
Sadly, some things remain the same.
Naomi Osaka became the 2018 U.S. Open women’s champion after defeating her childhood idol, Serena Williams, during the finals on Saturday. But Osaka’s win was overshadowed by a series of heated exchanges between Williams and chair umpire Carlos Ramos.
“I don’t cheat to win. I’d rather lose,” said Williams, when Ramos assessed her a coaching violation after her longtime coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, motioned from the player’s box that Williams should go to the net more often. Her second violation was issued after she destroyed her racket in a fit of anger. Her third, after calling Ramos a “thief” for taking a point away from her.
[ Billie Jean King: Serena Williams ‘was right to speak her mind’ at the U.S. Open]
She was later fined $17,000.
While her behavior may have broken the rules, sports fans quickly cited examples of male tennis players that received far better treatment for worse behavior. Tennis icon John McEnroe was known for his violent outbursts on the court and labeled a bullying, bitter, selfish jerk by Sports Illustrated.
More recently, Rafael Nadal threatened Ramos over what he deemed a bad call, claiming he felt unfairly targeted. Reportedly, Ramos only gave Nadal a soft warning. Though Ramos has a history of clashes with players, many in the court of public opinion believe he went too far with Williams during the U.S. Open.
While some chalk the confrontation up to sexism, what Williams has faced from the beginning of her career is more complex. She is an emboldened black woman setting records in a predominately white sport, while trying to navigate a combination of racism and sexism, also known as misogynoir.
[ The violence and threats against Maxine Waters are rooted in misogynoir]
Despite facing the policing of her attire and racial slurs, Williams has earned her place as a crowd favorite and a media darling partly because of how she navigates adversity. What Williams claims she experienced during the U.S. Open is not uncommon.
Black women experience misogynoir in work environments across America. Look at the Twitter hashtags #BlackWomenAtWork, #WorkingWhileBlack, and #BlackWomensEqualPay and you will find stories detailing the constant microaggressions, harassment and blatant discrimination black women are forced to suffer in order to remain employed.
Though we have the highest participation rate for women in the labor market, black women make 63 percent of what white men are paid and are significantly underrepresented in leadership roles. Young black women are developing heart disease and dying due to chronic stress partly contributed to racism.
Yet, black women are not allowed to be angry.
[ How a male umpire robbed Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka of their power at the U.S. Open]
I was reminded of what happens to the Angry Black Woman during a recent screening of “The Color Purple.” Sophia, played by Oprah Winfrey, was punished for being a black woman that openly displayed her anger. After leaving her husband for trying to beat her into subservience, she is imprisoned for fighting back while being beaten for publicly insulting the mayor’s wife.
Later in the film, we see a docile Sophia broken by her injuries and years spent in prison, working for the mayor’s wife as originally ordered.
“The Color Purple” may have been set in the early 20th century, but it depicts some of the issues black women still face today.
The media constantly reinforces the message that what is demanded of us is unwavering strength, poise and diplomacy even in the face of extreme injustice.
Outside of anger, what Williams modeled on Saturday was the willingness to advocate for herself. Most black women learn early that we must do so because no one else will. Some of us were raised by mothers and grandmothers that taught us when to ask, when to tell and when to demand.
After code-switching, fighting racism, surviving misogyny and sexual violence, being the backbone of the black community, protecting black men, dominating music and sports, serving as cultural trendsetters and leading the nation’s largest civil rights movements while being undervalued and underpaid, we are sick and tired.
Black women have a right to display the full gamut of human emotion, and when we experience injustice we have a right to be angry.
Shanon Lee is a survivor, activist and storyteller.
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WTO Compliance Urged
Russia has to meet all its World Trade Organization obligations, WTO Director General Pascal Lamy said Thursday at the Gaidar Forum in Moscow, Interfax reported.
The comments come after a statement by Russia's top trade negotiator, Maxim Medvedkov, in which he said Russia would not have to assume some WTO obligations because it is a recently acceded member.
Lamy said Russia has been a member of the trade body for five months already, so the question is a thing of the past.
The country can no longer choose whether or not to meet its obligations. It has to do so, Lamy said.
However, he said, a different question could arise as to whether other WTO members believe that Russia is not fully meeting its obligations.
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Ministry grants eight exploration licenses
Samuel Urkato
By Kaleyesus Bekele
The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum this week granted eight minerals exploration licenses to seven mining companies.
The Ministry granted the exploration licenses to Sekota Mining PLC, Aiga Trading Industries, Agodayeo Metals and Other Minerals, Africa Mining and Energy, Altaw Resources Limited, Sun Pick Ethiopia and Himra Mining. The mining companies will undertake the mineral exploration projects in the Amhara, Afar and Tigray Regional States. According to the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, the local and foreign mining companies would engage in the exploration of gold, iron ore and other metals, potash, coal and limestone minerals. The mining firms pledged to invest more than 88 million birr over a three year period.
The State Minister of Mines and Petroleum Assefa Kumssa on Wednesday signed the exploration agreements with executives of the mining companies. During the signing ceremony, Minister of Mines and Petroleum Samuel Urkato stated that 56 companies requested for mineral exploration licenses in various parts of the country. Samuel said seven of the companies fulfilled the requirements of the Ministry. Samuel noted that the mining companies should work on environmental protection and ensure the local communities benefit from the mining projects.
The Minister stressed the need to collaborate with the regional states. Regional mining bureau heads attended the signing ceremony. The regional mining bureau heads pledged to provide the required support to the mining companies.
State Minister Assefa Kumssa acknowledged the companies for deciding to work with the Ministry and invest in Ethiopia.
According to the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, the exploration licenses would be valid for three years with possible extension upon the requests of the companies. “At the end of the three year period, the exploration licenses could be renewed if the ministry accepts the proposal for renewal,” the Ministry said.
The Ministry disclosed that the seven mining firms have allocated 88.5 million birr aggregate capital for the exploration projects to be carried out in the next three years and would create 130 jobs
Samuel told The Reporter that the Ministry would sign more exploration agreements in the coming weeks. “The exploration projects would create jobs for citizens and we will earn investment capital,” Samuel said. The Minister called upon local investors to look for investment opportunities in the mining sector.
According to the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum Ethiopia offers excellent opportunities for mineral prospecting and development. There is favorable geological environment hosting a wide variety of mineral resources. The Ministry claims that Ethiopia’s green stone belts offer one of the finest areas for gold mineralization anywhere in the world, and more than 500 metric tons of gold deposits have already been identified by exploration. Precious and metallic minerals such as tantalum, and platinum have been mined in small scale. There are more than 200 foreign and local licensed mining companies engaged in exploration and mining of minerals.
The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has drafted a national mining policy that would aimed at bolstering the local mining industry. The Ministry recently held consultative meetings with stakeholders on the draft mining policy. The Ministry believes that the national mining policy would enable it to boost the mining sector’s contribution for the overall economic development of the country.
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Ray J In Talks With The Trump Administration To Get Pardon For Suge Knight
By 258Mafia on November 8, 2019
Ray J is reportedly doing more than just handling Suge Knight’s music empire.
According to an article the U.K.’s Daily Mail published on Wednesday (Nov. 6), the R&B singer is reportedly talking with members of the Trump Administration to discuss the possibility of pardoning Suge. The former founder of Death Row Records is currently in prison serving out his 28-year sentence for manslaughter for killing Terry Carter and injuring Cle Sloan with his car on the set of the movie Straight Outta Compton January 2015.
An insider close to Ray J reportedly told the outlet that he hopes President Donald Trump will pardon Suge because he believes that he has learned from his wrong-doing and is ready to change his ways. The source reportedly also stated that Ray J was motivated that he could mirror his ex-girlfriend Kim Kardashian’s advocacy for criminal justice reform. He saw how Kim was able to help get clemency for Alice Johnson, who was convicted of drug trafficking in 1996 and was just released from prison last year, and he now reportedly wants to prove he can do the same thing.
However, according to the source, reps for Ray J are reportedly worried that if the singer should meet with President Trump he could face backlash from the African American community.
“The people around Ray J keep telling him that the fallout with African Americans for meeting with Trump could be catastrophic to his career. Especially if he shows up at a political rally,’ the insider reportedly told the publication.
Nonetheless, Ray J is reportedly adamant about meeting with Trump to see if he get Suge a pardon.
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Tag: NHRC
Islampur death: NHRC upset with WB govt
Team led by DIG Kurilos will be staying in Islampur till 15 October to investigate into the matter.
Will Congress-AAP join hands in Delhi?
There is intense speculation about an alliance between bitter rivals Congress and Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi for next year’s Lok Sabha polls. One formula being suggested by well-wishers including Mamata Banerjee, the main driver of the proposal, is that the Congress contest three seats and AAP fight four. The other formula being talked about …
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Press Council of India chief wants ‘social security’ for journalists
Justice CK Prasad flags the issue of job uncertainties in the media sector
Manipur staged gunfights: SC wants NHRC’s active involvement in probe
The court was hearing a PIL seeking a probe into as many as 1,528 cases of extra-judicial killings in Manipur.
Dalits desert Baghpat village after death of boy, NHRC issues notices
NHRC has directed the DGP to send a detailed report of the matter within a month, and expressed concern over the migration of Dalits from the village.
NHRC seeks comprehensive report on Satabhaya dwellers
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a comprehensive report from Odisha Government on the basic amenities extended towards the would-be displaced people living in sea-erosion-affected Satabhaya village in Odisha’s Kendrapara district. The rights panel’s order has come in the wake of petition moved by rights activist Radhaknata Tripathy. The petition, alleging that rights …
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NHRC seeks ATR in Kashmiri medical student disappearance case
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) sought an Action Taken report (ATR) from the Director General of police (DGP) Odisha over the failure of police to ensure safety and security to a Kashmiri medical student at AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, who has been missing since 9 February. Considering the petition filed by Rights Activist and Supreme Court …
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1,680 cases of custodial deaths registered by NHRC in 10 months
1,680 cases of custodial deaths were registered by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in the last 10 months in the country, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Union Minister of State for Home Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said 1,530 cases of deaths in judicial custody and 144 cases of deaths under police custody were …
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Extra-judicial killing in Manipur: SC asks SIT to expedite probe
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI’s) SIT to expedite the probe into alleged extra-judicial killings and fake encounters by the army, Assam Rifles and police in Manipur. A bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice U.U. Lalit asked the special investigation team (SIT) to first complete the ongoing …
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NHRC seeks Action Taken Report from AIIMS director to ensure justice for conjoined twins
The National Human Rights Commission(NHRC) has sought an Action Taken Report (ATR) from the Director of the All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi on steps taken to ensure justice to separated conjoined twins who are to be discharged and sent to their home state Odisha soon. Acting on a petition filed by activist …
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The paradoxes of Kashmir
The recent decision of the J and K government to condone stone throwers, many of whom were habitual offenders, while charging army personnel who were victims of stone throwing and opened fire in self-defence in an FIR is the latest confused news emanating from the valley. Photographs of damaged vehicles, injured army personnel and littered …
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Kunduli case: NHRC asks special team to probe
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday asked for a special investigation into the Kunduli gang rape case and said the investigation team is to submit its report in 15 days time. Meanwhile to come clean on the controversies being raked up the Opposition parties, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik expanded the terms of reference …
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NHRC notice to Centre, states over pollution faced by traffic personnel
The National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to the union home secretary and chief secretaries of all states and union territories over health hazard faced by traffic police personnel due to high air pollution. “The NHRC has taken cognisance of a complaint raising the issue of right to health of traffic police personnel across …
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Baitarani displacement: NHRC seeks report within four weeks
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) took serious note of the lack of response from Odisha government over alleged large scale displacement caused by the Kanpur project on Baitarani river in Keonjhar district and deputed its Special Rapporteur to conduct an inquiry, informed lawyer and rights activist Radhakanta Tripathy. Taking serious note of earlier Petition …
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Belittling damage
The Supreme Court of India has upheld the Gujarat Government’s scheme restricting the compensation for religious places destroyed during the communal riots of 2002 to a maximum of Rs 50,000 with many conditions attached thereto. Before the issue reached the Supreme Court at the instance of the State of Gujarat, in terms of the judgment …
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NHRC notice to UP over deaths in Unchahar thermal plant blast
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over the deaths in a boiler blast at a thermal power plant in the state. Taking suo motu cognizance of media reports about the death of 30 persons and injuries to 64 others at the National Thermal Power Corporation’s Unchahar …
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NHRC efforts led to increased public awareness on rights: CJI
Chief Justice of India Deepak Misra on Thursday praised the National Human Rights Commission and said the commission’s efforts had led to increased public awareness about human rights and a spike in the registration of complaints of rights’ violations. Speaking at the NHRC’s 24th Foundation Day here, Justice Misra referred to the Supreme Court’s judgment …
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Seattle City Council candidates Kshama Sawant, Shaun Scott, Andrew Lewis, and Dan Strauss (left to right) showed up at the housing debate we put on with the AIA and delivered strong answers. (Photo by author)
Land Use & Development
Progressives like Scott, Sawant, Strauss, and Lewis are Winning the Housing Debate, Opponents Are Making Stuff Up
Doug Trumm
We live in alternate realities. I realized this when I received a pro-Alex Pedersen mailer from People for Affordable Livable Seattle (PALS) political action committee (PAC) arguing that recent development had cost more low-income housing than it replaced. Longtime housing rabble-rouser John Fox of the Seattle Displacement Coalition endorsed Pedersen, co-founded PALS PAC to run ads for him, and included the following quote in the mailer.
“Alex will put a stop to the destruction of existing low-income housing,” Fox said. “Taxpayers spent $100 million to build about 1,500 low-income units since 2016, but over 2,000 existing units were torn down by developers over that same period.”
Were the majority of those demolished homes low-income ones renting below market? I contacted the group to substantiate their claim, and, despite some efforts, they could not.
“Our campaign’s entire platform centers around protecting the most vulnerable and ensuring that everyone has the right to live in the city,” Shaun Scott said in an email. “We can soundly predict that our campaign’s policy proposals will do more to ensure Seattle’s livability than our opponent, who applied for the Chamber’s PAC money and worked for a housing developer that applauded Trump. Voters can rest assured that we won’t give in to fear-mongering but will materially improve their lives. That includes creating a land bank, building public housing, fighting for their rights, and working with state electeds to reverse our regressive tax system.”
PALS, by the way, is the political arm of slow-growth homeowner groupies that sued the City to block the Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program. Unsuccessfully. MHA is the law of the land–at least multifamily-zoned land–and they appear pretty bitter about it. Single-family zoning still consumes about 75% of Seattle’s residential land and comes with no affordability requirement whatsoever.
Alex Pedersen opposed the MHA program at the time, as you can see in an archive of his deleted 4toExplore blog. When Pedersen first announced his candidacy, it was largely PALS and other homeowner activists that were listed in the endorsements. They are his firmest base.
Now Pedersen is making more wishywashy statements, but still arguing for reintroducing parking requirements, rolling back some rezones, and limiting growth to fixed transit corridors. Plus he is ducking debates where he could illuminate his positions, like the housing debate we co-hosted with the American Institute of Architects—Seattle Chapter (AIA Seattle). His opponent Shaun Scott was there, as was Dan Strauss (D6), Andrew Lewis (D7), Councilmember Kshama Sawant (D3), and Councilmember Debora Juarez (D5)–strong proponents of MHA upzoning. (Jim Pugel was also there, but a bit more skeptical of upzoning.)
Incidentally, their housing and land use policies were much better than their more conservative opponents. They weren’t trying to hide; they wanted to lead on housing and all agreed that rolling back apartment bans was an important step, as was increasing funding for supportive housing and social housing.
Seattle’s spate of development–which is overwhelmingly (at least 85%) in Seattle’s urban villages and centers and that consume a sliver of the land overall, I might add–allowed Seattle’s population to jump from about 685,000 in 2015 to something like 750,000 today–a jump of roughly 65,000 in four short years. Seattle is averaging about 10,000 new apartments per year in the last five years. Let that sink in: 50,000 homes that didn’t exist five years ago today exist. Meanwhile, many single-family zoned neighborhoods are actually shrinking in population as the urban villages boom around them.
Nonetheless, John Fox of the Seattle Displacement Coalition is very worried about demolition of some existing homes. Two thousand units have been demolished since 2016, he said, and he’s cocksure that the majority of those are naturally occurring affordable homes. Why does he think that? Well, he cites unscientific surveys his organization conducted “on three occasions over the last 20 years,” but then didn’t publish in detail. Sounds legit, right? Let’s interrogate that.
But first let’s talk about some good housing policies, before dwelling on the bad.
Scott: Public Housing Is Priority #1
Shaun Scott at Gas Works Park. (Photo credit: Alex Garland)
While Alex Pedersen is a very bad and conservative candidate that wants to go backwards on housing, the progressive slate is excellent on housing. We should be excited about that. The first thing on Shaun Scott’s platform is public housing and from day one he has been adamant that single-family zoning is exclusionary, has racist roots, and must go. He’s also listed a handful of revenue sources–from another head tax to vacancy taxes to congestion pricing–and made it clear he’ll go to the mat against wealthy corporations, landowners, and car activists to get them.
Sawant: Tax the Rich, Stabilize Rents, Build Social Housing
Councilmember Kshama Sawant has been an enthusiastic vote for more revenue to build social housing, and it’s still a centerpiece of her platform. If anybody is going to bring back the head tax, it’s Sawant who voted against repealing it in the first place. Despite whisper campaigns, Sawant has voted for just about every single upzone this city has considered. She also increased the MHA upzones in some parts of her district. Does she ruffle feathers? Yes, she does. Does zoning reform ruffle feathers? Yes, it does. So maybe the socialist who ruffles feathers is actually well-suited for this tough fight to democratize our land use.
Councilmember Kshama Sawant rolls out her rent control proposal at Seattle City Hall on September 23rd. (Credit: City of Seattle)
Councilmember Sawant is leading on homelessness and the need for an urgent compassionate response to address our immediate problem. She introduced draft legislation to expand tiny house villages, adding up to 40 sites. Each tiny house village has had between 16 and 48 tiny homes, so that means Sawant’s proposal could make good on an unfulfilled campaign promise from Mayor Jenny Durkan to add 1,000 tiny homes in her first year. Mayor Durkan added 73 tiny homes–927 short of her pledge.
Sawant is also pushing hard for rent control, which is important given the incredible housing insecurity and economic displacement happening in this city. Does her rent control proposal go too far? Perhaps, but can you imagine rent control and tenant exploitation even being in the conversation without Sawant? Her Overton window strategy may upset some–like State Senator Jamie Pedersen (D-Seattle) who seems willing to kill the policy to spite her–but if the outcome is getting a second-generation rent control proposal that lowers displacement, it will surely be a good outcome.
Sawant’s opponent, Egan Orion, skipped our housing debate. Despite running a fairly pro-growth (and even backed rent stabilization) primary campaign, he’s waffled or ducked tough housing stances lately. His base of support is in the wealthy single-family view homes in the idyllic corners of the district. Think Montlake, Broadmoor, Madison Valley, Madrona, North Capitol Hill, and so forth. These are the places a progressive candidate would end the pervasive apartment bans choking growth there and perhaps turn them into urban villages in their own right. Is Orion the kind of candidate to speak truth to his own base and get them to accept upzones once The Seattle Times op-eds start flying? I haven’t seen any indication of that.
Andrew Lewis: An Affordable Mass Timber Housing Champion
Andrew Lewis with boats in background. (Courtesy of Lewis campaign)
On the trail, Andrew Lewis fights an important battle. Duplexes and triplexes are beautiful he reminds voters and they fit right in with the district. Yes, even really Pleasantsville parts of Magnolia and Queen Anne. “BUILD MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING” is Lewis’ first priority on his webpage. “Commit to building 5,000 units of affordable housing in three years by working with State, County, and non-profit partners through the ‘Home and Hope‘ plan.”
Lewis is also a big proponent of mass timber construction–an innovative building technique that replaces steel and concrete to lower a building carbon footprint and build beautiful housing. “Expand The Use of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT),” Lewis wrote on his priorities page. “14% of global carbon emissions are caused by the use of concrete and steel in construction. CLT would dramatically reduce this carbon footprint—in fact acting as a carbon sequestration resource. The use of CLT would additionally save the city money on construction projects ranging from community centers to affordable housing, and opening funding for other crucial public works projects.”
Dan Strauss: Missing Middle Man of the People
Former Ballard paper boy Dan Strauss. (Courtesy of Strauss campaign)
At the housing debate, Dan Strauss said he ran for city council because he was tired of seeing his friends priced out of Seattle. Strauss’s plan to fix that involves a lot of missing middle housing, such as duplexes, triplexes, and rowhouses. That means zoning changes.
Missing Middle housing types. (Opticos Design)
Strauss has also been much stronger than his opponent on finding new progressive revenue to fund new affordable housing construction. Housing and homelessness services dominate Strauss’s issues page and it’s clear he sees the scale of the problem. He isn’t shying away from the challenge:
Ultimately, our homelessness crisis is about insufficient affordable housing. Seattle has 60,000 fewer affordable homes than we need for people making less than 50% of AMI ($38,750/yr), and we need to make a massive investment to create the housing stock we need. I will make full use of our bonding capacity, fast-tracking permit for affordable housing, waive city fees, and identify city property we can lease to housing providers.
Finally, Strauss has staked his campaign on the Housing First model, which emphasizes permanent supportive housing as a way to get homeless people back on their feet and work toward sobriety without threat of eviction. “We need to invest in [permanent supportive housing] fully and start building it at four times the current rate,” Strauss wrote. Supportive housing first is the model experts like Dr. Sara Rankin have advanced due the strong data supporting both its efficacy and cost-effectiveness. People stabilized in housing cost taxpayers less than people experiencing addition or mental health issues on the street. A lot of candidates (e.g., Milquetoast Moderates) pay lip service to Housing First, but as soon as there’s a visible problem, they’re back to wack-a-mole and tough love with people experiencing homelessness to score easy points. Strauss, on the other hand, is making a firm commitment.
Interrogating John Fox’s slanted math
Now back to our PALS. As it turns out, much like John Fox’s imaginary math during the debate around the University District rezone–which The Seattle Times uncritically trumpeted and we exposed at the time–Fox’s displacement math is still the product of guesswork and fantasy. The 2,000 units worth of demolitions he could substantiate with a City report. However, he also claimed most of these demolitions were naturally-occurring affordable homes (NOAHs)–market-rate, low-income units in other words.
Side note: if Fox knows where landlords are voluntarily renting for less than $1,000, he should spill the beans. Droves of working class renters would like to know!
Fox did point to a blog post he did on his site Outside City Hall that clarifies his assumption, although he wouldn’t divulge when these survey happened or exactly how these cutoffs for being deemed a low-income household were applied. That 70% of all demolished units in Seattle served low-income households stretch incredulity. We just don’t have that many NOAHs left, as anybody who’s actually looked for an apartment in the last few years can tell you. The median rental price in Seattle is $2,700, according to Zillow. Here’s what Fox wrote:
Our estimate that 70 percent of demolished units are occupied by low income households is based on past surveys we have done of residents occupying units in buildings where permits were pending for demolition and by using the reverse phone directory to call former residents of buildings torn down or already vacated for demolition. To downplay the impact of demolitions, city’s planners point to a much smaller number of low income households displaced from these buildings who qualified for and received relocation assistance under the Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance or TRAO. But most low income tenants in demolished buildings often aren’t even made aware of their eligibility under TRAO or for other reasons never apply for assistance, or the landlord forces them out before applying for permits so they never even receive notice of their eligibility. Also, TRAO limits eligibility for assistance to only households with a combined income below 50% of median.
The surveys Fox referenced are likely very similar to his MHA displacement risk surveys. Fox claimed more low-income units would be demolished than replaced due to the University District’s upzone. (This is an old canard for him.) But when we checked his figures, he was including buildings that were renting for well above the 50% of area median income cutoff he used–the 2019 rent limits are $968 for a studio, $1,038 for a one-bedroom, and $1,245 for a two-bedroom at 50% of area median income.
And after we highlighted Fox’s misleading claims in Janurary 2017, we pointed them out again in February 2018 when he popped up to oppose a Belltown demolition and again understated rents to bolster his claims. Yet, he keeps making these factually incorrect claims without really getting called out in the mainstream media. Here’s what we wrote in 2018:
John Fox’s infamous naturally occurring affordable housing (NOAH) surveys were heavy on apartments that A) weren’t actually that affordable and B) were relatively small studios. Ironically, many of these same folks oppose creating new small efficiency homes. By doing so, we’re creating a can’t-win situation. Mandating big home and lot sizes is a major reason why Seattle is on a Titanic-like course cleaving on an iceberg of massive inequality and displacement.
Given his past mistakes and lack of detail in his analysis, it seem likely that Fox has again significantly rounded down rents (or cited old figures) for demolished apartment buildings. Due to spiraling wealthy inequality and a tight housing market, rents have skyrocketed in this city. Rent surveys done 20 years ago are no longer very relevant. Apartments that were affordable for the first few decades of Fox’s 40-plus years of housing advocacy are no longer so–and to be clear: Fox has done great work in his long housing advocacy career; it’s too bad his more recent work has focused primarily on housing opposition.
The NOAH is going the way of the dodo in many Seattle neighborhoods, yet Fox thinks freezing neighborhoods in amber will save them. It won’t, especially without rent control. Note, Alex Pedersen opposes rent control, and Shaun Scott supports it. Malloy Apartments across from the Parrington Lawn at the University of Washington is now renting 450-square-foot studios for $1,600 or more. But still it was in Fox’s University District affordable housing survey.
Malloy Apartments was included on Fox’s NOAH displacement risk survey because it’s old, but it’s actually mostly small studios that rent for about $1,600. And because it’s dense and well-maintained, it’s not likely to be demolished anyway. (Google Maps)
Big picture what Fox is arguing is that adding 50,000 apartments in the last five years in rapidly growing Seattle is actually bad. With 2,000 demolitions to create about 50,000 new housing, that means those units were being replaced 25-fold. Fox and Pedersen still aren’t satisfied.
Now once you add MHA into the mix, 50,000 new apartments means at least 3,000 new low-income units averaging 6% affordability. MHA requirements range from 5% to 11%, depending on the intensity of the upzone and location. That means 2,000 demolitions to create 50,000 homes, at least 3,000 of them guaranteed affordable will surely replace more affordable units than it consumes.
The catch is that MHA wasn’t in place for most of that building boom. The “citywide” rezones passed in March 2019. Why was that? Here’s the irony and the kicker: it’s partially because John Fox and his PALS sued, delaying the MHA rezones at least a year with mostly flimsy process complaints. They have cost Seattleites affordable homes and now these demagogues are trolling us about it. It’s rich!
Even if you’re suspicious of for-profit developers, the MHA upzone importantly created additional suitable sites for affordable housing developers, easing the multifamily land crunch in our city, albeit not enough. Fox and Pedersen gloss over this fact. When it comes down to it, their biggest worry isn’t affordability, it’s homeowner complaints.
That’s why if you care about affordable housing, I urge you to vote for the progressive slate of candidates.
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Miu October 29, 2019 at 9:01 pm
Sawant’s solutions are toothless, confrontational and self-serving. Amazon may not be the most upright corporation to exist, but they are a major employer. She made no attempts to engage them to try and find a solution to the problems. The council passes a tax that created immediate confrontation with employers for how poorly conceived it was. This was sawant’s desired outcome, as it plays to her base and gets media attention. She costs the city money and credibility, ignores problems that someone in a CM position should address, and it’s due to that people who actually live here who want her gone.
Weird that Amazon would spend so much money to defeat a toothless councilmember.
jim October 30, 2019 at 11:30 am
That’s because District 3 won’t
Pretty anti-democratic attitude.
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Whisky Insiders Interview - Bill Lark
Lark Distillery
larkdistillery.com.au
How long have you been working in the whisky industry?
I started Lark Distillery with my wife in 1992, the first in Tasmania since 1839. We had no prior experience working in the industry except that we both enjoyed a good malt.
Together we gained experience from the local brewing industry and also received a great helping hand from the Scottish industry. We spent about 6 years learning the craft before releasing our first whisky in 1998, matured in very small casks.
What has been your biggest career highlight to date?
Career highlights have been many and exciting because we were the first ones to produce a single malt whisky in the modern whisky era in Australia. I guess the most significant event has been to be when I was asked to help establish a new Distillery in Kingsbarns, Scotland and work with the Kingsbarns team.
As a result of that and un-be-known to me, my image was displayed in a 100 foot high laser light show in Edinburgh last June, to promote a paper entitled Glenfiddich to Hobart. My image was alongside that of William Grant, founder of Glenfiddich and Masataka Taktsuru, forefather of the Japanese whisky industry. The image was later shown and written up in the Scotsman Newspaper. I saw this as a fantastic recognition of the emerging Australian Whisky industry which Lyn and I can be proud to have helped establish.
Can you remember your first dram, and indeed what it was?
I do remember my first dram. It was offered to me by my father-in-law, Max Stewart, a canny old Scotsman who in some ways was responsible for Lyn and myself being encouraged to have a go at making Tasmania’s first malt whisky. The whisky incidentally was a Glenfiddich and would have been in about 1973 and was probably the only single malt available in the Sydney bottle shops at the time. I still love the 15yo Solera Cask from Glenfiddich.
What does whisky mean to you?
Whisky is now our whole life. Both Lyn and myself work tirelessly in the Lark Distillery and our daughter is our General Manager. Our whisky is now rapidly gaining popularity throughout the broader whisky world and this requires me to present myself as the “global brand ambassador”, a job which I am enjoying immensely.
When we first started making whisky I assumed the Scottish industry would shake their heads at us stupid colonials but wonderfully they instead, encouraged us and invited us into their exciting world. It is marvelous to visit Scotland and the USA and to be immediately welcomed as a relevant whisky maker in the global industry. Everyone in the industry is genuinely keen to assist others to ensure that all whisky is of the highest standard for consumers.
Where would you like to see yourself in five years time?
As much as I like making whisky I have to be honest and say that Lyn and I are getting a little tired of running a business and we hope that our daughter is ready to step up to the mark and steer the distillery forward as we take a slightly more background direction in global ambassadoring, of course keeping an eye on things to make sure the tradition and culture we created is continuing on.
The industry is really one big family and we enjoy being part of that and we hope to visit more of the industry, certainly within the next five years. The Australian industry and indeed the world industry is growing rapidly through small “boutique” distilleries producing handcrafted whiskies and an enjoyable result of that is that I have been asked to consult to new distilleries which is an area I would like to pursue more so.
What was your last dram?
My last dram was last night at the end of judging the First Australian National Spirit Competition. The judges relaxed together with a 20yo Glendronach, which is a wonderfully well balanced big Sherry cask whisky. It was a great moment as we were sitting back listening to some of the best local bluegrass music by Coyote Serenade in our cellar door, a Friday night treat.
Do you have a favourite whisky and food pairing combination?
Whisky and food matching is proving to be more and more popular and it is easy to match a whisky with just about any food. Some memorable matchings have been Scapa 14yo with Crispy Skin Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon, Laphroaig 18yo with Scottish Highland Angus beef and Ardbeg 10yo always goes very well with any chocolate desert.
I have just attended a sensational whisky and food matching evening at Leaning Church Vineyard in Northern Tasmania where their chef superbly matched our Lark Cask Strength single malt with a delicious “slow cooked mushroom and game pie served with a rosemary skewer of roasted vegetables”.
They matched our Lark Single Cask malt whisky with a trio of “King prawn lightly grilled with a shot of whisky mao, Tasmanian salmon cake with crème fraiche and salmon roe and then a Tasmanian tuna sashimi with wasabi:”. This was a very memorable night and everyone in attendance agreed we need to do more of them.
What’s your favourite time and place to enjoy a dram?
Last thing at night when our youngest son has gone to bed, Lyn will say she’ll get the chocolate while I choose the whisky. I could be anywhere in the world but these moments with my wife are just fantastic as Lyn enjoys a good malt as much as I do, and it really is a perfect way to end the day.
What do you think is going to be the next big thing on the whisky horizon?
As the big industry gets bigger we are seeing a situation where smaller distilleries around the world, producing hand crafted whiskies, are not just emerging onto the scene but I believe they will be the most prominent feature on the whisky horizon into the future.
I don’t see this as a conflict because small distilleries will never be able to cater for the huge markets opening up in places like India and China, but they are certainly able to offer the whisky enthusiast an opportunity to rediscover traditional handcrafted whiskies which by the way are winning significant awards and recognition in all the whisky competitions and whisky shows around the world. Very exciting times indeed for both maker and consumer.
What’s the one dram you couldn’t live without?
I don’t think I could live without a bottle or two of Ardbeg “beastie” tucked away in the cupboard for those moments when a deliciously, downright dirty old peaty whisky fits the bill.
Many thanks to the fabulous and inspiring Bill Lark. Who will be the next Whisky Insider? Click back soon to find out!
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Adele sings Lean on Me as she and Stormzy stand alongside Grenfell families before 73 doves are released in memory of 72 victims and 'one for the unknown' after Britain falls silent on first anniversary of fire
Adele and Stormzy today joined thousands of mourners to remember the 72 victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster as Britain fell silent on the first anniversary of the deadliest residential fire since the Blitz.
The devastated west London community became a sea of green - the colour adopted as a symbol of grief and hope in the wake of the blaze - as many stood tearfully and hugged at midday for 72 seconds.
Adele looked emotional as she stood among mourners in the shadow of Grenfell Tower and sang along as a gospel choir performed Bill Withers' hit Lean on Me while wreaths were laid and candles were lit in memory of the dead.
Rapper Stormzy stood quietly feet away at the 'wall of truth' before posing for pictures with children affected by the tragedy. Marcus Mumford was also there and all three stars have been demanding justice for Grenfell's victims.
Today's 72-second silence was observed by millions across the UK including the Queen, who was dressed all in green and stood quietly next to Meghan Markle on their first royal engagement together in Cheshire.
In London green balloons then flew from the roof of Grenfell as large crowds gathered in its shadow to pray, lay white roses and light candles to remember their loved-ones.
Faith and community leaders also released 73 doves into the sky - one for every life lost on June 14, 2017, and another for the victims they fear have never been identified - before a silent march where one woman collapsed in tears as they approached the tower.
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Guests lined up and released 12 white doves into the air to pay tribute to the veteran entertainer.
The former Strictly Come Dancing host died aged 89 at home surrounding by his wife Wilnelia Merced and children on August 18.
The founder of Phones 4u, John Caudwell, posted a video clip from the funeral on social media site Instagram.
It shows funeral guests releasing the birds to cries of “hip hip hooray”, just after a speaker says: “To the rainbow. Somewhere over the rainbow. Until we all meet again.”
Other guests cheered as the doves flew into the sky.
Alongside the footage John wrote: “A sad but beautiful moment at Bruce’s funeral
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Victims of the Grenfell Tower fire have been remembered at the start of the Notting Hill Carnival with the release of dozens of white doves.
The poignant gesture came at the official opening ceremony of the two-day world famous event, which takes place in the shadow of the charred remains of the high-rise block where at least 80 people died in June.
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The birds were released from the hands of survivors and local residents, as well as the leader of Kensington and Chelsea council Elizabeth Campbell, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Kensington MP Emma Dent Coad.
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Fright Club is a new 6 x 60 min series for Sky 1 that sees people with the same crippling fear or phobia join forces to overcome their problem once and for all.
Each week 10 fellow sufferers will take part in an extreme form of exposure therapy that will see them face their worst nightmares. They have just three days to tackle their fear head on... if they succeed it will change their lives forever.
First in the series is Birds.
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Romantic Peter Andre symbolises his love for pregnant girlfriend Emily with two white doves from TWDC in the final episode of his fly-on-the-wall show.
With Christmas just around the corner Peter Andre is preparing for life beyond ITV2, with long-running fly-on-the-wall show 'My Life' drawing to a close. In a final, festive episode viewers will see the Australian star symbolise his feelings for pregnant girlfriend Emily MacDonagh by offering her two white doves, which they release in the back garden of their West Sussex home.
The couple are filmed as they warmly embrace before taking the two symbolic birds from a white basket supplied by TWDC secured with a pink ribbon.
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Midas Extra archive: April
By Joanne Hart for The Mail on Sunday
Updated: 07:00 EST, 21 April 2008
Financial Mail on Sunday's respected share-tipping column, Midas, has been running Midweek Midas Extra since January 2008. It is available to readers who sign up (only an email required) and is sent out every Wednesday. It also contains a trading report from Graeme Dickson, including a summary of the crucial economic figures that might move shares in the next week ahead and tips on strategies...
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Midweek Midas Extra: 16th April 2008
The stock market is not terribly welcoming these days. Economic statistics suggest that conditions are becoming tougher, City analysts are jittery and there is particular concern about the health of the banking industry. Every time it seems as if the mood is lightening, a fresh bout of bad news emerges that makes the markets pause for breath. And even if the news itself is benign or neutral, brokers and professional investors are in such a nervous frame of mind that they continually speculate about potential problems that could affect share prices.
Nonetheless, the situation is not entirely gloomy. Many stocks now appear to offer excellent value, especially to investors who are prepared to be a little bit patient. In addition, some companies actually stand to benefit from the current environment.
One such stock is Autonomy Corporation, the brain child of boffin-turned-businessman, Mike Lynch. Lynch was a Cambridge graduate who managed to create a £2bn company based on his PhD thesis. Lynch is a pioneer in the so-called meaning based computing movement. Essentially, this means Autonomy makes software that can search intelligently through computers looking for emails, documents and other pieces of information.
The software is used by more than 17,000 companies and organisations worldwide, ranging from Coca Cola to Lloyds TSB and from Shell to the US Department of Homeland Security.
Analysts predict that Autonomy should see even more business coming its way, following the sub-prime fiasco in the US. Under recently-passed legislation in America, any individual or organisation involved in legal proceedings has to file all the information relevant to their suit within 99 days. In many cases, this can be a very tall order indeed, as companies try to sift through thousands of documents looking for those which might be relevant to their case.
The sub-prime mortgage situation should prompt a flurry of lawsuits in the States as people sue banks and financial advisers for selling them the wrong products at the wrong time. These organisations need the sort of software produced by Autonomy to make sure they have all the facts at their fingertips within the 99-day deadline.
The company already has plenty of experience of the banking industry and helped French bank Société Générale to discover what rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel was really up to when he was accused of losing the company more than £3bn earlier this year.
Autonomy also works for a number of governments, helping them with security issues - an area that is clearly becoming more and more important.
Autonomy reports in dollars even though it is run by British management and based in the UK. Last year, it delivered profits of $113m and analysts expect profits of more than $180m this year, rising to around $235m in 2009.
Midas verdict: Autonomy floated in 1998 and became a FTSE 100 company before the dot com bubble burst and its share price sank. But the stock has recovered since then and now trades at 948p. Brokers believe it is worth over £11. Buy.
News archive and share tips for Autonomy
Intercytex
Epic: ICX
Our second company also has its roots in Cambridge and still has its main offices in the university town. But Intercytex is in a much earlier stage of its development than Autonomy and its business is markedly different.
The company joined AIM in 2006 and it is a biotech group that uses leading technology for surgical and cosmetic purposes.
Investors interested in their looks will be attracted to Intercytex because it has pioneered a way of encouraging the skin to make more collagen. Using discarded foreskins of circumcised American babies, Intercytex creates regenerative products that can be injected into the face to make people look younger and to help acne sufferers. It is also looking at ways of reversing baldness though the procedure is quite lengthy at present.
Of course, the use of foreskins may sound unpleasant but the skin is perfect for this type of technology and very little is needed as Intercytex only uses a tiny number of cells for its products.
The company has a serious medical side too, making products intended to help heal diabetic foot ulcers and severe burns.
Most of Intercytex's work is at or near the final stages of the regulatory process so there is a very good chance that the products it is researching will be on the market within the next few years. The facial rejuvenation product Vavelta is actually being used in the UK already and should become more widely available this year.
Like most early-stage biotech businesses, Intercytex is loss-making. Last year it lost £11m and this year it is expected to lose nearly £13m. It will almost certainly need cash before too long, either from entering into a licensing agreement with a larger and richer partner or by issuing more shares.
The company is at a sensitive stage therefore but the management, led by chief executive Nick Higgins, is considered sensible and relatively prudent so the group is more likely to make it than many of their peers.
The products themselves are also extremely appealing. Women are increasingly keen to look younger and baldness is a problem that men have tried for centuries to overcome. Diabetic foot ulcers are a widespread problem too and any product to help burns sufferers would clearly be welcome.
Midas verdict: This is not a stock for the risk-averse. But for investors willing to have a bit of a punt, paying 38p a share for Intercytex stock could offer an exciting opportunity.
China Food Company
Epic: CFC
In these times of credit crunch and house price slump it is very hard to imagine what industries or companies could provide a real growth opportunity. Should you find a company selling basic staples which people buy regardless of the economy? Or maybe you should look at emerging markets which may keep growing despite a slump in the developed west? Or how about a possible play on the currency markets?
One firm, China Food Company, may provide all three. This AIM-listed group, as its name suggests, manufactures and sells food in China. Its latest results show the business is booming and it looks set to keep going.
The company emerged in its current form in November last year when AIM shell Vestpa bought Full Fortune Holdings for £25m, renaming itself China Food Company.
The group's sales are entirely in China and its has two main lines of business - animal food and condiments, which in China means soy sauce, vinegar and bean paste.
Full year results released last week speak for themselves. Sales were up 30% to £25.3m and profits were up 24% to £7.5m. Earnings per share were 14.45p. At the current share price of 46p the group is valued at £30m or just three times post-tax earnings. By any measure that is a remarkable multiple.
The natural reaction is that there must be a catch, but it is very hard to find one. The group is based in the Shandong region of China in the city of Weifang and its sales are overwhelmingly in that region and City. This may sound a bit parochial, but this is China and the scale is rather different. Weifang is home to some ninem people and Shandong has a total population of close to 100m.
Its sales are split roughly evenly between animal feed products and the condiments business, but it is the later which provides the better profit margins. It also the focus of the company's growth plans and it aims to take advantage of the increasingly affluent population of China and its appetite for ever better quality products.
CFC's retail products, under the brand name Fushi Hao Tai Tai, are sold across the Shandong area and into neighbouring regions through small shops and the big supermarkets including the Wal-Mart and Carrefour outlets. Among its expansion plans are a new 50,000 tonne capacity condiment factory in Shandong. On top of the headline sales and profit growth the group has cash in hand to the tune of £7.3m.
There are some obvious risks in investing in China Food, not least China's political and international issues, highlighted by the recent uproar over Tibet and the Beijing Olympics. No-one can be sure where these troubles may lead and it would be rash to rule out as impossible a reverse of the recent openness between China and the west. This has combined with a general fear about a bubble emerging in some Chinese investments to keep CFC's share price low. But the positives are far greater.
While nothing is recession proof, selling animal feed to Chinese farmers and soy sauce to Chinese shoppers comes pretty close. These are defensive products in a still fast-growing emerging market. Even if the Chinese economy stops growing altogether it is hard to imagine these sectors being very hard hit.
The products are made and sold in China, so there is no risk in terms of international trade or currency for the company's operations. There is however an exposure to currency for UK investors. The company sells in China but reports in pounds sterling and obviously the UK shares are also valued in sterling. But in this respect the balance of risk is in favour of the UK investor. The Chinese currency is rising in value. So far this rise has been strongest against the dollar but it is also rising versus the pound and that is unlikely to change in the near future. That means rising profit from China will be boosted still further when converted into sterling.
Midas verdict: A general nervousness about China appears to have held back shares in China Food Company, but there is no fundamental reason for the group's low valuation. Its profits announced earlier this week are enough to merit a far higher valuation. But it has great prospects for growth and at the same time has many defensive aspects being a company that sells staples in an emerging market. At 47p China Food is a buy for the long term.
D1 Oils
Epic: DOO
Given the green revolution the world is undergoing the recent backlash against biofuels is somewhat unexpected. But the fact is Biofuels have suddenly got a bad name. The recent criticism from some (but not all) environmentalists has been that growing crops which can be turned into fuel is either damaging to the environment because it leads to deforestation or leads to crops being replaced in areas where people need to grow food to eat rather than to help affluent westerners cut their carbon footprint.
Last Sunday's Midas in the Mail on Sunday suggested one example, New Britain Palm Oil, where these criticism are not accurate (Mail on Sunday April 6). But there are others, including biofuels group D1 Oils. Today D1 issued its results which it must be said do not look promising, with a discounted share issue to raise funds and huge pre-tax losses of £46m. But for those with a taste for risk, prepared to stake money they could afford to lose, there may be a nugget of opportunity here.
D1 Oils has based its business plan on Jatropha - a hardy bush which grows naturally in many tropical environments and which produces a nut which in turn bears an oil which is suitable for refining into a fuel. Jatropha and the oil it produces answer both the key recent criticisms of biofuels. As a hardy bush it grows in places where food crops would stand no chance. Much of D1 Oils development in India for example is based on Jatropha being grown on land which until recently has been utterly barren of productive use.
The peculiar backlash against biofuels in recent months has however led to some despondency about D1 not least from its shareholder and former chairman Karl Watkin who - not to put too fine a point on it - quit in a huff last month claiming that willful ignorance in the market over the potential of Jatropha was damaging the business.
At the same time the group has been hit by refined biofuels being imported to the UK from the US. A trade row is brewing over alleged subsidy of these US products, but the damage has been done and today D1 announced it was pulling out of refining altogether and would focus on its planting and breeding of Jatropha plants aimed at maximising yields.
In this area it has influential and wealthy partners in the shape of BP which last year formed a jatropha planting joint venture with D1. Shares dipped today and currently stand at 36p, down almost three quarters over the last year. Profits are unlikely to emerge for several years. But there may be upsides.
If biofuels are going to work at all then jatropha plants have a very good claim to being one of the most effective products. The share placing won the support of all D1 major investors who clearly have some faith in the long-term prospects.
There have also been suggestions that Watkin may now try to buy D1 and take it private. The recent slump in its price may also attract other energy groups keen to have a foothold in this industry and for whom the market price of £23m may be small change. These are speculative however and no-one should invest solely on the hope of a takeover.
Midas verdict: This is a risky investment. A host of factors not least the vicissitudes of market sentiment may batter D1 shares in the months ahead. Those of a nervous disposition should steer clear. But this may be one to keep an eye on. Only those prepared to risk a loss should buy into D1, but the risk could pay back with considerable rewards if D1 Oils lives up to just some of its potential.
Epic: CHLD
The months of January, February and March are rarely the most pleasant in the year. The weather is cold, the days are short and a heavy grey blanket seems to hang over most of the UK. Economic worries and stock market woes have compounded the pall of gloom this year. Statistics on house prices, consumer spending and debt have been bad and share prices have tumbled. The FTSE 100 index fell 10% in the first quarter of this year and the All Share fell 8% - hardly an auspicious start to 2008.
But the mood seems to have lightened slightly as April kicks in. Some stock market analysts believe we may be at or near the bottom. And that means prices may soon begin to rise again. The signs remain tentative however and great care should still be taken when investing in the UK market. Solid companies with proven track records clearly have an edge, particularly those with products or services that demonstrably make life better for their customers. One such business is Chloride.
The company has been around for more than a hundred years and spent most of that time making batteries. But chief executive Keith Hodgkinson decided to change direction in the 21st century and Chloride has now become a leading provider of something known as secure power.
This is a service that businesses can access when their main supply of power fails. So when the lights go out, Chloride is there.
The company makes special equipment that offers uninterruptible power; it makes state-of-the-art generators and it also makes sure that the kit it provides is regularly serviced and maintained. Customers are the sorts of companies that cannot afford to lose power at the wrong time. These include Microsoft, IBM, the London Underground, BP and Ikea, as well as various government offices and hospitals.
The group has been growing fast over the past few years as power cuts become more prevalent, not just in developing regions such as China, India and Africa but also in the US and Europe. Chloride takes its job extremely seriously and has even set up the Chloride Academy to educate customers and employees about its products and services.
Last month, Hodgkinson said sales for the 12 months to 31 March would be 30% ahead of last year while operating profits is expected to be around 50% ahead. Analysts believe the company will deliver pre-tax profits of more than £30m when its results come out in June, against £21.7m last year.
Chloride also said it has a record order book of £100m and that it is extremely confident about future growth.
Hodgkinson is retiring in July, after 16 years at the helm but an orderly succession plan has been implemented and his replacement will be Tim Cobbold. Cobbold is widely respected and joined Chloride from Smiths Group last summer, since when he has been chief operating officer.
Midas verdict: Chloride shares are trading at 196p. They have weathered the storm better than many companies and deservedly so. The business has good prospects and is well run. Buy for the long term.
Epic: SIT
Our second company is also involved in the world of power - but there the similarity ends. Solar Integrated Technologies (SIT) is based in Los Angeles and only joined AIM four years ago. The company makes highly sophisticated roofs that generate solar energy. The energy is transmitted directly to local energy grids and, in many countries, companies are given significant financial concessions for using these roofs. This makes them an ideal product for businesses that have large warehouses, want to improve their green credentials and make money in the process.
In essence, companies that buy these roofs turn themselves into mini-electricity firms, contributing to the energy pool in their local communities and being paid for doing so. SIT has come a long way in a short time. Two years ago, it was on the brink of collapse but a new management team was brought in, headed by Canadian solar enthusiast Randy MacEwen. Since then, SIT has gone from strength to strength and earlier this week, it announced that revenues had more than doubled from $38.2m to $81.1m for the year to 31 December 20007. The group also said sales this year would rise by up to 100% to between $140m and $160m.
The group is also expected to move into profit in 2008, having ploughed most of its cash into the business over the past few years. SIT is benefiting from the increasing global focus on renewable energy, under which governments are trying to incentivise companies to 'go green'. The group's roofs are used by businesses as diverse as Tesco and Toyota in countries such as Spain, Italy and America. In hot and sunny states of the US, SIT roofs are also being used by car parks, so the cars are shielded while customers park and the car park owners make their sites more profitable.
SIT roofs are not just used in sunny countries however - indeed Germany is a big fan because the government offers generous concessions to companies that generate solar power.
The company is also attractive to customers because it began life as a roofing company so people tend to have faith in its product range.
Midas verdict: SIT is not a share for the cautious. But the solar roofing market is forecast to be worth $30bn by 2011 and this company is a significant player in the sector. SIT combines two very attractive features - it is green and it allows businesses to make money from eco-friendliness. For investors who feel like a punt, SIT could be just the stock to pick. The shares are trading at 95p.
Mail on Sunday Midas Extra share tips: China Food | D1 Oils | Intercytex | Chloride | Solar Intergrated Technologies
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Fundraising for Buzz Rowswell
In December 2015, Buzz Rowswell was born full-term and healthy. But a few days after leaving hospital he fell very ill due to untreated new-born jaundice which resulted in a permanent brain injury.
This type of brain injury is called kernicterus and effects less than 1 in 100,000 children and is classed as a ‘never event’ (as in it shouldn’t happen) in many modern countries, as the professionals have all the necessary means of testing and treating jaundice.
However, the hospital and local community service neglected to take Buzz’s jaundice seriously and our little guy is now left living with the consequences.
Luckily Buzz is a real fighter and after being given a small percentage of survival and beating all the odds he has grown into the most charismatic, brave and loving little guy. But sadly due to his brain injury he has severe cerebral palsy and can’t crawl, walk, talk or sit up unaided... yet!
Buzz also has a rare type of hearing loss called auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD). In addition to this he also suffers with a lot of pain from constant muscle spasms and has an unsafe swallow so has to be fed and given his medications through a peg feeding tube directly into his tummy. Due to all this Buzz has been classed as life limited.
Buzz and his amazing mum Vikki, dad Glenn and big brother Roo work relentlessly every day on a range of therapies including physio, speech & language, occupational therapy, hydrotherapy, rebound therapy and many other activities to help Buzz progress.
But more can be done and we are trying to raise enough money for Buzz to take a series of trips to Panama for life-changing stem cell therapy, something that the NHS will not fund.
This type of stem cell therapy would mean injecting stem cells into Buzz to help repair some of the damaged tissue in the brain. As with any therapy there are no guarantees, but other children with the same brain injury have seen incredible results with one of Buzz’s Kernicterus friends starting to sit independently, say words and most importantly be in a lot less pain.
We just want to give Buzz the best chance at having a happy, healthy and long life and with your help we can.
Thank you on behalf of Buzz. xxx
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