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This is a list of Past Youth Group Activities.
Click here for our current activities.
2017-2018 activities: Click here for the Youth Group 2017-2018 Schedule.
The list below (for reference) begins January 2014. (For older activities click here.)
Date Activity Food Other Info.
Dec. 6 Christmas Caroling Valencia Pettigrew Devotion - Izzy
Dec. 13 Christmas Party - @ Coker’s 16135 N 1050th Road, Macomb - Bring gift for Humane Society!
Dec. 20 (No Youth Group)
Nov. 1 Game Night Barrie McVey Devotion - Jacob
Nov. 8 TBD Jill Dunlap Devotion - Laura
Nov. 15 TBD Hayley is Auctioneer
Nov. 22 TBD Pizza
Nov. 29 (No Youth Group - Thanksgiving Weekend)
Oct. 3-4 Lock-in and mission Sunday at Pekin UMC -
Tentative plans: Leave at 6:30 p.m.
Home around 2:30 p.m.
Hand Mime for Christmas
Nancy Barnett
(No Kim)
Devotion - Zach
Oct. 18 Movie night Pizza
(October 17 WP Homecoming)
Devotion -
Trunk or Treat 5:30-7:00 p.m.
(Dress up!!!!)
(Decorate church van and help with games) Wesley UMC
Sept. 6 No meeting. Labor Day weekend.
Sept. 13 Dairy Queen treat night
Kim Lampitt
Brenda Porter Devotion - Hayley
Sept. 20 Ball Fore - Meet at Ball Fore - call Kim or Nancy for a ride. Barb Coker Devotion - Pricilla
Sept. 27 Movie night Pizza Devotion - Alex
5:00 p.m. This is the first Youth Group meeting. This is for junior and senior high students. Information about this year's youth groups will be shared. We plan to have both a Junior High Youth Group and a Senior High Youth Group.
July 11-18, 2015: Mission Trip to Denver, CO.
May 3 Paintball (trip to Pekin)
Parents of youth attending the Youth Group Paintball in Pekin need to sign an online waiver form (it's pretty short).
Go to http://bit.ly/1OtqfKQ
(or go to http://pekinpaintballpark.com/ and click Waiver. Note the date is May 3; Groupname: "Wesley UM Church")
Click through the steps. Fill out the waiver for a minor. You sign your signature using the mouse on the screen. Then click Finish.
Cost is $15 (church pays the rest). Meet at 12:50 and leave at 1:00 p.m. We'll be home about 6:30 p.m.
Sign up at church, or contact Marilyn with your Jimmy Johns Sandwich choice (we'll eat on the ride home).
You also need a permission slip and a medical form on file.
We are hoping some of the youth from Pekin UMC will be joining us. The Pekin UMC Youth Group will also be going with us on the Denver Mission trip in July.
Information meeting about the summer mission trip to Denver (the trip is July 18-25).
Note1: We will start at 6:00 p.m.
Note2: This is for parents and youth.
We will eat at 6 p.m. (parents and youth can eat). We should be done around 7 p.m.
(This is a change in our schedule. The Baccalaureate for the Seniors is a 4 p.m.)
May 17 MHS Prom (no youth group)
MHS Graduation May 23 (no youth group)
Apr. 5 Easter - help with the Easter Breakfast in the morning.
Apr. 12 Deal or No Deal
Apr. 19 Make Your Own Sundae/Prep for Youth Sunday
Apr. 26 Youth Sunday - we will put on both worship services.
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Mar. 1 Youth Group with the Wesley Foundation. Go to the Wesley Foundation (WIU campus) at 6 p.m. We should be done about 7:30 p.m.
Mar. 8 Easter Craft and Make-Your-Own Smoothies. NOTE: for the craft we need needle-nose pliers (slim-nose pliers). If you have some, please bring them.
Mar. 15 (no youth group) Spring Break
Mar. 22 Set Up for Rummage Sale. 4-6 p.m. We will eat at the end.
Mar. 28, Sat. Rummage Sale tear-down.
Mar. 29 Winter Jam Trip to Peoria. Need a permission slip and medical form on file. Leave at 3:30 p.m. Cost is $10. Admission, transportation, JJ sandwich /chips/drink provided.
Feb. 1 Super Bowl Sub Sandwich Fund-Raiser. Come to the church kitchen to build subs at 7 a.m. (No youth group later in the day.)
Feb. 8 Coffee Talk Night 5 p.m.
Sat. Feb. 14 Ski Trip to SnowStar. Cost is $35 + money (or a sack lunch) to eat for lunch. Your $35 (and the church will pay the rest) will cover: lift ticket, ski/boots equipment, transportation, ski lesson, and supper on the way home. We'll meet at 8 a.m. (leave shortly after 8 a.m.). We should be back home around 9 p.m. Please let Marilyn know if you want to attend, by Friday, Feb. 6, so we can register as a group.
Youth Group 5 p.m. Build Your Own Baked Potato/Planning
Jan. 18 Quad City Mallards Hockey trip - Sign up with Marilyn. Cost is $20. You need a permission slip. Meet a few minutes before 2:00 p.m. (Sun., 1/18/15). We'll leave at 2 p.m. Cost (the church will pay the extra) covers ticket, transportation, one meal on the way home.
Jan. 25 Movie Night. 5 p.m. bring a friend.
Dec. 7 Christmas Caroling
Dec. 14 Christmas Party at Cokers (16135 N 1050th Rd.) - Bring a funny gift to exchange
Fri, Dec. 19 Lock In: Check-in between 10 and 11 p.m. The Lock-In is over at 7 a.m. Saturday. Bring your permission slip and games and game controllers. We are looking for parents to help chaperon for a couple hours. Two time slots: 10 p.m.-2:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m.- 7:00 a.m. Please let us know if you can help us out. (Parents need not stay the whole time slot. If you can be there for an hour or 2, it helps.)
No Youth Group - Merry Christmas!
Nov. 2 Minute to Win It 5 - 7 p.m.
Nov. 9 3 p.m.-6 p.m. Leaves for Loaves and Fishes - This is to raise money for the Loaves and Fishes food pantry - Day 1. We will eat at about 5:30 at church.
Nov. 16 Game Night - Bring your video games. Also 4-Square, Table Tennis, Pool.
Nov. 23 Leaves for Loaves and Fishes - This is to raise money for the Loaves and Fishes food pantry - Day 2. We will end with a Pizza Party at Aurelio's. Time TBA.
Nov. 30 Christmas crafts for the shut-ins.
Oct. 5 Christian Music Concert in LaHarpe - Jason Gray, Unspkoen, Lindsay McCaul and Carrolton. Meet at 4:45 p.m. at church. Leave at 5:00 p.m. Cost: $10. Church will provide transportation, JJ sandich/chips, and concert ticket. Sign up (in the youth room) so we can get you a ticket and so we have your sandwich choice. You can sign up a friend. Each person needs a permission slip. Music videos from these artists are here.
Oct. 12-13
Living Springs
Fall Games - 4 p.m. Sunday through noon Monday
Work Day - service project Monday, noon - 4 p.m.
Sign up at church (in the youth room). Each person needs a permission slip.
Oct. 19 Corn Maze at Horn Field Campus (985 China Road). 4 p.m. Cost is $5. We will eat at 5 p.m. (Done at 6 p.m.) If you need a ride or directions, call an adviser.
Oct. 26 Trunk or Treat
Sept. 7 Make Your Own Pizza Nite - Ala the Food Network we're going in the kitchen and getting creative. We will also discuss things you would like to do this semester.
Sept. 14 Flag Football at Veterans Park - 5 p.m. After the games we will provide transportation back to church, where we will eat. We will be done around 6:30 p.m.
Sept. 21
Movie Nite on the big screen in the Youth Room. 5-7 p.m. We will eat (as usual). Bring a friend.
Sept. 28 Board Game Night (5 p.m. at church) Bring games and a friend.
Aug. 24 Kick-off Cookout - 5-7 p.m. at the Olsen's, 44 Indian Trail Rd. (call for directions). Bring a friend. Outdoor games. Bring a dish to share. (If it rained out, we'll have it at the church.)
Aug. 31 no meeting - Labor Day
June 2014: Mission Trip to Denver, CO.
May 4 Video Scavenger Hunt. 5-7 p.m. (Last youth group meeting of the semester.)
May 11 no meeting - MHS Prom and Mother's Day
May 18 no meeting - MHS Graduation
May 26 no meeting - Memorial Day
Apr. 5 (Sat.) Rummage Sale Tear Down - 12:15 p.m.
Apr. 6 Outreach—Easter Crafts - meet at the church at 5 p.m.
Apr. 13 Pass out the Easter crafts in the morning. Movie night at 5 -7 p.m.
Easter - Help at the Easter Breakfast. Please help either.
Sat. at 2 p.m. (setup)
Sun. at 9:30 a.m. (during breakfast)
Sun. at 11:00 a.m. (clean-up)
Apr. 27 Guy/Girl Events: Guys: Paintball at Pekin Paintball !! Meet to leave at 1:00 p.m. Cost is $10, plus bring money for Subway (to eat) on the way home. Paintball games will run from about 3-5 p.m. (The church will pay the rest and provide transportation.) Important: We need 12 or more people to get the group rate. Sign the interest list in the Sr High Youth Room and pay your $10 by Easter, April 20. If we do not have 12 people, we will need to cancel. (We should be back to Macomb around 7 p.m.) Girls: Ball Fore, miniature golf. 4:30 p.m. Bring a friend. Eat at El Rancherito after. There will be transportation from Ball Fore to El Rancherito.
Mar. 1-2 The Lock-In is On. Check in at 11 p.m. You need a permission slip. If need be we can take the parent OK over the phone. Bring games and controllers. Mission/Youth Sunday during the 8:30 and 11 a.m. services.
Mar. 9 no meeting - Spring Break
Mar. 16 Pajama and Sit Com Nite. Wear pajamas (or sweats or comfortable clothes). We'll hang out, watch old-time sit coms, eat, and have root-beer floats at this throw-back Sit Com Nite. 5-7 p.m.
Mar. 23 Board Game Night/Avalon
Mar. 30 Rummage Sale Set-up
Feb. 2 Super Bowl Subs - Fundraiser for the mission trip. Meet downstairs kitchen by 7:00 a.m. (no youth meeting in the evening)
Feb. 9 Ice Skating (yep, it's cold enough). Go to Ball Fore at 4:45 pm. We will skate for an hour and then eat at the church at 6 p.m. Cost is $3. (If the weather warms up [yea right, that's not going to happen] so there's no ice we will have a Movie night at 5 pm in the youth room.)
Feb. 16-17 Ski Trip to Wisconsin. Overnight. Tentative plans: Leave 3:30 p.m. Sun. Feb. 16. Overnight at Portage UMC. Ski Monday. Home 10 p.m. Monday. Cost is $35, plus you need to bring money, or a sack lunch, for Sunday evening and Monday lunch. You get the following: transportation, lodging, ski lift ticket, equipment rental, breakfast on Monday, supper on Monday. Wesley Church will pay the costs above and beyond the $35. If a family has more than one person, the cost for each subsequent person is $30. You need to have a permission slip (and a medical form on file). This is an overnight in a church so bring a sleeping bag.
Feb. 23 Mission/Youth Sunday Planning
Jan. 5 No Youth Group - froze out - too cold!
Jan. 12 Youth group at church 5-6:30 p.m. Build Your Own Food Nite. Build your own baked potato with toppings and build your own banana split with different toppings. Bring a friend and your ideas for our winter and spring events.
Jan. 19 Euchre/Spoons/Card Game Night. 5-6:30 p.m. at church.
Jan. 26 Winter Jam Trip (Peoria Civic Center). This is a Christian Music Concert, featuring multiple bands, including the Newsboys and Tenth Avenue North. You need a permission slip. Cost is $5. Meet at the church at 3:15 p.m. (west parking lot). Wesley Church will provide transportation, $5 toward ticket cost (tickets are $10) and a sandwich for the trip over.
For more information see: http://www.jamtour.com/shows/peoria-il
Click here for more information on our Youth Group.
Address: 1212 W. Calhoun Street, Macomb, IL 61455-1299 Email: office@macombwesleyumc.com Phone: (309) 833-2153
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Studied directing at Film and Television Department of University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Graduated with Distinction from Michael Haneke’s Master Class.
1999 awarded Max Ophüls Prize for her short film Gfrasta.
Invited to Official Selection of Cannes Film Festival four times, participating in 2001 Cinéfondation section with Null Defizit; in 2003 Un Certain Regard section debuting Mader’s first feature film Struggle; in 2005 Tous les Cinémas du Monde section with Gfrasta; and in 2007 presenting her screenplay Serviam – Ich will dienen in the L’Atelier series.
In 2012 Mader’s film What Is Love premiered in the Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival.
Numerous international awards include the International Critics’ Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) and a nomination for Cannes’ Caméra d’Or.
In 2017, her feature film Life Guidance celebrates its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, competing in the Giornate degli Autori section.
Life Guidance (Futuristic Thriller, 2017)
What is Love (Documentary, 2012)
Serviam (Thriller, screenplay, 2007)
Struggle (Feature, 2003)
Null Defizit (Short Film, 2001)
Gfrasta (Short Film, 1998)
Ready For What (Documentary, 1997)
Kilometer 123,5 (Short Film, 1994)
Endstation Obdachlos (Documentary, 1992)
Does God exist after all?
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Jiggering it out at the PTO
Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman
Originally published on September 21, 2009.
Oh, to be a hip, Jewish intellectual… property owner. Stick with me here.
A while back I was following the story of the PTO’s refusal to register the mark NIGGA. As I put it then:
Forget “immoral or scandalous,” which, as we have said before, is an increasingly hopeless position for national government to take on almost anything in this enlightened era. Interestingly, though, this one will probably stick. Political correctness — in this case, quite correct! (most of the time) — is the empty husk of what was once considered the public virtue of “decency.”
No, the real problem is this: Can the Patent and Trademark Office register as a trademark a word that is, culturally (and almost legally) restricted for use to members of one race only — and that is considered practically a “hate crime” for members of other races to utilize? (As opposed to trademarks that no one can pronounce!) Now that seems as if it would be a bad policy decision for any government agency, much less one (i.e., the PTO) that takes eight months just to queue up a trademark application — no offense intended.
Now come the heebs — or, more specifically, racy, but not racist, Heeb magazine — and, in very much the same vein, the TTAB has bounced its appeal of the PTO’s refusal to register a (second) trademark for HEEB, on the grounds that the term heeb disparages persons. Hebrew persons, of course. Heeb-rews. Juice.
A similar argument to that utilized in connection with the NIGGA application was attempted by Heeb, mainly along the lines of, hey, we’re hip, we’re past all that, we’re taking the oppressive language of past repression and wearing it like a badge of pride. (See John Welch’s coverage here.)
I think* that’s a very good argument. And I think the whining of the usual suspects, professionals in the outrage and offendedness fields, cited in the opinion as tisk-tisking this and the previous (successful, as it turns out) application for a HEEB registration, is mostly pathetic.
In fact, unlike NIGGA or “nigger,” the turn-of-the-century-vintage slur heeb has lost virtually all its punch or offense. When you want to insult Jews these days, in fact, you just call them “Zionists Nazis” — that gets you, not opprobrium, but a job at the BBC or Columbia University.
In short, bubbele, the PTO — which has found a way to register numerous terms once considered derogatory when referring to those, fabulous or otherwise, who have adopted non-standard sexual practices — can’t open this Pandora’s box. The PTO acknowledges, implicitly, the objectively demonstrable fact that words that once shocked and offended are now ironic, defiant playthings of the hip, comfortably assimilated (in a multi-culti way) descendants of the former targets of some kinds of opprobrium. But the PTO ignores this fact when it comes to trademarks for kikes, shvartsers and the rest of us.
Get the point? “Hip.”
Well, it doesn’t ignore it, or the inconsistency involved, so much as hide behind a thick lens of pretended obtuseness, relying on “proof” of offensiveness such as outdated dictionaries and statements by such cultural barometers as the Anti-Defamation League.
No, it’s okay to “get it” when it comes to alternative-lifestyle terminology. But the PTO is, as we said, boxed in on the issue of racial slurs. For it is above all terrified of the prospect of what would happen politically if it issued a NIGGA or NIGGER trademark registration for anything, anyone, any time.
And if they can’t have theirs, the Jews can’t have ours, either. Sorry, my heebs.
UPDATE: Well, I’ve stepped in it now…
* I was consulted by Heeb in connection with this appeal, but I was not retained. You know — they wanted a bargain.
Disparaging, Immoral, Deceptive, or Scandalous Disparaging Trademarks, Heeb Trademark, Nigga Trademark
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2.11.2017 - 4.2.2018, Listasafn Íslands
The French artist Ange Leccia (b. 1952) was born in Corsica, and the unique position of the island has always fascinated him as a creative metaphor for the limits of time and space. He began to work with cinematography as an art form early in the 1980s, and his efforts have left their mark on the growth of the video medium in French contemporary art. Leccia is the founder and head of the artist-in-residence program and research lab Pavillon Neuflize OBC of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. His works have been exhibited in key institutions including Documenta Kassel, Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Venice Biennial, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Centre Georges Pompidou.
Lecciaʼs video art relies on visual repetitions, intense colours, music and the effect of silence. He utilises the full potential of digital technology, using his own store of images to create a compelling narrative that is based on clips and sound montages from film scores and popular music. Lecciaʼs installations draw the viewer into the independent existence of the cinematographic image. He leads the viewer into a visual confrontation and the merciless violence of the image, yet at the same time into a world that could be called the realm of aesthetics, where the viewer perceives an existence beyond language.
La Mer (The Sea) is Lecciaʼs best-known work, which he repeatedly transforms and adapts to each exhibition space. It shows the Corsica of his youth, the sea that he films over and over, constantly using new technology. The passing time is displayed as a series of still frames, or a rapid sequence of moments, ever flowing like the waves that break on the shore, like a repeated chant with no beginning, middle or end.
Curator: Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir
La Mer - Photo: Ange Leccia ADAGP - 2014
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I’m the King of the Castle
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17
All Themes Property and Class Childhood Fear and Psychological Manipulation Imprisonment and Escape Nature
All Characters Charles Kingshaw Edmund Hooper Joseph Hooper Helena Kingshaw Anthony Fielding Ellen Hooper Mrs. Alice Boland
All Symbols Warings Moths The Red Room Crows Water Leydell Castle
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Charles Kingshaw is one of the two main characters in I’m the King of the Castle, along with Edmund Hooper. He has also been described as one of the most psychologically accurate child characters in all of English literature. Charles comes to Warings with his mother, Helena Kingshaw, shortly after the novel begins. At Warings, Charles is at first lonely and then frightened of Edmund Hooper. Edmund plays nasty tricks on Charles, exploiting Charles’s fear of birds and dead animals and leaving him in a nearly constant state of terror while at Warings. Like Edmund, Charles is capable of feeling deep hatred, but, unlike Edmund, Charles doesn’t seem to have the capacity or the desire to do harm to others. As a result, he spends the novel locked in a power struggle with Edmund, but never manages to get the upper hand. In the few instances when Charles does humiliate Edmund or assert his own power, Charles is unable to make anything of his advantage, and ultimately remains subservient to, frightened of, and in some ways dependent upon, Edmund. To illustrate Charles’s frightened state of mind, Hill frequently shows him running through a list in his mind of all the negative possible outcomes of a scenario, no matter how unlikely. This ultimately proves to be Charles’s greatest weakness: he allows himself to be overcome with fear, to the point where he’s too paralyzed to fight back. Charles’s ability to frighten himself is perhaps clearest at the end of the novel, when a simple note from Edmund that reads “Something will happen to you” is enough to give Charles nightmares and, ultimately, drive him to commit suicide.
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Chapter 2 Quotes
Hooper said nothing. He threw the photograph down into the suitcase and walked back to the window. Kingshaw knew that he had won, but he did not feel the winner; Hooper had conceded him nothing.
Related Characters: Charles Kingshaw, Edmund Hooper
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Page Number and Citation: 20
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He imagined the furry body of the moth against the pads of Hooper's fingers. He was ashamed of being so afraid, and could not help it, he only wanted to get out, to stop having to see the terrible moths. Hooper watched him. There was a moment when they both stood, quite still, waiting. Then, Hooper whipped around and pushed past Kingshaw without warning he was out of the door, turning the key sharply in the lock. After a moment, his footsteps went away down the hall. A door closed somewhere.
Related Symbols: Moths, The Red Room
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They were gratified with one another, and with this new arrangement of their lives, and so it was easy to say, 'How well the boys have settled down together! How nice to see them enjoying themselves! How good it is for them not to be alone!' For they talked at length about their children, knowing nothing of the truth.
Related Characters: Charles Kingshaw, Edmund Hooper, Joseph Hooper, Helena Kingshaw
Very deliberately, Kingshaw inserted his forefingers under the string, and pulled the satchel off his back. He untied his anorak from it, and spread it out on the ground, and then sat down. Hooper stood above him, his eyes flicking about nervously, his face as pale as his limbs in the dim light.
Hooper sighed. 'Look, when you're breathing, you're alive aren't you? Everything is. And when you stop breathing, your heart stops, and then you're dead.'
Kingshaw hesitated, worried about it, uncertain how to argue.
Hooper's eyes opened very wide. 'I suppose you don't believe all that guff about souls and ghosts and everything, do you?'
'Not ghosts...'
‘When you're dead you're dead, you're finished.'
‘No.'
'Look . . . you can see.' Hooper poked his finger at the rabbit' Its head flopped heavily sideways.
'It's dead’ he said.
Kingshaw stared at it miserably. He could not think clearly. What Hooper said must be true, and yet he knew that it was not true.
Related Characters: Charles Kingshaw (speaker), Edmund Hooper (speaker)
Kingshaw knew that he was the loser. His momentary burst of exultation, and his feeling of superiority over Hooper counted for nothing, they were always short-lived. It was really only a question of which of them walked in front, for a while. Kingshaw was used to lacking any confidence in himself, to knowing that he could do nothing very well. Until now, he had not much cared he'd got by. Now, he cared, his pride had risen, he could no longer be docile about himself. Everything was unfair.
He hated his mother more than anybody, more even than Hooper, now. He had a terrible twisted-up feeling in his belly, because of it. Now, Hooper knew. 'There are things I see that you don't.'
There wasn't anything he could do. Except get away. It was his father’s fault, really, because his dying had been the start of it all, the not having enough money, and living in other people's houses.
Page Number and Citation: 113
Chapter 11 Quotes
Last year, someone had been strangled to death twenty miles away. Hooper had told him that. Twenty miles wasn't far.
He imagined tramps and murderers, and the cowman at Barr Farm, with bad teeth and hands like raw red meat. Anybody might have been hanging about behind the shed, and locked him in. Later, they might come back.
'I'm Head of Dorm for next term.'
Kingshaw went cold. He knew that it was sure to be true, and that it would be the worst of all things that were coming. Hooper had power now, here. He would have power there, too, then.
Related Characters: Edmund Hooper (speaker), Charles Kingshaw
I am the King, I am the King, there is nothing I can't ask him for, nothing he won't promise me, nothing I can't do to him. Up here, I'm the King.
But he had learned enough, over the past few weeks, to know that any power he acquired would only be temporary. Like the thunderstorm in the wood, and the time when Hooper had fallen into the water and bashed his head, and then when he had had the nightmares. As soon as the situation had changed, everything went back to what Kingshaw had come to think of as normal.
Related Characters: Charles Kingshaw (speaker), Edmund Hooper
Related Symbols: Leydell Castle
But he did not think it likely that he could ever be believed, nothing could change, because he had meant what he thought and said about Hooper, and still meant it. It was only being afraid of this empty church, and of the white marble warrior lying on his tombstone in the side chapel, that made him kneel down and tell lies. It was no good. He had wanted Hooper to be dead, because then things would have been better. His punishment was that Hooper was not dead, that everything was the same, and the thought of that was worse than anything. He acknowledged that he feared Hooper more than he feared anything in the world.
Kingshaw thought, he knows everybody and they know him. He lives here, and I live here, now, but I don't know anyone or anything, except Mrs Boland and the woman at the post office. Hooper doesn't know anybody, either, we might as well be on the moon. He thought of Warings, surrounded by the high hedge, dark and inaccessible. All the time, this other boy had been watching, aware of him.
Related Characters: Charles Kingshaw (speaker), Edmund Hooper (speaker), Anthony Fielding (speaker)
Kingshaw nodded, numb before this battery of experience, bewildered by so many sights and smells and terrible truths, but still willing to be led by Fielding, to be shown everything at once.
Related Characters: Charles Kingshaw, Anthony Fielding
His terror of Crawford had been absolute. Afterwards, he had not dared to tell anyone. Hooper wasn't like Crawford, the things he did were different, his threats were in many ways worse. His reign was one of terror, Crawford's had been one of simple brutality.
Related Characters: Charles Kingshaw, Edmund Hooper, Crawford
Page Number and Citation: 188-189
From the doorway, watching them, Kingshaw thought, Hooper believes him, he isn't going to make him open the case and put his hand on one, he isn't going to make him prove it, he just believes him. That's the way Fielding is, that's the way you should be, It had been different with him. Hooper had known, from the very first moment he had looked into Fielding’s face, that it would all be easy, that he would always be able to make him afraid. Why, thought Kingshaw, why? His eyes suddenly pricked with tears, at the unfairness of it. WHY?
Related Characters: Charles Kingshaw, Edmund Hooper, Anthony Fielding
'Something will happen to you, Kingshaw.'
The letters were printed in thick, black felt pen, and under- lined again and again. In spite of the fear that had gone on and on for so long, it was suddenly worse again now, as he read Hooper’s message, it darted through like a fresh toothache, and he screwed up the paper and sent it as far away from him as he could across the room, and then flung himself into his bed, pushing his face under the covers and trembling.
The nightmares began.
For a second, he hesitated, part of his mind starting to come awake. And then he thought of everything, of what else would happen, he thought of the things Hooper had done and what he was going to do, of the new school and the wedding of his mother. He began to splash and stumble forwards, into the middle of the stream, where the water was deepest. When it had reached up to his thighs, he lay down slowly and put his face full into it and breathed in a long, careful breath.
Related Characters: Charles Kingshaw, Edmund Hooper, Helena Kingshaw
Related Symbols: Water
When he saw Kingshaw’s body, upside down in the water, Hooper thought suddenly, it was because of me, I did that, it was because of me, and a spurt of triumph went through him.
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...to Warings, meaning that Edmund may finally have a friend to play with. The friend, Charles Kingshaw, is eleven years old, just like Edmund. Charles’s mother, Helena Kingshaw, has come to... (full context)
As Edmund prepares to meet Charles and Helena, he realizes that he remembers nothing about his own mother. He also decides,... (full context)
When Helena Kingshaw arrives at Warings with her son Charles, her first impression of Joseph is that he’s been alone for too long. Joseph calls... (full context)
A short while later, Edmund stands alone with Charles in Charles’s new room. He asks Charles, “Why have you come here?” Charles blushes. Edmund... (full context)
Edmund asks Charles about his father, and Charles explains that his father was a pilot who fought in... (full context)
Edmund asks Charles where he went to school, and Charles tells him about his school in Wales. Then,... (full context)
A moment later, the fight ends. Edmund orders Charles, who now has a bloody nose, to leave him alone. Charles insists that Edmund’s father... (full context)
Charles, his heart beating fast, is unsettled: he has never encountered anything like Edmund’s hostility or... (full context)
Edmund, who has a large bruise on his cheekbone, looks coldly at Charles. He says, “You still needn’t think you’re wanted here” and then walks out. Alone, Charles... (full context)
...that Edmund is sitting alone in his room. Joseph suggests that Edmund go play with Charles instead. Edmund doesn’t reply. He’s busy making a color-coded diagram of the Battle of Waterloo... (full context)
Joseph orders Edmund to go play with Charles. Edmund stares at his father and thinks that he looks very old and thin. Joseph... (full context)
A short while later, Edmund comes downstairs and orders Charles to follow him. Charles refuses, but then his mother walks in and encourages him to... (full context)
...wood, Hang Wood. To the east there’s the small village of Derne. After a week, Charles feels that he knows this area well, because he’s studied it carefully on a map.... (full context)
One day, Charles walks away from Waring to explore the wood. Walking through the fields is uncomfortable but... (full context)
Charles walks through the field while, high over his head, crows circle. The crows are large,... (full context)
Charles hesitates and the turns back to the house. There, he finds Edmund, who tells him,... (full context)
Charles remembers being five years old and going with his father to a swimming pool. At... (full context)
Edmund walks out of Charles’s room, slamming the door behind him. He’s charmed by “having Kingshaw here, thinking of things... (full context)
Charles wakes up late at night, still thinking about Edmund. It occurs to him that Edmund... (full context)
Edmund returns the crow to the attic. He knows that Charles must have woken up and seen the crow but didn’t scream. At breakfast, Charles finds... (full context)
Later that day, Edmund offers to show Charles the Red Room. Charles doesn’t want to go into the room, but instead of saying... (full context)
Charles tries to open a window and sneak out of the room, splitting his thumbnail doing... (full context)
Charles tells himself that his torture will end someday. He remembers going to school at the... (full context)
One day, while Edmund is visiting London with Joseph, Charles finds “the room.” This room of the house is small and seems to serve no... (full context)
That day, Charles begins building a model of a ship. He enjoys being alone, since other people can... (full context)
Charles has never hated anyone before, but now he realizes that he hates Edmund. He’s frightened... (full context)
Meanwhile, on a train back from London, Joseph asks Edmund about his friendship with Charles. Edmund replies, “I can’t help it if he locks himself up, can I?” Joseph asks... (full context)
On the train, Joseph muses that he should talk to Charles’s mother, and posits that Charles is shy. Edmund shrugs again and resumes reading his comic... (full context)
Joseph suggests that Edmund take Charles on an “expedition” beyond the house. This makes Joseph think of his own childhood, during... (full context)
Back at Warings, Charles goes to bed early and makes “plans.” He tells himself, “it won’t go on forever.”... (full context)
One morning soon after, Joseph greets Charles and shows him some games that he has found. Joseph suggests that Charles and Edmund... (full context)
Charles and Edmund sit inside on a rainy day, holding the board games. Charles half-wonders if... (full context)
After lunch, Charles goes upstairs to the doll room, carrying a small bag. He finds Edmund waiting outside.... (full context)
Inside the room, Edmund looks around. He asks Charles what he has in his bag. He snatches the bag from Charles and finds matches... (full context)
Edmund threatens to tell his father what Charles has been working on. But Charles points out that, since “I haven’t said anything,” Edmund... (full context)
For the next week, Charles thinks over his conversation with Edmund. He’s been working on this plan for a while,... (full context)
One day, Helena Kingshaw excitedly tells Charles that she’s going to London with Joseph for a day. Charles recognizes that this is... (full context)
Charles decides that he’ll leave at dawn. He’s sure that nobody will even check in his... (full context)
Charles sets his alarm clock for 5:30 am. He has packed some food in an old... (full context)
Charles wakes up at 4 am, feeling very afraid. He knows that he should think of... (full context)
Charles get out of bed and sneaks outside, past the yew trees. He turns around and... (full context)
Charles nears the woods outside Warings. He remembers how Edmund dared him to come here—and this... (full context)
As he stands on the edge of the wood, Charles feels proud of himself for packing his satchel and leaving the house. At school, he... (full context)
Charles jumps over the ditch that surrounds the wood. He closes his eyes and takes a... (full context)
Charles walks through the wood, and finds that he likes it. It’s isolated from the rest... (full context)
Suddenly, Charles hears a strange sound, perhaps the sound of an animal. He peers into the distance,... (full context)
Charles asks Edmund how he knew to follow him this morning, and Edmund jeers that it... (full context)
Charles begins walking, and Edmund follows. Charles wonders what Edmund will try to do to him,... (full context)
...two boys walk through the wood, getting sweaty and tired. They hear a sudden sound. Charles notices that Edmund is sweating, and realizes, “there is blood and water inside him.” He’s... (full context)
The deer moves away, and Edmund follows it. Charles follows Edmund, furious that Edmund has taken over the “expedition.” He realizes that, on some... (full context)
The two boys follow the deer. Suddenly, Edmund stops and asks what’s going on. Charles hears fear in Edmund’s voice, and realizes that he’s leader again. Edmund cries that they’re... (full context)
Edmund and Charles, together in the wood, decide that they’ll have to seek shelter from the impending storm.... (full context)
Charles removes his anorak (i.e., parka) from his bag and calmly tells Edmund to follow. He... (full context)
As the boys walk, Charles notices a dead rabbit. Edmund asks Charles if he’s ever seen a dead animal or... (full context)
The boys walk toward the stream, and Edmund slips on the wet ground, sliding downhill. Charles walks after him. Edmund gets up, claiming that he’s found the stream and that he... (full context)
...shaking, says that he’s tired of walking, and that he doesn’t like the dark wood. Charles calls Edmund a baby. He doesn’t like the dark wood either, but he refuses to... (full context)
Abruptly, Edmund removes his clothes and announces that he’s going to swim in the stream. Charles realizes, once again, that Edmund treats the expedition through the woods as a game, nothing... (full context)
...but the sun is going down. Edmund cries out that he has hurt his toenail. Charles offers to get an adhesive bandage from his satchel, and Edmund accepts. As Charles leaves... (full context)
Charles rummages through his bag and suggests that he and Edmund build a fire. He explains... (full context)
Edmund walks toward Charles and tells Charles not to get cocky, since he can tell that Charles is still... (full context)
Edmund asks where they are, and Charles replies that they must still be in Hang Wood. Edmund denies this—they’ve probably walked into... (full context)
Charles remembers the string he packed, and tells Edmund that he’s leaving to see how far... (full context)
Charles unravels the string, walking into the distance. He notices a rabbit and wonders if he... (full context)
Charles considers walking away from Edmund for good, without even using the string. He’s confident that... (full context)
Charles rummages through Edmund’s satchel and finds a cup and three white tablets, which he assumes... (full context)
Alone in the forest, Charles and Edmund notice that it’s getting dark. Edmund accuses Charles of having “nits” and adds... (full context)
Charles has caught a fish to eat: he pulls it out of the water and, rather... (full context)
Charles cooks the fish by piercing it on a stick. The fish tastes bad—Edmund spits it... (full context)
Edmund mocks Charles for having a mother who kisses him goodnight. Charles points out that Edmund doesn’t even... (full context)
Edmund asks Charles, “Has your mother gone after a lot of people … the way she’s gone after... (full context)
Later that night, Edmund is fast asleep. Charles has given him his anorak as a pillow. Charles feels “protective” toward Edmund. He also... (full context)
When Charles wakes up, it’s still dark. He hears Edmund crying out in his sleep: he says,... (full context)
Edmund swallows the last aspirin. Charles tells him that they’ll have to stay in place if Edmund is still sick tomorrow.... (full context)
Charles feels a sudden urge to press his advantage. He bellows, “Shut up, Hooper … I’ll... (full context)
Late the next morning, Charles and Edmund wake up, and Charles notices that Edmund has a nasty greenish bruise on... (full context)
As Charles wades into the water, he hears the bark of a dog. His first reaction is... (full context)
Back at Warings, Edmund claims that Charles punched him and pushed him into the water. Helena Kingshaw believes Edmund and becomes very... (full context)
Helena sends Charles to his room as punishment, even as Charles continues to insist that he didn’t hurt... (full context)
As Charles leaves to go upstairs, Edmund makes a “babyish face” and accuses Charles of being a... (full context)
Alone in his room, Charles realizes how exhausted he is. He thinks about his mother and realizes that she and... (full context)
Helena asks Charles why he ran off into the woods. He shrugs and wishes that she would just... (full context)
Helena begins to say that she has something important to tell Charles. But then she thinks better of it, and falls silent. She only says, “I have... (full context)
Charles sits at the breakfast table with his mother and Joseph. As he sits, he thinks,... (full context)
In the following days, Charles tries his best to avoid Edmund. He wanders around the house, trying to stay as... (full context)
As he sits in the dark, Charles thinks about going to school with Edmund, and suddenly he hears a truck driving by... (full context)
Charles dreams about a Punch and Judy puppet show. He sits on the beach with his... (full context)
Edmund teases Charles for sitting alone in the dark. He brags that he has the key to the... (full context)
...later, Edmund opens the shed door and shouts, “It’s lunchtime and we’re late.” Slowly, numbly, Charles gets up and walks back to the house. Inside, Edmund merrily tells Helena, “We were... (full context)
Helena Kingshaw contemplates the trips she’s about to take with Joseph, Charles, and Edmund. Joseph will drive them all in his car. Joseph has told Helena to... (full context)
In the car, Charles stares out the window. He, Edmund, Joseph, and Helena are driving to Leydell Castle. Joseph... (full context)
At the castle, Edmund asks Charles what he’s going to do. Charles says he’s going to climb up the castle, and... (full context)
Edmund appears—he has climbed up to the top of the castle. Charles announces that he’s climbing down. Then, he realizes that Edmund’s face is pale—he’s terrified. Charles... (full context)
Charles decides to guide Edmund back down to the ground. He doesn’t want to frighten Edmund.... (full context)
Charles watches Edmund fall, as if in slow motion. They’re only as high up as they... (full context)
Charles is sure that Edmund is dead—and he’s sure that it’s his fault. He decided against... (full context)
Charles goes back to Warings with Joseph and Helena. In the car, he remembers being eight... (full context)
Helena doesn’t speak to Charles in the car. Suddenly, Charles says, “I didn’t push him. I didn’t touch him at... (full context)
Back at the house, Helena tells Charles that she’s going to the hospital and that Mrs. Boland will be taking care of... (full context)
Night falls, and Helena and Joseph still haven’t come back from the hospital. Charles and Alice Boland watch television together. The film playing on television shows a blind man... (full context)
Alice Boland tells Charles that it’s time to go to bed. She notices that Charles’s face is “peaky.” She... (full context)
Alone in his room, Charles thinks about how he won’t have to avoid Edmund from now on. He’ll have the... (full context)
...he couldn’t have “managed” without her. Helena says, “If only it had not been for Charles,” but Joseph replies, “I will not have that … There is to be no blame.” (full context)
Charles dreams about a hand clawing at him. He runs away from the hand, toward a... (full context)
Helena and Joseph take Charles back to bed and wish him goodnight. He falls asleep, and when he wakes up... (full context)
A few days later, Helena tells Charles that she’ll be going back to the hospital. Mrs. Boland will take care of Charles... (full context)
Alone, Charles thinks about a boy named Fenwick. The two of them went to school around the... (full context)
Helena suggests that Charles buy Edmund a “little present” with his pocket money. Charles refuses and says, “I hate... (full context)
Charles spends most of the week alone, making a model of a fort. Mrs. Boland brings... (full context)
Helena tells herself that Charles is saying unpleasant things about Edmund because he’s shocked. She forces herself not to worry.... (full context)
Charles completes the jigsaw puzzle he’s been working on, and then breaks it up into pieces.... (full context)
Charles wanders through the area outside Warings, and comes to a church. Inside, on the red... (full context)
...says, “What’s the matter with you?” A boy with a “small, brown face” insists that Charles isn’t allowed to go past the altar rail. He asks if Charles lives with the... (full context)
A van drives by, and the boy nods to the man inside. It occurs to Charles that this boy has been watching him the entire time he’s been at Warings. Charles... (full context)
The boy challenges Charles to a mock-naval battle. He shows Charles how to break the heads off of some... (full context)
Charles witnesses the calf’s birth. He feels sick, but he also tells himself that he won’t... (full context)
Fielding introduces Charles to his mother, and asks his mother if Charles can stay for dinner—she smiles and... (full context)
Later that day, Charles is with Fielding. Charles explains how he ran away into Hang Wood. Fielding is impressed... (full context)
The next day, Edmund does not come home, because he has a fever. Charles spends the day with Fielding. He imitates the way Fielding sucks a straw, noting, “He... (full context)
Edmund returns to Warings, where he must spend his time in bed. Helena tells Charles that he should spend time with Edmund, but Charles refuses. Helena tells herself that Charles... (full context)
In the following days, Edmund tells Charles that the doctors told him he could have died from the fall. He also brags... (full context)
Edmund tells Charles that he blames him for the fall. They argue about Edmund’s fall many times. Edmund... (full context)
Charles remembers the time a boy named Crawford beat him up. He can remember the feeling... (full context)
Charles tries to sneak out of the house to find Fielding, but Helena catches him. Charles... (full context)
Feeling caught in his lie, Charles goes to buy ice cream. As he buys the ice cream, he remembers the previous... (full context)
Suddenly, Charles sees Fielding, sitting in a big van. Fielding explains that he and his father are... (full context)
Back at Warings, Edmund tells Charles that he knows about Fielding—Helena told him. He adds, “Your mother tells me lots of... (full context)
A short while later, Joseph takes Charles and Edmund by train into London to pick up school uniforms. As they sit together,... (full context)
In London, Joseph points out the various sights, and Charles privately thinks that he doesn’t like being here with Joseph. In the department store, while... (full context)
Back at Warings, Edmund plays with the model fort that Charles built. Furious, Charles complains that Joseph gave his model to Edmund. As Charles yells, Joseph... (full context)
Upstairs, Charles kicks open Edmund’s room and demands that Edmund give back the model. Instead, Edmund laughs... (full context)
Charles hears his mother on the phone. He’s not quite sure what she means by “the... (full context)
Charles remembers Miss Mellitt, an old woman who lived in the hotel. Late at night, he... (full context)
A few days later, Charles feels anxious. Joseph is driving Charles and Edmund away from Warings, and Helena assures them... (full context)
A few days earlier, Edmund announced that he knew something Charles didn’t know. Gleefully, he told Charles that Joseph was going to be Charles’s stepfather, since... (full context)
Joseph drives Helena and the boys out to a “muddy field.” Charles, sensing what the surprise will be, becomes very afraid. Helena merrily says that Charles “used... (full context)
Charles can see that Joseph has driven them to a circus. They sit very close to... (full context)
A few days later, Helena tells Charles that she’s spoken to Fielding’s mother and invited her son, whose full name is Anthony... (full context)
Charles wonders what tea with Fielding will be like. He decides that Edmund won’t be able... (full context)
Joseph and Helena talk about their wedding—they plan to marry in September, just before Charles and Edmund go off to school together. (full context)
...visit to Warings, Edmund offers to show Fielding inside the Red Room, and adds that Charles is very scared of what’s inside. In the Red Room, Fielding is delighted by the... (full context)
...with the moth collection. Joseph suggested selling the collection, but Helena argued, within earshot of Charles, that they should keep the moths, since the boys might one day want them. In... (full context)
...the Red Room, Edmund suggests that Fielding come look at his “battle plans.” Fielding asks Charles if he wants to. Then, Edmund suggests that they all go into the attic, adding... (full context)
Edmund tells Fielding not to pay attention to Charles. He tells Fielding that he wants to show Fielding something private. Fielding hesitates and then... (full context)
Charles goes into Edmund’s bedroom, where a battle chart is mounted on an easel. The chart... (full context)
In five days, Charles thinks, he and Edmund will go to their new school. But this, he decides, isn’t... (full context)
Warings is full of suitcases: Charles and Edmund are almost ready to leave for school. Edmund looks at Charles all day,... (full context)
...came back from Fielding’s farm, he didn’t say anything about his chart disappearing. This unnerved Charles—Charles had expected Edmund to be angry and complain to his father. As the days went... (full context)
Late at night, only a few hours before he’s supposed to leave for school, Charles wakes up. He hears the sound of paper scraping on the ground. He notices a... (full context)
Charles wakes up very early. He gets out of bed and walks outside to the field.... (full context)
...morning, Helena wakes up, happy that her son is about to leave for school. Meanwhile, Charles arrives at the clearing in the wood by the stream, where the stones from the... (full context)
A short while later, Edmund finds Charles. As soon as it was discovered that Charles was missing, Edmund knew where to look... (full context)
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Oncology/Hematology > Other Cancers
Cancer.com Site Sat Dormant for 10 Years. Now It's Live Again.
Janssen Biotech gives it new life, but will it provide useful info?
by Eric T. Rosenthal, Special Correspondent, MedPage Today January 15, 2018
After lying moribund for the past 10 years, the website cancer.com is now online and full of content.
Now the question is, with Janssen Biotech finally filling out the site, will it genuinely help patients navigate through their respective cancer journeys or steer them to the company's products? And will its similarity to cancer.org, the American Cancer Society's (ACS) flagship site, cause confusion?
The look-alike sites are reminiscent of another situation almost a decade ago, when the for-profit Livestrong.com was created in cooperation with the former Lance Armstrong Foundation's (now Livestrong Foundation) not-for-profit Livestrong.org site. In the case of cancer.com, the ACS is a partner (albeit one of many) in providing content for the site.
ACS officials familiar with the matter told MedPage Today that they were personally surprised that the society didn't already own the cancer.com domain, as ACS had made a point of acquiring many cancer-related website names to protect its brand.
That confusion may be mitigated, however, since ACS agreed to sign on with CancerCare (CC) and the Cancer Support Community (CSC) as the primary not-for-profit content providers for the site that Janssen hopes will provide tailored information and resources "to educate, motivate, and empower cancer patients."
The virtual cancer information website was soft launched at an invitation-only advocacy event by Janssen, a Johnson & Johnson company, at last month's American Society for Hematology annual meeting in Atlanta. It went public a few days later, according to Janssen officials contacted by MedPage Today.
Planning for the current site has been in the works since the summer of 2015, but the Johnson & Johnson family had originally acquired rights to the cancer.com domain in 1995, Janssen officials told MedPage Today.
After that, however, the site ran in fits and starts, a review of web.archive.org records suggests. Initially J&J did little with it. By 1999, it was apparently forwarding users to a cancer information page hosted by the now-defunct PlanetRx online pharmacy. It was then disabled altogether for a few years, then revived by Janssen in 2004, which kept it full of content through 2006. The following year, though, it went into hibernation again until the relaunch last month.
To the question of whether the site's new content will be influenced by Janssen's commercial interests, the company swears it won't.
Leslie Amendola, who was recently promoted from senior director of oncology franchise strategy at Janssen to its marketing director, told MedPage Today in a telephone interview (monitored by a media relations representative) that cancer.com is a completely unbranded site.
"We don't link back to individual products. It's really important at Janssen Oncology to follow our mission to have a world where cancer is preventable, chronic, and curable," she said, adding that in addition to developing science the company also wants to bring forth cancer resources and solutions such as cancer.com in a vehicle that is not overwhelming to patients.
She said that the initial phase of the project is a "learn and adapt" approach, with resources that included cancers with high prevalence or in areas where Janssen had expertise and products, such as in multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and prostate cancer.
Breast and lung cancer constituted the initial high prevalence areas, with the goal of adding many more tumor types in the future.
The site also currently offers resources such as an Advocacy Connector that can be used by any cancer patient without providing the in-depth registration information required by another other part of the site, My Care Activator, which Amendola described as a digital health coaching tool developed by J&J behavioral scientists to help patients customize their unique challenges and improve better health outcomes.
She said that using the cancer.com URL required great responsibility and the company wanted to "get it right," adding that Janssen has had considerable growth in oncology during the past 5 years, and had finally found the right not-for-profit partners.
The initial criterion for advocacy partnerships was a pan-cancer orientation rather than focusing on a single cancer site. Other factors included the quality of content, the organization's reputation, and the availability of support services and programs.
Janssen said that ACS, CC, and CSC had all been approached within a time frame of about a month in 2015, and confirmed a longtime commitment to the partnerships, which involve renewable 6 to 18 month contracts with licensing fees paid for use of web content.
Other advocacy partners will be added over time, and the site also has other Janssen-approved licensed third-party sources including:
2 Minute Medicine
BusinessInsider
Greatist
Harvard Health Letter
Inside Health
Mayo Clinic Health Information Library
Patient Resource Publishing
Tribute Content Premium Health Columns
Janssen has an agreement with the Community Oncology Alliance to sponsor its in-practice TV network by running a brief informational video on cancer.com to increase patient awareness, and plans a publicity push on World Cancer Day, February 4th.
Amendola said that Janssen would only collect patient information at an aggregate level or "in ways to help patients improve their experience on the site."
MedPage Today originally asked to speak with ACS CEO Gary Reedy to comment on the deal, but instead interviewed ACS chief cancer control officer Richard C. Wender, MD.
Wender explained that ACS's board had decided that Reedy should not be directly involved in the project to avoid a potential conflict of interest since the ACS head had worked for Johnson & Johnson in several senior management positions for many years, including as president of Ortho Biotech, which became Janssen Biotech.
He said that Janssen had initially contacted ACS's Cancer Action Network , the society's lobbying arm, and that ACS determined that he would manage the Janssen relationship.
ACS has a full-time team dedicated to gathering cancer information amounting to about 20,000 pages for its own site, and Wender said that he felt that the more places where people can get cancer information, the better.
He said that there are so many cancer organizations today that the public is often confused about which is which, adding that the similarity between ACS and Janssen's websites makes the potential for confusion pretty great and increased the reasons for ACS's participation.
"In this case we would have been willing to share our information [with cancer.com] anyway, but the added motivation was that if people thought that they were getting to the American Cancer Society [site by mistake], we would want to make sure that they would see our information and could link back to our site."
Wender said that he was surprised Janssen did not have a more developed idea when discussions began with ACS, although that allowed the participating partners to have more initial input into the final design. He added that cancer.com was upfront about collecting information and that visitors could clearly see where information was from and could link back to the original sources.
"This doesn't alter Google hits, meaning that hits are attributed back to the original sites, not the site offering the shared information," Wender said.
Wender noted that although he wasn't certain whether the original three not-for-profit partners had veto power over the addition of certain new partners in the future, he said that Janssen would consult with them.
CancerCare CEO Patricia J. Goldsmith told MedPage Today that she thought that "third time was the charm" concerning the cancer.com site.
She had a professionally long history with the URL, she explained, going back to when she was a senior administrator at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, in the 1990s, and learned that Ortho Biotech owned cancer.com.
"I was told that J&J had a vision for the URL as a destination site for cancer patients focusing on helping and supporting patients, and from a Moffit and a psychosocial point of view I was very interested in working with them."
Goldsmith said that a few years later, after she was named EVP and COO of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), she learned that cancer.com was still languishing and spoke with NCCN Foundation Board member William N. Hait, MD, PhD, who was to eventually become Global Head of Janssen Research and Development.
"Bill said that Janssen and J&J were interested in making something out of the site in terms of a cancer destination that was as influential as the URL itself. Believe me, I often wished that somewhere in my career we had the opportunity to acquire that URL," she said, adding that NCCN was unsuccessful in getting Janssen to turn over the site to the network after the company decided not to pursue the project at the time.
She then fast-forwarded to when she joined CancerCare and still maintained strong relationships with Janssen, which asked if she would be interested in partnering with cancer.com.
It was a no-brainer and Goldsmith noted again that she hoped the third time would be the charm.
"It made no sense to reinvent the wheel, and working together with partners that were complementary, and Janssen, finally brought this project to fruition."
The Cancer Support Community welcomed inclusion into the current project because it leveraged the collective strengths of all three partners rather than duplicating efforts.
"Janssen was going to leverage good content already established by the partners," said the group's president, Linda House, "so instead of creating its own site and having us endorse it, we were invited to help create a site with quality content from trusted partners."
House said that it was in the best interests of all the organizations to get the best information into the hands of patients and caregivers at the point when it was needed, there's a lot of cross-linking on the site, and the partners meet with Janssen quarterly.
"Putting it all together was a collaborative effort like I've never seen before," she said.
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ViaSat trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "VSAT."
How were ViaSat's earnings last quarter?
ViaSat, Inc. (NASDAQ:VSAT) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 7th. The communications equipment provider reported $0.05 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.12) by $0.17. The communications equipment provider had revenue of $592.26 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $568.66 million. ViaSat had a negative net margin of 0.72% and a negative return on equity of 0.83%. View ViaSat's Earnings History.
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News headlines about VSAT stock have been trending positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. ViaSat earned a news sentiment score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the communications equipment provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for ViaSat.
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Mr. Mark D. Dankberg, Chairman & CEO (Age 64)
Mr. Richard A. Baldridge, Pres, COO & Director (Age 60)
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Mr. Keven K. Lippert, Chief Commercial Officer & Exec. VP of Strategic Initiatives (Age 46)
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One share of VSAT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $72.77.
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ViaSat has a market capitalization of $4.46 billion and generates $2.07 billion in revenue each year. The communications equipment provider earns $-67,620,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($1.13) on an earnings per share basis. ViaSat employs 5,600 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About ViaSat.
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The Bachelorette 2019 Recap: Season 15 Finale Part 1 Live Blog
07/29/2019 E.M. Rosenberg Recaps, The Bachelorette 103
Tonight we’ll see the MOST DRAMATIC FINALE EVER, with an even more unexpected ending than in that Twilight Zone episode with the pig-faced hospital staff, or the Duke and Duchess of Sussex naming their baby Archie. In fact, Season 6 Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky assures us that “it does not end the way it normally does.” Maybe Hillary Clinton becomes president this time.
Tonight Hannah must choose whom she will send home from Greece: Peter, Jed, or Tyler. Peter is the only one who doesn’t need the miles. The episode begins with the continuation of the Rose Ceremony Luke P. crashed last week, so we’ll be off and running with the final two. That is, only after many minutes of ads for Olay Regenerist, Humira, and SNHU.
Interspersed in live footage, Hannah will join Chris in the studio, with the usual overmedicated audience. There she’ll be reunited with the pathetic third-placer–come on, we all know it’s Peter–for the first time since she sent him packing, likely with Athenian olive oil soap and one of those traditional talismans to guard against the evil eye, which hopefully will protect him from being cast on Bachelor in Paradise.
Tomorrow night, barring any long-range missiles from North Korea striking California, we’ll learn Hannah’s final choice of life partner and US Weekly cover mate. Or, it is strongly suggested, probably by ABC’s PR office, she may not pick either guy! Maybe she’ll go to law school, or join Space Force, or open a cupcake shop back in Alabama called Talladega Bites.
First things first: Is Hannah going without underwear under her cobalt blue gown? That could be the shocking part Chris mentioned.
We open in the studio with Chris promising that what happens over the next two nights will be like nothing we’ve ever seen before in this time slot on ABC when the barometer reads 29.97 in Pittsburgh. Then we move to the Rose Ceremony, where two blooms await Hannah’s carefully considered distribution. She does not regret banishing Luke, she reports, but which of the remaining three must go next? “This has been the biggest battle of my heart,” she observes, although settling on those tacky earrings must have been quite a chore.
She tells the trio how blessed she feels to have had them all in her life, as well as in the Fantasy Suite. The men gaze at her longingly, hands clasped protectively before their groins, as she lifts the first rose. It goes to Jed. Tyler and Peter grimace.
Tyler loves Hannah Brown, he tells the camera. Peter feels they have an unbelievable, pure love. Apparently Hannah thinks it’s more like Flint’s water, as Tyler gets the rose.
Peter says his goodbyes as Hannah tears up. No discount flights for her. She tries to explain how difficult it is to bid him farewell. It’s like he lost on Wheel of Fortune—nobody’s fault, really, he just guessed the wrong letters. They embrace as tinkly piano music communicates their mutual grief. He might feel better when he notices how flat-chested she looks in that dress.
Peter rides off in the limo with tears dribbling down his face like the sweat from a chef on Chopped who neglected to wear a bandanna. “It hurts like a bitch right now,” he tells us, quoting a lesser-known Wordsworth ode. But he has a ton of love to give, and lots of tiny bottles of liquor, too. He leaves behind a sobbing Hannah whose mascara remains intact. Tyler and Jed are probably thumb-wrestling while they wait for her to return, leaving Peter to become a Wiki footnote on fandom.com.
Back at the studio, Peter has just watched this scene for the first time, although he read it through with an intern before they shot. “Are you okay?” Chris probes, like an HR associate asking where he sees himself in five years. He can tell Peter was very much in love with Hannah, possibly based on Instagram posts with a lot of vari-colored hearts.
The Weber family is weeping in the audience as well. His mom tells us she wishes she could take her son’s pain onto herself, much as the audience must while forced to watch this treacly display.
Peter admits it took a while for him to share his feelings with Hannah, but he knew he was in love with her early on. That was even before his third drink the first night. He tried to open up to her, but knowing there were other guys vying for her heart, he struggled with being frank about his feelings. He probably just should’ve sexted her.
“A little piece of my heart will always love her,” Peter concludes. Now Hannah will join them on the stage, a moment he anticipates as a way to find closure, and maybe check out her legs one last time. If he plays his cards right, he might also be the next Bachelor or at least get an audition for DWTS.
Hannah appears in a one-sleeved draped blue dress accessorized with more rhinestones than in a production of Kinky Boots. Peter describes how he enjoyed falling in love with her, but wants to know what made her decide to send him home. She wishes she could give him a clear, concrete answer aside from “the other guys were hotter.”
Peter is satisfied with her non-answer, but then she tells him she wished he had expressed his feelings sooner. She felt he may have been scared to love her, and that scared her. These nimrods should develop a form to submit online. Next he wants to know why she called their relationship a “slow burn,” like those 48-hour yahrzeit candles. It was passionate, she giggles, then adds that while things between them kept progressing as the writers intended, she needed to hear how he felt, which the producers didn’t agree to. In other words, the same crap everyone says on this show.
Chris wants to know why saying goodbye to Peter was so hard for Hannah. Because the audience would be angry if she just told him to buzz off? Peter notes that he was proud to be himself throughout this journey, unlike Luke, who was Satan’s nephew.
Now Hannah admits they did it four times in the windmill Fantasy Suite. Mom and Dad Weber laugh and clap enthusiastically, while my grandma cries out from her grave in horror that she fled pogroms for this tasteless drivel. Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh thinks Hannah had to take four pills to avoid getting pregnant that night.
It’s time for Hannah’s family to meet the final two guys in Crete. She has been falling in love with both Tyler and Jed, who each have admirable qualities along with their washboard abs. Hannah joins the kinfolk, who include her Maw and Paw, and hugs are distributed.
Tyler comes first. Hannah describes how their relationship was really physical, and her concern that maybe that was all there was to it. Mom narrows her eyes, while Dad gets out his shiv. It’s okay, though, because Hannah finally realized that she likes Tyler above the waist, too. For his part, he’s ready to meet the potential in-laws and prove his commitment to their daughter, even if she ends up taking an anti-depressant that suppresses her sexual response.
Pleased to see how happy the couple are, Mom talks with Tyler first. Have they argued or had disagreements, she wants to know. That’s a test of a relationship, and of the responsiveness of 911. Will he be honest with Hannah if they quarrel off the air? The result is that she is happy with Tyler as a future SIL. Nevertheless, she could use some Olay Regenerist on her decolletage.
Dad is immediately concerned about whether this cad is a sex maniac. He is grateful that the two didn’t have sex in the Fantasy Suite, and buys the claim that they played Yahtzee all night. Dad then tells Hannah about this mortifyingly embarrassing discussion about her lover’s sex drive that I wouldn’t even have with my gynecologist. This is one weird family.
Hannah and Tyler are in a good place after this family convo that felt just short of a group Pap smear. She admits she’s falling in love with him. If they get married, the parents are going to be stopping by to drop off sex toys for them.
Now it’s time for the Browns to meet Jed. As a country singer, he’ll fit right in with Kenny Rogers and Tammy Wynette 2.0. Jed sweeps Hannah off her feet as he greets her outside. He wants the family to know how genuine his feelings are for her. But when he tells them he’s a musician, Dad frowns. He’s heard that tune before, and it wasn’t on the CMA Awards.
Dad wants to discuss with Jed, a singer who’s never even opened for Scotty McCreery, how he will provide for Hannah. My grandpa had that same chat with my father, but it was in 1949 and my father went to college on the GI Bill. Jed assures Dad he wants to be able to support a family, although not one with a lot of kids who want to go to summer camp. Therefore, he is proud to have signed a deal to write a jingle for a dog food company. I remember this scene from Lil Abner.
Mom counsels Hannah to consider what’s important in a marriage, specifically, a marriage to Tyler. She cries as she tells her daughter that she wants her to be loved as she deserves, and to be able to get her highlights done every four weeks with a good colorist. Hannah announces tartly that this isn’t about anybody but her, and what she feels in her heart. Realistically, though, it should also be about Jed, and what he’s got in his wallet.
Hannah and Dad discuss his talk with Jed. Dad says Jed doesn’t give direct answers, such as about his life goals and accomplishments to date, beyond being the only Jed this season. Hannah is frustrated. She wants her first husband to be successful, but she also wants to provide for her family with a career of her own. Dad demurs. He asserts that the man of the house must be the principal breadwinner. Or in Jed’s case, the principal cornbread winner.
Hannah and Jed confer. She expresses her fears that her family doesn’t approve of him, and that Tyler is the Catriona Gray to Jed’s Tamaryn Green. Jed wants to hear why because he loves her and needs to know, and also because there’s no fence to jump. She tells him her parents were very enamored of Tyler ,and his construction job, and his prowess in the bedroom. Like Bernie Sanders in most polls, Jed is firmly in second place this week.
“I believe in us,” Jed tells Hannah with feeling. “And most of all, I believe in you.” Whitney already did that song. She is torn, uncertain, and probably needs to reapply her SPF 50 if they continue sitting out in the sun. This is a terrible dilemma for Hannah. Letting your parents pick your spouse didn’t even work in Fiddler on the Roof, and that had a great original cast album.
Morning comes in Greece. Hannah is anxious about the disappointing Jed encounter, so she needs to gain clarity over the next days. First she meets Tyler for a last date. After they embrace, she eyeballs his abs like he’s a dairy cow at the 4H Club.
They’re going on another horseback ride. All animals were disgusted in the making of this production. The two then review how great the family meeting went. Hannah’s dad liked how motivated and driven Tyler is, something I haven’t seen evidence of all season with this Contractor Dude. Even better, Hannah thinks he is so sweet, kind, and funny, and could probably also do it four times in a windmill, even during a hurricane.
That night, Hannah reviews how great their date was. She feels Tyler is confident in their relationship, and now so is she. Furthermore, Tyler loved their talk, and how everyone responded to him. He is so happy, and so is she. They can go wherever life takes them, and be kickass in their marriage. Inanity, they name is The Bachelorette.
The studio audience is thrilled. Chris cautions them, howoever, that after what happens next, they’ll be unexpectedly bowled over, although not as much as I was when I saw how well the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser works.
Time for Hannah’s date with Jed. She’s worried about her family having been less than happy with him. It’s as if she first brought over a corgi in a cable-knit sweater to meet them, and the next day, it was just a Raggedy Andy doll. They meet waterside and board a schooner or something. The seas were angry that day, my friend, and Hannah gets ill. At least Jed knows how she would be with morning sickness.
Jed acknowledges that he might not be the chosen one. He says her dad didn’t understand his life as a struggling musician who can’t sell more on iTunes until the show is broadcast. They muse on this silently, but then she feels so ill, she must move away from Jed’s side and take refuge on the roof of the boat. I feel the same way about this entire season.
When night falls, Hannah goes to Jed’s suite to talk. She is confused and conflicted and needs clarity. Next week she works on her “D” words. Jed assures her how much he loves her and needs her. She refers back to his questionable abilities to earn a living, not to mention that a former beauty queen and reality TV lead can’t exactly build a Roth IRA very quickly.
Jed is passionate in his pleas of love for this simpleton. Hannah is just a wet blanket. When they part, she still doesn’t have clarity. There are so many feelings in both relationships, yet she must break someone’s heart tomorrow. Who wil it be? Jed? Tyler? Chris? The guy who has to hoist her up off the road when she falls?
In the studio, Chris asks if this will prove to be the most shocking ending in Bachelorette history. Only if some aliens from Area 51 show up and dance the lambada, which is difficult if you have those tiny arms. See you tomorry!
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Commissioned by the South Salem High School Orchestra, The Divine Comedy Trilogy is inspired by Dante Alighieri’s literary classic, The Divine Comedy. Each movement explores the psychology of Dante’s journey through the inferno, puragatory, and finally paradise using the works of Gesualdo, Dowland, and Machaut symbolizing musical encounters in the spiritual realms.
The Inferno begins with a quote from Gesualdo’s O vose omnes, the work is interrupted with a sudden burst into a macabre-folk like dance. Structured as a concerto grosso, several solos are pitted against the tutti ensemble with ferocity and craze where hints of Gesualdo’s composition gradually emerge from the diabolic texture.
Purgatorio utilizes John Dowland’s Lachrimae as the representation of Dante’s journey through purgatory. The opening chant-like melodic line represents the inferno and the souls that remain in the lower region. While Dowland’s music is reiterated by a solo quartet, it is interrupted by a short interlude in the upper strings evoking the heavens above. As the final phrase of the Lacrimae comes to cadence, the full force of the orchestra is summoned in yearning, an evocation of the souls outcast by both the inferno and heavens. The orchestra recedes from its anguish and a brief chorale signifies Dante’s ascent into Paradiso.
This final movement is written in the style of Guillaume de Machaut. Using a motive from Messe de Nostre Dame, the piece begins with high strings and gradually introduces each section until the final chorale section signifies the heavens and it's luminous magnificence.
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February 20, 2015: J. Laiten Weed Honor Orchestra/South Dakota All-State Orchestra, conducted by Richard Rognstad
April 10, 2014: Arizona Pro Arte, conducted by Timothy Verville
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I. Inferno
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For Nick (Jason Bateman), Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Day), the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses (Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Aniston) into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con (Jamie Foxx), the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers…permanently. There’s only one problem: even the best laid plans are only as foolproof as the brains behind them.
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Camera Obtrusa
The Action Documentaries of Kazuo Hara
June 6–14, 2019
Errol Morris has called Kazuo Hara “one of the undiscovered geniuses of documentary,” and Michael Moore has called him “a soul brother in Japan.” As evidenced by this career-spanning retrospective—which opens with an onstage conversation with Hara and his wife and producer Sachiko Kobayashi, moderated by Michael Moore—the filmmaker’s impact both on nonfiction cinema and on postwar Japanese society is far more profound than his relatively sparse body of work would suggest. In addition to his six award-winning feature films, made over 47 years, Hara will also present excerpts from his latest project, a film Minamata (tentatively entitled), which he intends to finish this winter. If Hara’s films, taken as a whole, are about the social forces that constrain individual freedoms, they are also about the often disturbing constraints the filmmaker himself imposes on his subjects in his role as an interventionist documentarian. The title of this retrospective, Camera Obtrusa, is borrowed from Hara’s own book on the subject (Kaya Press, 1987).
Hara’s most infamous work, The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On, about an aging Japanese veteran’s monomaniacal efforts to expose the war crimes of his commanders, cast a merciless light on long-denied and long-suppressed feelings of rage, guilt, and complicity, the kind of historical amnesia that continues to afflict Japan even today.
Hara’s own severely impoverished and fatherless childhood was formative in his compassionate pursuit of justice for society’s weakest and most vulnerable, and in his feverish and fearless assault on those who would abuse and exploit them. People with cerebral palsy struggle to be acknowledged (Goodbye CP, 1972); a fiercely independent activist becomes a single mother and drifts from lover to lover (Extreme Private Eros: Love Song, 1974); a preeminent postwar novelist, Mitsuhari Inuoe, remains an eloquent agitator even in the face of cancer (A Dedicated Life, 1994); a dwindling community of former asbestos workers, dying of cancer and other painful diseases, sue a criminally indifferent Japanese government for monetary compensation (Sennan Asbestos Disaster, 2017). “As I also identify myself as an ordinary person,” Hara has said, these films are “a rallying cry to none other than myself.”
Organized by Joshua Siegel, Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. With thanks to Hisami Kuroiwa and Hiroshi Sunairi.
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Support for the exhibition is provided by the Annual Film Fund. Leadership support for the Annual Film Fund is provided by the Kate W. Cassidy Foundation and Steven Tisch, with major contributions from Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), Yuval Brisker Charitable Foundation, The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Karen and Gary Winnick, and The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.
Nipponkoku VS Sennan Ishiwatamura (Sennan Asbestos Disaster). 2017. Directed and photographed by Kazuo Hara
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Sayounara CP (Goodbye CP). 1972. Directed and photographed by Kazuo Hara
Zennshin Shousetsuka (A Dedicated Life). 1994. Directed and photographed by Kazuo Hara
Matanohi No Chika (The Many Faces of Chika). 2005. Directed by Kazuo Hara
Kyokushiteki Erosu Koiuta 1974 (Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974). 1974. Directed and photographed by Kazuo Hara
Minimata [excerpt from a work in progress]. 2019. Directed by Kazuo Hara
Yukiyukite Shingun (The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On). 1987. Directed and photographed by Kazuo Hara
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Many people ask why the company is named Ottawa Real Estate Co Ltd. Well in 1910 Frank McRitchie was passing through from Ottawa on his way to Lethbridge, AB. He stopped in Moose Jaw and fell in love!
He Lived All Winter in a Tent
Moose Jaw Times-Herald Story (No. 144)
His uncanny knowledge of horses – Owen Sound horses in particular – resulted in one of Moose Jaw's better known citizens making this city his home when he was on his way to Lethbridge in May, 1910.
It was those horses that brought Frank McRitchie from the train on which he was travelling westwards. It was the horses that decided the youth of 23 years to stop off here for a few days; days which stretched into years and on to most of his lifetime. He worked here in a variety of jobs before settling down as a partner in the Ottawa Real Estate and Brokerage Co., a business in which he is still engaged.
Born at Bothwell, Ontario, Frank McRitchie attended public and high schools there before entering the service of the merchants' Bank at Thamesville, Ontario, in 1907.
He also served with the bank at Hanover and Owen Sound, Ontario, until, with a group of four other boys, he decided to go on a home-seeker's excursion to Lethbridge, Alberta, there to join with another former Merchants' Bank employee who had written "to come to the land of opportunity."
Those were the boom days and this former bank employee wrote to his pals that he had made a profit of $50 inside of two weeks, on a real estate deal.
Frank and his friends decided that the Lethbridge youth was dreaming a bit but decided to go out and see for themselves.
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Prior to the time the late Frank McRitchie founded the present Co., he had served as the accountant for the law firm of Grayson & Armstrong in Moose Jaw. As a mater of fact, he had worked in a number of branches of the Merchants Bank in Ontario before coming to Moose Jaw. The first winter he spent in Moose Jaw, he lived in a tent all winter, his campsite being the present location of the Bank of Nova Scotia, which as at that time pretty well on the outskirts of town. He was always very fond of animals and had a number of drivers and racehorses. His love of animals become more apparent in the late twenties when he conceived the idea of having a Wild Animal Park here, which he promoted as a hobby with the help of many of the animal and birds lovers of this area. The present generation still own farms that are not only grain land investment, but also kept as sanctuaries for native birds and animals, such as deer, beaver, ducks, pheasants, blue herons, songbirds etc. and no hunting is allowed – partly in memory for the true conservation spirit he had.
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The home that came on the market was priced at a dollar amount that my granddaughter could afford. We became aware of the house the night before the offer had to be submitted. Derek took the time to let us examine the house and make an offer that ended up being successful.
As a result, the next day we were told that our offer had been accepted. It is important to note that had Derek not acted so efficiently and quickly, the bid on the house would have gone to the next bidder and we would not have been successful.
During the entire process, Derek protected our interests and assisted us in making arrangements with house inspectors, banking/mortgage arrangements, lawyer transfer of ownership requirements and the contacts with potential repair and maintenance needs from professional trades personnel.
All in all, what seemed like a long process, went very smoothly and my granddaughter is now the proud owner of a home for her children.
Thank you Derek, for making the path to home ownership successful.
Kevin DeCorby Moose Jaw, SK
Derek McRitchie was very professional and very personable and made the experience of selling my pride joy a little easier.
Gabrielle Belanger Moose Jaw, SK
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Band Of The Day: DOEM
JohnH December 6, 2019 Band of the Day No Comments on Band Of The Day: DOEM
I should have asked if it’s “Skem” or “Skelm”… Anyway, here are DOEM!
Simple things first – where are you guys from?
The sunny town of Skelmersdale.
We all first met a Wigan & Leigh College studying music then after we finished college we started a post-grunge band called Invane which then fell apart about two years ago due to the singer having other commitments, so we formed this band because we loved playing together and we didn’t want to continue as Invane without the singer.
How long have you been playing as a band?
About two years.
Before you get sick of being asked… where does the band name come from?
We make music that doesn’t have a vocalist so our music is very much up to the listener on how it’s interpreted. We want a name which we when read, it was up the person how it’s pronounced.
We all like very different types of music and when it came to writing this project we came from very different angles in terms of songwriting so we made a Spotify playlist, which is on our profile, curated by all three of us on where we got some of the ideas from.
Describe your music. What makes you unique?
We create a unique blend of doom metal, post-rock, ambient and post-metal in a 40-minute song split into two sections
Do you have any particular themes?
Nothing that’s premeditated. A lot of our ideas come from jamming, so any themes are very subconscious.
What’s your live show like? How many shows have you played?
Very loud (laughs). The goal of every gig is to surround people with music and create an atmosphere. We’ve been playing live for around two years and we really wanted to make our live performance the best way to listen to our music.
What’s the wildest thing you’ve seen or done at a live show?
We have a lot of pedals and intricate sections so at live shows we don’t go wild but I (James) went to see Daughters earlier this year in Manchester and it was the craziest show I have ever been to. The singer (Alexis Marshall) was smashing his mic, crowd surfing, self-mutilating, the whole gig was wild.
What kit do you use / guitars do you play / etc.?
James uses a Sonor Jazz Fusion kit, Gretsch Walnut Maple Inlay Snare 14″ x 6.5″ with 14” Zildjian K/Z Hi-Hats, 18” K Custom Dark Crash, 21” Sabian HH Raw Bell Dry Ride
Kris uses a G&L ASAT Special with HH VS Musician/Laney LV300 & Marshall DBS 7215
Dave uses Fender Jaguar Bass with Warwick Pro Fet 3.2 & Ampeg SVT-810E
What, if anything, are you plugging/promoting at the moment?
Our new project that we released a few months ago called The Fly & The Nail. It’s one long song split into two parts and it was all recorded live in one massive take
We’re nearly through the year now, what are your plans for 2020?
Lots of gigs to promote the album/EP and were already underway writing the next project
If you were second on a three-band bill, which band would you love to be supporting and which band would you choose to open for you? A chance to plug someone you’ve toured with, or a mate’s band we’ve not heard of before!
Opening, we would definitely go with our mates Mairu who have helped us a lot in the past and we have gigged with numerous time and the headline would have to be Russian Circles there the one band that every time they come to the UK we instantly get tickets for, incredible band.
From previous Band of the Day, N.E.S.H.: At a local level, what do you think can be done to help the music industry and bands of the future?
Communities and healthy competition. People need to support their local scene and their fellow musicians, inspire people to get in the practice room with other musicians and let them express themselves in whatever way they want, don’t gatekeep. Also, bands need to stop comparing music and audience sizes in such a toxic way where you divide the scene, the bands you don’t like should be your biggest influence to get back in the practise room and to push your music and the promotion of your music
From previous Band of the Day, Fall Flavored: What would you do with an eleventh finger?
If we get the extra finger on the left hand, become a competitive Street Fighter player.
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Aside from listening to metal and going to gigs, I spend my spare time watching movies (particularly horror and sci-fi), playing board games, cycling, and going on adventures with my wife and my dog.
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Alumni champion new music center now offering unique seat naming campaign
July 9, 2018 /by SOMadmin
0 0 SOMadmin SOMadmin2018-07-09 11:30:162018-07-09 15:05:20Alumni champion new music center now offering unique seat naming campaign
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UW-Madison Musicians to present “Thank You” concert to Mead Witter Foundation
Beth Larson, beth.larson@wisc.edu
Katherine Esposito kesposito@wisc.edu
The University of Wisconsin Mead Witter School of Music will bring two quintet ensembles to the Performing Arts Center in Wisconsin Rapids for a free concert on Thursday, February 9 at 7:30 p.m. The concert celebrates the Mead Witter Foundation’s $25 million gift to the University of Wisconsin for construction of a new performance center in Madison. The PAC is located at 1801 16th St. South, Wisconsin Rapids.
Following an afternoon of clinic sessions with local students, the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, the Wingra Wind Quintet, and Scott Teeple, UW-Madison conducting professor, along with the Lincoln High School Wind Ensemble will present the free public concert designed to educate as well as entertain. The February 9 concert is open to the public free of charge. Besides thanking the Foundation for its support, the concert furthers the UW mission of public service through spreading the “Wisconsin Idea.” About 50 music students from area high schools are expected to attend the afternoon clinic sessions and evening concert.
In the fall of 2015, the Mead Witter Foundation commemorated a century-long relationship between the Witter and Mead families with the University of Wisconsin by providing major funding that enabled the UW-Madison to construct its new music performance building in one phase, rather than in multiple phases over time. In appreciation of the gift, UW-Madison named its music school the Mead Witter School of Music, and the large concert hall within the performance building will be known as the Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall. The new performance building will be sited at the corner of University Avenue and Lake Street adjacent to the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison.
Interior of Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall. Image courtesy of Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture and Strang Architects.
Wisconsin Brass Quintet
Regarded as one of the “superb brass ensembles in the USA” (Musicweb International) and praised for “remarkable musicianship and versatility” (International Trumpet Guild Journal), the widely acclaimed Wisconsin Brass Quintet (WBQ) has maintained a position at the forefront of brass chamber music since the group’s founding in 1972. WBQ is one of three faculty chamber ensembles in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music. In addition to its regular concert series on the campus, the Quintet performs extensively throughout the Midwest and nationally, including appearances in New York at Weill Recital Hall and Merkin Concert Hall. Current members of WBQ are John Aley and Matthew Onstad, trumpets; Daniel Grabois, horn; Mark Hetzler, trombone; and Tom Curry, tuba.
Wingra Wind Quintet
Since its formation in 1965, the Wingra Wind Quintet at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music has established a tradition of artistic and teaching excellence. The ensemble has been featured in performance at national conferences such as MENC (Miami), MTNA (Kansas City), and the International Double Reed Society (Minneapolis). In addition to its extensive home state touring, the quintet has been invited to perform at numerous college campuses, including the universities of Alaska-Fairbanks, Northwestern, Chicago, Nebraska, Western Michigan, Florida State, Cornell, the Interlochen Arts Academy, and the Paris Conservatoire, where quintet members offered master classes. New York Times critic Peter Davis, in reviewing the ensemble’s Carnegie Hall appearance, stated “The performances were consistently sophisticated, sensitive, and thoroughly vital. Current members of Wingra Wind Quintet are Stephanie Jutt, flute; Aaron Hill, oboe; Marc Vallon, bassoon; Joanna Schulz, horn; and Amy McCann, clarinet.
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Hamido (1953) - (Farid Shawqi) Egyptian film program NM $200 *
Size: 7.75" x 5.5" folder with eight unbound pages
Watch on YouTube This is a an Egyptian program folder with eight unbound collage sheets from the 1953 Niazi Mostafa film Hamido based on a story by Farid Shawqi with screenplay by El Sayed Bedeir and Niazi Mostafi, dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir, cinematography by Wahid Farid and starring Farid Shawqi as Hamido. This was quite a popular film in Egypt but original posters and other memorabilia for it are quite rare. Plot summary: Hamido was a fisherman near Alexandria who was trying to get ahead by dealing in narcotics, the shortest route to wealth. He joined a narcotics gang and courted a girl named Sa'dia [Hoda Soltan] who was working for his mother. She trusted him and fell in love with him, but then he seduced her and started avoiding her. He regretted his promise to marry her because he had taken up with Fawzia [Taheya Cariocca] the girlfriend of the leader of his gang [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] and taken over leadership of the gang. When his mother realized Sa'dia was pregnant she threw her out of the house, but then Sa'dia told the mother the truth about her son's narcotics dealing. Hamido overheard this angry denunciation; he took Sa'dia out on a boat ride in the sea so he could drown her with her shame and be done with her. However she was later rescued by a nearby fishing boat. A police agent disguised himself, infiltrated Hamido's narcotics gang and arrested them, but Hamido himself fled and was killed before he could be arrested.
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Kenya Airways Drops Bid to Takeover JKIA Operations
Kenya Airways (KQ) says it has formally withdrawn its Privately Initiated Investment Proposal (PIIP) seeking to take over the operations of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
The proposal, which was submitted to Kenya Airports Authority (KAA), Public-Private Partnership Committee (PPP) and the National Treasury in October 2018, was rejected by Members of Parliament in February this year.
“The deal seems to only benefit KQ which is a loss-making institution compared to KAA which made a profit of Ksh3.8 billion,” National Assembly’s Public Investments Committee chairman, Abdullswamad Nassir noted.
MPs instead recommended the setting up of an Aviation Holding Company to amalgamate the country’s aviation assets, including the nationalization of KQ.
KQ’s decision to drop JKIA takeover bid was announced on Monday by the airline’s CEO Sebastian Mikosz.
“KQ’s Board and Management believe that the PIIP has catalyzed important discourse about the future of Kenya’s civil aviation, which is now being led by the Government of Kenya. Kenya Airways looks forward to continued collaboration with all involved stakeholders of the process,” said Mikosz in a statement.
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Protests, uncertainty over possible Morales win in Bolivia
by: PAOLA FLORES and CARLOS VALDEZ, Associated Press
Supporters of opposition presidential candidate Carlos Mesa burn campaign posters of ruling party congressional candidates outside the Supreme Electoral Court where election ballots are being counted in La Paz, Bolivia, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. President Evo Morales is close to avoiding a runoff in his re-election bid, Bolivia’s top electoral authority said Monday, a day after a sudden halt in the release of returns stoked confusion and protests. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — International election monitors expressed concern over Bolivia’s presidential election process Tuesday after an oddly delayed official quick count showed President Evo Morales near an outright first-round victory — even as a more formal tally tended to show him heading for a risky runoff.
The European Union and Organization of American States both expressed alarm after Morales suddenly shot upward in the quick count Monday following a day-long pause in results.
Morales’ opponents burned election offices and ballots in several cities and called for a strike Wednesday, accusing the leftist leader of trying to avoid a December runoff in which he would confront a united opposition.
Michael G. Kozak, acting assistant secretary at the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, took to Twitter to accuse the electoral tribunal of attempting “to subvert Bolivia’s democracy by delaying the vote count.”
But a more formal preliminary official account showed Morales well short of the votes needed to win outright.
Tensions rose when officials abruptly stopped releasing results from the official quick count of votes hours after the polls closed Sunday. The last numbers released before Monday night had showed Morales topping the eight other candidates, but also falling several percentage points short of the percentage needed to avoid the first runoff in his nearly 14 years in power.
Yet, the president claimed an outright victory late Sunday, telling supporters that the votes still to be counted — largely from rural areas where he is most popular — would be enough to give him an outright victory. “The people again imposed their will,” he said.
Twenty-four hours later, the body suddenly released an updated figure, with 95% of votes counted, showing Morales just 0.7 percentage point short of the 10-percentage point advantage needed to avoid a runoff.
That set off an uproar among the opposition and expressions of concern by international monitors.
“The unexpected interruption of the electronic vote counting after the first round of the general elections in Bolivia has sparked serious concerns that need to be fully and swiftly addressed,” the European Union said.
But a more formal official count running simultaneously, if more slowly, showed a closer race: With just under 96% of polling places counted in that process as of late Tuesday, Morales led by 8.45 percentage points.
Mesa, who stepped down as president in 2005 amid an outbreak of demonstrations led by Morales, then the leader of a coca growers union, called on citizens and civic groups “to conduct a battle in defense of the vote.”
“They can’t take away democracy from us,” he said at a gathering of his supporters in Santa Cruz, a stronghold of opposition to Morales.
The OAS observer mission issued a statement calling on electoral officials “to firmly defend the will of the Bolivian citizenry.”
“The OAS Mission expresses its deep concern and surprise at the drastic and hard-to-explain change in the trend of the preliminary results revealed after the closing of the polls,” it added following the updated quick count..
The foreign ministries of Argentina, Brazil and Colombia also expressed concerns about the situation.
Meanwhile, Bolivia’s interior minister, Carlos Romero, accused the opposition of trying to create turmoil and warned that “they have to take care of the violence they’re generating.”
Protests multiplied across Bolivia outside vote-counting centers after the release of vote returns resumed. In Sucre, opponents of Morales set fire to the regional headquarters of the electoral court while shouting: “Respect my vote!”
Rioting was reported in five more of Bolivia’s nine regions. In the national capital of La Paz, police used tear gas trying to quell fighting between supporters of Morales and Mesa outside a vote-counting center. Protesters threw firecrackers and stones.
“There is a heightened risk of social unrest at the moment,” Rodrigo Riaza, a research analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Economist Intelligence Unit, said earlier in the day.
But he said he doubted an eruption of protests would probably unseat Morales. “International support would be weak, as there is little appetite in the region to contest Morales’ legitimacy,” Riaza said.
Morales, 59, a native Aymara from Bolivia’s highlands, became the country’ first indigenous president in 2006 and easily won the two following elections amid more than a decade of a commodities-fed economic boom in South America’s poorest country. He paved roads, sent Bolivia’s first satellite to space and curbed inflation.
But he has faced growing dissatisfaction, especially over his refusal to accept the results of a 2016 referendum to keep limits on presidential terms. The country’s top court, considered by critics as friendly to the president, ruled that limits would violate Morales’ political rights as a citizen.
Being forced into a runoff would be a sharp blow to Morales, “whose political success has been impressive and who seemed confident of a first-round win,” said Michael Shifter, head of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based think tank.
Associated Press writer Luis Andres Henao in Buenos Aires, Argentina, contributed to this report.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain officially leaves the European Union on Jan. 31 after a debilitating political period that has bitterly divided the nation since the 2016 Brexit referendum.
Difficult negotiations setting out the new relationship between Britain and its European neighbors will continue throughout 2020. This series of stories chronicles Britain’s tortured relationship with Europe from the post-World War II years to the present.
by DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press / Jan 20, 2020
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry took aimat the journalists who have dissected his life since the day he was born ashe expressed regret forthe way he has had to step down from royal duties.
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NAFA is the top organization in the world at classifying teams and pitchers. Our success can be directly measured by the high level of team loyalty expressed each year as teams have a great time and see by looking around with their eyeball test that our directors have properly placed each team and each pitcher in a class where you are competitive and you hear player after player saying, “those guys look just like we do”.
NAFA has 5 levels of play which basically offers a level of play for every talent level of player and pitcher:
is any player of any level participating but many of the top pitchers in the world appear at this level. There are very few “super” level highly financed teams left so taking away the “OPEN” level pitching puts almost all but a few teams in the AA-Major Class of play as long as they use a pitcher from the AA-Major list as NO “Open” level pitchers are allow to pitch in any class below, “OPEN”. The “Open” World Series(which any team can attend) is held July 23-25 at Madison, Wisconsin in 2011 at the Bowling Green Sports Complex which is fastpitch only type facility with double high permanent fences at 240 feet making it a true fastpitch facility.
AA-Major Division
No “OPEN” pitchers allowed, only AA-Major and below pitchers may pitch. This is the highest intermediate level(considered semi-open by many) of play in the world and very similar to the former ISC2 level and the ASA “A” level(and upper “B” level). The AA-Major World Series is held August 19-21 in Rockford, Illinois at the beautiful 8 field Sportscore facility. The AA-Major division was established to be a bridge division for teams who had clearly shown they were dominant in the true intermediate “AA” division but were cleary not “OPEN” teams or clearly had no “OPEN” pitching.
“AA” Division
NAFA’s true intermediate division held on August 11-14 in Rockford, Illinois at the lush green Sportscore facility with 8 fields. Only “AA” pitchers and lower are allowed in this division. The division has been compared to the ASA “B” and the lower end of the ISC2. Teams that do well two years in a row or that have dominant pitching can be given a promotion to the next level the following year.
A-Major Division
One of NAFA’s best management decisions ever(see the chronology of NAFA Top Down Decision making since its origin in 1993 under the “ABOUT US” section). NAFA’s Decision in 2004 to break the ultra large “A” division into two with the more competitive teams in “A-Major”(referred to as Upper ASA “C” teams) and to allow the lower half remain in “A” (Middle to lower ASA :C: teams) was a great move that helped the entire sport survive and grow. Only pitchers who are A-major and lower may pitch in this division. This event is held in 2011 on August 11-14 in Rockford, Illinois along side the “AA” tournament and many teams play in both divisions using A-major pitchers in the lower division and “AA” pitchers in the “AA” division.
The lowest classification level of NAFA is also where over 90% of the players and pitchers fit in talent wise. This level is both for new teams, teams with lower velocity pitching, teams that have been together for along time and have aged and for teams that want to play as friends and not trade away good friends for talent. Only pitchers classified at “A” may pitch in the “A” Division. This event will have 64 teams in Rockford, Illinois on August 18-21 at the Sportscore Complex with 8 fields. It is played in conjunction with the 23-Under World Series and the AA-Major World Series and many players play in two or even all three divisions.
23-Under Division
Two 23-Under World Series events are held, the first with the Men’s “OPEN” World Series July 23-25 in Madision, Wisconsin and the second and traditional one at the World Series August 19-21 alongside the Men’s “A” and “AA-Major” Divisions. Both are 4 game guarantees and players are allowed to play in both events.
The second annual 18-Under Division will be held alongside the 23-Under Division August 20-21, Saturday-Sunday in Rockford, Illinois.
Youth Divisions
Tim Hatten and Ray Richardson will host the NAFA Boys Fastpitch World Series near Rockford, Illinois at the Roscoe Softball Complex with the dates and classes below. The Entry fee is free for this event in an effort to promote our fine sport with our youth in an effort to provide long term development for our sport.
10-Under, August 11-12th(Thursday-Friday)
14-Under, August 12-13th(Friday-Saturday)
Masters Divisions
East July 1-3, Midwest Sept. 9-11, West Sept. 16-18
NAFA’s Masters Program is the largest in the World and is due to NAFA’s Director’s listening to the players and making changes that are requested of us.
60-Over, Rockford, Illinois, September 9-11, 4 Games Guaranteed. All Players (but 3 non-pitchers 3 years too young) must be turning 60 in this calendar year.
Masters East World Series at Niagra Falls July 1-3, (fly to Buffalo, NY)
50-Over, Niagra Falls, Ont., Kerr Park, July 1-3, 3 Games Guaranteed, All Players (but 3 non-pitchers 3 years too young) must be turning 50 in this calendar year.
Masters MIDWEST World Series, September 9-11, Rockford, Illinois(fly to Chicago or Milwaukee)
60-Over, Decatur, Illinois, September 9-11, 4 Games Guaranteed. All Players (but 3 non-pitchers 3 years too young) must be turning 50 in this calendar year.
50-Over, Decatur, Illinois, Sept. 9-11, 4 Games Guaranteed, All Players (but 3 non-pitchers 3 years too young) must be turning 50 in this calendar year.
Masters WEST World Series Sept. 16-18 in Carson City, Nevada(fly to Reno)
50-Over, Carson City, Nevada, Sept. 16-18, 4 Games Guaranteed, All Players (but 3 non-pitchers 3 years too young) must be turning 50 in this calendar year.
Wood Bat Divisions
The Wood Bat World Series will be held August 28-29 in Anadarko, Oklahoma and will be overseen by Wood Bat Program Director, Dave Parker. It will be a 3 game guarantee and is being held for the first time in the lower midwest in an attempt to grow the division in 2011.
Modified Divisions
The Modified Fastpitch World Series is being bid out now and is looking for a host for 2012. Please contact the Executive Director if you are interested in hosting this event.
Native American Divisions
In 2012, we will host our first ever Native American World Series in the lower Midwest. Stay tuned for more details under the Native American World Series Page. If you are interested in helping host this event contact the executive director.
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A New Jersey Bill Protects Pool Owners from Low Prices
By Shoshana Weissmann
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Draining a pool without a license could soon be illegal in the Garden State.
Americans are getting their pools ready for summer. If you live in New Jersey, you might soon be breaking the law if you drain your pool without a license.
On Monday, New Jersey lawmakers will vote on a bill introduced last week by state senator James Beach that would license “pool and spa service contractors, and pool and spa builders and installers.”
The law provides that “no person shall advertise that he is authorized to engage in, or engage in pool and spa service contracting or pool and spa building and installation unless he satisfies the requirements of this act.”
Under the latest version of the bill, “servicing” includes “the draining, acid washing or backwash filtration of a pool or above-ground pool.” That’s right — a license to drain your pool.
The law also specifies that “an applicant seeking licensure to engage in pool and spa service contracting shall . . . be of good moral character.” It is unclear what problem will be solved by a law mandating that people who service pools have high morals.
What is the reason for this law? Have pool-service contractors caused so much harm that the state decided the only answer was mandatory licenses? Nope. As Reason’s Eric Boehm wrote in October:
No one is even bothering to pretend that it’s about anything other than driving up prices and limiting competition. . . .
So give credit to Lawrence Caniglia for refusing to play those semantic games. Caniglia is the executive director of the Northeast Spa and Pool Association, which is pushing a bill in New Jersey to require a state license for anyone who installs, builds, or services a pool or spa.
“Frankly, we’re looking for a more professional industry — and you can raise the rates you’re charging because you’re . . . a (properly) licensed pool builder or service professional,” Caniglia told Pool and Spa News, a trade publication.
How interesting then, that the bill would establish a “Pool and Spa Service Contractors and Pool and Spa Builders and Installers Advisory Committee,” consisting of seven members, four of whom must belong to the Northeast Spa and Pool Association (NESPA).
It is unclear what problem will be solved by a law mandating that people who service pools have high morals.
In a letter against the bill, the Institute for Justice (IJ) and Americans for Prosperity note: “NESPA operates its own training program and the bill names the Association of Pool and Spa Professions (APSP) as a source of private certification. It is unfortunate that NESPA and APSP seek to borrow state power to exclude competitors.”
In October, IJ’s Nick Sibilia wrote in Forbes that “NESPA also claimed that licensing pool and spa contractors is needed to protect public safety, citing the hundreds of drowning deaths each year for children under 5 nationwide.”
Sibilia addresses the claim in his article, and we can add to his argument by looking at the best publicly available data, which demonstrates no correlation between licensing pool contractors and reducing the number of drowning deaths of children. When one compares 2010 census data of all people younger than 18 in each state with 2014 data from PoolSafely.gov listing state-by-state drowning deaths of children younger than 15, it turns out that the states with the highest number of deaths are also states that license pool contractors. Arizona, Hawaii, Florida, and Louisiana were the only states to have more than eight drowning deaths per million in 2014. All of those states license pool contractors.
One might think the reason for this is simply that those states are southern and have longer pool seasons, but Texas doesn’t license pool contractors, and it had 3.6 deaths per million in 2014. California is also lower on the list; it does license pool contractors, and it had 3.9 deaths per million. Nevada also requires a license and is lower on the list, at 1.5 deaths per million.
One could argue that the publicly available data used here is too imperfect to disprove a correlation, but the data in that case also could not prove that a correlation exists and that therefore mandatory licensing would solve the problem.
While the bill doesn’t appear to be tailored to fix any existing problem, Reason’s Boehm talks about the cost on families:
New Jersey is already one of the most heavily licensed states in the country, with at least 48 professions requiring a government permission slip, according to IJ’s research. As Caniglia helpfully pointed out, licensing drives up the cost of goods and services. In New Jersey, the average family pays an extra $1,200 every year because of the added cost of professional licensing schemes, according to research from the Heritage Foundation.
Boehm also notes that Connecticut passed a similar law, which then led to the arrest in September 2016 of Joseph Verardi for the crime of repairing pool tiles without a license. He had a home-improvement contractor license, but not the proper license to work on pools.
If this legislation is signed into law, consumers will be no better off but will have to pay higher prices, and industry professionals will have to jump through more unnecessary hoops to do their work. But at least Caniglia will get more money.
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Benches available along riverside and in meadows
Seen by many as the birthplace of modern democracy, this open landscape beside the Thames was witness to King John's historic sealing of the Magna Carta 801 years ago on 15 June 1215.
Today Runnymede is an ideal place to relax outdoors, or to pause and reflect on the history of the struggle for freedom. As well as a monument to the democratic legacy of the Magna Carta, you'll find further memorials to John F. Kennedy and the Commonwealth Air Forces, and a unique installation by artists Hew Locke and Mark Wallinger.
Within easy reach of the M25, this peaceful river scenery is home to rolling hills, open meadows and a variety of wildlife. Enjoy a picnic, take in the views, ride your bike along the riverbank or bring your dog on one of our waymarked countryside walks.
On the other side of the Thames you'll find Ankerwycke, a hidden gem with secrets to discover among the woods and fields. Look out for the ruins of a Benedictine priory and the National Trust's oldest tree, a 2,500-year-old Yew where Henry VIII was rumoured to have courted Anne Boleyn.
We're open all year round, so come and explore a beautiful and important slice of history.
runnymede@nationaltrust.org.uk
Windsor Road, near Old Windsor, Surrey, SL4 2JL (SatNav: TW20 0AE)
By cycle
We're on the Thames Path, National Trail for 1¼ miles. Cycle racks are available in the Magna Carta car park, beside the tea-room.
Cycle route information
The French Brothers ferry from Windsor stops at Runnymede.
The First 8 bus goes from Windsor Town Centre, Theatre Royal to Runnymede, opposite Beaumont on Priest Hill. For the return journey the closest stop is adjacent Beaumont on Priest Hill, from which the number 8 drops passengers at Windsor Town Centre, WH Smith on Thames Street.
Our entrance is approximately 2 miles (3.2km) from Egham train station, and can be reached using the First 8 bus route. To plan a train journey please use the National Rail journey planner. Traveling from Heathrow: You can take the Underground from Terminal 1-3 to Hatton Cross, connect with the 490 bus to Feltham, then take the National Rail service to Egham.
From Egham: Take the exit onto Windsor Road/A308 at Runnymede roundabout. Drive along for about 1½ miles (2.4km). From Heathrow: Turn off at junction 13 of the M25 and take the exit to Egham/Windsor. At the large roundabout, take the third exit onto the A308. Drive along the river for about 1½ miles (2.4km) to the memorials car park. From Windsor: Head north and turn left onto Alma Road. At the roundabout, take the first exit onto the A308. Continue along the A308 (Osborne Road, Albert Road, Straight Road, Windsor Road) until you reach the memorials car park.
Parking: Pay-and-display car parks either side of the A308 (free for National Trust members). The Memorials car park (tea-room side) is open all year, and the riverside car park is open seasonally, weather dependent.
SatNav: Use postcode TW20 0AE or type in "National Trust Runnymede".
We're on the Thames Path, National Trail for 1¼ miles.
Countryside Dawn to dusk
Memorials car park 09:00 - 16:00
Riverside car park Closed
Tea-room 10:00 - 15:30
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Angela Bishop reveals her most awkward celebrity interview
Entertainment reporter Angela Bishop told this horror story before without ever revealing the A-lister in question. Now she’s naming names.
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news.com.auMay 6, 20193:40pm
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Stellar chat to Angela Bishop about the Bold and the Beautiful, her bucket list and her weirdest red carpet moment.
Entertainment reporter Angela Bishop is celebrating 30 years at Channel 10.Source:Supplied
Angela Bishop has revealed her most awkward celebrity interview.
The entertainment reporter, who is this week celebrating 30 years at Channel 10, has interviewed many of the world’s biggest stars. But her interview with Oscar-winning actress Faye Dunaway went off the rails in the first 10 seconds, Bishop revealed on The Project last night.
“I’d just flown in from London doing another interview with Kate Hudson, and I was getting ready to do the interview, and I was trying desperately to stay awake,” Bishop said.
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty during the 89th Annual Academy Awards.Source:Getty Images
In an attempt to stave off the jet lag, Bishop went to the hotel gym, where she bumped into Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger.
“I said (to Jagger), ‘Have you ever met Faye Dunaway before?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, she’s cool’.”
But Dunaway was less than cool when Bishop entered the interview room and greeted the actress.
“I put out my hand to say, ‘Nice to meet you’, and she goes, ‘Ladies don’t shake hands!’” Bishop told The Project hosts.
“I went, ‘Oh, this is going to be hard to rescue’. In those junkets you’ve got five minutes, and if it started that badly it’s very hard to get it back on the rails.”
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde.Source:Supplied
“The next time I met her, I just kept my hands firmly behind my back.”
Bishop mentioned the same story to news.com.au in 2017, but didn’t name the actress at the time.
In that interview she mentioned another celebrity interview that was memorable for all the wrong reasons.
“One celebrity encounter that wasn’t so great was a really amazing international Grammy-award winning singer who was doing interviews on a Sunday which happened to be Valentine’s Day,” Bishop told news.com.au.
“We all had our set times, and pretty much all of the journalists there had made plans with their significant other around those times. Instead, we all ended up waiting six hours as the singer took her time deciding what outfits to wear.”
Bishop also opened up about the best celebrities she’s had the privilege of interviewing over the years, including the legendary Jack Nicholson.
“I first met him when As Good As It Gets was coming out,” she told news.com.au. “At the time I used to take a Signature Bear with me to get signed by people I interviewed which I then auctioned off to raise money for the Sydney Breast Cancer Foundation. When I asked Jack to sign it he said, ‘Breasts Angela. Great cause!’”
Jack Nicholson with Angela Bishop.Source:Supplied
And then there was the time Dave Grohl serenaded Bishop’s baby bump.
“I was only a couple of weeks away from giving birth to my daughter when we met and he sang a little song into my belly,” Bishop recalled. “Amelia (Angela Bishop’s daughter) still loves the Foo Fighters.”
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Outcry over 'ghosts and girlfriends' at ANC Eastern Cape conference
Lizeka Tandwa, News24
Andile Lungisa. (Supplied)
Masualle supporters disrupt first day of ANC Eastern Cape conference
ANC NEC to discuss a way forward for KZN leadership
ANC Eastern Cape adamant that conference will continue as planned
Johannesburg - Delegates at the ANC's Eastern Cape elective conference have cried foul over the registration process, with claims of unauthorised members being allowed to participate in the event.
The second day of the conference started with some alleged delegates being barred from entering the International Convention Centre in East London.
The party was demanding that all delegates produce identity documents before entering the venue, and some claimed that they had no ID cards.
Tightening security
Security at the gates to the venue were bolstered with police.
ANC Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) member Mlibo Qoboshiyane explained to journalists that the intense security was due to clashes between delegates on Friday night.
Members of the ANC who allegedly arrived without tags on Friday forced their way into the venue's hall.
The members who were apparently supporters of ANC provincial chair Phumulo Masualle clashed with delegates who supported outgoing secretary Oscar Mabuyane.
READ: Masualle supporters disrupt first day of ANC Eastern Cape conference
The situation led to the deployment of police.
ANC PEC member, Andile Lungisa, who was alleged to have been part of the team that instigated the incident, accused Mabuyane's office of inviting "friends and girlfriends" as part of the delegation.
"We must never invite our own friends, our own girlfriends... [to] the conference of the ANC. We have mandated the NEC (National Executive Committee) to clean up, but the reality of the situation is that people who were taken out by the NEC [during the clashes] - they are inside, they were given tags," he claimed.
Lungisa warned that should the situation persist, they will be forced to act.
He claimed that about 1700 delegates were accredited for the conference yet about 4000 delegates had gained entry to the conference on Friday.
"Fraudulent people have been registered ... That thing must be corrected. Now we have been smiling, we have been given that office a number of opportunities to correct this fraudulent activity. Now we are running out of patience," he said.
Qoboshiyane however painted a rosier picture of the situation saying that the committee that was dealing with credentials of delegates was fully compliant.
He said some branches were accredited late.
He could not say how long the conference would last.
The event was scheduled to start at 09:00 however at around 13:30, delegates were still making their way into the venue.
"I don't want to be in a blame game now, we are [implementing] corrective measure[s] to ensure that we are sitting [in] this conference properly."
NEC delegate Lindiwe Zulu said that they were now looking thoroughly at verification.
"Everyone who will gain entry to the venue, must have a tag as well as their ID documents because we don't want to see what happened yesterday (Friday) [happen again]."
Zulu said the NEC was happy with the progress of the conference, adding that the credibility of the event was hinged on the management of processes according to the party's constitution.
Addressing a delegation from OR Tambo region on the sidelines of the conference, one member, Mluleki Ndlelanga, said if the number of delegates was over 1000, the conference could not proceed.
"We cannot allow anything. We can't allow people who are ghosts to participate in this conference... This conference is for the delegates who were elected in a BGM (Branch General Meeting). If that is not happening, there is no conference," he said.
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TOM KING Jumps Off BATMAN for BATMAN / CATWOMAN Title in 2020
By Chris Arrant, Editor May 24, 2019 01:25pm ET
Credit: DC
DC has confirmed Tom King's upcoming departure from the core Batman title - but revealed that his Dark Knight stories will continue in a 12-issue Batman/Catwoman series drawn by Clay Mann that is scheduled to debut in January 2020.
"We’re making changes to our comic book publishing line to set DC up for continued success,” said DC’s editor-in-chief Bob Harras. "We’re starting with the bestselling Batman comic after ‘City of Bane’ wraps up in December. ‘City of Bane’ is an incredible story and an integral part of our overall ‘Year of the Villain’ campaign, and a new Tom King and Clay Mann Bat/Cat series in 2020 fills the gap once BATMAN begins to ship monthly."
December's Batman #85 will be Tom King's final issue of the title, however DC is not revealing who will take his place for #86 and after. The one thing DC does emphasize is that Batman will revert from its twice-monthly shipping back to monthly issues come January 2020.
"It’s tough to leave Batman," added King. "It’s a gift and a joy to be on that book. But I’m leaving it to work on the biggest, most ambitious projects of my career, comics I get to make with the best collaborators in comics. And that’s a gift and a joy too."
King describes his Batman/Catwoman book as an "ambitious, accessible, beautiful, thrilling" series that will conlude his "years of stories."
"This will be a comic about what the best Batman comics are always been about, how our greatest hero turns fear into bravery, pain into hope, trauma into love," said King. "It’s the story I always wanted to tell, and I’m telling it with the man I consider to be the greatest artist in comics, my brother Clay Mann."
Harras confirmed that Joelle Jones' Catwoman series will continue concurrent to King and Mann's Batman/Catwoman.
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La Spezia is a city in the region of Liguria in northern Italy, capital of the province Laspetsia. It is a military and commercial port, the largest in the country, between Genoa and Pisa. La Spezia has also one of the largest military industries in Italy. Museums, churches and other monuments, are some of the city's sightseeings, revealing the rich history of the area.
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In the shadow of the Vesuvius volcano, Naples is full of architectural treasures. Also hosts one of the most important archaeological museums in the world, the National Archeological Museum. Visit the ancient city of Pompeii or the beautiful island of Capri to enjoy the magnificent view from the mountaintop. Wander through the picturesque streets of the nearby Sorrento and try Lemontselo, a delicious lemon liqueur.
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The largest island of Mediterranean, Sicily, consists of a multicultural society and offers many different folklore, historical, artistic attractions and breathtaking landscapes.
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Celebrity Constellation has boasts spectacular style and ambience
From the minute you enter the magnificent Grand Foyer, or savor a flavorful steak in the Tuscan Grille, or sip your favorite vodka at the ultra-cool, ice-topped Martini Bar you'll feel pampered and transformed, too. Sumptuous suites and staterooms offer stunning new décor and flat-screen TVs, and a level of personal service that's intuitive with a keen eye for detail.
Length 965 ft
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Gross weight: 91
Max beam: 105.6
Since Celebrity's first sailing in 1990, it has been recognized as an industry leader, praised for providing spacious, stylish interiors; dining experiences elevated to an art form; personalized service, with a guest-to-staff ratio of nearly 2:1 and unexpected, trendsetting onboard activities, all designed to provide an unmatchable experience for vacationers' precious time. The introduction of Celebrity Cruises' stylish, widely heralded Solstice Class of ships has reinforced Celebrity's position as an industry leader.
It all began when Celebrity Cruises was founded in 1989 with the objective of fulfilling the travel industry's need for a high-quality, premium cruise product at an intelligent price. The company was determined to set a new, worldwide standard for cruising, and to create a distinctive expression of superior quality, grand style, attentive service, spacious accommodations, and exceptional cuisine. Believing that the dining experience is an essential part of a quality cruise vacation, Celebrity custom-built galleys to create the finest gourmet cuisine at sea, preparing everything from scratch, using only the finest, freshest ingredients. Along with the launch of the Century Class fleet in 1995, Celebrity created another industry first: a luxurious spa experience within the environment of a cruise ship, with the introduction of the AquaSpa® by Elemis. In 1997, Celebrity Cruises merged with Royal Caribbean International, bringing together two extraordinary cruise brands within one corporation, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
In 2000, Celebrity launched the appropriately named Celebrity Millennium, and with it the industry's first application of gas turbine engines, which reduce exhaust emissions by up to 95 percent over traditional propulsion systems. Celebrity Millennium and her sister ships - Celebrity Infinity, Celebrity Summit and Celebrity Constellation - nearly doubled the line's capacity in just two years (2000-2002), with each ship offering guests an unmatched dining experience in distinctive, intimate specialty restaurants. Celebrity Millennium's "Olympic," Celebrity Infinity's "S.S. United States," Celebrity Summit's "Normandie" and Celebrity Constellation's "Ocean Liners" each boast original paneling and artifacts from the famed transatlantic luxury liners after which they are named ("Ocean Liners'"includes paneling from the Ile de France), and feature dramatic tableside cooking, carving and flambé in the true French style.
Celebrity has offered rich, pampering experiences since its inception. More than 100 brand enhancements and new "tastes of luxury" were unveiled across the fleet in 2003, including welcome champagne and mimosas, cold towels and fresh sorbet poolside, expanded options in dining, including Sushi Cafés and pasta/pizza bars, sunset yoga and Pilates classes, and more. During the same year, Celebrity introduced "Concierge Class," an enhanced level of accommodations featuring new amenities and priority services, and introduced "Acupuncture at Sea," another undisputed industry first.
In 2004, the line launched "Celebrity Xpeditions," a series of highly unique events and excursions designed to offer savvy travelers once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to be treated famously in new environments. The one-of-a-kind program gives guests the premium experiences they have come to expect from Celebrity, in new and exotic settings, including cruises in the enchanting Galapagos Islands on a luxurious mega yacht, Celebrity Xpedition, and a series of premium excursion options on select itineraries.
Today, among Celebrity’s ten ships are its Solstice Class ships, which exemplify Celebrity's emphasis on designing stunning ships and inviting onboard experiences for vacationers who appreciate the finer things. The ships have taken stylish cruising and impeccable service to new heights. Celebrity Solstice set sail in 2008, Celebrity Equinox in 2009, and Celebrity Eclipse in 2010. All three hold 2,850 guests (double occupancy) and have a tonnage of 122,000. Celebrity Silhouette joined the fleet in 2011 and Celebrity Reflection in 2012. Celebrity Silhouette holds 2,886 guests (double occupancy) and has a tonnage of 122,400. Celebrity Reflection holds 3,030 guests and has a tonnage of 126,000.
Celebrity's Solstice Class features the industry's first "Lawn Club" - an outdoor, country club-like venue featuring a lawn of real, growing grass where guests can practice their putting, play lawn games like croquet and lawn bowling, or simply relax under the sun and stars; the first Hot Glass Show at sea, presented in collaboration with The Corning Museum of Glass; and a slate of breathtaking new shows created in partnership with POET Theatricals. The Solstice Class also offers larger, more intuitive staterooms influenced by "Celebrity's Leading Ladies," five Boomer women with unique travel and hospitality insights. The new ships present fewer inside staterooms than other ships - 90% of the ships' staterooms offer outside views and 85% of staterooms have verandas - and feature an entirely new category of staterooms, "AquaClass," designed with spa enthusiasts in mind, offering a host of exclusive amenities. AquaClass guests enjoy unlimited access to the Relaxation Room and Persian Garden, as well as priority seating in Blu, a specialty restaurant with healthy dishes created specifically for AquaClass guests. The ships also present a two-story AquaSpa, with the Relaxation Room and Persian Garden similar to those found on several other Celebrity ships. Celebrity's Solstice Class ships also are the first in the industry to utilize solar technology, with some of the solar panels serving the dual purpose of providing shade within the Solarium as well as energy production. Celebrity Silhouette introduced several new venues, including The Lawn Club Grill, the industry's first outdoor, interactive grill venue; The Porch, with a chic Hampton's-style design, and offering casual breakfasts and lunches overlooking The Lawn Club and the sea; The Art Studio, where guests can participate in intimate, hands-on instruction from experts in drawing, painting and beading, as well as the art of food, with culinary-themed classes; The Alcoves, eight cabana-style settings for partial or all-day rentals on the perimeter of The Lawn Club, offering themed picnic baskets, an á la carte beverage menu and WiFi; and The Hideaway, with its avant-garde, cozy, tree house design, creating a quiet retreat for reading a good book or a high-tech escape for vacationers relaxing with iPads, which are available to rent.
Dining on Celebrity's ships is an exceptional experience. The vision of our James Beard featured chef for creating fresh, exciting, innovative dining experiences has produced such successes as Qsine, the "uniquely unordinary" specialty restaurant first introduced on Celebrity Eclipse, and the Lawn Club Grill, the first outdoor, interactive barbecue grill experience at sea introduced on Celebrity Silhouette. Our culinary vision is evident everywhere, from the recipes and ingredients to the table presentation to the service. Our hope is that you'll leave a Celebrity cruise having tried new tastes and gained a deeper appreciation for the way cuisine can influence your experiences. Before the launch of Celebrity Solstice in 2008, Celebrity Cruises had five specialty restaurants fleetwide; by the end of 2012, there be 45 in total.
Just as we elevated Celebrity's culinary excellence, Celebrity's Solstice® Class has redefined the brand overall. Many of the design elements, experiences and dining concepts introduced on the Solstice Class ships are so compelling that in early 2010, Celebrity announced plans to "Solsticize" its Millennium Class ships by incorporating iconic Solstice Class attributes through a significant revitalization. The first ship to be "Solsticized" was Celebrity Constellation®, that same year. Since then, four other ships have been enhanced to a Solstice Class sheen.
With its pulse on what guests want, and with an eye toward the future, Celebrity Cruises continues to innovate and to deliver unforgettable, award-winning vacation experiences.
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NBA rumors: Warriors' Steph Curry targeting March 1 return to lineup
By Marcus White January 19, 2020 9:55 AM
Steph Curry reportedly is targeting a March 1 return.
The two-time MVP has not played since breaking his left hand on Oct. 30, and The Athletic's Marcus Thompson has "been told" that Curry hopes to play on March 1 at Chase Center against the Washington Wizards, though the date is not "set in stone."
Curry told Warriors broadcasters Bob Fitzgerald and Kelenna Azubuike during Golden State's win over the Orlando Magic on Saturday that he has had "no setbacks" rehabbing his broken hand.
"Rehab is going great, every day is tough,” Curry said Saturday. “When you're hurt, and we've all been there in some way shape or form, its a grind, every day kind of being monotonous with the little strength workouts you have to do, and you understanding that it takes time and patience to get back to 100 percent.”
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Curry is traveling to road games with the Warriors, and the 30-year-old has impressed his teammates and coaches during individual shooting drills. Warriors coach Steve Kerr told the "Posted Up" podcast earlier this month that there was an "excellent chance" Curry would return in March. He'll be re-evaluated Feb. 1, and NBC Sports Bay Area's Kerith Burke wrote last week that a minutes restriction is possible as Curry "gets his wind back."
Before Curry is re-evaluated, though, he reportedly already has a timeline in mind.
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Warriors' Jordan Poole showing more progress after bad start to season
By Logan Murdock January 18, 2020 10:45 PM
SAN FRANCISCO -- With four seconds left in the third quarter of the Warriors' 190-95 win over Magic on Saturday, Jordan Poole ran full speed to the right-wing with a bucket on his mind.
Sprinting alongside teammate Omari Spellman, Poole received a pass from the big man, pump faked, took a dribble and drained a 3-pointer at the buzzer, pushing the Warriors lead to 11.
Walking to the bench, Poole had both arms in the air, and was yelling "Yeahhhh" towards the crowd. Similar plays have been the norm for Poole over the last week as he gradually digs himself out a bad start to his rookie season.
"He's starting to figure out where his spots are," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. "Where his spots are and his comfort zone and how to impact a game."
Remnants of Poole's improvement were on display early Saturday night. After Golden State went down 13-0 four and a half minutes into the contest, Poole scored 11 first-quarter points, helping Golden State take a 28-25 lead by the end of the period. Poole totaled 21 points for the game, including four 3-pointers, providing another example of his evolution. In his past three outings, Poole is averaging 16 points on 45 percent from the field.
Such stretches are uncommon considering the start of Poole's career. During his first 29 games -- with Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson out of the lineup -- he shot just 25 percent, prompting a demotion to the G League. While his shot was ineffective, it was his propensity to not give all-out effort that drew ire of the coaching staff. On his way down to Santa Cruz, Kerr gave him a player that he'd like Poole to use a blueprint for success: Pelicans guard JJ Redick. More specifically, the shooter's habit of constant movement on the defensive end, complimented by his shooting ability.
Poole followed suit during his G League stint, averaging 26 points, 5.3 assists and 1.3 steals in three games. The performance has carried over back to the NBA, as he's making 42 percent of his 3-pointers over his last three games. But he showed his growth six minutes into the third quarter Saturday, when he fought through two screens, moved his feet on Magic guard Evan Fournier before stripping the guard, causing a fast break on the other end, prompting praise from his coach and teammates along the way.
"He's doing better on defense, handling the ball and making plays," Kerr said. "The game is so fast at this level. Everything happens much faster, so whether you are defending somebody or having to get over a screen or leave a rotation or if you have the ball and you are trying to make a pass, everything just happens quicker than you are used to. I think the time in Santa Cruz helped him gain more confidence and maybe the game has slowed down a bit ... He just looks more confident and comfortable."
"I think his approach has been better," teammate D'Angelo Russell added. "I think that's what's contributed to him successfully on the court. Not just worrying about his shots but his demeanor, his approach is business-like."
Poole's progression comes as the Warriors are in transition. As he works towards a long-term role, organizational cornerstones Curry and Thompson are working their way back from injuries, while Russell -- an All-Star guard -- is giving 20-year old daily lessons on how to be a pro.
[RELATED: Paschall regains form after tough stretch]
"I'm like a kid in the candy store, especially being able to have Steph, Klay and [Russell]," Poole said on Warriors Postgame Live. "I'm in awe every day. You wouldn't want to be in any other situation."
As Poole celebrated his buzzer-beater, Curry sat on a makeshift stage, soaking in the rookie's latest step as a pro, leaving compliments along the way.
"The way that he's fought through his early-season struggles and gone down to Santa Cruz, really able to work on his game, see the floor, get his rhythm and shoot the ball the way he's been doing the last few games," Curry said during NBC Sports Bay Area's broadcast. "That's what an NBA player is made of. It's not going to be pretty but you got to keep coming back to try and make it work."
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Warriors' rookie Eric Paschall back to looking like a long-term keeper
By Monte Poole January 18, 2020 10:01 PM
SAN FRANCISCO -- No one in the Warriors' front office or on the coaching staff knows the extent of Eric Paschall’s NBA potential. Neither does he. In the fourth month of his career, he has provided ample evidence to engage debate.
After his first six weeks: Solid Rookie of the Year candidate.
After the next five weeks, during which endured assorted aches and pains in his joints: Uh, um, well, maybe he’s solid rotation player.
After the last two: He can start for any team and produce under pretty much any condition.
Paschall shed some light on his progress Saturday night after doing his part and more to lift the Warriors to a 109-95 win over the Orlando Magic. Making his second start since Dec. 11, he scored 20 points, grabbed nine rebounds and added two steals in 35 minutes.
He was a difference-maker, looking much more like the player we’d glimpsed in the first six weeks than during the five that followed.
There is, he acknowledged, a reason for that.
“I feel those injuries were kind of a blessing in disguise in terms of my body and getting the proper rest I needed,” he said of discomfort felt in both hips during various stages of December.
“Your rookie year is probably your longest year because right after college you’re going to pre-draft workouts, flying across the country for a workout, maybe have a back-to-back workout. Right after that, you go into training camp for summer league. Right after that, you go into training camp. So, you don’t really get a lot of time off. That was really good for me in terms of my body and having time to recover.”
This point, which can be lost in translation, is particularly applicable to Paschall because he played four years of college ball, 27 games as a freshman at Fordham and 110 at powerhouse Villanova. The Wildcats played deep into March.
Coming to the Warriors this season, when much of their roster was being rebuilt, Paschall dived into the opportunity to play. A lot. He averaged a team-high 33 minutes over his first 22 NBA games, 19 of which he scored in double figures. He didn’t hit the vaunted “rookie wall.” He was thrown up against it.
Paschall missed two games in mid-December due to soreness in his left hip. He missed two more games in late-December with what was described as a contusion on his right hip.
As he made several attempts to play through the discomfort, it was apparent he was not struggling. His production took a steep drop, as did his minutes. He scored 70 points in the first four games of December, 73 over the next 11, bleeding into January.
Paschall’s 20-point game Saturday was his first since he rang up 24 points on Dec. 2. His nine rebounds were the most since he pulled that same amount on that same night.
Citing Paschall’s solid play over the previous four games, it was an easy call for coach Steve Kerr to start the 6-6, 250-pound rookie at power forward Saturday for the ailing Draymond Green.
The reward was efficiency (8-of-14 shooting from the field, 2-of-5 from beyond the arc) and impact and indicated, again, that Paschall is better suited to power forward than small forward, where he also has spent some time.
“It’s just more floor spacing,” Kerr said. “He’s so quick off the dribble and he’s got that burst at the rim, so when he’s at the four, even with a great athlete like Aaron Gordon out there, he still has the space to go to the rim and create a play.
“At the three, it’s a little more difficult to do that because you have more big guys in the paint. It’s an easier position for Eric to play, and he was fantastic.”
[RELATED: Steph's powerful message to young Dubs]
After initially suggesting his game is no different at small forward than it is at power forward, Paschall agreed with Kerr’s assessment.
“Yeah, I understand why he says that, in terms of just being able to attack,” he said. “Now that I think about it, I would say spacing at the four is (beneficial).”
There is little debate about that. And no debate at all that Paschall has the physical tools and mental makeup to prosper in the NBA.
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Layoffs: Ohio
The state should require that its school districts consider classroom performance as a factor in determining which teachers are laid off when a reduction in force is necessary. The bar for this goal was raised in 2017.
National Council on Teacher Quality. (2017). Layoffs: Ohio results. State Teacher Policy Database. [Data set].
Retrieved from: https://www.nctq.org/yearbook/state/OH-Layoffs-79
Analysis of Ohio's policies
Factors to Consider: Ohio requires that a teacher's tenure status is considered first during reductions in force. In addition, the state requires that preference will not be given "to any teacher based on seniority, except when making a decision between teachers who have comparable evaluations." The implication here is that probationary teachers are laid off first according to their effectiveness, and then tenured teachers are laid off according to their effectiveness.
Ohio Revised Code 3319.17
Recommendations for Ohio
Require that districts consider teacher effectiveness as a factor in determining which teachers are laid off during reductions in force.
Although it seems that Ohio will be using teacher performance as a factor in layoff decisions, the state could make it clearer that it intends to do so. In addition, the state might want to reconsider its emphasis on tenure in determining who is laid off due to the exceptionally long (possibly as long as seven years) probationary status for teachers in Ohio. Putting a greater emphasis on tenure status rather than teacher performance in this particular situation might undermine the state's efforts to prohibit a "last hired, first fired" layoff policy.
Ohio recognized the factual accuracy of this analysis.
9E: Layoffs
Performance: The state should require that districts consider teacher effectiveness in determining which teachers are laid off during reductions in force and ensure that seniority is not the only factor used.
The total goal score is earned based on the following:
Full credit: The state will earn full credit if teacher performance is the top criterion in reduction-in-force decisions.
Three-quarters credit: The state will earn three-quarters of a point if performance is a required—but not the most influential—criterion in reduction-in-force decisions.
One-half credit: The state will earn one-half of a point if retention policies based solely on tenure or seniority are explicitly not allowed, but performance is not an explicitly required factor in reduction-in-force decisions.
"Last In, First Out (LIFO)" policies put adult interests before student needs, yet most districts across the country still use these policies in the event of teacher layoffs. While most states leave these decisions to district discretion, other states require layoffs to be based on seniority. Such policies fail to give due weight to a teacher's classroom performance and risk sacrificing effective teachers while maintaining low performers.[1]
Policies that prioritize seniority in layoff decisions can also cause significant upheaval in schools and school districts. As teachers who are newer to the classroom traditionally draw lower salaries, a seniority-based layoff policy is likely to require that districts lay off a larger number of probationary teachers rather than a smaller group of ineffective teachers to achieve the same budget reduction.
States can leave districts flexibility in determining layoff policies, but they should do so while also ensuring that classroom performance is considered. Further, if performance is prioritized, states need not prohibit the use of seniority as an additional criterion in determining who is laid off.
[1] See National Council on Teacher Quality. (2011). Teacher layoffs: Rethinking 'last-hired, first-fired' policies. Retrieved from http://www.nctq.org/dmsView/Teacher_Layoffs_Rethinking_Last-Hired_First-Fired_Policies_NCTQ_Report; The New Teacher Project. (2011). The case against quality-blind teacher layoffs. Retrieved from http://tntp.org/assets/documents/TNTP_Case_Against_Quality_Blind_Layoffs_Feb2011F.pdf?files/TNTP_Case_Against_Quality_Blind_Layoffs_Feb2011F.pdf; Boyd, D., Lankford, H., Loeb, S., & Wyckoff, J. (2011). Teacher layoffs: An empirical illustration of seniority versus measures of effectiveness. Education, 6(3), 439-454. Retrieved from http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/1001421-teacher-layoffs.pdf; Goldhaber, D., & Theobald, R. (2010). Assessing the determinants and implications of teacher layoffs (Working Paper 55). National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research. Retrieved from http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/1001496-Assessing-Teacher-Layoffs.pdf; Sepe, C., & Roza, M. (2010). The disproportionate impact of seniority-based layoffs on poor, minority students. Center on Reinventing Public Education, University of Washington. Retrieved from http://crpe.org/publications/disproportionate-impact-seniority-based-layoffs-poor-minority-students
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Elliott 235
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Phone: iPhone 5s
Feels like Windows has been preparing itself for the past 10 minutes. :p
botham 1
I tried installing the Windows 8 CP and its asking for a serial.... WTH?!
Edit 1: Regarding the download speed... it downloaded at max speed for me....
TheLegendOfMart 1,558
This is for the iPad crowd and they can't use more than one App at once, completely dumbed down for the tablet crowd.
Azies 337
Or you could use the Desktop... Seriously, it hasn't taken anything away except the start menu. As for multitasking in Metro, move your mouse to the lower left, and then move it upwards.
nominak 982
Pretty sure you can turn off Metro.
anthdci 218
Location: Sunderland, UK
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Phone: iPhone 6+
if this is the route they are taking then I will be more and more tempted to buy a mac. Why have they made it so hard to get into the control panel? When do I have to log off before I can shutdown? Why have they got rid of the start button, it was far easier to click that to open the metro interface than clicking a empty corner....
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That's basically what a lot of people, including myself, have been saying from the very start. Windows 8 will probably make a decent tablet OS, however as a desktop OS it just isn't convincing me.
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Yeah because the desktop is gone and you can't use that to run multiple apps like always..... oh wait.
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omfg I love this OS.. To me this is better than Windows 7. I still have all the things Win 7 has, except more.
I honestly don't understand how, I've been playing with it for the past hour, it feels like a very broken interface slapped over a messed up version of windows 7.
Why do I need full screen metro apps when im trying to use Windows Desktop.
The product keys are right there on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview website.
http://windows.micro...S/windows-8/iso
Rudy 457
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You don't, it's an alternative with mobile looking apps
I downloaded it from this page only.... Trying to instal it in a VM and its not working :(...
Edit 1: I see it now... Missed it on all the excitement.....
After I got used to Metro, I've been flying through this faster than I do in Windows 7. I just had to get used to the gestures, and the way the start screen works.
It's not working at all for me, the time it takes me to open a new program, or find a program I want with Windows 8, I can do 3 times over in Windows 7. Gestures are for touch, not mice.
Hell, I can't even get metro apps to exit.
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If you want to do a custom install to a different drive, you'll want to boot to the ISO (via DVD or USB drive). Hope that helps! Have fun :-)
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Ah ok, thanks for clearing that up, wasn't sure that the install was similar between DVD and USB, I'm exploring the option of dual booting since I'm actually using a VM at the moment.
blaaha66 0
thats funny x64 version win8 could not be installed hw incompatible
running i5 750 8gb ram
You'd be surprised, it's really intuitive for me. For instance if I launch weather, Store and xbox live games, and then I want to close one, or switch between the two, I just move my mouse to the lower left in Metro, then move my mouse up the left side of the screen and I get a set of preview images. It actually takes me the same amount of time to open Chrome in Windows 8 than it does in 7.
Windows 7 - Log in, click the chrome button.
Windows 8 - Log in, metro appears, click the Chrome button on the start screen.
I had doubts about Windows Live integration, and it conflicting with WLM, however the OS seems to remember my ID, and automatically signs me into WLM.
Twiddle 489
Considering I ripped mine off of my keyboards, due to fat-fingering it many times during gaming. It was far from redundant.
Vice 1,593
So i've tried it today and um I really think this is one of the worst things Microsoft has ever done. Instead of reducing Metro integration or giving us an off switch Metro integration has just been increased. Now the start button itself is gone as are many of the desktop apps. I can no longer find a desktop version of RDC for example. It is in Metro only now?
This is just pathetic how they are screwing over content creators, developers and anyone who uses their computer for more than Facebook. I know that they are trying to make windows as accessible to as many people as possible and it appears to do that they've had to build everything down to the lowest common denominator.
I can't believe I'm even going to say this but I'm not going to be upgrading to this. And I've upgraded my PC's to 95, 98, 98 SE, 2000, XP, Vista and 7. I even use a Windows Server 2008 R2 server (Which previously ran Windows Server 2003). I really am just in a state of shock that Microsoft has ruined the computing experience for so many of their customers.
If they wanted to get out of the desktop computer game this will definitely help.
You'd be surprised, it's really intuitive for me.
To each their own, I feel it completely stupid having to draw on my screen with the mouse for it to do anything. Based on the time I've spent the past hour with it, unless metro can be removed, and tiles disabled, and a start menu brought back, windows 8 is not for me.
Put them back on? All laptops, desktop keyboards and windows tablets have a hardware windows key.
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I can no longer find a desktop version of RDC
oh god, please don't tell me they've killed that. I'll CRY if I'm forced to full screen every RDC session >.<
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Listen We’re Family Wiltons Music Hall Review
Listen We’re Family was my first experience in Headphone Verbatim Theatre, a technique recently popularised in the trendy Almeida’s Little Revolution. What better place for my first dalliance in a new theatrical technique than at my favourite theatre in London (or possibly the world?) – Wilton’s Music Hall.
In Verbatim Theatre, the audience is made aware that the actors (donning headphones) are speaking their lines exactly as they hear them from real dialogue in their ears. An interesting concept alone but even more entertaining in Listen We’re Family, a social portrait play about various true life Jewish people and families living in London. Here the technique gave a truthful spontaneity to the characters presented, it was like a new kind of naturalism; each inflection, each cadence in speech was as recorded. Delivery was so real that I almost felt as if the actors WERE the characters they were presenting and I was privy to their initial interviews.
Writers Kerry Shale and Matthew Lloyd should be congratulated for their arrangement of text; the flow of dialogue on stage was very natural and at times very poignant, with separate characters continuing themes from others they were not connected to. Very clever indeed.
The actors portrayed in total 17 different real life characters and stories between them, demonstrating huge versatility. Tom Berish, Debbie Chazen, Kerry Shale (also the co-writer) and Jennie Stoller worked their theatrical socks off in presenting several different people each, fully committing to each role. Stand out performances included Berish’s Nick, an actor in his 20’s living in Old Kent Road (this role was VERY real to me and summed up a lot of young people I have met over the past few years!), Chazen’s super smiley Mandy, mother of the aforementioned Nick, Shale’s spot on old barber with a penchant for a Yiddish word or two and Stoller’s jauntily harrowing “Essex girl” who “never did get divorced.”
I am not Jewish, but I don’t think that is particularly important at all. I understood and connected with the slice of culture being presented to me. It was both engaging and didactic. Perhaps it is because the characters were born from real people, but many of the people portrayed on stage were very familiar to me. Like I mentioned with “Nick” above, I feel like I knew these people. Hasn’t everyone got a friend with a giggly wino mum? Hasn’t everyone encountered an old lady who loves to recount her heyday and hasn’t everyone loved and lost like these people on stage? What I am trying to say is that together Shale and Lloyd and the cast on stage presented a very real slice of life that just about everybody in the UK, let alone the audience, can relate to in some way or another. It was actually kind of beautiful.
The concept, technique and delivery of this show, coupled with some truly talented actors (or should I say impersonators?!) make this show something quite special indeed. If you get the chance to see it at Wilton’s then do; the venue is amazing. If not the show is running at JW3 (Jewish Community Centre London) from 27th October – 9th November.
Rebecca is a cheeky London lady with a love of theatre, cheese and wine (preferably all at the same time!) She graduated from Goldsmiths (University of London) with a First Class Honours degree in Drama and Theatre Arts and later went on to study for an NCTJ postgraduate diploma in Journalism.
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Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to invest $10B in Oxy subject to Anadarko takeover
Billionaire Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway has committed to invest $10 billion in Occidental Petroleum, subject to Oxy’s entering into and completing its proposed acquisition of rival Anadarko.
According to Oxy’s statement on Tuesday, Berkshire Hathaway will receive 100,000 shares of Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock with a liquidation value of $100,000 per share, together with a warrant to purchase up to 80.0 million shares of Occidental common stock at an exercise price of $62.50 per share. The preferred stock will accrue dividends at 8% per annum (or with respect to dividends that are accrued and unpaid, 9%).
As previously reported, Occidental last week made a proposal to acquire Anadarko for $76.00 per share, comprised of $38.00 in cash and 0.6094 shares of Occidental common stock per Anadarko share. Oxy’s offer has been estimated at $38 billion, versus Chevron’s $33 billion.
On April 29, Anadarko said its board of directors had determined that the proposal from Occidental could reasonably be expected to result in a Superior Proposal compared to a bid submitted earlier by Chevron and that it would engage with Occidental.
Thrilled by Berkshire support
“We have long believed that Occidental is uniquely positioned to generate compelling value from Anadarko’s highly complementary asset portfolio. We are thrilled to have Berkshire Hathaway’s financial support of this exciting opportunity,” said Vicki Hollub, President and Chief Executive Officer of Occidental. “We look forward to engaging with Anadarko’s Board of Directors to deliver this superior transaction to our respective shareholders.”
The preferred stock to be issued to Berkshire Hathaway will be redeemable for cash (in whole or in part) at the option of Occidental commencing on the tenth anniversary of issuance at a redemption price equal to 105% of the liquidation preference plus accumulated and unpaid dividends, if any.
The preferred stock will also be mandatorily redeemable for cash (in whole or in part) upon certain specified capital return events. Dividends will be paid in cash or, at Occidental’s option, in shares of Occidental common stock. The warrant to be issued with the preferred stock may be exercised in whole or in part and from time to time, until one year after the redemption of the preferred stock.
The preferred stock and the warrant are being issued and sold in a private offering.
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Exxon takes legal action over Treasury’s Russia sanctions penalty
ExxonMobil is taking legal action challenging the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) move to penalize the oil company for alleged violations of sanctions against Russia.
In a statement on Thursday, the Treasury said OFAC had assessed a $2,000,000 civil monetary penalty against ExxonMobil for violations of the Ukraine-Related Sanctions Regulations. The sanctions were imposed in 2014 following Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
The OFAC alleges that Exxon in May 2014 violated the Ukraine-related sanctions as its directors dealt in services of an individual whose property and interests in property were blocked, by signing eight legal documents related to oil and gas projects in Russia with Igor Sechin, the President of Rosneft OAO, and an individual identified on OFAC’s List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons.
Sechin was put on the sanctions list in April 2014.
OFAC claims that Exxon violated the sanction for signing documents relating to a potential liquefied natural gas plant in Far East Russia, and High Arctic Completion deeds with Sechin.
OFAC determined that ExxonMobil did not voluntarily self-disclose the violations to OFAC, and that the violations constitute an egregious case.
Exxon: Sechin acted on behalf Rosneft
ExxonMobil, however, is not having it. The oil company claims never to have violated the sanctions, as Sechin never acted in his personal capacity in his dealings with Exxon, but in his official capacity as president of Rosneft.
The company has said that the U.S. sanctions OFAC claims Exxon violated, were imposed against Sechin in his personal capacity, with respect to his personal assets, and not to companies that he managed or represented, in this case Rosneft, the Russian oil company.
To support its case, ExxonMobil has shared a March 17, 2014, White House Fact Sheet which said: “Our current focus is to identify these individuals and target their personal assets, but not companies that they may manage on behalf of the Russian state.”
Exxon also says the position was confirmed on May 16, 2014 by a Treasury Department spokesperson, who said by way of example that BP’s American CEO was permitted to participate in Rosneft board meetings with Sechin so long as the activity related to Rosneft’s business and not Sechin’s personal business.
Exxon said that in July 2014, „despite the White House and Treasury guidance that had already been given, OFAC contacted ExxonMobil to say it was still formulating its own policy. Nearly a year later, in June 2015, OFAC notified ExxonMobil through a pre-penalty notice that it had violated guidance that had not been developed when the alleged offences took place.“
OFAC issued the penalty notice on Thursday, July 20, 2017
“Unfair, retroactive”
“OFAC seeks to retroactively enforce a new interpretation of an executive order that is inconsistent with the explicit and unambiguous guidance from the White House and Treasury issued before the relevant conduct and still publicly available today,” said ExxonMobil’s filing in the U.S. District Court.
OFAC’s action is fundamentally unfair and constitutes a denial of due process under the Constitution and violates the Administrative Procedure Act because market participants, including ExxonMobil, did not have notice of the interpretation OFAC now seeks to retroactively enforce, the filing said.
Offshore Energy Today Staff
Posted on July 21, 2017 with tags Exxon Mobil, Igor Sechin, Rosneft, Russia.
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Skid-steer accident claims Alberta construction worker, 38
Victim found dead of crush injuries
Jeff Cottrill
workplace fatality
(Canadian OH&S News) — A construction accident with a skid-steer machine claimed the life of a 38-year-old male worker in Stony Plain, Alta. on the afternoon of Sept. 25.
The fatality happened at a housing development, according to Trent Bancarz, a spokesperson with Alberta Labour. The worker was killed by unexplained crush injuries while operating the skid steer, a type of small utility tractor.
“We really don’t know exactly what happened, because there were no actual eyewitnesses to it. Somehow, whatever he was doing, he suffered crush injuries, which were fatal,” explained Bancarz. “It’s the condition he was found in.”
He added that the victim had been an employee of Sparling Concrete, a construction and design company based in Stony Plain. “I’m not even sure exactly his relationship to the project, whether he was a contractor or a sub,” said Bancarz. “That’s another thing we’re sort of looking into right now.”
The incident occurred at about 1:15 p.m. that day, said Corporal Ron Bumbry, a media-relations officer with the Alberta RCMP. Cpl. Bumbry confirmed the victim’s age and said that he had been a resident of Stony Plain, but could not provide much more information.
“There was nothing suspicious or criminal in nature for us to report,” said Cpl. Bumbry, noting that the occupational health and safety division of Alberta Labour had taken over the investigation.
Sparling Concrete did not respond to COHSN’s request for comment.
“Our investigation continues,” said Bancarz.
Founded in 2007, Sparling Concrete provides concrete-based construction and furniture-design services for private and commercial clients in Edmonton, Stony Plain and Spruce Grove, according to information from the company’s website.
While the causes of the fatality are still to be determined, the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety in Hamilton, Ont. offers the following tips on operating loaders, including skid steers, on its website:
— Read and follow all safety instructions in the loader’s operating manual;
— Stay alert at all times during operation;
— Keep the bucket and attachments as close to the ground as possible, to keep the vehicle stable and the view clear;
— Always load the bucket evenly and under its maximum capacity;
— Avoid holes, rocks and other obstructions;
— Never operate a loader when ill, tired or on medication that causes drowsiness;
— Avoid using any loader with a cab that does not have rollover and falling-object protection;
— Always remain inside the cab while operating steering levers and hydraulic controls;
— Never leave the loader with the engine running or with the lift arms raised; and
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Esther: Victim and Accomplice to Shadowy Patriarchal Violence?
Bible Studies prepared by the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Theological Education.
Let us reflect on Esther and make her a part of our conversation. Esther was a special woman, called to leadership under very complex circumstances.
Patriarchy colludes with dominant power structures, for the domination and oppression of the powerless, among whom are women. Patriarchy also delivers in the name of culture. In our struggles with patriarchy, we therefore struggle with the larger questions of power as domination for the sake of exploitation. Esther was called to exercise leadership in such a context.
Getting to Know Esther
Esther, a young Jewish woman, was orphaned at an early age and was raised by her cousin Mordecai, a Jew, who worked in King Ahasuerus’s palace. She was a poor orphan endowed with great beauty that earned her a place in the royal harem. She later became Queen Esther when the sitting Queen Vashti was deposed for defying the king. Esther became a wife of a powerful man whose Kingdom spanned from India to Ethiopia!
The king was accustomed to displaying his kingdom’s wealth and the splendor of his majesty. He had military might, was feared and could sign orders to destroy any real or perceived enemy.
Under Mordecai’s tutelage, Esther concealed her identity in order to survive in the orbit of the dominant power structure of which she became a part. We often read Esther as the daring and courageous woman who used her position and risked death for a good deed – the salvation of her people. If we deepen her story, the following questions demand our attention:
Was Esther’s power real or merely derived?
Was she a good strategist or was Mordecai making all the decisions, and using Esther for his own ends?
Was Esther compelled by her situation to use her body, looks and sex appeal to manipulate the King?
What do we make of Esther’s apparent lack of solidarity with Queen Vashti, a fellow woman who refused to be paraded under the gaze of drunken men?
Esther’s life played out within the complexity of exploitative power structures. Like Esther, many women who are subject to gender-based violence have to make difficult ethical choices.
For reflection: What does it take to resist complicity with exploitative structures?
Gender Justice in Exploitative Power Structures
South African feminist theologian Denise M Ackerman explains that feminist theological understanding of power begins with analyses that acknowledge the diversity of women’s experiences. She asserts that
One of the shadowy sides of power is found in violence toward women. Analyses of women’s experience of power should uncover both women’s collusion with the forces that sustain power as domination over them and their participation in the domination of others.[1]
In light of that we reflect on Esther and Vashti’s varied experiences within the same context:
Vashti resisted male domination.
Esther became complicit in the patriarchal system of power.
Queen Vashti disobeyed her husband in a culture that called for strict obedience to the authority of men. She broke the traditional expectation of her society and paid the price – expulsion!
Esther took advantage of her position to work with a powerful man, armed with only her beauty and the favor of the King. She uses her vulnerability in a powerful way.
Esther and Vashti’s world is not very different from our world today. Women struggle with masculinity issues in many cultures. Violence against women, the treatment of women as objects, incest, rape, kidnapping, polygamy, extramarital relationships, the use of women’s bodies as battle fields in time of conflict and war – are all behaviors that continue to violate women’s dignity.
The lack of power for women to say no to unwanted sex, the lack of economic control over their own lives, all make women vulnerable, ceding power to men power to dominate their bodies.
For Reflection: How might the church find the language and analytical tools for understanding the root causes and to locate gender-based violence in the personal, political and structural aspects of systemic injustice?
Gender Injustice: A Struggle for Women and Men
Much of the struggle for gender justice is rooted in economic injustice. For this reason, men are equally victims of socially constructed masculinities which expect men to have power over women, and some more powerful men over other men. Men who are poor and unable to support their families may suffer low self-esteem which may lead to alcoholism and violence.
God calls us to seek justice that concretely seeks to root out systemic injustice. Jesus proclaimed that he came that all may have abundant life (John 10:10). Justice emerges when rights and dignity are restored for the entire community of life.
Jesus discouraged the victim mentality. He urged victims of injustice to claim and exercise power. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”[2]
For reflection: What kind of power do you seek in your struggles for gender justice? How can the power you seek help promote healthy partnerships between men and women?
[1] Dictionary of Feminist Theologies eds. Russel and Clarkson, 1996 pg. 221.
[2] Alice Walker, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15083-the-most-common-way-people-give-up-their-power-is (accessed 7 December 2019).
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Cat Potter
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Swiss born Cat Potter is a London-based fashion artist, specialising in conceptual, wearable footwear and accessories. A fine art and curation graduate from Central Saint Martins, her collections fuse classic style, quality and craftsmanship built upon a forward thinking and contemporary design approach.
Cat's MA final collection of bespoke footwear 'PERNILLA' steps out of the traditional footwear context, blurring the lines between footwear and artefact. Grounded in a unique interpretation of architecture and the wooden sculptures of Australian artist Ricky Swallow, the collection is based on complex CadCam work and a labour intensive fabrication process using 3-axis milling machines. The result being a series of sophisticated and elegant sculptural forms that trace the silhouette form of the foot on the inside, diffusing its profile on the outside. The collection won the Jimmy Choo MA Final Collection Award for Excellence 2012 from the Cordwainer's Guild, London.
On graduating from her MA course in Footwear, she won the Eyes on Talents International Prize from Floriane de Saint Pierre for her craftsmanship and innovation as well as the Lineapelle Prize and Jimmy Choo Prize for Excellence. Since then her collections have been exhibited all over the world including Selfridges, The Brooklyn Museum New York and the Aram Gallery. Her work has been featured in Vogue Italia, Wallpaper*, Collezioni Accessori, L'Officiel, Dazed Digital, TL Mag and the private collection of art collector Dakis Joannou, to name but a few.
Her newest collection of bags are created using a single piece of premium heritage leather. Their simple and elegant aesthetic reflect her previous work.
Cat Potter creates timeless pieces which are handcrafted to last for years to come.
Cat's collection is formed by weaving a strap through a single piece of premium heritage leather, establishing the structure of the bag, and finished with a simple stitch. This season features a royal blue detail on black leather bodies.
Each and every bag is handcrafted in London and takes between 6-8 weeks to produce.
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Potential breakthrough treatment for stroke victims
Notre Dame PhD researcher, Dr Diego Milani, is part of a team at the Perron Institute, developing a potential treatment for stroke where a simple injection could reduce brain damage by up to 40 per cent.
The peptide-based treatment potentially in the future could be administered on-the-spot by paramedics. It paves the way for a new frontier in the treatment of stroke and its devastating consequences.
Currently in Australia, life-saving stroke treatment can only be administered in hospitals which often leads to delays as patients are ferried over long distances to hospital facilities.
“The research findings highlight the possibility that a simple injection of a new peptide, administered within 60 minutes of the onset of a stroke could significantly reduce brain damage,” said Dr Milani, who came from Italy to study at Notre Dame for the opportunity to work on the breakthrough program.
Dr Milani conducted his PhD studies and research led by Associate Professor Bruno Meloni and Clinical Professor Neville Knuckey at the Perron Institute, with support from The University of Western Australia and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
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Feed The Mind. is a Hip-Hop artist / Beat smith / NYC native of Puerto Rican descent pushing the consciousness of Hip-Hop by way of my own expression of my culture. I am Hip-Hop.
Before You Say It - Feed The Mind
I grew up in the west side of the Bronx on 176 ST on Walton Ave a block up from the 4 train. I was never good in school; I used to fight allot and get in trouble with teachers and the deans. My momma had me late so she was older with health issues so I used to hate when my school called her to come in. One time in elementary school my mother punched my principal in the face; I don’t know how she didn’t get locked up. I just couldn’t pick up on what they were trying to shove in my brain. By the ninth grade I jumped in my first cypher in Dewitt Clinton High School and got daps from some of the kids that were there. Man, that recognition meant the world to me. My sister showed me my first dead body when I was probably 7 or 8 maybe younger, it was right up the block from our crib on Morris Ave and through the crowd I seen homey leaking. Years later a friend of mine lost his homey on the same Avenue. This is why I don’t give a shit about guns and I don’t agree with war. The next dead body I saw was my sister’s. We knew she had a problem but no one in this system was available to teach us how to deal with that kind of shit. I followed her into our building once, hid under the steps, waited till she came down and saw her sniffing and liking on some kind of paper. Back then I was too young to know what coke was. She used to fall into violent seizures that scared the shit out of us. The first time she fell she was in the bathroom brushing her teeth; she hit her head on the wall and left blood on it. My mom ran outside screaming “MY DAUGHTER IS DYING!” but she didn’t, it wasn’t her time yet. When her hour glass finally did run out of sand, it was just me and my mom when we got that phone call from my sister’s best friend Francine telling us we just lost her. The way my mom broke down broke something in me. Fuck Reagan! Fuck the system! My past is why I don’t promote violence and the wrong type of drugs in my music. My childhood was still great though, my momma loved me, and I had food, video games, Hip-Hop, a nephew and niece who my sister survived by, them be my niggas. I want to go back to it and relive it. Maybe I could save her. We called her BB, she loved music and she was beautiful but only she really knows what she could have become on earth had she not been corrupted by a slave profit driven agenda. Now she’s the ghost in my songs. Why did I tell you all this shit? It’s me. With that said, I could keep writing but I’ll save the rest for the Hot 97.
Eventually, all the respect I got from strangers made my confidence stronger to keep going. I remember being nervous and excited about rapping in front of people. My legs use to shake because of the nerves. I still remember my firs open mic, the name of the place escapes me but my niece Yasmin had drove me and my homey June and one of her home girls there. Yasmin was older and had experience from her clubbing days so I was always comfortable around her in that setting that wasn’t an atmosphere I was used to. I went up and rapped over Lil Wayne’s A Millie and bodied it. I know cause when I said mother fucker I’m ill a dude in crowd yelled back “YES YOU ARE!” Those types of reactions were an early sign of an active impact I had the power to make.
I think my first introduction to sound and music was through movies and video games. I remember I think my dad gave me this old cassette tape with all these old ass songs from like Elvis and shit and I use to play it on this big yellow walk man, twenty year olds will never know the struggle. The music on that cassette tape was diverse. It didn’t matter to me where the music came from as long as it hit me and took me away. My niece Yasmin (BB’s daughter) used to play all kinds of music like Counting Crows, Madonna, Staind, Linking Park and creepy ass movie soundtracks like The Exorcist, she was emo. But I loved them all. Then Hip-Hop came into my life, but this part is for the next question.
My fondest memory of Hip-Hop was hearing DMX in junior high. My principal at the time used to sing the lyrics to Slippin with a mic in his hand in the auditorium, you know, to try and relate to the kids. He was black and coolest principal I had ever seen. Too bad he didn’t stay. Once Hip-Hop took hold of me it never let go. It loosened its grasp for a while but it always ended up taking my back. It unlocked something in me that never went back in. It was the emotion that charged me up. The flows, the word play, the anger, the aggression. Then Eminem dropped and splattered my brains on the wall. I was in the 7th grade and I remember my friends playing The Marshall Mathers LP on the computer in class and I was addicted to Hip-Hop ever since. I once rewrote Eminem’s The Real Slim Shady and made a rap dis out of it about one of my homies we used to make fun of. I always loved Big Pun too like That Nigga Shit! RIP to the God, he probably up there in thugs mansion with Pac. There were a bunch of songs on Eminem’s classic album that I learned by heart but when Jay-Z Dropped the Blue Print I knew the lyrics to every single song on that joint especially ‘Renegade’. My homey CJ was black and we use to skip school and rap the lyrics to Renegade; CJ always did Jay-z’s part and I was always Eminem because I’m a light skinned Puerto Rican, not fair. That’s when I fell in love with that Jay-Z shit. 50 dropped and hit me with a full clip in the chest. I memorized all the songs on his fist album too especially Many Men. It’s crazy how music influences us because I was never a thug or ever tried to be but I still was captured by 50 Cent’s music. I was and still am hugely influenced by Drake, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, J Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Mr. West, Mac Miller, Big Sean, Fobolous, and my new favs Chance The Rapper, Vic Mensa Joey Bad A$$ and School Boy Q and many more. I would love to work with all of them.
Either there’s an agenda behind all these songs promoting stupid ignorant and violent lifestyles and mentalities or the people with real decision power have horrible taste in music. Who knows? But we do have artist like J Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Vic Mensa, Chance The Rapper and Feed The Mind so It isn’t all bad even though we need way more mainstream artist setting a grown up positive example that a demographic outside of the average Hip-Hop fan can relate to in order to give Hip-Hop a new fan base. That’s what I want to do, give Hip-Hop a new fan base just by being me.
I’ve been slowly putting my second mixtape together. I might call it The Freedom of Power. Honestly, this is a Franken Project made out of body parts of my past and present. I just hope God hits it with the right lightening to make it come alive. It just needs that one record that’s the exclamation mark at the end.
My short term goal is to build a loyal fan base and give myself to my audience. It’s kind of now or never for me right now and I don’t listen to Hip-Hop must of the time unless I’m making it. A fan base is the foundation and you can only build as high as your foundation is deep.
I aim to be living completely off my music doing shows, touring, merchandising, having fun building my brand with good people who believe in me by then.
If you had one song out of the catalog you have created to show a person what song would it be and why?
It would be “Before You Say It” which is not really a song just a long verse with a hook at the end because it’s where I’m at right now mentally. I think it’s an official example of my delivery and who I am. It’s a song that I can see being easily digestible to a wide demographic. It’s honest, it’s grown up, it’s inspirational to me, it’s my own little blue print and reminder of how to think and the sleeping giant that is my potential. I think it’s waking up.
Every bar I write I’m one step closer / every verse I finish I’m one mile further / climbing the ladder is that the haters on my legs / gotta kill these parasites before they lay eggs / I kill’m with this smile I kill’m with this walk / I kill’m without a word as soon as the money talks / I might move slow but I’m the biggest tortes in the race / your running out of gas rabbit I’ve been sticking to my paste / for the little guys who don’t have a choice / I turn my mic on so I can give you a voice / I turn my mic on so I can give you my pain / I turn my mic on so you’ll remember my name / we might be brothers and sisters despite were we came / but everyday there’s an Abel murdered by Cane / the biggest Cane wears a suite / and he sits in the tube sending out troops / to aim and just shoot / the mindless recruit / the mind must reboot / in a city running low on fathers / and every hood has a carter / and its fair share of martyrs / bet you know some kids killing themselves / all too typical of a boy lost in himself / bet you know some good people still in their jails / just another reason to tell you the system has failed / rat race rat traps / you’re a slave Noe or a fat cat / you got to be a glitch in this monetary system / or life can be a bitch and mediocrity sets in / now let that shit sink in / bet I got ya’ll niggas thinking /
Multilayered
My sense of melody, my honesty, the variety in my music just speaks for its self. My personality, the fact that my music is so personal augments the feeling I get when someone genuinely tells me how it moved them. To be honest, I don’t know if I have my signature sound pin pointed, I should put my catalogue together and really see what I have. Yeah I’m going to do that ASAP!
I took it upon myself to bump this question to an old familiar stranger named Wayne who’s a fan of my music and this is what he said.
“I’ll begin with your style man when you make a song you put your personality onto that song. When you talk, the moments you laugh. The listener is getting you. When you listen to a lot of people who make songs you can tell they were trying to make the song, similar to acting. You don’t want to be able to tell that the actor is acting. You want the expression and the interpretation to feel like real life. In some way instead of acting their channeling different sides of themselves making it come out natural and genuine. Your songs no matter the topic no matter the subject or mood I know their getting you. Bro your music in other words is straight authentic. The listener knows who you are but not only that, how you are. You make art they can’t compare to. That’s what that actually means for an artist to stay true to who they are. That’s what makes the greatest the greatest. We knew who they were through their music. Not only through their lyrics but they’re expression on that musical canvas.
Bro, that’s just one side which to me is a HUGE percent. You’re Lyrics!!! Bro your lyrics are AWESOME DOPE PERFECT. I swear it’s like I’m listening to one of my favorite artist and not Mikey my old friend. It’s strange. Every time I listen man it’s like, damn he did this?! I swear bro! Lol”
“And to that I say thank you Wayne. To that I say alright, alright, alight!”
The inspiration to write comes as an impulse that’s fueled by pure emotion. The right beat at the right moment gives you that impulse. That impulse is you. Act on it ASAP. Set it free. It’s like the beat choses us and gives us the words. One can also say the right beat is a key which unlocks that magic inside of you that opens up the flood gates allowing that dope ass flow to rain down on you from the ether. I call that God and that’s a blessing. Jay-Z said to never force your music because that’s never good. I knew that way before I heard him say it so I know I was right on path. That’s why I don’t care how dope the beat is, if it’s not moving me emotionally, physically and spiritually I’m on to the next one on to the next.
When you play your music for people pay close attention to their face expression and body language, those signs will tell you if they are genuinely moved by your music. I tend to hold the compliments of strangers in high regard because they don’t owe me anything, let alone respect. Don’t feel discouraged if your family doesn’t give you the support you think you deserve, most people are too busy in their own worlds and dreams to notice yours and are waiting for you to take initiative and show them how important and possible your dream really is. Think Big! Act BIGGER! And you’ll find the magic in that.
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I want to let them know that they occupy a special place in my heart and have reservations for future songs in their names. I want them to be proud about what I made it through. I want to impress them. I want them to be proud about what I leave behind. The ones who love me before they say it, they know who they are. What I do is for me but once I release a song it isn’t just mine no more, it belongs to whoever finds it. So, I hope they find at least one they can own.
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Electronic flavour rules 'Talaash' soundtrack
Oct 31, 2012 Bhaskar Pant
Film: "Talaash"; Music Director: Ram Sampath; Lyricist: Javed Akhtar; Singers: Suman Sridhar, Vishal Dadlani, Sona Mahapatra, Ravindra Upadhyay and Ram Sampath; Rating: ***
Ram Sampath, who entertained music lovers with the quirky and peppy numbers in "Delhi Belly", has composed for "Talaash" five original tracks and one remix, with the lyrics being penned by Javed Akhtar.
The album starts with a bang with a jazzy and groovy number "Muskaanen jhooti hai", crooned by Suman Sridhar, the voice behind hit tracks "Hawa hawai" and "Khoya khoya chand" in the film "Shaitan". She paints a sexy and suave picture with the track, which features Kareena Kapoor. The composition is neat with some fine experimentation, and the singer gets the number kicking.
Next up is "Jee le zaraa". It is edgy thanks to Vishal Dadlani's distinct baritone and high-pitched voice, which provide the song good energy, duly combined with a technically sound composition with great beats. The lyrics, penned by Javed Akhtar, are easy on the ear. It also has a remixed version, with a quicker pace. It tries to reverberate club energy with good techno and thrashing beats. However, when compared to the original, it fails to captivate the listener beyond a point.
"Jiya laage na" brilliantly mixes elements of Indian classical and electronic music. Sona Mahapatra and Ravindra Upadhyay are good behind the mike. Despite the positive energy, the song just tries too hard to fit in one particular genre, and in the end, it fails to get a position anywhere. Something's amiss here, a vital ingredient that could have made this track a hit with the listeners.
Retaining the electronic flavour is "Hona hai kya", which has Ram Sampath himself behind the mike. The song builds up nicely and has a dark kind of feel around it. The lyrics are effective and manage to hook the listener. It would be interesting to see how it has been used in the film.
Rounding up the album is "Laakh duniya kahe", a rock ballad sung by Ram Sampath. It tugs right at the heartstrings with romantic lyrics, coupled with the singer's soothing voice. The chorus too is nice with good use of instruments like drums and the guitar to get the desired result.
Overall, the soundtrack is not out-of-the-box, but the overdose of electronic music doesn't bother either. Thus, it's an album which may not top the charts, but some songs could definitely make their way into many people's personal playlists. Click the Movie button below for more info:
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Google Bucks Security Trends In Using .XYZ Domain
Google recently chose to use abc.xyz as its registered domain name for its new holding company, ‘Alphabet’. Apparently it did so due to the limited choice of traditional domain names, with abc.net and abc.com already off limits, with one registered by the eponymous American broadcaster, the other by a domain registrar looking to make a tidy return on an early registration.
For over a decade, we survived with just a dozen gTLDs (global top level domain names) e.g. .com / .net / .org. Then in mid-2012, ICANN proposed an initial list of 1930 new gTLDs that it planned to create. A number were dropped along the way, but to date over 700 new and occasionally wacky gTLDs have been born, including .pizza, .porn and .sucks to name but a choice few.
ICANN’s rationale behind the new tack was that it needed to offer companies increased flexibility and control over their online presence to align with their corporate image. Whilst there seems to be endless content and no boundaries to the Internet, it is fair to say that companies have started to face problems with the availability of both IPv4 address space and catchy ‘dot coms’.
However, whilst the use of the abc.xyz domain drew positive reviews from the marketing fraternity, and had some IT news hacks predicting the end of traditional domain suffices, it also provoked consternation from IT security professionals. Since the birth of these new gTLDs, a pattern has emerged of abusive domain name registration and email phishing / spam attacks from gTLDs such as .xyz, and .link, this is due in part to their lower registration cost and readily disposable nature compared to traditional domains.
According to the APWG report for H2 2014, in the six months to December 2014, a fifth of all new gTLD domains were used for phishing. However, of those, two-thirds were in the .xyz domain space, where significantly, 82% of all domains registered were used for malicious traffic. This trend has continued in 2015 with service providers reporting increasing levels of spam and phishing attacks* sourced from .xyz domains.
In the battle to protect clients on our platform, the security team at Options reviewed our mail relay platform statistics and decided it was a straightforward choice to blacklist inbound email from .xyz domains.
Google’s decision to operate in this space may trigger the need to whitelist specific domains, but will we reverse our decision? Unlikely.
John Bryant, Options CTO
*For those interested, we recently covered phishing and the increasingly problematic spear phishing in greater detail here.
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This revised edition of Margaret A. Farley’s exquisite work exploring the nature and longevity of commitment, almost 30 years following the original publication(1986), marks its place as a quiet, classic text in contemporary Christian
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...an accessible and thorough examination of both the limits and possibilities of commitment.
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". . . fills a gaping hole, when dealing with the ethical and theological foundations of any life-long commitment. I foresee that it could be especially helpful in three specific areas: First, when used at the very beginning of any theology course on Christian Marriage, it could clearly help to establish a better foundation for later discussions on topics such as discerning a vocation to marriage, the sacramental meaning of marriage, basic canonical requirements and impediments to a commitment, sexual ethics, procreation, the nuptial liturgy, etc - topics which often consume the bulk of very limited time in a semester-long course. Second, it will clearly benefit the vocational discernment process of individuals who enter seminary formation programs, novitiate communities and houses of study. Finally, this text will continue to be helpful to counselors and pastoral ministers who deal with the variety of vocations within Church communities."
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Barkley Out for Suns' Opener
November 4, 1994, Section B, Page 13Buy Reprints
Charles Barkley inadvertently burned his corneas when he rubbed body lotion into his eyes during an Eric Clapton concert and will miss the Phoenix Suns' season opener Friday night.
An ophthalmologist ordered the forward to wear eye patches for 12 hours. Barkley traveled with the Suns to Sacramento for the opener, but Coach Paul Westphal said he would not play.
The incident took place Wednesday night. Barkley said his allergies and the bright stage lights caused him to rub his eyes, and he got lotion in both eyes.
"It was a chemical reaction to a type of lotion that he uses," the team doctor, Richard Emerson, said. "I wouldn't anticipate it'll reoccur because I don't think he'll use that type again."
Barkley, who was questionable for the game anyway because of a strained stomach muscle, did not want to go on the injured list, which would require him to miss at least five games. Emerson said Barkley's other injury was improving but doubted the forward would start Sunday night against the Miami Heat in Phoenix.
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We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here.
Today’s post is from Chapter 68: “The Effects Produced By God.”
Finally, it's time to move on from consideration of the Trinity to a new topic: the effects produced by the Trinity.
After considering the truths which pertain to the unity of the divine essence and to the Trinity of persons, we turn to a study of the effects produced by the Trinity. The first effect wrought by God in things is existence itself, which all other effects presuppose, and on which they are based.
As Thomas spent many chapters explaining at the beginning of the Compendium, everything that is depends on God for its existence because He is the First Cause. That's how his proofs of God's existence work, by working backwards from things that come to be to that which is eternal. Now he's going to begin looking at things from the other side: how do things other than God come to be? And he begins with a meditation on being, existence itself, very narrowly considered. An apple tree has its apple-tree-ness from God; but we aren't looking here at its apple-tree-ness, but only and solely at the fact that it exists.
As usual, Thomas begins with an example of a basic principle: things acquire a quality from something that has it to give:
Anything that exists in any way must necessarily have its origin from God. In all things that are arranged in orderly fashion, we find universally that what is first and most perfect in any order, is the cause of whatever follows in that order.
That is, you can order things by how well they possess a given quality; and you'll find that those that possess it to a lesser degree receive it from the thing at the head of the line. Thomas now gives a rather misleading example:
Thus fire, which is hot in the highest degree, is the cause of heat in all other heated bodies.
By "fire", Thomas isn't speaking of the flame on a match, or in a fire pit; he's speaking of the element of fire, a component of matter, that gives hot things their hotness. It is this elemental fire that is hot in the highest degree; hot things are more or less hot because of a greater or lesser admixture of elemental fire. The terms are archaic, but if you think of it in terms of energy rather than fire it's an astute observation.
Moving on to a less fraught example,
Imperfect objects are always found to have their origin from perfect things; seeds, for instance, come from animals and plants.
An apple seed is imperfect in that it is an apple tree in potential but not in actuality. It has the potency to grow into an apple tree, but it lacks that perfection. And where did the seed come from? A mature apple tree. (Thomas, apparently, would argue that the chicken came first.)
And since God is the first cause and the source of all perfections in created things, He must be the cause of the existence of each created thing—existence being the most basic and fundamental perfection a thing can have:
But, as we proved above, God is the first and most perfect Being. Therefore He must be the cause of being in all things that have being.
Again, this is no surprise at this point in the story. Thomas is simply saying, God is the source of all that is good in the apple tree; and so just as He is the source of the tree's tree-ness, and ability to bear fruit, so He is the source of the tree's existence, narrowly considered. Thomas is abstracting away everything about the tree except the fundamental fact that it exists, that it has being; and this being it must have from God.
To put it another way,
Again, whatever has some perfection by participation, is traced back, as to its principle and cause, to what possesses that perfection essentially.
Suppose I have some homespun cloth, and I dye it blue. I now have blue cloth, but the cloth isn't blue in its essence; it was still perfectly good cloth when it was its natural color. It received its blueness from the indigo dye, which is blue in its essence. Thomas reverts to elemental fire again:
Thus molten iron has its incandescence from that which is fire by its essence.
But God's essence is His existence; He is existence itself. So God must be the cause of existence in all things other than Himself:
We showed above that God is existence itself; hence existence belongs to Him in virtue of His essence, but pertains to all other things by way of participation. The essence of no other thing is its existence, for being that is absolute and per se subsistent cannot be more than one, as was brought out above. Therefore God must be the cause of existence of all things that are.
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Google Project Fi Review
By Sascha Segan
Combines multiple networks and Wi-Fi to improve coverage.
Easy-to-use management app.
Great support community.
No unlimited data option.
Very limited phone selection.
Google's Project Fi combines Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular into a into a virtual network with better coverage than any one of the three offers individually, but you need a Google Pixel phone to use it.
Google's Project Fi is a unique, easy-to-use, and well-loved wireless carrier that's had longer legs than I gave it credit for when I first tested it back in 2015. While it's still a niche choice because of its very limited selection of phones, its spectacular results in our annual Readers' Choice poll mean it's worth considering if you're interested in Google's Pixel phones.
We don't typically review wireless carriers: We leave that up to our annual Fastest Mobile Networks and Readers' Choice projects. But Google Fi is unique. While it doesn't run its own cell phone network, which makes it an MVNO (a mobile virtual network operator), it's the only MVNO to combine three different cellular networks, Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular, for unified coverage. That gives it better reach than any of those networks has on its own.
Before we get into network details, let's talk about how much Google Fi costs. After all, price is one of the most important factors in choosing a carrier. And the first thing you should know is that Fi doesn't offer unlimited data. Like other virtual networks, its plans make more sense for low-to-medium data users than for heavy data users.
You'll pay $20 for the first line, $15 for each additional phone line, $10 for each additional tablet, and $10 per 1GB of data. There's no contract, so you can cancel any time.
We looked at several different plan permutations and found that Fi is generally less expensive than T-Mobile or Sprint for individuals and families using less than 4 to 5GB of data per person, and more expensive for those who use more than that. At low data levels, Fi gets undercut by less expensive MVNOs, such as the ones covered in our Cheap Cell Phone Plans story.
Fi's plans can cost less than they appear to because you only get charged for the data you use. If you think you'll use 5GB but only use 2GB, you only get charged for the 2GB. Fi is also the only carrier we've seen with unlimited international LTE high-speed roaming at domestic rates.
Three Carriers in One
If you want to sell a nationwide cellular service in the US, you generally have to contract with one (or more) of the four companies that run the most towers: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, or Verizon. That's because it's insanely expensive to build a nationwide network of cellular towers.
AT&T and Verizon tend to be very stingy with their MVNO contracts, so startups looking to innovate turn to Sprint and T-Mobile. Project Fi is the first MVNO to seamlessly combine the Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular networks, which don't easily mix because T-Mobile is GSM and the other two are CDMA (check out this explainer for why those technologies are incompatible). It also lets you send calls and texts over Wi-Fi, and roam in and out of Wi-Fi zones without your call dropping.
There are other carriers that have both Sprint and T-Mobile contracts, such as Ting, although you can't have both networks on one device. The major carriers also do their own Wi-Fi calling. But Fi brings together more options than anyone else.
Project Fi debuted combining Sprint and T-Mobile; last year, it added U.S. Cellular. That dramatically improved rural coverage, as USCC's strengths are mostly in rural areas, where Sprint and T-Mobile often don't have coverage.
The Fi network offers much better coverage than T-Mobile does in small Iowa and Missouri towns, for instance, and the service fills in coverage gaps near Galax, VA and Jacksonville, NC. In the West, though, it still isn't up to Verizon levels; if you're in a place where AT&T or Verizon are the only carriers that work well, like Wyoming and northern Wisconsin, you'll be stuck at slow 2G speeds with Fi.
Using Fi
Fi phones don't constantly assess network quality; they seem to do a check when a network entirely drops. Our test phone stubbornly insisted on remaining on Sprint at one point when T-Mobile in the area was much faster, for instance (there's a free app you can download called Signal Spy that shows what network you're using).
You can force a switch between networks by punching in a 'dialer code.' Typing " *#*#34866#*#*" into your dialer, for instance, will force the phone to jump to T-Mobile. These codes aren't officially promulgated by Google, but they're tolerated by the carrier's official support boards.
Speeds aren't capped or limited in any way, and in testing appeared to match the performance of a Pixel with a native T-Mobile SIM. But Fi doesn't support Sprint and T-Mobile's HD voice call features.
Fi will also automatically connect you to Wi-fi hotspots in Google's database, and it will default to Wi-Fi calling on a strong Wi-Fi network. Wi-Fi is entirely optional, but as Fi doesn't have an unlimited plan and charges you only for the data you use, you should use Wi-fi as much as possible.
Cross-device calling and texting takes place in the Google Hangouts app. A Google Fi-enabled Gmail or G Suite account can access Hangouts on any phone, tablet, or web browser, and then make calls or send texts through it using your Fi phone number. T-Mobile has this feature, which it calls Digits, but Hangouts is smoother and easier to use than the heavy and clunky Digits web app. Voicemails get transcribed and texted to you.
Phone Selection
Fi's major downside is that it only works properly with two phones on sale right now: the Google Pixel and Pixel XL, both of which are expensive and don't support Sprint and T-Mobile's latest network technologies. If you're going to go with Fi, think about waiting for the Pixel 2, which is likely coming later this summer.
Project Fi will also work with Nexus 6P, Nexus 6, and Nexus 5X phones, which are no longer on sale, although there's a vibrant market for used devices.
There are plenty of online reports of people activating Fi SIMs in a Pixel and then using them in other phones, even iPhones. You can if you want, but you'll lose Fi's ability to switch networks; the service will just function like a T-Mobile MVNO, and there are cheaper T-Mobile MVNOs and even mainstream T-Mobile plans. I can see the value if you have a main user with a Pixel phone and a secondary user with a non-Pixel, but you shouldn't sign up with Fi primarily to use on non-Pixel phones.
Finding the Love
Project Fi's spectacular results on our Readers' Choice survey defy gravity, logic, and our own testing. For instance, our readers gave it coverage scores better than Verizon's, and speed scores faster than T-Mobile's, which don't sync with what we saw firsthand in New York City. Fi users love it seemingly beyond reason. I have some ideas why.
Fi's management app and support system are the best of any carrier I've ever seen. Most wireless carriers' apps are clunky, slow, and awkward. Not so with Fi: You can see very clearly how much data you've used and control your plan details simply and easily. The app shows estimated response times for phone calls, live chat, and email questions. Google knows how to run a forum, too, and the Project Fi forums are jam-packed with useful questions and answers.
But I think there's also a lot of self-selection happening here. Project Fi appeals to a tech-savvy and well-heeled crowd (because of the expensive phones), and as you browse the forums, you notice that people appear to be knowledgeable, polite, and informed. The excellent support is backed by Google's profitable businesses and only has to handle a relatively small customer base. Fi is, essentially, a high-class boutique experience, and its users reward that with loyalty.
Good coverage and speed scores, by the way, make sense when you realize that Fi only works with high-end phones. There's a big variation between phone performance; folks with older T-Mobile phones that don't have LTE Band 12, for instance, see radically reduced coverage on the carrier. By restricting its service to a few high-quality phones, Fi puts its best foot forward at all times.
Google Fi isn't the cheapest carrier out there, it doesn't have the most coverage, and there's no unlimited plan. But it's by far the best loved, because it's the least hassle. Fi has a simple service plan, a good app, and great support. Its coverage is better than either Sprint or T-Mobile, especially because of its combination with U.S. Cellular in rural areas. We don't hand out Editors' Choice awards to wireless carriers. But Fi earns our Readers' Choice designation, and that matters a lot.
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Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, but exists at far lower concentrations in the atmosphere. Many think of methane as a free-floating gas so it can be a surprise to learn that nearly one-fifth of the Earth’s methane is stored beneath the ocean’s waters in marine sediments in the form of gas hydrate. Gas hydrate is a frozen form of methane and water that naturally occurs in seafloor sediments at the high pressures and low temperatures that persist near the seafloor at water depths greater than 300-600 meters (~985 to 1970 feet). Continued warming of ocean waters could destabilize these gas hydrate deposits, releasing methane into the surrounding sediments, the overlying water column and possibly even the atmosphere. Because methane traps solar heat in the Earth’s atmosphere far more effectively than carbon dioxide, widespread release of this potent greenhouse gas from degrading marine gas hydrate deposits could be a concern if the seafloor methane emissions reach the atmosphere.
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Francois Gervaix, surveying product manager with senseFly, says, "A drone doesn't replace any one tool, it leverages many of them."
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Gervaix says his favorite tool to work with is the Earth.
Drones are most useful in large-area applications, Gervaix says.
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Francois Gervaix, surveying product manager with senseFly in Cheseaux-Lausanne, Switzerland, has more than 20 years of geospatial experience. He regularly works with surveyors, civil engineers, public administration, GIS specialists, geologists and environmentalists seeking commercial drone solutions.
Gervaix says that all large-area applications of one hectare and above benefit from the "geometrically accurate bird's eye view" provided by drones. He often sees drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), used to optimize quarry management and map infrastructure such as road and rail layouts. A key benefit he highlights is the ability of drones to account for areas that are difficult and/or dangerous to access on food or via manned aircraft.
"It's vital to have reasonable expectations; a drone doesn't replace any one tool, it leverages many of them," Gervaix explains. "Fundamentally, it is a technology for those surveyors who are usually confined to on-the-ground techniques. However, the basic principles of precision, care and verification remain the same as with terrestrial approaches."
Q. What do you do for a living?
A. I am the surveying product manager at senseFly. Here, I collaborate closely with our R&D teams to develop high-tech drone solutions that are fit-for-purpose for use within the relevant sector. In short, we take what is a major technological achievement — the drone — and transform it into an effective commercial product. Until recently, I was also president of the Swiss Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
Q. What is your favorite tool to work with?
A. The Earth! The real world is unforgiving — a product either works or it doesn't. It's only when you're in the field that you see if what you were saying, promoting, teaching and arguing is really valid. High-tech systems such as drones rely on a lot of interaction, meaning that a small glitch can be the difference between success and failure. This makes developing tools that are both end-to-end and sector-specific even more vital, to safeguard against the unique challenges faced by geospatial professionals and offer complete peace of mind.
Q. What is the toughest challenge you face?
Time, as you can't buy it or slow it down. In a commercially competitive environment, the success of a project is very much dependent on the ability of all parties to come together with the right solutions, within the agreed time frame, and this can sometimes be a challenge.
Q. What is the biggest lesson you've learned?
A. To have faith in your work, your colleagues and your company, and that setting long-term goals and taking swift but informed action is the key to overriding any temporary setbacks.
Q. What advancements would you like to see made?
A. I'd like to see more credit given to sustainable solutions versus short-term fixes. Although there are sometimes time pressures within businesses to achieve immediate success, people should try to take a step back and consider ways of working that will have a more substantial impact in the long run.
Q. What are your keys to success?
A. Learn all you can, gain experience and step outside of your comfort zone. As the needs of the geospatial industry continue to evolve, it will be vital for me and my team to constantly remember these three factors, as they will allow us to stay close to emerging issues and flex the way our UAVs work to ensure we're providing efficient, sector-specific solutions.
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As Rents Soar in Warner Center, LA Considers New Affordable Housing Rules for the Area
Average rental prices went up 33 percent in five years
As rental prices soar in the area, Los Angeles officials are mulling new affordable housing requirements in Warner Center.
Last week, the City Council asked planning staffers to consider adding new incentives and development requirements to a community plan for the area in order to spur construction of new affordable housing.
A key economic hub in the San Fernando Valley, Warner Center has attracted plenty of attention from developers in recent years. Proposed projects like a massive mixed-use overhaul of the Promenade Mall and a similarly enormous transformation of the Werner Center Corporate are poised to further transform the neighborhood.
But affordable housing in the area is scarce. According to CoStar, the price of an average apartment in the Woodland Hills sub-market—which includes Warner Center—now stands at $2,200 per month.
That’s nearly 6 percent above the price recorded a year ago and about $350 higher than the Los Angeles-wide average. Over the past five years, rents in the area have spiked almost 33 percent—compared to 23 percent across all of LA, CoStar figures show.
CoStar analyst Stephen Basham said that its partly a supply and demand issue. Planned development projects may have attracted interest from residents and investors, but they haven’t actually produced any new housing yet. And though some units are now under construction, Basham says it has been three years since the last new apartments opened in the area.
City Councilmember Bob Blumenfield, who represents Warner Center, suggests that the city needs to do more to ensure the area remains affordable to “teachers, nurses, and first responders.”
Jake Flynn, communications director for Blumenfield, tells Curbed that the councilmember is acutely aware of high housing costs and shrinking options for low- and moderate-income tenants.
“After years of seeing nearly all luxury housing coming into the area, it became apparent that more needed to be done,” Flynn wrote in an email.
Five years ago, city officials approved the Warne Center 2035 plan aimed at guiding the area’s future growth as a center of both jobs and housing. The extensive plan covers everything from design elements of new buildings to the installation of street lights, but contains no provision requiring or even encouraging development of affordable housing.
That could change now that city officials have new tools at their disposal to address an affordability concerns across LA.
In December, the City Council approved new fees on developers that will subsidize affordable housing construction. New incentives for projects near transit that include housing for lower-income tenants could also encourage affordable development around major bus routes in the area.
Flynn says that another policy planner will consider for the area is inclusionary zoning, a tool that allows city officials to require certain percentages of affordable housing in new market rate projects. A 2009 court decision invalidated the LA’s existing inclusionary zoning rules, but state lawmakers approved a workaround last year allowing California cities to enforce such policies once more.
Right now, the eastern part of Westlake is the only part of Los Angeles with inclusionary zoning rules in effect, but the list of neighborhoods could grow as planners work to update all 35 of the city’s community plans.
Flynn points out that affordable housing may also be a key part of making Warner Center a more sustainable neighborhood. That’s a key component of the 2035 plan, but, as Flynn writes, “it is hard to defend [sustainability goals] when many of the workers in the area must travel many miles or on multiple buses to work.”
Planning staff will report back to the council at a later date with recommendations on how to address affordability in the area.
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I'm in the Violent Control Unit (VCU) in Florence, Arizona at ASPC Eyman - SMU I, locked away in deplorable conditions far worse than regular isolation. This unit was customarily reserved for the severely mentally ill or for prisoners with unpopular views. "The unmanageable." The cell fronts are covered with a Plexiglas shield. There is no form of human contact in isolation. No window to the outside world. Recreation consists of four concrete (twenty foot high walls), which begins by being strip searched and then shackles are placed behind our back. Visits are non-contact for two hours that are separated by Plexiglas window, no hole in the middle to speak through or phones only a mesh screen about an inch wide along the edges of the window.
One of the many repressive tactics ADC continues to use against me is deliberately placing me in the treacherous shadows of the severely mentally ill who require serious psychiatric care. Their intended purpose is to cause psychological torture. Each prisoner is placed in direct ear shot of each other in small eight man clusters where the mentally ill bang, scream, cry, mutilate and kill themselves. Paranoia, delusions and homicidal rage begins to consume a person's mind. Prisoners are stripped of all personal property and 24 hour illumination is endless. Stripped of all humanity except the right to remain alive.
During my second day in VCU I was food poisoned by ADC staff. The extended days, freezing nights, constant loud noises, cell walls smeared with feces, tasers, sadistic guards and K-9 dogs during this vicious era provided me with a fierce desire to stand up and speak out against inhumane conditions. I was no longer innocent, yet I discovered a deep-seated purpose to survive. For years ADC denied that such unit existed until a seasoned jailhouse lawyer — Mr. James Skinner — magically appeared and dismantled it by using a 1983 civil rights action in 2007.
I've spent the previous fourteen years of my life in prison learning to read, write, survive and acquire enough legal skills to navigate myself and others through the state and federal court system. Most prisoners in state prison can't afford to hire a lawyer and are usually ill-equipped to enforce their own constitutional rights in court. The systemic deficiencies in our court system is designed to deprive us of the very thing it portrays — justice. It instead serves as a smoke screen to legitimize our mass incarceration epidemic. The hyper-technicalities and court rules makes it virtually impossible to overcome this oppressive scheme. Nonetheless, I've made significant progress in locating the barriers that prevents our voices from being heard and I've articulated a path toward reaching equality, to overcome the impediment that has kept us voiceless and faceless. Solitary confinement either brings out the best or the worse in us.
In 2012, I became involved as a class action representative contesting ADC's unconstitutional practice of housing prisoners with pre-existing mental illnesses in isolation. Despite extensive research from several human right organizations and highly qualified mental health experts into my social history and the psychological effect my confinement has had on me including stipulations between the ACLU and ADC condemning the use of long-term isolation, ADC officials continue to profit from this unpredictable choice of rehabilitation. Holding prisoners in long-term isolation is more than inhumane — it's detrimental to our physical health.
The eighth amendment prohibits the use of chemical agents on prisoners taking psychotropic medication because it effects the bodies ability to regulate heat and greatly increases the risk of heat related illnesses. Yet, ADC continues to use chemical agents against me as a form of a sporting event. My day to day regimen depends largely on the uncertainty of suicide. You slowly lose your grip on your willingness to survive, it's uncontrollable!
Just so we're clear, the law says the punishment for being convicted of a crime is the prison sentence, but the law enforcement community see the prison as a place to inflict terror and abuse upon its prisoners until all hope for humanity is lost. Prison is an unrelenting machine turning societies under-privileged around and around, faster and faster in a vicious cycle of misery, brutality, frame-ups and assassinations. It is well-documented in my institutional file that my name and number have appeared on a multitude of New Mexican Mafia "kill lists." Despite knowledge of this information ADC has knowingly placed me on the same tier with known enemies, I've been involved in multiple stabbings and vicious assaults.
It's clear as day prison only serves as a basis for recidivism and is designed to encourage violence, drug abuse, to disproportionately imprison people from low-income communities and with time has shown the "war on drugs" rhetoric was in fact propagated to thwart the civilization of a less popular class. State law prohibits educational programs for prisoners housed in solitary confinement, transitional programs from solitary to society or from isolation to a less-restrictive environment are crucial in reducing the recidivism rate, yet they're non-existent. Why? We're deprived of our strongest source of liberation. Lawmakers have an inherited process of discrediting and demoralizing the integrity of the elementary rights of prisoners all across the county. The target of this false premise is not only us but the U.S. Constitution itself.
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Atlanta Braves Pitching Prospects Update
May 29, 2017 Drew Bonner Braves, General, NL East 0
When John Coppolella began the Braves’ rebuilding process two offseasons ago, it was clear that pitching was going to be at the center of the rebuilt minor league system. Two and a half years later, even Coppy couldn’t have dreamed of the success his acquired prospects, especially pitching prospects, have achieved so far this season. With the minor league season approximately 1/3 of the way complete, now is a great time to take stock of the top prospects throughout the Braves system . We’ll start with the pitchers today and get to the hitters in a week or so.
Cream of the Crop- In my preseason Top 50, 6 pitchers cracked the top 10. We’ll start with them.
Sean Newcomb has spent 2017 doing Sean Newcomb things. He’s struck out 58 batters in 46 innings, but also walked 27 and tallied a 1.39 WHIP. Before the season, I projected Newcomb to get the first call when the Braves needed/traded a starter. He may have been passed over for that role, however. A full season at AAA would probably do Newcomb some good. Consistency is his biggest issue thus far, as he has completed more than 5.1 innings only twice so far this season. The big lefty will have to throw more strikes before the Braves feel comfortable promoting him to the big leagues.
Kolby Allard and Mike Soroka were given extremely aggressive assignments this year, skipping High-A and heading to AA Mississippi as 19-year olds. The Braves have looked smart thus far, as both have been relatively dominant thus far. Soroka has seen an uptick in his strikeouts in 2017, and both have shown good control and consistency. These look like two future mid rotation or better starters, possibly as early as 2018.
2016 draftees Ian Anderson and Joey Wentz were assigned to Low-A Rome to start 2017, and both have have proved themselves worthy in their first seasons of full season ball. Anderson has had some dominant strikeout performances, including last week’s 11 K outing, but has struggled with command a bit more than was anticipated. The opposition is hitting just .233 against him, and he’s struck out 59 in 41 innings, so the Braves and fantasy owners are certainly giddy about his potential. Wentz has been more hittable than we’d like to see given his electric stuff, but has also done a good job of limiting walks and runs. He’ll need to improve his secondary pitches in order to climb the minor league ladder.
Max Fried has struggled the most among the Top 10 pitchers. He’s shown the strikeout stuff that we saw at the end of 2016, but has also walked more than usual and been far too hittable, leading to a 1.48 WHIP. The latter 2/3 of the 2017 season will be important for Fried as he jockeys for a spot in the pitching pecking order.
BONUS: Luiz Gohara was acquired from the Mariners shortly after my Top 50 came out. Gohara started the season with the High-A Florida Fire Frogs and was absolutely dominant across seven starts. Upon being promoted to AA, Gohara suffered a biceps injury, from which he has yet to return. I mentioned before the season started that increasing his innings total and staying healthy was going to be a key for the young lefty. The potential is clearly there if he can return to health.
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I’ll admit, I had largely written off Lucas Sims before the season started. Injuries and horrible command plagued his 2015 and 2016 seasons, while other pitching prospects dominated. Sims has turned a serious corner in 2017, walking only 14 in 50 innings and showing the promise that made him a 2012 1st round pick. I mentioned that Newcomb has probably been overtaken on the MLB promotion list, and Sims has likely earned that right. With Bartolo Colon laying an egg, thus far, the call-up might happen within the next couple of weeks.
Patrick Weigel probably deserved the #10 spot that I gave Joey Wentz, but I, like others, have underrated him based on his lack of pedigree. Weigel is attempting to prove us wrong, starting the year with a 2.89 ERA and 1.15 WHIP to go along with striking out a batter per inning at AA. He was promoted to AAA three starts ago, and has two strong performances to go along with one absolute dud that has skewed his number significantly. When I re-rank the Top 50 midseason, Weigel will almost certainly have a top 10 spot, and he may even sneak onto some mid-season Top 100 lists if he can keep things up at Gwinnett. He probably ranks third in line behind Sims and Newcomb in the MLB promotion pecking order (among prospects).
Like Gohara, Tyler Pike was a trade acquisition after the Top 50 was published. Similarly, he’s escaped the horrid Mariners player development track and dominated High-A. Pike is a former comp round pick who was twice promoted to AA seemingly without any mastery of High-A. Predictably, he struggled in both of those promotions. As a 23-year old, Pike has improved his control and has a K/9 hovering around 9. There isn’t a clear opening in the AA rotation right now, but Pike should be first in line when a spot becomes available.
Bryse Wilson has done nothing but dominate since being drafted in the 4th round last year. Between rookie ball in 2016 and low-A in 2017, Wilson has accumulated a 1.46 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, .201 opponent’s AVG, and 9.18 K/9. Anderson, Wentz, and Kyle Muller got the big publicity in the 2016 draft class, but Wilson has been the most dominant thus far. If you’re in a deeper league, go make the add.
Touki Toussaint’s numbers are deceiving. He’s improved his control and is striking out almost 11 batters/ 9 innings. These are the things we wanted to see from athletic 20-year old, and yet his ERA is 6.80. FIP and xFIP actually like his work much more, at 3.91 and 3.29 respectively. If someone in your league is ready to give up based on the surface numbers, I’m still willing to sign off on an acquisition based on big upside.
We were pretty sure this was the case before the season, but Luke Jackson is a reliever now. He is the one pitcher from the Top 50 who has made his major league debut in 2017 and he looks like a middle reliever going forward, with some long-term potential in holds leagues.
Kyle Muller has mysteriously yet to make his debut, after starting in extended spring. His first game action may come in the GCL.
A.J. Minter had a chance to make the Braves bullpen out of spring training, but hasn’t pitched since April 11th, due to several injuries. Health has been the only thing to slow Minter thus far in his career, but it is a significant question mark for the Tommy John survivor.
Outside of the preseason top 30 pitchers, there have not been any significant risers thus far. Matt Withrow, Ricardo Sanchez, Michael Mader (turned reliever), and Jeremy Walker have all struggled to various extents thus far.
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Gloria Hunniford backs measures to tackle ‘unfair’ pay inequality in media
Gloria Hunniford has spoken out on equal pay. (Ian West/PA)
Gloria Hunniford believes it is right that gender pay disparities are investigated.
The presenter and frequent Loose Women contributor has said she would be “really, really cross” if a man received more money than her for the same work.
Hunniford has said she “one million percent” supports the drive for equal pay in the media.
Speaking at the Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards in London, she said there were reasons for differences in male and female pay, but that equal work should be rewarded equally.
She said: “I think it’s terribly unfair, it doesn’t cross my particular path but I think newsreader is the best example – if I were one and the man sitting beside me, I would be really, really cross if he was getting paid more than me.”
Hunniford added: “There are different salaries for different things; if you have a female newsreader and a male newsreader doing exactly the same job there’s no question in my mind that they should be getting the same pay.
“So there are different scales, different programmes, it’s a bit like horses for courses, really. It’s what you are doing and what you get paid, and I think it’s right that the whole aspect is being investigated.”
Lorraine Kelly said things cannot go backwards on gender pay (Yui Mok/PA)
Lorraine Kelly lent her voice to the cause of gender pay parity, saying she had been lucky not to be affected by disparities during her career, and that she believes things cannot regress on female rights at work.
She said: “To be honest, I do think it’s getting better, I’m very optimistic about it. I’ve been incredibly lucky.
“Obviously if somebody is doing the same job, it goes without saying they should be paid exactly the same rate…
“I think things will change, I don’t think things will ever go back to the way they were, I don’t think they can.”
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Long Beach library hosts Drag Queen Story Hour, controversy ensues
A photograph showing a horned drag queen reading a picture book to children at a Long Beach public library event is generating controversy. (Screenshot/Twitter)
By Andrew Edwards | aedwards@scng.com | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
PUBLISHED: October 17, 2017 at 12:12 pm | UPDATED: October 18, 2017 at 8:37 am
A photograph showing a horned drag queen reading a picture book to children at a Long Beach public library event is one of the latest images to generate controversy.
The person shown in the image is Xochi Mochi, who posted the photo on her Instagram account on Saturday afternoon, the same day Long Beach Public Library’s online calendar shows an event called Drag Queen Story Hour was scheduled to have taken place at Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library in North Long Beach.
Commentators in conservative news and social media have since attacked Xochi Mochi’s appearance. World Net Daily on Monday published an article headlined “drag-queen demon reads to kids at Michelle Obama library.” The American Conservative ran a post Tuesday under the words “Children’s story time in Weimer America,” a likely reference to the anything-goes culture prevailing in interwar Germany before the rise of the Nazi Party.
Locally, CBS 2 news covered the reaction to the event in the context of a Southern California political race after GOP congressional candidate Omar Navarro tweeted a picture of Xochi Mochi below the words, “Demonic teachings alive in Long Beach. I’m outraged they would allow this.”
What are we teaching kids in school? Demonic teachings alive in Long Beach. I’m outraged they would allow this. pic.twitter.com/Q72nhnWbBo
— Omar Navarro (@RealOmarNavarro) October 16, 2017
Federal Election Commission records show Navarro is raising money to challenge longtime Democratic incumbent Maxine Waters in the 43rd Congressional District.
Long Beach Library Services Director Glenda Williams said Tuesday that the city had not hosted a Drag Queen Story Hour prior to this past Saturday’s event. She didn’t say explicitly whether another event of that nature may take place at a Long Beach library branch in the future.
“We will continue to have events that have inclusiveness for the entire community,” Williams said.
Xochi Mochi’s own social media posts regarding the event, including an Instagram post describing her own enthusiasm for her time at the library, were still online as of Tuesday
“It’s so important to have representation and normalize all the letters in LGBTQIA+ in everyday lives,” she wrote on Instagram. “I saw so many excited faces it filled my heart with so much joy and hope to come back again soon!”
On Instagram, Xochi Mochi describes herself not as a demon, but as a “Los Angeles based Killer Klown from Outer Space.” That’s a reference to a comedic 1988 movie in which the titular Killer Klowns invade an American town.
Long Beach Library’s official Twitter account does not show a photo of Xochi Mochi. On Facebook, library officials published a statement on the controversy.
“The storytime was very well attended, with 60-70 people in attendance,” the post read. “Unfortunately, the social media post the City of Long Beach Public Library shared to celebrate LBGTQ History Month received several hateful and harmful comments to the LGBTQ community, mostly from those outside of Long Beach, and ultimately the City decided to remove the post as it was no longer a productive conversation.”
Williams said it was her understanding that Drag Queen Story Hour was well received among people who were present for the event.
“The people that attended the program said it was a really great program,” she said.
Long Beach isn’t the only city where similar events have taken place. The library system credits Michelle Tea and Radar Productions of San Francisco with creating the Drag Queen Story Hour concept.
“In spaces like this, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish, where dress up is real,” reads a statement on Drag Queen Story Hour’s webpage. Organizers advertise the possibility of story hour events in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City and northern New Jersey.
Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library opened in September 2016, replacing a vacant movie theater at 5870 Atlantic Ave. The library is in the city’s Ninth Council District, represented by Councilman Rex Richardson.
Richardson said library staffers made the right call in deleting a social media post showcasing Xochi Mochi’s appearance, given a plethora of derogatory and offensive replies. He also said he didn’t want to see library staffers be villainized over Saturday’s event.
“Frankly, I just don’t like the kids or the library, which represents so much good stuff, to be politicized,” Richardson.
The councilman also said he would expect LGBTQ events to be welcome at the city’s library system in the future.
“If the LGBTQ community wants to have activities at our libraries, they’re more than welcome,” he said. “It’s a public institution that represents everyone.”
Andrew Edwards is part of the Southern California News Group's business team and focuses on housing stories for the Inland Empire. He's based at the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and has also worked for publications including the Long Beach Press-Telegram and The San Bernardino Sun. He graduated from UCLA in 2003 after studying political science and history.
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61 Syrians Detained in Jordan
[An Nahar] Jordan police on Tuesday were detaining 61 Syrians who were traveling in three trucks near the southern town of Maan, an Islamist stronghold, a statement said.
"A police patrol in Maan governorate seized today three trucks carrying 61 Syrians, who are now in detention. The drivers were locked away
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too," a Public Security Directorate statement said.
"Investigations are under way to find out more information about them and why they were traveling in these trucks," it said without elaborating.
Maan has a bloody and rebellious past that goes back to the turn of the last century, when the town was the seat of the Great Arab Revolt that crushed the Ottoman rule.
This would explain why the Palestinian newspaper took that name. How nice to have another mystery cleared up.
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Academic journal article Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
Expert Anticipatory Skill in Striking Sports: A Review and a Model
By Muller, Sean; Abernethy, Bruce
Expert performers in striking sports can hit objects moving at high speed with incredible precision. Exceptionally well developed anticipation skills are necessary to cope with the severe constraints on interception. In this paper, we provide a review of the empirical evidence regarding expert interception in striking sports and propose a preliminary model of expert anticipation. Central to the review and the model is the notion that the visual information used to guide the sequential phases of the striking action is systematically different between experts and nonexperts. Knowing the factors that contribute to expert anticipation, and how anticipation may guide skilled performance in striking sports, has practical implications for assessment and training across skill levels.
Key words, anticipation, expertise, perception, perception-action
Much research concerning the contribution of anticipation to expert performance has focused on the striking skills used in sports such as tennis, cricket, and baseball. The striking skills used in these sports are performed under several demanding, and largely concurrent, constraints. Concurrent constraints are imposed, for example, by the time pressure for responding and by the need for the contact to be so spatially precise as to send the ball in a desired direction and at a desired speed. Importantly, these constraints can be systematically and independently manipulated by researchers attempting to understand the anticipatory mechanisms underpinning skilled performance (Davids, Renshaw, & Glazier, 2005). As an expert advantage is consistently observed in striking sports, these task settings provide a rich natural context in which to study the links between expertise in striking and the development of anticipation.
To understand the contribution of anticipation to skilled performance, an expertise paradigm (comparing experts and less-skilled athletes on domain-specific tasks) provides a number of advantages over traditional laboratory-based approaches. First, the expertise paradigm permits access to motivated participants with many years, rather than minutes, of task-specific practice. Selection of participants from across a number of different points in the skill continuum can be statistically vital in revealing important relationships. Second, comparisons of experts and less-skilled participants have a record of proven value in parallel fields of inquiry. For example, much of what is known of physiological training effects (e.g., Wilmore, Costill, & Kenney, 2008) comes directly from comparisons of trained (expert) and untrained (novice) people, and studies of experts and nonexperts in the cognitive task domain have also proven valuable in understanding cognitive processing and knowledge acquisition (e.g., Ericsson & Smith, 1991). Third, and most important, knowing what the expert does provides an essential model of the task constraints (Beek, Jacobs, Daffertshofer, & Huys, 2003) and a model of what the perceptual-motor system must do and must optimize to function successfully. Knowing this, and then searching for discrepancies within the approach of the less- skilled athlete, provides a useful means of discovering what has to be learned and what it means to be expert at a task.
In this paper, we discuss the contribution of anticipation to expert performance in striking skills prevalent in sports such as tennis, baseball, table tennis, badminton, squash, and cricket. We focus on the visual-perceptual information supporting skilled anticipation, as such information is dominant in the preparation and execution of striking skills (Gray, 2009a). Our ultimate purpose is to present a preliminary model of expert anticipation in striking sports based on existing empirical studies of experts and nonexperts. In this paper we (a) describe the task constraints in striking sport skills and illustrate why anticipation is essential for success in these sports; (b) provide a brief review of the evidence on the acquisition, from different phases of the striking action, of the visual information that underpins successful anticipation and interception; (c) examine the evidence regarding the interaction between expertise and the coupling of perception and action variables in striking; (d) outline a framework for a model of expert visual anticipation and its role in striking sport skills; and (e) briefly examine how this model might be used to guide testing and training of player skills across the skill continuum. …
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Sylvan Lake’s Social Master Plan offers ‘tangible’ goals
Sylvan Lake has identified what kind of community it wants to be and how it hopes to get there in a new plan.
Advocate Staff
Jul. 1, 2016 4:13 a.m.
The Social Master Plan approved by town council earlier this week outlines eight components that create a healthy quality of life.
They include creating an environment where households are able to meet basic needs and residents have the support and services required to maintain a healthy lifestyle and meet physical and mental health needs.
The plan also envisions a community where residents are engaged, have strong, healthy relationships, a common sense of purpose and are able to enjoy the lake and their natural surroundings.
Specifically, the plan outlines three-year goals, led by the opening of an urgent-care centre, for which the community has been lobbying relentlessly for many years. It also proposed that a mental health professional be recruited to provide short-term subsidized support for residents.
Joanne Gaudet, town communications officer, said the plan came out of extensive public consultation and work that was done through previous social needs assessments.
Many of the goals have been on the town’s radar screen for some time and work is already underway to bring them about. For instance, one goal is to promote community involvement through block parties.
Gaudet said the town has already put together a package to help people organize them.
The plan is meant to provide “specific” and “tangible” goals that can be measured as part of an evaluation that will take place in three years to gauge progress.
Building more parks, trails, specialty playgrounds and installing more bike lock-ups are other recommendations.
On the transportation front, the town plans to conduct a feasibility study to see what options are available for low-income residents and seniors. A public transportation system with links to Red Deer will also be pursued.
Promoting crime prevention strategies and ensuring more counselling help is available for families are also planned.
To help boost local volunteer efforts, the plan suggests hiring a co-ordinator to work with local groups and residents.
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FromDusttoLifeTheOriginandEvolutionofOurSolarSystem
From Dust to LiFe From Dust to LiFe The Origin and evOluTiOn Of Our SOlar SySTem John Chambers anD JaCqueLine mitton P r i n c e t o n U n i v e r s i t y P r e s s P r i n c e t o n a n d O x f o r d Copyright © 2014 by John Chambers and Jacqueline Mitton Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions, Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW press.princeton.edu All Rights Reserved ISBN 978- 0- 691- 14522- 8 Library of Congress Control Number 2013944898 British Library Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Minion Pro Printed on acid- free paper Printed in the United States of America 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 To Lindsey, Cieran, and Ceinwyn, for helping to make this possible. . . . JEC To my husband Simon, whose love of books and enthusiasm for writing are inspirational. . . . JM Contents List of Illustrations xi Preface xv ONE Cosmic Archaeology 1 A fascination with the past 1 A solar system to explain 3 Real worlds 9 Winding back the clock 12 Putting the pieces together 16 TWO Discovering the Solar System 19 Measuring the solar system 19 From wandering gods to geometrical constructions 22 The Sun takes center stage 25 Laws and order 27 Gravity rules 29 The missing planet 31 Asteroids enter the scene 34 Rocks in space 36 Uranus behaving badly 37 Completing the inventory 40 ThrEE An Evolving Solar System 43 A changing world 43 A nebulous idea begins to take shape 44 The nebular hypothesis in trouble 48 A chance encounter 50 Nebular theory resurrected 54 fOur The Question of Timing 56 Reading the cosmic clock 57 Early estimates ingenious but wrong 57 Geology versus physics 58 Radioactivity changes everything 61 Hubble and the age of the universe 63 How radioactive timers work 64 Meteorites hold the key 68 Dating the Sun 71 The age of the universe revisited 73 fivE Meteorites 75 A dramatic entrance 75 Where do meteorites come from 76 Irons and stones 80 Identifying the parents 83 Lunar and Martian meteorites 86 A rare and precious resource 87 What meteorites can tell us 88 six Cosmic Chemistry 92 Element 43 first a puzzle then a clue 92 An abundance of elements 94 The first elements 96 Cooking in the stellar furnace 98 Building heavier elements 104 Supernovae 105 sEvEN A Star Is Born 108 A child of the Milky Way 108 Where stars are born 110 First steps to a solar system 113 The solar system’s birth environment 119 Essential ingredients 121 EighT Nursery for Planets 123 An excess of infrared 123 Two kinds of disks 125 Inside the solar nebula 129 Getting the dust to stick 131 The influence of gas 134 How to build planetesimals 135 The demise of the disk 137 NiNE Worlds of Rock and Metal 140 Sisters but not twins 140 The era of planetesimals 141 Planetary embryos take over 144 viii Contents The final four 147 Earth 148 Mercury 153 Venus 158 Mars 161 TEN the Making of the Moon 168 The Moon today 169 What the Moon is made of 170 The Moon’s orbit 172 The fission theory 174 The capture hypothesis 175 The coaccretion hypothesis 176 The giant impact hypothesis 177 Encounter with Theia 179 Earth, Moon, and tidal forces 181 Late heavy bombardment 183 ElEvEN Earth, Cradle of Life 186 The Hadean era 186 The tree of life 191 The building blocks of life 193 The rise of oxygen 196 A favorable climate 199 Snowball Earth 202 Future habitability 204 TWElvE Worlds of Gas and Ice 205 Giants of the solar system 205 Building giants by core accretion 211 The disk instability model 214 Spin and tilt 215 Masters of many moons 217 ation of regular satellites 219 The origin of irregular satellites 220 Rings 221 ThirTEEN What Happened to the Asteroid Belt 225 The asteroid belt today 225 Ground down by collisions 226 Emptied by gravity 229 Asteroid families 231 Contents ix The missing mantle problem 233 Asteroids revealed as worlds 236 fOurTEEN The Outermost Solar System 242 Where do comets come from 242 Centaurs 246 Looking beyond Neptune 247 The Kuiper belt 248 Sedna 251 The nature of trans- Neptunian objects 252 Where have all the Plutos gone 256 The Nice model 259 fifTEEN Epilogue Paradigms, Problems, and Predictions 263 The paradigm solar system evolution in a nutshell 264 Unsolved puzzles 267 Searching the solar system for answers 268 Other planetary systems 271 Future evolution of the solar system 273 Glossary 277 Sources and Further Reading 291 Index 293 x Contents iLLustrations Figure 1.1. The layout of the solar system. 4 Figure 1.2. Comet Elst- Pizzaro. 9 Figure 1.3. One of the images of Mars returned by the Mariner 4 spacecraft in July 1965. 12 Figure 1.4. Jets streaming from the nucleus of Comet Hartley 2. 18 Figure 2.1. The transit of Venus of June 5– 6, 2012, as seen from Earth orbit. 20 Figure 2.2. A 16th- century representation of the universe with Earth at the center. 25 Figure 2.3. The solar system, as pictured by Nicolaus Copernicus. 27 Figure 3.1. Drawings of nebulae made by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse. 49 Figure 3.2. An early photograph of a “spiral nebula” the Andromeda Galaxy published in 1893. 52 Figure 4.1. The half- life of a radioactive isotope. 62 Figure 4.2. A schematic isochron. 67 Figure 4.3. The Clair C. Patterson Award medal. 69 Figure 5.1. Kirkwood gaps. 78 Figure 5.2. The Yarkovsky effect. 80 Figure 5.3. An etched and polished section of the Gibeon iron meteorite, showing the structure of interlocking crystals. 81 Figure 5.4. A microscope image of loose chondrules. 82 Figure 5.5. A microscope image of a section through the carbonaceous chondrite NWA 989. 83 Figure 5.6. The lunar meteorite ALHA81005, found in the Allan Hills area of Antarctica in 1981. 88 Figure 6.1. The relative abundance of the chemical elements in the solar system. 96 Figure 6.2. Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, Willy Fowler, and Fred Hoyle. 100 Figure 6.3. Simplified schematic diagrams of two of the main nuclear processes that take place in stars. 101 Figure 6.4. An image of the region around the supernova SN 1987A taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2003. 107 Figure 7.1. An artist’s conception of the spiral structure of our Milky Way galaxy showing the current location of the Sun. 110 Figure 7.2. A composite, near- infrared image of the Trapezium star cluster in the Orion Nebula. 112 Figure 7.3. A Hubble Space Telescope image of pillar- like clouds of dense gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula. 114 Figure 7.4. The Herbig Haro object HH47, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. 116 Figure 7.5. Thirty “proplyds” protoplanetary disks in the Orion Nebula, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. 117 Figure 7.6. The main stages in the evolution of the Sun from its ation to becoming a white dwarf. 118 Figure 8.1. Infrared excess. 124 Figure 8.2. The dust disk surrounding the star Beta Pictoris, imaged at the European Southern Observatory, with the possible orbit of the star’s known planet superimposed. 126 Figure 8.3. Debris disks around two stars, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. 127 Figure 9.1. Gravitational focusing. 144 Figure 9.2. Oligarchic growth. 145 Figure 9.3. The interior structure of Earth. 149 Figure 9.4. A near global view of Mercury as seen by the Messenger spacecraft on its first flyby. 157 Figure 9.5. “Pancake” domes on Venus. 159 Figure 9.6. The Mangala Valles region on Mars. 166 Figure 10.1. The contrast between mare and highland areas on the Moon. 169 Figure 10.2. A reflector set up on the surface of the Moon by Apollo 14 astronauts. 173 Figure 10.3. A simulation of how the Moon may have ed following a giant impact on Earth. 179 Figure 11.1. A Hadean zircon, magnified 200 times and viewed in transmitted light. 190 Figure 11.2. A simplified version of the “tree of life.” 192 Figure 11.3. A timeline for the development of life on Earth, showing the four main eras since Earth ed. 197 Figure 11.4. The carbon- silicon cycle how plate tectonics contributes to stabilizing Earth’s climate. 201 xii iLLustrations Figure 12.1. Jupiter, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2009. 206 Figure 12.2. The interior structure of the giant planets. 208 Figure 12.3. Uranus and Neptune. 209 Figure 12.4. Jupiter’s Galilean moons to scale, imaged by the New Horizons spacecraft. 218 Figure 12.5. Detailed structure in Saturn’s B ring imaged by the Cassini spacecraft in 2009. 223 Figure 13.1. The impact basin Rheasilvia in Vesta’s southern hemisphere. 228 Figure 13.2. Ida and Dactyl. 237 Figure 13.3. The near- Earth asteroid Eros. 238 Figure 13.4. Close- ups of Eros taken by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft during low- altitude passes in 2001. 239 Figure 13.5. The main- belt asteroid Lutetia. 240 Figure 14.1. A composite image of Comet Wild 2. 245 Figure 14.2. Maps of Pluto’s surface. 254 Figure 14.3. A dust particle collected by the Stardust spacecraft during its mission to Comet Wild 2. 255 Figure 14.4. A mosaic of Neptune’s moon Triton taken in 1989 by Voyager 2 during its flyby of the Neptune system. 257 Figure 15.1. A timeline of events in the early evolution of the solar system. 266 Figure 15.2. A comparison between the inner solar system and the Kepler- 47 system. 273 tables Table 1.1. Selected properties of the major planets 6 Table 5.1. The basic classification of meteorites 86 Table 9.1. Physical properties of the terrestrial planets 148 Table 12.1. Mass, diameter, and density of the giant planets 209 Table 12.2. Obliquity and rotation periods of the giant planets 216 Table 13.1. Properties of selected asteroids 227 Table 14.1. Properties of selected trans- Neptunian objects 249 iLLustrations xiii PreFaCe Everyone is fascinated by origins. We all want to know where we come from, what life was like in the past, how we fit into the larger scheme of things. Each generation has tried to answer these questions in its own way, from mythological creation stories told around the camp- fire to detailed accounts in religious and philosophical texts. In the past few centuries, the rise of the scientific has provided a new way to think about these age- old questions, offering the possibility of defini- tive answers for the first time. The origin, evolution, and nature of our solar system the Sun and its family of planets, moons, comets, and asteroids a central mystery in the story of our beginnings. Many features of the solar system are es- sential for sustaining life today, including the longevity and stability of the Sun itself, the existence of water, carbon, nitrogen, and other essential life- building materials, and the size and orbit of Earth, which ensure that our climate is just right for life to flourish and has been so for billions of years. Even the other planets may play a role, helping to supply the raw materials of life to the early Earth, and keeping potentially dangerous impactors at a safe distance. Astronomers have recently found hundreds of other planetary systems in the universe, one of the great discoveries of our time, yet it remains to be seen whether truly Earth- like planets are commonplace or whether a unique series of events during the solar system’s ation gave rise to our very special world. A fascination with the past and the role played by the solar system in determining who we are today provided the motivation for writing this book. Our goal is to tell the story of how the solar system began, as scientists see it, and to describe some key events in its history. At the same time, we look at how scientists have come to appreciate the solar system in all its wondrous detail, how they have slowly pieced together an account of its ation and the timescales involved, and the tools they use to do this. In our quest, we journey back to the first moments of the universe, when much of its current composition was established, and we examine the solar system’s earliest beginnings in the extremely tenuous matter that lies between the stars. We look at the solar nebula the cloud of gas and dust surrounding the young Sun that ed a nursery for the growing planets. We describe the origin of each of the planets and other members of the solar system, and how they came to be so different from one another. The pace of scientific progress has increased over time, and the past two decades in particular have seen a flurry of discoveries and break- throughs. Inevitably, some gaps in our knowledge remain, and some sci- entific theories that hold sway today may fall by the wayside tomorrow. Science has a direction, however. New discoveries build upon the work of earlier generations, typically adding to this work rather than demol- ishing it. Even when a major revolution takes place, its pillars almost always rest on earlier foundations. The rapid recent pace of discovery makes now a good time to take stock of the current situation. While some of the details may change in the coming years, there is every rea- son to believe that many of the key concepts we describe in this book will survive the passage of time. Our intention has been to write for general readers who have some basic understanding of science but not necessarily any specialist knowl- edge of the solar system and its origin. We have tried to avoid using jar- gon and technical terms where possible, collecting words and concepts that might be unfamiliar in a glossary at the end of the book. We have also taken to heart the maxim that every equation included in a book of this kind is likely to deter far more readers than it will entice. In researching and writing this book, we have had a good deal of help and support from others. In particular, we would like to thank Conel Alexander, Erik Asphaug, Lindsey Chambers, Mike Edmunds, David Jewitt, Stella Kafka, Lee Macdonald, Simon Mitton, Derek Ward- Thompson, and Iwan Williams for their invaluable contributions. We would also like to thank Ingrid Gnerlich of Princeton University Press for her support, encouragement, and patience. xvi PreFaCe From Dust to LiFe o n e CosmiC arChaeoLogy A fAscinAtion with the pAst The temple at Karnak on the River Nile is one of the most magnificent monuments to survive from ancient Egypt. Construction of the vast temple complex began 3,000 years ago, and 30 different pharaohs de- veloped and extended the site for a millennium afterward. Everywhere at Karnak, the stone walls and columns of the temple precincts are in- scribed with historical texts, prayers, and accounts of religious rituals. Today, guides routinely explain to tourists the meaning of the symbols incised in stone and the significance of this immense monument. Yet for 1,500 years no one in the world could make sense of the writing, and much of ancient Egyptian civilization was a mystery. The inscriptions at Karnak are composed of hieroglyphics, one of the oldest written languages in the world. The ancient Egyptians used this pictorial script for al and sacred documents, but its use declined after Egypt became a Roman province in 30 BC. When Egypt became Christian in the 4th century AD, all memory of hieroglyphics was lost. Over the following centuries, scholars puzzled over the meaning of hi- eroglyphs but never managed to decode them. In 1799, a French soldier in Napoleon’s army discovered a gray slab of stone built into a fort near the Egyptian town known as Rashid or Rosetta. The stone was inscribed with religious proclamations written in three languages ancient Greek, hieroglyphics, and a more modern Egyptian script called Demotic. Scholars quickly translated the Greek and Demotic writing and realized the same proclamation was repeated 2 one in all three languages. Unfortunately, the top portion of the slab had broken away, leaving only 14 lines of hieroglyphs, but these proved to be enough. A painstaking comparison of the languages and some inspired detective work allowed researchers to decode the hieroglyphics for the first time in more than a millennium. The Rosetta stone became the key to unlocking a priceless treasury of ination about ancient Egypt and its people. The story of the Rosetta stone is a good example of how archaeolo- gists can piece together human history by carefully studying rare arti- facts that have survived the rigors of time. Occasionally, evidence of the past is staring us in the face just waiting to be identified, like the stone slabs in Karnak. More often the past is buried under debris accumulated over many centuries, as in the legendary city of Troy in Turkey. The past can even be found hiding in the most unlikely of places, such as the de- tails of human history recorded in our genetic code. Teasing out this ination from a variety of sources and grasp- ing its significance is far from easy. It has taken several centuries to de- velop the tools and know- how that enable today’s scientists to interpret clues from the past and turn them into an account of human history. Breakthroughs in archaeology and other sciences often have to wait for a chance discovery like the Rosetta stone, or the introduction of a new technology, or the unique insights of an imaginative mind. Despite these difficulties, scientists persevere because of a deep fascination within all of us a desire to know about our origins. Scientists pondering the history of the solar system are much like archaeologists sifting through the sands of Egypt. They bring different s and tools to the job, but both strive to glean as much as possible from precious relics from the past, and combine this with ination deduced from our current surroundings. The distances and timescales may be different but the big questions are the same. Where do we come from How did we get here What was the world like in the past Deci- phering the history of the solar system is archaeology on a grand scale. For human society to arise, our species needed to evolve from those that went before. Prior to this, life had to appear on a suitably habitable planet orbiting a long- lived star. Before any of this could happen, our CosmiC arChaeoLogy 3 solar system had to take from the near nothingness of interstellar space. The story of this transation and how scientists have pieced it together is the subject of this book. A solAr system to explAin We start by taking stock of the solar system we see today. The solar sys- tem is dominated by a star, the Sun, which contains more than 99.8 per- cent of the system’s mass. Compared to any of the planets the Sun is huge roughly 1.4 million km 840,000 miles across, or 109 times the diameter of Earth. The Sun is a rather ordinary star, but “average” is not quite the right word it is actually brighter and more massive than 90 percent of the stars in our galaxy. The Sun is roughly in the middle of its 10- billion- year life span, neither young nor old, and it has few notewor- thy features. It lacks the variability, unusual composition, or excessive magnetic field of some of its more exotic stellar counterparts. From the point of view of life on Earth, this is a good thing a stable and predict- able star provides a pleasant environment for life to flourish. The average density of the Sun is similar to that of water, but it is largely composed of lighter materials hydrogen and helium that are tightly compressed by the Sun’s gravity. These two chemical elements make up 98 percent of the Sun’s bulk, while all the others contribute the remaining 2 percent, a composition that turns out to be a fair reflec- tion of stars in general. Like other stars, the Sun is made of plasma, an electrically charged gas that reaches temperatures of millions of degrees in the solar interior. Nuclear reactions in the Sun’s core provide a con- tinuous source of energy that keeps the Sun shining, and this sunlight provides an important source of heat for Earth and the other planets. 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The European Union has developed a “Circular Economy Package” which aims to “close the loop” on products’ lifecycles, especially products like an electrical waste. These products should be designed in a way that makes them more repairable, and once they become waste, that components can be more easily reused and recycled.
In Ireland, this Circular Economy policy has been adopted within the three Regional Waste Management Plans, firmly placing resource use, waste prevention, repair, and reuse at their core.
So what does that mean for the consumer?
Local authorities are trying to encourage and support the circular economy. An initiative such as this Repair Directory, run for free by local authorities, is contributing by connecting consumers with repair businesses, making the whole process of repair and reuse easier.
Repairing products can make financial sense – a typical washing machine, for instance, costs between €300 and €400. Within the space of 5 and 10 years of purchase, something will almost inevitably break. If getting it repaired costs less than €150 (50% less than a new one), then repairing your washing machine makes perfect sense and once fixed should then give you many more years of service.
From an environmental perspective, repairing and extending the life of a product, instead of purchasing a new one, makes a real contribution, however small it may seem, to decreasing the over-consumption of valuable natural resources. The manufacture and distribution of a product is often the most environmentally damaging aspect of a product’s lifecycle, so by repairing, you are doing your bit for the planet. It is certainly better to do something, however small than to do nothing at all!
Some facts!
Each person in Ireland produces 586 kgs of waste per annum*
The sixth highest level of municipal waste in the EU*
of waste electrical and electronic equipment was recycled in Ireland in 2013
Each person in Ireland produces 586 kgs of waste per annum, 6th highest in EU (source CSO).
42,000 tonnes of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) was recycled in Ireland in 2013 (source EPA.IE).
Large household appliances accounted for 46% of total WEEE collected in 2013, while consumer equipment accounted for 21% of the total.
In 2014 Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions were 58.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent down from a peak of 71.4 million tonnes in 2001 (source CSO).
* Ireland had the sixth highest level of municipal waste per capita in the EU in 2014.The lowest level of waste generated per capita was in Romania with 254 kgs per capita, while Denmark had the highest level at 758 kgs per capita. The EU average for municipal waste generated in 2014 was 475 kgs per capita.
1. Denmark - 758kgs per capita
2. Germany - 618kgs per capita
3. Cyprus - 617kgs per capita
4. Luxembourg - 617kgs per capita
5. Malta - 600kgs per capita
6. Ireland - 586kgs per capita
12. United Kingdom - 482kgs per capita
29. Romania - 254kgs per capita
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Jerry Newcombe Claims Three out of Four Gays were Molested as Children
By Brian Tashman | February 7, 2012 1:00 pm
Jerry Newcombe of Truth in Action Ministries, formerly Coral Ridge Ministries, appeared on Truth That Transforms last week and told hosts Carmen Pate and John Rabe that “about 75 percent of those who struggle with homosexual or lesbian feelings were molested as children.” Such claims are nothing new from the Religious Right, but the statistic they use seems to keep going up: last month Jeff Myers and Ryan Dobson asserted that “60 percent” of gay males were “abused as children.”
The American Psychiatric Association has consistently dismissed such assertions as baseless, maintaining that “no specific psychosocial or family dynamic cause for homosexuality has been identified, including histories of childhood sexual abuse. Sexual abuse does not appear to be more prevalent in children who grow up to identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, than in children who identify as heterosexual.”
But who are we to try to compare the evidence from the country’s leading psychiatric organization to something “one of the ex-gays” told Newcombe?
Newcombe: Maybe this sounds like a stereotype but so often the young men did not bond with their fathers or the father was absent all the time. In the case with women becoming lesbians, they had a very bad relationship sometimes with their mothers. Again that’s not always the case but that’s often the situation. I’ve found that at least anecdotally that about 75 percent, and I did not make this statistic up one of the ex-gays told me this statistic, that about 75 percent of those who struggle with homosexual or lesbian feelings were molested as children. They were introduced to this whole subject of sexuality by somebody, sometimes a relative, and it was not their choice and so forth. As long as they can remember they’ve had these kinds of feelings but it’s not nature, it’s nurture.
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Omotoso trial: EFF members wish Omotoso supporters could be hit by a bus
By Afikile Lugunya - Oct 16, 2018
State witness, 22 year old, Cheryl Zondi, who is being cross-examined by the Defence in the trial of controversial Nigerian televangelist and Senior Pastor of the Jesus Dominion International church, Timothy 'Tim' Omotoso, and his co-accused, Lusanda Solani and Zukiswa Sitho, on Tuesday got a surprise visit from her father, Mxolisi Zondi.
Mr Zondi surprised everyone in court when he entered in court.
Zondi looked shocked, but smiled and seemed happy that her father had arrived.
Hugs were shared and she looked at ease.
Also for the first time since the trial started a week ago, the Chairperson of the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission), Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva, also came to offer her support in court.
'Wish Jesus Dominion International members could be hit by a bus'
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) supporters, who gathered outside the Port Elizabeth High Court, said that they hope that all Omotoso supporters could get run over by a bus or a truck.
The EFF members said that they had come to support Zondi as she bravely exposed Omotoso.
From the beginning of the Omotoso trial, the road across the PE High Court has been occupied by the Jesus Dominion International church members who say that Omotoso is innocent.
Boniwe Lanke, EFF regional organiser, who is a mother of two children said: "I see reactions of the women outside, who are supporting Omotoso. It's like they are people who've never endured the pain of giving birth."
She advised Cheryl to continue to be strong.
"We are fully supporting you and we understand that it's not easy to re-live what occurred to you."
To women, she advised them to stand strong against abuse and come out to support Cheryl.
"To those, who still believe that Omotoso is innocent, I wish a bus would come hit all of them - especially the women!"
DAWN commends Cheryl for her bravery
On Monday, the DA Women’s Network Leader (DAWN) also gathered outside the PE High Court as Zondi was grilled by the Defence over her allegations of sexual abuse against Omotoso and praised her for testifying against the Pastor in open court.
Omotoso trial so far
Dauberman last week explained to presiding Judge, Mandela Makaula, that his clients had "refused to plead to all the charges against them”.
Judge Makaula entered a not guilty plea on their behalf.
Daubermann had also asked the court to throw the case out after the State apparently failed to provide specific details about exactly where and when the apparent abuses happened.
Judge Makaula ruled that the trial continues.
Judge Makaula did not state any reasons why he decided to proceed with the trial that is expected to conclude in December.
There was also drama at the trial after two women claiming to be Omotoso's security were thrown out of the court building by police.
State witness provides damning testimony against Omotoso and Solani
On Wednesday, the first state witness, 22-year-old Nombulele Cheryl Zondi, who said she was sexually abused by Omotoso from when she was just 14 years old, chose appear in open court.
Zondi detailed how she joined the church and was later sexually abused by Omotoso at his Durban home.
She also linked one of Omotoso's co-accsued, Lusanda Solani, to the abuses.
The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) commended Zondi for her bravery and said that more girls have since come forwardasking for help to get justice following their abuse by religiuous leaders.
The trial has also attracted attention from Omotoso's home country in Nigeria.
The trial continues...
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Over 54 suspects arrested for various crime in King Williams Town
Over the past weekend, police in the King Williams Town SAPS Cluster were busy with their routine patrols in the town's Central Business and in other areas that form the Cluster policing area.
"Police were also on foot patrol doing stop and search in the areas and they managed to arrest more than 54 suspects, aged between 24 and 58 years old, for crimes ranging from drunkenness, possession of stolen property, common robbery, theft, possession of drugs, drunken driving, common assault and malicious damage to property," said police spokesperson, Captain Siphokazi Mawisa.
King Williams Town police to continue with crack-down on crime
She said that these suspects will appear at different Magistrate's courts on Monday and Tuesday.
King William’s Town Cluster Commander, Brigadier Luntu Ngubelanga, said that police are committed in fighting crime and in full force in tracking down the perpetrators of crime.
"We will keep on doing stop and search and roadblocks to prevent crime in our area. He also thanked the community for sharing valuable information with SAPS and encouraged them to report any criminal activities to 08600 10111."
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Driver dead after rollover crash on Goodman, near East Main St.
by: WROC Staff
Posted: Oct 28, 2019 / 06:36 AM EDT / Updated: Oct 28, 2019 / 09:58 AM EDT
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — One person is dead after a crash in Rochester that occurred Monday around 12:30 a.m.
Police are investigating the cause, but they say the car was heading north on Goodman Street — near East Main Street — when it hit the curb and a metal utility pole.
The Rochester Fire Department pulled an unresponsive adult male from the car and paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
North Goodman Street was closed between East Main Street and Birch Crescent while investigators worked to find out what cause the crash.
The roads opened back up Monday morning.
by Web Staff / Jan 20, 2020
COLONIE, N.Y. (NEWS10) — In the wake of two local cyber attacks, a New York Senator is introducing legislation to prevent governments and municipalities from paying ransom.
New York Senator David Carlucci introduced Senate Bill S7289 that would ban the paying of ransom, he said it can lead to more attacks.
The East Eagles boys basketball team entered Saturday feeling pretty good about themselves. They were 11-1, 8th ranked in the state, top-ranked locally, and just picked up a big win over Eagle Academy, receiving votes in the latest AA rankings, in a tournament last weekend in Brooklyn.
But Saturday, the expectations, and the team's confidence, got that much higher.
by James Gilbert / Jan 20, 2020
Think of Lake Ontario as the energizer bunny that will just keep going and going and going with lake-effect snow today and even into tomorrow. As long as we have winds coming out of the north we will see lake flakes north of the thruway and more specifically north of Ridge Road along Lake Ontario. Expect scattered snow showers to bring an inch or two locally through the afternoon that could put a quick dusting on roads, but this will be localized to lake-effect snow bands closer to the lake.
Everyone feels the chill today with temperatures staying in the teens for the majority of the day. The north winds will keep wind chills in the single digits. There may be a bit of sun later today, but temperatures will not be impacted much as highs hit around 20° and that is running some 10° colder than average. Light snow is possible overnight into early Tuesday morning as winds continue off Lake Ontario. No additional accumulation is expected.A weak boundary to the north will sag southward Tuesday that will bring clouds around, but not enough low-level moisture will be in place for snow and it will be a quiet day with just a few flurries. Temperatures will start off in the teens and finish in the middle 20s. Deep high pressure will be advancing eastward and by Tuesday night be spread from the Gulf of Mexico up into Maine. This will help clear skies out through Wednesday and with a bit of a wind shift the temperatures will respond with a warming trend. Afternoon highs will climb into the upper 30s under sunny skies.Expect sun to continue Thursday with even warmer temperatures, likely surging into the 40s. A large storm system will approach the east coast sometime Friday and into Saturday, but the track and intensity of the low is highly in question, so any impacts are unknown at this time. This will be something to watch with a chance for a rain/snow mix into the weekend.
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The National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights works to ensure that the courts protect and preserve justice, fairness, and opportunity for everyone. NCRCR focuses on public education and outreach, finding ways to get the message out about the impact of court rulings on our communities, our opportunities and our rights.
The Kagan Nomination
Tricia Perry spoke with Alan Jenkins of The Opportunity Agenda and Sammie Moshenberg of the National Council of Jewish Women about Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Listen in as they highlight the importance of this week’s confirmation hearings.
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Perry v. Schwarzenegger
Chris Stoll of the Nati onal Center for Lesbian Rights spoke with Tricia Perry about the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case challenging California’s Proposition 8. Listen in as Stoll discusses recent developments in the court battle for marriage equality.
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Lower Court Nominations
Tricia Perry spoke with Nan Aron of Alliance for Justice and Debra Fitzpatrick of The Infinity Project about the delay in confirming judges to federal trial and appeals courts. Listen in as they discuss the partisan conflict in the Senate and its impact on our judicial system.
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Disability Advocates Inc. v. Paterson
Roger Bearden of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest spoke with Tricia Perry about the Disability Advocates Inc. v. Paterson case on the placement of people with mental disabilities in adult homes. Listen in as they discuss recent developments in state housing policy.
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AT&T Mobility v. Concepción
Suzette Malveaux of Catholic University of America spoke with Tricia Perry about the AT&T Mobility v. Concepción case on class action arbitration in California. Listen in as they discuss the significant impact this ruling may have on our access to justice, civil rights and consumer protections.
http://www.archive.org/download/AttMobilityV.Concepcion/ATTMobilityvConcepcion.mp3
The Ban on Islamic Law in Oklahoma
Muneer Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations spoke with Tricia Perry about the recent ballot initiative in Oklahama, where voters approved a measure prohibiting state courts from considering international and Islamic (“Sharia”) law. Listen as they discuss the potential impact of the law and pending legal challenges.
http://www.archive.org/download/TheBanOnIslamicLawInOklahoma_331/BanOnIslamicLawInOklahoma.mp3
Flores-Villar v. United States
Sandra Park, Staff Attorney with the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, spoke with Tricia Perry about the Flores-Villar v. United States case regarding differences in the ability of men and women to confer U.S. citizenship on their children born abroad. Listen in as they discuss the potential impact of the case on gender and citizenship rights.
http://www.archive.org/download/Flores-villarV.UnitedStates/Flores-villarVUs.mp3
Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
This month, NCRCR spoke with Jenny Yang, Partner at Cohen Milstein and counsel for plaintiffs in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the largest civil rights class action lawsuit in U.S. history. Listen in as they discuss the potential impact of this much-anticipated Supreme Court ruling on gender and employment discrimination.
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Home / Analytics / Why the Utility of the Future Is Real-Time
Why the Utility of the Future Is Real-Time
By Chris Raphael | October 6, 2015 with 0 Comments
As smart grid projects take off, especially on the distribution network, utilities must make the case for real-time analytics.
The explosion in solar panels, electric vehicles, energy-storage devices and smart appliances opens up new pricing models and new ways of managing the electric grid. These “smart grid” initiatives encompass everything from power production to delivery to controlling a specific appliance in a home.
Real-time applications for energy production and delivery include on a large scale include:
Optimizing production for a power plant—whether a natural-gas fired facility, wind turbines, or large solar farm. This could include sophisticated variables, such as predicting how cloud cover affects solar power output or the effect of wind speed on wind turbine efficiency.
Predictive maintenance.
Real-time energy trading in wholesale markets.
Using drones to monitor transmission assets.
Installing synchrophasors on the transmission network to record data every 30 to 120 times per second, allowing grid operators to detect disturbances never seen before and keep the grid running at a stable frequency.
Automated shut-off valves and leak detection on natural gas pipelines.
Demand response, which allows a customer, or collection thereof, to respond to a real-time signal to curb energy demand—for example during periods of peak pricing or a sudden reliability issue on the grid.
Load response, under which an energy storage device—say for example a lithium-ion battery, whether in stand-alone form or in an electric vehicle (EV), reacts to a signal to charge off the grid. This could occur in conditions of excess power on the grid when power prices are low.
On a distributed scale, smart grid applications include:
Smart meters for outage detection, energy use profiling, customer billing, and detection of energy theft, which is estimated to cost utilities $6 billion a year.
Microgrids and building-energy management using predictive analytics, accounting for inputs such as weather, building energy use, and building temperature.
Real-time pricing, or dynamic pricing, for commercial, industrial, and residential customers.
Demand response for residential and commercial customers.
Outage and fault detection on distribution lines, and self-healing capabilities.
Voltage regulation.
Real-Time Utilities and the Smart Grid
These examples are by no means all-inclusive—there are several more such as asset and long-range load planning that fall under the rubric of “Big Data”—but what’s key is that the hardware that enables these applications already exists and is being deployed by forward-thinking utilities. Devices include smart meters, smart thermostats, solar panels, lithium-ion batteries, intelligent lighting, and various kinds of sensors.
The adoption of smart devices in the energy industry is being driven by several forces, including:
Regulations that mandate investments in clean energy sources such as wind, solar, and energy efficiency.
The need to manage variable-energy sources on a real-time basis.
Falling prices for solar panels and energy storage devices.
The need to replace aging utility infrastructure.
What this means is that utilities will have at their disposal increasing amounts of granular data, whether that’s just from one power plant, a distribution node, or a smart city. The question is what to do with that data, and how to make a business case for the investment in smart grid and data analytics.
A 2015 “Strategic Directions: Smart Utility Report” from Black & Veatch points to a “high number of cities, privately owned utilities and other providers on the sidelines of the automation movement.” A “surprising number of utilities, city governments and other service providers have no plans to implement smart grid projects,” the report states. They are “focused on the costs of maintaining and replacing outdated equipment” and “are unconvinced that smart grid technologies and automation are critical. Others are kept away by investment-return pressures. Those concerns, while significant, carry risk.”
For distribution automation initiatives, utilities must either get rate recovery in excess of costs or realize operational savings in excess of the investment, according to the report. For regulated utilities, this means getting approval from a local regulatory agency. Black & Veatch advises utilities to create a comprehensive plan for their smart grid initiatives that includes an “aggressive customer education component to instill trust and preempt suspicions about the utility’s motives.”
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Wallabies' openside debate more intriguing than ever
18 Apr 2016 Super Rugby
by Beth Newman
Michael Hooper’s current and former teammates have leaped to his defence in the wake of criticism over his 2016 form.
Former Wallabies coach Bob Dwyer labelled Hooper the worst of the opensides in the Australian Super Rugby teams based on current form, calling his Test credentials into question.
Wallabies captain Stephen Moore leaped to Hooper’s defence after the Brumbies clash with the Waratahs and Hooper’s former teammate Stephen Hoiles joined the chorus on Monday.
Hoiles said Hooper was being unfairly criticised because he isn’t a traditional pilfering number seven, though outperformed his counterparts in other areas.
“Michael isn’t a typical number seven,” he said on rugby.com.au.
“That’s one of the issues and it was great to see Stephen Moore back him up.
“If you’re talking numbers of stealing footballs and disruption of breakdown we know that’s not Michael Hooper’s game but there’s no better seven in Australian Rugby when it comes to running in the back line and keeping the play alive.
“He’s the fastest number seven we've got. There’s a place in every Test match and every Super Rugby team for Michael Hooper.
“He’s probably guilty of overplaying his hand at the moment in a ‘Tahs side that’s struggling.
“I dare say put him back in the Wallabies’ seven and he’ll do exactly what he’s done in every Test match he’s ever played.”
Hoiles praised the performances of Hooper’s Super Rugby rivals, in an area of the match where Australia continues to show depth.
“There are plenty of good number Sevens,” he said.
“Jordy Reid, Sean McMahon, they’re playing left and right flankers at the moment, (Liam) Gill’s back hitting field goals from 40 and then you’ve got David Pocock who’s phenomenally strong over the ball.
“In terms of traditional hard on-ballers, Hoops probably isn’t the top one at the moment but in terms of the other stuff he does, no one in Australia with that number on their back can do what he does.
The conversation around the back row all adds up to some pretty intriguing Test discussions.
1. Liam Gill
Among the unluckiest players in Super Rugby when it comes to timing. In other periods, Gill could easily have racked up Tests for Australia. Led the entire Super Rugby competition in pilfers in 2015 and was a runaway winner of the Reds’ Stan Pilecki Medal in 2015. Would arguably have had the inside run for the Wallabies next season with David Pocock taking a year off, if not for signing with French side Toulon.
2. David Pocock
Very nearly the World Player of the Year, Pocock is the turnover king. Has been instrumental for the Brumbies again this year but a reckless action saw him suspended for three weeks, leaving him out of matches against the Waratahs and Crusaders. Hard to imagine a situation where he could be left out of a Test side.
3. Michael Hooper
Not a traditional on-ball openside but has been one of the best players for his side. A strong ball carrier with incredible endurance, Hooper hits rucks hard and fast. Brings a different element to the number seven, which makes his unconventional combination with David Pocock work so well.
4. Sean McMahon
More like Hooper than Pocock, McMahon is a powerful back rower. The 21-year-old replaced Hooper when he was suspended in the World Cup and set the tone for the Rebels to start the season, taking the interim captaincy in his stride as well.
5. Matt Hodgson
Another who falls into the desperately unlucky club when it comes to timing his Super Rugby career. Has been inspirational for the Force as captain and is currently leading the competition in tackles, having made 103 in just seven matches this season.
Super Rugby Wallabies Liam Gill David Pocock Matt Hodgson Michael Hooper Sean McMahon Western Force Reds Waratahs Rebels Brumbies
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In recent years in the United Kingdom, dual-fuelled vehicles incorporating Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) have become more prevalent, as there are the perceived benefits of reduced fuelling costs, whilst also reducing the harmful emissions that effect air quality and climate change. In 2001, over 75,000 vehicles were registered as being powered by LPG and it is estimated that nearly 250,000 conversions were made to UK cars by the end of 2004. It is considered that the world population of such vehicles is in the order of 5 million vehicles, 2 million of which are being driven within EU countries.1 This paper will therefore examine the incidence of car fires in the area covered by Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service (HWFRS) in the UK. The data was used to establish the travel time for fire pumps to such incidents, the amount of time those units were detained at the scene and the possible cause of the fires themselves.
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Meetings Dates, Agendas & Minutes
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Details of all Saltford planning applications can be found on Bath & North East Somerset Council's planning applications search page. Information about planning permission and the role of Saltford Parish Council can be found here.
Applicants and occupants of properties neighbouring an application may request a site visit when an application is on the Parish Council’s agenda. A member or members of the Council would come and view the development site from your property.
On such a fact-finding visit, they would not be able to express any opinion on the application – the planning merits of what is proposed will be discussed at the above meeting. The Parish Council can either support an application, object to it, or offer comments. Formal objection can be made only if, in the Council’s opinion, the proposals conflict with a policy, or policies, in the Local Plan.
Privacy and the Planning Process
Due to its planning procedures B&NES Council usually publishes on its website the names but not addresses or contact details of those submitting comments or objections on planning applications. If a resident is concerned about such information being disclosed publicly whilst also wishing to submit a comment or objection without such a disclosure, they can contact SPC's Chair of Planning or in his absence the Clerk to discuss their concerns. Any such contact with SPC will be handled sensitively and treated as a private matter; the resident's name would not be shared with third parties outside SPC without the resident's prior permission.
Although comments made like this will be considered by SPC's Chair of Planning Committee, there is no certainty that SPC will submit a response to B&NES Council in line with any comments raised in this way. It is also possible that SPC may take an opposite stance to any comments made. As such contacting SPC is not a substitute for submitting a response to B&NES Council via their planning portal. Saltford residents are encouraged by SPC at all times to formally submit their own responses directly to the decision making authority (B&NES Council) in order to have their concerns formally taken into account.
The Planning System
Guidance on Planning matters, including the rules on development which does not require planning permission ("permitted development"), can be found on the Government's Planning Portal. There is also a link on this page to the interactive house guide which is particularly useful for householders contemplating development.
Householders wanting to make a good quality planning application that could be registered without delay can see who is part of Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Planning Agents Accreditation Scheme.
Advertisements and illuminations - B&NES planning guidance
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Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs) – Link to B&NES information and guidance
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Planning contraventions
B&NES Council is the local authority responsible for enforcing planning law. If you wish to have a possible planning contravention investigated by B&NES Council, you can complete the required Enforcement Complaint form, which can be found on this page of B&NES’ website. The advantages of this are that you will know that your concern is being dealt with and you will know the outcome. You can also contact your B&NES Saltford ward councillors who can help advise in these matters: their contact details are on this page under Saltford.
Any issues raised with the Parish Council will be passed to the members of the Planning Committee. An alleged contravention brought to the attention of Parish Councillors which is considered appropriate to be raised and is agreed by the Committee as requiring reporting to B&NES Council, will go forward in the name of the Parish Council. Please note that the Parish Council Planning Committee only meets every four weeks.
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‘No action taken to release Pakistani prisoners from Saudi jails’
SAMAA | Adil Tanoli - Posted: Jul 4, 2019 | Last Updated: 7 months ago
SAMAA | Adil Tanoli
Posted: Jul 4, 2019 | Last Updated: 7 months ago
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There has been no update regarding the release of Pakistani prisoners from Saudi jails, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the Senate Committee on Human Rights during a briefing on Thursday.
“We have been informed that the list of prisoners hasn’t been even shared with the Saudi government,” said committee chairperson Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar while speaking to SAMAA TV.
Related: 125 Pakistani prisoners freed from Saudi jails
In February, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the immediate release of 2,107 Pakistanis incarcerated in Saudi jails. The move came after Prime Minister Imran Khan requested the crown prince to release the prisoners during his visit to Pakistan.
“Many people were quite happy when they heard the news. We, however, have found out that there has been no progress so far,” Khokhar said. “We had hoped that our brothers imprisoned there will come back soon.”
He remarked that it is quite “disturbing” to know that many prisoners haven’t been released as yet. “We will pursue the case on our level and the government should pursue it too,” he added.
Related: Five reasons why Pakistanis in Saudi prisons fail to get justice
As many as 1.6 million Pakistani migrant workers have been living in Saudi Arabia, making it the country’s second-largest migrant community. At least 2,937 Pakistanis are currently jailed in Saudi Arabia, according to an interior ministry report which was submitted in the Lahore High Court on September 14, 2018.
More Pakistanis are executed in the Kingdom than any other foreign nationals, reports Caught in a Web: Treatment of Pakistanis in the Saudi Criminal Justice System (2018). The research was conducted by the Justice Project Pakistan and Human Rights Watch.
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Naveed July 4, 2019 4:29 pm/ Reply
MBS promised. Please honour your promise and release these poor people. Govt of Pakistan should remind and make efforts in this regard.
Adam July 4, 2019 7:22 pm/ Reply
Saudis and other arabs should learn to respect Pakistanis/south asians and Pakistani govt must do more to protect its citizens abroad
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Prisoners, Human Rights committee
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Samsung Galaxy Fit e review: An affordable and bare-bones fitness band
While the tech world has been looking for the best smartwatch in recent years, fitness bands seem to appeal a lot more to the masses. Brands such as Fitbit and the like have proven that there is a substantial market for fitness bands, and Samsung is also playing in this segment. With the Galaxy Watch Active, Samsung has already put a beautiful fitness-focused smartwatch on the market, but a smartwatch is not a fitness band, which is why we also have the Galaxy Fit and Galaxy Fit e as part of Samsung’s 2019 lineup of wearable devices.
We were able to test the Galaxy Fit e for a couple of weeks, and this review will tell you if it’s a fitness band worth purchasing.
Galaxy Fit e review: Design and display
The Galaxy Fit e is the smaller of Samsung’s new fitness bands, with the ‘e’ short for essential, so you get only the essentials at a very reasonable price. When you see the Fit e for the first time, you can’t deny it looks a lot like the Mi Band from Xiaomi and the dozens of fitness trackers out there. Of course, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, as there’s not a lot of room to experiment with the design with such small devices.
The Fit e has a 0.74-inch PMOLED screen with a resolution of 64 x 128 pixels. That resolution is low enough that you can count the individual pixels, and the screen is also monochrome, so don’t expect any impressive graphics from this display. The screen gives you the needed information through text and images, which look clear but that’s about it. You cannot swipe on the display. You can double tap it to wake it up, and with a single tap you go to the next screen.
The single and double tap operation can be improved, as it took a while for us to get a hang of it and the display would not always respond on the first try. Thankfully, a software update fixed these touch issues, although there can still be a few instances where the band doesn’t properly respond.
Galaxy Fit e software and fitness tracking
Each screen on the Fit e has a widget, and you can determine which widgets and in what order you want to see them from the Galaxy Wearable app on your connected phone. You can select from calories, steps, heart rate, weather, and calendar widgets; the last one shows you a calendar entry that’s easy to read despite the low-resolution display. Naturally, you can also change watch faces, with a number of options that show different types of information.
The Galaxy Wearable app makes this small device a usable thing. You can set everything in the app – from the previously discussed watch faces and widgets to setting an alarm and more. Where you can do most stuff on a smartwatch without having to whip out your phone, the Galaxy Fit e puts the onus on the Galaxy Wearable app, and it more than met our expectations in this regard.
As far as activity tracking is concerned, the Fit e was rather accurate. On a 10K run, the distance reported by the band deviated by around 100-150 meters compared to what the Strava app reported on my phone. Sleep tracking looked accurate as well, but there’s no way to confirm that since the band simply registers movement and then uses that to give you an estimate of how solid sack time was. The Fit e also tracks your heart rate continuously when you’re exercising, but since its display isn’t very legible outdoors, checking your heart rate or your speed while you’re running is a bit hard to do.
Galaxy Fit e battery life
The Galaxy Fit e contains a 70 mAh battery that can last about a week. Exactly how long it will survive on a single charge will depend on how you use it, though. When you use the heart rate widget, the band continuously measures your heart rate, which can’t be disabled and costs a lot of power. The number of notifications you receive also affects battery life.
And there’s an annoying aspect that results from the Fit e’s dependence on the Galaxy Wearable app. The band does not tell you if the battery is running low. You have to see battery levels by checking out the app, and it would be great to see an update that adds a warning when the battery charge is low, as you can’t always keep checking your phone to see how much charge is left on the band.
Galaxy Fit e verdict
I kept the Fit e on my wrist day and night for a few weeks without noticing it was there, which shows how comfortable it is. It only weighs 15g so it’s not at all bothersome. I wore it while sleeping as well, although you’d want to turn off the wake-up gesture that lights up the screen when you raise your arm so that you’re not disturbed in the middle of the night. And while the Fit e is comfortable, you shouldn’t expect any miracles. It’s a good product for tracking basic activities like running, as befits a €39 fitness band, but if you’re looking for something more, you should look at the regular Galaxy Fit or the Galaxy Watch Active.
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Biransahin
Nice review. I prefer the smartwatch so still happy with my Gear S3 Frontier, but when I actually got to hold one, I was really impressed by how light and comfortable it was. I’m no expert in the different types of fitness bands so I wouldn’t know if this was a stand out product compared to others, but I could imagine using one of these if I didn’t have the watch.
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“The Galaxy Fit e contains a 70 mAh battery that can last about a week”
never went 3 days or more. never. without HR …my mibands last for weeks
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© 2014 by SAMUEL SAKKER
Florestan, Fidelio - Lyric Opera Ireland
Feb 22 & 23 - The National Concert Hall, Dublin
Set in Seville, Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera FIDELIO tells how Leonore, disguised as a prison guard named “Fidelio” (the faithful), rescues her husband Florestan from death in a political prison. Florestan, having being falsely imprisoned by the prison Governor Pizarro for two years – has been kept in solitude.
When the minister comes for a review of the prison, the governor decides that the prisoner must die quickly. Leonore has to dig her own husband’s grave. At the moment of greatest danger, a trumpet signal announces that rescue is at handThis is a story of personal sacrifice, heroism, and eventual triumph.
With its underlying struggle for liberty and justice mirroring contemporary political movements in Europe and the world, such a work is redolent of the very world we live in.
Beethoven Missa Solemnis - Sydney Symphony Orchestra
March 18, 20, & 21 - Sydney Town Hall
When Beethoven described it as his greatest work he was perhaps thinking of both its grand scale and its importance. He devoted four years of his final decade to this ultimate statement of his faith, inscribing on the score, ‘From the heart: may it reach the heart’.
Hearing the Missa Solemnis is an overwhelming experience. Moments of hushed intimacy are swept aside by thunderous choruses and vocal solos of operatic intensity. As always with Beethoven, his awe-inspiring music is rich with the complex emotions and ambiguities of a man grappling with the infinite.
Donald Runnicles continues his Music of Inspiration with the ultimate spiritual journey, which also marks the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.
Italian Opera Gala, Stars of the European Opera - Sydney Symphony Orchestra
March 25, 26, 27 & 28 - Sydney Town Hall
Moving drama meets electrifying music as a host of Australian stars, the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and conductor Donald Runnicles bring you the greatest moments of Italian opera.
Opera flourished on the stages of 19th-century Italy as maestri like Giuseppe Verdi matched realistic scenarios, compelling characters and heightened emotion with thrilling music. In extravagant historical epics, gripping dramas and comedies, Verdi’s brilliant theatrical instincts shine in show-stopping moments that put the art of the opera singer in the spotlight.
The next generation of Italian composers Mascagni and Leoncavallo made art out of everyday life where near-impressionistic music amplifies the tragedies of village life and crimes of passion.
Relive the emotion with the Sydney Symphony – sets and staging are optional when the music and the drama are this powerful.
Beethoven Missa Solemnis - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Apr 3 - Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington & Apr 4 - Auckland Town Hall
Following the triumphant 2019 Beethoven Festival, NZSO’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth continues with a masterwork from the end of his life – the Missa Solemnis. Imbued with theatrical spirit of opera and deep spirituality of Catholic mass, mixed choir, soloists and orchestra bring to life this rarely heard magnum opus.
Des Grieux, Manon Lescaut - The Grange Festival
June 21, 26, 28 and July 5 & 12 - The Grange, Hampshire
Puccini scored his first major success with this tragic depiction of urgent young love. Manon chooses luxury over love and pays the ultimate price. She is pursued across the Atlantic by her soulmate Chevalier Des Grieux and dies in his arms.
Packed with soaring melodies, and infused with raw emotion and a desperate sense of desolation, tears will flow and passions will boil. We are thrilled to present a new production created by the internationally renowned director Stephen Lawless and conducted by Italian star Francesco Cilluffo, returning after his triumphant Falstaff.
2017 Grange Festival International Singing Competition finalist Samuel Sakker sings Des Grieux, and Elain Pritchard returns to The Grange as Manon following her success as Alice in Falstaff in 2018.
Sergeant Thibault, Margot la Rouge - Opera Holland Park
July 21, 23, 25, 29 & 31, Opera Holland Park, London
Delius’s only verismo opera sees the soldier Thibault recognise his first love in a brothel. The girl he once knew as Marguerite is now Margot, and the lover of a pimp. Blending the lyrical beauty for which Delius is famed, with the passion and drive of Italian opera, Margot la Rouge is an intoxicating and gripping drama.
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GM recalls over 3.4M pickups, SUVs to fix brake issues
FILE- In this Jan. 13, 2018, file photo, the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado High Country pickup is unveiled in Detroit. The 2019 Chevrolet Silverado features a ground-up redesign that results in a longer, lighter pickup. Weight savings of around 450 pounds should pay dividends for fuel economy and acceleration. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
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DETROIT —
Under pressure from the federal government, General Motors is recalling more than 3.4 million big pickup trucks and SUVs in the U.S to fix a brake problem.
The recall covers the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra 1500, 2500 and 3500 pickups from the 2014 through 2018 model years. Also included are the Cadillac Escalade from 2015 to 2017, and the GMC Yukon and Chevy Suburban and Tahoe from 2015 through 2018.
GM says that as it ages, the pump in the power-assist brakes can put out less vacuum power than needed, increasing stopping distance and the risk of a crash.
The recall comes after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began investigating the problem in November of last year.
Dealers will recalibrate the electronic brake control module at no cost to customers. Owners were to be notified starting Sept. 6.
NHTSA, the government’s road safety agency, began investigating the problem last year after getting 111 complaints from owners of poor brake performance. At the time the agency had nine reports of crashes that had caused two injuries.
GM says the problems occur rarely and mostly at low speeds like driving in parking lots. Even with the problem, the brakes “continue to function and exceed the requirements of the appropriate federal motor vehicle safety standard,” GM spokesman Dan Flores said.
The vacuum pump is lubricated with engine oil that flows through a filter screen. In some of the trucks, oil sludge or other debris can clog the screen, reducing oil flow and causing the pump’s vacuum output to drop, Flores said.
The trucks, he said, have a secondary power brake assist system which works when there are problems with the main system, but it is limited at lower speeds. The reprogramming will activate the secondary system faster.
GM isn’t replacing the pumps because pump failures are rare and already are covered by an extended warranty, Flores said. “This remedy will improve brake performance in any situation where brake vacuum drops,” he said.
The recall comes 10 months after NHTSA opened its investigation. Asked why it took that long to do the recall, Flores said only that the company has been cooperating with NHTSA and providing data.
Drivers could feel a vibration in the brake pedal or a change in pressure required to push the brake pedal if their trucks have the vacuum pump problem. If the problem surfaces, owners will see a message on their dashboard telling them to service the brake assist system, Flores said.
Although the recall is a large number, the cost will not be high enough for GM to report it to the Securities and Exchange commission as an event that will materially affect earnings, Flores said. He said he didn’t know the cost.
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Community United To Protect Theodore Roosevelt Park is incorporated under the laws of New York and is a 501(c)3 not for profit charitable organization (EIN 81-1340091). Donations to Community United are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
AMNH'S DANGEROUS PLAN
SAVE OU PARK
Community United to Protect Theodore Roosevelt Park
December 20th, 2018 Park organization: Natural History Museum expansion plans must wait (New York Business Journal) "We have hope that the appellate court will take a hard look at this case," said William Raudenbush, the group's chairman (h/t Crain's). "We feel that there are some important and compelling elements of the case that the decision last week didn't address."
December 19, 2018 Natural History Museum's $400M expansion halted despite court victory (Crain's New York Business) "We have hope that the appellate court will take a hard look at this case," said William Raudenbush, the group's chairman. "We feel that there are some important and compelling elements of the case that the decision last week didn't address."
December 19, 2018 Construction on American Museum of Natural History expansion remains halted (Curbed, New York) According to Crain’s, the group of opponents announced that the museum will be prohibited from moving forward with its expansion.
December 16, 2018 Judge unblocks Natural History Museum project “We are deeply disappointed by the court’s ruling,” Michael Hiller, Community United’s lawyer, said by e-mail. “Nonetheless, we continue to believe in the merit of our clients’ case and are considering an appeal.”
November 3, 2018 Museum Gets Court Permission to Start Basic Site Work for New Building, With Limits; Both Sides Declare Victory (WestSide Rag) ""They can’t remove any trees, they can’t remove any benches, they can’t remove a single blade of grass, and they can’t do anything that changes the configuration of the Park,” said Attorney Michael Hiller, who argued the case on behalf of Community United. “I nearly fell of my chair laughing at the Museum’s effort to make their calamitous loss look like a win,” he added."
October 31, 2018 Museum of Natural History Forced to Hold Off On Expansion (Leslie J. Garfield Blog) "As of now, the museum can no longer remove any additional trees or continue with construction or demolition work for the new Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation in Theodore Roosevelt Park."
October 30, 2018 Museum of Natural History Expansion Plan Suffers Setback (Crain's New York Business) "If we hadn't taken this case and the museum had been able to take this parkland unopposed, it would have basically meant that the entire park is set aside for the museum and that would have been the end of the park," said Michael Hiller, an attorney representing the community in the lawsuit. "We're trying to prevent that, and winning this temporary restraining order is an important first step."
October 30, 2018 American Museum of Natural History's Expansion Plans Halted by Lawsuit (Curbed New York) For now, construction work, and any planned removal of trees from the park will have to be halted until a court hearing that’s been scheduled for December 11, 2018. Community United has been opposed to the project on the grounds that it will destroy the park, lead to the removal of trees, and that construction work will pose a safety and environmental hazard to the surrounding community.
October 30, 2018 One Small Nonprofit has Just Won a Legal Victory Over a Much Larger One (NYN Media) "One small nonprofit has just won a legal victory over a much larger one.Community United to Protect Theodore Roosevelt Park, a community group in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, is celebrating a temporary restraining order obtained against the American Museum of Natural History, according to an Oct. 29 press release. The order will halt until at least Dec. 11 efforts to construct the Gilder Center, a project aimed at expanding the museum’s scientific and education offerings."
October 30, 2018 Judge Halts American Museum of Natural History Project (NY1) "A Manhattan judge has put the brakes on an expansion project at the American Museum of Natural History. A temporary restraining order has been issued for the construction of the new Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation in Theodore Roosevelt Park."
October 29, 2018 Judge halts Natural History Museum Construction (Politico Pro) A state Supreme Court justice ordered the American Museum of Natural History to halt construction work on a $383 million expansion project on Monday in response to a complaint filed by an Upper West Side neighborhood group.
October 29, 2018 NY Judge Puts Brakes on American Museum of Natural History Project (New York Law Journal) “I believe in this case and the decision has only reinforced our confidence that we are on the right side of this,” said Michael Hiller of Hiller PC, who represents Community United, of Kotler’s ruling.
September 25, 2018 AMNH Expansion Plan Goes to Court (Westside Spirt) "A deep-pocketed mystery donor has pledged to match up to $100,000 in contributions to the cause, Community United to Protect Theodore Roosevelt Park, the local group behind the lawsuit, announced earlier this month."
September 22, 2018 Museum's Expansion Plan Draws Ire and A Lawsuit (Wall Street Journal) "[The] key argument: The plan should be nixed because the museum isn’t entitled to the city-owned land that will be needed for the expansion, despite the city’s approval of the project."
September 21, 2018 Upper West Side Residents Up in Arms Over American Museum of Natural History (NY Daily News) "[Community United] argues that city erred in approving the [230,000]-square-foot Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation. The lawsuit claims that the project would cause “catastrophic environmental damage to the area” and pose “life-threatening health hazards to residents.”"
September 20, 2018 Museum of Natural History Closes Part of Surrounding Park for New Building as Opposition Heads to Court (Westside Rag)
July 31, 2018 Goodlawyas: Three Lawyers Who Challenge New York’s Real Estate Empire (Commercial Observer)
April 10, 2018 Lawsuit filed to block AMNH expansion (Westside Spirit) "Community United claims that in granting its approval, the Parks Department failed to adequately consider adverse impacts that could occur as a result of the project, including construction noise, impacts to transit and pedestrian safety as a result of a new museum entrance facing Columbus Avenue, and the potential release of hazardous materials during construction."
April 2, 2018 Opponents File Suit to Block Museum Expansion Approval, Saying It Will Cause ‘Catastrophic Environmental Damage’ (Westside Rag)
March 31, 2018 Nonprofit claims American Museum of Natural History expansion is ‘illegal’ (New York Post) "Community United is asking a Manhattan Supreme Court judge to vacate the approvals for the museum’s planned 203,000-square-foot Richard Gilder Center in Theodore Roosevelt Park, claiming it would cause “catastrophic environmental damage to the area.”"
January 26, 2018 Curators at Museum of Natural History Object to a Trustee (New York Times) "curators expressed their “profound concern” about Ms. [Rebekah] Mercer’s alliances with and donations to organizations that they say “challenge and politicize climate change science.”"
January 25, 2018 Open Letter from Scientists to the American Museum of Natural History (Museum of Natural History.org) "We are concerned that the vital role of science education institutions will be eroded by a loss of public trust if museums are associated with individuals and organizations known for rejecting climate science, opposing environmental regulation and clean energy initiatives, and blocking efforts to reduce pollutants and greenhouse gases."
January 25, 2018 A Science Denier at the Natural History Museum? Scientists Rebel (New York Times)
January 17, 2018 Museum Trustee, a Trump Donor, Supports Groups That Deny Climate Change (New York Times)
January 12, 2018 What’s a Climate Denial Funder Doing on the American Museum of Natural History Board? (Village Voice)
December 14, 2017 AMNH Gets Go-ahead, but Lawsuit Looms (Westside Spirit) "[Community United believes] the Gilder Center will stand on what is now public park land, the project should have been subjected to the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. “I think it’s clear that the museum thinks that they own that park, but that’s not the case.”"
December 13, 2017 INTERVIEW: Zoning and land-use attorney Michael Hiller fights to uphold the Landmarks Law (6SQFT.com) “So if [the AMNH] were to build onto any of [the park] areas around the museum—and this expansion would do that—they would violate New York State law.”
December 4, 2017 Museum Wins Approval for Expansion, But Opposition Group Vows to Sue (Westside Rag) “I look for something that has public policy importance, citywide, statewide or nationwide impact ... I can’t remember the last time I brought a case that I didn’t think I could win. I always feel I can win a case if I’m on the right side of it.”
November 24, 2017 Museum Expansion Opponents Highlight Asbestos Risks, Push for Last-Minute Commenting Blitz (Westside Rag) "[The museum] disingenuously buried unclear answers to serious concerns over public health and safety under a mountain of paper.”
November 20, 2017 Gilder Center Review Nears End (Westside Spirit) “Dedicating more money to the park doesn’t change the adverse impact on the community in the present as well as in all the years to come...We will be taking decisive action to halt this project in its tracks in any way that we can, and we feel that we have a very strong case”
November 16, 2017 Final Analysis Released for Museum of Natural History’s Expansion as Museum Commits to $100K Annual Park Investments (Westside Rag)
September 26, 2017 Public Pressure Mounts Over Use of Damrosch Park for Circus (Westside Spirit)
September 7, 2017 UWS Independent Candidate Opposes AMNH Expansion (Manhattan Express) "It just seems so natural to me that we would want to continue to have our quiet, peaceful, tranquil outdoor space.... People don’t realize it, but it’s so quietly rejuvenating. You don’t miss it until it’s gone." - William Raudenbush, Independent Candidate, NYC Council District 6
September 7, 2017 Tough Words as Council Candidates Face Off Final Time Before The Primary (Westside Rag)
September 6, 2017 UWS City Council Candidates Round Table (West Side Spirt)
August 30, 2017 The Preservation Lawyer (West Side Spirit) "What [the AMNH] would be doing is expanding into the grassy green areas of the park that don’t belong to the museum.... That land belongs to the city and to the people. If the city wants to cede that land to the museum, they have to go through the ULURP process.” - Michael Hiller
August 24, 2017 Museum Expansion, School Re-zoning Dominate District 6 Council Debate (Manhattan Express)
August 17, 2017 Albanese Joins Fight Against High Rise Building on Kids Playground (NY Post)
August 16, 2017 Museum of Natural History Files Building Permits, But It's Not A Done Deal Yet (Westside Rag) "The Museum of Natural History has filed building permits for its new education center, but that doesn’t mean shovels are about to hit the ground. The museum still hasn’t completed the public review process.... ...it hasn’t yet gotten a full public review or vote."
August 1, 2017 20 Races to Watch in the 2017 City Election Cycle (Gotham Gazette)
July 28, 2017 Anger Over Development Schools Fuels West Side Council Clash (City Limits)
June 30, 2017 AMNH Expansion Foes Blast Environmental Impact Statement (Manhattan Express News)
June 26, 2017 FINAL Deadline for Written or Verbal Comments on Draft Environmental Study. Submit to Owen Welles, Dir. Environmental Review; NYC Department of Parks. Read our summary of the findings here.
June 21, 2017 Museum Expansion Opponents Pack Meeting: "Teddy Roosevelt is Turning Over In His Grave" (Westside Rag)
June 15, 2017 More than 350 people attended the Draft Environmental Study Public Comment Session to reject the AMNH's proposal and Michael Hiller, attorney for Community United, made a powerful statement about the legality of the project.
June 14, 2017 Tear Down Those Fences! Section of Park Around Natural History Museum... (Westside Rag)
June 6, 2017 It's Crunch Time for Museum Expansion Project as Neighbors Debate New Environmental Study (Westside Rag) "...It will also force residents to endure three years of construction, reduce the overall area of the surrounding park, and only add to the traffic problems in the area."
May 17, 2017 NYC Department of Parks & Recreation released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) which confirmed our deepest concerns. Read our summary of the findings here.
May 5, 2017 Sorry, Housing is Number 1: Mayor on Garden Battle (The Villager)
May 2017 Community United retains GHD, an award-winning engineering firm, to conduct and independent environmental study of the Gilder Center's impact on the community and environment.
April 25, 2017 NYC Department of Parks & Recreation released the Final Scope of Work Report which expanded the projected area affected by the Gilder Center to encompass W. 72nd St. - W. 86th St. and from Central Park West - Broadway.
March 9, 2017 Op-Ed: Investing in the Parks System New York City Deserves (Gotham Gazette)
January 26, 2017 Fair Trade A Museum Expansion for an Open Park (New York Times) “…we express who we are, and what we believe, in public spaces, not just big ones like the National Mall.”
January 18, 2017 Putting the Stars on Display (NY Press) “What you have to do is stand and fight.”
January 11, 2017 Museum Expansion Looks to Create Buzz Over Bugs (Wall Street Journal)
January 3, 2017 House GOP Rules Change Would Make it Easier to Sell Off Federal Land (Washington Post)
January 2017 - Community United retains attorney, Michael Hiller, to serve as counsel.
December 1, 2016 Community United hosts a Town Hall meeting for all concerned community members. Attorney Michael Hiller addresses the gathered attendees.
November 19, 2016 Battle Lines over Trumps Lands Policy Stretches Across 640 Million Acres (New York Times
October 14, 2016 Museum Gets Vital Votes for Expansion (Wall Street Journal)
The museum is “underestimating their community,” said Claudia DiSalvo, Community United Board President.
July 26, 2016 Museum Expansion Inches Forward (NY Press)
May 2, 2016 Public Bucks - Tens of Millions - Already Sunk into Natural History Expansion, Critics Note (Manhattan Express) "Despite the museum’s relative wealth compared to its opponents, Hiller said the opposition is facing a winnable fight. “While the museum will undoubtedly have the superior resources, that’s true in virtually every land-use and zoning fight,” Hiller said. “All that should matter is whether the opposition is right to oppose the project.”"
March 17, 2016 Manhattan Museum Expansion Project Raises Fear of Toxic Chemicals (NY Daily News)
March 4, 2016 Opposition Group Forms Against NYC Museums Proposed Expansion (Non Profit Quarterly)
February 9, 2016 New Opponents in Museum Fight (NY Press) “This is more than a problem of one park. Urban parks are precious and have to be preserved.”
January 7, 2016 Museum Expansion Prompts Residents to Tap Into Non-Conformist Heritage of the UWS (Observer)
January 1, 2016 In Museum Expansion A Classic Fight (NY Press)
October 7, 2015 Museum Expansion Rankles Pro-Park Residents Uptown (Wall Street Journal) “….the project is expected to eat into the footprint of the public park in which the museum sits.”
August 5, 2015 The Man with the Mandolin (NY Press) “You don’t need to go into the museum to learn something about natural history around here.”
July 21, 2015 Natural History Museum’s Expansion Plans Launch Tug of War Over Roosevelt Park
July 20, 2015 Outrage as American Museum of Natural History Plans to Expand into Park (New York Post) “…the irony of a museum dedicated to natural history gobbling up green space dedicated to a president revered for creating the national parks system…”
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Relationship Disaster Movie ‘Force Majeure’ Gets US Distribution; Watch the Trailer
Posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2014 by Russ Fischer
The Swedish film Force Majeure upends the disaster movie concept. A family finds its ski vacation disrupted when an avalanche threatens the mountain and lodge. And while disaster is averted on a grand scale, the brush with fear and death reveals something disturbing about the family patriarch, and creates some big problems. Check out the first Force Majeure trailer below.
While Winter Sleep was the biggest prize winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Force Majeure, by director Ruben Östlund, walked away with its own prize. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section, which is meant to highlight “young talent and to encourage innovative and daring works.” The grand prize winner in this category was White Dog, but Force Majeure took home the Jury Prize — previously won by films such as Police, Adjective and Tokyo Sonata.
This trailer makes the film look pretty great, and indeed Force Majeure earned some great reviews at the festival. The Telegraph called it a “brutal satire,” saying it is the director’s “latest brilliantly testing, laugh-as-you-wince experience.” The Playlist echoed the satire estimation, calling it “a brutally smart and original film,” while THR called it “another solid and provocative feature from Ostlund.”
Magnolia will release the film in the US, reports Variety. Here’s the plot summary, from the Cannes program.
A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular, but during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all directions, mother Ebba calls for her husband Tomas as she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile, is running for his life… The anticipated disaster failed to occur, and yet the family’s world has been shaken to its core, a question mark hanging over their father in particular. Tomas and Ebba’s marriage now hangs in the balance as Tomas struggles desperately to reclaim his role as family patriarch.
‘Force Majeure’ Remake Adds Will Ferrell and the Directors of ‘The Way Way Back’
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Young Eagles - Ok with you?
By ProudParent, March 5, 2003 in Advancement Resources
evmori 11
ProudParent,
Simple answer - no.
Ed Mori
Bob White 19
ProudParent in defense of everyone who took the time to respond to your post we did stick to the topic, bear in mind that you did not ask a specific question (take a look at your original post) The most you gave us to work with was
Our Scoutmaster wants to block a young Life Scout (13 years old) from beginning his Eagle project on the basis that the scout is "not mature enough".
The concensus of the group and the BSA is that the scoutmastrer has overstepped his authority in this matter. If the scout has satisfied the requirement then he earned the rank, and it is not the role of the Scoutmaster to hinder any advancement work by the scout, and that age does not determine maturity.
Bob White
mk9750 11
Most of my stance would stay the same even if the discussion is limited to just the project. But in a way it becomes easier to make my arguement, in that the Scoutmaster does have to approve the project, which allows him to excersise judgement as to the worthiness of the project.
If it is a project that absolutely demonstrates leadership, and is an absolute service to the community, I think he is obligated to sign it (also, he should be reviewing for potential safety issues, I think). But this is where the SM's judgement comes into play. I don't think it is fair to say that a 13 year old should be held to the same standards as an 17 year old. But there has to be some minimum standard of acceptablility, and I think that level is higher than the overwhelming majority of 13 year olds can meet. For instance, how likely is it that a 13 year old has gained the abilty to lead adults, which often happens on Eagle projects? If he has adults working on the project, but cannot lead them, he is not fulfilling one of the basic parts of the purpose of the project.
And again, it is not because he is 13. It is because at 13, it is extremely unlikely he could have developed the skills necesary to complete the task legitimately.
I will say one thing, though. In the little bit of info you have provided, there is one part that would impress me that this guy might be one of the few that could handle it. And that would be his desire to take care of the requirements in the order in which the oppurtunities to do so present themselves, not waiting to do it at the end "like everyone else does". this assumes it is he who decided to develop and pursue doing a project, and not his parents or an adult leader (obviously, it wasn't the SM in this case). As Ed said, it is more customary that boys leave the project to the end. But it is not required. If your guy here has enough on the ball that he ignores what everyone else does and instead does what feels right for him, maybe I'd be inclined to look more favorably on the idea. Maybe he is that rare kid who could have gained all of these skills and put them to use on a project. But again, that would make him the significant exception.
ProudParent 10
@Mark - thank you for your thoughts on this specific item.
@everyone who has posted - I do appreciate all of the posts, I just wanted to get to the specific point of my question - Can a Scoutmaster block a scout from advancing.
In this case, the Scoutmaster won't even TALK to the boy about the project. Therefore, he hasn't given the boy a chance to propose anything or discuss anything. He was simply Shut Down.
I worry that this will have an adverse effect on the scouts' attitude toward the Scoutmaster/troop/scouting in general. At the moment, he is very frustrated.
Another thing to consider is the following: the Scoutmaster has since made it known to me that it's not just about this particular boy. He told me that he knows that there are more young boys in our troop who are advancing rapidly who he wants to slow down. He says that he wants to make sure the boys are ready to bring maturity to the rank. He seems to have a desire to "protect" the rank of Eagle from their youth.
Is this right? It would seem so far that this attitude is deemed unreasonable by this group.
Twocubdad 660
I would say that's a fair conclusion. I don't think anyone believes it proper for your SM to not even consider the boy's project.
Since you are the advancement chair, what is the opinion of the troop committee chair? If the CC is of no assistance, perhaps it's time to contact your unit commissioner.
(This message has been edited by Twocubdad)
Sorry for the mutiple posts. Something was gummed up with the network.(This message has been edited by Twocubdad)
Even I would say that the SM has no right to refuse to talk to the boy about this.
If the SM says no, the boy has every right to know why the answer was no. If it is a legitimate reason, the boy then has the chance to fix whatever is unsatisfactory. If the reason is bogus, then the boy, and possibly later his parents, would have something to base a protest (formal or informal) on.
Come on SM, even if you're right, you've got to at least communicate!
dsteele 19
Hi folks:
I'm posting because I did earn the rank of Eagle at the age of 13.
I don't mean that my parents did it for me, although I will admit that my father counseled Architecture merit badge (he's an architect) and my mother counseled me on gardening merit badge (she wanted me to do all the work for the summer.)
Other than that, I worked my little tushy off and would lay awake in bed at night dreaming of my next rank. When I came home from my second or third troop meeting, I announced to my parents that I could make Eagle at age 13. In those days, there were time requirements between each rank and I had done the math. My parents answered by telling me that I had to do 1/2 hour of Scouting every day to make it happen. They enforced it much like most parents enforced school homework. Every day I didn't have a troop meeting or a campout, I read a merit badge pamplet, worked on a merit badge requirement, or just read the Scout Handbook.
I really, really, really wanted to be an Eagle Scout.
Thank God my Scoutmaster didn't block my project due to my age. He did, however, make sure it was worthy of an Eagle Scout.
That was 24 years ago. It's gone now, but it lasted over 10 years. The project, I mean. The Eagle Scout rank still stands.
I stayed active with the troop and the OA lodge until I went off to college at the age of 18.
Were my skills and maturity at the age of 13 those of an Eagle Scout? I'll say yes, but only because they were tested in boards of review (in that council at that time) by the district advancement committee for ALL Scouts going for Star, Life, or Eagle. I'm not advocating that system, but it did eliminate troop bias or parent bias, etc.
Having said that, let's ask the question the other way -- were my leadership skills and maturity greater at age 18 than they were at 13? Of course. Just like they're greater at 37 than they were at 18.
Do I think Scouts should earn Eagle at age 13? Not unless they deserve it. Of course, Scouts should never earn Eagle unless they deserve it.
I'm getting off my tree-stump now.
Here's the rest of my story (these things were only possible because of the efforts of volunteers like you)
I attended Eureka College on a full-tuition scholarship named for President Reagan because of Scouting.
I became a professional Scouter in 1989 because I wanted to pay Scouting (meaning people like you) back for what it had given me.
I met my wife (a Girl Scout Gold Award earner) at summer camp and we've been married for 11 years.
All things good in my life have been touched by BSA volunteers.
acco40 85
Allow me to post a few rambling thoughts.
Can the SM block the boy's pursuit of Eagle? Yes (It appears that he has.) May be block the boy's pursuit of Eagle? No. It violates BSA policy. Same goes for merit badges by the way. (Shades of the smoking thread?).
It scares me when someone implies that he would expect more out of a 17 yr. old shooting for Eagle than a 13 yr. old doing the same.
Maturity is not a requirement for ANY Boy Scout rank.
From personal experience, my son earned his Life rank at 12 years and four months. Our troop is very young and he was able to hold position of PL (six months), ASPL (six months) and den chief (1 yr.) {Note: The DC position overlapped his PL and ASPL positions.} I did not council on any MBs or approve any of his requirements. He is self motivated for Scouts (I wish I could say the same thing for school). Unfortunately, he suffers from the opinion of some that because his father is SM (me) he had an easy road to Life. In reality, I did not become SM until after he earned his Life rank. In reality, the requirements for Life are not that hard. He has had ample exposure to service projects, has attended almost every outing, served in leadership positions, etc.
Now, do I expect him to make Eagle any time soon? No. From the way I see it, the Eagle requirements are light years ahead of the Life requirements. Being elected Patrol Leader and the associated responsibilities for that position is an order of magnitude easier than creating, developing and managing an Eagle project. He plans to coninue earning MBs and enjoying his activities in Scouts. Besides, he has to wait for Dad to ramp up the SM learning curve having never approved or worked with the boys on an Eagle Scout project.
KoreaScouter 11
Let me first issue a disclaimer. I don't know the Scout, the SM, or the Troop involved in ProudParent's thread, so I don't know what anyone's motives are here. That said, I'd like to take a stab at ProudParent's follow-on question: "Can a SM block a Scout from advancing?" I think the answer to that is an emphatic "yes".
When we're talking about meeting requirements, let's not focus exclusively on counting merit badges, how many "Ts" are next to his name in the Troop Record Book, or an admin check on a project workbook. Not to be preachy here, but the mission of BSA is not to produce Eagle Scouts, but to produce adults of high character. In my mind, that makes the Scout Spirit requirement very important, and if a Scout just doesn't cut it in the character department, that's where an SM has to do his job, no matter how unpleasant. And, that's not to say that a Scout who may not be showing Scout Spirit today, couldn't pass the requirement later, with some behavior modification. The alternative is a situation in which a Scout meets all other requirements regarding attendance, POR, MBs, but has behavioral or character issues...and there's no "circuit breaker" to prevent advancement. Is there any other reason why the Scout Spirit requirement is there?
I know this discussion went from a specific to a general one, and I want to make sure nobody thinks I'm taking sides in ProudParent's case. My point is that not only can a SM block advancement, there are cases in which he should.
The two most misunderstood concepts that I have seen when discussing Scouts is maturity and discipline.
Nothing in the Scout Oath (Promise) and Law mention maturity. To "show Scout spirit" is to live the oath and law in your everyday life. Therefore, there is nothing about maturity in the "shows Scout spirit" requirement. That said (or should I say typed?), some immature behavior, such as being disruptive, discourteous, etc. if NOT Scout like and does not show Scout spirit. Immaturity and "shows Scout spirit" are not mutually exclusive behaviors.
Some boys are silly (my second son) some are very somber (first son). Are scatological references indicative of immature behavior? In some eyes, yes. In others, not necessarily so. Jim Carrey seems to make quite a nice living with it.
At the end of the skill session the other night while some of the boys had a few minutes before the SPL assembled them for closing (SM minute, messages, retiring of the colors, etc.) my second son told the boys a joke. If you are an American when you are not in the bathroom and not an American when you are in the bathroom, what are you when you are in the bathroom? Answer: European! Some of the adults who overheard this viewed it as immature behavior. While immature, I thought it was about par for a ten year old. Was it disruptive, not really. Did it violate the Scout Oath or Law, no. Humor can have a great bonding effect and it could be argued that he was showing Scout spirit (that may be a stretch but do you see where I am going?). You can not equivocate (is that a word) the two.
Look at the original post. Can a SM block a boy from beginning his Eagle project because he feels he is not mature enough (i.e. silly)? The answer is a cut and dried NO!
k9gold-scout 10
Thank you dsteele. I enjoyed your story, for the most part younger Eagle Scouts have stayed with the program and have gone on to even more acheivments. Each scout should be able to work at his own speed for all requirements and receive the rank when earned. I try not to confront scoutmasters with the rules, but advancement should be the same no matter where or who is in the troop (except disibalities). Not to say that leadership and spirt should be credited to a scout who just shows up to meetings and will not do anything extra.If a scout is ready to fly he needs a little nudge out of the nest.
KS,
I agree with you on most points. I do feel this SM is a little out of line not letting this Scout start his Eagle project. I commend the boy for wanting to get started!
What this SM can do is ensure this Scout understands wnat his role in his Eagle project is. He can also ensure the Scout is the one doing the project, not his parents.
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Updates from the St. Clair County Sheriff's Office
St. Clair County Sheriff Scott Keeler said deputies have made six warrant arrests during the first part of the week. He also reminded citizens of two campaigns currently going on in the county. A youth seat belt mobilization campaign will continue through March 31 and the annual St. Patrick’s Day Holiday “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign will run through March 20.
Warrant arrests
David Journot
David Journot- On March 17, David Journot, 28, Lamar, was arrested on four St. Clair County warrants for failing to appear in court on misdemeanor charges. Journot is charged with driving while revoked/suspended, failing to register motor vehicle, failing to maintain financial responsibility, and failing to wear a seatbelt. Total bond is set at $1,193. The charge stems from a Missouri State Highway Patrol investigation in January 2015.
Mathew Robertson
Mathew Robertson- On March 16, Mathew Robertson, 29, Montrose, was arrested on a St. Clair County warrant for probation violation on two original class C felony charges of passing bad checks. Bond is set at $10,000 cash only. The warrant was issued in July 2015 and the original charges stems from incidents in July of 2013 and August of 2014.
Travis Buttram
Travis Buttram- On March 16, Travis Buttram, 24, Nixa, was arrested in St. Clair County on a Henry County warrant for failing to appear in court on a citation for failing to display plates. Bond is set at $145 cash or surety. The arrest was made after a traffic stop was initiated by a St. Clair County deputy on Third Street, Lowry City, on a vehicle Buttram was a passenger in.
Parker Bender
Parker Bender- On March 16, Parker Bender, 30, Lincoln, Neb., was arrested in St. Clair County on a Humansville Police Department warrant for a moving violation. Bond is set at $132 cash only. The arrest came after a vehicle Bender was driving was pulled over by a St. Clair County deputy near Collins for speeding.
Timmie Green
Timmie Green- On March 15, Timmie Green, 30, Osceola, was arrested on an active no bond parole violation warrant on an original class C felony charge of statutory sodomy-second degree.
Frederick Klem
Frederick Klem- On March 15, Frederick Klem, 58, Collins, was arrested on a St. Clair County warrant charging him with misdemeanor operating a vehicle on a highway without a valid license and failing to display plates on motor vehicle. Bond is set at $1,500 cash or surety.The charge stems from a Missouri State Highway Patrol investigation on March 14.
Arrest warrant issued
Joseph Howery- On March 16, a St. Clair County warrant was issued for Joseph Howery, 17, Appleton City, charging him with class A misdemeanor domestic assault-third degree. The charge stems from an incident on March 7 when a St. Clair County deputy took a report on West 6th Street, Appleton City, in reference to Howery allegedly holding a knife to a juvenile’s throat.
Criminal summons’ issued
Susan Elliott- On March 16, a criminal summons was issued for Susan Elliott, 57, Collins, charging her with class B misdemeanor driving while intoxicated. The charge stems from an incident on March 11 when a St. Clair County deputy initiated a traffic stop for a defective brake light on a vehicle Elliott was driving on SE 901 Road, Collins. During the investigation it was determined Elliott was intoxicated. Elliott was taken into custody and later released pending the formal charge.
Joseph Howery, Haydee Smith, Ryley Knowles- On March 15, criminal summons’ were recently issued for Joseph Howery, 17, Haydee Smith, 17, , all of Appleton City, charging them with unclassified misdemeanors of minor visibly intoxicated. On March 17, a criminal summons was issued for Ryley Knowles, 17, Appleton City, charging him with an unclassified misdemeanor of possession of liquor by a minor.
The charges stem from an investigation on Jan. 28 when St. Clair County deputies were patrolling the Appleton City Cemetery on NW 1000 Road and Smith was located sleeping a vehicle. During the investigation alcohol was located in the vehicle and a breath test indicated a presence of alcohol on Smith's breath. She was taken into custody and later released pending the formal charge. Later, contact was made with Howery and Knowles who both admitted the alcohol belonged to them. They were also taken into custody and later released pending the formal charges.
Clinton Wombles found guilty on three felony counts
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Climax Z3 Smart Camera Home Security System
Z3 Smart Camera Home Security System is the ideal solution for the small to mid-size home owner who is looking for a comprehensive smart home security system with boundless expandability. With so many sensors and accessories out in the market, how can a user find what they need to start off with? The multifunctional Z3 Smart Camera Security System provides an all-in-one solution with built-in basics, including 1080p HD Camera, PIR motion, temperature, humidity, and ambient lux light sensors, and two-way clear voice intercom system with echo cancellation feature. Z3 is compatible with RF, ZigBee and Z-Wave accessories, supporting up to 160 wireless sensors, to create endless possibilities to help users to create comprehensive smart home security. Add on voice prompt, loud siren, and backup battery, Z3 makes it possible to provide comprehensive smart home security services, including remote management, home security, live visual monitoring, home automation, energy management and emergency monitoring, designed to bring all-around convenience, comfort and safety. Z3 brings a complete and cost-effective smart home solution for users to experience a secure, and comfortable lifestyle. Features Communication Path: IP (Ethernet), WiFi, 3G/4G Built-in Protocol Options: RF, ZigBee, Z-Wave Two area configurations, supports up to 160 zones Alarm event reporting via CID/SIA Email / SMS /Push Notification via Cloud Server Camera: 1920x1080p high-resolution with 152° diagonal wide-angle lens Temperature Sensor: detects temperature from -10°C~ 50°C (14°F~ 122°F) Humidity Sensor: humidity range 0 ~ 100%RH PIR Motion Sensor: 7m range @ 100° degrees Ambient Light Sensor: detects light lux levels Home Security capabilities Security Visual Verification and Real-time Monitoring & Reporting ZigBee and Z-Wave based home automation capabilities Energy Management capabilities 24/7 Environment Emergency Monitoring Built-in siren, voice prompt, microSD slot Remote management via Smartphone App and Web browser Specifications ZigBee Protocol: ZigBee Pro HA 1.2, 2.4GHz Z-Wave Protocol: Z-Wave 868.40MHz (EU) / 908.40MHz (US) RF Frequencies: 433 MHz / 868MHz Wi-Fi Module: 802.11 b/g/ n 4G Frequencies: 2100 / 2600 / 1900 / 1800 / 900 / 850 / 700MHz Power Supply: 12V/2A, 100~240VAC Backup Battery: 7.2V, 1600mA NiMh rechargeable battery pack Backup Battery Life: 15 hours* Siren: 95dB @ 1m Memory Card Slot: MicroSD card Operating Temperature: -10° to 45°C (14°F to 113°F) Operating Humidity: Up to 85% non-condensing
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Back in the 1960s a lead engineer working in conjunction with the United States Navy for Lockheed’s Skunk Works team coined the acronym KISS, which translated to the design principle ‘keep it simple stupid’. The KISS principle embraces the concept of simplicity, stating that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than geared up to be more complicated. When it comes to physical security systems, this concept can also play a key element in its overall success. Secure work environments For years the tug of war in the security industry has pitted the need for a secure environment against the desire for technology that is convenient for users. However, finding a happy medium between the two has often seemed elusive. I believe you can design and have operational convenience at the same time as achieving high security" Jeff Spivey, a security consultant and the CEO of Security Risk Management, has this to say about it, “If there is an understanding of the security-related risks and their separate and/or collective impact on the organization’s bottom line business goals, a resolution can be reached.” Jeff also does not think that convenience and high security have to be opposing each other. He says, “I believe you can design and have operational convenience at the same time as achieving high security.” Importance of secure access control The premise is that for organizations and spaces to be truly secure, they must be difficult to access. So, by its very nature, access control is designed to be restrictive, allowing only authorized staff and visitors to access a facility or other secured areas inside. This immediately puts convenience at odds with security. Most people will tolerate the restrictive nature of a controlled entrance using badge, card or biometric because they understand the need for security. When that technology gets in the way of staff traversing freely throughout the facility during the course of a business day, or hindering potential visitors or vendors from a positive experience entering the building, they become less tolerant, which often leads to negative feedback to the security staff. Enhancing corporate security Security consultants like Spivey and security directors all stress that understanding the threats and risk levels of an organization will most likely dictate its physical security infrastructure and approach. All the technology in the world is useless if it is not embraced by those who are expected to use it and it doesn’t fit the culture of the organization. Once employees and customers are educated about what security really is, they understand that they're not losing convenience, they're gaining freedom to move safely from point A to point B. Converged data and information shape new access options Migration of physical access control systems to a more network-centric platform is a game-changer for security technologies The migration of physical access control systems to a more network-centric platform has been a game-changer for emerging security technology options. The expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), Near-Field Communication devices powered by Bluetooth technology, and the explosion of converged information systems and identity management tools that are now driving access control are making it easier than ever before for employees and visitors to apply for clearance, permissions and credentials. Wireless and proximity readers Advancements in high-performance wireless and proximity readers have enhanced the user’s access experience when presenting credentials at an entry and expediting movement throughout a facility. A user is now able to access a secured office from street-level without ever touching a key or card. Using a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone or triggering a facial recognition technology, they enter the building through a security revolving door or turnstile. A total building automation approach adds extra convenience, as well as seamless security, when access technology is integrated into other systems like elevator controls. A total building automation approach adds extra convenience and seamless security How to Meet Security Concerns at the Entry While security managers are charged with providing their facilities the maximum level of security possible, there is always the human element to consider. But does the effort to make people comfortable with their security system ecosystem come at a cost? Does all this convenience and the drive to deliver a positive security experience reduce an organization’s overall levels of security? And if so, how can we continue to deliver the same positive experience including speed of entry – while improving risk mitigation and threat prevention? Door entrances, barriers Users can slip through the door or turnstile barriers while they are still open after a credentialed individual has gone through Let’s examine some of the various types of entrances being used at most facilities and the security properties of each. With some entrance types, there is the possibility for security to fall short of its intended goals in a way that can’t be addressed by access control technology alone. In particular, with many types of doors and barriers, tailgating is possible: users can slip through the door or turnstile barriers while they are still open after a credentialed individual has gone through. To address this, many organizations hire security officers to supervise the entry. While this can help to reduce tailgating, it has been demonstrated that officers are not immune to social engineering and can often be “talked into” letting an unauthorized person into a facility. Deploying video cameras, sensors Some organizations have deployed video surveillance cameras or sensors to help identify tailgaters after the fact or a door left open for longer than rules allow. This approach is not uncommon where facilities have attempted to optimize throughput and maintain a positive experience for staff and visitors. Security staff monitoring the video feeds can alert management so that action can be taken – but this is at best a reactive solution. It does not keep the unauthorized persons from entering, and so is not a totally secure solution. Optical turnstiles, speedgates Security staff should carefully evaluate its facility’s needs and consider the technology that is built into the door itself Security staff should carefully evaluate its facility’s needs and consider the technology that is built into the door itself. Not all security entrances work the same way. And, there will always be a balance between security and convenience – the more secure the entry, the less convenient it is for your personnel and visitors to enter your facility. For example, it takes more time to provide 2-factor authentication and enter through a mantrap portal than to provide only one credential and enter through an optical turnstile or speedgate. Perimeter protection So, it is an important first step to determine what is right at every entrance point within and around the perimeter. Remember that convenience does not equate to throughput. Convenience is the ease and speed of entry experienced by each individual crossing that threshold, while throughput relates to the speed at which many individuals can gain access to the facility. A more convenient entry makes a better first impression on visitors and is good for overall employee morale. Throughput is more functional; employees need to get logged in to begin their workday (and often to clock in to get paid), and they quickly become frustrated and dissatisfied when waiting in a long line to enter or exit the premises. Considering form and function when designing a security entrance can ensure that those requiring both high-security and convenience are appeased.
Home Monitoring At The Edge: Advanced Security In The Hands Of Consumers
Imagine a home surveillance camera monitoring an elderly parent and anticipating potential concerns while respecting their privacy. Imagine another camera predicting a home burglary based on suspicious behaviors, allowing time to notify the homeowner who can in turn notify the police before the event occurs—or an entire network of cameras working together to keep an eye on neighborhood safety. Artificial Intelligence vision chips A new gen of AI vision chips are pushing advanced capabilities such as behavior analysis and higher-level security There's a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) vision chips that are pushing advanced capabilities such as behavior analysis and higher-level security to the edge (directly on devices) for a customizable user experience—one that rivals the abilities of the consumer electronics devices we use every day. Once considered nothing more than “the eyes” of a security system, home monitoring cameras of 2020 will leverage AI-vision processors for high-performance computer vision at low power consumption and affordable cost—at the edge—for greater privacy and ease of use as well as to enable behavior analysis for predictive and preemptive monitoring. Advanced home monitoring cameras With this shift, camera makers and home monitoring service providers alike will be able to develop new edge-based use cases for home monitoring and enable consumers to customize devices to meet their individual needs. The result will be increased user engagement with home monitoring devices—mirroring that of cellphones and smart watches and creating an overlap between the home monitoring and consumer electronics markets. A quick step back reminds us that accomplishing these goals would have been cost prohibitive just a couple of years ago. Face recognition, behavior analysis, intelligent analytics, and decision-making at this level were extremely expensive to perform in the cloud. Additionally, the lag time associated with sending data to faraway servers for decoding and then processing made it impossible to achieve real-time results. Cloud-based home security devices The constraints of cloud processing certainly have not held the industry back, however. Home monitoring, a market just seven years young, has become a ubiquitous category of home security and home monitoring devices. Consumers can choose to install a single camera or doorbell that sends alerts to their phone, a family of devices and a monthly manufacturer’s plan, or a high-end professional monitoring solution. While the majority of these devices do indeed rely on the cloud for processing, camera makers have been pushing for edge-based processing since around 2016. For them, the benefit has always been clear: the opportunity to perform intelligent analytics processing in real-time on the device. But until now, the balance between computer vision performance and power consumption was lacking and camera companies weren’t able to make the leap. So instead, they have focused on improving designs and the cloud-centric model has prevailed. Hybrid security systems Even with improvements, false alerts result in unnecessary notifications and video recording Even with improvements, false alerts (like tree branches swaying in the wind or cats walking past a front door) result in unnecessary notifications and video recording— cameras remain active which, in the case of battery powered cameras, means using up valuable battery life. Hybrid models do exist. Typically, they provide rudimentary motion detection on the camera itself and then send video to the cloud for decoding and analysis to suppress false alerts. Hybrids provide higher-level results for things like people and cars, but their approach comes at a cost for both the consumer and the manufacturer. Advanced cloud analytics Advanced cloud analytics are more expensive than newly possible edge-based alternatives, and consumers have to pay for subscriptions. In addition, because of processing delays and other issues, things like rain or lighting changes (or even bugs on the camera) can still trigger unnecessary alerts. And the more alerts a user receives, the more they tend to ignore them—there are simply too many. In fact, it is estimated that users only pay attention to 5% of their notifications. This means that when a package is stolen or a car is burglarized, users often miss the real-time notification—only to find out about the incident after the fact. All of this will soon change with AI-based behavior analysis, predictive security, and real-time meaningful alerts. Predictive monitoring while safeguarding user privacy These days, consumers are putting more emphasis on privacy and have legitimate concerns about being recorded while in their homes. Soon, with AI advancements at the chip level, families will be able to select user apps that provide monitoring without the need to stream video to a company server, or they’ll have access to apps that record activity but obscure faces. Devices will have the ability to only send alerts according to specific criteria. If, for example, an elderly parent being monitored seems particularly unsteady one day or seems especially inactive, an application could alert the responsible family member and suggest that they check in. By analyzing the elderly parent’s behavior, the application could also predict a potential fall and trigger an audio alert for the person and also the family. AI-based behavior analysis Ability to analyze massive amounts of data locally and identify trends is a key advantage of AI at the edge The ability to analyze massive amounts of data locally and identify trends or perform searches is a key advantage of AI at the edge, for both individuals and neighborhoods. For example, an individual might be curious as to what animal is wreaking havoc in their backyard every night. In this case, they could download a “small animal detector” app to their camera which would trigger an alert when a critter enters their yard. The animal could be scared off via an alarm and—armed with video proof—animal control would have useful data for setting a trap. Edge cameras A newly emerging category of “neighborhood watch” applications is already connecting neighbors for significantly improved monitoring and safety. As edge cameras become more commonplace, this category will become increasingly effective. The idea is that if, for example, one neighbor captures a package thief, and then the entire network of neighbors will receive a notification and a synopsis video showing the theft. Or if, say, there is a rash of car break-ins and one neighbor captures video of a red sedan casing their home around the time of a recent incident, an AI vision-based camera could be queried for helpful information: Residential monitoring and security The camera could be asked for a summary of the dates and times that it has recorded that particular red car. A case could be made if incident times match those of the vehicle’s recent appearances in the neighborhood. Even better, if that particular red car was to reappear and seems (by AI behavior analysis) to be suspicious, alerts could be sent proactively to networked residents and police could be notified immediately. Home monitoring in 2020 will bring positive change for users when it comes to monitoring and security, but it will also bring some fun. Consumers will, for example, be able to download apps that do things like monitor pet activity. They might query their device for a summary of their pet’s “unusual activity” and then use those clips to create cute, shareable videos. Who doesn’t love a video of a dog dragging a toilet paper roll around the house? AI at the Edge for home access control Home access control via biometrics is one of many new edge-based use cases that will bring convenience to home monitoring Home access control via biometrics is one of many new edge-based use cases that will bring convenience to home monitoring, and it’s an application that is expected to take off soon. With smart biometrics, cameras will be able to recognize residents and then unlock their smart front door locks automatically if desired, eliminating the need for keys. And if, for example, an unauthorized person tries to trick the system by presenting a photograph of a registered family member’s face, the camera could use “3D liveness detection” to spot the fake and deny access. With these and other advances, professional monitoring service providers will have the opportunity to bring a new generation of access control panels to market. Leveraging computer vision and deep neural networks Ultimately, what camera makers strive for is customer engagement and customer loyalty. These new use cases—thanks to AI at the edge—will make home monitoring devices more useful and more engaging to consumers. Leveraging computer vision and deep neural networks, new cameras will be able to filter out and block false alerts, predict incidents, and send real-time notifications only when there is something that the consumer is truly interested in seeing. AI and computer vision at the edge will enable a new generation of cameras that provide not only a higher level of security but that will fundamentally change the way consumers rely on and interact with their home monitoring devices.
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CES 2020 To Focus On Security’s Intersection With Consumer Electronics
Security’s intersection with consumer electronics is on view at CES 2020, the world’s largest technology event, Jan. 7-10 in Las Vegas. The giant show features more than 170,000 attendees, 4,500 exhibitors and 1,100 industry thought-leaders featured on the CES stage. A range of technologies will be on display, from artificial intelligence (AI) to 5G, vehicle technology to AR/VR (augmented and virtual reality), robotics to home automation. Security plays a prominent role, too.The impact of this event for the smart home could be about delivering home analytics and enhancing privacy" Smart home market on the forefront The smart home market is a major focus. “For the smart home market at CES this year, we expect to see numerous announcements regarding home awareness,” says Blake Kozak, Senior Principal Analyst at IHS Markit. “This will include brands offering up additional analytics for consumer security cameras with a focus on edge-based solutions.” “The impact of this [event] for the smart home could be about delivering home analytics and enhancing privacy through cloudless architectures and new electronic door lock approaches,” he adds. An example of cloud analytics is the Resideo Home app, introduced in December, which will make whole-home monitoring possible for four critical networks of the home – water, air, energy and security. Resideo promises a “simplified and integrated smart home experience.” Video is also prominent at the show. “For cameras, we can expect to see more cameras focused on the outdoor space and possibly new form factors for video doorbells,” says Kozak. Familiar security industry brands exhibiting at CES 2020 include ADT, Ring, August Home and Yale (both part of ASSA ABLOY), Bosch and Alarm.com. Focus on Cybersecurity In 2020, companies will continue to focus on solutions for protecting consumer data" Cybersecurity is an aspect of many of the devices on display at CES. “Device security and data privacy play a key role in the adoption of connected devices,” says Elizabeth Parks, President, Parks Associates. “Consumer security concerns for smart home products will continue to be a barrier to adoption in the U.S. and Europe, and these concerns can actually intensify with device adoption-71% of U.S. smart home households are concerned about cybersecurity. In 2020, companies will continue to focus on solutions for protecting consumer data. One big area of interest is protection on the network router, providing whole home solutions, which are very appealing to consumers.” “At CES we will see the traditional players introducing new DIY (do-it-yourself) products, as well as new players announcing new product features, services, and partnerships,” Parks adds. Smart access control Smart locks will be among the security products at CES 2020. For example, PassiveBolt, a lock company, will show the Shepherd Lock, a touch-enabled smart lock with enhanced security through sensors and AI. The add-on lock converts existing locksets into touch-activated devices. Another lock manufacturer is Kwikset, whose door locks and door hardware include Wi-Fi-enabled smart locks, Bluetooth-enabled smart locks, keyless and keyway-less locks and connected home technology. Video doorbells, including industry-innovator Ring, have been a hit in the consumer market. At CES, Ring will expand the mission to make neighborhoods safer by creating a “Ring of Security” around homes and communities with a suite of home security products and services. The “Neighbors by Ring” app enables affordable, complete, proactive home and neighborhood security. Homeguard offers a range of affordable CCTV solutions for home and small business DIY CCTV demonstrations DIY security systems are another market. Homeguard is a leading DIY consumer brand offering a range of affordable CCTV solutions for home and small business, including wired and wireless CCTV kits, smart cameras, home alarm systems and wire-free HD CCTV kits. Swann Communications is also at the forefront of surveillance and monitoring with new products developments including wire-free HD cameras and doorbells, professional CCTV video surveillance systems, and 1080p full HD systems with “True Detect” heat and motion sensing. AVTECH, and subsidiary YesGo Tech, will demonstrate a compact Wi-Fi home security set, a series of special cameras with face recognition, thermal detection and license plate recognition, customized central management software and a university ID tag that is compatible with access control, OEM and ODM opportunities. Security and automation solutions D-Link’s home networking, security and automation solutions will help consumers connect, view, share, entertain, work and play. SECO-LARM, manufacturer of a Room Occupancy Monitor that shows whether a room is in use, has a line of keypads and proximity readers with built-in Bluetooth for convenient access. Another smart home security solutions provider, Climax Technology, integrates wireless security, home automation, energy management, home emergency monitoring and live visual monitoring. Personal safety mobile application Manufacturers are positioning outdoor cameras as deterrents to theft before a burglary happens" WaryMe designs and develops a personal safety mobile application to improve a user’s security in public places, schools, transports and companies by addressing major risks such as terrorism attacks, intrusion, fire and even industrial accidents. An all-in-one mobile application integrates alerting, crisis management and mass notification features. “Market players are looking to expand beyond established smart home devices like smart thermostats and networked cameras to products like smart water leak detectors, smart pet feeders, and smart air purifiers,” says Elizabeth Parks. “Manufacturers are positioning outdoor cameras as deterrents to theft before a burglary happens. This trend is part of a broader security marketing effort to extend the perimeter of home security beyond traditional home access points.” “Familiarity with smart home devices lags behind familiarity with smart entertainment products; it even lags that of smart speakers, which are quite new in the market,” adds Parks. “In 2020, we will see players working to advance the visibility and marketing around device integration, and specifically focus on use case scenarios around safety, security, and convenience, which have always been the primary drivers of adoption of these types of products.”
Climax GX Cubic Smart Care Medical Alarm Brings Voice Control, Tele-Health Monitoring, Emergency Alarm Directly To Senior Citizens’ Homes
In the aging trend of 21th century with rapid aging population and high healthcare costs are creating a growing demand for care at home, especially for seniors with long-term health conditions. Home care is moving towards tele-health monitoring and telemedicine, including video conferencing and remote monitoring technology to help increase caregiver efficiency while still providing constant convenience to the patients. Living independently and aging gracefully are the ideals that every individual seeks to pursue, and the challenge is to ensure that all people can age with dignity and security. Climax’s GX Cubic Smart Care Medical Alarm is an all-in-one wellness, and personal safety medical alarm solution, designed to help the elderly to manage their long-term health conditions, bridging medical health monitoring information to care providers/hospitals and create points of care to keep them safe in their own homes. GX Cubic medical alarm GX Cubic can be flexibly connected with third-party Bluetooth (BLE) healthcare sensors GX Cubic can be flexibly connected with third-party Bluetooth (BLE) healthcare sensors, like blood glucose monitor, pulse oximeter, blood pressure monitor, or weight for tracking health data and providing customized alerts to meet individual needs. The measurements can be automatically sent to a health professional who can review the results and continuously keep an eye on the patient’s health needs and provide early treatment as necessary. In addition to medical health monitoring, GX Cubic is also compatible with Pivotell Advance Automatic Pill Dispenser to keep secure of all pills, and remind the user to take the correct medicine at the pre-set time. The solution allows health professionals to monitor pill taking timely results and keep an eye on the patients’ treatment as needed. For situation when remote monitoring care given is insufficient and the user requires onsite assistance, GX Cubic can raise an emergency alarm to inform the caregiver or medical personnel for immediate action. Seniors can be assured that they are always being taken care of, and provide their family members with a peace of mind. Voice recognition solution Voice recognition has innovated over time and continues to advance, allowing products to become even more intuitive and easier to use. GX Cubic has built-in voice recognition and can activate an emergency call to care provider or central monitoring center by preset vocal commands or keywords. This allows seniors to receive emergency attention even in situations where they are immobilized or cannot manually reach the panic button. Working with the leading voice ecosystems Amazon Alexa and Google Home via cloud, GX Cubic also features voice control to activate home electronic devices, complete daily tasks, and seek help during emergencies. Voice over Internet Protocol With the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) feature, GX Cubic users can also initiate two-way voice callsWith the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) feature, GX Cubic users can also initiate two-way voice calls to contact their caregivers or family members at any time. With the additional add-on of DECT, GX Cubic can pair with voice extenders, talking pendants, call points, and voice extenders placed strategically around the home to create a safety net. Smart Home Automation Comprehensive elderly-friendly health care should also have a focus on preventive action to maintain a healthy ageing process. To realize independent living in a smart way, GX Cubic pairs with Zigbee or Z-Wave sensors to enable the whole-home control with various protocol-of-choice. GX Cubic can be programmed to turn on the hallway lights automatically when a sensor reports a senior’s movement in the middle of the night, to reduce a chance of falling; or automatically adjusting air conditioning when there is a sudden temperature-drop. The scenarios are unlimited to fit individual requirements, ensuring a safest living experience for the senior users. GX Cubic can also integrate IP security cameras and camera PIR motion sensors to deliver real-time visual monitoring and verification. When an emergency occurs, alerts are immediately sent to family members, and Monitoring Center to verify the event and sending immediate assistance as needed. Lastly, GX Cubic can support wireless sensor devices, allowing users to add in smoke detectors, water leakage sensors, and gas sensors to monitor environmental emergencies; and motion sensors, door contacts, sensor pad transmitters for inactivity monitoring, to build a healthier, safer independent living.
Z-Wave Alliance To Demonstrate UL Certified Home Security Products And Discuss IoT Upgrades At ISC West 2016
Z-Wave ZM5101, ZM5202, ZM5304 modules have received UL component recognition for home security The Z-Wave Alliance, a global membership organization dedicated to advancing the popular Z-Wave wireless smart home protocol, will host members in the Z-Wave Pavilion at ISC West for the second year in row. Z-Wave recently announced that it has become the first smart home mesh network to receive UL recognition for household burglar alarms for its family of 500 series modules in addition to a suite of upgrades to its encryption and security layer. UL Certification Announced earlier this year, Z-Wave modules ZM5101, ZM5202, and ZM5304 with protocol SDK version 6.6 have received UL component recognition for home security, making Z-Wave the first mesh technology awarded a certificate of compliance by UL for use in professional alarm systems. With Z-Wave technology already included in over 90% of the panels provided by professional security companies in the U.S., all smart home devices with the new Z-Wave SDK version 6.60 that are based on the UL component recognition can be united via Z-Wave technology and leverage for both professional security and smart home services. As a true, two-way network technology with jamming detection, Z-Wave implementation into professional alarm installations will help reduce false alarms, currently the number one problem faced by security companies, and by operating in the 900 MHz band, Z-Wave devices are safe from intentional or unintentional “jamming” common in the overcrowded 2.4GHz band. S2 Framework The Z-Wave Security 2 (S2) framework, available in the 6.7 software development kit from chipmaker Sigma Designs will provide the most advanced security for smart home devices and controllers, gateways and hubs in the market today. Z-Wave completely removes the vulnerability of the network during inclusion by requiring a QR code or a pin-code on the device itself. With S2, attacks such as man in the middle and brute force are rendered powerless by the implementation of industry-wide accepted secure key exchange using Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH). For Z-Wave manufacturers with IoT cloud solutions and Z-Wave connection to the other IP devices, the Z/IP Gateway enables tunneling all Z/IP traffic through a secure TLS 1.1 tunnel, eliminating cloud vulnerability. “Z-Wave has long enjoyed a strong market position in the home security industry, with partners like ADT, Vivint, and Nortek Security & Control at the forefront of deploying smart home security systems,” said Mitchell Klein, Executive Director of the Z-Wave Alliance. “We want manufacturers and security dealers alike to know that Z-Wave takes safety and security incredibly seriously. We will continue to be the gold standard platform for this industry while always delivering new features and benefits.” Exhibiting Members In Z-Wave Pavilion At ISC West Exhibiting members in the Z-Wave Pavilion at ISC West include Aeon Labs, SecureNet Technologies, FIBARO, Climax Technology, Qolsys, and StarVedia. Z-Wave products are available through distributors and direct to consumers in retail and online. Adopted by over 375 worldwide market leaders, Z-Wave is fully interoperable between all brands and is fully backward-compatible between versions.
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Hampshire is the pothole capital of the UK
By Select Car Leasing, 28-10-2019
HAMPSHIRE is the pothole complaint capital of England, beating neighbouring county, Surrey to take the car-damaging crown.
That’s according to a new analysis of road defects logged by members of the public since the start of 2019.The data has been compiled by website Fill That Hole, run by charity Cycling UK, which logs reports of potholes and passes the details to local authorities.
And while the reports were mostly made by cyclists, experts say it provides an important snapshot of the state of the UK’s decaying highways for all road users. For the year so far, Hampshire amassed 325 pothole complaints, compared to 285 for Surrey, 235 for Devon, 234 for Cheshire and 230 for Gloucestershire.
Many of the written reports feature potholes said to represent a threat to the lives of cyclists, amid descriptions of ‘gargantuan’ craters in the road.
Meanwhile James O’ Malley, Company Director of leading UK car leasing firm Select Car Leasing, says the situation is likely to get worse during a fast approaching winter forecasted to be the coldest in decades.
James said: “It’s vital councils get to grips with the ongoing threat posed by potholes as this is a problem that’s been steadily getting worse and worse for the last decade. And according to recent forecasts,with Britain apparently set for another cold winter, the state of the nation’s roads are set to deteriorate further still."
“Potholes are a danger to all road users and they cause untold damage to vehicles. As gaping chasms in the Tarmac become more and more widespread, it’s now virtually impossible to dodge them during your journey.”
Some of the Fill That Hole reports make for disturbing reading.
At present there are 4,092 ‘current’ hazards in Hampshire potholes and road defects that haven’t been rectified by the council, despite many of them having been on the list for several years.
One recent report from October 2 tells of a pothole on the A327 near Eversley that’s ‘hard to avoid/swerve without going into oncoming traffic.’
Another report in May tells of a deep ‘trench’ that appeared in Fareham that caused a motorist’s car to ‘bottom out’ while trying to drive across it.
Across all counties, reports tell of potholes that have sprung up around previous repairs, suggesting roadworks weren’t completed properly.
One report made in Alton, Hampshire, said, ‘A large pothole has appeared again where the road has been recently dug up. Liable to damage wheels and/or cause an accident.’
Others tell of harrowing accident risks. A log from October 14 in Southwark, London, tells of a ‘Pothole in cycle lane that fills with water. Saw a teenage cyclist wipe out due to it on the way to school.’
Another October report concerned the Croydon Flyover in Surrey, and explained, ‘Hit this in the dark. Seemed like a massive hole as it jolted the whole car. Two other cars had seemingly already hit it and possibly been damaged as they were stopped at the side of the road.’
Meanwhile, the other counties making up the pothole complaint top-10 are Kent, with 227 complaints from cyclists, Oxfordshire with 190, Greater Manchester with 181, Lancashire with 175 and Staffordshire with 156.
James O’Malley of Select Car Leasing said: “These figures are just the tip of the iceberg, as most reports come from just a small section of the cycling community.
“But they’re useful, as they’re indicative of a growing problem. The solution isn’t easy. Council’s facing budget cuts can’t suddenly magic the money for pothole repairs from thin air.
“Yet it’s clear to everyone using the roads that the system as it stands isn’t working and it’s likely the situation will get worse before it gets better.”
James recommends motorists make sure their tyres are correctly inflated as we head into the colder months, as under-inflated tyres are more susceptible to damage from potholes and other road imperfections, with wheels, steering and suspension components bearing the brunt of the damage.
James said: “In cold weather, your tyre pressure drops as the air inside contracts and shrinks. If a tyre is inflated to 29 PSI at 20C, it might only read 26 PSI at 0C.
“And properly inflated tyres - not too soft, and not too hard - is one of the best ways to limit pothole damage.
“If your tyre pressure is too high, the impact of a pothole isn’t transferred properly through the wheel, and it’s more likely to damage your vehicle’s suspension, resulting in damaged track rod ends, broken coil springs or even bent suspension wishbones.
“In winter, we should all be keeping a really close eye on our tyre pressures. Consult the recommended PSI in your vehicle’s handbook and check them at least once a week.”
Select Car Leasing say there’s another growing problem caused by potholes - and that’s motorists swerving into the path of oncoming vehicles to avoid them.
A recent survey Select conducted found a quarter of UK motorists - 23 per cent – had noted ‘other drivers drifting out of lane or over the middle divider line much more frequently’.
And of the fifth of motorists who admitted drifting lanes, 74 per cent reported attempting to avoid potholes, puddles and bumps as the biggest reason.
James adds: “We fear it’s a modern driving habit that’s becoming more and more ubiquitous.
“We’d previously seen anecdotal evidence in discussion on motoring forums - but now it’s been confirmed by our survey data.”
In August this year, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) revealed its own research findings into road holes, hitting local authorities with Freedom of Information requests to help get a fuller picture.
The FSB found almost 700,000 potholes and road defects were reported to councils in the preceding twelve months across England - up significantly from 616,557 in 2018.
Figures also show local authorities had spent almost £1billion fixing roads across the country.
James adds: “There has been lots of good research into the proliferation of potholes in the UK, and the vast majority of it paints a worrying picture.
“Pothole complaints are increasing year-on-year, and councils are being forced to spend increasingly more money on road repairs, however, the problem simply isn’t being solved.
“Compensation payouts to motorists whose cars have been damaged by potholes are also a huge burden, amounting to almost £2m in England each year.
“We’d urge the Government to grant more funds to local authorities so they can start to not only address the back-log of issues but to also make sure repairs are high quality and effective instead of making do with cheap road-fixes that disintegrate within a few months.”
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12309 22nd St NE, Lake Stevens Washington 98258
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