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Google Pixel (128GB) [Grade A] - G-2PW4200
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Pixel is an Android smartphones designed, developed and marketed by Google. It was announced during a press event on October 4, 2016, and serve as the first smartphones in the Google Pixel hardware line, succeeding the Nexus line of smartphones. On October 4, 2017, it was succeeded by the second-generation Pixel 2.
Pixel features a 12.3-megapixel rear-facing camera, which uses an f/2.0 aperture, and a Sony IMX378 sensor with 1.55 μm pixels. The camera uses a digital image stabilization system tied to the phone's gyroscope and motion sensors at a sampling rate of 200 Hz. To improve capture speed, 30 frames are continuously captured per second while the camera is active. When a photo is taken, up to 10 of these frames are composed to form a single image.
Pixel uses an aluminum chassis, with a glass panel on the portion of the rear housing the camera and "Pixel Imprint" fingerprint sensor. The phones have a USB-C connector supporting USB 3.0, for power and data exchange. The phone features a 3.5 mm headphone jack, which received media attention for being a contrast to competing smartphone Apple iPhone 7, which does not feature the port. The Pixel uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 system-on-chip, with 4 GB of RAM. It is offered with either 32 GB or 128 GB of UFS 2.0 internal storage.
The Pixel shipped with Android 7.1 "Nougat", an update to 7.0 that was initially exclusive to the Pixel. Android 7.1 was later released for some existing Nexus devices in December 2016, but certain features remained exclusive to the Pixel.
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The pared-back look and lightweight feel of Balenciaga's bangle is perfect for those who love stacking multiple styles. Made in Italy from silver-tone metal, it's polished for a high-shine finish and has a slightly irregular shape that's similar to the brand's 'Loop' earrings.
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Familial polyposis coli (familial adenomatous polyposis or FAP)
Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a rare condition that can run in families, where hundreds or thousands of small growths called polyps grow in the large bowel
By Dr. David Maxton and Dr Jeff Butterworth, Gastroenterologist
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Intestinal polyps are warty growths that develop on the internal lining of the gut. Colonic or large bowel polyps are the most common, increasing in frequency with age. Colonic polyps are mostly seen in numbers of more than ten after the age of 60. Much effort is put in to identifying and removing colonic polyps as the larger ones may develop into malignant cancers. In a few rare cases, colonic polyps can occur in much larger numbers at a much younger age.
What is Familial adenomatous polyposis (Fap)?
Familial Adenomatous Polyposis is an inherited genetic condition. Colonic polyps develop at a very young age, sometimes starting at only 10. Instead of ten polyps or so, the colon is covered by hundreds, even thousands of polyps by the age of 20. The polyps are called adenomas and can become malignant. Because there are so many polyps, colonic cancer is inevitable between 20 and 50 years and sometimes even younger.
What causes FAP?
FAP is caused by a mutational genetic abnormality in the body's tumour suppressor gene (called the APC gene). As a result, cells of the intestinal wall grow unchecked to produce numerous pre-cancerous polyps.
FAP is caused by an APC (Adenomatous Polyposis Coli) gene defect on Chromosome 5.
Some patients may have a milder variant of FAP:
Attenuated FAP - patients have fewer polyps but often at an older age. The risk of colorectal cancer is determined by the polyp burden and the location. This is believed to be due to a different mutation within the APC gene on Chromosome 5.
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How common is FAP?
FAP affects between 1:10.000 and 1:15,000 people. Men and women are affected equally. However, fewer than 1% of colon cancers are caused by FAP.
How is FAP inherited?
The APC gene on Chromosome 5 that causes most cases of FAP is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. This means that only one abnormal gene out of the two in each cell is needed to produce the full FAP disease. The abnormal gene is usually inherited from the patient's mother or father who would also have FAP. However, about 10-20% of cases of FAP have no affected relatives. In these circumstances, the faulty FAP gene is produced through a spontaneous mutation or change in the chromosome without being inherited.
As a result, most children of FAP sufferers have a 50% chance of inheriting the affected gene. Half of FAP patients' brothers and sisters will also be affected.
What are the symptoms of FAP?
New FAP cases may have the common symptoms of colonic polyps or colorectal cancer. These include rectal bleeding, diarrhoea, a change in bowel habit, abdominal pain and iron deficiency anaemia. Many FAP cases are diagnosed because they have an affected relative and are screened for the condition.
How is FAP Diagnosed?
Endoscopic colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy is the most frequent investigation, directly inspecting the bowel for colonic polyps. Confirmation by genetic testing is possible in 95% of FAP cases. This is important for screening relatives and assessing risk to the patient's children. Referral to a specialist clinical genetics unit is usually undertaken to fully investigate the family tree and assess risk.
What treatment is available for FAP?
Knowing the risk of developing colorectal cancer is almost certain for FAP patients, surgical treatment is inevitable and should be planned for the late teenage years if no malignancy is detected before this. Surgery should be at an age at least 3 years' younger than any affected relative.
The main surgical options for removing colon are:
Total colectomy with stoma formation: the entire colon and rectum is removed, leaving an ileostomy or stoma on the abdominal wall. This is the safest option as the entire colon and rectum is removed. However, a stoma may be difficult for a young person to accept, especially if they have few symptoms.
Total colectomy with ileo-anal pouch: for this option, the entire colon and rectum is removed. However, a pouch or reservoir is formed from the far end of the small bowel and joined to the rectum. Faeces are passed in the normal way, avoiding a stoma however, bowel function is rarely normal afterwards.
Ileo-rectal anastomosis: this operation removes the entire colon but leaves the rectum intact. The small bowel is directly attached to the rectal stump. No stoma is needed and bowel control is improved compared to a pouch. However, the remaining rectum is still at risk of developing polyps or rectal cancer. Close, usually 6-12 monthly, inspection of the rectal remnant is required and often needs to be removed anyway. However, some early years without a stoma may be worthwhile for the quality of life in young patients.
What other conditions occur in FAP?
FAP sufferers have an increased risk of polys in the upper gastrointestinal tract. Duodenal polyps and pancreatic ampullary tumours are often found. If so, careful monitoring will be required by Endoscopy. Other tumours associated with FAP include:-
Desmoid tumours
Thyroid, adrenal and bile duct tumours
Rare liver and brain cancers
Other conditions associated with FAP:-
Osteomas - Non-cancerous bony growths, often found in the jaw
Congenital hypertrophy of retinal pigment epithelium (CHRPE) – an eye condition which does not affect vision
Skin cysts and fibromas
What screening should be undertaken for FAP?
Subjects known to carry the FAP gene should undergo:
Sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy every 1-2 years starting at age 10 – 11
Once polyps are found, 6-monthly or yearly colonoscopy until surgical removal of the colon is planned.
If the rectum is not removed at surgery, 6-12 monthly surveillance of the rectal stump
Duodenal Polyps
Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy at age 25-30 or once duodenal polyps are detected whichever occurs first.
6-12 monthly surveillance of duodenal polyps depending upon the size and nature.
Yearly thyroid ultrasound may be conducted from age 25.
Other lifelong screenings may be appropriate depending upon each individual case and gene mutation. For example, if desmoid tumours are present, regular Ct scanning may be required.
But screening options are constantly evolving over time and will be tailored to each individual case.
Dr. David Maxton Consultant Gastroenterologis at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust and Specialises in Gastrointestinal and Liver services
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Bicyclist struck and killed in Lake Success, Nassau police say
Nassau County police and Lake Success police investigate the scene where a bicyclist was struck and killed on the Long Island Expressway South Service Road. Credit: Jim Staubitser
By Deon J. Hampton deon.hampton@newsday.com @deonjhampton Updated March 17, 2019 6:58 PM
A bicyclist from Great Neck died Sunday when he was struck by a vehicle in Lake Success, Nassau County police said.
David Schlichting, 66, had been traveling east on the Long Island Expressway service road just after 9 a.m. between Exits 33 and 34 near Great Neck South High School on Sunday, police said. While traveling, Schlichting was struck by an unknown driver operating a minivan. The driver did not stop.
Schlichting, who was wearing a helmet, was thrown from his bicycle and suffered severe head trauma.
First responders transported Schlichting to a nearby hospital where medical staff pronounced him dead.
Police are still investigating the incident and want the public's help. Anyone with information regarding the incident can call Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 800-244-8477. All callers will remain anonymous.
By Deon J. Hampton deon.hampton@newsday.com @deonjhampton
Deon J. Hampton joined Newsday in June 2012. He covers Brookhaven Town.
Crime in Nassau and Suffolk, 2006-2017 There were 35,503 violent or property crimes recorded on Long Island in 2017 by the state's Division of Criminal Justice Statistics, a 5.7 percent decrease from 2016. 5 ways to send story tips to Newsday Do you have information that might lead Newsday to an important story, or an investigation? A document that starts us on the trail? Here are five ways for you to send our journalists tips, documents and data with a range of security options.
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The Children’s Place Recalls Approximately 38,000 Children’s Pajamas
Children’s pajamas must meet rigorous federal flammability standards in order to ensure they are as safe as possible. Many clothing items meant for children have been found to violate these standards. When this occurs, often a company will voluntarily recall the offending product. Last month, Klever Kids voluntarily recalled approximately 7,000 pajama sets and nightgowns because the products failed to follow federal flammability standards for sleepwear. This month, The Children’s Place is also recalling about 38,000 children’s pajamas due to a violation of federal flammability standards.
According to the CPSC, “the garments are being recalled because they do not meet the tight-fitting sizing requirements.” Due to not meeting the federal flammability standard for children’s sleepwear, the recalled garments pose a burn hazard to children. To date, no incidents or injuries have been reported.
The recalled cotton pajamas were sold in three different styles. The styles include a pink style with darker pink bunnies and a neck ruffle, a blue and green style with bunnies with eyeglasses and a blue and green style with bunnies and chicks. The pink style was sold in size 9-12 months and the other two sets were sold in sizes 9-12 months, 12-18 months, 18-24 months, 2T and 3T. All of the pajamas include a printed label at the neck with the words “Made with love by PLACE.”
The recalled pajamas were sold at The Children’s Place retail stores and online at www.ChildrensPlace.com. The recalled pajamas were sold from January 2012 through May 2013 for approximately $15. Consumers are instructed to take the pajamas away from children. The Children’s Place will provide a full refund for all returned pajamas. Consumers can contact The Children’s Place at 877-752-2387 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET weekdays.
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“The kiss of the sun for pardon
The song of the birds for mirth
(From "The Lord God Planted a Garden" by Dorothy Frances Gurney (1858-1932) )
The recent National Trust Open House, Pandanus, with beautiful gardens overlooking an awesome St. Peter gully, inspired me to think about the Great Gardens of Barbados – past and present.
Early visitors described Barbados as “one large garden”. The first reference to specific gardens is Schomburgk’s History of Barbados (1848). He described Mr. Piers’s garden at Staple Grove as the finest in the island, and he mentioned Codrington College and Government House.
The Farley Hill gardens became famous in the time of Sir Graham Briggs, who imported exotic plants, including the first Norfolk Pine, and was a great collector of art, antiquarian relics, maps and plants. James Anthony Froude, controversial English historian and editor of Fraser’s Magazine (no relative!) described Farley Hill as “a palace with which Aladdin himself might have been satisfied”. He also waxed warm on the gardens of Government House in his travel book The English in the West Indies (1888). Barbados, unlike Jamaica with several botanical gardens, and St. Vincent, where the Botanical Garden was started in 1765, never developed a botanical garden in early days, but Government House under Lord Seaforth, 200 years ago, was a repository for many exotics, and Froude described the many palms and the cannon ball tree, our famous South American emigrant. The specimen at Government House on the South Western corner of the East lawn is the most magnificent in the island, even bigger than that in the Fountain Gardens.
In the early 1900s, Lady Carter and ladies of the Civic Circle developed several public garden spaces, including the Esplanade and Queen’s Park, which Lady Carter designed, complete with African hut and fountain, which we’re incapable of maintaining! She was the beautiful, young wife of Governor Sir Gilbert Carter (1904 – 1911). Incidentally, for reasons unknown, when they retired here in 1918, he had hyphenated his name, becoming Sir Gilbert Thomas Gilbert-Carter, so she was known throughout her later 25 years as Lady Gilbert-Carter. They purchased adjacent properties, Glenelg and Richmond Lodge, on Government Hill, creating a magnificent Edwardian mansion and great gardens, rivalling Government House down the road! And they chose the name Ilaro – in memory of Nigeria, where he was Governor in the 1890s - a powerful symbol of our African connection, and our perfect Prime Minister’s residence (AND A NATIONAL TRUST OPEN HOUSE THIS WEDNESDAY!)
Over the years ladies of leisure competed with their plantation house gardens, meeting at houses like Villa Nova, Woodland, Ashbury and others. But it wasn’t until the last half century that our modern great gardens were created. Iris Bannochie, (widow of the great Diagnostic Clinic founder Dr. Harry Bayley) created Andromeda Botanical Gardens on family land at Bathsheba, overlooking Atlantis Hotel. It was named after the mythological Greek maiden Andromeda, chained to a rock by the Gods as punishment for her mother’s boasting of her beauty. Iris brought in exotics from everywhere, and her orchids, hibiscus variants and palm collection were world famous. Andromeda is an international Heliconia Centre, and the gigantic Talipot palm, great wonder of the plant world, which flowers once after 50 years and then dies, is now in bloom – DON’T MISS IT!
Our other great gardens are the breath-taking Flower Forest, unique Hunte’s Gardens at Castle Grant, and beautiful Orchid World, in a former quarry at Groves. Welchman Hall Gully provides a tropical rain forest habitat in the collapsed cave above Harrison’s Cave; it’s a perfect place to commune with God.
Beautiful private gardens opened once a year for the Barbados Horticultural Society in January and February include Garden House, Constant; Glendale on Golf Club Road, Fisherpond Huse (Michael Winner’s Global Restaurant winner) and others, especially splendid West Coast villas, while hotels such as Cobblers Cove have the most breath-taking gardens – glimpses of Paradise!
Many of our greatest gardens are beautifully captured in Barbados in Bloom, by David Button & Keith Miller, with splendid colour photos by Derek St. Romaine, UK Garden Photographer of the Year, and the most magnificent, informative captions and text by horticulturist Dr. John Webster. It includes Eusteen’s splendid cottage garden, which reminds us of past pride in roadside gardens. If only we could all take such pride in these fields and hills and wayside plots, Barbados would once more be described as “One large garden”!
And speaking of gardens and flowers, here are some Bouquets of the week: To David Seale, Liz Dean and the amazing Jalon Samuel for the greatest World Cup race imaginable; to Ezra Stuart for reminding us of the greatness of our Hero, Sir Frank Worrell; and to Undine Shorey, for leading the fight to improve real literacy across Barbados. And Brickbats to those morons or selfish people who continue to cross the new double lines at the apex of the Wildey Triangle, holding up traffic behind them.
Professor Fraser is Past President of the Barbados National Trust, and past Dean of Medical Sciences, UWI.
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Things That Matter: Of Pilgrims, Plaques and Patrimony
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Written by Henry Fraser & Ronnie Huges.
Available at all book leading book stores in Barbados.
Treasures of Barbados
Written by Sir George Alleyne and edited by Henry Fraser.
Available at the UWI Bookshop the publishers.
Barbados Chattel Houses
Written by Henry Fraser and Bob Kiss.
Available at all leading book stores.
A-Z of Barbados Heritage
Written by Sean Carrington, Henry Fraser, John Gilmore and Addington Forde.
Available at Days Bookstore Barbados and Amazon.com
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PROMIS@Service has entered in alliance with, and in solidarity to the “Millennia2025 Solidarity-Women” action developed by the Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation (PUF), sharing the WePROMIS® eMentoring platform to support and advise women in precarious situations among others, through eSkills. The Millennia2015 community counts 1.505 contributors in its Think Tank, 3.827 members and 10.299 contacts in 133 countries or regions in February 2014. Key values of the Millennia2015 “An action plan for women’s empowerment” (www.millennia2015.org), organized by The Destree Institute with the patronage of UNESCO and the United Nations, are the equality between women and men, the respect of rights and diversity, the development of the human capital and the digital solidarity in order to empower women. The Millennia2015 process, built with its international partners, is structured through three phases: “Information transfer”, “Knowledge process” and “Intelligence platforms”. The Millennia2015 foresight research process acts in a view of digital solidarity with those who do not access communications tools and who nevertheless are drivers of changes. With WePROMIS® as eSkill enabler instrument, the alliance between PROMIS@Service and the Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation objective is to achieve these concrete actions and action plans in favor of women and girls in the concerned countries, for their empowerment and for gender equality.
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Bribery in Its Purest Form
Reports on the repeated failure of the UK regulatory authorities over a 10-year period to take action to prevent assets acquired through corrupt means being traded on the London markets.
In September 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC (Och-Ziff), one of the largest hedge funds in the world, with conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which regulates the New York stock exchange, also announced that Och-Ziff had agreed to settle civil charges of violating the FCPA. RAID’s report examines the corrupt transactions in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and suspicious payments in Zimbabwe, as detailed by the SEC and DOJ.
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RAID calls on the US authorities to investigate a number of questionable transactions in Africa by Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, a $41bn US hedge fund listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
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U.S.-China Relations See Potential Thaw, but Risk of Military Crisis Remains
L-R Chinese Minister of National Defense Gen. Wei Fenghe, Chinese Communist Party Office of Foreign Affairs Director Yang Jiechi, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hold a joint news conference at the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., November 9, 2018
Photo by Leah Millis/Reuters
by Timothy R. Heath
Dialogues between senior leaders of the United States and China have raised hopes that tensions over trade may ease. However, deep disagreements on an array of issues, exacerbated by political incentives to avoid compromise, raise a persistent risk of military crisis. Stepping up official communication, building mechanisms to manage crises, and dialing back antagonistic behavior could help minimize the risk of miscalculation and help stabilize ties.
Discussions in the lead up to the G-20 and an anticipated meeting of Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping could hold promise to help reduce bilateral strains over trade. The talks follow a Nov. 9 meeting between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense James Mattis and State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Minister of Defense Wei Fenghe, which similarly aimed to stabilize relations. As welcome as these moves are, however, the talks barely touch deep-seated differences over a growing array of issues.
Poking a persistent sore spot, U.S. bombers passed over the South China Sea in October, just days before Secretary of Defense Mattis met with his Chinese counterpart, Wei Fenghe, on the sidelines of the ASEAN Forum meeting held in Singapore. The meeting followed a stinging speech by Vice President Mike Pence on October 4 that warned of a tougher U.S. approach to China. In late September, the United States approved the sale of $300 million in military equipment to Taiwan, angering Beijing. China has signaled its displeasure with U.S. decisions with actions of its own. In September, Beijing recalled its top admiral from visiting the United States and canceled port calls by U.S. warships.
Disputes between the United States and China over a broader range of issues have compounded and aggravated the military tensions. Resentment over tariffs has grown in China, where many blame the United States for trying to contain their country's rise. Domestic politics has added new irritants as well. China's widespread crackdowns on Christian and Muslim believers has drawn broad condemnation from Congress and other U.S. officials. Meanwhile, U.S. criticisms of Chinese “influence operations” has spurred denunciations of “bias” in Chinese press. And despite incremental progress in trade talks, deep differences remain.
How did we get here? Both countries have strategic and political reasons for pursuing antagonistic policies. At the strategic level, competition between the two near-peers now entails some actions that advantage one side at the expense of the other. For example, China's determination to become a global technology superpower threatens America's standing as a lead economy. Tensions have intensified accordingly as the U.S. has clamped down on Chinese access to technology and both sides trade accusations. Similarly, Washington's determination to maintain access and influence in Asia—increasingly the center of the global economy—hampers China's plans to lead Eurasia's integration. Tensions have accelerated as the two sides attempt to undermine the credibility of the other as a regional leader. U.S. officials have denounced China's premier Belt and Road Initiative as “debt trap diplomacy” that impoverishes China's partners. Meanwhile, Beijing has bitterly criticized the U.S. vision of a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” and advanced a security policy that calls for ending U.S. military alliances in the region.
Presidents Trump and Xi also face domestic and international political incentives to pursue antagonistic policies. In the United States, a deeply polarized political situation has elevated the imperative of mobilizing one's base of supporters while securing enough “centrist” or undecided votes to prevail in electoral contests. Emphasizing the threat posed by China could help the incumbent party appeal to undecided voters while rallying base voters. Internationally, criticism of Chinese misbehavior allows the United States to cultivate those countries suspicious of Chinese power.
In China, political tension over the anti-corruption purge, stalled reform, and the prospects of slowing growth have raised dissatisfaction with Xi's leadership. Sensitivity to such skepticism may motivate Xi to maintain a hardline stance in disputes with the United States and thereby avoid actions that might reinforce the politically lethal perception of ineffectiveness and failure. Similarly, China's aspiration to appear a leader of the developing world provides an incentive for Beijing to demonstrate its ability to prevail in any dispute with the United States and the West.
Given the depth and breadth of these interweaving drivers, neither Washington nor Beijing is likely to reverse the acrimony anytime soon. Both capitals thus face two dangers: First, the possibility of a crisis arising from miscalculation is increasing. As frustration, distrust, and resentment take root, both sides are likely to view any standoff situation in a zero-sum way. The struggle to gain the upper hand and avoid humiliating outcomes could lead to disastrous miscalculation, especially near hot spots like Taiwan and the South China Sea.
Second, the deepening antagonism also threatens to impair efforts to resolve crises swiftly and efficiently. Officials and commentators may find harsh criticism of the other side politically useful for mobilizing popular support. However, hardening views also undercut any motivation to compromise and reduce tensions in a crisis just when it is needed most. After all, if the other country cannot be trusted and its intentions are inherently dubious, why concede anything?
For now, the odds of escalation in the event of any crisis remain low. Both governments are deeply attuned to their respective public's demand for domestic priorities, and neither has a constituency for war. Reckless actions that might precipitate a military clash and severely damage already uncertain global economic prospects would almost certainly spur intense political opposition in both capitals and around the world.
But because the drivers of bilateral tensions are so deeply rooted, these trends are unlikely to be reversed soon. Washington and China could focus on ways of mitigating the possibility of military crisis while managing their differences. Dialogue between senior officials represents an important step towards stabilizing ties. Similarly, an agreement on guidelines to avoid incidents between military aircraft by the defense chiefs of the ASEAN Forum, including those from the United States and China, could help reduce the risk of miscalculation. But more can be done. Both sides could also strengthen communication mechanisms to manage crisis situations and dial back some of the antagonistic behavior. Taking actions to improve communication and reduce the risk of a crisis may seem exceedingly modest goals for two great powers, but they could be critical to ensuring U.S.-China relations remain steady in increasingly unsteady times.
Timothy R. Heath is a senior international and defense research analyst with the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation.
This commentary originally appeared on Newsweek on November 20, 2018. Commentary gives RAND researchers a platform to convey insights based on their professional expertise and often on their peer-reviewed research and analysis.
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First 3D image of Zika virus could speed vaccine hunt – study
Zika's particular characteristics may be what allows it to attach to certain molecules and infect certain human cells
Published 9:30 AM, April 01, 2016
Updated 9:30 AM, April 01, 2016
3D. This image obtained March 31, 2016 shows a representation of a near-atomic level map of Zika virus showing its structure. Handout photo by Purdue University/Kuhn and Rossmann research groups/AFP
MIAMI, USA – US researchers announced Thursday, March 31 the first 3-dimensional map of Zika, an advance that some hope will speed efforts to develop a vaccine against the mosquito-borne virus which has been linked to birth defects.
The findings in the journal Science describe a virus that is in many ways similar to other in its family of flaviviruses – including dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, and Japanese encephalitis – but also contains some key structural differences.
Namely, a protruding structure on the shell of the virus, known as a glycosylation site, contains some unique characteristics that may be where Zika sets itself apart from others.
"The virus is like a menacing stranger luring an unsuspecting victim with the offer of sweet candy," said a statement from Purdue University, where the research was carried out.
"The human cell gladly reaches out for the treat and then is caught by the virus, which, once attached, may initiate infection of that cell."
All known flavivirus structures differ in the amino acids that surround a glycosylation site in the virus's shell, and Zika's particular characteristics may be what allows it to attach to certain molecules and infect certain human cells.
"If this site functions as it does in dengue and is involved in attachment to human cells, it could be a good spot to target an antiviral compound," said Michael Rossmann, professor of biological sciences at Purdue.
"If this is the case, perhaps an inhibitor could be designed to block this function and keep the virus from attaching to and infecting human cells."
Invading nervous system?
Unlike related flaviviruses, Zika appears to infect the brain of the developing fetus, and scientific evidence to date has strongly suggested a link between Zika infection and the birth defect microcephaly, in which infants are born with unusually small heads.
"Most viruses don't invade the nervous system or the developing fetus due to blood-brain and placental barriers, but the association with improper brain development in fetuses suggest Zika does," said Purdue University researcher Devika Sirohi.
"It is not clear how Zika gains access to these cells and infects them, but these areas of structural difference may be involved," he added.
"These unique areas may be crucial and warrant further investigation."
The model was based on a strain of Zika virus isolated from a patient infected during the French Polynesia epidemic in 2013-2014.
US government scientists have said it will likely take years to make a vaccine against Zika virus, which currently has no treatment or cure.
"The structure of the virus provides a map that shows potential regions of the virus that could be targeted by a therapeutic treatment, used to create an effective vaccine or to improve our ability to diagnose and distinguish Zika infection from that of other related viruses," said lead researcher Richard Kuhn, director of the Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Diseases.
"Determining the structure greatly advances our understanding of Zika – a virus about which little is known. It illuminates the most promising areas for further testing and research to combat infection." – Rappler.com
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Q-Games had a great year full of fun surprises and we are really looking forward to 2020. It’s a new decade too and we’re going to be working just as hard and having just as much fun as we’ve always had, making games that you love.
Frogger in Toy Town, a new release published by Konami Digital Entertainment and developed by Q-Games, launched today on Apple Arcade! Q-Games creative director Baiyon demoed the game at Apple’s September keynote event, which you can watch here.
Have you tried the latest and silliest game in our Sticky Bodies? This bizarre adventure on Android and iOS will take you all across the United Kingdom! You fall from the sky, stick to people and try to land in a giant’s mouth for points!
Sticky Bodies will sure going down as one of the best games in the PixelJunk™ series. Download it now for free!
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All of us at Q-Games wish you the best in the coming year! We have some fun things brewing and are looking forward to showing everyone what we have been working on! Happy New Year!
Shanghai’s WePlay Game Expo 2018 was held on November 3rd ~ 4th, and our very own Sticky Bodies was exhibited at the BitSummit Roadshow booth! We printed game scores “receipts” as gifts to visitors who played Sticky Bodies!
The biggest, best, and most free update is now available for PixelJunk Monsters 2 for Switch and PS4! If you haven’t got it already, now is the time! Not only have we added great camera fixes but also including a Weekly Stage, Random Stage and Photo Mode! An already great game got even better!
Our latest title in the PixelJunk series, Eden Obscura is available on iOS! Eden is free to download so we hope you’ll download the game from the App Store and give it a try. Eden is a hybrid game that combines daily life, camera, and game taking the player into an artistic world to adventure in. Find out more here. Android version will be available on Friday, 6/1!
We’re going to be showing our latest game jam experiment from Q-Games at BitSummit 2018 May 12 and 13! Come by our booth and check it out!
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Read about the Certificate in Trade Mark Law and Practice programme.
Students are required to pass all modules to achieve the qualification. Minimum pass mark is 50%.
All modules are compulsory and award the successful candidate foundation qualification status as trade mark attorneys. The modules and programme are approved for professional exemption purposes by the Intellectual Property Regulation Board (IPReg) and the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (CITMA).
Upon successful completion of the full programme students are awarded the Postgraduate Certificate in Trade Mark Law and Practice.
The initial examination period runs over a 6 week period from late April to mid-June annually, with resits taking place over 2 weeks from late July through to mid-August.
Graduation Date: December annually.
IPLC134 Fundamentals of Law and Professional Ethics (IPReg FL & PE) (IPReg PATs)
This module aims to give students general knowledge of the English legal system in order to understand sources of law, the effects on intellectual property and the interaction between intellectual property and other areas of law.
Students will obtain knowledge of the legal system and legal language and the ability to apply this understanding to various legal questions. In particular, they will gain an overview of legal principles and their application to various situations and problems. Students will acquire skills and experience in the assimilation and analysis of complex material from various sources, and will present the relevant knowledge and understanding through reasoned and supported research papers.
The module will promote research skills as well as deliver practical and commercial skills for further training or research as desired.
IPLC135 Design and Copyright Law (IPReg D&C)
This module offers an overview of the main copyright and design principles established under international, EU and UK law. The main focus is on UK copyright and design. Authorities from other jurisdictions will be used, where relevant, as a means of comparison to afford a cohesive basic knowledge of the subject area.
This module is designed to provide the students with an in-depth knowledge of the legal principles governing the areas of designs and copyright with reference to intellectual property in general but more specifically to the UKIPO and the EUIPO. Students will also obtain practical insights into the particularities of the subject areas and become acquainted with legal as well as practical issues arising in the context of due diligence processes involved.
IPLC136 - Trade Mark Law A (IPReg TMs Part A)
This module is designed to provide the you with an in-depth knowledge of the legal principles governing the registrability of signs as national UK trade marks and European Union Trade Marks (EUTMs). The module will focus on distinguishing between those signs that may constitute subject matter capable of being protected as a registered trade mark and the signs that must be excluded from registration in light of public interest considerations or earlier rights of third parties.
Registration procedures at the UKIPO and the EUIPO will be covered as well. You will also obtain practical insights into the particularities of trade mark commercialization and become acquainted with legal as well as practical issues arising in the context of due diligence processes involving trade marks.
IPLC137 - Trade Mark Law B (IPReg TMs Part B)
This module is designed to provide the students with an in-depth knowledge of the legal principles governing the infringement of registered trade mark rights and the defenses to trade mark infringement suits. Students will also become acquainted with the legal and practical aspects of the procedures related to the revocation and the invalidity of trade mark registrations both from the UKIPO and the EUIPO perspective.
Registration and maintenance will be examined from a comparative perspective by looking at the corresponding rules of selected key jurisdictions. In order to provide students with a complete picture of trade mark protection at an international level, the module covers the major international treaties regulating the protection of trade marks. Students will also have an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the various filing strategies that traders have the option of resorting to when seeking to obtain trade mark protection in foreign markets.
The module examines the protection of unregistered commercial symbols through the law of passing off in the UK and the unfair competition laws of selected jurisdictions.
A wide array of special topics are covered in-depth including parallel imports, the protection of marks with a reputation, trade mark infringement on the Internet, protection of domain names etc.
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Home » Politics » It’s official! Senator Godswill Akpabio loses bid to return to Senate
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It’s official! Senator Godswill Akpabio loses bid to return to Senate
Senator Godswill Akpabio has lost in his bid to return to the Senate chambers to represent Akwa Ibom North Senatorial District.
Akpabio who recently left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC) lost to Christopher Ekpenyong of the PDP.
The lawmaker was also the Senate Minority leader, before his defection, lost in virtually all the local government areas making up the senatorial district.
The Returning Officer, Professor Peter Ogban who announced the result, said Ekpenyong polled a total of 118,215 votes to beat Akpabio of who scored 83,158 votes.
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One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director Michael Curtiz defies standard categorization. Simply put, it is the story of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a world-weary ex-freedom fighter who runs a nightclub in Casablanca during the early part of WWII. Despite pressure from the local authorities, notably the crafty Capt. Renault (Claude Rains), Rick's café has become a haven for refugees looking to purchase illicit letters of transit which will allow them to escape to America. One day, to Rick's great surprise, he is approached by the famed rebel Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) and his wife, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), Rick's true love who deserted him when the Nazis invaded Paris. She still wants Victor to escape to America, but now that she's renewed her love for Rick, she wants to stay behind in Casablanca. "You must do the thinking for both of us," she says to Rick. He does, and his plan brings the story to its satisfyingly logical, if not entirely happy, conclusion.
CAST: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre
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Vancouver Canucks player Tyler Myers, left, celebrates with Brock Boeser, centre, and Elias Pettersson after his goal against the Calgary Flames during first period NHL hockey action in Calgary, Alta., Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Larry MacDougal
Myers scores 2 as Canucks thump Flames 5-2 for fifth straight win
Vancouver climbs into second place in Pacific Division
CALGARY — Tyler Myers scored twice and added an assist — all of the damage inflicted in the first period — as the Vancouver Canucks built up an early 3-0 lead and cruised to a 5-2 victory over the Calgary Flames on Sunday night.
Myers opened the scoring on a power play at 3:29, scoring his second goal of the season on a 55-foot wrist shot that beat a partially screened David Rittich.
Just over three minutes later, Myers struck again from the same distance, again on a wrist shot, only this time it came with nobody in front, his low shot squeaking through the pads of the Flames goalie.
Myers’ two goals equals a career-high, having also done it on four other occasions.
Tanner Pearson with a pair, the second into an empty net, and Jake Virtanen also scored for Vancouver (21-15-4) whose fifth win in a row moves them past Calgary and Arizona into second place in the Pacific Division. The Canucks are even in points with the Coyotes but hold a game in hand.
Rasmus Andersson and Noah Hanifin, in the game’s final minute, scored for Calgary (20-16-5). The Flames are winless in their last four games at home.
Virtanen extended the visitors’ lead to 3-0 at 10:52 of the first period, striking on the man-advantage yet again. The Flames entered the night with the league’s second-best penalty kill but Vancouver’s fourth-best power-play made it 2-for-2 in the early going when his shot deflected in off Travis Hamonic’s stick.
That goal ended the night for Rittich, who was replaced by Cam Talbot after giving up three goals on seven shots. It’s the second time Rittich has been pulled this season. His record falls to 17-9-5. Talbot made 19 saves in relief.
With Jacob Markstrom having started the last nine games including a 49-save performance against Los Angeles on Saturday, rookie Thatcher Demko made his first start since Dec. 7.
Demko finished with 23 stops to improve to 8-4-1.
READ MORE: Markstrom makes 49 saves as Canucks edge Kings 3-2
Calgary finally got on the scoreboard with 1:24 left in the second period.
While the teams were playing 4-on-4, Andersson jumped into the rush and neatly buried a rebound of a Sean Monahan shot to cut the deficit to 3-1.
The Canucks restored their three-goal cushion at 6:14 of the third when Pearson collected the puck in front, spun and sent a shot over Talbot’s shoulder.
Notes: Miikka Kiprusoff, the Flames all-time wins leader, was in attendance. Living in Finland since retiring, he got a standing ovation when he was introduced and there were chants of “Kipper, Kipper”… Calgary LW Sam Bennett was a healthy scratch. He has no points in his last eight games… Canucks have scored 45 first period goals, which leads the NHL. Flames are last with 24.
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Monday 7 May 2018
Pakistani Health Officials Launch Polio Vaccination Drive
A Pakistani health official says a five-day antipolio campaign has been launched in the country to vaccinate millions of children under the age of 5.
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Pakistan’s interior minister is recovering at a hospital in Lahore from a gunshot wound sustained in an attempted assassination authorities believe was linked to a blasphemy controversy.
Pakistani Interior Minister Wounded In Shooting Attack
Pakistani Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was rushed to the hospital in the eastern city of Narowal on May 6 with a gunshot wound. A gunman shot Iqbal in the right arm during a public meeting. His wounds are not considered life-threatening. Police have arrested a suspect in the attack. (Reuters)
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Wounded In Gun Attack
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has been wounded in a gun attack in the central province of Punjab where he was attending a meeting, officials said.
At Least 23 Killed In Mine Disasters In Pakistan
Twenty-three miners were killed and 11 were injured in separate incidents at two coal mines in southwest Pakistan, officials say.
Pakistan Opens New Airport In Capital After Years Of Delays
A new and long-awaited airport has been inaugurated in Pakistan' capital, Islamabad, after years of delays.
Tens of thousands of supporters in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore greeted popular opposition lawmaker Imran Khan as the country’s political parties launched their campaigns for the upcoming national elections.
Suicide Bomber Kills Six In Afghanistan
A suicide bomber in a minivan has attacked an army base in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province, killing four civilians and two soldiers, officials say.
Chinese Projects, Reforms Boost Pakistan's Growth To Fastest In 13 Years
Pakistan's economy is growing by 5.8 percent this fiscal year, the fastest pace since 2005, aided by structural reforms and China's new Silk Road project, the government estimates.
Court Disqualifies Pakistani Foreign Minister From Parliament
A Pakistani court has disqualified Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif from parliament for holding a work permit for the United Arab Emirates.
Body Of Suspected Victim Of Honor Killing Exhumed In Pakistan
Pakistani authorities have exhumed the body of an Italian woman to determine whether she was killed by members of her family for refusing an arranged marriage, officials said on April 25.
Hostility Toward Media No Longer Limited To Authoritarians, Watchdog Warns
The media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is warning that violations of press freedom are no longer the practice of authoritarian regimes and dictatorships.
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rotten > Library > Crime > Corporate Crime > Enron
Enron
This sham corporation, dedicated to Mammon, was headed by a CEO whose close personal friend was President George W Bush. Although Bush denied it in a 2001 interview:
"He was a supporter of Ann Richards in my run in 1994, and she did name him the head of the Governor's Business Council, and I decided to leave him in place just for the sake of continuity. And that's when I first got to know Ken and worked with Ken, and he supported my candidacy."
As a matter of fact, Enron contributed a grand total of $550,000 to Bush over an eight-year period. That made Enron the single largest contributor to Bush's political career.
Enron's ostensible business model involved selling electrical power and energy commodities, and gleaning a percentage from the transactions. Of course, their primary source of income ultimately turned out to be graft.
10 Sep 2000 Enron CEO Ken Lay personally contributes $290,000 to George W Bush's presidential campaign.
3 Jan 2001 Enron CEO Ken Lay is named as a member of President George W Bush's transition team.
17 May 2001 Enron CEO Ken Lay meets with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Milken, and 12 other California Republicans at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. There they share (according to Enron emails) "an insider's conversation of what's going on with the energy situation." Later, during his campaign for governor, Schwarzenegger claims he is unable to remember anything about the meeting, including whether he even met Ken Lay.
30 Jun 2001 The White House admits that political adviser Karl Rove was involved in administration energy policy meetings, while at the same time holding stock in energy companies including Enron.
15 Oct 2001 Enron CEO Ken Lay telephones Commerce Secretary Don Evans.
28 Oct 2001 Enron CEO Ken Lay telephones Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.
29 Oct 2001 Enron CEO Ken Lay telephones Commerce Secretary Don Evans, asking him to dissuade Moody's from downgrading Enron's credit rating.
8 Nov 2001 Arthur Andersen receives a federal subpoena for Enron documents.
2 Dec 2001 Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
3 Dec 2001 Enron lays off 4,000 employees.
22 Jan 2002 A former Enron employee testifies that she saw people shredding documents after the investigation was announced.
23 Jan 2002 Enron CEO Ken Lay resigns as CEO.
25 Jan 2002 The body of former Enron vice chairman John Clifford Baxter is found in his car. His suicide note is released in April.
1 Feb 2002 The Department of Justice instructs the White House to preserve any and all Enron documents.
4 Feb 2002 Ken Lay resigns from Enron's board of directors.
17 Jul 2003 Without admitting any wrongdoing, Enron agrees to pay the state of New Jersey $109,000 to settle claims that the corporation had made 30 illegal state campaign contributions in 1999.
9 Apr 2004 At 4:00 a.m., New York police officers responding to a complaint that an emotionally disturbed person was "pulling on people's clothes and shouting aloud with intent to annoy" found themselves face to face with none other than the former Enron CEO, Jeffrey Skilling. Skilling was standing on the corner of Park Avenue and East 73rd Street: highly intoxicated, uncooperative, and making accusations at passers-by. "You're an FBI agent and you're following me," he was reported as shrieking. He ran up to several patrons in a Manhattan bar and "pulled open" their clothes. Police took Skilling to the New York Presbyterian Hospital for observation.
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Chile withdraws as APEC summit host after weeks of anti-government protests
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Chile has pulled out of hosting the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November and the COP25 climate change summit in December after weeks of anti-government protests.
The APEC summit was due to bring world leaders together in Santiago between November 16-17, while the COP25 climate event was scheduled to take place between December 2-13. But as the nationwide anti-austerity protests, triggered by a transportation fees hike, raged on, President Sebastian Pinera announced on Wednesday that both will be cancelled.
“This has been a very difficult decision, a decision that causes us a lot of pain, because we fully understand the importance of APEC and COP-25 for Chile and for the world,” Pinera said in a statement.
Also on rt.com Protesters in Chile reject reform proposal, face water cannon & tear gas as unrest continues (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
Chile’s move caught the White House by surprise, an official told Reuters, saying that Washington had learned about Pinera’s decision from news reports and was looking for more information.
US President Donald Trump had previously said that ‘Phase One’ of a major trade deal between China and the US could be signed at the APEC summit.
The bitter socio-economic protests in Chile have been accompanied by clashes, riots, and military curfews introduced in the capital of Santiago. Sparked by the planned public transport fare increase, they later grew into a broader movement against the right-wing Pinera’s austerity policies. As of October 26, at least 20 people had been killed, while 6,000 had been arrested.
US officials have accused “foreign actors” – specifically Russia – of stirring up the mass protests and “trying to undermine all Chilean institutions and society.”
In response, Moscow slammed Washington’s “knee-jerk desire” to blame everything on Russia, while not acknowledging the “consequences of imposing neoliberal economic ideas on other countries.”
Also on rt.com Chile awakens from US-induced neoliberal nightmare
“We shouldn’t be surprised if soon US experts see ‘the hand of Moscow’ in the rejection of the Monroe Doctrine by Latin Americans regardless of their domestic political preferences,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, adding that in reality “Russia is interested in a stable Latin America that is politically and economically sustainable.”
Meanwhile, Malaysia is still set to host the APEC summit in 2020 and the organization said it supported Chile in its decision to cancel this year. As for the COP25 forum, the United Nations said it is “currently exploring alternative hosting options.”
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A Big Your Turn: More "People That Mattered"
Pro-War Picture Of The Year
Persons of the Year: The Dark Side
The image TIME used to lead its "Persons of the Year" story has a lot going on.
Let’s start with that globe. Unless there is some geophysical format I don’t know about, the vocabulary of this map is disturbing. Africa, Europe and the Middle East are shown in black with a yellow border that only distinguishing overall land mass. TIME had a clear opportunity to contradict the ignorant tendency to consider Africa in monolithic terms. Instead, the image serves to reinforce a singular, homogeneous stereotype.
The "black Middle East" and "black Europe" also offer some weird associations. One reference it pulls for involves migration or immigration. One inference is that the dark masses, having filled up Africa, are filling up Europe as well. This is a disturbing signifier in light of racial fear engendered in Europe as a result of the recent rioting in France, as well as bombings in London and Spain. The fact that the Middle East, Africa and Europe are all the same dark color discourages one from distinguishing between shades/races/ethnicities of people, or where they come from.
The scale of the world is also curious.
If the globe was a normal size, it would be relatively innocuous.
The fact that it’s unusually large, however, makes its size an issue in
relation to the scale of the human figures. As just one possible
reading, perhaps these larger than life personalities are supposed to
have Africa’s relatively large problems under control?
It seems a good thing to name a collective as "Persons of the Year." But what about the gender factor?
In the shot above, why is the woman set back — and almost
obscured by the problem/globe? Is Melinda back there because she lacks
star power? If anything, the placement suggests that a woman is not
equal to a man if her prominence is somehow a factor of her mate’s
wealth and/or his last name. Throw Bono in there with Microsoft’s rock
star, and Melinda’s weighting becomes tenuous. In the top shot, she
could be the brains behind the Gates foundation; however, she could
also be Bill’s subordinate. The cover raises similar questions.
Melinda is last in line, shortest in stature, and literally fighting
the shadows.
Finally, in spite of the tremendous amount of money Bill Gates
has given to charity, I wonder how much value he recoups from the
investment — not to mention, the publicity and recognition like this.
According to Wikipedia, Gates had committed about a third of
his lifetime income (about $29 billion) to charity. (Gates has a net
worth of approximately $51 billion.) At the same time, his huge
philanthropic investment in Africa allows him to advocate for
international treaties upholding strict intellectual property rights.
Although the issue, in relation to Africa, primarily concerns respect
for drug patents, it also has application to the Gates foundation stock holdings in pharmaceutical companies, the sale of Microsoft technology in Africa, and the protection of Microsoft’s intellectual property in the global marketplace.
(What also bothers me about this shot is how it reinforces the idea
that investment in human welfare has somehow officially become an
extra-governmental responsibility.)
That is just what strikes me initially. I’m sure there is a lot more to mine here.
(image 1 & 2: Gregory Heisler/Time. ”TIME "Persons of the
Year" 2005 Special double issue. December 26, 2005/January 2, 2006 Vol.
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Fires keep firefighters busy
A big rig involved in a collision has caused a fire along Interstate 5 near the Knighton Road offramp.
Fires keep firefighters busy A big rig involved in a collision has caused a fire along Interstate 5 near the Knighton Road offramp. Check out this story on redding.com: http://reddingne.ws/2v6w0uj
Nathan Solis, Record Searchlight Published 8:03 p.m. PT July 25, 2017 | Updated 6:56 a.m. PT July 26, 2017
Smoke rose from inside Sierra Pacific Industries on Tuesday night after reports of a fire that started in a wood chipper.(Photo: Nathan Solis/ Record Searchlight)Buy Photo
Reports of an explosion at Sierra Pacific Industries' lumber yard in Anderson on Tuesday night was due to wood chipper malfunction, according to dispatch reports.
A vegetation fire was reported soon after and several fire agencies responded to the lumber yard on Riverside Drive. Smoke could be seen billowing from the yard.
Firefighters also responded to two other incidents along Interstate 5 at 8 p.m., around the same time of the explosion and fire at Sierra Pacific Industries.
First alarm responding to vegetation fire at California St and Riverside Dr. Our crews also still helping with fire at SPI-Anderson.
— Gerry Gray (@ggfire343) July 26, 2017
A fire alongside Interstate 5 is burning 18 to 20 acres and is threatening three structures in the area.
The fire was reported shortly after 8 p.m. near the freeway and Knighton Road, after a wreck involving a big rig.
Firefighters on scene reported a moderate rate of spread on the fire and would have it under control, according to scanner communications.
A water tender was on the scene.
Meanwhile, south of Redding, on Riverside Avenue in the southbound lane a fire is reported in a field.
Firefighters are also responding to a fire at Sierra Pacific Industries in Anderson, according to radio dispatch reports.
That followed reports of an explosion and a smoke plume at a chipper. The incident was reported at 7:35 p.m.
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Multiple Entrances
There is this corner bar that has three entrances, one on each street, and one on the corner. A drunk walks into one entrance, and bartender refuses to serve him, telling him he is too drunk.
So, the drunk leaves, stumbles down to the corner where he finds the second entrance. He enters again, and is refused service again. He stares at the bartender, falls back out into the street, turns the corner, and finds the third entrance.
He goes back into the bar, sees the bartender, and stops dead in his tracks.
After studying the bartender for a long moment, he exclaims, "Good grief! Do you own all the bars in town?"
The Less You Drink...
A bloke went into a pub, sat down at the bar and ordered five pots. The barman wondered since he was alone, but served up the five pots. And the bloke downed them all... one, two, three, four, five.
As he finished the last one, he called to the barman and ordered four more.
The barman served up four pots and the bloke downed them... one, two, three, four. He belched, swayed a little on his stool, but ordered three more. And again he knocked them back... one, two, three.
"Two potsh, mate!" he called.
The barman served him two pots and down they went... one, two.
"One pot, sssir!"
The barman served him one but the bloke just sat there, staring at it, trying to focus. Then he told the barman, "You know, it'sh ssstrange, but the lesssh I drink, the drunker I feel!"
The Buffalo Theory of Beer
One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff Clavin was explaining the Buffalo Theory to his buddy Norm. Here's how it went:
"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first.
This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first.
In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.
That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."
Witch Doctor's Powers
A man walks into a bar and says, "Bartender, give me two shots."
Bartender says, "You want them both now or one at a time?"
The guy says," Oh, I want them both now. One's for me and one's for this little guy here," and he pulls a tiny three inch man out of his pocket.
The bartender asks, "He can drink?"
"Oh, sure. He can drink."
So the bartender pours the shots and sure enough, the little guy drinks it all up.
"That's amazing," says the bartender. "What else can he do, can he walk?"
The man flicks a quarter down to the end of the bar and says, "Hey, Jake. Go get that."
The little guy runs down to the end of the bar and picks up the quarter. Then he runs back down and gives it to the man.
The bartender is in total shock. "That's amazing," he says, "what else can he do? Does he talk?"
The man says, "Sure he talks, hey, Jake, tell him about that time we were in Africa and you made fun of that witch doctor's powers!"
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Get away and get outside! Join us at Saratoga Arms this season and explore the great outdoors on one of our favorite nearby hiking trails. Listed in order from easy to difficult, there is something for every activity level and preference.
Easy Hiking Trails
Geyser Creek
Perfect for our guests who prefer a leisurely stroll, this trail offers a beautiful introduction to Saratoga Springs. Enjoy the serene scenery, complete with mineral water creeks and two of Saratoga’s signature springs!
Location: Saratoga Springs Spa State Park
Distance from Saratoga Arms: > 2 miles
Duration of the the hike: less than one hour
This trail can be considered an easy to moderate hike and leads hikers primarily through both old growth and recovering forests. Spruce Mountain is one of twenty-five mountains in the Adirondack State Park that have fire towers atop them.
Location: Corinth
Distance from Saratoga Arms: ~15 minutes north
Length of trail: 2.5 miles
Shelving Rock Falls
This trail packs a good amount of scenery into a short and easy hike. It’s a great option for novice hikers and those who quite literally want to “get their feet wet”. Most of the trail to the falls is fairly flat and wide, following an old carriage road. After only a half mile, you’ll reach the top of the falls, where there is a small pond, and then descend steeply to the base of the falls. This trail continues on to the peaceful shores of Lake George.
Location: Fort Ann
Moderate Hiking Trails
Prospect Mountain
One of the more popular trails, Prospect Mountain offers panoramic views over Lake George Village and the surrounding Adirondack Mountains. Many describe this hike as having a 100-mile view, making it worth the short, but somewhat challenging climb to the top.
Location: Lake George
Hadley Mountain
Hadley Mountain, while fairly short in mileage, does come with challenging climbs and descents. Reaching the summit is well worth the effort, with views of Great Sacandaga Lake, the Hudson River, and the distant mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack High Peaks. Atop the mountain is another fire tower and climbing it provides a complete 360-degree view of the surrounding topography.
Sleeping Beauty Mountain
Considered an old classic, Sleeping Beauty Mountain is located on the quieter eastern shore of Lake George and provides one of the best hiking trails in the Southern Adirondacks. A longer, but gradual climb to the top, this mountain’s summit gives hikers a bird’s-eye view of the expansive greenery of the Lake George Wild Forest. Look out and listen for hawks and peregrine falcons that nest in the cliffs here.
Distance from Saratoga Arms: ~50 mins north
Length of trail: 7 miles
Fifth Peak
Just to the North of Lake George Village in the town of Bolton Landing, a long, thin, and mountainous peninsula juts out several miles into Lake George, separating the main lake from Northwest Bay. The peninsula is aptly known as the Tongue Mountain Range and consists of six summits along its ridge, one of which is Fifth Peak, a perfect middle-range hike, offering a rewarding activity and spectacular views.
Location: Bolton Landing
Difficult Hiking Trails
Buck Mountain
Buck Mountain is a quintessential Adirondack hike and is one of the more popular trailheads so it can get busy on the weekends. A fairly difficult hike, it has an ascent of 2,000 feet and a total elevation change of 4,000 feet! As you might guess, the views are worth the grueling climb. Look forward to vistas spanning from down the lake and the village to north past the Narrows, a cluster of state-run camping and picnicking islands where the lake reaches its narrowest point.
Crane Mountain
At an elevation of 3,254 feet, Crane Mountain is the tallest of our top 10. The shortest route to the summit is 1.4 miles with an ascent of about 1,150 feet, making for a steep, thigh-burning climb. The trail even includes climbing ladders, in case you wanted more adventure. Enjoy a picnic at the top as you take in the views and be sure to stop at the Crane Mountain Pond on your way down.
Location: Warrensburg
Distance from Saratoga Arms: ~ 55 mins north
Cat & Thomas Mountains
One of the newest additions to the Adirondack Forest Preserve is the Cat and Thomas Mountains in the town of Bolton. It provides some of the best views on the western side of Lake George and also protects Finkle Brook, one of the lake’s largest tributaries. It is also the longest and one of the most difficult treks in our series of hikes. Take advantage of the resting points before the ascent steepens.
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34 things to do when starting university
by Tom Allingham in Freshers, Sixth form & college
Updated 1 August 2019
Starting uni is daunting – but follow our list of things to do when you arrive and you'll make the transition without a hitch.
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Amid all the hype surrounding freshers', it's easy to forget that there's actually quite a bit to do when you get to uni (that doesn't involve drinking).
Aside from surviving freshers' week, you'll want to get organised and settled in as quickly as possible. After all, this place will be your home for the next three years (or more!).
So to help you make the most of your university experience, follow our checklist of important things to do when starting uni! 🚀
Before you go to university checklist
Open a student bank account
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You'll need a bank account to get your Student Finance, not to mention that the student-only 0% interest overdrafts are a lifeline.
Head to our comparison of the best student bank accounts and see what other benefits you could land (hint: free railcards, giftcards and cash).
Pack everything you need
You'll kick yourself if you leave any essentials at home, but don't bring useless stuff you'll never need (that's one of the biggest fresher mistakes).
Use our checklist of what to take to university and you won't go wrong!
Know where you'll be living
Confirm your uni accommodation and do some research on the surrounding area so you're familiar with it on arrival.
If you're driving, it's also a wise move to scout out the route and where you can leave your car – you don't want to pick up a parking fine!
Join some Facebook groups
There will almost certainly be Facebook groups for freshers at your uni to get to know each other, typically with specific ones for different courses and uni halls. And even if there aren't, you're always welcome to join our Facebook deals group!
Get involved with as many groups as you feel apply to you, and you'll soon feel part of the community before you've even arrived.
Download your free money cheat sheet
Get ahead of money worries with our new money cheat sheet - The Student Money Takeaway.
Not only does it feature 55 of our best student money hacks, it comes with a 1-minute budget sheet and quiz to boot. All on just two pages!
Click here to get your free printable PDF before you start uni.
Browse Google Maps and Street View
Before you arrive at university, get a quick feel for the area by taking a spin around Google Street View.
Not only will this help with your bearings when you finally get to uni, you may find some hidden gems or a discount supermarket you would otherwise have missed out on in your early days.
What to do when you get to university
Check the internet is working
University internet has, let's say, a mixed reputation for reliability and infamously complicated setups. Get connected early doors to avoid withdrawal symptoms.
Of course, if you're privately renting a house and not living in halls, you'll want to check out our guide to the best student broadband deals.
Add homely touches to your room
You're going to be here for the next nine months, so it's best to get comfortable.
Hang up some photos (if you don't already have some, here's how to get free prints), lay down a rug or crack open a diffuser – whatever it takes to make your new room feel just like your old room, but better.
If you're in need of a bit of inspiration, then look no further than our guide to cheap ways to decorate your uni room.
Make sure your room is secure
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Think of the door to your room as the front door of your house. You wouldn't live in a house with a broken lock, so check that your uni room is just as secure! Failing to do so could invalidate your student contents insurance.
Oh, and while you're in the habit of protecting your possessions, check out our tips on avoiding being burgled at uni.
Make your bed
There's nothing worse than sleeping on a used mattress without a sheet, so get your bed sorted out as soon as possible.
As an added bonus, it'll make your whole room look a lot more homely and save you having to do it when you rock up at 2am after your first night out with your flatmates.
Locate the bins
Whether it's excess packaging from the move or just dozens of empty bottles from your first night in halls, you'll be needing the bins sooner rather than later.
Find out where they are – both in and outside the flat – to avoid a trash tower emerging in your room.
Of course, the best course of action would be to reduce the amount of waste you're producing in the first place, so use our guide to cutting down on plastic and help save the planet!
Stock up on snacks and cupboard staples
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Although it's undoubtedly one of the best ways to save money, you won't want to spend your freshers' week thinking long and hard about what to cook from scratch.
Instead, fill your kitchen cupboard with food staples to make some quick and delicious meals throughout the week – and the year!
Note down your address
This might sound obvious, but given that you may well need to get a taxi back from a night out pretty soon, you should make a note of your address on your phone.
Plus, it means you'll have it to hand when your mum asks for your address to send over anything you've forgotten. Speaking of which...
Keep your bedroom door open
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Everyone (and we mean everyone) in halls is nervous about making friends at uni, so don't feel like you're the only one.
Other than going into the kitchen or communal area, the best thing you can do is to prop your bedroom door open while you're in there. This way, people can drop in and say hello without the awkwardness of having to knock.
Offer drinks and snacks to your flatmates
They say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach – but if you ask us, it's the way to anyone's heart.
Grab some beers or chocolates, offer them to your flatmates and you'll have friends for life.
Start a group chat
Nothing brings people together like a group chat. You can share memes, rip each other to bits or just let everyone know that you've run out of washing up liquid. Either way, you'll instantly feel closer if you're all in a flat chat together.
P.S. If you love saving money and getting the latest deals before they expire, our daily WhatsApp group is worth joining too.
Get the lowdown on the freshers' fair
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The freshers' fair is your chance to sign up to any and every society you're interested in, as well as bag some amazing discounts, freebies and free food.
Chances are it'll be on in the middle of freshers' week, but find out exactly where and when it is as soon as you can – you won't want to miss it!
Go to a social event
As daunting as it may seem, the best way to make friends at uni is to get yourself out there and meet as many people as possible. So while we'd advise you say yes to any invitations you get, we'd also remind you that you don't have to do anything you're not comfortable with!
Clubbing and nights out aren't for everyone, and that's fine – just push yourself to attend the kinds of events you'd normally go to if you weren't worried about making friends or not knowing anyone.
Complete your registration to get Student Finance
Regardless of when you move to uni, you won't get any Student Finance payments until you've completed your university registration. And the sooner you're registered, the sooner your student bank account balance will be sitting pretty.
If, for whatever reason, your Maintenance Loan payment doesn't come in in time, check out our guide to surviving when your Student Loan is late.
Register with your uni's GP
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In the unfortunate event that you're struck down with anything other than freshers' flu at uni, you'll need to use your university's health services.
The last thing you'll want to do when you're ill is wait to register, so do it early and save yourself the hassle of signing up when you feel least capable of doing so.
Remember that you'll usually also need to visit your GP if you're suffering from mental health problems at uni and want to be referred for therapy. Fingers crossed you'll be ok, but it's always wise to be prepared!
Get an STI test
While you're registering with the GP, sign up for an STI test and grab some contraception.
Both are free when you get them from your doctor, and both are a good idea to do bearing in mind all of the new 'friends' you'll be making at uni.
Don't feel embarrassed or ashamed about getting yourself tested – aside from it being the sensible thing to do, as a doctor working in a university, the chances are your GP will be more than used to being asked for STI tests and condoms!
Print off your lecture schedule
At uni you might not have as many lectures as you did classes at school, but that won't stop you forgetting where you've got to be, and when you've got to be there.
Read our guide to getting cheap printing, print your schedule off and then put it somewhere safe – on your wall, in your wallet, or wherever else!
Start a budget
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We're all about saving money here at Save the Student, and there was no way that we'd do this list without advising you to start a budget.
Don't worry, it doesn't have to be a drag – we've got a guide to budgeting as a student that should make it as easy as pie and leave you with a little more money to spend on freshers' week.
Go to your course inductions
Sure, the induction sessions might not cover any of the content you'll need to use when you're writing an essay, but that doesn't mean they're not worth attending.
Use the induction sessions as an opportunity to suss out your lecturers, ask any burning questions and, perhaps most importantly, be notified of any important changes (like a switch of lecture theatre – that always catches people out!).
Get contents insurance
You might have contents insurance included as part of your tenancy agreement in halls (check your contracts if you're not sure) – if so, skip to the next point.
If not, check out our guide to cheap student contents insurance – you never know when you might need it!
Buy a bus or railcard
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If you think you'll be using public transport even slightly regularly, it's worth your while looking at the cost of a bus or railcard, as it could save you money in the long run.
We've got info on student bus passes, and the 16-25 Railcard (which gets you a third off rail travel) too – keep checking our travel deals section for special offers and discounts on travelling.
Get a TV Licence (or exploit the loophole)
Unless you're only planning to watch tele on a TV provided by the uni in a communal area, you'll need to figure out whether or not you need a TV Licence.
Thing is, despite there being a lot of talk that you need a licence even to watch iPlayer, we've found a TV Licence loophole that means you might not have to pay at all.
Be a tourist for the day
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If Google Streetview just doesn't cut it for you, how about a walking tour of the area? Or an open-top bus tour (if your town has one)?
Whatever you go for, spending a day as a tourist and just having a look around is a great way to get your bearings and find your new favourite bar.
Check out the local supermarkets
If you do decide to venture out on foot, head to the local supermarkets.
Figure out which shops have the best prices and the biggest selection, and keep our supermarket money saving tips in mind. And if you're feeling super productive, you could even do your first big shop at the same time!
Scout out the library
The longer you're at uni, the more time you'll spend doing last-minute revision in the library – but that's no reason not to familiarise yourself with it as a fresher.
Drop by during your first couple of days to establish where it is, whether it's got the books on your reading list (if not, here's how to get cheap textbooks) and whether it's the kind of place where you can work towards getting a first.
Visit the university's gym
Trust us when we say that you'll probably never get the chance to have a cheaper gym membership than when you're a student.
So if fitness is your thing, check it out and consider whether it's worth signing up – and if not, look for gyms in your local area offering a student discount.
If all your options are still a bit pricey, worry not – we've got a list of cheap ways to stay fit without the gym.
Find the laundry facilities
Even if you don't know how to use a washing machine, or intend to take your dirty clothes home to your parents every few weeks, it's at least worth finding out where the laundry facilities are.
That way, when you're ready to use them, you'll know where to go and how much money you'll be spending.
Look at Foursquare and TripAdvisor
We're guessing that you already had a look at what there was to do in the local area before you chose your uni. Nonetheless, TripAdvisor and Foursquare are great for discovering hidden gems that only the locals know about.
Failing that, we've got a list of fun things to do for under £20 – who knew you could do an escape room or go go-karting with that budget?!
Look for job openings
Unless you've managed to bag yourself a hefty bursary or grant, the chances are you'll need to consider paid work to cover your living costs.
Use our part-time job search to get ahead of the competition in your town, or use this list of the best paid part-time jobs and aim for work in these industries.
Head over to our guide to surviving your time at uni – from money to food, and everything in between, it'll get you through the three years in one piece.
This is what you SHOULD do, but what about the things you SHOULDN'T do? Check out our list of the mistakes every fresher makes and see how many you can avoid!
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Tiny cameras show food challenges of plunge diving boobies
The masked booby faces an increasingly moveable feast as its ocean prey swims randomly from one spot to the next, making it vulnerable to overfishing and habitat destruction, a University of Sydney led project has revealed. A field-based study of 27 breeding pairs found on average the plunge-diving booby birds were flying 50 kilometres to find adequate fish and squid supplies for their diets. The full results of the project have been published this week in New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research The international research team, which included vet scientists, coastal-marine researchers and electrical and information engineers, camera-tagged and monitored a group of female and male birds for several weeks on Lord Howe Island.
Journal/conference: New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
Organisation/s: The University of Sydney
The masked booby faces an increasingly moveable feast as its ocean prey swims randomly from one spot to the next, making it vulnerable to overfishing and habitat destruction, a University of Sydney led project has revealed.
A field-based study of 27 breeding pairs found on average the plunge-diving booby birds were flying 50 kilometres to find adequate fish and squid supplies for their diets. The full results of the project have been published this week in New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
The international research team, which included vet scientists, coastal-marine researchers and electrical and information engineers, camera-tagged and monitored a group of female and male birds for several weeks on Lord Howe Island.
Study leader Dr Gabriel Machovsky-Capuska, a nutritional ecologist from the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre and Faculty of Veterinary Science, said the team combined bio-logging technology with nutritional analysis to provide first-of-their-kind details on the amount of nutrients consumed by masked boobies after each of their hunting and gathering trips.
“We discovered the increasingly long distances flown by these birds caused them to burn more calories than they were consuming. Additional studies would help us understand whether changes in the nutrient balance will render them unable to make the long journeys.
“It’s as if you’re trying to go shopping for groceries, but the supermarket is on a rail track that continuously moves around the city and is never in the same place, ” says Dr Machovsky-Capuska.
An important part of the project was to discover what prey masked boobies actually consumed, such as fish and squid, and their differing nutritional value.
Researchers studying the foraging behaviour of wild animals face the significant challenge of undertaking the lengthy observations needed to correctly to interpret mannerisms and food intake.
Miniature cameras developed by engineering researchers measuring approximately the size of three Tim Tams and weighing only 60 grams were attached to the birds’ tail region allowing the researchers to understand whether boobies forage alone or with other marine animals in the ocean.
Video footage showed boobies diving in the company of sunfish, who prey upon zooplankton, as well as flying fish, one of the boobies preferred prey.
The bio-logging technologies refined by the University’s electrical and information engineers assisted the cross-disciplinary study of the boobies to capture 17 hours of footage at a time.
Dr Peter Jones, research engineer, explains: “Bio-logging is the use of miniaturised animal-attached tags for logging and relaying data about an animal’s movements; behaviour and physiology, in this case the booby birds.
“One challenge we overcame was balancing the need for continuous filming over extended periods versus the addition of on-board sensors attached to the boobies to enhance the information collected.
“We used a combination of technologies including GPS data loggers coupled with miniaturised cameras.
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Time to Reassess Real-Time Marketing
When it comes to social media, we've encouraged brands to "join the conversation" and "become more human." But there's a limit. Or there should be.
Tomorrow is the 49th Super Bowl, and in the minds of marketers, it's the anniversary of the Tweet Heard Round the Marketing World - Oreo's "dunk in the dark tweet." And ever since then, everyone's been trying to be Oreo.
Quite frankly, they need to simply to a better job at being themselves.
You know the humanization thing has gone too far when you've taken your product - an inanimate object with no emotions (or even eyes!) and not only named him, but appointed him your social media voice.
To wit: Tostino's own Pete Zarroll. Now, for you football fans, that does not rhyme with Pete Carroll. It's the anthropomorphic version of "pizza roll." Yes, that's right.
Well, this evening - a full 24 hours before the Super Bowl - Totino's managed to post all of their tweets, which were scheduled and clearly meant for the Big Game as part of a "real-time marketing" effort (full screenshot below). And after the entire barrage was posted, the account still hasn't noticed or deleted the tweets.
So either this is the worst case of managing an automated content feed, or we've been played into noticing it and talking about Totino's. Either way, it's a shame. It insults consumers' intelligence and it's insulting to the marketing community.
First of all, brands should not be planning out exactly what they're saying in a commentary like this. The nature of Twitter is that it's reactive and immediate. It's like practicing a standup routine before a party and just showing up and performing it without any regard to anyone else at the party. [Ref. the Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media by Tom Fishburne]
And let's give Totino's credit for being clever and creating a fake crisis the day before the flurry of ads. What did they gain? The adage that "any PR is good PR" is something that likely emanated from the mouth of its ad agency, if that's the case. Frankly, this doesn't do them any favors. It gets people to assume they're clueless about how to run their account.
Best comment I saw came from a Facebook friend:
"well, a day early, their feed is more delicious than their snacks."
Whatever the "strategy" here (and I use the term loosely), in neither case does it make me want to go out and buy their product. Sorry, Pete. You won't be able to scream as a gnash you up and throw you down my gullet.
Call me a humanist.
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This Week in Digital - January 30, 2015
You may have heard the Super Bowl is upon us, AOL: Rise of the Machines, where were you when Facebook went down? Twitter ramps up its product development while Facebook ramps up real-time content and ads, Snapchat and Tumblr launch new features, podcast listening is up, the rise of freelance influencers, a new resource to bolster your marketing analytics mind, 16 things, grappling with authenticity and more, it's This Week in Digital.
A roundup of relevant links affecting our industry.
Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, business, digital communications and marketing in order to keep leaders up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in your job. And now you have the option of subscribing just to this newsletter if you wish.
If you’re on Flipboard, you can get these links by subscribing to the This Week in Digital Magazine.
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Many brands wonder why it is that they don't see results in social media or online communities. This story effectively illustrates why you have to actually participate, not "get your message out" or "get people to talk" for you. It's a story of belonging. (Business Insider)
AOL is reorganizing its sales staff as it feels the effect of programmatic advertising. (re/code)
Also feeling the effects of the market is IBM, which is expected to reorganize amid massive layoffs after machine computing taking second chair to cloud computing. (IT World)
Amazon is getting into enterprise email, as it launches an email service for companies. (The Next Web)
Super Bowl XLIX is upon us, and that means so are the ads. Here's the full roundup of Super Bowl commercials. (Esquire)
And if you're really into Super Bowl ads, Dish TV is featuring Reverse Auto-Hop on its popular Hopper ad skipper. The catch? This one skips the Big Game in favor of only playing commercials. (WSJ CMO Blog)
When asking "who do you trust most?" the answer used to be the media; however, now it seems that more people trust search engines. (Marketing Charts)
Facebook and Instagram went down earlier this week - the victim of a DDoS attack, some say. Facebook denies this (TechCrunch)
Facebook has launched a Super Bowl hub in time for the big game. All content related to the event will be at facebook.com/superbowl. (The Verge)
In addition, Facebook is squarely going after Twitter as it offers real-time ad targeting during the Super Bowl based on what people are talking about. (Reuters)
First they came for YouTube and I said nothing. Then they came for Twitter and I said nothing. Now Facebook is aiming its sights at Yelp and Foursquare as it gives location-specific place tips for iPhone users. (Venture Beat)
Twitter is releasing group direct messaging and 30-second video direct on the platform (Twitter blog)
Snapchat introduced Discover, a way to find content from a variety of editorial teams. We assume that this will include the $750,000 ad buys from brands as well. (Snapchat blog)
Pinterest needs more men - and is willing to filter out the "girlie" stuff to get them. (Venture Beat)
Medium does not to ad deals based on number of impressions; instead, it relies on TTR - total time read. (AdAge)
Could Medium be in for some competition? Tumblr is introducing new features that include the ability to host long-form writing. The question remains whether gif-happy Tumblr users are ready for long-form content. (The Next Web)
The Uber Economy - Is the company destroying full-time work, entrenching us in part-time purgatory, or empowering America's most independent workers? (The Atlantic)
We're bound to see a lot of "Uber for _____" this year; here's one: Roadie, the Uber for shipping, has launched. (TechCrunch)
Remember social media influencers? Well, the collaborative/maker movement is birthing a cadre of influential freelancers whose impact may be more immediate. (Web Strategy)
Americans listen to 21 million hours of podcasts every day. (International Business Times)
Metrics / Measurement / Big Data
Digital analytics can be insanely complicated. But Avinash Kaushik breaks it down into understandable bits. (Occam's Razor)
If you're in the PR industry, have you heard of the Barcelona Principles? Originally drafted in 2010, they're an advancement on previous thinking. And yet PR measurement is still broken - so how to fix it? (PR Daily)
If you're tired of trying to justify the impact of Facebook activity on your bottom line, you'll want to read this: Facebook announced Lift, a feature that helps brands understand the financial impact of their efforts. (Adweek)
Want to go from data zero to marketing hero? Chris Penn's new ebook Marketing Blue Belt is just the thing you need.
You're a brand that's in the midst of embracing a newsroom strategy. But should you build it or buy it? Either way, freelancers are the answer. (Contently)
When You Have Time: Essential Reading / Listening / Watching
Andreessen Horowitz have listed their 16 things that have their attention. Good categories overall - worth a dive into each. (a16z)
Blogging pioneer Andrew Sullivan has decided to stop blogging, citing nearly 15 years of nonstop daily writing and a desire to get his life back. (The Dish)
Two on authenticity: The Authenticity Paradox that looks at how important it is for leaders to understand the power and limitations of authenticity; and Managing Authenticity: The Paradox of Great Leadership is about understanding your strengths and limitations and controlling your emotions at the right time. (Harvard Business Review)
Trademark analyst Scott Galloway takes a look at the waxing and waning of the "four horsemen" of innovation: Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google - and what it means for the future of the marketplace in this 15 minute thought-starter. Of note it how businesses appeal to three things:
Th instinct to survive (head)
The ability to love (heart)
The desire to propagate (libido)
And, just to check if you've read this far, here's the money quote from the video above:
"As you move down the torso, the margins get better." [Click to tweet]
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Statistics on global social and digital scene, frequency of social platform use, a teen's firsthand take on which platforms are essential, Amazon heads to the movies, Snapchat unapologetically charges an obscene fee for ads, Twitter conquers FOMO, Ubernomics is a thing and we should be concerned, why hearing is believing, what to do with all of that big data, how the New York Times is coming along with its digital transformation and more, it's This Week in Digital.
A two-parter on a teenager's view of social media is an interesting look - if only a single data point - into how the networks fare in the eyes of those under 20. tl;dr - Facebook is dead, Instagram is king, they're just as befuddled by Twitter as you, Snapchat is up and coming, Tumblr is great for anonymity, Medium is the preferred blogging platform, Google+ is a ghost town, and YouTube, Vine and Reddit are places where they consume a lot of content. (Medium)
And what would a opinion piece be without criticism from a sociologist? (GigaOm)
A new report indicates that if you want to reach Millenials, reach for Snapchat, with the best breakdown of Snapchat user data and demographics that we've seen yet. (eMarketer)
Related: Snapchat is charging brands $750,000 per ad. Why? Because it can. (Adweek)
Netflix took on original programming, but Amazon is going one further by committing to making 12 motion pictures a year for theatrical release. (Business Insider)
It should be no surprise that more people use multiple social media sites than previously. Here's the latest research on exactly what's popular, the frequency of use, and cross-platform use of social media platforms. (Pew Internet)
One of the most comprehensive updates on the global digital and social industry is out. There are breakdowns by region, country, device, ecommerce, social, digital, time spent, web traffic and much more. (We Are Social)
With an increasing focus on video and on native advertising, you knew it was only a matter of time before Facebook's native video ads became a thing. (eMarketer)
Facebook is clamping down on junk content and has changed its algorithm to show fewer hoaxes. (Facebook)
Yammer now has a significant competitor in Facebook at Work. (re/code)
Is Facebook the new AOL? (The Verge)
If so, what will replace it? (Businesses Grow)
Take that, FOMO! The "While You Were Away" feature is rolling out on Twitter, surfacing tweets that you may have missed on those few moments you take the phone away from your face. (Twitter)
Flipboard is getting into the native ad business with its "Promoted Items." (re/code)
Pinterest has a challenge: with still 71% its user base as female (and 42% of the female Internet population using it), it needs to man up. (WSJ)
Forrester Research says Pinterest needs to get its house in order - particularly around ad targeting - before chasing more ad revenue. (Target Marketing Mag)
The numbers are in for Google+ and they don't look too encouraging: just 9% of Google's 2.2 billion active users. (Business Insider)
It seems counter-intuitive as the world is becoming increasingly mobile, but WhatsApp is now available through a web browser. (WhatsApp)
Not all channels are created the same. Have you considered your multi-channel social media strategy? (SHIFT Communications)
Worth a deep read is this piece on what is being called "Ubernomics." The theory is that Uber and other ride sharing services are not financially sustainable and will erode the entire transportation sector over time. (Bob Sullivan)
To that point: Uber wants to create 50,000 jobs and take 400,000 vehicles off the road in Europe this year. (re/code)
Uber is getting into the logistics business in Hong Kong with Uber Cargo. (TechCrunch)
Uber and Lyft drivers love reading the Rideshare Guy's blog. He's got some of the most consistently good advice about how to get the most out of working for the ridesharing companies. (Wired)
The messaging app Line is getting into ridesharing in Japan to compete with the others. (Venture Beat)
Airbnb wants prettier photos, so it's using scanning technology to enhance them. (Mashable)
Need money for an app? No, there's not an app for that. But there's advice on getting your app crowdfunded. (Crowdfunding Hacks)
Jeremiah Owyang continues to provide updates to his Collaborative Economy spreadsheets. The latest contain funding, industry stats and brand deployments. (Web Strategy)
Reddit is getting into podcasting with Upvoted, a show that delves deeper into the stories that have been the most popular on the link-sharing and discovery site. (Fast Company)
The simplicity of audio is turning out to be a big advantage for those who love telling stories. And some new books are going audio-only. Podcasting is leading audio back to prominence. (New York Times)
We've previously said that big data is like the weather: everyone's talking about it, but no one's doing anything about it. Turns out that extracting real insight and gaining trust are critical - but not easy. A new report explores what to do with all of this big data. (Altimeter Group)
More advanced skills and front line employees mean a bigger impact from big data. (McKinsey)
If you're a communicator, you need to learn Google Analytics. Christopher Penn gets into the whats and whys. (PR News)
Finally realizing that its viewership have jobs, CNBC is no longer using Nielsen to measure out of home viewers. (WSJ)
Legal / HR
The top mistake that even seasoned social media marketers make is one that can be easily overcome. (MarketingProfs)
Mark Zuckerberg promised more sharing and connections. Turns out that it may work against certain people, as Facebook content is now used in over 33% of divorce cases. (The Mirror)
Storytelling isn't - or shouldn't be - a platitude from content marketers. Stories actually change our brains. (Aeon)
It should be no surprise that the Consumer Electronics Show resulted in some far-fetched as well as some practical tech advancements. Well, here are some tech trends that will affect content development. (Contently)
Having trouble with your content marketing efforts? You might not be committed enough. Either you're all-in or you're out. (AdAge)
Uber has many supporters, including a legion of amateur economists that have risen to its defense. However, professional economists see things a little differently. The 6 reasons Ubernomics could be fatal to itself, its customers and mass transit. (Bob Sullivan)
President Obama gave his State of the Union address this week, and the content was seemingly everywhere. David Armano looks at how the White House dominated a fractured modern media landscape. (Medium)
Last year, we analyzed the New York Times digital report in detail. How has the Gray Lady fared since then? A look inside the NY Times' audience development strategy gives us a sense. (Digiday)
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The Lowland (Paperback)
By Jhumpa Lahiri
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“In this epic tale, two brothers close in age but of very different temperaments are inseparable in their younger years in Calcutta. They become more distant as they mature, however, due to the political passions and ideology of the older, more outgoing brother. An ensuing tragedy forces the younger brother to evaluate his strong bond to his brother and to take on responsibilities he never expected. This is a story of decisions and consequences, family ties and separation, deceit and honesty, as well as cultural differences and similarities. Lahiri's exquisite prose is like quicksilver, sometimes shocking and sometimes warm and comforting.”
— Janice Shannon, BookTowne, Manasquan, NJ
Publisher: Maeum Sanchaek
Publication Date: March 30th, 2014
Paperback, Large Print (September 24th, 2013): $28.00
Hardcover (September 24th, 2013): $27.95
Paperback (Chinese) (August 30th, 2014): $44.66
Paperback (Japanese) (August 1st, 2014): $94.50
Pre-Recorded Audio Player (September 24th, 2013): $97.49
All Are Welcome (Hardcover)
By Alexandra Penfold, Suzanne Kaufman (Illustrator)
Bright colorful pictures bursting with a diverse and glorious cast of young students, parents, & teachers framed by the repeated uplifting message of "All Are Welcome Here", this should be a mandatory 1st day of school book. - Maureen
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You are here: Education / Adopt an Ex-Service Organisation
This program is aimed at facilitating relationships between schools and ex-service organisations in order to carry on each Association’s legacy of service to the nation and the memory of their members. The partnership between school and Association can be based on geographical location or historical association. We recommend this program being applied to a particular year level so new students become involved every year to ensure the memory of the ex-service organisation is continued. This program relates very well to the Civics and Citizenship area of the AusVELS curriculum.
What will the Shrine do?
The Shrine will host an introductory meeting where the parties involved will discuss how they will mutually benefit from their partnership. The Shrine will register partnerships on its website and provide updates of exemplary projects between schools and Associations. The onus is then placed on the school and ex-service organisation to continue and nurture the relationship. It is requested that school students attend, participate in and assist to organise their adopted ex-service organisation’s annual commemorative service at the Shrine of Remembrance.
Established Partnerships
Berwick Primary School and HMAS Lismore
Blackburn High School and the Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop Medical Research Foundation
Carey Baptist Grammar School and the Bomber Command Commemorative Association Victoria
Caulfield Grammar School and 4th Australian Field Regiment
Caulfield Primary School and Associations des Anciens Combattants Francais de Victoria
Christ Church Grammar School and 2/14th Field Regiment Association
Corpus Christi School Glenroy and the 22 Squadron
Fountain Gate Secondary College and Korean Veterans Association
Glen Waverley High School and Normandy Veterans Association
Greenhills Primary School and 3 Division Signals Association
Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School and 2/4th Field Regiment
King David School and the Darwin Defenders Association
Kingsbury Primary School and the 2/14th Infantry Battalion Association
Koo Wee Rup Secondary College and the 39th Battalion
Macarthur Street Primary School and the 2/8th Battalion Association
Melbourne High School and AATTV
Methodist Ladies College and WRAAC (Womens Royal Australian Army Corps)
Presbyterian Ladies College and 2/6th Cavalry Commando Regiment Association
Rowville Secondary College and Ex-POWs and Relatives Association
Scotch College and 9th Division Association
St Michael's Grammar School and 14/32nd Battalion Association
St. Bernard’s College and 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion
St. Leonard's College and ATVARA "Special Duties" Squadrons RAAF
Star of the Sea and Corvette Association
Strathmore Secondary College and Descendants of the 14th Battalion
Tallarook Primary School and 2/22 Battalion 'Lark Force' Association
Tecoma Primary School and HMAS Castlemaine Association
Thomas Carr College and the National Malaya and Borneo Veterans Association
Thomas Chirnside Primary School and the Melbourne West Vietnam Veteran’s Association of Australia
Vermont Secondary College and 10th Field Ambulance Association
Wangaratta High School and the 2/24th Battalion
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"There was a lot of blood in the stairwells and then the sound of ammunition hitting metal changed again..."
By Paul McGeough
June 5, 2010 — 3.00am
Mustafa Ahmet, a 33-year-old Londoner, is irreverent as he recollects events. Having completed his ablutions, he joined a big group engaged in morning prayers on the aft deck of the Mavi Marmara as it pushed south in the Mediterranean. But then a cry went up - "They're here! They're here!"
''They'' were Israeli commandos coming alongside the Turkish passenger ferry in their assault craft. But the imam leading the prayers was unmoved. Instead of cutting proceedings short, he seemed to go on forever. As Ahmet observed the commandos' arrival, "it was like a scary movie - their helmets were shiny, the sea was shiny and battleships sat off on either side. But the imam just kept on, holding us in position - it was bonkers."
Israeli commandos are met by angry protesters wielding weapons. Credit:Kate Geraghty
Elsewhere, the ship was being prepared - people were distributing lifejackets and taking up positions on the rails. Others were preparing to throw Israeli sound bombs and tear gas canisters back to where they came from. Groups had been rostered through the night, to sleep or be at the ready, and electric angle-grinders were brought in - to cut steel bars from the lifeboat bays along the main decks.
Despite thoughts of what might lie ahead, there was good humour. Matthias Gardel, a key figure in the Swedish delegation, was getting used to his lifejacket, unaware that even though it was 3am back home, his 12-year-old daughter was out of bed and watching a live-feed video from the ship on the Free Gaza Movement's website. Seeing him in the video, she shot him an email: "Dad, take it off - you look ridiculous." To which he fired back: "It's past your bedtime."
The photographs that got away ... Israeli commandos board the Mavi Marmar. Credit:Kate Geraghty
Ahmet was perplexed. "We were a convoy of peace. But the Israeli choppers overhead, the smoke grenades … all the screaming, all the noise. People were running all ways and there was blood everywhere. But before we could do anything it was all over."
But it was not all over. Two days before the Israeli assault - in which nine activists were killed by Israeli gunfire and up to 30 more wounded - the bullet-headed Bulent Yildirim, head of the Turkish non-government relief agency IHH, which in effect ran the flotilla, did an interview with the Herald aboard the Mavi Marmara.
He explained that Israel could not afford to pay the price of the disaster that he confidently predicted the Jewish state would make in its efforts to intercept the convoy.
Failure would add to the litany - the Gaza war and the Goldstone report; the Hamas assassination in Dubai and world anger over the abuse of the passports of several nations, including Australia. Now there was this high-seas venture on the eve of a meeting between President Barack Obama and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, which was supposed to dilute the bad blood generated by the recent announcement of settlement expansion while the US Vice-President, Joe Biden, was in Israel.
It has been a spectacular week in the Mediterranean, with the Israeli government being the butt of domestic and international criticism for a botched mission against an unarmed, humanitarian convoy. Inevitably, there will be an inquiry - domestic or international; perhaps a mix of the two.
European diplomats in Tel Aviv openly scoffed at the government's claim that the flotilla organisers had ties to al-Qaeda. One told the Herald that if such a claim was the government's best opening shot, then it had a serious credibility problem.
Each side is documenting its case against the other. The flotilla organisers accuse the Netanyahu government of hijacking their vessels in international waters - killing and wounding in the process; of then taking almost 700 humanitarians and peace activists prisoner and forcibly taking them to Israel - and then charging them with illegal entry to the country. There will be hundreds of witnesses.
But, at an inquiry, the organisers will face government allegations that steel bars were used to beat troops; that weapons confiscated from captured commandos may have been used against their comrades.
The threads of an Israeli case, being leaked selectively in the Israeli media, argue that 60 to 100 ''hard-core'' activists had been embedded on the Mavi Marmara. They included Turks, Afghans, Yemenis and an Eritrean, experienced in hand-to-hand fighting.
Yesterday, the Israeli navy claimed three commandos had been dragged unconscious into one of the ship's halls ''for several minutes'' before regaining consciousness and escaping. It was not clear whether any of them were among three commandos who the activists on board the Mavi Marmara have said were beaten, then sheltered and given medical treatment.
However, the flotilla crisis is not just about Israel. The virtual takeover of what was a coalition of groups from a dozen countries by Turkish non-government organisations plays into regional politics.
Long an Israeli ally, Turkey is flexing its muscles regionally, bonding with Syria, Iran, Iraq, Qatar and Hamas - and at the same time awkwardly exposing the Arab world's about-faces on the Palestinian cause and, by its demonstrable actions, almost shaming them to do more.
Tucked in under all this is Washington's role in the region. The rest of the world was quick to criticise Israel in the aftermath of the flotilla fiasco but the Obama White House lamely called for an Israeli inquiry, the kind of response that placates Israel but erodes US credibility in the region.
Some on the ship thought the Israelis did not put enough into their opening shots.
Espen Goffeng, a Norwegian, said: "I looked over the rail and saw the zodiacs. It seemed hopeless for the Israelis - they tried to lock on their grappling hooks but they were hit by the fire hoses and their own projectiles going back to them."
He wondered if the boats had been a decoy to draw passengers to the rails while helicopters were used to land Israeli commandos higher on the ship. But that proved difficult, too, with the first two loads of chopper-borne commandos captured by the activists.
"The first ammunition I heard striking the ship sounded like paint balls,'' Goffeng said. "But some people said there had to be glass in them, because of the wounds they caused. There was a lot of blood in the stairwells and then the sound of the ammunition hitting metal changed again - I decided that was the live ammunition. People were yelling, 'Live ammo! Live ammo!'"
He said people in the television broadcast area on the aft deck were being targeted.
"I helped to carry one of the dead down to the second deck and as I returned a man who had been shot in the leg was being carried down. And when I moved to the press room, one of the men who worked there was dead, with a hole in his forehead and half his head missing.
''Then there was an announcement on the PA system telling us, 'Keep calm; it's over … they have taken the ship and we have lost.'"
Soon after, Israeli soldiers smashed the doors to the press room, the Herald was told, and then called the media workers forward one at a time. "They searched us," said a cameraman who had unpicked the waistband of his underpants sufficiently to create mini-pockets in which he successfully secreted most of his camera's discs - a strip-search revealed just one. ''They took cell phones and hard drives … and anything else that was capable of capturing or storing images.''
On the open decks and in the saloons lower in the ship, conditions were far less pleasant than the press room.
Gardel, the Swede with the fashion-conscious daughter, complained of people being forced to kneel for hours on the open deck area where prayers were held. An Israeli helicopter hovered constantly, its downdraft spraying the prisoners with wind and water, in the circumstances a freezing combination. "Keeping the choppers there seemed to be deliberate, as though they wanted to enfeeble us by holding us in such unpleasant conditions," he said.
People were not allowed to go to the lavatories - they were made to soil their clothes. Gardel was especially horrified by witnessing the experience of a badly wounded man in his late 50s, who the Israeli troops forced to remain on the open deck. "Suddenly, his right eye exploded in a gush of blood - and a blob of something fell out of it."
The Israeli troops had come prepared. The Canadian activist Kevin Neish found a booklet which he believed had been dropped by one of the Israelis - it contained images of the key leaders, including Yildirim and the nerves-of-steel Palestinian woman who headed the Free Gaza Movement, Huwaida Arraf, a 34-year-old lawyer.
On being off-loaded at Ashdod, Arraf was last seen by the Herald being frogmarched away from the detainee processing centre where her activist confreres were put through a chaotic maze of bureaucratic and security checkpoints.
By the time the ship reached Ashdod, the passengers complained that most of their cases and other baggage had been strewn on the inside decks.
There was an infectious camaraderie among the protesters on the flotilla - bound by politics, prayer and song, it was a finishing school for almost 700 new and articulate ambassadors from dozens of countries for the Palestinian cause. And the Netanyahu government has given them a story to tell. As with Mossad's assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai in January, halting the Free Gaza Flotilla was regarded as a tactical success that, in hindsight, appears to have been a strategic disaster. The cost to Israel's international credibility and legitimacy is great.
And these new advocates for Palestine are going home prepared - many of the women prisoners were observed recording detailed accounts of their experience - with timelines and explanatory graphics.
Launching into their spiel back home, they will be better received than they might have been last week because of the tenor of the international trenchant criticism of Israel. The images broadcast around the world, despite Israel's best efforts, dovetailed with the colourful rhetoric of the likes of Anne Jones, a former American diplomat and US Army colonel who cut through efforts by some diplomats to find words with precise legal meanings to describe what Israel had perpetrated. "The Israel Defence Forces acted as pirates in shooting at us and stealing our ships in international waters," she told the Herald. "They kidnapped us and brought us to Israel; they arrested and imprisoned us; they paraded us before cameras in violation of the Geneva Conventions.''
Jerry Campbell awoke at 4am to attend dawn prayers but she had hardly bowed her head before she was dragged off to a nursing station to help treat four gunshot victims. Worse was in store for this naif from Queensland's Gold Coast - "I looked up as I was caring for a wounded Indonesian and saw my husband being carried in." That was Ahmed Luqman Talib, 20, who had been shot in the leg. She cut his blood-soaked clothing away but then followed his instructions to tend to others. "I'm OK," he told her.
She lost count of the number and nationalities of those she tended to - "I saw two men die out there … the floor was covered in blood and the IV units were tied to the ceiling with bandages."
Campbell went to and from her husband, who seemed to be deteriorating. "One man's stomach was opened - his intestines were out and the doctor reached inside and pulled out some bullets, before pushing everything back in and wrapping him up," she said. "I don't know if he survived."
Late on the second day in detention, Israeli officials showed 45-year-old Gigdem Topcuoghe, a Turkish woman, a picture of her dead husband - she became catatonic. At the Ela Prison in Beersheva, she recounted to her fellow inmate, the Herald photographer Kate Geraghty, how during the attack on the Mavi Marmara she had found her husband on the floor. Shot in the forehead, he was bleeding from his mouth and nose.
"I think of first aid - I need to help him. I checked his breathing … he was bleeding faster. I gave him some water and started praying for him - I held him in my arms. He wasn't conscious - I held him tight, but I realised he was gone when he didn't react in any way, but my husband is not dead - he will live with and among us."
Several witnesses have recounted in awe how Topcuoghe accepted condolences briefly - before leaving her husband's body to throw herself into helping the injured.
Later in Israeli detention, the new widow addressed her tearful friends, turning to the state of Israel. Describing the assault on the Mavi Marmara as inhuman, she urged Allah to show the people of Israel the right path, but added: "May they face more cruelty than we have and when this happens we'll be there to help them - and to take humanitarian aid to them, just like centuries back when the Ottoman sultan sent aid and ships to rescue the Jews from Spanish cruelty …"
Brief as it was, time spent inside the Israeli apparatus was revealing. Whenever the flotilla prisoners were processed, security and other workers gathered to gawp - frequently producing mobile phones to shoot happy snaps of themselves in front of the prisoners.
As a big group of men - your correspondent included - waited in Block 5 at the Ela Prison at Beersheva for a bus to Ben Gurion Airport for deportation on Wednesday, a big group of security cadets was wheeled in to stare in wonderment - licking ice-creams as they did - even as a diabetic among the prisoners collapsed.
They were looking at the prisoners, but the prisoners were looking at them and their more senior colleagues who, among themselves, constantly displayed a brotherhood that seemed to cut across formal institutional structures.
Several Europeans were distressed by the clear distinction the Israelis made between their ''white'' and ''brown'' prisoners.
The Norwegian activist Randi Kjos, a woman of some refinement, was genuinely shocked by what she observed. "They treated us with hatred - the old were made to kneel for long periods and women had to sit with their arms crossed. Some of the wounded were naked to the waist … many were in shock.
"Palestinians and Arabs were treated very differently to Europeans or Westerners. Palestinians who asked for anything were belted, pushed around or treated with contempt. People warned me of the hatred I would see - but still, I was shocked."
The Norwegian observed that many of the women prisoners were denied a phone call on the grounds that a functioning telephone ''was broken''' Others were furious on behalf of many Turkish women who were denied a call home because they could not satisfy their guards' demand that they converse in English.
At Ela Prison it quickly became clear that the guards were under strict instructions not to inflict physical violence on the prisoners. In a system that has thrown up a steady stream of human rights reports on abuse, the Arab prisoners quickly realised that here was a rare occasion on which they were almost untouchable. In the circumstances, it was inevitable that the detainees would taunt the guards. "We're all Palestinians," one of the prisoners delighted in telling an officer, over and over; while another guard became visibly upset when one of the prisoners told him, when he already was upset about another matter: "You're not really cut out for this job - you should have been a schoolteacher."
Whenever a prison officer clenched his fist in such exchanges, a colleague would move in and take him away.
But amidst much taunting by prisoners, the refusal to lash out could last only for so long and at the airport a brawl erupted between deportees and their keepers, with several of the activists getting on the planes bruised and banged-up. And as they left a detention system in which some had been subjected to more than half-a-dozen body searches, many were still subject to a humiliating, painfully slow strip-search by smirking airport staff as they quit the country.
At the airport it became clear that the Israeli security forces could keep themselves on a leash only for so long.
As the Israelis continued to hold Yildirim, the head of the Turkish agency, until late into Wednesday night, a group of 15 detainees still being processed through the airport staged a protest when they observed Yildirim being put in a cell - "so the security guys just attacked us", said Mohammed Bounoua, an Algerian who complained that he had been beaten three times during less than 72 hours in Israeli custody.
The ice-cream-licking cadets were seen late in the day at the airport - roughly dragging a deportee down a flight of stairs, after which they then celebrated with high-fives, back-slapping and smiling.
The 10-hour wait on the Ben Gurion tarmac and then the late-night flight to Istanbul were joyous.
Three Turkish aircraft were parked adjacent to Terminal 1 and, as the Israeli authorities processed passengers at snail's pace, each arrival was welcomed onto the aircraft with clapping, cheering, crying. There was a festive, party mood as friends were reunited. There were pensive tears for those waiting for husbands, siblings, friends who had not been seen for days.
After several hours on the tarmac, the pilot announced that the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had insisted that none of the aircraft would leave until all the Turkish activists and the bodies of the dead had been loaded.
There were bursts of song. One in particular was a chant of praise for the Turkish leader and the Damascus-based head of Hamas, Khalid Mishal, the refrain to which was: "Peace and blessings be upon Muhammad."
Sailing south towards Gaza last week, hopping between the boats in the flotilla, I wondered whether anyone in the Israeli establishment would have the smarts and influence to draft a response more substantive than the setting to sea of the Tel Aviv chardonnay set, which was back in the marina before sunset.
What if Israeli ships met the flotilla at the edge of the Gaza exclusion zone and escorted it to Gaza City, then stood back as the locals offloaded its 10,000 tonnes of emergency supplies? Israel could have announced an easing or even an abandonment of the Gaza blockade and instead found other ways to deal with its security concerns.
It would have stuck in Netanyahu's craw for a few days but the boil of a failed policy would have been lanced, and there would be no need for further flotillas to cause bloodletting at sea. Instead, Israel is keeping the blockade and the Prime Minister and his ministers are not sure what sort of inquiry should investigate the flotilla disaster.
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Technological advances are changing the way Muni and its mechanics are able to maintain San Francisco's bus fleet. (Mike Koozmin/S.F. Examiner)
Muni mechanics at crossroads over old, new technology
It’s a fact of San Francisco life — buses break down.
When they do, they roll to one of The City’s bus yards for maintenance. Inside these shops across San Francisco, mechanics put wits and tools to work in repairing Muni’s fleet.
But the toolbox used by mechanics of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is changing, and now the fleet — and its repair crews — are at a crossroads.
Of Muni’s more than 800-bus fleet, 142 are outfitted with technology of the future: Crews quickly diagnose stalled buses by using laptops, and computers alert repair yards, in real time, to the slightest hiccup in any engine of this newer fleet.
The other 600 or so of Muni’s buses are spinning in the past. Though some can use new technology in a limited fashion, most can only be diagnosed the old fashioned way: with the eyes of a trained mechanic.
To take a peek under the hood at two contrasting repair styles, the SFMTA recently led the San Francisco Examiner on a tour of the John M. Woods Motor Coach Center, known as “Woods Division,” in the Dogpatch neighborhood.
Those giving the tour are excited to show off the new tools.
“I started in ’87, and this new stuff is just so cool,” said Tom Curran, SFMTA’s chief mechanical officer.
Curran, Director of Transit John Haley and Woods Division Superintendent Louis Guzzo led the Examiner first through “running repair,” where the repair needs of buses are evaluated.
In a small office nearby sat Assistant Shop Supervisor David Ghiselin. A map of The City glowed on his computer screen, populated by circles representing each of the buses Woods Division oversees.
“You want to find the bus, a coach?” he asked. “I want to find 8611, there it is.”
The other circles disappeared, leaving only Bus 8611, its circle blue — meaning it’s in good working condition. He clicks the bus, and a virtual bus “dashboard” pops up.
The program is called New Flyer Connect, and it only works with buses the SFMTA purchased from manufacturer New Flyer. Woods Division (and the rest of the SFMTA) still houses many older buses built by manufacturers Orion and NeoPlan.
The older buses will be phased out, Haley said, and the New Flyers may comprise all of Muni’s bus fleet by 2018.
For now, only Woods and Flynn divisions use New Flyer Connect.
Ghiselin demonstrated why this could speed up Muni’s service dramatically. After a slight connection hiccup, the virtual “dash” on his computer came to life, and meters showed the New Flyer buses’ speed, RPM, battery, oil pressure, oil temperature, brake, and even its accelerator and clutch.
“There’s 112 buses that we have on this system right now” at Woods Division, Guzzo said. “It’s like OnStar on steroids.”
When the older Orion and NeoPlan buses experience problems on the road, Haley said, mechanics need to diagnose a bus by popping open the hood — or worse, taking it back to the yard for inspection.
The new system prioritizes preventative maintenance. Pointing to his map, Ghiselin said, “If I see a defect, I can call and take it out of service.”
There are other benefits, too. “Now you can plan better,” Haley said. As the system diagnoses problems, Haley said, repair crews can know beforehand what parts they need to load up their trucks with.
The system, however, still requires human expertise to make sense of it all. Ghiselin checks the bus alerts against a spreadsheet next to his keyboard, detailing the number of times a defect has occurred on a bus. There he determines if the problem is serious enough to require intervention.
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Assistant shop supervisor David Ghiselin demonstrates New Flyer Connect. (Mike Koozmin/S.F. Examiner)
If a bus pulls in with a defect, it goes to Running Repair, Guzzo said. To see that in action, we walk past buses that are splayed open like a patient on an operating table. Tires are stacked in rows nearby.
Guzzo leads us to a New Flyer, and automotive mechanic Michael Delos Reyes shows us how he uses tech tools to diagnose a bus.
Reyes pulls down a cabinet-like door behind the driver’s seat. Glowing and blinking electronics peer out, and he plugs a laptop into a socket. “This is all the info for all four corners of the coach,” he said. The system, called E-Stroke, scrolls data about the brakes and axles on his screen.
He pushes up his glasses, smiling as he walks us through an analysis. This bus had an “overstroke” on the brakes, he said, but it isn’t a concern and could’ve been a faulty reading.
“If there were 150 readings, I’d go ‘oh man,’” he said. Luckily, there’s only one.
Reyes is young and tech-savvy, Guzzo said. But not all mechanics take to tech so easily. He assured the Examiner there’s more than enough work to do that doesn’t involve computers. Some of them work in the heavy duty department, where major repairs take place.
“Those type of guys, let’s say they want to change brakes all day,” Guzzo said. “We’re fine with that.”
But ultimately, “All the advancements make the job a little easier, and it helps reliability and helps the citizens of San Francisco get where they need to go.”
Still, the SFMTA’s ability to use those tech advancements for its buses are years away, Haley said. Until then, SFMTA will need mechanics with new skills, and the old.
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Planet Zoo's Arctic Pack brings winter weather, animals, & challenges
Arctic Pack will be Planet Zoo's first DLC and it's slated to deliver a collection of wintery goods for you to play around with in your usual zoo pursuits.
TJ Denzer
Planet Zoo has been out for quite a bit now, allowing players a whole new environment in which to create their ideal animal kingdom (or prison depending on how you look at it). The game has all of the splendor and customization of previous Frontier Development games, and it’s about to get a touch more with a new seasonal DLC, the Arctic Pack.
Frontier Developments announced the Arctic Pack on December 12, 2019 via a blog post on their website. The Arctic Pack DLC will bring two new scenarios, biomes, and challenges to the Planet Zoo experience. Players will take on the snowy Tundra in Norway, as well as the deserts of Mexico, and attempt to overcome new challenges and story missions in both of these new climates. Coming along with the new biomes and story missions are four new animals suited to the arctic region, including the polar bear, reindeer, arctic wolf, and dall sheep, complete with unique needs and temperaments. Included with this are over 200 new buildings and scenery pieces with which to customize your park and its landscape.
Arctic Pack brings new animals, but you can bet there will be some interesting interactions with the new biomes available for existing critters.
The Arctic Pack DLC is slated to land on December 17, 2019 on Steam and will run for around $9.99. Players will need the base copy of Planet Zoo in order to play. This marks Planet Zoo’s first foray into DLC since the game launched. The game is arguably as robust as Planet Coaster was, bringing the good feelings associated with games like Zoo Tycoon back to contemporary times. It’s cool to see Planet Zoo getting some love, though we looked forward to seeing a little more in the desert end of the updates to the game with some new animals and scenery as well. Maybe that will be a Summer update.
If you want to check out more Frontier Developments goodness, you need to see the update to Jurassic World Evolution, which brought original Jurassic Park scenery and dinosaurs to the game.
TJ Denzer is a player with a passion for games that has dominated a lifetime. When he's not handing out beatdowns in the latest fighting games, exploring video game history, or playing through RPGs with his partner, he's searching for new food and drinks in the constant pursuit of good times with good people inside and outside the South Texas area. You can also find him on Twitter @JohnnyChugs.
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Tech Talents is a Key to Success
May 30, 2018 Startups
For the energy sector, using innovations to increase production efficiency is not a new idea. Realizing that electricity is a crucial factor for the country’s development, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) has always looked for technologies and innovations that enhance production efficiency.
The authority is seeking to help startups develop technology that can make energy production more efficient and less costly.
However, EGAT realises the crucial role human resources, or developing new talent, is in helping to build new startups.
Dr Somchai Chokmaviroj, assistant director of EGAT’s Renewable and New Energy Research and Business Development Division, said: “Of course, we are in need of new technological ideas or innovations that enhance our operational efficiency and boost our competitiveness. However, we need to build tech talents first before we think of building startups.”
“We have to find inventor to get the invention.” Dr Somchai noted.
EGAT has joined hands with the National Innovation Agency to help develop startups and tech talents in response to the government’s Thailand 4.0 economic policy that wants to boost the competitiveness of the country.
One of its efforts is by supporting the Startup Thailand 2018 event to learn of new ideas, technology and innovations while also supporting for young people who have great potential to become tech talents.
“Startups understand people’s needs more than large organisations. They are better at initiating ideas that serve consumers’ needs than we are. We can help them expand their ideas, create prototypes to test at market and expand to ASEAN and global markets, not only domestic markets,” Somchai said.
He noted that it’s worth the investment to help startups achieve success, as it brings significant benefits to society.
The goals of EGAT in developing knowledge and ideas from startups cover six areas including:
Innovation that can replace reliance on imports; so Thailand can change from importer to becoming a producer and exporter.
Innovation that can balance the peak load of electricity usage; while the use of solar energy can reduce energy consumption during the daytime, there’s no such alternative for night-time. EGAT is currently overloaded at peak usage times occurring at night, causing a high cost of production.
Ideas to commercialise innovative renewable energy such as hydrogen energy; EGAT believes ideas from the younger generation people can help.
Increase efficiency in controlling electricity production costs; which can result in lower electricity bills for consumers.
Innovations that can solve environmental problems or ways to reduce pollution from power plants.
Innovations that can improve quality of living for communities surrounding power plants and make them live in harmony with each other.
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Startup Thailand
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Magazine ISSUE 24 : TRAVELTECH
Magazine ISSUE 23 : LOCAL STARTUPS
Magazine ISSUE 22 : STARTUP THAILAND 2019
Magazine ISSUE 21 : FOOD TECH
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Startup Thailand Center | National Innovation Agency 73/2 Rama VI Road, Rajdhevee, Bangkok 10400 startup@nia.or.th
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You are here: Home › News › BCSA releases new Historic Steelwork Publication
BCSA releases new Historic Steelwork Publication
on 18th November 2019 in General
With many cast iron, wrought iron and early steel structures still in use today, it is essential that engineers have access to practical information on the types of material, their properties and the section sizes used, should such structures require repairs, alterations or strengthening for a change of use.
Originally published in 1984, BCSA’s Historical Structural Steelwork Handbook has been one of the books to go to for those tasked with inspecting, investigating and assessing historical metallic structures for 35 years.
The intention of this new publication – ‘Historical Structural Iron and Steel Sections – Properties of historical cast iron, wrought iron and steel sections’ – is not to rewrite that document, but to build upon it with additional information.
Written by Dr David Gent it brings together in one easy to read publication information that up to now has only been available through a variety of historical documents that few engineers have access to or are able to locate, and will be invaluable in assisting investigations to determine the:
• probable material (i.e. cast iron, wrought iron or steel)
• technical properties of the different members
• origin of the members
• strength of the material from which the members were made
A PDF download of BCSA’s ‘Historical Structural Iron and Steel Sections’ can be obtained from the publication section of the website priced at £25 +VAT for Non-BCSA members and £18.75 + VAT for BCSA members.
To purchase this publication please click the link below.
Historical Structural Iron and Steel Sections – Properties of historical cast iron, wrought iron and steel sections
Build UK launch new website
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Solskjaer calls on Fred to 'step up' at Man Utd in place of Pogba
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has called on Fred to "step up" at Manchester United in place of Paul Pogba, who faces a considerable lay-off as he recovers from injury.
Pogba has been sidelined with an ankle injury since United's 1-1 draw with Arsenal at Old Trafford at the end of September.
And the latest update on his fitness has not been good news for Solskjaer, who admitted earlier this week: "I don't think we'll see Paul before December. He'll be out a while.
"He needs time to fully recover. Probably it will be December before we can see him."
Ahead of United's visit to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday, Solskjaer has suggested that Fred can fill the void left in the midfield.
Having found himself on the peripheries last season despite his £52 million price tag, Fred has been slightly more involved this term with nine appearances thus far.
Only five have been starts, however, and only three have come in the Premier League, where the Brazilian midfielder is still without a goal or assist for the season.
"Fred will probably take Paul's position for a while now," Solskjaer said. "There's no use talking about [someone] who's not going to be here for a long, long time, because he's not going to come on the pitch and help us until he's fit.
"Paul's been brilliant and he is a creative midfielder that we need, but then it is up to the others to step up."
United face a winnable run of games between now and Pogba's return in December, a tough cup tie against Chelsea notwithstanding.
They face Bournemouth, Brighton, Sheffield United and Aston Villa in the Premier League, along with their home leg against Partizan Belgrade and a trip to Astana in the Europa League.
December could be a brutal month, however, with massive games against Tottenham and Manchester City early on. Given that United are currently seventh in the league with one win from their last five games, Solskjaer cannot afford to drop points in the interim.
United are also currently without Luke Shaw, Nemanja Matic, Axel Tuanzebe, Diogo Dalot and Eric Bailly, though Shaw and Matic should be back in contention before long.
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Van Dijk: Champions League winner
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Will you be booking your tickets?
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Notfall + Rettungsmedizin
Zeitschrift für präklinische und innerklinische Notfallmedizin
Autorenerklärung zu möglichen Interessenkonflikten
Rubrik "Leitthema" | "Übersichten" | "Schwerpunkt"
Rubrik "Originalien"
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Bitte registrieren Sie sich bei der ersten Nutzung des Editorial Managers unter "Register" und wählen Sie einen "Usernamen" und ein "Passwort" für die zukünftige Arbeit in diesem System. Unter "Submit new manuscript" reichen Sie Ihr Manuskript dann zur Veröffentlichung ein.
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The journal Notfall+Rettungsmedizin publishes
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You may find guidelines for these article types in the links below:
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Is TV/ video/ film sound getting worse?
by Tomás Mulcahy » Sat Nov 16, 2019 2:01 pm
It's becoming more common for me to experience muffled dialogue, dialogue that's too quiet, dialogue that's inconsistent, and music and atmos that's mixed too loud- to the detriment of the dialogue.
Is this just me? I kinda think it isn't, because there is still good stuff out there where the sound just works and you can get on with enjoying the story.
I just find it so distracting when the sound goes wrong.
I think most people don't specifically notice the sound, but I believe people switch off when there's too much subconscious effort to hear the actual dialogue.
It's hard to post examples since most of them are on Netflix or RTE (the Irish national broadcaster, they're often quite bad). BBC and Channel 4 are usually perfect, exemplary productions IME.
Here's one produced for A-ha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lho0_9-V-8 it's on their official YT channel. You'd think a music act would be on top of the sound, right? Wrong!
Great doc but music is too loud and dialogue is inconsistent. Nile Rodgers sounds like they ended up using camera sound. Someone felt compelled to put subtitles on the off-camera interviewer's question to Mags, even though it is perfectly audible All done with lavs which probably shows the problem- no sound crew on location!! And why couldn't they source un-mastered (i.e. not squashed to death) audio for the music track?? Then adjust dialogue to match, watch the LUFS meter, job done... that stuff can be automated.
Why the hell is sound so bad?!?!?!??
Tomás Mulcahy
Location: Cork, Ireland.
Music: https://minim.bandcamp.com/
Blog: http://madtheory.com/site/
Re: Is TV/ video/ film sound getting worse?
by MOF » Sat Nov 16, 2019 2:24 pm
In a word ‘budget’, there was a time when a sound recordist was a necessary member of the team but productions would rather have one/two cameramen handling the sound. Also editors do the sound now instead of a dubbing mixer, that’s why a lot of news material has a radio mic’ plus the camera mic’ faded up to give that flanging sound.
by fruitcake » Sat Nov 16, 2019 2:57 pm
Another reason is a shift in the way actors deliver lines. I work in film/tv. I’ve noticed many actors (well known, experienced ones, at that) speak very softly when cameras are rolling. Perhaps they feel it’s more dramatic. Speaking clearly is a lost art. That coupled with the fact that everyone on set has a script and knows what the words should be, don’t get that those without a script have no idea what’s being said.
Watch a movie from several decades ago, they tend to enunciate and project their words better. There’s also less foley and music at the same time as dialogue.
Location: Beautiful Downtown Burbank
Hi MOF.
Good points! Ya, video editors doing sound is not good. That said, I'm training people to be able to do everything on a production- that's driven both by lower budgets and reduced cost of the tools/ tech. Good or bad? Debatable. But that's the way it's going... hence our problem with sound here!
MOF wrote: to give that flanging sound.
RTE do that on the Late Late Show, have done for years and years. Cardioid on (hard) desk plus lav on talent. "Sher dats de way we always dunnit" :protest:
fruitcake wrote: Another reason is a shift in the way actors deliver lines. I work in film/tv. I’ve noticed many actors (well known, experienced ones, at that) speak very softly when cameras are rolling. Perhaps they feel it’s more dramatic. Speaking clearly is a lost art. That coupled with the fact that everyone on set has a script and knows what the words should be, don’t get that those without a script have no idea what’s being said.
Yes!! Very true.
by Ariosto » Sat Nov 16, 2019 7:06 pm
Absolutely right! The young actors, and I notice it particularly with female actors, obviously do not get trained properly these days, and add to that, directors who are pretty useless, and scriptwriters and plots that are ridiculously complicated, and you have a recipe for rubbish, and compelling reasons to use the "off" switch. All the channels including the once great BBC are guilty.
And yes, the use of overly loud sound effects and music also muck up the sound balance.
by Hugh Robjohns » Sat Nov 16, 2019 7:48 pm
I think there a lots of factors in this... The terrible sound quality of the built-in (and usually rear-facing) speakers of most flat-screen tellies certainly doesn't help.
And neither does the fact that most young TV directors seem to think they're aspiring Hollywood directors and approach their film-making with the wrong mindset completely.
And its made worse by the very nature of independent programme making, which often means post-production in film-style dubbing theatres with big screens and surround sound.
And then there's the training... Back in my day, the BBC effectively trained the entire UK industry. It doesn't anymore and hasn't for a long time. It's entirely reliant on universities and specialist colleges, and while a couple are good, I perceive a bias in expectations towards the film industry rather than TV.
by CS70 » Sat Nov 16, 2019 7:57 pm
I think Hugh may have a point about the TV speakers..
I just listened to the YT video on Ah-ah at my studio and didn't find anything really objectionable with the sound (of course I'm used to the Norwegian way of speaking English.. you should try my Italian accent :D ).
It may be that it doesn't translate well tough, I'll give a try on the flat screen when the little one's finished watching Wanda and the Alien..
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by Dan LB » Sat Nov 16, 2019 8:30 pm
Tomás Mulcahy wrote:
Disclaimer: I work on the Late Late Show, not as Sound Supervisor but as PA and monitor engineer in the studio so have a split feed of all the mics that are used on air (except the audience mics). I don't work on it every week but I do the show quite regularly.
The Late Late Show is done with Sennheiser MKE2 lavs on SK6212 digital transmitters, picked up by EM6000 receivers. The presenter and all guests wear these.
This current system has been installed for about a year now.
The previous system was again, high-end Sennheiser but analogue (5000 series using MKE2s).
That system was around 10 to 12 years old when it got replaced.
The presenter's desk mic used to be a Sennheiser MKH8050 (hypercardioid) and was only ever there to use in the event of a failure as the show is broadcast live - I don't think that mic was ever used on air. The desk has been removed for this season so the 'standby' mic is now a Senneiser ME36 miniature shotgun. The guest 'standby' mics are also Sennheiser ME36s and again these are only used if a radio mic dies or becomes unusable due to clothing rustle or what have you. I personally hate the look of these mics on set and don't feel the need for them.
I'm not sure what the 'flanging sound' is that you refer to.
It most certainly is not a desk mic and a lav mic open at the same time on talent. Like I said I don't do the broadcast mix but of the people that do, some are better than others.
I agree in general though about the need for an improvement in the sound mix for many TV and film productions.
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That’s when it’s at its worst i.e. when the talent keeps moving towards the camera you can hear the constantly changing delay between the two mic’s.
The rest of the time it makes outdoor pieces to camera sound like they’re in some kind of acoustic environment because you’re perceiving an early reflection.
I'm training people to be able to do everything on a production- that's driven both by lower budgets and reduced cost of the tools/ tech.
I don’t have anything against multi-tasking so long as there is sufficient training and time to do each task well plus a willingness to be trained.
The ‘jack of all trades, master of none’ is a potential problem. If you’re reluctant to do other jobs you won’t learn the roles you’re not interested in or at least go the extra mile to apply that knowledge.
Some jobs can’t be done properly e.g. sound recording while doing complicated camera work.
A locked-off talking head shot is doable, but focus pulling, constant reframing while monitoring (really listening) and adjusting sound levels at the same time is not.
This isn’t helped by most cameramen using earbuds or low profile open backed headphones, one side is often pushed out of the way so they can get their eye into the rubber eye cup.
Some of the best video editors where I used to work (with industry awards to prove it) started out in the sound department, so it is possible to excel at several roles, time permitting.
by James Perrett » Sat Nov 16, 2019 11:01 pm
Dan LB wrote: I'm not sure what the 'flanging sound' is that you refer to.
I had a quick listen to last night's show to see what the fuss was about - so far I'm just on the first interview and the flanging is slightly noticeable on the host's voice from about 3 minutes onwards. I'm guessing that the host knows how to project on stage so is talking fairly loudly while the young girl he is interviewing has a much quieter voice so her mic is picking up his voice as well. Edited to add: I also notice that the host has two lav mics - could this be the reason for the problem as, now I've reached the Harry Connick Jr section, the problem appears worse on the hosts mic?
I would add that I'm being very picky here - there are plenty of UK TV programmes that have similar issues if you listen to them through a decent sound system as improving this would probably require constantly riding faders with the chance that you would miss something important.
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by Stratman57 » Sat Nov 16, 2019 11:58 pm
The Director/Writer who I work with as a stage manager has said in the past that a lot of the acting schools now seem to be focussing on TV type acting, so they do all seem to speak very quietly, as if they are close mic'd rather than projecting for a live audience. She does a great warm up routine with both professional actors and the kids we do drama projects with, which consists of what she calls different levels, the first is as if you were talking to someone next to you, the next is addressing a small room, the next is a large hall and finally an open air space.
The result is that nobody needs mic'ing up for the spaces our performances take place in.
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by Hugh Robjohns » Sun Nov 17, 2019 12:32 am
Stratman57 wrote: The Director/Writer who I work with as a stage manager has said in the past that a lot of the acting schools now seem to be focussing on TV type acting, so they do all seem to speak very quietly, as if they are close mic'd rather than projecting for a live audience.
Actually, I thinks it's a film-type acting. Actors can mumble and work with low voices to maximise the required mood during the takes, safe in the knowledge that the dialogue will be replaced in post anyway. The sync sound gathered on set is often only ever a guide track.
They then carry that same style over into TV work, not least because the directors like to play at being a big Hollywood directors and think that's the way to do it..., but the budget may well not be sufficient to allow lots of ADR in post, so it all becomes a nightmare recovery job for the sound team.
The point made earlier is also very valid -- all the production staff are intimately familiar with the script, so they 'hear' the right dialogue regardless or whether the actors say it audibly or not.
And I've lost count of the number of times location sound recordists have told me they've raised an issue on set about inaudible dialogue and been overruled. And in a freelance industry there's a limit to how far you can push the point if you want to work tomorrow...
by Stratman57 » Sun Nov 17, 2019 12:53 am
I agree completely Hugh, it's very easy to believe the dialogue is audible when I have the prompt copy in front of me, so I know what I'm expecting to hear, and of course I do.
But I do notice what the OP said in some circumstances, even though I have our TV connected via digital optical out to an AV amp and speakers, so no rubbish TV speakers involved. (Running into front left, centre, right with two rear speakers. My subwoofer didn't like being in storage and the driver surround rotted away). Even with no dynamic range compression to limit the final output level.
by MOF » Sun Nov 17, 2019 2:22 am
I also notice that the host has two lav mics - could this be the reason for the problem as, now I've reached the Harry Connick Jr section, the problem appears worse on the hosts mic?
If they’re both on the same clip then one mic’s there as a spare. If there’s one on each side of a jacket it’s to allow for head turning (personally I prefer to get the mic’s centrally positioned) this is a situation where in theory you could get time domain issues, but since they’re equal distance from the mouth it might not be a problem, I’ve never tried it.
It’s when there’s a large difference in distance between the mic’s and the sound source that you get the comb filtering/flanging effect.
A lot of news reports are done outside and it’s that apparent interior acoustic that I find so annoying. Either just the lapel mic’ should be used or if that sounds too close and un-natural then a loop of ‘clean’ camera mic’ atmos’ should be added, but not the (atmos’) track recorded at the same time as the radio mic’ track.
by Dan LB » Sun Nov 17, 2019 3:39 am
James Perrett wrote: I also notice that the host has two lav mics - could this be the reason for the problem as, now I've reached the Harry Connick Jr section, the problem appears worse on the hosts mic?
Ah sorry, now I understand what you're talking about, yes, it would appear that both the presenter's lav mics were open on the broadcast mix. In studio I tend to ride the faders between those two mics depending on what section of the show we're in and what direction the presenter is facing. A single mic on the presenter's tie would work so much better I feel.
On listening back to some of last night's show on headphones, it appears that the PA was a little on the hot side too which ends up colouring the broadcast mix - my bad :oops: It's a fine balance as the production team like the PA to be fairly punchy. The studio audience was configured differently yesterday too to accommodate the full NSO.
by Tomás Mulcahy » Sun Nov 17, 2019 10:35 am
Dan LB wrote:
James Perrett wrote:
Hi Dan, great to hear from someone on the production! And I'm relieved to hear that I'm not the only one hearing it. And super relieved to see that it's been taken seriously. I know a live broadcast can't be perfect, but I strongly believe that adding phasing or reverb to dialogue makes the audience (subconsciusly) switch off because the brain has to work harder to extract the signal.
Phasing from the PA has been there for years as well, particularly when audience is faded up at the end of a musical performance. What are the audience mics? The BBC way is to use fig 8s overhead with the PA in the null. Works really well, as you'd expect from the Beeb. Maybe the PA is getting on open lavs?
My favourite example of great live TV dialogue/ sound is University Challenge. Teams are on super-cardioid desk mics, desk is acoustically treated and the 3:1 rule is (almost) always adhered to. Presenter has a lav where the bas tilt is deployed to add to the gravitas. Defo fig 8s on audience as well. I think that format is about 50 years old?
by The Bunk » Sun Nov 17, 2019 12:16 pm
Back to the whole "actor" issue, I've recently been watching a lot of old Black and White / B Movie films on the "retro" channels such as Talking Pictures and TCM. In many of them you'll see some legendary actors (Peter Sellers and Richard Attenborough in one film in particular immediately spring to mind) at the start of their careers. In most cases there is no soundtrack, no music or sound effects, certainly no CGI or trickery etc; so the whole film is made by, and depends on, the acting alone. And to me that makes for a much better film than any amount of gumph thrown into the mix. I was watching "Independence Day" last night (I really had nothing else to do!) and it was just so overblown and badly done I couldn't watch any more..
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by Brian M Rose » Sun Nov 17, 2019 1:54 pm
Hugh Robjohns wrote: And I've lost count of the number of times location sound recordists have told me they've raised an issue on set about inaudible dialogue and been overruled. And in a freelance industry there's a limit to how far you can push the point if you want to work tomorrow...
Quite! Time was when it was not only valid, but a requirement of BBC Film Dept to put "SUP" (Shot Under Protest) on the clapper board. Even as a freelance cameraman working for the Beeb I was expected to do this. But back then, the very idea of not having a proper sound crew was unthinkable.
At least working in radio (even if it's local hospital/community radio) you have to get the sound absolutely right.
And yes, those very expensive flat screen televisions. The built-in sound is often indeed quite useless - just bought a Panasonic sound bar to prove the point....
Brian M Rose
by Tomás Mulcahy » Sun Nov 17, 2019 2:49 pm
CS70 wrote: I just listened to the YT video on Ah-ah at my studio and didn't find anything really objectionable with the sound (of course I'm used to the Norwegian way of speaking English.. you should try my Italian accent :D ).
LOL. It was the overly-loud music that was the most objectionable. I'm not using the horrific built in speakers on the TV. Instead I have an original pair of JPW mini monitors with a cheap but good class D amp driving them. Not studio monitors, but they're usually nice and clear with an engaging sound. So maybe it is just me/ my setup.
MOF wrote: I don’t have anything against multi-tasking so long as there is sufficient training and time to do each task well plus a willingness to be trained.
Agreed. We've a few graduates who are top notch and guess what, they get the gigs. So we must be doing something right LOL.
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Dispensing opticians trailblaze a new route to qualification
We talk to former Cert 4 students and now newly-qualified dispensing opticians Ruth Botcherby and Richard Briscoe about their trailblazing route to qualification, and what life is like now working as a DO.
Ruth’s story
Ruth Botcherby FBDO, Specsavers Swaledale
(Right) Ruth and her husband, Trevor
What prompted you to enrol on the Cert 4 course?
The route I took to do Cert 4 was by doing the old optical assistant courses and then, when Cert 3 was made available, I continued on to complete that. I always had in mind that Cert 4 was my next step which happened within weeks of passing my Cert 3. I always wanted to progress in my career so Cert 4 was a natural progression.
How did you find it?
I knew the courses would get harder as I went on but I was determined. The maths worried me at first but, by doing the Cert 4 course, I actually found that the maths side was my strongest side, surprisingly, and unlike at school, I loved all the maths as it was applied to my learning and made sense. I learned that if I put my mind to something I could succeed at it regardless of first impressions.
What made you want to take your dispensing career further?
When I joined Specsavers five years ago my director said in the future there was scope to progress to become a dispensing optician, so right from the start I knew I wanted to progress. It was my goal in my career and I was determined and focussed.
How did you find the transition from Cert 4 to ABDO student?
The transition from Cert 4 to the fast track progression pathway was effortless. Cert 4 really prepares you for the next step. I was fortunate to be in the first pilot group which meant I was able to start the ABDO course at year 2.
I received massive support from my director and supervisor Ross Campbell, my other supervisors through the duration, Kimberley Bewick and Nicola Moss. Also colleagues and fellow students and of course my husband Trevor and family members. Everyone helped and supported and laughed and cried with me when I passed the course to become FBDO.
I have made life-long friends with fellow students and the ABDO lecturers are so helpful. My tutors were also there whenever I needed help with assignments.
What were the main challenges?
It was hard working full time and fitting in my studies, which was an assignment each week. Each day off work was my study day so that I could keep my nights free to spend with my husband. I had to be really strict and dedicated with myself but it paid off in the end.
And rewards?
I can’t express the elation when I opened my final exam results to see I had passed everything. I had doubted myself, as you do, and physically cried with Kim my supervisor when I opened them. I was shaking and crying with happiness. I was on top of the world.
What advice would you offer others considering a similar route?
Go for it! I have never regretted a single minute. Yes it is challenging but the end result is worth it. “Today’s challenge is tomorrow’s result” is an expression I kept saying to myself.
How’s life now that you’re a fully qualified DO?
Very fulfilling. To be able to use your knowledge to help patients and also to advise colleagues is very rewarding. It’s never a dull moment. Being able to prevent problems before they happen, due to the increased knowledge I have, is a great skill that I have gained through the ABDO course. Making your own decisions and standing by them is also satisfying.
I really and truly have never regretted my decision to become a DO. I enjoyed the course so much (despite the stress at times) that I have progressed further and am training to become a contact lens optician through ABDO so I can use my dispensing skills as a DO and contact lens skills as a CLO to help others.
I enjoyed the course so much (despite the stress at times) that I have progressed further and am training to become a contact lens optician. Ruth Botcherby FBDO, Specsavers Swaledale
Richard's story
Richard Briscoe FBDO, Specsavers Carlisle
(Right) Richard with Catriona Molloy
The Cert 4 course was offered to me just before I finished doing Cert 3. It was explained to me that it would give an insight into the type of work involved in the ABDO College course and, on successful completion, I could then join the fast-track course if I wanted to.
It consists mainly of maths and formulae and I have never considered myself to be good at maths but successfully completing it gave me a sense of confidence to forward.
By the time I had finished Cert 4 I had worked for Specsavers for about seven years and about two years in another opticians. I thought that this is quite an interesting job and I have learned a lot along the way, and passing the Cert 4 gave me the confidence to carry on developing my skills and knowledge so I could be of better service and support to patients and my colleagues.
The ABDO College course is more intense than Cert 4 and takes up a lot more time. However I did get plenty of support. I am fortunate enough to work in a large store with plenty of experienced practitioners and I had a primary and secondary supervisor who were both able to help me whenever I needed. In store, I also had access to almost all the books I required from previous students and towards the end of the course my managers gave me time during work to catch up on revision or my portfolio.
At college, I made lots of friends and we had a Facebook group so we could support each other. Also, some of the tutors at college gave us their email address for any questions we have. So there is quite a lot of support available.
What challenges and rewards have you experiences?
I think the main challenge is fitting in study time around your family and social obligations. I found I had to be quite organised to keep on top of things.
One of the most rewarding things, however, about being qualified and registered is when you successfully dispense a patient who has very particular or complicated optical needs. There is a feeling of accomplishment and confidence in your abilities knowing you have had a very positive impact on someone’s quality of life.
I would advise people to have a go at the Cert 4 to see how they find it. That way you can see what kind of work will be required of you without the commitment of doing the full ABDO course.
I would also advise people to be as organised as possible and to enjoy the process. It is difficult and that’s what makes it worthwhile, but you’ll also have some fun along the way.
At first I really felt the weight of the responsibility of being qualified because I knew that I am the only one responsible for what I do, but I eventually relaxed into it. There’s always something for me to do and I also play more of a role now in the training and development of my colleagues.
Cert 4 gave me the confidence to carry on developing my skills and knowledge so I could be of better service and support to patients and my colleagues. Richard Briscoe FBDO, Specsavers Carlisle
Peter O’German and Jamie Price at the ABDO graduation in Canterbury Cathedral
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Vercollone & Connolly Lead Men's Track & Field at URI Sorlien Memorial Invitational
Vercollone won the 800-meter run and ran the lead leg for the first place DMR team. (PHOTO BY SportsPix)
Vercollone wins 800m, Connolly strong in 60m & 200m
KINGSTON, R.I. (January 20, 2018) – The Stonehill College men's track & field team, led by its junior class, turned in several strong performances at the Sorlien Memorial Invitational, hosted by the University of Rhode Island, at Mackal Fieldhouse today.
Junior Stephen Vercollone (Pembroke, Massachusetts/Pembroke) won the 800-meter run in a New England Championships qualifying time of 1:56.06. He led a field of 23 runners, which included four of his teammates. Junior Lucas Taxter (Readville, Massachusetts/Xaverian Brothers) finished fourth in 1:58.23, while classmate Matthew Shaw (Goffstown, New Hampshire/Goffstown) was eighth in 2:00.86.
Vercollone and Taxter also led the Skyhawks 4000-meter distance medley relay which finished first in 10:34.66. Vercollone ran the 1200-meter lead leg, followed by junior Daniel Madsen (West Haven, Connecticut/Notre Dame-West Haven) for the 400-meter leg, with Taxter completing in the 800-meter leg and then classmate Alexander Demeule (Merrimac, Massachusetts/Pentucket Regional) taking the baton for the one mile anchor leg.
Demeule ran a leg for the DMR and also finished second in the one mile run. (PHOTO BY SportsPix)
Demeule also finished second in the one mile run in 4:20.17, leading a pack of four Stonehill runners in the top five and seven overall. Senior Jimmy Murphy (Mansfield, Massachusetts/Mansfield) placed third in a personal-best time of 4:21.13, while freshman Kevin Wheelock (Melrose, Massachusetts/Melrose) was fourth in 4:24.17 and senior Kenny Vinacco (Scituate, Rhode Island/Scituate) fifth in a personal-best 4:26.06.
Junior Joe Connolly (Wilmington, Massachusetts/Austin Prep) finished sixth in the 60-meter dash final in 7.05-seconds after qualifying eighth in the prelims in 7.09-seconds. He was the lone Division II sprinter to advance to the final in a field that also included Northeast-10 Conference rivals Assumption College and Southern Connecticut State University. Sophomore Justin Ireland (Norton, Massachusetts/Norton) placed tenth in the prelims in 7.12-seconds.
Connolly and Ireland were also the top Division II finishers in the 200-meter dash, with Connolly placing third in the field of 35 sprinters in 22.50-seconds, while Ireland finished eighth in 22.82-seconds. Both Skyhawks have already secured New England Championships qualifications in the 200, with Connolly having already qualified in the 60-meter dash as well.
Junior Xavier Young (Barnegat, New Jersey/Barnegat) placed fifth in the shot put in his Stonehill debut, posting a New England Championships qualifying distance of 48-feet, 8.25-inches. Classmate Darren Shi (Yarmouth, Maine/Yarmouth) placed 11th at 46-07.50.
Connolly posted two strong performances in the 60m and 200m. (PHOTO BY SportsPix)
Junior Riley Dowd (Peabody, Massachusetts/Peabody Veterans Memorial) finished third in the 3000-meter run in a personal-best time of 8:55.20, while classmate Christopher Drace (Franklin, New Jersey/Pope John XXIII) was right behind in fourth in a personal-best 8:56.50.
Madsen finished seventh in the 400-meter dash in 52.73-seconds.
Other Stonehill Results Include:
Senior Joshua Hubbell (Gloucester, Massachusetts/St. John's Prep) finished third in the long jump with a distance of 21-feet, 2.5-inches.
Senior Jordan Sullivan (Sound Beach, New York/Miller Place) placed fifth in the high jump as he cleared a height of 6-feet, 3.25-inches.
Senior Stefan Balestra (Lincoln, Rhode Island/Lincoln) placed ninth in the weight throw with a distance of 52-feet, 1.75-inches.
Freshman Ethan Famiano (Warwick, Rhode Island/Bishop Hendricken) placed ninth in a field of 18 in the 60-meter hurdles in 8.72-seconds, while classmate Collin Kuchachik (Orange, Connecticut/Amity Regional) was 11th in 8.84.
Junior Daniel Bomba (Putnam Valley, New York/Iona Prep) placed tenth in the pole vault, clearing a height of 13-feet, 1.5-inches.
Stonehill is back in action next Saturday, when it competes at both the Tufts Stampede, hosted by Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, as well as the John Thomas Terrier Invitational, hosted by Boston University, at 11 a.m.
August 3, 2018 Men’s Track and Field Tabbed USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
June 21, 2018 Demeule Earns Google Cloud Academic All-America® Third Team Honors
May 29, 2018 Demeule & Dowd Earn Academic All-District™ Honors
May 16, 2018 Ten Stonehill Men Earn 12 USTFCCCA All-Region Honors
May 12, 2018 Men's Track & Field Wraps Up Season at New England Championships
May 11, 2018 Innamorati Picks Up Third All-New England Pole Vault
May 5, 2018 Men's Track & Field Finishes Off Third Place at NE10 Outdoor Championships
May 4, 2018 Three All-NE10 Performances Has Men's Track & Field Third after Opening Day of NE10 Championships
May 3, 2018 Preview: Stonehill Men to Compete in NE10 Outdoor Track and Field Championships
April 28, 2018 Men's Track & Field Takes Tenth-Straight Skyhawk Invitational
April 26, 2018 Men's Track & Field 4x100 Repeats as NE10 Relay of the Week
April 21, 2018 Men's Track & Field Strong at Holy Cross Invitational
April 19, 2018 Young, 4x100m Relay Earn NE10 Weekly Honors
April 14, 2018 Sprints, Relays & Throwers Lead Men's Track & Field to Second at Silfen Invitational
April 13, 2018 Juniors Lead Men's Track & Field on Opening Night of Silfen Invitational
April 7, 2018 Relays Solid on Final Day of 53rd Colonial Relays
April 6, 2018 Men's Track & Field Competes on Opening Two Days of 53rd Colonial Relays
April 5, 2018 Young Earns NE10 Field Rookie of the Week Honors
March 31, 2018 Balestra & Throwers Lead Stonehill at UMass Lowell Invitational
March 29, 2018 Young Voted NE10 Indoor Field Rookie of the Year
March 9, 2018 Men’s DMR Sets School Record With Fifth Place at NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships
March 8, 2018 Preview: Men’s DMR Ready to Compete at Nationals
March 1, 2018 12 From Men's Track & Field Earn 14 USTFCCCA Indoor All-Region Honors
February 28, 2018 Men’s Track and Field DMR Entered in NCAA’s
February 25, 2018 School Records & Personal Bests Set by Men’s Track & Field at BU Last Chance Qualifier
February 18, 2018 Vercollone 800m Title & Eight All-Conference Performances Put Men's Track & Field Third at NE10 Indoor Championships
February 17, 2018 Balestra, DMR Lead Men's Track & Field on Day One of NE10 Championships
February 16, 2018 Preview: Men’s Track and Field At NE10 Championship
February 13, 2018 Young Earns NE10 Field Athlete of the Week Honors
February 10, 2018 Vercollone & Taxter Improve NCAA Marks to Lead Stonehill at Valentine Invitational
February 9, 2018 Men's Track & Field Competes at URI Coaches’ Tribute Meet
February 8, 2018 Taxter, Boyd and DMR Earn NE10 Weekly Honors
February 3, 2018 Men's Track & Field Adds Three All-New England Honors at New England Championships
February 2, 2018 Men’s DMR Finishes Second, Hits NCAA PQ on Day 1 of New England Championships
January 27, 2018 Vercollone Hits NCAA PQ at BU, Stonehill Takes First at Tufts
January 24, 2018 Stonehill Men’s DMR Named NE10 Relay of the Week
January 20, 2018 Vercollone & Connolly Lead Men's Track & Field at URI Sorlien Memorial Invitational
January 13, 2018 Men's Track & Field Places Fifth in Track Return at Beantown Challenge
December 9, 2017 Men's Track & Field Wraps Up Semester at Husky Invitational
December 6, 2017 Men’s 4x400 Named NE10 Relay of the Week
December 2, 2017 Men's Track & Field Opens Indoor Season at UMass Boston Winter Open
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Buying a used car from a private party? Be smart and safe!
There's nothing wrong with buying a used car from a private party - in fact, that's often a way to get a cream puff at a bargain price!
However, since you're "doing business" with an individual, private party purchases lack the legal protections that cover transactions at licensed used car dealerships. That leaves the door open to all kinds of automotive fraud, from installing lower-mileage odometer modules to selling cars that were salvaged in other states. It's up to you to make an informed buying decision.
Here are nine specific recommendations to help make sure you're dealing with a genuine by-owner sale, and not a curbstoner - an unlicensed or unethical used car dealer posing as a private party.
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1. Do an online search for the phone number.
Pay-as-you-go mobile phones and call-forwarding services give curbstoners phone numbers that are disposable and hard to trace. However, a quick Internet search for the phone number listed on a car or classified ad will reveal whether that phone number has been used recently in the sale of other vehicles. If it has - beware!
2. Snoop around.
Because curbstoners usually have several vehicles to sell, many use special software to quickly post several online classified ads at once. As a result, their listings may appear close together if you view all the ads chronologically.
So, it might be worth your time to call the phone numbers in the listings above and below the one you actually want. If the same person answers, even though the phone numbers are different - you're probably talking to a curbstoner!
3. Don't reveal too much at first.
When you call, one smart gambit is to say, "I'm calling about the car."
If the seller replies, "Which car?" - then you have to ask yourself how many private parties have more than one car for sale.
Yes, people get deployed, families get relocated, and car buffs downsize their
collections - all reasons someone may be selling two or three vehicles at once. But if it seems like a person is selling several popular automotive models and nothing else, that's a warning flag.
4. Ask straight out if the seller is the owner.
If you're talking to the owner, ask how long he or she has owned the vehicle.
Answers like "I'm selling it for a friend," or "It's my grandmother's car," or "I've had it a couple months" are warning flags. At a minimum, it means the seller may not know much about the car's history. At worst, the seller may be flipping salvaged cars for profit - curbstoning.
5. Check the address.
Although many genuine private sellers are reluctant to meet at their homes for legitimate safety reasons, the vehicle owner's address will be on the registration and title. Don't hand over your money until you've confirmed that the addresses on the registration and title are, in fact, the seller's address.
If the purchase requires a significant amount of money, you might even want to drive by the address listed to make sure it's real, and to form a better sense of how the vehicle was cared for.
6. Ask to see the vehicle's maintenance records.
B ecause curbstoners are all about flipping used cars for profit, they seldom have the maintenance records for the vehicles they sell.
If the seller doesn't have the maintenance records, then ask where the work was done. Contact that repair facility and ask to see the maintenance and repair records.
While you're checking the records, don't overlook the obvious: make sure the name shown as the vehicle's owner matches the person you're dealing with.
If the current owner has had the vehicle for only a short time, or lacks information about the repair history, try contacting the previous owner.
7. Test-drive the vehicle thoroughly.
Don't just give the car a road test; most cars can be made to work fine for a ten-minute drive. Try getting on the freeway, passing, and stopping. Find a parking lot and drive carefully in a circle to the left and right to reveal steering issues. Speed bumps are great tools for revealing worn (and costly) suspension components.
Make sure all the systems work, including the air conditioning and heater.
Finally, check all the electronics and accessories: the CD player, all the power windows, and the central locking system.
Having a second set of eyes along can prove helpful in checking turn signals, brake lights, and whether the car tracks and stops in a level, straight line.
8. Have the car inspected.
Most mechanics will look over a car for a nominal fee, usually less than
Although a CARFAX report is great, it only looks at what's documented.
For instance, it might show that damage from a minor fender-bender had been repaired, but it can't possibly examine how well that repair was done. And, conversely, work that the owner did personally may not show up as part of the vehicle records.
This gap between documentation and reality becomes bigger when looking at high-mileage vehicles, older vehicles, restored or customized vehicles, and collectibles.
Also, it should be noted that a false VIN would produce a false report: one that belongs to the VIN plate, but not the rest of the car.
Find out how much one curbstoner can cost your city in this special report from Stop Curbstoning.
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CRA, developer closer to final terms on Cascades project
Negotiations surrounding public funding assistance for two major downtown projects will move forward.
CRA, developer closer to final terms on Cascades project Negotiations surrounding public funding assistance for two major downtown projects will move forward. Check out this story on tallahassee.com: http://www.tallahassee.com/story/money/2017/07/19/cra-developer-closer-final-terms-firestone-bloxham-annex-redevelopment/492992001/
TaMaryn Waters, Democrat staff writer Published 7:24 p.m. ET July 19, 2017 | Updated 9:08 p.m. ET July 19, 2017
Senior Vice President at North American Properties Shawn McIntyre listens to proceedings during a July 19 CRA meeting at City Hall.(Photo: Hali Tauxe/Democrat)Buy Photo
Negotiations surrounding public funding for two major downtown projects will move forward following Wednesday's Tallahassee Community Redevelopment Agency meeting.
The board's action comes on the heels of an FBI investigation and the agency's subpoenas requesting mounds of documents on CRA funded projects involving several high-profile business people.
The $158 million Cascades Project — the largest in CRA history — is requesting $2.5 million in CRA funds for public features within the mixed-use project on the site of the Firestone and Bloxham annex buildings.
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About a mile away on North Monroe Street, another developer wants to create a mixed use project called 4Forty North Apartments on the site of Envision Credit Union's flagship branch.
For the Cascades Project, North American Properties plans to invest $130 million in upfront costs to redevelop two downtown blocks on the perimeter of Cascades Park.
“We’re one step closer in a two-year process. I’d say we’re in the red zone,” said Shawn McIntyre, NAP's managing partner and vice president.
Discussion of the two high profile projects took place even as the CRA Downtown District faces an uncertain future. County and city elected officials are debating whether to dissolve the downtown district and redirect attention to other areas more in need of redevelopment. The county wants to pull out in anticipation of statewide voter approval of an increased homestead exemption that could put a $7 million dent in county coffers.
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McIntyre, who's behind several student housing projects on Gaines Street, said he doesn't believe the FBI's investigation will impact the Cascades project. In addition, he said he responded to the CRA's request for a proposal that crams a huge wish-list into one project — one that he and others say could trigger more development to create the long sought-after 18-hour downtown.
“Nothing is for sure, but I think we’ve all been working towards the same goal,” he said. “It’s nothing new. We’re not a private owner coming in with a new piece of property. They invited me to this party.”
His project includes 300 units of one- and two-bedroom flats and studio apartments, along with 64 units for two- to three-bedroom brownstone townhouses with stairway stoops leading to the sidewalk. The commercial and retail features include a boutique hotel, three restaurants, office space, a wellness center and a festival street area where clusters of shops will be located.
The developer wants CRA funding only for the parts that would be considered for public use, such as the amphitheater’s support space, parking and the festival street aspect.
"They saw what our ask is in order to provide the four pages of public requirements they’ve asked for us to provide," McIntyre added. "So now they understand what it’s going to take."
Once complete, the park amenity project is estimated to generate $1.29 million in new tax revenue.
“I can’t commit until I see what the bottom line is,” City Commissioner Gil Ziffer said, adding he’d accept the $2.5 million request considering the sizable investment made by the developer. “I am waiting to see what kind of infrastructure the $2.5 million goes toward.”
City Commissioner Scott Maddox said, "As in my past votes, I will only support CRA funding for infrastructure uses available to the public at large and will not support public dollars going to private use."
The Cascades project is also slated to create 2,200 jobs and generate $300 million in economic impact, according to a report by the Florida State University Center for Economic Forecasting and Analysis.
The other proposed downtown project taken up by the CRA board received lukewarm support from the nine-member board made up of city and county commissioners. Developers behind the 4Forty North Apartments said the project won't happen without CRA funds.
County Commissioner Mary Ann Lindley said she found the "do or die" terms or ultimatum of the proposed project to be offensive. No other developer in the past used that approach toward securing funds or board interest. That left a bad taste in her mouth.
“I don’t remember us dealing in this kind of circumstance before,” she said. “I don’t know how much is really being asked. I don’t know much about this project at all except these few pages we got a few days ago."
On June 30, developers MCS Capital Partners sent a general fund request inquiry to the CRA.
The group entered a purchase agreement for the Envision's property on the 400 block of North Monroe Street, across from Hotel Duval. The credit union wants to relocate to a nearby property on the same street that used to house the city's drive-through utility location, which has been vacant for years.
The $30 million project calls for 257 apartments, 12,000 square feet of retail space and parking.
CRA Chairman Nick Maddox said project details should have been presented to the board sooner, but he supports it in concept.
“It’s a good project, ultimatum or not,” he said. “As long as the increment pays for it, I have no problem with it.”
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This highly vocational Drama UK (formerly NCDT) accredited programme is designed to provide you with the skills needed to become a successful professional actor for the stage, screen and recorded media....More details
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Apple is working on a pressure-sensitive screen that could make its way into the next iPad
Silver nano wire could be the digital doodler's new best friend
According to the latest whispers to leave the iRumour mill, Apple could be looking to kit out its next iPad with a pressure-sensitive screen.
A report picked up by Korean site ETnews states that the new screen is made from a new material called silver nano wire (AgNW), instead of the current indium tin oxide (ITO) displays.
TSP Industries is said to be developing the new screens in preparation for mass production, and screen heavy-hitters including LG Display, Samsung Display and Japan Display have all verified that the new technology is indeed ready for mass production.
Sources have been cited as saying that "Apple recently requested AgNW touch-panel samples and some enterprises already delivered them to Apple. It will be first applied on the large-screen iPad, which will be released next year.”
So, what are the benefits of lacing the screen with silver nano wire? Well for starters, AgNW screens are more flexible than ITO screens, suggesting that they could be used for a flexible display. While we doubt you'll be rolling up the next iPad like a poster, the extra flexibility should make it more resistant to breaking on impact, as more shock can be absorbed.
The screen will also be more sensitive to touch, and can recognise varying pressures. If used on an iPad, it would allow people to draw more detailed pictures, allowing more realistic shading and techniques to be used.Producing an AgNW screen would also be more cost effective than an ITO screen, as it wouldn’t need a coating applied to it.
It’s also been reported that Apple is looking into ways to apply the AgNW screen with sapphire glass, which would reduce both the thickness and weight of any future iDevices, as well as making them “unbreakable.” Given that Apple still hasn't managed to economically produce iPhone screens with sapphire glass however, we're not holding our breath.
Could we see a fancy silver nano wire screen grace the fornt of the rumoured iPad Pro? We'll just have to wait and see.
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We found it extremely difficult to watch this Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge drop test video
Samsung gives us a glimpse into its smartphone testing facility to show off how tough its latest superphones really are
Dropping your smartphone isn't exactly up there with the funnest experiences that life has to offer.
From concrete to night bus floors, our handsets have faced the harsh reality of life far too many times over the years.
Traditionally, plastic handsets offer the most durability, while those slathered in metal manage to pick up lovely dents, scratches and chips.
Glass-backed headsets like the Sony Xperia Z3 can also shatter when abruptly bumping against pavements, and screens are of course, the main weak point in all devices.
Up until the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge came along, Samsung's flagships have been primarily plastic, and despite feeling cheap, you could happily drop them on their rear without worrying too much.
Its latest flagship handsets have glass backs however, and while they look and feel lovely, Android fans have expressed there concern regarding both sides of the handsets potentially shattering when dropped.
Samsung has decided to put them all at ease however, with a video showing off some of its durability testing.
Both the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are slathered in tough Gorilla Glass 4 on both sides, and they both hold up well after being dropped from chest height from Samsung's smartphone torture machine.
The tech giant does go on to say that its handsets obviously aren't invincible and can shatter or break if dropped, but so too will car windshields and watch faces.
Oh, and it goes without saying - don't try this at home.
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Kelly Slater is the 2012 Laureus Action Sportsperson of the Year
February 7, 2012 | Surfing
Kelly Slater has been named 2012 Laureus Action Sportsperson of the Year. The 11-time world surfing champion from Cocoa Beach, Florida, has won his fourth Laureus Award, equalling the record of Roger Federer, the only other four-time winner.
The US surfer has confirmed his 11th world surfing title, a few months before reaching 40 years of age, which will occur on the 11th February.
Kelly Slater is considered the best surfer of all time. He has been competing in pro surfing for more than two decades and holds an impressive strength and determination to win, every year. He has already been confirmed in the 2012 ASP World Tour.
Kelly Slater was running in the 2012 Laureus Action Sportsperson of the Year titlea against Jamie Bestwick (BMX), Philip Köster (Windsurfing), Carissa Moore (Surfing), Travis Rice (Snowboarding) and Shaun White (Skateboarding/Snowboarding).
Tennis player Novak Djokovic took the 2012 Laureus World Sportsman of the Year, after his impressive 2011 when he won three Grand Slam events: the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. Djokovic took Rafael Nadal away from the world No 1 tennis ranking.
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Sportsman: Novak Djokovic
Sportswoman: Vivian Cheruiyot
Team: FC Barcelona
Breakthrough: Rory McIlroy
Comeback: Darren Clarke
Disability: Oscar Pistorius
Action: Kelly Slater
Lifetime Achievement: Bobby Charlton
Sport for Good: Raí
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Home > City Government > Media Room > 2018 News Releases > New CEO Hired to Lead Innovation Boulevard
New CEO Hired to Lead Innovation Boulevard
Innovation Boulevard is pleased to announce the appointment of Louise Turner as its new CEO, effective January 2, 2018. Louise will be responsible for all operations while she leads Innovation Boulevard into its next phase of growth and development.
“I’m delighted that we have attracted such a knowledgeable, experienced and well-connected individual into this pivotal role,” stated Mayor Linda Hepner. “Without question, we have the right person at the right time.”
Louise has held senior executive positions in both the private and public sector, many of which focussed on growing companies within the tech sector and health innovation, including:
President, Premier of British Columbia’s Technology Council
COO, Pacific Health Innovation eXchange
COO, Canada West Health Innovation Council.
Director, Business Development, Abatis Systems Corporation
Director, Business Development, Newbridge Networks Corporation
"I am very excited to be joining the Innovation Boulevard team,” said Louise Turner, Innovation Boulevard CEO. “Working with the City of Surrey and Simon Fraser University and collaborating with BC’s largest Health Authority, Fraser Health offers a unique opportunity to create new jobs, improve health and wellness and deliver greater value for BC citizens, patients and students.”
In addition to strengthening its business accelerator over the coming year, under Louise Turner’s guidance, Innovation Boulevard will focus on helping BC companies gain access to local buyers of health care products and services, develop new opportunities for students to build their skills for the 21st Century workplace and help growing companies find the talent they need to be successful.
“Innovation Boulevard is a partner of SFU Innovates, and a further expression of our commitment to be Canada's most community-engaged research university," says SFU President Andrew Petter. "We look forward to building on this success under the leadership of Louise Turner."
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Assessing the coalition's 'Programme for Government'
The new coalition have released their document Our Programme for Government. It's a broad document, and a little light on substantive detail, but there are sections on local government and transparency that deserve some attention. A few of the key points on local government:
We will promote the radical devolution of power and greater financial autonomy to local government, including a full review of local government finance.
This point is encouraging. We've long talked about decentralising
power and and in our new book, How to cut public spending (and still win
an election), Mike Denham outlines how fiscal decentralisation can
stimulate GDP growth. Of course, we await more detail on this but it's
certainly a start. One to watch.
We will abolish the unelected Infrastructure Planning Commission and replace it with an efficient and democratically accountable system that provides a fast-track process for major infrastructure projects
This is good news. This body has not been around for long but has managed to acquire all of the bad traits of profligate, sclerotic quangos. £9.3million on lavish offices, anyone?
We will freeze Council Tax in England for at least one year, and seek to freeze it for a further year, in partnership with local authorities.
A freeze is better than rising council tax. But several councils around the country have shown that council tax cuts are possible, with more rational and prioritised spending.
We will abolish the Standards Board regime.
We suggested getting rid of the Standards Board for England back in September 2009 in our research with the Institute of Directors. We reiterated this proposal in our book. Ethical elected officials in councils and other public bodies are obviously crucial; the scars from MPs expenses are testament to that. But transparency – in everything from finance to outside interests – will ensure accountability, without the need for an expensive and often ineffective body enforcing a code of conduct.
We will cut local government inspection and abolish the Comprehensive Area Assessment.
Again, one from our book. Centrally prescribed targets have cost money, as councils have scrambled to make sure they are looking ship-shape on inspection day. That panacea of transparency will solve a lot of the problems here, and will allow the Audit Commission continue its important work of detecting fraud and ensuring accounts are up to scratch.
On transparency, the document has the following:
We will require public bodies to publish online the job titles of every member of staff and the salaries and expenses of senior officials paid more than the lowest salary permissible in Pay Band 1 of the Senior Civil Service pay scale, and organograms that include all positions in those bodies.
Good stuff. We've published the Town Hall Rich List and the Public Sector Rich List for four years now, and finally our message has hit home. The last government did in fact introduce good legislation in this area, but our paper Transparent Rewards showed how many public bodies torpedoed it.
We will regulate lobbying through introducing a statutory register of lobbyists and ensuring greater transparency.
Our research on taxpayer funded lobbying showed that taxpayers were paying for public bodies and other organisations to lobby for even more money. This is unacceptable. A register is a start, but every move to stop taxpayers footing the bill for lobbying must be made.
We will strengthen the powers of Select Committees to scrutinise major public appointments.
Yes, but will this scrutiny be listened to? One recalls a couple of shoe-horned appointments by the former secretary of state for Children, Schools and Families last year.
We will require full, online disclosure of all central government spending and contracts over £25,000. And We will require all councils to publish items of spending above £500, and to publish contracts and tender documents in full.
These are fantastic measures, although it could be lower than £25,000 for central government. Windsor and Maidenhead publish all spending over £500 and it has helped them to reduce council tax by 4 per cent. Also, If contracts were made public this would encourage competition and would break the corporatist relationships that have developed between public bodies and contractors.
We will create a new ‘right to data’ so that government-held datasets can be requested and used by the public, and then published on a regular basis.
Right-to-Data sounds a little unclear. The proposal implies that spending data will be provided on request which is almost what we have with the Freedom of Information Act (FOI). There needs to be a cultural shift away from requesting spending data to the automatic publication of it. It should be standard practice for central and local government and will cost relatively little with modern technology. They do this in the US for federal spending, why not here?
FOI still has a role as it can be used for information that is not related to spending, too. The FOI Act was an important and very welcome piece of legislation but that it needs strengthening. In our manifesto we say that there should tougher sanctions for unwarranted delays, for example.
The verdict? Some encouraging noises but we eagerly await further detail.
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November 1, 2019 | by The Tekrevol Team
TekRevol encounters the future of technology at TechCrunch Disrupt 2019
Three days of startup exhibitions with entrepreneurs showcasing their next big ideas. On the creative production and technological application side, we witnessed Hackathon that brought together hundreds of creators and pushed them to solve various challenges and problems. The most awaited Battlefield was the ultimate showstopper, giving businesses the chance to pitch their product to a panel of investors, technologists, prominent Silicon Valley figures and entrepreneurs for six minutes such as, Fred Wilson, Will Smith, and Stephen Curry.
The Journey from a small shared workspace, where Tekrevol was born to actually exhibiting at TechCrunch’s Disrupt was incredibly moving for the team. Exhibiting Start Inc., a product created for entrepreneurs to conveniently establish a footprint in today’s competitive market, comes out of the years of struggle team Tekrevol had to go through in its early years. A product made by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs!
Asim is with Yousuf Motiwala (Founder of Mesibo)
We met Tammy Cho from WeAreBetterBrave
Paul Mcgillivray Founder of Code Assembly
Say Hi to Jonathan Tower, Founder & Managing Partner at Catapult VC
Asim with the team behind Builton.ai
Abeer met Neil Shah and Anthony Costanzo from Exeest
The idea behind Start Inc. was to provide aspiring entrepreneurs with a platform to accelerate and validate their business idea in a short span of time. As entrepreneurs, both Abeer and Asim had to deal with a lot of problems in their journey, which they feel could’ve been solved more easily. From conducting market research and designing marketing collateral, to create a minimal viable product that’s sure to stand out, Start Inc. allows you all that and much more, empowering your future through technology.
Will Smith really knows how to pull in a crowd and he certainly did, at TechCrunch Disrupt. You can check out Will Smith talking about the struggles of playing his characters in the movie “Gemini Man” with Director Ang Lee. A great highlight reel into the diverse experience that is Disrupt.
Our booth BN 5 had a great response from interested clients, Investors, and guests. Here, our CMO, Abeer Raza, who spent the entire day hoping to find a chance to sit, can be seen explaining our new product Start Inc. to a bunch of wonderful people from TechCrunch Disrupt.
Tekrevol seized the opportunity of participating in the world’s biggest technology conference to exhibit its new product, Start Inc. It was a surreal experience, sharing a roof with some of the brightest minds in the world of technology and business. Special visits from celebrities brought incredible hype to the event, providing businesses the opportunity to get their product noticed by the right investors. This was a truly memorable experience for team Tekrevol.
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Indonesia orders inspection of all Boeing 737-MAX airliners in wake of Lion Air crash, as concerns raised over pitot pipe
Indonesian navy divers searching waters at the location of the Lion Air flight JT610 crash Credit: Reuters
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30 October 2018 • 1:46pm
Aviation experts have said that a small metal tube located on the wing of commercial airplanes that measures airspeed could have been responsible for the Lion Air crash on Tuesday which killed all 189 on board.
Indonesia has now ordered the inspection of all Boeing 737-MAX airliners as rescue teams recovered more human remains and wreckage from the brand new jet that plunged into the sea.
The plane had flown erratically the day before the crash and its instruments recorded inaccurate airspeed and altitude readings, according to a number of sources.
Now experts have said that a fault with a pitot pipe - which was found to have caused the Air France Flight 447 to crash into the Atlantic in 2009 - could have been to blame.
Maintaining correct airspeed is crucial. If a plane flies too slowly it can stall while if it flies too fast it can break up. In the case of the Air France flight, ice was found to have clogged one of the plane's pitot pipes.
Personal items recovered the site crash of Lion Air flight JT 610 Credit: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images AsiaPac
“The erratic flight path makes us suspect a problem with the pitot-static system,” Gerry Soejatman, an Indonesian aviation expert, told The New York Times.
Experts told the newspaper that it was too early to determine the exact cause of the accident and added that it was a combination of equipment malfunctions and human error that often led to crashes.
The Boeing-737 MAX, which went into service just a few months ago, crashed into the Java Sea off Indonesia's northern coast moments after it had asked to return to Jakarta on Monday.
Search and rescue personnel examine recovered debris and personal items from Lion Air flight JT 610 Credit: Getty Images AsiaPac
Flight JT610 sped up as it suddenly lost altitude and then vanished from radar 12 minutes after take-off, with witnesses saying the single-aisle jet plunged into the water.
The accident has resurrected concerns about Indonesia's patchy air safety record which led to a now-lifted ban on its planes entering US and European airspace.
On Tuesday Indonesia's transport minister ordered an inspection of all 737-MAX aircraft but he stopped short of grounding the new models.
Dozens of divers were taking part in the recovery effort along with helicopters and ships.
Authorities are trying to pinpoint the smashed jet's location and flight data recorders expected to be crucial to the crash investigation.
There were 178 adult passengers, one child, two infants, two pilots and six cabin crew on board.
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Thu, 24 Oct | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
From Web to Mobile with NativeScript & Angular
JavaScript Career skills Web
Combined Lunch for both Workshops
Balkan Buzludzha + Balkan Botev | 6th Floor
JavaScript Web Career skills
Full-Day Workshops (Lunch Break: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM)
Balkan Buzludzha | 6th Floor
Let’s Build an App with React
John Bristowe Developer Manager | Progress
Mon, 21 Oct | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Eric Bishard Developer Advocate | Progress
With a focus on fundamentals first, Eric loves teaching others to build solid React UI's. A front end developer since the early 2000's, he's always focused on web applications and more recently worked on full stack in .NET applications and specialized in SPA frameworks like React.
Wed, 23 Oct | 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
State Management with React Hooks
JavaScript Web Tools/Frameworks
Baba Marta | 7th Floor
Build a Sitefinity Application in a Day
Lino Tadros Solutions Architect | Solliance
Alain "Lino" Tadros is the President & CEO of Events XD Corporation and a Cloud Solution Architect for AI & Machine Learning. Lino has 13 years of experience with Sitefinity and built over 350 Sitefinity applications for corporations worldwide. Lino is the author of 7 technical books on Sitefinity and is also the author of the Sitefinity Development certification exam. He has been awarded Microsoft MVP status 15 years in a row and is an expert in .NET, Azure, AI & Machine Learning, IoT, MVC, iOS, Android, Xamarin, Sitefinity and Google Cloud. He is an industry renowned speaker and has given numerous presentations in 52 countries over 28 years. He also currently sits on the Board of Directors of 4 Silicon Valley Software corporations. Lino is currently studying AI & Machine Learning at MIT.
Azure AI & Machine Learning for Developers
.NET JavaScript Web Tools/Frameworks
Build your First Full-stack Blazor App
Bozhidar Ivanchev Software Architect | Progress
Bozhidar is a Software Architect in the Progress Telerik team, with a 8 year history in the company's ASP.NET Ajax, Kendo, MVC and Blazor teams. He enjoys working with people, tinkering with old and buggy legacy code, as well as building something from nothing on a new technology.
Ed Charbeneau Developer Advocate | Progress
Ed is a Microsoft MVP and an international speaker, writer, online influencer, a Developer Advocate for Progress, and expert on all things web development. Ed enjoys geeking out to cool new tech, brainstorming about future technology, and admiring great design.
Ed has shared his insights, experiences, and advice around collaboration, knowledge management, social computing, and training at many industry events around the United States. Highly ethical and engaging with an uncanny business acumen, he is a creative community builder and outside the box thinker. Long term business relationships throughout the world within internal communications, employee engagement and marketing as well as IT. Focusing on Financial, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Agency and Professional Services. He has defined, architected, implemented line of business solutions with a touch of style and UX best practices.
Tue, 22 Oct | 2:30 PM - 3:20 PM
Razor: Into the Razor-Verse
.NET Web Tools/Frameworks
Balkan Botev | 6th Floor
Sara Faatz DevRel Manager | Progress
Sara Faatz is a senior manager on the Telerik and Kendo UI developer relations team at Progress. She has spent the majority of her career in the developer space building community, producing events, creating marketing programs, and more. When she's not working, she likes diving with sharks, running, and watching hockey.
Mon, 21 Oct | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wed, 23 Oct | 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Jody Davis Aerospace Engineer | Government
Jody Davis is an Aerospace Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and an M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from University of Virginia. Jody has worked missions such as Mars Phoenix and Mars Science Laboratory, specializing in entry, descent and landing flight dynamics and trajectory simulation at NASA Langley Research Center. She served as the NASA Langley Technical Lead for the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) flight test project. She also served as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Optical Telescope Element & Integrated Science Instrument Module (OTIS) Responsible Engineer for the Harnesss Radiator at NASA Goddard, working systems engineering and flight hardware integration and test. She now supports the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as the Deputy Payload Systems Engineer. Jody’s hobbies include flying recreationally, hiking, traveling, running marathons, and participating in national and international STEM outreach activities. She also traveled to Tanzania and summitted Kilimanjaro in January 2018.
Technical Leadership: Lessons Learned at NASA
Rossitza Fakalieva Director of Engineering | Progress
Rossitza is a Director of Software Engineering at Progress and leads one of the biggest team in the company, developing .NET components and tools such as Telerik UI for Xamarin, UWP, WinForms, WPF and Telerik JustMock. Rossitza has been working on our Progress Telerik tools since 2006.
Alongside with her work at Progress, Rossi is dedicated to different tech initiatives. She is part of the leadership team of the Bulgarian edition of Women Who Code, a global organization that supports women in the tech industry to grow and develop.
.NET JavaScript Career skills
Networking & Social Time!
Keynote Hall
Welcome & Opening Comments
Sam Basu Developer Advocate | Progress
Sam Basu is a technologist, author, speaker, Microsoft MVP, gadget-lover and Telerik Developer Advocate at Progress. With a long developer background, he now spends much of his time advocating modern web & mobile development platforms on Microsoft/Telerik technology stacks. His spare times call for travel, fast cars, cricket and culinary adventures.
Tue, 22 Oct | 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
.NET: To Infinity and Beyond
James Montemagno Program Manager | Microsoft
James Montemagno is a Principal Program Manager for Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005, working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Prior to becoming a Principal Program Manager, James was a professional mobile developer and has now been crafting apps since 2011 with Xamarin. In his spare time, he is most likely cycling around Seattle or guzzling gallons of coffee at a local coffee shop. He blogs code regularly on his personal blog @ http://www.montemagno.com and co-hosts the weekly development podcast Merge Conflict @ http://mergeconflict.fm.
Go Mobile with Xamarin
.NET Smarter Apps Mobile Web Desktop Tools/Frameworks
Uno Platform: Your C#/XAML Apps on Mobile & WebAssembly
Martin Zikmund OSS Developer | Independent
Martin is a freelance software developer and Microsoft Developer Technologies MVP. He specializes in architecting and building cross-platform mobile and cloud solutions on the Microsoft technology stack. Martin loves contributing to open-source, as it is a tremendous source of learning. You can also meet him on Stack Overflow, where he frequently helps other developers. To document his developer journey, Martin regularly writes posts on his blog at https://blog.mzikmund.com/. In spare time he likes to play squash, game on Xbox, read, and search for geocaches.
Tue, 22 Oct | 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
.NET Mobile Web Tools/Frameworks
10 Awesome Things You Can Build with NativeScript
TJ VanToll Developer Advocate | Progress
TJ VanToll is a front-end developer, author, and a Principal Developer Advocate for Progress. TJ has over a decade of web development experience, including a few years working on the jQuery team. Nowadays, he spends his time helping web developers build mobile apps through projects like NativeScript.
JavaScript Tools/Frameworks Mobile Smarter Apps
An Introduction to WebAssembly
Guy Royse Software Craftsman | ScriptDrop
Guy likes to combine his decades of experience in writing software with a passion for sharing what he has learned. Guy goes out into developer communities and helps others build great software. Teaching and community have long been a focus for Guy. He is President of the Columbus JavaScript Users Group, an organizer for the Columbus Machine Learners, and has even has helped teach programming at a prison in central Ohio. In past lives, Guy has worked as a consultant in a broad range of industries including healthcare, retail, and utilities. He also has spent several years working for a major insurance company in central Ohio. This has given him a broad view of technology application toward business problems. In his personal life, Guy is a hard-boiled geek interested in role-playing games, science fiction, and technology. He also has a slightly less geeky interest in history and linguistics. In his spare time, he volunteers for his local Cub Scout Pack, goes camping, and studies history and linguistics. Guy lives in Ohio with his wife, his three teenage sons, and an entire wall of games.
What’s New in ASP.NET Core 3.0
Scott Addie Content Developer | Microsoft
Scott Addie is an international speaker, a .NET Foundation member, an open source contributor, and a developer advocate of the modern web. Scott has reached masses of developers through blog posts, articles, courses, and speaking engagements at user groups, code camps, and conferences across the globe. With a strong emphasis on the Microsoft web technology stack, Scott holds numerous industry-recognized Microsoft development certifications. Scott is a former Telerik Developer Network author, Progress Developer Expert, and Microsoft MVP. In his day job, Scott produces ASP.NET Core and Azure developer content for docs.microsoft.com and the Microsoft Learn platform.
.NET Tools/Frameworks Web
Write High Quality Maintainable Code
Rachel Appel Developer Advocate | JetBrains
Rachel currently works for JetBrains as a Developer Advocate. She has been in the business of creating software for over 25 years, as an author, mentor, and speaker at top industry conferences such as Microsoft BUILD, Oredev, NetConf, SDD and others. During her career, she has worked on projects of all sizes from the smallest of apps, to the largest enterprise systems at some of the world’s leading companies.
Rachel’s expertise is in web development on the Microsoft stack, specifically Azure Functions, ASP.NET MVC, Web Forms, SignalR, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Her hobbies include science, reading, languages, and travel.
Tue, 22 Oct | 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM
Be an A11Y. Build Accessible Software for Everyone.
.NET Career skills Processes
Let’s Build an Augmented Reality Football Pitch with JavaScript!
Rob Lauer DevRel Manager | Progress
Rob Lauer is Senior Manager of Developer Relations at Progress (formerly Telerik). A long time .NET WebForms/MVC developer, Rob is now focused on JavaScript-driven native mobile development with NativeScript.
RESTful API Best Practices using ASP.NET Core Web API
Spencer Schneidenbach Software Architect | Ryvit
Spencer Schneidenbach is a API and integration expert, Microsoft MVP, speaker, consultant, and blogger in the St. Louis, Missouri area.
Hacking the Human Perception
Chris DeMars Front End Developer | Tuft & Needle
Chris DeMars is a front end developer from Detroit, Michigan now living in Denver, Colorado. For his community contributions, he holds awards as a Microsoft MVP in developer technologies, Google Developer Expert in web technologies, and is an Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador. Chris loves coming up with solutions for all types of applications, which include modular CSS architectures, performance, and advocating for web accessibility. When he is not working on making the web great and inclusive you can find him writing blog posts, recording episodes of his podcast, Tales From The Script, or watching horror movies.
I Can't See: Low Vision A11y & Users
NGRX - Predictable Reactive State Management for Enterprise Angular Apps
Ilia Idakiev Lecturer | Sofia University
Iliya Idakiev is a Google Developer Expert (GDE), software developer-entrepreneur, as well as a JavaScript enthusiast who has many years of experience in web application development. He is a co-organizer of Angular Sofia and SofiaJS / BeerJS, and he is a lecturer at Sofia University of the 'Advanced JavaScript' course at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics. In his spare time he likes collecting and playing vinyl on different musical events.
JavaScript Tools/Frameworks Web
Developing for HoloLens
Jimmy Engström AR/VR Expert | AZM Dev
At the age of 7 Jimmy got his first computer, a ZX Spectrum, and since then he hasn´t stopped coding. He has a passion for everything new and together with his wife he runs a company called Azm Dev focused on just that, everything new.
When he doesn´t code (yes, there are moments like those even if they are few), he spends his time learning new things and teaching them to others. He is also a presentation skills nut and takes every opportunity to learn more and coach new/seasoned speakers.
Jimmy has spoken at conferences all around the world which has led him to become a Microsoft MVP for the sixth year in a row. He is a co-host for Coding After Work Podcast.
.NET Tools/Frameworks Smarter Apps
SignalR: Above & Beyond Chat
David Pine Content Developer | Microsoft
David Pine is a 2x Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert, Twilio Champion and a Content Developer working at Microsoft. David loves knowledge sharing with the technical community and speaks internationally at meetups, user groups, and technical conferences. David is passionate about sharing his thoughts through writing as well and actively maintains a blog at davidpine.net. David's posts have been featured on ASP.NET, MSDN Web-Dev, MSDN .NET, Dot Net Curry, Twilio and InfoQ. David loves contributing to open-source projects and StackOverflow.com as another means of giving back to the community. David sat on the technical board and served as one of the primary organizers of Cream City Code, going four years now. When David isn’t interacting with a keyboard, you can find him spending time with his wife and their three sons, Lyric, Londyn and Lennyx.
.NET Web
Hacking the Domain with Domain-Driven Design
Milan Nankov Software Craftsman | Independent
Milan Nankov has been developing software for more than 12 years, helping companies (big and small) navigate through the treacherous process of building robust business software. As a student of Domain-Driven Design, he is fascinated by the process of distilling domain knowledge into code and how this process affects both the software and the business. Milan regularly shares his experience building software at conferences and on his personal blog.
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Alexa - Top Me Up
Sebastian Witalec Developer Advocate | Progress
Sebastian Witalec is a Senior Developer Advocate for Progress who specializes in Angular and NativeScript. He loves working on both serious and fun projects and one day he will use his robot army to conquer the world. He is always happy to learn about the new stuff and to pass the knowledge as far as his voice (or the wire) can take him. Sebastian is based in London actively working with various Dev communities in Europe. When not acting techie he is a massive football fan/player (probably bigger at heart than skills).
Building a Chatbot with Kinvey Chat
JavaScript Smarter Apps Tools/Frameworks
Will Writing Unit Tests be Replaced by Artificial Intelligence?
Mihail Vladov Engineering Manager | Progress
Mihail Vladov has been a software developer for around 13 years and is currently the Software Engineering Manager for JustMock at Progress. He started working for Telerik/Progress back in 2011, and has contributed to develop the WPF controls suite and Document Processing libraries.
He is passionate about building quality software and has huge experience in designing software architectures. Mihail often conducts strategic thinking sessions and is a firm believer in rapid innovations. In his spare time, he loves spending time with his family and enjoying his aquarium.
.NET Smarter Apps Processes
Enterprise Mobile Architectures with Xamarin.Forms & Prism
Dan Siegel Founder/Consultant | AvantiPoint
Dan is a Microsoft/Xamarin MVP, an avid OSS Contributor and Author best known as for his work as a maintainer of the immensely popular Prism Library. He is a Consultant specializing in Cloud, Mobile and DevOps with perhaps one of the most unique backgrounds of any programmer you'll ever meet. He loves to share his passion for developing mobile apps with developers around the world, and is the organizer of the Xamarin Developer Summit.
In those arguably rare moments he's not busy slinging code you may find him out Scuba Diving, Off-Roading or through hiking in the remote wilderness.
.NET Mobile Tools/Frameworks
Afternoon Coffee Break
Lessons Learned from Sitefinity Cloud
Ross Borissov DevOps Lead | Progress
14+ years in the IT industry. Started his career as a software developer with .NET 1.0. Fell in love with the DevOps practices while managing the internal .NET related infrastructure at SAP. Enjoying the DevOps transformation at Progress as a servant leader responsible for the ALM lifecycles of a few product lines. Passionate about cutting edge physics.
.NET Processes
DevOps Practices Can Make You a Better Developer
Robert Green Program Manager | Microsoft
Robert Green is a Program Manager Evangelism in the Developer Experience and Evangelism (DX) group at Microsoft. He focuses on Visual Studio and mobile development. Robert is the host of the Visual Studio Toolbox show on Channel 9.
Why Every Web App Should be a PWA
Carl Bergenhem Product Manager | Progress
Carl Bergenhem is the Product Manager for Kendo UI. Throughout his time at Telerik/Progress he has covered the entire portfolio of products offered, but mainly spent his time in the web development arena covering ASP.NET Ajax, ASP.NET MVC, and JavaScript-based products. He’s passionate about web technologies and tries to stay on top of all JavaScript libraries and frameworks relating to Kendo UI, developing with jQuery, Angular, React, and Vue.js on a regular basis. In his free time Carl enjoys slaying virtual monsters, snowboarding and playing his guitar.
Advanced Fiddler Techniques
Robert Boedigheimer Web Expert | Schwans
Robert Boedigheimer works for Schwans Shared Services, LLC providing business solutions with web technologies. Robert has been developing web sites for the past 25 years. He is a Microsoft MVP, a Progress Developer Expert (Fiddler), an ASPInsider, a Pluralsight author, and a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert regularly speaks at national and international events.
Mastering Sitefinity Consulting: Lessons Learned
Veronica Milcheva Sitefinity Expert | Argo Ventures
My name is Veronica Milcheva and I am the CEO of Argo Ventures Digital Ltd. I've been part of the Sitefinity team for more than 3 years both in Core Development, Support and Documentation teams.
Argo Ventures Digital is an award-winning B2B agency and official Sitefinity Partner. We are focused on all kinds of services related to the Sitefinity CMS, such as consulting, training, implementation, SEO, performance analysis etc. Argo Ventures Digital Ltd. has a proven record of projects with insurance, banking, governmental organizations from all over the globe including: United Kingdom, USA, UAE, Australia, Belgium, etc. and we are proud to have "from the kitchen" experience and best quality. We have been nominated as finalists for website of the Year 2017 and 2018 with 3 projects.
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VR Quickstart with Unity 3D
Panayot Cankov AR/VR Expert | Progress
Panayot has 15 years of experience focused on UI. For 9 years in Progress, he has been working on the XAML stack and the NativeScript framework.
Today he is pushing forward AR/VR technologies as he is a big believer in those, along with AI/ML for being the foundation of the next generation line of business application experiences.
Functional Programming for C# Developers
Vladimir Milev Team Lead | Cobuilder
I have over 15 years of experience as a software engineer and architect in the C# and .NET world. During my career I have worked on projects ranging from low-level .NET UI components to high-level enterprise applications spanning desktop, web and mobile. I ran a consulting and professional services company for a while and also worked for bigger companies such as Progress/Telerik and Cobuilder. I always strive for continuous personal development and I love sharing my struggles and victories through blogging and speaking at technical conferences.
.NET JavaScript Tools/Frameworks
Feed Your Inner Data Scientist: JavaScript tools for Data Visualization & Filtering
Doug Mair Tech Anchor | AEP
Doug is a Tech Anchor at AEP Charge in Columbus, Ohio. He started developing software as a high school freshman on a TRS-80 16K. Since then, he has developed software for Graphics Kiosks, Rules Engines, Specialized Hardware and ASP.NET websites. Over the last few years, he has helped grow the Windows Developer Community in Central Ohio and he spends his free time developing Windows applications and playing board games.
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How to Improve Your UX with a Deck of Cards
Jessica Engstrom UX Expert | AZM Dev
Jessica is an international speaker, teacher, podcaster, mentor, geek and the CEO of her own company. She is very passionate about the developer community where she organizes conferences, events, and runs multiple user groups. This, amongst other things, has led her to be awarded Windows Platform Development MVP six years in a row.
She started out in the development world and soon realized that it was the user experience and interaction that excited her. One thing she's sure of is that you can never learn enough, and this is why she is continuously learning new things, researching, and trains with the best people in the world.
Her company does trainings, workshops, UX research and development in areas focused on HoloLens, VR/AR/MR, cognitive services, UX, chat/speech bots, Windows development and speaker skills.
Low Friction Front End Development with StackBlitz
Tomek Sulkowski Front-End Engineer | StackBlitz
Tomek's biggest passion is making development experience not only performant and comfortable for seasoned programmers but also accessible and fun for the newcomers. That was what made him first fall in love with StackBlitz and then become part of its core team.
In his work, he is focusing on front-end technologies - especially the ecosystem around the Angular and React frameworks. He also loves to share useful development practices by running workshops, dev-events (co-organizing AngularTricity), in articles and the “tip-of-the-day” tweets.
Wed, 23 Oct | 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM
The React Developer's Tool Belt
Demystifying User Management for Voice Apps
Heather Downing Developer Advocate | Okta
Heather is a passionate coder and entrepreneur. She has experience working with Fortune 500 companies building enterprise-level voice, mobile and C#/.Net applications. She focuses on external thought leadership, encouraging fellow programmers to present on topics outside of the office and in the community. She is an international technical speaker and co-host of the YouTube channel "The Hello World Show" -- a weekly video series that interviews software masters and teaches the audience something valuable in less than 10 minutes.
Heather encourages those with nontraditional backgrounds to enter the world of software development, as she changed careers at 27 and does not have a degree - yet has built a reputation as an early adapter of new tech. She is an advocate of women in tech, and part of Kansas City Women in Technology. When not coding, Heather spends her time as a competitive equestrian and learning the art of mounted archery.
The Care & Feeding of Software Engineers
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The Science, Psychology and Secrets of Great UI
Dean Schuster UX Guru | TrueMatter
Founder and partner of truematter, a user experience strategy firm, Dean has been advocating for user-centered digital products his entire career. He oversees truematter’s UX practice, leading strategic engagements for innovative regional organizations as well as the Fortune 100.
Dean’s work has always included researching, prototyping, and testing digital products with real users. He regularly speaks, writes, and teaches on experience design, user experience strategy, usability, user research, content strategy, and building UX-focused teams.
It’s not all UX all the time (even though it’s close). Dean is also an avid ultra marathoner, reader, and traveler.
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Modernization of .NET Desktop Apps
Olia Gavrysh Program Manager | Microsoft
Olia Gavrysh is a program manager on the .NET team at Microsoft. She has a background in software development & machine learning, and worked on the beginnings of ML.NET. Now she focuses on desktop developer tools, WinForms and porting applications to .NET Core experience.
.NET Tools/Frameworks Desktop
Inside Our Kitchen: A Recipe for Innovation
Vesko Kolev VP Dev Tooling | Progress
Vesko Kolev is a business and technology leader with 15 years of professional experience. He is part of the Progress leadership team in Bulgaria. As VP of Product, Developer Tooling, at Progress Vesko is responsible for a team of more than 150 software engineers, technical support engineers, product managers, product marketers and UX designers based in the US and Bulgaria. His team develops the leading product lines, Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI. With his strategic business thinking and strong technical expertise, Vesko has played an instrumental role in the company’s success. He joined Progress in 2009 as a senior software developer and has held different managerial business and engineering roles over the years. He is passionate about helping people realize that their own potential is unlimited.
Daniel Levy Product Manager | Progress
Daniel is Sr. Director, Customer Success at Progress and is based in Portland, OR. Daniel has a passion for technology, a vision for product, and a story to tell. When he is not at the keyboard, you’ll likely find him out on a hike in the Cascades or behind a camera at sunrise.
Progress Unite UX Hands-On Labs
Antoniya Boynovska Product Manager | Progress
Antoniya has experience in leading projects, teams, and processes in IT. At Progress she is embracing product management responsibilities for a novel solution that bridges the gap in team collaboration in tech teams. In her spare time, she enjoys travelling, reading both professional literature and fiction as part of her book club, enjoys a good wine and watching the sunset.
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Don't Panic! How to Cope Now You're Responsible for Production
Euan Finlay Operations Lead | Financial Times
Euan is part of the Operations & Reliability team at the Financial Times, managing incidents across the globe. Before that, he lead a distributed team responsible for Go microservices, Docker containers in Kubernetes, and the backend APIs powering the website.
On the Ops-ier side of DevOps, he has occasionally admitted to being a sysadmin in public.
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Smarter Cross-Platform Apps Using Xamarin, Cognitive Services & ML.NET
Richard Taylor VP Engineering | SentryOne
Richard L. Taylor Jr. is a 25 year software development and technology professional living in Huntersville, NC. His experience includes the design and development of small to enterprise class applications. He currently serves as Vice President of Platform and Cloud Engineering at SentryOne. Richard is a believer of using the right tools for the job and has leveraged ASP.NET (Web API, MVC), SQL Server/MongoDB, Angular, Bootstrap, JavaScript/NodeJS, KendoUI, and Xamarin (just to name a few) to deliver solutions. He has a great deal of experience but likes to explore new technologies, tools, and techniques to help create better software. Richard has a passion for the software development community. He serves as one of the organizers of the Modern Devs Charlotte meetup group and is the founding organizer of the Charlotte Xamarin Developers meetup group. Both groups try to create environments where developers of all skill levels can come together and learn about the latest technologies, tools, and techniques to create software. These groups also provide a venue to network with fellow developers in the community. In addition to serving the local software development community via meetup groups, Richard also speaks at regional, national, and international technology users groups and conferences. His speaking schedule can be found here: http://www.rightincode.com/page/speaking-schedule Richard recently received the Progress (Telerik) Developer Expert designation. DE’s are highly skilled, visible, and elite industry leaders who write, speak, help, and code using Progress (Telerik) products. There are 44 DE’s in 13 different countries who are ambassadors for Progress Products to the tech community. When not developing software, Richard is focused on spending time with his lovely wife Shondrecca (she gives the best hugs!!) and their five children (Richard III, Ayanna, David, Jonathan, and Stephen).
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Spotting and Nurturing Technical Leaders
Doncho Angelov Director of Development | SEGA
Doncho Angelov is a Director of Development Services in SEGA. He earned an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Technical University - Sofia, and an Executive MBA from the American University in Bulgaria. Doncho has worked as C++ back-end and C# front-end developer for various companies, including the Bulgarian Object Builder Software (today DXC, former CSC) and Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen.
He started his leadership career in 1999, going through various roles both in the technical leadership and people management at OBS, Microsoft Denmark and Microsoft Bulgaria. After these, and for the past 9 years, his primary job has been building engineering teams, which started in 2011 with the foundation of the Bulgarian site of Milestone Systems. With the help of the great people around him, the site grew to 130 employees in 2018, with current numbers close to 150. Today he's building the Development Services organization for SEGA Black Sea, a subsidiary of SEGA of Europe.
One of the toughest tasks in these roles is identifying the right people, who can successfully lead others through out technical assignments and small to large projects. This taught, and still teaches him, the importance of selecting and nurturing the unique skill of technical leadership. This also taught him how hard this process is, and how error-prone we are when trying to get and train the right leads.
Doncho's hobbies include traveling, computer gaming, and Bulgarian folk dancing. He's a proud father of three, which often teaches him how hard is to implement leadership learnings at home.
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Vladimir Mutafov Software Engineer | Progress
Vladimir Mutafov is a software engineer on the NativeScript team at Progress Software. He's working on the NativeScript Android Runtime which provides all the high-performant JS to Java communication support.
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The In-Vehicle Infotainment System - A Modern Usability Nightmare
Ivan Zhekov Front End Developer | Progress
Ivan has been a web front end guy for the better part of his life. He enjoy languages, language constructs and cunning use -- think hip-hop, George Carlin and, as it happens, code. Ivan been lucky enough to be employed to do the one thing he do best -- describe the world around him through CSS and Javascript. Lager lover, chill out connoisseur & asics aficionado. Formerly, the most prolific RedBull user in Bulgaria.
One Dev Powerhouse: Using Azure DevOps & Xamarin.Forms to Develop, Build & Distribute Apps
Lance McCarthy Support Engineer | Progress
Lance, a Windows Dev Microsoft MVP, loves volunteering and mentoring developers in the community. Previously with Nokia and Microsoft as DX, is a Principal Technical Support Engineer at Progress Software specializing in .NET and Web technologies and prefers XAML and C#. In his spare time, he’s an author, hardware hacker, 3D printing fan, Hololens/WinMR dev and open source contributor.
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Teodora Todorova Co-Founder | bTalks Agile
Teodora Todorova has been in the software industry for 15 years – she started as a developer and went through almost all roles involved in software project implementation.
Throughout her career, Teodora has always been interested in examining the human behavior and in analyzing the project success factors related to processes/people. This is how her love for Agile was born, first as a mindset and attitude, and afterwards as established practices and flexible process. Agile is her real passion now and she tries to apply it in all aspects of her life.
In 2017, Teodora co-founded bTalks Agile, a consultancy that helps companies, teams and individuals to achieve better results in their Agile journeys by providing pragmatic coaching, training and consulting services. Her mission is to help people embrace the Agile mindset and optimize their processes by applying Agile practices.
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Based on the cards Nurgle and Slaanesh are also going to be removed. Or perhaps you just need some CoS support and therapy...
I don't think they'll make the Slaan any weaker, but I get the impression that they will have Seraphon settle colonies and establish lands and peoples. So I can see them being a race of two parts. Those who are still upon the great Arks and are summoned into battle by the Slaan, but also those who are now native to the Mortal Realms. Who establish a people, culture and territories of their own. I'd say that's the best of both worlds. It gives them both what they've had before, but also really opens up the lore and possibilities for them to adapt and evolve and advance as a race. There's a lot more story options when you've got a race as opposed to warriors who are temp-summoned only to do battle by great mages who mostly don't say very much.
Not necessarily. "Pointy Aelves" is a bigger newer release so it stands to reason that the marketing for it starts far sooner than for other releases. Just like how Sisters of Battle and Ossiarchs were started before other releases. It's very easy for GW to put a Seraphon release into February or even March before Pointy Aelves. The only reason they'd not is if there was some kind of problem or the release is far bigger and thus better to spread it out.
I'd be more surprised if we don't see Seraphon between now and then. I'd also say if GW doesn't release Seraphon before or at the very same time then they are setting themselves up for problems if Seraphon aren't a major release. Ergo if Seraphon come long after and its just a new book and perhaps spells+terrain then its going to feel a bit short changed.
Looking for models with bows or other ranged attacks
Overread replied to Buaku's topic in Age of Sigmar Discussions
I um your saleman is BADLY informed or you've grasped the wrong end of the stick when interpreting what they've said. Elves are very much still part of the game - they are now called Aelves. Right now they have broadly three armies - Daughters of Khaine and Idoneth which are full aelf armies in their own right and the Cities of Sigmar, which is a united force of men, aelves and dwarves under one banner. Within its battletome/army there are theme forces that lean stronger to one race over the others, but they still rely on each other for support and performance within the tome. Whilst they did lose a lot, the Cities of Sigmar still have: Aelves with repeating crossbows https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Dark-Elves-Darkshards Aelves with magical bow and arrow https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Sisters-of-the-Watch Meanwhile Idoneth have: Namarti Reaver archer units https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Namarti-Reavers-2018 A freaking shark with a bolt thrower https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Idoneth-Deepkin-Akhelian-Allopex-2018 Daughters of Khaine have: Melusai Blood stalkers https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Daughters-Of-Khaine-Melusai-Blood-Stalkers-2018 I should also note that GW is releasing a brand new Aelf army this Spring. We have no details as yet aside from the fact that they are based off the traditional high elf design ethos. We've not seen any models, save for the link below which went out today: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/01/17/the-return-of-teclisgw-homepage-post-1/ So basically we are still waiting to see actual models, but there's a very good chance that they will have archers, however its a "wait and see" situation at present. Orks - Orruks - most certainly use arrows - they have Arrowboyz! https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Bonesplitterz-Savage-Orruk-Arrowboys
General Hobby Chatter!
Overread replied to Overread's topic in Age of Sigmar Discussions
I'm not a huge King fan as such so I can't compare it to other series or films. It's a very quirky series and it takes a good while to get going. All I can say is that I've enjoyed the story, the quirks and the presentation and style. It's a bit of a puzzle at the start, but it provides a healthy rate of answer and fresh questions which I think engages the viewer. @Koradrel of Chrace sounds great that you're painting it up together. Hopefully that Banshee is the first of many models!
GW's Black Library Sales are slumping slightly. (A discussion)
Overread replied to shinros's topic in Age of Sigmar Discussions
Just a point - in the Ossiarch Podcast interview the guy being interviewed said that GW had been on a big Death Spree story wise within the game. He said that there was every chance that the focus was going to shift and that Destruction was very likely to get more attention moving forward. We've also seen that whilst Stormcast aren't going anywhere; GW and BL are far more keen to display other factions alongside. So I'm thinking we'll get a good few more Orruk, Goblin, Gutbuster and other stories emerging over time. Which I think is a good thing as its very clear that players and fans of a faction want stories and lore about their faction. Plus I think it also helps to keep the market and GW moving away from the idea of one poster-boy faction stealing all the attention. Ideally you want a more even spread - sure some armies will be more popular than others and some, like Stormcast, will get marketed as a starter force and thus will often have a higher up-pick than others. But if you can spread out attention over the whole brand that means more even sales and more even demands on production, stocking and support. It's basically good for GW as they aren't left sitting on "dead" armies with stock that refuses to sell; and its good for gamers too as it means more potential rules and model updates/releases.
I'm pretty sure originally GW approached Blizzard to make a game and then the contract fell through between them. Blizzard were far enough along that instead of cancelling the project, they redesigned the units, the lore and made their own game to release. Of cousre both gamers were very much born of the same era and were heavily influenced by the fantasy and tropes of the day. Ever since they've basically influenced each other. Space marines are very much an inspiration of Starcraft (protoss - eldar; Tyranids - Zerg; Marines - er Marines). Meanwhile AoS is very much playing to the epic fantasy worlds that WoW has helped make popular with gamers.
I really don't think so. I think with 2.0 battletomes GW has committed itself to supporting those armies. The only ones that "might" vanish could be something like Legions of Nagash where I'd expect it to just vanish into a "Grand Alliance Death" force. Though I'd actually say legions are superior as you get to have flavour from all the armies of death, but with its own balance and also with limitations on what can and can't be taken. Rather than proper GA armies where its everything and can run the risk of higher imbalance. If anything I'd expect armies like Idoneth to get more releases to bulk them up. Sometimes a small army isn't as interesting because its tactics and model offerings aren't as diverse. I know I had no interest in Genestealer cults when they were first released - now if I got my Tyranids going again I'd certainly want the stealers
AoS 2 - Ossiarch Bonereapers Discussion
Overread replied to Still-young's topic in Death
Reapers are boring to play against for people who put very little terrain on the table; who don't pay attention to the objectives and who mostly want to just charge straight into combat without thinking and kill stuff. If you do that against Reapers you basically lose if the Reaper force works properly and if the player used them right. Charging head long into mortek guard whilst they are shielding a harvester or two - that's doing exactly what the Ossiarch player wants you to do. Deep striking a group of units in to lock a harvester in close combat behind the mortek guard; forcing the ossiarch player to either pull the guard back to keep them in range of the aura and protect the harvester; or keep moving them forward to contest the objective - now that's messing with the ossiarchs. Also some dislike that at the end of the fight they might have won against Ossiarchs by objectives rather than killing; which is just people learning that there's more to the game than just straight killing. Petrifax are considered broken by many with the whole +1 save to the whole army. It's about the worst thing Ossiarchs do right now and about one thing I'd say is fair to consider somewhat if not totally broken. Otherwise they are simply a very tough army. They also require proper control too - their slower army wide speed and general fewer units on the table means that you've got to use them smartly and have a plan otherwise you can easily fall apart. They can't react as swiftly to changes as some other armies can. They can boost speed, but it costs them so you've got to make the cost count; and you can't do it to the whole army.
Well he's clearly shed the cone-helm addiction, but I'm not sure if moon crest helms are the way forward! Epic looking and nice to see GW teasing a bit more of the pointy aelves
By and large they don't. Most Chaos Tribes don't speak direct to their god(s) save through a prophet or similar gifted one. There's more than a few stories (in inferno) where Stormcast aren't just god warriors, but a myth (remember AoS is already at least a few hundred years on) from generations past. Dwarves even lost their god. I'd say the only god that speaks regularly to their people is the Everqueen and that's through their great link system. Even that has shown that whilst all are connected, her attention only focuses on limited areas and not the whole of everything. A bit like Nagash has control over all Death, but his will and focus are only within a limited scope. There are likely whole swathes of the Dead who never hear nor feel Nagash's control on them. Gods appear more common only because they are active in fiddling with the world and we, the readers, tend to read the epic stories that focus on the gods more so. Even Stormcast themselves consider just seeing or meeting Sigmar to be quite a major occasion.
Old World fantasy and 40K both have alternative languages, however in the vast majority of stories most of the characters speak a common tongue. It's a little bit like how in the modern world you can go to many countries and most will have some form of access to speaking english - either directly or through a translator. In fact even in many fantasy stories the whole "they don't speak my language" comes up less often than you'd think. Many times there's a common tongue. I think its one of those things where unless the language barrier is a major part of the story, its something that could be a huge barrier to story progression and getting side-tracked. Stargate TV series also showed the other end which is if every BL story had a language barrier then eventually they all end up using similar tropes and tricks to try and get around it to the point where, in the end, it gets forgotten about (somewhere along the way everyone in the SG universe started speaking American). It's one of those immersion things that can get left to one side at times and only tends to rear its head in the extreme. For example Flesheaters appear to have their own language and don't really "talk" to other races (granted they mostly just eat other races). Skaven also have their own language, however most Skaven that interact with characters tend to be "smarter" skaven which means they likely have some basic understanding of the most common language. Plus when you read a story from their perspective its all translated for us by the writer.
3rd Party Retailers of AOS
Overread replied to Saxon's topic in Age of Sigmar Discussions
The problem wargames have, esp Warhammer, is that they have a very high price and high volume of space demand to stock even a modest amount of product. Considering many geeky shops tend to be smaller; space is at a high premium. A hobby store is far more likely to favour something like Magic the Gathering which can show its entire range and accessories on one shelving unit for far less cost to buy-into. A GW store on the other hand has no competing products and no competing profit lines. They thus don't undercut a local store. If anything the 3rd party store will often undercut the GW stores prices on product. What the GW store often offers is a vastly increased range of on-hand product to sell. In addition, as Fairbanks notes; a local GW store has a staff setup that is only interested in getting more local players. A 3rd party will often have competing interests and outside of the staff's own interests; what gets pushed is likely linked more to sales and profits. A slow to sell product line like wargames might not be as favoured as card games which can turn over far faster and make far more impulse purchases. You can easily get a MTG player to buy another pack of cards when they walk in the door - for a wargame the only thing in a comparable price point is paint and brushes which typically people either want when they enter or don't want - its much harder to impulse sell on small purchases when most are going to be at the £15 or greater with basic boxes of troops anywhere from £20 to £35
My biggest revolution with metal was scoring the joint areas (both surfaces) with a blade in a cross hatch pattern. Before that it was always a battle of holding bits together for AGES for the glue to get tacky enough to hold it on its own. After learning to score joints that time holding went down dramatically. It even now is at a point where I don't even use the greenstuff trick with metal joins when I assemble metal models. The Greenstuff trick is that when exposed to superglue, greenstuff sets really fast. So you put a tiny slither in the join area, a REALLY tiny bit. The glue fuses to both sides and to the metal and forms a bond good enough to hold the parts together whilst the metal on metal bits glue up. The greenstuff has to be tiny though as if it covers out over the whole join area its then a weakpoint as whilst the glue holds it tight to the metal, the greenstuff holding to itself is a weaker bond.
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Interviews are the children of opportunity, writes Peter Osborne in the Introduction to the book A Critical Sense Interviews with Intellectuals 1996...
“Interviews are the children of opportunity,” writes Peter Osborne in the Introduction to the book ‘A Critical Sense: Interviews with Intellectuals’ (1996). They create a window opening into the secret smithy of the artist’s mind. Originally, interviews were an invention of nineteenth-century journalism and designed for the newspaper, to let readers peek into the lives of actors and writers. Interviews have lately entered the threshold of academic study and critical thinkers have questioned the role of interviews as a form of literary criticism.
What is Literary Criticism?
Literary criticism refers to the studies related to the classification, analysis, interpretation and evaluation of works of literature. Aristotle’s Poetics (fourth century BC) remains as one of the earliest and most enduring treatises on literary criticism.
Other eminent literary critics in the Western context would include, Longinus in Greece, Horace in Rome, Boileau and Sainte-Beuve in France, Baumgarten and Goethe in Germany, Samuel Johnson, Coleridge and Matthew Arnold in England, Poe and Emerson in America. Over the years, scholars have contributed to the rise of different schools of criticisms, such as the formalist, structuralist, feminist, post-structuralist, post-colonial and others.
Do interviews matter?
In the present age, when ‘all that is solid melts into the air’ and most writers are accessible to readers through social media, could interviews be considered as a trusted method of knowing the author? And if we believe French literary theorist, Roland Barthes, the author is long dead.
Thus, could we consider a mere speech to written performance, presumably by the spectre of the author, arranged between tables, as a sample literary discourse? Is it possible to critically study interviews as archives of literary observations and as testimonies to what is past, passing or to come of literature in a technocratic age?
Deliberations on interviews as literary criticism
Hyderabad-based, Sahitya Akademi Award-winning, Telugu short-story writer, Abburi Chaya Devi, says that the literary opinions in interviews originate from a very subjective perspective; hence, it would be risky to consider any discussion on the anatomy of literature during interviews as formal criticism.
The need to understand the literary and cultural relevance of interviews was recently highlighted at the Ethos Literary Festival, Kolkata, December 22-23, 2018, where a panel discussion, was conducted on, ‘Profiling the authors: Can interviews make or break images?’ by literary interviewers such as Jhilam Chattaraj, Sufia Khatoon, Anindita Bose and Al, Mooshina Muzammil. Poet and organiser of the festival, Kiriti Sengupta, merits the impact of interviews on literary criticism, provided, interviewers make an honest effort to highlight the creative virtues of the concerned work. He considers independent literary interviews better at understanding the author rather than the glossed ones published by big media houses. The idea further takes us into the debate concerning the theoretical lineage of interviews.
Eminent interviewer and critic, John Rodden in his book, ‘Performing the Literary Interview’ (2001) has suggested that interviews are an ‘emerging postmodern genre’ positioned between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture; ‘a form of literary performance’ and one that has been misunderstood due to its links with popular forms, and with the celebrity culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Rodden considers the literary interview as a serious genre, deserving scholarly attention and analysis.
Popular Telugu poet and writer, P Lalitha Kumari, also known as Volga, regards interviews as an opportunity for authors to self-construct themselves, hence, paving the way for an image that might not be real and extremely personal. She suggests that the shared investigation in the craft of a work by the interviewer and interviewee can be considered only as a sub-genre of literary criticism.
The evolution of interviews in journals as a sophisticated offshoot of literary discourses began in France. The first issue of The Paris Review, published in the spring of 1953, contained a lengthy interview of the writer, EM Forster. Although controversial, for its literary and financial implications, the interview set the pattern for the magazine’s legendary “Writers at Work” series.
Scholars of literature and culture often refer to interviews for academic scrutiny of literature. Dr C Murali Krishna, Professor, Department of English, Osmania University, considers interviews as useful secondary texts that add to the oeuvre of criticism on the writer’s work. He further highlights the unique ability of interviews to critique works while under-construction and present literature as a constantly evolving process.
At this juncture, it would be relevant to reiterate the reader-reception of interviews in the digital age. Presently, writers and critics break frontiers as engineers of digital spaces and they cater to a global audience who not only read but share, comment and create a community of critical suggestions or a participatory culture that further study the published interview and extrapolate a web of meta-discourses. Our digital handprints have enabled interviews to improvise the age-old art of conversation into islands of curated opinions floating, on a perpetually swollen sea of unceasing information.
The article aims to generate scholarly dialogues on the role of interviews as literary criticism. Simultaneously, it does not deny the relevance of interviews as the most alive and even unnerving form of knowing art and the artist. The beauty of interviews lies in its ambiguity or as noted critic, Emile Zola mentioned, in its “inherent hybridity”- the constructed aura of something natural; the difficult role of truth in portraying the artist and disguising the astute, inter-personal skills of the interviewer; the delicate power struggle between the interviewer and the artist.
In spite of such equivocal details, interviews like all enduring forms of art remain a witness, a spectator to the genesis, and shifting panoramic drama around a work. It dispassionately beholds the glorious flight of words into the skies of imagination and sometimes, the sad desertion of effulgent whispers form the mansion of literature.
- The writer is presently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, RBVRR Women’s College, Hyderabad. She has authored the books, ‘Corporate Fiction: Popular Culture and the New Writers’ (2018) and the poetry collection ‘When Lovers Leave and Poetry Stays’ (2018).
- Jhilam Chattaraj
Peter Osborne
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Kendra Wilkinson: I'm WAY Better Off Without Hank Baskett!
by Simon Delott at April 11, 2018 2:41 pm . Updated at April 11, 2018 3:23 pm .
Last week, Kendra Wilkinson seemed to tearfully confirm a divorce.
Since then, a look at divorce documents has shed further light on how her once-happy marriage to Hank Baskett has come to an end.
There is good news, however: Kendra is reportedly doing better than she has in a long time.
On April 6, after what has been characterized as months of "hype," Kendra filed for divorce after nearly 9 years of marriage.
However, sources tell Us Weekly that Kendra Wilkinson is "in a much better place" now that she's signed the documents.
That's a euphemism that people often use after someone has died, but it may be appropriate now that her marriage has come to a tearful end.
Kendra's BFF is Jessica Hall, as Kendra on Top viewers are likely aware. And apparently Kendra has been relying upon Jessica for emotional support during this difficult time.
"Jessica is helping Kendra move on."
Of course, Kendra has also been going on little adventures -- even hitting the slopes to snowboard away from her problems.
"Kendra feels free and wants to let loose a little bit and just have a good time!"
The source continues to explain why, as stressful as divorce can be, things are getting better for Kendra now that it's official.
"She’s been really unhappy and felt uncomfortable in the marriage."
Sometimes, the greatest emotional agony and turmoil comes before a major decision is made.
Once you've made it official, it's a huge weight off of your shoulders and you can breathe a sigh of relief.
In this case, it looks like the "weight" that was burdening Kendra was repeated conflicts with Hank.
"They have been fighting a lot."
That is so sad.
Just a couple of weeks into the year, Kendra revealed that 2018 has been the hardest year of her life.
So yes, she has been suffering.
In light of what we now know about how her marriage to Hank has fallen apart, this is not surprising.
In divorce papers, Kendra listed the date of separation as ... January 1 of 2018.
So yes, we can understand why, just days later, she was struggling and miserable.
We should point out that just because Kendra is happier now that the divorce is in writing doesn't mean that she and Hank are living separate lives now.
First of all, they are still linked -- and will always be linked -- by their two children, 8-year-old Hank IV and 6-year-old Alijah.
Second of all, as Kendra recently made clear, they're still going to see each other for various functions.
On Monday, the two were joined by their children from the Netflix premiere of Lost in Space.
(Fans will remember Kendra's bizarre music video from a couple of years back. The new Netflix series does not look like a hot mess, however)
Some fans, though they're glad that she's in a better place, worry that Kendra is experiencing the calm before the storm.
It's not uncommon for people to feel visceral relief upon signing divorce papers, only to learn that it's just a brief intermission of peace before the divorce turns sour.
Let us all hope, for their sakes and for the sakes of their children, that Kendra and Hank can keep things amicable even as they begin to decide things like custody arrangements and division of property.
Together or apart, parents should always put the well-being of their children first.
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Number of unemployed up 5.25 per cent in twelve months - CSO
New data shows that the number of people employed at the end of September was down 46,000 on the same time last year.
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THE NUMBER of people in the Irish labour market who were unemployed at the end of September was over 5.25 per cent higher than at the same time last year, new figures have shown.
The Central Statistics Office’s National Household Survey shows that the number of people unemployed stood at 314,700 at the end of the third quarter – up by 15,700 on the same time last year, a gain of 5.25 per cent.
In the same interval, the number of people employed fell by 46,000 – or 2.5 per cent – to 1,805,500.
The quarterly statistics show that the total labour force fell by over 30,000 people last year, between combined retirements, emigration and deaths.
The number of people resident in the state who were not in the labour force – retirees, people under working age, those in full-time education or those simply not seeking work – grew by 25,300.
The largest fall in employment in the last year came in the education sector, which lost 12,000 workers (8.1 per cent), while accommodation and food services lost 8,500 workers and the industrial sector lost 7,700 staff.
When seasonally adjusted, the unemployment rate increased from 14.2 per cent to 14.4 per cent. That rate rose to 14.5 per cent in October.
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Home > Entertainment > Bollywood > After Shahid Kapoor in Jersey, Sidharth Malhotra to play lead in Dil Raju’s next?
After Shahid Kapoor in Jersey, Sidharth Malhotra to play lead in Dil Raju’s next?
After Marjaavan, Sidharth Malhotra will be next seen in Dil Raju's next project
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Dil Raju is a renowned Indian film producer, who is popularly known for his contribution in Telugu Cinema. With a Jersey remake, Dil Raju is all set to make his debut in Hindi film industry and the shooting of the film has already gone on floors. Dil Raju’s Bollywood debut stars Shahid Kapoor and Mrunal Thakur in the lead roles.
If anything to go by the latest buzz, Dil Raju, who is the owner of Sri Venkateswara Creation, will be collaborating with Bollywood actor Sidharth Malhotra for his next. If the rumors come true, Sidharth Malhotra will be next seen in a Hindi remake of a Telugu movie.
According to the latest buzz, Sidharth Malhotra has already been roped in for Dil Raju’s next. In addition, makers are currently busy acquiring the rights of remake of the Telugu film.
The upcoming yet-untitled film will be scripted by Milap Milan Zaveri and co-produced by Bhushan Kumar and Nikhil Advani. Once the formalities are done, makers will officially announce the cast and when the film will go floors.
A source was quoted as saying by Mumbai Mirror, “Recently, Bhushan approached Siddharth with a new action film which is being scripted by Milap. Sid has shown interest in the subject and the makers are working towards developing the script further.”
Sidharth has recently wrapped up the shooting of the biopic of Vikram Batra – Shershaah, directed by Vishnu Vardhan and produced by Karan Johar.
Prior to this, Dil Raju had produced multiple hit movies including Sathamanam Bhavati, Fidaa, and F2 – Fun and Frustration and currently waiting for the release of Mahesh Babu starrer Sarileru Neekevvaru.
Sarileru Neekevvaru is scheduled to hit the theaters on January 11, 2020.
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Latvian man held hostage by beaver, police assume it’s a prank
Long story short: It wasn’t a prank. But just wait until you see the other crazy headlines we’ve rounded up this week.
Beaver attacks Latvian man, who couldn’t be helped because police thought his report was a prank call
How unfortunate is that? A man only identified as Sergei was walking late at night in Latvia when a beaver sprang out of the bushes and bit him on the leg. When he tried to run away, the beaver bit him again, and then refused to let him get up. “The beaver was in effect holding Sergei hostage,” a Latvian public broadcaster reported. Sergei tried to call the police, but officers thought the call was a prank. Desperate, he tried a friend instead–who initially thought it was a joke as well–but eventually believed him. Sergei’s friend was actually pulled over by police on his way over to the scene for speeding, but when he explained the situation, they all headed down together and were able to free Sergei from his toothy tormentor.
French statue gets detachable penis to thwart thieves
Looks like someone is super envious of Hercules’ manhood. In an effort to stop rampant penis theft, a town in France has decided to install a removable appendage on its statue of the Greek hero Hercules. The deputy mayor said the penis will now only be affixed to the statue during special, public ceremonies. “This is the best solution, otherwise you just end up constantly chasing after the anatomy of Hercules.” Martine Phelippot said. Here’s what the statue looks like now:
Arcachon : il faut mettre une prothèse aux attributs d’Héraclès, souvent “raccourcis” https://t.co/BWzTKcLhos pic.twitter.com/7QszTAjLUx
— Sud Ouest Bordeaux (@SO_Bordeaux) April 19, 2016
Man accused of stealing food at Arby’s claimed he’s a time-traveling alien
Apparently theft isn’t such a big deal in the future. An Arby’s manager in Oklahoma told police that a man entered the restaurant demanding food before he suddenly hopped over the counter and went into the kitchen, where he allegedly grabbed handfuls of chicken and bacon. Then, having got what he needed, the man apparently went outside into the parking lot, where witnesses say he began kicking cars while continuing to scarf down the meat in his hands. When officers arrested him, he said that he was from another planet four years in the future. Police believe he may have taken a mind-altering substance. Shocker.
Police nab chicken for crossing Kingston Road
Why did the chicken cross the road? To try an outrun the long arm of the law, apparently. During morning rush hour in Toronto this week, a rogue chicken brought traffic to a halt after he wandered into the middle of a major street. Police reported on Twitter that there was word of a “chicken running loose” and that “Units are [on the way].” Once the bird crossed to the other side of the road, it was immediately apprehended by officers.
Update: The chicken has made it to the other side of the road. Now in custody! Traffic in the area back to its regular flow.^adc
— Toronto Police OPS (@TPSOperations) April 19, 2016
Guy installs beer pipeline that runs from the store to his sink
He’s bringing new meaning to the term “beer on tap.” Russian mechanic Andrey Eremeev managed to convince his local beer store, which is located on the first floor of his building, to install piping from a keg in its cooler room directly to the faucet in his apartment. Because there were no standards or laws in place for such an idea, the beer store said approval came easily. Eremeev now has two taps in his kitchen: one for water, and one for beer.
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Your Morning - Sep 30
RuPaul’s Drag Race is making a trip across the pond
One of the queens is Canadian!
We’ve almost made it through September, which was packed with fall premieres, but there’s still a ton of great new shows—and a returning favourite—to enjoy next month.
So, with so much great TV coming up, where should you get started? etalk’s Traci Melchor breaks it down:
An only child, Julia, (played by Brittany Snow from Pitch Perfect) finds her life turned upside down when her father (played by Timothy Hutton from American Crime) reveals that, over the course of his prize-winning career as a pioneering fertility doctor, he used his own sperm to conceive upwards of a hundred children. This causes her to unite with two of her half siblings, Edie (played by Megalyn Echikunwoke from CSI: Miami and 90210) and retired Olympic athlete Roxy Doyle (played by Emily Osment from Hannah Montana). As these three young women slowly embrace their new reality, they will attempt to form an untraditional bond as sisters, even as they must welcome a tidal wave of new siblings into their rapidly expanding family.
RuPaul makes a trip across the pond in search of a British queen with all this and more in RuPaul’s Drag Race UK! The ten competing queens in the UK version of the show include: Baga Chipz, Blu Hydrangea, Crystal, Cheryl Hole, Divina De Campo, Gothy Kendoll, Sum Ting Wong, Scaredy Kat, The Vivienne, Vinegar Strokes
Letterkenny returns with a new six-episode season seven. The season revolves around the dustups Wayne (Jared Keeso) and his buds get into with their small-town rivals. The new season comes out the Friday before the Thanksgiving long weekend, so you have time to binge the new season
Watch the video clip above for more of Traci’s recommendations, and head to this website for more recommendations.
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Thorson helps No. 20 Northwestern beats Illinois 24-16
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) With nothing really to play for, and with the Big Ten championship game looming next weekend, Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald decided to pull many of his starters in the second half Saturday against rival Illinois.
Fitzgerald stuck with the plan in spite of unexpected tense moments down the stretch.
Clayton Thorson accounted for three touchdowns, Isaiah Browser rushed for 166 yards on 18 carries and No. 20 Northwestern beat Illinois 24-16 for its seventh straight Big Ten win.
Thorson completed 12 of 18 passes for 110 yards and two TDs. He also ran for a score, and Bowser posted his fourth 100-yard game of the season.
Neither was on the field as the game tightened late.
''You should have heard the headphones,'' Fitzgerald said of the communication with coordinators Mick McCall and Mike Hankwitz. ''`Hey, I want ...' No. `Hey, can I have ...' No. `But what about ...' No.
''Sorry, I apologize to Mick and Hank. But to win our rivalry game with the amount of guys we had out - and what I didn't allow our coordinators to do - was awesome by our guys.''
The Wildcats (8-4, 8-1, No. 19 in CFP) will face No. 10 Ohio State in the championship game in Indianapolis.
''We've got an unbelievable opportunity in front of us,'' Fitzgerald said. ''I'm fired up to take the Purple to Indy. That's our goal every year, to win the Big Ten West. We've finally gotten over that hump, and now we have an opportunity, a 60-minute opportunity, to take this team to the Rose Bowl.''
Illinois (4-8, 2-7) lost for the sixth time in seven games. AJ Bush Jr. completed 23 of 39 passes for 281 yards and a touchdown, and Ricky Smalling finished with seven receptions for 72 yards and a TD.
''Our guys fought hard from start to finish,'' Illini coach Lovie Smith said. ''We left a lot of plays out there would like to have over, but the guys competed.
''We know we need to improve on a lot of things. But I like the way the guys came to work each day.''
Northwestern retained the Land of Lincoln Trophy with its fourth straight win in the series, tying its longest winning streak.
''Beating our rival every year has been awesome,'' said Thorson, who started all four games.
With Illinois driving for a potential tying score, linebacker Paddy Fisher intercepted a Bush pass at the Northwestern 8-yard line with 3:34 remaining. The Wildcats, with TJ Green at quarterback and backups at running back, then ran out the clock.
The Illini have dropped 23 straight and 32 of 33 against teams ranked in the AP poll since beating No. 1 Ohio State in 2007.
Illinois moved the ball effectively - particularly through the air - in the first half, but only managed a pair of Chase McLaughlin field goals.
Northwestern was leading 7-6 when it scored on its final two possessions of the first half.
Thorson capped an 11-play, 75-yard drive with a 1-yard sneak. The Wildcats got the ball back with 1:47 left, and Thorson found Riley Lees for a 5-yard TD pass.
Jake Collins added a 25-yard field goal on the opening drive of the second half to make it 24-6.
FINISHING STRONG
Although the West Division title was clinched two weeks ago at Iowa, Thorson said the last two games were far from meaningless. ''We never wanted to let off the gas,'' he said. ''We never wanted to back into the Big Ten championship game.''
NO CHANCE
Fitzgerald was asked if there was a chance Thorson might re-enter the game if Illinois had tied it. ''One hundred percent, no,'' he said. ''One million percent, no. Infinity, no.''
Illinois: The Illini are one of the youngest teams in college football, and they played like it. They had explosive plays throughout, but had to mostly settle for field goals because of mistakes at the wrong time. Smalling is elusive and routinely broke free in the secondary. But he struggled to catch the ball and had nearly as many drops as receptions.
Northwestern: Despite saying they wouldn't overlook Illinois because it was a rivalry game, the Wildcats clearly didn't have the same fire as in previous weeks. Bowser was shut down in the third quarter and Thorson was replaced by Green early in the fourth.
''I felt like we could win with the personnel we had in the game,'' Fitzgerald said.
Illinois: Hosts Akron in the 2019 season opener on Aug. 31.
Northwestern: The Wildcats have dropped six straight against Ohio State and have beaten the Buckeyes just once since 1972.
More AP college football coverage: https://apnews.com/Collegefootball and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25
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Manchester United's Harry Maguire Challenges Liverpool's Andy Robertson To A Snooker Match
Written by Monkey Woods
It was close, until the second frame
They played in the same Premier League team in 2017, but central defender, Harry Maguire, and left-back, Andy Robertson, have gone up in the world since then, and the two friends are now star players for Manchester United and Liverpool, respectively.
This week, however, the pair ditched their football boots, and donned their waistcoats and bow ties for a charity snooker showdown at a Working Men's Club in Manchester, after Maguire challenged his Scottish pal to a match.
In a sequence of play that resembled Manchester United's season so far, Maguire somehow won the first frame after a series of flukey pots, but Robertson stormed back to win the next ten frames, to emerge victorious by 10-1.
Proceeds from the contest at Cheadle Hume WMC are to be presented to the players' former club, Hull City, whose supporters still feel they were short-changed by Maguire's £17.5million transfer to Leicester City, and Robertson's £8million move to Anfield, both in 2017.
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Ford Mustang BULLITT arriving October 2018
Ford Mustang BULLITT the most powerful Mustang GT yet sold in New Zealand, arriving October 2018.
Ford Mustang BULLITT will be the most powerful Mustang sold by Ford New Zealand, celebrating one of the most famous car-chase scenes in motion picture history
Enthusiasts will be able to secure one of a strictly-limited run of 50 Mustang BULLITTs destined for New Zealand, with each example individually numbered and finished exclusively in Dark Highland Green with gloss-black Torq Thrust-style alloys
Mustang BULLITT is a highly-specified Mustang, with Recaro Leather seats, 12-speaker premium B&O Audio System, Autonomous Emergency Braking, Lane Keep Assist, Adaptive Cruise Control as well as technical upgrades including MagneRide suspension as standard
The Ford Mustang is the most popular sports car in New Zealand, and has been the best-selling sports car in the world the last three years, with 125,000 sold across 146 countries during 2017
Auckland, June 19, 2018 – The Ford Mustang BULLITT will be in New Zealand showrooms this October, in time to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the iconic Steve McQueen film that saw the Hollywood legend drive a 1968 Mustang Fastback in one of the silver screen’s most epic car chases.
Ford New Zealand has secured a strictly-limited number of the Ford Mustang BULLITT. Only 50 units are destined for our shores, each individually numbered at the factory in Flat Rock, Michigan. The Ford Mustang BULLITT will be the most potent Mustang yet sold through Ford New Zealand dealerships and have an RRP of $93,490, [ii] including GST.
“BULLIT is the car-chase of car chases, and we know that New Zealander are passionate about Mustang, so we’re pleased to have secured our own batch of this unique model,” said Ford New Zealand Managing Director, Simon Rutherford. “It further builds on the Mustang story in this country as we respond to enthusiasm for even more choice, additional features and personalisation across the line-up. New Zealander are looking for Mustangs that really stand out, and Mustang BULLITT really makes a statement.”
The Mustang BULLITT will be the most powerful Mustang yet sold through Ford New Zealand, and previews the driving experience with a set of distinctive exterior hallmarks that in no uncertain terms makes this a ‘McQueen’ Mustang.
That starts with the exclusive Dark Highland Green paintwork, exclusive to Mustang BULLITT, matching the colour of the 1968 Fastback driven in the film. Building on the look, gloss-black 19-inch Torq Thrust-style alloys contrast the bright-red calipers of the Brembo brakes.
A BULLITT fuel filler cap is one of the considered additions, as the rest of Mustang BULLITT has seen the regular Mustang badging removed for a smooth, focused aesthetic. Mustang BULLITT stands up, and stands out.
Based on the updated Mustang GT, which is louder and more potent than its predecessor, Mustang BULLITT will be offered exclusively as a V8 coupled to a six-speed manual, true to the Mustang Fastback that hurled around the streets of San Francisco in the 1968 classic.
The 5.0-litre has been upgraded for heightened performance, with an Open Air induction and intake manifold, with 87mm throttle bodies, Ford Racing air-filter and a PCM (Powertrain Control Module) shared with the Shelby Mustang GT3.
Lifting the bonnet will reveal the most potent V8 yet fitted to a Mustang in New Zealand, with unique BULLITT badging from strut-tower to strut-tower. Mustang BULLITT’s Coyote V8 delivers 345kW and 556Nm.
BULLITT’s innovation extends to the standard six-speed manual, which has been extensively reworked for 2018. It will offer Mustang’s rev-matching system, which delivers smoother downshifts accompanied by a ‘blip’ of the engine, adding to the vocal drama delivered by a standard Active Valve Exhaust.
With four modes, the Active Valve Exhaust lets you move from subtle to sledgehammer, on top of Mustang BULLITT’s individual Drive and Steering modes.
Mustang BULLITT: Style with Smarts
Mustang BULLITT features both smarts and style. Mustang BULLITT comes with Mustang’s MagneRide suspension an option on ‘regular’ Mustang GT in New Zealand - as standard equipment. The MagneRide Damping System is new for Mustang in 2018 and optimises ride and handling in a variety of situations.
This special edition Mustang also comes standard with Autonomous Emergency Braking, Lane Departure Warning, Lane Keep Assist as well as Adaptive Cruise Control. Mustang BULLITT’s Driver Assist Technology also helps the driver with auto-levelling headlamps, automatic high-beam and an 8.0-inch full-colour reversing camera.
SYNC® 3 [iii] with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto [iv] is standard, but like regular Mustang GT, BULLITT comes standard with native satellite-navigation to give customers a wide choice of mapping and ways of getting from A to McQueen.
The unique interior offers signature tributes taken straight from the silver-screen BULLITT Mustang, building on the visual drama of the unique exterior. From the moment you grasp the its door-handles, BULLITT delivers with BULLITT scuff plates, unique finishes and green-stitched dash, door trims.
New Zealand BULLITT owners will also enjoy the heightened experience of a 12-speaker Premium B&amp;O Audio system as they ride securely and comfortably in leather Recaro seats – standard from the factory.
From the driver’s seat, BULLITT features Mustang’s new 12.4-inch digital instrument cluster, which includes visual changes between Drive modes, taken directly from the Le Mans-winning Ford Performance GT sports car. Capping off the BULLITT theme inside is the stark-white cue-ball gear-shift knob and unique stitched gearshifter boot to make this special model unmistakably BULLITT.
Mustang BULLITT has your number
Every Mustang BULLITT will have its own individual number, which will be proudly etched into the passenger side’s unique BULLITT plaque. The New Zealand market will receive 50 Mustang BULLITTs commencing in October 2018, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Steve McQueen’s Bullitt, which first screened in theaters on October 17,1968.
New Zealand customers have made Mustang the nation’s favourite sports car, topping the sales charts in both 2016 and 17. The Mustang, which was developed for the first time as a global model, has also been the best-selling sports car in the world for the third year in a row, topping sales charts in 2015, 2016 and 2017 While order books are already open and filling fast, the Ford Mustang BULLITT will arrive in dealerships in New Zealand in October, 2018 with a Recommended Retail Price from $93,490[i].
Overseas model shown.
[i] Recommended Retail Price only. Price shown includes GST. The selling price of any vehicle is at the discretion of the selling Dealer.
[ii] Recommended Retail Price only. Price shown includes GST but excludes Dealer delivery fee and statutory charges. The selling price of any vehicle is at the discretion of the selling Dealer.
[iii] Not all SYNC® 3 features are compatible with all phones. For compatibility, see ford.com.au/sync.
[iv] Apple CarPlay is a trademark of Apple Inc. Android™ is a trademark of Google Inc. Both require phones with compatible versions of Apple iOS and Android™ (respectively), active data service and genuine USB cable (available separately). Message and data rates may apply. SYNC® does not control Apple CarPlay or Android Auto while in use; Apple Inc and Android™ (respectively) are responsible for their functionality. Warning: Local laws prohibit some or all of the text messaging functions while driving. Check your local road rules before using these functions.
[v] IHS Markit data 2015, 2016, 2017
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TIMOTHY NOEL'S WEB NOVELS
Chrysalis Experiment
S01E05: Amber Roses, Golden Eyes
Amber Roses, Golden Eyes
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Aleksei's bicycle tires sang a calming drone against the pavement. His short hair danced and his copper eyes squinted against the breeze, as he cruised down the streets in an effort to beat the imminent rush-hour traffic and darkening sky that would make the trip unnecessarily hazardous. He wavered, and almost fell, when his wet hands slipped off the handlebars, causing his elbow to hit the bicycle frame painfully. After righting himself, he dismounted and pushed his bicycle to the side-walk.
He rubbed his hands together, and felt water run off as though we were squeezing a soaked rag, the droplets hitting the ground loudly. He almost let out a cry of surprise but clamped his mouth shut.
He hurried into the closest alley with his bike,next to a small pastry shop, and sat dejectedly on an abandoned bucket.
He stared at his fingers in hopeless resignation. Over the course of the day, his hands had continued to become wet and wrinkled from the moisture. This was something unnatural, even more so since his hands did not feel cold being wet in the March air. He considered stopping by a clinic, but he had an aversion to doctors, particularly if it entailed needles.
As the sun set, fog crept through the city, like garments laid out to be tread on by a king. With the darkening of the sky, Aleksei’s hands dripped faster. He stood up, frustrated with his predicament. As he rose, he saw two columns of the fog flow up to his hands and condense. His fingers were now trickling steadily. In a panic, he ran. Reaching the opposite end of the alley where it intersected with three others, he glanced back to see what had become of the phenomenon. The two columns drifted towards him, and like toddlers, they stumbled and fell, then vanished upon the ground. Aleksei panted a moment, supporting himself on his knees, when a feeling of unease caused him to look back. The fog, from which he had fled, was nowhere in sight, but there was something else yet unseen. There was a rushing sound all around him, like the panting of a massive dog that had finished a long chase.
Aleksei looked down the other alleys as the sound echoed against the walls. He saw three toppling walls of mist approach him like a flood. The alley he had fled from suddenly did not seem so frightening. He ran back the way he came, towards his bike. Just as he was a mere stride away, a fourth wave appeared around the store front before him, cutting him off from the side walk. With nowhere to go, he stopped and shielded his face with his arms and shrank back. He felt the cool vapour whip around him. The noise reached a crescendo, as if he was inside a giant, gasping throat.
He fell to the ground, and screamed. “God! Get me out!” He curled up into a tight ball and covered his ears. Laying still, his breathing calmed and he began to think of how he got in this insane situation. As his heart slowed, the clamour around him decreased. Sitting up, he looked. The vapour that had been thundering furiously was still there, but now it circled him harmlessly on the ground, like spiralling snow centring around his left hand.
He cautiously rose and removed his hands from the fog. In the brief moment between his hands being separated from the white carpet, and the two snakes of mist reaching for them, the incessant stream of water from his fingers stopped. But as soon as the fog caught up with his hands, water resumed condensing. With a sense of relief, Aleksei realised that it was not his own water he was losing. Rather, he was attracting moisture from the air. Feeling both dejected and scared, Aleksei sat on a stray crate as the fog crawled up his legs, seeking his saturated hands.
For a long time, he closed his eyes and thought intently. A doctor was completely out of question. This was no medical issue. As he thought on what was to be done now, one particular memory came to the forefront. It was science class from primary school. Starting from there, he began whispering to himself, reviewing the facts he had learned concerning the physics of water.
“Condensation is present when the water, or the surrounding environment, goes through a temperature change. It occurs only when there is moisture present in the air. Condensation such as dew happens best on stationary surfaces...”
Keeping that trend of thought, he began waving his hands back and forth. The fog followed. His hands did drip less, but he certainly could not wave his hands for the rest of his life. Two things stood out for him. First, when he moved fast enough, the fog would over-compensate its momentum and flow away before returning. Second, his left hand seemed to attract the mist more than his right.
Aleksei began to concentrate on the fog itself. He thought, if only he could fling it away far enough, that he would be given some time before the fog returned. He ran two steps and swung his hands to the back of the alley. This time, the fog did not just drift. It rushed as a breeze, that caused paper and candy wrappers to rustle and roll along the alley cement. As the fog began to return, Aleksei kept his left hand away and raised his right hand, pleading for the white carpet to halt. His right hand immediately dried in a puff of vapor and he was shocked to see that the bank of mist before him stayed still. The fog stalled, as if it had struck an invisible wall. He relaxed a little and the fog drifted toward him, but remained close to the ground. His hands were almost dry.
He ran, got on his bike, and rode home.
In the back of his mind, he kept thinking, 'Stay away! Stay away!'
Aleksei lay across the overstuffed sofa, reading a comic book, when he heard Mashka’s car. He hoisted himself up, and tossed his choice reading material onto the coffee table, taking a second to glance for finger shaped water spots on the paper. He grinned when he saw it was dry. Snatching a pair of house slippers from a rack, he laid them in front of the door, ready to be worn. When the door opened, he was met by a bright yellow bouquet.
Mashka neatly kicked off her shoes, and nudged them beside her brother’s.
“So, how was your day?” she asked as she donned her slippers.
“Fine,” he replied, stepping out and closing the door behind her. “You had a guest.”
“Really? Who?”
Aleksei sounded annoyed as he replied, “He said his name was Iosif Chekhov, your English professor. He just arrived and said something about a book he has for you.” He leaned closer, “He even wanted to stick around and wait for you, not that he could not just leave it here.” Taking the roses and the grocery bags, Aleksei carried them to the refrigerator.
He looked over his shoulder, “It would be nice if you told me when to expect guests, especially odd ones.”
“Prastite,” she apologised. “Wait--, odd how?”
“Odd in a nosey-neighbour kind of way. He even asked about the picture on the mantle. Then he said something about how Vladimir, you, and I are ‘gifted individuals’. I did finally succeed in politely dismissing him... after a cup of tea to keep civil.”
“I see…” Mashka stepped over to the coffee table and picked up the old book. She flipped through the pages half-heartedly, as she considered her troublesome situation. Chekhov was all too eager, after he had seen her leap. Unlike the rest of the observers, his expression had a strange expectancy behind the surprise. She considered telling her brother about her problem, but she did not know how to explain it. ‘Lyosha, I have been having trouble with my natural bodily functions working better than they should.’ She rolled her eyes at herself, and noticed the stack of papers beside her brother’s comic book. On closer examination, she groaned.
“Lyosha!” she cried.
“I’m right next to you!”
“A quarter of these answers are wrong!”
“Sounds about right.” he shrugged, and reached for the rest of the homework papers and his comic.
“You should at least try to hide the fact that you are not trying.”
“I work for a good enough grade to pass and avoid the stress. Besides, I have no desire to be a teacher’s pet, or attract attention on the school rankings.”
“And where did you learn this attitude?”
“Elementary school--, and before you say anything, for all my grades I have never once failed a test, quiz, or assessment. That’s a good enough record for almost any college.”
Mashka was at a loss. She knew what she wanted to say to him, but she had no idea how she would say it.
“And as for Chekhov,” he smoothly changed the subject, “are you certain that he is Russian? He’s nice, too nice, and very strange. He just-- feels like a foreigner.”
“No, but he is an English teacher, if that explains anything.”
Aleksei shook his head. “Well he grins like an Englishman.”
“I noticed,” Mashka replied, attempting to mimic the man’s grin.
Raising his eyebrow at Mashka’s pitiful attempt, Aleksei turned and began to ascend the stairs, taking the comic and his homework up with him. “Be sure to turn off the samovar before bed. Oh, and I had my shower earlier, so there should be hot water by now.”
Mashka nodded and glanced at the traditional tea heater. She felt the sudden need for caffeine, especially since she had to read that book. After pouring herself a cup of the dark tea she sat on the comfortable sofa. She opened the well-preserved binding and a small folded paper fell out.
She picked it up. On the surface was written ‘for Maryja’. She unfolded the note, and read the contents.
If anything over the next few days worries you, I may be able to help. It is difficult to be gifted.
-Iosif
Mashka’s breath caught in her throat, He knows! He knows about me, and he knows what’s wrong with me! But if he knows what is wrong, why be so vague? Is he trying to keep me a secret? From who? Suddenly she felt exposed, something was immensely wrong with this scenario. She immediately felt a connection between Chekhov's behaviour and the man at the flower shop.
I’m going to have to talk to him, find out what’s wrong, and get him to back off. The man made her feel uneasy. The best thing right now, would be getting him out of her life as soon as possible, and most importantly, keep Aleksei out of this.
For the next few hours, the two siblings were near silent. Both of them had strange experiences that day, and did not know how to explain them to one another. Aleksei was quite certain his sister would overreact, and Mashka thought her brother would think she was losing her mind.
After an unusually silent dinner, Mashka climbed the stairs to the water closet. She turned on the light out of habit, and was surprised that she had to wait for her eyes to adjust, only to wish that they had not. Staring back at her in the mirror were not her two blue eyes, but bright golden ones with black slits down the middle. She screamed and covered her face, as pain suddenly ripped through every fibre of her body.
Aleksei ran up the stairs and saw his sister lying curled on the floor. “Mashka! What happened? Why are you covering your face? Did you hurt yourself?”
He grabbed her hands away from her face so he could see. He was stunned when he saw the tearful golden eyes staring back at him. Once he recovered from his initial shock, he hesitantly reached forward and touched her face. After a few agonised moans, gradually her eyes began to change back, the colours fading to pale blue. They froze, neither of them making a sound. Mashka finally moved, and felt a cold, wet sensation, causing her to look at her sleeves. Where Aleksei had placed his hands, her shoulders were now soaked through. She stared up at him questioningly.
“I think we have some things to tell each other.” Aleksei suggested.
Dr. Marta Roth was flipping through the pages of her patients' test results. Nothing was urgent, just some slight malnourishment or elevated metals. None of her patients was in any trouble that a few pills and a diet could not fix. She was almost wishing something out of the ordinary would happen. She loved to tackle unusual problems, but the past month had been excruciatingly boring. Dr. Beck had all the interesting cases this month.
Nothing is going to happen around here. Maybe I should take a few days off. Unfortunately, her boredom did not last.
She felt a presence and looked up. She was startled to see a man standing in front of the desk. He was robust and bald, with cold grey eyes. “Who are you? How did you get in?” she demanded. “The door was locked.”
He raised his hand towards her and the air around him visibly shuddered.
“What did you do?” she choked out in astonishment.
“I made it so no one will hear you scream.” a cold smile crossed his face.
“You're part of the experiment!” Terror set in when she realised whom she was dealing with.
He smiled, revealing a perfect row of white teeth. “Yes I am,” he admitted, “Now let us play a game of twenty questions. The rules are: I ask a question and if you lie, I shoot you.” Seeing her terrified face he continued, “Do not worry, I won’t kill you. That is, at least until number twenty-one.”
In the hall, people walked by the room, none of them hearing a single, desperate scream.
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[Angela Major/The Janesville Gazette via AP]
Gun Theft
Gun Store Robbed By the Wisconsin Manhunt Suspect Had Been Burglarized Before
The disclosure comes as the ATF is revealing new details on a big jump in firearms thefts that has law enforcement leaders alarmed.
by Alex Yablon and Brian Freskos
·April 11, 2017
· Updated April 12, 2017 3:42 pm EST
A Wisconsin gun store burglarized last week by Joseph Jakubowski, an anti-government extremist who is now the target of a massive manhunt, had been robbed before, local police confirmed.
The Rock County Sheriff’s Department told The Trace that Armageddon Supplies in Janesville, the hometown of House Speaker Paul Ryan, was burglarized less than a year ago, on August 27, 2016.
Scott Kuhl, Armageddon’s owner, confirmed the prior burglary when reached by phone. He said that he had upgraded his store’s security after the initial robbery by installing surveillance equipment and reinforcing the exterior, though he did not provide specifics. When asked whether he had taken measures to secure the firearms in the event of a successful break-in, like placing weapons in a vault after closing the store or locking each gun up in its display case, Kuhl hung up the phone.
Last Tuesday, Jakubowski stole more than a dozen firearms from the same location. According to a criminal complaint, police responded to Armageddon after being notified by an “intruder alarm.” Surveillance video of the break-in shows Jakubowski using a hammer to break store’s front door window. After failing to unlock the door, he jumped through its window, landing inside the store. The video then recorded Jakubowski “scooping up handfuls of handguns” from a display case, before fleeing.
Police said they do not believe the two incidents are related.
Wisconsin is one of 41 states that do not require gun stores to secure their inventory with gun safes or locks; surveillance systems or alarms; bars on the windows; or barriers to prevent cars smashing through the front door.
Kuhl said that he could not recall exactly how many guns were stolen in the 2016 burglary, though he said he thought it was fewer than 10. According to the Rock County sheriff, a suspect in the case was arrested in that earlier incident, and Kuhl said he believed all those weapons were recovered.
Before he robbed Armageddon, Jakubowski mailed a 160-page manifesto to President Donald Trump threatening to attack public officials and schools, and detailing “personal angst against anything other than natural law or rule.” Rock County Sheriff Robert Spoden said Tuesday that he expects “some kind of endgame” with the 32-year-old suspect, who has a history of violent confrontations with police.
Jakubowski’s sister told investigators that he had drafted a latter apologizing to the gun store owner. The document said he wanted to buy the guns legally but, as a felon, could not. In the letter, the complaint stated Jakubowski “apologized to the owner for the theft, and thanked the owner for protecting the 2nd Amendment rights of citizens.”
More than 150 state and federal law enforcement officers are involved in the hunt for Jakubowski. Police said they would provide Speaker Ryan and his family with extra security.
The manhunt comes as law enforcement ramps up efforts to combat gun store burglaries, which have soared throughout the country since 2013. On Tuesday, officials of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Forearms and Explosives met with reporters at the bureau’s headquarters to announce that 18,394 guns had been lost or stolen from federally licensed dealers in 2016, or more than 50 a day. The new figures mark a 24 percent increase over the year before and the first time since at least 2012 that thefts rivaled losses as the primary reason weapons went missing from dealers.
The tally includes 7,488 guns that were taken during burglaries, 1,423 in larcenies — police parlance for shoplifting — and 370 in robberies, brazen cases where the thief wielded a weapon or threatened violence to make off with firearms.
Kevin O’Keefe, the ATF’s chief of operational intelligence, said that most burglaries happened at independently owned stores, which tend to be dispersed and located in more remote areas, than big-box stores like Wal-Mart or Cabela’s.
Another 9,113 guns were reported lost. Lost weapons are either reported by the dealers themselves or flagged during ATF inspections of the sellers’ books.
The tally of lost firearms can fluctuate depending on how many visits the bureau pays to dealers in a given year. The ATF sets a goal of inspecting every licensed dealer at least once every three to five years, but it has struggled to meet its own benchmark because staffing levels have not kept pace with the increase in dealers. In 2015, the ATF inspected 6.3 percent of the nearly 140,000 licensed dealers that year, the lowest percentage since 2005.
The ATF declined to comment on whether the store Jakubowski burglarized had any of the security measures in place that the bureau’s industry operations investigators recommend as best practices. An image on the store’s Facebook page shows an exterior with no barriers in place. Photos of the interior show ammunition and firearms, from rifles to semiautomatic pistols, stored unlocked hanging on racks or within glass display cases. However, those images date from 2012 and 2014.
The surge in thefts led the ATF to begin calling dealers when burglaries occurred in their areas and warning them to take precautions. Andrew Graham, the deputy assistant director who oversees the ATF’s regulatory enforcement, said the bureau had conducted “numerous” calls since the program launched Feb. 6 and was following up with dealers to see whether they adopted the bureau’s security recommendations. The ATF also hands out pamphlets and speaks to dealer gatherings about trends in thefts.
“It is an agency priority,” Graham said. “We try to educate the licensee with every opportunity we have.”
Most of the burglaries have happened in the South, where gun ownership rates are higher and gun stores more ubiquitous. Last year was indicative: More than half — 62 percent — of the 7,488 guns stolen in burglaries were taken in the South. The states with highest totals were Georgia, with 1,069 guns stolen in burglaries; Texas, with 639; and Florida, with 572. The Northeast, by contrast, reported 262 guns stolen in burglaries across the entire region.
O’Keefe said most of the burglaries were smash-and-grab jobs that were over within a few minutes.
“They are good about getting in there quick,” he said.
Law enforcement agencies that recover guns during criminal investigations — such as shooting and homicides — will often submit those weapons to the ATF for a trace so they can find out who originally sold the gun. ATF data indicates that in 2015, the bureau traced at least 1,642 guns back to losses or thefts from a licensed dealer.
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Educating The Next Generation of Gun Control Advocates
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Johns Hopkins University is the home of the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Yes, that Bloomberg. Daddy Bloombucks spares no expense in funding the university’s anti-gun research and advocacy efforts, which is primarily directed out of the Center for Gun Policy and Research.
That operation is run by Professor Daniel Webster, the Garen Wintemute of the east. In an effort to ensure that the ranks of “gun violence” advocates stay stocked, stoked and energized, the CGPR brought a gaggle of yoots to Charm City this week for an indoctrination educational session on gun policy and research (no doubt with a decided civilian disarmament bent).
It’s the first time the Center for Gun Policy and Research has brought high schoolers onto its Homewood campus for this kind of program, a reflection of a larger push by the public health school to expand access to its bevy of gun violence prevention research.
At ages 15 through 18, the assembled students are already leaders of grassroots efforts in their communities. They’ve founded organizations to fight gun violence and crafted legislative proposals to their local elected officials.
On Tuesday, they furiously scribbled in college-ruled notebooks as Hopkins researchers clicked through PowerPoint presentations on where to find reliable data on gun violence and convey it to the public in a meaningful way.
Gun policy researcher Cassandra Crifasi cautioned students not to allow themselves to be in a situation where they have to argue over the credibility of their numbers rather than the strength of their message.
– Talia Richman in They grew up practicing lockdown drills. Now, they’re at Hopkins to steer the conversation on gun violence
Who’s educating our next generation of gun rights advocates? …and please don’t say “the NRA”
Shire-man says:
Call of Duty and Nipsey Hussle.
I Haz A Question says:
Font Sight Training Academy in Nevada. They just announced last week that their mission is to become the premier training institution in the nation. They’ve formally paired up with Rick Green (Wallbuilders, Patriot Academy) to teach civics and constitutional history.
Victoria Illinois says:
Never heard of them. I’ve heard of Bloomberg. I’ve heard of Mom’s Against blah… blah…
blah… It’ means nothing if the average guy hasn’t heard of you.
S.Crock says:
As odd as this sounds Youtube and video games are laying a lot of the foundation for the next generation of pro gun advocates. Video games only so far as generating a strong interest in firearms and familiarizing users with models, calibers, and characteristics.
Bob Jones says:
In the local library half of the kid’s computers were being used to play violent video games the last time I looked. Boys, girls and whatever were blasting away.
The problem is there are just as many contrary voices on Youtube (soon to be a lot more as they increase censorship, too). People will just seek out what they already agree with, total unfettered access to all information is –we are finding– a terrible way for a person to build an identity/philosophy for themselves. You end up with equal portions of kids who learn the right thing, the wrong things, become scary extremists, jaded nihilists, or become apathetic from being overwhelmed. Hardly any effective leaders will ever come from such a free-form system. Kids need guidance to learn right from wrong, and they always have. So you need to have a formal system for educating young people. Boy Scouts was once such a system, though it never did teach the true fundamentals of citizenship in my experience, but obviously that institution has become thoroughly corrupted by leftists, so it’s out. The NRA could have become such an institution, but was also corrupted by competing interests. And obviously any new organization that attempts to undertake this task will be immediately targeted for destruction by leftists who rightly see it as a threat to their ideological hegemony. Count me among the hopelessly jaded, and because I’ve learned *too much* about the history and effectiveness of gun rights advocacy from all the information out there.
The Crimson Pirate says:
I have seen very few leaders in gun rights come from organized training or education and plenty come from the free form world of unfettered access to information. People know basic right from wrong. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you is pretty easy to grasp and kids figure it out pretty early.
The issue isn’t unfettered access to information. It is a socialist welfare state that allows children to be raised by the government without fathers while being supported by money stolen from others.
I would suggest you look into the research of people like Jean Piaget and Jaak Panksepp. It may give you some deeper insight into personal development.
Rocketman says:
Which leads me to firmly believe that the only sensible solution to this whole mess is to simply divide up America into different nations and let the citizens decide where they want to live and what government they want to live under, Communist, Socialist, Moderate Democrat, Republican, Constitution only or Libertarian. Give the Libertarians the states of Wyoming and Montana and let us live in peace. We won’t stick our noses into other nations business meaning that we won’t be wastefully spending the lives of our military men and women and the billions of dollars what have been wasted trying to enforce our will over them. Our taxes and regulations will be some of the lowest in the word.
frank speak says:
they’re in it for the long haul…and we had better be too….
GunnyGene says:
You are. I am. And so is every other responsible patriotic adult in the country. Or we should be if we aren’t. Don’t dump it off on some politician, school, organization, or neighbor. YOU do it.
SoCalJack says:
Amen Brother! The future of 2A is our youth. Teach them shoot straight and safe.
John in Ohio says:
Passing on the love of liberty and what it takes to remain free has been a large part of my entire life. I’m out preaching the gospel of liberty each and every day.
The US Militray.
Umm SoCalJack I’m not sure what you meant by saying U.S. Military. But if you were referring to the military as helping cultivate the next generation of pro gunners that’s far from the truth.
S. CROCK, I may be reaching when I said the military. Drawing only from my own experiences, I did not get into guns until I joined and and the same with a few folks ive meet when active. Talking to a few Vets, it was like that for them too. A lot of us that joined didn’t come from a gun owning household, but now we have them. I honestly have ow idea what percentage of active duty are first time users of small arms, but on the flip side I worked with a lot who had hunting backgrounds, but that was in the 80’s and 90’s. Thanks for the comment.
My son was in the military. Doesn’t care about guns. Joined to pay off college loan. Never fought overseas. There’s a lot of kids out there like that. It’s a job. Just like cops who don’t like guns. It’s a job.
@SoCalJack, Ok that does make sense. I was already very pro gun when I joined. But I have been surprised by how many soldiers have no interest in guns or are actually anti gun. Overall, yes it is still a gun friendly environment though.
IN Dave says:
We are!! That is why it is important to take new people, especially kids shooting. A day at the range working their way up to things like the scary ar15 or ak47 shows that guns can be used responsibly and safely. Everyone walks away safe and with the knowledge that guns are not the problem. An example of this is I have spent $100 in ammo taking a dad and his two sons out to the range a couple years ago. I still get text from them on a regular basis asking my thoughts and opinions on what guns to buy, who I am going to vote for, did I call/write my senator/representative about pro/anti gun bills, and how I address people who are anti gun (I remind them they were antigun at one time too). Just one of many such range trips and I have people voting for gun rights above all else, not to mention the numerous people they are now taking to the range to do the same thing. You are right the NRA is not the answer, it NEVER should have been.
Rad Man says:
I emailed Leonard Pitts of the Miami Herald and offered to take him and any of his friends to my local ranges. Haven’t heard back yet.
B.D. says:
zerofoo says:
We are.
My kids have been shooting since they were 8 years old. We also bring their friends to the range – and occasionally the parents of their friends.
Explaining individual liberty and the rights of self-defense can be a lot of fun for everyone.
It’s our responsibility to educate those around us. Don’t outsource this responsibility to someone else.
Will Drider says:
Responsible Moms and Dads are are educating their children at different stages of their lives with pertinent safety, handling self defense at home and hunting. We can only hope they also screen their potential dates and mates for like suitability
Why not say the NRA? They run or support about 95% if the organized youth shooting programs, be it their badge system or youth hunter education challenge.
GS650G says:
They start with children so the next generation is raised to fear firearms and place their trust and safety in the hands of the authorities. Pretty bad.
The first sentence –“grassroots”– directly contradicted by the second sentence. No local officials are taking high-schoolers’ proposals seriously unless they are already politically connected/supplied (and funded), ie not “grassroots.” Like those kids in Parkland, who ‘founded local efforts’ yet also unanimously had pre-existing connections to the national DNC offices or media outlets.
Chip in Florida says:
“…clicked through PowerPoint presentations on where to find reliable data on gun violence ”
I think he meant to say Party Approved Data from Party Approved sources.
Bloomberg’s ‘center for health’ or whatever exists to compile and/or fabricate such data sources. The purpose of this event was to essentially tether these young rabble-rousers to Bloomberg’s outlets, before they could be tied into others. Much like how the NRA gets rather jealous of other gun rights groups vying for donations, there is competition in the anti-gun world. For a decade or so, the Brady folks were the cool kids and got all the money. Ahead of the 2012 election, they were only able to contribute about $5000 to the presidential election, their finances had collapsed so badly. Bloomberg’s financial and media resources made his gun control side-project far and away the leader in his sector; he’s cornered the market. But that won’t remain the case unless he makes future leaders of gun control dependent upon his propaganda services. Hence this seminar on how to use Bloomberg gun control propaganda data sources in your policy arguments. If they NRA had a brain in their head or were serious about promoting gun rights, they would have had ‘outreach bootcamps’ doing exactly this for decades, and funded a think tank dedicated to creating arguments for gun rights & against gun control. Instead, Colion Noir had to be brought in on a half-assed NRATV channel with tiny visibility, to even begin the process of systematically delivering ideas & talking points (that I assume he mostly/entirely had to come up with himself) on behalf of the organization.
Johnny Go Lightly says:
Mike ain’t stupid. He is 77 yrs old. He knows if all goes well he has 10 yrs to go. Maybe more, maybe less. He has seeded his evil projects right NOW with 100’s of millions of dollars. When he kicks the bucket Lord only knows how much of his 50 BILLION DOLLAR WORTH will be directed to even more of these projects. We are screwed….
JP Ruiz says:
Throw in your personal towel then, coward. If you’re just gonna surrender and crybaby about, then do the rest of us a favor and get out of the way!
Ok tough guy. Kick in 50 million now ! You worthless scum with a big mouth but your contribution to 2A is probably jacking off to pictures in Guns and Ammo.
You’ve never read my posts, or you just ignore, but I suspect you’re nothing more than a leftwing, Bloomberg pooch-lackey, Democrat troll. If you are not, but instead an apathetic gunowner, then I’ve got news for you
Get involved with your Local and Statewide Groups. Get involved civically with your community over the firearms issue. Help your gun club organize meet and greets with people on the fence. The chips will fall where they may, but the fruits of your labor will pay off longterm.
My wife is 3 months pregnant, we have a family starting up, and we’re busy as hell with work. At the same time, we budget our time to be civically involved here in Southeast Ohio to exercise our Rights and be an example of it.
You with that “We’re Screwed” Mentality is a surrender-mentality. You’ve chosen to give up your Rights. Either you have a change of heart and get civically involved, or you can FUCK OFF!!
If it’s option 2, I’ll call the WWWHHHAAAAmbulance for you.
Ancient Chinese saying:
Wealth does not last longer than three generations.
Mike Bloomberg’s wealth will be unrecognizable in three generations. Freedom and liberty, however, persist with time – if we do our part.
Take your kids and their friends shooting. Show people, through your actions, that gun owners are good, responsible and reasonable people.
This is a long-term battle that will never be done.
Gov. William J Le Petomane says:
Don’t worry about the credibility of your numbers…
WI Patriot says:
Oh never…just make shit up as you go along…
N64456 says:
They should tell these “yoots” to stop selling drugs, and shooting people…
NH Guy says:
…Right, those pesky numbers are really meaningless. What’s really, really important is how emotional we feel.
“Gathered on a bench on Hopkins’ quad, a group of students started talking about how old they were when they first experienced trauma because of a gun.”
…Yes, it’s so much easier and better to blame an inanimate object for the actions of a gang banger thug.
“Madison Humes, a senior at Bel Air High School, said she signed up because she’s tired of people looking at her like just a kid. “I’m here to show the adults around me that I know what I’m doing,” Humes, 17, said.”
…Because children are so wise and adults should always do what their children tell them.
“Dozens of teenagers snapped in agreement.”
…”snapped in agreement?” Because clapping is so triggering? How woke. The Johns Hopkins seminar mentioned in this article gives one insight into how the next generation of our “rulers” is being developed. Tyranny 101.
Snapping is a leftist signaling thing, IIRC. Nothing to do with ‘triggering,’ so much as proclaiming “we are of one mind” to everyone in the vicinity.
Geoff "Guns. Lots of guns." PR says:
“Oh, snap: Campus kids drop ‘triggering’ applause to show approval”
“When a Yale student’s angry meltdown at a professor went viral, viewers may have noticed the crowd gathered and some students snapping their fingers. It’s the currently preferred method of showing approval in some circles, given complaints that traditional clapping can be “triggering,” or even painful to hands unaccustomed to work.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/oh-snap-campus-kids-drop-triggering-applause-to-show-approval
H’mm. It seems ‘snapping’ hurts like a motherfucker when you have broken fingers trying to heal…
Gadsden Flag says:
Is it just me, or does that scenario remind anyone else of the Hitler Youth form of indoctrination?
It’s no different from any other form of youth indoctrination, and there is nothing intrinsically wrong with that in any case. It’s a useful & necessary job of adults to teach the next generation, and the future belongs to whoever bothers to do it. Leftists tend to be more motivated since they have a clear, central mission to pursue, which their opposition generally lacks.
That’s something we had better learn to develop…
Swarf says:
You need schooling for hysterical, emotional reactionism?
All of the numbers, all of the research puts the lie to their stated goals, so what is the school for?
SAFEupstateFML says:
How to pose for the camera/organize the group to look bigger than it is on the news. Probably some public speaking and team building activities and whatever filler is needed to get accreditation and funding.
million says:
“…cautioned students not to allow themselves to be in a situation where they have to argue over the credibility of their numbers rather than the strength of their message.”
/clears throat, takes deep inhalation
/wheezes
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Which translates to………”Push The Propaganda”.
Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Ah yes, Daniel Webster. The Stalinist Doctor, and pooch-lackey figurehead pushing to make Doctors across America nothing more than wannabe cops who assist the Government with imposing police-state gun bans.
Their “research” at Johns Hopkins doesn’t even use FBI Uniform Crime Reports, just political campaign rhetoric.
Vlad Tepes says:
The real facts are that the younger generation no longer hunts as suburban blight has ravished and consumed millions of acres of farms and wood lots once open to the public for hunting and recreational shooting. If I as a young man could have got into a time machine and went forward into the future and stepped out of that machine in my home town of today I would not recognize where I was at because it has changed that much. Where farms once stood and fish pounds were brimming with fish now all that remains is miles and miles of asphalt, concrete and shopping malls with cheaply made Chinese goods for sale. Small towns have been gobbled up by Megalopolis that stretch for hundreds of miles in every direction. No one knows each other and no one cares to either. People who live there are transplants and are there because of their jobs and have no roots in the community and no life long friends or relatives, only work related “acquaintances of the moment”.
Today over 67 per cent of the public do not own guns. Kids are into video games not guns. Children have grown up to panic at the mere mention of a gun because of weekly mass murders in our schools. No other generation of children has ever went through this traumatic experience. It is no wonder that even if Bloomberg had never been born the gun hysteria in the country would not be any less.
A Lack of good high paying jobs, the destruction of traditional family life with a mother and father, high divorce rates, high crime rates, higher rates of mental illness all left untreated because society just does not care, random road rage because too many nut cases carrying guns, no hope of ever being able to retire in dignity or be able to afford medical care or even have vacation time or holidays off has driven many young people into such despair that mass shootings are a way of protesting the insanity that is now life’s reality within their own country.
All these complexities spell the doom of gun ownership in the U.S.
With the upcoming elections along with the implosion of the NRA gun owners are all living on borrowed time. An Australian/New Zealand type of confiscation is very close on the horizon and yes it can happen here and yes when the hapless gun owner minority is faced with economic and physical survival the guns will get turned n and melted down. The gun owner knows that his neighbors who do not own guns will turn him in if he does not comply
As Johnny Carson once said before he died “Nothing lasts forever”. “Yes it was fun while the ride lasted but the roller coaster is about to go off the rails and the amusement park is about to shut down forever “Vlad Teepes 2019”
jwm says:
As always every word you printed was a lie. Are you enrolled in the kapo bloomberg school pf bullshit? You haven’t a clue and it shows.
How’s that whole satan/bloomberg worship going for you? The day your overlords demand a virgin sacrifice is your last day here.
LampofDiogenes says:
So, Vlad, forgetting for a moment your throwing out of numbers you are obviously pulling out of your @$$, ‘splain to me how all this is going to happen in a country that:
1. Has the 2A;
2. Finally has a SCOTUS that seems to recognize that the 2A exists;
3. Was literally BORN in revolution against tyrannical government;
4. Has, by even ‘conservative’ estimates, as many guns as it has citizens?
Lemme put ya some knowledge, Vlad – Australia and NZ, WITHOUT a 2A and WITHOUT our national history of widespread gun ownership and use, are experiencing low-double digit compliance rates to their gun confiscation schemes. Your gun grabbers in the DEEP BLUE states of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and California have achieved low-single digit to low-double digit compliance rates to their dipshit bans and buybacks. And you’re gonna “round up and confiscate” 350 Million+ guns HOW, exactly??
We get that you are passionate about imposing YOUR vision of “right society” on the rest of us, and itching for the opportunity. I don’t think it’s going to go down the way YOU seem to think it’s going to go down. But, hey, it’s differences of opinion that make for horseraces, innit? Let the boogaloo commence, Vlad. See ya on the other side – Oops, no I guess I won’t. Well, have fun watching your fascist fantasy blow up in your face, then.
they’re first step is to make felons of us all…they’ll get around to enforcement later…maybe…
Eli2016 says:
“An Australian/New Zealand type of confiscation is very close on the horizon and yes it can happen here and yes when the hapless gun owner minority is faced with economic and physical survival the guns will get turned n and melted down. The gun owner knows that his neighbors who do not own guns will turn him in if he does not comply”
Sorry, wrong again VLAD. What you fail to understand – given your below 90 IQ, is that many of us hillbillies as you call us not only subscribe to Colt, Sig Sauer, and Glock to name a few but also subscribe to NASDAQ, S&P 500, and the Dow. We invest in the very corporations that you emulate and kiss ass to. And the revenue (millions) we take in supports our causes. Such as Pro-Life groups, Conservative Christian fronts and of course such endeavors as the GOA. Meanwhile you, a 20 year civil servant and former custodian of a federal building where you cleaned toilets for a living will have to sit on your throne and accept the facts that your type is not going anywhere.
The Las Vegas shooter however deranged was found to be a savvy investor who was worth several million. His investments included property and stock. We hillbilly conservatives have more money and power than your feeble mind could imagine.
Your taste is in your ass.
Mister Fleas says:
“Today over 67 per cent of the public do not own guns.”
https://www.statista.com/statistics/249740/percentage-of-households-in-the-united-states-owning-a-firearm/
43% of American households admit to possessing a gun.
“Children have grown up to panic at the mere mention of a gun because of weekly mass murders in our schools.”
There are no “weekly mass murders in our schools”.
Good, and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Hush says:
Rather let the door knock him out, far out!
Actually there were two big studies done and naturally you picked the one that looked a little less threatening. I will go with the 67 per cent out of personal experience. And remember too its a lot worse than even that because out of the remaining 33 per cent of gun owners not all are people with huge collections as many own only 1 or 2 guns and support tougher gun laws so the 33 per cent is very misleading as well. After the Florida shooting there were gun owners that took their AR 15’s and sawed them in two pieces showing that they had enough of mass killings with these weapons.
Nearly Half Of Guns In U.S. Owned By 3 Percent Of Population, Study Finds
question the validity of that 3% stat…sounds like more of the misinformation they constantly put out there to further their ends..
How does legislation against an inanimate object affect the behavior of people with an anti-social intent? And they keep talking about “gun” violence when a great deal of the violence begins with illegal drugs. And 50-60% of murders occur in about 5% of the counties. About three years ago around 25% of gun CRIME took place in 4 cities, Chicago, Detroit< Washington D.C. and lo and behold the home of Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
“””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””About three years ago around 25% of gun CRIME took place in 4 cities, Chicago, Detroit< Washington D.C. and lo and behold the home of Johns Hopkins, Baltimore."""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
You made a good point but failed to realize "the why". With a lack of high paying jobs crime increases dramatically. Guns get funneled into big cities from States that lack tough gun laws. With universal vetting of all gun purchases and safe storage laws we could cut down on tens of thousands of second hand and illegal guns ending up in the wrong hands and these laws do not take away anyone's guns. But do to the paranoia of the gun owners they resist commons sense laws and the situation has now deteriorated to the point where 67 per cent of non gun owners simply are fed up with the gun crowd and are saying "get rid of all the guns".
Vlad, buddy, I’m beginning to be concerned about your mental health – such as it is. Vlad, Vlad, Vlad – you can make a functional firearm w/$25 dollars and a trip to Home Depot. I can make a FULLY functional, semi-automatic firearm, a full AR pattern rifle, with hand tools and some billet aluminum (I’m not just flapping my gums; I’ve DONE IT). I can, with an expenditure of less than $5K, set up my such such that I could MANUFACTURE fully functional firearms on a small scale.
And guns are going to go away. Are you daft????
So, what color is the sky, on your world? Do you harvest the unicorn farts for energy?
You Far Right Wingers are a real gas. They claim we can do this and that but its already been tried. People who have made illegal silencers usually get caught after they have made only a few and it would be the same with guns. You ignore the fact that tens of thousands of guns would dry up overnight with tough vetting and safe storage laws. That dwarfs a few nut cases making a few illegal weapons who could go to jail sometimes in a matter of days. You fantasy world does not mirror history or reality.
VLAD’s a former civil servant who cleaned toilets and had no security clearance except for the restrooms. Can’t expect much from a resume like that.
The 2nd supports the rest. says:
Vlad, you seem to forget your history, that was already tried in 1775, it didn’t work out so well for the folks that tried it.
And the other thing you don’t seem to realize it says nothing about hunting in the 2nd amendment it was to Protect the rights of the people. Remember they just fought a war with the King.
straw purchasing remains the prime source of guns that find their way into the wrong hands…more needs to be done about that….
StLPro2A says:
”Killing is a matter of will, not weapons.
You cannot control the act itself
by passing laws about the means employed.”
The late Col Jeff Cooper, 1958
Handgun expert and founder of Gunsite Academy
A politician with a law never stops a bad guy with a gun. He only controls the good guys, which is his true agenda.
The bad guy with a gun…..or the mentally deficient guy with a gun……or the terribly distraught family member of a shooting victim…….is the politician’s Useful Idiot Tool to achieve his agenda……control of unarmed, defenseless people.
sound awake says:
theyre being brainwashed
the good old fashioned way
eric holder would be proud
the only good thing is that when these young men tell their girlfriends that guns make them feel afraid they will tell them that its time they both started dating other men
UpInArms says:
” Gun policy researcher Cassandra Crifasi cautioned students not to allow themselves to be in a situation where they have to argue over the credibility of their numbers rather than the strength of their message. ”
That pretty much sums up every conversation I’ve ever had with a gun-grabber.
Kind of a stupid statement, actually— the strength of any message is in the credibility of the numbers.
They were told not to get into an argument about, “the credibility of their numbers rather than the strength of their message”, So basically they’re admitting that they’re lying about their facts and numbers . They’re just evil people.
lying and the dissemination of misinformation have always been part of their methodology…and needs to be challenged at every opportunity…especially on the liberal websites controlled by the media…you can’t be passive in this regard…..
Straight out of the Nazi handbook.
sparkyinWI says:
Reducing violence is easy if that is what they really want. The FBI statistics tell and show us clearly where the gang violence is, break it down into sections even in the cities. So saturate the areas with police, arrest those that need arresting, charge them hard and put them away for long periods, get rid of soft on crime fools like that Foxx person, etc. The solutions are actually fairly simple because the majority of the violence is fairly restricted to very specific areas.
Of course this makes the poor assumption they really and truly want to solve this violence.
ask Chicago PD how effective that has been when the justice system undermines their efforts at every turn….
David S Keith says:
There won’t be any next generation of gun control advocates. We’ll divide before they take our guns away. If we divide up and lose the war that’s sure to come, then we’ll lose our guns, but I’m betting they’ll lose and also lose their lives rather than anything as emblemomatic as guns.
No that isn’t accurate at all.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Indoctrinating The Next Generation of Gun Control Advocates
There I fixed that for you. The difference is not at all subtle.
The Center for Gun Policy and Research receives and/or has received funding from, among other sources, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, The David Bohnett Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Funders’ Collaborative for Gun Violence Prevention, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Joyce Foundation, The Overbrook Foundation, The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and The Harold Simmons Foundation. The Center’s website, as well as Webster, have said that the research conducted there is done independently of any funding source.[1][2]
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MONDAY VIEW: UK passengers could lose out in BA-Iberia deal
By Tom Otley, Editor Of Business Traveller Magazine
Updated: 17:46 EST, 15 November 2009
The proposed merger between British Airways and Iberia is being touted as good news for the UK's business travellers.
Battered by the recession and losing hundreds of millions of pounds a year, BA has been forced into costcutting measures which have infuriated many frequent flyers.
Cutting a second meal service on long-haul flights in the carrier's business class cabin, axeing the hot towel service, forcing flyers to pay for seat selection on top of the price of a ticket, which already costs thousands, and now risking a strike over Christmas - all have tried the patience of even the most hardened fan of the airline.
Deal-breaker: Will the BA-Iberia merger be good news for passengers?
So will the merger be good news? After all, BA's chief executive Willie Walsh will be CEO of the new holding company, the imaginatively named TopCo, and BA shareholders have 55 per cent of the new company.
If the cost-savings, can be achieved, it can't be a bad thing, though the quote of a possible £360million of savings by year five of the integration is not even as much as BA has lost in the last 12 months.
It is obvious to anyone who pays even the most cursory attention to the sector why the pair need this marriage of convenience.
BA recently clocked up a first-half loss of £292million, while Iberia last week said it lost £294milllion in the first nine months.
And City analysts predict the pair could chalk up combined losses approaching £1bn this financial year.
Both airlines are fighting for their survival and have been forced to step out from behind their flags to pursue the safety in numbers option.
This is Money Blog (thisismoney.co.uk)
But for passengers, the promise of extra routes to Latin America and a greater choice of flights might come at a cost.
To understand why, look at the other airlines which have gone down this route. Air France and KLM performed a similar merger in 2004, and it is generally reckoned to have been a success.
There have been savings for the airlines involved. There is a merged frequent- flyer scheme to keep rewarding the airline's best customers.
The identities of the airlines have been retained to keep national pride, and their two hubs - Paris-Charles de Gaulle for Air France, and Amsterdam Schiphol for KLM - are still operating as before.
So could a BA and Iberia merger follow the same blueprint? Perhaps. But in the Air France-KLM case, both of those hub airports were - and are - equals, with room to expand if necessary, and neither operating at full capacity.
That is not the case with the hubs of BA and Iberia. Heathrow is famously busy, hence the delays and frequent demands for a third runway.
BA was one of the main agitators for a third runway at Heathrow along with BAA, the airport's operator.
The problems of BAA are well known. And only last month it admitted it had given up the fight for the third runway until at least the next election, and possibly beyond if the Conservatives form the next government.
That has left BA fighting for Heathrow. But, if this merger goes through, BA will have a second hub at Madrid, an airport which only in 2006 opened two new runways and a spanking new terminal designed by Richard Rogers.
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Urban Tree Diversity Conference - 12th Jan 2016
'Urban trees are central to providing healthy, vibrant and attractive cities throughout the world. They provide a wide range of ecosystem services, from mitigating the effects of climate change to providing a sense of place'
Arboriculture Australia is co-hosting the 2nd International Conference on Urban Tree Diversity with the University of Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia. 19 - 24 February 2016. At the asme time Arboriculture Australia will be holding workshops, their National Conference and Trade Exhibition and the Australian Tree Climbing Championship.
Thoughtplanters Director Mark Roberts will be running an ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualification (TRAQ) workshop prior the conference then presenting at the conference along with an impressive collection of national and international speakers
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Urban Tree Diversity @ the MCG - 16th Nov 2015
Urban Tree Diversity - where trees and cities collide
The 2nd International Conference on Urban Tree Diversity will be held in Melbourne 19 - 24 February 2016 - save the date and book your tickets. In conjunction with the Urban Tree Diversity Conference will be the annual Arboriculture Australia National Conference and the Australian Tree Climbing Championships.
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Roberts recognised with the Ron Flook Award - 12th Oct 2015
The New Zealand Arboricultural Association Ron Flook Award is an award given to elevate and recognise high standards of practice in Arboriculture. The recipients have demonstrated exceptional management of trees, whether functional or aesthetic in any stage of development. It is the highest award of recognition that the national association has to offer.
The 2015 Ron Flook Award was given to Mark Roberts on October 3, at the New Zealand Arboricultural Association's annual conference held in Nelson. The association recognised Mark for his tireless work and dedication to arboriculture on a national and international level. He was the youngest president of the association (being awarded a life membership in 2007), he has written over one hundred articles, been published in national and international magazines, written for and contributed to Standards, Codes of Practice and Best Practice Guidelines, Study Guides and Units of Competency. He has represented New Zealand with the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) for over twelve years becoming President in 2014. Mark has delivered training and presentations all across the world, has been involved in the management and training of over a thousand New Zealand horticulture and arboriculture students.
Mark is a worthy recipient of the Ron Flook Award and we are proud to have him as our Academic Manager. In a typically short acceptance speech, Mark we gracious for the recognition but pointed out that the past was the past and our future actions are more important.
Congratulations Mark.
Validation is almost over - 7th Oct 2015
Competency in Australian Arboriculture - ACH10 review is well under way
Current qualifications and units of competency in Arboriculture from the AHC10 are being transitioned to the National Skills Standards Council Standards for Training Packages. The review process is seven steps - it is currently at stage four. Validation is your opportunity to comment on the content of the training packages within these qualifications. A Training Package is an integrated set of nationally endorsed competency standards, assessment guidelines and Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) qualifications for a specific industry
This project is currently open for Validation for the next 24 hours. Click HERE for the link to the AgriFood Skills Australia review material.
The gavel has passed - 18th Aug 2015
Gavel | (noun) a small hammer with which an auctioneer, a judge, or the chair of a meeting hits a surface to call for attention or order
Our Academic Manager, Mark Roberts ended his term as the President of the International Society (ISA) on August 12 at the close of the 2015 ISA Annual Conference and Trade Show in Orlando, Florida.
Although the ceremonial passing of the gavel (where the outgoing President passes over control of the meeting to the incoming President) occurred at the opening ceremony, the presidential term ends at the close of the conference.
Mark posted on the Thoughtplanters Facebook page; "… it’s been an honor and a pleasure. 13 good years and so many good people, I suspect I'll miss it and I know I'll miss them".
Mark was appointed as the NZ Arboricultural Association’s representative to the ISA Board of Directors in 2002. There he served two terms before being elected onto the ISA's Executive Committee where he also served two terms before being elected as President.
During my time with the ISA we have gone from a 50 plus person super committee to an effective 15 person operating Board. It has been a long transition, mainly as it required 75% of the committee to vote themselves out of existence. The ISA has adopted a style of policy governance based on the Carver model where the Board provide direction through ‘ends statements’ – where the Board want the organisation to ‘end’ up. By using this style of governance the Board remain strategic and allow staff under the control of the Executive Director to work operationally – its hard keeping strategic and not interfering with the detail, but it's the right thing to do and the most efficient way of doing it.
Mark was the youngest President and the first person from the Southern Hemisphere to take on the position. ' I never had aspirations of becoming President or anything like that, it was just a Kiwi thing; when there was work to be done I stood up and said I’ll do it. I must have done something right because they kept asking me to do more and electing me into higher and higher positions'.
Mark Roberts passed the gavel on to de Gourét Litchfield of Sweden - 'de Gourét is a good man, and even though the ISA is truly international having a Swedish President follow on from a New Zealander will help quite the few that still believe that the ISA is limited to America'.
Trans-Tasman Speed Tree Climbing - 4th Feb 2015
Trans-Tasman Speed Tree Climbing at the 2015 Hilux NZ Rural Games
The Hilux New Zealand Rural Games will take place from Saturday 7th to Sunday 8th February 2015 on Queenstown Recreation Ground, Memorial Street. It will be watched by thousands of spectators and many more via Sky Sports coverage in NZ and around the world.
At the heart of the Games are a series of traditional sports attracting top competitors from throughout New Zealand and Australia.
‘Sports that built the nation’
Together with Sport New Zealand and rural sports associations around NZ we’ve developed exciting new formats for competitive other traditional sports that built a nation.
The NZ Speed Tree Climbing Trans-Tasman Championship will take place on Sunday February 8 between 9:45 and 11AM.
The event is being run by the New Zealand Arboricultural Association with only two of the possible five International Tree Climbing Championship (ITCC) disciplines on show; these are the ‘work climb’ featuring a different tasks at each ‘station’ in the tree and the ‘footlock’ where climbers ascend vertically up a static rope.
Judging this event will be David James who judges regularly at ITCC events and Mark Roberts the current President of the International Society of Arboriculture.
For more information about the 2015 Hilux NZ Rural Games click here
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Giant pine scale in Melbourne�s southeast - 2nd Feb 2015
Arboriculture Australia have issued a press release about an outbreak of giant pine scale in Melbourne, Victoria.
Giant pine scale (Marchalina hellenica) is a scale insect, the sole member of the genus Marchalina. It lives by sucking the sap of many coniferous trees. Its quite large (up to 10mm) and can be found in bark cracks and the under side of branches often hidden under the white cotton-like wax it secretes.
People are asked to report potential sightings to the (Australian) Exotic Pest Hotline 1800 084 881
Click here for Arboriculture Australia's press release. For more information on Giant Pine Scale click here
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Best Foods to Eat
Stop Buying 'Low-Fat' Snacks, Because It Isn’t 1992
By Alexandra Duron Published On 11/03/2015
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If there’s anything to be learned from living through the era of Ross Perot and dial-up Internet, it’s that some things are best left in the past. The low-fat-everything craze is definitely one of those things, yet somehow, it persists.
It’s not just that the low-fat trend makes foods taste worse; in many cases, the supposedly healthier options wind up being worse for your health. Here’s why those low-fat cookies aren’t doing you any favors.
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Why the fight against fat?
Fat: people love it! But in the ‘80s and ‘90s the US government recommended a diet low in fat and high in starch. The theory? Less fat leads to a healthier heart, a lower risk of cancer, and a trimmer waistline.
So fat was Public Enemy No. 1, but since a life without chips and cookies is pretty damn depressing, low-fat alternatives made their way into the market. Unfortunately, the truth is that the relationship between dietary fat and disease is a bit more complex than originally thought, a mistake that unleashed horrors like WOW! chips on the world. And yet, the low-fat industry marches on.
Maybe you’re eating too much?
Part of the reason low-fat foods have such widespread appeal is because fat does pack quite a caloric punch. Each bite of fat has almost double the calories as the same-sized bite of carbs or protein, say Lyssie Lakatos and Tammy Lakatos Shames, co-owners of The Nutrition Twins, regardless of whether you’re getting it from an avocado or from bacon. Or a bacon-avocado club, mmm...
Anyway, racking up a major calorie count is totally possible and could, over time, lead to packing on pounds. But before you quit your guacamole habit (that’s a good fat!), know this: the problem’s not the fat per se. It’s how much of it you’re eating. Filling up on too much of any kind of food is going to lead to weight gain. So let’s get rid of the belief that cutting out fat alone will help you lose weight. Just don’t eat 100 granola bars in a single sitting, no matter what kind they are.
Besides, recent research debunked the myth of the low-fat diet as a comprehensive weight-loss plan. As it turns out, keeping fat off your plate is no more effective than any other type of diet.
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Low-fat labels: they trick you!
While reduced-fat packaged foods may have a lower fat content, the low-fat label dupes you into thinking it’s OK to have more because you think it’s not as bad for you, says Lakatos. Research suggests that you’re not only likely to underestimate the number of calories in foods with low-fat labels, but you also may think the serving size should be bigger and feel less guilty about eating it. Marketing wizardry at its finest!
The thing to remember is that if you’re talking about something like whoopie pies or Fudgsicles, you’re still eating junk, and it still has calories -- in some cases, even more than the full-fat versions. That’s because...
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Less fat means worse filler
The food industry plays a little game of give-and-take to produce low-fat packaged foods. Sure, some of the fat gets axed, but a fatty food that’s missing this component is going to be less tasty without it. Because, as you may have heard, fat is flavor.
That’s where sugar, salt, and starch come in. These ingredients are sometimes added to low-fat packaged foods to improve the taste and texture, says Lakatos Shames. So removing some of the fat doesn’t necessarily make the food any healthier, and may actually make it less healthy.
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Fat keeps you full, and low-fat snacks keep you eating
Seriously. One of the major things fat has going for it is that it can keep you fuller, and for longer. That’s because it takes six to eight hours for your body to digest it, compared with only two to four to digest carbs. It takes even less time to digest sugar, explains Lakatos Shames. Take fat out of the equation, and your body’s going to blaze through the carbs and sugar, pronto. That means it’s only a matter of time before the hunger pangs send you straight to the pantry for round two (or three...).
And, let’s be real, do you really want to buy that pint of low-fat ice cream? Go for the real deal. It’s healthier.
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Alexandra Duron is a freelance writer for Thrillist and now basically wants all the snacks. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @alexduron.
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Home » Presale Passwords » Guns N Roses Presale – North American Tour Announced
Guns N Roses Presale – North American Tour Announced
After weeks of teasing tour dates, Guns N’ Roses have finally revealed all the venues and concert information for their 2016 “Not in This Lifetime” Tour. Catch the legendary rockers as they make their way across North America, from Washington D.C. to San Diego. A publicist for the band said Friday that the reunited Los Angeles rock band — singer Axl Rose, guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan have patched things up — will play its first gig in 23 years at the Troubadour, a small club in West Hollywood. It will be the first time Rose, Slash and McKagan shared a stage since July 17, 1993. In total, 29 dates have been announced with Guns N Roses Presale information posting soon.
While the full band lineup hasn’t been made public, we do know that Axl Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagan will be rocking out together on stage for the first time since 1993. Let’s just hope they can keep it together and play their concerts on time to avoid the ugly riots and violence that contributed to Guns ‘N Roses’ breakup over 20 years ago.
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Graveyard & Gallows Walking Tour
Macaulay Heritage Park
• 35 Church St • Picton, ON
| Ages 10+
Featuring: Graveyard & Gallows
Event type: Ages 10+
Alongside an experienced guide, explore the grounds of Macaulay Heritage Park, the historic estate of Reverend William Macaulay, who is credited with giving Picton its name. Tour the neighbouring graveyard at his former church, St. Mary Magdalene, and spot the unusual tombstone that's in Ripley's Believe or Not. The tour will make its way to the nearby courthouse, where you'll explore the exercise yards, jail cells and gallows, most famously used in the 1884 hanging of two local men, a sentence some say was based on dubious evidence.
35 Church St, Picton, ON
Graveyard & Gallows Walking Tour will be at Macaulay Heritage Park in Picton, ON on Saturday, August 31, 2019.Doors at 6:15PM, and the Show Starts around 6:30PM. Graveyard & Gallows Walking Tour includes Graveyard & Gallows. Macaulay Heritage Park is located at 35 Church St, Picton, ON.
Cutoff is Saturday, August 31, 2019 3:29 pm EST unless it sells out earlier.
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‘Cruel Intentions: The Musical’ Is a Wicked Delight for ‘90s Lovers: REVIEW
December 11, 2017 by Naveen Kumar Leave a Comment
These are tough times for sordid sex dramas — especially one involving coercion, deceit, and minors (oh, my!). Les Liaisons Dangereuses, last on Broadway in 2016, just barely gets away with it for being French, set hundreds of years ago, and featuring adults. Cruel Intentions, the 1999 movie that transfers the latter’s ruthless plot of erotic conquest to would-be Gossip Girl Manhattan, is great fun — but also vacuous and a bit perverse.
Cruel Intentions: The Musical (aptly billed as a “musical nightlife experience”), which opened downtown last night at (Le) Poisson Rouge, solves all that with a clever and often inspired score of ‘90s pop-rock favorites, whose emo lyrics have never made more sense. (If they ever made sense at all: It’s been decades since we gave up trying to decipher “Genie in a Bottle” or “Sex and Candy.”) The musical’s nostalgic score actually brings the story to new heights, supplanting some of its empty cruelty with exactly the kind of soaring, confusing emotions that color teen romance.
Pop music is practically — if not explicitly — made for lending words and major chords to teenage drama of epic proportions. Co-creators Jordan Ross and Lindsey Rosin (who also directs) assemble a spot-on score of ‘90s gems that accompanied a whole generation of sexual and romantic awakenings, from the smitten passion of Sixpence None the Richer’s “Kiss Me” and The Cardigans’ “Lovefool” to defiant anthems from Garbage and Melissa Etheridge. Some are made into duets, others serve as earnest ballads of self-expression.
Quick primer on this prep school saga: Step-siblings Kathryn (a fierce and corseted Lauren Zakrin) and Sebastian (a built, square-jawed Constantine Rousouli) have a Cersei and Jaime Lannister thing going. Their grand scheme involves Kathryn exacting revenge on her ex, Sebastian deflowering the principal’s daughter, and a wager where if Kathryn wins, she gets his Jaguar, and if Sebastian wins, he gets, well.. another kind of sweet ride involving Kathryn.
Their pawns are Sebastian’s viginal conquest Annette (Carrie St. Louis, theme song: No Doubt’s “I’m Just a Girl”) the naive-turned-nasty Cecile (Jessie Shelton), and her Black music teacher Ronald (Matthew Griffin) — who get together to the tune of Deep Blue Something’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” In an expanded gay subplot, the entrapment turned romance between hipster Blaine (Spring Awakening’s Alex Boniello) and football player Greg (Brian Muller) brilliantly unfolds to boy band hits “I Want it That Way” and “Bye, Bye, Bye.”
Not every number is a home run. TLC’s “No Scrubs” is greeted by the same nostalgic yelps as all the others, but it doesn’t land, or do much to solve the problem of Cecil’s racist mother (Patricia Richardson of Home Improvement fame). When Griffin’s Ronald reprises the song as a sort of clapback, it makes even less sense.
The screenplay by Roger Kumble (also one of the musical’s creators) remains with its most iconic lines in tact (e.g. Cecile: “He took down my pants and started writing the alphabet, but he was writing it with his tongue.”). The West Village club setting, in addition to being ideal for the young ensemble’s belting talents, is a perfect homage to the movie’s ‘90s Manhattan milieu. The production premiered two years ago in L.A., where it earned seals of approval from the film’s stars Sarah-Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair. After a pop-up performance here in February, fortunately for nostalgic New Yorkers, Cruel Intentions: The Musical has come home to roost.
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Top 10 Reasons to Visit Greece
Beautiful places, hospitable people, stunning beaches, fantastic weather, unique flavors… there are a million reasons to visit Greece. The cradle of Western civilization is a wonderful destination all year round. Visit Greece this year and see for yourself!
1. The Hospitable People
Greek hospitality is legendary. The roots of hospitality live deep in the hearts of the Greek people. The Greek word for hospitality, “philoxenia”, literally translates as “friend to a stranger” and refers to the act of welcoming and caring for a stranger in one's home. For the ancient Greeks, it was an institution and an act of virtue to welcome and care for strangers in their home as they thought they were sent by the gods. Hospitality remains an important value for Greeks. Adapted to the modern way of living, it still exists when they happily open their homes and invite foreigners to a treat. The famous Greek hospitality will make you feel welcome wherever you go.
2. The Mouth-Watering Food
The Greek cuisine alone is enough for someone to visit Greece. Greek cuisine has a strong base in the Mediterranean diet, which many nutritionists promote as they consider it rich in nutrients. In addition, they believe that the Mediterranean diet is the key to longevity.
The most characteristic and integral element of Greek cuisine is olive oil, which is used in most dishes. Greek olive oil and olives are world renowned and there are many varieties to try. Tavernas and some restaurants are among the main venues serving traditional Greek dishes for locals and visitors. Some traditional Greek foods, especially souvlaki and pita with gyros are often served in street food style.
Eating in Greece is intertwined with good company and discussion, and for this reason it is considered an important part of the everyday life of the Greeks. There are many types of eateries in Greece. Some Greek dishes are very well-known and are served in restaurants throughout the world.
3. The Awesome Drinks
Greek wine is so delicious! The country has a lot of good wines, with Assyric, Retsina, Agiorgitiko and Vinsanto varieties that stand out. The Assyrtiko from Santorini is by far the most popular among Greek whites. The diversity of the Greek landscape explains why Greek wines have extremely distinct characteristics. Greek red wines have been greatly improved while characterizing the volcanic island of Santorini as the most important wine-producing site in Greek territory. Robola is often touted as Greece’s second noblest grapes. Robola is a white grape variety grown mainly in the Ionian islands, although it is strongly associated with the island of Kefalonia where its best expressions can be found.
Greece may produce many drinks, but ouzo is the most famous and worth a try. This powerful, licorice-flavored Greek spirit is served before meals with a glass of water. Of the many authentically Greek experiences, one of the most enjoyable is drinking ouzo and eating mezedes with friends at a seaside on the Greek islands. Potent raki and tsipouro, moonshine born from the remnants of winemaking, are popular on the mainland and the Peloponnese. Say “yamas” which is the Greek equivalent to “cheers” before drinking.
4. The Coffee Culture
For most Greeks, drinking coffee is a favorite habit, a necessary daily ritual. It is their first-morning thought, the occasion to meet their friends, their essential companion. Coffee retains its appeal to people of all ages. Every Greek home is a manifestation of the hospitable mood and that is why it always accompanies the traditional treat. The Greeks created a whole culture associated with the consumption of coffee, which results from the general way of life and thinking of people in Greece. It is characteristic that a cup of the delicious dark drink, whose aroma seduces the senses, is not a five-minute break during the day, but rather a long stop for rest and a sense of communication. Each type of coffee has its place, time and social dimension.
Coffee lovers will find several options, including the strong, sweet sludge that is Greek coffee, the instant coffee referred to as “Ness”, as in Nescafé, or frappé, the frosty iced coffee that takes the edge off the heat in the summer.
5. The Remarkable History
In Greece, it's harder to avoid ruins than to find them. They survive in a broad spectrum of importance, quality of preservation, and overall impressiveness, with must-visit sites, 18 of which are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The perfectly proportioned columns of the Parthenon, combined with the sun's beating rays and the brilliant gleam of marble, conjure up the same awe they inspired in centuries of worshippers. At Cape Sounion, the seaside temple of Poseidon sits on a 60-meter promontory overlooking the Aegean. If you catch the floating island of Delos, the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, you will find an island-wide archaeological site. A voyage through the Peloponnese will take you back to the era of nymphs, satyrs, and gods in disguise. Sprint across the well-preserved stadium on the way to the original Olympic fields at Ancient Olympia, wander through watery, fresco-covered tunnels at Corinth, peer into Agamemnon’s tomb at Mycenae, or cry over an ancient tragedy in the ancient Theater of Epidaurus. Byzantine times stand still in the sight of Mystras, the former center of Constantinople’s rule in the Peloponnese. After traversing mountain roads, visitors can seek wisdom at the ancient Oracle of Delphi.
The Greek islands have long been a sun worshippers paradise. Besides the heavenly sands and turquoise waters, the islands offer ancient sites, intriguing museums, and peaceful small-town life. In the Aegean, Santorini’s black sand beaches soak up the sun's hot rays and stay warm long after the stunning sunsets. Enjoy the vibrant, fun-filled atmosphere of Paradise Beach on Mykonos or seek solace on a secluded strip of sand.
6. The Stunning Beaches
Sand, pebbles and rocky beaches, Greece has a beach for every taste. It is difficult to distinguish which are the best and most beautiful beaches in the country as there are almost 160,000 kilometers of coastline and 380 award-winning Blue Flag beaches. Each one has a special beauty that sets it apart from all the others and thus remains unforgettable to the visitor. A paradise of unspoiled beaches and dazzling warm blue waters awaits to quench your every desire!
7. The Mediterranean Climate
The climate varies significantly between regions of Greece despite the country's relatively small size. Southern islands like Santorini can be exceedingly hot and dry while the lush Ionians are cooler and received more rainfall. High altitude areas are cooler, and snow remains on some mountaintops through summer. For the most part, summer is sunny, hot, and dry. In winter, temperatures vacillate around 50˚F (10°C), and snow occasionally falls as far south as Athens. The rainy season is between October to March.
8. Kids Love Greece too
Greece is a kid-friendly destination and one of the most welcoming places to be traveling with the family. With perfect weather, ‘Blue Flag’ beaches and many activities for children, Greece is a great destination for families all year round.
Greece is home to crystal-clear waters and sandy beaches which are safe for children. The wide range of water sports and beach activities will ensure that they never get bored. With the many historical sites and monuments which may be found around the country, kids can learn history in a fun way. In Ancient Olympia, kids can run the Olympic track where Hercules first participated and even make their own olive wreaths and challenge each other for the crown! In addition to ancient sites, there are medieval castles and forts for them to explore.
9. A Budget-Friendly Destination
Greece has always been famous for its good prices compared to other famous parts of Europe. While it is true that there are a lot of fancy and expensive establishments in Greece, it is actually possible to explore this diverse country on a budget. Traditional tavernas and kafeneia are quite cheap and beaches are free for all to enjoy. The Travel Insiders’ Athens-Piraeus joined tours and Olympia-Katakolon joined tours are specially designed to cover all the highlights at a guaranteed low cost.
10. A Safe Place for Holidays
Greece is considered one of the safest countries in the world. Regardless of time, you always feel safe in Greece. Travelers are, however, advised to use the normal precautions as they would in any other European country. Be cautious of pickpockets and never keep valuables in your back pocket. Also, be aware of transfer scams, particularly from the airport or the port of Piraeus, so be sure to only use licensed transfer services.
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Christmas waste revealed in $400m of 'unwanted' gifts
By John Collett
An estimated $400 million was spent on 10 million unwanted gifts last Christmas, many of which were discarded and likely ended up in landfill.
Novelty items, candles, pamper products, pyjamas, slippers, underwear and socks are among the least appreciated gifts, a national survey shows.
Australians wasted an estimated $400 million on unwanted presents last Christmas.
It is not only the gifts that can end up in landfill. Single-use plastics contained in gift packaging, wrapping paper and decorations are also thrown away and are bad for the environment.
About a quarter of those polled in the survey of almost 1100 people, commissioned by ING, said they would prefer to receive "socially conscious or eco-friendly" Christmas presents this year.
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Shoppers should check retailers' returns policies to see if they allow exchanges, if gifts are not as appreciated by the recipient as was hoped.
Under Australian Consumer Law, retailers must allow returns if purchased goods are faulty or not of acceptable quality. Shoppers are then entitled to a refund, replacement or repair, at no cost.
The law overrides where retailers want to make consumers think they cannot return goods for a refund, with signs such as "no refunds" or "no refunds on sale items".
But some retailers allow goods to be returned, no questions asked. Proof of purchase will almost always be demanded and sometimes a cash refund will only be made on a credit or debit card that was used for the purchase.
Cotton On and its subsidiaries, some of which include Supre, Factorie and Typo, have no time limit on returns. However, some categories of products are excluded, such as earrings and cosmetics, from its returns policy.
Best & Less allows goods to be returned within 100 days of purchase and BIG W will exchange within 90 days of purchase.
Target and Kmart allow 28 days from date of purchase for returns, which could make the timing tight if the returned present was purchased some time before Christmas.
The wastage of unwanted gifts is not only financial but environmental, said Melanie Evans, head of retail banking at ING.
“Every Christmas, the shopping frenzy results in tons of unwanted gifts going into landfill," Ms Evans said.
More than half of those surveyed said they want to give sustainable gifts this Christmas, she said.
ING has launched the Good Gift Creator, where "sustainable and socially-conscious" presents can be bought from start-up businesses.
John Collett
Writes about personal finance for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
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After traffic chaos Alligator Blood amazes Vandyke with dominant win
By Chris Roots
January 12, 2020 — 4.56pm
Magic Millions Guineas winner Alligator Blood spent eight hours on a float on Saturday, but the dramas away from the track couldn’t overshadow his brilliance on it.
The star three-year-old had to endure more than four hours stuck in a float on the way to the Gold Coast track after the Pacific Highway was blocked by a fuel-tanker crash. The trip home to the Sunshine Coast wasn't much better due to the traffic chaos.
Alligator Blood streets away with the Magic Millions Guineas. Credit:Getty
Officals at the feature meeting had to push all times back one race due to the number of horses that would have otherwise missed their places on the $10 million day. Alligator Blood was just one. He eventually got a police motorcycle escort to the track, as did a number of runners in the two-year-old Classic.
But once the Guineas got underway, Alligator Blood stamped himself as one of the rising stars of the turf.
There had been a 10-minute delay once the field got to the barriers due to one runner needing the farrier’s attention and another breaking through the gates.
“I was thinking if he can handle all this and win, it will be amazing,” Alligator Blood’s trainer David Vandyke said. “You don’t get a police escort too often and when he arrived [at the track] he was remarkable in the way he had handled it.
“But it was all the drama at the barriers that really worried me, because you could see him sweating.”
It was quite the turnaround for a horse that last year had been a late scratching when he came to Sydney after becoming too agitated upon arriving at the course.
Vandyke will enjoy Alligator Blood's Guineas victory for the next week before plotting a course for the autumn. He is already thinking about the Golden Eagle later in the year.
“It was a big day for him," Vandyke said. "He had eight hours in the float, so he was bit flat [on Sunday] as you would expect. I just want to see how he comes through it and then we will sit down pick out the races that are the best fit for him in the autumn.”
QRIC failing to keep punters inform
A number of horses struggled to prove their fitness ahead of the Magic Millions races this weekend, including Farnan, which was one of the favourites for the Classic.
Not that many people knew about it, with the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission failing to keep punters informed.
The regular checks of Magic Millions horses took place on Thursday but the QRIC didn’t make public that vets had concerns about Farnan. He was re-examined on Friday and again on Saturday morning before he was cleared to run, which was announced on race morning.
But in days when betting starts way out from races, that is simply not good enough.
Aim should be forgiven for his Magic Millions failure Credit:AAP
The wheels moves slowly at QRIC. There is currently an inquiry underway into a positive swab to a party drug returned by a stakes winner during the Brisbane winter carnival that has yet to be made public.
When the Herald put questions about the swab to the QRIC last year, the response was "no comment" as it was an ongoing inquiry. No confirmation of the horse or the race.
It is understood after more than six months, the QRIC is getting nearer to announcing a date for hearing about the positive swab.
Forgive Aim for Magic failure
Those punters who backed Magic Millions Classic favourite Aim shouldn't give up on him after a day when everything went wrong for the Peter and Paul Snowden stable.
The Snowdens had Leviathan scratched from the Guineas after he burst through the gates and did a lap of track. Then Aim walked out from being saddled, he trod on a shoe.
“I was there holding his leg and blood was coming out of the foot,” Paul Snowden said. “It took the farrier 15 minutes to get the shoe back on because he was agitated, which is not ideal before a big race.”
Aim never looked likely in the run in the Magic Millions. He will have a short break and will be back for a Golden Slipper preparation.
Time For War has group 1 ambitions
Gary Portelli will use Saturday’s Kensington Stakes to test the straight credentials of Time For War for a possible crack at the Lightning Stakes at Flemington next month.
The half-brother to Golden Slipper winner She Will Reign already has a Silver Slipper to his name and Portelli is focused on getting a group 1 with the speed machine, which has been bought by Kitchwin Hills as a stallion prospect.
The three-year-old won a recent Warwick Farm barrier trial by 9-1/2 lengths and Portelli is convinced he will be competitive with the best sprinters in the land.
“The race next Saturday will give us an indication how he handles the straight and there's a number of group 1 options for him at Flemington if he shows he likes it,” Portelli said. “He has plenty of natural talent and has grown into a monster with his time off.”
Chris Roots
Racing writer for The Sydney Morning Herald
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Narratives Don't Matter?
Nate Silver argues "the Democrats need to figure out what their November messages are now and begin planting seeds for them now." Jonathan Bernstein isn't sold:
Stuff such as narratives and messages and all that matter at the margins, as independent influences. Mostly, they are effects, not causes: Bush's narrative in 2002 was different than Bush's narrative in 2006 because the world changed, not because Karl Rove's abilities changed. The press (collectively -- there are exceptions!) pay far too much attention to that kind of thing, and far too little to policy.
The core narrative of Obama's promise and candidacy remains what it always was, in my view. He's struggling against ideology to enact pragmatic reform. This reform will be more liberal than conservative - but that's surely because the conservatism of the past two decades has run aground.
You're not going to tackle the debt if you refuse to cut entitlements and defense and want to keep cutting taxes. You are not going to end the cruelties of our current healthcare system by tax credits that don't begin to cover the cost of soaring premiums. You're not going to give people with pre-existing conditions access to health insurance unless you have some kind of mandate or subsidies big enough to get more people into the system. You're not going to tackle climate change by denying it is even happening. You're not going to defang al Qaeda by giving it recruitment tools like Gitmo and Bagram.
I wish there were a reformist conservatism out there that began to grapple with its past failures. But the response to defeat has been to ratchet up the abstract ideological construct even more. If your choices are defined as freedom or tyranny, you'll sell some books but you sure won't be able to govern a country. Or deserve to.
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Winter Masterpiece: Degas
Painting is not at all difficult when you don’t know anything about it. But when you know, oh, it’s something quite different. –Edgar Degas
French artist Edgar Degas was a radical realist whose unconventional work spanned diverse media and moved other master artists such as Picasso. Celebrating his heritage, ‘Degas: A new vision’ is featuring as a winter masterpiece until 18 September 2016 at the National Galleries Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne.
The NGV exhibition stages a chronological and thematic premier of Degas’ work by decade, using illuminating inscriptions alongside his phenomenal art to shed insight into the hand and mind of this brilliant artist.
Born into an artistic and multicultural family in Paris in 1834, Degas was an intellectually enthused creative influenced by exposure to France, Italy and America. His reading list included literary realists and romanticists like Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert and Victor Hugo. He idolized the French artists Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Eugène Delacroix and Honoré Daumier. Surrounding himself with impressionist and post-impressionist artists including Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Goph and Camille Pissarro, and art critics like Théodore Duret and Louis Duranty, Degas was stimulated to try manifold forms of art against unassuming or intense backgrounds.
He was inspired by Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro, his showcasing of the effect of light and shade. Degas’ zest with light is manifest at the start of the NGV display. Exhibits showing first modellings with siblings, family members and friends in dignified suits or floor-length dresses showcase experiments in a studio with artificial light from oil lamps or stage footlights.
Degas explored the human form, like in the nude study of a seated man in three-quarter rear view, hands together.
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is a result of reflection and studies of the Old Masters. Of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament, I know nothing. –Edgar Degas
Revolutionary in his openness to new forms of expression, even delving into Japanese art, Degas worked with diverse motifs such as pen, graphite, chalk, charcoal, water colour, pastel, gouache, oil on canvas, oil on cardboard, oil on linen… even turpentine in black and white monotypes, and photography.
His realist paintings captured the aloof, the still or the resigned, with mirrors, chandeliers, carpets and upholstery in deliberate contrast against ambiguous backgrounds. He told story by adding or omitting, for example highlighting the subject’s hands to denote an artist, or displaying the absence of a little girl’s leg or a dog’s head in a family portrait (The Bellelli Family) to accentuate an ambience of unease.
The fluid and continuous nature of his works, some encompassing series of variants, expose a true exercise in precision. Historical paintings include images of ancient Greece, a young Alexander the Great taming a wild horse, stories from the Old Testament and conflicts set in the Middle Ages.
Inspired by van Gogh, Pissarro and French watercolourist and printmaker Joseph Tourney, Degas carefully painted layers, patterns and fabric, as exampled in the genre scene of a Roman beggar woman holding a walking stick and wearing many layers of clothing, gazing in the distance.
His fascination with the female form and studies of movement is evident in his women at work, women in intimate moments, women in brothels or women at their toilette series. In later years, Degas used what he termed ‘an orgy of light’ in motion art that captured music and dance in a ballet series.
When we are in love with nature, we can never know whether she loves us in return. –Edgar Degas
Despite his disdain for open-air painting, perhaps a result of the weakness of his eyes and their vulnerability to bright light, Degas astounded his peers and critics with landscape and beast paintings such as Beach at a low tide (1869), Horses in a meadow (1871) and Dead fox in the undergrowth (1861–64), also on view in the NGV show.
As he embraced new and unusual techniques of the time, Degas became enamoured of photography, where he continued his play with the effects of light.
Upon his death, at his request, the legendary artist received no eulogy, simply a statement that this was a man who loved art very much. But this was not his last word. His final legacy was a collection of 150 wax sculptures of racehorses, ballerinas and women bathing, found in his studio after his death.
You must have an elevated idea not of what you do, but what you can one day do. Without this it is not worth the trouble looking. –Edgar Degas
Roman Beggar Woman
The Bellelli Family
The NGV has assembled an indulgent collection, over 200 pieces from worldwide collections, in this global premiere reappraising the lifework of a revolutionary maestro.
Tickets on sale now from ngv.vic.gov.au
Adults $28 / Concession $24.50 / Child $10 / Family (2 adults, 3 children) $65
Photography of paintings and studies by Eugen Bacon, courtesy of NGV
About Eugen Bacon
Eugen M. Bacon studied at Maritime Campus, less than two minutes walk from The Royal Observatory of the Greenwich Meridian. A computer graduate mentally re-engineered into creative writing, Eugen has a PhD in writing. She has published over 100 short stories and creative articles, and has in work a creative non-fiction book and a literary speculative novel. Her short stories are published in journals, magazines & anthologies worldwide. Eugen is editor of MELBOURNE Magazine and sub-editor of FICTION Magazine at The Australia Times.
Profile: View Eugen's profile here
Email: eugen.bacon@theaustraliatimes.com.au
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Bolton audience gets taster of new material from comic John Porter
By Vickie Scullard
A LOCAL comedian is letting Bolton audiences in on his new material before he takes it to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year.
John Porter will be hitting the stage at the Railway Venue in Bromley Cross this week, along with support from comics Colin Havey(CORR) and Steph Todd, and MC Neil Shawcross.
The 25-year-old has come through the ranks on the comedy circuit over the last three years and will now headline the Bolton show on Wednesday.
John said: “The show is something I’m planning to take to Edinburgh Fringe next year. I thought I’d try it out at a local audience to see what people made of it. I have two fantastic support acts who will be performing alongside me too, so it should be a really good night.
“This show I’ve written with the idea that I will just talk through some of the strange things that have happened to me. You start out writing jokes but gradually you realise that your own experiences are much funnier.”
John started doing stand-up three years ago before taking it up full time.
He said: “I began doing short five minute competitions such as Beat the Frog at the Frog and Bucket in Preston. That was really good because it’s the best introduction into the circuit. That pressure forces you to make sure that you use your best material.
“From there I’ve worked my way up performing with other comics and now I’m looking at doing some shows of my own.
“I wouldn’t necessary say I was the ‘funny one’ at school. I think it was always there but I didn’t realise it until I had the confidence to get on stage and have a go. “ Preston-born John chose the Railway Venue for a very personal reason.
John said: “I wanted to play one last gig there before it shuts down. I was gutted to hear it was closing – each time I’ve been there it’s been a really good night, so performing there will mean something to me personally.”
The John Porter Comedy Night is on at the Railway Venue on Wednesday, January 6. Free admission.
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10 Great Athletes that Will Inspire Your Children
8th September 2015 by Rob P
In my previous post I posed the question of, ‘Who are the 10 most inspirational athletes of all time?’… Whilst thinking my own list through, I decided to ask my 8 year old son who would make it on to his Top 10. Having always encouraged my boys to play and watch a range of sports from a young age, he was keen to create his own list as well.
After much deliberation, he came up with the following, in no particular order…
The question is, who from this list will stand the test of time and continue to inspire others through the generations?
Mo Farah (Long Distance Runner)
Leaving war torn Somalia as an asylum seeker at the age of 10 to become double Olympic Gold Medal winner and World Champion, simply outstanding!
Surely a World Record is next on his list of accomplishments?
Usain Bolt (Sprinter)
Ok, so he might have been born to run fast, but the way in which he conducts himself, has restored the faith of the 100m Final from a drug cheaters paradise to the global spectacle it deserves to be.
Ben Gibson (Footballer)
Sitting proudly amongst some of the worlds greatest sports persons is Middlesbrough FC’s Defender. In the current England Under 21 first team and hopefully destined for big things in the future?
Bradley Wiggins (Cyclist)
Single handily doing more for cycling and sideburns than anyone else is Sir Brad. For some time (post Tour De France and Olympics) my son put down his football and picked up his bike dreaming of being the next Wiggo. Recently adding ‘The Hour’ record to his growing list of achievements, he has now set up his own professional cycling team, Team Wiggo and is on target to break more records at next years Olympics in Rio De Janeiro.
Michael Phelps (Swimmer)
Children just love big quantities and the Gold Medal haul of Michael is something to behold with 18 Olympic Golds and 3 World Records. Michael has recently come out of retirement, will he head to Rio to add to his already enormous record tally?
Lionel Messi (Footballer)
Every generation has its superstar footballer who stands head and shoulders above the rest, this generation has two, with Ronaldo standing alongside. For my boy, who quite simply lives and breathes Football, it’s Messi who is number 1.
Quite amazingly, as a youngster Messi was told that he would never make it as a footballer for being too small !
Michael Jordan (Basketball player)
The fact the guy retired from major sport 12 years ago and is still recognised by an 8 year old is testimony to his long standing appeal.
Christiano Ronaldo (Footballer)
He may possess unprecedented levels of self-confidence and an overinflated ego, but there is no doubting his exceptional footballing talent. Leaving a great Manchester United team to achieve yet more success with Real Madrid, many more chapters of his career have yet to be written.
Rory McIlroy (Golfer)
Still only 26, its seems as Rory has been around an age, but in less than 10 years as a professional he has become one of the highest earning, most decorated golfers in the sport.
Lewis Hamilton (Racing Driver)
At the age of 10 Lewis told Ron Dennis (Mclaren Team Boss), “I want to race for you one day…”. Just 12 years later that bold statement had come true, and with 2 World Drivers Championships under his belt the rest is history!
Whilst I myself admire sports men and women for their achievements, we need to ensure that our children’s role models are encouraged from a variety of backgrounds and not just sport. Its equally important to remember that inspiration can come organically from those around them – teachers, sports coaches, youth leaders and even parents! … In fact, you’ll probably be your children’s role model without even realising it!
I’m also left wondering whether all of these athletes are good role models?
About Rob P
I'm Rob and I'm a 41 year old Yorkshireman living in Kent with my wife, two sons and a dog.
I'm a pretty average bloke with a pretty average life who every so often steps out of the box and wants to push the envelope.
I love the 'great outdoors' and I am keen to share this passion with my growing sons by just getting out there whenever and however!
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alan herbert 10th September 2015 Reply
I can’t stand Ronaldo. To me he epitomises all that is wrong with modern football. Diving, play acting to get opponents booked, berating team mates for not passing to him etc etc.
I agree though our children need role models from different sports and areas of life.
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Pizza Ranch restaurants expanding in the region
Arcade being added in Cedar Rapids, Marion store under construction
Brandon Pratt is the owner of seven area Pizza Ranch franchises, including a new Marion location under construction on Carlson Way. Photographed on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. A 7,600-square-foot Pizza Ranch and FunZone Arcade is under construction in Marion, while a 3,600-square-foot expansion is underway in southwest Cedar Rapids. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
Brandon Pratt is the owner of seven area Pizza Ranch franchises, including a new Marion location under construction on Carlson Way. Photographed on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. A 7,600-square-foot Pizza Ranch and FunZone Arcade is under construction in Marion, while a 3,600-square-foot exemption is underway in southwest Cedar Rapids. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
Large banks of windows are installed in the future Pizza Ranch location in Marion on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. Booths will fill the inset area at left. A 7,600-square-foot Pizza Ranch and FunZone Arcade is under construction in Marion, while a 3,600-square-foot exemption is underway in southwest Cedar Rapids. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
A window in a private room has been boarded up as construction continues on the expansion of the southwest Cedar Rapids location of Pizza Ranch on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. A 7,600-square-foot Pizza Ranch and FunZone Arcade is under construction in Marion, while a 3,600-square-foot exemption is underway in southwest Cedar Rapids. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
Shown at left, doors are framed out to connect private dining rooms with the FunZone in the southwest Cedar Rapids expansion at Pizza Ranch on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. A 7,600-square-foot Pizza Ranch and FunZone Arcade is under construction in Marion, while a 3,600-square-foot exemption is underway in southwest Cedar Rapids. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
Employees and family members of store owner Brandon Pratt wrote Bible verses and other quotes on the studs in southwest Cedar Rapids, shown on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. A 7,600-square-foot Pizza Ranch and FunZone Arcade is under construction in Marion, while a 3,600-square-foot exemption is underway in southwest Cedar Rapids. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
Construction is underway on an expansion of the southwest Cedar Rapids location of Pizza Ranch, while the restaurant remains open for business on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. A 7,600-square-foot Pizza Ranch and FunZone Arcade is under construction in Marion, while a 3,600-square-foot exemption is underway in southwest Cedar Rapids. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
Construction is underway on a future Pizza Ranch location in Marion on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. A 7,600-square-foot Pizza Ranch and FunZone Arcade is under construction in Marion, while a 3,600-square-foot exemption is underway in southwest Cedar Rapids. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
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Pizza Ranches are rising in the Corridor.
The franchise owner of several Pizza Ranch restaurants is building new locations and adding arcade games to most of his stores.
Brandon Pratt owns and operates locations in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Newton as well as two venues in Galesburg and Springfield, Ill.
Pratt recently purchased the Pizza Ranch in North Liberty and is constructing a new Pizza Ranch in Marion.
His restaurant at 2450 Westdale Dr. SW in Cedar Rapids is expanding from 5,725 square feet to just under 10,000 square feet.
“We are adding the FunZone Arcade, Pizza Ranch’s new entertainment model,” Pratt said. “We’re going to have around 30 full-sized redemption games.
“One of the things that we are struggling with right now is we’re constantly turning people away because our party rooms are booked. We’re adding 90 seats and four more party rooms, which will give us a total of six party rooms.”
The additional seating and gaming arcade probably will require adding 10 or 15 employees. That will bring total full- and part-time employment to about 55 people.
“Construction should end in the beginning of January,” he said. “We will need to install our games, fixtures, furniture and equipment.
“We expect to be open in mid-January.”
While declining to provide the cost of the arcade and building expansion, Pratt said the price tag for the arcade games alone is more than what a start-up restaurant owner spends on equipment.
Pratt opened his first Pizza Ranch in Iowa City in 2006. He recently added 3,000 square feet to the restaurant at 171 Highway 1 W, providing space for 90 more seats and a FunZone Arcade.
The two income streams and attracting a wider variety of customers has been a positive, he said.
“We’ve found that the more games we have, the different demographics we bring in,” he said. “We realized that we had no game options for toddlers, so I’ve increased our FunZone Arcade to 24 games to cater to that group.”
In addition, a 7,600-square-foot Pizza Ranch and FunZone Arcade is under construction at 6053 Carlson Way, in Marion’s Squaw Creek Crossing development. The restaurant will have seating for up to 234 people.
The arcade will have a 1,500-square-foot game room. Four party rooms will accommodate groups of up to 76 people.
Pratt expects to hire a staff of 80 people, with a planned opening in April.
Meanwhile, the Pizza Ranch at 395 Beaver Creek Center in North Liberty is closed for remodeling, with a planned reopening in March.
“We are doing a full on remodel of the entire front of the house and the kitchen,” Pratt said. “We will have 190 seats and a FunZone Arcade room.
“It will be our new lean design prototype with all of our new colors. We will be hiring about 40 people because it’s a smaller store.”
Mark Souba, chief development officer of Orange City-based Pizza Ranch, said the FunZone Arcades are part of a corporate strategy to boost sales by adding to the customer experience.
“We are dedicated to growing the bottom line for our franchise owners and delivering our guests the best family-friendly experience in the communities we serve,” Souba said. “We have 22 FunZone Arcades in operation and we expect to have 15 more opening within the next year.”
Pizza Ranch has more than 200 locations in 14 states. Souba said some locations will be unable to add the arcades due to space limitations and lack of financial resources to cover the investment.
“Some of our restaurants are located in leased space where there is no opportunity to physically expand,” he added.
With more Pizza Ranch locations in the Corridor, Pratt said he will be able to handle a larger catering order.
“We’ve had times in the past where companies want thousands of pieces of chicken, and that’s tough to pull off,” he said. “Now with four restaurants in the market, that is something we can do fairly easily.”
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https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/community/article/Trumbull-Community-Television-schedule-July-4-10-14080375.php
Trumbull Community Television schedule: July 4-10
Published 2:05 pm EDT, Monday, July 1, 2019
You can watch Trumbull Community Television on Charter channel 194 and Frontier Vantage channel 6019, and online anytime at trumbullps.tv. Schedule subject to change. Updated schedule and shows on-demand are also available online at trumbullps.tv.
Thursday-Wednesday, July 4-10
Midnight — Govt: Legislation & Administration Committee June 24 meeting.
12:05 a.m. — Govt: Trumbull Housing Authority June 25 meeting.
12:40 a.m. — Community Meeting: Route 111 Chip’s Plaza Traffic Light & Trail Impr.
2 a.m. — Govt: Water Pollution Control Authority June 26 meeting.
3 a.m. — Govt: Aquatics Facilities Building Committee June 26 meeting.
4 a.m. — Mark Albertson: The Versailles Treaty.
5 a.m. — James Canning: Theater & Song.
6 a.m. — The Grotesque 10.
7 a.m. — Rosie the Riveter.
8:10 a.m. — 2019 Tutu Trot Highlights.
8:30 a.m. — Mark Albertson: The Versailles Treaty.
9:30 a.m. — James Canning: Theater & Song.
10:30 a.m. — The Grotesque 10.
11:30 a.m. — Rosie the Riveter.
12:40 p.m. — 2019 Tutu Trot Highlights.
1 p.m. — Mark Albertson: The Versailles Treaty.
2 p.m. — James Canning: Theater & Song.
3 p.m. — The Grotesque 10.
4 p.m. — Rosie the Riveter.
5:10 p.m. — 2019 Tutu Trot Highlights.
5:30 p.m. — Mark Albertson: The Versailles Treaty.
6:30 p.m. — James Canning: Theater & Song.
7:30 p.m. — The Grotesque 10.
8:30 p.m. —2019 Tutu Trot Highlights.
8:50 p.m. — Govt: Senior Commission June 28 meeting.
10 p.m. — Govt: Town Council July 1 meeting (TBD).
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NASA, SpaceX approve test flight next week of crew capsule
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA and SpaceX have approved a test flight next week of the new commercial Dragon capsule designed for crew.
No one will be aboard. But the capsule will still fly to the International Space Station, following its planned March 2 liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Officials gave the green light Friday after conducting a safety review.
Space X has been making space station shipments since 2012. The private company had to overhaul its cargo capsule for astronauts. If the upcoming demo goes well, two NASA astronauts could strap in for the next test flight this summer.
It would be the first launch of U.S. astronauts from U.S. soil in eight years.
Boeing is also in the commercial race to transport space station astronauts. Its first Starliner demo is in April.
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Hollywood Activists Demand A Federal Warning About Exposure To Wireless Radiation From WiFi
Posted By: Guest Post Jul 18, 2018, 12:36 pm
Artists, Actors, Producers Send Letter to FCC, DHHS & Dept. of Ed. Demanding Wifi Radiation Safety Guidelines & Fact Sheets for Consumers
Los Angeles – Today, a group of hollywood actors and producers along with advocacy organizations and artists sent a letter to the heads of the FCC, DHHS and Department of Education asking for a federal warning about exposure to wireless radiation from wifi just like the city of Berkeley’s Right To Know Ordinance for cell phones as well as federal public health fact sheets about ways to reduce exposure to wireless radiation, particularly for children in schools. The letter was written by Sabine El Gemayel, producer of the film GENERATION ZAPPED.
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The list of signers includes:
Actress Amy Smart
Actress Claudia Black
Actress Sarah Clark
Actress Camille Cooper
Singer Laura Dawn
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Jolie Jones (Quincy Jones’ daughter)
Anna Getty
Laura Turner-Seydell
Author Naomi Wolf
Author Richard Greene
NYC Tech Entrepreneur & Nigerian Presidential Candidate Chike Ukaegbu
Center for Environmental Health
Environmental Media Association
California Brain Tumor Association
Moms-in-Film
Peter Sullivan, Founder of Clear Light Ventures
“Most people are addicted to wireless devices,” said letter author Sabine El Gemayel. “With the upcoming 5G Network and Internet of Things, it is urgent to implement measures to protect our citizens and the next generation now.”
The letter points out the facts that:
Wireless technology was not tested for safety before going into the consumer marketplace including schools and nurseries
There is no system in place to recall the technology when dangers are obvious
Organizations have issued their own warnings:
World Health Organization (WHO) classified wireless radiation as a Group 2B carcinogen
Governments including France and Israel about WiFi in schools
In alignment with California’s Prop 65, the City of Berkeley requires retailers to have a warning sign at the point of sale for cell phones
California Department of Public Health issued a public health fact sheet, "How to Reduce Exposure to Radiofrequency Energy from Cell Phones" in December 2017; it indicates “Children may be more at risk for harm from exposure to RF energy”.
In June 2018, the WHO defined the diagnosis Gaming Disorderin the International Classification of Disease. This brings the diagnosis into mainstream medicine where insurance companies will now be expected to pay for prevention and treatment.
In September, more than 180 scientists and doctors from 35 countries recommended a moratorium on the roll-out of 5G, for telecommunication until potential hazards for human health and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists independent from industry. They argue that 5G will substantially increase exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) on top of the 2G, 3G, 4G, and wifi for telecommunications already in place. Their letter goes on to say RF-EMF has been proven to be harmful for humans and the environment.
You can read that letter here.
The award winning documentary GENERATION ZAPPED that discusses this topic was released on DVD this month on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Vimeo, Vudu, Xbox, and Steam. The film investigates the dangers of daily exposure to wireless technologies – including the devastating effects on our health from infertility to cancer – and suggests ways to reduce overexposure.
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North Manchester, IN
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The most frustrating thing about Manchester College is students like I who trouble to find their way, to really have an overall happiness with their placement there. I would suggest that out of all graduates this year only a 1/4 are happy with the school overall. Haha, traveling to chicago for a soccer tournament I ran into a former student. He was very enthuastic and polite, but as the story holds true for most alumni he could not find an occupation in his area of study.
The most frustrating thing about Manchester is really not even about the school, it is about the people attending. What most frustrates me is when students do not take advantage of the learning, cultural, and social experiences here and just sit in their rooms and play video games.
The fact that we simply cannot seem to get the minority students and international students to mest together as well as we would like. Everyone stays where they are comfortable.
There are so many hoops to jump through to organize a program or group that some groups haven't been able to get off the ground.
The most frustrating thing is that it is small and country. The athletic facilities are below average.
The school serves the leftovers from lunch for dinner in a different form.
One that does frustrate me is how much it cost to go there.
Doniel
It seems to be too small at times.
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Unite UPS convenor Albert Graham: “Border delays would result in ‘race to the bottom’ for drivers’ jobs”
Post-Brexit customs checks at the port of Dover, which the transport industry has warned could lead to 30 mile lorry queues in Kent, are a worrying prospect for Unite members who regularly cross the Channel.
UPS convenor Albert Graham said memories are still fresh amongst the firm’s drivers of the last time Dover faced major gridlock – during the 2015 Calais migrant crisis.
Graham said: “We send around 50 trucks a day across the channel. You can imagine, its like a bus service and our guys ended up being stuck. Some of them were queuing for up to five hours.
“We’re worried about similar scenes after Brexit, which could force the whole business model to change. We’ve fought long and hard for our T&Cs and I believe UPS is at the top its game in that regard.
“But if there’s delays getting stock through, there’s going to be an impact on job security.”
Currently, by the time many UPS drivers travel from the UK to the EU and back, they are approaching the legal limit for driving time and earning overtime.
If there are long custom queues at Dover, which handles a massive 17 per cent of the UK’s total trade in goods, jobs and livelihoods will be harmed, explained Graham.
“They’d obviously have to review how things are operating. Transport firms won’t want to be paying drivers for spending hours at the border and taking more breaks because of the extra time they spend in their cabs,” said Graham.
“That means potentially using low-cost subcontractors, which means our guys jobs will be dramatically cut. They’d say ‘we pay you to get from A to B with our load – how you do it is your problem’.
“It will be a race to the bottom for the industry, especially if EU regulations like the Working Time Directive are scrapped.”
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Los Angeles hit by 4.4 earthquake
A 4.4 temblor shook awake Southern California Monday morning.
Gabrielle Levy
(USGS)
Los Angeles was shaken awake Monday morning by an earthquake that struck just a few miles from downtown.
The U.S. Geographical Survey first reported the temblor at a 4.7 on the Richter scale, and moments later downgraded it to a 4.4.
The quake, which began just before 6:25 a.m., was primarily felt in Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Pacific Palisades, and West Los Angeles. It is the largest to hit Southern California so far this year.
A 6.9-magnitude quake hit off the coast of Northern California last week, but caused no significant damage or injuries.
Here’s the seismograph. pic.twitter.com/jfX3raw4GW
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Home » The Great Muslim Heroes (English) » CONQUEST OF SOMNATH: 998-1038 A.D.
Sebuktigin succeeded to power at Ghazni in 962 and started vigorously to expand his dominion. Jayapal of Hind saw danger in the consolidation of the Kingdom of Ghazni and decided to destroy it. He invaded, but was defeated and agreed to pay an indemnity. He defaulted, took to field again and was once more defeated.
The great Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni, who made the name of the Ghaznavids famous in Asia, succeeded his father. Jayapal stopped indemnity. Mahmud defeated him in 1001 and he immolated himself by fire. Later, Jayapal's son Anandapal, formed a confederacy of the Hindu rulers of Ujjain, Gwalior, Kalinjar, Kannawj, Delhi & Ajmer. The confederacy was also beaten by Mahmud at Peshawar in1008 and Sultan appointed a governor to reside at Lahore. Mahmud made 17 invasions. Nagarkot, Thanesar, Kannawj and Kalinjar were all conquered but left in the hands of the Hindu vassals. His most famous attack was the one on Somnath, famous place of Hindu worship in Gujrat, Kathiawar. Crossing the difficult Rajputana desert, he reached there and faced the combined forces of almost all the Hindu rajas of India. He was a great military commander and his courage knew no bounds. He defeated them, captured the city and entered the temple. Mahmud was offered fabulous wealth not to enter the temple and destroy the idols, but he refused. He said that he should be known in the history as ' destroyer of idols and not the trader '. The great Sultan at the height of his power ruled over the area between the Jamuna in India and the Tigris in the West.
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Heavy Rain, Winds Lash Tokyo as Powerful Typhoon Hits Japan
Updated October 12, 2019 10:11 AM
Surging waves hit against the breakwater and a lighthouse as Typhoon Hagibis approaches at a port in the town of Kiho, Mie prefecture, central Japan, Oct. 12, 2019.
TOKYO - A heavy downpour and strong winds pounded Tokyo and surrounding areas on Saturday as a powerful typhoon forecast to be Japan's worst in six decades made landfall southwest of Tokyo, with streets, beaches and train stations deserted.
Store shelves were bare after people stocked up on water and food ahead of Typhoon Hagibis. The Japan Meteorological Agency warned of dangerously heavy rainfall in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures, including Gunma, Saitama and Kanagawa, and later expanded the area to include Fukushima and Miyagi to the north.
An earthquake shook the area drenched by the rainfall shortly before the typhoon made landfall in Shizuoka prefecture on Saturday evening. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 5.3 quake was centered in the ocean off the coast of Chiba, near Tokyo, and was fairly deep, at 59.5 kilometers (37 miles). Deep quakes tend to cause less damage than shallow ones.
“Be ready for rainfall of the kind that you have never experienced,” said meteorological agency official Yasushi Kajihara, adding that areas usually safe from disasters may prove vulnerable.
“Take all measures necessary to save your life,” he said.
Kajihara said people who live near rivers should take shelter on the second floor or higher of any sturdy building if an officially designated evacuation center wasn't easily accessible. He also expressed fears that disaster may have already struck in some areas.
Men watch the Isuzu River, swollen because of heavy rain caused by Typhoon Hagibis in Ise, central Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo, Oct. 12, 2019.
Hagibis, which means “speed” in Filipino, was advancing north-northwestward with maximum sustained winds of 144 kilometers (90 miles) per hour on Saturday evening, according to the meteorological agency. It was traveling toward Tokyo and northern Japan at a speed of 35 kph (22 mph).
The storm brought heavy rainfall in wide areas of Japan all day ahead of its landfall, including in Shizuoka and Mie prefectures, southwest of Tokyo, as well as Chiba to the north, which saw power outages and damaged homes in a typhoon last month.
Under gloomy skies, a tornado ripped through Chiba on Saturday, overturning a car in the city of Ichihara and killing a man inside the vehicle, city official Tatsuya Sakamaki said. Five people were injured when the tornado ripped through a house. Their injuries were not life-threatening, Sakamaki said.
Public broadcaster NHK put the storm's toll at one dead, four missing and 51 injured in 19 prefectures.
The heavy rain caused rivers to swell, flipped anchored boats and whipped up sea waters in a dangerous surge along the coast, flooding some residential neighborhoods and leaving people to wade in ankle-deep waters and cars floating.
In Shizuoka, one of two men who went missing in the Nishikawa River was rescued, Gotemba city official Fumihiko Katsumata said. Firefighters said the two men were working at a river canal to try to control overflowing when they were swept away.
A stage is weighted down with sand bags in front of a giant teddy bear wearing a replica Japanese rugby shirt as it rains, Oct. 12, 2019, ahead of Typhoon Hagibis.
Yusuke Ikegaya, a Shizuoka resident who evacuated ahead of the storm, said he was surprised that the nearby river was about to overflow in the morning, hours before the typhoon made landfall.
“In the 28 years of my life, this is the first time I've had to evacuate even before a typhoon has landed,” he said.
Authorities also warned of mudslides, common in mountainous Japan.
Shiroyama dam in Kanagawa prefecture, also southwest of Tokyo, and three other dams may release some of their waters, which were nearing limits, NHK reported. An overflooded dam is likely to cause greater damage, and so releasing some water gradually is a standard emergency measure.
Rugby World Cup matches, concerts and other events in the area were canceled, while flights were grounded and train services halted. Authorities acted quickly, with warnings issued earlier in the week, including urging people to stay indoors.
Some 17,000 police and military troops were called up, standing ready for rescue operations.
Residents taped up their apartment windows to prevent them from shattering. TV talks shows showed footage of household items like a slipper bashing through glass when hurled by winds.
Evacuation advisories were issued for risk areas, including Shimoda city, west of Tokyo. Dozens of evacuation centers were set up in coastal towns, and people rested on gymnasium floors, saying they hoped their homes were still there after the storm passed.
The typhoon disrupted a three-day weekend in Japan that includes Sports Day on Monday. Qualifying for a Formula One auto race in Suzuka was pushed to Sunday. The Defense Ministry cut a three-day annual navy review to a single day on Monday.
All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines grounded most domestic and international flights at the Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya airports. Central Japan Railway Co. canceled bullet-train service between Tokyo and Osaka except for several early Saturday trains connecting Nagoya and Osaka. Tokyo Disneyland was closed, while Ginza department stores and smaller shops throughout Tokyo were shuttered.
A typhoon that hit the Tokyo region in 1958 left more than 1,200 people dead and half a million houses flooded.
Typhoon May Bring 31 Inches of Rain, Strong Winds to Tokyo
A powerful typhoon is forecast to bring up to 80 centimeters (31 inches) of rain and damaging winds to the Tokyo area this weekend, and the government is warning residents to stockpile necessities and leave high-risk places before it's too dangerous
Typhoon to Bring 2 Feet of Rain, Strong Winds to Tokyo
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Volvo takes Cross Country brand into sedan territory with the S60 Cross Country Instant success: First Edition of all-new Volvo XC90 sold out in 47 hours 2015 Volvo XC90 press photos, all of ’em All-new XC90: Innovative IntelliSafe solutions make tricky parking and tight maneuvers safer and easier All-new XC90 will be the first Volvo built on the company’s new Scalable Product Architecture
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Volvo Car Corporation launches V40 Cross Country
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Volvo Car Corporation paved the way for a totally new segment with the V70 Cross Country when it launched in 1997. Now, 15 years later, the all-new Volvo V40 Cross Country brings the unique blend of capable ruggedness and expressive elegance up to a new altitude by establishing the Cross Country name in the premium C-segment.
“The new V40 Cross Country is built on the heritage that started with the V70 Cross Country back in 1997. It is designed for those who want a sense of adventure in their everyday life,” says Lex Kerssemakers, Senior Vice President Product Strategy & Vehicle Line Management at Volvo Car Corporation.
Elegant, refined premium crossover
The V40 Cross Country combines class-leading driving dynamics, interior comfort and a rugged personality with low emissions (99g/km CO2 on D2 models), impressive fuel economy and pioneering safety technology.
Start/Stop is fitted as standard across the range, together with Bluetooth hands-free communication and wireless music playing, plus City Safety auto-braking technology and the V40’s world-first pedestrian airbag. The V40 Cross Country is also the only car in its class to be available with Pedestrian Detection technology.
Crossover-inspired design
The V40 Cross Country is the third variant of the V40 to be revealed – it has a more rugged style than the standard V40, and is also distinct to the sports styling of the R-Design model. It features a number of unique details:
Sleek silver roof rails
Alloy wheels available up to 19-inch
Contrasting front bumper, honeycomb mesh grille and upright day-running lights
Sculpted, contrasting sills
Contrasting rear bumper with integrated skid plate
Inside, the Raw Copper exterior launch colour is echoed in the contrasting stitching – and it can be emphasized even further by choosing the Copper Dawn centre stack inlay.
“The V40 Cross Country retains its V40 stylishness by integrating the ruggedness in the design with meticulous attention to detail. It has an extrovert, expressive character that promises the open-minded adventurer a great time,” says Simon Lamarre, exterior design manager for the V40 Cross Country.
D2 version with class-leading CO2 emissions of 99 g/km
The D2 version of the V40 Cross Country comes with CO2 emissions at a class-leading 99 g/km – so there’s no road tax to pay – while fuel costs are also kept low with up to 74 mpg fuel economy. The 1.6-litre diesel engine has 115 hp and 285 Nm of torque, including 15Nm over-boost. The D2 engine is combined with a six-speed manual gearbox and start/stop function.
Fuel-efficient diesels
The five-cylinder 2.0-litre D4 turbo-diesel has been optimised for fuel-efficient driving pleasure. It delivers 177 hp and has torque of 400 Nm across a wide rpm range. Acceleration from 0-60 mph takes 7.9 seconds with the automatic gearbox (8.2 sec with manual). Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are 64 mpg (117 g/km) with a manual gearbox and 54 mpg (137 g/km) with the automatic (EU Combined).
In addition there is the 2.0-litre D3 producing 150 hp and 350 Nm of torque.
Both turbo-diesels are available with a six-speed automatic transmission or six-speed manual gearbox.
All-Wheel-Drive enhances capability
The V40 Cross Country features class-leading driving dynamics with All-Wheel-Drive as standard on the T5 petrol turbo to enhance the all-road, all-weather, capability.
The five-cylinder 2.5-litre T5 engine has a power output of 254 hp and 400 Nm of torque, including 40 Nm over-boost delivered during acceleration. It comes with automatic transmission and acceleration from 0-60 mph takes 6.0 seconds. Fuel consumption is 34 mpg (EU Combined).
There is also the T4 petrol, a 1.6-litre GTDi engine with 180 horsepower and maximum torque of 270 Nm, including 30 Nm over-boost. Fuel consumption is 51 mpg. This corresponds to CO2 emissions of 129 g/km.
To make altitude-changing adventures more comfortable for the driver, the V40 Cross Country also features Hill Descent Control on the T5 AWD version, which controls the car’s speed automatically when driving down steep inclines. The V40 T5 AWD Cross Country also has a practical Hill Hold function that makes starting on a hill easier.
Smooth Automatic Transmissions
The T5 version comes with an automatic six-speed Geartronic gearbox only, while the T4 is available with the automatic six-speed Powershift transmission or a six-speed manual gearbox. The Powershift operates in principle as two parallel manual gearboxes with separate clutches, a system that provides quick and fuel-saving gear changes.
Start/Stop on all versions
All petrol and diesel engine versions have start/stop and braking energy regeneration, no matter whether they are fitted with a manual or automatic gearbox.
Versatility for life’s little adventures
The two-piece, 40/60 split, rear seat backrest can be easily folded, and the car can be equipped with a versatile “extra” floor in the load compartment that provides a concealed storage area and also creates several other useful possibilities:
Fold it up and get a grocery holder
Fold it away and get best luggage volume
Flat floor for loading long items
Flip it over to protect items and maximize cargo volume
The front passenger seat can also be folded forward to create even more space for extra long objects.
The accessory range includes a Parcel Shelf Net that keeps smaller items secure and in order, as well as a Load Organiser that includes a load compartment divider, a load belt and two floor rails.
Below the armrest is a storage compartment suitable for CDs and other small items, whilst also housing the connector for a USB/iPod. The armrest itself can be adjusted to provide extra support for the driver. Two cup-holders and a 12V power outlet are integrated in the console in front of the armrest.
The glove compartment includes space for two drinks cans or bottles that are kept cool with cold air from the Electronic Climate Control system.
Another smart detail for the keen winter adventurer is the specially designed, drained storage unit for an ice scraper in both front door panels.
Seven different mood light options
The interior lighting is designed to give a “theatre lighting” feel. LED lamps are used to light up strategic areas. The driver can enjoy a red-to-blue setting that adapts the light to the interior temperature, or choose between another seven mood themes. The reading lights front and rear can be dimmed.
The V40 Cross Country can also be specified with a stylish TFT digital instrument cluster, which allows the driver to select one of three modes – Elegance, Performance or Eco – depending on what information they prefer to see while driving.
Keep in touch via mobile application
There is also a mobile application that makes sure that the driver can stay in touch with the parked car via an iPhone or Android smart phone. An extension of Volvo On Call, the app opens up a range of connectivity possibilities, is free to download via the iPhone and Android app stores and is designed to offer the owner an intuitive, easy-to-use relationship with the car from a distance. The app allows users to view information about their car on their mobile phone, so a driver can check fuel levels before starting their journey for example, or get information on wiper fluid or oil levels, or check whether the car has been locked.
Focus on Europe and China
Volvo Car Corporation expects to sell 17,000 units per year of the new Volvo V40 Cross Country. Around 50 per cent of the total volume will go to European customers and around 30 percent to Chinese buyers. UK sales are expected to be between 1200-1500 in the first full year.
The V40 Cross Country will be built alongside the standard V40 and R-Design models at Volvo Car Corporation’s production plant in Ghent, Belgium. Prices will be announced and orders taken in early October, with production starting in November. Customer deliveries are expected to start during January 2013.
Note: Except for unique details mentioned in this press release, the new V40 Cross Country is available with the same features as the standard version of the all-new Volvo V40. Detailed information is included in the previous Volvo V40 press releases.
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Pet Scoop: Dog Falls Off Martha’s Vineyard Ferry, Rob Lowe Mourns Family Dog
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August 10, 2016: We’ve scoured the Web to find the best and most compelling animal stories, videos and photos. And it’s all right here.
Image: Spaniel rescued off Martha’s Vineyard
Boaters Rescue Struggling Dog
The Island Queen ferry was headed to Martha’s Vineyard from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Monday morning when the passengers and crew spotted a dog about a mile offshore. The 125-foot ferry started to circle the spaniel, but the boat was too big for anyone to get close enough to grab her. When the captain saw a small fishing boat in the area, he sounded the horn and the people on board shouted to get the attention of the men on board. The passengers on the ferry cheered as the fishermen pulled the dog safely aboard and gave them a thumbs-up sign. “It was just so heartwarming to see,” said ferry passenger Carol Portier. Fisherman Michael Hamel brought the dog to the harbormaster’s office on Martha’s Vineyard, where he discovered she had fallen off an earlier ferry on its way to the island. Chesney was reunited with her relieved family. — Read it at the Cape Cod Times and watch it at Fox 25 Boston
Study: Dolphin Moms Sing to Their Babies in the Womb
New research suggests dolphin moms teach their babies a “signature whistle” right before they’re born and in the two weeks that follow. Dolphins make these unique sounds to identify one another. Young dolphins will develop their own signature whistle, but in their first few weeks, their moms focus on teaching them their individual sound. In 80 hours of recordings, the scientists found the mother dolphin started increasing her signature whistle two weeks before the birth, possibly starting the learning process. The findings were discussed at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. — Read it at Live Science
Zoo Released Hundreds of Rare Butterflies
The Oregon Zoo has released the last of more than 400 endangered Oregon silverspot butterflies at a U.S. Forest Service site in Mount Hebo, in Tillamook County. The rare butterflies were reared at the zoo and pupae have been transported to the area weekly over the course of the last month. Silverspots are endangered due to habitat loss in their native northwest range. Mount Hebo is one of only five remaining population sites for the butterflies, which once ranged from northern California through British Columbia. — Read it at Discovery News via Seeker
Image: Rob Lowe dog dies
Rob Lowe Posts Tribute to Dog
Former “West Wing” actor Rob Lowe shared a heartfelt goodbye to his 16-year-old Jack Russell Terrier, Buster, on Instagram Monday night. “Buster was the best #dog a family could ever ask for. An unforgettable spirit of love, loyalty and energy. And a huge part of raising our sons. We are grateful to have had him for so many years and so many memories. No one will ever forget our great #Buzzoom". #love,” he wrote. The post came just a day after the 52-year-old star shared a photo of his son Matthew cuddling with the dog, and sharing that his son was starting law school on Monday. — Read it at the U.K.’s Daily Mail
Dog Who Rescued Himself Gets Adopted
Last month, we told you the heartbreaking story of Maverick, the emaciated German Shepherd who gnawed off his own paw to escape a tether he was entangled in for at least a full day outside his Boston home. Veterinarians at MSPCA-Angell were able to reconstruct his foot, and the group was amazed at the public’s response to Maverick’s story. More than 1,000 people called or emailed to ask about adopting him, and $57,000 in donations poured in to cover the cost of his surgery. Now, there’s a happy ending for the brave pooch. “Maverick has been adopted!” the MSPCA posted on Facebook Tuesday. “He’s well on the road to recovery and we’re grateful to his new family for opening their safe and warm home to this special dog.” — See photos from MSPCA-Angell via Facebook
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The BMW Group takes aim at unethical ship recycling
The BMW Group has proven that it takes sustainability seriously by being the first carmaker to join the Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative (SRTI). But how will participation affect the carmaker’s supply chain? We spoke to the automotive giant to find out.
By Ben Hargreaves
Carmakers are at the eye of the storm when it comes to protecting the environment. Not only are they developing extensive families of electric vehicles – crucial in the fight against climate change – but every aspect of their operations is coming under scrutiny where sustainability is concerned, including manufacturing techniques and distribution.
The result is that car manufacturers are realising they can help safeguard the environment by looking at the entire automotive supply chain – and OEMs are getting involved in some surprising areas as a result.
The SRTI scheme helps shippers account for their supply chain by providing them with information that emphasises the importance of sustainable ship recycling.
Introducing the Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative: Why the time for change is now
How did BMW become an auto sector pioneer?
A case in point is German automotive industry giant BMW, which recently became the first carmaker globally to sign up to the Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative (SRTI). The SRTI scheme helps shippers account for their supply chain by providing them with information that emphasises the importance of sustainable ship recycling.
For BMW, the decision to join the SRTI was a straightforward one. Stephan Reinhold, who’s responsible for sustainability and car distribution within the logistics department at the carmaker, says the SRTI is a great fit with BMW’s sustainability mission.
“We were interested in the initiative when Wallenius Wilhelmsen first made us aware of it last year,” he says. “We see signing up to the SRTI as a great opportunity to underline our sustainability ambitions.”
Greater transparency in vessel recycling helps manufacturers like BMW and Scania – another SRTI signatory – ensure they’re not associating with carriers that carry out vessel recycling in harmful ways.
Ship recycling: Wallenius Wilhelmsen recognised with another major award
How BMW is ensuring sustainable best practice across its supply chain
With BMW customers demanding more sustainable vehicles than ever before, the manufacturer is now required to think about everything from where and how vehicles are produced to how the finished products arrive at the end consumer. For the carmaker, sustainability’s about taking a holistic view of the entire supply chain – and ship recycling is very much part of that bigger picture.
“The SRTI is the only global initiative that is looking at the entire lifecycle of the vessel, including what happens to the vessel when it’s no longer used,” Reinhold says. “That transparency is helping to create guiding principles that will affect the entire industry: that’s why the SRTI is a front runner when it comes to sustainability.”
While the BMW Group began examining the role of ship recycling relatively recently – in 2018 – the SRTI will only further boost the carmaker’s environmental credentials as it works to introduce vehicles with alternative powertrains to reduce emissions. In 2020, it’s launching its first all-electric SUV, and plans to have 25 full or part-electrified models on sale by 2023.
6 myths about electric vehicles and the outbound supply chain
BMW: A long-term strategy for sustainable development
BMW is convinced companies have an important role to play in fulfilling the United Nations’ long-term Sustainable Development Goals and wants to help achieve the targets set out in the Paris Climate Agreement.
Assessing indirect (Scope 3) CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions from its entire supply chain is an important part of that goal – which means logistics providers it uses must also be measuring and reducing their carbon footprints.
“We have a co-operative approach to facing the challenge of decarbonisation of our logistics,” says Reinhold. “In Wallenius Wilhelmsen, we have a great partner when it comes to sharing information about the maritime sector. That exchange of information is critical – emissions must be transparent – and we are also looking at alternative fuels and techniques to reduce emissions.”
Would he like to see other carmakers sign up to the SRTI? “Definitely.”
Ultimately, all multinational companies using ocean-borne logistics should take responsibility when it comes to ship recycling. We would love to see other carmakers come onboard.
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Cheap Flights to Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)
Looking for a great deal on cheap flights to Hong Kong? Vayama compares all destinations, airlines and itineraries to offer you the cheapest flights to Hong Kong. Vayama is a travel agency specialized in cheap international flights. We continuously look for ways to make it easier for you to find the cheap flight you are looking for. That's why we show the lowest possible flight found by our customers in the last 48 hours on all continents, countries, cities and airports. Look for our low priced flights from major US airports like John F Kennedy Airport, San Francisco, LAX and Chicago O'Hare.Whether you are visiting family across states, or abroad, Vayama finds the flight that's right for you. International travellers will find Vayama has a limitless selection of cheap one-way, return or multi-destination flights to North America, Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean. As a travel agent Vayama offers cheap flights on a range of regular and low cost carriers from the United States (United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Airlines) and abroad (AerLingus, British Airways, Air France, KLM, Etihad Airways, Emirates, Air Canada, Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines and Thai Airways and more).
Transportation from Hongkong
Hong Kong international Airport serves the City Of Hong Kong. The airport is located at about 34 kms from the city center and consists of two terminals. A free automated people mover train service runs between the east and west halls of Terminal 1 and from the new Terminal 2 to the gates. Electric vehicles also transport passengers from one terminal to other for a fee. Various modes of transportation services such as buses, taxis, train services and limo services are provided from the airport to the city center. If you wish for a leisurely scenic ride from the airport, the airbuses called City Flyer also provide comfortable transport into the City.
Transportation from Hong Kong Intl. Arpt. by Bus
Public buses leave from the ground transportation center and from near car parks 1 and 2. Buses are operated by City bus, Long Win and New Lantao. Around 11 airbuses are provided to various parts of Hong Kong including North Point Ferry Pier, Hung Hom station and Lam Tin station. Frequent external buses are also provided. There are around six airport shuttle routes and a 24-hour Discovery Bay Airbus service operated by DB transit.
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Location: AirBus, Runs Along Almost All Hotels
Price: HKD 20-45
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Name: Cityflyer, Kowloon Motor Bus and Long Wing Bus Company (Public Bus Companies)
Location: Ask At the Ground Transportation Center
Price: HKD 23 Or Less
Comments: www.CityBus.com.hk/eng/main.asp
Website: http://www.kmb.hk/
Transportation from Hong Kong Intl. Arpt. on Limo
Passengers willing to have a limo ride can opt for the limousines by doing a pre-booking before arriving at the airport. A number of local agencies offer this service and there is a car rental booth located within the airport terminal. Services are available even on hourly basis.
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Price: $70 Price Based On Airport To Downtown Service Other Services Are Based On A 2 Hour MinimumUSD 70 Per Hour
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Comments: Please Make Reservations Two Days In Advance
Website: http://www.carey.com
Transportation from Hong Kong Intl. Arpt. on Taxi
Taxis are readily available from the ground transportation center next to the passenger terminal. There are separate queues for various services. Urban taxis are red and serve almost all destinations in the city, New territories’ taxis are green and Lantau taxis are blue. Various car rental agencies also provide car hire to helps passengers get into the city on their own. Limo services are also provided from the airport for the passengers willing to have their own private transport from the airport.
Name: Public Taxi Service
Location: Follow the Signs To the Transport Terminus For Taxi’s
Price: HKD 400Plus HKD 5 Per Piece of Luggage
Ticket: Pay Driver
Transportation from Hong Kong Intl. Arpt. on Train
The MTR Corporation Airport Express line operates trains to various destinations. Trains from the Airport for downtown Hong Kong and stops at Hong Kong and Kowloon stations, where check-in and free porter services are available. The station at the airport is located at the ground transportation centre. The customer service center can be found in the departures check-in hall and the arrivals hall of the airport.
Name: Airport Express (MRT)
Location: Right In Front Of the Arrivals Terminal
Price: HKD 100
Ticket: You May Purchase Tickets at Customer Service Centers, Airport Express Stations, Ticket Issuing Machines, Or Book Online.
Time: 25 Minutes to downtown Hong Kong
Website: http://www.mtr.com.hk/eng/sitemap/sitemap.html
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Pepsi is Ditching Plastic for Some of its Products
By 2020, Pepsi says its Aquafina water will be sold in aluminum cans at restaurants.
Author: Megan Allman
Published: 12:36 PM EDT June 29, 2019
Updated: 11:39 PM EDT June 29, 2019
Pepsi plans to ditch plastic for some of its products as early as next year.
The drink company says it's part of an attempt to reduce plastic waste, announcing the environmental plan this week.
RELATED: Coca-Cola, Pepsi are leaders in ocean-polluting plastics, report says
The company also says its LIFEWTR brand will be packaged in 100 percent recycled plastic, and bubly will no longer be packaged in plastic.
Pepsi predicts it will be able to eliminate 8,000 metric tons of plastic waste and 11,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions with these changes.
Pepsi says its goal by 2025 is to make all of its packaging 100 percent recyclable, and reduce its plastic packaging content to 25 percent.
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TV tech explained: our essential guide to buying a TV
By Andy Clough 2011-04-21T15:21:01Z
With today’s tellies now more feature-laden than ever, it can be a daunting prospect to try to find one that’s right for you. But you aren’t alone – the info below will help you navigate the minefield of TV tech, understand what to look for when you’re demoing sets in a shop, and even deflect the blind-you-with-jargon sales patter you might encounter…
Types of TV
There are three main types of set: LCD (which includes LED sets), plasma and OLED. This last one is very new, very rare and very expensive – so you’re unlikely to see many OLED tellies in shops for a few years.
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LG's 47LW650T LCD uses passive 3D tech
Liquid Crystal Display. LCD sets are the most common type of TV, especially at sizes under 40in. Arguments rage about whether it’s worse in terms of contrast and colour than plasma tech, but over the past few years, it’s improved to the point where, on the best sets, you’d be hard-pressed to tell the difference.
A backlight shines through the coloured pixels to send the image into the room. LCD sets tend to be slim and light, making them better for mounting on flimsier walls than heavier plasma sets.
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Panasonic's TH-85VX200 plasma is a £42,000, 85in monster
Plasma displays don’t have a backlight; instead, each pixel on the screen emits its own light. In the past, this has given plasma displays an advantage where contrast is concerned, since when a pixel is turned off, it’s completely black.
Conventional backlights in LCD sets continue to emit light, even if the pixels are turned off. Plasma displays are typically heavier and more expensive than their LCD counterparts – but if you prefer the picture, then go for it.
Plasma displays have faster response times than LCD, which will appeal to the gamers among you – though LCD is closing the gap here, too.
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LG's 15EL9500 OLED TV is 15in, costs £1700
The technology is still in its infancy, so you won’t see it in shops unless you frequent the kind of places that offer a free private jet with every purchase, but OLED is an exciting development.
It uses a thin layer of organic molecules that emit light when a current is passed through them – and because it requires so little electricity and circuit bulk, the panels can be made incredibly thin (and are astonishingly cheap to run). Watch this space (or click here if you’re made of money).
If you have picture windows or a south-facing room, sets with reflective screens (which includes many plasmas) are probably best avoided – you might end up seeing more of your own reflection than the latest Homes Under the Hammer…
TV tech
Backlighting (conventional and LED)
Conventional LCD backlights are just that – a series of cold-cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) placed behind an LCD panel. These shine light through the pixels on the screen (which would be nearly invisible without the light, as on a old-style digital watch), and thus make the image visible in the room.
The light level can be altered to dial-in detail to dark areas, but there’s an inevitable compromise in that turning it up also makes light areas lighter, and can result in a greyness to areas that should be inky black.
The solution to this has arrived in the form of LED backlighting. This comes in two types – edge-lit and full-array. Both use light-emitting diodes, which can respond more quickly and more accurately to brightness instructions, meaning quicker transitions from light to dark and back again.
Edge-lit sets have LEDs surrounding the display panel – their light is diffused across the back.
Full-array sets have LEDs placed directly behind the panel, which means the ones behind dark areas on screen can be turned off (giving deep, plasma-style blacks), while the ones behind light areas can be turned on for bright whites. This is called local dimming.
LED sets generally give much better punch and contrast than conventional backlights – and they use less power, too.
High Definition (1080i vs 1080p)
HD stands for high definition – and is expressed in terms such as 720p, 1080i and 1080p. The numbers indicate how many pixels there are on a screen, and the letter shows how it’s displayed on that screen.
The best quality of these, 1080p, is usually referred to as ‘Full HD’, while the others are called ‘HD Ready’. Don’t let anyone tell you that 720p or 1080i aren’t ‘proper’ HD, though. They are.
Here’s how it works. A TV picture is made up of horizontal and vertical lines of pixels. Ye olde cathode-ray sets in the UK display 576 lines – so a modern 1080p set is nearly double that, showing a widescreen picture composed of 1080 horizontal and 1920 vertical lines (you’ll see 1920 x 1080 on marketing blurb).
The ‘p’ stands for ‘progressive scan’, and tells you that each line of the picture is drawn sequentially – 1, 2, 3, 4 … 1078, 1079, 1080 – for each frame of video shown.
The ‘i’ stands for ‘interlaced’, and means that for each frame, the picture is rendered in two passes (even-numbered lines followed by odd-numbered lines). It’s still an HD picture, but might not look quite as smooth as the progressive version. A 720p set has 720 lines of picture (1280 x 720 pixels horizontally and vertically), drawn progressively. You won’t see 720i.
Even 720p pictures make a difference to what you see compared with standard definition: images have more detail and objects stand out from their backgrounds more clearly.
Broadcast HD is generally shown in 1080i format, because the ‘p’ version takes up too much capacity to be beamed through the air. Blu-ray discs almost always use the full-fat 1080p flavour.
3D (Active/passive)
The next big thing – but it requires some thought (and lots of demos) if you’re to find the right set for you. 3D televisions come in two flavours – active-shutter and passive, with active-shutter being the most common.
This system uses two separate full HD 1080p images, each showing a slightly different perspective and alternating hundreds of times per second.
You watch these images using battery-powered glasses that rapidly block out each eye in synchronization with the corresponding image being shown on the screen; we’re talking around 120 times per second.
Your brain puts these two different images together (exactly like it does with the different perspectives seen by your eyes) into a 3D picture.
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Sony active-shutter 3D glasses
Active-shutter glasses like the Sony pair above are battery powered, and typically quite expensive (expect to pay around £100 per pair), but you do get a full HD image going to each eye – which comes into its own with compatible Blu-ray discs and some games.
Passive systems use simpler glasses (see below) with polarised filters in each lens, like in the cinema. In theory, this method can only display 1080i pictures rather than full 1080p HD quality, but the glasses are much cheaper and, some viewers say, more comfortable.
Passive 3D specs
Passive 3D specs are much cheaper
Broadcast 3D TV (as opposed to Blu-ray discs) is shown in 1080i, too, so if this will make up most of your 3D viewing, this could be the system for you.
Whichever type of 3D TV you go for, it’s worth demoing it with everyone who’s likely to be watching it on a day-to-day basis.
Some people get on fine watching 3D on some sets, for example, while others find it tiring. Get a consensus opinion about which TV works for everyone, or you could end up having some monumental arguments at home…
This is an issue that afflicts active-shutter systems to varying degrees. You’ll notice a slightly shimmery, unreal quality to the picture – perhaps some double edges, too.
Crosstalk happens when the synchronization between TV and glasses falters slightly, meaning images meant for your left eye go to the right one, and vice-versa.
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Smart TVs give you access to the internet and apps
Buy a brand new telly and chances are it will let you connect to the internet, either via a wired ethernet connection or wi-fi (the latter is usually a cost option).
Each of the major manufacturers has its own take on the concept, but they all boil down to the same thing: your set essentially becomes a huge smartphone, flinging the door open on to a hoard of free content like you wouldn’t belive.
Not only can you access a wealth of catch-up TV services such as BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD and Demand Five, you can get to web services like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
Want more? You’ve got it. How about LoveFilm, Blinkbox and all manner of manufacturer-specific services that pull web content together based on your viewing habits?
And if you have a webcam (some tellies have them built in) and a Skype account, you can make free video calls – and never pay another phone bill again, if you so wish.
For the shutterbugs among you, a 2011 set will also display digital photos – either via USB or wireless transmission from your camera or phone, straight into the screen. You can also use a smart TV to play downloaded movies or camcorder footage, stream digital music from your computer and even play games without a console.
It isn’t as complicated to do as you might think, either. The likes of Sony, Panasonic, LG and Samsung all have dedicated remote-control buttons that take you to their app dashboards, while rival brands Philips, Toshiba and Sharp are developing similar systems.
Check before buying a new smart TV that it offers exactly the services you want. Content varies between brands.
Refresh rate is the number of times per second that the picture is changed on the screen.
This is one of the numbers you’ll see plastered all over advertising and literature – it screams figures like 50Hz, 100Hz, 200Hz, and even 600Hz in some cases. Beware the low numbers (they aren’t up to snuff), and ignore the high numbers above 200Hz (they’re largely just marketing hype).
The sweet-zone is 100Hz-200Hz. Essentially, it means the footage, broadcast at 30 frames per second (or 24 frames per second in the case of many Blu-ray discs; the speed at which film is shot), is updated between 100 and 200 times per second on the screen – making for smoother motion and less blurriness in fast-panning scenes.
To use it, you have to switch on the motion-processing modes (see below).
Motion processing
Since it’s impossible to add detail to footage where it doesn’t exist, motion-processing tech performs clever tricks involving frame duplication to create hundreds more artificial frames per second.
So each of the 24 frames per second on a Blu-ray gets shown, say, 200 times per second on the display.
That definitely smooths things out, but there is a downside. Heavy motion processing can make the picture look very unnatural – motion becomes too smooth, and lighting effects get butchered. Imagine how a 1970s Doctor Who episode looked, and you might get a better idea.
Luckily, you can dial-in the amount of processing you want – or switch it off altogether. Try all the modes out in the shop.
As an artistic aside, though, consider that if a film director shot his movie at 24 frames per second, he meant it to be watched at 24 frames per second – not 600…
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High Definition Multimedia Interface is the Scart cable for the digital age (see above): a high-quality digital video/audio connection from source components to displays. Have a look at where the socket is located on the set – is it on the side or the bottom? This could affect whether or not you want to put your TV on the wall.
Broadcast telly
Analogue TV
From next year, this will cease to be relevant, since the UK is switching to a digital-only TV-broadcasting system by 2012. For now, though, analogue consists of BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. And Teletext, such as it is.
The analogue TV signal is slowly being switched off around the country as individual regions make the move to digital.
Freeview/Freeview HD/Freesat
For most of us, though, digital is where it’s at. Offering an increasing number of TV channels and radio stations (as well as red-button services), digital TV is available on all new TV sets. To check whether you can receive it, visit www.freeview.co.uk/availability.
There are three versions:
Freeview is the most basic format – and, as you might gather from the name, doesn’t cost a penny to watch. It’s broadcast in standard-definition, and has up to 50 TV and 24 radio stations.
Freeview HD is, again, free. Despite the name, however, it isn’t all shown in high definition – just BBC HD, BBC One HD, ITV1 HD, and 4HD. These channels are broadcast in 1080i format, and really do look a cut above the regular standard-def offerings. It’s currently available in 77 per cent of UK homes.
Freesat is another free service, independent of Freeview. If your house has a satellite dish (even one left by a previous occupant will work if it’s still connected to the socket in your living room), you can get similar channels to Freeview HD – including the high-def ones listed above.
We think the quality is generally slightly better, too – and it’s your only choice for free HD TV if you live in one of the 23 per cent of homes that can’t receive Freeview HD.
Some TVs offer all three of these, others only a couple. It’s worth checking before you buy, because Freesat is available almost everywhere in the UK, while Freeview and Freeview HD coverage can be patchy.
Freeview, Freeview HD and Freesat set-top boxes are also available separately.
You use the Electronic Programme Guide to plan viewing, record programmes, get plot synopses and select channels to watch. Since you’ll be spending a lot of time using it, try it out in the shop – some are more intuitive than others.
What to look for in the shop
If this is your first foray into buying a big telly, don’t worry. You’ll be surprised at how quickly you get used to the size. With modern sets showing high-resolution, high-definition pictures, you can sit a lot closer to them than you could with old-style CRT TVs.
The closer you sit to a larger set, the better it will look if you feed it an HD-heavy diet; standard-definition content can look quite nasty when viewed up-close on a large flatscreen display.
Before you buy, measure the distance between your seat (where your head is, not the front of the sofa) and the screen of your existing TV. Check the chart below to find the right screen size for your viewing distance.
TV viewing distances
Stand at the various distances in front of the demo sets and you’ll be surprised at how close you can get before things get uncomfortable.
The amount of variation between black and white levels. Low contrast used to be a problem with flatscreen displays, but on the whole, most modern sets are strong in this area – plasmas more than LCDs, although LCD sets with LED backlighting (see above) offer a more able variation on the theme. A lack of contrast can mask detail in darker areas.
You’ll see a lot of laughably huge numbers being bandied around – 100,000:1, 5,000,000:1 and so on, but take them with a pinch of salt (our favourite claim is “infinite” contrast). Your eyes are the best judge. Play with the controls in the shop. Can you see detail in really dark areas, while keeping the whites nice and clean? Then you’re on to a winner.
Picture modes
Most TVs now offer various options to tweak colour balance and contrast, allow the screen to alter itself automatically depending on what it’s showing, and so on. Our advice is to turn all that off in the shop and then switch it back on one mode at a time so you can see the effect it has. We tend to leave most switched off when all’s said and done.
We’re talking about picture noise here, not audio crackles. If you see unpleasant snow, specks, pops and flashes in the picture you’re taking a look at, walk away.
Pixellation
A loss of definition leading to visible blocks of pixels during fast-moving scenes, such as seen when watching sports in standard definition. The problem is less common nowadays, but it’s still seen when the TV can’t keep up with the source signal, or if the broadcast is of low quality.
Edge definition
Imagine watching Liverpool playing football on TV. The players, in their red strips, should stand out in sharp relief from the green of the pitch. Bad edge definition will manifest itself in pixellation around the players, maybe some blurring and haloing and a general ‘wooliness’ to the picture.
Does it look smooth? In fast-panning scenes, does the TV struggle to keep up with the camera? If so, you’ll see a judder to the picture. In sport, you might see a bit of blurring. High-definition pictures are usually a lot better in this regard.
How natural is it? Do skin tones actually look like skin? And if they do, how does the rest of the TV’s colour palette stack up? It’s no good having perfect skin tones if the rest of the picture is washed-out and bland. Check to see if blue skies are actually blue, green grass doesn’t have a cast to it, and that white areas are truly white.
These let you expand your TV’s functionality with optional wi-fi (if it doesn’t already have it built in), and play media such as music, photos and video files from memory sticks.
Wi-fi and other network connections
If a TV has wi-fi built in, you can connect it to your home wireless network and then access smart TV services (and even other supported devices on your network, such as hard-drives and computers) with a minimum of hassle. Some manufacturers insist you buy an optional USB dongle to enable this functionality.
Alternatively, you can plug your set into your network router using an ethernet cable. This generally proves more stable for data-heavy tasks such as streaming video.
If your router is in a different room to your TV and you don’t want to run huge lengths of ethernet cable around your house, consider using a home-plug system, which uses your mains-circuit wires to transfer data.
What does it come with?
Wall-mounting bracket
Do you get a bracket to mount the TV to the wall? If not, and you want to do that when you get home, you’ll need to factor in the extra cost.
Free delivery and old-set pickup
Some companies will deliver your set (and take your old one away) free of charge. It’s worth asking…
Extra 3D glasses
Try to get extra glasses thrown in with the set. Some come with only one pair, which is pretty useless if you have a family of five. If you buy them separately, you could end up spending hundreds of pounds – though that’s just for active glasses. Pairs of passive specs cost only a few quid each.
HDMI leads and other cables
If your TV comes with an HDMI cable, it will probably be a bargain-basement one. It’s worth upgrading it straight away – some shops might have deals on for bundled upgrade cables, so check when you’re demoing the sets.
Some stores offer five-year warranties as standard with certain sets. If you’re the sort of buyer who likes added peace of mind (without having to pay for it), shop around.
Does the retailer offer additional services? Some will calibrate your new set to deliver the best possible picture quality, for example. It’s worth factoring in these elements when considering where you buy from.
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Choosing The Right Trustee
How to Choose the Right Trustee for Your Family Trust
Families are complicated. Family financial planning is even more so. That planning can become particularly intricate and emotionally fraught for high-net-worth families that have a lot at stake.
One way a family can handle the issues that arise when transferring significant wealth is a trust. A neutral, third-party corporate trustee can provide balance between family interests and asset protection.
But it’s not quite that easy. A trust, and the people who administer it, need to be chosen with care.
Why you need a trust in the first place
The reason to establish a trust is simple: It can protect a family’s assets from estate taxes, divorce and creditors.
While federal estate taxes are less of an issue for most families given the lifetime exclusion of $11.4 million per person, many states levy inheritance taxes with a significantly lower threshold. A trust lets you transfer assets out of your estate during your lifetime, lowering the estate’s value.
Since the trust owns the assets it contains, they don’t represent marital property in the event of a divorce. Nor can creditors of a trust’s beneficiary reach into the trust for repayment, said Thomas Frank, Executive Vice President and Northern California Regional Manager for Whittier Trust.
In addition, placing shares of a family business into a trust means that the trustee, not the beneficiaries, holds the voting rights for them. If current beneficiaries were to hold them, they might vote in a way that is clouded by their own self-interest. The trustee, on the other hand, must vote the shares with all beneficiaries in mind — both current and future beneficiaries of the trust.
Investing in expertise — and integrity
A trustee’s role is to comprehensively safeguard and manage the trust property, which can involve everything from making sure that trust real estate is properly insured, to managing the trust’s stock portfolio, to issuing financial disbursements to beneficiaries in line with the trust’s terms.
It is impossible to overstate how important it is that the trustee be the right person; so in choosing that person, here are some guidelines to keep in mind.
• The perfect trustee is probably not your spouse.
Your spouse might seem like the best person to manage your trust once you’ve passed. After all, there is probably no one on the planet whom you trust more.
Yet such appointments often lead to complications, said Frank, and especially in blended families — when, for example, a stepparent is involved.
“We see a fair amount of litigation where stepkids sue the stepparents for poor management of the trust,” said Frank.
“We encountered a situation where a stepmom was named as trustee and invested all of the trust assets in bonds, which provided her with a lot of current income but didn’t provide any growth for the remainder beneficiaries,” said Frank. “She didn’t do it out of malice. She just didn’t know. But the remainder beneficiary sued her.”
Eventually Whittier Trust became the successor trustee, and matters ironed themselves out. But the family was forced through a period of tension and incurred over $100,000 in legal fees.
A spouse as trustee can create other complications as well. He or she could remarry, and immediately want to make financial provision for the new spouse, and even that new spouse’s relations. And a spouse, often being close in age to the grantor of the trust, might soon be facing the same health issues, including diminished mental capacity.
Then there is the fact that a spouse can be subject to the undue influence of certain family members.
“Maybe a couple of the kids live really close and they see the spouse a lot, while the other one lives across the country,” said Frank. “The child who’s not close geographically might think that their siblings are influencing mom or dad.”
That is not an issue when a third party serves as trustee.
• It might not be your child, either.
Naming your adult child as your trustee can create similar challenges.
First, not every child is capable of, or even particularly interested in, managing trust assets, Frank said.
Second, child-as-trustee situations can be time bombs from a family-dynamics standpoint. That can be the case even if family members are in business together, and used to dealing with each other in a financial context.
“Running the business for the benefit of your siblings or cousins is hard enough, but then also having the additional level of legal liability and responsibility involved in being their trustee just places that much more responsibility on someone,” said Frank.
“And even if the kids all get along, their spouses may not, particularly when it comes to a lot of money or a family business that’s generating cash,” Frank added.
If a child is running a family business, Frank said, a better solution is to leave him or her to it — and name an independent trustee to run the trust itself.
• Don’t underestimate what a professional can do.
A trustee, Frank said, will essentially “be stepping into the shoes of the grantor.” The trustee therefore has to be someone “who knows the grantor or who has a clear understanding of what the grantor would want.”
If the trust holds voting shares of a family business, the trustee needs to have some level of expertise in that business. He or she will be dealing with management, after all, and possibly sitting on the business’s board, Frank said.
“If a problem comes up, the trustee needs to be able to jump in,” he added. “The trust owns it.”
Some families balk at the idea of hiring a corporate trustee because of the potential lack of control and the expense. Frank says that sort of anxiety can be misplaced.
“A good estate planning lawyer will make sure that the family retains some control over the trustee, but still is able to have professional management and push off some of that liability,” said Frank.
As for the expense of retaining a corporate trustee, everything is relative. Frank points out that families easily spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees when members start suing each other. A third-party trustee can ideally manage affairs in such a way to help prevent lawsuits in the first place. Avoiding such a trustee can thus be “penny-wise and pound-foolish,” he said.
Selecting a trustee involves numerous factors, many of them unique to particular families. The need for professional and neutral trust management is universal, however. A trustee who develops strong relationships with grantor and beneficiaries; who resists and even helps resolve intra-family political issues; and who mentors younger generations in their stewardship responsibilities, even while protecting and growing the family wealth, is the right sort of trustee to have.
Often, that trustee will be a third-party corporate one.
Written in partnership with Forbes BrandVoice.
The perfect trustee is probably not your spouse.
It might not be your child either.
Don’t underestimate what a professional can do.
Dan Phan 2019-06-26T21:54:14+00:00
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£625,000 raised to save Sierra Santa Cruz SEARCH NEWS
After a tremendous effort from World Land Trust (WLT) supporters, £625,000 has now been raised for the Treasure Chest Appeal to save 2,500 acres of tropical rainforest in the mountains of Sierra Santa Cruz, Guatemala.
Getting off to a flying start, the appeal raised £100,000 in the first week of Big Match Fortnight, and there followed a magnificent surge of donations from supporters far and wide.
A wave of support
The wild treasures of Guatemala motivated all sorts of different people to take on a fundraising challenge. A young supporter was eight year old Amie Frederick, who completed a mini-triathlon and tripled her £100 fundraising target to help save rainforest. She said “WLT buys land for animals to run freely again. I want to be a conservationist when I grow up to help animals. Animal’s habitats are precious without them the animals will become endangered or extinct.”
WLT’s auctions are always popular and artists were very generous with pieces for the Christmas Art Auction, donating artwork inspired by Guatemala’s wildlife. These included a specially commissioned Chinamococh Stream Frog (a Critically Endangered species that can only be found in Sierra Santa Cruz) ornament by Jess Smith, an oil painting of Scarlet Macaws by Glyn Macey and a watercolour portrait of a Blackburnian Warbler by WLT’s Director of Communications and Development, Dan Bradbury, who visited the project in 2016.
The Treasure Chest Appeal also received significant contributions from cosmetic and beauty company The Body Shop and video game retailer Humble Bundle, both prominent corporate supporters of World Land Trust.
Now that the target figure has been raised, it will be sent to WLT’s local partner in Guatemala, the Foundation for Ecodevelopment and Conservation (FUNDAECO), who will begin the process of purchasing the land and protecting it to conserve the rich wildlife living in the mountains of Sierra Santa Cruz.
Marco Cerezo, General Director of FUNDAECO, thanks the WLT supporters who made this possible, saying “We sincerely appreciate the support shown by individuals and companies who have made this possible. They have ensured that the unique biodiversity in Sierra Santa Cruz will be protected, and this represents a great achievement for tropical rainforest conservation in the landscape of Caribbean Guatemala.”
John Burton, WLT Founder CEO, adds “We are grateful to individual and company supporters alike who donated and raised funds and awareness of the urgent need to save and protect the fabulous forests in Sierra Santa Cruz. WLT have partnered with FUNDAECO for ten years now, and all the projects we have worked on together to protect the rich habitats of Guatemala have been a huge success for local wildlife and the neighbouring communities. Thank you to everyone who helped us reach the £625,000 target.”
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FASTags mandatory for all vehicles from December 2019
August 22nd, 2019 Karan News, News From India 0 comments
Government is planning to make FASTags mandatory for all the vehicles from December 2019 onwards. Road Transport and Highways Minister, Nitin Gadkari, has announced that FASTags will become mandatory for all vehicles from December this year. FASTag enabled vehicles can cruise through the dedicated FASTag lane without stopping at toll plazas on National Highways.
Launching the new website of his Ministry in New Delhi, Mr Gadkari said, over 52 lakh FASTags have been issued till date. FASTags are being issued by 22 certified banks through various channels such as Point-of-Sale at NH toll plazas and selected bank branches.
The Minister also expressed hope that the Motor Vehicles Act 2019 will help curb road accidents and bring down fatalities. He said, his Ministry has initiated steps to implement the act. Mr Gadkari said, 63 clauses which do not require framing of new rules, have been sent to Law Ministry for vetting. These clauses deal with penalties, licences, registration and National Transport Policy.
What are FASTags?
FASTag is an electronic toll collection system in India, operated by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). It employs Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology for making toll payments directly from the prepaid or savings account linked to it. It is affixed on the windscreen of the vehicle and enables to drive through toll plazas without stopping for transactions. The tag can be purchased from official Tag issuers or participating Banks and if it is linked to a prepaid account, then recharging or top-up can be as per requirement. As per NHAI, FASTag has unlimited validity. 7.5% cashback offers were also provided to promote the use of FASTag. Dedicated Lanes at some Toll plazas have been built for FASTag.
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Major drugstore chains sue doctors in sprawling federal opioid case
Lenny Bernstein
Reporter covering health and medicine
January 8, 2020 at 11:30 AM EST
Major drugstore chains — which face an October trial in the mammoth federal opioid litigation — have sued doctors across northeast Ohio, claiming that physicians are the real culprits in the nation’s deadly drug epidemic.
CVS, Walgreen Co., Walmart, Rite Aid and other major pharmacy chains said opioid prescribers bear responsibility for the prescription narcotic crisis, but unlike the drugstores, have not been sued by Cuyahoga and Summit counties. In legal papers filed Monday, they contended that doctors and other prescribers should have to pay some of the penalty if the drugstore chains are found liable at trial.
The doctors in the nearly identical lawsuits are unnamed, identified only as “John and Jane Does 1-500.” The drugstores said they would name them if it became apparent during legal proceedings who they are.
“In a misguided hunt for deep pockets, without regard to actual fault or liability, plaintiff has elected not to sue any of these other parties,” attorneys for drugstore chains said in the papers.
Drug manufacturers and distributors agreed or were ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements and one court verdict reached in state and federal courts last year. But the big pharmacy chains have not been held liable so far.
More than 2,500 cities, counties, Native American tribes and other groups have filed federal lawsuits against companies throughout the drug industry over the epidemic, which has resulted in the overdose deaths of more than 400,000 people over the past two decades. Those cases have been consolidated in a sprawling “multidistrict litigation” before U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster in Cleveland.
Polster has been urging all sides in the complex legal battle to reach a settlement. At the same time, he has designated the two northeast Ohio counties as “bellwether” plaintiffs, whose litigation would serve as a test case of how dozens of other parties might fare if their lawsuits come to trial.
In the first of those trials, mainly against companies that distribute drugs to pharmacies, hospitals and elsewhere, a last-minute settlement was reached in October between the counties and five companies. Walgreen Co., the only pharmacy chain named as a defendant in that case, did not participate in the deal.
In 2018, Cuyahoga and Summit counties sued the major drug chains, alleging they failed to halt diversion of prescription narcotics to the black market as they distributed drugs to their own stores. But Polster allowed them to amend their accusations to include failures by pharmacists in dispensing the drugs, as well. That prompted the new lawsuit.
“This complaint is required to respond to the unsubstantiated allegations by plaintiffs that pharmacists should not have filled prescriptions, written by doctors, for FDA-approved opioid medications,” Phil Caruso, a spokesman for Walgreen Co., said in an email Tuesday. “We strongly believe that the overwhelming majority of prescriptions dispensed were properly prescribed by doctors to meet the legitimate needs of their patients.”
On Wednesday, the lead attorneys for the municipalities suing the drug industry said in a statement that many groups have some responsibility for the drug epidemic. But, they said, “the origins of the opioid crisis and the fuel that spread the epidemic can be traced back to the behavior and practices of corporations in the drug supply chain. Without widespread wrongdoing by the opioid industry—including pharmacies—we would not be in the place we are today.”
Only doctors and some physician assistants and nurse practitioners can prescribe narcotics, and the drug industry has long attempted to pin much of the blame for the epidemic on them. But federal regulations assign pharmacists a “corresponding responsibility” to ensure that prescriptions are legitimate and help prevent diversion of painkillers to illicit users and dealers.
Despite that regulation, the pharmacy chains are trying to argue in the new legal papers that “we’re not gatekeepers, we’re just toll collectors,” said Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, a University of Georgia law professor who has followed the national opioid litigation closely. She said dragging doctors into the fray also could help the chains’ legal strategy by making the case more complicated.
“It seems to both try to pass the buck onto these third-party doctors, and put the onus on the plaintiffs to identify them,” she said.
Alexandra Lahav, a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law who also follows the case, said the companies may be signaling to Polster that if pharmacists are going to be held responsible for their dispensing activity, they will want to examine the prescribing habits of doctors across the two counties — a seemingly huge task.
“This is an illustration of how complex and maybe impossible it may be to prove the underlying claim that Cuyahoga County is trying to prove against these drugstores,” she said. “Are we going to question every time we dispensed a drug over a 20-year period?”
In the lawsuits against doctors in the two counties, the chains noted the counties did not sue independent drugstores, pill mills, Internet pharmacies, clinics and other practitioners, though they provided more than 40 percent of the opioids dispensed in Cuyahoga County and more than 60 percent of the opioids dispensed in Summit County.
Nor did the plaintiffs identify a single prescription that was improperly filled, they said. The counties’ case relies more on statistical modeling and government data that they said reveals that millions of doses of narcotics were illegally diverted while the drug industry did little to stop the flow.
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Last-minute $260 million deal reached in Ohio opioid lawsuit
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