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UKTV names Michaelides as chief marketing and innovation officer
Written by DTVE Reporter
BBC Studios-owned multichannel broadcaster UKTV has named Simon Michaelides as its new chief marketing and innovation Officer (CMIO). In this newly created role at the broadcaster, he will replace chief marketing and communications officer, Zoë Clapp, who is leaving the company.
Simon Michaelides
Reporting to UKTV CEO Marcus Arthur, Michaelides will lead the marketing, consumer communications, social and online, media, creative and innovation teams, as well as an activity known as content and product funding, tasked with seeking new revenue streams and partnerships.
Michaelides was previously chief transformation officer at UKTV and BBC Studios UK, responsible for leading the post-acquisition integration and development of the combined UKTV and BBC Studios business. Prior to taking on this role, he served as UKTV’s executive board marketing director, and latterly as chief commercial officer, overseeing the company’s third-party platform relationships and all commercial activity.
He joined UKTV in January 2012, having spent 15 years in a combination of management consultancy and commercial marketing roles at Kantar Consulting, Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo.He will take up his new post from mid-December.
“With new brands, products and audiences an increasingly important driver of success at UKTV, I felt it was essential to evolve our marketing and innovation activity to ensure strong and consistent growth. With ambitions to expand the reach of the company, in addition to marketing, this new role will play a key part in on-going innovation for BBC Studios Distribution in the UK. This includes UKTV’s Content and Product Funding team, as well as opening new commercial revenue streams and partnerships, essential to our future success in an increasingly competitive market. The depth and breadth of experience Simon brings to the role will help future-proof the company and I’m confident he will deliver great results,” said Arthur.
“I’m very excited to be able to bring my collective marketing, commercial and transformation experience to bear in this new role. Leveraging the combined capabilities of BBC Studios Distribution in the UK and UKTV by co-ordinating our brands, audiences and commercial innovation in this way, opens up new opportunities that will allow us to drive growth and expand the commercial footprint of the business. It’s a privilege to be asked to lead the talented teams involved and I am looking forward to working with them again,” said Michaelides.
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African Countries with the Highest Internet Speed
Africa has always been viewed as a continent that isn’t very connected in terms of internet speeds and the number of users – compared to other countries in the world. Research done by Net Index has reaffirmed this belief, and while Africa has some pretty impressive average internet speeds, the continent’s top country only managed to rank 77th on their list of 174 countries from around the world.
“Based on millions of recent test results from Speedtest.net, this index compares and ranks consumer download speeds around the globe. The value is the rolling mean throughput in Mbps over the past 30 days where the mean distance between the client and the server is less than 300 miles,” Net Index wrote.
While the average rolling mean throughput around the globe is 10.26 Mbps (Megabits per second), Africa is still well below this.
1. Ghana
Ghana ranks 77th on their list, and makes it into the top position for an African country with the average download speed being 4.78 Mbps. Ghana Telecom scored the highest with 5.57 Mbps, while Zain Communications Ltd scored the lowest with 1.69 Mbps. The scores were calculated by “analyzing test data between 25 March and 23 Apr 2012. Tests from 38 225 unique IPs have been taken in this country and of 223 598 total tests, 12 181 are being used for the current Index.”
2. Zimbabwe
In what is a bit of a surprise, South Africa’s neighbour ranked 80th on the global scale, coming in second for the African continent with a download speed of 4.65 Mbps. Substantially less unique IPs (3 972 ) were taken from Zimbabwe, and 2 463 tests are being used for the current index. Telecontract is on par with countries like Singapore, with speeds of 23.74 Mbps, but Powertel Communications (Zimbabwe) and MWEB Connect are culprits in bringing the average speed down, with 0.92 Mbps and 2.57 Mbps, respectively. Zimbabwe Online had an average speed of 11.83 Mbps.
3. Kenya
From the 62,877 unique IPs that have been taken in Kenya, the country made it into the 84th position on the global list, with download speeds of 4.46 Mbps. Speeds in Nairobi clocked in at 4.79 Mbps, and Mombasa 2.81 Mbps. A total number of 20 ISP were tested for download speeds, and Kenya Education Network came in first with 18.39 Mbps, and Swift Global Kenya Limited scored 12.33 Mbps. The lowest download speeds were recorded by Tangerine, at 0.46 Mbps.
4. Libya
Libya’s average download speed clocked in at 4.27 Mbps, placing it 86 on the global index. General Post and Telecommunication was the only ISP tested, and out of the 17 504 total tests, 300 are being used for the current index.
5. Madagascar
The African island managed to beat out industry heavy-weights such as South Africa and Nigeria with a download speed of 4.25 Mbps, while still making it to number 87 on the entire list. In the capital Antananarivo the average speed was 4.73 Mbps, while ISP Data Telecom Service clocked an average of 3.52 Mbps.
6. South Africa
While many consider South Africa to be at the forefront of internet speeds on the continent, the data has shown otherwise. The country only managed to make it into 114th position on the global scale, resulting in being placed 6th on the African rankings. The country has an average download speed of 2.85Mbps, with UniNet ranking in tops with 15.68 Mbps, MWEB Connect ranking second with 14.35 Mbps, and Comtel Communications taking the third position with 5.43 Mbps. Neotel was clocked at 4.12 Mbps, with Vodacom at 3.44 Mbps, and Cell C not far behind with 3.26 Mbps. Over four million tests were done with over a million unique IP addresses, and 270 554 are being used for this index.
Only one position below South Africa, in both the African and global list, Morocco ranked 115th on the greater scale of internet download speeds, with an average of 2.84 Mbps. Fixed Internet Meditel scored the highest download speed with 6.98 Mbps, while Inwi Mobile was bringing up the rear with a rather paltry 0.41 Mbps.
8. Nigeria
Nigeria is considered to be one of the fastest growing countries in terms of internet connectivity, so it comes as a surprise to see the African nation in the 8th place, and 130th when compared to the rest of the world. The country’s average download speed was clocked at 2.41 Mbps, which is almost twice as slow when it’s compared to Ghana’s 4.78 Mbps. Netcom Africa Limited recorded the highest download speed with 22.47 Mbps, Internet Solutions with 4.55 Mbps and VDT Communications Limited with 3.64 Mbps. The slowest download speeds were recorded by Starcomms Limited (0.33 Mbps) and Swift Networks Limited (0.51 Mbps).
9. Rwanda
Only two places below Nigeria on the global index, Rwanda makes it into the second last position in Africa, with 2.15 Mbps. Tests from 2 678 unique IPs have been taken and of 29 241 total tests, 1 631 were used for the index. Artel International scored 4.36 Mbps, with MTN RwandaCell clocking in at 0.80 Mbps.
10. Mozambique
The coastal country of Mozambique managed to make it into the last position on the list of the fastest download speeds in Africa, while sitting at 140th on the global index. Capital Maputo managed to maintain speeds of 2.13 Mbps, but that’s still below the top ISP in the country. TVCABO Mocambique scored 3.59 Mbps and Vodacom Mozambique peaked at 1.86 Mbps. With a total number of seven ISPs tested, the country’s average download speed was 1.96 Mbps.
Source: IT News Africa
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Industrial Microbiology / Enzymology
Industrial Biorefineries and White Biotechnology
Editors: Ashok Pandey Rainer Höfer Mohammad Taherzadeh Madhavan Nampoothiri Christian Larroche
Published Date: 20th May 2015
Industrial Biorefineries and White Biotechnology provides a comprehensive look at the increasing focus on developing the processes and technologies needed for the conversion of biomass to liquid and gaseous fuels and chemicals, in particular, the development of low-cost technologies.
During the last 3-4 years, there have been scientific and technological developments in the area; this book represents the most updated information and technological perspective on the topic.
Provides information on the most advanced and innovative pretreatment processes and technologies for biomass
Covers information on lignocellulosic and algal biomass to work on the principles of biorefinery
Provides information on integration of processes for the pretreatment of biomass
Designed as a textbook for both graduate students and researchers
Chemical Engineers, Biotechnologists, microbiologists/biologists, Agricultural Chemists, Environmental Engineers, Petroleum Engineers and graduate and postgraduate students in these areas
Part A. Industrial Biorefineries
Chapter 1. Biorefinery Concepts in Comparison to Petrochemical Refineries
2. The Definition for Biorefinery
3. The Economic Value of Biomass Using Biorefining
4. Classification of Biorefineries
5. Conventional Biorefineries
6. Advanced Biorefineries
7. Whole Crop Biorefinery
8. Oleochemical Biorefinery
9. Lignocellulosic Feedstock Biorefinery
10. Syngas Platform Biorefinery (Thermochemical Biorefinery)
11. Next Generation Hydrocarbon Biorefinery
12. Green Biorefinery
13. Marine Biorefinery
14. Chain Development
15. Biorefinery Concepts in Comparison to Petrochemical Refineries
16. Biorefinery Complexity Index
17. Discussion and Conclusions
Chapter 2. Algal Biorefineries
2. Algal Research in the USA
3. Macroalgae
4. Microalgae
5. Downstream Processes
6. Products Produced from Algae at Commercial Scales
Chapter 3A. Pulp Mills and Wood-Based Biorefineries
1. General Aspects
2. Pulping Processes and Their By-Products
3. Pretreatments of Wood Chips Prior to Pulping
4. Thermochemical Conversion Methods
Chapter 3B. The Pine Biorefinery Platform Chemicals Value Chain
2. Extractable Volatile Oils
3. The Tall Oil Value Chain
Chapter 4A. Sugar- and Starch-Based Biorefineries
2. Sugar and Starch Crops
3. Sugarbeet Refining and Processing
4. Alcoholic Fermentation
5. The Ethanol-Based C2—Value Chain
6. Beyond C2 Platform Chemicals by Fermentation
7. Sucrochemistry
8. Starch Refining and Processing
9. Starch Uses
10. Conclusions
Chapter 4B. Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil: Economic Perspectives
2. Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil: Context and Evolution
3. Economic Aspects of Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil
4. Final Remarks
Chapter 5. Vegetable Oil Biorefineries
2. Vegetable Oil Feedstock
3. The Whole-Plant Biorefinery Concept—From Plants to Industrial Products
4. Industrial Vegetable Oil Biorefineries
5. Future Challenges of Industrialization
6. Conclusions and Perspectives
Chapter 6. Biogas Biorefineries
2. Substrates for Biogas Production
3. Biogas Utilization
4. The Chemical Platform Methane
5. Fertilizer Production
6. Mass and Energy Balances
7. Other Biorefinery Concepts with Strong Focus on Biogas Production
8. Perspectives of Biogas Biorefineries
Chapter 7. Civilization Biorefineries: Efficient Utilization of Residue-Based Bioresources
2. Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary Bioresources
3. Civilization Biorefineries
4. Approaches Toward Civilization Biorefineries
Chapter 8. Biomass Pyrolysis for Hybrid Biorefineries
2. Pyrolysis-Based Fractionation of Biomass
3. Biomass Pyrolysis for Biorefineries
4. A Pyrolysis-Based Hybrid Biorefinery Concept
Chapter 9. Single-Cell Biorefinery
2. Simultaneous Substrates Utilization in Single Cell
3. Coproduction in Single Cell
4. Single-Cell Biorefinery
Part B. White Biotechnology
Chapter 10. Biocatalysis
2. Screening for Novel Biocatalyst
3. Development of Biocatalysts
4. Raw Materials
5. Reaction Media
Chapter 11. White Biotechnology for Organic Acids
Chapter 12. White Biotechnology for Amino Acids
2. History and Evolutionary Route
3. Production Processes
4. Strain Improvement
5. Amino Acids in Detail
6. Alternative Sources for Amino Acid Production
7. Prospective and Outlook
Chapter 13. Industrial Enzymes
2. Enzymes Classification
3. Microbial Enzyme Production
4. Industrial Application of Enzymes
5. Enzyme Immobilization
6. Global Enzyme Market Scenario
Chapter 14. White Biotechnology in Biosurfactants
2. Biosurfactants
3. White Biotechnology in Glycolipids Biosurfactants
4. White Biotechnology in Lipopeptide and Lipoprotein Biosurfactants
5. White Biotechnology in Polymeric Biosurfactants
6. Conclusion and Future Perspective
Chapter 15. Exopolysaccharides from Prokaryotic Microorganisms—Promising Sources for White Biotechnology Processes
1. Introduction and Definition
2. Advantages and Disadvantages in Microbial Production of EPSs
3. Composition and Structure
4. EPS Properties and Structure–Function Relationships. Microbial Producers. Biofilms
5. Polysaccharide Roles in the Prokaryotic Cell
6. Synthetic Pathways
7. EPS Production
8. Commercially Important Properties and Industrial Applications of Market-Valued EPS
9. New Microbial EPS. EPS from Extremophiles
Chapter 16. White Biotechnology for Biopolymers: Hydroxyalkanoates and Polyhydroxyalkanoates: Production and Applications
2. Strains for Production of PHA
3. PHA Produced in Industrial Scale
Chapter 17. Microbial Poly-3-Hydroxybutyrate and Related Copolymers
2. PHB-Producing Microbes
3. Fermentation Strategies
4. Downstream Operations
5. Characterization Techniques
6. Strain Improvement, Mutation, and Metabolic Engineering
7. Substrate Manipulation for the Production of Various Classes of PHB
9. Conclusion and Perspectives
Chapter 18. White Biotechnology in Cosmetics
2. Functional Properties of Cosmetically Important Compounds
3. Classification of Biotechnologically Derived Cosmetic Ingredients
Chapter 19. Production and Extraction of Polysaccharides and Oligosaccharides and Their Use as New Food Additives
2. Extraction, Production, and Purification of Polysaccharides and Oligosaccharides
3. Food Applications of Polysaccharides and Oligosaccharides
4. Health and Nutritional Benefits of Polysaccharides and Oligosaccharides
5. Regulation and Safety Aspects
Ashok Pandey
Prof. Ashok Pandey is currently Distinguished Scientist at the Centre for Innovation and Translational Research, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India and Executive Director (Honorary) at the Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability – India. His major research and technological development interests are industrial & environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels & chemicals, waste to wealth & energy, industrial enzymes, etc. Professor Pandey is Adjunct/Visiting Professor/Scientist in universities in France, Brazil, Canada, China, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, etc and also in several universities several in India. He has ~ 1300 publications/communications, which include 16 patents, 83 books, ~ 700 papers and book chapters, etc with h index of 93 and > 38,000 citations (Goggle scholar). Professor Pandey is Editor-in-chief of Bioresource Technology, Honorary Executive Advisor of Journal of Water Sustainability and Journal of Energy and Environmental Sustainability, Subject Editor of Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, India.
Centre of Innovation and Translational Research, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India & Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability-India, Lucknow, India
Rainer Höfer
Dr Rainer Höfer is owner of Editorial Ecosiris, which has consultancy and publishing activities in the domains of green chemistry, renewable resources, sustainable development, white biotechnology, and interculturation. He is the founder and owner of Editorial Ecosiris. Recent books by him include: R. Höfer, Ed., Sustainable Solutions for Modern Economies, RSC Publ., Cambridge (2009), A. Kazmi, B. Kamm, S. Henke, L. Theuvsen, R. Höfer, Advanced Oil Crop Biorefineries, A. Kazmi, Ed., RSC Publ. Cambridge (2012) ; J. E. McGrath, M. A. Hickner, R. Höfer (Edts.), Polymers for a Sustainable Environment and Green Energy, Vol. 10 in Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference, K. Matyjaszewski, M. Möller (Edts.-in-Chief), Elsevier, Amsterdam, Oxford, Waltham (2012).
Editorial Ecosiris, Düsseldorf, Germany
Mohammad Taherzadeh
Mohammad J. Taherzadeh is professor in Biotechnology since 2004 at University of Borås in Sweden. He is also director of Resource Recovery, a research profile with about 50 researchers to convert wastes to energy and value-added products. Prof. Taherzadeh has PhD in Bioscience and MSc and Bsc in Chemical Engineering. He is working on converting wastes and residuals to ethanol, biogas, fish feed and superabsorbents, in which fermentation development using bacteria, yeast and filamentous fungi has a heavy weight. Prof. Taherzadeh has more than 120 publications in scientific peer-reviewed journals, 10 book chapters and two patents. Mohammad is the panel chairman of “biotechnology, chemical technology and environmental technology” of Swedish Research Council, and also in the editorial board of Bioresource Technology and BioResources. Some of the papers published by him during last two years are listed as below:
University of Borås in Sweden
Madhavan Nampoothiri
K Madhavan Nampoothiri is presently working as Principal Scientist in Biotechnology Division of CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum. Born on 30th May 1969a, Dr Nampoothiri took his graduation and post-graduation degrees from University of Kerala. In 1997, he obtained his PhD in Microbial Biotechnology from Cochin University of Science and Technology. He worked as Research Associate in Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and as post-doctoral fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany and Welcome Trust in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. In 2001, he joined in CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum. He is actively involved in Microbial Biotechnology R&D since past 16 years. He has nearly 90 publications, which include research papers in international journals, reviews articles and book chapters. Dr Nampoothiri has one Indian patent, five US patents and nine European patents. In 2003, he received Young scientist award from the Biotech Research Society, India.
CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum, India
Christian Larroche
Professor Christian Larroche is graduate in Biochemical Engineering from INSA, Toulouse, (1979), Docteur-Ingénieur in Organic Chemistry from Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3 University (1982), and Docteur ès Sciences (Ph D) in Biochemical Engineering from Blaise Pascal University (1990). He has strong research interest in the area of applied microbiology and biochemical engineering. His skills are related to the study and development of special processes for the use of microorganisms. This includes fungal spores production by solid state cultivation and their use as protein (enzyme) reservoir in biotransformations. A special interest in phase transfer phenomena coupled to metabolic engineering has to be noticed. It is applied to the design and optimisation of biotransformations involving hydrophobic compounds and carried out in biphasic liquid-liquid media. These processes are related both to the food and environment (bioremediation) areas. His interests have recently be extended to bioenergy, and he is presently co-ordinator of two French research programs on biohydrogen production by anaerobic microorganisms grown on complex media.
He is author of about 150 documents including 70 research papers, two patents and 12 book chapters. He has supervised 10 PhD students and 20 MSc lab works. He is member of SFGP (French Society for Process Engineering) and Chief International Coordinator of ICBF Forum, an international network entitled "Food Bioprocessing - A global approach for advancing sustainable production of value added food". He is head of the department of "Study and Development of Processes involving Microorganisms" of the platform for technological development Biotechnology – Material Engineering of Blaise Pascal University and has in charge the team "Solid state fermentations – Biotransformations" of the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Laboratory in the same university. He has been head of the Biological Engineering department of Polytech Clermont-Ferrand, a School of Engineering of Blaise Pascal University, from 2001 to 2011. He is director of Polytech since January 2012 and, since 2008, vice-president of the university in charge of research valorization and technology transfer.
Blaise Pascal University, Aubiere Cedex, France
"Intended for post-graduate students and researchers in applied biology, biotechnology and chemical engineering, this guide to state of the art of biofuel processes and techniques showcases current scholarship and real world implementations of this important and emerging alternative energy technology. The volume is divided into sections covering general principles of biorefining, production of bioethanol from feedstocks, production of biodiesel from vegetable oils, production of biofuels from algae, biohydrogen and biobutanol and other green fuels and individual chapters address specific aspects of the production process, raw materials, and assessments of the efficiency and practicality of each technology." --SciTech Book News
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The Other Thing Kavanaugh and Trump Share: Hidden Money Stories
September 12, 2018 /70 Comments/in Financial Fraud, Law /by emptywheel
This week, Senate Judiciary Committee members are releasing their Questions for the Record for Brett Kavanaugh (questions that he won’t be able to answer given the accelerated confirmation process Chuck Grassley has set). Sheldon Whitehouse’s QFRs have already generated considerable notice. Amid questions about predictable legal (prosecuting a president, environmental rulings, Roe, transgender rights, labor, guns) and GOP rat-fuckery (Starr, staff secretary, and other Bush White House policy issues), Whitehouse asked two questions that should have but did not come up in his hearing: about how debt allegedly tied to Washington Nationals season tickets evaporated when he came under consideration for SCOTUS, and the possibility he’s a heavy gambler (as suggested by one of the letters Don McGahn and Bill Burck tried to keep hidden).
But I’m more interested in some of Whitehouse’s other questions about finances. First, after asking about the baseball tickets, Whitehouse asks why the aspiring Justice has declared himself “exempt” from reporting certain gifts and/or reimbursements.
14. On your Financial Disclosure Report dated July 15, 2018 in Section V. Gifts, you did not check the box for no reportable gifts, you simply wrote “Exempt.”
a. Does this response indicate that you received a gift(s) but considered that gift(s) exempt from the reporting requirements?
b. For each gift (if any) you believe is exempt from reporting, please provide a description of the gift, the approximate value, date received, the donor, and the reason you believe the gift was exempt from reporting requirements.
15. On your Financial Disclosure Report dated July 15, 2018, you did not list any reimbursements. Instead you simply wrote “Exempt.”
a. Does this response indicate that you received reimbursement(s) but considered that reimbursement(s) exempt from the reporting requirements?
b. For each reimbursement you believe is exempt from reporting, please provide a description of the costs incurred, reasons for the costs, the date and amount of any reimbursements that you received for these costs, and the reason you believe the reimbursement was exempt from reporting requirements.
If, as he has claimed, the baseball tickets ended up being gifted by someone, they should be declared here. But then, having asked whether Kavanaugh isn’t declaring gifts he should, Whitehouse then asks about some financial details that also might amount to gifts or other income requiring disclosure: A cost of living adjustment he is known to have received as a judge, a big bump in assets in 2008-2009, the unexplained source of money he used to buy his home, and his membership at Chevy Chase Golf Club.
16. In 2014, federal judges received a lump sum equal to the amount of their delayed cost of living adjustments. For you, this was estimated at $150,000. This amount does not appear to be reported anywhere in your financial disclosures. Please explain this discrepancy.
17. Your Bank of America accounts appear to have greatly increased in value between 2008 and 2009. Your Financial Disclosure Report dated May 15, 2009 reflected a value in the range of $15,001 – $50,000. Your Financial Disclosure Report dated May 14, 2010 reflected a value in the range of $100,001 – $250,000. You did not report any increase in Non-Investment Income, nor did you report any gifts during this period. Please explain the source of the funds that accounts for the difference reflected in these accounts between your 2008 and 2009 Financial Disclosure Reports.
18. In 2006, you purchased your primary residence in Chevy Chase, MD for $1,225,000, however, the value of assets reportedly maintained in your “Bank of America Accounts” in the years before, during, and after this purchase never decreased, indicating that funds used to pay the down payment and secure this home did not come from these accounts.
a. Did you receive financial assistance in order to purchase this home? And if so, was the assistance provided in the form of a gift or a personal loan?
b. If you received financial assistance, please provide details surrounding how this assistance was provided, including the amount(s) of the assistance, date(s) on which the assistance was provided, and the individual(s) who provided this assistance.
c. Was this financial assistance disclosed on your income tax returns, financial disclosure forms, or any other reporting document?
19. You have disclosed in your responses to the Senate Judiciary Questionnaire that you are currently a member of the Chevy Chase Club. It has been reported that the initiation fee to join this club is $92,000 and annual dues total more than $9,000.
a. How much was the initiation fee required for you to join the Chevy Chase Club? What are the annual dues to maintain membership and is this the amount that you pay?
b. Did you receive any financial assistance or beneficial reduction in the rate to pay the initiation or annual fees? If so, please describe the circumstances.
c. If you received financial assistance, please disclose the amount of the assistance, the terms, the dates the assistance was provided, and the individual(s) or entity that provided the assistance.
d. To the extent such assistance or rate reduction could be deemed a “gift,” was it reflected on your income tax returns, financial disclosure forms, or any other reporting document?
The beauty of these questions is that — while I fully expect Kavanaugh to just blow off the slew of questions he’s getting this week (given that they’ve broken the rules everywhere else on this nomination, why the fuck not on QFRs?) — he is now on notice that these financial issues have been noted. If he doesn’t fix any non-disclosures now, he will no longer be able to claim that his failure to disclose required items was just a mistake.
And Whitehouse might believe there are more. He asks, first directly, and then at the end of the series of questions Whitehouse poses about the credit card debt, whether Kavanaugh’s in debt to people he hasn’t told us about.
Are there any debts, creditors, or related items that you did not disclose on your FBI disclosures?
Did you have any creditors, private or otherwise, not listed in your Financial Disclosure Reports?
My favorite bit about Whitehouse’s QFRs, however, is that at the end of all these financial questions, the former US Attorney and Attorney General then asks whether lying under oath is an impeachable offense.
24. Is lying under oath an impeachable offense for an Article III judge?
You see, we can argue Kavanaugh lied under oath in his confirmation until we’re blue in the face. Kavanaugh, each time, will offer a well practiced lawyer’s parse about how his transparently dishonest comments don’t amount to perjury, and he’ll get away with that.
But finances are a different issue. Whitehouse has put Kavanaugh on notice that not disclosing certain things — like who paid for his house or paid off his season ticket debt — will amount to lying.
So Kavanaugh may blow off these questions. But that may come back to haunt him.
Update: Here are Kavanaugh’s answers on finances — basically, he says he has followed disclosure guidelines on all of this, which may necessarily mean that the big ticket items, including the down payment for his home, came from Daddy. The one thing not addressed here are big gifts from family.
I have truthfully provided financial information in conjunction with this nomination process and my service in the judicial and executive branches. Since I graduated from law school in 1990, I have worked in public service for 25 of those 28 years. For most of her years of paid employment, my wife likewise has been a federal, state, or local government worker.
During that time, I have filed regular financial disclosure reports as required by law. The Federal Government’s required financial disclosure reports list broad ranges for one’s assets and debt as of one day or period in time.
At this time, my wife and I have no debts other than our home mortgage. We have the following assets:
(1) A house minus the mortgage;
(2) Two Federal Government Thrift Savings Plan retirement accounts (largely accessible to us beginning in 2024), as well as a Texas employees’ retirement account;
(3) A bank account;
(4) A car that we own and a car that we lease; and
(5) Ordinary personal furniture, clothing, and belongings.
Since our marriage in 2004, we have not owned stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or other similar financial investments outside of our retirement accounts.
Our annual income includes my income as a federal judge, my income from teaching law each year, and now also my wife’s income from being Town Manager of Section 5 of Chevy Chase, Maryland. Our annual income and financial worth substantially increased in the last few years as a result of a significant annual salary increase for federal judges; a substantial back pay award in the wake of class litigation over pay for the Federal Judiciary; and my wife’s return to the paid workforce following the many years that she took off from paid work in order to stay with and care for our daughters. The back pay award was excluded from disclosure on my previous financial disclosure report based on the Filing Instructions for Judicial Officers and Employees, which excludes income from the Federal Government. We have not received financial gifts other than from our family which are excluded from disclosure in judicial financial disclosure reports. Nor have we received other kinds of gifts from anyone outside of our family, apart from ordinary non-reportable gifts related to, for example, birthdays, Christmas, or personal hospitality. On the 2018 financial disclosure report, I correctly listed “exempt” for gifts and reimbursements because those are the explicit instructions in the 2018 Filing Instructions for Judicial Officers and Employees.
At this time, we have no debts other than our home mortgage. Over the years, we carried some personal debt. That debt was not close to the top of the ranges listed on the financial disclosure reports. Over the years, we have sunk a decent amount of money into our home for sometimes unanticipated repairs and improvements. As many homeowners probably appreciate, the list sometimes seems to never end, and for us it has included over the years: replacing the heating and air conditioning system and air conditioning units, replacing the water heater, painting and repairing the full exterior of the house, painting the interior of the house, replacing the porch flooring on the front and side porches with composite wood, gutter repairs, roof repairs, new refrigerator, new oven, ceiling leaks, ongoing flooding in the basement, waterproofing the basement, mold removal in the basement, drainage work because of excess water outside the house that was running into the neighbor’s property, fence repair, and so on. Maintaining a house, especially an old house like ours, can be expensive. I have not had gambling debts or participated in “fantasy” leagues.
The Thrift Savings Plan loan that appears on certain disclosure reports was a Federal Government loan to help with the down payment on our house in 2006. That government loan program is available for federal government workers to help with the purchase of their first house. In our case, that loan was paid back primarily by regular deductions from my paycheck, in the same way that taxes and insurance premiums are deducted from my paycheck. That loan has been paid off in full. I am a huge sports fan. When the Nationals came to D.C. in 2005, I purchased four season tickets in my name every season from 2005 through 2017. I also purchased playoff packages for the four years that the Nationals made the playoffs (2012, 2014, 2016 and 2017.) I have attended all 11 Nationals’ home playoff games in their history. (We are 3-8 in those games.) I have attended a couple of hundred regular season games. As is typical with baseball season tickets, I had a group of old friends who would split games with me. We would usually divide the tickets in a “ticket draft” at my house. Everyone in the group paid me for their tickets based on the cost of the tickets, to the dollar. No one overpaid or underpaid me for tickets. No loans were given in either direction.
My wife and I spend money on our daughters and sports, including as members of the Chevy Chase Club, which we joined in recent years. We paid the full price of the club’s entry fee, and we pay regular dues in the same amount that other members pay. We did not and do not receive any discounts. The club is a minute’s drive from our house, and there is an outdoor ice hockey rink and a very good youth ice hockey program. We joined primarily because of the ice hockey program that my younger daughter participates in, as well as because of the gym.
Finally, it bears repeating that financial disclosure reports are not meant to provide one’s overall net worth or overall financial situation. They are meant to identify conflicts of interest. Therefore, they are not good tools for assessing one’s net worth or financial situation. Here, by providing all of this additional information, I hope that I have helped the Committee.
He refused to answer Whitehouse’s question about whether lying under oath is cause for impeachment.
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The GOP may be desperate for this confirmation, but they have to know that a Dem-controlled Congress will figure out if Kavanaugh is being dishonest here. You would think their strategy would have been to put things out in the open and confirm him anyway, which weakens Democrats’ position if they try to impeach. (Something we’ve seen with Trump. Imagine if Access Hollywood came out now.)
On the other hand, maybe that means that the truth is so damning that he couldn’t get confirmed in the first place, even given the current…questionable…process.
sotonohito says:
Sure, in theory a Democratic controlled congress could determine that Kavanaugh perjured himself and is dirty as hell.
But so what? Once he’s confirmed it takes 67 votes in the Senate to kick him out, and that will never happen even if the Democrats turn up evidence that he’s a cannibal murderer.
I hate to be depressing, but we’re kinda screwed here. The Republicans have the votes to put him in, there will never -EVER- be the votes to kick him out. Sure, we should fight every step of the way and do our utmost to stop him. But in the end we’re going to be stuck with him on the Court for the next 40 to 50 years.
I agree that it’s pretty unlikely. But imagine a scenario where the midterms are over, GOP prospects for any more policy wins are done (and the party in general is facing an existential crisis), a Trump conspiracy bombshell drops, and it turns out that, e.g., Kavanaugh had his debts paid off by the Russians.
Alternatively, imagine a scenario where Trump gets impeached and/or removed for conspiracy or other corruption, Republicans get creamed in 2020. There could be little enough public/GOP resistance at that time to remove Kavanaugh (assuming he really deserves it).
These are longshots, sure, which I guess supports the GOP’s current strategy of “be as sketchy as possible to try to ram the nominee through,” rather than “get stuff out in the open now so it won’t matter as much after Trump is disgraced an discredited.” Maybe one of the problems is that not enough Republicans think that’s going to happen. But I do.
Sasha Boucher says:
This is why any and every possible 2020 candidate should be prepared to expand the size of the SCOTUS and be firmly encouraged to put up unabashedly *left* candidates (no namby pamby center left ones). The left needs to make the judiciary as big a deal for us as it is on the right. Bc it does not matter how progressive (or even just normal) a president is if the judiciary is full of loonies like this guy and Alito and Thomas. Schumer also needs to go as Minority Leader. He is failing miserably at leading his caucus.
Trip says:
Meh. He can just mail in a photo of himself with the good Catholic girls’ baseball team as a response. I understand that wipes the slate clean.
bittersweet says:
Coach for catholic girls? Was I the only one who was insulted for his second daughter when the only complement he could think to give her was that she is ” the best hugger in the world?” Really, that’s it? Not smart, talented, accomplished….? These were his prepared comments and that is all he could come up with?
OP says:
Did anyone ask the girls that if they refused to show up for the hearings, they’d be benched for the season?
Using those kids as political props was inexcusable!
It was as if their dad expected the questioning would be softer if his daughters were there.
To make two kids sit still during a boring day of questioning, that’s a type of child abuse in my book.
Bad enough their dad is a smarmy suck-up. Even worse to “use” his kids for that too.
Okay, this is bunk. EVERY nominee trots his or her spouse and family out for committee hearings. There was nothing different here. There are real issues with Kavanaugh, this is not one of them.
What other qualifications, when you’re barefoot and pregnant all of the time?
Do not think this was a helpful response to Bittersweet. Not at all. You have been here a short time, Bittersweet forever. And, as such, deserves a better response.
I was agreeing with bittersweet. If Kavanaugh wishes to overturn Roe v. Wade, this is a potential future for those girls; one they won’t make necessarily via self determination. Kavanaugh not highlighting other assets like intelligence, etc. would appear to diminish other value. It’s clear my first comment was sarcasm, and that bittersweet understood. Ditto for the second response. I’m not sure why it got your goat.
DrFunguy says:
Impeachment, I assume, requires 2/3 vote in the Senate?
Seem unlikely.
NorskieFlamethrower says:
If the Dems take BOTH houses no matter the margin in the Senate, the number of fascist senators up for re-election in 2020 will put tremendous pressure on ’em to get out from under Trumpty before the next cycle. This November 6th will be an existential moment for those who believe in our form of government.
Bradley Brooks says:
Re: 2/3ds Hurdle in the Senate…
I don’t think the un-likelihood of conviction in the Senate should, in any way, automatically preclude Impeachment in the House. The Senate trial is perhaps the most official, public arena for fully airing grievances against the Head of State. (Just ask Caesar.) I believe that Senate Democrats, in their own flawed and special way, will make their public case as cogently as Meuller’s team “in private” assembled it. And the American People DESERVE this, its inevitable showtrial-iness notwithstanding.
punaise says:
“baseball… has been very, very good to me”
gedouttahear says:
“berry, berry good to me”
Willis Warren says:
He will be impeached. It’s coming
BINGO!! You get a coverall.
AndTheSlithyToves says:
It’s troubling that he has gotten this far with his history. But, then again, Clarence Thomas is still sitting on the SCOTUS after lying under oath, continuing his sexual predations, and letting his alcoholic wife use his position to enrich the two of them.
“The truth will never hurt as much as the exposure of a lie.” Guru Sophie
Senator Whitehouse with direct questions about Kavanaugh’s finances. Senator Coons with direct questions about Kavanaugh’s knowledge of Koziniski’s sexual harassment allegations. (Link to full questions. Sexual harassment questions starts at number 21)
https://www.scribd.com/document/388444593/9-9-18-QFRs-for-Kavanaugh#from_embed
Exposure, exposure, exposure!!!
Kansas Watcher says:
Marcy hit this oneOut of the park baseball fans.
This is the sort of information that gets lost in these times of political hurricanes.
as a semi “normal” law abiding citizen… there are 0 exempt gifts a federal judge should be able to receive.
litterally ANY sort of gift should and must be reported.
of all the douche things I’ve followed during Special K’s nominations… this is by far the most disturbing.
if I was a federal judge I wouldn’t accept a gift of more than 100$ from anyone but my wife or husband.
seriously bribing judges… there ought to be a law…
Rumors are out there that Kavanaugh has a gambling problem. If he is found to be in hock to Russians I wonder if we won’t see a bunch of resignations from elected Republicans. The corruption and cooptation of elected folks at all levels by Russian oligarchs began in the early 1990’s and now dwarfs the number coopted by American oligarchs. Have a nice day.
Kick the darkness says:
Wow. Sheldon’s questions pretty much should, in a fair evaluation, prep K upon a spit, with the last question placing the apple directly in his mouth. If there was a only fire, this pig would cook up quite nicely.
Rapier says:
I am trying to figure out if:
Is the height of political correctness, or the death of it in the Senate.
Dan Pearson says:
This is a great piece. I love the QFRs of Senator Whitehouse. However, I am not as wild about question 24 in terms of thinking you can make K give a clear answer. I think a judge would simply point out the power to determine what constitutes an impeachable offense resides solely with the Article 1 branch and an Article 3 judge should not opine on the matter. Done and out. That said, as a shot across the bow and a reminder of the stakes in regards to the rest of the questions it is strong ending.
RWood says:
What are the EW odds on Murkowski or Collins voting NO?
(On my way to Vegas)
Not good, unless they “know” they have cover from blue dog Dems.
I suspect Murkowski, given what happened in her last election, may, but Collins…her whole “he said it was settled law” act was paper thin. She’ll vote whichever way the polital wind tells her to.
The campaign to fund her as-yet-to-be-named opponent made me smile. Clever.
Pence is no mystery, he’ll vote however mother tells him to.
I checked five UK online betting sites’ odds — none of them gave odds on Kavanaugh let alone Murkowski or Collins.
(Strange, though, they all thought Dems would win majority in Senate (7/4) but not the House (4/11) in November. I’d have thought the odds were the other way around.)
Really? That makes no sense at all.
I’m going with a 60% chance Murkowski votes no and 50-50 on Collins.
But I’m feeling positive today for some reason. I may smell another indictment coming and its throwing me off.
Hey, they’re Brits. They probably understand our system of government as readily as we understand theirs. And theirs –the one which set their country on a deliberate course for the edge of a cliff — makes zero sense from here.
On the other hand, I have to wonder if a number of bets placed by folks in other countries might have skewed the odds in UK betting parlors…
I find this from across the pond, kind of informational:
Why has Brexit become a legal matter when it should be a political matter?
There’s no escaping Brexit-as-a-legal-matter because the EU is a contract and British xenophobes were told (and believed) the contract screwed them so they want out. It’s true it’s a political matter because the Tories sold this mess and Labour is incapable of mounting a credible alternative because it’s as racist and stupid as the Tories. I just don’t see the law being separate from politics — there or here.
Oh, I think they “could” still escape it. But, sadly, I do not think they will. What a clusterfuck.
Fran of the North says:
Odds get better as the polls show approval ratings dropping for Grifter In Chief.
All politics is local, and even though national numbers may be trending down, it all depends what is happenig at the microcosm in the senator’s districts.
OT: I’m pretty sure the Federalist Society at Berkeley Law (yes, there is one) did not modify a restroom sign in Boalt Hall that now reads:
“PLEASE… DO NOT put trash in the Supreme Court, it is very difficult to remove. THANK YOU”
photo of sign available upon request!
Requested!!
It’s not in the cloud just yet. Can I email it to management? or shoot me an email….
let’s see if this works:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/43735393295/in/dateposted-public/
SpaceLifeForm says:
Works. Thank You!
no rights reserved – public domain…
Ggovic says:
Am I understanding this correctly that even if Kavanaugh fixes any non-disclosures before answering Whitehouse’s questions, he is not held accountable in any way? Legal or illegal financial gains will still get him confirmed? So, there is nothing on this earth to stop this confirmation even if he is found guilty of something?
IF, and that is IF, you correct certain matters as to a record, you are probably okay. Thing is, my bet is Kavanaugh is like Trump and just will arrogantly stand by his lies.
Are Federal judges allowed or denied, as a matter of law, to bet on the outcomes of the cases they are voting on?
Who is running the book?
If the bookie is the judiciary, then the bookie can profit.
https://www.casino.org/news/scotus-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-ruled-in-favor-of-trump-casino
Probably, the best thng to do in coming days,
would be to charge Kavanaugh with Money Laundering.
I’m sure the evidence has already been collected.
Whitehouse did not ask questions that he already knows the answers to.
Sorry. Meant to say that Whitehouse knows the answers to his questions. They are not blind questions.
oldoilfieldhand says:
We haven’t tried pitchforks and torches, yet…
Should always be an arrow in the quiver. Sometimes, it’s all that gets the attention of Nottingham and Sir Guy of Gisbourne
orionATL says:
Curveball says:
Here’s where Sen. White House is going with the Chevy Chase Club…..
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/university_club_public_service_discount_for_justices_causing_a_stir
That article. It’s not just the “over $50 gift” aspect of this, but the greasing of judicial wheels via hobnobbing with those who pay the full fee.
There is simply too much ethical eliding of boundaries. And this guy seems to be a pro – like Pence – at appearing “godly” while doing devilish work.
It’s a good thing I only “feel” like grinding and knashing my teeth. Otherwise I’d have ground them to the roots these last couple of years. For some reason it truly feels like we’ve all gone over Niagra Falls in a barrel. And for those of us still breathing, now it’s the rapids with no end.
Nifty: The amendment came from John Kyl, who is in the Senate exclusively to vote for Kavanaugh.
harpie says:
2006 was a BIG year for Brett. He “purchased [his] primary residence in Chevy Chase, MD for $1,225,000”, [and it didn’t even make a dent in his bank accounts!] AND he was confirmed to his cushy job on the DC Court of Appeals, where he could protect the Bush WH from challenges to their previous work together.
A clean-up guy: For white-collar crimes.
He brings everything but the hazmat suit.
An obvious possible source of help would have been his parents. His dad retired about then with a $13 million cash pay-out from the cosmetics trade association he led for years.
<<Parents>> Absolutely could have been.
Admittedly, we’re deep in the dark hole of speculation.
Were the appropriate tax filings made to acknowledge gifts made in excess of the limits imposed?
Inquiring minds want to know.
The IRS does does not require the recipient to disclose a gift. Above an annual limit – currently $15,000 per person – the IRS requires the giver to file an informational return and to count the gift against a lifetime limit for gifts and bequests.
That individual lifetime limit used to be about $5.5 million. Trump’s tax overhaul doubled it to about $11.2 million. For gifts above that, the giver pays a gift tax, up to a maximum of 40%.
As much as Trump and his wealth peers object to it, these limits affect remarkably few givers, far fewer than the older limits. But the higher limit helps perpetuate a wealth aristocracy.
The disclosure requirement for the recipient of a gift would come from government employment and security clearance forms of the sort required for political appointments, such as to the federal appellate bench or the Supreme Court. That’s to keep tabs on who the recipient might owe favors to, which might create a significant conflict of interest.
Kokuanani says:
Is anyone giving any thought to getting some of the “retiring Republicans” [like Flake, Corker] to vote “no”? None of these retirees has to run again, so why not “do the right thing” and vote against Kavanaugh?
Might interfere with that sweet gig at Heritage Foundation ….
People! — if you’d just read the responses carefully, you would discover that ALL Judge K cares to disclose is in his lengthy and non-specific essay, when asked specific and detailed questions about his finances:
RESPONSE: Please see my response to Question 11
Rumored to be related to the #metoo movement, some time when Kavanaugh was in high school. The woman has a lawyer:
Senate Democrats Have Referred A Secret Letter About Brett Kavanaugh To The FBI
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lissandravilla/senate-democrats-have-sent-a-secret-letter-about-brett
Dianne Feinstein Withholding Brett Kavanaugh Document From Fellow Judiciary Committee Dem
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/12/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-dianne-feinstein/
Kavanaugh went to an all boys schools. Interesting how quickly 65 women are defending his character. The names were provided rapidly from women claiming to have known Kavanaugh in high school 35 years ago. Was the accusation of the sexual assault known in advance and hidden? Did someone know this was coming out? Certainly, the team was prepared to answer fast with names.
“People ask me sometimes … ‘When will there be enough women on the court?’ And my answer is: ‘When there are nine.'” Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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New FCA rules mean complaint handling extended to ‘receiving’ payment service providers
On 14 December 2018, the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published a policy statement (PS18/22) which introduces new rules which mean that receiving payment service providers (“PSPs”) must deal with complaints from victims of alleged Authorised Push Payment (“APP”) fraud in the same manner as paying PSPs. The new rules take effect on 31 January 2019.
The new rules are part of an ongoing regulatory response to a super-complaint made by the consumer rights group Which? to the FCA and Payment Systems Regulator (“PSR”) in September 2016 about the adequacy of consumer safeguards to prevent APP fraud and the protection for victims of APP fraud. They follow on from the FCA’s consultation during the third quarter of last year (CP18/16).
Complaints about APP fraud
APP fraud occurs where a customer unknowingly authorises a payment by credit transfer to an account with the receiving PSP, which is controlled by the fraudster. It is a growing issue in the United Kingdom: UK Finance data for all of 2017 show that there were 43,875 cases of APP fraud with total losses of £236 million; in the first six months of 2018 there were 34,128 cases with total losses of £145.4 million.
Under the existing rules, victims of APP fraud can complain to their own PSP, and that PSP must handle the complaint in accordance with the Dispute Resolution: Complaints sourcebook (“DISP”) and, if unhappy with the outcome, the victim can refer the issue to the FOS for adjudication. However, if the victim complains to the PSP who has received the funds, that PSP is not required to follow DISP when handling the complaint, and the victim is unable to refer the issue to the Financial Ombudsman Service (“FOS”).
The FCA’s new rules change this from the end of this month, all PSPs will be required to handle complaints about APP fraud in accordance with the DISP rules. As well, the FOS’s compulsory and voluntary jurisdiction will be extended to enable them to adjudicate on all cases where victims of APP fraud are not happy with the outcome of their complaint to a PSP -provided that the victim is an eligible complainant within the meaning of DISP, i.e. a consumer or micro-enterprise.
Complaints about cooperation between PSPs
In addition, the FCA (with immediate effect) has changed its rules on complaints about cooperation between PSPs dealing with mistaken payments. Under the Second Payment Services Directive (“PSD2”), if the payee provides incorrect account details (or other payee identification details), the receiving PSP must cooperate with the payer’s PSP to recover the funds involved in the transaction. This requirement has been implemented in the United Kingdom pursuant to regulation 90(3) of the Payment Services Regulations 2017 (“PSRs 2017”). Payees can now complain to the receiving PSP about that firm’s cooperation with the payer’s PSP in relation to the mistaken payment, and the receiving PSP must handle that complaint in accordance with the DISP rules. Such complaints will also be considered under the FOS’s compulsory and voluntary jurisdiction. This change applies to any acts or omissions from 13 January 2018, i.e. the date on which the PSRs 2017 came into force.
The FCA has also published a policy statement (PS18/24) setting out new reporting requirements on complaints about alleged APP fraud and has suggested that this data could be used to measure the efficacy of these latest policy changes.
Next steps for PSPs
PSPs should: review their procedures for dealing with APP fraud and for cooperating with other PSPs in relation to mistaken payments; ensure that they are handling complaints appropriately, promptly and fairly; and also be alive to the reporting requirements.
The FCA has commented that PSPs should already have in place appropriate systems and processes for compliance with the new requirements, given that they must already deal with complaints as sending PSPs, and has therefore given PSPs less than two months to prepare for the new rules coming into force. Notwithstanding this, PSPs should ensure that they have the resource and capacity to account for the possible increase in the volume of complaints to which they will potentially be exposed as a result of these rule changes.
PSPs who receive a complaint about APP fraud should consider how they can quickly and accurately determine whether it is they or their counterpart PSP to which the victim should be complaining. The FCA has said that it does not want customer journeys to be impacted by this rule change insofar as that journey involves complaints and dispute resolution. This may involve early cooperation with the counterpart PSP and/or the extension of the contingent reimbursement model (“CRM”) to cover complaints as well as reimbursement.
For more information on complaint handling in relation to APP fraud or to receive a copy of our regular Payment Matters briefing on payment services in the United Kingdom and European Union, please contact us directly.
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This NASA astronaut-tested app promises to prevent jet lag
Tired of feeling groggy on trips? Timeshifter provides customized sleep schedules to realign internal clocks. It might just move the travel industry forward.
[Image: courtesy of Timeshifter]
By Rina Raphael 8 minute Read
Here’s one way to solicit unwanted attention in an airport: wear sunglasses at night.
In terms of attracting puzzled traveler looks, donning evening shades is right up there with in-flight sheet-masks and unwrapping tuna sandwiches. You hope people might assume you’re a celebrity trying to be incognito? But mostly they’re thinking, that person thinks they’re a celebrity.
In truth, I was only following directions. Timeshifter, the personalized jet lag app tested on NASA astronauts, commanded I avoid as much light as possible prior to boarding. That’s no easy feat in a Shanghai airport flooded with fluorescent light and flashing switchboards. It would have been better had I been completely blindfolded or the airport lights dimmed, but that’s simply unreasonable–that is, until the travel industry adjusts to better accommodate “timeshifters.”
“Our plans have a practicality filter, where the advice fits with what you can really achieve in the real world,” says Dr. Steve Lockley, a neuroscientist and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. The renowned expert in circadian rhythms and former NASA consultant developed the Timeshifter app algorithm after a decade of devising custom jet lag plans for Formula 1 drivers and astronauts.
“So if you’re asked to avoid light, it doesn’t mean being in complete darkness or closing your eyes. It means being exposed to less light than [usual],” explains Lockley. “There’s no point in advising you go to bed at 7:00 PM because the chances are you’re not really gonna do that.”
A personalized approach
The Timeshifter is a remarkably easy-to-use, straightforward app: Users simply enter in their full flight details (including multi-leg flights, stopovers), chronotype (morning person or a night owl), along with their individual sleep patterns. The latter is composed of your preferred bedtime/wake-up times as well as any other favorite aids, like melatonin or coffee intake.
Timeshifter then instantly delivers a personalized sleep schedule. It’s a full plan accompanied by push notification alerts like “avoid caffeine for the next 6 hours,” “expose yourself to light starting in 30 minutes,” or “take melatonin.” One can start it three days in advance of one’s flight or up until a minute before take-off, though the plan changes depending on advance lead time. The service costs $10 per jet lag plan or $24.99 for an annual subscription.
The app is unique in that it’s entirely based on sleep neuroscience and focused on shifting one’s internal clock forward. As Timeshifter cofounder and CEO Mickey Beyer-Clausen explains, beating jet lag involves moving one’s circadian cycle to the new time zone as soon as (feasibly) possible. But it’s not one-size-fits-all. Based on the information provided by each user, Timeshifter could have hundreds of different versions of the same trip, depending on sleep patterns or even when they started using the app.
For this reason, “it’s not something you can learn to do,” says Beyer-Clausen, a Danish entrepreneur who launched the app in 2017. “You need to have a personalized plan each time you travel.”
[Screenshot: courtesy of Timeshifter]
It comes down to two things that need to be precisely accounted for–timing and light. In fact, that’s what he thinks the sleep industry gets wrong; too many companies treat jet lag symptoms, like sleepiness, instead of addressing the underlying problem, which is a misalignment of the circadian clock in the brain.
“[The clock] is a result of human evolution–millions of years rotating around the sun every 24 hours. It’s not something that’s going to go away,” he tells me. Essentially, biology is slow to adapt to new circumstances. If you drive a car or you go on a boat, the circadian clock shift just happens naturally. But it’s much slower adapting to radically new time zones, and a jet plane takes you so quickly to new time zones that it disrupts the clock. Recent studies attest to speeding up the adaptation of the body clock (and thereby preventing jet lag) by perfectly timing the light/dark cycle.
“Light is so powerful that you need that as a foundation,” explains Beyer-Clausen. “If you time the lighting, then use melatonin on top of that, it can help you shift even faster. But you need to take it [the melatonin] at the right time. And people also get that wrong.”
While several other jet lag apps exist, such as Jet Lag Rooster, they do not base circadian rhythm on personalized details. Others, like Uplift, recommend timed acupressure to prevent jet lag.
Mikey Beyer Clausen [Photo: courtesy of Timeshifter]
Currently, Timeshifter is most popular with business travelers and athletes keen to optimize every hour on the road. It’s also a productivity issue: A 2017 study surveying 40,000 Major League Baseball games over 20 years found that if a team crossed two or three time zones without having had the time to adjust their sleep schedules, they performed worse on average.
Beyer-Clausen stresses there’s even more at stake for constant travelers. Jet lag strips travelers of precious time with family members upon their return, and potentially even affects their health. It has been shown to possess the same health risks that impact shift workers, such as an increase of diabetes, strokes, and certain cancers. Extremely tired travelers are also more prone to drowsy rental car driving–21% of fatal crashes involve a fatigued driver.
“The consequences are much more significant as it related performance and safety,” Beyer-Clausen. “There’s a cost to it both personally and for your company and for your health.”
A more circadian-friendly industry?
Timeshifter might be based on the most recent sleep science, but following its advice could prove challenging to some. At the Global Wellness Summit in Singapore in October, attendees were gifted a free membership, which made for lively comparisons–often of the same flights. Of the nearly two dozen people I spoke to, the majority of those who actually followed the regimen attested to its efficacy. But a quarter admitted it was too ambitious a plan. Some said the app instructed them to stay up for several hours in the middle of the night.
I myself gave up during a midnight flight in which I was asked to stay up for five hours. That’s pretty tough once the aircraft turns off the lights.
To that end, Timeshifter recommends strategies like looking at your phone or playing on a laptop to absorb blue light. Still, it’s a tall order for travelers used to popping an Ambien as the wheels roll up.
[Photo: courtesy of Timeshifter]
Dr. Michael J. Breus, a clinical psychologist with a specialty in sleep disorders and a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, says Timeshifter might better appeal to those who are routinely affected by jet lag and actively searching for a solution. It does require a certain level of compliance that might put off some consumers.
“There’s a learning curve, if you will,” says Breus, who is also an investor in Timeshifter. “Quite frankly, there are some people who will just think: This is too much of a hassle, I’m just going to have four cocktails and hope for the best.”
Timeshifter attempts to help people on the compliance front. The app has a live-chat customer service program in which users can readily get advice on their plan. (That, however, isn’t much when they’re already in-flight.)
Granted, the more you time-shift, the better you’ll understand the experience and learn what matters. For example, if the app tells you to go to sleep for six hours but you can’t sleep, it will advise closing your eyes with a sleep mask. That’s because essentially what is more important than the sleep itself is avoiding light, says Beyer-Clausen: “Sleep equals avoiding light.”
The travel industry isn’t quite yet on board with Timeshifter’s goals. People take their cues from airlines, which are more concerned with purely putting passengers to bed sleep than preventing jet lag. Poorly-timed meal service and dimmed lights are just a few issues confusing passengers’ clocks. (There’s no real way to personalize the flight experience, often even in first class.)
“The focus needs to be to shift your circadian clock as quickly as possible to the new time zone because then you sleep naturally and you wake up naturally, alert and energized,” says Beyer-Clausen. “That’s the bottom line.”
However, several travel brands seem to be keen to adopt the circadian clock philosophy. Timeshifter partnered with Six Senses Resorts to offer guests free membership, with other hotel groups on the horizon. The startup also secured a collaboration with United and is in talks with a dozen other airlines looking to offer the app free of charge to frequent fliers.
A growing number of hospitality brands look to personalize and improve the travel experience and Timeshifter might just be the one to open up the floodgates to more circadian rhythm products. As Breus reasons, once airlines start offering Timeshifter to clientele, they’re going to have to address some new questions: How do they help passengers adhere to the plans? How can they then improve the passenger experience?
“Whoever does it first will be in the leader seat for sure,” predicts Breus.
More than anything, Timeshifter hopes to educate people about the importance of regulating the sleep-wake cycle and thereby ensure better sleep health. Although the startup has no plans to release a suite of sleep products–it will strictly focus on jet lag–it thinks it can teach people how to create a stable, consistent sleep schedule.
Beyer-Clausen is hopeful after witnessing sleep health awareness seep into the public conversation in the last few years. There are now countless tools, apps, monitoring devices, even cuddly “sleep robots” and sleep-optimized homes to help consumers establish better habits.
“It’s going all in the right direction,” says Beyer-Clausen, noting that people today know far more about sleep health than even five years ago. Still, he notes, people are fussy about their snooze and oftentimes Timeshifter acts a disciplinarian of sorts. “Sometimes people complain a bit, like why can’t I put my bedtime to [this certain time] and wake up five hours later? It’s because it’s not good for you,” he laughs. “We teach people.”
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DENVER – June 5, 2017 – It's a beautiful day to KILL BUGS! The CG animated sequel to the 1997 cult classic “Starship Troopers” will get the big screen treatment when “STARSHIP TROOPERS: TRAITOR OF MARS” hits cinemas nationwide for one night this summer. Casper Van Dien and Dina Meyer return as the voices of Johnny Rico and Dizzy Flores alongside comedian and “Starship Troopers” super fan DeRay Davis in an all-new military adventure from the writer of “Starship Troopers” and “Robocop,” Ed Neumeier.
Fathom Events and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions present “STARSHIP TROOPERS: TRAITOR OF MARS” in U.S. movie theaters on Monday, August 21 at 7:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. local time. Each showing will also feature a special introduction by writer Ed Neumeier and actor Casper Van Dien, plus never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the filmmakers.
Tickets for U.S. screenings of “STARSHIP TROOPERS: TRAITOR OF MARS” can be purchased online beginning Monday, June 19 at www.FathomEvents.com or at participating theater box offices. Fans throughout the U.S. will be able to enjoy the event in select movie theaters. A complete list of theater locations will be available June 19 on the Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change).
In “STARSHIP TROOPERS: TRAITOR OF MARS,” Johnny Rico has just been demoted and sent to a small satellite station on Mars whilst the Federation attacks the bugs’ home planet. While trying to train his new recruits on this remote quiet station, the bugs show up in a surprise attack but the Federation’s Fleet is too far away to help. It’s up to Rico and his Troopers to save the planet and uncover how the bugs made it so close to home.
“We are so excited to be working with Sony to debut ‘STARSHIP TROOPERS: TRAITOR OF MARS’ in movie theaters nationwide,” Fathom Events VP of Studio Relations Tom Lucas said. “Twenty years later, the original film remains one of the most beloved science fiction movies of all time and this sequel will be a treat for fans new and old alike.”
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Pink Glove Dance voting gets underway
Filming has concluded, final edits are complete and the countdown has begun.
Pink Glove Dance voting gets underway Filming has concluded, final edits are complete and the countdown has begun. Check out this story on fdlreporter.com: https://fondul.ac/1UFRDDo
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Filming has concluded, final edits are complete and the countdown has begun for the debut of the 2015 Pink Glove Dance video by Agnesian HealthCare and the Fond du Lac Family YMCA.
Agnesian Health Care filmed a portion of their Pink Glove Dance 2015 video outside the Cancer Center on Division Street on May 30. The video campaign is a national competition to raise awareness for breast cancer. The video with the most votes gets $25,000 for their cancer charity of choice.(Photo: Doug Raflik/ Action Reporter Media)Buy Photo
Filming has concluded, final edits are complete and voting has begun for the 2015 Pink Glove Dance video by Agnesian HealthCare and the Fond du Lac Family YMCA.
The Pink Glove Dance is a video dance competition offered through Medline, and is designed to bring awareness and raise money toward cancer research. Agnesian HealthCare has been a proud participant in this charity event for the past four years with the Fond du Lac Family YMCA, and has had nearly 2,000 community members, survivors and associates participate in the dances.
This year’s entry features the song “Safe and Sound” by the Capital Cities and follows an uplifting tribute by Ellie Baldus, Agnesian HealthCare radiation therapist. Throughout the video, she collects pink balloons from various community members. These balloons celebrate cancer survivors among us, as well as those who have left us during their fight. Ellie serves as a beacon of hope to those around her, carrying the lives of our loved ones with her as she moves on — keeping them Safe and Sound.
The story, as a whole, is for all who are, or have ever been, affected by cancer, and how together through the Pink Glove Dance video, Agnesian HealthCare can bring honor and joy to them all. The video features many outstanding organizations, such as Flight For Life, UW Marching Band, YMCA children’s group, Color Burst participants, Relay for Life participants, the Waupun Warriorettes Varsity Dance Team and more.
Theressa, cancer survivor, participated in our 2015 Pink Glove Dance. She supports the dance because it “shows how people come together in the community and families support each other.” Julie and Karen participate in the dance for their mother, Joan, who is a survivor. Survivor Linda, shares that this dance is particularly important to her because “I am here today!” As members of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes, it’s an honor to give cancer survivors and their families an opportunity to share their stories and dance.
Now, the community is needed to vote and share. The public may view and vote once a day now through Sept. 23 for Agnesian HealthCare’s Pink Glove Dance video on agnesian.com/pinkglovedance or PinkGloveDance.com. The video with the most votes could win $25,000 toward a cancer charity of their choice.
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Despite Recent Controversy, Consulting Firm Recommends TSP Stay the Course on I Fund Change
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By Ian Smith on November 6, 2019 in Pay & Benefits with 0 Comments
A consulting firm is recommending that the Thrift Savings Plan stay the course on its plans to change the underlying stock index for the I Fund despite recent controversy over greater exposure to Chinese companies.
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB), the agency which oversees the TSP, retained Aon Hewitt Investment Consulting (AHIC) to conduct a review of the company’s previous recommendation in November 2017 to shift the I Fund from its current benchmark index, the MSCI EAFE Index, to the MSCI ACWI ex USA IMI Index.
The FRTIB’s decision to make this change has led to controversy with some lawmakers in Congress introducing legislation to block the change and pressuring the FRTIB to not go through with it. They say that it is creating unnecessary risk for federal employees and retirees invested in the TSP by exposing them to investments in Chinese companies and that this exposure also creates national security risks for the United States.
More recently, the Secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer, weighed in on the debate in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal in which he made some of the same arguments.
“As secretary of the Navy, I have a duty to represent the dedicated members of America’s naval forces and ensure that, as investors, they are not unwittingly helping to underwrite the threats China and Russia pose to their lives. For the good of the country and those who serve it, the FRTIB must reverse its decision to adopt the All Countries World Index—and do it before a single dollar from its fund pays for a weapons system aimed in our direction,” wrote Spencer.
He cited examples of Chinese companies that make weapons that could then pose a potential threat to the United States.
“The FRTIB may argue that its fiduciary responsibility is to generate robust investment returns, with no exception for national security,” wrote Spencer. He added, however, that the lack of oversight of these companies make the Chinese companies “dubious investments.”
AHIC, however, would appear to disagree with Spencer’s position on the potential returns, at least on the change to the underlying benchmark index as a whole.
In its report, it stated that its 2019 third quarter projected results for performance of the new benchmark index were even better than its analysis from two years ago. Specifically, the report said that it projected a 7.9% nominal return versus 7.7% that it had estimated two years ago using the new index. Under the existing I Fund index, its latest projection is a 7.5% nominal return.
AHIC Q3 2017 Expected Return Expected Risk Sharpe Ratio
Developed Markets 7.3% 20.0% 0.23
Emerging Markets (inclusive of China) 7.7% 30.0% 0.17
Total International Equity Market 7.7% 21.6% 0.24
“…broadening the coverage of the I Fund to encompass the full opportunity set will provide symmetry to TSP’s equity investment lineup as it would give participants access to both U.S. and non-U.S. large and small cap stocks,” wrote AHIC.
The report also added that the benchmark index change for the I Fund would be in line with what other large defined contribution plans across the United States currently do with respect to having exposure to Chinese companies. Some of the federal contractors it analyzed in its study included Lockheed Martin, Boeing and General Dynamics.
It also analyzed state run defined benefit plans. “20 of the 20 largest public defined benefit plans invest in emerging market equity, which includes China equities,” noted the AHIC report.
“U.S. retirement funds’ capital flows into China equities have grown from an estimated $53 billion to $161 billion over the past ten years, which reflects the rising weight of overall China in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, the evolution of share classes for China equities within the Emerging Markets Index, as well as investors’ outlook for Emerging Markets Equity,” noted the report.
As of right now, the change to the new benchmark index is set to take effect next year. Whether or not the FRTIB will reverse its decision in light of the pressure it’s getting from lawmakers remains to be seen.
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Furry Fandom FAQ
What is a furry?
Furries are people who have a strong interest in animals with near-human attributes (also referred to as anthropomorphism). Think of a typical Saturday morning cartoon in which animals can walk and talk, but still maintain the physical features of an animal (e.g. fur, paws, tails, etc.). Furries come in all shapes, sizes and interest levels. Many furries have “fursonas” they identify with, some do not. Furry can be considered a hobby, an identity, a grassroots community and more. There’s no wrong or right way to be a furry.
Wait, so what's a fursona?
Furries often closely identify with one or more anthropomorphic character, which is called a fursona. For some furries, their fursona is a mix of themselves and a single animal. For others it can be a hybrid of several animals. And some furries have multiple fursonas. Some furries role play or chat as their fursona online and some identify with their fursona as an avatar or artistic shorthand. Many furries also attend local meet ups or larger furry conventions as well. Some furries will make a physical suit of their fursona (called a fursuit), though these can be expensive and most furries do not.
OK yeah, what’s the deal with the furry suits?
Furries who wear fursuits are only one part of the furry community—however they do receive a disproportionate amount of media attention. It’s a common misconception that all furries have or want a fursuit. For some furries, a fursuit is a vital and liberating way to live out their fursona. For others it’s not. It’s a big community running the gamut from casual online fans to people who see their fursonas as something spiritual.
So are there people who are casual furries?
Of course. If there’s one message we can’t repeat often enough it’s that there is literally no wrong way to be a furry. Many people, especially those who are new to the community, are more casual about their interest. Some furries will draw or commission drawings of their fursonas, but never attend an event as their fursona. Some furries may never make the leap offline—and that’s okay. All are valid.
What kind of animals are popular?
Well first, it’s important to say that the furry community is endlessly diverse, encompassing all kinds of animals, real and mythical, and no animal is more or less valid than the others. That being said, the 20 most popular fursona species are: Wolf; red fox; dragon; domestic cat; tiger; husky; dog (other); feline (other); fox (other); artic fox; rabbit; kitsune; lion; canine (other); raccoon; leopard; grey fox; coyote; horse; and river otter. But fursonas can run the gamut from hybrid species, to mythical creatures (e.g. dragons, unicorns) to extinct species (e.g. dinosaurs). There’s actually a wonderful collection of data from several years of worldwide furry surveys by [adjective][species] at http://vis.adjectivespecies.com. It’s worth checking out!
OK, so is this a sexual, romantic or platonic thing?
It's different for different people. Furry fandom is first and foremost about identity, and identity is complicated and rolls up into a lot of things, including sex. For some furries, being a furry is deeply connected to their sexuality and they may only date other furries and or become aroused by sex with other furries (often called yiff or yiffing). These furries might use platforms like Ferzu as a furry dating site. For many furries, however, being a furry is more a way of life and social environment than it is a sexual thing and their focus is on the furry community and making like-minded friends.
Can't I just hide this part of me?
Sure, you can hide any part of your identity. Would we recommend that? No. If you’ve known you were a furry since you were a kid, it’s a safe bet those desires aren’t going anywhere. You can repress them in a similar manner to the way an “ex-gay” can repress their desires—but you will get a similar result: Namely, a lot of shame, disappointment and sadness.
But it’s so… weird.
Hey, we’re not gonna debate you on that one. Mainstream society will probably always think we are weird. But why on earth would you let those judgmental, conformist normals stop you from having fun and being you? Besides, behind closed doors they’re probably getting whipped, or diapered or foot worshipped. Everyone’s kink or interest is weird to people who don’t share it. Don’t let their BS keep you from living the life you deserve.
How can I meet other furries?
Online is a good start, but there’s also an abundance of furry conventions where you can meet other furries in person. The largest events are Anthrocon in Pittsburgh, Midwest FurFest near Chicago, Further Confusion in San Jose; Furry Weekend in Atlanta; Furry Fiesta in Dallas; RainFurrest in Seattle and Biggest Little Fur Con in Reno. There’s also a large annual furry convention in Europe, called Euroference.
How can I learn more?
Honestly, the best way to learn more is to dive in and start chatting with people!
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Faithful+Gould - The Major Player in Birmingham’s Regeneration
By on 12 Jun 2006
Faithful+Gould has worked closely with developers on high profile projects such as Brindleyplace, Selfridges, No 1 Colmore Square and the Mailbox.
The remarkable regeneration of Birmingham has seen this once seemingly industrial blot on the landscape transform to become a true great British city. An almost unrecognisable shadow of its former self, Birmingham now boasts many landmarks that are comparable with other places famed for their design excellence.
Long gone are the dilapidated eyesores, concrete towers and run-down buildings, today chic shopping malls, boutique hotels and restaurants take precedence in Birmingham city centre.
One company that has been instrumental in revitalising Britain’s second city is project management consultants Faithful+Gould, which has worked closely with developers on high profile projects such as Brindleyplace, Selfridges, No 1 Colmore Square and the Mailbox.
After providing its services on these developments, Faithful+Gould continues to be a fundamental ingredient in Birmingham's ongoing transformation.
Following the success of the exclusive Mailbox project, the company has been chosen as employer's agent, quantity surveyor, programme monitor and planning supervisor on the latest phase of development, the Cube. This new £50 million expansion will comprise office space, apartments, shops, restaurants, a five star hotel, as well as a basement car park, and is set to become as iconic as the Mailbox.
Described as 'Birmingham's most sophisticated mixed-use building', construction work began on the Cube earlier this year. This truly unique project is an excellent example of how Faithful+Gould can work with architects and developers to provide vital management support, from concept right through to creation.
For such a high profile project, running smoothly from start to finish was a pre-requisite, particularly as the site in question is a complicated one. It is set to form a convergence point for two major city lines, linking New Street station with Broad Street and Brindleyplace with the Mailbox. Indeed, it was Faithful+Gould’s expertise and know-how that made it the natural choice when it came to advising on timescales and costs to ensure the development ran exactly to plan.
Faithful+Gould has enjoyed a long history of being involved with some of the most prestigious construction projects in the world, thanks to its professional but informal work style. But despite its international acclaim, the company handles each contract with the same 'can-do' attitude and personal touch, ensuring a tailored service for each client, whether it’s for a local project or a multi-million pound international development.
Gordon McDonald, operations director for Faithful+Gould’s Birmingham office said: "It's our distinctive approach to project management, depth of resources and our ability to work as a true extension of our clients' organisations that helps us to achieve the best possible result and it's this that we pride ourselves on."
Prestigious Awards
This commitment to providing lasting client relationships combined with the unrivalled knowledge of the construction sector has resulted in Faithful+Gould winning numerous prestigious awards.
Last year, the company was recognised for its outstanding work by winning four Project Management Awards. The company scooped Project Manager of the Year at the Builder & Engineer Awards and Project Management Team of the Year at the Insider Property Awards. Additionally, Sandra Cummings won APM Young Project Manager of the Year and Claire Charman was voted Birmingham Young Professional of the Year in the construction category.
It’s these awards that are testament to Faithful+Gould’s outstanding reputation as the leading project and cost management specialists in the UK and across the globe. The company’s planned, organised and controlled approach to problem solving and effective teamwork enables it to communicate, control and deliver projects to cost and on programme.
Unrivalled Knowledge
Faithful+Gould has provided Birmingham with a wealth of services. Alongside traditional project management and commercial skills the company also offers advice on sustainability, service costs and programming. It provides added value services for risk and value management, programme management, specialist and strategic contract advice, asset management and whole life cost. Drawing on this knowledge, the experts at Faithful+Gould ensure the most appropriate balance is achieved between revenue generation and amenity.
Faithful+Gould’s active presence in and around Birmingham has seen it provide project and cost management to various new schemes, not just the Cube. The company has a major role in the Birmingham International Airport departure lounge extension, New Street Station redevelopment (Quantity Surveying services) and Birmingham University Mason Hall residence thanks to the company’s extensive knowledge of the city and its construction and development environment.
Faithful+Gould understands the importance of quality and high standards in its work and in response to clients also insisting on evidence of officially recognised procedures, the company is in the process of ensuring that many of its project managers obtain the PRINCE2 (Projects In Controlled Environments) accreditation, run in conjunction with the Office of Government Commerce.
PRINCE2 sets out procedural-driven standards to be implemented on projects, represents the best practice of project management and is the de-facto standard in the UK and is practiced worldwide.
Gordon McDonald has been made only too aware that having PRINCE2 accreditation is imperative when wanting to be involved with public sector projects. “Whilst we have our own best practice manual for staff to adopt the correct procedures, it has become increasingly evident that official recognition of standard procedure is required by clients – particularly those from the public sector.
"The benefits of using PRINCE2 are that organisations are becoming increasingly aware of the opportunities for adopting a project approach to the way that they address change. Businesses are now also getting to know the benefits that a single, common, structured method for project management can bring. A conscious decision was therefore made in the Birmingham office to have enough people with the PRINCE2 accreditation to be able to offer our services to any public sector project that arose. PRINCE2 embodies established and proven best practice in project management. It is widely recognised and understood, providing a common language for all participants. By introducing accredited project managers into our skill base in Birmingham it gives us more flexibility and even greater opportunities in the market place to make the city an even better place to live, work and socialise", added Gordon.
So what lies ahead for the future of Birmingham? More development and more change is firmly on the agenda, and with Faithful+Gould at the helm of new and evolving projects, the city will no doubt retain and continue to build upon its already iconic status for embracing new additions to its skyline whilst firmly keeping its history and personality firmly in tact.
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Size: 9.5 x 14 Inches
Limited Edition Photographic Print of Sarah's site specific installation.
Wood and silkscreen installation, Playa, Summer Lake, Oregon, December 2016
Sarah's sculptures explore the relationship between identity and the physicality of place. How expansive space can be physically and psychologically internalized, allowing for the restructuring of normative narratives that limit the self. Her three dimensional wall mounted artwork is contextualized by her formative experience of vastness in the high-desert where she was raised.
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Sarah's arid sculptures and installations often combine mixed media textures such as sand paper, which fearlessly emerge from slashed canvases. Juxtaposed with subtle gradient washes, Sarah's relief sculptures explore the relationship between identity and the physicality of place. Her work has broken away from the wall and into exterior sculptures where nature influences how her work is viewed.
Native to Reno Nevada, Sarah's art references the vastness of the high-desert where she was raised. Her work confronts our internalization of space both physically and psychologically allowing for us to reconsider how we conform to our own normative standards. Sarah... read more Sarah's arid sculptures and installations often combine mixed media textures such as sand paper, which fearlessly emerge from slashed canvases. Juxtaposed with subtle gradient washes, Sarah's relief sculptures explore the relationship between identity and the physicality of place. Her work has broken away from the wall and into exterior sculptures where nature influences how her work is viewed.
Native to Reno Nevada, Sarah's art references the vastness of the high-desert where she was raised. Her work confronts our internalization of space both physically and psychologically allowing for us to reconsider how we conform to our own normative standards. Sarah sculpts and resides in Brooklyn.
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93.43 KB ESMA Vice Chair and Management Board Election Results Vice Chair Re-elected The Board of Supervisors of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has re-elected Carlos Tavares as its Vice Chair. Mr. Tavares, who is Chairman of the Portuguese Comissão Do Mercado De Valores Mobiliários (CMVM), has completed an initial 2½ year term and will now serve a further term of 2½ years in the position. Management Board Election The terms of three members of ESMA’s Management Board expired and elections were held by the Board of Supervisors to fill the positions for a term of 2½ years. Those elected are: Kostas Botopoulos, Hellenic Capital Markets Commission (HCMC), Greece – new member; Klaus Kumpfmüller, Finanzmarktaufsicht (FMA), Austria – new member; and Martin Wheatley, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), United Kingdom –re-elected for a second term. The outgoing members were Karl-Burkhard Caspari from the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) of Germany and Raul Malmstein of Estonia’s, Finantsinspektsioon. The Management Board, chaired by Steven Maijoor, the ESMA Chair, is responsible for ensuring that the Authority carries out its mission and performs the tasks assigned to it under the Regulation. The Management Board now consists of: Steven Maijoor, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA); Kostas Botopoulos, Hellenic Capital Markets Commission (HCMC), Greece; Klaus Kumpfmüller, Finanzmarktaufsicht (FMA), Austria; Jean Guill, Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), Luxembourg; Gérard Rameix, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), France; Julie Galbo, Finanstilsynet, Denmark and Martin Wheatley, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), United Kingdom. Reference 2013/889
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90.35 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority has elected three new members to its Management Board to replace outgoing members whose term will expire in October this year. The election took place at the Board of Supervisors meeting in Rome on 25 September and the successful candidates, who will serve a term of 2½ years beginning on the 1 November 2014, are: • Cyril Roux, Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), Ireland – new member; • Gérard Rameix, Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), France – ending first term and re-elected; and • Marek Szuszkiewicz, Komisja Nadzoru Finanswego (KNF), Poland – new member.
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its 2017 Work Programme which sets out its priorities and areas of focus for 2017 in support of its mission to enhance investor protection and promote stable and orderly financial markets.
The programme reflects the shift in focus of ESMA’s work, from building the single rulebook, towards ensuring its consistent application across the European Union (EU), as outlined in its 2016-2020 Strategic Orientation. The key areas of focus under ESMA’s activities of supervisory convergence, assessing risks, single rulebook and direct supervision will be:
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has fined Moody’s Deutschland GmbH (Moody’s Germany) €750,000 and Moody’s Investors Service Limited (Moody’s UK) €490,000, and issued a public notice, for two negligent breaches of the Credit Rating Agencies Regulation (CRAR).
ESMA found that Moody’s Germany and Moody’s UK negligently committed two infringements of the CRAR regarding their public announcement of certain ratings and their public disclosure of methodologies used to determine those ratings. These failures concern nineteen ratings issued between June 2011 and December 2013 for nine supranational entities including the European Investment Bank, the European Investment Fund, the European Stability Mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility and the European Union.
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The Woman Question
Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams
Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
11 June - 2 October 2011
Surrealism is arguably the foremost art and literature movement of the twentieth century and carries with it considerable intellectual and cultural reach. Therefore, it repays on-going interrogation and research by scholars (be they art historians and/or artists, literary experts, psychoanalysts or political historians) when an exhibition of the magnitude of ‘Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’ is mounted in Australia.
Still strong in memory is ‘Surrealism: Revolution by Night’, put on by the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) and toured from Canberra to the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1993. On that occasion, the exhibition was curated ‘in-house’ and comprised over three hundred loans from seventy-nine separate sources. It was cognizant of the influence of Surrealism on Australian artists and made their inclusion an important component of the survey. As the QAG was one of the galleries to host this mammoth curatorial exercise after its term at the NGA, a proportion of viewers were already primed for the recent exhibition ‘Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’ at Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA). It was mounted by the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou expressly for Brisbane and curated by Didier Ottinger, the Pompidou’s Deputy Director.
Having a single curatorial eye and knowledge base and one collection to deal with has considerable merit in these times of straightened financial resources. However, while Ottinger chose the one hundred and eighty-six exhibits in Paris and wrote the in-depth catalogue essays, it is obvious that he liaised closely with senior curators at QAG/GoMA on his selection of works. This latest Surrealism show, for instance, has a strong film component (over one hundred titles) that admirably fits the mandate of the GoMA cinémathèque and was in fact curated for that facility by gallery staff member José Da Silva.1 It is also the Gallery’s practice to integrate the moving image directly into its mixed-media exhibitions (the Asia Pacific Triennial being a point in case) and this Surrealism show does it masterfully. ‘Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’ also features photography as art as much as document and perhaps does so to ensure that Surrealist women artists have more than a muse-like presence for a movement that notoriously omits them as autonomous talents. This is the ‘sting in the tail’ for this writer on the Pompidou show.
Although there is much to commend it, with strong representation by Giorgio De Chirico, René Magritte, André Masson, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Victor Brauner, Francis Picabia, Man Ray and Roberto Matta, it seems an oversight that in Ottinger’s essays, the artist commentaries and the Surrealism chronologies, plus the bibliography, there is no acknowledgement of the feminist imperative. This imperative fuelled the ‘new art history’ of revisionism and deconstruction we learnt from in the early 1980s and led to fine texts on Surrealism and women artists (by Whitney Chadwick, among others).2 It begs the question: why are there not more female artists included in ‘Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’ and why has attention not been drawn sufficiently in the texts associated with this exhibition towards the conflicted approach to the feminine by Surrealists in their work?3 After all, it was André Breton, that charismatic leader of the French Surrealists, who famously declared in 1929 ‘The problem of women is the most marvellous and disturbing problem in all the world’.
While some have argued that woman’s role as muse in Surrealism outweighs her role as artist, this is belied by the richness of the creative lives of those who made work, particularly during the 1930s and later in France and beyond (especially the United States). This was when the first revolutionary wave of the movement (1924-29), in which no women were listed as official members, had passed into history. Women therefore belong more properly in their own right as artists to a second generation of Surrealists. And therefore, with this commentary I have decided to single out those female artists who as autonomous talents were included in the Pompidou exhibition.
Firstly, the combined ‘automatic’ drawings known as cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse), where Valentine Hugo, Nusch Èluard and Breton played with notions of a woman in pastel on black paper. The exhibition includes two from those made by this trio in 1931. There is no determining who contributed to which part of these drawings but they do point to the fact that women themselves were complicit in their own gender’s depiction when enmeshed in the Surrealism movement. They were, after all, married to, or related in some way to the main exponents of it. When it comes to the photographers, Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) is among those represented. She is an intriguing figure with her sexually ambiguous name and the androgynous persona which she photographed in various disguises. Here, however, four photographs from around 1936 fit the Surrealist’s love of ambiguous encounters between objects and, in the one titled La vitrine de chaussures (Shop window with shoes), viewers are teasingly confronted by shoe fetishism and its erotic implications.
Dora Maar makes a strong appearance with thirteen gelatin silver photographs. Often referred to as a lover and muse of Picasso, she is here represented unencumbered by this association, with, among other images, the series Les yeux (The eyes) c.1932–35, San titre (Hand and mirror) c.1934 and the perplexing montage-like Corail (Coral) c.1934-35. The abstract and curious compositions with pairs of glass eyes suspended in droplets of liquid or emerging sprout-like from earth or hovering above a nude woman in a mountainous landscape, not only testify to Surrealism’s extensive use of collage and montage techniques to unsettle mundane expectations but they underscore Freud’s theory of dreams and the power of the unconscious to reveal hidden urges and obsessions. The eyes in Maar’s series are of cause mesmerising as they indicate ‘the gaze’ outwards to the world at large, but more particularly in her case, interior visions (as if the subject were blind or asleep). Viewers are able to cross-reference these particular photographs with Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s slicing into an eye at the beginning of their film La Chien Andalou (The Andalusian Dog) of 1928, which is also in this exhibition.
From 1927, a silent black and white Surrealist film La Coquille et le Clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman) made in France by Germaine Dulac was projected in the exhibition proper, as was Maya Deren’s At Land of 1944, Deren’s second film made in New York. Of those artists affiliated with Surrealism practising outside of France, Deren is a fascinating figure for her strong presence within the Surrealist circle in New York City—counting as her associates Marcel Duchamp, Breton, John Cage and Anaïs Nin) and especially for her achievements as an avant-garde filmmaker. (To my mind, she deserved a one-page entry in the catalogue). In this film, Deren critiques social ritual by using herself as protagonist in a coastal landscape. She first reverses the natural rhythm of waves breaking and descending back into the sea and then climbs up a dead tree trunk on the beach to emerge, ‘magic-like’, onto a table where a formal dinner party is in progress, seemingly invisible to the diners and their bourgeois activity. What should be pointed out, of course, is the fact that the women artists who did achieve at this period are those who came from socio-economically privileged backgrounds and who had the curiosity, talent and drive to experiment with non-conventional modes of intellectual and creative inquiry.
Dorothea Tanning, with her painting Un tableau très heureux (A very happy picture) (1947), followed by her intentionally claustrophobic interior Chambre 202, Hôtel du Pavot (1970), is a case in point. Already a painter before she met Max Ernst, whom she married, Tanning forged a long career in the United States. As this later work references Surrealism through its mannequins and poupeés it would be misleading to link Chambre 202 too firmly with the feminist enterprise in the United States unfolding at the time. Tanning herself stridently voiced her practice as being removed from any political and social force other than Surrealism. Even so, the anxiety and sexual overtones of her soft sculptures in their domestic environment does invite comparison with first wave feminism.
Benefitting ‘Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’ and adding to its integrity as an historical movement with a contemporary push, was the exhibition’s public program of talks by local artists. Apposite here is Madeleine Kelly whose paintings in her exhibition, ‘Hollow Mark’, at Griffith University Art Gallery in late 2011, demonstrate lessons learnt from both Surrealism and Feminism. This young artist adds to this mix a rich personal iconography that brings to mind Foucault’s ideas in his book The Archaeology of Knowledge, while ensuring (subconsciously perhaps) that her female figures are assertive and often central to the formulation of her compositions.4
Anne Kirker
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1. The film program was titled ‘The Savage Eye: Surrealism and Cinema’ and divided into thirteen separate categories, including ‘Across the Atlantic: Surrealism and the American Avant- Garde’ in which four films by Maya Deren were shown including the influential Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) which she co-directed with Alexander Hammid.
2. Whitney Chadwick, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, Thames & Hudson, 1985, reprinted as a paperback 2002. See also Mary Ann Caws, Rudolf Kuenzli, and Gwen Raaberg (eds), Surrealism and Women, The MIT Press, 1991.
3. Regarding female exhibitors in ‘Surrealism: Revolution by Night’ (1993), the catalogue checklist includes Eileen Agar, Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun, Nusch Éluard, Leonor Fini, Hannah Höch, Dora Maar, Meret Oppenheim, Edith Rimmington, Dorothea Tanning; Joy Hester and Jacqueline Hick were in the Australian component. Often only one work represented these artists, as was the case with less well-known and accomplished male practitioners in the exhibition. Furthermore, the art medium dictated the number of exhibits by a particular artist (photographs were generally chosen as a group, unlike sculpture, for example).
4. ‘Madeleine Kelly: Hollow Mark’, was curated by Simon Wright (with catalogue essay by Abigail Fitzgibbons) for Griffith University Art Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, 7 October – 13 November 2011, where the artist teaches and is a PhD. candidate.
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SBIFF TO BESTOW BEN AFFLECK WITH MODERN MASTER AWARD The Santa Barbara International Film Festival, presented by lynda.com, will honor director, producer and actor Ben Affleck with the Modern Master Award at the 28th edition of the Fest, which runs January 24 -February 3, 2013, it was announced today by SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling. The Tribute will take place on Saturday, January 26, 2013 at the historic Arlington Theatre. “Afflec...
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Robert de Niro to be honored at The Santa Barbara International Film Festival'
Director, producer and Academy Award-winning actor ROBERT DE NIRO has been chosen to receive The Santa Barbara International Film Festival's seventh annual KIRK DOUGLAS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FILM at a black-tie Gala dinner at Bacara Resort & Spa in Santa Barbara on Saturday, December 8, 2012. Mr. De Niro will accept this honor from Mr. Douglas in recognition of his exceptional career spanning over four and a half decades, leading up to this year’s highly ...
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In recognition of his contributions to the world of film, Michael Douglas will be bestowed with his father’s honor, the 2011 KIRK DOUGLAS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FILM from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The 6th annual black-tie Gala dinner will take place at The Four Seasons Biltmore in Santa Barbara on Thursday, October 13, 2011. “The first time I saw Michael Douglas act was in a play at UC Santa Barbara, so it is fitting that a career that started here should ...
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The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) announced today that multiple Academy Award® winning actor and humanitarian Sean Penn will receive the coveted Golden Icon Award at this year’s Festival, taking place September 22nd – October 2nd. The announcement was made by ZFF Directors Karl Spoerri and Nadja Schildknecht. Serving as the Festival’s most prestigious symbol of recognition, awarded in appreciation of the lifetime achievements of an actor or actress, the Golden Icon Award will be...
Actor Morgan Freeman to receive Life Achievement Award at the 39th AFI (in best company)
Clint Eastwood, Helen Mirren, Sidney Poitier, Mike Nichols, Matthew Broderick, Rita Moreno and Many More Among Those Honoring Legendary Actor Morgan Freeman at the 39th AFI Life Achievement Award Ceremony Honor Takes Place At Historic Sony Pictures Studios Thursday, June 9, 2011 At 7:00 p.m. AFI and TV Land announced today that Clint Eastwood, Helen Mirren, Sidney Poitier, Mike Nichols, Matthew Broderick and Rita Moreno are among the luminaries in film who will pay tribute to M...
ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL wrapped in NYC
The 25th ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL closed tonight in NYC with a screening of the Panavision Audience Choice Award winning film – Avi Nesher’s The Matchmaker. The annual Panavision Audience Choice Award for Best Israeli Feature Film carries a state-of-the-art Panavision package worth over $60,000 for the director and producer to use toward their next film shot in Israel. Mr. Nesher’s The Matchmaker was shot utilizing funds he was awarded from the Panavision Audience Choice Award he received fo...
Annette Bening honored at the 26th SBFF with American Riviera Award
By Ron Gilbert After attending this event hosted by festival director Roger Durling who created his Valentine event to Annette which truly came from the heart, I give my vote to Annette Bening for Best Actress. Many reasons moved me to this after seeing clips from her film legacy. Her passion for theatre in which presenter and Oscar winner Kevin Costner called her our Katherine Hepburn and a Woman for All Seasons and then told her to come over and give him a hug. This was part...
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After attending this event hosted by festival director Roger Durling who created his Valentine event to Annette which truly came from the heart, I give my vote to Annette Bening for Best Actress. Many reasons moved me to this after seeing clips from her film legacy. Her passion for theatre in which presenter and Oscar winner Kevin Costner called her our Katherine Hepburn and a Woman for All Seasons and then told her to come over and give him a hug. This was part of the final moments of the trib...
22nd PSIFF Winners and closing gala
22nd ANNUAL PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FESTIVAL WINNERS Palm Springs, CA (January 16, 2011) –The 22nd Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival announced this year’s award winners at a luncheon at Spencer’s Restaurant on Sunday, January 16, 2011. The Festival, held from January 6-17, 2011, screened 205 films from 69 countries, including 41 of the 65 foreign language entries for this year’s Academy Awards®. Palm Springs’ increas...
20.01.2011 | Vanessa McMahon's blog
Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards
The Whistleblower Mercedes-Benz Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature; Louder Than a Bomb Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature; Of Gods and Men Receives FIPRESCI Award; Nothing's All Bad Receives New Voices/New Visions Award; Summer Pasture Receives The John Schlesinger Award The 22nd Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival announced this year's award winners at a luncheon at Spencer's Restaurant on Sunday, January 16, 2011. The Festival, held from January 6-17,...
The 22nd Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival announced this year's award winners at a luncheon at Spencer's Restaurant on Sunday, January 16, 2011. The Festival, held from January 6-17, 2011, screened 205 films from 69 countries, including 41 of the 65 foreign language entries for this year's Academy Awards®. Palm Springs' increasingly popular Festival continues to expand its diverse programming of quality independent and foreign films, setting the stage for the year's film festiv...
Michael Douglas will receive Icon award tonight at Palm Springs Film Festival
by Marla Lewin Michael Douglas will receive the icon award tonight at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Then on Sunday he will attend the Golden Globes, where he is nominated for his role as Gordon Grekko, in Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps. Oliver Stone was here on Saturday night to give an award to Carey Mulligan at the Awards Gala, she played Michaels' daughter in the film. Palm Springs is the festival that keeps on giving. Santa Barbara Film Festival gave a Michael a spe...
14.01.2011 | Palm Springs's blog
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones at PSIFF Tribute by Marla Lewin Michael Douglas will receive the icon award tonight at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Then on Sunday he will attend the Golden Globes, where he is nominated for his role as Gordon Grekko, in Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps. Oliver Stone was here on Saturday night to give an award to Carey Mulligan at the Awards Gala, she played Michaels' daughter in the film. Palm Springs is the festival that keeps on givin...
14.01.2011 | MarlaLewinGFV's blog
Michael Douglas will receive the icon award tonight at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Then on Sunday he will attend the Golden Globes, where he is nominated for his role as Gordon Grekko, in Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps. Oliver Stone was here on Saturday night to give an award to Carey Mulligan at the Awards Gala, she played Michaels' daughter in the film. Palm Springs is the festival that keeps on giving. Santa Barbara Film Festival gave a Michael a special award some years ago and his ...
Golden Globe Snubs And Surprises
The "usual suspects" were evident at the announcement of the 2011 Golden Globe Awards by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Both the historical biopic THE KING'S SPEECH and the zeitgeist drama THE SOCIAL NETWORK received the most nominations, with such celebrated films as BLACK SWAN, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, INCEPTION, BLUE VALENTINE and THE FIGHTER making strong showings. THE KING'S SPEECH has to be considered the current frontrunner, capping seven nominations...
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Christopher Nolan, writer/director/producer of the acclaimed blockbuster Inception, will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s highest honor, Modern Master Award, presented by lynda.com. Announced today by SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling, the event – which will take place on Sunday, January 30, 2011 at the historic Arlington Theatre - will provide a rare and highly anticipated look at one of the most in demand filmmakers today.The Modern Master Award is the highest h...
Israel Fest film slate
Enriching the American vision of Israeli life and culture through the powerful medium of film, the Israel Film Festival has definitively become the largest showcase of Israeli films in the United States. 2010 marks the 25th anniversary of this much acclaimed Israeli showcase that celebrates a quarter-century of Israeli cinema in the United States, and today the film festival announced its most dynamic program since its founding. Encompassing over 30 titles, including award winning features, do...
Julia Roberts will receive the Donostia Award on September 20
Julia Roberts will receive the Donostia Award on September 20 Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, Richard Jenkins and director Ryan Marphy to present ''Eat Pray Love'' at the 58th San Sebastian Festival Eat Pray Love will be presented in the Official Selection of the Festival, out-of-competition. Eat Pray Love takes its story from the bestseller of the same name by the author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert. Recently divorced, Julia Roberts (Liz Gilbe...
12.09.2010 | SanSebastian's blog
Deborah Kara Unger revealed as Oldenburg jury president
Actress Deborah Kara Unger is going to preside over the international jury at ldenburg Fest. The Gala Night will feature her in Raul Inglis’ thriller “Takedown”.The Closing Night screening will be Tamar Simon Hoff’s world premiere of “Pound of Flesh”.Deborah Kara Unger made her screen debut at the side of Russell Crowe in “Blood Oath”. Her breakthrough performance came with her extremely sensual display in Cronenberg’s “Crash”. Since then the cool blonde has been seen in D...
Frank Langella has accepted the role of Jury President for the Zurich Film Fest
The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) announced today the members of the three juries that will preside over competition categories at the 6th edition of the Festival, which takes place September 23 - October 3, 2010. The juries were revealed today by ZFF Directors Karl Spoerri and Nadja Schildknecht. Academy Award® nominee Frank Langella ("Frost/Nixon" "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" "Superman Returns") has accepted the role of Jury President for the ZFF's ...
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The Migration
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"A dark fable that somehow feels both timeless and urgently topical. The Migration is heart-wringing and powerful, but over and above that, it's just vivid and immersive and enthralling throughout." --M.R. Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts
When I was younger I didn't know a thing about death. I thought it meant stillness, a body gone limp. A marionette with its strings cut. Death was like a long vacation--a going away. Not this.
Storms and flooding are worsening around the world, and a mysterious immune disorder has begun to afflict the young. Sophie Perella is about to begin her senior year of high school in Toronto when her little sister, Kira, is diagnosed. Their parents' marriage falters under the strain, and Sophie's mother takes the girls to Oxford, England, to live with their Aunt Irene. An Oxford University professor and historical epidemiologist obsessed with relics of the Black Death, Irene works with a Centre that specializes in treating people with the illness. She is a friend to Sophie, and offers a window into a strange and ancient history of human plague and recovery. Sophie just wants to understand what's happening now; but as mortality rates climb, and reports emerge of bodily tremors in the deceased, it becomes clear there is nothing normal about this condition--and that the dead aren't staying dead. When Kira succumbs, Sophie faces an unimaginable choice: let go of the sister she knows, or take action to embrace something terrifying and new.
Tender and chilling, unsettling and hopeful, The Migration is a story of a young woman's dawning awareness of mortality and the power of the human heart to thrive in cataclysmic circumstances.
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TMC govt not implementing Central schemes as there is no 'cut money', says Narendra Modi as Mamata skips Kolkata event
India Press Trust of India Jan 12, 2020 23:11:40 IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday alleged the Bengal government it was not implementing central schemes as they do not help syndicates or involve cut money
Modi said people in West Bengal would not have to miss out on the benefits for long, an apparent reference to the Assembly polls next year
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was scheduled to attend the port trust programme, was conspicuous by her absence
Kolkata: Taking a swipe at the Mamata Banerjee Government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday alleged it was not implementing central schemes as they do not help "syndicates" or involve "cut money". Addressing the 150th anniversary programme of Kolkata Port Trust, which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee skipped, Modi said people in West Bengal would not have to miss out on the benefits for long, an apparent reference to the Assembly polls next year.
File image of Narendra Modi. PTI
"When there is no syndicate or cut money involved, why would someone implement Central government schemes? I don't know whether they (state government) would give approval for central schemes such as Ayushman Bharat Yojana, PM Kisan Samman Nidhi, but if they do, people of Bengal will be able to enjoy their benefits," he said. The prime minister said that he was pained to see that the poor in the state were not getting benefits of the Centre's welfare schemes.
"Eight crore farmers across the country are getting benefited (due to the central schemes). But there will always be pain in my heart (about the schemes not being implemented in Bengal). "I will always pray to god for the welfare of farmers and poor patients. May God give them (Bengal government) good sense.... However, I have a feeling that the people of West Bengal will not remain deprived of central schemes for long," he said.
During the 2019 general elections, Modi had consistently attacked Banerjee, accusing her of running a "syndicate raj" in the state. The BJP tally rose from two to 18 in West Bengal which has 42 Lok Sabha seats, while the ruling Trinamool Congress won 22 seats, down from 34 in 2014. The prime minister on Sunday also rechristened Kolkata Port Trust after Jan Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee.
The chief minister, who was scheduled to attend the port trust programme, was conspicuous by her absence. None of the Trinamool Congress ministers were also present at the event. Banerjee, one of the most bitter critics of the prime minister, met him at Raj Bhavan on Saturday, after deciding not to receive him at the airport, and was seated with him later at an event at Millennium Park.
Modi had arrived amid protests by students and other groups against the Citizenship Amendment Act, the National Register of Citizens and the National Population register exercise. "I told him that we are against CAA, NRC and NPR. I told him there should be no discrimination among masses and no citizens are left out and tortured," the chief minister had told reporters after meeting Modi at Raj Bhavan.
Moments later, she was present at an anti-CAA protest nearby. Banerjee, who called her meeting with Modi a "courtesy visit", said the prime minister had asked her to come to New Delhi to discuss the vexatious issues. Banerjee, however, skipped the inauguration of renovated heritage Currency Building, founded in 1833, by the prime minister.
On Sunday, Modi said his government at the Centre was making every possible effort to develop Bengal especially its poor, underprivileged and exploited sections. He also inaugurated and laid foundation of infrastructure projects for the expansion and modernisation of the Kolkata Port.
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Home news Trump, escalating trade war, threatens tariffs on all goods from China
Trump, escalating trade war, threatens tariffs on all goods from China
US President Donald Trump has warned he is ready to slap tariffs on virtually all Chinese imports into the United States, threatening duties on another $US267 billion ($375 billion) in Chinese goods on top of $US200 billion in imports now primed for levies in coming days.
His latest salvo rocked Wall Street, with top US executives having made a last-minute push to convince the president to not impose fresh tariffs. Major currencies including the Aussie slumped against the US dollar.
The moves would sharply escalate Trump’s trade war with Beijing over his demands for major changes in economic, trade and technology policy. China has threatened retaliation, which could include action against US companies operating there.
Hours after a public comment period closed on his $US200 billion China tariff list, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday that he was “being strong on China because I have to be.”
“The $US200 billion we are talking about could take place very soon depending on what happens with them. To a certain extent its going to be up to China,” he said. “And I hate to say this, but behind that is another $US267 billion ready to go on short notice if I want. That totally changes the equation.”
Stock prices slipped after his comments, which roiled technology and multinational shares. The US dollar climbed and US Treasuries fell as wage gains bolstered the prospects for further rate hikes.
The Nasdaq 100 Index capped its worst week since March as Apple slumped on its warning that the Trump administration’s musing over levying virtually everything imported from China would hit a broad range of its products. The S&P 500’s weekly drop was the most since June and Boeing led declines in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
The US dollar rallied versus major peers and the offshore Chinese yuan fell the most in a week. The 10-year Treasury yield pushed above 2.94 per cent.
Trump’s latest comments also weighed on the Aussie dollar, which fell 1.25 per cent to US71.10¢.
‘Full blown trade war’
“The risks are real and there’s increasing evidence that we’re closer to more of a full blown trade war,” said Bong-Seok Choi, director of research at San Francisco-based Wetherby Asset Management. “The trade wars only serve as a catalyst for the turning of the cycle. Things can change rather quickly, so the trade war, if a lot of the threats do materialise, I think things will turn very quickly.”
Trump has already imposed 25 per cent tariffs on $US50 billion worth of Chinese goods, mostly industrial machinery and intermediate electronics parts, including semiconductors.
The $US200 billion list, which includes some consumer products such as cameras and recording devices, luggage, handbags, tires and vacuum cleaners, would be subject to tariffs of 10 per cent to 25 per cent.
Mobile phones, the biggest US import from China, have so far been spared, but would be engulfed if Trump activates the $US267 billion tariff list.
Trump’s threatened tariffs, now totalling $US517 billion in Chinese goods, would exceed the $US505 billion in goods imported from China last year. But 2018 Chinese imports through July were up nearly 9 per cent over the same period of 2017, according to US Census Bureau data.
Earlier on Friday, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told Bloomberg Television the administration would evaluate public comments before making decisions on the $US200 billion tariff list.
Nearly every consumer good affected
The US Trade Representative’s office received nearly 6,000 comments and held seven days of public hearings on the proposed levies.
Most comments were from companies seeking to remove products from the tariff list, arguing there were few, if any alternative sources and the duties would cause financial hardship. Comparatively few applauded the tariffs.
Retailers had successfully kept high-profile consumer electronics such as mobile phones and television sets off of previous tariff lists. But David French, top lobbyist for the National Retail Federation, whose members include Amazon.com , BJ’s Wholesale Club and Macy’s, said nearly every consumer good could be affected if Trump follows through on all threatened tariffs.
“The Chinese aren’t paying these tariffs, American families are going to pay these tariffs. These are taxes and they’re going to find their way into the pocket book of folks around the country,” French said.
Still talking to China
Kudlow, who heads the National Economic Council, told CNBC the administration was still talking with China about trade issues but so far China had not met US requests.
The United States has demanded that China better protect American intellectual property, cut its US trade surplus, allow US companies greater access to its markets and roll back its high-technology industrial subsidy programs.
“We are still talking with China on a number of issues … Those talks will continue to go on. We want lower (trade) barriers across the board,” Kudlow said.
Specifically, Kudlow said, the United States was seeking “zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, zero subsidies, stop the IP theft, stop the technology transfer, allow Americans to own their own companies.”
“Those have been our asks for many months and so far those asks have not been satisfied,” he said. “However, hope springs eternal.”
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Romney on Climate Change
https://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2012/10/romney-on-climate-change
Hurricane Sandy has many of my left-of-center friends talking about climate change and wondering how anyone concerned about it can consider voting for Mitt Romney for president. An answer, from a USA Today news article:
He pushed to make homes and businesses more energy efficient. He offered government incentives for renewable power and, early in his administration, tried to tackle climate change with fees on excessive corporate emitters of greenhouse gases.
President Obama? Well, it may sound like him, but it's GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts -- a blue state with a Democratic-led legislature -- from 2003 to 2007.
The two men have fairly similar governing records on energy and environmental issues....
"There's a lot of similarity" between Romney's record as governor and Obama's as president, says Kateri Callahan of the Alliance to Save Energy, a non-profit group that advocates energy efficiency. She applauds both men for the work they've done.
"He (Romney) really did drive energy efficiency into the Massachusetts economy," Callahan says, noting he backed tax credits -- up to $600 for individuals -- for homes and businesses to make efficiency upgrades. He also signed into law legislation to increase the efficiency of equipment such as boilers and furnaces as well as light bulbs.
She says he also supported efficiency and renewable energy projects, investing $15 million of state money into the Massachusetts Green Energy Fund LP, a venture-capital firm that helped finance about a dozen companies. Three of those companies have since gone under, including solar panel manufacturer Konarka which received $1.5 million. ...
Romney, who once stood in front of a coal plant and said it "kills people," launched a Climate Protection Plan in 2004 to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions as part of -- in his words -- a "no regrets" policy toward climate change.
His staff drafted the country's first interstate cap-and-trade system to cut emissions, known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative or RGGI.
As for Mr. Obama, the article says he "has a mixed record with environmentalists. He's been criticized for pulling back an EPA proposal to limit ozone emissions linked to smog, approving the southern half of the Keystone XL pipeline and failing to create new wilderness areas that would be protected from development."
Again, this is from a USA Today news article, not Environmentalists For Romney.
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Jo's winning anti-drug PSA
(January 31, 2019) Congratulations to North Dakota State College of Science student Jolisa ‘Jo’ Ross! Her catchy, rapping PSA won the top prize in the 3rd Annual Red Ribbon Week Campus Video PSA Contest.
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DEA and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration sponsored the contest as part of Red Ribbon Week activities last fall. Colleges and universities that entered produced a 30- to 60-second antidrug video PSA focusing on the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse among college students.
Jo’s win comes after her entry from the previous year was disqualified for missing a crucial piece of content (and the school’s entry in the contest’s first year).
But she didn’t let her short-lived disappointment get her down.
“I decided to reenter because I think that the purpose of this contest is a really important one,” the 19-year-old sophomore told us. “If I could help relay the message in a way that grabs the audience in a memorable way, then I wanted to do that for the greater good of our society.”
During the PSA, Jo appears with her friends while she raps about the negative effects drug and alcohol use can have on grades and the body.
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How can college students avoid being tempted to try drugs? Jo believes it comes down to taking advantage of free time in ways that are beneficial.
“There are plenty of things to do during free time besides school work,” she said. “There are things like movies, arcade games, socializing, cooking, drawing, and listening to music. All of these things can be beneficial if they [students] are choosing things that can make them naturally happy while simultaneously staying out of legal trouble.”
Pictured (l to r): Kerri Kava (Assistant Director of Student Life, North Dakota State College of Science), Bethany Mauch (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Prevention Specialist, North Dakota State College of Science), Jo Ross (student, North Dakota State College of Science), Rich Lucey (Prevention Program Manager, Drug Enforcement Administration)
After she graduates, Jo hopes to get a scholarship offer to continue her basketball career and use her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. Otherwise, she plans to enter the academy and start her career in law enforcement.
The winning PSA was unveiled at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators’ 2019 Strategies Conference on January 18, 2019, in Washington, DC. This conference provides student affairs practitioners with the knowledge and skills to effectively address collegiate alcohol and drug abuse prevention through comprehensive approaches. Rich Lucey (Prevention Program Manager) of DEA’s Office of Congressional and Public Affairs made the announcement during one of the conference’s plenary sessions.
As the Contest’s winner, North Dakota State College of Science received a plaque and $3,000 to support their campus’s drug abuse prevention efforts.
Created in 1985 after drug traffickers murdered DEA Special Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, Red Ribbon Week has since become an annual event demonstrating intolerance for drugs in our nation’s schools, workplaces, and communities. Each year from October 23–31, people in cities and towns across the United States show their commitment to a healthy, drug-free lifestyle by wearing or displaying the Red Ribbon.
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Willmott’s Ghost is a product and vision of James Beard award-winning Chef Renee Erickson, serving Roman-style pizza al taglio and Italian aperitivo cocktails.
Designed by Heliotrope Architects PLLC
Photographed by Aaron Leitz / Kevin Scott
The restaurant is on the ground floor of The Spheres, the awe-inspiring centerpiece of Amazon’s Seattle campus. Comprised of glass-enclosed domes containing workspaces and cloud forest conservatories with thousands of flora from around the world, The Spheres set the tone for this modern Italian eatery. With a three-story jungle above, Willmott’s Ghost takes its name from a thistle-like flower christened in honor of Victorian horticulturalist Ellen Ann Willmott.
The architecture and design highlight traditional Italian cuisine with the contemporary glass and steel structure. The design team drew inspiration for the space from the one-of-a-kind geometry of the building and the bright, airy environments of modern art museums and galleries. The intent was to evoke classical themes written in a contemporary language. Timeless materials such as marble, tile and brass create organic curving countertops, rounded walls and radiused shelves. Together, these elements honor the culinary traditions of Italy and reflect the modern structure in which it sits.
Much of the architecture is dictated by the curves of The Spheres, resulting in curved leather banquettes and booths hugging the glass perimeter. Curved walls clad in painted wood pickets (inspired by the knurling on the sides of coins) define the dining room while curved bars with Italian marble countertops fill out the space. The Italian flag translates into softer pastel hues of white marble, pink tile and mint greens. These timeless materials and colors come together to celebrate both tradition and forward-thinking design.
White oak chairs, table tops and bar stools with brass accents and hardware bring warmth to the space. Behind the bar, custom curved liquor racks are fabricated from solid brass. And in the bathroom (uniquely located at the edge of the building’s curved glass facade) sits a custom brass sink and mirror. The pink Moroccan tiles are a custom color from Ann Sacks. The original artwork by Ellen Lesperance, an artist based in Portland, Oregon, is illuminated by brass light fixtures.
Like building a ship in a bottle, the design and construction was complicated by the curved nature of the building. Additional design constraints also came into play due to the sophisticated mechanical systems above and below that support the three-story indoor jungle within The Spheres. The most outstanding design factor within the space is how perfectly the team was able to embrace these constraints. Navigating such a unique space was no easy feat. With the custom banquets, tables, chairs and brass fixtures, the design team was able to perfectly adapt to the one-of-a-kind dimensions of the space. Instead of feeling like a requirement, each twist, turn and curve feels intentional and true to the overall design.
Willmott’s Ghost
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Ikue Mori – Obelisk (Tzadik, 2017) ****
Thursday, November 23, 2017 No comments
By Daniel Böker
On first listen, I'm reminded of Adam Butler. His electronic sounds, tracks and later even songs published under the alias Vert had a huge impact on my experience with electronic music. Unlike say the berserk electronic music of Merzbow (though I also like the berserk ones), Vert developed his music toward the pop-song format. The first track on Ikue Mori's new album Obelisk reminds me of theses sounds and it makes me feel 'at home', setting the tone for this record.
Mori recorded her last album In Light of Shadows with her electronic sounds alone. The pieces were at least in part composed beforehand and it was a new step in her musical development. For Obelisk she took some of her pieces from In Light of Shadows, composed new ones, and arranged them for a quartet of herself on electronic, Jim Black on drums, Okkyung Lee on Cello and Sylvie Courvoisier on piano.
The album lingers between rhythmical melodic and more open parts. Both fit together well and the album keeps it's warmth in the more free parts as well.
The first track, the one reminiscent of Vert, is called 'Quicksilver' and starts as duet between Black and Mori. The beginning is open as if they were trying to find to one another. Half a minute in the Courvoisier joins and the track develops a groovy structure. Courvoisier adds a short melody on the piano that moves through the track sometimes answered by Mori's sounds. This first track is Mori's version of funky jazz.
The second piece 'Blue Moon and Yellow Dune' gives Lee a lot of space for long cello tones. The voices of the other three instruments accompany this tune in a fine and mellow way until at two minutes in when the piano breaks the structure and takes over, and the groove that also had carried this one along, breaks up. This track, also with a strong groove in the beginning makes way for the next few tracks in which the sound gets more polyphonic.
The change between grooves based on Mori's electronics or Blacks' drums and the surprising breaks in between makes the album interesting and the different cuts worth listening to. The third one 'Mozu (The Shrike)' is a fine example of that. There is a strong and clear groove for the first 3 minutes of the track. Then the drums leave their own rhythm behind to jump to a short solo. After that the music goes on in that more open arythmic pattern and all four musicians take the chance to jump right in. The short piece 'Invisible Fingers' proceedes in this free manner.
'Hotaru (Firefly)', the fifth composition, takes its time to get started. It's a very quiet track. The electronic sounds make it easy to imagine fireflys in the air. The track could work very well as the soundtrack for a night at a camp fire.
In other cuts the groove returns but never again as defining as they were in the first few tracks. The last piece 'Koya Hijiri' is the longest of the ten tracks. It is a adaption of the first track of Mori's last solo album In Light of Shadows.
I've been listening to both versions lately and they are quite different. But I can't say which version I would prefer. Beautiful as it is to hear what Mori does with her laptop alone, it is also a great experience to hear her work with different musicians together.The interplay of the four musicians conducted by Mori is a great joy to listen to especially in the case of this track.
I wrote a lot about groove thinking about this album and this groove is also part of 'Koya Hijiri' but it's a groove that is held loosely so it can jump away and explore the area, returning when the time is right. Within this last track you can find everything that is fascinating about this album comprised in one track: The different voices respect each other in their own value, each one takes its part and together they create a fine sound covering the whole area between melody and groove on the one hand and open interaction and free sounds on the other without getting lost on the way.
So in the end it might not be a freejazz album. It is more an album of electronic chamber music composed by a free mind. And the result is a warm fine listening experience.
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Local Law No.1 (Meetings) 2008
Reference No: LG222/365/01
Gazette Date: 19/12/2008
Download: Local Law No.1 Meetings 2008 (0.18mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 1.1 (Meetings) 2008
Reference No: LG222/365/01/02/01
Advert Date: 20/12/2008
Consolidated version - adopted by Council 12/6/12 – GA12.0607.008 (combines Council's originally made subordinate local law advertised 20/12/08 with Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 1.1 (Meetings) 2012 - Council Resolution 30/3/12, Gazette Notice, advertised & effect date = 4/5/12 for the Amending SLL only).
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 1.1 (0.21mb)
Local Law No. 2 (Regulated Parking) 2006
Reference No: LG222/365/02/01
Consolidated version - Council Resolution 25/7/17, Gazette Notice 11/8/17 (combines Council's originally made local law gazetted 17/3/06 with all amendments made to date). Council Resolution 25/7/17, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice & effect date = 11/8/17.
Download: Consolidated version of Local Law No. 2 (Regulated Parking) 2006 (0.32mb)
Download: Website Public Notice (No. 2) 2017, dated 11/8/2017 (0.14mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 2 (Regulated Parking) 2006
Advert Date: 1/09/2006
Consolidated Version – Council Resolution 20/09/19, Gazette Notice and Website Public Notice (No.1) 2019 published on 11/10/19 (combines Council’s originally made subordinate local law advertised 1/9/06 with all amendments made to date including Regulated Parking (Amendment) Subordinate Local Law (No. 1) 2019 - Council Resolution 20/09/19, Gazette Notice & Website Public Notice (No.1) 2019 & effect date = 30/09/19.
Download: Consolidated version of Subordinate Local Law No.2 (Regulated Parking) 2006 (2.99mb)
Download: Website Public Notice (No.1) 2019 (0.15mb)
Local Law No. 3 (Administration) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Administration (Amendment) Local Law (No. 1) 2016) - Council Resolution 15/09/2016, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No. 5) 2016 and effect date = 30/09/2016
Download: Consolidated version of Local Law No. 3 (Administration) 2008 (0.48mb)
Download: Website Public Notice No. 5 2016 (0.15mb)
Local Law No. 4 (Libraries) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law Gazetted 19/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Local Law No. 4 (Libraries) 2014). Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Local Law No. 4 (Libraries) 2008 (0.32mb)
Download: Website Public Notice (No. 1) 2014, 2/5/2014 (0.24mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 4.1 (Libraries) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 4.1 (Libraries) 2014). Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 4.1 (Libraries) 2008 (0.26mb)
Local Law No. 5 (Distribution of Business Advertising Publications and Touting) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law Gazetted 19/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Local Law No. 5 (Distribution of Business Advertising, Publications and Touting) 2014). Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Local Law No. 5 (Distribution of Business Advertising Publications and Touting) 2008 (0.29mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 5.1 (Distribution of Business Advertising Publications and Touting) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 5.1 (Distribution of Business Advertising, Publications and Touting) 2014). Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 5.1 (Distribution of Business Advertising Publications and Touting) 2008 (0.26mb)
Local Law No. 6 (Vegetation Management)
Download: Local Law No. 6 (Vegetation Management) (0.08mb)
Local Law No. 7 (Council Property) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law Gazetted 19/12/2008 with all amendments made to date). Council Resolution 11/10/2019. Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 2) 2019 and effect date = 25/10/2019.
Download: Consolidated version of Local Law No. 7 (Council Property) 2008 (0.61mb)
Download: Website Public Notice (No. 2) 2019, dated 25/10/2019 (0.08mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 7.1 (Jetties and Boat Ramps) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 7.1 (Jetties and Boat Ramps) 2014). Council Resolution 11/10/2019, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 2) 2019 and effect date = 25/10/2019.
Download: Consolidated version of Subordinate Local Law No. 7.1 (Jetties and Boat Ramps) 2008 (0.64mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 7.2 (Public Swimming Pool Complex) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 7.2 (Public Swimming Pool Complex) 2014). Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 7.2 (Public Swimming Pool Complex) 2008 (0.25mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 7.3 (Use of Vehicles on Council Facilities) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 7.3 (Use of Vehicles on Council Facilities) 2014). Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 7.3 (Use of Vehicles on Council Facilities) 2008 (0.24mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 7.4 (Gold Coast Arts Centre) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 7.4 (Gold Coast Arts Centre) 2014). Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 7.4 (Gold Coast Arts Centre) 2008 (0.27mb)
Local Law No. 8 (Public Health, Safety and Amenity) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law gazetted 19/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Public Health, Safety and Amenity (Amendment) Local Law (No. 1) 2016). Council Resolution 29/1/2016, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2016 and effect date = 19/2/2016.
Download: Consolidated version of Local Law No.8 (Public Health, Safety & Amenity) 2008 (0.43mb)
Download: Website Public Notice (No.1) 2016, dated 19/2/2016 (0.16mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 8.1 (Public Health, Safety and Amenity) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Public Health, Safety and Amenity (Amendment) Subordinate Local Law (No. 1) 2016)). Council Resolution 29/1/2016, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2016 and effect date = 19/2/2016 .
Download: Consolidated version of Subordinate Local Law 8.1 (public Health, Safety & Amenity) 2008 (0.29mb)
Local Law No. 9 (Parks and Reserves) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law Gazetted 19/12/2008 with all amendments made to date). Council Resolution 25/7/2017, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 2) 2017 and effect date = 11/8/2017.
Download: Consolidated version of Local Law No. 9 (Parks & Reserves) 2008 (0.43mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 9.1 (Parks and Reserves) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Parks and Reserves (Amendment) Subordinate Local Law (No. 1) 2016. Council Resolution 06/09/2016, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 3) 2016 and effect date = 16/09/2016.
Download: Consolidated version of Subordinate Local Law No.9.1 (Parks & Reserves) 2008 (0.40mb)
Download: Website Public Notice No.3 2016 (0.15mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 9.2 (Public Camping Areas) 2008
Download: Consolidated version of Subordinate Local Law No.9.2 (Public Camping Areas) 2008 (0.28mb)
Download: Website Public Notice No.3 (0.16mb)
Local Law No. 10 (Bathing Reserves) 2004
Consolidated Version - (combines Council’s originally made law Gazetted 24/12/2004 with all amendments made to date). Council Resolution 25/7/2017, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 2) 2017 and effect date = 11/8/2017.
Download: Consolidated version of Local Law No.10 (Bathing Reserves) 2004 (0.55mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 10.1 (Bathing Reserves) 2005
Gazette Date: 2/05/2014
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 27/07/2005 with all amendments made to date including Bathing Reserves (Amendment) Subordinate Local Law (No.1) 2016). Council Resolution 29/1/2016, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 2) 2016 and effect date = 19/2/2016.
Download: Consolidated version of Subordinate Local Law No.10.1 (Bathing Reserves) 2005 (0.28mb)
Download: Public Notice (No.2) 2016, dated 19/2/2016 (0.16mb)
Local Law No. 11 (Roads and Malls) 2008
Download: Consolidated version of Local Law No. 11 (Roads and Malls) 2008 (0.44mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 11.1 (Interference with a Road) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 11.1 (Interference with a Road) 2014. Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 11.1 (Interference with a Road) 2008 (0.30mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 11.2 (Roadside Dining) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 11.2 (Roadside Dining) 2014. Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 11.2 (Roadside Dining) 2008 (0.30mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 11.3 (Roadside Vending) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 11.3 (Roadside Vending) 2014. Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 11.3 (Roadside Vending) 2008 (0.35mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 11.4 (Busking) 2014
Reference No: LG222/36//11/02/04
Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 11.4 (Busking) 2014 (0.29mb)
Local Law No. 12 (Animal Management) 2013
Council Resolution 12 March 2013, Gazette Notice & advertised on 05/04/2013 (Note: Council’s previous Local Law No. 12 (Keeping and Control of Animals) Law now “repealed”).
Download: Local Law No.12 (Animal Management) 2013 (0.35mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 12 (Animal Management) 2013
Council Resolution 12 March 2013, Gazette Notice & advertised on 05/04/2013. (Note: Council’s previous Subordinate Local Law No. 12 (Keeping and Control of Animals) 2007 now “repealed”).
Download: Subordinate Local Law No.12 (Animal Management) 2013 (0.44mb)
Local Law No. 13 (Cemeteries) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law Gazetted 19/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Local Law No. 13 (Cemeteries) 2014. Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Local Law No. 13 (Cemeteries) 2008 (0.39mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 13.1 (Cemeteries) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 13.1 (Cemeteries) 2014. Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 13.1 (Cemeteries) 2008 (0.30mb)
Local Law No. 15 (On-Site Sewerage Facility) 2008
Download: Local Law No. 15 (On-Site Sewerage Facility) 2008 (0.19mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 15.1 (On-site Sewerage Facility) 2008
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 15.1 (On-site Sewerage Facility) 2008 (0.12mb)
Local Law No. 16 (Licensing) 2008
Should your advertising device (sign) be on or over a State-Controlled road, please refer to Council’s management document prior to displaying the sign.
Download: Consolidated version of Local Law No. 16 (Licensing) 2008 (0.38mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 16.1 (Rental Accommodation) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 16.1 (Rental Accommodation) 2014 Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 16.1 (Rental Accommodation) 2008 (0.35mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 16.2 (Swimming Pools) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 16.2 (Swimming Pools) 2014. Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 16.2 (Swimming Pools) 2008 (0.32mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 16.3 (Entertainment Venues) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 16.3 (Entertainment Venues) 2014. Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014/.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 16.3 (Entertainment Venues) 2008 (0.31mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 16.4 (Film Production) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 16.4 (Film Production) 2014. Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 16.4 (Film Production) 2008 (0.30mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 16.5 (Aircraft Operations from Premises Owned by a Person) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 16.5 (Aircraft Operations from Premises Owned by a Person) 2014. Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 16.5 (Aircraft Operations from Premises Owned by a Person) 2008 (0.28mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 16.6 (Camping Areas) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 16.6 (Camping Areas) 2014. Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 16.6 (Camping Areas) 2008 (0.34mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 16.7 (Saleyards) 2008
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law advertised 20/12/2008 with all amendments made to date including Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 16.7 (Saleyards) 2014. Council Resolution 4/4/2014, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 1) 2014 and effect date = 2/5/2014.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 16.7 (Saleyards) 2008 (0.28mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 16.8 (Advertising Devices) 2016
Council Resolution 15/09/2016, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No. 4) 2016 and effect date = 30/09/2016.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 16.8 (Advertising Devices) 2016 (0.58mb)
Local Law No.17 (Maintenance of Works in Waterway Areas) 2013
Council Resolution 11 June 2013, Gazette Notice and advertised on 5/7/2013.
Download: Local Law No. 17 (Maintenance of Works in Waterway Areas) 2013 (0.27mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 17.1 (Works in Non-Coastal Waterway Areas) 2013
Council Resolution 11 June 2013, Gazette and advertised on 5/7/2013.
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 17.1 (Works in Non-Coastal Waterway Areas) 2013 (0.14mb)
Local Law No. 19 (Control of Party House Noise) 2013
Council Resolution 26 March 2013, Gazette Notice 19/4/13.
Download: Local Law No. 19 (Control of Party House Noise) 2013 (0.17mb)
Website Notice (No.1) 2013 published on 19/04/13 for the making of Local Law No. 19 (Control of Party House Noise) 2013.
Local Law No. 20 (Waste Management) 2017
Council Resolution 13/06/17, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No. 1) 2017 dated 16/06/17 and commencement date = 21/06/2017.
Download: Local Law No. 20 (Waste Management) 2017 (0.33mb)
Download: Website Public Notice (No. 1) 2017 (0.04mb)
Local Law No. 21 (Major City Events) 2017
Council Resolution 25/7/17, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 2) 2017 and effect date = 11/8/2017.
Download: Local Law No. 21 (Major City Events) 2017 (0.58mb)
Subordinate Local Law No. 21.1 (Major City Events) 2017
Council Resolution 15/9/17, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 3) 2017 and effect date = 29/9/2017
Download: Subordinate Local Law No. 21.1 (Major City Events) 2017 (8.66mb)
Download: Website Public Notice (No. 3) (0.14mb)
Local Law No. 44 (Heavy Vehicle Parking) 2007
Consolidated Version – (combines Council’s originally made law Gazetted 23/3/2007 with all amendments made to date). Council Resolution 25/7/2017, Gazette Notice, Website Public Notice (No 2) 2017 and effect date = 11/8/2017.
Download: Consolidated version of Local Law No. 44 (Heavy Vehicle Parking) 2007 (0.38mb)
Repealing Local Law No. 1 (Water Supply) 2014
Download: Repealing Local Law No. 1 (Water Supply) 2014 (0.20mb)
Repealing Subordinate Local Law No. 2 (Water Supply) 2014
Download: Repealing Subordinate Local Law No. 2 (Water Supply) 2014 (0.22mb)
Repealing Subordinate Local Law No. 1 (Business on Public Places Other Than Council Facilities) 2014
Download: Repealing Subordinate Local Law No. 1 (Business on Public Places Other Than Council Facilities) 2014 (0.23mb)
Repealing Local Law No. 1 (Miscellaneous Local Laws) 2008
Reference No: LG222/365/-
Download: Repealing Local Law No. 1 (Miscellaneous Local Laws) 2008 (0.05mb)
Repealing Subordinate Local Law No. 1 (Miscellaneous Subordinate Local Laws) 2008
Download: Repealing Subordinate Local Law No. 1.1 (Miscellaneous Subordinate Local Laws) 2008 (0.05mb)
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Future Options In Science
Emerging Careers for Science Students
By Priyadarshini Sinha --
Do you remember what life was like when smartphones didn’t exist?
How about Uber/Ola cab services?
Or online food ordering?
Rewinding 4-5 years of our lives would make us realize that things have changed a lot. Remarkable changes have been made in science and technology that might have been unthinkable just a few years back. And they keep making our lives simpler and faster.
When we think about science careers the first words that come to mind our Engineering, Medicine Architecture, and so on. But we forget the fact that the career in these fields keeps on evolving.
So, it is better to stay updated with the career trends! We have made a list of 9 emerging career options in sciences that are highly creative and emerging with modern age.
1. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
In the computer-run world of today, you are bound to have heard the two buzzwords, ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and ‘Machine Learning’ flying around. But what are they exactly? In the field of computer science “Artificial Intelligence” deals with the creation of smart machines and systems that have think ability and processing like humans.
For example, voice recognition systems like Siri and Alexa use the power of machine learning to understand human language and respond to it intelligently. Facebook can recognize familiar faces from your contact list through its algorithms and automatically makes accurate suggestions for tagging your friends.
From Netflix to Uber, each of the applications you use, utilise artificial intelligence and machine learning which makes it faster, effective and more personal technologies. Artificial intelligence (AI) is about to create over 2.3 million job opportunities by 2020. Thus, artificial intelligence is one of the fastest emerging fields in the domain of science and technology.
Course to pursue: B.Tech degree in computer science, followed by a Master of Science in Machine Learning/ Computer Science/ Mathematics is required.
2. Big Data, Data Analytics and Data Science
Data exists in many forms, the online purchases from store, the type of accounts you follow on Instagram or the words you search on Google are all data. These datas are valued by the organizations because it helps them understand patterns and trends to set business decisions accordingly through the inferences drawn from the data. For example, online shopping stores keeps data from thousands of customers to make better product recommendations.
Data Scientists, Big Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Managers are required to make sense of this data and find patterns in it to enable decision-making. LinkedIn ranked Data Scientists and Big Data Engineers among the top emerging jobs in 2017 reports.
Course to pursue: Degree in computer science (B.Tech/B.Sc/BCA) will help you develop skills in programming languages such as Python, Java, Perl, etc. Also, you can take up certifications in Business Analytics and Intelligence, Data Analytics and Data Science.
3. Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security (Editing)
With businesses going digital, they are more vulnerable than ever to cyber crimes and threats. That’s why Ethical Hacking, no doubt, is one of the most demanding professions of today’s world. An Ethical Hacker is a network and computer expert who attempts to penetrate a company’s security system to identify weaknesses in it. They are very important in helping companies improve their Internet security.
The cybersecurity sector is likely to grow by 28% by 2026. Even in India the organizations are under the threat of cyber attacks whether they are big or small thus employ ethical hackers to safeguard their information.
Course to pursue: Certificate courses in Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator and Certified Security Analyst.
Note: Background in computer field is recommended.
4. Robotics
What comes to our mind when we imagine future , say 10,20 or even 50 years? Even if you haven’t seen a single sci-fi movie, you will still answer ‘Robots’. Robots much a part of our present world. They are already being used to perform, automate industrial tasks, explore space, surgeries, defuse bombs, and perform tasks that might be dangerous for humans.
Not just this, advancements have rendered us with humanoid robots that can walk, talk, and express emotions like us thus it is safe to say that the future of technology lies in this domain.
With great moving force of robotics, there is a requirement of engineers to build and program them. Engineers of robotics must acquire the knowledge of mechanical engineering, electronics engineering, computer programming, artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, and related areas.
Course to pursue: B.Tech in Mechanical/Electronics/Robotics Engineering, followed by a Master’s and/or an M.Tech Program in Robotics.
5. Aerospace
Ever felt a rush in the head seeing an aeroplane fly by or watching a satellite/rocket launch on Television? Ever since seeing aeroplanes, rockets and satellites in childhood, you may have thought about creating a career in this domain. What if I tell you it’s not far from reality? Aerospace is a broad branch of technology that is concerned with the design, manufacture and operations of aerospace vehicles, aircraft, missiles and space satellites.
Ranging from Aeronautics (dealing with aeroplanes) to Astronautics (dealing with space vehicles), as a professional in this field, you’ll be responsible for different aspects such as the design, technical, electrical aspects for building aircraft, space shuttles, missiles, rockets and various aerospace machines.
The aerospace industry of India is now one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Recent developments by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and other private companies are promising a prosperous future of Aerospace.
Course of Study: A B.Tech/B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical or Aerospace Engineering is mandatory to get into this field.
6. Food and Agriculture Science
One of the most essential elements for life on Earth is food, and especially for the economy like India where agriculture is the primary source of earning. Indian agriculture holds about 18% of the national GDP and plays a crucial role in trade of India. That is why this domain of agriculture holds end number of opportunities for anyone willing to build a career in it.
Unlike the popular notions, the career in food and agriculture is not only about ploughing fields or farming but it is a technologically advanced field with constant innovations and cutting edge research. Horticulture, Agriculture biotechnology, Dairy Technology, Agronomy, Pisciculture, Food technology are some of the avenues you can look forward to build your career in this domain.
The goal is to improve both the quality and quantity of dairy products, crops, agricultural products and food patterns. As such, it involves a strong dedication to experimenting and surveying food production, preservation techniques and the study of soils and crops.
Course to pursue: Bachelor’s and Masters degree in Horticulture, Agriculture, Agronomy or any of the sub-fields of agriculture is required. B.Tech and M.Tech in Agricultural Engineering can also be considered.
7. Environmental Science and Sustainable Development
People living in metropolitan cities or following the news must have heard of the recent smog cover in Delhi that resulted in the declaration of a “public health emergency.” In 2015 WHO claimed that over 2.5 millions Indians will die of pollution each year.
Environmental Sustainability Science is that branch of science which provides a quantitative and integrated approach to the study of environmental systems. This field requires study of environmental issues and finding ways to prevent damage to the environment and to manage development in such a way that it doesn’t compromise the ability of future generations in meeting their needs.
Course to pursue: Bachelor of Environmental Management/Science or B.Tech in Environmental Engineering followed by a master’s in the field are required.
8. Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering
There was a time when losing one’s legs to an accident or illness meant a life bound to wheelchairs. Not in the world of today. Constant innovations in prosthetics engineering, running, walking, or even climbing a mountain is now possible for amputees. And it’s just one of the applications of Bioengineering.
Bioengineering is one of the youngest engineering disciplines employing the principles and tools of engineering for solving the problems in biology, healthcare, medicine and related fields. Artificial organs,tissue engineering, computer simulation for surgery, medical imaging (such as MRI and CT scan), engineered microorganisms, biomaterials and even wearable technology (such as fitness tracking bands) are all examples of Bioengineering in the real world.
The industry is emerging with opportunities and innovation which allows professionals to experiment and develop cutting-edge medical solutions.
Course to pursue: B.Tech and M.Tech degree in Biomedical Engineering.
Note: PCMB combination of subjects is required in 10+2 for eligibility.
9. Sports Medicine
Playing games is not the only way to enter the world of sports. One field that is emerging in popularity for science students is the career in Sports Medicine. Professionals of this field are trained to help athletes improve their sports performance and prevent injuries while playing and manage their training and nutrition. Those who specialize in Sports Medicine can not only work with athletes but they can also work with adults and teens who exercise and are active in other ways.
Sports Medicine professionals does not only doctors but also Sports Psychologists, Physical Therapists, Sports nutritionist, Exercise Physiologists and Athletic Trainers. Sports Medicine has a huge scope and it is only going to increase in the future with the rise of the sports culture in India.
Course to Pursue: MBBS followed by an M.D in Sports Medicine. For more professions, you can look at an M.Sc in Sports Medicine or M.A in Sports Psychology.
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Top 10 Games of 2016 -- When You Swim Against The Mainstream
So what does the 2016 top ten list look like for someone that isn't a fan of AAA games?
by Jeffrey Rousseau
Unlike the general gaming public, my tastes are a little different. In short, I lean very much on niche and indie titles -- not that there's anything wrong with mainstream games.
After all, they drive the market at large and set consumer trends. So, like any other year 2016 saw the release of many games. I made sure to keep my focus under the radar if you will. Here's my list of the ten best games I had the pleasure of playing.
Full disclosure; this is the only triple A title on my list. Now that's not to say the game wasn't fun or failed. The only real knock to is that not enough people have experienced it. The narrative is everything you want in a better than decent sci-fi anime. A regular soldier secretly trains to be an elite pilot, things hit the fan, you end up saving your planet, and maybe even time itself?
Throughout Jack and BT's journey they form a bond behind man and machine. Time and time again both are placed into deadly situations. You have the ability to conquer these situations with skills of both individuals. For example, there's a moment in the game where the enemy uses numbers against you. Through fast and well thought out planning you can turn the tides.
The game also features interesting sections where you can display great feats of parkour. Also the robot fights are grandiose and dramatic. If there's something wrong with enjoying robots blowing up, I don't want to be right! And not the mention the multiplayer being a lot of fun too.
Let It Die
Grasshopper Manufacturer is back with what they do best. The title is punk, obscure, niche, and one of a kind. The game is a free to play dungeon crawler where you ascend a massive tower. The game takes place in a strange dystopia where you're a dime a dozen explorer... in a very realistic videogame. Oh and a skateboarding, retro game loving grim reaper is your fan.
Let it Die, much like other Suda 51 games, slowly opens up all its details to you. The more you progress in the tower the more rewards and benefits come. The tile shares a lot of similarities with Dark Souls. Death is very likely and you have to keep in mind it can come at any minute.
Although it's single player, it's also a constant PvP title as well. Let It Die is also part survival action game, where you have to defend your base. Now all these facets of the game can seem overwhelming, however, the fun is a constant challenge.
The game also has a soundtrack backed by 100 rock bands. Yeah, 100 my friends.
Kirby Planet Robobot
Kirby has made a comeback and he lands on the Nintendo 3DS. Planet Robobot is a head nod to the pink powderpuff's roots. It's a fast and challenging platformer spanning a number of 7 stages. Let me tell you, Nintendo makes some worthwhile platformers.
Planet present collectibles that you must collect to move one. When you find all collectibles, you're able to unlock a secret level. These secret levels serve as extra challenge stages. Its very worthwhile to test your mettle from start to finish. Boss fights much like meta knight really do require you to be at your best.
When you add in the clever puzzles that involves your powers, skills and robot it gets better. Oh yeah, you can use robots and your robot can get powers too. Kirby may not be one of the most popular of Nintendo's platforming franchises. His games are still some of the best for the genre. Pink never looked so good.
So one of the best indie titles I've played was also one of the most artsy as well. In Extremis is a shmup where you explore the universe. Throughout the journey things get trippy and very symbolic.
I've played my fair share of titles this year and none have come close as to how aesthetically aware as this. You can play the game for hours worrying about your score. You may ignore all the art and messages dripping across the screen. If you're at all like me, you spend those same hours trying to make sense of the imagery.
This shmup was built with a focus on art and the theme of aesthetics. From the ship, stages, and the bosses everything has a symbolic meaning. Also the game has an awesome soundtrack selection. Honestly speaking you're committing a crime by not playing this.
King of Fighters XIV
A good fighter is many things and they have to constantly outdo themselves to stay relevant. KOFXIV is a standard for what fighters should be. It has a large cast of fighters whom each have their own unique play style. A fighter should also have a good number of content; a story mode, unlockables, art and etc.
In a year where more high profile fighters promised to be more, KOFXIV didn't disappoint. It felt like a complete package mainly because SNK recognized what fans have been clamoring for. The game also feature a robust tutorial mode for all of its cast. The game can also help players become better for competition's sake as well.
The next factor is competent netplay. Let me tell you that is often a toss up but KOFXIV does ok. If you missed out on this you passed on one of the best fighters.
Now imagine an action RPG starring an anthropomorphic cast and story that spans time, space and everything in between.
Confused? Well, in Stories you help Reynardo discover the truth as you play multiple paths based off your decision. The hero (mostly) becomes aware that he is reliving his life over and over. Each time you unlocking more details in the events surrounding the truth.
Each path will lead you more danger or avoid completely. These paths also reveal more about the hero, his friends and more. Some of these choices include betraying an ally or being killed by a love interest. The game also has numerous spells to unlock and weapons to wield. The game expands on the whole concept of replayability and makes it the strongest feature.
Stories is also a very beautiful adventure game. Also the narrator is amazing.
Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator
The best fighter of 2016 was not Street Fighter V friends. This award goes to Guilty Gear. It maybe niche but it has the best visuals, involves the most strategy, the best tutorial, and etc.
Where KOFXIV served at the standard for fighters, Guilty Gear is exceptionally better. No game in recent years has been designed with the same level of detail. The game features multiple levels of detail even among it's players as well. So it simply isn't a matter to just win. Certain characters like Sin have their own special gauge where if ignored is completely useless.
Arc System Works also took the time to build an impressive netplay as well. Matches online are practically lag free. I know I mentioned the game was also designed to match the flair of it's characters. The best fighter again is the one you never heard of or played.
Momodora is one of my favorite indie titles mainly because nothing is similar to it. A pixelated head nod to games of yesteryear. It also stars nearly an all female cast of heroines and villains a like.
This action platformer has you take command of highly capable priestess armed with a magical leaf. Yes I said a leaf. You then traverse a cursed city as you challenge demons, witches and warriors alike. From forest, ruined garden, rundown cathedral and etc. there's danger everywhere.
Momodora maybe cute but it's rather cut throat. A lapse of judgement will result in game over. Boss fights themselves can be pretty stress inducing. For example, you'll fight a giant witch as you try to survive disappearing platforms. This is also just one of the "easier" encounters.
It's also a wonderfully challenging and creepy game at the same time.
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse
It's hard to describe this game sans spoilers but here goes. This was one of my favorite titles because how the game bucks RPG trends. The main character is essentially the pawn of a god. You are then charged to fight demon and angel alike in a power struggle.
You are able to amass a party of powerful fiends and holy deities. The game features a plot where you will fight against various figures of respective folklore and religions. Strategically speaking you are encouraged to recruit and fuse these beings whenever you can. You can also make bosses allies after their defeat. The end game is to have numerous spells at your disposal to handle any situation or respond to them as necessary.
The game is challenging and requires you to be perpetually on guard. Did I mention getting gameover is relatively easy? If a foe within a random battle attacks your weakness you will welcome an inevitable death. Oh and the story is pretty heavy with the whole universe being on the line all and stuff. This game is a welcome addition to the franchise.
So my favorite game of the 2016 is a game inspired by the 1990s. Heart Machine created a title that has more than delivered on all its initial goals. The game is haunting, lonely, unforgiving, and leaves the player in control. Outside of very brief opening scenes the game doesn't directly provide the story, which is hinted at through dialogue -- you are also left to proceed without any clues, just a few subtle hints.
Videogames in general are large productions that involve a lot of money -- this is a billion dollar industry after all. However, a game doesn't need a movie budget to be worthwhile.
HLD zeroes in on what games really need to succeed. A few things a game needs to succeed: a seemingly simple goal, an environment, music, and gameplay that reinforces its mood. The game is sad and this was made clear with just the drifter and no Hollywood magic.
Another thing as well is that this game serves as a breath of air for modern difficulty. Games hold our hands and our easier than the past. Obviously that decision was made to appeal to a larger market. So, yes HLD is thoroughly difficult but overcoming the overwhelming opposition feels fantastic. The game respects the skills of the player and makes no compromises. Side note: To the game's credit it's the most aesthetically pleasing pixelated adventure game to date as well -- the game from beginning to end delivers in all these facets.
Play this game friends, trust me. It's an experience
So there is my top ten for 2016. Looking back, I don't see any shortcomings with any of these games really. The audience for each of them maybe small but they are worth the attention. Thankfully, the smaller market of focus will continue to be there for games. I just hope to stay there and not miss out on the gems along the way -- I look forward to 2017 as well because every year with games is an opportunity for more discoveries. I wonder what awaits us.
Did you play any these games? Disagree with the list? What was your top 10 for 2016? Let us known in the comments section alone.
Jeffrey Rousseau
32. Haitian. Writer. Fan of niche arts/media. Health/fitness addict. Maybe fashionista, speedster, jjba fan music aficionado . Product of Miami, FL.
Games Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelatorhyper light drifterIn ExtremisKirby: Planet RobobotLet It DieMomodora: Reverie Under The Moon LightShin Megami Tensei IV: ApocalypseStories: The Path of DestiniesThe King of Fighters XIVTitanfall 2 Genres ActionAdventureArcadeFightingIndieRPGShooter Platforms 3DSPCPlaystation 4Xbox One Tags best games
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Valhalla Rising review
A long, Winding road…
By Neil Smith 2010-04-13T07:00:00.102Z
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn follows his biopic of slaphead hardman Charles Bronson with another tough customer prone to violent outbursts.
Where Tom Hardy’s mustachioed con articulated his rage, mute warrior One-Eye (Mads Mikkelsen) lets his deeds do the talking in a bleak Viking saga heavier on brooding visuals than expositional chit-chat.
Beginning in a muddy, windswept wilderness we assume is Scotland, Rising introduces its main character as a caged brawler released periodically to win savage scraps for tribal chieftain Barde (Alexander Morton).
But it’s not long before he has slaughtered his captors and is a free man again, accompanied only by the boy (Maarten Stevenson) who fed him when he was enslaved.
Falling in with a group of Christian soldiers heading for the Promised Land, our visually challenged hero eventually – following a period becalmed at sea – winds up in a strange New World where his party is preyed upon by hostile natives. Yet this slender plot only exists as a skeleton for what is essentially an internal journey that steers One-Eye, and us, into a symbolic heart of darkness.
Steeped in the same hallucinatory qualities as Apocalypse Now, The New World and Aguirre, The Wrath Of God, Refn’s latest casts a hypnotic spell throughout. But like the weird markings adorning Mikkelsen’s torso, it’s also frustratingly oblique, refusing to be drawn on who is who, where we are and what on earth is going on.
In effect it’s a mood piece, abstract chapter headings clarifying little beyond a gloomy tone. Beside a few lurid scarlet visions, the palette is grey enough to make The Road look like The Wizard Of Oz.
There’s no denying Valhalla keeps you in a state of expectant, queasy unease. But at some point, you expect a pay-off – something that seems to have gone missing, along with Mads’ left eye and tongue.
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Newgrounds is a popular and the largest animation and Flash games site which accepts user-produced submissions since 1999.
Well, it also has one of the largest user bases in the world which offers blogs, forums and many other things. The website is interesting as well as entertaining also you can download your favorite videos.
The website was founded by Tom Fulp.in 1995 and it has a popular slogan “Everything, By Everyone”. While people from diverse backgrounds also get the opportunity to interact as well as share content through Newgrounds.
About Newgrounds
The Newgrounds.com is a famous social media website and company which basically hosts user-generated content like filming, gaming, audio and artwork composition in 4 website categories. The American online entertainment website also offers visitor-driven ranking and voting of user-generated submissions.
Meanwhile, it is also interesting to know about Newgrounds Music Player which allows one to download and then play your favorite songs from the NG audioportal.
The Newgrounds Music Player also has a lot of features such as mixing different genres which includes dance, hip-hop, and dubstep. Well, it has over 35 genres and the music player works on Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, along with Linux (using Wine).
According to reports, some of the content of the Newgrounds site may have violent or adult aspects. Fortunately, the site has parental control which helps the parents to protect the children from getting access to those contents which are not appropriate for them. Well, this is the reason behind it is important to know such tips which help us in using the website effectively.
Here are some significant tips related to Newgrounds:
The Newgrounds basically accept non-flash animations which were never accepted in the past by such websites. It is also possible to create an animation and share the same on the site. You must also enhance the quality as the site encourages users to make quality content. Further, it is now advisable to format the content posted in the right format. Interestingly, the video files are basically accepted in MP4 and MOV.
While the other best tip is that the content on the Newgrounds website must be original. Basically, this is an audio content as posting work by other people is against the copyright laws. It is said that everyone was using music by other people to post on this particular site. Also, it is reported that the management of the Newgrounds site had risked being sued by the original owners of the content being posted. Thereafter, the site created an audio portal where the site empowers everyone to post only original content.
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Ways to download free videos or game from Newgrounds
Believe it or not, you can download free videos from Newgrounds in a very easy way. If you want to download a Newgrounds game or a video to the computer, please enter Newgrounds URL into the box below then click ‘Get Result’. Well, the tool can easily find the URL of the file.
Meanwhile, it is very easy to download free videos and games from Newgrounds, if you prefer to do the process manually, check out the steps below:
1. At first, please go to the Newgrounds site: https://www.newgrounds.com/ to get the game or video you want to download,
2. The second step is to press Ctrl + U to open the page’s source.
3. The next step is to use Ctrl + F to search for uploads.ungrounded.net
4. Now, you need to copy the URL with uploads.ungrounded.net in it.
5. You must delete the backslashes in the URL. Example- https:\/\/uploads.ungrounded.net\/492000\/492181_sonic.swf would become https://uploads.ungrounded.net/492000/492181_sonic.swf.
6. Please go to the URL. So, if you are successful, your flash will start to appear.
7. After that, you need to left click on the browser’s settings button and then choose “Save page as…”
8. In the last step, you must save the file. So, if it’s an flv file, you will have to use VLC Player. While, if it’s an swf file you can play the same in an internet browser.
Let’s know about iTube Studio HD Video Downloader
iTube Studio is a popular software application which helps us to download videos from popular video-sharing websites like YouTube, MyVidster, and Newgrounds. You can also convert the downloaded Newgrounds videos to many output formats suitable for the device you like to watch them.
In case of batch video download, you can now download the videos by setting sleep mode or automatic shut down option. Meanwhile, the built-in player allows one to play different forms of media formats. It also supports URL streaming which allows one to watch online video in the player instead of a browser.
There are many online entertainment websites like Spotify, Last.fm, iTunes and Pandora. However, Newgrounds enjoys the maximum loyalty among the audience.
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True-colour image and video storage uses a gamut fairly close to human colour perception. However, there are various situations where this is unnecessary and others where it won't make much difference. Presumably, storage space and processing power is wasted when this happens.
An older option exists, akin to the two-colour Technicolor process, using a red-green colour space with no blue. Now, i'm not the sharpest tool in the box when it comes to image compression algorithms, but it seems to me that this option could be more efficient and applicable to certain situations.
JPEGs and presumably also MPEGs don't store colour information as RGB, and clearly that saves space. If only red and green information were stored, that would be a third smaller than RGB. It could be made a third if each of those channels were reduced to four bits. I would like to know if a similar reduction in size could be made using conventional image and video compression algorithms.
This does have applications. For instance:
* Two-colour technicolor films could be stored in a format which throws away all the blue because there is no blue in those films.
* It would make, well, shall we say, images of bare flesh less detectable because the data would look different to a fleshtone detection technique.
* It would be possible to store CGA images in a smaller format - yes, that's very much a minority application.
* It could be used as an image processing technique to make video or photographs look "quaint", rather like the sepia filter on raster graphics editors.
* It would be possible to display the images using two grey-scale monitors, two filters and a half-silvered piece of glass, or a cheaper projection TV system.
* It would continue to be possible to print colour images using an inkjet cartridge with no blue left.
* Image and video files would be smaller and there could be a trade-off with resolution.
The red-green colour blind could use a similar technique to avoid the hassle of a wasted channel.
— nineteenthly, Dec 04 2010
Well, it would mean no need to generate blue, which has certain positive repercussions.
Thanks [bigsleep], i'll try that. I'm aware of an optimisation in JPEG but am not convinced this wouldn't also help. I need to know more. I did get rid of the blue channel on a JPEG before i posted this and the file ended up bigger, but i should've done it from a lossless original.
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Greenhouse In Antarctica Has Successful First Harvest
By Brian Spaen
With average temperatures in Antarctica hovering at well below zero, suffice to say raising crops there is a challenge. But that's exactly what makes the location an ideal test site for a project designed to one day help astronauts grow food on Mars or the Moon, and to compensate for food shortages in harsh climates. So far the trial is a success: Scientists there just completed their first harvest.
The German Aerospace Center DLR and gardener Paul Zabel have been running the project in a greenhouse at German Neumeyer-Station III without daylight or dirt, and plenty of challenges -- from equipment malfunctions to falling temperatures.
New day, fresh harvest. The first cucumbers #madeinantarctica from our #space greenhouse Eden-ISS! 😋 🤤 🥒🥒 pic.twitter.com/ptLLDam1ra
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"After sowing the seeds in mid-February, I had to deal with some unexpected problems, such as minor system failures and the strongest storm in more than a year," Zabel told DW. "Fortunately, all these things could be fixed and overcome."
Once things were up and running, researchers were able to successfully harvest eight pounds of salad greens, 18 cucumbers and 70 radishes. Project leaders told the Associated Press that they hope by May to be harvesting around 8 pounds every week.
To make the crops thrive, scientists are using a closed-loop water cycle with melted, purified ice from the station. The water is added to a nutrient solution and sprayed on the plants every five to 10 minutes. Artificial lighting stands in for sunshine, with a custom LED system comprised of individually controlled lights that shine on the plans 16 hours a day. Carbon dioxide tanks keep the air levels just right for the plants. Zabel and his team of 10 scientists tend to the greenhouse for three to four hours each day.
Project manager Daniel Schubert told DW that all the crops are growing successfully in the greenhouse, from the greens and radishes to the tomatoes and peppers: "We have learned a lot about self-sufficient plant breeding in the last few weeks," he said. "it has become clear that Antarctica is an ideal test field for our research."
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The Inauguration of Rabbi Daniel L. Lehman, Eighth President of the Graduate Theological Union, will be held at: International House at University of California, Berkeley 2299 Piedmont Avenue Berkeley, CA 94720 (see map below) Parking is available at the Stadium Parking Garage: 2175 Gayley Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720 (One block north of the International House) Metered street parking is free after 6 pm. If you arrive by car service or taxi you may be dropped off at the North entrance to International House, just beyond the main entrance. If you are traveling by public transportation,...
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The May 10 ceremonies at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary's Chapel of the Cross recognized 62 graduates who completed their degrees in Fall 2011 or Spring 2012. Thirty-six students graduated with a Master of Arts degree, five received a Master of Arts with a concentration in Biblical Languages, and twenty-one received the Doctor of Philosophy degree. Graduates are listed by degree and include their thesis title, area of study or school of affiliation, committee members, and thesis abstract; language specialization is noted for MABL graduates in lieu of thesis information. View photos on...
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50 hotels totally worth the splurge
50 hotels...
While it's nice to vacation on a budget, sometimes you just have to splurge. You're worth a ritzy vacation at the best hotel with the nicest restaurants and all the amenities! Your family is worth it! Luckily, there are a bunch of bucket list-worthy hotels across the world that will cater to your every wish and leave you feeling as pampered as a prince.
The Active Times has searched the internet for five- and four-star hotels that offer every extravagance, including curated dining experiences, butlers and top of the line spa experiences. What's great about some of these splurge-worthy hotels is that many of them are in the United States, so you won't have to leave the country - or even your state - to ball out on your time off. Some of them are even in the best places to vacation!
Grab your family, invite your significant other, or just go alone to any of these indulgent 50 hotels totally worth the splurge.
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Acqualina Resort and Spa on the Beach (Miami, Florida)
If you're springing for a room at Miami's Acqualina, you might as well ball out and get the penthouse. According to Forbes, its 7,725 square feet and includes five bedrooms, a kitchen, a private saltwater pool, a cabana guest house and unobstructed views of the ocean.
Plus, when you're sick of all that luxury, you can chill out at the hotel's Acqualina Spa by Espa. It's a five-star retreat offering aromatherapy, hydrotherapy, sea product- and plant-based beauty therapies, and more.
Acqualina Resort & Spa on the Beach/ Yelp
Alvear Palace (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
The Alvear Palace is the height of luxury in Buenos Aires. It's located in the upscale neighborhood of Recoleta, surrounded by high-end boutiques (if you want to pop out and do some major spending). The hotel's rooms look straight out of Versailles, and they offer a tea service that would rival Marie Antoinette's from their restaurant L'Orangerie.
If you book a deluxe suite or higher, Alvear offers its guests complimentary butler service. That means someone from the hotel will do trivial things for you like draw you a bath, unpack your bags, and even order your room service.
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Auberge du Soleil (Napa Valley, California)
This Napa Valley hotel has been featured on Goop - and if it's good enough for Gwyneth, it's definitely the best of the best. This luxurious hotel in wine country with its large suites, outdoor showers and bathtubs, and private cottages, also has a restaurant with two Michelin stars, a gorgeous full-service spa, custom-tailored wine tastings, and stunning views of Napa.
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Belmond Hotel Caruso (Ravello, Italy)
Ravello is the most gorgeous Italian mountain town that you have never heard of. Within it is the equally gorgeous Belmond Hotel Caruso. The 11th-century palace offers breathtaking views of the Tyrrhenian Sea and two restaurants serving delicious Italian fare.
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Beverly Hills Hotel (Beverly Hills, California)
The Beverly Hills Hotel is the perfect mix of old and new Hollywood glamour. This hotel does all their decorations in its signature pink and green; even the plastic palm trees meant to shade guests are classic "Beverly Hills Hotel Pink." They have bungalows named for famous past guests such as Marilyn Monroe and Howard Hughes, but you're also just as likely to see living celebrities brunching in the restaurants and bars at this 5-star luxury hotel. It's worth the splurge if you're celeb-crazy, as it's always been one of the best places to see celebrities in LA.
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Carlton Hotel (St. Moritz, Switzerland)
If you'll spend any price for the perfect scenic view, this is the hotel for you. The Carlton Hotel faces the Swiss Alps and a stunning placid lake that looks like a mirror when it freezes over. Plus, the hotel has a ton of activities from skiing and sledding to a horse-drawn-carriage ride, a fondue lunch and a dainty tea service. Plus, it oddly looks a lot like the hotel from Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel"!
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Cavas Wine Lodge (Mendoza, Argentina)
Set in a 55-acre vineyard, Cavas Wine Lodge is a boutique hotel experience that you should definitely splurge on if you're a wine lover or are planning on spoiling one. This gorgeous little hotel in the foothills of the Andes mountains offers everything from horseback riding, zip lining, hikes, bike rides and whitewater rafting to (of course) wine tasting, vineyard tours and extravagant meals at the hotel's restaurant.
Feeling sloshy from too much wine? Decompress in the hotel's top notch spa, which offers massages, therapeutic rituals, body treatments, facial treatments, and even a yoga retreat.
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Farmhouse Inn (Sonoma, California)
This tiny family-run inn contains a Michelin-starred restaurant, a gorgeous spa and little 20th-century cottages with dry saunas. The seasonal menu features foods sourced from nearby artisans and farmers, and there are a ton of great wineries nearby. Even though it's just about an hour and a half outside of San Francisco, you might feel like you're in Provence.
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Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace (Budapest)
This Four Seasons is known for being one of the most beautiful hotels in Budapest. With its stained-glass windows, mosaic tile ceiling and view of the Chain Bridge, it truly is a sight to behold. According to Forbes, the hotel's rooms are also the largest accommodations you will find in Budapest, so if you're looking for space, splurge here.
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Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas (Las Vegas, Nevada)
When you're tired of the Strip and you're tired of the casinos, the Four Seasons Las Vegas is the place to relax. It's the anti-Vegas, with all the luxurious amenities you've come to expect from, well, Vegas. First of all, this Four Seasons location is a non-gaming property, which makes it the perfect place to stay if you're traveling with kids.
This Four Seasons location offers three full-service restaurants, a very hot bar called Press, a five-star spa and a private pool.
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Four Seasons Resort (Chiang Mai, Thailand)
This bucket list-worthy resort's layout looks kind of like a Thai village, and guests are often charmed by the rice paddies and lily ponds that separate its pavilions. The hotel also offers villas and private residences to guests as well as traditional Thai cooking lessons.
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Four Seasons Resort (Hualalai, Hawaii)
Splurge on this Big Island hotel if your idea of a vacation is broken up with high intensity workouts. Its most popular amenity is its sports club, which offers over 15,000 square feet of facilities like yoga, tennis, a four-lane pool, a rock-climbing wall, a sand volleyball court and a gym. This nature-centric Four Seasons also complements the Hawaiian scenery that surrounds it. Whether you're chilling by the saltwater pool or lounging on a lanai on the balcony of your room, you'll notice that the hotel practically grows out of its lava rock surroundings.
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Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort (Orlando, Florida)
You're not far from Disney World, but if you want to forget that you are, stay at the Four Seasons Resort Orlando. Your kids will be so busy with the pool, the lazy river and the Goofy-character breakfast that they will hardly notice you've slipped away to the luxurious Four Seasons spa or to the adults-only pool. Plus, this hotel doesn't incorporate Disney into its decorations. No hidden Mickeys here!
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Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai (Hoi An, Vietnam)
The most eye-catching feature of this Four Seasons location is The Nam Hai's three tiers of infinity pools. The first is kid-friendly, the last is for adults only, and the middle pool is for laps. Whether you're swimming, checking out the eight treatment suites or enjoying a themed dinner at one of the hotel's two restaurants, you'll be excited to turn down at your villa which includes a garden, an outdoor rain shower, a bedside bathtub and a patio with a daybed.
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Four Seasons Whistler (Whistler, Canada)
Ski bunnies, this is the hotel for you to splurge on. The Four Seasons Whistler is bucket list-worthy and is based at the foot of Blackcomb and Whistler mountains, just a five-minute walk away from the lifts - so you can ski for hours and then lift home, no problem. To soothe those aching muscles, the hotel boasts a five-star spa with tons of relaxing amenities such as massages and facials.
Guests of the hotel can also take advantage of its ski concierge, who will store your equipment or help you to rent gear and purchase lift passes.
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Gstaad Palace (Gstaad, Switzerland)
According to The Hollywood Reporter, celebrities such as Madonna, Princess Diana, Michael Jackson, Anne Hathway, Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant have all stayed at Gstaad Palace. The opulent hotel offers views of the Swiss Alps, luxurious rooms and spa services, and visitors enjoy what MySwitzerland.com calls "discretion and hospitality" for "the most discerning international guests." So basically: celebrities, royalty and spies?
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Hotel Bel-Air (Los Angeles, California)
This secluded hotel is the perfect place to stay if you're hiding from the paparazzi or just want to get away from the slow crawl of LA traffic and your terrible assistant job (if you can afford it). This is the hotel to splurge on if you want private everything. The amenities are top of the line, but you won't find five pools and a kid's club or cooking demonstrations. In fact, this hotel only has one bar and one restaurant - but it's by no less than Wolfgang Puck, so you won't rue the lack of options.
Hotel Bel-Air/Yelp
Hotel Esencia (Tulum, Mexico)
This Tulum hotel is situated on what Forbes calls "the most pristine stretch of beach in all of Mexico." This the place to splurge if you love to eat. Hotel Esencia brings guests fresh coffee and pastries every morning, and the stunning hotel is brimming with restaurant and meal options that serve everything from Japanese-Peruvian fusion to Latin American cuisine and even a few specialty dishes from around the world.
Daniel C./Yelp
Hotel Il Pellicano (Porto Ercole, Italy)
Hotel Il Pellicano has maintained its glamorous '60s and '70s flair with a few timeless touches. Once a favorite of Kirk Douglas and Sophia Loren, the hotel is now reeling in guests with its prestigious Michelin-starred restaurant, Pellicano, and their wine cellar with over 1,000 bottles of wine. The hotel's master suites have private saltwater pools and terraces with sweeping views. Plus, according to CN Traveler, the beds are massive and the bathrooms come with bath products custom-made by the hotel's parfumeur.
Brittany F./Yelp
Hotel Maria Cristina (San Sebastian, Spain)
Hotel Maria Cristina was renovated in 2012 - 100 years after it opened in 1912 - but maintains its stunning original stained glass ceiling. This five-star hotel is curated to the nines with special concierge services, a gourmet shop with local Spanish treats, and daily classes at the hotel's below-ground cooking school. Food is a big deal here. Hotel Maria Cristina offers a massive breakfast buffet in the morning, two in-hotel restaurants which also offer food tours, and even fun pop-up restaurant experiences inside the hotel galleries.
Celia M./Yelp
InterContinental Bora Bora Resort & Thalasso Spa (French Polynesia)
If you want to splurge on an island paradise, this is it. This five-star hotel faces the main island of Bora Bora and Mount Otemanu and is surrounded by sapphire waters. If you're not busy gaping at the scenery, check out their Deep Ocean Spa, the first seawater therapy spa in French Polynesia. The hotel also boasts a ton of restaurants and bars, all named after the oceanic scenery.
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J.K. Place (Capri, Italy)
Capri is a must-see if you're ever stopping by the Amalfi Coast. This stunning island is home to the J.K. Place, which you must splurge on should you come to Capri. The hotel serves up high-end Italian comfort food and, according to CN Traveler, the service is impeccable. It's the chicest place to stay on the island, so know that you're not missing out should you hear about friends, diplomats, or celebrities staying anywhere else.
J.K. Place Capri
Jade Mountain (St. Lucia)
If you're looking to take the most luxurious vacation of your life alone, with friends, or with your partner, go to Jade Mountain. Kids age 15 and under aren't allowed at this hotel, so you won't suffer any crying or screaming babies. A personal concierge is assigned to each suite, so all you have to do is say the word and whatever activity you feel like doing on the 600-acre beachfront resort is set up for you.
Plus, it offers a stellar view of both the Piti and Gros Piton mountains, which rise dramatically from the Caribbean Sea shoreline. Bring your camera, because you may also want to photograph your food. The menu at the Jade Mountain Club was created by James Beard award-winning chef Allen Susser.
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Jumeirah Mina A'salam at Madinat Jumeirah (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
This Dubai hotel will not disappoint should you chose to splurge on this four-star hotel. There are over 50 restaurants and bars on the property as well as a water park. There's also a private beach for windsurfing and wakeboarding, play areas, and tons and tons of pools. Should you feel like shopping, the hotel offers boutique stalls with jewelry, perfume, antiques, and more. You can even take a boat tour through the market shops via a canal. It sounds like paradise!
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Katikies Hotel (Santorini, Greece)
No, you did not just land on the set of "Mama Mia" - you're at Katikies Hotel in Santorini. You must have come at the right time too, because this hotel is seasonal and closed from November to April, ensuring that guests will have the best weather during their stay. This 34-room hotel is a Greek retreat 300 feet above the Aegean sea full of infinity pools, wine cellars, gorgeous restaurants serving Byzantine feasts, and even a Champagne bar!
La Mamounia (Marrakech, Morocco)
The beauty of La Mamounia is what is most shocking. It's just so splendid. Everything is colorful and covered in artwork or draped in opulent fabrics, and according to Forbes, it smells of jasmine, orange blossom and cedar. The hotel has gorgeous gardens that guests can have tea in, a fantastic spa and a pool that will make you want to swim all day long. Plus, it's right inside the city's old medina which means you're very close to Marrakech's colorful markets and centuries-old historical sites.
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Las Ventanas al Paraiso (San José del Cabo, Mexico)
This picturesque hotel is equal parts desert and sea as this vacation spot sits on the Sea of Cortez and also the sprawling Mexican desert. A major reason to stay here is their "tequila sign" class, in which guests go through a blind taste test of tequilas to create a personalized profile. Once your profile is made, hotel bartenders create pairings around your taste wherever you drink or dine! Isn't that cool?
If you've had too much tequila, every suite comes with its own butler on call 24 hours a day to fetch you an Advil or bring you something to eat - or at the very least, draw all the curtains while you nurse your hangover.
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Le Bristol Paris (Paris, France)
This Parisian hotel is a must if you're staying in the City of Light! Near the Arc de Triomphe, the Grand Palais, and the Champs-Elysees, Le Bristol is like staying in the finest Parisian chateau. The rooms are spacious and elegantly decorated. The spa is done by cult beauty brand La Prairie and is open until 9 p.m. for any late-night treatment shenanigans.
Guests can manger (eat) at the hotel restaurants such as Epicure, 114 Faubourg and Le Jardin Français and pop in for a beverage at Le Bar du Bristol, which also turns into a weekend nightclub. Plus, everything looks extremely chic - because let's face it, it's Paris! C'est magnefique, non?
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Le Meurice (Paris, France)
Le Meurice is Parisian luxury. It is the oldest palace in France, but accommodations and amenities are state of the art. Spa Valmont offers cutting-edge services that will leave your skin glowing like a French model's. Famous French chef Alain Ducasse has curated the menu at Restaurant le Meurice Alain Ducasse where you can have all your meals. If you're really splurging, stay in the Belle Etoile Royal Suite, which boasts a 360-degree view of Paris.
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Lodge & Spa at Brush Creek Ranch (Saratoga, Wyoming)
If you're looking to get away without leaving the country, head to Wyoming. If you're looking for a hotel that maximizes the available activities, head to The Lodge and Spa at Bruch Creek Ranch, where it is as luxurious as it is wild. You can glamp (glam camping), ride horses, get dirty on an ATV, partake in some yoga, or relax in the rustic luxury of the lodge's modern accommodations and enjoy a farm-to-table dining experience.
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One & Only Reethi Rah (Maldives)
Do the Maldives right at this large and luxurious resort. The food is a standout at One & Only, which offers sushi, fresh fruits and vegetables and stunning cocktails. It's a big attraction for romantic vacations, but it's also kid-friendly and offers a ton of waterskiing, windsurfing and more.
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Primland (Meadows of Dan, Virginia)
This four-star hotel was called "luxury summer camp for adults" by Forbes. The space in the Blue Ridge Mountains offers ethereal cottages complete with gorgeous soaking tubs and plush white robes that you can relax in after a day of hiking, biking, hunting and more. Primland's restaurant, Elements, offers seasonal fare that, according to their website, "showcases the natural abundance of the Virginia Highlands."
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Cabo has long been a destination for celebrities on vacation - and if you're willing to splurge, it can be for you too! The Resort at Pedregal is perfect for anyone who loves long strolls through quaint adobes, ocean views and a really great spa. The resort is also in the perfect place to go scuba diving and snorkeling, and they offer a concierge service that can hook you up!
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Mayakoba is "The Venice of Mexico" according to Forbes. The Rosewood hotel there is all villas and freestanding suites with private pools and outdoor showers. Some suites even open right onto the beach! Going with a large group? Some of the villas offer up to four bedrooms. The hotel's tequila bar is also a highlight; it has more than 100 tequila options.
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Sant Francesc Hotel Singular (Palma, Mallorca, Spain)
This 5-star Spanish hotel is perfect for people who need to occasionally stop vacationing and start working. Located near the Basiilica St. Francis and the Cathedral of Santa Maria of Plama, guests can pop outside for all the history and sightseeing they can handle before running back into their rooms to connect to Wi-Fi.
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Singapore is opulent, and its hotels are no exception. The Shangri-La Singapore is near Singapore's most famous shopping street, Orchard Road. However, you'll feel like you're in the heart of paradise, as the hotel is surrounded by 15 acres of lush tropical gardens. Want to spend your time totally blissed out? Book a room in the Valley Wing, which has a separate entrance and lobby. Your room comes with personal butler service!
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You'll feel like a celebrity as you speedboat your way to the Taj Lake Palace. You're not being extra - the only way to reach this splurge-worthy hotel is by boat. This hotel was an 18th century palace, and it offers the most gorgeous view of Lake Pichola. You may have to spend like a king to stay here, but you'll feel like royalty reclining in the four-poster beds and using the butler service. If you're hungry, the hotel has four different restaurants for you to choose from that serve authentic Indian cuisine.
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This Financial District hotel is actually one of New York's best. Formerly the Mercantile Library Association, the luxe digs contain a Tom Colicchio restaurant and bar as well as a brasserie-style restaurant serving French food. When you're done wining and dining, check out the hotel's art collection inspired by writers who spent time on the same lot back when it hosted the Mercantile Library Association, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Edgar Allen Poe.
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The Cloister (Sea Island, Georgia)
The Cloister is a secluded five-star Georgia getaway with tons of activities and a killer spa. After seeing the on-staff nutritionist or getting all kinds of face and body treatments, chill out in the waterfall circular whirlpool or one of the outdoor hot tubs. The hotel is also family-friendly and offers a kids' club called Camp Cloister.
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The Dewberry (Charleston, South Carolina)
If you're not afraid of dropping some major cash on your Southern vacation, head to The Dewberry. First off, the interior is modern South Carolina cool, with palm-shaped chandeliers and beach-y looking rooms. Dine at the hotel restaurant Henrietta's, for French food with a Southern influence. The hotel also offers in-room bar service with seasonal drinks curated by The Dewberry's executive chef.
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The Dorchester (London, England)
This London hotel is located in Mayfair, the ritziest London neighborhood. If you choose a roof suite, you'll have an outdoor balcony with views of Hyde Park. The Grill at Dorchester by chef Alain Ducasse is a must, as is The Bar at The Dorchester. Plus, the hotel offers an afternoon tea experience that is the height of English sophistication with various pastries and treats made exclusively by The Dorchester pastry team.
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The Inn of the Five Graces (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
You've never been anywhere like The Inn of the Five Graces. It's in New Mexico, but because of the way it's decorated, you might feel transported across the world with its gorgeous Middle Eastern and Indian accents. Every room is different, but they all come with flat-screen TVs, fireplaces, and Le Creuset dishware. Their kitchen serves tons of Mexican-influenced dishes as well as health conscious meals. It's a great hotel to wander around in due to its many courtyards and picturesque adobe buildings.
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The Lowell Hotel (New York, New York)
You should splurge on this NYC hotel because it's easily the most spacious in Manhattan. Every room contains a kitchenette, and some have wood burning fireplaces and balconies. That's insane for New York! Many hotels there don't even have bathtubs!
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The Peninsula (Chicago, Illinois)
This five-star hotel in the Windy City is all about comfort. The rooms are large and come with a seating area and a control panel next to your bed that lets you control temperature, lighting and music and also opens and closes your curtains. Plus, the bathrooms here all have soaking tubs with built-in TVs and a separate shower.
If you're hungry and don't feel like braving the cold to hit up the Gold Coast area hotel's great restaurants, The Peninsula Chicago has three restaurants which serve French food, Chinese food, and Malaysian eats, respectively.
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This particular Peninsula hotel is styled like an ancient Roman bath despite its Chinese location and includes 10 different dining options. Cuisines served range from French to Swiss to Japanese to Cantonese. Plus, you can rent a ton of different movies from the hotel's film library to watch in your room.
And if you're really feeling like splurging, before you arrive, schedule one of the hotel-owned Rolls-Royce phantoms to pick you up from the airport and take you to your destination.
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The Ritz-Carlton New York is classic New York luxury. Splurge on its opulent Swiss skincare-based La Prairie Spa, the exclusive Club Lounge, or one of the hotel's higher floor rooms with an avenue view. What makes this hotel really worth it is its afternoon tea spread. The hotel serves a variety of tea sandwiches, scones, and desserts that you won't find anywhere else.
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Every type of room comes with a dedicated butler to draw your bath or shine your shoes, and when it's time to eat, you can hit up the hotel's famed Terrace restaurant or access the Nation Galleria mall from its entrance inside the hotel and taste its delights.
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Most people flock to the Wynn for Le Rêve, a dreamlike stage show full of stunts, dancing and feats of strength. But if you're looking to splurge while you're in Vegas, stay at The Wynn for its 15 restaurants, high-end mall The Wynn Esplanade, and bathrooms with massive bathtubs. Plus, rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows so you can really take in the Strip - which offers some of the best food and drink in Nevada. Don't feel like splurging? There are 20 free things you can do in Las Vegas.
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Andrew, Brian, Colin, Diana and Elizabeth were the directors of Gemsales Pty Ltd, a company engaged in the business of importing and supplying jewellery as wholesalers to the local market.
The company decided that as the market was becoming more competitive it needed to expand its business as it felt with increased volumes of sales it would be able to lower its prices and be more competitive. In order to do so it obtained a $4 million dollar loan from the Friendly Bank Ltd. $3 million was used to buy more stock and $1 million was used to buy a large new warehouse and showrooms from Traders Pty Ltd.
Colin was not at the meeting that had made these decisions as he was in hospital recovering from a serious accident. Elizabeth, as was her usual custom, had not attended the meeting but signed the requisite documentation agreeing to the expansion of the business and the getting of the loan. Diana who attended, said she did not know if she agreed and abstained from voting. Andrew and Brian both voted to go ahead with the expansion and the getting of the loan.
At about this time Brian has established contact with Victor, who was setting up a new business as a retailer of jewellery. Victor was looking for reliable suppliers, but said he would not deal with Gemsales Pty Ltd as he did not like Andrew, the Managing Director. Not wishing to miss out on such a lucrative business opportunity, Brian arranged to set up his own business as a jewellery wholesaler and a contract was entered into between Victor and Brian for the supply of jewellery.
Six months later, Brian resigned as a director. At the same time it was clear the company had over-extended itself and was insolvent and could not pay the interest on its loans.
It also became clear that Brian was a major shareholder in Traders Pty Ltd and the other directors were unaware of this at the time of the purchase of the warehouse and showrooms. Furthermore, Brian had been approaching other established customers of Gemsales Pty Ltd and had secured orders for his own business.
Advise as to the liability of ALL the parties both under common law and the Corporations Law. In your answer you should address all the issues relating to each of the directors and their duties to the corporation.
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A bobcat that has been named Bob walks on a trail in the early morning, Nov. 5, by a wildlife camera at the Northwest Stream Center in Everett. (Northwest Stream Center)
Smile! Or growl. You’re on the wildlife candid camera
A bobcat and bears are captured in digital form on the Northwest Stream Center nightcam.
by Andrea Brown
Monday, November 26, 2018 5:22am
Local NewsEverett
EVERETT — Humans aren’t the only ones lured to follow the food and lodging signs along interstate exits.
Seems a cool cat named Bob has found a few creature comforts to his liking near the 128th Street SE exit.
Bob … short for bobcat.
An image of Bob strolling the boardwalk at 4:27 a.m. Nov. 5 was snapped by the wildlife camera at Adopt A Stream Foundation’s Northwest Stream Center. The 32-acre nature preserve, about a half-mile from I-5, is in McCollum Park.
The bobcat became a Facebook sensation after Snohomish County Parks and Recreation posted a pic of the adult male and named him Bob.
“Bob is a good reason to leave the park at dusk and keep your pet on a leash,” the post read.
Gary Noble, a docent naturalist, stands next to one of the wildlife cameras he helped install at the Northwest Stream Center in Everett. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)
Cameras are fastened on trees at three sites along the preserve’s half-mile boardwalk to catch the goings-on of the animals that call it home. The night shots are black and white. The daytime snaps are in crisp color.
To the untrained eye, Bob’s blurry bod might look like a white tiger in the dark woods.
“It’s not a fancy camera that Art Wolfe would use,” said Stream Center Director Tom Murdoch, referring to the well-known nature photographer.
Murdoch said it is the first bobcat caught on camera in the area that comprises the riparian zone next to North Creek between the center and Mill Creek Town Center.
“A nature preserve right in the middle of the ‘burbs,” he said.
Bob is a welcome addition to the neighborhood.
“It’s a good sign,” Murdoch said. “We provide him with food, shelter and space.”
If all goes well, Bob might live 12 years in the wild, he said.
The motion-activated cameras have captured digital images of many unsuspecting animals. Deer, fox, owls, otters. Great blue herons eating trout. A coyote standing on the rail in the salmon viewing spot.
Black bears made several appearances during the summer.
Bobcats are most active at night and rarely seen during the day.
“They’re looking at you, but you are not going to see them,” Murdoch said. “I’ve never seen one in the wild anywhere and I’ve been looking.”
Bob likely isn’t the only cat of his kind hunkering down.
“Usually if there’s one, there’s probably more than one around,” he said.
Before being caught on camera, bobcat-claw marks had been seen on trees.
Center docent Gary Noble previously saw what he thought was a bobcat in the woods at dusk.
“All I got to see is his back. He had this really odd short tail,” Noble said. “It looked like the size of a dog, but it didn’t walk like a dog. It walked like a cat.”
He and his wife, Kay, maintain the wildlife cameras and transfer images onto a computer.
“Even the coyotes are exciting to see,” she said.
The inside of a wildlife camera at the Northwest Stream Center. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)
Murdoch said next year the center plans to launch “Creatures of the Night” tours of the forest and wetland with night vision goggles to be purchased with grant money.
How do they know it’s a Bob not a Bobbi cat?
According to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, bobcat males weigh between 20 and 30 pounds and average 3 feet in length. Females are smaller.
Bob is a big dude, about 40 inches from nose to end of tail, Murdoch estimated, based on the width of the boardwalk slats.
He said he suspects Bob is the alpha male.
“There may be a couple of females within his range, but they are only interested in each other for brief courting and mating periods,” he said.
The menu for bobcats include mice, voles, rabbits, gophers, beaver and birds.
And Bambi. “A bobcat the size of Bob can certainly take down deer fawn,” Murdoch said.
Not to worry, the bobcats don’t eat people.
Nor do they crave attention.
“They don’t want to be bothered by us,” he said.
Ditto for the bears last seen in August.
“They started avoiding the camera,” Murdoch said. “We saw muddy bear paw prints in September and October. None in November. We figure they’ve found a place to start snoozing.”
Andrea Brown: abrown@heraldnet.com; 425-339-3443. Twitter @reporterbrown.
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We’re Not Really Strangers is one of several card games that urges players to get personal with one another — and themselves.
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We! Connect Cards (left), Big Talk (middle) and We’re Not Really Strangers (left) have some serious questions for anyone who dares to “play.”
A wave of super-earnest card games want you to bare your soul on game night
By Travis DeShong / The Washington Post
When Sandra Mary Mathoslah suggested playing a card game with her in-laws on a Sunday afternoon, she didn’t know it would result in tears.
Mathoslah, a 33-year-old pharmacist, had suggested they play the game, called Uncurated, over Turkish coffee and fruit tarts in her Bethesda, Maryland, studio apartment. Her husband’s parents, Gwen and Attalah Sayegh, were good sports and agreed to try this “game of questions and answers,” as Mathoslah had cryptically put it to them.
Things got emotional and not in a flip-the-Monopoly board-and-storm-off kind of way. The probing questions printed on the Uncurated cards had them wrestling with long-buried things that suddenly might see the light of day.
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Mathoslah’s husband, Munir, drew a purple card that asked, If you could go back and change one decision, what would it be? His wife was shocked to learn he had second thoughts about spending as much time as he did at Purdue University, where he worked for five years. Her father-in-law pulled another that read, What is one time you wish you didn’t ignore your gut instinct? He declined to answer, but Mathoslah knew something was sealed behind his lips.
Then came the tears. If you could share one message with the world, what would it be? asked one sea-foam-green card to Mathosalah’s mother-in-law. Her eyes started to well up.
“I wished that everyone could have a relationship with Jesus Christ, but I knew that wasn’t possible,” Mrs. Sayegh told The Washington Post. “So I said I wished everybody would share their goods so there would be no hungry people.”
Mathoslah knew her mother-in-law to be a sweet woman but had no idea this concern pressed so hard on her heart.
If you don’t like card games, or watching people bare their souls, or examining yourself as a person, Uncurated’s brand of prompted conversational self-reflection sounds nightmarish. Even to those who are open to opening up, Uncurated’s gimmick might sound a little hokey.
But card games aimed at getting deep are proliferating. We’re Not Really Strangers (WNRS). Big Talk. SoCards. We! Connect Cards. Known Project. These games are often pitched as antidotes to loneliness and isolation and facilitators of self-discovery and personal growth.
“It’s about expanding your paradigms and growing in empathy,” said Cherini Ghobrial, 28, who created Uncurated. “When you share with each other, you see each other. And you see yourself differently.”
If Cards Against Humanity represented modern card games at their edgiest, this new wave represents card games at their most earnest. You might call them cards for humanity. (If you do, then you’re probably the target market.)
Sydney George, 20, has played WNRS only one-on-one with her boyfriend. Three rounds of questions, three levels of intensifying introspection. She drew a card that asked: How are you, really?
“I honestly started crying,” the Austin native said. “I honestly didn’t know how I was.” Between jobs as a creative assistant at her local church and a food runner at a seafood restaurant, her daily life is a gantlet of tasks with little room to check in on her feelings. It felt good to be asked.
Not every game set comes with a list of guidelines attached, and when guidelines do appear they’re broad enough to function more like suggestions than laws. You pull a question and could answer it about yourself. What is one thing you wish you never believed?If that one hits too close to home, then skip it. Or ask it of another player who’s more gung-ho about the mindfulness thing. Or pose the question to everyone else and go around the room. There’s no way to win these games. You can’t exactly cheat, unless you “cheat” yourself by answering untruthfully.
It’s a recipe for a different kind of game night than some people are used to. “I had brought the game and been like, ‘This is a game we have to play,’ and my friends definitely gave a leery response,” said Julia Kennedy, 28, a Los Angeles-based digital marketer who purchased a WNRS deck. “They were like, ‘It sounds so serious,’ like it’ll take us to dark places.”
They had wine and snacks to lighten the mood. Kennedy got to ask herself: What do you think people’s first impressions of you are? Loud and obnoxiously chatty, she said. Her best friend told her that those were thoughts that never crossed his mind. It dawned on Kennedy that those fears locked up in her head might just be fears, not defining traits.
“It’s a deep game,” Kennedy said, “but that doesn’t make it depressing.”
Informal questioning cards are carving their niche in schools and the working world. We and Mesells decks of We! Connect Cards by the tens of thousands and boasts Disney, Cigna, JetBlue Airways and Starbucks on its list of clients. Irene Parisi, the chief academic officer of the public school system Greenwich, Connecticut, recently ordered decks for all 1,100 of her teachers.
Fallene Wells, the owner of Let Em Have It Salon in Denver, uses question cards from the game Big Talk to create bios for her new hires and figure out how her current staffers think. Three days a week, she says, Wells leads a morning huddle and starts off with a Big Talk question. What would be the first thing you would grab if your house in on fire? One of her employees said their mattress. The image of them lugging a queen-size out of a burning building had the whole group laughing.
In 2017, Mike Lee, a 39-year-old film producer, was living in Seoul, close to broke and depressed. He stumbled across Big Talk and later hosted his own gatherings. Guests would pick questions from buckets and be encouraged (though never forced, Lee says) to bare their souls. It was a way of feeling close to people again despite being hundreds or thousands of miles from friends and family.
Lee remembers one woman pulling a card that asked her, What is the biggest secret you have? She shared a story about getting groped on the train to school in India when she was a child and being told by her teacher that she’d just have to deal with it.
The woman cried when she shared the story, Lee says, and other guests comforted her and offered support.
Nobody had won, or lost. It wasn’t a game at all.
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Truly experience the best of Barcelona with this exceptional full day tour of the city that will take you through all the important landmarks that make Barcelona the treasure that it is, not to mention giving you access to Antoni Gaudi's masterpiece in progress, the Basilica of Sagrada Familia!
Visit the popular Montjüic Hill which offers excellent views of Barcelona.
Stop briefly at the Catalunya National Art Museum and make your way past the Plaça Espanya.
Drive past Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona’s shopping district.- Stop at the Hospital de Sant Pau.
Make your way to the Sagrada Familia and enjoy priority access to Gaudi’s masterpiece.
Get off the bus and take a stroll through the charming sections of old Barcelona.
Briefly stop at Barcelona's most traditional indoor food markets: Mercat de Santa Caterina.
Check out some of the most historic sections of Barcelona. Visit the Jewish Quarter, the Royal Palace, the original 2000-year-old Roman Temple that is now part of the Cathedral.
The tour will then head to the magnificent Santa Maria del Mar church.
You will then visit Park Guell, another of Gaudi’s stunning creation.
The tour will finally end at La Pedrera, another building designed by Antoni Gaudi.
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This 8-hour tour of Barcelona is one of the most comprehensive tours of the Catalan city. Not only will you be visiting some of the most historic landmarks in the city, but will also receive priority access to the most important highlight of Barcelona - The Sagrada Familia. The tour will also take you through the heart of the city to other popular Art Nouveau centres in the city such as Catalunya National Art Museum, Park Guell, Hospital de Sant Pau Casa Batlló. You will also be driving through Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona’s shopping district as you visit La Pedrera and Casa Batlló.
The tour will also take you to other historic landmarks in Barcelona such as Montjüic Hill, the Jewish Quarter, the Royal Palace, the original 2000-year-old Roman Temple that is now part of the Cathedral and Santa Maria del Mar church. You will stop for lunch at traditional Catalan restaurants and tapas bars where you will be able to enjoy the local delicacies to your heart’s content.
However, the highlight of the trip will surely be the Sagrada Familia. Not only will you get to view this popular Barcelona landmark, but also get skip the line access so that you can enter the basilica without wasting your time in the ticket line. You will be accompanied by a guide as well through the entire leg of the journey making this highlights tour not only an enjoyable experience but a knowledgeable one as well.
Your 8-hour tour of Barcelona will begin with a drive to Montjüic Hill which offers excellent views of the city. The Montjüic Hill was also the site of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. After a stop at Montjüic Hill, you will briefly visit the Catalunya National Art Museum (MNAC) and then make your way down to Plaça Espanya and drive past Modernist buildings of the Eixample area, Barcelona's modernist centre. From here, you will be going to the Sagrada Familia as you drive past Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona’s famous shopping street, and home to two buildings designed by popular Catalan architect, Antoni Gaudi: La Pedrera and Casa Batlló.
Before you arrive at the Sagrada Familia, you will stop at the Hospital de Sant Pau, the largest art nouveau site in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The tour will then head to the oldest part of Barcelona, the Barrio Gótico, a region which was surrounded by medieval walls as late as the mid-19th century. Here, you will stop for a brief tour of Mercat de Santa Caterina, Barcelona's traditional indoor food market. The tour will then head to the oldest parts of Barcelona with 2000-year-old Roman Temple ruins, Jewish Quarters and the Royal Palace.
After Barrio Gotico, you will head towards the Born district where you will be able to stop for a brief lunch at one of the many traditional Catalan restaurants and tapas bars. You will also get to visit the magnificent Santa Maria del Mar Church - one of the most beautiful churches in Barcelona. After a quick lunch, you will be taken to Park Güell, a popular urban park and garden that was designed by none other than Antoni Gaudi. Your guide will lead you through the park and introduce you to some of Gaudí's most eccentric creations that make the park one of the most unique urban spaces in the world.
Finally, the tour will end at another famous Gaudí building, La Pedrera. Here, you will be able to spend an hour exploring the interiors of the house. Again, like the Sagrada Familia, you will have skip the line priority access to the landmark. The Barcelona highlights tour will finally end here at around 4:00 PM.
Panoramic view of Barcelona from Montjüic hill
Tour of Eixample, Barcelona's modernist centre
Drive up Passeig de Gracia - Barcelona's shopping district
Tour of Hospital de Sant Pau
Guided visit of Sagrada Familia with skip the line access
A tour of Barrio Gótico
Tour of Mercat de Santa Caterina, Barcelona's traditional indoor food market
Visit 2000-year-old Roman Temple ruins
Explore the Jewish Quarters of Barcelona and the Royal Palace
Santa Maria del Mar Church
Guided tour of Park Güell
Guided tour of La Pedrera
Transfers to/from your hotel
The guided tour is 8 hours long and begins at 8:30 PM.
The tour begins at Carrer del Palau de la Música. The closest metro station to this point is Urquinaona on Lines L1 and L4.
Sagrada Familia Dress Code:
Correct dress code is requested for entrance to the Sagrada Familia Basilica. No tank tops, strapless shirts, short shorts or sandals will be accepted.
How to Redeem your Tickets
• You will receive your Best of Barcelona voucher in a few minutes.
• Print the voucher before you visit the designated meeting point.
• The meeting point for this tour is Explore Catalunya office, C/ Palau de la Música, 4-6, next to the Palau de la Música Catalana.
• Display the printed voucher and begin your tour.
Explore Catalunya office, Carrer del Palau de la Música
Palau de la Música Catalana.
Average Group size is just 8-15 people
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HORNET JUICE
Killer hornets get a taste for humans
Killer hornets get a taste for humanshjuice2018-05-02T02:17:17+00:00
From The Times
THEIR sting is as painful as a red-hot spike piercing the flesh. They crush their helpless victims with powerful jaws. Now, after millennia spent terrorising the mountains and woodlands of Japan, flying cross-country at 25mph, they are living off sushi and kebabs – and turning on human beings.
A plague of hornets is bedevilling Japan, home to some of the most aggressive flying insects. Dry weather has allowed them to breed in record numbers, and entomologists fear a surge in deaths caused by the hornets’ agonising stings. In the past, excess hornet populations would die off because of a lack of food, but recently the hornets have moved into the cities, where they have found new forms of nutrition.
The insects have been seen sipping from discarded soft-drink cans and carrying off lumps of fish and meat from bins and rubbish bags. Local authorities are receiving double the usual number of calls from people asking them to remove hornets’ nests.
Between 20 and 40 Japanese die from hornet stings every year, more than the number killed by poisonous snakes. Evidence suggests a higher than usual death toll this year. Since August five people have died in northeast Japan alone, one of the less-populated parts of the country. Death by hornet sting is caused by anaphylactic shock, an allergic reaction leading to unconsciousness and breathing failure. “It is a pain that you can never imagine until you have experienced it”, Masato Ono, an entomologist at Tamagawa University, in Tokyo, said. He should know – he has been stung 200 times. “It is profoundly shocking, like a red-hot 15cm nail rammed into your body. I have never grown accustomed to the pain.”
The king of the hornets is Vespa mandarinia japonica, a fearsome black-and-orange creature whose queen grows to be more than 5cm long. It lives in woodlands and preys mainly on other insects, such as honeybees, which it can kill at the rate of 40 a minute. With the steady destruction of its forest habitat, the numbers of giant hornets have shrunk, leading to a population surge in one of the species on which they prey – the yellow hornet, or Vespa simillima Smith.
It is the yellow hornets that have adapted to the fast-food life of the towns and cities, where the human population has grown unaccustomed to dealing with them.
Tadashige Otaka, the director of the Urgent Action Section of the city of Matsudo, said: “In the old days parents taught their children to be careful in dealing with the nests. But children these days are ignorant and sometimes try to smash the nests violently.”
Bees defend against the hornets by flocking around them to form a tight, vibrating scrum of 500 insects. The temperature in the scrum rises so high that the hornet dies, but the bees can withstand it.
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Mike May
President, Spear One
Mike May, CMP, IP, is President and owner of Spear One, a full-service meeting planning and sales incentive company in Dallas, Texas.
Spear One helps Fortune 1000 clients engage their employees and sales channels through group incentive travel, event planning, recognition & incentive programs, and engagement campaigns - with creativity, flexibility, and a commitment to results.
Mr. May's expertise includes creating amazing incentive trips, matching the perfect destination and venue to each group's audience and goals, creative graphic design and communication techniques, and motivational incentive program rules.
Under Mr. May's leadership, Spear One has quintupled in size and expanded its international presence. Spear One has won numerous industry awards, including Best Places to Work in the Meetings Industry by Meetings & Conventions magazine and a Motivation Masters Award by Incentive Magazine.
Mr. May is a strong industry supporter serving as the Vice-Chairman of the Incentive Research Foundation, a past member of the Performance Improvement Council of the Incentive Marketing Association, on the advisory board for Incentive Magazine, and a frequent industry presenter.
Mr. May recently published 12.5 Steps to a Perfect Incentive Program, a comprehensive how-to guide packed with 70 pages of incentive tips, actionable advice, and industry research. The Spear One team of meeting planners have also turned out several free e-books focused on group meetings and incentive travel - Meeting Planner Review of All-Inclusive Resorts with candid reviews, ratings, and rankings of their top 36 all-inclusive resorts for groups; the Maui Incentive Travel Guide featuring resort reviews, top group activities, and island fun facts; and The Incentive Travel Guide for Kauai, Lanai, and The Big Island.
Please visit http://www.spearone.com for more information.
Mr. May can be contacted at +1 972-661-6010 or mike.may@spearone.com
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App, App and Away: Understanding Planners' Event App Needs
Coming up in February 2020...
Social Media: Social Listening Tools
The reach and influence of social media is staggering. Nearly 3 billion people use social media daily, posting a range of messages, selfies, images, and everything in-between. According to HubSpot, almost 4 million posts are uploaded to the major social networks every single minute! That's an astounding amount of content and it is crucial for hotels to skillfully use social media in order to effectively compete. From establishing a suitable brand identity and voice to creating content across all the major networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.), the goal is to actively engage consumers and to eventually convert them to customers. Some hotels are initiating online contests as a way to attract new customers, while others are rewarding customers with discounts who subscribe to the their email lists or follow their social media pages. Another recent strategy is to employ social media listening tools that track what people are posting online about their businesses. These tools allow hotels to monitor - or listen to - what's being said about a brand across the entire social web, and this can prove to be very valuable, unfiltered information. Social listening permits hotels to be aware of people's opinions about their business, industry or competitors, and some of these tools even listen beyond social media platforms. They also monitor publicly available information on blogs, forums, news outlets and websites. Some listening tools are more focused on gathering and analyzing data, while others offer more engagement-oriented features, which allow hotels to interact with people right from the platform. Often the information that is gleaned from these listening tools ends up being the most authentic, unbiased insights a business can get. The February Hotel Business Review will document what some hotels are doing to successfully integrate social media strategies into their operations.
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Gavihant History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Many variations of the name Gavihant have evolved since the time of its initial creation. In Gaelic it appeared as O Gaibhtheachain, which is derived from the word "gaibhtheach," which means "anxious."
Early Origins of the Gavihant family
The surname Gavihant was first found in County Mayo (Irish: Maigh Eo) located on the West coast of the Republic of Ireland in the province of Connacht, where they held a family seat from very ancient times. The Gavigan, Gavin, or Gavahan surname is derived from the Irish Chieftain Gabhadhan who was descended from King Colla da Crioch, one of the three Colla Kings who ruled Ireland and died about 360 A.D.
Interestingly, early Cornish records listed reference to some of the family in the parish of St. Hilary, Cornwall. "Prior to the days of Elizabeth, the barton of Treveneage belonged to an ancient family called Gaverigan, from whom it passed during that reign, with a co-heiress to the Godolphins." [1]
Important Dates for the Gavihant family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Gavihant research. Another 76 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1689, 1640, 1679 and 1929 are included under the topic Early Gavihant History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Gavihant Spelling Variations
The recording of names in Ireland during the Middle Ages was an inconsistent endeavor at best. Since the general population did not know how to read or write, they could only specify how their names should be recorded orally. Research into the name Gavihant revealed spelling variations, including Gavigan, Gavin, Gavihan, Gavahan, Gavan, Gavagain, Gavagan, Gaven, Gavin, Gavighan and many more.
Early Notables of the Gavihant family (pre 1700)
Another 39 words (3 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Gavihant Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Gavihant family
A great mass of Ireland's native population left the island in the 19th century, seeking relief from various forms of social, religious, and economic discrimination. This Irish exodus was primarily to North America. If the migrants survived the long ocean journey, many unfortunately would find more discrimination in the colonies of British North America and the fledgling United States of America. These newly arrived Irish were, however, wanted as a cheap source of labor for the many large agricultural and industrial projects that were essential to the development of what would become two of the wealthiest nations in the western world. Early immigration and passenger lists indicate many people bearing the Gavihant name: Daniel Gavin who landed in Virginia in 1654; John Gavin settled in Pennsylvania in 1773; Thomas Gavin settled in Maryland in 1774; James Gaven landed in America in 1690.
^ Hutchins, Fortescue, The History of Cornwall, from the Earliest Records and Traditions to the Present Time. London: William Penaluna, 1824. Print
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Sports // TSN - Brian T Smith
Smith: Passing league? Texans, NFL's best stay alive in playoffs by running
Brian T. Smith , Houston Chronicle Jan. 6, 2020
Deshaun Watson's running helped the Texans' offense get going during the second half of Saturday's wild-card victory over the Bills.
Photo: Godofredo A Vásquez/Staff photographer
What do the Texans, Baltimore, San Francisco, Tennessee, Seattle and Minnesota have in common?
They are all still alive in 2020 and in the playoffs.
Six of the NFL's eight remaining postseason teams also ranked in the top nine in rushing yards during the regular season.
What do Tampa Bay, Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles Rams, Los Angeles Chargers, New Orleans, New England, Oakland, Detroit, Philadelphia and Miami have in common?
They are all finished in 2019, leaving Kansas City as the only remaining playoff team that finished in the top 12 in passing yards during the season.
Those are fascinating statistics. Especially when you consider how much we heard about the pass-first NFL and sleek modernization of the league during the decade that just passed.
The Texans stuck with the run after halftime Saturday against Buffalo, despite falling behind 16-0 in a wild-card game on their home field. No single runner stood out. But Deshaun Watson, Carlos Hyde and Duke Johnson combined for 33 carries, 141 yards and a touchdown. And while Watson's spinning overtime pass to Taiwan Jones drew all the national TV attention, a gutsy 20-yard run by D4 finally put the Texans on the board for the first time.
This season, the Texans ranked ninth in the NFL in average rushing (125.6 yards per game). That stat doesn't blow you away. Until you realize that Baltimore (206 yards) topped the league, while San Francisco, Tennessee, Seattle and Minnesota were in the top six.
"I think you do have to be able to run the football. It doesn't mean you have to run it 50 times," said Texans coach Bill O'Brien, who stated that offensive balance and discovering in-game strengths versus weekly opponents were the real keys.
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How did the Titans down Tom Brady's Patriots at New England and send a two-decade dynasty to the brink? Derrick Henry barreled for an old-school 182 yards on 34 carries, offsetting an off night from quarterback Ryan Tannehill.
How did the Vikings down Drew Brees' Saints at New Orleans, ending the season of a heavily favored 13-3 team? Dalvin Cook rushed for 94 yards and two TDs, while Minnesota outgained New Orleans 136-97 on the ground.
The era of superstar running backs has clearly passed. But dual-threat QBs (Lamar Jackson, Russell Wilson, Watson) are succeeding more than ever and part of the two-sided threat comes on the ground.
Tampa Bay averaged a league-best 302.8 passing yards per game. The Buccaneers also turned Jameis Winston into a turnover machine. Dallas was second at 296.9. The Cowboys were unpredictable, underperformed, just hired a new head coach and faded hard during the second half of a highly disappointing season.
The Falcons (disappointing), Rams (disappointing) and Chargers (disappointing) were in the top six in passing this season.
One-year anomaly? Maybe.
Last season, the Rams' fancy, high-powered attack was all the rage and Los Angeles was in the Super Bowl. But running back Todd Gurley was also a serious threat in 2018 and was not this year. Los Angeles ranked 26th in rushing (93.7) in 2019 and didn't make the playoffs.
Rules, more than ever, favor the offensive side of the ball. You must have a franchise QB to be an annual contender. Three young, dynamic quarterbacks (Patrick Mahomes, Jackson, Watson) are among the four remaining in the playoffs in the AFC.
But in 2020, sticking with the run still creates big January victories and keeps you alive in the playoffs.
Just ask the Texans.
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Psoriasis: genetic and environmental factors among the causes
Scritto il 13 Apr 2018 in Diseases and Treatment
Red spots that tend to desquamate at the elbows and/or knees, persistent dandruff in the hair, desquamation and/or thickening in the palm of the hands and the soles of the feet: are all symptoms of psoriasis, an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks cytokines, small proteins present on the skin, joints, liver, adipose tissue and arterial endothelium that covers the inner surface of blood vessels.
As Professor Antonio Costanzo, Head of Dermatology at Humanitas, explained in a recent interview: “This reaction of our defenses takes place in genetically predisposed subjects. Today we know at least 36 genes that increase the risk of developing the disease. This inflammatory reaction is directed against the skin, which reacts with the hyper proliferation of keratin-producing cells, which is then the visible effect. Moreover, the spots are red because they are inflamed”.
Family history is one of the main causes: if a patient with psoriasis has a child, the child will be at greater risk of becoming ill. Environmental factors such as interaction with certain drugs, situations that trigger emotional stress or trauma are also involved.
Due to the specificity of the symptoms, the dermatologist is generally able to make the diagnosis during a specialist examination. In some cases, for psoriasis in its initial or unclear form, a skin biopsy may be useful.
How is psoriasis treated?
“We have been able to identify the key molecules in the process of developing psoriasis and have thus developed drugs that block only these molecules: TNF, interleukin 17 and interleukin 23. The administration of antibodies to these cytokines regresses the symptoms of psoriasis. When the spots reappear, therapy can be repeated.
The condition of life improves significantly, also because it is a treatment that the patient can do alone at home and the skin is free from visible manifestations of the disease. This is a decisive step forward compared to traditional drugs, which, as systemic immunosuppressants, act on the entire immune system, also with important side effects,” concluded Prof. Costanzo.
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Canoe deal makes a splash
Hydro Tasmania has reached a nation-first agreement to further support whitewater paddling in Tasmania.
For many years, the Derwent Canoe Club has used an area at Bradys Lake in the Central Highlands for paddling, with Hydro Tasmania’s co-operation. The new Licence Agreement formalises those arrangements for the first time.
The Commodore of the Derwent Canoe Club, Peter Eckhardt, said the agreement paves the way for the slalom course to be upgraded in coming months.
“Bradys is Australia’s premier natural channel slalom course. It’s used by our Olympic and national teams for training camps and selection races,” Mr Eckhardt said.
“This agreement with Hydro Tasmania supports the world-class whitewater canoeing opportunities we have in Tasmania, and gives our sport an even brighter future.
“It will help facilitate many events and opportunities that would not have otherwise been possible.
“This is the first time an agreement of this type has formalised in Australia. Around the world, only three other countries have such agreements where the water authority works closely with community canoeing clubs.
“Reaching such an unprecedented agreement is testament to the close 40-year relationship that Canoe Tasmania has had with Hydro Tasmania,” he said.
The Chief Operating Officer of Hydro Tasmania, Evangelista Albertini, said the agreement reflects the company’s determination to support its community.
“While providing clean, secure and affordable energy is Hydro Tasmania’s first priority, we also take pride in supporting Tasmanian recreational water users,” Mr Albertini said.
“As proud Tasmanians, we’re very pleased to be able to support the recreational and sporting activities that enrich the lives of other Tasmanians.
“An intense sport like whitewater paddling requires strength, skill, determination and resilience. Those are all qualities that Hydro Tasmania can appreciate and get behind!” he said.
The agreement is not expected to affect Hydro Tasmania’s hydropower operations in any meaningful way, but provides paddlers and Hydro Tasmania employees with clear guidelines about managing the Bradys Lake area as both a generating asset and world-class slalom course, to the benefit of both parties.
You can watch a video about whitewater paddling on the Bradys Lake slalom course here.
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Out of all the short films and music videos that I have made, the best (or the ones that ring well) are the ones that are autobiographical in nature.
After a while I realized that I had even more stories to tell that I never thought of filming. I took to compiling all of these fragments of failure, bad timing, and many instances of losing my temper and began work on a feature length script that dramatized all of these moments. The uneven plot that I wrote crammed them all in the timeframe of a month. The script was a mess (and not in a good way). I started writing sequences to glue together all the things that happened and they were kind of embarrassing.
After being convinced to make a web series, I tried applying to make something that was still dramatized. I only had the time and the funds to make a $0 trailer of me speaking to the camera with a microphone in public. It didn't really pitch much other than of me talking about all of my various failures. But who cares? It was actually much better than what I previously thought of.
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I took an old VHS tape of my Grade 11 French class's video projects and intercut them.
Taped in 1999. Watch for the many Hanson poster and pin-up shots.
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Ray has the ability to shoot laser beams from his index finger. Little does he know that his gift will soon be put to its ultimate use.
Rob has been invited to a secret party. Upon arrival, it seems as though he's entered his worst nightmare.
Made for the 2007 WNDX One Take Super 8 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
A quick triptych of romantic love starring James Korba, Sheena Shand, Eve Rice and Jaimz Asmundson.
Made for the 2009 WNDX One Take Super 8 Event.
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Host Patrick Lowe and the How-To Players show us what not to do in a movie theatre where there are other people peacefully enjoying a film.
Commissioned for the Winnipeg Cinematheque's 25th Anniversary
In a sleepy little town, there lives a woman who loves her baby. This is her story.
[ AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WEB SERIES and SHORT FILM BY DAMIEN FERLAND ]
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Ms Butler is an experienced IP litigator with a strong technical background and has advised clients on IP disputes across a broad range of technological areas and sectors. She is particularly known for her expertise in advising clients in complex patent disputes, including disputes with a contractual or competition law element. Recently, Ms Butler has acted for clients ranging from mobile phone, electronics and software companies to pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
Ms Butler’s cases include Unwired Planet v Huawei (patent – telecommunications); Samsung Bioepis & Biogen v Abbvie (patent – biosimilar); Good Technology v AirWatch (patent – mobility management systems); Motorola Mobility v British Telecommunications (patent – consumer electronics); Microsoft v Motorola Mobility (patent – electronics); LG Electronics v Sony (patent – Blu-ray disc); Apple v Nokia (patent – smartphones); Mölnlycke v BSN Medical (patent – wound dressing); Philips v Alba (patent – electronics); Dr Reddy’s Laboratories v Eli Lilly (patent – olanzapine); Ivax v Chugai (patent – pharmaceutical formulation); Sony Computer Entertainment v Ball (copyright – copy protection circumvention devices); Oxford Gene Technology v Affymetrix (patent and licence dispute – DNA microarrays); and Pharmacia v Merck (patent – cyclooxygenase2 inhibitors).
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Saturday, June 1, Bishop Caggiano ordained our fellow parishioner, Peter Adamski, to the priesthood. What a joy for our parish and for Fr. Peter, who will serve at St. James in Stratford.
St. Jean Vianney, Patron of priests, wrote a brief catechism on the priesthood. It’s fitting for
us to reflect on it in light of this day. Lastly, we offer our congratulations and promise of prayers to Fr. Peter.
by St. John Vianney
My children, come to the Sacrament of Orders. It is a Sacrament which seems to relate to no one among you, and yet relates to everyone….What is a priest? "Go,” said Our Lord to the priest; "as My Father sent Me, I send you. All power has been given Me in Heaven and
on earth. Go then, teach all nations. . . . He who listens to you, listens to Me; he who despises you despises Me." When the priest remits sins, he does not say, "God pardons you"; he says, "I absolve you.” At the Consecration, he does not say, "This is the Body of Our Lord;" he says, "This is My Body."
St. Bernard says everything comes to us through Mary; and we may also say everything comes to us through the priest; yes, all happiness, graces, heavenly gifts. If we had not the Sacrament of Orders we would not have Our Lord. Who placed Him in that tabernacle? The
priest. Who received your soul on its entrance into life? The priest. Who nourishes it, to give it strength to make its pilgrimage? The priest. Who will prepare it to appear before God, by washing the soul, for the last time, in the blood of Christ? The priest – always the priest.
And if that soul is at the point of death, who will raise it up and restore it to calmness and peace? Again the priest….
Go to confession to the Blessed Virgin, or to an angel; will they absolve you? No. Will they give you the Body and Blood of Our Lord? No. The Holy Virgin cannot make her Divine Son descend into the Host. You might have two hundred angels there, but they could not absolve you. A priest, however simple he may be, can do it; he can say to you, "Go in peace; I pardon you.” Oh, how great is a priest! The priest will not understand the greatness of his office till he is in Heaven. If he understood it on earth, he would die, not of fear, but of love. The other benefits of God would be of no avail to us without the priest. What would be the use of a house full of gold, if you had nobody to open you the door! The priest has the key of the heavenly treasures; it is he who opens the door; he is the steward of the good God, the distributor of His wealth. Without the priest, the Death and Passion of Our Lord would be
of no avail….
The priest is not a priest for himself; he does not give himself absolution; he does not administer the Sacraments to himself. He is not for himself, he is for you….Leave a parish 20 years without priests; they will worship beasts. If the missionary Father and I were to go away, you would say, "What can we do in this church? There is no Mass; Our Lord is
no longer there: we may as well pray at home. "When people wish to destroy religion, they begin by attacking the priest, because where there is no longer any priest there is no sacrifice, and where there is no longer any sacrifice there is no religion.
When the bell calls you to church, if you were asked, "Where are you going?" you might answer, "I am going to feed my soul." If someone were to ask you, pointing to the tabernacle, "What is that golden door?" "That is our storehouse, where the true Food of our souls is kept." "Who has the key? Who lays in the provisions? Who makes ready the
feast, and who serves the table?" "The priest." "And what is the Food?" "The precious Body and Blood of Our Lord." O God! how Thou hast loved us! See the power of the priest; out of a piece of bread the word of a priest makes a God….
If I were to meet a priest and an angel, I should salute the priest before I saluted the angel….When you see a priest, you should say, "There is he who made me a child of God, and opened Heaven to me by holy Baptism; he who purified me after I had sinned; who gives nourishment to my soul." At the sight of a church tower, you may say, "What is there
in that place?" "The Body of Our Lord.” "Why is He there?" "Because a priest has been there, and has said holy Mass."….The priesthood is the love of the Heart of Jesus. When you see the priest, think of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Conn’s HomePlus is expanding into the San Angelo, TX, market, opening its first store in the Sunset Mall at 4001 Sunset Drive.
The company scheduled a grand opening event at the store for Saturday, July 27. The new 43,000 square foot Conn’s will showcase the company’s assortment of furniture, mattresses, appliances, consumer electronics and home office products.
The Houston-based retailer noted that it operates about 55 Conn’s HomePlus locations in the company’s home state of Texas. It developed the San Angelo location to better serve customers residing in the Concho Valley. Conn’s also said that it planned to open a new 657,000 square-foot distribution center in Houston during September. The new distribution center will increase support capacity from 20 to 45 stores in the state.
Conn’s will complete nine projects in Texas by year’s end, the company noted, including seven new stores and two renovations.
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Kamal Haasan says that his Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) will not contest in the upcoming bye-elections and civic elections.
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Kamal Haasan has stated that his Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) has a bigger picture in mind and does not like to contest by-elections (Thiruvarur and Thiruparankundram constituencies) or civic elections. His political party plans to contest in the next Lok Sabha elections scheduled to be held in 2019.
The Ulaganayagan was speaking with reporters in Coimbatore after a workshop organised by the members from his party. Kamal Haasan stated that MNM has no plans to have a pre-poll alliance with any existing parties and his party will contest in all the seats alone.
When asked about BJP leader H Raja's recent outburst on the Judiciary and Police department, Kamal Haasan said that people, whether big or small, should not denounce those institutions.
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Born in Doncaster, England, Bryan was born with right-sided Hemiplegia but has shown it to be no hinderance on reaching his dream; playing for England.
Having played mainstream football since he was eight years old, Bryan wanted to find a disability team that he could also play in. Through research and watching Youtube videos, Bryan’s eyes were opened to a huge world of disability football.
Currently playing for four teams, Bryan is constantly trying to improve himself as a player which paid off with his recent selection for the England U14 CP Football Team.
However, it wasn’t an easy ride for Bryan at the start. With facing challenges such as a lack of confidence because he struggled with his physical ability, balance, speed and power, Bryan was not the player he wanted to be. With his clear focus to succeed, Bryan was able to improve and now has a lot of confidence in himself. With support from England captain Jack Rutter, Bryan’s favourite player, he has been able to watch England live and meet the team, another dream he never expected to come true.
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Even if we cannot wait to relax under the sun, it is always important to protect ourselves from too hot rays with a hat. For the summer designers have indulged with many forms, colors and references to sport or men's fashion:
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Between 9-11 December 2012, the second International Intersex Forum took place in Stockholm. This event brought together 37 activists representing 33 intersex organisations and supportive institutions from all continents.
Building on the achievements of the previous forum held in Brussels in September 2011, the event continued to explore the characteristics of the Intersex Movement, develop agreements on priorities for advocacy and strategise.
The forum was aiming to contribute to movement building, development of working relationships and new alliances and agree how to advance the work which started a year ago on the key identified priorities.
The working methods utilised was a combination of individual, pair, small group and large group reflection, discussion and planning. There was an emphasis on people getting to know each other so as to build stronger working relationships that was the basis for future alliances and projects.
The Forum agreed to affirm the principles of the first International Intersex Forum and extended the demands aiming to end discrimination against intersex people and to ensure the right of bodily integrity and self-determination:
To put an end to mutilating and ‘normalising’ practices such as genital surgeries, psychological and other medical treatments, including infanticide and selective abortion (on the grounds of intersex).
To ensure that the personal, free, prior, and fully informed consent of the intersex individual is a compulsory requirement in all medical practices and protocols.
Creating and facilitating supportive, safe and celebratory environments for intersex people, their families and surroundings.
In view of ensuring the bodily integrity and health of the intersex child, psycho-social support and non-pathologising peer support be provided to parents and/or care providers and the child`s immediate family instead of surgical or other medical treatment unless such interventions are live-saving.
The provision of all human rights and citizenship rights to intersex people.
The provision of access to one`s own medical records and any documentation, and the affirmation of the intersex person`s right to truth.
The acknowledgement and redress of the suffering and injustice caused in the past.
In view of the above the Forum calls on:
The United Nations to take on board intersex rights in its human rights work. Find the open letter to the UN Commissioner for Human Rights here.
Other regional and national human rights institutions to address the human rights of intersex people in their work and in turn call on their respective governments/institutions to affirm them.
Human rights organisations and LGBTI specific organisations to give visibility and inclusion to intersex people and their human rights concerns.
Intersex people to link up to the intersex movement and help it become more visible.
The Forum thanks the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe for its engagement with the Forum and calls on it to fulfil its intentions to address intersex rights in its work.
Finally the Forum calls on the members of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association currently gathered in Stockholm for the ILGA World Conference 2012 to support the creation of an Intersex Secretariat with the ILGA structure.
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MAXON Announces CINEMA 4D R15 for Professional 3D Content Creation
Continued Innovation Shifts 3D Workflow into Overdrive with New Beveling and Kerning Tools, and Numerous Rendering Enhancements.
FRIEDRICHSDORF, Germany — July 22, 2013 – MAXON today introduced CINEMA 4D Release 15 (R15) that redefines the 3D motion graphics, visual effects, painting and rendering software workflow. The next-generation release of the widely-used 3D software platform reinforces the leadership MAXON has earned over the past 25 years by elevating the creative experience from project planning to content delivery, and is marked by powerful enhancements to modeling, text creation, rendering and sculpting.
Packed with improved capabilities and added features such as all-new beveling for modeling efficiency, interactive kerning for advanced 3D typographic control, and Team Render allowing for convenient rendering across networks directly within the CINEMA 4D interface, R15 delivers to 3D professionals the ultimate toolset for creating compelling creative content and collaborating more effectively to take on the most demanding projects.
[Note: MAXON will debut CINEMA 4D R15 at the SIGGRAPH 2013 convention, July 23-25, 2013, Booth #315]
“CINEMA 4D R15 is a milestone release packed with trail-blazing innovations and our renowned, easy-to-learn workflow for 3D designers across creative markets -- film, video, broadcast, Web, multimedia, visualization and games,” Harald Egel, co-founder and CEO of MAXON Computer, says. “Digital content and media creation professionals continue to face relentless cost and operational pressures to take on demanding productions under severe time constraints. With sustained programming development in areas such as modeling workflow, rendering and sculpting, R15 sets new standards to spark the imagination of individual artists and design teams to make sure they have the features they need to push 3D performance to new levels and achieve the highest quality creative results in less time than ever before.”
Key Highlights of CINEMA 4D Release 15
The new and enhanced 3D modeling, animation and rendering workflow features and performance enhancements in CINEMA 4D Release 15, available for both Mac OS X and Windows, include:
Rendering Enhancements – R15 is packed with rendering improvements to achieve faster, higher-quality imagery. The new Team Render delivers quick control over an entire network to take advantage of all surplus processing power – either manually or automatically via Bonjour. Utilize an unlimited number of render nodes with CINEMA 4D Studio and 3 nodes with CINEMA 4D Visualize or Broadcast. Users can distribute the rendering of a single frame or complete animation directly within the CINEMA 4D interface and view the results in real-time within CINEMA 4D’s Picture Viewer for a streamlined workflow.
On the quality side, a new irradiance caching algorithm for faster approximation of Global Illumination and improved ambient occlusion, physical rendering and multi-threading features in R15 has been added offering artists unprecedented rendering performance.
Modeling Enhancements – MAXON has enhanced modeling productivity in CINEMA 4D, introducing all-new interactive beveling for improved manipulation and control over object edges and curves for adding depth and dimension to designs and ensure that resulting meshes are clean and flow correctly.
Improved Typographic Tools – CINEMA 4D R15 continues to elevate the design experience delivering significant typographic, text editing and control capabilities via MoText and Text Splines directly in the 3D view. New kerning, and tracking tools can be applied with MoGraph effectors or used in XPresso and edited at any time to create complex typographic elements and animation.
Dynamic Sculpting – Improved dynamic sculpting tools in CINEMA 4D Studio Release 15 ensure artists can sculpt with finesse and optimize with ease. In cases in which there are adequate subdivision, sculpting tools can be used directly on any polygonal model. Advanced masking, mirroring and duplication options, as well as the new Amplify brush that gives control to interactively inflate and use new draw modes to sculpt lines and areas defined by lasso, polygonal drawing or a rectangle, gives artists complete control and flexibility for adding and preserving desired sculpted details.
Miscellaneous Workflow, Modeling and Animation Improvements
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MUST Read Decision Regarding I-9 Penalties and Statute of Limitations for Employers!
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On October 25, 2016, an administrative law judge with the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Office (“OCAHO”) held that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) waited too long to file allegations against, St. Croix Personnel Services Inc. (“St. Croix”) a personnel services company for incomplete or incorrect I-9 forms for some of its employees.
There is a five year statute of limitations for assessing penalties against an employer who fails to correctly complete an I-9 form. The issue in the case was when that statute of limitations begins to run. ICE argued that the errors they discovered on certain I-9 forms were not time-barred because the forms were not initiated correctly and errors not cured until February and March 2012, which was within five years of the complaint being filed in July 2015.
Alternatively, St. Croix argued that because the last of the eight employees was hired in October 2007, the statute of limitations for any and all I-9 errors ran out by October 2012. The judge agreed with St. Croix and found that “[t]imeliness verification failures constitute an exception to the general rule that paperwork violations can be cured”, meaning that timeliness failures are frozen in time and cannot be cured once the statue of limitations passes. See USA v. St. Croix Personnel Services Inc., case number 15A00070. ICE sought $16,690 in penalties, but the judge reduced the penalty to $5,450, because by St. Croix’s own admission they failed to ensure the forms for eight employees were properly filled out.
This is a very important decision for employers because an employer cannot be penalized for failing to timely initiate the filing of an I-9 form when the employee was hired more than five years ago. Though, it is important keep in mind a few basics regarding I-9 forms. First, the employer can still be penalized for an improperly completed I-9 form. Second and not relevant to this case, always keep in mind that an employer is obligated by law to keep an employee’s I-9 on file for at least three years after the date of hire and for at least one year after the date of termination, whichever is greater. Once the time has passed, be sure to discard those the company is no longer required to keep on file because penalties can still be assessed for those I-9s. Third, if ICE ever shows up at your business and demands to review the company’s I-9s, you are afforded three business days before you are obligated to turn over the documents. In that time, be sure to contact your immigration attorney so the case is handled properly in an effort to reduce any penalties that may be assessed.
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How Mobile Devices And Social Media Fit In Industrial Settings
Mobile technology and social media are becoming very relevant topics in the manufacturing sector. Companies have utilized these seemingly consumer-oriented tools for business applications, and they are allowing manufacturers to conduct business more effectively – thus giving them a competitive advantage.
Mobile technology and social media are becoming very relevant topics in the manufacturing sector. Companies have utilized these seemingly consumer-oriented tools for business applications, and they are allowing manufacturers to conduct business more effectively – thus giving them a competitive advantage. S.S.Prasad Satyavolu, Global Head of Innovation & Transformation, Manufacturing at Tata Consultancy Services, recently spoke with Industrial Distribution about the roles mobile technology and social media can play in an industrial enterprise.
ID: The manufacturing industry has come out of 2010 in better shape than it came out of 2009. It is pretty safe to say some of the advancements in technology have had a lot to do with that. From your perspective, what are some of the leading tech trends out there that the industry will embrace to help sustain this recovery in 2011 and beyond?
Satyavolu: If we look at the emerging technologies such as mobility and social media, they have played a greater role in bringing innovation into the (manufacturing) sector in the developed world. The use of social media and related analytics went into the shaping of a lot of marketing programs, particularly on the automotive side and with other high-tech products…Mobility is a big subject today. We are seeing its relevance right from the shop floor and up the business process layer. There is an intense drive to make use of transactional applications on smart phone devices and tablets.
ID: Do you feel a lot of companies are starting to wise up to some of the advantages that exist in using these mobile devices and related technologies in their business enterprise?
Satyavolu: I would say there’s a better understanding that exists. Can we do better than where we are today? Absolutely. The reason is that every employee today is carrying a smart phone, even if some of those are not issued by the corporation. Many organizations have a requirement for some amount of decision-making information 24/7. Our world is getting increasingly complex and nobody is escaping from that fact. Organizations are increasingly beginning to realize that if some of the applications which are crucial from an information visibility perspective can be made available to the workforce on the smart phone, then life can be easier. There is an immediate advantage in terms of productivity gained, and ultimately results in savings because decisions are made faster, on the spot.
On the sales side, organizations are faster at adopting the use of the iPad tablet. It is pretty obvious that it is easy to carry; you can flip open an application and pretty much show something through the touch-screen interface. Some of the applications you can develop have great potential, and customers like it. Organizations we are working with are beginning to enable several product configuration applications on the iPad. What that means is that I’m carrying a discussion and literally navigating the customer on an application on a tablet. I would go so far to say that it is helping the sales force grow better relationships because customers are better engaged.
On the shop floor and also on the supply chain side, we’re seeing a much slower adoption. But organizations are definitely realizing the potential. Will it be like ERP, a big huge wave? I don’t think so, because particularly manufacturing sector investments in the devices will be cautious. The first wave we are seeing is to take the existing transactional applications and some information visibility onto the mobile devices, then potentially the next step of making performance dashboards available and some on-demand information, which can enable faster and better decision-making.
ID: How has the introduction of some of these tech devices and applications affected the way companies conduct business? It certainly seems this new wave of technology has really forced companies to closely evaluate their operations and resulted in a lot of adjustment from everyone involved. Would you agree with that assessment?
Satyavolu: Change is beginning to happen. But if I look at an end-to-end business process, has the organization completely changed the business process based on this particular trend? I would say it’s not there yet. But definitely there are pieces of the process or activities within a process that have a mobility leverage. Have we seen large-scale transformation yet? No, not yet.
ID: Do you feel there will be more areas of a particular business organization where these devices and applications will become relevant?
Satyavolu : Absolutely, I do think so. For one major consumer products goods manufacturer, we’ve developed a concept for them to actually monitor online performance of its different lines in a facility using the iPad on the shop floor.
What you are doing is eliminating latency that inherently exists without the tablet device. I feel the usage of smart phones and tablets will increase in organizations, and particularly this year we should see more projects in this area… Enterprises want to innovate and invest in new ideas, and mobility has really got the attention.
ID: What about social media? How does that fit into a industrial enterprise?
Satyavolu: There is so much that is out there in social media, on virtually every subject. You simply can’t track everything from Twitter to Facebook to blogs and other social networking applications. We at TCS have developed what we call a Listening Platform. This is a tool that crawls all over the blogs on the net, analyzes it, does the “conversation analysis” and knowledge processing, and gives you a very directional, quantified analysis of the subject. For instance, you could listen to what people are saying about your competitors. On the product development side and the product feedback side, leverage of social media and related data mining tools is a no-brainer. The need to measure and track online sentiment is getting prominent and an essential part of the business processes in certain areas of manufacturing.
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Goner Message Board / ???? / Best Peel Session...
Mullett
Posted: Mar 2, 2009 2:34 am | Edited by: Mullett
I frankly don't have an answer to this.
The Loop ones that formed the LP Wolf Flow are great. The original Echo & The Bunnymen one is actually great. I've heard that the Hendrix session & the Thin Lizzy session are wildly great.
Would love to hear the A.C. Temple session if anyone has it.
edit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Peel_sessions
luke batarang
i like that trumans water session that kicks off with a bagpipe
LL Mullett
Which one? There's 20+ of them!
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3iftxqqsldte
ottawarockerdude
stiff little fingers!!!!!
the damned!!!!!!!!!!
the slits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the joy division peel sessions is waaaaaaaay better than their studio shit. transmission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Minus Matt
I think (maybe) the only thing I actually own is the Mummies promo 45, which is pretty decent, if I remember right. Been a while since I played it.
bolt thrower.
Was lucky enough to get to do a Peel Session in '92 at the end of our first UK Tour (headlined The Camden Palace the night before). Buffin from Mott The Hoople produced it in the same studio Bing Crosby and David Bowie recorded Little Drummer Boy (there was a plaque). Michelle Shocked was recording across the hall. 3 days later we were back in NYC opening for The Ramones at Columbia University.
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AZKyle
Posted: Mar 2, 2009 2:57 pm | Edited by: AZKyle
I like the Undertones and the Damned.
Posted: Mar 2, 2009 3:37 pm
thin lizzys rulez
Something like 2,000 performers and 4,000 sessions. I'm sure there's some amazing stuff in there. Check out the list.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/sessions/
On our second UK tour we were riding back from a gig one night and John Peel spent 15 minutes of his show giving out all the dates on our tour and playing a few songs. He even pondered whatever happened to my first record label. He did a lot to help musicians out. And he knew about everything going on from the top to the bottom of the music scene.
Vinyl Ritchie
never got to do a peel session, but was pleased to see one of my bands on his playlists a few times...just honored he played us on his show...
I did an all Peel Sessions show on WEVL a few months back...my faves are the T Rex(10 minute elemental child!), Can, Syd Barrett, The Damned and AC/DC (the super long version of Soul Stripper is trance-like, like a boogie version of Spacemen 3!)...gotta agree that the Joy Divison one(s) smokes their actual albums, so raw...
wire, slits... lots of goodies!
two of my fave UK bamds lit it up there too
and i love peel's and stewart's banter on small faces performances
the JD and Can ones are great, yes
i was playing thin lizzy just this week; found the first two to be slightly damned by time...
Ventor
I rove the Naparm Death, Doom and the Adverts one very much.
trickknee
I really like the Undertones one, snappier sounding than the studio stuff, a lil' less syrup. Peel was awesome, always played stuff I sent and often commented back if he really liked it.
the Undertones one
That was the only Undertones album I had for years and years, dissapointed when I finally got the s/t.
sixelsix
I really like the Undertones one, snappier sounding than the studio stuff, a lil' less syrup.
The version of "What's With Terry" slays the one on Hypnotised.
Also used to have a copy of the SLF one. That was good too.
The Buzzcocks Peel Sessions album was the only thing I had by them for years. The Damned sessions were also great but a gotta say Napalm Death's sessions were so much better than either of their first two albums that it pretty much renders them obsolete whereas I still like the regular studio recordings of all the other bands I'm familiar who's Peel Sessions I've also heard.
Yeah that Undertones is the only thing you really need to own by them. I hesitantly admit this but I also really like the New Order one, way better than any of their studio stuff.
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This open general export licence (OGEL) allows, subject to certain conditions, the export of historic military goods from the UK or any other EU member state where the exporter is established in the UK, providing the goods are worth less than £35,000 and were manufactured before 1897. It also covers reproductions of muzzle-loaded weapons based on originals manufactured before 1897.
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Lucas was sitting on his chair in front of two dozens of monitors. He worked in the security office when he was in the city, so it was only obvious Leon had him to monitor the cameras. The Eye looked upon every aspect around Eden with its 20 cameras spread out all over the region. The remaining four was installed inside the community, mostly on major buildings. It was his greatest power and its influence became stronger the Lucas had ever imagined, of course, he didn’t expect Leon to realize that either.
“Oh, Tyson, come in,” said Lucas as he turned towards the door. “And Tonilia, it’s great to have some people inside such an isolated place.”
“I can’t imagine how lonely it would be when you’re here all by yourself,” Tyson smiled.
“It’s alright, most of the times. There are plenty of things to see,” said Lucas glancing at his monitors. “So, how can I help you?”
“Well, Mia and Nelson are both out scouting, so with the three major guys gone, we thought we should inform any updates to you,” said Tyson. Lucas raised his eyebrows. “We just got message from the Gamings.”
“They’re quite busy these days.”
“Dominion is – was – under attack,” said Tonilia.
“That’s impossible. It wouldn’t take a small army of Hunters to attack the city and if it does have such number, either of us should have noticed it before the assault,” said Lucas incredulously.
“Apparently, both of us missed it. South, west, east gate were destroyed in the process. We’re not certain but the casualties among the Ravens are smaller than we had expected,” said Tyson. “What should we do?”
Lucas couldn’t help a smile.
“Double the security. And we’ll need to hear from Mia and Nelson as soon as possible regardless of Leon’s presence for now,” Lucas ordered. They nodded and headed for the door. “Wait, do you know more about the attack?”
“Yes. It was similar to the Blackout Incident years ago,” said Tonilia. “Except… whoever the Controller of the swarm is, it’s extremely clever. The Hunters didn’t just randomly raid the city. They attacked in an organized sequence: first the generator near the South gate, then the armory near the West and the Crusader headquarters near the east.”
“And how did they repel the attack?”
“Leon was there,” said Tyson tensely. “Scarlet must have been with him.”
“That’s disturbing,” said Lucas. The two frowned. “He’s been visiting the Dominion quite frequently these days. I wonder why he didn’t come back to inform us that the Dominion was under attack rather than helping them defend.”
“Well, I guess he was urgent,” shrugged Tyson uneasily.
“I guess he was,” smiled Lucas.
“Say that again.”
Han stared at Jerrod as if he had seen a ghost. Scarlet froze where she stood, still clutching my sleeves. I glared at him. Jerrod was probably the only one moving. He went over to his desk and pulled out one bundle of printed papers not that thick.
“I said: Michelle Nathans lives,” said Jerrod so casually that I almost killed him too.
“Vincent said –“
“He did. In a sense. And some people might rather call it ‘dead’,” Jerrod spat. His voice sounded bitter. I thought he never had hard feelings for her, why was he so unhappy when he knew she was alive all along?
“Where is she?” I demanded, almost excited with hope. He handed the file. “What’s this?”
“I… would rather not ‘tell’ you about it. You should just see it for yourself,” said the president. “You can leave now.”
“Wait, I want to know how you knew she was alive,” this time, Han said. “Why didn’t you tell me anything?”
“Let’s just say it was above your pay-grade for now,” he said. “You should leave now. I had enough shock for a day. I don’t want to recite this one.”
“I’m not leaving until –“
“Well you are because if you don’t right now, you’ll have to fight your way out of this place,” said Jerrod looking out from his window. “And… you’re too late.”
I rushed to the window. There was Rick with bandages all over his leg. And a whole bunch of Ravens all ready for battle. There were still debris of buildings and small fire burning in residents but I figured they all left that for the normal soldiers. They practically sieged the presidential building.
“LEON VERIDI. YOU ARE TO EXIT THE BUILDING IMMEDIATELY AND RESIGN YOURSELF TO THE EARTH DOMINION. YOUR LIVES WILL BE SPARED IF SO. IF NOT, WE WILL ELIMINTE YOU UNDER DOMINION’S LAW AND JUSTICE,” Rick’s voice boomed from his microphone.
“Can you help us out?” I asked Han. I snatched the file from Jerrod’s desk and handed to Scarlet to put it inside her bag. Damn it, I wish I have more time…
“No. I think you don’t see how weak we are in numbers,” said Han. His voice was shaking, probably from shock. What did I expect…? I grabbed Scarlet’s hand and went out of the building.
Just in front of the door of the building, I saw a large army of Ravens, reminding me how many of them are still alive and able. Scarlet hid behind me and looked down at them from the staircase, glaring and unmoving.
“You know, you won’t always use your sword against Hunters,” said Lucas. He sat on his chair while I sat on a stool.
“You know well enough that Eden and the Dominion are enemies. That means someday, you will have to kill a human being same as yourself,” he said.
“Michelle would never want that. And I would not do it,” I said confidently.
“It’s not about her – I mean there are sometimes situations where you cannot always consider her wills. Of course, what she want might be important to you, but that’s how life is; some cases are just impossible to control just with your willpower,” Lucas explains calmly. “And when that time comes, I just want you to do the right choice.”
“The Latin phrase scribed on your sword: Mors ultima linea rerum est,” Lucas said. “It means death is everything’s final limit. And the reason you are so powerful is because you wield a tool that can decide one’s final limit.”
I silently unsheathed my blade. The words meant nothing to me until now; well, only because there was no one that could read it.
“Stabbing a sword through a human like you is never easy at first. But like every human behavior, our senses become dull as we repeat,” said Lucas. “You know how fragile our body is. People die easily. So you need to be very careful when you take other people’s lives. It’s like tipping them off a cliff when they’re standing right at the edge.”
“I don’t get it,” I said bluntly.
“It means, you must have a cause you strongly believe if you are really going to murder a human being.”
“And what might that be?”
“That’s for you to decide,” Lucas shrugged. “But make sure you do have one, because if you don’t, the faces of those that died by your sword will haunt you for the rest of you lives.”
“Where’s your helicopter?” I asked quietly.
“Near the north gate where there weren’t many Hunters,” she said. A smart choice, considering the city was overflowing with Hunters about before she landed – but as a result, the decision was not a good one. The direction we were facing was south and our back was headed to the way we wanted to go. The presidential building did have a back door but with Ravens surrounding the place, it didn’t make much a difference. The only way to get back to Scarlet’s helicopter was to fight our way all around the city. On top of that, the North gate was not breached, let alone destroyed, so it was fully functional.
Fight.
That was my only way out. I imagined people dying under my own hands – the very human beings Michelle willed for me to save. No. This was something beyond her wills. It was beyond her words. It was something more… complicated. She would have understood. Even if she wouldn’t, there’s nothing she can do about my choice.
My decision. My burden.
“Stay close with me,” I said to Scarlet. She grabbed my shoulder and opened her mouth like she wanted to say something, but she remained silent. “You okay?”
“I can help – if I had a gun…” her words were hardly audible. My burden to bear.
“Sorry, Scarlet. This is my burden to bear, not yours,” I said bitterly. I unsheathed my sword.
“Is that your answer?” Rick smiled wickedly. He raised his hands and the Ravens raised their guns. I glanced back. The door into the building was barely a foot far. The armor might be able to stand off the bullets to some extent but I couldn’t afford any risk. I expected a bullet shower and I slowly backed stepped and put my hand on the door knob. At least there weren’t anyone to stop us from getting in.
I dived into the building. And a shower of metallic bullets bombarded the building.
“Shit…” I cursed. I felt pain. I glanced down on my side and found a piece of bullet that penetrated through the armor. It didn’t pierce through completely but blood was squeezing out.
“Leon? Are you shot?” she asked worriedly.
“No it’s just a scratch, it didn’t break through the armor,” I said. “Listen, all they want is me dead, not you. So as far as I stay within their sight, they won’t pay much attention to you. You’re going to stay inside this building.”
“No, but!”
“If I’m right, they’ll have to evacuate people in this building anyway. You’re going to escape among the crowd,” I said. She looked hesitative. I grabbed her “Please, can you do that for me?”
She nodded, looking reluctant. Just before I stood back up, she hugged me by the neck.
“Don’t die,” she whispered. Her voice was shaking. She was hiding it as best as she could. She slowly stood up and ran down the empty corridor.
I bullet wound felt like nothing. I stood up. The gunfire ceased a few seconds ago. They must have noticed the building was bullet proof. Once I step out, they will shower another round. Rick already showed how certain he was into killing me already. He will not regard the millions of bullets as wasted. If I could only get close…
Then a sudden thought pierced through my brain; simple fact that I have neglected just because I never knew it: I was born to kill humans, not Hunters. No. More specifically, I was ‘made’ to kill humans.
The thought depressed me.
I bashed myself out, destroying the door that blocked all the bullets. I knew Scarlet was smart enough to figure out her way out of here – the only thing I should worry about her was if any Raven felt like arresting her.
Gunfire burst out instantly. My ears rang wildly. Faster…
The broken debris of the door provided temporary barricade. Then I was close enough to the rows of Ravens to attack.
My sword pierced through the heart of the Raven in front. World’s time slowed down.
The blood was not green. It was bright red. The Raven’s face was covered with a helmet. I only imagined what the person’s face look like.
Blood slid down my blade, touching just the edge of the grip. Then the Raven’s body went limp. His head dived forward and didn’t move. The gun in his hand dropped on the ground.
And everything was back to normal.
“Shit! Kill him!” Rick shouted. They pulled out their swords. Those just around me still tried to shoot me down. My swords pierced their throat first.
Armors were nothing compared to those of the Hunters. I felt it. I felt how Prima slid smoothly into their fragile body – like slicing cheese with a knife.
Glistening whiteness dismantled Ravens around me. Then, springs of blood followed. When I killed Hunters, I rarely saw their blood flying around in the air. But this was horrible. The ground was already soaked in red. I tried not to see the bodies under my feet. Ravens now challenged me with their swords. They had better chance with a gun in a distance, though. Most of them were not inexperienced with such fights – or perhaps any kinds of fight. They only added the number of corpse on the ground.
Rick’s voice disappeared since some point – in fact, I couldn’t see him around. It was only me and the hundreds of Ravens. About a fifth of them died when they became extremely hesitative and careful to attack. I managed to take a breath.
I just noticed how harshly and hoarsely I was breathing. I glanced down at the bodies. My eyes lost focus for a second. What am I…
The blood and corpses made me retch. I bent down like I was going to vomit. I sensed someone from my back and immediately swung my sword. Another Raven died by my hands. What am I doing here? I gasped for breath.
Then the company of Ravens moved aside. Two figures came out from the hesitating crowd. It was funny why nobody was shooting at me, though.
“Leon Veridi,” said one of the two. He smirked. They didn’t have helmets. They looked completely identical. Twins, I thought. He ducked down to my ears. I clutched my sword firmly so I could attack before him. But his hands weren’t even on the hilt. His blade was still inside his sheath. Then he whispered. “Firstborn – or first-made, might me more accurate. Our father was always proud of you.”
“We were personally ‘made’ our father just like you,” he said. “He always gave you the credit of being the masterpiece…”
“Apparently, you’re outdated. Crusaders are stone age bastards,” said the Raven. “Phill and I are here to take your petty lives and prove ourselves to be the masterpiece.”
“Let’s get this over with, Dill. He looks pathetic,” said Phill. Their conversation was disorienting. But somehow, they helped me get my mind straight. I remembered why I was here.
I was here for Michelle and to buy time for Scarlet so that she leaves the city.
I was here to find the truth and truth was what I found.
I wasn’t here to help Han, Jerrod, Vincent or anyone in this city.
I wasn’t here to kill myself.
I was certain not here to get killed by some two idiotic jerks in front of me.
I had my reasons for murder. The reasons were so justified for me that I didn’t need anything else to prove right. That was all I needed for now.
“Sorry, Leon. I guess you have to die here,” said Dill. They both unsheathed their swords.
“Who’s dying?” I asked and swiped my blade across. They were agile – fast – and they avoided the attack.
“That’s more like it!” Phill smiled slyly. He then looked around at the Ravens. “Nobody intercepts our fight or I will kill him myself.”
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Can development actually preserve "The Woods" for all to enjoy?
By Alayna Becker
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One day, 20 years ago, hot pink spray-painted X's and plastic tape popped up on the ponderosa pines in the area the neighbor kids and I called "The Woods." On Google Maps, the land doesn't have a name; it's just the blank spot on the map between Pittsburg and 32nd(ish) Avenue on Spokane's South Hill. Even as a kid in the late '90s, I knew what the X's meant, having seen FernGully: The Last Rainforest. The city was going to build. In doing so they would bulldoze trees and erase trails, taking with them the fort the neighbor kids, my brothers and I spent years building on a boulder shrouded in wilting trees left by Ice Storm.
The other kids and I saw ourselves as the protectors of the land. We spent our afternoons picking up litter and building our forts with the crap people dumped there. A mattress with only the springs left became a wall, matched by the second wall made of an old wooden kid's kitchen set. We played like someday we were going to live off the land.
To save our woods, we picked the painted bark off trunks and pulled plastic tape from limbs. In my mind, we were hardcore, and I planned to get arrested if we were caught. I started a petition to block construction and went door to door to get signatures. In the end, I got six, which was the same number of houses away I was allowed to go alone as an 8-year-old.
You probably know we were unsuccessful. After school let out for summer, the neighborhood crew and I sat in the dirt watching as an excavator picked up our boulder fort to drop it 10 feet away, shattering the rock into shards and chunks. I remember the hot tears on my face.
Now, almost 20 years later, Greenstone (the developer of Kendall Yards), wants to build 230 residential units and commercial space on a portion of The Woods. According to Greenstone, the project will feature a "small urban mixed-use neighborhood with a pedestrian focus and extensive trails and open space."
I hold in my heart two steadfast beliefs that conflict where shovel meets dirt: I believe that all people deserve access to an affordable housing. I also believe that the places that make Spokane special are open and accessible public lands.
Here's the rub: The Woods isn't open and accessible to all. Neighbors against Greenstone's proposal say they want to keep the land as it is, which operates like a public park — except it isn't public. It's privately owned with a few faded "No Trespassing" signs that people who live in the primarily white neighborhood have no trouble ignoring, but would people from other neighborhoods or of other races feel so safe? Other neighbors argue that the development will raise crime rates, which is unfounded and downright classist.
To fulfill my childhood dream of keeping the land open and accessible to all means developing it. It's privately owned, so unless it's deemed a wetland, development is inevitable.
In a time with scary-low rental vacancy rates, Spokane needs housing. Greenstone's plans include trail systems that maintain some of the open wooded lands with trails.
I don't have blind trust in developers ever, but there is something for Greenstone to gain in building pedestrian-friendly natural spaces.
If I get a say, I demand Greenstone save land for the buttercups and balsamroots. Save the secret pond. Save the trails on the hills. In development, I hope we can preserve. ♦
Alayna Becker is a writer and comedian who splits her time between Portland, Seattle and the place that has her heart, Spokane.
The original print version of this article was headlined "No Man's Land"
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The Militarization of Mexico, Again
Dudley Althaus
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Struggling to contain rapidly growing self-defense militias that threaten armed clashes with powerful criminal gangs, Mexico’s federal government has brokered the hiring of an army special forces commander as public security czar in the central state of Michoacan.
Thursday’s appointment of Brigadier General Alberto Reyes appears to mock President Enrique Peña Nieto’s intent to soften the military-led anti-crime campaign begun by his predecessor, Felipe Calderon. The governor of violent Guerrero, which neighbors Michoacan on Mexico’s Pacific Coast and faces its own militia and gangster threats, this week named a navy admiral to head that state’s security forces.
“We will seek to work in a coordinated way with the municipalities with the most problems at this moment,” Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio told a television interviewer, adding that the appointed general would have control over local, state and federal forces in Michoacan. “I am convinced that in a short time control will be restored.”
Calderon said much the same thing when he first dispatched troops to Michoacan, his home state, shortly after taking office in December 2006. The deployment set off pitched multi-sided battles between gangs and security forces that rage in much of northern Mexico and along both coasts to this day.
Home to the powerful criminal band the Familia Michoacana and its antagonistic offshoot, the Knights Templar, Michoacan remains one of Mexico’s most insecure corners. So-called communitarian police forces, supposedly comprised of volunteers but some armed with outlawed assault weapons, have sprung up in many communities in recent months.
Knights Templar leaders have accused the community militias of working on behalf of the rival Jalisco Cartel-New Generation, which is aligned with the Sinaloa Federation of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The militias in turn have targeted municipal police and mayors, accusing them of working for the Knights Templar.
Despite their involvement in drug trafficking, extortion, and kidnapping, both the Familia Michoacana and the Knights Templar have always defined themselves in Robin Hood terms, promising to protect state residents against outside gangs and other threats.
The security situation has worsened in the few weeks since Michoacan Governor Fausto Vallejo, a member of Peña’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who won office last year, took a leave of absence to deal with undisclosed health problems that required surgery.
Soldiers scrambled Thursday to close off access of outside militiamen to the town of Coalcoman, in Michoacan’s tropical “hot lands” as some 300 volunteers reportedly gathered in its central plaza. Clashes between militiamen and security forces were reported, though there were no indications of casualties.
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Mexico’s presidents have been increasingly militarizing the fight against organized crime since the mid-1990s, when President Ernesto Zedillo staffed key attorney general positions and much of the newly created uniformed federal police with soldiers.
While Michoacan and Guerrero are particularly troublesome at the moment, soldiers and marines have been dispatched to many corners of Mexico in the past six years as the violence persisted. Cities such as Tijuana, Juarez, Veracruz, and even sophisticated Monterrey have turned their police forces over to control by active duty or recently retired military officers.
Yet the continued heavy reliance on military officers and troops to take control of local, state, and federal police forces is telling in light of Peña Nieto’s very public attempts to portray Mexico’s bloody security crisis as on the mend.
To date, Peña Nieto’s strategy-in-progress, which he recently said could only be judged after another year, has been to bring both the army and navy – with which U.S. law enforcement and security advisors worked directly – under tighter control of Osorio’s Interior Ministry.
The ministry this month begins rolling out a national program of social services aimed at alleviating the poverty that helps feed the gangster ranks. And a 10,000 strong militarized police force, to be staffed by transferred soldiers and marines, is being formed this summer for deployment in some of Mexico’s more perilous parts.
But such measures, and the creation of police forces able to take on the gangs, will take years at best to bear fruit. In the meantime, Peña Nieto will find the military his best and perhaps only option, much as did Calderon.
The US supported raids by navy and army special forces against priority gangster targets apparently have ceased. But troops are still patrolling, and clashing often enough with the gangs.
“We haven’t changed things,” General Salvador Cienfuegos, the defense minister, told reporters in Durango. “It’s only that we are avoiding confrontations with the criminals where there are people who have nothing to do with the problem. That makes us less visible, but we are the same and are getting good results.”
The defense ministry announced this week that soldiers had arrested nearly 3,500 suspected gangsters since Peña Nieto took office. The ministry didn’t release numbers of gangsters killed by soldiers or the troops casualties.
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The Australian Health Protection Committee (AHPC) and the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jim Bishop, have advised that it is appropriate to raise the pandemic response to a modified SUSTAIN response for Victoria while keeping the national level at CONTAIN for the other states and territories.
The measures to be put in place in Victoria as part of a modified SUSTAIN approach will enable Victoria to more appropriately respond to the relatively higher number of cases and the sustained community transmission of the infection in Victoria. About three quarters of confirmed cases recorded so far have been in Victoria.
Measures taken by governments have so far helped to delay and reduce the spread of the virus H1N1 Influenza 09 (Human Swine Influenza). While Australia has recently experienced an increase in cases as was always likely to be the case, this has occurred up to a month later than in other countries such as the UK, Canada and Japan. All delay and contain efforts have provided more time for doctors and scientists to better understand the disease so that Australia can better target its response.
Moving to Modified SUSTAIN will enable Victoria to:
more intensively target those people who are at highest risk. For example, undertake testing in high risk settings like aged care facilities, hospitals and special schools to help identify cases;
implement extensive contact tracing where there are people at risk of severe complications, such as those in nursing homes and special schools;
target antivirals to people exhibiting the clinical case definition of Human Swine Flu, along with their immediate household contacts; and
require people who are confirmed to have Human Swine Flu to isolate themselves for three days following the commencement of antiviral treatment.
Given the high level of socialisation and contact in school settings, the AHPC has agreed that health authorities throughout Australia should continue to focus on actions in schools as they are a key vehicle for spread of the virus.
Health officials continue to request that any school aged children at potential risk from Human Swine Influenza stay at home for seven days.
States and Territories will apply a policy of voluntary exclusion from school for a period of seven days for all children returning from areas where there is a high prevalence of the virus circulating in the community.
All States and Territories will be asked to undertake random sampling testing (known as sentinel testing) of influenza-like illness and increased sampling of cases to monitor the rate of increase of spread in the community and any changes in the dominant circulating influenza strain.
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By Todd Stauffer Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:45 p.m. CST
Welcome to the "Good" issue. Our goal with this intern-created issue is to present you with ways that you can give back, give thanks and consider some opportunities to do some good this holiday season before you sink into shopping madness. You'll notice that the stories range from ways you can work with local charities to ways you can have a good time (or even commute) in planet- and people-friendly ways.
Meantime, many of the advertisers are local non-profit agencies offering you ideas for giving back or pitching for your end-of-the-year charitable donations. Please take their ideas into consideration and help us make the quarterly JFP "Good" issue a Jackson tradition going forward.
Part of the thinking that got us into the "Good" issue comes from the powerful demographic trends we're all experiencing this year. In the fascinating book "Millennial Makeover," authors Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais make the case that the generation now coming into adulthoodthe "Millennials--are going to have a profound impact on our politics and the future of the country.
As young folks born between 1982 and 2003 approach one-third of the population of the country, we may have just seen a glimpse of this generation's power on Nov 4. The voting-age portion of that demographic showed up at the polls two weeks ago in numbers not seen since the 1960s; and, throughout the campaign, they worked for Barack Obama both in person and virtually (through letter writing, phone-banking and donations), giving time and energy to a campaign that excited their sense of community and civic engagement.
The problem when the pundits ask, "Will the youth vote turn out this year?" is that the youth themselves keep changing. Generation X (my generation) grew up on a steady diet of Cold War rhetoric, criticism of Vietnam, and battles between liberals and conservatives. We were the Kramer vs. Kramer generation, wearing keys as necklaces, watching MTV and waiting for our single parents to get home from work.
We're the slackers-turned-entrepreneurs, the loners. We work contract gigs, start Web companies and marvel at the resurgence in Kiefer Sutherland's career.
Oh, and we're a relatively small generation compared to the next folks.
The Millennials, on the other hand, are the "Baby on Board" generation. These are kids that Boomers and Gen X parents raised with a high level of engagement. The Millennials are known for their "helicopter parents" who tend to hover around them, ready to swoop in when there's trouble. According to the studies, as young adults they're less risk-aversethanks, in part, to their personal safety nets. Yes, there's a certain sense of entitlementrequests for management responsibilities can sometimes kick in after six months on the job. But Millennials can get a great deal done, often with stellar group dynamics. And while personal expression is king, non-conformity is not as highly prized as it was for Generation X.
All of that is to say two things when it comes to politics: Millennials, in surveys, express more faith in government than previous generations, but less of an interest in ideology. While Baby Boomers stake out ideological ground and Gen Xers are largely cynical about government's potential, Millennials tend to see government as a potential force for good.
If they get their wayand, eventually they will, because there are enough of themwe may see the Millennials usher in a new civic era reminiscent of that of their great-grandparents, the World War II generation. Of course, there will be a cultural twist, unapologetically incorporating race, gender and sexual-orientation diversity. Indeed, Millennials have already put their cultural stamp on U.S. history by working hard to elect the first African American president who also, at 47 years old, represents the youngest generation yet ("Generation Jones") entering the White House.
This potential civic realignment is something I personally welcome. As President-Elect Obama has continued to make clear since his election, the United States faces some extraordinary challenges, from the financial crisis to global warming to foreign energy. The notion that we could find it within ourselves to work together on these problemslike that Greatest Generation did in the 30s, 40s and 50sis an amazing concept to this cynical Gen Xer.
Along those lines, we recently got word that Jody Colleythe energetic publisher of the East Bay Express in Californiawas putting together a plan for city newsweeklies around the country to rally our readership to work together to overcome the economic downturn that's facing us this holiday season. The campaign is simple and familiarBuy Local.
Jody's twist on the campaign is to encourage every reader of the local newsweekly to make a pledge to spend at least $100 of your holiday shopping in locally owned retailers. (You are, of course, free to spend more.) Jody has calculated the value that would have for the local community. In Jackson, if every JFP reader spends that $100 for the holidays, the economic impact would be $14.3 million for the local economy. The cool part, though, is that would be $2.14 million more than if that money was spent in a chain store. Nationally, the impact could be over $435 million in additional local impact among all the participating alt-weekly readers.
For many Americans, $100 spent locally isn't too much to ask. Yes, it's clear that we'll be spending less this holiday season as many of us hunker down and hope that we continue to have jobs, make the mortgage or rent, and pay the light bill. But I know you're probably going to buying some gifts this holiday season. When you do, I ask that you seriously consider spending those dollars with local businesses.
If you visit the Make The Pledge site and make that pledge, you'll also be in the drawing for over (currently) $350 worth of local dining and shopping. We're working to add new prizes every week until the drawing takes place the week after Christmas; one lucky winner will be sitting very pretty. Think global, buy local!
For details about the Buy Local campaign, e-mail [e-mail missing]. Post your "Good" ideas at Home Page.
Would it be too commercially oriented if folks could make comments to this editorial listing some of their favorite local shops and merchandise? It might help us plan our shopping, find some stores we don't know about and keep our local spending pledge.
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I bought some Christmas gifts in Rainbow Foods last year. Maybe you can encourage someone to develop healthy habits in the process. I also am going to make a gift of Skipp's CD that you can purchase at BeBop. I don't endorse all his positions, but I don't have to in order to appreciate that if you love hip hop it is a significant contribution to the regional genre. Like Walt, I like the seventh track. I also like the poem about the sister with low self esteem.
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Bucks top Magic for 15th straight victory
Antetokounmpo gets 32 points in 110-101 win
MILWAUKEE’S GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO dunks during the second half against the Orlando Magic Monday.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — After outscoring opponents by an average of 34 points in their previous four games, the Milwaukee Bucks found out right away things would be tougher Monday when their first two shots were blocked.
That slowed the Bucks down, but they still can’t be stopped.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 32 points and 15 rebounds to lead Milwaukee to its 15th straight victory, 110-101 over the Orlando Magic.
“Sometimes, it’s good to have close games. You learn from that. You get used to being in close games and not always winning by 20 or 30,” said Antetokounmpo, the reigning MVP. “We got the win, we grinded it out and played defense, but I think the two days in between made us a little bit rusty.”
The Bucks were off Saturday and Sunday.
They outrebounded Orlando 54-44, angering Magic coach Steve Clifford.
“You can’t come on the road and get smacked on the glass like that. There’s got to be some physicality,” he said.
“Too man hustle points, second-chance points,” added Aaron Gordon, who had 13 rebounds and 10 points.
Khris Middleton scored 20 points for Milwaukee and Dante DiVincenzo added 12 points off the bench.
Evan Fournier had 26 points for the Magic, who had won four straight. Terrence Ross scored 23.
Ross hit a 3-pointer and was fouled by Eric Bledsoe with 50 seconds left to cut the Bucks’ lead to 107-101, but he missed the free throw. Then Middleton put away the game by responding with a 3-pointer.
At 21-3, Milwaukee is tied with the Los Angeles Lakers for the NBA’s best record.
The Bucks’ first two shots were rejected by Magic forward Jonathan Isaac, the league’s leading shot blocker. In all, Isaac recorded four blocks against four different players before the game was 8 1⁄2 minutes old. He finished with five blocks.
Despite the rough start, the Bucks surged to a 31-18 lead after a 14-0 run late in the first quarter, with forward Ersan Ilyasova sinking two 3-pointers. They led 52-40 at half-time.
Orlando shot just 29.5% from the field, including 14.3% from behind the 3-point line, in the first half.
“I think our defense, even though I didn’t love the way we played tonight, our first-half defense kind of carried us through,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said.
The Magic, fueled by six 3-pointers in the third quarter, including three by Ross, drew within five points just before the end of the period.
But they couldn’t get any closer.
The Bucks’ being off Saturday and Sunday was a rare occurrence. “It was well placed for us. But, if we don’t play well tonight, we think it’s a terrible idea,” Budenholzer joked before Monday’s game. “I think we had good enforcement on a lockout day yesterday,” he said of players staying away from the practice facility.
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The Legacy Center’s collections consist of four general types of material:
manuscript (personal papers) archives
library (printed) sources
JASC organizational records
These descriptions are summaries only. Please consult with the Legacy Center via email, or phone 773.275.0097 ext. 222, regarding appropriate sources for your particular needs.
Manuscript Archives
Manuscript collections are personal papers donated by individuals. Despite being called “papers,” these collections contain many different formats of information.
The Legacy Center Archives, formally established in 1999, is part of the cultural arm of JASC. It houses over 300 unique collections.
The archives documents all facets of Japanese American life from 1890, through the period of World War II internment, and on to the present day. Materials include correspondence and photographs about business life in the 1940s and ’50s; diaries and journals; sketch books and drawings of life in the internment camps; artifacts made in the camps; rare published materials such as camp newspapers and high school yearbooks; information pamphlets targeting Japanese Americans; and vital records such as alien registration cards and U.S. Army service records.
The JASC Archives is arguably the most significant collection of Japanese American history, arts and cultural materials in the Midwest, and the only significant collection documenting life outside the West Coast population centers.
The Legacy Center Archives project is supported in part by a Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, with additional support from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
The JASC Library contains approximately 800 titles on Japanese and Japanese American history, culture, politics, arts, and literature. The strongest areas of the collection are Japanese American history in the United States, and fiction in the Japanese language. Within Japanese American history, the Library has many titles on Japanese American veterans, evacuation and internment, resettlement, and the redress movement. Other topics include Japanese history, culture, and the arts; Japanese Latin American history; Asian American history, politics, arts, and literature; and Asian American children’s literature.
Formats include oral histories, books, reports, magazines, journals, newspapers (including the bilingual Chicago Shimpo), newsletters, directories, Kamishibai (Japanese folktale) storytelling kits, broadsides (posters), videotapes, CDs, and DVDs. The Library also has a collection of ephemera (bulletins, flyers, notices, and other one-time publications) from local Japanese American and Asian American organizations. Of particular interest are published and unpublished speeches, articles, papers, theses, and dissertations on Japanese American history in Chicago and in the United States. These papers are particularly valuable because they may not be found elsewhere. Other unique resources include directories of Japanese American individuals and businesses in metropolitan Chicago and newspaper-clipping scrapbooks dating from 1948-1959 and 1964-1966 covering Japanese American community activities in Chicago (focusing primarily on the JASC).
The Legacy Center will lend selected material such as library books, videos, and Kamishibai (Japanese folktale) storytelling kits for one week to one month (depending on the item). Everyone is welcome to borrow circulating material provided that you complete a Legacy Center registration form.
The Legacy Center houses the JASC’s organizational records. These documents are organized into record groups (RG), which follow the structure of the organization and the areas of expertise/functional responsibilities for each department or unit. Records of one staff member are separate from those of other staff members and are kept in the order that the creator used. Naturally the content of material will overlap among record groups. However, the goal is to keep records in the record group belonging to the staff member who has primary responsibility for the activity or program. Formats include paper, computer files, slides, photographs, videotapes, films, negatives, contact sheets, and architectural drawings.
Record groups include:
RG1 – Board of Directors*
RG2 – Executive Board
RG3 – Executive Director*
RG4 – Administration Series 3 (independent auditor’s reports),† Series 4 (administrative assistant’s files)†
RG5 – Development/Public Relations†
RG6 – Heiwa Terrace (a senior residence built by the JASC)
RG7 – Keiro Extended Care Center (a nursing home built by the JASC)
RG8 – Social Services Series 1 (director’s files),† Series 2 (Adult Day Services),* Series 3 (social work)*
RG9 – Publications*
RG10 – Audio-Visual Media
RG11 – Legacy Center (Archives & Library)
RG12 – Nikkei Community Assessment Project
* Finding aid available on request. Researchers must secure permission to examine these records.
† Finding aid available on request. Some restrictions on access to records may apply.
Most of these records are available for research use. However, access to some JASC records may be restricted.
Housed in the Legacy Center are many unique and interesting artifacts that document the Japanese American community in the metropolitan Chicago area. Selected highlights include:
Artifacts used or made during or shortly after internment (mid-1940s to early 1950s) including a rice sack slip and dishtowel, a hot water bottle, and wooden objects carved from local materials.
Chest of drawers constructed from shipping crates at Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado around 1943.
An “Eisenhower jacket” worn by a member of the Military Intelligence Service who served in the Pacific front during World War II.
A decorative plaque made from scrap wood at the Rohwer (Arkansas) Relocation Center in 1944
These and other items are available for observation and research at the Legacy Center. Some items may be available on loan for exhibit purposes to other institutions that meet borrowing requirements.
Online Legacy Center Archives Database
The JASC Legacy Center Archives documents the history of the Japanese American community in Chicago through photographs, correspondence, diaries, sketch books, objects, rare published materials, and electronic records, ca. 1890-present. Most of the archival materials have been cataloged in an on-line database that is keyword searchable. In addition, some items – mostly photographs and certain key documents – have been digitized. To view the catalog and digitized items, go to JASC Legacy Center Archives.
Online Legacy Center Library Catalog
The Legacy Center Library has a standing collection of over 800 books related to the experience of Japanese Americans that constitute the largest collection of books on the subject in the Midwest. To view the online catalog of our Legacy Center Library holdings, go to JASC Legacy Center Library.
In 2015 the JASC participated in a joint exhibition with members of the Chicago Cultural Alliance called "Chicago's Families: Finding Home" which is now available for viewing online.
You can download a PDF of an article about the JASC Legacy Center that appeared in the National Park Service (NPS) 2014 Year in Review newsletter.
You can also download a PDF of the entire NPS newsletter 2014: a Year in Review – Preserving and Interpreting World War II Japanese American Confinement Sites.
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Jaywing PR wins at the CIPR PRide Awards
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Jaywing PR receives two Drum PR nominations
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A brief history of Pride
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Jaywing PR receives five CIPR PRide Award nominations
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Twitter Moments – The UK Launch
Will Twitter go ‘Beyond 140’?
18 Jan 2016 · Social Media and Influencer Engagement
Josephine Keller
Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey caused a storm on the social platform this week when he tweeted suggesting that Twitter may well increase the 140 character limit to 10,000.
Since becoming the interim CEO of Twitter in July 2015, Dorsey has seen the introduction of several changes to the platform. These include the curated news tab Twitter Moments, and most recently a hint of a change to the direct message character limit. Dorsey’s tweet in itself is an example of why some users may prefer the longer limit.
Posting a screenshot of text, Dorsey states that time has been spent observing how users are interacting on the platform and that many have taken to screenshotting text and posting it as an image, in order to get around the character limit. He states that up to 300million users are often using this method to get their point across. Dorsey also reminds users that the 140 character limit was initially introduced in order for a tweet to fit into an SMS message (limited to 160 characters per SMS).
This could be a sign that Twitter has developed beyond the imposed character limit and users simply have more to say. Users were quick to note that the use of an image in place of text means words cannot be tracked due to the photo format – something which the increased limit would solve. Also, in a world of smartphones with unlimited characters and messages, there is no longer the notion that every letter, number and punctuation mark needs to earn its place, as it did 10 years ago when Twitter was launched.
Offering Twitter users the option to create longer tweets could well be a step forward for storytelling on social media. Twitter appears to have picked up on what at least some users want and should this update occur, give them the power of words to express themselves further.
Responses to the rumours have been somewhat mixed. While some believe it will enhance the platform and allow for more coherent conversations, others believe that Twitter will lose its niche as a platform for what is essentially micro-blogging.
Twitter was naturally quick to react to the news in the form of a ‘Twitter Storm’ and many believe that allowing a 10,000 character limit will lead to user ‘rants’ (a more common occurrence on Facebook). The debate of quality versus quantity also made its way into the conversation, implying that those posting quality contributions on the platform perhaps don’t need an increased limit. It was deemed that a 10,000 character limit would change the type of content posted and this could then change the dynamic of the platform in terms of the conversations taking place.
It has been suggested that should this update occur, the scrolling nature of Twitter would be unaffected as when longer tweets are published there will be the option to expand them, rather than displaying a full 10,000 character tweet. This is to ensure that the user will still see the same amount of content – given the predicted attention span of social users in 2016 is six seconds, this is even more important.
Should Twitter go ‘Beyond 140’, it is likely that, as with every update, it won’t please everyone. But for brands, it could be a blessing. The simplicity of sending an extended customer service message, whilst keeping every day tweets to the point, means an upper limit would be an advantage.
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Does charter school want West Lafayette’s Happy Hollow for $1? Judge wants to know before ruling
A West Lafayette schools lawsuit challenges the state’s $1 charter school law. State’s response: Suit is hypothetical. Judge orders WL to put Happy Hollow up for grabs and see
Does charter school want West Lafayette’s Happy Hollow for $1? Judge wants to know before ruling A West Lafayette schools lawsuit challenges the state’s $1 charter school law. State’s response: Suit is hypothetical. Judge orders WL to put Happy Hollow up for grabs and see Check out this story on jconline.com: https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2019/11/25/does-charter-school-want-west-lafayettes-happy-hollow-1-judge-wants-know-before-ruling/4275625002/
Dave Bangert, Lafayette Journal & Courier Published 4:01 p.m. ET Nov. 25, 2019
Happy Hollow Elementary, 1200 N. Salisbury St., in West Lafayette. (Photo: Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier)
LAFAYETTE – A Tippecanoe County judge on Monday ordered West Lafayette schools to tell the state Department of Education that Happy Hollow Elementary is no longer being used for classroom, saying he wouldn’t rule on the district’s challenge of an Indiana school reform law until he knows whether there’s a charter school out there ready to lay claim to the retired school for $1.
Kelly Earls – a deputy attorney general representing Gov. Eric Holcomb, named in the first-of-its-kind lawsuit – argued Monday in Tippecanoe Circuit Court that West Lafayette Community School Corp.’s challenge of a 2011 law should be dismissed, because no charter school was knocking at West Side’s door to take Happy Hollow since it closed as a school in October 2018.
West Lafayette’s claim that the state law amounted to an unconstitutional threat to take property, she argued, was based on a hypothetical scenario and wasn’t ripe for a judge to consider.
Bob Reiling, attorney for West Lafayette schools, argued that the possibility that a charter school might ask for the school – and pay $1 for a property West Side claims in court documents is worth at least $6 million – should be enough to contest the law in court.
Reiling argued that the district should be allowed the confidence to be able to plan what to do next with a building West Lafayette taxpayers funded when it opened in 1960 without the risk that the state could let a charter school step in and pay virtual nothing for it.
During the first court date since the case was filed in October, Tippecanoe Circuit Judge Sean Persin told West Lafayette schools to take the hypothetical out of the equation.
Persin asked Reiling and fellow attorney Ryan Munden several times whether taxpayers should finance both sides of a lawsuit that didn’t present an immediate threat. Persin said he’d hold off the next step in the case until it was clear whether charter schools were lining up for Happy Hollow.
“Why would we try this matter in Tippecanoe County? And why now?” Persin asked. “I want an answer to that.”
West Lafayette Superintendent Rocky Killion, among the district’s board members and supporters in the gallery Monday, said he intended to get word to the Indiana Department of Education, as Persin instructed.
“I’ll have to let the city know, too,” Killion said.
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West Lafayette city offices moved into Happy Hollow in January 2019, a few months after students left the building at 1200 N. Salisbury St. for the new West Lafayette Intermediate School at the corner of Salisbury Street and Lindberg Road. The city is paying the school corporation $1.5 million over two years to lease the space as a temporary city hall as West Lafayette renovates the Morton Community Center at 222 N. Chauncey Ave. The city plans to be out of Happy Hollow by the end of 2020.
“It’s still a matter of fairness,” Killion said. “Can I take a charter school for a buck? There’s one over in Lafayette on Elmwood (Avenue). The law says public schools can’t do that. Why should a charter school be able to do that at a facility the West Lafayette taxpayers paid for?”
New Community School, a Lafayette charter school that folded in December 2016, had been in a former Pay Less Super Market on Elmwood Avenue. That building remains empty.
According to the 2011 law, school buildings that remain empty for two years become fair game for charter schools looking to move in. The law says that a charter school, after notifying the state Department of Education, is entitled to lease the building – or buy it, if the school district chooses to sell it – for $1. Charter schools – public schools created under Indiana law as alternatives to traditional public schools – would have up to two years before taking on the space as classrooms.
MORE: West Lafayette’s lawsuit against $1 charter ‘land grab’ law ‘merely hypothetical,’ state argues
In 2019, the legislature adjusted the law, requiring schools to notify the state within 10 days of passing a resolution to close or no longer use a school building that had been used for classroom instruction. Charter schools would get 30 days to submit a request to lease or purchase the building for $1.
“That process is fairly simple,” Adam Baker, spokesman for the state Department of Education, said Monday. “In layman’s terms, schools notify us they have a vacant property, and we then reach out to charter schools to notify them. Charter schools then have 30 days to move on the property, or it goes back to the district to do as they wish.”
In the court documents and again in court Monday, West Lafayette schools contended that no state money went into Happy Hollow Elementary’s construction when it opened in 1960.
Killion said West Lafayette is in early discussions to use the Happy Hollow property for an early childhood learning center of some sort. Reiling argued that those plans take time and money – time and money the district would be reluctant to spend if it could be wasted once a charter school emerged.
Reiling said the lawsuit had little to do with whether charter schools were worthy.
“It’s about the taking,” Reiling said.
Aside from arguing that West Lafayette’s lawsuit “does not present claims upon which relief can be granted,” Earls argued that the state and U.S. constitutions’ “taking clauses” don’t apply to public property and public land by the state from “a public subdivision,” such as a school corporation.
Persin asked Earls how she would feel if she’d been a West Lafayette taxpayer.
Earls said, “Charter schools are 100 percent public schools.” She also said state law stipulates that if a charter school sold the property later, the proceeds would go to the school district.
Persin said he understood that whatever decision he made likely would be challenged in a higher court. Reiling told Persin that West Lafayette schools fully expected the case to wind up with the Indiana Supreme Court.
Persin questioned whether the first decision should be made by a judge in a county where no charter has asked to use the $1 law.
On Friday, the School City of Hammond and Lake Ridge Schools Corp., two districts in Lake County, filed to intervene in the case, joining West Lafayette’s side. Reiling told Persin he expected six or seven school districts to join.
Sara Blevins, an attorney representing Hammond and Lake Ridge schools, said the district is in a similar situation, with school buildings closing but no immediate or apparent interest from charter schools.
“If this case gets dismissed here in Tippecanoe County, we might file one on our own,” Blevins said after Monday’s hearing. “I can tell you, every school district in the state is interested in this case.”
Reach Dave Bangert at 765-420-5258 or at dbangert@jconline.com. Follow on Twitter: @davebangert.
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Based on a tried and tested needs-based approach it begins by looking at the present 'state of play' in society's approach to schizophrenia, and the experiences of both sufferers and their families. It goes on to identify the needs raised by such experiences and considers ways of meeting them, before detailing methods of intervention. Learn More
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This volume – first published in 1978 – is a manual of visual display systems which offers various forms of notation for recording a patient's kinship network, his living conditions and life events alongside his clinical history. It also indicates ways of recording inner and outer world phenomena. Learn More
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Shakespeare Comes to Broadmoor
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Between 1989 and 1991 several of Shakespeare's tragedies were performed in the central hall of Broadmoor Hospital. This book sets these important events on record. It offers insights into the impact of such drama, in such a setting, upon actors and audience. Learn More
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The respective authors are some of the leading developmental scholars of this time, and are also major proponents of the theoretical traditions they address. An excellent text for senior undergraduates and graduate students and a worthwhile addition to the library shelf of any serious student of developmental psychology. Learn More
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The authors explore the reasons for a child's failure from a range of disciplines. Topics covered include social influences as well as emotional, physical and psychological factors. This book, by an international team of experts in the field, is a rare search for answers to the question why and how children fail. Learn More
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Mimmo La Bufala, Hampstead
Continuing in the search for London's ultimate pizza, I recently happened across an article in Time Out and was surprised to see an Italian restaurant mere minutes away from my house that I had never heard of - Mimmo La Bufala - being put forward for this very accolade. Somehow I must have walked past this lovely looking restaurant countless times without even noticing it, so this weekend we set out to remedy this straight away and booked a table for Saturday night. Any Hampstead based Italian has a lot to live up to in my book as L'Antica, which I bang on about all the time, is pretty hard to beat. Mimmo La Bufala is a totally different kind of restaurant to L'Antica though; with about three times as many tables and a bigger menu encompassing meat and fish as well as the usual pizza and pasta, plus it is a world away in terms of formality - all white tablecloths, proper napkins and glam decor - so there is plenty of room for both of them.
I started with a very very good Caprese, which had stand-out mozzarella di bufala drizzled with a perfectly seasoned pesto oil. The menu actually says "The bufala cheese from Campania is appreciated by everyone who has had the pleasure of experiencing it, due to its tenderness and delicate taste" and they are not wrong.
Here it is in all its buffalo milky glory. It was so creamy that it was hard to believe it wasn't actually burrata:
Coversely, Rich had ordered the burrata with parma ham from the specials board and sadly it was not at all special. It was almost as if the kitchen had mixed up the two cheeses, as the burrata really lacked the necessary silken creaminess. It was still tasty though and the parma ham was beautiful enough to justify the price, which was almost double that of the Caprese.
We'd visited Mimmo La Bufala with the express purpose of testing out the pizzas, so Rich willingly took one for the team and ordered the Pizza Nonna - a bianca pizza with friarelli (fancy Southern Italian broccoli that is a bit like tenderstem crossed with spinach), Napolitan sausage and a touch of chilli. Basically the same pizza as the unbeaten Caravaggio from L'Antica and the Salsiccia E Friarielli at Pizza Pilgrims - you can read more about these here. Mimmo La Bufala's Nonna fared very well. The base was unmistakably wood fired, the mozzarella we already know is very good and the friarelli was as it should be. The Napolitan sausage just missed that earthy fennel tang that L'Antica get so right, but I really am splitting hairs here. I would happily eat that Nonna every day of my life, and probably will do for a sizeable proportion of it.
Upsettingly I only got to nick a slice or so of it, as I'd ordered the Osso Bucco on pumpkin risotto - which I think was the most expensive item on the menu at about £24.95 (everything else is more around the £14 mark). I haven't seen Osso Bucco on a menu for yonks and I really fancied it, so I was very happy to discover that the risotto was cooked perfectly with plenty of warming saffron to season, and more than a little parmesan to help it on its way. The Osso Bucco itself had been cooked slowly and thoughtfully and delivered the umami-like savoury and sticky notes from the marrow working its way into the meat and sauce whilst still retaining a nice vealy bite. I ate every last scrap and made a mental note to make it at home soon.
By this point we were so buoyed with our own success at discovering a new neighbourhood restaurant we could love and cherish that we felt bold enough to order pudding and cheese - despite being royally stuffed. Having established the tiramisu (and all the dolci, thank goodness) were made by the kitchen, I ordered away and received a thoroughly pleasant little dish of coffee and alcohol soaked Savoiardi biscuits with mascarpone. The Italians aren't known for their cheeseboards and sometimes you'll find you're given some parmesan (!), but there was one on the menu here featuring taleggio, a blue which escapes me, and another soft cheese all served with wild honey (my fave cheeseboard accompaniment), so that was a nice surprise too.
The bill was about £140 but we'd had two bottles of the house red (it was a Saturday night, ok?) and a fantastic time. On our way out we were met by Mimmo himself who had been buzzing around the restaurant all evening, helping to serve food and being generally convivial, which really added to the atmosphere of the place. We're looking forward to coming back soon, and I'm already thinking about the carpaccio of octopus and the paccheri that I'll be ordering.
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Stores revamp ahead of cold beer sales
By: Chris DiMaria
October 1 is the first day Oklahomans will be able to buy ice-cold beer, which has customers and store owners counting down the days.
Store owners are preparing in different days, but stores like Aspen Liquor in Broken Arrow are pulling out all the stops. They've taken their beer section, previously a section of the store with shelves lined with cases of beer, and transformed it into a refrigerated "Beer Cave".
"If you want to compete, you need to bring in coolers and have cold beer," said store manager Katie Kramer.
Kramer says in the past week she's seen "probably 200 more" customers per day than previous weeks. That's in part due to the store being allowed to sell domestic beer like Budweiser products.
"We go through it so fast," said Danielle Gleghorn. "We're getting deliveries every day. She ordered 40 cases of 30 packs of Bud Light, we're down to six today. She got them yesterday."
The new law also means three-two beers will be fizzled out by their high-point alternates.nKramer says the low-alcohol content beer you used to be able to buy at gas stations is being replaced by higher-content beer.
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Odell Brewing Shares Details On Second Denver Pilot Brewery Location
Following the success of their first Denver brewhouse in the RiNo Art District, which recently celebrated their one-year anniversary, Odell Brewing began planning for a second Denver location. The new facility, located in the Sloan’s Lake neighborhood at the corner of 17th and Perry, will feature a 10-barrel pilot brewhouse and scratch pizza kitchen.
“As a Colorado-focused and employee-owned brewery, growing in our home market is first and foremost,” explains CEO, Wynne Odell. “Investing in our own backyard creates more opportunities for our co-owners and aligns with our goals of pragmatic innovation.”
Innovation out of the RiNo Brewhouse is what led to many of Odell’s latest hit releases like Sippin’ Pretty, Cloud Catcher, and Mountain Standard IPA. Odell is looking forward to even more small-batch brew exploration at the Sloan’s location.
“Creating a space that brings the community together is one of our core principles, and when we saw the potential at Sloan’s Lake, we knew it was a perfect fit,” explains Wynne Odell.
The facility, located at 1625 Perry Street, is part of the repurposed historic Kuhlman Building. The building was formerly part of St. Anthony’s Hospital founded by the Sisters of St. Francis in the late 1880’s. Since then, the Kuhlman Building has served as a nunnery, nursing school, dormitory and administrative offices for the St. Anthony’s Hospital. The Odell Sloan’s Lake Brewhouse will occupy the north end of the building. The rest of the facility is dedicated to affordable rental units, developed and owned by Trailbreak Partners and Koelbel and Company.
With the help of RB+B Architects and Built Construction, who designed and built Odell’s RiNo Brewhouse, construction will begin late 2019 and a grand opening planned for late summer 2020. The new space will include two bars with 16 Odell tap handles and a rooftop patio overlooking Sloan’s Lake and the Rocky Mountains. The brewhouse will feature a 10-barrel R&D system which will be used to brew experimental beers available exclusively at Sloan’s Lake.
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Benalla to host National Pony Club Championships in 2021
By Meg Saultry
Prime location: Benalla Equestrian Reserve has been hand-picked to host the 2021 National Pony Club Championships in 2021. Picture: Issie Hill.
In a major coup for the region, Benalla has been announced as the location for the 2021 National Pony Club Championships.
Benalla Equestrian Reserve will be a bustling epicentre from September 26 to October 2, 2021, with competitors from across Australia travelling to Benalla Rural City for the event.
With Victoria holding hosting rights for 2021, Pony Club’s major body made the announcement last Wednesday, giving Benalla the green light following an exhaustive search for its next location.
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Pony Club Australia chief executive officer Catherine Ainsworth said she was excited to be able to bring riders from across the country to regional Victoria.
“It was Victoria's turn to host in 2021, and we were happy to see it could be held in Benalla,” Ms Ainsworth said.
“Pony Club is a grassroot sporting organisation and we are a regional based sport, so it makes great sense to represent that (through our choice of location).
With more than 400 competitors and their family set to visit Benalla, the championships are a sure-fire way to bring with it a major boost to the local economy.
“We are looking at how to contribute to the economy to town,” Ms Ainsworth said.
“We'll be looking to work with local catering and hire local people.
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“And the beauty of the Benalla site is it’s also adjacent to the race course, so we hope to work with Racing Victoria to make the most of people's exposure to the horse industry.”
Following the announcement, Benalla Pony Club president Scott Woodstock said it was "incredibly exciting" for Benalla and its local Pony Club to be chosen to host the national event.
“There is prestige in it you could say,” Mr Woodstock said.
“Not many places get to do this. So, to be nominated and chosen for it, there is a lot of people to thank for that.”
Benalla Equestrian Reserve will hold several disciplines across the week-long event, including showjumping, dressage, cross country, tetrathlon and gymkhana.
XCountry is the only discipline that will need to be held off site, with nearby Oxley Reserve in Moyhu locked in to host the discipline.
Despite the championships being more than 22 months away, Woodstock said preparations for the event had already begun.
“There is still some work to do. Good facilities can always become great facilities,” he said.
“The Benalla Adult Riding Club just held the TTT competition at the reserve, so we’ll be talking to them to see what work worked well and what didn’t and what we need to upgrade.”
The National Championships are held every two years and recently concluded at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre in October this year.
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Group cycle trends and how to own them
From cinematic fitness, to data and game-changing technology, we look at the exciting group cycle trends that could reinvent the wheel for your club’s studio.
Jak Phillips
Frequently named in industry reports as the most popular group exercise class category, group cycling has enjoyed major growth in recent times, fuelled by advances in technology and a raft of new concepts.
It’s also proved a hit with club operators thanks to its high yield per square foot and ability to attract a wide range of members as a low impact workout with a wide range of formats, so where is it headed next?
With the category tipped for further growth, we caught up with Paddy Murray – VP of International Sales & Marketing at indoor cycling specialists Stages Cycling – to find out which trends will be shaping the cycle studio and how clubs can stay ahead of them.
How do indoor cycling offerings and preferences vary across global markets?
It’s hard to pigeon hole as the standards and offerings vary enormously, but in general, the key factor in the international markets are how mature the industry is in that particular country and how well educated the instructor base is. The Asian market, for example, is relatively new and getting good instructors is a challenge, but the investment levels are high and the standards rising very quickly. The more mature markets such as the US and in Europe are also raising the bar and moving towards higher quality experiences as indoor cycling is enjoying a big resurgence and outdoor cycling participation is also growing rapidly. Cycling, in general, is providing a great healthy hub for social interactions, low impact workouts and relatively low cost to participate in.
What trends are you particularly excited about at the moment?
The boutique cycle-only studios have really transformed the market in the US but this is being mirrored across the globe in major cities and is really raising the standards across the industry. The big shifts we see are the adoption of group display and the use of personal performance data and tracking, the shift towards virtual classes to increase utilization during downtimes and also to provide a gateway for live classes. There’s also a big focus on enhancing the class environment with dynamic lighting, great video visuals, nightclub-quality sound systems and even the use of dedicated cycling shoes to enhance the experience.
We think the next big evolution in indoor cycling will be bringing the group experience to the cardio or gym floor, where the casual member can get whatever type of experience they want, suited to their schedule, with detailed performance feedback on their workouts. The world is shifting to performance tracking and the consumer market is flooded with wearables. Companies like Stages are now able to provide club members with performance tracking that used to be only available to the likes of Team Sky.
Tell us about your new collaboration with Les Mills.
We are really excited about working with Les Mills and becoming the official bike partner of RPM, THE TRIP and Sprint. The undoubted global leader in group exercise, no other company in the industry puts as much into research and develops solutions using its own clubs as testing grounds. The group exercise experience lives and dies based on the quality of its instructors. Les Mills not only develops great programs but also understands how to upskill the instructor base to deliver that experience to the member.
We think we’ll be able to combine Stages Cycling bike knowledge and data capture expertise to enhance the Les Mills experience going forward. Together we’re now going to bring this joint expertise together to deliver a new personalised virtual experience that can be accessed on the gym floor. Les Mills develop amazing content and we’ve developed a new bike and platform to deliver that experience to the gym goer. This is going to be a real game-changer for the industry and it’s called the “Les Mills Virtual bike.”
What makes the Virtual Bike so significant?
Most gyms have a dedicated section for their cardio equipment and traditional upright bikes haven’t changed in 25 years apart from adding a TV. The riding position is terrible, the Q Factor makes you ride the bike like a horse and most people just use it to warm up or cool down on. The bike can be so much more dynamic than that and it’s low impact nature and ease of use mean it’s the perfect candidate for high use cardio.
We believe we have delivered a bike that will offer industry-leading performance feedback combined with the best motivational content delivered by Les Mills. Sprint, RPM and THE TRIP will all be available, bringing cinematic fitness to the gym floor for the very first time. The added benefit of the Virtual Bike is that it will act as a gateway to increasing group cycling participation and this will be great for member retention.
There seems to be a prevailing trend around the convergence of fitness and cinema, with darkened cycling studios playing host to ever more elaborate content displayed via high-quality AV systems, what’s your take on this?
There’s no doubt the indoor cycling experience is evolving and becoming much more dynamic, cinematic and a full-on assault on the audio-visual senses. The challenge for a lot of multi-function clubs with numerous group activities is the investment levels required to setup such an experience and balancing that with the level of instructors they have at their disposal.
Without investment in the instructor base, I think this can be a risky investment for operators. However, if they invest in the programming and education of the instructor community, while delivering an incredible experience then the results can be amazing. You can’t get this type of experience at home and this is why people pay their memberships to be wowed. The Trip is a great example. The audio visual experience is incredible and when led by a good instructor it really is an amazing motivational show. What’s great from Stages point of view is that the clubs can now access that experience on the Virtual Bike with minimal investment. It’s a no-brainer for us.
How do you see this trend evolving over time?
Star Trek has provided us with so many visions of the future and I don’t think you need to look much farther than the Holodeck virtual reality cube. As the display technology comes down in price I firmly believe the cycling rooms of the future will be staged in a virtual cube with all the walls, floor and roof becoming active displays. The possibilities are infinite. At Stages, we firmly believe that making the group class experience personalised to your own fitness level and goals is also going to become the new norm. Members will still get the thrill of the group show, but the workout required from them will be more personalised based on their abilities. Combining an amazing show and delivering the results the members want has got to be the goal.
Why is data so important for customer experience?
I want to be clear here. Data is only useful if it’s reliable, consistently measured and accurate. If you don’t have that then you shouldn’t provide the data and it will just frustrate, annoy and create more problems for your customer experience. Estimated data is as useful as putting your finger in the air. If I’m paying for it, I’d like to think it works and is accurate. That said, most people join the gym for health and wellness reasons. There’s a big social element of course, but in today’s world people demand and expect feedback. Studies show that between 60-75% of millennials use personal fitness trackers. When you’re working out, the data can be used in two ways… either as a motivator during a workout or as a result of your efforts after the workout. You can then track this over time to see if you need to work out more or if you are truly reaching your goals. As an industry we are delivering a fitness/wellness service and I firmly believe we should be leading the way in delivering a results-based offering. If you don’t get the results you’ll eventually stop coming. It’s as simple as that.
And how can clubs make better use of data to drive attendances, retention and new members?
Understanding your customer and their needs is the key to any successful business. Data tracking of your customers, visits, workouts, performance and or lack of is vital in determining if you should make an intervention or not. Congratulate the ones who are succeeding and hitting goals, give support and extra care to the ones who aren’t achieving and perhaps need some help. It is so much cheaper to retain a member than it is to recruit a new one. Understanding how to use the data that is available to clubs when a member is onsite is the best way to show your customer you care about them, their results and their wellbeing.
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SIX partners with Digital Asset to develop distributed ledger technology for Swiss Financial Market
News September 22, 2016 —by Mike Fox 0
SIX Securities Services, the post-trade infrastructure operator for the Swiss financial sector, and Digital Asset Holdings, a developer of distributed ledger technology for the financial services industry, today announced plans to develop a proof of concept that will demonstrate the commercial viability of distributed ledger technology across the Swiss financial market, with an initial prototype for securities lifecycle processing.
The two firms will also develop a roadmap for future opportunities spanning the whole market infrastructure value chain. SIX Securities Services recognizes the potential of distributed ledger technology and after a competitive evaluation process has selected Digital Asset as the business and technology partner for the design of a solution for the Swiss market.
The initial phase of the project will demonstrate the ability to build and incorporate distributed, encrypted, straight through processing tools into existing securities transaction flows, and propose a roadmap for extending this to a production-ready service.
The proof of concept will extend beyond the scope of the prototype, and Digital Asset will develop a product roadmap for future opportunities to include a wide range of applications that demonstrate how current, segregated processes could be streamlined and made more efficient for SIX Securities Services and post-trade ecosystem as a whole.
Distributed ledger technology and its potential role in post trading is key to our business. We need to understand it, and more importantly, its applicability and future flexibility in order to keep ahead of the game. Partnering with Digital Asset is a way to accelerate our own development plans and leverage their experience in this area.
– Thomas Zeeb, Division CEO SIX Securities Services
Partnering with SIX brings this cutting edge technology another step closer to commercial reality. We believe this collaboration will provide exciting opportunities for SIX and its customers while reducing inefficiency, cost and risk in the financial services ecosystem.
– Blythe Masters, CEO of Digital Asset
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Local Hemophilia Families Meet the Manufacturers
Laurie Kelley August 25, 2013
Local Boston hemophilia families
tour a manufacturing plant
I was thrilled last week to invite a group of local hemophilia families to the Pfizer Andover manufacturing plant, where BeneFIX,a recombinant, third-generation blood-clotting medicine, is made. Andover is only 40 minutes from my house; imagine that this amazing medicine is practically made in my neighborhood! It was a wonderful opportunity for the scientists and researchers there to meet real families, and for the families to see just how blood-clotting products are made.
Carolyn shares her story
We were greeted by Bob Duane, Senior Director, Site Quality and Compliance. Families were briefed about their tour, which would be a closed off tour–we didn’t need to get into special outfits to protect the manufacturing process from us and any germs we may have been carrying. But we would get to see how factor is made!
Tom Porter of Pfizer with families
First, we met with a large group of employees, and heard a presentation by Tom Porter, PhD, Senior Director, Analytical Research & Development, Global Biologics, who gave an overview about how factor was produced. He was so enthused about his work; it was refreshing and delightful! He reviewed the history of hemophilia innovation of products from Pfizer, including creating the first recombinant factor VIII product in 1992, which was then licensed to Baxter. I had actually forgotten that little piece of history.
Manufacturing vats
Then each family was invited to stand up and speak a little about their experience with hemophilia. Bob wondered if the families would be comfortable with that and we all laughed—hemophilia families usually have no problem speaking up!
Shane is fascinated by the equipment!
Wendy spoke about having an 18-year-old; Allie spoke about having two with hemophilia (“I win!” she quipped!); I spoke about having a transitioning 25-year-old and our insurance concerns for all in his age group; Carolyn shared about having an 18-month-old; and Diane informed the group that her baby was just diagnosed with an inhibitor. Most special was the speech by Shane, a 12-year-old with hemophilia A, who related that he is learning how to infuse better to save wear and tear on his veins.
Explaining the process
After a lovely lunch, during which the families were able to sit casually with the researchers and scientists, the group split into two and began their tours. We saw the vats containing the medium in which the Chinese hamster ovary cells produce human factor; learned how it is separated from the medium and then harvested. In the end, product is shipped to Spain to be finished, lyophilized and packaged, ready to be sold. The sheer level of intricacies involved in each step was a bit overwhelming. We walked by many laboratories where staff worked diligently. Everything is breathtakingly clean; most tasks are automated to reduce the risk of human error. We walked on many floors, levels and peered in through large glass windows to see the giant vats where product is made. The families were stunned, at the number of employees required to make product, at the level of safety controls and at the amount of money required to make product.
“It is really fun to see how factor is made and all the work that goes into it. I will definitely think of that when I infuse now,” Shane comented.
Bob Duane of Pfizer explains
how factor is made
“The tour of the Pfizer facility opened my eyes to the extremely long process involved in making factor,” said mother Kathy Secinaro. “It became clear that the staff there are dedicated to research and product safety. In addition to that, they truly showed they care about our community and want to know more about living with hemophilia. I never expected such a genuinely warm welcome. Others should be strongly encouraged to do a similar tour. I hope to do it again.”
And what did the employees think about the families?
“Yesterday was the best day I have ever had at Pfizer. I received far more than I gave.” “I was touched and was amazed at the strength that was displayed by [the families].” “I was truly inspired by their stories and had such a good feeling all day. I’m looking forward to the next visit and other visits like this.” “Having patients and their families on site really drives home the importance of our job. It never fails to touch me when I hear them speak. We do great work here. Work that keeps people alive. We sometimes forget.”
Other manufacturers offer tours of their facilities, too. I’ve toured the Bayer plant in Berkeley, and know other families who have seen the Grifols plant in Los Angeles, and the CLS Behring plant in Kankakee, Illinois. Ask your local rep if you can see their plant, and learn how factor is made.
And read the August issue of PEN, coming to your mailbox soon; we review all factor products and manufacturers, and chart out the new products coming in the pipeline.
Thanks to Gail McCarthy, our local Pfizer rep, for this invitation, to the families who took a day off to join us, to the Pfizer staff who made this such a pleasant and educational day and who care enough to meet and learn about our very special community.
Good Book I Just Read
The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison’s Legacy Goes on Trial
[Kindle] by John Densmore
An unflinching account of the 2002 lawsuit by Densmore, former drummer for the 60s band the Doors, against his former bandmates, keyboardist Ray Manzarek (who just passed away in May) and former high school best friend guitarist Robby Krieger. His suit was primarily to stop the use of the name and logo of the Doors by Manzarek and Krieger, who were touring (without Desnmore) as the “Doors of the 21st Century.” He did not seek to stop them from playing or from calling themselves “Of the Doors.” He did not seek money from this lawsuit. Manzarek and Krieger countersued for $40 million, claiming that Densmore vetoed a $15 million commercial with Buick… and then Densmore’s real beef is revealed. Densmore goes to court to preserve the noncommercialsm of the original Doors, particularly frontman and cultural icon Jim Morrison, by not “selling out” to corporate America; and to honor the Doors agreement that all bandmates had equal weight in determining decisions with equal veto power. Indeed, Densmore was backed throughout the trial by the estate of Jim Morrison, and even Morrison’s father, a former rear admiral in the Navy, testified. Densmore further questions the need of Americans, and in particular his bandmates, who are all wealthy, to accumulate millions more at the risk of losing their creative purity. It’s an interesting question; Densmore makes many good points, even though at times he unnecessarily takes uncomfortable jabs at Manzarek in particular. Yet Densmore himself stands to earn a lot by being a former Doors member, and writing these books! It’s a head-scratcher at times, as you wonder from what angle Densmore is coming sometimes, as there are many; his arguments don’t always seem clear or follow logically. It’s a quick read, raises good questions and will generate a lot of discussion. From an insider, I have heard that the book is quite accurate.
Laurie Kelley with
Robby Krieger of the Doors
For devoted Doors fans, this is a hard book to read, to learn what has become of their legacy. I’m a bit biased as I love the Doors, and appreciate each musician for their talent and dedication, and just met up with Robby Kreiger on Saturday night at the Hard Rock Cafe–he’s a nice guy, by everyone’s account. He wrote my favorite song ever, “Touch Me,” which I admit would have a different meaning and feel entirely if it were used as a commercial for say the iTouch. For anyone in rock and roll, it is a fascinating legal read. Two/five stars.
This Time for Africa!
Laurie Kelley July 3, 2011
One month from today I will be in Africa, about to reach new heights, literally. I’m planning a huge mountain climb, up Mt. Kilimanjaro, the largest mountain in Africa and largest freestanding mountain in the world. At 19,340 feet, it’s colossal. We will start at tropical temperatures, and gradually progress up to Arctic temperatures, below freezing. It will take us six days: five up and one down!
Who are we? The nine other climbers are: my 17-year-old daughter Mary; Eric Hill and son Alex; Neil Herson and daughters Britney and Kelly; Jeff Salantai, who has hemophilia, and Julie Winton, a nurse with a son with VWD. Jeff and I just met for the first time last week in San Antonio! He was the first person with hemophilia to climb Mt. Ranier last year!
Eric is president and founder of BioRx, a homecare company. Jeff and Julie are his employees. Neil is president and founder of ASD Healthcare, one of the largest distributors of plasma derived products and pharmaceuticals in the US.
Our goal is to raise money for Save One Life and its Africa programs. Save One Life is the child sponsorship program for impoverished children with bleeding disorders in developing countries. I’ve been traveling to Africa since 1999, and was the first person from our international community to travel to Kenya, Ghana and Tanzania. I’ve also been to Zimbabwe four times and hope to return again soon. We started outreach programs in Tanzania and Zimbabwe to help locate more patients. We also want to start a scholarship program for college age men in Kenya. They are all so lacking in funds, and it doesn’t take much to get them an education. Once they are educated, they have a chance at a better life.
Eric is a sponsor of two children through Save One Life Neil is one of our biggest sponsors at 49 children! Obviously they are deeply committed to our cause.
They must be to tackle Kilimanjaro. Long the focus of lore and legend, Kili is very special. And tough. While not a technical climb, meaning there will be no ropes or climbing gear, it is strenuous. The biggest worry is altitude sickness: migraine headaches that lead to vomiting and lack of appetite. Oxygen levels will be at 50% of sea level.
But I have hope. Chris Bombardier, a young man from Colorado, just returned from Kenya and I think is the very first American with hemophilia to summit Kili! His climb also raised money for Save One Life.
If you’d like to sponsor a climber, please go to our donation page. Please note that 100% of your donation goes to Save One Life and its African programs, and not to cover the costs of the climb, or airfare or anything related to the trip. Each climber pays for his or her own expenses. All funds raised are donated to Save One Life. It’s a huge commitment in terms of time, energy, and money for these climbers. Please give them motivation and support by pledging today!
http://www.saveonelife.net/mt-kilimanjaro-climb.phpa
Interesting Book I Just Read
Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison by James Riordan and Jerry Prochnicky
Shaman or madman? Forty year ago today Jim Morrison died of “heart failure” in a bathtub in Paris, of a suspected overdose. His death is being honored around the world by tens of thousands who loved his music and somehow identified with this tortured poet-turned-rock star. It’s hard to see the poet when you read the account here which can make you wince: the drinking, the juvenile antics, destruction of property and disregard for the rights of others, including his own band mates who suffered six long years with their front man. Gifted with a gorgeous voice and even better looks, Morrison relished the role of star, but also sought solitude personally, and respect for his poetry. “The Lizard King” brought the Doors fame and a legacy in rock and roll history, but as much for pushing the envelope as for his lyrics. His on stage antics made him the first rock star to be arrested on stage; he had 20 paternity suits pending at the time of his death; he was banned forever in Phoenix. Now his antics look tame, but in the 60s, this was all new, and dangerous. Morrison took rock where it had never gone before.
Riordan was a Rolling Stone contributor, and interviewed Morrison. But the writing is choppy, perhaps reflecting two different authors’ styles, and references to current events—Vietnam, Charles Manson, Apollo 11—are stuck in the middle of the story, often without a connection, or when there is a connection, it’s contrived. Some of the statements are just ridiculous (No matter how he tried to avoid it, legal trouble followed Morrison [as though he were an innocent bystander] and then in the next paragraph, they relate how he was arrested by the FBI and held in jail for disturbing the staff and passengers on a commercial plane ride). The attempt to view Morrison as a shaman is a bit too serious, verging on hero-worship. Much of the material here seems to be pinched from other sources, though sources are often not cited. So this is not a well written or researched book, certainly not as good as No One Here Gets Out Alive. I prefer drummer John Densmore’s Riders on the Storm the best, for its candid and sympathetic view of a man, Jim Morrison, who vented his deep-seated angers at his audiences, and muted his insecurities through alcohol. What a waste: judging from the Celebrations of the Lizard today, he is still cherished as a star, marveled at for being truly innovative, and listened to with pleasure. He appalled and attracted. The world is ever fascinated by him. Morrison has influenced many rock stars since his brief life ended. And members of the Doors are still touring, as much as ever (I almost went to see Ray Manzarek when he was in Massachusetts in May–so sorry I missed it!) He always said he would be a comet: a brilliant flash, here for a short while, but leaving a lasting impression. How true! RIP, Lizard King. Two stars.
Lucky Number 13 part 2
Laurie Kelley March 14, 2011
Just last week I blogged about CSL Behring’s new factor XIII concentrate Corifact. Now I’ve learned that Novo Nordisk announced that a Biologic License Application (BLA) has been submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting the approval of a recombinant factor XIII compound for those with congenital Factor XIII (FXIII) deficiency.
Corifact is made from human blood plasma. This new drug is made from recombinant technology, which uses genetic engineering.
Factor XIII deficiency has a prevalence of one case per two million people, with an estimated 600 diagnosed patients worldwide, making it one of the rarest bleeding disorders.
A press release from Novo Nordisk states: “Positive results from a phase III trial examining the efficacy and safety of recombinant factor XIII for the prevention of bleeds associated with congenital FXIII deficiency showed that when compared to a historic control group of individuals who did not receive routine FXIII infusions, preventive treatment with monthly recombinant FXIII injections significantly decreased the number of bleeding episodes requiring treatment. These data were presented at the American Society of Haematology (ASH) meeting in December 2010, and marked the first completed phase III study conducted to study the use of a recombinant FXIII treatment to prevent bleeding episodes in congenital FXIII deficiency patients.”
It’s all great news for those who have factor XIII deficiency, and with the sad news from around the world, especially Japan, we need good news.
No One Here Gets Out Alive
Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman
I’m continuing my reading streak on The Doors, the 1960s band that took America by storm. In this book, Jerry Hopkins (Rolling Stone) and Danny Sugerman (then teen office boy for Doors) profile the madness and magnificence of Jim Morrison, front man and silky-voice singer, whose depravity and self-destruction eventually upstaged the music itself and his three talented band members. The book details Morrison’s schizophrenic adolescence in which he, with an IQ of 150, devoured sophisticated philosophy and poetry books, and wrote poetry himself, but yet immaturely and cruelly harassed his younger brother, scared the elderly and openly mocked cripples. The first few chapters alone might end any hero worship of The Lizard King. The book recounts chronologically how the Doors formed, their skyrocketing rise to fame, and the toll of fame on the unstable Morrison. They were only 21-23 years old, in a music industry and culture awash in drugs, but why did only Morrison succumb to the pressure? The book is insightful into the music industry of the 1960s. It’s incomplete in that no other character is truly explored: Manzarek, Densmore and Krieger are barely mentioned. They were together for six intense years: how did they cope with Morrison’s descent into madness? The book also sheds little insight into Morrison’s state of mind, or why he acts as he does other than the drugs or alcohol, but factually states a portrait of a seeming sociopath: the dozens of paternity suits, his wanting his child to be aborted because he simply didn’t want one, his cruelty to his mother when he performed, his promiscuity and debauchery.
It’s hard to reconcile the deep thinker with the raging drunk. Perhaps the book doesn’t go deep enough into Morrison’s psyche, but then, Morrison didn’t seem to let anyone in. He internalizes his pain, which seeps out in frightening rages, and then is dampened by alcohol. One only needs to look at his photo progression in just six years: from sleek, sexy rock star to bloated, bearded drunk. I don’t think the pain was from being a frustrated poet or even a rock star; that’s putting the cart before the horse. His pain was chronic, malignant. Poetry was one expression; rage and cruelty was another. Adoration from the masses was one treatment; alcohol, maybe heroin, was another, and became the final exit.
Morrison helped put the Doors on the map, and he destroyed the Doors by destroying himself. Forty years later, it seems we will never know what drove Morrison to the edge, and then over. The authors skim over any analysis by comparing his angst to being like the Greek god Dionysus, or part of the Beat generation, or expressing himself like the Indian shamans he revered. But this is shallow. Looking back today, Morrison was an emotionally disturbed artist who sought to medicate his pain through alcohol, and expressed himself through rage. Incredibly, he left a legacy of beautiful, mystical music that captured a unique time in America, and the black hole of his inner life. And we are drawn to such people, scared of them, and yet worship them. Despite the incomplete picture the book paints, it was a great read and I could not put it down. Three stars.
Laurie Kelley March 4, 2011
When is the number 13 lucky?
We now have a factor concentrate for people with factor XIII deficiency. CSL Behring, makers of Helixate FS, Monoclate P and Mononine, was granted FDA approval for their factor XIII concentrate Corifact, indicated to treat congenital factor XIII deficiency. This is the first and only U.S. approved treatment for factor XIII-deficiency and the fourth new product that CSL Behring has brought to the U.S. market in the past two years. Corifact is already available for use in 12 countries throughout the world under the trade name Fibrogammin- P.
Factor XIII deficiency, also known as fibrin-stabilizing factor deficiency, is rare, affecting one in two million, with an incidence in the U.S. of approximately 150 people.
Symptoms include bleeding from the umbilical cord after birth, poor wound healing, miscarriages, subcutaneous bleeding, and excessive bleeding in joints and muscles following trauma. Patients lacking the FXIII protein are also at high-risk for intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), bleeding inside the skull that can be life threatening. Studies have shown that between 25- 60% of factor XIII deficient patients will experience an ICH at least once during their lifetime.
This is great news for those suffering with factor XIII deficiency. For more information, please see www.corifact.com and contact your HTC staff.
Great Book I Just Read
Riders on the Storm by John Densmore
“There’s the Beatles, the Stones, and the Doors,” says Paul Rothschild, producer of one of the greatest bands of the sixties. Drummer John Densmore was only 21 when he joined with three other California students to form a band that would soon skyrocket to the top at a time when the US was a nation at war in Vietnam, and with itself. With quiet Robby Krieger on guitar, methodical and rational Ray Manzarek on keyboard and Adonis-look-a-like singer Jim Morrison, the band was like no other. With no bass player, they combined blues, jazz and psychedelic rock, with some Indian strings and often very dark lyrics, about death, murder and rage. And no wonder: Not long after forming, Densmore writes about their iconic lead singer, “I’m in a band with a psychotic.”
The book is captivating. It starts in Paris, 1975, with Densmore visiting Morrison’s grave, four years after his death at age 27 on July 3, 1971 from an overdose. Returning to the hotel, he pours his feelings out in a “letter” to Morrison on the hotel stationery, which then gets interspersed throughout the book with his recollections. His memoir details his time in the band, returning now and then to the ongoing letter, and towards the end, “updates” Morrison on events of the 1980s and 1990s. Interspersed are appropriate lyrics from their songs, so that the book itself becomes quite artsy. The book gives excellent insight into what the 60s were like, what it’s like being in a band on the rise and what it was like to survive the onslaught of Jim Morrison. What’s missing, though, is what “The Lizard King” was really like. We get snapshots, snippets, and stories, but it’s as if Densmore viewed Morrison at arm’s length, even though he intensely shared six years with him. He was in awe of Morrison—who wasn’t?—and scared of him, and rightly so. Though he feels guilty at not being able to help Morrison, we have to remember he was only a young man from a humble Catholic background, ill equipped to cope with sudden stardom, wealth and the phenomenally complex, creative and self-destructive Morrison.
As if to highlight the detachment Densmore had with Morrison, Densmore dedicates the book to John Lennon of the Beatles, one of Densmore’s heroes, and also mentions Lennon’s assassination in his “letter” to Morrison, yet doesn’t mention or maybe doesn’t even know that Lennon was assassinated on Morrison’s birthday, a fact he should know as Morrison and Densmore were born only a week apart.
“We sensed rage and a possible explosion too near the surface to mess with in dealing with you,” Densmore writes in his letter to the now dead Morrison. “It seemed to have a lid on it—Pandora’s box with all the demons that wanted to be released. We never opened the box… we had to deal with your demons seeping out the side.” They seeped out and poisoned everything; the Doors had to cancel a 20-city tour when Morrison was arrested in Miami for indecent exposure at a concert (he was just pardoned this past December!). The charisma, lyrics and stunning voice of Morrison helped make the Doors a success; his addiction, rage and irresponsibility destroyed them. The book was published in 1990 and Densmore writes, “Well, we’re going on 20 years and there’s no end in sight” of the fascination people have with the Doors. On July 3, it will be 40 years since Morrison’s death, and the Doors are almost as popular as ever. I picked this book up and finished it 5 hours later—it’s compelling, honest, shocking and eye opening. A great book about one of my favorite bands and my favorite singer—for no one could sing like Jim Morrison. Three stars.
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Defense says no one has identified pair as robbers
Law enforcement officials will use circumstantial evidence to try to convict two 18-year-old men on armed robbery charges that could land them in prison for the rest of their life.
Amid strong objections from defense attorneys, a judge Monday ruled that prosecutors had sufficiently pieced together circumstances surrounding a Warren convenience store robbery, to warrant that both accused gunmen should stand trial.
DeShawn Lawon Weaver and Jacob Thomas are charged in the Oct. 17 robbery at the 7-Eleven/Citgo gas station at Schoenherr and Nine Mile roads. Both suspected robbers were shot by police as they fled the store.
During the gunfire, officer Ron Visbara was wounded in the leg by a "friendly fire" bullet that ricocheted off a wall, police said. He has since returned to duty.
Two Warren patrolmen who
stopped at the store for a beverage suspected something was amiss when they found both doors locked. An employee noticed the officers but did not come to the door. Neither did a female employee seconds later.
Suspecting a robbery was in progress, the officers backed away and stood guard behind the building to cut off potential escape routes while waiting for more police to arrive. Minutes later, two men emerged from the store.
During Monday's preliminary hearing in 37th District Court, one officer said two men wearing ski masks raised their guns as they headed toward him.
"I fired my gun to stop the threat," the officer said.
At the request of Warren police and officials at the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office, The Macomb Daily currently has agreed to not publish the names of the officer and the two employees because the three witnesses fear for their safety after investigators linked the suspects to a gang.
"We are confident they are part of a loose-knit gang that we (were) unfamiliar with," Detective Sgt. Louis Galasso said.
Thus far, the 27-year-old woman working her first shift at the 7-Eleven has refused to testify. She had quit her job as a taxi cab driver because she thought that was too dangerous.
Her 29-year-old co-worker -- who quit his job after the robbery -- testified before Judge John Chmura that two men wearing ski masks forced them to lie on a floor in the rear of the store. One of the gunmen ordered him to place money into a bag the culprit provided.
When the robbers held both employees at gunpoint in the back room, one ordered the male worker to tell whoever was at the locked doors that the store was closed. The employee testified he didn't overtly alert the officers to the robbery.
"I knew there was a female employee in the back who might get shot if I tried to," he said.
After the robbers fled, police shot Weaver four times, leaving him critically wounded. Thomas suffered one gunshot wound to his abdomen.
According to court testimony, both robbers were black males wearing ski masks. One was thin and brandished a handgun. His accomplice was described as bulkier and carrying a shotgun.
Defense attorneys Charles Idelsohn and Yvette Barrett don't deny their clients were wounded, but stressed that nobody has directly identified Weaver and Thomas as the robbers. They urged Chmura to dismiss the criminal charges.
"There's nothing to link them up. The officer testified he never saw them leave" the store, Idelsohn said.
The suspects were arrested at the scene but the officer testified he only saw them near the store, not leaving it. So far, no testimony has indicated whether any stolen money was found on the suspects.
Macomb assistant prosecutor Steve Kaplan acknowledged the circumstantial elements but countered: "There's probable cause to believe these are the two gentlemen who committed these crimes."
In ordering both defendants to stand trial in Macomb County Circuit Court, Chmura said it would be "quite a stretch of the imagination" to think both men would have just arrived outside the store wearing the same clothes, and carrying the identical guns, without being linked to the robbery.
Thomas and Weaver face charges of armed robbery, conspiracy and possession of a firearm while committing a felony. Under a state law that took effect in August 2006, Thomas faces two counts of unlawful imprisonment (the holding of the employee), a 15-year felony.
Weaver also faces one count of felonious assault and three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct. According to testimony, he allegedly pistol-whipped the female 7-Eleven worker, fondled her and forced her to touch his penis.
"She specifically stated she was in fear of dying because he was armed with a shotgun," Galasso said.
Weaver and Thomas remain in the Macomb County Jail in lieu of $2 million bond.
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Venturing Past 90: Who are the Last 10% of Dogs and How Do You Save Them?
Strategic & Operational Planning
March 2018 by Mike Kaviani and Marian Cannell
Audience: Executive Leadership, Foster Caregivers, Public, Shelter/Rescue Staff & Volunteers
What should your shelter/community expect when you're ready to push past 90%? What are the dogs like, and how will you save them?
Austin's canine save rate is at or above 98%, and is the largest city in the country at this high of a save rate. Come learn about the behavioral trends we are seeing at each segment of "the last 10 percent", and learn about the programs that are saving the dogs that have historically been deemed unsaveable.
This presentation is packed with case studies that will put a face to the dogs that still need us once we've achieved 90%, and goes into the most common challenges and the respective solutions that exist once you venture past 90.
This presentation was recorded at the 2018 American Pets Alive! Conference.
About Mike Kaviani
Mike Kaviani began working with shelter animals at the Irvine Animal Care Center in California when he was 18. His "3rd Chance for Pets Program" received national recognition when IACC was given the 2007 Shelter of the Year award primarily due to this program.
Mike has been a Dogs Playing for Life Team Member and part of the program's development throughout his work with Aimee Sadler. Mike is a DPFL Lead Instructor and assists with seminars and provides mentorships. As Director of Lifesaving Operations at APA!, Mike provides immediate and ongoing support, leadership, and problem solving for the shelter's staff and volunteers in all of APA's animal care programs.
In addition to these on-site responsibilities, Mike is tasked with innovating new solutions in areas such as Length of Stay, Animal Care and Enrichment, Dog Behavior and Training solutions for the last 5%, Volunteer engagement and retention, and creating national No-Kill models and best practices. Lastly, Mike is also a proud member of Austin's Animal Advisory Commission.
About Marian Cannell
Marian Cannell began her work with dogs in 2011 as a private dog trainer. In 2012, Marian joined the staff of Austin Pets Alive!, and in the Spring following, she was invited to join the behavior team under the direction of Mike Kaviani. Shortly after joining the team, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary provided the opportunity for APA! to integrate a new position into the behavior department, the Canine Good Citizen Coordinator.
Marian Cannell enthusiastically accepted the position, and created the Canine Good Citizen Program model that Austin Pets Alive! still uses today. At the end of 2014, Marian moved up into the position of Lead Trainer at Austin Pets Alive!, specializing in behavior modification for the dogs most at risk of euthanasia.
In the summer of 2016, Marian took on the role of Dog Behavior Program Co-Manager with Aaron Caldwell, and is now collaborating as much as possible to keep Austin the largest "No-Kill" city in the world.
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The 8 Best VPNs for Kodi in 2020
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Jeremy Laukkonen is tech writer and the creator of a popular blog and video game startup. He also ghostwrites articles for numerous major trade publications.
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Best Overall: ExpressVPN
"Fast, easy to use, affordable, and supports peer to peer."
Best Budget: Ivacy
"Has a decent monthly price, at about $10 per month with no contract commitments."
Best for Unblocking Content: NordVPN
"For those interested in unblocking media content from around the world, NordVPN is a fantastic choice."
Best for Privacy: Private Internet Access
"Laser focused on providing fantastic levels of privacy and security without skimping on other important features."
Best Free: Windscribe
"Has a level of service that’s unmatched by other free options."
Best for Fire Stick: IPVanish
"Has a native Fire TV app that you can install on your Fire Stick, Fire TV, or Fire Tablet, and it works with Kodi."
Best Free for Android: TunnelBear
"TunnelBear has a native Android app that’s easy to use, and it’s fully compatible with Kodi."
Best for Fast Streaming: VyprVPN
"Offers some of the fastest download speeds of any VPN."
Read our full VPN methodology to see how we tested and rated each service.
Buy on Expressvpn.com
ExpressVPN is our top pick for the best overall Kodi VPN because it has everything you could possibly want. It’s fast, easy to use, affordable, supports peer-to-peer, and has native apps for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, and even works with a lot of VPN routers. It also has servers in a staggering 148 different locations.
Priced at about $7 per month, with a multi-month commitment, ExpressVPN isn’t the cheapest option out there. You’re paying for an excellent level of service though, including the blazing-fast transfer speeds required to stream 4K video through Kodi, access to more than 3,000 different servers to unblock content in different countries, and a best-in-class user experience.
ExpressVPN includes one-click apps for Kodi, and it works with all your devices, including Fire Stick and Android-based Smart TVs. They even provide extensive documentation to help you get set up, including specific instructions for setting ExpressVPN up with Kodi.
Buy on Ivacy.com
If you’re working with a budget, Ivacy is a VPN that works with Kodi, has all of the most important features, and is a bit cheaper than the competition. It isn’t as fast as some, and the peer to peer support is better with other VPNs, but it works well enough to get the job done.
Ivacy has a decent monthly price, at about $10 per month with no contract commitments. It also has a fantastic multi-month deal, at a little over $2 per month if you pay for a couple of years in advance. It isn’t exactly free, but it’s the next best thing.
Most platforms that can run Kodi have native Ivacy apps, including Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. Ivacy also has a Kodi plugin, with instructions on how to get it up and running, and you can even use Ivacy with Kodi on your Amazon Fire Stick.
Ivacy Review
Buy on Nordvpn.com
While you don’t technically need a VPN to use Kodi, the right one can really improve your experience. For those interested in unblocking media content from around the world, like Netflix, NordVPN is a fantastic choice. It works great with Kodi, and it has more than 5,000 servers in over 60 locations.
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In October 2019, NordVPN confirmed an expired internal private key was exposed. This allowed hackers unauthorized access to one of its servers in Finland. However, the company assured users that customer data was not exposed and the problem has been corrected. Due to this, we have revised our original star rating to take this circumstance into account, even though it is still a reputable service that many use and recommend.
NordVPN Review
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Private Internet Access Review
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Buy on Windscribe.com
Free VPN services all come with drawbacks, but Windscribe is the best of the lot. The monthly data limit is generous, speeds are acceptable, it works on a lot of different platforms, and it’s compatible with Kodi.
The problem with free VPN services is they suffer from problems like limitations on usage, very few servers, and slow transfer speeds. Even one of those can make a VPN unsuitable for Kodi, which is why Windscribe stands out.
With a free Windscribe account, you can use up to 10GB of data per month, establish unlimited connections, and access servers in 10 different countries. These are all still limitations compared to premium VPNs, but it’s a level of service that’s unmatched by other free options.
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Windscribe VPN Review
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There are a lot of decent options out there for using a VPN with Kodi on a Fire Stick, especially if you run the VPN directly on your router. The best option for combining a VPN with Kodi on a Fire Stick is IPVanish, which is also a fantastic VPN in its own right, and a close runner up for best overall Kodi VPN.
IPVanish has a native Fire TV app that you can install on your Fire Stick, Fire TV, or Fire Tablet, and they all work with Kodi. To get up and running with a VPN-protected installation of Kodi on your Fire Stick, all you have to do is install the official IPVanish app, start up Kodi, and start streaming.
In addition to Fire TV, IPVanish also has apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. It’s also a great VPN for general use and streaming high definition content through other services, with decent connection speeds, peer-to-peer support, and over 1,300 servers in more than 75 locations around the world.
IPVanish VPN Review
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Free Android VPNs that work with Kodi suffer from all the same problems that general free VPNs must deal with. As a tradeoff for not having to pay anything, you’ll have to sacrifice in terms of data limits, speed, and server availability. Those are all important when you’re using Kodi, but TunnelBear takes our recommendation if you really can’t afford to pay for a VPN.
TunnelBear has a native Android app that’s easy to use, and it’s fully compatible with Kodi. The downside is that a free account only provides you with 500MB of data transfer per month. If you watch a lot of streaming content through Kodi, that amount of data won’t last very long.
In addition to working with Android, TunnelBear also works with Windows, macOS, and iOS. It’s extremely simple to set up and use, so the free version of this VPN is a great way to check out how a VPN works without paying a lot of money upfront.
TunnelBear VPN Review
Buy on Vyprvpn.com
Using a VPN slows down your internet connection speed, and that’s just one of the costs associated with the increased security. That can become a problem when using a VPN to stream high definition video content. If you’re having trouble with VPN speeds, VyprVPN is an excellent option that allows the sort of fast transfer speeds required to stream high definition video through Kodi.
VyprVPN has servers in more than 70 locations, and they offer some of the fastest download speeds of any VPN. Integration with Kodi isn’t the easiest, but VyprVPN does provide a guide to using the service with OpenELEC, which works with Kodi. It’s a little bit of work, but it’s worth it if you want to stream 4K video through a VPN.
Native apps are available for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, some smart televisions, and even compatible VPN routers. So, depending on the device that you’re running Kodi on, you may just be able to use the corresponding app for a pain-free setup process.
VyprVPN Review
Interested in reading more reviews? Take a look at our selection of the best VPNs for gaming and the best VPN service providers.
Our writers spent 8 hours researching the most popular VPNs for Kodi on the market. Before making their final recommendations, they considered 30 different VPNs overall, read over 30 user reviews (both positive and negative), and tested 6 of the VPNs themselves. All of this research adds up to recommendations you can trust.
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Credit for this entry to:
Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Plaque: East 15 Acting School
Margaret Walker (1922 - 2013) founder of East 15 Acting School and Theatre Workshop director.
Joan Littlewood (1914 - 2002) remembered here.
Loughton Town Council 2014
Site: East 15 Acting School (1 memorial)
IG10, Rectory Lane, Hatfields, Loughton Campus, University of Essex
East 15 Acting School
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Acting group founded by Joan Littlewood at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East....
Joan Littlewood
Theatre director. Born Stockwell. 1945 set up the Theatre Workshop which move...
Acting school director. She worked with Joan Littlewood in the Theatre Worksh...
Loughton Town Council
An Urban District Council from 1900 to 1933. It became part of Chigwell Urban...
Bullivant’s Wharf - WW2 bomb
In memory of the more than 40 people killed and 60 injured, in the evening of...
Lord Denman
Lord Denman, Lord Chief Justice of England, lived in this house 1816 - 1834, ...
Cecil Hepworth - SE13
Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema 1996 Cecil M. Hepworth, British film pr...
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This corner stone was laid by Lt Colonel S. Richards, commanding Bloomsbury R...
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US Sub Tender Repairs Completed
Submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) departs Polaris Point to conduct sea trials. (U.S. Navy photo by Derek Harkins)
A 40-year-old submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) has completed sea trials and returned to Guam following extensive boiler repairs and testing.
During sea trials, the crew, comprising uniformed Sailors and Military Sealift Command (MSC) civilian mariners, participated in more than three days of events and operations at sea to test the readiness of the ship.
The crew participated in abandon ship drills, man overboard drills, engineering exercises, damage control training and countermeasure wash-down testing.
“December has been a very busy and productive month for our team,” said Capt. Jeff Bierley, commanding officer of Frank Cable. “The ship and crew performed extremely well on sea trials, and it was great to get our ship to sea for the first time in over a year.”
According to Bierley, sea trials were a great way to conclude a very eventful year for the crew. Earlier in 2019, the ship underwent extensive maintenance and preservation work before relieving the submarine tender Emory S. Land (AS 39) as lead maintenance activity on the Guam waterfront.
Frank Cable, forward deployed to the island of Guam, repairs, rearms, and re-provisions submarines and surface vessels in the Indo-Pacific region.
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The Netherlands-based Wijnne Barends Chartering, an affiliate of the Dutch Spliethoff Group, has ordered four new next-generation…
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Osner | Print Collections
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Klaus Tiedge | Wildlife Photography & Tribal Portraiture
TRIBUTE TO KLAUS TIEDGE (1965 - 2019)
Klaus Tiedge (1965 - 2019) is a German-born wildlife photographer who lived in Cape Town South Africa. His collections comprise of wildlife prints, baobab trees and tribal portraiture which was photographed on location. His most successful body of work is the Pride of Africa collection which comprises of low numbered limited edition prints which are offered in various sizes.
Click on the relevant picture to view the entire collection>>
Lion Collection | Pride of Africa
Giraffe & Zebra | Pride of Africa
Various | Pride of Africa
Cats | Pride of Africa
Vertical Prints | Pride of Africa
Elephant | Pride of Africa
Rhino | Pride of Africa
Square Format | Pride of Africa
Nyeupe Collection | Tiedge
Himba Tribal Portfolio
People of the Maasai
Bushmen Tribal Portfolio
About the Artist | Biography
TRIBUTE TO AN ICONIC WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER AND FRIEND WHO HAS SADLY PASSED ON.
It is with great sadness that I bring you the news that one of our artists whom we represent and a close friend, Klaus Tiedge, has passed away after a two-year struggle with cancer. Klaus left us in the early hours on the 1st July 2019 at his family home in Cape Town.
In 2010 I met this extraordinary person when he strolled into my gallery seeking representation in wildlife photography. From that meeting, I was honoured to mentor him in his newfound passion for wildlife photography and tribal portraiture.
In our early meetings, we both agreed that that landscape of the bush was as important as the animals, and so he set out to shoot captivating images showcasing the animals in their environment which he achieved very successfully.
A few years later, leading up to his first exhibition I got to see just how passionate and determined he was. He knew what he wanted and was prepared to travel to the ends of the earth to find it. I still recall the delight on his face when returning from an adventure. His relentless pursuit for capturing iconic wildlife photographs was inspirational and a joy to behold.
What many people don't know is that Klaus was a very successful fashion and lifestyle photographer before turning to the African bush. This, I believe ingrained the "stylized" approach to his highly successful PRIDE OF AFRICA collection for which he became known for. I have always commented that in his photography it seemed as if he directed the animals, as one would a model, on exactly where to stand and how to pose.
His photographs feel like classic portraits photographed under controlled lighting by a master photographer, under the direction of a stylist.
When diagnosed with cancer, Klaus and his family's world was turned upside down. It was in the last two years that I got to see the unbelievable determination and positive attitude of the man. What was amazing is that over the last year, working with Dean Paarman he still filmed an incredible documentary called "Safari of my Life". A moving film where he shows behind the scenes footage of how he went about his wildlife photography and his passion for the African bush even during the height of his struggles. Furthermore, last month, he had a solo exhibition in Munich, Germany, which has been a great success and an achievement he was very proud of.
During his last few months, those who did not know Klaus would not have even known his circumstance. His positive attitude and love for his family were at the forefront of his life right until till the end and this is what makes his death so sudden and difficult to deal with.
I have lost a great friend who will be loved and remembered for his humorous spirit, being a caring husband and loving father plus a photographic artist with immense talent.
On behalf of the gallery, staff and clients I would like to extend our deepest sympathy to his wife Sandra and his children during this difficult time. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
With many of our clients who have admired Klauses work and invested in his prints, I have had to delay sending out this news, as we needed to get clarity on how we would continue representing his work and being part of his legacy going forward.
The good news is that the original limited edition prints are still available and will now carry an estate emboss, authorised and signed by Sandra, his wife.
Klaus, you will never be forgotten and your wonderful family and work will be your legacy!
Rest in peace, my friend!
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According to a new study, graphene coatings may offer the ability to control the water evaporation process from various surfaces. Carried out by a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter in Beijing, China, the study looked at the interactions of water molecules with various graphene-covered surfaces. The team reports its findings in a paper in 2D Materials.
"Water droplet evaporation is a ubiquitous and complicated phenomenon, and plays a pivotal role in nature and industry," said lead author Yongfeng Huang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. "Understanding its mechanism at the atomic scale, and controlling evaporation rate rationally is important for applications including heat transfer and body-temperature control. However, it remains a significant challenge."
"Our results are an important discovery on graphene-mediated evaporation, and also point to new ways to rationally control evaporation process, for realistic applications in heat transfer, printing and related areas." Yongfeng Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
The team's experiments showed that a graphene coating controls water evaporation by suppressing the evaporation rate on hydrophilic surfaces and accelerating evaporation on hydrophobic ones. "More importantly, we found graphene is 'transparent' for evaporation," said Huang. "When a hydrophilic surface is coated with graphene, the contact line of the water droplet is dramatically shortened or elongated, because of adjustment in wetting angles. This leads to changes in the evaporation rate."
The researchers wanted to understand the 'transparency' in graphene-mediated evaporation and uncover its underlying structure at the atomic scale. To do this, they conducted molecular dynamics simulations of water droplet evaporation, on surfaces with and without a graphene coating. This allowed them to identify, for the first time, the atomic-scale mechanism for substrate-induced evaporation events. The mechanism turned out to involve a water molecule forming a precursor state at the contact line before it evaporates.
"Further analysis showed water density in evaporation transition states is largest at the contact line, then decreases exponentially as it goes away from the substrate," explained Huang. "Single water desorption at the contact line dominates the droplet evaporation process. Since the graphene does not alter the binding energy of a single water molecule, it has negligible effects on evaporation of per contact line.
"Our results are an important discovery on graphene-mediated evaporation, and also point to new ways to rationally control evaporation process, for realistic applications in heat transfer, printing and related areas."
"Using experiments supplemented with molecular dynamics simulations, Dr. Huang and co-workers have provided fascinating insights into the molecular mechanisms governing the evaporation of water droplets on technologically relevant graphene-coated substrates," said James Sprittles from the University of Warwick, UK, who was not involved in the study. "Their research shows that wettability is solely responsible for evaporation rate changes, and simultaneously opens up several interesting topics for future research, such as how molecular effects (e.g. precursor nanofilms and thermal fluctuations) can be incorporated into macroscopic modelling."
This story is adapted from material from IOP Publishing, with editorial changes made by Materials Today. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of Elsevier. Link to original source.
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Episode CH4.2.6
← Episode CH4.2.5
Episode CH4.3.1 →
Title The Max Headroom Show
US Air Date 18 Dec 1985
UK Air Date 19 Aug 1986
Length 30 minutes
Guests Boy George
The Boy George interview segment.
Crew Talk Show Crew
Matt Frewer Max Headroom
The last episode of the second season of the Max Headroom talk show featured Culture Club lead singer Boy George.
The MaxRchives contain a complete recording of the Cinemax version of this episode. A clip of of the Boy George interview can be found on YouTube.
Videos & Segments
Max introduces the show and his guest Boy George.
Video: The Police, "Synchronicity II"
Max sulks about his lack of fan mail.
Video: Belouis Some, "Imagination"
Max compares the US to an epic movie.
Video: Paul Hardcastle, "19"
Max muses about Beethoven's deafness.
Video: Black Lace, "Agadoo"
Max and his guest Boy George talk about:
What to call each other
Sanity and insane asylums and recording Culture Club's next album in Switzerland
Clip from video: Culture Club, "Victims"
Max asks George about golf and gets a scorching reply
Video: Culture Club, "Victims"
George's book & Max's book (Max yawns and gets zinged again)
Acting on "The A-Team" and "Dynasty"
Max is back to golf...
Video: Culture Club, "Victims" concludes
Minorities & gays
The Athens concert (George refuses to answer)
Video: Bonzo Dog Doo Da Band, "Urban Spaceman"
Insert: Max chides George for touching up his makeup with a powderpuff
George's career ("I'd like to go about ten more years.")
Max gives George an autograph book with his signature on the first page and insists that he not thank him.
Max croons "It's Been a Great Show" to close the show and the season - all about his own wonderfulness, of course - in what might be the first appearance of his white suit.
Notes & Commentary
Max makes passing references to a number of provocative, even touchy subjects with George, who ignores or brushes them off. At this time, George was refusing to talk about his sexuality and did not come out as "militantly gay" for a number of years, so Max's comments about supporting gay causes are more edged than they might seem. (He also threw gay comments at Simon LeBon; it's hard to imagine these near-slurs would have been allowed in later eras.)
The question about the Athens concert is interesting. Although mostly forgotten, the punk/Anglo music concert in late July 1985 was a tense, fraught conflict between performers from a disliked culture performing in the midst of another. The performers were booed and pelted and near-riot conditions persisted. You'll find an excellent writeup here.
Max (Matt Frewer) again calls the guest gift a "momento" - as he did with Sting's golf shoes.
Quotes & Caps
(Max's speech in these shows uses extreme stuttering and repetition, which I will not attempt to replicate in the transcriptions here. You can assume that any stutter noted goes on many times longer.)
Max: "Here on the Max-Max Headroom show, I'll be having a head to head, shoulder to shoulder, eyeball to eyeball, mascara to mascara-to mascara confrontation with Boy George. Could be messy. I don't know who's more nervous: Boy-Boy-Boy... or George."
Max: "Fan mail. Well, I haven't had any yet.
Max: "Who was it that said watching the United States is like watching an epic movie. Oscar Wilde? Woody Allen? ...M-M-Max Headroom. Just think: they've got an actor for a president, economic advisors called projectionists, even their latest defense strategy is named after a film: Star Wars. And why pick on that one? Why not something gentler, like Kramer Vs. Kramer? And of course, everywhere in the world to them is just a theater of operations... except when they're fighting in it. And then, it's a theater... of war."
Max: "You know, I was singing that tune just the other day. And I got a kind of... heh, heh... a kind of ringing in my ears and suddenly I couldn't hear a thing. And I thought: if Beethoven was deaf as a post, how did he know what he was playing? For example: if his piano was out of tune when he played 'duh-duh-duh-DUM,' what was the tune he was actually playing in his head? It could have been 'aga-doo-doo, aga-doo-doo' - it's a pity, because he could have had a big hit with that."
Max: "Now, this could be tough for you, because I'd like to get right down to that olllld nitty-gritty. The bottom. Line, as they say. And ask you this question: What do you think of golf?"
Boy George: "Well, I've got better things to do with my balls."
Max: (yawns) "Sounds like a heavy, serious, down-to-earth, kinda... ball-ball-ballsy book."
Boy George: "You should read it. It has a lot of advice for abnormal people, you'd enjoy it."
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Editorial by Steven Shakespeare
from Modern Believing Vol 58:3 - July 2017
In the week before writing this editorial, Article 50 was triggered in the UK, initiating the start of its withdrawal from the EU
At the same time, Reker Ahmed, a young Kurdish asylum seeker, was viciously beaten by a gang in Croydon, leaving him in a critical condition. Commenting on the event, the head of a fostering agency which works with many young asylum seekers, said ‘We have made several reports to the police of hate crimes. We think it is rising. It is entirely linked to the environment that has been created by the public discourse about people coming to this country from overseas’ (The Guardian, Monday 3rd April 2017).
No doubt many who voted for Brexit had noble aims, but there is little doubt that the discourse surrounding it has fuelled anti-foreigner mistrust, hatred and violence. More than ever, we hear that the country is ‘full’ and the refugees and other migrants are a swarm, a foreign body that must be expelled or kept out entirely. Allied to this is a warped nostalgia for lost British imperial grandeur. We have even witnessed the absurd spectacle of senior politicians threatening war with Spain over the status of Gibraltar.
Modern Believing is obviously not a topical news journal, and we have to take a longer view. Having said that, it is clear that the ramifications of Brexit, and the global rise of a nationalist, intolerant populism, will have long-lasting effects. A robust articulation of liberal, progressive and liberationist values, and a theology in transformative dialogue with the world, are urgently needed.
If these are to have any purchase, they have to respond to the machinery driving global capitalism: the machines which generate anxiety, insecurity and inequality to fuel ‘growth’; the machines which burn the earth upon which we stand and degrade the air we breathe; the machines which make all of life a competition for scarce resources. Liberals cannot speak from a detached standpoint, pronouncing universal values from above the fray. We need to listen to those on the sharp end of anti-black and anti-migrant violence, home repossessions, benefit cuts and all the panoply of prejudice which spills out from the forces of reaction.
Decrying this is easy; answering it, and finding the social movements to build an alternative, can appear almost impossible. One thing is for sure: the xenophobia we are caught up in today offers no alternative. It is merely an illusory dream of pure national or racial identity which will be co-opted to serve the ravages of global capital.
The articles gathered in this issue do not address these contemporary anxieties, at least not directly. However, they are part of a longer trajectory: of creating the imaginative conditions for a different vision of the human, one which is not based on the premise of competitive rivalry and divine violence (or its secular equivalents).
In a departure from our normal practice, we’re delighted to include a longer article by Robert B. Slocum, which examines the career and theology of Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy in depth. Studdert Kennedy is a neglected Anglican theologian, whose experiences in the First World War shaped his approach. He was poisoned by gas, and showed enormous bravery in the thick of combat. This summer marks the centenary of his being awarded the Military Cross. He was taught by Henry Major, and described in the Modern Churchman as the ‘greatest of popular expounders of Modernism’.
He was a person transformed by war: from his enthusiastic patriotic support for it in 1914, he came to see that ‘there are no fruits of victory, no such thing as victory in modern war. War is a universal disaster, and as far as I am concerned I’m through’. The experience drove him the reconsider the power of God in the face of evil and suffering. In fact, long before the more famous work of Moltmann (who was a great admirer), he proclaimed the need for a God who suffers. Rejecting pious superstitions about prayer or providence, he nevertheless upheld the empowering strength of a faith engaged with the reality and pain of life, because God is encountered in the midst of that pain.
As we approach the centenary of the end of the First World War, in a world where asylum seekers are beaten near to death and children are gassed and bombed in Syrian hospitals by their own government, Studdert Kennedy’s theology sounds a note of realistic hope: not for fantasy solutions, but for a life based on faith, not fear.
There are connections to be drawn with Simon Emdin’s careful consideration of the theology of atonement. Emdin argues that the key starting point is that ‘in Christ’s earthly life and death, God was acknowledging before His creatures His ultimate responsibility together with humans for human sin’. This divine responsibility underlies the sense that God is ‘with us’ in all things. God, having brought the world into being, shares with us culpability for evil.
For Emdin, this takes nothing away from human responsibility. Rather, it enables us to see God as fully committed to us and our world, and alongside us in the struggle with evil. Whether this can help us to resolve the dilemmas of theodicy, I am not so sure; but I think Studdert Kennedy would have approved the sense of God’s intimate involvement with our creaturely life and its burdens.
Perhaps a more radical reconsideration of the nature of God is offered in our final article, by Hugh Rock. He finds that much liberal theology still bases itself on a ‘Platonist God’ – a God beyond the world and human life. However, he argues that this is a kind of nostalgia that fails to do justice to the imperative of liberal freedom, the need to explore ways of understanding God that resonate with our contemporary materialist world-view.
Rock advances what he calls ‘social theism’ in which the concept of God stands for ‘affirmation of life-meaning’. Drawing on the work of Don Cupitt, Anthony Freeman and the Quaker tradition, Rock directs us away from thinking of God as ‘out there’ in an objective, supernatural realm, and invites us to discover ‘the existence of God in the sense of significance for life emanating from the cosmos’.
Our contributions in this issue vary in tone and focus, and no doubt the authors and their readers will find significant areas of disagreement. However, I commend them all to you, because each in its own way seeks to wrestle with that it means to talk about God when we allow our theologies to be forged by experience rather than fantasy and wish-fulfilment.
They give me hope that liberal and radical voices can still speak from a place of dialogue with the pain of the world – and resist attempts to deal with that pain through creating scapegoats and imagining demons.
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Targeted Combo Active in Advanced Ovarian Cancer
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by Charles Bankhead, Senior Associate Editor, MedPage Today March 28, 2018
NEW ORLEANS -- The combination of a PARP inhibitor and a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor proved active in different populations of recurrent ovarian cancer, according to results of two preliminary clinical studies reported here at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology meeting.
The combination of olaparib (Lynparza) and durvalumab (Imfinzi) resulted in a 12-week disease control rate of 81%, including an objective response rate of 72%. The MEDIOLA trial involved patients with relapsed, platinum-sensitive, ovarian cancer with germline BRCA mutations. The combination's activity appeared unrelated to PD-L1 tumor expression or tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, said Yvette Drew, MBBS, PhD, of the Northern Center for Cancer Care in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
"On the basis of these favorable results, an expansion of this evaluation of durvalumab and olaparib in recurrent platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer has begun," said Drew. "The evaluation will include a planned 60-patient cohort of patients with BRCA wild-type ovarian cancer, as well as expansion of the BRCA-mutant cohort from the current 32 patients to a total of 100 patients."
"The evaluation of the durvalumab/olaparib combination as first-line therapy in ovarian cancer in the global phase III DUO-O trial is expected to begin by mid-year 2018," she added.
The rationale for combining a PARP inhibitor and an anti-PD-1 agent in ovarian cancer came from preclinical evidence that PARP inhibition upregulates PD-L1 expression, and that increased PARP inhibitor–induced DNA damage might enhance immune recognition, said Drew, who was reporting findings of a phase II basket study that also included patients with triple-negative breast cancer.
Investigators enrolled 34 patients with relapsed, BRCA-mutated, platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer, treated with as many as four prior lines of therapy. None of the patients had a treatment history that included a PARP inhibitor or an immunotherapy agent. The trial had primary objectives of disease-control (response plus stable disease) at 12 weeks and safety.
The efficacy analysis included 32 patients. The combination led to 23 objective responses, including nine complete responses. Three additional patients had stable disease, resulting in a disease-control rate of 81%. Patients with exposure to a single prior therapy (n=13) had the highest response rate (77%). The rate dipped slightly to 67% in nine patients with two prior lines of therapy and 70% in 10 patients with three or more prior lines of therapy.
The most common grade ≥3 adverse events were anemia (12%) and increased lipase (9%). Hypothyroidism (15%) and rash (12%) were the most frequently reported immune-mediated adverse events, irrespective of grade.
In the second of the two studies reported at a late-breaking abstract session, the combination of niraparib (Zejula) and pembrolizumab (Keytruda) led to objective responses in 25% to 30% of patients with recurrent, platinum-resistant or refractory ovarian cancer. The response rate exceeded historical results with either drug used as monotherapy in the same clinical setting, said Panagiotis A. Konstantinopoulos, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
The TOPACIO trial -- a phase I/II dose-finding/expansion evaluation of niraparib and pembrolizumab in patients with relapsed, platinum-resistant/refractory ovarian cancer -- included a total of 62 patients whose disease exhibited various combinations of platinum resistance, BRCA status, homologous recombination status, and PD-L1 expression.
Using the standard definition of response lasting ≥6 months to define platinum sensitivity, resistance was determined by the individual investigators. Progression within 1 month after second- or subsequent-line platinum therapy defined platinum-refractory disease. Patients with primary platinum-refractory disease (progression within 1 month of initial platinum treatment) were excluded.
Eligible patients could have received as many as five prior lines of therapy. Patients with platinum-sensitive disease and no additional platinum-containing options were eligible.
Biomarker studies showed that 11 patients had BRCA-mutated disease, 22 had homologous recombination deficiency (HRD), and 33 tested positive for PD-L1 expression.
The efficacy data showed objective responses in 15 of 60 (25%) evaluable patients, including two complete responses. An additional 26 patients had stable disease, resulting in a disease control rate of 68%. Across various biomarker-selected populations -- including BRCA-mutated and wild-type disease and HRD-positive and negative subgroups -- the combination led to response rates of 26% to 29%. The disease control rate ranged from 57% to 68% across the subgroups.
Konstantinopoulos said the results compared favorably with single-agent activity for the individual drugs. PARP inhibitors produced response rates of 25% to 30% in BRCA-mutated, platinum-resistant ovarian cancer but showed minimal activity in other settings, including BRCA wild type/platinum resistant and BRCA-mutated/platinum refractory (response rates of 0-14%). PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors have been associated with response rates of 10% to 15%, irrespective of PD-L1 expression status.
The combination was generally well tolerated, the most common grade ≥3 adverse events being anemia (19%), thrombocytopenia (9%), decreased platelet count (6%), and fatigue (4%).
The study of olaparib and durvalumab was supported by AstraZeneca and MedImmune Oncology.
Drew disclosed relationships with AstraZeneca and Clovis Oncology.
The study of niraparib and pembrolizumab was supported by Tesaro.
Konstantinopoulos disclosed relationships with Pfizer, Merck and AstraZeneca.
Society of Gynecologic Oncology
Source Reference: Drew Y, et al "An open-label, phase II basket study of olaparib and durvalumab (MEDIOLA): Results in germline BRCA-mutated platinum-sensitive relapsed ovarian cancer" SGO 2018; Late-Breaking Abstract 4.
Source Reference: Konstantinopoulos PA, et al "TOPACIO: preliminary activity and safety in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer in a phase I/II study of niraparib in combination with pembrolizumab" SGO 2018; Late-Breaking Abstract 3.
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Ambitions: Brely Evans and Erica Page Share Their Exciting Journey So Far
Ambitions is the new OWN series that will satisfy your longing for all the escapist fun, debauchery, and bitchery you want from your primetime soaps.
Created by Jamey Giddens (The Rich and the Ruthless) and backed by Will Packer Productions (Girls Trip, Ride Along, Roots), Ambitions focuses on four families from distinct backgrounds in Atlanta and features a richly diverse cast that is still too rare on television.
During a recent set visit, we spoke with Brely Evans and Erica Page who both play bold, outspoken women on Ambitions who know what they want and aren't afraid to fight for it.
Evans stars as Rondell Lancaster, the sister of Atlanta Mayor Evan Lancaster (Brian White) and manager of the Thelma’s Place restaurant. As the new face of an anti-gentrification campaign, she never thought she’d become a crusader for the people, but it’s a badge she wears with pride – and nobody is removing it.
Erica Page plays the role of Bella (Tru) Trujillo, Atlanta’s newest and trendiest fashion designer. She’s the exclusive dress designer for First Lady Stephanie Lancaster (Robin Givens) but has set her sights much higher.
The two women have shared quite a journey of late as they both starred together on a show titled Last Call on Bounce TV before scoring their Ambitions roles.
"We're blown away. Like how are we on two different networks at the same time? We're like, what is this energy? But we're going to keep it going," Evans laughed.
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Both Evans and Page are very excited to be a part of Ambitions, something they knew from the very beginning.
Page almost quit acting in 2017, having given up on the hope that her carefully crafted vision board would have fruitful results. After taking a job in the mortgage industry, within one week of getting it, she received multiple signs from God that she shouldn't give up.
Heeding the signs, Page began booking multiple small projects, and landed her roles Last Call and Ambitions almost simultaneously.
On her vision board, she had both Will Packer Productions and Oprah for obvious reasons, "And I ended up booking a show that's produced by Will Packer that is on the OWN network, which is Oprah's network!"
Working for OWN, the actors get treated very well, and even better, "Will Packer shows his face, and he's here, and he's conversing with us and talking about character. He's talking about marketing and finding out what we do social-media wise," Evans shares.
With everyone so open characters suggestions of all kinds, they've created a stellar working environment on the new series.
But the working environment is only part of the equation for a successful television series. Rest assured, that's not all Evans and Page are excited about.
When she first the Ambitions pilot script, Page thought, "Oh my God, this is amazing, and I can't believe I'm going to be a part of it."
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Evans knew straight away she was reading a role meant for her before she even got the full pilot.
"I know her because she's me, like outspoken, not afraid to give an opinion, and really doesn't give a [frak] about anybody who has something who opposes what she says because she really stands for the people." Evans has the same fire in her belly as Rondell and related to her character immediately.
Bella excited Page because her Ambitions character, she felt typecast as the grumpy nurse or the reporter, and the "sexy" and "fashionable" Bella finally allowed her to do something different.
As she learned more about the character, Page admits she was shocked at how much she has in common with Bella even in terms of her upbringing, so she connected with her in a surprising number of ways.
While I'm reluctant to share too much about the excitement you're going to find with their characters, the term "spicy" gets used to describe the good fortune both characters have in on-screen relationships.
Outspoken Rondell will be connected with a "true 'gentle' man who can come and soothe that raging fire" that burns inside of her, Evans teased, and viewers will want not only their glass of wine while watching, but a fan to wave away some of the smoldering heat!
It might seem at first like Mayor Lancaster is selling out his community possibly making it difficult for him and his sister to get along, but Evans feels assured her on-screen family is tough enough to get through it.
"Rondell and Evan have been through a lot, so it's not going to break us up," she says as you will learn both characters want the same thing, but they're going about it in different ways. It's that kind of material that makes soaps worth watching!
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It doesn't sound like Evan is the most squeaky clean mayor Atlanta has ever seen, and there is a juicy storyline for Rondell as she gets mighty close to Evan's harshest critic who also happens to be aiding rising U.S. Attorney Amara (Essence Atkins) in taking him down.
Bella might not come off in a very positive light the first few times you encounter her, but Page knows in her heart, Bella is a good person. Before getting too far into the scripts, the writers assured her that what she instills in the character she portrays is just as important as what's on the page.
"Yes, she does some really stupid things, and she makes some really impulsive decisions that hurt people," Page says, "but at the end of the day, it all comes down to her baby and her company. She came from nothing, and she wants to make something of herself.
She is determined and wants to provide for her baby what she wasn't able to have growing up. She's going to do whatever it takes get her way, but as time goes on, you'll see that she does feel bad, and she does have remorse."
There are many layers her character, and the filter drops humanizing her as time progresses.
"This show has created whole people," Evans says, with characters who are not one-dimensional. It's something they have all come to love about working on the show. There will be someone for everyone to relate to and some viewers will relate to many.
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I may not be up to sharing spoilers before the show has even premiered, but Evans says that standing at her kitchen counter reading what's upcoming makes her knees go weak, a feeling that reverberates through the entire cast.
Page is certain you have to watch Ambitions because while there are other shows out there like it right now, and you especially won't find anything that delivers it all in one sitting like Ambitions.
"It's sexy, and it's powerful, and it's intriguing. It's going to really reel you in and get your attention right away," she says.
"It has a real-life feeling to it, and then suddenly it's over the top," Evans agrees. "It's going to be one of those goodies," and you'll think you shouldn't be watching, but it will immediately become one of your favorite guilty pleasures.
Ambitions premieres on OWN Tuesday, June 18 at 10/9c. Keep reading TV Fanatic for more set-visit scoop from Essence Atkins, Robin Givens, Brian White, and Kendrick Cross!
source https://www.tvfanatic.com/2019/06/ambitions-brely-evans-and-erica-page-share-their-exciting-journe/
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Surrounded by 140 snakes, woman found dead with python wrapped around neck
Indiana woman found dead at a property owned by the county sheriff
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File photo: The snake was a reticulated python, like this one, which is native to southeast Asia and is considered to be the longest snake in the world.
By CNN.com Wire Service
By Allen Kim and Rebekah Reiss | CNN
A woman was found dead with an 8-foot python snake wrapped around her neck, according to Indiana State Police.
The snake was a reticulated python, which is native to southeast Asia and is considered to be the longest snake in the world.
The Benton County dispatch in Oxford, Indiana, received a 911 call Wednesday night after Laura Hurst, 36, was found unresponsive.
Medics arrived and attempted life-saving measures on her but were unsuccessful.
Police say there were 140 snakes at the property, and that approximately 20 of the snakes belong to Hurst. According to police, Hurst frequented the property “about twice a week.”
The home is owned by Benton County Sheriff Donald Munson, according to property records. Munson did not return a CNN call for comment Thursday afternoon.
Munson told the Lafayette Journal & Courier that Hurst’s death was a “tragic accident” and that he was “being fully cooperative with everybody.”
Indiana State Police Sgt. Kim Riley told CNN that no one lives in the home and that it had been renovated and set up specifically for the collection of snakes.
He said that Hurst was “apparently there checking on her snakes. For whatever reason, she apparently got the snake out and she was doing what people do with snakes.”
Riley said that the snake may have caused Hurst’s death and that an autopsy will be performed on Friday to provide an official cause of death.
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