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J. William Horsey Library name will continue
Friday, March 6, 2015 —
J. William Horsey, Chairman of the Board of Governors of Toronto Bible College (TBC) in the 1960s and namesake of Tyndale’s library, was a business man who believed in strong biblical values. “True leadership calls for personal sacrifice, courage and faith,” he said in an address to Toronto’s Board of Trade Club. “The greatest leadership we have known or shall ever know is triumphantly expressed in Christ our Lord.” As a Christian businessman, he was very successful and had a deep devotional life. In 1938, he became President of Dominion Stores. He served on numerous corporate boards as Chairman and Director.
He taught his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to “conduct oneself with honour and integrity, in a way that can help set an example.” Grant Dees, one of his great-grandchildren, spoke of the values and teachings that were instilled in his family by William Horsey: “There was a lot of guidance and discipline in terms of schoolwork and any pursuits outside of school, such as music or sports,” he explained. “We were always encouraged to take those opportunities. Education was always an important feature we discussed at home. Education empowers, and if you have integrity and self-discipline and take the education, you can make something big out of it.”
On February 23, 2015, the Horsey family, Ling family and members of the Tyndale community held a reception at the Bayview campus to reveal the Bayview campus library’s name. His three grandchildren, John Thompson, former president of IBM Canada, Susan Dees, president of the J. William Horsey Foundation, and Jill Clark, as well as several great-grandchildren attended. Guests were treated to a retelling of William’s life by John Thompson, who reiterated that his grandfather’s commitment to hard work, faith and giving of time and resources to the community were values that they were raised on. These values are increasingly important in today’s culture.
Tyndale’s President, Dr. Gary Nelson, couldn’t agree more. “The compelling reason for Tyndale to have named spaces on the new Bayview campus is to honour and showcase those whose lives demonstrate the values we hold as an institution and to be bright examples to generations of students who will study in those spaces. The Horsey family exemplifies this.”
On behalf of his entire family, John expressed deep appreciation for the partnership with the Ling family to ensure the name of the Tyndale library will remain as the J. William Horsey Library.
The Horsey family is a prominent part of Tyndale’s history. J. William Horsey served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of TBC from 1964 until his death in 1968. Under his leadership, TBC expanded and merged with London College of Bible and Missions (LCBM) to become Ontario Bible College (OBC), now Tyndale University College & Seminary. On his golden wedding anniversary in 1964, he established the Clara Banford Horsey Library Fund at the college in honour of his wife. Then in 1966, he donated the library which was later moved from Spadina Road to the campus on Ballyconnor Court. The library provided a dedicated learning space and room to build a growing literary collection, which was necessary for accreditation.
J. William Horsey believed that young people need help, encouragement and guidance. He encouraged learning, and this desire was reflected in his efforts for educational causes at OBC and the University of Western Ontario and as a member of the Board of Governors of York University. He served actively with many Christian organizations, including Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and Yonge Street Mission.
We are honoured and grateful for J. William Horsey's part in Tyndale's history and his family's continued support.
To learn more about J. William Horsey, read his biography on the Tyndale library website.
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Through a partnership between the University of Idaho College of Law and FACES of Hope (FACES), a non-profit in Boise which seeks to facilitate a coordinated community response to interpersonal violence in a single location, the Family Justice Clinic (FJC), provides U of I law students the opportunity to develop their legal skills while providing free legal assistance to survivors of domestic and sexual violence, child abuse and elder abuse.
In January 2018, the FJC began operating not as a clinic, but a Semester in Practice, by accepting its first two U of I law students. In Fall 2019, the Family Justice Clinic officially became the sixth legal clinic offered at U of I Law.
Students in their third year at U of I are able to take the lessons learned in the classroom and assist in the full representation of survivors of domestic and sexual violence. From the initial application, interviews and drafting of pleadings to the negotiation with opposing counsel and trial, students handle all aspects of the client’s civil case.
The vast majority of clinical work is completed at a dedicated office within FACES, rather than within the law school itself. By working within FACES, students have the opportunity to work with other professionals advocating for those impacted by interpersonal violence, including a Special Victim Unit of the Boise Police Department, investigators of child abuse with the Department of Health and Welfare, medical professionals with St. Luke’s and St. Alphonsus, victim advocates, counselors and many others. The immersion with the various community resources provides a unique opportunity for U of I students to not only gain real world legal experience but to make an impact in the lives of many of those abused and victimized in and around Boise.
I have loved coming to the clinic and feeling like every day I am accomplishing something good and helping those who truly need it. It feels great to make a difference in people’s lives. I signed up for the Family Justice Clinic because I wanted to change the world around me for the better, and I feel like I am doing that.Nathan Askins, 3L Student Fall 2019
Joining the U of I Law faculty in November 2017, Assistant Professor Michael Carney oversees the Family Justice Clinic as its clinical director and staff attorney. For more than 17 years, he has been involved in advocacy for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. As an undergraduate at Central Michigan University, he was heavily involved in the Sexual Aggression Peer Advocates student group. Through this organization, he advocated and assistant in running a 24/7 crisis line for students and surrounding community members to call when in crisis as a result of domestic or sexual violence.
After graduating from the University of Missouri School of Law in 2010, he began his career with Mid-Missouri Legal Services, Corp. in Columbia, MO. MMLS is LSC-funded program providing free civil legal services to low-income individuals. Over the course of the next 7 years, he actively litigated hundreds of cases, including divorce, custody, paternity, evictions, and protection orders, among many others. In 2011, he began an externship program in conjunction with Mizzou Law where advanced law students assist in providing legal representation in housing-related matters. In August 2012, he was hired as an adjunct professor at Mizzou Law, where he led a practicum in housing law and taught a course state and federal landlord/tenant law. Throughout all of this, he continued to support the Mizzou Family Violence Clinic through guest lectures and supervision of law students in representation in protection order cases.
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The program will continue as a Semester in Practice for the Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 semesters. Students at the time of completing the externship/SIP/program, must be 3Ls in good standing. Further, they must apply and be approved for a limited-license through the Idaho Bar and successfully complete a background check. Students must apply and are selected by the program director after an interview process.
To apply, please send Michael Carney via email a brief cover letter explaining your interest and your current resume. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the positions will remain open until all positions are filled. In your cover letter/email please indicate your preferred semester (Fall or Spring) and whether you would like to be considered for either semester.
Individuals needing assistance can apply by appearing in person at FACES between 8 and 5, M-F or can contact us at 208-577-4495 for more information.
Beginning in Jan. 2018, the College of Law has partnered with Faces of Hope in Boise to provide legal services for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. The program provides law students the chance to take the knowledge and skills they learn in the classroom and put them in action by representing survivors in various civil legal issues including divorce, custody, housing, and attaining of protection orders. Students interview clients and witnesses, draft pleadings, negotiate with opposing counsel and advocate in court. By working closely with the program’s professor and licensed attorney, Michael Carney, students learn to engage in client-centered representation and exercise strategic judgment.
Our partnership with Faces of Hope is one example of the College’s dedication to providing students both with meaningful experiential learning opportunities while still at the College, as well as opportunities to have real and significant impacts on the lives of their clients. Faces of Hope is a wonderful collaboration of legal, medical, counseling, and law enforcement providers, and the College is honored to be able to participate and provide as much assistance as we can.
The FJC is an amazing program not just for law students, but also for members of the community. The hands-on experience you receive is irreplaceable. We are able to work directly with clients and represent them throughout the entirety of their case. The hardest part of working at the Family Justice Clinic is knowing how many victims of sexual and domestic violence will not be able get the legal services they need. The fact that we have to turn away so many is a true testament to the on-going need for the Clinic and the services it provides to the community.Kirsten Heninger, 3L FJC Student Fall 2019
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Ukrainian raspberry, blackberry export revenues drop
By the end of 2017, Ukraine exported 1.238 tons of raspberries and blackberries, which is 72% more than in 2016. At the same time, the revenues from this type of export grew by only 15%, from $0.8 million to $0.94 million. Thus, the Ukrainian raspberry and blackberry export revenues decreased 1.5 times.
"By the end of 2017, Ukraine exported 1.238 tons of raspberries and blackberries, which is 72% more than in 2016 when 720 tons of these berries were exported. In monetary terms, the export revenues amounted to $0.94 million in 2017 against $0.8 million in 2016," the press service of the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry of Ukraine reports.
The largest importers of Ukrainian raspberries and blackberries were Poland (961.3 tons worth $799,100), Belarus (238.3 tons worth $115,200), Romania (32.6 tons worth $11,800), Israel (2.7 tons worth $10,600), Estonia (2.6 tons worth $2,500) and Moldova (0.5 tons worth $0,300).
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Current Criminal Justice (CJ) students are encouraged to explore the CJ Student Society, a UMass Lowell student organization, and the Criminal Justice Honor Society, Alpha Phi Sigma.
Criminal Justice Student Society (Established 2000)
The purpose of the Criminal Justice Student Society (CJSS) is to provide the students of UMass Lowell with an organization interested in the many branches of the criminal justice field. Members of this organization will have the opportunity to participate in a variety of club-sponsored events including, but not limited to, workshops, tours and guest speakers. The CJSS is also interested in offering academic support in the criminal justice curriculum at UMass Lowell.
The club was formed at the beginning of the 2000/2001 year and meets every other Wednesday starting at 6 p.m.
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CJ Honor Society
Alpha Phi Sigma is the National Criminal Justice Honor Society. It is the recognized honor society for graduate and undergraduate students in the criminal justice field.
Alpha Phi Sigma offers:
A membership certificate, membership pin and wallet card once admitted into the National Society
Undergraduate students must:
be CJ majors or have a CJ minor
have completed three full time semesters or equivalent and four courses must be in CJ field
have a 3.2 overall GPA and 3.2 GPA in CJ classes
Graduate students must:
have completed 12 semester hours
have a 3.4 GPA overall and in CJ courses
$ 50 membership fee per student
Applications are available on the bulletin board outside of the main CJ office, in Mahoney 214.
For more information about Alpha Phi Sigma, please contact Cathy_Levey@uml.edu.
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June 28 - July 14 2017
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Welcome to the emerald land where you'll find never-ending adventure and exploration. Experience the unparalleled mystique of Peru, a country with one of the richest ancient histories in the world. From its archeological marvels to its diversity of natural landscapes, the mystical world of Peru is unlike anything you have ever seen. Explore Cusco, Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca and more. Combine this with the vibrant and friendly Peruvian people for a rewarding and unforgettable experience.
Peru Itinerary
Day 1: Los Angeles to Cusco
Meet at LAX and depart on the group flight to Cusco with your Unearthed Leader. Upon arrival the team will transfer to their accommodation for a program orientation.
Day 2: Cusco Orientation
Cusco, located at 3,400m, was once the capital of the Incan Empire and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It's a beautiful city, with cobbled streets set around an impressive central square known as the Plaza De Armas. The team will spend the day exploring Cusco.
Day 3 to 7: Community Project
This morning the team will be met by our in-country partner in Cusco and transferred to their community project in Miski Uno. This community is located approximately 40 minutes from Cusco and is home to over 90 families. Their main livelihood is agriculture. The community houses are poorly equipped lacking basic amenities. Despite the challenges, the community is made up of positive, happy people. The team will be given an orientation of the community and project work and will then begin work in the afternoon.
The team project will include constructing a greenhouse, which extends the growing season from a few months to year round, so that the local people can grow nutritious vegetables and allows them to grow flowers which can be sold at the local market to earn an income.
Day 8 to 11: Ancient Footsteps
Today the team will transfer to Las Chulpas Eco Lodge to meet the trekking guides and prepare for a wilderness adventure among the Andes Mountains. Relax during the afternoon and enjoy the peaceful surrounds of the eco lodge.
Trekking will commence from Pumahuanca Valley (3,000m) going gradually upwards towards the Pacchaspata Community where they will have their first break for lunch in a beautiful spot below the peaks and waterfalls (Pacchaspata means waterfalls). After lunch, the team will walk up to the first camp site in Cuyoc at 4,000m. This camp is located just before the first pass, next to the Qeuna Forest, made of native trees that grow at high altitude.
Day 12: Macchu Picchu
The team will catch the bus up to Machu Picchu and once inside, will spend the morning exploring this famous site. Built in the 15th Century, but later abandoned, this Incan Citadel is an impressive structure, surrounded by the majestic Andes. Late morning the team will return to Aguas Calientes in order to catch their train on Vistadome 204 at 13.37 to arrive into Ollyantaytambo at 15.37 The team to organise transport to Cusco
Day 12-13: Cusco
Day 14: Cusco to Puno
Today the team will head to Puno on local transport. The journey will take approximately 8 hours. Puno is a city located on the shore of Lake Titicaca and is the gateway for excursions and adventures on the lake.
Day 15: Lake Titicaca
Today the team will explore Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world, at 3,800m. The views across the lake with the Andes in the backdrop are spectacular. The team will spend the day visiting the Floating Islands or Isla Taquille.
Day 14: Puno to Arequipa
Today the team will travel from Puno to Arequipa. Arequipa is a beautiful city surrounded by mountains, thermal springs, desert and deep canyons.
Day 15: Arequipa
The team is free to explore and sightsee in Arequipa for the day. They may choose to visit Museo Santuarios Andinos, Monasterio De Santa Catalina and enjoy the impressive views to the Volano El Misti. The team are to arrange accommodation on arrival and transport for Nazca the following day.
Day 15: Arequipa to Nazca
Today he team will travel from Arequipa to Nazca.
Day 15: Nazca
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The Faces of Orkeeswa- Dickson Sampson
In the third installment of The Morningstar Foundation's "The Faces of Orkeeswa" series, we will be taking a peak into the afterschool lives of one of Orkeeswa's younger students, Second Former Dickson Sampson.
In this video, which Dickson produced by himself as a Form One student at Orkeeswa, Dickson takes his audience into his boma, or home.
He shows the camera his family farm, where they raise maize and other plants, the places where the family chickens, rabbits, goats, and donkeys live, his room, and his family. We meet Judy (his mother), Sampson (his father), Naomi (his sister), and Gabriel (his brother).
As a young student at Orkeeswa, Dickson is not completely sure what he wants to do when he grows up. However, because of the opportunities afforded to him by attending Orkeeswa, he is open to exploring many new activities and interests that he otherwise would never have dreamed of trying. His experience producing this video of his home, for example, has recently gotten him interested in potentially becoming a movie director. "I want to go to Hollywood when I grow up," Dickson said. In addition, he participates in Orkeeswa's afterschool sports, reads voraciously, and writes for the school newspaper.
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The Dieppe Raid
Beachcomber Delivers the News
To increase youth awareness of Canadian efforts in the Dieppe Raid during the Second World War.
Youth will:
develop a basic understanding of the Canadian efforts in the Dieppe Raid;
develop an awareness of how pigeons were helpful during the Dieppe raid; and
develop an awareness of the importance of remembering the sacrifices and achievements of those who fought in the Dieppe Raid.
This activity is suitable for ages 5 to 7.
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(This activity can be modified to fit available time.)
Discussion [10 minutes]
Read aloud [5 minutes]
Maze and colouring sheet activity [15 minutes]
Beachcomber Delivers the News handout
Beachcomber Delivers the News maze
Beachcomber Delivers the News Dickin Medal colouring sheet
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Wait for Me Daddy image
Have a brief discussion with your students about what makes a person a friend. Discuss sharing, playing together, helping, etc. Then shift the conversation to what they think a whole country could do to be a friend.
Provide the children with a bit of an understanding about the Second World War. Talk about how the war began more than 75 years ago, before their parents or maybe even their grandparents were born! Look at a world map and locate the continent of Europe. Discuss and show them how far away Europe is from Canada and North America. See if they can spot France.
Mention that the war started in Europe when some of the countries there were “bullying” some of the other countries. In places like Dieppe, France, people and families sometimes lost their homes, and many people were cold and hungry. Canada decided to help stop the bullying and sent thousands of Canadians to help.
Some of these brave people were parents. It was hard for them to leave their families in Canada and go so far away to risk their lives. Many of them stayed overseas for four or five years to fight in the war. Their children missed them too. Share with the children the Wait for Me Daddy image—the picture of a five-year-old boy running after his dad as he marches off to war. What would mom and dad be feeling? What would the boy be feeling? Does any child in the class have a parent who has to travel far away for work? If so, how did it make them feel? Or how do they think it would make them feel?
The Canadian soldiers fought in many difficult battles, but eventually they did help to free the French people from the enemy, and helped them to get food and warm clothing. French people were very thankful for the help from Canadians.
Read aloud the handout Beachcomber Delivers the News to help students understand how animals, such as pigeons have helped humans in times of war.
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Trafficware Projects Selected as Best of ITS Award Finalist
HOUSTON, June 4, 2018 – Houston-based Trafficware, one of the nation’s foremost providers of traffic signal control technology, has two of its projects selected as finalists in the “Best of ITS Showcase.” The winner will be announced today at the Best of ITS Showcase & State DOT Reception at the Intelligent Transportation Society Annual Meeting in Detroit at Cobo Center.
Trafficware projects highlighted for excellence include:
TidalWave™, a live streaming traffic information service powered by SWIM.AI machine-learning and edge computing (SWIM.AI was just named 2018 Cool Vendor in IoT Analytics by Gartner). The TidalWave service is now available nationally and is based on the original work developed in Silicon Valley for the first open source traffic data used in connected vehicle applications (also a 2016 Best of ITS finalist).
The first of its kind, ‘intelligent edge’ architecture is designed for use by connected vehicle, smart cities, and ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) markets. TidalWave uses a disruptive approach based on edge learning, providing high resolution live data from city intersections in less than a second from actual conditions and reduces the raw data volume by a factor of over 1,000. It also streams timing plan and signal performance data directly from each intersection to an API for access by 3rd party applications, such as driverless cars.
Proving a Point: City of Baytown's SynchroGreen Adaptive Signal Timing Validation for Precise Traffic Analysis, a Best of ITS Texas Winner, Fall 2017
Baytown is a major hub for oil refining, chemical, plastics and rubber manufacturing outside of Houston. The City implemented adaptive signal control on busy corridors that are vital links for a large concentration of commercial and retail businesses that cause unpredictable levels of congestion. With funding from the Texas Department of Transportation, the deployment, managed 100 % by the city, included three corridors controlling 37 intersections or over 40% of the City’s 90 intersections. To measure overall system effectiveness, Baytown utilized data from BlueTOAD Bluetooth readers for historical travel time comparisons. Before and after data clearly showed travel-time improvements of 20-25% on average.
For more information on both projects, visit Trafficware’s booth #310 or call 281-269-6512.
About Trafficware
Trafficware specializes in research, design, and development of electronic equipment and enterprise software to support the transportation industry. Trafficware’s almost four decades of industry expertise includes hands-on experience solving traffic management challenges, earning the company a reputation for unmatched quality. Trafficware’s projects won consecutive Best of ITS Texas awards. The company’s flagship Synchro® with SimTraffic Simulation and Analysis Software product alone is used by engineers in more than 90 countries. The company also manufactures a full line of traffic equipment at its 100,000 square-foot technology center outside Houston, Texas. Trafficware’s growth is backed by KRG Capital Partners, a private equity firm with more than $4 billion in capital.
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Find Trails > California > Scotts Valley > Scotts Valley Hiking Trails
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Looking for the best Hiking trails around Scotts Valley?
Find the top rated hiking trails in Scotts Valley, whether you're looking for an easy short hiking trail or a long hiking trail, you'll find what you're looking for. Click on a hiking trail below to find trail descriptions, trail maps, photos, and reviews.
Albertson Parkway
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Monterey Bay Coastal Recreation Trail
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Concrete, Metal
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Three Creeks Trail
Umbarger Road Parkway
Upper Silver Creek Trail
Upper Struve Slough Trail
Watsonville Slough Trail
Concrete, Gravel
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The Albertson Parkway is located in South San Jose, just steps away from the sprawling Santa Teresa County Park, which features preserved land and unpaved trails in the rolling Santa Teresa Hills. The...
Nestled between Alum Rock Canyon and the Mt. Diablo foothills, Alum Rock Park west of San Jose is California's oldest city park. From the early to mid-1900s it was a popular resort and spa, complete...
The Barberry Walkway runs parallel to Barberry Lane between Corda Drive near Meadowfair Park and Dina Lane. There are plans to extend the walkway along the outskirts of the park to Quimby Road.
The Beach Range Road Multi-Use Trail runs parallel to State Route 1 along the Pacific Coast, offering a safe alternative for commuters in Sand City, Seaside and Marina, and for students attending...
The Calero Creek Trail runs between Singer Park and Santa Teresa County Park. The trail is paved between Los Alamitos Creek and Harry Road (0.7 mile) and has a gravel surface between Harry Road and...
For most of its length, the scenic Coyote Creek Trail meanders along its namesake creek south of the city of San Jose. South of Metcalf Road, an equestrian trail parallels the paved trail. A smaller...
The Evergreen Creek Trail follows its namesake creek between San Felipe Road and Yerba Buena Road. To the north of the gravel trail is suburbia (with a row of trees separating the trail from the...
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The Highway 87 Bikeway follows State Route 87 between Willow Street in the north and Santa Teresa Boulevard at W. Valley Freeway (SR 85) in the south. Basically, the trail forms the missing link...
Joe's Trail at Saratoga de Anza parallels the south side of the active Union Pacific Railroad tracks that travel through a residential area of Saratoga, a California community just south of the San...
This extremely scenic rail-trail is located in the majestic Forest of Nisene Marks State Park near Aptos, California. The park was the site of major logging operations by the Loma Prieta Lumber...
The Los Alamitos Creek Trail runs along its namesake creek between McKean Road and Almaden Lake Park, where the trail is also known as the Lake Almaden Trail. From its southern endpoint to Camden...
It is difficult to travel through suburban Santa Clara County for more than a few minutes without noticing an abundance of cyclists and runners in the area. If you are strolling to downtown Los Gatos,...
CA 11.2 mi Asphalt, Dirt, Gravel
The Lower Silver Creek Trail runs in a nearly straight line between Ocala Avenue and Dobern Avenue (Abed Court). Between Foxdale Drive and Logsden Way there's a short (about 0.25 mile) on-street...
Winding along the Pacific coast, the Monterey Bay Coastal Recreation Trail offers breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean and a great way to tour Monterey and adjacent communities while enjoying the...
The Montgomery Hill Trail is a short dirt trail traversing Montgomery Hill Park, an undeveloped green space in San Jose. The trail offers nice views of the surrounding area and links Yerba Buena Creek...
CA 0.4 mi Dirt, Grass
The Ohlone Loop Trail offers a birder's paradise in a wetland area of Watsonville on California's central coast. Its location, bordering a residential area, provides easy access for residents to...
CA 3 mi Concrete
The Penitencia Creek Trail follows its namesake creek through a suburban greenbelt in northeast San José. On the northeastern end, the trail passes by a series of percolation ponds, and you can take a...
CA 2.8 mi Asphalt, Gravel
The San Lorenzo River Parkway Trestle Trail is the first completed segment of the Coastal Rail Trail, which will eventually run 32 miles from Davenport to Watsonville. The segment from Santa Cruz to...
CA 0.1 mi Concrete, Metal
The Santa Cruz Riverwalk Trail follows both sides of the river through downtown Santa Cruz, a California beach town on the shores of Monterey Bay. Multiple pedestrian bridges allow easy access to the...
Saratoga Creek Trail follows the winding course of the creek between just south of I-280 (Junipero Serra Freeway) and Saratoga Creek Park. The trail parallels the Lawrence Expressway/County Route G2...
Silver Creek Valley Trail follows its namesake creek and paralleling Silver Creek Valley Road. The passes through a country club neighborhood and through open space over a steep hill. The trail offers...
The Southern Pacific Railroad Right-of-Way passes through residential neighborhoods on the west side of Pacific Grove, providing a nice walking and biking spot for residents and visiting tourists to...
The Three Creeks Trail will one day span 3 miles through San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood. In 2018, the western leg of the trail opened, stretching nearly a mile from Coe Avenue to just south of...
The Umbarger Road Parkway parallels its namesake road for just over 0.5 mile between Plumas Drive and Tuers Road in a narrow strip of greenspace surrounded by suburbia. The similar Barberry Walkway is...
The Upper Silver Creek Trail courses through Silver Creek Linear Park, offering a nice play area and picnicking at the southern end and tennis courts and a basketball court at the northern end....
The Upper Struve Slough Trail is part of a network of trails running through Watsonville's wetlands, offering a natural, outdoor experience and birding hotspot right in the heart of an urban area. The...
The Watsonville Slough Trail follows its namesake waterway through a residential area of the city. It's part of a system of trails in a wetland area abundant with birds; you might see ducks,...
CA 2.8 mi Concrete, Gravel
The West Cliff Drive Bicycle Path is just over 3 miles long, but, with its gorgeous backdrop of ocean waves and dramatic cliffs, you'll wish it was longer. The fairly flat, paved trail winds its way...
The Yerba Buena Creek Trail follows its namesake creek through Evergreen Park behind the community center, paralleling Yerba Buena Road and Park Estates Way.
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my all-time favorite trail
May, 2019 by almaden_hiker_1970
I literally grew up on this trail, back when it was unpaved, and was just some weird, seldom-used backwater ie., prior to the early 1980s or thereabouts, at which point it started getting much more developed & popular. I have seen (quite large!) blue herons on (or adjacent) to this trail many times, and in 1995, I once saw a bobcat (at night, between Vasona dam and Lark Avenue). There are many turtles, and about 40 years ago, I once saw a Northern Pike (just behind Vasona dam). I've witnessed scores of salmon spawning at the Camden Avenue dam.
Not Exactly The Aesthetic I Was Hoping For
March, 2019 by wheatieman
I rode part of this trail last week, from Pacific Grove up to the town of Seaside. It is quite scenic, in spots, but you also ride through some urban congestion and cross a number of busy intersections. It's also not very well marked. I got some advice from Adventures By the Sea, an outfitter located at the beginning of the trail, that was very helpful given the relative lack of signage. Maybe this trail gets quieter and more protected from traffic as you get further from Monterey, but I decided to turn around and ride part of the 17 Mile Drive instead when I hit the busy intersection at Seaside. If I try it again, I think I'd rather start in Castroville, at the northern end, and ride south.
March, 2019 by thejake91739
Whenever we visit the Monterey Peninsula, we always make sure to ride our bikes or walk multiple times on the Monterey Bay Coastal Recreation Trail. Very few places in the world can match the beauty and splendor of this trail, especially between Lovers Point Park in Pacific Grove to the Wharf in Monterey. This portion of the trail is most certainly perfect for visitors and walking enthusiasts.
Beyond the wharf up to Castroville (the Artichoke Capital of the World) is for individuals looking for a much more intense workout.
If I lived on the peninsula, I'd be somewhere on that trail every day!
An Ideal Experience
February, 2019 by thejake91739
On a gray May morning in 2018, my wife and I headed north from Pacific Grove to ride the West Cliff Path. We parked on Swanton Blvd., which is pretty much right at the trailhead, and then headed down the smooth asphalt path/promenade.
The path has spectacular ocean views, plenty of benches to relax upon, restored Victorian homes, art installations, a surf museum, huge amounts of surfers, an extra long pier with a residence of sea lions, a multitude of photo ops, and even an amusement park when you reach the end.
At the trail's end consider continuing across the San Lorenzo River and navigating some quiet residential streets to get a better view of the Walton Lighthouse and look back up the coastline.
Even though we rode on a weekday morning, the path had quite a bit of use by walkers, joggers, dog walkers, amusement park goers, and surfers. It slows you down a bit, but that's OK since to ride this trail is all about the essence of the scenery!
With the exception of one hill as you descend the cliff down to sea level near the pier, it's all flat which is perfect for a couple of sixty somethings.
All in all, it's a path to be taken slowly and to be savored, an ideal experience!
Richmond Start
February, 2019 by acewickwire
Started at the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond and traveled south (clockwise) along the bay to the Central Ave intersection and return. A good portion of the trail is wide and plenty of room for walkers and bikers. The last couple miles we rode is a bit narrower, still enough room for both. Trail condition is great. A number of interpretative signs are placed, discussing the history and nature of this area. Well worth the visit. Take time to see the Rosie Visitor Center. Luck was with us when we visited and were able to attend a talk by the National Park Service’s oldest park ranger (97 yrs old). Betty Reid Soskin is an articulate speaker and recounted her time living in the area and working in the ship yards during WWII. If given the opportunity don’t miss out. Noted that the trail in this area had great signage and shouldn’t have any trouble following the route. Some of the trail going north (counterclockwise) was on the street with designated bike lanes. Looking forward to doing other sections of this trail when we visit again in the future.
Good Connection to West Cliff
Only rode a short distance of this trail from Trader Joe’s parking lot down to the West Cliff Drive Bicycle Path. Some traffic on this trail but not as much as the West Cliff path. Path condition was fine, not a real wide path but ok. A number of homeless folks hanging out on and along the path. Was panhandled while in Trader Joe’s parking lot. At no time did we feel uncomfortable with environment, just unfortunate.
Busy Trail
Started the ride at Trader Joe’s parking lot along the Santa Cruz Riverwalk, rode downstream to the intersection with the West Cliff Drive trail. Then rode up the coast to the end of this trail. Trail in good condition and nice surface but lots & lots of other folks on the trail, mostly walkers. Great scenery of Santa Cruz bay, coastline, and surfers along the trail. So much traffic on the trail made it challenging. Once at end of trail decided it would be easier to ride the road. So on return trip stayed on the parallel road and sailed along without obstruction. Consider this as the return option.
Lacks Good Directional Signage
We rode this in two sections.
First section started at Casa Verde Way and rode North to the intersection of Lapis Road and Hwy 1. Missed the first left turn to go over dunes (no directional signage) and after a short distance realized we needed to back track. Then at Lapis Road & Hwy 1 the trail appeared to end at this intersection (no directional signage), could have explored down the highway at little to find remainder of trail but by then had ridden about 15 miles, so called it at that point. We did divert off of this trail to ride the parallel Beach Range Road trail in Fort Ord Dunes State Park. That road is much wider and nicer to ride. Depending how long of ride you want but recommend ending at the North end of Beach Range Road and then return.
Second Section: Started again at Casa Verde Way heading south to end of trail at Lovers Point and return. This portion of trail has many more walkers and bikers but trail is wide enough for all and in very good condition. This portion has some great scenery, a number of interpretive signs along the way, stopped to watch the Harbor Seals at a number of stops. Highly recommend this portion of trail.
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CONTINENTAL ELECTRONICS 420 C
Type 420 C 500 kW Shortwave Broadcast Transmitter
The Continental Electronics 420 C transmitter is a versatile, state-of-the art, high efficiency 500 kW shortwave transmitter. It is capable of being operated in standard amplitude modulation, controlled carrier level modulation or single sideband service.
From a central master control panel or from a remote computer control and monitoring station, this transmitter may be set up and pretuned or automatically tuned to deliver full carrier power at any frequency between 3.9 and 26.1 MHz. It may be manually tuned using controls and indicators located on the central master control panel.
The Continental Electronics type 420 C transmitter described herein employs some of the most technologically advanced components available today. The highly efficient modulator uses the latest insulated gate bi-polar switching transistors, and the final power amplifier uses the most modern tetrodes. All components and circuitry have been selected to provide optimum performance and reliability.
The type 420 C transmitter power amplifier operates equally well using either the Varian 4CM400,000 or the Thomson CSF TH558 tetrodes.
All critical major components of the RF amplifier such as vacuum tubes and vacuum capacitors are either water or water-vapor cooled. Dual loop liquid cooling systems can be provided when required by freezing conditions. In this case, the secondary or outside cooling system will use a water/ethylene glycol coolant. The highly efficient solid state modulator is air cooled.
The transmitter includes all required switchgear, power supplies, protective circuits, amplifiers, controls, as well as cooling and peripheral equipment. It is compact in design yet easy to service and maintain. Particular care in the design has been given to operational reliability and efficiency, resulting in a transmitter capable of providing high quality broadcast service with minimum maintenance and down time.
EFFICIENT RELIABLE CIRCUITS
The transmitter employs anode modulation of the final RF power amplifier stage to achieve amplitude modulation (A3E) transmissions. The single sideband modes (H3E and R3E) with both full and reduced carrier level, are accomplished with anode modulation of the RF power amplifier stage and phase modulation of the frequency synthesizer. The power amplifier stage operates in the Class C condition which provides the highest RF amplifier efficiency and the same tuning and loading conditions for all of the operational modes.
HIGH "Q"
Key to the RF performance of the transmitter is the power amplifier output network. The 420 C uses a High Q, dual transmission line coupled cavity followed by a T network and VHF filter that provides the desired impedance transformation and attenuates any spurious and harmonic signals to acceptable levels. The dual transmission line coupled cavity is essentially free of any parasitic resonances which ensures a highly stable transmitter over the continuous 3.9 to 26.1 MHz tuning range. Each copper transmission line of the cavity is terminated at its far end by a movable terminating plane. Contact of the plane to the lines and to the walls of the cavity is through a multiplicity of pneumatically activated, silver alloy contacts. Contacts are released automatically during tuning, and the plane is moved only during the "no power" mode. Capacitors are used for fine tuning.
Typical average tuning time for 10 auto-tune frequencies is 25 seconds. The transmitter can be tuned to any frequency between 3.9 and 26.1 MHz in less than 30 seconds.
The high efficiency solid state modulator consists of 48 series-connected 700 volt switch modules which are sequentially and rapidly switched on and off to provide the anode voltage necessary for the carrier level and any desired depth of modulation up to 100%.
An overall modulator efficiency of greater than 95% is assured through the use of the conservatively rated, fast switching insulated gate bi-polar transistors.
The modular configuration of the system provides redundancy and gradual lowering of the transmitter output power level in the event of a switching module failure. Loss of one switching module results in about a two percent reduction in peak transmitter output power, and normal transmitter operation continues uninterrupted. The audio bandwidth is flat within +1 dB from 50 to 7500 Hz and the total harmonic distortion is less than 3%. Squarewave performance with less than 5% tilt or overshoot assures an accurate reproduction of complex audio processing.
The modulator is capable of supplying PA anode voltage at any level required to operate the transmitter up to the full power output level. The power output level of the transmitter is controlled by "Raise" and "Lower" switches that adjust the level in 0.1 dB steps from the transmitter control panel or from a remote location.
CCM & SSB OPERATION
Controlled carrier-level modulation (CCM) and single sideband (SSB) operation are standard features of the transmitter. CCM and SSB are selectable from switches on the transmitter control panel, or via remote control. The CCM system adjusts the level of the RF carrier when the transmitter is in the AM mode, such that the carrier is maintained at a sufficient level so that the peak audio program level will result in 100% modulation. During program pauses, the carrier level will fall to a preset level of from -1 dB to -6 dB of the full carrier level. With CCM operation, the total input power consumption may be reduced as much as 20 to 25 % from the non CCM power requirement.
Single sideband operation is accomplished with the envelope elimination and restoration technique which is also known as the phase-amplitude method. This allows high power SSB operation with the same high efficiency of AM. Carrier level is adjustable from -6 to -24 dB in 3 dB steps. Unwanted products are >35 dB below either tone of a two tone signal of full PEP.
Several doors on the power amplifier cabinet give easy, uncluttered access to interior components. The modulator and other sub-systems can be reached in a walk-around mode.
All door interlocks and grounding switches are safeguarded by a keyed door lock system.
REMOTE & LOCAL CONTROL
Local control and monitoring of all transmitter functions is accomplished at the transmitter local control panel. Meters, push button switches and illuminated displays are arranged to provide user friendly operation. A conventional computer keyboard is provided as a part of the panel. The operator can select a multitude of control, status and monitoring functions through simple and easily learned mnemonics.
Remote control and monitoring of the transmitter is through a remote control port at 19,200 bps, 8 character bits and one stop bit. Either RS232 or RS422 is available, although RS422 is recommended.
The command mnemonics can be modified, if desired, to allow a user to employ the same mnemonics as may be used in presently existing equipment. In addition, this remote system can be easily modified to accommodate multiple transmitter installations and to provide other control functions such as control of RF output matrixes, antenna slewing switches, program audio matrixes, etc.
Because most transmitter installations are different from one another, there is no single installation plan that can be universally appropriate. Continental Electronics recognizes this and stands ready to assist customers in the installation planning. Installation and commissioning supervision can also be supplied, or the entire installation and commissioning effort can be provided.
The typical installation layout can be modified to suit almost any building configuration. The only constraint is that the two power transformers and the solid state modulator must be in the same relative positions.
Heat exchanger requirements are dependent on expected environmental conditions. The area is the maximum that is likely to be required.
Because the transmitter becomes a significant part of any transmitter building, the 420 C transmitter can be provided painted in almost any two-tone color scheme desired.
Tuned Balun
An optional tuned balun can be mounted on top of the power amplifier cabinet, or in any other convenient location.
The balun delivers RF power to a 300 ohm balanced output transmission line, matching this impedance to the unbalanced output impedance of the final power amplifier. The highly efficient variable inductor employed is resonated by two parallel, water cooled, variable vacuum capacitors.
Dummy Load
An optional, liquid cooled, compact dummy load using very stable deposited film resistor elements, with load impedances of 50 or 75 ohms unbalanced and 300 ohms balanced, is available.
RF Carrier Power (A3E) 500 kW on all frequencies through the 3.9 to 26.1 MHz range.
Reduced RF Carrier Output Power (A3E) Any power level between 50 kW and 500 kW.
RF Output Power (H3E & R3E) 1000 kW PEP Two-Tone, 1500 kW PEP Program Modulation.
Frequency Range 3.9 to 26.1 MHz continuous in 100 Hz increments.
Tuning Time An average of 10 typical frequency changes take less than 25 seconds each.
Standing Wave Ratio 2.0:1 VSWR at full power.
Output Impedance 75 ohms or 50 ohms unbalanced, 300 ohms balanced.
Modes of Emission AM (A3E), SSB (H3E & R3E).
Modulation Method PA anode modulation using high efficiency solid state modulator.
Modulation Capability 100% sinusoidal modulation at frequencies from 50 to 7,500 Hz, for ten (10) minutes per hour.
Up to 70% modulation on a continuous basis.
Controlled Carrier Level Modulation The Type 420 C Transmitter has the capability of operating in a controlled carrier modulation mode (CCM).
This is an amplitude modulation technique that scales the amplitude of the carrier to the percentage of modulation.
The carrier can be reduced as much as 6 dB below the rated value.
This feature can be a major cost saving to the user.
Single Sideband Operation (H3E & R3E) Single Sideband (SSB) operation is provided using a phase-amplitude method of generating the single sideband signal.
RF Spurious Noise Less than 50 mW. Out of band emissions are in compliance with CCIR 328-5.
RF Harmonic Outputs Less than 50 mW.
Audio Response (A3E) ±1 dB from 50 Hz to 7,500 Hz at 70% modulation or any lower modulation level.
Audio Response ±1 dB 100 Hz to 4,500 Hz at any level up to the average power capability.
Audio Harmonic Distortion (A3E) Less than 3.5% at 90% modulation from 50 to 7,500 Hz.
Audio Harmonic Distortion (H3E & R3E) Less than 3.5% at full average power capability from 100 to 4,500 Hz.
Intermodulation Distortion (H3E & R3E) At least -35 dB relative to either tone of a two-tone test signal.
Carrier Reduction (H3E & R3E) -6 dB to -24 dB relative to two audio tone PEP output, adjustable in 3 dB steps.
Audio Input Requirements Adjustable from -8 dBm to +10 dBm for 100% modulation.
Audio Input Impedance 600 ohms, or 10K ohms, balanced.
Carrier Level Shift (A3E) Less than or equal to ± 3% shift at 100% ton modulation with 1,000 Hz sinewave exclusive of power line variations.
Carrier Noise -56 dB unweighted referenced to 100% modulation with a 1,000 Hz tone.
Power Source 4,160 Vac, or 11,000 Vac, 3 phase, three wire, 50/60 Hz.
Other voltages may be accomodated on special order.
Main power requirement is 1,200 kW with a 100% tone modulation condition and equal to or greater than 0.95 lagging power factor.
Efficiency The overall efficiency of the Type 420 C Transmitter measured as an average of ten frequencies
over the range 3.9-26.1 MHz at 500 kW carrier power level will not be less than 73% with any depth of modulation.
Overall efficiency of 75% is expected during cool weather conditions and at the lower RF frequencies.
Ambient Temperature +5 to +45° Centigrade, indoors -10 to +45° Centigrade, outdoors.
Lower temperatures may be accommodated on special order.
Altitude Up to 2,000 meters above sea level. Higher altitudes may be accommodated on special order.
Relative Humidity 0 to 95%, non-condensing relative humidity.
Cooling Water, water-vapor, and air cooling is employed.
All necessary cooling is an integral part of the Type 420 C Transmitter.
Demineralized water requirements are less than or equal to 1 gallon per day.
No discrete air ducting is required.
1 4CM400,000A/AG or 4CM500,000G
or TH558 or TH576 or RS 2078 or BEL550,000CX
1 3CW20,000A7
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What The Oddities Of The English Language Can Teach Us About Its Complex History
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“The history of language,” German instructor Matthew Bauman tells Urbo, “is one of things being weird. And that’s good.”
One example of things being weird: the word “knight.” Its spelling has confused new readers and speakers of English for centuries. Why are those letters there anyway?
Because we used to say them all, to put it simply.
If you listened to a telling of Beowulf back in the hoary days of Old English or read a chivalrous romance in Chaucer’s Middle English, the word knight would have sounded something more like cneehht. It started on a hard C, continued with the long E of see, followed by a guttural blast of the Ch still heard in the Scottish loch, and ending with a breathy T. You could have even heard some English speakers pronounce it that way if you walked around 200 years later in Shakespeare’s London.
For the Modern English word knight comes from the Old English cniht, which originally meant “boy” or “servant” before its rank was dramatically elevated. And every single letter of it was pronounced, something we still see today in its close kin, the German Knecht. (The German, as it happens, also preserves its root “attendant” meaning.)
There are certain things that all these languages share because they share a common ancestor.
Old English, German, guttural blasts, and servant boys? That’s already a lot to unpack—but even through this one messy word, we can get a brief history of the English language.
“Think about what it says about the human brain that you can do all that stuff without thinking about it,” Bauman says. “The fact of the irregularity of language is not a sign of stupidity. It’s a testament to the human brain being able to handle these complex rules and still get your point across. It’s amazing.”
You say “pater,” I say “father.”
Let’s take it from the beginning. Old English, the forebear of Modern English spoken roughly between 450 and 1150 AD, comes from dialects spoken by Germanic tribes—Jutes, Angles, and Saxons—from Denmark and the Low Countries when they invaded the British Isles in the mid-400s.
Previously, Celtic tribes were speaking various Celtic languages throughout the modern-day UK, and they left a mark, though small, on English, surviving largely in place names (Kent) and geographical features (crag).
And what, exactly, makes English Germanic? Linguist Kyle Gorman breaks it down for us:
“There was a community of people who spoke a language in pre-history…and they resided somewhere in northwest to north-central Europe. All of the languages which descend from the language they spoke are termed Germanic. We get the name Germanic simply because that’s what the Romans called them, these sets of tribes. And there are certain things that all these languages share because they share a common ancestor.”
The Germanic languages—including the likes of Dutch, Danish, and Icelandic—share an even older ancestor, Proto-Indo-European. This is why we find all sorts of common vocabulary and grammatical structures across tongues as diverse as English, Welsh, Russian, Latin, Greek, Persian, and Hindi. (Yes, even Persian and Hindi are related to English. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.)
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One place we can see English’s Germanic-ness is in its word-initial consonants.
In the early 19th century, German philologist Jacob Grimm—whose name also lives on through the fairytale collection he compiled with his brother—noticed a certain pattern across Indo-European words. Germanic languages, Grimm saw, had initial F/V sounds (English father, German Vater, and Dutch vader —hence Darth Vader) where other Indo-Europeans language have Ps (Latin pater, Greek pater, Sanskrit pitr). The English foot, German Fuß, or Dutch voet? Latin has pedis, Greek has podos, and Sanskrit has pad.
Grimm formulated these three sound shifts into what we now call Grimm’s law.
On the surface, P and F/V seem like very different sounds, but pay close attention if you say them out loud, and you’ll notice they are produced in the same area of the mouth.
Due to whatever idiosyncrasies or accidents in pronunciation some time in the first millennium BC, Germanic tribes made this subtle, but consequential, shift from saying Ps in words they inherited from Proto-Indo-Europeans as F/Vs.
Grimm also observed Germanic words feature Th/D sounds where other Indo-European languages have a simple T, for example, English three and German drei compared to the Latin tres.
Grimm formulated these three sound shifts into what we now call Grimm’s law. The technical linguistics of this law gets a little hairy for the layperson: Proto-Indo-European voiceless stops (P, T, K) became fricatives (F, Þ, H) in Germanic languages.
But the pattern is remarkably consistent, and scholars have since extended it to other consonant shifts in Indo-European languages. The pattern is also the key characteristic that sets Germanic languages apart from their Indo-European cousins.
Same goes for H and K sounds: English hound, German Hund, and Latin canis. That’s right, canine and hound, if you go back far enough in time, are the same word.
Easier for the non-linguist to spot, though, are some of the core words—those humble, little words we use every day—in Germanic languages.
“The two languages don’t always look that similar,” explains Bauman. “But if you go to a pet store or a farm, for example, you can see the Kuh, that’s the cow. People out at the park, they have the Hund. Going to the zoo? The tiger is just a big Katze. You sit on a Stuhl,” cousin to English’s stool.
“To study German is not to stray too far afield from one’s native English,” Bauman adds.
Talk, talked. Sing…sang?
Another place we can easily see English’s Teutonic (that is, Germanic) roots are in its verbs—those seemingly random ones that always trip us up and can make English hard to learn.
“Sing, sang, sung. That’s inherited pretty straightforwardly from Proto-Indo-European,” Gorman says. He’s speaking of a linguistic process called ablaut. We think of it as unusual, or irregular—as we call these verbal oddballs that change their vowels to mark the past tense or past participle (e.g., I sing the music, I sang the music, or the music was sung by me). But Gorman notes that this sort of vowel-hopping is actually pretty common in language.
As far as Indo-European languages are concerned, historically, there were a number of different patterns this vowel-hopping—this ablaut—could take. Drive/drove/driven and ride/rode/ridden follow one pattern. Throw/threw/thrown and grow/grew/grown follow another. Joining sing/sang/sung are the likes of swim/swam/swum and stink/stank/stunk, among others. “It just happens that a large number of these are well preserved in English and in German as well,” Gorman says.
It’s the exception—albeit one that took millennia to unfold—that became the rule. Germanic languages “developed this other alternative,” Gorman continues. “It uses a dental suffix, a T or D, to form the past of various forms. Talk, talked, anything of that form. That’s a Germanic innovation.” And that’s what became the normal way to form past tenses in English.
The fact of the irregularity of language is not a sign of stupidity.
“These things do decay with time,” according to Gorman. The past tense of help used to be holp. Climb? Clamb. Broadly speaking, economy and convenience tend to tidy up inconsistencies and whittle away at complexities, regularizing help with helped and climb to climbed.
“However, for the most frequent ones, the decay is unbelievably slow,” Gorman explains. Which is why, in part, irregularities like sing/sang/sung hang on. And, very rarely, we muddle a perfectly ordinary verb like sneak, whose regular past is sneaked. We kept things interesting, though, by making it snuck.
But there were some outside forces at work that really sped up the decay: The invaders got invaded.
The Incredible Case of “They”
From late 700s to the early 1000s, Vikings invaded England in several waves, hitting northern parts of the island particularly hard. By living and working together and by intermarrying, Norse and Anglo-Saxon peoples became pretty close.
So close, in fact, that Scandinavian words replaced some very bread-and-butter English words. Sky, egg, and window—some of the earliest words we learn—displaced their native Old English equivalents. So did the verbs get, give, and take.
English even took on they from Old Norse. Now, it’s one thing for a language to borrow words for a new food, object, or idea. Tomato, for instance, comes from an Aztec language, bible comes from Greek, and algebra from Arabic. But it’s another thing entirely to borrow a function word—a word embedded into the deep grammar of language—like a pronoun.
The Old English third-person plural pronoun was hie, kicked out by the Scandinavian þei, now they. Old English’s he was hē, she was hēo, and it was hit, so the Norse they probably provided a useful point of contrast for English speakers.
Still, they demonstrates just how intertwined the two peoples—and their languages—had become.
What’s up with the M in whom?
Babies are made to learn language. That’s why children have no problem picking up the many tones in Cantonese, the clicks in Bantu, or the twists and turns of Arabic triconsonantal roots. But it’s a lot harder for adults for acquire a second language.
Imagine over a millennium ago an Anglo-Saxon woman buying some fish from a Norse fisherman. In her Old English, fish was fisc. In his Old Norse, fish was fiskr. Old Norse—parent of the modern Scandinavian languages—and Old English were both Germanic languages, remember, so a great many words closely overlap. (And while we’re at it, here’s a fun chance to apply Grimm’s law. If we see Germanic words beginning with an F, what should we expect, say, in Latin? That’s right. A P, and indeed, the Latin for fish is piscis.)
Anyway, depending on how our Anglo-Saxon and Viking pair were using them, fisc and fiskr would take on special case endings. Case endings are sounds tacked on to a word to convey what grammatical role it’s playing, such as subject or object, in an utterance. (Remember the nominative puella and accusative puellam from Latin 101? No? Well, stay with us anyway.)
Old English had four such cases, which quickly grow into a rash of these case endings when you account for plural forms, gender, and different patterns for different nouns.
For their fish transaction, the Anglo-Saxon and Viking would get pretty confused by all these endings. Nor would each have likely learned each other’s system fluently, as that takes a lot of time and adults just aren’t as skilled at doing it. (Skill is another word we get from Old Norse, by the way.) So, maybe they’d drop them off for the raw noun. With just plain fisc and fiskr, no strings attached, they’d achieve some mutual intelligibility. Add in a good deal of gesturing and they’d communicate.
Repeat that with hundreds of thousands of people over a long period of time, and English’s case endings wither away, allowing different peoples to talk to each other.
There are often pressures to simplify these things and it happened slowly over time.
But as Gorman taught us, some forms can be very stubborn, especially in very high-frequency words.
“There used to be a who for every case,” Bauman observes. “[In] Old English, who was hwa. There was a hwam for whom. There was a hwæs for whose.”
That’s why there’s that pesky M in whom: “It stuck around,” he sums it up. And despite the most curmudgeonly efforts of schoolmarms and grammar scolds, that sticky, vestigial M in whom is largely falling off today.
Why, then, don’t we have a problem with whose? It’s because we still use the old possessive case-marker of yore: the apostrophe. The girl’s book, the dogs’ bones. Old English didn’t use an apostrophe, but that S comes from the same sort of business as the M in whom.
For Simplicity’s Sake
Did you catch that strange-looking Hw in the ancestor of who, hwa? Hhhwaah: That’s what who would have sounded like a thousand years ago.
And that Hw is another strange-sounding feature, just like the Kn in knight, that gives us clues to the history of the English language.
“Old English had a bunch of crazy onsets,” Gorman says. “Hn, Hw, Hl, Hr, Cn.”
Hn became N, as seen in the evolution of hnut to nut.
Hw became W and with its spelling flipped around, though you can still hear some speakers pronounce words like white whale with an extra burst of air. Cool whip, anyone?
Hl was reduced to L. For instance, the word lord, to the best of our knowledge, began as hlafweard—keeper of the hlaf, or loaf—and lady starts out as hlæfdige, or “loaf-kneader.”
Hr turned into R, as seen in hring becoming ring.
“There are often pressures to simplify these things and it happened slowly over time,” says Gorman.
We like efficiency when we’re speaking. We like to smush sounds together or leave them out entirely. (Whadjyeet? That’s how we very well may ask our co-worker “What did you eat?”) And so the K sound in knight gradually became subtler and softer, as did its guttural Gh, eventually disappearing altogether. The same forces were at work in hlafweard’s remarkable transformation to lord.
Words shift in meaning, too, as we see in the case of lord—or knight. We saw knight begins in Old English as “boy” or “servant.” Servants are like “attendants,” and so knight came to be used for military “followers” of a king in the 1100s.
Throughout the Middle Ages, these followers grew in importance, prominence, and, eventually, stature, gaining what we now think of as the noble rank of knight.
We raise cow, but we eat beef.
That Anglo-Saxons were sacked by Vikings likely accelerated some of the simplifications of English. So did the Norman French.
As Albert Baugh and Thomas Cable put it their classic 1935 text A History of the English Language: “Toward the end of the Old English period an event occurred that had a greater effect on the English than other in the course of its history. This event was the Norman Conquest in 1066,” when William, the Duke of Normandy, conquered the English and ushered in French rule for the next few centuries.
The most conspicuous place you can see this effect is in English vocabulary. The Normans spoke a form of French—itself essentially a modern version of Latin—that became the language of government, administration, nobility, commerce, literature, study, science, and art. Case in point? English borrowed government, administration, nobility, class, commerce, literature, study, science, and art all from the French.
In fact, English borrowed so many words that over half of the lexicon has Latin roots. That’s right, half of the vocabulary of our Germanic language is ultimately Latin, an Italic language.
The language of power and prestige (two words also borrowed from French) tends to diffuse throughout the rest of the population, either by imposition or aspiration.
Consider the dinner table. Our words for livestock are earthy and Germanic: cow, pig, sheep, chicken. But our words for the food we prepare from them are more refined, as it were. They’re French: beef, pork, mutton, poultry.
Going Through Changes
Over the 500 years following the Norman Conquest—the period known as the Middle Ages—English was in great flux as an enormous French vocabulary was grafted onto a Germanic structure that was gradually shedding sounds and case endings. Then the Great Vowel Shift threw English into even more tumult.
We changed how we were pronouncing our words after our spelling of those words had already largely settled into place.
Starting in the late 1300s and into the early 1700s, certain English vowels underwent—due to whatever accident of history and language—a massive change. Meat was originally pronounce with the long A in mate. Bite was originally pronounced with the E in beet—hence the change in the vowel of knight.
“This created a gap in the system,” according to Gorman, dragging other vowels up, too. English is crowded with different vowel pronunciations, and “so if you have a very small apartment and you want to move something, you have to move everything else, too.”
Name used to be said with the a sound in father. Boot used to be pronounced like boat. Down, like dun. “This was finishing up as spelling standardization was really coming together,” Gorman adds.
We changed how we were pronouncing our words after our spelling of those words had already largely settled into place. As Gorman says, “English preserves a spelling that would have been appropriate 400 or more years back.”
And that’s why knight has all those extra letters we don’t say.
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Giraffes among 10 animals killed in 'tragic' Ohio safari wildlife park fire
Craig Shoup
Port Clinton News Herald
DANBURY TOWNSHIP, Ohio – Ten animals were killed on Thanksgiving evening in a barn fire at an Ohio wildfire park, officials said.
Three giraffes, three red river hogs, three bongos and a springbok where listed as the animals who died, according to Holly Hunt, a co-owner of African Safari Wildlife Park.
Bongos are a large antelope species, while a springbok is a medium-size antelope.
"Our African Safari Wildlife Park team is devastated by the loss of animals housed in a barn destroyed by fire that was discovered early Thanksgiving evening," the Facebook post said. "We are grateful that our staff is safe and no one was injured, but the loss of the wildlife that we care for every day is tragic for our team members who love these animals."
Due to the fire, the safari will be closed Friday as staff mourn the loss of the wildlife.
The company said in its Facebook post that officials are still assessing the damage, but reported the fire occurred in a barn used for overnight care and security for the animals.
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A cause of the fire has not been determined. The social media post said an investigation will be conducted to determine the cause of the fire.
Dispatchers from the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office told the News Herald Thursday the fire was reported by citizens and that Danbury Township Fire Department, Port Clinton Fire Department and Catawba Fire provided mutual aid.
The park features a total of more than 50 species of animals during the summer.
The amusement park offers drive an drive-through tours of the safari with animals such as giraffes, elk, camels and zebras, with walk-through tours and educational feedings of animals such as porcupine, kangaroo, tortoise, and gibbons.
In its 51st season, the safari park has rare creatures such as white bison and albino alligators.
Accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the park features a total of more than 50 species of animals during the summer.
An estimated 150,000 people come to the 100-acre park annually, making it one of the largest attractions in the area, according to park officials.
African Safari Wildlife Park had been planning a special discount admission for Black Friday and was scheduled to close for the season on Sunday.
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Valentino Haute Couture is the collection of unique dresses, that in respect of the artisanal tradition of Couture, is entirely hand made by a team of about 60 specialized seamstresses, guided by four Premières within the Atelier of Palazzo Mignanelli in Rome. Haute Couture is above all a culture of handicraft, of time and of passion.
Events as Sala Bianca 945 in New York in December 2014, or the most recent Mirabilia Romae in July 2015 in Rome have celebrated the Maison with a special Valentino Haute Couture Collection.
In the historic headquarters of Piazza Mignanelli, in 2015 the “Bottega Couture”, a Haute Couture School has been instituted, with the goal of passing down to the new generations a manual job that is the heritage of history and of Italian savoir-faire.
The Valentino women’s and men’s Prêt-à-Porter lines denote the global aesthetics in the creations that interpret the personal style decisions towards an ideal of timeless beauty. Haute Couture is certainly a reference for perfect workmanship and craftsmanship and is translated also to the other lines: every collection expresses the beauty and elegance, the perfect execution and is produced with industrial avant-garde techniques and an elevated content of artisanal handicraft. The men’s line, launched in 2012 as a ‘special guest’ at Pitti Uomo in Florence, has retrieved the elements of traditional Italian tailoring and brought them into a variation of contemporary fashion.
Valentino Garavani is the collection dedicated to accessories. Bags, shoes, small leather goods, belts, bijoux for women and men encounter the essential characteristics of Valentino’s fashion with an aesthetic and contemporary vision, conveying the handmade details, typical of Haute Couture and the elements of high craftsmanship.
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City of Vancouver and Vancouver Foundation announce winners of Greenest City Community Grants for 2014
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Vancouver, BC – Vancouver Foundation and the City of Vancouver are pleased to announce the recipients of our 2014 Greenest City Community Grants Program, which supports community-led projects that help make Vancouver’s greenest city goals a reality.
This year’s cohort includes a strong balance of projects ranging from grassroots community building initiatives to innovative shared economy and zero waste projects.
“The Greenest City Fund is now entering its fourth year with outstanding community response,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson. “With the number of green jobs in Vancouver increasing by 19 per cent in just three years, it’s fantastic to see more green economy grants and the wide variety of grassroots projects designed to support the city’s Greenest City and job creation goals.”
The Greenest City Community Grants program is one of three granting programs administered by Vancouver Foundation on behalf of the Greenest City Fund; a four-year, $2 million fund created in partnership with the City of Vancouver to support community, resident and youth-led green projects that advance progress towards Vancouver’s Greenest City 2020 Action Plan goals.
“It’s exciting to see such growth and diversity in the proposals that have come forward in 2014,” said Kevin McCort, President and CEO of Vancouver Foundation. “We’re seeing more grants in the areas of green jobs and green economy and we’re pleased to see the program evolve in these areas.”
In 2015, grant recipients will undertake multiple pilot programs including those designed by and for youth to train, educate, and promote zero waste culture among their peers; policy and program development to support green economy job growth in multiple sectors; and the development of sustainable skills training and community sharing platforms; among many others.
The following is a full list of projects supported by Greenest City Community Grants through the Greenest City Fund in 2014:
For more information on the Greenest City Fund visit: https://vancouverfoundation.ca/initiatives/greenest-city-fund
With over 1,600 funds and assets totaling $930 million, Vancouver Foundation is Canada’s largest community foundation. Each year, Vancouver Foundation and its donors make more than 5,300 grants, totaling approximately $50 million to registered charities across Canada. Since it was founded in 1943, Vancouver Foundation, in partnership with its donors, has distributed more than $1 billion to thousands of community projects and programs. Grant recipients range from social services to medical research groups, to organizations devoted to arts and culture, the environment, education, children and families, disability supports for employment, youth issues and animal welfare.
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2014 Greenest City Community Grants Recipients
ReUse ReEducate ReStore ($50,000)
This grant to Vancouver Economic Commission, with Habitat for Humanity Society of Greater Vancouver will be used to address the reuse of materials from homes undergoing demolition by providing a deconstruction option.
Building Tools for a Greener Future ($10,000)
This grant to Check Your Head: the Youth Global Education Network will be used to offer youth-only training events on vermicomposting, electronic repairs, alterations/sewing and local food.
Waste Watchers – Community Youth Leadership Initiative ($25,000)
This grant to Be the Change Earth Alliance Society will be used to implement a youth-led diversion plan pilot in three Vancouver Community Centres.
Destination Conservation Zero Waste Pilot ($25,000)
This grant to The Elements Society, with School District No. 39 (Vancouver), will be used to pilot a student-led, three year project to initiate a zero waste culture within Vancouver School Board district as part of VSB’s goal to be the greenest school district in Canada.
Vancouver’s Bird Strategy: Promoting Access to Nature and Sustainable Choices ($21,250)
The goal of the grant to Bird Studies Canada/Etudes d’Oiseaux Canada is to implement Vancouver’s Bird Strategy to improve habitat for native birds and increase conservation of birds by engaging Vancouver’s residents.
CityStudio Outdoor Classroom Design/Build Project ($25,000)
This grant to CityStudio Vancouver, with SFU – Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue, will be used to build a pilot outdoor classroom and learning space in a Vancouver park which can be used as a place where students, teachers and the public can have positive outdoor experiences in nature.
Growing Vancouver’s Largest Urban Forest – Phase II($20,500)
This grant to Stanley Park Ecology Society will be used to build on previous work to restore compromised areas of Stanley Park through planting native species and engaging community volunteers to reduce the abundance of invasive species, particularly Himalayan blackberry.
West End Urban Farming Initiative ($20,000)
This grant to Gordon Neighbourhood House, with the Association of Neighbourhood Houses, will be used to work with members of the West End community and local landowners to lead the creation of a committee that will work to support the transformation of identified potential farm sites in the community into food producing urban farms.
Growing Vancouver’s Green Jobs and Green Economy ($25,000)
This grant to The Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development, with The Pembina Foundation for Environmental Research and Education, will contribute to the City of Vancouver’s goal of growing the green economy by building support for green jobs and the policies and programs needed to grow them.
Our Community Bike Club ($36,000)
This grant to Pedal Foundation aims to improve access to bicycles and cycling in elementary schools, high schools and community centres.
Sea to Fork Seafood Processing ($25,000)
The intent of this grant to Living Oceans Society, with T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation, is to establish an independent fish processing plant and training facility in the Vancouver region.
The Leverage Lab ($25,000)
This grant to Future Strategies, with Canadian Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC), will work with businesses to help them embed sustainability into their operations, leverage opportunities for growth, and create partnerships to develop uncommon solutions to common problems.
StreetWise Outreach – Educating More Vancouver Cyclists ($22,350)
This grant to HUB: Your Cycling Connection will be used to help achieve HUB’s ultimate goal to increase Vancouver’s cycling numbers, rates, cycling network use and safety levels.
VSB Car Free Schools Pilot Project ($15,000)
This grant to HASTe BC, with School District No. 39 (Vancouver), will pilot a car-free school event at three Vancouver secondary schools. The initiative aims to help schools reclaim and use public space to highlight the safety, mobility, environmental and health benefits of restricting motor vehicle traffic around schools.
Expanding the Urban Farming Sharing Economy ($25,000)
This grant to Vancouver Urban Farmers Society, with Shifting Growth Garden Society, will be used to implement two sharing economy based urban farming projects: an urban farming tool share program in collaboration with the Vancouver Tool Library and a volunteer sharing and training program.
The Choi Project Phase II ($25,000)
This grant to Hua Foundation, with Global Youth Education Network Society, is to be used to continue to engage Vancouver’s Hua (ethnic Chinese) community in the local, ‘good food’ movement by creating culturally relevant access points. The project will facilitate action in this significant cultural community by providing tools and resources for consumers and small businesses to make more sustainable food choices.
Pollinators and People ( $28,800)
This grant is for Hives for Humanity, with PHS Community Services Society, is to be used to build on their Therapeutic Beekeeping program to enhance participation in the local economy by creating a new source of revenue with which to create diverse opportunities for green employment, training and volunteerism; and build capacity for enhancing community connectivity.
The Self Reliance Project for Women ($4750)
This grant to Chylan Emergency Gear Inc, with Atira Women’s Resource Society, is to be used to teach sustainable skills to vulnerable women in the areas of food, cleaning products and production of goods.
Share Shed ($16,650)
This grant to Share Shed, with City in Focus, is to be used towards the creation of a website and mobile app based on community item and skill sharing. The goal is to contribute to a more sustainable, affordable, and community minded existence in communities across Vancouver by creating a platform for individuals to connect and share with their neighbours.
The next grant cycle for Greenest City Fund’s Community Grants will take place in the fall of 2015. A call for submissions will be announced in early summer. For more information on Greenest City Community Grants, go to the Vancouver Foundation website at https://vancouverfoundation.ca/initiatives/greenest-city-fund
The Greenest City Fund is a four-year, $2 million fund that supports community-led green projects in Vancouver. Funded by the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Foundation, the Greenest City Fund comprises three granting programs: Generation Green Grants, which fund youth-led projects; Neighbourhood Small Grants, which fund projects created by Vancouver residents that benefit their neighbourhood; and Community Grants, which fund Vancouver projects led by community-based charitable organizations. The goal of the Greenest City Fund is to help make Vancouver the greenest city in the world by 2020. Find out more at: https://vancouverfoundation.ca/initiatives/greenest-city-fund
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How to Throw a Party, According to the Most Legendary Hosts of Classic Hollywood
By Patrick Monahan
“The best you can offer your guests is the unexpected,” wrote legendary party giver Elsa Maxwell in How to Do It, or the Lively Art of Entertaining in 1957. With New Year’s around the corner, here’s some classic advice (and a few cautionary tales) from the people who did it best.
Send great invitations
When Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow hosted Rosalind Russell and Frederick Brisson’s 25th wedding anniversary in Las Vegas, Russell wrote the itinerary: “6PM Meet at Chez Brisson with bag and baggage. Sweet punch and salted nuts will be served…7PM Leave in Howard Hughes’ wooden flying boat. Dancing in the aisle to Ina Ray Hutton’s [all-woman] band. Free gum and Kleenex….”
Enlist a pro
Shirley MacLaine was arranging a Hollywood homecoming for her husband, Steve Parker, and called on Bricktop, the famous owner of the Paris nightclub Chez Bricktop, to organize a chic, elegant party. “Well, then,” Bricktop replied, “you have to have chic, elegant people.” White Christmas star Danny Kaye, who was asked to perform, watched Bricktop enchant the crowd with songs from 1920s Paris. “I’m not going to follow that,” he said.
Invent a theme
In 1927, Elsa Maxwell gave a “Come as You Were” party, asking guests to arrive dressed as they were when they received the invitation. Cards went out at all hours, and guests arrived in tuxedos with no pants, ordinary street clothes, and carrying their underwear. The same year, Maxwell organized Paris’s grandest scavenger hunt. Items included music-hall star Mistinguett’s shoe, a black swan from the Bois de Boulogne, the red pom pom on a French seaman’s hat. Before it was over, Mistinguett had to entertain barefoot at the Casino de Paris, a ferocious swan sent two people to the hospital, and interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, wife of British diplomat Sir Charles Mendl, was accused of theft by the French Navy.
Elsie de Wolfe had a maxim when she entertained at her Villa Trianon in Versailles, which Maxwell happily recalled: cold room, hot plates, low table decoration. Rosalind Russell wrote that Coco Chanel (another champion of Spartan grandeur) gave her one drink when she lunched at the Rue Cambon—sherry or whiskey. For a centerpiece, Chanel chose an immense rock crystal.
Elsa Maxwell, expertly dunking her donut on the cover of her book.
Maxwell suggests Diana Vreeland’s Ris de veau à la Lyonnaise, Cole Porter’s Cherry Compote with Red Wine, and Joan Fontaine’s Andalusian Gazpacho. She also put ten celebrities to the test in the kitchen of Romanoff’s Beverly Hills restaurant for a kind of silver screen Iron Chef. Claudette Colbert and Joan Fontaine received honorable mention, but first prize went to Clark Gable for his egg recipe.
At one of Charlie Chaplin’s soirées, Elsa Maxwell watched Albert Einstein eyeing the string quartet. They were playing a piece by Mozart, a favorite of Einstein’s, and Maxwell realized the genius was longing to join. She asked the violinist if Einstein could borrow his instrument; the fiddler was only too happy, and Einstein delighted the crowd.
Make lemonade
The couturier Jean Patou invited Charlie Chaplin, Elsa Maxwell, and others to a bullfight in Bayonne, southwestern France. A hurricane brewed and the guests got worried. “It’s nonsense to sit around like this,” Chaplin said to Maxwell. “Let’s amuse ourselves. Play something from Carmen and I’ll take it from there.” He became the bull and matador himself and put the party at ease.
(Don’t) Send gifts
As a young man, the Duke of Windsor kept a drawer for “re-gifts.” For an aunt’s birthday, he chose a silver pencil from the drawer, sent it, and received the following note: “I don’t mind so much your returning the pencil which I gave you for Christmas, but what makes me sad is that you didn’t like it.”
And when all else fails . . .
Harpo Marx was staying at Moss and Kitty Hart’s Bucks County country house when the local minister came to call. The Harts, bewildered, enlisted Harpo to cut the visit short. Harpo disappeared. They showed the minister into the living room, double-height with a balcony, and ordered tea. Polite conversation was in full swing when the balcony door burst open and Harpo emerged—naked, except a bath towel around his waist and a shaving brush in his hand. “Moss, it’s time to shave the cat!” Harpo bellowed . . . and the minister fled.
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by Harry Allen
Hip-Hop as realized by H.R. Giger photo: Dean Karr
If there was a Black goth planet in some parallel universe, Busta Rhymes would be its evil emperor: the person who, in an MTV remake of The Defiant Ones (The Real Defiant Ones?), you’d handcuff to Marilyn Manson. In a recent Q&A, Busta hails M&M as an artist with “no limitations,” and Manson’s autonomy as “fuckin’ beautiful to watch,” speaking, specifically, to the freedoms that white artists of all kinds widely, uniquely enjoy, and for which he seeks to vitally compensate.
In recorded music, these privileges are most pointedly illustrated, for example, by the seemingly unlimited genres, sub-genres, and sub-sub-genres of popular white music, for which record companies and stores create new bins and sections that nourish and accommodate them, while Black artists make do with no more than a few favored standbys—”r&b,” “hip-hop,” “gospel,” etc. These privileges are dramatically illuminated by the “boys will be boys” concessions made for white rowdiness, whether those ill manners be borne by Marilyn Manson, Marshall Mathers, Led Zeppelin’s 1977 tour, or the entire cast of Woodstock ’99; try and imagine a hip-hop concert the size of the Million Man March during which acts of rape, sexual assault, and arson could take place, yet after which the promoters, with straight faces, might still speak of a follow-up event. Better yet, try and imagine a follow-up to a hip-hop concert during which rampant mud-slinging took place.
Listening to Genesis, latest in the series of Rhymes’s dramatically titled and declamatory works (The Coming, When Disaster Strikes, ELE: Extinction Level Event, Anarchy), what becomes clearer is not only the power of, but the need for hip-hop—its necessity as a tool to not just “express one’s feelings” but to fashion new realities presently occluded by the system of white supremacy: a lathe of heaven. This is one thing that hip-hop does for Black people that white people typically go to movies to get (hence all of those album skits, to date absent from rock records, though hip-hop itself is not). Films like the Star Wars series present rich worlds of fantasy for some. But for me, as much as I adore the movies, the pressing question is, how much more dramatic would The Phantom Menace‘s climactic Jedi-Sith saber battle be, re-synced to EPMD’s “You Gots to Chill” instrumental?
Such remixes of popular film imagery frequently come to mind when listening to His Majesty the Flipmodian, not because of his narratives—with possible exception of the cheatin’-hearts parable “Wife in Law,” his rhymes typically lack any strong storytelling thrust—but because of what can only be called aura; his timbre, cadences, couplets, and beats are so full of perverse color and decadent texture as to suggest his untapped potential. One finds oneself wondering, for example, what kind of Dracula he would have made in Francis Ford Coppola’s update of Bram Stoker’s classic. One ponders this, not just because on “Truck Volume” he threatens, “I know some niggas that’d love to bloodsuck you all.” Or because on that track, with its spacey, horror movie organ motif and cross-fadered syncopations, he has a producer, Dr. Dre, with as darkly cinematic an imagination, and because he’s the only hip-hop artist who could wear Eiko Ishioka’s Academy Award-winning costume designs for that movie and, like Will Smith in Men in Black, “make this look good.” He’s like hip-hop as realized by H.R. Giger—a wild, Black alien life-form, mouth agape to both consume and spit acid, threatening to bus’ out your chest, then, as he notes on the title track, “evolve about a million times.”
Genesis is layered with his evolution. Lyrically, it is often so thick that it requires multiple passes just to pick out the metaphors. (One exception may be Rhymes’s impudent claim to “the moment when my niggas run deep through crowds/Like how a pregnant woman breast milk leak through her blouse.”) There is a satisfying evenness, but not sameness, in the production. Though Busta has never been a slouch in the beats department, this album bumps with groovy new rhythms that, clearly, were more or less mastered in, and no doubt sound absolutely delectable coming out of, the $45,000 A/V system in the artist’s $110,000 2000 Mercedes Benz G500 Gelaendewagen. (You didn’t think Rhymes’s omnipresent “truck” references were to the Mountain Dew semi he rides, Road Warrior style, in the commercial, did you?) The Michaelangelo-produced “You Ain’t Fuckin’ Wit Me” commences with lush strings over blinking computer tones, halts, then breaks in this sopping, goony-goo-goo, oompa-loompa beat so sick that Busta deems it “Frankenstein’s baby.” The wailing theremin and martial drum track on Dre’s “Holla” “sound like one, two o’clock in the morning with the full moon out . . . niggas in they trucks creepin’ with a fresh box o’ Ecstasy pills for these bitches.”
Introduction of the Beast With Two Backs, however, begins on “Betta Stay Up in Your House.” After needle-dropping a little Curtis Mayfield to set the mood, Busta and the all-powerful Rah Digga—possibly the best female MC working today—engage in what can only be called aural sex, a back-and-forth lyrical tussle with all of the pelvis-busting give-and-take of a lustful lakeside cottage romp. Like good lovers, they switch up rhythms, change speeds, perfectly anticipate the other’s next move, and are never selfish. If Genesis is really a 21st-century Black gothic screed, then Rah Digga is the queen to Busta’s emperor, the Amazon to his barbarian. May they forever reign in blood.
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A New Brooklyn Museum Exhibit Explores the Transformative Power of African Masquerade
Saro-Wiwa documents tiered Ogele masks. Zina Saro-Wiwa
Midway through “Disguise: Masks and Global African Art,” a compelling group exhibit on display at the Brooklyn Museum, visitors enter an installation by Saya Woolfalk that feels like a temple in a science fiction movie. Tall costumed sculptures in ritual stances and morphing faces on video screens depict a futuristic world in which people can access a “chimeric virtual existence” beyond their assigned identities.
At the edge of the installation, in a glass case, lurk two carved-wood Mende masks from Sierra Leone. Drawn from the museum’s collection, the masks date to the early twentieth century — but they feel ancient. The juxtaposition with Woolfalk’s futuristic scene is deliberate and gets to the core of “Disguise,” in which contemporary artists draw on the transformative power of African masquerade and apply it to current and speculative settings.
The show upends classic museum practice. “We’re used to seeing masks as beautiful sculptures in vitrines,” Kevin Dumouchelle, the museum’s associate curator for the arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands, tells the Voice. “We lose the sense that these were part of a performance. The masquerade involves costume, music, audience, dance.” Indeed, while the first sight that greets the visitor is a room of traditional masks presented according to the typical approach, the rest of the show overturns exactly that.
It’s also a fascinating way to showcase the work of twenty-five artists, ten of whom made new work for the show’s first iteration, at the Seattle Art Museum last year. The expanded Brooklyn version adds relevant contemporary work (a Nick Cave soundsuit, a Willie Cole triptych) and intersperses masks from the permanent collection, establishing a through-line between them and the new pieces.
In many African and diaspora cultures, masquerade is a living practice deployed for all manner of occasions, such as festivals, rites of passage, or the settling of disputes. Just as varied are the masks themselves: not just face-covers but head-to-toe outfits — made of wood, leaves, hides, raffia, textiles of all kinds, plastic, found objects — that transform the wearer. And, while masquerade tends to be a male domain, there are exceptions: The Mende masks near Woolfalk’s piece, for instance, come from a women’s secret society, the Sande. (They are echoed in the artist’s speculative universe, in which agents of transformation are female characters she calls the Empathics.)
One particular form of masquerade, the masked egungun figures of Yoruba culture, appears in a series of pieces grouped in one area of the show. These include full-size neotraditional costumed figures seated on chairs, created in recent years but by unknown makers; digital prints by Beninese photographer Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou; and multimedia work by Nigerian-American artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji. In An Ancestor Takes a Photograph, Ogunji sends two futuristic egungun in Tyvek suits into central Lagos, where the performers — both women, subverting roles traditionally assumed by men — film each other and what they see. Projected side by side, with the suits themselves exhibited near the screen, the videos collapse the barrier between the spirit world and the teeming commercial streetscape.
Mntambo molds cowhide to the human form. Nandipha Mntambo/STEVENSON/Cape Town/Johannesburg
Some of the work is more allusive. A sequence of drawings, photographs, and sculpture by Swazi artist Nandipha Mntambo, who works in Johannesburg, appears to have little to do with masks — and much to do with cattle — until its payoff: a self-portrait, and one of the artist’s mother, as mythic half-bovine creatures. (One is subtitled Now I’m Here.) Black-and-white charcoals by Toyin Ojih Odutola depict near-disappeared figures, while wallpaper by Sam Vernon with cell-like structures, according to the artist, “speak[s] about what can fade in and out of view.”
Economic commentary is also on display. Four stark self-portraits by Angolan artist Edson Chagas, winner of the Golden Lion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, show him wearing over his head various printed shopping bags; it’s a piece about identity amid the flotsam of globalization. An installation by Kenyan-Canadian artist Brendan Fernandes includes a herd of plastic deer wearing what appear to be white Maasai masks. It’s all artifice: The deer are hunting decoys, and the Maasai don’t have a masquerade tradition. Fernandes says the work was inspired by Canal Street, where stalls sell “African” masks actually made in a backroom.
There’s some conceptual scatter in “Disguise,” but the core fibers are strong enough to hold it together. The show’s emotional heart may dwell in work by Nigerian artist Zina Saro-Wiwa, who presents 28 photographs of Ogele maskers — a form of masquerade that arose in recent decades in Nigeria’s Ogoni community — and an affecting video triptych.
The daughter of Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was assassinated by Nigeria’s military regime in 1995, Zina returned to Ogoniland in 2013. She noticed that the Ogele masks — tiered pieces very different from past tradition — often included effigies of her father. Tracking down the secretive Ogele, she became interested in the men themselves. Her photographs show them part-costumed or in everyday clothes, in a liminal space, neither quite in nor out of masquerade.
Meanwhile, in one panel of the triptych, visibly exhausted women don masks, while in another a masked figure grows increasingly agitated, until the screen itself appears to shatter. Saro-Wiwa’s art is intervention: She has formed a women’s mask troupe and photographed herself masking. But it also traces a continuum that sidelines the old debates of tradition versus modernity, practical item versus art object. What’s left is the gesture of masking, in all its eerie strength. “Masks have power; it’s no small matter,” Saro-Wiwa says. “It’s a very strange kind of energy. I’m still making my peace with the work.”
‘Disguise: Masks and Global African Art’
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2019 Spirit Awards – IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Wins Best Film
If Beale Street Could Talk, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Suspiria, Eighth Grade, First Reformed, Sorry To Bother You, The Wife and You Were Never Really Here. En El Séptimo Día, Won’t You Be My Neighbor and Roma received awards at Film Independent’s 34th Spirit Awards ceremony.
This year’s major winners were If Beale Street Could Talk, which won Best Feature, Best Director and Best Supporting Female; Can You Ever Forgive Me? which won Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Male; Suspiria which won the Robert Altman Award and Best Cinematography; En El Séptimo Día which won the John Cassavettes Award; Eighth Grade which won Best First Screenplay; First Reformed which won Best Male Lead; Sorry to Bother You which won Best First Feature; The Wife which won Best Female Lead; You Were Never Really Here which won Best Editing; Won’t You Be My Neighborwhich won Best Documentary; and Roma which won Best International Film.
The 12th annual Robert Altman Award was given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast. Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino received this award, along with casting directors Avy Kaufman and Stella Savino as well as cast members Malgosia Bela, Ingrid Caven, Lutz Ebersdorf, Elena Fouina, Mia Goth, Jessica Harper, Dakota Johnson, Gala Moody, Chloë Grace Moretz, Fabrizia Sacchi, Renée Soutendijk, Tilda Swinton, Sylvie Testud, Angela Winkler.
The 2019 Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation Fellowship annually selects an outstanding filmmaker and participant in Project Involve. Now in its 26th year, Project Involve has proudly fostered the careers of artists from underrepresented backgrounds, empowering them to create stories for film and television that are reflective of our community. The Fellowship includes an unrestricted cash grant of $10,000 and was awarded to screenwriter Stephanie Adams-Santos, a distinct and bold new voice.
Winners of 34th Spirit Awards
If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna Pictures)
Producers: Dede Gardner, Barry Jenkins, Jeremy Kleiner, Sara Murphy, Adele Romanski
Best Director:
Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna Pictures)
Best Screenplay:
Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty, Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best First Feature:
Sorry To Bother You (Annapurna Pictures)
Director: Boots Riley
Producers: Nina Yang Bongiovi, Jonathan Duffy, Charles D. King, George Rush, Forest Whitaker, Kelly Williams
Best First Screenplay:
Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade (A24)
John Cassavetes Award:
(for best feature made under $500,000)
En El Séptimo Día (The Cinema Guild)
Writer/Director/Producer: Jim McKay
Producers: Alex Bach, Lindsey Cordero, Caroline Kaplan, Michael Stipe
Best Supporting Female:
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna Pictures)
Best Supporting Male:
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best Female Lead:
Glenn Close, The Wife (Sony Pictures Classics)
Best Male Lead:
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed (A24)
Robert Altman Award:
Suspiria (Amazon Studios)
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Casting Directors: Avy Kaufman and Stella Savino
Ensemble Cast: Malgosia Bela, Ingrid Caven, Lutz Ebersdorf, Elena Fouina, Mia Goth, Jessica Harper, Dakota Johnson, Gala Moody, Chloë Grace Moretz, Fabrizia Sacchi, Renée Soutendijk, Tilda Swinton, Sylvie Testud, Angela Winkler
Best Cinematography:
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Suspiria (Amazon Studios)
Best Editing:
Joe Bini, You Were Never Really Here (Amazon Studios)
Best International Film:
Roma (Mexico – Netflix)
Best Documentary:
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Focus Features)
Director/Producer: Morgan Neville
Producers: Caryn Capotosto, Nicholas Ma
Bonnie Award
Debra Granik received the second annual Bonnie Award. Bonnie Tiburzi Caputo joined American Airlines in 1973 at age 24, becoming the first female pilot to fly for a major U.S. airline. In her honor, the Bonnie Award recognizes a mid-career female director with a $50,000 unrestricted grant sponsored by American Airlines. Finalists for the award were Tamara Jenkins and Karyn Kusama.
Producers Award
Shrihari Sathe received the Producers Award. The award honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality, independent films. The annual award, in its 22nd year, includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant. Finalists for the award were Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams and Gabrielle Nadig.
Someone to Watch Award
Alex Moratto, director of Sócrates, received the Someone to Watch Award. The award recognizes talented filmmakers of singular vision who have not yet received appropriate recognition. The award is in its 25th year and includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant. Finalists for the award were Ioana Uricaru, director of Lemonade and Jeremiah Zagar, director of We The Animals.
Truer Than Fiction Award
Bing Liu, director of Minding The Gap, received the Truer Than Fiction Award. The award is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not received significant recognition. The award is in its 24th year and includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant. Finalists for the award were Alexandria Bombach, director of On Her Shoulders and Ramell Ross, director of Hale County This Morning, This Evening.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? Eighth Grade First Reformed (2017) If Beale Street Could Talk On the Seventh Day (En el Séptimo Día) Roma (2018) Sorry to Bother You SUSPIRIA The Wife You Were Never Really Here (2017)
Ralph Fiennes to Receive Prestigious Volta Award at Dublin International Film Festival
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Available Now: VSQ: A Tribute to Dazed and Confused
September 24, 2013 / By 23
There are few films that capture the devil may care spirit of the last day of school better than Dazed and Confused. VSQ pays tributes to the rock and roll sounds of this cult classic with rousing string interpretations of its most memorable songs, including Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotion,” Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out” and more. Listen to it today — it’d be a lot cooler if you did! 1. Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith) 2. School's Out (Alice Cooper) 3. Free Ride (Edgar Winter Group) 4. Do You Feel Like We Do? (Peter Frampton) 5. Low Rider (War) 6. Love Hurts (Nazareth) 7. Paranoid (Black Sabbath) 8. Tush (ZZ Top) 9. Rock and Roll All Nite (Kiss) 10. Cherry Bomb (The Runaways) 11. Tuesday's Gone (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 12. Slow Ride (Foghat)
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Posted on October 28, 2014 December 23, 2015 by Nancy Atkinson
Stray Boater Delays Antares Launch to Tuesday
A Monday launch attempt for the third Orbital Sciences cargo mission to the International Space Station was scrubbed because a boat strayed into restricted waters southeast of the launch pad at Wallops Island, Virginia. The Antares rocket, carrying the Cygnus capsule would have flown over the boater had the rocket lifted off and officials cited public safety as the reason for the scrub.
Launch has been rescheduled for 6:22 p.m. EDT (22:22 UTC), about 15 minutes after sunset at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, and the Antares blastoff should be visible along much of the US eastern seaboard – stretching from Maine to South Carolina.
The scrub caused disappointment, as the highly-anticipated launch had perfect weather and was expected to be visible to millions up and down the Atlantic shoreline. Photographers had also hoped to capture a spectacular night-time launch with the crescent Moon nearby and the Space Station flying overhead shortly after launch.
Monday’s launch window was only 10 minutes long due to a short opportunity for the spacecraft to reach the space station’s orbit. The boat was said to have a single passenger and was without a radio.
If the weather holds, the launch should still be visible along the Eastern seaboard on Tuesday. See our complete guide to viewing the launch here, and Orbital may provide updated viewing maps here.
NASA Television coverage of Tuesday’s launch will begin at 5:30 p.m. EDT, and you can watch live below. A post-launch news conference will follow at approximately 8 p.m.
The Antares will launch the Cygnus spacecraft filled with over 5,000 pounds of supplies for the International Space Station, including science experiments, experiment hardware, spare parts, and crew provisions. The Orbital-3 mission is Orbital Sciences’ third contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for NASA.
A Tuesday launch will result in the Cygnus spacecraft arriving at the space station early Sunday, Nov. 2. NASA TV coverage of rendezvous and berthing will begin at 3:30 a.m. with grapple at approximately 4:58 a.m.
CategoriesCommercial Space, Launches, Space Flight TagsAntares rocket, Cygnus capsule, International Space Station (ISS), Orbital Sciences Corporation
2 Replies to “Stray Boater Delays Antares Launch to Tuesday”
BCstargazer says:
major malfunction here …
kbutler says:
Somebody in that boat did something to our rocket…
Next time sink the boat!
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DCNS to build intermediate-sized frigates for the French navy
The French shipbuilder was contracted by France's defense procurement agency to build five ships, which are expected to be finished in 2023 and in service by 2025.
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France has ordered five BELH@RRA frigates from DCNS, which are billed as designed for "digital natives" because their digital technologies and systems are designed to be incrementally upgraded to maintain equipment and systems for the next 40 years. Photo courtesy of DCNS
April 25 (UPI) -- Five intermediate-sized frigates are to be constructed for the French Navy by DCNS under contract from the French defense procurement agency, DGA.
The ships are to be developed and built using the company's new BELH@RRA frigate. The French version of the ships will enter into active service in 2025, the company said.
Thales is partnering with DCNS to supply the vessels with a new generation of radar and the frigates will carry Aster 30 missiles made by MBDA.
"DCNS is proud to contribute, alongside Thales, to the renewal of the French naval forces thanks to a new vessel responding to the needs of a world-class navy," Hervé Guillou, chairman and chief executive officer at DCNS, said in a press release. "It is a key component of our range of military vessels and the attribution of this contract also allows us to develop a frigate that addresses the expectations of a dynamic international market."
BELH@RRA digital frigates displace more than 4,000 tons and are intended for use in anti-submarine warfare, in addition to the latest digital technologies that DCNS and France says will be updated incrementally to keep the systems modernized and current.
The French version of the BELH@RRA will also have extended self-defense and special forces projection capacities, and will integrate Thales' Sea Fire four flat antenna radar.
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Reading Contagion
The Hazards of Reading in the Age of Print
Annika Mann
BUY Cloth · 272 pp. · 6 × 9 · ISBN 9780813941776 · $45.00 · Nov 2018
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Eighteenth-century British culture was transfixed by the threat of contagion, believing that everyday elements of the surrounding world could transmit deadly maladies from one body to the next. Physicians and medical writers warned of noxious matter circulating through air, bodily fluids, paper, and other materials, while philosophers worried that agitating passions could spread via certain kinds of writing and expression. Eighteenth-century poets and novelists thus had to grapple with the disturbing idea that literary texts might be doubly infectious, communicating dangerous passions and matter both in and on their contaminated pages.
In Reading Contagion, Annika Mann argues that the fear of infected books energized aesthetic and political debates about the power of reading, which could alter individual and social bodies by connecting people of all sorts in dangerous ways through print. Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, Tobias Smollett, William Blake, and Mary Shelley ruminate on the potential of textual objects to absorb and transmit contagions with a combination of excitement and dread. This book vividly documents this cultural anxiety while explaining how writers at once reveled in the possibility that reading could transform the world while fearing its ability to infect and destroy.
[L]ively and original.... Aligning an archive of medical histories with literary works, Mann establishes fresh readings of canonical texts.... The reader will come away from this book with a deeper understanding of authors and works discussed and of the larger cultural currents that helped produce them.
There is no better figure for the representation of the dangers and excitations of communal existence than contagion, a concept that blurs the distinction between material and metaphor and illustrates the perceived dangers of expanding literacy and print culture at a time of radical social and geopolitical transformation. For Annika Mann, an analysis of eighteenth-century theories of contagion demonstrates the intricate connections between scientific and cultural thought in this volatile period. Reading Contagion offers new insight into eighteenth-century science, medicine, and book culture, but perhaps the most exciting contribution stems from Mann’s exploration of the connections among them. With this work, moreover, she shows the power of language to shape lived experience, including scientific inquiry, hence the importance of literary analysis to help us understand the worlds we make.
Priscilla Wald, Duke University, author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
Reading Contagion proves an original, timely study grounded in the latest scholarship. As such, the book will appeal to anyone interested in affect, mediation, and medicine in the Enlightenment and beyond.
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A well-written and energetic study of contagion as both metaphor and medico-descriptive term for writers in the long eighteenth century.
Robert Markley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, author of The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730
Annika Mann is Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University.
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Arno Votteler is one of Germany's most influential interior designers. His persistent perfection of shape and his pronounced sense for the feasible characterise his work.
Votteler graduated from the Academy of Fine Art in Stuttgart in 1955 under Bauhaus advocate Herbert Hirche and interior designer Herta- Maria Witzemann. This is where he was later to be a professor and founded the internationally famous »Weissenhof Institute«, the State Academy of Art and Design. Votteler opened his own design studio in the 1960s. He then held positions as visiting professor in Brazil, the US, India and China. Arno Votteler was working as a designer at Walter Knoll in the 1950s.
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Online ad fraud
HAMPSHIRE: Digital ad fraud will hit $19bn in 2018, a new report predicts, in part because of the reluctance of some advertising platforms to disclose relevant information to advertisers and publishers.
According to UK-based Juniper Research, that represents 9% of all digital advertising expenditure and the amount will more than double to $44bn by 2022.
The report, Future Digital Advertising – AI, Ad Fraud & Ad Blocking 2017-202, argued that the closed platform approach, whereby advertising platforms restrict the flow of advertising performance data to brands and publishers, must be abandoned to stimulate transparency between stakeholders.
Unless that happens, advertising fraud rates will continue to increase, it said, further hindering stakeholder efforts in tackling fraud.
Artificial intelligence (AI) may have a role to play, Juniper suggested, being able to analyse vast amounts of data to identify fraudulent activity.
“Fraudsters will continue to heavily invest in domains, user accounts and bot farms in order to appear genuine,” according to report author Sam Barker.
“Advertising stakeholders will demand constant vigilance against the threat of ad fraud,” he added, “which will only be achieved through the correct implementation of AI services”.
The report comes as companies that provide anti-fraud products can now sign-up with JICWEBS – the independent body that defines best practice and standards for trusted online ad trading in the UK – for an independent audit from ABC to verify how they reduce the risk of fraudulent ads being served.
The Juniper study further predicted that platforms leveraging AI for targeting purposes will account for 74% of total online and mobile advertising spend by 2022.
But as the adoption of AI hits saturation point, only those platforms with the most effective algorithms will be able to charge premium prices to advertisers.
Platforms will also need to focus on new data sources to improve the proficiency of their AI algorithms, in which case data from IoT (Internet of Things) devices, information sharing partnerships and cross-device user identification will become highly sought-after.
Sourced from Juniper Research, JICWEBS; additional content by WARC staff
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Flu season hits hard in North Carolina
By Sarah Ovaska and Thomas Goldsmith North Carolina Health News
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Flu activity reports from the CDC show the 2019-20 year (shown in red, with triangles) with higher activity levels.
RALEIGH — Time to break out the hand sanitizer — flu season is officially underway with initial reports predicting it could be among the worst flu seasons to hit in a decade.
Health officials in North Carolina and beyond are watching hospital admissions and doctor visit reports closely to see if the 2019-2020 season could indeed turn out to be a blockbuster one for influenza, as many worry.
This year’s activity has so far eclipsed what was experienced at this point in previous years, with the CDC estimating 6.4 million cases of the flu, 55,000 hospitalizations and at least 2,900 deaths so far. That count includes 27 children, the highest number of pediatric deaths seen since the CDC started keeping records 17 years ago, according to CNN.
“We’re pretty much in full swing with cases that even exceed the numbers we saw this time last year,” said Christopher Ohl, an infectious disease expert at Wake Forest Baptist Health.
The deadly threat the flu brings was made apparent this week, with the state releasing data Thursday afternoon showing nine additional flu-associated deaths last week, the worst week in terms of casualties this season. The state also reported the first pediatric influenza-associated death this season, with a child in the western part of the state dying in December from flu complications.
There have now been 21 people to die from influenza complications. The remainder of the deaths consist of 3 adults between the ages of 25 and 49, and 17 people over the age of 50, according to data kept by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.
Risk not always age related
Health demographers consistently see high percentages of flu-related mortality among older people in North Carolina and elsewhere. And you don’t have to be all that old to be at risk.
Of 285 flu deaths in the 2018-2019 season, 88 percent came among people 50 and older, according to DHHS. That means nearly nine in 10 such deaths happened among a North Carolina age group that makes up only about a third of the state’s population.
The flu, or influenza, is a viral disease that strikes the United States seasonally, leaving those affected with high fevers, coughs, runny noses, body aches and fatigue that tend to come on quickly. But it’s not just a week in bed for some – the flu can turn deadly and is particularly dangerous for those over 65, young children and those with compromised immune systems.
In addition to the 50-plus crowd dubbed “older” under the Older Americans Act, anyone with other active health problems can be particularly vulnerable to serious effects of flu, according to Dr. Graham Snyder, an emergency department physician at WakeMed Health and Hospitals. So, if you‘re sick, you could well get sicker, he said in a phone interview.
“If you’re vigorously healthy and all your systems are healthy, then the flu will be just like the flu is for everybody — body aches, fever, a cough and runny nose that lasts a week or so and then goes away,” Snyder said.
“But if any systems of your body are compromised in another way, then simple things like the dehydration from the fever, the body aches messing up your balance, all those things can tumble into making it a much more serious illness.”
Those who have problems breathing, experience confusion or who are at high-risk for flu complications (including young children, seniors, pregnant women and those with compromised immune systems) should seek medical attention to see if an antiviral medication such as Tamiflu can help stave off the full brunt of the illness, said David Weber, an epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist in charge of infection prevention at UNC.
Regardless, plan on keeping those germs to yourself.
“If you’re sick, stay home,” he said. “Don’t affect your coworkers.”
If a healthy person’s flu symptoms respond to the standard recommendations — plenty of fluids, nine hours of sleep, and over-the-counter treatments for fever and a stuffy nose — a trip to the doctor is likely not in order, Snyder said. But a patient’s unusual confusion or shortness of breath while at rest could call for professional attention in addition to consideration of Tamiflu, as could the incidence of flu in someone with diabetes.
“Diabetes is a problematic disease because it, especially uncontrolled diabetes, affects all the systems of the body,” Snyder said. “It makes your blood vessels narrow … it can mess up your balance, it can mess up your vision, and it can also cause accelerated heart disease.”
Switch in patterns this yearThere are two main types of influenza that occur cyclically in humans, Types A and B. Most years usually see the A strain emerge first, followed up by an increase of B-strain viruses. But this year is a bit different.
The B-strain, which has two lineages called Victoria and Yamagata, has been most prevalent in these first few weeks of the flu season, according to the CDC.
North Carolina is following that trend with nearly half of the cases tested so far proving to be the B strain (Victoria lineage), according to the N.C. DHHS data. Anita Valiani, the influenza epidemiologist who tracks flu activity for the N.C. DHHS cautions that North Carolina’s data isn’t all that robust given that the state doesn’t require that all flu tests be sent in for further analysis.
So why does it matter what strain you have? Sick and miserable is sick and miserable, no matter what strain you have, but there are important differences for public health officials. The A-strain can undergo rapid changes once it’s out there in the world, making it the virus strain that prompts pandemic flu as the mutated virus jumps and shifts.
Children are more susceptible to Type B, for reasons that are largely unknown.
One good aspect of this is that the cases doctors are treating right now appear to be less severe, Ohl said. This year’s vaccine seems to be working so far, meaning those who got their flu shots have a decreased chance of contracting the virus or, if they do, are less sick than if they were unvaccinated, he said.
“People can usually get up and go back to work or school quicker,” he said.
But this early appearance of Type B is now giving way to increased numbers of Influenza Type A, the more unpredictable strain that mutates quickly and is historically linked with flu pandemics, Ohl said.
“The severity will go up, particularly for people who are older or people who have underlying health problems,” Ohl said.
If you haven’t yet gotten a flu shot, get one, he said. Even if you’ve had one strain, there’s no guarantee you’d avoid a separate strain of the flu.
And if there’s one thing worse than getting the flu, it’s getting it twice in a season.
Activity high in the Old North State
North Carolina is among the 37 states with high flu activity, according to the CDC. Medical centers and medical practices around the state are seeing studied numbers of people in their waiting rooms with high fevers, sore throats, aches, chills and general malaise indicative of the flu.
All areas of the state are experiencing what’s considered widespread flu activity, said Valiani.
But it’s likely too soon to say how the rest of the flu season will go, given the unpredictability of the flu virus and how it behaves, she said.
“Flu seasons are very unpredictable,” Valiani said. “It could look bad and end up moderate or look moderate and end up bad.”
She also stressed that it’s not too late to get a flu shot and said there are steady supplies of vaccines across the state.
Hospitals around the state aren’t taking any chances, with most of the state’s major hospital systems enacting their annual policies during flu season to bar children under the age of 12 from visiting people. Among the systems who have enacted the visitor restrictions: UNC Medical Center facilities in Chapel Hill and at its Rex/Raleigh campus, Duke University Medical Center in Durham, WakeMed in Raleigh and Cary, Cone Health hospitals based in Greensboro, Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem along with its affiliated community hospitals, and Atrium Health in the Charlotte area. (The N.C. Healthcare Association maintains an updated list of hospitals with visitor restrictions here.)
Children are barred from hospital visits because they tend to pick up and spread the viruses. They’re also less likely to cover their coughs, wash their hands, or know they’re sick and contagious to begin with, Weber said.
“You can’t really ask a 2-year-old to blow into a tissue” and expect it’ll happen, Weber said.
Regardless, anyone with a fever or cold should refrain from visiting people in the hospital, given how dangerous a bout with the flu can be for a cancer patient or someone else with a compromised immune system, he said.
Flu patients with existing lung disease can face particular danger, Snyder said bluntly.
“If you have COPD, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, or you just have smoked cigarettes for 30 or 40 years, it’s going to be much harder and it could be fatal,” he said.
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Stalking: Know the signs, what to do
National Stalking Awareness Month observed in January
Kayla Lasure / By Kayla Lasure kayla.lasure@wataugademocrat.com
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January is observed as National Stalking Awareness Month.
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In a society that sometimes glamorizes the relentless pursuit of a romantic interest, coupled with the the growing use of social media, OASIS Outreach Coordinator Sara Crouch said that people should remember that stalking-type behavior can be dangerous.
“Stalking is a very real phenomenon,” Crouch said. “It’s very scary and dangerous. The media often portrays stalking as almost romantic or even plays it down. It’s really important to know that stalking is really prevalent and traumatic ... and can and does lead to homicide.”
According to the Stalking Prevention, Awareness and Resource Center, stalking is defined as a pattern of behavior directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear. SPARC stated that two or more incidents are considered a pattern, but that the definition varies from state to state. According to North Carolina law, a pattern is considered two or more acts.
January is observed as National Stalking Awareness Month, which is in its 16th year of being recognized. According to SPARC, one in six women and one in 17 men will experience stalking in their lifetime. The Stalking Resource Center states that 7.5 million people are stalked each year.
Despite the prevalence of stalking, SPARC states that people often underestimate the danger and urgency associated with the crime. SPARC names Netflix and Lifetime series “You” as an example of a show growing in popularity in which the main character (Joe) demonstrates stalking behavior that many fans have romanticized.
In the show, Joe engages in several stalking behaviors to track and monitor a woman, Beck, according to SPARC. Joe demonstrates activity such as following the woman, watching through the woman’s window, showing up where the woman is located as well as using technology to track her movements. SPARC named other media examples — such as movies like “Twilight,” “Fifty Shades of Grey” and “There’s Something About Mary” — that portray stalking behavior in a positive light.
“A popular trope in romantic comedies suggests that if you pursue someone persistently enough — and push through their disinterest and rejection — they will eventually fall in love with you,” stated SPARC. “Romantic films often include protagonists who are ‘guys like Joe,’ ones who stop at nothing to ‘get the girl.’ Usually, there is no negative consequence for their actions ... and they persuade their initially reluctant romantic interests that they should be together. These characters are often presented as awkward, funny, sweet and/or passionate rather than scary and problematic.”
Crouch said that OASIS has noticed that stalking often correlates with intimate partner violence and sexual assault, as more than half of those who are stalking offenders are current or former intimate partners. She added that 85 percent of the time that an intimate partner has murdered their victim, stalking occurred before the physical assault.
Crouch added that perpetrators of domestic and intimate partner violence are often looking for power and control, and stalking is another way of ensuring control over the victim. She added that stalking —like other forms of intimate partner and sexual violence — is not the victim’s fault.
“There’s nothing that a victim or a survivor can do that would they would deserve for them to be assaulted or stalked,” Crouch said.
Stalking and the law
N.C. General Statute 14-277.3A addresses stalking, stating that acts of stalking could be a person directly, indirectly or through third parties following, monitoring, observing, surveilling, threatening or communicating to or about a person or interfering with a person’s property.
SPARC mentioned that some stalking behaviors are criminal in nature, such as property damage. But even if the behavior is not a crime on its own — like texting excessively or sending unwanted gifts — SPARC states that the victim may want to consider documenting and reporting the behavior to demonstrate a potential pattern of stalking.
According to Crouch, the rise of technology offers some new opportunities for perpetrators to stalk victims. Cyberstalking is addressed in General Statute 14-196.3, which covers acts such as using electronic mail or electronic communication to threaten to inflict bodily harm on a person; using electronic means to abuse, annoy, threaten, terrify, harass or embarrass a person; and installing, placing or using an electronic tracking device without consent of a person to track their location.
Stalking via technology examples could be monitoring calls, texts and voicemails; using a phone as a recording device; or tracking a victim’s location throughout the day by use of a phone, according to the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Smartphone apps or location devices designed for pets, elders and children have been noted as ways a perpetrator may cyberstalk a victim.
Boone Police Detective Candace Burlingame said that more recently, local incidents of stalking include an individual who is harassed via the internet with threats of disseminating embarrassing material. She is familiar with cases when a person is stalked by someone they know as well as by a stranger.
Both statutes list the offenses as misdemeanors. According to the Stalking Resource Center, less than one-third of states classify stalking as a felony upon first offense, and half classify stalking as a felony upon second offense, subsequent offenses or when the crime involves aggravating factors — such as possession of a deadly weapon or violation of a court order.
Crouch said that if an OASIS client wants the agency to work alongside law enforcement on their behalf, the agency can do so. OASIS has a positive working relationship with law enforcement in both Watauga and Avery counties, she said. Burlingame said the Boone Police Department is a big advocate for OASIS.
“I often say to reporting victims that OASIS can help you in ways that a law enforcement officer cannot,” Burlingame said. “An officer has to remain objective in their investigation into a criminal allegation, and sometimes that may come across or be interpreted as cold, or uncaring. The members of OASIS are advocates for the reporting victim, and they are that hand that can be held if needed.”
Burlingame said that generally an officer would take the complaint, investigate the matter and then file a report on the alleged crime. Since stalking is a misdemeanor (felony if subsequent incidents occur) that likely occurred outside of the officer’s presence, Burlingame said the officer would refer the victim to the magistrate to obtain a warrant. Sometimes an individual may choose not to seek out a warrant against a perpetrator, and simply wants the incident documented.
If the individual does want the matter to be investigated, the officer will try to make contact with the offender, according to Burlingame. Burlingame said the officer would also talk to the individual about non-criminal avenues, such as seeking out a protective order and the process required for obtaining one. According to Burlingame, the victim does not have to seek out a criminal warrant to obtain a protective order.
According to Boone Police records, 18 incidents from January 2018 through December 2019 were reported in which “stalking” could be applied; this was done by researching the offense description of stalking while also using a search of the officer’s narrative for stalking, according to Burlingame.
Tracking the number of stalking cases that Boone Police encounters can be tricky, as it depends on how the report was given or the circumstances surrounding the allegation, Burlingame said. She provided the example of a person who is charged with a violation of a domestic violence protective order, which would still meet the elements of stalking, but the incident and subsequent arrest could be documented as the former.
“Depending on how the officer documents the allegation, how the allegation is articulated to the officer, how the officer/complainant articulates that information to a magistrate, could mean the difference in how the incident is documented — harassing phone calls versus misdemeanor stalking,” Burlingame said.
If a person thinks they are being stalked, the Stalking Resource Center advises to take steps toward protection. These steps could be calling 911 if in immediate danger, trusting instincts and taking danger seriously, contacting a crisis hotline/victim services agency, developing a safety plan, keeping evidence of the stalking, not communicating with the stalker, contacting the police, considering getting a court order, telling family and friends about the stalking and alerting work or school security about the activity.
If a client enlists the help of OASIS, Crouch said the agency would start by first validating the person’s experience and ensuring that the agency is a safe space. OASIS staff would help the client develop a safety plan of what steps they would like to take based on their goals. The Stalking Resource Center states that a safety plan is a combination of suggestions, plans and responses to help victims reduce their risk of harm.
Tactics in a safety plan may include changing of a routine or asking a friend or relative to travel places with the person for safety. If a client is fleeing from a stalking perpetrator, the agency would identify if the client could be a candidate to enter its emergency shelter, Crouch said.
To contact the OASIS crisis line in Watauga, call (828) 262-5035. The Avery County crisis line can be contacted at (828) 504-0911.
In terms of technology, the NNEDV suggests that a person consider using a device that the stalker hasn’t had physical or remote access to in the past or can access currently. Using the device, the agency advises that a victim change passwords and usernames to online accounts, check privacy settings on all apps and online accounts, update location privacy settings and limit information given out about oneself online.
For more information, visit the Stalking Prevention, Awareness and Resource Center (www.stalkingawareness.org), Stalking Resource Center (victimsofcrime.org), the National Network to End Domestic Violence (nnedv.org) and OASIS (www.oasisinc.org). OASIS can also be found on social media at OasisHighCountry.
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By Abby Whitt abby.whitt@mountaintimes.com
Doc and Rosa Lee Watson talk with fans during the second annual Doc Watson Appreciation Day held at the historic Cove Creek High School in 1999.
SUGAR GROVE — After a multi-year hiatus, the Doc and Rosa Lee Watson MusicFest ‘N Sugar Grove will return to the High Country on Saturday, July 18, for the festival’s 20th event.
The news came from the MusicFest ‘N Sugar Grove’s Facebook page on Dec. 28, 2019, a departure from prior years’ posts that announced that there would not be a festival in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
“Thank you for your continued interest and support throughout the years,” the post reads. “It is with great pleasure that we announce the Doc and Rosa Lee Watson MusicFest ‘N Sugar Grove will be held on July 18, 2020! ... Stay tuned for more information and musicians who will be a part of 2020’s festival!”
The MusicFest ‘N Sugar Grove festival last took place in 2016, and it was a two-day event.
On July 14, 2016, in an article titled “19th annual MusicFest ‘N Sugar Grove — The High Country honors Doc and Rosa Lee Watson,” the Watauga Democrat reported that “the festival is run completely by volunteers and all proceeds go to the next festival and maintaining the Historic Cove Creek School and the Doc and Merle Watson Folk Art Museum.”
Organizers of the July 2020 event are finalizing the ticketing system and lineup for the festival. To learn more and stay up-to-date, visit the festival’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/DocandRosaLeeWatson/.
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• Nancy Kiprop and Helen Tola could go for course record in Austria’s trend setting running event
» Friday, 20 April 2018
Article source: Athletics
Kenya’s defending champion Nancy Kiprop and Helen Tola of Ethiopia are the likely favourites at the 35th edition of the Vienna City Marathon on Sunday. While world-class runners from Africa will surely again dominate the race, on a more broader aspect Austria’s biggest sporting event has achieved a remarkable feat regarding mass participation and a much more active live style in the whole country. As Race Director Wolfgang Konrad explained studies have shown that around 12 per cent of Austrians nowadays run at least once a week. And the Vienna City Marathon, which is the country’s only IAAF Gold Label Road Race, has been the trend setter for the sport for decades. The 35th edition of the race will be shown live online at www.vienna-marathon.com on Sunday with the coverage starting at 8.30 am local time (CET).
Including races at shorter distances, among them a half marathon, a total of 41,000 runners from 130 nations have entered the Vienna City Marathon. Around 8,250 of them compete in the marathon. It is the sixth time in a row that organisers registered a total of more than 40,000 entries for Austria’s best quality road race. The marathon has been shown live on national TV since the early days and has drawn huge numbers of spectators for many years. Both Austrian elite runners present at today’s women’s elite press conference, Katharina Zipser and Eva Wutti, recalled that watching the Vienna City Marathon in the past was a huge motivation for them and that it was a dream to one day race in this event.
„I firmly believe that the Vienna City Marathon has made a huge contribution to the sport of running in Austria and to a much more active and healthier lifestyle of our population,“ said Wolfgang Konrad. „Today more than one million people in Austria run at least once a week.“ Taking into account that Austria is a relatively small country with a population of around 8.7 million these are really impressive figures.
Wold record holder Dennis Kimetto of Kenya is the star attraction in the men’s race. However it looks more likely that the women’s race could produce a course record on Sunday. The 18 year-old mark stands at 2:23:47. It was Italy’s Maura Viceconte who ran this time in 2000.
„It is my goal to run faster than last year and break the course record,“ said defending champion Nancy Kiprop. The Kenyan clocked a personal best of 2:24:20 a year ago in Vienna despite unfavourable weather conditions. She recently won the Venlo Half Marathon in the Netherlands in 67:47, showing some promising form. Already a long career of around two decades behind her the 38 year-old does not think about retirement: „The future looks promising. I feel I am getting younger not older,“ said Nancy Kiprop.
The defending champion probably has to be in peak form to win again in Vienna. There are three runners in the race who have already run faster than Nancy Kiprop. Helen Tola is the fastest on the start list with a personal best of 2:22:51. She was fourth in Berlin last year with this time. „I would not say that I am the favourite. But I have trained well,“ said Tola, while fellow-Ethiopian Fatuma Sado hopes to improve her personal best of 2:24:16. Bahrain’s Merima Mohammed, who originally comes from Ethiopia as well, features a PB of 2:23:06. But it seems doubtful that she could be in top form since Mohammed ran the Nagoya Marathon little more than a month ago, finishing sventh with 2:27:41.
„Although it might get quite warm during the race we still hope that the course record will finally be broken,“ said Wolfgang Konrad. Such is the public interest in the Vienna City Marathon nowadays that national TV station ORF showed the two elite runners’ press conferences live for an hour each on Thursday and Friday.
Selected elite runners with personal bests:
Helen Tola ETH 2:22:51
Merima Mohammed BRN 2:23:06
Fatuma Sado ETH 2:24:16
Nancy Kiprop KEN 2:24:20
Melesech Tsegaye ETH 2:26:44
Tinbit Weldegebril ETH 2:26:48
Askale Alemaheyu ETH 2:29:01
Maryna Damantsevich BLR 2:30:07
Abeba Tekulu ETH 2:30:18
Celestine Chepchirchir KEN 2:31:41
Nolene Conrad RSA 2:35:21
For more information please visit: www.vienna-marathon.com or contact Andreas Maier (Press Officer): andreas.maier@vienna-marathon. com
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December Features, Cryptocurrencies and Farewell: A Week in Review
John reviews the biggest stories of the last week, including the Waters December features and bids farewell to WatersTechnology.
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In his final SST editor’s letter, John recaps some of Sell-Side Technology's best stories of the week, including the Waters features for December and the increasing momentum of digital currencies, before saying goodbye to WatersTechnology.
December Features
The last batch of Waters features for 2017 are going live this week and kicked off with a profile of Mifid II architect and chair of Esma, Steven Maijoor, who spoke to Aggelos Andreou about the directive, Brexit, no-action letters, clearinghouses and the regulator’s future. Maijoor also dispelled the notion that Esma is already working on the next iteration of Mifid, particularly as the journey so far has been less than smooth sailing.
Staying with regulation, Anthony Malakian and James Rundle have compiled a thorough examination of the upcoming regulatory agenda, taking in Mifid II, GDPR, BMR and Brexit. Emilia David will also have a feature on the re-emergence of chat tools within banks after a number of historic scandals, so keep an eye out for that.
Cyrptocurrency Boom
Digital currencies have ended the year with a boom as exchanges such as CME prepare for bitcoin trading this month, while Nasdaq has also announced it will launch a one-month futures contract on bitcoin in mid- to late 2018.
Skepticism around cryptocurrencies is clearly beginning to fade away as bitcoin trading continues to grow, but the CFTC has warned of a lack of regulatory oversight—more specifically a “limited statutory authority”—on bitcoin cash markets.
Waters USA and the 2017 AFTAs
The annual double-header that is the Waters USA conference and the American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs) took place in New York on Monday. A full list of all this year’s AFTAs winners is now online and there will be full write-ups for each category within the January issue of Waters magazine.
There will be reporting from the Waters USA 2017 conference to come soon as well. James Rundle has kicked things off with this piece on the rather muddled position banks are taking when calling themselves technology providers.
And now it’s time to say goodbye. After nearly three years with Waters I am moving on and will be leaving the publication at the start of next week. I won’t drag this out for long, but it would be a wasted opportunity not to make a couple of quick remarks.
It’s been a great few years with Waters and I want to say thanks to the editorial team both here in London and New York for all their support and hard work during my time here. I know they’ll carry on just the same and continue to bring you quality journalism in 2018. And thanks to you, of course, for reading.
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Since then, we have now worked with over 100 young people from all across the region, have our own office down on the West Pier and we are now entering into our fifth year in North Yorkshire. Delivering surf therapy courses in partnership with Scarborough Surf School at Cayton Bay and Dexters Surf Shop at North Bay, and since the summer of 2019 with Whitby Surf School in Whitby. We also have a growing surf club made up of some of the awesome young people who have completed on of our surf therapy courses and meet regularly from spring until it’s just too cold to get in the sea.
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Church pays off $7.8M in medical bills for 6,000 families
Together, members were able to pay off millions in medical debt for families in 10 communities.
Author: WTHR Staff
Published: 9:25 PM EDT October 8, 2019
Updated: 9:58 PM EDT October 8, 2019
CARMEL, Indiana — A Carmel church is making good on their promise to pay off people's medical debt.
Northview Church said they were actually able to help more people than they originally thought. They partnered with RIP Medical Debt, which buys debt for pennies on the dollar.
Together, they were able to pay off $7.8 million worth of medical bills for nearly 6,000 families in 10 communities.
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Originally, the church was hoping to pay off $2 million in debt with the $20,000 they raised, but then other churches got involved to help with the cause.
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Club members use the visual programming language Bavel to create online games and projects. Within Bavel's colorful, fun, and user-friendly programming environment, club members make technology come to life while learning the basics of JavaScript code.
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First Tech Challenge (FTC) Robotics Students program and create robots to compete with other school teams in regional and state tournaments. FTC robotics teams are formed during the spring semester for the following year.
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Last week, we learned how to submit a Sitemap to Google. Since Google handles 65.4% of all US searches, it’s in your best interest to notify them about all of your site’s content, and that’s exactly what the Sitemap does. But let’s not forget about Bing. Technically, they handle 30.1% of all US searches (Yahoo! Search is powered by Bing) so you definitely want to notify them about your content as well. With that in mind, this short video shows you how to submit a Sitemap to Bing:
Hello and welcome to Gnome Tips! Today we will show you how to submit a Sitemap to Bing.
First, log into Bing Webmaster Tools using your Windows LiveID. Then, select the site that has the Sitemap you’d like to submit.
Next, click the “Crawl” tab, and then, select the “Sitemaps” option.
Now, click on the “Add Feed” button, and type your Sitemap filename in the box that pops up. When you’re done, click the “Submit” button.
If there weren’t any problems, you should see a page like this one, and your Sitemap has been successfully submitted to Bing.
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This burger chain was just rated America's favorite
According to the Harris Poll, this burger chain is the most popular in the US
Updated: 3:00 PM EDT May 21, 2017
Abigail Elise
Arlington, Virginia-based fast food chain Five Guys is America's favorite burger restaurant brand, according to the Harris Poll EquiTrend Brand Index on Tuesday. Three different factors contribute to the index score - familiarity, quality and purchase consideration. Five Guys beat competing chains In-N-Out Burger, followed by Shake Shack, Wendy's, Culver's, Whataburger, McDonald's, SONIC, Smashburger and Steak 'n' Shake. McDonald's holds the highest familiarity score across all brands measured in the study, but Five Guys landed the top spot in the "purchase consideration" category. “The burger brand category has become less fragmented, as regional brands expand and become available in more parts of the country,” said Joan Sinopoli, vice president of brand solutions. “This is certainly the case with Five Guys, who has shed its ‘small regional player’ designation as it expands its footprint and marketing budget¾along with its fandom, which is a tremendous contributor to brand equity.”
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Arlington, Virginia-based fast food chain Five Guys is America's favorite burger restaurant brand, according to the Harris Poll EquiTrend Brand Index on Tuesday.
Three different factors contribute to the index score - familiarity, quality and purchase consideration.
A grilled cheese burger is a happy marriage between two of your favorite foods
Five Guys beat competing chains In-N-Out Burger, followed by Shake Shack, Wendy's, Culver's, Whataburger, McDonald's, SONIC, Smashburger and Steak 'n' Shake.
McDonald's holds the highest familiarity score across all brands measured in the study, but Five Guys landed the top spot in the "purchase consideration" category.
“The burger brand category has become less fragmented, as regional brands expand and become available in more parts of the country,” said Joan Sinopoli, vice president of brand solutions. “This is certainly the case with Five Guys, who has shed its ‘small regional player’ designation as it expands its footprint and marketing budget¾along with its fandom, which is a tremendous contributor to brand equity.”
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Hervé Baudry, University of Coimbra, Portugal: “Gérald Hervé, romancier de la guerre et penseur de l’armée”
Stefanie Cadenhead, University of Liverpool: “Le retour au récit: un effort vers le sens. Contemporary French fictions, the Second World War and the Occupation”
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James Steel, Glasgow University: “Fascination-repulsion: the French and war”
Janet Streeter, St Martin’s College, Carlisle: “The Papon Trial as a narrative and its implications for cultural memory”
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Leon van Schoonneveldt, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam: “Experience and Expertise in the Representation of the Unrepresentable”
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Schuyler Bailar Headlines ISU's LGBTQA Cultural Dinner
By Sean Newgent & Mary Cullen • Sep 23, 2019
Schuyler Bailar says "I wanted to show younger people...that you can totally be yourself and do what you love."
Schuyler Bailar was the first openly transgender NCAA swimmer and first trans male athlete documented to compete in Division 1 for any sport.
Bailar was the keynote speaker at Friday's LGBTQA Cultural Dinner at Illinois State University.
Despite his accolades and story, the athlete said he does not consider himself a role model.
“I think that’s for other people to decide, but what I do say about myself is that I’m somebody who can prove that this is possible,” Bailar said. “That was my primary goal when I came out, to be public about it because I wanted to show younger people, specifically young trans athletes like myself, that you can totally be yourself and do what you love.”
Bailar was recruited by Harvard to swim on their women’s team after high school. Taking a year break between high school and college, Bailar transitioned. He felt that this transition could potentially squander all the hard work he had put into swimming.
“One of the biggest struggles for me during my transition,” Bailar said, “was wondering if I wanted to give up being a female athlete. I initially was not going to transition because of that, because I valued my own success and my own hard work in the sport. But I ended up deciding I needed to prioritize my own happiness, my own authenticity, and for me to compete as a woman felt inauthentic to me because that’s not who I am.”
Bailar said he feels the need to be outspoken about who he is because throughout his young life he did not see much representation for queer and trans people in athletics.
“I need kids to see that. And so I will be open about this and that’s 100% the reason I do the speaking. That impact to me … I get almost daily emails and messages from people saying that awareness of my story has saved their life because they see possibility now and that means the absolute world to me.”
GLT's full interview with Schuyler Bailar.
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Cheer Coach, Teacher Off The Job After Alleged Hotel Incident
By Ryan Denham, Charlie Schlenker & Eric Stock • Sep 17, 2019
Staff / WGLT
Editor's note: Four days after this story was published, the Utica police chief told WGLT it appears no formal charges will be filed against Miller in this case. That updated story is available online.
A Bloomington-Normal cheerleading coach and teacher has been placed on leave as authorities investigate an alleged incident at a hotel in LaSalle County.
Datebook: 'Yellow Inn' Offers Universality Beneath The Laughs
By Laura Kennedy • Sep 20, 2019
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When guests check into the Yellow Inn, they get something other than a bed for the night. They get class warfare and murderous mayhem.
Needle And Thread Provide Empowerment
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Palmer blasts election inquiry for allowing ‘personal attacks’
Clive Palmer (AAP Image/Josh Woning)
by MADURA MCCORMACK
4th Dec 2019 7:12 AM
CLIVE Palmer has blasted a parliamentary inquiry into conduct during the May election as lacking in "credibility and objectivity" for allowing submissions that personally attack United Australia Party candidates.
The mining magnate, in his submission to the inquiry, also took a swipe at former Labor leader Bill Shorten as being a "hopeless candidate" for prime minister.
It comes ahead of public hearings being held by the federal parliament joint standing committee on electoral matters, which was tasked "to inquire into and report on all aspects of the conduct" during the recent federal election.
Mr Palmer, whose party failed to win a seat in Parliament despite spending an estimated $70 million on advertising during the election campaign, said submissions critical of the UAP were "just partisan political rants".
"Allowing submissions that personally attack an individual the way your committee does demonstrates its complete lack of credibility and objectivity," he wrote.
"It (sic) easy for your committee which has no members from our party to make claims not supported by evidence and to consider irreverent (sic) issues.
"The Labour Party (sic) lost the election because they did not get enough votes. That is democracy. The material sent to me just indicates that the Labour Party and their supporters are bad losers and seek to blame the system for their inability to attract votes."
A withering review by Labor into its own "unlosable election" loss found the party had no clear campaign strategy, a cluttered policy agenda and ambiguous language on Adani, among other factors.
Mr Palmer's campaign and massive advertising spend also muted Labor's ability to garner TV airtime and hurt its digital marketing reach.
Kennedy MP Bob Katter, in his submission to the inquiry, argued the pre-polling period needed to be shortened to a single week.
"We understand the need for pre-poll voting for those who are unable to attend a polling booth on election day," he wrote. "Unfortunately, early voting has become the popular way to vote and many voters have no legitimate reason for voting early."
Mr Katter argued that proper representation of all people in Australia needed to be addressed due to the "great diversity and vastness" of the country.
He said a mechanism needed to be put in place to ensure senators were allocated and based out of certain regions.
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Refettorio Felix opens at the beautiful new St. Cuthbert’s Centre
Sixty people in difficulty enjoyed their first lunch at the newly transformed St. Cuthbert’s Community Centre in Philbeach Gardens, Earl’s Court, on June 6th. The doors of the Victorian church hall had reopened following major refurbishment thanks to a project led by NGOs Food for Soul, The Felix Project and London Food Month. Its mission: to feed vulnerable people with food that otherwise would have been disposed of as food waste. “The world does not need to produce more food,” Michelin Star chef Massimo Bottura said at the project launch later that evening. “We simply need to use the food we have and stop the totally unnecessary waste.”
Skilled chefs just need to share the knowledge and teachworking chefs in our communities how to work with surplus food to produce delicious meals for everyone.” This is the basis for St. Cuthbert’s Centre’s new Refettorio Felix kitchen. According to Bottura, London’s leading chefs will visit the Centre regularly, sharing recipes and techniques specific to working with ingredients from food waste charity The Felix Project. Refettorio Felix was first conceived by Bottura’s non-profit organisation, Food for Soul, founded to fight against food waste in support of social inclusion and individual wellbeing. It follows on from Refettorio Ambrosiano, opened in Milan during Expo 2015, with subsequent projects launched in Brazil and elsewhere in Italy.
Richard Parker, Chairman of St Cuthbert’s Centre, said at the launch: “today was a momentous day for us, we were honoured and privileged to have been chosen to host these new surroundings.” Justin Byam Shaw, Chairman of the Felix Project, offered some poignant words on food waste, saying: “there’s more than enough food to go around, it’s just not reaching the right people.” Refettorio Felix will serve a weekday lunch from 12.30-2pm to people in need. It will stay open as a hub for culture, inspiration and social inclusion with the help of its four principal sponsors: Westfield, Grundig, Lavazza and Felicetti.
Why not take a look for yourself? Although the dining hall is not open to the general public, members of the Earl’s Court community have the chance to take a tour of Refettorio Felix during weekday visiting hours from 4-5pm. Please contact the Centre in advance to arrange. Want to help or support this worthwhile project? Visit www. refettoriofelix.com and get involved.
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Global Cat Food Market Trends
Cats worldwide are enjoying better food and longer lives, multiple studies show. If you are the owner of a feline, you are helping to drive that trend. By the year 2017, demand for pet food is expected to boost sales to $95.7 billion across the globe, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts Inc. (GIA).
This report and others help reveal pet food trends in other countries. Here’s a look at what is happening now in some key locations:
Down Under, the number of dogs and cats per household is actually declining a bit, suggests industry analysis firm IBISWorld. Some of that is due to increasing urbanization, since farmers tend to care for more animals in general. Pet food and other product sales are booming, though, just as they are in many other countries. The reason: increasingly spoiled pooches and kitties. “Though declining in number, the average pet now enjoys better food, more treats and even inclusion in sophisticated human products like health insurance,” says IBISWorld analyst Craig Shulman.
Online sales of pet food are going up in Australia, with the Internet market “in a growth phase, brought on by expansion of products and services.” Over the past five years in Oz, online sales of cat food and other pet products have doubled. Shulman and his team credit this to improved technology and infrastructure supporting such purchases.
GIA concludes that the European pet food market is now primarily influenced by four factors: health-oriented products, foods for cats at different life stages, breed-specific diets, and treats. Health concerns are paramount, though.
Cat ownership is on the rise in the United Kingdom, says Lee Linthicum, head of food research at Euromonitor International, a market analysis firm. While Brits clearly love their cats, the tough economy is taking a toll on families, requiring them to work more hours while still limiting their budgets. “It burdens those owners that want to offer the best for their pet but cannot afford to do so.” Nevertheless, people are working hard in an effort to feed their cats the best and healthiest foods possible.
This large, widespread region is enjoying the fastest-growing market for pet foods. GIA found that in Vietnam, India and China, product pricing and value for money are extremely important to cat owners.
Japan is somewhat similar to Australia. As for that nation, many families in Japan own older pets, so people are interested in buying new products appropriate for aging and elderly kitties. That’s a good sign, further supporting that cats are living to advanced ages.
In Singapore, South Korea and Japan, four factors are fueling pet food sales:
2. Shorter product lifecycles (customers want to feed the freshest possible foods to their pets)
3. Healthier products
Shared Trends
In most places around the world, the following seem to hold true, based on the GIA findings:
· Dog food sales are growing at a faster pace than cat food sales, but food sales for felines remain strong.
· People are mostly buying their pet food at retail grocery chains, at pet superstores and on the Internet.
· There are good signs that the economy is now post-recession, so leading companies are gearing up with new food product launches.
“The pet food industry continues to grow and expand,” says Stephen Zawistowski, science advisor for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). “Even during the toughest economic times, owners want the best for their pets.”
Duane Ekedahl, president of the Pet Food Institute in Washington, D.C., agrees. “Pets have become like every other member of the family, and this is increasingly reflected in how people feed their animals.”
“Pet foods are looking more like people food,” adds Ekedahl. “Consumers are into organic, natural foods now, and that’s what you’re seeing on pet food shelves. The industry has really come a long way in the past 10 years in meeting this growing interest.”
Can New Cat Feeders Help Solve Mealtime Problems?
Take a look at the food bowls offered online and in pet stores, and you’ll find more than a handful of newfangled bowls designed to solve various food-related problems -- especially overeating.
The DuraPet Slow-feed Bowl, for example, claims to be “ideal for overweight cats or cats that throw up after eating too quickly.” The Drs. Foster and Smith Bridgeport Slow Down Bowl for Cats has a “fish-shaped ‘slow-down’ feature that curbs air gulping and flatulence.” And the makers of the Break-fast Cat Bowl mention, “Slower eating makes an animal feel fuller and reduces instances of re-eating.”
The bowls themselves are pretty standard, except they have anywhere from one to three raised bumps in the middle that cats have to work around to get their kibble. They don’t tend to cost much more for this minor design change (prices range from $5.99 to $16.99), but whether or not they actually work is debatable. Many online customer reviews indicate that they can indeed slow down cats’ eating. But whether the slower pace can aid weight loss, digestion or flatulence is a question better left to veterinary professionals.
Aiding Digestion, but Not Curbing Weight Gain
“Slowing food intake could potentially aid in digestion by reducing the incidence of vomiting,” says Dr. Amy Dicke, a technical services veterinarian with Iams. “Food gulping can be associated with the swallowing of excessive air that may lead to flatulence, however, this is seen more frequently in dogs.” Dicke says it’s unlikely that these bowls can help overweight cats lose weight. “Techniques and apparatuses used to slow down food intake in cats are more about controlling vomiting than weight,” she says.
Dr. Katy Johnson Nelson, an emergency veterinarian in Virginia, agrees. “Weight loss is achieved by portion control of the appropriate food and increased activity level,” she says. “If you’re serving too much of the wrong food, a bowl won’t make any difference.”
Dicke, who has worked with teams of nutritionists and researchers, says switching to a food that’s been scientifically designed for weight loss can additionally help. “Look for special ingredients, such as L-carnitine -- also known as the ‘fat burner’ -- to promote loss of fat and maintenance of lean muscle,” she says.
Cat Food Bowls for Play
If slow food bowls have iffy benefits, other interactive slow food bowls could make eating fun for any cat. The Stimulo bowl by Aikiou ($28.95) is genuinely novel in that it looks nothing like a bowl. Rather, it is a collection of vertical tubes of different heights in which you can stash food. Your cats must then work at getting their meal.
The manufacturers tout this as something that taps into cats’ instincts for hunting and play. “It will depend upon the personality of the individual cat,” says Nelson. “Some will decide it’s not worth the wait, others may find it quite stimulating.”
Dicke says she would take the idea of the Stimulo and expand it across a wider area. “Small amounts of food hidden throughout the house may provide multiple benefits, including mentally engaging the cat, slowing food intake and providing exercise (which could provide a weight loss benefit),” she says. Dicke also suggests a homemade version of standard slow food bowls -- just place a golf ball or very large marbles in the feeding bowl. Small amounts of food placed in an egg cartoon container can also serve to slow food intake by increasing the difficulty of getting it.
For the granddaddy of fancy cat food bowl designs, look no further than the Dog-proof Cat Feeding Station, sold by Frontgate. Resembling a side table with a smooth walnut finish, the feeding station is essentially a handsome cage that can hold and protect a cat food bowl. A cat can slip into the station and eat in peace.
It’s a great idea if you have a dog that goes after your cat’s food. But considering its $199.95 price tag, you may prefer to come up with a homemade solution for this one too.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons/MJN123
Improve Your Senior Cat’s Eating Behavior
Has your cat developed a loss of interest in eating? Dr. Ernie Ward, a veterinarian based in North Carolina, found that a revised diet that favored particularly odorous foods -- or food that could be enhanced in terms of smell -- can help improve a cat’s eating behavior almost immediately.
Out of Smell, out of Mind
To understand what a decline in the sense of smell means to a cat, consider the fact that they have an extra organ tucked in the upper back area of their mouths. It serves to detect pheromones and thereby smell mates or prey. “We don’t have this,” says Ward. “As humans, we’re visual sensory creatures, but animals are more predominantly smell and sound. So it’s hard for people to put themselves in the place of a cat that can’t smell.”
If you notice a loss of appetite, or if your cat generally becomes more finicky (especially preferring more aromatic foods), your first step should be a veterinarian visit to rule out other factors. Decreased eating could be due to serious oral or dental problems, or one of several treatable medical issues that affect the sense of smell.
“Many people bring their cats in for decreased appetite, and it often turns out to be an upper respiratory infection,” says Dr. Katy Johnson Nelson, a Virginia-based veterinarian and member of the Iams Pet Wellness Council. “The inflammation and nasal discharge causes a decrease in the functionality of the olfactory senses.” She adds that appetite usually returns to normal once the illness is treated.
But for senior cats, starting around age 11, it’s often just a basic (and permanent) age-related decline. And while it’s unlikely that your cat would let itself starve to death, any level of malnutrition during the senior years is a concern you should try to address.
Tricks for Feeding a Finicky Cat
Switch food. Wet/canned food tends to be more pungent than dry food. Or, try mixing some wet food in with your cat’s normal food to give it an added aromatic punch. When switching to a new food, stick to high-quality formulations that are tailored to seniors.
Heat the food. In general, heated food tends to be more aromatic than room-temperature food. Take care not to overdo it and risk mouth burns, and avoid using plastic or metal bowls in the microwave.
Season the food. Many pet food companies now offer what are generally called “toppers.” They may come as small bits of freeze-dried meats that can be mixed into a bowl of food, or as aromatic, savory sauces that can be poured over dry food. “A lot of these products seem more tailored to dogs,” says Ward, “but I’ve had success using them with cats, so it’s worth a shot.”
As with any change in diet, consult your veterinarian before moving forward. As long as you rule out more serious health causes, an aromatic tweak to the food can usually improve appetite.
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How You and Your Cat Can Go Green
With so much focus on the environment these days, cat owners are becoming more and more interested in making environmentally responsible decisions. “I think for all my clients, sustainability takes a backseat to nutrition,” says Dr. Patricia Joyce, a veterinarian at BluePearl Veterinary Partners. “With that said, most pet owners would love to make ethical environmental choices in all aspects of their lives, including what they feed their cats.”
The pet food industry is taking note. In a recent survey conducted by the trade magazine Petfood Industry, 62 percent of respondents reported believing that consumers value sustainability and cited consumer demand as one key reason for their operations adopting green practices. Below, Joyce and Virginia-based emergency veterinarian Dr. Katy Nelson weigh in on balancing your cat’s nutritional requirements with environmental responsibility, and other ways to protect the planet while caring for your cat.
Cat Nutritional Needs
Cats are obligate carnivores, subsisting on diets that are high in animal protein. “A cat cannot be a vegetarian, no matter its owner’s preferences,” says Nelson. “Do your research and find a pet food manufacturer that emphasizes humane treatment of its protein sources, but do not force a vegetarian diet on your cat.”
If the resources it requires to bring beef to your pet’s dish offend your sensibilities, fish offers a healthy alternative for cats, and the cat food industry is taking particular pains to make environmentally sound fishing choices. The World Wildlife Fund, for example, is working with some companies to develop a fish sustainability program, making sure products do not include overfished species.
Some protein sources raised on land also leave a relatively small environmental footprint. For example, because of a chicken’s size, transporting it “from farm to fork” results in a substantially smaller amount of greenhouse gas emissions than the transportation of beef does.
Other Ways to Help the Environment
“At the end of the day, the goal is to feed your pet the best-quality food,” says Nelson. “If that’s beef, then it’s beef. You can try to reduce your environmental footprint in other ways that don’t negatively impact your cat’s well-being. Ride your bike rather than drive. Recycle.”
Joyce also suggests using biodegradable kitty litter in place of clay litter, 2 million nonbiodegradable tons of which are currently dumped into landfills each year. And surf the Web to start researching the following nonfood aspects of your cat’s kibble company:
Packaging. Look for companies that use renewable or recycled materials for their packaging. For example, some dry cat food now comes in resealable plastic bags that can be returned to the grocery store after use for recycling.
Energy consumption. Some commercial pet food makers have made public commitments to using renewable energy sources, including wind and solar power. Look for these commitments, as well as manufacturing plant Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Giving back. Corporate philanthropy often supports green causes. Pet food manufacturers in North America are involved with all sorts of philanthropic programs -- from dedicating a percentage of their profits to supplying clean water to children, to supporting local conservation efforts.
With the pet food industry coming on board to support a whole host of changes that are environmentally friendly, cat owners can feel more optimistic about reducing their cats’ carbon paw prints.
Cat Food: Then and Now
Domesticated cats have been with us since at least predynastic Egyptian times -- about 6,000 years ago -- but commercial cat food dates back fewer than 200 years. So what were cat owners feeding their pets way back when? How did packaged cat food emerge and evolve?
Although the Industrial Revolution was well underway in the early 1800s, many people at the start of the 19th century were living a rural lifestyle. Cats were valued allies, particularly on farms, because they ridded the land of pesky rodents. Those who lived on the farms may have set out bowls of meat and cream for the cats. These were more supplemental foods and served as attractants, meant to keep the cats healthy and ready to feast on mice and rats.
James Spratt’s Mid-1800s Breakthrough
The world’s first commercial alternative to feline farm life vittles emerged in the mid-19th century, according to Stephen Zawistowski, science advisor for The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. At this time, James Spratt -- an electrician from Ohio -- was selling lightning rods, which might have fueled his own mental light bulb. “He watched how dogs would eat up hard tack biscuits on fishing docks, and thought, ‘Wow, I could make something similar,’” says Zawistowski.
Spratt compressed beet root, various other vegetables, meat and wheat into cakes, baked them, and the first manufactured pet food was born. He called it a “Meat Fibrine Dog Cake” and cleverly printed ads on the opposite side of dog show flyers, which he printed and controlled with business partner Charles Cruft, founder of Crufts dog shows.
Cat aficionados soon latched on and bought the cakes too. At this time, small-business owners -- often working through farm animal feed operations or veterinary offices -- started selling their own pet food products to locals. Horsemeat was a popular ingredient in early cat foods, since horses were plentiful then.
Regulated Products and the Birth of AAFCO
With the growing popularity of commercial pet products came a need for regulation. In 1909, the Association of American Feed Control Officials was founded to oversee pet food quality. To this day, quality pet foods feature an AAFCO nutritional adequacy statement that indicates that the food is complete and balanced for a particular life stage. Kurt Gallagher, communications director of the Pet Food Institute, indicated that AAFCO paved the way for canned cat foods, with regulations established in 1917 for canned pet food products. Store-bought items were thought of as elite, since only wealthy individuals shopped beforehand.
1950s Machinery Breakthrough
The two World Wars put a dent in businesses, but during the high-growth 1950s, snack food manufacturing resulted in yet another ingenious moment. Clever observers, watching cheese puff extruders turn out tasty bites, had the idea that such machinery could produce dry pet foods with yummy nutritious coatings, says Zawistowski. This resulted in the first pellet-sized dry foods, similar to those that are still sold today.
During the early- to mid-20th century, new influential entrepreneurs associated with companies like Purina, Hill’s Pet Nutrition and Iams forged new commercial ground. Paul Iams, for example, “worked as a dog food salesman during the Depression,” according to Jennifer Bayot of The New York Times. “Not even severe economic hardship, he learned, could deter pet owners from paying the price to feed their companions.” Iams created some of the first meat-based, high-protein foods for pets, putting the emphasis on quality and good health. At the same time, interest in pets began to skyrocket. “Cat food sales in 1958 were 52 million,” says Gallagher. “In 2010, they were about 6.5 billion.”
Continued Emphasis on Quality and Growth
To this day, most cat owners feed their pets foods that contain high-quality ingredients with health benefits. The “eat healthy” trend really kicked in during the late 1960s, with momentum building with each year. “The pet food industry continues to grow and expand,” says Zawistowski. “Even during the toughest economic times, owners want the best for their pets.”
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Bush tumble dryer Safety notice
1st July 2019 Steve Bunyan
Following consultation with Milton Keynes Trading Standards, the Bush brand of Tumble Dryer, sold exclusively by Argos have decided to issue additional safety information on the installation, use and maintenance of these affected models:-
Bush TDV6B Tumble Dryer
Bush TDV6B 6KG (1288010)
Bush TDV6S 6KG (7642966)
Bush V7SDB 7KG (5386073)
Bush TDV6W 6KG (4810722)
Bush V7SDW 7KG (5480948)
Bush V7SDS 7KG (5496011)
Bush TDV6W 6KG (7642399
The main points to remember are as follows: Any restriction in air flow will lead to a potential build up of lint, which in-turn can lead to the lint coming loose and igniting on the heating element.
To prevent this ensure that:
The lint filter found inside the door area must be emptied EVERY TIME the Tumble Dryer is used.
If it is a vented Tumble Dryer that a minimum distance from the wall and the back of the tumble dryer of 10cm (100mm) is left to prevent the vent hose from being crushed.
Also and interestingly not mentioned in the safety notice, If the vent hose is connected to the wall that this vent to the out side is checked and cleaned out at least twice a year.
Do not over load the Tumble Dryer and check fabrics are suitable for the temperature the dryer
Its location, Any tumble dryer should only be installed in a damp free and clean environment. Every dryer sucks in air from its surrounding environment. If there is leaf, pet hair or dust, this will be sucked in and over the heating element, which has the potential to ignite.
Argos can be contacted on 0345 257 7271 or on there web site at www.argos.co.uk/events/safety-products-recalls
The advice from Argos is relevant for any make and model of Tumble Dryer and by following these simple steps the majority of dryer related fires could be eliminated. Facts about Tumble Dryer Fires
Register my appliance day
25th January 2019 Steve Bunyan
The Institute for White Goods Engineers are very happy in adding our support for Register my appliance day as an essential campaign that will save lives.
AMDEA (The Association of Manufactures of Domestic Appliances) are spear heading this campaign as an important but often missed step in the purchase of a new appliance.
As modern living advances the demand for appliance and white goods has increased, add to this the growing population, then it goes with out saying that we will see a rise in the number of faulty appliances hitting news headlines.
AMDEA members have invested millions of pounds in to developing environmentally friendly technology to greatly improve the efficiency of their appliances.
Technology has advanced from mechanically switched to electronically controlled circuits. This makes them more sensitive to their environment but does add greater control.
an average new European washing machine consumes 44% less energy and 62% less water compared to an average washing machine made in 1985.
in refrigeration, today’s best products consume only a quarter of the energy used by a typical refrigerator made in 1990.
With more complex products on the market it is inevitable that from time to time faults will surface at component level.
Making the Register my appliance campaign vital.
Consumers lead busy lives and often filling in the registry card or going on line to register an appliance can be the last thing on their mind.
We have long felt that the registration proses should and could be done at the point of sale. In most cases the customers details have already been captured.
A simple API link to submit data to the manufactures portal could elevate the £100,000 spent on urging consumers to register their appliance.
This thought is backed up by a YouGov survey, carried out by AMDEA in December 2016, found that less than half (43%) of GB adults usually register their large domestic appliances, which leaves thousands of owners untraceable if a recall is required.
Electrical Safety First, Trading Standards and the Fire Services, including the 46 fire and rescue authorities across England and the Fire Services in Scotland and Wales all add their support to this campaign.
Registration is simple via this link
Once selected scroll to the Manufacture
The Facts around Tumble Dryer Fires
16th May 2018 Steve Bunyan
The Whirlpool, Hotpoint, Indesit and Creda tumble dryer fire story has been a hot topic for many consumer organisations who are pushing for a recall of the affected dryers, rather than the modification that Whirlpool took on when they purchased the brands back in 2014. The affected models potentially numbered into the millions as the safety notice applied to tumble dryers produced between April 2004 – September 2015.
This presented a number of issues:
How to locate all these tumble dryers and are they still in use or have they been scraped.
How to modify them with the current service force.
How to maintain stock levels to facilitate the modifications.
An extensive advertising campaign was launched on tv and in newspapers. Customers that had registered their appliance were contacted first but of course if they have moved that information would be out of date. As owners of the affected models came forward in time they were contacted. There are still many affected models out there that haven’t been reported and the advice of whirlpool not to use them is being ignored.
Whirlpool established a two prong approach to the engineer issue. Quite clearly there would not be sufficient spare capacity with their existing workforce as they would still need to maintain the current service requirements of the business. They began a recruitment and training program for new engineers and also sub contracted to independent engineers around the country.
The modification involved removing and replacing the back panel, rear seal and bearing, installing a pop rivet into the rear of the drum and while the drum is removed giving the whole appliance a good clean, removing any build up of lint that may have bypassed the seals. The whole process should take around 45 minutes.
The purpose of the pop rivet is to scrape the rear seal and help prevent any build up of lint as can be seen in the image. In our opinion due to how little the rivet touches the rear seal lint will still build up.
This image demonstrates a modified dryer that is still starting to collect lint on the rear seal.
We feel that the modification has not resolved the issue of customer education in the correct use of there dryers.
Also included in this safety notice are some Proline and Swan brands.
Currently Logik, Siemens and Beko also have safety notices in place for some of their models.
Tumble dryers have always been a cause of fires due to a build up of lint igniting on a heater element. We at The Institute for White Goods Engineers feel that;
a. More emphasis needs to be placed on training customers and instalation personnel in the correct use and installation procedures.
b. Also manufactures need to add sensing to check air flow and prompt filter cleaning.
Lint build up occurs mainly when the air flow from the fan, through the clothes, lint filter, condensing chamber (for condensing dryers), vent hose and wall vent are restricted in any way. If there is a restriction pressure builds up in the drum forcing air and lint past the seals.
It is vitally important that:
The lint collector is emptied after every use.
If the dryer is a condensing type, the condensing chamber is removed at least once a month and cleaned.
If it has a vent hose, check that this hasn’t been crushed usually by pushing the tumble dryer back onto it.
Checking the wall mounted vent to the exterior of the building hasn’t become restricted by a build up of lint.
Location also plays a big role, if the dryer is in a location where dust, pet hairs, leaves or anything else can be sucked in, these too can build up and become a potential source of ignition.
The best advice we can provide for our members is, Check for obstructions and remove any build of lint when ever your service engineer opens a dryer for service or repair.
Advise your customers on the use and cleaning that is necessary.
Also a possible solution to the crushed vent hose problem could be to place two 100mm blocks of timber on the floor. This isn’t ideal as will often result in the dryer protruding further than liked, but a house fire is less than ideal also.
The review, by the Government’s Office for Product Safety and Standards, found that there is a low risk of harm or injury from lint fires in modified machines.
The review explored whether Whirlpool’s technical modification, designed to further reduce the risk of lint fires arising from its tumble dryers, was effective in both design and installation, while also reviewing whether Whirlpool’s consumer outreach programme was adequate.
Read our Press Notice: Review of Whirlpool Tumble Dryer modification finds fire risk is low
Reports in the media that the Government has ordered a recall of 500,000 tumble dryers under the Whirlpool brand such as Hotpoint, Creda, Proline and Swan.
Currently we can find no supporting evidence that this has taken place and currently as of the above date Whirlpools safety Notice website states the following:-
“Please note that this is not a new campaign and was launched in November 2015. Recent media attention relates to the ongoing campaign. If you have registered for a modification previously then you do not need to register again.
This issue refers only to tumble dryers manufactured between April 2004 and September 2015. Anything manufactured after this date is not affected.
If your tumble dryer has already been modified or you have purchased a replacement machine from ourselves then please be assured that this issue is now resolved for you and no further action is required.”
A letter from D. Jeffrey Noel, Corporate Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs, Whirlpool to Graham Russell, Chief Executive, Office for Product Safety & Standards
A reply letter from Graham Russell, Chief Executive, Office for Product Safety & Standards to D. Jeffrey Noel, Corporate Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs, Whirlpool
Which in parts says: I can confirm that OPSS will accept your proposal on the basis set out in your letter of 8 July. To enable us to monitor the recall you must inform us in a timely manner of relevant information, which we will set out.
We expect this action to provide for an effective recall of the unmodified products, such that it would not be considered necessary to issue a recall notice at this time. The acceptance of your proposal does not preclude OPSS from taking enforcement action in the future should there be any reason to reconsider adequacy and effectiveness of the corrective action, including any lack of sufficient and timely progress towards implementation.
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Office for Product Safety and Standards, and Kelly Tolhurst MP
Published the following:
Whirlpool UK Appliances Ltd is to issue a product recall of tumble dryers not yet modified from consumers’ homes.
The announcement follows an intervention on 4 June by the government’s Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) which informed Whirlpool of its intent to serve a Recall Notice.
Under the recall, consumers with an unmodified, affected tumble dryer will be entitled to a new replacement machine. This will be delivered and installed, with the old one removed, all at no cost.
Whirlpool has agreed to undertake a number of actions required by OPSS, and which have been reviewed by an Expert Panel, consisting of an independent Queen’s Counsel and 3 Chief Scientific Advisors from the Home Office, Health and Safety Executive and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. These actions are set out in an exchange of letters between OPSS and Whirlpool but include commitments to:
deliver a significant new consumer outreach campaign with wide ranging publicity of the product recall aimed at reaching affected consumers and driving up awareness
guarantee no charges for delivery, installation or removal of machines
improve identification of, and outreach to, vulnerable consumers
provide OPSS with timely reporting of progress made in the product recall
Consumer Affairs Minister Kelly Tolhurst said:
The UK has some of the toughest consumer protection laws in the world. Our intervention demonstrates that we will take all the necessary steps to keep consumers safe.
I want to reassure consumers that we are doing everything to ensure consumers with unmodified machines are made aware and have their tumble dryer replaced.
Consumers with an unmodified machine should contact Whirlpool to arrange a free replacement.
The decision follows a review by OPSS, published in April 2019 which instructed Whirlpool to reach affected consumers in more creative ways to minimise the risk of unsafe machines still being in people’s homes. Owners of unmodified, affected tumble dryers should unplug and contact Whirlpool.
Whirlpools product recall/safety notice page remains the same insisting that this relates to the ongoing product recall, and that modified dryers and those that fall out side the date range remain safe to use.
Jeff Noel, Corporate Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs
Whirlpool issue the following open letter from Jeff Noel, Corporate Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs, Whirlpool on there webpage: https://dryerrecall.whirlpool.co.uk/
Safety is our top priority and tackling the issue with our tumble dryers has been one of the biggest challenges we have ever faced. We value our customers more than anything and we recognise that we let many of you down. You deserved better from us and for this we apologise to you all.
We are honoured that our brands have been a part of British homes for more than a century and we are immensely proud to still be manufacturing our appliances in the UK. We recognise the huge responsibility we bear and always strive to do the right thing.
We work continuously to build better, safer products and help to drive change that improves safety across the industry.
When we bought Indesit in 2014, we didn’t just acquire a great British company, we welcomed its 5,000 employees and pensioners, and its millions of loyal customers in the UK into the Whirlpool family. With that comes a duty of care for their safety that is of the utmost importance to us.
The safety of Indesit’s tumble dryers was consistent with other brands’ appliances in the market. They met all UK and European regulations too, but Whirlpool demands higher standards, so, we applied our own safety policies to review Indesit’s products. Our review found a potential safety issue in Indesit’s tumble dryers concerning the build-up of lint. It affects certain models made between 2004 and 2015 that were sold under the Indesit, Hotpoint, Creda, Swan and Proline brands.
Even though evaluations under the EU’s official risk assessment system identified this as a low risk issue – its lowest category – we were not satisfied. Shortly after purchasing Indesit, we raised our concerns with the UK regulator and launched a campaign to fix the problem.
We did that because we believed it was the right thing to do to for people’s safety.
We are the first to admit we got some things wrong and could have done some things better. Due to the scale of the challenge, we left many consumers waiting too long and did not provide the level of service we expect of ourselves. That should never have happened and we apologise.
We did everything we could to put that right, hiring thousands of additional engineers and customer advisors to meet demand.
As a result, we have resolved the issue for 1.7 million people. This represents a success rate of up to five times the UK average for a product recall, but we recognise we have more work to do. There may still be people out there with affected dryers who have not responded. It’s vital that we find and resolve those remaining dryers.
To help us achieve that, we are redoubling the efforts of this campaign by issuing a full recall of all unmodified dryers.
That means anyone with an unmodified dryer is entitled to a free replacement, a free modification, a refund based on the age of their appliance, or the opportunity to upgrade to a superior model for a fraction of the retail price.
We’ve worked with the UK Government to agree on these next steps and together we believe this is the right action to encourage any remaining owners of unmodified dryers to come forward.
For anyone who still has an unmodified dryer, please call us immediately on 0800 151 0905 or visit safety.hotpoint.eu/dryercheck.
We thank the millions of people who have already engaged with us; for your time, for your patience, and for your understanding. Nothing matters more to us than your safety and we are truly sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Jeff Noel, Vice President
An interview with Jeff Noel can be found here
Other related documents from the Office for Product Safety can be found here
Whirlpool AKM 274/IX Gas Hobs
4th May 2018 Steve Bunyan
Whirlpool branded stainless steel, built-in gas hobs with the model number AKM 274/IX. The affected appliances were manufactured between September 2014 and March 2016.
The model number can be determined either from the instruction manual or, if access is possible, it will be visible on the rating plate underneath the hob.
If access is not possible then consumers should firstly check if it is constructed from stainless steel material and 60cm wide with four gas burners.
It will also have controls on the right hand side, cast iron pan supports, and a black ignition button in the bottom right corner. Also the Whirlpool logo will be embossed (slightly raised) in the bottom right corner by the control knobs.
Whirlpool state that:
“Due to a technical issue in manufacturing, these appliances were produced with the wrong type of gas injector in the front left corner. The front left burner may emit levels of carbon monoxide above EU standards which could, in very rare usage conditions, present a low risk of adverse health effects through inhalation. There have been no reported incidents involving these products. Investigations have confirmed that the issue does not present a risk of fire or explosion.”
The issue concerns the operation of the gas burner in the front left corner of the appliance (Circled in red in the above image).
If you have an affected appliance Whirlpool advises not to use the burner in the front left corner until it has been modified by a Whirlpool engineer.
Whirlpool State that all other burners are unaffected and may continue to be used as normal in the meantime. However, Electrical Safety First always recommends that any recalled product should not be used until it has been checked by the manufacturer.
All consumers who own this appliance should visit:
https://www.whirlpoolservice.co.uk/safety-notice
or contact Whirlpool’s customer care team on:
to check if the model number (and serial number) of their appliance is involved in this product safety campaign.
Consumers can select a convenient time for an engineer to visit their home free-of-charge.
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Hotpoint Tumble Dryers – April 2004 – September 2015
4th April 2018 Steve Bunyan
Following Whirlpool’s acquisition of the Hotpoint/Indesit brands, Indesit Company has closely reviewed the safety of its product portfolio.
As part of this review we have identified a potential concern with two types of tumble dryers manufactured between April 2004 and September 2015. In some rare cases, excess fluff can come into contact with the heating element and present a risk of fire. The affected brands are:
Whirlpool branded tumble dryers are not affected by this safety notice.
We are activating an extensive consumer outreach and service action plan in order to provide our consumers with products that are updated to higher safety and quality standards. We will arrange a visit from an engineer, free of charge, to modify your appliance. The service call will take approximately one hour. The improvements we believe are necessary will further enhance the safety and quality of your dryer.
Trading Standards confirmed, following an internal review by independent experts, that the modification programme remains the most effective way of resolving this issue. As a result, we will continue with our efforts to provide consumers with a free of charge modification as quickly as possible. Trading Standards have also notified us that updated usage advice should be communicated to affected consumers. If your tumble dryer is affected by this issue then you should unplug it and do not use it until the modification has taken place.
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Boss cat Elmo scratches and hisses on Channel 4's Supervet
Charlotte McLaughlin
Cat Elmo on The Supervet on Channel 4. Picture: Blast Films
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A cat from South Mimms was described on Channel 4's The Supervet on Thursday as someone who views himself as the boss.
Hannah and Jess brought in Elmo, six, into Fitzpatrick Referrals after they found he could not be treated locally when he was hit by a car.
However, Supervet, Noel Fitzpatrick, was confident that he could deal with the multiple back leg fracture and he would not have to amputate.
Dr Fitzpatrick said, on the show, that "the bone has exploded in many different fragments.
"So that makes it difficult to repair."
He also discovered, during his examination, that Jess and Hannah had not castrated him.
Jess said she normally would have by now but due to homelessness she just did not have the opportunity so the Supervet offered to perform both operations at once.
Elmo has "been through the toughest of times [and] without him I don't know what I'd do to be honest," she said.
All went well in the end, despite Elmo chewing his bandages, and Dr Fitzpatrick said his tibia is now "healing beautifully".
The Supervet did try to befriend Elmo after his surgery but said the feisty cat was "having none of it" and told his owners that he had been extraordinarily grumpy.
Even without a back leg fracture, Hannah said that he can be the grumpiest of their three cats but Jess quickly reminded her that he's also "very cute".
Elmo also scratched and hissed at the veterinary nurses a lot while on the show.
Jess said she felt awful that Elmo was probably "the worst patient" they had ever had.
Padraig, senior clinician at Fitzpatrick Referrals, said cats can be quite foul to deal with and will let you know when they don't like something.
But says he understands it as he doesn't want to be prodded and poked and have a thermometer up his bum either.
To see the first episode of series 15, where Elmo appeared, please go here: channel4.com/programmes/the-supervet-noel-fitzpatrick/on-demand/69564-006
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Putting wildlife at the heart of Cookham - a new scheme for the whole community
Let’s make Cookham a community that’s proud of its wildlife! A village that makes the extra effort to provide our flora and fauna with a rich and diverse home.
This is the idea behind our new ‘Wild about Gardens’ scheme. Our aim is to help people value the contribution of wildlife in their gardens – and to do that across our whole community. It’s for all ages and we are especially keen to encourage our younger residents to take interest in the natural world around them.
The scheme, initiated by Wild Maidenhead, is being piloted in Cookham this summer when it is limited to private gardens. It’s planned to extend the scheme in future years to other local areas, and also to open the scheme to categories such as balconies, community gardens and business grounds.
‘Wild about Gardens’ is not a competition: it is a certification scheme based on the self-assessment check list available here. The form can also be downloaded to complete and submit offline.
Click here to apply online for certification
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Japanese Newspaper Rumors New 3DS, Wii U Price
Author: Daniel FeitDaniel Feit
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The Nintendo Wii U will cost around $300 and a new, larger model of the 3DS could be on sale this summer according to the Nikkei Shimbun.
While the general form and overall functionality of the Wii U was the subject of a pre-E3 video broadcast online on Sunday, Nintendo has yet to reveal how much the console will cost. The Nikkei claims the Wii U will retail for "about 30,000 yen."
While that translates to $384 U.S. at current exchange rates, Japanese video game consoles typically sell for less overseas. For example, the Nintendo 3DS launched in 2011 at 25,000 yen in Japan and $250 in the United States.
The Nikkei also claims that the Wii U GamePad will include a number of as-yet-unannounced functions that mimic other touchscreen devices. These include the ability to serve as a car navigator, purchase digital books, even play karaoke songs via an online server. The Nikkei says 10,000 songs will be available when the Wii U launches sometime this year.
Beyond the Wii U, the Nikkei reports that a enlarged version of the 3DS "could be on sale as early as this summer in Japan, the U.S. and Europe." The new model will have a 4.3 inch screen, "1.5 times the current screen size" which would be comparable to the screens on a Nintendo DSi XL. This new 3DS will be priced higher than the current model, the paper reported.
"The story in today's Nikkei Shimbun was not based on any announcements our company has made nor was it approved by us. The article is complete speculation and contains many errors." was the official response from Nintendo. The press release then invited customers to watch its E3 press briefing streamed live on its website. Wired will liveblog the Nintendo briefing starting at 9 a.m. Pacific on Tuesday.
Japanese newspapers have a history of breaking news of Nintendo's hardware plans earlier than the company would like. Last year the Nikkei disclosed the design of the Wii U GamePad days before E3, and a 2010 report in the Asahi Shimbun likely prompted Nintendo to reveal the 3DS earlier than expected.
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High school tricks students into thinking their classmates died
By: Alex Hider
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Students at a Wisconsin high school are upset after they were falsely told four students had died in a car accident as part of a safe driving exercise.
According to WMTV-TV in Madison, students at Brodhead High School in southern Wisconsin were told during morning announcements on Oct. 26 that four of their classmates had died in a “ T-bone ” car crash that involved texting and driving.
But there had not been a car crash. The students who were selected to “die” during the exercise were notified of the drill ahead of time and were told not to use their cell phones to text fellow students and let them know that they were OK.
An announcement was made a few minutes later notifying students about the exercise, but not before tears had been shed.
"A lot of our fellow friends and students actually started crying because they thought these people were actually dead, and so I think a lot of them actually called their parents in school too," Brodhead High School student Madison Trombley told WMTV.
The school district superintendent Leonard Lueck said that he did get calls from upset parents about the drill, but the drill “was not intended to cause any harm or stress or scare students.”
“While we stand by the worthiness of the activity, we recognize the flaws with how it was communicated,” Lueck told the Washington Post in an email. “We will evaluate the value of this activity and either make changes to how it is communicated or not do the activity again.”
Alex Hider is a writer for the E.W. Scripps National Desk. Follow him on Twitter @alexhider.
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Boeing's biggest supplier lays off 2,800 workers because of 737 Max production suspension
Boeing's largest supplier is laying off a significant number of its employees because of the 737 Max production suspension.Spirit AeroSystems, which m...
Posted: Jan 11, 2020 10:40 AM
Boeing's largest supplier is laying off a significant number of its employees because of the 737 Max production suspension.
Spirit AeroSystems, which makes fuselages for the Max as well as other items for Boeing, announced Friday that it is furloughing approximately 2,800 workers. Shares of the Wichita, Kansas-based company fell more than 1% in trading.
"The difficult decision announced today is a necessary step given the uncertainty related to both the timing for resuming 737 Max production and the overall production levels that can be expected following the production suspension," Spirit AeroSystems CEO Tom Gentile said in a press release.
Boeing said in December that it was suspending 737 max production for an indefinite period, due to continued uncertainty about when the plane will be allowed to fly again. The company hasn't said how long the production halt will last or at what rate it might resume once the Federal Aviation Administration certifies the jets to fly again.
Spirit believes production will be "lower than previously expected" whenever it resumes. Boeing accounts for 79% of the manufacturer's revenue, according to Spirit's 2019 annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Max alone represents more than 50% of Spirit's revenue.
Boeing originally cut production of the jets by about 20% in March 2019, following two crashes that killed 346 people. But it continued to buy a full supply of parts and fuselages from Spirit, which has said that said Boeing now has more than 100 of its fuselages awaiting assembly. As a result, Spirit's shutdown is likely to last longer than Boeing's.
Spirit will not be the only supplier to be affected by the jet maker's production halt. Others could announce layoffs or may have done so already without any public statement. And in a ripple effect, suppliers in turn have suppliers of their own who could be forced to lay off staff.
"You are going to see a lot more news stories like the one we are seeing now" with Spirit AeroSystems, the former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Kevin Hassett told CNN on Friday.
"That's because Boeing kept producing the 737 Max throughout last year despite the grounding of the 737 Max. That's not the case anymore. Sadly, tens of thousands of people are probably going to be laid off before this crisis is done," Hassett added.
Friday's layoffs will affect primarily Spirit's Wichita plant, where it has 13,500 employees, representing more than 20% of the workforce. The company also said it will "implement smaller workforce reductions" at plants in Tulsa and McAlester, Oklahoma.
"We continue to work with Boeing to develop a new production schedule for 2020 with an eye toward minimizing disruption, maintaining the stability of our production capabilities, and best positioning Spirit for the future," Gentile said.
-- CNN Business' Chris Isidore and Cristina Alesci contributed to this report.
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Former CNN commentator appears in 'news of the week' promoted by Trump
Kayleigh McEnany appears in pro-Trump video
Updated: 8:36 PM EDT Aug 6, 2017
By Jackie Wattles and Brian Stelter
Donald J. Trump / Facebook SOURCE: Donald J. Trump / Facebook
Former CNN commentator Kayleigh McEnany is now hosting campaign-style videos for President Trump's Facebook page.Her first video, released on Sunday, cited several pieces of really positive news and credited Trump with the successes. McEnany called it "the real news."The promotional segments are the latest way "Team Trump" is trying to forge direct connections with fans through social media.It is unclear if the effort is being funded by Trump's re-election campaign or by the Republican National Committee. It does not appear to be government-funded.Sunday's video came out one day after McEnany announced her exit from CNN.McEnany, a pro-Trump pundit who appeared on CNN throughout the campaign season, announced via Twitter Saturday that she was leaving the network for a "new role." She said to "stay tuned" for details.McEnany was not dropped by CNN, according to a source with knowledge of her exit. Rather, she asked to be let out of her CNN contract in order to take on the new role.Then, on Sunday morning, the official Twitter handle for "Team Trump" and Trump's verified Facebook page both posted a video of McEnany laying out "the news of the week."In the video, McEnany touted Friday's employment report. "President Trump has clearly steered the economy back in the right direction," she said.The segment appeared to be part of a video series launched by the Trump team a week ago. The first installment was hosted by Lara Trump, wife of President Trump's son Eric. It was touted as "real news," following a longstanding claim by Trump and his supporters that mainstream news outlets deliver "fake news."The clips have a format reminiscent of traditional news networks: The host appears on a screen in front of a graphic background. In this case, that background is a smattering of Trump, Trump/Pence and DonaldJTrump.com logos.Elected officials using websites and social media platforms to promote their achievements is standard procedure these days, but the "real news" series appears to go further, seeking to discredit the mainstream media and advertising what purports to be a reliable alternative.McEnany did not immediately respond to questions about her appearance on the "Team Trump" segment Sunday.Some social media commentators dismissed her video as propaganda."Wow. Feels eerily like so many state-owned channels I've watched in other countries," tweeted Michael McFaul, who was the U.S. ambassador to Russia under President Obama."This is what Trump wants the news to be like. Unfettered propaganda, Soviet-style," surmised Mathieu von Rohr, an editor at Der Spiegel in Germany.But if those reactions were predictable, so were some of the praise-filled reactions on Trump's Facebook feed."It is sad but necessary to have to broadcast President Trump's achievements in this manner," one commenter said while lambasting the news media for perceived bias.Speaking on CNN's "Reliable Sources," longtime political analyst Jeff Greenfield said he thought McEnany's video was just part of a "long tradition, if not entirely noble tradition, of political campaign propaganda."--CNNMoney's Dylan Byers contributed to this report.The-CNN-Wire
Former CNN commentator Kayleigh McEnany is now hosting campaign-style videos for President Trump's Facebook page.
Her first video, released on Sunday, cited several pieces of really positive news and credited Trump with the successes. McEnany called it "the real news."
The promotional segments are the latest way "Team Trump" is trying to forge direct connections with fans through social media.
It is unclear if the effort is being funded by Trump's re-election campaign or by the Republican National Committee. It does not appear to be government-funded.
Sunday's video came out one day after McEnany announced her exit from CNN.
McEnany, a pro-Trump pundit who appeared on CNN throughout the campaign season, announced via Twitter Saturday that she was leaving the network for a "new role." She said to "stay tuned" for details.
McEnany was not dropped by CNN, according to a source with knowledge of her exit. Rather, she asked to be let out of her CNN contract in order to take on the new role.
Then, on Sunday morning, the official Twitter handle for "Team Trump" and Trump's verified Facebook page both posted a video of McEnany laying out "the news of the week."
In the video, McEnany touted Friday's employment report. "President Trump has clearly steered the economy back in the right direction," she said.
The segment appeared to be part of a video series launched by the Trump team a week ago. The first installment was hosted by Lara Trump, wife of President Trump's son Eric. It was touted as "real news," following a longstanding claim by Trump and his supporters that mainstream news outlets deliver "fake news."
The clips have a format reminiscent of traditional news networks: The host appears on a screen in front of a graphic background. In this case, that background is a smattering of Trump, Trump/Pence and DonaldJTrump.com logos.
Elected officials using websites and social media platforms to promote their achievements is standard procedure these days, but the "real news" series appears to go further, seeking to discredit the mainstream media and advertising what purports to be a reliable alternative.
McEnany did not immediately respond to questions about her appearance on the "Team Trump" segment Sunday.
Some social media commentators dismissed her video as propaganda.
"Wow. Feels eerily like so many state-owned channels I've watched in other countries," tweeted Michael McFaul, who was the U.S. ambassador to Russia under President Obama.
"This is what Trump wants the news to be like. Unfettered propaganda, Soviet-style," surmised Mathieu von Rohr, an editor at Der Spiegel in Germany.
But if those reactions were predictable, so were some of the praise-filled reactions on Trump's Facebook feed.
"It is sad but necessary to have to broadcast President Trump's achievements in this manner," one commenter said while lambasting the news media for perceived bias.
Speaking on CNN's "Reliable Sources," longtime political analyst Jeff Greenfield said he thought McEnany's video was just part of a "long tradition, if not entirely noble tradition, of political campaign propaganda."
--CNNMoney's Dylan Byers contributed to this report.
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Texas Music Festival showcases new, orchestral talent; free performance at The Woodlands Pavilion Friday June 22
By: Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion and Texas Music Festival
| Published 06/21/2018
THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- Since 1990, each summer, young professional musicians descend upon the University of Houston campus for a four-week intensive orchestral fellowship program.
Each musician accepted into the program receives a fellowship that offers a dynamic opportunity to learn from distinguished artists from the Moores and Shepherd schools of music faculty as well as members of the Houston Symphony.
The program culminates at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion where the Texas Music Festival Orchestra will take the Main Stage for a free concert Friday, June 22 at 8 p.m. under Guest Conductor Carlos Spierer. Tickets are not required for free seating.
“The Pavilion is very proud to be the presenting venue for the Texas Music Festival. This event truly fulfills our Mission of being a catalyst to enhance an appreciation for the arts and provide performance opportunities for young artists,” said Jerry MacDonald, president and CEO of The Pavilion.
The family-friendly concert will include performances of Joaquín Turina’s Danzas fantásticas, Op. 22, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and Arturo Márquez’s Danzón No. 2. A highlight of the event will be special solo performances by Andres Vela, first place winner of the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artists Competition, and Lucas Sanchez, second place winner.
Vela, from Edinburg, TX, is a senior at UT Rio Grande Valley. He plays an early 19th century double bass from Eastern Europe. While he started double bass at age 11, when the bass was definitely taller than he was, he’s now a tall Texan — 6’ 3" and his career as an undergraduate has catapulted.
Vela has participated in the National Youth Orchestra for performances at Carnegie Hall and a tour of China under maestro Charles Dutoit, former artistic director and principal conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Andres also has participated in the Classical Music Institute, Aruba Symphony Festival and Round Top Music Festival. He received Honorable Mention in the ASTA Solo Competition and recently won the UT Rio Grande Valley Concerto Competition. He has performed in master classes for many artists, including Scott Pingel, James VanDemark, Jeff Bradetich and Thierry Barbe.
This is the first time in Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival history that two student winners of the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition will perform as soloists.
Vela and Sanchez will also perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday June 23 at Moores Opera House in Houston.
Friday's June 22 concert at the Pavilion in The Woodlands begins with pre-concert activities at 7 p.m.
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of all ages will have the opportunity to complete their music merit badge through a variety of requirements set up throughout The Pavilion’s North Plaza. Other plaza activities include The Pavilion Partners Arts & Crafts booth and Instrument Petting Zoo as well as activities by Woodforest National Bank and Renewal by Andersen. Attendees will also be treated to special ballroom dancing lessons and an on-stage performance by instructors from Dance with Me studio in The Woodlands.
Guests are welcome to bring a picnic from home or their favorite restaurant to enjoy in their seat or on the lawn. Keep in mind however, that beverages are not allowed to be brought into The Pavilion and picnics must comply with The Pavilion’s bag size restriction and/or be in original packaging.
For those wanting to sit on the hill, lawn chairs also are provided free for this event.
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Home » Coast to coast » Oil strikers march on Marathon Petroleum as strike expands
Oil strikers march on Marathon Petroleum as strike expands
By Martha Grevatt posted on February 26, 2015
Findlay, Ohio — Over 200 oil strikers and supporters demonstrated on Feb. 24 in Findlay, Ohio, where the Marathon Petroleum Company has its international headquarters. Despite harsh winds and near-zero temperatures, the crowd waited to begin the rally until a busload of Marathon strikers from Kentucky arrived. The delegation was delayed when one of two buses broke down.
The strike began Feb. 1 after negotiations between the United Steelworkers and oil industry representatives, led by Shell, broke down. The USW represents 30,000 oil workers in 230 facilities across the country. Initially, workers at nine refineries in Texas, California, Kentucky and Washington state walked out. On Feb. 7, the strike was expanded to two refineries in Indiana and Ohio.
Steelworkers District One Director Dave McCall, whose district represents all of Ohio, announced that workers at four more refineries — one in Texas and three in Louisiana — had joined the strike.
Representing the union’s National Oil Bargaining Policy Committee, which negotiates with the oil companies, Jim Savage explained the number one issue behind the strike: safety on the job. Staffing cuts and excessive overtime are putting workers and the community at risk, as evidenced by a horrific explosion at a refinery near Los Angeles and the fatalities of 27 USW oil workers in four years. Another issue is the high out-of-pocket health care costs that workers — in the most profitable industry in the U.S. economy — are saddled with. Savage spoke for the five members of the national negotiating team who had traveled to Findlay to attend the solidarity rally.
USW Local 719 President Dave Martin, who represents the Catlettsburg, Ky., refinery, thanked all of the supporters and reported that solidarity remains high on the picket line as the strike heads into its second month.
A large number of strikers from the BP refinery near Toledo, Ohio, attended the rally, along with Steelworkers and UAW members from Detroit and various parts of Ohio.
After the rally, a boisterous march circled Marathon’s corporate offices several times.
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Eastern Europe: along the Adriatic coast of Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, northern Italy, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia
The Dinaric Mountain range spans several countries of Eastern Europe and is covered by mixed forest with an outstanding variety of deciduous oak trees. These forests are among the largest and most continuous tracts of forested habitat remaining for large carnivores in Europe. The flora has a relatively high endemism rate with many relict and restricted range species. Faunal diversity is high, and a number of IBAs (Important Bird Areas) and threatened SPECs (Species of European Concern) are encompassed within the region. Human impact remains high in this ecoregion, mainly due to the socio-economic and political instability of most countries in the region, where illegal logging, illegal hunting, and uncontrolled plant harvesting have recently destroyed extensive forest areas that had remained virtually untouched until current times.
Scientific Code
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Ecoregion Category
Palearctic
22,500 square miles
Location and General Description
The Dinaric Mountain mixed forests ecoregion encompasses the northwest-southeast Balkan mountain ranges, from the eastern Alps to the northern Albania massifs. Climatically, the ecoregion is characterized by an average annual rainfall of 1,500-2,000 mm. Of particular interest is the extremely heavy rainfall of the Prokletije range on the border between Albania and Montenegro (over 3,000 mm annually). Snow frequently falls during winter and average temperatures in January are below zero (from -10 º C to 0 º C). July average temperatures range between 15 to 20 º C.
The great Alpine upheaval and folding in Tertiary times threw up the main Dinaric mountain ranges. From a geological point of view, these mountains are formed largely of Secondary and Tertiary rocks of limestone, dolomite, sand, and conglomerates. The Inner Dinaric mountains are located in Western Serbia and Northern Montenegro, while the Outer Dinaric ranges are located for the most part in Montenegro and in the bordering area of Serbia towards Albania. In the Inner Dinaric ranges, Triassic limestone substrates prevail, with frequent plutonic intrusions, while the outer ranges have a more complex structure, characterized by the abundance of dolomites and ultrabasic rocks. The most important karst areas are at the karst of Lelic, on Mt. Giljeva and Mt. Pester, bordering parts of Mts. Zlatibor, Zlatar, and Tara. The longest cave in Yugoslavia (Pecina nad Vrazjim Firovima) and the 2nd longest Serbian cave (Usacki Pecinski Sistem) are located in this region, at Pester.
The wide altitudinal range of this ecoregion results in two major forest zones: a conifer zone, which characterizes the highest elevations (average altitudinal range of 1,200-2,500 m), and a mixed broadleaf zone that occurs at the medium elevations and lowlands.
The dominant canopy tree species of the mountain conifer forests are spruce (Picea abies), silver fir (Abies alba), and black pine (Pinus nigra). One Tertiary relict and endemic spruce species (Picea omorika) occurs on certain mountain massifs of Bosnia-Herzegovina (e.g. Veliki Stola? Mountain). Mixed fir, spruce, and beech (Fagus sylvatica) forests frequently appear all along the Dinaric Mountains.
Broadleaf beech and mixed oak forests dominate at medium and low altitudes in deep soil and humid slopes, valleys, and canyons. These forests are distinguished by an outstanding diversity of deciduous oak species including Quercus frainetto, Q. pubescens, Q. cerris, Q. robur, and Q. petraea, as well as other deciduous broadleaf species such as Carpinus betulus, Fraxinus excelsior, Ulmus minor, Tilia spp., Sorbus spp., and Acer spp. Canyons support important Tertiary relict species like Forsythia europaea, and Syringa vulgaris.
Biodiversity Features
The endemism rate of the ecoregion’s mountain ranges exceeds 10 % of the total flora in some areas. Many plant taxa related to these forest ecosystems have a very restricted distribution range (i.e. Velebit Mountain range), and are included as threatened species in the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants.
The ecoregion host a very high faunal diversity, mainly with regard to its birds. A few examples are capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus), peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), and kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). The region encompasses several IBAs (Important Bird Areas) and threatened SPECs (Species of European Concern). Large carnivores such as brown bear (Ursus arctos), lynx (Lynx lynx), and wolf (Canis lupus), as well as large herbivores like roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), red deer (Cervus elaphus), and chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), maintain significant populations in the mountain ranges.
The mountain ranges of this region have had low human populations, and tall forests still prevail widely throughout. A significant number of pristine large forest stands remained quite untouched until very recently. Rapid and intense forest degradation in the form of illegal logging, pollution, and fire took place during the recent Balkan conflicts that led to the division of the Former Yugoslavia into a number of independent republics. Overexploitation of forests is ongoing in certain areas due to the political instability of most countries in the ecoregion.
Types and Severity of Threats
Human impact remains high in this ecoregion, mainly due to the socio-economic and political instability of most countries in the ecoregion, where illegal logging, illegal hunting, and uncontrolled plant harvesting have already destroyed extensive forest areas-- including those within certain protected areas.
Justification of Ecoregion Delineation
This ecoregion is equivalent to the DMEER (2000) unit of the same name. It includes the lowland-colline subcontinental meadow steppes and dry grassland vegetation, and lowland-colline lime oak forests of Eastern Europe (Bohn et al. 2000).
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- Bill Goldberg vs. Brock Lesnar is all but confirmed for next month’s Survivor Series pay-per-view. The heavily rumored match, which we first reported in mid-June, will occur following Paul Heyman “inviting” Goldberg to next week’s episode of Raw regarding Lesnar. While WWE hasn’t yet announced the match, Daniel Bryan went ahead as if they had on last night’s episode of Talking Smack. When Renee Young asked Bryan about Raw signing Goldberg, he stated it might be better for a younger talent to get the match than Goldberg vs. Lesnar. Bryan shrugged it off, saying it’s going to be an awesome match on a co-branded show but he doesn’t like Raw is doing it and not Smackdown.
- As for Brock Lesnar, he’s scheduled to return to Monday Night Raw on the October 24, 2016 episode from his hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The announcement was first made by the Target Center. As noted above, it’s all but confirmed that Lesnar will face Goldberg next month at Survivor Series.
- TMZ Sports caught up with Alberto Del Rio and Paige to talk about the knife attack against him and her second WWE Wellness Policy violation in three months.
Regarding the knife attack, Del Rio explained they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, outside a restaurant in San Antonio, Texas, when a drunk guy disrespected Paige. He got into a street fight with him and suffered cuts to his arm. He wouldn’t confirm whether or not he got police involved and he stated the only reason he put it on social media was because of the AAA show that he missed.
Del Rio told TMZ Sports he’s been named president of Combate Americas — a hispanic MMA promotion — and he vows to be the “Mexican Dana White.” He also said he’s going to be doing some stuff with TNA Wrestling if they can get the money to pay him.
Paige wouldn’t comment on her second violation of the WWE Wellness Policy. She already said what she had to say on Twitter. Del Rio said WWE can do whatever they want, they own the company but Paige said it best, same shit, different day. Paige said for the next six or seven months, while she’s recovering from her surgery, she’s going to following Del Rio everywhere like a shadow. Del Rio doesn’t believe he’ll ever return to WWE again but he’ll always be thankful for them giving him the chance to showcase his talent to the world. Paige will remain with WWE as she has a lengthy contract.
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- WWE issued a statement to The New York Post in regards to Paige’s family’s claims that she was on prescription pain medication over neck pain. Here is the statement in its entirety: "Saraya-Jade Bevis tested positive for an illegal substance, not a prescription drug. In addition, WWE is providing world-class medical care for her in-ring injury.”
- Paige’s suspension has fueled mistrust within WWE from amongst the talent roster. We have those details available at this link in our Members content.
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Following the completion of the award winning Lake Merritt Park Master Plan, WRT led the first phase of implementation projects for the City, including the renovation of the historic Municipal Boathouse and grounds, reconfiguration of lakeside circulation routes, and improvement of park wide landscaping. Designed by John Galen Howard in 1909, the boathouse combined life-saving functions with the graceful presence of a lakefront building.
A grand viewing terrace and shoreline path were originally incorporated into the structure, and future additions expanded the public function and fostered the growth of boating clubs and social functions. Over time, however, the building and park had fallen into disrepair. WRT’s project, led by Murakami Nelson architects of Oakland, rehabilitated the building according to Secretary of the Interior standards, and reestablished it as one of the premier social and boating destinations in the region. It will continue its tradition as a public boathouse, with newly incorporated restaurant and banquet spaces.
The surrounding park, designed by WRT, orchestrates the building’s historic setting, contemporary functions such as service, accessibility, and utilities, and restores a major area of public park. Elements such as open lawn, a continuous shoreline path, regatta seating, and picnic terraces are composed to foster seamless transition between the building grounds and surrounding park.
Stormwater strategies capture runoff from off-site street areas that would otherwise enter Lake Merritt untreated. Street runoff is directed to a biodetention area integrated into the park and circulation system. Street parking areas are paved with permeable concrete, and over 1 acre of pervious surfaces are treated before draining into Lake Merritt.
Park elements including an open lawn, a continuous shoreline path, regatta seating, and picnic terraces foster a seamless transition between the boathouse grounds and the surrounding park.
There was strong community support for streetscape improvements along Lakeshore Avenue and Lakeside Drive including bicycle lanes, transit stops, and strategically placed pedestrian crossings that maximize safe connections to neighborhoods and regional circulation routes. The resulting landscape and urban design improvements have dramatically increased the amount of commuter cyclists, recreational riders, children, and pedestrian strollers in the more than two mile area of the city, while rehabilitation of historic urban park elements reestablished these important public places as valuable social spaces for community members to enjoy.
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Lesson from the CFO: Think Beyond Finance when it comes to Digital Transformation
Tom Strunk, CFO at World Wide Technology (WWT) shares with CFO Innovation his role in the company’s digital transformation journey, how his 110-strong finance team has changed since then and some of the challenges he faces as CFO.
Rebecca Morrison
Posted by CFO Innovation on August 27, 2018:
As the role of the CFO has evolved, finance leaders have a key role to play in their companies’ digital transformation as well. Tom Strunk (pictured), CFO at US-headquartered tech solutions provider World Wide Technology (WWT) shares with CFO Innovation his role in the company’s digital transformation journey which started in June 2017, how his 110-strong finance team has changed since then, and the challenges facing him.
Organizations in Asia differ but CFOs here in the region might still be able to find some of Strunk’s experience and insights applicable to their situations.
What has been your experience as CFO with digital transformation at WWT in reference to the finance function? I’m assuming your company isn’t a digital native, as it was founded in 1990 as a product reseller.
TS: WWT did not start out as a digital native company, but we are well on our way in our digital transformation journey. From a finance perspective, the integration between finance and other functions in the business is becoming more critical than ever.
Understanding how finance fits into every part of the business cycle is becoming increasingly important. The integration of analytics and finance produces much-needed insights for every aspect of the business, from lead-generation in marketing, to sales, procurement and the supply chain.
The cycle repeats itself as we analyse the generated figures and this data is fed back into the business to better inform our business strategy. The alignment between business and IT has become much more collaborative as we advance on our digital transformation journey.Tom Strunk, CFO, World Wide Technology
How’d you compare pre-digital WWT with fully digital WWT in terms of the finance function’s operation? Are there fewer finance team members, for example?
TS: The role of finance is changing as companies embark on their digital transformation. We’re moving from mostly doing back-end processing and adding up numbers to more front-end analysis and real-time business intelligence.
About half of the finance team remain dedicated to traditional roles such as accounts receivable, accounts payable and the general processing associated with finance. The other half is focused on the more digital and transformative aspects of the role, including analytics, forecasting and providing business intelligence.
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Home Gaming Lifestyle Online gaming makes me anxious.
Online gaming makes me anxious.
Elle May June 28, 2017 Gaming, Lifestyle,
At times I can be a very shy person especially when I don't know the person who is talking to me. This happens face to face, over the phone and even online, I get very anxious and overwhelmed, so much so that I need to take myself away from that situation. I've refused to go anywhere because of this exact reason, I don't feel comfortable enough around lots of people either, in fact, I tend to feel panicked and like I'm backed into a corner so I need to find a way out to get some air. My anxiety isn't as bad as some people get it but it's been a huge part of my life for a long time now, gaming has been a great outlet for my depression but not so much for my anxiety. I've made lots of friends through it but I've also been trolled a lot and had some disgusting things said to me.
A few years ago my family and I were made homeless, our landlord wouldn't fix the mould in our house or fix anything in fact and he was taken to court over it because the mould was that bad. My family lost the court case and had to move out because the landlord no longer wanted us there, we then became homeless and ended up in homeless housing far away from where we were living. It was so depressing, there was nothing to do and I had to give up my tortoise because this place didn't allow pets. I gave her up to a Sanctuary here in Cornwall and now she has a best bud (I haven't been able to contact the woman about her in a while she doesn't reply to me). You might all think that we weren't homeless as we had a roof over our head, but technically we were we no longer had a home and was staying in units inside a complex type of building, there was a youth hostel right near it and they would tend to be pretty violent and dangerous to each other. So anyways I ended up falling in love with games all over again, I already had my PS3 but wasn't playing on it much, I was always busy with mates or college to want to play. My sister's handed me Assassins Creed 2 and BioShock, I wasn't sure I would be any good at them because I hadn't properly played anything in a while but I was instantly transported into a world of happiness and calmness whilst playing these games, where I was living didn't matter anymore because I could lose myself in these games. As time went on we were allowed to live in the house at the end of the units and we had rooms again! A kitchen and a proper bathroom, I was so thankful, I was a lot happier and gaming eventually started to make a huge comeback in my life. Back then I would play games that didn't require online interaction, then I started to when an ex-fiance got me into them, we would spend hours helping each other get through a game and I would love it. It wasn't until me and my family moved into a proper house that I experienced the hate that came with online gaming.
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I would actually avoid playing anything online because of how panicked it would make me, with the exception of Little Big Planet as it's such a chilled out game. Now, this brings me back to today and how I find it hard to play online games without getting panicked, it's not as bad as it use to be to be honest, I hate the kind of judgement that comes with it, people may say what a ridiculous thing to have anxiety over but what you have to remember is anxiety can be caused by so many different things, for me I get it over so many different things that I let it take over my life, I have learnt how to cope with it at times and how it is a big part of my life, for example, being too afraid to go out because I will faint and interacting with people in real life and in a game because I worry about how others view me are just two things that set my anxiety off. Overwatch is the best example for this, I wanted that game so bad that James got me it, I started playing the tutorial and it suddenly hit me, I'm shit at this game and if I don't do well there is a big chance I'm going to get a lot of hate for it, so I never gave myself a chance to actually play it online because I had seen so many streams where people get shit and I would rather avoid it. Gaming has helped my depression a lot but it makes my anxiety worse at times, I wish people would just play a game instead of spending their time abusing people. I feel sometimes like I should just get over it and play online games more, but ignoring people can be hard especially when gaming is something I love doing. Destiny has always been my go to online game because I feel the community can be less harsh to one another, bar the ones who have ridiculous requirements in order to play a raid through with them, they're the worst. I play Destiny more than I've played any other online game, I guess I like the fact that I can sit and play online by myself and that if I do play online it's usually only with James. We can have a laugh and play the game with each other for hours without annoying little trolls giving us abuse, we are lucky that when we play strikes people don't send us shitty messages because we keep dying (yet).
So I guess what I'm saying by this is that it's understandable to feel anxious about gaming online, the opinions of others can be worrisome and words can hurt, we all have different things that make us anxious so if you feel more comfortable playing an offline game there is nothing wrong with that. Others may call us n00bs for it, but self-care and doing what's best for your mental health and anxiety is what is best.
Elle May
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kkochsongi 6/28/2017 01:19:00 pm
Can totally understand a lot of this post.
I understand how horrible it must have been to you being homeless as I have been in that situation before when I was in homeless accommodation and all I had was my PS3.
Anxiety with playing online is something I think a lot of people suffer from, I think a lot of the time perhaps females are more prone to it since there's still such a stigma over females playing games.
Even then, when you play online it feels like you're being judged most of the time by those you play with and against on your team. I can only play games online if I'm playing with friends, I feel less like I have so many people against me. I have had the odd bit of abuse when playing Overwatch but a lot of the videos online where people get shit are on PC where comms is more common, a lot of the time it's surprisingly relaxing save for a few assholes. You're always welcome to come on with me <3 I have made some good friends through Overwatch and they are always welcoming to new people to join in with us.
Games can be a great thing and I am glad they have helped you so much with your depression, they really do help let you escape into this completely different world away from the world that is making you feel the way you feel.
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Elle May 6/29/2017 07:44:00 am
It was pretty crap but in the end it's lead me to the point in my life that I'm at now and I somehow found James which is a good thing lol
Friends are so much easier to play with, even if they do have a laugh and a joke you know it's not going to lead to some kind of troing session where someone thinks it's acceptable to send abuse. People are so silly when it comes to that because they can easily get banned, why would anyone want to risk that in the first place?
Thank you lovely I may take you up on that offer once my sister's give Overwatch back, I think I will probably fall on love with it tbh I know some of the characters already and I enjoy watching others play it so why should I be held back by anxiety when I want to play it.
You're a little star xx
Matt Sanders 6/29/2017 10:09:00 am
I know how you feel, Elle.
When i was in my teens, i use to play endlessly online with my clan and others online, always chatting and having a good time, be it World of Warcraft or Medal of Honor Allied Assault. I took myself away from gaming for some years, and came back round about towards the back end of the PS3 generation. I got the PS4 day one, the main reason I got it was because of Destiny, I thought I could rekindle the days of old with this game. How wrong i was, dont get me wrong I love the game, but unfortunately times had changed, and it wasnt me, but the toxic nature that had crept into the gaming social environment, I no longer felt comfortable and too anxious to even bother, so stuck to doing dungeons via match making and the odd crucible by myself and kept off the mics. Ive never done a raid, although Id like too, but the toxic and elite / serious nature puts me off, which i find a real shame, its also making me question buying Destiny 2 because i dont feel I'll be able to get the full experience due to it all.
Angela Kate Webster 7/01/2017 08:39:00 am
I get it. I've had social anxiety since I can remember. Even so, when Xbox Live first came out I was so excited to try it but was too poor back then. I finally got online when the 360 was released but instead of fun I had never ending sexist comments and even rape threats. I don't want to hear that stuff simply because I opened my mouth. It made me even more anxious and affected my performance.
A few months ago I tried Overwatch for the first time and wow, that community can be toxic af.
The nicest gaming community I've come across is StarCraft. Shame I suck at it :D
Have you tried to find Discord communities for anxious gamers? I found a few but left because I seemed to be the oldest person in them. lol. It could be a good way to find like minded gamers?
Supergamesniper009 8/01/2017 02:16:00 am
Wow, being homeless? I give you a lot of props. That's a harsh experience to go through. That can be severely depressing. I'm glad you and your family managed to make ends meet though.
As far as the social anxiety goes, I can't say I can relate to be honest. I understand that the gaming community as a whole can be toxic (even with my male perspective) but I tend to take most people's opinions of me or my skills with several grains of salt. Honestly, in the long run, most people's opinions don't matter unless they're supported with SUBSTANTIAL evidence. Don't be hard on yourself. Everybody is the same vulnerable entity that has self-doubts, depression, and loneliness. We're all human beings. We are all deeply flawed individuals, not only do we have limited powers, but sometimes we're driven to become the Devil himself. People can be vicious. Some do it out of spite, others out of pain. All you can do is try to forgive & forget. As for me, I agree at times that playing online can be rough, but most of the time I put on a mic, all I get is dead silence or heavy breathing. In the times that I DO get a voice, it's usually co-operative. Once in several blue moons I will get some young kid that will try to start something but me, being 27 and having YEARS of Call of Duty experience, I usually wreck that type of person with disses so horribly hilarious that there are no comebacks for them. I've told kids on mics "Isn't it past your bedtime?" and stuff like that. Usually it's nothing. Shoot, I've had more angry comments from OVERWATCH than Destiny and Call of Duty COMBINED. I still shut them down and I usually do it with puns. If talking is the problem, just don't use a mic. You can always mute other people. Don't hate the game, don't hate the players, don't hate yourself. Get creative is all. You can live a great gamer life and have an online profile without worrying about what your teammate or opponent has to say. It doesn't matter in the long run. It's going to be some guy you'll rarely, if ever,get matched up with again.
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Also, just an f.y.i it's a bit difficult to read beige on a white background. I mean, I like highlighting text to make it white with a blue background as much as the next guy, but it makes it a wee bit difficult to scroll down and read everything (at least for the comments section). If you could find a more suitable color combo visually, that would be awesome. Other than that, good blog post!
So sorry for the awful things that you went through & yes some people online are so mean I don't understand those kinds of people.
Carly 8/10/2017 01:37:00 pm
I think most gaming communities can be fairly toxic at times, and I'll be honest, the Overwatch community (pc) has been so toxic this season! I'd honestly recommend waiting until season 5 is over before playing comp because it's an utter mess. I just end up muting chat mostly because people get tilted over anything, even when winning. I hope you find some better experiences in the future and don't let people get you down! Just block and report! <3 x
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Defining the 'iGeneration': Not just a geeky bunch of kids
After two years of writing about the 'iGeneration', my colleague and I sat down to redefine the term, and to settle the ongoing war of words in relation to who the 'iGeneration' really are in this modern day and age.
By Zack Whittaker for iGeneration | June 20, 2010 -- 16:48 GMT (09:48 PDT) | Topic: Apple
It occurred to me a few weeks ago that seeing as the technology world is ever developing, changing shape and form and pulling out multiple wild cards to throw everyone else off scent, the 'iGeneration' is a loose and relatively undefined term.
The iGeneration is not "just another name" for the Generation Z, nor does it indicate a clear cut group of people. It's a sub-group of younger people who already exist, and just because Bill Gates once said it does not and should not set it in stone. He was wrong, by the way.
I know, it's a little late in the game after two years blogging to pull a definition out of my arse, but it had to be done. Elliot Harrison, good friend and contributing guest poster on this blog, and I, sat down over a cafetiere of coffee so thick and strong, it was like drinking Plimsolls, to determine exactly who we are and where we fit in.
This was more a by-product of the book we were writing, funnily enough about the 'iGeneration', but it worked off the presumption that everybody knew what this term meant in the first place.
The typical Wikipedia and Google defined 'iGeneration' in our opinion is old, outdated and simply not accurate. Not only this, but it's written by a contribution of multiple writers over many regions and over time, and not directly contributed to by the members of the self-defined group.
So we took a stab at it, and this essentially makes up a good chunk of the first chapter. We're not arrogant enough to say, "this is the definition, disregard everything you previously knew", but this is a first hand, detailed and highly thought about definition that it seems has not been written before.
The terms ‘Generation Y’ and the ‘iGeneration’ are two labels bandied around without great thought as to what each term refers to. Often these terms are mistaken as one in the same thing, though it is understandable as to why the two are often confused. The two are not synonymous though do relate to each other.
You should appreciate that this is not an easy explanation to write. The terms are both precise and yet loose due to the constant evolution of technology, society and electronics, which they make an effort to partly define. However, the labels have been to some extent been picked out of thin air.
At this point in 2010, the term known as the ‘iGeneration’ was coined flippantly and without care given to what it referred to. Any given definition until now should be considered dated and tenuous to say the least. This definition attempts to set the record straight in what the iGeneration has become from its initial original conception, the means by which it represents and the collective it describes.
In short, the Generation Y is the blanket, fixed term to describe today’s youth; those aged roughly 18-30, often those working their way up from low level employment (“fast track”) or students in higher education at university (“slow track”). The Generation Z on the other hand is the even younger youth, those still in compulsory or K-12 education, and are brought up through primary and secondary socialisation on technological means. Their dependency on technology is still yet to be seen as maturity may or may not be a major player in their interaction and development with future technologies.
For the sake of this article, the Generation Z is awash with possibility; they represent the extreme future and only time can tell their impact upon the future, and are irrelevant for now. The Generation Y represents the next wave of development for our economy, our employment market, governments and our societies. As a note, both of the authors of this definition are members of the Generation Y and are well qualified to provide an in-depth, objective exploration into the inner workings and outcomes of this constantly, perpetual generational development.
The Generation Y, like its younger Generation Z are both fixed concepts in that the terms make an effort to represent; and specifically identify a point in recent developments of interaction with technology. The iGeneration is a more specific, in that the Generation Y refers to the collective of individuals between the rough ages of 18-30 who have been brought up on technology. Out of this collective, the iGeneration refers to a smaller proportion of the Generation Y where by the users actively engage with technology in its development, progression, and its use in the workplace, so that the technology can evolve within the means of the generation.
As you would have most likely guessed, the word 'iGeneration' is derived from the Apple lineup of popular products which especially took off in the younger market, specifically the iPod music device and more recently the iPhone. The little 'i' and the subsequent capital second letter is a homage to Apple's impact on today's youth, though the company does not own the rights to the term.
The iGeneration also represents a change in not only methods but attitudes and values also. With examples of social media and social networking, developing from widely used yet experimental MySpace in the early 2000’s to Facebook towards the end of the decade. One of the key factors of social networking was the increased growth of the web and mobile web access, finding its way into more and more households and especially to the younger generations as the result.
The web was no longer limited to the business environment and grew to harbour more recreational activity. The Internet was an academic achievement in its infancy, and so be it the World Wide Web, developed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN (Center for European Organization for Nuclear Research), now famous for the Large Hadron Collider. The iGeneration could be considered socialites by which technology became the means of isolated socialisation – allowing access to your friends, colleagues and family’s social lives from the comfort of your desk or laptop.
A defining factor to the iGeneration is the progression from schooling and instituinalised academia into professional circles and environments. Because the iGeneration harnesses their knowledge of the importance of technology this enables them to advocate major changes to culture in their respective industries. The principles of Industry have not been unchanged; though it is rare to find a profession nowadays which does not harness technology to its fullest means.
Some professions have been created as a direct result of the capabilities of the iGeneration – such as online enterpreneurial projects and services of social implementation. MySpace for example, some consider to be the first social network, was founded, created and developed by older members of the iGeneration with this, a precedent was set in allowing Facebook to be developed in a similar, yet more refined capacity. This in turn allowed Twitter begin its social importance as a separate extension to the ‘status update’ Facebook provides its users.
The iGeneration is all about communication and its varied manifestations; speech seems no longer important in a world where emails can be sent at the touch of a button and status updates can publish mood, feeling and current status.
Yet the industries seemingly untouched by technology, the iGeneration are using their inerent online social skills in progressing vital areas of their industry through public relations, marketing and sales. The iGeneration is conscious of its knowledge; the importance of it within industry and actively engages with new approaches to develop the working environment into something easily engageable and productive. It is vital to remember that the iGeneration actively and naturally engages with technology.
However, moreoever they almost unknowingly understands the possibilities technology has and implements it into places which before seemed technologically redundant. The iGeneration sets precedents for the uses of technology and understands the limitations of human action and uses technology as an extension of the body through which to be increasingly productive. Smartphones enable the iGeneration individual to perpetually be in the workplace should they so wish. The device allows vital and varied communication to others, be they colleagues in business, friends or even enemies.
Though members of the iGeneration are also increasingly forward facing, they care as much about personal development as they do about a software update on their phone. Technology enables the iGeneration to self publicise and to be exposed in a way which may seem attractive to potential employers or even to friends and colleagues.
There. That was simple enough.
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Clinton-Linked Cult Leader Who Hot-Branded Women Arrested For Sex Trafficking
Keith Raniere, the co-founder and leader of a secretive self-help cult called NXIVM who was run out of Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor has been arrested by the FBI in Mexico and charged with sex trafficking. Raniere fled to Mexico last November after U.S. authorities began interviewing "witnesses and victims" linked to NXIVM, however finding him proved elusive after Raniere began using "end-to-end encrypted email and stopped using his phone."
Shortly before Raniere was arraigned in a Texas courtroom, the FBI raided the Saratoga County, NY home of NXIVM co-founder, Nancy Salzman - who was alleged to be storing large amounts of cash at her residence, brought over the border following NXIVM training sessions in Mexico.
While NXIVM describes itself as a self-help business that has helped thousands of people "reach their potential" through various courses, the women’s-only "inner sanctum" led by Raniere is known as 'DOS', which whistleblower Frank Parlato - a Buffalo-area businessman who worked for the cult, says stands for “dominus obsequious sororium" - Latin for “master over the slave women”. Once they are a member - or “slave” - they are allegedly encouraged to recruit new women into their “slave pods”, stop dating, and be on call 24 hours a day to their “master”.
DOS reportedly required female members to give their recruiter - or "master," naked pictures or other compromising material which could be used as blackmail before being branded with Raniere's initials below the hip using a cauterizing iron.
Sarah Edmondson, one of the participants, said she had been told she would get a small tattoo as part of the initiation. But she was not prepared for what came next.
Each woman was told to undress and lie on a massage table, while three others restrained her legs and shoulders. According to one of them, their “master,” a top Nxivm official named Lauren Salzman, instructed them to say: “Master, please brand me, it would be an honor.”
A female doctor proceeded to use a cauterizing device to sear a two-inch-square symbol below each woman’s hip, a procedure that took 20 to 30 minutes. For hours, muffled screams and the smell of burning tissue filled the room.
“I wept the whole time,” Ms. Edmondson recalled. “I disassociated out of my body.” -New York Times
Of note, Smallville actress Allison Mack who played Chloe Sullivan is (or was) allegedly a "master" in the cult, and required to obey orders from Raniere - including finding women to sleep with him.
Mack would require that prospective "slaves" place compromising collateral into a Dropbox account -- one of whom was India Oxenberg, the daughterr of Dynasty actress Catherine Oxenberg - who met with prosecutors in New York and presented evidence against Raniere.
NXIVM Funding and the Clinton connection
As Rolling Stone reported in November, "In 2010, Vanity Fair published "The Heiresses and the Cult," a detailed account of Seagram heiresses Sara and Clare Bronfman's immersion in NXIVM; the sisters reportedly gave up approximately $150 million of their trust fund to help fund the alleged cult."
And in a 2007 article by the New York Post entitled "Hillary's $30,000 fans are her "cult" following," journalist Charles Hurt notes that Raniere was run out of Arkansas after Bill Clinton's then-attorney general, Winston Bryant, charged the cult leader and two others with fraud and business deception.
While Raniere paid fines in both New York and Arkansas in the case, over a decade later NXIVM executives proceeded to donate $29,900 to Hillary Clinton's presidential 2006 campaign - and at least three NXIVM officials are "invitation-only" members of the Clinton Global Initiative.
On March 14 and April 13, records show, more than a dozen contributions poured into Clinton’s coffers from NXIVM, an executive and group-awareness training organization led by Brooklyn-born Keith Raniere, 47.
Most were from first-time political donors, each giving the $2,300 maximum.
Three of the March and April Clinton pledges came from Raniere’s most high-profile followers: Seagram heiresses Clare and Sara Bronfman, and Pamela Cafritz, daughter of D.C. A-listers Buffy and Bill Cafritz.
Hillary isn’t the only Clinton NXIVM officials are attracted to.
At least three of them – group President Nancy Salzman and the Bronfman sisters – are members of Bill’s charitable organization, the Clinton Global Initiative. Membership is by invitation only and requires at least a $15,000 donation per person for one year. -New York Post
Prosecutors say Raniere was uncooperative when immigration officials arrested him in Mexico - while women he was staying with "chased the car in which the defendant was being transported in their own car at high speed."
Raniere is expected to be transferred to New York authorities following Tuesday's Texas court appearance. During their request that he be held without bond, federal prosecutors said he "has spent his life profiting from his pyramid schemes and has otherwise received financial backing from independently wealthy women."
He faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison if convicted of the sex trafficking chrages, according to federal prosecutors - who say he poses a "significant risk of flight" due to his "access to vast resources," and his "long-standing history of systematically exploiting women through coercive practices for his own financial and sexual benefit."
What is it with Clinton supporters and cults?
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France’s Industry of the Future companies resoundingly present at Hannover Messe
PRESS RELEASE - 24-avr.-2017 16:50:34
For the second consecutive year, France will be represented at Hannover Messe, from April 24-28 2017, in Hall 8 dedicated to “Digital Industry”, to show off the industrial know-how and creativity of French companies to international audiences, under the banner Créative Industry. It was in Hannover that the Créative Industry banner was first unveiled, the culmination of a closely-concerted effort with Alliance Industrie du Futur (AIF – National Network for Manufacturing Innovation) to showcase French industrial technology innovation through 7 technologies: digitization of the value chain, the role of people, new materials and composites, additive manufacturing, monitoring and control, energy efficiency, automation, workflow management and robotics. Won over by the success of the 2016 edition, the Grand Est Region and leading corporation Orange Business Services have confirmed participation in the fair again, at the same space. For this 2 nd edition, 2 new regions (Hauts-de-France and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) will be joining the Grand Est Region in the Créative Industry Area, a sprawling 350 m² space headed by Business France/AIF. Each region will be taking part alongside its solutions suppliers ( see detailed list below) . SMEs SAV RESO and Optim Data , which recently earned the AIF’s Technological Showcase label, will also be found at the Creative Industry space, as well companies AMA (connected glasses), Diota (augmented reality solutions) Monixo (predictive maintenance), and Cetim . In total, more than 70 French companies of all sizes will be able to show their capacity to provide innovative solutions, all along the value chain. With the support of its international network, Business France will put together 4 days with 4 countries that have set out an Industrial Strategy for the Future, including Germany, the United States and China. The aim is to create opportunities for interaction between French exhibitors and major principals or SMEs from the featured countries. The French-German day, designed in partnership with SAP France and Bosch France , will offer the opportunity to extend the cooperation on the Industry of the Future, officialised in Hanover in 2016: digital standardisation, usage cases, scenarios and R&D platforms. The French-American Day, designed in partnership with the US Department of Commerce, will offer French and U.S. companies the opportunity to participate in one-on-one B2B meetings. If you are interested, please register via the following link : http://www.uscsfrance.com/HM2017/ 11 SMEs from the GRAND EST Region, offering innovative technological solutions for the Factory of the Future in the GRAND EST Region ( www.grandest.fr ) will be exhibiting at the Créative Industry Area organised by Business France for the 2017 Hannover Messe, in Hall 8, dedicated to the Industry of the Future. Their participation proceeds from the Region’s “Factory of the Future” Plan, designed to enable industrial companies to turn their production sites into smarter, more flexible, connected and environmentally-friendly units. 15 companies and business players supported by the HAUTS-DE-FRANCE Region ( www.hautsdefrance.fr ) will show off their know-how, in partnership with Business France to: Highlight its pro-business image along with the advantages, infrastructures and tools which the Region boasts for the Industry of the Future; Communicate about the Region’s policies with investors, purchasing officers, partners, etc. Strengthen ties with partners through its presence at the Créative Industry space. This shared presence will be an opportunity for the Region’s companies and industrial players to introduce their products, know-how and operations, as business players engaged in the Industry of the Future. 8 companies from the AUVERGNE-RHONE-ALPES Region ( www. auvergnerhonealpes .fr ). France’s leading industrial region intends to provide concrete assistance to its businesses so that they can stand tall in the face of the challenges raises by the Industry of the Future and boost their attractiveness. A collective of competitiveness clusters from all across the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region and dedicated to the Industry of the Future ( Axelera , Minalogic , Mont-Blanc Industries , Plastipolis , Tenerrdis and ViaMéca ) will also be taking part. As to major corporations participation, ORANGE BUSINESS SERVICES will be at the trade fair yet again, alongside Business France. A trusted partner to the industry’s key players in their digital transformation, ORANGE BUSINESS SERVICES has positioned itself as the reference operator for the Industry 4.0. Thanks to its know-how as services integrator, its Datavenue offer, expertise in the field of cyber-security, and its partner ecosystem, ORANGE BUSINESS SERVICES helps industrial companies take advantage of all the potential which Big Data and the Internet of Things – powerful drivers of growth and innovation – have to offer. Orange Business Services Beyond Hall 8, dozens of French companies will be featured at the France Pavilions in Halls 4, 20, 25 and 27, in particular in hydrogen technology, showcased by multiple players (businesses, laboratories, associations, competitive clusters) aspiring to speed up the development of hydrogen solutions to the benefit of the energy transition. Come meet all the French exhibitors with BUSINESS FRANCE: Hall 4, A 44 : Industrial sub-contracting (forging, smelting, sheet metal processing, machining) ADIAMIX , GUY DEGRENNE INDUSTRIE , PRECIFORGE , RAYMOND BARRE , WICHARD Hall 8, F 09 : Digital Factory Companies established in the Grand Est Region: 2CRSI , 3P - PRODUITS PLASTIQUES PERFORMANTS , ACCELINN , ALCHIMIES , ARPITEC , HAPTIC MEDIA , OPTA LP , SIRFULL , SYSTANCIA , THURMELEC , VISUOL TECHNOLOGIES Companies established in the Hauts-de-France Region: FONDERIES DE SOUGLAND , PROSYST , EUROBAUT , GEOMNIA , SIF , STEREOGRAPH , TECHNIFRANCE Major corporation: ORANGE BUSINESS SERVICES SMEs exhibiting individually : AMA , CETIM , DIOTA , MONIXO , OPTIM DATA , SAV RESO Halls 20 6C 44 : Motion Drive and Automation DOUCE HYDRO , EXAGO GROUP , DS DYNATEC , GEM INDUSTRIE , VMF HYDRAULICS ( dcombre@vmf.fr ) Hall 25 F 24 : Motion Drive and Automation APPAREILS DE TRANSFORMATION DE VITESSE , INNOVATIVE TECHNOMICS EUROPE Hall 27 : Hydrogen fuel cells – power generation, renewable and conventional energy supply, transmission and storage AD VENTA , AFHYPAC , ALCRYS , ATAWEY , FRANCHE COMTE INNOVATION / H2SYS , MCPHY ENERGY , MAHYTEC , POLE TENERRDIS , POLE VEHICULE DU FUTUR Contacts: BUSINESS FRANCE Weng Si DUVERDIER, Industry Department Head Florence MASSENOT, Industry of the Future Head wengsi.duverdier@businessfrance.fr florence.massenot@businessfrance.fr – Phone + 33 (0)1 40 73 30 67 Phone + 33 (0)1 40 73 35 27 www.businessfrance.fr
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UbiMobility 2017: Business France and Bpifrance Accelerate 8 Innovative Startups and SMEs in the US Autonomous Vehicle Sector
UbiMobility 2017: Business France and Bpifrance Accelerate 8 Innovative Startups and SMEs in the US Autonomous Vehicle Sector - 8 startups selected by a jury of major actors in the connected and autonomous vehicle space in the United States - A 10-month acceleration program and 2 week immersion program in the automotive ecosystems of Detroit and San Francisco - It’s third edition underway, UbiMobility 2017 boasts two successful editions in its past March 13th, Intel announced the acquisition of the Israeli company Mobileye which specializes in driving assistance systems for 15 $ billion. The announcement boosts the race for new technologies in the autonomous and connected vehicle industries in the United States and opens up a major market for specialized startups. Today, Business France and Bpifrance unveiled the 8 startups selected to participate in the 3rd edition of UbiMobility, an acceleration program in the connected and autonomous vehicle sector in the United States. Beginning on June 3rd, the eight selected French companies will begin an intensive two-week immersion program presenting their technologies and developing partnerships with major U.S. players in the industry. UbiMobility will take the delegation to two major ecosystems in the automotive industry – Detroit/Ann Arbor and San Francisco / Silicon Valley. Additionally, these eight startups will be part of a 10-month program where Business France will provide professional support, and guidance, in order to foster the relationships established between the French and American companies. For the third edition of UbiMobility, a jury comprised of representatives from key U.S. automotive companies selected the 8 startups from a pool of 20 pre-selected companies. The selected startups offer advanced technologies in the key areas of the connected and autonomous vehicles including advanced driving and safety, facial and vocal recognition, driver behavior and interaction, vehicle connectivity and software validation. Supported by Bpifrance in their innovation efforts, most, if not all of these companies have made the United States their target market. Designed as a program to accelerate their integration onto the U.S. automotive industry, UbiMobility provides the opportunity for these eight companies to present their companies to the automakers, suppliers, VC, and research communities. On site, each of them will benefit from personalized support from Business France. The goal is to build a lasting relationship with potential customers and strategic partners in the North American market. The companies will receive coaching to adapt their message to the U.S. market. They will participate in targeted events bringing together the diverse members of the automotive / mobility communities and will benefit from a program of personalized BtoB meetings. While in the U.S., the UbiMobility delegation will meet with each jury member* and their autonomous and connected vehicle teams, including: Ford Silicon Valley, Delphi, FCA, Valeo North America, The University of Michigan, WardsAuto, Magna International, The University of California – Berkeley and the Boston Consulting Group. In addition to the jury, past meetings have included new automotive manufacturers and mobility companies such as Uber, Tesla, Faraday Future, Google, NVIDIA, venture capitalist firms and research institutions. This unique mixture of complete immersion and long-term professional support has demonstrated the program’s effectiveness of introducing French innovation onto the U.S. market. Results from the first 2 editions of UbiMobility: - Coaching and development of 16 innovative startups and SMEs - 11 companies’ presence and expansion to the U.S. market (Actia, Vulog, Navya, Trust In Soft, - Roadeyes, Kronosafe, Optis, ESI Group, Prove & Run, Pradeo, Arkamys) - Contracts or agreements signed for 75% of them (Actia, Vulog, Navya, Trust In Soft, Roadeyes, - Intempora, Krono-Safe, Optis, ESI Group, Prove & Run, Akoustic Arts, YoGoKo) - 47.5 million euros raised for their international development The stakes are high. Auto manufacturers, suppliers, Silicon Valley firms and local authorities are heavily invested in the development of autonomous and connected vehicles. The University of Michigan has developed Mcity, a unique test facility in the suburb of Ann Arbor, designed to test autonomous vehicles in real-life conditions. Thanks to UbiMobility, the 100 % electric and autonomous shuttle Navya was selected to be a part of the Mcity program. The integration of advanced technologies influences the emergence and deployment of the autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicle. According to the Boston Consulting Group, a majority of urban consumers are mostly in favor of autonomous cars (58% in France, 52% in the United States). This new mode of transportation has considerable perceived benefits (parking, the possibility using travel time to accomplish tasks ...). Its generalization should have a major impact on mobility solutions. Nevertheless, this will only be possible if the safety of the user is guaranteed. As Hadi Zablit, BCG’s Senior Partner and Managing Director Paris, points out, security remains a concern for a significant portion of consumers and remains a major impediment. This reality opens up important market prospects for technological solutions that will contribute to the reliability of the autonomous vehicle. * The Jury for UbiMobility 2017: Dr. Dragos Maciuca, Technical Director and Senior Technical Leader, Ford Research & Innovation Center, Palo Alto Mr. Drew Winter, Editor-in-Chief, WardsAuto World magazine, Senior Editor, WardsAuto.com, WardsAuto Ms. Françoise Colpron, Group President, Valeo North America Mr. Xavier Mosquet, Senior Partner and Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group Dr. Huei Peng, Director of the University of Michigan Mobility Transformation Center Dr. Gary O’Brien, Global Director of Avanced Engineering, Delphi · Mr. Bret Scott, Head of Silicon Valley Future Technologies, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Mr. Ian Simmons, Vice President Business Development and Research and Development, Magna International Mr. Thomas West, Director of PATH - Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology, The University of California - Berkeley The 8 startups selected for UBIMOBILITY 2017 Acapela Acapela Transport invents speech solutions to vocalize contents with authentic and ultra-natural voices in the transportation market. Over 100 synthetic voices in 34 languages are ready to give a voice to any content producing a natural and pleasant audio result, by turning written input into speech. Our natural voices are available on all main platforms (Cloud, Windows Server, Windows Desktop and mobile, Linux servers and embedded, OSX and iOS, Android…). By mixing two technologies (unit selections and concept-to-speech) we can now generate voices close to a human being in cars but also in other parts of multimodal transport (train, buses, planes…). Chronocam Chronocam is a Paris-based developer of biologically-inspired computer vision sensors and systems for autonomous navigation and IoT applications. Quite simply, its technology, which introduces a new computer vision paradigm based on how the human eye and brain work, significantly improves the performance and power efficiency of how computer vision can be implemented in a wide range of products and applications that improve the convenience and safety of our daily lives. CS Communications & Systèmes CS has developed an innovative technology that improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the Verification and Validation (V&V) process for complex critical systems such as advanced automotive systems. Its solution permits the generation of scripts of tests of hundreds of lines of code in several seconds, reducing significantly the cost of the tests. Dibotics LiDAR sensors are one of the key components of the Autonomous Car, as they allow for a precise 3D perception of the surroundings. However, they are still too expensive for mass-market adoption and are not giving keen resolution and detailed data compared to, for example, cameras. The real-time software of Dibotics permits the vehicle to know its precise location and to know its environment (obstacles, route, road markings…). Dynamixyz High quality facial analysis middleware which can be applied to a wide range of domains including the automotive industry. We have developed and showcased a car at the CES 2017 in partnership with Visteon which has the abilities to authenticate the driver, track its gaze and do simple expression analysis. This kind of technology is key to the development of ADAS. Neavia Technologies Neavia Technologies has more than 10 years’ experience in devices for ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems): smart cameras, wireless detection of transportation duration and communication vehicle to infrastructure (V2I). All these products for road infrastructure are contributing to better road management, more efficient traffic and to saving more lives. Pertech Pertech Solutions is a French company that designs technological and innovative solutions for Eye Tracking. Eye Tracking consists of measuring the gaze direction of a subject in order to understand the interaction between the subject and his environment. The innovation is based on the development of high-performance algorithms and software, based solely on image processing techniques, without corneal reflection (without IR), enabling accurate, robust, fast pupillary tracking which is non-intrusive, simple too implement (a few seconds), not influenced by conditions of brightness and without any constraint related to the acquisition equipment (camera). Smart Me Up Computer vision deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. It can detect and identify any object in a scene. Vision intelligence goes beyond that definition by understanding the context of the scene and reporting the information (drowsiness detection, car accident detection, pedestrians crossing the road). At Smart Me Up we bring vision intelligence into cars to create the autonomous car of tomorrow. In fact, it is a light and an affordable solution that can be embedded in any type of camera or OS. CONTACT For North America Business France: Mick SALAS: +1 312-327-7710 - michael.salas@businessfrance.fr Omar JANJUA : +1 (416) 903-1258 - omar.janjua@businessfrance.fr For France: Business France: Clément MOULET: +33 (0)1 40 73 35 31 – clement.moulet@businessfrance.fr Bpifrance: Nathalie POLICE: +33 (0)1 41 79 95 26 - nathalie.police@bpifrance.fr About Business France: Business France is the national agency supporting the international development of the French economy, responsible for fostering export growth by French businesses, as well as promoting and facilitating international investment in France. Created by the fusion of UbiFrance and the French Agency for International Investments on January 1 st , 2015, Business France counts 1500 collaborators in France and in 70 countries throughout the world. It promotes France’s companies, business image and nationwide attractiveness as an investment location, and also runs the VIE international internship program . For more information: www.businessfrance.com About Bpifrance : Bpifrance finances businesses through loans, guarantees, and equity during all stages, from the seed phase to transfer and listing on the stock exchange. In partnership with Business France and Coface, Bpifrance accompanies firms developing export activities and provides support for their innovation projects. Bpifrance offers businesses the benefit of a powerful contact, one who is readily available and able to efficiently respond to their financing needs during For more information: www.bpifrance.com
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23 French exhibitors at the Photonics West tradeshow in San Francisco
Nathalie Marchal - 13-janv.-2017 22:37:29
23 French exhibitors at the Photonics West tradeshow in San Francisco From January 31 st to February 2 nd , 2017 Organised by Business France in partnership with the CNOP (National Committee for Optics and Photonics), the French Pavilion at the Photonics West tradeshow in February 2016 will gather 24 exhibitors. Among them, there will be French competitiveness cluster who are CNOP members: Alpha – Route des Lasers & des Hyperfréquences, as well as the Bretagne International agency, which groups several businesses in its area. Located in the Moscone Center South Hall, in booths 1723 and 1823, the French Pavilion will extend over a 1600 sq feet surface area. The French optic and photonics represents about a thousand companies and 50,000 direct jobs, a turnover of €10,45b, 300 laboratories and 13,000 researchers (Source: AFOP). As for business sectors, while it is still positioned on the defence market, it is making increasing inroads into sectors such as security, aeronautics, automotive, space, health, telecommunications, instrumentation and industrial processes. 90% of French industrialists export their production. Those exports represent about 50% of the business channel’s overall turnover. Research conducted in France covers a wide range of fields: fundamental physics, astrophysics, micro and nanotechnology, light/matter interaction and materials, thereby taking part in the progress of other disciplines. All French research agencies are presently involved in ambitious projects: the large telescopes of the future, satellites to observe the workings of the universe, extreme lasers, and they are associated with the instrumentation needed in such undertakings as the ITER, VIRGO and LHC projects. Beyond the exceptional advances they are expected to trigge r, those projects are also significantly stimulating industrial activity around optics photonics. Furthermore, they are playing a role in creating a strong synergy between research laboratories and industry, a synergy which is essential to a dynamic business environment and which has brought about a strong showing of French projects within the framework of European calls for tender. Innovative in the field of optics and photonics, French companies exhibiting in San Francisco will be unveiling their latest products at the tradeshow. The catalogue of exhibitors is available on request. Contact: Business France Nathalie Marchal, Electronic & Digital Project Coordinator Nathalie.marchal@businessfrance.fr
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Defymed Enters Partnership with Semma Therapeutics
PRESS RELEASE - 13-déc.-2016 18:26:41
Defymed enters partnership with Semma Therapeutics Strasbourg, 12 December 2016 - Defymed, a Strasbourg biotech company specialising in the development of bio-artificial organs, announces a strategic collaboration with Semma Therapeutics, an American biotechnology company specialising in the development of cell therapies for the treatment of diabetes, with the goal of developing of an innovative solution for treating type-1 diabetes. The collaboration is aimed at pre-clinical validation of the MAILPAN® bio-artificial pancreas, a device developed by Defymed, in combination with stem-cell derived differentiated insulin-secreting cells developed by Semma Therapeutics. The combination will be evaluated for effectiveness and safety, at first in vitro and then in an animal model. MAILPAN® is a medical device in the form of a pouch made of bio-compatible polymer comprising semi-permeable membranes that allow glucose, nutriments and oxygen to pass through and hence to reach the pancreatic cells contained in the device, delivering the insulin required to regulate the patient’s blood-sugar level. The membranes are impermeable to the immune system and its antibodies, thereby protecting the patient from rejection of the implanted cells. If successful, the collaboration could be an important step in the fight against the global epidemic of diabetes. Diabetes affects more than 420 million people globally, accounting for around $700B in healthcase spending. Type 1 diabetes alone accounts for $14.9 billion in healthcare costs in the U.S., with 1.25M patients on insulin therapy for the disease. In France, it is estimated that 300 000 people have type-1 diabetes, and 2 000 new cases are diagnosed each year. This therapy would potentially offer the patient an unlimited source of insulin-secreting cells, unlike pancreatic islets which are limited by their availibility. Additionally, the device should obviate the need for immuno-suppression treatment, as its membranes as expected to protect the encapsulated cells from any risk of rejection. The patient would no longer have to think about multiple insulin injections each day, as the MAILPAN® combined with Semma’s cells should deliver the right amount of insulin. Defymed’s autonomous and long-lasting medical device thereby is hoped to substantially reduce the complications connected with diabetes. “Semma Therapeutics’ expertise could represent a major new source for cells usable in our medical device,” said Dr Séverine Sigrist, Founding President of Defymed. “It is vital in Defymed’s strategy to validate our medical device with what are currently the most promising cells. We believe the approach developed by Semma is the most advanced worldwide. Everything points to our collaboration being a great success. So I welcome this partnership, which looks very promising indeed!” “Defymed offers one of the most promising options available today in terms of a third party immunoprotective device,” said Robert Millman, CEO of Semma Therapeutics. “We’re excited for the collaboration and look forward to the results.” This exemplary cooperation was recognized as “Best innovative trial design leading to a quicker and better therapeutic outcome” at the MedStartup - Galien Award event on 27 October 2016 in New York. For Defymed, the collaboration follows just six months after concluding a financial agreement for half a million dollars with the JRDF, a global foundation that funds research into treatment for type-1 diabetes. Defymed also has the support and accompaniment of Business France for its development in the United States. The Strasbourg biotech company is keen to become established in this important market in the very near future. About Defymed Defymed, a spin-off of the European centre for the study of diabetes CeeD (Centre Européen d’Étude du Diabète), is a biotechnology company set up in March 2011; it specialises in the design and development of innovative bio-artificial medical devices. Defymed’s initial focus is on developing an application for treating type 1 diabetes. The first product it has designed is MAILPAN©, an implantable bio-artificial pancreas intended to re-establish the normal production of insulin in type 1 diabetics. The MAILPAN© prototype was produced with financial support from the European Commission. The company owns exclusive technology that enables it to produce medical devices for use in other therapeutic applications. Defymed’s strength lies in its network of French and international partners. For more information, please visit www.defymed.com. About Semma Therapeutics Semma Therapeutics was founded to develop transformative therapies for Type 1 diabetes patients. Work in the laboratory of Professor Douglas Melton led to the discovery of a method to generate billions of functional, insulin-producing beta cells in the laboratory. This breakthrough technology has been exclusively licensed to Semma Therapeutics for the development of a cell-based therapy for diabetes. Ongoing research at Semma Therapeutics is focused on combining these proprietary cells with a state-of-the-art device to provide a true replacement for the missing beta cells in a diabetic patient without immunosuppression. Semma Therapeutics is working to bring new therapeutic options to the clinic and improve the lives of patients with diabetes. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. For more information, visit www.semma-tx.com. COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE DEFYMED 8 Avenue Dante 67000 Strasbourg - France Tel. +33 (0)3 90 41 04 46 www. defymed .com Further information and visuals available on request from our press service: OXYGEN | Press contacts 2 Rue d’Ingwiller - 67000 Strasbourg [France] Elise Cordier +33 (0)3 67 22 03 25 - elisec@oxygen-rp.com Jérémie Lotz +33 (0)6 11 25 48 05 - jlotz@oxygen-rp.com
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Laser Stripping Becomes a Reference in the Field of Cabling
PRESS - 06-déc.-2016 23:57:21
Laser Stripping Becomes a Reference in the Field of Cabling Over the last two decades the aerospace industrial landscape has seen a tremendous surge in laser processing solutions (cutting, welding, marking, etc.). Electrical harness manufacturing is a booming sector driven by the strong growth of aircraft production and the race for autonomous cars (multiplication of sensors and multimedia systems, complexity of the harnesses). The use of high-precision laser solutions for marking or stripping of a lighter, technical and sensitive electric cable is constantly increasing. In recent years, cable laser stripping machines have followed a trend of sophistication, increased power, size and capacity to try to penetrate new markets in the industry. Laselec has chosen to work against the flow by relying on innovation, miniaturization, ergonomics and ease of use. Laselec has developed Sylade, a patented technology for contactless cable stripping based on laser diodes. Sylade technology is integrated in the field of aerospace cabling and offers a level of precision, quality and consistency far superior than that of traditional tools. Laser stripping is establishing itself as the best solution for the stripping of shielded, twisted and multi-filament cables and meets the new requirements of the aerospace standards ASD EN2812, SAE AIR6894 updated and published in recent months. The Sylade products - available as a stand-alone or integrated in an automated harness manufacturing solution- perfectly meets the need for stripping aluminum cables used in the transport sectors as well. Their use guarantess not to damage the ultra-sensitive strands of these new families of technical cables. Public Relations Contact : Marie-Line LAVAL, Global Sales Director info@laselec.com +33 (0)5 82 950 550 www.laselec.com
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A Look Back: MEDSTARTUP 2016
Elsa RIVE - 22-nov.-2016 23:01:16
A Look Back: MEDSTARTUP 2016 Business France & The Galien Foundation were pleased with the Medstartup Partnering Day where: NETWORK with +200 Leaders in the EHealth/Pharma/Medtech industrie SOURCE INNOVATION Meet with +50 innovative French Health Tech companies EXPAND Identify strategic partners to access to the European market For the second consecutive year, Medstartup was honored to involve inspiring leaders in the industry and fantastic jury composed by Bernard Poussot, Director, Roche Holding, Former Chairman & CEO, Wyeth - Roch DOLIVEUX - Honorary CEO, UCB -Mikael DOLSTEN - Global R&D President, Pfizer -Jean-Pierre GARNIER – Former CEO, GSK -Franz HUMER - Former CEO, Roche -François MAISONROUGE - Senior Managing Director, EvercorePartners -Paul STOFFELS - Chief Scientific Officer, Johnson and Johnson -Elias ZERHOUNI - Global R&D President, Sanofi Key Figures & Facts: +20 New EU-US collaborations per year +65% of C-Levels +550 BtoB Meetings +250 Leaders Every year, MedStartUp Program organized by the Galien Foundation & Business France encourages and rewards transatlantic partnerships in the Healthcare industries. The MedstartUp brought together: 50 highly innovative French companies in the healthcare industry and 200 American leaders in the Pharma/MedTech /Digital Health industries. Watch the videos of two of the many of the innovative French companies that were at this year’s MedStartUp: Metabolys: Metabolys is developing breakthrough treatments for metabolic diseases with a particular focus on Type 2 Diabetes and NonAlcoholic SteatoHepatitis (NASH) Protec’Som: Laboratoire Protec’Som is a French medical devices designer whose core jobs are Respiratory Drug Delivery and Protections against allergens. LLTech: In the clinical setting, LLTech seeks to improve clinical practice, patient comfort and hospital economics by accelerating and improving the diagnostic process as well as avoiding repeat procedures. For further information, visit our website medstartup.galienfoundation.org/wp
Innovative French Delegation Back at RSNA 2016
Laura LANDRY - 09-nov.-2016 23:41:48
With less than three weeks away from the RSNA annual meeting, the ten French companies that are part of our delegation this year are gearing up to exhibit among 55,00 attendees among 140 countries across the globe in McCormick Place in Chicago. The French delegation will represent France with their cutting edge technologies in the radiology industry. Read more about their technologies below and how these companies can impact the radiology and medical industry. Don’t forget to stop by their respective booths to meet the delegation! DMS Imaging DMS Imaging is a high-tech French company specialized in medical imaging diagnostics. With over 30 years of experience, the brands that make up DMS Imaging: Apelem , DMS , AXS Medical and Medilink offer a complete range of innovative solutions in radiology, bone densitometry, stereo-radiography and posturology, all of which are adapted to the demands of the global marketplace. Our network of distributors in 140 countries across the globe contribute to the international dimension of our products’ quality. NGI With over 1,200 private and public, mono and multi-site customers, NGI is the French leader in support dedicated to radiology groups and imaging centers. As a developer/publisher, distributor and integrator, NGI is the only group in France that offers a fully-integrated one stop solution: - Radiography System - Women’s imaging - Ultrasound - Dental Imaging - RIS (Radiologic Information System) - PACS (Picture Archiving & Communication System) - Diagnostic - Transmission (patient booklet printout, web distribution, etc.) Fiber Metrix Fibermetrix propose innovative solutions for real-time dose monitoring of ionizing radiations within the medical field. Based on fundamental research, its first patented sensor provides automatic feedback of patient dose (including two major dose indicators : CTDI and DLP) to increase radiation awareness during a computed tomography (CT) exam. Already used for research purposes, this optical fiber sensor, full integrated in the CT patient couch, will be available during 2017 Nicesoft Nicesoft has been developing innovative and creative solutions for Medical Imaging professionals since 1998, combining cloud computing technology and a high specialization in Nuclear Medicine. The complementary and fully-integrated range of products is composed entirely of zero footprint web-based solutions: - Venus RIS - Venus Explorer - Venus Archive - Venus Share Oscadi Oscadi is proud to present you his connected ultrasound: Oscult - The ultimate diagnosis tool. OSCULT is a handheld ultrasound imaging device interfaced with the Apple iPad. Its smart design, intuitive interface and exclusive new features will definitely change health professionals everyday diagnosis. With OSCULT, you are always connected and you can at any time collaborate with a specialist that will help your diagnosis. The network capabilities of OSCULT also allow you to securely save your images and patient data on the cloud. Schiller Medical SCHILLER Medical is a Swiss, Family owned company build in 1974. Designing, manufacturing and distributing high-end medical electronics. Worldwide expert in cardiopulmonary diagnostic systems, rescue devices, it is also a leading company in MRI compatible vital sign monitoring since 1980. Sonoscanner Sonoscanner presents at RSNA 2016 its new ultrasound scanner : U-Lite™. U-Lite (www.uliteit.com) is the new generation of Ultrasound scanner. High-end image features on hand-held device, now FDA Approved. Its subsidiary, Sonoscanner US LLC is in charge of U-Lite™ commercial development in the US MammoRisk MammoRisk is an innovative software tool for assessing breast cancer risk. It provides clinical decision support to establish personalized screening plans. MammoRisk was developed in collaboration with Gustave Roussy, the biggest comprehensive Cancer Center in Europe, and the Breast Cancer Screening Consortium (BCSC) in US. MammoRisk is a product of Statlife, an innovative company specializing in statistics and data miningapplied to Predictive and Preventive Personalized Participative (4P Medicine). Medsquare Medsquare provides innovative solutions for the medical imaging environment. Our solutions (burning, printing, archiving, secured web image distribution) are currently being used in most of the university hospitals and private clinics in France and around the world. Medsquare is also a leading player in the DACS (Dose Archiving & Communication System) market. Our Radiation Dose Monitor – RDM – is a multi-modality software solution that helps healthcare organizations optimize radiation dose and clinical practices. In 2016, all DACS public tenders were awarded to Medsquare. Toutenkamion Toutenkamion is a specialized coachbuilder supplying a wide range of customers active in a variety of fields. It specializes in creation of units for medical support, mobile medical units on light or heavy trucks, trailers or semi-trailers for blood donation, digital mammography, audiology, ophthalmology, surgery, dentistry, polyclinics, dispensaries… Each mobile unit, with or without extension, is designed specifically. Design, manufacturing and interior layout are entirely and exclusively carried out in toutenkamion workshops. The company has delivered highly complex units to over thirty countries, mostly in Europe, Asia, Africa and Far East.
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